The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-28 00:00:00

BANK RET URNS. (From the Loadon Gazette of Tuesday.) All Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Ban and Wales. in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 15th day of Na ' vember :851:- Average pIuvATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Ct.... ..... 12.823 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jeramitt and Pomfret 12,445 Aylshaan Bank, Aylsham-R. and G Copeman 3,834 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt ............................... 19,740 Baldock Bank and Balclock and 84 - , , gleswada Bank, Baldoek-Wells. Hogg, and Lindsell 27,047 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 11,455 Basingstoke and Odihare. Bauk, Basingstoke-- Seymour, Lam b, and Co• ..... 14,303 Bedford Bank , Bedford -T. Barnard 30,037 Bedford and Bedfordshire Baru - , Bedford- Trapp, lialfhead, and Co. -- BerMey Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane 10,339 Bieeeter and. Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford B aal , Bicestar -Tubb and Co. .. •••-••• "• 13,540 Birmingham 13ank, Birrninghaln-Altyro: as, Spooner, and CO .................................... 21,209 3irmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Binning- N.lailliatt, and Sons ............ .••• 12.399 lancifnrd Bank. BlandCorci-Bastard ana Oak 8.376 3ostoa Bank, Boston-Gar flt arid Co ...... . ...... 5 14. 7,50 325 3 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee arid Co .............. 5,398 Bridgavater Bank, Brida,water Sc J. Seale) , Bristol Bank, Bristol-Ntiles, lla,rford, and 0). 32,739 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and 13ridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-i\lessrs• Pritchard 18,117 Buckingham Bank, 13uckinghana -Bartlett, 17,766 Parrott, and Co. ury and Suffolk Bnk, Sudbury Bank, Stow- BMarket Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 63 . 035 Banbur B ul k, Banbury -Gillett and Tawney. a,8,932 y B Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 22,314 Bath-Moser and Son . a nbur y Bath City Bank, Bedfordsh ire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard -Bassett and Grant Biraainghain Bank, Birmingham -Taylor and 32,128 Lloyds Bradford O ld Bank, Bradford, Yorkshira-11.. 12 650 A. and W. M. Harris a nd Co ...................., Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and `Yost, 58,264 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, andBorrer Burlington and DritEeld Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge lock • and 50n5............................................. . Cambridge arid Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Nlessrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 23,375 Carmarthen Bank, Carnaarthen-Morris and 5 0n5 ............................................... . Chertsey Bank , Chertsey-Messrs. La Costa .• Colchester Ba nk, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. .......................................Essex ....... Colchester and Essex. Bank, Witham and Bank, and Hadleig h Bank, Suablk, Colchester B a wtrea, and Co ................. ...... Cornish Bank, Truro-Tvvealy and Coy: and Wood- Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little c0c k.................................... City Bank, Exeter -Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle-13irkbeclas and C o. Cardilt Bank, Cardiff-Towood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Thank, hepstow-13rornage, Snead, and Co. De by B a nls, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Ban k, Derb y -Smith and Co. Derby Ole Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bauk, Devizes -Hughes , Locke, and Co Dis 3 Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-t3ackhouse, Sa Co Devonport Bank, Devouport-.lodge and Nor man .......................... Dorchester Old Bank and Darsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Corn,a3,ll Bank, Liskaard-Robins, Foster, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hall , and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford -Sparrow. aral Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 24,213 Fakenham Bank, False:Allan-G s urneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 5,335 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 12,750 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Ca 5,090 Goclalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and TCeen Guildford Bank, G-:Messrs.-Mossrs. Haydon 6.778 G ran tham Batik, Gaanta aaa-Vtardy and Co 26,481 sastincas Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, adder, and Co. 27 559 , Ecreford City and Co'tnty Bank, Hereford- M a tthews and Co. flertrtird add Ware Bank, Elertfor -S. Alaras a and Co BankZell and ainqston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers , en d Co. Euntingdon Town and County Bank, limiting cloa-Ruat and Veasay . 4O, 508 Harwicln Bank, liarvricli-Cox,Cobbold. and Cc. 4,435 Kernel iresnpste:7,l Bank, hornet Hemp stead nnfl ;d h:ttinn;t:ill Fier t.fo r tiitelten Bank,. Hitch° n-Sharples and Co. Baraforil, Ross , and A.rithentield Bank, and Ross and A..rc,.hentield Bank, Hereford-Morgan - Co 2,114 ... 16,581 18,292 2,949 15,815 29,879 36,856 6,551 13,409 75,255 4,380 5,749 9,538 32,963 22,33 9,811 9,778 57,470 74,795 9,551 44,059 97,029 50,463 19,035 23,573 Hoskins, Ipswich Bank, Ipawich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham :11:arket Bank, Suffolk, liadleigh Bank, Nianningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Aleve.nders and Co. Kentish Bank, liaiclstotie—:Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kintton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Kai etton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Cn. Knaregnorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna7e3)orou^'a—Terry and Co • Kendal Bank, li.:endal—' , Vakefield, Crewclson, 16,504 18,785 56,339 20, 1 .66 24,211 9,062 13,745 and Co. Kettering Bank, K.Aterin2; o&lia and Sons._ Lane Ead StaiTordshira Bank, Lane End—C I.lo.rvoy and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Bsckett, :,, n 4 c o leieds Tlni on Bank, Leeds--W. Williams, Brown, 40,057 7,168 5,268 53,336 36,591 26.178 31.957 11,961 75,450 and. C.). Lei.tester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... Lewes Oil Bank, Lewes—Aolineux and C 0.... Liohneld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... Lincoln Bank. Lincoln—Smith and Co Latupeter Bank and Liandilo Bank, Llando vely —David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Nliddle tons and Cradock L ym i ng ton Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe .......... ...... Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co .... Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-- Jarvis and Co. Macelestield Bank, Macclesfield—Broeklehurst and Co Maaningtrets. Bankollannins,,tree—Nunn and Co. 2 4,453 7 ; 043 3,959 15,098 3,879 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and flungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 1,692 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlbor oug h—W ar d ' ' Hillier. Merriman, and xerioneth s hi re B an k, Dolgelly—J ones sud Williams .. iners' Bank . , ; r - ru"ro—Willyami and "6 . 0 6.716 Nonmouths'aire Is-gricultaral and Commercial 11,971 Bank, dberv l v ^` c'nnY—Btileys and C 05,152 3fonmoutn Old Bank, m on . '° Bank, i c iA(;) ,a uth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow stow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire liank, Monmouth --Brornage and Snead. ....... . . 1 ... N 3fonmou th s hire Newport - ewport —W. Williams and 50n3..... ...... Newark Bank , Newark—Godfreys . ;; ra . t;t . .. 247836 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford ana Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, peacoc, and C o............ ................................ . 46,120 Newbury Bank, Newbary—Banny and Slocoek. 22,221 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket —Baton, Ham. n t ond. and Son , ......... Norwich Crown Bank,. Norwich —fiarve y s and Hudtrms ................. ........................ . 45,510 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur neys and Birk'eeek.. ............. • itZottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not a—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 9,530 60,708 2,960 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Sezmn Bank, Sarum Ever ott, and 11.724 liottin!.rham Rink, Nottingham—Smith and Co 24,890 eavveAtry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westt ~1 1roxon and Co Oxfordi)ld Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. OH Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridrre 32,435 Wel6 Old Bank, Tonbrid9;B and Tonbrid'e Wells "Ilill S ,, mioaks Bank, Tonbridge—g 13.3eliaog Soils... o r s o ri-,;.ira Wit nay Batik, WitacY—Clineh, ca d (Io . Tesse'd Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co. 39,634 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0..... 9,949 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter toorough......MAtSrS. Yorke 7 orokesh i re B a nk, Haverfordwest—J. and 'W. Walters ........................................ . 10,888 Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 24,166 Beading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 28,605 'Richmond Bank, Riehmond—Maxwell and Co 5,119 Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, and Co 4,67 Royston Bank, Royston—F ordhazu and Sons,,. 10,59 24,249 11,064 9,348 8,415 THE SUN, ----------- Average Amount Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson .... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 10,750 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. . 15,158 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard 3,800 and Allay: ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 11,295 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, 31,542 and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,471 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce 10,605 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 13,584 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 613 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 11,920 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ~ 29,568 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton — M essrs. Badcock 23,119 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and 10,523 Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury —Rol p h, Yates, and Parslow .. Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton —Duns - fordand Barne ...................................... Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesha m Bank, Tring—But cher and Son" . .................... Towcester Old Bank , Towcester—J. and S P erc ival Town and County of Poolo Bank, and Ring wood and Poole • Bank Ledgard and Sons' .................................... Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and C 0................................ ............. Uxbridge Bank, ridge—H, Smi, .............. and C0........................... Wallingford Bank, Wallgford—Hedges & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, W a kefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bang, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. • Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. ' WiveliscGrnhe Bank, Wiveliscombe--P. and W 390 6,218 7,985 10,500 12,979 7,957 9,642 8,617 17,378 7,710 21,100 Hancock ... Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester —Farley, Lavender, and Co. k -d Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester Old Bank an_ Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster —Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— 4,633 40,746 11,900 19,395 5,635 14,064 31,04 39,90 S 6,975 8,324 7,72 71,565 7,465 15,418 10,295 '',lessrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birle)eck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,359 York Bank. York—Swann, Clough. and Co 39,037 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,241 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... . . 19,401 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com- 34,523 pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12,240 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel -92,581 tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,995 Dudley and Weat Bromwich yanking Company, Dudley 33,408 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,356 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 16421 East of Engln,r,;l P, .n'.:, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 130,089 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 18,168 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,908 Dull Banking Company, Hull . 23,841 Halifa,x Commercial Banking Company, Ha- 8,597 lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,480 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,472 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,003 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 53,234 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Bankin g Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 46,513 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,025 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,636 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham . Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 43,330 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 62,93" Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leic2st(rshire Banking Company, Lei cester .. .. . . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,430 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 36,795 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. Stuelzey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall .. Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... .... 22,080 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Shi.llield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond 47,53 Storey and Thomas's Banking Company 1,250 20.649 27,640 9,760 Shaftesbury Wolverhampton ',lad Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley 34,69 Union Bank, Wakefield 13,48 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven • 24,940 Warwick and Lcionington Banking Company, Warwick West of Englane and South Wales District Bank. Bristol . 62 4 9 8 .. , - Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,057 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester 4,677 York Union Banking Company, York 70,453 York_ot City and County Banking Company, York x kshire Banking Company, Leeds itel.enDuekl.,s'l...oNmSe,rßseetgaistoruarse.o Nov.Ba 2, Returns. inland R JA:IIES BROOKE AND THE A public meeting BISHOPRIC OF BORNEO . A persona favourable h to the establishment of a new hi:shopriceloi accomplishment n oi.r orneo i ras held i r la otlf°the influential clergy of a m o fb thatetll on Tuesday at the National A vie l w arg o e f a n i u d m in b g e o w b i j t e h c t. the the district attended, and Sir James Brooke, in the course of an impressive speech, gave the following character of the p eop l e o f Borneo :—He had no hesitition in saying that the natives were the most generous people in the world. The better class of them were of the moat truthful and generous character. They would bear no in sults from any one. They carried their daggers by their sides, and they were as ready to use them as an Baglishm-in was his fists. When any man amongst them was accused of murder or any other crime he was not confined, nor was any insult offered to his feelings. Last summer a young man, about 28 years of age, who had been constantly about his (Sir J. Brooke's) house, and at his table, who was, in fact, very well known to him, was accused of murder. He (Sir J. Brooke) t. sent c.•,r him, took him into his pri vate e r o?rn ' in co m p any w i t h a nat i ve c hi e f, and told i quietly the char ge th a t was ma d e aga i ns t him. He was told that he knew the customs of the coun try, that he must take hi . trial,and, if • • s LONDON, would be put to death. He said, certainly, if he was found guilty, be would suffer death, but that he ~ vould not do him (Sir J. Brooke) any harm. It was remarked to him that he might inflict injury if he pleased, for he had a dagger by his side, whereas the other two were unarmed. The young man took the dagger from his side, and, passing it over the table, said, " Oh, you take it." He (Sir J. Brooke) re turned the dagger, saying " No; put it back ; you are a man of respectability, and I know you will submit to the law. Come to the court the day after to-morrow at twelve o'clock and be tried for your life." The young man appeared at the court at the appointed time, and after an impartial trial was ac quited. The judge and jury rose and shook hands with the prisoner, and they had all been very good friends since. —(Cheers.) There was a degree of simplicity in the administration of justice there which in this country it would be difficult to understand. Notwithstanding that, substantial justice was always administered. Sir James Brooke proceeded to dwell upon the great benefits the country would derive from the establishment of a bishopric there, and ex pressed a hope that the scheme would meet with general acceptance throughout England. Tne Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, the Rev. E. Hawkins, and several other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in support of resolutions which affirmed the desirableness of founding the proposed bishopric of Borneo, and a liberal subscription was entered into in furtherance of that object. 8,484 FRAN CE. The Committee on the Bill for defining the respon sibility of the President of the Republic and his Ministers resolved, on the motion of M. Pradie, that they would reserve the question of urgency, and proceed immediately to the discussion of the clauses of the Bill. A debate then ensued, and, after several of the Members had delivered their opi nions, it was resolved to introduce the 68th article of the Constitution on high treason into the first clause of the Bill, as far as that article refers to the right of the Assembly, as mentioned in the amendment of M. Pradi6. The Commission then discussed the case of high responsibility provided for by the second section of the first article relating to the provocation of the violation of the Constitution. The Commission adjourned without coming to any decision on that proposition. GERMAN Y. A letter from Hamburgh, of the 233, in the Inde- I pendance of Belgium, says :—"A grave event has taken place amongst the Austrian corps d'arinee in Holstein. Many of the regiments composing it consist in great part of Hungarians, and amongst them are many young men of noble families, who are compelled by the Austrian Government to serve as simple soldiers. In spite of the disasters drawn down on unfortunate Hungary by the revolution, these soldiers cannot repress the hatred which animates them, or their desire for a new revolution. The presence in England of the ex-Dictator Kossuth, and his violent diatribes against the Austrian Government and dynasty, have greatly contributed of late to excite the sen timents of hatred of the Hungarian soldiers, and an armed revolt, of which the consequences would have been incalculable in the north, has been on the point of breaking out amongst them ; but it has been prevented by the active surveillance of the superior officers of the Austrian battalions. An agent of Kossuth and of the revolutionary propaganda of London, the Hungarian Count Potocki, who com manded a regiment at Comorn during the revolution, was arrested the day before yesterday by the military authorities of Rensburg ; he had arrived from London by way of Paris under a false name. In his posses sion were found proclamations exciting the soldiers to revolt, and printed copies of the last public speeches in England by the ex• Dictator. It was generally stated in the town that many officers (the number is said to be nineteen), and a great number of non-commissioned officers and soldiers have also been arrested at Rensburg, for having been ac complices in the projected revolt. There arrests have been principally effected in the Schwarzenberg regiment, which is almost entirely composed of Hun garians, and which is at present in garrison i❑ the fortress of Rensburg. It has been ascertained that the agent of Kossuth, aided by another Hungarian, Ruschak, and who has also been arrested, had suc ceeded in organizing the revolt. In a strategic point of view the spot was well chosen. In possessing themselves of the fortress, the conspirators calculated that they would receive the support of a number of the dismissed officers and soldiers of the army of Holstein. A new insurrection in the two Duchies would have opened a vast field to the revolutionary exploits meditated by the European propaganda at London. During the last three days the electric te legraph has been exclusively occupied in transmitting to Vienna the dispatches of the Austrian Commander in -Chief; even those of the Stock Exchange could not be sent. On receipt of these deplorable news at Vienna, General de Ramberg, an aide-de-camp of the Emperor, was immediately sent cff to examine the affair, and he has already arrived at Altona." THE EARL OF CARLISLE ON ME. CIIANICS' INSTITUTIONS. The foundation-stone of a new mechanics' institu tution was laid on Tuesday at Burnley, in Lanca shire, by Mr. C. Towneley, of Towneley Park, amid much rejoicing by the inhabitants, who made the day a general holiday, and assembled in large numbers to witness the proceedings. There was a large and influential gathering at Towneley Park, including the Earl of Carlisle, as Chancellor of the duchy ; the Earl of Sefton, as Lord- Lieutenant of the county ; Sir J. P. Kay Shuttle worth ; the Honourable Colonel Scarlett ; Mr. Patten, M.P. ; Mr. Heywood, M P.; Mr. Hey worth, M.P.; and a number of influential gentlemen in the neigh bourhood. In the evening a tea party was held in the school-room of Salem Chapel, opposite to the site of the new building. The tea-drinkers subsequently assembled in the chapel, where they were joined by Mr. Towneley and his noble guests. In the course of the evening, ?Ir.Towneley, as chairman, called on the Chancellor of the Duchy to address the meeting. The Earl of CARLISLE then rose and spoke nearly as follows :—Mr. Chairman, Ladies,sand Gentleman— I must really begin by thanking you, which Ido from my heart, for the very generous reception which you have given to one who is as yet a stranger to the town of Burnley. But you, sir, have just car ried me back to Yorkshire ; and it is certainly true that across the hills which rise above your town I have had many opportunies of addressing audiences upon many similar occasions, in some of those valleys which, like your own, are distinguished alike by the beauties of their natural scenery and by the busy hum of human in dustry—(Hear, hear) —and I feel that in coming be fore a Lancashire audience we are no longer living in the times so eloquently referred to by a late speaker, when the names of York and Lancaster signalised different factions and different parties—(Hear, hear) —but now, on the contrary, in our happier era, either your red rose has paled, or our white rose has blushed into one ; common colour—(Cheers)—and instead of contending for rival causes, or for opposing dynasties, we may now only try to demonstrate which has the greatest number, which has the best supported, which has the best conducted mechanics' institutions.— (Hear, hear.) I have had many occasions hereto fore, and very recent ones too, for remarking upon the singular elasticity of these mechanics' institutions —I _mean their adaptation to the varied aspects of our society. Scarcely a month ago I attended a similar meeting in the city of Lincoln, an old and picturesque-built town, the capital of the most agri cultural district in England, the towers of whose ma jestic cathedral look down from their lofty perch upon a wide expanse of reclaimed fens and level corn-fields. Well, among that rural population, under the shade of that old cathedral, a thriving mechanics' in stitution has been established ; and now I find myself in Burnley, one of that cluster of communities and busy manufacturing towns, which stud this district of England like the broad brazen knobs on some old belt. It may be true that their names are not surrounded with the halo of classical or romantic association. The names of Bolton, and Blackburn, and Bury, and Bacup, and Burnley— (Loud applause followed the mention of each name) —welcome as their pronunciation seems to be to some of your cars, yet they have not the imposing and pic turesque sound either of Thebes, of Corinth, or Argos, of ancient Greece, or of Padua, of Mantua, of Verona, of medieval Italy; but they have at least this point of comparative advantage, they are not marshalling their inhabitants into trained bands to batter down each others' walls, to assault each others' citizens ; but their contention—if contention there is—ranges them as rivals in the pursuits of a peaceful industry ; and if they are ever at strife with each other, it is upon the great field of honourable enterprise, where all the laurels which are won serve both to reward them selves and to enrich the whole community. Now, in a place and district like this I consider a mechanics' in stitution to be a most appropriate appendage, and therefore it was with great pleasure that I found myself enabled to take part in the auspicious proceedings of this morning. And when I sly it is an appropriate appendage I feel that I understate the truth—it is a must desirable, almost an indispensable one, because I have referred to the nature of the pursuits which are followed here es being peaceful, and useful, and ho ; nourable ; hut at the same time we must not forget that primarily and in themselves they are conversant with only what is material, with the way, to use a homely phrase. of making money—(Hear)—and that they may have a tendency, if unchecked and un balanced by anything in au opposite direction, to in jure and enchain, and beat down some of the more delicate tastes and some of the loftier aspirations of the human mind.—(Hear, hear.) Par be it from me, in Lancashire, or anywhere else, to speak slightingly of cotton—(Laughter)—but you must feel that coton and calico, though they make admirable stock- FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1851. ings and other equally indispensable articles of cloth ing, yet they do not in themselves furnish up the whole man.—(Hear, and cheers.) Now, I have ob served that a most accomplished and able person—l may call him a fellow-lecturer of my own—Dr. Lyon Playfair, i❑ a lecture which he has recently de livered, gives it as his opinion with respect to the modes of education pursued in this country, that in our schools and colleges enough attention has not been given to scientific) instruction and regular in dustrious training.—(Hear.) He complains that too much labour may have been bestowed on classical studies, on dead authors, and bygone poets, and that the faculties have not been enough exercised on the open page of nature, and the living wonders which are around and about and beneath and above us. Now, I think probably he is in the right in this ; but at the same time lam convinced that almost every prevailing direction, both of the individual mind and of society at large, ought to have administered, always to be ready to have administered to it something in the way of free action and of a corrective.—(Hear, hear.) It may be very well in the quiet of academic bowers—as my friend Mr. Heywood may probably remind me—it would be well that the stern cloisters of Oxford, and the still shades of Cambridge—re taining, as I hope they will • ever do, their old appro priate sources of learning, not ignoring—to use a modern phrase which I may probably be told in :hose classic precincts is a barbarous one—but not ignoring the accustomed voice of their muses, yet it might be well that they should reflect still more, as I believe they have begun to do, of the aspect of the century, and of the society in which they are placed.—(Hear, hear.) But on the other hand, it is no less desirable that, in a district like this, where the pursuit of wealth is the habitual rule ; where the recurring routine of labour is the daily life, where the steam-engine and the power-loom, and mechanics and machines seem to be the lords of time and space, of the body and of the mind—(A voice—" No, no.") —it is well where there is such a tendency, I say, that without neglect ing, on the contrary, while you directly encourage those subjects and inquiries which are congenial to the place, while you promote the study of the laws of nature, or inquire into the properties of matter, at the same time means of access should be given, an opportunity of hearing, at least, should be afforded to the claims of general literature—to the sober muse of history—to the fervent accents of oratory, and to the sublime in spirations of song.—(Hear.) And, first, ladies and gentlemen, as it is the boast of our country, England, that it is the same country which produced our New ton, who has laid down the positive and ascertained laws of other worlds and of other systems ; and our Shakspere, whose imagination peopled worlds almost as numerous and quite as bright ; while these mingling characteristics, however, distinguished our countrymen, at once the most sober-minded and the most adventurous race which the world has known, so let it be the aim and glory of our own times, on the one hand, to make the study of the recluse and the vigil of the student still more available for meeting the wants of the present time, and for the mastery over nature, still more useful, still more practical, still more suited to the age in which we live, than they have yet been; while, on the other hand, we should aim to throw around the dry monotony of toil, and the plodding perseverance of labour, charms and graces which are not their own.—(Cheers.) And for this reason I rejoice that such an institution as has already existed—and which it is now proposed to extend and to diffuse, to embody in a more worthy home, and to diffuse further in its genial influences all around you—should exist in your town. I rejoice to hear that it is proposed to combine with it lecture rooms and class-rooms for drawing and music, classes for languages, and a well-assorted library. I rejoice to hear that it is not to be wanting in the graces of external architecture ; and I trust that you will show yourselves alive to the occasion which opens itself thus before you ; and that when the form has been moulded, when the bricks and mortar—l beg pardon, I believe you have excellent stone of your own in Burnley—when that has all been brought together, and a goodly edifice has been reared, you will show that it has the support of the inhabitants; and the mind that is to be developed within will make the real glory and honour of the building.—(Hear.) I know that, in addressing you in Lancashire, I am among a community which has shown a great and growing interest in ,the cause of popular education in all its directions. Into the merits of any particular direc tion which that interest may assume, this is not the place or the opportunity to enter ; but I feel most glad and triumphant to think that the time has come when the education of the people must spread wide and strike deep, and I have faith that the wisdom and puvdic spirit of all classes in this country will be exerted to give that impulse the right direction.— (Hear, hear.) I feel that there is someting large and expansive in the bodies of men which in this portion of the country are brought together upon occasions like the present. Why, in the very place in which we are assembled—in the very person who laid the first stone of your new building—we have living and patent proof that there is nothing exclusive or repel ling in the assistance and energy which have been brought to bear upon it; and, as I have referred to mechanics' institutions as comprising in their aim the cathedral towns of Lincoln and the factories of Burn ley, so we have seen to-day that they may unite in their service the oldest and most ancestral modes of faith with the least fettered and the least hierarchical forms.—(Hear, hear.) And from my heart, ladies and gentlemen, I join in the wish which I feel sure animates all who have this day and this night been brought together, which has already found eloquent expression in the mouths of preceding speakers, that the institution of which, amidst so many demonstrations of good will and concord, the first stone has been laid this day, and of which we are now holding this commemora tive assembly, may, in its future development, with re spect to all who may be brought within its walls, or be made partakers of its benefits, never suffer them to im bibe any lesson or influence that is inconsistent with their duties as good citizens, good subjects, good men, good Christians—(Cheers)—that they may within and under its roof find much to instruct, much to amuse, much to refine, but nothing to corrupt, nothing to sully, nothing to sap the wholesome foundation of morals or impair the sacred principles of religion— (Cheers) —but that, while they derive largely, and in ever-increasing measure, opportunities for useful in struction and for rational recreation, they may at the same time be imbibing lessons which shall stimulate and sweeten their daily toil, and make their homes and firesides honest and happy. (The Noble Earl retired amid much cheering.) Several other speeches were delivered ; among the rest, a short and somewhat humorous one by the Earl of Sefton, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, who denounced the gin-shops and gin -bottles, and affirmed as a fact that no drunkenness ever disgraced Heaton Park Races, because no gin -booths were ever admitted within the precincts of the Earl of Wilton's domain while those sports were kept up there. the latest specimen of barbarism with which they had become connected, there had been sent clothes, arms, and domestic instruments ; from the wild regions bordering the confines of our vast Indian empire had come examples of the rich and varied products found there. Sumatra sent her lacquered work, and less cultivated races sent their warlike weapons and fishing materials. There was one reflection which suggested itself on viewing these specimens of the industry of nations who stood so low in the scale of civilization. It is, that man is by nature and universally an artificer, an artisan, and an artist. They called the nations from which such specimens as he had mentioned came, rude and savage ; and yet how much of ingenuity, induction, and practical knowledge of the properties of vegetable textures, did they not exhibit, how much manual dexterity, and that, too, of a very high order, and how much neatness, prettiness, and even beauty, although the work of savage hands ! Even we, while looking down from our lofty summit of civilized skill upon the infancy of art, might learn from it lessons of taste. When they came to the higher specimens of art, the work of nations which had long been in a state of civilization, though in• ferior to ourselves in mechanical power, how much was there to admire, and even envy, in the beauty and taste they displayed ! The tissues and ornamental works of Persia and India had beauties which Europe could not surpass. Our superiority over them rested on a very different basis. In those countries art was employed to gratify the wants of a few, while with us it is used to supply the wants of the many. There was another view of the bearing of the Exhibition on art and science less ob vious than those to which he had already referred, but not less important, he meant the results obtained by the classification of the articles exhibited. To those who had not made the attempt, nothing might appear more easy than to classify any collection of different objects, but in truth it was a task surrounded with almost insuperable difficulties. In the various French expositions of art and industry since 1823, every species of classification had successively been employed, and all had beenfound unsatisfactory, which showed the difficult nature of the task. He thought the plan adopted at the Great Exhibition of this year, though far from being perfect, was yet the best that could, under the circumstances, have been adopted. Dr. Whewell then described, at great length, the system adopted in classifying the object exhibited. Now, the advantage of obtaining a permanent classification of all the objects of men's skill and industry were very great, as it gave the manufacturer, the man of science, the producer, and the artisan, a settled common lan guage in which they might speak of the objects with which they were connected. But it was not only ne cessary that things should have one name, but that they should have a settled form and application. Thus it had been suggested that in wheel work it would be very convenient that all wheels of a certain nature should be toothed exactly in the same way, and, to a great extent, the Exhibition would lead to that result. After some further remarks on the advantage which could not fail to flow from the greatly increased in tercourse between men of skill and knowledge which had been caused by the great gathering of the Ex , hibition, the lecturer concluded amid general applause. Mr. DILKE then moved, and Professor PLA.YrAIR seconded the thanks of the society to Dr. Whewell for the lecture he had delivered, and the proceedings terminated. well's notes it appeared that at the former trial the de fendant swore that he was present, and saw his wife pay the money.] Defendant's mother-in law was also called, and swore that the saw the plaintiff on the 9th of April at the defendant's house ; and a man who was also called swore that he had some beer given to him that day, but said that he did not know who paid for it. Mr. Sergeant BYLES, in reply, contended that as there was only a balance of 111. due to the plaintiff on the 9th of April the defendant at , empted to account for a receipt for 11/. 2s. (which had been given in respect of the money previously paid by instalments) by the im probable story that it included 2s. the defendant's wife had given for beer for the men, and he called upon the jury to disbelieve the defendant and his witnesses. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said the object of the Legislature would not have been obtained in this case if the counsel for the plaintiff had not waived his objection to the evidence of the defendant's wife; for the law, contemplating that a wife would be liable to be under her husband's influence, had not made her evidence ad missible, and yet in this case if she had not been called the plaintiff would have had it all his own way, there being no one else to contradict him. His Lordship then read over all the evidence, and lef; the matter to the jury. The jury were locked up from a quarter past four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly twelve at night, when they returned into court and delivered (t'a the Associate in the absence of the Chief Justice) a verdict for the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young woman of respectable appearance was brought before the Lord Mayor, under the following circumstances: — Isaac Isaacs, shopman to Mr. Jacobs, of No. 4, Houndsditch, said the prisoner came to our warehouse yesterday, at a quarter past four o'clock, and said that she wished to look at some shawls. I pointed out to her the part of the warehouse to which she was to go. She went there and looked at some shawls, and she selected two, and she left 11. 7s. 61, and said she would call again with the rest of the money, and she went out. Mrs. Isaacs immediately came to me, and said the pri soner had taken a shawl with her, and I followed the prisoner and said to her that I wanted her, and she must come back. I told her she had stolen a shawl. I saw a part of a shawl hanging from her at the time. She said to me, "For God's sake take the shawl, and let me go." I sent for a policeman, but the shawl was not found upon her, and we let her go. Afterwards the shawl was found by one of the warehousemen. The place was dark at the time, and I suppose that was the reason it was not found when she was in custody. It was found near the door. She afterwards came with some person, and began to kick up a disturbance, and was given into custody. A policeman said at a little after four o'clock I was sent for to No. 4, Houndaditch, to take a woman into custody for stealing a shawl. The prisoner was the woman charged. I asked Mrs. Isaacs about it, and she counted over the shawls, and said she could not tell whether one was gone or not; but the female had left 11. 7s, 6d. on a shawl or shawls, and it would remain till to- morrow, when it would be ascertained whether the shawl was lost, and the female was to bring the re mainder of the money this (Thursday) morning. The LORD MAYOR—Did you look round the place for the shawl? Policeman—l did, but not particularly, as the lady said she did not know whether a shawl was missing. The LORD MAYOR—Did Mr. Isaacs tell you at the time that he had seen part of the shawl hanging from the prisoner's person? Policfman—He did not. The prisoner appeared to be very anxious to speak, but his Lordship said there was no occasion for any ob servation from her, and that she was discharged. A man, who stated that he was the prisoner's hus band, said, in an angry tone, that the witness for the prosecution bad grossly perjured himself. The LORD MAYOR—There is no necessity for any re mark here. I dare say you know what to do. The young woman is discharged. MURDER AT TOLLESBURY. (From the Chelmsford Chronicle.) With feelings of humiliation and sorrow we have to add the details of another atrocious murder to the blood stained deeds which have blackened the criminal annals of the county within the last few years. The scene of the horrid tragedy in this case is Tollesbury, a consider able fishing village, lying upon the marshes of the Black water, and close to Tiptree-heath; and the victim is the wife of an oyster dredgerman, named James Cobb, 33 years of age, who was murdered while asleep in her bed, after her husband had left her, early on Tuesday morning. Cobb was employed in the oyster layings, of which there is a considerable extent in the neighbour hood, and it appears left for his work about six o'clock in the morning, a lodger having previously quitted the house; the wife being at the time awake. A little girl, seven years old, whom they had adopted, having no children of their own, slept in a crib close to their bed. Other houses adjoin, but nothing was heard to create alarm or excite surprise till eight o'clock, when the little girl awoke, and finding the woman dead, gave an alarm, and admitted the neighbours • the victim was then found lying in the bed, apparently in the position in which she had been sleeping, with an in dentation in her skull, several other wounds on her head, and her throat cut, life being extinct. The object of the murderer was clearly plunder, and the presumption is, that having entered by the window, he proceeded up stairs, struck his victim with a hammer on the bead as she lay asleep, and having rendered her insensible, cut her throat with a razor, thus effecting the murder with out waking the child, who lay slumbering within a few feet, and who, if she had been disturbed, would pro bably have been silenced in the same summary manner. The murderer then appears to have ransacked the boxes in that and another room in search of money, but he did not succeed in finding more than 12s. belonging to a lodger, which was taken away; a tea-caddy, containing about the same sum, standing close to the bed of the murdered woman, having escaped his search. The dreadful deed produced awful excitement through out the village and the adjacent parishes; the police were early on the spot, investigating all the circum stances, and suspicion soon pointed to Henry Harring ton, a young man about twenty years of age, who lodged in a house adjoining, as it was ascertained he had not quitted his house till after Cobb and his landlord had gone, and the same morning proceeded to Wivenhoe. The evidence against him at first appeared exceedingly slight, but the officer felt it his duty to lake him into custody. and facts have since come out that tend strongly to fix him with the guilt. A hammer belonging to the person at whose house he lodged has been found exactly to fit the indentation in the head of the deceased, and on Wednesday a labourer, at Salcot, two miles off, found near a stile in the direction the prisoner went to Wiven hoe, a handkerchief and a razor in a case, both bloody, the former of which has been identified as belonging to Harrington, and the razor is the property of Wash, with whom he lodged, and who, on going to look for it, found it was gone. It was further found that the prisoner's trousers were marked with spots of blood, and it appeared that he had endeavoured to hide some by putting ink over them. lie has been sometimes em ployed as a labourer on a farm, and at other times as an assistant at dredging. The husband of the murdered woman, though in humble life, occupied a respectable position in the village. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Queen's Head Inn, Tollesbury, before W. Codd, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury, when, after viewing the body, a number of witnesses were examined, who deposed to the facts above given. The medical gentlemen agreed in opinion that it was impossible the wounds on the head of deceased could have been inflicted by herself. Harring ton made the following statement, atter being duly cau tioned I live with my sister, Mrs. Wash, and opposite to Cobb's house. On Tuesday morning last (the 25th inst.) about six o'clock, I got up and lit my pipe, and went up the yard towards the privy, when I heard some one in there. I went indoors and began my break fast, and in about ten minutes afterwards I again went to the privy, and met a man named James Coates, who lodges with me, coming from it. I shortly after returned into the house, and made a fire and finished my breakfast. Coates bad then gone to his work. I left home before seven to go to Saleet to see Abraham Emmeny, who was going along with me to Wivenhoe to get a boat, and he and I went to Wi venhoe the same day. Jeremiah Ketley, Abraham Em many, and I had paid down a pound amongst us for the boat about a month ago, and were to pay the remainder, 151. 10s., by weekly instalments of ss. amongst us. We went to the owner of the boat, Mr. Barton, of Wiven hoe, and he told us the boat was ready; but when we went to look at her we found the well had not been made high enough, and we came away the same day without the boat, and reached Salcot about seven that evening, when I slept that night at the Rising Sun with Em many. I did not come on to Tollesbury, as I heard Policeman Fox was after me, and I was told that he was coming to Salcot for me. I was apprehended by Po liceman Fox at Tollesbury this morning. When I left home yesterday morning, I had 3s. in shilling pieces. I had two shillings of it from Rallinson, Mr. Fairhead's looker, and the other shilling from Mr. Wyatt, a bricklayer of Tollesbury. The coat which I now have on is the same coat I wore the whole of yes terday (the 25th instant), from the time I got up. I have only two other coats, and both of them are at home. b I have no razor of my own, but always use Joh n W as h' s razor where I lodge. I believe it was a black-handled one, but am not quite certain. I think I should know it if I was to see it again. I have not shaved with it for the last fortnight. I think I got to Salcot about eight o'clock. I went by the road as far as Old Hall Chase, and then went along the path by the fields. I did not leave the path at all. I have one handkerchief only, and that is at home. I should know it again if I was to see it. I have had no other since I have been at Tollesbury. I very seldom use it. I did not use it yesterday morn ing. I kept the handkerchief at the head of my bed. James Coates and bis son slept in the same room with me, and did so on Monday night last. Coates and his son, a ged about twelve years, left home before me about half as hour. The inquest was adjourned to Tuesday. Yesterday, a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased was made by Mr. Dawson and Me. Smith, when it was found that the injuries from the blow on the head were much more extensive than had been at first supposed, and were sufficient of themselves to cause death, inasmuch as the whole of that part of the bone on which the hammer fell was shattered to frag ments. It is a little singular that when the crime was dis covered the general feeling of the inhabitants of the village was one of suspicion against the prisoner, this being in part produced by the general cherecter which he bore. The prisoner, it is stated, had on former oc casions been heard to give utterance to threats against the deceased. It is also added that Cobb was to have been a partner in the boat alluded to in the evidence, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 27. ;Nisi Prius Sittings for Middlesex, before Lord Chief Justice JERvis.) SCHREGER U. CHALLIS AND ANOTHER. This was an action of trespass brought by the plain tiff, a German, who is a dealer in fancy articles, against the defendants, who were the Sheriffs of Middlesex, for seizing a carved ivory cup cover, valued by the plaintiff at 351., under a writ of execution against the goods of another person. The defendants paid 101. into court, and pleaded that the plaintiff had not sustained greater injury. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Robinson were Coun sel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., and Mr. Quoin, for the defendants. From the evidence it appeared that the articles in question included a cup cover, which consisted of a group of six deer carved, with the exception of the cen tral stag, and one of the loins of another stag, out of a solid piece of ivory, by Schultz, a German artist of great reputation. These articles belonged to the plain tiff, and were deposited by him for sale with a person named Brooks, in Regent-street, and were seized some time ago by Sloman, the defendants' officer, under a writ of fi. fa. against Brooks. Upon application for them, and proof that they were plaintiff's property, Sloman was willing to give them up; but some of the deer bad been broken by the rough handling of the sheriffs' officers, and thereupon the plaintiff refused to take them back, or to receive the compensation tendered him, and brought the present action. Mr. Rogers, an ivory carver, and Mr. Thomas, a sculptor, employed in the new Houses of Parliament, deposed that, in their judgment, the carving was a rare work of art, and waa welt worth 301. Mr. Straight, a dealer in such articles, deposed that he thought it was worth from 151. to 201. At the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. BRAMWELL submitted that the plaintiff must be ❑on-suited, it not having been proved that Sloman was the officer of the defendants, or that the cup produced had been seized by him uedcr the execution. Ile cited and relied on the case of Story v. Challis, 9 Exchequer, and 20 Law Journal Reports. Mr. Sergeant Wiums, on the other hand, submitted that by the payment of money into court the defendants admitted that Slowman was their officer, and further that there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury of the identity of the article. Tho LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, however, decided that the objection was a valid one.—Plaintiff nonsuited. MILLER v. DEAR. This was the second trial of an action for debt. At the former trial, which took place before Mr. Justice Cresswell last week, the jury, having been unable to de cide which of the parties was guilty of perjury, were discharged without returning a verdict. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Petersdorff were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Collier for the defendant. The plaintiff is a coachbuilder, living at Paddington; the defendant is a fly-master in Marylebone. The par ties had dealt together for some time, and at . Christmas last the amount due to the plaintiff was 691. The plain tiff stated that he from time to time received small sums of money from the defendant, for which he gave written acknowledgments, and tbat on the 9th of April, 1851, an account was settled between them, no other person being present, and the previous payments beinc , allowed, a re ceipt, which included them, was given for 111. 2i. Bd., the amount of a particular item; but the written acknow ledgments previously given to the defendant for those payments were not returned nor cancelled. The defen dant having paid all the money claimed into court, ex cept 111., the question in dispute ~between the parties was as to the payment of this sum, and the plaintiff swore that he had not received it from the defendant or his wife, nor bad he given any receipt for it. Mr. COLLIER. for the defendant, said the matter in dispute was trivial, as compared with the more impor tant question, whether the plaintiff, or the defendant, and the defendant's wife, were guilty of perjury? For his own part, he wished the matter to be thoroughly sifted, and that the party who swore falsely, whichever it was, might be punished for it. He should, therefore, as he did on the former trial, call the defendant's wife, and prove by her evidence that she had paid the money to the plaintiff. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, although he under stood his brother Cresswell had admitted the defendant's wife to be called as a witness by the consent of the par ties, he had well considered the question, and if it were now objected to ho was prepared to reject her evidence. He was satisfied that she would not be a competent wit ness under the late statute, and, therefore, that she would not give her evidence under the same peril as other wit nesses. He had consulted the rest of his Learned Bre thren of that court on the subject, and they were agreed in opinion upon it. Mr. COLLIER said he was informed by his Learned Friend, Mr. Warren, that the Lord Chief Baron had that morning decided that the wife of a party to a cause might be examined. Mr. Sergeant BYLES—My information is, that the Lord Chief Baron's decision was the other way,—. (Laughter.) The LORD CHIEF JUSTICH--W011; I will :ask him himself about it. His LORDSHIP then went and consulted the Lord Chief Baron, and on his return said—lt is true the Lord Chief Baron gave a decision on the subject, but there is a slight inaccuracy in the report of it which has reached us. It was the other way.—(Laughter.) Mr. WARREN explained that ho was in court that morning when the Lord Chief Baron admitted the wife of a party to give evidence, and that if she were ad mitted by consent, or with any qualification, he did not hear it. Mr. COLLIER said, that as the Lord Chief Baron had permitted the objection to be waived, ho hoped his Lordship would also do so, and that the other side would not press the objection, this being a question of character. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said it was highly 'im portant that the practice on this matter should be set tled, and he knew that the majority of the judges were of opinion that the evidence was not admissible. As to waiving the objection, did the Learned Counsel before the late Act ever hear of waiving an objection to calling the plaintiff or the defendant ? "Brother By les ' " added his Lordship, " what do you intend to do? For as I deal with this case, so must I deal throughout the term with other cases that come be fore me:' _ _ Mr.iSorgeant BYLES said that as the present case could not be thoroughly sifted without the wife's evidence, ho would waive objection to it. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,—The Lord Chief Baron tells me he bad some doubts this morning whe ther he ought to admit the wife's evidence, notwithstand ing the waiver. After some further discussion it was, however, re solved to call her. Mr. COLLIER then addressed the jury for the defen dant, and called the defendant's wife, who swore that on the 9th of April the plaintiff called for a settlement of his accoutr, and that she then paid him 11/., and gave him 2s. for beer for the men, and that the plaintiff then wrote and gave her a receipt for 111. 25., which she now produced. The defendant also was called, but ho said he left all to his wife, and knew nothing of the transac tion, [On his L9vdship referring to Mr, Justice Cress- SOCIETY OF ARTS. On Wednesday evening the first meeting of the above society for the session 1851-2 was held in the society's house, John-street, Adelphi. There was an unusually large attendance of members and their friends, it hav ing been announced that the first of the series of lectures on the Great Exhibition, suggested by Prince Albers, would be delivered at the meeting, the sub ject being, " The general bearing of the Exhibition on the progress of art and science." Mr. HOPE took the chair at eight o'clock, and after a few remarks introduced Dr. WHEWELL, who then proceeded to read a lec ture on the above subject. He said that in the obser vations he had to make he should confine himself to the reflections which would naturally suggest themselves to a mere spectator of the late Great Ex hibition, one of the millions who had visited it. While it was still in existence and daily receiving ' some fresh accession to supply deficiencies, or complete what was imperfect, it would have been as unjust to submit it to criticism, as it would be unfair to pronounce upon the merits of the productions of the poet or the painter, while still in the author's or the artist's hands, undergoing the finishing touches, and r eceiving the final correc tions. Now, however, the Exiaibitton had closed, and the work of the critic would properly com mence. The lectures which would be delivered be fore that society would supply the place of criticism, and dealing in turn with the principal branches of human skill and knowledge, explain the advantages which had been made in them through the opportu nities afforded by the Exhibition. His own task was comparatively a light one, as it dealt only with general views. lle might truly characterise the late Exhibition as a great and unexampled opportu nity of taking a survey of the existing state of art and science in every part of the world. If they could suppose an intelligent spectator to have tra velled from land to land, he would have seen many wonderful specimens of the works of man, and by combining his impressions would have obtained a good representation of the progress of human art and industry up to the present moment. But what time, labour, and perseverance would he have re quired—what hardships to undergo—what access to great and powerful men—in the accomplishment of such a survey. A life would scarcely have sufficed, with all the appliances and means w hich wealth and power could give. Like the philosophers of years in of ancient l such a travel, h a e o w d oyuel d t,after all, have had l to how s far pend all would his ud survey fall short of the simultaneous view afforded by the Exhibition, while at t he same time but one individual could profit, even from such an undertaking as they had imagined. Here, at one view, they had placed before them the choice st productions of human art in all nations and in all stages of progress from barbarism to the highest civilization. From Otaheite, which Englishmen had long been accustomed to speak of as the general type of rude and savage life, Queen ' Pomare had sent specimens of cloths and mats , the work of the women of those ishiuds, From LAbliiiu, and had stated he had his 51 . ready to P3Y WOO Bled 1 to 4; it is tor; fore concluded the rnotivc that the murder wai to cil-ain possestion of ibis lx°Beli which, however, the perpetrato r did not succeed. THE COUNTRY MAJII(.I'7. baldrotee.r 13inmiNGHA.31, Nov 27.—At Gloucester An 411 ter mai kcts, on the 22d, English wheat 4 ,11 ' spir l much firmness, but no advance could be obticea. too ley at both places quite as dear. Beans and peas t the ratesiser quarter higher. Oats were disposed of.a_ok theh of the previous week. During the • preee.at ".,,,e. meat which of English wheat demanded some Ilorvoefi and which was complied with only in partial l es e ° -se; to a small extent. Beale), has been less in r 'l m ti h and beat qualities rather lower. English 108116.1,,, 6 scarce, he have commanded -money , white ggYP-trorg more 11 for 6cl to is per quarter hieher. For olio' peas is per quarter advance we's realised. O ° I Y hio ell derate sale for Irish oats, at forrner curreneY, f w heal day's cru market there was again a large ouPP I Y ( i, e rstio ° in m the farmers, and although we make no e ' lO O _ a our quotations, the trade ruled dull, with th e bo ld, f a • u v d eur of the buyer. We bad less deManCl for ~ ,loa of isthe better qualities could only be sold at: 0 . 7 40 . per quarter; inferior were neglected. 0 11 700 tamed their value. Beans fully as dear. W e bliu Inquiry for peas. 1 0 th PI .• BRisr.,L, Nov. 27.—The supplies of bo „jell and f. • ire 1 foreign wheat continuo small, and for all P",,,,g1 . 0 11 i s a-t week's prices are rather exceeded' °tole w wheat (new). 36s to 42s per imperial quarter/;5010 3 hite ditto, 38s to 425; ditto red ditto (BuPergne,;jooo s; ditto ditto (fine, 32a to 365; ditto ditto ( or 4 800 . 30a to 32a; ditto ditto (hard), 31a to 3- 4 s 1 1 , ef , 280 l ° Flour 3os was in fair sale. English flour (8800005):205 63 per sack; American ditto (sweet), 19s 6(1 to ill ° urn barrel, Both malting and grinding bold so rt trn cheaper. English barley (malting), 26 5 V iv o, 4 41 to imperial quarter; ditto and foreign ditto Orieuercisarer' lc .._..e 25s per 4001bs. Fine oats was 6d per ( P ert ' q iiir ler .i von and Welsh oats, 16s to 17s per imperiefobloOd Irish t white ditto, 18s to 'Ss per 32003; al t o oil kindswere fully is per quarter hig tha ll uir . fel; English 2 beans, si tu 273 28 p a e r t to 4 3 8 2 0 1 b p s ! r iTrohpe rillae q r s u g a e r s . - f ' r 0 ; 01 ditto, corn inspector's returns are—Bristol 4°647 Glif.; Gloucester ditto, 36s 10d; Bristol osts , Il e oloces eester ditto, 19s• Bristol barley, 253 7 . ; ; , 1 t0 52 14 A i Dditto,E 255; Bristol ' bean, 28s; Gloucester ribete_:j a plentiful 1 S ti ll u l p lT p H ly FlELD MARKET, NO 2'.--the Deno of fat beasts to-dah bu t the was fist for all sorts of beef, without 111) . 7 -it 'th 44 1 Price' Th e sheep pens were well filled;reclepoterreerblit higher b prices were asked, but fevr buyere est quality. Fat pigs were plentiful. ir , he m eell i t e r s r l, few calves offered tor sale, and vrere 13,e,',..-50,f01, sqduetsut.soßpeeerf,ih4.l pigs,td 5d ; mutton, 5° - Or ib , per stone of 14 7 11 as 3s 6d 111 4 calf skins, 2d to 3id per lb. if. I 61 .elot EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, I ST°.. 2 ° • die be. Co a ( A again a fair supply of grain in the t i o eo 1 10 Sales were dull for all sorts, with the 001'4 .001.1000 As compared with last week, the to - t be PI tOP ,to 7hsid3eds,peirisdcotroe ;44 et , , 3s, and the average 5d down. BarleY,, eli m - ee w," n el s i as last week, and the average 2d up. va' ‘ ,„, the leoh alnod, up, and the average 7d -down. Boor 71 qt. Iv " 46 d 0 the average is 7d down• Uniol° o O. et qrs barley, 364 qrs' and 26 g o bet a ve, Top of Wheat oats' 641 1 1 , b' 9 go ” Barley ... ''' . 571,1,. ° ' yes i t nv: B sc e 6H a o n 7c s , ... ••• i c ... v 96."'weer 11 $, Oats ... ''' " 4 9 eo. ''' - dttl e •" 671 1b ' os 1 1, 11l of EDINBURGH s u e r T i e: 4 flNewAearKtehetan, i t; , °;,,, ,1 %,„ : ),„ .9( ': , t e o ur 6 r s ent, 6s 6d to 6s 9d • secoedary a n " jir as eri l'"; o o 2 top , Ou2 price,po,pt be being The number of sheep at market Best o rellie r 4illt to ns e g r i d D 9DB u Br tch stone. A clearance * 0 - to o o ttolll per lb; cthuarnren_2latstswdeteoko.d;Pee:e: torcipototii INGHA N II o I vf.O II 2 : 6 : 2 • .....w t 329 to e - g ; otter p 26 er s 1 0:1 ; ; e o g a_t s s 1 1 . 6 7 ' s to 265; "beansh2eaBs to 355. "-- tis tr BOSTON, A 10 1 - to 425, extra 44s to 00•, e6e w i ll is to 34s •peas 23 ..._swh;red 320 eo - 1' beans 27s , .to 29s per ( I n • oriel .4, to LOUTH, Nov,heat 3ls to goy ot ? oats 14s to 1 ov. 26.- 8s; beans 29s to 32s per qr . to 44 00 00 .0 barleyeat 20s to 973 ; (4h ois eil; N ; Ew h Are, Nov. 26.—Wheat, white 40 9 2 0, to 36 0 r 4 2 0 4 s st 2 ar ey, 2 4 1 ‘ s It' Eo'malting 24s to 28s, grinclio3ss t 4 d A ; 2 C 7 s , ;to malt,26s . 2 5 2 0 5 5 t i , 0 1 5 65 4 s to ; 2 t a tcs e ; s !W l '' 0 26 P er T. ' rm. barley t , T 2 O 3 N s t i‘ o l° 2 w 7 beans, old 33s it2oBRAY, Nov. 25• 255, t6:itE9/541:eiri-‘0161:C°:1 per lb ; eggs fOB 355, o sn a e t w s, 2071adt:3,02350:0per qr ,. so t 26. CORK, Nov. M rt6ll6l ; ## pw 01° Barrels. ON oe v 25 White wheat 20s Od to 200 ei 00 0 78 Red wheat l4s Od to 18s 3° 103 Ditto lBs 3d to 183 9a 61411 42 Ditto 46 Barley 425 Ditto 10s lid to Ils 6 4 00 0 Ils 6d to Hs ..-, Od 56 Ditto ... lls 10d to 123 CW 4to 0 Bere 52 Oats. Bs 9d to 95 1° , c l ,i. o°ll o ,00 358 Ditto ... 177 Ditto ... lOs 4d to lOs O d 0 0° A lO O4 60 Pigs od eee ' 7. 25s Od to 323 t pri o we Quantity sold at the Hig h° ,,,r s lei; ~,ell,l l 5 barrels white wheat; 42 red ; 13 ' 1- iset w- °`!" 2 pigs. v , i 00 01 23, 46 Quantity of Grain and Number o ,f ` - ,7, u- ~ Wheat, 1,163. Barley, 3,133. 01 01. -ice .. ., ~ 6 61 71 erf eo' PRICES OF 8. ,- eg s .., ............ 60 CANT. 411 61 1 ti ' .. .. 0 First quality Second quality n d 10 11 1 1' . ..." .... 411 Third quality ' ....... ~ th 4 .. . ." Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality sos Sil t ,',Veclif i too;;ltto e6 Return of Cattle sold for We - j t stia,, , loo' Pigs, 1,122. Sheep, 19 12 s 6 1t1; 9 ",-, 4 9ii;a lf f t% CORK. —flour —First lis 6d ta,, w lo o , 2 Ate l ail" - A4 ° seconds, 10s Od to Ils Od; households °..° 0 ,16§"- -, te"' .1:00 al 0° 3 0 9 ng per cwt. Oatmeal 10s 6d to I Is; Indio l ,,,„'" 61 - ‘ ,7•1 0 /. meal, Ps to 9s 61 per cwt. Indian 0°,1;1,0'600 00 6,1; 3 to o n s . ; B d r e a al n e B r 2 s s 3 6 s d s t t o o 8 3 5 6 : poder;taovne.lle7--.34:s_siben err t 0 0 ,e010 51 0., 14 ,60 10 0 1 0 161 Od to 24s Od; average 18s; ..„4„. ,0 , or , average 00, Od per ton. Bread - 1 Fro m ; so li ' household loaf 4id to 5d per 41 P,1 A per P... OP - psfOor 10d per lb. Eggs-5s 10d to Oe ,Id per 40 , 6 1 ,, a 0 Newport 16s Od ; Lydney 17°; tyi . t° r o ot, ' A ll ' 13s Od per ton. Tallow 0 0 ° . per ol A ' boinor Whisky, 25 o. p., 5, 9 d per 1 3 ,0 sco t , z o o —Beef 4P to 7d; mutton 5a 7d; 0 71 64 0 ries . ' 6d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon Od to Slates 2 1 40 e / pe i Elope 818 s to 91 Os per cwt. Bango r :`,. s weis j to 10 1 :00, 1 / for ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8/ Os; ;v0,114, 01 to I , 61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece b berri f4 ;o/ pit: Hemp 29/ to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scote 1 01, Si Pp i ditto, 23s to 00s per barrel ; New pie° , 0. o il, _,oi ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; r ed per 0 0; 11 1 ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 151 to 3 1 00 p er j itli e po Market 21s to 308; salted 22s tf. 7a,.. h tg oo* 3d to 3141 per lb. Potatoes, w u , 1 ,105; t'' 00d to 00d. Guano- Peruvian, 1;oel. per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19° P . ------ - ,,, ------- v. ivIA - 1 1)$ 00 , ,40 SEABORNE a go t l ' e ] If' [N signifies that the mails are sent Aios teh 4 ,§t pa by the niq, - ,1,-and Mby the morning-- , if oie l io. 1 e rt od .. jps t ~ r e , erpol::;-, , -D° o'o. oo 0 America (by Bat. pkt.)N Nov. 28 " .. ge s ,,,, S. America (by U.S. pkt.) N Dec. 9 .. i ir soe", , i: st itf i i America (by U.S. pkt.) M Leo. 3 it t ' ofit l ' pop es •'9 4C ‘l 6 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of we f fao• . o fel o pt• pec' p Alexandria' , ......., N 19th ge 30t e ~ you PG v. ~,,,A Belgium •• .. .. N Daily • • . o 'lo ati• -- r off, Brazil .. . .. M 9th of the T ra y, R ou visle o , , ‘o l s , A Bueaos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the 11t32'Elitcoe iitaif,Dr California(viaChagres) M2B & 17th of i ~,,/ef.44' 0' 9 0 . d Cape of Good Hope N 14th of ree t t;freor y u tln i pt. ..- Constantinople * •• • • N 7th 17th 27ti t:,00 , f oo vill,.. t• 4 1 t, Central America .. M 26 & 1 7 tb,f L k Irrf•l4„titS V. • P g . ; Pl. Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., We'il„witla ~,,- Ter .er Chili .• • • - . M 17th of the ," .. „ in v - if et' .• it." France • • ••M & N Twice dally 7,f t uo Y - n dofi ~4 Greece* • • • . .. N .ftiontoittriasy, 1,040.0, ; 41 t , Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday it's A tar• i Z t itli s ;j•• i , ~ 1 Rolland ~. • • .. M Wednes.l76 racop i1ay...013., i t, p o, . Honduras .. .. . N 17th of t ~ d ,, ti ta- ~ 0 Ireland .. -M & N:TWiee dal , p l o ntll Fog: India (via Southamp.) M 20th of tn e f ootli „of t _, I India (vi a IVlarseilles) N i 8 th& 24 th o soo , '" - Jr 1 Mediterranean (via I 0 01 00 . 16 Southampton) .. 3120th of ..... mont h ~, ~, Mediterranean (via 1 l ' w " ott vci . 5015: 71 , 24the tl° 5° 0 0" ' l°‘ $ Marseilles) .. .. N Bth& on to soil , _,. Mexico . .. .„ M2B of the u l in oth r ev p e I Madeira .. .. .. M 9th of the ,__ otb ,- •• ve '6 I 7007 cow! _,„ vo .. oc, 0 Malta° .• . • I &30th of Ilioefp _O7l ..,,,pt.,...4.$ Naples* .. .. .. NI 15th sttlti e,.00,,Y,,t1if,„,t lito Papal States* .. .. N 51,1115 th 25_ o e i t oo T o ' u tir ‘ reninsular.. - .. 311!7th 17th 3 7, oft tb riol..ol* ~ bb {0 Pere .. .. .. .. M;170 3 of til t r i - offi i° pew - 9; i ii Tuscany' , .. .. .. Njsthlsothithx„e on ,. tot G oo West Indies .. .. m l l7th 0 1" West Indies (except i 0 00 • : v d ( ) °i t / 1 01 Havanna & Nassau) 5112c1 of the fe u, o vit to "' The mails to those countries th u s , 0 .. . 6 11. 0 % t e, French packet Via Marseilles. _ otitfOr°6loy;opi°Ao, CALIFOILNIA.—MaiIs to and irolli_.° f oe cf, ,tr - o t , 0 are now despatched and due by evn;;,, vie 701)" , _,l Pi 11 The direct llavre Mall from Lore . „ w ee ,dpv ,t 1 , month will be made up three times ••• OF the 'l9 --- -- fi J teci ° i$ bee of . 4 •ct b 59 OtesO fiv re fip ae The Cleveland iron &Ear l b i s coo v ori to 00 11. Ar itevaciiidito4..6,olooolrebeet to er o w f e h l well-knownexamination g is, en gines such a quantity of fuel to calcine sawp._fel, unsuitable for economic working..., ve ry % a il. in this city which were pron,.orourntchay3riti,llA-- P ir nary ore of this country. Iv o f thatrthfre°7C , 0 .. it, ...-------------------------- 444, or I jo ea min On h t a h m e , 231 the winitset.,ofa J. .1 13 y vv al o Pi:: c :is iy 4;01 111:1113r9' 1' t ioV iir P if i° A On the 23d inst., at Penge, I. Oil Or Esq., of Fenchurch-street. ..,,,,000,. 0 of ,di or A DA' he 0 " a to , ' o Boguor, t - Gilfi r ,- i• On the 23d inst., at be Coas t , i.os t '' o ce , p At Iligh.street, Peckharn:Tor:e!e i:ce .gi: .cr:°rit: : e o l r :L P .J ‘ 4, Inspecting Commander of t the : . 1 : oV e •ct ° lk 111.1" e Ol g, + o r St. Ge orge PO 0f 1 1 On the 24th inst., b irk, o, A , Earl of Laneshorou, atto Huhter, of Dulany.liouse, ',djen, i- e lcles,!.. c il 'it? ) On the 22d inst., at pont _,e'.7_,,went, . 0 o Ar r _Dv Lovett, Esq., 311;4179,0V: ;,1-11.6,-;spfsge.: o t f 0 P Lovett, E.t.q., u P l if l i r Ob tir- S ' O et) f F el i d i e n s t t sh 4 jarue.ghter of Wilson Job e ' p f FP' , EY lle e r, V i to the On the 21th inst., eatßev. wiltioneisla'ry,looo, .04, Re ctor) ~,, .103 040 0 donshire, aged 71, al ector of 1.;,13 , DIP ° os /I 0 6 tree- , ~,es, S' Tow c i pot ne ar ,t i o Li o nc n ol t n h , e a 2 n s d th 43 in y s -e ta a g, r e s de r t B liver . William C. Cook, a ~,,,,v d oo, 100 0 . '46 ' , 1 Oct the 25th inst., t .1. , a re, 13 ae" l' ''' G. Adams, aged 3 7 . g ~ie, .:esf. 10 at Qu een Tenw t tle 1 Aj O i l On the 25th inst., , „ i iiding ., ,,A7, - ..,....- --7 / 1 /04 , Plumptre, Esq , of Lam to-L , er poo/, tig`.7._- - -- DO ; 0 61 On the 23d inst., at Liv_..,_...,-- - -' , i ijit r Acs , ~....------------___:---- ---r- - ,, dby ' 5 ,,, , , v - ty , Ze P° Lo s t-- nd o - o . nl 112',rinsttc:clanadn, drrynutbelri,sr;tetbevg.o2.,voly,., 01,.. raid ON Friday , 1i° 1144m..- strandits in , the Precinct ZBO g °P to w hen 1114 I __Oa O*. PLACES Gen" ,l don. C Th e let u )'* • T i 6 , • Sop ; 4. Bi t J ' 4 14 214 ( 14;14';11,1, ' k ir 1 1), ) ".1 11 1 N5l l 4 4 ' h ' kZI