The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-19 00:00:00

• effect upon the company, became all the proprietors CENTRAL CRIMINAL Co URT reF 4,4111 t w il/ff tf 11 ?et I wr , uld have an Pqnal right to pqrticipte in the OLD COUR • 4:1; / ASTERN RAILWAY. (!`Lila 1).--a . ) The ordinary halt-yearly meetiog r,f this coropeey, and also a special meeting, Was held this afternoon at • the London-bridge Tavern ; Mr. James .I.l'Gregor in the chair. On the directors entering the room they were re ceived with mingled cheers and hissing, the cheers predominating. The following report was circulated among all the shareholders :- " The directors have to report, that the receipts of the South-Eastern Railway Company for the hall'-year ending on the 31st July, 1850, have beea 291,246/ 10 3.1.; and the working expenser e 103.973/. 16s. ld. The revenue account is charged in the present half year with the sum of 19,294/. 43. 10d., to be added to the fund already laid ande for the renewal of engines, tenders, carriages, and other s t oc k of the company. The rates and Government duty amount to 25,0841. ls. Id.; the rent-of the Greenwich, Canterbury, and Whitstable, and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railways, to 37,9161. 45.-which sums, in addition to the interest on the mort gage debt and guaranteed stock of the company and a provision of 864/. Is. 7d. for bad debts, make a total deduction from the gross earnings of 218,5751. 2s. 91- leaving, together with the amount at the credit of profit and loss, after providing for last half-year's dividend, a balance available for dividend of 113,4781. 14a 7d. " The total increase in traffic on the main line for the last half-year, as compared with the corresponding half of 1849, is 15,6571. 55. 11d.; of this sum 12,634/. 103. si. is from passengers, and 3,622/. 15s. 6 1. from goods, &e. The returns on the North Kent line from passengers for last half-year, compared with the preceding one, show a decrease of 4,3211. 9s. 9.1.; but this is accounted fur by the half-year including the month of January getting credit for the large amount received in that mouth for annual tickets. The decrease of 4,4861. 6s. 6d. in the receipts from passengers on the Greenwich branch bat evidently been occasioned by the abstraction of traffic from that line to the North Kent. The through-traffic to and from London and Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate, and Margate, for the half-year ending on the 31st July, 1849, was 53,0391. 15s. 4d.; 31st July, 1850, 62,8921. Ils. 4d.; increase, 9 802/. 16s. " The communication between Felkestono and Bou logne by a tidal service, leaving one harbour end ar riving at the other, now takes place twice each way in the twenty-four hours; the Boulogne and Amiens Company contributing an allowance toearris the ex pense of the nightly service. Between Dover and Calais the communication takes place three times each way in the twenty-four hours; namely, twice at a fixed hour by the steam•packets of her Majesty's Government and that of Preece, and once by the steam ships in connexion with this company, at .tide time, al ways leaving one harbour aail arriving in the other without the use cf boats; to this service the Northern of Franca Railway Company contributes jointly with this company. This later service accommodated 6 777 pas sengers last half yea-, in comparison with 4,403 in the corresponding half of 1849. showing an increase of 2,374 passengers. Between Dover and Ostend her Ma jesty's packets and those of the Belgian Government perform a service from Dover to Ostend every evening (excepting Sunday), and from Ostend to Dover every even ing (excepting Saturday), and a service is also performed by the Belgian Government's steamere, in conjunction with those of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam pacletl Company, from Ramsgate to Ostend, every Mon day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, and from Ostend to Rama-gate every Sund a y, Weclnes• day, Thursd a y, an d Saturday morning, from harbour to harbour. " The 61-i hours now occupied in the journey to Mar seilles will be materially reduced as soon as railway commueictvion between Paris and Marseilles is com pleted, and this route will then, the directors confidently believe, be adopted as tl e general one fcr the Mediter ranean, the E,st, and for the Overland route to India. " The division of the joint station at the London bridge tereonus took pinee on the 2d of August, in ace cordance with the Act ef Parliament regulaiing it. The directors expect all the works, beiLlings, and platforms cnnoeeted with the terminus will be completed within two mouths from the present time, and it is certain that great advantege will than accrue in the management of the traffic. The lease of the Reading, Guildford, end Reigate Railway was sealed by both companies and ex changed on the 15th of March last; the rent payable by this company, of 41,000/. per annum, being at the rate of 5/. 6d. per cent. per annum on the capital of 800,0001., commencing from that date. The directors anticipate a growing traffic on this line, and they trust that, although some time may elapse before it prove re munerative, the proprietors of- the South-Eastern Com pany will obtain that credit for promptly maintaining that engagement to which their good faith entitles them. The- improvements that were required at the Brick , layers' Arms Station for the goods department are rapidly approaching completion, whi c h i s t h e case a l so with the acc omm oation required to be provided on the North Kent and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate lines f et- the like purpose. " The directors think the proprietors may safely anti cipate a gradual and satisfactory increase of revenue from the goods traffic. The traffic at Folkestone, in merchandise from France, is increasing; the Customs duties received at that port, which were 4,0081. in 1847, 8,218/. in 1848, and 42,260/. in 1849, amounted in the last six months to 41,316/., which affords satisfactory evidence of the preference which the port of Folkestone will obtain when it can present equal facilities in all other respects, as well as the advantage of speedy deli very. The South-Eastern and Continental Strum Packet Company are making arrangements fora daily steamer for the carriage of merchandise between Boulogne and Folkestone. Hitherto there has been one on only three days of the week. Conveniences will be provided at the London-bridge terminus for the examination of valuable goods as soon as possible. The establishment for the repairs of carriages and waggons has been removed to the new buildings at the station at Ashford. The locomotive repairing shops there are being completed according to the original plan. Sixty new houses -for the workmen were built last half-year. The report of Mr. Barlow, the engineer-in -chief of the company, shows that the line from Ashford to Hastings and St. Leonard's will be completed in three weeks, and that the principal portion of the line from Tun bridge Wells to St. Leonards may be opened in three months. The directors look forward anxiously to the completion of these works as the most important step toward closing the capital account of the company. The public sales of surplus property have already been satis factorily made, and the directors will proceed to dispose of the remainder as circumstancea permit. The amount remaining at the credit of the account for the renewal of permanent way, locomotive and other stock, now amounts to the sum of 39,657/. 4s. 64., after charging that account with the sum of 5,401/. 12s. ld. for renewals effected in the last haif-year. The directors are inclined to believe that the amount laid aide by the charge that has ben made against revenue for renewals is in excess of the proportion that will hereafter require to be set apart for this purpose; but it is satisfactory to know, that if an error has been committee 4, it is on the safe side. " In aceordance with the resolution passed at the last half -yearly general meeting of tee proprietors, that sll claseee of shares in the capi'al of the company be con verted and consolidated into capital stock at 30/. for each share, end 10: 1 . for each third share, on and after the Ist day of May, 1850. that consolidation has been eff:c'el. The sum of 616000/. of the nominal capital of the comp env is thereby extinguished. That amount may be looked upon as representing 244 504/. 61. 2d. lost by the issue of the ceginal shares at a discount and the sale of forfeited shares; and the sum of 371,495/. 13s. 10d. in part of the interest paid to the proprietors of the Nos. 3 and 4 shares, out of there capitals respectively. The sura'of 371,492/. 13; 10d. so extinguished is to be de ducted from 9,24.5 029/. 3;. 7d., the total expenditure of the company, as shown in the annexed accounts, which ex:;:erelitur e i, del-. by reduced to 8..873,533/ 9 9d. "The present meeting has been specially convened for the purpose of submitting to the proprietors resolutions to confirm, if they see fi', the resolutions passed on the 15th August last, admitting the Nos. 3 and 4 share holders to a participation in all dividends t.) be there after declared, including the dividend for th e p as t h a lf year. Th e arnnunt r f the balance et the credit, of profit and loss, 113,4781. 143. 7d., will allow of a dividend for the half-ye er at the rate of 3 per cent. par annum on the corriolidated stock of the company, aster providing the gurante, d dividend at the rate of zq per cent. per annum on the pr •ferentiai stock issued. It will be observed that the a o:idend will be payable on the capital expended on ihe Ashford and Ilaetingo and Tunbridge Wells and Hastings lines, which are not yet opened for traffic. The injunction granted by the Court of Chancery to restrain t4c company from paying a dividend until the Ashford and Hastings line is open for public traffic will make it necessary that the resolution declaring a dividend should make it payable after that event has occurred. " At the last half-yearly meeting of the company the following resolution was passed:-' That a register of the shareholders of the company, with the amount of shares or stock they individually hold, be made up and published annually, and that every shareholder be en titled to have one upon payment of Is.' The time has not yet arrived at which it would be necessary to act upon this resolution, and the directors hale, therefore, the opportunity of submitting, for the consideration ct the proprietors, the inexpediency of publishing the amount of stock held by each shareholder. The direc tors submit that this publication would prove detrimen tal to the general interests of the company ; and, in order that the proprietors may dispose of the question upon adequate notice, the di:cclers will bring it before the meeting. " Since tie commencement of the present half-year the traffic has shown symptoms of further improvement, which mast he as gratifying to the proprietors as it is to the directors, and looking forward to the Greet Exhibi tion of next year, and to the completion af this com pany's lines of railway, and of these from Paris to Mar seiliee, the directors trust that they may anticipate en era fraught with greater success to the Southh-Eastern Company than the pelt bee been. No efforts Shah be wanting on the part of the directors to secure the inte rests of the company." Mr. HERBERT, the secretary, having road the ad vertisement convening the meetings, The CIIAIIIMAN stated that the special meeting had been convened for the purpose of confirming the reso lutions passed on the 15:h of August last, admitting the hjAders of Nos. 3 and 4 stuck to participate in the dividends of the compeny, including those for the last Vtalilyeptyig also for the purpose e,f consolidating C'„a-N - rstr!' 4 stock with the capital stock sty , which would h ence f ort h b e called O'"!t1 'caps° h d South-Eastern Railway Stock. 41.0.7d4;4,. , e said, b e li eve d t h at if those resolu tlonC;wer_ e; rt rnaed they would have a beneficial e a r ee 'as di:i ._:' S ~~._ li. A.fri.r a diFc reselutione t'e:e above Aere..xalyt ti'e result being, received with loud cheers. The business of the ordinary half-yearly meeting was then proceeded with. The CIIAIRMAN briefly referred to the details con tained in the report, alluding more particularly to the gratifying announcement that the total increase on the main line for the last half-year, as compared with the corresponding half of 1849, was 15,6571. ss. 111, of which 12,6341. 103. sd. was from passengers, and 3,0221. 15,e 61. from goods, 8,3. The directors also anticipated a still further increase in the re venue both as regarded passenger and goods traffic. The amount of belance at the disposal of the direc ' ton: was 113,478/. 14;. 7d., which would allow a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock of the company, after providing the guaranteed dividend at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum on the preferential stock issued.--(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the adoption of the report. A somewhat prolonged and irregular discussion ensued, which ended in the report being received. A dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent. on the consolidated stock, to be payable after the Ashford and Hastings line was opened, or at such other time as the directors might appoint, was then agreed to. The resolution which was passed at the last meet ing, that a register of the shareholders, with the amount of their stock, should be published annually and sold to the shareholders for a shilling, was then brought before the meeting. The CHAIRMAN said the directors objected to such a return on the ground that it would depreciate the value of the company's stock. He moved that the above resolution should be rescinded, and that a return should be published giving simply the names and ad dresses of shareholders, distinguishing such as were competent to hold office of director or auditor. An amendment was proposed to this, but the reso lution of the Chairman was ultimately carried by a large majority. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and the meeting separated. DONCA►STE RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Handicap of 10 sous. each. Pirouette Brother to Ellerdalc Handicap. Mile and a quarter. Gladiole Cantab Woolwich Achyrantes Cleveland Handicap. Two Yrs Old Stakes. Storm A zeth ••• • .. ••• ••• Scarborough Stakes. thc.eo ter nit, :aunty efidcaVothi, g io extort money from Michael Tasburgh, under a threat of accusing hie: of an abominable critee. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine ware for the pro secution • the prisoners were def en d e d b y M r . Robin son and itlr. %Voollett. The prosecutor in this case is an independent gen tleman, named Michael Tasburgh, residing at Burgh wallis-hall, near Doncaster, and it appeared from his statement that he is between 70 and 80 years cf age. The circumstances under which the charge was pre ferred against the prisoners were these :—On the 27th of August the prosecutor had come up to town on business, and he proceeded to the Tavistoele Hotel, and after having dined he went out in the evening for a walk, and as he was passing through Hemming's row he stopped for a moment at a turner's chop to look at a tnan who was at work there. It appeared that the prisoner Braznell and three or four other men were also standing at the window, and he pushed against the prosecutor in a manner that induced him imalediately to quit the shop window and walk away. The prisoner followed him, and asked him if he supposed he was going to allow him to do what he had done for nothing, and inquired what he was going to " stand." The prosecutor, who notwithstanding his advanced age, appeared to have acted with a great deal of firmness and deter mination throughout the whole transaction, replied that he would give him nothing, and walked on, the prisoner following him and making the observation that he must take the consequences. After this Braznell wished the prosecutor to go into a public house and have a glass with him, stating, at the same time, that the matter might be soon settled, and that he did not wish to be hard with him. The prosecutor resisted all the attempts that were made to extort money from him, and Braznell at length gave him in charge for an indecent assault, and he was examined the following morning before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlborough-street, and the other prisoner, Wren, and another man, named White, then came forward as witnesses in support of the charge that had been male against the prosecutor. Their statements, how ever, their examination being taken spa: t, were so contradictory to each other that the magistrate felt it to be his duty not only to dismiss the charge that had been made egainst the prosecutor, but to order the prisoners into custody upon the present charge. The facts wore distinctly proved in evidence, and the ut er groundlessness of the accusation made against the prosecutor was clearly established ; and there ap peared to be no doubt that the prisoners formed part of the gang of miscreants who infest the metropolis and prowl about for the purpose of extorting money from the fears of those against whom they preferred charges of this description. The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. Evidence was then given that the prisoner Wren he..l been before convicted of felony. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence upon the pf isoners, said that they had been convicted of a most dreadful crime, and it was hardly possible to imagine one that was more calculated to create misery and suffering. It was therefore necessary for the protec tion of the public that when such an offence was clearly brought home to the persons accused of it a most severe punishment should be inflicted. He then sentenced the prisoners to be transported for twenty years. Upon the application of Mr. PARRY, 011 behalf of John Wakeman E &cards, a surgeon, who stands charged with a felony of a peculiar character, and no opposition being offered by Mr. Ballantine, who ap peared for the prosecution, the trial of the defendant was postponed to the next session. It was arranged that Mr. Ed wards, who has here tofore been at large upon bail, should still remain at liberty upon the same amount of rccognizances. Ellen Hoar, 22, was charged upon the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of her female ille gitimate child. t 7 ; ( L \VILLL ?!R.~ gun #ll Voldgeur ... y ... ... walked ovcr LATEST BETTING ON THE CUP. 4 to 1 on Dutchman 5 to 1 agst Voltigeur - A bill for the murder had also been preferred be fore the grand jury, but they ignored it. Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution. The pri soner would have been without the assistance of counsel but for the kind interference of the Sheriffs. Through their instrumentality, however, she had the benefit of the able services of Mr. Ballentine. The facts of the case lay i❑ a very narrow compass. The prisoner lodged in the house of a woman named Davi., in Queen-street, Notting hill, and on the 14. h of August, in consequence cf something that transpired, Mrs. Davis went into the prisoner's room, and from what she saw there she accused her of having given birth to a child. The prisoner denied that this was the case, and another woman then came into the room, and she also taxed the prisoner with the same act, and asked where the child was. She persisted in declaring that she had not given birth to a child, but upon the room being searched the dead body of a female infant was found in a box, and with a cord tied tightly round its neck. The evidence with regard to the fact of the child having been born alive was by no means conclusive, and it also ap peared very probable that the cord might have been used by the prisoner as a readier means to relieve her self from the agonies of childbirth. Mr. BALLANTINE made a most feeling and earnest appeal to the jury on behalf of the unfortunate pri soner, and expressed a confident expectation that they would not upon the evidence that had been lr.i i before them convict a young creature like the prisoner of such a dreadful crime as that with which she was charged. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS briefly summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, Acquitted the prisoner of murder, but found her Guilty of concealing the birth of the child. She was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) Edward George Barrington, 36, millwright, was indicted for feloniously being at large, without lawful excuse, before the expiration of a term for which he had been sentenced to be transported. Digby Seymour appeared fir the prisoner. The facts for the prosecution were these :—ln June, 1844, the prisoner was tried at these sessions for a robbery of notes in a dwelling-house, and sen tenced to ten years' transportation. He was subse quently sent out of this country, and, not having received any liberty from the authorities of this country to return home, he had recently done so, and had set up a beenhop, and bad continued to keep it up to the time of his apprehension in last August, when some one gave information to Penny, the in spector of nuisances for Clerkenwell, who was at the time of the prisoner's conviction a police in spector. Mr. SEYMOUR made a most earnest appeal to the jury, and said the defence he had to offer was this : The prisoner after his conviction had been sent out to Swan River, where his behaviour was so irreproach able that the Governor of the place gave him a free pardon, and in the October of 1847 he enlisted him self as a shipwright on board the Columbine, under the command of Lord John Hay, and had accom panied the whol.e of the well known expedition in the Japanese seas against the pirates, behaving with the utmost courage, and in other respects conducting himself most irreproachably down to April of the pre sent year, when the vessel came home, and with tht? prize money he had received went into business as a beer-shopkeeper. The Learned Counsel handed in the written document of the prisoner's conduct, and added that Lord John Hay wished it to be stated that the prisoner's conduct whilst under his command had been excellent. Tha prisoner had received from the governor a written pardon, but fearing it might be found by his fillow seamen, and that they might know what he had been, he had destroyed it. The COMMON-SERGEANT, in addressing the jury, said that undoubtedly the prisoner's character had been very good since his conviction, but there was only his word about the pardon. The jury found him Guilty, strongly recommend ing him to mercy on account of his character. Judgment was respited. Ju/in Simpson, 23, labourer, pleaded Guilty to marrying Jane Robinson, his wife being then alive. Mr. Digby Seymour appeared for the prosecution. Neither of the wives appeared, but it was stated to the Court that the prisoner had married his first wife in Scotland, and she falling ill became the in mate of an hospital. He subsequently deserted her and married a second wife, whom it was supposed he halalso left. lie was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. Mary Ann Geary was convicted of stealing some articles of wearing apparel, the property of the gum dians of St. Giles, Bloomsbury. It appeared that she had been for four years an in mate of the poorhouse ; she occ , sionally went out, and suspicion being entertained that she was robbing the house a search -warrant was obtained, and a place she visited searched, and the articles in question found. A wAtch was then set on the place, and upon her coming there she was taken into custody. In the course of the afternoon the grand jury, hav;ng returned all the bills before them, were dis- charged with the customary thanks. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. It appeared that on the evening of the 29th ult. the prosecutrix having arrived at the Paddington ter minus by the Great Western Railway, got into an omnibus for the purpose of proceeding to Charing cross. As they were going on, when she was speak ing to a fzisnd who was with her in the omnibus, the conductor of the vehicle interrupted their con versation by asking her if she had lost anything, whereupon she put her hand into her pocket, and then, for the first time, she discovered that her purse hed been taken. When she quitted the terminus her purse was safe in her pocket. It then appeared that the omnibus conductor, George Bowern, had noticed the prisoner and another man loitering about the terminus, and had also watched them until they both followed the lady into his omni bus, which had met the 23 minutes past ten o'clock a suspicion o f th e from the Bristol. conductor in hi s e y e , an d at t p r r a is in oner Ente k r e t p ai t n h in img one part of the journey he asked him to get outside so as to make room for a lady. The prisoner, how ever, declined to comply with the request. The om nibus therefore went on, but when it arrived near to George •street, Edgeware-road, the prisoner suddenly called cut " Stop." He got out, paid Gd., and was followed by his associate. The conductor instantly told the lady to feel if she had lost anything, and at the same time he watched the movements of the pri soner and his companion. The former went into George-street, whither the conductor, having ascer tained that the lady's purse had been takee, at once pursued him. When he got up to the prisoner, he told him that he " wanted him." The prisoner said, " For God's sake don't do me an injury," and began to shuffle about his hands. The conductor threw his arms around the man who had a cloak cn, and hell him until the p o li ceman , fJr whom he called lustily, arrived, to whom he handed him over. Prior to the coming up of the policeman, the conductor in the struggle had dragged the pri soner hack into the Elgeware_road, and by the time the policeman came they had got upon the railings of an area. As soon as the policeman made his appear ance the conductor saw a purse drop from the pri - super, and fall through the iron railings. lie com municated this circumstance to the policeman, who knocked up the inhabitants of the house, went into the area and picked up the purse, which NV S identified by the prosecutrix. The prisoner now said he was anxi•ous to say a few words to the Court. The Learned CHAIRMAN was ready to hear anything he wished to offer in explarmion. The prisoner then slid—Aly Lor, I am nor, I as sure you, a thief. Jam not a person who would ccm mit a theft on principle, and although in the present cese I admit my guilt, y e t upon a f ee li ng o f re li g i on, and of ail those proper feelings which ought to guide a man in his passage through this life, so great an ab horrence of thieving have I, that but for the starving and destitute condition of my poor wife and family, I I should not have fallen into the commission of this ac tion, for which I been brought before this court. I ;Ain not a thief, my Lord ; for my religious princi ples and feelings are both powerfully opposed to such a character. Driven to despair by the destitute state of lay dear wife and children, I was unhappily induced to plunge into this crime. I hope, therefore, that, taking my unfortunate case, and the painful circum stances by which I was surrounded at the time, into your consideration, your Lordship will treat me with mercy. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Scpt. 18. Before Mr. WITnAm, Cllairman, and a Bench of Mdgistratei.) Henry Preston, aged 31, described as a comedian, but dressed with all the awarance of g Dissenting minister, was indicted for having stolen from the per son a silver watch and gold watch-guard, of the value of 71., the property of Charles Dowden. It appeared that a scavenger of the name of Bays went into Cecil-street in the Strand, on the sth inst., about four o'clock in the morning, when he saw A police-cfficer here stated that he had known the prisoner for nix years as an expert " swell-mob'; man." He was assodited with a large gang of the swell mob, and he was attached to that branch of the body who attended the theatres and omnibuses to pick pockets. In 1844 the prisoner was apprehended for attempting to pick pockets at the entrance of the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEP7EMBER 19, 1850. the prisoner kneeling • upon a man who was lying I down on the invernt , ..rit.Upon his gointr tcwards them to who aen ee eresenee „e a e i : ;IL L ; scavenger proceeded to lift up the drunken man, who said the, " that vagabond h .s. stolen my watch." The scavenger accordingly went in search of a policeman, to whom he gave information of the rubbery, and that the person accused had run down the street. The prisoner cross-examined this witness with con siderable dexterity. The police-officer, A 103, proved having found the prisoner in a doorway, towards which the drunken man pointed, at the bottom of Cecil street. When he told him what he wanted him fur he said, " Oh, indeed !" He took him to where the prosecutor was lying, when the latter said that the prisoner was the man who had robbed him of his watch. The pri soner having been conveyed to the station-house was searched, but as nothing could be found upon him he was liberated. The officer said he was not satisfied about the matter, and theref ore h e aga i n went down Cecil -street, and in the doorway from which he had taken the prisoner he found the lost watch and chain, which he now produced. About ten minutes after wards he saw the prisoner coming along the opposite side of the Strand. He went up to him, and on tell ing him.that he had found the watch, and that he should again take him into custody, the prisoner said, " Oh, indeed, and so you are going to give me another turn !" The man was then conveyed once more to the station-house. The prosecutor stated that on the evening in ques tion he had supped at the Albion near Drury-lane Theatre, and had afterwards taken too much liquor, so much so, that on getting into the street, he found himself to be very drunk. While in that state he had been robbed of his watch, and that was all he knew about the matter. He recollected nothing more. The prisoner then proceeded to cross-examine this witness, and thus commenced, in a sanctified tone of voice,—" Sir, do you know that a very solemn duty now devolves upon you, and therefore .1 shall call upon you to reflect seriously before you answer the ques tions I shall put to you. Now, sir, do you know the serious responsibility of an oath ? are you aware of its great importance, and have you made yourself ac quainted with the obligations which are imposed upon you by the ninth commandment, which runs thus,— ' Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh bour ?' Now, man, reflect before you give your answers." The prcsecutor, who, like every other person in court, had been taken by surprise by this outburst, said, " Oh, 3 ee, Oh, yes.' The prisoner—Well, then, now turn round and look at me well, and then tell me if you do not in me behold and recognise an old acquaintance and an old companion ! The prosecutor (laughing)—You, you an old com panion —no, not a bit of it.—(Laughter.) The prisoner (looking round)—Sir, this is a very serious affair to me, and sorry am I, truly sorry am I indeed, that you should laugh at that in which I can not join. Do you not remember me ? The prosecutor—What! remember you ? Not a bit of it. I don't know you. The prisoner —Don't you remember smoking a pipe with me, and afterwards going with me to a coffee-shop, where eon wanted something salt to take with your tea ? What, don't you recollect me now ? The prosecutor—l have told you I don't know you, how many more times am Ito tell you so ? The prisoner, with whining vehemence, exclaimed that it was most extraordinary that the person in the box had lost nil knowledge of him ; indeed, it was astonishing that he had not instantaneously recog nized him, as they had been eating and drinking and smoking together for several hours. That they had been so he should call witnesses to prove. The prisoner then unfolded a heavy brief, and said " Let Henry Watson be called." The witness, who is waiter at the Harp Tavern, proved that the erosecutor was in the company of the prisoner at the house on the night in question. They were drinking grog together, and did not leave till 3 o'clock in the morning, at which hour they left the house together. Cross-examined by the prisoner—He remembered fetching four books while the prosecutor was in the house, in which names were entered. The name of the prosecutor was written in the books as having be come a member of "The City of Lushington."— (Loud laughter.) On that night the prosecutor be came a " cHzen " of that "ancient body," and the witness received "one shilling" for the entrance fee, which sum was devoted to the purchase of two pots of beer.—(Renewed laughter.) Another witness deposed to the same effect. The prisoner then was about to address the jury, and opened the brief as though he intended to read from it, but • The Learned CHAIRMAN declined to hear the speech at that stage of the proceedings, and, in reference to the brief from which the prisoner was about to read, said he hoped he would not by his conduct compel the Court to make public the means by which he had become possessed of it. (We were informed by the governor of the House of Detention that the prisoner, when in prison, had instructed a solicitor to defend him, and having given him the grounds for his de fence, instructed him to prepare a brief, to retain counsel, and to subpoena several witnesses. On Tues day the solicitor, having duly acted upon these in structions, called at the prison to inquire if anything further had occurred to the mind of the prisoner which he thought might be of advantage to his de fence. The prisoner asked to look at the brief, which the solicitor, very innocently, handed to him. The prisoner, having locked into it, put it into his pocket, and said that he should now neither require the as sistance of the solicitor nor of counsel. In this way it was that the prisoner obtained his brief.) The Learned CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence ; and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned CHAIRAIAN sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Henry Good, aged 14, a very well-dressed young man, was indicted for having picked the pocket of a lady named Ann Maria Holman, of a purse containing Gs. 41 , her property, when she was riding iu an om 'Abu?. was en inmate at present of the London Hospital. A conversation continued between them, when 07, - - ooe eesoioc fee ois Ishetr, vele; v. ants made her apvearance, when the ioesorier and his sister urged her to take a I.iless of ale. She drank a little, and the prisoner gave his sister some. lie afterwards gave his sister some money, and she went sway. Prosecutrix then said she would return home. The prisoner followed her, and said he would show her to a railway station. He took her up several crooked lanes until they reached the road leading to Brockley Jack (the Castle Inn). He then requested her to sit down on the bank of the railway cutting. She took a seat some distance from the prisoner, who, shifting about, caught hold of her, and placed his arms over her shoulders and kissed her. She told him (pushing him away with both her hands) not to lay hands upon her, as she was well known to the police, and would report him to the chief inspector, Mr. M'Gill, of the dockyard police. The pri soner then seized hold of; and forcibly threw her down, and with great violence effected his purpose. She was surprised and confoueded at the moment, put her hands in his face, and called for assist ance, but no one came. Saw a man some distance off. She then got up and ran away, declaring that she would go to the dockyard and report him, having un derstood, in course of conversation, that lie was on duty there. Prosecutrix produced an envelope, which the prisoner gave her, bearing the address of his sister, and hoped witness would interest herself in getting her a situation. The prisoner followed in the distance to the dockyard station, overtaking her at times, in order, as he said, to go into a public-house aed - settle the matter ; but she continued on her way through the streets crying until she reached the dockyard, where she fully explained the nature of the outrage to Mr. Inspector Mr. M'Gill asked her why she did not explain the outrage to persons she met on the way ? She told him she was ashamed of exposure in the public streets, and might have been laughed at ; and, as she was certain of redress at his hands, she proceeded to the dockyard. Persons on the road pitied her and directed her. She did not say she was married, nor did the prisoner ask that question. The prisoner came up to the gate half-an hour after witness, when the inspector called him and told him in witness's presence that he was charged with a grave offence at the instance of prosecutrix. Prisoner said, " Good God ! she has made a false statement." Mr. Inspector M'Gill was then called, and deposed that prosecutrix's evidence now taken was fully in accordance with her statement taken at the Dockyard office, and that she arrived at the station in a very excited and distressing condition. Mr. Mey, at some length, cross-examined the pro secutrix without eliciting the slightest matter affect ing her testimony or charactor. Mr. SECKfilt said he should send the charge before a jury, and bound the witnesses over to prosecute at the Central Criminal Court. Gunner H. Robertson then left the court, accom panied by his wife, the magistrate declining to take bail, as urged by Mr. May, for the prisoner. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH BRITISH. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company vas held in Gibb's Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, on Tuesday ; Mr. lAarmonth, the chairman, presid ing. The directors' report was held as read. The CHAIRMAN having briefly recapitulated the main features of the report, moved that it be adopted. Mr. BLACK UDDER sceondsd the motion. Mr. JOHN COCK, W.S., said that he could not sup port the resolution, and he proposed an amendment to the efFect that the report be not approved of; and that a report be made previous tc the next meeting as to the present state, prospects, and system of manage ment of the company, and especially as to the ac curacy of the accounts as regarded the appropriation of the expenditure during the half-year previous to the 31st of July, to the respective branches of capital and income ; also as to the litigation now in progress at the instance of the company, and as to the cause of the retirement from the board of four of the directors appointed by the last half-yearly meeting. 1)r. MACFARLAN seconded the amendment, and in veighed against the management of the line. The CHAIRMAN said that with respect to the asser tion that an increased sum was carried to capital and interest during the last half-year, it should be known that the quarter shares, which had a right to interest, had not the interest to which they were entitled paid in previous years, and of course the sum was placed iii the present account, and that as the banks were in the habit of making their accounts annually, the in terest paid to them in the currency of the year for money employed in the formation of the line, and which could not, therefore, yield a return, was set down ; and this explained the two items referred to. The sum set down for law expenses was, he should state, not for expe nses i ncurre d d ur i ng the last half.. year, but long current accounts. With regard to the litigation with the directors, referred to in the amend ment, he regretted that it was adverted to; but he might state, as it had been alluded to, that it was a litigation carried on by himself in the name of the company against himself as a director, to compel him and the other directors to pay the balances which they respectively owed of a sum of 26,000/. The payment of their portion of that sum was resisted by some of the directors who had retired, and w bile he and his colleagues were willing to pay their own shares, they wanted the others who had retired from the direction to pay their proportion. Mr. Cook happened to be the agent for one of the retired directors, and therefore it was a pity that he should have referred to it at all. He further stated that the construction of the North Berwick branch, which was about 4i miles in length, had cost 75,0001.—about 17,0001. a mile, and that the other branches cost 18,0001. or 19,000/. a mile. He • maintained that no good could be got- by Mr. Cook's 1, amendment, and therefore hoped that it would not be agreed to. — The two motions were put to the vote, when, only five hands being held up for the amendment, the re port was approved of. A series of resolutions were on the motion of the CHAIRMAN then agreed to, to the effect that the direc tors be authorised to compound with such of the shareholders as are in arrear of calls and are in doubt ful circumstances, by freeing them from further liability on payment of a modified sum and giving up all right to their shares in favour of the company ; that the directors be authorised to apply to Parliament tor authority to enlarge and improve the Edinburgh station, and connect it with the ,Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee station, and also to alter the Leith branch to make it capable of being worked by locomotive power ; and that the interest on the guaranteed shares be paid on Thursday, the 19th inst. (there being no dividend on the ordinary share capital). A motion was then made that there be no Sabbath traffic on the line, bat it was lost by a large majority, and the meeting separated. EAST ANGLIAN. Yesterday a meeting of East Anglian bondholders and creditors took place at the London Tavern to consider a proposition made on the part of the com mittee of bondholders, and also a counter proposition made by the chairman of the board of director;, with a view of relieving the company from their present financial difficulties. WILLIAM EVERARD, ESQ., took the chair, when a long discussion took place as to the merits of the two propositions, in which several bondholders inter fered, and eventually the proposal of the bondholders' committee was adopted unanimously, the chairman of the board of directors having withdrawn his pro position in its favour. The Chairman then moved the resolutions founded on the committee's proposition. Mr. SEPPINGS seconded the motion. The resolutions were as follows :—" That this meeting approve of the following proposition for an arrangement between the East Anglian Railways Company and their creditors : That the shares created under the Act of 1849, viz , 37,552 shares of 101. each, shall bear a preferential dividend of 5 instead of 7 per cent. ; and that every deficiency in the amount of such dividend, at any period, shall be made up out of the first assets subsequently available for the pur pose of dividend. 2dly, That the mortgagees, bond holders, and other creditors, shall accept such portion of the said shares as remain unissued in sathfsction of an equal amount of their claims. adly, That such of the said shares as have been already issued shall remain liable to be called up, in accordance with the resolu tions, upon the footing of which they were issued. And 4thly, That until the full dividend upon such preference shares shall have been punctually paid for two years in succession, and on any future occasion when such dividend shall fall below 5 per cent., and then again until it shall have been punctually paid for two years in succession, two-thirds of the board shall be nominated by the registered proprietor of such tharep, and the other third as heretofore; and at other times two-thirds of the directors shall be chosen as heretofore, and one.third by the new shareholiers.'' A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman and committee of bondholders, when the meeting , adjourned. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, SEPT. 18. Brocx ExcrtANGE.—The market was not so active to-day, and prices were rather depressed. The business transacted was confined to Great Westerns, which closed at 71...Ditt0, 17/. Shares, .5A dis.—Midland, 38. LI VElt POOL, SEPT. 13. Srocx EXCHANGE. —The share market was active to-day, and a considerable amount of business doing; prices, how ever, as compared with yesterday's q n o t at i ons, are easier. The transactions were as follow :—Bristol and Exeter, 17— Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 11 t —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 47 14—Ditto, Fifths, 8 1 4 dis.—Ditto, 321. Shares, 7J, dis. Le,ds and Thi rsk, It—Liverpool, Chester, and Stockport, :3 d is. —London and North-Western, 115—Ditto, New Quarters, 1 15-16 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 2 1 4 p. —Ditto, Quarters (C), 1 15-16 p.—Midland, 3914—Ditto, Halves, 23 146 dis.—North Union (II), 1 664—South. RustPrn nnrl Tlnvn« 10 a/ 7 - .1. _ Flour 'ot barley COAL MA UK ET.— YESTERDAY. 163 6 j a ...•..•••••''•• s 6 Dean's Primrose East Adairs Main l2s 9d Scarborough ........... w , West Hartley Wall's End, &c. Braddyll 16s Od Howden . .............. • . 161 U, d ilarton Original Gibson Lawson lis 90 South Hartlepool .••• • 1 5 9 0, Eden Main lss 3d. West Itelloe ...••••••' . 14i i Hetton 1-.2nlbton Russell's Hetton Ships at market, 72. ij E' AN UNDERTAIrrIt IN TR C H. I3 ,,,r l‘i On a certain day, in the early part of lagu ; $ about half-past seven o'clock in the nwr i e `, 4 %v'erf mourning coach, with a pair of horses ana,; r ved duly caparisoned for funeral rites, were ou e s'i o ug slowly wending their way withgreat solemnity 9 t he Marsh-lane, Burmantoft:, and g ß e ckett-stre et, t t :suce Leeds burial-ground. on arriving at th e er3 ;Oae dl to the unconsecrated portion of the bu ri9l4 W e ' the coach stopped until the gates were throW o b ` g el and then proceeded with due sulemnit to the: er sl doors. As no notice had been • y ed of ' ll , li hat at that untimely hour, no one was in attendanc- t du o the grave-digger, who quickly hastened to the spot, when something like the following -dialoguepriver place :—Grave Digger—Where'st mourners ? h door) —lnside. Grave Digger (opening the ad i t e ihe re'st —Not they, marry, there's no mourners. - Grace, coffin ? Driver—Why, it's there, isn't it bu t Digger—Nay thou's browt no coftin nor nowt e- „, here thee MD, thou great lumphead. What is ta 0 1 - o °o for at this time o' morning ? Driver—l dot' ore lf Grave Digger—Who sent thee ? [Driver 100k55 Grave perplexed and sorrowful, but says nothing] „ !Is b Digger—Where h as t o ' come f ro '? [Driver % % di?, nose, strokes hi s f ace , an d l oo k s as grav e as i s ua an ivy bush.] Grave Digger—Can't ta sPer h ' p oes9 [Driver wipes hi s eves an d hi s mou th, an". ` r --4° deep sigh, b u t rema i ns s i lent.] G rav e Digg er bi s ta daft ? [D r i ver t a k es off h i s hat an d scratel—Soar head, but makes no reply.] Grave Digger". t '0 on' thou's scratched the hPad wcel does ta fin d kmY it ? Driver—N ay . Grave Digger — T hel3 rthaDent advice —g o h ome , an d get to bed a bit, and ." - t e bee to time thou com es out, bring thee mother swi' t bea tak care on thee, will ta ? The man of turned his horses' heads, and left the ground; e a be btr, passing the entrance to the consecrated part or use o f rial ground he was again asked to explain the e 9 s uch his strange visit, but the man appeared to be i° s bie a state of sleepy or drunken stupidity as t o be - OW . to give any intelligible or satisfactory account uoil self; and the whole affair remained in m y s tel ed t he the following day, when the dread of exposar e „. o the sorroarna 00 driver to go to the grave-digger and ex Pligh t ' cause of his visit. He said he had been LIP al lj- Od that his employer had received an order top e a ! a hearse and several mourning coaches for afu ot her few miles distant ; that the hearse and tb # e h u t b e mourning coaches had started before him' o ur was behind his time, and had in a hurried Ilu t to d harnessed his horses. He then mounted the b 'd tbe started on his journey, and he fell fast asleep' atoned horses had then taken the road they were ael s o the to, and that when he awoke and found him'', boil' Leeds burial-ground he was so stupified an' b o he dered that, for a time, he couldnot remember vi s reei' was ordered to do. Surely this is a precio o or bea men of those who are hired to "mimic sorr °W the heart's not sad.”—Leeds ilercury. CAD VEETISEME N T.] —Bell's Life in i °1241°11.-- e ;:nt. Sunday, September 22..—Doncaster Week.—E v gp, 14 ' 41 } faithfully recorded.—Engraving of the Doncaster rice.° the usual Sporting and Domestic kliseellaaPn 11 ,, Li.l`,,,' 29,000. Belt's Life sa le of •-•e„ . , a rdisi Bell's Life Sixpence. Average weekly mornings, in time for all the early mails and railica) . I , o t o eol who is totally blind , cultivates A BLIND FLORIST .-- Mr. B. Welch, o f u i s ow n beautiful from hands, the the most po ints tu• : ° Ws different p t u b belish inferior , e aantd andfour rears,°c iv ' li c t i k s h: g : u i s b es qualities to astonished beholders. •"' s ` 1 lips, &c., are the admiration of connoisseurs. O r The ' Bristol Mirror mentions an electric Pibegnocoodi non, which was seen on Thusday night, near visible,K:il 8 1 1 ,,, The night was perfectly dark, not a star being e fi g to," all at once a ball of electric fire, apparently as lar t g i c lig h ; circumference of a hat, and as bright as fell from the heavens. It occupied several soc° l3 ' d betty descent, being only visible to the eye as it pas se of two masses of clouds in the south-eastern horizon. oes [ADVERTISEMENT:I —The most serious . C .,,, are Dropsy cured by Holloway's Pills.—The causes of ar° t P h ai f r e . e various, but it generally arises from an obstruction to _ . . d y tl . 3!i circulation of the blood through the system. To rer e i p ' t irili there is nothing so effective as Holloway's Pills , 8S I bv grad t . l l the elec i r s in l i the if perSe l4l ."_,...go i° ' the blood and strengthen the constitution, and ther e o 'd jo till ally diminish the collected fluid - and, the cure is complete, it is prevented from testi fy accumulati to the Many persons that have suffered from dropsy' ago of 1 re ' , efficacy of this medicine, especially females at the tur n .. , d i s ease: who are more rticularl predisposed to this invaiw u , t , OP Sold by all Druggists ; and at Professor flolloWskY blishment, 244, Strand, London. J/ BIRTHS. OF A SON. f 0 0 a le On the 15th inst., at Donnington, Sufaex, th e T ilf Rev. George F. Daniell. ~ .g r o ve, the On the 16th inst., at South-place, Camb erfren lady of David Young, Esq., , he wife e On the 12th inst., at the Rectory, Attleburgo, .- the Rev. Alfred Boyer Smith. On the 17th inst., the lady of C. Dering, ES ( I . OF A DAUGHTER. ~,ocater On the 9th inst., at Wyck Rissington Rector'' , t' - '' shire, the wife of the Rev. W. J. Deane.______----'' MARRIED. Esspst q O ae nhope nt. h p e n n f a . , n a t Speer, St . Mary's m.D nChurch,iy son of stun , 0 0 Maria, Cheltenham. second daughter of Augli T s itl i3 su r s i sc ti e s v ii si On the 16th inst , at Boulogne-sur-bler at the , 01,0 Consulate, and afterwards at the English' Church,,,°„ol,o Thompson, Esq. to Marianne, relict of the late Dr. ‘'" Taylor, A. On the 17th inst. at St. Saviour's Church, Charles tp. Dezille, Esq. to s ' abella Bruce, youngest daughter of Craib, Esq., ' late of Hampton-court palace. Gallow t a: e sh WED lee On / Williehnina, wife of . Walter Johnston , Esq, of Girroc b ' 14th inst ,at Rothesav , Isle of Bute, Catti er 0n the 15th inst. at Palston aged 16, Frances Marl , t he daughter of Mr. J. G. blander, of Albion-square. On the 16th inst., at Brighton , Je ssie Eliza, eldest &ugh' ter of E. S. Delamain, E q., aged 21. On the 13th ult., at New York, United S rnetates, Mrs. Malv ilii ou Dchez, daughter of the late James By, crescent, London. Esq., of Burton. London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO i No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TM Sun Offce , t% f Strand. in the Precinct of the Salo p in the " 1113-: ° - - a coca_ Ditto, Thir.lF, 6:fi—York, Newcastle, and Berw (Orig" 180 N. and H.). (G. N. E.), 6 ror cent. • 'lt'i 1. • D . - ! 6-c , / d P.)—Shrewsbury an IL, Shafes, 4 Oswestry and Chester, and G Div, 3.16 dm. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 13. STOEK EXCHANGE.—We have little change to notice IA this share market. O r l y a small b us i ness has been dole' and prices re ma i n w i t h out any material deviation , t he o transaction reported bring—South Staffordshire, 3/. 185. r,na. y dis.— Shropshire Union, 4 dis. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. d LIVERPOOL, SECT. 17.—The a rr i va ls of wheat fLiur being large, the better accounts from 114 "` Z .:, have had no influence on prices, which are just Kith a moderate request for both articles. Oats an oatmeal in moderate request at full rates. B eans :i o peas are the t urn dearer, and barley sad malt rather higher. Indian nrrn no change in value. tv ,, ad NEWCASTLE C O R N M ARK . T, 6BPT , 17. boo only a short supply o f new wheat at our aur a " - pa morning, the condition of which aas most and iu consequence, sold slowly; but for go nd.c°l) ld tioned samples we had a fair demand, and fine rE ci ,, sv a . t freely at 46i, weighing 63 lbs. per bushel. Old w' r e- og fully maintains its value, although the deman d is Tbe very animated. Flour sold steadily at full prices- s o demand for grinding barley is further improved' change in other articles. 17 The NEWCASTLE CATTLE M ARKET , S E PT. t-di' supply of be as t s a b out 30 more than !art mar- k- a 0 00 (la.:Jay Trade tolerably inactive, clearance at former rates. Sheep ard lambs In g oc a supply, but 1,000 less than last Tuesday. Tra de g e - li r. for both. Lambs a trifle lower. Sheep quite aa 6d Le Br tt,ts, 600; sheep and lambs, 8,000. Beef, 4 s mutton and larnP, 43 to sd. LEEDS, SEPT. 17.—From fifty to sixty sail et v` rain have arrived at Goole from the east coast with to with aood during the last few days, owing to which our rho .at day was considerable. The market exhibited g aff firmness, and there was a fair sale of the best ° ; l3 o ld new wheat, at Frid a y' s pr i ces; b ut f or t he tli`" „ ater es• qualities there ar e f ew b uyers, except a t low er 'd Barley was mor e i rqu i re d f or; as yet li t tle nel e ':,, a ito ing. Oats and shellinv, as well as beans, were as dear. fairy' DUBLIN, SEPT. 17.—Our market to-day . w— mei a supplied with new grain, and all descriptio ns c ief steady demand—wheat, oats, and here at the curt el. of Friday last, and barley at an advance of 63 Per e• Indian corn moved ff in retail without alteration M o t' c lo White wheat, old, 23s to 9 5* 63; red ditto, e1 d 0 ' . : 3 63; 245; wheat, new, 23: to 253 63; red ditto, 193 10 j c i per barley, I Is to 13s 33; bere, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; oats' 0 , 0 ; '0 93 barrel, Os 61 to 113 61; oats, new, per barrel, "„ r ,se' 63; rapeseed, 18s to 19s; oatmeal, 93 to lOs 63; " e " cond, per cwt, 13s to 16s; Indian corn, per 4801boi LO EDI29s Od. W 2s p ere :b: NBURGH MEAL MA RKET , SEFT. 17.—T here the meal market to-day 11 sacks oatmeal, each weighing sod so d imperial, whi c h so ld t h us :-1 at 1/ lOs Od, 1 at 119', 712tb% 9 at 119 s Cd ; average pr i ce of the whole 1 / 9 s 16 'b e rets '2 sacks flour, which sold a t 29 5 . 4 sac k s pat-barley , a' 2 sold thus :-1 at s, and lat 21s. 17•'. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, '-'`' -1 0 ; trOE? Oat straw, f rom O s Od to 8s 6d per kemple o f 16 stein,;"'s wheat ditto, bs Od to Os Od ; barley ditto, 65 tla Hay, from 83 to 10d per stone. re 6 Tbere scearket ; ' DALKEITH MEAL M ARKET , S EPT. 16, bags oatmeal, and .2 of barleymeal at this da)t w „, r bag' sales ready for oat mea l. O atmeal down on t h e top ou *- second price 3d per bag up. Third Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second 283 91 imperial 29s 9d 2 93 6.0 1 Barley meal, per ditto —s O I —s o d Peasemeal —s Od Od Od ••• —s Od —s Od 21 s Od Od WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING..--The Op, mail steamer Tay, Captain Chapman, has just arrived I here, bringing m a il s f rom J ama i ca, D emerara, Bar badces, Trinidad, and the Windward and Leeward Islands, but none from the Spanish Main or Pacific. The Tay has experienced head winds on the voyage home. She brings 16 passengers; and on freight 226 bags of pimento and sundry cargo. Specie, value 1,916 dollars; 191. gold dust; British corn, 6561.; silver, 6181.; and 1,114 francs. We have advices from Jamaica to the 27th ult. The first packet with the mails, under the new arrangement, reached Ki n g s t on on th e 24 t h , i n 22 days, from Southampton. The weather in the islands had entirely changed to abundant rains. Cotton cultivation was taken up vigorously. The island was healthy and quiet, with no politica' news. Sugar was in fair inquiry, at better prices. Pimento fetched 41. per lb. Logwood, 403. per ton for St. Domingo, and 30s. to 344. for Jamaica. Freights unchanged. Exchange on London—Jamaica Bank. 60 days, par ; Colonial Bank, 90 days, par ; 60 days, premium ; 30 days, 1 premium. In imports a fair amount of business had been done since the departure of the Crescent City on the 15th, at prices somewhat lower than those current at that date. We have Demerara papers to the 27th ult. The colony was quiet, with showery weather, favourable for sugar making. The Court of Policy, after pass ing the Emigration Bills, had adjourned till the 13th September. The Trinidad journals contain no news. Some arrivals of African emigrants had taken place. Sugar was quoted 3 dollars per 1001 b.; cocoa, 6 dollars per 1001 b. ; coffee very scarce. Exchange on London—Colonial Bank, 30 days, 488 dolls. ; 90 days, 484 dolls. ; private bills, 90 days, 480 dolls. In Antigua the Legislature has voted 3,0001. to encourage the introduction of Portuguese emigrants. In Montserrat several estates had been sold at ruinous prices. A severe gale visited Barbadoes on the 16th cf August - , and did some damage to property in the in. terior of the island. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The following is the official report presented ;o the Holstein Chamber of General Willisen's re cent unsuccessful attempts to force the Danish lines on the Schlei : "The day before yesterday (the 12th) a division of our army undertook a reconnoisance against the left wing of the enemy, by which the object proposed in the movement was fully attained. " The left of the enemy's position, who held Elo chendorff and Osterbye and the vicinity, as well as Eckernforde and Fleckerbyc, with a force of about 6,000 Mere was attacked by our avant-garde and our first brigade, and driven across the Schlei at Missunde. The enemy, by this movement, abandoned all their field works in front of Eckernforde and near Holm and Missunde, and retired across the bridge at the latter puiat with precipitation, and not without consider able loss. Here a conflict began in the afternoon by a heavy fire of artillery from both banks of the Schlei, which continued till six o'clock. The enemy, late in the afternoon, brought out a strong force of artillery on the north bank opposite Missunde, from whence they could command the whole of the ground on the south of the passage (the Holstein position). As it was not the intention of the General to force the pas sage of the Schlei at this point, towards evening he ordered the tiring to cease, and withdrew the troops to Osterbye and Humenelfeldt. The Danish garrison of Eekernforde had retired to the n o rth without makin g an y resistance. Our troops, who had advanced to the Borbyer Mid, were not allowed to take possession of the place, in order not to expose it to a bombardment from the water. Only a few patrols were sent through the town, by whom many of our soldiers who had been lying in hospital there were liberated. Yet, notwithstanding the town was not taken, the enemy with useless cruelty fired on many of the houses. The Gebion frigate, held by Prussian troops, was also fired on, and a timber-yard in its immediate vicinity was set on fire. " All the troops that were engaged in the operations have won the approval of the General. All the huts, field-works, arid block- houses of the Danes south of Missunde are destroyed ; about 50 prisoners have fallen into our hands. " The town of Eckernforde, which is commanded by the Danish ships in the harbour, was yesterday again in the possession cf the enemy. . " Of our loss in killed and wounded, which appears to have been not in s i gn ifi cant, no official list has yet been published. We hav e l ost no prisoners. The loss of the enemy is, according to the estimate of the General, much greater than our own. " The army has gained fresh con fid ence in its strength, and eagerly anticipates a renewal of the conflict." ITAL Y. The Conscrvatore costituzionale of Florence quotes letters from Rome of the 9th, from which it appears that th organic laws foun&d upon the lonic proprio of September are to be published on the 20th roar. at the latest. Tile same correspondence says that Chevalier Pinelli had a private audience of the Pope on the 6th, but that his reception was very cool. It adds, however, that when Signor Pinelli was about to leave Rome, despairing of being received i❑ his official character, he received from his Holiness an invitation to defer his departure. The Commune ltallano of Milan, of the 13th, on the contrary, says that Signor Pinelli is on his way back to Turin. The Concordia of Turin of the 12th states, on the faith of a traveller from Verona, that at a late ma rceuvre executed by the troops cf the camp near that city, the Croats, whether from mistake or otherwise, fired with ball upon the officers of their staff, and a captain of engineers. The Opinione also mentions the fact. The King of Naples has ordered his Court to go into mourning for two months on account of the death of Louis Philippe. The Court of Florence has gone into mourning for a fortnight for the nine reason. Victoria Theatre. He had three months' irnpr-s)n nlis.,nt for that offence. On the 3'l of Alßrch, 1846, he • . ~,„•. POLICE IN i'----ELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. Smith and Savage, mere lads, were brought before Alderman Gibbs charged under these circumstances : Mr. S. H. Day, wine -merchant, of 21, Pudding lane, Eastcheap, said, on Tuesday week I received the order produced (in the _French language) for six dozen bottles of champagne. It purports to be signed " P. Nind," and was put into my hands by the pri soner Smith. In consequence of information which I received, I detained him until a constable privately arrived, and then I delivered one case containing three dozen of champagne to him. The prisoner Savage, who was outside waiting with a truce - when Smith went out, assisted in putting the case into the truck, which they then bosh draw away. When Smith gave me the order I asked him where he came from, and he said from Leicester-square. Mr. Philip Nind, cf the Sabloniere Hotel, Leices ter-square, said the order produced is not in my hand writing, nor was it written by my direction or sanc tion. I know nothing of the prisoners. Mr. F. de Yrigyli, clerk to Messrs. Louis Marie Canneaux and Son, wine -merchants, Coleman-street, seid, on the 31 of September, a young man, whom I cannot identify, brought to me the order produced (also in the French language) for one case of cham pagne. The order purported to be signed by Mr. Nind, who had been a customer of the house, alai I, -believing it to be genuine, gave directions that the wine shou'd be delivered. Mr. E. Canneaux—l was in the counting-house when the order was brought by Smith, and when the case was packed it was delivered to him, arid he signed the receipt produced in the name of " Henry Car nell." The champagne was taken outside to a truck which was in the care of a young man whom I be lieve to be the prisoner Savage, and I saw them go away together. Mr. Nind stated that the order produced by the last witness was also a forgery. Mr. G. J. Booly, clerk to Mr. P. Scott, wine-mer chant, in St. Swithin's-lane—O n the 22d of last August, a young man brought to me the order pro duced for one six-dozen case of champagne, but as it was not sufficiently- explicit es to the quality and colour, and we had to pay the duty on the wine, he was told to send again next day, and accordingly, on the following day, the prisoner brought the wine and a paper, stating the particulars, and he received the wine and gave me the receipt produced, purporting to be signed by Mr. Verrey, of 229, It:Tent-street. Mr. Louis Verrey, who is in partnership with his brother, said—The order produced was not signed by my brother or by me, nor was the other paper, pro duced by the officer. If any wine had been required for the use of the establishment, I must have known it. I know nothing of the prisoners. Ratcliffe, 375—0 n the morning of the 22nd of August, I was on duty in St. Paul's-churchyard, and I saw the prisoner Smith, and a man named Thoth, drawing a truck containing a case of champagne. I went close to the truck, and Smith turned round and saw me, and ran off with another man, who was on the pavement. I followed them and lost them both. Another man took hold of the truck then and went off with Beoth. I followed the truck and stopped it, and it has been returned to Mr. Scott with the wine. J. Calcott, coal-dealer, of Tower-street, proved that he had lent the truck to Smith on the 22nd of August. llvde, 516, who had been sent for to watch and take into custody the prisoners, stated that he fol lowed them from the premises of Mr. Day, and ap prehended them as they were dragging the truck containing the case of champagne. Alderman GIBBS asked the prisoners whether they wished to make any answer to the charge ? Smith—No ; none from me. Savage—l know nothing of anything wrong, but was asked by Smith to help him draw the trunk, and I did so, when the officer took me into custody.- Committed for trial. SOUTHIVARK. Elizabeth Guilday, a respectable-looking woman, setween 30 and 40 years of age, with an infant in her arms, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, charged with bigamy. The circumstances attending the alleged offence are of a singular description. It appeared that the pri soner's first husband, to whom she was married in June, 1935, was shortly afterwards apprehended on a charge of felony, tried, and convicted of the offence, and sentenced to transportation for seven years. lie remained, however, on board the hulks for some time in this country, during which period he had oppor tunities of communicating with his wife, the pri soner, but he was ultimately sent out, with other convicts, to Sydney, where he remained until the ex piration of his sentence, and when he returned to this country he sought out his wife, and found that she had married another man, named Fletcher, with whom she was then living, and by whom she had some children. She, upon that occasion, did not attempt to screen herself from the consequences of the act she committed, and rested her defence, first, on her having contracted a mar riage with a man of bad character, through whose profligacy and misconduct she had suffered severely, and, secondly, not having heard of him or from him during the period of his transportation, she considered he was dead, and that, therefore, she was justified by law in availing herself of an offer of marriage made to her by a respectable man, who was informed of all the circumstances attending her first unfortunate union with the complainant. The latter, finding that the prisoner was still determined on remaining under the roof of the second husband (Fletcher), had her apprehended, and adopted the present , proceedings against her_ The necessary evidence to establish the second mar riage, as well as the first having been adduced, the prisoner, by the advice of Mr. Dancornbe, her solici tor, declined saying anything at present on the sub ject of the charge. She, however, complained to the magistrate that she sent her daughter, a girl cf twelve years of age, to see the complainant (her father) eleven weeks ago, and that he did not suffer her to return. She now wished to know if the girl could be kept forcibly away from her ? Mr. NORTON told her that if the girl was the daughter by the first husband he was entitled by law to keep her. The complainant here stepped into the witness box, and addressing the magistrate, said the morals of his daughter would be preserved, as she was living with him and his mother, and that was the reason he prevented her from returning to the abode of a mother who had disgraced herself by forming a matrimonial alliance with a man while her own hus band was living. Air. NORTON remarked that he could not well dis tinguish the reasons that induced the 'complainant to adopt the present proceedings. The complainant said that he was convinced the prisoner must have known all along that he was still in existence at the time she wished it to be believed that lie was dead. That he had written letters to her from Sydney and Launceston, where he acted in the capacity of constable soom after his arrival, owing to his good conduct. That he was certain his communi cations had come to hand, but if she had any cloub':s about him, she could easily have ascertained by an application at the convict establishment. He added, that he had suffered according to the laws of his country ; that it was not he was but what he is at present, and that his character since he had retrieved it, he was proud to say, would bear investigation. The pri,oner was committed, but the magistrate accepted bail for her appearance to answer the charge at the sessions. Sureties to the amount la quired were tendered immediately, and the prisoner left the court with a number of her friends, who appeared to take a deep interest in the proceedings. GREENWICH. William Cuss en , aged 31, a police-constablp, N o . 142, of the R division, stationed at the dock and vic tualling-yards, Deptford, was brought up and placed in the dock, before Mr. Seeker, by hir. Inspec:or M'Gill, charged with assaulting Jana Robertson, aged 18 years, a married woman, and wife of Gunner Hector Robertson, belonging to the Bth battalion of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich. The prosecutrix, a neatly-dressed young woman, of very modest and pleasing demeanour, stated that she went to the dockyard station to report the prisoner's disgraceful conduct on Tuesd a y, abut three o ' clock. She left Woolwich, bringing a letter from her hus band to police-constable &Afore], of th e d oc k yard police. She left by the 'Woolwich train at twelve o'clock, and got out at Deptford station, New Cross road, where she saw a policeman (the pri:oner) walking over the bridge, of whom she in quired the way to the Deptford dockyard, and told him that she wanted to see police constable Setford. The prisoner told her that Setford „ 11 , ; twelve munths prey ous;y he .1,.d had ix weeks' imprisonment, also for picking pock . lie was the regular companion, too, of eunvict,:d thieves, as well as of his own corps of the swell-mob. The prisoner again exclaimed that urgent distrsss had driven him to this theft. He was hot a thief on Another policeman then stood up in the witness box, and said that to his knowledge the prisoner had, for a considerable time, been the associate of thieves. He was one of the " mobsmen" who plied his voca tion with great success in omnibuses. lie was very well known in the City districts. The prisoner, whilst these characters were being given of him, held up his hands in silent surprise. The Learned CHAIRMAN said he had heard quite sufficient to satisfy him that the prisoner was a titter subject for a residence abroad than in this country. The sentence upon him, therefore, was transportation for seven years beyond the seas. The prisoner again held up his arms in astonish ment in true Maw worm style.