The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

ourtblßbitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, ITALY. A letter from Rome of the 21st ult., in the Nazio nale of Florence, states that an encyclic letter, ad dressed by the Pope to the bishops, is in the press, as also the concession of a Cannel! of State, a new system of municipalities, and a pastoral letter to all the generais of the religious order. GERMANY. The Vienna papers of the 27th ult. mention cer tain plans which the Emperor is asserted to entertain respecting the increase and efficiency of the Austrian fleet. It is intended within the next 10 years to raise that fleet to six vessels of the line, six frigates, and a proportionate number of smaller craft., and to establish dockyards at Pula and Trie3te. The ex pense of this plan is estimated at 80,000,000 florins. The latest calculations show that, notwithstanding the large sales of the last year, there are no less than 120 000,000 of Austrian stock in the hands of foreign holdeas, chiefly in Holland, Frankfurt, Basle, and Augsburg. Holland especially has large quantities of Austrian paper, fur that country sells tobacco to the Austrian Government. From the Austrian and Italian papers we learn that the members of the Order of the Society of Jesus have been publicly and officially recalled to the Austrian dominions. The Verona papers publish Radetzky's brevet Gf installation which he granted to the members of the order ; similar measures are taken in the other provinces. A large college, Like to that of Freiburg, is about to be established in Bohemia, and missions, chiefly for educational purposes, are being founded in Prague, Olmutz, Bud weiss, Linz, Wiener Neustadt, Gratz, Salzburg, Cilli, Innsbruck, Bregenz, Trent, Gorz, Agram, Zara, Arad, Pesth, Lemberg. and Krakau. The Berlin papers of the 28th ult. assert that the Prussian Government bas informed the other mem bers of the League, that on the whole it sees no objection why it should not assent to the resolutions of the Erfurt Parliament, respecting the revision of the Constitution of the League, and that it is left to the other Governments to prefer any objections they may have to make. Baron Radowitz, it is asserted, is instructed to make a similar declaration to the Ad ministrative Council. The National Zeitung of the 29th asserts that a general order has been issued, instructing the soldiers to take off the German cockade, and threatening them with arrest if they should venture to disobey the order. It is stated by other Berlin papers that the soldiers divested themselves of the German cockade amidst loud cheering and various other signs of satis faction. The same news of a general order abolishing that cockade has reached us from Hanover. The Berlin papers endeavour to establish a con nexion between this gen2ral order, between the pro rogation of the Erfurt Parliament, and the simul taneous withdrawal of the Russian and Austrian troops from the Prussian frontier. EXCHEQUE tt.-(T HIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Pitus, at:Westuainster, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and a Common Jury.) RARMSWORTH V. SOLOMONS. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for false imprisonment. Mr. Martin, Mr. E. James, and ,Mr. Bramwell ap peared for the plaintiff, and •the defence was conductAl by Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Finn. Mr. MARTIN stated the case to the jury. The plaintiff was a young girl, aged 16, and the defendant, Abraham Solomons, was a furrier, carrying on business at 3, Little Britain, and the action was brought to re cover damages for false imprisonment on the Ist of February last, when the plaintiff, at the instance of the defendant, was taken into custody, and detained at the station-house all night, but was .discharged on being brought before the Alderman, at Guildhall, on the fol lowing morning. If the facts which he should state Were proved in evidence, this would turn out to be one of the grossest proceedings which had ever been dis closed in a court of justice, more especially as it had been taken under the guise cf the law. The plaintiff, who was an orphan girl, had lived in Hampshire until the end of last year. She then came to London and entered the service of the defendant as a domestic servant, and soon afterwards his son Joseph commenced snaking suit to her; aril on a Sunday eight, or on a Monday morning in that month, she found him in her bedroom. Whin: took place there was not material, but she complained next day to two lanale friends on the sub ject, bUt by their aivice the matter was allowed to pass over, and she remained in defendant's house until that day week, when, according to her statement, he again entered her room at night, stupified her by piecing something over her mouth, and succeeded in violating her person. She communicated the circumstance to hie mother. The jury would see in what way she - was treated. The next step in the transaction was to call in a policeman named Weed), to whom the son, it seemed, went and said his father required him to take a young woman into custody who had stolen a quantity of hank-notes. The police officer attended at the defendant's house; and after some conversation, which would be detailed in evidence, she was given into custody for stealing a small fur vicorine, which the defendant valued at 3s. The unfortunate girl hereupon fell down on her knees and begged the son who had so ill-treated her not to allow her to go to prison, but she was taken to the eta. tioe-howe, and as he hid already stated, was locked up in a cell all night. When brought up at Guildhall next morning she gave her account of the occurrence, and the consequence was, that she was acquitted of the charge, and the young man was placed at the bar for having attempted to violate her person. The case was adjourned nniit the next Friday, and the prisoner was liberated on hail. Ilse girl IN as placed in the charge ef a Mrs. Bradshaw, and in the meantime re peated applications were made to her to settle the mat ter; and it appeared that a meeting of the parties was held at a public-house in Hatton-garden, where a written agreement was executed to the effect that, by the payment of fifty pounds to the girl, she should exonerate the defendant from all claims in respect of tho occurrence, and should not appear again at Guildhall rigaitot his son. It appeared that the 501. was paid to Mrs. Bradshaw. The girl accordingly did not go before the magistrate at the adjourned ex imina lion, but went to Gravesend or _Deptford to be out of the way, and the defendant's son took advantage of the op portunity to go abroad, and had not since been hears:! of, and his recognizunces had accordingly been estreated. The brother of the plaintiff, Charles Ilarrnsworth, bad seen the report of the examination at Guildhall in a S un d a y newseaper, and is as determined that the case should to farther investigated, but, us the young man had absconded, lie had instituted the present action as her guardian, to recover compensation for the injnry she had sustaiued in consequence of the false imprisonment. The defence which would be sre up ems, that the defendant had released 'himself from all !lability by entering into this agreement with the plaintiff, who received the 501. in lull satisfaction of any claim in respect of the false im prisonment, but as she was under age she was incom petent to be a party to the agreement, which, therefore, became null and void. . Henry Webb, one oY the City police officers, proved having teen requested on the I 1 th cf February, by iniseph Solomous, to go to Ne. 3, Little Britain, as his hither had lost some five-pound notes, and suspected the servant. He asked him why he suspected her, and he said, because she was going to leave their service. On geieg to the house in question, ho there saw Mr. t:lolornoes, his wife, his daughter, and his sou. The son appeared t be about twenty-four years of age. They said they had lost a silver spoon, which they suspected the.giti had token. The girl was called into the room, and,"on , being asked by the defendant where the spoon was.,'she declared to God she knew nothing about it. rr.-Selemens said the spoon was marked '• Abraham Sedomonr;" and she r e pli e d, " Do you th nk if I was go ing to steal a spoon I would take one with a name on it, when there are plenty without any names upon them ?" .ri4 defendant th en as k ed her if she had seen t h e notes • Which were in the pocket-book, and she declared that she had not. He next alluded to a victorine, which his spa had wound in her roam, and wished to know where it wa s. The girl said she had found it in the chast• hole, and thinking that it might be of some use, had taken it up to her room, but as it turned out to be worthless, she placed it again where she had found it. Witness examined the dusthole, and there found the article in question, which he now produced. The vie :mine, which was a miserably small one, and full of Wes, was here exhibited, and excited some amusement id the cou rt. The defendant then gave h er i nto custody for the victorine . The gi r l ex clouted, t h s i s ted il'g would not have happened had i t ter Joseph." Witness . asked h er t ilb been for Alas what she meant , and she said . 4 b e came into my bed room at night and effected m! he ru w in e .' n ' t d W o h w e n n o unitn h e e s r s *as , about to take her away, 4, For God's sake, Master knees to the son and said, jbgePh, don't let we go " to prison after seducing me." Ile r e pli e d, " Oh, you will do anything , and put his Maids behind his back and walke d u p stairs. Sh e added to me, that about a week ago ho came into he r *A put his hands over her mouth, and endeavoured to effect her ruin, .but she screamed out, and hi s sister, echo slept close by, in qu ired what w he replied - that beup the servant. She only calling aiio said that on theasS he Caine again to a h u her nose, which took e ti r cl Sunday r o e o v in i tt somethingthis conversa tion.ov e b ee r ruin ; and on tellingw." her senses, and then effe c ted his mother of what had happened,she only Observed ' " I supp ose h e has not killed stated a little, end h e .was ab:ut to take her a way she re obliged to carry her down stairs. The aye of the plaintiff was app bout 16 years. She was loaked up in a cell wits a drunk en „ orn „, b, cause all the other cells were uroae c p a„.--d;b7sWm-e-d -so agitated that it was thought tiaeauo-eniepda'n, of a drunken partneeleici:-(A, laugh.) The woman was better than none the police gs atrehension of Witness then detailed the il ble to hear of court, an'd said he had a warrant for the the defendant's son, but had not yet beeenaPa hire. Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS —I attended Bevis relaicces at Guildhall. On the first and second the plaintiff was p resent, b at she did not nea a n d e °cell h e t n pearance afterward s . I was sent in search of her, e and at at last found her st a yi ng w i th her sister, Mrs,Graves, T it hes was on the 24th F e b ruary. I had beenlookirng y f e her about a week. I had some conversation with her. asked her where she h a d b een, and she said to Gray.teslo end with Mrs. Bradsha w , w h o i s the landlady of h house where Mrs. Graves Urea. I asked her why she THE went there, and she said in order to get out of the way of her brothers, who came and wanted the money she ha.d got. She said she had received 501. tram Solo mons' people, because she should not bring an action f fAlse imprisonment. I told her it was wrong to take the money. I requested her to attend at the police court, but she raid she did not wish to prosecute. She came on the following Tuesday to Guildhall with Mrs. Brads haw, but as young Solomons was not present, the case w as adjourned. Evidence in corroboration of the proceedings at the statiorelouse and the police-court having been given, the case h nr the plsintiff concluded. It a as admitted, on the part of the defendant, that the plaint lir was under age. Mr. CAMBERS, for the defence, said the real plaintiffs in thie action were the brothers of the young girl, and the de fondant complained of the extortion which they were a ttempting to practice upon him after he had al ready amply compensated the plaintiff. That their only object was to get money was placed beyond doubt, because it appeared that the plaintiff hersclf had gone to Gravesend in order to avoid her brothers, who wanted„ to get a share of the 50L which she had obtained from the defendant. The stritement as to the defendant's son having made her insensible with some drug, and then violated her person, was a pure invention for the purpose of exciting the prejudice of the jury against the c'efendant; but as the defendant had suffered great anguish of mind in consequence of this action, and had given the girl 501. with the view of being exonerated from further liability, he trusted that the jury would not sanction such a pro ceeding as the present by giving a verdict for the The Learned JUDGE having summed up, The jury retired, and after being absent for >a consi derable time, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 501. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. BIRTH OF A PRINCE.—ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose and said—My Lords, I have to propose before we proceed to the con sideration of any other subject, a metion to which I am sure that your Lordships will willingly yield prece dence.—(Hear, leer.) It is in allusion to an event which occurred yesterday morning. —(Hear, hear., I am sure that your Lordships will feel that it is subject of congratulation to your Lordships, in coin ' mon with all classes of the community in this country, that her Majesty should have given birth to a Prince.— (Hear, hear.) All classes of the country, lam sure, join with your Lordships in congratulating her Majesty upon this increase to:her domestic happiness, and I will not therefore detain your Lordships longer, but will propose that a humble address be presented to her Ma jesty, con g r a t u l at i ng her Majesty upon the birth of a Prince.—(Cheers.) • The Duke of RICHMOND said—ln my own name, and in the name of those Noble Lords who sit on this side of the House, I beg to express our hearty con currence in the expressions of grateful congratulation to her Majesty, and I second the motion. The motion was then agreed to nemine contradicente. PETITIONS.—AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition in favour of the Ten Hours Bill from Yorkshire; also a petition from Morayshire complaining of agricultural distress. The farmers could not grew wheat at the present prices, and were laying down their lands in grass. He had rather cultivate the whole of his estates himself than trust to cotton Manchester men to cultivate them. It was an insult to the farmers to tell them that local distress existed, but that the whole state of the country was satisfactory. The repeal of the duties on bricks was no aid to the farmer. There were more bricks in one manufacturing chimney than in many agricultural cottages. The farmer was bound to pay a certain amount of ,property-tax, while the manufacturer only paid upon what; ho chose to return as his profits. Such a course of proceeding would affect the loyalty of the farmers , . He had to present seve • ral petitions from various members of the agricultural in terest, praying for a return to the principles of protec tion. Be asked the farmers not to be violent, but per severing, and to show that when the yeomanry put their shoulder to the wheel they could not be driven from the point by a body of Manchester manufacturers. So long as the present rate of taxation continued, so long as faith was kept with the public creditor, the farmer could not compete with the foreigner. Nu remission cf a small portion of taxation would put the farmer in the same position as he would be if he bad adequate pro tection. If they persevered in this course 01 proceed ing, they would have a recurrence of such acts of vio lence as had recently taken place in the county of Warwick, which he rejoiced to say had bean put down by the rural police. Earl GREY said in 1844, a Sussex farmer had drawn attention to the fact that at that time 70 farms were ad vertised for sale in Sussex, showing that agricultural distress was then under a system of protection, even greater than it was at present in 1850, under a system of tree•trade. The real weight which had broken the neck of the British' farmer was the miscalled protection under which he was oppressed. The existing arrange. ment with regard to the property-tax payable by the farmer, had been adopted at the sug gestion of the party with which his Noble Friend acted. and he himself, as a free trader, bad opposed it. The farmer who expended large sums in the improve ment of his farm suff:red from the rule, while those who did not improve paid nothing in good years. The Duke of ARGYLE thought undue stress had been laid upon the expression of the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) that free trade was an experiment. It was extremely difficult to procure the repeal of a prin ciple when it was contained in an Act of Parliament, and he could not consider that this was an experiment to be watched, or tbat the principle could be easily reverse!, and he came to the conclusion thee the experiment, if such it could be called, could not be re versed at any moment they pleased. Ile considered the present to bo an exceptional state of things, and thtte they could not argue as to the permanent price of agricultural produce from the present time. The same complaints of ,the low price of agricultural produce were made in France, that the Noble Duke made in this country, and there fore he concluded that the present state of matters was exceptional. At the same this state of affairs showed that money cheapness might go too far, a principle which was acknowledged by all authorities on this subject. If the present state of affairs was to be considered permanent, considerable changes must be made in the distribution of the public burdens of this country. It had been admitted by Lord John Russell before the re peal of the Corn-laws by Sir R. Peel, that in the event of that repeal there must be some relief given to the agricultural interest from the burdens which pressed upon them, and he thought that some different method of apply ing the property-fax on the farmer should be adopted. The Earl of FEVERSHAM denied that the present state of agricultural distress was 'exceptional. There was no chance of any improvement taking place so long as a free-trade policy should be continued. Was it. just, he would ask, to continue the present duty upon malt? That tax was paid by the agricultural interest both as producers and as consumers, for they were great consumers of malt.—(flear, hear.) The agricul turists were the most loyal and the best class of community, and their petitions had not been treated with the respect to which they were entitled. The dis tress among the agriculturists was general and universe throughout the county. The Earl of S. GERMAINS admitted the existence f distress among:the owners and occupiers of land, but as he was convinced that a return to a system of protection was an impossibility, he believed that he was no friend to the farmers who taught them to expect it.—(Hear.) He believed that the repeal of the system had preseived this couctry from those revolutions which had devas tated the rest of Europe. The present state of the agri cultural interest was, he believed, an exceptional state, for he found that the state of agricultnral distress was even greater in European countries under the protective system, such ns France, than it was in this country. Ho believed that the stocks of corn in Europe and America were nearly exhausted. Prices were rising in New York, and it was the apprehension that we might return to a protective system that had caused our markets to be deluged with foreign corn, and which kept down the price at present in this country. He thought it was the duty of Government to inquire into the bur dens upon the agricultural interest, and to remove those which pressed unjustly, but he considered those were the worst enemies of the agricultural interest, who en couraged them to indulge a hope that we should ever return to a system of protection. (LEFT EPEAEING.) HOUSE -----...-- OF COMMONS. The • ,PEABER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. for Lymingtov,EMßEß. Mr. IR:Tennis, the n M iok the oath s an d his seat, THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were r c e o ad a third time:— Colonization IV:suranco Bill; Nottingham of Bill ; Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of G m lat any Freemen's Allotments Bill; Ro oCwollege f Amend of Edinburgh Bill; and Suuth-E 3 ls a te Surgeons meat of Acts, Powers to raise Additrinonßaaliljaapyit(al) Bill. PETITIONS. petition f rom Dundee Mr. DUNCAN pres e nt e d a against the Scoth Sanitary Bill. Mr. C. LUSIIINGTON presented a petition from Bethnal-green in favour of sanitary re f orm. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from Manchester in favour of au eleven hours Bill. Mr. STANSFIELD presented a similar petition. Mr. ALCOCK presented a petition in favour of medi cal reform. Mr. COIZNEWALL LEWIS presented a petition in Li your of the passing of au efficient h 4 alth Bill. Mr. LITTLE VON presented a IA tition against the Marriage Bill. Mr. F. SCOTT presented a petition from the Presby tery of Dunse against t he Scotch poor-laws. Mr. DEEDES presented a petition f..om the Isle of Thunet praying for an alteration in the imposition of the income-tax, fur an imposition of duties on all manufac tured produce, and fora reduction in the salaries of public officials. M r. F. O'CONNOR presented a p e:ition from Staf fordshire for the appointment of a general mining in sPector; also petition from Glasgow in favour of a ten hours Billa Captina Fi favour of an Tzrtoy presented several petitions in Colonel extension of the county courts. A 'MAWS° AT presented several petitions from the clergy of the metropolis in favour of the Ex tramural Interments Act. Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition from Spalel.: ing praying for the imposition of duties on imported produce. Mr. FOX presented a petition from Walbrook in favour of the Bill prohibiting intramural interments; also a number of petitions in favour of national arbi tration. The O'GORMAN MAHON presentel a petition from the medical men of Ennis in favour of the Medical . Charities Bill. Numerous petitions were presented against Sunday Labour in the Post-effice. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Hastings against the window tax. Mr. SULLIVAN presented a petition from attorneys and solicitors cf the city of Kilkenny for the repeal of the annual certificlte tax. Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, praying exemption from their annual certificate duty. Lord JOHN MANNERS presented 17 petitions from places in Lancashire in favour of a ten hours Bill. Mr. GREENALL presented a similar petition from a place in Scotland. Sir IL WILLOUGHBY presented a similar petition from Bolton. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a similar petition from the factory workers of Belfast. Mr. MACGREGOR presented a similar petit:on from Glasgow. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented a petition from Chelsea in favour of the Extramural Burials Bill. Mr. MACKINNON presented a similar petition from the Tower Hamlets. Mr. HUME presented a petition to tl a same effect from Marylebone. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the Chamt er of Commerce of Manchester on the subject of the pro duction of cotton in India. The petition stated that the industry of Lancashire depended for its raw materials upon one marker, namely, the United States, and pointed out the importance of opening up a second rearkst. The petition also stated that, notwithstanding that many costly experiments had been made by the East India Company to encourage the growth of cotton in India, no sensible production of cotton had yet been accomplished, and the petition therefore prayed the House to take into its serious con sideration the propriety of sending out a Commission to the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, for the purpose of ascertaining what were the real obstacles to the culti vation of that plant in India. The Hon. Gentleman gave notice that to-morrow he should move that the petition be printed with the votes, with the view of founding a motion upon it.—(Hear.) Mr. HENRY presented a petition from AsLton-under- Lyne in favour of secular education. Mr. HUME presented seven similar petitions from places in Scotland. Mr. SCULLY presented a petition from shareholders in the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail way Company praying for an inquiry into the conduct of their directors. Mr. HUME presented a petition from East Cowes praying for the abolition of church-rates. Mr. BANKES presented several petitions against Post-office labour on Sundays. The HON. MEMBER also presented two petitions from attorneys in the county of Dorset against the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. CARDWELL presented a similar petition. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented petitions from in habitants of London in favour of the Bill for extramural interments. Mr. SLANEY presented similar 'petitions from Clerk enwell, Fulham, and St. Margaret's, Westminster. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from Hackney praying that the Health of Towns Bill might be extended to that suburb. Mr. HERBERT presented a petition from Ireland, numerously signed by landowners, merchants, and others, praying for certain alterations in the Encumbered Es tates Bill. LABOURING POOR (IRELAND). Sir D. NORREYS moved for a return (in continuz don of Parliamentary Paper, No. 30, of Session 1849) of the several cases in which the the Lords of the Trea sury had sanction, under the Act of 11 and 12 Vic., e. 51, the conversion of annuities created by the Act 10 and 11 Vic., c. 87, and the terms on which such con versions had been made; showing in each case of con version, since the 3d day of November, 1848, the total compound sum charged against each barony, &c., at the time f conversion, and the amount of each converted instalment.—Agreed to. EVICTIONS IN GALWAY. Mr. O'FLAHERTY asked the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland whether any provision had been made by the Poor-law Commissioners si ith respect to the enormous pressure that would arise on the poor-rates from the displacement of 618 families in the union of Galway? Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he would make inquiries on the subject, and give the Hon. Member an answer on a future ''ay. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATES.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented a petition from the solicitors of Carlisle, praying for a remission of the Attorneys' certificate duty. Sir Y. THESIGER felt the greatest pleasure in ex pressing Lord R h . is Gr acknowledgments osv e n or) , by whom to the t h s No Bill Noble Lord iiad been introduced for the great and disinterested exertions he had long made to relieve the solicitors from a tax which pressed so heavily upon them. He (Sir F. Thesiger) knew, with regard to him reit, that he was open to the imputation of different me - lives; but he was quite prepared to bear that imputation, and he should not have come forward to second the motion of the Noble Lord if he had not thought that justice ; imperatively demanded that the House should pass the Bill now before it. He had sought to find what the reason for the imposition of this tax could be, and he thought he was entitled to say that the onus of establishing this tax rested upon those who either imposed it or who were instrumental in keeping it on. It apretred that it was first imposed in 1785, a hen the Minister Ras extremely anxious to obtain money to cover the expenses cf a long and calamitous war. and finding all the objects of taxation were occupied or exhausted, he proposed to lay a tax upon all the shops of the kingdom. That tax was considered by many Members of the House as objectionable, but, instead of opposing it in a straightforward manner, they took the incautious step of proposing another tax in its place. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of that day being thus placed in a difficulty between the two, cut the Gordian knot by imposing both the taxes, and in the same year the tax on shopkeepers and the tax on attorneys were imposed. But mark the difference. Mr. Fox never ceased to agitate for the abolition of the shop-tax, as being unjust and partial, and in three sessions succeeded in getting rid cf it; but the case of attorneys was quite different. Since then, from time to time the duty hadi been in creased. Like the criminal of old, who was pressed heavily with weights till ho cried out guilty, the attorney had been taxed till he could bear the pressure no longer, and now he was compelled to cry out against it. At one period their was considerable prejudice against attorneys, but happily that prejudice was rapidly disap pearing, and now that the House and the country had set its face ugainst class taxation they called upon Par liament to give them some relief, if the duty was not altogether abolished. There was no such tax imposed upon barristers or nardie al men, though he ought to be cautious of reminding a Chan cellor of the Exchequer. No class of the community was so heavily taxed as attorneys. In the first place, the attorney, before he ceuld practice, had to pay 12u1. stamp duty on his articles, and 251. for the fees of his admis sion; while the stamp duty imposed upon him after he was permitted to practice amounted to more than 4 per cent, on his annual profits. The tax was therefore most excessive and unjust, and the conditions of its imposition were equally oppressive. The law re quired that the duty, before the Ist of September every year, and in 1849 no leas than 595 were unable to pay the duty within the time pre. scribed, while 190 had failed to pay it altogether. Well, it might be said, so much the better since the country had Honourableon this occasion? the fewer a tt orneys, but was that a fair argument to use wouldrtin lnot; he u and nfe e nhge enoughhoped n t o o Member Certainly make use of it.—(Cries of " Hear, hear, " and a laugh.) He 'had now gone t h roug h the grounds on which he thought this tax ought to be repealed, and he considered that no valid reason, only it should be continued. The acquiescence of attornics in this tax for a considerable time, was no reason for asserting that it should be con tinued, because if the burden had been unjustly and improperly imposed 'upon them, they were entitled to its repeal. He should give the Noble Lord his sup port on the present occasion, and hoped he would per severe with his motion for the repeal of the tax. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the motion. He would not enter into the arguments of the Hon. and and Learned Gentleman, and it was suffi cient to state on the present occasion, that the tax was an existing one, and that he was not prepared to aban don it. The question was not whether this duty pressed heavily on attornics, but whether the whole burden of taxation was unjustly imposed. The same injustice might be attributed to many other taxes, such as that on horses, &c., but if ho were to adopt reductions in particUlar cases he would be called upon to remit as many taxes as would amount to a milli on a - 3 ear. He did not wish to prejudice the impartial consideration of this question in some future year, but con s id er i ng the reductions which had lately been made in taxation, plained that he had only said that horse•dealers paid a license, and that might be a hardship to that class as much as the certificate duty was to attornies. After a few words from Colonel CHATTERTON, I which were inaudible, . Colonel SIBTHORPE said he wishel to compel the Chancellor of the Exchequer to return to those irn important commercial duties which, in his (Colonel Sib thorde's) opinicn, were very industriously and incau tiously taken off. It was only by such a Bill as this that the House could bring Chancellors of the Exchequer properly to discharge their duties. Ho thought the Noble Lord opposite (Lord B. Grosvenor): was fully justified in seeking to relieve attorneys from this tax. The gallery was then cleared, and the House divided, when there appeared, For the motion .........155 Against it 136 Majority in favour of it •.., •-19 The motion was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be brought in. BUSINESS FOR TO-MORROW. Mr. DISRAELI wished to know what business would be taken to-morrow? Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed to take the pis trenel Unions (Ireland) Bill and the Parliamentary Franchise (Ireland) Bill on the first orders tomorrow and on ➢tonday.: he 4 ha first order he proposed to take was the Austra lian Colonies Government Bill. COUNTY COURT EXTENSION BILL. On the motio'i f)r going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. KEOGH rose to move that it be an instruction to the Committee to extend its operation to Ireland. It might ho said be urged against this motion that it was not competent for him to move it, that ho ought to introduce a separate Bill for the purpose he had in view, but he apprehended their would be no difficulty in accomplishing his object in the manner he propose i if the object itself met with the approval of the House. The reasons which pre vailed for the extension of county courts i n England were twice as strong in Ireland, and he hoped when he told the House the next benefits the measure Would confer upon the sister king dom it would have no hesitation in adopting his motion. Finding that none of the objections that had been raised to the extension of the County Courts Bill in England existed in Ireland, he could not see what objection there could be to make it an instruction to the Committee to extend the operation of the Bill to Ireland, by giving the Assistant Barristers's Courts in that country jurtsdction- to the extent of fifty pounds. He could could not see why an Assistant Barrister' in Ireland should be only paid 4001. a year, while the Judge of a county court in this country was allowed upwards of 1,000/. Sir G. .GREY did not see how the provisions of this Bill could be extended to Ireland. His Honourable Friend the Secretary for Ireland would shortly intro duce a Bill on the subject relative to Ireland, and in the discussion of that measure the suggestions of the Honourable Member might be repeated. It it was the general wish of the House, on the part of the Govern ment, he world say that no further opposition would be offered to the extension of the jurisdiction of the county courts from 201. to 501. After some further discussion the motion was with drawn, awl the House went into Committee on the Bill, (LEFT BITTING.) CRICKET. E LEVEN OF ENGLAND V. IWENTY-TWO OF CARLISLE AND DISTRICT. l ' hiS grand match (the first of the season), which was commenced at Carlisle on Tuesday, was resumed yesterday, and at the close of the day the score stood as follows: ENGLAND FIRST INNINGS. Adams;b Lawrence 0 Clarke, b Wright ... Parr, run out Box, b Thompson Chattertoli, b Anderson N. Felix, Esq., b Thompson ..................12 A. blynn, E s 1 , , b Anderson 4 Guy, b Wright A 1, not out lartingel ... 4 33 Wisden, b Lawrence Ilillyer, b Wright . .. __ 0 *es, 12; wide, 13; no ball, 5 gO Total 207 CARLISLE - FIRST INNINGS. ___ ..... .., Wright, b Hillyer yer 0 Lawrence, c Felix, b Hillyer Mr. J. Scott, run out Mr. Anderson, b Wisden Thompson, Esq., b Wisden W. Moncrieff, Esq., b Wisden •• 3 Mr. J. Hewett, c Felix, b Hillier .... 0 P.ESmith, 1 b w, b Hillyer Sopp, b Hilly er ...................................................... 3 Mr. Atkinson, b Hillier Mr. Howe, b Wisden Booth, b Wisden . . 6 Mr. Harrison, c Hillyer,.b Wisden 1 Mr. Bell, c Box, b Wisden Lambert, c Martingell, b Hillyer Capt. Hutchinson, hit w, b Hillyer .... 8 Beldon ' Esq., c and b Wisden Mr. J. Black, b Clarke J. J. Scott, Eq., b Wisden Mr. Thomson, n o t ou t Mr. R. Steel, b Wisden Mr. Ward, b Wisd en . ... 0 1 Byes, ..... 5 Tot al 67 GENERAL DOMESTIC SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT IN ' smirTioN.—The annual general meeting of this institution took place yesterday, at the Ilanover-square Booms—Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. The report of the committee stated that the number of members amounted to upwards of 4,000 subscribers, and that theypossessed a permanent fund of 4,200/. The total receipts of the last year were 1,609/. 17s. 2d. ; the pensions, 17/. 10s. The investments were, fur 1, 9 58/. 18s. Id. at 3 per cent. Consols, purchased in the year, 1,180/. There was a balance in hand of 711. 17s. 10d. The resolutions, embodying the principles of the society, having been proposed and supported, were agreed to, and the meet ing, NT hic 11 was very fully attended by females, adjourned. HORTICULTURAL S OCIETY.--Yesterday the anni versary meeting of this society was held at the society's rooms, Regent-Street; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart, M.P., in the chair. Dr. Lindley read the report. During the year 18,517 tickets were issued, and th e rece i pts exceeded those of the former year by 2 221. The expenditure amounted to 7,691/. 13s. 4d. ; the receipts were 9,3301. 45. 4d.; and the disburse ments 8,897/. Bs. Id. ; exclu s i ve of I,BEBI. Is. 6d. liabilities. The property of the society was valued at 13,205/. 15s. 9d. The number of visitors to th e gardens, exclusive of exhibi t 82re being an i ncrease of 855 over the pre ceding port w as a d opted, the council and other o ti fl u i n ce d rs ay3 f . o l w r r ti a te year were elected, and thanks were voted to the chairman ANTIQUARIAN TREASURES IN FOUNDATION STONES. —The old Stockwell Bridge at Glasgow is now in course of demolition. " Antiquaries," observes the Reformers' Gazette, " will no doubt be looking forward with interest to the pro bability of there being found, in some part of the structure, , if ancient b u ild ers f o ll owe d t h e modern practice, need not b e sought for very deep in the bed the foundation-stone, whi c h of the river." It is to be hoped, at all events, th a t s o mething else will be found than merely " a white porcelain biscuit vase with its virgin purit y tarnished by the trail of dirty fingers," as on a late melancholy occasion.—Builder. LAW INTEL6GECE. BAIL COURT, May 1. (Sittings in Banco, bef,re Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) , THE QUEEN V. THE PUBLISHER OF THE ' 4 MORNING 'JERALD." Mr. Sergeant SEEE was instructed to move f)r a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Chan • wan, the printer and publisher of the Morning Herald neivspaper, for a libel published in that paper. H e moved on the affidavit o f t h e Rev. An thony Magee, D.D., who stated that he was the clergy man or priest of the Roman Catholic chapel in the city CO; t eatinhda hat in , IV4B, he contracted to purchase of and from the Right ° I t Ion NV . e L st o u id in'i Law Life Assurance Society, certain lands situate in tf• county of Galway, containino. 3.000 acres, being part tf very large and extensive estates known by the name of the " Great Martin Estate," in Connemara, but that no conveyance thereof, or of any part thereof, had the month of December, yet been made to this deponent, nor bath he yet had e d by him. Ile possession of the said lands so urcbas d others, the trustees of the estate he had purchase() the f 'lowing and of the April there appeared of and concerning him, then said that in the Morning herald of the 25th of paragraph:— o ould appear [1 a sweeping "II{ELAND. "(From our own Correspon , ient.) i " THE GREA.T MARTIN ESTATE. "It IC Mayo Constitution that •att region known as the the I I Martin Ettate i is about to be made the by the following letter from the scene of , n Connemara, _ ._ than 650 9) atein. • 6 , 6 Ciifder, April 18, 1850. "'I f regret to tell you that the parties interested in the ar- fame ejectment (1 Martin Estate have obtained no less a number nantry of th e late Thomas Martin, Esq. By this means this terrible addition to our ejectment decrees a gainst the unfortunate te nantry or 4,000 ; country. Surely, p peopla will be thrown upon the world. It is fearful to contem late such a state of things in a we shall doubly feel Christian with our poor-houses over old sayin g flow ' n g w ith wretched inmatrs; misery. How will they be suPPorted?—where could the means be had? Still, the es -, The assist ant barrister's fees on these eketments (ruled neY's f e hold s , 'l t i s an ill wind blows nobody good.' in a fow 1, -- eura) am oun t e d to nearly 4001., and the attor -I,OOOL, ma ki ng t o gether a sum of over 1,4001. It has c aused this gat (Naye Constitution) confess that we have heard mail being: a sensation here that we cannot describe. th-- -.,..Leinent with astonishment. We wish it were exsggerated; but from the reipeetability of our informant we cannot for a moment doubt it. And still it is hard solve this matter but one wa}'—namely, t°belie ve that in a season like this, at the end of a famine, ;fleaarirdfau,l when such exertions are making to crop the land as . d itants y —namely, that the quasi nPver, its our memory, were made before, that 4,000 hu man be thrown upon the rates. We can ohvenera • (. this property—the English mortgagees— having brought the estate to the hammer, and finding that it did not bring remunerating prices, have adopted tain hab t e t :r t i h m e :n a t r c e if eolenalrying the country of its in ; and never was so shortsighted a policy prae -I:e"—nerPr was so blind an attempt made to obtain higher prices. There can be but one opinion of moon really profitable in the hands of A tenantry ort ; and we may ask with our corres pondent, w h o will sup p this mass ef pauperism— where will t h e funds be - had ? We envy not the feelings of alert who could cart 4,000 people together houseless on the world. Thank God, the doers of the deed are not Irishmen.' stag The purchaser ef this property is the Rev. Mr. ", Roman Catholic clergyman, resident at West the His reverence says he is compelled to eject the vast majority of the tenantry, but he means to re store all who are deserting—all, in short, who have a reasonable chance of paying their rents." The last paragraph consisted of the comments of the Morning Herald upon the letter, .I)r.Magee, in his ttffi and the impossibility of remitting the particular duty. Under such circumstances, be felt it his duty to call upon the House to reject the motion of the Noble Lord. He did not think the class of men whom the Learned Gentleman (Sir F. Thesiger) advocated on this occasiiin were at present suffering from any peculiar burdens. For those reasons he felt it his duty to oppose the Bill. The O'GORMAN MAHON congratulated the Noble Lord (Lord Robert Grosvenor) upon having elicited from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a statement evincing a de►ire to reconsider this question at a future period. lle thought the parties who were immediately aff cted by this tax were not to be re garded in a similar light with the class of individuals referred to by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. They were obliged to spend a large sum of money in being trained for their pro fession, and they generally had received the education of gentlemen; they sprung, too, from a class quite distinct from those to which the Right lion. Baro net referred, lie (the O'Gorman Mahon) was, there fore, sorry to hear the Right Honourable Gentleman contrast the respectable portion cf the attornies with horsedealers. It might be a compliment, but he (the O'Gorman Mahon) could not view it as such. The attornies were intrusted with important duties, and there was scarcely a man in the country who was not indebted to them. Ile would cheerfully support the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fX. SUN, LONDON, 11111111,SDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1850. davit, negatived .all the statements made in this libel, and he added that he wrote to the Morning Herald on the 26th of April inviting an explanation, but none was given, and that be bad before been treated in this man ner by the Morning Herald, and had been obliged to bring an action aguinst them, and they had then sub mitted, and paid the costs. Rule granted. CADSBY V. ESTALL. This was an action for crim con. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. A motion was made for a new trial, and the rule was made absolute, and the cause was tried again, and a verdict was again returned for the defendant. A rule was then Earle absolute for a third trial upon layment of coats. The plaintiff bad not paid the cost:. _ _ Mr. Sergeant SIIEE then moved to discharge the rule. Rale grunted unless the plaintiff shall pqy the costs within a week. COURT OF EXCIIEQUEI?, May L (Sittings at Middlesex at Nisi Pries, in Easter Term, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Common Juries.) DUSIFORD V. FORD AND ANOIHER. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) h is LORDSH IP hiving sun no d up, The jury found a verdict f.r the plaintiff 'or 71. over and above the amount paid into Court. LEW IS V. KNOX. This was an action to recover the amount of an at - torney's bill for professional services rendered, and money expended, on account of the detendanr. The de tenti;,nt pleaded that he did not premise. Mr. Huenfrey (with Mr. Temple) conducted the ease for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers (with Mr. H. A. Simon) upFeAred for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant, who resided at Cam berwell, in the spring of the past year intending to bring an action against the sheriff of Middlesex for the alleged improper conduct of one of his officers, named Shannon, had consulted one John Lewis upon the sub ject, by whom he was eventually introduced to his brother Charles, the present plaintiff. Having heard the nature of the cause of the defendant's complaint against Shannon, he gave it as his opinion that the de fendant had a good cause of action, and that opinion was subsequently confirmed by the counsel to whom the case had been submitted. The action was accordingly brought, and the venue having been laid in Surrey, the matter was to come on for trial at the last summer as sizes for that county, at Croydon. The commission day at that place was the 6th of August. On the 31st of July preceding the plaintiff wrote to the defendant requesting that he would furnish him with a further sum of money to take the case down to Croydon, and also expressing his disappointment that he should have sent him only 101. The further sum required • was 501. at least, which amount he begged might be sent to him by the following Saturday. On the Ist of August it appeared that the defendant had written in reply to this letter that it was out of his power to sup ply any more funds, and therefore he desired that the notice of trial should be countermanded. A consulta tion thereupon ensued between the parties, and the re cord was withdrawn. The question therefore arose as to what course should be taken, when it was arranged that the venue should be changed from Surrey to Mid theses, in order that the matter might be tried at West minster after the next Michaelmas 'farm, as that would be a far cheaper mode of trying the cause than by taking it down to Kingston at the spring assizes. The record was consequently withdriwn, and au application was then made in due course' in November, before a judge at chambers, for leave to change the venue. That learned person, however, refused the applicati on . Th e defendant was accordingly informed that the case must therefore be taken down to . Kingston for trial at the spring assizes. In the cross. examination of one of the witnesses he stated that the expense of taking this cause for trial at the assizes would be from 301. to 50/., whilst the expenses would not have been more than about 25/. had it been tried in London, and that that had been one reason why the plaintiff had recommended that the venue should be changed to Middlesex, rather than incur the additional expense of taking the cause- a second time into Surrey. There were higher fees given to counsel at the assizes than in London, and it was also much more expo nsive in respect of witntsses. Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the defendant, con tended that the plaintiff was bound, having undertaken the trial of the cause, to show by evidence that ho hat carried out the spirit and intention of that undertaking. Here, however, it had been proved that he had net al carried out the undertaking, nor had there been any proof offered that the notice which the plaintiff had given to the defendant, that he must have the large sum be had demanded ready by the following Saturday, was a reason able notice in respect of time tor a man in the circum stances of the defendant. He should submit that, having undertaken the trial of the cause, the plaintiff was bound to carry it to trial, and that not doing so, the defendant could not be called upon, or be held liable for expenses, unless the plaintiff were to show that a e notice he had given far the advance of money towards the expenses, and also that if the money required were not sent in due time, then that he should decline to proceed with the cause—unless the defendant showed that that notice had been given a reasonable time beforehand. In support of his argument, the Learned Counsel cited the cases of " Holey v. Built," 3 Barn. and Ald., p. 350; and of " Nicholls v. Wilson," 11 Mee and Wel., p. 106. Now his case on behalf of the defendant was that the matter might have been tried at Croydon if due notice had been given by the plaintiff to the defendant that a certain amount of funds would be required by a given day, and that, at all events, it was the duty of the plaintiff to have taken the cause down for trial. Mr. Baron ALDERSON was of opinion that, at all events, the preliminary expenses prior to the not taking the cause down for trial ought to be taken out of the account. Thetis what should be done by the Master on taxation. Mr. CHAMBERS—And then, if the jury were to find that there had nut been reasonable notice given in point d time, that he should move the Cow t upon that point. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Certainly ; and the only question now for the jury to deal with was whether, looking at the circumstances of the defendant, the plain tiff had given him a reasonable and timely notice to raise the required amount of money for the exin ses. His own opinion was, that if he did not give a rerson able length of notice, then that the plaintiff must bear all the consequences, and a verdict ought to be found for the defendant in respect of that part of the bill which was rendered unnecessary by the not going to trial at Croydon. The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then gave a verdict for the derendant, upon the ground that the notice had not been sufficient to enable a man in his nr cumstances to get so large a sum together. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—That would then be a verdict subject all t')he items taxation eilf; whichthe iel ;wereae t tr, nfoort the e cessary in corsiquer.ce of the want of suffiien n w o h t o ie e m i l a sPt t la h si e tnrtik POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Matthias Martinez Delrio, a Spaniard, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Inspect r Brannon, of the G division of the metropolitan police, charged with having stolen two Bstik of England notes, the ens for 50/. the other for 301., end between four and five ounces of gold dust, value 100/, the pro; erty cf Mr. Strutt, purser in tt e Royal Mail SLam-packet Coin pany's service. The prisoner refuEel to give his address. Mr. M. 11. Strutt, of Gunnersbury-place, Brentford, said—The prisoner embarked on board the Avon, mail steamer, of which I was purser, at Vera Cruz on the 19th of March, for the purpose of coming to England. On the 21st of April we arrived at Southampton, and the day after our arrival there I missed a Bank of England note for 501., another for 301., and a quantity of gold dust. About five days before we arrived at South ampton, I left my keys in the door of my cabin while I went to wash my hands, and on my return I missed the keys, one of which opened my desk. I saw the pri soner near the door, and I asked him whether he saw my keys, to which he replied in the negative; but the circumstance did not particularly excite my suspicion, as my servant had a duplicate key, and I attributed the disappearance of the key to a joke that had been played upon me. In the evening of that day one of the passengers and the surgeon invited me to their cabin to take a glass of wine with them and the pri soner, and while we were sitting together, engaged in that way, thu prisoner complained of a pain in his stomach, and was obliged to leave us. When he was absent about, as I think, half an hour, I went to my cabin in order to retire to bed, and I then found my keys lying on the desk, although I had in vain looked for them all about the place, and searched it thoroughly Lefore. I therefore, on missing my property at South ampton, the day efter our arrival there, came to London and applied to the inspector, and stopped the notes at the Bank. Inspr . ctor Brannon, it appeared, apprehended the pri soner in Finsbury-square, and found upon his person a new gold watch and chain and ring, which he had re cently purchased at the shop of a jeweller, in Cornhill. The stolen 501. note had been changed at the Bank. The prisoner was remanded. lie persisted in refusing to give his address. DERBY HUMBUGS.-Sir PETER LAURIE stated that he had received communications on the subject of an Anglo- American system of swindling, against which be felt bound to endeavour to protect the public by means of the press. Two American papers had been transmitted to him, and his attention had been called to advertisements; by which it appeared that "a splendid fortune might be gained by an outlay of 101. or 5/." In the Montreal Pilot the promise of wealth presented itself under the head of " Metropolitan Portrait Club," and seemed to issue from the Albany-road, London. The advertisement announced that the directors, who have no names, would draw fa a grand series cf portraits of all the horses entered for the forthcoming Derby race; that the drawing would be conducted upon those honourable principles which had hitherto given so much satisfaction, and secured to the above association such extensive patronage. Then fol lowed the list of prizes upon the drawing of the horse portraits, and the information that all letters were to contain a remittance, drafts, back-notes, &c., and to be directed to the managing director in London. The other American paper (the Sunday Courier of New York) contained an advertisement referring to a similar esta blishment in Plymouth. The LORD MAYOR approved of the notice taken by Sir Peter Laurie of a plan the great promises in which were likely to fascinate credulous parties on the other side or the Atlantic. Sir PETER LAURIE said the attempt to reinvigorate the Derby sweeps, which were so completely p u t d own in London by the City magistrates, was nothing less than could be expected; but the system he came forward to . expose was one for which there could not be the slightest pretence in the chance of gaining any thing. No doubt credulity was doing a great deal for the specula tors, for the postman who traversed the district in which the" managing director" resided stated that he had de- livered a good many letters directed from America to the party named in the advertisement. The loan MAYOR said he had received several letters from tradesmen in different parts of the country, en closing pria:ed circulars directed to them from the Albany-road, London. Those circulars stated that the writers had always in hand immense amounts at tle service of their correspondents, and that they were ready to turn gocd bills iLto ready money immediately after transmission, as well as to get the best prices for parcels of goods. Men of excerience would, of course, detect at once the swindle in the precious composition he alluded to; but there was no disguising the tact, that in many instances goods and bills had been obtained through their instrumentality; and not only great distress, but ruin, beenhzd the consequence. One of the circulars alluded to by the Lord Mayor was as follows: it was addressed to a tradesman at Ludlow, who declared that he Lad carried on business for fifty years in that place, mid sever had borrowed, or attempted to borrow, of any person during teat time:— " Sir,—We beg leave to inform you that your letter has be •n handed to us in confidence by the gentleman you wrote to a short time ago, who had a considerable :um of money to lend, but who has for the present dis posed of the whole, in Exchequer bill, Bank-stock, and India-bonds; from the very respectable manner in which your name was butted to us by him we should have no objection to remit you the amount you rt quest in bills of exchange, if they will answer your purpose. If you decide upon this method, in making a rsaniitance for our commission at any time, please to send only half Bank of England notes, or country ens payable in London in the first instance, and the other halves wtea you reci:ive the bills of exchange, as also a copy of the undertaking. when you will be remitted such bills as will not fail of meeting your approval." 'His LORDSHIP expressed an earnest hope that Sir Peter Laurie's and his own object in making these mat ters public would have the desired effect throughout the country. MARLBOROUGII-6`TREET. AN ARTFUL TRlCK.—Alfred Hull, a lad about 15 years of age, wai charged wvh impo.ing . upon the bene volent by pretending to bo c'uinb. sue of theilendicity constables, stated that on the previous afternoon, he was in Carnaby-street, when his attention wao called to the prisoner, who had a label tied round his neck on which was written, '• Poor dumb boy, got no tongue." Knowing him to be a confirmed beggar, he watched him, and saw him zeceive several pence from ladies and gentlemen ahem he importuned far money. The prisoner then entersd a public-house followed by witness, who saw him beg of the ens t imers in front of the bar, at the same time making motions with his hands to signify that he had lost his tongue and could not speak. After watching him fur some time, he asked the land lord to lend him a spoon, and having got hold cf the prisoner witness thrust the flat part of the spoon down the prisoner's throat which had the effect of causing him to protrude his tongue, thus exposing the imposition. The prisoner, however, still pretended to be dumb, and witness, to satisfy himself that he really was so, took him to a surgeon's opposite, who .applied something to the end of his (prisoner's) tongue, which caused him to call out in good plain English, that he could speak. Wit ness then took him to the station-house. Several gently men came forward and stated to the magistrate that the prisoner, though so young, had been for some years driving a profitable trade by pretending to be dumb. They themselves had relieved him on many occasions, and thought if the case was made public through the medium of the press, it would put the bene volent public on their guard arainst such impostors. The prisoner, its reply to the charge, admitted that he had imposed upon the public, but he had done so in consequence of extreme poverty, and his antipathy to turn to thieving for a living. Mr. BINGHAM—I think your way of getting a living equally as bad as thieving. Who put you up to such a mule of impo6iug on the public ? Prisoner—No one. I was once told that if the string under my tongue was cut I could swallow it so as not to be seen. This made me think of working the " dumb-dodge." The MAGISTRATE said the prisoner was one of the most artful noys he had ever met with, and committed him for a month with bard labour. GLERKEA WELL. William Crump, a journe) man bricklayer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged with having committed a violent assault upon William Chambers, a sheriff's officer, while in the execution of his duty. It appeared from the evidence that a process was is sued from the Court of Common Picas against Mr. Peake, a master builder in the City. road, for a debt of 1631. The prosecutor proceeded, with other officers, with his warrant to make a capture et a house which was building in Hall-street, City-road. The witness went up a ladder and got on a scaffolding, where Ee Mr. Peake, whose person he was acquainted with, to whom he called that ho was wanted. The prisoner said, "My name is Peake." Witness replied, "You are not, that is Mr. Peake." The prisoner called him a liar, seized him, and struck him a violent blow, anti attempted to throw him off the scaffolding, which was three story high. They struggled together, and had not witness caught hold of or.e of the scaffild-poles to save himself, he must have been precipitated to the ground below and lost his life. During this period Mr. Peake escaped from the scaffolding, but he was captured by witness's assistant who was below, and taken to White cross-street prison. The prosecutor's assistant proved that the prisoner threatened to break their necks, and threw bo.A.rds at them. He also threatened to cut them down with a shovel. lie confirmed the evidence. The prisoner denied the charge. Mr. COMBE lined him 5!., or two months' impr:- Eonrnent. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DIVIDENDS. In the Country. J. Price, Birmingham, cabinet and chair maker, May 23, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham-11. W. God win, Lincolr, ship and boat builder, May 29, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingsten•upon-Bull—W. bud daby, Kingston-upon-Hull, millwright, May 29. at half• past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. D. Hammond, Kingston-upon-Hull, druggist, June 5, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull —J. Saner, Kingston-upon-Hull, tailor and draper, May 22, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall, King:ton upon-Hull—E. Howitt, Lincoln, miller and baker, June 5, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon- Hull. PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND. E. Snowden, South Shields, grocer, ls., on Saturday, May 4, or any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. T. Williams, Epsom, Surrey, draper, May 22, at twelve—J. Tidniarsh, Regent,street, and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, diaper, May 22, at eleven—G. Palmer, Longmere, Norfolk, cattle dealer, May 22, at twelve— E. Litchfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, uphohterer and cabinet maker, May 22, at two—T. Rowan, Cambridge, draper and tea dialer, May 21, at eleven. , CERTIFICATES GRANTED. V. Rimell, Hammersmith, timber merchant, certificate of the firs; elms—J. Triggs, Southampton, upholsterer, certificate of the third class, aiter 21 days from April 30—E. W. Lemur, Princes street, Hanover• square, military outfitter, certificate of the second class— G. Woods, Portsea, Southampton, saddler, certificate of the third class—J. Fielding, Middleton, Lancashire, corn dealer—J. Harrington, Manchester, commission agent, certificate of the second class—S. Glenny, Liverpool, corn and commission agent, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from April 26—W. Rothery, Leeds, clothier, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from April 25—S. Gibson, York, licensed victualler and innkeeper, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from April 26—T. I)on, Swinton Iron-works, Yorkshire, cer tificate ref the first class, after 21 days from April 26 S. Stead, Bradford, Yorkshire, druggist, certificate of the second class, after 6 months from April 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 11. Bennett and J. Brown, Pensnett, Staffordshire, sad dlers—J. Wardrop and T. Garrett, Brabant-court, Phil pot-lane, City, wine merchants --H. Dobson and M. Ali son, Liverpool, engineers—J. Dugdale, sea., Jas. Dugdale, sen., and J. Dugdale, jun., Manchester and Lower-house, near Burnley, Lancashire, manufacturers—J. Wellman and J. Wellman, Maddox-street, Regent-street, tailors— Jane Belt and Elizabeth Kett, Duke -street, Manchester square, dressmakers—J. Harper and J. Todd, Manches ter, tailors—S. Horton and C. Gunnell, Clephane-road, Canonbury, builders—W. Henderson and I). Tulloch, Maranham, Brazil, commission merchants—J. Bury, R. ilobertabaw, and S. Priestley, Church, Lancashire, ironfounders—P. Kirkma❑ and T. J. Spttch, Manches ter, engravers—T. B. Wheatley and R. H. Jackson, London-street, Greenwich, corn-dealers—A. H. Simp son and R. K. Day, London— S. Hunt and J. P. Hunt, Liverpool, ironmongers—H. Bowen and T. Bromwich, Bridgnortb, Shropshire, mercers—J. Thorne. well, W. H. Thornewell, and G. Thornewell, Netherton, Worcestershire, agricultural implement manufacturers (so far as regards the said G. Thornewell)-11. kitchen and A. Whalley, Charley, Lancashire, joinere—R. Wood and S. F. Knowles, Led common brewers—W. IL Goodair and J. Hunt, Webber-row, Southwark, vic tuallers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS'. Joshua . Evans, Liverpool, cart owner. William North, Liverpool, railway clerk. Frederick Lowe, Liverpool, butcher. John Atkinson, Liverpool, assistant to a blackimifi. William Benson, Liverpool, architect. George M. Baily, Liverpool, grocer's assistant. James Osborne, Kidderminster. Stephen Davy, West Bradenham, Norfolk, grocer.. Rimini Webber, King's Lynn, Norfolk, tailor. Evan Jones, Broughton, Shropshire, farmer. James Glassock, .hsstchurcb, Isle of Sheppy, grocer. William Rice, Sheerness, grocer. William Wilson, Birkenhead, Cheshire, commission agent. John Wilson, Cheltenham, cabinetmaker. James Rathrucll, Selby, Yorkshire, shoemaker. William Bithell, Rbuddlan, Flintshire, farmer. James Walters, Walsall, Staffordshire, bridlecutter. William S. Bell, Selby, Yorkshire, Custom house offs ii r. Richard`G. Christopher, Chatham, rop , ,rnalcer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. M. Parker, Greenock, miller, to meet within the White Hart Inn, Greenock, May 4 and 25, at one. G. Webster, Edinburgh, writer to the signet, barker, and manufacturer, to meet within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, May 6 and 27, at two. I'. B. Parker, Gla&gow, w arehututman, to meet w ithin the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, May 6, and June 3, at twelve. G. Dodds, Bullion, near Dundee, auctioneer and farmer, to meet within the British Hotel, Dundee, May 3 and 24, at two. J. Murdoch, Glasgow, writer and insurance agent, to meet within the Buck'e Head Hotel, Glasgow, May 3 and 24, at twelve, Thin Gazette contains noticrs that the 1'0110,4 Piscr have b en do yregistered fur the solemniz stioll of O r ' s therein _CalviGi.tie Denbighshire. Primitiv e M et h o di st Ch ape l , Alton, S ta ffordshi re ' Cow - xi:ale Chapel, Romford, Essex. Inds pendent Cnapel. Braunton, D ev onshire. h i lt .1./AvE.r Forcst- zrt en Chapel, Avening. Glotwesters c MUNDER OE THREE PER 05 ', 1 7 14 AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERD7 3 4 i 6 even tag triple murd e r occurre d on Tuesday in g - Ta lbot, the Wood, at Inge s tre, near th e mans i on of Lord Staffird. t ie In a lonely part of th e woo d b e l ong i ng to the Inge:00• es:ets is situated a house, which was until TueEdsPose tug inhabited by th e park-keeper of Lord Talbot, ri d ho d name was Spencer Y ar k er , an d who it is uuderst° e el been upon terms of friend s hip with the other no until short time sinc e . During the last few' w.dly Yarker has bad attacks of d e li r i um tremens. Tod "til W. ;;Iternoon, in company with another keeper, °°-- 5 , 6° Alorrey, proceeded into the woods, and fr om cause at present unexplained, no other person being P oo sent, Morrey was shot by Yarker, and was subseclddgesi discovered at a place callnd the Pavilion, Vi le , 404 From subsequent circumstanc e s it a pp e ared that 6s' N . after hav:ng deprived his fellow keeper of life'4 6 creqed towards his own house, th e di s tance ni mile, upon entering which he levelled his gun at -(10 vent who was sitting before tie fire, and discharg.,%o6 contents in her body, the poor creature falling te r "„ o it on the floor a corpse. Yarker then pointed his g A " b e t his sister, who had but just returned from stAi r '' r illiog she for escaped the contents of the gun t ) ,Y,",. 6 fore ards at the moment he raised it to his shoulu e * . this juncture the wife of Yarker rushed down sta ir 7 D o t cc/I , liter to pursue the murd e r or p ursue d by bil e ",, s at present known; but she ran ou t of the house int; o p, wood, joinei by Yarker, who, having reloaded hi s r ot a tired its c,Aitents at her. One charge entered bey A bey head over the left eye, and the other penetnee%ted body, and instantly deprived her of lice. The inf li h rt p - di• murderer tiros discharged the gun obliquely in t f :;j111 1 rection of his own head, literally carrying affilY tcP his face and shattering the head. During this ";tlO event, his little child was sleeping in a cradle 13 ° 1 '00. spot where the servant was killed. His other two Oren, who are now left orphans, were fortunat ells, neighbouring The reports of the gun having created an alarm' fief' of the servants connected with the farm buildings ass soon upon the spot, and discovered the lifeless c e yrof of the servant upon the house floor lying ins of the blood. Further search disclosed thesa Sigh' "" c r • dead bodies of Luker and his w if e , w ho we re ieb covered a short distance f rom th e h ous e, to " tbs place they were convey e d, an d l a id s id e by side fi n ds' floor. Subsequently, the body of Morrey dio covered, also lifeless, and was in like man ner wove); 00 the house of the murder, and plac e d by the side other bodies. The distress occasioned by this lamentable el - Liett considerably augmented by the fact of a family (), Oil young children being depri v ed o f a p aren t, 811 ":00 1 / means of support, by the death of M orre y, who Wit'" respected b his noble employer. The inquest on the bodies was to have been be id yer terday (Wednesday). THE COUNTRY MARKET%bot NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 30.—Supply ° i 00' smaller from the country, an d very little fresh up eith er 's po i wise or from abroad. T ra d e very - firm at an advance ot niii 0' quarter on the rate of Saturday last. All descriP tiv re malting barley dull of sale, but gr i n di ng qua li t i es in 03 ° 4 00 quest, and very full prices. Fl our 6d to i s per sack de In other articles no change. beet LEEDS, APRIL 30.—We had a moderate arrival of o plel and the quantity shown was not la rge . F or a ll fresh ! I ~,te+ an advance of Is per quarter was o bt a i ne d over Fridal ebairr Barley fetched full prices, and beans were rather deare r ' art NEWCAicles steady. (SI NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARK ET , APRIL 30,-.The 1:000 both of beasts unusually large, b u t, notwithstanding ° li te al° tolerably active, and a fair clearance e ff ec t e d a t f o rme! .04 Quality good, Sheep trade brisk, at an advance in pri c s ;sl; all sold. Beasts, 94'; sheep, 3,000. Beef, 3s 6d t ° 0, mutton, in wool, 6d to 6Ad; ditt o , s h orn , 5d to Sid pe r i f 0 I NOTTINGHAM, APRIL 27.—Th ere was a f ai r u i at! wheat, which was taken off readily at an advance of Of t e" quarter. A good show of ba r l e y, an d t h ere b e i n g ';.1 1 011 malsters in the market, last wee k' s pr i ces were w ith ruoce. supported. Beans are in b e tt er d eman d, at a tr ifling e" . In oats not much doing. We note no alteration in p rice. 0 11, Wisma cif, APRIL 27.—The supply of grain is rerY2 o 2o l less than for several week s p as t. Th ere i s a gene ral vI t IS4 for all descriptions at the following advance—say "li oats 6d., and beans Is per quarter. DUBLIN APRIL 30 —A to-dat4ol our corn market l ies• descriptions of grain met a steady demand at the curr eP odil . Friday last. There was also an improved demand for 801 1 '' corn, and we advanc e our extreme quotat i ons 6d Per bo lst White wheat, 21s to 23 s Od ; re d ditt o , 20 s Od to 21 s 6d; 000 9s Od to 12s Od ; oats, p e r b arre l, 9 s Od to 10 1 6 d; c' s i disit 105 Od to 1 Is Od; se co nd flo ur , p er cur t. 12 5 to 14 s Od corn, per 480Ib, 26s to 29s Od. Vier e EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, APRIL 30.—There 28 010 the meal market to-day 22 sacks oatmeal, each weighing .; ,/ 4 3 01 imperial, which sold thus :-7 a t 11 I s Od, 14 At 4j 4d and latll4s Od ; aver age p r i ce o f th e w h o le t 7-12ths. 3 sacks flour, whereof 2 so ld a t 27 5 , a nd 1 s 13 sacks pot-barley, wher eo f 12 so ld th us : -1 a t 11 o 1 at 1/ 2s, and 10 at 1/ is Od. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, Argi l ' , 10 0; Oat straw, from is tid to 6d per kemple of 16 stoneS 7 % 1 0 wheat ditto, 7s 6d to 9s Od; barley ditto, 6s Od t° Hay, frcm 10d to Is per stone. ~ dO ,l D ALKEITH MEAL MARKET APRIL 29.--There r t s l9- bags oatmeal, 1 I of barleymeal, and 2 of potbarley L it og day's market ; s a l es rea d y . O atmeal same on the toll, - r sto on the second 2.1.(1 lowest prices 3d t o 9d p er b ag ; bar l ey the sam e o n th e top, second price 3d up ; the pot was nut sold. 00 Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lb s . Fi rst Second 0-qg , imperial .. 243 Od 225 6d ""0 Oo Barleymeal, per ditto ... 17 s Od 16 s 61 is Peasenieal —s Od —s Od pd Flour —s Od —s Od o Oa Pot barley —s Od —3 Od COAL MARK ET.— YESTERDAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 143 6(1 Riddell's Carr's Hartley Chester Main l4s Odifietton East Adairs IXlaiu... 12.3 6d; Haswell Holy well ............ 14s 9(llLambton ............. • New Tanfield l3s 6d,' Russell's Hetton Tanfield Moor rantield Moor Butes l3s W I Hartlepool .............. Walker's Primrose 12s Cd'South Kelloe ............ V est Hartley 14s 3d Whitworth ............... ipy2; Wall's End, &c. Tees Brown's ... l3s 6d Hartley ........ ••• 04 1 9 'a Gibson Hatton Hilda RAILWAY SHARE MARKET . BRISTOL, MAY 1. to . ail, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was inanimate to . b; and prices have again declined. The Midl an d reced ed gn i per cent. on yesterday's rates, and Great Westerns 0 , - 0 0 1 tered a decline. Great We s t ern , Q uarters, c l ose d at'n' Ditlo, 17/. Shares, dis.— Midland, 314—Londo n , a North. Western, 101. LIVERPOOL, MAY 1. STOCK EXCHANGP..—The market has been dull 1 0 - iteu . and the amount of business done has been vell,, b yol l s The transactions were as foNow:—Lancashire and SO" shire, Consol., 34—Ditto, Preference, 124 dis.—Lon .... " vitt3 North-Western, 101 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 2 dis', , i st, I Quarters (C),.% p.—London, Brighton, and South G° or! —Manchester, thetlield, and Lincolnshire, Preferenc e ' tie; Midland, 32—Ditto, Hal ves , 27/. 6 s. 3d. dis.—Yotk' t: castle, and Berwick (G. N. E . P urchase), 6 per c 0 1 . ;•4 dis.— South-Ea s t ern an d D over, 13 St' ecerit4 (Railway and Canal), P re f erence, guaranteed 5 P er I i2—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 33/. 18s. ed. MANCHESTER, MAY 1. 0 11 STOCK EXCHANGE.— O ur share market was 'V ei l Tbi to-day, but there was no material alteration in prices•pittOP transactions were as foll ow : —E ast L ancas hi re, '6% 34' Preference, Quarters, 6%_ Lancashire and Yorkshir e t sbe fl Ditto (West Riding Union), 9 5-16 dis.—Blanchest 6 ' o 9it field, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, 74—North StaO r Tiiitv 1.04 g clis.—South-East ern an d D over, 13% —D i t t os (No. 4), 4%. ORKPRIL 3. . STOCK EXCHANGE. Y —The , tra APRIL 30. STocK EXCRAIGE.....The transaction to-day low :—Great Northern, 5% -York,'N ewcast l e and Pe' 11 , , 5 1 1 —York and North Midland, Preference, 6A. ' • ~„4 1 [ADVERTISEMENT:J . —There is no remedy e‘t - Qo itllA Holloway's Pills for the cur e o f D ropsy .—M r. James "'woe of Oxford-street, Manchester, suffered for years front 010 0 ,. sical complaint, his body and legs were swollen t ° 11 0 ed sl alarming extent, and no hopes whatever were entertabi o idel his recovery. He was for some time in the hospital , i bed i s having taken every variety of medicine usually pres e A r- inca_ A r ° such cases, yet all proved useless, and he was pronounce' -0 b ad able. Holloway's Pills were then resorted to, which .4 . * on the effect of improvin g hi s h ea l t h an d reduc i ng the sWe!r n t 1 , 1 that now he is perfectly cured of that direful come; pre taking these wond er f u l pi ll s. — S o l d b y all Druggists an d s" fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. o n • Mr. Roebuck h as g i ven not i ce t h at he vri l! 13 11 • Tuesday, the 14th i ns t an t, move f or l eave to b r i n g in j e t a t " to enable parties to proceed against the Crown, e,; tb law or in equity, without the consent of the CroWl__2:„. BIRTHS. OF A SON. O' On the 28th ult., at Portland-cottage, Southsea f B. Lambert. peel * On the 28th ult., at Harrow, the wife of the Bev- tb. On the 30th ult., at Gloucester-terrace, Hyde. Par"' wife of billery Pigott, Esq. OF A DA. On the 27th ult., at Sevenoaks, UGHTER the lady of Liee terilint‘ Colonel W. M. N. Sturt, of the Bengal Establishmen t ' IP On the 25th inst., in Burton. crescent, the wife ° Webb, Esq., of te Temple. en d , tho On the I.Bth ul t ., at Rodney•terrace East, woe' wife of Mr. George Offor, jun. On the 26th ult.. Mrs. W. Chaffers, jun RMED. r idg On the 27th ult., at St &A . Martin's-in-the-Fields , Fre.. o 0 011 William Strickland, Esq., of K ens i ng t on , t o MarIOTA" csr daughter of the late John J one s, E sq ., o f TyEev l D" dig On anshire. the 25th ult., at St. James's Church, N°, l l - 1 , t h ° Henry Parker L aurence , E sq ., o f t h e B om bay Margaret, youngest daughter otCaptain Black, late of t ( In niskiilen ) Dragoon... he W l ' On the 2 th ult., at St. J ames ' s Ch urc h , Exeter, J. E. Hill, eldest son of the late Colonel J. H. E. 1 - I ,!rreale to Maria, second d aug ht er o f M a j or J. R. Godfrey , sylvania-ptirk. Exeter. Samuel Highar n , E sq. , . g ed On the 2',th ult., a t Bee' . h DIED. usoe, near Amersha r 9: --il 1 of the National D e bt Offi ce. C, Secretary and Controller-WV:l— the 17th u lt., at S toc kh o l m , age d 56, Sir Tbonass OP wright, G.U.H., her MajcstN'S Envoy Extraordinerf ~ Minister Plenipotentiary at the tnurt of Sweden. ri . dop er, Oa the 25th ult., a t H a mp s tead, aged 65, W ''''' Esq., of Verulam-buil ings, Gray's Inn. . le W • Of On the 26th ult., at t heße il ctory, Sutton Mandevil , _....! Catherine, wife of the Rev. John Wyndham t,iondon: Printed and Published by MIIRDO ir % ri a 1 1 1 112, Strand. Printer, at The Sun Office' e' Strand, th. Precinct of the Se.voh in the 01-- ISL:usierlua. Thursday, May 2, 1860. • . 11 J , bel e ( '.llden 0 of the rell'2 ruld Irelan • Ite: a 'Mt host Grac ' 44 the bt A c( 41 7 Of 'lit, That gracious ) at a PrinC r IVIE ill, e t 15th or Citrii letting dldei~ 7 of r " l e eii Cu l l THE rr k a4at Ia *lllh, 19n,4, June TUE •bat th s til q O? ZIiXD thi Pahl)le 0,1 I`o - 1 Lad '"e ele Dire their ki at it Is Zg m ay T i , m ay tkil 40r4tsr1c 12, Th e kir pre 14 Tko °4 " Ev e 4 tot. 1 ,1 ( Y: NA hit C; km 8l 4 4 „ 44 tlkif th, li t eu l •T un t "._ goCI 4 , ne t , 4 ' l ditt A 4 f 4t 14. ; 111 4 e 110,4 z Ip~ is 1 t r 4 Np% re ( 4 b e -y. to tlark , , la 14 Q t `:! c:ilZ t r Al oa 4' Ai IParti