The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-11 00:00:00

BANK RET URNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) AD Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, sap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of •the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 29th PR day ol December, 1849:—. Average IVATE B ANKS. Am oun Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 12,733 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 8,885 Aylshaca Bank, Aylaham—R. and G Copeman 4,416 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Riokford and Blldeck Bank and Baldock and Biggleswadc Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, anal Lindsell... 27,018 Barn3taple Bank, Barnstaple— girs hall and Co 9,130 Basingstoke and Odihana Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb , and Co, Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Banz, Bedford — Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Balwdley—Nichols, Baker, and 5,570 12,607 Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Rank, Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwocis, ... Spooner, and Co ........................... ...• 22,541 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham -4. L. Moilliett, and Sons ............. •••• 11,380 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak. 6,966 Boston. Bank, Boston—Garfit and C 0..... ...... 53,585 Boston sank, Boston—Gee and Co. Bridg;r3ter Bank, Bride,-water —J. Sc J. Seale) , 5 , 321 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 35,866 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messr Pritchard 20,0J2 Backina-ham Bank, Buckingham Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. &try and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Markat Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 64.651 Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and , Tawney. 27,281 Banbury Old. Ba.nk, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 29,1 1 .1 Baer. City Bank, Bath—Mogar and Son Bedford shire Leighton Buzzard Bank;Leighton BUZZard—Basiett and Grant 31,823 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. awl W. M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 6 1 ,339 Bridport B ink, ,Bridplrt —S. an IW. E. Gawky Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borger 29,111 Eharlington and Dritfield Bank, Burlington -Harding Smith, and Co Bury St. Flnunds Bulk, Bury St. Edmands— . Worliedge and Co. Bromagrove Bank and Stourbridge. awl 13roms grove 13 ink, 3rornsgrove—Ralford, Biggs, 'and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge —Mortiock and Sons Cambridge ar.d Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridg !(essrs. Forster 3 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and -Co - Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen.—Morris and Sons Chertsey Chertaey —Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham awl Essex Bank, an I Halleigh Bank, StiTolk, Colchester --M ill 3, Bavytre.e, and Co I..;orn'.sh Bank, 'Truro —Tweedy and Co Covent-ry Bank, Coventry—Little awl Wood- City ihnk, Exetf!r—Ailflrl anal Co Craven Bank, Settle—ilirkbeaks and Christchurch Banl,c, Chrlitah!irch--Tir.!e, Welsh, and Co., Car CArdlti—Towzlryl an -1 Co Chepitco, Old Bank, C! - K , Ritow B Ink, Mon mouth Obi Bank, Monrncuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Rosa and Herefordshire Bank, Chepitow—Brxna7,e. Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Dcrby—Meisrs. Evans Derby Bank, Dorhy—Sualz,h and Co. Derby Ole B tnk and Scared ile and nig% Peak Bank, DA.bv—Crocnoton, Newton, and C 0..., Devises and Wiltshire Bank, Devize.;—Hughes Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss —Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tex. and Co. Dowiaster Bank and Itetford Bank, Doncaster Cook awl Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Baekhousn, & Co Dcvonport Bank, Devonport—liodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster %el C ) East Hiding Blnk, Beverley—Boxer, Hall, and Cn. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chebniford —Sparrow, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenhana _Bank, Fakenhana—Gurneys, Birk- beck. and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Waatage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs.. Knight...-. Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and CN GOdairning Bank, Godalming—Wlersh and !I'l Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King luildford Banic, Guildford--Messrs. Hay-don.- Grantham Bank, Grantham —Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hihler, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Banit, liertford—S. and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-npon-hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting ' dun--Rust and Veasey fin.rwieh Bank, Harwieh—Cox,Cobbold,and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Henapitead— Sm'ah, and Whittingstall ...... tioniton Bank, lioniton —Flood and Co. ilertfor ishire, aitehen Bank, Hitelen—Sharpl es and C 0....,... ..... 17erofsr3,11oss, and Archenfield Bank, an.l Ross and ArOienfiel,l Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, anal Co -s Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hafileigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders mil Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kinc„rton and - Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J • Davie 3 and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co Knareshorongh Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna 9,sborott, , r,h —Terry and Co Kendal Bank, `kmlal—Wakefiel(l, Crewdson, 17,157 10,496 '"),3‘35 10,826 38,552 25.792 14,354 2,616 11,352 31 994 33,434 5,729 17,052 69,307 6,415 7.100 10.789 34,143 22,394 9,25t1 10,035 50,302 53,365 9,793 39,342 98,030 44,298 41,517 55,810 anci C. Kettering Bank, Kettering—(lot...'n and Sons., Lqtr? End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. I.larvq ant Son Leciet Bank. Leeds—Beckett aml Co Leeas r nion sank, Leeds—W.W iilia.ns, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Con Ly,leton Bank,Leek —Fowler, G t, and Co. Loi".cster Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... Lewes 01 , 1 Bank, Lewes—Molineux. and C 0.... L;,:hOchl Bank, Lichfield —Palmer and Green... Linc,.oin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton3 and Craclock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst 19,648 3,823 10,483 5,333 4,345 7.914 23,300 24,532 12.720 18,950 17,161 37,390 4,195 19,787 31,576 17.175 20,144 60,069 15,159 21,024 6,896 15,276 34,896 8.197 5,344 52,045 33,352 24,796 24,091 17,0►;3 73,830 18,589 6,351 3,236 S 1,701 11,645 13,385 4,358 and Co Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and flungerford Bank, and flungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillict 7,376 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Wi11iam5........ Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 11,442 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergarenny—Baileys and Co 23,371 Monmouth 01(1 Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow B tnk, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead ........ . Monnionthhire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons. 8,718 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Ifutton 23,669 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S leaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—B unny and Slicock 18,716 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket Eaton, Tram mond. and Son Diss—Taylor and k and Suffolk Bank, Norfol Dyson ........................... . Norwich Crown Bank, ..... .... .. ant lludsons .......... ........................... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Cur. 47 ' 333 neys and Birkbeek Nottingham and N ottin g ha mshire Bank, Not- ;° tingham—lart, Fellows, and Co 6,478 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 12,944 10,789 60,598 ) .................................................... 3 , 5 i 8 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and - 0.. .................................................. New St.rurn Bank, Sarum Everett, and .... .. th .... 261.96665- 4 and Oiwestry Old Bank, O s . ' 2 - 1,622 and Co ........ 11,646 rd—J. and R. Morrell 8,276 Dxfor.l—Tt ,, bin 3 on, Par3ons, • C 4; TWZ:(ll.llcelleii eni 31 ' (184 Ci e : - .ol+l -gal* TOnbridge and Tonbrid;e •Z • Witlts.ol4l rAn , Tonbridze and Ton'oridg' Wells and S;',vanoalzi Tonbridg , B(ce Ifl lrl SOL 13•••• Oxfordshire Witney Witney— Clinch, 7,619 and Co •••, “ 8,115 Average Amoun t Pease s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 36,337 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0... 10,466 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—lciPrirs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White lB5 Pernorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 24,276 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,943 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-- Ledgard and Sons .... ' 8,592 Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds and Co 5,078 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,987 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 11,657 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12,428 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. 7,936 Ross Gld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Alle—ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden--Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank,!3carborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury Oit Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh re wsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittibourne an,i Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,058 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddisnn and Pearce 11,690 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and C 0... .. 12,614 St. Alban's Rank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story — Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie —. Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and _ King - .. ... .. Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,695 Stourbridg© Banc, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 9,099 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Cc 12,001 Stamford and Rutllnd Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. • 26,099 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 20,084 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart ... — Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 20,198 Tavistock Dank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 7,780 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 8,288 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland lO,lOO Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son To7reester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Pereira' Uaion Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and . Co. B,OBO Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt , &Co 6,269 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 36,272 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap- .... ...... man, and Co Winchester, Alrosford, and Alton Bank, Win- 12,794 chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 3,670 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Banl!:, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkeiworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesrtorth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wivelisctzehe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake.. 13,835 Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, -• • • •• and Co. 8,286 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 66,376 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turnnr Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,353 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 39,469 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford. Banking Company, Bradford 47,147 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad _ _ . ford •••• •••• — 19,965 Burton, ,Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield .. 8,053 Cumberland Union Milking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Coin- __ _ paay, Cheltenham _ 9,100 Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,281 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,582 Dudley and West Bromwich ranking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,008 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington l3 170 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 118,653 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax . 17,652 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 37,896 Hull Banking Company, Hull. 20,800 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha- lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com- pany, Halifax 32,025 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,388 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 15,132 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,702 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ~ 45,415 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 41,605 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,780 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,390 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 1,637 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham .... ' . 39,630 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton.. 60,620 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 25,415 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,715 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35.344 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 48,310 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshiro Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Sto.urbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallainshire Banking Company, Sheffield . . . .. Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sh-flic?(1 . . . . 5 4 0 2 ,0 3:1 4 0 Swaledale an d Wensle y dale Bankin g Com p an y , Ri c hmond ... Thomas's Banking Company . Storey shat. t e s a b nd ur y 9 ,781 I ' 'Dm- 34,460 Sheffield ha a m n p d to ß n e a t,f , e i, r i r s l l 3 a a ir n J l r c d , pang, Wol verhamp i.,-on sShiliert:Beladnk:.l;o•C Wakefield and Barnsley' Union Rank, Wakefield 10,425 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven ........ Warwick and Leziniii.gton Banking Company, Warwick . :25,354 West of England and South Wales District Ilank.Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 64,370 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch ........................................ 3,353 Worcester City and Co unty Banking Company, Worcester... . York Union Banking Company, , York 52,544 1 York City and County B an k ing C ornpany, Y or k 84 , 267 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Regi s t rar o f B an k Returns. 1 Inland Revenuo,Somerset House, Jan. 5, 1850. THE SO N, LONJfN, SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the offices, 61, Moorgate street, Mr. W. P. Richards in the chair. About twenty proprietors were present at the appointed hour. The CHAIRMAN read the report, which waa very voluminous. its most important and interesting fea tures will be found below : " The report presented to the general meeting, held in July, informed the proprietors of the insufficiency and the unremunerating character of the traffic as carried on the line at that time; it also stated some of the causes to which the former was to be attributed, and showed how injuriously the new tariff, reluctantly accepted by the company, operated upon the other; at the same time the directors stated that they had given notice of their inten tion to require a modification of the tariff at the proper time, and expressed their confidence in the justice of the Belgian Government making such fresh ar rangements as would approach nearer the spirit of the original compact. They have much pleasure in stating that they have not been deceived in their ex pectation made by the President to the committee of proprietors on his return from Belgium, on a mission undertaken with the intention, of discussing the subject with the Minister of Public Works. From that state ment it will appear that Mr. Sheward, the resident director of this company in Belgium, is fully persuaded that the tariff, as at present modified, will enable him to work the line with a small amount of profit; after meet ing every outgoing, if the strictest economy is practised eat the present diminished traffic is maintained. " The measure of economy in removing the siege of the company from a hired office in Brussels to their own premises at Jardinet, as authorised nt the last general meeting, has been carried out, the directors are much indebted to the Minister of Public Works for his valuable assistance in promoting this new arrangement. " The directors, in their last report, expressed their regret that they had not succeeded in making any arrangement with the contractors, with whom the y had several matters in dispute, and lamented that the conciliatory spirit with which they wore then disposed to terminate those disagreements had not been met by a corresponding feeling; they have now to state, that a proposition has been under discus sion for some time and agreed to by the contractors, whilst the directors have declined to accede to it, with out the authority of the proprietors at a general meet ing, as the present position of the company, and of the directors more especially, makes it desirable that the opinion of the shareholders should sanction an action of so much importance. The contractors claim the right, under their contract, to ccmplete the whole line from Marchiennes to Vi reux, at prices and with advantages which, under al'ered circumstances, are considerably more beneficial to them than would be granted if a new contract were to be formed. The contractors undertook this large work without adequate means, and increased their liabilities by purchasing the works at Thy le Cha• teau and some mines, intending to make them subsidiary to thcir operations on the railway. At a critical period the pecuniary accommodation which had supported them was suddenly withdrawn; as a consequence the works of the railway must have • stopped at a time when every one was most anxious to have them com pleted. To obviate this serious evil, it was then con sidered, the directors consented to advance a con siderable sum of money, to be repaid as the works proceeded, on eecerity which was carefuPy inquired into and its value duly vouched for by the Belgian solicitor of the company and their agent at Brussels. It turns out that the security is such, that it is impossible to realise it in the present depressed s'ate of affairs in Belgium. The regular continuation of the railway would have given the contractors advantages and pot sialy enabled them to fulfil their engagements; that, however, is problematical, whilst it is most undesirable t continue any connexion with embarrassed contractors, at higher P rices than present circumstances would justify in ti new engagement. " It is unnec ssery to enumerate the various securities a Lich were given to the company by the contractors, or the circumstances which have rendered them of little or no value; excepting as regards 2,240 shares of this com pany, on which has been paid about 161. each as calls, but which at present are of no value, the subsequent calls being in arrear. The legality of the contractors' claims is contestable, but to litigate it wou'd involve the company in much inconvenience, end interfere with any plan for forwarding the works on the second section of the line; on the other hand, it is obviously the interest of the contractors to free their securities from the claims of the company, in order to a more speedy settlement of their afFairs with others. It bas, there fore, been proposed that the contractors should abandan all claims they may possess under the contract, and all other claims of every description, and also to abandon 1,000 of their shares to the company. The company, on the other hand, is to give up all pecuniary claims on the contractors, to surrender all the securities they hold, and the remainder of the shares, to the extept of 1,240, as if paid in full. The directors, on behalf of the com pany, claim from 20,000 L to 24,0004 as due from the contractors. A substantive resolution will be offered to your consideration on this subject. "Referring once more to the report of July, the con siileration of the means of completing the line to Vireux cannot be much longer deferred, the Belgian Govern ment is anxious abeut a e ork so imp ltant in its imme diate effect on the labouring population of the district, and the ultimate benefit it will confer on the mining in terests, and many circumstances not peculiar to this company help to complicate the difficulties of raising ad ditional capital, and the directors cannot disguise the fact, that without the assistance of the Belgian Govern ' ment much time will elapse before this can be effected. " Already, eighty thousand pounds have been ex pended on the second section of the line. It is confi de. ntly asserted by the engineer that a further sum of one hundred and sixty thousand pounds will suffice to open the main line to Vireux, if certain alterations in the original plan are allowed to be made; but it will be pru dent to assume this sum at two hundred thousand pounds. "In order to give some approximate estimate of the receipts on the line when open to Vireux, there is ap pended to this report a - reprint of the summary of traffic, as stated in Mr. Sopwith's original report made in 1844. The amount of the figures is 56,0001. If the present traffic is estimated at 10,0001., the gross receipts will amount to 66,000/. The working expenses, at a slow rate of speed, need not exceed 18,0004 to 20,0001, per annum, when compared with the outgoings of the first section, leaving an ample margin to secure the pay ment of interest on, two hundred thousand pounds, sup posing any dependence can be placed on the inquiries and estimated traffic of Mr. Sopwith. " The benefit to an important portion of Belgium, to be derived from this railway, will be very great, and the income sufficient to destroy all risk; it is, therefore, that the directors are not without hope that the shareholders and other capitalists of this country may be induced to provide the necessary . funds, and that the Belgian Go vernment will guarantee a minimum rate of interest to protect them from all uncertainty of fair remuneration, with the chance of great profits." A lengthy report from Mr. Sheward, the resident director of the line, dated !coin Jardinet, Jan. 2, 1850, which dealt with the matters alluded to and explained in the official report of the directors, was then read. The following is an abstract of the accounts : " Share Capital Account —Sept. 30, 1849—T0 amount of calls made at 201. per share on 31,000 shares, 620,0001.; by amount of calls received, 613,5201.; by ditto, on shares reserved for the contractors, 6,480/. " Construction and Traffic Account Receipts, 654,426/. 15s. 9d.; expenditure, 619 8361. 3s. sci.; by balance, viz., amount deposited with the French Govern ment, 2,000/, ditto, advanced to the contractors, 30,1421. 83. 10d., ditto, of cash, 2,4501. 3s. 61.-34,592/. 123. 41.; total, 654,4281. 153. f d . " Approximate Statement—To the 31st Dec., 1849- 11,?ceipts, 38,230/. Os. 5d.; Expenditure, 4,485/. 2s. ld, ; by balance, viz., amount with the French Government, 2,0001., ditto, contractors, 30,142/. Bs. 10d., ditto, by cash, 1,602/. 9s. 61; total, 38,23u1 Os. sd. " Debts, 4,224/.,165. 10J.; available—cash, 1,602/. 9s. 61, sums due, 1,6121. 9s. 10d. " The passenger and goods traffic during the year had amounted to 7,6301. ss. 7d. from Jan. to Dec., 1849." The CHAIRMAN addressed the proprietors, and said he liked their present position better than when he left Brussels, whence he had gone to assist Mr. Sheward in promoting a suitable arrangement with the Belgi.ui Government ; and they were much indebted to the Belgian Minister of Public Works, who had given up his favourite plan of an universal railway tariff, in order that he might not break faith with the company. Two important questions were submitted to their consideration in the report, viz , the settlement of the claims of the contractors, and the creation of new capital in order to carry on the line to Vireux. These were matters which the directors left entirely to the decision of the proprietors. Unless they carried the line to Vireux, they could not expect any remuneration for the capital they had invested in the undertaking. His own opinion was that they should unquestionably do so.—(Hear.) They would thus complete their original line, and carry coals and other minerals into France. There were difficul ties in the way of raising additional capital, because their present position was by no means favourable to that view, though by no means unpromising. Tie Belgian Government had done much to disgust and damp English speculation. Belgium acted rather on the principle of compulsion than of conciliation or kindness.—(liear, hear) Now, he considered that it was to the interest of the Belgian Government to lend a helping hand to the completion of the line, by guaranteeing 5 per cent. on the c:lpital, provided they were enabled to raise it. After some farther remarks, the CHAIRMAN moved th 3 adoption of the report and accounts. A. SHAREHOLDER blamed the directors for taking the useless security they had from the contractors, and was altogether opposed to giving them a number of shares, which, even at their depreciated price, would realise a considerable sum, and moved that the • report be adopted, with the exception of the paragraph relating to the giving of 1.240 shares to the contrac nd the proposed arrangement with them. After considerable discussion the report was adopted with the exception of the paragraph re ferred to. A motion was then passed empowering the direc t-Ts to come to terms v ith the contractors in accord ance with the rules of their original contract, with the view to its determination. It appeared that until this was done they could not enter into a new con tract. A SHAREHOLDER mowed that the contractors be not allowed to have the 1,240 shares. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY' 11, 1850 Mr. SHEWARD said the question he had to consider in the negotiations be had been engaged in was the best terms he could get ; that was the question to which he was reduced. Could he have got better he would have done so. Unless they entered into the pro posed arrangement they would lo.e 30,0001., which was an important consideration.—(Hear, hear.) Besides, unless they proceeded with their line, their property was liable to confiscation, and if time were lost they would not be able to come to terms with the Government of Belgium during the present session of the representatives. Unless they adopted the proposed arrangement they might get out of the frying pan into the fire. At any rate, let the whole responsibility of accepting or negativing the proposi tion rest with the proprietors and not with bins. If rejected, he would as their servant endeavour to obtain better terms.—(Hear) The contractor, though in solvent, could sell his contract to others. Mr. BURKE opposed the proposed' arrangement, on the ground that they would lose 2.5,000/., and that it would be better fir Mr. Sheward to proceed with his negotiations, as he believed he mi g ht o bt a i n b e tt er terms than hose he had obtained. 111. GIIEDALLA supported the proposed arrange ment, and considered that the proprietors were per f-ctly safe in the hands of the directors. At length the amendment was agreed to, power was given to raise 200,0001. to complete the line, and a vote of thanks having been awarded to the directors, the meeting adjourned. ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHILDREN. A quarterly general Court of this institution was held yesterday at the School house, Westminster-road, to place approved candidates on the list for the elec tion in April, and for other business. W. F. Beadon, Esq., presided. This is one of those excellent educational institu tions abounding in the metropolis, in which the original intentions of the founder have not been departed from, but have been carried out in a manner the most praiseworthy. Tne charity was established in 1788, by Chevalier Ruspini, whose portrait graces one of the rooms, for the purpose of maintaining, clothing, end educating female children, daughters of brethren belonging to the ancient and honourable society of Free and Accepted Masons, who, from affluent or prosperous circumstances, have become so reduced as to require its aid, and for protecting and preserving them from the dangers and misfortunes to which distressed young females are peculiarly exposed. Although it is supported entirely by voluntary contributions, no less than Gl6 children have been admitted into the school since its foundation, the report stating "most ( f these have been returned to their ffiend%, some have been apprenticed or pro vided with situations, and all have become good and useful members of society"—a most sati,ftctory an nouncement, which redounds greatly to the honour and us- fulness of the ancient and distinguished fraternity of Freemasons. The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed, and th e accounts, which swed that the funds were in a flourishing and satisfactory state, having been passed, the Scretary intimated the de cease of Louis Hayes Petit, Esq., one of the vice presiden4, and a most active member of the charity. Mr. Beadon was unanimously elected to fill up the vacancy occasioned by his death. There were four vacancies for children in the school, and only six candidates, who were all approved of by the meeting, and allowed to stand for the next election. B f,re breaking up several of the subscribers visited the children, who were arranged in the school room, and presented a picture of health and neatness such as any institution might be proud of. Although n me were above sixteen, the penmanship would have startled the most experienced caligraphist, and the needlework of others excelled the best efforts of clever matrons, whilst their general education seemed to be of a kind most useful to them in the sphere of life in which they are most likely to move. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, Jun. 10. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) PHELPS V CAMPBELL—GETTING UP A COMPANY. This was an action to recover the sum of 51. for money lent under the following circumstances. D,lendant pleaded that he was not indebted. Mr. HAWKINS stated the case. The facts were these —in 1847 defendant, who held a - cheque drawn by a Mr. Ford, applied to plaintiff, through a Mr. Tapson, to cash it, but on the understanding that it was not to b pre scnted for a week, as Mr. Ford would not be pre rat., d. The cheque was sent down to plaintiff, who is s solicitor at Newport, and the cash returned in due courze; but some time afterwards plaintiff received a com munication that the cheque had been irregularly drawn, as Ford had no assets in rho hands of the bankers who were the bankers of a company to which he was secre tary, and requesting that the cheque might be changed for ono on Ford's bankers; this was complied with, but the cheque was dishonoured. lle (Mr. Hawkins) con ceived that the defence would be, that there were cash trans.ctionVbetween plaintiff and Tapson, and that this chcve formed part of the account; but it was difficult to see how that could affect the present case. Mr. Tapson wits called and proved the facts as stated. In cross-examination witness was asked whether Mr. Phelps had not been promised to be appointed solicitor to the company? Mr. Hewslies objected to the question, but The Learned UNDER SHERIFF said it could not be known wilat the result might be iu cross-examination. Witness denied all knowledge of any promise. Defendant's Solicitor then objected that as the money had been advanced solely on the security of the cheque, therefore the presentation of the cheque must be proved the same - as on a bill of exchange. The Learned UNDER- SHERIFF said this was a mere question of money lent; if the cheque had been declared on then the presentation must be proved. He should therefore allow the case to go to the jury. The defendant's solicitor then addressed the jury to show that all the parties had been engaged in getting up a company for the navigation of the River Abbersley, North America, and that the money had been advanced to Tapson and not to defendant. The jury, however, gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. e:otß of Z. they T h ß e D N E t o tg. (More Mr. Justice PATT ESON and M r. Just i ce TALTOURD.) THE TRIAL Kd (C ntinued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) in Thomas hamdiire police. In consequence of information ne rO F p DRAKErint endn received from Constable Smith, I Went to North Leverton, and saw the box opened. I afterwards came to London, and went with one of the metropolitan police to No. 33, Uarley-street, where we saw the prisoner in the housekeeper's room. I asked her if she was Sarah Drake. She said yes. I said "From Notting hamshire?' She said yes. I then said I had to apprehend her on a charge of murdering her child, Lewis Drake. Sho said, " llow do you know that?" I said a dead body had been found in a box, which had been sent to North Leverton, and round the body was found an apron marked " S trail Drake." She then sat down and began to cry- She was afterwards takt n to the MarylebontePolice-office. Witcher, the policeman who accompanied the preceding witness to 33, Harley-street, proved that he found there some aprons belonging to the prisoner, marked " S. Drake," and that he received a bunch of keys from the prisoner, one of which fitted the box in which the child was found. Mrs. Johnson was called, and identified the clothes found in the box with the body to be the clothes of the child, Lewis Drake. Mary Ann Briggs, the searcher at the Marylebone Police-office, proved that she searched the prisoner, and whilst she was doing so she, asked the prisoner what she was charged with. The prisoner did net answer, and wit ness asked her a second time. She then asked if witness was a married woman. Witness replied she was and had a family. Prisoner then said, " You can feel for me," and added, "it is all about a child." Witness asked if it was a now-born baby. She said it was not, it was two years old and she had hung it. She also slid that she owed a woman who had k ept it some money and she (the prisoner) had done it in a moment. She said she had sent the child to her sister to be buried, and that her sister had made all the noise about it, and that she ( t h e prisoner) would be hung for it. Cross- examined—l only asked her what she was charged with. She said the woman had been with her about the money, and she had done it in a moment. The letters written by the prisoner were thus put in and read. Those letters have already appeared in our columns. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. COLLIER, for the prisoner, submitted that one part of the case for the prosecution had not been made out. It had not been shown that the child alleged to have been murdered bore the name stated in the in dictment. The first two sets of counts in the indict ment described the name of the child respectively to be Lewis Drake and Lewis TaVer6Cr ; and the evidence of his name having been either the one or the other was, that he was, when addressed, uniformly addressed as " Lewi," but that en one or two occasions, which Mrs. Johnson men. tioned to persons, although she did not remember to whom, the child in her custody was called Lewis Drake. Th a t, standing alone would not be sufficient evidence to show that the child's name was Lewis Drake by reputation. There was another count in the indictment in which it was alleged that the child's nem was Lewis only, and that it was an illegitimate child. Now there was no proof of the child being illegitimate. Tie re was only the eviclencs of the brother, who said he thought his sister was not a married woman ; but he proved that his sister had been teem home for a period of thirteen years. For anything the brother knew she m ght have been married. Mr_ PARRY fUlithred on the same side, contending that there was no proof that the prisoner was either a single or a married woman, and that, assuming that she was a married woman, and that the child wus, therefore, illegitimate, in contemplation of law, as laid down by Lord Coke, a bastard could not have a surname. It there were two perfectly fair but contrary infcrencfs to be drawn from the evidence, he submitted that their Lordships ought to adopt the inference meat favourable to the prisoner. Mr. Justice PATTESON was of opinion that there was some evidence of reputation, and that there was some evidence of the child being born a bastard ; and he thought, moreover, this was a matter to go the jury.: Mr. COLLIER then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Ile said the duty of an ad vocate in cases of this kind was at all ti mes a p a i n f u l and distressing one. While, on the one hand, he could not but feel deeply the responsibility he owed to his client, whose life was entrusted to his hands. lie could not, or 'ought not to, forget that his duties to his client did not absolve him from those paramount duties which all men owed to society. This case was a peculiarly painful one to them all. They were called upon to contemplate a crime, the very first con sideration of which raised the most acute feelings in the human breast. That crime was not merely a violation of the laws of God and man, but - it was a violation of one of the strongest instincts which had been implanted in the human breast, and which had not even been denied to the brute creation. That was the instinct of maternal love, of which the most abandoned of women could not entirely divest themselves, for it was well known that in their deepest degradation they were yet tenderly compassionate to their offspring. Jo de picting the blackest of temale characters, the greatest of poets had added one touch of humanity, of which she could not denude hersilf. He made Lady Macbeth say— "l have given suck, And I know how tender it is To love the babe that milks me." They were called on to believe that the Almighty had deprived the wretched creature in the dock of that in stinct which he had given to the inferior animals; they were called on to believe that she committed this act in her sober senses and with deliberation. He submitted that the counsel for the prosecution were beund to prove not only that the prisoner committed the murd-r, but that while she did it she was in possession of hor whole mind. Whether or not mental alienation might be admitted as a defence before this world's tribunals, they had the greatest reason to believe that that greatest of all evils, aberration of mind, would be a plea admitted before a higher tribunal, befine which they would all have to sand. Was it shown that the prisoner possessed any ferocity of cha racter? SO far as the evidence went she appeared to have been a gentle and inoffensive being, injuri©g none, although suffering the deepest injury which a woman could receive at the hands of man when he made her the victim of seduction. Was she without a mother's feelings ? The evidence for the prosecution had shown she paseessed strongly that maternal instinct common to all mothers. It had been proved that so far from being , indifferent to this child, she had exerted herself to the utmost to maintain it, and that she took every c ire with respect to the pro vieion to be made both for its health and its spiritual welfare. She might have destroyed it, if she had been so disposed, before she took it to Mrs. Johnson. She agreed to pay six shillings a week fur its maintenance, when she might have had it kept for half that sum. The Learned C.ainsel then adverted to certain rumours prejudicial to the prisoner, which had been circulated by the newspapers. Ile was far from undervaluing the services which the press rendered to the Mato, or a certain censorship which the press as sumed, and rightly assumed, to some extent over the consciences of juries. But all advantages had their corresponding evils, and one of the evils incident to the press was, that in every case of peculiar interest re marks and reports found their way into the ncerspipers to the great prejudice of persons who were brought before the public tribun a ls to answer for the commission of crime. There had been reports circu lated by the press against the prisoner, not one of which had been given in evidence to-day. He implored the jury to dismiss all such rumours from their minds and apply themselves solely to what had been made matter of evidence. Was it true th it the prisoner up to the time when this deed was committed had the ordinary feelings of a mother ? Was she attached to the child or was she not ? According to the evidence on the part of the prosecution, this child was the offspring of shame, the memorial of her own frailty and the wickedness of another. She had nevertheless endeavoured to conce d her shame; though she had nut escaped the guiph which awaited every woman who left the paths of virtue, she had not wholly fallen, and she had contrived to keep herself comparatively uncontaminated by endeavouring to sup port herself and her child, and to re-establish her reputa tion. The Learned Counsel submitted that this act was contrary to all female instinct, and the only reasonable and just construction to be put upon it was, that it was committed by the prisoner in a moment of frenzy, dis traction, and despair. It was not his intention to call medical men to speak to the prisoner's state of mind. It was for juries to say in cases of this kind whether the act committed was the result of temporary or permanent insanity. They well knew that on the testimony of medical men prisoners bad been acquitted who bad com mitted crimes with which they had been charged with the greatest deliberation and ferocity. He contended that there was nothing to show any delibera tion or previous intention to take away the life of this unhappy child, but that the deed was committed in a moment of temporary frenzy, and in a state of horror and despair, through which loomed the prospect of want and privation. Need he`mention to the jury how many good and pious men had committed suicide, or taken away the lives of their children in a moment of frerzy ? He might, however, cite the case of a man who was one of the greatest ornaments of his (Mr. Collier's) own profession, the late Sir Samuel Romilly, who, in an hour of deep domestic bereavement, laid violent hands upon himself. If the reason of a man like Sir Samuel Remaly had been shaken from its halftime under misfortune, what might they expect of a frail tottering woman, like the prisoner, under kindred circumstances? He repeated that the only solution which could be put upon the prisoner's conduct was that she did the deed in a moment of tem porary frenzy. In conclusion, he reminded the jury that the fate of this woman, now borne down with phy sical and mental suffering greater than earthly tribunals could inflict, was in their hands, and might God lead them to a just and merciful conclusion. Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up the ease to the jury, telling them that with respect to the suggestion of temporary insanity, it •could never be a just conclu sion to infer insanity from the atrocity of a crime. A few minutes before five o'clock the jury retired to consider their verdict, and after being &"sent about a quarter of an hour, returned into court and gave a ver dict of Not Guilty, on the ground of temporary insanity. _ _ _ The prisoner fainted away on the announcement of the verdict. Mr. Justice PATTESCN then directed the prissoner to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) John French, 28, labourer, was indicted for steal ing a mare, valued at 181., the property of Anthony Morris. Mr. Platt prosecuted, and from his statement it appeared that the mare, which is the property of the prosecutor, a draper, at Brentwood, was on the Ist of December safe in a field at that place, and, being missed, handbills were issued giving a descrption of it. Nothing was seen of it until the 14th, when the pri soner was seen at a public-house near Edgeware with a mare answering the description of the one lost. The policeman who observed him, having his suspi cions aroused, referred to the handbills, and, being convinced that it was the stolen mare, asked the pri soner about his possession of it, when he took the mare and would have made off with it but was at once taken into custody. He then gave a false address, and also made several statements about how he got it, all of which proved to be untrue. The prisoner's defence was that the mare had been intrusted to him to sell. The jury found him Guilty, and he was ordered to be transported for 10 years. George Poynder Hall, 29, described as a clerk, a dissipated looking youth, was indicted for stealing a coat, pair of trowsers, and waistcoat, valued at 31. l b., the property of Charles Samuels and another. Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne for the defence. It appeared that the prisoner bad gone into the shop of the prosecutor, who i 3 a tailor of Ludgate hill, and selected a coat, and gave orders for the other articles, and desired them to be sent to some place where he was lodging. When the articles were sent home a young woman took them in, and told the lad who was sent with them to leave them and go to the prisoner's father, whose address she gave, for the money, having previously taken the things into an other room ; the boy, however, refusing to leave without the money, the prisoner made his appear ance, dressed in the clothes, and took the boy with him to where his father lived, but he refused to see him, and he then went back to prosecutor's and told him that his ather must and would pay for them. Prosecutor requested the clothes might be restored to him, and prisoner refusing, a constable was called, and he was given into custody. Tne prosecutor's foreman said, that no stipulations were made about the payment when the order was given. The RECORDER said that put an end to the felony, and he was surprised that any magistrate should have sent it for trial. He could not help censuring the conduct of tradesmen in supplying the real or imagi nary wants of a parcel of spendthrift minors, and then, when they could not get payment, adopting criminal proceedings, in the hopes of wringing it from parents and guardians. Mr. PARRY begged his Lordship would withdraw his censure from his client, who was a highly respectable tradesman and had been compelled to prosecute. The prosecutor said, he had no wish that the case should go for trial ; but the alderman had said it was a serious one, and must go for trial. The RECORDER said, that he did not censure Mr. Samuels, who most probably had not been rightly in formed of the nature o f th e or d er g i ven b y t h e pri soner to his foreman ; still he would repeat that tradesmen were generally too ready to trust minors under the hopes ( , f fircin4 payment from their parents. Toey should make inqui r i es b e f ore th e y parted with their things, as the inischirf was then done. Toe eourse the pr o s ecu t or s h ou ld pursu , t was to appear a . gainq the prisoner in th e I n solvent Court if he found his way there, and so insure him a good dose of imprisonmtfnt fir fraudulently contracting debts lie had not the means of paying. The RECORDER, having given the youth a lecture upon his dishonest behaviour, and cautioning him as to his future conduct, he ordered him to be dis charged. James Hughes, 48, victualler, and Daniel Rudd, 32, weaver, were indicted for stealing five sovereigns, the moneys of James \Vetton, in his dwelling-house. Mr. Chahner prosecuted. The case was one of the ordinary public-house robberies, and the facts were these : the prisoners, and a third man, who escaped, went to the house of prosecutor, the China ship, Hermitage-street, Wap ping, at an early hour in the day, and hung about the house playing at bagatelle and drinking until an opportunity offered to get into prosecutor's bed-room, where the cash-box was kept. They were, however, seen coming from the room, and prosecutor imme diately after finding that the money in question had been abstracted from where he had put it, the three men were stopped, and a scuffle ensued, during which the third man escaped, jumping through the window. Ittioy were found Guilty, and transported fir ten years. John Read and Henry Smith were convicted of stealing two half-overeigns, with violence, from the person of Rich4rd Blo!.. Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien and Prendergast defended. The prisont-rs, it was proved, ar , " both well-known thieves, and the bullies to some of vie. low prostitutes frequenting Goswel!-street, and had ,net the prosf— cutor at a noted hou'e, the r-sorr f rhi-ves, and having made him drunk took hi.n out un l-r the o r , !- text of seeing him home ; and on getting him i , .to Hatfield-Aret-t, au unfrequented place, they knocked him down and robbed lefc !Lim s-,seless. Trey were both transporte f f;ft . eth y-vs• !RD CO 17 II "1 . . (13- , or:-? Mr. Bin,LocK.) Haslam, 30, a labou7er, was in!ictel stealing a quantity of tea, coffee, h.nd oth , -r article.s. the property of the Pastern Counties Railway Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Ik r. Ribton de fended. The evidence went to prove that about the 27 , h of last month a large parcel of grocer) was made up by Messrs. Rose, the teadealers in high-street, Shore glitch, to be sent to a Mrs. Tasker, a dealer at Peter borough. The parcel was packed into a chest, and sent to the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to be forwarded by them to Peterborough, but on search being made at the Shoredicch station it was found that the parcel had been taken away. An inquiry being instituted, and every search made without avail, in formation was forwarded to the police, and shortly afterwards the prisoner, who is known to the police was met by Ser geant Teakle, and having a large parcel with him the officer said he must search him, and the prisoner then said, 'J I can give you two sovereicns." Ile Naas then taken to the station-bouse, and the parcel was found to contain a part of the missing property. The prisoner said he had bought it at Rose's, which turned out to be false. The jury found him Guilty. It was then proved that the prisoner, by the name of Noble, had been convicted of burglary at Guildford in 1847. _ _ _ Tue prisoner, who is a most respectable-looking man, sai:i that since then he had been keeping a beer shop and living honestly. S•n-geant Teakle aaid he thought when the prisoner took the beershop he meant to reform, but he had watched him since his release from Guildford and found he was carrying on a bad game. Mr. BULLOCK sentenced the prisoner to be trans ported for seven yeare. Mary Ann Alexander, a well-looking girl, was in dicted for concealing the birth of her female child on the 17th of December last. Mr. BODKIN prosecuted, and said that the prisoner had been in the service of a gentleman named Mac donald, who, suspecting she had been delivered of a child, questioned her, and search being made in the house the body of a still-born infant was found under some clothes. The Learned Counsel could not, be yond th tt fact, offer any evidence of concealment, and there were no marks to lead to the inference that the child had met its death unfairly. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE LAMBETH. Mr. .John Shaw, a hairdresser and picture-dealer, residing at Kennington-cross, and Mr. George Ma thews, a carver and gilder, carrying on business in Regent-street, Lambeth, were finally examined before Mr. Norton, on a charge of obtaining 201 from Mr. Paul Garbanati, carver and guilder, 92, Newman street, Oxford-street, by fraud and false pretences. The evidence given on the former examination having been read over by Mr. Gunn, the magistrate's clerk, Mr. Ballantine addressed Mr. Norton, and insisted that the case was clearly one of fraud, as Mr. Gar banati had parted with his money on the joint repre sentations of the prisoners that the painting was one by Etty, and that it had been exhibited by the So ciety of Arts at their rooms in the Adelphi ; there was, at all events, sufficient in the case to justify the commitment of the prisoners for trial on a charge of conspiracy Mr. IGATON—There is one thing to be said with respect to the conduct of the prisoner Mathews, and taat is, that he was the first to recommend Mr. Garbanati to go to Mr. Weiss, the secretary to the Etty Exhibition, to ascertain the genuineness of the painting. Mr. Ballantine—Yes, yes; but that was after Mr. Garbanati had paid the 201. for it, and not before. Up to that period not a word` of suspicion escaped him as to the genuineness of the painting, and there fore I do not think him entitled to much consideration on that score. Mr. Garbanati was here called into the witness-box and sworn, and in reply to the questions of Counsel said, that he did not advance the money on the paint ing from his own judgment of its merits, but from the value he had set upon it as an original of Etty, and his feeling was confirmed in that opinion by its hav ing been exhibited by the Society of Arts. The 201. which he had paid the prisoner Shaw he had received, with a half-sovereign in addition, from Mr. Smith, who discounted his acceptance fir 22/.175. 6d. The prisoner Mathews—Tnat bill, I believe, was drawn by me, and I got it discounted, did I not? Mr. Garbanati—Yes. Mathews—Pray, now, had we not arranged to share whatever you got for the picture between us ? Mr. Garbanati—Certainly not. I distinctly asked you, when I took the painting away, and while we were in a cab, what I should ask for the picture , ; and what I should sell it for ; and 150/. was agreed upon, though you said 6001. had been offered for it. You recollect you said you did not mind making any sa crifice so you had some money to go on with. In reply to Mr. Games, Mr. Garbanati said, that Ur. Smith, previous to his discounting the bill, called at his house; but he did not then represent that Mathews, the drawer of the • bill, was in his employ ment. He admitted, however, that he might have made some misrepresentation with respect to the bill. On being further examined by Mr. Ballantine, witness said, that the prisoner had admitted to him that about eight months ago he had some corres pondence with Mr. Weiss on the subject of the paint ing, and had learned at that time that it was only a copy of Etty's " Storm," and not the original. A servant in the employ of Mr. Garbanati repeated that he was present at a conversation between his master and Mr. Shaw, and heard the latter state twice over that the painting was by Etty, and that it had been exhibited by the Society of Arts. The witness also swore to having heard Mathews tell his master the same thing. Mr. John Charles Barrett, a picture-dealer, carry ing on business at 369, Strand, said he recollected the Etty Exhibition at the rooms of the Society of Arts. Soon after, he thought on the Ist of Septem ber, a young man brought to his house, from a Mr. Shaw, a large painting (the one now produced), and requested that it might be left there. It was left, and remained until the following Friday, when it was taken away. The painting was tolerably gaud as a copy, but lacked many of the points of the original. In his (Mr. Barrett's) opinion it was not worth mote than from 101. to 15/., and he begged to negative the assertion of the prisoner Mathews on the former examination that he (Mr. Barrett) had offered 251. for it. This, he assured the Bench, was not the fact. Mr. Jonah Smith, a corn-chandler in Kennington lane, who had been called on behalf of the prisoners, deposed that the week before last the prisoner Mathews, of whom he had some previous knowledge, brought him a bill of exchange, drawn by himself on Mr. Garbanati, for 22/. 17s. 6d., and represented that Mr. Garbanati was executing a large order for a rich West Indian, on which he (Ma - hews) was engaged, and that money was required on the bill to purchase gold to finish the gilding. He (Smith) called on Mr. Garhanati in reference to the hill, and that person represented that Mathews was en g aged in executing the order for the rich West Indian. Mr. Ballantine—Well, Mr. Smith, what discount di i you charge on this little bill of 22/. 17! , . 61. ? Mr. Smith—l don't see what that has to do with the matter. Mr. B illantine—Oh, yes, but it has ; 'how much did you charge? Mr. Smith—Well, I charged 30s. Mr. Ballantine-30i. on a bill for 221. 17s. at one month's date I I should like to know from you at what rate of percentage was that ? Mr. Smith— Then you had better ealculate.—(Laughter.) Mr. Ball,mtine—Well, I think it amounts to somsthins like 90 per ermt., or thereabouts ; a hand some rate of interest that, Mr. Smith.--(Laughter ) The witnes, in his further cross-examination, ad mitted that he it el called on the prisoner Shaw before he had discounted it, but denied that tl-e prisoner had said anything to him in reference to the purchase of the picture. Nir. NORTON—D o I un , lers'and that all parties ere willing to abide my deci-ion, not only criminally but civilly ? Mr Games—Sir, on the tart of Mr. Shaw we very readily agree to 1 4 . I wish to state, however, that there are at present in court gentlemen of the bigia• st re , p.!ctability, prepared to give my client the most unexceptionable character for the many years they hive known bite. I have also present the auc tioneer who otliciAtcd at a sale of the painting in question, who can prove the fact of his (Mr. Shaw) giving 10 guineas for it. Mr. Billantine—On the part of the prosecutor I sate that nothing can he 'core fair than the manner in which Mr. Games has ac ed. Mr. NowroN—Looking at all the circumstances of the cas,, I thought in the first place, and still think and hope, that this inquiry wilt do a great deal of goo I in this metropolis, because I know that there is a system practised of selling paintings by false repre sentatiory, which certainly briags the parties within the •aws of iraud end conspiracy. I know that this system is carried on to a very great extent by those parties without their having the slightest idea that such conduct is cogniable in a criminal court. I hope this inquiry. at all events, will entirely get rid 4.f Ititt f .`se notion, because had it not been fir other trns'actioi,s that took p'ace, there would have been a clear case of conspiracy. Ut.fortitnately Mr. Gar nanati tied, from a kindly f-cling for Mathews, and with the view getiing back his money, lent him self to something like a misrepresentation to get the oioney. [lad it not horn fit that untoward transac t, n on hi. part, I certainly should have sent this case fir tria.; and I have very little doubt that, if his evi.lence had 11 , ..-11 peifooly correct, there would have h. ,••r. a conviction The worthy magistrate then directed t the , painting should he given back to a!H r p,iso n should return the 201. to Smith, the bill di , counter, whose charge of 90 per cent' he cud eppr•v e of Thp pzir , l- , pro and con. cons4nted to this, and thu, the subject . f tie " St.rrn" ended. THE U 4, UN Tkt tt.-i IttliET6, liIkAIINGHAM, JAN. 10.— AL Gloucester and Worces t r mark , L. , . on the stri, there was an increased supply of wheat, which found buyers at an improvement of la p,-or quarter, but th..n, was no Hie in the trade. Barley no thatrer, and loss i, quired tor. Although fine oats are canparatively scarce, no advance could be realised, but uidary qualities are less pressed for sale. To make progress in the sale of beans and peas, rather lower prices to be submitted to. During the present week the transactions in the trade have been very limited. se holders will not give way in the price of any description of wheat. Only retail sales in barley are rep.irted. 13,ans and peas held with more firmness. Owing to our st ,, cks being so much reduced, the few which have c‘langed hands realized full prices. Oats quite as dear, and few good ones ofierin,c. This day's market was largely suppli.d with wheat by the farmers, and sales could only be made by submitting to a decline of is per quarter. Barley vi ry dull, and the turn was in favour of the buyer. In oats very little doing. Beans and Feat' realised nearly as much money. LOUGHBOROUGII, JAN. 10.—At to-day'a market there was a good supply of wheat, which met a dull sale at is under last week's rates. In spring corn no alters' lion to note. BOSTON, JAN. 9.—Wheat, red 35s to 40s, white 46 4 i oats, 12s to 17s 01; beans, new 24s to 275, old 003 Per cpurtt r. L NO SUTTON.—lleturn Of sales for the week ending Jan. s —Wheat, 178 qr.., 3 bush, 341/ 9s 9d (average 383 3-4 d); ba,rlay, 00 qrs, 0 bush, 001 Os Od (aver. 00i 01); beans, 38 qrs, 4 bush, 461 123 Od (aver. 246:,210; ()its, 00 qrs, 001 03 Od (aver. 00s Od) ; peas, 00 qC$ 00/ Os (aver. Os,) LYNN, JAN. B.—Wheat, 36s to 403, fine 42s to 005; barley, 223 to 245, fine 26s to 283 per qr. ALFORD.--Averages. for the week ending Jan. 7: - "" Wheat, 383 01; Ixtrley, 22s 14d; Oats, 13s 4id per qr. SLEAFORD, JAN. 7.—Wheat, white 41» to 445; red 37s Od to 413 Od; new Os to Os; barley 203 to 27 6 ; o 14s 6d to 18s 6d; beans, 27s to 33s per qr. Floor the sauce as last week UPPINGHAM, JAN. 9.—Wheat 40s to 435; barley 22 6 to 264; oats 15s to 225; beans 24s to 36s per qr. Butte ! 10d to lid per lb; eggs 16 for is. LOUTH, JAN. .—Wheat, red 37s to 41s; white 45 6 ; barls.y 21s ti 25a; oats 13s to 17s; beans 26s to 324 per qr. N 1 WARK, JAN. 9.—Wheat, old white 003 to 004, tie° 44s to 463 Od, extra 475, red 40s to 43e, extra 445; ballet' malting 24s to 275, extra 28s to OJ, grindin; 000° 00s, foreign ditto, 21s to 235; oats 14s to 18s, extra 203 to 005; beano, new 25s to 255, old 348 to 3 6 :; peas 28s to 30s; rye 00s to 00s ; tares 36 3 to 40s; Infl' 54$ to 56s per qr. DERBY, JAN. B.—The number of fat beasts to-ds/ was but small, and few of the best quality; high price B were asked and in many instances were obtained; 11 2: demand for the best things was toler a bly g ood. The supply of fat sheep was large, and they were a ppareot'l e in better request and making a little mor e mon e y. T li f supply of fat pigs was good, there being several lots Irish. Beef made from 5d to sid; mutton, 5d to s i ° " veal. 5f dto 6d ; pi g s, 7s 6d t o 8 s p er score . R ou gh fa , " 33 6J p)r stone of 141bs. Hides, lid per lb. Calf•skio°' 2d to 31d per lb. GLASGOW, JAN. 9.—Since the close of last week Ic e have liar] severe frost; to-day it is somewhat milder: Our supplies hate been moderate; about 1,235 quarter" of wheat reach. d Grangemouth from abroad. Tll rr ,f was a g &mat d Ls. wheat and flour d ur i ng the wee" with pr ces the turu in sellers' favour; other articl e : wore firmly held at p rev i ous rates. Th i s day ' s mark et was moderately well att en d e d. Ch o i ce wheat and 110`' were a LAr sale, without change in value; fine helve; grown wheat in demand, an d no t muc h offering. Boric a slow sale at the quotations. Oats, both for grindicgi and feeding, were more readily disposable. Oatmes without material alteration. Beans for grinding wat3l • ing, and would fetch extreme rates; for feeding sell there was a fair demand. Indian corn more inquire° after. E DINBUR GIL JAN. 9.—The quantity o f w h eat broug ht forward this , day was 984 qrs, being one qr more [hap lass week. Top price Is down, and ld up on the averag e —127 qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brought for ward was 1,263 qrs, being 34 qrs more than last wee lc ‘ Price on the top 6d, and the average 9d down -- ; 357 qrs unsold. Of oat s we h a d 1,185 qrs brought forviar7; or 266 qrs more th an l ast week. Top price Bd, 1°„-t the average Id do wn -9 8 qrs unsold. The quantit9;:o beans was 189 qrs, or 47 qrs more than last week. on the top is 6d, and the average 8d down-70 tl-15 unsold. Top of Wheat ... • 64 lbs 433 Od •• ..• Barley 56ilbs 25s 6d ... Oats ••• ... 45 lbs 203 Od ... Beans .. 66ilbs 28, 6d if EDINBURGHCATTLE MARKET, JAN. 9.—The st l P,P ic of cattle thi s morn i ng was 501, b e i ng 132 more than 10 meek. The qu a lity genera ll y very super i or, an d sa de brick at the beginning, but very dull tovrar og the end. At the dui() a clearance was n lj , • effected. Top p r i ce o f t h e b est beef 7s 6d to uo'ci current 6e 61 to 7s Od ; m iddli ng and i nfer i or 5s to 68,:d per Dutch stone. The supply of sheep this morel was 2,205, being 181 more t h an l ast week. Sales ~eat more more easily effected, at pri ces a s h a d e hi g h er than 'llOl weak, and a good clearance was effected. Top Pric e , the best mutton 50 per lb ; curren t, 4d t o sd ; inferiv .,r, 3d to 3i i. alba , DIINBAR, JAN. 8. Wheat, weighing M p g, brought 44* Od, and prices to 30 s Od ; bfir7o weighing 564-lbs, brought 22s 6d, and prices to l o Od ; oats, weighing 4341bs ' brought 16s 9J, I v , p• ices to 12s 6J; beans and peas, weighing 0° brought 00s Od, and prices to 00s Od. r ig° DUNDEE, J ALN. 7 . —Wheat, 40s Od to 42s Od; .0-e 0 , ditto, 47s Od to 50s Od ; ba r l e y, 22 s Od t o 23 3 Od; 0 0 18s 6d to 19s Od ; peas and beans, 23s Od to 25s 6d. „; CORK, JAN. 9.—Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s 6d ; extra 1 1, seconds, I Is to 125 6d ; households 9s to 10s 6d ; thi r ds, &S e w per cwt . Oatmeal les to 10s 6d; Indian meal7s to 7s 6d ; vip e . o • o , meal, 10s to lOs 64 per cwt. Indian corn 135 s to 137 s 6d per % at Bran 3/7s 6d to 3/ lOsper ton. Hay—Farm ers 25 s t o 345; avernro, 32s ; dealers 3 to 40s Od; average 38s per ton. Su aw.—Fal ° l 6 o; 22s Od to 30s Od; average 228; dealers 00s Od to 00s LA ; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6 ,r to household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. F res h b u tter, 10d per lb. Eggs-5s 8d to 5s 10d per hundred. C 02 ,1 : t h Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15 s ; B e st Pe - w t, Calm 14s per ton. Tallow 39s Od t o 00 s per Jot Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperi a l ga llon. —Beef 34d to sd; mutton 3d to sd; veal 4d P' Od ; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 6d to lid ; sausa ges 5a lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 31 59 ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ss; Valonia 141 to 01; frea., 7155; English 01 per ton. Fl eece W oo l 1 0s to 1 2s per s on Hemp 32/ to 60/ per tort. Fish— Scotch her r i ngs 18s to 191; r e al ditto 24s to 26* per barrel ; N ew f oun dl an d 9' O s to 1 11 4, - , ; ton. Timber—M eme l, 85/ per ton; d ea l s , fi rst qua lity, : so second quality, 16 s p er 100. Hid es —M ar k et 1 4s to ' salted 14s to 20: per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2d per Potatoes, Potatoes, white 7d to 9d ; Mi n i ons lid to 121 ; Gas" Peruvian, 11/ 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Arch/ o g' 19s per barrel BIRTHS Age? On the Bth inst., in Montpelier-square, Knightsbri" Emma, the wife of the Rev. E. West, of a daughter. 0. On the sth inst., in Torrington-square, the wife of P . Fitzherbert, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Arborfield, Streatham-hill, MO. L. Leaf, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Cunningham-place, St. John's -W 00tl road, the wife of Mr. I M`Phersou, of a daughter. f 0 On the Bth inst., in the Haymarket, Mn. B. B. Turn er ' a daughter. tb ° On the Bth inst., at Ky naston- l odge, Harrow WO' lady of C. Appleyard, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Bth inst., a t St . G eorge ' s, Hanover-squarel ,1e03136. John Selwyn, E sq ., on l y son of J . Selwyn, E sq., of vigiobt hall, Essex, to Sarah Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Hon. Lord Lyndhurst inst., . On the 2d at the Holy Trinity, Colchester, — 1 llia m Parris, Esq., to Miss L. Lufkin, East-hill. th e- On the Bth i ns t., at t h e Ch urc h o f S t. Bartholomenor Le3s, Richard Twioing, jun., Esq., of the Strand, Le t n bt of to Hannah, eldest daughter of the Rev. Henry No r Cornwall terrace, Regent's-park. DIED. , On the sth inst., at Ilfracombe, Jesse Foot, Esq , or— ,erlf of Jamaica, aged 70. idd le' On the 7th inst., William Ashby, of Hounslow, sex, aged ''2. 1. On ,he 7th inst , at Little Clacton Vicarage, the Ret ii• L. Kirby, vicar of Lit le Clacton, son of the late Rev . * Kirby, of Great Holland, Essay. On the Fth inst., at Clapham-road-place, aged 6 6 , Eli °. het'-, the wife of Mr. IL S. Goddard. Chels ea, On the Bth ult., at -, tanley•place, King's road, Rie'ar.l S. Cooper, Esq., aged 67. Oa Russell the Bth inst., i n M ontague-street, Russell -5q ti ro, Georgiana Jane, widow o f th e l ate J . Henderson, Esck,,,a 71 , 0.. the 9th inst., at H arrow Weald, Middlesex,, a w c toll , Catherine, relict o f th e late harry Noyes, Esq., of Th rg— Ham p,,11 irc. ___,—./.-- , 6 London; Printed an d P u bli s h e d b .' MURDO fig ° No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T h Sun Office, - 6 ' *h. Pror!;not of tho i n the c Mindl , -,kts.s. - ; Friday, January 11, 1850. 16, ' "41 4 4 - • 1., 41 a, th h i ti at tll lk