The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

Erbtril ISbition EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) BOSANQUET V. SHORTRIDGE. This action was brought to recover a very large sum of money against the defendant, as one of the pre prietors of tho Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint Stock Banking Company, which stopped payment in 1848, and it was tried before the Lord Chief Baron at the last sittings in London, when a ver dict was taken by consent for the plaintiff, with liberty to move the Court above. Sir F. THESIGER now moved for a new trial, in accordance with leave reserved on th e groun d c f the improper recept ion of evidence, and that the verdict was against the evidence. The defendant, who resides at South Shields, was possessed 100 shares in the back, and in July, 1847, he agreed to sell 50 of them at 51. each, and the remaining 50 at 51., to a person named George Pringle Few, of New castle. The transfer was approved of by the mata;er of the bank, and a ccttificate was drawn out and signed by Virf e c f the mana;ing diractors; nct at a mf et l ng of the board, but septa•.ely at their Te,idences, and the question arose whether the tran f r Ns as a legal one under the deed of s:t lemvtt. It appea-ed that pre- TIOUS to this: transuctton the bank Lai ter n suffering from the eff,cts r f the receLt commercial de pression, and found it DM'S: ary to anly to the Ba ,k of England for a loan of 50,000'., which aas a lvanced on the condition that no ti ansfers c f shares should take place until it was repaid. In January, 1848, the alleged transfer was dec22red at a meeting of the board null and void, and the rale of Few was struck out t f the trans fer-book, and that of the defendant re-inserted. The hank subsequently stopped payment, and it eas sought to attach the defendant with liability as a proprietor in respect of the present debt.—The Court granted a rule. FRANCE. The Painie publishes the following contradiction of the story originally published by the Assemblee National on the subject of the supposed declaration of M. Achille Mould : " The Siecle and National attribute t) one of the members of the Cabit et la igua4e he hai never uttered. The Government repels in the most firmal manner those foolish and inconside: at a TU53,` ions. It also deplores the facility with which several jouru a's make themselves the echo of the most mistaken and malicious st,)rieJ. They do not understand that they expose themselves by these falsehoods to the danger cf diminishing confidence and public credit, the rapid development of which ought to occasion the most lively satisfaction to all good citizens." General Lamoriciere had a private audience with the President of the Republic yesterday. M. de Courcelles has also had a long interview with the President. The Government has received the intelligence that the French fleet has left Ourlac. The Prefect of Police (M. Carlier) has addressed a circular to authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and bibliophiles, to apprise them of his intention to estab lish in the prefecture a central library for the use of the prisoners : "It is not enough (says M. Carlier) to prevent them from reading anarchical journals and bed books, which too easily find sympathies in houses (f confinement. I have provided against that danger ; it has ceased ; but it it is necessary that the minds cf their inmates be occu pied, that their morale be suppott3o, and that they be come roc)nciled to the riprinciples on which family and society repose." The municipal budget, however, allocating no credit for that object, 111. earlier is obliged to appeal to the generosity of authors and publishers to realise a philanthropic idea, which, he says, originated with the President of the Republic. " The Presse," says the Moniteur, publishes an article entitled 'lnconsistencies,' in which it copies the entire article of the Reforme of the 2d Dec., for which the editor of the latter was sentenced, two days ago, by the jury, to fine and imprisonment. The Presse having printed the article apart from the report of the trial of the Reforme, inserted in its number of yesterday, (the Attorney of the Republic ordered the Presse of this day to be seized in its office and at the Post-office." " The Presse," says its editor, " during the fifteen years it has existed was never the object of any sei zure. To-day it was seized by order of the Attorney- General Baroche, who no doubt is anxious to summon again before him M. Emile de Girardin. Why was our number seized ? We did not even take the trouble of inquiring, fur we are as certain of our principles as we ars of our intentions. The Presse already suffered two persecutions, one in June, 1847, and the other in June, 1848. Their result is known. Eight months after the editor of the Presse was summoned to the bar of the Chamber of Peers, in June, 1847, M. Hebert, Keeper of the Seals, was ob liged, on the 24th of February, to fly in all haste and seek refuge in a foreign country. Seven months after the Presse was suspended, in June, 1848, General Cavaignac was condemned by the ballot of the 10th of December. " This evening, adds the Presse," At the Passage of the Opera, the five per cents, which had closed at 9-11 25c., fell 45 centimes on the report of the sei zure t,f the Presse. This measure, which nobody could account f)r, was generally regarded as a poli tical El-ere." GERMAN Y. The Kolner Zeitung has the following telegraphic ditch inin Berlin of the 12th inst.:— The Commit , e of the Lower House consulted last night in the presence of the members of the Cabinet on the admendialerts which the Government proposed in the Ro j at message. 'the first propos:tier' to erase Art. 29 of tho draagt t of t'ae Constitution (*eating of Vie preis,) was w...cepted by a majority of two vote-. (Coot Lti, 11; non-cet,t?nts, 9.) The second amendment (on the landsturm) was voted unani mously, and so indeed was the preposition respecting the Civic Guards. The fifth proposition, treating of the responsiuility of Minister:;, was negatived by the Com mittee, and so was the clause respecting the term of prolongation (Verlangerungstrist) of the !lollies and the proposition on the t lectionary dist! icts. Having thus fir proceeded in considering the royal message, the committee adjouincci." "JAI. 12, 9 O'CLOCK,P.X. " There is reason to hope that au honourable cumpro• raise between the Governmei.t and the Parliarne:4 will be effrc'ed. The Committee of the Upper House hai just concluded its general debate. . " 9 O'CLOCK, P.M. The report of the Committee of the First Chamber proposes to accept the propositions 1,2, 3,4, 6. 11, 14, 15, to decline accepting the proposition 5, (Minis t responsibitty). and 12 (electionary districts.) ANGLO-GERMAN NOBILITY. The Almanack Imperial for this year, published at Vienna, contains the follo,,ving list of British sub jects ennobled in the ancient Germanic or Holy Roman Empire , William fiasil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh ; said to be descended from a branch of the Imperial House of Hapsburgh ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Neither patent nor date extant. Henri - Benedict Arundel!, Baron Arundell of Wardour ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Creation 1601. Josef, Count de is Feld ; naturalised in England ; descended from the ancient counts of that name in Allace, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire after tke battle of Zenta, 1697. George Spencer Churchill, Duke of _Marlborough. His ancestor created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire after the battle of Blenheim, 1708. Jerome Count de Sails, naturalised in England; descended from the ancient counts of that name in the Gritons, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 1748. Peter Leopold Louis Cowper, Earl of Cowper. Ills ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Em pire, 1758. Francois Taaffe, Viscount Taaffu ; Chamberlain to the Emperor ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Creation 1754. Horace St. Paul (Barsheltua) ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Creation, 1786. Th Arias Froemantle (Bari...heltus). Baron of Austria, 1809. Created a SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Connected with the Motrrain tunnel of the Man chester Corporation Waterworks, which tunnel is to be the great conduit for the water through the hill, several vertical shafts have been sunk, by which the workmen in different parts of the tunnel descend and ascend to and from their labour, and up which the soil excavated is removed. Oae of these shafts, which has a depth of nearly 200 feet, was the scene of an unfortunate accident yesterday morning to two of the inspectors of the tunnel. The inspectors, Messrs. Johwitolyneux and Robert Taylor, were about to inspect the progress of the works below, and for that purpose got into, the tub, which was suspended by a flat rope and lowered and raised by a T st h er-engine, placed near th e mout h of the shaft engineer, who we understand h as only recently - been em pl,yed there, st ar t e d the engine too d . escend, c a ll e d quick, and the inspectors, as they beg an to out to him to c h ec k its scpee:lked I t Instead of t a h b a ruptly this with care and cauti on , he hee and at once, and Min consequence was sudden check broke the lar ge cog - wheel, and the drum the on which the rope works having no l onger any resisting power, the weight of the two inspectors caused the tub to descend with great velocity all the way to the bottom of the shaft—nearly 200 feet. Of course the concussion, when the tub struck against the bottom, was most violent, and both the inspectors received very serious injuries. They were placed in the tub in a helpless and almost insensible condition, and the tub was raised by means of a crab and windlass, and the sufferers at once conveyed to their own homes, where they were promptly attended by several sur geons of the neighbourhood, Messrs. Pomfret, Side bottom, and Ferneley. These gentlemen, on exa mining into the nature or the injuries inflicted, foand THE that Mr. Molyneux had one leg severely fmetured, and that his whole frame was also suffering greatly from the concussion. Mr. Taylor had three of his ribs fractured, and he was also suffering internally from the effects of the concussion upon the system . We are glad to learn, however, that neither of the sufferers was considered to be in any immediate danger. The engineer has been apprehended, and will be detained in custody to await inquiry.—Man chests( Guardian. LARGE SEIZURE OF BASE COIN. APPREHENSION OF A GANG Or COINEES.—In consequence of the many complaints from shopkeepers and others which have of late reached the police, as to the immense quantity of base coin in circulation in Manchester, the chief superintendent cf police, Mr. Beswick, had fur some weeks past been actively engaged in attempting to detect the whereabouts of a notorious gang which he had every reason to believe was located in the town. To insure the detection he put himself in communication with the superinten dent of the London and North-Western Railway station here, having reason to believe that the spurious coin in circulation in Manchester (chiefly half crown and crown-pieces) was forwarded by railway from head-quarters in London to one or more accomplices here. Yesterday (Friday) morning, acting on some intelligence brought to him by three of tis officers (ll:ptctor Buckley and his assistants), who had been watching at the London-road Railway station, he went to an eating-house in Lever-street, and there appre hended three prisoners, named Wm. Brown, John Thompson, and Louisa Thompson. On visiting the house he found Brown in bed, when he placed him in charge of an officer, and passing through that room into an adjoining one he arrested Thompson and his wife, who sat conversing by the fire. In the lap of the female he found a base half-crown, and underneath the bed-clothes, near to where Thompson sat, he found a lot more, wrapped up in papers containing 20 each, in all what purported to be of the value of 141. 10s. After securing the parties, Mr. Beswick gave orders to his men to make a thorough search over the place, when Thompson said it was no use, they (the police) had got all in the house. The brown paper in which the base coin had been wrapped, and which had only come by railway from London that morning, was found in the room di rected to Thompson, in care of the person keeping the eating-house in Lever-street. The coins, which are the best of the kind we ever saw, are most admir able counterfeits, and would indeed puzzle many to discover that they are base. They are principally of the reigns of George 111. and IV., and bear date 1817-19, and George IV., 1826. They are, we be lieve, made of zinc and bismuth, which latter metal makes them ring like genuine coins, and they have been afterwards coated with silver by the electro plating process. As a proof that the spurious coins are difficult of detection, we may mention that a gen tleman whom our reporter met in Mr. Beswick's office was comparing one of his own genuine half-crown pieces with a handful of base ones, when the lot got so mixed together that be could not pick out his own coin, and was obliged to leave it with Mr. Beswick until that gentleman had leisure to find it for him.— Manchester Paper. DIFFUSION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE FRENCH PROVINCES. The Journal des Debats publishes an interesting letter from a gentleman just returned from a tour in the French provinces, containing an account of the rapid spread of democratic and social opinions in those parts. The writer begins by deploring the folly of the Conservative or anti-Republican party in wasting their time and provoking internal dissensions by mi serable dynastic disputes and old worn-out contests of factions. " You forget," he says, " that in order to have a king you must possess a kingdom, and that France, before asking herself whether she shall don a crown or a Phrygian cap, ought, in the first instance, to assure herself that she has a head on her shoulders." He goes on to denounce the apparent tranquillity which France now enjoys as utterly delusive. "We have not changed ; only let the National Guard have three months' repose and we shall again hear them raise the cry of Vice la Reforme r—we shall once more beho:d them giving 100,000 votes to M. de Caussidiere." Describing the state ef public opinion in the provinces, the writer pourtrays a picture in the highest degree discouraging to the supporters of " order." "I am only now translating what I have heard in the heart ef our prc vinces, and I can assure you that the inhabitants of those districts are far more attentive to the progress of the demoralization of the rural districts than to the process of fusion on the question of La Plata. It is, doubtless, a good thing not to be an alarmist, but it is still a better not to be blind to the truth. Now, it is certain that the work of destruction has recom menced more actively than ever in the bowels of the earth ; that the same hands are digging the mine anew under the feet of society, and that the Propa gandists, hunted out of the towns, have transferred their strength to the rural districts. They enter and infiltrate their doctrines through all their pores; they sow in every thatched roof, in every truss of hay, in every sheaf of corr, the invisible seed of their poison ; they penetrate everywhere with the very instruments of the Government, with the instructor, the agent, and the garde-champetre. The Alnzazzach, become a dictionary of atheism and materialism, is everywhere replacing the catechism of infancy in the hands of the peon It is not the small treatises of the Aca demy of Moral Sciences that will supplant it ; they are too well written. The doctors of destruction' go to work more brutally. They have recognised the fearful force of the axiom and the amphorism ; they plant in the mind masses of monstrous proverbs which we re-echo ourselves in contending against them, and which, so to speak, carry with them their own memoria technica." And whence (asks the writer) are the forces to be derived for the resistance of this propaganda ? Authority and unity are nowhere to be found ; the Assembly is split up into sections, and its power is a nullity. The party of order is dispirited, and has no heart for the struggle. "Do you remember," concludes the writer—" Do you re member the words of the ancient orator quoted by Mirabeau, Catiline is at your gates, and yet you de liberate 1' Just so; barbarism is at our gates, and yet we are divided and disputing with each other. Believe what I say, you must not cease either to unite, to hold together, or to act. Society has not changed during the last two years, and it is still the same mass of combustible material to which a cynical braggart one day boasted that he could set fire with a lucifer match !" DRY PROCESS OF PREPARING FLAx.—ln the Scar 1810 a new method cf dressing tint is as patented by which the woody matt ;r was seperat id from the fibre without steeping it, by meals t f mechanical arttou, and then the flax was bleached by simply washing it in warm water. It would appcar that the colouring matter is not chemically combined with the fibrous matter while the plant is vegitating, or ef.,er it is pulled, but that the chemical combination takes place while the plane is steeped in water. The object cf this steeping is to induce a fermentation, which loosens and destroys a cemeet which bound the fibres c f flex to each ether and ti the wood. The f_rmeetation weakens considerably the strength of the flax fibre•, and even destroys many of their. This dry preparation, therefore, if it be prac ticable on a large scale, would be a prodigious improve ment. It would render the flax fibres much stronger, it would increase their quality, and it would save the expense cf the materials employed in bleaching the linen. It has been stated that the dry process bas uni formly failed of success, when tried in Ireland. If this account be true, it is extremely difficult to explain it. About the time when the patent was taken out the process was performed by workmen, under the direction of the patentee, at Old Bow, near Lot.don, with the most complete success, nit merely upon handfuls of flax, but upon whole fields of it. In deml, the whole is so extremely simple, that it is diffi cult to explain how it should fail, if properly conducted. It is, then fore, highly probable that the prejudices cf the Irish, with which it would have had to contend at that day, were too powerful for it; but, that as soon as it shall meet w:th fair play, it will be found just as practicable, and certainly much cheaper and better, ttaa the methods at present in use. It is during the ate e?, thee, that flax acquires its permanent dark colour; and four processes in bleaching are requisite to restore it t) its original white colour, or to separate the colouring matter, which is chemically combined with the fibre of the flax. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday even ing last, a young man employed on the Buckingham shire lia.'lway, named Edward Anger, came by his death in a shocking raanner on the above line. The deceased incautiously missed his footing and fell under one of the civriages, to which, in his capacity as guardsman, he was attached, boys wheels of which passed over his stomach. He was immediately conveyed off the line in a perfectly insensible state, and on a medical examina tion taking place it was found that he had sustained severe injuries both externally and internally, the body presenting a dreadfully mutilated appearance, and not the least hope was held out of his recovery. The poor sufferer continued to linger for two hours afterwards, death terminated his existence. A n in questwhen happily was held on the body the following day before Mr. J. W. Cowley, one cf the coroners for the county, whey, af.er hearing the evidence, and no blame appearing to be attached to any one, the jury returned a verdict cf " Aceidsetil death." The deceased, who had a wife and one chile, was much respected on the lino as being a steady, civil, aid obliging young mar. The MI; gels of Lansdowne will entertain at dinner on the 30th inst int, the day before the meeting of Parliament, at his residence in Berkelej -square, the s veral members of the House of Lords connected with thi Governmei.t, and the mover and seconder of the address in the Upper House. Lord John Russell will entertain at his official residence in Downing-street, on the same day, the mover and seconder of the address in the Commonv, and the several members cf the Lower Rouse filling offices in his Administration. ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOClETY. — Admiral R. Dudley Oliver has increased his annual subscription to 51. ; an d C ommander Charles Du Cane, a liberal sup porter of th e institution, has added to its funds a life sUbicriptic i n 9 f 101, SUN, LONDON, ALARMING MUTINY BY THE PRISONERS IN APPLEBY GAOL. _ John Jackson, John Hart, end John Wall, Under sentence of transportation, and John Wilson and Riasrd Morgan, under sentence of imprisonment, five most desperate and ruffianly characters, were confined in the same ward of Appleby Gaol. They had been punished more than once for insubordination, and on Wednesday, after they had taken their dinner in the day-room, they commenced throwing and kicking about the tin basins in which their soup had been supplied, and otherwise manifest ing a riotous intention. Mr. Thwaites, the governor, remonstrated with them, and threatened solitary confinement. Wilson set him at defiance, and threw one of the tin basins at the iron bars which separated the governor from them. Mr. Thwaites thereupon insisted on his coming out to be locked up. This he pertinaciously refused to do, and the others (excepting Morgan, who took no part in the revolt) used the most abusive and threatening lan guage to the officers, especially the governor, whom they swore they would kill if he came near them. While Mr. Thwaites left the gaol to obtain addi tional aid, four of the mutineers armed themselves with the fire shovel, three heavy broom-sticks, the hand!e of a hand corn-mill, and three heavy nut screws and some iron washers which they screwed off the mill. On the return of the governor with Mr. Bird, the superintendent of police, and other assistants, they threatened to murder the first that entered. The narrowness of the door into the ward will only admit of one person passing through at a time, and the floor of the ward being a little higher than the floor of the passage where the constables stood, and the approach to which is by two steps, the prisoners possessed considerable advantages, and great difficulty was experienced in effecting an entrance. Mr. W. Raine first made an attempt, armed with a constable's staff, but was repelled ; and having retreated a short distance, Wall threw at him one of the nutscrews, weighing a pound, which struck him on the left ear, inflicting a serious wound on the head. This was followed up by the other nutscrew and the washers, one of which struck the turnkey on the back of his head. Additional assistance was now procured ; the door was forced open, and a terrific conflict took place. The prisoners fought desperately, and with an evident intent of fulfill ing their previous threats ; but being outnumbered, they were soon subdued. The constables had to apply their staffs to the best advantage they could, both offensively and defensively ; and the resistance they met with aroused their ire to such a degree that the prisoners had to call out to the gaoler (whose life they had just before threatened), to protect them from the unnecessary blows that were being inflicted. Mr. Heelis, the under-sheriff, reached the gaol soon after the mutiny was quelled, and gave directions for the insurgents to be put in heavy irons, as the only effectual means of prevent • ing another revolt. Indeed it would be unsafe to give them even the liberty of the yard, considering their malicious intentions towards the officers, parti cularly towards Mr. Thwaites, whom Jackson swears he will murder before he leaves the prison, if an oppor tunity offers. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Su O'CLOCK. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Testator—taken 25 t) I ag:t Borneo 40 to 1 aget Damask 40 to 1 agst Glutton—taken LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 1 agst Rat-trap] 15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne 15 to 1 agst Sir John 25 to 1 agst The Oaks 30 to 1 agst Farnham 30 to 1 Igst Rory be aisy 50 to 1 agst Grand Lumiere 50 to 1 agst Mulligan CHESTER CUP. 35 to 1 agst Peep• o'-Day Boy 40 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn • 50 to 1 agst Glauca 50 to 1 agst John Cosser 50 to 1 agst Clarissa 66 to 1 agst Horn of Chase 66 to 1 agst The Baroness (Irish) 66 to 1 agst Harriott DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 17 to 1 agst Voltigeur 17 to 1 agst the Nigger 20 to 1 agst Clincher 25 to 1 agst Mildew 30 to 1 agst William the Conqueror 66.t0 1 agst Yew Tree APPOINTMENTS.— The Queen has presented the Rev. W. J. Poole to the living of Aberffraw, Anglesea. Lieutenant• Colonel George Brodie Fraser, commanding the Royal Artillery at St. Helena, is appointed a member of the council of that island. James lM•Nab (receiver general), W. Stairs, and Jonathan M'Cuddy, Esqs., are nominated members of the legislative council of Nova Scotia. Benjamin Simpson Houghton, Thomas Budelle, and Alcide Cayron, qn., are appointed members of council at the Mauritius. --- 133LCIAN Hors.—The steam-ship Albatross, which usually vales to and from Hamburgh, when the trade , Aith the nauseate States is open, has arrived fr,,m Antwerp at the pert of Hull, having on board twenty five bales of hops, as a portion of her cargo, the produce of Belgium. BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—CharIes Dixon, Esq., has recant'y presehttd 501. to this valuable charity ; Lord Feversham 21/.; Lord De Mauloy 211.; arid Montsgue Chambers, Esq., 211. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEYS BENCH, Jan. 12. (Sittings in Ulric°, before Justices PATTBSON, COLE RIDGF, and WIGIITMA.bI.) GADSBY V. ESTALL. Two actions in this case, which was criminal con versation with the wife of the plaintiff, have been tried, and in each the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. A rule nisi was again obtained for a third trial, on the ground of the verdict being against evidence, and more particularly es there had been conflicting testimony with regard to the handwriting of the defendant to a certain letter which he was al leged to have written to the plaintiff's wife, in which he addressed her as " My dear Madam," and directed her to burn the letter, as he did not know whether it might not fall into her husband's hand., and con cluded, " Yours, affectionately." The first trial was before Mr. Justice Wightman, who was not dissatis fied with the verdict for the defendant; the second trial was before Lord Denman, who was dissatisfied with the verdict. The plaintiff had made an affidavit stating his belief that the letter was in the handwrit ing of the defendant, but the defendant had not made any affidavit denying that fact. Mr. Sergeant SUEE showed cause against the rule, urging that the plaintiff had had ample time and op portunity afforded him for making out a complete case, and that it was ruinous to the defendant to send the case down again, when he had succeeded in two actions. Mr. HAWKINS supported the rule for a new trial, but was stopped by the Court. Mr. Justice PATTESON said there were some very peculiar circumstances in this case with regard to the letter ; not that he would for a moment have it sup posed that he should say there ought to be a verdict for the plaintiff; but there were peculiar circum stances as to whether the letter was in the handwrit ing of the defendant that induced him to consider there ought to be another trial. There was no rule that two verdicts given the same way should prevent a third trial. He quite agreed with the observations of the late Chief Justice Tindal, who bad stated that the general rule was that a verdict once found should stand ; the setting it aside was the exception, and ought to be an exception of rare occurrence. It had been said that to send a case down again was to invade the province of the jury; but he did not see how the importance of a jury could be impaired by a solemn investigation of the matter. He (Mr. Justice Patteson) adopted all that language, and he trusted that upon the third trial the jurors would exercise their judgment as if the case had been sent before them for the first time. The circumstances were so peculiar that the Court could not do otherwise than submit them to a third jury, upon payment of costs by the plaintiff. Mr. Justice COLBAIDGE and Mr. Justice WIGHT MAN, in concurring with Mr. Justice Patteson, stated that the peculiar circumstances of the case alone in duced them to send the matter down again. Rule absolute. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. THE TRIAL OF LOUIS JOEL, FOR FORGERY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.) . Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury for the defence, in a speech of great power and eloquence. The principal points he relied upon were, that whereas the prisoner had all along assertei the genuineness of the bill, and had made two affidavits to that effect ; every one of the witnesses who were called to prove the contrary had a strong bias, and were deeply inte rested in pwring that it was a false instrument, and thereby getting rid of the liability in connexion with it, and he urged that this consideration became the more important fur the consideration of the jury when they recollected that independent witnesses from Messrs. Cox and Co. from Messrs. Arnut and Co., and from Messrs. Bouverie and Co., might have been called to express their opinion whether or not the acceptance to the bill was i n the handymiting of the prosecgtor. None of these witnesses, however, had been examined, and f not only were they not brought forward, but Mr. Netherclifa a gentleman of great experience in such I matters, to whom the bill had been shown, and who they had heard was in attendance the whole of the nrevious day, had also been left nut of the case, and oe urged upon the jury that the inevitable conclusion which must be come to upon these facts was, th it these witnesses, if they had been summoned, would have given evidence in favour of the genuineness of the bill, and he said that the jury had been right to assume that such was the case. He contended that the account of the transaction given by the prisoner was a most reasonable one, and bore the stamp of truth. What was the position of the parties at the time this bill was said to have been given, in July, or thereabouts, of 1847 ? It was perfectly clear that at that time the prosecutor owed Mr. Joel a large sum of money, and that the latter became aware that he was under age, and also that he was about to leave the army, and to go away from Dublin, and what was more natural under these circurnsainces than that he should endeavour to obtain something in the shape of a collateral security for his deb'. It appeared that he had threatened to take proceedings against the prosecutor, to have him held to bail upon an affidavit that he was about to leave the country, and he asked the jury whether it was likely that Joel should have forborne such proceedings if the prosecutor had not satisfied him in some way or other ; and most likely, by giving him this blank acceptance, to be filled up after he came of age, and which Joel, being ignorant of the law, might have considered to be a valid instrument. With regard to the delay that had taken place in proceeding against the prosecutor upon this acceptance, he said it ap peared to him that the statement of the prisoner that the prosecutor had evaded the service of process had been substantially established ; for, according to the prosecutor's own showing, he had gone to Spain, to Essex, to Windsor, and other places, and that he had no settled residence where he could be found, and this part of the case for the prosecution he considered had been most satisfactorily answered. The Learned Counsel then made some severe comments upon the conduct of the prosecutor in purchasing articles of jewellery from the prisoner and other persons, and breaking them up immediately and selling them ; and he said that such conduct was not only disgraceful in a gen tleman and an officer, holding-her Majesty's commis • sion, but that in an ordinary case, if such facts were laid before a jury in support of a charge of felony in rob bing the tradesmen of such articles, he was of opinion it would go very far indeed to induce them to return a verdict of guilty. He said that the prisoner had also, in his opinion, been treated most harshly by the prosecutor, by his not allowing him all this time to receive any portion of the large sum of money which he admitted he had received from him, and there could be very little doubt that this had been the ruin of the prisoner, and that it had driven him to bankruptcy. As to that part of the case in which it was proved against the prisoner that in the account he had ren dered to Mr. Pullman no mention was made of the bills of exchange, the jury would recollect that at the time the account was rendered, such an instrument, in the shape of a bill, was not in existence, and that the blank acceptance was a confidential proceedi ng be tween the prosecutor and the prisoner, and the under standing was that the bill should not be filled up until the former came of age, and that it was only to be used as a collateral security, in the event of the other bills and debts not being paid. The Learned Counsel then commented upon the circumstances connected with the action against the prosecutor upon this bill, and said that the jury would not forget that when the prosecutor's guardian first saw the bill, he said the acceptance waa very much like the hand writing of his ward, and after this, Mr. Campbell, of course, had no alternative but to go on with the action, and he urged upon the jury that the object of this indictment was to get rid of that action, and also at the same time prevent the prisoner from obtaining any portion of the just debt that was due to him. The Learned Counsel having commented at very great length upon these and the other points in the case which he considered were favourable to the prisoner, concluded by stating, that although the prosecutor had sworn positively to the contrary, the prisoner now, as he had always done, persisted in asserting that the acceptance w as his genuine signature, and without reference to the result, or to any effect it might have upon the position or character of the prosecutor, he submitted, that from the facts in the case, the prisoner was proved to be speaking the truth, and he called upon the jury to say so by their verdict. Mr. Justice TALFOURD than summed up the case with very great care and impartiality, particularly bringing to the attention of the jury the whole of the circumstances that were relied upon as being indica tive of the innocence of the prisoner. The jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour in the box, expressed a wish to retire, and they accord ingly did so at eight o'clock. They were more than an hour and a half in deliberation, when they returned into court and gave their verdict finding the prisoner Guilty of uttering the instrument in question, know ing it to be forged. The prismer, when the verdict was pronounced, begged to be allowed to say a few words.—" In the first place, he tendered his thanks to his attorney and to Mr. Chambers, for the able manner in which they had defended him, but he said at the same time he was of opinion, that if the witnesses whom he had subpce naed had been examined, his innocence would have been established. He then stated, that as he hoped to stand before a higher tribunal than that bef ge which he was now placed, the acceptance to the bill was written by the prosecutor." Mr. Justice TALFOURD then addressed the prisoner, and said that, after a most patient and careful in quiry, which had occupied two days, the jury had found him guilty of uttering this instrument, know ing it to be forged ; and, now that the verdict was returned, he had no hesitation in saying that he con curred in that verdice. Everything that ingenuity and eloquence could effect he had had the advantage, of ; and he (the Learned J u d ge ) certa i n l y did not omit to call to the attention of the jury every cir cumstance that was relied upon as being in his favour ; guilty, and, . c h a e r rmtiheuedspt completerepeat,rj one t t o b and . , after anxious deliberation, they had found him c a bo t en h vt e irca c tn o i os n pn c o u tr r ot r e e hd d i sf i oi n rn t i n i ed a n t , verdict, and that . the evidence and demeanour of the coupled with the other. circumstances of the case. He then prosecutor sentenced years. The trial of Edward Nairne, the stock-broker, was postponed to the next session and the Court then adjourned to Monday, Feb. 4. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIOIV-HO U S 8. Michael Bryan, who was a few days ago charged upon suspicion of having committed sacrilege, was brought up for re-examination. At the first examination it appeared in evidence that one of the City policemen, observing the pri soner carrying a packing-case along King William street, on Wednesday last, stopped him, searched the case, and found in it twenty books, which were found to correspond with some splendid church services advertised in the Hue and Cry as h av i ng b een s t o l en from a country church. Mr. Hope, M P., now attended, and deposed that he was churchwarden of the district church in which Christ Chapel Killenden, is situate, and identified a morocco-covered Cambridge Bible as one of a number of books which he made a gift of to that chapel. On the night of Christmas eve the chapel was broken into and robbed. The thieves got upstairs to the organ-loft, and let themselves down by a rope, and. after having taken all the money they could find, they ransacked the vestry and carried off tfie booty. The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about any robbery. He only thought to make a sixpence by carrying the case for a man he met in the street. The prisoner was again remanded until Thursday next, in order that further inquiries might be m a d e , and that he may have an opportunity of bringing forward persons to speak of him as an honest man. GUILDHALL. Francis Godfrey, of Angel-alley, Bishopsgate street, was charged with stealing a bale of good! , , value 281. _ . _ warehouse of M r . M'Gregor, 43, Noble-street, and It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that some bales of goods were left in the passage of the that Mr. M'Gregor happening to come out of the warehouse at the time the alarm-bell rang, he saw the prisoner drop one of them, while another man, who was in his company, succeeded in making his escape. The proof against the prisoner was that he was distinctly seen with the bale on his shoulders, which he threw down on being discovered by Mr. M'Gregor, and tried to make his escape. Sir JAMES DUKE committed him for trial. CLERKEN WELL. Mr. _Henry Price, landlord of the African King public-house, in Wilstead-street, Somers Town, was summoned before Mr. Tyr whitt, charged with the following offence : Mr. Child, solicitor, appeared for the defence. Police-sergeant Webb, No. 16 of the S said that at a quarter to one last Sunday afternoon he saw the cif fendant open his house for the sale of his exeise ' bl e goods, and inunedliaely several customers entered and were served by three or four persons behind the bar. He spoke to Mr. Price, who excused himself, remarking that he believed it had gone one o'clock, at the same time pointing to his dials and also his watch, all of which exhibited that it was past that hour. Mr. Moulds, the clerk, asked the witness how he was able to swear that the time was four minutes to one ? He said he was governed by the clock of St. Pancras Old Church. Mr. Mould said it was notorious the clocks of that prish were generally "agreeing to differ," mid ought not to be depended on, especially en oath. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY l4, 1 850 Mr. Child was sure that his client, who had never had a complaint against him, would not now do so for the sake of having a minute to spare, and he would appeal to the good sense of the worthy magis trate, whether it was not absurd to think that he would so offend. Mr. TYRWIIITT intimated that it was unlikely in dad, and di:ilnimsr the information. MARLI3OIWIIGH-STI?EL T. Samuel Spratley, chemist and druggist, a very genteelly •lressed young man, was charged with having indecently assaulted Mary Williams, a little nagged beggar gir!, Hyde-park. _ _ 'The gitrsiaidshe was nearly eight years old. She was on the Serpentine about dusk on Friday even ing, when the prisoner told her to follow him and be would give her some bread. She followed him until she came to some trees, where there was a seat. The prisoner took her on his knee and said he would give her a penny. He searched his pockets; not having a penny, he gave her a pair of kid gloves, and thin attempted to take liberties. She struggled and screamed, and some persons Who had been apparently watching them came up, and she attempted to run away, but was brought back again, and then she related what had taken place. A police-constable produced a pair of kid gloves, which the girl gave into his hands, stating she had received them from the prisoner. The prisoner said the whole charge was a mistake• The girl came up to him and begged for some relief• He told her to go away, but she would not, and she followed him into Hyde-park, when finding she per sisted on being troublesome, he pushed her away, and this had b-en construed into an attempt to take in decent liberties. Mr. llAanwicK was satisfied that the charge was proved. It was impossible to overlook such scandalous conduct in a place of public resort, and he should, therefore, inflict a penalty of 51., or two months' im prisonment. LAMBETH. Two members c f the " swell mob" were brought into court, on a charge of receiving vast quantities of property, the produce of various robl- Ties at Leeds. The prisoners, whose names are Thomas Key and William Green, were defended by Mr. Games. Mr. John Child, an inspt ctor of the detective police in the borough of Leeds, deposed that in consequence of several extensive robberies committed in the Borough, and :rom private information which had reached him, he applied to Joseph Bales, Esq., the Mayor of Leede, and obtained from that gentleman a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoners, and a third person, on a charge of receiving the stolen pro perty. Armed with the warrant, he came to town about a week ago, and placed himself in communica tion with Sergeant Goff, of the L division, and hav ing communicated to that officer the whole of the circumstances, he returned to Leeds. On Friday morning last he was shown a parcel which had been delivered at the railway station, directed to "Mr. Thomas Wright, No. 10, Pleasant-place, West square, Lambeth, London ;" and finding that the address was that of the house where one of the men against whom he held the warrant resided, he took the parcel before the mayor. On opening it, he found it consisted of several articles of plate which had been the produce of a burglary committed at the house of a Mr. Woods, on the Sunday night before. By the directions of the mayor, he made up the parcel into its orig:nal shape, and left it at the railway station, to be for warded as directed, and started for town himself, so as to reach London before it. On arriving in town he saw Sergeant Goff, and told him the discovery he had made, and it was arranged that they should be close to the house of the prisoner Key when the parcel was brought there. A railway porter from Euston-square station delivered the parcel to Key, who signed his receipt-book, and wrote, not his own name, but that of Thomas Wright. The railway porter returned to the house in a minute or two, and the door haying opened, witness and Goff went in. Goff found the parcel brought from the railway station, and which remained in the same state as he had made it up at Leeds. Mr. NORTON—Do you know either of the pri soners ? Witness—Yes; I have seen the prisoner Key at Leeds, about three weeks or a month ago. He stopped then two days. The witness here opened the parcel, which consisted of a number of table and tea-spoons, sugar-tongs, and a butter-knife, all of which were marked with the initials W. A. \V., and said they were those stolen from the residence of Mr. Woods, at Leeds, on the night of Sunday last. Sergeant Goff, 8 L, corroborated the greater part of the testimony of Child, and added that en searching the house of the prisoner Key, he found tied up in a woman's pocket, in a cupboard, 19 notes of 51. each, and two of 201. each, and 501. in gold. He also found a gold and a silver watch, a valuable diamond ring, and various other property. On searching the house of Key, he, accompanied by Child, proceeded to the residence of Green, in Hanover-street, Wal worth, and told him he had a warrant signed by the Mayor of Leeds, and backed by Mr. Elliott, for his apprehension, on a charge of receiving stolen pro perty. On searching the house he found, in a port manteau, two pieces of cloth, about three yards each, which corresponded with the description given of a portion of an extensive robbery at Leeds. He (GO) also found a letter addressed by a person at Leede, and in that letter was mentioned the name of a per son whose name was also written on the brown pryer in which the plate was made up. Child, the officer, said he should be able on a future day to produce a witness who would identify both the cloth and the plate. _ _ _ _ Mr. Games cross-examined the witness at some length, but elicited nothing favourable to his clients and they (the prisoners) were remanded to Thursday next. GLASGOW JUSTICIARY COURT. WINTER CIRCUIT.-WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9. Margaret Lennox, or Hamilton, was placed at the bar, charged with theft, forgery, and murder, in so far a., in the month of June las*, in the house in Kirk-street, Strathaven, occupied by Jean Black, or Hamilton, a widow, the prisoner did wickedly and feloniously steal a bank deposit receipt for 20/., in favour of the now deceased Jean Hamilton, daughter of and residing with the said Jean Black or Hamil ton. She was further charged with having, on the 21st of Jane last, indorsed the document with the name of Jean Hamilton, and procured the same to be cashed in the office of the Bank of Scotland. The third charge in the indictment was, that on the night of the 7th, or morning of the Bth of July, the pri soner administered to the aforesaid Jean Hamilton a quantity of arsenic or other poison in some articles of food, or in some calomel, magnesia, or other medi cine, in consequence of which the said Jean Hamilton expirc d on the Bth of July. Panel, on being interro gated, pleaded Not Guilty, and a jury having been empannelled, the case went to trial. The following evidence details the chief points in the case : Jean Black, or Hamilton—l live in Kirk-street, Strathaven. Jean Hamilton was my daughter. She died on Sunday, the 18th of July last. She had been ill some time before this. She took ill about Thurs day, the 25th of June. She could not take her meat for two or three weeks before her serious illness took place. She had charge of two children. One of them was her own, more than a year old, and the other was one she had taken in to nurse. It would not be long after 7 o'clock in the morning when I first heard of her illness. She knocked through the wall to me, as she slept in a room by herself. When she had cried through for me on the Thursday morning I went in to her, and she immediately " fell a throwing." She was throwing very violently. We thought she was throwing bile. She said she had been unwell all night, and had not slept any. She complained of " being very done," and " heavy throwing." She complained ofpain in her breast and stomach, and said she thought it bile and inflammation together. She said it was a burning pain. She continued ill during the Thursday, and vomited a great deal. Margaret Lennox, the pri soner, sometimes helped her to take the medicine. I think she gave her some powders on Tuesday, as she generally gave her the medicine she got during her illness. I remember on the Saturday night before her death she got a powder. I think it was given to the prisoner's husband (Andrew, my son) to give it to her when it was ready. The prisoner made it ready. I saw her have the powder, and then I saw it in the spoon. The prisoner mixed it with some liquid when in the spoon. It was a large powder, and was white. The spoons I now see are those in which it was mixed. It was put into the big spoon first. I could not tell how much there was of the powder, but there was a good lot. I think there would be an ordinary teaspoonful of it. The prisoner brought the powder, on Satur day, about the gloaming. She said she got it from Dr. Brown. She told my daughter there was sweet nitre in it. Andrew and I said it was a big powder, and we looked to see if there was anything else in it, It was when we said this that the prisoner said there was sweet nitre in it. She said Dr. Brown put it into it. Je.an wanted calomel, and it was a calomel powder she was to get. The powder was first put into the large spoor, and Andrew said it was too hie. ' for her mouth. The prisoner th en p u t i t i nto t h e small spoon, and " drool:et " it, but I cannot tell what with I think it was mixed in the kitchen. It was then given to my daughter Jean by Andrew. The prisoner then gave it to me or Andrew, I 11111 not sure which. I eaw Andrew give the powder. The prisoner, myself, and Andrew were at the bed• side. It was dark. The prisoner and her husband left shortly after, and went home to their own house. They lived in Green-street. Before the prisoner went away she desired me to give Jean a package of magnesia which was lying on the kitchen window, if she was not back in the morning. The prisoner brought the magnesia with her along with the calomel powder. I understood the magnseia was from Dr. Brown's. The prisoner said it was by the doctor's order that Jean was to get the powder in the evening, and then the inagnola in the worning. About an hour after Jean got the powder a severe lax and vomiting came on. It was very violent vomiting. The purging was also very violent. This continued till about six or seven in the morning. It returned again in about an hour afterwards, and continued till she died, at twelve o'clock on Sunday. The mag nesia was never given. It lay on the window till some of the doctor, took it down on the Wednesday. Thinks it was taken by one of the doctors from Ha milton. I sent for the pri. , oner and her husband on Sunday morning between six and seven. They came and remained till they went for breakfast. They came back again before ten, and remained till Jean died. She was very ill after they came hack, when it was proposed to send fur a doctor. Both Andrew and I proposed it, and as nv, son James was in bed, the prisoner said she would go. I offered to go, but the prisoner said she was abler to go than I. She left the house to bring Dr. Brown. She returned soon after, and said he would be up after the ‘• kirk went in." She said the doctor told her to give Jean a spoonful out of the bottle which I had got on Mon day. Tae doctor did not come. I knew that Jean had got some money from Mr. B o-rie. I knew that 201. or it were in the bank, and that she had several pounds in nn Jean kept her money in the bottom of a chest, as it was not locked. Her clothes were above it. After Jean's death the prisoner and her husband were in the house, and also my daughter Marion, who is at service at Berryhill, in the neigh bourhood. I think my son James was in. I did not make any proposal to search the chest, but some of us agreed to search the purse which was in the chest. The chest'was searched by the prisoner and Marion, but w e were all about it. No money t xcept 6cl. was found. I was surprised at this. I spoke about the bank receipt, and they looked for it particularly, but it was not found. We all expressed surprise at the receipt being gone. The prisoner was also surprised. They were more than, ten minutes in searching the chest. It was on Monday, the next day, whan I first discovered where the receipt was. I went to the bank on Mon day to inquire about it. I went to " speer" at Mr. Barrie if he had lifted it, and he advised me to go to the bank. When I was at the bank I ascertained that thelprisoner had lifted it for Jean. I did not know this before. Jean was coffined on Monday night, but prisoner was not there. I know that prisoner left the village; she did not tell me she was going away. I think she left on Tuesday morning. I went to Dr. Brown on Monday afternoon to inquire about the dose that had been given Jean on Saturday night. We all of us took suspicions that she had got more calomel than was required. The doctor told me the dose he had sent. I also spoke to the doctor why he had not come on Tuesday morning, and he explained that. The powder was in a whitish paper.—(Witness was here shown a paper, such as was wrapped round the calomel, but she said the paper in which the powder was wrapped was not like this in the least.) The magnesia parcel was much larger, and was blue. Have only had arsenic once in the use since I was married ; that is about 40 years ago. Dr. Brown—l am a physician in Strathaven. Was called in to see Jean Hamilton. I furnished calomel powders occasionally during her illness. About mid day, on the Saturday before Jean's death, the prisoner called on me and got a calomel powder. I made up a calomel powder for the sheriff, which I now see. They are always made up with blue paper and white thread. It-is quite impossible to mistake a magnesia powder for a calomel powder. Magnesia was also put up in blue paper. There was no sweet nitre in the powders. Sweet nitre is a liquid, and could not be put in a powder. Never saw the prisoner again after she got the powder on Saturday. The next day, Sunday, was the Sacrament Sunday in Strathaven. AM an elder in the Relief Church, and if any one had come to me in the morning to ask me to visit, I would have remembered it. I am certain I never promised to visit her when the ehurch went in. Was much surprised when I heard of Jean's death. On the morning after her death Mrs. Hamilton, and James, her son, came to see about the dose I had given on Sunday, and also the reason why I had not come on Sunday. I told them what I have stated here—that it was a two-grain calomel powder I had given, and that I had never been sent for. On Wednesday, I found the package of magnesia lying on the window in the house which I had given to prisoner to be taken. Catherine lldston, the wife of an apothecary at Strathaven, proved that the prisoner purchased arsenic from her about three weeks before Jean Hamilton's death. Dr. Crawford, who examined the contents of the deceased's stomach, deposed that he discovered four or five grains of arsenic therein. Janet Lennox, or Park, examined—l am a second cousin of the prisoner's. I live at Riccarton, Ayr shire. I remember the prisoner coming to my house one Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, last summer. She had never been at my house t - 2f)re. knew she was married to Andrew Hamilton. She told, after stie came in, that Jean Hamilton was dead. She did not say when she died. She told me that she had given her a powder of arsenic instead of mag nesia, by mistake. She said that she went to the press and got it. Grannie made it up, and Andrew gave it. She said that she had got the arsenic to kill bugs. She told me that the arsenic was ling in the press beside the magnesia. She also said that she had gone for a doctor after Jean had talc( n the arsenic. She stayed with me all day. She told me she had left Strathaven in consequence of what she had done. She said she was going to her brother betwixt Kil marnock and Glasgow, but she remained with me all night. She did not repeat the story about the ar senic. She recurred a little to the story of Jean Hamilton's death. She said what had occurred was a pity. Did not tell me anything about the body being opened, or that her husband had been appre hended and was in gaol. Next morning she was anxious to get home to Strathaven. I observed that she was with child. The postmaster of Riccarton and the police passed by my door that morning. The policeman was in plain clothes. The prisoner asked me who he was, and I told her. She then seemed agitated, but did not say anything. It was imme diately after this she wished to be back to Strathaven, and out of Riccarton. Previous to this she had spo ken about going to her brother. She went away, and I accompanied her a part of the road in the direction of Strathaven. Riccarton is 21 miles from Strath aven. I saw no more of her. The jury gave in a verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty, as libelled, with the exception of the theft; but, by a majority, recommended her to mercy. Lord COCKBURN then sentenced her to be hanged at Glasgow, on Thursday, the 31st of January, be tween the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock, A.M. THE COUN'fitV MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Prices to-day SI tnd unchanged, and the general state of the trade is languid. S. d. S. S. d. s. e. Wheat, per 701 b Barley, English, pr English, old• • :• 6 4 to 6 6 imperial quarter 29 oto 31 0 Do. new .. 6 0— 6 3 Irish, Scotch, and Irish, new •• 5 3 5 9 Marx,per 601 b.. 3 0— 3 2 Do., old •• .• B— 5 :0 Barley, Feeding•• 3 0 3 4 Manx, red and wh. 5 9 6 2 Rye, par 4801 b 22 0— 24 0 Dantsic, high mixed 7 2 7 6 Beans, English, pr Do., mixed .. 6 8— 7 2 imperial quartr 31 0— 33 0 Rostock 6 8 6 10 Irish and Scotch, Hamburgh and per 4801 b.. .• 28 0— 29 0 Lower Baltic .. 6 6 6 8 Foreign, duty pd. 25 3 25 6 American, white 6 8 6 10 European, per im- Spanish and Ha' pedal quarter .. 30 0 —3l 0 red and white.. 6 0 6 5 Peas, English, per Hungarian and imperial quartr 32 0— 33 0 Mariaropoll • . 5 6 5 9,Foreign 29 0— 39 0 Odessa, Polish .. 5 8 6 0 Malt, English, per Do., common .. 5 2 5 6 imperial quartr 50 0— 51 Do., hard.. .• 4 6 4 9 Do., Irish •• 40 0— 46 0 Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 6 Do., brown .. 50 0— 52 0 Oats, per 451 b Flour, English, pr English, Scotch, 28015 .. •• 31 0— 33 0 and Welsh .. 3 0— 3 2 Irish, extra flne .. 34 0-- 35 0 Irish, new, best United States, per mating •. 2 5—2 6y barrel .. 23 6 26 0 Do., mid and inf. 2 4 2 s,Canadian .. 23 0 24 0 Old . • .. • . 2 7 --2 B:oatineal, English, Indian corn, per I & Scotcli,pr24olb 23 0 24 0 4801 b 29 0 —3O o i lrish, new .. 21 22 Do. Meal, perl96lb 14 0— 14 61 Do., old .. .20 0— 21 0 MANCHESTER, JAN. 12.—During the present week a feeling of apathy bas pervaded the flour trade, occa sioned by the reaction observable in most of the influen tial wheat markets of the kingdom; arid in the limit-d business passim, buyers have had the turn of prices in their favour. For catmeal a fair consumptive demand has been experienced, on fully previous terms. At Liverpool and Runcorn liberal supplies of oatmeal con tinue to be received from Ireland, with moderate quanti ties of other produce thence; and from abroad there are again upwards of 10,000 barrels of flour reported, but only trivial arrivals of other art'eles. Our market this morning was exceedingly lifeless and uninteresting. Wheat receded in value 2d per 701 b; and flour, meeting very little inquiry, was purchaseable at a reduction of 6d to is per sack. In oat; no change was apparent; and oatmeal, with a moderato sa'e, firmly maintained the quotations of this day se'nnight. COLCHESTER, JAN. 12.—Wbeat has pretty well main tained its value in the markets of this district during the week, but other articles have been cheaper. In this market to-day the best samples of whits wheat ft tched 52s per quarter, and the finest parcels of red 48s. On Friday, at Chelmsford, the supply was large, but the trade was pct very brisk; late erices were sustained for wheat, toe qui t ,t,ons being 42s to 48s for what and 37s to 42s for red; but barley was Is to 2s rer quintal- lower, except for the finest malting, which rea lized 30s per quarter. At Sudbury, on Thursday wheat was lowered is per quarter. In t'..3 markets of Suffolk meet articles have been lower. _ _ At Stewmarkef, an Thomlsy, wheat, barley, and peas were is to 23 cheaper, save fur euperior sampler, and the trade was far from brisk. At Woodbridge there was tho same reduction, and beans also Were Is cheaper. At Bury the market was firm for wheat, though other articles gave way. At Ipswich beans and peas were 2e lower. WORCESTER, JAN. 12.—The weather is int-nsely cold, with fallirg snow, the attendance at market li mited. Wheat was hardly so much in request as GI late, and prices not so favourable to the seller. Good white English worth 163 to 16s 6d, for best samples; red, 15s ti 16s per bag; fors-ign, fr.( m 43 6u t) 5s 6,1 per bushel. Barley, for grinding, may be quLted at 3s per bushel; lusltiDg quslitioa slow of sale, at 3s 6d top pricy. Malt 7s 61 per bushel. English oats (old 3s 41, and new 2, 81 t 3s per bushel; Irish, 2s 6d to 33. Good ET , glish Fein,; worth from 14s t ,. .) 1.5 s per bag; foreign 3s 61 to 44 p.,r bushel. Boiling. peas 4s to 4s 31. and L:rinding cpalitiei 3s 61 per bushel. Winter vetehos per bushel. At ;.'touriaridge mark( t on Friday millers were tic" waling t,) make pureha,es r,t the rtit-s of laq week, and farmers unwill'ng to sell on easier terms. The business done, ts - ter,.tore, was comparatively small in amout,t 1. Str , ...tford-,n-Av on on Friday a similar nispot,ition wa attfinhince 4 , f flirmers being limited, eat hstdl, b, cjill,t4,(l lower. Kidderminster matket this week *a.; pretty well te etiAeci, and the supply of mcst deseriplic , ns of grain w 3 l A full •Wheat was chi-::per, and retpt . he quote" fatly Is p, ,r quarter lower than on lust murkei-,lay Battle), however, was iu req,“-sr, and the rates of last week were fully sustained. In other grain the transac tions were litni!ed. Wolverhampton market was fairly supplied with grain, and although the milers pressed for a reduction on bog week': rates, the farmers rsf.iied to submit, and prices were Fully maintained. Good red whest realised Iss 6 ~tvi fine white 163 6i per superior qu 17i• Barley , was in Lair r t qu, si . at, the, prices obt a i na ble tbnC day se tinight. Oats and beans ,ustained last week's prices, but tln, business ((one was incniniideratdr. READING, JAN. 12.—Wheat, per quarter, 30s to .0 1 ; barley, 25s to 30s; oats, 16s to 20 s ; b eans , 30 1 , to 335; peas, 30s to 325. at hogs, Os to Os Od ; porkers, ssOdto Os 0 0 per score. Poultry—Geese, each, Os od to Os Od; fowls, Per couple, 3s Od to 4s Od ; ducks, per couple, 3s 6d .to 4s 6d ; butter, per lb, is Id to Is 2d ; eggs, 10 for Is. ABERDEEN, JAN. i I.—Grain—Oats 13s &Ito 14s 6d, 401 b per bushel ; oats, new, OOs Od to OOs; foreign oats, i3Os Od to Ojs Od per qr.; barley, 18s to 18s 6d, 52Ibs per bushel; bear, IBs to 1 6 , s 6d,521bs per bushel ; w h ea t. slits to 455; oat mea l, I I s 6d t o 1250 per boll ; flour, 33s to 3's per sack. Provisions —Bee,,ft 6cl to 9d per ib ; mutt on , di tto , 6d to 8d ; veal, ditto, 10 to 9d ; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d ; lamb, per lb, Od to 0t1; tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 10d to / 1 hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 9d; hares, each, (4 to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 9d ; eggs, per doz, 10d to Is 2d; cheese, per cwt, 18s to 235; hens, P er pair, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, is 8d to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto: Is 8d to 25 Cd; ducklings, ditto, 03 to 030 d; turkeys, each, 4s ( 34 , to Saud; geese, ditto, 3s 6d to 4s; butter f o r ex p or t a ti on (present cure), per cwt, OOs to 52s ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, ( Y e to 7d; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 141bs, 3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, 5ma11,.55 6d to Os Od ; pork large , 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os t o ON Meal—Oatmeal, Is 2d to is 3d; barley dust, 7d to a d i peasemeal, Is 8d to Is 10d; lids, 6d to 7d'; bearmeal, is Id to is 2d; flour, is 10d to 21 Od; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley flour, ls 2d to Is 3d. D:tLICEITII, /A2Z 10.—The relative weight per four bushe l s , of the three prices of wheat were 18 st 51b, 17st 81b, and 1 65 ' , 101 b. Oats. 13st 51b, 12st 11b, an d S st 121 b. Barley, 16st 101" , 15st 121 b, and l4st 41b. Peas and beans, 18st 7,b, 17st 1 01b ' and list 2lbs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 532 Wheat ... ...... £2 0 0 £1 14 6 £1 9 ° n 1591 Oats 1184 Barley 50 Peas and Beans 1 7 0 . 1 4 6 1 0 " Average of wheat 33s 9d. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 10.—The n 103:1- hers to day mere —oxen, 843; sheep, 2,575. The sued - ply of cattle was considerably more than last to eek, the quality generally very good. At t t ,e commenceme nt of the market sales wer e goo d , b u t towar d s th e e nd t f A the market they became d u ll, an d a goo d man y woe" out unsold. Best ox of 48s per cwt, current from 433 to 455, inferior cows and bulls from 30s to 38'. In the shv ep market the attendance vf purchasers was nt l , o° ,l rous; still sales were i n f avour o f t h e purchaser. 4°:, of the best vet thers sicl per lb, cum vil nt 4id to sd, e' . from 3id to 4d, and a few turr el out unsold. DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—We bad. rather a small supp l y of wheat, and a moderate one cf barley and cat 4, s t our Corn Exchange to-day. Wheat and barley brought prices of Tuesday last; but oats ri a Led al advance „°, 3d to 6d. White wheat, 20, to 23 5; r e d ditto, Od to 228; barley, lls 6cl to 14s 61; oats (per barre l )' 9s 6d co lie (per cwt), oatmeal (p e r c a t), 10s 6J t „ lls 6d; second flour, 12s 6d to 16 8 Od ; Indian OP' 26s to 30s per 4801bs. CORK, JAN. 11.—The arrivals of foreign grain ar : very mod, ate—those of home gran still more se t t, ' t receipts of the latt for the week being :—WrieN 1,159 brls at 168 0.1 to 22s Od per b r l ; C ar l ey , 1 , 557 v i e : at 78 6d t 115 8d per brl; t at 3,987 brls at 78 0c1 ;$ 9s 9.1 per bd. The receipts f or t n e st a - on t the t ' e inst, as compared with those to the correlionti periods of the two past years are :-1848, Wr ei - t e 59,070; barley, 69,388; cat,, 165 , 102 ; 1849, eat, 25,467; barley, 64,009; oat', 171 , 032 ; 1850, ilueo-0 49,140; tarley, 74,843; oat , , 155,356. In the gr e , market the prices of whe a t and barl e y ha ve ru l e d EtLaii r i but a's have advanced 2d to 3.1 per barrel in value. ;, 0 prep tred wile at and barley we have had some ! il i a business passing, and the currency of last week, of both atticlvs, is steadily supported. A few pare€l9.r prepared t ats have changed aids at 9s 3d to 95 6d.P`n t am], free on board, being an advance f3d per br' ° O l the prices of last week. Irish flour, which is still Motor to work very l ally, continues very dull of sale, bu t I n d approved brands t f foreign the demand is brisk, li tho the supply scarcely equal to the requirements cf ;ye , t , al.. The try le in Indian corn hrs not been fle j j o i and the iv - fele sells only in retail qu a ntities .at week's qut , t itions, the extreme value of the article be o ld; inß r i 61 17s 6d per ton. I n di an meets little iotl u Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s 6d ; ex tra ibs en to seconds, Ils to 128 6d ; household s 9 s t o 10 8 6d ; thirds, 61ro. per cwt. Oatmeal 10s to 1036 d; Indian meal 7s to 74 6d ; meal. lOsto les 6.1 per cwt. I n di an corn 135 s to 137 8 6d per t Bran 317 s 6d to 3/ IC: p er t on . Hay—Farmers 24s to 355; g ie lre 325; dealers 30s to 40s Od; average 35s per ton. SU avi- -Far— otli 20s Od to 30s Od; average 235; dealers 00s Od to Os td ., 4 average 0, Od per ton. B rea d—Wh eaten loaf 6 d to 62 to" household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 10J per lb Eggs —ss e. Ito 5s 10d p er hundred. C°" lsty Newport 15s; Lydney 178; Land ore 1 55; Best .11e-ef. Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 393 Od to nos per (ei i Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial ga ll on . 11 ' t o —Beef 3id to sd; mutton 3d to sd; vest. 4d r Od ; pork 3Ld to 41; bacon 6d to lid ; sausages stl P!„ lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2 e 6d to 3/ 59 r.„ ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ss; Valonia 14 1 to 01 ; Fr en ''" 7155; English 01 per ten. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per son Hemp 32/ tot 0/ per ten. Fish— Scotch herrings IBs to 191; " el ditto 24s to 2.63 per barrel ; Newfoundland 9 Os to 11 1 4, ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, ,:o s ; second quality, 16s per IC3. Hides—Market 135 to salted 13s to 20e per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 3d P er Potatoes, white 8d to 9d ; Minions lld to 12e; GO% j Peruvian, 11l lOs ; Ichaboe, 91 per ,ton ; Tar—Arc hllpe 19a per barrel. RAIL W ist. 1( ;L.. , AtARKET S. 7. BRISTOL, JAN. 12. 113. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was firm to -day • A gar transactions were as foll ow :— G reat W estern , Qua -11 dis.—Midland Stock, 45 1 4. LIVERtOOL, JAN. 12. on STOCK EXCH6NGE.—The share market was Ve'w. e to-day, and price s ra th er b etter. The transactions T' r dull follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 74 d ••••• and North-West ern , 114—Di tto, N ew Quarters, is. 3T cast Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 7U— Midlanul l y Ditto, Halves, 22,4—South-Eastern and Dover , „'' f ic/c Ditto (No. 4), 61. I Is. U.—York, Newcastle, and De' „ (G. N. E. P u rch ase ), 6 per cent. till 1850, 4 1 dia. MANCHESTER, JAN. 12. tb' STOCK EXCHANGE. -The market opened very Wil e - wen/ morning, but afterwards improved. The transactio/se ond —Great Northern, 5 per ceat., Scrip, 10% —Lancasb ir b oar Yorkshire, Fifths, VA dis. Manchester and Birtnio 6 o lo• Quarters (C), p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and L'ij i 0 10 Preference, 8 1 4— North Staffordshire, 9% (A), 232—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, " BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our share market remains d ull s r inactive, and premises to remain so until after th e _ p ie!. proaching half-yearly meetings of the principal col/V . 7 0 0t Parties are disinclined either to buy or sell at P` prices. d is. North, t, wer e 0 YORK, Jas. 12. 6TOCK EXCHA NOE. trasactions to-da , follow : York, Newcastl T e, he n and Berwick (Newo y ast le serll l tension), 11/. 9d.—Great Northern, 71. 6e. 31 * -- prefe 7 British, Quarter- 2 1 / — York and North Midland , • 2 ence, 6!/. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 12. ee 0 STOCK EXCHANGE. - The transactions tr-day W ., r 1 1 / 3 ° . follow :—N ewcast l e an d C ar li s l e, 8 6-D itto, Q uar ter°, ' l 4. North British, Third,., 3/. &I.—Ditto, Preference , LI -0 GLASGOW, JAN. 11. S OCY E C HANG The transactions to-day We irislre g follow : --Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 50—Ditto, ve rt/IP (No. 1), 121, -Ditto (No. 2), 51,4 jEdinburgh, r ;oisle , and Newpo r t, 775. 6d.— Gl asgow, D umfries,i and Tid 6, 6°. 4%—Olasgow and Greenock, P re fe rence, 6 % —Monicia- Messrs. Walter Hancock and Co. of of Wes t Abbey, have receiv e d an order to supply 130 n 3 ile s ' e r the of gutca pereho, tubing, which i s t o be laid un cle il/ stre , ts of the nrt ropo li s, f or the purposes of ea - e v " telegraphic communications —Chelmsford Chronicle' o A rupture has taken r ace between the the Counties and the, Eastern Union Companies, s° A " al to latter has redu ce d i ts f ares f i fteen per cent. i n compete for the Norwich traffic.—Chelmsford Chi BIRTS. On the 9th in s t., at Beebto H n-hall, Lady p r estolif o f daughter. , "abor t ' On the 10th u lt., a t S tanmore, t h e l a d y o f T. Esq., Royal Artillery, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at York-terrace, the wife of 1.• , Es Onq., of a son. the 10th inst., at Woolwich, the wife of Major Say , shim, of a da ug ht er . t he On the 10th i ns t., a t W arw i c k- s t reet, E cc l es ton-sclui -e ' wife of J. F. Wilkinson, Esq , of a son. On the 11th inst., at Brixton-hill, Mrs. Will iam man, of a son. fo On the 11th inst., at Putney-hill, Mrs. J. C. SteY enB ' daughter. „„vtofri MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Mansfield, F. 11. G. Nicolls; 4th . !tragoon Guards, only son of the late Lieutenant -v-0i d' Sir Jasper Nicolls, K.C.B , to Ellen youngest daugb t'er ,bil l ' H. Hill, Esq of Mansfield -street, Coild o on, - and of Oe rri ci 0 near Mansfielll, Notts. Frs' e• On the 10th inst., at Horsham Church, the Re% J 91 3,, Alfred amles, rector of Singleton, Sussex; ' t • Itc”' second daughter of the late Rev. E. Elates, rector o ingfield, in the same county. Ijods °11 ; On the 10th i ns t , at E:tping Church, Mt. James . 8 PP -4 of Brighto n , t o S ara h, second daughter of the 15 ' Payne, Esq., of Epping --- 05 0 DIED. In November last, shortly alter his arrival a t 3 1 a 2 l' ;6 l' Me ;ico, Robert, only son of the late William She .4r ct l l ' of Wimpole-street. Oa the 4th in 4.., Lady Maly Wynr., the wife of , -' 1 ~ J. Wynn, of Pultency-street, Bath. i h op, On the 7th just., at the New Steine Hotel, Br i g Brown, Esq., aged 63. bo li ' ' On the Bth hist , Mr. James Cocker, of Charter square, aged 5t..1. fob° On the 10th inst., in Buckingham-street, Adelphi, o d o Brooks, Esq., formerly of the Hon. East India COP o S i e o r vv v irl i 3 c ,t e nt . ide a l igiaoendtl 10th lust ., sete.: i n Pl'' At Silver-hill Torquay, lo° I r 3 T i at a i n lda to , n th .s e g l u v a i l fe e. of John Ne's ° '" e ~, . of Dr. Sutherland, aged , 54. on toe 10th inst., Maria, th 6 '17 1. ` rn „ Printcd and Published by UMW° 1 ' .+No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7'he Sun Oiliceltior • titrand, in the Precinct of the stwoy, in Ow Abriday. Japary 10850. •~ S i gh, Itre, N. bo ll ` lei ti• t 481, 1 Kof *hici • , 4[ 4 ' Fa "Om 414.