The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-25 00:00:00

BANK RET URNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, :tap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day ot January, 1850:-. Average PRIVATE BANKS. • Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 12,111 cAshford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,937 Aylshain Bank, Aylsham-R. and U Copeman 4,417 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Riokford and Hunt Baldock Bsnk and Baldock and Biggleswada Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 27,630 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 9,644 Basingstoke and Odihana Bank, Basingstoke- • Seymour, Lamb , and Co. 15,4i Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard . ..... . Bedford and Bedfordshire Banc, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicaster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. .. •••• ••• ••• Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoc Spooner, and C 0... .................................. 23,323 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birmin„,:- ham -J. L. Moilliett, and Son 3 ............. .•.. 13,525 Aandtnrd Bank, Blandford-Bastard Oak. 7.864 - Bo Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co . ...... 58,774 Bastnn Bank, Boston-Gee and Co .& • ... 14,768 Bridg• iter Bank, Bridgwater-T. & .T. Seale) , 5,749 &eel Bank, Bristol-Miles, narford, and Co. 38,430 Broseley and Bridgnort h, and Brid or th and g n - Broseley Bank, Broseley-Nlessrs. Pritchard 20,584 kiagliara Bank, Buckingham -Bartlett, Buc Parrott, and Co. .............................. 17, 694 Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Ban Stow- Bevan, k, and Co. 66.015 Market Bank , Bur y -Oakes, Eant:ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 27,086 nanOary Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 28,434 13ath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son ~ ....... 3,560 Bedfordshi re Leight o n Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard -Bassett and Grant ..................... 33,058 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham -Taylor and . ............. LLnßradford 011 Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire - H A. and W. M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 65,391 Itridoort Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington aad Dritfield Bank, Burlington- Harding . , Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. BroinsT,rove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. Caralaidga Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and 19,778 Boas Cambri,l:2:e ai.d Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam brilv -Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 26,920 Carmarthen Bank , Carmarthen -Morris and 16,716 Sons ehortse. y-Messrs. La oste Colchesty er ßank Bank,Chertse Colchesttr-liound,C Green, 3,Q55 16,036 and Co. Colchester a nd Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Eiadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co 33,693 o.lornish Bank, Truro -Tvve,ey and Co Stood- 35,803 Coventry Bank , Coventry-Little and c ............. - . City t.; vak, Exeter-Milford and Co 17,051 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co Christchurch Bank, Christchurch -Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Toirgood and Co. Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, C'nepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. ..... 7,043 Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derbv-Crompton, Newton, and Co..- 24,803 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devize3-Hughes , Locke, and C o 10,160 Dies Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,401 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, snd Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster - Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, &Co 62,031 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. past Bailing Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hall. ... and BOWE Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford -Sparrow, and Co. 45,005 Emoper Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co • Falo n h a m Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck. and Co. • Farringilon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 6,155 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 11,853 FavN-shs.7n Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 5,494 Goial mi n4 Bank, GodalmingMllersh and 4,250 13,534 12,954 2,925 11,850 5,860 5,648 - Keen .............. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King luiliford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon 9,341 Grantham Bank, Grantham —Hardy and Co 24,380 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hader, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford — Matthews and Co. ilert forl and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co 19,951 Hull Bank and King ston-u p on -Hull Bank, Hull _Smith, Brother s, and Co. 18,740 Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and V ease y Harwich Bank,Uarwich—He , mel Hempstead Co. 4,734 Hemel Hempstea d Bank, Smith, and Whittingstall ... Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharpies and Co. liereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross ana Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Halleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Eington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co ........... Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. K.naresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough;—Terry and Co Kendal Bank; Kendal:—WitkVield, Crewdson, 21,957 33,375 18,139 21,779 63,083 16,892 "597 7,342 18,89 and CO. - _ - Kenning Bank, Ketterini,r, —CI otch and Sons... Line End Staffordshire BAnk, Lane End—C. 11:3,rvoy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Pieekett and Co Leeds Ilnion Bank,Linds—W.Williams , Brown, 36,227 7.747 5,130 34,207 34,96 and C......... . , Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek an d Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,G aunt, andC o. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and ICirlrp.„ Lowes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Liohfield Bank, Lichfield —Palmer and Green._ Lincoln Bank, Lincoln —Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tuns and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barb e ................. Lynn Regis . and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co M - anningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co. litarlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 14,710 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, lerniman and Hilliet 8,837 er i o nethshire Ba nk, Dolgelly-LJones and Wi11iam5....... 7,223 yitiers' Ban k, Truro—Willyams and Co 11,026 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 24,893 Monmouth Old Bonk, Monmouth Old ß Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and 5nead.........."""" 10,478 Monmonthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and ................... 7,955 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 22,843 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford a nd Newark Bank, Sleaford—Haudley, Peacock, and Co 43,396 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. 20,310 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son 20,582 Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor a n d Dyson • . Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwi 49,250 ch—Gur- 66 153 neys and Birkber,k Nottingham and IsMtinghamshire B an k, Not- , tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nunea t on Bank, Nuneaton—Craddosk and 6,281 14,429 27,967 17,120 77,881 18,645 6,105 3,612 36,208 11,982 14,396 4,942 C 0.......................................... .--..... Naval Bank , Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, 4'lBB C 0.... .................................................. '2l 15° Now S aru m Bank, Sarum Everett, and Co .......................... Nottingham Bank, Nottingham — Smith and Co 25,995 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weptry.—Crozon and Co 1,795 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 8,319 d r L . Slicfsd Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, (* ( L. 'anff CP/4.... 32,793 r-014 - Bank tblibrid ge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge 4,, , ,, , ',";--___/1/tirells,Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge ~.. .-__ 4 ,. , . Welts and' Sevenoaki Bank, Tonbridge 4. 4, - , .2.v. ' • -.l3cephing and Sons — .a' P r .... . 3,585 0 t-: h ire Ny ' itney Bank, Witney—Clinch, <';'*. i and Co ..~ , r, ..;: .-- , THE SUN, LONDON, FEMALE EMIGRATION (From the Chronicle.) We elsewhere lay before our readers a document which will be perused with earnest attention by all who interest themselves in Mr. Sidney Herbert's plan of Female Emigration. It is the Report of the Sub-Committee appointed to consider " the most advisable mode of ensuring to female emigrants a proper reception on reaching the ports of their desti nation in our colonies." But it embraces various other topics of primary importance, connected with the management of this benevolent enterprise ; and, as it has been received and adopted by the General Committee, we may regard it as presenting an epi tomised summary of the principles on which the undertaking is to be conducted. The leading points of this report may be briefly stated. First, as regards the proper selection of emi grants, it is proposed (inter alia) that candidates should not exceed thirty-five years of age—that they should be " entirely free from any mental or bodily defect likely to impair their usefulness as settlers" — and that " their characters for industry and morality should be satisfactory." Next, it is recommended, with a view to the effectual protection of the emi grants during their transit to the colonies, that they should be sent out on board Government emigration ships, in the event of the Colonial Land and Emi gration Commissioners being satisfied that the charac ter of the emigration is such as to entitle it to their sanction ; otherwise,!that they should go out " in small parties, on board free emigrant ships, with a view of securing to them that protection which the presence of married couples and families interested in the mainte nance of order and decency would, to a certain degree, afford." And it is further suggested that, in the latter case, " the emigrants should be placed, during the passage, under the charge of matrons, to be selected for the purpose, and that the utmost caution should be used in ascertaining the characters of the officers of the ships." With regard to the third head —namely, the aid and protection to be ensured to the emigrants on landing—we are" informed that, by an arrangement with the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, they will, on reaching the colonies, "be received by Government officers, who will be instructed to give them all the assistance and advice they may require, as to the rate of wages, the places where employment may be most readily obtained, and other similar points." In other respects,• likewise, it will be seen that substantial temporary aid will be afforded to the emigrants during the interval that may elapse before they are provided with employment. Under the fourth head of the Report, which relates to the costs of outfit and passage, some interesting particulars will be found, which will still further show the solicitude of the Committee, both to place the character of the emi gration beyond the reach of doubt or cavil, and to improve to the uttermost the pecuniary means en trusted to their disposal. The most cursory reader of this document cannot fail to be deeply impressed with the painstaking anxiety which the Committee evince, to exercise, in all respects, a wise and prudent stewardship over the funds confided to them, and to preserve this great and noble work of benevolence free from any admixture of evil or any risk of failure. Those who have the best means of information as to the state of feeling in the colonies are strongly of opinion, that it is all-essential to the success of the undertaking to choose only emigrants whose moral character and industrial capabilities will bear the fullest scrutiny ; and that, if there were any feature in the scheme calcu lated to awaken suspicion on the part of the colonial public as to the characters of those sent out, the leading aim of the plan would be most seriously marred. B)th as regards the future welfare of the emigrants themselves and the general interests of emigration, it is matter of primary necessity to send out (especially at first) none but those who will be acceptable to the colonies, and whose moral and industrial qualifications are such as to insure their success. In a word, the principle on which the Committee have proceeded is, that the unexception able quality of the intended emigration is a matter of capital moment, not only with reference to the sen timents and feelings of• the colonies themselves, but as regards likewise the permanent interest which the mother country has in seeing colonial society con stituted on a sound moral and material basis. The stress which the Committee lay on this and similar topics in their Report ought completely to remove any lingering scruples on the part of those who have hitherto hesitated to support the under taking, through an apprehension that they might be indirectly contributing to weaken the motives to virtuous conduct, by assisting destitute persons of equivocal repute. It is at all events impossible to allege now, that a subscription to the Female Emigration Fund can in any way have the effect of impairing the prudential sanctions of virtue, by placing some who have ;yielded to temptation in a better position than others who have withstood it. It is put beyond all doubt by this report that every shil ling of the fund will be expended in promoting the welfare of the most meritorious class of the distressed —in removing from the sphere of vicious and degrading influences those who have not fallen victims to them—and thus in practically teaching the poor the inestimable value of a good character. We earnestly commend this consideration to the minds of those benevolent and conscientious persons whose generous sympathies with the object of the en terprise may have been checked by ethical scruples. The relief of destitution will, in this instance, ope rate as a direct encouragement to virtuous principles and habits ; and the larger and more numerous the emigration, the more conspicuous will be the moral lesson. On all our readers we would once more emphati cally urge the claims of this admirable charity. Looking at the studious precautions adopted with reference to the selection of recipients, their prepara tion for their new destination, and the aid and pro tection to be afforded them during their passage and on their arrival; and looking at the social wants of our colonies, and at the incalculable importance of rendering them attractive outlets for our vast, increasing, and adventurous population—we cannot hesitate in saying, that never did a charitable under taking come before the British public with more numerous and more powerful titles to energetic and munificent support—never had the contributors to a scheme of beneficence ampler reason for assuring themselves that they are doing real, permanent, and unalloyed good. THE LATE EBENEZER ELLIOTT. There is jilst,issueil (by C. Fox, Pekernoster-row). the-first of two volumes, entitled " More Verse and - Prose, "by the Corn-law Rhymer." - The following is its preface : " The Elgin marbles are representations of the processions, and battlea (the everyday occemnences, and common-place) of old Greece ; and the Elgin marbles are poetry in tho highest. "In Ragland, railway meetings and speeches are everyday occurrences ; and the evil doings in railways constitute a drama of horrors, compared with some of the actors in which, Rush (the wretch who paid him self in blood for unexhausted improvements) was a stainless angel! Has not that drama its poetry ? Perhaps a hundred millions have been wasted in un wanted railways ! I did my best to prevent that waste ; and though I cannot know that any of my writings or sayings will live, I desire that my chil dren and theirs shall know (through them) that I did my duty while others were supine. " To be summoned on a jury is an everyday occur rence in England; but if I had never been summoned on a jury, I should not have known that there is a class of men in England, whose capital (worth at least two thousand millions) may be said to be in a state of outlawry, left, without any legal protection, to the mercy of another class, who may appropriate, and with perfect impunity proceed to devour it at any mo ment ; for the customary law, called custom of the country,' established by tenants as their sole reliance, is not binding on landlords. Say not that this state of things has not its poetry ! " Bets, Bubbles, and Banking' are everyday mat ters in Ungland ; but such things have furnished the means for carrying on, in my time, wars which have cost the lives of ten millions of men ; in the infinite horror of which, Trafaler and Waterloo were but trifling though splendid incidents ! Now, to conse crate in the poetry of sculpture this tremendous com monplace, a Phidias only is wanted. In due time, that Phidias will be found ; and then, our days of de gradation will have their Parthenon. "In the meantime I claim to have been a pioneer of the greatest, the most beneficial, the only crimeless Revolution which man has yet seen. I 'also claim to be the poet of that Revolution—the Bard of Free trade, and through the prosperity, wisdom, and lov ing-kindness which:Free-trade will ultimately bring, the Bard of Universal Peace. I know not that my claims will be conceded ; the world will lose nothing if it be not conceded, nor will I complain, but neither will I bate a jot of my right; for self-sacrifice in concession to wrong has ever been the root of worst humiliation—and tyrants come of slaves. " It is remarkable that Free-trade has been carried by the middle classes, not only without the assistance of the working-classes, but in spite of their opposi tion. When I became a Free-trade agitator in 1824 I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the corn-laws an evil. The merchants, to a man, thought them beneficial. Exactly in propor tion to the plunder-power exercised on his fortunes by the aristocracy, did the would-be squire idolise his destroyers ; and I had discussed the question ten years in all ways—by speech and writing, in prose and verse—before I made my first Sheffield convert of the mercantile class, 'William Ibbotson, Esq., of Globe Works. Did I not think I had done a feat ? Yes, I felt it through my heart's core. Bu t then came Feargus, and his blarney ; trades-unio nism, fierce in its imitative glory; and chartism, with its ston e-blind selfishness ; all fighting for t he enem y ! Wisehead, at last, was born of Empty-Pocket, in a respetable Average Arnett t Pease s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance —Batten and C 0... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter- borough—Messrs. Yorke . • Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White Pemnrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and 36,778 10,851 11,236 W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 26,857 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-. Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and 28,425 5,330 Co Ross 61d Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Alle,vmy Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and 32,267 Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall 14,132 and Co '- Shrewsbury Oft Bank, and Shrewsbury and . Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons. 21,966 31,468 and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,236 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce 14,825 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 13,031 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story — Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messra.Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King -• — Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,566 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wraog, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,446 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ~. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge--Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 19,593 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 28,410 18,676 son and Stuart — 20,162 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs.Bade ock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, llelston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Banff, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester —Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and 1,620 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— 16,635 Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,240 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swami, Clough, and Co — 11,982 43,470 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 19,972 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton 9,363 Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... 51453 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work i 27,543 ngton Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,350 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel t 94,613 enham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,493 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby . 19,129 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com . Pan, Darlington 14,048 Ea - at of y England Bank, Nbrwich I i 26,538 GlonceStershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 124,445 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,330 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 38,551 Hull Banking Company, Hull . 24,185 Halifa.a Commercial Banking Company, Ha -11,785 lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,520 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,123 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 20,269 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,464 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 42,725 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,116 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,640 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, 2,193 1,633 _ _. London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 40,193 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 43,369 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- __ _ _ - - ampton 13,703 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,020 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei. tester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,115 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,173 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com- _ _ pang, Stamford. 47,663 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset ' shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- 1 port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield . . Sheffield ands otherham Joint-Stock Banking 50,087 Swaledale and Y an ' dVitisdleydale Banking Company, Ri c hmond Storey and Thomas's Banking Company , ... ...................................... 9,711 Shaftesbury _ Com- . Sheffield w o iver h a a m n p d t o ß n e a t f i i e d r d s t ß a a ff n o k r d , s S h l r e B el a d nkii;g 38 441 pany, Wolverhampton ................. • , , Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wa — k . .... Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 19,291 Whitehaven Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick ...... West of Englane. and South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 68,929 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3,295 Worcester City and C oun ty Banking Company, YorkWorceste Worcester Banking C y York 58,470 York City and C ounty Union om p ßanking an Company, York 91,420 Yorkshire Banking C om p any , , Leeds 129,709 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. ' Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Jan. 19, MO. 7,591 9,293 5,420 8,506 12,422 12,392 14,255 8,903 4,461 8,805 6,909 8,950 10,584 13,573 8,036 9,880 16,201 6,829 20,809 4,97 41,554 14,093 21,470 4,046 15,774 29,407 42,615 5,432 13,303 8,472 68,930 11,183 FRIDAY EVENING, -- JANUARY 25, 1850 neighbourhood; and from that moment monopoly began to tremble. " EBENEZER ELLIOTT. " Ihrgate-hill, near Barnsley, Oct. 17, 1849." INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday (William Cubitt, E President, in the chair) the paper read was, "On the Periodical Alternations and Progressive Permanent Depression of the Chalk Water Level under London," by the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. The author began by defining the chalk water level to be, " the height to which the water rises at any point or continuous series of points in the chalk, or from the chalk in perforations, through the London and plastic clays, above the chalk." The term " artesioid" was used to describe those wells sunk through the London and plastic clays, in which the water rose from the chalk, or the sands of the plastic clay formation, above the level of those strata, though it might not rise to, or overflow the surface of the ground. Reference was made to papers read before the in stitution in 1842 and 1843, in which it was shown that the chalk water level was described by an in clined line drawn from the highest level at which the water accumulated in the chalk, to the lowest proxi mate or vent, or outfall ; a general rule, which was found to hold good, not only where the water was found by sinking into a permeable stratum, but where, as in the London Basin, the water rose from a per meable stratum, through perforations in any imper meable stratum above it. The example treated of in the paper was described by a line inclining at an average of about thirtee❑ feet in a mile, from the outcrop of the London and plastic clays to mean tide level in the Thames, below London-bridge. The height to which water rose in the Paris Basin, from the lower green sand, was adduced in confirma tion of that rule. Before the Artesian well at Grenelle was bored, M. Arago calculated that the water would rise above the level of the soil at Paris, as it rose above that level at Elbeuf, near Rouen. The height at which the water was found in the lower green sand, near Troyes, being one hundred metres above Paris, and one hundred and thirty-one metres above the sea, the author found that a line drawn from that point, to the level of the sea at Havre (where the green sand cropped out), passed over Paris and Elbeuf at the elevation to which the water actually rose in both places. A. calculation based on the same principle (taking the level of the water in the lower green sand, at Leighton Buzzard, at two hundred and eighty feet above the sea), showed that if the chalk and gault were bored through in London, the water from the green sand would rise one hundred and fifty feet above Trinity high water mark. Passing; from the natural, to the actual condition of the chalk water level, under London, there was a general permanent depression of from fifty feet to sixty feet b e l ow Trinity high water mark. Measurements of a well in London, in which the level was seldom disturbed, showed periodical alterna tion, coincident with the exhaustion and replenish ment of the chalk stratum by natural causes, to the amount of four feet six inches, and a permanent de pression of one foot six inches per annum, or twelve feet in eight years. Again, referring to former calculations, it was shown that the margin of this depression was extend ing in a greater ratio towards the north than to the south, or S.E. Since 1843, the level was perma nently depressed at Hampstead road ten feet; Cam den Town, nineteen feet ; Kilburn, twenty feet ; and Cricklewood, ten feet. The limit of the depression being, in 1843, between the latter places. Allusion was then made to the influx of water at the point where the Thames passed over the outcrop of the sands of the plastic clay formation, and the chalk, as a pint to be determined by geological inquiry, and connected with observations as to the action of the tides on the level, and the chemical quality of the water, in that neighbourhood. The general conclusion drawn from all these facts was, that the rapidity of exhaustion from Artesian wells under London, greatly exceeded the rapidity of supply; that the amount of defalcation was marked, and could be measured by the extension of a progres sive permanent depression, proving that the supply of water from the chalk stratum became each year more precarious, and less to be depended upon, even should there be no addition to the Artesioid wells in and around the metropolis. In the discussion which ensued it was shown that only such a supply of water percolated annually through the chalk stratum as could be accounted for by the discharge from the rivers of the upper 'dis trict. The results yielded by Dalton's Rain Gauge, as used by Mr. John Dickinson, were adduced in proof of this position. The chemical analysis of the water from wells sunk into the chalk showed the probability of an in flux of the tidal water of the Thames to replenish the vaccuum caused by the immense extent of pump ing from the London wells. On the other hand it was contended, that from the great extent of surface whence the chalk derived its supply, there might be such a surplus store of water as would warrant any amount of pumping, for the do mestic supply fur the metropolis. The discussion was announced to be continued at the meeting of Tuesday, January 29th, which would be entirely devoted to it. THE DUNDEE AND PERTH RAILWAY.—A sad acci dent took place upon the Dundee and Perth Railway, on Saturday, at one o'clock P.M. A train arrived at Perth, with a signal that a special goods train was following. The moment the train arrived the engine left to cross the line, to be turned at the company's depot. Attached a carriage, i n w hi c h were sea t e d M r . (station - superintende n t) an d M a j or Cl eg h orn . e was pushed by t h e eng i ne , w hi c h went to Thiser the ag carriage r (r eng in e isag war down the wrong line ; but before starting, the signal was put on to stop the special train. The driver of the special train, however, took no notice, but ran past the signal 150 yards, and the engine ran into the carriage, which was therefore between the two engines, both of which were going at a great speed. The carriage was at once smashed to pieces, and the two gentlemen very much hurt; Mr. Cragie so muc h so t h at no h opes are entertained of his recovery. M a j or Cleg h orn i s no t so seriously injured, and is expected t) recover. The driver and stoker of the engine that pushed the carriage, when they saw the special train approaching reversed their engine and jumped cff, leaving it is supposed the steam on; for after the accident, the en g i ne ran away in the opposite direction, with out any person upon i t. B y the time it arrived at t' e junction with the Scottish Central line, it was Ong at a speed of s ixty miles an ho - tti ;,but the man at the, pbitit ort ntt t f feytur ned I it into a side line, where it pi tc hed i nt o a goods train that was formed for starting, breaking many waggons to atoms. ASSASSINATION IN CORSICA.—A notorious Corsi can bandit, named Tancredi, was a few days ago tried befire the Court of Assi zes c f C ors i ca , on tt e charge different times, Natalli, a man named Dominique Martini, and, a men rd a er m in a g n , at named Andre finally, for attempting, on the 24th of March, 18 49, to mu r d er some gen d arme s. The several cases of murd er were clearly prove d named M of orel m li u , eg4inst the prisoner ; and it was shown that for a long time be hal been accust)med to carry off young girls to caves and forests and there commit violence on them, that he had levied contributions on the peaceable inhabitant I of the villages, that he had committed so many excesses of all kinds, and had exercised such a system of terror, that in some places the villagers had left their fiAds uncultivated, and had abandoned their flocks and herds. No one, in fact, ventured to resist the audacious bandit; and the people did not even dare to asist or give h os pit a lity to the gendarmes sent to ar res t s ins. When he murdered NTata___ili ..., the son of the latter was present, and in an agony of despair cried, " Oh! when will your turn come?" " Not until after yours," calmly replied the bandit, as he reloaded his gun by the side of the corpse. Notwithstanding the monstrous guilt of the prisoner, the jury in _convicting lama declared that there were extenuating circumstances , and he was only con demned to bard labour at the u b lks for life. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE < IN SHOREDITCR.--OR Wed nesday morning, at a .few minutes: past six o'clock, the premises of Mr. IL T. Bushell, a hat m anu f acturer, at No. 114, High-itreet, Shoredich , were discovered to be in flames. After l some trouble the inmates of the pre - nises on fire, as well as those surrounding, were made sensible of their danger, and they all succeeded in making a safe retreat, but not before the flames had penetrated the roof, and were pouring forth with such fury as to threaten the adjoining property with destruction. The engines of the parish were re markably early in arriving, and wore followed by four more belonging to the brigade, and that of the West of England Office from the Waterloo-road. Fortunately the fire-plugs of the East London Company yielded an abundance of water, from which the engines were set to work, but by that period the flames had obtained possession of the workshops under the second floor' and had extendel through the top of the building, so that some considerable time elapsed before the con flagration could be subdued, and not until the staircase, tko., on the second floor were burned out, the greater part of the roof destroyed, and the stairs and workshops under very considerably burned and damaged by water. No. 115, ii the same street, in the tenure of Messrs. E. and M. Bushell, milliners, &c., has the stock in trade and staircase damaged by water and removal. The hatter's premises were insured, together with the con tents, in the British Empire Mutual-office; and the mil liners' premises were insured in the Atlas-office. LINCOLN has recently been elected a bencher of Linco ln ' s Inn. INN.—The Right Hon. T . B. Macaula y The circumstances under which the election took place are equally honourable to the society and to gr. Ma caulay. This distinction is, it will be recollected, usually restricted to Queen's Counsel, a dignity which Mr. Macaulay has not attained, ho having, as is well known, long ceased to practise at the bar. The Right lion. Gentleman's name, however, remained on the society's books. Some short time ago he sent in the usual for mal notice to hav e hi s na me erased therefrom. On the receipt cf this notice, Viee-Chancellor Knight Bruce brought the subject under the consideration of the bench, and by a very large majority it was resolved to call, in the person of Mr. Macaulay, an utter barrister to tho bench of Lincoln's ran. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) MOSELEY V. HOUGHTON. This action was brought by Mr. Moseley, a dentist, carrying on business in Berners-street, Oxford-street, to recover fifty-two guineas, for two sets of artificial teeth, supplied to an old lady, between sixty and seventy years of age, who resided at Leamington ; and it was tried at the last assizes, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Mr. HUMFREY now applied for a new trial, on the ground of affidavits impugning a certain portion of the evidence. The plaintiff, it appeared, was in the habit of advertising in newspapers that he would visit certain provincial towns for the purpose of giving advice as a dentist, and supplying teeth, and among them was Leamington, where he said he could be consulted on particular days, at his residence in Lower-parade. The defendant visited a person whom she supposed to be Mr. Moseley and ordered two sets of teeth, which were supplied to her, but they did not fit her mouth, and finding out subsequently that Mr. Mosely was represented by an assistant, and only made his appearance in Leam ington once in three months to collect his accounts, she refused to pay his bill. When Mrs. Houghton returned home, after having a set placed in her mouth, her daughter found that she could neither speak nor eat ; and the only fact made out by Mr. Moseley was that he made the teeth on the atmospheric prin cille, which was perfectly true, for the atmosphere appeared to have such an effect upon them that when she attempted to speak the sound emitted from her mouth more resembled a whistle than anything else. (Laughter.) A. cast was simply taken of her mouth at Leamington, and the teeth were made in London, and he called several dentists of eminence at the trial to show that it was impossible by such a summary mode to fit a mouth with the necessary ex actness. Mr. Baron ROLFE observed that one set was ordered to be made larger than the other. Mr. HumraEir said the :plaintiff wanted the second set a little larger, in order to take the wrinkles out of her face, and give it a fuller appearance. — (Laughter.) lie apprehended, from the nature of the advertisements, that personal attendance was im plied ; for the services to be rendered were not of an ordinary nature, which might be performed by an agent or deputy, such for instance as selling hats, but required great skill and care. It could not be said, if such eminent surgeons as Mr. Brodie, Mr. Lawrence, or Mr. Cooper, were to intimate they would receive patients on a 'particular day, that the advice of an assistant could be considered as valuable or as an equivalent in case they should not be them selves personally present. The Court granted a rule. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 24. There was no case of public interest before the Commissioners who sat to-day. A dividend meeting was held in the matter of Messrs. Leslie Alexander and Co., who carried on business as merchants in Broad-street. The members of the firm have long since obtained their certificates. Claims to the amount of nearly 10,0001 were tendered, and ad mitted to the extent of 7,6001. There was a great deal of discussion, but altogether upon points of law. Mr. Bagley was counsel, and Messrs. Lawrance, Linklater, and M'Leod solicitors for claimants. The meeting was adjourned to Wednesday next. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 24. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RE WILLIAM DREDGE. This insolvent was heard in December last, when the schedule then filed was dismissed, on account of its inaccuracy. Mr. SARGOOD, who supported to-day, said the in solvent on the former occasion had been very ill-ad vised by a p?rson who prepared his schedule, but that now he had employed a respectable attorney to pre pare his proceedings. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS thought that the at torneys of the court ought to look after those per sons who frequented the prisons, and usurped their practice, or frequent cases of similar injury would occur. _ _ The insolvent, after a short examination by Mr STURGEON, was discharged. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Jan. 24. (Before the ASSISTANT• JUDGE.) After:the case of Jones, the begging-letter impostor, reported yesterday, had been disposed of, the prisoner was again placed at the bar, with a woman named Jane Farr, upon an indictment, charging them with having obtained a Bank cheque for 301., from Mr. Ro bert Richard Wood, a gentleman residing at Fulham, by means of certain false representations, contained in a letter. Mr. Prima said, that having obtained a conviction against Jones, and as the Court had already heard sufficient of the prisoner's character, and the woman Farr, with whom he lived, having been convicted of and sentenced for a similar offence at the Bath ses sions, he would not press the second charge. But in order to draw the attention of the Court to the extraordinary nature of the letter, by means of which this fraud was committed, and in order to ex pose the system to the public, he read the fallowing letter : " B AI), Sept. 19th, 1849 " Sir,—lt is now more than twenty-five years since I have been removed from London, though I have seen you a great many times since. I am the niece of J. H. Plaskett, Esq., who, in conjunction with W. D. Adams and T. Hicks, were senior clerks in the Secretary of State's office, and the widow of the late W. IL Wood, of Winchester Cottage, clergyman of the Church of England, who died some years ago, leaving me with a family of eight chil dren, with only a small annuity of 701. a year to maintain them. I have, to increase my income, exerted my pen for the religious press, by contribut ing to the Clergyman's Magazine, the " Edinburgh Christian Instructor: the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and I am the author of " Mo ral and R'ligious Tales for the Young, for the Use of Families and Schools," and for three years past I have been engaged upon a work, " A View of His torical Events recorded in the Scriptures, as com pared with Heathen or Mythological History, with copious Notes," a work of great labour and surpris ing research, and for which, by close application, I have injured my health, and also my means, because my whole time has been devoted to it, and for some time past I have been greatly annoyed by tradesmen pressing me rudely for some accounts which I justly owe, and will duly pay as soon as niy ; half-year s annuity is due. My health is not so good as for merly, or I could finish my great work in two months. It will realise me 7001. or 8001. I have had more than three or four offers for it in the un finished state by London publishers, the work to be revised and finished by a clergyman of the Established Church, all which offers I refused, and put my whole trust in God to bring it to a close myselt." [The let ter proceeded to state that she was pressed by a Bris tol publisher for 104/. lls. 6d., the amount of a bill, but she was unable to meet it in consequence of her re sources being exhausted by sending her son to India ; and in continuation went on to say]—" A gentleman called upon me yesterday, along with a friend of his from Fulham, and in the course of conversation at the tea-table, knowing that my uncle Plaskett was so long in the Secretary of State's office, mentioned that there was in Fulham a gentleman of my name, who was in the same office, and that he was a gentle man of remarkable piety and goodness of heart. It struck me that you were a friend of my uncle, and upon further conversation found it was so, and knowing my circumstances they advised me to write to you, and I am about to solicit a favour of you, Mr. Wood—and I suppose you, for the sake of my family and credit, and the work upon which I have struggled not to refuse—would you lend me 201. or 30/., or, if that is inconvenient, even 101., upon my own integrity, or upon my stock papers, until the 16th of next month ? If so, you will be my benefactor and saviour of my family and character, which, as these papers will show you, is very high, and perhaps that is the best of all human security. The note dated from Bishops • thorpe, is from the Archbishop of York, signed 'Ebor,' (Latin for fork), and those I hope will be considered guarantees of my integrity. I will say no more upon this head, only this—think of the widow and father less ; save me by not withholding a friendly loan for a few days, which shall be promptly paid. Ido not think you will refuse me; you must now, Mr. Wood, be far advanced in years, 79 or 80. How is your general health ? A great age indeed, but my good father lived to 97. The ages of men in the present day are nearly the same as in the days of the shep herd kings of Israel. The sweet psalmist says that threescore and ten is the average of life, though some by great strength obtain fourscore, but then their strength and labour and sorrow soon passeth away, and we are gone. I have recently lost a beloved chili, my eldest daughter, from cholera. She was all that was virtuous and good—the time of her proba tion in this world had arrived—the mandate of the Deity went forth, and was quickly obeyed, that the earth should return to the earth, as it was, and the spirit unto God that gave it. When such, Mr. Wood, is the uncertainty of human life, let us prepare to meet the hour of our dissolution, with unshaken con fidence in Jesus. "I remain, yours sincerely, I" MARTI' 4. WOOD. ‘ Please address Mrs. M. Wood, at Mr. C. Fran cis's, No. 6, Avon-street. "An answer by return, with the enclosure "re turned again. " M. NV. Upon the receipt of this letter, Mr. Wood imme diately enclosed a cheque for 30/., drawn upon Childs and Co., in a letter, and posted it to the ad dress indicated. On the prisoner being apprehended in Beth, this letter was found with a heap of others, in which money had been enclosed, apparently under similar circumstances. This led to inquiries which resulted in the present prosecution. No evidence being offered, the jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty. The Learned JUDGE said, that there could be no doubt but the prisoners were engaged in an extensive conspiracy to plunder and defraud the public, and they had carried out their schemes with great tact and ingenuity. The male prisoner was remanded to the House of Correction, sentence having been deferred on a point of law raised by Mr. Prendergast, which was stated in our report of yesterday's (Wednesday's) proceed ings. The female prisoner was handed over to an officer of Bath gaol ; and on leaving the dock, in re ply to an observation of the Learned Judge that she was the dupe of Jones, said she acted on her own re sponsibility, and was not duped by any one. The Court was occupied nearly the whole of the day in trying an appeal, i❑ a case of bastardy, but the details were not of a nature to require a report. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAN SIOIV -HO USE. James Burton was brought before Alderman Glans for final examination on the charge of having forged a cheque upon the firm of Rogers, Olding, and Co., for the stun of 151. Alderman Ginns (to the prisoner) —I shall commit you for trial and you will have an opportunity of clearing up the whole affair to a jury. GUILDHALL. John Goring, lately in the service of Her Majesty, in the silver department at Windsor Castle, was brought up before Mr. Alderman Finnis for final examination, charged with obtaining some gold watches and chains, to the amount of 321. 125., under false pretences. The prisoner declined asking any questions, and Alderman Firms committed him for trial. Mr. nobler, the solicitor, said that he attended to prefer other charges against the prisoner, and called Mr. W. Cooper, of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, silversmith, who said, on the 3rd of January the prisoner, whom he had known for some years as living with a Mr. Thomas in the Strand, previous to obtaining the situation at the Castle, called on him and represented that there was a person in the Palace goicg to be married, and they wished to have some plain silver plate to match what they had already got. Witness on this representation let him have six plain table-spoons, value 31. 14=. ; six ditto, forks, value 41, 63. ; six desert ditto, value 11. 18s. ; five desert-forks, value 11. 1 ls. ; four round salts, value 41. 13s. 9d. ' and two gravy-spoons, worth 11. 17s. Witness had since ascertained that the salts were pawned within an hour afterwards. Alfred John Melhuish, assistant to Miss Flemming, pawnbroker, in Farringdon-street, said—l produce two table-spoons, two desert-spoons, six table forks, and five desert ditto. Mr. nobler—Where are the gravy-spoons Witness—l do not produce then), as they were not identified by Mr. Cooper last night. Mr. Hobler—Where are they ? Witness—l left them behind. Mr. Nobler—Then you must produce them ; for Mr. Cioper, on reference to his books can identify them. The witness then very coolly pulled the two gravy spoons out of his coat pocket. In continuation the witness said that the prisoner pledged the above property, as well as a watch, for 11/. 12s. on the 4th of January, in the name of John Goring. Mr. Cooper identified the gravy-spoons. An assistant from Mr. Wood, of St. John-street, pawnbroker, produced four salts, which were pledged on the 3d of January, after dusk, for 2/. 10s. in the name of James Goring. Mr. Cooper identified them as his property. Alderman FINN'S committed the prisoner on this charge also. The next witness was George William Adams, from Messrs. Chawner and Co.'s, spoon and fork manufacturer 3, Hosier-lane, Smithfield, who said that on the 28th of December the prisoner came to him and said he wanted two plain table-spoons, six plain teaspoons, and six shell teaspoons. Witness gave them to him, and he left, saying he had not the money then, but was coming to town on Monday with some old silver, and witness agreed to take what he brought in exchange This took place between three and four o'clock. A pawnbroker produced the property, and said they were pledged by the prisoner on the 28th of December, about dusk, or shortly after four o'clock, for 3/. 10s. Alderman FINNIS asked the value of the property ? Mr. Adams said the two table-spoons were worth 1/. 111., the six plain teaspoons 1/. 11s. 61, and the shell spoons 3/. 14s. The prisoner declined asking any question, and Alderman FINN'S committed him fur trial on this case also. There were other charges against him which were not entered into. The depositions being so voluminous, there being more than twenty witnesses in the cases, the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow for them to be made out. WORSHIP-STREET. Margaret Higgins and Elizabeth Smith, two women of notorious character, were placed at the bar befare Mr. Arnold, for further examination, charged with stealing a watch, finger-ring, wearing apparel, and other articles, from the person of Mr. Frederick Hardy Jewett, a solicitor, residing at West Ham, in Essex, and having chambers in Lime-street, City, while under the influence of chloroform, administered by the prisoners, and whereby his life had been placed in imminent danger. The prosecutor, who was unable to attend at the first examination, on Monday week last, subse quently appeared on Friday, and, whilst labouring under excessive debility and nervous prostration, stated, that between nine and ten o'clock on the evening of the 10th instant, he was proceeding slowly along the Whitechapel-road, with the intention of taking the first omnibus for his private residence, when he felt some one, whom he believed to be a woman, touch his left side, and at the same moment felt a rag or a handkerchief pressed over the lower part of his face. He instantly became insensible, and was conscious of nothing that occurred to him until about daylight on the following morning, when he slowly revived, and, upon recovering sufficiently, found himself lying upon a very dirty bed in a wretched apartment, and in a com plete state of nudity, with the exception of an old piece of rag which bad been carelessly thrown over him. He remained for some time in such a helpless and bewildered condition that he was scarcely sensible of anything surrounding him, but, upon his senses being partially restored, he staggered out of bed, and found a portion of his clothing upon an adjoining chair, but th a t hi s greatcoat, hat, boots, and Cashmere shawl had been stolen, and, upon his drawing on his trousers, he found that the legs of them were incrusted with mud up to the knees, as though he had been dragged forcibly along the road whilst in a state of insensibility, and that, besides the property beforementioned, his watch, finger-ring, a silver toothpick, and some loose silver bad been car ried away. Upon his attempting to make his way out of the house, he found that the door of the room had been secured on the outside, and called loudly for some time for help to no purpose, but at length heard the sound of footsteps in the passage, and, on repeat ing his entreaties for his liberation, he was answered by a potman, who had come to collect pots from the other apartments, that the door was fastened by a padlock. He at the same moment felt his foot strike against something upon the floor, which turned out to be a small key, and upon thrusting it under the door it was found to fit the padlock out side, and he was at length enabled to get out. He then discovered that he had been confined in a back room on the first-floor of a low lodging-house in Thrall-street, Spitalfields, and, feeling so faint that he was scarcely able to support himself, he knocked at the door of another apartment, in which he found a man and woman, the former of whom, at his urgent solicitation, at once proceeded to the offices of his father, whose managing clerk subsequently arrived in a cab, in which he was conveyed to the station-house, and gave information of the treatment to which he had been subjected. The prosecutor added that he had been ever since under medical treatment, and described bis sufferings, resulting from the adminis tration of the narcotic which had been applied to him, as of the most overpowering description, and that they still produced a paralysing effect over his whole system. Upon the case being called on yesterday the pro secutor was again absent, and his father, who was much distressed, accounted for his non-appearance by stating that since the former examination his son had relapsed into the.most alarming state, which required the constant attention of the family surgeon ; he had been ever since confined to his bed, and bad been perfectly delirious for several days. Mr. ARNOLD said that it was a most lamentable occurrence, but he would proceed with the case in the prosecutor's absence, as there were several wit nesses in attendance who had not been examined. Sergeant Kelly stated that having ascertained that the prisoners jointly occupied the apartment in ques tion, from which they had absconded immediately after the occurrence in question, he proceeded in search of them, and having traced the prisoner Higgins to ano ther house of the same description, he took her i n t o custody. On apprising her o f the nature of the charge the prisoner exclaimed, " I did not do it ; it was Fat Bet (meaning the other prisoner) who brought him to my room, and after robbing him of his things she stuck to the regulars, and never gave me anything." She then went on to inform him that he would find the other prisoner at a house in George street, Spitalfields, and added that she wished her to be " lagged" (transported), as one was as much in it as the other. Police , Con - stable Johns, H 76, proved the oppre- _ hension of the woman Smith at the place indicatedby her fallow-prisoner, and that upon taking her I . nt° custody she retorted the accusation upon 'Egglns, and said that the latter alone was concerned in th e robbery. He had frequently seen the prisoners enter the house in question, and on the night of the robbery observed them both hurrying along down Osborne street, in the direction of the spot where the prosecu tor was shortly afterwards waylaid and assailed. , Catherine Donovan, the wife of a greengrocer is the neighbourhood, deposed to a conversation will had taken :place between the prisoner An Higgins another woman at her shop about the time of the robbery, in allusion to which she acknowledged that she " had done it," and had got the money. O n previous occasion she had told her that a man Dam e Gallagher, with whom she cohabited, had undergoned an operation at the London Hospital, where they 13 % given him some stuff to send him to sleep, and that G had contrived to bring some of it away with bial from that institution. After hearing some further evidence of a corn rative nature, and which went to establish the eon, nexion between the prisoners, the Magistrate ordered them both to be remanded for a week to await the result of the unhappy condition to which the Pr ° !, e , cutor is reduced, and afford the police an opportunil'i of tracing some portion of the stolen property, tir o one article of which, the prosecutor's coat, the nall) " Blankley" was stated to be stamped. - --- THE COUNTRY MARKETb,ce. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 24.—At Gloucester an d nester markets on the 19th, the wheat trade ruled d. 01! At a reduction of Is per quarter. Burley of al l k was taken slowly at a similar decline. Oats mui ntailt o. their value. Beans and peas he'd fh. f o rmer During the present week there hat again been very W i tt passing in the trade. Some quantity of wheat rrOg f have been dispmed of by submitting to a further fak e r Is per quarter. Patley very difficult to sell, and lo rates w‘ uld be accepted if there were buyers. Oats are taken in retail at former prices. New beans Is per At cheaper; old beans and peas nominally unaltered. te r this day's matket wheat was again 6d to Is per q uar, he cheaper, with a dull trade. Barley sold slowly at is currency of this day se'briight. Very little passing oats. Beans found buyers at the above noted reductio On peas the turn was in favour of the buyer. liters! NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 22.—Having supply of farmers' wheat, the trade ruled dull and beat, at barely the currency of SLturday last. Barley , beans ; and other grain, moved off slowly at aboutpreriou rat( s. LONG SUTTON.— Return of sales for the week ending; Jan. 19--W heat, 299 qrs, 2 bush, 567/ Os 6d (av ers nt ly 37s 100); barley, 0 qrs, 0 bush, 001 Os Od over. 0.1); beans, 134 qrs, 0 bush, 152119 s Od (aver. 225 91u;.; LYNN, JAN 22 .— Wheat, 30s 32 s to 345 , fine 3 65 " 40s; barley 20s to 225, fine 24s to 25s per qr. 31 ALFORD.—Averages for the week ending Jan. Wheat, 38s lOid; barley, 22s 80; Oats, 13s Od; be 26s 63 per qr. SLEAFORD, JAN. 2 I.—Wheat, white 39s to 4„265:; red 35s Od to 395 Od; new Os to Os; barley 21s to 4 oats, 14s Od to 18s Od; beans, 26s to 27s per qr. t o LOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wheat 36s to 40s; barley 915 245; oats 13s to 17s; beans 25s to 30s per qr. „ .215 UPPINGHAM, JAN. 23.—Wheat 37s to 40s; !Arse' t-ter to 245; oats 158 to 245; beans 24s to 36s per qr. 13°- 10d to 11d per lb; eggs 15 for Is. DERBY, JAN. 22.—Our supply of fat beasts epee morning was about the average, and the quality g" r aly of the middling sort; the demand was flat for the worst quality of beef, and there were several lots Jef. & ft i o hard. The supply of sheep was not large, with a I , i ` o f, improvement in the demand, and all were disposeeneef The supply a fat pigs was good, chiefly Irish' iT to made from 5d to sd; mutton, 53-d to 6d; FP, 7 , 5 6 ,11b5. 8s per score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone 0, Hides, lid per lb. Calf•skins, 2d to 3id per lb. ce d GLASGOW, JAN. 23.—The severe cold experienThe during the last week has now given way to a thaW' e ss supplies have been trivial, and only ten quarter s of pay. reached Grangemouth from abroad. Trade was inec for during the week, limited to necessary purohelle:ded, immediate use. Tlis day's market arm thinly st te- T ri sh and, excepting some inquiry for Indian corn on to account, there was little passing, and prices incline buy E ers' favour. bt DINBURGH, JAN. 23.—The quantity of wheat bro to forward this day was 1,524 qrs, being 250 qrs m ore t o gs last week. Top price 2s 6d up and 9d down on the s/erfor. —153 qrs unsold. The . quantity of barley brough t ee u, ward was 1,005 qrs, being 3 qrs more than last W oo Price on the top and the average th l e %rd. 128 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 1,336 qra brought ong _r,o or 291 qrs more than last week. Top price 611 t, of the average Gd up-113 qrs unsold. The clest tl ifrice beans was .188 qrs, or 15 qrs more than last wo" - on the top 6d up, and the average ld clown--all so Top of Wheat ... ... 63 lbs 465 Od ... Barley 56 tbe 265 Cl ' ... Oats ... 3 Beans 4 66 5 l i b b s s 2 2 8 0 : EDINBURGH CATTLE • MARKET, JAN. 23.--The BThot of cattle this morning was 570, being 185 wore th a i , n o t of week. Quality generally very superior. On acc,roblo the great supply, sales were dull, and a consiue o f ; number unsold. Top price of the best bee f 7s ° 6 , pd current 65 Gd to Os Od; middling and inferio r 5s to ing per Dutch stone. The supply of sheep this mer i l er e was 3,218, being 463 more than last week. Sales w.sr,,, exceedingly dull, and at the close of the market 6 I t w to l li great d quantity were unsold. Top price of the best niu 51_ per ib ; current, 4d to sd; inferior, 3d to aid. Supplies EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, JAN' 2 ,d to applies of all kinds again large. Oat straw, from 85 6d to 7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron; wheat ditto, v" Zia 7s Gd; barley ditto, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. Hay, f rom to 10d per stone. DUNBAR, JA 22.—Wheat, weighing 631bg' N. brought 39a Od, and r i c to 32s - Od ; b ! ri te6l; e weighing 001bs, brought p 2ls s 6d, and prices to Od ; oats, w e i g hi ng 451b s , brought 1 83 9d Ll. 6l bs prices to 15 s 6d ; b eans andl peas,• Welg hing u -4 brought 24s 6d. and prices to 00s Od. I)ALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 21. There w e e r t: 109 bags of oatmeal and 9 of barleme 1 at this ch i l e market. Sales dull. Oatmeal up on thea 6d per ht s v' and 3d per bag on the second quality; turn in favour cf buyers. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second vir m a imperial .. • 24s 0d 0 00 t dd l 2 1 b 3 t 6 oa s s : 1 6 0 e d: Ine = 2: 1 5 8 0 1 04 _, ) ; Barleymeal, per ditto I'easemeal pd Flour ... Od ° O I I Pot barley ... •.. —s Od —a s Od RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' BRISTOL, JAN. 24. n e.FO, STocx ExcHANGE.—The market maintains its fir° io ns and a go-,d business has been done, b u t the only alter s at i d in prices were—Great W es t ern , Q uar t ers , 16 5 41—W ilts Somerset, 10 dis. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2t. STOCK ExcmANGE.-The market was rather dull r e a e ll .. l .; and prices are some w h a t l ower. Th e trans actions follow : - East Lancashire, Preference. Quarters, 71. 6E6 Liverpool Chester, and Stockport, 5 dis.-London a nd l a d, Western, 1 174-Ditto, New Quarters, 3s. 9d. P. -Alid an d 444 -Ditto, Halves, Is 3EI. c. dis. - South-. Eastern and Dover, 20)4 - Ditto (No. 4), 61. 13s. M.-Dutch Rhenish, 5% dis.-North Union (B.), 161. A n MANCEIESTER, JAN. 24. rn STOCK EXCIIANGE.- But little business was " °- ... e v aird our Stock Exchange to-day, and prices had a don ior tendency. The transactions were as follow :-Es i t o cashire, 11%-Lancaster and Carlisle, 50-Lan - n, 644 Yorkshire, Fifths, 7 dis.-Ditto, West Riding 1 ), 13 i2 p.•*" dis.-London and North-Western, New Quarters, 1 /,s h Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (Ch ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters 9A-Ditto, Preference, 8%. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 24. tr STOCK EXCHANGE.-The share market WAS ve , r9 , ". - vr ers day, but it was understood that the private cleanly. considerable. The transactions wer London su u : ,. --14 ;:i r u t1 3 1: Western, New Quarters, 1% -Shrewsbury and 13— ham (A), U. 13s 9d. P. as YORK, JAN. 23. Wer e a nd STOCK EXCHANGE.-The transactions to-dsy f l e , follow :- Great Northern, 71. Is. 3c1.-York, Newcse Berwick, 16;i-Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 2Ya• GLASGOW, JAN. 23. w ere follow: G E las xc g n ovr AN , a iii x. l -The to -day "lOW' ( No. l e ) r , n, 13-Ditto Preference,(N 50. per cent. e s en :4 r. -Dundee s a 2 n - d l D l A itrtAat o b ; e2sst -Glasgow,lort Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4/. 13s. 6d •••"' guaranteed, • vi - BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Montreal, n ear Bevenosks , the countess Holmesdale, of daughter. On the 22d in s t., at M a ount's-park, Wilts, the lady °f B" B. Bellers, Esq., Captain 50th Regiment,oi a son- • f DV' •c e o On the 21d inst., at Whetstone, Middlesex, the wife , T. Bartlett, o f a son. Lesto°l‘ On the 23d i ns t., a t H y d e - par k- square , th e lady 0' R. Reed, E sq ., o f a son. I lill'Pweed, On the 2i st inst., at Hamilton-terrace, St. -° f the wile of P. S . Coxe, Eq., of a daughter. 5 (1., o On the 22d i ns t , th e wife f Edward Williamson , Smith -street, Chelsea, of a daughter. d job° On the 22d i ns t., i n D evons hi re - stree t, the wife " Irving Glennie, Esq., of a son. __.--------'' On the 20th inst., at St. Pa AIARRIED cras New Church , , 0 0* Tristram, jun., surgeon, Liverpool, to Susannah daughter of William Jacks m, St. Pancras. • 103 011 On the 22d inst., a t Ald en h am, Hero, BArou Dlegarith Webster, Esq., of Penns, Warwickshire, to Anna Notes daughter of Samuel Ellis Bristowe, L.sq., of Beestl3-' DIED e at Vif _ GI i ,u.cs O at unt n evi i t ill h era. e n2gerl 2 ,Bote l inst., , t emi h tilii.,mii latii4 at Peckham , shi a a n ft d e Breriitltl:ir late 01 0 ptai n Hanslip, formerly of the 9th and 66th Regiment. ifea On the 21st inst., at Holbecks, the widow of t r 9., s a ged 0" W. Rowley, Bart, of Tendring- hall, Suffolk, On the 210 inst. in London, the lion . Mrs. Rawd °ll OP ti 11 0 On the 21st Surrey, aged 70, --$.- ~ inst., at Manor-villas, Upper -.-) Samuel Davenport, sq., aged 57. Ssr sll On the 21st inst., at the Old Steine, lirightorlrf gen" Henley, relict of William ebert Phillimore, Es+ , ° rese oS dall-hall, Herta, sister of the late and aunt of t be P dsbir e ' Right lion. Lord Ongley, of 0:d Warden, BOW aged 79. ed On the 21st inst., Mr. Joseph Ling, of HollowaY; fi rillis— On the 22d inst., at North-bank, St. John's-woo d ' Westall, Esq., A.R.A., aged 69. WO Oa the 22d inst., at Langtons , Hornchurch, Essex' ce, widow of John Massu, Esq., aged 79. • r-P l3 f On the 21st inst., at Chapel-street, Grosveho i b, c Anna Martha, widow of the late Colonel Thomas W el' - Pines-hill, Stanstead, Essex ged 79. 1 , la On the 21st inst , Charles ' a l)'Brier- E. son of '-'' e George O'Brien, Esq . , of Gueshunt, Brier, Ma respected.rl:n George-a t se v a - . 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