The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-19 00:00:00

t. m . PENIVORE COOPER'S NEW 'mom. Itf A R K'S R E E F; OR, THE CRATER, WILL BE READY IN A FEW DAYS. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but One. For the Last Time. The Nobility. Subscribers) to the Opera, and the Public, are re- Svactfttlly informed. that THIS EVENDTG, August 19, Will be performed Mozart's celebrated Opera, entitled LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. Susanna, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Countess, Madame Castellon ; Chas birAo, Madame Solari ; Figaro, Herr Staudigl ; Count Almavina, Sig p.or iColetti ; Antonio, Signor Solari; Doctor Bartolo, Signor La' * blache. To conclude with the revived Ballet (by M. Perrot). entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS, Comprising " Le Pas des Deesses." Mdlles. Taglioni, Rosati, and Cerito (Les D eesses) ; Petit Stephan and Mdlles. James and Honore (Les Graces) ; M. St. Leon (Paris) • Mcille. Lamoreux (L'Amour) ; )Mlle. Julien (L'Hymen) ; Ikldlles. ' Cassan and Thevenot (Nymphs) ; and M. Perrot (Mercure). The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre, price 10s. 6d. each. Applications for boxes, pit stalls, and tickets, to be made at the Box-office, at the theatre. The Doors w ill be opened at Half-past Seven, and the perform ance commence at Eight o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE FAREWELL NIGHT OF THE SEASON will take place on SATURDAY EVENING, August 21, when Mdlle. Jenny Lind w ill appear in one of her favourite characters, and it is respectfully announced that no further representation can positively be giver.. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented RORY O'MORE. Rory O'More, Mr. Hudson; Kathleen, Miss Woolgar. Other characters by Messrs. Paul Bed ford, 0. Smith, Selby, and Cullenford • Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. Laws. After which a new and original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts, Mr• Wright; Jack Brown, Mr. Munyard ; Squibb, Mr. Redmond Ryan; Mary White, Miss Woolgar; Mdllc. Cherry Bounce, Miss Emma Harding. To conclude with THE DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. (Summer .Scason—Lyceum Company.) THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. Emery ; Captain Absolute, Mr. F. Vining ; Sir Lucius O'Trifger, Mr. A. Wigan ; Faulkland, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Acres, Mr. G. Wild; Julia, Mrs. R. Honner ; Lydia, Miss Daly; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Griffiths; Lucy, Miss Arden. After which, anew Divertissement, in which the celebrated Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with GWYNNETH VA.UGH-~2 , T. Owen Williams, Mr. Leigh Murray'; Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. R. Homier. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY for Six Nights. THIS EVENING Will be presented the GiiilßSiOit'S WIFE. Hickory Short, Mr. Keeley ; Letty Briggs, Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by THE END OF JUNE. Nicholas Czarny, Mr. Keeley. After which THE MISER'S WELL. Dolph Heyliger, Mrs. Keeley; Claus Hopper, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with the Nautical Drama entitled THE DREAM AT SEA. lioxet - i. 2i., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence Tlalf-p , st Six. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed GRACE GREY; or, Temptation, Truth, and Treachery. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Forman, Searle, and Miss Vincent, After which the CASTLE OF ST. A.LMO ; or, the Spanish Bride. To conclude with FAYRE ROSAMOSTDE. Fayre Rosainonde, Mr. Forman. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. THIS EVENING ••'" - A grand Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled TILE PRINCE OF CYPRUS ; or the Horse of the Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Representation of SkIAKSPERE' BIN Tll-PLACE. The Harmonic Ruck Band every Evening. On TRUR'•DAY August 19, The celebrated Baiid of the Establishment, seleeted from the Queen's Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite of M. Jullien's Band, will perform a Grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music, Daylight View of Gibraltar. Splendid Menagerie. Shakspere's Birth Place, from Drawings by Alfred Crowquill. Ihe Celebrated Barmonicon Band will also perform at Intervals, condudiug, with the Siege of Gibraltar. Feeding the Animals at Five; Concert at Six ; Fireworks, at Nine. No extra charge. Athnission to the whole, One Shilling. 1.1111 WEATIIEII.—SuN OFFICE, AUG. 19. TiFERMONIETER, Lowest, 61; Highest. 69; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND N.; showery. MOB WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 39 minutes after 6. j Evening .. 2 minutes atter 7 : OILLIS:\ , R 0 T DIE V et,L),l ,qlTentikc ilit LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1847. There is no doubt that the verdict returned by the jury in the case of Lieutenant MUNRO, who was yesterday tritel at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of wilful-murder, was strictly in accordance with the law of the land. Nothing can be more clearly defined than the law relating to duelling. In every instance the judge will tell the jury, that if two persons go out deliberately, armed with deadly weapons, for the purpose of fighting, and that one of them is killed, the survivor, and indeed all the parties concerned, whether as seconds or lookers on, will be guilty of wilful murder, and that they can return no other verdict in accordance with the oath they have taken. The questions for their consideration are of the simplest character, viz.—whether a duel took place—whether the death of the deceased was thereby occasioned--and whether the prisoner was a party thereto. If these queries should be answered in the affirmative, and the evidence generally speaking is of the most conclusive and satisfactory descrip tion, such as to leave no reasonable doubt there should be a conviction, and yet, in nine teen cases out of twenty, the juries have interposed themselves between the law and the accused, and have returned a verdict exonerating him from all guilt. Indeed, we believe that we are justified in asserting that no former case can be adduced in which a conviction had been obtained unless some blame was imputable to the survivor, either in the causes that led to the conflict or in the manage ment of the duel. The present case, however, forms a striking exception to the general rule. The unfor tunate gentleman placed on his trial received the highest character from persons of every class in so ciety. His career, up to the commission of the fatal act, had been in every respect a most meritorious one. His father, a gallant and distinguished officer, who, by his unflinching bravery and invariable good conduct, had e l eva t e d hi mse lf f rom the humblest sta tion to an h onoura bl e pos i tion in the British service— who, as one of the forlorn hope , had planted the standard of his country on the arm , edbattlements of Seringapatam, and, rewarded b y well -merited pro motion, had retired with the rank cap tain, heohealoy, in his old age, that peace and tranquiity richly earned by the services an d d angers of hisso youth. The son was not possessed of wealth or in fluence sufficient to obtain a commission in the ordi nary mode, but he emulated the valour of his sire, and, trusting to his own merits for promotion, he unhesitatingly entered the ranks as a private soldier. He was not mistaken—conduct such as his could not fail to be appreciated, and he was ultimately pro moted to a commission in one of our most distinguished regiments. As an officer he maintained the high He he had o btai n ed in a humbler capacity. He was respected and beloved not only by his brother officers, but also by th ose f rom amongst w h om h e h a d been promoted, and he was universall y up on as u on 83 a distinguished o fficer, n and a mild, humane, and benevol en t man. of th e illustrious Mar qu i s o f AN GLESEY, colonel e regiment ; the gallant C o l. BouvEam had , whofoug h t at Waterloo with th e men he now commands ; ie Lord of A RUNDEL and SURREY, and of mmiten, L B d GEORGE MANNERS, and Mr. PERCIV AL , hi s broth er office rs , b ore the o nble characte r , strongest testimony t o his unexcep ti onable his singularly inoffensive, human!ti and apeaceable dis position, while a corporal and private were produced been Judgeof one to speak of his conduct while he h a d themselves, so as to justify the L earned saying that he had seldom heard such a character given given to any man. Such was his position when the uttoward event occurred which blasted all his pros pects, which deprived him of the rank and station he had gained for himself by twenty years of unim- Peachable conduct, and plunged himself, his wife, and six helpless children, from comparative affluence into poverty and distress. His br o th er -i n-law, Lieutenant-Colonel F AWCETT, his retur n f rom China, had inflicted a gross an d unmerited insult on Lieutenant AfuNno. A family quarrel connected with pecuniary matters, in which we believe there was not the sli g h test d ou b t t h at t h e ; deceased was -n fault, u led to the un h appy difference, and Lieutenant MUNRO was i gnominiously turned out of the h ouse b y his relative. Il is position was a Vhat c ou ld b e d o ? What course w as open to him ?. very peculiar one. Be belonged jealous in th e highest degree to a p ro f ess i on submitting p a ti ent l y t o an of insult an y fha members the law, or of afforded to him was either of vi The opt i on being degraded in the sight of ohistinegompanions, and perhaps deprived of the rank he had struggled so TRE 5U147 9 _LON'T)OI44 6 ._ TrIUR4SDAY hard to attain. He had the highest examples for the course he adopted. The veteran Commander-in- Chief, the hero of a hundred fights, had set the pre cedent he was about to follow. That illustrious Duke, who, if any man, could with impunity have violated the usages and trusted to his well•estab lished reputation for protection, . felt it was due to the service to which he belonged to demand a hostile meeting from a brother nobleman for intemperate language used in the heat of debate. He was seconded by the gallant veteran who after wards rendered the most important services at Sobraon, and was justly rewarded therefor by a peerage and a pension. Had a fatal result then hap pened, and the law been administered with equal strictness as in the present instance, WELLINGTON and HARDING E might have expiated their guilt upon a scaffold, or laboured in a penal settlement, in place of receiving the heartfelt thanks of a grateful country. The eminent statesman who gave the deathblow to monopoly, and sacrificed his party for the benefit of his country, would have been in a similar predica ment, while the Liberator of Ireland would have perished by the bands of the hangman in place of achieving the liberation of his co-religionists from the uuj ust restrictions by which they were fettered and oppressed. With such high sanction for the proceeding, it is no wonder that Lieutenant MUNRO acted in accordance with what has been termed the laws of honour, and de manded reparation for the unmerited insult. He was actuated by no vindictive feeling, but ap peared to be in a state of the greatest possible anxiety and despondency, and stated to Mr. GUL LIVER, the surgeon whom he had induced to accom pany him, that he had been grossly insulted before the servants, but that he would be satisfied with the shadow (If an apology. This expected apology was, however, withheld. No explanation of any kind would be afforded by the unfortunate gentleman who gave the insult, and stern necessity compelled the prisoner to persevere, and the fatal result happened. After four years' absence—after the bitter conse quences entailed on him by the transaction—the loss of almost all that rendered life desirable, the wretched survivor surrendered himself to take the trial that awaited him, and he is now a felon, found guilty by a jury of his country men of the highest crime known to the law, and under sentence of an ignominious death. That sentence cannot possibly be carried into execution; if it were so, " it would (in the language of a distinguished Contemporary) more properly de serve the name of murder than the offence he has un fortunately committed." The Learned Judge felt justified in stating thit the sentence would not be carried into effect. But to what extent will it be mitigate ? That must be decided by other parties. It is for her MAJESTY, in the exercise of her most precious prerogative, to decide thereon with the advice of the Chief Secre• tary for the Home Department. The circumstances of the case are not such as to make Lieutenant MUNRO a fitting scapegoat, or a first victim to a de termination on the part of the Executive to suppress the crime, and we believe that we speak the unani tnous feeling of the country in saying, that the sufferings he has already endured are more than sufficient for his offence, and in ex pressing a hope that her MAJESTY'S free pardon may restore him to society, and that he may be reinstated in the service to which he was an ornament. Other laws should be enacted for the repression of duelling ; and if it is really desired to put it down, a severe punishment to principals and seconds, without reference to the result, would be far more efficacious than the present sanguinary laws relating thereto. Scarcely a borough or county is unrepresented in the new Parliament. The magical number of 658, which may be considered the symbol of our consti tutional liberties, as much as ABRACADABRA was ever regarded as containing in itself the quintessence of black magic, is very nearly completed. Those among our Contemporaries who have enormous faith in the Protectionist-Conservatives, and who may literally be viewed as the organs of veneration in reference to their obsolete principles, are already evincing the fruitful• ness of their imaginations, by calculating the power of their own party in the Ho .se of Commons. lire would defy both Mr. COCKER and Major BENIOWSKI to make anything reasonable out of their array of numerical figures. Neither JOSEPH HUME, nor the calculating boy, nor BARRAGE'S calculating machine, would be able to go through their labyrinthine sums of subtraction, and multiplication, and division, without being plunged into a hopeless state of confusion and bewilderment. Instead of proceeding upon the wholesome principle that two and two make four, they seem to swim off into a sea of calculations with a profound belief that seven and nine make fifty- six— .when counting for themselves, and that five and eight make something less than three—when counting for their opponents. We do not, by any means, intend to deny the ingenuity of their estimates, especially of one published this morning in the columns of a Pro tectionist journal, whereby it would appear, that on the re-assembling of Parliament, the Commons will be divided into two equal divisions, as thus : Conservatives .. 328 Radicals .. .. 328 So that, presuming every Member were punctilious in his attendance, and undeviating in his adhesion to his particular class, the pleasant result will be either that no Speaker whatever could be elected, or, if elected, that he would be, in virtue of his casting vote, the House of Commons. It would be analagous to an everlasting series of dead heats at Doncaster ; and, in point of fact, would amount to a legisla tive stagnation. Let us examine, however, thoroughly into this preposterous and manifestly impossible calculation. Let us discern the device by which the losing party is endeavouring to prove itself upon an equality with the conqueror. Surely, we may exclaim, a shabbier trick—a trick of more ex travagant impudence was never before adventured upon for the purpose of concealing for a few moments an electioneering discomfiture. The trick is actually this—of coupling together in one political class, in one homogeneous mass, as it were, the very hetero geneous divisions of Protectionists and Peelites ! Why, surely we are correct in asserting that Conservatism is not more directly the reverse of Radicalism than a Protectionist is opposed to a Peelite. If we wanted, indeed, to illustrate anything by a political antithesis, we could not by possibility think of a more striking and notorious antithesis than the one afforded by the Protectionists and the Peelites. And yet, for the bald satisfaction of keeping up appearances a little longer, the former proclaim, with a sort of bluster ing self-satisfaction, their numerical equality with the popular candidates, and prove it (!) by giving us the numbers in detail, in which we find them coolly classifying themselves among the fol lowers of Sir ROBERT PEEL, whom they in the first returns classed among the Radicals! The absurdity of these assumptions of a strength which the Protectionists are very far indeed from pos sessing, requires no distinct or laboured refutation. The catalogue, published over and over again in our own columns, and in those of our Contemporaries, shows accurately enough the true position and the real proportions of the three political sections. Altogether there are somewhere about 644 Members already returned, and of those 644 there are 314 decided Liberals, 113 decided P ee li tes, and 193 decided Protectionists, leavin g a surplus of some 24 individuals, who, like the lion. Representative of Nottingham, disdain to be classified under either heading. The residue of places from which returns have yet to be made are of such a characte r as to leave no reasonable doubt as to the consequence. For example, Sudbury is disfranchised on account of it s fl agrant corruption Kildare gives promise of an even return, as the Liberal Mar quiss Of KILDARE is at the head of the poll, and the Conservative BOURKE comes im mediately afterwards—for Ross and Cromarty, there is but one candidate (a Conservative), and consequently a Conservative will be returned_ for Orkney, there are two candidates (both Liberals), and consequently one Liberal is certain ; while in Mayd'eounty and Kilkenny county, all the candi dates being Liberals, two Liberal representatives must be elected by each of those constituencies. - Such is actually the position of electioneering mat ters throughout the United Kingdom ; such is the predominance of liberality among the enfranchised portions of the community; and yet we are assured by our veracious (might we not say our mendacious ?) opponents, that they are on a par in numbers, strength, and popularity, with ourselves ! It is satis factory, however, to find that they can only prove (!) this, by deriding the liberality of such men as GEORGE THOSIPSON and FEARG US O'CONNOR, and by jumbling together the Peelites and the Pro tectionists ! A letter from Berne of the 13th says—" It was expected in the sitting of the Diet of this day that the Deputies of the Sonderbund would have de manded a collective protest to be inserted against the decision come to the day before yesterday, with re spect to the warlike preparations of the League ; but the Deputy of Lucerne merely demanded that it should be stated in the minutes that he did not re cognise the decision in question, inasmuch as Lucerne denied the right of the Diet to pass measures of the kind. What I stated to you relative to the proceed ings of Mr. PEEL, the English Charge d'Affaires, and the communication of a verbal note from Lord PALmEasToN, is fully confirmed. The English note is in some sort a protest against the proceedings of Austria and France relative to Switzerland, but it is in particular on the French Cabinet that falls the counterblow of the friendly demonstration of the British Minister." A letter from Rome states that the railroad ques tion has been definitively settled by the Pontifical Government. The privilege for the road from Rome to Cabrano, by Albano, has been granted to a com pany which has at its head Prince ALTIERI and M. ROSETTI, and that from Bologna to Ancona is to be given to a company formed at the latter place. Madrid papers of the 12th have arrived. The QUEEN was to arrive in Madrid on the even ing of that day from La Granja. On the Bth a Carlist band, consisting of 500 men, entered the town of Franga, seized all the Govern ment money, and stopped the Catalonian mail ; after which they marched off in two divisions, one towards Torrente, the other towards Masalcorech. The Car list bands stop the mails wherever they have an opportunity. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 12.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26i for cash; the Five per Cents. 17i ; and the Coupons at 15. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Reforme gives the following as the true ver sion of the story of 15,000 f. said to have been pre sented as a bribe to the Minister of War to secure a contract for ,the supply of lint to the army of Al giers : " There was a-talk some days ago of an adjudication for the supply of lint to the military hospitals, and dif ferent versions were given of the affair. The facts, as they really occurred, are as follow:—The firm which ob tained the adjudication has become bankrupt. In ex amining the books the assignee found the entry of a sum of 15,000 f. as given to the Minister of War as a pot de yin. The noise of this corruption having been spread about, General Trezel wrote to . the commandant of the division to examine into the fact. After having done so, the commandant replied that the 15,0001. were placed in the hands -of a superior functionary. But, in going over the documents, a letter was found addressed by the secretary of a personage not less powerful to a doctor of the place, who had acted as intermediary in this affair. A paragraph of this letter was conceived nearly in these terms:—' My dear Friend,—l have received the 5001. They are lint which comes very opportunely to the re lief of one of my wounds.' The secretary was examined, and he denied that this sum had anything to do with the adjudication of the lint. Nevertheless he appeared no more at the Ministry, and the issue of the examina tion made by the Procureur-General is waited for to de cide on his case." The National, after giving a resume of the charges of corruption which have been brought against every department of the Ministry, thus continues,—" Here we have, then, this far-famed system drawn by itself —demoralization is its foundation and its means of action. After the condemnation of the former col league of M. GUIZOT by the Court of Peers, no one could entertain any doubt of the truth of the far-famed assertion of his accomplice, The Govern ment is in greedy and corrupt hands'—and that nothing may be wanting to the picture the friends, the writers, the fatniliars of the powers that be,' come" forward to coroplete it before the -Court of Assize. Among all these men of noble race, one has more particularly distinguished himself as the warmest, the most violent, the most impassioned of .the defenders of the Cabinet. What has been the part which in the recent trials before the Court of Assize has been played by M. GRINIER DE CAS SAGNAC, the editor of the defunct Epoque 'The Pre sident feels it to be his duty to censure M. GRANIER severely for his conduct in the witnesses-room. The Attorney- General points out the most mon strous contradictions in his evidence—the Judge in summing up is still more severe—' the witness GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC offered himself to be exa mined before the magistrate, and he then affirmed that he had not lent the pistols—in making that affirmation he uttered a falsehood '—and two other affirmations of M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC are equally stigmatised as falsehoods. This same man, thus stigmatised in the Assize Court, had been con demned the day before to pay a debt which he denied, and his adversary had publicly reproached him with being an infamous, impudent swindler. And this is the individual who enjoyed the unlimited confidence of MM. GUIZOT and DUCHATEL, on whom they conferred favours to an incalculable extent, the great defender of their policy, the only writer of any talent employed on the journal which had been estab lished as the Ministerial organ, to be honoured with the Ministerial confidence, and to trumpet forth the praises of the ministry of the 29th of October. M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC who has been so deep in their confidence has been pointed out as the person who offered to procure the presentation and passing of a law for a bribe of 1,200,000 francs, and whom the public authorities have not dared to prose cute. In vain is the fact proclaimed, in vain are the time, the place, the witnesses, the circumstances, all pointed out, M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC is protected against the law in spite of public morality, because it is above all things necessary that he should not be tempted to add to existing scandals by revealing all that he knows." The Journal des Debats takes the opportunity of the return of Baron LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD for the city of London, to publish a long, and an extremely well-written article, in favour of Jewish emancipa tion, and expresses a hope, in which we heartily con cur, that the first measure carried in the new British Parliament may be one for the complete enfranchise. ment of the Jews, to which we would add—and of the members of every other, sect of religionists. The Courrier Francais says that the Prince DE JOINVILLE is labouring under dysentery. In the east and south of France the harvest is over, and it will be over in a week in every part of the kingdom. The crops are abundant everywhere. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Tuesday, at 76f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 10c.; the ,Orleans Rail roa d Sh ares, 1,227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 950 f.; Havre, 597 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 527 f. 50c.; Avignon, 596 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 560 f. ; Bordeaux, 477f.50c.; Basle, 170 f.; Paris and Stras burg, 392 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 370 f.; Paris and Lyons, 395 f.; Lyons. and Avignon, 445 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 465 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 31f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AcciusT 18. Boulogne and Amiens, In—Demerara, 214—Northern of France, 10%—Paris and Rouen, 36 ex div. A further failure at Antwep was mentioned yes terday, but it is an insignificant affair, the liabiliti es being small, and the party of recent standing. .11Ir. Batty has entered into an engagement with Signor Ricardo, the wonderful Globe Evolutionist and great transformation Equilibrist, whbse norel and asto nishing performances have elicited the most powerful marks of success in the principal Continental theatres, and will make his first appearance at Astley's on Mon day next, August 23. ADMIRALTY, AUG. 17.—AppoiNTmENTs.—Com mander J. H. Cockburn to study at the Royal Naval College. Lieutenants—G. M. Smith and E. Algar to Britomart; H. 1). Selby to study at Royal Naval College. Naval Instructor—G. S. Bourne, to Amphitrite. Mas ter's Assistant—G. Nixon to Victory. Chief Engineer - -E. Casey to William and Mary. Acting Assistant- Surgeons—E. Adams to Victory; R. J. Squire and W. J. Hamilton to Caledonia. Naval Cadet—A. Pennell to Fury. First-class Assistant-Engineer W. M. Jones and Second- c l ass Assistant-Engineer G. Ke i gw i n to Comet. Mr. F. d'Aguilar, Mate, promoted. Tug POTAT O C ROP of the us ua l amountofoNtat .1 beliiiiisngyemaradien from Liverpool R oe E s L n A o N t D h . v i l n n a c b oe been n s e p q l u a e n n t e c d e and Fleetwood. large exportations of this root are/ EVENIN'G,_ MONEY and COMN_MRCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Uvervol yesterday was dull, and closed heavily. Prices were about d. per lb. in favour of buyers. Sales 4,000 to 5,000 bales, of which 3,500 American, at 61d. to 7-ad., and 400 Surat at 44d, to sd. per lb. Railway Shares had been heavy, owing to the unfounded report of an attempt having been made on the life of Louis Philippe. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. La mond and Co., went off rather firmer, and a fair amount of business was done. The following are a few of the principal sales: — North British, Extension £o 14 0 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 12 " 6 Shropshire Union and Canal 1 19 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 4 6 Newcastle and Berwick, New 8 0 0 Great Northern South Wales Newport and Abergavenny 0 16 0 Paris and Lyons Boston, Stamford, andßirmingham ...... 5 5 0 Eastern Counties. York Extension 6 10 0 Louvain ala Sambre, ex int 0 10 0 Great Luxembourg Madrid and Valencia There are no later arrivals today, if we except papers and letters which have been received in town, dated June 19th, from Rio de Janeiro. The exchange had been 271 ; at Bahia, on the 26th June, it was 27. Mr. Gore Ouseley may now be daily expected home in the Curacoa, which was to leave Rio on the 26th of June, and will no doubt bring important infor mation as to the course which the British and French Ministers will adopt in the event of Rosas declining the proposition for peace. There is reason to believe that armed intervention in the affairs of Monte Video will be resorted to in that case by the united naval forces in La Plata. A hope is entertained in some quarters that after the steamer has left for America money will be rather easier; and it appears that the Bank of England is freely accommodating its own customers. Indeed the private and other bankers have ample funds at command, and if good and sufficient security can be offered,are glad to make loans. The corn bills indorsed by Prime, Ward, and King, of New York, and drawn upon some of the suspended firms, are to be honoured, as might be expected, by their agents, Messrs. Baring Brothers, an announcement which afforded satisfaction yesterday afternoon, and serves to maintain confidence. Still parties here are very shy of accepting bills for fresh cargoes coming in, because the amounts drawn for do not leave a sufficient protecting margin against further depreciation in prices. The quantity of wheat sold last week in the towns specified in the Act was under 48,000 quarters, and in grain the transactions appeared to have been limited. A failure at Antwerp, mentioned on 'Change yester day afternoon, is said not to be of so large an amount as that of Messrs. Fraser, and accounts received this morn ing from Amsterdam notice some revival of confidence in the money market. Very little business has been transacted in the English Funds, and prices have been without much alteration, the market looking steadier however. Consols have been 87 to 874 for present transfer, and 871 871 for Ac count. Exchequer-bills 2s. discount to ls. premium. New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. 89 to 891. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 20 to 201, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 27 to 27i. Mexican Bonds are 18 3to 18i. Dutch Four per Cents. 884 to 89-1. Shares are quiet. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced ...... 87 %9 3 per Cent. Consols Anns B 7 l /4 87 New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860,. 83% India Bonds 1,0001 Consols for Account 8 7 14% Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1,000/. 500/. Small I - RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent . 90 Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent., 12 Guild 553. /a Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent lB% I/ 2 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent DUO, 4 per Cents Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 20% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch , 2% per Cents Ditto :4"Re - r Cent. Certificates ... 88704 89 1 4 BUSINESS BONI:: IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SUALL Aberdeen - Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% ••... to --- Ayrshire and Galloway 2 l /2 — to Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. - . Birmingham & Oxford June... 15 Birmingham, \Vol., & Dudley 10 ..... 16 .—... to - Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 8 ~..,.. . ..... to 'Birkenhead, Lancashire, ant'" - • - - ..., Cheshiro Junction 612 — .. ... to Bos ton ,' Stamf , & Binning... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds ..—.-- ........ 15 Buckinghamshire.. ........,...81. 4s — Calalonian ' Ditto, Half Shares ......... 2%....• 1% 1 / 2 . to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 35 Chester and H01yhead......... 32 1 /2..... . . . . ttt t 00( o ) _—: to Cheltenham and 0xf0rd...... 2 ...... .to Clarence. • ••• ...... ..100 D0.,`10, Clas; ds 6 atr. p ej e su r n C ..e : t n .i.o t .ni.. " 2l l 32o7 o ! ...... ; -- • •.. to Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Cornwall E D ll a u uD s o b t i d lti t nt ijk a n n g l a id u n a is ri l : E2s7.,iskiLlleszn E .. : and L & D. ...... to Ditto, 181., E. & H 25 Ditto, 31. lOs ,E. & IL.. 1 Eastern Counties ........ 20 ...18 1 / 8 % x. div. to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... 1 / 2 1 4 p... to Quarter Shares ...... 12 1 / 2 Do., d 0...• ' N 0.2,6/. 13 s . 4.d... to Thirds ......... . ... Ms. 4d — tf o n rk ion Extension 7ti .. 50 to to Eastern D D t. Ditto., t,ol East Lancashire ........ 20 Ditto, New ... . . ........ .... . 10 Do., do., Extension Scrip.., PA — to E as t Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. ..... 15 ..... - Ditto, Quarter Shares:..... l 2 l /2 — to Edinburgh and Northern ... 20 Ditto, New .•• 2 1 / 2 — ..... . to Ditto, Newport .. ... ........ 7 Ditto, ditto, New ........ .... 1% — ...... to Edinburgh and Perth ......... 2 Ditto, E x tension ......... ... 10s .. .. .. to Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% Exeter, 1% 4 ...... to 61. 61.8 d — ..... to Ditto, New • • ... ... 2% — to York Exten. 2 1 ,i 5 12 0 % ..... to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, uKtriflrmie:r,n&ocCka,rB,lisi'le37r to -- Ditto, New (5 per ct.g . o . a . : .) 35 ...... 6 1 / 4 , to Great lAIN LondonoSr h t I i a e r r e I s Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 ' ...... . t Great North of England lOO --to Ditto, New 40/ Ditto, New 301 ... 30 ... .. .. ... to I 1 / 4 ...... ..... to G 85 =- Ditto, Half Shares r D ea i t tto W , Neweste Western 15/........„ Ditto, Quarter Shares - ••• ..to Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/ 7 ...... Huddersfield and Manchester 19 _ ... to Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby 5O Ditto, half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l 2 l /2 — _ ... _ to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15 Do. do. and - Norwich Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO Leeds and Bradford ' 45 .. ... -- .. to Leicester and Bedford l6s. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchu. 32 1 4 Do.,,Branch % Shares 71% — ...... to Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2 1 / 2 to Ditto, Extension (green)... Do., New Exten. (Pink" 2g...••. ...... to Leeds and Tlairsk Ditto, New ..... .. ... ...... Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3I A • •••• Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 214...... London $4 Illackwall...l6/, 13s. 4d — ...... to Ditto New, No. 1.. • 6 ...... - Ditto New, No. 2 3/. 13s. d...• 4 lA dis.... to 3 / 4 ...... to Do. Extensior 12V2 .. ... v..-._ -.ion ...... London and Greenwich 121.155. 4d.. Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ..... to -:_ London and North Western..lo o .. ..• Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 12 ...... Do. do. New ...... • ..... 2 ...... •••• . Do. do. Fifth s Do. Quarters . G.. J 2O ...... -- .. ... to Do. 46/. Shares.....L. &M. 15 .••••• Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 ...... to --, Do. 401. Shares...M. and B. 40 •••••• •••••• te • Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 ..... •••• to -- Do 10/. ... M. and B. (0.) ... 1 ...... London and S. Western.... 411.6 a 10d 60% to 60 Do. New C onso li date d Bth s . 40 ...... -Ditto New 501. Ditto New 404 ... ...... .. -. 26 ...... Lo D ud it . B d ri i g tt h o t., 4o & / Do. Tenth s (C onso lid a t e d) 50 •••••• Do. Tenth s (C onsol id ate d) 40 ...... Ditto , Ditto Scrip 504 ... . '48%4 3% x d to to Do. Consolid a t e d E ig h t h s... 20 ••..••*. to Do. Guarant ee d 5 per C en t. 9 • ..... Do. Pref. C ony. 5 per C ent. 50 .••••• London, Oxford, an d Ch e l tm . 2 . ..... South Coast 50• .. . London, Salisbur & Yeovil 1%....•• Coleraine... Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 - ...... - - to Londonderry and Enniskillen 22 1 to 2 ...... Manchester and Leeds B2 .. ... 921 / 2 to -- Ditto Half Shares 41D i t t a Quarte rs l 4 l/ ...... 16 7 to Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ... ... 6 % .... .. Ditto Thirds (Reg.) 7 1. 4s — to Do. Liverpool and Bury... 29 . ..... . to Do. Half Shar es (l a t e Hud dersfield and Sheffield... 28 ...... to Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425. . ; . r.. iktanches t er and Scuthampton 2 1 4 - Bianchi., Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 / 4, Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Date, _,14 . Shares (No. 3)... 7 1 / 2 ...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto. ' 7 to Ditto, ditto ... Ditzo, Sheffield, and Line. 71 , _ . . _ Midland 100 lls'/ x d to -3 Ditto Fifths Ditto, 40/. Shares 4O ... 44% 1 A xdto -- Ditto, 50/. Shares Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... Midland, Congo. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 12 2 1 /2 x d to Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34 - Dittb ditto 71.95 . ..... Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.).... 50 .... . Midld. Great Western (Irish) 30 Newcastle and Berwick Ditto New 5 ...... 7 3 / 4 %." to Ditto North Shields.. Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New Quarters.. 81. 18s. 9d — ... . to Newmarket and Chesterford 13 1 / 2 to Ditto Extension Newport Allergy., and Heref. 4 Newry and Enniskillen ..... 7 1 / 2 — ...... to Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk . 100 Ditto New 20/. Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares. l 2 l /2 to Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 — Ditto, Extension % ...... to Ditto Thirds ... .......... ..... 1 — ...... to Northern and Eastern SO Ditto Quarter shares Ditto New North Staffordshire 7 l /2 ...... 9 5 / 8 to North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton 2 7 1 /2 to Portsmouth Direct 3 3 /4 to Preston arid Wyre Ditto, Half Shares ....(A) 8 1 / 2 to Ditto ditto (B) PA ___ Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7 1 4 8 to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... ......... ... 17% — ...... to Ditto, New lO Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 5 ...... - Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 1 / 2 ...... Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, - Ditto 8 ... .. . ... to Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union South Devon ... .... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference lO South Staffordshire 2l. 125... ...... to South Eastern and Dover Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, 4. ...... ... .. 6 1 1 1 — South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole ..... Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... .. 2 Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l /2 raw Vale Extension Vale of .Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole ... ... ... 42%...... Waterford and Kilkenny l3th — to Waterford and Limerick ... .. 32%..... Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Riding Union 4/. 2s. — West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 25 York and Newcastle 25 ... 34 , ;1 f a d... to Ditto, Extension Ditto, Preference 8 .. ... 10%...... to f ork and North Midland Ditto. Extension Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Constituted) 4 - Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. - Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish • 7 • • .... 2% • to -- East Indian ... ............ Great Indian Peninsular Great Southern of Madras Great Western Bengal 43r...4 .W.aatorn Canada 3 — to Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain la Sambre ...--- - Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... IA Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege l2' ...... ~,,,. to Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ...... Over Yssel 413 s 4d.... - Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen .. . ... 2O __ ___ _ Paris & Strasbourg 8 ...... ...... to Rouen and Havre 20 — to Sambre and Meuse l6 — to Strasburg and Bale l4 - Tours & Nantes ... —. ..... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt ... ... .. 12 •..... ..... to -- Trinidad.. ........ .... ..... ..... 2% West Flanders 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London 2O — to London Joint Stock .... ...... 10 London and WestVster. .. 20 — to Ditto, New National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New- ••• to ..... National of Ireland 22% ... .. to _ Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ... 10 to -- Union of Madrid 40 MINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 to Astrian Mining Company ... 10 Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 --- • to British Iron -. to -- Brazilian Imperial ..., • .. ... 21 Cobre Copper Galvanized Iron Real del Monte, Unregistered ..... 34 to United Mexican 281. 2s. 8 3 / 4 d. . ... . to LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 19.—Wind N., light pleasant breeze and fine, but cloudy at times. DEAL, Auc. 18.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Midas, Hagan, Prince Edward's Isl an d. A rr d . f rom t h e River for Isle. of Wight, Mauritius; Rambler, Cape of Good Hope; Helen, River St. Lawrence. OFF TORBAY, AUG. 18.—Cleveland (of Whitby), Quebec. • PLYMOUTH, AUG. 18.—Wind S.E. Sid. Gentoo, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 18.—Wind N.N.E., light.—Sld. Mary Hannah, Trinidad; Helvellyn, Ceylon; Blue Bell, Rio Grande; Chapman, Bahia; Stirlingshire, Maranham; Sea, New York; Massachusetts, New York; Rappa hannock, New York; Safeguard, Montreal; Harriet and Iris, Newfoundland. DUBLIN, AUG. 17.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Transit, Quebec. CORK, AUG. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. John Clarke, New York. Off port, Linden, York, St. John's, New Brunswick; Jane, New York. HARTLEPOOL, AUG. 18.—Wind N.—Sld. 14th,Thomas Chadwick, Ceylon. A ship's top (white with blue rim) and cap, with masthead painted white, some topmast rigging, and a topmast (white masthead), were picked up 12th instant off this, and landed here. WISBEACH, AUG. 17.—The Vine, from Seaham, is on shore much strained, and fills with the tide. LONDONDERRY, AUG. 11.—Arrd. Samuel Cunard, Henderson, Trinidad; Pioneer, Seagar, Philadelphia. 13th, Royal Saxon, Ingleby, New Orleans. WARREN POINT, AUG. 17.—Wind N.—Arrd. Man darin, Colley, New York. OFF ABERDEEN, AUG. 13.—Margaret and Ann, Quebec. DUNDEE, AUG. 1 5.—Arrd. Patriot, Furzgull, Que bec. Sid. Earl Bowes, Quebec. BEawick, AUG. 17.—Wind N.N.E., thick.—Arrd. Harriet, Willis, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, AUG. 17.—Arrd. Jane, Stothard, Quebec; Wave, Davis, ditto ; 18th, Grove, Young, ditto ; Mary aed Dorothy, Watt, ditto ; Richard White, Robinson, ditto. HULL. AUG. 18.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Aurora, St. John's, New Brunswick. JERSEY, Auc. 1 7.—Several pieces of a wreck, be longing to the Laurel, of this port, which left Labrador in the fall of last year, have been found on the coast of the latter place. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) NEWIZATE AND ZSADENZIAI.2.. We had a very inactive trade here to-day, and prices had, in some instances, a downward tendency. Beef; from 2s 10d to 3s Bd.; Mutton, 3s 4d to ss; Lamb, 4s 10d to 53 10d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s Sd per Blbs, by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, AUG. 18.—For each kind of stock, the supply of which on offer was seasonably large. We have to report a very inactive demand at drooping currencies. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s: Veal, 4s to 4s 10L1; and Pork, 4s tO 4s 6d per 81bs. to sink the offals. RONSOAD, AUG. 18.—Our market to-day was fairly 1847. . supplied with fat stock. The trade ruled heavy as follows:—Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s 4 , 1; Mutton, 4s to ss; Lamb s 53 to Os; Veal, 43 to 4s Sd; and Pork. 4s to 4s Gd per 81bs.; Suckling Calvi's. 183 to 285; Qiarter Old Store Pigs, 16s to 193; and Mulch Cows, with their small calf, 161 to 181 10s each. HAILSHAM, AUG. 18.—Although the supply was by no means heavy, the demand was iv a sluggish state, at dropping prices. Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Mut ton, 4s to 5s 4d; Lamb, 5s to 53 103; Veal, 4s to 4s Sd per 81bs. ARUNDEL, AUG. 17.—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; Lamb, 53 to 5s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d per Blbs. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CHICHESTER, AuG.lB —We had only a moderate supply of stock on offer this morning. Generally speaking, the trade was inactive, at our quotations. 'Beef; from 3s 64 to 4s 6d; Mutton, 45 4d to 5s 41; Lamb, 5s to 5s 8d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, Hs to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Much Cows, with their Small Calf, 161 to 191 each. ATTGATIST EAT DIAR.E.ETS... SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Ihy, 3/ to 31155; New ditto, 2/5s to 3155; Old Clover, 4/ to 4l 15s; New ditto, 3/ to 4145; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 12s per load. A short supply, and a dull trade. CUMBERLAND —Old Meadow Hay, 31 to 3/ 16 ; New ditto, 21 5s to 3/ ss; Old Clover, 41 to 41 145; New ditto, 31 to 4l ; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 12s per load. A sluggish demand, at barely late rates. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 3/16i; New, ditto, 215 s to 3135; Old Clover, 41 to 51; New ditto, 3/ to 41; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Aug. 19, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Er:gland and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. RPICE • . 166 s 101 40s 7d 29s id 40s 2d I 54s 51 42s 10d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. SHERIFFS: COURT.-(THIS DAY (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff 13uncHELL.) DAVIS V. KENT. The plaintiff in this action is a dentist in Pall-mall, and defendant a boot and shoe maker in Crown-court, in the same neighbourhood. The claim was for 131. balance of an account for a set of false teeth. The de fendant pleaded that he was not indebted; and secondly, that the action should have been brought in the Court of Request, the debt, if any, being under 403. Mr. Lewis, of Moor-street, Soho, theatrical agent, proved that be was 'present in November last when de fendant called, and asked if his teeth were finished. Plaintiff said they were not, but would iu a day or two, and that the price would be 14 or 15 guineas. Defendant said he did not mind that, as long as he had them as soon as possible. Solomon Myers, dentist, of the Quadrant, considered the teeth produced (which had not been delivered to the defendant, as he did not pay the money) to be worth 14/. or 151. Mr. John Beard, plaintiff's attorney, proved that he wrote to defendant, applying for the amount in Novem ber last. Defendant returned no answer, and on the 21st of that month he issued a writ, and served it on him, telling him it was a pity to incur costs, as the teeth had been ready for some time, and he had paid 1/ de posit. Defendant said he knew he did, but it did not suit him then to pay the balance. Cross-examined—Defendant did not say he had coun termanded the order, or that the money was too much. For the defence it was contended that the plaintiff, by advertisement, and by hand-bills, professed to make a complete set of teeth for 51., but on defendant applying, plaintiff said as a whole set was not required, it would be more trouble, and the expense would be 7L After wards, however, it was arranged that additional teeth should be put in, as plaintiff found the task difficult, and could not make the first set serviceable. A new model of the mouth was then taken, but the order was counter manded within an hour, and it was contended that 11. was sufficient for the trouble of taking the model. Mr. Seagood, clerk to the defendant's attorney, proved that he called on plaintiff, who admitted that he had re ceived a countermand, but that he wrote to defendant about it, refusing to accept the countermand, and as he did not answer, he bad gone on with the teeth. The UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, said that if there had been a countermand the plaintiff ought not to have continued the work; but he was fairly entitled to anything he had done up to that time. There was no proof of the change of the agreement; but the letters produced might bear the impression that there had been, and that time was to be given for payment. It was rather singular, if defendant considered his countermand absolved him from liability, that he did not say so to Mr. Beart. The case was anything but clear, as what ever the arrangement was, it had been made between the parties themselves, unless that spoken to by Mr. Lewis was the only one. If this case had occurred since the new Act, it might have been tried in the County Court, and then both parties might have been examined. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. Theothercases were struck out, in consequence 01 the parties not being in attendance. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. THE MARYLEI3ONE MURDER. Mary Ann Hunt, aged thirty, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Stowell, on the 2nd of June last. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Bodkin appeared fur the prosecution. Mr. Clark son and Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner is a tall, well formed, good lookng woman. She appeared perfectly calm and collected, and was accommodated with a chair. She kept her eyes upon the ground during the reading of the indictment. She afterwards watched the progress of the trial with interest. Mr. BobKIN ( with whom was Mr. Clarke) briefly stated the facts of the case against the prisoner, as it was sub sequently proved by the evidence adduced. He said the deceased was a feeble person ; that the prisoner lodged with her in a kitchen at No. 40, Adam -street West, Mary lebone ; that the deceased was supported by her friends, and had the credit of being penurious ; and no doubt this instigated the prisoner to the commission of the offence imputed to her, on the night of the Ist, or on the morning of the 2d of June last. She had been a domestic servant, but being in ill health, she took up her abode with the deceased, who had also been a domestic servant ; and they had lived together for a short time before the date of the offence. Early on the morning of the 2d she was detected by the policeman on the beat leaving the house with some bundles, and owing to her suspicious conduct, he took her into custody, and took her with him to search the house. Whilst with her in the back yard, she asked to go into the water-closet, and he permitted her to do so. He felt it, however, his duty not to lose sight of her. She here 'made an attempt to strangle herself ; but he prevented her, and having obtained the aid of a brother constable, he found the old woman lying in a pool of blood on her side in the back kitchen, with a rope round her neck. From the medical testimony it appeared that she had been dead for seven or eight hours, and that several ribs on either side were broken. A poker covered with blood was lying by her side. It seemed that she had died from severe pressure on the chest and strangulation. Spots of blood,partially washed out, were found on her dress. Twenty-one shillings and sixpence were found on her, and he should prove by the testimony of the daughter of the deceased, that some of the articles in the bundle belonged to the unfortunate woman who had been murdered. It appeared that the prisoner was anxious to get to Brighicn by the begin ning of June, for the purpose of getting a situa tion, and had expressed her anxiety to obtain the necessary money to do so. It appeared, further, that she had had angry words with the deceased respect ing not paying her (the prisoner's) share of the tenement, and that she had called her a covetous old woman, who would not give a farthing to save the life of any one, anti had threatened to do for her. She intended to go to Brighton on the morning of the 2d, and had made ar rangements over night. He should show that she was deficient of money up to the time in question, and it would be for them to say whether she was guilty or not of the horrible crime charged against her. She had been remanded from the last session, in order to enable her friends to produce evidence to show that she bad been insane during periods of her life, and that was the defence, he believed, that would be set up to-day; but the wit nesses obtained by the Crown would state that they al ways believed her to be sane. Police-constable Battersbee, 174 D, stated that he was on duty at a quarter past f our i n Adam-street, and that he saw the prisoner put her head out of No. 40, and imme diately withdraw it on see i ng h i m. Thinking her con duct suspicious, te determined to watch her, and watched the house till a quarter past five, when she emerged from the house with a bundle under either arm. She saw him watching her at the corner, and she threw the bundles in and closed the door. He was fifteen or twenty yards from the door. About a quarter past five o'clock he tried the door, and found it an inch or two open; he pushed it, and found that some one behind resisted. He then put his shoulder to the door and thrust it open. He found the prisoner behind the door with the bundles beside her, and asked her if she owned them? She said she did. He replied, " If you had been an honest woman you would have taken a cab from the stand hard by, instead of watching until the policeman was off the boat." He asked her if she lived in the house? and she replied that she lived with an old lady on the first floor. He said, " I must trouble you to show me her." She replied, " You can go, and I will wait here." He said, " Certainly not ; you must go with me." She then went up about fou r steps with him, when she suddenly turned round and said, " I suppose it is of no use telling you a lie." To which he replied, " No, nor a thousand ; for I shall not be satisfied until I see the old woman." " Well then," she said, "I live with the old woman in the front kitchen." He went down; the prison er was unw illi ng to go . She said, "Itisof no use knocking, as she is as deaf as a stone." He knocked repeatedly, but received no answer. He took her into the area and looked through the window of the kitchen, but as he saw no furniture there, he said, " This is the second falsehood you have told me." She made no reply. He then took her into the back yard, and she then offered him half-a• crown, saying, "Or a crown, or twenty shillings," for him to get something to drink. He said he should not part with her until he saw th e l a d y i n t h e f ront shop. She pressed him to let her go , say i ng t h at she wanted to get away without paying her rent. He tried the back kitchen door, when she exclaimed, "Do not say I did it ; I have not seen her since last night." He said " This looks very suspicious," and took her up stairs and knocked at a dOtir ke the passage ; a female voice, amavered; and, on hearing the prisener's voice, 1 : 1 1 e a she knew her, that her name was Mrs. Hunt, a d e n she lived with an olrl lady in the back kitchen. II 'r e, asked the female if she should know her ba ther Ifs and the prisoner said, "It la me, Mrs. wn. ,_,, took her towards the back ki:ohen, and whilst on trs l ": stairs the prisoner said, " I tell you again it's of e no knocking, as she's as deaf as a po,t." Ther e W3 ' C key in the door : she said she had not . g .. _" it. He asked her where the Window .7z and she replied in the back ard. When she Sto.a7, , had not got the key, he said, "This is very , stisP ie !f t is She replied again, "Do not say I did it: Ai r h t . , ls ,, e d the yard he noticed that her right sleeve was ee e ' ~• for about six inches with blood, and that it had been aPP_!. rently recently washed. He got down into, the are"i whilst doing so, he heard ano and on turning of be he saw the prisoner raising herself up by mean s ° f e et high. He pulled her back, and said, " Wha t are ree• water butt in order to get over a wall six or seven ea doing—what is this?" She appeared in great„ei%iont meet, and pointing , to the water-closet said, . 1 1 , ot ltos to go there.' Her tongue protruded from her m outh , _ and she appeared in great agony. He allowed her sog.ul but watched her, fearing that she might do herself :05 injury. He opened the door in about two minutes, o d beheld the prisoner with her clothes about her nee ~,,_. with her hands behind her back strangling prisoner looked up and shook her head.) Se ; n et " What the devil are you doing? I must give you the the custody of another constable," and he:rnt to ai door, and called an officer named Jackson 1 0 a nd g e e; her into his custody. I had seen the legs of the 01 ~ Take c are 01 lady through the window, and I said, her, and I will look after the body of the old lady, , herself. (talljr, from what he had seen he thought her (lest i l l ) ; got into the room by the window, an d foun t head of the deceased under the grate , a nd here:gs i; wards the bed, and with a cord aroun d her nk. to i drew the body out six inches, and left it in the sta oo which it was seen by the doctor. There was a g a l i deal of blood under the body, and it run into a aboutr 2 the middle cf the room. Dr. Moat came in ....0 minutes or half an hour. There was a table and se turn up bedstead in the room; it was turned up; tb .d r i u t v b door was locked. He then came up and went I t ba prisoner and Jackson to the station. Told her e'' t ) J ac kson! ~,. found the body, but she made no remark. her and the bundle to the station-house. L e ft the hod. in the custody of a person named Keeling. C, to the prisoner with the murder, and she rep lieu e las charge, "I did not do it; I have not seen h shifts,e la night." The bundles contained petticoats, ,_,4 marked " M. W. Margaret Wills," deceased's datif;l The prisoner was searched; four letters were foul. (one of which had been torn up,) and a glove iu h e ase d , cule; also, it. Is. 6d. in silver. Found in the deceased we pocket two silver watches, 6d., and a watch key. There bse a chest of drawers in the room; one of the faunaerili it., a key in it and was open. No money was anbl e ' The deceased's son-in-law and the deceased's ea`'' street,ja ck s e t): , t 2 h 9 e , m s totederain morning that f he th w e identified the body. e t Mol e " as 2cl °ll of dli g nie Sa u l ; all ow the prisoner first at half-past three walking Upper Seymour-street very fast; it is about flyertismit dred yards from the place. She was going t° ll ,.„ a a fter She was not carrying anything. About two hou te ` - o bre he was passing the house, and was called in by l3s d he r i who gave the prisoner into his custody. As ke 1 eigh t she lived in the house, and how long, an d she early,said bllt weeks. Asked her where she was going so Zaeiterl' she made no reply. She appeared very flinch and trembled. Took her to the station. eolice . Mary Anne Porter, wife of James Porter, assn man, and searcher at Harcourt-street statiou'u°o o Recollected her being brought there on the 0 01 4 'he] the 2d of June. There blood her sleeve-I was o no Yo u ' skirt , and on the body of her gown. Said t o here, wise dress is in a mess." She attributed it to a eatural oo 4 01 her:under clothing was much stained. There was b e lottl'' the strings of her bonnet, and a re at deal on her h p re- Whilst in the cell she said her great del the Whilst in the cell she said her nose had bl ed t i, (3 0 119 ceding night. There was nothing to i n dicate ar te a s f r ote blood on the upper part of her clothing had ise e d sh" natural causes. When the bundles were open.oo. said there were some things in the bundle for will had paid the old lady ss. 0 th e (The gown and the strings of the loonnethil poi cloak were here exhibited to the judge and t h e .1 The marks bad, in some deg e , been effaced 11 ' 3 ,, ea Mrs. Susanah Nesbett, a r l e od er in the he a t s ra lliee next called. She appeared quite overcome, b,il he F ri s slightly. She said no one but her mother an u coy phi orier resided on the ground floor of the house. be foe prisoner about ten minutes to nine on the 11i . Ogolic l the murder coming along the passage• Oatsun n srr el a night she heard the • - -* d e" 11 Ow prisoner and the arse „seri ling. The prisoner repeatedly told -the decfr Di ecer " she would do for her and that before long' w ent f ei c ; sequence of the disturbance thus created, she in 00 r. Hayward, the owner of the house, wit ° r il e oessl, remonstrated with them. The prisoner on tba..L' h i e h s„' called the deceased "an old hypocrite ;'' to w — ad s"' ' replied, " She was the first lodger she had had , 6 0er b ourse' !Twat should not have another;" ' adding, t a _ should not stop there that night. The pris PP to behave like other people. ; W r t( ' Cross-examined—Had lived in the house 's.tl„.9bee '1 a • but only occasionally spoke to the prisoner. 'ttiost'l rel on the Monday arose about hanging a ,, l t ten .., /13 1 ' the yard. Did not see the prisoner until tle°Thnacei,a-' flutes . to nine on the Tuesday night. Heard r' n ' 'J.' mg on the Tuesday, the night of the mur der. s 001 prisoner passed her in the her visl °II passage on night. ea , 0 1° deceased was not so e to By a juryman —The d ° hee • , t the prisoner's threats. °il , ati Charles Hayward, the landlord of the hon s :',sita e , - , and celour man, was next called. The la a nd' 9 01,.,,'" came to him on the Monday before the ranvderth'e hoio` o / consequence of what she stated, he went t° l, - O r d He found the old lady sittin hair at te e Asir sitting .on a c . . ;de . ba t the back kitchen. The prisoner was 10 °' lied a Mrs. Stowell what was the matter? She reP esh e she t he the • - . prisoner had been h - her becaus e dby • a using for money. He went into the kitchen, foliowe flaky old lady. Asked the prisoner what she had beelpy b 0 a noise about, and she replied that the eld ' t ) is O il been making a noise ahout hanging a Per tic i ly lb ° a yard. She said that she had told the old a ol d ba d was not hers (the prisoner ' s), and that it bel p s he ~o person in the first floor. The old lady said s he ''! l 4, told h her to bring it in. The deceased salu per slo b t reatened to do for her, to which the P. any slob "You are a lying old wretch, I never saw - 00 The . thing." The last witness, who w its , ~:s s e stairs, said she had heard ' her SO' A - o °. P i ' t - be prisoner said she would go to ',7j te r the where broken victuals was given to her, a - „totls„s, people who gave her them that she was a eq . ' o'7 o woman, and was dissatisfied with what she heih f i he y ; 0 that she should like to have her revenge ou t , e ,; ro ao ° id which he said, " Surely you would not j e J -- 04 woman." The deceased said she wanted thel n an er r e ; the rent as she had none • to which the Pr h s ave se a e s sponded—" It is a lie I know; have, for 1 " - Sid 5-, ; you ove r s ee as it in the corner of the drawer." The pris iiie tv b at had no money, and acknowledged owing her , ias ; erf rent. She said she was too ill to take a situ el , she would write for some _money to PSI s od 6 'o farthing before she left. She was exciten-1 she no - Told her she had better go to bed and t' s ei I be drib not discontinue her noisy conduct ; he sb,°, n 7.,„ t elf ", s ei pelled to turn her out. She said she woutu,T4t. ',,,'" 0 his request, and he bid her good night alw left, the deceased next morning. She paid tw ° s e ddi e week, and he allowed her one shilling for t hat for him. 1 4 d b et Cross . examined—Did not recollect e or O bo e_ T h e the • prisoner said, although th deceased lied abuse M il d shamefully that she would . n e a _. boo 0 deposition was shown to not do her a u tl Y, h , atu",.. ot te that he had made such the witness, " ha d f0r6 0 4 0 1, a statement, but yecla e doing so.) Saw the deceased's the 1 body 00 t reeff not on the Tuesd a 1 0- ' ay. A $ on e Ann Smallworth said sie li ve d a t 40, -,,,„ pal all and kept a shop there. On Monday n ight ri is .. 4 0 1 1 came into her parlour, and said the deceesen,, abused her and insulted her. Saw her 00 " - f ilo 10 ,' I A morning d at nine o'clock, when she begged Il h ''' t wr g. et tru Jig the night before. She explain ed t- ea ti Pie ill r li eh etj meant by doing for the deceased was by 0 . - „, e ci h - or r ecei. - 0 - f her to Mrs. Wyndham from whom she A hetife e goo victuals. Saw her also , at ten o'clock. an d " I ; a the . oac ll fe,urand five, in the back kitchen. She e l le h e aad , " il l° an inch or two, and took a letter from h e 1 e to se e eV witness th had taken in for her. Was not ° we t° aiP sis t room. Saw her again at twenty minut es , eye °: het said she had to meet half-p.s.looked al se a person at _ ,o 6 o'clock, and asked her the time. Witness, the tie ' t of clock at the prisoner's request, and foal", ee up -s ta irs minutes to six. Thii conversation took P'a ciai ert ot and she asked witness to permit her to E ° o o Ilia: f oe , through her parlour. Saw her again _r o od t"' d O s ! evening corning from the street. She lad P - in l ' a n a - 00, her parlour into the street. She Passep ass te-,„te• again, having obtained her permission to the t es t her parlour. The witness corroborateuet te 0 4. knocking ofthe at the door on the Wed ° ,, es e ther P Et hiog versed with her daily. She was ",'° tad a n) s e. truly collected, t 1 truly sensible. N ev er aetec , h i o g be 09 0 01." peculiar in her way of talking. There Tuesday culiar in her conduct on the Monday an me a te was much paler. . , _ r b e _ 0 h i Cross-examined—Was not exarained eltrthe statetita• the e gistrate or coroner. Was questioned 111 ' o her e r superintendent of police, who took doW graa D ot, oo ment. Attended befor the magistrate, hill oWructll34 amined. Had told her that she h a d some im her t d s she W.-, sea -• and that she had had a renewal e • On l' e abaci a shortl i' y a.ter she came into the house. he 1 01- day week before the murder she told her that 9 - a t he d renew al , and she made a similar statenient.b°o shell:, before the discovery of the murder, steYing.;o3B.-soleseo a return of the periodical complaint each ''., her ° ing a discharge. Never knew an instance Lf. bad family of illness arising from such acniplaw letter she By a juryman—When she gave r the d in t" her bonnet and cloak on. b-sta n- SO Samuel Watkins, waterman to the ea . trig s day A y ~,,g i s. _ Tos e: 3.. street—Was not examined before the the prisoner at twenty minutes to nine on the a re ; night. The driver of the first so lc ' r ies r me i nc l u named Mapleson. She made so , oa _ who 1 ;!'„ respecting the trains to Brighton of MeVeL o.ould at as tOo ' 4 . . e , tf ferred the matter to witness ; and he said is' 1 t quire. He did so, and told her that she w 5 then t " -Li 13. the last train, as it left at eight. It wa as woe though t th e minutes to nine. She replied that she . ~ to 1, De Ito She asked Mapleson what he would take e for. bo o coach office, White Hart-yard, Whited's') f or 105 t,. said, 3s. She replied, "You must take me ot itig gatv . : that." He answered, "I cannot, you have. g . _ or thql to carry." She said, " No, I have only two sa i d , an d bundles." She had nothing with hen aro, be she had friends in King's as a id , it we" Ueo that she would sleep there, as iese n as nearer the railway than Adam-street.' gt,.1?_,..„ he r 1 1 1;;; where she was going, and where he should te ea lOW' d Oat omv ' She said a little way down the etreet, an