The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-25 00:00:00

BANK RET URNS. Bedf;rd Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Ban&, Bedford — Tr, p, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bsnk, Bewdley—Nichols, Baler, and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co C,trrnar then Bank, Carmarthen —Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chcrtsey—Megsrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchestr—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex lhak, and fiadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co n o r nigh Bank, Truro —Tweedy and Co .. Coven 47 Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood c-Ktk City Ban c, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice., Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow. Old Bank, Chepstow B ink, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon - Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Measrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby ow , . Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, De,rbv—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Aevonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- man Dorchester OM Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, D.,rchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, %TO Co. Eftst Hiding Bank, Beverley—Bowar, Hall. all Co. Eegax Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford —Sparrow, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co F a k ir Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck. and Co. FaTringdon Bank and Bank of Vantage, Far ri ngdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Goialrning Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and lce3n Grantham. Bank, Grantham—Kevvney and King luildrord Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham —Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford awl Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull --Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don--Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hortfori shire, Hitehen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Pub+lleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Aleltandets ani Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Eington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knnresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Enaresborough-7Terry and Co Kendal Bank; Kencial—Vi r akVfield, Crewdson, and C 0......... Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotzh and Sons Lea° End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C, liarvz_sy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds inion Bank,Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leiaester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green. Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smi t h and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ' Cradock tons and Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank, Nianningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marbbrough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Ilungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney C 0.. ................................................... N av al Bank, Plymouth—llarris, Madge, and C 0.... ................ Bank.... and Everett Sarum .............................. New Sarum , , C 0.... .............. . Nottingham Bank, Nottingham — Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, oa westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Sank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell ti ii, : i prfoyd Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, ilaff ClP_t..., C,,, :el7l/rßankTOfibridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge i „, t ,. - --.___lVireits:ol4l Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Z7_11 . ., . Wells and' Sevenoaki Bank, Tonbridge-- 4 IG:-: v . . , -Bombing and 5048... 0 \ "C4e` "V i Oxfora h ire Mitney Bank, Witney— Clink, V---7 gad CO ...,,,,,, ~~~~ ~1 (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, sap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12 th da y of January, 1850:—. Average PRIVATE BANKS. 43mm:it. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 12,111 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,937 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and G Copeman 4,417 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Riekford and aunt . ..... 29,281 Baldock Bank and Baldook and Bigglesvrads Back, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell Barnitaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 9,644 Basingstoke and Odihan Bank, Basingstoke — Seymour, Lamb, and Co. _ 4,250 13,534 Crane Bicaster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. •••• • •• ••• Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwocd s, Spooner, and C 0... Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham —J. L. Moilliett, and. Sons ............. 13,525 ~ Boston Bank, Blandford—Bastard a na Oak. 7,864 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co ...... . ...... 58,774 ADWITI Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 14,768 Bridg vlter Bank, Bridgwater—l. &J. Seale) , 5,749 *date] Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 38,430 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and "Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,584 Buckintelara Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 66.015 Bant:ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 27,086 nan'onry Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 28,434 Bath City Bank, Bath—Molter and Son aedfordshire Le , ,ghton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard —Bassett and Grant 33,058 atrminghana Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloydi Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Bridoort Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and 3orrer Burlington a.id Dritfteld Bank, Burlington — Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Worlledge and Co. Eiromso,Tore Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, arid Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortiock and 12,954 12,346 65,391 33,192 11,895 2,925 11,850 19,778 40,680 26,920 16,716 3,Q55 16,036 33,692 35,803 7.319 17,051 73,300 5,860 7,043 11,811 34,976 24,803 10,160 10,401 53,963 62,031 10,029 43,940 97,168 49.464 45,005 59,367 21,124 6,155 11,853 5,494 5,648 9,341 24,380 27,751 13,936 19,951 18,740 38,829 4,734 21,957 33,375 18,139 21,779 63,083 16,892 19,597 7,342 18,891 36,227 7.747 5,130 54,207 34,961 24,429 27,967 17,120 77,881 18,645 6,105 3,612 36,208 11,982 14,396 4,942 14,710 Marlborough ilia North Wiltshire Ne a w I 1 8 j a i l n i k e M ar lb or ough—Ward, Merriman,Merriman,an ti! erionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Wi11iam5......... MSeers' Bank, Truro -Willyams and co onmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 24,893 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons. Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S leaford—Haudley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond. and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harreys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkber i k Nottingham and I•Mtinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Flart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 8,837 7,223 11,026 10,478 7.955 22,843 43,396 20,310 20,582 49,250 66,153 6,281 4,188 21,150 13,344 25,995 11,795 8,319 32,793 3,585 1,200 THE SUN, LONDON, Average Amon t Pease s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—t3atten and C 0... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—Mosfss. Yorke • Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson 36,778 10,851 and White Pemnrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood... Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshiro, Ross—Pritchard and Alla?my Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury of Bank, and Shrewsbury and• Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons. and Co _ Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce 14,825 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story — Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King - Southampton and Uampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall . 4,615 Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,566 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 11,545 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,446 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 19,593 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's--Gib- son and Stuart — Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 20,162 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 8,805 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 8,950 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,584 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. 9,880 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt &Co 6,829 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 41,554 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 4,046 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Barilr , Weymouth—Elliott and Pears Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesvrorth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake.. 13,303 Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 8,472 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 68,930 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,240 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co — 7,591 11,23 6 ..... 26,857 28,425 5,330 9,298 5,420 8,506 12,422 12,392 14,255 8,9113 4,461 32,267 14,132 21,966 31,468 3,236 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 19,972 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford ... .... Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking _ Company, Chesterfield .. 8,099 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,350 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,493 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby . 19,129 Darlington District Joint-Stockl3ahking Com , Pany, Darlington. - - - - - . 14,048 Ea - §t of England Bank, Nbrwich •"+ 26,538 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 124,445 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 38,551 Hull Banking Company, Hull 24,185 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 36,898 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,520 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,123 Knaresborough and Claro 'Banking Company, Knaresborough 20,269 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,464 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 42,725 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,116 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham... Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 1,633 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London _ ___ _ 352,668 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 40,193 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 63,369 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,020 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei- tester ..... Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,115 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,173 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset -1 ' shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stonrbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stonrbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield , 19,329 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock B an ki ng Swaledale 'r and Wen ' SiteihGi s c l 50,087 Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Ban k, Sheffield . . Wolverhampton aud Staffordshire Banking Com -38,441 pany, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,035 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 19,291 Whitehaven . Warwick and Leamirigton Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 68,929 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3,256 Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester York Union Banking Company, York 58,470 York City and County Banking Company, York 91,420 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns, Inland ReTenne,.Soraerset Rouse, Jan. 19, MO. FEMALE EMIGRATION. (From the Chronicle.) We elsewhere lay before our readers a document I which will be perused with earnest attention by all who interest themselves in Mr. Sidney Herbert's plan of Female Emigration. It is the Report of the Sub-Committee appointed to consider " the most advisable mode of ensuring to female emigrants a proper reception on reaching the ports of their desti nation in our colonies." But it embraces various other topics of primary importance, connected with the management of this benevolent enterprise ; and, as it has been received and adopted by the General Committee, we may regard it as presenting an epi tomised summary of the principles on which the undertaking is to be conducted. The leading points of this report may be briefly , stated. First, as regards the proper selection of emi grants, it is proposed (inter alia) that candidates should not exceed thirty-five years of age—that they should be " entirely free from any mental or bodily defect likely to impair their usefulness as settlers" — and that " their characters for industry and morality should be satisfactory." Next, it is recommended, with a view to the effectual protection of the emi grants during their transit to the colonies, that they should be sent out on board Government emigration ships, in the event of the Colonial Land and Emi gration Commissioners being satisfied that the charac ter of the emigration is such as to entitle it to their sanction; otherwise,!that they should go out " in small parties, on board free emigrant ships, with a view of securing to them that protection which the presence of married couples and families interested in the mainte nance of order and decency would, to a certain degree, afford." And it is further suggested that, in the latter case, " the emigrants should be placed, during the passage, under the charge of matrons, to be selected for the purpose, and that the utmost caution should be used in ascertaining the characters of the officers of the ships." With regard to the third head —namely, the aid and protection to be ensured to the emigrants on landing—we are" informed that, by an arrangement with the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, they will, on reaching the colonies, "be received by Government officers, who will be instructed to give them all the assistance and advice they may require, as to the rate of wages, the places where employment may be most readily obtained, and other similar points." In other respects,- likewise, it will be seen that substantial temporary aid will be afforded to the emigrants during the interval that may elapse before they are provided with employment. Under the fourth head of the Report, which relates to the costs of outfit and passage, some interesting particulars will be found, which will still further show the solicitude of the Committee, both to place the character of the emi gration beyond the reach of doubt or cavil, and to improve to the uttermost the pecuniary means en trusted to their disposal. The most cursory reader of this document cannot fail to be deeply impressed with the painstaking anxiety which the Committee evince, to exercise, in all respects, a wise and prudent stewardship over the funds confided to them, and to preserve this great and noble work of benevolence free from any admixture of evil or any risk of failure. Those who have the best means of information as to the state of feeling in the colonies are strongly of opinion, that it is all-essential to the success of the undertaking to choose only emigrants whose moral character and industrial capabilities will bear the fullest scrutiny ; and that, if there were any feature in the scheme calcu lated to awaken suspicion on the part of the colonial public as to the characters of those sent out, the leading aim of the plan would be most seriously marred. 13)th as regards the future welfare of the emigrants themselves and the general interests of emigration, it is matter of primary necessity to send out (especially at first) none but those who will be acceptable to the colonies, and whose moral and industrial qualifications are such as to insure their success. In a word, the principle on which the Committee have proceeded is, that the unexception able quality of the intended emigration is a matter of capital moment, not only with reference to the sen timents and feelings of the colonies themselves, but as regards likewise the permanent interest which the mother country has in seeing colonial society con stituted on a sound moral and material basis. The stress which the Committee lay on this and similar topics in their Report ought completely to remove any lingering scruples on the part of those who have hitherto hesitated to support the under taking, through an apprehension that they might be indirectly contributing to weaken the motives to virtuous conduct, by assisting destitute persons of equivocal repute. It is at all events impossible to allege now, that a subscription to the Female Emigration Fund can in any way have the effect of impairing the prudential sanctions of virtue, by placing some who have :yielded to temptation in, a better position than others who have withstood it. It is put beyond all doubt by this report that every shil ling of the fund will be expended in promoting the welfare of the most meritorious class of the distressed —in removing from the sphere of vicious and degrading influences those who have not fallen victims to them—and thus in practically teaching the poor the inestimable value of a good character. We earnestly commend this consideration to the minds of those benevolent and conscientious persons whose generous sympathies with the object of the en terprise may have been checked by ethical scruples. The relief of destitution will, in this instance, ope rate as a direct encouragement to virtuous principles and habits ; and the larger and more numerous the emigration, the more conspicuous will be the moral lesson. On all our readers we would once more emphati cally urge the claims of this admirable charity. Looking at the studious precautions adopted with reference to the selection of recipients, their prepara tion for their new destination, and the aid and pro tection to be afforded them during their passage and on their arrival; and looking at the social wants of our colonies, and at the incalculable importance of rendering them attractive outlets for our vast, increasing, and adventurous population —we cannot hesitate in saying, that never did a charitable under taking come before the British public with more numerous and more powerful titles to energetic and munificent support—never had the contributors to a scheme of beneficence ampler reason for assuring themselves that they are doing real, permanent, and unalloyed good. THE LATE EBENEZER ELLIOTT. There is jilst,issuesl (by C. Fox, Paternoster-row). , the-first of two;olurries, entitled " More Verse and 'rose, by the Corn-law Rhymer." - The following is its preface : " The Elgin marbles are representations of the processions, and battle 3 (the everyday °eminences, and common-place) of old Greece ; and the Elgin marbles are poetry in tho highest. "In IL agland, railway meetings and speeches are everyday occurrences ; and the evil doings in railways constitute a drama of horrors, compared with some of the actors in which, Rush (the wretch who paid him self in blood for unexhausted improvements) was a stainless angel ! Has not that drama its poetry ? Perhaps a hundred millions have been wasted in un wanted railways ! I did my best to prevent that waste ; and though I cannot know that any of my writings or sayings will live, I desire that my chil dren and theirs shall know (through them) that I did my duty while others were supine. "To be summoned on a jury is an everyday occur rence in England ; but if I bad never been summoned on a jury, I should not have known that there is a class of men in England, whose capital (worth at least two thousand millions) may be said to be in a state of outlawry, left, without any legal protection, to the mercy of another class, who may appropriate, and with perfect impunity proceed to devour it at any mo ment ; for the customary law, called custom of the country,' established by tenants as their sole reliance, is not binding on landlords. Say not that this state of things has not its poetry ! " Bets, Bubbles, and Banking' are everyday mat ters in 7ingland ; but such things have furnished the means for carrying on, in my time, wars which have cost the lives of ten millions of men ; in the infinite horror of which, Trafalgar and Waterloo were but trifling though splendid incidents ! Now, to conse crate in the poetry of sculpture this tremendous com monplace, a Phidias only is wanted. In due time, that Phidias will be found ; and then, our days of de gradation will have their Parthenon. "In the meantime I claim to have been a pioneer of the greatest, the most beneficial, the only crimeless Revolution which man has yet seen. I also claim to be the poet of that Revolution—the Bard of Free trade, and through the prosperity, wisdom, and lov ing-kindness which:Free-trade will ultimately bring, the Bard of Universal Peace. I know not that my claims will be conceded ; the world will lose nothing if it be not conceded, nor will I complain, but neither will I bate a jot of my right; for self-sacrifice in concession to wrong has ever been the root of worst humiliation—and tyrants come of slaves. " It is remarkable that Free-trade has been carried o t i f o n t h . e w w o r h k e i n n a c s a s m es e , a but u F t r i e n e t spite e o a g f t t a h t e o i r r i o o p p 1 0 8 5 2 i 4 - by the middl e c l asses , no t on l y w ith ou t th e ass i s t ance I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the corn-laws an evil. The merchants, to a man, thought them beneficial. Exactly in propor tion to the plunder-power exercised on his fortunes by the aristocracy, did the would-be squire idolise his destroyers ; and I had discussed the question ten years in all ways—by speech and Writing, in prose and verse—before I made my first Sheffield convert of the mercantile class, William Ibbotson, Esq., of Globe Works. Did I not think I had done a feat? Yes, I felt it through my heart's core. But then came Feargus, and his blarney ' • trades-unionism, fierce in its imitative glory; and chartism, with its stone-blind selfishness ; all fighting for the enemy ! Wisehead, at last, was born of Empty-Pocket, in a respectable FRIDAY EVENING, neighbourhood; and from that moment monopoly began to tremble. " EBENEZER ELLIOTT. " Margate-hill, near Barnsley, Oct. 17, 1849." INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday (William Cubitt, E President, in the chair) the paper read was, "On the Periodical Alternations and Progressive Permanent Depression of the Chalk Water Level under London," by the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. The author began by defining the chalk water level to be, " the height to which the water rises at any point or continuous series of points in the chalk, or from the chalk in perforations, through the London and plastic clays, above the chalk." The term " artesioid" was used to describe those wells sunk through the London and plastic clays, in which the water rose from the chalk, or the sands of the plastic clay formation, above the level of those strata, though it might not rise to, or overflow the surface of the ground. Reference was made to papers read before the in stitution in 1842 and 1843, in which it was shown that the chalk water level was described by an in clined line drawn from the highest level at which the water accumulated in the chalk, to the lowest proxi mate or vent, or outfall ; a general rule, which was found to hold good, not only where the water was found by sinking into a permeable stratum, but where, as in the London Basin, the water rose from a per meable stratum, through perforations in any imper meable stratum above it. The example treated of in the paper was described by a line inclining at an average of about thirtee❑ feet in a mile, from the outcrop of the London and plastic clays to mean tide level in the Thames, below London-bridge. The height to which water rose in the Paris Basin, from the lower green nand, was adduced in confirma tion of that rule. Before the Artesian well at Grenelle was bored, M. Arago calculated that the water would rise above the level of the soil at Paris, as it rose above that level at Elbeuf, near Rouen. The height at which the water was found in the lower green sand, near Troyes, being one hundred metres above Paris, and one hundred and thirty-one metres above the sea, the author found that a line drawn from that point, to the level of the sea at Havre (where the green sand cropped out), passed over Paris and Elbeuf at the elevation to which the water actually rose in both places. A calculation based on the same principle (taking the level of the water in the lower green sand, at Leighton Buzzard, at two hundred and eighty feet above the sea), showed that if the chalk and gault were bored through in London, the water from the green sand would rise one hundred and fifty feet above Trinity high water mark. Passing from the natural, to the actual condition of the chalk water level, under London, there was a general permanent, depression of from fifty feet to sixty feet below Trinity high water mark. Measurements of a well in London, in which the level was seldom disturbed, showed periodical alterna tions, coincident with the exhaustion and replenish ment of the chalk stratum by natural causes, to the amount of four feet six inches, and a permanent de pression of one foot six inches per annum, or twelve fcet in eight years. Again, referring to former calculations, it was shown that the margin of this depression was extend ing in a greater ratio towards the north than to the south, or S.E. Since 1843, the level was perma nently depressed at Hampstead road ten feet; Cam den Town, nineteen feet ; Kilburn, twenty feet ; and Cricklewood, ten feet. The limit of the depression being, in 1843, between the latter places. Allusion was then made to the influx of water at the point where the Thames passed over the outcrop of the sands of the plastic clay formation, and the chalk, as a pint to be determined by geological inquiry, and connected with observations as to the action of the tides on the level, and the chemical quality of the water, in that neighbourhood. The general conclusion drawn from all these facts was, that the rapidity of exhaustion from Artesian wells under London, greatly exceeded the rapidity of supply; that the amount of defalcation was marked, and could be measured by the extension of a progres sive permanent depression, proving that the supply of water from the chalk stratum became each year more precarious, and less to be depended upon, even should there be no addition to the Artesioid wells in and around the metropolis. In the discussion which ensued it was shown that only such a supply of water percolated annually through the chalk stratum as could be accounted for by the discharge from the rivers of the upper dis trict. The results yielded by Dalton's Rain Gauge, as used by Mr. John Dickinson, were adduced in proof of this position. The chemical analysis of the water from wells sunk into the chalk showed the probability of an in flux of the tidal water of the Thames to replenish the vaccuum caused by the immense extent of pump ing from the London wells. On the other hand it was contended, that from the great extent of surface whence the chalk derived its supply, there might be such a surplus store of water as would warrant any amount of pumping, for the do mestic supply for the metropolis. The discussion was announced to be continued at the meeting of Tuesday, January 29th, which would be entirely devoted to it. THE DUNDEE AND PERTH RAILWAY.-A sad acci dent took place upon the Dundee and Perth Railway, on Saturday, at one o'clock P.M. A train arrived at Perth, with a signal that a special goods train was following. The moment the train arrived the engine left to cross the line, to be turned at the company's depot. Attached to the engine wal a carriage, in which were seated Mr. Cragie (station-superintendent) and Major Cleghorn. This carriage was pushed by the engine, which went down the wrong line ; but before starting, the signal was put on to stop the special train. The driver of the special tram, however, took no notice, but ran past the signal 150 yards, and the engine ran into the carriage, which was therefore between the two engines, both of which were going at a great speed. The carriage was at once smashed to pieces, and the two gentlemen very much hurt; Mr. Cragie so much so that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Major Cleghorn is not so seriously injured, and is expected t) recover. The driver and stoker of the engine that pushed the carriage, when they saw the special trai n approac hi ng reverse d th e i r engine and jumped off, leaving it is supposed the steam on; for after the accident, the engine ran away in the opposite direction, without any person upon it. By the time it arrived at t' e junction with the Scottish Central line, it was Ong at a s p ee d o f s ixty miles an hoar • lint the man at the, pkints fortinitifely turned it into a side line, where it pitched into a goods train that was formed for starting, b rea ki ng many wagons to atoms. ASSASSINATION IN CORSICA.--A notorious COTSi can bandit, named Tancredi, was a few days ago tried befire the Court of A ss i zes o f C ors i ca , on t t e charge different times, a men m named Audit"! Natalli, a man named Dominique Martini , an d, murdering, a m n a g n , a t finally, for attempting, on the 24th of March, 184 9, to murder some gendarmes. The several cases of murd er were c l ear ly p rove d naed Morelli, urderi sgeinst the prisoner ; and it was shown that for a long time be hal teen accust mod to carry off young girls to caves ant forests and the re comm it v iolence on them, that he had le v i ed contributions on the peaceable i n h a bit a nt; of the v illa ges , that he h a d committed so ma ny excesses of all kinds, and had exercised such a system of terror, th at in some pl aces t h e v ill agers h a d left their fields uncult i vated, and h a d a b an d one d t h e i r fl oc k s and herds. No one, in fact, ventured to resist the audacious bandit; and the people did not even dare to assist or give hospitality to the ge ndarmes sent to ar res t ki ss . When he murdered Natall i, the . son of the latte r wa s present, and in an agony of despa i r cried, " Oh! when will your turn come?" " Not until after yours," calmly replied the bandit, as he reloaded his gun by the side of the corpse. Notwithstanding the monstrous guilt of the prisoner, the jury in convicting him declared that there were extenuating circumstances, and he was only con demned to hard labour at the hulks for life. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ►SHOEEDITCH.--On Wed nesday morning, at a law minutes: past six o'clock, the premises of Mr. H. T. Bushell, a hat manufacturer, at No. 114, High-street, Shoredich, were discovered to be in flames. Afterisome trouble the inmates of the premises on fire, as well as those surrounding, were made sensible of their danger, and they all succeeded in making a safe retreat, but not before the flames had penetrated the roof, and were pouring forth with such fury as to threaten the adjoining property with destruction. The engines of the parish were re markably early in arriving, and wore followed by four more belonging to the brigade, and that of the West of England Office from the Waterloo-road. Fortunately the fire-plugs of the East London Company yielded an abundance of water, from which the engines were set to work, but by that period the flames had obtained possession of the workshops under the second floor' and had extended through the top of the building, so that some considerable time elapsed before the con flagration could be subdued, and not until the staircase, &c., on the second floor were burned out, the greater part of the roof destroyed, and the stairs and workshops under very considerably burned and damaged by water. No. 115, is the same street, in the tenure of Messrs. E. and M. Bushell, milliners, &c., has the stock in trade and staircase damaged by water and removal. The batter's premises were insured, together with the con tents, in the British Empire Mutual-office; and the mil liners' premises were insured in the Atlas-office. LINCOLN'S INN.—The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay has recently been elected a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. The circumstances under which the election took place are equally honourable to the society and to Mr. Ma caulay. This distinction is, it will be recollected, usually restricted to Queen's Counsel, a dignity which Mr. Macaulay has not a tt a i ne d, he having, as is well known, long ceased to pra c ti se a t the bar. The Right Hon. Gentleman's nam e , h oweve r, remained on the society's books. Some s h ort t i me ago ho sent in the usual for mal notice to hav e hi s name erased therefrom. On the receipt cf this notice, Vice-Chanceller Knight Bruce brought the subject under the consideration of the bench, and by a very large majority it was resolved to call, in the person of Mr. Macaulay, an utter barrister to tho bench of Lincoln's run. - J AN UAR Y 25, 1850 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) MOSELEY V. HOUGHTON. This action was brought by Mr. Moseley, a dentist, carrying on business in Berners-street, Oxford-street, to recover fifty-two guineas, for two sets of artificial teeth, supplied to an old lady, between sixty and seventy years of age, who resided at Leamington ; and it was tried at the last assizes, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Mr. HumFusr now applied for a new trial, on the ground of affidavits impugning a certain portion of the evidence. The plaintiff, it appeared, was in the habit of advertising in newspapers that he would visit certain provincial towns for the purpose of giving advice as a dentist, and supplying teeth, and among them was Leamington, where he said he could be consulted on particular days, at his residence in Lower-parade. The defendant visited a person whom she supposed to be Mr. Moseley and ordered two sets of teeth, which were supplied to her, but they did not fit her mouth, and finding out subsequently that Mr. Mosely was represented by an assistant, and only made his appearance in Leam ington"once in three months to collect his accounts, she refused to pay his bill. When Mrs. Houghton returned home, after having a set placed in her mouth, her daughter found that she could neither speak nor eat ; and the only fact made out by Mr. Moseley was that he made the teeth on the atmospheric prin ci[le, which was perfectly true, for the atmosphere appeared to have such an effect upon them that when she attempted to speak the sound emitted from her mouth more resembled a whistle than anything else. (Laughter.) A cast was simply taken of her mouth at Leamington, and the teeth were made in London, and he called several dentists of eminence at the trial to show that it was impossible by such a summary mode to fit a mouth with the necessary ex • actness. Mr. Baron RoLps observed that one set was ordered to be made larger than the other. Mr. HumraEY said the :plaintiff wanted the second set a little larger, in order to take the wrinkles out of her face, and give it a fuller appearance.— (Laughter.) lie apprehended, from the nature of the advertisements, that personal attendance was im plied ; for the services to be rendered were not of an ordinary nature, which might be performed by an agent or deputy, such for instance as selling hats, but required great skill and care. It could not be said, if such eminent surgeons as Mr. Brodie, Mr. Lawrence, or Mr. Cooper, were to intimate they would receive patients on a 'particular day, that the advice of an assistant could be considered as valuable or as an equivalent in case they should not be them selves personally present. The Court granted a rule. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 24. There was no case of public interest before the Commissioners who sat to-day. A dividend meeting was held in the matter of Messrs. Leslie Alexander and Co., who carried on business as merchants in Broad-street. The members of the firm have long since obtained their certificates. Claims to the amount of nearly 10.0001 were tendered, and ad mitted to the extent of 7,6001. There was a great deal of discussion, but altogether upon points of law. Mr. Bagley was counsel, and Messrs. Lawrance, Linklater, and M'Leod solicitors for claimants. The meeting was adjourned to Wednesday next. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 21. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RE WILLIAM DREDGE. This insolvent was heard in December last, when the schedule then filed was dismissed, on account of its inaccuracy. Mr. SARGOOD, who supported to-day, said the in solvent on the former occasion had been very ill-ad vised by a p?rson who prepared his schedule, but that now he had employed a respectable attorney to pre pare his proceedings. Mr. Commissioner PttiLurs thought that the at torneys of the court ought to look after those per sons who frequented the prisons, and usurped their practice, or frequent cases of similar injury would occur. The insolvent, after a short examination by Mr. STURGEON, was discharged. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jan. 24. (Before the ASSISTANT• JUDGE.) After:the case of Jones, the begging-letter impostor, reported yesterday, had been disposed of, the prisoner was again placed at the bar, with a woman named Jane Farr, upon an indictment, charging them with having obtained a Bank cheque for 301., from Mr. Ro bert Richard Wood, a gentleman residing at Fulham, by means of certain false representations, contained in a letter. Mr. Plum( said, that having obtained a conviction against Jones, and as the Court had already heard sufficient of the prisoner's character, and the woman Farr, with whom he lived, having been convicted of and sentenced fur a similar offence at the Bath ses sions, he would not press the second charge. But in order to draw the attention of the Court to the extraordinary nature of the letter, by means of which this fraud was committed, and in order to ex pose the system to the public, he read the fallowing letter : " B All, Sept. 19th, 1849. " Sir,—lt is now more than twenty-fire years since I have been removed from London, though I have seen you a great many times since. I am the niece of J. H. Plaskett, Esq., who, in conjunction with W. D. Adams and T. Hicks, were senior clerks in the Secretary of State's office, and the widow of the late W. IL Wood, of Winchester Cottage, clergyman of the Church of England, who died some years ago, leaving me with a family of eight chil dren, with only a small annuity of 701. a year to maintain them. I have, to increase my income, exerted my pen for the religious press, by contribut ing to the Clergyman's Magazine, the " Edinburgh Christian Instructor," the Society fur Promoting Christian Knowledge, and I am the author of " Mo ral and Religious Ta les for the Young, for the Use of Families and School.," and for three years past I have been engaged upon a work, " A View of His torical Events recorded in the Scriptures, as com pared with Heathen or Mythological History, with copious Notes," a work of great labour and surpris ing research, and for which, by close application, I have injured my health, and also my means, because my whole time has been devoted to it, and for some time past I have been greatly annoyed by tradesmen pressing me rudely for some accounts which I justly owe, and will duly pay as soon as my : half-year s annuity is due. My health is not so good as for merly, or I could finish my great work in two months. It will realise me 7001. or 8001. I have had more than three or four offers for it in the un finished state by London publishers, the work to be revised and finished by a clergyman of the Established Church, all which offers I refused, and put my whole trust in God to bring it to a close myselt." [The let ter proceeded to state that she was pressed by a Bris tol publisher for 104/. 11s. 6d., the amount of a bill, but she was unable to meet it in consequence of her re sources being exhausted by sending her son to India ; and in continuation went on to say]—" A gentleman called upon me yesterday, along with a friend of his from Fulham, and in the course of conversation at the tea-table, knowing that my uncle Plaskett was so long in the Secretary of State's office, mentioned that there was in Fulham a gentleman of my name, who was in the same office, and that he was a gentle man of remarkable piety and goodness of heart. It struck me that you were a friend of my uncle, and upon further conversation found it was so, and knowing my circumstances they advised me to write to you, and I am about to solicit a favour of you, Mr. Wood—and I suppose you, for the sake of my family and credit, and the work upon which I have struggled not to refuse—would you lend me 201. or 301., or, if that is inconvenient, even 101., upon my own integrity, or upon my stock papers, until the 16th of next month ? If so, you will be my benefactor and saviour of my family and character, which, as these papers will show you, is very high, and perhaps that is the best of all human security. The note dated from Bishops • thorpe, is from the Archbishop of York, signed 'Ebor,' (Latin for York), and those I hope will be considered guarantees of my integrity. I will say no more upon this head, only this—think of the widow and father less ; save me by not withholding a friendly loan for a few days, which shall be promptly paid. Ido not think you will refuse me; you must now, Mr. Wood, be far advanced in years, 79 or 80. How is your general health ? A great age indeed, but my good father lived to 97. The ages of men in the present day are nearly the same as in the days of the shep herd kings of Israel. The sweet psalmist says that threescore and ten is the average of life, though some by great strength obtain fourscore, but then their strength and labour and sorrow soon passeth away, and we are gone. I have recently lost a beloved c hip, my eldest daughter, from cholera. She was all that was virtuous and good—the time of her proba tion in this world had arrived—the mandate of the Deity went forth, and was quickly obeyed, that the earth should return to the earth, as it was, and the spirit unto God that gave it. When such, Mr. Wood, is the uncertainty of human life, let us prepare to meet the hour of our dissolution, with unshaken con fidence in Jesus. "I remain, yours sincerely, k"'URA WOOD. " Please address Mrs. M. Wood, at Mr. C. Fran cis's, No. 6, Avon-street. "An answer by return, with the enclosure re turned again. " M. W." Upon the receipt of this letter, Mr. Wood imme dintely enclosed a cheque for 301., drawn upon Childs and Co., in a letter, and posted it to the ad dress indicated. On the prisoner being apprehendedin B tth, this letter was found with a heap of others, in which money had been enclosed, apparently under similar circumstances. This led to inquiries which resulted in the present prosecution. No evidence being offered, the jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty. The Learned JUDGE said, that there could be no doubt but the prisoners were engaged in an extensive conspiracy to plunder and defraud the public, and they had carried out their schemes with great tact and ingenuity. The male prisoner was remanded to the House of Correction, sentence having been deferred on a point of law raised by Mr. Prendergast, which was stated in our report of yesterday's (Wednesday's) proceed ings. The female prisoner was handed over to an officer of Bath gaol ; and on leaving the dock, in re ply to an observation of the Learned Judge that she was the dupe of Jones, said she acted on her own re sponsibility, and was not duped by any one. The Court was occupied nearly the whole of the day in trying an appeal, in a case of bastardy, but the details were not of a nature to require a report. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. James Burton was brought before Alderman GIBBS for final examination on the charge of having forged a ehrque upon the firm of Rogers, Olding, and Co., for the sum of 151. Alderman GIBBS (to the prisoner) —I shall commit you for trial and you will have an opportunity of clearing up the whole affair to a jury. GUILDHALL. John Goring, lately in the service of Her Majesty, in the silver department at Windsor Castle, was brought up before Mr. Alderman Finnis for final examination, charged with obtaining some gold watches and chains, to the amount of 321. 125., under false pretences. The prisoner declined asking any questions, and Alderman FINNIS committed him for trial. Mr. Nobler, the solicitor, said that he attended to prefer other charges against the prisoner, and called Mr. W. Cooper, of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, silversmith, who said, on the 3rd of January the prisoner, whom he had known for some years as living with a Mr. Thomas in the Strand, previous to obtaining the situation at the Castle, called on him and represented that there was a person in the Palace going to be married, and they wished to have some plain silver plate to match what they had already got. Witness on this representation let him have six plain table-spoons, value 31. 14=.; six ditto, forks, value 41, 6s. ; six desert ditto, value 1/. 18s. ; five desert-forks, value 1/. 1 ls. ; four round salts, value 41. 13s. 9J., and two gravy-spoons, worth 11. 17s. Witness had since ascertained that the salts were pawned within an hour afterwards. Alfred John Melhuish, assistant to Miss Flemming, pawnbroker, in Farringdon-street, said—l produce two table-spoons, two desert-spoons, six table forks, and five desert ditto. Mr. Hobler—Where are the gravy- spoons ? Witness—l do not produce them, as they were not identified by Mr. Cooper last night. Mr. Hobler—W here are they ? Witness—l left them behind. Mr. Hobler—Then you must produce them ; fit Mr. Cloper, on reference to his books can identify them. The witness then very coolly pulled the two gravy spoons out of his coat pocket. In continuation the witness said that the prisoner pledged the above property, as well as a watch, for 11/. 12s. on the 4:11 of January, in the name of John Goring. Mr. Cooper identified the gravy-spoons. An assistant from Mr. Wood, of St. John-street, pawnbroker, produced four salts, which were pledged on the 3d of January, after dusk, for 2/. 10s. in the name of James Goring. Mr. Cooper identified them as his property. Alderman Fusms committed the prisoner on this charge also. The next witness was George William Adams, from Messrs. Chawner and Co.'s, spoon and fork manufacturers, Hosier-lane, Smithfield, who said that on the 28th of December the prisoner came to him and said he wanted two plain table-spoons, six plain teaspoons, and six shell teaspoons. Witness gave them to him, and he left, saying he had not the money then, but was coming to town on Monday with some old silver, and witness agreed to take what he brought in exchange This took place between three and four o'clock. A pawnbroker produced the property, and said they were pledged by the prisoner on the 28th of December, about dusk, or shortly after four o'clock, for 3/. 10s. Alderman FINMS asked the value of the property ? Mr. Adams said the two table-spoons were worth 1/. 1 le., the six plain teaspoons 1/. 1 ls. 61, and the shell spoons 3/. 14s. The prisoner declined asking any question, and Alderman FINNIS committed him for trial on this case also. There were other charges against him which were not entered into. The depositions being so voluminous, there being more than twenty witnesses in the cases, the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow for them to be made out. WORSHIP-STREET. Margaret Higgins and Elizabeth Smith, two women of notorious character, were placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, for further examination, charged with stealing a watch, finger-ring, wearing apparel, and other articles, from the person of Mr. Frederick Hardy Jewett, a solicitor, residing at West Ham, in Essex, and having chambers in Lime-street, City, while under the influence of chloroform, administered by the prisoners, and whereby his life had been placed in imminent danger. The prosecutor, who was unable to attend at the first examination, on Monday week last, subse quently appeared on Friday, and, whilst labouring under excessive debility and nervous prostration, stated, that between nine and ten o'clock on the evening of the 10th instant, he was proceeding slowly along the Whitechapel-road, with the intention of taking the first omnibus for his private residence, when he felt some one, whom he believed to be a woman, touch his left side, and at the same moment felt a rag or a handkerchief pressed over the lower part of his face. He instantly became insensible, and was conscious of nothing that occurred to him until about daylight on the following morning, when he slowly revived, and, upon recovering sufficiently, found himself lying upon a very dirty bed in a wretched apartment, and in a com plete state of nudity, with the exception of an old piece of rag which had been carelessly thrown over him. He remained for some time in such a helpless and bewildered condition that he was scarcely sensible of anything surrounding him, but, upon his senses being partially restored, he staggered out of bed, and found a portion of his clothing upon an adjoining chair, but that his greatcoat, hat, boots, and Cashmere shawl had been stolen, and, upon his drawing on his trousers, he found that the legs of them were incrusted with mud up to the knees, as though he had been dragged forcibly along the read whilst in a state of insensibility, and that, besides the property beforementioned, his watch, finger-ring, a silver toothpick, and some loose silver had been car ried away. Upon his attempting to make his way out of the house, he found that the door of the room had been secured on the outside, and called loudly for some time for help to no purpose, but at length heard the sound of footsteps in the passage, and, on repeat ing his entreaties for his liberation, he was answered by a potman, who had come to collect pots from the other apartments, that the door was fastened by a padlock. He at the same moment felt his foot strike against something upon the floor, which turned out to be a small key, and upon thrusting it under the door it was found to fit the padlock out side, and he was at length enabled to get out. He then discovered that he bad been confined in a back room on the first-floor of a low lodging-house in Thrall-street, Spitalfields, and, feeling so faint that he was scarcely able to support himself, he knocked at the door of another apartment, in which he found a man and woman, the former of whom, at his urgent solicitation, at once proceeded to the offices of his father, whose managing clerk subsequently arrived in a cab, in which he was conveyed to the station-house, and gave information of the treatment to which he had been subjected. The prosecutor added that he had been ever since under medical treatment, and described his sufferings, resulting from the adminis tration of the narcotic which had been applied to him, as of the most overpowering description, and that they still produced a paralysing effect over his whole system. Upon the case being called on yesterday the pro secutor was again absent, and his father, who was much distressed, accounted for bis non-appearance by stating that since the former examination his son had relapsed into the most alarming state, which required the constant attention of the family surgeon ; he had been ever since confined to his bed, and had been perfectly delirious for several days. Mr. AnstoLD said that it was a most lamentable occurrence, but he would proceed with the case in the prosecutor's absence, as there were several wit nesses in attendance who had not been examined. Sergeant Kelly stated that having ascertained that the prisoners jointly occupied the apartment in ques tion, from which they had absconded immediately after the occurrence in question, he proceeded in search of them, and having traced the prisoner Higgins to ano ther house of the same description, he took her into custody. On apprising her of th e nature of the charge the prisoner exclaimed, " I did not do it; it was Fat Bet (meaning the other prisoner) who brought him to my room, and after robbing him of his things she stuck to the regulars, and never gave me anything." She then went on to inform him that he would find the other prisoner at a house in George street, Spitalfields, and added that she wished her to be " lagged" (transported), as one was as much in it as the other. Police constable Johns, H 76, proved the eppre- d hension of the woma n S m ith at the place indicates by her fellow prisoner, an d th a t upon taking her I.nt° custody she retorted the accusation upon lligglns, and said that the latter alone was concerned i n the robbery. lie had frequently seen the prisoners enter the house in question, and on the night of the rob bery . observed them both hurrying along down Osborne . street, in the direction of th e spot w here the pro seen tor was shortly afterwards waylaid and assailed. ,_ Catherine Donovan, the wile of a greengrocer.T the neighbourhood, deposed to a conversation whiena had taken :place between the prisoner Higgins be another woman at her shop about the time of tot robbery, in allusion to which she acknowledged On th s she " had done it," and had got the money oc l previous occasion she had told her that a man nsm ' e Gallagher, with whom she cohabited, had under an operation at the London Hospital, where th e y 4 1 1 0 given him some stuff to send him to sleep, and tho u ' . 01 had contrived to bring some of it away Wit h ` .l from that institution. After hearing some further evidence of a corrobtio: rative nature, and which went to establish thn, c° ,4 nexion between the prisoners, the Magistrate nr," ti ib e them both to be remanded for a week to Awa it " e .. result of the unhappy condition to which the pr° 5 3 , 7 cuter is reduced, and afford the police an o Pr rtuill of tracing some p or ti on o f th e s t o l en property , ni ) ,„ ° B one article of which, the pro s e c ut o r's coat, the Ds"' " Blankley" was stated to be stamped. THE COUNTRY MARKETS BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 24.—At Gloucester and "a.,11, aster markets on the 19th, the wheat trade ruled "",i $ tit a reduction of Is per quarter. Barley of all k! l ' a i was taken slowly at a similar decline. Oats main ea. their value. Beans and peas he'd f tit former P r r,iie During the present week there hal again been very I !' bt passing in the trade. Some quantity of wheat r e ; i f f have been dispo,ed of by submitting to a further 'to p er ' Is per quarter. Barley very difficult t c , sell, and i a rates wt uld be accepted if there were buyers. 19cts ,. - ar taken in retail at former prices. New beaus Is P er At cheaper; old beans and peas nominally unaltered• te r this day's mat ket wheat was again 6d to is per ( I l l f t be cheaper, with a dull trade. Barley sold slowly ro, is currency of this day se'rinight. Very little P as '' ° " . 0. oats. Beans found buyers at the above noted refi ne On peas the turn was in favour of the buyer. li b e ral NEWCASTLE-UPON- rYNE, JAN. 22. — Having 5 y 1 supply of farmers' wheat, the trade ruled dull and ",,e-00, at barely the currency of S a t ur d a y l as t. Barley , h`t o s and other grain, moved off slowly at about Poll rat( a. ding LONG SUTTON.— Return of sales for the week on - _ae f 10 se - Jan. 19—W heat, 299 qrs, 2 bush, 567/ Os 6 d (a 001 37s 104 d); barley, 0 qrs, 0 bush, 001 Os Od ( av : f g'id). 0.1); beans, 134 qrs, 0 bush, 152119 s Od (aver. 2.'eq-fis 10 LYNN, JAN 22.—Wheat, 30s 32s to 345, fin e 40s; barley 20s to 225, fine 24s to 25s per qr. V ALFORD.—Averages for the week ending Ja n ' I , 2 aeOt Wheat, 38s 104 d; barley, 22a Bid; Oats, 13a Od; "- 26s 61 per qr. 425; SLEAFORD, JAN. 21.—Wheat, white 393 tO os; red 35s Od to 39s Od; new Os to Os; barley 21s tc oats, 14s Od to 18s Od; beans, 26s to 27s per qr. ,10 LOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wheat 36s to 40s; barley 9.1 245; oats 13s to 17s; beans 25s to 30s per qr. 1 v oli UPPINGHAM, JAN. 23.—Wheat 37s to 40s; ha r t 'tier to 245; oats 15s to 245 ; beans 24s to 36s per qr. '- 10d to lid per lb; eggs 15 for Is. ig O . DERBY, JAN. 22.—Our su pply of fat bess-- eve morning was about the av e ra ge , and the quality g t he r illy of the middling sort ; th e ' demand was fla t fe i r fa on worst quality of beef, and there were several 100 ' e l i t tls hand. The supply cf sheep was not large, with st d of% improvement in the demand, and all were dispos fßef The supply of fat pigs was good, chielly.lrisl't 6 ,1 to made from 5d to sd; mutton, Sid to 6d; pigs , 3141° 8s per score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of Hides, 1/d per lb. Calf-skins, 2d to 3id per lb. w ean GLASGOW, JAN. 23.—The severe cold eXPer. V during the last week has now given way to a thg%/g.g peat supplies. have been trivial, and only ten quarters of tif4 reached Grangemouth from abroad. Trade wa s in% for during the week, limited to necessary purchallenadt immediate use. 'llls day's market wa.a thinly s “ e ltish and, excepting some inquiry for Indian cool ° : 11 ad° account, there was little passing, and prices inc h° buyers' favour. t a 0 0 0 EDINBURGH, JAN. 23.—The quantity of wheat -r t oo forward this day was 1,524 qrs, being 250 qrs i ner : e rag i lass week. Top price 2sfici up and 9d down on the 6 4 for —153 qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brong'ireela ward was 1,005 qrs, being 3 qrs more than li t - 0 001 Price on the top and the average t he j„ war; 128 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 1,336 qrs brought ' 4 `; : r i 901 or 291 qrs more than last week. Top price - tity °' the average 6d up-113 qrs unsold. The gulf" vine beans was .188 qrs, or 15 qrs more than last we 40 1(1. on the top 6d up, and the average Id down Od Top of Wheat ... ... 6 3 ib s 463 Od ... Barley ... ... 56 lbs 265 v, c l 1 ... Oats ... ... 45 lbs 205 " d ... Beans ... ... 66 lbs 29 3 6 go prif EDINBURGH CATTLE • MARKET, JAN. 23.--'Th e, ,,:n 10: of cattle this morning was 570, being 185 more tio„s week. Quality generally very superior. On accoll;ble the great supply, sales were dull, and a Onsid e OS' number unsold. Top price of the best beef 7 5 ro se 0d current 6s 6cl to Os Od; middling and inferior 5s tc,,,leg per Dutch stone. The supply of sheep this 001;00 was 3,218, being 463 more than last week. Sale s f ed exeetclit.gly dull, and at the close of the market ° „ s too great quantity were unsold. Top price of the best 03" 5i.1 per lb; current, 4d to sd; inferior, 3d to 3 4 of EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, J't l4 " 60 0 , Supplies of all kinds again large. Oat straw, fro al gees 60 lOs Od per kemple of 16 stones Iron; wheat ditto, 01 ia to 7s 6d; barley ditto, 5s 61 to 6s 6d. Bah if° to 10d per stone. 631 ibl ' DUNBAR, JAN. 22.—Wheat, weighing boll s ' brought 39i Od, and prices to 32s Od ; , 0 P i weighing 001bs, brought 21s 6d, and prices", 00 1 ' Od ; oats, weighing 451bs, brought 1 83 , 9 641 1b6 prices to 15s 6d; beans ad peas, weighing Ire' brought 24s 6d, and prices to 003 Od. , The re , 4 , 0 DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 21.." - "'^,,;§ ClOi n . 109 bags of oatmeal and 9 of barleymeat at r to . b% market. Sales dull. Oatmeal up on the top 6"rmeal t'' . and 3d per bag on the second quality ; barler turn in favour cf buyers. ribg a Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. Fi rs t Secon d 09a te imperial I3arleynseal, per ditto - ... 24s Oct 17s Od 1 6 s 64, Od I'easemeal ... .„ ••• od —5 Od .. -5 Ad' Flour ... ... . —s Od -te a OD —sOd — 0 . 00 Pot barley ... ... -•• ... —s Od -- 5 23s Oct :.....0 coact 00' RAILWAY SHARE MAR ,— °e ,so, BRISTOL, JAN. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market maintain s its t ° 0 1111 1 14;:1 -4 11 1 and a goad business has been done, but the onlY IWO v in prices were—Great Western, Quarters, 1 654 r — Somerset, 10 dis LIVERPOOL, JAN. 21. , Pr,, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market as rather, dull and prices are somewhat lower. The transactno6o. follow : East Lancashire, Preference. Quarters, 71'„d10,'cl, Liverpool. Chester, and Stockport, 5 dis.—Lond o n Western, 117% —Ditto, New Quarters, 35. 9d. P, ; ( * :ter° 44 3 / 4 —Ditto, Halves, Is 3d. c. South-Drtiteli - Dover, 20% Ditto (No. 4), 61. 13s. 9d. Rhenish, 5% dis.—North Union (B.), 161. MANCHESTER, JAN. 24. dOtword STOCK EXCHANGE.—But little business Wa r - doil l tsli; our Stock Exchange to-day, and prices ha d 3 ~et - 3 0 a tendency. The transactions were as follow g oldr ij 64 cashire, 11 % —Lancaster and Carlisle, 50--Lal i ijoint i ',,/ Yorkshire, Fifths, 7% dis.—Ditto, W es t Riding 1% r o / dis.—London and North-Western, New Quart e ,r, r6 ), 1,, 44 ;1) , Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Qua rts —Ditto, Preference, 8%. te BIRMINGHAM JAN. 24. y e STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market Was —r i i pgrtr day, but it w a s u n d ers t oo d th a t th e p r ivate de li ~c 1 P°air considerable. The transactions were — London c roirtl i. " Western, New Quarters, 1% p......ShrewsburY $ ll ham (A), 71. 13s 9d. . 0 Were YORK, JAN. 23. i f 0 4 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions te-itstlef follow: Great Northern, 71. Is. 3d.—York , iT" - Berwick, 16 1 A—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase) , 2 7e . 0 ere e s GLASGOW, JAN. 23. i ,„ fi a - i if 4 Srocx E XCIIANGE.— The transactions telt' tot Y . t . il P t follow : Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 52 7," - A . rbr°' - Or ' e f. (No. 1), 13—Ditto (No. 2), s:4—Dundee an d — 6d --"' —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4 1 . ni.f*, ............., Northern, Preference, ' 5 per cent. guaranteed, .1." i ris' the BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Montreal, near Sevenoakel of r . countess Holmesdale, of a daughter. th H of ot.0 t . On the 22d inst., at Mount's-park, Wilts, —4 , 3 ., i 0 ,. B. Bellers, Esq., Captain 50th Regiment, of a 5 2: . fife (7 " On the 22d inst., at Whetstone, Middlesex , tu" tr T. Bartlett, of a son. , ,i s t of I On the 23d inst., at Hyde-park-square, the a"' 1 0 0 "' R. Reed, Esq., of a son. John '4' On the 21st inst., at Hamilton-terrace, St- ,, o f the wire of P. S. Coxe, Eq., of a daughter. f s ''' On the 22d inst , the wife o Edward William see, join of Smith-street, Chelsea, of a daughter. ife On the 22d inst., in Devonshire- s t re et, the 0 Irving Glennie, Esq., of a son. 11 , h AVI ciA MARRIED. On the 20th inst., at St. Pancras New Cher e i,' Fr i° Tristram, jun., surgeon, Liverpool, to Susa luul- . 0 0°11 daughter of William Jacks'in, E-q. St. Pancras. piel‘ f i giof On the 22d inst., at Aldenham, Herts, 8 33. 1 11 ,,0 tott k Webster, Esq., of Penns Warwickshire , to ''',; r ;e, ' daughter of Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., of Beeet" Beauvoir-grove, o t i h r - e g r 2 O v i t e h , K i n i s n t 4 . , s 1 aanftdeD,rlED. V 8 , tit of • ivelw , e Gutter•lane, City, much respe t 'd° itt .11 ' .to CO - On the 2i st inat., at Peckham,. Surrey, age 2, 7- ' id , P Hnnslip, forme' ly of the 9th and 66th Regiun e '' he J" 0 W. the 21st inst., at Holbecks, the widow of t el s r. Rowley, Bart , of Tendring- hall, Suffolk, o „g e ,„„doll;,,,fibi' 0 0 n n the t h : 2: 2 i t s i n t st . i n London a t la , M n a t l o i r r e i l -G l i s o l et t n o a . r g s: A ev l u r e:r p ' er pe l l i ti lt t r i Samuel Davenport , inst. q aged r - " n tr, f• il ' On the 21st ins,t.,sa? aged o . ld . p. t i e l !'n ri ez re ":l7 s b q t°ll' l ,' r i‘ ee t l : Henley, relict of William dall-hall, Hefts, sister of the e l r a t te anidliaunt 0f„,,,,1c1f60rd3/31 Right Hon. Lord Ongley, of 0:d Warden, •"` ~ ti• aged 79. , gni, On the 21st inst., Mr. Joseph Ling, of HolloWaYd, WI On the 22d inst., at North-bauk, St. Johns -0° Westall, Esq., A.R.A., aged 69. voe- , .e O P Oa the 22d hist , at Langtons, Hornchurch, ' ce' widow of John Massu, Esq., aged 79. ,-, o re II oo rili . l , cr A pi n O n u e n a s. h h t i l i a l l i e r , t s h 2 t a l a , o ~re , On the 91 t ' s:tsitdeinaosdwt:Chapel-street, kA r nas ie - s inst., Charles ,)'Brier, E. ( 7 1. , George O'Brien, 14 . -- 8( 19 of Cheshunt, Herts. o F f ss t e h x e , laagteedC?o9l.onel.Tholsoo of he late rt() London : Pri nted and Published by SUB of --- No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t The SURI COO tv Pdo• 0 StrAnd, in tit: , Precinct n't the Savoy, in l' - iiiiddleoex, Friday, January 26, 1850.