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looked elsewhere, have seen a real collision with these societies ; for while there are as sociations for all these purposes, there is also an association for leaving the poor needlewoman unable to buy more than three-fourths of the bread which she might purchase—there is an association for mak ing a poor man spend so much for food, that he can not buy a stock of linen to go to wash !—(Cheers)— there is a society that so interferes with the rights and wants of the poor, that they lose all heart and desire to put themselves into better habitations—there is a society that has a direct ten dency to diminish the amount of work for the poor, to curtail their employment, and to deteriorate the worth of that employment—there is an antagonist so ciety to all these professed benevolent institutions, 1 and. that is the Central Society for keeping up the taxation on bread ! They are the parties who ought to be accused of those who are so much 'addicted to these special charities. On their heads ought the thunderbolts to fall. It is they who are on their trial, not the leaders of the League. The League on its trial, indeed ! Why, Providence has given it a trial, and they have stood it bravely and triumphantly.—(Cheers.) They have summered and wintered it ; in the season of heaviest suffering and in times of comparative prosperity they have pleaded the cause before the Legislature ; they have pleaded it before assemblages of tremendous multitudes; they have been, to use an apostoli phrase, " instant in season and out of season ;" every time has been to them a time and season for advancing the great cause of justice and charity. They stand not merely acquitted, but deserving of all honour and praise. It is the other party that is on its trial—it is the moral courage of the Premier that is on trial ; it is his disposition to carry into practice his own professed principles ; it is the constitution of the country that is on trial, to see whether it can furnish the means of redressing this great and pervading wrong; it is the spirit, and energy, and determination of the British people that are on trial, to see whether they will hold out till they do themselves right by putting down the oppression of a class. They call themselves pro tection societies ! Why, we are the true protection societies. They are a protection society for the rich and powerful—we are a society for the protection of the needy and helpless. They are a society for the protection of high prices of food—we are a society for the protection of the highest worth of wages.-- (Loud cheers.) They are a society for the protection of indolence and rent—we for the protec tion of industry and enterprise. They are a society for the protection of a demoralising, degrading, and destructive system—we for the protection of universal right, justice, and charity !—(The conclusion of the address was received with loud and long-continued cheering.) The CMAIRMAN then thanked the meeting for the good order that had been kept throughout the pro ceedings, and announced the next meeting for that day month. After giving three cheers, the immense assembly separated. ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In perusing your influential journal of the 10th inst. I observed in the article upon the trial of the Great Britain steam-ship, that Mr. Samuda was men tioned as the patentee of the atmospheric railway. I beg you will allow me to correct your error. The patent which rendered the atmosphere capable of being used, practically and commercially, as a motive power on railways was taken out by Mr. Clegg, the in ventor, who, in conjunction with Mr. Samuda, still holds the right.—l have the honour to be, Sir, yours, OBSERVER, [The article in question was taken from . a Mornin g Contemporary.—EL Sun.] MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of D ea th s f rom all Causes register ed in the Week ending Saturday, the 11 th of January, 1845." Ths Table is issued from the,Office of the Registrar-General:— . CAUSES OF DEATH. Weekly Total. Average of Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 223 - iB4 --- Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 94 106 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 145 159 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 406 292 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-♦essels 4O 24 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 9 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 77 70 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 1107 954 Deaths from all Causes ...... DEATHS FROM TICE PRINCIPAL DISEASES LNCLUDED UNDER TB DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The Direct Northern Railway is entitled to support as a national undertaking. It is precisely the line which a wise Government would select, if the planning and con structing of railways were in this country intrusted to the Government. The DireCt Northern will connect the Great North of England Railway with all the southern and south-western railways which have their terminus in London ; it will be the trunk line of communication between the railway systems north of York, and those south of London. The Direct Northern is the shortest line between York and London, and therefore the most advantageous for all persons north of the York and south of the London terminus, who may wish to travel or transmit goods in either direction. TheDirectNorthern is the line best adapted—passing as it does nearly through the centre of the district between the great western railways and the east sea—to afford facilities for the eonnecting of such lateral lines with it as the amount of local traffic may require. The Direct Northern brings every town along the brie, with the exception of Peterborough, nearer to the metropolis and to York, than any existing or projected line ; and Peter borough is only 4i miles from the point at which a branch of the London and Birmingham Railway, which passes through it, crosses the Direct Northern. For the population on each side and at each end of the line, the Direct Northern is the most convenient of all its competitors ; and it will also be the most economical. Where the gradients are the same, the shortest line through a given country will be the most cheaply worked, and will consequently pay at the least expense to the public. The gradients of the Direct Northern are on the whole superior to those of any competing line : only 1 2-3 d miles of tunnelling are required between London and York, and no engineering works of great magnitude or difficulty. The Direct Northern is 4:2 miles shorter than the existing line of railway communication between York and London; 9r shorter than the proposed London and York Railway, 304 than one proposed North-Eastern line, and 211 than the other. The only line that comes near it in respect of shortness is the London and York ; and this latter line, besides being less favourable for the construction of lateral railways, opens upon the York and North Midland Railway in the very manner described by the fourth report of the Railway Commissioners. " as likely to render delay unavoidable, and collision not im probable." After such considerations as these, it seems a descent to notice such claims on the part of the Direct Northern as that it scarcely interferes with the interests of any existing line, and that its projectors were in the field before their rivals of the London and York line. After the experiment of the Liverpool and Manchester line had proved the posibility of railway communication, it was natural that the Grand Junction and London nod Birmingham Railways should be the first practical ap plication of the discovery. The completion of the Direct Northern, as the trunk artery of a national railway system, is the next step. It is curious enough—and may be regarded either as evidencing the skill with which Roman engineers traced their roads, or as proving the contemplated line of the Direct Northern to be the na• tural course of traffic—that the railway follows almost throughout the line of the old Roman road called " Er mine -street," and is at some places actually upon it.— Spectator of Jan. 11th. THE ABOVR 'BEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption Scarlatina 47 36 Pneumonia ...... ... l2O 80 Dropsy ..... .. .. 35 33 Hooping Cough .... ....... .. Typhus 27 30 Small Pox 5O 20 Disease of the Heart Measles ... 3B 24 Apoplexy .......... ... .... Diseases of the Brain 5 10 Diarrhea.. - _... 8 13 Sudden Deaths ... ... 9 15 DISTRICTS 4 , 7 i it! t Deaths Weekly Births .law, 44' in Average of in the Week. Five Tears. the Week. West North 219 176 211 Central East .. 2lO 209 277 South ....._ _ Total .... ...... „. ..... 1109 963 1311 Dispatches for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and for the Governors of Malta awl Gibraltar, were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office. Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and from the Governors of the other North American Provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial office. Two MORE FlRES.—Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday morning a most destructive fire was discovered in the lower part of the premises occupied by Mr. W. Fryer, grocer and cheesemonger, 1, High street, Camberwell. The progress of the flames was extraordinarily rapid, and owing to the lapse of time which occurred before water could be obtained, the fire tad caused great devastation before the firemen were in possession of the means of checking it. Tho shop is burned down, and the kitchen at the back of it most seriously damaged. The next house, in the occupation of Mr. James Rowley, bootmaker, is materially injured, and the stock and furniture considerably damaged. No. 3, occupied by Mr. Morgan, baker, is also slightly burned : and the house No. 9, opposite, tenanted by Messrs. Wade Brothers, linendrapers, is scorched by the heat from the flames. Mr. W. Mould, oilman, of 1, Wyndham-road, has suffered considerably ; his stock and furniture, both by water and removal, are much in jured. Mr. Fryer is not insured for the contents ; the building is insured in the Dissenters' office. The other p ro perty is partiall insured. Cause unkrown.—At ten minutes past five o 'clock the police-constable upon the beat.di,scovered a fire in the extensive warehouses and workships belonging to Messrs. Perkins and Sharpus, wholesale tin-plate workers, 6, Bell-court, Cannon street, 'City. Mitch damage is done throughout the building and to the stock, the work-benches, fixtures, flooring, joists, and roof in the top floor (where the fire originated) being leaned, and the contents most seri ously damaged on the first and ground floors of the warehouse. The firm are insured for the stock in the Sun office. It is not known how the fire originated. We understand that the several Noblemen and gentlemen whose meeting at Lord Howard's was noticed tin a former occasion have continued their deliberations from time to tune upon the Church question, and were preparing resolutions and 'a memorial to the Queen against the recent changes in the form of conductinr public worship, and attempts to subvert the principles of the Reformation, to he submitted to a more extended meeting intended to be held early in this week, but under existing circumstances it has been deemed expedient to suspend their proceedings until after the meeting of Par liament.—Times. EXTRAORDINARY GLUT or FlSH.—Tuesday Bil lingsgate, Hungerford, and the different metropolitan fish markets were enormously glutted with various kinds o f fi s h, which sold at unusually low prices ; and the supply of mackarel was so abundant that they sold in Clare-market at the almost incredible price of Id., and even an low as a halfpenny a piece. At this time of the Tear mackerel is not considered to be in season ; those, however, brought into the markets yesterday were re markably floe, and were eagerly bought up. HANDSOME SPECULATION. — It is stated that within forty years the United States have extinguished the In dian title to 4:30,000,000 acres of land for 82,000,000 dol lars. At this rate they paid the Indians an average of less than 20 cents. per acre. Now, if the United States disposed of those lands to their citizens at the present low Government rice of 1 dollar 25 cents, they have received into thei asury the slam of 455,500,000 dol lars above the o I cost.—Cherokee Advocate. CADvEaTiszsizisT.]—COU9llS, COLDS, Asr ItAtA s, AND SHORTNESS OP BREAAR, RADICALLY CURED BY lioixowAy's PILLs.--For some time past it has been known that hundreds of the most distressing cases of Asthma, of many years' standing, have been completely cured by Holloway's Pills. There is also no doubt but that they are a sovereign remedy, when taken, for any wheezing or shortness of the breath, even if of twenty yeari' standing ; and as to coughs and colds, however bad they may be, it need only be the wor k of a f ew days to get entirely rid of them, by the means of this astonishing medicine. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. CHESS. The match (so long postponed in consequence of the illness of Mr. Staunton) has been put off to an indefinite time from the same cause. Mr. Staunton has been com pelled to return to London, but ere he left Paris he ad dressed the following letter to his opponent:— " Paris, Jan. 7, 1845. " Dear Sir,—The time has at length arrived when I can relieve you from further suspense on the subject of our match. " My health continues in so precarious a state, that many weeks I find must still elapse ere I can venture on any task of mental labour and excitement. Under these circumstances I have determined to obey the wishes of my friends most interested in the contest, and return to England. It is not, believe me, without regret and die- P.ppointment that I thus leave unachieved the object of my visit ; but a gleam of consolation presents itself in the hope that your affairs will lead you to London in the approaching spring, and that when there, you will not let pass so favourable an opportunity of seeking the revanche I have been at so much pains to give you. As some inducement to such a step, let me call your attention to the liberal con ditions of my defi, in the April number of the Chess Players' Chronicle.* And, as a further incentive, permit me to add, that, in the event of your resolving to en counter me in London, I will undertake to play even according to the objectionable terms imposed upon me here, and stake 1501. to your 1001. on the result of 21 games.—l have the honour to subscribe myself, Sir, yours obediently, " H. STAUNTON." " it' The challenge alluded to was as follows: " CHALLENGE FROM MR. STAUNTON TO M. ST. ♦SLANT. " My dear Sir,—Your reply to my • Proposals' reaches me at the moment when the - forthcoming number of the Chest Players' Chronick is at press. This circumstance will account for and excuse the brevity of the present communication. " My challenge, to the terms of which you have taken so many exceptions, was a general one, and its condi tions, however equitable, could never be so nicely shaped that they would dovetail with the wishes and conveni• ence of every individual ; they will not do so, it would seem, with yours. Keeping them, then, altogether out of view on the present occasion—regarding only the im patient desire which you express, and which I feel, for another match, and the assurance you have given us of your being in London this spring—l have the honour to submit for your consideration another Defi.' "I will engage upon your arrival in London, this spring, to play you at the St. George's Chess Club, a match of 25, of 21, of 11, of 7, or of 5 games, at your option, for any stake not less than 1004 sterling. " These games shall be played at your - own appointed days and hours. " I will undertake to play every day, or alternate days, or once a week, as you may determine, under the penalty of one guinea for each omission. " I will agree that the maximum time allotted for each move shall be 10, or 15, or 20, or 25, or 30 minutes, at your pleasure ; and that either party exceeding the given time shall, on every occasion, be tined one guinea. "The match shall also be played in public or private, as you may determine ; and finally, I will consent that in each game both players shall, on their first move, play King's 1 two squares.—ln haste, I subscribe myself, dear Sir, truly yours, " H. STALIN TON. " To M. St. Arrant, editor of Le Palamede." -------- DALSTON AND 11.INGSLAND LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.—On Tuesday, a numerous and highly-respectable meeting was held at the Middleton Arms, Queen's-road, Dalston, to adopt measures for the formation of an institution for the rapidly-increasing western districts of Hackney. The borough representa tives were present. Sir W. Clay took the chair, and iu a long, able, and effective address, enforced the claims of the projected institution, which by power and patron age he would cordially support. Mr. Rayson read the report of the provisional committee. Colonel Fox moved its adoption, and expressed his delight at the projected institution. Messrs. Neilson, Ovenden, Rev. C. J. Dukes, Bingley, Thorns, and others, severally supported other resolutions in furtherance of the scheme. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to the worthy representatives, who returned thanks. A vote of thanks was also given to Mr. Rayson, Secretary, after which the meeting sepa rated. Many shareholders' and subscribers' names were received. THE SOMERSETSHIRE MURDEIS.—BRIDGEWATER, MONDAY EVENING.—The further examination of Sarah Freeman on charges of murdering her brother, mother, husband, and child, which was fixed to take place this day at the Town-ball before the magistrates for the county, has been postponed in consequence of the severe illness of the prisoner. I believe that soon after her being conveyed back to gaol on Friday evening she was taken ill, and her indisposition increased to such a degree as to render it ne cessary to call in the assistance of several medi cal practitioners. The surgeons being of opinion that to proceed with the examinations to-day would be attended with dangerous consequences, information to that effect was conveyed to the justices who had taken part in the investigation, and a messenger was dispatched to Shap wick to prevent the different witnesses fur the prosecu tion from coming into town, it being very properly deemed desirable to lessen the public excitement as far as possible. The prisoner, although much better than she was on Saturday and yesterday, is still so severely in disposed as to render it certain that the proceedings will not be gone on with to-day. - . . EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—Considerable sen sation was excited in Richmond and its neighbourhood on Monday last, in consequence of th• discovery of the body of a man in a field adjoining the Kew-road, Rich mond, under circumstances that were at the time indi cative of foul play. On Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a man, named Charles Strood, who is gardener to Messrs. Steele, nurserymen, Kew-road, was crossing his master's field, when he observed the body of a man lying near a wall which separates the field from the nursery-gardens. Stroud examined the body, which proved to be that of Thomas Mansell, a horsekeeper, also in Messrs. Steele's employ. The face of the deceased was frightfully disfigured, and there were wounds on other parts of the body. These suspicious appearances induced the man Strood to com municate immediately with the police, and Inspector Turner, with several constables, instantly proceeded to the spot with a stretcher, on which the de ceased was placed, and carried home. Mr. Lomas, a surgeon, was called in, and that gentleman stated that the deceased had been dead some hours, and that he had probably died in a fit. The wounds on the different parts of the body appeared to have been eaused by the bite of some animal, but neither of them was dangerous. The police afterwards instituted a rigid inquiry into the circumstances, and ascertained that the deceased had gone late on the previous night into the field with some hay for a horse that was turned out; that he was drunk at the time, and must by accident have run against the wall and disfigured his face ; and with re spect to the other marks and wounds the general suppo sition is that they were caused by the horse, when it found the deceased lying on the grennd, biting him to awaken him, such instances of sagacity in the horse not being uncommon. Bunn, the manager of Drury-lane Theatre has paid a flying visit to Paris in search of novelties, and he is now gone to Berlin to witness the representa tion of Meyerbeer's new opera, The Camp of Silesia, with a ♦iew to the production of that successful work on the English stage. THE DISTRESSED NEETILEROMENIS SOCIETY.— This Society has received another powerful addition to the list of its patronesses in the name of the Duchess of Norfolk. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Benjamin Wood, the member for the borough of Southwark, and brother to the late Alderman Wood, is at the present time lying in a dangerous state of illness, with little hopes of recovery. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY IVIORNING, ,JANUAR-Y 16, 184 S. LITERATURE. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EYE. By William Jeaffreson, late Sur geon to the Bombay Eye Infirmary, in the lion. East Asdia Company's Service. London, Renshaw, 1844. Mr. Jeaffreson, the author of this work, possessed advantages for the study of the diseases of which it treats which fall to the lot of few practitioners, and fortunately for the interests of science and humanity, he was by his previous studies and acquirements enabled to make the most of those advantages. He vas a pupil of the late John Abernethy, the most accomplished British surgeon of the present century, to whose merits he pays the following well-deserved tribute of respect : " It was the author's good fortune to be educated under the justly celebrated and talented surgeon Mr. Abernethy—a man who was ever more anxious to point out great and important analogies in nature, than to fritter away truth by fine-spun differences and distilla tions; a man who was foremost in. vindicating the great general principles of surgery, and in showing the con nexion of so-called local diseases with constitutional stues, and their successful treatment by means directed through the system as a whole. The sound doctrines taught by this great surgeon, imparted as they were in language whose eloquence was its simplicity, and further impressed upon the minds of his pupils with the affec tionate earnestness rather of a parent than a master, could not fail to make lasting impressions on the minds of all, and in the calling of life into which after circum stances led me, I cannot express too strongly my grati tude to a friend and teacher, from whose precepts I early learnt to look upon all affections of the eye in nonnexion with their constitutional origin and treatment." In 1822 Mr. Jeaffreson was nominated by the Di rectors of the East India Company superintendent oculist at Bombay, and was instructed to establish a hospital there devoted solely to eye diseases. Patients from the most remote parts of India and Persia flocked to Bombay to be treated by Mr. Jeaffreson for diseases of the eye ; and from the month of January, 1824, to that of October, 1834, he attended no less than 53,391 cases, and in 36,564 of these cases the patients regained perfect sight. The results of this extensive practice are recorded in the volume before us, which must, we feel convinced, become the text-book on the subject on which it treats. Among the maiy improvements introduced by the author, we would particularly call attention to his new operation for the removal of cataract, an operation of a nature almost painless, and totally unattended with danger either to the eye or the life of the patient. On his way back to England he visited* Egypt, and the fol lowing observations on the manner in which not only ophthalmia, but plague, may be propagated by the common fly in that country, are well worthy the at tention of travellers : " The habit of the Egyptians is to crowd themselves much together ; their mode of living is very poor ; they spend a considerable portion of time in the bazaars and other public places, where the profusion of flies, at all times sufficiently great, is aggravated by the exposure of dates, raisins,. figs, and other sweets, by which they are attracted ; it is to these flies, carrying the purulent se cretion from one eye to the other, that I believe the ex tension of the disease is frequently due ; and I would strongly urge all persons in their travels through Egypt. to be provided with veils for the purpose of keeping off these insects ; gauze, or dark-coloured spectacles, may protect the eyes against the glare of the sun, or partially even against dust, but they do not prevent flies from settling on the lids. My belief is that plague itself is thus frequently propagated." The author concludes by giving general directions for the preservation of the eyes, for which purpose he strongly recommends cold bathing. The following observations on the Soorma, used by the females of India to heighten their personal charms, are curious. Soorma may perhaps ere long become an article of the toilette in European as well as in Indian boudoirs : " In conclusion, I shall take the liberty of adverting to a curious custom which prevails amongst the females of Incha, who are in the habit of using a black powder called Soorma, which they do not put into their eyes, but paint with great delicacy on the roots of both the upper and lower lashes. This, besides contributing much to their personal appearance, by increasing that softness of the eye, so pecuiliar a feature of Eastern beauty, they conceive affords them some protection against cataract, a disease too prevalent amongst them. It certainly has the effect of keeping the eyes cool, and probably, by absorb ing some of the superfluous rays of light by which they are dazzled and annoyed, may afford some protection as well as comfort. Much on the same principle, that is, by diminishing the access of a glare of light to the eyes, are common eye-shades useful; which, whether worn in the shape of a green shade over the eyes, or over the candle or lamp itself, are very valuable means of saving these important organs. Such practice, however bene ficial in health during great exertion of the eyes, as pre ventive of disease, must not be confounded with the use of shades, and still more so of bandages, in many forms of chronic disease, when a moderate exposure of the eyes to light, and a free access to them of pure air, are highly beneficial by acting as mild stimulants, and if the term may be allowed, as local tonics." FOREIGN LIBRARY. Chapman and Hall, London, 1845. The present Number of this comprehensive Mis cellany forms the Seventh Part of Schlosser's His tory of the Eighteenth Century, which has been translated by a gentleman named Davidson, under the immediate superintendence of the author. A considerable portion of the Part is devoted to details of the famous Seven Years' War, in which Frederick of Prussia acquired such general renown, and in the course of their details the historian furnis hes us with brief but graphic portraits of Louis the Fifteenth and his shameless mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who ruled France more absolutely even than the King. A CLERGYMAN COMMITTED FOR TWO MONTHS. On Tuesday the Reverend John Dean, who described himself as a clergyman of the Established Church, ap peared at Clerkenwell, pursuant to his bail, charged with being drunk and riotous, and also with having vio lently assaulted police-constables 95 and 163 G, and Jane Dean, his wife, was charged with being drunk and riotous. Constable 95 G stated that at a quarter to one o'clock on Sunday morning he heard a great noise in Goewell street, which proceeded from the prisoners. H• told them to desist, when the male prisoner told him to go to h-1, and said they would make as much noise as they pleased. They were both drunk. They continued their noise, and on again requesting them to be quiet, the male prisoner said the police were a gang of thieves, and might go to h-1. He was about to take them into cus tcdy, when the Rev. Gentleman struck him two violent blows on the head with his stick, and it required several policemen to take him, when he behaved in a most vio lent manner. At the station-house he sprang on wit ness, seised him by the throat, and said he would do for him. There were two gentlemen with prisoners when he first saw them, who were very noisy, but they escaped. They were not singing songs or psalms. Constable 103 was assaulted by the male prisoner. A large mob was attracted by the noise. Mrs. Dean said she would do asshe pleased. He confirmed the evidence of 95 G. 220 N and 205 G confirmed the evidence. Mrs. Dean attempted to rescue the male prisoner, and begged of them not to break her husband's leg. The lawyer's clerk said it was unfortunate that the two gentlemen who were with his chants were not present, and that the police had acted with great and unneces sary violence on the occasion. He would leave the Rev. Gentleman to make his own statement. The Rev. Gentleman said himself and wife had been spending the evening with some friends, who were play- ing on a key organ, and on returning towards home they were talking about the music and humming a time, when the officer, 103, told them to hold their " din," and he shook prisoner violently on coming up to him a second time. He denied the assaults, or having acted in the way attributed by the policeman.. His wife fainted away twice on the road to the station-house. She was nut drunk, she only had one glass of liquor during the day, and he bad only taken two glasses ot• ale and two glasses of brandy and water. Mr. COMBE said, if he were a clergyman he was now in a most degraded position, and he hoped, for the sake of the clergy generally, but more especially , for himself, that his description of himself was fictitious. If the police bad acted as he imputed, they were not fit to hold their situations any longer. He knew them to be proper officers, and thought they had done their duty. Thy only question for him was, whether he should commit him to the House of Correction, or fine him 51 Inspector Barton, G, said the prisoners were only living at a coffee and•beer-shop, and had no luggage or boxes there. Mr. COMBI said it was impossible, in his opinion, that he could be a clergyman, living at such a place, and be having as he had done, and he convicted him in the penalty of SL, or two months' imprisonment. lie dis charged Mrs. Dean, who left the Court crying, while her husband waa locked up. THE WEATHEL—The atmosphere was so ex tremely thick on Tuesday on the nver, and at the docks and wharfs on either aide, and it was so excessively dark during nearly the whole of the business portion of the da), that all business was completely suspended, it being found impossible to distinguish either the marks and numbers or the contents of the packages which were being landed and housed, or examined for delivery. It necessarily caused immense inconvenience to trade, and particularly during the present time, when, from the long prevalence of easterly winds, and the sudden influx of shipping into the whole of the departments in the port, great difficulty is found in providing officers to meet the emergency without the hindrance caused by the dark and unfavourable state of the weather. The gloominess afforded rare opportunity to smugglers and other ill-disposed persons to carry their operations into effect, and it is much feared that we shall hear of nume tons robberies having been successfully accomplished in consequence., FATAL SIIIPWRECE.—Letters received in town inform us of the total loss, in Carnarvon Bay, of th e ship William Turner, commanded by Captain Evans, with all hands on board. The melancholy catastrophe occurred either during the night of the 10th or early on the morning of the 11th inst. The wind was blowing strongly from the south-west at the time. The William Turner was 488 tons burden per register, and was laden with guano at the port of Ichaboe for Liverpool. Por tions of the wreck and manifest were found on the beach —Liverpool Albion. ' LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT Ol CHANCERY, Jan. 15. The Lome CHANCELLOR sat at Westminster to•day, and heard lunatic petitions, none of which were of any public interest. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 15. (Before the VarE-CIIANCELLOR GI ENGLAND.) His Hoxona heard cause petitions to-day. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) BLAU' V. gIIMPWORTN. This case was opened before the recess, and has been argued on several occasions. The bill is filed by the coheiresses of Mr. Thomas Stoddart, to set aside a deed of compromise, whereby they parted with property in Lincolnshire, for a sum of money alleged to have been greatly below the ♦alue of their interest. The bill con tains allegations of fraud, misrepresentation, and sur prise. The arguments again occupied the Court for the greater part of the day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 15. THE QUEEN U. THU AUDITOR OF SUANLET UN4FON. In this case Mr. Hill moved far a rule for a certiorari to bring up the accounts of the auditor of the Burnley Union, with a view to their being quashed. The pre sent application was made 'on behalf of the Great Western Railway Company, who objected to a certain charge in the accounts ; and the principal ground of the application was, that the auditor had refused to assign the reasons why he had come to the conclusions to which he arrived, as he was bound to do. In this case the auditor was also the solicitor of the parish, and he had therefore to audit, as auditor, the accounts which he drew up as solicitor. It was his duty, and the duty of the parish officers, to make application to the Commis sioners to appoint a special auditor to undertake the duty.—Rule nisi granted. BAIL COURT, Jan. IL (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) MILLS V. KENDALL. This was an action to recover 42!. 2s. 3d., for goods sold and delivered. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. _ _ Mr. Platt and Mr. Bagley were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Creasely for the defendant. Mr. PLATT, in opening the case, said that the plain tiffs were tradesmen in Regent-street, and dealt in gloves and hosiery and other finery. The defendant was an architect of considerable celebrity, residing in Suffolk-street when in town, and in Kemp-town at those seasons more applicable for coun try recreations. The articles for the payment of which the present action was brought were supplied to defendant's family in the course of the years 1842, 1843, and 184.4, the pui chasers being the defendant's wife, son, and daughter. Mr. Kendall had frequently accompanied them to the shop, and was, therefore, conscious that they dealt there. It was but natural to infer then that he was equally conscious that the articles he observed worn by his family, and which were not settled for by him, must have been had from the premises of the Messrs. Hill. The daughter, who was designated " a child " in one of the defendant's solicitor's letters was, he might remark to the jury, a young lady , of twenty-one years of age. and therefore not the mere child they might otherwise suppose her. Among the items supplied they would find silk hose, gloves, with here and there a feather, and on one occasion a silk dress, which was seen upon the young lady at a time when her father was in company. It would certainly, he thought, be a monstrous injustice if a father could, upon the plea of his child being unauthorised to contract these debts, seek to defraud the tradesmen, when an in quiry upoa his part would at once have shown how the articles were obtained, and when bills had been regularly sent to his house upon every succeeding Christmas. Ile would proceed to call witnesses to prove the case. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco ) NEWHALL v. WEBSTER . A.NI, OTHERS. In this case, which was tried last week at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron, ♦erdict by consent for the plaintiff, the Solicitor-General moved for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered upon leave reserved for that purpose by the Learned Judge, and also for a new trial upon the round of misdirection. It was an action for the intringement of a patent for certain improvements in wire-ropes, and in the machinery for making such ropes ; the declaration being in the usual form. The defendants had a variety of pleas, the general plea being that they were not guilty of the alleged infringement. The date of the patent was the 7th of August, 1840, the specifi cation being enrolled on the 6th of February, 1841. It appeared from the evidence that, at a period long prior to the letters patent granted to the plaintiff, hempen ropes had been made by means of machinery. Ofcourse the fibres were twisted in the first place into yarns, and the yarns made into strands, for the purpose of forming the rope. Two machines were used, one called a stranding ma chine, the other a laying machine. The stranding machine was used for the purpose of laying the yarns into strands ; the laying machine for that of laying the strands into ropes. The material being of a soft de scription, in forming the strands it was considered important that a twist should be given in order to harden the rope. His principal object was to direct attention to the laying machines, used for the purpose. of laying the strands into ropes. For a long time anterior to the plaintiff's patent it had been considered a desideratum that the machines should be so constructed as to prevent a twist in the strand, and enable the rope to bear a greater stress. The laying machines were of a circular form, containing in general three bobbin-frames, it being more usual to make three stranded rope than rope of any other description. In order to prevent the twist in the strands, it was necessary that the wheels upon which the bobbin-frames revolved should have a counteracting motion, exactly corresponding to the motion of the whole machine in the contrary direc tion, so that the bobbin-frames should always present the same face. It was proved distinctly that the defen dants themselves bad long had in their manufactory ma chinery of this description, that is, machines for prevent. ing the twisting of the strand, and that such machines had been used in the last century. The claim which the plaintiff made was the manufacture of un twisted wire-rope, and also of wire-rope in which a core was placed between the strands and the ropes. The Learned Counsel then described at length the peculiar nature of this invention, and referred to the specifica tion in support of his motion. The substance of the complaint on the part of the plaintiff was, that machinery had been used for making hempen ropes which produced the same effect as his invention.—Rule granted. RICHA.RDS V. XACEY. - This case was tried before the Lord Chief Baron, at Westminster, on the 4th of December last, and a verdict found for the defendant. It was an action for a promis sory note for 1001., and arose out of the state of the affairs of the Marylebone Bank. Mr. Jim-as now moved for a rule for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. The COURT postponed its decision. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) judgment in the follow ingTnhaesiersLo:_rdsh ips this day gave P ONTIFEX V. WILKINSON. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are coppersmiths, against the defendant, a builder, to recover the price of a large boiler set up by them under his directions, in the house of a gentleman in the country, for whom the defendant was employed. The defence was that Wilkinson was not liable, not having given the order to the plaintiffs as upon his own responsibility, but for and on account of the gentleman whose agent only he was in the transaction. The verdict was for the plaintiffs, but the defendant subsequently obtained a rule for a new trial, upon which their Lordships reserved their judgment. The Court now made the rule absolute, and ordered the case to go down again for trial. TEE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY U. ROBINSON AND OTHERS. The plaintiffs in this case are proprietors of large tracts of land in the north of Ireland, adjoining Loughs Foyle and Swilly. The defendants have severally con tracted to drain portions of that land, and this action was brought against them to recover damages for breach of contract. The verdict was substantially for the de fendants. The plaintiffs, last term, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, upon which, after a long argument, in which several sergeants were engaged on both sides, the Court reserved judgment. . The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE now gave judgment for the new trial, and made the rule absolute. ~•,, • GRANT V. HUNT. 'This was an action against the Southampton Bank on a bill of exchange accepted for them, but refused on presentation. The defence wae that the acceptor had not the defendants' authority. The facts of the case did not come very fully before the Court in the first instance, but were referred to Mr. Sergeant Shea, from whom they came before the Court as a special case, which was argued in Trinity Term. Their Lordships now gave judgment for the plaintiff. Their Lordships then took the new trial paper. • ennxies v. mimic This was an action for breach of contract in the sup plying of a large quantity of copper coin for the Mexican Government. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and Sir T. Wilde now obtained a rule nisi for a new trial. The facts will be more conveniently reported when the rule comes on for argument. They were fully reported at the time of the trial, but as they are somewhat interesting, historically and commercial, a brief reference to them will again be expedient. WM% V. =VAX AND OVUM. This was an action for trespass and forcible entry. It was tried before Mr. Justice Erle at the sittings after the last term, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff, damages 251. The following is a brief statement of the facts :—Mr. Bevan, who is a Chancery, barrister, kepi horses at the livery stables of Mrs. Savage, in Fetter lane, a person named Stocken having acted for some time as foreman of the establishment. For a considerable time this person appeared to have enjoyed the confidence both of his mistress, Mrs. Savage, and of her customers; but at the period when the pre sent cause of oontention arose, he no longer possessed their good opinion. Mr. Bevan having determined to sell one of his horses. desired Mrs. Savage to send th e animal to Tattersall's for that purpose. Subsequently to his eiving instructions on this point, Mrs. Savage had occasion to go into the City ; but, before doing so, she distinctly told Stocken and others that Mr. Bevan's horse should not be taken out of the stable where it was kept. No sooner was her back turned, hoWever, than Stocken, mounting the back of the horse, rode into the yard of Mr. Webb, livery stable-keeper, of Gray's Inn-lane, and, after some neg o . tiation, he sold the horse to the plaintiff, under a forged warranty from Mr. Bevan, for the sum of 151. The fol lowing day Mr. Bevan, being accompanied by a police officer and other parties, proceeded to the plai n tiff' s yard, caused the stable door to be forcibly opened, and took away his horse. An action was then brought ; at , the trial of which nearly a dozen counsel 'ma pa- I gaged; and after many hard blows, and a good deal of harder swearing, a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with 251. damages. Mr. Sergeant TALFOUED now moved on behalf of the principal defendant, Mr. Bevan, fora rule to show cause why a new trial should not be had, on the two grounds of such verdict being against evidence, and against the direction of the Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Erle) before whom the action was tried. Mr. Sergeant CHAR NELL was proceeding to move on behalf of the other defendants, when The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, interrupting the Learned Counsel, said that the new trial must necessarily be for all the parties alleged to be aggrieved, and not for one only. ADMIRALTY COURT, Jan. 14. THE VSNERATILE-COLLISION. - _ This was an action by the owners of the brig New castle Trader, against the barque Venerable, to recover for damages suffered by the brig in a collision between the two vessels in the night of the 11th of July last. The brig was of 79 toes, coal laden, bound from Middle borough to Rouen. The barque was of 319 tons, and was proceeding to Hull from a voyage from North Americas. The wind was west-north-west, or west-by north. The brig had the wind free, and was coming out of Hasleborough Gap, when the barque, which was close hauled en the larboard tack, on a course north half west, was reaching to the north. The case of the brig was, that, on seeing the Venerable, she kept to windward, in order to go under the barque's stern (having the wind free, it was at her option to go to windward or to lee ward), supposing that the brig would keep her reach ; but, instead, the helm of the Venerable was put down, and she shot into the brig's larboard quarter. After hearing Dr. Addams and Dr. Curteis in support of the case, without hearing Dr. Bayford and Dr. H. J. Nicholl for the Venerable, Dr. LUSHINGTON said that the two gentlemen from the Trinity-house (who assisted the Court upon the nautical points) concurred with him in opinion, that the brig had been in the wrong throughout the whole pro ceedings, and therefore he dismissed the action with costs. of a tradesman named Rose, residing in Edward-street, Bethnal-green. It appeared from the evidence, that between eleven and twelve o'clock that day, as the wife of the prosector was sitting with her mother in her back parlour, they heard a strange kind of noise in the adjoining room, and Mrs. Rose immediately hastened into the passage to ascertain the cause of it; there she encountered the pri soner, who was leisurely walking from the back par lour, with a large trunk full of property belonging to her husband on his shoulder. She demanded what business he had there, and the prisoner coolly told her that he had been sent for the trunk by a lodger, whose name he mentioned correctly, and still kept walking off with the trunk, when she expressed her determination to detain him. On this the prisoner dashed down the trunk in the passage, and, violently thrusting her against the wall, darted out into the street. Mrs. Rose, however, raised an outcry after and pursued him through several streets, and he was at length stopped by a policeman and taken into custody. The prisoner, in defence, still adhered pertinaciously to the statement he had made to Mrs. Rose, that he had been sent fur the trunk by :he lodger mentioned in that ;,erson's testimony, and the magistrate, who did not credit this story, ordered him to be brought up again next week that inquiries might be made about him. Wm. Rickards, a middle-aged, respectable-looking man. was charged on suspicion of stealing between 50 and 60 sovereigns, and securities for Three per Cent. Consols of the value of lOot, the property of Thomas Hogg, a pensioner in the East India Company's service, living in Suffolk-street, Bethnal-green. It appeared from the evidence in this case that the wife of the prosecutor, between 6 and 7 o'clock on Satur day evening last, went out to market accompanied by a lodger named Lovell, leaving her husband, an old and exceedingly deaf man, in care of the house. Shortly after the wife had left, the prisoner, who had lodged in the house about six months, came in, and after a short conversation with the prosecutor in the kitchen, went up stairs, as he said, to get his great coat, remained there about ten minutes, came down again, and shortly after left the house. The prisoner had only been gone about half an hour, when Mrs. Hogg returned home, and on entering her bed-room, which adjoined that of the pri soner, found everything strewn about in the utmost dis order, and that one of her drawers, in which she had locked up before she went out a tea caddy containing the property above-mentioned, had been broken open, and the caddy, money, and securities carried off by the thief. As the prisoner had been the only person ad mitted while the wife was out, suspicion naturally at tached to him, and Sergeat Townshend being apprised of the robbery went in pursuit of him, and found him par tially intoxicated at the Durham Arms public-house, a few streets off. On being taken into custody and accused of the offence, the :prisoner most strenuously denied all knowledge of the transaction, and threw the blame of the affair upon his fellow-lodger, who had been assisting the sergeant in his apprehension. Policeman Kersey, 112 K, proved having carefully examined the prosecutor's house, and that there were no external marks denoting a forcible entry, while on searching the lower part of the premises he discovered and now produced a chisel, which exactly fitted the in dentations in the front of the drawer from which the stolen property had been abstracted. In answer to the charge, Mr. Pelham, who attended for the prisoner, submitted that not a tittle of the evi dence which had been produced inculpated his client, and claimed his discharge. He had a number of highly re spectable witnesses in Court, who had known the pri soner for many years, and who would not only bear testimony to his irreproachable character, but also be come bail for him to any amount, if the Magistrate thought it a case even for securities. The MAGISTRATE said, that this was not a question of character at all, but one of facts, and the evidence ad duced presented a case of strung suspicion against the prisoner. He would, however, consent to admit him to bail, which must be, the prisoner himself in 801., and two responsible sureties in 40/. each. The bail was immediately put in and the prisoner liberated till next week. SOUTHIVARK. Tuesday Isabella Ludham was brought before Mr. I Traill, charged with robbing the captain of a vessel called the Sir Robert Sale, lying in St. Katharine Docks, of a watch and guard, together with a gold pin and a cloak ; and William Simms, a man in business, with whom she cohabited, was charged as an accessary after the fact. It appeared that on the night of the 27th ult. the cap tain of the Sir Robert Sale was induced to accompany the female prisoner to a house of ill-fame, in Herbert's buildings, Lambeth. When he awoke in the morning he found his companion had gone off, taking with her the articles above specified, although he took the pre caution of deposting his watch, which was a valuable one, underneath the pillow. Having given a description of the prisoner at the station-house, she was taken into custody, brought before the magistrate at Union-hall, but was ultimately discharged, in consequence of none of the stolen property being traced. Nothing more was heard of the charge until the preceding night, when the whole of the facts attending the robbery were brought to light owing to the accidental circumstance of a serious quarrel between the two persens iu custody, which will be gathered from the subjoined account. Policeman 33 B stated, that on the preceding ni.. 4 ht at a late hour, while on duty in Tothilt street, Wes min ster, his attentijn was arrested by hearing a violent quarrel between the prisoners, and on his approaching, the man Simms immediately accused the woman with having robbed the captain of an Indiaman, and insisted upon giving her into custody. The parties were then taken to the station-house, where Simms reiterated the charge against his fellow prisoner, and entered minutely into all the details of the robbery, and also described where the stolen articles were pledged. The woman against whom the charge was made did not attempt to deny the truth of all that had been uttered against her, and declared that she was the victim of the man who had divulged the robbery ; that it was owing to his persua sions she committed it, and that having shared in the plunder he afterwards betrayed her. The policeman added that both the prisoners were detained at the station-house. Mr. TRAILL here directed Simms to be released from the bar and to ascend the witness-box, in order to give his evidence. He stated that he was a plasterer by trade, and lived at No. 1, Catherine-court, near the Cloisters, Westminster, and that the prisoner had been under his protection for a considerable time. He was here asked if he had any charge to make against the accused, and he replied in the affirmative, and then proceeded to state that at an early hour on the morning of the 28th ult. she returned home, and on entering the room where he was waiting her arrival she immediately produced a watch, gold pin, and a gold guard, and also a cloth cloak, and said that she had robbed a captain of a vessel while he was asleep. Simms went on further to state that the articles in question were subsequently pledged by the prisoner, and he men tioned the names of the pawnbrokers with whom she had deposited them. He added, that she had pledged the articles herself, and that he had no hand in it ; that they had quarrelled the night before, and that he determined on divulging the circumstances, and accordingly did so, and was surprised that after such a disclosure as he had made it should have been deemed requisite to take him into custody. Mr. Thant, (to the prisoner)—You have heard what this man has stated : have you anything to say ? The prisoner, who is an extremely well-looking young woman, said that now matters had assumed the aspect they did she had no intention of denying the accusation made against her that day by the man of all others who was the last who ought to have betrayed her. That in order to support him in comfort she had become a pros titute, and he knew it well. That on the very night she robbed the captain of the vessel before she left home Simms, addressing her, desired her to go out, threaten ing to beat her if she returned without money or money's worth ; that he told her to pick up the first well-dressed man she met, and that when he was asleep in the house where she took him that she could then rob him of all he had about him, and leave the house. She added that she was now aware that she was wrong for adopting that advice, but still she confessed she did it ; and she solemnly protested that the man to whom she had fatten a victim had accompanied her to the pawnbrokers', waiting outside while she went in and pledged the stolen articles, she giving him the greater portion of the money raised upon them. Simms, however, denied the latter assertion, and >Aid that he was always willing to stipport the prisoner, but that her love of dress end company was her ruin. Mr. TRAILL asked Simms why he had kept the secret of the robbery for 10 clay s, and now come forward to appear against the accused ? Simms, in reply, said that he was only influenced by a sense of justice in the case. That when he first threat• cued to divulge the circumstances attending the robbery the prisoner declared that if he did she would try all she could to transport him, but that having had some high words with her on the preceding night he thought it a very fit opportunity for disclosing the facts. The captain of the Sir Robert Sale, who was in attend ance, having been apprised of the apprehension of the prisoner, identified her as the person whom he accom panied to the house in Herbert's-buildings, an : de scribed the circumstances of the robbery, and of his having missed her from his side on the morni,,g it was committed. The prisoner, who seemed to be much affected at the situation in which she was placed, was then re mended. A wall dressed cyprian named Jones, was charged with robbing a gentleman named Edwards, residing in the Commercial-road East, of a valuable watch. When the sheet containing the charge was placed be fore the Magistrate, the policeman stated that the com plainant was not in attendance. The circumstances of the alleged robbery were as follows :—Mr. Ed wards accompanied the prisoner to her lodg ings, and soon after his departure he missed his watch, a valuable one. He then returned to the house, but instead of going in he remained all might watching for her in the street. When she came taut in the nsorninr he went up and accused her of the robbery, but she denied the charge, and be then gave her into custody. The watch has not been found. The complainant was perfectly sober at the time. Mr. COTTINOHAIK expressed considerable surprise at /he circumstance of the complainant not appearing, and a aid that he had no right to deprive the woman of her 1 berty if he did not intend to appear against her. The I tagistrate added that he should remand the prisoner, in rder to insure the attendance of the loser of the watch. LAMBETH. John Gay, a hay salesman, was charged by Police 'constable L 42 with being drunk and incapable of taking care of his horse and gig, in the York-road, at half -past ten o'clock last night. The prisoner was taken to the station-house, and the horse and gig to the green-yard. The prisoner denied being drunk, and said it was a piece of impertinent interference on the part of the police to unbuckle the reins of his horse. lieury liffare, Police-constable L 159, mid the prisoner THE MONXWEARMOUTIC-SALVAGE. This was v an action by the owners of the Stockton steam-tug, for a remuneration for salvage services ren dered to the brig Monkwearmouth, bound from Hartle pool to Bayonne, which had suffered damage in her sails and rigging, and was seen in that state by the Stockton, about a mile from the Tees bar, on , the afternoon of the 4th of March, the wind blowing (according to the salvors) a heavy gale from the east to the east-north-east, with a heavy sea. The tug proceeded to her assistance, and towed her into the Tees. The value of the brig was 1,0001., that of the cargo (coals) being small. A tender of 30/. was refused, as insufficient with reference to the risk of the vessel and the merits of the salvors. After hearing Dr. Addams for the salvors, and Dr. R. Philiimore for the owners. Dr. LUSHINGTON held that the tender, under the cir cumstances, was insufficient, and decreed 601. Mr. Edwin Edwards, who was admitted a proctor in the Arches' Court in the first session of that Court, was admitted a proctor in this Court. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 14. (Before Mr. Commissioner FANS.) THE WESTMINSTER LOAN SOCIRTT.-C. ERRRY NICHOLL'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case had been the manager and secretary of the above notorious concern, and, on it breaking up, became bankrupt. His case has been the subject of protracted inquiry in the Court, and his final examination was adjourned from time to time. He came up to-day for his adjourned final examination. Mr. Sturgeon appeared for the bankrupt ; and Mr. Lloyd, solicitor, attended on behalf of several creditors. The amended balance-sheet, on being submitted to the Court, exhibited a total of debts and liabilities to the amount of 15,8961. 13s. 4d.; to meet which a sum of 25/. only had been given up to the assignees, the rest of the deficiency being made up of liabilities, bad debts, and law expenses. The bankrupt, on being examined by Mr. Lloyd, stated that he was the original founder of the bank, which con sisted of twenty-four partners, one of whom, Sir William llugdale, had since made off with 500 E Ho admitted having sworn at Croydon Assizes, in March last, that he was a gentleman, and perfectly solvent. He believed that to be the case, but not that he was able to satisfy all the creditors of the bank. He had received 8451. in March last, a legacy from his uncle. Being examined by Mr. Sturgeon, he said that he commenced the Westminster Loan Bank with a capital of 500/., which he received from various branches of his family. That had all gone in the common ruin. His position was that of manager of the bank, Cornelius O'Brien, M.P., being chairman. He declared solemnly to God that more than 200,0001. had passed through the bank in two years, and the final deficiency was only 3,0001. The bank was broken up by the attacks of the press, which he withstood for five months, but was obliged to give way at last. His private debts did not exceed 1501. Mr. Sturgeon having been heard for the bankrupt, His HoNoun said, that the accounts were most extra ordinary and unsati►factory. He should adjourn the examination sine die, and without one day, sone hour, of protection. The bankrupt, on leaving the box, exclaimed, " I am the most fearful victim that ever left this Court." Several victims of the Westminster Loan Society were present, and seamed to take a deep interest in the pro ceedings. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Tuesday William Flood, the brother of Noah Flood, who lately committed suicide in Whitecross-street, leav ing an orphan daughter, nine years old, again appeared before the magistrate to claim possession of the child, or at least to have 6/., which he had expended while staying in London to prosecute his claim to his brother's effects, repaid to him. • Scott, the City policemen, raid he had also expended money, but he was content that the money should be wholly invested for the benefit of the child. Mr. Alderman FARNCOMBZ thought this was completely arranged on Saturday, and that the applicant had re turned home. The applicant asked if the Alderman would' not let him have a bit of the stuff (cash)? Mr. Alderman FARNCOMNE said " Not a bit." The applicant said he was in a pretty state, as he had spent all his cash. The ALDERMAN replied, this showed the poor child's money would have been in a pretty state if it had fallen into his keeping . . The applicant then asked for his brother's watch, but the Alderman refused to give it up, and the applicant retired, much chagrined. BOW-STREET. Tuesday a man named Dennis George Connell was charged with defrauding Mr. Davenport, of the Olympic Theatre, by using and distributing false checks, or tickets of admission to the gallery of that establishment. The circumstances which led to the present charge were somewhat unusual. The prisoner had been em ployed originally as a painter, and afterwards as a ge neral workman in the theatre. While in this capacity he had met with some loose checks, which he turned to account by presenting them to his friends, with a caution to avoid the money-taker. On the 6th of January, the discrepancy between the treasurer's cash account and the number of checks taken the same evening, led to an investigation by Mr. Silvester, the cashier, who caused the prisoner to be taken to Bow-street, and on the fol lowing morning (the 7th) he was placed at the bar to answer the charge. But no one appeared against him, and he was therefore discharged ; the proprietary of the theatre having, in fact declined to go on with the pro secution. The prisoner's case was then taken up by an attorney, who commented an action against the prose cutor for instituting a false charge, &c., whereupon th e latter turned round, took the man again into custody, and now attended with his witnesses to proceed with the case. The evidence went simply to show the possession of the checks by the prisoner, and their being tendered by parties who said they had received them from him, and Mr. JARDINE, after some little hesitation, arising from an inquiry into the above circumstances, committed him fur trial at the Middlesex Sessions. MARYLEBOAE. On Tuesday, shortly after the disposal of the night charges, a woman named Hester Anne Bates attended at this Court, accompanied by her son, a boy about 13 years of age, when she made a statement to the effect that her son had for some time been employed to clean knives, shoes, &c., by Mrs. Emily Grattan, a lady re siding at 15, St. John's Wood-road, and that his said mistress had pulled him on to the bed in her chamber, and there induced him to submit to her unlawful desires. The MAGISTRATE, after listening to all that had been stated, and receiving replies to numerous questions put by him, came to the conclusion that the case was one in which he could not interfere, and the mother and her son then went away. At about three in the afternoon Mrs. Grattan was driven up to the front entrance of the Court in her car riage, and on alighting therefroni and proCeeding into the jastice-room, the woman Bates was placed at the bar, charged with having, soon after her application as before given had been disposed of, created a disturb ance at Mrs. Grattan's dwelling, and also with having sent letters to her (Mrs. Grattan) with the view of ex torting money. Mrs. Grattan and Mary Cliff, her cook, proved the disturbance in question, and the former handed to the magistrate some letters which she had received from the prisoner ; they were couched in such terms as to lead to an inference, taking all the circumstances into consider ation, that money was the grand object sought for. The boy had, it appeared, been dismissed from his employ ment a week or two ago. Police-constable Maddox, of the S division, produced a letter which was found upon the prisoner when searched at the station-house. It ran thus : " It is with shame and disgust I sit down to inform you that at last lam fully acquainted with the most disgraceful connexion, if I may so call it, between my child and yourself. Little did the transport's sister think when she heard her boy speak of the kindness of his mistress, the price that was paid for that kindness ; little did she think that her child, not thirteen years old, would be a bedfellow to his mistress. Little does his Lordship know that the time when he asked admission to his bed-room, my child was there. You may make what you like of this." Mr. RAWLINSON (to Mrs. Grattan)—Who do you imagine is meant by " his Lordship ?" Mrs. Grattan-- No doubt the Count Bathyany. The most positive denial was given with regr rd to the disreputable allegation as affecting Mrs. Grattan, and the prisoner was ordered to find good bail for keeping the peace. WORSHIP-STREET. On Tuesday Richard Durell, a stout built fellow, was charged before Mr. Bingham with stealing a large trunk full of wearing apparel and other ortieles, the property was so drunk that he drove the horse on the pel'ern. nt ; and it was a great mercy that no serious a ccident occurrea. The prisoner replied that ho should l ike to have the police punished ; he only went into the Ordnance Armsd to obtain some refreshment, and on hi s return he foun d the police in possession of his horse a nd gig. He b' 160/. about his person, which he offered to leave at the station-house provided that the police would restore the horse and gig and permit him to go home. Mr. HENax said that instead of wishinc, to have 0* police punished, the prisoner ought to be extreneelY thankful for their care and kindness. H e must pay fill shillings for being drunk, and his horse and gig world be returned on payment of the green-yard expenses. THE MURDER AT SALTHILL. EXHUMATION OF THE BODY OF THE MO" DERED WOMAN. t. of WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—The Metier Sarah Hart, through the activity of the police, has been oi at length discovered. She was residing with her s ec ! p husband, named Hadlow, a blacksmith, st Gravesethe nd and, strange to say, neither of them h ad heard of supposed murder until they received a letter from one of the police on Friday last, communicating the p E arn ton culars. The mother and her husband arrived at strates . this afternoon, when a meeting of the cou nt y i ma gi took place, with a view to the further investig a tion e the case. After the depositions of several wit were taken, the woman proceeded to the churchyard st Farnham, where the body of the deceased was diein" terred in the presence of Mr. Norblad, Mr. Chenirle,l' and Mr. Moss, surgeons, tke church w a rden of the parish, and foreman of the jay, and a number of OW persons. 11 b. The coffin was placed on trestles at the church p' end the lid being removed, the mother p laced her he" on the face of the corpse, and exclaimed in the dello agony of feelings, " This, indee'f, is my poor gl r ' e Decomposition had not taken place, and the corp., had undergone no change in appearance since its inter, ment. The coffin was then consigned to the g rave. ._„ 1 • appears from information we have been able to asee'. i 3 tarn from the mother, that the deceased's flaw is LlO 136 rence, she being a daughter by a former husband. the The o:was born at Chatham, in the year 1605. time she saw her was between four and five yO4ll we 11,540 when she was living with tke prisoner Ta Bridge-street, near Southwark bridge , a s his eefivAfire but she was not aware of her having the two ehliv-kt of whom the prisoner is supposed to be the father. this period the prisoner had established a charity tool in the above neighbourhood, to which he subscribe" '- hundred pounds per annum. t tho The poor woman declared her inability to supPer: ll be two children, both of whom, being illegitimate, "'',,`'ara passed to their respective parishes, and one bell* r in Marylebone, and the other at Chiswick, the r e , f t childree will be separated. Larkin, the superinterlm; of police, produced before the magistrates te7c;ric° quantity of drugs found at the prisoner's house e t w: col e hamstead. There were upwards of fifty phia ls ,' dot) taining various liquids, which underwent an iner' e as by the surgeons, Mr. Norblad and Mr. ChampneP' ht " ia• of which, I believe, contained prussic acid. In e 4- 1 41 ing the drugs the officer received every assistance 'cry courtesy from the wife of the prisoner, who is a l Y oe elegant and highly accomplished woman, en, u ,,a le daughter, a young lady of seventeen year:, assis'" packing up the drugs in a hamper. '- chor The assistant to Mr. Hughes, chemist, 89, of gate-street-within, has been down to Aylesbury g3",-,04 day, for the purpose of seeing the prisoner, and he t he that he remembers having sold to the prisoner 01'001 day on which the murder was supposed to be coo ° a quantity of prussic acid. There are many additional facts with which th y l gistrates have been made acquainted, but in the P re e : 9 O stage of the proceedings it would not be prude nt or fair towards the prisoner to publish them. goo THE FORMER APPREHENSION AND CONVICTION Or ' TAWELL, FOR FORGERY. The following is an extract from the Old BeueJbra cords of 1814. It relates to the person who na" committed for trial for the alleged murder of his old vent, Mrs. Hart, near Slough : Lonalid " John Tawell (thirty years of age), from the F i t .01 Compter, committed by the Right Hon. the Lord ''iljaj (Birch), on oath of Edward Anthony Th o rogO r 1 n t ia ot h e rs, for feloniously, falsely forging and count a bank note for payment of 10 L , with int ent to de . '" the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eug lsl3 Dated 4th of February, 1814. for " Detained on oath of Joshua Bray and otberlfro, feloniously, knowingly, and wittingly having In b i , s n t session and custody a forged bank note for paYll3;',ed, 10/., knowing the same to be forged and counteritoto " Dated 4th of February, 1814.—Indicted. C oei poss,ssion." orr The confession of the minor otTence of having r p oi sion of the bank note, the making of which confeebOoi, a means or escapir.g the capital punishmen t, Nos e a, ° O l dered to be at that period a very great favour indo, the effi-et of causing a sentence of transportation 'l3 years upon the ` Compter was the prison which I s called the Giltspur-street rompter. vIARKET NE WS.—(yE•:TEiti)A CORN =CHANGE . ., 0 0 We had a full average supply of English 11 ;, 11/ the best parcels sold at full prices, but those ws,theic kinds had a downward tendency. Foreign h eld t , —in which little business was transacted—was " I , 0 4 Monday's quotations. Barley was a very dull °Oil in some instances, depressed rates. In Malt evee e g, little was doing, at previous currencies. OAt s ' ' and Peas were very dull. • ARRIVALS. 1 9gi Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. 1 s,t, English 5,900 qrs. 2 , 250 qrs. 2,170 qrs. Irish.. ..... --. 270 27,330 Foreign 990 --2 go Malt, 9,050 qrs. 1 WRIT 1 , NICRAPIIi. 0 killd Prime Beef and Mut t on sold steadily ; otker 5 2 84: meat slowly, at our quotations.—Beef, from 4; 6 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d t°, and Pork, 2s 8 d to 3s 10d per Sibs. by the car coe' if / COAL MAILZ,MT. A` P ir Prices per ton at the close of the market Main, 15s ; Buddle's West Hartley, 19s 6d ; W-$O,„ field, 17s 6d ; Morisorea r liartley, les ; Hartley, 19s fid ; Old Tolitop, 17s 6d ; 17s ; West Wylara, 20s ; W. E.. Clennell, 209 ; Elm Park, 21s 6d ; W. E., Heaton, 21s 6d ;04, Hilda, 21s 3d ;W. E., Hotspur, 21s ; E. , 0 0 , a p cliffe, 21s 6d ; W. E., Heaton, 248 ; W. E.. Al'ciow n p 24s ; W. E., Stewart's, 24s ; W. E., Caracloo, W. E., Heselden. 21s 3d ; W. E., Adelaide, "lit.' W. E., Barrett, 2ls 9d; W. E., Brown's Deaneri',. W. E St. Helen's Tees, 20s ; W. E., Sep:oo,', 22s 3d , ; W. E., Tennant's, 21s ; W. E., Grair,:i e rtl i i,j, Anthracite, 225; Garnant Stone, 25a ; Lewiss 215; West Hartley Netherton, 19s 6d.—Ships 011 STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) dot r ^ The market continues quite as firm and bueiSig was last week. For yarn, especially, the deinn ° 11 40 good, and spinners find no difficulty i°„ 0 01 0 ',of contracts for six weeks or two months to w tot ' many cases at a trifling advance on the current dee:ll# last week. Goods are also generally in excellent ercreti and very scarce, with the exception of the n et f e r 9` 2s ties of 27-inch printing cloth, which are . ro t "ry - though perfectly firm in price. 3/ 4 10 / ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET MONDAY, J 4 '; e day is what is called the new or first ma rket; Wi t F,,p 9 1 ,4 been no extra quantity of business transacted. ~.1 " 0 " ceP r e' rally more a day of bringing in and settling 0: no d" than of buying and selling. The prices of t he main the same as last week, notwithstandi n g pro material continues to advance. The manufaeturjerseij good spirits, and are expecting a further iroPr°' trade this spring. 0 0 ------- fi , ri W• Y: s On the 9th inst., at St. Paul's, Deptfor d, ' ter ° of Ewhurst, Sussex, to Ann Parman, eldest 043 Richard Taylor, of Deptford. -.tell , / 1 ,,f 1 11 On the 11th inst., at St. Giles's, Can - d iet. — J o Wild, of Southampton-street, to Maria - 11 ,.. e "," 1 a 17, daughter of B. Lovell, Esq., of West Ham, E 5:, th ° ;trie On the 11th inst ,at the church of St. Jaw — t - 0 Ald" Bethnal. green, Samuel Pearce, Esq., surg e°ll /.' , 1 41 ' Helen, second daughter of John Tipper, EA. , 4) " terrace, Cambridge-heath. 0 4 s tl 6 DIET: fa ir , d it no i On the 11th inst., in Hertford-street, nigefu' the /ion. Sir Henry G. Grey, G.C.B. and G.C. a s pe ° ,ie On the Bth of November, at Cape-town, . 0 , r Hope, Henry, fourth son of Mr. Tegg. CheePlii,leAdo ()n the 26th of November, at New Oilcans' gr iP ir Browning. aged 23. ye P' ... f . On the 2d inst., Mary. relict of the late f , ' , ap to Esq., of Belswardyne, Salop. On the 7th inst., at Northumberland IfouAlf , ~, wells, Mr. Richard Strange, aged 96. On the 7th inst., near Bayonne, Hens"" C° % the i l f o lt° ?e f r Orti On the Bth inst., at Glynn. Antrim, ary, . pry' ing sister of the late Major-General Sir Robert, C.B. and K.C.H., aged 86 pla o Ocn n e, the 10th John's -wood, a dE t , d L agw e e i a t dr h ds , 7 G C. e r o o r s te 71 1 5( 7 . 1 ; ° P o 'f f e .ti ol iiii 11 5' te r do ro On the 11th inst., at Belmont- place, Wl° ai ,6 ,1 " . Mr. Edward Septimus Davis, aged 35. On the 11th inst., at Brunswick - pla cs, Mr. Evan Evans, aged 83. 13, 1 11 16 'r jet° • te / ' ofOn the 11th inst , at Lea Castle, Werces-4 SV`' toy Brown, Esq., a magistrate of the counties " ;th e 1 , _.,t, e , Stafford, mad Salop, and a Deputy- Lieutena. ire; county. , it ai r Clsr ~,-a n as oi On the 12th inst., at Albion-terrace " 941 . ' eS Emma, third daughtr of the late W. EsClaile, peg° „ gr' s i ham-common. On the 12th inst., at Stoke Newingt°-' 0 (4 el pa 0 Smartt, surgeon. t be d o , At Parnell-terrace, Dublin, Ellen SidneY , „,, 0° 411 A R t o h b i e o r n t e Mercer Jameson, Esq , of Cartrontry' seti er o , 0' . e, On the 11th inst., at Mount Radford-terra,cB44 zabeth Susannah, the wife of G. W. 'Webber r-• worthy, Oornwall. 4„ ... 0 ;;1t London : Printed and Published AU: CO C6 ' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Me yin tise St . ? die Praci.gct of the Savtiy. Thuralay, January 16, ls{d'• trade this spring. A -9.10 05.' o ff BIRTHS. iscli' ibiF On the 28th of November last, at Ascension , .,V;eti' , Wickham, Esq., paymaster and purser of her su s .' tli , Tortoise, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, Begellt•PFer l il MI lady of H. W. Eaton, Esq. , of a daughter. ~t e r, t o On the 12th inst., at Westbourn-grove, Bar" l e et' of Frederick Tayler, Esq., of a daughter, which on ; 00, its 'With a few hours. 01's P4 j, On the 13th inst., the lady ofJ. M. Marr, Eirl".a,res .1 On the 13th inst., Mrs. J. B. Hall. Grove•e" ir 1P it John's-wood, of a son. ,O s • On the 13th inst., at Moreton Rectory. Es se "' - ~, i rs' the Rey. Robert Beauchamp Tower, of g g ni !: ~,,i #1" . On the 13th inst., at Chester-terrace. r "- ' lady of It. E. Turner, Esq., of a daughter. 1 7 e