The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Accounts from Hamburgh of the 18th inst. state that the Assembly of Notables held their first meet ing.on the previous day. Count Bille Brahe addressed the. Assembly, and alluded to the conciliatory feelings of ,the Danish Government as evidenced in the amnesty. A draft of a joint constitution for the Duchies in union with the Danish Monarchy was then placed before the Assembly. Another meeting was to be held on the following Monday. ITALY. In its sitting of the 15th, the Chamber of Deputies of Turin passed the Ministerial Bill for imposing a tax upon mortmain property and corporate bodies, by 97 votes to 27. The Senate approved the first four teen articles of the Bill on the discipline ofjudieal functionaries and their permanence in office. The 'Opinione of Turin quotes letters from Milan of the 15th, stating that Marshal RADETZKY has been summoned to Vienna, for the purpose of accom panying the EMPEROR to Warsaw. Count GYULAY is to assume the Government of Lombardy in the interval. A rumour is current at Milan that the daughter of the Grand Duke of HESSE DARMSTADT is to be affianced to the Emperor of AUSTRIA. The Constituzionale of Florence of the 13th states that the Marquis FERDINAND BARTOLOMMEI having applied to the prefecture of Florence for permission to celebrate a funeral service in commemoration of the battles of Curtalone and Montanara, in which the Tuscan troops distinguished themselves against the Austrians in 1848, the Prefect has met the applica tion with a refusal, notwithstanding the same anni versary had been celebrated in 1849 and 1850 with the approbation of the Government. ABD-EL-KADER. The Journal d'lndre et Loire gives some interesting particulars about Abd-el-Kader. The Ameer has been permitted to take rides in the environs of Amboise, and ' a detachment of the 7th Chessman is spicially appointed to accompany him in his excursions. But the coil and rainy weather, which has prevailed since the end of April, afforded the Ameer no opportunity of availing himself of this indulgence until the 13th, when he left the chateau for the first time since his arrival there, to visit Chenonceaux, formerly a royal residence frequented by Francis I, Henry IL, and Diana of Poitiers, and now the property of M. an d M me. de Villeneuve, who had been the first towaeg , and everlcome Abd o el-Kader to his new residence three ye ars since paid him the politest attentions, by sendin g him rares t flowers and fruits their hothouses could supply. On this occasion Mine. do Villeneuve received the illus trious captive with her accustomed urbanity, and ac companied him throughout all the apartments of her mansion. An abundant collatio n was then served up for the visitor and his paniad by two of his sons, some 0 -ei t tader was accom of his householdprincipal Arabs , an interpreter,_ and Captain Boisonnet. Eefere taking Arabic in „ es leave he wrote the following wards in tonly at Madame de Villeneuve's album:—" Praise be to ,:_ the God ! I have seen the world assembled in t-ii 3 l sll2 ec. It is like a fragment of the eternal garden.. ' Greetirg to those who shall read this _ r _ , wr s ititig of mine. And I am Abd-el-Kader Ben Mslhi Lj ajn ; in the year 1267, Tuesday, the 10th radzile (gay 13tb, 1851)." He then bid his two children s:gn their names el,o, and watched with inte rest the manner in which they tr9ced their names. At the moment of his departure, Mme. de Villeneuve ex press-et] a hope that the Ameer would repeat his visit. "Madam," answ , red he, "to see you amain, I would even return on foot " • STATE OF TRADE. (From the . Manchester Guardian.) lISNCHESTER, MESDAY. — Yestercky we received ad vice's by the Asia, shcaing hat although the receipts poiated to a crop emcee:ling 2,300,000 bak of cotton, ye;, in consequenca of telegraphic reports of heavy frost throughout North Alabama, Mississippi, and Tenessee, on the 24 and 3a inst., there had occurred a riso of i. to lc. per pound in the Noti York Market:, and ie. at Naw Orleans. 'I'LL; intelligence appeared to tell rather in favOur of the Liverpool holders of cotton, in the early part of to-dry, according to the somewhat ques tionable authority posted on our Exchange; and an in crease of. firmness was therefore manifested throughout the forenoon, both by the spinners and manufacturers, so that it became more difficult to buy on terms which were easily commanchd last week. Still there appeared but little disposition to operate in goods; while, in yarns, toe orders for exportation, though in some degree increased, werefboth few and of restricted extent, and although this home consumers ventured to make a good many offers, issuing in a greater amount of business than they had effected for some time before in any one day, yet the whole of it would be made little account of in a settlel state of things. Since high 'Change, we are informed by telegraph that the Pacific has arrived in the Mersey, with news of three days later date, from which we learn that the advance at New York, referred to above, did not exceed cent, the whole of which, with an additional -I cent, was lost on the receipt of unfavourable advicea from Liverpool and Man chester by the Europa, on the 9th instant. At once, the spirit of our market is again, in some degree, damped; •and, during the last two hours, we seem to have been reverting, pretty decidedly, to the attainable rates of last week. Those rates were beginning to attract the attention of foreign merchants; and it is felt to be better, therefore, that an advance originating solely in an allegei heavy frost, and which must necessarily hinder the full resumption of business, should be checked in a day. ROCHDALE, HONDA Y.—The flannel market is still in active, and the merchants show no disposition to pur chase. Indeed, not many buyers have attended, and a very limited arhount of business has been transacted. The price of wool continues firm, notwithstanding the manufacturers are only purchasing for their immediate wants. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAYS—The manufactured goods trade.rewains entirely without alteration for the better. Basiness is cl-ing to a certain extent, although at prices whiCh are anything, but satisfactory to makers. Home Thrown —Prices may be quoted the same as those ranging for the last fo:taight. In some instances offers have been made on the part of holders to do business at a reduction of 6d. per lb. on previous rates, but up to the present we have not heard of this concession having led to business. F oreign , Thrown—Pbather more doing, manufacturers continuing to turn attention to this de scription, the consequence of successive reductions in price, and evident desire on the part of importers to sell. H AL/FA x, SATURDAY. —Low lastings and low cotton back lasting; have been inquired for 'to-day, but there are very few to be met with. Other descriptions of goods are very little sought after just now. There is no improvement in the yarn market ; and prices are without alteration. There is scarcely so much doing in woo', with the turn in favour of the buyer. LEEDS, TtrEsDAY.—The market to-day has b een dull; but on Saturday last a fair business was done, and prices continue firm. HUDDER6FIELD, TUESDAY.-Our market of to-day has scarcely been an average one; less has been done on the whole. Goods of a middle quality are the class Principally in demand. Yarns are steady. In wool less flat been done, at about the same prices as last week. THE SOMERSET EXAMPLE. The coin .. (From- the Examiner.) of the Coldst auttal of Captain Poulett Henry Somerset, for ten daps , rfeaul Guards, to the House of Correction the execatic o o r f brutal assault on a police-officer is ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. as duty, is an exce ll ent exam pl e b o th for waning t o geut tlemen who break the th ank ith that ina h ty d purses A BILL AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE TO P REVENT will enabl e t h eru lawwtheir , and THE ASSUMPTION OF CERTAIN ECCLESIASTICAL TIT LES for imitatio n to magistrates who have to deal with such IN RESPECT OF PLACES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. cases. Whereas divers of her Majesty's Roman Catholic It will be observed that . Captain Somerset treated the charge with thorou h • R indifference till the sentence was b een Pratied subjects have assumed to themselves the titles of archbishop and bishops of a pretended province, and pronounced. He had ex no regret, indeed he a pretended sees or dioceses , within the United talked as if he had Kingdom, under colour of an alleged authority given considered he had not the ill- ill-treated party. "He from the police which e to them for that purpose by a certain brief, re from with the courtesy • * I expect." He " would have gentleman was entitled t script, or letters apostolica from the See of Rome, gipped if treated e purporting to have been given at Rome on the 29th of proper civility.; In Capt soturae,B. with September, 1850: And whereas by the Act of the 10th • obedience to he,. law is clearly quite Opinion, ~ George IV., c. 7, after reciting that the Protestant Epis. Lionel, and depending on . the manne r • c T iv--- copal Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, the police in which order is enforced. If man p„ iertned an discipline, and government thereof, and likewise the lion, Captain Somerset might have been _a proosta- Protestant Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the pleased to comply with the regulations, and :nightl v - doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, were by taken the road which the public. convenience have ree t e red the respective Acts of Union of England and Scotland, But as the policeman was not a pink of court '' eay, Cap ta i n and of Great Britain and Ireland, established perms f forbidden Somerset drove on in the ° bent the road,head and when nently and inviolably, and that the right and title of arch stopped whipped the officer a ea and face to bishops to their respective provinces, of bishops to their mend hie manners. sees, and of deans to their dea ner i es , as we ll i n E ng l an d Captain Somerset made this impenitent defen • ce, re , as in Ireland, had been settled and established by law, it d, t b doubt, with a 51. note ready in his hen o. e flung oi l was enacted that if any person , after the commencement 1 the counter of justice to pay for his pleasure in brutality. of that Act, other than the non thereunto authorised But vast was the chap that came over his spirit when by law, should assume or I) the title of use name style or th e magistrate Mr. Hardwick , uttered the words," y ou archbishop of • , . bishop ' any province, of any bishopric, or for ten days . " Ca t de of go to the House of Correction P • r h o 1 any deanery, in England or Ireland, he tioteerile h lier—no longer should u d for every eachoffence forfeit and pay the % rent, bu r e t Vi no longer cave and pleaded allal of One h piteous' c al a ef feeling for himself , be doubted wh undred pounds; And whereas it may 44 01_ . mif , ericordiam. , - ~ the assumptiouler the recited enactment extends to e'!, '-'e,,,s ,'.._e oea l7.l, ll _t-- House of Correction! Pray allow .me pretended ___ . nee the title of archbishop or bishop of a over a again : I trust you will consider your decision a city, pil'ag:lor te?r.diocese, or archbishop or bishop of • gash, a sentence 'll wi probably ob g. li eme to ni temY or dean ofany leave my regiment. I . e . . „ deanery in England o r i rc i pretended 'Not a doubt of it. will pay any fine you may inflict. vince, or diocese- of itn and, not being the see, pro to escape the die Ile would gladly have paid 1,000/. deanery of any dean reeT, archbishop or bishop, or example is this graceful punishment. What an tempt to establish, under colour by law; but the at ise vice of pecuniary penal- of a • ties, on which we h ave See of Rome or otherwise, s eep nthority from the so often comme ted! A • pretended sn ' sty fine to a man in e ta n ',awes, or dioceses or deaneries is illegal and Pe Y or affluent circumstances void: And is no punishment at an, and it whereas it is expedient to prohibit the assum e words t o call it a pecuniary penultY A is an abuse of titles in respect of any places w i t hi n th e p ion of such e Uni • small fine is no dons :Be it therefore declared and e n tad Xing . more punishment to a man who indul es i n • the excellent Majesty , by and • , ae teti by the 3 of a brutality than the price of a luxury Queen's most .y ? with the advice pinespple to gratify Lords spiritual and to another appetite is a punishment. es . p el i oorna and consent of the - -maoral, and the angry passions of Captain Somerset• a d n move d P liam t Commons in this present That— a! en assembled, slid b , n at the sup - Y posed expense of Si. the i ofthe rice o t . hose pas ions was dirt cheap, and the assaul t vita c I. The said brief, rescript, or letters apostolical, a n d the Captain no doubt intending to pay for itotflomttted, de all and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-eminence, when ca ll e d to account, an d to s how how disdainfiXi; or title conferred or pretended to be conferred thereby, would flin g t h e dirte, money t o the magistrate , thiS rue and shall be and be deemed unlawful and void. was a mi sca l cu l at i on ' which t;uutain Somerset now ris er IL And be it enacted, that if, after the passing of ;abut the case d oes not the less forcibly illustrate she 'this Act, any other than a person thereunto au person ~.pernicious tenden c y o f fi nes. w hi c h are to justi ce what thorised by law in respect of an archbishopric, bi s-the Catholic indulgences of old for crime and Sin shopric, or deanery of the United Church of England . were to morality an d re li g i on . A gentleman c am _ and I re l and assume or use the name, style, or title of mite an assault with the understanding that th e archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or place, • highest price for the article is 51 It land not 00- o,retoef.any territory or district (under any designation or voiht n o Captain Somerset that for assaulting a poli ce . auchription whatsoever), in the United Kingdom , whether 411EWSPPeeffne . the execution of his duty the magistrate had the ' city, town, or such territory or district, be or be not th e . l e , r, .nary power of imprisonment; or it had not oc ,2' ' • •• 2 . 1 him that a magistratA would impertial4 le e the - ' - ' - e • ' ei' •-) ski duly towards a-tr a Y . I , ly connected. 5 .. e . lee of the province, or co-extensive with ue _ e P . ntinee of any airchhishop, or the see or the dio ,er co-extensive with the d . f bish er .ss . see en eeewo . , gen em aso ig • 4 . the seat or place of • 10ceso 0 any op, tir ' i --•!. 4 r"V" , in Somerset k - I t ' 4 1. - ,„,.! A 40,_nu en the price he was to paY fur , s i re with an the church of any dean, or co-exten , ~.., :- . el . dean „. • . -..., ,;,, - * - • •of whipping a police officer, what amount of 14 person so ere", of the said United Church, the p. - „,,, --,...,,, % •Or incivility would have moved him to raise a o ffe ndi ng shall, for 'every such offence, forfeit ee :eeeelassee , f, , • and pay the sum a one mit the constable? His horse • 5„......._ - . 'tiles _-. • might havehundred pounds, to be recovered .ta .11 SI THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1851. kicked, and kicked the phaeton to pieces, and he would have submitted patiently rather than visit the House of Correction. But the pernicious notion in his head which let loose his passions and his hands was that a fine of 5/. acquitted all scores of outrage and brutality. How much the public peace and security would gain if the law applicable to the protection of the police were applicable to the protection of the rest of the community. What! interposes some one, would you give magis trates such a summary power over the liberty of the subject ? Why, if they can be safely trusted with the power when the police are concerned, why are they to be supposed less trustworthy in other cases ? And they do exercise the power over the liberty of the poor, who are sentenced to gaol in default of the payment of the fine. I, is the iniquity of the system of fines that it spares the rich in every way. A maximum is fixed, with which injustice prepense declares that the fine shall not be propor tioned to the large means of the rich offender ; and a minimum is also fixed with injustice prepense, which declares that the fine shall not be proportioned to the slender means of the poor offender. The rich man goes to gaol when he commits the indis cretion of assaulting a constable. The poor man goes to gaol for a petty assault, in default of a penalty of 40s. or less; and with the loss of his liberty for a few days ho may lose his character and his livelihood. DECISION IN THE SOMERSET CASE. A WARNING TO THE ROTTEN-ROWITES. Mr. Hardwick has won golden opinions from all right judging people by his decision in the case of Captain Paulett Somerset. Looked at in every point of view, the judgment was most just and satisfactory. Here was as officer in her Majesty's service—a man, the very es sence of whose profession consists in knowing how to obey and how to command, wilfully refusing obedience to a known police regulation, and so far losing all command of himself as violently and brutally to assault the officer who was only seeking to put that regulation in force. The case was, in fact, surrounded with every circumstance of aggravation. The captain had been warned at Kensington -gate of the existence of the order in question. The constable at that gate attempted to stop him. He lashed his horses into a gallop, and when the second policeman, at considerable personal peril, endeavoured to arrest his course, he flogged the man violently about the head and shoulders, drawing blood from his face in two or three places. The conduct of the captain, when before the magistrate, was not such as to palliate his offence ; he complained that he not been treated by the police. with the civility due to a gentle man :—had their mode of address been more courteous, he would have desisted from his attempt to effect his passage. This plea, which, under no circumstasces could be held as amounting to a justification, was nega tived by the evidence of the witnesses and by the facts of the case. The captain evidently intended, from the first, to treat the police regulation with defiance, and thereby, as far as in him lay e tp set an example of dis order at a place, and on an occasion in which the pre ' • servation of order was of espential importance to the comfort and security of the Rtihlic. Under such circumstancesit Mr. Hardwick very pro perly decided upon infliceitikthe only penalty which, on a person in Captain Somers is station, would operate as an effectual punishment, 1A fine to the highest amount in the magistrate's pews* would have been a mere mockery: not so, the alternative of ten days' imprison ment in the House of Correction. We are aware of theargument, that in fact, though not in philosophy, the nature of the punishment is regarded in these cases as thealegrading thing, not the nature of the offence; and that an infamous punishment operates more severely on S, men of the higher classes. We very much doubt - the fact on which this argument is based. Suppose, ifor instance, that, instead of an officer holding her Maftsty's commission, the offender in this case had been # warehouseman, or lawyer's clerk, or druggist's appitntice,, we question exceedingly whether the deprivatwis of place and salary, which wuuld in this case almost inevitably have followed from such a sen tence, wouldenot, in point of severity, have far exceeded any penal consequences that are likely to fliw from the sentence pained on Captain Somerset. As to the ridicule and social obloquy attending such a conviction, that is probably pretty equal in both classes of cases, and is only mord noticeable in the case of the higher class cul prit, becstise the people who govern the talk and fashion the opiniskis of the great world belong to the same order, and feel-their class-dignity wounded through his punish ment. But eVisn conceding that honour becomes more sensi tive as wo ascend in the social scale, and that a discr, - ditable penalty might in its consequences prove more die tressing)to an aristocratic than to a plebeian offender, is it not just that it should be so? If the social influences, are at all to be taken into the account, let us, at all events, take them into the account fairly. If it be correct to say that the refinements of caste make a degrading punish ment more severe, it is quite es correct to say, that they ought to operate in making a discreditable offence more penal. Ten days in the House of Correction is a greater punishment to a gentleman than it would be to a mechanic. Be it so; but, at all events, admit that the offence for which the penalty is awarded, is less venial in the gentleman than it would have been in the mechanic. The advantages of class should never be taken into consideration as a plea for the mitigation of punish:l:rent, where they have been found ineffectual for the preritention of offence. If a gentleman has behaved with the brutality of a coalheaver, let him not, on the ground of his gentility, escape a coalheauer's punish meat.— Weekly News TRESPASS AND PUNISHMENT. Tiao Protectionists feel bound to afford amuse ment to the public in this great holiday year of 1851. Since they amused the town at Drury lane, and for an entire day exhibited themselves gratis, the walls, hoardings, and public buildings of London have been . covered with a strange in scription. People could not male it out; the only plau sible suggestion being that Bedlam had been turned loose, and the gastronomic ideas of the human race in verted. For weeks we have read with amazement strange specimens of Roman writing, which seemed to import a prevalent_ desire for "Free Trade and Star vation." But tha mystery has been revealed. The eye of the police, which falls upon all things, of course fell upon James Gray and John Allen, who were apprehended in the act of inscribing the enigmatical phrase upon Black friar's-bridge by the light of the moon. In the presence of Mr. Ald e r man Wilson they ex plained that " a gent" had promised to pay them two pence a piece for these inscriptions, that he had not paid them yet, and that th e y p ain t e d a t night because the children smeared their work if they did it by day. Such was their trespass. Their punishment was novel and exemplary: they were ordered to clean the bridge, cr go to prison. Of course they cleaned the bridge. Wo said the mystery was revealed, but not entirely, for the " gent" who promises to pay, but does not pay, is still involved in congenial obscurity. Who can he be —that man of enlarged, we may say, giganttc revolu tionary ideas? Gunpowder Plot was a small concep tion compared to this. Guy Fawkes proposed to move, with a very forcible suasion, " that the House do rise;" but to awake a people to a constitutional insurrection, by persuading them that cheap bread and plenty of it amount to starvation, that required the original genius of a "gent." Again we ask who is this mcdern Machia velli, in the shape, demeanour, and dress of a " gent?" Is it Colonel Sibtho r p, or M r . G . F. Young? or has the Association for the Protection of Native Industry con descended to superintend in person these mighty evolu tions? Who can say ? Let Sir George Grey and Mr. Mayne look alive, for are there not " six Richmonds in the field ?"—The Leader. as penalties imposed:by the recited Act maybe recovered under the provisions thereof. 111. This Act shall not extend or apply to the assump tion or use by any bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style, or title in respect of such district or place; but nothing herein contained shall be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title which he is not now by law entitled to assume or use. C•11.8- , LZGEET AND corm C7OI2IPANXES. (- Dividend Amount U - Name of Company. per of Paid. Price it Annum. Share. ) ---.. 10 -- Z. 8. d. If. s. d. Y. British •. •• •• ........ 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13 el Ditto rrovinsial•-• 1/. 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Z s. d Bank of Scotland sritish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 19934 a Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank Gl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% Clydesdale Bank •.. . • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13% Commercial Bank .. -7/. per cent. 800 0 0 100 0 0 1736 Eastern 8ank....• ••• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9/. Os. O Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 4% Exehangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 s% National Bank 634 percent. 80 0 0 10 0 0 1534 NorthofScotlandßank bLpercent. 20 0 0 210 0 21.133, Royalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133 Union Bank of Scotland 8/.percent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 90 Western Bank .. ... •• • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 72% Alliance Fire and Life 836/.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2136 British Guarantee .... 4/. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 8 183 6d Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22% City of Glasgow Life.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. Ili Colonial Life ........ - 50 0 0 1 0 0 2!. Os. Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 I 21% Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. per cen t . 50 0 0 217 6 3 Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ; 8/. Os National Fire and Life Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 248.0 d North British Insur... 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ; 27 ficottishUnionlnarnce. 641. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 ,24s.id Standard Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 60 0 0 4 5 0 12 United Dep.Assnrance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 173 Od MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---. 4. 2. d. Z. s. d. Assam Tea .• .. • • .... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 64 ' Auction Mar. 21. 55. 50 0 Australian Agrictilturl 1/. 100 0030 () 0 15 1 Australian Trust •• .. Cl. per cent. - 3.5 0 0 20 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 108. 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 1 Ditto, Half Shares .. - - 210 0 _ 1 British American Land - -- 38 10 0 14% Canada ......... •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 47 Uppr Canada Bonds 61. peecent. - - ( Ditto ditto .. • • 6'. per cent. - .__ 1 96 07% I City Navigation Bonds 3} per cent. - , ._ Gen. Revers . & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2 / 100 0 0 100 0 0 gi % I , Equitable Reversienry sp.c.&bs. 5/ 100 0 0 1100 0 0 109% C Ditto New ........ - 50 00 I 210 0 2% a Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct.& bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27% Hudson's Bay.. .... .. - Stock. - 205 Hungerford .. .. ..... 2/. 58. - 100 0 0 47 ) London Institution ... - - i 7815 0 7 New Zealand Company - 25 0 01 25 0 0 - Ditto, New ........ 25 00,12 10 0 - r , Russell Institution.... - - ' 26 5 0 - Paninsir&Orient•Stm. 81. percent. 50 0 0' 50 0 0 62 Reversionary Int. Soc. 141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 76 South Australian... •• 4 11. pee• share. 25 0 0' 25 0 0 2434 Van Diemen's Land.. - 100 0 0 1 29 0 0 2 U EXECUTION IN FRANCE.—The man Desbbia, who, it may be remembered, murdered a police agent in the streets of Beaucaire, and was in consequence condemned to death by the Court of Assizes, was executed four days a g o at Beaucaire. When told by the officers of the gaol at Nimes, in which he had been confined, that his last day had arrived, he displayed great fortitude, and expressed a wish to receive the consolations of religion. He made an excellent break thPrOwl t,Ets e t, and thanked the turnkeys for their attention. He was , istedneitd addr essed t,int!, conveyed by railway, in special train, to Beaucaire. apparent On rig taken to the Hotel de Ville to be pinioned he saw c i e agent horn he had also attempted to kill. and himself at his feet, demanded pardon with great asceeanrndeestness. He walked firmly to the scaffold, and. aesds republicans,e dt crowd.he counsels; having he said who, calling themselves ruin and brought me to the scaffold. Do not listen to those p t h r preach h ‘ h‘ l ac - yr o ie u m n ce g a ua p sn e ed o d p dm l people," 8 , y.. " order. They have no othe r so ciety into all sorts of . s object than to precipitate mi fortune. Let my example be a waning to you! Be united but fo He then gave him - elf up to the executioner r cu gpod—for good only!" tTner, and a minute later had ceased to live.—Gulignani's Alessenger. WEA VING .-A some what gloomy shade has crept rather unexpectedly over the face of the trade, and has flat tened commercial prospects con s i derablY.--Fifeshire Journal. I LAW INTELLIGENCE. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, May 20. (Before Lord CAMPBELL, Mr. Justice PATTESON ' Mr. Justice COLERID GE , Mr. Justi ce M AULE , M r . Jus tice CEESSWELL, and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) BOOSEY v. JEFFEIES. Lord CAMPBELL, in delivering the judgment of the Court, said that in this case the action had been brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for the pirating and using a musical composition, being a cavatina in the opera of La Sonnambula, which was composed by Bellini. The declaration was in the common form, alleging that the plaintiff was the pro prietor of the copyright of the opera, and that the composition in question was first published in Great Britain. To this declaration there were two pleas— first, that the plaintiff was not the proprietor; and secondly, that there was no copyright. At the trial, which took place before Mr. Baron Rolfe, now Lord Cranworth, evidence was given that the opera was composed at Milan in February, 1831, by Bellini, - who was an alien, and who ,then resided in that city. By the law of Milan, he was entitled to a copyright of his work ; and accordingly, in May, 1831, he assigned his copyright to Giulio Ricordi, an ai alien, also residing at Milan, who, on the 9th of • June following, assigned the copyright for Great Britain and Ireland to the plaintiff, a native of Great Britain, and he published it in London on the 10th ' of June, 1831, there having been no prior publication of it in any other country. On the 12th of June, the plaintiff entered his work at Stationers' Hall, and deposited copies at the British Museum and other ei places required by the Act of Parliament ; and on the 13th of May, 1844, he made entries at Stationers' yi Hall, as required by the sth and 6th Victoria, c. 45, for the purpose of conti nu i ng hi s right. The Learned' Judge, in accordance with the decision of the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Boosey and Purday, a „ directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the evidence was not sufficient to establish a copyright. The jury, therefore returned a verdict for the defenda n t, upon w hi c h a bill of excep '4 tions was tendered to the ruling of the Learned Judge, 3i and so the present writ of error was brought. After listening to a learned argument, and carefully oonsi , dering all the authorities, we are of opinion that the evidence was sufficient to support both issues, and that there ought to be a venire de novo. The first question was, whether the author had a copy. right, but that is not essential in the present case. If 34 it were, we should be of the same opinion as my Lord Mansfield in the case of "Miller and Taylor," 4 Bur roughs 2,330. We thi n k th a t, un d er the statute of % ' the Bth of Anne, o. 19, the plaintiff was entitled to % maintain the action. In Boosey and Purday, in which the Court of Exchequer overruled the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, which are authorities directly in point, it was decided ai that a foreign author residing abroad, who composes a work abroad, and sends it to this country, where it is published under his authority, acquires no copy ; right therein, neither ' does a British subject, t o w h om m that work is ass i gne d by the foreign author, gain any ea such right. If these premises be sound, then a Bri tish subject who resides abroad cannot be in a better position ; but with great deference to that decision, which must have been strongly maintained, we ! , e are of opini o n th a t it was no t th e i ntent i on of - the Legislature to debar a foreigner from the power of holding a copyright in this country. - The Parliament has no power to legislate concerning ;e. foreigners residing in foreign countries, but it has _ power to grant the monopoly which the statute of Anne confers, to be enjoyed here, on the conditions 4 4 to be performed here. The statute of the Bth of Anne, c. 19, is an Act for the encouragement of learn ing, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein mentioned. Assuming that the Legislature looked only to the benefit of Great Britain, without regard to general literature, it is not for the literature of Great Britain that it should have the benefit of Price. foreign authorship ? If Rapin and De Lolme had .. written their valuable works without visiting our shores, could it be said that they would have been depris ed of the privilege of disposing of their works to a publisher ? It hes always been the policy of 44 Parliament to introduce foreign literature into the e 4 country; thus by the Ist Richard 111., c. 9, which was an Act passed for regulating the mode in which _ Italian merchants might sell merchandise and other restraints on aliens, it is enacted by sec. 12, that aliens: may bring any books written or Ice. printed into this country, for selling by retail or _ otherwise. The question truly is, whether a foreigner composing literature abroad, by &ending it and first publishing it in Great Britain, is deprived of his copyright, whereas, if he resides and composes it here, it is admitted that he would be possessed of it. ' If he had composed it abroad and brought it over in his memory, or even brought over the manuscript, would it have made any difference in his right as an author ? Can his presence here alter his right as an author ? If he can bring it over and enter it at ice. Stationers'-hall himself, which is admitted, why should he not able to do so by an agent? Where is the necessity of his crossing from Calais to Dover? The law will give him redress, though he never set foot in England ; for, by the 6th of Henry VIII., the Court of Common Pleas held that an alien residing in France could maintain au action of debt in this country, though he could not do so with regard to real property; and that great, judge, Chief Justice Tindal, held that an alien, though he has never been in this country, may maintain an action for a libel published in this country ; and, on delivering judgment said that it would create in the minds of foreigners a very unfavourable impression of the justice of our laws, if we were to hold that an alien's friends could not maintain an action of that description in our courts, unless by some interval of residence here he has incurred the onus of what Lord Coke calls igeantia localis ' • and Mr. Justic e M au l e, - in the same case, said that every day's experience Ice. showed us that actions area maintained here by fo reigners —for example, those for running down vessels on the high seas —without objection. Gibbons wrote his celebrated work of the a recline and Fall" in a foreign country; can it be doubted that he might have published and sold his work here had he con tinued to reside abroad? What difference can there , be then between a foreigner or a subject domiciled abroad ? For these reasons we think that if an alien ' author, residing in his own country, should cause his work to be published here, he would be as .% author within the Acts, and could maintain an action for piracy ; but we wish it to be understood that it must be first published in this country, for if it had been published previously in any other country he could not gain a copyright here. The origin of the doctrine set up by the de tee. fondant seems to have arisenirom a dictum of the late Vice-Chancellor Shadwell, against the right of a foreigner, expressed in the cases of Guichard v. Mori, 34 and in P age an d T ownsend, which turne d on the . construction of several Acts protecting engravings, 16 one only of which was expressly confined to plates 16 engraved in Great Britain; but these opinions were on. merely obiter dicta, and the cases had no connexion 'N with copyrights. Looking at the context, there is reason to believe that the Vice-Chancellor only meant s• to say that the Court would not protect a foreigner who publishes abroad. As to the other points, viz., 1% that the assignment by Bellini to Ricordi was not ac -134 cording t o th e A c t o f P ar li ament, v i z., i n t h e presence Gd of two witnesses, we think that there is sufficient to show a good title in Ricordi, which he assigned to the )3. plaintiff in England in the presence of two witnesses. Upon the whole, therefore, we are of opinion that the '" direction of the Learned Judge was wrong, and that he ought to have directed the jury to find a verdict ' for the plaintiff on both issues. They must, there. fore, be a venire de novo. ADMIRALTY COURT, May 21. (Before Dr. LUBHINGTON.) THE EURE..--SALVAGE. In this case the crews of two fishing•smacks of Harwich proceeded against the Bure for services ren dered her on the 9th of November last, off Harwich, she having run aground on the Pye sand. The sal vors asserted she was in a dangerous position, and were employed in heaving the vessel clear off the sand. On behalf of the Bare it was asserted she merely dropped alongside of the sand ; the assistance of the boatmen was not solicited or required, but that they forced their services upon the vessel, and that some coals had been given for the services they had ren dered. Dr. Harding appeared for the boatmen, and Drs. Addams and Twiss on behalf of the Bare. The COURT considered a trifling service had been rendered, and awarded the salvors 51. and costs. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, May 21.' (Before the RECORDER.) HULSCHOTF V. CLELAND AND DAT DEMI:4IIU, SCOTT GARNISHEE. This was a customary attachment in an action for debt for 7001. The garnishee pleaded that he had neither moneys nor goods of the defendants, in his possession. Mr. Ryland and Mr. Randall appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Locke appeared for the garnishee. The plaintiff was a merchant at Amsterdam, the defendants were merchants at Boston, United States, and the garnishee was Mr. James Scott, merchant. of Nicholas-lane. In April or May last year, Mr. F. Saville Lee, who was the authorised London agent of the firm of Cleland and Co., of Boston, purchased on their behalf e l even cas k s o f nutmegs, f the value of 7001., of Mr. Adrian Meyer, the representative in London of the plaintiff's house, but one of the war rants was returned to Mr. Meyer, he having sold one of the casks, and the ten others were given by - Mr. Lee to Mr. Scott, the present garnishee, who it ap peared was a creditor of Cleland and Day's to some amount. In December the house of Cleland and Day failed, whereupon the plaintiff availed himself of ' the process of the Lord Mayor's Court to recover from Mr. Scott the nutmegs which were still in his posses sion, he being the holder of the warrants ; hence the present issue. It appeared that the ten casks or nut megs were lying at Brewer's Quay-wharf, and that if delivered for home consumption about 2091. would have to be paid as duty, but if they were exported of course no duty would be payable. Mr. LOCKE submitted that the plaintiff's case could not be sustained, as the attachment was against ten casks of nutmegs which had never been in his posses sion, he being merely the holder of the warrants. The latter, and not the goods, should have been attached. The RECORDER held that the nutmegs were in Mr. Scott's possession really, though not actually, in the same manner that a person who had money at a banker's was in possession of that money. Mr. LOCKE then addressed the jury, and urged that unless they were thoroughly satisfied, from the evi dence that the nutmegs were actually in Mr. Scott's possession, they could not find for the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel then put in as evidence a deed of assignment, executed by Cleland and Day, at Boston, on the failure in December, to show that when the attachment was issued in February, the nutmegs had been formally assigned to Mr. Scott and other creditors, for the benefit of the creditors generally. The names of Mr. Posuo, Turkish Consul at Ant werp, and Mr. Da Pests, Turkish Consul General at Brussels, appeared as parties to the deed. It ap peared, however, that the deed had not been executed until after the issue of the attachment. The jury, without hesitation, found that the gar niskee had in his possession ten casks of nutmegs be longing to the defendants—which was a verdict for the plaintiff. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 21. (Before the CHIEF CommissioNEß.) IN RE RICHARD JOHN MOSCRO2. This insolvent, who was a corn-dealer at Holloway, was opposed by Mr. Sargood for Messrs. Charring ton. He had no counsel. An objection was taken to the petition in this case, which was filed under the Protection Act, on the ground that the debts exceeded 3001. It appeared that the insolvent had given a Mr. Bilton a bill of sale for 1101., which, with his present debts, would make them exceed 3001. It was, how ever, alleged that Mr. Bilton had taken possession of the property secured by the deed, and had realised the same, which was in effect an extinguishment of the claim. The deed was exhibited in court, and ap peared to be a mortgage. Mr. SARGOOD submitted that the deed to Mr. Bil ton had not been extinguished, and that it must be calculated in the amount. Therefore the debts ex ceeded 3001. and the petition must be dismissed. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER concurred in the view taken by the Learned Counsel, and dismissed the petition. The petition was accordingly dismissed. His Hollows granted several final orders, and heard other applications, neither of which presented any feature of public importance. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Mr. Bell and Mr. Corbett, the pro prietors of the Gracechurch-street premises, which fell on Saturday last, waited upon the Lard Mayor on the subject of the disastrious occurrence. Mr. Bell addressed his Lordship in the justice room, in an interval of the ordinary business of the day. He said, "We wait upon your Lordship for a twofold purpose. First, to express our sincere thanks to your Lordship for the promptitude you have shown in commencing a subscription in your public capacity, as chief magistrate, for the unfortu nate poor men who are now lying in the hospital, and the families of those who were killed by the disastrous fall of the premises in Gracechurch- street ; and, secondly, to assure your Lordship that we are doing, and still continue to do, all in our power to assuage the afflictions of the objects of the public solicitude. We have given directions, that the wages shall be regularly paid, and that every comfort re quired be abundantly supplied, and we band to your Lordship a che que as an earnes t o f our feelings to wards the poor fellows who have suffered, and their families." The LORD MAYOR said it was most gratifying to him to find, that the gentlemen who must be losers to a very serious extent by the fell of the premises, came forward to give such unquestionable evidence of their!sympathy. He would take care that the press, in which the notice of the contributions received had already appeared, should be informed of the liberal act of the gentlemen who had thus waited upon him, and he entertained no doubt that he should be again considerably indebted to the newspapers for their powerful assistance, in circulating the claims of the injured parties, and announcing the amount of sub scriptions for their service. Mr. Bell—lt is our duty also to state to your Lord ship our sense of obligation to several gentlemen for their extraordinary exertions immediately after the accident occurred. We in particular allude to Mr. Tress, Mr. John Stevens, Mr. Edmond Woodthorpe, Mr. S. Wood, Mr. Ashpital, and Mr. Bailey. All these gentlemen rendered the most valuable as sistance in superintending, in places of the most im minent danger, the efforts to rescue the workmen who were buried in the ruins. Of the labour and skill of those gentlemen, it is quite impossible to speak too highly. The lives, in fact, of some of them were constantly exposed to the greatest peril in their anx iety to save the lives of their fellow-creatures, so that the community must feel, upon seeing the acknow ledgments o f the witnesses to their efforts day and night, that the emergency was met by the greatest intrepidity, as well as by the greatest zeal and talent ; we are also bound to speak in terms of gratitude of the exertions of the police who acted throughout with the most remarkable firmness, resolution, and judgment. The LORD MAYOR said he had every reason to be lieve the police had supported the high reputation they enjoyed by their conduct on the occasion. He was perfectly aware of the active labours of the pro fessional gentlemen alluded to, whose services upon the premises were described as having been so effi cient, and he was proud to say that they bad shown as great intrepidity as skill. Ilis Lordship then said he would feel much indebted to the editors of the daily press by their acknowledgment of his receipt of the following sums for the sufferers on that day, and his anxiety to receive most bountiful contributions : Messrs. Bell and Corbett, the proprietors of the pre mises, 251.; Mrs. Jane Ogden, 51. ; a family subscrip tion, ss. ; James Thomson, Esq., 11. ls.; A Friend, 10s. ; John Wagg, Esq., 21. CLERKEN WELL. Yesterday Alfred Walker and Sarah 21Iortlahe, the former a sturdy-looking young man, 23 years of age, and the latter a young and interesting-looking girl, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Inspector Brennan, of the G division of police, with having been concerned in manufacturing counterfeit coin. It appeared from the evidence of the Inspector, that in consequence of information received by the police that parties were constantly employed in the extensive manufacture of base coin, at a house situate 69, Golden-lane, St. Luke's, he, with other officers, made arrangements to pay a visit to the place, for the pur pose of making a capture. On their arrival, at about half-past four o'clock on Friday afternoon, they pro ceeded to the first floor apartment, and on opening the door, they saw the male prisoner at work at a bench, in the manufacture of base coin. He had a file in his hand, finishing off some shillings. On see ing them (the officers), he dropped the file. The' female prisoner sat quietly in the room, and merely said to the male prisoner, " If you had not introduced that party this would not have happened." They immediately secured the prisoners and took them to the station-house, after which they proceeded to search the place. On the mantel-shelf they found 48 counterfeit shillings. In the cupboard three moulds, two of which were so made as to cast three and four shillings at a time. In a drawer they discovered counterfeit half-crowns, and on a further and more general search upwards of 200 pieces of counterfeit coin were found, all of superior make and imitation. Also two galvanic b a tt er i es, w i th plates and jars con taining strong solution, ladles for melting, Queen's metal spoons, plaister of Paris powder, and all the necessary imple men t s usua ll y applied to the manufac turing of base coin, the whole of which they seized and conveyed to the station-house. The property was now produced in court. Sergeant Cole and White, &c., who accompanied Inspector Brennan, gave confirmatory evidence. The prisoners cohabited as man and wife ; the latter was much affected whilst at the box, and the male prisoner supported her, kissed her and held his arm round her neck. Mr. TYRWRITT remarked that he never before wit nessed the production of so large a quantity of coun terfeit coin, &c. He highly complimented Inspector Brennan for having conducted the case in the manner he had d one . H e d ec id ed on eventually commit ting the prisoners to Newgato for trial, but they should be brought up again on a fature day for the formal com pletion of the depositions. . MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday Peter Fisher, an omnibus driver, was charged before Mr. Broughton, at the instance of Mr. Henry Thomas, Secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following misconduct:— Lock, 660 A, deposed that as he was on duty i n Bayswater-road, he saw the defendant driving his omnibus towards town. There were from thirty to forty passengers in and upon the vehicle, the sprin gs of which at length broke in consequence of the tre mendous load, and the horses came to a complete stand-still, upon which the defendant flogg e d th em, an h d ad sc c a o n i d le a c lo te u d s but all to no purpose , as t he y were unable t o d raw the omnibus along. The near - side horse in particu lar was lashed in a most violent m a n ner, and a number of persons w h o at the spot cried out " Shalnf." Mr. j3ztouGwrox—How long did the whipping I list ? Witness—Three or four minutes, your Wor ship. Mr. BROUGHTON—Do you really believe there were as many passengers as you have stated ? Wit ness—l do, Sir; but of course I had no opportunity of counting them at the time. Defendant, when asked by the magistrate what be had to say, replied that the passengers numbered no more than twenty-two, which was just one more than the vehicle was licensed to carry ; the near horse was a " jib," and he did not whip him more than two or three times ; he had no witnesses to call. Mr. BROUGHTON remarked, that the case had been very properly taken up by a useful society, and fined the defendant 20s. and costs, or in default of payment 14 days' imprisonment. If it had been shown that he had been brought up upon any former occasion for conduct of a similar nature, he would now have been more severely dealt with. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Hurley and George Cator were placed at the bar for re-examination before Mr. Sacker, charged with a daring assault and robbery upon the person of Mr. Benjamin Collins, a blind man, carrying on business as an ironmonger in High street, Shoreditch. The circumstances which led to the detection and apprehension of the prisoners were of a somewhat singular character. It appeared that on the afternoon of Monday, the 9th instant, as the prosecutor was passing through New Inn-yard, Shoreditch, under the guidance of his daughter, a child eight years old, he suddenly received a severe kick on the back of the leg, which flung him forward upon his face, but he was immediately raised up by two men, one of whom, while affecting to commiserate his misfortunes, sud denly thrust his hand into his waistcoat pocket, from which he abstracted his watch with a violent jerk that detached it from the guard, and both of them in stantly made off with their booty. He gave imme diate information to the police, and having been sub sequently apprised that a man was in custody charged with a murderous assault upon a married woman, who had denounced him as one of the gang who had robbed him of his watch, he proceeded to the station house, where he was confronted with the prisoner Hurley, and at once recognised him, by the pecu liarity of his voice, as one of his assailants. Ellen Wateman, the wife of a bedstead-maker, in Christopher -square, Shoreditch, in whose house Hur ley had formerly lodged, was then examined, and de posed that she accidentally witnessed the robbery while proceeding through New Inn-yard, on the afternoon in question, and having described the par ticulars in the same terms as they had been detailed by the prosecutor, and thoroughly identified the pri soners as the perpetrators, proceeded to state that she met Hurley again, near her own residence, on the same evening, and after an exulting observation upon the daring character of the transaction, he informed her that he had since, sold the watch for 16s. to a Jew receiver. 'Witness remarked that it was a cruel act to commit such a robbery upon a poor blind man, and told him that she had a good mind to communicate the circumstances to the police, to which he replied that he would certainly cut her throat if she ven tured to do so. In consequence of these threats she was deterred from divulging what she had seen, but carefully avoided all further communication with the prisoner, and kept out of his way until the night of Saturday se'nnight, when he followed her home, and commenced a most unmerciful attack upon her, de claring that he would have her life, and after striking her repeatedly on the face, he seized her by the throat, and attempted to strangle her, but her cries of " Murder" were fortunately heard by a policeman, who rescued her from further ill-usage, and conveyed him to the station-house. Witness then preferred the charge of robbery against him, and furnished the police with further information, which resulted in the apprehension of the other prisoner. The prisoners, who denied the charge, were or dered to be remanded for the completion of the depo sition, hut on being removed by the gaoler they turned fiercely round upon the female witness, and assailed her with a volley of imprecations for giving evidence against them. SOUTHWARK. Yesterday William Cox, a well-dressed boy of fourteen years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with breaking into the house of Mr. Edward Raleh, landlord of the Queen's Head, Freescbool-street, Horselydown, for the purpose of committing a felony. Policeman William Thrussell, 148 M, stated that at half past two o'clock that morning, while on duty in Freeschool-street, in passing the Queen's Head, he observed that the glass fanlight over the private en. trance in Short -street was broken, and en aperture made sufficiently large to admit of a man's arm. Knowing up to twelve o'clock the same night that the glass was perfect, he suspected that the house had been entered, and he knocked at the door, and listened, and distinctly heard footsteps within, but received no answer, upon which be rung the house bell and aroused the landlord, who came down, un bolted the door, and admitted him. He (the police man) then pointed out the apertuee over the door, and hinted at his suspici o n s th a t some person had effected an entrance, arid was probably then concealed on the premises. They accordingly instituted an examina tion of the parlour, tap-room, bar, and other parts at the lower part of the house, but failed in discovering any person, until at length they proceeded to the front of the bar, in a corner of which stood an empty puncheon, underneath which, the heading next the floor being out, the prisoner had concealed himself, and when discovered he stated that he got into the house before twelve o'clock the night before, and hid himself in the puncheon where he was found. On searching his pockets a box of lucifer matches was found. The policeman added, that ,a short time pre viously to the discovery he saw two suspicious -looking men lurking about the neighbourhood, who, when particularly noticed by him went away, and he had no doubt now that they were acting in collusion with the prisoner, who, in all probability, intended to have admitted them into the house by unfastening the door; that the fan-light was a considerable height from the street, and that the prisoner must have been lifted up by other persons, in order to give him an opportunity of breaking the glass, and making an aperture to admit his arm, so as to enable him to draw back the bolt by which the window was fastened, and through which, it being partly open when discovered, he must have introduced his body, and thus obtained an entrance. He (the policeman) further stated, that the prisoner, although so young, was a lad of very bad character, and always in the company of thieves; that he had been in custody before, and had only re cently come out of gaol after three months' imprison ment, and suffering the punishment of flogging besides. The complainant stated that the prisoner's assertion that he got into the house before twelve o'clock, and concealed himself in the puncheon in front of the bar was destitute of truth, for he (the landlord) did not quit the bar himself till past twelve o'clock, at which time he fastened the fanlight over the private door, the glass of which was perfectly sound 'and secure at the time. He added, that after he was aroused by the policeman in the way described, when they commenced their search in front of the bar, he pare ticularly noticed that the empty punchi ion had been removed a short distance from the usual spot where it stood, and underneath which the prisoner was found—that it was a matter of much surprise how the prisoner managed to lift up the vessel so as to get inside, without knocking it down in this attempt; but however difficult, he surmounted it, and was found inside in a sitting position. He was also of opinion that the prisoner's intention was to admit other housebreakers—his associates—to rob the house, if the discovery bad not been made in the first instance, through the attention displayed by the policeman in the performance of his duty. The prisoner, who declined saying an ything in diections an swer to the charge, wa s c ommitted, ,and directions were given that the record of his former conviction might be produced on his trial. LAMBETH. Yesterday Patrick Cane, J o hn Healey, James .11PEllyott, Dennis Harrington, William Fahey, William Burke, Edward Shanahan, Thomas Lynn, Thomas Burke, and Edward Slattery, who stood Henry divis J ion, charged with the murder ofhChaplin,werea* a constable belonging to t o e ck b before Mr. Elliott. gain rt t eNn clerk de eidl placed within the felons' . d Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, and Mi in the offices f the solicitor m t r o . t G he ara T s e a ands u ry ‘, for the prosecution, and appeared on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. Evans, the of who hasLd • IVI9IOII of Police, and Mr. Inspector Carter,superintendent in the.. management of the attendance. Mr. were also attendance. Mr. Bodkin, addressing the magistrate, said, that s i nce the case had been last before t its Worship, Mr. Carter, the inspector, and th e officer's engaged under his directions, had exerted themselvf 3s to the utmost, Ito discover the whole of t h e parties engaged in the disgraceful and brutal outrage, that led to the death of the unfortunate man Chaplin, but he (Mr. Bodkin) regretted to say, that up to the prese nt time they had not been able to procure evider ice beyond that which brought home the serious offe ace to more than three of them, namely, Cane, Hickey, and M'Ellyott. Against these, however, there wets in his (Mr. Bodkin's) opinion, sufficient to platte them on their trial on the charge of murder. 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Australasia ......... A e. d. J 3 s. d. . 41. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ceylon -....•••• •• •• - 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 Colonial.. •• . . .... .. 2/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 11% Gloucestershire .. •• • • 151 per cent. - - - lonian •••••••• • • • • • • 151. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - London and County .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - London Joint-Stock ..• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincialof Ireland • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New. .. •• • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. •-•• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia •• •• .. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24% Union of Australia •• • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto ........ ••• • • • 61. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of London... • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - XECSITRALNCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. --- A a. d. A a. d. Albion ••••••• • • • • • • • 3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86 Alliance Brit. and For. 7114s6d&bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21% Ditto Marine. •• •• • • 6p et& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 36% Atlas .••- • • • • ..... • • 138.66. 50 0 0 510 0 17% Argus Lifo •••• • • • •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 1 0 0 -. British Commercial .• 75. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life spr ct.& b 3. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 80 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15 Eagle • • Eqlty and Law .....• 4% per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 5 European Life ••• • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11% General ............ - - 50 0 b Globe - 136 Guardian .......• •• •• 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 56 imperial Fire --•• •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245 Imperial Life .... -•• 12s. 100 0010 0 0 18% Indemnity Marine ••• • 11. sh. & hs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 Law Fire - .......... - 100 0 0 210 0 2% Law Life •••••••• •• .. 11. 16e. 100 0 0 10 0 0 46 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 4% London Fire •• ...• •• 20s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19 London Ship ... 20s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 19 vr.arine•• -•••••• • • • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 15% ;ied.lnvlid &Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2% Montuch •••• •• • • .... - 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 •iational Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% e i' . 4 1.1 ce la n l x i urn . . .L . i . f . e . .. . .. .. 3 5 1 1. . p p . s e h r . c a en b t s .. 50 ....... 0 0 20 0 2% - 156 Professional Life.... • • AL per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 195.0 d ProTident Life • • ...... li, bs, & bs, 100 0 0 10 8 0 30 /14 , :k Life .. .. .. .. .. 55. 50 0 010 0 6% Loyal Exchange 6l. r.ot. &bs Stook. - 221 fan Fire....... .. .. „ 6l. los, - - 209 Ditto Life ..... ... • • 11. 6s. - -- 46 United Kingdom .. •• 41. p. ct. &bs. 20 0 0 40 0 4 Universal Life.... •• • . 10!.1 ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - tii&oria LIP -, ....... • • 5/. per cnt. - 412 6 5% M W1LT1611,1743'074MC5. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. pee l Annum. Share. .4 a. d. X a. d. Cut London. ..... •• • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 155}, Grand Junction ••• • •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 70 1z_ent............ •• • • 41. per cat. 100 0 0 80 Lambeth —..••• • • • •• 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 97 New Myr Lndn Brdge 4/. Os. 57 Vauxhall .. —...... .. 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 97 West Mid4lesex • . . 6/.os. pr cat. 110 ------ Doman. Dividend Amount I Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ................a0............. ...................... ......,.... ........,,W.r ......mmo A e. d. A e. d. Commercial ...... •• .. 41. pr cent. Stock. 84 Eaßt and Vrest La 4, a ... 61. pr cent. Stock. 145 East Country London • • • Ditto Bonds.••••• • • 41, per cent. it• Katharine .....•.• 3% per cent. Stock. —763 i Ditto Bonds." • • 4341. pr cent. 3outhampton .• ...• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15 BE,MCitES Dividend Amount Name cf Company, per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. ........1.1 Zo a. d. Z. B. d. flungerford • • • • • • • • •• 15 Sonthwrk .... ...... 100 0 0 Ditto Nw of 7% p. c. 855. per cent. 50 0 0 16 Waterloo ............ 100 0 0 3 Ditti, Old Ann. of 81. 11. 4s. Od. 60 0 0 25 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 1/. is. Od. 40 0 0 Vauxhall .... .•• Av. IL 70 10 8 is CAPZELLB. 1 v e j • 4 side Names of j (Dividend, Prin i Names of Dividend .. send Companies. 1A , per ' Companies. c: I Az ' Pri4 I 04. I Annum.l ii t I ._ .£ , X Ashtn& Oldh 107 ' 71. 1 113 Macclesfield . 100, 27. 10s. 50 Barnsley- • • 1160 121. !PO Neath ••• • • • 1001 161. - Urknk&Abrg 150, Si. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1001 201. 1 4 0 Birmingham 40, 41. I 93 Peak Forest. Ig 31. 18s. 70 Coventry.. • • 1001 251. 200 Regent's.... 33 1 1/. 3s. 181 Derby ••• • • 100, 61. 63 Rochdale... • 351 41. 42 Ellsmre&Chs 133; 355. 26% Somrset Coal 'my 71.105. - Lirand.Tunctn 100 41. pr. ct. 59N Do.LkFd St 1 2 61. p. c. - Do., 6 pr. Ct. 119 - ii Stfird&Worc 1 4 0 .. 281. 405 Grand Surrey, 100 27. Os. 33% Shrewsbury.. 125 - - Lirand Union 1100 11. 10s. 24 Stoarbridge.. 145 201. 290 Kenn t & Avu 89 4s. Od. 3% Severn and 7 Lancaster • 100, 41. - Wye Rail. f 26 31. Os. 24 Leeds& Livrp l loo 241. 400 Warwick& 1 41. 46 Leicester ... • 100 5/. 66 Birming. j 100 Leicstr &Nth .83 41. 44% Warwick& 100 W. 30 Loughborogh 142, 701. 510 Napt on ..} i Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr Bs/ ~„ 31. 40)1 Mntgemrysh; 100 - - Birming.i ' - 11.eltnMwbryi 100 - - Wilts & Brks - Ile. 63 Gosford, 107 L, who deposed that the prisoner Lynn had been left in his care ; after he had been taken into the cell, and while sitting with him, Le asked him if he had been at the raffle at the White Lion public house, on the night before, and he replied that he had. He next inquired if he had left the White Lien with the other prisoners, who were there, and he said Le did, but added, that he had gone before them with a young woman, down Vauxhall-walk, and parted with her in Lambeth-walk, and that on his return be saw the policeman lying dead. Mr. Neill here complained of the conduct of the sergeant in putting these questions to the prisoner, i without giving him the slighte s t caution, or any ntl.- mdtion that the answers he should give would be used against him elsewhere. Thomas Jones, a shoemaker, was here sworn, and stated that on Monday morning, the sth instant, he was locked up in one of the cells connected with the court, on a charge of m a ki ng a w ay with a pair ?f boot-uppers belonging to his employer, when the pri soner Harrington was br oug ht i n an d l oc k e d up WI th him. Soon after he heard him say that if he had t'ae clinker in his hand he would split the policeman's heed into pieces. In reply t o th e ques ti ons o f t h e M ag i s t ra t e , the witness said, that it was about nine o'clock in the morning that tho se asser ti ons were ma d e b y th e pri soner, who was lying on one of the seats at the time, but not asleep. In reply to a questi on as t o h ow o ft en h e h a d been in prison, ho declared that he had never been locked up before the morning in question. Mr. Games applied for the discharge of Fahey, William Burke, Shanahan, and Slattery, againsA whom, he contended, there was not a tittle of evi dence. Mr. Neill also applied for the discharge of Thom Burke, Lynn, and Harrington, and said that against the former two there was no evidence whatever, raid that, notwithstanding the strange evidence given bf the shoemaker aga i ns t th e l a tt er , th ere was nothing to justify his further detention. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that in a charge so serious as the present he felt it to be his duty to remand the whole of the prisoners, to give the officers engaged ill the case sufficient time t o ma k e a ll th e necessary ill. quiries, and get up the evidence ; but after the state ments that had been made, and the evidence given, be did not consider that he sho u ld b e j us t i fi e d i n detain ing any of the prisoners besides Cane, Hickey, rind M'Ellyott, against whom the evidence was suffi ciently strong to send them for trial on the charge Of murder. Harrington he should also remand to • future day with the other three prisoners, and all the others should he discharged. The court, during the investigation, was much crowded. TiIAiIIES. Yesterday, William Edwards, a labourer, visa brought up on remand, before Mr. Ingham, charged on a Custom-house information with carrying and conveying 10 pints and a quarter of rum, the duty on the same not having been first paid and secured, by which he had incurred a penalty of 1001. He ear neatly pleaded not guilty to the information, and said he was an innocent man. It appeared that on Tuesday afternoon the prisoner was met by a police-constable named Barnes, No. BS, 11, in Church-lane, Whitechapel, and suspecting that he had contraband property in his possession be stopped him, and asked him what he had under his coat, to which he replied nothing. Barnes took from him a bundle, consisting of a handkerchief, in whiob were two bladders containing rum. Before they' were opened the prisoner said he did not know w hat they contained. The skins were delivered to Waver a custom-house officer, who seized them in due for ca on the part of the Crown. They contained 1 gallon and .5 16:hs of a gallon of rum, 23 under proof. The prisoner, in defence, said a gentleman with is carpet bag in his hand, met him in Whitechapel, and asked him if he was out of employment, and on l fig replying in the affirmative, gave him the handerch ief containing the skins, and said he was to carry the bundle to Spitalfields, where he promised to meet bins and give him a shilling for the job. Mr. INGHAM—Who is this gentleman ? Pri goner —I don't know. I never saw him before. Mr. INGRAM thought the case might have been made the subject of a summary proceeding, without an information. Mr. Cornell said the quantity of rum cr real spirit had been considerably reduced by its being so couch under proof. It was valued, with the duty, a t 15s. per gallon. Mr. INGHAM fined the prisoner iIOOL, and, iti de fault of payment, committed him to prison for six months. He recommended him to mernori slims the Board of Customs for a mitigation of put iish ment. THE COUNTKY inAtiKETS. Livsitrooo, MAY 20.—There was a good attendance to day, and a fair demand for fresh wheat, which was qviite as dear. Stale and out of condition lots were rather cheaper. Flour, both sack and barrel, being pressed for sale, rather cheaper. Oats, oatmeal, and beans, each in good request at rather better prices. Barley, malt, and peas, unchanged in value. Indian corn dull of sale, at Gd per quarter decline. LEEDS, May 20.—The market was well supplied with wheat, and millers bought very sparingly; holders, how ever, did not give way, and last week's rates were maintained. Bar ley steady. Oats and beans brought fully as much money. Other articles as before. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MAY 20.—The supply of wheat of all descriptions at market to-day was moderate,, and was readily taken off at the extreme prices of Saturday last, and in some instances more money was got. Grinding barley still excites attention at fully former terms. Oats is per qr dearer. In flour and other articles no change. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET , MAY 20.—. The supply of beasts was a t r ifl e l ess th an on last Tuesday; ,quality good and trade brisk at former rates, with a fair clearance. About, 160 more sheep and lambs than last week; the quality of the for mer moderate, but the latter indifferent; business for both kinds of stock active, at prices a shade higher, and all sold. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MAY 20.—There were in the meal market to-day 18 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs. imperial, which sold thus:-1 at 1/ 12s, 2at t/ 118 6d, and 15 at 1/ lls ; average price of the whole 1/ lls Id 4-12tha. 8 sacks flour, which sold at 28s. 5 sacks pot-barley, whereof 4 sold thus :-1 at 26s Od, 1 at 255, and 2 at 22s 6d. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MAY 20.. Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stones trout ; wheat ditto, 6s 6d to 7s 6d; barley ditto, 6s 6d to 7a 6d. Hay, from 10d to Is per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, MAY 19.—There were 44 bags oatmeal and 9 of barleymeal at this day's market; sales dull. Oatmeal up on the top and second price Is per bag ; that sold at 28s per bag was of inferior quality; barleymeal the same as last week. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. imperial .. Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal Flour ... „, Pot barley ... First Sccond 31s Od 3Os 6d 183 6d —s Od —s Od —s Od ---s Od —s Od —s Od —sod Third. 28s Od —sod —s Od COAL MARKE Hate's West Hartley 14s Od Buddle'S W. Hartley 14s 6d Carr's Bartley ..... 14s 6:1 Ch.,ster Alain 123 9d, Eloward's W. H. Neth l4s Od Holywell North Percy Hartley l4s Od New Tanfield Tanfield Moor 123 9d , ranfield Moor Butes l2s tid, Townley West Hartley West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c ; T....-.YESTERDAY• Scarborough 133 !H c l 1 Pensber Jonassohns Lambton Keepier Grange N. Hetton Lyons .. ••• 143 .3d Sunderland... ...... 12s 'Od Russell's Hetton Stewart's Whitwell Caradoc Heugh Hall Hartlepool ISouth H ar tl epool ....• 14s *9d Thornley ............. 14s ..31 West lielloe Whitworth . l2s tid Adelaide Tees ./Richardson' s T 8 Backhouse ees d ,Clavering Tee 5......,., 138 fid Tees ...... ......... 158 (6d West Cornforth Cowpen Hartley De rwentwaterHartley 14s (64 Hartley ........ 138 Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff Sold, 102 Unsold, 147. A co rn Close Brown 1 3 s 1 6 s 9d1(11 Gostbrth . •• j Lawson l3s Od Hilda l3s Od' Northumberland Wharncliffe Eden main Lambton Primrose Bell Belmont ... 14s 3d Braddyll ............... 143 3() Hetton ........... ...... 15s Cd Haswell lss 6d Ships at market, 309....... _ rA DVERTIS EMENT.3--Holloway's Pills a certain specific for Nervousness, Lowness of Spirits, and Di sor d ere d Stomachs, -The wonderfully regenerating effects produced b these invaluable Pills are truly astonishing. This fine med:i. tine acts in so peculiar a manner on the system that by follow_ ing the directions affixed to each box as to the mode of using them, nervous irritability is allayed, the tone of the stomach s trengthened, the digestion improved, freedom of circulation given to the blood, and a robust state of health attained. Per_ sons of studious and sedentary habits being especially Labile to the class of disorders alluded to, should take Hollow ay ' s Pills to insure a g oo d s t a t e o f h ea lth.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTH'S. OF A SOX. On the 16th inst., at Geneva, the lady of the Hon. Thoma s Preston. On the 19th inst., the wife of the Rev. Charles blerivale. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 18th inst Douro-place, Kensington, the wife of J. W. P. Graham, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Doncaster, the wife of William Marratt, Esq., coroner. 4141R131E1). On the 17th inst., at Chiddingstone, Kent, the Rev. Henry W. 0. Polhill, rector of Illington, Norfolk, to Frances Char lotte, only daughter of Henry Streatfeild, Esq., of Chid dingstone. On the 19th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, Captain Woodward, H. M. sth Fusiliers, to Elizabeth, eldest daugh ter of the late W. Johnson, &lg., of Alichaelstown, county of Cork, Ireland, and widow of the late Capt. F. A. Robinsen. On the 19th inst., aged 3 9IED , Georgina, wife of J. Anderson, Esq., lessee of the Th ea t re Royal, Drury-lane- On the 17th inst., the Rev. John Palmer, aged 77, thirty-four years rector of Peldon, Essex. JoOhna the 16th inst., at Mil ton-next-Sittingbourne, Kent, Hinde, EFq., one of the coroners for the county. On the 18th inst., in Lower Belgrave-street, Eaton-square, Mrs. Elizabeth jackson, aged 51. On the 18th at East Farleigh, Kent, Edward Norton, Esq., Diss. Norfolk, aged 49. On the 20th inst., at Addington -place, Camberwell, Sophia, the wife of S. H. Shepheard, Esq. 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