The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

Vbirb 12bition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BIRCHELL.) PROVIS V. CULL. The plaintiff sued as the public officer of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Company at Dorchester. Defendant is a solicitor at the same place. The action was brought to recover the sum of 961. 4s. sd. for money lent and in terest. The defendant allowed judgment to go by default. Mr. Andrews, solicitor to the Company, proved an admission of the amount due, and the Jury gave a ver diet for the amount claimed. BOURNE V. BROAD. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 141. 10s. for the board and lodging of defendant's wife, and for medical attendance, &c. It appeared by the evidence that the plaintiff and his wife were married in December, 1843. In February last. Mrs. Broad, who was then residing at Dorking, was taken ill with a complaint of the liver, and the plaintiff's wife, who is her aunt, recommended her re moval to London for the benefit of medical attendance, and she was accordingly removed to plaintiff's house, Churton• street, Pimlico. Dr. Ord was called in, and attended her till June, when she was pronounced convalescent. The present demand was for 10i. a week for board and lodging, and 71 for physicians' fees, &c. For the defendant it was contended that this amounted to a separation, for defendant's wife had been living with plaintiff for six months, during which time defendant never even went to the House, nor had he ever given say authority for the separation; therefore, there was no case to go to the jury. The UNDER SHERIFF considered that there was sufficient to go to the jury. Evidence was then adduced with a view of showing that defendant's wife was addicted to drinking, and that she left the house of the defendant on the recommenda tion of the plaintiff and his wife, but that defendant said she should not, for Mrs. Bourne said she wovld take Mrs. Broad with her, and make a bright girl of her, and she ;should be no expense to Mr. Broad (defendant). She was not under medic it treatment at Dorking for two months previously to leaving. She had not returned home since. Plaintiff had said she had left his house, and was living under the protection of a gentleman. The UNDER SHERIFF, in addressing th• jury, said, if the defendant's wife had left without the assent of her husband, he was not liable; but if, on the contrary, he had assented, he would be responsible for any necessaries supplied to her. Her subsequent conduct —supposing it to be true that she was living with another party—did not bear in the present case. The jury, after being locked up, gave a ►erdict for 81. 53., money out of pocket. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS -EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SaarrEsnuar, in the absence of the Lard Chancellor, took hi, seat on the Woolsack shortly after Five o'clock. MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND). Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition fro ( Cork, praying for some su b st i tute f or m i n i sters ' money in Ireland. Lord MONTIAGLE suggfeed that the pay ment of ministers money should be commuted is the same manner u the payment of tithes had teen commuted in Ireland, and sugirested that a Committee should be appointed to consider the subject. Lord STANLEY admitted that it would be desirable to commute the payment of ministers' money in some manner. It was a tax laid upon house pro perty, payable by the occupier ; it might be more convenient to levy it upon the owner, but it would make no real difference, inasmuch as the owner would demand a higher rate. Various attempts had been made to have a new valuation for levying the amount, but the objection always made was that it would be taking a burden off the shoulders of one set of persons to put it on those of another; besides, if it were made a land lord's tax, it would be exceedingly difficult in many instances to get at the landlord. He hoped the present plan of levying it would not be aban doned until an equitable substitute for it had been discovered. The Earl of ST. GERMANS thought there would be great practical difficulties in levying the tax on owners instead of occupiers. JEWISH EMANCIPATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Protestant Dissenters of Lancashire praying for a removal of civil disabilities from the Jews. SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition com plaining of the spiritual destituton of Devonport. IRISH OUTRAGES. Lord FARNHAM drew the attention of their Lordships to a communication from a person whose name he would not mention, suggesting the necessity of a more efficient and stringent measure of coercion for Ireland. He would not mention the name, be cause if be did so the writer would afford another instance of the truth that life was not worth one day's purchase in Ireland. He had communicated the name to the Noble Marquis. (The Noble Lord then read an account of the assas sination of the Rev. J. L'oyd.) He took that oppor tunity of doing justice to the Rev. Mr. King, a Catholic clergyman of that neighbourhood, who had exerted himself to the utmost to suppress these out raifes• e Marquis of LANSDOWNE had seen the letter, and considered the writer as one of the highest authorities, and whose name if : produced, would com mand the ent i re confidence :of their Lordships as to any statement he mi CsDAlM Eti n jl n it e. The NonLx -....usequlsotfhe the!x laid upon the table cer• DISTRESS. twin papers illustrative monetary state of the country, and moved that t be referred to the Committee on Commercial Dis tress. —Agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday. -- HOUSE OF com m lONS. The SPBAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. Mackinnon and two other honourable Mem bers took the usual oaths and their seats. NEW WRIT. A. new writ was ordered to be issued for t h e borough of Weymouth for the election of a Memb er to serve in Parliament in t he ro o m of Mr. Christie , who had accepted theA O ChiI FSATTAR A tern Hundreds. Petitions praying for an inquiry into the charges brought against the Rsja of Sattara were presented by Dr. Bowring, from Westbury, Westminster, and the parish of St. George, Hanover-square ; several by Mr. Hume; by Mr. Williams, signed by 812 of the inhabitants of Blarylebone; by Mr. Lushington, from the parishes of St. Ann's, Soho, St. George's, Hanover-square, and St. Paul's, Covent-garden; and by Mr. Berekeley, from Bristol. HEALTH OF TOWNS. Mr. H. JONES presented a petition praying the House to adopt some measure for promoting the health of towns. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before the CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) BUSHELL V. WEISS. Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes ap peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., and Maymott for the defendant. The plaintiff in this case was an engineer, and the defendant one of the provisional committee of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Com pany, which was formed in 1845, for the pur pose of constructing a railway from Northamp• ton, by Daventry, to Warwick, and the action was brought to recover the sum of 2061. 18s. alleged to be due to him for attending as a witness, to give evidence before the Standing Orders Committee in respect of that company. It appears that the plaintiff who had been employed in surveying a portion of the lino was sum moned to London on the 4th of Marth, 1840, by the so licitors to the company, Messrs. Wright and Hanbury, to give evidence before the Committee in consequence of some disputes which had grown up between Mr. Pritchard, the engineer in chief, and the company, the result of which was, that Mr. Pritchard declined to come. forward to support the Bill in Parliament. The plain tiff was told that he must be prepared to act as engineer in -chief, if Mr. Pritchard continued to persist in his determination, and he was examined in that capacity on the 30th of March. His cbarga against the company, for attending as a witness, was at the rate of ten gui neas a-day. It was stated by a witness, that Mr. Pritchard took away the briefs which had been prepared in support of the Bill, and refused to return them; and the plaintiff was employed to draw up additional ones, which it was alleged could not have been prepared without the plaintiff's assistance. It was admitted that the defendant ;was a provisional committeeman of the company, and that he was liable for any reasonable sum which the plaintiff might be en titled to. Mr. COCKBURN', for the defence, submitted that the charge of ten guineas per day was most exorbitant, and that the plaintiff was only entitled to receive the ordi nary remuneration given to witnesses when called to give evidence before the Standing Orders Committee. He also submitted that the solicitors were only at libei ty to engage the plaintiff as a witness, and as such he was en titled to receive compensation from the defendant, but theyhad no authority to make him engineer in chief with out the concurrence of the company. The Learned Counsel then stated that the plaintiff was entitled to no more than was given to an ordinary surveyor, which was at the rate of two or three guineas a day. Mr. Stephens, an engineer, and oter witnesses, were called on the part of the defendant, and stated that the highest sum paid to surveyors for attending the Railway Committees, in 1845, was five guineas per day, and that the usual sum was two guineas per day. He, how ever, admitted that an engineer in chief was entitled to ten guineas. The CHIEF JUSTICE having summed up, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 85/. CHURCH-RATES. Lord NUGENT presented a petition from Ayl6s bury against the imposition of church• rates. JEWISH DISABILITIES. Mr. DIYETT presented a petition in favour of the removal of Jewish disabilities. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from a place in Hampshire against the admission of Jews into Parliament. N EW WRIT FOR KILKENNY. On the motion of Mr. J. O'CONNELL, a new writ was ordered for Kilkenny, in the room of the Hon. and Learned! Member, he having chosen to sit for the county of Limerick. CRIME AND OUTRAGE—IRELAND. Mr. ANSTY presented a petition from the Con federate Club of Drogheda against the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill. .ge THE LATE RAJA OF SATTARA. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Maryle bone, praying the House to institute an inquiry into the case of the late Raja of Sattara. THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord DUNCAN, seeing the Noble Lord the First Lord Commissioner of Woods and Forests in his place, was desirous of putting a question to him, the answer to which involved, in these times of the prevalence of epidemic disorders, the health of the Speaker and every Member of that House.— (Laughter.) He wished to know from the Noble Lord if he was enabled to state at what date it was likely the New House of Commons would be fit for the reception of the Members. He also wished to know why the other buildings, such as the libraries and other places, were not at the present time fit for the reception of the different officers connected with the House. He was, also, desirous of knowing why greater progress had not been made with the official residences. Lord MORPETH stated that he had been in formed by the architect that the new House of Commons would be ready for the reception of Members in from fifteen to eighteen months after the arrangements for lighting, warming, and ventilating the House were completed. Having said thus much it was necessary he should state that the Government, considering all the circumstances, had thought fit to desire that Dr. Reid's plans for venti lating the Rouse should be carried into effect. With respect to the question of the Noble Lord, as to the official residences, it had been considered best to appropriate the sums voted by Parliament to the com pletion of the shell of the building in preference to the official residences. Mr. HUME said that last year he had moved for returns of the liabilities incurred with respect to the erection of the new Houses of Parliament, but those returns not having been laid on the table, he was desirous of knowing when they would be. Lord MORPETH said that he had made inquiries on the subject, and he could assure the Honourable Member that the returns would be shortly laid on the table. CRIME IN IRELAND. Mr. BAINES gave notice of his intention, in Committee, to move amendments to the Bill for the prevention of crime and outrage in Ireland. OFFENCES AGAINST THE REVENUE TEIE SUN, LONDON, TH U R EVENING,' LAWS. Air. HUME moved fora return of the number of persons who are now confined in each of her Majesty's gaols and houses of correction for offences against the revenue laws in Great Britain and Ireland, stating the periods for which they have been confined, in classes of, 1. Less than six months ; 2. More than six and less than twelve ; 3. More than one and less than two years; 4. More than two years (in contin uation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 432, of Session 1841).—Agreed to. BANK ANNUITIES. Mr. HUME moved for an account stating, in detail, the purchases and sales of Bank annuities and Exchequer-bills, effected by the National Debt Corn• rnitsioners, on account of the Trustees of Savings Banks, under the authority of the Acts of 9 Geo. IV., c. 92, and 3 Will. IV., c. 14 ; showing, in separate columns, the date, description, and extent of each o f such purchases and sales, and the rate at which each of such purchases and sales were effected, from the 16th day of June 1847.—Agreed to. THE CHOLERA. In answer to a question from an Hon. MEMBER, Lord MORPETH stated that Government were now considering what were the best and most desirable measures to be adopted in this country for the prevention of cholera. It was also under consideration whether any altera tions were required to be made in the proclamations issued on the last occasion that the country was visited by this frightful epidemic, or whether im piovements could be introduced in the means that were ther.x adopted for establishing district boards of health. RAILWAYS IN INDIA. Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that to-morrow he should put a question to the Seci!etary of the Board of Control in reference to the steps which had been taken by that board for the promotion of railways in India, and particularly in those districts in India where cotton was chiefly . grown. Mr. ANSTY'S MOTION. Sir GEORGE GREY wished to know if the Honourable Member for Youghal had any ob jection to postpone his motion, 'in order that the second reading of the Government measure for the prevention of crime in Ireland might be proceeded with. The Nobe Lord the Member for Lynn's motion stood first on the paper, but the Noble Lord had been prevailed upon not to bring it forward tonight, and he had to appeal to the Hon. Member for Youghal not to proceed with his motion, which accident had placed first orr the list.—(Hear.) Mr. C. ANSTY said if his motion had related to any measure before thejHouae 1* would gladly have complied with the request of the Right Hon. Baronet.—(oh, oh.) Mr. HUME said he had a motion which stood next to that of the :Honourable Mem ber for: Youghal, and to which he attached considerable importance, but considering the necessity for passing the Bill, to which :allusion had been made, without delay, and consideaing, too, that Par liament had been called together much earlier than usual solely for that purpose, he - would gladly post pone it, and he hoped the Hon. 111 ember for Youghal would postpone his.--(Cheers.) Mr. C. ANSTY said if it w ere the wish of the House that he should not proceed with his motion he would readily give way.—(Hear, hear.) He had twice given notice of his motion, and he was par ticularly anxious to bring it forward, but of course he could not think of a toing so if it were calculated to bring him into an unseemly conflict with the House.—(Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY said he felt eat t•emely indebted to the lion. Member for giving, way.. THE RAILWAY 13 ILL. Mr. SPOONER inquired when the Government intended to proceed with the Railyrzy Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that he had stated on a former occasion, that before he proceeded further with the Bill, he should have the clauses printed, and laid on the table, in order that H:o , i. Members might be fully informed of the nature of the measure before it was set down for discussion. .He should redeem that, as he hoped he had redieumed every other promise he had made to the Haw e.—(Hear.) The Government did not intend to proceed with any measure which would in any way interfere with the progress of the Bill for the suppt ession of crime in treland.—(lreland,) RAMBURGFIL . Mr. HUTT wished to ask the Fie cretary for Foreign Affairs whether he was able to lay before the House the report of a committee of the Sen .site of Hamburgh, on the subject of the navigation league proposed by Prussia to the state of Hamburg h ? Lord PALMERSTON replie d that he had received the document in question, and th at as soon as a trans lation was made of it he should 1 ay it on the table. Mr. HUTT trusted that the tr anslation would be entrusted to abler hands than so me of those which had been furnished. Lord PALMERSTON woub I take care that a proper translation was effected. Mr. RJCARDO inquired if •the Noble Lord had received any correspondence on the subject, and if so whether he would lay it on the table ? Lord PALMERSTON was not quite positive; he would, however, ascertain ; e.nd if so, he did not think he should have any objectiout to lay copies on the table. PORTUGAL. Mr. HUME said it would be recollected that on the 20th of April last a protocol was agreed to be tween this country and Francs; and Spain with respect to the affairs of Portugal.. He wished to know whether France and Spain had "I rithdrawn from the treaty. Lord PALMERTON said the protocol was to the effect, that an election should take place in Por tugal,nine_ and that the Cortes shou'id be afterwards sum moned. Government the electio n s term s wereh ad not t t , ye y t et ove be r. en H f e u r lfi m ile a d . , iceosintYm'sunicati rnontrmeaent c onsi d ere d that Portugal was bound by the govTerhnemreenhtsad not been any formal , between these twt°oTt y lhe effect . :ha t France and Spain had withdrawn ere might to a shade of difference of this eount. and the government THE GO VERNMENT l -r D THE WEST fortnight, Ld --e.. h is m o ti on f or ocfstie'A con tinued indispo• orG. in ß E c N on T se i ci lsTe u aen iC- ce P sition of the Premier. THE RAJA OF SATT.A.RA. u Mr. FIUME postponed th e foll ow i ng That the content s o f the motion until Z papers lnatild before lia ‘ m ‘ ent in the last sessi on , respecting the 'u fo e r s e d a p y a : innocence of the late P artaub :Sheen, the d eposed Raja of Sattara, takenin comic xion with the in ormation previously presented to the House of Com mons, render it expedient and necessary to the furtherance of the ends of justice, and for the future good government of India, and the protection of the people and princes of that country, that the inquiry prayed for by the late Raja in his petition to Parliament, presented on the 29th of July, 1842, should be granted, with a view of rescuing the cha racter of the late Raja, if innocent, from the opprobrium which certain charges brought against him have cast upon it, and of vindicating the honour of the British Administration in India from the suspi cion and obloquy which the proceedings against the late Raja have excited." REVENUE. Mr. HUME inquired if the Government would object to the following motion : For a Select Commit tee, to inquire into the state of the public income and expenditure of the United Kingdom ; to examine the public revenue, under it separate heads, as re gards the assessment, collection, custody, and the establishments employed for the same, and to re port whether any and what alteration or re peal can be made under any of these heads, with benefit to the public revenue; also, to examine into the public expenditure, under separate heads, and to consider and report what measures can be adopted for the relief of the country, by altering or reducing any portion of the said expenditure, without detriment to the public service. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, was directed by Lord John Russell to state that the Go vernment could not accede to the motion. Mr. HUME said he should move it after the recess, Mr. ANSTY (postponed his motion for a fort night. BANK OF SCOTLAND. In reply to Mr. J. A. SMITH, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex plained, that in his speech the other night he did not mean to convey the impression that the Bank of Scotland and the majority of Scotch banks had applied to the Bank of England for loans. He spoke generally. It was needless to disclaim that the Bank of Scotland had made such an application. IRELAND. Mr. J. O'CONNELL inquired whether the Govern ment intended to take any immediate step to provide employment or food for the people of Ireland, where the rates wereeinsufficient, and whether they proposed bringing in a landlord and tenant Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY replied that the attention of the Government was closely directed to those parts . which were impoverished, and they had sufficient means at command to meet any emergency. It was not the intention of the Government to propose the resumption of works and relief.—(Hear.) The Landlord and Tenant Bill would be introduced as soon as its provisions had been properly framed. It had been intended to introduce it and other measures at the commencement of the usual session. hence the delay. The Government did not wish to lay on the table a crude and ill-digested measure. CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day being read for the resump tion of the debate on this Bill, Sir G. GREY wished to trespass fora few minutes on the patience of the House, in order to remove several misconceptions which had arisen with respect to a part of the Bill, and in answer to observations which had been made to him by several Hon. Members with respect to the Bill. It would prevent some discussion if those misconceptions were at once removed, and those observations to which he had alluded answered. The first point to which he wished to refer was with respect to the amount of the increase in the police force of Ireland. On a former occasion the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, towards the close of the debate, expressed his satisfac tion that the state of Ireland was such that the re medy proposed by the Goevrnment was to be confined to an increase of 200 policemen. Considering the statement which he (Sir G. Grey) had made, he felt conscious that the error into which the Hon. Mem ber had fallen was occasioned by his not having gone sufficiently into that part of the Bill and the present state of the law with respect to the police of Ireland. Had he gone more fully into the subject than he did, that Hon. Member would not have fallen into the error which he was conscious he had fallen into. He (Sir G. Grey) had had several communications made to him upon the subject of the limit proposed by the Government, which was to be extended only to 200 men He would take the present opportunity of stating that under the proposed Bill the limit might be extended to 1,000 men. The real effect of the measure would be to remove all the limits whatever, except that imposed by the necessity of the case. He would shortly refer to the existing laws on the subject. By the 6th William IV. chap. 13, the number of police in all parted Ireland was fixed. A maximum limit was placed, beyond which they could not go. There were, however, two modes by which, under that Ac', the police force could be in• creased—the first was by the Lord. Lieutenant at the requisition of a majcrity of the magis trates at quarter sessions, stating that the existing amount of constabulary was insufficient for the due execution of the law. The second mode was by the proclamation of the Lord. Lieutenant stating any distriet to be in a state of disturbance. By that Act power was given under such circum stances, to increase the amount of the constabulary in such districts by 50 men. By a subsequent Act power was given to increase the amount by 100 men. In many cases the police have been increased under the regulations of the existing laws. With respect to the expense of the increase, half of it was to be borne by the barony or district in which the increase was made, and the other was to become chargable upon the consolidated fund. By the 6th IVilliarn IV. power is given to keep a certain reserve force of police in Dublin as a sort of constabulary derot, from which they are sent by the Lord-Lieutenant to those disturbed districts where they may be required. He hoped that it would be: sufficiently understood that there was now no limits to be placed upon the amount of increase in the police force. By the measure before the House it is prcposed that the whole charges of the additional police should be borne by the districts to which the police are sent. By the Special Constables' Act, 2 and 3 William IV., cap. 108, very useful powers were given for calling into active exercise those duties which devolved upon the inhabitants of any district where crime existed, by calling upon them to aid in the execution of the law. He could not too strongly express his own opiniun that gentlemen should avail themselves, as far as possible, of the provisions of the Act, and induce the sound population of the disturbd districts to aid in the suppression of crime. The only other point to which it was necessary that he should allude was, that with respect to accessories, as it had been stated that the Govern ment had not taken notice of them. With respect to accessories after the fact, the notice of his Noble Friend would be well considered by the Goverment. As to the question of accessories before the fact, such cases were under the consideration of the Lord-Lieutenant, and he (Sir George Grey) had his assurance that he would not shrink from the performance of his duty.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet, after stating what the law, as it at present existed on this subject, was, observed that his only object in risin g was t o remove the misconception that had arisen upon the snbject. The Right Hon. Baronet concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill. Sir R. PEEL thought it would be much better that the present Bill should enact what would be the law after it came into operation, without referring to Acts of Parliament that were at present in existence. Sir G. GREY apprehended that the Right Hon. Baronet referred to the White Boys' Act. He did not see the necessity of re-enacting the provisi,ns of that Act. Mr. J. O'CONNELL did not consider it neces sary to go at any length into the objections which he entertained for this Bill. Not only was it an unjus tifiable measure in point of severity, but it cruelly in terfered with the liberties of the people of Ireland. The House, however, had always been indisposed to act with justice towards Ireland, and this Bill was nothing more than what was to be expected from it. The Right Hon. Baronet seemed a little irritated at the questions which he (Mr. O'Connell) put to him just before the motion for the second reading of the Bill, and he 'regretted that they had caused him any uneasiness. He admitted they were merely repetitions of questions which he had put upon former occasions, but he was anxious once more to give Government an opportunity of setting themselves right with the peo ple of Ireland. He did not think, however, that he should have occasion to trouble the Right Hon. Ba ronet again with such questions, for he felt that it was now the duty of those who took an interst in the welfare of Ireland to proclaim to her people that all hope of England ever redressing their griev ances was at an end. England had, from the com mencement, shown a strong disposition to a et harshly with the Irish people, and he was afraid it would re main so till the end of the chapter. It was hopeless for Irish Members to expect to he listened to by that House with attention, and he, therefore, did not think it necessary to dwell at any length upon the circum stances contained in the Bill. No later ago than last year the Noble Lord at the head of the Government declared that he was against coercive measures for Ireland, and he wanted to know what had occurred since then to render coercion necessary now. The friends of Ireland might now give up their " long game," so far as the Government 'was con cerned, for they left their appeals unanswered. Was that the way, if they were in error, to make them think that they were so, and that they should put their faith in the present Parliament, and not in one composed strictly of Irishmen, sitting in Ireland ? Was that the wa y t o i nduce the whole people of t do 4 u n b g t tli undon e eexpe t d o ie e n ar c r y y of th th e ei r r e v pe o a w l s ? o — f w th as e i u t n t i h o e n w , a t y o Ireland, w h o h ad pledged themselves to leave no te lead the Irish Members, who bid vowed to LOUVAIN A LA SAMBRE RAIL WAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the shareholders of this company, consequent on the refusal of the directors to afford full information as to the affairs of the company to the pro prietors, was held to-day at the London Tavern. me. BELL was moved to the chair, and said, that as it was considered that the directors had withheld certain information from the shareholders as to their affairs, it was, therefore, deemed advisable t to form a committee to wait on the directors and to re quest theta to hold a meeting for the purpose of corn , municatiug the information required. This course the directors refused to adopt, on the ground that there were but three of the directors in London. A deputation I appointed by the sharehold e r s th en went to B e l g i um I and instituted the necessary inquiries into all the circumstances, which they did according to the best of their abillify. That committee had made a report which, if the shareholders required, they would submit to the meeting, but this report was not unanimously agreed to. A further application was made to the directors, and they had succeeded in getting an engagement from them that the moment Mr. Sh arman, the director in Belgium, returned that they would call a public meet ing arid afford the information required, but that under any circumstances they would call a public meeting before the Ist of next February, and that the shares would not be forfeited before that period. Under those circumstances it would be for the meeting to determine whether the report should be read, but in his opinion it would be better not to adopt that course. A long discussion as to the propriety of the informa tion being submitted to the meeting then took place, e hich ended in a resolution to that effect being carried by a large majority. Mr. InreeetAsts then entered into a lengthened state ment, which reflected very strongly on the management of the directors; and after some further discussion the meeting separated. LONDONDERRYandENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.-.—(TIIIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors of the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway was held this day, at the offices of the Company, in Church-passage, Guildhall, for the purpose of receiving the report of a select committee of the shareholds, appointed to examine isito the truth of the charges preferred by the local directors against the officiating stuff in London.—Mr. J. G. Frith in the chair. The report stated that the committee considered it unnecessary to express any opinion upon the charges preferred against the London directors, but thought it better to lay before the shareholders the present state of the affairs of the concern. The liabilities of the company for the cost of the line from Londonderry to —Parliamentary an d v t iz o . shareholders, direc lSetgraelbanexwpeernesestr follows,interest tors' salaries, office expenses, &c., 24,594/. 4s. 9d. cost of making the line; carriages, working stock, engi neering, 170,965/ 45. 9d.; making a t ota l o f 19 5,4 8 9 1 . 13s. 9d. To meet these liabilitie s , calls had been paid to the extent of 144,4751 9s. 9d., leaving a balance of 51,0141. 4s. to be provided for; but this balance in cluded a disputed claim of 26,0001. The Committee recommended that the present allowance to the directors of 8001 per annum should be r e d uce d to 300 /. ; t h e two auditors salaries from 301. to 101. ; and that the secretary's salary be reduced 50/. The Committee also suggested that the services of the engineer and superintendent of traffic in Derry, should be dispensed w i t h. Hitherto the expenses of working the line had exceeded the receipts, but the committee considered that with care and economy, the line might ultimately be made to pay. There could be no doubt that the extension of the line from Strabane to Omagh, or even to Newton- Stewart, would contribute most materially to develope the resources of the district; and the committee recom mended that this extension should eventually be s&ken into consideration. Mr. BATES proposed that the report should be adopted at once, but The CHAIRMAN consadered it was hardly fair that the directors should be required, on so short a notice, to adopt the recommendations of the report, and he, there fore, moved that the question of passing the report should be adjourned till a future day. Eventually it was agreed thai the meeting should stand adjourned till Satnrday, the 18th inst. A legacy of 25,0001. has been left to the Medical Department of University College, London, by the late Dr. Holme, of Manchester. The Manchester Guardian of yesterday, speaking of the will of the deceased phy sician, says:—The personalty is stated to be under 35,0001. If to this amount we add the value of the reality,—viz., the property in King-street, Manchester, which is probably worth 12000/4 that at and near Kendal, 2501. a year, at twenty years' purchase, gives 5,0001.; his library will b e wort h little short of 6,0001; and an examinati on amongst h i s papers shows that he, too, like the late Rev. S. Smith, was a holder of Pensyl vanian bonds, to the extent, probably, of 1,000/4 also of Columbian bonds, to the a mount of 25,000 dolls. (nearly 5,0001.) and of other American bonds; but taking the whole of these bonds to be worth only 2,000/, that would give an aggregate amount of property, real and r,ersonal, at the time of his decease, of about, in round numbers, 60,000/, Th e a ggregate amount o f th e legacies and bequ es t s i n money , is 15,800/.; and deduct ing this from 35,0001., and adding 6,0001. for the library, it would appear to leave a residue of about 25,0001. for the Medical Department of the University College. THE " OLDEN TIME"—CAPTURING A PLAGUE AT FOATRORE.—Some two or three hundred years ago Scotland was visited with a pestilental scourge, which was, it is said, prostrating thousands to the dust. It went in the form of a black cloud from place to place. The Fortrose folks, however, seeing it approach their quiet and peaceable town, hastened devote their lives to the prOmotion of the cause, to place faith in the present Legislature ? It was not. He asked the Right Honourable Gentleman —he asked Englishmen how these deep-seated convictions were to be removed when their remonstrances were treated with silence, while an ignorant English landlord was carefully answered by the Government. Let them at once frankly tell the people of Ireland that It was idle mummery to go through the ordeal of electing Members, for they were treated with contempt; for it was useless for them to be subjected to the expense and trouble of attending that House, for England monopolised the whole business of legisla tion. He contended that he had establiihed a claim to be answered. Although he knew that he should be vituperated in Ireland for consenting to the introduction of the Bill, for he wished to see the police increased, in order that crime might be repressed. He did so heedless of the consequences ; but he new understood that the Bill which was stated by the Right Honourable Gentleman to be partial and temporary, that it was to be confined to parts of the five counties, was not the measure that had been described, for the first clause stated that the Lord Lieutenant should have power to apply the provisions of the Act to any other county which he might imagine was affected. He might have yielded hastily, but he now doubted whether he should have done so. Ac admired the conduct of the Lord-Lieutenant while he was engaged in a foreign country, but he came to Ireland ignorant of the country. He was not in a position :to become acquainted with the Irish He was perfectly walled round from the truth, and it was to such a man as that the Government were going to give the most absolute power over the liberties of the Irish people. He would inform the House that the office of a dictator was entirely unknown in Ireland. If the present measure were the smallest infraction of the liberties of England, they would have many individuals stand ing up in the House for the liberties of the people,_ but Ireland was considered beyond the pale of tne Constitution. lie did not delude himself that any arguments which he could use would be of avail when the House was determined to commit an act of injustice and oppression.—(Hear, hear.) He felt, however, that he had a duty to discharge, and he was determined to discharge it.—(Hear, hear.) He would have readily consented to a Bill to pre vent parties from having arms in their houses, pro vided such provision had been contained in a separate Bill. Then with respect to the right of search, he admitted in certain cases the necessity for that right. but it ought to be conducted under certain guards. In the present Bill there were no guards at all, and the most prejudiced parties might increase their prejudices to the fullest extent. With respect to the constabulary force the greater portion of the officers in it were the most prejudiced Orange men—(Hear, hear)—and it was to such parties that the present Government proposed to give the right of search by this Bill. The people of Ireland had been taught for centuries by misrule to distrust the administration of the law, and he thought it was high time that some ameliorating measures should be brought forward, and nct such enact ments as were contained n the present Bill. fie would predict that this Bill, instead of repressing crime would increase it. The people would be ren d, red more discontented with their condition, and their want and suffering would goad them on to be reven ged against such measures as these. The House, it would seem would not listen to the suffering cry of Ireland till the law had been obeyed, but how could they expect to see the laws obeyed while the distresses of Ireland were treated with indifference ? Why not make concessions ? Why not try the effect of remedial measures before they ap plied scourge. No doubt the House of ,Lords would increase the security of the provisions of this Bill. and then it would become utterly inoperative. In deed, the only effect it would have would be to pro long the shedding of blood; whereas, if remedial measures were resorted to, many of the existing evils would be removed, and the affections of the people of Ireland drawn towards this country.— (flear, hear.) It appeared to him that Ministers were adopting a retrogade course. Formerly they were for extending conciliation towards Ireland, but now they were going to resort to measures that would have disgraced any of the dark ages as they were called.--(Hear, hear.) It was monstroos, therefore, to expect the people of Ireland to remain contented while under the rule of this country, and he warned the House that if they passed this Bill they would soon have cause to rue the day they did so. (um' SPEAKING.) to attach several linen sheets together, and just as the cloudy scourge was entering their good town they placed the sheets before it, and laid hold of it, and instantly tied the corners together, which they tightly kept until another party dug a large hole in the consecrated ground which surrounds the Cathedral, where they succeeded in burying the pestilence, to the no small joy of the kingdom. After covering it with plenty of earth, a stone flag was placed over it, which is to this day seen and known by the people of the district at the spot where the great plague lies, that had been captured by their forefathers, by whom it is firmly maintained if the ground were once disturbed the pesti lence would again take wing, and commit as much havoc as ever throughout the land. However, the good citizens of Fortrose know otherwise, than middling with an affair which might prove so fatal to themselves and their neighbours.— Correspondent Ross -shire Advertiser. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY. —There has beeritm change in the market since Friday; and, owing to the season, very little business has been done. There continues to be some demand for the Levant, and the lighter de scriptions of domestics and long cloths have not only been easy of sale, but some rather considerable orders have been taken for future delivery. In most other descriptions of cloth, and in yarn generally, the dulness of the market has its customary effect upon prices ; some few cases. Still, production continues to ex tend ; and we hear every day of the resumptiDn of work by concerns which have been standing for months past. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market has been much like that of last Monday. There has been a rather thin attendance of buyers, and a limited quan tity of business done, at low prices. There is little or no change to report in the wool market; prices are steady, and the purchases made are for immediate use. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There was a better at tendance of merchants in the Piece Hall to-day than there was this day week ; but we do not learn that many more goods change hands. The yarn trade continues in pretty much the same state as noted in our last report; and we have no alteration to quote either with respect to long or short wool. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There has been again an improvement in our market to-day, especially in the better sort of vestings; and some of the mer chants connected with the home trade have purchased larger parcels of woollens than for some weeks past. LEEns, TUESDAY.—There was a slight improve ment perceptible today in our market; so very slight, however, that it would have escaped notice in ordinary times. But when the current of business runs so very still as hitherto, the least disturbance of the surface becomes matter of observation. The elements for a near approach of brisker times are at work, and the symptoms keep strengthening every week.—Manchester Guardian. ALARMING FIRE IN GREENOCK. GREENOCK, DEC. 6, QUARTER TO TEN P.sl.—There is now raging the most extensive and perhaps disastrous fire that was ever witnessed in Greenock. Three large ropeworks, extending the whole length of Lyne dech-street, have been, in little more than an hour, almost entirely consumed. The fire began in Messrs. A. Tough and Son's ropen•ork, at the north eastern end ; and, as there was a strong north easterly breeze blowing, the flames shot along like wildfire, and spread to the other ropeworks adjoining— Messrs. Quintin Leitch and Co., and William Connell, jun., and Co. There could be no effectual resistance offered by the fire-engines, as not only the materials composing these erections, but the goods contained in them—tar and hemp —are of the most inflammable na ture. The engines are playing with great force upon the large flax mill of the Gourock Ropework Company, and we are informed it is in a state of conflagration, with little hope of saving it..—/Vorth British Mail. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 8. RODGERS V. GAYSBROOK AND ANOTHER. This was an action of trespass, to recover compensation for the loss the plaintiff had sustained through being kept out of possession of property of which he was the mortgagee. The defendants, who were the assignees of a bankrupt tamed Ruben Hunt, a paper maker, had taken possession of certain premises in Berner-street, Mile end-road, where the bankrupt formerly carried on his business, and sold a quantity of machinery they found upon the building, which had previously been mortgaged to the plaintiff ; and the present action was instituted to recover compensation, not so much for the loss of the machinery as for the injury the plaintiff had suffered through being deprived of possession of the pre mites, of which he was also the mortgagee, from the month of December, 1840, to September, 1841. The jury returned a verdict for th e plaintiff—Da mageo, 5001. JOHNSON WYLD. Mr. Whateley and Mr. Ogle were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. W. Ball for the de fendant. I The plaintiff was a printer, carrying on an extensive • business in St. Martin's-lane, and had established the Nassau Steam-press. The defendant was the eminent mapseller at Charing. cross, and Member for Bodmin, and the action was brought to recover a sum of between t 4001. and boa for the use and occupation of some pre mises in St. Martin's-lane, and for the use of certain steam-power to drive a lithographic press. The de fendant pleaded a set-off, and the amount in dispute was very much reduced. It appeared that in the autumn of 1645 the defendant had an immense demand for litho graphic plans for railways, and arranged to take some premises of the plaintiff in St. Martin's-lane, in which he put up a French machine, which was to be driven by steam supplied by an engine belonging to the plaintiff. ,;;The witness relied on by the plaintiff was a Mr. Bush a builder, who stated that in the autumn of 1845, in con sequence of a conversation he had with the plaintiff, he saw Mr. Wyld relative to the premises he was then tem porarily occupying belonging to Mr. Johnson. He tolel the defendant he had been sent by Mr. Johnson for the purpose of treating for the hiring of the premises in question. Mr. Wyld said he was anxious to take them for a term, so that he could bring the whole of his printing presses from Southwark. They had several meetings on the subject, and Bush agreed with the defendant to let him the premises for 1751. per annum for three years, to commence from Christmas 1845. They then went into the plaintiff's counting ' house, and, at the request of both the plaintiff and the defendant, the witness reduced the terms into a written agreement. A second agreement was also entered into between the plaintiff and defendant, that the latter should allow the plaintiff 1501. a year for steam-power for his printing machine. They were read over in the presence of the defendant, who did not object to them, but said he would take one of each home with him, to look over. They were not signed. The parties were on most intimate terms.—(The defendant's counsel objected to the papers being read, and the Learned Judge ruled, that by law they could not, be read; but he permitted . the witness to read th em t o th e j ury as an account o f what had taken place between the parties.)—The de fendant brought hi s p r i n ti ng mac hi ne to th e p rem ises which he occupied till Christmas, 1846, and then ten dered the keys to the plaintiff'. The witness did not think at the time that the rents were at all too much; such property at that time, under all the circumstances, was exceedingly desirable. The witness could not tell why the papers were not signed, hut the defendant said he would take them home and look them over. For the defendant, it was contended that he was per fectly willing to pay what was right, but that the sum claimed was much too large, and he had not been fur nished with sufficient steam power to drive his printing machine ; and witnesses were called, who stated that they did not consider the premises worth so much money ; and others said that the machine was frequently at a stand still for want of steam power. One witness, how ever, went so far as to say, that the machine was so stopped every five minutes. Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up, left it for the jury to say how much they would allow the plaintiff for the rent from September, 1845, to Christmas, 1845 ; how much from Chri6tmab, 11145, to Christmas, 1846 ; and how much for the steam power for the year. The jury said 40/. for the rent from Michaelmas to Christmas, 175/. for the rent for the year, 150/. for the steam, which, with 55/. admitted to be due upon other items, amounted to 4201. ; there was from that to be deducted 239/. admitted to be due from the plaintiff to the defendant ; so that the verdict was for the plaintiff for 181/. Plaintiff's attorney, Mr. Harbin ; defendant's attor ney, Mr. Sergeant. _ POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. John Prudence, alias Rust, alias Zillcr, was brought up for final examination, upon charges of fraud com mitted through the medium of advertisements. Upon the first examination of the prisoner he was charged by a Mr. Boutherway with having obtained money upon the promise of supplying that complainant with a situation in the house of Rust and Co., of Beer lane, all the members of which firm he contrived to represent himself'. A groat number of letters from victims have been received by the Lord Mayor, in consequence of the pub lication of the particulars of the first examination, complaining of similar robberies perpetrated by the prisoner upon them. In some of the instances the persons who were plundered had made great sacrifices to procure the price of the situations to which they were led to consider themselves permanently appointed. When the prisoner was placed at the bar several indi viduals crowded towards the witness-box. After the witnesses in the case of Mr. Boutherway were bound over to appear at the Central Criminal Court, the fol lowing was selected from a considerable number of transactions, as calculated to show in a prominent manner the genius of the system:— William Charles Lucy, of No. 121, Wardour-street, Oxford -street, said, in March last I advertised for a situation, offering a douceur of 301. for one. I received an answer to that advertisement, in consequence of which I went to Cannon- street, and saw the defendant. He told me he would give me a situation as town tra veller and collector to a firm in Bush-lane, the name of which be did not mention at the time, but he said he was related to that firm. I left him to consider the subject. I had some further correspondence with him, and the affair was dropped until I received another letter from him, in the following terms:— " Sir,—l will endeavour to be at your friend's house, 4, Chapel-street, on Saturday at three. I have some thing to state.—Yours, " J. P., at Messrs. Zeiller and Co.'s 8, Bush-lane. " To Mr. Lucy." " • DECEMBER 9, 1847. I saw him upon the subject of his letter, and the result of the interview was that he said he was going into business for himself, and that he would engage me as town traveller, as Mr. Zeiller had offered him two or three agencies. I agreed to go into his employment upon that statement. I believed that there was at that time a distinct firm of Zeiller and Co., and I believed that he was engaged to that firm as traveller, and that he was then to have their agencies. He told me that he must look out for a counting-house, and in the month of April I agreed to go into his employment, at 20, Beer-lane, where I saw the prisoner, who acted as master of the place, Before I went into his employment I was to deposit 30/. in his hands, as security for moneys I should receive as collector on his account, and I paid him that sum by instalments, as follows:—On the 12th of April, 31. ; 14th April, 6/. ; 13th May, 6/. ; 21st May, 151. He had agreed to deposit with me thirty four parcels of Fitch, as a security for the repayment of the thirty pounds ; but I had previously paid him the money. I got some orders, but I could not find out that they were ever executed. I believe a few of them were. I never got back my money, and Ido not know whether anything was ever got for the pitch. I have reason to suppose, however, that it did not produce enough to pay the expenses of room, &c. I was in his employment about three months, and the. name of Rust and Co. was written over the door of the counting house. The LORD MAYOR —HOW much of your salary did you get ? Witness—l was paid only a week's salary, and a pound off the following week. That was all I ever re received. The LORD MAYOR —What business did you transact ? Witness—Business 1 Hardly any. The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask this witness any questions ? The prisoner —No ; I hare no thing to say to Mr. Lucy. There's nothing in his state ment likely to hurt me. The pitch I gave to him as security was more valuable than he thinks. He is rather too fast. Mrs. Elizabeth Russell said, my husband lives at the house 10, Bush-lane, which is let out in offices. I know the prisoner by the name of Ziller, which appears upon the door of the offices, and also outside as Ziller and Co. I never knew any person as Mr. Zeiller but the pri soner. I used to open the outer door, and I have re ceived letters directed to Mr. Ziller, and to Mr. Pru dence, and I gave all such letters to the prisoner, or his wife. The prisoner —You don't say that you didn't see any body in the office but myself ? Witness--I never saw anybody but you or your wife there. Persons some times called with parcels and boxes of goods, but I don't know what business was carried on. The prisoner —Did you not know me as Mr. Pru dence ? Witness—Certainly not. Prisoner—And did you not see any other gentleman but myself ?—(Laughter.) Witness—l never saw any other gentleman who had anything to do with the count ing-house business. The prisoner —Did you not call me Mr. Prudence when you addressed me ? Witness—Never. I know you only as Mr. Zeiller, and called you by no other name. The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to make any defence ? Prisoner.—There's no use in saying anything here; you are too fast. lam not afrad of the result. The LORD Mavou—You are committed for trial, how ever, upon the two cases. The prisoner was then committed to Newgate, but he departed apparently confident that neither case would stand long before a jury. Three Irish women, two of whom were from the county of Cork, and the third from the county of Kerry, were charged before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Lloyd, one of the relieving officers of the City of of London Union, said the three women called at the union and demanded from him an asylum for the winter. He offered them tickets for the Peckham house of refuge but they indignantly refused any such paltry accommo dation, and covered him with abuse and maledictions. As they refused either to accept the tickets or to return to their native country, or to try any other expedient for their present relief, he had no alternative but to ap peal to the chief magistrate for protection. The LORD ALA - on—You are constantly coming here with complaints against the poor. There must be some thing seriously defective in your system. Did you give these people anything to eat? Mr. Lloyd—No, my my Lord. lam but a servant of the guardians, and I am not at liberty to give any relief. It is my duty to give poor applicants pass-tickets to Peckham, where they are relieved. The LORD MAYOR—So you send a poor, fatigued creature who applies to you in an exhausted condition, to a distance of four miles, before any relief is admi nistered! The women said they had not only to walk all that way, but the accommodation lasted only for one night. It would be something worth talking about if they could stay there till after Christmas, when they would have a a chance of work. Mr. Lloyd said he had offered to pass the women home to Ireland, but they resolutely refused to go. The women declared that they had no friend or ac quaintance i❑ Ireland. They had been five or six years in this country, and they knew they could not be bene fited by leaving it. Mr. Lloyd said he had no doubt the defendants came from Marylelysne, where the magistrates had expressed their determination to send all Irish paupers who sought to burden the parish home to Ireland. The Loam MAYOR said the operation of the Poor law was evidently bad. He utterly disapproved of the Cannon-street system of sending hungry people away without relief to encounter additional hardships and fatigue before they got a morsel of bread. Mr. Lloyd said he should intimate to the guardians his Lordship's opinion of the necessity of administering immediate relief to necessitous applicants, and inform his Lordship of tho result. The LORD MAYOR—With respect to these women, who will neither accept immediate relief nor go home, I will give them another trial. They are now dismissed, but if they are brought before me again, I shall send them off to Ireland, and I assure all Irish paupers that the magistrates of the city of London are determined to aet upon that principle. BOW-STREET. The notorious Joseph Ady appeared before Mr. Henry, having been summoned by the Post-office authorities for the payment of 11. Its. Bd., the amount due for postage on 208 letters, which purported to have been written by the defendant, and had been returned to the Dead-letter office. Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, attended to prefer the complaint. Ady began by protesting against the inquiry going on. He objected to the jurisdiction of the Court in the first place, and, secondly, he objected to the conduct of the Post-office authorities in having broken open letters and exposed correspondence which they were bound to keep sacred and inviolate. Mr. HENRY said there was nothing in either objection, and the case might proceed. Mr. Peacock then explained the nature of the charge, and quoted several clauses of the Postage Act (10 and 11 Victoria, c. 85), to show that, in the event of parties refusing to take in unpaid letters, the Post-office had authority to open them, and, on ascertaining the writers of such letters, to proceed against them for the payment of the amount with cost. He then submitted the fol lowing evidence:— Mr. Walter Scrivener, 14, Bury-street, a clerk in the Dead-letter office, produced 208 letters, all of which purported to have come from Ady. They were all posted as unpaid and unstamped letters, and the amount of postage due upon them is IL 14s. Bd. Of these letters 180 bear the post-mark which shows that they have been rejected by the parties to which they are ad dressed. There are 25 which bear the stamp indicating that the parties addressed cannot be found; and the re maining three bear the stamp denoting that the parties to whom they are addressed are dead. Ady (taking up a letter)—How do you know that this letter comes from me? Mr. HENRY said the clauses in the Act referred to by Mr. Peacock rendered such evidence unnecessary. Ady—l am ready to affirm that I never posted the letter produced. Nlr. HENRY -But your simple affirmation is insuf ficient. You must prove it by the evidence of a witness. Ady—l cannot do that just now. But I will look at the rest of them. (The defendant then looked through all the letters, and counted them over.) There are 36 out of them that I will not say anything about; but I I did not send any of the other letters. lam not pre pared to prove it, because it came upon me unex pectedly. I did not think this Court had jurisdiction, and I therefore request time to get evidence. Mr. Peacock submitted that he had given the requi site prime facie evidence as to the authenticity of the letters; but he did not wish to press the case to a deci sion at once. Mr. HENRY said, as the summons did not apprise the defendant of the particular letters which were the sub ject of the investigation, and as he, probably, had no means of learning what they were, he had no objection to grant reasonable time to the defendant to prepare his defence. Ady—l say nothing about the 36 letters. They are directed in my own handwriting. I beg pardon. I wish to recall that observation. Mr. Peacock, will you allow me to recall that observation? Mr. Peacock—Oh, certainly, if you wish it. Ady—l thank you. Well, I have a good way to send for my witnesses, as they are in different parts of the country. Mr. HENRY—What time shall you require? Ady—About a month or so. Mr. HENRY-I cannot give you so much time as that. I think a week is ample time. You can get witnesses from all parts of the country in that time now. Ady—Oh, that won't do. You may not know it, Sir ; but lam a very poor man. Mr. Peacock can get wit nesses in a week, I have no doubt, by putting his hands in the Post-office pocket. Mr. HENRY - I cannot allow such a remark to be made here. I will give you a fortnight, but no longer. Mr. Peacock said the defendant, meanwhile, should have access to the letters at the Dead-letter office, where he might also see several hundreds more at the same time. _ Ady—Very well ; I suppose I can send some one to take copies of them. Or, if I send the amount of postage claimed, that will do, I suppose. Mr. Peacock said there was no penalty. The amount, with 2s. costs, would be 11. 16s. Bd. Ady then bowed his head to the Court and withdrew, haying been previously reminded by the Bench th e a did ta if h distress -warrant would be issued for the amount not appear on the day fixed, or send the money claimed in the meantime. MARYLEBONE. Increased interest was excited at this court, owing to _ a knowledge of the fact that th ß e r m oli a g n h 7 to 7i n o:i f ia or s Duc k re-exami nation, to be brought up, before Mr.mumridseterrheedr.poison to J n D ' ck t h, ehischwairigee, w o i f t intenthhavng ad to . m The particulars of what previous]) transpired in re fg9llo2 t 9 the alleged very heinous matter have already appeared; and it will be remembered that a remand took place in order to afford an opportunity for a strict and careful analysis of the contents of a cup and a basin, suppth.ed to have in them opium, mixed by the prisoner in some tea. The following additional evidence was now adduced: — Mr. Charles Heisch, lecturer on practical chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, deposed that around the inside of the cup there adhered something of a dark colour, and in the basin there was about half a cup of tea. He subjected the contents of both to a close analysis; and on scraping the powder from the cup, he found that it smelt of opium. He separated morphia, which is the active principle of opium, and also meconia acid, which was a substance peculiar to opium, and not met with in anything else. Mr. BROUGHTON—Then you mean to say, Sir, that there was opium both in , the cup and basin ? Mr. Heisch—l do, Sir. Mr. BROUGHTON—What quantity do you suppose yoa detected ? Mr. Heisch—Perhaps not more than half a grain. Mr. BeouctuToN—ls it sold by chemists in a powder, or otherwise? Mr. Heisch—Generally in a lump. Mr. BROUGHTON—What effect would eight or ten grains, which is the quantity supposed to have been pur chased by the accused, be likely to have upon a woman, admitting that she was to partake of the whole of it in a cup of tea ? Mr. Heisch—lt would be lilt( ly to cause excessive drowsiness, and in some cases fatal conse quences might ensue; that would depend, however, •Poh the constitution. The prisoner, who had more than once interrupted the proceedings, here said, " I wish to tell the truth, and nothing more. On Tuesday fortnight, I went into Mr. Watt's, a chemist, in the Edgeware-road, feeling at the time very unwell, and asked for two opium pills. He gave me the pills, and I went home. I'm innocent of what my wife charges me with. I suffered through thi complaint nearly three years, but I have kept it secret from my wife until now. I have always taken the pill* in tea." Mr. BROUSIITON—This is a new story from you alto• gether, and, as it appears to me, has suddenly arisen in your mind. After hearing the evidence of this gen tleman (Mr. Heisch) when you were here first, you never mentioned a single word about your having 4 ' tained any opium for yourself, and asserted that if there was any in the tea, it must have been put in by your wife for the purpose of destroying you. You also said you had reason to believe that she endeavoured some time ago to induce you to partake of a herring wh ich you believed had poison in it. Prisoner—l said I could not tell how it was that the cup got on her side of the table. Some further evidence, principally corroborative of • portion of the proceeding, was then gone into, when M r. Broughton asked the prison er it' he wished to say Or thing more. Prisoner—l'm as innocent as any baby that has never seen the dawn of day. The prisoner will be brought up again next Monday'. WESTMINSTER. Ellen Mottram and Jane Mee, two women of the town' were finally examined, charged with drugging a gen tle° man and robbing him of his gold watch and appendages, and some money. In consequence of the gentleman being at present the inmate of a lunatic asylum from the effects of the drug administered, and the police not having had the uPP or. tueity of any communication with him since the appre hension of. the prisoners, considerable difficulty has bee n experienced in getting up the necessary evidence. The facts as deposed to yesterday by the various witness es, are briefly these.—O n the 19th of last August, two sol diers named Stoddy and Darby, the former of the Sd battalion of Grenadier Guards, offered a very handsome gold watch and appendages in pledge at the shop of Ilfr• Ryas, 147, St. George's-in-the-East, when the pawn broker, not being satisfied with their account of the means by which they became possessed of the property , sent for a policeman and gave them into custody or tih; lawfully having it in their possession. They wer f e triea and convicted a t the Central Criminal Court in the Sep tember session, and sentenced to six months' imprison meut. Mr. J. Serc om b e , th e owner o f t h e watch, havi n g the property resto re d t o hi m , not hi ng m ore was bea rd _ of the matter or tho se i m pli ca t e d i n it u ntil the 30th o! October, when Ch r i s t o ph er L ucas , ac ting sergeant of the 2d battalion of G rena di er G uar d s , me t the prison e r Mottram in Hernming's-row, Leicester-square, nea r St. George's barrack s , w h en s h e i nqu i re d w hether he kne w a man named St o ddy, o f hi s b atta li on , and, on his r e _: plying in the affir ma ti ve , s h e i nqu i re d whether he wt mi not in prison. Th e sergean t h av i ng replied that he was, she entered i n t o conversat i on with him, in t h e course of which she said, speaking of Stoddy, " He jel d—d fool, and if he had acted as I advised him he w ould not have been detected." She then said that she Intl the gentleman (Mr. Sercombe) near the Nations' Gallery one night, when she was out with Jane, (the prisoner Mee), and he accompanied them home' He then gave her half a sovereign to procure some Wine,' and on her return she gave him some of it mixed wit h laudanum and sugar, and not being aware of its being drugged, on her telling him that it would do him good he drank it, and immediately afterwards fell asleep. Sh e then took the watch from his pocket, and her associate took four sovereigns and three half-crowns from hie pocket, but " as she did not like to leave the poor without a farthing she put half a-crown back into his pocket." After making this statement she left the ser geant, who immediately acquainted the police with what had occurred, and on meeting her next night near the barracks the sergeant gave her into cus tody. She was taken to the station-house of the A division, when in the course of a statement con• firmatory of some portion of that made to the sergeant, she informed Mr. John Lund, the inspector on duty, that after they had taken the watch and money from the gentleman, a soldier, whom they knew, came in, when they packed up their wearing apparel, gave it to the soldier to carry, and left the gentleman asleep in the room (in a den of infamy c a ll e d th e N ew W a y, West minster). The next day they met t wo so ldiers, a Colds streamer and a Grenadier (Darby a nd Stoddy), and gave them the watch and appendages to take to Ratcli ffe Highway to sell. In consequenc e of the descriptio n given of Mottram's companion (Mee), Portsmouth , h constable of the B division, meeting her in the street, to ld her she must ac com p an y hi m t o th e station. She en treated him not to ta k e h er , b u t u pon his declaring th at he must, she said, without being told the nature of the charge, " I know it' s a b ou t th a t gentleman's watch." It was in the course of the evidence distinctly shown that Mr. Sercombe was the gentleman alluded to by the pre. •Lund. pri soner Mottram, in s om e o b servat i on s made by her at the station, which did no t escape t h e attention o f Mr. The prisoners admitted, upon the first examination, that the statements made against them were true in part, but were not perfectly so. They subsequently they had into a faint denial of the robbery, and declared not drugged the gentleman. The prisoner Mee e. yester day entered into a long statement, in the course of which she admitted being with the other woman, Mottram, with the gentleman at their lodgings, 't you for entered Mr. BRODERIP said, it is my duty to commit trial, upon thi s ver y ser io us c harge, at the next ses sions of the Centr a l C r i m i na l Co u rt. In consequence of ,the lamentable affliction which had fallen upon Mr. ker, combo, this case has been beset by difficultiesi and I cannot let it pass without observing that Inspector Lund r and the police are deserving of much commendation for their diligence and astuteness in completing the links of the necessary chain of evidence. The prisoner Mee said, " We are innocent of adminis tering poison to him." Mr. BRODERIP observed that a jury would determine upon their guilt or innocence. CLEI?KEN WELL. Maitin Bowman, a well-known thief, was finally exa mined, charged by Mr. Gibbons, of No. 45, Hatton garden, with having stolen a quantity of silver plate and other property, and James Townsend was also charged with having aided and abetted him in the robbery. The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and they were fully committed for trial. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH versus TIME.TINIE DEAD BEAT.—In a letter received by a gentleman of Manchester from a friend in Indiana, United States, is the following passag e relative to the e l ec t r i c telegraph in that state:—" That wonderful invention, the magnetic telegraph, passes through our country from the eastern cities, communicating intelligence almost instanta neously. News has been transmitted from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, a distance of 750 miles, on one unbroken chain of wires. Of course, as Cincinnati is ten degrees west of Philadelphia, or 40 minutes of time later, the news is that much ahead of the time." 818T11.5. 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