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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRuAtt i 10 1845. elusion of the natives, appeared to me not less at variance with the directions of the Marquis of Normanby to Cap tain Hobson, " to obtain by fair and equal contract with the natives the cession to the Crown of such waste lands as may be progressively required for the occupation of settlers," and to apply the proceeds of the " re-sales of the first purchases' to the provision of funds necessary for future similar acquisitions. It must be remembered, that these directions had not only been promulgated, but acted upon in the colony at an early period after the sovereignty had been assumed. Lastly: it appears to me inconsistent with the practice of these tribes, who, after cultivating, and, of course, ex hausting, a givenispot for a series of years, desert it for a nother within the limits of the recognised property of the tribe. On the other hand, I had no doubt that on your ar rival in New Zealand, you would find that there were considerable tracts of country to which no tribe could establish a bona fide title ; and still more extensive dis tricts to which, by personal communication with the chiefs, you would obtain a title on easy terms and by amicable arrangements. I had thus, in some measure, anticipated the wish of the Committee, but I cannot with them in directing you "forthwith to establish the title of the Crown to ail unoccupied land," except, in deed, under the extensive qualification of the following words of the report, " as soon as this can be safely ac complished." On this fundamental point depends the whole of the ar rangement with the New Zealand Company, to which I must now advert; and in reference to which I do not think that the report of the Committee readers it necessary that I should is any way modify the instructions whieth you have already received. I do not think it would answer any useful purpose to discuss the terms of the original agreement with the Company. I retain my fixed opinion, that that agreement was based upon the assumption that the Company had obtained by purchase from the natives a much larger tract of land, of which they consented to receive a portion by ,erant from the Crown. The Committee have records d their opinion, " That the New Zealand Company has a right to expect to be put in possession, by the Government, with the least possible delay, of the number of acres awarded to it by Mr. Pennington ; that the Company has this right as against the estate of the Crown, without reference to the validity or otherwise of its supposed purchases from the natives, all claims derived from which have been sur rendered ; adding, that the Company, in selecting the land to be granted by the Crown within the defined limits, cannot claim the grant of any land not vested in the Crown." On this subject I have only to advert to the letter from my Under-Secretary to the Governor of the Com pany, of the 10th of January, 1843, in which I made an offer, rejected by them on the 24th January, to in struct the Governor " to make to them a conditional grant, subject to prior titles, to be established as by law provided, not only of such portion of the Wellington settlement as is in the actual occupation of settlers under them, but also of all parts not in the occupation or pos sessian of others ; the extent of such grant, of course, not to exceed that to which they are entitled under Mr. Pennington's award ;" and to the subsequent letter from Mr. Hope to Mr. Somes, of the Ist of February, 1843, and to my instructions to yourself, which I had reason to believe, when they were issued, were acceptable to the Company. Those instructions authorised you, in sub stance, to make grants to the Company, and to their settlers, of land to be selected by themselves, within the districts :specified in the arrangement with Lord John Russell, so far as the Crown had power to make such grants—that is, subject to the condition that such lands were vested in the Crown, and that no other parties could establish a valid claim to them. Tnis direction was repeated in my dispatch to you of the 26th of June, and appears to me practically to fulfil the intentions of the Committee, as embodied in their 4th and sth resolutions ; for while they assert the right of the Company as against the estate of the Crown, they as distinctly negative the right to select any land not I vested in the Crown. The question then ultimately re solves itself into the inquiry, whether any particular lands be so vested ; and I see no mode of settling this question but by the conditional grant, which you are already instructed to make, giving to the Company and its settlers the benefit of a prima facie title ; but not de barring other parties from substantiating by law a prior title. You have already been instructed further to use your influence in obtaining for actual settlers, on fair and reasonable terms, the powssion of lands on which they may have effected impropasents, even though an adverse title should be substantiate(); and to these instructions I have nothing to add, nooo'ee the Committee, I think, suggest any practical solutlifii of the difficulty. I am not with out hopes:that heal ate report of the Committee reaches you, you may have been enabled, in pursuance of the in structions which you hare already received, to place this question on a satilfactory footing. You will carefully consider the suggestion thrown out by the Committee in their seventh resolution, of raising a revenue, and at the same time of checking an inor dinate accumulation of waste land in the hands of indi viduals, by imposing a tax (subject to the conditions and exemptions there specified) of 2d. per acre, or any other sum, upon all lands in the colony. You will ob. serve, that from this 9iise it is proposed, by the eighth and ninth resolutions, to exempt the lands of the New Zealand Company " so long as they shall continue to Bell not less than 1-25th of the land granted to them annually, and to expend a fixed proportion of the pro ceeds in emigration,' and also lands actually occupied and enjoyed by the natives, as " reserves set apart and held for their benefit: . It is, of course, intended that the tax should apply to all lands claimed as the property of native tribes, and not in actual cultivation; and I presume it is contemplated that the non-payment of the tax shall be followed by confiscation of a portion of the lands equivalent to the amount of the tax unpaid. I think it will be very difficult to apply the principle to the remoter tribes, which are only partially subject to our authority; and with respect to all, its application would require the greatest caution. I wish, therefore, to leave you an unfettered discretion on this point, though, if it can be peaceably effected, it would appear to suggest an easy mode of obtaining a large amount of disposable land in commutation or redemption of the tax upon the remainder. The Committee (page 11 of their report) lay great, and, as it seems to me, very just stress upon the adop tion of a good system of native reserves. I agree with them in opinion that the natives should be encouraged as far as possible to settle upon land reserved for them, in terspersed with the lands of European settlers, rather than in large and detached block s, wholly . isolated ; but this is an object which can be only gradually accomplished, and which you must induce the natives to adopt of their own accord, and to which you cannot drive them by force. I understand, indeed, that the local Government has already acted upon this plan, and also anticipated the suggestion of the Committee to lease to Europeans, if they can be induced to take them, portions of the land reserved for the benefit of the aborigines, which they may not require for their immediate occupation. With regard to the reserves within the Company's territory, the Committee express an opinion by their 10th reso• lution, " that these reserves ought not to be included in calculating the amount of land due to the Company;" but I do not find this subject adverted to in the report, nor any reason assigned for the conclusion at which the Committee appear to have arrived. You will perceive that the Committee, by their 11th resolution, advert to the confusion and mischief which has been stated by the witnesses to have arisen from the non-settlement of the land claims, and recommend that measures should be adopted for " granting legal titles with the least possible delay to the actual occupants of land, except under special circumstances of abuse." It is probably not necessary that I should now rectal to your recollection the importance which, in our discus sions before you left this country, I attached to an early settlement of land claims generally. I trust that before this can reach you, the titles of all who may have been able to substantiate their claims according to the provi sions of the Land Claims' Ordinance, will have been fully confirmed, and the necessary title deeds been issued to them. The resolution of the Committee, however, ap pears to point to cases of occupation by patties without legal claims. It is difficult, without fuller information than I possess as to the number of persons so occupying, the history of the means by which that occupation was acquired, and the extent of it, to give you any precise instructions on the subject. I can only, therefore, state generally my wish that such persons should be dealt with in the spirit recommended by the Committee, in as far as it is practi cable to do so consistently with the provisions of the Im • perial Land Sales Act, 5 and 6 Viet., c. 36. YOu will not fail to observe an opinion strongly ex pressed by the Committee, " That the prohibition to all private persons to purchase land from the natives ought to be strictly enforced, except that land which may have been purchased by natives they should be at liberty to sell again, provided the transaction be sanctioned by the Protector.' There can be no doubt of the necessity of imposing such restrictions on the sale of land as should preclude the possibility of the Government being outbid in its negotiations with the natives by private settlers ; but you appear to entertain an opinion that a mode might be devised by which parties might be allowed to purchase directly from the natives, the purchaser paying to the G overnment on eac h sa l e suc h an amount as t would ee be fully equivalent to the ordinary difference be n t land • 13 sold the price paid to the natives and that at which whether you Government. Until I shall have learnt eulev e taken any and what steps in this di rection, labstain to the from doing more than calling your at tentionopinionof the Committee. Be fore I quit this s sect,l must add that with everydesire to maintain for the natives all their just rights, 1 cannot but think that some of those by whom they hare been advised have formed, ou o raied them to form, ex• aggerated notions of the valuec which and have sanc tioned claims for compensation i ich certainly appear extravagant. I have not receivedw to your of any cir cumstances of this kind subsequentyouwould arrival in the colony ; and I am sure that demands to discourage any exorbitant or unreasonablefeel it your duty upon the settlers, by whose presence and exertions it must 'be remembered the present high va l ueh given to the possession of land, which, before fl:" been • al of Europeans, bore a very inconsiderable money value, It would, I think, be easy to show, that while it is our bounden duty to protect the natives against aggression, it would not tend to their real advantas,, , ee to encou rage them to expect inordinate payments for their land, while such a system must have the effect of checking the spread. of European immi g ration, on which, if properly con trolled and regulated, the prosperity of New Zealand, as a British possession, must mainly depend. With regard to military and naval protection, touched on by the 13th resolution, the Board of Admiralty had already, as you are aware, under my directions, sanc tioned the continued presence of some vessel of war; but, adverting to the calls which are made for steam-vessels in every . direction, and to the enormous expense of maintaining them, I cannot hold out to you the expec tation that her Majesty's Government will have it in their power to accede to the recommendation of the Committee, that an armed steamer should be constantly " 4 0 5•11 silks' rudiment shall be willing to appropriate funds specially for this purpose ; nor can I hold out the expectation of a large increase to your mili tary force. On this subject we had full explanations previous to your departure. There is no army in the world which is called upon to perform such severe duties as ours in time of peace ; every addition to the colonial service renders necessary a corresponding increase in the force at home, in order to maintain a sys tem of reliefs, which is absolutely necessary to the comfort of the men and discipline of the ser vice ; and there is nothing which has so per nicious an effect upon that discipline, as the system ne cessarily resorted, to in the colonies, of breaking up the military force into small detachments stationed at remote points for the protection of scattered settlements, and affording scanty opportunities for supervision by superior officers. I conceive that the character of the settlements in New Zealand renders it peculiarly neces sary to guard against this evil, and the military force at your disposal must not only continue limited in amount, but must also be kept as much as possible concentrated, and only applied in extreme emergencies. If, indeed, it had been my duty to instruct you to act upon the principle laid down by the majority of the Committee, of considering all unoccupied lands as vested in the Crown, and of confining the native tribes to such portions as they are actually enjoying and occupying. I should have felt that a very large increase of both mili tary and naval force was requisite, and should have looked forward with apprehension to the results of the alieuation and hostility which such a measure would en gender between the two races; but I rejoice to see that the Committee abstain from recommending that you should act on the principle which they lay down, and, for my own part, I cannot take on myself the responsi bility of,Areseribing to you a course which, I believe, would be neither consistent with justice, good faith, hu manitydor policy . . I discussed with you personally the subject of the establishment of a militia, adverted to in the 14th re solution, or of an armed police force on the footing of the Irish constabulary ; and directed your attention to a short dispatch of Lord J. Russell in 1840, suggesting this subject for the consideration of the local Legisla ture, and promising further instructions upon it. It does not appear that such instructions were subse quently transmitted, nor have the Legislature, so far as I am aware, directed their attention to the subject. It was brought to your notice by my dispatch of the 1 lth of March, 1844, and I do not doubt but that on the receipt of that dispatch you will have acted on the instructions conveyed in it, if you had not antici pated them. I entirely concur in the wish expressed by the Committee in their 16th resolution, that the natives should, as far as possible, be employed in the civil service of the Government, and I need not re mind you of your own avowed determination to en deavour to act upon this principle, and gradually to in corporate them into European society ; conferring on their chiefs such petty marks of distinction, and such degree of authority as they might be trusted to exercise, and employing the natives generally in the duties of messengers, police, and other subordinate situations, im plying,'however, a certain amount of confidence. Whe ther it would be possible or safe to embody natives as a military force, either mixed with the settlers, or as a native corps, officered by Europeans, as suggested by the Committee in their 15th resolution, is a question in volving very important considerations, and requiring much more local knowledge than I am possessed of to form a correct judgment. The only remaining resolution of the Committee upon which it appears to me necessary that I should ad dress you is the lith, which recommends, "'that efforts should be made gradually to wean the natives from their ancient customs, and to induce them to adopt those of civilised life, upon the principle recommended by Cap taro Grey in his report on the mode of introducing civi lisation amongst the natives of Australia." Knowing, as I do, the deep interest which you take in all that relates to the welfare of the natives of New Zea land, it would be, I feel, superfluous on my part to press upon your attention the importance of the subject of this resolution. The Committee, in referring to the report of Captain Grey, evidently can do so only with reference to thq adoption of the general principle upon which he pro.; poses that his system should rest ; the details of his plan are obviously unsuited to the character and habits of the natives of New Zealand, differing as they do most widely from those of the aborigines of the continent of Australia. The difficulties with which the governors of the other Australian colonies have to contend in inducing the na tives to adopt a settled life, to resort to cultivation of the soil, and to engage in the occupation of Europeans, do not exist with you ; and the rewards which he holds out to settlers for the permanent employment of natives in their service, and other leading features of his scheme, are obviously wholly inapplicable to New Zealand. The principle upon which Captain Grey proceeds, viz. that of bringing, as speedily as possibly, the aboriginal inhabitants of the country under similar laws with the Queen's native-born subjects, and into habits of civilised life, is one to which, as you aro well aware, I fully assent, and which no one has more warmly at heart than yourself. I am quite sensible that, in endeavouring to effect these objects, it may be necessary to temper the strict application of the penalties of British law with much discretion and forbearance. Under certain circum stances, indeed, I am afraid it may be inevitable to con sider, before interfering with native customs, which are in themselves objectionable, how far the means of coer cion at your disposal may render it prudent for you to take steps for that purpose, which, in case no resistance was to be apprehended, you would not hesitate to adopt. Difficult, however, as the task may be, I trust that your endeavours to effect it will be unremitting ; and I cannot but hope that, by firm and judicious conduct, by inspiring a respect for the rights which are guaranteed, and a dread of committing the offences which are prohibited by British law, at the same time you convince their minds of its justice, by making them feel that in their persons and properties they enjoy full protection, you may gradually wean the native tribes from their savage habits, render them submissive to British law, and in corporate them in the community of British subjects.— I have, &c., STANLEY. In a second dispatch Lord Stanley inclosed to Gover nor Fitzroy copies of correspondence with the Admiralty respecting the furnishing a steam-vessel for the New Zealand service. The average cost of such a steamer as that required, of the class of the Volcano, is stated to be about 5,0001. a year; the expense of the Volcano being, in the year 1841, 9,0012 ; in 1842, 5,1572; and in 1843, 4,5871. In the first of these years:the vessel was completely refitted. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FRO3I THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Her Majesty's Ministers are evidently de• sirous of being considered unusually liberal and resolute on the subject of Irish education. They have chosen the medium of the Royal Speech to recommend to the " fa vourable consideration' of Parliament " the policy of improving and extending the opportunities for academi cal education in Ireland." It has not escaped the attention of the public that this is the only measure so distin guished. Mr. Gladstone, if we may . venture to guess at the meaning of his very elaborate circumlocution of the other evening, has been scared from his scat in the Cabinet only by what is here foreshadowed. He, we may suppose, has looked upon the reality, in all its grim di mensions ; and is perhaps the only man, net in the Mi nistry, who knows what is coming. We do not forget his modest averment as to the very limited ex tent of his knowledge ; but he " protesteth overmuch." It is already rumoured, with an air of some proba bility, that the " improving" means the complete throw ing open of Trinity College to Catholics on the same footing as Protestants, and an increase of the grant to the College of Maynooth. The " extending," it is said, is to be effected by the establishment of two more col leges, unfettered by any anti-Catholic restrictions ; one in the north and the other in the south of the island. But whatever may be the form of the scheme, it is as sumed on all hands that its effect will be the extension of some real educational advantages to the Catholic po pulation of Ireland—some further advance towards the obliteration of the religious distinctions which have hitherto been the bane of Irish prosperity. And, in this point of view, we have no doubt that a large majority in this country will be prepared to concur in the measure. There is, however, one portion of the scheme, be it what it may, concerning which we must confess the in dulgence of some slight curiosity. That the present Ministry should adopt any principles, however incon sistent with their past professions, or push them to any extent that may be deemed expedient for the service of present purposes, can surprise no one. But there are difficulties not to be evaded by the most consummate pliancy of principle—obstacles which mere moral lubricity cannot syriggle through. how does Sir Robert Peel intend to provide for the expense of the contemplated improvement and extension ? Has he, at length, made up his mind to the necessity of appropriating to secular purposes a portion of the sinecure revenues of ,the Irish Church Establishment ?—or are the people of Great Britain to be asked to pay the expense out of the income-tax ? It is possible that Sir Robe', t Peel may have discovered some third source more eligible for his purpose than either of those we have mentioned. Un objectionable as is the end he seeks, he may so exert his financial ability as to make the means equally so. It is possible—and he will have our best wishes in making the attempt ; but we strongly doubt his success. STANDARD.—It has been represented to us by a friend—one of those whose corrections are so kindly intended, that they are always received by us with gra titude, oven were it not an honour to be noticed by them —that we have been guilty of an injustice to the Lord Chief Justice of England, in saying that he ought not to have lost a day i ti ts rectifying, in his place in Parliament, the mistake!! made by him as to the number of the names omitted in the spe cial jury book, upon occasion of the trial of Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-convicts. " I am sure," says onr kind monitor, " that though Lord Denman made this mistake in the course of his speech in the House of Lords—he made it with an expression of doubt ; and when set right by the Attorney-General for Ireland, affect the principle, corrected it but proeseded to argue that number did not in which his Lordship was wrong." Now, the spirit in which we have always spoken of Lord Denman must have greatly belied our feeling towards his Lordship, if it does not acquit us of any hostile feelin g towards a judge, whom we believe to be as able the bleand as seat that upright e a magistrate as ever occupied particularfialnl fills and e case e t will we be remembered th a t in the were tcarefulhatheto erredsugge st only what through w haste our sincere belief, care lessness. It was therefore with an a nx l' o n u d s wish to find our monitor right and oursel ves wrong, thath we resorted to the only means of ascertaining the truth upon the point. Our own recollection of Lord Denman's speech, confirmed as it was by all the news paper reports, certainly supported the opinion that, from fast to last, hia Xxrdahip Looted upon the fact that oizty names of qualified persons had been omitted from the special jury book ; but it was possible that a bye explanation might have passed between his Lord ship ani the Learned Attorney-General for Ireland, that had escaped us all. In the hope of finding such explanation, we therefore turned to the authorised report of the Noble and Learned Lord's argument pre pared by Mr. David Leahy, one of the counsel in the case, and published by Mr. Butterworth, the eminent law bookseller, on the 12th of October last—a consider able time after the judgment had been delivered. We call this an authorised report, because Mr. Leahy states in his preface that he was in communication with the Lord Chief Justice upon the subject of his publica tion, and he was even favoured with the Noble and Learned Lord's private notes upon the case, which he prints at the end of the speech to the extent of no less than 20 pages. Now, in the speech, and the annexed private notes, we find the omitted names uniformly enumerated at sixty, without any expression of doubt, any explanation, or any correction of the number. "If I am asked," says Lord Denman, in the concluding pa ragraph of his privat' notes (p. 67), " how many omis sions and interpolations will suffice to vitiate a return, I might perhaps decline the question as irrelevant, because the number actually omitted is at all events so considerable, as to disturb the identity of the return. But I would decline to answer it for another reason, the impossibility of tracing the operation of the faulty proceeding. The truth may be, that the whole jury of twelve would have come out of the rejected sixty." Here, then, we think, there is conclusive evidence that Lord Denman did not correct his error in the course of his speech, for he would scarcely permit what (upon the hypothesis that he did) he must have known to be false, to be printed as with his au thority, a month after the speech was delivered. That Lord Denman did correct, with his charac teristic candour, one very important error, we re member ; and we find the correction noticed in Mr. Leahy's authorised report. " I understand," said the Noble and Learned Lord, " that the whole list of jurors for the county of the city of Dublin consists of 717 ; it is also mentioned by Mr. Justice Burton in his judgment. Now the special jury list out of that must be a very small and inconsiderable propor tion of it (viz. of 717), and the omission of sixty names out of such a proportion of the Sheriff's jury list as remained for special juries is enough to affect any panel. I am not sure whether I am stating correctly the number of the whole book or not." " The Attorney-General for Ireland—As your Lordship has appealed to me, I would say that the special jury list contained the names of seven hun dred and odd." " Lord Denman—l am much obliged for the correction," &c.—(See Mr. Leahy's Report, page 17-18.) We cannot help thinking that this is the cor rection which our kind monitor confounds with another equally important correction, which the Noble and Learned Lord ought to have made, but which, uufortu • nately, he does not appear to have made. PROPERTY AND INCOME-TAX. On Friday next the Premier will propose the continu ance of the property and income tax, as he is pleased to intimate thus early, "fora further limited period." What that limitation is to be, whether two years or seven, or the term of our natural lives, he leaves us still to con jecture. What taxes he may at the same time propose to remit, is a matter for the present equally inscrutable to human eye. A week longer is left for the respective patrons of cotton, and corn, and tea, and sugar, and paper, and windows, to weary Heaven and Sir Robert Peel with their cries of deliverance for their several articles. For a week longer the tariff will be melted down to the consistency of speculative or contingent matter in the secret chambers of Whitehall. On ce recast, once chrystallized into a financial exposition, vain will be prayer, deprecation, and argument. It will then receive the adamantine obduracy of its maker ; and no consolation will be left for those who happen to be then disappointed but the reflection that all things pass away and so must ultimately Sir Robert Peel. As we have not given ourselves in a very headstrong way to any one application of this nature, and can bear with equanimity an absolute refusal, we can afford to survey the Premier's dilemma. He lives by his income tax. It is the Club of the Conservative Hercules. Others have a thousand resources, many of them rather indifferent; he has one, and that fairly effectual for the ' nonce at least. Others insinuate a tax here and a tax there, wherever an opening offers; Sir Robert does his work with one knock-down blow. " A strong pull," and, we fear, " a long pull," is his motto. Unless he is blessed with some unforeseen opportunity of changing his line, he must pass for a man of one idea, viz , 7d. in the pound. He will be computed as an additional pressure of 3 per cent. on human industry. As he de serves a better fate, and a more honourable name, so we heartily desire he may repent of the tax before his official exit. For his own sake we should be sorry that he should go down to posterity with that rough append age. Nothing is so intolerable as any approach to a per sonal impost. Vespasian procured for himself thereby an unseemly association of ideas. A poll-tax and Wat Tyler cleave to the memory of Richard the Second's advisers. Peter's penny helped to put out the Pope. Ship-money and benevolences contributed much to the ruin of Charles I. The duty on hair-powder revolution ised the dress, the manners, the mind, and almost the Constitution of England, and is an everlasting type of Mr. Pitt's necessities. We could almost predict an equal perpetuity of fame to Sir Robert Peel's income-tax. How many examples in practice will he furnish to future Cockers and Walkingharnes : How often will the Lex Pelia perplex the student in British antiquities ! How many thousand times will the schoolbc,y confound an in come in the Three per Cents., and three per cent. on the income ! His confusion will be worse confounded when he further reads that this same skinflint Peel wantonly mulcted the people 3d. or more on every sovereign. What with the attrition of the metal, and the diminution of the revenue under the Whig regime, the puzzled youth will arrive at some strange- conclusions to the pre judice of Peel or of the Whigs, as the case may happen to be. Sir Robert, who yields to no man in his eye for future contingencies, has doubtless foreseen all this; and is not a little anxious to set himself quite right with pos terity. To do this, he must soon or late resign the in come-tax. It is one horn of his dilemma. The other is how to do without it. The extent of this difficulty may be perceived by casting one's eye over the return of the public income and expenditure just laid before Parliament. In that important summary the in come-tax is expressed by the very respectable figure of 5,191,596/. With it, there is an excess of income over expenditure of 3,356,1051. Without it, a deficiency of 1,835,4911.; in round numbers two millions, which is no such very great improvement on the good old days of Lord John. Now, the principle of this tax was, that under its temporary shelter, a thriving young plantation of smaller taxes was to grow up to such vi ;our and di mensions as to dispense with their unsightly protector. They are two millions a year off yet. Such is the exist ing embarrassment which the public importunity has aggravated, and threatens to aggravate still more. On all sides arises a clamour for reduction ; commerce, manu facture, enjoyment, and life itself, demand fresh ease ment. Yet every thousand surrendered, is another thou sand added to that two millions which the still laggard revenue must pull up before it overtakes the runaway expenditure. Gladly would we see the cotton-tax or the window-tax removed, but the former reduction alone would make the deficiency in our permanent arrange ments nearer three millions than two. If we once begin with lopping off the lesser taxes, on the strength of that, temporary and fictitious excess presented by the pro perty and income-tax, we may as well give up all thought of its entire abandonment, and resolve it into its temporary and its constant part, its mortal and im mortal nature. Tax wealth, and frank industry—lay your permanent burden on permanent property, but deal lightly with the precarious labours of trades and Professions, and the Minister will have no need to meet Parliament every year with apologies for national con fiscation. Meanwhile a document has been ushered into the world, with a degree of coyness and backwardness quite inexplicable, which seems to throw some light on the Premier's intentions. Unless he has put it out merely in defence of what he has already done, or in a certain exuberance of arithmetical production, merely because it is his nature to develop in tabular forms, it means a further modification of the tariff. In a blue book of considerable bulk we have a comparison of imports and duties before and after the establishment of the new tariff.—The genius of minuteness and subdi vision never showed to better advantage. Eight sche dules give this comparison on articles now producing respectively less than 1001. a-year each, from 100/. to 500/., and so on till we come to two schedules containing the more important items of revenue from 50,0001. to 100,0001. each, and 100,0001. upwards. The commo dities under each schedule are further divided into raw materials of manufacture, partially manufactured, wholly manufactured, articles of food, and miscellaneous. To this is prefixed a summary of the produce to the revenue, which our readers will find entire in another column. The first subdivision shows the amount of the direct relief which manufacture has received from the new tariff by the reduced duty on its raw materials. viz., about 800,000/. a year, the amount of the materials them selves having considerably increased. The second has much the same aspect, showing about 400,3001., repre senting more than that amount of annual aid to those processes which work up and finish partially manufac tured articles. The third shows that, under reduced duties, the import of wholly manufactured articles has so increased as to return the same amount of revenue. The fourth exhibits this still more strikingly in the case of articles of food, comforts, and luxuries. Notwithstand ing the serious, and we suppose it must be added alarm ing,th e in reduction e a o s f e d d u t m i e s o r o e n t t h h a e n s e l i ,4 t e o m o () t ol. ll a r y v e c a n r u . e upon e total shows the revenue a gainer by the new tariff, and the kingdom consequently a gainer by the vastly in creased importation. It is evident that a comparison of the produce to the revenue is the only possible method within the reach of Government for indicating the com parative quantities imported, money being the only common measure of the twelve or fifteen hundred various articles specified in this return. In a day or two we may perhaps gather resolution to plunge into this vast and most miscellaneous store. At present we can only single out one giant loss or sacrifice, as people may choose to take it. By the reduction of the duties on timber the revenue has lost about 800,000/. a-year ; when it is evident that through the general improvement of trade we should have had an immense increase under that head, but for this sweeping reduction.—Times. GREENLAND.—The Greenlanders, who are not very tender with regard to the weather, have this year had to endure a winter much more rigorous than ordinary, the cold having often been 58 degrees below the freez ing point. The inhabitants of these desolate countries have besides been so tormented by famine, that they have kins been b reducedeasts. To heighten to eat their their o old d igarments,,tre: contagiousform d of s malady has brok en out among them, which' a has -carried off many persoia.—Commerce. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 8. (Sittings at Nisi l'rius.) 'Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) 31`DONNELL V. TYLER. This was an action to recover damages for an assault. The offence was alleged to have been committed in August last, on the premises of Mr. Abraham Tyler, builder, in King's-road—the defendant being his son. The evidence went to show that the plaintiff, a week after quitting the employment of Mr. Tyler, called at the counting-house, and demanded a shilling, which he said was owing to him. The defen dant refused the demand, on the ground that nothing was due ; and, on his desiring the plaintiff to go away, the latter said " he'd be d—d if he would, and that it would take a better man than the defendant to put him out." On this the defendant pushed him out of the office in such a manner that he fell en the ground, and received bodily injury. This it was which constituted the alleged assault. The defence rested on the statement that the plaintiff was intoxicated at the time, and that his language and behaviour were such as to justify the conduct pursued towardshim. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. On the trial of the above case the LORD CHIEF BARON, in addressing the jury, made the following remarks: — "I cannot help expressing my regret at the existence of the law in its present form, and happy should I be to see the day when juries shall have an opportunity of ar riving at a conclusion on the evidence solely. As the law is now administered, there can be no doubt that the plaintiff has a considerable advantage. Those of you who have been here on former occasions must be aware that he is the first heard and the last heard. I make these remarks because I think it is to be regretted that juries are left in the dark on certain mat ters, for fear of a reply. It would be very much better if the whole truth were brought out on all occasions, so that we might judge of the entire case, instead of hear ing a part of it and guessing the remainder." COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 8. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) (Before the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) FORTH 2". Lawsox.—LlßEL. This action for libel has been tried before, when the jury were locked up all night, and, not being able to agree, the next day were discharged by consent. The trial being called on at half.past nine o'clock, the special jury list was called over, when but five of the gentlemen summoned answered to their names. The Lord Chief Justice ordered the fine of 10!, to be enforced on each of the absentees. The plaintiff prayed a tales, and a jury was made up. Mr. JAMES opened the pleadings. Mr. Sergeant TALFOUan stated the case. The plaintiff was a clergyman of the Church of England, and the libel for which this action was brought was calculated to do themost grievous injury to the character and feelings and to the dearest interests of the plaintiff. The defendant was a gentleman not unknown in the courts of law, in connexion with the greatest and most important journal in the world—the Times newspaper—as the registered publisher of which he now came into this Court. The libel was published in the Times of the 26th July, 1843. The libellous allegation was, that the plaintiff, being a clergyman of the Church of England, was sus pended for misconduct by the Bishop of London. The pleas which the defendant had been advised to make rendered it necessary for him to introduce the libel to the jury, with a statement of some circumstances in the life of the plaintiff. Mr. Forth was the son of a gentleman who once possessed a considerable fortune, and previous to the French Revolution filled a diplomatic situa tion at the Court of Versailles. Whilst serving the public in that capacity he became connected with persons of the first distinction in France, and, amongst others, with the Duke of Orleans, the father of the present King of the French. He advanced large sums by way of loan to that Prince, in consideration of which three annuities were to be paid—one of 1,000/. for his own life, one of 5001. for the life of his wife, and one of 1,000!. for the life of his son, the present plaintiff, then a child. The Revolution came on, and the family of the plaintiff were severely dis tressed in consequence of having "placed too much trust in Princes." The plaintiff entered the army, and served in Holland under the Duke of York. But he afterwards left the army, and entered Pembroke College, Oxford, to prepare himself for the Church, in which he was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Winchester, in 1803, and priest by the Archbishop of York, in 1806. He after tersverds served as assistant-minister at Dulwich College, and preached at various churches in the metropolis. He was also some years assistant chaplain to the Philanthropic Institution, where, in consequence of some dispute relative to the matron, he resigned his situation. From this circumstance, which occurred thirty years ago, it was sought in this libel to fix an imputation upon the plain tiff's moral character,which would be proved to be wholly groundless. From what he had already told the jury, they were aware that his family had shared in the misfortunes of the Revolution ; arid after the peace of 1815 he applied to the Commissioners of British Claims for a compensation. A large sum was awarded to him, which was all paid over to his creditors ; and he still pressed upon the family of the Duke of Orleans, when restored to their estates, his claims to the annuity for his life, the arrears, and the interest due. For some time after the accession of the present King of the French he resided in Paris, urging upon that Sovereign his claims upon him for the debt of the Prince, his father. Failing in his application, he returned to England, and for some time re sided with his wife and children, in circumstances of much distress, in Wandsworth. In July, 1843, an altercation took place between him and his landlord on the subject of the rent which he owed, and it resulted in the latter bringing him before Mr. Clive, the magistrate, upon a charge of assault, and that gentleman, instead of dealing with the charge be_ fore him, put off the case for a week to give him an opportunity of raising the money to pay the rent due-20s. This was a matter in which the magistrate had no right to interfere. However the Times next day reported the case, and it was only justice to say that their report represented the case of the plaintiff in so affecting a manner, that subscriptions for the relief of Mr. Forth and his family were forwarded by several correspondents. When the week himohui andwould aoti rt de reprimandedAir.i nothing himrth but ftohar the payment op n l oa o yg t ims ee a di t t e on butfdit n h g e 9t a nh c : - . expired, Mr. Forth did not go to the police-office. The magistrate a cm e . n ar t dg t f gr o a r t et o : I ma n nesl d t: e aa f a nn u dd l t et , c c i s.otmpadgm)mei aged much rent, and as Mr. Forth could not pay that, Mr. Clive ordered him prison sp:any for T2oh fourteen wasfuorrt reportedet nh daysass n l r t tt a thi n ee d a: greater gentleman o e c d hg h r i e m a was that eight sent off in the prison van to Kingston gaol, where he remained until his wife procured his release by a ine the °O sympathy. Subscriptions were transmitted to Mr. ie Clive for the gentleman's relief, but that magistrate, instead of forwarding to Mr. Forth, sent to require his attendance at the them police-office to receive the money. The plaintiff declined to expose his distresses again before the public, as he was not then compelled to do as in the previous case. Mr. Clive, in commenting upon his obstinacy, said that he had made inquiries into • his character, in consequence of which he would return the subscrip tions of those donors whose address he had, The Times reported this unwarrantable remark; and added, upon its own authority, the statements now charged against the defendant as libellous. The Learned Sergeant made a brilliant speech, in which he paid in impassioned tribute to the memory of Mr. Barnes, the late editor of the Times, under whom he him se lf h a d been engaged for that paper ; upon which also, its vast influen ce . gigantic power, and exertions in the cause of the unfortunate, the poor, and the op. pressed, he pronounced an eloquent and elaborate eulogy. He concluded by calling upon the jury to give such fair, moderate, and reasonable damages, as would compensate the plaintiff for the in. jury done to his character and feelings. Captain Abel Rouse Dotted, examined by Mr. JAHEs—Had been an officer in the army. Served in the same regiment into which Mr. Forth entered as a cornet in 1 796. That was the Ist Life Guards. Witness left the regiment in 1798. Renewed his ac quaintance with Mr. Forth in 1835. Was then Member of the House of Commons for Southampton, and brought the claims of Mr. Forth before the House. The claims were for debts due to him by the late Duke of Orleans. Witness saw the articles in the Times, stating that the plaintiff had been suspended, but he thought nothing about it. Knew that plaintiff had entered the Church. Cross-examiued by Mr. HumFanv—Never saw Mr. Forth officiate. Mr. Hudson, secretary to the Archbishops of York and Canter. bury, and registrar to their dioceses, put in and proved the letters of plaintiff's ordination. Cross-examined by Mr. HUMFREY—Had never known Mr. Forth to officiate. It was necessary for a clergyman in going from one parish to another to have a license from she bishop of the diocese, before he could officiate Had never known Mr. Forth re ceive such a licence from any of the several bishops to whom witness had been secretary. Mr. Gell, coroner for Westminster and registrar of the diocese of Winchester, put in and proved the plaintiff's licence as curate of Melsham and chaplain to the Philanthropic Institution. Cross-examined—Plaintiff remained in the Philanthropic Insti tution four years, and since that time witness has not known him to officiate. Re-examined—Mr. Forth might have officiated in any diocese out of Winchester without witness knowing it. Knew of nothing to hinder him from doing the duty in any diocese. Mr. J. Bedford, Deputy of Farringdon Ward, deposed that he had known Mr. Forth since 1811, when that gentleman was Curate of St. Sepulchre's, Skinner-street, and regularly officiated there until 1813. Mr. Allen, formerly Warden and Master of Dulwich College, stated that there were three Ecclesiastical Fellows in that College, and in 1806 and 1807 Mr. Forth frequently did duty for one of them, Mr. Smith, the preacher. Cross.examined—Knew from Mr. Forth that there was some dispute between Mr. Forth and the Governors on the subject of the matron. Only knew it from a printed paper put into his hands by Mr. Forth. Mr. Forth either resigned or was dismissed at that time. Had not known him to officiate since. Re-examined—Plaintiff might have officiated every day since without witness's knowing it. Was not aware of any imputation on Mr. Forth's character, in relation to the disputes at the Philan thropic Institution. Mr. C. Druce, formerly steward of Dulwich College, gave simi. lar evidence. Witness never heard any imputation on Mr. Forth's character. Mr. R. Farquharson examined—Knew Mr. Forth when that gentleman officiated in St. George's, Bloomsbury. In 1816 plaintiff officiated at the burial of witness's father. Witness had not heard him in any other church but that of his own parish. Had seldom been in any other church, and lived now in the house where he was born. Mr. Lake, High-street, Bloomsbury, surveyor, stated that he had known the plaintiff some years before 1816, and believed that no man could deserve a better character as a clergyman and father of a family. Witness had read the articles in the Times, and was very much hurt at them, as he knew the plaintiff did not deserve imputations. Witness knew him up to the last ten years. Other witnesses gave similar testimony. Mr. J. St. John B roo k e, P ar liamentary agent, stated that he had conducted the plaintiff's application to Parliament on the subject of his claims upon the King of the French. Dir. Law, the Recorder, had taken up the case in 1840 ; but witness did not know whether he presented the petition or not. It was also proved that the Commissioners appointed to investi gate the claims of British subjects upon the French Government, after the peace of ISIS, awarded a large sum, between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds, to Mr. Forth. It was paid into the Insolvent Debtors' Court. That sum paid the creditors 20s. in the peund, and in consequence of the exertions made on their be half by Mr. Forth, they allowed him 5 per cent. on their claims. Mr. Humeeee then addressed the jury for the defence. Was sure that they had heard with pleasure the eloquent speech of his Learned Friend, and they could only regret that such beautiful language, and the almost universal talents of his Learned Friend, were wasted upon such a subject. But he (Mr. Humfrey) would not attempt to imitate th e b r illiant display of his Learned Friend, in which he should assuredly fail ; but would confine himself to the mere matter-of-fact question, whether it were just that the jury should give the plaintiff a verdict for 408., which would enable the attorney to get his costs. That alone could be the object of this action; for it could not be imagined that Mr. Forth, who, in the former trial, blazoned forth to the world his misfortunes and his claims, and after the jury had been locked up all night, and discharged in the morning by consent, shou.d again desire to parade his distresses, if it were not to put costs in Isis pockets. Although the evidence given on both these trials did not in any way meet the statements against Mr. Forth, yet the defendant did not wish to prevent his deriving any benefit which might accrue to him from the statements made by the witnesses in favour of his conduct five-arid-thirty years ago. But the jury would observe that no desire to injure the plaintiff has been charged against the Timer. On the contrary, it was admitted that the Times, in the first instance, regarded his case as in some degree - of oppression, :and that the sympathy of the public was enlisted ill consequence of what appeared thers. But it was the duty of a public journalist, who had induced the public to confer its bounty upon a person who seemed to deserve compassion and relief, to make known any matters which might afterwards appear to prove the individual unworthy; so that the public might be guarded against a further mi,application of its bounty; and that is what the Time* has done. With the excep tion of a single passage, to which he would call their attention— with that exception, there was not a single line of which his Learned Friend had made a shadow of complaint. He must be here permitted to say, that his Learned Friend and those who sup. ported him had adopted a very dexterous course. They had se. lected that part which was now admitted to be a mistake, leaving out all that which they could attempt to justify. How stood the matter ? Mr. Ford was a person to whom, from the time he was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester, in 1806, no license has been granted. He did for a time it was true do duty, but they were acquainted sufficiently with cc. clesiastical matters to know that when a person undertook a curacy he must have a license, and the object of that was manifest. When the application was made for a license testimonials to his character would be required. the pite.inttlF—The ministers were all dead. Mr. HuNtrazy—They were not dead then; and he would ask the jury, if the proper way would not have been for a clergyman, however bowed down by misfortune, if his character were clear from suspicion, if he came into a court of justice to vindicate his character, to bring some friends to speak to his good name. He was not seeking to throw imputations upon Mr. Forth, and the Times in the same spirit, said " When in the spirit of liberality we pointed out the plaintiff as a fit object for the charity of the public, in the same spirit we, when the magistrate stated that he was an unworthy character, felt bound to warn the public against him." — (The Learned Counsel then read the extracts from the Times on which the action was founded.) The inquiries made by direction of the magistrate into the character of the reverend gentleman were most unsatisfactory. He would read what Mr. Clive said from the bench when Mr. Forth had failed to attend, although solicited. He publicly stated that he had received many small sums, and he would receive no more sums for his use, and in conse. quence of the inquiries he had caused to be made he (Mr. Clive) declined for the future to have any communication with Mr. Forth or his family. That was not, however, complained of; nor did Mr. Forth bring forward any one person who knew him to speak to character. If, instead of saying he had been suspended, the reporter had said that he had never applied for a license, would the observation have been a bit less objectionable ? Not one whit. But the reporter did make a mistake. The Rev. Gentleman was not suspended. His Learned Friend, Sergeant Talfourd, said why did the paper which inserted the error not insert also an apology P Why, the article was inserted on the 26th, and the writ was issued on the 28th, just two days after. But would it not have been better if Mr. Forth had written to the Times and explained the mistake, which would no doubt have been inserted. But that would not have suited the attorney, for he in that case could not have brought this action. Sergeant TAIAOOURD—There followed an article on the same sub ject in a future number of the Times. Mr. 1-lumvirv.v was not aware of it, but of this he was certain that it contained nothing which could militate against the Ti.es, or it would have been put into Court by his Learned Friend. His Learned Friend said that the circumstances alleged to have caused the dismissal of Mr. Forth from the Philantropic Institution had no foundation in truth. That WAS very easily said, but why had not the Governor or some other of the officers of the institution been called forward? It was essential that the doings of the courts of justice should be given to the world, and they ought not to visit a slip with a severe punishment, and he implored them not to gra tify bad passions, but, by giving the smallest damages known in that country, further the ends of justice and defeat the objects of artful men. The Loan CIIIIEP JUSTICE summed up. The statement which appeared in the Times newspaper was admitted by the Learned Counsel not to be true, and therefore it was undoubtedly a libel, and the jury would therefore have to find damages for the plaintiff. What the amount of those damages should be would be left to their own good sense, and he had no doubt they would give the subject their best consideration. With the remarks made on the character of the magistrate Mr Clive, he did not agree. If he was in error at all, it was an error on the side of huma nity and kindness, for instead of going into the circum stances of the assault committed by Mr. Forth upon his landlord, the magistrate hearing that he and his family were in a state of great distress, remanded the mat ter in the expectation that a subscription would be made to relieve his necessities. He did not, therefore, think that Mr. Clive's conduct ought to have been so severely remarked upon in this matter. The learned Chief Justice then briefly recapitulated the leading events of Mr. For h's life, with the view of assisting the jury in their award of damages. He did not think that any malice had actuated the writer of the article or the proprietors of the paper which gave it insertion. The matter was, however, in their bands, to return what they conceived to be fitting damages for the injury sustained by the publication of what was certainly a libel. The jury, after very shortly consulting, returned a verdict — Damages, le. Sergeant TALFOURD applied for a certificate to carry costs, but the application was refused by the Court. SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 8. (Sittings at Guildhall.) TIIE LAST ST. LEGER.-NEWHALL r. WARD. In this case the plaintiff, Thomas Newhall, sought to recover the sum of 201. from the defendant, James Ward, being the balance of a bet on Foig-a-ballagh, the winner of the last St. Leger. Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Russell Gurney for the defendant. Mr. HUDDLESTONE stated that the debt arose out of the following circumstances :—There was a person of the name of Beate who owed the plaintiff 20/. The de fendant being indebted to Beate in the like sum, the latter individual entered into an arrangement with the plaintiff, by which he agreed that the debt of Ward due to Beate should be transferred to h•m, the plaintiff. Now, the only knowledge that the plaintiff had of the money owing by the defendant to Beate being the effect of a bet, was in consequence of some words in the order drawn by Beate on the defendant to pay the 201. to the plaintiff, and which was to the effect to request him " to pay the balance of 20/. on the Leger." The question the jury would have to decide was as to the legality of the debt; and whether the plaintiff had any knowledge that the debt arose out of any gambling transaction; and, if he were aware of that circumstance, whether, at the same time, he was cognisant that the bet was to that amount as to render it illegal. It was true that the law had rendered all bets above 101. illegal. But the amount osBinc , by the defendant might be the amount of a num ber of small debts under 10/. Thus there might have been a variety of bets of 7 to 3, or of 5 to 2, the whole of which would amount to 201., and they were, therefore, not illegal. The jury must be satisfied before they re turned a verdict for the defendant that the plaintiff had unequivocal notice that the money owing was the effect of a bet which rendered the debt illegal. If that fact was not proved, then his client was entitled to a verdict. Mr. Beate and another witness were then examined for the plaintiff, and some letters were put in. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, said—lt would be for the jury to form their opinion upon the evidence pro. duced, and he thought that the impression in their mind must be that the plaintiff was swat* of the &ht. being betting transaction. The jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, 201. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb S. THE HIPPODROME RACE COURSE. Mr. Commissioner Poi. Loci( held a court on Friday, at Reading, when Jacob Connop, the lessee of the Hip podrome Race-ground, appeared for hearing. Mr. Woodruffe opposed on the part of Mr. R•-üb-n Laurence, a builder, and Mr. Cooke -upported the ap plication. The opposition was direc;ed to the inc .rrect state• mews made in the schedule, and after an examinatt,n of some length, Mr. Commissioner PoLLocg. held that a very different document must be preseetc•d before thp case could be heard. The case was ordered to be adjourned to the next circuit. _ _ A question then arose whether the insolvent could not be liher•a , ed on bail. The judgment debts were betw. , en 3,0001. ant 4,0001, and according to the usual practice of the Court the double amount would be required. Mr. COOKE asked whether the Court would not accept bail for 1,000 ? Mr. WOODRUFFE resisted the application. Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK thought that bail could be accepted for 3,0001., and adjourned the case to the next circuit. Some intimation was given that the insolvent would be removed to a London prison, and his case heard in town. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Baron PARKE and Justice WILLIAMS). THE RUISLIP MURDER.—Charles Lamb was placed at the bar at ten o'clock this morning, charged with the murder of a young man named John Brill, in a wood at Ruislip, in the month of February, 1837, He is a heavy sort of man, about 35 years of age, and has the appearance of a labourer. The indictment having been read, he pleaded Not Guilty in a faint voice. Mr Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr, Wilkins for the prisoner. Charles Churchill was, In the year 1837, a farmer at Ruislip, and had the deceased long in his service. He was sent on Thursday the 16th February to a wood to prevent the underwood from being stolen. The boy never returned, and at the end of three days his body was found. His front teeth were knocked out. James Lavender proved finding the body. John Bray met the prisoner Lamb on the day of the murder in a field, one mile from the wood ; and he accompanied him to the Six Bells public-house, where the body of de. ceased lay. He was coming from the direction of the wood. Robert Norton, a surgeon, examined the body. The mark of a severe blow was behind the left ear, and on removing the scalp there was observed a severe contusion. There was effusion of blood upon the brain, and his opinion was, that the injuries were inflicted by a flat instrument, struck twice with great violence. George Sibley deposed to a certain confession made by the pH. soncr to the witness of the murder of the boy, and he described the place where the murder was committed (the whole of which has been given at length in the former notices of this case). Mr. WILKINS then addressed the jury for the prisoner, in a lengthened speech, and contended that no credit could attach to the evidence of the man Sibley. Mr. Baron PARKE summed up. lie said the duty of the jury was a most serious one. The evidence in the case was of the most circumstantial character, for the question of the prisoner's guilt almost entirely depended upon the credence they gave to the witness Sibley, and the confession alleged to have been made by the prisoner about four month ago ; independent of that, there was no evidence sufficient to cast anything beyond suspicion upon the prisoner. If they believed the evidence of that confession, it would be their duty to find the prisoner guilty of the crime of murder ; but ff.:they did not attach credence to it, then they would acquit the prisoner. The Learned Judge then commented upon the evi. deuce, and concluded by leaving the case to the consideration of thejury. The jury then retired, and returned in half an hour with a ver dict of Acquittal, THE LEICESTERSHIRE BANC RORRERY.—Upon the application of Mr. BALLANTINR and Mr. CLARKSON, the trial of Richard Elliott an omnibus driver, and Richard Vincent, a cigar.dealer, was post poned until the next session. Mr. Justice WiLus.ms said that Elliott must remain in gaol until next session, and Vincent must renew the bail he had entered into before the magistrate.—The case was ordered to stand over, NFU' C')URT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) At the sitting of the Cou't this morning, the f.dlowtog , •ri , oners pleaded Guilty of the offences charged agaiitA them, and received the sentences affixed to their nem , s ;_George Smith, 9 months; Frederick Shepherd, 3 months ; John Williams, I year ; George Brown, 4 months; Charles Chapman, 3 months ; Rouert Parker, 3 months; Ellen Conway (who had been twice convicted), 7 years transportation; John Thomas, 3 months; Thomas Simpson, 2 months ; Richard Townsend, 6 months. Mlham Ci&i.,ra. a respectably.dressed youtl,6 inn, Viiib con victed of stealing a box, containing 9s. It appeared that be had been tried in that Court, uoder suotbq name, six years ago, which he admitted, and that he had been lately summarily convicted. The COMMON SERGEANT told him that he had been too lenient on the last occason, and ought to have transported him. The sentence of the Court was that he be transported for ten years. On turning to leave the dock, he laid hold 01 the inkstand placed there for the use of the prisoners, no doubt with the intention of hurling it at the police, who had sworn to his having been pre viously convicted, but as it was fixed he could not carry his haul tion into execution, and he left the dock exclaiming against them. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BO W-STREET. A tall young man. who gave the name of Edward Smith, but who refused to give his address, was placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, charged with having stolen a number of books from the library of the Uni versity College, in Gower-street. Mr. James Goody, the house steward, stated that on Monday and Wednesday last there were missed from the general library of the College the three books produced, of which circumstance he gave information to the police, and from some circumstances that had subsequently transpired, there was reason to suspect that the prisoner had stolen them. Witness did not know the prisoner, but recollected seeing him in the library on Thursday last, when " Wilson's French and English Dictionary," and " Grant's Outlines of Comparative Anatomy," were stolen. All the pupils had access to the library, and when a book was required by any one of them, the prac. Lice was to write the title on a slip of paper, and then to present it to the librarian, by whom he was furnished with the volume he required. All the cases containing the books were kept locked. Mr. W. J. Chapman, the librarian, stated that, having seen the prisoner in the library, his impression wa- he was one of the students of the college, but since his apprehension he had discovered such was not the case. lie missed the works above named when he was locking up the book-cases, from the table of the library, on Monday, but was not certain whether he saw the pri soner there on that day. On Wednesday, on which day he recollected the prisoner conversing with him in a very familiar manner, he also missed a book from the library table. . In answer to questions from the prisoner, the witness said that strangers could easily gain admission to the library of the college, and had opportunities of taking away books unnoticed by any of the officers of the institution. Mr. Nock, a bookseller in Tottenham•court-road, stated that he had seen the prisoner eit several occasions; that he bought the dictionary of him on Monday last for 10s., believing it to be his own, and, though a portion of the fly. leaf was torn off, he thought that the prisoner had perhaps written his name there and torn it off before he offered it for sale, as was the usual practice with stu d.,nts when they offered books for sale. On the last occasion he had a suspicion of the prisoner's honesty, and gave information to the police, by whom he was taken into custody. The Inspector stated he thought it his duty to inform the Court that the last witness had afforded every assist ance to the police to enable then to make the necessary inquiries. The prisoner. who declined sAying anything in his de fence, was remanded for a week. LAMBETH Henry &with and H:nt, y Foillks, omnibus drivers, w ,, re charged w;th want n and furious driving on the ni;:ht of Sunda\ , the 26 h f last month. Mr. HENRY. after hearing it number of witne4ses end cult. conv.cted Foulks in the penalty of 404 and coos. and Smith in a similar amount. He also expri-ssed his olet,rmination to repr ss and put d , wii the shameful irregularities at present and for some tune practised in this p-,rt of the Metropolis. by which the public are pot to very considerable nto.nvenienvo. II 1.4 E SMITH. Chailes Molt a police-co stOle of the T divi sion, was brought up for final examination before Mr. G. Clive, on a charge of having stolen thre, bushels of oats, the property of Mr. A ray, the 1 3 4.1 ice Receiver- General, and William Jackson, a respectable florist aad gardener, in Earie-str-et, Kensington, was charged with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Charnock, the barrister. with Mr. Jennings, soli citor, of Notting-hill, attend. d for the prisoner Jackson John Hogan deposed that he was a sergeant of the metroplitan police, T 25 On Tuesday morning last he watched at the station-house, in Gore-lane, Kensing ton-gore, and about six o'clock saw the prisoner Jackson drive into the front yard with his cart to fetch dung. The prisoner Mott came out of the house with a sack upon his shoulder, and Jackson helped him to put it into the cart. Mott brought the sack out of the forat_e room. They then put three or four barrows full of dung upon the sack, which contained three bushels of corn, and then went away tpgether to the hand and Flowers public-house, at the corner of Gore-lane; and after remaining there about ten minutes came out again. Witness then went up to them, and ordered the prisoner Mott to the station : house. While speaking to Mott, the prisoner Jackson jumped into the cart and drove off at a trot, and witness had to follow him 150 yards before he stopped. Witness then said to Jackson, " You have something besides dung in your cart—you've got some corn." Jackson appeared surprised, and said—" What —corn," when witness told him he must ge to the station-house. The prisoner Mott said they were some oats which he had given Jackson in exchange for bran." The sack was marked " Grainger." At the station house Jackson begged witness and Sergeant Eastland not to press the charge against him, or it would be the ruin of him. Mr. Charnock, in answer to the charge, said he had not nothing to deny, but only to state the simple facts, which were, that the doctor attending the horse having ordered that it should have bran mash, the prisoner Mott had applied to the prisoner Jackson for him to bring him some bran from the miller from whom he (Jackson) had his, and, in return, Mott had given his client the oats in exchange. Several gentlemen who had known Jackson for twenty years and upwards then came forward, but Mr. CLIVE said he should feel it his duty to send the case before a jury. Mr. Charnock then applied for the prisoners to be admitted to bail, to which Mr. Clive assented, and bail was then entered into for Mott, himself in 50/., and two sureties in 251. each; and Jackson, himself in Mt., and two sureties in 501. ea,h, to appear at the next reasions of the Central Criminal Court. DESTRUCTION OF THE PORT LAND VASE. Shortly before the closing of Bow-street officeon Friday, a tall young man, abut twenty, and of delicate appearance, was brought before Mr. Jardine, in the cusodv of 149 A di vision, and placed at the b r, charged with wilfully and ma liciously breaking the celebrated Portland Vase in the Bri tish Museum. Sir Henry Ellis, the resident librarian of the establishineLt, was on the bench. r• vited white substance, are laid in Itas-relief, and so firmly to the grcundwork, that they ieem rather to be part 0 , than to be la4ened on by art. Of the icene represented. no satisfaelcry exp!arr,t kit: has ye! be, n jyco ; but stir ma. ,AV, in rd anin.ation ,am Nre neral. fir , ruree are fashi.)ned with admira!le grace , full of expre , :ion in every look and uttitude. Every h o verof an ancient and classic art must regret the destruction of this splendid example: g 1 4 e ` 4 4 t , A Tl l RD , : 1, V.) COVZNT-GJARD II4I V. For the time of year we had a fair average qu a *tit,' of Vegetables on offer, while the supply of Fruit wa • rather, extensive. Generally speaking, the demand wee at” fro, and prices were steadily supported. kt• GATX tataDlingrisiA 4,7 Although the supplies of each kind of Meat ' hare . I va l somewhat on the increase, a full average amount of lbusmess was transacted, and prices were steadily supporte9l..--Bee4 from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Ilflutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; veal 4 9 4d to 5s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per Blbs, by the can :a • We had a very large supply of both Game and Pm/4 try he.rt owing to which the trade was heavy, and prices % ere Wit. " diffioulty supported. NEWPORT. Each kind of prime Meat was in steady regal st at full prices, while other qualities were somewhat inactavl • EXI. INOSGATE. There was a very plentiful supply of Fish, yet th 4 3 demand was steady at late rates. fair Athough the supplies of Meet were rather extemi Wet business was doing at full prices. IIIaNGESPOILD. For prime Mutton, Veal, and Pork we had a :steady de' mand at full prices, but otherwise the trade was in a le/ sluggish state. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are fr om 7d to 70 ; of Household ditto, 5d to 60 per 41bs HIDE 111AXIIMIT. Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs :—Best Steers widge)friel: 5s 6d to 5s 10d; Middling Hides, 4s 8d to 53 40 akin:; ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per 6d ,„ Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; Long-woolled Shee: j, 33 4s 9d; Shearlings, 6d to Bd. BAY AZARNETB. SMlniFlELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/10s to 41 153; tg; ful ditto, 41 les to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 51 1 4 5 ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, I/ 1 2 a t o I/ ther Wheat Straw, 1/ 14a to 11 16s per load. Sup pIY limited, and trade dull. 41 16$ CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 103 W -- 4/ 125; useful ditto, 4117 s to 5/ 6s; fine Upland ditto, 517 st o ,"Ii 65 ' Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 51 18s • Oat Straw, 1/ 14A i ° ;; e rsgs Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ lSs per load. A ftiir supply. and a steady demand. ' 40 69; WRITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to f , 5s to useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5l 4s; tine Upland ditto,ll 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 12s to 6133; Oat Straw, 1 129,,r° told Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s per load. Both til l Y Straw moved off slowly at but little variation in prices' WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FIuDA`; t his There is only a limited trade passing in Wheat I ter s. market to-day, at barely the prices of last Friday. No a ' dto tion in the price of fine Barley, common sorts vet), btpert sell. The demand for 13.:!ans is good, and they fug)" sti r late prices. We note no alteration in the price of 0 3 ,_ ts ' buF bel• Per qr. of 601b..;0 tues.a. Eto 4 . 6 Wheat—Suffolk, Essex, and Rent •• - Red.... 44 to 45 0 Ditto ditto ......White.. 49 50 ...... th Nortblk ....................Red.... 43 44 __ 50 Ditto ditto .....• White.. 45 48 4) Lincolnshire and Cambridge• • Red ••. 42 43 - 0 Ditto ditto •.• • • • White •• 46 48 ....„ 4 1 Yorkshire ...... Ditto ditto ......White.. 45 40 49 54 English, Old .......... •.• . • • Red.... 40 43 48 Foreign ....... •• • Ditto ditto ••• • • • White .• 48 53 ter 4.10 01 P e r qua -. Barley—Norfolk and Suffolk--- .. - ..":„ Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - - Grinding. - Foreign .... ..... Per qr. of 631 b. ..... 0 Beans—Small fine • 3 8 • .36 ,-- 4 4 : Ticks - Foreign Oats—Mealing, per Stone .. • ..... ...... ...... 10d , Ild -A-7.. Feeding Foreign . • .. Shelling, per Load —• • • . 10d, II: --St 2 43 9 . 255. -- Malt, per Load of 6 Bushels. . ......... .. 40 42 isoPe ..- r isl. Per qr. Pease—Blue and White Boilers. . .... ..... -" ..-. Grey and Feed ....................... 33 40 , -- , Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial .• •• • .... 23 1 ., 25 ' .... Foreign . NAME OF RAILWAY. Feb. 1 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Jan. 31 30 Feb. 4 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Jan. 31 Feb. Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • Birmingham and Gloucester• • • • • • • • • • Brandling Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester •• • . • • • • • • • • • . Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • •• • • Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown Dundee and Arbroath . • ...... • • • • • • • Durham and Sunderland .• . • • • ..... • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • •• • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • . • .. Glasgow and Greenock.• •••• • • • • • • • Grand Junction • • • • • • Great North of England • • • • • • • • • . • . Great Western . • • • • • • Llyerpool and Manchester . • • • • • . • .. London and Birmingham ......... London and Blackwall.• • • London and Brighton .• • . London and Croydon. - London and Greenwich . • • • • • • • • • • • • London and South Western . • • • • • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • . • • • • Manchester and Birmingham • . • • • • • - Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc— Midland Counties ... Newcastle and Darlington • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. . • • • • - • • • • • • Newcastle and North Shields. • • • • - North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbel], and Orleans • • • • • • • • • • Paris and Rouen .• • •• • • • ••• • • • Preston and Wyre •• • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • Sheffield and Manchester • • • • • • • • • • • • South Ea5tern................•••••• Taff Vale .... Ulster . ...................... ...... Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Ml.ll.trid . •••• • • ' . 34 8 677 2,06% , ~i 401el it THE STORM.—On Sabbath innrnin - g' - ' 1 10 ,t1,`\;T r t ll. , torto from • orth-west raged on the coa...ts cot i 0 0" hire The " tide in Lochryan rose'to an uoustfah: ~,e 5 6. 1 , 4 S and a ' s the wind blew directly up tile Loch, t" -- ' r e o" . i t t . t i, the roadst, ad at Strunraer , required all th e , r the' li us that - could hold their ground. D.lvia of stra 0 t o possibly,he brigt taken to 1 13 "" e o rser , Captain Al`Dowaq, with co. -front Ne",; en't lol : arthagena, was driven, when off nub" " ' o .herl south-nest wit al, •O the entrance of Loeh r Y 3ll tbe .0411- she came to anchor. on Satur.lay night ; but the Ft suddenlyehanging to, N. W., atia bhwin,. a I'l l "' ter e she slipped, and ran np to the roads 24 , - 817ra n o r h t i :O r i "th „l r she brought • t - d c.., - ,trp v. i wit OD Smolay morning, ovar Sandmil l • f i tell i ql f' tokroly, and fill,d soon atter The cite" t• g' ° ' s- A lit ' I " i.e.:ore.; but the tes , :-1 is very seriously liatteig, J.,,sho..ie! i t Amite tin,o that.the ,David r.:n ashore. th' '',;< ° II -uhella. Captain David-km, of Strg.nrae . ," t . tit'i' l strand.. t d . 4. • a short distance frtne' ti e r.. 1 ,11 -„, ;110. "IT - light; She wa- driven `witch Ilirth'ir niiital4e' beach than the brig, and ba . s suffcf .e ', l _, l ::ei: l : l.° . i te ll The Lady 1ir 0 ,t,n,0.... is 4 i - , h • ' • e-" , e:• v• WI hart LP" were `e of d toe Pr t S eulnuing to drive, the k-ngin g e - o w at t. r r p t t r iv s s le work, and she steamed to windward the Sunday, dragging her anchors. Flesides thet''''' oali P"''engwrs , who , r•ust have got u•sad fr'g hl ,„' p, 11l persons on board were the engineer anti tw:' men' WI deserve much, credit for the manner 11 w the q t ,": s :l managed the vessel and brought her safely' int ° ni er ~ e ,, 11 1 e 4 le c rtl As f' at five PM. It was very fiwtonat, t hat th a supply of coals (to board, e'se the g allail- i - i i re t •--- - ig would inevitably- have been driven ti''''' ).- . 4 4 Observer. , ' sm all' l .-- AnErtarsTvtrrn.—On the 27th ult.. a Av iitil e r a barrel, and or tne 28th, a vessel's head bool . "'„i c k a il low letters ?rt a black ground " lonia." lc ° r g M r abont two Mires south of this place-- Caern arr° SA YSP [ADygi[tisEst ENT.] —A l'ooa MAN 's ,;: 11 :, polt r i BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Jereiniab Ditighll.cpsil 1fi...„, about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted I. n r h i - v erlr a shortness of breath, spitiing of phlegm. n'g"" • r --6 tions, and general weakness of body, is Irtiiii of f tb l e ) Jil l sick head-aches, besides suffering much from -amt. f e d lIP - This man was in the sec. nd stage of o'vs llll , o oV A ° t heft not expected to live three months, when b e A - by ' - i - iii the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills• an"' el' I d sus 01" as bole, an d - , , means alone, he is now as strong, ever be was in his life.—Sold (also went) at the Establishment of Professor . , s od , A prat! 9P 400 244, Strand (where advice may be ha" t ,- sbronb . almost all respectable vendors of IllecliCirle the civilised world Hollovityoolo4 The prisoner, being placed at the bar, appeared very :alike and reserved, and seemed regardless of the charge preferred against him. Mr. Burnaby said—What is your name ? The Pri. , on (in a sullen tone)—l decline to give any name or address. Mr. Edward Hawkins, being then sworn, said, having heard that the Portland Vase had been broken, and that n visitor had come down stairs since the crash was heard, he went up, and finding four or five persons in the apartment he asked them what account they could give of the. eircum• stance. They replied, they knew nothing of it, and comin to the prisoner, to whom he put the same question, he re plied. in the most deliberate manner, " I did it," without giving any reason for such extraordinary conduct. Wit ness saw all the fragments scattered about the room, and on looking about he found a large sculptured stone on the floor, with which the destruction appeared to have been committed. Mr. Jardine—Was any attendant in the room at the time? Mr. Hawkins—The attendants were then in a small room ad joining the Portland-room, in which the vase was situate. Mr. Jardine (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to say any. thing at this stage of the inquiry respecting the charge against you? The prisoner (in a faint voice)—No. Mr. Jardine inquired if it was not possible that such an oc currence could take place accidentally ? Mr. Hawkins re plied it was quite impossible. Sir Henry Ellis said the blow was so severe, that the glass shade by which it was covered was totally demolished, and the vase, which seemed to have been struck at the bottom, was dashed to pieces. Mr. Jardine, addressing the prisoner, said—Have you any friends in London, for it is probable I shall require you to find heavy hail for the offence of which you stand charged ? The Prisoner (in a faltering manner)—None. Mr. Jardine—None at all? Prisoner—None Mr. Jardine said it would be necessary to bring forward at a future day the persons who were in the room when the oc currence took place Mr. Hawkins said he would use every exertion to bring forward any person who could give evidence upon the subject. Mr. Jardine told the prisoner he need not make any state ment unless he wished, and as he thought proper to refuse his name and address, or to give any account of himself, the inquiry should be adjourned for a few days. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. In the course of a few minutes the landlady of the Euro pean coffee-shop, in Long-acre, entered the Court, and in formed the magistrate that the prisoner, whose name was William Lloyd, came to lodge at her house about two months back, representing he was a scene painter, connected with Covent-garden and other theatres, and came frem Dublin, where his mother and sister resided, his father being dead. He kept late hours, and she had no reason to doubt his state ment was correct. Mr. Jardine desired she would enter the cell and satisfy herself she was not mistaken, and on her return she said she had no doubt as to the prisoner's identity. Mr. Jardine directed constable Neal, who apprehended the prisoner, to proceed to his lodgings, and bring any papers he could find belonging to him, but nothing was found to lead to the prisoner's name or profession. Before the prisoner was removed in the van to Clerken well, his landlady had a conversation with him, and he told her that he did not commit the offence of his own accord, but was persuaded by two others whom he would not name, as he did not wish to bring them into trouble. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Just as this national institution was about closing on Fri flay afternoon, a miscreant seized a piece of Irranitt from one of tile shelves, and dashed it against the case containing' the Barberini Vase, better known as the Portland, from its having been purchased by the Duke of Portland for the sum of 2,000 gut. ,eas. It was deposited by his Grace in the British Museum for security, as well as to gratify the public with a splendid example of ancient art. The vase has been dashed nto a thousand atoms, almost defying the possibility of restoration. The Portland Vase was discovered about the middle of the sixteenth century, enclosed in a sarcophagus, within the' Tsants , monument of the Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother, ' sf.,t h fielo, Julia Mamma, commonly called the Monte del Grano, hill, Titov lort alyrut two miles arid a halt from Rome, on rie Frascati road. leth, the wife of :;aptinn of mr. Charle s hoop Th..• strcopliagus tyinaiits P.,,m3, fold the vase Oa thr- 31st ult., at On the Ist inst., Nancy, ile Anderson.T t of tbe ilig ds• the } remained for more tn two centuries in the Palace of the airberini feunily, s i bs same city, of which it was the chief ornament. It was ultimately possessed by Sir William On the 2d hiss., Sir 1... Begot, G.O 8.. late " ve enor-Ge ner ife of Hamilton, who about fifty years since sold it to the Duke of ntenvit Mary, Lady di G l 7 re " c. al of C an 0( Portland. It is undoubtedly the work of Grecian genius, On the sth . inst., ate - • LI and w up to its destruction, HS perfeo as when it left the Breyer. publisher, Strand. y 0 e qg hands of its fabricator. Its dimensions were small, ben g . M . 1 ..•:•,iist.K l , • 00• M ucOm only ten inches high.; itsdiaineter, at the bror:ds p a st,,,s-ay • - 1 ' • . a l e fix inelles. The shape was elegant. "- The rtiateei iris maaric i- ••••• ' ‘ soar . but transparent blue substance, undoubtedly a vitrified paste I Strand, in the Preciuci, of the or slam Wert thin the figures , Waled of it delicate opaque 1 Mme,, *Map rebrairi ivt -------- Deer On the Ist inst., at thßelßßeTcrorSy., BUrtorrt Bridport, Dorset, the lady of the Rev. K. 1 % • a,, TAr tbink On the 4th • inst., at South Swiss Cottage, ,' -1,.. of lady of H. Joseph Smith E , sq., of a son. e l PAT"' On the sth • Inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. Santa a son. . , „ s , CIO On the sth inst., Mrs . ' M M eye r, of Artillery-Pa' _,, M. bury, of a son. ere , tbe i " - of One the sth inst ,at Chester-street, Belgrave-tqa ~, Troideost,oofe „tivilo. George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., of a daughter..„rop, of P On the sth inst., at Cambervrell, Mrs.. iv e r “ daughter. On the 6th inst.. oef On tl i te ?,s l i st , o in f s a t. d , a a u t g ß h r t . o er o . klan de, Tattersall, Esq., of a son Smith, at Cadogan-place, the w ife °I Cre°ll.: S 1 ~ f P ell p Do rset ' the lid/ 0 On the 2d inst.. at Manston House, Dor---' Harry Farr Yeatman. Esq., of a son•:ts, 'van 00;411. On the 3d inst., _the lady of Henry Merceroe, Eaq• + , ham-place West. Hackney-road, of a daughter.._ of c holP Barin„,n. Young, Hants, the lndy 0 On the 4th inst., in Langham-plaee, the WI" On the 4th inst., the wite of Mr. John - bi Esq.. of a daughter. i _ , . of Oxford street. of a daughter. NV tmore, sage* ned 11 AIFIL . Lore. On the 29th ult., at Cla'ities 'Church, Wilic:3ll, daughter of Henry Clifton, Esq•+ of Worcester. ft?, On the 9th inst., at St. Pai.i'cras, the Re v ' N. ' 11' grid 31‘Fatquhar, to Jean oldest daughter of the litt e Gordon, Esq. RAILWAY RETURNS• RAILwAT TsArric.—The following are the Totalß t ec e e t i g ts icb ss tt' o s ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date respective returns are made, together with the receiPts °f week in the previous year : Week ending Last week• „At G I lctofi P s e brilar , Place .31' 7 PurPoses Prok not i, session NI The el Th e D Act. Londoi V . ‘.../ by and don).LA\ (4 'NTx,t, A ds, :1N II b kii. 4l b t ... l, ere t h . fh fle Der lb 110;once i - 'orts 11 kRoIP .fort kr hol e Z t j t, trk 1 4 1 411 ' tb.rlth, All ob t „, AR t , tt th e 1-1 v. wort. tii.tt 4 411, 411: 17 1 4i4%) e ., E A odd Ig Is h C. PslyP() a;,R, ,d etro ray, Nt~ of ikDtr i to Dtr A U Table , tt ° h4 b i tP e all %hit: 4 114 1 4 %11 14 ) kle bt” n bil th pt, h :t th'j i kih ▪ it Jus t at k t t ifsl e , ale Z 4 104141414 (44 04. ri te -hh•tifla ge off. g ot • 44 1 44 0 • ff% f>.g 4 lo 1,0 1 Lot ('h e Ru t Liv Ira