The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

Vteirt( Varition RUMOURED DEATH OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. SUN-OFFICE, Six o'Clock. We have just been informed that the ex-King of the Frencb, Louis Philippe, died suddenly this morning. We have endeavoured to ascertain whether or not there is any foundation for this rumour, but without success ; and we therefore give it as a ru mour merely, without at all vouching for its accuracy. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sit irg3 in Banco.) ATKINS V. KINNIER. This action, which was brought to recover damages fir a breach of covenant, was trfel et We: tuainet a- on Saturday last, before Mr. Baron Relfe, when a verdict was found for the p'aintiff f r 1,000/., with leave to reduce the damages to one shilling. The plaii.t ff and defern'alt ha I been in part ier.ship for a ehort period as surgeons and apt tieett-iee, a id carried on their business at Dereet-ereseeet, but the defendant geve up his share in it to the plaintiff, and e. t :red into a stipulation not to practise within a distance of two miles a-id a La'f, agreeing to Ear, if he broke this agreement, the sum of 1,0001. The breach is as that, before the e trnmencement of the suit, he was re,leing at 44, Trinit i -:square, which, measuriog:by the usual streets and thoroughfares it was alleged was within two miles and a-half of Dorset•crescent. The plaintiff's residence was situated at the angle of two roads, and there were two ways of approach, the one which was selected by the plaintiff being within about thirty yards cf the prescribed dis tance, and the other, which the defendant contended ought to be chosen, it being the most frequented way, was slightly teyond it. The Judge held that the plain tiff was entitled to measure by any usual public way, and accordingly directed a se-diet far the plaintiff. Mr. lIIIRLESTONE now moved for a rule to reduce the damages to one shilling, or, in the alternative, for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection; that the. stipulation as to residence in the covenant was void in law, and that the damage found by the jury was not a liquidated damage but a penalty. •He contended that the words in the indictment, " the usual ways cf approach," were to be construed as meaning the most frequented ways; and it appeared that omnibuses aad ocher descriptions of traffic:were generally accustomed to go the longest way, the reason being that there was a turnpike on the other road. Mr. Baron ALDERSON observel that he was in the habit, on leaving the court, of sometimes riding home through the park, but it could not be said that that was the most frequented way. Mr. HUaLESTONE said that many, in coming to the courts of lay, took a near cut through Hungeifird Market; but all knew that Charing-cross was by fir the most crowded thoroughfare. The restriction as to resi dence he submit ed was illegal and void, on the ground of public policy, tecau3e it deprived the public of the services of the defendant as a physiciae. The CHIEF BARON said it reamed te him that, under the covenant, any ordinary street might be taken fir the purposes of measurement, and that though there were two war, one within and one beyond the distance, the plaintiff might resort to either. The covenant was entirely legal. The direction cf Mr. Baron Rolfe ap peared to him to be perfectly right, and he therefere thought there was no ground for a rule. The other Judges concurring, the application was refused. GERMAN Y. Letters from Stuttgart state that a change in public opinion with respect to the adhesion of the Govern ment to the treaty of the three Kings has just taken place in Wurtemberg; numerous petitions having been sent to the King praying him to join the re stricted federal state as the only means of saving the country from a revolution. The King and Ministers, however, continued as hostile as ever to Prussia and its federal state. The Second _Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Hesse resolved in a recent sitting, by 21 votes to 14, to nominate a committee to examine the propositions of the Government relative to the adhesion to the re stricted federal state. This vote being in favour of the Government occasioned great surprise, as the majority of the Chamber consists of Radicals of ex treme opinions. The Arbitral Federal Tribunal of Erfurt has sent to the Cabinet of Berlin a plan for the organization of the Tribunal of the Empire. It is proposed that the tribunal shall consist 'of twelve judges and a presi dent ; six of the judges to be named by the Princes, six others by the two Chambers. A special Curt, consisting of a part of the members of the tribunal, is to try crimes of high treason, &c., assisted by a jury. RUSSIA. We find the following in the St. Petersburgh Journal of the 6th :—" The pernicious doctrines which produced disturbance and revolt in the whole of Western Eqrope, and which threatened the com plete destruction of the order and prosperity of na tions, have unfortunately produced an echo, although a feeble one, in .our country. But in Russia. where a holy faith, love for the I\lml:eh and de votedness to the throne, based on the national cha racter, have remained unshaken in all hearts, the evil intentions of a handful of men of no influence, most of them young and without morality, who had dre lined the possibility of trampling under foot the most sacred rights of religion, law, and propriety, would only heve assumed a dangerous developement in the event of the vigilance of the Government not having discovered the evil in its origin. It results, from the investigatione which have taken place, that a certain number af young men, some completely perverted in heart and mind, others vie ims of impru dent and perfi.lious insinuations, had formed a secret sockty whose object was the violent overthrow of our political organization and to substitute for it one of their own fashion, which would only have been anarchy. lalaspnemies and audacious speeches against the sacred person of the Emperor, false interpretations of the acts of the Government, such was the programme of these meetings, such were the questions agitated whilst waiting for the mo ment to execute their sinister projects. By order of his Majesty the Emperor a commission of inquiry was instituted. This commission having made its report at the end of a f.,,w months of the most careful investigations, his I:nperial Majesty deigned to grant a full and entire amnesty to all the persons who had been seduced into this criminal plot either from chance or want of reflection. As to the true crimi nals they were tried by a military commission, whose decision was referred to the tribunal, which declared the accused guilty of the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the existing laws and political order of the empire, and condemned them to the punishment of death. They are as follows :—Michael Boutaschevitch, Petraschevoky, honorary councillor; Nicholas Spesckneff, gentlernan e no longer in service ; Nicholas Mombelli, lieutenant in the guards ; Ni cholas Grigorietf, lieutenant in the guards ; Theodore Lvoff, captain in the guards; Nicolas Pilippoff, stu dent of the University of St. Petersburgh ; Dmitry Akhs chasroumoff, bachelor in letters ; Alexander Khanikoff, pupil of the University of St. Peters burgh ; Theodore Dostrievsky, retired assessor of a college ; Constantine Desbout, councillor of a college ; Hippolyte Desbout, secretary of Government ; Felix Toll, master of Russian literature, without rank in the service ; John Jastyembsk', honorary coun cillor ; Alexander Plestcheioff, gentleman not in the service ; Nicholas Keschkine, honorary councillor ; Basil Golovinski, honorary councillor; Alexander Perms, lieutenant in the guards ; Constantine Tim kowsky, honorary councillor; A'exander Europens, retired secretary of a college; Peter Schaposchnikoff, citizen. His Majesty the Emperor after having read the report in question of the Supreme Tribunal, deigned to turn his attention to the circumstances, which to a certain extent might warrant the miti gation of the sentence, and has in consequence ordered what follows :—The judgment shall be read to the condemned in presence of the troops assembled, and after all the preliminaries for the execution of the penalty of death *hall have been accomplished, it shall be announced to them that the Emperor spares their lives, and that instead of undergoing the penalty cf death, they shall be declared to have forfeited all their civil rights, and be condemned, according to their dif ferent degrees of guilt, to hard labour in the mine., to hard la ,our in the fortres'es, or to be incorporated in different corps of the army, af er having under gone periods of detention more or less long. Thus the guilty men who had incurred the penalty of death according to the law, but whose penalty has been mitigated by the inexhaustible clemency of the Em peror, will he subjected to a just chastisement. May this guilty attempt serve as a warning and salutary example to young men, already misled perhaps, but not yet criminal. Let parents especially pay serious attention to the moral education of their children, and endeavour to convince them from their earliest age that holy faith, love for the Sovereign, devotedness to the throne, and ob e di ence to the laws and established authoritie-, are the o n l y immoveable bases of the trim quillity of states, and of public and private prosperity.' ITALY. In the sitting of the 11th of the Chamber of De puties c f Turin, the Bill f or the subdivi s i on of electoral colleges was vat d by 87 to 43, after two d a y s dis.cussion, but with some amendments, among which one by M. T ore lli , enactin g that no section shall contain lets than 40 voter s , In the same sitting of the Senate the Minis ter of Foreign Affairs presented the Bill for the ratification of the treaty of peace with Austria, which had already been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. Senator Balbi Piovera moved that, i n compliance with the urgency demanded by Ministers, the Senate do adjourn immediately to the bureaux, and vote the law afterwards without discussion. but several senators having objected to this course, the Chamber passed to the order of the day, The military commandant of Leghorn has issued a i notificAtiOD, Ulforcing tba police regulotioa by which I innkeepers and landlords are:directed to inform the police within twenty-four hours of the names of the strangers lodging► in their houses. The Statuto cf Florence of the Bth doubts the ac curacy of the statement lately given by the Risorgi mento to Turin, concerning a treaty between the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Austrian Govern ment for the indefinite occupations of Tuscany by imperial troops. FOREIGN FUNDS. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussxu, Jan. 15. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••• • • •• ... Loan of 1840, Five per Cent .. •• • • 97% Loan of Thirty Millions,FonrporCent •• •• Ditto Threeper Cent ••••• • • • • • ........ Ditto Thirty-sevenMillions,ditto .•• • .• Ditto,ditte,lB4B •• •• ••••••••• • • • " • • Ditto,lB42, 5 per Cent •••• • • • • .• 97% Ditto, 1844, 4% per Cent• • • • • • • • .• 90% Ditto, 1836, 4 per Cent •• •• ••• • •• .• 85 Ditto, 1838, 3 per Cent. ••• • • • • • • . 66% Ditto, 1848, 5 per Cent............... 9i% Ditto of the City,lB32 •••••• •• • • •• • Ditto, 1843 . • • • • • • • • • • • .• 6% Bank of Beigium• ••• .....•• • • 79i lame of 1841 ......... ........ •• • .... 107 Exchange on London, 25.47%. HAJIBURGII FUNDS, Jan. 12. Bills. Money, Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. .• .. 106% 106 Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. •• • .••• • • • • Bank Shares •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • Prussian 5 per Cent. ••••.. • • • ...... 106% 106 Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • ..... .. 106% 106 Ilamburgh, 3' per Cent .. • • • .. •..... 86% 86 3 4 Lubeck Loan (18.10) .... • • .... ..... 97% 9 7% Russian 5 per Cent. Certificates.. •• .. 99% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • Ditto Stleglit: •••••• • • • • • • .......... 83 84% Belgian Loan,23( per Cent. •••••• • • • • • Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •••• .. 71 70% Ditto, in 1001. Shares —••— • • ...... 72 71% Ditto,s per cent. ...... •• • • ........ 96 93% Anglo-Swedish Loan .. ••.. • • ........ 98 Ditto, Transport Loan • • East Gothland 4 per Cents • ....... 94 94 Norwegian Loan, 1848 •• •• ••• • . .... 99% 99 1 4 Spanish New 5 per Cent •••••• • • 12 11% Ditto, 3 per Cents. ...• .. •• •• ...... 29 % 29 Ditto, 1846•••••••••••••••••••••• - • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent•• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• • • Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • •• •• •• National Bank Shares •••••••• .. • • •• American, 6 per Cent. •• • • ........ 105 1 ,4 105% ZAILWATS. Hamb. Bergd. •••• •• • • ...... •••• • • • • 93 Ditto, Priority Shares •• • • • ...... 104 103% Berlin and Hamburg ...........• •• .• 80 79% Ditto, Priority Shares .. -•••• • • •• 99% 99% Ditto, second emission •••• •• • ..... 97% 97% Magdeberg•Wittenburg ..... •..••.. •• 61% 61 Cologne and Minden • • .... .• -..• •• • • 95% 95% Ditto, Priority Shares .... •• •• . ... 100 Meckleniserg .. ••... • .. •........... 34 333 Ditto, Priority Shares, 43G per Cent. 1003 1003 L Altona and Kiel •....•• • • • • ........ 514 Gluckstadt ............ ~ • • ........ Rendsburg.......... • • • • ...... .. •• •. 116 HULL TOWN-COUNCIL MEETING, THURSDAY, JAN. 10. The usual monthly meeting was held this day, at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon. The Mayor, T. W. Palmer, Esq., was in the chair. THE EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART AND INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS. The MAYOR said—Had I considered that the mo tion I have the honour to introduce was likely to occasion any difference of opinion, it would not, in that case, have emanated from the chair. At the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of all England, when held at York, I had the gratification to hear the address of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which evinced an amount of practical and enlarged agricultural knowledge not only genial to the feelings of that most important and influential assemblage, but which betokened also a degree of judgment and ability which shadowed forth the impression that, should opportunity offer, his Royal Highness might be destined to fill, in the page of truth ful and impartial history, even a position still higher than that of the father of a long line of kings. By the movement which has originated with his Royal Highness, in favour of an exhibition of works of art and industry of all nations, in 1851, his Royal Highness has not merely lent the cheering in fluence of his elevated position to promote the well-being of - the people, but has placed himself at the head of the age—not as in distant countries, at the head of the chivalry of Europe, on the plains of Palestine—but as the leader of the combined intellect and intelligence of this Augustan age of art and science (for such most as suredly it is) throughout the whole range of civilisa tion. Vast impetus must necessarily be thus given to the advancement of every kind of art in manufac ture, in which the industrial, inventive, and intellec tual energies of the Anglo-Saxon race are now what they ever were ;no rivalry need they fear—or do they fear. Although Hull is not, as yet, eminent as the seat of any important manufacture, yet there is no community more deeply interested in the prospe rity and development of manufacturing industry than this ancient port—the tonnage engaged in the export of manufactures to Europe being fir larger than that of any other port in the kingdom. A 3 a peace move ment, the fusion of all nations in the metropolis of Great Britain, during the summer of the ensuing year, will have a more enduring and beneficial tendency than any mere parchment treaty, because prejudices will be removed, courtesies exchanged, and mutual confidence and respect become based on the mutual interests and well-being of mankind. To our beloved Queen the position her Royal Consort has assumed cannot, to so intellectual and high-minded a woman, be other than a source of pure and unalloyed gratification, as a wife, a mother, and also as a queen. I now move that a congratulatory address from this council be presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for originating the movement in favour of an exhibition of arts and manufactures of all nations, in 1851. _ Mr. JACOBS seconded the motion, and said that after the able and eloquent manner in which the mayor had introduced this motion to the council, he felt it quite unnecessary to dilate upon the excellence of the object in furtherance of which the motion had been made. Ile congratulated the mayor upon being the first gentleman who, in such a capacity, had ori ginated a congratulatory address of this nature, and he felt deeply gratified that the ancient and loyal borough of Hull would be the first place in the king dom to set an example to the other municipal cor porations throughout the kingdom. He had himself been in correspondence with Mr. Digby Wyatt, the secretary of the committee appointed for carrying out this splendid and magnificent idea, and Mr. Wyatt said he should be most happy to have any other communications from this locality. Mr. RICHARDSON wished to ascertain whether the Corporation was likely to be called to spend any money in connexion with this exhibition. The TOWN-CLERK satisfied Mr. Richardson, by saying the Corporation could not legally spend money on this object. The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of the MAYOR, the following form of address was adopted as the ad dress of this Council, and the common seal affixed thereto : " T.) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA. " The respectful and cong:atulaiory address cf the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the B 'rough cf Kingston upon-Hull, in Common Council assembled. " We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, filled with admiration of your Royal Highness's character, and in particnler with the fostering care and encouragement that the fine and productive arts have ever received from your Royal Highness, since you became a resident in this kingdom, beg to congratulate your Royal Highness on your happy conception of the idea of an exhibition of works of art and of industry of all nations, proposed to be held in London in the year of our Lord 1851; and upon the talented and able manner in which that excellent suggestion has been, by your Royal High ness, introduced to the notice cf the public. "In thus fostering the arts c f peace, your Royal Highness has exhibited enlarged mental endowments, and sat an example to sovereign princes which the people of this realm cannot fail to appreciate and felicitate themselves upon, whilst you will have secured to your self the lasting and heartfelt esteem of all classes of her Majesty's subjects. "We beg to assure your Royal Highness that we shall give every support, encouragement, and assistance in our power to carrying out the plan so ably conceived by your Royal Highness; and sincerely do we hope that the Almighty may grant to you and our beloved Queen the blessing of a long life of united happiness, and do mestic as well as political tranquillity and felicity. The following motions were then put by the MAYOR seriatim, and carried unanimously : " That a committee be form ei in this town to aid the commissioners, to whom the carrying out of the raid exhibition is or may be entrusted, in such ways as may lie in their power, in reference to this town and neigh bonrhood." " That such committee do consist of tho Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, of this borough, the mem bers of the council of the Hull Literary and Philo sophical Society, and of the committee of the Mechanics' Institute, with such gentlemen cf the town or neigh• bourhood as they may add to their number from time to time," " Tbat such of the courts, council-room, and commit tee-rooms at V - e Town-ball, as nay not at the time be required fa other business, be placed at the disposal of the said committee, for the business cf the said commit tee, or for any public meetings ( f the inhabitants the committee may promise to be held, in reference to the proposed exhibition." " The.t the Town-clerk do summon an early meeting of the said commit ter, to choose their chairman, becre tau, and othor officers, and to add to their number, sfier which tfe business a the said committee shall be con ducted by its own ufficery." It was moved by Mr. CARRICK, seconded, and car ried unaLimously, that the Mayor be requested to present the address in person, or by such deputy as he might appoint—Hull Advertiser. ONSTER IRON WAREHOUSE.—A most commo dious iron warehouse, intended for exportation to Cali fornia, has recently been built at Liverpool. It is 60 feet in length by 40 in width, and its extreme height, by external measurement, is 36 feet at the gables, and about 26 feet 4 inches at the eaves, and is divided into threw stories; the first of which is 11 feet in height, the second 9 feet, and the third 8 feet. The whole is lighted with about 60 windows, all cf which have iron mullions. The weight of the whole will little exceed 30 tow.— Nanchater 441 nifner, TIDAL LIGHTS. Oar remarks on the subject of tidal lights having I attracted the attention of the Times and The Sua el there is now some reason to hope that Mr. Rettie will get justice done him in London. The question has been put to us—" What advan tages do Mr. Rettie's tidal - lights possess over those now in use ?" This question was put to Mr. Rettie by the Tidal Harbour Commissioners in 1845, and answered thus— " The intensity of light, and the management of the burners, using proper reflectors, and bringing a per fect colour therefrom, and also so simplifying the whole arrangements, by making one lamp do where they now on some lines use three or four lamps ; therefore, by my system, I enable one man to attend more correctly and with certainty of effect, because less complex in the plan, quicker in action, and not liable to go wrong or to be misapplied, and my ar rangements are entirely different from those which are now in use by any other party, though they have used part of my system, as to the colours." Again, he was asked—" Do you consider that the reflector and burners which you propose are pecu liarly applicable to piers and harbours ?" to which he replied—" Yes, this new one is expressly made for that purpose, so that one uniform pier and harbour light may be used all over the world." He was fur ther asked—" What is the nature of the present lights ?" and he answered—" They are upon no uni form plan : some are small, some large, some bright red, some dark red, some green ; while in other cases there is total darkness for six hours while the tide is down. They also depend entirely upon the careful ness or carelessness of servants whether they are attended to or not." Of his own invention Mr. Rettie said, as he showed a model to the Commission—" This simple light that I have brought forward, I propose to be uniformly red and green, and permanent ; until the tide rises, the green colour, denoting the depth of water, gradually appears ; and as the tide recedes again it falls, leaving the perma nent red light in its place, showing with the utmost regularity the depth of the water in the harbour, so that a captain coming before the port sees at once the state of the tide in the harbour, whether it will allow him to enter with safety." This beautiful and simple invention would be self-regu lating, and according to Mr. Rettie's evidence, "would be seen fair or fire miles, although it is not necessary that it should be seen more than two miles off." In testimony of the practical value of this invention, Commander Smith, R.N., of the Rattler, on board which the lights were shown to the Secretary of the Admiralty, says—" They surpass anything of the kind I have read, heard, or seen. Commander Cris pin, R.N., of the Victoria and Albert, thinks—" Their introduction into general use would be attended with the most beneficial results." These opinions apply to Mr. Rettie's marine signals as well as his tidal lights, and are quoted as a sample of many others equally strong and authoritative. But it is with the tidal lights which we have more particularly to do at present. The subject is one of the most vital importance, and we cannot but hope that the benevolent, as well as the mercantile public, will see that no time is lost in getting these lights brought into general use. The Harbour authorities at Dundee should at once give them a trial, and those of Montrose, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, should adopt them also, in preference to the tidal lights now in use at these ports. It would be honour able for the east coast of Scotland to set this ex ample, and it is but due to the talented and humane inventor, that the real practical value of his invention should be first demonstrated at home.—North of Scotland Gazette. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.—The immediate vici nities of this town have during the present winter become unfortunately notorious as scenes of the most determined highway robberies. Yesterday evening, about half-past six o'clock, Mr. Scott, jun., son 01 Mr. Scott, accountant, on his return from business to his father's residence in the. Moseley-road, was near the house of Mr. Colmore, Highgate (scarcely a mile from the Birmingham Market-hall) surrounded by four men, one of whom knocked him down, while the others held him on the ground, and rifled his pockets of a gold watch and chain and a purse containing a small sum of money. Mr. Scott, passing the toll gate about 150 yards nearer Birmingham, observed his future assailants standing in the road. They followed him, and on arriving nearly opposite the Highgate fields, one of the party exclaimed " Now's the time," and Mr. Scott was immediately prostrate on the ground. He attempted to give an alarm, when one of the fellows called upon his companions to " throttle him." This they did so far as to stifle his outcry, and having succeeded in their object, the thieves escraped— one or two through the adjacent fields leading from Highgate to the Pershore-road, and the others along the public highway in the direction of Bordesley. Information having been communicated to the police, Chief-Superintendent Stephens in the course of the evening saw Mr. Scott, and the place where the rob bery was effected; but the footpads are as yet u-;- known. Similar outrages bare lately been committed with impunity in other outskirts of the town. Last week Mr. Anster, a respectable manufacturer of Bir mingham, residing in Carpenter's-road, Edgbaston, was returning through Church-road, when he was stopped by a man in every way answering the de scription of a ruffian who is supposed to have com mitted several depredations of similar atrocity which have occurred within the last few weeks. The man put a pistol to Mr. Anster's head, and having ob tained a few shillings by his menacing conduct suc ceeded in making his escape.- Great blame is attributed to the corporation for not providing the borough with an adequate police force ; for, however active and in telligent the present constabulary may be, they are not sufficiently numerous to perform efficiently the duties imposed upon them. The suburbs are almost entirely unprotected at hours when the police are most • required. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING SIX O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne 15 to 1 agst Peter Simple 30 to 1 agst Ag.tation 30 to 1 agst Shinrone 30 to 1 agst Farnham 30 to 1 sgst Rory be aisy 40 t) 1 agct Rescue 50 t, 1 agst Grand Lurniare 50 t, 1 agst ny Barrie CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Peep o'-Day Boy 25 to 1 agstGlauca 25 to 1 agst Whim colt 40 to 1 agst Miss Ann 50 to 1 agst The Baroness (Irish) 50 to 1 agst Chantrey DERBY. 16 to 1 agst Voltigeur 17 to 1 agst the Nigger 30 to 1 agst Mayors ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.—The shares of this company are now issued. The chief features of this plan, the Act for which has been obtained, are the crea tion of al.aces of I/. each, fully paid up, thereby avoiding the anxiety attendant upon impending calls; and the circumstance that the property possesse d by the company is sufficient, without the market, to give a moderate return on the outlay. As it is now known that the present market will not. be suffered much longer to disgrace London, and as this company possesses the only property available imme diately as a substitut.,, we consider it to possess the chief elements of success; and, from the very large sphere to which its operations will extend, we cannot doubt that the returns will very shortly reach those of the company established for a similar purpose in Liverpool, and which pays to the shareholders 12 per cent. PROTOSED RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.—The ne gotiations for a proposed amalgamation, which have been fir some time pending between the East Lanca shire and the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway Companies, have been finally broken off by the latter company, and an agreement entered into with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company in• stead. The terms of this agreement will be submitted to a meeting of the shareholders of the Bolton, Black burn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire line, on Thursday, the 24th inst., fcr their approval or rejection.—Man chester Guardian. ----- ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—On Tuesday evening about a quarter-past six o'clock, two men in a light spring cart were observed to drive up alongside a wag gon on the dark or south side of St. Paul's Churchyard, and take a bale of goods out and place it in their own, conveyance A cabs r an, who saw the transaction, jumped off his driving box and seized the horse's head, when both the men instantly leaped out of the cart. The cabman courageously collared one of them, but while in conflict with him his horse and cab ran off, and he let the man go to stop and secure his own property. Butte the men then made off, leaving the horse and cart also proceeding along at a rapid pace, until it pped by po lice-constable 363, whe, a , though rt( ar the spot, n as un able to arrive in tima to se cure either of the men. The horse and cat t with the tale o f goo d s were taken to the Fleet -sire. t statior, and on opening the latter it was fund to contain 500 [ airs of soldiers trouserp,' the pro perty of Messre. Ilibbt tt end Co., the army clothiers in Pall-mall, which were identified by the chrman,, who said they were stolen while he was driving his waggon along the dark side of St. Paul's Church} ard. The horse is about 14 hands hie., with a white star on the forehead and a sore fetlock. The cart is a light spring one, painted green and picked out with white. The horse , cart, and bale were detained, and every inquiry i s now being in stituted. BRISTOL, JAN. 16.—The Rose steamer, from Water ford, and the Liverpool packet, from Neath, were in contact this morning in King-road. The former had cutwater much damaged, and the latter bowsprit, &c., carried away. THURSDAY LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEIVS BENCH, Jan. 16. THE QUEEN V. THE INHABITANTS OF CAMBERWELL.- THE NIINHEAD CEMETERY. This was an appeal against au order of the justices of Surrey, with respect to the assessment made upon the Nunhead Cemetery Company. It appeared that the justices had assessed the ra•.es upon the whole receipts of the company. Mr. GURNEY now appeared in support of the appeal, and argued that the assessment was manifestly unjust and illegal, inasmuch as no deduction was made for the heavy expenses ef carrying ou the concern ' such as the makin4 of the vaults, the salaries cf the directors, the chaplain, and the London offices expenses, which amounted to a considerable sum. He prayed the Court, on these grounds, to quash the order at sessions. Mr. BOVILL appeared in support of the rating, and contended that the order was pet fectly fair, and in ac cordance with the rules which governed the rating of public companies. The Court took time to consider 41:e points raised. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 16. (Sittings in Banco.) GREENLAND V. chArm‹, M.T. This action was tried by the Lord Chief B iron, at the last sittings in Middlesex, when there was a ver dict for the plaintiff, with damages 2001. Mr. Sergeant SHER now moved fora rule, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be had, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. The action was brought against the defendant as one of the proprietors of the Thames steamer Bachelor, which plies between London and Vauxhall bridges, to recover compensation for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of a collision which occurred between that vessel and another Thames steam-boat, called the Sons of the Thames, on board of which the plaintiff was a passenger, the collision in question being charged in the declaration to have been occasioned by the negligence of one of the defendant's servants. The negligence attributed to the Bachelor, as on the part of the Sons of the Thames was, that another steam-boat being athwart the stream, the Bachelor attempted to get between the head of the Sons of the Thames and the other steamer, so as to pass round her, and then enable herself to continue her course down the river. This was the allegation against the defendant's vessel, which the defendant had to answer. The Learned Counsel contended that the evidence of several per sons connected with the Bachelor completely disproved it, and the verdict for the plaintiff had been returned accordingly. The LORD CHIEF BARON—I have no doubt as to the grounds on which the verdict proceeded. If this had been a simple question between A and B, the mode in which the case ought to have been deter , mined is sufficiently obvious. The difficulty, however, of ever getting a verdict, where a man comes to com plain of a personal injury, is such as to make one al most wish there.was some other way of determinin g every such case. Mr. Sergeant SHER-4 think I may collect from your Lordship's summing up, that your Lordship would have been far more satisfied with a verdict for the defendant. The LORD CHIEF BARON-01 1 , yes. I think you asked for a nonsuit. I could not properly nonsuit, hut I think you would have exercised a proper discre tion if you bad not called witnesses at all. Mr. Sergeant Saw—All I can say is, that if I had not called witnesses, I should have found•myself in a terrible scrape.—Rule granted. WILSON V. ASHLEY. This was an action of covenant, to recover damages for an alleged breach, in practising as a surgeon and apothecary, within seven miles of High town, near Bradford, Yorkshire. The defendant paid 50/. into court, and denied that the plaintiff was en titled to any further compensation by reason of the alleged breach of covenant. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, with Mr. 11. Hill, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that in the latter part of 1847 the defendant, who had practised for nearly thirty years as a surgeon at Hightown, w as inclined to retire from business, and agreed with the plaintiff to introduce him to his patients, and assist him in the conduct of his business for twelve months, for a consideration of 4001., and at the expiration of that period to retire from the business altogether, and cease to practice within seven miles of Hightown. These terms were embodied in a formal deed, executed by both parties. The plaintiff now com plained that the defendant had not fulfilled any of the covenants contained in the agreement, and that he had violated it especially by continuing to attend some wealthy patients at Hightown, and prescribing for them after the expiration of the year. The pre scriptions given by the defendant to these patients were made up at a chemist's in the town, so that the plaintiff, it was represented, lost materially in both branches of his business. The fact that the defendant had visited and prescribed for patients residing at Hightown, after he had transferred the business to the plaintiff, was proved by admissions made by the defendant to two of the witnesses. It appeared that , when the defendant entered into the agreement with the plaintiff, he was in such an indifferent state of health that he apprehended he should be unequal to attend to his profession, but that his health having been subsequently re-established, he thought himself justified in resuming his practice, as he had a wife and large family. It was now contended, or. the part of the defen dant, that the sum paid into court was a sufficient compensation for any injury the plaintiff had really sustained. Mr. Baron RoLrE said it was quite clear the de fendant had bound himself not to practice within seven miles of Hightown, and the evidence went to show that he had violated that covenant. It was for the jury to say, under these c ir cu mstances, whether 50/. was a sufficient compensation to the plaintiff; or what further sum he was entitled to by reason of the breach of covenant. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 300/. BAIL COURT, Jan. 16. (Sittings at Nisi Prins.) HAY P. HETLING. Mr. Watson and Mr. E. James were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. 11. T. Cole for the defendant. This was an action upon two bills cf exchange for 50/. each, accepted by the defendant in favour of the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded that a person of the name of Arbuthnot had betted with the defendant that a horse named Surplice would win the Derby, that the horse Surplice did win, and that, by the desire of Arbuthnot, the defendant had given to the plaintiff a bill for 100/. in respect cf that bet, which bill had afterwards been renewed by the defendant giving to the plaintiff the two bills for .50/. each. To prove the plaintiff's case, the handwriting of the acceptance by the defendant was pr ov ed. The plaintiff was a tradesman in Conduit-street. • Mr. CHAMBER!, in eddresaing the jury for the de fendant, said the facts were, that Mr. Arbuthnot was a " levanter ;" he "levanted" shortly after the Derby. The defendant was but a porter at the Union Club, and he had what was called a commission betting book. There was a rule upon the turf, that if a " levanter" would not pay he could not expect bets to be paid to him. if this had been referred refusing t o pay. The real dtoefetnhdaneJt was s y r C ig l h u t b, in they would have said the defence wa-, that this was a betting transaction. Surplice was about to run for the Derby, and was backed by Demonte Arbuthnot, and he took the bet of 10 to 1 against that horse. Surplice ran, and won ; and, before the settling day arrived, this abominable eourse was taken :—Arbuthnot, perfectly conscious he could not appear on the settling day, proceeded, through the instrumentality of llay, ,the plaintiff, to threathen the defendant that unless he instantly paid the 1001. application would be made to the Union Club to discharge the plaintiff from his situation of porter at that club, and, under the pressure of that threat, the defendant had given the bill for 100/. It was, therefore, clear that the original bill was given in payment for the bet. The plaintiff had been to the person who acted for the defendant, and told him he wanted 100/. for this bet which Arbuthnot had won from the defendant. The plaintiff had been aware of the nature of the debt for w hich the bill was given. It was well known that a jockey never betted, but he had generally a considerable s t a k e i n the race, and sometimes, by a sort of paralytic motion of the arm, he pulled in his horse when be ought to have let him go. The truth was he had betted by commission against the horse he rode, and the defen dant carried on that business of betting by commis sion. Proof would be given of these facts, and then the defendant would be entitled to a verdict. Charles Sanders—l know the defendant. He was waiter or porter at the Union Club. He was in the habit of betting. I am secretary to the defendant. He had a betting-book on the Derby of 1848. Ar buthnot was a member of the Union Club. I kept the defendant's betting-book. Surplice ran for the Derby, and won. I know the plaintiff. I have had the pleasure of seeing him. I saw him after the Derby day, and after settling-day. The plaintiff was at the Star and Garter, Green-street, Leicester-square. He asked for the defendant, n ha was not there. I asked him if his business was private, or for betting, and he said it was for a bet. I asked, upon what horse ; he said, Surplice. I then searched the defendant's book, and said there was no such bet. 'lhe plaintiff said, Arbuthnot had taken the bet for him, and if he did not pay him, or give some satisfaction, Arbuthnot was a member of the club, and he would get him out of his situation. I said, "You must do your best and your worst." He told me there was 100 to 10 to pay on Surplice. He then went away. I told the plain tiff that Arbuthnot was a defaulter, and that that was what gave him the " tip" to go away. I saw the plaintiff again in July ; we said nothing on the sub ject; but he told me had got satisfaction, but he did not say how. I have never seen these bills. CRossi-emimined—l Ana ;3011 in office. Tile Derby was run on the 22d or 23d of May, and the Tuesday following would be settling-day. The defendant is still porter at the Union, and I still manage his bet ting business. He keeps rt betting list. I am not secretary to any one else. I have not any other busi ness except what Ido in the betting line myself. I am not a member of Tattersall's. My salary is a per-centage. It is very hard for me to say what Ido get. I have never reckoned it up. Any one who goes into our office may stake his money according to the list, and we undertake to pay if the horse wins. The defendant keeps lists in the Vauxhall-road, and at the Star and Garter, in Green-street. The odds upon Bolingbroke are just what you please to give. The person who keeps the list pays the money if the horse wins, without regard to any person who makes the bet. Ite-sxamined—lf the 101. had been paid upon this bet it would have appeared in my ledger. Two notices front the plaintiff to the defendant were put in calling upon the defendant to produce an order for the payment of 1001., signed by Arbuthnot, and &so the defendant's betting-book and betting lists. A letter from the plaintiff to the defendant was put in wherein the plaintiff said, " I am sorry to say I must have the money before four o'clock to-day, or apply to Mr. A. for it." Mr. WATsoN then addressed the jury in reply, urging upon them that there was no evidence to sup port the defendant's pier, and calling upon them to give a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice EaLE having summed up, The jury retired, but at length gave a verdict for the defendant. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Jan. 16. (Before the RECORDER and a Special Jury.) THE GOVERNOR AND CORPORATION OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL V. THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. This was an inquiry to assess the amount of com pensation to be paid to the claimants in respect of certain property situate in Queen-street and Maiden lane, Cheapside, which the City Corporation required under the provisions of the City Improvements Act, to carry out certain improvements in the City. Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Laurie, and Mr. Locke for the plaintiffs; the Attorney-General and Mr. Ryland for the City. Sir FICEDEXICK MERGER, in opening the case, explained to the jury the nature of the inquiry, and the provisions of the Act of Parliament which gave the City authorities power to take possession of any property that stood in the way of any improvements they were carrying into effect in the City, and then Proceeded to state the circumstances of the case. The property in question was a large warehouse, No. 60, Queen-street, Cheapside, having a frontage also in Maiden-lane. The ground on which the premises were erected was given to the Corpo ration of St. Thomas's Hospital in the year 1665, and in 1828 there was an agreement entered into between the treasurer to the hospital and a Mr. Johnstone, to the effect that if Johnstone erected a warehouse thereon a lease for 61 years would be granted, binding the tenant to pay a ground rent of 401. a year, and at the expiration of the term to deliver up the premises in a substantial state of re pair. Johnstone built the warehouse, and the claim ants granted a lease on the before-mentioned terms to a Mr. Rolt, and as at the present time that lease had rather more than 40 years to run, there would be but little difficulty as to the sum the claimants were en titled to recover. The difficult point to be decided by the jury arose from the wide difference of opinion that existed amongst the professional men who bad been engaged in the matter, as to the value at the present time of the reversionary interest in the pro perty to the hospital, when the term would expire in 1890, and the jury would hear, from the witnesses he should call, that the property was of such a cha racter, so substantially built and so well situated for the purposes of trade and traffic, that there could be no doubt that the property in 1890 would command a rent of 2101. a year, after deducting the ground-rent and land-tax. The sum the claimants asked for was about 2,7001., and if the City Corporation had acted upon a right data in giving Rolt, the leaseholder, the sum of 3,7001. for his interest in the property, they could not resist the demand of the claimants, which had been estimated on the very principle which the Cor poration had adopted in Rolt's case. This was not the case of a willing dealer disposing of his property, for the governors of the hospital had no power whatever to dispose of the property under their con trol, but the property was compulsorily wrested from them by the provisions of the ♦ct of Parliament ; and, therefore, juries in such cases did not estimate in golden measure the compensation to be awarded. The City Corporation had offered 2,0001., but it had been de clined, and not from any personal feeling, but in pur suance of what they considered their duty as guar dians of this valuable charity, which had 450 indoor and 30,000 out-patients in the year. They had de clined to refer the matter to 'arbitration, and came before a jury to obtain the full value of the property. By an Act of Parliament, the claimants were em powered to invest the money they would receive in land or any other valuable securities, as a Master in Chancery should approve of; and he hoped the jury would give a verdict for such sums as would place them in possession of as good a property as the one they were called upon to give up. Mr. Tite, the architect, was then called, and he stated that at the expiration of the term of the lease the freehold would be worth 5,6001., and the value of the reversion forty years hence to that sum was worth in present money 1,6381. The present value of the ground-rent he estimated at 9401, making in round numbers a total of 2,600/. If the hospital obtained this sum, be was of opinion that it would not be in so advantageous a position, with reference to the ulti mate benefit, as it would be if the property was left undisturbed. Several other gentlemen of eminence in their pro fession were examined, who estimated the value of the property at sums varying from 2,433/. to 2,7451. The ATTORNEY-GERERAL having addressed the jury in mitigation of damages, called several sur veyors and others, who estimated the property at from 1,4501. to 1,6001. The RECORDER then summed up very shortly, when the jury gave a verdict for the claimants— Damages, 2,3001. ARCHER AND OTHERS V. THE SAME. This was a like claim on behalf of the parish of St. Martin, Vintry, for property situated in the same locality. A verdict was taken by consent for 2,100 COURT OF INLAND REVENUE, Jan. 16 (Before 11. F. STEPHENSON, Eaq.; C. J. Heaurse, Esq.; and CHARLES PRESSLEY', Esq. THE QUEEN V. DUREL. Richard Durel, of West-street, Bethnal-green, was charged on an informatinn, with rem ovin g spirits, with intent to defraud her Majesty of the duty thereon. Mr. Benjamin John Elmy deposed that be was an officer of Excise, and on the 10th of August last he was in the company of Mr. Robert East, another officer, in the City-road, when he saw the defendant and his wife just before them, going towards Isling ton. He followed, and on coming up to them, ob served the defendant to turn his head, and heard him say something to his wife, who had a bundle on her arm, which was partly covered over by the ends of her shawl. Witness went up to her and said, " I believe, Madam, that you have got illicit spirits there." She replied, " Indeed I have not, sir." Witness, however, observed a working of her right arm, as if she was in the act of probing some thing, and immediately afterwards observed that a wetness appeared on the pavement, which smelled strongly of spirits. Upon this he attempted to pull the bundle away from her, when he was seized from behind by the defendant, who caught hold of witness's arms and endeavoured to pinion him. Failing in this, he attempted to crush the parcel between his bands. He also warded off blows aimed at him, and ran up to a shop with the bundle to secure it, and to prevent the spirits being entirely spilled. Mr. East secured the female, and showe d him a knife that was taken open out of her hand. lie succeeded in saving one gallon and nearly one quart of the spirits contained in a bladder. They were illicit, or had been privately distilled. He could speak positively that they were illicit, having had great experience in such matters. The defendant and his wife both gave fictitious names. Oa searching the defendant two books were found on him, showing that within a short period he had disposed of upwards of 800 gallons of spirits, the amount of duty upon which, and of which the Crown had been defrauded, was 5001. After some further proceedings, The Court said they must give judgment against the defendant in the full penalty of 1001. Benjamin Afeakin, of No. 31, Star-street, Cor n .. mercial-road East, was charged with having in his possession and with working an illicit still The COURT convicted him in the penalty of 501., with condemnation of the seizure. William Kynaston, of Winchester-street, Bethnal green, was charged with retailing malt and spirituous liquors without licence. From the evidence of two constables of the K di vision it appeared that the defendant was detected selling beer and spirituous liquors at Fairlop Fair on the 18th of July last. The defendant Eltogether denied the charge, but The COURT convicted hint in the penalty of 205., with a caution for his future con,:uct. SOUTH AMERICAN MAlLP.—Messrs. Broadman, Naylor, and Loa( tt, the latter chairman of the Ship owners' Association, aro to have an interview to - day with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on beha'f of the merchants of Liverpool, respecting certain much-needed alterations.in the dispatch and arrival of letters in con nexion with the western coast of South America, and the general postal communications bet Ween Panama, Quito, Truzille, Callao, and Valparaigo. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO US E. Langley and Shofield, men who have been fre quently convicted Cs begging impostors, were brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having re-com menced their professional operations, by the officers of the Mendicity Society. Langley, who has in the begging "dodge" been greatly assisted by the loss of a leg, had been watched from the printing-office of Mr. Spottiswoode, near Fleet-street, where he had " tried it on," into the neighbourhood of the Mansion-house, and was seen presenting a paper drawn u p w ith a v i ew t o exc it e public commiseration. The document recommended him, in a quiet and apparently straight-forward style, to the notice of the benevolent, as an industrious and honest man, who had been overtaken by mis fortunes, and was endeavouring to weather the storm out of the workhouse, and there appeared in the list of subscribers, which was got up with peculiar tact, being partly signed in black, partly in blue ink, and partly in pencil, several respectable names opposite to moderate contributions for his aid. Shofield evidently belonged to the same class of una-sufning beggars, and carried about' him a skilfully signed letter of recommendation, as a sober, I ard-working individual, the sudden and un foreseen death of whose horse had grievously inter fered with his labours for the support of a sick wife and several small children. Toe paper, which was an effusion of most remarkable humilty, made no broken. hearted appeal to the prosperous community, but merely craved a little help towards the purchase of another horse, by means of which society would be saved the additional maintenance of another helpless family in the workhouse. Horsford and Daniels, officers of the Mendicity Society, to which the public are much indebted for scouring the streets of impostors, took the prisoners into custody while one of them was exhibiting his claims to charity and the other was on 'the look out for the police. Langley endeavoured to swallow one of his papers of recommendation, but was compelled to disgorge it. They were both known to the officers under a variety of names, and had been for many years not only practising the art themselves, but making the rising generation adepts in' it. The prisoners said it was unfortunately usual with officers of the Mendicity Society to calumniate those they apprehended for being poor, by stating that poor people were enemies to work, so that there was no use in resisting or contradicting them. The prisoners were committed to hard labour, as rogues and vagabonds, each for six weeks. Catherine Wilson was charged with having robbed her mistress of a gold ring and some articles of plate. The prisoner, the wife of an Irish tailor, who is employed by one of the great houses at the east-end, and works in a room in which many others in the same service are employed, had been confidentially treated by her mistress, but as articles daily disap peared from the house, Davis, the officer, was sent for, and informed of the fact. His suspicions fell upon the prisoner, who had never been suspected by the family, but who endeavoured to fix the guilt upon a poor laundress, who, if it had not been for the officer, would have been formerly charged with the offence. The ring and other property were subse quently found at the shop of a pawnbroker in which they had been pledged by her. The husband of the prisoner, upon being called by Alderman Huss PRERY, and questioned as to the gene ral conduct of his wife, said—" I married her a few weeks ago in Ireland, and God knows I thought she was honest, or sure enough I wouldn't have married her." Alderman HUMPLIERY-Why did you not live to gether, instead of living separate, in such a place as London ? The husband—l work with several other journeymen for a man who hires men at very low wages, to work for a large tailor. We all live in the hi.use of the man, and work there, and I did not like to have her come amongst a number of tailors, and in deed she wouldn't do it herself - , if I was bad enough to wish her, so she got into a place until I could get into better employment. The prisoner was remanded for further examina tion. The LORD MAYOR, requested that the press would announce his receipt of 51. ss. from Mr. John Kay, High Bailiff of 44ickinghanishire ; and Si. from Mrs. Gawen, for the For-box. GUILDHALL. A man named Thomas James, dressed like a groom, was charged before Mr. Alderman Wilson, with stealing from the prosecutor's house on the 11th of September last, a silver snuff-box, a flute, and silk handkerchief, value 21., besides 7s. worth of coppers. Mr. Henry Phillip Picot, landlord cf the Red Lion public-house, Fleet-lane, said, that the prisoner had been in his service about six months, when on the morning of the l Ith September, between the hours of two and three o'clock, he was awoke by a police man, who had found the front door open. At that time the prisoner was waiter, and on searching the house with the police, it was discovered that he had gone, after breaking open some drawers in a room behind the bar, and taking the property already named, since which he had not been seen. Robert Lilley, 344, deposed to receiving the pri soner in custody from the prosecutor, in Fleet-street, but found nothing relative to the missing property, either on his person, or at his lodgings in Black Horse-yard, Maize-pond. George Betson, 277, said that on the 11th of Sep tember, about three o'clock in the morning, he found Mr. Picot's door open, and having made him aware of the fact, he (witness) went into the prisoner's bed room, but found no one there. 01 examining the bar and the room behind it, Mr. Picot declared he was robbed. At about half-past one o'clock the same morning he saw the prisoner standing in his shirt-sleeves at his master's door. He said that his master was not at home, and he and the housekeeper were waiting up for him. There was a light in the lair ' and after the prisoner went in he proceeded en his beat, and saw no more of him. There was a chest of drawers in a room behind the bar, and one of the drawers had a mark upon it, as if it had been at tempted to be opened. William Price, of the Surrey-road, waterman, said that he knew the prisoner, and saw him on Saturday week, when he asked witness if he would deliver a message from him to Mr. Picot. He consented to do so, and the prisoner told him to go and say that, if prosecutor would give a few lines under his hand that he would forgive him, and say nothing about the affair, the property snoul d be restored. Witness went to Mr. Picot, who said he would do nothing of the sort. He told the prisoner the answer he bad received, and the previous night Jameswent and looked in at the prosecutor's window, was recognised, and given into custody. Mr. Picot said he was not away from the house as the prisoner represented to the officer, but, on the contrary, he saw all perfectly safe by half-past twelve o'clock. G. Wardle, 221, produced a plumber's rough knife, he had received from the prosecutor on the 11th of September, and on comparing it with the marks on the drawers, they exactly corresponded. In consequence of information he received, he went to Mr. Harding's, a pawnbroker, in York-street, Westminster, and found that the missing property had been pledged there for eight shillings. David Nicholls, assistant to Mr. Harding, the pawnbroker, produced the flute, handkerchief; and silver mounted snuff-box, which were pledged in the name of Thomas Adams, on the 11th of September (the day of the robbery) but by whom he could not tell, for the young man who took them in had left Mr. Harding's service, and was not to be found. Mr. Picot identified the articles, and said he had been obliged to give twelve shillings as compensation to the owner of the flute. The property was all safe when he went to bed. Alderman WILSON remanded the prisoner until Monday next, for further evidence. LAMBETH. Alfred England was placed at the bar, before Mr. Norton, and charged on suspicion with the commis sion of the following daring robbery : Mr. Samuel Miller, a watch-maker and jeweller at 6, Robinson-place, Kennington-road, opposite one of the entrances to this court, deposed, that on the preceding evening, at about a quarter to seven o'clock while engaged in his shop, he observed a person standing outside, on the pavement, whose face was close to the window, and in a few seconds after a large square of plate-glass was smashed by that person. He (Mr. Miller) instantly rushed round his counter, and endeavoured to get out, but found that the door was fastened on the outside, so that a minute or two elapsed before he succeeded in opening it sufficiently wide to force himself out, and at that time the person had got some distance up Penton-place. lle followed, and called out " Stop thief!" as loud as he could, but the party escaped. On an examination of the pro perty in the window he found that 1 gold Geneva watch, and 7 or 8 silver watches, 4 gold Albert chains, 3 gold curb chains, and other property to the amount of from 451. to 50/. had been stolen. The prisoner he be believed to be the person who had broken the glass and stolen the property, but he should not like to svveer positively to his identity. Mr. Nowroe—Had you a good light in your shop at the time ? Mr. Miller--Yes, Sir, there were two glaring lights in the window, and I had a perfect opportu nity of seeing the man's face just before the glass was broken. I also had an oportunity of seeing him a second time, while he was engaged in securing the property, and while I was endeavouring to force the door open, and believe him to be the person. I have also had him placed, since his apprehension, in the same pf,sition in which I saw the person just before the robbery, and his countenance and height corre spond so exactly with him that I believe it to be the same. Mr. NORTON—You have stated that your shop door was so closed that'you could notget out i how was that ? Mr. Miller—One end of a piece of sash line was made fast to the door handle on the outside, and the other end to an iron scraper, so that it was made quite fast ; and what appeared to me very extraor dinary, that though I kept calling out, and that per sons were passing outside, not one attempted to secure the thief. Sergeant Quinnear, P 1, said, that on r ece i v i ng in formation of the robbery on the preceding night, and a description of the person by whom it was com mitted, and that description corresponding in every respect with that cf the prisoner, he went to all his old haunts in search of him, but did not succeed in finding him. On that afternoon, however, he came to the station-house, in Lock'i-fields, and said he called in cons. quenee of hearing that he (Sergeant Quinnear) was looking for him. He (Quinnear) told him that he certainly was looking for him on e, charge of breaking the window of a watchmaker, and steali9g watches, chains, and other property. Tile prisoner declared his perfect innocence cf the charge, and said he was perfectly willing to accompany him to the shop of the person robbed. On his way there the prisoner slid, "I hope I'll get seven years of it, and then I'll have an opportunity of seeing Fred, Beadell" (a notorious thief, a companion of the pri soner's, who had been transported a short time ago).' In reply to the questions of the magistra•e, the wit ness said the prisoner was the associate cf many of the most desperate thieves in the district, and had been twice summarily convicted at this court. The prisoner declared he knew nothing whatever. of the robbery, and observed that what he said to the sergeant was in consequence of his having been twice before, as on the present occasion, taken up innocently. Mr. NORTON observed that the robbery was a Teri daring one, and remand e d th e pr i soner to a future day THE COUNTRY MARKETS. DALKEITII MEAL MARKET, J. 14.—There vrer• 180 bags of oatmeal, 12 of barleymeal, and 1 of pot at this day's market. Sales ready. Oatmeal same on the top, but 3d dearer on the current price; barleymeal without alteration; the pot. barley . was not sold. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. ... ... 235 6d 22s 9d 221 3d 1 Barley meal, per ditto ... 17s Od 16s Sd ._:..s Od Peasemeal ... ... ... —s Od —s Od —s 0 ,, Flour ... ... ... ... — s Od — s Od — 0 O d ---3 Od —4l Oa I Pot barley COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Chester Main l7s Od;Stewart'ss 215 04 Holy-well Ord's Redheugh Townley l7s 6 d!lcellee 215 1 - 1 ' Wylain Wall's End, Ice. Richardson's Tees IS. 6 6d Hilda l9s OdlSt. Hel e n' s T ees „__ 18s 4 Riddell's .. ••• l9s OdJ Nixon's Merthyr and it Braddyll . 211 •• ___ . Ships at in iarket. 31. RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 16. 'rho STOCK EXCIIANOE.—The market was firm to-day. '- transactions were as follow :—Great Western, Quartellt 97, 4 dis.—Ditto, 171. Shares, 7 dis.—Midland, 6 per cent; 123 ex in. Ditto, 504, dis. ex in. Bristol AV Exeter, Thirds, 10% dis.—York and North Midland 18%. Li VE/L.MUL, JAN. 16. ' rid STOCK ExcnANGE.--The market has been ver y firm -- steady, at fair prices. The transactions were as fullovr:1 E tat Lancashire, 12%—London and North-Western, 1144 -- New Quarters. Cs. 30. p.—Ditt o , Fifth s , 1% p.— Ditto, (2 "." ten, 1 1 / 2 44—Ditto, Halves, 234 di s .--SoaW Eastern and Dover, 19%—Ditto, New (No. 2), 14 e i dis.—Ditto, (No. 4), 6/. I Is. 3d. —York, Newcastle, $,./;, Berwick (G. N. E. Purchave), 6 p er cent. till 1850, 41. lur 3d. dis. MANCHESTER, ,TAN. 16. ' STOCK EICrIANOK - Business to-day was rather li m i ted' so and prices are somewhat lower. Th e t rar . sac ti ons were follow ast Lancashire, Preference, Quarters (min. 6 ..P„ e , cant.), 7 1 / 2 —Lancashire and Yorkshi re , 58 1 ). 2 —Ditto ( 111 , 1 3 . - chester and Leeds 1001.), 41. 1 4 dis.—Ditto, Halves, 21 " /s, ,‘ —Ditto, Fifths, 7 1 / 2 dis.—Ditto, 321. (l a t e E x t ens ion), 7 dis. —Ditto, (West Riding Union), 6% dis.—London North-Western, Manchester a n d Bi rm i ng h am, Q uar ters (`-",_ 1 7-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preferen c e 8 c.—North Staffordshire, 9 li-16 dis.—South-Elo te and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 9-16. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 16. STOCK EXCRANOK.—Our share market was better to-ak it s.. The transactions were—London and North-Western, Quarters, 26,. 3d. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), l dis. ex in.—South Staffordshire, 3 5 i dis. YORK, JAN. 15. 0 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day wer" 21. follow:—North British, Halves, 5 Ditto. QuartetTL, t h 115. 9d.—Great Northern, VA ex in. York and 4) 4 ' l Midland, 18 A al WILFUL MURDER.—A sad affair has occurreTh i o Buckland, which has created a grea t sens ation i 0 '4 neighbourhood. About four month s ago a f ar mer 1 36113 . 0 - 0 ,. Bird being in want of a serva n t, a ppli e d t o the 11 ° 1 and took therefrom the daughter of a man named sons, who was transported s o me y ears s i nce from t '; 10 place; she was well recommended by the governor. bef Saturday the girl died, and an inquest was held 0 0 di e body, the result of. which proves th a t h e r d e ath *o o r result or ill-treatment. A verdict of " Wilful muru, a v i . was returned against the fa-mer and his wife, and the have been committed to the county gaol to await trial at the assizes. The trt atment of the decf aged , "„ deposed to by various witnesses, was brutal in the tretre, and the description of her body, a s g i ven by ll surgeon, Mr. Gunner, and o th ers , h orri fi e d t h e a sse7, bly in the court. It is sufficient to say that her. bL"„ i i Was a mass cf wounds, b ru i ses , a b scesses, an d cu t s , fro g whips, sticks, &c.; and the deceassd was reduced to s l3 s l , frightful condition by the prisoner.. Their conduc t f it / cited the deepest indi g n a ti on , an d it was w ith ditnal i bf ttiat the perpe.rat irs of this horrid crime were bei)t A the police officers from the hands of the infuriated l o p on their being convoyed from the cent t to the P r taco So much excit2met t has not been witnessed in this P for Cot some years. On the morning of their deparWreged Exeter, the bridge which they had to cr os s was thrr i pi by hundreds of people; but the au th or iti e s judio c pe rs or.:med a car at the gaol door, i n w hi c h the Frit:3,oi were conveyed two miles out o f t own , to awa it the - val i f the Exeter mail.—Exeter Gaz e tte. THE CITY DISPRNSARY.—Yesterday afternoon ;b: half-yearly meeting of the governors of this cbsritY j t it• held at the Dispensary, Queen-street, ChcaloitieLe E loos of c ßoberts t e i e n m t h e e e l e i h n ga s t a F p r p o e m a r t e h d e mint hatutesa l o a f n e t e h of the charity, amounting to 2531., resulted from Or ,fter t he aaßni sermonns h i voeprsoafr preached ar i hfnoee Hereford. and ou I bat, souse o a a n t 281. had been collected elt o q f u e t n h c e e o iri f of Dr. Bentley, Dr. Manly was appointed one ,e„,. / ed physicians of the charity. The medical report ol"'„ the number of patients under treatment on Jan t l4 /01.• 1849, to have been 935, and that there had b e lbefe, mitted during the ensuing twelve months, 8,7 3 1' d st t i h tu e t r io e n sig b v i isti oti to were discharged, cured and relieved, 8,673; 35 'l l 3 fe' 25 had been dismissed for irregular conduct, an d ti ded mined under treatment on the 31st of De Ce ode Several hundred cases of the late epidemic were et te o ci' to without letters of recommendatier, r also tog. dents and di seases requ iri ng immediate aid. th e ceipts for the past year amounted to 624/, tbe expenditure to 580/. In answer to a goversac_vrea'r secretary stated that the charity was still 220/. in 7 4 wol and that the sum in hand was but 1161. The reP° then adopted. OA S ; ALLEGED APPOINTMENT OF THE BISHOP °- CHESTER As TUTOR TO THE PRINCE OF WA/"!.9.0:1 la good deal of anxiety and inquiry has been oe pe ar some quarters, during the last few days, by the ts *nee of the following paragraph in.the Courier o f w Ae - day last :—" The Lord Bishop of 'Manchester b ao fhis understand, been appointed director of the studies " the Royal Highn e ss th e P r i nce o f W a l es ." We p b iS very best authority for stating that this pers6 Ae sr wholly without foundation ; th• fact being, es his informed, that the office o tutor or preceptor "" Vt. Royal Highness has been conferred upon the it e/ ...diefil Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford.—Manchester Goa' 6 - boO , t FIRE IN A CORN MILL, NEAR Etroig.-- -4 t fi - toi l ! et o'clock on the night of Thursday, the ePI - eeri t B ishop Monkton, near Ripon the pro p erty °W h ole s Greenwood, Esq., and in the occupation - - of lgr• :;§ the - Trees, was discovered to be on fire, and so rapid ascendency of the flames that befo re: the engir le ; t e :t" - be procured from Ripon the whole of the mil l, .. fi r l e . te - 1. 0 1 exception of the water-wheel, was destroyed. The Y„ D er were only left about ten o'clock, and all then eri ore' to in b th e e safe. We regret to: state that the stock vihroi; mill and the books were consumed, and t i p; of the property was iasureo,.—Leeds PaPer',#, ........--,- ,— wif e 0 i BIRTHS. On the 15th i ns t., in Upper Grosvenor-street, the John Walter, Es q ., P& ' P , of a son. Of the On the 14th inst., the wife of Captain Atwell Lar'" um ' Madras Engin eers , o f a d aug h ter. , a l ier On the 14th i ns t., i n C aven di s h- square , the h 1(1 1 man Stern, Esq , o f a son , ' b e 14. On the 14th i ns t., a t Sussex- lace, Re ent's-pa ' t P g be , of H. Huth, Esq., of a son. W ilier On the 14th inst., a t th e R ec t or y, Boughton- 10 . Kent, the wife o f th e R ev . E. M oore, of a son. re, On the 14th inst., in Woburn-place, Russell - eV' IP lady o: F. Powell, Esq., of a son. a D r s. On the 14th inst., in P erc y- p l ace, Cl ap h am -roas-t . , S, F. Hodgson, of a son. pt •1 j. On the 15th inst., at Hi g h ga t e, t h e w if e o f the , -- „ e t r. Dyne, Head Master o f Hi g h gate S c h oo l , o f a daug" -------- ir tbr MARRIED On the 19th of November, at Calcutta,Jone s i l4 t e n lll . Ll :e r Esq .of the Bengal Civil Service, only n a Sir 0— 1 , "" s ray Naesmyth, Bart., of Posso, ' Peeble s s () shire,.N,L, l3 ; r t t c b /411' Gordon Brodie liutsell, daughter of Francis WD"'" 14 sell, Ent , B.C.S. , Ce„er. Georgefaun, Sackville Cotter, Madras Artillery, youngeq daughter of the late Abraham ' M Clapham. _—_ for DIED, -a rtlei'difr On the 14th inst., in Mrs.Woburn - square, $- J. , leo, merly of the Theatres Royal •rury-lane and Co"ve.tf . T u ubri. lo s On the 14th inst., at Somerset-house, John James, Esq., aged 78. , t ; ~ of ' At Brighton, on the , 4th inst., T. Atkinson, -c' e `?" vii e. place, and Kidside, Westmorelad, aged . tbne'; of On the Bth hist" in Gli,ucester-gardens, virlisies" terrace, Mary Anne West, widow of the late Vara of j, Gouu.hurst. Kert, age i 6t;*. 'fif e On the 13th inst ., aged 72, Catherine Dorothi, filo J. Tutnell, Esq., of Langleys, Essex. ~. the On the l:.:th inst., at Bath,aged, Sophia 1")'' 10' of General John S. Wood, Lieutenan* of the T o wor- on co On the 10th inst., at Louth-park, near L" th y: s ii a ro, shire, Rosa Florence, daughter of T. C. Oldhe nl ' — 11: 0 On the 10:h inst., at S,uthampton-row, R , 5 3e. ~ James Ivyleafe, Esq., aged-80. ----...---- 1 --- -t) ° —.. ------; foel" ilil . . London: Printed and Published by 111URD"„" s o _,,' 0' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at .71,, B,er , Or h : 01w Strand, in the Pre.ciuct, et the n'ovoT- 11l filiddleas, Thursday, January 17, 1810' TAB SON, LONDON, EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1850