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fniptrtal Varliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY. The house re-assembled this evening after the Easter re cess. At -four o'clock: - there were exactly 40 members pre sent, being just a sufficient number to enable the Speaker to take the chair. CARLOW ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the house that Thomas Gisborne, Esq., had failed to enter into the necessary recognisances to prosecute the petition against the return of Francis Bruen, Eiq., and therefore the order for taking the petition into con sideration was discharged. Subsequently a petition was presented (as we understood) from the electors of Carlow in the interest of Mr. Gisborne, praying that Mr. Bruen might be declared unduly elected, and that the return might be amended by inserting the name of Mr. Gisborne. The petition was ordered to be taken into consideration on a future day, the date of which we could not sicertain. _ _ [We understand that by this proceeding the parties stand in nearly the same situation as formerly, and that a committee will be appointed on a future day, to try the validity of the roturn ; but what took place in the house was in so low a tone that it was impossible to hear distinctly what passed.] NEW WRIT. On the motion of Sir T. FREMANTLE, a new writ was or d.ved for the county of Ayrshire, in the room of Sir J. Dun lop, Bart., deceased. The Moulton (Suffolk) inclosure bill, and the Timberland drainage bill, were severally read a third time, and passed. The Fraserburgh harbour bill and the Eyemouth harbour bill were read a second time. Several inclosure and road bills were forwarded a stage. A number of petitions in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan of postage were presented. On the motion of i%jr. C. Woof., an address was ordered to be presented to her Majesty, praying that she would be pleased to direct certain returns relating to the army and navy t 3 be laid before the house. The following bills were severally read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—The London and Croydon rail way bill, the London and Greenwich railway bill, the Wishaw and Caltness railway bill, the Monkland and. Kirkintulloch railway bill, the Ballochney railway bill, the Perth police bill, the Crichton charities' bill, the West Durham railway bill, and the Perth harbour and navigation bill. Several petitions, praying for an alteration of the beer act, and on other subjects, were presented. GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND. Lord J. RUSSELL said, with respect to the notice of mo tion which he had given for the 15th instant, he wished to state to the house that on that day he would move the fol. , lowing resolution :—" That in the opinion of this house it is expedient to persevere in those principles which have guided the executive government of Ireland of late years, and which have produced the effectual administration of the law, and the general improvement of that part of the United Kingdom."— (Cries of hear, hear, hear, and laughter, from the opposition benches.) In answer to a question by Mr. E. TENNENT, Mr. P. THoMsoN said only parts of reports from the hand loom commissioners had been received ; but the whole were shortly expected, and no time would be lost in laying them before the house. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice, that on Thursday next ha should move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the abolition of imprisonment for debt bill, As far as related to the price paid for advertisements in newspapsrs. RAILWAYS (IRELAND) Mr. P. THOMSON gave notice that he should, on Tuesday. the 23d inst., submit a motion to the house founded on the resolution relating to railroads in Ireland : and that he should bring it forward on that day at five o'clock. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD postponed the second reading of the custody of infants bill until !he 18th instant. The mutiny bill and the marine mutiny bill went through committee, and were ordered to be read a third time. The district prisons bill was read a second time. PRISONS BILL. _ _ On the order of the day being moved for the second read ing of this day, Sir R. PEEL wished to ask the noble lord, the Home Secre tary, what was to be the mode of proceeding on Monday ? The noble lord had given notice of a motion, but that was not an order of the day, and, therefore, he wished to ask whether the noble lord intended to move his resolution as an amendment to one of the orders of the day, or to bring it forward as a substantive motion? Lord J. RUSSELL said that he intended, on Friday, to move a postponement of all the orders of the day, which stood for Monday, and if that was agreed to, he should then bring forward on Monday his resolution as a substantive motion, and move it at the commencement of public busi ness. The bill was then read a second time. The report on the committee of supply was brought up and agreed to. The registration of electors bill was postponed until Wed nesday next ; the committee on the election petitions trials bill until Friday, the 26th instant ; the ecclesiastical appoint ments suspension bill, and several other orders on the paper, until the week after next. The bankrupt estates (Scotland) bill went through com mittee. CORN LAWS. Mr. EWART inquired when the correspondence relating to the importation of corn from foreign countries would be laid before the house ? Vv Lord PALMERSON said the whole of the correspondence extended over 2000 or 3000 pages, but the spirit of the returns ordered should shortly be produced. THE CHARTISTS. Colonel SIBTHORP wished to ask the Secretary for the Home Department whether it was true, as reported in the newspapers, that large quantities of pikes had been manu factured and sold to the labouring classes ? Lord J. RUSSELL said he had written to the lord-lieute nants of counties on the subject, and he was informed that pikes and other armed instruments had been sold. (Hear.) Mr. O'BRIEN postponed from Wednesday to Wednesday week, the second reading of the registration of electors (Ireland) bill. Sir R. PEEL asked if the hon. member should insist upon proceeding with the bill on the last-named day ? Mr. S. ()Ilan:N.—Yes. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate die conveyance of heritable estates in Scotland. The other orders on the paper were disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter before six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. Mr. D. W. H ARVEY, on the second reading of an "en closure" bill being moved, directed attention to the evasion of specific compliance with the rule of the house, that in every such bill a certain proportion of the land proposed to be enclosed should be set apart as places of recreation for the poor; he stated that he had examined several breviates of enclosure bills, and that they were deficient as to mentioning the quantity proposed to be set apart, or in defining where it was situated. THE ADMINISTRATION. Sir R. PEEL wished to give notice that it was his intention to move an amendment on Lord J. Russell's motion, on Monday next ; and, in order that no one might be taken by surprise, that on Thursday, or Friday at least, he would state the express terms in which he should submit snch amend ment. _ D. O'CONNELL, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Sir F. BURDETT was understood to give notice of his in tention of moving for any papers or correspondence relative to the appointment, during Lord Normanby's administration of Ireland, of Daniel O'Connell to be a justice of the peace for the county of Kerry, or for any other county in Ireland. He should be glad to make the motion so that the papers might be produced before the debate on Monday next. Lord J. RUSSELL , said that he knew of no objection to the motion being made at once. Sir F. BURDETT then moved for the papers. Motion agreed to. Mr. P. THOMPSON moved, on the consideration of a report on railway bills being proposed, that the further considera tion of such report should not be entertained before Tuesday, April 23 ; and he did so in consequence of the motion that he intended to make on Thursday for a select committee " to inquire into the state of commuication by railways," and in order that the house might have the benefit of the report of that committee. Mr. R. PALMER having seconded the motion. Mr. flaw Es condemned the motion as one of ex poet facto legislation, and one that came with very ill grace from his right hon. friend, who ought long ago to have brought for ward the whole subject of railway police and regulations. The motion for deferring the consideration of reports on railway bills was eventually adopted. Mr. LABOUCHERE moved for leave to bring in a bill for the suspension of the existing government of the island of Jamaica, and to make provision for the administration of its affairs during such suspension. He admitted that it was a measure of no ordinary character, but he contended that the extraordinary proceedings in the island warranted the pro posed temporary abrogation of its constitution—proceedings established in the papers laid before the house, and by every journal that had reached this country. The motion led to an extended discussion, iu which Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Godson, Sir G. Grey, Sir R. Peel, Dr. Lush ington, &c., took part ' • but the introduction of the bill was not distinctly opposed by any one, although Sir R. PEEL said that more powerful evidence must be adduced before he could agree to so strong a measure as that now contemplated. Leave was given, without any division, to bring in the bill. On the motion of Mr. G. PALMER, a select committee was appointed to enquire into shipwrecks of timber ships, and the loss of life attendant thereon. Mr. FINCH moved for an account of the several amounts borrowed by railway companies now before parliament, in anticipation of calls, ecc.,,which was ordered. Mr. HARVEY moved an address for a list of names of per sons through whose property the proposed line of railroad between the cities of Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, &c., was to run, " distinguishing the name of each person who is a member of either house ;of parliament." which motion was agreed to without any opposition. The reports of the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills were received and agreed to. The Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill was read the third time and passed. Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in the bill for making tempo rary provision for the government of Jamaica, which was read the first time, and ordered to be read the second time on the 19th instant. The house adjourned at half after 10 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNEsDAy. This day the House of Commons could not make a house —that is, there were not 40 members present at four o'clock. —Adjourned. The Royal Sovereign, iron steamer, left Liverpool on Monday afternoon last, at a quarter past five o'clock, for Glasgow, and arrived here yesterday at a quarter past five o'clock, P.M.—having discharged and taken in a cargo there, and made the passage from Liverpool to Glasgow, and back, in the short space of 48 hours. WARDLE'S ESSENCE OF ANCHOVIES.—We have been fa vored with a bottle of this excellent sauce, and after a trial find it equal if not superior to that of Burgess, who we once con sidered would never be surpassed. We feel confident that a trial of this excellent article will prove the truth of all the eulogiums which have been pronounced in its favour. A NEW DON JUAN.—We understand that an extraordi nary work under the signature of " Don Juan, Junior, by Byron's Ghost," is about to make its appearance. It pur ports to be a continuation of the plan and plot of Byron's celebrated poem ; and, as the leading events and chara cters . i of the day are said to be scrutinised and shewn up in its pages, the announcement has created an immense sensation among certain notorious characters, whose misdeeds give them too much reason to fear a prominent place in its rhymes. THE How. Fox MAULE, M.P.—This gentleman, under secretary in the Home-office, has been stopping at the Royal Hotel during the week. He attended .the police court on Tuesday, and was introduced by the mayor to the magistrates then on the bench, viz.—Mr Cross, Mr. Dixon and Mr. Brown.—Chester Chronicle. LAW.—The reader will, perhaps, be surprised to hear that there exists not in this country any law for the promul gation of the law ; that the parliament and the tribunals are so far from thinking themselves und er an o bli ga ti on t o ma k e known their proceedings to the public, that they are actually destitute of the me ans o f d o i ng so ; t h at they possess no ac credited organ through which their enactments and decisions may be communicated to the world in an authentic and au thoratative manner ; and that all the information w hi c h the public receive upon this important subject, in each of its de partments, is the fortuitous co nsequence o f private efforts and commercial speculation.—Monthly Chronicle. MISCELLANEOUS. On Saturday night 21 ewe sheep in lamb were drowned by the extraordinary rise of the tide on the Rye Harbour. — Rochester Gazette. Sir Wm. Woods has returned to town from investing the Earl of Derby with the Order of the Garter, at Knowsley Park, near Prescot. MR. SHEIL.—We can state that the hon. member for Tipperary has resigned the office he held as commissioner for Greenwich Hospital.—Dublin Evening Post. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—This celebrated pack of fox hounds is about to be placed under the joint controul of J. Smith Barry, Esq. of Marbury, and John Dixon, Esq. of Astle Hall. Lord and Lady Canning, in the Gondola cutter-yacht, have arrived at Cowes, after a tempestuous passage, ftom Gibraltar, which fortress they left on the 14th ult. THE APPLE CROP.—We learn from good authority, that the apple and pear trees give good promise of plentiful blossoms throughout the country.—Merthyr Guardian. Died at Urlar, near Aberfeldy, on the 24th March, Mrs. Christian Andrew, relict of Alexander M`Donald, in the one hundred and second year of her age. There are now 89 associations, which include 98 parishes, in connexion with the county of Derby Society for the Pre vention of the Desecration of the Lord's day.—Derby Mer cury. The labourers employed in excavating on the Derby and. Birmingham Junction Railway, at Kingsbury, have disco vered lead ore. It is said to exist in such abundance that a mine is to be opened and worked. The Nassau Balloon will commence its aerial voyage this year by an ascent from the Montpelier-gardens, Cheltenham, on one day before the 15th of the present month.—Chelten haw Gazette. Lord Suffield, of sporting celebrity, has " run so fast," that the Leicestershire establishment of hounds, horses, &c. has been seized ; and, it is rumoured, that he has departed for the continent. SEVERITY OF THE SEASON.—Loch Rannoch, in Atholl, has this week been completely frozen over, for the third time this winter, a circumstance never before remembered 4o have happened in April.—Caledonian Mercury. One, of a dish of early potatoes grown at Sir John Judkin Fitzgerald's, Bart, Liskeen, John Dwyer, gardener, has been left at our office this day, weighing four ounces.—Tipperary Constitution. The Duke of Montebello, the new French Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim, is married to an English lady, before her marriage Miss Jenkinson, a relative of the late Lord Liverpool and the present Countess of Verulam. We understand that a subscription, which already amounts to £l,OOO, has been entered jnto in thin town, for the pur pose of aiding Mr. Ewart, M.P. for Wigan, in defending his seat against the petition of Mr. John Hodgson Kearsley, the opposing candidate at the election.—Manchester Guardian. The Bishop of Worcester's health is, we are happy to say, so far improved as to enable his lordship to take the chair at the diocesan meeting in favour of general education in the principles of the Church of England, at the County Hall, on Saturday.—Worcester Journal. MARIA MONK.—From the New York Observer, a Pres byterian journal, we learn that Maria has confessed her im posture to a clergyman of New York. She says she was en abled to make out her story by the leading questions pro posed to her.—Scottish Gualsidian. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. RAILWAY.—The workmen in this quarter (Glasgow) are pushing forward briskly, and clearing away from the depot at the head of Queen-street. They have also broke ground some time ago from the long tunnel, which commences in Bell's Park.—Scottish Guar dian. During the last year, the ordnance of the United States has been increased by the addition of 143 cannons for the field artillery, 71 cannons for garrison service, 1526 percussion cannon locks, 52,700 small arms, 347 Bunn carriages; and, for the use of the militia, 80 cannon for field artillery, and 16,800 small arms. A letter from Rome, of the 26th ultimo, contradicts the reyort of the marriage of Lord Alvanleywith Lady Acton, and says that it probably originated amongst the gossipping English at Naples, who amuse themselves by writing to England on subjects about which they are ignorant, and of persons with whom they are totally unacquainted. TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—Ou Wednesday morning a splendid piece of plate and 170 sovereigns were presented to the Rev. J. H. Bromby, of Hull, as a testimony of the high esteem entertained by his parishioners for the exemplary man ner in which he had discharged the duties of vicar of the parish of Holy Trinity during a period of 41 years.—Hull Times. PORT WINE.—The shipments of Port Wine to England, from 1826 up to 1838 : Pipes. Pipes. Pipes. 1826 18,360 1831 20,290 1835 32,585 1827 24,207 1832 13,572 1836 30,206 1728 27,932 1833 19,466 1837 31,110 1829 • ..17,832 1834 28,207 1838.. 26,057 1830... ./.. 19,333. MARCH OF LOYALTY AMONG THE PAINTERS.—From a sign painted over the door of the Three Tuns public house, whence Mr. Bushel's omnibus starts, it would appear that the painters of Kidderminster are resolved that her Majesty should not be deprived of any of her privileges. It is writ ten :—" Parcels booked and carried to all parts of the Quendom !"—Kidderminster Messenger. We understand that on Wednesday, the excavators em ployed on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at Ludden den Foot, discovered the perfect skeleton of a human being. Some of the old inhabitants suppose it to be the remains of a young man, lost nearly thirty years age, on his return to Todmorden, and who was seen near the place in the evening, but was never after heard of.—Halifax Express. SWALLOWING A PROMISSORY NOTE.—In the secon daries' Court, last week, a Mr, Wright recovered £lB from a Mr. Green, the amount of a promissory note given by the defendant, and two others, one of whom, named Young, when the note became due, snatched it from the person pre senting it for payment, and swallowed it. For this offence Young was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. —Carlisle Patriot. COAL.—Another new coal company is about to commence workings within half a mile of the town of Oswestry, on the left hand of the road on entering from Shrewsbury. It is the intention of the proprietors to lay down a tram-roaL to the canal at Maesbury, not only to convey their lime coal for boating to the various lime works, but to bring up Liverpool and Manchester to the town.—Chester Courant. It appeared that the body of London police which were last week sent down to Mansfield are still to remain there, and that a further large body of special constables have been sworn in by the magistrates.—Derbg Mercury. We are sorry to observe, by the annual report of the So ciety for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts throughout England and Wales, that their ex penditure during the last year exceeded their ordinary income to the amount of £2124 18s. sd. A FACT.—The Cincinnati News says that there is a man living about fifty miles north of that city, who had twenty four children by one wife, eighteen of whom are now full grown hearty males, capable of bearing arms. `' In peace prepare for war," is his maxim. Government has purchased the barracks at Trowbride, for £3OOO, and will take possession on the Ist of May next. Shortly after the peace they were sold for £l5OO by the then government. By this transfer upwards of 40 families will have to move to other places of abode.—Wilts Gazette. LADY FLORA HASTINGS.—The Argus says that legal pro ceedings have been commenced against the original propagator of the infamous slander on Lady Flora Hastings. Sir W: Follett has already received his retainer. This is as it should be. We regret to announce the decease of Captain Brenton, R.N., who died suddenly at his house in York-street, on Saturday evening. Captain Brenton was well known to the public as the founder of the Children's Friend Society, and the warm advocate of several charitable institutions. His life was spent in the duties of active benevolence.—Herald. Lord Powerscourt's ball took place on Tuesday night, at the Assembly-rooms, on a scale of great splendour and mag nificence. The company amounted to about 1500, consisting of the rank and fashion of Bath and its neighbourhood, and a large number of our respectable trading fellow-citizens, in vited without distinction of politics.—Bath Chronicle. FIRE-ARM SOCIETY.—We understand that a fire-arm so ciety has lately been instituted in this city. The members are ,of course universal-suffrage men, who contribute small sums weekly, with which guns and pikes are purchased when ever the contributions reach a certain amount. The arms are then distributed by lot. —Scotsman MOLD REVIVED FAlR.—This fair was very well attended, the stock shown was considerable : and a very respectable business was transacted. Many farmers attended in the hope that it was a seed fair. Next year it is intended that it shall embrace that also, which will be a great convenience to the neighbourhood.-L.Chester Courant. THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY.—We are in formed that Lady Londonderry progresses very slowly towards convalescence ; and we regret to add that her cough continues most harassing and distressing. We understand that the noble marquis and family are likely to remain at Wyndham Park for a considerable period, in consequence of her lady ship's lamented indisposition.—. Durham Chronicle. FAT Ox.—There is now exhibiting in the C4Forge Inn yard, Clewyd-street Ruthin, an enormous fat ox ; the animal stands 6 feet 3 inches, and of proportionate lenghth ; b6ts are made that it will weigh, when slaughtered, 25 scores per quarter. It was bred and fed by John Lloyd Wynne, Esq. of Coed Coch, Denbighshire, and is shortly to be slaughtered in Ruthin.—Chester Gazette. A letter from Santander,, dated 24th of March, published by the Correio Nacional, says, " I hasten to inform vou of a very favourable piece of intelligence for us. The English Commodore, Lord John Hay, has received orders from his government to blockade all the points of this coast occupied by the Carlists, and to capture any vessel, of whatever na tion she may be,:who should approach the coast." DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.—The majority of the inhabitants of Derby, including all shades of political and re ligious opinion, have sent a letter to the postmaster of the town, requesting him not to forward to them any letters, &c., arriving on a Sunday, unless especially marked on the out side to be forwarded unmediately. The same individuals have signed a petition, to be presented to parliament, praying the mails may not in future run on Sundays.—Derby Mercury. Mr. D. W. Harvey has written to a member of the " na tional convention," to deny that he had offered his legal ser vices to that body, as stated in one of their resolutions. Mr. Harvey says he entertains no hostility to the general objects of the convention, though he deplores " the feeble and per sonal tone of its deliberations," and he at the same time re commends the members of the convention to adhere more to truth in their statements and speeches. TOKEN OF RESPECT TO CAPTAIN MOORSOM.—CapIain Moorsom, late one of the secretaries of the London and Bir mingham Railway Company, has been presented by seventy of the officers of the company with a superb and massive ink stand, weighing one hundred and twenty ounces, as a token of their " sincere regret at losing a superior no less distin guished by the ability and sound judgment with which he managed the affairs of this great undertaking, than by the impartiality and strict sense of justice which marked his con duct towards his subordinates in office." CONGLETON.—On Monday week, the first stone of a new church was laid within two miles of this place, in the popu lous district of Buglawton. There was a very imposing pro cession of town's people, friendly societies, and schools, amounting to several hundred individuals, headed by a con siderable body of the clergy. The Rev. Willoughby Crewe, 8.C.L., the rector, laid the stone with the usual formalities. The divine blessing was fervently implored. The children were afterwards treated to buns and tea in the National School-room, and very affectionately and earnestly addressed by the Rev. Mr. Ingham. The day was observed as a holi day, partly in consequence of the event, and partly because it was Easter Monday.—Cheater Courant. POOR RATES.—The sum expended for the relief of the poor alone, in the year ended 25th March, 1838, was £4,123,604, which is two per cent. more than in the preceding year. The total amount of poor's rate expended, including law charges, county rates, &c., was X 5,468,699. There was, during this year, a very general decrease of expenditure in the avicul tural counties, viz., in Lincoln, 12 per cent. ; Shropshire, 9 ; Hereford, 8 ; Cambridge and Westmoreland, each 7 ; Kent and Monmouth, 6 ; Norfolk, Suffolk, and the North Riding of Yorkshire, 5 per cent. ; while in the county of Lancaster the increase was 19 per cent. ; in Nottinghamshire, 18 ; in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 12 ; and in Warwick, 9 per cent. The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Constantinople on the 17th ult. ; and her majesty the Queen Dowager was expected there, as also the Duke of Buccleugh. COL. CHURCHILL'S FLIGHT.—This hero is at last quite surfeited with the radicals of Lincoln, and has, in answer to an invitation requesting him to be present at the approaching dinner to Sir E. L. Bulwer, informed them that he shall have nothing more to do with them, and in consequence of having come to that conclusion, he thinks that no good would result from his again appearing in that city. It is said that the £3,000 paid him by government to cover the expenses of the late election is now all spent ; and the liberals of Lincoln having determined that nothing in support of an electioneering contest shall come from their pockets, is the reason of the gallant colonel leaving them so abruptly. _Sir Culling Eardly Smith has been requested to come forward in place of the Irun hero, but we have not yet heard his determination.—Boston Herald. FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Arrived here this morning from the Brazils, her Majesty's packet, Ranger, Lieut. Turner, hav ing sailed from Rio de Janiero on the 17th February, with the usual mails, and on freight £15,000. As regards news there is nothing important. Affairs, generally, are in a very tranquil state, with the exchange at 30d, and stock 75. It was stated at Rio, that the French intended blockading Bue nos Ayres. Her Majesty's packet, Penguin, Lieut. Lace, sailed to-day for Rio, with the Brazil mail to the 2d instant; and to-morrow, her Majesty's packet, Tyrian, Lieut. Cro ker, proceeds with the Halifax mail of the 3d We have noticed the arrival at Paris of Lord Brougham, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mr.:Hume, Mr. Leader, and Dr. Bowring : to these we may add Papineau, and the noto rious Judge Bedard. We presume that Canadian politics have drawn these gentlemen together, and that in the case of Hume and Papineau, as the mountain could not come to Mahomet, Mahomet has gone to the mountain. Sir William Molesworth has not joined the party, nor have we heard of late anything of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. There is a story current that this gentleman practised animal magnetism on the Canadians, with a view of getting their secrets while in the Mesmerian trance.—Standard. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Tuesday, March 19th, being Ruthin cattle fair, a number of cattle purchased at the fair, were placed in the yard belonging to Mr. Thomas Langford, the Antelope tavern ; when the purchasers cam., to take them away in the evening one was missing, and was supposed to have been stolen. Adjoining the Antelope is a large house, formerly occupied by the Rev. John Jones, curate of Llanrhydd, but which was for some time without a tenant. On Friday last, the poor animal was discovered in one of the parlours of the house alive, having been there 11 days, without food or water, the back door having been opened in, the course of the day, it was supposed she had entered un seen, and turning, had shut the door upon herself. She is now being fed sparingly, and appears not to be much hurt for her long abstincnce.—Chester Courant. GRAND CONSERVATIVE BANQUEP AT BATH.—One of the most (magnificent dinners ever held in the city of Bath took place on Friday last, at the Assembly Rooms, in honour of the return of Lord Viscount Powerscourt and W. Ludlow Bruges, Esq., as members for that city. Sir W. S. R. Cock burn, Bart., the respected president of the Bath Conserva tive Association, presided, Captain Muttlebury officiated as vice-president. On the 'right and left of the president, sat the distinguished guests Lord Viscount Powerscourt, M.P., W. L. Bruges, Esq. M.P., Captain Boldero, M.P., T. H. S. B. Estcourt, Esq. M.P., T. Shepherd, Esq., M.P., Wigget Chute, Esq., M.P., Sir , Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P., R. Blakemore, Esq. M.P., Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., Baron de Steinberg, Baron Bromville, the Hon. Augustus Jocelyn, Major General Sir Thomas Hawker, Bart. Captain Rooke, R.N., Capt. Williams, R.N., Col. Dales, Col. Digbv, Col. Daubeny, Rev. Dr. Lewis, Rev. ,Spencer Madan, [Robert Brooke, Esq. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT THE Naw BAILEY, MANCHESTER, ON THE APPOINTMENT OF OVERSEERS, &c.—Thursday last being the day appointed for confirming the appointments made at the Collegiate Church on Tues day, of churchwardens, overseers, &c., there was a full bench of magistrates in attendance. It is understood that the mayor had previously communicated to Mr. Maude, the sti pendiary magistrate, that the home secretary of state had issued his fiat for holding borough sessions, and that it would devolve upon the borough magistrates alone to confirm the nominations referred to. Mr. Maude, however, thought that the county magistrates had also concurrent jurisdiction in the matter, and quoted several authorities in justification of his opinion. On this, Mr. Wm. Garnett, late candidate for Salford, and Mr. Wm. Smith, of Reddish, proceeded to pass the accounts, and to issue their precepts to the various officers. We are thus likely to have two parties, each laying a rate. The public, of course, will not feel disposed to pay either party until some legal decision is obtained.—Manches ter Courier. IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—A respectable and intelligent farmer, seven miles south-west of Edinburgh, at an altitude of about 700 feet, soil and locality dry, informs us that his oats were filled, but not cut, before the frost set in last au tumn ; were ultimately well carried, and produced a fair sample, weighing 17 stones ; and, after paying mill dues, left 14i pecks of meal. Five weeks ago he put 24 grains, the growth of two different fields, into separate pots, and placed them in a favourable situation for germinating. The result was, that one of the pots brairded five out of the 12 grains, the other seven ; which is exactly one-half of the grains sown. Previous to this trial, the gentleman intended sowing part of his farm with its own growth, which is his usual practice, but has now purchased all his seed oats from a more favour able climate. He regrets exceedingly that he did not make the trial earlier in the year, and then publish the fact, as it might have been the means of saving many a pound to indi viduals, and proved a national benefit. The gentleman adds, that a neighbour of his made a like experiment, and the re sult proved very similar.—Scotsman. THE LATE MEDITATED DUEL.—We have been given to understand that the parties recently prevented from fighting a duel on Wandsworth-common, were Robert William Jack son, Esq., the barrister (formerly a candidate for Armagh), and William John O'Connell, Esq., a relative- of the mem ber for Dublin. The police, who arrived just in time to pre vent the exchange of shots, succeeded in capturing Mr. Jackton and his friends. and took them to Union Hall, where they gave their names Wilkinson, Jones; and Smith, and were bound over to keep the peace. Mr. O'Connell escaped ; but one of his pistols, which he had lent to Mr. Jackson, was impounded by the magistrates, and still re mains at Union Hall. The parties would subsequently have carried out their intentions on the continent, but were advised by two eminent counsel that the recognizances of their friends would, nevertheless, be forfeited. We under stand the quarrel originated in some misunderstanding, un connected with politics, at 11r. Jackson's lodgings, Thayer street, Manchester-square.— Weekly Chronicle. A HINT TO HER MAJESTY ' S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.—There lately dined at the table of the lieutenant-governor of an island, not one hundred miles from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the following official persons : One of her majesty's Executive Council ; one of the Legis lative Council ; the treasurer ; the marshal of the Instance Vice Admiral's Court ; the commissioner of the Vice-Admi ral's Court, for the trial of offences on the seas ; the provost ,marshall (a sinecure) ; a puisne judge ; a master in chancery ; an examiner in chancery ; a member of the court for bearing and determining divorces ; a justice of the peace for the whole island ; a referee of the New Brunswick Assurance Company ; a trustee and governor of the Central Academy ; a member of the Board of Education ; the vice-president of the Agricultural Society ; a vice-president of the Auxiliary Bible Society ; the comptroller of his excellency's household. How many persons sat at table besides the lieutenant-go vernor? Why, one, and his name is—HAYLAND. FALLING OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE. —On Wednesday, the Messrs. King, contractors for the railway bridge over Gilmour-street, Paisley, commenced to remove the cooms which had supported it during erection, but by the time they had got four out of the nine ribs removed, the main arch was observed to give way considerably, and the removal of the other five ribs was accordingly stopped. At about half-past five it fell with an instantaneous crash, not leaving the work men or passengers a moment to escape. This was the largest of the railway bridges over the streets of Paisley. One man had just been stepping out from the south side, when it fell, and a boy from the north. Several were on the eve of entering, and we are sorry that at least one woman was crushed in the ruins, although it was understood for some hours after the accident that there had not been any person injured. The name of the sufferer is Mrs. Linnon ; she is a yonug woman, about 20, the wife of a fish merchant, and the mother of one child. The body was found in the ruins on Thursday morning.—Perthshire Courier. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. — The con templated matrimonial alliance between the Marquis of Douro and Lady Elizabeth Hay, will be positively solem nised on Thursday, the 18th instant, at 10 a. m., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Rev. Charles Long, nephew to the Earl of Lauderdale, and the late Lord Farnborough, will lead to the altar on Thursday next, at Walthamstow Church, Miss Anna Maria Fitzroy, grand daughter of the late and sister to the present Sir Robert Fitzwygram, Bart., of Cannaught-place. The Dowager Lady Wvgram will give an elegant ddeuner after the cere mony. Lord Fitzallan's marriage with Miss Lyons, daugh ter of Capt. Sir Edward Lyons, K. C. H., resident minister at the court of King Otho, of Greece, will be solemnised i the course of the ensuing month, when the accomplished bride elect will arrive in England. Count Castellane will be united in the course of the present week, at Paris, to Madlle. Talleyrand de Perigord, daughter of the Duchess de Dine. — Morning Herald. " NATIONAL CONVENTI,ON•"--CONTINUED DESERTIONS. Yesterday, the " Convention" Hall presented a cold, dis heartening appearance. Between ten and thirteen delegates were dispersed through the hall, apparently ignorant what course to pursue, but all evidently distrustful of each other. Mr. James Taylor, in a speech characterised by its violence and allusions to the necessity of a general arming of the peo ple, delared himself a physical-force man, and said, that although they had been deserted, and w 4.11 he further de serted, he was determined to stand by the coravention, even if by so doing he would shed his blood. ' (Cheers.) After adverting to the thin attendance of delegates, he called upon those present to enforce a better attendance. Dr. Fletcher said they had nothing to dread but treachery in their own body. Their being allowed by the, government to sit for one week was a triumph. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Richardson said that their members were daily dropping off. (Hear, hear.) Eight had resigned, nine were on the mission, and only 21 delegates were in London. Of the latter, not more than 12 attended the convention. This speaker, in the course of the day, announced that, at Leith, 1400 of the working classes had been sworn in special constables, and in the same shop where the constables' truncheons were turned pikes were also ground. Of six or seven notices of motion fixed for yester day, not one was moved. To add to their discomfiture, se veral delegates gave a most mournful report of their missions. It was reported, as a reason for Dr. Wade's secession, that he is rector of Warwick, which produces £BOO per annum, and which would be forfeited if he were convicted of sedition or treason. Even visitors are ceasing to frequent the " con vention." It is threatened to publish weekly the names of such delegates as absent themselves.—Globe, Thursday. BRANCH RAILWAY TO HALlFAX. — OnWednesday last, a public meeting was held at the Magistrates' Office, Halifax, convened by the constables, in consequence of a requisition to them by the committee appointed at a public meeting twelve months ago, to obtain a survey, in order to determine tlfe most eligible line for the proposed branch railway to Halifax,) for the purpose of taking into consideration the bill intro duced into Parliament by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and to determine what steps should be taken in reference to the same. George Whiteley, Esq., the Senior Con Stable, was called to the chair, who opened the business of the meeting by reading the requisition, and, strongly urged the necessity of a communication by a branch from the main line of railway to the town of Halifax.. George Pollard, Esq., one of the committee, then addressed the meeting, giving a detail of their proceedings, from the commencement up to the present period, particularly Eluding to the agreement entered into with the agents of the railway company for a branch to Halifax, to be finished by the time the whole line was ready for opening, and the attempt now made by the company to pass the bill in committee, without securing to the inhabitants of Halifax that privilege according to the express understand ing with the company. The meeting was afterwards addressed by J. E. Norris, Esq., Robert Baldrey, Esq., Jon. Ackroyd, Esq., Wm. Briggs, Esq., John Waterhouse, Esq., John Mil ner, Esq., John Abbott, Esq., MY. A. G. Suter, Mr. Holds worth, and several others, in support of the object for which the meeting had been called, when a petition was agreed upon unanimously, in accordance with the resolutions adopted, and for no dues to be collected by the railway.company,:until they had fulfilled their agreement, and praying that counsel might be heard in support of the same. The same committee was re-appointed to carry out the object. A handsome subscrip tion was then entered into, and after a vote of thanks to the committee and chairman, the meeting, which was both nu merously and very respectably attended, separated. -Leeds Intelligencer. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. NISI PRIUS COURT.-TUESDAY. MORRALL V. LODGE. This was a special jury case. The action was brought by Mr. Cyrus Morrall against his nephew, Mr. Adam Lodge, for a written libel and verbal defamation of c har ac ter. _ _ Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Harden foi - thepialaTif:Li d Mr. Alexander and Mr. Martin for the defendant. . _ His LORDSHIP having been informed that the parties in the cause were uncle and nephew, asked whether it was a fit case to be heard in open court ? Mr. CRESSWELL replied, that he could state, on the part of his client, that it was with great pain that he found him self obliged to come into court. . His LORDSHIP suggested, that the case should be referred to some geritleman not a lawyer. _ Mr. AIERANDER expressed his willingness to concur in the suggestion, and, by the consent of the counsel on both sides, Mr. Miller, one of the jury, was selected as the arbi trator. The jury were paid their fees, and the case was con sidered as settled, when _ Mr. CRESSWEI.I. stated, that he was very sorry to inform his lordship there was a grievous misunderstanding between him and his learned friend. He (Mr. Cresswell) had under stood, as his lordship had ordered it, that " all matters in dispute" should be referred, whereas Mr. Alexander con tended that the reference was only with respect to the pre sent action. Mr. Cresswell said, that to accede to that pro position would be to leave the groundwork of the action in existence (namely, the accounts between the parties) ; and Mr. Alexander said that, as his client was absent in the south, he could not agree, on the part of Mr. Lodge, to a reference which would open up the whole accounts of three firms. He had no instructions to that effect. Mr. CRESSWELL said, that it was with the most unfeigned pain and reluctance that he now addressed himself to the jury, in order to make them acquainted with the circum stances of the present case. lie had flattered himself that by the arrangement suggested by his lordship he should have been enabled, through the kind intervention of the gentleman who would have considered the matter both as a merchant and a'gentleman, to have put an end to all hostile disputes between the plaintiff and defendant. The transaction into which they were about to inquire (consisting of a written libel on Mr. Morrall by the defendant, and of certain abusive language uttered concerning the plaintiff, and in his pre sence, by Mr. Lodge,) arose out of certain mercantile trans actions in which the uncle of the defendant, Mr. Morrall, and other persons had been engaged. It was impossible to appreciate the merits and demerits of the case, without look ing at the facts which led tb the use of the words ; and therefore it never could for one moment have come within his contemplaiton to refer the language and the letter without referring the matters from which they had arisen. Because, unless there were circumstances justifying heat and irrita tion, what palliation could by 'any possibility be found for the use of such language as that on the record ? . Mr. Mor rall had, for a great number of years, carried on business as a merchant in this town. He and the father of Mr. Lodge, the defendant, married two sisters. This near con nexion brought on common objects in commercial pursuits. A person of the name of Greaves was introduced into some of these matters, as a partner. Mr. Greaves became a bank rupt in September, 1837. At a meeting of the creditors under a fiat of bankruptcy, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Morrall met, and there language was addressed by the former to .the latter, and as to part of it the defendant did not deny the fact. Mr. Morrall says that, having been in partnership with Mr. Lodge's father, the defendant had said of him, in that capa city, " You infernal scoundrel, you rogue,. I have pro claimed you, and all the town knows you are a scoundrel. The defandant admitted having used that language. The defendant, again, was stated to have said of the plaintiff, " that he ought to be in Lancaster Castle, and that Mr. Moss would have him there in a few days." To this, in the first place, the defendant pleaded not guilty, and in the second place, that he had used such words, and was ju s tified i n h av i ng use d them. He (Mr. C.) thought it would have been more' fair, if Mr. Lodge really meant to admit the words, to have rested simply on their justification. The course ursued, however, had been thought most advantageous, because by it the defendant ob tained the advantage of afterwards saying that he was pre pared to justify his words; and if Mr. Morrall could not prove the use of them, Mr. Lodge was not called on for his defence. In the next place the defendant was charged with a libel on Mr. Morrall, which libel was contained in a letter addressed by Mr. Lodge to Mr. Greaves. The latter handed the letter containing the violent, abusive, and he might almost say, dis gusting language to Mr. Morrell, stating that it was not the first time that Mr. Lodge had so dealt with his character. The letter said, " Mr. Morrall drew from the bank an enor mous sum of money, which MY' father paid up. This was the money which was partly -employed in building and brick making, a great part of which was fraudulently appropriated by Mr. Morrell. Do you mean to say that besides the £8,400 raised by mortgage, the £6,000 paid by my father went for building ?" Now what was Mr. Morrall to do in these cir cumstances? With every anxiety to avoid public litigation and to put an end to family disputes, if that could be accom plished, was it to be said, that he, as a merchant, had allowed himself to be treated that way at a public meeting— that he had permitted a letter traducing his character to be handed about, and dared not answer the charges against him in a court of justice? The defendant admitted that he was without justification as to that letter. The learned counsel then read a long letter which had been addressed by the de fendant admitting that he was without justification as to that letter. The learned counsel then read' a long letter, which had been addressed by the defendant, to Mrs. Morrall, on the 9th September, 1838, and which was marked " private." The letter spoke slightingly and injuriously of the character of the plaintiff, and concluded by threatening Mrs. Morrall in the following terms:" If I should find myself in the char acter of a defendant before a jury, I shall instruct counsel to state these circumstances and prove them by the evidence of Mr. Moss, Mr. Clark, and of your daughter." • Mr. Cress well animadverted severely on the letter, maintaining that it had been written, not only to harass the feelings of Mrs. Morrall, but to terrify her into inducing her husband not to continue the action, by the threat of bringing the daughter into court against the father. Another of the counts charged the defendant with having said—" You (Mr. Morrall) have fraudulently accepted bills for John Charles Morrell, son of the plaintiff, on which I shall examine you." To this the defendant, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Watt was examined on the subject of the words alleged to have been uttered by the defendant at the meeting of Mr. Greaves's creditors. The witness, however, could not prove the specific words used, though he recollected that terms of abuse had been used towards the plaintiff by the defendant. Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the jury in mitigation of da mages. He said it was evident that the defendant was a per son of hasty and irritable temperament, and he (Mr. A.) was certain, that after the excitement of the moment had passed away, Mr:Lodge would be heartily sorry for having used such expressions. They were not words on which an action should have been brought. As respected the words, they had not been proVed in evidence, and it was therefore unne cessary that, he should say any thing .with respect to them. The charge of appropriation, contained in the letter, was the part to which the jury would have to direct their attention, and it was evident, from the whole tenor of Mr. Lodge's let ter, that it had been written by a person smarting under the conviction, whether true or not, that his father was an in jured and ill-used man. The learned counsel animadverted on the length of time which had elapsed between the writing of the letter and the bringing of the action, and contended that the action must have been the result, not of that letter alone, but of a feeling of hostility which had been augmented by something which had passed subsequently. The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, stated that there were some words undefended, and judgment would therefore go by default. With respect to the words said to have been uttered by Mr. Lodge, they had not been proved, and the jury would therefore find for the defendant on that plea. As to the words to which the defendant had pleaded not guilty, he had brought no proof that he was not guilty, and they would find on that issue for the plaintiff. As to the other parts contained in the letter, there was no doubt of, their be ing libellous, and the jury would assess such damages as they thought the plaintiff should recover for such words. Verdict for the plaintiff, as to the words undefended—da mages Is. ; as to the words admitted, 40s. RIDGWAY AND ANOTHER V. EWBANK. This was an action on a charter party. Mr. CRESSWELL, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. WIGHTMAN, and Mr. ADOLPHUS for the plaintiff s , and Mr. WATSON and Mr. WARREN for the defendants. Mr. CRESSWELL stated the case for the plaintiffs. This was an action brought by Messrs. John Ridgway and Co., shipowners in this town, against Messrs. Francis Ewbank and James Jamieson. After fhe evidence had been gone through. the jury retired, and after consulting for an hour and ten minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages £ll5O. BENTHAM'V. COOPER. Verdict for the plaintiff, for £2OO, subject to the case. HIGGINBOTTAM V. MOSLEY. This wan an action to recover compensation in damages for an assault. Mr. CRESSWELL for the plaintiff, and Mr. ALEXANDER for the defendant. Mr. CRESSWELL briefly stated the case. Mr. Joseph Higginbottom, the plaintiff, was a wine merchant near Man chester, and Thomas Mosley, the defendant, a coach proprie tor at Macclesfield. In the month of September last the plaintiff, accompanied by Mr. Lingard, his traveller, was returning home from Macclesfield. They stopped on the road at a public-house, kept by one Salt. While there they saw the defendant drawing up to the house. Mosley was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of £5 for wine and spirits. Lingard accosted the defendant, and asked him whether he was prepared to settle the account. Mosley answered " no ;" on which Lingard said it was high time the bill was settled. The defendant then struck Lingard and Higginbottam, and called both abusive names. Mr. ALEXANDER characterised the action as a paltry one, unfitted to be brought into court, and ,contended that there had been mutual provocation. The JUDGE.—Gentlemen of the jury, you will find for the plaintiff, for such damages as, under all the circumstances, you think is deserved in this remarkably important case. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages ls. costs, Is. The court adjourned at twenty minutes to six. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.) His LORDSHIP took his seat on the bench shortly after nine o'clock. HAMILTON AND OTHERS V. LODGE. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLY and Mr. CROMPTON appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. WIGHTMAN and Mr. WATSON for the defence. • . . The plaintiffs in this case were Messrs. Hamilton, Jackson and Co. ' merchants, of this town, and the defendant, M r . Adam Lodge, as chairman of the Marine Assurance Com pany. The action was brought on a policy of insurance ef fected on the ship Princess Elizabeth, on her voyage to Africa —the policy to become effective from 24 hours after the ar rival of the vessel at Africa. The vessel had been lost, and the loss was alleged to be the damages of the suit. The de fendant pleaded that he had paid £4OO into the court, which was sufficient to cover the extent of the loss. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLY said the action was brought by the plaintiffs, who were respectable merchants in this town, against Mr. Adam Lodge, who was chairman of the Marine and Life Assurance Company. The policy bore date 2nd of October, 1834. The policy effected was £lOOO upon the ship Princess Elizabeth, captain Hogarth, and £lOOO upon her cargo—commencing 24 hours after her arrival out. During her stay in Africa, liberty was given to trade back and for ward, &c., and the policy was in force till her arrival in Liverpool. The assurance was effected at 6 per cent. pre mium. The ship had originally been purchased for £l6BO by the plaintiffs ; and in May, 1833 she was thoroughly overhaul ed and repaired. The policy bore date May, 1834, in which month she left Liverpool on her outward voyage. She arri ved in July at Benin, and dropped down to Cameroon, where she dropped anchor on the 15 of that month. Hefe the cap tain and supercargo began to barter, and remained to the end of the year. As they came down from Cameroon, the vessel grounded in the river, and sustained some damage ; never theless she proceeded on her voyage to Barbadoes. It was found on this passage that she made a considerable quantity of water. When she arrived at Barbadoes, it became neces sary to have a survey. To effect this, it became necessary to discharge part of her cargo. She was surveyed accordingly, and the expense incurred at Barbadoes was seven hundred and odd pounds. After this she sailed on her voyage to Liverpool. Soon after this she encountered a severe storm, in the course of which two men were washed overboard. They tried to return to Barbadoes, but could not succeed, so that they were obliged to put into the island of St. Lucia. They found, after the best opportunities which that island offered were exhausted, those opportunities being very scan ty, and altogether insufficient, that it was not worth the while of any Prudent man to attempt to repair her. She was there fore sold at St. Lucia, and the present action was brought to recover thb money on the policy. The defendant did not pretend to dispute that the damage was sustained by the per ils and dangers at sea ; there was no such plea offered. He said, " We have paid into court £4OO, and that is all you are entitled to." He (the learned Sergeant) understood they intended to say that she was an old vessel. This was not material ; she had been thoroughly repaired : the underwri ters knew all the circumstances, and the premium paid was no less than six guineas per cent. She was originally built for a government packet, and was, of course, of the very best materials. It was said, he believed, that the vessel was old, and that something connected with her timbers would pre vent them claiming a total loss. The truth was, she could not be repaired at St. Lucia at all, and it would be for the jury to say whether they could not recover a total loss on the ship, and an average loss on the goods. The examination, under a commission, before Henry Law rence, barrister-at-law, of Captain Hogarth (now deceased) was put in and read. William Swan Hamilton, brother of the plaintiff, who went the voyage as supercargo in the vessel, gave testimony simi lar to that contained in the record of the above commission. This testimony was to the effect that she was fully and thoroughly repaired previous to the voyage, that she grounded in the Camaroon river, when she had taken in a cargo of palm oil, red wood, coffee, and ivory in exchange for one of salt, Manchester goods, guns, &c. ; that she sailed to Barbadoes, leaked on the passage, was surveyed at Barbadoes, put to sea for Liverpool, encountered a severe storm, put into St. Lucia, where, under direction of Lloyd's agent, Mr. Muter, she was condemned, and sold for about £539. 125., Mr. Muter hav ing given orders for the sale. Her cargo was discharged and sent home in another ship. Respecting the cargo, Mr. CROMPTON said (in answer to a question from Mr. WIGRTMAN) they went for an average loss on the goods. John Lythgo stated that he was well acquainted with ship ping, having been connected amongst ships all his life. He was once sole manager and part owner of the ship in ques tion. In 1833 or 1834 she was opened throughout. Her tim bers were found to be perfectly sound. Under the directions of Mr. Hamilton and the inspection of all the insurance sur veyors, she was repaired thoroughly, his orders being to put her in the best and most perfect condition, as a sea-going ship, for a voyage to Africa. She was originally built of the best oak and elm, and he found it all, perfectly sound. He sold her afterwards to Mr. Hamilton for £l6BO. Witness produced a piece of sound oak which he had taken out of her. Thomas Carwin, -a master shipwright, corroborated the above testimony as to the soundness of the timbers and the extent of the repairs. . _ _ The bill of lading was put in, specifying the return cargo. The counsel on both sides, at this stage of the case, agreed that the loss arising on the average of the cargo should be settled out of court. If there turned out to be a total loss upon the ship, that part of the case would be at an end, and the defendants would have to pay the amount of the policy ; the average on the cargo then to be settled out of court. If the loss on the vessel turned out to be a total loss, then the average on that also, it was agreed, should be settled out of court. Mr. liTicryrmAN, after oontending that the evidence was, considering the case, exceedingly slight, and commenting thereupon, proceeded to say, that he would prove the vessel to have been a very old one, and that her loss did not arise from the dangers of the sea, but from the rotten and bad state of her timbers. The evidence of certain carpenters and others, taken at St. Lucia under commission, was put in and read. The person who had purchased her, and those who had taken her to pieces, testified that on opening her timbers they were found to be in a very bad and rotten condition. Some of the tim ber-ends were stated to be entirely rotted through into " touchwood" at the ends. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY replied, dwelling upon the ex pensive repairs which the vessel had undergone previously to her departure, and also at the island of St. Lucia, upon the excellent state of her timbers, as proved in the evidence of respectable witnesses, who were only contradicted by a few carpenters, on direct questions from the defendants' agents, and on the circumstonce of Lloyd's agent, Mr. Muter, not having been examined under the commission. His LORDSHIP, after stating to the jury what were obvious total losses, ( for it was alone the question, whether this was or was not a loss, that the jury had to decide,) said it was now held that a loss was total when, by the dangers of the sea, a vessel was so damaged that she was not worth repair ing. The test of this usually was, the consideration whether the owner would have repaired her if he had not been insured. The jury, having consulted for a few minutes, expressed a wish to retire. They left the court at half-past twelve o'clock, and returned in about ten minutes, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff. MILTON V. HARGREAVES. Mr. WORTLEY opened the pleadings and Mr. COWLING stated the case for the plaintiff. The plaintiff in this case was William Hulton, Esq., a gentleman of considerable pro perty, residing at Hulton ; and' the defendant, Mr. Har greaves, is a carrier on the line of the Liverpool -and Man chester Railway. Mr. Hargreaves was in the habit of con veying goods along the railway which passes from Bolton through Leigh to the junction with the Liverpool and Man chester line at Kenyon. Mr. Hulton had extensive collieries and coke works at Leigh, and was in the habit of attaching his coke waggons to Mr. Hargreaves's train, and in that way sending them to Manchester by contract, Mr. Hargreaves finding the locomotive power and attendants for his engine and waggons. Mr. Hulton's empty waggons were also sent by Mr. Hargreaves's train back to Leigh, in order to be re loaded. On the mornin g of the 30th November, 1837, Mr. Hargreaves's train, with about fifteen waggons, left Man chester about a quarter-past six o'clock ; and when they got to one portion of Chat Moss (alio& six milei on the way), the axle of one of the carriages broke, and, of course, there was a stoppage. In the course of a very short time, the Grand Junction train, Which left' MancheSter at half-past six o'clock, came up, and came into collision with Mr. Hulton's waggons, which were in the rear of Mr. Hargreaves's train, and materially dathaged'several of them ; and the action was brought for the recovery °Nile amount paid for repairing them. Three witnesses, the engineer, guard, and fireman of the Grand Junction train; stiffed that when they got to Chat Moss', with the-Birmingham - train, it was not until they were within 30 or 40 yards of the disabled train, that they heard the engineer of the Bolton train sliduting. He instantly shot off the steam, and put on the break ; but could not stop the train till the collision took place. Mr. AI.i.XANDER (with whom was Mr. WIGHTMAN) ad dressed the jury for the defendant, and in doing so, contend ed that the accident was not owing to the negligence of the defendant's servants. The fact, he believed, would turn out to be that the servants of Mr. Hargreaves, having left Man chester a short time before the Birmingham train, when they broke down on the moss, were on the look-out for the train coming, and saw it at a considerable distance. One of them (the fireman) took a small hand lamp, and proceeded a short distance on the road for the purpose of making a signal to the engineer of- the advancing train to stop. The light - got extinguished, upon which he took the large signal lamp from the last waggon, and ran two or three hundred yards on the road to make- - another sig,nal. On the other hand, the en gineer of the Grand - Junction train, having no reason to ex pect an obstruction, would most probably not be on the look-out. The learned„gentleman called the fireman and engineer of Mr: Hargreaves, who both imputed the blame (if any) to the servants- bf the'Gi•and Junction Company. • His Lc•Rnsiiwp , summed up the evidence on both sides ; and at live minufes : past foUr o'clock, the jury retired to con sider their verdict. • . The jury yre, at their own request, taken up to the Judge's lodgings, about eight o'crock. They gave in a verdict for the plaintiff on the first !issue and for the defendant on the • second. : • - - LEICESTER V. LEICESTER. This was an action arising out of a dispute existing between Mrs: Leicester, of Birkenhead, and her son, and was brought to recover a sum of X-1. Mr. CROMPTON opened the pleadings. The declaration stated, that a deed had been executed between the parties, by which it was agreed, that a chancery suit then pending should cease and determine ; and the defendant agreed to give the plaintiff a certain consideration. Mr. WIGHTMAN, for the defendant, stated that he could not resist the plaintiff's claim ; consequently, a verdict was taken for the plaintiff,—damages, £4, and costs. This case closed the business which had been alotted to Mr. Baron Park, who seemed glad of his release, being at the time labouring under an attack of cold and hoarseness. We believe he left Liverpool on Thursday morning. NISI PRIUS COURT—WEDNESDAY. • (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) CRIM. CON.—CHANTLER, D. HIGGINSON. In this case Peter Chantler, of Warrington, was the plain tiff, and Thomas Higginson, of the same place, the defendant. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged criminal conversation of the defendant with the wife of the plaintiff, under peculiar circumstances. The Hon. Stuart Wortley and Mr. Watson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Alexander for the defendant. To the allegations set forth in the record the defendant pleaded not guilty. The Hon. &mull' WORTREY stated the facts of the case. The plaintiff was a drover ' residing in the tow n o f Warring ton. He was married in 1833, and since his marriage had had two children. His wife, since her last confinement, had been afflicted with insanity, which not unfrequently super vened after an accouchement, and she had continued of insane mind ever since. The defendant resided in the neighbourhood of the plaintiff ; but he (the learned counsel) could not inform the jury what occupation he pursued. That fact could not be proved ; for the defendant did not appear to have any precise occupation. The defendant knew the plaintiff's wife, and was perfectly acquainted with the circum stances of the family. On the Bth of July last, the defendant was in a house near the plaintiff's residence, where he con tinued until he watched the plaintiff away. He then went into the plaintiff's house, and under pretence of going to see Mrs. Chantler he went up stairs, where she was confined to her bed, in a state of insanity. The servant girl was in the room at the time, engaged in cleaning. He sent her away to purchase something. The jury would hear that the girl re turned sooner than was expected, and on entering the room she saw what she would describe to them. He (the learned counsel) was led to believe that it would be contended that the defendant was drunk at the time. But it would be for the jury to say whether intoxication was any palliation for so brutal and filthy an outrage. The poor woman was probably unconscious of the crime which she had committed, and if the defendant was intoxicated at the time, he ought to be made to pay for such an outrage. The fiisCwitness called was - Mary Ridyard.—She stated that she lived as servant with Mr. Cfsantler, the plaintiff, who resided at Warrington. She knew Higginson, who also resided at Warrington, not very far from her master's house. She did not know what Mr. Higginson was. When she first went to reside with Mr. Chantler, her mistress was out of her mind. Her mistress had been confined to her bed eight or nine weeks. Witness recollected Higginson coming to the house about eleven o'clock on the morning of the Bth of Feb. last. Her mistress was then in bed, and Mr. Chantler, who was a drover, had gone out to Kewdley to bring up some cows. He had left the house about ten minutes when the defendant came in. Witness was up stairs, there was • only one room up stairs. Witness was cleaning in that room in which her mistress was in bed. Higginson entered the room, and said to witness, "Go and fetch threepenny worth of brandy." She went to the next door, the Golden Bull, and 'as they had no brandy there, she purchased twopenny worth of rum. She was not long away. She took the runs up to the defendant, and he drank it He was sober at the time. He was sitting by the side of the bed. He than gave her a shilling, and told her to go to Walmsley's and purchase fOurpenny worth of bran dy. She did not go so far as Wahnsley's, she went to Hill's, the Lord Rodney, which was just across the street. She re turned as quickly as she could. She ;went up stairs to the room. [Witness here described the situation in w hi c h s h e found the defendant and her mistress.] She put the brandy and eightpence down by the side of the bed, but she did not go away immediately. She stood behind the curtain a few moments. She was very much alarmed. She went down stairs, and the defendant followed in about ten minutes. He did not go away immediately. There was a man down stairs, and the defendant stopped to speak to :him. Mr. Chantler returned home about seven o'clock. Between eight and nine o'clock witness told her master what she had•seen. He went out, and shortly after nine o'clock he came back, and took her with him to the Golden Bull, where she saw Charles Hig ginson and his wife. She told him what she had seen. He put his head down on the table, but did not speak. Mr. Chantler was very angry ; he was very ill put about. On her cross-examination by Mr. CRESSWELL, witness said that she was going of eighteen years of age. Previously to living with Mr. Chantler she lived with Mr. Warburton, a farmer, at Winwick. Mr. Chantler is a drover. There was in his house only one room above and one below. The stairs from the room below went up directly to the room above. Witness slept in the same room with her master and mistress, in which room there were two beds. Mr. Higgin son was not in the habit of going to her master's house._ He had been there about five times. They (the plaintiff and defendant) had drunk together, but not much. She had seen them together at the public-house, next door. Her mistress never went out at night. She never knew her master to turn his wife gut. They put her out once when her master was ill. . Master Walmesley took her out to the house of her bro ther-in-law next door. Her master was out of his mind; and was confined to hiS bed about five weeks. That was four months ago. Her mistress once had a black eye, which was given to her by her husband. His LORDSHIP asked if it were not a pity to go on? Here was certainly a gross moral offence, but what damage could a madman have sustained by the loss of the society 'of a mad woman ? Would it not be well to withdraw a juror ? Some proposals were made, but rejected by" the defendant. The learned counsel for the plaintiff said he was obliged, then to proceed. The examination was continued.. Witness stated that it was on the night when she informed her master of what had occurred with Charles Higginson that he gave his wife the black eye. • He pulled her out of bed and , struck her. She exclaimed. " Oh, Peter, don't hit me •he would come whether I would or no t." H e gave he r a black eye once before, when she threw a jug at a boy's head. She was insane at that time. Mr. Chantler never got into her (witness's) bed. She mould swear, that. She remembered a young woman named Ellison sleeping with her one night.. Her master came home drunk, and threw himself down at the foot of their bed. Miss Ellison and the two children were in bed with her. Her mistress got up and undressed her master, in the room, and put him to bed. This did not happen more than once. Her master got drunk sometimes, but not very frequently. The man who was down stairs when Higginson was there was Charles Dumbell, who assisted her mister to drive cattle. Walmsley's house was not very far off. Re-examined.—Mather, who kept the Golden Bull, was her master's brother-in-law. Dr. Grierson attended his mas ter, who had now recovered. Mrs. Chantler was sometimes violent. • Charles Dumbell stated that he was servant to Mr. Chant ler. He was in the house when Higginson came in ; that was about twelve o'clock. When he entered he said, " Well, Charley, you are a smart man, aren't you ?" Witness re plied,' What for ?" Higginson said, " Where's William Chantler ?" Witness replied that he had gone to fetch two cows. The defendant relied, "That's ri g ht. I th oug ht h e would have neglected it." He went up stairs when the girl was scouring the room. Mrs. Chantler was there in bed, and she was in a very poor state of mind. He was there alto gether about half an hour. The girl went out twice. Hig ginson was fresh in liquor. When Higginson came down stairs he asked witness to have a glass of ale, to which he (witness) acceded, and they went out together. Cross-examined.—The girl first brought rum, and then brandy. He could have heard anything that was going on up stairs, but he did not take any .. • If there had been any disturbance, he could have h s. He thought that Mr. Higginson could not have ill-us . Mrs. Chantler without his hearipg it. He did not hear anything. He went out with Higgmson to Mather's and stayed about a quarter of an hour. Higginson returned with another man, and sent for a pint of ale. He was very intimate with Chantler. Mr. Grierson, surgeon, stated that he was in practice at Warrington. He attended Mrs. Chantler. She was about thirty years of age. After the birth of her second child she was attacked by insanity. She and her husband formerly kept the Golden Bull, but they left it when she became in sane. He had not seen her at any time when she was very violent, but he had been informed that she was so. Her hus band and she lived together upon exceedingly good terms. In October last, Mr. Chantler had erysipelas, in consequence of which he was delirious during several days. Ann Ellison stated that she was a servant at the Golden Bull. She remembered the morning when this circumstance happened. Higginson and Chantler were at the Golden Bull. The former asked the latter where he was going. Chantler said he was going to fetch some heifers. About nine o'clock Higginson and his wife came to the Golden Bull. Chantler came in and accused Higginson of the offence charged. He asked him what right he had to go up those stairs at all. Higginson did not deny it. Chantler sent and brought his servant, for the people about would not believe it. He brought the girl in, and she told what the defendant had done. The defendant sat down in his seat and did notspeak. Mr. Chantler was in a very great rage indeed, and was greatly put out of the way. Cros-examined.—She knew Chantler, and had once slept at his house, on which occasion he was drunk. He used to drink a little sometimes, but not much. He laid himself along the foot of the bed on which witness was sleeping, but did not remain there long. She could not tell how. many days a week he got drunk. He used to take a glass at the Golden Bull before going off. He was not drunk when he went for the heifers. Higginson was also at that time quite sober. William Slater, farmer at Haydock, near Warrington, stated that he recollected seeing Higginson at the King's Head, near Warrington, some time since. He (witness) was getting his dinner there, and Higginson was drinking. He spoke of a married woman in an improper manner, and after wards mentioned the name of Chantler 's wife. He was talk ing some time, but at length he got up. [Witness here stated that the defendant had, in an exceedingly coarse and disgust ing manner, admitted what he had done.] He said he wanted a son and heir, for he had made a good deal of property, and was killing himself; he wanted a son to leave it to. Cross-examined.---Witness could not tell if Higginson were drunk ;he was drinking. He could not tell to whom the defendant had been talking, nor how many people were pre sent. Higginson did not address his discourse to witness. He jumped up and began to talk quite suddenly. Robert Parry proved the marriage of the plaintiff and his wife on the Ist December, 1833. Elizabeth Harrison knew the wife of the plaintiff before her marriage Her name was Ellen Broadhurst. They had been married five or six years, and lived together very hap pily and comfortably up to the time when Mrs Chantler be came insane. Mr. CRESSWELL addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendant. He treated the case as one of an exceedingly disgust ing nature, which instead of having any merits, must stand altogether upon its own demerits. He contended that the evidence which had been offered of the offence, was not such as any reasonable person could rely upon, or, if the jury did believe it, the case was not one which called for more than nominal damages. his LORDSHIP briefly charged the jury, who, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—. damages, forty shillings. HURST V. ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN GAP RAILWAY. This was a special jury case which had been fixed for hear ing this morning. After Mr. ALEXANDER, for the plaintiff, had stated the case, and was proceeding with the examination of witnesses, an agreement between the parties was come to, by which the present action and the suit pending in the Court of Chancery were put an end to. The St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway Company were to be permitted to com plete the works which had been in contemplation at the time they were put a stop ; to by an injunction from the vice-chan cellor, granted on application of the plaintiff ; and the railway company stated that they had it not in contemplation to start any new works in the vicinity of Mr. Hurst's property ; but they would not give a distinct pledge that no other works ever should be started. BRASS V. MARPLES. Verdict for the plaintiff for £5OO, subject to a teference. LINTON v. SMITH. In this case, Mr. William Linton, the artist, was the plain tiff, and Mr. Jonathan Smith, executor of his brother, Mi. George Smith, lately carrying on business in Liverpool, as a printer and publisher, the defendant, and the action was brought to recover the sum of £5O, the value of a picture sold by the plaintiff to Mr. George Smith. It appeared that Mr. George Smith, when in business, was in the practice of engaging Mr. Linton as the engraver for the illustrated works published by him. Mr. Linton painted a picture of the Bay of Naples, which was seen by Mr. G. Smith, who became anxious to obtain a copy (or duplicate) of the original. Several copies had previously been made, and the price usually charged for a copy was fifty guineas ; hut, as Mr. Smith was an old friend, and, as it might be said, in the business, £5O was the price stipulated with Mr. Smith. For that sum the picture was to be framed by a person em ployed for that purpose by Mr. Linton, and at his expense ; and the same considerations which had induced the plaintiff to allow Mr. Smith to have the painting at a reduced price, induced him, at Mr. Smith's solicitation, to allow a frame to be furnished of double the ordinary value. During the life time of Ma. G. Smith he had been heard to complain that his copy of " Bay of Naples" was not so highly finished as the original, or as Linton originally finished his works. He, however, retained the picture, but died without paying the purchase money. When the property of the deceased wasto be valued, for the purpose of paying the probate duty, Mr. Winstanley, the auctioneer, valued the picture at £3O, stating that to be a very liberal valuation. The defendant, convinced from other sources that that was the highest value of the painting, refused to pay the plaintiff the sum agreed upon. A number of witnesses were called, who stated thai the picture would not, in their estimation, produce more than from £l5 to £2O, if sold by auction; although, as an acknow ledged work of Linton, it might, by private treaty, sell for £25 or £3O. His LORDSHIP observed, that the case seemed to him an undefended one. A person purchased a picture at a stipu lated price, retained it, and th en th e exec utor of that indivi dual refused to pay the price on the ground that the picture was an unfinished work. A man who engaged an artist to paint his portrait might as well, when that portrait was sent home and attained, plead that it was not worth the , stipulated price, and refuse payment. Verdict for the plaintiff for the sum claimed. NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY. ROWE, JUN. V. COPE. This was an action at the suit of the plaintiff, a solicitor, to recover from the defendant £2OO. being the amount of a promissory note for that sum, and for which it was contended he was liable. Mr. CRESSWELL and another were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. ALEXANDER for the defendant. The case as stated was this :—ln the summer of last year, a young man named Woods, who was articled to an attorney, and who expected a legacy on becoming of age, in conjunction with his brother borrowed from the plaintiff the sum named, giving for it a promissory note, drawn up and signed by them, and to which they had also obtained the signature (as it pur ported to be) of the defendant Cope, an oil merchant, with whom one of them lodged in the same house, and with whom he was on terms of intimacy. When this note became due, the two Woods went out of the country, and the action was commenced in October last by the plaintiff against the pre sent defendant, as the only tangible party. The cause was to have been tried in London, but on the affidavit of the de fendant the venue was removed to this town. In that affidavit he declared to the best of his knowledge and belief, the sig nature purporting to be his, was a forgery. On that (suffi cient) ground he had refused to honour the note. The case entirely hinged upon the question whether the signature to the note'was in reality that of the defendant or not, and with a view to show that it was, Mr. CRESSWELL called a number of witnesses, who swore that they had fre quently seen him sign his name, and that to the best of their belief it was his writing. It was signed D. Cope, in the , usual way in which they had seen him sign it. The signa ture to the defendant's subsequent affidavit for removal of the trial, they all equally expressed an opinion appeared to be a disguised hand, very unlike the style in which they had seen him write and, moreover, having the Christian name " David" at full length. The parties whose testimony was to this effect, were of respectable character and standing in life in this town. Several of them, who had had transactions with the defendant, were requested to go to their places of business and produce any document that bore his signature. While these were being procured, Mr. Alexander for the defendant, with the consent of Mr. Cresswell, produced a great number of papers with the defendant's signature. These were ex amined by the court and jury, and being admitted to bear the bona fide signature of the defendant, were compared with the signature on the promissory note, and were found to be uni form and to resemble that signature ; but the latter, never theless, exhibited some peculiar and manifest difference. Mr. Cresswell said, that having looked at these documents, he would not further trouble the jury; but withdraw the case as for the plaintiff. He hoped, however, that his lord ship would so notice the case, that no imputation or stigma would attach to either of the parties in this case ; for he be lieved they had all acted properly. People out of doors were but too apt to traduce the character of parties who were losers in a cause ; in this case no blame could be attached to to any one. The learned gentleman also alluded to the in surance case, tried at these assizes, in which the truth of his remark was unhappily confirmed, although the plaintiff in the action had no pecuniary interest whatever in the issue of the trial l Mr. ALEXANDER rose and said on the part of the Insurance Office, that they did not attach the slightest blame to the conduct of the plaintiff, but considered his conduct straight forward and honourable. A verdict was then taken for the defendant. SINGLETON V. J - ENEINS. In this case there was another defendant, Hayes, who suf fae r s ed u m judgment y t a o l g e o g e b d y tdoe be due to T h t b e e a p c l t ai i o n n ti v r ff a , s a t s o u rr e e ' for labour done. The defendant is, also, a surveyor,orii, Lion-square, London, and director of the " St George 5 way and Harbour Company," one of those visionary 51 , !;.„d tions which, of lat e y ears , h ave s p rung u p " like a rock et, `- come down like the stick." a Bi e " Mr, R. Massey, bei ng ca ll e d, said, is a survey 'or , ; R a vocii: mingham, and w as e m pl o y e d by th e St. George s from Company,. on the part of the intended line of railly* Mostyn to Flint, and from Bew Bridge to Crewe. Th e P Aoiog tiff took the levels between the two last narld places, in , which he was engaged about seven days. Plaintiff Rea ow; at work on the different plans. Lithographic plans,. avert taken from plaintiff's and witness's work. (Thep la n ' produced.) The value of the work done by plaintiff era . about £3O. H e th oug h t t h ree gu i neas a d ay fair rem ftn tion. Cross-examined.—Received his instructions from Mrs I ; Witness 'thought Mr. Sngleton said, at Chester, that or employed him, and th a t h e (P ym ) was secre t ar y to the ° pimy. was Mr. Leather, a surveyor employed by the companYi,,i n g employed on the li ne i n W a l es , an d spo k e to p l a intiff .y,', , , employed from Bew Bridge to Crook, and from l'i n ° Ferry to Bew Bridge, or six or seven ays. Mr. Alexander M` for six or seven days Mr. Alexander M'Donald, manag d er of the Corli m , e )o, Bank of Bngland, in Chester, opened an account wit,'„ flo a Shoebridge, in November 1836, and then received Xr fo o his account. Saw Mr. Jenkins in January 1836, and St what he heard from him. he headed the acconut, o ls George's Railway and H u b on C ompany. " He dtequee`' received a letter from him, enclosing some prosPec:4ll (These were produced, and he reading of them cause d I 'o laughter in the court.) Amongst the patrons aPPea r „aad names of the Duke of Sussex, the M arqu i s of Ang le 'l'be other distinguished individuals, including admirals, fo' fog t. list of directors are headed by the name of a member ° lm g liament, and the whole bore a very formidable and 118° ,.„ 0 .. appearance. Several documents were put in to show the nection of Jenkins with the concern. Other docurnell,ts.dge, put in, signed eonjointly by Jenkins, Hayes, and Shoev i e l dte A letter was also read from Jenkins, stating that he briOg at a public meeting at Chester, and then, he wow" with him, in the same coach, one of the sheriffs of Dr,„ut and if he could not, "he would come by himself a ches' that that honour." Witness attended the meeting at lolic h ter, and heard Jenkins make an eloquent speech,. eam in fele I , he pictured in pathetic colours the dangers to s en ° ea t navigation of the channel, all o f which would be remq to , the grand harbour scheme of the company he belonged Mr. Crenshaw, of Lo n d on , was exam i ne d, but thel" , nothing material in his evidence. the Ow Mr. E. Parry, bookseller, o f Ch es t er , su pplied • - 1 eO lO pany with printing and stationery. He applied to Ac e , for the amount of his account,. and got from him a ". for £46 175., which he produced. vroo As the Court did not cons id er t h at t h e ev id ence yet .„ the Jenkins to be a part ner , an d a ft er 'some consultatl% his plaintiff gave Mr. Pym a release, so that he might g' . evidence. Mr. Pym said he had seen Jenkins and Heys Og etb t e h r e ill i e January, 1836, and in November and October following cot' were many meetings, at which both were present. 1 1 1 8 1, ,‘"ive 4 . and Oct. Jenkins and Hey s were c h osen di rec t o rs• crioe was authorized by them to employ surveyors in coniu n toi with the principal surveyor. The reso l u ti on t o that J eifecae , entered in the minute bo o k ; b u t as thi s was n ot P 7 the statement did not go to evidence. In Octo b or! Jenkins gave witness moneyto pay the expenses of o t to' ' in going to employ the surveyors, and Jenkins and examined the 'accounts of the surveyors, and acte d rector in October. Witness said he had engaged the P apioi and produced the written agreement from his poeke t t io however, was signed by H enr y Si ng l e t on , th e plain ° and began " I unde r t a k e t o survey an d ma k e a map certain price." t b e " It was decided by th e C ourt t h at t hi s d ocume nt 10 AC' stamped, could not b e rece i ve d i n ev id ence, an d the i r g : it , cordingly fell to th e groun d.—V er di ct f or the defer° B ,,j;aill,: t This case concl u d e d th e b us i ness o f the assisesc-og quarter past two, an d th e l earne d JUDGE, addreSsl jury, said, he had great pleasure in di sc h arg ing them o rl , their arduous duti es , an d cou ld not b ut in justiee.., r do " that he had found th e j ur i es i n t hi s town t h e b e st intelligent he had found throughout the kingdom. THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. RUCICS T r And the Last Night b u t O ne o f hi s E nga gewen t • MRS. HONEY'S Last Night but One. THIS present FRIDAY, the 12th instant, I/ 41 be t i ; e 4 ‘ duced, for the first ti me h ere ,' Mr. Buckstone'slgv, Comedy, in three acts, performed during the chi ef d' the last season at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, LESSON FOR LADIES. Mathieu.. Mr. Buckstone, (As originally performed by him in London" Gibolette Mr. Baker...., g o itir Monsieur St. Val Mr. w• '" Countess de Clairville Miss Cleaver. Mademoiselle Delbi eux . Mi s s Fall' Barbara.. Mri. Honey. e ts After which, for th e f ourt h ti me h ere, M r. Buckst°l/- new Farce, called WE AK POLNTS, t one , Jemmy Wheedle... - Mr. Buck (As originally performed by him in Loncleo v •i , cre Mr. J011y... Mr. G. Horncastle.—Mr. Docke r . . 3' 11. • • Mr. Thomas Vernon.... . Mr. W. H. 81ar1,",.r1' , " Miss Penelope Pump.. M rs .Cl ar k e.—Sally Pybus •N.". To conclude with the Farce of the tor LOTTERY TICKET. Wormwood (a Lawyer's Clerk) Mr. 1:1'14.1 Capias.. Mr. Webster—Charles.. Mr. W. How' Mrs. Corset.. Mrs. Clarke. Susan • . On SATURDAY, a FAVOURITE DRAMAIIOOS Mr. Btickstone and Mrs. H one y w ill p er f orm . Afte r the Farce of TOM NODDY'S SECRET. In' Ag irv; original character,) Mr. Buckstone • Torn N°111 ) 4 Baker; Gabrielle, M rs . 'Pellet. To conclude' with the OF THE RHINE. Irma, (her original charaete t Vir Honey. Being the Last Night of Mr. Buckstone s ll ' Honey's Engagement. • MR. BRAHAM „essi l is engaged for FIV E N IGHTS , an d w ill ma k e his ar in a Favourite Opera, on MONDAY ne x t. jc l i d Mr. CHARLES KEAN, MADAME VES'IS CHARLES MATHEWS, Mr. POWER, and othe r ' Metropolitan Performers, are also engaged. , Due Notice will be give n of th e i r fi rs t a p P ear 3 n -e • cld e oto The early arrangements o f th e Th ea t re a l s o 10 ., 1 0 0 0 engagement of Mr. VAN AMBURGH, who or d . , make his appearance, and ex hibit a ser i es o f ex„,t r iq Vg) performances WITH THE WHOLE OF HIS L'li r ek, ANIMALS, as represented l as t season , One 1• 1 " 13 Fifty Nights in suc cess i on , a t t h e Theatre-ReF ')101‘' lane, and patroni s ed on many occas i ons there by her:// LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STRE • THlSpresent FRIDAY EVENING, the 1204,01ter and TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, MA' t 1 / 4 GROSSMITH, (but eleven years old.) the grea,t"'so l (ol dramatic Actor of the World, will re-appear in 11 ' 5 6 1 ENTERTAINMENT, which has been re eel ise. k , CROWDED HOUSES N I G HTLY ) w ith s h ou t s qt . 0.01 1, CHANGE OF PERFORMANCE) , AND , 7 4! ORDINARY MUSICAL 4qTRACTILP . 0.4 f ON MONDAY EVENING iIEXT, A PR c,s) IT Y FOR THE BENEFIT OF MASTER B. GR" ' ,:llea An entirely new Dramatic E n t er t a i nm ent, c- NUMBER NIPP ! ! itr` OR, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS •,re In which Master B. G. will appear in above 40 u!'" o'9 among which, Napoleon Buonaparte ! Marco M l • 4 „V s 4° Barney Carrol ! Matthew Parr ! &c., with nuncio' and Duets; new Scenery, Dresses, and MachinerY•t S in bQ *** Mr. GROSSMITH, sen., in returning his 0 10 0 ,,ilit!' thanks for the great patronage bestowed on 11 0 ;4011 the honour and pleasure of announcing to the do ol Gentry, and Public of Liverpool, that by the Id° .tere ) Ai Private Friend, (one of their grea t es t patroos,,foby and a still greater attraction will be added to this jOroi, place of amusement on the abo ve even i ng . The the pwr LADY whose extraordinary performances lonWol!ti, created SO great a SEN SATION IN THE MUSICAL' a 1 1 ' 0 the opening of the Tow n -h a ll, Bi rm i ng h am , 81 ' (tile e s George Smart, at the last Festival in that towl:, times she has ever app eare d i n pu bli c, ) h as kindly s, to play some of her most difficult and popular P' ing, with the aid of the efficient Band, a 01 te r COMPLETE AND SELECT CONCE • rater COMPLETE A Programme of w hi c h, w i t h Bil ls of the Draroil o i v tainment, may be had, gratis, at the Theatre, fi l „r11, till Two o'clo c k, w h ere p l aces may b e secure d ' or or cation. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, l s . ; Gallery, 6d. Doors to bei, Half-past Seven. Servants and Carriages to b> at Half-past Ten. Ebr Zibrrpool gz,.tanDar t, ' 3g . FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 15 dot / 'en t A l Our readers are aware.ho w m i g hty conveyind Memories are to a parti cu l ar c l a s s of Per 0 ., 1 : 16 , 1 . of them who reme m b er the crisis which fau t ” . o f the French Revolution of 1830—the journercustrit Brougham from Appleby to Y or k—the prin ce 0 0.01 let entitled " The C oun t r y. w ith ou t a G° ver fl i o ‘ ‘ , c f the celebrated orations of the popular leader '' inril not good at proper • name s "— an d all the o the ' tions .of that , remarkable period— " nautis prodentia murmura ventpsf. will have found abundant matter for deeP Po their lip. flection, and materials for amusement, am idst ri forr' r dignation and their nicely balanced hopes an the circumstan c e s o f thi s i n t eres ti n g and crl , i ged r h ture. When they see t o w h a t v ile us es wiPe o at last been brought, they will marvel, n ot ej t ° o r' that the people of Engknd should have lis ten e t 1 " 1 ') whigs so credulously, f or th e people di d %ill I' o l them then as they know them now ; but theYooo,lo in the hono ur it d eserves t h at mar vellous c° 50 ea' sl 4 ;. countenance which could assume virtu th e eeri,li when most de e ply consc i ous t o itself of othe re posite vices—could make pretensions when it~ 1) was so wholly wanting—could arrogat e t° 0 0 1 cisely those qualities of which it knew itself he t ro,)„ wretchedly and shamefully destitute. v i tt y, L whigs are real Sp ar t ans . Like Fag, in th 'the ir have no objecti on t o the li e : it comes t ° " • quite naturally ; b u t it " h ur t s their consciences hg to be found out." iv i s 0 1. Time would fail us to rec ount the (Ti the :, o' ° `,g liberal vocabulary co u ld su pply for me n N% all ij ;t' any appetite whatever for the sweets o f PiiabpOlor tronage—who refused to lead the pop ular P of cording to the popular will—who reste d ° P_4 1 0 1(11j 1 . 41 dual support—who took refuge in the stroP:ere corruption; —not that the Duke's ministers toi otf; charged with fals e hood, with personal eclis...,holep with low, selfi s h, sor did, shuffling intrigl ie jo t ile o f in the right hand the . key, of. the pa lace., os ers il opening the p u blic purse to the insinuatinge et", some needy democrat—leering with one eYe insfuld scandals, winking with the other upoa on' ot h tb l oe sank on the fabric of monarchy—saying s ill° . 0 10 ( to all men, dealing equally false with ' 6 ' 4 of Jacob,ge' tl of Wellington -e; the . h , a like, T he , 40t, '- be cause the; tient falsehoods eYett of th e g have been el '• We l eave i'llio,e.ouat of f raud wa, of vile su b h g t de Pth of fa t ( gll attr"; d ati9 hute 1 1 and 1,,, e to t e aten I . ibe r t y, the 880 f truth, th t ish co nst i , let ri th e i ,he flood riti S h minis '' w el)t befor e had thrown free Cours e , elißah.ient banks tainately in u f(n l ation n ot. who have em ld deSign s ? th ted W ith all at we Rhine ; may hay ve t) . h And sha Pile raising that 11 ktr k ,, 3 ing in R e h e he aps thi es of frau( ,N'h and robb e Shall we,W 1 Who h A,4, f a "he Far whe should '° pati the inj ur i es of e normity of ( Pret ei ptrf on Col the orin anee ? poi tlte r ' rt sick se_ '`4 , : I I ! and f a i t umult tiq n ei rcur, the ' ll ,, tld most de t'lk ar , nple of Eno oteather deceiv, hit 'I to fi e i d.pri °l urches • • „ tict e i 18 given Let a t the bar 14 4 anY man teli e4l , ember th . 144 4 Y des th let him t 1 the be Plunkett: ev et . y l eli of j u , b e ari point When eo n t r i f 4it h - th trati°n b Th e - d a l C hfixoti, pl e da ys of p a I ) eca a En gland whig:e public t hat th at men 4 e name ' 1 ‘ 1 : 1 l e r k r e: 1 11 let 1 ioPt due '4 t r a oo nt rt °( } for a ol u h s v mr i ) nr 1 t e r a '' ith: B ‘44llsllo ll dp t Btlh, ' lti . l 44 Chasti sesnrlrifrerodtfteis , il th e e ' People of but e els of 183 t v '"I). 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