The Sun. — London, England, 1851-08-11 00:00:00

' rip. l -z( e- jr - r 7- j i" it tO ° S t rA , 47T-c, TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. SLX o'cLocx. GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. 7 to 4 agst Nancy 5 to 2 ugst Neashaln 4 to 1 ag3t Marlborough Buck—taken ST. LEGER. 3 to I agst Hernandez 10 to 1 agit Aphroditd—taken 1,000 to 500 laid once agst Hernandez Not half a dcznn 1; - eta laid. STEAM TO BRAZIL. GIANT OF A CHARTER. TO THE PROPOSED NEW LINE FROM LIVERPOOL. Some months ago announcements were inserted in our columns to the effect that, very shortly, the formation of a new line of screw steam-ships, of large size and Power, to run between the Mersey and Rio de Janeiro, might be expected. Various parties were then in the field (we believe not less than three), endeavouring to ell2ct the establishment of such enterprises. Some t i me mot e t, however, we learned that of the three projected companies, one only was likely to be carried, for the present at least, into practical operation, and recently our columns announced that an application for a royal charter had been made, in ord er t o se t the rem ~in i n g enterprise fairly and authoritatively before the mercantile community. It is now in our power to announce, that on Saturday last an order was issued by the Lords of the Treasury authorising the grant of such a charter, and therefore expecta tion may fairly be indulged that at no distant period the desideratum so long desired, an independent line of first class steam-ships running direct from Liverpool to Rio, will be realised. We understand that the company will be entitled the South American and General Steam Navigation Company, the directorate will include some of the first mercantile men of Liverpool and Manchester engaged in commerce with the Brael s ; that the line (the shares of which will to a large extent be held in Manchester) will comprise four first-class steam-ships, with a branch steam-;hip to run to and from Rio and the River Plate; mad that the departures will be once per month from either end. For the present we refrain from ad ding ferther details, but we cannot forbear to express our sincere congratulations on the auspicious result thus prognosticated. We have long urged the creation of such a line, and even now, when the compe tition of trio West India stea m - s hip s from Southampton must be felt, indulge the hope that its financial success will be brilliant. Of its importance as a line calculated to convey late letters between this port and Rio de Janeiro the arrival of the clipper -ship Columbus, last week, with fresh accounts from all the South American ports affords Lull guarantee. Probably at a future date we may be enabled to place our readers in possession of more minute details.—Liverpool Albion of this day. EXPERIMENT on the BARRACK FIELD. WOOLWICLI, AUG. 9 . —Major General Lacey, Di rector-General of Artillery ; Colonel Campbell, So perjntendent of the R o y al Military Repository ; C4onel Gordon, Inspector of the Royal Carriage Department ; Colonel Cruttenden, Inspector of Drills ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, Assistant Director- General of Artillery ; with several other officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, assembled on the barrack field in front of the Royal Artillery Barracks on the afternoon of Tuesday last to witness an experiment to test an invention submitted by Captain Groetaers of the Engineers in the Belgian service, for ascertaining the dis tance of an object when it may be found necessary to erect works for cannonading or bombarding it. The invention appears to be very simple and gave the dis tances of three objects taken very nearly correctly, and sufficiently so fur military purposes—one of the objects being found to be within two inches of the distance indicated, although the ground when mea sured was upwards of 1,000 yards between the ob server and the object. In the two other measure ments the distances were when measured within a foot of what they were shown to be by the indicator or graduated scale of measurement. The apparatus consists of a piece of wood about three feet long and one inch square. On the upper square is a brans scale and a piece of tin about six inches long by three inches wide, painted about two inches red at the top, two inches white in the middle, and two inches red at the bottom, made to slide on the scale. One of the engineer officers in attendance had a piece of tin of the same size and painted in the same manner as the one used on the graduated scale rod of the in ventor. The engineer officer stood at a distance of eight or nine yards from the inventor, and a commu nication was made between the two pieces of tin by metallic or pliable wire. When the distance of the objects was required to be ascertained the inventor looked through a glass on the left side of the scale until he placed his sliding tin in the proper position towards the object, and on his stating that it was right the engineer officer adjusted his tin by looking through a glass in the centre of it. When both say the tins are rightly adjusted the inventor refers to the scale and states the distance, which was found to be correct within a few inches in every instance when the ground was measured. AFRICAN DISCOVERY. Letters Eve been received, dated the 28th of February, from Mr. Richardson's expedition, which is accompanied by the two German doctors, Barth and Overweg. The party had at length broken up from Ahir, where Dr. Barth bad made an excursion to Aghades, and had entered Nigritia. the country or different states that lie around the Lake Tshad, the borders of which are so very little explored that it is likely that the travellers will be kept in that neigh bourhood a good while. A little after Christmas they arrived at a place called Darnergu, and proceeded to Zieder, where the three travellers parted, each of them taking another route with his followers. Mr. Richardson is gone on the direct way to Kauka, not far from the shores of the Lake Tshad, the capital of the empire of Bornu. Dr. Overvveg has taken a turn to the west, into the country of Adar, with the view of making a geological expedition, while Dr. Barth went by Tessana and Ketechua to Kanu, the place from where his letters are dated. At Kauka all three hoped to meet again very soon after wards. The travellers are still in high spirits, and do not complain the least about the hardships of the journey and ill-health. Their means, however, are almost at an end, as a new supply, which was forwarded last summer, has not reached them yet. The goods with which they travel and sup port themselves are unfortunately very unprofitably selected, so that th e y f e t c h on ly h a lf th e p r i ce theypaid for them at Tripolis and Murzuk. Besides, pass ing from the country and protection of one chief to that of another has cost them a great deal, as they are obliged to pay very high for every person and camel. Th e y hope, however, to find at Kauka the long-pro mised supply,. and letters from Europe, for which they have been waiting since June of last year. Their cou rage was not broken the least, and they still keep up the plan to approach the Upper Nile as soon as they have explored the vicinity of Lake Tchad, provided that the British and Prussian Governments will help them on. The interest of the scientific public will be principally excited by a very extensive report, which has been received from Dr. Barth, about his excursion from Teentellust to Aghades, where he witnessed the investiture of the new Sultan, Abd-el-Kader, and collected a quantity of materials about the history, topography, and ethnography of a hitherto almost unknown spot south of the Sahara. The report, to which a complete glossary of the il aussa a nd Enghedesie languages , some itineraries, and maps are annexed, is now in the hands of Lord Palmerston, and there is every reason to ho p e that it will soon be published, and will occasion a general interest for an expedition which has undertaken to examine the very core of the unknown continent, and to solve also, if possible, the ancient mystery about the source from which the Nile originates. . THE DERBY POLICE "D ONE." st arather amusing incident occurred at the Derby tattoo ISaturday last, which is worth re cordin g . It appears that the Watch Committee have given the police force of Derby leave of absence, and ono week's pay, to visit the Greatroceed ,t Exhibition, ten of them being a llowed to p that the Midlandad time. Some of the force h earin g Midland Leeds to London Company was taking parties from paid 10s. GI, for ss. each, whilst from Derby they thought it would be a good plan to send to Leeds for some coe!,equent'y they tickets,se to get into the train at Derby, Jeffries) to Leeds to ra n u t one of the force (Police-constable purchase the tickets and hand then] into the train to at Derby was But, unfortunately, the railway station Mills y the so crowded with trains on Saturday that Mr. manager of th© goods department, ordered that the Lids train should riot come into the station-yard, but be line, on to the curve leading. on to the Nottingham ne , , c where it was to be joined by the train from Derby, policemen, with their wives, and accompanied by thehetown crier, were for the train ou the Dieter. anxiously weitina to the r and tingham the were in great dismay on seeing it turn ' e .En ' and tingham line. The train, however, stopped, ° gut out man who went to Leeds to purchase the tickets and proceeded to the platform etel gave them to hi s anxiously-waiting companions. But how were th e to get to the train? After a short consultation t he; agreed to go down the line in a body and take their 1 places in the north train. They did so; but to the ' mortification of them ell they were noticed by Mr. Mills, who sent a policeman to fp:ch them all hack, and they were told that unless they took tickets from Derby the same as other parties, they would not be allowed to proceed with the train. the policemen on duty on the line wore also tined ss. each for allowing them on the lino without a written order. Mr. Thompson, superintendent of Derby police, was sent for, and a " row" ensued, but the " force" were obliged to pay the Derby fare, and sink the ss. each which they had paid for the Leeds tickets. We may state that the reason of the fare being only ss. from Leeds to London, is in con sequence of the Midland Company competing with the Great Northern Company for the north through traffic. —Nottingham Journal. - ,~ - ~- r= ~'_ ~.. .. THE SUN, LONDON,: THE POPE AND THE PROTES. TANTS IN ROME. (From the Times.) The first proceedings of the recent session were di rected against the encroachments of the Bishop 0: Rome upon the national and ecclesiastical independence of this kingdom; the last words of the same Parliament were devoted to the practicability of Protestant worship within the walls of Rome. The Pope treated England as a heathen country; he abolished, as far as in him lay, ell the historical sees of the land, created a pompous hierarchy, sent a Cardinal to be enthroned at West minster, and has now decreed the erection of a new cathedral, on a magnificent scale, in some conspicuous part of the metropolis. The same Pope forbids alto gether the worship of God after the rites of the Eng. lish Church within the walls of Rome, and condemns our countrymen to the performance of Divine service in a granary without the gates. At this moment there stands a " Cathedral of St. George," in the borough of Southe ark; another " Cathedral of St. Patrick" has been designed, we believe, for West minster; and a third "Metropolitan Church of St. Peter " is now openly announced. To none of these proceedings has any objection been taken by the Pro testant Government of England ; but, when a desire is expressed of erecting a simple church for the use of Englishmen sojourning at Rome, it is intimated that the requisite permission will certainly be withheld, and that no such design can be entertained. The Romish churches of this kingdom are obviously built for purposes beyond these of independent congre gational worship. There is already a superfluity 'of ac commodation, in the sense usually given to the phrase. The edifices are designed and multiplied with a special object of attraction, and with the evident view of ex tending the sphere of Romanism, to the proportionate disparagement of other establishments. We are not as serting that this kind of " aggression" is unris h°te us in principle or i n t o l e rable in practice. Within rea sonable bounds it is a proper duty of a religious com munity, defined as s sincereity,norcanthe s piritof an p x re le s r e y lyt f i o sm r b w e h i a ns r p is un o g o e h d when . cvived to be the redemption of others. All we wish to show is, that the representatives m oft ore than the the Pope in this country are indulged in somethingmere freedom of public worship. Though their whole system, f rom the fact of its addressing itself to the external senses, is essentially obtrusive, and though their parade and ceremonial are offensive to the eyes and repugnant to the traditions of Englishmen, they are not restricted in the matter of gauds or gewgaws. They declare the militant character of their Church,they marshal and ma noeuvre their forces, prepare their magazines, and con struct their strongholds exactly as they please, nor have they bees checked in any thing except an experiment which, if it was not an insidious aggression, was a piece of empty arrogance. Yet, in the city of Rome, when we come to request an indulgence which we so freely grant, we are met with a direct refusal. Our readers may, perhaps, be aware that a sum of money has been recently collected for tho purpose of building a place of Protestant worship accommodated to the needs of our numerous countrymen residing or sojourning at a city so remarkable as Rome. The exi gency of the case is manifest. At present, Englishmen desirous of worshipping according to their own con sciences and the ritual of their country are driven without the walls of the city, where they assemble in a granary, destitute not only of becoming ornament but the appliances of recognized decency. The funds are now forthcoming for the erection of a convenient build ing within the precincts of the city, but, though no ap plication has yet been actually made to the Roman Go vernment, we are given very plainly to understand by those hest acquainted with the subject that such applica tion would be altogether vain. This practical contrast between Papists abroad and Papists at home is far too instructive to be over looked or forgotten, There is no difficulty in com prehending the case. A Romanist, if he could speak with sincerity and candour, would plainly aver that whereas his religion was the true one and con ducted to salvation, it was to be promoted by all practi cable means; but that whereas others were false reli gions, and led to perdition, they were hardly to be tole rated without misdoing, and not to bo encouraged with out deadly sin. He wuuld further say that we had our own principles, and they theirs; that, as we chose to pro claim toleration of creeds, it was competent to them to avail themselves of the opportunity; but, as they recog nized no such liberty, we could prefer no demand in re turn. Each party is to act as it can. Papists in London take the freedoms of Londoners; Protestants at Rome must do as Rome does. This is a fair description of the argument against us. The reply to such pleas is, that it consists neither with natural equity nor with the rights of man to recognise in any mortals such an exclusive claim to divine in spiration and absolute infallibility. It is, of course, a necessary consequence of religious sincerity to conclude that other creeds are less true than our own, and, in proportion as we maintain the unity of such truth, we are led to seek and justify various methods of propagation and conversion. But here the maxim for our conduct is plainly this :—that we have no title, as mortal men, on any pretence whatso ever, to assume such an authority for our own convic tions as would dictate compulsion towards the convic tions of others. We may exert our utmost endeavours to propagate by peaceable and lawful means what we hold to be saving doctrines, but we may do no more; we must extend to others the consideration we claim for ourselves, and leave the issue to an Allseeing Judge. These are the principles by which the Romish Church must be tried. It is the evil, as it is ulso the essence, of that Church, not only to arrogate an exclusive posses sion of the truth, but to assert a right of promoting it according to its own conceptions by any means, however violent or unholy. Thus persecution, with all its bar barities, becomes a necessary tenet of Romanism. "It is better," say the Papists, that a life should be taken than that a tnousanti souls should bo lost." No doubt it is; but the wickedness of the maxim consists in the presumption that they are so qualified to pronounce on the salvation of souls as to be invested with power over the body. Such is a plain exposure of the chief Romish argu ment, and the moral of the inquiry is obviously that it is impossible to concede to such a faith that un limited toleration which, in common with other faiths, it comes to demand. " Freedom of worship," in the ordinary sense means nothing more than the power of serving God according to conscience. " Freedom of worship," in the Romish sense, moans the power of proscribing or assaulting every other form of belief, as circumstances may serve. It is the avowed duty of a Papist not only to render certain service to hie Maker, but to reject, con& mn, and if possible destroy, all who render such service in any other manner. They them. selves denounce toleration as the most heinous and deadly of errors; and they theu come to us demanding to be freely tolerated in the establishment of this intolerant doctrine. They curse us for the very principle on the ground of which they ask to be indulged. So aggressive and exclusive is their spirit that, before they set up their own hierarchy, they abolished ours as a necessary preparation. They swept away, to the best of their power and belief, every monument of eccle siastical organization itt this country; they proclaimed a tabula rasa of all English and Welsh sees, and then actually complained of intolerance because we would not recognise the effigies which they set up in their place! Cannot Lord Aberdeen see how utterly incon sistent it is with even the maxims of self preservation to extend unconditional licence to a religious community whose professed function is to treat all others as here tics, and all heretics as sinners to bo bodily controlled? As regards the particular question just discussed, we are not, of course, suggesting that a system of recipro city should be observed in our dealings with Rome. It is not our duty as Protestants and Englishmen to debar Roman Catholics from erecting churches, however offen sively they may refuse such a privilege in return. We do think, however, th a t a s circumstances stand, a direct appeal should be made by our Government to the Court of Rome for the p erm i ssion a t p resen t so reasonably re quired. It would be a d v i sa bl e t o g ot the practice of Rome in this respect put upon open record in a catego rical answer to our demand. That the answer would be a negative is likely enough, but this negative might be serviceably published, and Christendom at large might judge of the principles of a Bish o p w h o c l a i ms t h e ri g ht of organizing hierarchies in all foreign states, and forbids the erection of a place of foreign worship in his own. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. It appears from the half-yearly statement of the re eeipts and payments of this company, which has just been prepared by Messrs. Dickinson and Atkinson, the auditors, and verified by Mr. Delvitte, tho accountant, in anticipation of the meeting to be held at Bristol on the 14th instant, that the expenditure during the half year has amounted to 162,486/ 17s. 10d., and the re cripts to 454,9214 7s. 2d., showing a balance upon the half-year's revenue account of 292,4342 911. 4d. Under the head of expenditure the following items occur:-Maintenanee of way, stations, and works, 36.637/, ss. 5d.; locomotive account, including wages to drivers, firemen, &c. 33,6041. 33,604/. 19s. 91; carrying account, 39,0641. O. 6d.; general charges, 19,934/, 1 ls. 6d.; Go vernment duty, 12,9361. Bs. 7d.; rates and taxes, 11,870/. 16s. 4d., &c.; the whole showing a per tentage on the traffic of 35,7171. as against 40,731/. in the correspond jag half-year of 1850. The total traffic receipts amounted to 438.833/. 13s. 6d., including passengers, 292,601/. 55. 2d.; carriages, horses, and dogs, 9,5521 15s. 9d.; mails, expenses, &c., 11,4991. 7s. 4d.; merchandise, cattle, &c., 106,6201. 12s. 10e1.; and parcels, 17.8211. 103. 7d. The r, rosining receipts comprised 7,0501. for rent, from the Bristol and Birmingham; 3,8631. Bs. 3d. for use of plant by South Wales Company; and sundry small items for interest on the cash balances, rent of property, cottages, &c., and registration fee s . The general stats779,n3t,9osshio.wsss.t3odta.;l plus s eip a t m s upon ount Ua count of capital, re ceived on debentures, loans, &e., 5,433,793/. 2s. 9d., giving gross total receipts of 14227,701/. Bs. The gross payments amount to 14,084,3261. 18s., and comprise the following items:-Amount paid to 31st December, 1849, in respf et of Great Wo,:tern, Oxfird, Berke, and Banta, Windsor, and other lines, and for locomotive steck, 1 0.407,773/. Os. Bd.; psyment:r on account of estimated liabilities, 147,7611. 16s. 51; Oxford and Rugby Rail \""uy (opened to Banbury) 1,011,756/. 2s. 11 d.; Wilts , Soun - rset, and W e y mout h Rail .ay (opened to Frame), 71,139/ 103. 7d.; 13irraingham and Oxford Railway, ;1 ( 4 10 1 251 . 55. 3d.; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and 615 , e ,Y, ; Railway, 185,3031 7s. ; South Wales Railway, Railway, 6 5 '. 4 6 5 : 1 0 . 0 ; (3 ( 1 .1 .. 10 , uce5ter and Forest of Dean Rail way, 29,425/. Is. 4d • Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth South Devon, 232,708/. 4s. Bd.; 185,103/. 55. 7d.; Cheltenham and Oxttrd, Worce,ter, eed Wolverhampton oxterd Railwa y , Railway, 68,557/. 163. 10d. 9 ; Cornwall Railway, s 12 031/. 7s. 7d; Western Plymouth Great D0ck,9,5001.; New 15th Locom o o - f. tive Stock , under vote of proprietorsnow station at Pad " of h August, 1850, 25,3521. 19s . 5 d.; dingto, under similar vote of the 13th of February of, the present year, 8,8151. Is. Altogether there is a balance on this account of 143 0 374/ 10s. The general revenue account shows a total of balances on the credit; side of 342,0951 2s. Id., whilst the debtor side exhibits payments to the amount of 118,765/. 9s. 7d., keying a disposable balance of 223,3291. 12s. 6d. The dividend proposed is two per cent. for the half-year, which, upon 8,212,0001. amounts to 164,240/. ; adding to this, interest upon fixed Four and-a-Half per Cent. stock, 9,1491. 3s. 3d.; we have a total of 173,389/. 35.3 d., which leaves a balance of 49,940/. 9s. 3d. to be carried to the general revenue account. The share capital of the company consists of 6,975,1001. consolidated stock; 69,700 17/. shares, all called, 1,184,9301.; and 6,500 201. Windsor shares, with 8/. called, 52,0001.; making the total amount called on which dividend is payable, 8,212,000/. Then there re mains the 12/. uncalled upon the 20/. Windsor shares 78,000/., making a total share capital of 8,290,000/. The appendex contains some interesting statistics. It appears that the total mileage travelled by locomotive engines during the half-year ending June 30, 185], was 975,210 miles, as against 903,508 miles in 1850, and 1,155,256 miles in 1849. The coke consumed in the last half-year was 14,045 tons as against 13,010 tons in 1850, and 17,414 tons in 1849. And the average cost of coke was 20s. 6d. in 1851, 20s. in 1850, and 10s. 6d. in 1849; the difference in consumption, therefore, will not make a corresponding large decrease in the expense as compared with 1849, SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Although the infamous fabrication which was lately put forth by the Dundee papers respecting Sir John Franklin's party was suspected by us to be a wicked imposture, it bas been suggested that a cir cumstantial exposure of the falsehood of its separate details would be very sati3factory to the many whose anxieties are greater than their knowledge of the Arctic question ; we shall, therefore, enumerate the various points upon which the whole story is made to rest. It was stated that on the 19th of June, the whaler Flora, of Hull, which had been out a year and a half, arrived at Stromness, and sent off thence her papers and letters, amongst which was one addressed by the mate of the Flora, Mr. George Douglas, to his brother, Mr. John Douglas, living in Ring-street, Aberdeen. These circumstances are false with out exception. No Mr. John Douglas is to be found or heard of, not a single whaling vessel touched at Stromness on the date mentioned, nor during the entire month of June, nor since. No whaling ship whatever, much less the Flora, of Hull, there being no such vessel, has been out a year and a half, and by thus minutely stating the period of her absence, fresh proof of falsehood is afforded, since it obliges the Flora to have sailed in the month of January, by more than two months earlier than it is the practice of the Davis' Straits whalers to leave England. The writer has presumed, without shame or limit, upon the igno rance of his readers. But we have not done with enumerating the falsehoods of this wicked production. The above statements preface the supposed letter from Mr. George Douglas, and are given upon the authority of a Mr. Thomas Reid, whose existence under that name we may presume to be as fabulous as the al legations with which he ventures to delude the public mind. The writer is made to state that in February last the crew made a snow house on the land, the precise position being judiciously suppressed, the ship having at that time been frozen in Lancaster Sound for five months ; that they were visited by Esquimaux, who inquired if they were English or Americans (!). On being satisfied, they further inquired if they belonged to Chief Frankum's party, and then made signs to intimate that some had gone to sleep. It was finally resolved to visit the spot pointed out by the Esquimaux, and a party started on the 27th of March, having previously packed the provisions, arms, &c., " into a flat-bottomed boat." The next sentence de scribes their journey overland, and the finding, on the sth of April, of the bodies of four men, the signal which guided them to the spot being a black silk handkerchief, tied to a walking-stick, stuck into the snow above the bodies ! We have avoided giving the useless details, no less than the writer's reflections, and almost scorn to employ argument against such paltry and trans parent fiction. Who does not know that by no possibility could a ship which bad been wintering in Lancaster Sound have reached home on the 19th June, or eves six weeks later ?—and while we cannot refuse a passing compliment to the march of intellect which has suddenly developed the Esqui maux appreciation of international distinctions, we would point out the clumsy discrepancy of making the narrator stow away provisions in a boat more than two months before the ice breaks up, the very next sentence describing their entire journey as being pursued overland. We can now only leave the perpetrator of this in famous attempt at imposing upon the credulity of the public to the mercy of those with whom he has suc ceeded, adding, by way of warning to all con cerned in this most miserable fraud, that we un derstand it is intended to prosecute in future such offenders with the utmost rigour of the law. We should be well pleased to find that the Govern ment had acted upon the proposal of Mr. Anstey in the House, and themselves instituted a legal process. Such a step would have more weight than anything else with those who can steel themselves to every claim not of sympathy alone, but of the commonest humanity.—Chronicle. POST-OFFICE _NOTICE. The Government of the United States having reduced the rate of postag.. chargeable upon letters transmitted through the United states to Cuba, letters for Cuba, addressed to be forwarded rid the Ueired States, will be liable in future to the following combined British tied United States rates of postage, viz :—For a letter not ,xceeding oz. in weight, ls. 24d.; for a letter exceed ing oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2s. 5d.; and so on, according to the scale for charging inland letters. Newspapers by the same route will still bo liable to a charge of 2d. each. The postage upon both letters and newspapers must be paid in advance. All correspond ,,nce for Cuba, not specially addressed to be sent rid the United States, will continue to be dispatched by the West India mail packet of the 17th of each month. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Aug. 9. (Before Sir J. K. BRUCE ) EX PARTE PEARGUS O'CONNOR, IN THE MATTER OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY, AND OF AN ACT TO DIS SOLVE THE SAME, AND IN THE MATTER OF TUE WINDING-UP ACTS. This was the petition of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, late of Notting-hill-terrace, but now of No. 16, Great Windmill-street, stating that, in 1845, the Chartist Co operative Land Society was projected, and was provi sionally registered in 1846, under the statute 7th and Bth of her Majesty's reign, under the title of " th e N at i ona l Land Company;" that by the deed of settlement of the company, the object was declared to be the purchasing of land in various parts of the United Kingdom, and erecting thereon dwellings to be allotted to the members, and the raising of a fund out of which sums of money should be paid to the members, being allottees of laud, the capital of the company; that the capital should be 130,0001., in 100,000 shares of 11. 6s. each, which was afterwards expressed to be 195,0001., in 150,000 shares of the above amount each; that by the Act which re ceived the Royal assent on Thursday last, the 7th of August inst., the company was absolutely dissolved; and it was thereby enacted that the Court of Chancery should on the petition of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, his heirs, exe cutors, or administrators, or of any subscriber to the company, or any claimant against its assets, make an order absolute referring it to one of the Masters of the Court to wind up the affairs of the company; that no advertisement but one similar to the one required by the Winding-up Acts should be necessary. The petition 113, , n stated that Mr. O'Connor was desirous that the affairs of the company should be wound up, and prayed the same accordingly. Mr. W. H. BENNETT supported the petition, and re quested that the reference might be sent to the vacation Master. Hie; HONOUR made the order. The sitting of the Court was in the private room, the Learned Judge consenting to take all such matters as were unopposed and of a pressing nature, the delay in hearing which until after the vacation would have occa sioned very great expense and other inconvenience. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Aug. 9. (Before Mr. JUdtlCO PATTEWN.) SHEPPARD V. SIR GEORGE DE LA DOER BERESFORD, BART. This was an application for a discharge from the cus tody of the Sheriff of Middlesex, upon the ground that the defendant, Sir George de la Poer Beresford, had been discharged from the debt for which he had been arrested by the Insolvent Debtors Act in Ireland. Mr. LEWIS, of Ely-place, who applied for the dis charge, briefly stated the facts. The defendant was a prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff of Middlesex, having been arrested upon a ca. as., issuing out of the Queen's Bench, for a debt of 1,4261. The defendant had been a prisoner iu the gaol of the Four Courts Marshal sea, in Ireland, and while there he had filed a petition in the Insolvent Court, in that country, on the 7th Sept., 1843, and having been three times before the Court, was opposed by the present detaining creditor on each occa sion, but was finally discharged on the 9th of May, 1845. lie then came to England, and for the most part since, and for the lust fifteen months had resided in this period ho was again arrested by e th o e uri p t i r a y int d if u r r , i w " wiibolch believed that the discharge in Ireland could not protect the insolvent debtor in England from a judgment obtained in an English court for the same debt. referred to the clause inMte r ( nd t : 0 I Act, d o f ur rs whichct Scotland declaredplaintiff, au d cel) t that wherei t w not js o . cx d , e Oared. Mr. LEWIS said that thc re were express decisions on that point. Mr. Justice PATTESON, after looking into the case s, observed that the question was whether the Insolvent Act in Ireland did not discharge the defendant from the debt. If that Court (the Queen's Bench) did not dis charge him, no one else could. Mr. GIBBONS contended that the Act merely applied to Irish judgments, and the defendant being a prisoner in Ireland, had been duly discharged from that judg ment. But the process under which ho was now in cus tody was issued from one of the Queen's courts at West minster, which the Irish Insolvent Act could not tough, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1851. as its operation was expressly limited to Ireland, ea cQpt where otherwise expressed. Mr. Justice PATTESON, after looking through the Act, observed that it vested the English property of the defendant in the Irish assignees. Mr. GIBBONS contended that the benefit of the Act to which the insolvent had been declared entitled in Ire land only applied to the Irish judgment under which he could not be arrested in England. The " benefit of the Act" signified protection from arrest in the country in which the process could be enforced. There was not a single word that he should le protected from process upon an English judgment. The debt was not extin guished by the discharge, but merely the operation of the law suspended in Ireland. After considerable discussion, Mr. Justice PATTESON said that it was clear that the Irish Insolvent Debtors Act vested all the defendant's property in England in the Irish assignees for the benefit of the creditors, and it would be monstrous to suppose that whe❑ all his English property was taken away he was not to be protected here. The just prin ciple, as it appeared to him, was that a man should be protected to the extent to which his property vested; and if his property in this country vested for the benefit of all his creditors, ho ought certainly to be protected here. If this Act was permitted to operate upon Irish property only, then he could understand why he should not be protected in this country. He (Mr. Justice Pat teson) was obliged to act as the statute directed, that if the insolvent was arrested he should apply to the judge of the court out of which the process issued. The de fendant would therefore be discharged. The defendant was immediately liberated from the custody of the Sheriff. plaintiff had a claim agaiest Mr. Holt, and he should state the circumstances on which he relied to show that the hill had been already paid. It appeared that Lotd Cardigan thought it right under the circumstances to come forward and assist Mr. Holt in his ff. , fonce, end his ' solicitor, Mr. Powell, handed over a cheque for• 40/. t 3 Mr. 11u5baud on account of Mr. Hair, and it was clear that Mr. Husband had received that amount, as it was now produced, and was proved to have his endorsement upon it. An attempt had been made to show that 301. of this sum had been paid to Mr. Traill. Mr. Husband knew perfectly well that this sum was paid from a totally different source. The Learned Counsel then read a letter from Mr. Wyatt, the plaintiff's partner, dated August 1, 1845, and addressed to Mr. Holt, in which ho stated that he was no party to the action, and referred to cer tain sums of money that had been received on behalf of Mr. Holt, and also the sum of 301. from himself (the de fendant), which had been handed over to Mr. Traill; and the letter concluded by stating that Mr. Holt had paid all that was due from him on account of the de fence to that indictment, and that if the accounts were strictly looked into it would be found that there was a balance of 251 due to him. The Learned Counsel con cluded by declaring that the present action was a most disreputable one, and said that it was such proceedings as these on the part of the attorneys which gave people grounds for saying that the law was only another name for spoliation and chicane. Tho Learned Counsel then put in the letter and the cheque, which was reed. Mr. CHAMBERS, in his reply to the defendant's case, said that he was extremely sorry to see lhat his Learned Friend had thought fit to introduce matters into the present inquiry which ought long since to have been for gotten, and to have ceased to Wend the public ear. Whether Lord W. Paget or the Earl of Cardigan was in the right had nothing whatever to do with the pre sent inquiry, and clearly ought not to have been intro duced into it. The real facts were that the defendant had been convicted of libel, arid the plaietiff, Mr. Hus band, now sought to recover the costs of the de fence to that indictment. What object there could be in mixing up other matters with these facts ho could not possibly understand, except that it was to divert the attention of the jury from tee real questio❑ in the cause; and he could not refrain from publicly denouncing such a course as most unjustifiable and improper. He then proceeded to comment up , n the conduct of Mr. Wyatt, who, he said, was evidently ou friendly terms with the defendant, and urgud that it was a most unjustifiable proceedine: on his part to assist the defendant in defeating the claim of his partner. He called upon the jury not to give effect to the letter of Mr. Wyatt that had been produced, on the ground that it was not a genuine document, but had been written solely for the purposes of the present action, and he said that the appearance of the document confirmed this view of it. The paper, it was true, bore the watermark of 1845, but instead of being an ordinary sheet of paper it had evidently been torn from seine old account book, as a portion of the ruled lines still remained upon it. Tho Learned Counsel concluded by reminding the jury that is had been clearly proved that every atom of the work charged for had been performed, and he said that the evidence i❑ support of the plea of payment was such as no jury ought to give effect to, to defeat a just claim. Lord Chief Justice JERVIS, on summing up, said, that undoubtedly, if the jury should be of opinion that the letter written by the plaintiff's partner, Mr. Wyatt, was a genuine document, it established pretty clearly that the bill had been paid. It was con tended on hehalf of the plaintiff that this letter was not genuine, and that it was not written at the time it bore date, and the character of the paper and other circumstances had been mentioned in support of this position. Ho must say, however, that they should not forget that Mr. Wyatt was an attorney and a man of experience in the affairs of the world, and if he really intended to commit such a dishonest act as that which was imputed to him, it was not very likely that he would do it in such a clumsy manner that the very first person who looked at the document could immediately detect the imposition. The Learned Judge then called the at tention of the jury to the other facts in the case, end left it to them to say which of the parties they thought en titled to a verdict. The jury almost immediately returned a verdict for the defendant. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 8. (Before Mr. JuAt ice EnLE.) John Murphy and John Keefe stood charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Down at the parish of Wool los, Newport. Keefe was also charged with aiding and abetting in the murder, and both prisoners were fur ther charged with manslaughter, Mr. Huddlestone and Mr. Vaughan Richards were counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Smythies for the prisoners. The trial occupied the greater part of' the day, and arose out of the following circumstances:—The pri soners and the deceased's brother, John, were at the Wiltshire house Tavern, on the 21st April, when a quarrel arose between them in consequence of ono of the prisoners' party striking a woman named Welsh. On John Dowd remonstrating with the Irishmen for striking a woman, they set upon him, beat him, and scalded him with boiling water, which they poured down o hs f itace the . He n injuries which s been deaf ever hethenr since eceived. from the Murphy y eff t e h c e t n s ran out into the back yard of the inn, where he was seen to pull out a knife from his pocket, and rushing back to thil house, her{ exclaimed, 4. ll—n the —, I'll stick 'em all." Ho then made an attack upon John Dowd, whom ho cut slightly on the hands and head, and he became senseless. Just at that time Thomas Dowd, the deceased came into the room, and seeing his brother ill-used, called out, "For God's sake don't let them kill my brother; try and save hitn;" and he made towards Murphy, who immediately turned upon him, and after Keefe had struck him, he (Murphy) scabbed him in the bowels. In his dying statement, which was read in court, Thomas Dowd said, " I saw Murphy take his knife out of his pocket about a minute befere at the back door. I saw him open the knife; it had a big blade, and the handle was of a dark brown colour. Murphy was standing close at my left side when he whipped the knife into me. I saw him make the stab, and said you have stabbed me to the heart. You have taken away ray life." The man lived for six weeks after the stab, but the evidence of Dr. Slack sufficiently proved that the stab was the cause of death. Mr. SMYTHIES for the defence, suggested that Mur phy's object iu going into the yard was to escape, but that finding he could not do so, he became exasperated, and hence what followed. The jury found Murphy Guilty of " Manslaughter of the worst character;" they also found Keefe Guilty. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said, the case more closely approximated to that of murder than any he bad ever remembered. Murphy's conduct had been marked by a murderous ferocity quite unexampled during the whole of the years he had known those courts; and it might be justly said of him, that he had been so regardless of the lives of others, that he could nut com plain if his life also had been taken away. As to Keefe, his hand had been against every man, though he had not armed himselrwith a deadly weapon. His Lordship then sentenced Murphy to transportation for life and Koefo for fourteen years. FRIGHTFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. BRISTOL, AUG. 9.—This morning at an early hour another terrible colliery accident occurred at the Ma lago Vale Coal Works, the property of Messrs Rey nolds and Co., at Bedminster, nearthis city, attended, we regret to say, with grtat. loss of life, six persons having been suddenly hurried into eternity. The lives of eight others were also placed in great jeo pardy. Subjoined are correct details of this most dis tressing event. It appears that twenty minutes past three o'clock this morning, four men, named Robert Moffatt, Tho mas Pike, William Smith, and Philip Pring, and lad named William Webster, entered the cart or bucket of the Malago Vale Pit, situated immediately behind the Red Cow, Bedminster, for the purpose of descending the lower vein, which lies at the depth of 240 fathoms from the surface, a turn of men having just come out at their usual time. They were lowered in the usual way by the steam-engine be longing to the works till they had arrived within a few feet of the bottom, when the flat rope attached to the bucket broke at the top, thereby precipitating the poor fellows to the bottom ; and as the place where the rope broke was about half way .from the " shiver wheel" to the mouth of the pit, the whole of the rope, which is six inches and a half by two inches in thick ness, fell down the shaft, as also the " bonnet," or iron shield, on the top of the unfortunate men, completely crushing two of them. In its fall it injured one of the trunks, but did no damage t o th e s id es o f t h e shaft. At the time of the accident the cart was de scending at its usual rate, and the rope is stated not to have been in work more than a twelvemonth, whereas ropes of this description are usually calcu lated to last three or four years. We are informed that it was examined the night before, and that no flaw was discovered in it. It had been spliced, but not at the part where it broke. There were still twenty-five fathoms of rope attached to the wheel, so that blame is not attributable to the engineer. The weight of the rope that thus fell on the poor fellows is estimated at not less than three tons. Intelligence of the frightful catastrophe was quickly spread in the vicinity, and the pit was speedily sur rounded by the relatives and friends of the men below. A scene of the most heartrending descrip tion ensued, terminating, indeed, fatally in the case of one poor man named Thomas Parsons, whose son was one of the men engaged in the vein below. He be came so excited that while he was at the top of the shaft, anxiously awaiting tidings of the fate of his eon, he suddenly dropped down, and before assistance could be rendered him he expired, thus making the sixth death. Besides the unfortunate men thus precipitated to the bottom great fears w ere enter tained for the safety of eight men who had pre viously descended the shaft, and who were pro ceeding to their work at the time the accident occurred, as it was considered by those in ch arge o f t h e wor k s that they might be in peril from the water, and the engine wa g at once set to work p ump i ng, w hi le un d er the superintendence of Mr. Stewart, the manager of the works, assisted by Mr. Goulstone, one of the pro prietors of the North side pit, - measures were imme diately taken to recover the bodies. Men were first sent down the pit with timber to repair the trunk, while those in the mine were directed if possible to pull the broken rope into the level, so as to enable the cart to be raised to the surface. Owing to the great depth of the shaft this wa3 a work which oc cupied much time, and proved one of great difficulty. A flat rope of 150 fathoms was borrowed from the North-side pit, but this proved not to be long enough, and the length was made out by splicing to it a 100 fathom rope of the ordinary round twist, and by the time this work was completed, and it was adjusted to the drum, it was ten minutes to eight o'clock. In telligence of the accident having been for warded to the police-station, some of the force attended with a view of keeping order among the large crowd col lected. First of all, in order to test the working of the machinery, a bucket with lights, but with no one in it, was lowered down the shaft near to the bottom, and drawn up again, and as the arrangements now appeared to be complete two men, named John Reynolds and Henry Lovell, entered the cart and descended. The excitement among those now collected at the mouth of the pit was most intense. All was breathless at tention, and much anxiety was evinced from the fact that during the descent there were several stoppages which seemed to show that there was something amiss. When the cart had descended to somewhere about three-fourths of the extreme depth, the signal was given for hauling up, and the men were drawn to the surface. They stated that owing to the twisting of the round rope it would be impossible for them to descend to the vein in safety, but they brought the melancholy intelligence that they had been enabled to converse with the men in the vein, by whom they bad been informed that the five poor fellows were all dead. Men were then set to work splicing a second flat rope which was lent from the Dean-lane Colliery, it being impossible to work with the round rope, and a length of time elapsed before the dead bodies were got out, or the other parties below could be rescued from their perilous position. It may be right here to mention that the colliers engaged at the Malago Vale coal works have not been in any manner connected with the recent strike at Bedminster, they being paid by the ton, and an exa mination of the rope shows that the accident clearly resulted from a flaw in it. The engineer states that he observed the defect as the rope passed the wheel, but that before he could stop the engine the rupture took place. A piece of the rope with the broken end has bee❑ cut off and impounded by the coroner, whe deposited it with Mr. Alexander, inspector of police. At four o'clock this afternoon the whole of the bodies were brought up, and the scene at this time was most distressing. The wives and children of the unfortunate deceased were almost frantic, and it wits with the greatest difficulty that they could be induced to leave the yard for the purpose of instituting an inquiry into the cause of the accident, the coroner being on the spot awaiting the bringing up of the bodies. The two first brought up were Richard Moffatt and Pnilip Pring. The bodies exhibited marks of violence, as if they had been struck on the head with the iron bonnet. One of them had his throat partially divided, and both the front and back of his head were injured. Two of the women present were so affected that they were seized with violent fainting fits, and bad to be carried from the yard. The Coroner, at two o'clock, held an inquest on the body of the aged man Parsons, when a portion of the above details were adduced in evidence, and at the termination of the inquiry the jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from excessive fear and grief caused by the supposed death of his son. The Coroner also commenced an investigation on the bodies of the five men killed in the pit, but as a recent Act of Par liament requires that notice shall be given to the Secretary of State, he did not take any evidence be yond that of identifying the bodies. Great excitement, in consequence of this lament able accident, prevails throughout the district of Bed minster, and it is the intention of some of the principal inhabitants to call a meeting with a view of adopting a resolution requesting the Secretary of State to send down a Government inspector to assist at the Coroner's investigation. We regret to state that the deceased man Moffatt has left behind him a wife and seven children to mourn their untimely be reavement. Thomas Pike has left a widow and two children. William Smith was unmarried. Philip Pring was married, and had one child. The boy Webster was about 14 years of age. The depth of this pit is greater than that of any other in the parish, being about 240 fathoms. iN MARKETS. 4Vo have had a very (pie .e as follow: P. d. s. d. perl96lb 15 0 to 16 0 Barley, English, pr imperial quarter N 0 —2B 0 Irish, S cotch, and _ . _ idanx,per6olb.. 3 8 3 10 Foreign, grinding 3 4 3 8 aye, per 601 b .. 3 6 3 9 Beans, English, pr imperial quartr 32 0 34 0 Irish and Scotch, per 4801 b.. .. 30 0— 31 0 Dutch .. .. 30 0— 31 3 Egyptian .. .. 25 9 26 3 Peas, English,per imperial quartr 31 0 33 0 Foreign .. 31 0— 32 0 Oats, per 451b:— English, Scotch, and Welsh, old 3 3 3 6 Irish, ne r est mending .. 3 2—3 21 Do., feeding .. 3 0— 3 I Do., foreign .. 3 0 3 4 Oatmeal, English, 86Scoteli,pr2401b 23 0 2e 6 Irish, new .. 25 0 2G 0 Do., old, .. 26 0 26 6 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WES TERN CIR CUFF.— Bridgewater, Aug. 9. The commission for holding the assize in the county of Somerset was opened here on Thursday afternoon by Mr. Jus. ice Coleridge, who immediately afterwards at tended Divine service. Lord Campbell, who had been detained in Cornwall on the trial fur murder, arrived at a lute hcur at night by the mail train. The business is very light, there being only 42 prisoners in the calendar and 13 causes in the cause list. CROWN COURT. Lord CAMPBELL took his seat in this court on Friday morning. In delivering his charge to the grand jury his Lordship observed that it was with very great regret he found so few of the magistrates answering to their names in this great and wealthy county. Farmers and other persons who perhaps could ill afford it thought it right to do their duty and to take their share in the adminis tration of justice; the richer classes, however, had not considered it necessary to attend to their duties. He wished they would follow the example set them by their Lord-Lieutenant. (Lord Portman was sitting by his Lordship). John Chivers, alias King, was indicted for a burglary in the house of Thomas Clark, of Bridgewater, on the 4th of May, 1850. Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Reed were counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Edwards for the prisoner. From the evidence of an accomplice it appeared that on the 4th of May, 1850, the prisoner and a man named Collins were drinking together at different beer-shops at Bridgewater. At twelve o'clock at night they left the Horse and Jockey and went to the house of Mr. Clark, which is situate in the parish of Bridgewater, but about half a mile from the town. When they got there they took off their shoes and walked round the house to make an inspection. They then took a pane of glass out of the drawing room window and made an entry into the drawing-room. They went into different rooms, and took off a quantity of plate, a jar of gin, and other articles. They then left the house, tied all the articles up in their smock frocks and made them into bags, and carried them some distance until they got into a lane, and there they laid the things in a dung heap. They then returned to Bridgewater. In consequence of some suspicion Collins was apprehended and taken before the magistrate, who committed him for trial. After his commitment he gave information of the place where the property had been concealed. The constable went to the dung heap and found various articles, but the bulk of the property had been removed. Search was then made for the prisoner, and it was discovered that he had absconded. Collins was indicted at the assizes in 1850, and he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years' transportation. Subsequently information being obtained that the prisoner was at Cardiff, Stock dale, the head of the police in that town, accompanied by a constable, went in search of him, and discovered him working in a brickfield. The moment the prisoner saw them coming near him ho started off at full speed across the moors, followed by Stockdale and the con stable; a most exciting chase then took place. The moors were intersected with streams and deep ditches, therefore the prisoner was compelled to leap them and alter his course. The constables still pursued him until they had accomplished upwards of seven miles. He was then pressed hard, and was approaching a tidal river, which, from the nature of its banks, was very danger ous. The prisoner then commenced taking his clothes off as he ran, till he had divested himself of every article of clothing, and when he came up to the river he plunged in and swam across. The officers got across by a railway bridge and headed him. He laid down for a short time, got up again, and surrended. Stockdale took him into custody, and having procured a sheet, wrapped him up in it, and took him back to Cardiff, and ulti mately brought him to Bridgewater. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sea tenc,d to be transported f,r 15 years. Samuel Gadd and Shadrach Wedlock, were indicted for robbing Bartolomeo Xuerebe of several articles on the 3d of August last, and Jonathan Gadd, for receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Allen prosecuted, and Mr. Stone defended the Gadds. The prosecutor, who is a Maltese, was returning from Bristol to Chew Magna between 7 and 8 on the even i ng of the 3d of August. When he was walking along the Dundry-hill he was attacked by a man, who made a snatch at his seals. The prosecutor knocked him down, and, then, as he stated, not knowing the mode of English fighting, he adopted the Maltese practice, and picked him up and threw him over his head. Another man then came up and struck at the prosecutor with a long stick, but mis.ed him. The two men then took away his seals and chain, and then ran away. The next morning the prosecutor went with the postmaster to a public house in Chew Magna. The post-master went into a room where Samuel Gadd was sitting, and they began to talk of the robbery, when Gadd said he knew all about it, and would tell if they would give him some money. The postmaster told him to go into the other room, and the moment ho did so the prosecutor charged him with being the man who had robb e d hi m , and spoke particularly to his boots, which he took par ticular notice of when he threw the man over his head. Wedlock was afterwards taken up, and the prosecutor swore he was the other man who had robbed him. Jona than Gadd was apprehended on account of some of the silk of the prosecutor's umbrella being found in his pos session. The seals were found thrust into the letter-box of the Chew Magna pest-office. Several witnesses were called, who swore the p a rti es were elsewhere on the night in que st i on . Lord CAMPBELL having summed up, The jury Acquitted Jonathan Gadd, and found the other two Guilty, and they were transported for 10 years. - NISI PRIUS COURT. In this court there was nothing of great interest. HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, August 9. (Before Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and a Common Jury. HUSBAND AND ANOTHER V. HOLT. This was an action to recover the amount of a lawyer's bill. The defendant pleaded that he had paid the bill and that be was not indebted. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Bovill wero for the plaintiff; Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins ap peared for the defendant. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that the plaintiff in this action, Mr. Husband, sought to recover the amount of his Bill for professional services rendered to the defendant in 1843. At that period Mr. Husband was in partner ship with a gentleman named Wyatt, and although that partnership had since been dissolved, inasmuch as all the partnership debts had been made over to the plaintiff, it was necessary on the present occasion that the action should be brought in the name of the firm. It appeared that at the period ho had men tioned Mr. Holt was the proprietor of the Age news paper, and he was indicted fur a libel, and it was for defending him against this proceeding that the costs in question were incurred. The bill was originally of a much larger amount, but upon a taxation by an officer of the court, owing to the absence of vouchers which Mr. Husband could not obtain possession of, the amount was reduced to 321. 7s. ld., which was the amount that was now sought to be recovered. Mr. G. Bonbon, clerk to the plaintiff, proved that ho was in the service of Messrs. Husband and Wyatt from the commencement of their partnership in 1844, until it was dissolved in 1850. They were concerned for the defendant in the indictment against him fur libel, and he knew that all the business charged in the bill had been performed. By Mr. JAMES—The defendant saw Mr. Husband oc casionally, but his business was chiefly conducted by Mr. Wyatt. The endorsementof the cheque tor 401., now product d, was in Mr. Husband's handwriting. Mr. Traill, an attorney, proved that ho received the sum of 301. from Mr. Husband on account of Mr. Holt. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. JAMES, for the defendant, said he felt satisfied that when the jury had heard this case to a conclusion they would be of opinion that Mr. Husband had done himself little credit by bringing it into court. In the first place, ho would beg to call their attention to the fact that the plaintiff now sought, in 1851, to recover a bill for professional services rendered in 1843. The ori ginal amount of this bill was 1331. 13s. id., but it had been minced by taxation to 411., and according to the rule of court regulating such matters, where more than one-sixth was struck oft' such a claim, the party claim ing had to pay the costs of taxation, and this reduced the amount to the sum now sought to be re covered. Mr. Holt declared that the whole of the claim the plaintiff had upon him had been discharged; and if he proved this he thought the jury would agree with him that Mr. Husband tied disgraced himself by bring ing such a case into court. The circumstances under which the claim arose were these:—lt would ba in the recollection of the jury that some years ago Lord W. Paget brought an acti o n aga i ns t th e E ar l o f C a rdigan fur criminal convenation with his wife. The case was tried by a special jury a t G u ildh a ll, an d a f ter a care ful inquiry the jury gave a verdict fur the defendant. The facts connected with the t r i a l appeare d i n t h e A ge news paper, of which at that time Mr. Holt was the proprie tor, and ho was indicted by Lord W. Paget for a libel for the publication of those facts. At this period the Act of Parliament which enabled a defendant to plead a justification in such cases had not passed the Legis lature, and as the defendant was therefore unable to jus tify the publication he was convicted. It was for the costs of the defence incurred in this proceeding that the, THE COUN T LIVERPOOL, AUG. 9.—s market to-day. Prices wer , s. d , s. dl Wheat, per 701 b : 1 English, white e . 6 0 to 6 4 - Do. red .. 5 9 6 0 Irish, best red .. 5 6 5 8 Do, lower quality 5 2 5 4 Manx, red and wh. 5 6 5 10 Dantsie, high mixed 6 8 6 10 Do., mixed .. 6 0— 6 4 Rostock, &c.. .. 6 4 6 8 Hamburgh and Lower Baltic .. 5 8— 5 101 American& r white 6 0— 6 4 Canadian, jred 5 8— 6 0 Antwerp &LOuvain 5 9 6 01 French: red.. .. 5 9- 6 01 Hungarian and Mariaropoll .. 5 4 5 6 Odessa, Polish .. 5 6 5 81 Do., common .. 5 2 5 4 1 Egyptian .. .. 4 0— 4 2 Flour, English & Irish, per 28011 32 0 33 0 Do., extra fine 33 0 34 0 United States, per _ barrel .. . 20 6 21 6 Canadian .. .. 20 0— 21 0 Indian corn, per 480Ib, white .. 26 0 29 0 MANCHESTER. AUG. 9.—With exceedingly brilliant weather throughout the week, and declining irccouuts from most of the leading wheat markets of the kicg dom, the trade here since our last report has ruled ex tremely languid, and the few transactions which oc curred in flour were at prices iu favour of buyers. Coastwise and from Ireland the imports into Liverpool are unimportant; but there aro again liberal supplies of wheat, Indian corn, and flour reported from abroad. Our market this morning was of a very inactive cha racter, and wheat must be quoted 3d to 4d per 701 b. ch..aper than on this day se'nuight. For flour the in qeiry was only limited, and we note the article is per sack and barrel lower. In oats or oatmeal there was not much passing, but previous prices were tolerably well sustained. NOTTINGHAM, AUG. 9.—We have had favourable weather fur the harvest during the we. , k; it had its usual influence on the market to-day, the demand was most limited, and the sales made were at a decline of 2s per quarter from the prices of last week. In oats and bar ley there was no change. Beans were Is per qr cheaper. WORCESTER, AUG. 9.—Our market to day was well attended, and farmers asked the rates of last market day. Millers, however, would not purchase on those terms, and business was limited. English white wheat, 16s to 1i s per bag of three bushels ; rod, 15s to 163 6d. Malting barley in better request at from 3s 4d to 3s 8d per bushel; distilli ng qua li t i es, 3s to 3s 4 d . English beans average 4s 6d per bushel. Old English Oaks realised 3s 6d to 3s 8d per 391 b; Irish from 2s 9d to 3s. Winter vetches, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel. White peas, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per bushel; gray, 3s 4d to 45, with a dull sale. At Stratford-on-Avon market on Friday there was a large supply of wheat with a dull trade, and to effect sales a reduction of fully 6d. per bag had to be sub mitted to, millers holding back, and only supplying their immediate wants. English white wheat, 15s to 16s per bag; best red 14s to 14s 6d per bag. Other kinds of grain declined in value in a corresponding degree. The wheat crops are ready for the sickle here, but in some places have been rudely beaten down by the wind. The potato disease has made its appearance, and threatens to be very destructive. The other crops promise well. At Stourbridge market on Friday there was a dull trade in wheat, which declined is to 2s per quarter. Malting barley in good demand, and firm at last week's quotations. Oats remain as lust week, and also beans and pt as, with a slow inquiry. Wolverhampton market was well supplied, and a de cline of Is per quarter took place in wheat. Barley maintained last week's rates; little doing, Beans and peas the turn lower. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 9.—The favourable weather has tended to depress prices, and the market today was heavy, millers being unwilling to purchase wheat except at a reduction of about is per quarter. English white wheat must be quoted at 5s 661 a p ts er (Esb bushel, and 22san:1 t o 24 reds 33; 3d; foreign, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. and Irish, 201 to 22, per quarter, with a dull trade. Beans from 43 to 4s 2d for English, 3s 9d for French, and 3+ 6(1 to 3s 8d per bushel for Egyptian. Peas, 4s per bushel. READING, Apo. 9 .—Wheat, per qr, 30s Od to 52s ; barley 20s to 2Fs ; oats, 15s to 24s Od ; beans, 25s to 34s ; peas, 26s to 32s per qr; average price of household wheats, Os to to Os. Poultry—Fowls, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; ducks, 480 d to 4s 9d; geese, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; turkeys, each, Us Od. Butter, is to Is 2d. Eggs, 16 to 18 per Is. DALKEITH, of the three pri ces o f w h eat were 18st Ill b , 18 s t 81b, and I7st AUG. 7.—The relative weight per four bushels 41b. Oats, 12st 71b, 12st 51b, and list 71b. Barley, I6st llb 15st 101 b, and 14st 71b. Peas and beans, 19st 41b, 00st 01b, and OOst Olbs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 149 Wheat .„, ...... £ 9 7 6 £2 5 0 £1 11 g 322 Oats 61 Barley I II 3 1 17 6 1 5 0 9 Peas and Beans 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Average of wheat ........... 43s Old. ABERDEEN, Auc. B.—Grain—Oats .21s Od to 00s Od, 401bs per bushel; foreign oats, 00s Od to Ois Od, 40Ibs per bushel; barley, 23s od to is ud. 521bs per bushel ; bear, 23s Od to 24s Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat 00s to 425; oatmeal, 16s 6d to 17s (id per boll ; flour, 30s to 32s per sack. Provisions —Beet, 3d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 3d to 6d; veal, ditto, 3d to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s 6d co 3s 9d ; lamb, per lb, 5d to 6d ; tallow, per stone, 3., Ud to 3s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, Od to Is Od ; rabbits, each, Od to Od; hares, each, Os to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 9o; 2s cd' e ggs, per doz, 7d to 9 d ; cheese, per cwt, 18s t o 23 s Od ; hens, pe, pair, 2s 6d to d ; c hickens, ditto, Is 6d to 2s Od; ducks, do., 2s 0,1 to '2s (id ; ducklings, ditto, Ps to 2s 6d; turkeys, each, 830 d to Os Od; geese, ditto, 7s to 88; butter for exportation (present cure), per cwt, ()Os to 725; eggs. wholesale price, per dozen, Od to 5Ad ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d ; pork, per stone of 141bs, 0, tad to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s (id to Os Od; pork, large 3s 6cl to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Us to Os Meal—Oatmeal, Is 8d to is 9d; barley dust, Od to 10d; peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s Od ; rids 7d to 8d ; beremeal, Is 5d to Is 6d; flour, is 9(1 to is 10d; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley flour, Os Od to Is Bd. GLAsa.,w CATTLE MARKET, AUG. 7.--At our rear ket to day the numbers were—oxen, 867; sheep, 1,949; Limbs. 5 083. Owing to the large supply of cattle sales were slowly effected, and prices had a downward ten dency. Best ox beef realised 42s per cwt., current, 403, 1111(1 inferivr 34s (4;1 38s per do., sinking Ow offal. 13est aged wethers brought 5,1 d per lb, current 40 to sd, and inferior 4d per do., sinking the offal. Best lambs brought 15s a head, and a few of the smaller kinds brought from 6s to 7s a hcitd. A number of cattle, sheep, and lambs, were turned out unsold. DUBLIN, AUG, B.—ln consequence of the continued fine weather and the depression in the trade in the Bri tish markets, a general dullness still prevails with us. Wo do not make any alteration in our quotations of Tuesday, but, from the paucity of transactions, they must be considered as in some degree nominal. Wheat, white, 22s 6d to 25s 6d; red ditto, 21s to 24s Od ; bere, 9a Od to lOs Od; oats, per barrel, 12s 6d to 14s Od; ditto, new, 1 is Od to 12s 6d; oatmeal, 115 Od to 132 Od; second flour, per cwt., 12s Oil to 14s Od; Indian corn, per 4801 b, 26s to 28s Od; repeated, 17s to 19s per barrel. CORK, Atm. 8. The trade during the week has continued especially dull; the arrivals from abroad at this port, and the dull advices from the English markets combining to depress the market. We notice immense arrivals (nearly 84.000 quarters of oats) chiefly from Russian ports, at Mark lane. The supplies of home grain, bere and oats espe cially, increase somewhat. The receipts for the week are, of wheat, 15 brls; here, 196 brls; oats, 537 brls. The samples of new grain coming in speak well for the_ crops in general. The trade in prime wheat is very dull with a tendency to lower prices. In inferior descrip tions a small speculative business has been done, though scarcely to any extent worth noticing. We know of no transactions in oats, stocks of which are narrowed to a mere trifle. The trade in all descriptions of flour is very languid, and any sales made are on the most retail scale. Rumours of injury to the potato crop has caused some little speculative inquiry for Indian corn, but the general trade is now dull in tne extreme, buyers purchas ing only as the present trifling demand for the menu facturpct article warrants them in doing. Barrels. Currency. 0 White wheat oos Od to 001 Od 00s Od-20 stot• 3 Red wheat 19s 6d to 00s Od 00s Od-20 do 0 Barley oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-16 do 69 Bere 74 Oats 2 Ditto old l2s 3d to Oos Od 00s Od 0 Pigs Otis Od to 00s Od 00s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; 0 red; U barley; 0 here; 40 oats; 0 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 14. Barley, 0. Oats, 451. Pigs, 0. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. First quality Second quality Third quality ~, Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality CUARZNCT• First quality .... ........ 621 Second quality Third quality 54, Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality Rettirn of Cattle sold fOr week ending Aug. 2. Pigs, 263. Sheep, 258. Cows, 67. CORK.— tqour —First 12. Ud to 138 Od; extra 141 Od; seconds, 10s 6d to 11s 6d; households 93 to 10s Od; thirds, 7, toes per cwt. Oatmeal 118 6d to 00s; Indian meal 6s 9d to 78 Od; wheat. meal, Ps 64 to 108 per cwt. Indian corn 61 0 s to 61 158 Od per ton. Bran 6756 d to 70s per ton. Hay—Farmers 14s to 268; average 00s ; dealers 388 to 45, Od; average 00 per ton. Straw—Farmers 14s Od to 381 Od; average 008; dealers 40s Od to 008 Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d ; household loaf 41d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 9d per lb. Eggs -3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Calm, 12s 14s Od•• Lydney 15s ; Landore oOs ; Calm, 12s 6d per ton. Tallow 38, Od to 398 per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 58 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 51d to 7d; mutton 5d to 61d; veal 4d to 6d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. Hops 61 108 to 010 per cwt. Bangor slates 3128 6d to 31 ie per ton. Bark—Barbary 710 to 81 Os; Valonia 151 to 01; French 6/ Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 142 to 15s per stone. Hemp 29/ to 321 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 19s to 00 ; red ditto, 26s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 11/ pa ton. Timber—Memel, 808 per ton ; red pine, 31 108 ; yellow ditto, 2/ 158 per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides— Market 218 to 30s; salted 22s to 3Os per cwt ; calf skins 3d to 31d per lb. Potatoes, white 5d to 7d; Minions, 004 to 00d. Guano—Peruvian, 11/ 10; Ichaboe, 81 to 91 Os per ton. Tar—Archangel, 198 par barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, AUG. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market has been rather inan:m2te to• day, but holders of stock were firm. Amongst the closing prices were—Bristol and Exeter, 81 1 4—Great Western, 84L/2—Ditto, 171. Shares, 14 t4—South-Eastern and Dover, 2214. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market has improved to-day, and there has been rather a good inquiry for Midland Stock. The transactions were as follow :—Chester and Holyhead, Preference, guaranteed 5 1 , per cent, 15 1 4 1 —East Lancashire, I V/I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 49 3 / 4 c. —Ditto Fifths 8% dis.— Lancaster and Carlisle, Thirds, 856 p.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% p.—Midland, 42 3 / 4 — South-Eastern and Dover, 22 Li—York and North Mid land, 18. MACHSTER, . 9. STOOK EXCHANGE.— N Thebusiness t o o-day was very limited in amount, without much alteration in prices. BIRMINGHAM, Atm. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The amount of dividend declared by the London and North-Western Company does not appear to have taken any person in this neighbourhood by surprise, but a larger reserve fund was expected. The principle of making revenue pay for outlays, and thus increasing capital account, is, however, approved, and the policy pursued by the directors generally deemed satisfactory. The share market was heavy to•day, and little business transacted. The following were among the closing prices:- Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, sellers NU—London and North Western, buyers 121%, sellers 122 1 ,/—Ditto, Quarters, buyers 3A 3 , sellers 3% p. Midland, buyers 42'4, sellers, 42 5 4—Ditto, New, buyers 2014, sellers 20 ells.— North Staffordshire, sellers 9%—Shrewsbury and Birming ham (A), sellers 574, dis.—Ditto (B), buyers 5% dis.— Ditto, Preference, Boilers, 10 South Staffordshire, buyers 5 1-3, sellers 3 dis. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-oftiol by the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch.] When made up in From what PLACES. General Post-ofilcel port dis- When London. j patched. due. ••••I America (by Brit. pkt,) N Aug. 15 .. Liverpool .. Arrived America (by pkt.) N Aug. 19 .. .. Liverpool Aug. 12 America (by U.S. pkt.) 51 Aug 13 .. Southampt. Aug. 21 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Aug. 3 Alexandria* ........ N 111th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Aug. 18 .• N Deily .. Dover .. Daily Brazil . M 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 16 Buenos AyroS M 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 16 California' ' viaChagres) M id & 17th of montlilSout h erupt. Arrived Good Cape of hope .N 14th of month Plyraouth•• Aug. 3 Constantinople* ...• N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Aug. 10 Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Arrived 1 Channel Isles N,Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Tki.SS Chili .. M'l7th of the mouth Southampt. France &N, Twice daily .. Diver •• Twicedal}j Greece* . • .. N l 7 th 17th 27th ef mo l l:Paver .• Aug. 10 Ilamburgh N I Tuesday & Friday IL ondon Tees. Sat. Holland .. •• Wednes. & Satur..ll.onden Men.Tkur Honduras .. . N 17th of the montlxlFiouthampt. Ireland .. .. M & NiTwlce daily .. alolyhead •• Twieedaily India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southaznpt. Aug. 13 India(viaMarseilles) N7th&24th efmonta l Dover •• Ai,. 15 Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. M' 20th of the mont a Southampt. Aug. 23 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. N,7th&24tla Ofmon , :h Dover • • Aug. 15 Mexico 31 2d of the month... Southampt. Arrived Niadeira 3 / 1 9th of the month, S i o p uth ov a e m r pt. A A u u g g.. 1 1 6 6 N 4t11,17th,19t1a,27th Malta* &30th of month Naples. N;sth 15th 25th ofnao Diver .• Aug. 12 Papal States' .. Nl5 th 15th 25th of mo iver . Aug. 12 Peninsular.. Mr7th 17th 27th of mot& uthampt. Aug. 15 Peru •• •• •• M 17th of the month iso uthampt. Tuscany. N sth 15th 25th of mol./c +Ver • • Aug. 12 Vest Indies .. M 17th of the month athanapt. Aug. 24 W ll e a s v t ai l tn nd a ie & Nassau) s(except Mi2d of the month ,So othamot. Arrived The malls to those c French packet ♦i,l Slarsel CALIFOUNIA.—MaiIs to are now despatched and d !2d of the month . ountries thus mar; Iles, and from Californi lue by every Allied So athampt.!Arrived Eed '(*) are conveyed by ri4 1 the United State. at packet. [ADVERTISEMENT.] The surpn suing Excellence of Holloway's Ointment and Pills in the cure of Old Wounds or Scrofulous Sores. —Four years since Thomas Watkins, cotton-spinner at Manchester, received a severe wound in the arm by its coming in contact with the me.chinery. For a con.. siderable time he was attended by several medical men at the infirmary, who deided that nothing could save the poor man's life but amputation; to this he objected, whereupon he was discharged as ir.curable. At this crisis h is friends subscribed a trifle to purchase some of Holloway's 'Ointment and Pills, which remedies, in a few weeks, healed the wound, after so long a period of suffering.—Sold by all E►ruggists and at Pro fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. TUE ROYAL PROGRESS TO SCO PATED VISIT TO DONCASTER.-It has been publicly stated, within the last few days, that it is the intention of her Ma jesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wale.z, the Princess Royal, and the rest of the royal chil dren, and a numerous suite, to visit, towards the end of August, their Highland residence at Balmoral. In fulfilling such an announcement, it is the gracious intention of her Majesty to proceed, for the first time, by the Great Northern R a il wa y, and to remain, we believe, all night, at Doncaster, en route for Scotland. The day fixed for this auspicious event is Wednesday, the 27th inst.--,tincola Gazette. Whilst the Lord Mayor was visiting the gardens and waterworks at Versailles on Sunday, a girl of loose cha racter all at once rushed on M. B—, a respectable trades man, who was with his wife in the crowd, and reproached him in violent terms with having abandoned her. He as sured her that she mistook him for another, but she conti nued to heap abuse on him. The wife asked if it were really M. 13— that she wanted. On hearing the name, the girl cried, " Ah, I am mistaken then, but the resemblance is so extraordinary !" and she hurried away. M. B— was glad to get rid of her, but a little after he found that his gold watch and chain had disappeared.--Gafignizni. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the sth inst., at Birmingham, Mrs. Rice Williama Harris. On the Bth inst., at Porchester-terrace, North, Mrs. James Crowdy. On the Bth inst., at Perry-hill, Sydenham, Mrs. James Thorne. OP A DAUGHTEIL On the Gth inst., the Duchess of Buccleuch. On the 7th inst., at Homerton Cottage, Hackney, the wife of Mr. William Frith. TARRIED. On the 31st ult,, at Christ Church, Folkestone, Robert William Peck, Esq., o f A shton-under-Lyne, to Susanna Clerk, only daughter of the late Joseph Holman, Esq., of Folkestone, Kent. On the 6th inst., at St. George's Church, Dublin, Jameg Acheson, only son of Acheson Lyle, Esq., Mater in Chancery, of the Oaks ' Londond erry , t o ld a Eli za b et h , second daug ht e r of the Rev. Francis Ruttli.ige, of Bloomfield, co. Mayo. DED. On the 7th i ns t . , at Lans I downe-road, South Lambeth Thomas Barrett, Esq., of Mark -lane, aged 82. On the 7th inst., at Vermont Cottage, Rochester-square , Mr. Vincent Francis Kuczynski, of her Majesty's State Paper office, aged 43. On the Bth inst., at Mansfield-street, Lieutenant-Colone l J. B. Gardiner, late of the let Life Guards. On the Bth inst., James Shudi Broadwood, Esq., of Lyn° Newdigate, Surrey, aged 79. 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