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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COUR i. (Before Mr. Baron PLATT). STE.ALING FROM THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—William Strick land. aced 37, vie•uallcr, Edward Lewis. ironmonger. 37, Wil liam Bonham, 3d, coal.dealer, and Henry Osborne, 38, victualler, were placed at the bar, the three first indicted for st,aiing five watches, the property of Joseph Savory and another, and the latter for feloniously receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Henry Leycock, apprentice to Mr. Wale, a tin plate worker, was employed to solder down the box. After fiinishing the work i e was sent by Strickland (he was po.itive it was Strick land), to Black wall for some shrimps, on the promise of having some brandy and water. He left his tools behind him in the dock. He believed that Lewis and Bonham were there. Atter returning he got two glasses of brandy and water, and he thoueh, - that the persons there were the three prisoners and the man Turner. The last witn ss's employer was called to confirm his evi derive. He deposed to his apprentice coming home rather tipsy. He never in his life, when employed by the Custom house to unsolder or resolder a case, left his tools behind him. It would take. twenty minutes to heat an iron after once ex tinguishing the fire. William Skinner, appointer of weighers at the West India Docks did, in the month of lune, 1d42. appoint Turner, Bonham, and Lewis to No. 1 shed in the export dock. They were on duty that day from eight to four. Strickland was one of the shipeieg officers for that day, and he was on duty, as appe ,reel by hi, signature. R. Stephenson, in the service of the East and West India Dock Company, received three castes, marked A B S in a dia mond, No. 1,2, and 3. Thee were sent to No. I dock. Thomas Hutchins shipped them on the 25th. He believed they remained two or three days in shed No. 2. John Haynes depesed that he was an inspector of police, and had been for some time employed br the Custom House to endeavour to discover the stolen watches, and in August last, in consequence of information he received from a person named Yeomens, he went to the house of the defendant Osborn, who keeps the Croaked Billet public-house, on Tower-hill. He went into the bar-parlour with him, and told him - he had cern, upon very unpleasant business, and that ha had a search warrant, which lie sh.,wed him. He had before this told him wh ►he was, and gave him his card. Having c iutioned him as to whet sneers h • might give, he asked him whether he had not s -ld a watch two or three years ago, to a person named Yeemens, and he said lie had. He then admitted that he had :he teilow watch to it, and cave it to him, and he afterwards gave him a sroa! watch. Witness told him he hoped he would be able to give a satisfactory account how he became possessed of these watches, and he said he had bought fire of them of a man who used the hou-e he formerly kept, the Lamb in Lamb's Conduilest,eet ; a el in answer to questions he said he did not know his name, nor where he lived. Witness asked the de scription of the in in, and he said he would consider about giving that. He then asked what he had done with the other two, and he replied he had sold one to his solicitor, Mr. Taylor, and he did not think he had more than four. Witness asked him whether it was eie an extraordinary thing for a publican to have possession of five watches, worth 401. or 501., under such Mr cumeancea, and he said they were brought to his house to be rain el for. After this Osborn said he had no doubt he should be able to find /he man in the course of a day or two. Witness afterwards apprehended Strickland, and as he was going out of the house, he tots his wile to send to Osborn and tell him to take care of himself. Having ply red the prisoner Strickland in the station-house, he proceeded to the house of Osborn, and finding he was not home, he went back to Strickland's, and found Osborn there, and he said he had been sent for in a great hurry by Mrs. Striekl Ind, and he then took him into custody. Cross-exem,ned —A reward of 50/. was offered, but this was not so much to discover the offenders as to obtain a clue to the watches. He always knew who the thieves were, but they could not do anything in the matter without obtaining posses sion of the watches. Orierrn admitted at once that he had sold a watch to Ale. Ye..oteris, suit also to Mr. Taylor, and the initials of himself an d hi s w if e we r e u p on th e watches in their respective use. The Crooked Billet which he at present uccuales is a large and respectable establishment. Mary Bicker was the next witness—She merely proved that in the course of the year 1842 she saw several watches in the possession of Osborn in his parlour, and that he said they had been lest with him for sale. 11r. James Yeemens proved that he had purchased one of the silver watches that had been produced and identified, of the defers Pant Osborn. He said, the transaction took place quite openly, and the defendant asked and received the full value of the a-ricle, viz., five guineas. Tnis was the cage fur the prosecution. The Learned Counsel for those of the defendants who were charged as principals, then addressed the jury for their respective clients, and contended that the evidence of the approver, tainted 0.3 he was with crime, was quit,t unworthy of belief, and that. the jury ought not to convict any man upon such testimony. Mr. Sergeant JONES made a very able address to the jury on behalf of his client, won was charged as the receiver. The wh le of his conduct showed that he had acted perfectly inno cently during the whole transaction. A great many highly respectable witnesses were called to speak to the character of the defendants, all of whom received a most excellent character for honour and integrity. No less than tw - eii . y-Lour witnesses were exa.nined on behalf of the defendant Osborn. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied. Itlr. Ha-un PLATT summed up, and the jury returned a ver dict of No. Guilty. POL ICE INTELLIGENCE. MA A SMN. HO USE. A young man, named Philip Brinkman, was brought before Sir Chapman Marshall, locuns -tenens for the Lard Mayor, in the custody of Harvey, a Metropolitan policeman (4 R), charged with having pawned a number of gold and silver watehes entrusted to him to clean and repair. It appeared from the statement of the constable, that within these few month., the pri-oner, on the death of his father, a watchmaker of l on g standinz and repute in the City, had succeeded to his business, which he carried on at l ?, Union -street, Bishopsgate On Saturday week, the con , table stared, the prisoner was found on the steam-b.iat pier at Greenwich, in a state of mad intoxi cation, threatening to throw his daughter, a child of about two years old, whom he had ,ith hi c , into the river. On being tak en tato custody, he resisted violently, and gave one of the constables sever 11 kicks and severe falls, but was at length overpowered and taken to the station-house at Greenwich, where, on being searched. fifteen . pawnbrokers' duplicates, relating to various i_luii..._ sB° l 4% ll ! 4l.l. 4l€l?,,talches and ether valuable property, were , - -Wino o . , 'W . brought before Mr. Gr tees, on the fol. acsviiii IolVar;" the, risoner was asked what he was, and to Whom t be, duplietateitt don him belonged. After some hesi tation,. he 11.044 7th Ole was a watchmaker, and that the .. duplicate; reterrud to Witches which had been left with him to _ " _ y~i THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES. sr,m, statistical returns have just been laid before Parliament, in reference to the West Indian Islands and Guiana, on the motion of Mr. Barkly, the member fur Leominster, from which we extract the following particulars :- A general abstract of the population shows, that, ac cording t.) the latest census, the gross total population o the British West Indian Islands amounted to 888,209, and that the number of slaves since emanci pated, according to the compensation returns of 1834, amounted to 663,899. The gross total of 889,209 was thus distributed :-Jamaica, 181,663 males and 193,800 females ; Honduras, 10,000 souls of both sexes ; the Bahamas, 12,623 males and 12,621 females (an extraordinary parity of numbers): Barbadoes, 56,004 maks and 66,194 females ; Grenada, 13,732 males and 13,191 females ; St. Vincent, 12,600 males and 14,648 females ; St. Lucia, 9,871 males and 11,130 females ; Tobago, 6,152 males and 7,056 females ; An tigua, 16,723 males and 19.456 females ; Montserrat, 3,335 males and 4,029 females ; Bermuda, 223 males and 285 females ; Dominica, 10,788 mates and 11,681 females ; St. Christopher, 10,523 males and 12 654 females ; Nevis, 4,418 males and 5,153 females ; the Virgin Islands, 3,130 males and 3,559 females ; Trinidad, 30,713 males and 29,102. females ' • and British Guiana, 49,787 males and 48,346 females. Of the 377,433 inhabitants of Jamaica, 15,766 are whites, 61,529 coloured or mulatto, and 293,128 black ; 332,922 are natives, and 33,519 Africans ; 51,707 are under 5 years of age ; 47,221 under 10 ; 62,733 under 20 ; 121,309 under 40 ; 68,442 under 60 ; and 25,963 above 60 years of ago... The occupations of the population are thus enume• rated :-108 crisis, 26 architects, 61 agriculturists, 13 bankers, 564 ho omen, 1,555 clerks, 1,484 fishermen and fi-ht'ap, - ., 20 571 household servants, 50,653 labourers, 132 192 agricultural labourers, 267 pastors, 104 military m , n. 97 mariners, 41 miners, 433 merchants, 26 pilots, :315 policemen, 3987 planters, ;453 professional persons, 1,672 retail traders, 86 surveyors, 544 storekeepers, 640 teachers, 7,399 tradesmen, 10,097 journeymen, 69 tavern- keepers, 948 miscellaneous, and 142,831 gen tlemen. The number of inhabited houses with land in Jamaica, amounts to 9,406 ; the number of sugar estates is 644, coffee plantations 671, and farms and other settlements 22,703. The population of the Bahamas is subdivided into 2,992 male and 3,070 female whites, and into 9,374 male and 9.275 female coloured persons. 3,695 are employed in agriculture, 1,690 in manufactures, and 2,544 in corn marcial pursuits. The whole population of the Windward Islands (Bar badoes, Gienada, and Cariacou, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Tobago) amounted on the 3d of June, 1844, to 213,305 souls. Governor Grey informs Lord Stan ley, in his dispatch of the 4th of October last, that the whole may be estimated at 225,000, instead of 213,305, some of the returns falling short of the actual numbers. The number of acres capable of being brought into cultivation is perhaps 500,000, of which little more than a quarter, or 130,000 acres are actually cultivated. Society throughout the islands is in an orderly and peaceable state, property rests secure. and the laws, except those of St. Lucia, where there is a cru 'e and imperfect medley of the old French loi civile, with English ordinances, are simple, certain, and equita bl'. The ciinare every where improves in salubrity as cultivation advances. In Barbadoes, Governor Grey says that the climate is as healthy as that of England. Deliberate reflection and calculation have led the Go vernor to the conclusion, that if capital be allowed to flow into the Windward Islands, gradually and steadily, anoth-r twenty-five years may swell the population to 500,000 souk, arid increase the quantity of land in cul tivation to 400.000 Per s, and the export of sugar to 100,000 tons, or nearly half the preseat consumption of the wholt) of the United Kingdom. The total popula tion of Barbadoes is 122,198, of whom 30,000 (in round numbers) ore employed in agriculture, and 28,000 in trade and husincs , . Of Granada the population is 28,293 ; of St. Vincent, 27,218 ; of St. Lucia, 21,001 ; of Tobago. 13,208. Of the Leeward Islands, Antigua numbers 36,405 ; Montserrat, 7,635; Bermuda, 509 ; St. Christopher, 23,177 ; Dominica, 22,469; and Nevis, 9,571. The census crated a considerabe sensation in Nevis am' ngst the negroes, and many absurd conjectures were set afloat as to its obj-ct. The matter was at leegth clearly explained to them through the mrdium of the clergy, or otherwise the feel itig of the Population might have broken out in violence. The wl ole population of the Virgin Island amounts to 6,659, and that of Trinidad to 60,319. Govenor Light, writing from Demerara, says that the Creole population on a s:eady increase in Guiana. The total population on the 31st of December, 1844, amounted to 103,950, which shows an increase from natural causes during that year of 1.226. The number of emancipated pea santry now living in thier own own dwellings in Guiana is estimated at, at least, 19,000. The number of eman cipated negroes now become freeholders,and holding plots of ground as such, amounts altogether to about 2,940. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN IN repair, and which he had subsequently pawned. As, on ex amination of the duplicates, almost all the articles were found to have been pawned in London, the prisoner was transferred to the City for the further investigation of the charges against him. The first case entered into was that of Mr. Morris Hart, of 6, Haydon-square, who said that he had entrusted a silver watch to the prisoner to be cleaned. It was the one produced by the pawnbroker, who, it appeared, had advanced 20s. upon it. He (the prisoner) could not tell the market value of the watch, but it was one above all value to him, as it had been bequeathed to him by hie father. The pawnbroker said that it was worth about 31. The prisoner, who seemed to feel his melancholy situation, said nothing in answer to the charge, and was in this case fined twenty shillings, together with the value of the watch, or in default of payment to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Bridewell for three months ; he was informed at the same time that the magistrate had authority, if he saw fit to exercise it, to order the prisoner to be whipped at the expiration of his term of imprisonment. The investigation of the other charges against the prisoner was adjourned until Wednesday next, in consequence of the absence of witnesses, until which day he was remanded. A sturdy fellow, named Marriott, one of the cadger tribe, was placed at he bar, charged under the following circumstances:— It appeared that Messrs. Christie, the extensive hatters in Gracechurch-street, were about to transfer one of their workmen from their establishment at Manchester to London; but, being ap prehensive that from the simplicity of the man he might meet with some mishap on his arrival in London, they had taken the precaution to furnish him with implicit directions in writing as to the course he was to adopt on his reaching the great metropolis. He arrived, as he stated, by the Parliamentary , train, at Euston-square, and found himself, about twelve o'clock at night, at the Spread Eagle, nearly opposite his employer's house, and was walking off with his luggage, when the prisoner came up and insisted on carrying one of his trunks, which the complainant declined ; but, being strongly pressed in the politest terms by the prisoner, he at length reluctantly for a moment relinquished possession of the trunk, the prisoner observing that he was well acquainted with the firm ; instead, however, of conveying the property to its destination, the prisoner immediately started off towards Thames-street, where the countryman, perceiving that the name did not correspond with that of the street to which he had been directed, called on the prisoner to halt, and taking the trunk from him retraced his steps, and at length reached his master's whither the prisoner followed him and demanded ninepence, as the price of his politeness, and declaring that he would have that sum or seize the box as a security for it. Fortunately at this moment one of Messrs. Christle's porters, who had been directed to await the arrival of the complainant at the door of their house, came forward and gave the prisoner into the care of a policeman, when he modestly reduced his claim to twopence for showing the gentleman his way. Sir C. MAnsHALL—What induced you, prisoner, to take this poor fellow so much out of his road ? Prisoner--I thought the gentleman might like to look at the monument, as he was a stranger in London. Sir C. MARSHALL—Yes, you thought that the com plainant was a stranger, and that it would therefore be an act of kindness on your part to lighten him of his trunk; but as it is my opinion that you intended to steal it, I shall send you to Bridewell as a rogue and vagabond for one month. A short, resolute-looking man, dressed like a sailor, was charged by Mr. Gedye, a victualler, of Bucklersbury, with using threatening language to him in his house on Sunday evening. Mr. Gedye stated that the prisoner came into his house and asked for money; not considering him a proper object, he declined giving the prisoner anything, bird desired him to withdraw, when the prisoner refused, and he was obliged to turn him out. On this the prisoner was very abusive, and said that he hoped soon to see his ( Mr. Gedye'a) house in the same condition as the place he had lately come from, that is to say, in flames. The prisoner had previously stated that he was born at, and had recently left Pittsburgh, in the United States, in which a most destructive fire had taken place. Sir C. MARSHALL said that such conduct on the part of the prisoner was inexcusable, as in every case where a native of the United States needed and had a just claim to assistance, the American Consul was sure to interfere with the utmost promp titude and humanity. Sir Chapman Marshall said that he therefore considered it his duty to send the prisoner to Bride well for one month. the part of the magistrate to mitigate the amount if the Customs chose to prefer informations. With respect to quanti ties under 61b., the magistrate had a jurisdiction independent of the Board of Customs, and generally imposed a fine propor tionate to the amount of duty sought to be evaded. This, however, did not extend to tobacco seized on board ship; for however small the quantity, the vessel was de facto liable to deten tion, and every person on board could be proceeded against in a Customs' information for the 1001., penalty, without any power of mitigation on the part of the magistrate. This provision was found productive of great inconvenience, in asmuch as several offences against the excise laws must either go wholly unpunished, or else put the machinery of the Board of Customs into action, and scarcely a week passed at this Court without the presence of some person from the office of the soli tor of Customs to support informations involving the heavy pe nalties which were subsequently remitted on application to the board. In fact, it was a sort of child's play, which nearly pa ralyzed the law for any effective purpose. The 57th section of the new Act is intended to remedy this defect by authorising the magistrate to proceed to the conviction of smugglers in this and other cases, without an order from the Board of Cus toms, in cases where smuggled tobacco does not exceed 6lbs., and smuggled spirits are not above one gallon, the right of the Customs, however, to proceed by way of information, if they choose so to do, still being retained. It was under this section Spink was brought up yesterday by an officer of Customs, named James Robertson, who proved the case. He found the tobacco under the caboose, and the prisoner, admitting it to be his, was taken into custody. The duty on the tobacco would amount to 2/. 45.5 d. Mr. BRODERIP having observed that this was the first con viction under the Act, fined the defendant 21. 10E., which was shortly afterwards paid. IV.4iVDSWORTIL ABUSING A DYING Max..—Atice Donner, an old woman who vends firewood about Battersea and Wandsworth, was brought before Mr. Paynter on the following extraordinary charge : Police-constable Langton, 36 V, stated that on Saturday evening, about six o'clock, he received information that the prisoner's husband, who had been ailing for some time, was then lying on his death-bed in a house in Ten-houses-lane, Battersea, and that the prisoner was pouring out the foulest abuse upon him as he lay in that awful state. Dr. Connor told him that she was prolonging his life, for if she had let him alone he would have died two hours before. Witness found the prisoner doing what had exactly been stated to him, and he dragged her out of the house, and entreated of her to be more quiet. He left her, as he thought, in a more tranquil state, but on his return she was as violent as ever, and making use of the most horrible language, but this was outside the door. He then took her into custody. The old man was still alive, but in an hour afterwards died. The prisoner said the old man had been eighteen years on her hands, and she had worked for him night and day. She was not scolding him, but a drunken Irish nurse that had been sent into the house by the neighbours. Sergeant Payne, 11 V, proved that the prisoner was a most foul-mouthed woman, and had been repeatedly convicted. _ . Mr. PAYNTER said he could scarcely have believed that a woman could have acted in such a manner to her dying hus band, and if such a solemn scene as that would not prevent her making use of bad language, all he could say would be of no avail. He should fine the prisoner 205., or commit her for fourteen days in default. The prisoner was committed. PECULATION.— William Tlvimaa, a tun-man, who has been twenty years in the employ of Messrs. Young and Bain bridge, the brewers at Wandsworth, was charged with the fol lowing felony : Police-constable Daley, 127 R, having been informed that the prisoner on several Sunday mornings past had been in the habit of taking a new birch broom from the brewery to his home in the Almonry-yard, he watched on the previous morning, and at seven o'clock saw the prisoner leave the premises with a new broom, and go towards his own home. He stopped him, and asked what he was going to do with it, and he said to sweep a hog-stye, after which he in tended to take it back. The prisoner was then taken into cus tody, and upon being searched at the station, two large lumps of coal were found concealed in the breast of his flannel jacket, he had coal and wood in each pocket, and even his hat was half full of small lumps of coal. The prisoner said it was a bad job, and could not the constable let him off that once? The manager of the brewery said there was no doubt about the coal, wood, and birch broom being the properly of the firm, but he could not swear to them, and Messrs. Young and Bain bridge would be satisfied with a summary conviction, which would alone be a great punishment, as the prisoner would never be employed again by that firm. Mr. PAYNTER ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 205., or be committed for fourteen days. TRIAL OF JOHN REAS THOMP— SON, STOREKEEPER AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, FOR EMBEZZLING THE SUM OF 10,9201 10s. si. CAPE TOWN, MAT 3, 1845.—The Court being formed, at ten o'clock, A M., the prisoner John Reas Thompson, late naval storekeeper and agent victualler at Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, was placed at the bar, charged with having embezzled the sum of 10,9201., the property of the Queen. He was dressed in a suit of mourning, and looked extremely agitated and unwell. Some of the jury were challenged ; and the indictment being read, the prisoner in a weak and tremulous voice pleaded "Not Guilty." The Attorney. General opened the case, stating the facts as they appeared in evidence, and the law of the case, and then called Thomas Collings, chief clerk in the Imprest-office, Somerset House. London. This gentleman's evidence was remarkably well given, and showed that he was thoroughly conversant with the different matters in troduced fbr his elucidation. He stared that, having ar rived in Simon's Bay on the 9th of February last, under directions from the Lord Commissioners of the Ad miralty, he proceeded immediately to Green Point, near Cape Town, and there on the same night arrested the prisoner, who shortly afterwards was conveyed to Simon's Town, to be present during an investigation into the state of his cash account, which Captain Chas. Eden, of H.M.S. Winchester, and Mr. Collings had been ordered to commence. The result of this inquiry proved that the prisoner had taken up large sums of money from the Commissariat, unauthorised by the Ad miral, and had omitted to debit himself with the same ; that two requisitions for money, duly approved by the Commander-in-Chief had never been used, but were found in Mr. Thompson's own office during the examin ation of his accounts ; that fictitious entries had been made, evidently (as it would seem) for the purpose of deceiving the:Admiral, when that officer should comae to inspect the balance of cash on hand ; that the prisoner had sworn, before a justice of the peace to the truth and correctness of his accounts, knowing that he him self had falsified them, and that they were perfectly incorrect ; that Mr. Thompson had kept back five quar ters' accounts (which should have been sent to England), doubtless with the view of delaying as long as possible the detection that would inevitably occur when the total amount of disbursements came to be compared with the total of receipts, as shown by Mr. Deputy Commissary- General Palmer's accounts, the amount of the deficiency amounting to 10,9201. 10s. sd. The next witness called by the Attorney. General was Captain Charles Eden, of her Majesty's ship Winches ter, who merely corroborated what had been said by Mr. Collings. Mr. Deputy Commissary-General Palmer proved the fact of his having from time to time made certain ad vances to the prisoner, whose receipts for the several amounts thus advanced were exhibited in court. This terminated the evidence for the prosecution. The defendant's Counsel now endeavoured to make it appear (and the attempt was indeed an unfortunate one) that the fact of his client having appropriated to his own private purposes nearly eleven thousand pounds of the public money, as clearly demonstrated by the strongest possible evidence. was ascribable to a sort of general confusion in the dockyard offices, and the want of clerical assistance. The Attorney-General ably and most eloquen!ly ad dressed the jury on behalf the prosecution ; but in an account like this it is impossible to do credit to his re marks, but the substance of them was as follows :—He called the jury's attention to the strength and clearness of the evidence afforded by Mr. Thomas Collings and Mr. Deputy General Palmer, and spoke of the fradu lent intention with which the prisoner had evidently made fictitious entries in the accounts, omitting to debit himself with very large amounts actually received from the Commissariat, and charging himself with some few much smaller amounts which he had never obtained. Mr. Porter refuted the idea of supposing that the want of proper clerical assistance (if any such existed) could destroy the proof that Thomson had embezzled 10,0001. He (the Attorney-General) complimented very hand somely Captain Eden and Mr. Thomas Collings on their indefatigable exertions during the investigation into the cash accounts. He said Captain Eden was an ornament to his profession ; and that Mr. Collings bad, after the most laborious exertions, produced an abstract of the p irticulars concerning every procurable cheque bearing Thompson's signature, that had passed through the Cape of Good Hope Bank since 1841, when he first kept an account there. The jury, after a deliberation of about ten minutes, returned with a verdict of " Guilty ;" and on the 14th of May he was brought up to receive judgment, and after disposing of a motion of arrest of judgment on some alleged informality in the indictment, the Court sen tenced him to be transported to Van Dieman's Land for a term of fourteen years, and until so transported, that he be confined and kept to hard labour in the gaol of Cape Town, or such other place as the Governor shall direct—the whole period of such imprisonment and transportation not to exceed fourteen years. The African Journal says :—" Although the result in dividual, it this trial has b een mos t un f o rtunate to one it does not entirely withdraw the censure from others, or Higher Powers,' whose business it was (or should have been, Oh ! most lamentable fact that it was not) to examine and look over the accounts of the suborde nates, and thus by check and tally, at short intervals, have removed the possibility both of error and temp tation," John Reas Thompson is about 43 years of age, having light air, sandy whiskers, and blue eyes, regular fea. tures, and sharp nose ; and i n h e i g ht i s about sft. 6tn. He• is of gentlemanly appearance, and mild and good address. He usually wore a w hit e h a t, an d a variety of dresses, rarely two days alike. He is said to be liberal hearted, intelligent, a nd conv i v i a l. H He was born in Scotland, in 1802, and received his education partly at Yarrow. his father (the late Sir John Reas Thomp son, Knight), was originally a clerk in humble circum stances, at Leith, and by dint of industry, perseverance, and zeal, became a Commissioner of the late Navy Board. On the abolition of that appointment, the Lords of the Admiralty, to mark their sense of Sir John's dis. tinguished servict s, bestowed on his son the joint ap pointment of Naval Storekeeper and Agent Victualler at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived ia 1829, to enjoy a salary of 7001. per annum, free house, &c. Thompson's habits were always those of extravagance. His intimacy with persons of immoral character, for whom, even as a married man, he kept up separate esta blishments at an enormous expense, plunged him into a vortex of pecuniary difficulty. He played so well the part of an accomplished, bland, warm-hearted gentle man, that he won the favour and esteem of every Admi ral under whom he had served, as well as Captain Charles Eden, of her Majesty's ship Winchester, his in timate friend and companion, who remained by him up to the moment that his guilt was proved—not believing it possible that Thompson would have acted any other 1 than an honourable part. When judgment was passed he (Thompson) wore a blue military cloak, the collar being raised, and but a small portion of the face was visibl e ; yet sufficient to indicate how the sword had worn the scabbard, and to show the force of mind upon matter. Much sympathy and good feeling is afloat in behalf of his family, and for the man there is every pity and sorrow, but for the error there is not the shadow of an excuse; and it will be some time ere the elements of Simon's Town are quieted after so extraordinary a disturbance. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—General Hewitt, Hart, from New South Wales, in the Downs, sailed April 26 ; Allen Waddell, from Van Dieman's Land, at Gravesend, sailed from Hobart Town, Mav 4 ; Dawson, Carder, from Van Dieman's Land, off Falmouth, sailed from Launceston, April 16 ; Coromandel, Fraser, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed March 12, St. Helena, June 17 ; Persian, Edington, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed, April 18; Commodore, Crowell, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 23 ; Amity,- Hodges, from Zanzebar, in the St. Katherine Dock, sailed from St. Helena, June 18 ; Java, Parker, from Singapore, off Ply mouth, sailed March 29, St. Helena,June 22; Mary Somer ville, Johnstone, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 12, St. Helena, June 27; Ingleborough, Rae, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 15, Cape, Jane 15, St. Helena, June 30 ; Champion, Cochrane, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed April 6, St. Helena, June 29. Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales—Caledonia, April 12, from London ; Castlereagh, 18th, from London and Cape Union ; Grainger, 18th, from Launceston ; Sir John Byng, 25th, from Manilla; Parkfield, Whiteside, from Port Philip, of the port. Departures from Sydney7Kestrel, April 13, to Norfolk Island and Singapore ; Coringa packet, 14th, to Ceylon, and put back 19th, from stress of weather; Star of China, Tinlev, to Port Nicholson; Fame, 20th, an d A ustra li an , 21 st, to South Seas ; Palestine, Sun, and Autumnus, 26th, to London. Arrival at Adelaide—lsabella, April 5, from London. Arrivals at Hobart Town—Anna Maria, April, from Lon don ; Sir George Seymour, from Port Philip. Departure from Hobart Town—Fanny, Andrews, April 16, to London. Arrival at Launceston—Heroine, Coltish, April 5, from Port Philip. Departure from Port Philip—Branken Moor, April 10, fur London. Arrival at llong-Kong---India, Sutherland, from the Clyde. THE ARMY. SECOND FIRE AT QUEBEC. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, Aug.l3, 1845. The Commander-in-Chief h as r ece i ve d from Lieut.- General the Earl of Cathcart, Commander of the forces in North America, the annexed reports of the conduct of Major-General Sir James Hope, and of the officers and troops at Quebec, upon the occasion of a second confla gration, which, unfortunately, occurred in that city on the night of the 28th of June. He has laid these reports before her Majesty, and lie is happy in having another opportunity of ex p ress i ng hi s a p pro b at i on o f th conduct of Major-General Sir James Hope, and of the officers and troops at Quebec. He particularly notices the report made of the conduct of Captain Boxer, of the Royal Navy ; Lieut.-Colonel Walker, Captain Warburton, and Lieutenant Shake spear, of the Royal Artillery ; Lieut.-Colonel Ward, of the Raps( Engineers ; Lieut.-Colonel Thorp, of the 89th Regiment ; Major Watson, of the 14th Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel Pritchard, Assistant Adjutant- General, Captain Ingall, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster- General, and Captain Hope, Aide-de-Camp to Major- General Sir James Hope ; and he draws the attention of the army at large to the fresh display, in this transac tion, of all the good qualities of British officers and sol • diers—cool deliberation and judgment in the direction of the measures to be adopted; energy in the superintend. ence of their execution; and the zeal, activity, intre pidity, and pers-vering labour of all to attain the object in view —that of arresting the progress of the misfor tune, anti saving the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects. By command of Field Marshal the Duke of Welling ton, Commander-in Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. The great length of the documents referred to in the above general order compels us to be content with a mere précis of their contents. 1. A letter from Lieut.-General the Earl of Cathcart to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, announcing the second fire at Quebec, by which 1,200 houses, forming the whole of St. John's and the greater part of the suburb of St. Louis were destroyed ; enclosing an official report of the catastrophe, and specially pointing out the valuable assistance ren dered by several officers named in the Major-General's letter, as also the admirable conduct of the officers, non commissioned officers, and privates of the garrison in general. 2. Major-General Hope's official report of the fire to Lord Cathcart, on the night of the 28th of June, differs in no essential degree from the one we have already published. We must, therefore, confine ourselves to the compliment paid by the Major-General to the troops :—" The spot where the houses were latterly blown up was at the point where the St. John's suburbs extend beyond the St. Louis; and owing to thoses houses being rapidly blown up, and by the utmost exertion of the troops in clearing a space, a great part of the St. Louis suburb, th e %%hole of thapton- terrace, consisting of villas, and the gentlemen's seats on each side of the St. Louis-road, were saved. I wish it had fallen to my lot to report to your Excellency the services of the officers and men employed during the progress of both the late lamentable events, on occasions more honourable and more congenial to their profession ; but it would indeed be unjust if I did not mention the names of Cap tain Boxer, of the royal navy, whose exertions during the whole night, and particularly at the end of the fire, in directing the spaces to be cleared, were of the greatest service; of Lieutenant Colonel Walker, commanding the Royal Artillery ; of Major Watson, commanding the 14th Regiment ; of Lieutenant-Colonel Thorp, com manding the 89th Regiment. And I have also to state that I received every assistance from the suggestions and activity of Lieut.-Colonel Ward and the officers of the Royal Engineers ; of Lieut.-Colonel Pritchard, Assistant Adjutant-General; of Captain Ingall, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General ; of Town Major Knight, and of my aide-de-camp, Captain Hope. The conduct of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, as I expressed on the occasion of the former conflagration, exceeds anything I can say in their praise. Thou4,h this dreadful misfortune occurred in the night, when the men were frequentiy scattered in various directions, they were quickly assembled at the sound of the bugle, and never relaxed fur an instant in their ex erLions ; and I tun happy to add that bat one person was killed, one man's leg broken, and three or four contused, by the severalexplosions that took place, and that no pains were spared to get the people out of the way. There have been no casualties amongst the troops. 3. Letter from Lord Cathcart to Lord Fitzroy Somer set, of the 10th July, enclosing the resolution passed by the Mayor and Corporation of Quebec, conveying their thanks to Major-General Sir James Hope and the gar rison under his orders. 4. A general order, dated " Head-quarters, Mont real," conveying thiT approbation and an expression of admiration of the Governor-General of the praiseworthy conduct of the troops, and complimenting Major-Gene ral Hope on the judicious measur, s he had adopted. 5. Thanks of the. Mayor of Quebec t..) Major General Hope. 6, 7. Letter and resolution of the Mayor and Corpora tioa of Quebec, conveying their thanks to the troops. GENERAL ORDER. " Horse Guards, August 6, 1845. " It having been represented to the Commander•in- Chief that the coloured stripes in the sash or girdle at present worn by sergeants of infantry are liable to fade or become unsightly when exposed to wet, or to the in fluence of the sun in hot climates, his Grace has been pleased to direct that the sergeant's sash be henceforth manufactured of the national crimson colour throughout, uniformly for the whole army (including Rifle Corps), and that the breadth be reduced to two and a half inches. A pattern has accordingly been sealed and lodged at the office of Military Boards for the regulation of future supplies. " By command of F. M. the Duke of Wellington, Com mander-in-Chief. "JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General." THE CLAIMS of the PENINSULAR OFFICERS. (From the Naval and Militiry Gazette.) We call the attention, most strongly, of all war officers to the annexed petition which has been drawn up in their favour, to be presented to her Majesty. We urgently press on them that it is a duty they owe to their own honour, and that of their brethren in arms, not to allow indolence, indifference, or ill-grounded fears to interfere with the groat object in View; and that they will come forward to sign this petition, less with a view cf gaining a trifling distinction so long withheld, than as proof how much they remain alive to the honour and renown of the profession of arms. We boldly appeal to the sense of the public at large, whether there is anything in the substance of the peti tion that can in the least degree be construed into want of respect to authority ; and ask whether the prayer it contains is not modest in form and just in principle. TO TTIE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it pl ease your ' Majesty, The officers of th e U n i te d S erv i ce , s ur v iv ors o f th e late war, who served in action with the enemy but bear no honourary mark of such service, dutifully approach your Majesty with a humble memorial, praying your Majesty's grace for themselves and their subordinate brethren in arms, who remain alike undistinguished. They respectf u ll y sol i c i t your M a j esty ' s grac i ous consideration of their peculiar case, standing, as they do, alone in mortifyin g exclusion from those honours extended both to their former chiefs and their present juniors. That they served well and suffered much, sparing n either thoir enrrgies nor their blood to win distinction, is attested by records known to your Ma jesty, and has been acknowledged on the part of the nation by the repeated thanks of its representatives in Parliament. They have appealed to the mediation of the Houses c•f Lords and Commons, in order that their prayer might be laid before your Majesty ; in deference to the sense of the former noble body, as implied in the comments of their distinguished leader, the petitioners now most humbly, but with renovated hope, venture to carry their appeal to the feet of their Royal Mistress—the fountain aiiite of honour and of goodness. Deign, then, Most Gracious Madam, to listen to the petition of a class of your Majesty's subjects, who to the proofs of devotedness to the service of their S.ivereign and country, given in days when England was grateful under the emotions of victory, are ready, should occa sion arise, to add the sacrifice of their lives in the same noble cause. - May God preserve your Majesty in health and glory, is the prayer of your Majesty's most dutiful subjects and petitioners.. The petition, which lies at our office and_at the office WORSHIP-STREET. DISASTROUS OCCUSIRENCE.-Mr. Charles Taylor , a master plumber, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bi ng ham,; charged with having incautiously iischarged a rifle, loaded with ball, and dangerously wounded a man named Charles Chapman, a wheelwright, living in Great Cambridge-street, Hack ney- road. It appeared from the evidence, that between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morning, the prisoner, accompanied by another man, was seen to enter a vacant piece of ground at the back of Great Cambridge-street, and after chalking a mark to serve as a target, upon a small buttress projecting from the railing at the side of a grs factory, he retreated back about 70 paces, and discharged the piece in that direction, but the report was instantly followed by a loud shriek from the wife of the man Chapman, who occupied a small detached cottage at the end of the field, and who was at that moment engaged in gathering vegetables in his garden. Some of the w itnesses imme diately hastened to the spot from which the cry proceeded, ard discovered the unfortunate man lying upon the ground, with his shirt and waistcoat stained with blood, which was flowing profusely from a wound in the head, behind the lobe of the right ear. He was instantly raised and carried into the house, and two surgeons having been sent for, they pronounced, upon examination, that the ball, after penetrating the head, had dropped into tke neck, and that the wound would most proba bly be attended with a fatal termination- The prisoner, in the meantime, was about to leave the field, apparently unconscious of the injury he had oecasioned, when he was stopped by a shoe maker, named Buckley, and informed of the disaster, on which he immediately surrendered himself, and expressed his anxiety to be taken to the station-house, declaring, in a state of ex treme agitation, that. he had shot his beat friend, but that the occurrence was purely accidental. Sergeant Godfrey stated that he had examined the g round where the unfortunate tran s a c ti on h a d t a k en pl ace . an d was of opinion that the rifle must have been very carelessly or unskil fully discharged, as the ball, instead of reaching the mark, had struck the wooden railing of the gas factory, passing over the heads of some children who were at play in the field. Thomas Richardson, one of the boys referred to by the ser geant, said that he distinctly heard the whistle of the bullet as it passed cloe to his bead, and saw the man Chapman fall to the ground immediately after. A medical certificate, signed by two surgeons, named Hooper and Chambers, was handed to the magistra:e, which stated that the injured man was suffering from a gun-shot wound in the neck, from which the ball had not yet been extracted, and that his life was in considerable danger. In answer to the charge, the prisoner, who was greatly af fected, said that having sold the rise to a gentleman, he had gone to the field for the purpose of testing it, but from the unsteadiness of his hand the bullet had taken a wrong direction, and struck the unfortuna,a man Chapman, who was one of his most attached friends. He had been ever since exceedingly grieved at the melancholy occurr« , hce, and could assure the magistrate that it was whofly accidental. Mr. BINGHAM said it was his duty to remand the prisoner until the result of the injury the wounded man bad received could be ascertained ; but he would accept bail for his future appearance, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each. The bail was immediately procured and the prisoner libe rated. MARLBOROUGH-STREF,T. A TROUBLESOME TENANT.—Mrs. Harriet Meek, of Lei cester-street. Leicester-square, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick, for threatening to inflict summary vengeance on her landlady, Mrs. Kemp, of No. 6, Leicester-street. Mrs. Kemp proceeded to say that she had let part of a house in Leceister-street to the defendant's husband, a barber by trade, but she could get neither rent nor possession of her house. The whole neighbourhood had been kept in an uproar for weeks past, owing to the defendant's goings on, and mat. ters had come to such a pitch, that the inhabitants had got up a petition to the Alagistrates of this Court to interfere, in order to preserve the peace of the neighbourhood. Mr. HARDWICK said he recollected that a petition had re cently been sent to him, signed by about twenty of the inhabi. tants, complaining of some disorderly proceedings at a house in Leicester•street, which petition had been referred to the police. Mrs. Kemp—Your Worship, I've done all in my power to get rid of Mrs. Meek, but she won't go away. She gets drink sent in through a hole in the window ; aod, when sh e ' s three parts drunk, she collects a mob, a n d harangues them on the treatment she has received from me and my husband. Mr. HA RDWICK —What threats has she used? Mrs. Kemp—. She said last week she'd take the first opportunity of stabbing me and my old man. Mr. HARDWICK—Why did you say this ? Defendant—lt's all false. They're lawless villains ; for they've set the law at defiance, and took my goods for rent several times. I'll explain all the circumstance from the beginning to the end. Mr. HA anwlcK —l'd rather not hear them. Mrs. Meek would not be denied her say, an I accordingly she was permitted to give her own history of the various seizures, commencing at the first attack on the four-post bed stead, and ending with the abstraction of the brass bowels of a Dutch clock for broker's expenses. Having at last made an end of her story, Mr. HARDWICK asked her why she threatened to stab the complainant? Mrs. Meek—l never said such words. I told the people outside of the house that Mrs. Kemp and the old man ought to be stuck for using me so shamefully, not leaving me a bed to sleep on. Mr. HARDWICK—It appears that your husband's distress has been brought on by drink? Mrs. Meek—Everybody re spects my husband, and it was because he is so much respected that he took to drinking. Mr. HA RDWlCK—That's the oddest reason for taking to drinking I ever heard. Rut, Mrs. Meek, you must recollect that the neighbours complain of the noise you make. Mrs. Meek—lsn't a woman allowed to scream murder when her goods are seized ? What else could she do but scream and hollow ? Mr. HA RDVVICK —There is a petition against your disorderly conduct going► on you must recollect. Mrs. Meek—A petition ! Pooh ; that's got up by Mr. Pope, because Air. Kemp promi-es his sons situations under Government if he'd sign it. Mr. Kemp says he's got great in fluence with the Ministers, because he got a good many votes for Mr. Leader and Evans. Mr. HARDWICK—The complainant has sworn that she goes in bodily fear of you, and I must therefore call on you to find bail, two securities in 20/. each. TH A ,T 1 E S. ASSAULT WIT'S INTENT.-- Thomas Looney, a respectably dressed man, who spoke with a strong Irish accent, and who is a sort of hanger-on upon the medical profession, was charged with assaulting a little girl, named Sarah Windle, servant to Mr. Carpue, a medical practitioner, residing in the Globe road, Mile-end, with intent to commit a rape. The prosecu trix, who said she w.s fourteen years old last April, stated that the prisoner, whom she had once before seen at her master's house, came there on Saturday, and on being told her master was not at home threw her on the sofa and made the weir pt charged in the sheet, at the same time exposing his person. She resisted, and he told her to be quiet and not inform her master. Her opposition brought down a gentleman who was up'tairs, on which the prisoner desisted. Day, a constable of the K division, apprehended the pri soner on Sunday morning in bed at his lodgings, 27, Paradise row, Bethnal-green. Ths prisoner, when called on for his defence, said be was under the influence of drink at the time, and remembered no thing. He. could not, therefore, r xtenuate the offence with which he had been charged, but to show his previous character he had'isent for a professional gentleman, who, unfortunately, was not al l le to attend. He was then committed for trial, with permission to put in bail, himself in 301., and two sureties of 401. 'each. The required bail not being forthcoming, he was committed to Newgatel FrEST CONVICTION TINDER THE NEW ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING.--JanICS Spißk. a seaman belonging to the So u th E s k , was c h arged with having in his possession on beard the above-named vessel four pounds and a quarter of foreign manufactured tobacco, the same not having paid duty to the Queen. The charge was wide under an Act passed in the preseut session, Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 87. which is intended to amend and consolidate the laws relating to Customs and Excise. As the law previously stood any person found possessed of, or carrying and conveying any quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco exceeding 61b. and under 3001 b., rendered himself liable to a fine of LOO/.,:without any power on G, AUGUST 26, 1845. of our contemporary, the United Service Gazette, is al ready most numerously signed by veteran officers of all ranks. THE LAW RELATING TO SHARES AND SLIAIIEBROICERS. (From the Leeds Mercury.) [We have thought it would be extremely useful to the numerous classes of persons now interested in shares, to know what kind of dealings are legal an I what il legal—what liabilities accompany these transactions— and what is the exact position occupied by share brokers in the immensely numerous operations of which they are the medtunss. We therefore submitted some questions to one of the most eminent solicitors in Yorkshire, John Hope Shaw, Esq., of this town, and have obtained from him a regular professional opinion upon them, very carefully prepared, and which he has taken every means to render as aecurat. as the present state of the law will permit. Mr. Shaw's opinion is as follows t] The right and liabilities resulting from contracts for shares are subject to uncertainties. Some of these un certainties arise from unsettled questions of law; others from the rules or customs of brokers, which may vary in different places, or in the same place at different times. The rules of an Exchange. when not in them selves illegal, or varied by the terms of a particular con tract, bind the brokers who belong to that Exchange. and through them their principals. They are considered as engrafted on the contract, and becoming part of it When the contracting parties are not members of any Exchange, or not both members of the same, the rule.. of any particular Exchange are not binding upon them, unless adopted either by express agreement or by their course of dealing with each other ; but local customs, if known to them, and general custom', win Cher known to them or not, are considered as en grafted on their contracts, provided the customs are legal in themselves, and are not inconsistent with the terms of the particular contract. For these reasons it is impossible to frame direction , specifically adapted to every case that may occur. All that can be done is to state the general law so far as it has been settled. It must be left to each individual to ascertain fur himself how far the application of that general law to his own case may be modified by the rules or customs of the particular Exchange or district where his contract was made. The general law applies to three distinct stages in the progress of a railway share from its inspection to its completion. The first of these stages is the formation of the project, usually announced to the public by a prospectus—the second is the allotment of scrip—and the third is the passing of the Railway Act. In the first stage (1. e. prior to the allotment of scrip). no valid sale can be made. Even with respect to any joint-stock company commenced before Ist November. 1844, the validity of such a sale was extremely doubt ful ; and the Joint-Stock Companies Registration Act (7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 110, sect. 26) provides, " with regard to subscribers and every person entitled or claiming to be entitled to any share in any joint stock company, the formation of which shall be commenced after the Ist November, 1844, that until such joint-stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said registry office, it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose, by sale or mortgage, of such share, or any interest therein ; and that every contract for sale or disposal of such share or interest shall be void, and, that every person entering into such contract shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 101." Registration must therefore precede sale ; and, as it is required by the 7th section of the Act that the registered deed shall state in a schedule, " the number of the shares which each sub scriber holds, and the distinctive numbers th ereo f;" t h e allotment of hares must precede registration. In the second stage (that of scrip) the 26th section of the Registration Act continues to operate until the regis tration both of the company and of the individual share holder has been completed. Whether contracts for scrip, after registration, but prior to the passing of the Railway Act, are valid or not, does not appear to be yet settled by any express decision. In the case of Jackson v. Cocker, decided by Lord Langdale in 1841, and reported in 4 Beavan 59, his Lordship said of scrip that it was "commonly, but very erroneously, called shares," and that " the Act alone, when passed, constitutes shares, and makes them transferable." He added, that the legality of sales of scrip was " a question worthy of the most serious consideration," and that he was "by no means disposed to treat lightly the " suggestions of Lord Tenderden in Josephs v. Pebrer" (3 B. and C. 644). Lord Langdale, however, did not decide , the question of legality in Jackson v. Cocker, as it was unnecessary to do so ; and the decision in Josephs v. Pebrer was founded on the 18th section of the 6th Geo. 1, chap. 18, which was soon afterwards repealed by the Ist section of Geo. 4, chap. 91. But one of Lord Tenterden's suggestions in Josephs v. Pebrer (and it was probably to this suggestion that Lord Langdale recant chiefly to refer) is, that " trafficking in thes+ shares may very possibly have been illegal at common law, as it was a bargaining and wagering about an Act of Parliament to be obtained in future." The ques tion at common law remains still open. The 6th Geo. 4, only repeals the statutory prohibitions of 6 Geo. 1 ; and it does so on the express ground (stated in its preamble) that "it is expedient" that such matters "should be adjudged and dealt with in like manner as the same might have beet• adjudged and dealt with at common law, notwithstanding the said Act." But the common law objection appear: at present to rest chiefly upon Lord Tenterden's sug gestions in Josephs v. Pebrer ; and his Lordship's ge neral doctrines on this class of cases have been con sidered unsound by very eminent judges. The Joint stock Companies' Registration Act, which passed in 1844. may also strengthen the argument in favour of sales of scrip after registration, as it expressly provides that the contract shall be void when made before registration, which provision would have been unnecessary if it were void already. The question, however, cannot be con sidered finally settled till it has been judicially decided. It was expected to be raised in a case at the last York assizes, but the case was compromised. In the third and last stage (1. e. after the Act has passed) a contract for shares is clearly valid. A contract for the delivery of shares at a future day is not in itself illegal, nor does it become so merely be cause the seller does not actually possess the shares at the time of the contract. The contrary doctrine war once laid down at nisi prius by Lord Tenterden, with re ference to a sale of goods (Bryan v. Lewis, Ryan and Moody, 386) ; but the case went off on a different point; and in the case of Hibblewhite v. M'Morine, 5 Meeson and Welsby, 462, (which was upon a contract for the delivery of railway shares at a future day,) Barons Parke, Alderson, and Maule overruled Lord Tenterden's dictum and held the contract legal. The buyer and seller of shares have various remedies against each other. The usual one is, that the party who was ready and offered to perform his part of the contract in due time recovers from the other the diffe ren:e between the contract price and the market price at the time when the shares ought to have been delivered or accepted.—Gainsford v. Carroll, 2 B. and C. 6`24. Boorman v. Nash, 9 B. and C. 145.—Startup v. Cortazzi, 2 Crompton, Meeson, and Roscoe 165. An actual sale or purchase in the market of the shares contracted for. if made within a reasonable time (see Stewart v. Cauty. 8 Meeson and Welsby, 160), and after notice to the de faulter, is the most satisfactory test of this difference. But (except where required by the terms of the con tract, or by some special rule or custom binding on the parties), it does not appear to be indispensably neeos ,;ary for-the purpose of supporting an action.—Leigh v. Paterson, 8 Taunton, 540. In all Railway Companies formed since Ist November, 1844, and in any other companies to which the Registra tion Act may apply, the liability of a registered share holder to the debts and engagements of the company. continues after he has sold his share, until the transfer of it to the purchaser has been registered. See 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 110, section 13. In companies to which the Registration Act does not apply, the liability de pends upon the particular Acts by which each company is regulated. A broker is personally liable for the fulfilment of his contracts, unless his principal be named or known to the other party at the time the contract is made. The mere fact of his being a broker does not exempt him from per sonal liability, if the contract be made in his own name, and without disclosing his principal ; nor can he relieve him self from liability, when once incurred, by disclosing his principal afterwards—Magee v. Atkinson, 2 Meeson and Welsby, 440. In such a case, however, the other con tracting party has the option of proceeding against either the broker, or the subsequently disclosed principal, though he may have originally debited the broker-- Paterson v. Gandasequi, 15 East, 62. And this option is not lost, though he knew at the time of the contract that the broker was acting for a principal, unless he also knew who the principal was—Thompson v. Davenport, 9, B. and C., 78. But if he knew at the time of the con tract who the principal was, and with a full knowledge of that fact chose to debit the agent, he cannot after wards resort to the principal ; or if in such a case he has debited the principal, he cannot afterwards chargo the agent (per Littl e d a l o J. i n Th ompson v. Davenport, 9, B. and C. 90). NEW METHOD OF PROTECTING WOOD FROM SEA WATER INSECTS.—Captain Sir Samuel Brown, R.N., in a letter to Admiral Sir Byam Martin, dates that from numerous experiments and observations, he is satisfied " that at present there is really no specific remedy against the attacks of the in sect called by entomologists teredo navalis, or sea-worm, ex cept iron nails." He proposes to encase the pile with broad headed iron nails, resembling scupper nails, but considerably larger, and says that in the course of a few months corrosion takes place and spreads into the interstices. He further sug gests the adoption of square-headed nails, which leave the smallest possible extent of the surface of the pile exposed. Ex periments tried at the Trinity Pier, Newhaven, and Brighton Pier, have fully established the effectiveness of Sir S. Brown's method.— The B.ilder. FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY.--It is very remark. able that Monsieur Arago, the French astronomer, whose prediction that the Seine would be frozen over, this year, on the Bth of March, was so singularly realised, has been equally right in his anticipations as to the very day when the wet summer (which he also predicted) would end. He foretold that the weather would change on the 20th of August, and so it did, after a st. , rm, which has left behind it fearful traces in France. If the brilliant September, which Monsienr Arago now announces, come true, there will be nothing to retard ih? development of British industry in the dearth, or dearness, of ford, tor never was the ground so loaded with produce,—the green crops, vegetables, and fruit, being even more abundant than the grain.— Freckly Chronicle. THE it El 3 ECCAITE CO Zti VICTS.--Active measures are now in progress in the town of Neath, for the purpose of petitioning her Majesty praying for a remission, or at least an amelioration of the punishment now being undergone by the unfortunate and misguided individuals who were engaged in the Rebeccaite disturbances. A committee is forming of many influential parties in the neighbourhood to forward the object of the memorialists, and we cannot refrain from wishing success to their endeavours, since in many cases the violators of the laws were no doubt led to the commission of the crimes for which the y suffered by th e exc i tement w hi c h preva i led at the time.— lrelehman. ~... EADVERTISEMRNT TO THE MANCHESTER PU3LIC. LONDON AND MANCHE3 rER RAILWAYS. GENTLEMEN—I am one as much interacted as any of you in this imp rtant matter ; have patience with me while I say a few words which may tend to the common advantage of all parties, except the lawyers ; and I sup pose that neither you nor I c ire much about them, as they generally know pretty well how to take care of themselves ! We all want a direct line to London, and we want it for our own business, not for other people's, nor to fill other people's pockets ; therefore it must be independent. Well ; we have got such a line before us, and it has b: en before us long enough to understand it : it seems to be so good a one, that there is a general scramble for it among engineers, attorneys, and direc tors, all anxious for the honour, and some, perhaps, for the profit of carrying it out. It must therefore be a good one, and just what we want—if we can get it ! Thie is the only point to which I wish te draw y , ur it tention, for what is it to us tet, does the work, or wh gets the pay for it , so long as the w ele is dine, and well done ? Now my opinion is, that if we remain neuter on the question much longer, we incur some rich of nut having the work done at all ; " between two stools," but need not finish the proverb ; only if we want to seeure a firm seat, we had best look out in time, beeire we sit down, to make sure of the stool with the firmest legs ! I, for one, have no mind for an awkward fall. I have read Ashurst's letter, and I have re id Reming ton's ; and, as an indifferent person to the dispute, ex cepting as one of the public, I think I see pretty clearly where the merits lie. Ashusst says, the line is public Property, and therefore it is my line as much as your's, or any body else's." " No," say s Reminge n, " I panned, surveyed, and -pent time, labour, and money on it years ago, and now you want to fi ch it fro:n in e because I re ject your aid in carrying it oat !" And, in truth, Re mington seems to have the best end of the stick, and the strongest arm to use it ; " but," rejoins Ashurst, " you ,hall not go on without me, for I have the Manchester houses under my thumb, and right or wrong they'll back me !" "We will see about that," retorts Remington, "for it was my line and my project to which they gave their names, and you have dishonestly transferred them to yours; when they really know how the matter stands, the Manchester men are toe honourable to countenance your conduct." I believe Remington is quite right ; we have still certain bull-headed notions among us, of what is right or wreng, in regard to property, though such notions are getting a little &el • fashioned in these railway day) ; but we are not likely to be bamboozled by lawyers, even though true-bred London lawyers ; we know the value of new patterns, and what it is to pirate them. But this is stray ing from toy point. Ashurst only states the truth, when he says that he is backed by the trade (though he much exaggerates his trade strength, for I am sure there are not here a dozen first-rat; houses in his list, while all along the line, every man, women, and chill, is against him), and Remington states the truth when he says that ‘he trade don't know what they are about in backing Ashurst, and this is what I want to impress upon you. We want the thing done, and no mistake ; if matters go on as at present, we shall make a great mistake, and a fatal mistake, and a mistake for which everybody but the lawyers will be cursing his own stupidity six months hence. I have been inquiring carefully about it, and I find, as anybody else may find, if they will only take the same trouble, that Ashurst's line, or Rastrick's, or whosoever line they choose to call it, is all bubble and moonshine.: It is now the end of August ; plans, and sections, and books of reference, and all that, must be deposited in some hundred places by the 30th of No %weber ; engineers, surveyors, levellers, and assistants, must be employed by the score, and then followed by scores of attornies, clerks, and other beasts of prey ; and to this hour, neither Ashurst nor Rastrick has a single soul at work between London and Manchester, while Remington and Rennie have nearly finished the job ! and Messrs. Stephen, Hutchinson, Rogers, Owens, Wil son, Cobbstt, and nobody knows how many dozens of country attorneys besides, are eternally on the road from one end of the week to the other, speechifying, agitating, O'Connellizing the whole country, and cramming all the newspapers with puffs, notices, and advertisements. Now, this looks like serious business at all events, and there must be money forthcoming somewhere, to pay the piper I but better than all, I find that Remington is actually employing Rastrick's men, because Rastrick had no funds to take them on, and now there is not a sur veyor, leveller, or working engineer in the market, to be had for love or money ! ! ! i Let Ashurst deny this if he can ; if he cannot gainsay t, then we have a right to ask him what he means and we have a right to ask his hackers too, what they mean by all this chaffing ? it is clear what they do act mean : they do not mean to do business, unless for theinselvee ; they may mean to kick up a dust, for Remington to water down again ; they very likely intend to show fight, so as to make it worth while to buy a cross ; they may create such an alarm among 'the shareholders as to keep back the deposits, and prevent Remington's shares coming out at a high premium ; and if they do this their, turn is answered, for they must be bought off ; but who will have to pay the cost ? Why we shall ; if we buy off Ashurst for ten or twenty thousand pounds, this is an addition of ten or twenty thousand pounds to the ex pense of our independent line, and we have to thank Mr. Ashurst and his Manchester friends for it, for it is only by their aid that he ever can be worth the purchase; if he is not bought off, and goes to Parliament to fight it out with Remington, :then it will cost some fifty or a hundred thousand, as with the London and York people, and we shall have to pay it to the lawyers I If he is not playing his cards either for a fight in Parliament, or a cross, then I should like to know why he shuffles them it all, when there is no good to be got by it, either for himself or any body else ? It Inuit he merely to re venge himself fur being discarded by Remington's com mittee, and therefore, we forsooth are to hazard losing our line altogether, that we may gratify Ashurst with triumph over his former allies and present op ponents ! I defy Ashurst to escape out of one of these three alternatives ; he means to be bought off at our expense ; or to fight a Parliamentary battle at our expense ; or to defeat the line altogether, careless at whose expense, so long as he obtains his revenge ; let him take his choice of the three ; either is equally disgraceful to him and to his friends, and equally vexa tious and injurious to the Manchester trade. But Ashurst's friends will certainly come in for their full share both of the loss and the abuse : if no business is intended, they are helping him to gull the public for his own selfish purposes: if they really mean to go on, where is the money to come from, except from their own pocket's ? If they succeed in checking payment for Remington's line, can they hope that they will get their own deposits paid, when they have nothing in the way of progress to show for it ? or can they expect to be in time for the next session, where as yet they have done nothing but talk ? and if not in time, can they doubt but their shares will fell to a low discount ? Thus the Provisional Committee of Ashurst will have to " pay for all," like Nuncio in the play, out of their own purses, and all Manchester will abuse them f or th e dis appointment to the trade. Whether they are indemni fied or not, by Ashurst, I cannot pretend to say ; if they are, then it shows that it is Ashurst's personal interest, after all, which we are fighting for, and I fancy that the trade will hardly consent to this when they know it : but if his backers are not indemnified, and by good waterproof, air-tight bonds too, they had better look to it in time it is not very pleasant to cash up ,one's quota of some tens of thousands for usele is sur veys, and profitless sections, and acrimonious adver tisements in the papers. The gist of the whole question is this ; we want a line, and two people want to make it ; and they want to fight their battle with our money, and some of our own people are fools enough to lend their nines to get up and promote this costly sham fight, at the imminent hazard of depriving us of the object on which we hive set our hearts, by impoverishing those who alone seem you e able to accomplish it ; the quest i on is, whet her will submit to be made tools of for such petty, private, and selfish purposes ? If you will, then my time is thrown away, and in common with yourselves, I must submit to the disastrous consequences ; but if you will not, then you have no time to lose, but come forward at once, like men of business, and tell Ashurst and hie friends that you are men of business and common sense, and have no notion of having your best interest sacri ficed to gratify personal cupidity or spleen.—l am, Gentlemen, yours obediently, A MANCHES'TER MAN. P.S. While writing this letter, I have heard that Ashurst and Rastrick have had a meeting of their friends at the Royal Hotel, this morning ; this royal game of humbug must be checked ; it would be more to the purpose if Ashurst would call a public meeting, as invited by Remington, and give a broad contra diction to Remington's charges of vindictiveness and dishonesty ; these hole and corner meetings only prove that there is nothing substantial in the mat ter ; fair play is always open play ; but however that may be, I aver, and I challenge contradiction, that having regard to the progress made by Remington's people, and the less than nothing done by Ashurst, our only chance of getting the line at all, i s to g i ve ail our help to Remington, and carry hien through on our shoulders; if we trust to Ashurst, and to people who will lend their names without knowing why or where fore, only to make difficulties where all ought to do their best to smooth them, we shall spend a deal of money for nothing, and may wait till doom's-day for our railway. How does it happen that out of such a host of pretended patrons and supporters, Ashurst can get no stronger acting Committee ? This looks very queer ! Some six or eight names, out of more than a hundred influential patrons ! ! ! and this petty list to manage such a magni ficent undertaking as a line from Manchester to Lon don ! ! ! Methinks this fact alone speaks volumes—hut insist that Ashurst and his Manchester friends shall give a plain answer to two plain questions—they have been answered already by Wellington's Committee, and an swered publicly and satisfactorily, and in person, and at Manchester. 'Will you pledge yourselves to go before Parliament next session ? Are you in a state to do s 9 ? Answer this, Messrs. Ashurst, Rastrick, Dillon, Cal decot, and Co., and we shall know what to make of you ! 22d August, 1845. GENERAL NOTT.-A meeting of the Committee appointed to superintend the erection of an appropriate testi monial to the memory of the gallant General Nutt, took place, on Wednesday se'nnight, at Carmarthen. There were present —the Mayor (who presided ), •.;4' il. Love, C. 8., D. Pryiherch, H. Lawrence, M.D., E. H. Stacep Lewis Morris, Esqrs , Major Bowen, and J. Longmore, Esq., the Secretary. The minutes of the last meeting hiving been read, the amount cf • subscriptions was stated to be 1,1701. Arrangements were made for more extensively advertising the project, and a su b committee was appointed to canvass the town of Carmarthen, and receive subscriptions.— Cambrian. A few days ago a fire took place in the village of Cournois (Puy de Dome), by which 30 buildings were de.. stroyed. It is supposed to have b een th e work of an incen diary.—French ~.-..+ice BRAN DESTON HALL ESTATE , SUFFOLK. This propert:e has b , :endoomr;dto strange vicissitly . latterly. The history of the hull may be traced tot time of our Qu-en Elizabeth, and its architectural f' is in strict keeping. with that order. It has been 1,. residence, from time i mmemor i a l, tif the most respect nebles and esquires ef the :emnty. It was only W I , • twenty years since Mr. Mills, a gentleman of respec, ability, became th e p ossessor . F ear years ago, Fort ed (that tiecertein jade) forsook him, and untoward ei; comitances coelp.dled him reluctantly to (pit it. was then placed in the hinds of trustees, al ° ordered a sale to take p'ace, under the e'' rec:ion of Mr. G eorge R o bi ns. A t that pen land area heavy in the market, and with all Ifs exertioos he filed to ob-tain the reserved price, which was al 35,000 guineas. It should he remarked that the h' from lack o:' means, has fallen a g rod deal into decal: !led the ,t ibli ig. o cc the pri le of f inner owners, w h o ; hunted t ttis elm tf ry, ware laid pro trate for wl ,nt means It is environed by a pretty park of 80 at, ,vith the river Deben flo,v;ng through the e:tete two rni!es ; and the d Pmaet exterule to near 700 s Olll of very fine conver tibl e l an d . Cennected with it "", the extensive manors, royalties, and immunities ; a re :, seecteble ten entry eecepy the iar ms 1,0601. a yet an I the mansion, when pl iced in good oeler, with 1 "; park and manors, will b e worth 300/. a year. 03 , 4 out'ay to restore the house and the farms will 0 .1 excee I 4,0001., when the annua l va l ue , f or t h e w h o l e , be 1,4001. or 1.:i00/. a year. Such is an outline °, the prop, ty under review. Tire sale, about four )ea t , failed (as it has a l rea dy b een stseed), farad tt f -; years since Mr. Ronirtm was deputed by t h e mor tja,e ., to sell it peremptorily. Th e resu l t was, a purchaser ard found at the auc ion fir 30,000 guineas, independent' , of the timbe r , whieh is estimate-1 a t 4,000 guinea This gentleman, from reasons not qu to understindat became an unwilli ng p urc h aser, and sought relief in r„ Court of Chancery, w h ere , upon a po i nt of techi'ea!" alone, he avoided his contract. A third sale took pLs this season (in .Tune), when this trivial flaw prorided for by more stringent conditions sale, and it was announced for peremptory 5 Much excitement prevailed throughout the county, fait prejudice was strong in respe c t t o a d ou b t f u l title, at" I was sold to a friend of Mr. R o bi ns ' s ( to i nc l u d e the time for for thirty thous an d gu i neas . A n arrangement, howe c°' was shortly afterwards made, by which the contract consigned to Mr. R. At the sale Mr. Austin, the -emin counsel (more especially in the railways, who, it seems, A , horn hard by) bid 30,0001., Mr. Robins's friend veil, soon sold his bargain to him, who p u rchased solely for investm en t, an d too k i mmediate s t e ps ',, have his architect to look over the estate, an d adjul what was necessary to render it a fit abode for the a for Ipswich, and to make all his tenantry comfortable; indeed he ordered a thor oug h repa i r o f every f arm . result was, an outlay in view of four thousand pound During this progress it became known that Mr. Georg Robins was the bond fide buyer. N o one d ou bted th_,7, his prudence would not allow him to hazard 30,U". guineas on a doubtful title, and still less to doubt 1 1. judgment as to the v a l ue . P re j u di ce soon gave way, °l3e, Mr. Austin, after having reconsidered his previous dete; ruination, thought h e c ou ld not d o b etter than tre a(q the steps of the new possessor. 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