The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-24 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. k Froca the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, o' the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 11th day of D.c., 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-knapp and Co Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 6,748 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 7,674 kylshaua Isank, Aylsharn-R. and E. Copeman 4,669 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt 30,946 Baldock Bank and Baklock and Biggleswade Bank, :laldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 26,343 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-D7ake and Co 10,355 Basingstoke and Odihax. Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymou r , an d C o . Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. 3 ewtlley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane 'feaster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co 3irmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 21,181 iirmingha.m and Warwickshire Bank, Birming hain-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co . 32,541 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak. 6,605 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 68,585 Bostnvi Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 13,721 Brid'. rater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 7,849 Bri'stol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 30,142 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 19,988 'Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Parrett, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co.. 66,321 Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 26,623 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 40,505 Bath City Bank, Bath-Mower and Son . 1,944 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 27,299 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-a and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 55,816 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 21,575 Brighton ITT.ion Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- I. and Co. Brnmsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 12,720 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chcrtsey-Messrs. La Coste 2 628 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 31,617 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock • 7,979 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 12,690 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. . 5,791 Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 24,234 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 8,343 Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 9,403 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, &Co 63,573 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man 6,218 15,493 2,977 14,964 _ _ 1.625 5,024 7 1 735 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. 82,915 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. . . 50,483 Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford. and Co. 40.502 :gxeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 19,414 Yakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Parringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 2,795 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight.— 11,607 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. 4,533 Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh toad Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham —Kewney and King 19,045 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 10.265 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 23,939 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 22,510 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 4,760 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Ironitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. aereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and A rchenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 18,206 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Iladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley :lank, and Woodbridge Bank, rpswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co 6,906 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. 37,174 Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gooch and Sons.., 6.038 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvcy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 48,672 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, -. 12,170 and C_l. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and • Congleton Bank,Leek —Fowler, Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 25,785 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 28,385 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 16,858 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 88,534 Liandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 36,917 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brookleharst and Co 9,261 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,204 • Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 10,765 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank - Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 6,930 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .. miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 15,403 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial • Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 22,561 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth • Monmouthshire and Snead 12,752 • Newport Old Bank, Newport • W. W illi am s taak. and Sons. Newark 6,803 Newark and ewark—Godfreys and Hutton 26,123 Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark and Co .. Bank, Newark—Haudley, Peacock, ... • Newbury Bank, N ... ew . b 47,R35 , Ne7—Bunny and Slocock Newmarket Bank 17,324 ... ma rket—Eaton, Ham mond. and Son as —Taylor and . Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Di ********************* 19,457 Dyson .................. N . • • o • r - wi •• - j 1 11. 1 i a .............- 2,266 Norwich Crown Bank, rve- s J and Hudsons .............................. .59,892 .Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich-- 35,480 • neys and Co ......................................... .Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, N ot _ . tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co .Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and 6,923 CO.. 4, 694 'Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and CO 16,420 '.New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett , and • CO. Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 29,677 ,Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os • westry , ---Croxon and Co , 10,465 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 10,785 ,Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and' Thompson Old Be ank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge 1 71 16,11 s and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-- . Erzech'ing and 50i1g.... l allordafttire Witney Bank Witney..-Williams, g uline .4 4. and Co 6,634 TEI Mtn*, LONDON. PR/DA V Average Araopt • Yease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—MPrkrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—slmonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross Uld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Ll o yd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, fkarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market,Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Sou thwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and llampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Banc, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 13,703 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,613 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ... Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 15,594 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 1,716 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 19,847 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and 45,613 10,898 7,223 9,928 7,75 18,69; 20,689 3.4 Z 6,384 4,116 7,456 11,253 13,839 14,902 7,734 3,740 32,546 9,909 24,3: 21,212 2,763 9,661 13,262 1,443 2,649 5,819 Co 8,594 Thorn bury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston--Yorke and Eland 10,175 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. 8,378 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 16,896 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 4,084 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 22,298 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 3,122 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkeaworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkeswnrth—Arkwright and Co. . 32,725 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscortbe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 9,427 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 66,213 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,084 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeek, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,975 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten ... 5,400 York Bank. York—Swann. Clough. and Co 39,04 8,478 2,804 7,115 9,736 JOINT-STOCK BANKS Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal 7,714 Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 37,517 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... . Burton, Uttuxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Cheaterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 9.702 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle 23,580 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 14,969 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,705 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 13,978 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 116,775 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 11,691 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 26,969 Hull Banking Company, Hull 24,973 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,164 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,545 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,651 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,647 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 49,456 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,659 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,757 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 19,752 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle. Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 37,992 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 35,130 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 68,560 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 30,573 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,673 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,387 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking ,Com pany, Stamibrd 47 506 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetahire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Cora pang, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... , . .. 18,086 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Shellieid . 49,426 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond . . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton a id Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 29,810 Wakefield and Baruiley Union Bank, Wakefield 10,314 Pest Nte Whitehaven v iot emfi inittoy oe n 28,828 n J oi . nt-! i . t o c k Banking Company, Warwick a n d L ewair _ gton Bank i ng Company, 24,235 Englane and South Wal e s D is t r i c t Wli3lZkandrisDtA3ourselnito.linaking Company, Salisbury 40,205 Banking C ompany, West Riding dersfield ~,.... Whitchurch and Elie Hud. ; ;. ... ii ... ............. ,; 21,580 Whitchurch .. ........ ft ilkiug Company, Worcester City and Countyßankiii. i . C . . ,- Worcester York Union Banking Company, Y0rk.,,, , 6 ' York City and County, Banking C ornpw *.,•,: .. 1. 1,733 .r, Aork 77,040 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds ......... 90,709 P. DEANS, Registrar of Rank . - it, t Stamps and Taxes, December 18, 1847. ', DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the Guildhall Coffee-house yesterday, for the purpose of considering the best means to wind up satisfactorily the affairs of the company ; Dr. Burnett in the chair. Mr. ROBINSON said that the financial statement that was made at the last meeting of the company, in 1846, having been unsatisfactory, the present meeting had been convened. From the statement it appeared there were large sums that had been paid to the solicitors and the engineers, and respecting which the fullest information should have been afforded the share holders. There were three modes open to the share holders—the first to appoint some gentlemen to confer with the committee of management with a view to an arrangement ; the second, to institute a suit in equity ; and the third, to avail themselves of the powers of the Act of Parliament, and put the company into the Court of Bankruptcy. After some discussion as to which mode should be adopted, Mr. Isaacs moved a resolution, to the effect that it was the opinion of the meeting that the winding-up of the affairs of the company would be best accom plished by bringing the matter under the jurisdiction of a Court of Bankruptcy, and that the necessary steps be taken for that purpose. Mr. DOBSON seconded the resolution, which was carried by a large majority. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. CANADA COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, St. Helen's-place (Charles Franks, Esq., in the chair), for the purpose of de claring a dividend, and ,to elect a director in the room of John Easthope, Esq., who had been dis qualified from ill-health. The CHAIRMAN said Mr. J. W. Freshfield was the only gentleman who had offered himself to fill the vacant office, and if there was no opposition he would submit his name to the approval of the meeting, There being no opposition, Mr. Freshfield was accordingly elected. The CHAIRMAN then read the report, which con gratulated the proprietors on the increasing pros perity of the company. The emigration to Canada this year, especially from Ireland, had been unusually large, the number who had landed at Quebec from January to the 27th of October last being 92,819 ; many of them, however, were persons quite unfit to undergo the hardships of a settler's lite, and were very deficient in that general intelligence so impor- . tant to settlers in a new colony. Many came extremely ill-provided with means for their immediate support, and suffered from diseases with which they hadin'some cases embarked; they therefore had experienced great difficulty in obtaining employment, and upon the whole great loss of life had attended the emigra tion of the year. The expenditure in some of the provinces of Canada had been less advantageous than usual ; but the increase of settlers on the Huron tract had been great, as up to the 25th September, 14,032 had settled there, making in the aggregate 16,643 settlers in the district, many of whom were valuable emigrants, who had removed with their families from some other part of the British do minions. The lands disposed of by sale up to the 24th of November amounted to 23,801 acres, at an average of 15s. sd. per acre, and by lease 78,194 at 15s. 9d., making altogether 101,995 acres, exceeding the leases and sales of last year by 58,065 acres, and at an average increase of ls. 3d. A considerable sum of money had been sent home by emigrants through the hands of the company. The report was received, and a dividend of 6 per cent. on the capital stock, free of income-tax, was de clared payable on the 10th of January. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question, stated that the settlers were allowed to hold the land on lease for 10 years on paying 6 per cent. on its value, when the land would revert again to the company. The im provement of the land was secured, and of course its value enhanced, and if the settler did not comply with the conditions he was liable to be ejected. Mr. FRESLIFIELD having thanked the meeting for his election, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting separated. 7,956 7,63 9,62 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dee. 23. Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN, and , Common Juries.) EGAT-RACE.—CREESMAN AND CONNYGNRAM U. HART. This was an action of trover, to recover a sum of 231., the value of a prize boat, for which their had been a contested boat-race between two competitors at Greenwich. The declaration set forth conversion Gf the property by the defendant, to which the de fendant, who is proprietor of the Trafalgar Tavern, on the banks of the river, Greenwich, pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. James appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Montague Chambers, the Hon. Mr. Denman, and Mr. Boville, were for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant SHEE stated the case, from which it appeared that a regatta or boat-race, took place in June last, opposite Greenwich Hospital, in which two well-known watermen—Watkins and Peter Browne, were the competitors. The prize was a handsome boat, built by Messrs. Chilling worth and Burton ; and as the rowers were men of acknowledged skill on the river in plying the oar and managing the skiff, the excitement pending the race was great, the bets considerable, and the spectators numerous. There were, altogether, five h ea t s , i n some three or four of which the success was various and the issue doubtful. The Learned Sergeant said that it would be attempted to show that Browne was the best oarsman ; but he would prove, by testimony which he meant to adduce, that Watkins, in the fourth heat, was fifty or a h un d re d yards ahead of Browne. It would be also endeavoured, as he was informed, to show that Watkins had been guilty of attempts at foul play in the race, but he would mo s t satisfactorily dem ons t ra t e th a t the charge of " fouling" applied more to Peter Browne than to Watkins. That foul play took place there was abundant testi mony to prove. Everything that was necessary for the regulation and conduct of the race, was provided for. The plaintiffs were appointed managers and judges of the affair, and the rules of the race, a fair start, &c., were regularly drawn up. In the fifth heat a charge of " fouling" appeared to be made, in which Peter Browne would seem to be the aggressor, and Watkins, seeing the disadvantage at which he was placed, very prudently fell back and pulled ashore. Browne went ahead and pushed on to the appointed goal. Multitudes of persons who were looking on raised their voices, some in loud huzzas for Browne, and others in mur murs of foul play. Browne, surrounded by his friends, was placed in the prize boat, and chaired in triumph through the public ways. The proces sion halted opposite the Trafalgar Inn, and the boat, by permission of Mrs. Hart, wife of the defend ant, was deposited in the yard of that establish ment. A civil request was made next morning for the boat, by the plaintiffs, who, as managers in the race, had not given their decision • but the defe n d an t refused t o g i ve i t up , •remarking that they wanted to give it to their " fancy man," and that " they were rogues altogether."—(Laughter.) The application was repeated by Mr. Collins, a schoolmaster, with no better success, and plaintiffs then placed the matter in the hands of their attorneys, who served a formal notice of demand on defendant, with an intimation of a civil action against him, should he not surrender the boat to the plaintiffs. The defendant remained un moved, and ultimately handed the boat over to Browne, with an accompanying recommendation to name it the "Trafalgar," and Browne accordingly so named her. Now this was a clear act of conversion, for which the defendant had rendered' himself liable. The Learned SERGEANT then called witnesses in support of his statement, of which the above is an outline, and among them Captain Rowland, who de posed that he had witnessed the race from his draw ing-room window, and that Browne was, to his view, more the aggressor in the charge of " fouling " than Watkins. He also put in evidence to show that the prize -boat had been purchased by the plaintiffs for a sum of 231., money collected for the purpose among the inhabitants of Greenwich,.and produced a receipt for the payment. Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS, for the defence, con tended that the race had been fairly and gallantly won by Browne ; that Watkins, in the fifth heat was exhausted, and obliged to give up; that there was a difference between the men, Browne, in a long match, proving to hav e th e best bottom, and that Watkins, when he saw himself losing the race, was guilty of fouling, having gone so far as to row his boat in upon Browne's quarter, and even seize his boat. He would show, further, that the plaintiffs were not owners of the boat; that there was no "con version" of her by the defendant, such as charged in the declaration, and that the defendant, in handing over the boat to Browne, had but given it up to the party who had fairly and beyond all doubt won it. The Learned Gentleman then commented on the part taken by the plaintiffs in the affair, insinuated that they had, themselves, bets pending on the race in Watkins's favour, stated that when that competitor fell out of the race, they were beard to say, " Never mind, Tom, we'll make it all right for you," and urged that they could not, under the circumstances, be regarded by the jury as in a condition to have conducted themselves as impar tial judges. He, therefore, hoped that the jury, looking at the whole case, would find their verdict for the defendant, who, in handing the prize -boat over to Browne but discharged an honest and hide- . pendent exercise of duty. The Learned Gentleman: called Phillip Brooks, William Foster, William Tho mas, Peter Browne, Purkis, Todman, Skinner, and ' _ Ely licA IN 6, DECEIMS 1.11 ft g 4, 1614. other witnesses, to support his sta.temeetts, after which .and Mr. Sergeant Shee's reply, Lord DENMAN summed up the evidence. His Lordship said there had been a great deal of conflict ing testimony in the case, as to false starts and charges of " fouling," on the one side and the other; but the main questions for the consideration of the jury would be, as to whether the property was the plaintiffs', and as to whether the defendant had been guilty of conversion in handing it over to Browne. Undoubtedly, it was quite clear that the plaintiffs had, on the 10th of June, about three days before the race, paid Messrs. Chillingworth and Burton 231. for the boat; but if that were not so, if they even had not paid for it, the defen dant had no right to hand it over to Browne. It was, at the time he did so, in dispute—the plaintiffs had not given their decision—they were judges in the race, duly appointed. They pronounced it to be a foully contested race, and had made applications to the defendant fur the boat, which was still their pro perty, to dispose of, and which could only b e dis posed of by their fair decision, according to the rules governing the race. The defendant, then, clearly had no right to give it up to Browne, and in having done so he was clearly, according to the evidence, guilty of conversion. It would be for the jury, however, to say so, and also whether they believed the boat had been paid for by the plaintiffs. ..... The jury conferred together for a few moments, and returned a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages 231.—the amount paid for the boat, and expressed their opinion, in answer to a question from Lord Denman, that the plaintiffs had paid for the boat. Thus ended the business of the sittings. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 23. (Sittings at Guildhall, before the Loan CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.) MACHER V. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. This was an action brought for the purpose of re covering the sum of 12.5/. 16s. 10d., being the value of a certain bale of silk , sent by the plaintiff, from Andover to London, by the South-Western Railway, and which was alleged to have been stolen by one of the servants of the company. Sir F. Thesiger appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin for the defendant. It appeared that the silk in question was forwarded from Andover in the month of March. Upon the arrival of the bale at the Nine Elms station, it was handed over to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the carriers to the company, to be by them conveyed to its final destination, and it was while under the charge of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne that the robbery was alleged to have taken place. Upon the 10th of . March the solicitors of the plaintiff wrote to the direc tors of the company, requesting payment for the miss ing goods, and in answer to that communication he was informed that his application would receive attention in due course. The principal evidence in support of the robbery, was that of a person who stated that he was employed occasionally by the police to hunt after suspected characters, and that he had seen the person charged with the robbery take the bale from one of the carts of Chaplin and Horne, but declined to give any information to a police-officer whom he met im mediately afterwards, on the ground that the police man appeared to him to be " a raw Irishman." The 4 witness further stated that he had followed the pri soner for several days to watch his motions, and finally pointed him out to a policeman, who took him into custody o n th e c h arge o f s t ea ling the bale. James Johnson, the party so charged, was committed by the police magistrate, and upon his trial at the Old Bailey was acquitted. On the part of the defendant Mr. MARTIN con tended that the directors of the South-Western Railway were not liable, their railway being em ployed only for the purpose of conveying the goods in question to London, and that having arrived at its destination at the Nine Elms station, the liability of the company was at an end. The LORD CHIEF BARON dissented from that opinion, and ruled that that would depend entirely upon the arrangement which might be made between the parties. In this case it appeared that the railway company professed to carry the goods the whole dis tance, and employed others to act for them after. Such persons, so employed, would undoubtedly be come the servants or agents of the company, and their servants would also be the agents or servants of the company. Mr. MARTIN, in replying upon the evidence, said it would be very hard upon the railway company if they were to be called upon to pay so large a sum as that which they were now called upon to pay, they having received only the trifling sum of 2s. Bd. as carriage for the goods. The plaintiff, to be entitled to make good his claim for compensation ought, in compliance with the Act regulating the carriage of goods by carriers, to have paid an additional sum beyond the charge for carriage as insurance. The plaintiff de clined to do so, and having refused to pay a small additional sum, he must bear the consequences. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to describe in very strong terms the conduct of the witness who stated that he had seen the'goods stolen, but refused to give any' information which would lead at once to the detection and apprehension of the person who had committed the theft, and thought that the jury ought not to attach much weight to his evidence. The person whom he had charged with the robbery . had been tried, and by the verdict of a jury had been ac quitted. Looking carefully to the whole of the case, he confidently anticipated that the jury would return their verdict for the defendant. The LORD CutEr BARON, in summing up, told the jury that the real questions for them to consider were, whether the goods in question were or were not feloniously stolen by one of the servants of the com pany, and whether the plaintiff gave notice to the defendants that the silk was worth more than the sum of ten pounds. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. COURT OF COMMON, PLEAS, Dec. 23. ,Sittings at Nisi' Prins, at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) BENNETT 17. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. This was an action brought by Captain Bennett against the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company for the refusal to allow him to proceed to Gibraltar by the vessel called the Montrose. Mr. M. D. Hill and Mr. Fetersdorff appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General, Mr. Sergeant Byles, and Mr. Ogle, for the defendants. From the statement of Mr. HILL, it appeared that thewas formerl y i n the service of the company, as captain of th e sh i p Lotus, and that he plaintiff was superseded by Captain Moody in 1841, the com pany intimating by letter at the time of his dismissal that they had no intention whatever to impugn his February, 1847, the plaintiff was de sirous to Gibraltar, an d f or t h at pur charactnefr. proceeding In pur pose he went to Southampton in order that he might shin Montrose, w hi c h was appointed to sail On arri v i ng at the quay from on that b lha t t he day. which the vessel was to sail, he was met by Mr. Andrews, an assistant manager of the company, who refused to allow him to take his passage in the vessel, and on inquiring the grounds of the refusal, he was re ferred to the directors in London. The plaintiff then applied to the directors on the subject, but no answer was returned, and the present action was instituted. There being sufficient accommodation in the ship the defendants were in the position of common carriers, and I were bound to carry plaintiff as well as the passen gers, to the places to and f rom w hi c h the ship sailed. Mr. Andrews was then called arid stated that he was instructed by the directors to refuse a passage to Captain Bennett. Cross-examined—The Montrose was to call off Oporto, which at that ti me was i n a state of blockade. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then addressed the jury for the defendants, who were entitled to refuse a passage to any person in their vessels, if they thought that the person was the agent of another w h o was opposed to for e i gn Powers with whom the Queen of this country was on terms of amity. The plaintiff, who he should prove was intimate with. Don Miguel, applied for a passage to Oporto, which the director refused to give him, believing that it might lead to an interruption - of the intercourse between this country and Portugal. He afterwards applied for one to Gibraltar, but as they thought this. was merely an evasion, and that it was his intention to land at Oporto, they also refused to take him as a passenger. Mr. Fra nc i s Ignatius Van Zeller, gortuguese Consul-Gen era l , had refused to supply thai plaintiff with a passport, i n consequence of an received from th e Spanish Ambassador.,tba,:,thatDon intimation he Miguel was living with Captairli Bennett at , the time he applied for a passpOrt. John Webb was in the habit of going to the plain tiff's house, No. 4, Canonbury-cottages,: Islington There were several gentlemen living with him, one of whom was known as " Don the King." He had frequently seen the king in company of the plaintiff. A gentleman, who stated that he was an agent of Spain, and also agent for Don Miguel, was next exa mined. Don Miguel was living with the plaintiff in Fe bruary last, and remained with him about three or four weeks. The plaintiff in March went to Portugal, and was absent about a month. He told witness that he went direct to Oporto in a small vessel. Was not aware that the plaintiff had n o passport. After his Miguel i h g n u u e s l e. freqz n e n r.t m ly i vi u s e i l te fi d rs h t im ar , ri b v u ed t did this country i n J anuary., n re o t t u r r e n s ' id D e a o t n 1847. Mr. Van Zeller recalied4stated that if the plaintiff had obtained a passport from the British Government, it would either have come through his hands or that of the Spanish A m b assador's. Mr. HIL L was h eard in reply. The CHIEF JU STICE, i n summing up, said, in his opinion, a p u bli c company offering to carry British: subjects and oth ers to foreign parts had no right to inquire i n t o th e political reasons of their journey. He could not und ers t an d h ow a passepgf sr i n one of _ ; the company's vessels could land at Oporto if the persons in command objected to it, as it ap peared that the mails were sent on shore by a small boat, over which of course they had the entire control. It was for the jury to consider whether a British subject who had been so treated was or was not entitled to compensation. The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, re turned averdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. he would be back in three weeks. On Monday leaned again, and caused the box to be forced open, and I found in it a quantity of linen and other articles, and two carpet bags, from which the locks had been apparently wrenched off. Mr. White identified the property as part of that which he had lost in the manner described by him. Being authorized to go after the thief. I went yesterday afternoon to Cheltenham, and apprehended the prisoner at his father's house, in bed. I told him who I was, and that he must consider himself my prisoner upon sus picion of having committed a robbery on the Black wall Railroad. He dressed himself, and I told him to show me all the property he had. lie then pointed to a portmanteau and a couple of coats, and at two portmanteaus which were under the bed. I took him to the station at Cheltenham, but he contrived to make his escape. There were some hundred people at his heels, and he was secured after some difficulty. He had a silver watch and two sove reigns about him. The prisoner is, it appears, one of those clever artists who watch the property placed in railway vans from the moment it is deposited, get into the nearest carriage to the van, and slip out and appro priate what they fancy at the first convenient oppor tunity. Mr. White, it is conjectured, had been seen to be the owner of the carpet bags, and been accord ingly marked by the victimizer, whose success in this mode of plunder made him somewhat negligent upon this occasion. Thu LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to ask any question, or to make any observatio❑ ? The prisoner —Not at all. The prisoner, who will be committed for trial when the depositions shall have been made out, was then sent back to prison. The LORD MAYOR said he gratefully acknowledged having received for the poor-box from the Grocers' Company, through the hands of Mr. Walton, one of their officers, the sum of 10/. ; from " J. Y.," 2/. ; and from Mr. Harker, the foreman of the Grand Jury of the Central Criminal Court, 155., being the amount in hand after payment of the refreshment expenses of the October Grand Jury. John Phillips was on the preceding day brought up charged with having been a " picket man," em ployed to intimidate the workmen of Mr. Trego, of Coleman-street, builder, but that gentleman expressed his willingness to forego the prosecution if the gang of which the accused formed one would pledge them selves to drop the illegal practices of which they had been guilty; the prisoner appeared yesterday in ac cordance with his undertaking. The foreman of Mr. Trego stated that Mr. Trego authorised him not only to stop the prosecution in the present case, but to intercede to procure the immediate liberation of Mahony, the person who had been convicted and sentenced to hard labour for three months for a breach of the law, if the committee, as they called themselves, would pledge themselves to abstain altogether from the system of annoyance upon which they had been acting. It appeared, however, that penitent as Phillips seemed to be, the committee would not make any condition of the kind, hut, on the contrary, were determined to act offensively, and Mr. Trego was therefore resolved to prosecute in every instance. The LORD MAYOR and Alderman Gross approved highly of the decisive conduct of Mr. Trego, and desired that the evidence should be gone into. Mr. Ilumphreys, who attended on Wednesday as solicitor for the prisoner, and advised the committee to abandon the intimidation system, refused (we were given to understand) to come forward to defend upon this occasion, as he had assured them that their con duct was totally indefensible. Witnesses were then examined, but they distinctly stated that, although the language of intimidation had been used by several others of the " picket-men," they had not heard any observations from the prisoner cal. culated to intimidate. The LORD MAYOR and Alderman GIBBS said, that as there was no proof of intimidation, they had no alternative but to dismiss the case, but they repeated their assurance that in every instance in which evi dence of the offence should be given the full penalty would without the remotest chance of mitigation be inflicted, and as it appeared from some of the state ments made by the witnesses that the language of intimidation had been used to them by several well known members of " the picketers," and that, although Phillips had not used that sort of language to them, he had not been sparing of it to others, it would be ad visable in Mr. Trego to cause every one of those against whom satisfactory evidence could be produced to be charged as soon as possible. Mr. Trego, who attended towards the conclusion of the proceedings, said he should most positively act in every case according to the suggestion of the magis trates. He had lost several valuable men im conse quence of the picketing system. The LORD MAYOR said, that he and his brother magistrates would do all in their power to put down so unjust a combination. In the case of Mahony, who had been convicted, Mr. Trego had allowed his com passion to interfere most strongly for that person. It would be his business, in all future cases, to look to justice alone. LAMBETH. TITE LATE CASB OF CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT PERSON.—As Mr. Norton was ab,)ut to leave the bench, Mrs. Ward, the mother of James William Ward, the lad who had been convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to seven years' transportation, for stealing his grandfather's watch, and who was also the prosecutrix in the case of Mary Ann Turpin, who had been unjustly sentenced to six months' hard labour for the same offence, entered the Court, and entreated his Worship's advice under the following circumstances :—She stated that that day a letter which her son had written to his late master had reached her hands, in which the boy stated, in the most solemn manner, that his uncle, Henry Wenman, it was, who had induced him to steal his grandfather's watch ; that out of the fifty shillings received for it he had only got five ; and that his uncle, who had kept the remainder of the money, had told him to ad mit receiving the whole of the fifty shillings, else they should be both transported. This avowal on the part of her son completely confirmed her (the applicant's) opinion that her brother was really the guilty party, though her son had been sacrificed. Mr. NORTON desired her to state the other circum stances which she alluded to, as strengthening her suspicion, and she went on to say—That on the day before the watch had been stolen, her brother, Henry Wenman, had been to her house, and some difference of opinion having taken place between him and her husband about the workmanship of English and French watches, she produced the one in question, for the purpose of settling the point. Her brother, at that time, had an opportunity of examining the watch (which was one of a peculiar description) minutely; and at that time she told him it belonged to her father, who had left it with her to have a glass put in, and that she was particular about it. Notwithstanding this, her brother, in a day or two after, received the same watch from her son, and sold it upon the mere representation that she, the mother, wanted the money for it. Besides this, her brother called at her house twice while the young woman Turpin was under examination, and though he must have been perfectly satisfied that the charge against her was that of having stolen the identical watch that he himself had sold, he never disclosed the fact, but merely endeavoured to prevail on her, applicant, not to press the charge against the young woman Turpin. Further than this, her brother, though bound over to give evi dence against her son, at the Old Bailey, had not ap peared until after the trial was over, and the judge gave directions that he should be taken into custody. Police-constable George Quennier, 201 P, who had the case, having been called on by the magistrate to explain how this was, said that Wenman had been bound over as a witness, and was told by him to be in attendance at the Old Bailey on the day of the trial, at nine o'clock, but-he did not make his appear ance in time to be examined, in consequence of which the Recorder directed that his recognizances be entreated, and that he should also be apprehended. Shortly after the trial was over Wenman made his appearance in court, and applied to the judge to rescind his order, and the Recorder at that time did not order him i n t o i n to custody. The officer furth er stated that neither at the time of his taking her son . into custody, nor during his examination, had M rs . Ward said himawordto about b o o t u t herhis seeingsuspicions the watch of her brother, or the c i rc umstance before it had been stolen, or his visits to her house while the young woman Turpin was under rem an d at this court, (Quennier) also felt it to be hi s d uty to inform his Worship that the lad Ward, both at the time of his taking him into custody and on all occa sions up to the trial, had acknowledged having re ceived the whole of the .50 shillings from his uncle and , 6 good spree" with it. , had a Mrs. Ward admitted that what the officer said was perfectly true, but the declaration of her son that he money th h he ad orr io o nu n 1 ) 1 ;1 8 3 04 . pt f ns ifio t en h d e tt hheat ,4h,aet re w h b as rhoa t t d h h a eb t re we mustnhi stolen h h c a o vn by yrbmeh been n d r boy, if he did not, as her son now confessed, prevail upon to take it ; and therefore she wished that the more guilty parry should be brought to justice. Mr. NORTON remarked that there was nothing in the law to prevent a convict giving evidence, but still the evidence of such a person should be received with much caution. He (Mr. Norton) could not help ex pressing his surprise that the applicant had not, when givin g tier evidence against her son, stated the whole of tb circumstances against her brother. lie should carefully read over the letter put in by the applicant, and give the matter his best consideration by the fol lowing (this) day, when he requested the applicant to attend again. DAIRY.—The iron works are again in full opera tion—the furnaces were in blast on Monday, having been only one week suspended. The workmen are in full employment. Business here is very brisk.—Ayr Observer. ---_ SUNDERLAND ELECTION. SUNDERLAND, WEDNESDAY EYENING.—The Re' turning Officer held a Court this morning, to make the official declaration of the poll. On counting 11 1 3 the books the following were found to be the numberi recorded for each candidate : Sir H. Williamson .. 707 Mr. Wilkinson .••• • •—•.•••• Majority for Sir H. Williamson ... ]29 Total electors polled Do. at the last election .. Mr. Wilkinson polled nine votes more than he did at the last contest, and Sir Hedworth Williamson polled 61 more than Mr. Barclay. There were 31 fewer electors polled at this contest than at the gem; ral election. In four polling booths Sir Hedworth had the majority, in one the numbers were equal, and ia three the majority was in favour of Mr. Wilkinson. Sir Hedworth's gross majority could have been in' creased full 150 more, as that number of voters wore ready to go to poll h a d th e y b een requ i re d, and most of them were w a iti ng a t th e C omm i t t ee - roo m, or ia the vicinity of the polling booths, to be ready if Ile" cessary. On the Returning Officer declaring Sir Hedwort h Williamson, Bart., of Whitburn Hall, duly elected , great applause followed the announc emen t. Sir REDWORTH briefly thanked the e l ec tors for Ow honour conferred upon hi m , an d assure d them 11 ° would endeavour to prove him se lf wo rthy of the high trust and confidence they had r e p os ed in him; He had predicted a victory, and had in no respee' been disappointed. On Mr. WILKINSON presenting himself he Was received with great cheering and waving of hats. He said they had been defeated by the same com bination as before, and "he wished the parti es good luck of their bargain." He congratulated her MajotY ll Government, or rather a Noble Lord high in office , in having used every means in his power to return an opponent of that Government on the import:int questions of the navigation and the currency law s ' Had he been elected he would zealously have sill?: ported the Government on these questions, but h, opponent would be hostile to them. He could 110 ' possibly have anticipated the result, as he had' 68 promises on his canvass books, and 19 had voted for him who did not promise him. One hundred and twenty-four of his promises had not voted, and 3 ? : had voted against him. H e wou ld no t pl e d ge hirOse„P to contest the borough again, but he urged .tu, a Liberal electors to persevere, and they would uit' mately be successful. A vote of thanks was then given to the returning officer, and the crowd speedily dispersed. ANOTHER. SHIPWRECK OF SKULL HARBOUR. (From the Cork Examiner.) SKULL, ONE O'CLOCK, P.M., DEC. 17.--Abe 4t four o'clock on the morning of the 17th instant, ship, laden with deals and oak staves, was driven ashore at Gunpoint, about two miles west of Skull Harbour, and three from where the Stephen Whitney was lost, and in a few moments became a total wreck. Her name has not as yet been ascertained, although we went to the place where the wreck was driving ashore, in hopes of being able t ° learn somethi ng of her. None of the cre w have been se en ; some suppose they abandoned her, others, that they were drowned ; and I can with safety to myself say th a t were th ey on b oar d w hen 31 ' 8 struck they could never land, the beach being so Pre* cipitous and the breakers running so high. A poor man, named John Griffin, while in the act of taking one of the deals which the surge left on the rock , was carried away and drowned by the receding sum' he has left a wife and three children to deplore his !cr i b Another vessel has also cast anchor this morning outside Skull Harbour, and in consequence of the violent storm which was then raging was obliged to cut away her masts. The commissioned boatmen and one of the coast guards at Skull, with three other volunteers, went to sea to try and rende r the crew and vessel what assistance they could, but the sea ran so high and the gale being still un abated, they were obliged to return when mor e than four-fifths of the way without being able to accomplish their object, th e b oa t w hich they 111 d not being of the best description. no I would most earnestly re c o mmen d to the narnathe or some other Society to f u rnish a life boat to th e means guards of the Skull station (as it might be the means of saving many valuable lives), boat could render any assistance to a vessel in do ' tress off Skull Harbour on such a day as this, or even on a much more moderate day. Any fur ther particulars which I may learn will be furnish ed -a§ soon as possible. a 3 no ordinary SHERIFFS' COURT; Dec. 23. WALKER V. SHACKELL.—FALSE IMPRISONMENT. (Continued from Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Sergeant WILKINs then called several wit nesses to prove that defendant told plaintiff that if he gave up the paper he had nothing more to do with the matter, as there was no rent due, but Brotherton said that what they had got on the van they would stick to, and Walker (the plaintiff) said, " Follow us how you will we will do you at last." Mr. Wentworth, an upholsterer, at Turham-green, deposed to having sent in furniture to Clarke cottage, to the value of 180/., but which he had not been paid. He was present when the goods were being removed. He followed them to the station-house, and instructed some per sons to watch the goods, with the view of recovering them, but he did not succeed. Silas Eyles, a china and glass dealer, proved that he had sent in some goods, some on sale, and some on hire, which were also removed by plaintiff and the men. He had not been paid. John Stavill was called to prove that the goods were removed from place to place. Mr. Sergeant JONES objected to this evidence. Mr. CISARNOCK (for defendant) submitted that he was entitled to give evidence to show that the plain tiff and others were aware that they were doing wrong, especially after the remark of the plaintiff that they would " do" them, let them watch how they might. The UNDER-SHERIFF admitted the evidence; and it was proved that the goods were removed from place to place, and that the parties watching had been threatened to be given into custody if they at tempted to touch the goods. The jury said they had made up their minds, but Mr. Sergeant JONES claimed his right to reply, con tending that whatever intimacy there might exist be tween Clarke and Young, or whatever the miscon duct of either, which however had not been proved, it ought not to prejudice the plaintiff who was acting under the direction of his master, and was wholly ignorant of any impropriety in the act of recovering the property. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for one farthing. The case occupied nearly five hours. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS. Subjoined are the principal sentences passed on the prisoners at the late session, as copied from the official account:— t To Death and awaiting Execution George M'Coy, 26, and Thomas Sale, 25 (convicted of murder). Death Recorded--William Newton Allnutt, 12 (for poisoning his grandfather). TRANSPORTATION BEYOND THE SEAS. For Ten Years —T. Purgister, 23; Thomas Simpson, 21. For Seven Years—Ann Barrow, 30 ; Elizabeth Edwards, 36 ; Ellen Mortram, 20 ; Jane Mee, 20; Elizabeth Gill, 52 ; George Barrow, 32; Edward Rivers, 32 ; James Welch, 18 ; William Wiggs, 17 ; John Prudence, 45 ; T. Rothrey, 25 ; J. Driscoll, 22; Henry Lawrence, 21 ; John Campbell, 30 ; James Smith, 21 ; Sarah Eustace, 17; Wm. Henry Piper, 19; John Booth, 20 ; John Knight, 22 ; Wm. Bonyon, 19 ; Wm. Grant, 21; Henry Potter, 25 ; Isaac lloare, 18. IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. For Two Years—William Denzer, John Johnson, Thomas Rumbold, 13. J. Pork, John Smith. For Eighteen Months— Sarah James. For One Year—Mary Ann Simpson, Maria Long man, Isabella Kirk, Phcebe Rolt, George Smith, J. C. Williams, John Brannan, John Bewestock, John Harden, John Ford, John Richardson, Robert Lowen, George Robert Diggers, Charles Brewer (in Newgate), John Flemming, James Ghrimes, John Williams. For Nine Months—Caroline Holmes, Ellen Ke nedy, Ellen Henly, John Bott, Samuel Harvey, John Jones, Thomas White, Solomon Walker, Tho mas Fenwick, George Folds, William Thompson, Charles Joy, George Gorman, W. Frost, J. T. Beggs, E. Shay. For Six Months—Catherine Sullivan, Catherine Price, Phoebe Price, Jane King, Hamilton West, J. A. Sandlends, Samuel Relfs (Newgate), George NVilliams, William John Green, John Pawson, James Fisher, George Denning, Charles Aubrey, Alfred Larkins, Thomas Thompson, William Verrall, George Hislop, John Connell, J. Line, John Pilsher, J. Swigg, J. Jones. For Four Months—Alphonso Brompton, Charles Mills, James Lovell, J. Kelly, Robert Newsom, William Goddard, J. Brown, J. Vost, Caroline Holmes, W. Davis, J. White, T. Brown, Timothy Shaw, W. H. Capper, J. Sullivan. For Three Months—Eliza Clark, Horatio Nelson West, J. Maqurie, William Hutchinson, Thomas Hamilton, Robert Huntingdon, William Clements, W. Stanling, Thomas Powney, George Gwilliam, J. Collins, W. Dobson, W. Knight, H. Lambeth, H. Shearing, J. Layton. Acquitted by the Petit Jury—Elizabeth Bullock, Mary Mahony, Sarah Palmer, Margaret Lahy, Caro line Coffee, Charlotte Williamson, W. S. Sheridan, M. Bowman, J. Shewing, J. Townsend, William Turner, William Williamson, William Gulliers, T. Doyle, William Palmer, George Smith, J. Hardiman, Daniel Cook, J. Diaper, P. Burgess, D. Briant, John Lane, George Gower, C. Ponton, Stephen Wright, T. Sale, G. M'Coy, J. Renny, John Lloyd, J. Vil liers, William Mansell, J. Redpath, John Beazley, William Maddox. Discharged by Proclamation—W. Jennings Giggs, Robert Utting, T. Draper, T. Clubb. Cheating Gamesters Fined and Confined in New gate—Andrew W. Barr, fifteen months, 500/. ; C. Brewer, one year, 500/. ; Samuel Ralfs, six months, 1001. Minor Adjudications--Two months' imprisonment, 7 ; six weeks' ditto, 1; one month ditto, 9 ; fourteen days and under, 5 ; remanded to next session, 13 ; judgments respited, 2 ; privately whipped, 2 ; sur rendered in court, 9. During the session the Court adjudicated upon 193 prisoners, who were committed from the following districts, viz. :—London, 21 ; Middlesex, 131 ; Sur rey, 32 ; Kent, 7; Essex 2—total 193. The Court at its rising adjourned to Monday, the 3d of January next. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. James Coates, a man known to the police as one of ,he most expert of the swell mob fraternity, w as brought before the Lord Mayor by City policeman, Thomas Hardwick, charged with having committed the robbery detailed in the following evidence :—. Mr. Wightman, the superintendent of the Black wall Railroad, attended to watch the case upon the part of the company, and a solicitor appeared for the prosecution. Mr. George White, of Millbank-street, Westmin ster, merchant, said—On Tuesday, the 11 th o f N o . vember,: I came from Gravesend to Blackwall in a steam-boat. When we arrived at that station one of the company's porters came to me on board, and asked me if I had any luggage. I gave him two carpet bags and a small basket, desiring him to put them in a Fenchurch-street carriage on the railway. In consequence of our not starting immediately, .1 lost sight of the porter for about six or seven minutes, but when I was seated in one of the carriages he came to me with the basket, and said he had put the two carpet bags in the luggage van, which was immediately before the carriage in which I was riding. I did not see them there. When we got to Fenchurch-street no bag was to be found. I returned at once to Blackwall, and was confronted with the porter, who insisted that he had deposited them in the carriage. Every inquiry was made by the railroad servants, but nothing satisfactory occurred till Tuesday last, when I heard that some of the pro perty contained in the two bags had been recovered. They contained, when in my possession, a gold chain, a tortoiseshell workbox, some furs and shawls, a lace veil, and several articles of ladies' and children's dress. I identify all the articles and the bag produced by the policeman as mine. I do not know the prisoner at all, and am not aware that I have ever seen him before now. Richard Durant, porter to the London and Black wall Railway Company, stated that he conveyed the two bags and the basket, according to the direction of Mr. White, from the steam-vessel to the railway, an d place the ' which bags in the luggage carriage , there was a latch, bat no lock. He gave Mr White, .White, who had got into a first-class carriage, the small basket. The bags could not have been taken out of the van before the train started from Blackwall, nor before it left Poplar, w here it stopped for two or three minutes to take in passengers and grip the rope. Nothing was heard of them t ill the arrival of the train in London , where witness afterwa rds came and made inquiries, but heard that the porters had not taken any luggage out of the carriage answering the de scription. Policeman Hardwick said—On Saturday last I heard that the prisoner, who is known to me, had gone to Cheltenham with some luggage, and, knowing where he lodged, I went to the house, in Antony street, St. George's-in-the-East, and asked the land lady where any of James Coates's property was. She took me to the, back attic, and, showing me a boxy said that was all she had belonging to him, and that RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS• LIVERPOOL; Dac. 23. &roc': EXCHANGE.—A firmer feeling bas manifested itself in the share market to-day, and we close at the following quotations :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424—Ditto.'Halves , :s% dis.—Great Western, Halves, Ditto, 171. Shallot % p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 32/. Shares. 64 dia.— London and North-Western, 1441—Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 3531 c.—Ditto, New, Quarters, 5 p.—Midland Stock, New Halves, 2V g dis.—North Staffordshire, s c..dis.—Shrewe bury and Chester, New, 1 / 2 p,—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3. OA ws.— Ditto, No. 4, rhirds, 2 dis.—Northern of France , Continuation, 1/ t p.—North Union (A), 206. MANCHESTER, Dec. 23. STOCK Excliascr.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottn• ham, and Boston, 216 dis.—East Anglian, New Preference , 3-16 dis.—Fleetwood, Creston, and West Riding Junction, dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 32!. Shares, 6 die ,, Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 1.16 dis.—Manchester, field and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 5- dig--; North British, Thirds, 5-16 dis.—North Staffordshire , s ' l : dis.—South-Eastern and D o v e r, No. 4, 1 15-16 dic_Tor; Newcastle, and Berwi c k, E x t ens i ons , No. 2,1% and North-Western, Quarters (B), 3 1-16. BIRMINGHAM, Dnc. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Exchange being now closed for the holidays, there has not been any list published the . 184 two days; and in the absence of o ffi cial quotations it is !E a .; possible to obtain accurate information relative to the pric es at which the few casual sales have been made. There 1 3 1 73 however, been a downward tendency in all transAct i° l, 3, , r . no prospect of an improvement until the turn of the ye a r. EDINBURGH, DEC 22. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are--Caledonian , •Th r ' es t Dundee and Perth, 3 01.—Edinburgh and Perth, 113 1-r n otere , Northern, 4/. —North British, 4/. le.—Ditto, New ""-- 9s. 6d.—Ditto, Thirds, 301. GLASGOW, Dac. 22. girth , STOCK EXCHA NG E.—The sal e s are—Dundelan- p 12 ' New, 2/. 15s.—Eatern Counties (York Extension), A 1 1 d1 f burgh and Glasgow, 871.—Edinburgh and Perth , cen t, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 981. lOa.—Ditto, , PQ-d. guar., 116/. 10s.—North British, Quarters (scrip) , s9' ABOLITION OF TRH CENSORSHIP IN A- -V h , eftlV A joyful sensation was creat e d i n M un i c h oil n t'" outi ce• ing of the 16th i ns t an t, by t h e unexpecte d a„ I L will, ment that the King of Bav ar i a , o f hi s o w° 1 1 `; 48, the had decreed that fro m th e I s t o f J anua ry. - l fr a ire censorship of the press, as r egar d s the interna l decree.creo of the kingdom, wa s to b e a b o li s h e d. Th e roya bears the date of Dec. 16, 1847, i s s i gne d by the 1% 1 , 43 b r. and countersigned by the Prince of Oettingen - Wa ° stein and the other ministers. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—AN AFFECTION OF THE Sr" AND LIMBS CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AS P PILLS.—Mrs. Reynolds, landlady of the William 00 Fourth Inn, St. Ives, Hunts, had been ill for fourteen months with an affection of the spine, her feet and lee were dreadfully swoollen, and she became perfectly helpless. Several eminent surgeons and physicians at tended her, under whose care she derived no benefit, but by the recommendation of Mr. Prior, druggist, Bed ford, she tried Holloway's Pills and Ointment, These fine medicines, in about nine weeks, so completely Or stored her to health and strength, that she is now ab le to resume the duties of her household with ease sir comfort.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor 1 1 °i" loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., at Stanmer, the Countess of Chiches ter, of a son. On the IGth inst., at Welwyn, the wife of the Rev. Frede ric Haggett, of a daughter. On the '2lst inst., in Southwick-street, the lady of Cha rles Bell, Esq., of a son. On the 21st inst., the lady of Charles Claridge, Escl. , 11°11°- way, of a son. On the 21st inst., a t St am f or d - hi ll, Mrs. Charles Shadbon , - of a son. On the 21 s t i nst., at the Audit House, Kennington the ; ti wife of J. W. Bateman, E sq ., o f a son, which surviVea birth only a few hours. -h On the 22d i ns t., i n Heathcote-street, Mecklenburg square, Mrs. George J o h nson, o f a daughter. On the 22d inst., in Chester-square, the wife of Charles Dick, Esq.. of a daughter. On the 22d inst., Mrs. G. F. Trollope, of a daughter. /11.4 RAZED. On the 10th inst., at Lee Church, Alexander Fowler , gi g" of Hinton, Hants. t o M ar th a , relict of the late John Lucie Smith, Esq., LL.D. On the 21st inst., at the Cathedral, Southwell, N° tti t Duncan Gra n t, E sq ., o f B ug h t, I nverness-sh i re, to Catheris Munro, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Warrand, EEO M.D , of the Hon. East India Company's Service. DIED. On the 18th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Daniel lierd . ing, aged 53. On the 19th inst., in De Beauvoir-square, West riackneir Mr. Wettig, aged 27. On the 19th inst., at Waltham Abbey, Ann, relict of the late Mr. William Leggett, aged 83. On the 21st inst., at Norwich, Cheshire, John Maxwell, the infant son of the Rev. J. M. Wilde. On the 21st inst., at Royston, Miss SarahWortham. agog 9 0 1. On the 22d inst., Martha Bolt Meredith, third daughter el John Meredith, Esq., Lambeth-road, aged 20. On the 21st inst., William Smith, Esq., of Twickenhare park, Middlesex, aged 73. On the 21st inst., the infant son of Dr. T. Cox, Barnet. On the 2 l st inst., in Cecil street, Strand, Captain Frederick Langley, aged 64. lon the 22d inst., at Strood-park, Sussex, John Willi* Commercil, Esq., aged 93. On the 22d inst., in Connaught square, William Saddle Esq., aged 71. On the 23d inst., Mary, daughter of Henry Dickenson. Esq., Madras Civil Service, aged 15. On the 23d inst., at Camden-town, Sarah, relict of C. Dufaur, Esq., aged 74. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, ntr No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 77ze Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county a ididdieez, Friday, December 24, 1541: _ ~.; Li;