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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, August 13. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions in favour of tlie Friendly Societies Bill from different parts of the country. PORTLAND HARBOUR AND BREAKWATER BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed, after the introduction of some amendments. LONDON-BRIDGE APPROACHES BILL. This Bill was read a second time; and, On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE, the standing orders were suspended, when the Bill was committed, read a third time, and passed. BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL. This Bill went through Committee. LIVERPOOL WATERWORKS BILL. On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, Charles Gream, of 23, Temple-street, Liverpool, and Michael Alexander Gage, were called to the bar of the House. They were accordingly brought up. The NOBLE LOAD then proceeded to detail to their Lordships the circumstances under which these gentlemen had been summoned before their Lordships. It appeared that a sham petition bad been got up in Liverpool against the Liverpool Water Works Bill, and the fraud having been discovered by the Committee on the Bill, the Chairman brought the matter under the attention of their Lord ships, and, ultimately, the men who got up the petition, and forged, or wrote, the names to it, were summoned to the bar of the House, and after undergoing a term of imprisonment, they were again brought to the bar, and discharged with a reprimand. In the course of the examination of these parties it transpired that the two gentlemen now at the bar had been instrumental in employing them to get up the fraudulent pe tition:, and hence they were summoned to-day to give some explanation of their conduct and proceedings. Those parties went round the separate houses, but, find ing that that was somewhat troublesome, they repaired to a public-house and wrote down the names of hun dreds of imaginary persans, with imaginary descriptions, to the petition. The extent to which that had been carried appeared on the evidence, which showed that between 900 and 1,000 signatures appended to the petition were entirely fraudulent. One witness said he could speak to about 1,500 being fictitious names. A person named Brennan, a law stationer's writer, at Liverpool, said he had been present when the parties were in a public-house and engaged in writing the names of imaginary persons to the petition as quick as they could write them. In one case they had made a mark to the name of a man whom they described as a student. —(A laugh.) Their Lordship had had before them the mere agents in this nefarious practice, who were paid their ss. or 6s. a day for obtaining signatures; but the object of the second Committee was to discover, if possible, the parties who employed those men. The particular offence which it behoved their Lord ship to punish was, that after it came to the knowledge of the parties that the frauds and forgeries had been committed, they instituted no inquiry respecting them, but, on the contrary, employed counsel to defeat the investigation which had been set oh foot by their Lordships' House. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that the parties at the bar bad been guilty of a gross abuse of the privileges of the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR said there could be no doubt that the subject was one of very great importance. It appeared to the Committee that a fraud and forgery had been committed, and that a peti tion had been wilfully presented to the House with a great number of fictitious signatures attached to it. If the circureetance was allowed to pass over without notice, neither their Lordships nor the public would have any security with regard to the petitions which were presented to the House. He did not think, how ever, tilet the punishment awarded by their Lord ships should fall on the humble persons who had been made instruments in the hands of others. I; was under these';eircurnstances thet the parties were before their Lordships, and it was for their Lordships to say what steps should now be taken to prevent such malpractice in future. Lord BEAUMONT said the Noble and Learned Lord had given a correct history of the whole proceedings, and he would confine his observations to this simple remark, that the steps they now took should be clear, distinct, and decisive. He hoped the lesson to be given on this occasion would be the means of inducing parties to he mere cautious in the petitions which they laid upon their Lordships' table'. He apprehended that there was now only one course open to them, and that was to punish the parties. The parties were then ordered to withdraw. Two resolutions were then passel, declaring they had been guilty of a gross violation cf the privileges of the House. Lord MONTEAGLE then moved that the parties be taken into custody. Lord CAMPBELL suggested that they ought to be committed for a specific period. The LORD CHANCELLOR said before they did that they ought to call the parties in and hear if they had anything to say. The parties were then called in. The LORD CHARCELLOR then informed them of what had transpired in their absence. Mr. Charles Gream said he wished to be heard by counsel, and hare witnesses examined in his favour. He was innocent of the charge which had been made against The LORD CHANCELLOR said, after the resolu tion of the House that application could not be granted. What Mr. Gream had to say must now be urged in mi tictation of the !sentence. Gream then proceeded to declare that he had been no party to the fraud. The parties who were guilty of that fraud were hew-writers, and he and those with whom he acted, who were the promoters of the petition, had felt that they: were proper parties to employ in soliciting signatures to tae petition. The parish meeting to which reference had been made had nothing whatever to do with the petition ; it was merely galled to consider out of what fund the expenses of the opposition to the Bill were to be defrayed. He admitted that he had told the men that they might put the names of ratepayers to the petition, provided they had the authority of these ratepayers so to do, but only on such authority being given to them. He contended that the evidence of the man Planche was not worthy of credit. He would state a small circumstance with respect to him ; in giving an account of his expenses in coming to attend the Select Committee of Inquiry, he actually told a falsehood fur the sake of 4a. Gil. in misrepresentin g his fare on the rail way from Liverpool to London. He (Mr. Gream,) felt that in this matter he had been actuated by only fair and upright motives, and with riot the slightest intention to deceive their Lordships. Ae he hoped to stand before a higher tribunal than that, he declared his innocence, and that in presenting the petition in question to the House he thought be was presenting a petition to their Lord ships' House which could not be challenged. The , LORD CHANCELLOR—MichaeI Alexander Gate, hare you anything to urge in extenuation or ex planation to the House? Mr. Gage replied in the affirmative, and proceeded to vindicate himself and the committee over which he had presided as chairman. The principal charge which had been brought against them was that they did not take sufficient pains to inform themselves of toe genuineness of the signatures attached to the petition. But the fact was, that in consequence of the second reading of the Bill having been fixed for a eery early day in their Lordship; House, there were but two days to get up the petition, and the Committee had not time minutely to investigate the character of a number of si g natures whieh amounted to upwards of 18,0 00 . fie then read copious extracts from the evidence he had given before the Select Committee, for the purpose of exculpating himself from the charge of having participated in the fraud, by showing that he had given instructions to the parties entrusted with the duty of obtaining signatures for the purpose of securing bona fide signatures only. He maintained that he had beers not only ceutions but ovetecautious. He complained that there had been an unjust bearing against him and others, and was about to refer to a speech of Lord Beaumont, as reported in the Times. The LORD CHANCELLOR told him he could not refer to anything in the newspapers that purported to be an account of what had been said in that House. Mr. Gage said he would then refer to the evidence, and was understood to cite answers given by himself ex plaining his conduct. He said that when it was heard that their petition was impugned, they determined to wait patiently, as they were sure that justice would be done by their Lordships. They had abundance of wit nesses co answer the charge if it had been their Lord ships wish to hear them; and they did not desire to tres pass on their Lordships' time. It was his conviction that this was a deep-laid conspiracy for the purpose of defeatihg justice; and he hoped they would yet bring to light the authors #f this iniquity. As to imposing upon their Lordships House it was the farthest from his thoughts; for he ventured to say there was not a man in her Majesty's dominions who ure t had han a dhieeper vener a ti on fur this branch of the Legislatmself. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was his be lief that persona in the situation of lite of those who now stood at that bar—that persons like those must suffer severely from falling under their Lordships' displeasnre. They were considered by their .Lordships to interfere with the right of petition, and he must say that he was not aware of the abuse ever being carried to a greater extent; and he was convinced that the persons who did this were fully conscious of what they were doing by the cautions they gave when this was attempted—than they were anxious that the persons they employed should be cautious in what they did so as to escape detection. Thus the caution was given to be a protection to the authors of what was attempted in case it should after wards be discovered. If their Lordships had dealt out punishment to those by whom the mischief had been effected they could not spare those who were the authors of that mi ;chief. They must award such amount of puni: , .hment as would vindicate the authority of their Lordships, and secure the right of petition. This they would ch, although their disposition was to be ill lenient as their public duty would enable them to be. The heaviest portion of the punishment for the persons who had stood at the bar would be, on men of their station in society—an attor ney and an en g ineer—would be that which they would suffer whea tie, punishment imposed by their Lordships had terminated. An attorney censured by their Lord ships would find that his reputation was injured, and the suffering, therefore, inflicted upon him would be of a serious nature. The other, an engineer, must in the course of his duty have to appear before the Houses of Parliament, and what now occurred could not but be brought forward to his discredit whenever he was exa mined. They had thus brought upon themselves a pu nishment that would be severe, and that he was sure would be a consideration with their Lordship in what ever punishment they did inflict. With regard to these THE two individuals, he must say that, having heard their statements, be was unable to extract the slightest excuse, or explanation of what they had done. In these cir cumstances, he was under the painful necessit of mov ing that each be committed to custody for one fo;-tnight, He then moved that Charles Gream and Michael Al , x ander Gage be committed to the custody of the black rod, and to be by him transmitted to the gaol of New gate, and there imprisoned for one fortnight. The motion Vii4S agreed to unanimously. Mr. Gream and Mr. Gage were then removed in custody. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION—IRELAND. The Earl of RODEN had, he said, to propose a ques tion to the Noble Marquis of which he had given notice, and with respect to which he was anxious to elicit an answer from the Noble Marquis. He was about to pro pose that question in no hostile spirit, for he was the last person in that House who would propose to place any embarrassment in the way of those ssho now pre sided over the affairs of Ireland. Having passed a long life in the sister kingdom, and having mixed with all classes of society in that country, he believed he was well acquainted with the opinions of his countrymen, and had received from them—he might say from all of them —marks of great kindness, and, therefore, was most anxious upon any subject in which they were interested, He wished he could say that it was his opinion that any amelioration had taken place in the situation of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) When they came to look back at the circumstances that had taken place in that part of Ireland—when they came to reflect upon all the scenes of blood that had taken place, and that had occurred month after month—then ha said they had no reason to suppose that any change for the better had taken place either in the social or moral condition of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) And here he must beg leave to say that he did not think that any change, such as they must all desire, could be effected so long as the system of national education was deemed to be the right one, and the only system to be supported by the Government. —(Hear, hear.) He could not help thinking that to deny the Holy Scriptures to the people, which was part of the present system of education, and to refuse to give any part of the public funds to a scriptural education, was doing that which must leave the people in a state of ignorance and misery such as they were known to be. He referred to these facts because they had much to do with this question.—(Hear, hear.) The unhappy events that had occurred—the murders of individuals which had been alluded to, and which they must all deplore, could not but engage the anxious attention of her Ma jesty's Government.—(Hear, hear.) He now begged to state some facts to their Lordships. Some years ago, in many parts of the south and west of Ireland, a large portion of the Roman Catholic inhabitants bad left the Church of Rome and gone to the Church of England; he alluded particularly to the district of Dingle, in Kerry, and to a place (as we understood) in the county of Limerick. A short time since—about a year ago— very serious affrays had taken place between the two parties; and now he had to state the tyrannical course that had been pursued, not only against poor indivi duals who from conviction had joined the Church of England, but also against the Protestant minister who administered to those individuals.—(Hear.) The first statement be had to make was with regard to Dingle. The clergyman who superintended that flock had left the Church of Rome. He was a man of excellent character, and died about a year and a half ago. He was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Lewis, a gentleman, it was to be ob served, who had nothing to do with bringing individuals from the Church of 11 , ,me to the Church of England. This gentleman for the last year had been subjected to most tyrannical proceedings. He begged leave to read an account of those proceedings, as sworn to in a court of justice, in a trial that took place at the last assizes, and before that eminent judge the Lord Chief Justice Black burne. Mr. Lewis's statement was, that on his return in October last, he found that both the parish priests had died, and the Roman Catholic bishop bad selected as their successors three priests that had already distinguished themselves by their persecution of those who had exercised their right in changing their religion. These persons had intimated 'their intention to give him a warm reception. —Clear, hear.) Mr. Lewis had directed employment to be given to all persons without distinction.—(Hear, hear.) He further stated that these violent and riotous proceedings had been sworn to in open court at the Dingle sessions by the most unimpeachable witnesses; that it was proved that he had been followed by a riot ous mob of upwards of 300 persons, who pursued him as it' he were a mad dog; that the persecution had con tinued for the last four months, and that his servant had been so terried by this violence as to be thrown into a fever, which resulted in the loss of his reason. When he (the Earl of Roden) heard in Dublin of these pro ceedings, he thought that the facts connected with them had been overstated. He accordingly sent down a friend to Dingle, to ascertain by personal inspection what the real state of the case was. The answer which he received from this gentleman corroborated to the letter what had been stated, and in addition said that the mob had been gradually increasing in number, and that by their groaning and hissing they had frequently succeeded in putting a stop to the service in the church—that the police had looked on at this outrageous behaviour on the part of the mob without attempting to interfere or to arrest the rioters. How different (observed the Noble Earl) was the conduct of the Protestants of the north to their dissenting brethren. The only offence committed by this gentleman was that ho was a Protes tant minister ; for, as to his great benevolence and Christian-like temper, he had before him the strongest evidence to show that the Rev. Gentleman was charac terised by both.—(Here the Noble Earl read letters from two eminent lawyers in testimony of that fact.) It appeared that in March or April last, upon a Sunday, while this clergyman was engaged in the performance of his duties, he was interrupted by the most violent yells and hootinas from the mob that had assembled round his church ' : He sent a policeman out to arrest some of these disorderly persons; two persons were ac cordingly arrested, and were tried before Chief Justice Blackbarne. They were found guilty ; the Chief Jus tice sentenced them to six months' imprisonment, ob servins, that their crime was a serious one, but would have been much more serious, only that the Rev. Mr. Lewis had acted with great leniency by charging them with the minor offence of conspiracy instead of that of interrupting Divine worship, which would render them liable to transportation.—(Hear, hear.) There was a similar state of things, at Croom, where the Protestant clergyman was assailed by a ruffianly mob in a like manner. Application was made to the Irish Government on the subject, to which no attention was paid. Another application was made in a few days aftewards, when Sir Thomas Redington wrote to say that instructions had been given to the police to arrest all persons that were found guilty of violating the law, and that one person bad been arrested for taking part in the proceedings referred to. Since then there had been no petty sessions, for the magistrates had failed to attend. Now (said the Earl of Roden) we know that a great many persons had left the Protestant Church and had j,lned the Roman Catholic Church, but we never knew them to be assailed by Protestants in the manner de scribed. , If ho did not believe the facts to be exactly as he had stated he would never have brought the case for ward. lie thought that the Government ought to send stipendiary magistrates to the neighbourhood of Dingle. He wished to ask whether these circumstances, to which he had referred, had been brought under the considera tion of the Government, and whether they had taken any means to preserve the public peace—to protect their Protestant ministers from such violence and insult, and thereby to secure the maintenance of that civil anti religious liberty which was the right of every British subject? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought that the sub ject referred to by the Noble Earl was one of a serious and important character, involving as it did much religious dissension amongst her Majesty's subjects, and produc ing a feeling of irritation extending from the highest to the lowest members of the community. There was no thing that the Government could do that it had not done, and would not do, to put down such a state of things. But the origin of these unfortunate cccurrences was to be found in the conduct of certain parties, who, though no doubt actuated by a pious zeal and by motives just in themselves, yet their conduct partook of what was called an aggressive character. These persons, it appeared, had introduced religious discussions into places where the great majority of the people were of a totally dif ferent persuasion. These discussions and appeals, ad dressed to the whole people, had the effect of provoking a demeanour on the part of the people which it was itn possible to justify. It was, however, found to be almost impossible to put an end to dissensions that extended throughout the whole body of the population. There were many annoyances experienced by Protestant clergy men, not only in Dingle and Crootn, but in many other places in Ireland where a system of proselytism was still carried on. It had been alleg ed that this system had been carried on in a form that ooked like mete of bribery —namely, administering food and clothing to poor crea tures on condition that they would become) Protestants. Such a system was highly improper and extremely well calculated to excite irritation, more especially at a time of extreme suffering and privation. Bat he did not rise to justify these proceedings complained of. On the con trary, he could assure the Noble Earl that the Govern meat, and Lord Clarendon particularly, had made every effort to pet a stop to them. And if there had been any reluctance to arrest individuals in all these cases, that reluctance was accounted for, on the part of the stipen diary magistrates and the police, by the fact of the ex istence of a great deal of excitement, which would have believed that the most the e e x ff e e r c e t i n s a e l o w f a g y re o a f t t y r e b l e l been greatly aggrav a t e d b y such an interference. He a in r g anc tl e ee o s n e disturbances was by the part of these clergymen as well as by the authori ties. The magistrates were, however, bound to admi nister justice to all parties. They had, however, con vincing evidence that the magistrates were not capable of meeting all the evils that grew up around them. He had no dHubt but that the reverend gentlemen alluded to by the Noble Earl were of high and irreproachable character, but it was stated that they had in their em ployment persons of a most immoral character, and who the irritation rr his eir cir cumstance s very nce O i b t n w o a x s i o s u al o e h n e t people i g n e e n r e ea ra se ll) , . that sxiste ' d. He wished the Noble Earl to be assured of this fact, that 11',‘r Majesty's Governments and the Lord-Lieutenant were by no means indifferent to this matter, and if the Noble Eirl would move for the pro duction of such extracts from the police reports as bore upon this subject, he would have no objection to laying them on the table of the douse. Lord REDESDALE said it appeared to him that the magistrates and police took a totally different view of their duty in Ireland to what they did in England. Why did not the polic3 arrest a few of the leaders of the mob in all these cases, and have them summarily con victed ? If they had done so, there was very little doubt but the matter would have been soon put an end to. The Earl of RODEN having moved for the production of the papers suggested by the Marquis of Lansdowne, The Bish:qa of CIIICHESTER wished to have the opinion of the Lord Chancellor as to whether the per sons thus assembled were guilty of a raisdernmour? 3 UN, The LORD CHANCELLOR did riot precisely un derstand the question the Right Rev. Prelate wished "to put to him. If he meant to ask whether persons asso• ciatin,g together to hoot down one another were not gull y of a misdemeanour, he (the Lord Chancellor) would say they were guilty of a misdemeanour; but it did not follow that everybody who happened to be stand ing by at the time could be charged with taking part in these proceedings. The Bishop of CHICHESTER said that that was the answer which he expected he would receive. He be lieved that if her Majesty's Government were to issue instructions to magistrates to put an end to those dis order!y proceedings, it was impossible that they cuuld be continued. Tho Earl of RODEN said he deprecated a wicked system of proselytism as much as any one. Ile had never suggested the appointment of a Commission in that case, but he believed that the establishment of a stipendiary magistrate here and there would prevent the evil in question. The motion was then agreed to. CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) ACT CON- TINUANCE BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, this Bill was read a second time; and the standing orders having been suspended, it passed through Committee, was reported, read a third time, and passed. THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on this Bill, Lord REDESDALE moved an amendment in the 21st clause for the purpose of preventing the use of secret signs and pass-words. Lord BEAUMONT objected to the amendment on the ground that it would defeat the whole object of the Bill. Those parties had no objection to make their signs known to the Government, and they only used them as a protection against fraud. After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE the amendment was withdrawn. The Bill 'then passed through Committee, and, the standing orders having been suspended, it was reported, read a third time, and passed. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned till One o'clock to-morrow (this day). SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 7th have arrived. Narvaez has given way to the repeated instances of the King, and has not insisted on the appointment of Serrano to the Inspectorship of Cavalry. The post has been offered to General Chacon, an intimate friend of Espartero, and a Progresista. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 7.—The Three per Cents. were done at 33. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Northern Free Press of Hamburgh has the following from Rendsburg of the Bth :—" Since eight o'clock this morning fighting has been going on in our centre. The Danes attacked us with large forces near Sorgbruk. We heard the cannon for hours, but it gradually became more distant, and for the last two hours we have heard nothing. It is said that the Danes have been driven back to wards Kropp, and that we have made some pri soners; but it is probable that it is only a reconnais sance, and that the battle will take place to-morrow." The following from Hamburgh, of the 9th, appears in the Brussels journals :—" We have this moment learned that part of the Danish army yesterday at tacked that of Holstein on all the line; the at tack was principally made on the left and right wings, the centre was only feebly assailed. It is possible that the Danish general desired to take advantage of the tumult occasioned in Rendsburg by the explosion of the shell manufactory, to make an attack. The result has been the aban donment by the first corps of light infantry of Hol stein of the town of Frederichstadt, situated in Schleswig, and its retreat on this side of the Eider. At about live o'clock a slurp cannonade was heard between the centres of the two armies, both in the Schleswig territory. If a second battle should take place, the result will probably be known to-morrow." THE CIVIL LIST. The following protest has been entered upon the journals of the House of Lords :- 1. Bennie the Civil List arrangement is framed upon statements laid before Parliament, with the full know ledge of the Ministers of the Crown, those ztatemonts being in the ❑ature of estimates upon which the grant of income is to be made. 2. Because those statements contain a minute detail of the expenses for which provision is made, including the salaries of officers, and even the wages of servants, and the grant is made on the supposition by all parties to the arrangement that such salaries aro to be always paid. 3. Because, even as to the other heads of expenditure provided for, there is an understanding of all parties that nearly the same sums will be required during the conti nuance of the arrangement. 4. Because no supposition ever entered the mind of Parliament in making the grant, that large savings were to be effected out of the income granted, and on the contrary the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the Sovereign is wholly alien to the spirit of our constitu tion, which requires the Monarch to be dependent upon Parliament for the revenue by which his state and dig nity shall be supported. 5. Because any such accumulation by means of savings upon the Civil List has a direct tendency to diminish the splendour and impair the dignity of the Crown, and so to defeat the very purposes of the grant. 6. Because, for these reasons, it is the undoubted right of Parliament to obtain information from time to time touching the amount of the savings under the several heads of the Civil List expenditure, and the rather be cause if there were a deficit, instead of a saving, Parlia ment would be of course applied to for aid, whereas the public never can directly benefit by any surplus, how considerable soever. 7. Because the amount of such savings must form an important matter in considering the applications from time to time made for Parliamentary aid in tho esta blishment of the younger branches of the Royal Family during the reign of the Sovereign to whom the grant of the Civil List income was made, as well as in future ar rangements which the wisdom of Parliament may make with respect to the rights and claims of the Crown. 8. Because no possible risk to the subsistence of the Civil List arrangement, made with the Sovereign at the commencement of the present reign, can arise from giving the information sought; and there can be no indelicacy in di,closing the amount of the savings supposed, on good grounds, to have been effected, inasmuch as those savings must by law be made known to departments of the Go vernment which are under no obligation to conceal them, and it must be made known under which head of the Civil List expenditure the saving, if any, has been made, or the deficiency, if any, has arisen. 9. Because the accounts before Parliament appear to state the amount of the savings—for example, 38,7501. for the year ending the sth of April, 1850; and if this is an incorrect statement—or if in reality the statement bears reference to some other matter than that which it seems to regard, justice to all parties requires that this should be explained and set right. But if, as appears, such savings have been effected, there can be no reason why Parliament should not be informed of the branches of expenditure on which they have been so effected. 10. Because it appears that, independent of the Civil List revenue, and of 12,0001. paid last year into the privy purse from the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, 29,0001. have been paid from the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall for the service of the Duke of Cornwall—a service which, at that Illustrious Prince's tender age, can hardly require so large a provision; and no one has ever contended that into such an expenditure Parlia ment has not both the right fully to inquire, and the practice of so inquiring. (Siczned) BROUGHAM. ROYAL CORK YACI-IT CLUB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit,—Having seen in The Sun of Friday an article headed "A Cup and not a Cup," copied from the Cork Examiner, and which you justly call a strange para graph, may I beg the favour of your inserting the contradiction, which appeared in the following paper, a copy of which I enclose. I have the honour to be yours, &c., lIOR ACE T. N. MEADE, Hon. Sec. R.C.Y.C. Club •house, Queenstown, Aug. 10. We, the undersigned, members of the Royal Cork Yacht Club and Managers of the Regatta, 1850, having read in the Cork Examiner of August 7, 1850, an article headed " A Cup or not a Cup," feel ourselves called upon to state that no such correspondence took place as alluded to; and that the entire article is false and with out the slightest foundation. Thomas George French,Vice-Admiral,R.C.Y.C. George B. Jeffreys, Flag-Lieut., one of the managing committee. Robert Hare, P. S. French, Samuel Hodder, W. F. Wentworth, R.Y.C., Hon. Secretary Regatta, James Roche, Edmond Morony, O'Neill Ferguson, Godfrey T. Baker, steward, Edward H. Newenham. Bartholomew Verling, one of the managing committee, Eyre Massey Shaw, steward, James Ronayne, A. L. Newman, lion. Treasurer, Horace T. N. Meade, Hon. Sec. to the Regatta and Club. TUE p n i e n a g r l hyas all p w a o r r t k i a ol partially reaping HARVEST AND T HE C ROP3 .—Th e i mpor t an t commenced partsf t i l n i e tchoitsi neighbourhoo d,nty. The oper at a i n on l has been in many cases hastened by the farmer in conse quence of much of his corn having been laid by the late heavy storms. We are afraid the unfavourable weather of the last fortnight will materially affect this year's crops. The fields everywhere show well for straw, but the ears are rather light, and there has been a want of sufficient sun to produce either a large yield or a first-rate sample. The pro duce, therefore, we apprehend, will be rather below an aver age, and the quality also somewhat inferior. The potato disease is, we are sorry to report, spreadin4 very fast, and threatens to be more calamitous than has been the case in any year, e xcept that in which this sad visitation was first exp.rieneei. With regard to other crops, barley is generally said to be thin in the ear; peas have been nearly cut off by blight, and the late beans have suffered much from the same cause, but the early bean crop promises fairly. The orchards have nearly everywhere shed their fruit from blight.—Glou cester Journal. LONDON, WEDNESDAY LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 13. (Before Mr. Cormnis4inner GotlLßanzi.) IN RE GE ;RGE COOPER. The bankrupt, a linen-:raper, at Northampton, came up for his laq examination on a balance-sheet, extend ing from January, 1848, to May last, and containing the following items :—To creditors, 2,4061.; ditto se cured, 6151.; capital, 177/.; profits, 8761. By good debts, 851.; doubtful, 137/.; property in hands of credi tors, 700/.; losses, 1,674/.; bad debts, 1931.; trade ex penses, 7811.; domestic ditto. 503/ ; debts considered irrecoverable, Jan. 1, 1848, 371/. Mr. Pain opposed, for the assignees, on the ground of fraud, and trading'; when insolvent. He had given a preference to Mr. ' Adlett, hi; brother-in-law, by allowing him to get possession of his stock and property, while several other actions were pending. The assignees had required further information as to Mr. Adlett's debt, which had not been furnished; they were consequently unable to test the accuracy of the accounts. His books ha I been mutilated, nine leaves being torn from one of them. After a brief examination of the bankrupt, who could give no documentary evidence of the debt to his brother in-law, His HONOUR said that if the brother-in-law had any regard for the bankrupt he would give up this property, otherwise the man would never pass this court. Believ ing the account to be wilfully untrue, he should adjourn the examination sine die. IN RE L. ALEXANDER AND CO. His HONOUR thisgave judgment this morning. on a dis puted question inold bankruptcy, the proceedings under which are still lingering on. Mr. Morrison, a director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, had petitioned the court, settin g f ort h th a t t h e company h a d advanced 2,10 01 ., in 1845, to Mr. Bardgett, one of the bankrupts, who was also a director of the company, for which 350 of the company's shales were deposited with Mr. Morrison as security. There was now due, as principal and interest, 2,3081. The prayer of the peti tion was that the company might be declared equitable mortgagees of the shares so held; that they might be sold on the Stock Exchange, and the proceeds applied in the discharge of their debt. This was opposed by t h e a ssignees, on the ground that the property in the shares was in them. The case of the Lancaster Canal Company had been much relied on in the argu ment, where it was ruled that shares held by bankrupts, if not fully transferred, passed to their assignees. In this case there had been no actual transfer, nor had it ever been contemplated, beyond an agreement on the part of the bankrupt, to transfer when called upon to so. The whole thing was in fieri; and when the loan was made, the (limy in the company's book contained no mention of Mr. Bardgett's name. It was clear the intention was that the ownership and dis position of the shares should remain in Mr. B3rdgett, who continued to receive the dividends, and to vote as a proprietor. The case of the Lancaster Canal Company had never been overruled; this case came entirely within that rule. He must, therefore, hold that the property vested in the assignees, and the result would be that the petition would be dismissed with costs. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 12. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) THE CASE OF STARVATION.—[WO brought up our report of the trial of Sarah Bubb for the murder of Maria Hook in yesterday's paper up to the departure of the latest available train on Monday. We now resume the report from the point where we broke off yesterday.] Mr. Humble, surgeon, and medical officer of the Westbury-on-Severn Union, deposed that he first saw the deceased in November, 1348, when the prisoner and Ann Apperby brought her to him. He examined the child, and prescribed a slight aperient fur her, directing that she should have port wine and norishing food. lie found that she was afflicted with prolapsus ani, a disease not uncommon to children, but not of a dangerous cha racter. In 1849 (January) he again saw the deceased at her father's house. She was huddled up over some ahses, and was naked with the exception of a small rug over her shoulders. There was no fire in the room, and the child seemed emaciated from want of proper food and clothing; made a post mortem examination of the body, and found it in an excessive state of emaciation; it only weighed Gibs.— (Sensation in the court.) A child newly born would usually weigh from 6lbs. to Sibs. This child was four years old. It appeared ebout the usual height of a child of that age. but was a complete skele ton. Death from starvation would present such ex ternal appearances as the body of the deceased Maria Hook presented. The body internally was healtby; the lungs were rerfect, and there were no symptoms of consumption. The heart and viscera generally were small. The stomach was perfectly empty. Looking externally and internally at the appearances presented by the body, witness was of opinion that the child died from want of sufficient food and clothing. Charles Bampton, huckster, proved that Hook and Bubb bought goods at his shop to the amount of 10s. to 14s. per week. After an address of two hours from Mr. Pigott, who dwelt especially on the absence of motive for murder, his Lordship summed up in a speech of an hour and a half, and the jury, after retiring for ten minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty of aggravated man slaughter, and the prisoner was sentenced to transporta tion for life. The trial occupied exactly twelve hours, having closed at nine o'clock P.M. Augult 13. (Before Mr. Justice WILLTAms.) THE STARVATION CASE.—llichard Hook was charged with the manslaughter of his daughter Maria Hook, at Churcham, by omitting to give her proper food and clothing. The particulars of this case need scarcely be repeated. As will be seen above, the prisoner's sister-in-law, a woman named Bubb, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to be transported for life. The prisoner Hook was charged with being a party to the manslaughter. The evidence was similar to that given on the trial of Bubb yesterday, but it came out that when the prisoner Hook was at home the deceased was generally better treated than in his absence. In his defence, the prisoner said be had always pro vided sufficient food and clothes for the child, and had directed Bubb to attend to her. The jury found him Not Guilty. POISONING CAsE.—Hannah Curtis was charged on the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of Thomas Harris, her former husband, at the parish of Frampton Goitre]. The prisoner was formerly married to Harris, eho died after a short illness, and in a month after his death she married a man named Curtis, who used to visit her during the lifetime of her husband. On open ing the body, there were traces of arsenic discovered in the deceased. A great number cf witnesses were examined in sup port of the indictment, but the case for the proszention had not closed when our report Was dispatched. WESTERN CIRCUIT, Wells, Aug. 12. CROWN COURT.—(l.lefore Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) henry Hillier, alias Henry Axford, was indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas George, at Nunney, on the 3d of April, by cutting him on the throat with a knife. Mr. Phinn and Mr. Everett were counsel for the pro secution, and Mr. Edwards defended the prisoner. The only mode of making this case understood is by a narrative of the facts, as the case only rested upon cir cumstantial evidence. It will first be necessary to state the facts under which the body of the deceased was found ; secondly, the circumstances attaching them selves to the prttoncr about p th ri e so t o indicating t h the murder; the and, n irn er e , mo tive thirdly, he prisoner expressions for 0 f the wishing to get rid of the decased. The deceased was a lad shout 17 years of age, and he lived with his parents at Nanney, near Frome. He was in the habit of working fur Messrs. Hoddinot, for whom also the prisoner worked. The prisoner also lived near. On the night of the 3d of April the deceased left his work with his father about seven o'clock. The prisoner left about the same time. The deceased went home, and having washed and dressed himself, as was his habit, he went out, and he was heard talking to the prisoner and some other persons in the shed adjoining the house of the father of the deceased. He was seen there up to eight o'clock. A little after eight the deceased was seen passing over the bridge which was between the house of the prisoner and that of the father of the deceased, and the prisoner was seen looking in the direction in which the deceased was going; that was the lust time the de c•mssed W 33 seen alive. The mother of the deceased sat up for him, and about five o'clock in the morning she became co uneasy that she awoke her husband, and begged him to go and look after their son. The husband got up and went to the cart-shed, and upon going in he saw the body of some person reclining on the left side. The head was bent under the shoulder, and the face was so much covered with blood that he could not recognise whose body it was. He rushed out, and at that early hour in the morning he saw the prisoner standing at his door completely dressed. He called to the prisoner to come to him. He came and went into the shed, and at once recognised the body, and exclaimed, " Poor Tom has cut his throat at last." The body was brought out on a hurdle on which it was found lying, and it WAS found that the head had nearly been severed from the body by a wound across the throat. In the course of the day the body was washed, and on the sth an in quest was held; but it was to be regretted that the co roner would not allow any surgical investigation, and the jury came to no verdict ac all. On the 7th the surgeons were called in to look at the body, and they found the gullet and windpipe cut completely through, and they discovered that there had been two cuts on the throat; that there was first a stab, and then a cut, and they said it was quite impossible that the person who inflicted the first cut could have inflicted the second—that is, under the supposition that it was suicide. The cuts were so neck. They also fund a wound on the temple, which violent that the knife scraped th e bone at the back of t h e had fractured the skull, and which must have been given before the throat wa s cut. The smallelothes and waistcoat were open. On the right-hand pocket were the marks of three bloody fingers, and on the loft-hand pocket also were the marks of blood, rA if done by the hand. There was no blood on the hands of the deceased, and the smockfrock was pulled close down. The surgew is were of opinion that the deceased met his death from the violence of cut, the father, thinking , as some other p e r son , an d not from his o wn band. At the time the b o dy was b rou ght la&cl been suggested by the prisoner, that the boy had committed suicide, was anxious to find the instrument with which it was done, and the prisoner found the knife of the deceased near the spot where the body was found. From a superstitious idea this knife was first put in the coffin that it might 11 , 1 t cut any more throats, and the blade was broken. The prisoner and the deceased and other persons had been in the habit cf occasionally sleeping about the outhouses of the farm, and that night the prisoner saw a man of the name of Whittaker, who worked for Messrs. Hoddinot, and who c:oxte to his heuso that evening to wait for his master'l , horse, tmd VENING, AUGUST 14, 1850. the prisoner three times told him that be wanted to go to bed, and he by that means got rid of Whittaker, and the prisoner told a man named Solomoe Hilii,r that night that Messrs. Hoddinot had complained of persons sleeping about the farm, and he begged Hillier not to sleep about the farm that night. It turned out that Messrs. Hoddinot had made no such complaint during the present year. The prisoner went to the .house of the deceased's father that night about nine o'clock, and inquired of the mother whether she would ask her husband whether he (the prisoner) was to cart dung in the morning? This was a very unusual inquiry, because that man had no authority to ;me the prisoner any orders. The mother then inquired of the prisoner whether ho had seen her son. He stated most positively that he had: not, whereas he had parted with him only three-quarters of an hour before. The next thing heard of the prisoner was about half-past ten o'clock, at his own house. He was a married man, and his wife, who had been a widow, had a boy, about four teen years of age, who slept in the same room with them. Ho saw the prisoner come to bed befor eleven o'clock, and that the smock-frock he wore had a good deal of blood , upon it; he took off that smock. frock and put it under the bed, and went to sleep with all his clothes on; he got up in the morning, and the boy saw his mother get a tub of cold water, into which she put the smock frock. After the boy had made this state ment he was taken before the magistrates, and then he said that the story he had told was false, and that it had been suggested to him by his master The boy to-day told his original story, and declared that what he had stated before the magistrate was un true, and that no suggestion had been made to him. The prevarication of the boy was quite shocking. The pri soner had borrowed the smock-frock, and when asked to return it he said his wife was washing it, and it was re turned to the parties clean and ironed, whereas when he had borrowed it on previous occasions it had always been sent home dirty. Then came the motives which actuated the prisoner to commit this crime, and these were to be gleaned from expressions used by the pri soner towards the deceased. One was on the morning of the murder, when he said he wished some one would put Tom out of the way, as he could not bear the sight of him. On the day after the murder he said he did tremble so since Tom George was dead that he could scarcely stand. At another time the prisoner went and put his fist in the deceased's face, and swore if he (the deceased) told any more about him he would beat his brains out; he was continually cursing him, and swear ing that he would beat him; and he used frequently to go in search of him. The Sunday after the murder the prisoner said to a man that he thought they had killed him as they had Tom George, aS he had not seen him so long. The case for the prosecution having closed, _ _ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked the — jury whether, put ting out of the case the evidence of the boy, they would think there was sufficient to justify them in convicting the prisoner, because he must tell them that they must not place any credit in what the boy said. The jury said they did not think there was sufficient to call upon the prisoner for bis defence, and therefore returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Learned JUDGE said he fully concurred in the opinion of the jury, for even had they found the pri soner guilty upon the evidence of that boy, he could net have allowed the sentence to be carried into effect; at the same time it was a mattor which ought to have been inquired into, and was a most proper prosecution. The case had excited great interest, as it had been stated, though not proved, that the parties belonged to a gang of sheepstealers, and that the deceased having ex pressed his determination to tell the farmers all about it, he was found murdered in the way stated. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then said he did not know the name of the coroner who had held the inquest upon this body; but he was mach wanting in his duty in not having called in medical testimony, because if he had done so it was impossible his jury could have separated without returning a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown, and then persons' attention would have been directed to it. and probably a different result might have been arrived at; either the prisoner might not have been put upon his trial at all, or else further evidence might have been adduced against him. Either way, he thought the coroner extremely wrong; and if a,iy coroner went upon a system of abstaining from calling medical evidence, for the purpose of saving ex pense, or for other reasons, he might lay himself open to proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, and sub ject himself to extremely unpleasant consequences. In exoneratio❑ cf the coroner, we may state that the magistrates are so particular at the quarter sessions about the expenses of the coroners, that those gentlemen are really afraid to call in medical or other aid. It has long been anticipated that in consequence of the difficul ties thrown in the way of coroners by the magistrates with regard to the allowances of expenses, the adminis tration of justice would be impeded, and now we have a glaring instance of it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. DETAINING A. BILL OF EXCHANGE.—R. Baiter and J. Ahrenftln appeared in answer to an adjourned sum mons, charging them with unlawfully detaining a bill of exchange for 2501., drawn by a man of the name of John Titley, late of 8, Mitre street, New-cut, Lambeth, and accepted by a Mr. B. W. Syer, 26, Sylvan-grove, Old Kent-road, and requiting them to show cause why they detained the same. Messrs. Beall and Wilkins, by whom the bill was first entrusted to Baker, were in court, and stated that the bill had been given up to Mr. Roe, the summoning offi cer of the court the day previous. Sir PETER LeuntEsald he had no doubt but that the whole was a deep laid plot between the two defendants with the assistance of others to rob complainants; but as they had adopted his suggestion and restored the bill to the rightful owners he would discharge them. The defendants then left the court in company. BOW-STREET. ASSAULT IN ST. JAMES'S-PARK.—Mary Tregony was charged with attacking Mr. D. Wenham, a stock broker's clerk, in the Mall, St. James's-park. The prosecutor stated that about ten on Monday night he was walking along the Mall of St. James's-park, to wards his home, when he saw the prisoner and two other females sitting upon a seat. As he passed them they quickly rose, and the prisoner addressed him. Witness desired her to leave him, which she refused; and he heard the other two females walking behind him. The prisoner walked by his side, still speaking to witness, who again told her to go away, when she suddenly caught him by the neck and said, with an oath, " Kill him." The other females then sprung upon him behind, and he was forced to the ground.. He called ont " Police!" and the prisoner continued increasing her hold of his neck. He tound himself becoming quite exhausted, when a police constable arrived and took the prisoner into custody. The other women escaped. The inspector said the prisoner was quite a stranger to him. The prisoner, in defence, said she was a married woman, and was returning home last night through the park, when the prosecutor struck her with a stick. She did not know the other females, and she denied that she had ever sat down with them. The prosecutor was recalled, and said they were all sitting together, and appeared to be waiting his arrival. The inspector said numerous robberies were committed in that park, and no respectable person was safe after dark. Extra constables had been placed there. Mr. HENRY had no doubt it was the prisoner's inten tion to commit a robbery, and he should commit her for the assault. He fined her the full penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment. The prisoner was locked up in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—Mrs. Ann Sevester, a lady of independent property, residing at 234, Regent street, was brought before Mr. Bingham on the following charge:— Mrs. Ruddle, 221, Regent-street, said on Thursday last the prisoner, who was her landlady, called on her and said she wanted 201. Witness said it would be in convenient to give more than 101. at that moment, but she would give the other 101. in a day or so. The pri soner replied that • she wanted the money for imme diate purposes, and if witness could not let her have the sum required, she must borrow it. Witness said rather than put her to that trouble she would make use of part of a sum of money which she had by her. Witness sent a servant for her writing desk, and when it was brought she took from it a parcel of Bank of England notes, amounting to 4001. which she had re cently received from the Bank of England. Witness had previously taken two 51. notes from her purse, and be lieving that the notes in the parcel were also 5/. notes, she took two notes from the parcel, and laid them on. the table with the 51. notes, making together, as witness then believed, 201. While the notes were on the table the ser vant called her out for a moment. On her return she faund the four notes had been removed, and that the prisoner, of course with her permission, had taken them. Witness did not discover until the following Saturday that the parcel of notes were all 101. notes, and that there fore she must have given the prisoner two 101. notes in stead of two Si. notes, She went to the prisoner and said she was much surprised that witness had not come to her before, to correct the mistake about the notes which witness had paid to her. The prisoner was very rude to her, and declared positively that she had received but one 101. note, and two 51. notes. Witness not being willing to acquaint her husband with what had occurred, as she was convinced he would institute pro ceedings against the prisoner, again entreated her to rectify the error, as she was quite willing in that case to think no more about it. The prisoner repeated her de nial, and witness was obliged in the evening to make her husband acquainted with what had occurred. Having procured the numbers of the notes, an advertise ment was put in the public papers for the purpose of stopping them. Having recollected that the prisoner' had mentioned to her that she had some money to pay to Messrs. Drummonds, she went there and found that the prisoner had paid two 101. notes into that bank, whose numbers corresponded with those which she had taken from the parcel of notes, and which she had placed on the table believing them to be 51. notes. The priso ner was in a day or two afterwards given into custody. Mr. Ruddle was also examined, and he stated that when he called on the prisoner in reference to the mat ter, she denied, in the strongest terms, that she had re oeived a second 101. note. After a short consultation with the prisoner, Mr. Fisher said he was quite willing to admit that the pri soner had made a mistake, and would rectify it. Mrs. Ruddle entreated the Court not to send the pri soner for trial, and Mr. Ruddle, after some hesitation, said he would forego the prosecution. Mr. BINGHAM hardly knew whether he was now jus tified in acceding to the application. It might not be unlikely that a jury would think there was no mistake, but that the note had been knowingly obtained, and its receipt denied. He would take time to consider the case fully, and would remand the prisoner till Monday, taking bail, however, for her appearance. SOUTH WARK. CHARGZ PIGANT.-..- William Auenglus Sheen was brought up for final examination, charged with bigamy. The prisoner was remanded to this day in orekr to have the evidence of a material witness to prove the se cond marriage. The witness, who is the sister of the lady with whom the second marriage was contracted, stated that she was present at St. Magnus' Church, in the City, and witnessed the solemnization of the mar riage between the prisoner and her sister on the 2d of February,. 1848. On the sth instant she saw the pri soner at Bayswater, and upon that occasion she accused him of having another wifs liviLg, and his reply was that his first wife was more kind to him than her sister. The witness added . that her sister was in possession of a large fortune, cud first became acquainted with the pri soner at the residence of a nobleman in Paris. Thomas Barnes, a City policeman, produced a bundle of letters which he seized at a tavern in the Waterloo road, when he took the prisoner into cust , ,dy. On that occasion, when witness informed him of the nature of the charge against him, the prisoner replied by saying that he had a much more serious charge to make against the person who accused him of bigamy. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Salomons applied to the magistrate to take bail for the prisoner's appearance at the sessions; but the application being strongly resisted by Mr. Ballantine, on behalf of the pro secution, Mr. Seeker refused to accede to it, and com mitted the prisoner for trial. "..'.."..........".".....'.."."."'..."....'".. per lb for In iEld li E g ."' eFaosresCv,lo,evrees,.....--"-- 02s. good, and infersr Afri, , an end cold; o ' Vr bg o ) n o value c t i bT :i fi n fine s a 6 t i l t4ed4ll;trih. :trt;i: andmento h as been disFsed of to a fair extent by private vers.,: pri i ef,; are t° on the decine, ndattiltssliiicaiote,36r _ 0( 30 bags at auction realized 6d to 6-1-,d per lb for a l_c_ myr ( l. aaris :a lo t Gw ions in Cinnamon have been brisk, a rld ther e ~,Z o s to I,.s:i d .s ) s , I s to, a , le i s oo n s t pperrevoiwovtu.s r3aot7irigTshijeovroalhuseyouf Sag.esdi3:::,), ri; er .. nl are Bae4B b b a n a e rs ditto, etl s ys dibotoroxmel:irdC. rates.a y n p e o b r fi e o p i s :o t ej ; i brands r g a4 e n i: d 8 7s o do l dft to h t 4e 6 s B v s 9i na t t o ;a 91s for t'lloo3ivind 1:f:2'1112S ' i b il t r ; I st c bil o ed g il e l SPIRITS.—Brandy has been in excellent re clue s ', 4d. IdBi4a7c, at 5 J 2 6 1 t t o ° 4 4 0 : ar sdi and rhe{ i h)lad f ,e, e er r ds ior sorts, 2s 8d to 4g51e844:19f per gallon; ° II tb ., r still twhietrhe caution,is a l s o much ii c h fi rn commoni fine Is 9d . to 2s. In the value cf 13ritish made Sr .0 Of variation has taken ' T d place. 0- ay several parcel , tei I le ' Rum were sold, and in some cases stiffer ra , . n d obtained. Fast India realised 1s 3id to 15 4d p ro! , .- Leward Island is 4 1 -d to 1 rtd 11 2 IS .g per ,silo on. 1 . oleo f tl port demand has COCHIN ~,, i, CocnINEAL.—A reduction of Id has Won , . _,,i o g rimbp.aio_arc l et, k Od foa fortu found 3d l s ow Bbud t tleaStBis 6 G d e t n o e r gl7 ? l ;: v a d o Silvers, and 2d per lb for black, large parcels d e s• been offered for sale, brit good borne 611100 3 3 8 3 0 bags Honduras bwe'YearenexeaParelryienaelleds.oldAr.ltt 3:6:6-ecciors! n to fine black 3s 9d to 5;2d; 64 bgs Diai e f, ° sod y o te g ors o 3 o sa d t9 B d3 i a lv f e o7 r rd . m , t a oi n d d fine 4a to 4s *woo ii 1 small dark odlgtwc.(l):aitec!artlob2dSt.4hijoe':aeo,lllo;o SALTPETRE.—The market has still a dull s,giLltf. r A o t ugh, and former rates are supported with eii" - 1 25 1 tio r n f , ALL s public mdocirutth s ai a els l i etv2yasl value u 7 i6 s d 9 t 00 ft boifigl2rsts6tspCe6asrdlocreputeetnytrat.ec, we r e tak e 0 il l ,I c e of for better 'ered , is off ow.—Although Russian on the spot with cso; at rather lower rates, yet dealers purchased oe So to 36s 6d per cwt. Operations are upon a lin3itegar st 3 for delivery in last three months of the 1, 0 pi bc,enp s rte 3 d d , hras l voe n rbt h se o eo m nf T e laa m rli e o l rw t . ed livery. e k t bs o F uo 3 t o:r s :o 1 6 t e h d s e . transacted at 35s to 36s nett cash for 1 0 1, - sur ages_ _Sfiuth American were sold at frera 3256:101 P A, auction 5 ° °P ,A to —Sales ath. 365 61 6d for low to fine, 430 casks SydneY 3 3g t ° 3 hie e t Oil for . cxpoi tation, and Yellow Candle f Odessa on board is 331103 to 34i pr this and next mo re° dem Ol a L ia ll e . t the spot.; prices reai 'n LlB,4l9esa t 3 h s e s r e6hdaspbereencwts .g0:117,094fa05 have been upon a larger ses-T h l oo o : raicgesoodrobbussroe;:- 10:: are firm, and rule at 3. 5 h i d ,s , there so firm are sellers at 31s 6d to 32s per cwt. Pirtchei/ve bee ° has ' sra w occurred n a z tn3tshse to o al 3 u 6 e s ' o r ; delivery not much has b;en6cdo:itlou-sejeano: h for o Rapeseed Oil, stilt many Per ce ` s e - a6 d 59a g sold; there is larger quantity on offer. lie irBgrdeset is firEo pe , operate with market Oilexists; fine realized 2gs to 285 6d. Coe tit aeri is yet plentiful,shippers 11 as home il as we ~ , 59 ro d s do continue to o the value according to quality. t°l. s ops ''''ll' nish and 1 G allipoli at 42! to 434 Barbary, Le/8,1:t is 5111 0 ; tu angdbla 401 to 421 per tun. For Seal the roam. t 01. 1 to 341 rge operations hare taken place in Va l e fg a e r 0 3 : 0 other sorts have been sough t ° Lfs b 4 be to 3%1 . 10s, but supply 11 C od is yet sine. 0 01 10 sold to • . fair extent, and it is „-d relt i titi obtained a under 341103 Southern is in g ° ' et w". - 1 and realized fromlOs. Sperm '-• abl►C ere w a i g t h o o d c aaPl ci llea e tlis a l: l ti :3 ; :o bi ist:ll:6:bc.l: 'S e et:g0;.:::101:.1 321 to 33/ 10s. b.l- ..1 At Pl i sir . greater attention, and prices are firmer• O GP 35 tuns were sold at 83l 15s to 84110 a for fin e ileadniatter is still scarce. - - - - - - - THE COUNTRY MA -11 ' ' ' ' ic ~i f loor ' IPSWICH, AuG• 13* To t 0';0 ,/, Our farmers being now busily en gaged in ha r v est 00 0 1 0 0 , .. we have to report as usual at this season a nol i : et , t he 0 10; market ; consequently, a scanty supply which on the whole may be said to be of rlo v! i tee e a f s o g re , 1° $ week at about same prices. A few sample s ee ked• 0 0' market, for which 27s and 293 per quarter Wer e 0 , Os 0 r r g 0: , t „ tel PER QUARTER. ''''''' 0 01 P. 0 110 Wheat, red Barley, malting42s to 43s Peas •••••' . to Ditto, white. Ditto, grinding °°° o ol ck '" 1 Beans ... 2 4 4 5 3 s t t o o 48s Oats Ry e .............................. , 0000 to t 0 0 0 ; 29s to 39s Flour, per sa a. 10, 0 AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING ''' Ll t 430 .1 Wheat Oats ......., .... 5 91 595 o j 6 j ; •• • Beans.... 2B ~ 0, 4 1 0 . go Peas CORK, Aun. 12.-Flour -First 12s 6cl to i" iiiio ll ,,,,' etl o6 seconds, lls 6d to 1256 d ; households 95 to 11% to 155,; orle, per cwt. Oatmeal 10s to 10s 6d; Indian ni eal 7ou o j to ~A . . 6 ~174 meal, lOs to lOs 6(1 per cwt. Indian corn 61 1 ° 6 2 2 0 to;'''''' ... ,f0S 1 0 3; ton. Bran 4/ to 4/5s Od per ton. Hay-Farroe" St•1 0 ,„ -- Alp 265; dealers 00s to OOs Od; average 00s per to o ' oil '''', to "to 17s Od to 25s Od; average 008; dealers o °l l o o 6a g•ti., average OOs Od per ton. Bread-Wheatth ba tter , cop household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. f r ha ndre tl a j . on , 9 Wl N:e hs w p is po e ko r yd r t t lb p . l 2e 4 sr s 6d ' gall , '''' So ib. al es l r ;Eotg.oLgnys.p-d.:4esySTs2aldll6sosdtwoo4pd3s:Bro4dso3pietoLL; 100•0 ~-)e frit o -Beef 4d to 4d; mutton 4hlPteori - 6aL; - 5 ,-ipee 0 5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; reap _.. Hops 1010 s to 01 Os per cwt. Bangor slates os l l 6 to Ol d st , t 7j ton. Bark-Barbary 715 s to 8/ss; Valohi s ,„„ to 0 61 10, 1 f or 6tdoi/ ditto t.o Spanish m tbo e 2 9 r _O / to s m l p O e / r p e i ; r , a rs t ro o e n sl . ;; F Nr l e te e ow c nf e r Wo ol p : : ::: s: l oo. 3 ; , Vi cs ;; ii o i :..k, 00 0 Hemp 33/ to 001 per ton. Fish Scotch herriTvt o Ot 14; m e Marketditto, 2 / 185s' per 225; salted sa d l e te a d ls, 205131 to to 1 81 l ie 'reet t 0 1 10 11/ 32 , P or to sj; to aid to aid per lb. Potatoes, white 4 itl i boe, 91 Od to Od ; Guano- Peruvian, 1/ 10s; l e " - Tar-Archangel, 19s per barrel_ 0. . Jo RAILWAY SHARE 1 / 011 i 1 o ° ol o BRISTOL, AUG. 13 ' not o f If 0 6 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The market o° ooo fall• 0 4 improvement to-day, either as regards the ° er a „, r0 ,0111,s done or the prices, which still have a tent re st v'. ce e. I lk transactions were principally confined w in ? li ed° Bristol and Exeter, without any alteration ~d eieS All' London and North-Western have receded, it' were osittfe, LIVERPOOL, Au t; 1 , 3 ; rtsfel3il Y 4 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The transactions ; , 0 ,1, ..•_;,- I), i ' - l zp o i w iitdt : lo - 2 : dN, a e n 3w c s a:;_ u ir a e Ert a ree n rws d Yorkshire, ConsonattkosfeSl6jo, Fifths, 9 7-16 dis.-London and N o rth - 0, 1 m o 'o' and Berwick (G. N. E a !P lis ur P-V ch a- a ll s eD e) t , t6°s7 : elAur--'-celt.°ll , ll ! i- A d°' o : YORK, Au°. 12 . to''''' 007 ' STOCK EXCHANGE.-The transactions 0 01 0, iyr ; follow :-Great Northern, 8% -York , IC .,, e re forei ce ' Or wick, 14%-York 3,1id1and+........ it. __---- - .07 . 0 0,- „e a 00 [ADVERTISEMENT.] ----BorAbl ic ,iog t b , o . i d 'tidgf; BEARS' GREASE.-When the hair is bee°'" s - bsioltie°, 4 AS; ing off, the only effectual remedy, beside'? is les , 61P 'ss ti V is the use of the two above-named art te 000 r ~. .01 nately, the botanic water to cleanse the re ° oo rist ii . rS scof f;`" as a stimulant, and the bears' grease as a 1 : 0 0 1 , 1 w .n '9 ! Ic ed ll ' t further evidence was required of the v l „t t i t . Ciw,,allociel for renovating and preserving the hair, o,boir ",0 pee.; of the quantity used, and the length of be 0 0' 13 00, some of the North American Indians?, 931,511:Peoldlija answer- -Ross & SONS, 119 and 1 0 ' pears .. ,f o o l ° l o . 7 , London, who first introduced the use o f . ,d 5, vi nr bt' ll country, and who fat and kill the ani° 3 ,, - tha t ber ° A public to purchase none other but W". nr° VP address printed on the pot, or the chnhc" • •oth •oill: , ing a spurious article. P i° i ° 01 ' , Off 110 61 P t g e ,c , " [ADVERTISEMENT.]-For Liver ~s p 0 tae 6 p t . t Digestion, Nervous or Sick Headache:, ta:t o ii o° o o lo oss, -This admirable medicine acts so Peet;titil? osti e° 4ot ir ,: , that all persons suffering from general des,L indit, 07 . ,,,e 9 . ,,1' tions, liver or bilious complaints, heada,. on t ' s ia" tr,, of appetite, or any other disorder brour n a ce .ii r „/ b e kti for,habits, however treat t recoursehe suffering to i t as f a s sfe and t `-, e s ttli-3 .; , the Pr eitn atel•ol , A prt, Pills will give almost instant relief, and u'''"/ the o 'O O, aS the body and restore the impaired faculties to os o o te.,, , are also infallible in the cure of gouts 6 1 e j)0 1 ,1,01 0/ 1 "j and palpitation of the heart.- Sold by ,5traP',00 6 ,,, , ,t, Professor Holloway's Establishment, 2 4 * , be 7 ley r that t,.7,0 ° 0,1 HYDE PARK.-It is StrilDge •-- nt 01 t ot Pr i ew m 0 thoroughfare through the Park, an e l;te ilas li sJP.ort li ti a half from Park-lane to Kensington, er go 90 1 , -; O a quently been made a subject of aniros cPi distri etS etb a 'et, r s strance in the public journals-that two„ .l . to t ga VII t as Bayswater and its lateral caus„evr7 e V o tbil;0 1 „ / . 3 Knightsbridge, Brompton, and the 1 - 01. 7 0 the e int t b it) o'clock at night* be debarred access l o t WI of ° olio' short traverse of about half a mile , °I . i n flict i° A tbi S "0 suburbs should have to bear the b ill),heav an: s ofcreolf mile course (by Park-lane or N'otting- ft i' tha r e no order to secure the liberties of the Gros"' neo l. o tis...Pr, dere r he I t or 4 01 ' years since I saw a dog shot by a eer read t a 0 do . „, receiving -house, because he could not t o le s°,, 0 1. 0 10 6.4 0 . f the pales-" No dogs admitted." But . i refo oin;/ D eo .t o barous is the childish custom which st ll , he nis i/ por t oil/ the barriers by ten o'clock, preventing.''g t he oer g e of t e the artisan, or the labourer, from t ak'n s tivg• roe of t oo `home, whether it be after wotk or leS, ce th° 6 7to be open at all hours at least one lea t u i l lo 'bridV o e , suppose from Westbourne-terrace by be $ ten s f iclij • A, Serpentine, to Prince's-gate: this Wo liars o f t- ,„t and a saving of two miles to dw _.,.. K i d Tss v js' Builder. ---' t A y. ~, fo R. Altif'" BIP LIVERPOOL AND CROSBY ,---- company - have approved of and passed this _. the line to the Lancashire and Yorkshire ' A 'f o f 81RT11.9. ..., 0 6 OF A S °ll. gida leSr'' 1,04 0 ' On the 10th inst., at Colney-hatch, .a., , D, ~ -. P"' Alfred Crawshay, Esq. with r . a-s c i ti Of/ On the 11th inst., at East Greenw itm erio r. On the 1 lth inst., at the Crescent, .0 of V a' W. A. Hubbuck. ro w, the vi le On the 12th inst., at Brorupton-r „ _ . .,, 0 0d, ot e G wr ,,, - - Nor' OF A DAC •,.. • V., L.A.-, 40 0, On the 11th inst., at Warlock 9 1 li Ple F. Maberley. n-ters e ,as On the 10th inst., at Dunce o ce , I P William Browning. 44 j V O'e r gel ' vi O so n oo th nt e R l2 e t i h dh i o n v s e t i , i, ealtd:s:RoGn e f o o 'g f r p g t,b . e_ o l l, s, ll3 l-I t r e l B : o o l , , t h ell e P o : t r. r . Hon. Caroline Stuart, youngest riaus, 000. r ota Blantyre. 9 the elit e oln i- Lo O rd n Charles te l° fv" P ik' nard Granville, hsq., of Wellesbour " /Or of •'s'.l DLO . scl. , _Da , pr' John W. Wr i g ht ' air d, 65' On the 11th inst., A •scl'',2o°' 4 da' ptheoiniestt,.,toatmWethelelwesabooeun,rnee.ih-dat idia,stil;gic ,4,1, St. John's-wood, aged 61. a war- xt ide- 0a on the 10th inst., at Fairfie - t• that .ge 0' On the 9th inst., at Ealing , \id Samuel Chettle, late superinten , • dent 0 tr ee, i, keler° l' , l ol fi co n ttsg e ' s ;t i° l ' ll Of p ort On the 12th inst., at II ter of Dr. Mervyn Crawford• r llinsoll, Esq., toP' , On the 10th inst., Brown - 0 c ItP re ~. I I Ai l land, Hefts, aged 81- 1, Frs ti c 3 < , - , ,,, 4 0 ' 1 ,- On the loth hist" at Liverpoo ed 21 ' o' ''ne, l " daughter of T. A. Curtis, Esq, o _l ~o qu arje ra hli - y / c l On the llth inst., in Bloomsbue:Vouse, 1,0:01 On the 11th inst., at Sharlston L I 14010. j 0 pper per of T. Fitzgerald, Esq. - 61 0/..1: 669 oe, ' f e - - 0 01 0 01 -----........---- bY '550 eho London: Printed and Published,. 2 , 70 b its :No. 112, Strand, Printer,„ It o SaN o la Wm-A. in tie , Pre :limit o" , 14, • lay litiddlesex, Wednoinlay, Atlgufi• WESTMINSTER. Thomas Haynes, a well-known associate of bad cha racters, was charged with assaulting Thomas Plant, a plumber, and wounding him with a knife. The complainant stated that early that morning he went with a couple of friends into the Bell public-house, Bell-yard, York-street, and while taking some refresh ment a young woman came up to him and entreated him to protect her, as a man wanted to rob her of a sovereign which she had in her hand. Prosecutor replied that he did not know about protecting her, but if she stood near him he would see that nobody injured her. Immediately after this the prisoner (the man alluded to) came up to the prosecutor, and asked him what he had to do with the young woman, and upon replying "nothing, but that she had come to him for protection," the prisoner struck him a violent blow in the face, which made his nose bleed. Prosecutor returned the blow, and followed it up with two or three others, when the prisoner finding he was getting the worst of it gave him a desperate kick in the lower part of the person, which caused him to be in great agony for some time. He then left the house, but subsequently returned, and finding the prisoner still there, asked how he could treat him in so inhuman a manner (in allusion to the kick), when the accused attempted a repetition of the same brutal treatment, but only injured his shin. Prosecutor again struck him, and a few minutes after wards, when prosecutor considered that the affair was all over, the prisoner came suddenly by his side and stabbed him under the left eye. The blood gushed from his eye immediately, and he was taken to the hospital and the prisoner secured. Two witnesses proved seeing the prisoner with a large penknife in his hand when he inflicted the wound. Mr. W. Dawsnap, house-surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, proved that the prisoner had received a punc • tured wound under the left eye, and was also suffering from some contusion of the face. The wound spoken of was such as would be produced by a knife; and had it been a little higher would have been very dangerous. The prisoner said the prosecutor had " pitched" into him, and ho was hit and kicked about dreadfully. Pro secutor's eye must have come in contact with the side of the bar or one of the seats. Mr. BRODERIP committed him for trial for the stab bing, at the Central Criminal Court. BITING A MAN'S NOSE OFF.—Charles Lovell,described as a stonemason, was charged with biting a man's nose off. William Preston, the injured man, who follows nearly the same occupation as the prisoner, wore a stout linen bandage across his face. He stated that he went into the Regent Arms, Regent-street, on the previous evening about six o'clock, with a friend, and while having a pint of beer in the tap-room he accused the defendant, who was there, of having on a previous occasion played him a dirty trick, and some angry words then ensued between them. After about five minutes, during which time some others in the room interfered to put a❑ ead to the quarrel and separated them, defendant set down, and complainant was standing up against die fireplace, when the defendant rushed upon him and bit his nose off. T. Sullivan proved that angry words occurred betwee❑ them, and defendant struck at the complainant. Wit ness went between them, and pulled Preston away. Defendant suddenly jumped up, and in the next mo ment Preston exclaimed, "He has bitten my nose off." Witness and others immediately ran to Preston, who was upon the ground underneath defendant, and witness had to thrust two of his fingers into defendant's mouth, and with difficulty succeeded in opening it. When they got Preston up, they found that a bit of his nose was gone; they searched round the room but could not find the missing part. Mr. BRODERIP—What became of it? Witness—l think he must have swallowed it, as it was not found. Witness then stated that the injured man was conveyed to a surgeon's, and tho accused to the police-station in Rochester-row. In reply to the charge, defendant said he had been sub ject to a disorder in his head for some time past, and if anything disturbed him, ho did not know what he was about. He had not the slightest remembrance of having made any attack upon the complainant. Mr. BRODERIP ordered him to find two sureties in 401., and enter into his own recognisances of 801., to answer this serious charge at the sessions. He was locked up in default of bail. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Aug. 13.) SIICIAR.--To-day the rates paid for West India Sugar were equal to those of Friday, and there was a good dement] for both grocery and refining kinds. The purchases are 995 hhds, &c., including at auction 162 hhds 7 tierces Barbadoes, which realised the previous currency: low yellow went at 36s 6d to 375, miudling to good 37s 6d to 40s, fine 40s 6d to 425, and one lot crys talised 445; 122 hbds 44 brls of Trinidad went at full terms, but a part only sold; low and mid yellow at 35s to 365, good brown 34s 6d, and 29 barrels Antigua low yellow at 35s per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was in good de mand for home trade purposes, and prices closed firmly; brown grocery lumps at 50s to 50s 6d. For British Crushed Sugar the market is quiet at former rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoOn there was less business concluded in Bengal Sugar, still lower rates were not taken. Of 4,420 begs at auction a small part only sold, at steady prices; low to good white Benares 38e to 40s 6d, damp and washed 37a 6d to 395, fine grainy white 50s, good and flue dry yellow, 39s 6d to 41s 6d, ordinary and good soft yellow 33s to 365. Of Madras 76 bags were withdrawn. FOREIGN.—Since Saturday the private operations in Foreign Sugar have been 6,000 chests of yellow Ha vannah at 38s 6d to 40s, duty paid. 200 chests brown Bahia 36,, and a cargo afloat at 19s per cwt. MAIMITIIIS.—Thi4 afternoon the quantity of Mauritius Sugar offered at public sale was large, and amounted to 11,817 bags and 566 casks ; there was less demand, and not above half sold, brown sorts at rather lower rates, but grey and yellow generally realized the former value; tine yellow fetched 38s 6d to 40s 6d, good 37s to 38s, middling 35s 64 to 36s 6d, low 34s to 355, middling to fine brown 31s to 33s 6d, ordinary• 27s to 29., very low 24s to 265, wet 18s to 235, and ordinary to good refining sorts 33s to 38i. MOLASSEW.—The market i; firm for West India, and sales to a fair extent have been made; West India at from 13s to 15s, Mauritius and Bengal lls to 12s, Porto Rico and Cubs at 13s to 14s 6d per cwt. CoFFEE.—To-day the Coffee market presented a quiet aspect, shippers and home dealers operated with caution by private treaty, but good ordinary Native Ceylon was not offered under 403 per cwt. At auction 55 bales and 84 half bales Mysore were taken in at 45s for good ordinary greenish. and at 38s to 42s for inferior. Of Plantation Ceylon 75 casks 76 bags went rather cheaper; good at 55s 6d, mid 51s to 525, low mid 49s 6d to 501, and other sorts 42s to 48s. 100 bags Jamaica sold at 42s to 43s for fine ord, and at 32s 6d to 39s 6A fur triage, which are easier rates. 1,103 bags Bahia were taken in at 42s for good ordinary. COCOA.—Holdrs of West India still have confidence, and none has been submitted to public sale since this day week. Operations have been to a fair extent by private treaty—Grenada at 38s to 465, and Trinidad grey 39s to 435, nod red 41s to 48i per cwt. In Foreign sales have been upon a more extended scale at 28s to 28s 6d per cwt for Para and Bahia, and at 29s to 30s for Guayaquil. TEA.—There has been less disposition to operate in Green during the last few days, still holders have con-. Hence. Full terms are required for Black, but the market has assumed a quiet aspect, and prices remain at 11 id to is for com and good ord Congou, is id to is 2d for medium, and Is 3d to is 8d for better sorts. Scented and Pekoe Tes is still in fair request, and former terms are supported. At public sale on Friday 3,300 pkgs were offered, and 1,300 sold. RlCE.—Since Tuesday last an extensive demand has been experienced for East India, and prices advanced 6d per cwt. The purchases have reached 30,000 bags, but speculators have been the chief operators, paying for white Bengal from 9s 6d to 128, Madras 9s 3d to 9* 9d, and pearl barley 8s 6d to 9s. On the part of holders there is much firmness, and none has been submitted to public sale. A good demand has been experienced for Cleaned Rice, Patna realized Ils to 17s, town dressed Carolina 22s to 26a, and imported 198 to 21s per cwt. Of Sago, 800 cases small pearl at auction were chiefly sold at 20s 6d to 21s 6d fur mid to good. Sago Flour met with more attention, and 120 bags realized 17s 6d to 18s. of Bombay Arrowroot 153 cases realised 2d to. 2id, 280 packages St. Vincents 6d to 9d, 50 packages Brazil 3d, 57 barrels African 3d to 44, and 50 barrels Tapioca at Sid per lb for good. To-day East India Rice was in good demand privately, and 5,000 bags were sold at fully former rates. SPICEs.- - -Of Black Pepper several parcels have been disposed of by private treaty. At auction 330 bags of Sumatra were sold at 3d to 3d for good clean black; 1,470 bags of Malabar at 3id for half heavy, one lot in ferior 3d, and damaged realized 24d to 30. 2,284 bags Penang 2id to 3d for good light greyish, and 2d to 2jd for damaged. White realized full rates, and 200 begs went at 66t1 to 7d for mid and good mid. There are several orders for Cassia Liguea, and, as the supply is small, buyers are cmapelled to pay 90i to 94s per cwt. Previous quotations are 9tipported for good and fine brown Nutmegs, but h,f,!rior sorts are 2d per lb cheaper. At auction 200 cases sold, good and tine at 2s 10.1 to 3e Gd, ord mid 2s 3d to 2s Bd, mouldy and sea daneeged 2s 3d to 2s 11d, and one lot Thole are sellers of limed at rather lower rates, but few orders have b.en completed. At auction 6 cases interior went at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and for good rates rule at 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Mace continues to be wanted, and the whole of 60 cases at public salo was disposed of at 2s id to 23 5d