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&ire; ELIA d nt zuela, Calais i )r Ant f Awl" for St. 3 Coast; Cardiff; Ln Ist. 3' Belfast, 'S. idy, with r feeling at wee k ' en eXP e ' talities of curren t " 'rid Ru n " d the In‘ stenstre. firntne ln business MI w hi u _ Ch t h o ge ow- les & In ' lalitios of a per bsg samPle e deman d r o. Good and net oh Os — d neA Io 4d, a nd tad front le , The 11190 8d woe seen° Whet! requ e° " ar k e t ds/ xi former cup...sd i 134 iu wilot her rate la was es -68 6d per land , ifle .ter. ° s r qu otew er dearer' ordsl %de • e cote 146 1 the Price. nr teerk i eo' s In 6 0 ad the 1011 yidery I et "`" AA, inking th ° e a out tin' the u g ' n for soups to bit! Let W°rth'' ti r bush els 1 A nd JO ) 1 /60 9lb• ri s e. iolb, Infer° ' 11 °, '0 1 7 1 1 1 1 6 " )d OP . °CI; per 10/sbe" 1 0 C 1 it° wi :ed ato 4 4p°d , to bo, ' 6,1 to id; e ach, 21 g g'd to 10 " l od ; h et* two , dittft ditto, 81 (Poci r of 14 ' poritiarg: • t), o ? A i 7d IW.s s i t ' i •,36y P-- Wi=t 811- ith 11 d; D i ri p r e 3 d ; ll rg -do, oeco r, 52 w 526. 1 been ier s t 147 b P "_ h_ 4d . 1 16 • to el, the 41" 10 0 0 , 11 10' )oseet, or a l e .rion boo, some A, at red half: a - a has sYl•bs ioiog- g ee s ble to o gees t be still 11 . 0 0, ra lescilti to, it fo, ll ja 3eoo .0( Th. 7 0 44 it seri fell* t o/ 1...-20 6 '-- de 20 ~ ,-- 16 '''' Pe r ew) ; 3300; I. l •Dts ' '' gyp ••y _ oat h 'd to, is P e roe' of °FP • l e a heed a n d a he e ". s 011 ! v :- 'fhb hn— ..,,ptoole, ce E f o iloriv we PI" reads h. the 7 ' l— ted r k for i"" th u at nd is ad dition -- it station' PO T- I h 0 08 ' 0 7 WO ,ay O M' • b of 1418 4 e the gef. the wif° oad, $ Clio° .rd• Boo rigbtoP• ae s°. of tb . le,W oof Mb ° , y Clea ts. m, if for 11. t-C° l°° rix• „,. , _ 44 t he 000 the w if° , •_ of tt 12, 50. ma CONTRACTS for TAR, PITCH, St TALLOW. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, March 14, ism, st l b ui e Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral e United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereV give b e . .ce, that on Tussnay, the Bth April next, at One o'clock, they will Ibe r ,' l7 to treat with such persons as may he willing to Contract •UPPlying her 2.l4l)esty's Dockyards with STOCKHOLM TAB, ST OCKHOLM, ARCHANGEL, or BRITISH-M ‘DE PITCH, blatri And RUSSIA or ENGLISH TALLOW . buttons of the Articles, and Forms of the Tenders may be .' at the said Office. 1 4 0 Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, Cu_ t ho rn e d unless the party attends, or an agent for him aln writing. tZ 4 ,... t erY Tender must be addressed to the Secr etar y of thl Admi- Th and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for t" and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac t Uled by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging for etne bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,2001. le0 ;:te Tar, 8001. for the Tallow, and by one person in the sum of the Pitch, for the due performance of the Contracts. HANK. of ENGLAND, MARCH 11, 1851. The Court of Directors of the Governor and Company o f the 4 m, tilt o ,f England give notice, ti l tlt General Court will be held at the Bank , on THURSDAY , Dii",th instant, at Twelve o'clock precisely , to consider of a DIVE % T„'"• Also that another General Court will be held at the Bank *Bn.sy, the Bth of April next, from Ten o'cloc k in the Forenoon p)z.Vur o'clock in the an Aft E ernoon, for the ELECTION ensuing (which will Ire d eed that evening) ; and the same Court will be continued 4 1 ,7`.' s tirilinent, and keld at the same place , and durin g the same Tee',.,9 11 WEDNESDAY, the 9th April next , for t he ELECTION of %a-ZIT-FOUR DIRECTORS (which will also be o ne of the tlO l - 1 - ,„,' 1.1 3 7 General Courts appointed by the Charter) , and the Elec • 111 4 ,' She Twenty-four Directors will be declared as soon as the sera . over. lists of the Proprietors having votes will be ready to be de at the Bank on Tuesday, the 25th of March: JOHN BENTLEY,. Secretary. !go an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of Geo. 111., E a Ta Will be entitled to vote at the said election who shall not 'st ock been six calendar months possessed in his ow n ri g ht of the kt# , ~f°, * Which he shall then give his vote , unles s the said stock s hall - Ten acquired, or shall have come by bequest, er by marriage, llitj4.nocession to an intestate's estate, or by the cus tom of the city .Ste i v i r t l ° 2l . or by any deed of settlement after the death of any per ho %hall have been entitled for life to the dividends of such stock. EAST INDIA HOUSE, MARCH 12, 1851. IHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, Proprietor of East India Stock has given notice, that at the It t h 7 l 3' General Court of the said Compa n y , a pp ointed to be held he 7 "tr House in Le,adenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th inst., submit the three following motions, viz.:— `,_°. I. That collectorate abstracts of the u ndermentioned items let' i ltement No. 7 of the Parliamentary Accounts for the year end 'lg4B of the Annual Territorial Revenues an d Disbursements of .I ) ,Tlibay Presidency, indicating such portions thereof as w ill and her'Pail to the East India Company, explanatory also of their last ,S increase, collectively amounting to rs. 33,37,971 be laid before C,lttrt of Proprietors. i:_ances and Assignments payable out of the revenues e,l67ordance with treaties or other engagements, in- Q u ntC those of the ex-Paishwa and his Minister ....rs. 16,31,561 411 . - caneeB to village officers and enamdars ••.. • • •••••• 93,31,642 % tc„ s • 2 . That a statement of the undermentioned item contained Nir a f same account, indicating such portions thereof as are of a ge teuljnore than a local charge, be also laid b efore the Court of Pro t', more vi z. : , 6 41%s for civil and political establishments, including te'Mgen charges.. •• ••••••• • • • • • •• .......... rs. 35,83,565 ITo• ft ••• That publicity be given in the customary newspapers of 5. does roes of motion submitted by any member of this Court in the lie - tollowing that in which they are presented , as well as on the l'evday Previous to the Mecting of the next Quarterly Court of motors for the consideration and disposal of all such motions." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. GUILDHALL, Meacrt 14, 1851. TAE COMMITTEE FOR LETTING THE 4 1,4 19 ,C,1TY'S LANDS will meet at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, RictlVday of March instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive ERS for LETTING for Twelve Mouths certiin, from nett,Lady- It 4 and afterwards subject to Three Months' notice to quit ither party, a House, No. 8, on the west side of Giltspur-street. (4 to receive Tenders for LETTING on LEAS E, for 16 % y ears, Ne e uree days), from Lady-day next, a House, No. 22, Artillery. A L Lon the west side of the City-road. ( 1, 44 7t0 receive Tenders for LETTING on LEASE, for 16% years Op t erec days), from Midsummer next, Two House s, Nos. 5 and 6, 444: south side of Christepher-street, Finsbury-square; and a Pt irt llio. 17, Pump.revr, on the south side of Old-street-road. "nst a e r particulars and plans may be seen, and forms of tender ea at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. N:WELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. i _ku ut4 Persons 'billing to TENDER for SUPPLYING the a bove- Institution, which contains about 1,100 inmates, with ‘44 - ,;;_ z , lour, Malt, Hops, Oatmeal, Peas, Hay, Straw , Oats , Butter, Ot t i7 and Bacon, for six calendar months, from the I st of April L kitt ee a ro requested ' to deliver their tenders addressed to the Com tt of Visitors, to the Storekeeper of the Asylum , at Hauw ell, tpd ' , ttiarter before Twelve o'Clock, on Thursday, the 20th instant, 1 1 / 41 ,1 1 1 attendanee there at that hour. 44 4 th forms in.which the Tenders must be made may be obta i n ed, k at go form of Contract may be seen, either by application here , Asylt.m. 41 4 t ;e o rimittee will not bind themselves to accept the l owest or the Tenders. ' CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the V i s itor s . 'Louse, Clerkenwell, March 8, 1851. I/41M S R of ST. QUAR GEORGE, HANOVER- % lift E. lers and Mealmen, Butchers, Cheesemongers, Cornchandlers, Ca?: ors, Milkmen, Potato-dealers, Oilmen and Tallowchandlers, t it a r oo,nen, and Coffinmakers. erbons as are willing to CONTRACT with the Governors and 414° V 4 of the Poor of the said Parish for supplying the Two Work - I t a...for Six Months, from the 25th day of March, to the 29th day s7 t eniber, 1851, may deliver in their sealed proposals at the %2Voorn in Mount-street, on or before Ten o'clock on FRIDAY, a a "lZ 4 V of arch. NI% - a Tende M ring must be in attendance at that time , and a ll Ten- P moot .te k . be made upon and strictly in accordance with the p rinted Ntli t '..,2! Tender, which may be obtained on application to the M aster Workhouse, in Mount-street, as well as any further particulars. By order. T. B. CHAPPELL, Clerk. PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH bit , COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause SK IPWORTII KiPwORTH, the creditors of THOMAS SKIPWORTII, bi, , ,Cabourne, in the county of Lincoln, Farmer (who d i e d in u Ni . u ntil of August, 1850), are, oil or before the 16th day of April, tlib,, to come in and prove their debts before RICHARD TOBIN l'_4 o ;2 4 LEy, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his 42brs, in Southampton-buildings, Chancelane, London ; or, tiu,`Lault thereef, they will peremptorily bee cluded the benefit maid Decree. RICHARD T. KINDERSLEY. U. T. and W. TAYLOR, 18, Featherstone -buildings, Holborn, Agents for WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Gainsborough, Plaintiff's Solicitor. ,s . MARTIN'S HALL. n ste aloliTHLT CONCERTS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN Under the direction of Mr. John Hullab. 0 'larch TH CONCERT will take place on WEDNESDAY 19, when when will be performed, for the first time in this Zo . teti'',.,t e n Credo, in B minor, of John Sebastian Bach—Mozart's N(IC Pulvis et Cinis—the second act of Oluck's Opera, Orfeo— IN:Q A.. ection from Weber's Oberon. 7,: . lk r ""fT,s :—Mrs. Endersohnn, Miss Kearns, Mlle. Graumann, t r qtt e rne, Signor 'Marches'. net u.rtis will consist of the members of Mr. Hnllah's First Fich Reserved Seats, Gs.; double ditto, 9s. ; Area 3s. ; double 3,t_,..tverseuersMa!anbed at St. had of , a r a . r J ti o n l !s r tirar er, 445, West Strand ; of - - CFFEE and its ADULTERATION S. t .„ `The" Lancet" of Janne ,4, 1851, centains the analyses of tit twenty and thirt sam ry le of Cfiee " purchased at the tztt, 11 -842 ent of differentYmetroppolitan Grocers, Tea and Coffee the whole of which, with two exceptions, were found ' , lterated with chicory, roasted corn, beans, or potatoes. er, l 44l t horefore, much satisfaction in announcing, that the two /I, ) , 4 4:lnunts where unadulterated coffee was purchased were those 41 t`' • BETTS, 262, Oxford-street, and Messrs. KNIGHT and 4 1 14,,,:_Gracechurch-street, City. The Coffee purchased at these 1. 1r !r t ,7 8 Were of excellent quality and high flavour, no very marked 14 4 ' ,4 existing to distinguish the one from the other. The price . he shop of Mr. Betts was Is. 4 d. per l b .; at the shop of 7 s irp,.' i ught, 2s. per lb. In both instances the article was entirely zi tv 'n adulteration. buy coffee contained in canisters, for it is even more adul ,'N han other coffee, it being necessary not only to pay for the t also the canister." LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, 41tGrirLL Licensed by Act ct Parliament. WINDMILL' STREET, ST. JAMES'S. Asee i Charles Emile Laurent, Jun., 57, Brompton-square.) OPEN EVERY EVENING, With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND. it:11,1 Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt. 444 ° Pe1l at Half-past Eight o'clock —Dancing to commence at terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely. Admission, One Shilling. 'I O ST IMPORTANT.—Pounds, Shillings, and e Pence, greatly influence the happiness of mankind; and j i i k 'f does this must be important. Cieeatt 4 ,, BEB and SON have for a period exceeding twenty years , b y liable exertions, endeavoured to supply the public at such )! l l,prior . to their times, was never considered possible ; they 07., In the introducers of a new era in their trade, and their suc -oy"tes that they have made pounds, shillings, and pence, in 04 ; use of the words, avalable to the happineis of the corn 14't, th' by placing abundance in the power of their customers, and refore, the commercial connexion with them and the public Nti t i*:' !Wally important to every interest, that it must be con t'4l4,'"arY channel of theirvast stream o f trade as Tailors, Clothiers, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Out • t' for Ladies and Gentlemen, that they have fully carried out L ‘elti,_ lo -'eat principles, of gh qualities and low prices, the immense • ale which has so long and so unchangeably patronised them , qtly testifies ; and if, perchance, there should be any who are 144' 1 sonally aware of this ' great fact, we invite them on the prin lkt44 r th m ei u r tu p a o l u a n d d v s an s ttF i l lg to s enableanap pence, s e r wpreoiNn-e,rtehala4birtusLryin theirto mess, and they ' will find that to be ' come our c ustomers, Is to and to us, most important. 11/4 handsome Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on , 41 application. • new edition of " Everybody's Book, containing a fall report 'Il e ; l ate important trial, may be had gratis, on application, or by .21; Dest free. oat t°B ES and SON have no connexion with any other house in L L., °lf London, except the following : 4, • 14 °Ia City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minorles, 83, „" °l d 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. `V 1 0 n West—end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, /t " t jad f „ gait-street, all communicating. " Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street. k t n - 4 4 3 4 •.% Branch, 36, Fargate. , Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe -1,1'14 land General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentleme n. 'o'• d itabliabments aro closed from sunset Friday to Mint Sa -" a,e, ' When business is rearmed till Twelve o'clock. Lei l'on park Francaise. Qui si parla Itallano. Viler spricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol, 1 : 1 04, t A THIRTY-FIFTH EDITION. ' I4 NING THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OF %11l DISEASE. 1,,,, netrated by 26 Anatomicsl Coloured Engravings on Steel. b'''" I SICAL DISQUALIF ICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA ftw'ILCITy, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. 11 ? p os ,and Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 page; price 2s. 6d. usdireet from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamp; -14 * SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on kk t h e 4 ,.44, 4 ,„! ckhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by krei tr : Indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of IjZolo,",_with explicit directions for the use of the preventive lotion, b ) 7!,,, e i 1i . ,,,, , observations en the Married State, and the disqualtilea- Lice i i "" Prevent it. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings, and o,,, t etail of cases. By R. and L. FERRY and CO., Consulting . te ket: l . l9 . Berners-street, Oxford-street, London. Published by tA4t tee Sanger,ill ; and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-rew ; llannay, r.:"Labo Oxford-street; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall ufnden. ' ' -0 42 e l • treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive l i b f_Atiall, d is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. 147._ellee• treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in liaLutk,,,,luid their lamentable effects on the system, produc ing - •„Pai -u q,_ bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative t,; Aitt -7,.. Illustrated by Throe Explanatory Engravings' C i prfl . .2 treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in ikoltr tr t - ZY,_ or secondary form, and contains explicit directio nsfor it v i n Ztuent. This section is illustrated by Seventeen C o loured k-..er i ii• it a ,',; contains a Remedy for the Freventio of Disease by a bilki,ire-n,,",„,__cation, by which the danger of infection is obviated. I. '''`.ot part the Work should not escape the reader's 44 4. 4 V u t •„ •is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du '''elo - m„ !causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the 6:44Ject criti ca ll y and philosophically inquired into. tl,7 r ktio g !Ulan BALM or STRIACUM is exclusively employed in ee and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 1 Is. and 339. liztai, 7,,‘ T he Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic Voilkoiz t ," l : Inviting the blood in cases of infection, secondary Il t ,'"e. pl e _'' r uptio_ ns, and the abase of mercury, lls. and . 335. per ch i , box, 'LT B rurifying Specific Pills , 2s. 9d-, 4s. 6d., .and I Is. 1/: 0 1110 4 certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and ti. 4 ~..1! ammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 0 11 to date detail of the 'case is required: age, habits, and posi ehnia7atY- 11. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Vete -I,,,,_lteen'32_llY by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, ctt, c 0 ,,,7 In attendance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford -4, p t9a4 "t?! . i. from Eleven; ill Two, and rive to Eight ; on Sun 'lnca tsi Quo. N°. 18,246.] [PRICE SD. -e-J__ ~. ---, . , A ti L . ••••.. // t'' .• I. ... f „ ' • ' . .. ' • ' , \ '• •-• ' .- ' V '. . ) ::0 ? • ' ' ' t i •, 1 , t i i i ; t : , Y , 1 1, ~,g6 .......- with the on. . . I .• ~.." , ' ROI 1 1 .-- "` , k-or --(1- , v - (3 * -tr r• At ' 4 -, < , - ~e ,?. ;- 4L-,... -if ' N: it ..,,,,,, .it ~.-• ' 4 : 4 2:4 1 **4': --.— a lC*7 2- "' i O .S. Z. ;V ' ' .Iti .- lii* ,' — r , i ~,., O. O • 'A f 11 i S .. --.' ‘Z il )i 2 i i j ~ „ _ . , ) ...........„ ~ -,,-;„.4 .1„ ~,,..., . , t r, .:‘,.; 1 . . . ' it 4 1 ' ' 10 , 4Lk4• -- jp .. ♦ l v -kr.. i .,it.... i c, d i n t ee: f th x e i ls:l 4' es f o; 4 s . ju ,„ ''' '''''''' . 4 ...V.,14 -, ,m 4 „,,464111L,..1, , g 1.2. - \,11„, q A i r .%.4 4 _,,i ) .• :.. ••,, , -;,1 41111 k, :4,- . ,-, ' *,!,`, , 5.,„ 0w,,) ..., x .,, _* -A -0 ' -- ''a 41 11(., Dir. ". :' , - , .,t l F*. - I, ` ait i *, wg- , T"' -- 41 , -... 1)2 Z0tT 2....." /\ ,s- will be made before 1854. the proceeds of such calls, arrears on old stock, and the pt , plus lands, will be sufficient to meet all existing liabili ties of the company. The local traffic of North Wales begins to promise a larger development, especially,mine rals, than the directors at one time ventured to hope for; and they trust that the time is not now far distant when the holders of the original stock of the company will re ceive some recompense for the heavy, and, as yet nn requited outlay, which they have incurred in carrying a great national undertaking to an issue, already, in every other r et, e m lately successful. The state ment of shar tel shows that the company are anthoris r 55,000/. in shares, and 1,084,3321. on loan, ma mg together 4,339,3321. The capital account to the 31st December last shows that 3,927,748/. had been received, including 2,062,6371. on original shares, 609,342 L ou preference shahs, and 1,084,3324 on debentures, also 17,5381. for sundries and tolls into Chester, 51,238/. traffic, previous to commence ment of revenue account, and 102,6524 advances on steam-boats, surplus lands, &c. The expenditure amounts to 3 ,913,5931., including 163,3284 on the Mold Railway, 40,0064 interest on preferenee shares, *103,2004 interest on loans, 197,2631. interest to shareholders and 162,2541. on the steam-boats, leaving a balance of 14,1554 The revenue accounts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last states that 77,0311. had been received on the railway, including 15,175/. for the mail service, and 37,7291. expended, leaving a balance of 39,301/. The steam-boat account for the half-year states that 6,0774 had been received, and 8,206/. expended, showing a loss of 2,1291. This sum deducted from the preceding ba lance leaves an available sum of 37,1721. THE LONDON GAZETTE, Mauvh 14. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. F. F. Vouillon, Princes-street, Hanover-square, court milliner, April 5, at•twelve—J. Graham, Waterloo-place, St. James's, upholder, April 4, at half-past twelve—C. A. Harris, Bushey, Hertfordshire, sad Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, flax-spinner, April 4, at one— J. Webb, Luton, Bedfordshire, straw-plait dealer, April 4, at one—D. Slater, Preston, Rut landshire, cabinet-Maker, April 4, at twelve— B. Wright, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, timber merchant, April 4, at one—J. Steere, Guildford, Surrey, watch maker, April 4, at eleven—J. Wright, Northampton, Hordingstone, Northamptonshire, corn merchant, and Birmingham, baker, April 4, at twelve—C. South, Hall-street, City-road, timber merchant, April 4, at eleven—S. Taylor, Staines, grocer, April 4, at half past eleven—M. P. Edwards, Tredegar, Monmouth shire, linendraper, April 5, at one—G. Spearman, Leeds, silkmercer, April 5, at half-past eleven— H. Hamer, Blackfriars-road, linendraper, April 5, at eleven—A. Provost, Peterborough, linendraper, April 10, at one—P. R. Morrison, Liverpool, merchant, April 10, at two—W. Eeley, Horsepath, Oxfordshire, butcher, April 5, at half-past twelve—W. Kuper, Grand Surrey Canal, Camberwell, wire rope maker, April 8, at eleven. In the Country J. G. Briggs, Leicester, innkeeper, April 11, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham—J. Hayward, Oswestry, Shrop shire, scrivener, April 7, at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham—W. Lees, Liverpool, merchant, April 4, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Laird, Birken head, Cheshire, merchant, April 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Morgan, Liverpool, hotel keeper, April 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—B. J. Maunder, Mark, Somersetshire, draper, April 5, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Thompson, Newcastle upon-Tyne, grocer, April 11, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upcn-Tyne—J. F. Brett, Gateshead, Dar ham, tsilor, April 8, at one, at the Court, Nee castle upon-Tyne—W. Shaw, jun., Salford, Lancashire, printer, April 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Tay lor, Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spinner, April 14, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. L. Lowe, Salford, victualler, April 16, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester —T. Cox, Manchester, wine merchant, April 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. St. Pancras, 2s. sd. C. T. Depree, Wakefield-street, , on Saturday, March 15, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. J. Sevell, St. Neots, Huntingdon, draper, 2s. 3d., on Saturday, March 15, and two subsequent Saturdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrdok-court, Basinghall-street. S. Southey, South-street, Finsbury, cabiLet manufac turer, 4d., on Saturday, March 15, and two subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. C. L. Swainson and J. Birchwood, Manchoter, manu facturers, a second dividend of td., and 2s. 04d. upon new proofs, on Tuesday, April 1, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. B. Si arke, Torquay, Devonshire, hatter, 2s. 6d., on any Tuesday or Friday after March 17, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Exeter. J. Burnard, Bideford, Devonshire, painter, 4d., on any Tuesday or Friday after March 17, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Exeter. H. M. Bowden, Lime-street, City, export merchant, 11d.; on Saturday next and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. J. Ball, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street. City, merchant, Is. Bd., on Saturday next and three subsequent Satur days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. C. Green, Beckford-row, Walworth-road, corn mer chant, ls. 2d., on Saturday next, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Abchurch-lane City. W. and J. Pile, Moawearmouth, ship builders, a first dividend of 6d. on new proofs (being in part of first dividend of la. 6d. previously declared), on Saturday, the 15th inst., or any subsequent Saturday, between and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Marsh, Rotherham, Yorkshire, grocer, Bd., on Sa turday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. W. Ibbotson, Sheffield, merchant, id., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. H. D. Wilkinson, Sheffield, silver plate manufacturer, oid., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Satur day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Free man, Sheffield. J. Sorby, Sheffield, steel melter, 9d., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Woodward, Bradfield, Yorkshire, paper manufac- turer, 28. 9d., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. _ _ G. Woodward, Doneaster,Yorkshire, gunsmith, ss. 4d., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Rodgers, Sheffield, banker, 205., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Brewin, Sheffield, banker, 205., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Yeomans, Sheffield, merchant, 6d., on Saturday, Murch 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman , Sheffie ld . G. W. llinchcliffe, Sheffield, manufacturer, 12s. 6d., on Saturday, March 22, or any subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Turnbull, Scarborough, Yorkshire, woollen draper, 2s. 4d., on Thursday, March 27, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Morfitt, jun., Leeds, flax spinner, 3-16 d., on Thurs day, March 27, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. C. Ware, York, saddler and harness maker, as., on Thursday, March 2 7, or any subsequent Thursday, bo tvveen eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. D. Haigh and J. Ilaigh. Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturers, id.. on Thursday, March 27, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven a nd two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. F. F. Vouilloa, Princes-streer, Hanover-square, court milliner, April 4, at one—R. Green, jun., Brighton, iron t one—G. Bur to April 3, at twelve as —A. Honeymuanon, White. , Deptford, builder, April 4, a t half-p White chapel-road, linen dra p er, April 3, at eleven. N ew castle-upon-Tyne, auctioneer, April 8, In the Country. at Wele.vTena,Yal°trilie Court, Her risen,Newcastle- Tynemouth, merchant, April 8, at twelve, , --- IN . uPon-Tvn.r".-- -• Court, N e wcastle -upon-Tyne—w. Thu at the castle-upon-Tyny, grocer, April 11, at ha lf- past 3/o N, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J, twelve, sham, Cheshire, grocer, April 7 , Shirt, Frod- Liverpool. at eleven, at the Court, CERTIFICATES GRANTED. G. laln ' Bow, Mid dlesex, railway carriage builder, certifi l eate st o o ft ß hesecond class —W, Ford, High Holborn, haberdasher, certificate of the second class—E. Brew ster, Hand-court, Upper Thames-street, pricter, certifi cate of the second class—R. Miles, Pontypridd, Gla morganshire, grocer and draper, ter tifieste of the first class. T . . and W. Sti r li ng, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Shipman and S. Needham, M anc h e ster, salt merchants Bow Bridge, Essex , slate rs—W. —Susznnab Mitit e an d W. H. White, High-street, Shadwell, butchers—G. A. Fitzpatrick and W. Walter, Red Lion -court, Fl ee t- s treet, advertising sprits—J. Oakes, W. Oakes, and J. Pickard, Leicester, spinners— J. Brook, J. Murgatroyd, and C. Stead, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, builders —T. Hague and W. Allen, Liver pool, tailors—T. W. Kinder and T. H. t v heeler leio ter, coac h builders—J. Ludw i g and G. Oliver, Deal, Kent, hotel keepers—J. Collier and J. Phythian, Man chester, smallware m anufacturer! —A. C. Bentley and R. P. Greg, Bakewell, Derbyshire, cotto n sp i nners — C a therine Hunt a nd J. S. Burroughs, Langton-place, South Vassall - roa d, North Brixton, laundress and laun dryman—J. Wood and K. Wood , Maryport, Cumber land, shipbuilders—K. Wood, J. W ood , and J. Archer, Maryport, Cumberland, sailmakera and canvass dealers —J. Doody and C. Doody, }ianley, Staffordshire, mer cers and drapers—W. Weaver and C. Mason, Wigmore, iliug Herefordshire, boroug h, drapers—J. Rutherford and J. Aldgate, we Northaptonshire, drapers—B. R. Frank and E. Vinall, Cliffe, Sussex, drapers and hatters —J. B. Latchford and J. Hague, Upper St. Martin's lane, brassworkers and gasfitters—J.Shaw and C. Bacon, Manchester, button manufacturers—A. Guild and J. Holmes, Salford, millwrights and engineers —R. tine worth and J. Worrall, Little Bolton, Lancashire, cotton manufacturers—E. Saunders and W. Saunders, Town Mills, Somersetahire, mealmen. LONDON, MONDAY -1 SUN 7 MARCH 17, 1851. cm..AT a numerous Meeting of Shareholders of the EASTERN COUNTIES : RAILWAY COMPANY, held at the 4T don Tavern, Ilishopsgate-street, the 15th day of March, 1851, .._. . .. _... . ci ' George I ammon halley, Esq., in the Chair, It Was resolved unanimously, That it having come to the knowledge of this meeting that Mr. David ' Waddington is to be put in nomination as a Director of this Company, at a meeting to be held on the lath inst., and that he is making great efforts to secure his election, this meeting feels called upon to declare its opinion that his election would be disastrous to the prospects of the company, for the following reasons : 1. That Mr. Waddington having, from 1845 to 1949, had the management of the traffic department of the Railway, either adopted or permitted a: systematic mis-statement of the traffic account to the amount, as appears by the Report of the Committee of Investi gation, of upwards of 113,000/.';' " for which," in the words of the Report, "it is impossible to conceive any excuse, and which every right-minded person must indignantly condemn." 2. That Mr. Waddington being thus identified with such system of railway management, and also with other circumstances referred to in the said Report, his election would prevent the revival of public confidence, as well in the published accounts as in the private management of the Company. 3. That, whether justly or not, Mr. Waddington being thus known, his election would boa declaration that the system so adopted or permitted, by him was justifiable, and must consequently perpe tuate and increase want of confidence on the part of the public ; it being impossible that so vast . an enterprise as the Eastern Coun ties Railway could continue to exist in defiance of the recognised principles of commercial character. It was resolved unanimously, That this meeting therefore feels justified in making an earnest appeal to their fellow-Shareholders to attend the meeting on the 18th inst., in order to uphold the character and protect the interests of the Company. (Signed) G. H. WHALLEY, Chairman. LONDON 'and NORTH-WESTERN • RAILWAY. WARWICK RACES—SPRING MEETING. For the convenience of the Public desirous of attending these Races a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave the Euston -square Station on TUES DAY, the 18th instant„ at 8 a.m. ' returning from Leamington at 7 45 ou the Evening oft Friday the 21st. FARES TO LEAMINGTON AND BACK. First Class. I Second Class. 275. 19s. 6d. The Return Tickets to be available by any of the intervening ordi nary Trains. By order, MARK HUISH. General Manager's Office, Euston Station, March 10, 1851. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. NORTHAMPTON RACES— SPRING MEETING. For the eonvenience of the Public desirous of attending these Races a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave the Euston-square Station on WED NESDAY, the 2Gth instant, at 8 30 a.m.. returning from Northamp ton at 8 o'clock en the Evening of Thursday, the 27th. FARES TO NORTHAMPTON AND BACK. First Class. Second Class. 18s. , 13s. Gd. The Return Tickets to be available by any of the intervening ordi nary trains. By order, General Manager's Office, Euston Station, March 14, 1851. MARK RIIISII. NATIONAL , LOAN FUND . LIFE AND EQUITABLE FIRE • INSURANCE COMPANIES 26, CORNEILL, LONDON. DIRECTOIIB. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq. *Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. tElliotson, M.D,, F.R.S. t*Edmand S. Symes, Esq. *Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq. *M. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. t*Augustns Vigne, Esq• AUDITOR. fProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S. PHYSICIAN. Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. SITRE.EON. AFL S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUARY. f*W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., Esc. SECRETARY. *D. T. Lyons Clanehy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. *W. A. Hawkins, Esq. RANGERS. *Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS, Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommannoy and Prudence, 6, Basinghall street. *W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. CAPITAL-5110,0001. The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that call be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance, to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid animal Premiums, without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the event of the Assured at any time not requiring' to continue the Policy, en its surrender one-half of the annual payments will bo returned by the Society. Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health and payment of arrears of Premium without interest. Notices of Assignotent of Policies registered and acknowledged, so as to make them available as securities id the hands of third parties. Ne Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. The present nnual income of the Society from Premiums is 63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Society is 1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. ss. 6d. At the last annual inves tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As sured Were, the option of a return of lb per cent. on their Premiums in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original intm assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EX_AIIciPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Derby, March 15. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. IllitoeFALDEnsoN.) The two remaining causes on the list having been referred, his Lordship proceeded with the trial of pri- SODACS. d 24, A GI Herbert Rippon, ages , an , (serge Harrison, agt. 22, were indicted for that they, on the 19th of February last, in the parish of Eckington, felsniously assaulted and put in bodily fear one Samuel Evaiis, and stole from his person one pair of shoes, one knif one pocketbook, and one neckerchief, his property. t ' • Mr. Wilimere conducted the prosecirtion; the prisoners were undefended. This was a very aggravated case of highway robbery. The prOsecutor was an old man living at Hanley, in this county. On the evening in question he had been to Godless, and was at a public-house, where heintended to sleep, when the two prisoners and *nether man named Chadburn came in. The men being wall known to the prosecutor a conversation between them took place, in the course of which the prosecutor loomed them of his intention to stay where he was all nitht. Harrison there upon said that he was going his we . and could accom pany him on the road, and the old b a n g ave up his in tention of staying, and left the house with Harrison. Rippon and Chadburn followed until they came to a line i which branched off from the main road. There Rippon and Chadburn kept back, and Harrhon said the old man proceeded down the lane. When they had gone some distance they were suddenly attacked by two men, who rushed from the hedge, and had largo stakes in their hands. One of them, had at handliaai t c,oyarja4s.face, hilt the prosecutor swore that thatinali was • Rippon, and that he knocked him (the prosecutor) down with a stick. Harrison assisted the men in roboing the old man and inflicting upon him a most unmerciful beating. They took his shoes off his. feet, twisted his neckerchief round his throat so as nearly to suffoeste him, and left him bleeding and exhausted. At afloat half-past four o'clock in the morning the occupant of a neighbouring cottage heard a scratching noise at his door, upon opening which he found the poor old man, who bad succeeded in crawl ing there, but was apparently ala oa t , dead. Other cir cumstances were given in evidence, to connect the pri soners with the commission of this violent outrage; and Chadburn was also identified by th e prosecutor, but the police have not as yet succeeded in' apprehending him. The old man has not yet recover] from the effect of the injuries which he* received on th a t night, and gave his evidence with considerable difficulty, The Learned JUDGE summed atithe evidence, and The jury found the prisoners Guilty. They were sentenced to transportation for life. John Battye, aged 34, wa s indicted for feloniously stabbing and wounding Charles Taylor, at the parish of Eckington, on the sth November last. Mr. Willmore proseecuted, wad Mr. Sergeant Miller was retained for the defence. The prisoner had pleaded " net guilty" to the whole charge; but acting upon the advice of his Learned Counsel he now withdrew Oita plea, and pleaded " guilty to a common assault only. No evidence was offered to sustain the charge o f felony, and he was, therefore, acquitted of that charge. For the common assault he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Thomas Watson, aged 22, was indicted for the man slaughter of Joseph Woolley. M Mr. Flowers that th e d ecase d h a d met w i t h From the statement of the Learned Counsel for the f prosecution,ort hr e Fowler prisoner. iit appeared appeared for tie p rosecut i on; his death in the course of a fair stand•up fight between time. h im and the prisoner, both.beieg partially drunk at the At the suggestion of his Leatned,,Pounsel the prisoner withdrew his plea and pleaded "'guilty." The Learned JUDGE begged the prisoner seriously to reflect upon the fatal consequence of the act of which he had been guilty, and sentenced him to be kept in soli tary confinement for one fortnight. (Before dr. Justici COLERIDGE.) Joseph Hnrst and John Taylor,— both out on bail, wore indicted for a rape. Mr. Willwore prosecuted; Mr. Sergeant Miller de fended Hurst; Mr. Denison defended Turner. The prosecutrix spoke to the circumstances of the felonious assault upon her, and described it as having been committed by four men in the most violent and determined manner. There were, however, features of great improbability about her story, and the case was soon disposed of by a verdict of Not guilty. George Damns, aged 59, was indicted for feloniously abusing a little girl under twelve years of age. Mr. Barker conducted the prosecution; Mr. Sergeant Miller the defence. The statement of the prisoner was ,tkat what he had done was done with the elgild'evoirAnt; erroneously supposing, in all probability, that that was a defence to the charge. The jury, however, returned a verdict of Guilty; And he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. _ James Dowd, aged 27, vrat indicted for a rape upon Maria Hough. Mr. Denison prosecuted; Mr. Flowers defended the prisoner. The prosecutrix in this nzte was no less than sixty five years old, but her acooloat of the matter was a con sistent and credible one. Vqy recently after the occur rence she had made comPla!nt of the wrong which she had suffered, and the truth of the charge appeared free from any reasonable doubt. The jury convicted the ported for fifteen years. hrisoner, and he was trans. NORTHERN ClRCtliz —York, March 14. CROWN C OUR T.— (--e llit fore Mr. Baron PLATT.) Daniel Sutherland, 40, wis charged with having, on the 18th of January last, at . Branaham com mitted a fe lonious assault on Martha Po we ll . ' Mr. Campbell Foster pro secute ; Mr. Ovorend de fended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner is a hawker, at Clifford, near Bramham.. and resides The prosecutrix is a mar ried woman, residing at B rtmham ; she is young and extremely good looking, aria has been married about three years. Her husband i s absent from home all day a far m labourer, and is attending to his work. For some days previous to the 1 8th of January the prosecu trix had been very unwell, and About seven o'clock at nigh was so on this day. she went to a neighbour's house to procure some laudanum, On returning a short time afterwards she found the prisoner sitting in a chair near the fire. He got up and asked the prosecutrix what she had her shawl on fore — was she an swered that she had been poorly? She unwell for some days. He then said that he had some shees which he was desirous of selling to her husband, when the prosecutrix replied that ho was rot in want of aaythin g of the kind. The prisoner inquired what time her husband would be at home, and the prosecutrix said she expected him at nine o'clock. Immediately after thi s t h e prisoner commenced a series of indecent observations to the presecutrix, who consequently ordered him to leave the house. Instead of this the prisoner locked the door and then seized the prosecutrix, whose person he eventually succeeded in vio lating. She became insensible, and on recovering found herself alone seated in a chair. The prosecutrix underwent a long and severe cross examination, in the course of which it appeared that when seven years old she had been criminally assaulted by a person named klebblethwaite, who had been tried for the offence, and that when thirteen years of age she had been similarly assaulted in a harvest field by a man named Metcalf, who had subsequently made an apology to her father, and the matter was thus settled. She po etively denied that she had made such a charge against any other person. The good looks and extremely modest demeanour of the nrosecutrix, who appeared to be occasionally much distressed whilst under examination, had created strong impression in her favour, and her testimony had net been in the least shaken, when towards the close of the case a note was banded from the gallery to the Learned Counsel for the prisoner, who asked permission from his Lordship to have the prosecutrix recalled. On her entering the witness-box, Mr. OvEREND inquired if she had ever been in the ser vice of Mr. Darby, in York? The prosecutrix answered she had been three days at his house, but did not engage as his servant. Mr. OVEREND.—Did you not charge his son with at tempting to commit a rape upon you? witness—No, Sir. Mr. OVEREND—Now, I warn you Mr. Darby is in the gallery, and hears you. I ask you, upon your so lemn oath, did you not charge Mr. Darby' s son w ith attempting to commit a rape upon you? Witness (hesitatingly) — Mr. Baron PLATT (to the jurY)—A fter that, gentle men, do you think it safe to rel y on that woman's tes timony? The jury, after consulting a short time, said they did not believe the witness. Mr. FOSTER—Then of course I shall not proceed fur ther with the prosecution. An Acquittal was then t aken, an d the prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged. Mr. OVEREND stated that a note had been sent to him by Mr. Darby, who happened to be sitting iu the gallery and heard the trial, and that until he had the moment before received that note he was not aware that eh e had made this accusation against Mr. Darby's son. This is a striking instance of the value of oral exa minations in open court. March 15. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) George Graham was indicted for having committed a rape at Leeds, on the 12th of February l ast, on the wife of Thomas Greenwood. Mr. Hall and Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Seymour defended the prisoner. The prisoner it appeared was a married man, and woe a maker of washing machines, carrying on business in Meadow -lane, Leeds, and on the 12th of last February the prosecutrix went to his office to obtain payment of an account, when the prisoner , locked his office door, and telling the prosecutrix that. he would settle the account if she would let him " cuddle '' her, at which proposal — according to her statement, she expressed much indigna tion—he threw her down, and in spite of her resistance ravished her. The case having been gone through, Mr, orgottut Wllautis called his Lordship's attention to the fact that whilst 11 witnesses had been bound over on their recognizances to appear and give evidence at the trial only two of them had been taken bafore the grand jury, and nine of the witnesses before the magis trates, whose evidence ought to , have been tendered before them to enable them to form an opinion as to the justice of the charge, had been withheld. This was a disgraceful mode of conducting a criminal prosecution. The object of a prosecution was not to entrap a verdict against a prisoner, and such a system on the part of the public prosecutor of Leeds did not tell much in favour of the appointment generally of public prosecutors. The Learned Sergeant then went through the evidence, and made an eloquent and powerful appeal to the jury on behalf of his client, His Loapalm), in summing up, said he should first adiert to the disgraceful fact that out of 11 witnesses whose depositions had been taken, and who had been bound over to give evidence, two only had been brought before the grand jury. Out of 11 witnesses nine were not here. Mr. WHEELHOUSE—Yes, my Lord, they are here. His LORDSHIP—Why and wherefore, for the investi gation of truth and justice, they were not called, I am at a loss to discover, and no explanation has been offered. It is a most scandalous proceeding, if witnesses are bound over for the prosecution, not to take them beforo the grand jury, bat to call those who may criminate a man, and not bring forward those who may tend to exculpate him. Your duty is to find out the truth, and I must own this case does not appear to me to have been conducted in a way proper for that purpose. Mr. BOOTIIIIIE t who held Mr ., brief, wished to state to his Lordship-that the witnesses boutul dyer and not called had been witnesses called by the prisoner, but that in accordance with the practice at Leeds, in favour of the prisoner, they had been bound over at the county's expense to give evidence for the prisoner if he chose to call them. His LORDSHIP—That makes the matter still worse. That nine witnesses brought here at the county's expense should be left out, in order to compel the prisoner to•call them for the purpose of giving the prosecution a reply, is a most scandalous proceeding. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to sum up the evidence, at the close of which Mr. HALL entered the court and attempted to address his Lordship. His Lordship, however, refused to hear more of the matter. He had heard Mr. Boothby, who held Mr. Hall's brief in his absence, and had no further right to be heard. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. The rest of the day was occupied with a long and un interesting trial for perjury. The Nisi Prins Court was occupied the whole day with a new trial respecting a cargo of wheat from Odessa, which did not arrive in condition and quality accord ing to contract, tho details of which were wholly un interesting. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday Clement Robert Mow'way, alias R. W. Holmes, was re-examined on a charge of having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 441. 10s. Evidence was given at the first examination that the prisoner had passed the bill in the , purchase of a hogs head of sherry and a pipe of port from Mr. Edwards, of Harp-lane, wine -merchant, on the, representation that the wino was for Mr. Richards, wine and spirit dealer, Woolwich; and a few days afterwards he r called upon Mr. Edwards, and produced the bill in question, drawn by R. M. H olmes, and accepted by W. Hallows, wine and spirit merchant, Woolwich. Mr. Richards proved that the warrant for the wine was received from the prisoner for a debt, and denied that he knew a person named Hallows. The additional evidence given yesterday was as fol lows: Mr. Joseph G. Salter, of Brixton, said, I have been in the prisoner's employment, and knew his handwriting. I believe the body of the bill for 44/. lOs. produced to be his writing, and that the names "R. M. Holmes and Co." are also in his writing. Cross-examined by the prisoner's solicitor—l was nearly three months in the pfisoner's service, and have had frequent opportunities of seeing him write. I do not know anything of the writing by " the acceptors." Mr. J. Orton, clerk to Mr. Vickers, wine -merchant, of Trinity-square, said, I have known the prisoner about 14 years, and have during that time known him by the name of Clement Robert Mowbray. I have never known him by any other name until the time of the present transaction. Ho was in the employment of Mr. Vickers. I know that his name is not Holmes. Mr. Hunt, ledgerkeeper at the London and County Bank, proved that no person of the name of William Hallows had kept au account at that 'bank. The LORD MAYOR then asked the prisoner in the usual form whether he wished to say anything? The prisoner said, he left the case entirely in his solicitor's hands. The solicitor applied to have his client admitted to bail. The Lome MAYOR refused to take bail, and said they must apply to a judge. The prisoner was committed for trial. GUILDHALL. Charles Henry Gray was charged with obtaining a bill of exchange for 1271. 10s. under false pretences. From the evidence of Mr. Blaxland it appeared that the prisoner had represented himself as being the son in-law of Colonel Hawker; that he had 500/. worth of hams in the dock; that he had a banking account and a discount account to the extent of 1,0001. at the British Bank; that he had 5001. per annum with his wife and was a man of property; that upon these representations Mr. Blaxland had intrusted him with a bill to be dis counted. He had received some part of the money, but there was still 60/. due, and for some time past he had not been able to find the prisoner. For the defendant it was contended that this was an ordinary business transaction, in which the prosecutor had drawn a bill and given it to the prisoner to get dis counted; that the prisoner had been unable to do so, and ho now offered to give up the bill. Mr. Alderman WIRE said, as the prisoner had not proved the several pretences which he had asserted to be true, he should accede to the application on the part of the prosecution, that the prisoner should be re manded for a week, but ho would admit him to bail in two sureties of 250/. each, and in his own recognizance of 5001. Samuel Duchesne was charged with having thrown his wife out of window on the third floor of a house in Three Tons- court, Red Cross-street. A policeman deposed that he had heard the screams of a woman in the above court, and upon looking up saw the prisoner holding his wife out of window by the hand. Ile immediately ran up stairs, but the prisoner before he got to the room dropped the woman into the street, and then quietly turned away and began smoking his pipe. There were two other men in :the room at the time, who offered no assistance to prevent the prisoner from doing it. The prisoner and his wife had lived a very dissipated life. The woman was taken to the hospital. She had sustained no very serious injury. She was intoxicate& but in other respects quite sensible, and would be able to appear in about a week. The prisoner was therefore remanded. BOW-STREET. The two men, Benjamin Lewett and Alexander Ward rope, who were last Saturday charged on suspicion of breaking into the premises of Mr. Meakin, tinworker, Lemon Tree-yard, Bed fordbury, and stealing a quantity of saucepans, were on Saturday morning brought up for re-examination before Mr. Henry. Frederick llibon, an apprentice of Mr. Meakin's, proved shutting up the premises on Thursday evening, the 6 , .h inst., at about nine o'clock, and said that on his going to the warehouse on the following morning he found the window-frame and several squares of glass broken. Upon going inside he found the counting-house door broken open. He immediately went to the private residence of his master, and informed him of what had occurred. There were some saucepans like those pro duced in the workshop on Thursday evening. Itlr. Meakin corroborated these facts, and identified tho saucepans by the private mark on them, which exactly corresponded with his stamp. Mr. Smith, broker, of 21, Lumber-court, St. Martin's. lane, stated that on Thursday evening week the prisoners came to his chop and brought eight of the saucepans produced with them. They offered them for sale, and he bought them for Is. each. Sergeant Corr, F division, proved taking the prisoners into custody, and stated that Wardrope had been pre viously convicted for stealing copper. Both the prisoners denied the charge, and were filly committed to take their trial at the Central Crimina Court. him, she must seek her remedy in a court of law, and not resort to personal violence in a public place. The defendant was then ordered to enter into her own recognizances in 501. to keep t4e peace for the usual period. William. Smith, a begging-letter writer, and also known as the " King of the Beggars," was brought before Mr. Hardwick charged with begging. Colley and Daniels, two of the Mendicity Society's constables, saw the defendant carrying on his unlawful vocation in Jermyn-street. They took him into cus tody, and in his possession found direct evidence of at tempts at imposition on several of the nobility, and more recently on Prince Albert. There was also a memo randum in the prisoner's handwriting to show that he had sent begging petitions to Sir David Dundas, Sir Jas. Duke, Gen. M‘Leod, Lord Glenelg, Lady M'Leod, and Dr. Cumming. Mr. HARDWICK immediately committed the defendant as a rogue and vagabond for one month. WESTMINSTER. Ann Marshall, a low, dirty looking woman was charged with the following gross misconduct and savage assault:— Eliza Underwood, owner of the Prince of Wales pub lic-house, Princes-street, Westminster, stated that on the previous evening defendant entered his house and conducted herself in a most offensive manner to some customers quietly seated in the taproom; that he told her to leave the house; she refused, and he ordered his waiter to put her out, when she - abused him with filthy and disgusting language, and commenced casting hand fuls of mud and filth into the bat, and on his calling a policeman and going out in the street to give her in charge she seised him violently by the hair, and on raising his hand to loosen her hold she grasped it firmly and bit his thumb in two. _ Policeman Davis, 201 A, corroborated part of the complainant's evidence, and said the defendant resisted violently, and appeared to have been drinking freely. Complainant said, she had had no liquor at his house. Defendant said she was drunk, and had been roughly treated. Mr. BURRELL said, the assault was a most savage one and fined the defendant in the full penalty of 51.. and in default committed her for two months to the House of Correction. SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the London Tavern on Friday, for the pur pose of considering the proposition for leasing the line to the Great Northern Railway Company; Earl Fitz william in the chair. The SECRETARY read the proposed arrangement, whioh stated that a working agreement on the following basis should be immediately executed between the two companies for 21 years, and that application should be made immediately to Parliament, as soon as the rules of the House would allow, for an amalgamation of the two companies:—That the Great Northern Company should take the South Yorkshire Railway, with all its engage ments and liabilities, including the navigation and canals, &c., as well as the southern portion of the Sheffield and Wakefield line, and after paying all liabilities, as well as all working charges, maintenance, and every other ex pense, should pay a dividend upon the whole paid-up capital of the South Yorkshire Company, varying in amount according to the mineral traffic, that is to say, 3 per cent. as the minimum dividend, and an additional j. per cent. for every 50,000 tons of coal received on the Great Northern Railway beyond the first 200,000 tons (being the quantity at present carried) until 800,000 tons wore carried and 6 per cent. dividend was paid, after which no rise of dividend was to take place; the di vidend to be paid half-yearly, and never to recede from any rate once attained up to 41 per cent., although the traffic might decrease; but between 41 and 6 per cent. the rate would rise and fall with the amount of mineral traffic carried over the line; and that a four per cent. permanent stock be offered to the River Dun proprietors, and such of the South Yorkshire shareholders as might prefer to accept it. The CHAIRMAN said ho wished to know whether any of the proprietors desired any explanation with regard to the terms of the arrangement? Mr. ANDERTON said, he considered the matter very obscure. He perceived by the directors' report of Fe bruary, 1848, that they were enabled to give 7 per cent. for money in advance of calls, and he wished to know how that could be done in 1848, when they were now required to take 3 per cent. on the carriage of 200,000 tons of coals? They also stated that the prospects of the line were superior to those of any other line in the kingdom, and that from the traffic on the River Dun they could give 6 per cent. on the capital expended on the line, and a dividend of 5 per cent. was declared. At the next half-yearly meeting a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared—such dividend to be paid one month after the amalgamation of the railway and River Dun Company. At the February meeting in 1849 the profits on the River Dun were stated to be 16,6421.. out of which a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. was declared, absorbing 5,5001. At the half yearly meeting in February, 1850, it was stated that the line from Doncaster to Swinton had been opened, and an arrangement entered into with the Midland Company for working it—that company paying to this company 75 per cent. of the receipts. They were also told that everything had been done to complete the amalgama tion, and they only waited for the Commissioners' certi ficate to do so, when the deferred dividends would be paid, and a further deferred dividend, at the rate of 6 per cent., out of the balance of 10,5751., would be paid.— (Hear, hear.) He could not reconcile these statements with the proposition now made to take 3 per cent. from the Great Northern for carrying 200,000 tons of coals over the line.—(Hear, hear.) The motion for the confirmation of the agreement was then submitted to the:meeting, when Lord WHARNCLIFFE, in reply to the observations of Mr. Anderton, contended that the proposed agreement was consistent with all that had been mentioned in pre vious reports. He thought that a certain dividend, be ginning at 3 per cent., and ranging as the traffic in creased to 6 per cent., was a fair propcsition, and might be accepted. He would ask how many lines were pay ing 44- per cent., or even 3 per cent.? for, if they took the average of all the railways in the kingdom, they would find it to be about 21 per cent. A long discussion ensued, in which Ur. Fisher, Mr. Baxter, and Mr. J. Wilson took part, in the course of which Mr. Anderton moved an amendment to the effect— " That the further consideration of the subject be adjourned, in the hopes that in the meantime the direc tors may enter into a more equitable arrangement with the Great Northern or some other company." Mr. Fisher seconded the amendment, which was put and carried by a very large majority. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. CHESTER&HOLYHEAD RAILWAY The report of the directors to be submitted to the shareholders to-morrow states, that on comparing the accounts for the past half-year with those for the half year ending December 31, 1849, a reduction in the work ing expenses is shown of 3,7891., while the gross re ceipts have been increased by 14,6561., making a total increase of 18,4461. The arrangement made with the London and North-Western Company and with the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company will enable the di rectors to effect a reduction of expenditure sufficient to furnish means for conducting a very large in crease of traffic with scarcely any additional expense. Under the arrangement in question the efficacy of the present packet service will be completely maintained; and the City of Dublin Company engage, in common with the London and North-Western Com pany, to exert all their influeace to bring the whole of the traffic to and from Ireland upon the line of this company. The profit on the operations, to the close of the half-year ending 31st of December last, leaves a balance of 40,4841., after paying the interest due on the debenture debt; and the increase of the traffic during the present half-year justifies the directors in expressing their confident expectation that, with the additional ad vantages which must accrue to the company from the arrangement above adverted to coming into operation on the Ist of May next, the general receipts at the end of the year will be more than sufficient to pay a full divi dend on the preference shares, in addition to the interest on the debentures. Arrangements have been made with the local authorities and landowners, as well as with the Government, to construct a temporary branch for the purpose of facilitating the transit of goods and cattle between Holyhead and Ireland. The cost of this work, which is expected to be completed by the Ist of May next, will be about 28,000/. The work s of the Carnar von branch are advancing, and a very large traffic in slates over 64 miles of the railway may be expected at an early period. It is proposed to erect an hotel between the Britannia and Menai bridges, commanding a view of the Snowdon range of mountains. It is intended that this hotel shall afford separate accommodation to travellers or visitors at first, second, and third scale of expense. The balance to 40,434/., is the property the credit of account, viz., of the preference s hareholders. The total balance due to those parties being arrears from the 30th of June, 1849, amounts to IL 4s. 9d. per share. It is proposed to pay 161. 6d., leaving in hand a balance of 5,7841. to meet the arrear of 85. 3d. per share, which arrear the direc tors do not doubt will be paid off, together with the accruing dividend, from the net receipts of the railway during the current year. It is proposed to create 42,000 shares of 91 . 12 s. 6 d. each, one to be offered to the holder of each original share; and the like number of s h a res of 2/. 17s. 6d. each, one to be off ered to the holder of each preference share. These ff shares to bear a guaranteed interest of 5 per cent, per annum, in per 7 petaity ; but such interest is not to commence until April, 1854. The first payment of interest to be made in October, 1854. They w ill b e i ssued at a discount equal to 16} per cent. on the first instalment, and 11 per cent. on the second—that is to say , the first-men tioned shares a payme n t of 41.165.7 L on will be required to be made is April next, 12s. 6d. for which credit for Si. will be given in the books of the company, and a second instalment of 1/. 15s. Sd. will be required to be made in l April, 1852, for which credit for 21. will be given, and no further call will be made before April, 1854. On the second-mentioned shares 1/. 175. 2d. will be required to - be paid in April next, and a second instalment of lls. ld. t will be required in, April, 1852; and no further call NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. LONDON AND NORTII-WE.4TERN RAILWAY STATIONS. MESSRS. W. H. SMITH and SON are pre pared to receive Bills and Advertisements for posting on the Walls and Platforms, and in the Booking-offices of these Stations, 183 in number, including London, Liverpool, Mancheiter, Leeds, and Birmingham. The number of Passengers travelling over the Line was about 6,000,000 in 1850, and will, probably, greatly exceed that number in the present year. Advertisements will be received for one or more Stations, or for the whole Line, for periods of one, three, six, or twelve months. . . _ Persons contracting for space for hanging Advertisements, may change them not oftener than once a week. Further particulars and copies of Rules and Rates of Charge may be obtained from Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, 136 Strand, Lon don; or at the Book-stands, and of the Booking Cleks at all the Stations on the Line. (100 D WINE. -GEORGE 'ONWHYN, 3, Ca therine-street, Strand, is now offering pure PORT WINE, fresh bottled, but fit for immediate drinking, at 30s. per dozen. Sherry, a genuine wholesome wine, recommended for invalids, at 30s. per dozen, and old bottled Port at 365. per dozen. • Warranted in each instance free from Cape or admixture. The stock open for inspection. OFFICIAL CA IALOGUE OFFICE, 29, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and at the Exhibition Build ing, Hyde-park. NOTlCE.—Advertisements intended for the First Edition of a Quarter of a Million of the Small Catalogue, as also for the First Editions of the Illustrated, the German, and French Catalogues, should be tent in immediately, in ordor that they may be classified and printed forthwith. 1. Insurance Offices. 6. Places of Public Amuse 2. Literature and the Fiae Arts. ment. 3. New Inventions. 7. Railway and Steam-boat ar 4. Agricultural Machines and Im- rangements. plements. 8. Classification of Trades and 5. House Agency—Hotels, Ta- Miscellaneous. vents, and Lodging-houses. SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers joint Contradters to the CLOVES and SONS, Printers, 3 Royal Commission. Just published, price 3d., or 6d. by post, ALARGE PICTURE on stone, showing up the guinea trade of doctors ; or, Who's the Dupe ? All invalids should carefully examine the great truths comtained in that picture. May be had at the British College of Health, New-road, London, or of any of the authorised agents for the sale of Morlson's Vegetable Universal Medicines. THE HUMAN HAIR. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL is justly renowned throughout the world for its remarkable virtues, in nourishing, preserving, and beautifying the human hair. Its operation in cases of baldness is peculiarly active ; so that, in numerous instances wherein other remedies have been tried in vain, ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL has superseded the ornaments of art, by effecting a complete restoration of beautiful hair. In the growth of whiskers, eyebrows, and mustachios, it is also unfailing in its stimulative operation. For children it is especially recom mended, as forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair, and rendering the use of the fine comb unnecessary. Price 3s. 6d. and 7s. • or family bottles (equal to four small) at 10s. 6d.; and double that size, 21s. Csurioxt.—On the wrapper of each bottle of the genuine article are these words in two lines, "ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL." The same are engraved on the back of the wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,028 letters. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by all Chemists and Perfumers. JJAIKERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATTTRITY. With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure. FIFTY roLouRED ENGRAVINGS ON iTEEL. lust published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 22. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, GI ELF-PRESERVATION; to Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, .sunny acquired 4 as early period of life, which destroy 'he physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, anti exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations onthe certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, itdeture. and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretior, as adopted by Laliemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem bers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re productive Organs, explaining their etrectures, uses, and fanctizas, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits. excesses, end !efectioa. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Min burghinOnOrary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunteriau Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c. This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative conditions in lhealth and disease. The author, who has taken the highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with ad vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili tated through secret practices acquired is youth, or by the excesses of later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un ceasing misery and regret. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater noster-row ; lianuttr, 6Z, Oxford-street ; Stade, Titchborne-stryet,, Haymarket; Gordon, 146 , Leadenhall - st r e et ; Mann, 23, Gambi 11, or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who may be consulted on these disorde r s p ersonall y , or b y letter , daily, from ten till two. and from six till eight . Parma- ' ; . c ; Annual Polley Bonus in neat Re- Irb R. C ULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. Age. 0l; Pre- taken addition Bonus in duction of .K../ To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; CarvaLho; r, mium. out in to Sum Cash. 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It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers, that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the t r ru an e ea ri c sk om be pan ma y d i e s . est T a o mi s s e h c e u d r . e this object the Equitable Fire Insu- The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap mached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied. Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk. The Equitable Fire °face will, by a constant analysis of its own experience, from time to titre, adopt such rates of Premium as the nature of the risk may justify, and decline to enter into arrange ments as regards tariffs with other offices. With this view an annual investigation will be made into each class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have been in force for three years. Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon every description of Property on moderate terms. Farming Stock insured. at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause. p rospec tuses, and every information may be obtain e d, on applica tion at tho Office, or to any of its Agents. Vol. 11. Tall LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REA, DUBLIN, &c. 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " That three score years and ten our course may ran." A pepnlar review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu ation of every-day life. rcz or Iv. THE PASSIONS. !, What passions hurt the body—what improve, Trutho as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent attha passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remedlativo. Advocacy of early marriages. V.' THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To he or not to be, that is the question." AIIOGRAMME:—Lawe and obligations of nature, society, and re deen regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, With the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Oases, Br.o. By R. S. CULTERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. - 1824). Twenty five year 3 Medical and Forensic Referee in these we tiers , Reorptints hours 4111 y till Ova. Mveninia. s.v6n till ulna. 10 Argyll-place. Regent-street - CLAPHAM-COMMON CONVENT. During the last month considerable excitement has prevailed at Clapham, under the following circum stances:—ln Bedford-lane, Clapham-common, is a con vent. As in similar Roman Catholic nunneries, young ladies of that persuasion are educated there in the ac complishments imparted at all boarding-schools. About six weeks ago it was rumoured that one of the nuns had been taken in premature labour, and that a surgeon in the confidence of the sisterhood was called out of his bed to attend the accouchement. This rumour, as it rolled along, augmented like a snowball, and a frigid silence on the part of those who had it in their power to dissolve it, when applied to by several Protestant gentle men of standing, was taken as a tacit admission of the truth of the allegation; and there being a large number of the higher class lady boarding-schools in the neigh bourhood, the scandal engendered an excitement that at last, from its intensity, led to an inquiry acquiesced in by the spiritual advisers of the parties impugned. There is attached to the chapel of the convent a lay committee of ladies, whose duties are to visit the Catholic poor of the district, and administer such relief and con solation as the circumstances of the distressed might warrant. In one of these visitations a lady (Miss B.) had her .attention directed to a young woman, residing a within few doors of the convent, as a stranger to the neighbourhood, and who had been noticed for her fre quent outbursts of grief as well as being in an advanced state of pregnancy. Miss B. waited upon her, and learned her history. She was of respectable family, and had left her home to save her friends the shame of her indiscretion, and knew not a soul in the metropolis, but was amply provided with funds. Miss B. proffered to make arrangements for her accouchement, and the young woman gratefully accepted her services. The medical - man was accordingly engaged, and the whole case of the patient, family connexion, and other circumstances. _re lated to him in confidence, and out of regard to the feel ings of the unhappy woman, who enjoined secrecy in the matter. In a few days, and at midnight, the surgeon was sent for by a messenger from the convent, directing him to an immediate attendance upon his patient. The messenger gave the instructions to the medical man's boy, —magnified the matter, and it would appear not and he --knowing the applicant to be a servant at the liwuillifilulelry), but mistakenly, into the certainty that his mas ter had to attend a labour at the convent. This, it is now proved, was the basis of the allegation, and the mystery attending the case, arising .out of the young person 's anxious desir e th a t her famil y m i ght be spared thel n d in consequentso upon exposure, fortified th ose who e weeks refused anything like an ex planstion, b e lieving that an accouchement had taken an awt i i s eo g re r f c o e rm place in the esteblishment, notwithstanding the positive denial of such being the fact by the medical man, himself it member of the Church of England,. and at the head of the profession in the locality. The , result was that the really is, became the mother of a healthy boy, and when young lady, for such by her education and family she convale s cent, expressed a wish to become a convert to the Church of Rome, and several times waited upon the clergyman of the chapel, the Rev. Father De Held, for that purpose. At the earnest request, however, of Miss 8., a communication was made with the young lady's f amily , sod a complete reconciliation was effected, and expedit e d, by the repugnance of the parents to their daughter embracing the Roman Catholic faith, she being in reality of the Protestant Church.. Such are the par ticulars of a case, which, if at once explained, would have spared much scandal.— Weekly Dispatch. , t Natienal Loan Fund Life Assuan ce Society. * Equitable Fire t* Both Offices. L A W LIFE ASSURANCE g Shares in SOCIETY, Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, March 14, 1851. Notice is hereby given, that the Books for Transferrin this society will be Closed on Thursday, trio 20th instant, and will be Re-opened on Thursday, the 10th day of April next. The Dividends for the year 1850 will be Payable on Monday, the 7th day of April next, and on any subsequent day (Tuesdays excepted) between the hours of Ten and Three o'cloek. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. N.B. Policies for the whole term of life effected during. the present year will participate in the profits to be declared to the •end of 1854. - - ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Lectures on the Culture and Appliances of Flax, by , Thomas R Beale Browne, —B6l, on Wednesday and Satarday, at 'Pvie clock.— Lecture on the Prepwration and Bleaching of Flax, by J. H. Pep per, Esq.—Lecture on the Chemistry of Ignition and Co mbustion.7 ll Lecture by Dr. Bachhoff ner on V o lt a ic Electricity, in which will be exhibited Allman's Patent Electric Light.—Lectures on the Music of Wales, by Ellis Roberts, Esq. (Harpist to .11. the Prince of Wales), with Vocal Illustrations by Miss Blanche founge, R.A. of Music, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridas Evenings at Eight, and en Saturday, at Three.—The Celebrated Juv male Harpists (the Lockwood Family) will Perform Trios under Me direction of Mr. Frederick Chatterton, daily a t Four.—Exhibition of the Day- H y d ro gen Microscope.—New Serie s o f Di sso l v i ng View's, illustrating some of the Royal Residences of Europe. Admission, Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every E' Ming OM cept Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. A poL oNIC 0 N . Misses Emma, Victoria, an d Rnsina Collins, and Master Joefiph Collins ; P G o r o a l t e t , a M n i c s s ixt M k e e m e n r t . , also, the Juvenile H ar p ists (the Lockw ood Family), pupils of M r. CollinE, M td is r s . Frederick Chatterton. TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY, MORNINGiS, at Two ; EVENINGS, at Eight. The Proprietor has great pleasure in announcing the engagement of the above delightful Artists, in addition to the Apollonicon per formances. Pending the alterations consequent on the addition of The Great Tuba Mirabilis to this already extraordinary Instrument, Mr. Mather will give extemporaneous p US erformances. ROYAL MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE STREET, STRAND. (Adjoining the Lowther Arcade,) Conductor • Mr. Grattan Cook e . • • TO-MORROW. PROGRAMME. PART I. Math*r. Apollonicon—lntroduction Trio—The Misses Collins Song (morning)—Miss Victoria Collins Song (Evening)—Miss POle Apollonicon (Morning)—Mr. Mather—Favourite Airs Juvenile Harpists (Evening)—The Lockwood Fa • rally —Trio, Fanny, Ernest, and Adolphus F. CleAtterton, Lockwood - Song (Morning)—Misi Emma Collins song (Evening)—Miss Messent Solo—Oboe—Mr. Grattan Cooke Divertissement—Mr., Master, and the Misses Collins. PART H. Apollonicon—Mr. Mather—Overtm e Duet—The Misses Emma and Victoria Collins Solo, Violin—Miss Rosins. Collins - Matbter. Apollonicon (Morning)—Fantasia - ng)—The Lockwood Fa Juvenile Harpists (Evening)—The , mily—Trio, Fanny, Ernest, and Adolphus Lockwood—Scottish Fantasia - - F. CPAlterton. Song (Evening)—Mies Poole Solo, Concertina—Miss Rosina Collins Song (Evening)—Miss Messent Sole, Violoncello—Mils Victoria Collins Trio —The Misses , Collins—Flute Obligate, Mr. Collins—Natalie - J. C, The wonderful mechanical powers of the Instrument pill be illus trated isy its performance of Mozart's Overture to •• Figaro ;" or Weber's celebrated Overture to " Der Treyachuts." Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, Is. 6d. • Stalls, 2s. 6d. Doors open at Half•past One, and Hal-put S awn. Carriages may be ordered Mornings, at Four; Eveni jigs, at Tea. The poor-rateiof the parish of Sheptori Pallet are not more than one-third the amount they were about four years since; and there are not sufficient' able-bodiedSh pauperrne s in the union house to do the work of the hon§e,—erbo Journal. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Jane Moore, an elegantly-dressed woman, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having as milted Captain William Cookton, of 1, Sackville-street, The complainant said, he was walking in Hyde-park about five o'clock on Thursday afternoon, when ho saw the defendant in a brougham. In order to avoid her ho walked across the grass, but he soon discovered he was followed, by being struck over the arm and head with the muff carried by the defendant. This was the assault complained of. In reply to questions, the complainant gave no explanation of the cause of the assault. He ad mitted he was not hurt by the assault, and that though the defendant threatened his life he did not go in any bodily fear of her. It was the indignity of being assailed in the park, and in the presence of persons who know him, that he most complained of. A great crowd was collected in consequence of the affair. The defendant said, that having become acquainted with the tact of her having acted contrary to law in doing what she bad done, she most sincerely regretted the circumstance; but as far as the complainant was concerned, she felt no compunction for her conduct. It was through him that a sister—a fine, young, well-edu cated girl, about to be married to a respectable trades man—was thrown upon her hands. Tho complainant took advantage of her sister being in a house by herself, and forcibly violated her. nor screams were heard in the adjoining house. The complainant in a low tone of voice here remarked that the defendant kept a house of ill fame. Mr. lianowrcia told the defendant that whatever might be the injury she had sustained through the com plainant, or whatever the cause of complaint against This day is published, in one thick volume, post Svo., cloth , 12 5. , WILLIAM PEN N. AN HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY. From New Sources. With an extra Chapter on the " Macaulay Charges." By WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON. With a Portrait, • London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.