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Dividend per 4nßum. 1 Names of Com psalms. per cent, V. 221. 161. 41. 10s. per cent 40d. .15s. 1 4 sis . st 12,4. Bd. .ss. . 1. 10s. 344 101, 17s. 6d. 6 percent. 28 201. 14. 10s. 154. 321. 10s. Bridges Hammersmith............ Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 74 pr c. Water10e......—.. ......... Ditto Old Ann. ef SI,. Ditto New ditto 6 471. Ditto Bonds ....... Vauxhall ..... Assurances. Albion Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life European Life Ditto New Freemasons ......... Globe Guardian ... Hope Life Ditto Fire Imperial Fire Ditto Life... Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship .......... National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Rock Life Ryal Exchange Sun Fire.,,„....„...... .., Ditto University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi,.... ......... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New....... London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New ........ Gloucestershire.... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight &. Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial Birmingham Binning. & Staffordsh Bristol Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Cons°lid Ditto New Equitable. Imperi,l Isle of Thanet ..... Independent Phcenix Rateliff.... ............ South Metropolitan United General ..... Westmins. Chartered .... 1.10%. Viper cent. Ms per sh. 11. 101. per sh. 11. Is. 14 15s. f per cent. b per coat. Ape. arm? gs.6d. bs. tper cent. :per cent. £4 per cent tSper cent Ditto New ..... •••••••••••• Water Works. Birmingham East London ..... Grand Junction av Kent Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lend. West Middlesex......av Yrk Buldg Co. Les Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birmisg. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Countie,....„.„ Edinburgh di Glasgow Grand Junction..„..... Great North of Englnd Great Western .... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ......... Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... .... Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and 5e1by.......... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Halt-Shares . . Landon and Brighten.. Ditto Loan Notes London and B 1 ickwall London and Greenwich London and Eirrnthgh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds.... ..... London and S.Viesi '''' London and Croy.lon.. Manchester and Leed; Ditto New Shares blancher and Birming Midland Cou dies North British Norwich & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dis. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen..„ Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich ork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albicn Copper Alten ...... ...... ......... Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian iss. 5/ p.m. General Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican .............» MlrOng Co. of Ireland Real (IA Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba...— United Max.,iss.2l. pm Ditto scrip ..... Ditto New 5crip.......: Literary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell ........... College ~.,......» Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricaltur Brit. American L an d , : Canada Upper Canada Bonds._ Gen. Steam Navigation ;berian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 1/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ... Penins. & Orien. .. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian ..... Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land LIST OP SCOTTISH COM DEC, 7, li ' Bank of Scotlama...— Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank National Punk Western Bank , Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scott. Edinburgh Life Incur. Scottish Union Incur... Stamlard Life Insur... Dalkeith Ra ...... Edin. and Alas. ilway • ILsilwy Glasg, and Greco, Rai. Dundee4nd Arian Rail._ 6 per cent. 6 per cent, per cent. 6 per cent 71 per cent. /3 per cent e l per cent. Iper cent 7per cent. Q per cent. tiler cent. 6per cent. tper cent. per cent. per cent. ji per coot. Canals. . and Oldham Ashhy-de-la-Zouch..ay Basingstoke .... Brecknock & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. Julia Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry ...... Cromford Dudley Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Grand Grand Union ..... Grand Surrey ..... Grand Western .... Glamotgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham.....„.,,,,„„.. Huddersfield ... ....av Kennet s,id Avon ...ay Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield ........ Neath.....„....„ ..... Oxford Peak Forest Regent's (or London).. R0chda1e............ ..... 3 Shropshire .........«...... Somerset CoaL Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge ........ Stratford -on.Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Binning. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Binning. Wilts and Berks .av WisbQach ......... Wey and Arun....... Docks. Commercial East and West India... London Ditto Bonds Bristol ....„..av Do. Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto Bonds Ditto Bonds Southampton 1. 4s. cent. 4 per cent. 4i per cent. 4 per cent. :3/. 5 per cent. L per cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 1% per cent. 11. Os. Pis. Id. per cent. 11. 7a. 3t 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. Ss. 6d.yr sh 51. ss. er share per cent. SI. per cent. V 30s. bs. 134 per cent. per cent. 5 per cent. taper cent. :per cent. 48. 2s. tSd. percent. 12 ih. & be. 11. sa. 5 per cent. tper cent. S per cent. per cent. 11. ss. 5 per cent. 13,i per cent. U. 4c Spar cent. p()% per cent 51 A per cent. per c- ent. 5 percent. 5 per cent ter cent. per c- ent. per cent. it per cent. r; per cent. ilspershare Os. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. IL :4. 11. 7s. 5/. :and bs. i SO. and bs. per cent. scent. 104 Slper eh Asper sh 21. M per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent' I per cent. IX per cent. 34 12s. 44 105. 2/. Iq3. 21. 10s. t per cent. 44 16s. 11. 14a. 2/.135. p. sh. 31. 3:. 3 per cent. Ms. per 6h. tl. ss. perch 10 per cent. SS( per cent. 7. Os. per sh 5341. per sh. 12s. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. kil. per ab 101. per sh. 11. 14s. 31. per share .3.34 d per sh Si. 17s. pr at 113 s per at IL IL Ss. 15s. IL Ils. 10d. lb per oent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1. 1/. 81. 6d. nirb Zlittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES tJF SHARES 211 LANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. L ONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 7. Amount Paid. i Price. Share. .£ s. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 A & 41. I ioo 0 41 13 4 ! - ;100 0 0 r - 100 0 0 lrfik StlN, LONDON, TUESDAY EYENINC4, - JAWITARY 7, lea. . _ - rity in his late competition with a ministerial can didate. At the first serious trial of strength—the appointment of a committee to draw up the Address in reply to the King's Speech —the Ministers counted a majority of fifty-two, viz., 20ti to 154. This majority—quite a sufficient working majority by itself—will be considerably augmented when 100 now absent Deputies shall appear in their places ; for the extraordinary exertions made by the Opposition, and the easy confidence of the pacific party previously to the commencement of the session, give an assurance that much the greater number of the absentees must belong to the latter party ; and the Paris Globe distinctly affirms such to be the case, without any contradiction from the Opposition press. There is no reason, therefore, to appre hend that the French people are prepared to dis honour themselves by stirring Li) a war for the sake of the slave trade, or willing to make war for its own sake. The abstract hatred of England which M. Thiers and his faction have so long laboured to excite, has disappeared, and all are now ashamed to profess it ; and the pretence that England employs the right of visit for the purpose of crippling the trade of France, set up by the Nantes slave dealers, has received its decisive answer in the known readiness of the British Government to acquiesce in any arrangement which shall re concile the suppression of the slave-trade with the interests and feelings of the French people, leaving it to France herself to determine what that arrangement shall be. Are not the terms, however, of the Chinese treaty even better proof than this frank and candid offer, that England does not seek to cripple the trade of France, or of any other country P. She has no interest in doing so, but the reverse ; and if she be disposed to indulge pride in the matter, what occasion of higher pride can she have than the liberal patronage of the commerce of the whole civilised world! Her commercial posi tion is happily one that would make jealousy on her part disgraceful. Before the division upon the ap pointment of the Committee, M. Guizot shortly addressed the Chamber in an outline of what would he, if required, a vindication of the policy of his Government. The tone of the distinguished statesman's observations was manly, as usual with him, and calm and confident as that of a man who knew the strength both of his cause and his party. The deserters who have followed Count Mole into Opposition were represented by M. St. Marc Girardin, and may number five or six. All of every country who respect worth and genius must rejoice in the ascendancy of so brillant a representative of both as M. Guizot; but, apart from all considerations for the Minister deserted, it is impossible not to regard the desertion of M. Mole with a feeling of deep disgust. We can forget the hatred to England of M. 'Tiers, and of other still more violent enemies of this country, because it is through a mistaken feeling, still, a French hatred—a hatred founded upon the erroneous opinion that the interests and honour of Great Britain and France are irreconcileable ; but Count Mole is no more a Frenchman in his feeling than he is an Englishman— he is a Russian. From first to last he has never wholly averted his eyes from St. Petersburgh. M. Guizot is well rid of the burthen of his doubtful support, even at the cost of losing the little six-handed Russian party in the second chamber. That the secession of the Mole party will strengthen M. Guizot's position in France, we cannot doubt. " Similis simili gaudet," according to the pro7erb, as France has advanced in freedom and civilisation —and rapid, indeed, has been her advance within the last few years she has felt more and more the advantage of a perfectly good un derstanding among all free and civilised na- tions—has — been more indisposed to despotic and barbarous alliances. This feeling is still pro gressive in France, as it has long been in England, and as it extends it will by a natural necessity, un connected wholly with turbulent propagandi,m, force civilisation and freedom upon all neighbouring coun tries until Europe shall be composed of one family of civilised, and free, and independent nations, among which war will be impossible, because war must be ruinous—the true "holy alliance." The intelligent and high•spirited people of France are fully alive to their prospects and their duties in this respect, and they will not willingly commit their country to a despotic and barbarous alliance. SHIPPING GAZETTE.—We have much plea sure in informing our readers that the Elder Brethren of the Trinity Board, in answer to the memorial of the owners and masters of vessels and other persons interested in the commerce of the port of Hartlepool, soliciting that a lighthouse may be established on the Heugh at that place, concur with the memorialists in the opinion that a light house may be advantageously placed upon Hartlepool Heugh ; and that they are " ready to take the neces sary measures for erecting such lighthouse, and main taining a light thereon during the night season ; pro vided the trade of the port shall consent to pay such toll on all vessels entering the port or departing there from as shall be requisite to defray the expense of such lighthouse and light." This the trade of the port are willing to do, as expressed in their memorial ; but while willing to bear the' whole burthen, they are of course desirous to have it as light as possible. It will be trifling, considering the benefit that will be derived thereby. On this point alone there is a slight differ ence of opinion between the memorialists and the Trinity Board, which will no doubt soon be rectified, when explanations are entered into. We shall then furnish our readers with the correspondence which has passed on the subject. The Trinity Board appears to have no desire whatever to burden the shipping trading to the port of Hartlepool with a greater amount of taxation than what will be barely necessary for erect ing and maintaining a proper light on the Heugh. And as this light will prove of essential service to all vessels trading on the east coast of England, we have no reason to doubt that both the Trinity Board of London, and the Trinity Board of Newcastle, will assist in all that is necessary towards so desirable an undertaking. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry—lion. T. G. Anson, commonly called Viscount Anson, to be Captain, vice Hordern, deceased ; Cornet W. Briscoe to be Lieutenant, vice Holyoake, resigned, Nov. 16 ; Cornet M. Blackis tone to be Lieutenant ; J. Sandars, jun., Gent., to be Cornet, vice Blackistone, promoted, Dec. 28. WHITEHALL, DEC. 30. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Simpson, of Yarm, in the county of Norfolk, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th Geo. IV., c. 27. sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of October 1E44, amounted to the sum of three millions three hundred and sixty eight thousand two hundred and seventy-four pounds, four shillings, and twopence ; the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of eight hundred and forty-two thousand and sixty-eight pounds, eleven shillings (being one fourth part of the said surplus of three millions three hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-four pounds, four shillings, and twopence) will be applied, under the the provisions of the said Act, be tween the 7th day of January, 1845, and the sth day of April, 1845, to the following purposes, viz.:— To be applied to the purchase of Stock.... 242,068 11 0 To be applied to the purchase of Exche quer Bills, made out in pursuance of the Act of 57th Geo. 111., cap. 48 600,000 0 0 £842,068 11 0 Add Interest receivable on account of Donations and Bequests, to be applied to the purchase of Stock 3,615 1 0 £845,683 12 0 S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General. National Debt-office, Jan. 6, 1845. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. John Tapscott, baker, Winehead, Someraetshire. BANKRUPTS. William Youle, commission agent, Addle-street, Wood-street, City, to surrender Jan. 15, at twelve, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Laugley, Bedford-row. Thomas Chandler, builder, Bow-lane, City, Jan. 13, at two, and March 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Farrar and Lake, Goodliman- street, Doctors'-commons. John kandeno, market gardener, Grove-street, Hackney, Jan. 15, at two, and Feb. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab church-lane ; Jenkinson, Cannon-street., City. . Thomas Revely jun., plumber, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 17, at half-past one, and Feb. 26, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hark., Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. John Barff, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 27 and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, offi cial assignee, Liverpool ; Sharp, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London ; Moss, Liverpool. James Booth, woollen cloth manufacturer, Cartworth, Yorkshire, Jan. 18, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, Chancery-lane, London ; Floyd and Booth, or Battye and Clay, Huddersfield. William Lutwyche, brass founder, Birmingham, Jan. 21, at balf-past ten, and Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Bir mingham ; Harrison and Smith, Birmingham. On Wednesday last a boy employed in the Plymouth Journal printing-office, picked up on the pavement of Bedford -street, Plymouth, two bank-notes, one of 1001, and the other of 501. A coachman, who saw the boy pick them up, took the lad to the Devon and Cornwall Bank, where the notes were left for the owner. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 7.) SUGAR.—To-day, in consequence of importers of West India Sugar submitting to prices rather under those previously quoted by private contract, buyers were induced to come forward with increased freedom, and a large business was transacted in grocery and re fining descriptions ; in all, 930 hhds were disposed of. At public sale, 100 hhds of Barbadoes and 388 hhds 13 tierces 71 barrels of St. Lucia were bronght for ward, the former all sold at the previous currency—good yellow at 63s 6d, good middling 60s to 625, middling 57s to 59s 6d, and low 53s 6d to 54s ; the latter was disposed of at and after the sale, but rather under the former cur rency, viz—fine yellow at 645, middling 55s 6d, to 575, low 54s to 555, brown 53s to 53s 6d, and low 52s per cwt. REFINED.—To-day there was not much business done in the Refined Sugar market ; standard lumps are 73s to 73s Gd, and brown lumps 72s to 72s 6d per cwt. An increased desire was shown to purchase Bonded Crushed, and a further advance occurred in the value ; there are not further sellers under 31s per cwt. Maultrrius.—The market having been much better supplied, has produced a decline in prices of 2s to 3s for good and fine yellow, Is to is 6d per cwt for inferior brown and grey descriptions. At public sale fine yellow at 60s to 63s Gd, good middling and good 568 to 59s Gd, low to middling 52e 6d to 55s 6d, very low heavy 49s Gd, good brown 495, low 425, good to fine grey 56s to 595, low to middling 52s 6d to 555, and washed 43s to 60s per cwt. The principal part consisted of bright yellow of good and fine quality. EAST INDlA.—There has been an excellent demand for Bengal Sugar, and previous rates are maintained for white and yellow, but brown, of which the supply has principally consisted, must be quoted is per cwt cheaper. This afternoon 2,727 bags of brow n B enga l were o ff ere d at public sale, and all sol upon former terms—middling brown at 42s 6d to 435, and damp 41s to 42s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there is an increased desire to purchase Foreign Super, anc in consequence of the firm ness of merchants, buyers were compelled to pay higher rates. Of yellow Havannah 7,000 chests were sold pri vately at 21s 6d to 23s for mid to fine, but principally at 21s 6d to 22s 6d; 200 chests inferior at 21s partly for exportation and the remainder for refining under bond. 1,300 bags of Manilla at 19s 6d to 20s for yellow, being all 6d per cwt above the rates previously quoted. MOLASSES.—A considerable increase has taken place in the demand for all descriptions of West India, and the large quantity of 550 puns found purchasers at rather higher rates, viz.—Antigua at 22s to 23s 6d, fine 255, Nevis 225, and Barbadoes old 25s per cwt—prices are much lower than they were last season, and this circum stance causes buyers to come forward more freely. East India are more in request, and prices have taken an up ward turn. RICE.—In consequence of the short supply of Bengal previous rates are sustained, but at present there are not many orders; none has been offered at auction, and privately only small parcels have been disposed of, low white at Ils to Its 3d, mid Its 6d to lls 9d, and good middling to fine 12s to 12s 6d ; the market will, however, be better supplied shortly, when moderate rates may be looked for. Other kinds of East India are not much wanted, but merchants insist upon full prices, and require lOs to 12s for white Java, 93 to 9s 6d for yellow, and for yellow Mrdras 8s to 8s 6d per cwt. The mark e t is firm for cleaned Rise, and many purchases haue been made at 14s to 18s for Patna, and at 23s to 17s per cwt for South Carolina. COFFEE.—For West India the market has presented a firm appearance since this day week : the cheapness of Coffee in comparison with that of last year deter im porters from pressing sales, and the trade in consequence are more inclined to get into stock ; of middling and good kinds there is still a scarcity. Public sales, chiefly of Berbice, are announced. In East India there has generally been more activity. Ceylon has sustained the former currency. In Plantation kinds the operations are upon a more extended scale : good ordinary pale went at 52s to 535, country damaged, first and second class 50s 6d to 51s, pale broken 48s, sound pea berry 69s to 69s 6d, and country damaged first class 655 per cwt. Today the market:presented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Coffee; there was no public sale, privately several parcels of good ord Ceylon were disposed of at 52s to 525 6d; in Plantation the operations were upon a more extended scale at former terms. For other sorts of Coffee the demand is on the increase for home consumption. TEA. --Firmness still characterizes the market for Black and Green Tea. Common has been fetching lld to 11 id ; good common 11d to Is Old ; but middling to good blackish leaf is Old to is 6d ; fine is 7d to Is 9d, and Pekoe flavour is 10d to 2s 7d per lb. I'ouchong is much wanted, and prices are still going up, large parcels have been disposed of at 7d to lld for clean quality, and superior at is to is 2d per lb. Twan key has been in good request, common is fetching Is 3d to is 3jd; bright leaf is 4d to is 6d; superior and Hy son kind is is 10d to 2s sd. Hyson is greatly wanted, sales of common made at 2s 7d to 2s 7id; mid 2s 8d to 2s 9d; good 2s 10d to 3s; find and very fine 3s 2d to 4s 6d der lb. Young Hyson hss met with ready purchasers, and pricns are still on the advance. Dyson skin is selling rather above the rates of the last auctions. In fine scented Orange Pekoe sales made at 3s 4d, to 3s sd, there is a scarcity of this kind of Tea. In Flowery and plain Orange, more business has been done upon former terms. Gunpowder and Imperial are much in request. SPICES.—The stock of Pimento being small cause holders to require full rates, but the demand is only for small parcels, at 3t-d to 4id for low to fine quality. There are sellers of Cinnamon rather under the rates that prevailed at the last quarterly sale. In Nut megs the transactions are upon a more extended scale, at former terms. Although prices are very low for Mace, still there are few orders. Cloves are not cheaper, but the demand has been limited. East and West India Ginger are more in demand at firm rates. In Black Pepper there has been rather more business done privately, holders show firmness, and none been offered at auction. We quote Sumatra 2id to 2i-d, Penang lid to 21d, and Malabar 2i-d to 3-id per lb, white sells more freely upon former terms. There has again been no public sale of Cassia Lignea ; it is wanted, and owing to the short supply prices are advancing, 53s to 55s 6d paid for ord to fine ord, 563 to 61s for low to mid 62s to 64s for good mid to good, and fine thin 65s to 67s per cwt. RUM, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.—There has been only a limited business transacted in Leeward Island Rum since we last wrote, but holders are not inclined to further give way in price, and 2s 2id to 2s 3id per gallon is the value of proof strength. Jamaica is not much wanted, and for 100 puns of co ninon quality rather smoky 30 to 32 per cent over proof 3s 6d has been accepted, being rather cheaper ; for clean quality 30 to 33 over 3s 8d to 4s is asked ; es 2d to 4s 6d fur good, and 5s to 5s 6d per gallon for fine. Demerara has been taken sparingly at 3s to 3s 4d for strong. Geneva shipping sort is in de mand at is 10d to is lld ; fit for duty is worth 2s 4d to 3s Gd. English Corn Spirits lOs 2d per gallon cash. To-day in consequence of lower rates being accepted, for Calcutta Rum buyers were induced to purchase more freely, and the large quantity of 430 hhds, and 170 puns sold at 2s 2d proof with certificate, but subject to an al lowance of 2d per gallon, in consequence of being old import, and a deficiency of strength, so the real price is 2s proof. Of Leewards 100 hhds were sold at 2s 3d proof, and 50 puns of Demerara 33 per cent over proof at 3s 3d per gallon. Ispico.—Since this day week there has been little business transacted in Bengal for home consumption or exportation, and prices remain as previoussly quoted, that 2d to 3d per lb under those of the last quarterly sales ; in other kinds there has been little passing, and the rates taken are rather under those of the October sales. SaiTeETRE.—The market is firm for Rough, and the stock here being small still deter merchants from offer ing any at public sale. A fair demand has been expe rienced by private contract, and very full rates have been paid. "'"FRCIT.—There has been an impoved demand for Red Smyrna Raisins, and several parcels have been disposed of at 46s per cwt. Sultanas of middling quality fetched 61s, fine are held for 62s and 635. In Valencia Raisins the price is firm at 50s. Currants are not much in re quest at present, but holders are reluctant to reduce their prices. Ztrite and Cephalonia 475, and Patras 49s to 50s per cwt. TALLOW.—The market has been better supplied with South American. and a decline in prices has taken place ; at auction 411 pkgs were disposed of at 31s 3d to 38s 9d for low to fins quality. 9 casks of North American fetched 39s 6d fur good quality. New South Wales is plentiful, and lower rates are taken ; 288 casks at auction fetched 36s to 413 6d for mid to fine quality. In Russian there has been little business transactedouth spot, and in some cases the rates taken are rather under those previously quoted, p Y C selling at 40s to 40s 6d per cwt: the trade only purchase sufficient for their present necessities, and the stock is large for the period of the year ; for forward delivery there has been very little passing. Town Tallow has been in good demand, prices are low, and rule at 40s 6d to 41s 6d per cwt, net cash; there is a fair supply at market. Oats.—For Rape Oil there are ready purchasers, and prices are advancing, pale fetching 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt. There has been a good demand for Linseed Oil on the spot and for delivery. The low rates that prevail causing buyers to operate largely. Palm has been taken sparingly, and not more than 24s 6d to 25s is to be obtained for good and fine quality. Cocoa Nut has been little called for, and parcels could only be disposed of upon lower terms, 24s to 27s ac cepted for low t o fi ne quality, the consumption is inter fered with by the cheapness of Tallow. Olive Oil has met with more attention. Although the stock of common cescriptions of Fish Oils is sery small, amount ing to only 1,400 tuns, still prices are going down, and buyers have purchased reluctantly. For Cod 301 lOs to 311 accepted ; pale Seal 331 lOs to 34/ ; stra,v 321 to 32/ 10s ; yellow 301 to 311; brown 28/ to 291 lOs ; and low to fine southern 281 to 331. Sperm is wanted, and holders manifest firmness, several purchases made at 811 to 901 per tan for fine British. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Ditto, at sight l2 6 Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 J 4 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. 11.3 M 957 Trieste, ditto Madrid 361 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville kNGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibral tan:— • • Leghorn ... ...... 31 t) Genoa Milan Venice Naples ..• ...• ........ .. 394 Pelona°, por 0z...... 119 Lisbon . 52 !1 Oporto Rio Janci:o • • 24 Bahia 24 Buenos A p es NewYoi dyssight Philad?.;rbi B ...... PRICFA .2.17 'BULLION, r ER CL. Foreign I ban. £3 17 9 l'ortoga! Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doti; •00n5..... 0 0 0 New Doliara ......... 0 4 9' Silver in Bars • 0 411 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAR LBOI?OU G H-STREET. EMBEZZLEMENT.— George Edwards was brought be fore Mr. Maltby, charged with having embezzled various sums of money, the property of his master, Samuel Sug gett, baker, No. 85, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. Mr. Suggett said the prisoner had been in his service about three months. Ile was authorised to collect bills, but as soon as the money was received it was his duty to pay it over to him. The prisoner was ascertained to have received a number of bills from various customers, which he had never accounted for. Mrs. Amelia Barber, of No. 9, Market-street, proved that she paid the prisoner a sum of ten shillings on ac count of his master. Mrs. Elizabeth Laming, 58, Castle-street, proved that she paid the prisoner seven shillings and fourpence for his master, and Mrs. Martha Adams, No. 15, Hamilton-place, proved she paid a bill of four shillings, for bread, to the prisoner. Mr. Suggett said none of the above amounts had been paid into his hands. The prisoner, in defence, said he knew nothing about the amounts in question.—Committed. MATRIMONIAL MONOMANIA.—Ann Nuns, a well dressed woman, between thirty and forty years of age, possessing no very remarkable personal attractions, was charged with having importuned William Simmons, tailor, of No. 200, Oxford-street, with so much pertina city as to create a serious annoyance to himself and an obstruction to his business. From the statement of Mr. Simmons it appeared that the female laboured under a delusion that he intended, or else that he ought, to marry her. She constantly pre sented herself at his shop, conjuring him, in the most pathetic way, to accede to her matrimonial proposition. It was in vain that he appealed to the police to take her away. She was no sooner free from the constable than she ran back and repeated her unwelcome solicitations. Mr. MALTBY asked the complainant if anything had occurred to sanction the defendant's delusion ? Mr. Simmons declared that no promise on his part, nor any familiarity, could warrant the female's conduct. The only way in which he could account for the infatua tion was by supposing that the defendant was not quite right in her head. The defendant, who appeared quite absorbed her attachment, said, in a low voice, that the complainant would not call upon her, so she was obliged to call upon him. lle had promised to marry her a twelvemonth ago, and she was resolved that he should not dally with her any longer. Mr. MALTBY—Unless you promise to keep away from the complainant's shop I must order you to find bail. Defendant— I'll keep away—not unless he promises to come and see me. The complainant declared there was no truth in the assertion that he had promised the defendant marriage. Mr. MALTBY thought the father of the defendant ought to be required to restrain his daughter's be • haviour, and he should, therefore, advise the constable to take her to her home- and leave her in the charge of her friends. Police-constable English took the defendant to her father's, a tailor, in Windmill-street, but very soon afterwards returned with both daughter and father, in consequence of the daughter having as soon as relieved from custody made her way once more to the com plainant's shop in Oxford-street. The father said he was quite at a loss to account for the infatuation of his daughter. She was sane on all points, except as far as regarded her matrimonial passion for the complainant. The origin of his daughter's at tachment was from the circumstance of her having worked as waistcoat maker in the same shop where the com plainant was formerly employed. After some expostulation, the defendant gave a half promise that she would not go to the shop in Oxford street again. The complainant quitted the court. The defendant, on being released, was observed to break away from her friends and to follow the com plainant. MAI?YLEBONE. ASSAULTING AND WOUNDING WITH AN AXE.—Yes- Thomas Macnamara, a tall, well-dressed man, who de scribed himself as a schoolmaster, living at 34, Rich mond-street, Lisson-grove, was charged before Mr. Rawlinson with having eut and wounded with an axe police-constable Flannagan, No. 41, of the S division. A surgeon's certificate was produced, setting forth that the sufferer was unable to attend, and that it was necessary that he should, from the condition he was in, be kept at present perfectly quiet Policeman Kell, 333 S, deposed that yesterday morn ing, about two o'clock, while he was on duty in North street, St. John's-wood, he heard the springing of a rattle and loud cries for assistance from Richmond -street. lie proceeded to the spot, and in the passage of the pri soner's house saw him and Flannagan struggling to• gether. The former had an axe in his hand, which wit ness seized from him, and then took him into custody. Mr. RAWLINSON—Did you observe at the time that Flannagan had received any injury ? 'Witness—l did ; the blood was streaming down his cheek, and I saw that he had two wounds upon his head. Mr. HlwuresoN—What was said when you took the prisoner in charge ? Witness—The 'prisoner's brother was there, and Flannagan, the constable, said that the prisoner had threatened to' shoot him with a pistol, but that he laid hold of the axe instead, and with it struck him. The prisoner's answer to the charge was, that he had a party, and that Flannagan, his wife, and others of the family were present. Some words arose between him and Flannagan, the latter of whom must, if he was wounded at all, have injured himself by running against the axe, which he (prisoner) had taken up to cut some wood, in order to light a fire. The prisoner was ultimately liberated on his enterin g into security, hi mse lf in 1001., and producing two re spectable housekeepers to put in bail to the amount of 50/. each, for his being forthcoming on Wednesday (to morrow). QUEEN. SQUARE. Yesterday John Gough, a man between 30 and 40 years of age, was charged with having obtained various sums of money by fraudulent pretences. The prisoner had been for about eighteen months in the service of the late Mr. Joseph Hall, carver, of No. 8, Broadway, Westminster, and on the death of that gentleman in June last, was continued in the service by Nfr. Hall's son, who succeeded to the business. In Sep tember last the accused was discharged, and it was sub sequently ascertained that he had, both before and sub sequent to his dismissal, obtained various sums of money from persons with whom his employer was acquainted. The course pursued by the fellow was calculated to do a tradesman considerable injury amongst his connexions. The two following cases, which were deemed sufficient to send for trial, will serve to show the system:— Mr. George Hall, of No. 16, Lower Brunswick-ter race, Barnsbury-road, Islington, said that he knew pri esonpelreyw:ellbe as the2d of October one of the men in his prisonerdece ased came brother's h iht m with a note, purporting to be from his nephew, Mr. Joseph Hall, of No. 8, Broadway, Westminster, repre senting that he had a heavy bill which became due that day, and requesting the loan of a few pounds. Witness gave him 101., for which prisoner signed a receipt. Mr. William Wilson, of 55, Crucifix-street, Bermond sey, stated that he had known Mr. Hall and his family for some years by having done business with them. In September last prissner came to him and said that Mr. Hall had come that day to that side of the water without any money in his pocket, and would feel obliged if he would lend him ten shillings. It appeared by the repre sentation made by prisoner that his master was in the neighbourhood, and witness immediately lent ten shil- lings. In about a fortnight afterwards pris, - mer again made his appearance with a letter purporting to be written by his master, in which, after thanking him for having lent him the ten shillings, requested as a parti cular favour that he would make it up 21., which he would repay on the Monday following. Witness gave prisoner 1/. 10s., and received a memorandum to that effect. Mr. Joseph Hall stated that the letters produced had not been written by him, nor had he given prisoner any authority to use his name, or sent him to either of the parties. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he was exceedingly sorry. Mr. BURRELL committed him for trial. FEROCIOUS ASSAULT AND " GOUGlNG. " —Yesterday William Woodham, a plumber and glazier, living in Ellis street, Chelsea, was charged with a ferocious assault upon Benjamin Williams, a gentleman's servant. It appeared from the statement of the complainant, whose left eye appeared in a dreadfully inflamed state, that on Friday last he went into the Woodman, in Doy ley-street, Chelsea, with two friends, and while they were drinking some gin and water defendant came up, and, without the slightest prevocation, nudged cona pitainant's elbow intentionally, and spilt some of the liquor. Complainant took no notice of this the first time, but on it being repeated immediately, endeavoured to fling the remainder of the gin and water at defendant. Defendant then attacked him with great fury, and com plainant Wended himself as well as ho could. They fell on the ground, when defendant, who was uppermost, held complainant's head down, and forcing his thumb into his eye, turned it right out on to his cheek. Com plainant cried out for assistance, and his friends took defendant off him. Defendant, in reply to the charge, said he had no animosity to the complainant. He (the defendant) had been drinking very freely, and being under the influence of liquor, might have pushed up against complainant's elbow by accident, as he left the house. He Complained that he had been much hurt in the affray, and said that complainant must have received the injury of which he had spoken by accident. Mr. BURRELL said he should fine the defendant 51., or commit him for two months, in addition to which he should call upon him to find good bail for the next twelve months.—The penalty was paid. SOUTHTVARK. THREATENED ASSAULT ON LORD HUNTINGTOWER.— Yesterday an application was made by Lord Hunting tower for a warrant against an individual named Duckett, for using threats of personal violence against him. Lord Huntingtower stated that on Saturdvy evening last, as ho was proceeding along the lobby of the Queen's Bench Prison, he was accosted by a Mr. Duckett, who asked him if he knew Captain White's address, as he wanted to find him out. The reply was that he did know, upou which Mr. Duckett inquired if he (appli cant) knew anything about an acceptance of his which he said had been improperly obtained from him by Captain White, and that it was relative to that transac tion he wanted to meet with the captain. He (Lord Huntingtower) answered that he himself was in pos session of the bill, and that he should not part with it, knowing the acceptor had received ♦alue for it. Upon this Mr. Duckett called him and Captain White a pair of scoundrels, that the bill had been stolen from him, and he declared that if it was not given up, be would give him (Lord Huntingtower) i tto custody for stealing it. Finding that he WAS not disposed to coropl7, Mr. Duckett I:!eca449 Ter/ tql4c4 excited, 'and threatened that if the bill was not delivered to him, and that very speedily, he should break every bone in the skin of the party who held it. He also expressed his determination to kick both him and Cap tain White on meeting them, even in the most public place, uflless the bill was restored. Lord Huntingtower added that, under the apprehension Mr. Duckett would have carried his threats of personal violence into effect on the spot, he resigned the possession of the bill, at the same time informing him that he should adopt proceed ings against him for the violent nature of the threats, and for the purpose of making him deliver up the bill. Lord Huntingtower added that several persons were within hearing during the time he was so improperly treated by Mr. Duckett, against whom he wished a war rant to be granted, for putting him in bodily fear, and thereby obtaining the possession of the bill alluded to. Mr. TRAILL said that, as the applicant was ready to swear he went in personal fear of the party against whom he made the application, a peace warrant should be granted for his apprehension. Shortly after Lord Huntingtower retired Captain White entered the Court, and made a similar application for a warrant against Mr. Duckett. Mr. TRAILL said that there would be no necessity for issuit b , two warrants, that Captai n Whit e cou ld b e i n attendance on the day Mr. Duckett was brought up, and that he would then have an opportunity of having his case investigated, as well as that of Lord Huntingtower. LAMBETIL GROSS CRUELTY AND NEGLIGENCE OF A CIIILD BY ITS PARENTS.—Yesterday, Jonathan Storey, a middle aged man, and formerly a publican in Newport-market, was charged before Mr. Henry with grossly neglecting his child and keeping her without the necessary supply of food, so that her life is at present in great jeopardy. From the evidence it appeared that some days past the attention of the neighbours had been direeted to the gross negligence of the prisoner towards his child Martha, between five and six years of age, and informa tion of the circumstance was given to Mr. James, one of the overseers of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth. On Saturday afternoon that gentleman applied for the assis tance of Dunn, one of the beadles of the parish, and with that officer proceeded to a house in Doughty-place, Lam -beth, and on forcing open the door of a room on the first floor, they found the poor child, who presented a fright ful spectacle, sitting in a chair nearly benumbed with cold, and without a tire, or a morsel of anything to eat in the place. The poor child was nearly naked, and;her person and head were a moving mass of vermin. Mr. James had the poor child at once removed to the work house, where she at present remains in a very dangerous state. Caroline James, a nurse in the parish workhouse, de scribed the appearance of the poor child when brought there. She said that the few rags by which her person was scantily covered so swarmed with vermin that they were obliged to be destroyed, and her head was obliged to be shaved to get rid of the vermin. Witness put some questions to the child as to the manner in which she had been treated, when she said that her father had been in the habit of leaving her locked up all day during the late cold weather, without any fire ; that her only food was a little bread and water ; and that her father was in the habit of ill-using her. The parish doctor considered her case of so serious a character, that ho had been to see her as late as ten o'clock on the night before, and his impression was that her recovery from the state of exhaustion to which she had been reduced was very doubtful. The prisoner, in reply to the charge. said he was a married man, and had two children and a wife living. About three years ago he kept the Jolly Butchers pub lic-house, Newport-market, but had been burned out from there. Ile subsequently received 1601 from the insurance company, and with this he paid several debts he owed, and placed CV. in the hands of his wife for security. Shortly afterwards his wife left him, taking away one of the children, and leaving him the other. The prisoner here became very much affected, and wept bitterly, saying the conduct of his wife in leaving him had nearly broken his heart. lie said it was true that, through poverty, he was reduced to the greatest want, but still he loved his child too well to allow it to want food, for while he nimself had but a pennyworth of dry bread, he took care that she did not want. He had ap plied, he said, for relief to the parish of St. Anne, Soho, where he had a settlement, but they r e f use d to g i ve h i m any, and knowing the way in which poor people who ap plied for relief were generally treated, he did not wish to make a second application, nor had he gone to the parish officers of Lambeth at all. Mr. HENRY remarked that it was much to b e l amente d that he had not applied for relief to Lambeth parish to have something done for his unfortunate child, and not allow her to be reduced to such a state of wretchedness and suffering as that described by the wit nesses who had been examined. As the child was described to be in a dangerous state from his negligence and improper treat ment, he (Mr. Henry) should feel it to be his duty to re mand him to a future day. The prisoner was accordingly remanded until Wednesday. ANOTHER CASE OF CRUELTY.—Rebert Pratt, who had been remanded since Wednesday last, on a charge of grossly abusing his son, a boy of five years of age, was again put to the bar for further examination. At the last examination Mr. Henry expressed a wish that the parish officers of Lambeth should prosecute in a case of so serious a character as the present, and de sired Dunn, the beadle, to communicate his opinion to the vestry-clerk. Yesterday Mr. Logan, who holds a situation under the Poor-law Guardians, attended, and said they had no fund in the Darimh applicable to such a prosecution, else they should with pleasure act upon the magistrate's suggestion, and aid the ends of justice iu such a case as far as they could. Mr. lIENar said he should certainly send the case for trial as it was, and thought it was one in which the pa rish ought to prosecute. LATER FROM OTi4HEITE, (From the Shipping Gazette.) We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter received by a mercantile firm. It some days later than previous advices, and will be found interesting : " PAPEETI, JULY 18, 1844 " Otaheite is in a lamentable state at the present time ; the natives causing much apprehension, keep the French soldiers continually on the alert. We have, since the arrival of the schooner (Ist of July), been daily expecting an attack upon the settlement, for which reason it was deemed prudent not to discharge the cargo; but we commence to-day, having written to the Gover nor, holding the French Government responsible for any loss or damage occasioned to British property from the proceedings of the present war. The feel ing of insecurity has prevented our making many sales at present, and from the same cause we fear we shall not realise such good prices us expected. We shall have a full cargo for the schooner. Captain Hammond, of the Salamander, has disappointed expectation. He appears to take a view of Otaheitian affairs opposite from that of any of his predecessors. A letter he sent to the French Governor was, by the latter's directions, rendered into the Otaheitian dialect, with perverted meaning, and posted about, in the hope that it might induce the natives to give over their struggle, and quietly sub mit to the French yoke. The perverted letter was to the effect, that Captain Hammond begged to inform the French Governor that his arrival in Otaheite was merely for the purpose of looking after the interests of British property, there being no representative of the Queen of Great Britain in this land. Captain Hammond declared that it was utterly useless for the Otaht itians to resist the exalted power of France, and made known to them that no ship belonging to the Queen of Britain would come to Otaheite at this time to give them assistance. This letter, in the opinion of many, instead of having the desired effect, will merely precipitate matters a little ; as the natives, in the belief that Britain has deserted and left them to their own resources, have determined to do or die. The native population, with few exceptions, have taken to the mountains, and parties of them from time to time engaged the French in skirmishes, many of the latter having been killed, and some Otaheitans. " The priests' houses have been burnt, and the houses of others favouring the French, and much property has been destroyed ; and in a late affray between the natives and their invaders, we regret to state that the Rev. T. S. M'Kean was shot dead as he was turning from his verandah to his house. The bullet struck him behind his ear, and lodged below the socket of his eye ; he breathed heavily for five or six minutes after his fall, and expired without a word ; it is not known for certainty from which party the shot was fired.:,:ilis loss is deeply deplored, as he was the most learned of the mission, and a very amiable man. His wife and children, who had gone to an adjacent island for security are yet in ignorance of his sad fate. Nearly all the missionaries are leaving the island; some for England, and others for islands ad jacent. We will not enter into further distressing detail, as titulars : and we have no doubt you will shudder a his fate." 49% I 631 189 16 27.1 45 i SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PA RS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—A rumour has been freely circulated, and obtains increasing credit, that Sir Robert Peel intends to submit to Parliament a scheme for taking the power of governing the British territories in the East out of the hands of the Hon. East India Com pany, and placing t hem immediately under the Crown. The misunderstanding which arose between the Court of Directors and her Majesty's Ministers respect ing the recal of Lerd Ellenborough, and the in convenience and ar.noyance caused to the former by the decisive exercise of the power of recal vested in the former body, may have given rise to the rumour, without any more substantial foundation. The " wish" may have been "father to the thought," in the mind of the Government. The language of desire that the thing could be accomplished, uttered by a subordinate in the Ministry, may have been interpreted into an inten tion, on the part of its Chief, to carry it into execu tion. We neither affirm nor deny the fact, that some such scheme as that referred to is contemplated by the Government. The thing is possible. The idea might have arisen without any reference to the difference which arose between Ministers and the Honourable Court of Directors respecting Lord Ellenborough. If such a difference had never taken place, there are circumstances which would invest the rumour with a sufficient air of probability to justify its being treated with respect. An investigation of the principles on which the assumed transfer of the powers of Govern ment, now held by the Court of Directors, to the re sponsible Ministers of the Crown, may therefore be permitted, without exposing us to the charge of adopting a groundless rumour as an ascertained fact. A project for adopting the debt of the East India Company and fundinz it in British stock, may have been entertained by the Government, with a view to accelerate the redemption of the dividend on the capital stock of the Company. This scheme would receive an accession of public belief, were it ascertained that the Court of Directors has called upon the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the 15th section of the Act of 1833, to raise for the Company such sums of money as might be necessary for the payment of the Company's dividend, by reason of any failure or delay of the re mittances of the proper funds for such payments. If such an event has occurred, it may be thought to fur nish a case for the redemption of the debt at an early period, on theiground that the owners of the capital stock ought not to have so large an interest at the ex pense of the public. The present state of the money market is especially favourable for the purpose. Go vernment would be able to borrow the whole sum required for the purpose, at a rate of interest little 37 % more than one-half the amount per cent. s paid to the proprietors of the Hon. Com pany's stock. A careful perusal of the clauses 3 lof the Act (3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 85) has led N us to conclude that such a measure would be a 2% dereliction of the redemption section of the Act -7% whether it would be in contravention of its principle, 101 k 29 , supposing that the interference of the Commis sioners of the National Debt has been called for in 7s i the way we have alluded to, is a point we leave 1 "1 lawyers, who are disposed to apply themselves to the question, to decide. We quote the clauses of the Act which bear upon the subject ; and conclude % by remarking that, without pretending to a knowledge I of the plans of Ministers, there is sufficiet probability in the rumour that some measure of the kind alluded to will be announced, to justify our bringing the sub ject before the public. The provisions of the Act should be clearly known and understood. Without them the power of the Legislature to carry out the supposed designs of the Government cannot be I ascertained, nor the arguments which, in the I event of the scheme being proposed in Parlia ment, will be raised upon the question, be appreciated. By the Act alluded to, 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 85, intituled " An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better govern ► ment of his Majesty s Indian territories till the 30th day of April, 1854," it is enacted by the 11th sec tion : " That out of the revenues of the territories, there shall be paid to or retained by the said Company to their o own use, a yearly dividend, after the r a t e o f t en poun d s ten shillings per centum per annum on the present amount of their capital stock ; the said dividend to be 4 payable in Great Britain by equal half-yearly payments, 45i on the 6th day of January and the 6th d a y o f J u l y i n t 8 every year ; the first half-yearly payment to be made 17 on the 6th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four." 3% By the 12th section it is provided and enacted -4% " That the said dividend shall be subject to redemp tion by Parliament upon and at any time after the 30th 1 day of April, 1854, on payment to the Company of 2001. N I sterlingfor every 10 01 . of the said capital sto c k, t oget h er with a proportionate part of the same dividend, if the redemption shall take place on any other day than any one of the said half-yearly days of payment. Provid e d fl also, that 12 months' notice, in writing, signified by the House shall r s h o of l l the e H gi o v u e s n e t o o f t C ho om sa m id on c s om by p t n h y e o o f rd t e h, r e, o in f t t e h n e_ tion of Parliament to redeem the said dividend., And “T b h y the atifo n l3 o t r h at sectionan any time i i p m t els after rov id e a the d saidn d 3 enacted:— ay o f April, 1854, the said Company shall. by the expiration of the term hereby granted, cease to retain, or shall by the authorit'i of Parliament be deprived of the posses s sion and gt.&rnment of the said territories, it shall be i lawful for the said Company, within one year thereafter, to demand the redemption of the said dividend, and pro vision shall be made for redeeming the said dividend after the rate aforesaid, within three years after such demand." ' And bylthe 15th section it is provided and enacted— " That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, from time to time, and they are hereby required, upon requisition made for that purpose by the Court of Directors of the said Company, to raise and pay to the said Company, such sums of me ezy as may be necessary for the payment of the said Company's dividend, by reason of any failure or delay of the remittances of the proper fund s f or such payment. " STANDARD.---The session of the French Cham bers opens auspiciously for Marshal Soult's adminis tration, notwithstanding the coincidence of accidents and misapprehensions which gave to the representative of the Xiintos siAve dealers an apparently large mino- 15% Ibi CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. In the case of Peter Watkins, committed upon ;n in quisition 14eld by Mr. Wakley, the coroner, to take his trial for manslaughter, the REcoanEn complained that the depositions had only just been returned, it being then nearly four o'clock. He observed that justices and coroners were bound by the Act of Parliament to return the depositions taken by them, at the sitting of the Court, and they subjected themselves to a fine for neglecting to do so. He then directed Mr. Clark, the Clerk of Arraigns, to write to the coroner to know why the depositions had not been returned at a mere early period. PRESTON COUNTY COURT. (From the Preston Guardian.) BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. MARY HOOTON V. HENRY RIMMER. Mr. CATTERALL, who appearead for the plaintiff, opened the case. The action was brought by Mary Hooton, of Churchtown, for a breach of promise of marriage by the defendant, Henry Rimmer, of the same place. Damages were laid at 100/.—the de fendant being understood to be in good circumstances. The defendant, he said, was the author of the ruin of the plaintiff in every respect. Ile called the follow ing evidence : Ann Twist—l live at Churchtown, and am aunt of the plaintiff. I know defendant; his father is a farmer. Cannot say what quantity of land he has. Defendant has been in the habit of seeing my niece about ten years. She is about 28 years of age, and he is the same. About two years ago my niece came to live at my house. When living at my house, defendant came two or three times a week to see her. He talked to her about marriage and she talked about purchasing a rocking chair, when he said he would send to Preston and get a pair of them against their marriage. He said to her he was not thinking of being married before spring, as he could have a cottage from his father then. About half a year after she was at my house she gave birth to a child. This was in last August but one, in 1843. The child is now above a year old. I remember she charged him with being with Ellen Baker. Ile denied, and said he never intended having any one but Mary. My daughter, who is now dead, was present. I heard him saying he would like a mahogany chest like Mary's. He said, on another occasion, he hated y oung men de luding young women, and he would never do so. He said he had visited her for seven weeks at South port, and found she never had any other sweetheart. Plaintiff went to a little cottage of her father's to be confined. Heard him often speaking about his wedding. He said he bought a marriage ring, and he thought it was gold, but it turned out not to be so. —(Laughter.) He had a horse and cow, and the cow was to be Mary's cow.—(Laughter.) He was in the habit of buying presents. He once bought her half a sack of potatoes, and said when these were done he would buy her more. I have also seen him going after her at other places. Cross -examined—My name is Ann Twist, and I have been about ten years a widow. I had seven children by my husband, and one since. I have brought an action against James Gregson for a breach of promise of marriage. It is not yet tried. It is to be tried at Liverpool. It was not to the defendant I had the child. The plaintiff has three sisters. The eldest is named Betty, and is about thirty years of age, and has had a bastard child. The second sister is named Ellen, and has had two bastard children by different fathers. The third sister is named Hannah, and has not yet been in the family way. I have frequently been at plaintiff's father's house in my widowhood. I was in the habit of going about once a week. I did not go on a particular day ; sometimes I went in the morn ing, and sometimes in the afternoon, and sometimes at night. When at night I did not remain so late as twelve ; it might be abcut ten. I cannot exactly say how many persons I have seen there. Never saw a dozen young men there, nor eight, nor ten, nor six ; but fur, I think. Will not swear I saw more than four there. I had no connection with the young men. I cannot say whether I always met the same four, or a variety of fours, at this place. Only occa sionally met young men the Can't tell what the young men were doing, the took any notice of what the young gentleme doing. Never saw them upon the young ladiei r knees, or near them ; nor was there a " squab" there upon which they sat. Never saw them " tickling" the young ladi es — (Laughtei)—nor with their a•tms round their necks. Never got' a hiss from any of them, nor did any of the yc,-ung ladies. I will tell you another clay where the unfortunate circumstance that ocoaTred to me took place.—(Laughter.) It Ills given me much sorrow. My niece went to live with me in February, 18,4.3 i or beginning of Janu ary . Th e child was borli about six or sever} Months after. Since •4 , ... ' ‘.. '''' "-". . - plaintiff left my house I have never seen her and de: fendsnt t oge th er . I k now a person name d Margare t Cadwell, and about three months ago met her in the house of Ann Cad well. I did not say in this hel that Rimmer never promised marriage to p l a intiff. sometimes met Gr egson a t A nn C a d we ll' s h o use. Diu not know the plaintiff was in the family way N ano she came to my house. The child has never been fathered. h Re-examined—l h a d th e b as t ar d c hild a b o ut eight years ago, and since then Gregson has promised " 1 marry me. Mary Hooton, mother ofplaintiff—l live at Church." town. Have known defendant for ten years. ft; father was a nei g hb our o f m i ne . H e h as been in. i tu habit of coming to my husband's mother's house. daughter had slept with her grandmother a long 601 before she went t o h er A un t T w i st ' s. H ave seen al a time Rimmer a n d m y d aug ht er t oge ther. I January, 1842, he ar d Rimmer say to my daughter! " It is time we were married," and he also said the Pl, "askings" should b e p u t up on S un d ay . Sh e took with the ague afterwa r d s . Th e S un d ay a ft er Ritna' r e ' ., gave her a present of 2 s . 6d., an d a littl e p o rk ' °r her to eat when ill. She went to live at one of cottages after leaving aunt Twist's, and was confined there in August. Rimmer came to see her after, held the child and said, "It is a fine child:' 11 frequently came after the child was born. Cross-examined Have had thirteen childrel Nine are living, five of whom are girls. The young° is named Ruth, and i s t we l ve years o f age. 3111; Twist has come occasionally to my house. Young men came to my honse ; and if they had not, IN daughters would never have been injured. Sol . ne; times Henry ha s come i n , an d o th ers . H ave n young men in m y h ouse t o th e number of sii eight at once, at a Christmas or at other tines. Soh n Blundell has been there, but many years nin c ",i Thomas Rimmer, too, who was a neighbour, It others. I and my husband ha ve re ti re d t o b e d ' , th e ft they were there, but this was many years since. was about the time Rimmer kept company With Mary. My daughters lived a t my h ouse w h e n the", children were born. Elizabeth Hooton, of Ch urc ht own —l remetnbet being at the weaving shop end about three years sg ° ; when Rimmer said he would be " asked" the Sund t) after. Cross-examined—lt was outside the shop w : ll #; er i; this was said, on th e 18 t h J an., 1842. Pit" - s caught cold that night in consequence of staying ou with defendant. I am no t come t o t e ll you whethq 1. have an action also for br e a c h o f p rom i se . I ' O3 tell you another time. My father and mother We; in the habit of goin g t o b e d an d l eav i ng us u p the young men. I won't tell you who kept come% with me. I shan't t e ll y ou ow many stayea with me.—(Laughter.) did not come here to tees you these things. P e opl e h ave come h ere w ith h,, e e in their mouths. I w ill t e ll yon no thi ng b u t ° I truth. It is true I h ave h a d a c hild. I t d oe s n° matter whether my sisters have had or not. James Halsell, of North Meols, labourer—l 1 0 1 Rimmer, and have seen hi m wa lki ng w ith plain tl He said on one occasion he had 2001. in ready mon e l; and did not think it worth his while to talk to pct, people. I was just behind hi m w h en h e sa id this me. On another occasion he told me he had a gr e i mare of his own. He has been in the habit of gr° /e ing potatoes for sale, the land o f w hi c h was g i ve n h "- by his father. Cross-examined—The land on which he g-rew tr potatoes was more th an t wen ty ti mes as large as t" e , table in Court. I was at Kirldale a few hour' ° 11 ; day about stealing a duck, and I have once in time been in prison for poaching. This was sh ° , ti twenty years ago. I never was i n pr i son for glIV' thing else. Mr. NOBLE then addressed the jury, and contend that the character of th e f am ily was o f suc h a NOP, description as to free the d e f en d an t f rom t h e c hair / There was no direct evide nce th a t a promise ~° 0 marriage had been mad e; b u t i n the event et . jury deciding that there was, it would be for thetn to say how much damages would be required a s coo l : pensation; and certainly one farthing, he though" would be a sufficient compensation for all the ins jury such characters could sustain by a breach ° promise. The ASSESSOR, in addressing the jury, said °D v first question to be di s p ose d o f was, whether th e, had been any promise of m arr i age . I t appesrecl , - .'; him, from the evidence, th a t th ere was some tht like an understanding th a t th e par ti es were to "'" married. In deciding upon the question of damsgl they must take into consideration the character the family, who appeared to be most immoral. would be their duty, also, to consider whether t he defendant was actually worth 2001., as stated in the evidence, or whether it was no t lik e l y h e h a d 00' , . made a boast of having that sum. The jury, after about an hour's consultation, called into Court to try two other cases. A' to doing so, the Court adjourned, leaving the jury I decide upon the case . Th e j ury rema i ned i n con 0 :1 tation until ten o'clo c k, th e resu lt o f th e i r prolong': deliberations being a ve rdi c t f o r plaintiff—darnsg e " 305. Tits RIVER ELLEN.—In consequence of the gr e f, number of fish whi c h h ave l ate l y b een found dead river Ellen, it was generally supposed that the river 0 0 1 been extensively poisoned by p oac h ers f or the purpeeei.,‘ procuring their prey. Thi s con j ecture, however, P, been proved to b e en ti re ly groun dl ess, as far so ttr, poachers are concerned, through the exertions of i' ir o Senhouse, Esq., of N e th er h a ll, w h o was l e d to inquf . n p into the cause of the d es t ruc ti on o f so many of the 011 race as was daily observ e d by hi m i n th at port i on o f '', river which r uns th roug h hi s groun d s. Mr. Senhoes.,: suspecting the river to contain some strong poisoo°7 l ingredient, had two bottles filled with the water, he transmitted to Mr. J. B. Wilson, surgeon, of Whi`: t , haven, for th e p ur p ose o f b e i ng ana l ysed. On subtr, ting the water thus sen t t o hi m to an ana l yt i cal test, l'! Wilson discovered th a t it con t a i ne d peroxi d e o f iron „ lf ,/ sulphate of lime to the extent of three grains and ei:„, to a pint of water. Thi s a t once accounte d f or the "it struction of the fish, as it wa s w h o ll y i mposs ible the, the tenants of the stream cou ld ex i s t i n t h e i r native e ment when in such a s t a t e o f a d u l terat i on. On fate b inquiry respecting the cause of the river being in ruch e' state, it was discover e d th a t th e owners o f t h e colliers e in the neighbourhood of Durham had been pumping t :1 water out of some of th e i r pit s , w hi c h h a d found its If'', into the river Ellen, and had produced the consequenced which we have just described. Some idea may be foc rn b e of the poisonous nature of the water pumped from pits, when we state that the fish were destroyed wholesale, and that they were found dead in great nu bers at least three mil es b e l ow th e j unct i on of the s ties from the pit with the Ell e n. W e f ee l assured, bowelr, that as soon as the owners of these mines are ma de o n ; quainted with the di s a s t rous consequences of sufferi. this poisonous water t o fl ow i n t o rivers, t h ey w ill en k deavour to direct it into some o th er channel.-- Carlij Patriot. CV r 0 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—AN EXTRAORDINARY ‘ l-11, 0 OF A BAD LEG AT lIORNCASTLE, BY HOLLOW toy iAls PILLS AND OINTMENT !—A f oe d ays s i nce Mr. j ° 1 , Simpson, a highly respectabl e b oo k se ll er in that eit states that a gentlem an o f hi s acqua i ntance had b°o( suffering for years, from one of the worst descripti oll9 o , bad legs, frequently enduring the most excruciating P. He had been und er th e care o f severa l med i cal men art out obtaining the least benefit. This gentlenian, 11° ever, has just been cu r e d by th ese i nva l ua b le mediein,o,o after every other treatment failed. The Ointni e d , will cure chilblains and c h a pp e d h an d s i n a few hound Sold at Professor H o ll owa y' s E sta bli s h ment, 244, SO, (where advice may be had gratis), and by a1tn0,,„4 respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civ world. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Waresley-park, Huntingdonshire, Caroline Duncombe, of a daughter. On the Ist inst., the lady of J. de Prati, M.D., of a en, ( 11 : 01 / On the 2d inst., at Bri g ht on , th e l a d y of the Rev. o' Green, of a daughter. O f On the 2d inst., at Catherine-place, Limerick, the Captain H. Lugard, Royal Engineers, of a son. r s ' On the 3d inst., at Coleshill Hous e , B er k a , th e l'I o n• Edward Pleydell Bouverie, of a (laughter. Oa the 4th inst., at Clapham-rise, the wife of B. Mend Evans, Esq., o f a aughter. r 4l. On the 4th inst., at Stanmors Villa, Weybridge, 'Webster Flockton, of a daughter. „ o w On the 4th inst., at the Parsonage, Leaven-heath, 'IP, by-Nayand, Suffolk, the wife of linearv. H. T. Curry, 'ln 4 1 ,- 0 On the 4th inst. at Wadsley, Sheffteld, the le"' the Rev. Walter Scott Dumergue, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Bromley, Middlesex, Mrs. - 11°1111 Berger, of a daughter. On the sth inst., Mrs. Frederick Heisch, of a datightliar On the sth inst., at Reading, the lady of Captain ray, R.N., of a son. tb s On the sth inst., i n Wi mpo l e-street, Cavendish-squa re, lady of the Rev. George Bethune Norman, of a daughte r ' the On the 6th inst., at Shaftesbury House, Bayswater' lady of Thomas Davidson, M.D., of a daughter. MARBIED. ea?' On the 12th of No v emb er , 1844 , at B a i lers - , A. G. Tvte aeot daughter of Major-General Leslie,K.l.l., commanding DIED. 0 1 " On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, Sir Jacob Adolphus , In spector-General of Army Hospitals. On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, Lady Burdett, relict o f the late Sir William Burdett, Bart. On the 28th of Aug us t l as t, on b oard the ship Malailyr.ol her passage out to B om b ay, E mily Henrietta, only anr;aste, daughter of the late N a th an i e l A. Austen, Esq., of Rartl aged 19 ; and on the Bth of October following, on b °ar f tb a same ship, her broth er , Li eutenant Augustus Austen, o f Bth Regiment Bombay Native Infantry, aged 27. On the 7th of N ovem b er, at Calcutta, Mary he a rl ' 3ll' wife of W. Toiler, Esq., comniAnder of the Wellesley. Asr On the 15th of November last, in Jamaica, Georg ° thony, Esq. 0 ' On the 28 th ult., at Romsey, Hants, William C. D am Esq., solicitor, o f th at place. On the. Ist inst., A ugus t us M ann i ng, Esq., o f fiertfar d- Street, Mayfair, aged 77, o d 65- On the 28th ult,, at Ep som, M r. J ames Gardom, ag e t faii- On the Ist inst., A ugus t us M ann i ng, E sq . , of II r street, May-thi r , age d 7 7. of On the 2d i ns t., at S toke Newington, Isabella, wij°ll. Captain David Young, aged 81. On the 3d inst., a t W oo dl awn, Dulw i c h , Mrs. T e .'Bll,-;---..0r--"i" _ London: Printed and Published by BIURDG YO N 4 og No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The SIM Office, t) % ir • Strand, i n the Product of the Savoy, in the cto o•• 1 iddl vacs Tuesday, January 7, 184.5. 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