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

BANK RETURNS. 'l‘rotti the London (iazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 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 27th day of Nov., 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Batik, Abingdon-Knapp and Co.- - Ancild'rer Bank, Andever-Heath and C 0......... 7,189 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 8,265 kylshana Bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copeman 4,858 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt Beldock Bank and 13aldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hcgg, and Lindsell... 25,250 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 10,979 Basingstoke and Odiha.v. Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Belford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Haithead, and Co. Bawdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co 16,531 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods , Spooner, and Co 21,836 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham--Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 12,260 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 5,871 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 70,647 Boston. Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 12,704 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 7,755 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 32,120 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broselsy-Messrs. Pritchard 19,931 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market liiank,Sury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 65,857 BanLury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 26,510 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 40,530 Bnth City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son . Btrifotdshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 28,028 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 58,567 Dridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 21,378 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, a nd Borrer Btsrlicgton and Driflield Bank, Burlington- Hearding, Smith, and Co 12,575 Dory St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlled , ge and Co. Javornsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 12,699 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and *oils Ghertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 31,709 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry sank, Coventry-Little and Wood- 5,685 .. 20.358 2 891 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co ............... Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 8,109 13,690 73,233 and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth•Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Yiank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. . Derby - Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bauk, Devize3—Hughes, Locke, and Co Flies Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leathaw, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Dovonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 1,606 5,419 6,341 11,820 36,669 25,234 8,886 9,623 11,453 57,312 64,573 8,299 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, ,and Co. Eaat Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford, and Co. Zxoter Banlr, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk -beck, and Co. Varringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 2,691 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 12.607 Faversham Bank, Faversha m—Hi —Mellers lton and and Co 4,530 ‘olialming Bank, Godalming h 4,409 Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham —Kewney and King 18,045 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon 11.263 Grantham sank, Grantham—Hardy and Co 23,989 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Ileceford City and County Bank, Hereford — Matthews and Co. Nertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware — S. Adams and Co. 11)61 Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Br9thers, and Co. w. 18,411 Pamtingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey narwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall .. Monitor_ Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. tkrufAd, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hekford—Morgan, Hoakins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders aril Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davioe and Co 23,764 Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co 7,069 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Nettcring Bank, Kettering-0 otth and Sons 5,859 LIMO End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. Harv2y and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds — Becke tt and Co 49,672 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown, 28 ' 485 an Ca. Leek flnd Staffordshire Bank , a nd Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincola Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Liandovery Batik and Llandilo Bank Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lynaington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St 27,907 83,915 55,483 38.502 19,414 Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, 3i t cclestield—Brocklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank,Mannin,gtree—Nunn and Co Mewlborough and Wilts 18,492 13,170 40,026 4,624 69,892 10,433 26,785 29,385 16,853 88,534 20,585 7,429 2,231 36,917 13,786 9,417 6,311 Marlborough Bank, ..arlborough auu . Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckneyer Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank. Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hil lier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams lit ‘f in n e m rs o ' u ß t ar s ik, Truro—Willyums and Co "; A la t t , iire Agricultural and Commercial it . Bank, ergavennv—Baileys and Co ''''nrar)uth old - Bankßank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon andk, Ross a Cheps tow aner ßank, Chepstow Old Bank, Monmouthshire and Snead Bank, Monmouth oumorithshire —W. Williams Newport Old Bank, Newport wark llankiNeawnaditus 1111 - w e ark a n d sleaford Bank, Godfrevs and Hutton . ........ r etiEaTtc'any;::: N wark Ba n k, Newau and A Sleaford and and Co au'uoY, Peacock Newbury Bank, Nevh;u - r . v . ... it... ''' : Newmarket Bank, N ew - ma -- 1 - c umlY and si ****** mond. and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, pi s . ; ................... Dyson. .......................... Norwich Crown Bank, Norwic.ii:Lii:.; ....... .. and 2,103 f1ud50n5.................................. "- - &mkt and Norfolk Bank, Norwieh: ... 6;;; 35,480 Akys and 'Co ..................................... - 61 ,892 Arrn ngh am and Nottinghamshire Bank, i 4 ...... 6901am-7-fart, Fellows, and Co 9,579 Nuneaton Blanit, Nuneaton—Craddeock and 4,752 C 0.......... ._.. Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0... .......... . ........................................ 16,420 New Sarum Bank:, Sarum—l-IPtley, Everett, and 5,843 G 0........ . ..... . .................. . ................ Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 30,677 Oawestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os- 9,465 westrv—Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thomps0n.... Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and. Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge -3%o4:telling and Sons 7,845 Orrordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, i Wachs lad C 0...... 10,765 6,924 6,630 15,403 23,561 14,752 7,255 26,123 47, 1 ;35 17,324 19,457 yri R . sfa 14• 2 _ - .1.4 ,0 Nri OW, T flu 1A470 Average Amount Pease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 47,613 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,595 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Hayerfordwest—J. and W. Walters ••. Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—tmonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co - Richmond Bank,'Richmond—Stapleton 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—Curteis, Pomfret, and Cc Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate , Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross 61d Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and CO Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co - Shrewsbury and Market,Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, aad Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, 24,326 21,212 and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Son 2,606 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story 1,504 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 5,970 Stourbridge Ban's, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ~. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and 14,703 13,613 2 7,38 7 Robins - Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban s—Gib- 16,560 15,594 son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs.Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and 1,716 19,847 Co Thornbnry 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, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. ✓ Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, 2,785 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 Bask, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, 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 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wreicham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 1,878 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworti and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Ydrmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,975 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clouzh. and Co 41,041 40,310 14,533 17,192 3,284 7,650 33,7'25 54,590 5,674 11.673 5,966 67,213 47,295 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 37,517 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford . .. 13,523 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield . . 7,922 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,311 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 15,969 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,705 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 14,978 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 116,775 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 11,691 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 29,969 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Corn ' pally, Halifax 25,329 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,324 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,545 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,651 Kingsbridge Joint - Stock Ba nk, Kin g sbrid g e 3,058 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ... 5 4,489 Leeds Banking Company , Leeds Leicestershire Bankinc , Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 48,659 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 7,006 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 21,752 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, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton . North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei- 44,992 295,644 33,130 71,560 21,168 34,573 cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port ................................. Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Cora pang, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshiro Banking Company, 45,720 1,855 36,387 46,506 215,13:, 39,417 53,420 Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint• Stock Banking Company, Sto4llie!d Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, 19,086 50,426 50,448 Richmond Storey and Thomas's's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barusley Union Bank, Wakefield Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven .... Warwick and Lew . aii_gton Banking Company, Leamington West of Etiglat," awl South Wales District Bank-Bristol ..... . ............................ Wilts and Dorset Banking Compan), Salisbury West Riding Union Banking Company, nu& dersfield ..... . ................ Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Co m p any, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking C ompany, Worcester , ..................... 4.927 York U n io a n n ß d a c n o k u i n nf y C ßa om n ta in n g y, e Y om or p k a . n .. y . : .... 6ork 4:7034:(11 P. Db ' Leeds Registrar anY of tank Returns. h 4 1#47, Stamps and 1 V.v . '? YYoorrkksChiirtye Banking Company, 9,680 845 31,810 11,314 27,235 29,823 56,176 43,205 22,580 1,758 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Dec. 8. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Sir R. INGLIS (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday) said—Already there were there thousand Catholic priests within the jurisdiction of this country ; but he did not propose that the autho rities of these priests should be curtailed. He did, however, demand that their authorities and powers should not be extended, because it would only assist the Church of Rome in its anxiety to extend its, influence in this country. To show the anxiety of its adherents for extending its powers, lie might mention that even within the city of Westminster, an association had been established for securing the election of Members to seats in that House who were favourable to the demands of the Church of Rome. Such an association in 1838 would have been consi dered illegal, and treated by the law accordingly, but now the Church of Rome was allowed to proceed in its aggressive policy without hinder once or molestation from any party. He could adduce profs without end of the aggressive character of the Church of Rome, but the present Bill, he thought, was sufficient evidence of it, and he would not trouble the House with relating instances where the Church of Rome had shown a disposition to interfere with the internal affairs of foreign countries. He considered the evidences he had already adduced were sufficient to induce the House to pause before it passed the Bill, and in order that it might have an opportunity of doing so he would beg leave to move that the Bill be read a second time this day three months. The motion having been seconded, Mr. DRUMMOND believed there was strong in clination, not only in that Horne but in the country, to extend the privileges enjoyed by Protestants to their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects; but he entreated the House not to establish the supremacy of any Church in any sect under the plea of toleration. The principles of the Church of Rome were highly dan gerous, whilst the head of that Church claimed to be considered not only the head of his own dominions, but the Roman Catholics of this country look upon him as the spiritual head of the United King dom.—(No, no.) Honourable Gentlemen opposite cried " No, no," but he held in his hand a newspaper containing the report of a meeting held in Ireland, where a resolution was passed acknowledging the Pope of Rome as the supreme head of the country, and he warned the House not further to sap the foundation of the existing Constitution by passing this Bill. Ireland was already under the baneful control of the Church of Rome; the damnable doc trines of the Jesuits had taken root there, and it behoved that House to be watchful that the Church of Rome did not extend the influence of that dan gerous body to this country. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY had heard some portions of the Hon. Gentleman's address with great pleasure, but he regretted he could not extend the same remark to the opinions he had given and the extracts he had read with respect to the obedience of some religious orders ; it was absurd to say that the submission of the Jesuists and other religious bodies to their supreme autho rities also extended to the Roman Catholics ; many Roman Catholics did not bow to the dic tum of the Pope in the way the Hon. Gentleman had pointed out. Look at the oath taken by Roman Catholic Members. It was to the effect that they did not :recognise the power of the Pope in respect to the Crown or Government of this country. Ra ther than see the Roman Catholic bishops inter fered with, and deprived of their spiritual power and independence, he would behold the Ro man Catholics driven out of the realm, as the Jews were driven out of the Roman empire by Titus. He would rather behold the ploughshare driven across the altar of St. Peter's than that independence tampered with. He justified the bull known as Ccena Domini ; it had not been pub lished since 1774, in the time of Clement XIV., and it was not binding now on Roman Catholics. All churches were progressing —(Hear)—and the Roman Catholic was but one amongst the number. As the disabilities sought to be abrogated by this Bill had long fallen into abeyance—as they were foreign to the civilisation of the age, he saw no reason why they should be continued another hour.—(Hear.) Mr. WALPOLE would support that portion of the Bill which recommended that the pains and penalties in existence against Roman Catholics should be removed, but he saw no reason why they should go into Committee on the matters, and he believed he should satisfy Roman Catholics that he was correct in his view of the matter. He, for one, wished, for the sake of peace, that religious differences should be got rid of. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the six statutes of which the Roman Catholics complained, enacted', from the time of Elizabeth, and contended, by reference to various modern Acts, that some of them had been repealed, and that none of the " pains and penalties " which remained on the statute-book could be now enforced at common law. lie appealed to the law officers of the Crown to say whether any of the penalties enacted from the time of Elizabeth up to the time of William 111., were now in force ; they were not, and there fore it was misleading the House to say that there was any necessity for dealing with them. But he came to the Acts of George 111., and with which this Bill principally dealt. The first principle of that Act was with respect to:the celebration of Roman Catholic cere monies in public. He believed no Romani Catholic would wish to see them used, because collisions of a dangerous kind might be the result. The second was the wearing of ornaments by those in the civil ser vice in places of public worship. He was one of those who thought that a place of public worship was not the place for such displays, although he had no objection to their use in other places.—(Hear.) The third was with respect to the penalties imposed on the recognition of monastic establishments. He feared, if the Catholic Relief Act were meddled with, that a spirit of rivalry would spring up which would prove injurious to the public weal, and, there ! fore, whilst he believed that Act was not injurious, he could not consent to its abrogation. _ The Society of Jesus owned the Pope as its head, for its general could not move without his autharity ; and he asked if the members of such a society, who recognised the Pope as its head, as higher than the British Crown, should be permitted to spread their noxious principles in this kingdom ? The mem bers of that society had been driven out of France, out of Spain, out of Sicily, and even out of Italy, for Clement XIV., in his celebrated bull, which drove them out of Italy, said, in it, that the Church of Christ could not flourish whilst they were allowed to spread their insidious doctrines.—(Hear, hear.) Such men might derange the state of society in this country; and if this Bill were carried, this society would obtain re newed power. He approved of one part of the Bill, but the other portion he decidedly objected to. He called upon them to abide by the statement of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, that they should adhere to the settlement made with the Roman Catholics of 1829. Toleration might, if carried too far, lead to destruction.-- (Cheers.) Ydidimosed any practicalnot consider that th e ir p laws Ssought GEORGEto R b GREY repealedE grievances upon the Roman Catholics. The Bill partook of two parts—the one to repeal obsolete statutes, and the other statutes of later date—the Act of 1829. He agreed with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite that the Acts to which he had referred were inoperative. It was useless to seek the repeal of measures which had sunk into abeyance, such as the punishment of persons who taught Roman Catholic priests. He could not assent to that portion of the Act which, at this early pe riod, sought the repeal of some of the important provisions of the Act of 1829, though at the same time he would not say that they should not take the provisions of that Act into con sideration, with the view of making some modifica tions in it. He considered that that they should not part with some security against the spread of religious orders not recognised by that Act. He reserved to himself the right of opposing any part of the Bill in Committee to which he might object. Mr. PL UMPIRE regretted that the Government was disposed to depart, in the slightest degree, from the concessions made in 1829. The Church of Rome was making great inroads upon the Church of England, and it was the duty of all good Pro testants to resist such aggressions. They should re collect that the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Arundel and Surrey) had said that the Roman Catholics would not be satisfied until Protestantism was bowed down to the dust. The bull Coma Domini was, he was confidently informed, in full force. He should give his decided opposition to the measure. Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY explained. He repeated that the bull had not been in operation since 1774, and that it did not denounce the Queen as a heretic ; it was directed against heretics, bat not against the sovereign. If, however, he were wrong, he would state so on a future occasion. Mr. J. O'CONNELL had thought that it would not have been necessary for any Catholic Members to address the House in favour of the Bill, and that they might safely have left the question to be dealt with by those enlightened and tole rant Protestant Members who had advocated the measure upon the last occasion when it was brought before the House. He believed that the maintenance of all provisions for the purpose of pre venting the spread of religious orders were perfectly useless, and he was surprised to see some Hon. Members advocate so strongly the keeping stthhue that auohe i ; i u io r esu e cha s t c:e u :,,,N po vbeiytu n s dadt desire at ti wr ee s i nnt to oe t u, conciliatet t hi e-book. s b ook this B il l . e atarhtl He their least sce t tra r itto d u ho s o t gl e oif o d e into Committee. tir.NEWDEG4T4 thought that if the Aet :of 'Elizabeth, which was the first proposed to be re pealed, were obsolete and inoperative, it was idle to go into Committee for the purpose of repealing it; but if that law were operative, he called upon the House to consider the importance of the step they were about to take. (Hear, hear.) The Act of Elizabeth recited that it was unlawful for any person to print, publish, or express that the Pope had any authority in this country ; by repaling this Act the House would, in effect, be making that legal which was before declared contrary to law. He begged the House most deeply to consider the serious nature of such a step, before they proceeded into Committee. Mr. E. GLADSTONE said that it was in some measure his misfortune that he was not able to give the same vote upon this Bill as his Hon. Colleague (Sir R. H. Inglis), but he did not think that it would be respectful to the great constituency which he represented if he gave his first vote in the House upon so important a question as the present without stating his reasons for so doing. There were several arguments of a general nature which he could not but think ought to be set aside in arriving at a decision on the subject. Frequent allusion had been made to the aggressive activity of the Church of Rome in this country. He was one of those who deplored those effects which that activity had produced. The House ought, however, only to look at this measure upon its merits, remembering that it was useless to en deavour to stop religious activity by political enactments —(Cheers.) He thought that the defence and dissemination of Protestant prin ciples might safely be left to :the zeal, fidelity, energy, and•activity of those whose province it was— he thought that was the only legitimate means for counteracting the activity of the Church of Rome.— (Hear, hear.) It was quite true that the large bodies of our fellow-subjects who were interested in the question before the House did not; allege a prac tical grievance, but they did allege wounded feelings, and he thought that formed a s t rong argumen t f or repealing the obnoxious provisions.—(Hear, hear.) It had been said by the Hon. Member for Midhurst behind him (Mr. Walpole), that there was danger of re-awakening clamour upon this subj e ct, but h e thought that if these provisions sought to be repealed were unjust, it would be the duty of the House at once to repeal them, and trust to the good sense and feeling of the people of this country for the result. With respect to the first portion of the Bill, purport ing to repeal Acts passed prior to 1829, he should have been happy to have heard from the law officers of the Crown something:which might tend to throw light upon the real state of the law on the subject. With respect to the Ist of Elisabeth, it had been con tended that the penalty was abolished, but that the Act still remained in force. If it were so, there would be half a sentence in the statute book, without any meaning whatever. He did not, therefore, think that any reason was to be found upon that ground for going into Committee on the Bill, more having been done already than was proposed to be done by this Bill. The question of by far the greater importance was whether the House was or was not prepared in any manner to interfere with the recent settlement of the Act cf 1829. He thought that it would not be wise, with a due regard to the feelings of their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, to adhere strictly to the provisions of the settlement then effected. He thought that the lion. Gentlemen had shown ground enough for the House going into Committee on the Bill, in order to consider the provisions of the Bill of 1829. He thought, also, they might give greater liberty to the peformance of religious rites by the Catholics without injury to the Protestant Church.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the establishment of religious orders, he was not one of those who would strictly adhere to the provisions of the Bill of 1829. He thought it was rather too severe to say that parties belonging to religious orders should not reside in this kingdom. He thought after the expiration of eighteen years they might well be called to show cause why these exclusions should continue.—(Hear.) lie did not know any reason why those orders should have such a ban placed upon them. With respect to the Jesuits he would reserve his opinion till the Bill went in Committee.l [Considering all the circum stances of the case, he would suppoat the second readingof the Bill. Mr. SHEIL denied that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had any ecclesiastical appointments in his gift, and he asked, therefore, why some of the first men in Ireland should be debarred from being ap pointed to that high office ? Sir Michael O'Loughlin was Master of the Rolls, and it had been asked, and truly, why he could not be Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He appealed to the Hon. Member for Midhurst, who was an eminent lawyer, and would ask him if he was a member of the Irish Bar, and a Roman Catholic, whether he would not consider it a great grievance that in consequence of his religion he was debarred from becoming Lord Chancellor of Ireland ?—(Hear.) Mr. GOULBURN opposed the second reading of the Bill, believing that it had been introduced more as a handle for altering the Bill of 1889 than for any other purpose.—(llear, hear.) He should cer tainly vote against the second reading of the Bill. Mr. HUME was surprised at the course pursued by the Right Ilonourable Gentleman who had just sat down. lie thought it most objectionable that Honourable •Members should refuse to give their assent to the going into Committee upon a Bill, the object of which was to remove ob stacles which it was admitted on a ll h an d s oug h t not to have been imposed, because some Members could not agree to it.--(Hear.) Mr. CARDWELL gave his cordial assent to the second reading of the Bill. H e b e li eve d that op posing the second reading of the Bill would lead to He hop e d th at t h e Govern ment uld c ons id er t h e grievances of m their and F Roman the HouseeEa t t hear.)a Catholicid he w a s fellow -brethren.—Gear.) unwilling to give a silent vote upon this important su bj ec t . I t wou ld b e his first vote in Parliament, and he could assure the House that it would be founded on the convictions which a long study of this question had led him to adopt. Until this Bill had been brought forward he was under the impression th at concession to the Roman Catholics had reached its utmost limits. Be that, however, as it mi g ht, h e mus t express his opinion that any further concessions would be dangerous to the constitution ; and, enter taining that belief, he should certainly rote against the second reading of the Bill. Mr. STUART did not rise to protract the debate, but simply to explain the reasons that induced him to vote against the Bill. O n a f ormer occasion he had given a silent vote on a similar question to the present, and he therefore hoped the House would pardon hi m if h e stated at length his particular objections to this Bill. There could be no doubt that the first part of the Bill related to the supremacy of the Crowe, and he was sure no man, consistently with the oath he had taken upon entering that House, could support this portion of the measure. Almost the first clause repealed the existing Act of Eliz a b e th , prohibiting any party preaching against the s upremacy of the Crown spiri tual more and that to ecclesiastical, and, in his opi n i on , if th e y passed they cou ld d o not hi ng t h at was undermine the principles upon h calculatedat clause, which the constitution was based. If this Bill were passed, it would go far to establish the supremacy of the Pope of Rome in this country. Now, long before the Reformation, any interference on the pail of the P ope o f R ome i n ma tt ers ecclesiastical in this country was prohibited, and therefore no plea of toleration could justify such an interference at the present time. The policy of the see of Rome was aggressive. It always had been, and it always m ust b e, an d that was an additional reason, in his opinion, why they should pause before they adopted this dangerous measure. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided. The numbers announced were— For the second reading Against it 132 Aft a short interval, Sir R. IL INGLIS stated that he understood an error had been discovered in the telling, and that the tellers requested permission to come again to the table, for the purpose of making the necessary cor rection. The tellers then a e ared at the table, when The RECORDER stated that the "Noes" were 135, and not 132, as announced. The numbers then were — For the second reading l6B Against Majority .. ---33 The 13111 w as rea d a seco nd time, and this day fortnight was named for the C omm i t t ee , on th e un derstanding that it should -not'come on till after the recess. CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) (CON STABULARY FORCE) BILL. On the motion of Sir G. GREY, the House went into Committee on the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) (Constabulary Force) Bill. A resolution was agreed to, providing for the pAyment of the increased con stabulary force under the Crime and Outrage (Ire land) Bill. - ELECTION COMMITTEES. The following were appointed Members of the General Committee on Elections for the present ses sion : —Mr. P. Maule, Sir G. Clerk, Sir W. Heath cote, Sir It. Ferguson, Mr. T. Thornely, and Sir J. Y. Buller. s The usual official and other excuses on the ground of age for not serving on Election Committees were then allowed. EDINBURGH. On the motion of Mr. AUCGREGOR, seconded by Dr. BOWRING, a new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a Member to represent Edinburo in the room of Kr. Cowan. WEYMOUTH. The SPEAKER statedthathehad received a letter from Mr. W. D. Christie, stating that he had ac cepted the Chiltern Hundreds. ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved an Address to her Majesty, " That there be forthwith furnished to this House, in a convenient and available form, the sub stance of and the information contained in certain documents which have been presented to this House, in foreign languages, in answer to an Address agreed to by this House on the 24th day of February, 1847, and the notice for which appears on the orders for that day, under the head Tsriffs, &c.' " The Hem& adjourned at Six o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—There has been no 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 ; and rather lower rates have been accepted in some few cases. Still, production continues to ex tend ; and we hear every day of the resumption 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. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There was a slight improve ment perceptible to-day 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.M.—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 doch-street, have been, in little more than an hour, almost entirely consumed. The fire began in Messrs. A. Tough and Son's rope work, 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 ereetions,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. OAYSBROOK 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 named 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 mi,es, of which he was also the mortgagee, from the month of December, 1840, to September, 1841. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 5001. JOIINBON v. WYLD. Mr. Whateley and Mr. Ogle were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. W. Ball for the de fendant. 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 4001. and 5001. for the use and occupation of some pre mises in bt. 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 1845 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, ho saw Mr. Wyld relative to the premises he was then tem porarily occupying belonging to Mr. Johnson. He told 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 be could bring the whole of his printing•presses from Southwark. They had several meetings ou the subject, and Bush agreed with the defendant to let him the premises for 175/. 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 them to the jury as an account of what had taken place between the parties.)—The de fendant brought his printing:machine to the premises 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. g h h o t, h b a u d t utuhta been e t e h ri e sum fur nished ..s. ..„....„--- i For tke defendant, t was contended that he was per with sufficieut steam power to drive his printing c re la c i t m lY ed wi did not consider the premises worth so much mon e y ; w l l i a n s g m t o ue p h a machine ; and witnesses were called, who stated that they y too w l h a a r t ge w , a a s n and i 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 fire 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 Christmas, 11145, to Christmas, 1846 ; and how muck 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, 1501. for the steam, which, with 551. admitted to be due upon other items, amounted to 4201. ; there was from that to be deducted 2391. admitted to be due from the plaintiff to the defendant ; so that the verdict was for the plaintiff for 1811. Plaintiff's attorney, Mr. Harbin ; defendant's attor ney, Mr. Sergeant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. John Prudence, alias Rust, alias Ziller, 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 havirg 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 great 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 lumber 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. Ile told me he would give me a situation as town tra veller and collector to a firm in Bush-lane, the name of which he 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. Zciller and Co.'s 8, Bush-lane. " To Mr. Lucy." ." 23--3-47." 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 ho 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 301. 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, 61. ; 13th May, 61. ; 21st May, 15/. 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 Maros—How much of you salary did you get ? Witness—l was paid only a week's salary, and a pound off the fhllowilag week. That was all I ever re received. The LORD MAYOR—What business did you transact ? Witness—Business ! Hardly any. The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask this witness any questions ? The prisoner—No ; I have 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. Elisabeth 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—l 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 erred of the result. The LORD MAYOR—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 MAYOR—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 wotnen 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 in 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 Mary!eh:me, where the magistrates had expressed their determination to send all Irish paupers who sought to burden the parish home to Ireland. The Lon. 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 the 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 wit upon that principle. BOW-STREET. The notorious Joseph Ady appeared before Mr. Henry, having been summoned by the Post•oflice authorities for the payment of 11. 14s. Bd., the amount due for postage on 2.08 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. 83), 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, Burystreet, 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 11. 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. Mr. HENRY—But your simple affirmation is insuf ficient. You must prove it by the evidence ofd 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 we unex pectedly. I did not think this Court had jurisdiction, and I therefore request time to get evidence. Peacock submitted that he had given the requi site prima 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 moans 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 fur 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 —4 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—Vory 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, having been previously reminded by the Bench that a distress warrant would be issued for the amount if he did 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 the man Thonzas _Duck was to be brought up, before Mr. Broughton, for re-exami nation, on the charge of having administered poison to Jane Duck, his wife, with intent to murder her. Th e particulars of what previously transpired in re ference to the alleged very heillotl4 wetter hue alrody 7,311 9,506 7,798 18,695 20,699 4.047 6,713 4,151 6,241 11,253 14,839 15,902 8,084 3,674 31,546 9,925 8,588 8,114 8,254 10,175 9,595 5,L04 8,695 16,896 3,360 23,298 9,296 - _ appeared; and it will be remembered that a remaud toak place in order to afford an opportunity for a strict a nd careful analysis of the contents of a cup and a basin, supposed to have in them opium, mixed by the prisoner in some tea. The following additional evidence was now adduced I-- 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 P Mr. Heisch—l do, Sir. Mr. BuougirroN—What quantity do you suppose yowl detected ? Mr. Heisch—Perhaps not more than half a grain. Mr. BROUGHTON—Is 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 likely to cause excessive drowsiness, and in some cases fatal conse quences might ensue; that would depend, however, upon the constitution. The prisoner, who had more than once interrupted the proceedings, here said, " I wish to tell the truth, and nothing inure. 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. lie gave me the pills, and I went home. I'm innocent of what my wife charges me with. I suffered through my complaint nearly three years, but I have kept it secret from my wife until now. I have always taken the pills in tea." Mr. BiIoUGLITON—This is a new story from you alto' gother, 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 hero first, you never mentioned a single word about your having ob 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 w hin " 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 a portion of the proceeding, was then gone into, when M r ' Broughton asked the prisoner if he wished to say any' 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 Mond* WESTMINSTER. Ellen Mottram and Jane Ake, two women of the town , were finally examined, charged with drugging a g entle. man and robbing him of his gold watch and appen,:lageeg 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 opPer . tunity of any communication with him since the aPPre hension of the prisoners, considerable difficulty bits bee n experienced in getting up the necessary evidence. The facts as deposed to yesterday by the various witnesseis! are briefly these.—On the 19th of last August, two s° l diers named Stoddy and Darby, the former of th e 2 " battalion of Grenadier Guards, offered a very handsome gold watch and appendages in pledge at the shop of Mr' Byas, 147, St. George's-iii-the• East, when the Paer,n broker, not being satisfied with their account of tne means by which they became possessed of the property: sent for a oliceman and gave them into custody for ar e ', and conviconvictedlawfully having it in their pOssession. They were trie d and the Central Criminal Court in the Sep tember session, and sentenced to six months' imprison ment. Mr. J. Sercombe, the owner of the watc h, havinX the property restored to him, nothing more was beartt. of the matter or those implicated in it of October, the 30th ‘l, October, when Christopher Lucas, acting sergeant 0" the 2d battalion of Grenadier Guards, met the prison;r. Mottram in Hen:lining's-row, Leicester-square , near w George's barracks, when she inquired whether he kne a man named Stoddy, of his battalion, and, on his plying in the affirmative, she inquired whether be as not in prison. The sergeant having replied that the was, she entered into conversation with him, is . course of which she said, speaking cf Stoddy, 46 11,, is .. d—d f,ol, and if he had acted as I advised him hew would not have been detected." She then said that she. I 'l l the gentleman (fir. Sercombe) near the Neo nn Gallery one night, when she was out with e' J (the prisoner Mee), and he accompanied them win eannlee: He then gave her half a sovereign to procure some ith and on her return she gave him some of it mixed wr, th laudanum and sugar, and not being aware of its beins drugged, on her telling him that it would do him gee e he drank it, and immediately afterwards fell asleep. 0", then took the watch from his pocket, and her associal took four sovereigns and three half.crowns from h i s pocket, but "as she did not like to leave the poor without a farthing she put half a-crown back into hi s pocket." After making this statement she left thew ': geant, who immediately acquainted the police t': what had occurred, and on meeting her next nig ht near the barracks the sergeant gave her into CO" tody. She was taken to the station-house of the A division, when in the course of a statement coil' firmatory of some portion of that made to the sergeant , she informed Mr. John Lund, the inspector on dutit that after they had taken the watch and money &on the gentleman, a soldier, whom they knew, came in' when they packed up their wearing apparel, gave it the the soldier to carry, and left the gentleman asleep in room (in a den of infamy called the New Way, W e " - minster). The next day they met two soldiers, a Cold streamer and a Grenadier (Darby and Stoddy), and g av e them the watch and appendages to take to Ratcliffe Highway to sell. In consequence of the de scription given of Mottram's companion (Mee), Portsmout h o i7 constable of the B division, meeting her in the street,e her she must aecOMpany him to the station. Sh et treated him not to take her, but upon his declaring the he must, she said, without being told the nature 0,i, 1t charge, " I know it's about that gentleman's watch. that was in the course of the evidence distin ctl y shown . Mr. Sercombe was the gentleman alluded to by the at p t r4 soner Mottratn, in some observations made by t_ . l station, which did not escape the attention of Mr e . r lti The prisoners admitted, und. n the first examination,.t b th u a t t w th er e e s n ta o t t em p e e r n f e t s e t m l y a made Th againsteyt hem subsequently er e t e rne t y p ar into a faint denial of the robbery, ester not drugged the gentleman. The prisoner 31 ,Y w „h day entered into a long statement, in the course of n',‘. l2 she admitted being with the other wornan,Mottrm, w" and declar_teh entered the gentleman at said, lo t commit You for Mr. BRODERip said, it is my duty to trial, upon this very serious charge, at the next sear t i e of the Central Criminal Court. In eonsequence_o Qer_ lamentable affliction which had fallen upon Mr•__ ° , l combe, this case has been beset by difficultiesoy,'..nd cannot let it pass without observing that Inspect foljufor and the police are deserving of much commenda.i.ini,g of their diligence and astuteness in completing the 11 '" the necessary chain of evidence. The prisoner Mee said, " Wt are innocent of aclLP inir teri ng poison to him." deterin ine Mr. BRODERIP observed that a jury wow , . upon their guilt or innocence. CLERKENWELL. ly Martin Bowman, a well-known thief , wa s final ton, mined, charged by Mr. Gibbons, of No. 45, 115 garden, with having stolen a quantity of silver plat e e d other property, and James Townsend was also charg with having aided and abetted him in the robbery. ,_ z‘ „ The prisoners said nothing in their de fence, and We/ were fully committed for trial. ----- THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH versus TIME.--TIMI DE AD BEAT.—In a letter received by a gentlem an Manchester from a friend in Indiana, United States , s h the following passage relative to the electric telegroPo in that state:—" That wonderful invention, the raagn e ;. l o telegraph, passes through our country from the eo l— s , cities, communicating intelligence almost instspis naously. News has been transmitted from Philadelli k " 0 to Cincinnati, a distance of 750 miles, on one unbr°:,o chain of wires. Of course, as Cincinnati is ten degroo west of Philadelphia, or 40 minutes of time later, news is that much ahead of the time." —.210 lES.a. On the sth inst., the wi f e o f W. Hodges, Esq., at-1 O aw, of a son. n ri • On the sth inst., the wife of E. J. Galton, Esq. , rise, of a daughter. th e On the sth inst. at Montague-place, Clapham-rnfid' wife of the Rev. C. ' Kemble, of a daug ll' hter. ; f s On Sunday, the sth inst., at Victo ria-squar e, the of P. Hard, Esq., of a daughter. 40 atlis On th y e sth inst., Mrs. B. Evans, Trinity-street, '-'- wark, of a daughter. bf er Oa the 2d inst., the lady of W. P. Tomlins, E s q'' ° Maiesty's Customs, Southampton of a daughter. f Ho O L n ea th th e a 3 m d , i E ns s t q . :, a o t f l a i t l :: Wakefield, the lady • MARRIED. On the 25th ult., at Lee Church, Kent, by the 4 “ 3,. tter C ha „ l o Lock, T. H. Craig, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Mary I;ast second daughter of the late Colonel R. B. Jenkins, 1 1 ° 11 ' India Company's service. -L• essi' On the Ist inst., at the chapel of the British ..- 01 ,, o ner Paris, by the Venerable Archdeacon Keating, Lord CTAtigh. eldest son of the Earl of Dundonald, K. 8., to Louis* ter of Mr. Macki inst. nnon, M.P. Thora to On the 6th at St. Mary's Bryanstone - sq uare, Norman, son of Cr ' . W. Harrison, Esq., of Sandwich Is-e'air Mary _Ann, third daughter of the late I. Thomas, Cl3Pll rise, Surrey. DIED. Vei t ' On the 26th ult., at her residence, King Edward-s_./i6 Westminster road, Mrs. C. Faithful', in her 66th year, r` of the late Mr. J. Faithful', of Herne hill. re lict of S ' On the Ist inst., at Brighton, Mrs: A. Rob son, Robson, Esq., formerly of Clapham-rise, aged 85. On the '2d inst., Mr. C. Williamson, of Ripon, 'for k'hir* late of the Roal Exchan, London. On the 3d inst., at Hamp ge stead, the wife of Mr. W. joblv son. builder, aged 47. „ On the 4th in st ~ at Glocester-ierraee, Capt ain ` the 79th year of his age. to e rr s er On the sth inst., at his residence, Cloud esle y - Islingto thne , sth Mr. in M st., at Woolw g ich-common, Sara h, widow Ou the late Captain NV. Paterson C. 8., Royal Nav v. ells On the 6th inst., aged 61, ' C. Field, Esq., of -Carahe"' grove and the Stock Exchange. *pert On the 6th inst., in London, Lieutenant-Colonel Co b ig C. 13-, 18th Royal Irish Regiment, only six weeks fill er return from China. On the 6th inst., Mr. W. M. Cooper, aged 79. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YO,„ 412 f, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, ' 4 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coal Middlesex, Thursday, December 9, WT.: s,