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

BANK RET URNS• Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—liessrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, . Green, and Co. C )lchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co—. Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co ' - :raven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank; Monmcuth Bank, •Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Rank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. ... - Derby Bank, Derby—Me3srs. Evans, Derby Bank• Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co , Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devize3—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew. awl Co,. Doncaster Bank and Retford Blair, Doncaster— ' Cooke and Co Daellnz,ton Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Davonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Newney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Heref.;:d City and County Bank, Hereford— ' Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-unon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co qemel Hempstead -tank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hart ford:lire, Hitehen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co• L'ereforq, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Rosa aitl rchenfield Bilk, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Ma'Leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Aleg.auders and Co. „Kentish -Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, • d Mercer .n and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J ,es and Co ;-;:-.' 7 4 - Kni;.-.; C. Knighton Bank Knighton — J. Davies and C linpsesborongh Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank , 11.4,aresboroutgh—Terry and Co I Bank_. Kenda,l—Wakefi2ld, Crewdson, ' : - Kettering—Gotzh and Sons., 1„:,;• .ffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. Son j Le- r".. . Leeds—Beckett and Co Lee. ion Bank, Leeds—W.William s, Brown, Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons (From the London Ga:ette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notel of the saveral Banks o f Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation d,t ring the Week ending - . Satu-- day, the 19th day of O ctober, 1850: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 16,690 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11.867 Aylshsoa Bank, Aylsham—n. and G Copeman 5,329 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Bickford a nd aunt 26,745 Baldook Bank and Baldock and Biggleswads Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, end Lindsell... 24,766 '3arnstapie Bank, Batnstaple—Marshall and Co 11,993 Basingstoke and Odiha'n Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Balla, Bedford — Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bieester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Rank, Bicestett—Tubb and Co. .. Birminghtam Bank, Birmingham—Attwo' ds, Spooner, and Co 24,362 irmirgham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham--J. Moilliett, and Sons 16,000 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard anu Oak 7,447 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co . ...... 59,965 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 13,918 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. Sealey 5,514 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 34,631 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,907 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham —Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bnry and Sliffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 70.613 Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 31.263 Banbary Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 27.006 Bati - . City Bank, Bath—Bogor and Son . Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 34,519 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,965 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 64,797 Brighton Union Bak, Brighton—Hall, West and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, B ur lington— Haviing, Smith, and Co ... •• . 12,034 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Worlledge and Co. Brows grove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 11,477 C tmbridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons . 14,999 Cambridge sa.d„Carnbridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messw, Fors ters Canterbury B a nlCanterbury—Hammond and Co C Irmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 330 2,013 35,514 18,331 2,875 16,201 31,617 37,650 7,309 17,230 75,081 6,150 8,910 8,788 37,497 25,558 9,830 10,264 60,095 74,011 10,950 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester —Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, . and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—'sparrow , and Co. 40,773 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 26,820 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Garneys, Birk beck. and Co. Farringaon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversharn—ailton and Co Godalming Bank , Godalming—'Aellersh and 44,226 6,050 11.641 5,739 5,190 R. 012 26,079 29,840 13,988 12,285 19,056 43,392 4,795 20,200 18,095 19,928 67,306 18,043 20,034 9,649 19,674 39,257 9,358 5,160 5,544 alyi C. L arcl St,.fforclihire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,G,aunt, and Co. Lei , :ester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... 30.519 Lewes Old. Bank, Lewes—Molineux. and C 0.... 33.375 Li.Jht;eltl Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... 16.240 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 80,060 Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando ve7y—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock •Lyniington 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 end Co. _ _ _ 36,973 6,895 15.841 5,064 Macclesfield Bank, Maccleld—Brooklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank,Manningiree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 8,563 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank. Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Halley 1,697 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams„ , 6,967 Mincrs' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 12,362 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial 8a4 1 .c, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 25,490 Monmouth Old Bunk, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead 8,520 , . Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 19,99 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Haudley, Peacock, s.hd Co 44,745 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 23,416 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyaon Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harv e y s and Hudsons 48,813 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur neys and Birkbeck 0, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tinghAra—Hart, Fellows, and Co ............... 7,455 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddoek and 70,783 C 0...................................................... 4,004 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and 25,805 C 0.... New Sarum Bank, Sarum Everett, and Go No gingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,862 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry-,,Uroxon and Co Oxford 'Sank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and Sons.— 10,639 . Cialordshire Witney Bank, Witne Y I and Co ON{ 1141 » .. ) 7,692 13,486 6,078 23,440 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, Average Amount. Pease s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co . 41,768 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0... « 11,250 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—liPs,,,rs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White 125 Pemorokeshire 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. Reading Bank, Iteading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 27,795 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 5,023 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard and Sons Rechdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds and Co 5,461 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 8,281 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 9,785 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,614 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. Ross (,ld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allawc,y 4,265 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury - -Rocke, Eytons. and Co . 32,661 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,535 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce So uth well Bank, Sou thwell—Wylde and Co Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 12,730 13,261 _ King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall • Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stonrbridge Bank, Stonrbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins - . Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herta Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslovi. Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But- char and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt & Co. 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 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap- man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bull ; Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkssvrorth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Clruruv and Co. WiveliscGrebe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and \ V Hancock .. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake.. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— 15,403 11,595 Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and lialeswortla and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeo,k, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,983 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 43,698 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,840 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- _ _ hampton v 8,937 Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- ford ....,.... _ _ _ 20,301 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking - - - - - Company, Che3terfield. Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- 10,002 ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12,668 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,757 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 20,590 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com _ pany, Darlington gton East Of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 143,318 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,774 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 38,094 Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,765 Halifzvx Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,615 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 17,731 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,040 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 54,137 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,000 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,064 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 32,808 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 1,270 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 406,632 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 48,918 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 67,173 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,679 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,757 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,526 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 55,414 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port ......... Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall . . Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sholliold Swaledale and Wensleyda le Bankin g Company, , Richmond . Storey and Thomas's Banking Compa n y Shaftesbury , 9,938 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ....... Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 35,964 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,899 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leamir.gton Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank.llristol.. . Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 77,069 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfieldhitchur3s,l6s ch and Ellesm ere Banking Company, Whitchurch Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, 3,050 Worcester 5,015 York Union Banking Company, York 69,270 York City and County Banking Company, York 92,323 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Oct. 26, 1850. [The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of last night :—] FRANCE. The Commission of Permanence met yesterday, and sat for three hours. It was rumoured that they bad decided to convoke the Assembly for the sth, but no thing certain was known on the subject. After the sitting the President of the Committee (ryl. Leon Faucher) and the Secretaries had an interview with the Minister of the Interior. The cholera has broken out in Algiers; 150 persons have died of it in two days. General Neumayer has declined the command offered him at Rennes; should he persist in his refusal he will be placed on the retired list. GERMANY. The Kolner Zeitung has a letter from Berlin of the 28th ult., stating that the invasion of Electoral Hesse by the avarian and Austrian troops was originally intended to come off on the 231 ultimo, and that the Prussian armies took their positions according to this contemplated measure. The invasion did not, how ever, take place, and whether it is only adjourned, or whether it will come off at a later period, will depend on the decisions now taking at Warsaw. The same paper states from Dusseldorf and Coblentz that the 16th Regiment of Foot at the former place has received direct orders to take the field, and that the younger corps of the Landwebr have been summoned to take their place in the army and assemble at Coblentz. The Kolner Zeitung, of the 30th inst, states, in its second edition from Vienna of the 26th, that the offi cial news of the march of the two corps in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg and the announcement that a part of the Italian army is proceeding to Germany, added to the military preparations now going on at Vienna and in Austria Proper, have created a violent panic on the Exchange. The price of silver has risen by and its closing price was 21, while gold stood firm at 28. The only consolation which the Austrian stockholders have is, that war is utterly impossible without a na tional bankruptcy, and therefore they disbelieve the possibility of a war. " These men , " adds the cor respondent of the Kolner Zeitung, "forget the bank ruptcy of 1811, and there is no reason why the same event should not take place in our time. The first cannon which Austria fires against Prussia is the signal for a break down of her finances; it is bank ruptcy and the repudiation of her notes which must sink down to the level of the notorious French As signets. Even the friendship of Russia cannot assist Austria in her painful position. Russia can give guns and bayonets, but no money. It is conse quently almost passing belief that a real war is in tended. Still this trifling with serious events is most reckless and criminal. Jt proves that the re-establish mens of absolute power is the last and only idea which pervades the rulers of Austria, and that even credulity herself must now despair of the realization of the Charter of the 4th March, 1849." Advices from Cassel are of the 27th instant. Fifty two of the officers who have sent in their resignations have received the Elector's permission to quit his service. The rest are still retained. _ _ _ The Kolner Zeitunistates, - from Frankfort of the 27th instant, that the Elector, terrified by the ap proaching Contingencies and the danger which might result to him from as advance of the federal troops into his territories, has entered a solemn protest against the intervention of Bavaria. The Federal Council, feeling that nothing but energetic measures could help them in this dilemma, has dispatched Count Rechberg as Civil Commissioner, with instrue tions for Prince Thurn and Taxis, the Commander of the Bavarian army, to send his troops immediately into Electoral Hesse, and to follow them with his staff. The Prussian agents at Frankfort, on hearing this news, immediately dispatched a messenger to Berlin to ask for further instruction. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The proposal made to the British Government by Russia and France has caused a considerable sensa tion. A very emphatic article has appeared in the Hamburgh Nachrichten representing the Duchies and the whole German people as ready to back Prussia to the utmost in any such event. The Commander of the Prussian garrison, General Von Hahn, is re ported to have arrived at Kiel, where it is stated he appeared in plain clothes. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 30.—At a congregation holden this day the following degrees were conferred : M.A.—William Collins Badger, Queen's College. B.A.—Hugh Proby, Trinity College. Edmund Oldfield, M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem. At the same congregation, Mr. Latham, of Trinity hall, was appointed (by grace) an examiner at the previous examination in the Lent and Michaelmas terms of the year 1851. THE CURACY OF SELBY.—There were originally several candidates to supply the vacancy in the above named curacy, but these were by resignation of the remainder reduced to two, viz —the Rev. Francis Whaley Harper, M.A., St. John's College, and the Rev. T. A. Scott, M.A., of Cl;re-hall. The Vice- Chau:l , ll°r appointed yesterday (October 29) for the election, which took place as under. The hours of polling and the number of votes registered for each candidate were as under : Ten to eleven, A K... Harper 63 .... Scott 20 1.30 to five P.M. „ 149 .... „ 48 Seven to nine, P.M... „ 54 .... „ 48 At nine a scrutiny was called, and Mr. Harper was declared to be the successful candidate. THE LE BAS PILIZE.—This prize, founded out of a fund raised by some students under the late Rev. C. W. Le Bas, at Haileybury College, to provide a last ing memorial of their respect and esteem for him, and given annually for the best English essay on ge neral literature, the subject chosen being in connex ion with the history, institutions, and probable destiny and prospects of our Anglo-Indian Empire, has been adjudged to Alexander Howell Jenkins, M.A., of Christ's College. MEDICAL EIAMINATION.—The examination for the licence, ad practicandum in medicina, will com mence on Monday, Nov. 4, at ten o'clock, A. AL, at the Arts School, under the Public Library, and will continue that ind the three following days. Candi dates for the degree of Bachelor of Physic will be examined at the same time by the Regius Professor of Physic, the Professor of Anatomy, and the Down ing Professor of Medicine. KING'S COLLEGE.—There will be a meeting of the fellows of this society on Saturday next, to supply the vacancy in the provostship, caused by the decease of the late Dr. George Thackeray. The Rev. Richard Okes, A. 8., 1822, M.A., 1825, lower master of Don, 1838, and the Rev. Harry Dupuis, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834,, assistant master of Eton, are mentioned as candidates for the office. NELSON SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND. A meeting of the absentee proprietors of the Nel son Settlement, New Zealand, convened by the com mittee of the same, was held at the New Zealand House, onWednesday, at one o'clock, Mr. Burnard in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that as the New Zealand Company had surrendered their charter to the Government, and as the Government now stood in the place of the direction, it was held desirable to urge on them the claims of the absentee proprietors, now entirely neglected. He proceeded to state gene rally that the resident proprietors enjoyed all the advantages of the allotments of land in the colony— that the company's chief and other agents were dis posing of the land in blocks of 8,000 acres, and that the value of the allotments made to the absentees was most materially lessened by the power of selection given to the settlers on the spot. Cattle runs, of the best description, had been given to individuals, to the extent of 7,000 acres, at a nominal acknowledgment ; and allotments made eight years since to the non resident proprietors were not now worth one-third of their value at that period. Letters were read to this effect from Mr. E. Tolle mache, resident in the colony, and generally com plaining of the injustice done to the original pur chasers. The writer advised no person to purchase more land than he possibly could dispense with in the new Canterbury settlement at 31. per acre, when it could be got at Otago for 10s., and at Wairee and Rangatee for 55., of better quality. He considered that, as there had been compensation given to resident proprietors, it should also be given to absentee pro prietors ; and complained bitterly of the valueless character of a large portion of the land allotted to to him—viz., 7,400 acres, which represented a cost price of 11,0001. The CHAIRMAN said the resident proprietors would have to depend upon themselves, not upon the New Zealand Company ; for when application was made on the score of compensation they were neither prepared to admit the validity of the appeal, or to give the claim any furtherance. Mr. F. YOUNG said the non-resident proprietors were left the skim-milk of the land, while the resi dent proprietors got the cream. lie agreed with the chairman as to the necessity of self-reliance on the part of the committee, and then moved a series of resolutions calling on the New Zealand Company to aid them in obtaining compensation from the Government, on the ground that it would be injustice to the non-resident proprietors to withhold it, when the resident proprietors were receiving it at the hands of the agents and local arbitrators. The resolutions substantially embodied the statements made by the preceding speaker. The resolutions recommended that, in the event of compensation being refused, the non-residents should relinquish their allotments, and claim the money which they had advanced, with interest thereon. Mr. WHITE, an original allottee of the section, con sidered himself peculiarly aggrieved by the preferences given to resident proprietors. If the sale had been completed to him by the company in• a reasonable time, he would now be in the possession of compensa tion, as he intended to have sent his son out as a settler. In this respect the directors were to blame; but he admitted that the Governm'nt were to blame also for the excessive severity of the terms they had proposed to the directors. He fully coincided in the resolutions; and he believed there was justice enough in the British Government to cause them to entertain their claims. A SHAREHOLDER said the directors had had 160,0001. in money for awards of land, and asked what had become of it. Mr. TOLLEMACHR said that 200,000/. more, bor rowed from the Government, had been spent. The CHAIRMAN thought the money could be ob tained from the Government through the Court of Chancery. He did not think the proprietors would get an acre from Lord Grey, except he was compelled by the Parliament to give it. Mr. Mooau (ten years a resident in the colony) bore testimony to the fair play always shown by the resident settlers in the colonies to the absentee pro prietors. They were for the most part men of the highest standing in the colony. He had left the colony, however, in 1847. The CHAIRMAN said the matters complained of re ferred to December last. Mr. MooRE Still believed those gentleman had only one feeling—to do justice to the non-resident pro prietors. It was not the settlers, but the company's agents, that were to blame. This statement as regards the resident proprietors was, however, strongly combatted by the chairman and other speakers. A general resolution, embodying the spirit of the series of resolutions propounded, as the sense of the meeting, was adopted. A deputation was then appointed to wait on the directors of the New Zealand Company to enforce the claims of the non-resident proprietors, in accordance with the resolutions, and the meeting separated. TEETOTALISM. The Parliamentary vacation is the era of harmless enthusiasm—the season of balls, dinners, and demon strations. The Poles and the franchise, and the coming Exhibition, church securities from within and religi ous aggressions from without, supply the plea for an entertainment or the topic of a discussion ; the tide of talk and the tumult of conviviality visit impartially every corner of the kingdom, and the scenes are as various as the objects of the fuss. At Bury the political, at Bristol the theological, difficulties of the day are dealt with. At York municipal splen dours add lustre to the efforts of commercial and mecha nical ambition ; while here at head-quarters we are invited by Lord Dudley Stuart to dance in the name of benevolence, or may go, with the more sober phi lanthropy that befits the occasion, to learn at Drury lane the mischiefs that arise from fermentation. On Monday there gathered in that shrine of unreality the friends and advocates of teetotalism, those advocates not a less medley set than usually occupy the ample stage. Ode lingering representative of the scat tered House of Commons appeared to testify the interest of the Legislature ; two ministers of religion raised their voices against alcohol ; the Comic Annual and the Charter had each a son and supporter there; the backwoods of America and the labour market of England each contributed a quota. In deference to the genius of the place a semi-dramatic air was thrown over the proceedings, and the exul tations of a pure morality were tempered by the softer influences of mirth. In place of the usual orchestra, Mr. Shapcott and family preluded and interluded upon the saxhorn, and the traditions of the green room were consulted by the introduction, in Ojibbe way attire, of the Rev. George Copway, alias Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Whether the ordinary attrac tions which Drury-lane offers are directly con ducive to the elevation of the species may be matter of controversy, but on the occasion we commemo rate there was no room for dispute. The purpose of the assembly was strictly and solely a moral one, for the teetotal society is, to borrow the words of one of the speakers, " a man uplifting society." The theatrical accompaniments of melody and strange raiment ; of the " Drum Polka" and Indian finery; the presence of an accomplished comedian in the per son of Mr. George Cruikshank, were a wise, and perhaps a necessary, addition to the sublimer por tion of the entertainment. Mere moral excitements are apt to weary without some occasional intervals of recreation and repose, and, besides, the committee had not been so successful as they could have wished in the oratorical department. Lords Ashley, Harrowby, and Kinnaird, with Mr. Silk Buckingham and other untitled philanthropists, had been compelled to decline attending from the pres sure of other engagements. The cause of total ab stinence had even to mourn a more important refusal, Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington having some public duties to perform which prevented his coming to town. In the absence of these dis tinguished persons the desired variety of thought and elocution was hardly to be procured, but the speakers made up in earnestness what they wanted in force of argument or grace of style. They said a good many hard things of those who still acknowledge the utility of fermented liquors. They threw out warnings to the clergy and religious classes, to the aristocracy and educated section of society, as to the danger of falling in the rear, and announced that "the people were going before the priests, who could not be in duced to forego their one glass of wine after dinner, though admitting that the working classes were driven by alcohol to pauperism, sickness,• and death." The three chief speakers of the evening were Mr. Lawrence Heywood, Member for Derby, Mr. George Cruikshank, and Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. The first of these, who occupied the chair, con sidered himself qualified by an experience of fifteen years to speak in favour of teetotalism ; but inde pendently of his own experiences he had a powerful support in the admonition of the wisest of Kings, " Look not upon the wine when it stirs itself in the glass, because it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder; —the argumentunt ad verecundiani which,Mr. Heywood proceeded to base on this text being that Solomon was himself a teetotaller. The state of the logical faculty revealed by such an inference is not encouraging to those who easy have thought of resigning their after-dinner glass, nor is the one other proposition enunciated in the same speech much more encouraging ;—" If a man never takes a first glass he can never be intoxicated." Un doubtedly ; but it is equally true that if a man never ate turtle soup or venison be would be in less danger of becoming a gour ma nd, and that if he re stricted himself to dry bread he would be tolerably secure. As f o r th e i n di v id ua l exper i ence, t h at i s in variably met by some opposing experience ; and while we congratulate the Member for Derby on his undi minished vigour, we must beg to decide for ourselves whether the addition or s ubtraction of al co h o l f rom i our drinks s most conducive to our own. We will pass to the caricaturist. Mr. Cruikshank, after bearing witness to the sufferings he h a d endur e d b ecaus e his i m other had n his early days ,held the poisoned chalicelips, said that he had pictured the po the clergy to temperance in a very str iki n g manner. " I recent l y ," h e says , " ma d e a sketch, but thought it too str o ng to publish, of a clergymen with a Bibl e i n one h an d an d a b o ttl e o f rum in the other. For that id ea I was indebted to opposition ton of my friend the Indian Chief, who threw it out at a late meeting at the London Tavern." It would have been as well, perhaps, to have removed instead of adopting the misconception of the Ojibbeway. The fact that rum has done more to degrade and eater. minate the Red Indian than religion has done to rescue him could not be truly represented by such a figure, nor could the idea com mun i ca t e d by M r . Cruikshank to his audience be limited in their minds by such an interpretation. The reserve which deemed the picture too strong for publi ca ti on was very effectually discarded in the speech, and we can only excuse Mr. Cruikshank on the ground that a perpetual search of the ridiculous has an in toxicating effect no less than draughts from the black bottle. Morally speaking, therefore, the cari caturist makes a bad advocate, and, like the Member of Parliament, may be dismissed. The third remark able orator, Kah-ge-ga - gah - bowh, added his Indian reminiscences to the total of civilised experience. The most forcible part of his harangue was a bit of personal relation. A cousin a n d assoc i ate o f his own had been in boyhood th e won d er an d delight of his companions. When the chief returned to his tribe after long absence, he found his early friend dead, drowned in a fit of intox ication, the work of the white man's rum ; he there fore was for total abstinence, of which he should endeavour to erect in his own land a monument. The Indian argued well from his premises, for he knew that "firewater" had been the destruction of his kind, and that the appetite of the red man could admit no partial indulgence ; he drew no overstrained picture of the facts, and, perhaps, his recital was the most natural episode in the history of the meeting. Whatever of absurdity lay in his rambling language and grotesque attire was due, not to him, but to those who played off his incoherent and irrelevant appeal as a part of the evening's amusement; and certainly Kah-ge-ga-gah-howh was not more ridiculous than the caricaturist, or a worse logician than the represen tative. To drive drunkenness entirely out of the world would indeed be a glorious achievement; but the gentleman who hoped he might live to see that more than golden age must be prepared for an antediluvian if not a Rosicrucian term of existence. We also acknowledge a hope that religion and morality may avail by their progress to moderate all sensual indulgence ; but we doubt how far an external covenant will suffice to remedy man's frailties or accelerate his perfection. At all events the late Drury-lane meeting has not done much either to convince the doubtful or conciliate the reluctant. Questionable caricature and untenable arguments from Scripture are not of much avail except with an audience partly ignorant and partly coarse. The assumption that total abstinence and temperance are one and the same thing, that he is by impli:ation a drunkard who does not con fine himself to the cistern or the spring, is a piece of illiberality not over consistent with the political tone prevalent at teetotal assemblies. Let those who re quire artificial restrictions use the ia and profit by them ; those who do without are not chargeable with setting a bad example because their morality is a principle instead of a force.—Times. 3,43 l 1,407 11,953 11,183 28,301 17,461 21,505 21,829 10,463 6,803 10,854 13,130 9,085 9,285 17,182 7,279 21,387 5,451 42,415 11,065 23,941 5,609 16,14 g 32,066 46,531 7,443 12,993 8,921 79,939 14,277 1,285 NOVEMBER 1, 1850. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 31. (Before Mr. WITHAM, Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.) W. Howard, a dog and pigeon fancier, in Bethnal green, was indicted for having unlawfully taken a reward for the restoration of a stolen dog. Mr. Ballantine appeared for the defendant. It appeari d that the prosecutor, Mr. J. T. Main waring, of 11, Victoria-place, Hoxton, having lost his dog in the early part of the last month, amongst other places to which he went in search of it called at the defendant's house, when he requested that he would endeavour to discover the animal for him. This course he had adopted, under the impression that, as the de fendant had upon a former occasion recovered the dog for him for the sum of 21., he would again be able to affect its restoration. In entertaining that idea he proved to have been justified, for the man at once offered to obtain the animal, upon condition that ha was paid 3/. for the re-capture, and that "no fuss should be made about it." The prosecutor then gave information of his loss to the policy, and stated what the defendant had de manded. By the advice of an officer he gave three marked sovereigns to Howard, whereupon the latter set out upon his search, and was soon afterwards seen leading the lost dog along the street. Police sergeant, N 27, accosted him, and inquired where he had got the dog from. The defendant replied that he had obtained it for a gentleman. The sergeant, however, told him that it was a stolen dog, and at once took him into custody. The prosecutor then preferred the present charge against him. The de fendant thereupon said that he could very easily in form the officer where he had obtained the dog from, but if he were to do so the parties would kill him. Mr. BALLANTINE, on behalf of the defendant, said that he was unable to deny the fact that his client had been guilty of a violation of the law. He had, without doubt, been guilty of an offence against the law, but he must urge, not by way of excuse, but rather in extenuation of the offence, that the defendant was in total ignorance of the existence of any law which went to make the course he had adopted an offence. Several witnesses were called who spoke in high terms of the defendant, whom they described as a most honest man in all his dealings. The CHAIRMAN having summed up the evidence, The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN then sentenced the defendant to pay a penalty to the Queen of 201., and to be imprisoned until such sum were paid. Mr. BALLANTINE WES afraid that such a sentence would prove very much like a sentence of imprison ment for life. The defendant said that he had not 203., much less 201., in the world. The CHAIRMAN entertained no doubt, as the de fendant was a shopkeeper, but that be would find the means of paying the penalty. One of the police force here intimated that he had been desired by the committing magistrate to inform the Court that the defendant bad on two previous oc casions been charged with a similar offence, but had escaped in consequence of the parties having declined to press the matter. The defendant was then removed from the court. Joseph Thomas, described as a respectable trades man, was indicted, charged with having committed an assault on Henry Spicer whilst in the execution of his duty as a broker. Mr. O'Brien apßearel for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine was retained for the defendant. In this case it appeared that the prosecutor went to execute a distress warrant for arrears of rent due to his landlord. When he called he at first only saw the wife of the defendant, but having made the pur port of his visit known to her she quickly fetched her husband. A conversation then ensued between them, which resulted in defondant sending for a receipt stamp, which, having been filled up and signed by the prosecutor, the defendant, paying the money, took it and said, " Weil, now you have got the money, and so I'll take the worth of it cut of you:" and fol lowed up this remark by striking the prosecutor with great severity. The wife attempted to restrain him, but without success, whereupon the prosecutor com menced a precipitate retreat. The defendant followed him through the garden, and as he was stooping down to unfasten the gate the defendant made a kick at that part of his person upon which certain debts of honour are occasionally paid. Unfortunately, however, the defendant, not being very steady, missed the spot at which he had aimed, and the blow was received in a part of a more tender character, and so bad were the results that the prosecutor was compelled to be the subject of medical treatment for several days. In his cross-examination the prosecutor stated that he had not been tried for murder, but had been tried for manslaughter about two years ago. The facts of that case were these :—Two men were fighting, one of whom at length stabbed the other in several places and gouged out an eye, and whilst he was lying upon the wounded man, endeavouring to inflict further wounds, the present prosecutor ran and got a pair of tongs, and on his return, in striking a blow at the arm of the uppermost man, with the hope of compel ling him to desist from his brutal conduct, struck his head. The man died two months after wards of de lirium tremens, and he (the prosecutor) was taken up and indicted for manslaughter, it being supposed at the time that the blow he had given the deceased with the tongs had been the cause of death. He had also been tried for perjury, and at the present moment had an action pending against the person who bad made that charge against him. He had likewise been charged in that ccurt for an assault; but in every one of those cases he bad been acquitted. In the scuffle with the defendant he had lost the warrant under which he was to have made the levy. Mr. BALLANTINS then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. The CHAIRMAN summed up, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN sentenced the defendant to three months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Sirrell, gold and silver refiner, of Barbican, whose name has been so familiar to the public in consequence of charges of having received stolen property, appeared before Alderman Gibbs for the purpose of answering certain charges of having re ceived property which had been stolen in the city of London. Mr. Powell, barrister, appeared to prosecute upon the part of the Crown; Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, solicitor, attended for the prisoner. There were seve ral respectable citizens present, who seemed to be on intimate terms with the prisoner. Mr. Powell stated, that in consequence of com munications received by the metropolitan police, In spector Lund of the detective department of the force, and other officers, went on the 2d of October to the residence of the prisoner in Barbican, and took him into custody. Upon searching the premises they found a considerable quantity of plate, amongst whieh were the articles that would be the subject of the present inquiry. One of these articles was a piece of plate which had been stolen from the Rainbow 'Tavern in Fleet-street. Part of the mark on that article had been obliterated with a file. Another piece had been taken from the house of Mr. Godden, a gentleman who resided near Maidstone, and whose house had been plundered some nights previously ; and there was a variety of other articles which would in due time be brought forward. It was proper to observe that the prisoner had come forward volun tarily to meet any accusation which might be pre ferred against him in the city of London, as would be stated by Mr. Lewis ; and, as the principal wit nesses were not present, it was necessary to take no more evidence than would be required to authorise a remand until the details could be gone into. Mr. Lewis—l appear for Mr. Sirrell, who, as has been stated by the counsel for the Crown, voluntarily surrendered himself in order to have a complete in vestigation into the charges alluded to. My client is, as is well known, under bail, to appear to answer other charges of a similar kind elsewhere, and he is most desirous that the strictest inquiry should he made into all the circumstances. I have bail ready to answer for his appearance at any time the Alder man may think proper to appoint to answer all accu sations which may be preferred against him. He surrendered himself by appointment, and gave no tice to the police authorities that such was his in tention. Mr. Powell—l shall call witnesses to a few facts. Inspector Lund, of the metropolitan detective police, said—ln consequence of information which I received, I proceeded to 53 and 64, Barbican, with other officers, and found the prisoner there. I apprehended him upon two distinct charges from these. Upon searching the place I found a quantity of plate. I subsequently discovered a silver tablespoon which b - longs to the proprietor of the Rainbow Tavern, and which I produce. The letter " M " is on the handle or stem of the spoon, and is partly obliterated, appa rently by means of a file. While examining the spoon through a magnifying glass I perceived the words " Rainbow, Fleet-street." I also found three silver pepper-castors with the arms six doves on a shield divided by a .a bar. I ascertained that the pepper-castors belonged to Mr. Henry Godden, who resides at Somerfield, near Maidstone. I have seen Mr. Godden, and he identified the pepper-castors as part of property stolen from his house on the 25th of the preceding month. Mr. Lewis, upon being asked by Alderman Gone whether he wished to ask any questions of the inspector, said—No ; as this examination is a mere matter of form, preliminary to the full investigation which my client courts, I shall not ask the witness any question. Edward Ashford, principal waiter at the Rainbow Tavern, in Fleet-street, said—Mr. Isaac Argent is 1 the proprietor of the house. I can swear that the spoon exhibited is his property. lam responsible for the spoons and other plate. On or about the 29th of I July last the spoon produced was lost. It was, I be lieve stolen from the coffee-room, and several other articles disappeared at the same time. Mr. Lewis—Had any plate been stolen previously to that date from the Rainbow Tavern? Witness— Yes; about eighteen months before that time some plate had been stolen. Mr. Lewis—What is there upon that spoon which indicates that it is not one of those which had been stolen eighteen months ago ? Witness—l know that the spoon produced was purchased since that time from Mr. George Dismore. Mr. Powell—l do not intend to go further to-day with the charges against the prisoner, and request that he may be remanded. Mr. Lewis—l have bail for the appearance of my client to any amount. lie is, I repeat, most anxious for a searching investigation. Mr. Powell said he had nothing to say in opposi tion to the application of the prisoner to be admitted to bail. Alderman G 11133 then consented to take bail in two sureties to the amount of 1001. each, and the pri soner's own security to the amount of 2001. Mr. John Eyke, of 58, Milton-street, and Mr. John Johnson, of 13, Whitecross-street, were the sureties. The prisoner was then told that the charge against him was that of having feloniously received a silver spoon and three silver pepper-castors, well knowing that they had been stolen, and that he must appear in the course of the following week to answer the charge. The prisoner then retired, accompanied by several friends. Richard Hamet Drake, a clerk in the banking house of Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., was brought up in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, charged with having robbed his employers of a considerable sum of money. Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, solici tors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Frauds, appeared for the prosecution. He stated that the bankers felt great pain in proceed ing against the prisoner, who had been many years in their employment, but they felt it to be their duty to prosecute in every case of the kind for the sake of public justice. The prisoner had absented himself for some days from the house, and another of the clerks was sent to look for him. The messenger found him in the country, and the prisoner made a full confession of his delinquency, and said he would make a " clean brea.t." Mr. Bush added that the prisoner bad writ ten down a statement of the facts, and although cau tioned upon the subject and assured that acknowledg ment of his guilt would be used against him, he would not retract his confession. The evidence was com plicated, but the amount which the prisoner was charged with having appropriated to his own pur poses was 4771. Us. The prisoner, who admitted his guilt before the magistrate, was remanded. GUILDHALL. Arthur Conlin, a ruffianly-looking fellow, well known to the police, was brought up, charged with an assault under the following circumstances : City police-constable 368 stated, that about half past 12 o'clock o❑ Wednesday night he was on Hol born•hill, when he heard the screams of a woman calling for assistance. On proceeding to the spot he saw the prisoner grasping the throat of a woman, while she and another were crying out " Murder" as loud as they could. As soon as the prisoner saw wit ness he turned round and ran away. Witness found one of the women crying bitterly, and, on examining her with his lantern, saw the marks of great vio lence about her face and neck. The two women were servants from a part of Islington, and they pro mised to appear and give their evidence, provided they could obtain the permission of their respective mistresses. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that the two women in question were in company with a young man, and they were all of them drunk. They stripped themselves from their feet up to their shoul ders, and in that state were capering about, and pre senting a most indecent and disgusting exhibition. He was hastening home, and, in endeavouring to avoid the obscenity of their pranks, he met one of the women running towards him as if she were mad, screaming in a most hysterical manner, and he believed that the reason the cry of "Murder" was raised was merely to indulge herself in her partiality for hysterics. As she was passing him, he put out his hand to stop her in her mad career, and at that moment the policeman came up. He never ran away when the policeman arrived, he was only hurryicg away from the vile scene that was presented to his gaze. Springate, the gaoler, here said that he had known the prisoner for several years. He was not considered exactly right in his head, and whenever he was in prison he went by the name of the "Poet." The go vernor of the prison had on several occasions found it necessary to set a watch upon every movement of the prisoner, on account of his violence. He would some times remain perfectly quiet for 6evtral days together, and then, after such intervals of quiescence, break out suddenly in a most violent manner, and strike every body that came near him, until he was put under restraint. The first witness here stated that what prisoner had said was entirely false, as the girls had had neither time nor opportunity to make such an indecent dis play, even if they had felt so disposed. lle felt quite assured they were respectable girls. Alderman HUNTER said, as it did not appear likely that the persons who ought to prosecute in this case would be able to attend, he would deal with it in a summary manner, on the testimony of the officer, and he would. therefore inflict upon the prisoner a fine of 205., or, in default of payment, order him to be im prisoned for 14 days LAMBETH. Eliza Murray, a decent-looking young woman, surrendered to her bail to be further examined before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of unlawfully pawning some articles of wearing apparel, the property of Mary Jane Bagley. From the statement of the complainant it appeared, that hieing become pregnant by the footman of a family with whom she lived as lady's-maid, the pri soner, who a short time before had met with a similar misfortune, undertook to procure her a lodging where in to be confined, and to wait on her during her trouble. The prisoner got an apartment as she pro mised, at a house in North-street, Lambeth, and there they lived together until the 25th of September, when herself and her illegitimate infant were taken in a carriage to the house of a gentlemen in Hyde Park gardens, where she was engaged as wet nurse to an infant, since dead. On leaving North-street, she left behind her a quantity of wearing apparel, and subse quently directed the prisoner to send it to her, but it was not until Sunday morning last that she received any portion of it, and the prisoner in sending it also sent two duplicates for a part of the property pledged. On Monday she went to the police station-house in Tower-street, and mentioned the circumstance to a policeman, and that person took the duplicates from her, and subsequently took the prisoner into custody. Richard Chisly, shopman to Mr. Wharton, pawn broker in the Westminster-road, producing some ar ticles of wearing apparel, which had been pledged by the prisoner on the 28th and 30th of September. The prosecutrix, in her cross-examination by Mr. Games, admitted that she had not paid, nor did she understand that she was to pay, the young woman at the bar anything for her trouble in attending her during her confinement. She also admitted that the prisoner had pledged things with her sanction for their mutual support, but declared she had not given the slightest authority to pledge anything after the 25th of September. Mr. Games—Pray, did you pay all the persons you were indebted to before leaving your lodgings ? Pro secutrix—No ; there was some money due to my washerwoman, a coal-dealer, and others. Prisoner—This is cruel treatment, gentlemen, after all I have done for that person. I have even taken my ring off my finger, so that she might wear it and pass off as a married woman, and she has that ring, which cost me half-a-guinea, at this moment on her hand. Mr. Games, to the complainant—There . is one ques tion I forgot to ask you, and that is, had you repre sented to the gentleman who too k you away in his carriage, and whose child you were engaged to wet nurse, that you were a married . woman ? Complain ant—What is that to you, Sir? I'm astonished at your assurance in asking such impertinent questions. Mr. Games—That impertinence will not do for nee; and if you were ten times as impertinent you must answer my question. Did you , or did you not, re present yourself as a ;married woman ? Witness, after some hesitation-1 did. Mr. Games—Have you told anyone that you would not think of adopting any proceedings against this young woman if you had not heard that she had been saying • something against you ? Proiceutrix—l might have done so, as she took away rey letters and spoke ill of me. Coek.erell, a policeman, 108 L, here got into the witness-box, and took much pai ns t o ex hibi t a few rags, which he said he had found in the prisoner's box, and were not worth is. Mr. Games, in his observations on the case, de signated the proceeding as one of the most heartless that had fur some time been brought within his notice, and commented on the conduct of Cockerel', the officer, who, according to his own admission, bad grown deaf, and who, in his (Mr. Games's) estima tion, had grown stupid in the service. The facts, as duclosed to him by the young woman at the bar, were these :—The prisoner,who, though not having i ""'n ad impiied authority to pledge 01 ' 3 th ' 44 .ved done sl to suport herself as the cotrplaina,lt silo , ) c h , e ) m r n p i h n i a n t g i t , and to e o f t p ' ll l y n p those id . debts :1 that The present mitres of the prisoner al,' when Cockerel], the policeman, came to ber be% both she and her husband had given her that wi ,' lc te they believed she . deserved, a good character, but insisted on taking her into custody. 5 14 The landlady of the house where the comPialin,eut vvnich she, • and prisoner had lodged gave the latter an e lce e bad character, and said it was her belief that ah pledged the things to pay the complainant's d4b°d ' s le t ) Notwithstanding this the Magistrate se e o ri• treat the charge against the prisoner o one fur trial ous description, and talked of sending he fer s to but ultimately remanded her to r. future day' was, however, admitted to bai,. LAW NOTICES. liIGII COURT OF CHANCERI. Sittings appointed in Michaelmas Term. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.) At Westminster. Nov. 2—Appeal motions. At Lincoln's Inn. Nov. 4—General petition day. Nov. 5, 6—Appeals. Nov. 7—Appeal motions. Nov. B—Unopposed petitions and appeals . Nov. 9, 11, 12, 13—Appeals. Nov. 14—Appeal motions. Nov. 15.—Petition day, unopposed Petit loos 04 appeals. Nov. 16, 18, 19, 20—Appeals. Nov. 21—Appeal motions. e „ nd Nov. 22—Petition day, unopposed petitions 6 peals. Nov. 23—Appeals. Nov. 25—Appeal mctions and appeals. (Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRI:IC./ At Westminster. Nov. 2—Motions. At Lincoln's Inn. Nov. 4—Petition day. Nov. s—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions , c further directions. Nov. 6—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. nd Nov. 7—Motions. 0 01 Nov. —Pleas, demurrers, exceptions , cs' 1 , further directions. d e ti"" Nov. 9—Short causes claims for hearing , an aPoseill° Nov. 11, 12—Pleas, demurrers, exception s ' c" further directions. Nov. 13—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. nl Nov. 14—Motions. us el' Nov. 15—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, c$ further directions. and P e ' Nov. 16—Short causes, claims for hearing, nons. Nov. 18, 19—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, °Liu ars,s further directions. Nov. 20—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. st d Nov. 21—Motions. ti „ seo Nov. 22—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions , c" further directions. „d Nov. 23—Short causes, claims for hearing, lions. 1 ,0) (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir B.•A' °- At Westminster. Nov. 2—Motions. At Lincoln's Inn. P i Nov. 4—General petition day. . 0 0-1 Nov. 5, 6—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, c" further directions. Nov. 7—Motions. a nd i° Nov. B—Short causes, claims for hearing, p by order. elc e P tl Nov. 9, 11, 12, 13—Pleas, demurrers' causes, and further directions. 1311' .fl Nov. 14 —Motions. fir°' Nov. 15—Petition day, unopposed petit ions causes, and claims for hearing. r od ° Nov. 16, 18, 19, 20—Pleas, demurrers, e causes, and further directions. a yal Nov. 21—Motions. first, Nov. 22—Petition day, unopposed petitions 0 0c 1 causes, and claims for hearing. , a nsch Nov. 23—Pleas, demurrers, exception s ) further directions. Nov. 25—Motions. RAILWAY SHARE MARI° BRISTOL, OCT. 31. v eil 4 ble STOCK EXCITANGE.—Ihe market to-day wa ' etedftet 4 and but a small am o u n t o f b us i ness was trans' and was confined to the G rea t W es t ern a nd 13risto l shares, but without LI Vy an alteration in price. ERPOOL, Ocr . 31. i 5 1 0 0 0 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened t' eo ehDf heavily, and continued so throughout the day' lace . of f at the close, when a alight improvement too k ~ tioll•o r lv business of the day was rather g -- ood. The trans ' 440 as follow :—East Lan cas hi re , B%L an cashire shire, Consolidated, 4534 —Ditto, Fifths, 77 : g cl + p r s and North-Western, 117 1 ,4—Ditto, New (P ar "; —Ditto, Fifths, c. p.--Ditto Quarters (C ), cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, c t ; 0° ri i 61. New Preference, 1 ,1, p.—Midl a nd, 41 , 4 --D it 3 l, 5 1j !ties 224(, dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 131. s s' (A), s—South-Eastern and Dover, 19%-lori''Yor", n oot , and Berwick, Preference (unp a id up), 4 1 4 North Midland, 21. 1 / 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 5 1-16 diSr Crosby, and Stockport, 2 3 4 dis. rifl t MANCHESTER, OCT. 31. teatpo STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was only a m odell - t , t iorL ii % of business done to-day, and pri c es are t o l era bilt;,,st,r o o; The transactions were as follow :—Caled on ian, It cashire, B! , —Great Northern, 13'4—L an cashire 5- 1 ll shire, 4ti Ditto, Fifths, 7 s , , dis.—Ditto, 20/.1 ( F d n ' ti doPd dis —Ditto (West Riding Union), 7 5-16 dis.„, -- ",:ter 6 o lP North-Western, Manchester and Birmingham , ' 4ll .;;Vc/ 2 1 / 8 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3 ,16 10 Quarters (No. 1), 9 , 4—Ditto, 101. Preference, b_tisiiire;sp, Ditto, New 61 Preference, 3s. p.—North Sarrt)bitto 11-16 c. dis —South-Eastern and Dower, 19','4 6 1 ,4' 4), Registered, 6 9-16—Whitehaven and Furness ao, BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 31. dull Wee / STOCK EXCHANGL—The share Market Wa s A t tO of eti . and prices were a shade lower than yesterdaY• ift6 o rtli . of the Stock Exchange quotations soniewha ,s„Li The only transactions reported were Western, 116%—Midland, 414. 8 5 YORK, °cr. 30. 'ere itiL STOCK EXCHANCE.—The transactions to - day , p er low :—North British, 6%—Y or k, Newcastle, 6 16/. 6s. 3d. London +• O ° 1 00 HALF-A. CROWN, PLEASE!—An illiteratenclet,id tried to make the officials understand that er l :, -0 t'se t i wife had, he had heard, left him a legacy, and to know the rights o 'it." H e gave the name an date of the death, and a clerk retired under 4/i)011.8 searching for the d ocumen t. I n a ver y short i lf-s'f, r ii 3/ , turned with "No such will in the place - " b a n, please." " Halt-a-croone ?" said the country';, vor?" " Half-a-crown," repeated the clerk- „,! telling me nought ?" " Half-a-crown !" was 7:0f. e . 10 0 " with a load explosion, over the stiff embrae u ,;,:esr f sig! cravat. " But darn me if of pay't," persisted gent 0 0 11 00' legatee. " Half-a-crown !" The countryma n n e he ing a storm in the office, in the midst of NC hie'. r ;6l a- crown" minute guns were discharged with se' e o plie ffo Coiu l rity. At length, however, the agriculturist Wt g e succumb, and after a mighty Obit to disinter taliuge g D y under a smock-frock, and out of the depths of a ',.o(o e itlg' and a leather purse, the p oor man was o bliged t o P eso"tios pay over what was prob a bly a fif t h o f his at teo o ,l, This circumstance having attracted Mr. Wal I aflato r 'd rl e and pity, he took a note of the name of the t , a 1 1 ,7 after the inquirer had l e f t , f oun d i t i n the Cale got il`& -r bt lei' and-by, by dint of a littl e manoeuvr i ng , h a d ' - '" ell will. In it lie actually found that the poorj man 1- , a small legacy. —Dickens's Household Words. o f Pr ( I 0` BLACKBUR N Tu RN -OUTS.—TIIP Spinn er ' - o t, Alstead and Co., of Water -street, will continue ° ri ce d iere u , present there appears no likelihood of the amicably settled. The selt.acting v, - if of 3 , 1 ' 0 , 6° resumed work. and have obtained an advance °L., fit' some cases, per cent.— Manchester Guardia"' re illp , IMPORTATION OF HORSERADISH.— l el able b importation has just taken place by a ve sse ,, l os o urgh, consisting of the large quantity of 1, 04 ' pl' ee. f eg e horseradish, consigned to order, the produce of tli e r of 0 01 . ' large an importation of this esculent which a s e' 3 c°l3 h ta a b s le ne i N s .e n r o b t efo li r a e b t l a e k t e o n d p u l tL e o . n importation, into ti ll i f et e S sl/11 TANNING THE HIDE.—A tanner ne-- „ /0 1 0 Norfolk, invited the supervisor to dine with Di g o "; to°,teli pushing the bottles about briskly, the super v ' s , i fortV, leave ; but in passing through the tan-yard, be so,'" 4o o'i fell into a vat, and called lustily for the tannf: " t he " t "ice, , to get him out, but to no purpose; " for," e''"„rs' 11 , ° , 1 0 " if I draw any hides without giving twelve h°, l ol o ' shall be exchequered and ruined; but I'llgo 1 ° - t , 00 0 1 exciseman." in, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A remarkable u - ,. vie CU' 01: Town by H o ll oway ' s Pill s and Ointment.—Mal°' 0011°,,,50, Wellington-bridge, Hobart Town, writes tha tf t Pi A e o ' r tl!i Pills and Ointment enjoy high reputation in Land ; he speaks of one man who for ears had be-P di 6e i ' e r s o l3 l treatment of the medical practitioners, and ‘` .ls t y ) from the hospital as incurable, and ha beenn le „ ° t t: 0 0 " i s f emaciated and weak that he could only move ar' u od' o - letf . ,' assistance of persons supporting him. In th ‘ 9 4:r e° l ;; lt '. l' commenced using these medicines, which have t o ut, use i t o the renovated his health that he is now become looking man, and his cure he solely attributes , t a ioto,, , :n. Holloway's Pills and Ointment. Sold by all drriAir" Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strl" BIRTHS. Cle l ri' .1 , L a dy ft OF A SON. U On the 2Sth ult., at Sp a , th e Ch a rles ..- e i l jag e On the 22d ult., a t P ec kf or t on ,Cheshirc , tR- Tolletnache, Esq, M.P. At . :, _'Ogg i fl illi OF t DAUGHTER. On the 29th ult., in Hill-street, the Hon. Laui f p t t. '' On the 30th ult., in Chester-street, the wife °' jun., Esq., M.P. l)e r i Oc t° 0 1 , of 1 i At Winterton, Norfolkfiong'llutpsda the 29t- - 00 e, ~ 0- by the Rev. John Nelson, rector of .' the s _ 3ll ;e . oil d 6° A i. fatker of the bride, William Burgle "fume , f'e r Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P ,to Eliza G. Nelson. lo ci, !VP On the 29th ult., at Mare-street . Chapel, 11 .„ ac ,,,, t ie V JJ ' '' nand, only son of M. Fleurus Arnvot, of lb a ,'," ji,l4'' t . Paris, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Georg (:)".' vi eo:,,i of Grove-street South Hackney. n, bto On the 29th , ult., at St. James's, p a dding jsog Mathieson, Esq., of Glasgow, to Letitia, eldl t par } ‘" J. Maynard, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace, IlYue- ollr on" DIED Afvdd let r On the 25th ult., John Greenall, Esq , of -- ' , lit e dit tl b Charlotte' ro:. Lancashire, aged 47. On the 27th ult., at Tunbridge wells, Stall A 01 of the late William Lu,hington, Esq. Tip 1 ver'' Oa the 29th ult., at Bloomfield, near . 0 1 ) , r. 00 shire , aged 70, Mary, relict of the late fi r ' il idg e ' Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire. . h t., i,"en.- ... j i On the 29th ult., in blontpelicr-square., . p e r* Captain Thomas Roberts, formerly of the dis' 0 0 5, t e fantry aged 50. i.l e orge On the 25th ult., at Upper Clapton , Air ' George o i , of Kingsland- road, aged 52 ......._—__—. ol e o v. -Stx. 1 ~ ........ L )ndon : Printed and Published by MlJlW o flice " 1 :;t1 ° No. 112. Strand, Printer, at- The Su , ' ~,tl4; 4 " (1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa Yo r t Widlefiezi LidaY, Dl9vembe; b 16A 1 TUE IN Thq Vill ht ltc the 13th Tat That th, 1 , 4 8 1 - 11 Fr And OPEN That u; P,aYatAk o; th lizEta o , oT follotrli °r „)ttra,,,et A pi cc I;' si ren e Foil v ellpati er Pr ivate rile Ro al 'r ,The r Y e . I),e ral Th d totlee or a The 'r 04 , 1, er der f o r I'a °face 01 4th, (1.44