The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

2,./ffOitto MEETING OF MEXICAN BOND HOLDERS.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of Mexican bondholders was held this day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of appoint ing a committee for the protection of the interests of the bondholders in future, and to adopt measures to expedite the payment of the remanets of the dividend due in January, 1847. Mr. W. P. Robertson was callen upon to preside. The CumumAN, in opening the business of the day, intimated that he had not been instrumental in convening the meeting, but as he per fectly approved of its object, namely, to appoint a committee to watch over Mexican interests, he had no hesitation in taking the chair. He was oppcsed to everything in the shape of quarrelling, because it could do no good ; and he, therefore, regretted that the - General Spanish Atne ric:.n Committee of Bondholders had thrown out im putations impugning his conduct in dealing with the Mexican holders. He could no longer protect Mexi can interests while he sat on the general committee, and he need hardly tell the metting that he had, within the List few days, separated himself from that body. He - had now to tell them that within the last few 'hours he had received - a letter from his agent in Mexico, which confirmed him in the opinion be had stated bef3re to-day, that the convention en tered into with the Mexican bondholders would ulti mately become the law of that republic. The resolutions to be proposed to this meeting were as follows : " Resolved, that the foreign debt of the Republic of Mexico amounts to upwards of ten millions ster ling, and the interest -involved was one of sufficient magnitude and importance to merit the undivided attention of a committee nominated by the bondholders without any connexion with the credi tors of any other foreign State. That a committee, consisting of not less than five members, be now elected by this meeting to act as the executive of the Mexican bondholders in England, who shall conduct all necessary correspondence, and receive the remit tances from Mt-xicO on account of the dividends in conjunction with theegent appointed by the Mexican Government, - and generally to take cognizance of all matters and things considered to be conducive or pre judicill to the interests of the bondholders. That, in order to ettab!e the said committee - to execute their functions in a satisfactory manner, they shall be hereby empowered to have an office in a convenient situation in the city cf London, for the purpose of conducting the business, and to - appoint a secretary to act under - their direction. That books shall be kept in which all correspondence shall be entered with'he leaet:pessible delay after receipt or dispatch, and the secretary shall be hound to attend in the offi.:e a r?:.sonabte number of hours per day, for the purpOse of answering inquiries and allowing tree access to • ell hooks and documents. That to remove all suspicion of an ene'.ue advantage to individuals by bein t g posstesed of early informaion immediately on dispa'ches being opened, the secretary shall draw up a short eeitome. of the contents, embracing the sub vane of sit EL atter3 bearing on the value of the sto, k, which enitoma shall be forthwith transmitted to the 'Stock Exchange, and pohliely posted there and at the i.face. That a general meeting of the hon. - lA - oh - It:7s shall be held erery six months, on days to be naoned, in Joiluary and Jely respectively, when the couimittee or any bondholder may submit to their consilomtion aryl discussion all matters that may • °con: in the interv,d affecting their inte re for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenscs; a subscription be nee from the annual dividend pro rata, not Qxcce:iing one penny per hundred pounds of the capital. That the present agents representing the boodl - olders in Mexico be continued, aod the arrangements made with them by Mr. Roberto on be confirmed. That mea tires nccese sary for the imwcdi tte payment of the remanets be forthwith token by the committee as they shall be advised. That the actual expenses incurred by M. Robertson in his mission to Mexico he defrayed by contributions from each reinanet of the dividend due January, 1847, after the examination and approval of his accounts by the committee." Some discus3ion arose upon these resolutions. Is was objected that the capital did not amount to ten millions, and e-dmitted by the Chairman that the actual stock held in England amounted to only seven millions. The remaining three millions mere in the hands of this Mexican Government. Complaints Were made of the conduct of, the- general committee, who were accused of having withheld information from tl-e bondholders till they had taken advantage of it on the Stock Exchange thetreselvvs. One gentle man said he had lost nearly 0,000/. through this rills .cooduct, and altar the original resolutions had been agreed to, it. was resolved, that this rneting agrees to -the 4iissoluion of any existing committee represent ing at this time the interest of the Mexican bond -holder,. •• _Lae committee was then appointel as follows : B iron L. de Goiclimid (merchant), Francis Mills, E q. (t)ank , tr), W.P. RobertsOr, -Esq. (merchant), "Hi L d Gqedal9, E q: (t:erchant), James Cipel, Esq. (6tockbratr), Thuint:s Thornton, Esq. (merchant), Cap ain Ross, 11. N., R. Owen Itownald, Esq (di rector of the Iri h National Bank), James Roade?, (dirt ctor of the London and County B ink). Th,thlis were then voted to the Cnairmau, and the meeting terminated. ~ FR ONCE. At a mec‘ting of the Academy of Sciences yester day Lord Brougham real a most interesting paper &tailing his recent experiMents on light, and setting forth the conclusions at which he had arrived as the results of those experiments. His Lordship repeated the experiments before the Academy. At the con clusion Lord Brougham was highly complimented by M. Arago. The Moniteur publishes the returns of the produce and consuryption cf domestic sugar in. France since the commencement of the season, from which it ap pears that there were 288 manufactories in operation on the lst of J.inuary last. The quantity of sugar manufactured amotinted to 30,126,722 kilogrammes,_ or 5,912,276 more than during the corresponding period of 1848 ; that sold for consumption to 12,713,939, and the quantity lying in the public bonding stores to 10,091,956. STATE OF TRADE. (Frem the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCH tSTER, TUESDAY. — The arrival of the Cam brie, with tiecouutS of direiniz.4-itig estimates of the coton crop, and of an advance of one cent per lb. in the New Yerk market, has given rise to a very large speculative business in Liverpool, and added another farthing per lb.. to the quotations. This movement has led to a cor:esponding one- in our market. Natu rally ere ugh, the spinners have claimed another ftrthing from the shippers, and still more, in many instances, from the manufacturers ; while the latter have endeavoured to save themselves by a hke demand upon' the buyers of goods. Reit the eastern advices show that there was a falling off in the demand Tor yarn and cloth at Calcutta, at tended with some - decline in their value ; while the position of things at Bombay Was precisely such as to require no great weight of fresh imports to occa sion a giving way there also. It appears that • scarcely anything can now be sent out without in currirg considerable loss. This intelligence has caused the Indian merchants toleep aloof from business more decidedly than they did before; and it has indirectly affected other classes of buyers in a similar man ner, though not in an equal degree. Apart from all this, however, the buyers are by no means pre pared to yield on the instant to an impulse which, coming from the cotton field, they are particularly inclined to distrust. While, therefore, we have had an excited market, it h as been one of comparatively little business, big much perplexity and anxiety. Both the merchants and the millowners are painfully sensible of the ruinous consequences which must flow - from high-priCed cotton ; they do not see their way - with any degree of clearness, and a general convic tion of the necessity of proceeding with caution has been very observable throughout the day. RCCIIDALE, , MoNDAr.-:-There has been a slack market to-thy, and a very limited number of pieces sold at former prices. The wool market remains in active, but the prices 'are firm, notwithstanding the limited demand there is for the raw material. MACCLBSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Sitnce our last we have hackwseverril influential London buyers of manufac tured goods, and-some considerable business has been tegotiated. There are evident symptoms of- goods being scarce, and we may, therefore, infer that Ow spring trade will open favour ably. If business could be done directly with the London buyers it would be far more de,irable, - as the system of consignments to agents for advances is fraught with much evil; and does in calculable injury to the honest trader. We have had frequent evidences of thi s i n past years, and reget to heve an instance to record this week of re:kless trading in the manner just indicated. Tne thrown silk market has rather increased in fineness since our last; a good i nqu i ry ex i sts for both home end foreign demand.. 'I his, it is to be hoped, will 'tend to equitable prices, as com pared vCth the raw material. The us •d t • in nous are all well emplcs_ed, which is a fortunate cir cumstaece of this inelemeht season. The dyers are stilt' fey oe e t ipie % l i;h ciders for spring colour s . l a a t h e aw s ilk market t lee principal rcature h as b een t h e o p u hica sa t es h e ld a t Liverpoo,l on the 17th instant, a t "-' which husiness was transacted at higher rates than • .-.lx.ei""ll3k:o*-I,ret't•--;: ix-flt China silks were bought in, the itoporters rot evineieg a cli position to sell at present rates. Altogether the market wears a very firm aspect, and the overlaid mail, just arrived, con sheit sllpply - for the seinen, and that there was consideiable excitement at largely increased TBE prices at Shanghae, will, we think, render a further advance in prices here probable. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The Cloth-hall to-day has been cleared of every description of goods adapted for the shipping trade. In fine woollens not much is doing, as is usual at this period of the year. In wools there is a decided tendency upwards in price. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—O wing in a great measure to the inclemency of the weather, there were but few persons in our Piece-hall to-day, and the worsted trade may be quoted as in much the same state as it has been for the last few weeks. In yarns, and also in wools, there is no alteration since our last report. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market to-day has been rather quiet, but on Saturday last a large business was done. Manufacturers are well employed, and a good quantity of goods have been delivered to the merchants. There is no change in price. MR. HORSMAN AND THE GO VERNMENT. Mr. Horsman has addressed the following letter to the electors cf Cockermouth, through the columns of the Carlisle Journal:— " Gentlemen,—As a severe accident, from which I am not yet quite recovered, prevents me paying you the visit which was arranged for this week, I am obliged to resort to this more formal mode of ac knowledging the vote of thanks upon my public conduct, which you forwarded to me at the close of last session. It is gratifying to me to think that, during the fourteen years in which I have acted as your representative, not one cause of difference has existed between us for a moment, and that on this, as on other occasions, instead of my having to appear before you to offer an apology or explanation of any portion of my conduct, you have generally antici pated that necessity by an expression of your own opinion. " I need not assure you that at the close of a very arduous and responsible session such marks of sym pathy and approval are especially grateful to a repre sentative, and bind him to the service of his consti tuents more closely than ever. " But there is one subject of peculiar interest and importance in my eyes to which you especially re ferred in the resolution you sent me, and I cannot permit myself to pass it by without some further explanation than you have yet received. You alluded to my exertions for ecclesiastical reform, and the suc cess that had attended them. That success, I am sorry to say, has as yet been of a very imperfect cha , ractt:T. Success, indeed, we have had so far as that we have succeeded in eliciting from all parties, in Par liament and out of it, one general acknowledgment and condemnation of the abuses cf our ecclesiastical system. Exposures have been made which, in these days, and touching the character of any other body of men, must have led to an immediate remedy. The shameful misappropriation of our Caurch funds—the unfevuurable light in which our Episcopal rulers have placed themselves before the public by their pre ceedings at the board ( f the Ecclesiastical Com mittee—the postponement, in so many cases, of the Church's wants to those of her dignitaries and rulers —their apparent indifference to the spiritual con dition of the poor when it was only to be improved by the removal of some profitabe abuse—the iejury done to religion by the character and example of our capitular bodies—the waste and alienation of Church estates perpetually going on—the excessive incomes of our bishops end dignitaries, even under their own returns—arid the utter worthlessness of those returns as a fair estimate of the receipts of those who make them: all these have been proved in a manner ad mittieg of no dispute; and not a voice has been raised to extenuate what no one has had the courage to deny. • "So far, I repeat, we have succeeded. But as for any legislative remedy for these proved abuses, we stand precisely where we were before the question was ever stirred. Motions have been made, discussed, and supported on all sides with an earnestness and unanimity which did great credit to the Christian feeling of the House. The Minister, commencing by opposing, ended by acquiescing in our proposals, and, compelled to bow before the opinion of the House, and to save himself from defeat, he promised every thing and has done nothing. You are aware that the forms and usages of Parliament offer almost endless opportunities of delay to a Government disposed to use them. But, notwithstanding all this, I think the House of Commons would have compelled the Minis ters last session to have csrritd out some of their pledges, }IA they not ham d it by a recourse to weapons such as, in my experience at least, were never used -before. "In the session of 1848, I brought for ward a r:ries of motions—on the mode of paying bishops—on the union of the . Episcopal and Common Funds—on the state of the cathedral., and on the system of fines and leases of Church property. The mal• administration of the ii?,clesiastical Commissioners was also a promi nent subject of complaint. On every one of these questions the Minister succumbed to the declared opinions of the Ilowe—he admitted all that we had contended fir, and pledged himself, on behalf of the Government, to undertake the desired reform. On these solemn and reiterated pledges the motions were withdrawn; but on the last occasion, which was at the close of the session, in once more reluctantly withdrawing, I expressly stated that I did so on that occasion, as I had done on previous ones, in reliance on the Prime Minister's pledge that he himself would "undertake the subject; and I warned him that, on the first night of the ensuing session, I should call OR him to redeem his pledges, and produce the measures which might have been prepared during the recess. " Well, gentlemen, the vacation came and passed away, without the smallest symptom of a more in the Ecclesiastical camp ; and I was pretty accurately in formed that the new session was approaching without one single step having been taken, or one thought be stowed, by the Minister, to the subjects on which he had given such pledges to the House. But late in the recess there was issued a commission to inquire into the question, of Church leases ; and this, I was privately informed, was the probable history of that commission—that, as Parliament was approaching, and Government had no measure on liccieniastical affairs prepared, nor the smallest intention of legis lating on the subject, it was necessary they should provide themselves with some further excuse for delay, and that, when I rose to put my intended question in th., House, I should he answered that Ministers had had the matter under consideration, and had issued a commission of inquiry, and until that commission had reported they could do nothing futther on the subject. Matters turned out as had been 'anticipated. I had communicated my misgivings to various friends, who watched for the result with no small curiosity. It was soon gratified. Lord John Russell's reply I have already given you—it was uttered with a gravity suited to the occasion, and a happy unconsciousness of the transparency of the device, and the precision with which his language bad been foretold. "But the Minister had not gained his object. He had forgotten that that commission, comprehensive as it was intended to be, did not cover all the sub jects on which he was pledged to legislate. He was reminded that the subject of the Cathedrals, of the Episcopal and Common Funds, and the composition of the Ecclesiastical Commission, were not touched by his new inquiry; and on my repeating the question as to those subjects neat day, he acknow ledged that he had overlooked there, and en two of them renewed his pledge of immediate legislation. "Delay succeeded. Scarcely a week pissed with out our pressing the Government, and at length the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill was reluctantly brought in. The history of that Bill is curious. The composi • tion of the Ecclesiastical Commission had been con demned by Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey before they were called to office. When they came into office, instead of improving its composition, they appointed a commission of inquiry upon it. No one could discover what there was to inquire about ; but the inquiry was made to last through two sessions. No less than five Ecclesiastical Commissioners were members of the Committee—two of them were also Cabinet Ministers—and this protracted inquiry at last closed, the Committee adopted an unanimous re solution, condemning the management of the Episcopal Board, and recommending the addition of three re sponsible'paid Commissioners for the administration of its temporal affairs. " Sir George Grey, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, took a leading part in the discus sion of that report ; he gave strength to its unanimity, and yet he himself, in the subsequent session, intro duced the Government measure, utterly at variance with the Committee's report and his own recommen dation, and giving to the bishops on the commission more power than before " But the subsequent proceedings were still more strange. " Interviews were sought with the Prime Mi nister, and a representation made to him of the unlocked-for character of the Bill—and its objec tionable clauses having been pointed out, it was urged that it could not give satisfaction, or be ac cepted as a settlement of the question, unless framed more in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee. " Lord J. Russell took time, to see the Arch bishop cf Cdnterbury, and replied to me by arrange . - Men:. on the following Tuesday, in the itlouse. His worth were to this effect—that having conferred with the Archbishop, he was now ready to adopt the alterations which had been suggested to him, and having done so, he expcc!ed the IBM to pass without further opposition. " Nothing could be a more satisfactory declaration. to us than that our suggestions bad been adopted, and that the recommendations of the Committee would now be carried out in the Bill. And when the Noble Lord proceeded to say that he should invite the House i to go into Committee on the Bill pro forma, in order St; N, LONDON, to introduce those amendments, and asked for a few days' delay, we readily assented. It was true the delay was very dangerous—it was late in the ses sion; every day was now precious; and during, not that session only, but the three antecedent ones, it had been a constant battle for delay on the part of the Government. Nevertheless, we had now the Minister's word—his assurance that the Bill would be put into such a shape as to secure its passing with out difficulty completely satisfied us—and we thus al lowed ten more days to be lost. . . " The House then went into Committee pro forma on the Bill—it was late at night, and the House im patient. The Attorney-General was moved into the chAir. The Home Secretary handed in his amend- ments—they were put, one after another, from the chair--R0 one heard a word—and no one tried to hear. It was a matter of course that they were the amendments which the Prime Minister had promised should be introduced in that Committee. I should as soon have dreamt of keeping my eye on a Cabinet Minister lest he should steal my hat, as of suspecting him of substituting one set of amendments for other which had been promised. So the business was galloped through, as formal business usually i 9, at half-an-hour past midnight. The amendments were reported to the Speaker, and the Bill ordered to be re-printed ; and, though some days more must be lost in the re-printing, we left the House with the convic tion that at last one step had been achieved in the great and important work of Church Reform, and that the days of the Ecclesiastical Commission, in its then mischievous and irresponsible shape, were num bered. " You may, therefore, imagine, but I cannot de scribe to you, my surprise when the reprinted Bill came out. I could hardly believe my eyes. Not a single one of the promised amendments had been in troduced ; nay, it was impossible to discover, from the beginning of the Bill to the end, that one single line or one single syllable had been altered so as to bring it more into conformity with the recommenda tions of that Committee on whose report it was professedly founded. What then were the slips of paper which I saw the Home Secretary hand in, as the promised amendments, to his : colleague in the: chair ? I leave you _to jucge. 04 the character of that proceeding I will not permit myself to nfake single comment. But its result we!, that the GO vernment had succeeded in gaining a whole month at the close of the session ; and the raising a remon stranc© or reviving a discussion at that late period, with a view of getting a good Bill passed, was entirely hopeless. " The Government bad accomplished its purpose f postponing an improvement of the Ecclesiastical Cemmigion now for the fourth year. " I have cften been asked why, after such very de cided pledges as we had received from the First Minister of the Crown, we did not achieve more last %cssion ? You have now the answer. " I make these statements advisedly, and not be hind any man's back. Immediately after the occur rence of these facts, I embodied them in a letter of re monstrance to Lord John Russell, dwelling espe cally on what had taken place on the committal of the Bill, and apprising him of my intention to make it public. Had there been, on his part, the faintest indica:ion of a denial I should have hesitated before I committed myself publicly to statements which might well excite hcreduiity. "But, gentlemen, one reflection arises immediately out of ad this. What is that unseen and mysterious influence which imposes so much that must be painful on the Minister ? It is not his interest to postpone Ecelviastical Reform, and it cannot be his wish. With him the path of duty is also the path of popu larity and power. Nor have our Episcopal rulers, out wardly at lease, the means cf so coercing him to the public injury and his own embarrassment. In their obstructive policy they have met with no Parliamen tary encouragement they have long ceased to com marid popular sympathy ; they are unaided by the clergy, and unknown to their flocks ; and yet, without any of these outward or visible signs of influence, they do contrive, by the exercise of some means as sterious as irresistible, to divert a Minister from the wisest courses—compelling him to depart from his pledges to Parliament— to mock its forms, and trifle with its expectations—nay, to become the slave of the liitrarchy in the perpetration of abuses which his judgment has long since condemned, and in with holding from the poor of his country those religious blessings which, as a statesman or as a Christian, it must he his first wish they shOuld receive. " Whence, I ask again, this mysterious and mis chievous power ? Will it hear investigation ? Can it much longer endure ? "But though we have not had complete success, we have, as yet, met with no discouragement but delay— aed delay, in such a cause is, happily, not defeat. We may be baffled for the moment—but the question of Ecclesiastical Reform will lose nothing ultimately by that. The longer postponed, the more severe the operation ; and I, for one, will not now be satisfied with what I contended for three years ago. " Many of our friends, who knew nothing of Par liamentary proceedings but what appears in the reports, have thought that the question of Ecclesiasti cal Reform was lost sight of last session. I have, therefore, thought it right to give this explanation. " You will perceive that I allow no weight what ever to the apology, now habitually put forward by the Ministry fur the evasion of their duty, that they have difficulties to deal with.' This plea of diffi culties I have found so little to justify in the case of Eccelesiastical Reform, that I have been tempted to Inquire whether it is not put forth on equally slight grounds in other cases; and the conviction that it is so has led me to deal with other measures of the Government in a freer and less indulgent spirit than might seem quite agreeable to their notions of party obligations end requirements. But party with :tie has no meaning and value, except as symbolical of principle ; and I own no allegiance to leaders, ex cept as the faithful types and exponents of the prin ciples of the, party that placed them in power. "Between the majority of the party with which I have ever acted and our present Ministers it is un happily too apparent that a great want of sym pathy has been created, by the reluctance of the latter to deal with those abuses against which they were so virtuously indignant in opposition. " If I had succeeded in my intention of visiting you I should have gone further into these questions, and contrasted the difficulties with which Lord J. Russell's Government has had to contend with those of pre ceding Ministers ; but I do not wish to make them the subject of a written address. It is obvious, how ever, that, as regards Ecclesiastical Reform, with so many motives to promote it, and so many aids—in pubiic approval, Parliamentary support, and the most laudable of all ambitions in a Minister, the desire to elevate the moral and religious character of a people —the real difficulty consists, not in granting the re form, but in withholding it.—l have the honour to ha, Gentlemen, your very obliged and faithful servant, "E. 1.1011.5*AN." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS, BRISTOL, JAN. 22. _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was again firm to-day, and a good business has been done, but the only alterations in prices were—Great Western, Quarters, 10 13-16—Ditto, 171. Shares, b% dis.—Midland, 46—Wilts, Someset, and Weymouth, 10% dis —Berke and llants Extension, % die. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened with consider able firmness this morning, but afterwards declined; the principal lines, however, remained firm at the close of the market The transactions were as follow : Caledonian, Preference, W. Bs. 9d. Great Western, 70 1 ,E c.—Ditto, Quarters, 16 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7 1 ,4 dis. Ditto, 311. shares, 9 dis.—Ditto, Fifths (W. R. U.), 6 3 / dis. London and North-Western, 118% Ditto, New Quarters, 2 1 / 8 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 3 p.— Midland, 44 1 Ditto, Halves, 16s 3d. dis. South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 6/. 16s. 3d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Ori ginal N. and B), 17—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 47 dis.; OTHERS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1850. the parishioners in vestry duly assembled ; and the rate in question not seeming to have been imposed by such a majority; and not having been put to the vote, it appeared to him that the judgment of the Queen's Bench was erroneous, and ought to be re - versed_ The majority who passed the resolution had set an example of a most dangerous tendency, and one likely to lead to endless mischief, if fol lowed, but their acts did not destroy their legal ma jority or confer their authority on the minority. Sometimes the authority of the minority was sup ported on the ground that the majority had withdrawn their voices, and were to be regarded as absent ; at other times they were considered as acquiescing. Neither of these grounds appeared to be sound ; but, supposing the majority had voted not for the resolu tion, but against any rate, it might be questioned then whether the minority had the power to carry the rate against the majority ; but no authority had been cited to support the principle that the power given by law to the majority might be exercised by the minority against the will of the majority. In the absence of such things, he thought it was not law. As to any analogy to the case of an election, it must be admitted that it was of very modern authority. After com menting on the case of " Oldknow v. Wainewright," 2 Burrows, 1.017, and others that had been cited in the arguments addressed to the Court, the Learned Judge said that his individual opinion was, that the judgment of the Court of Queeri'd Bench should be reversed, but, the majority of the Judges having given a contrary opinion, the result was that the judgment of the Court below must be affirmed. [Some ambiguity appears to have arisen from the fact of our reporter having omitted to state, in the report of this judgment, which appeared in yester day's Sun, that the judgment of the Court below was affirmed. As, however, four Judges had decided in favour of affirming the judgment, and only three for reversing it, those accustomed to the practice of the courts would at once perceive that the judgment was affirmed —ED. Sun] EXCHEQUER COURT, Jan. 22. 'Sittings of Nisi Prius, before the LORD Caur BARON and a Middlesex Cummon Jury.) CLARE V. SKELTON AND WIFE. Mr Edwin James and Mr. Tindal Atkinson were counsel fo the plaintiff. Mr. Crowder and Mr. Sewell for the defendants. This action was brought to recover d*mages for a false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff was a cook in the service of the defendants, who kept a lodging-house in Suffolk-Place, Pall-mall. She left tbit p!ace on the 12th o. November last, and was afterwards given into the custody of a police-con stable by the female defendant, on a charge of having stolen two blankets anl a tablecloth. Upon a search being made at the plaintiff's lodgings, at the instance of the female defendant, the missing articles were not found. Nevertheless, the charge of robbery was persisted in, and upon it the plaintiff was kept in custody from Wednesday, the 14th of November, until Friday, the 16th, as the magistrate did not sit on the intervening day, the 15th, in consequence of its having been appointed as a public thanksgiving. [he plaintiff was discharged on the 16th, and this action was commenced shortly afterward=. The de fendants pleaded a justification, but it was not sub stantiated, and the contention on their part was limited to the fact of there being reasonable and probable cause of charging the plaintiff with the rob bery, and, at the same time, of there being no evi dence of malice. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 201. WILSON V. ABFILET, . A rule was granted in this case, on the motion of Mr. Atherton, on behalf of the defendant, for a new trial. It WP S. tried i❑ the adjoining Court a few days ago before Mr Baron Rolfe. JUDGMENT - BIRD AND OTHERS V• BROWN AND The LORD Cinar BARON delivered judgment for the plaintifT3 in this action to-day, which was argued before the Court during last term on a special care. ADMIRALTY COURT, Jun. 22. (Before Dr. LUSIIINGTON.) THE TRIDENT. This is a salvage case, which the owners and crews of three smacks, called Lana R udch, Five Brothers, and George the Fourth, all of Harwich, bring on against the United States vessel Trident. Dr. ADDAMS appeared for the crews of the three smacks, and stated that the Lana Rookh, on the 21st September last, got under weigh from Harwich harbour, and anchored under the Languard Fort, in readiness to put to sea to assist any vessel that might be seen in distress, the wind at ,the time blowing a strong gale from E.S. E. which continued to increase during the night, and about three, •.m., on the next morning, while on, the look-out, the crew saw a light on the larboard bow to the S.E., and considering it to proceed from a vessel near the Cork Sands, they made towards it, when they found it is proceed from a very large vessel, which proved to be the United States ship the Trident, of 335 tons, trading from Amsterdam to New York, with a general cargo and emigrants. She had all her masts gone. Part of the crew of the Lalla Rookh got into their boat and endeavoured to get on board the Trident, but could not, from the mast and rigging hanging over her sides and flapping about. Sne was then in only four fathoms water, about a quarter of a mile from the Cork Sands, her head at the time was S S.W., the tide fast ebbing, and had she gone on shore she must have remained there in great peril until high water. At this time her main, miner), and foremasts were gone, and her top-yards and sails, and with difficulty the crew of the Lalla Itookh was at last able to get en board, when the.master of the Trident asked if the lights then seen were not the South Foreland, and being informed they were not, the master gave up the ship to the crew of the Lalla Rookh. By this time the other two smacks', the Five Brothers and the George the Fourth, came .up and assisted. Having cleared away the deck of the Tri dent from the wreck that covered it, they towed her off the sands into Harwich harbour ; the ship, cargo, crew, and passengers, were saved from destruction by this timely assistance, and for which he had no doubt the Court would award salvage to the parties. Dr. ROBINSON followed on the same side. Dr. Hecelenn said he appeared for the owners of the Trident, and contended that the vessel did not require any extra hands, that no pump was at work, that the master and crew of the Trident got her off the sands without any assistance, that they cut away the rigging to ease her, and that she was in no danger at the time the Lalla Rookh came to her assistance, and there was no danger of life, the wind being also fair to carry her into harbour. The master of the Trident admitted they had been in danger, but they had relieved themselves from it without any assist ance, and what services had been rendered by the smacks were amply remunerated by the tender of 501., which be had no doubt the Court would consider sufficient. Dr. ROBERTSON was heard for the same party. The Learned JUDGE said this was a claim of sal vage made against the United States ship Trident, bound to. New York with a general cargo, and 36 emigrants on board. Having got on the Cork Sands, off Harwich, which the master took to be the G.rod win Sands, three smacks had rendered her assistance, for which 501. had been tendered. A qUestion for the Court to decide was, whether the two last vessels were entitled to salvage, or whether they made a claim without due found.ition ? There was no doubt but that the vessel was in great danger, for the master had hoisted a light for assistance, which unquestion ably he wanted, and the Lalla Rookh coming up, she towed the Trident, with the assistance of the other two smacks, in safety into Harwich harbour, and this must have been done with the consent of the master of the Trident. The Learned Judge said he felt the services were meritorious, and that they were all entitled to salvage. The vessel and cargo were estimated of the value of 4,8001., and instead of 501., which had been tendered, he should award the sum of 2001. gANCLIESTER, JAN. 22. STOCK ErniAxen.—The market opened steadily this morning, but declined somewhat in the afternoon. There has been a fair business done. The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, Preference, B—Eastern Counties, 7 1 ,4 — Great Northern (B.), guaranteed 6 per cent. 3% dis—Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 59—Ditto (Manchester, Bolton, and Bury), 1001, 41 dis.—London, Brighton, and South Coast, 8 , 1 1 4 c.—London and North-Western, 18 1 4—Ditto, New Quarters, 2 1 A p. Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 1 p.—Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Quarters (No. 1),. 9 Ditto, Preference, 8 7-16—Ditto ( Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 4%—Ditto (Manchester and Lincoln Union), 725. dis.—North Staffordshire, 9 13-16 North Union, 233—South Staffordshire, 3 --4 dis. South- Eastern and Doter (No. 4), Scrip, 6 i 4. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 22. STOCX EXCHANGE.—There was little business done to. (lay, and prices were much the same as last quotations. YORK, JAN. 21. &root EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow : Great Northern, N—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 55%—S1.effield, Potherham, and Goole, N. Div., guaranteed Norths per cent., 161. Is. 3d—York .and Midland 18q4 Ditto, Preference, 5%. STATE OF TRADE:—MANCUESTER, TUESDAY.— By the Cambria, Boston mail steamer, c f the 9th inst., we have this morning advices from New York to the Bth inst. These reply to letters hence on the 15th ult., which showed a decline in the Liverpool cotton market for the week Preceding of nearly a id. per pound, and a generally dull and unsett!ei stats of business here. Notwithstanding thie, these advices show a further rah-once in the New York Cotton-market of m arty one cent. per pound, with a still upWard market. This has arisen from further redaced estimates of the crop, which it is now stated, on good authority, will not exceed 9,100,00 ladles; some go much lower. - We - have, in cunsequence, much excitement in the Liverpool market to-day, and prices have consider ably advanced. Here business has been almost suspended tc-:'ay in conse (vv...nee of these advices, as producers are Tate unable to fix rates, or a'k such as they do not, fir the present, t l ex st, expect to realise. Meanwhile the orders in the hands cf buyers are to a large amount, and stocks in the hands el the trade were seldom ever before so low. C arse numbers of yarn and the heavier cloths are 13.et.:r. The former, particularly, have considerably advanced, and aro very scarce. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, Jan. 22. lIODGSON V. EARL POWIS. This cause, which was a bill filed by the plaintiff to restrain the directors of the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company from making any fur ther calls, except for the purpose of constructing all the lines authorised by the Acts cf Parliament under which the company acted, now came on upon de murrer. It appeared that three different lines were originally projected by this company—the Chester and Wolverhampton, the Crewe and Alvanley, and the Shrewsbury and Stafford—which were ultimately united with the Ellesmere Canal Company. This company was authorised to construct these three lines, w hen they entered into negotiations with the London and North. Western Beltway Company, which was to take upon itse:f the debts of the Ellesmere Canal Company, upon condition that the profits of the line should be equally divided between the two companies. Con sequent upon this arrangement, and, as it was alleged by the directors, from the difficulty of raising the necessary funds, they determined to Abandon two of the three lines, which were amalga mated in the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company, and had an advertisement inserted in the Times newspaper, of September 13, 1849, intimating their intention to apply to Parliament for authority to abandon these lines, and to confine themselves to the line from Shrewsbury to Stafford. The capital required for the construction of the three lines was 2,300,0001., and but 800,000/. fir the construction of the line from Shrewsbury to Stafford; of this sum 7,065/. had been received, when there was a balance in hand of 1,009/. IC. lcl. In this state of facts the directors made new calls upon the shares of the company, which were resisted by the plaintiff in the cause, on the ground that they were illegal, as the directors could not appropriate the funds of the company other wise than as provided by the Act of Incorpora tion, and that the abandonment of the two lines brought there within the scope of the doctrine laid down upon this point, and decided in the case of Cohen v. Wilkinson. It was contended on the other side, that the directors had not made these calls to ap propriate them otherwise than they were authorised by the. Act of Incorporation, and would not divert the to ode from their original destination without the fur ther sanction of the Legislature, which the notice of September, 1849, clearly indicated. Messrs. Turner and Wilcox were heard in support of the demurrer, Mr. B. Palmer, Mr. Mathis, and Mr. NVellshy4n support of the bill, and Mr. Turner having replied, Lord LANGDALE said, that the general principle laid down in Cohen v. Wilkinson, decided that the di rectors could nut legally apply the funds in the con struction of a part of the line, and to neglect the con struction cf the whole. 111 did not think that the case of Cohen v. Wilkinson was precisely anulagous, es here there was only an intention to abandon a part of the line with the sanction of Parliament. The bill wants a material allegatier, thet the directors in tended to mi: , apply the funds, which induces me, in allowing the demurrer, to give them time to amend. r The bill does not contain sufficient allegation to pre vent the demurrer being allowed, but the parties must have leave to amend. The u'ual order was directed to be made out - , in I conformity with his Lordship's decision. VI CE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jun. 22. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) N RE LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. This was a petition of Mr. Guldsmid, an allottee certain shares, on which 103. deposit had been paid in the above company, praying for its dissolution in the usual form, under the Joint Stock Companies Wind. ing-up Act. The dissolution was opposed by the ma nagers ( f the company, on the ground that the olject of the Winding-up Act was to arrange the affairs of sunk companies, as between the partners themsever, but that, in this instance, the real object was to let in a pecuniary claim made by Mr. Drake, the engineer of the company. His HoNoutt said that he had nothing to do with any presumed collateral object. He had merely to consider whether this was a case to which the Act applied, and• as there was a clear proof of debt he should comply with the prayer of the petition, and make the order for winding up the affairs of the com• pany. BAIL COURT, Jan. 22. Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice WionTm TIIE QUEEN V. RIX AND SENIOR. In this case there were nine indictments for em bezzlement and two for conspiracy. Mr. PALMER now moved that the prisoners should be brought up to plead. From the fact of the offences having been committed at various timer, they had to be described in several indictments. The - prisoners, two respectable looking young men, were then brought into court. The Crown officer of the court then read over the indictment!, nine of which charged the prisoners with stealing and embezzling certain large sums of money at various times, from their employers, at Diss, in the county of Norfolk. Two other indictments charged the prisoners with having conspired to obtain thee moi eys. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. They were then inrormed that her Majesty's coroner and attor ney joined issue, and that they would be tried at the next assizes f)r the county of Norfolk. Mr. Couca (who appeared on the part of Rix) moved that particulars of the charges, to be made in writing, should be supplied by the prosecutors. Mr. VALMER objected to this, from the difficulty there would be in giving the particulars. The par ticulars would be that the prisoners had, at certain times, made false entries. The sum taken was 10,0001 It was subsequently determined that particulars of the conspiracy should be supplied, and another ap plication should be made with regard to the felony on affidavits. The prisoners were then returned to the custody of the gaoler of Norfolk. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jan. 22. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) Tire adjourned sessions for the month of January , commenced - this morning at Hicks'-hall; Clerken well-green. The calendar contains a list of about 70 prisoners, of whom nearly the whole are indicted for the com mission of felony. The Learned JUDGE briefly addressed the grand jury. W. Anderson, a boy of 14 years of age, was indicted for the following robbery : It appeared from the evidence that about the middle of the day of the 10th inst. the prisoner went into the shop of a baker of the name of Cooper, in William street, Stepney, and asked the wife of that person, who happened to be standing behind the counter, for a halfpennyworth of bread, and at the same time he placed a penny piece on the counter. As Mrs. Cooper waa in the act of giving the boy the change he threw a handful of pepper into her eyes, and in stantly jumped up on to the counter, and began to help himself out bf the till, which had been only the moment Ix fore opened by Mrs. Cooper. The boy, however, having possessed himself of 31., heard a noise, which induced him to desist and make his escape. He was, however, pursued and quickly overtaken by the prosecutor in an adjoining street. No sooner had he been secured than the boy turned round, and held out the 31. to his pursuer, remarking, " Oh, its only 31., so it's not worth running for, so I gives in ; but you would not have nabbed me if it had been more." The prosecutor, of course, gave him into the custody °Fa policeman, and he was now put upon his trial. Tlle jury found the prisoner Guilty. l'Airrin remarked, that the prisoner appeared to have ad ~rated the new mode of enabling a man to commit a robbery. It was only the other day that a jeweller in Fleet-street had been robbed of a watch under precisely similar circumstances. One of the police now intimated to the Court that the boy at the bar had only been released two days previously from the gaol at Ilford, where he had un dergone an imprisonment for the commission of a highway robbery. The Learned JUDGE—For what robbery, do you say ? The policemen—For highway robbery, my Lnrd. The prisoner, with three others, stopped a chaise on the turnpike road ; and one of the party, but not the prisoner, fired a pistol at the driver. They succeeded in effecting the robbery they intended, and then made off, but the prisoner was afterwards taken. The Learned JUDGE observed• that the case of this boy presented a fearful instance of depraved juvenile precocity. The best course of treatment that could be applied to such a case would have been to have sent him to Parkhurst ; but it unfortunately hap . poised that he had not now the power to pass such a sentence as would have the effect of obtaining his admission into that establishment. All that he could do, therefore, was to sentence him to six months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Cor rection. cr. Newbound, aged 24, was indicted for having stolen two silk handkerchiefs, of the value of 10s., the property of Richard H. Teller. Mr. Cullyer appeared fur the prisoner. The prosecutor stated that on the evening of the 17th inst. the prisoner had come into his shop, where he had asked to be shown some silk handkerchiefs. Of course, regarding him as a probable purchaser, the request was complied with, but, in consequence of there being a peculiarity of manner in the way in which the prisoner handled the handkerchiefs, after a short time had elapsed he accused him of having secreted two out of the lot. Upon this charge being made against him the prisoner took the two missing handkerchiefs from under his coat, where he had, as he imagined, concealed them without his having been seen to do so, and threw them down upon the counter. Those handkerchiefs, added the prosecutor, formed a portion of the parcel which had been exhibited to the prisoner for him to make a choice from. Mr. COLLYEIt addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The Learned JUDGE left it to the jury to say, whether, upon the evidence they had heard, they en tertained any doubt iu the case. If they did, of course they would give the benefit of such doubt to the prisoner. ,The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Two persons of the names of Squires and Weeks, who had been convicted at the December sessions of an assault, were now brought up for judgment. It will he remembered that a colonial agent of the name of Hardwick, residing in South-street, Fins bury- square, had purchased two pianafortes from the defendant Squires, for one of which he paid at once upon its delivery, but that on his complaining that the instrument which had been sent in some days afterwards was of an inferior quality, Squires, ac companied by the other defendant, with his van, and several other persons, bad gone to the prosecutor's house, where, after they had assaulted him because he endeavoured to prevent their removing the instrument which was the better of the two, and that whiCh had been sent in the first and had been paid for, they by force carried both of the instruments away. Mr. PARRY, who appeared for the prosecutor, now said that the parties had entered into an arrangement, in pursuance of which the defendant was to repay the prosecutor the sum which he had given fur the first pianoforte, namely 231, and also to pay a further sum of 101. for coats. At the same time it was a matter of anxiety with the prosecutor, that the Ciurt should be informed that the defendant Squires had withdrawn and retracted every offensive expression which he had on a former occasion given utterance to. The Learned JUDGE was extremely glad that so wise a course had been taken. He could not but compliment the prosecutor upon the spirit he had Manifested throughhut the whole transaction. The defendant Squires then paid the 33/. ; and The Learned JUDGE thereupon passed a nominal sentence upon the defendants, both of whom were ,hen discharged. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A respectable-looking woman presented herself be fore the magistrate to complain that some authoress had been making use of her name in applying for some relief from the charity-box, an account •f which had appeared in some of the papers, and v.liich was calculated to alarm her friends in the country, if uccontradieted. This person was represented by the newspapers to have said she had nearly finished a vo lumnious poem, and to have given her name as Anna Maria Jones, the authoress of some well-known works of fiction. Tne fact was that she (the appli cant) was the Anna Maria Joues referred to, and she handed up a list of her works. Sir P. LAURIE, in looking over the list, said— Why, did you write the whole of these ? She replied that she did. They made thirty-eight volumes. Sir P. LAURIE said—But you are not the authores , of the " Scottish Chiefs," for that is the work o Anna Maria Porter. The applicant replied, that one work was called the " Scottish Chiefs," and the other the " Scottish Chieftains." She was not answerable for this seem ing piracy, for it was the bookseller's device, to which perhaps she weakly yielded. The taste of tha public had so completely altered since she began novel-writing, at nineteen years of age, that she could get nothing for such labour now. Sir P. LA.URIII said she was not the only literary character who was complaining of the entire change in the public taste, and had been thereby reduced to straitened circumstances. She said, that was unhappily her case. She could no longer support herself in comfort by her pen, and, to increase her distress, her husband, to whom she bad looked fur support, had become of impaired in tellect. • Sir P. LatiatE:asked what her husband's name was ? She replieJ, that it was Lowndes, and he was in business for a long time as a dramatic bookseller, but he failed in trade, and that misfortune preyed upon his mind. Although she was in straitened cir cumstances, she was not reduced to beg charity at a police-office, and she was afraid the account would alarm her friends in Monmouthshire, where sh 3 had resided a great many years. Sir P. LAURIE had nu doubt the newspapers would set her right with the public. Mrs. Lowndes thanked Sir P. Laurie for his at tention, and then retired. IN RE ANDERSON AND BILL. Mr. CROWDER moved for a rule to show cause why the sum of 2,6831. 2s. 6d. should not be paid to Mr. H. James, and why Anderson and Hill should not deliver to Mr. James a bill of their costs and charges on account of a certain trust fund, and why they should not answer the matters in certain affidavits. The parties in question had acted as attorneys under a trust deed, by which a lady was entitled to a large sum of money which was to be invested to her benefit. One of the trustees to this deed had died, and the other was anxious to discontinue his trusteeship, and appli cation was made to Mr. James and another party to become trustees. To this the parties consented, and executed the necessary deeds. Money was after wards paid into the hands of certain bankers to the credit of the new trustees, who at various periods signed cheques, upon the representation of Anderson and Hill that the money was required to be placed out on certain mortgages. bankrupt, and it was then discovered that these dif ferent securities were Hill subsequently became prepared in favour of Hill, who had assigned all of them to his creditors. Some deeds had been made in favour of the trustees, but they had been executed on unstamped paper, although the stamps. had been charged for in Anderson and Hill's bill of costs. Anderson had declared he knew nothing of the affair, and that James had better prove under the estate of Hill. This last had been examined, and admitted the receipt of the sums, which he said he had received on account of a debt of 1,900/. due to him from Anderson. His LORDSHIP was of opinion that a rule to pay over the money only should be taken, abandoning the answering of the matters in the affidavits. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. 22. TEM 11/VAINTREB CIIIIRCII - RATE CASE.-GOSLING v. YBLET. The following is a fuller report of Lord Chief Jus tice Wilde's judgment in this case than appeared in our paper of yesterday : Lord Chief Justice WILDE was also of opinion that the judgment should be reversed. The record stated that the vestry was held in obedience to the monition of the spiritual court to make a rate for the repairs of the church and other expenses for the decent celebra tion of divine service ; that a rate of 2s. in the pound was proposed ; that the vicar inquired whether any other amendment was proposed as to the amount of the rate, to which no affirmative answer was returned. It did not state that any negative was given, but it did state that no other question was put to the meet ing. The record further itated that the majority of voters having refused the necessary funds, the church wardens made the rate in question, and it was further alleged that the amount proposed to be raised could only be obtained by a rate of 2s. in the pound. He thought the record sufficiently showed that the rate was not put to the majority in any manner ; whilst, on the•other hand, it was impossible to discover from it whether the rate was made by any majority whatever. Supposing the po sition, that the majority refusing to make the rate were to be considered as absent, was correct, and that the minority made a rate, still he ap prehended that the rate could only be made by their vote on a question submitted to them. The question arose then on the record, whether the rate was made by a legal majority of parishioners in vestry assem bied. The second question to be considered was whether those who made the rate were competent to do so, and whether, in doing so, they conformed to the law. In making a proper rate it was necessary to have regard to certain circu:nstances, such as the estimate of the repairs, and the propriety of some rate, the periods when it was to be paid, and the amount ; but none of those points were brought under the con sideration of the vestry. It was undoubted law that no pecuniary burden could be imposed on any subject except by established legal authority. The only legal authority to impose a church-rate was a majority of MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Lovell, John White, Clara Fisher, and Eliza Redding, were charged with having been con cerned in a burglary committed the over night in the house of Mr. William Skeffington, bookseller, No. 192, Piccadilly, and with stealing a cash-box contain ing 691. in notes and gold. It appeared that about six o'clock that morning police-constable Brown, F 142, and police-constable urd, A 85, saw the two female prisoners proceeding together in the direction of Waterloo-bridge, and, knowing they were the associates of bid characters, one of the constables went up to them and asked Red ding what she had concealed beneath her shawl. The prisoner at first refused to allow the constable to see, but the constable lifted up her arm and took from under it a cash-box, which apparently had recently been forced open. Suspecting that a robbery had been committed, theother prisoner, Fisher, was stopped, and as they were on their way to the Bow-street station house the constables saw Fisher take some thing from her bosom wrapped- in a pocket handkerchief, and make a movement as if about to throw it over the bridge. The con suable took the handkerchief, and on examining its contents found 11 sovereigns. In the same prisoner's possession were some letters, which were believed to have been written by the prisoner Lovell. Shortly after the apprehension of the two female prisoners in formation was sent round to the various station houses that a burglary had been committed a few hours ago in the house of Mr. Skeffington, 192, Piccadilly, and a cash-box containing 691. in notes and gold stolen therefrom. The cash-box taken from Redding was shown to Mr. Skeffington, and imme diately identified. Suspicion at once fell on the pri soner Lovell, who was occasionally employed in the house by Mr. Skeffington, and who had been in trusted to fasten up the shop the previous night. The police went to Loveli's lodgings in Peter-street, but he was not then at home. Police-sergeant West, F 7, went to the woman Redding's lodgings in Lincoln court, and, seeing the prisoner White, who was ac quainted with her,. about to enter one of the houses, he followed, and insisted on searching him. The constable found nothing in his pockets, but on making him take off his shoes eleven sovereigns were disco vered. The constable then took him into custody, on suspicion of having been concerned with the others in the burglary. Mr. Sketfington proved that the cash-box was safe in his desk the overnight. The prisoner fastened up the place, or rather pretended to fasten it up, and it was presumed he merely shut the street-door, and then returned to the shop and bolted himself in. About five o'clock in the morning the witness was alarmed by the police ringing at his bell, and stating that the street-door Has open. Oa going into the shop, witness found a desk broken °per, anti the cash bex gone. One of the constables found a small chisel, which had apparently been used to break the desk open with. Witness suspected the prisoner Lovell, and gave information of the circumstance to the police. Shortly after the police had gone after Lovell, and had found him from home, Lovell came to the shop to aslc tlye object of the inquiry after hire. lie was then given into custody. One of the constables stated that the chisel now produced had been seen in the possession- of the pree)ner. Lovell declared his innocence of the charge, and his ignorance of anything relating to the chisel. As for the letters found in the girl Fisher's Po session, he could not have written them, as he was Un able to write. Fisher had nothing to say, and Redding assertsd that some person had given her the cash-box to cavil and had promised her a trifle fir her trouble. White said the money in his shoes was his own property. They were all remanded. Mr. Skeflington, with the view of tracing the note' , or of causing them to be stopped if offered to be passed, stated that they consisted of two 10!. end tse veral 51. note.:, marked for the most part in his °*— handwriting with the names of C. Paine, Esq• L J° h' J. S., Esq., or J. Southwell, Esq., n. ess rs. htb and Sharpe, N. H. Clifton, jisq., and the Rev Dickson. It was fortunate the police met with the girls s$ the precise moment they did ; fur, had they been moment or two later, the box would, no doubt, bl y lien thrown over the bridge. ~'_~ARYLEBONE. TILE LATE CJNEEfiSION OF A MURDER OF THE COAST GUARD MANY YEARS AGO.- Vesteri-J John Lane was brought up from the House of D e : tention and placed at the bar before Mr. Brought e '; for re-examination, on the charge preferred age' Dl him, upon his own conf,ssion, with having been aci plicated, with a number of smugglers,lB years se h t a " l an affray at Eastbourne with the coast guard, vg"' one of that body was killed. It will be remembered that on the 15th instant the prisoner gave himself up at the Portland police s 1; tion-house, when he voluntarily stated that be r ii, employed by the smugglers to assist in keeping ks the coast guard while they (the former) were O r li; ink; away casks of spirits • he was questioned by 1 : 0 magistrate as to why he had not made the con foll o before, to which he replied that in 1842 he wen t o Wighton, in the expectation of seeing Lie` tenant 11411, who belonged to the coast e s ba when the murder was committed, and could then have found him he should have told b to i r all about it ; he was remanded, and InsPe.c,„e Chambers, of the S division, was directed to in st " - d, inquiries as to the prisoner's habits and state of O le o as also to elicit such other particulars as might upon the matter in question ; he (prisoner) a very low and desponding state during the illg tll- '0 and the impression upon most of those in court if that his intellects were impaired. l o ck' Yesterday, upon his being brought from th e - • .1 1 s0 up room in the yard, and placed in the dock 1 1 : , te d chell, the gaoler, his appearance, generally, lnu e f , - bio much more fully than before that he was no t '- right mind. Two gentlemen from her Majesty's Cueto llls ' 11 / 13 i d • another gentleman, a missionary, to whom the P • soner ws known, were in . Many a questions were put to the attendance prisoner i n rel s6 : to the affair, and his answers were of a v ery/,4 and incoherent nature; in short, he had no d i6 ;ibe recollection of anything which he had s tated e; station, or when first he was charged at the ceu h r. " o o . The missionary above alluded to said he had ,`' n s of the prisoner n ear ly f ou r y ears . Ile mentioned be• particulars with respect to his (prisoner's) reece;„ :l o , haviour, and in his ( w it ness ' s )• o pi n ion the poor- • was not sane. vaegl- 'stilt!. This opinion was co ncurre d i n by the Of rom 'Oter and gentl f the Customs, the whom the put the emen bench in possession of the fact° i : lle tbe o, nexion with the c o a s t guar d, man being shot Jeveti affray, and said th a t one inan only had ev e l dt g o ea taken up on suspicion o f gu ilt, an d he was dis ci "' der 11 without trial, as no one could identify him• oion all the circumstances they, after some coo vets co st with Mr. Broughton, felt that it was not such fl ee of as could be followed up with the slightest chanciest a conviction, and that, th e r e f o r e , it would be Us for them to prosecute. se a The MAGISTRATE discharged the priso ne r Dr gave him up to the care o f hi s wife, a resP ec loar dressed woman, carrying on the business of gl dress in Portland-town. WORSHIP-STREET. clicO t John Williams, a diminutive Lascar M en bat of most repulsive aspect, was placed at thedeoo6 before Mr. Hammill, charged with an onTeoberi attack upon a young lady, named Catherine i'entipl; fourteen years;,of age, the daughter of a D 155 Hole minister, residing in Welbeck-street, Cave • squqre. ; net t l Mr. HAmstiLL said he should order the Pr-theeo be brought Up again in a week that the atteeu— i. an interpreter might be procured. CLE RKEN IV ELL. giss e. It was so arranged by Mr. Combo that the r at- R—, the orphan daught e rs of a medioal of"; th!e . tached to the 14th Drag o ons, should appea rs 'yibic P court for the purpose of receiving the donatioa e o fta' had been f o r w ard e d by b enev olent persons whe _1 pathised with them and their distressing cas e. ,A c er c' Having received a n i n timation from an mu, thei the court that their a tt en dance was requireuloLer arrived about elev en o ' c l oc k, and had a private lebiei view with Mr. Combo, and Mr. Mallet, the, into clerk ; and they wer e su b seque ntly introdu ce ' the public court, when , ha eilt • Mr. COMBE addressed them as follows :—. - -L -- t -I yar, Tilted into your case. I find, so long ago ag n i ,, e c nee 1840, you wrote a letter to a noble lady, wade‘.K soliciting charity. A friend of that JOY ;:0 bt quiries,•and has placed in my hands his roP_r a t ';:i i :r o is to the following effect:—You then lif e " o feV e 6, Palace-yard, Pimlico ; you afterwards reln_od No. 7, •Arbour•terrace, Commercial-road i.assfota, No. 15, Gloucester-terrace, Commercial-road._,isise_. you had been there some time your landlo.rov'w , r 1 to get rid of you, but you refused to go. 1. 7.0 r o ejected by process of law, which cost the that :r ) 101. , The Duchess Was therefore advised i "have ( were not proper objects of her bounty. - bich .i fused parish relief; and another asylumvi 0 0 1. 1 4 been offered to you. Under these cireton s i f ; b$ ~, must decline further int e rf e r en ce in your behee',a., 0 `; as I have received altogether for you 6 51 -_, 3s 'od Yoe account of which I have closely examin ed ' boll lot have already received 24/., I shall not I, Tfit oo ?to balance of 411. 3:- , . 6d. from you. ge• "":, - Spplf) also received some money, which you 1111) . Y L _0 13. 1 him for. t ate O n fr Je" One of the sisters was in so excited a 01 s be :f o f could scarcely stand. The 41/. 3e. 6J. ' c lod ' to her sister, a n d s h e ex pressed her gr a-- , sof f i what had been done for them. se i, 9 0 Mr. COMBE said he did not wan t there to to , thing after wh a t h e b a d said ; and they ' ell r • 0 1 ,eit with painful feelings. iy ' t° ~41 i ,:i Our reporter saw the ladies subseque nt ,— a st • p leaving, when one of the sisters seemed s ti loe I c o tracted in consequence of the ordeal Whi f e the 4 gone through, They did not deny that l i t l is t 00 1840 their father was in bad health, atition th e exhausted their means, when an aP1 01 1;00 0 or made to the Duchess of Buccleuch; bat t r befo !'L j ell only application they had made fa - rolls ' t he,' bill after their father's death, up to the tiflopoo oti made .their :personal application to the ~ the) re, Mr. Norton, and since their father's de nt the c b i ot o iyuff2red great privations. They denie d fi ver 'piPg, made against th em , and courted P' s py A eo impartial investigation to negatived o pt t Vol that might be alleged against them, a i r' o d tr 0 16 their determination to enter into a tlll', f lit Fi l l explanation in order to set themselves rig ‘ ,Ol, ' fai"Lbe public. . r, cos 1 , Mr. COMBF, in reference to the ..-. 11 . 0 1 JP, for whom subscriptions had been so' e , el yeci „Jo father bore a respectable character, and f i e ., *0 46 ( 1 19 per week. Some portion of the fauali OA enough to assist, being from 23 to 2 5, °io et 0 g' years of age. Two of the boys had heel., b for stealing fruit, and the girls were , in stopping out late at nights. The rig" \ sate and Mr. Twinning had relieved them , , d we ! , Mr. Mallett said no more than 8 1 . . 111/ O r 4. d scribed for them. ge rviee Mr. Coatur said the case was not so de . # 13.- to at first appeared to be. • 0 father' O r Mr. Mallett suggested that, as the e d good character, the 8/. should be d eliver him. Mr. COMBE assented to this. 0, On the 17th inst., at South-pla ce, IP' N. g i If of James Baber, Esq., of - t oo On the 17th inst., at Connaught-terrace, P" ' . Ile' of O n daughter. „AO 00 On the 19th inst., at Eh t CheEt e ' ury-street , , 11 01' w . fe of Henry Charls Scott, Esq ,of a son. i par 0 On the 19th inst., at Old-ark county 0 ' Th al° lady of Henry Spencer, Esq., of a son. Charles! / On the 20th inst., at Brampton, the wife of v'• Esq., of Chancery-lane, of a daughter. BIRTHS.r night sbridget vo I r c wOinniaitnheFrlesetbhorinn,stat MAR RI ED. Orford, Worcester fo c r oi l e go, 0 :::1 111 ,14 a th e P oe 10 m , inster, Somerset, to Emily, daughter of G e°l.ge S er M.A., of 11,8, 1, of Oxford. ? • A 13 43 g. Oat On the 16th inst., at Hathersage Churcll,-biolc0; 0, John Clarke, M.A., vii of the Rev. / 4 -• nhe shlr Enniskillen, Irel ml, to M tilda, d_ aughter of ' tuli f tlewortb, of Hatliersage-hall o , ero o DIED 0 ito'' oe , On the 13th inst., at Brook-green"house , , Mrs. Ann Gray, aged 86. t-se are Cs' On the 16th inst., at Park-street, DoW 0 10 4' 7 ili f Mary Grosvenor, aged 72. p o rt- o 0 On tha 17th inst., at Beaumont-street, 'isreelattopt Hannah, relict of the late Captain F. 'r• To ',ol -1° 0 6 . 0 Ar Glengarry Light Infantry, many years Montreal, Canada. Pig , 0 1 oGrnfo, O )tdtiii n a:e: t rll h iaj e ttieg l f 9 ,l3i t al e l eg i nre l ic n Eil s inx7 t Bi, ,. Mr. James ]loon, of th e 10 , ii Id cvr „ddiug. t _ver'f.di On the Ith in at Llanover, Mrs. ,' - -- f Llinvi fY -onthe 19 1 i inst. Ilall, aged 79. 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