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tiltrb Mbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE 0F LORDS. Room B. BIANCHESTBIL, BUXTON, IVIATI.OOX, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION, The Committee were occupied the whole of the day with hearing evidence in favour of the proposed line. Room E. EAST LANCASHIRE (SOUTHPORT ERANCH). Evidence in supp , rt of this branch was adduced during the entire day. Room F. ZONDON-232./TiGE TER.IVIINX ENLARGE MENT. After hearing engineering evidence in favour of the proposed enlargement, the Committee adjourned at an early hour till eleven to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL-EXETER, YEO VIL, AND DORCHESTER-AND ELAND ronn AND BRAYTON. Mr. Cocs.nuaN resumed his address, which again ‘.iccupied the attention of the Committee during the :tire day, and was about to allude to the proposed -heroes of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, 1 , id to show their insufficiency to supply the wants of t.le district proposed to be accommodated by the pro p used lin , s of the South-Western Company, when the Committee decided that they would adjourn till to morrow, at eleven o'clock. The Committee adjourned accordingly. GROUP XXX. ORZAT NORTHERN (ISLE OW AXHOLDIE EXTENSION). The Committee decided that the preamble of the above Bill was proved, and that the preamble of the AXIIOLIKE (PROM LEEDS AND SELDY) W 2.3 not, proved. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. The public can scarcely be aware of the extraordinary powers which the Corporation of London are seeking under this Bill, now in Committee in the House of Commons. They seek new taxing powers on the public . by imposing a toll on every steam boat of one halfpenny per ton per mile above bridge. They ask power to take a!1 lands over which the tidal waters flow, and if the owner of adjoining property questions their right, to put the Attorney-General in motion against him; and by their Bill they will destroy all the securities granted by Parliament on existing piers on the Thames. TATTERSALL'S—TiIIs EVENING o'cLocx. GOODWOOD STAKES. 8 to 1 agst Stultz 14 to 1 agst Vampyre 14 to 1 agst Milliner 18 to 1 agst Miss Elis 20 to 1 agst Plover 30 to 1 agst Martext 35 to 1 agst Burgundy 40 to 1 agst Glory 40 to 1 agst Morpeth GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 2 agst The Hero 8 to 1 apt Eryx 10 to 1 agst Dulcet 10 to 1 apt Fitz Emilius 19 to 1 agst Halo ST. LEGER. 11 to 4 agst Cossack 12 to 1 ag,st Red Hart IMPERINL PARLIAMENT, (TIT EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. ;lESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Messengers from the Commons b roug h t up severa l public and private Bills. The Earl of RODEN complained that the third re port of the Poor Relief Commissioners (Ireland), laid on the table yesterday, contained statements against many of the magistrat-s and gentry of Ireland, which were totally unfounded, and gave notice that he should call the attention of their Lordships to the subject on ruesday next. Lord - MONTEXCILE hoped the Noble Earl would postpone the subject to a future chy, as on Tuesday next probably many of their Lordships would be ab,er.l at the installation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. After some observations from the Earl of DEVON The DArl of RODEN postponed bringing forward the subject to Thursday next. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Duke of BIiCCLEUCEI presented several petitions on the subject of the Health of Towns Bill. QtS.I.LIFICA ['ION OF PEERS (SCOTLAND) BILL. E ar l oi ROSEBERY moved the reception of the re port upon this Bo!. After a few w Tds from the Duke of BI:CCLEUCII, on the subject Of the oaths required to be taken under the provisions of the Act, the Earl of Roseberry, and the E:trl of liaddington, The Earl of EGLINTON said that he gave his m oat cordial support to the measure, and he hoped that the Bill would be allowed to pass without any alteration. Lord DENNIAN suggested that in his opicion it would be desirable to do away with the necessity for Peers taking the oaths in foreign countries at all, and allowing their deciaratien to have equal weight. After a short discussion, in which the Duke of Buc cleugh, Lord Redesdale, Earl of Ha.ldington, Earl Bus. berry, and several other Noble Lords took part, the report upon the Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to b- read a third time on Monday next. IRISH POOR-LAW AD%IINISTRATION BILL. Earl St. GEtt.MANS wished to know if the Govern ment intended to bring on this Bill to-morrow, sod it they intended to make any material alteration in it. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE intended to propose some ranendmr_nts, hut they would not be of a material nature. lie intended to proceed with it to-morrow. After a short discussion, The NoBLE MARQuis consented to discharge the order for the second reading of this Bill to-morrow, and to re appoint it for a future day. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OFCOMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. The report on the Edinburgh and Perth Railway Bill was brought up and agreed to. The Blackburn improvement, Market, &c., Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lords' amendments to thu London and North- Western Railway Bill (Atherstone and Whitacre Branch) were agreed to. On the motion rat Mr. GREENE, it was ordered that it be an in‘truction to the Committee of Selection to refer the Dollar Institution ( Nlylne's or M•Nabb's Estate) Bill to the Scotland List (No. 1), and three selected Members. and to appoint the Committee on the Bill to meet on Tuesday the 6th day of July, with power to 11,ar the petitioners on all petitions against the Bill, which may ba pre,ented on or before Monday the sth dal/ of July. On the motion also of Mr. GREENE, it was ordered that tha Examiners of Petitions for private Bills have leave to sit and proceed to-morrow on the following Bills:—Newbart (or Gravenor's) Estate Bill, Paterson's Estate Bill. Pickernell's Estate Bill, WingfiAd's (or St. .Atinyn's) Estate Bill. Manses Estate Bill, and Duke of Richmond's Estat. On the motion of Sir R. FERGUSON, a return was order,l ef the harbours, piers, quays, landing places, and other w.,rk s in Ireland, with respect to which any notice or instrument in writing, declaring them to be . vested in the C ommissioners of Public Works in Ireland, under the prurisioes the Act 9 and 10 Vic. c. 3, ha s Leen published the Dublin Gazette. FUSTIA NcurTERS. Mr. WILSON PATTEN Presented apetition from the fu-tian cutters of Warrington, praying that no per sonuul under the age of fou rteen years might work in those Initori. HEALTH OE TOWNs. again6 Mr. ALD iva . tt theDAll.lh of All.l pr Towns esented Bill. a p etiti on from L ee d s E Mr. litfl):` , ON presented a s i m il ar petition from Leicester. Mr. STAN6FIELD presented a similar petition from Leeds. NAVIGATION LAWS. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS presented petitions from the ports of London and Montrose against any alteration in the navigation-laws. JOIN STOCK COMPANIES. M. GIBSON brought in the Joint-stock Corn ra,nies Bill, which was real a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from a gentleman f.f the name of Porter, residing at Hill House, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, stating that he had discovered the iweans of making instantaneous communication by means t.i electricity w the outports in the most foggy nights upwards of L.) years ato ; that he had stated to the "'admiralty tnat he had done so, and had received a 3,:tter from that Board, stating that they should be I llppy to have communications with him on the subject, bat that they . had never granted him an interview. Ender these circumstances the petitioner deprecated the id a of a toreigner having the credit of the invention, a 7 , 21 prayed the House to institute an inquiry on the subj-ct. RATING. Mr. WAKLEY also presented a petition from a gen tl,linan named Hutcheson, complaining of t h e manner of ring to the poor. The Ho's. MEMBER also presented petition from the workmen of Glas4ow, complaining of the law of arrest went of wages in Glasgow. The LION. MEMBER also presented a petition from the Ndtionai Association for Promoting the Improvement * - 1 p - t editd Condition or the People, in favour of the Health of --Towns Bill, and praying that the metropolis might be fr i sluded in its prov Lions. : 'The lion. M..z3taza also presented a petition from a ~~_. = ;l 1~7 ~~ soldier named Philip Ward, stationed in the garrison at Gibraltar, complaining of the conduct of the command ing officer, and praying to be transferred to some other regiment. air DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from one of his constituents, complaining of the treatment of the East India Company. MALTA. nation on a personal matter. He had been represented in the Times of this morning—(Cries of " Oh, oh :") to have stated yesterday, that a spirit of jobbing pre vailed throughout all Irish society. He denied having said anything of the eort. What he said was, that it was most unjust to represent Irish society as being tainted with any such spirit.—(Hear, hear.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 30. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Mr. Jus tice WIGHT3IAN and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. SEPTIMUS RAMSAY, CLERK. Upon this case being called on, only two special jury men answered to their names. The absentees were fined 101. each. A tales was then prayed on behalf of the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. Boville were eounsel for the defendant. This case excited the greatest interest. The Bishop of London, and several other gentlemen were on the bench. Mr. Sergeant SMEE, in opening the case, stated to the jury that this was a case of the very highest importance, and he begged their most calm, and patient, and dispas sionate attention to it. The defendant is a clergyman, attending St. Michael's Church, Burleigh-street, Strand, and he was called upon to answer a charge of having in decently assaulted Mrs. Emmerson. It would appear that the husband of this lady had formerly been in business at Bristol, but was unsuccessful, and, his wife having a very fine voice, she determined to take advan tage of it, and she accordingly engaged herself in the choir of several churches in London, and thus obtained a livelihood for her family. She was about 29 years of age, and the mother of five children. In 1845 a proposal was made to her by the defendant to leave her then situation, at the church in the Savoy, and accept an engagement to lead the choir in his church. She acceded ' to this, first to sing only in the evenings, and afterwards mornings and evenings, in St. Michael's Church. She had not been long there before the defendant sent for her to the vestry, and, upon that occasion, he endea voured to take improper liberties with her. It was to be regretted that she had not at once disclosed this to her husband, but, feeling that if she did so she must lose her situation, and her children must starve, she refrained from doing so, and the defendant had taken advantage of this, and had several times repeated his conduct, until it had arrived to such an extremity that she felt she could no longer keep it from her husband, and she at once charged the defendant with his conduct, the matter was brougt before the churchwardens, and then this indictment was preferred. As we give the evidence at great length the speech of the Learned Counsel, which was merely a statement of the facts, is abridged. The following evidence was adduced : Charlotte Emmerson—l have been married, twelve years. My husband was formerly in business in Bristol, and was unsuccessful. I then turned my talent of sing ing to account. I was leader or the choir at the Savoy Chapel from 1843 to 1845. In the latter year I made an engagement with the defendant to sing at his church in the evening. I attended there, and after wards gave up the Savoy Chapel and attended alto gether at the defendant's. After I had been at the defendant's six or eight months, in July I was sent for to the vestry, and I went there; it was in the evening of a Sunday. In the vestry I found Mr. Ramsay. . I was talking to him about making arrangements to sing in the morning. He had his surplice on. He said he must have a kiss. He kissed me, and behaved indecently to wards me. I told him to remember the position he was in, for I thought some one would come in. I rushed from him, dragged myself from him, and went up into the organ loft. On the following Wednesday he sent for me, and I went down into the side aisle, and Mr. Ramsay came to me there. He said he had very nearly got into a dreadful scrape through last Sunday evening; that he had received a letter stating that he had been seen taking liberties with a lady in the vestry, and that that lady was one of the choir, but that I need not be alarmed, as, though the letter was addressed to Mrs. Ramsay, he had got hold of it and had answered it in the name of his wife, stating that the lady was his cousin. He said he believed the letter had been written by one of Deville's men. I was then residing in Liver pool-street, Walworth. The defendant called there about two months after this, between three and five o'clock. A person of the name of Manning was at my house on that occasion. He was an acquaintance of my husband's, and was in the kitchen at the time. I opened the door, and showed the defendant into the parlour. I went into the front parlour with him ; the folding doors were open. The defendant said he was very happy to think he had got my husband into a situation, at Mr. Hunt's, 10, White hall, and he should only expect me to pay him by giving him a kiss. Ho then endeavoured again to take indecent liberties with me. I resisted. The struegle lasted about five minutes. Ho then tartud it off, and began to talk, and begged me not to say anything about it. My husband afterwards went to Mr. Hunt's. The defendant was in the house altogether about half an hour. Mr. Manning afterwards questioned me as to what had taken place, and I told him of the defendant's conduct. I was at that time pregnant. I had four infant children living. I saw the defendant on the following Sunday. He said that on going home from my house on the Wednesday a little boy had struck him with a crowbar, which had made him very ill. I was confined in April, 1846. The de fendant called at my house about three months after my confinement. I was then living at Warwick-place, Pim lico. He then stayed about twenty minutes or half an hour. Ho. then took liberties with me by kissing me and pulling me about. He came again in October, at one or two o'clock. He then proceeded in the same style he had before. He endeavoured to pull me on to his knee. I resisted him very strongly, and he said he would soon take that modesty out of me, and exposed his person. It is impossible I can state what else he did. He did nothing more. My husband was then in the employ of Messrs. Ackermann, in the Strand. The defendant had procured that situation for him. One of the firm was a member of Mr. Ramsay's congregation. In the beginning of the present year some differences arose between the choir of Mr. Ramsay's church, and I addressed him a letter ; and the defendant shortly after wards called upon me, and destroyed the letter I had written him. 1 wrote to him in consequence of my salary having been some time due, and I told him that I had been very ill, and it had cost me Bd. every Sunday to go to the church ; that he had very much reduced my salary, and I thought it would be better for him to have paid my salary, for I had heard many things about his character that had astounded me. He told me he had come to ask me what I had referred to about his character. I told him I had heard he had ruined his nursery-maid, and sent her to Canada ; that she had since applied to come home, but he had sent her 501. to keep her there. I told him Mrs. Ward, the pew-opener, had said so. lie made no reply. I then said I had heard remarks about him and Mrs. Ward. He asked me if I thought it was likely ; that if she had been a young woman of thirty it would be a different case. He said he thought he should turn her out of the church. I told him to be careful what he did. I then told him I had heard her say if he did discharge her she would blow him to the devil. He said, " Well, I must be careful what I do, and I had better burn this letter " (alluding to my letter) ; and he then burned it. This was on Monday or Tuesday. I went to the church next Sunday, but did not sing, and the choir was discharged. A letter had been sent me, from. Mr. Jones, the church warden, dismissing the choir, and I then wrote the de fendant, this letter:— " In answer to Mr. Jones's letter, I wish you distinctly to understand that we have given the choir an engage ment for twelve months. As regards myself, I suppose you have been calculating whom it would be most expe dient to get rid of, me or Mrs. Ward, but if you do not pay the a 5/., you will find to your sorrow the result, and unless matters are arranged to my satisfaction before Sunday I shall make my husband acquainted with all your conduct, and I would rather see you in the claws of a lion than in his." I then received a letter from Mr. Manning, the de fendant's solicitor's : " 9th of January, 1847.—1 have been consulted by Mr. Ramsay and his friends on the slanderous reports raised by you, and particularly respecting a very extra ordinary letter which Mrs. Emmerson addressed to Mr. Ramsay, and which, if brought before the proper au thorities, would lead to the conclusion that it was an attempt to extort money. As the offence charged is a very serious one, I would caution you in a friendly spirit to avoid a repetition of the same, but, at the same time, in justice to the character of Mr. Ramsay, I must call on you and Mrs. Emmerson to retract, in writing, all your slanders and reports against that gentleman ; otherwise, it will be my painful duty to adopt such proceedings, both civil and criminal , as wi ll lead to ruinous conse quences. With re g ard to the salary, I shall be in a posi lion to transmit it. That letter was received by my husband. On the Sun day afternoon another letter came from Mr. Manning " In furtherance of the view we mutually took of the matter, yesterday, and with a desire to afford an oppor tunity for explanation, I have arranged a meeting with Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Ackerenann, and the chapelwardens, at my office te-morrow; and I beg to invite you and Mrs. Emmerson in a friendly spirit to attend such meeting. I shall not act professionally, but only assume the part of a friendly natllatcr," My husband and myself attended at that meeting at Mr. Manning's house, We did not take any friend with us. I found there Mr. Ackermann, Mr. Ramsay, the two churchwardens, and Mr. Manning. Upon our going ih Mr. Manning said my letter insinuated many things against the character of Mr. Ramsay, and they had met to know what was the fact. He said it ap peared to him it was the effusion of an angry woman because I could not gain my end. ;t was then pro posed, that if I did not lik e to state all the f acts before all the gentlemen, he would request my husband to re tire with two of the married gentlemen. Air. Manning had asked me if I could adduce anything against Mr. Ramsay. I said I could. He said, "Has he eteis taken any liberties with you?" I said " Yes." He then pro posed my leaving the room with two married gentlemen. I then said to Mr. Ramsay, "If ho had had as much regard for his own character and the church as I had he would never have brought me to that meeting; that he had brought mo there, and that I was bound , t o speak the truth as he had tasked ma td it:" He made no answer. I then retired with the two gentlemen, Mr. Manning and Mr. Jones. Down to -gan—nlidnaryts that time my husband was not aware of the particulars g of what had taken place. I made a statement to the two gentlemen, and they retired into another room, and ert then into the room of the meeting. The defer- ) in the latter room, and Mr. Manning then e . ' Emmerson had a wish that all I had sai,,l should be de tailed that sir. said, " tailed before all the gentlemen. T , _eat was elone, a tia 1. asked the defendant if he cee' made no reply, and lie .. repeated ii th n e ir q u u e e t sti H on e , and the defenda pf was in Jal'':ary last. ( r.,arse I deny it. This Cress-examined.--r -engaged at the -7 can't fix the time when I *as Ars, the defendant' defendant's church, I was singing et ter end ' s s church in the ever.ilig only up to the lat- July. July, 1845, and it was the last Sunday in , I believe, that the conduct of the defendant first , ` ) k Place- My salary was 51. a year for singing in Oil evening at the defendsa.t's church. It wa s on the 30t of July .that I ente;ed into the ehgagetneut, morning` ACCIDENT'S IN COLLIERIES. Mr. BAILEY wished to know what power the ma gistrates had to interfere with regard to colliery explo sions. Scarcely six months passed without accidents happening, and he thought it right that some inquiry should take place with the view of ascertaining the case, and of providing a remedy against them. Sir G. GREY said that an inquiry could not take place unless circumstances rendered it necessary. Mr. HUME quite agreed in the opinion that an in quiry should take place when any of these accidents occurred, and hoped that Government would also take steps to inquire into the collision of vessels at sea, with a view of adopting meausure to prevent the great loss of life which frequently occurred from them. Mr. FOSTER complained of the imputations which were cast upon the owners and masters of collieries with regard to these accidents. Mr. DUNCOMBE said that he had this information Dr. BO WRING wished to know, from the Secretary at War, whether he had received any information as to the alleged misconduct of the military of Malta at the theatre and elsewhere. Mr. FOX MAI:LE said that he had made inquiry at the Horse Guards, and found that no report had reached there with respect to the subject. PRISONS BILL AND CUSTODY OF OFFEN DERS BILL. Lord MAHON wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what course he intended to adopt with respect to the Prisons Bill and the Custody of offenders Bill. Sir G. GREY said, that it was of great import ance to the country that the Custody of Offenders Bill should pass as soon as possible, and he hoped to be able to bring up that Bill, with such amendments as should induce the House to give its sanction to it. He hoped to be able to get the Bill through Committee to-night. With respect to the Prisons Bill, the Government did not think that measure of such immediate importance. FEVER HOSPITAL AT ISLINGTON. _ _ 'rom Mr. Roberts, a solicitor, of Manchester, and he had no doubt of the accuracy of the facts. NAVIGATION (No. 2) Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL po,tponed the second reading of this Bill till twelve o'clock to-morrow. HEALTH OF TOWNS' BILL. Mr. T. DUNCO MBE presented a petition nume rously signed by inhabitants of Islington, praying the House not to allow the establishment of the proposed fever hospital at Islington ; and also praying the House to consent to the clause which he proposed should be inserted in the Health of Towns Bill. Lord MORPETH moved the order of the day for going into Committee upon the Health of Towns' Bill. Mr. G. PALMER said that, in his opinion the clauses cf this measure upon which they were about to go into Committee were most unconstitutional. The Bill, in its operation must necessarily deprive many corporate bodies of powers and:privileges which they had hitherto exercised with great advantage to themselves and to the'public. The responsibility for the acts of the Commissioners who were to put this Act into operation were to rest upon one Com missioner, who was to have a seat in that House. They all knew what was meant by that responsibility, and how easily it were to be got rid of. He objected to the principle of any compulsory sale of property belonging of public bodies and private parties—not under the ope ration of a proper Act of Parliament, but at the discre tion of one individual who might never see the spot, or know the detailed circumstances of the case with which he had to deal. He should resist this Bill upon prin ciple alone, and not from any other interested motive, and he should therefore move that this bill be committee that day three months. Colonel SIBTHORPE said that he had paid some attention to this Bill, and he did not think that all the parties interested in this matter were thoroughly ac quainted with the dangerous power which it placed in the hands of the Government. The Noble Lord who had proposed the Bill had in the first instance limited its operation to four miles, but he had suddenly, and without any reason, increased its o p era ti on t o t en . He was informed that there were sixteen metropolitan Members in that House, and the fear of the opposition of these sixteen Members he supposed had induced the Government to exclude London from the oper a tion of the Bill. He had the honour to represent the important city of Lincoln, and he had no doubt he should have the same distinguished honour in the next Parliament ; and he could tell the House that his constituents were as clean as the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London or the Common Council of the city of London, and they did not require any super vision of this sort. They did not want a commissioner to be continually coming down and telling them that they had no right to do this, that, and the other. Local government was the essence of the constitution, and he could not consent to pass a Bill which proposed to strike a blow at the foundation of all local governments throughout the country. He condemned this partial le gislation, and unless the Government changed their sys tem of proceeding they would lose the support of all who now voted with them. Mr. W. BROWNE said that this was the most im portant Bill which had been introduced during the ses sion. The state of Liverpool at the present moment was most deplorable, for want of proper sanatory regulations. There were not less than from six thousand to seven thousand people ill of fever at the present time in the hospitals of that town, and unless some preventive measures were taken, the most incalculable evils would be entailed upon society. A medical gentleman told him that during last week no less than 1001 had been spent in providing coffins for the poor. Mr. MACKINNON said that the principle of the Bill was good, but there were some things omitted which he believed were calculated to effect much good, and which he would wish to see introduced into it. (LEFT SITTING.) Mr. \VAKLEY supported the prayer of the petition. Lord MORPETH said that, so far as he was con cerned, he could not have any possible objection to the clause proposed by the Hon. Member for Finsbury. BORNEO. On the motion of Mr. EWART, the following return was ordered:—Copies of all communications to and from her Majesty's Government relative to the affairs of Borneo, from the Ist day of December, 1842, to the 24[11 day of June, 1847. ISLE OF MAN. Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to know when the report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the criminal law of this island would be presented; and if, when it was presented, the Government intended to introduce any measure on the subject, and whether it would be followed by an inquiry into the condition of the civil law. Sir G. GREY said the Commissioners had promised to present their report in May, but on the 31st of that month Mr. Elliott, one of the Commissioners, stated that owing to the difficulties of the inquiry it could not be presented for a short time. He was sorry to say that it had not yet been presented. Until he obtained that report he could not state what course he should adopt. He had stated that an inquiry into the civil law should not be instituted until the inquiry into the criminal law had been completed. With respect to the Isle of Man, the Government would be happy to lay any papers on the table of the House. EDUC ATION. In reply to a question from Mr. HINDLEY, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the recent minutes on education would be presented to the House so soon as her Majesty had expressed her intention to that effect. - THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUIAY 1, 1841. and evenings, to sing at the defendant's. It was about a fortnight before that that the first assault took place. It was ten minutes before the defendant was about to commence the duties of the evening. I struggled, but I did not call out. There is a door that leads from the vestry into the church—it was shut, but not locked. Any one could have walked in. After this occurred I went and performed my duties, as did Mr. Ramsay. I was to have 161. per annum for singing morning and evening. My husband was not a singer, but his name was nominally used. On the next occasion, in Liver pool-street, it was the 10th of September, 1845, between three and five o'clock. Mr. Ramsay did not go through the kitchen to go into the parlour, but he could see Manning smoking in the kitchen when he went into the parlour. There was a window in the parlour looking into the garden. There was a very large flower-stand before the window, which was paintad in imitation of ground glass. I struggled from five to ten minutes. I did not call out at all. I knew Manning was near at hand, and that was the reason for not calling out, as I did not wish to expose Mr. Ramsay, and, from the situation I was in, I knew what the end of it would be if I raised any report; and the feelings of my husband formed another reason. I was able to defend myself, and therefore did not need assistance. My gown was torn out of the gathers and my hair disturbed when I came out of the room, and Manning said there had been somettaing wrong, and therefore I told Manning, but begged him not to tell my husband. At Christmas, 1845, my husband presented Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay with a turkey. I never consulted Mrs. Ward as to what would be a suitable pre sent to make to Mr. Ramsay. After Christmas, 1845, four of my children were christened by Mr. Ramsay. Manning was godfather for one. My children are all fair-haired. They were christened with my maiden name Sugden first, as "Sugden Emmerson." There are two or three days that I have not been asked about. I mentioned what took place three months after my con finement, at the meeting. I wrote a narrative after the meeting. I said Mr. Ramsay had called several times, but I did not state particular dates. His conduct was repeated six or seven times. I did not present a purse to Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay on the day following the 27th of October, when he took very great liberties with me. I had made purses some time before, and my husband asked me for them, and he gave them to Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. I have some at home now. Sir F. THF:SIGER—I don't care about that. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—That's to show it was not made for Mr. Ramsay. Sir F. TUESIGER—I don't think my friend has a right to interfere. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—Because I don't think you are treating the witness fairly. Sir F. THESIGER—I would appeal to your Lordship whether I am acting unfairly. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—I think you are not acting unfairly. Sir E. THESIGER—I have a very difficult task to per form in examining this witness. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—Aud my friend must recollect that the witness has a very difficult task to perform. Witness—l have not spoken in high terms of Mr. Ramsay since October, 1846, either to Peters or Mrs. Ward. I attended to my duties afterwards, because it was my bread and cheese. Mr. Ramsay has lent my husband 101. My engagement on the 30th of July was by the churchwardens, but I have a written engagement with Mr. Ramsay. After we had indicted Mr. Ramsay, we called upon Deville's men, but what took place be tween them and my husband Ido not know. I did not say that I had written the letter in anger, and that if Mr. Ramsay had paid me I should not have said any thing about it. The proposal to go out with two married men was not my proposal. I showed great reluctance at having to give these details before men. I did not state the particulars myself to all the men at the meeting when I returned into the room. Mr. Manning said that if it had only been a kiss he should not have thought anything of it ; but as it was so black a charge he could not be a party to a compromise. He said that any man would take a kiss from a woman where he thought it would be well received. Mr. Clark, the organist, told me to go to Mr. Hobler, and I should have justice done me. I know Mr. Braithwaite; he has sung in the choir at St. Michael's. I was at Mar gate, singing, about five or six years ago, at the Tivoli gardens; I sung there as Miss Sugden. I don't know that Wright. was the cash-taker at those gardens. I have seen him to-day. No complaints were made of my conduct to men in those gardens. I never heard of such a thing in my life. I was not discharged in consequence of my bad conduct. I know Mr. Walton; he is here. I never asked him to introduce me to men, but he en deavoured in every way to seduce me; and he told me if I would submit to him he would introuce me to all the noblemen and gentlemen in London; and because I would not he has done all he can to injure me. I never offered him a percentage, and said that rich old men were best. Oh God! it is too bad; it is shameful. I never walked with a man in my life at the gardens. They tried to defame my character. and could not succeed; and when my husband threatened to horsewhip them they begged his pardon. I had before that sung at Belgrave Chapel. I was not dismissed, but in conse quence of my sending a deputy the clergyman said I must come myself. We lived in the house of a Mr. Mitchell; we left before the last quarter was due. lie afterwards came drunk, and demanded his rent, and I charged him with brutal conduct to me. I never told Mr. Reekes that a Mr. Blatch, of Brompton, was the father of one of my children. I formerly sang at the Opera; I was discharged in consequence of my refusing to sing alto instead of treble. I did not state that Mr. costa had taken liberties with me. I did not tell Mrs. Ward or Mr. Case so. I never told Mr. Braithwaite that I was passionately fond of Mr. Ramsay and adored the ground he trod on, or that Mr. Ramsay had kissed me, and my husband knew of it, but did not care, or that I was intimate with Manning and had been out a week together with him, or that I had been in France with him. Manning sometimes called for me at the church. I know Mr. Clark. I never threatened Mr. Ramsay in Clark's presence. My husband said at the meeting that if he found anything wrong between his wife and Ram say he would turn him out of the church or rot in a gaol. I did not state to Walker that Ramsay slept one night with Mrs. Ward, and the next with her daughter. I know Daniel M`Cormack, the bellringer at the church. I sent to a beer-shop for him, as I wanted to ask him a question. I asked him if he ever saw Mr. Ramsay taking libei ties with me in the vestry through the sky light ; he said he had seen nothing of the kind. I did not offer him a purse and say, " Always make a friend Wien you can ; you had better take this and witness the vestry for me, and I will take care you shall be well rewarded." Nor did I tell him that I had plenty of money, and had a friend who had plenty, and that we were determined to spend the last farthing in exposing Ramsay, unless I was reinstated. I was not present when my husband charged Mr. Jones, the churchwar den, with taking liberties with me. My husband was discharged by Mr. Ackermann after we indicted Mr. Ramsay. I have had two situations in churches since, and through Mr. Ratnsay's insinuations I have been tut ned out. I have been told so by Staples, the organist of St. Mary's, in the Strand, and I have his letter to prove it. I never heard from my husband that he had told Ramsay that he was a needy man, and if he gave him 2001. he would hush up the matter. This witness was four hours under examination, and conducted herself with extreme propriety. She was about to leave the Court, when Sir F. Thesiger called out, "Don't let her go out of court." One of the jury interposed, and said such an examina tion was no joke, and she ought to be permitted to go out and get refreshment. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said—Yes, with an officer, because she should not communicate with the wiser witnesses. James Manning—l am a bookseller. I know Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson. In September I was in the house when the defendant came there. Mrs. Emmerson opened the door to him; they went into the back parlour. I was attracted by the child crying, and I went and listened at the parlour door, and there I heard a bustle or struggle. It continued for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. I heard nothing said. I then re turned to the kitchen, opened the yard-door, and knelt down on the step and looked through an opening in the window, and I saw Mr. Ramsay pulling Mrs. Emmerson about, and pulling her towards him; she was endeavour ing to get away, and at last, by a desperate effort, she succeeded in getting from him, and sat down in a chair, and took the child, and appeared to be much exhausted. I then saw her putting up her hair. When she came out of the room I perceived the gathers of her gown were torn out. She looked confused and exhausted. She said, " I'm glad the fellow's gone." I then asked her about it. She said, "He has been pulling me about, and that it was not the first time." I said, " Where was it, then?" She said, "In the vestry." I asked her why she did not tell Mr. Emmerson? She said, "If Emmerson knew it, he would pull him out of the pulpit, and he would lose his place, and my family be deprived of bread." She went on her knees, and begged me not to tell Emmerson of it. Cross-examined—On the previous Sunday I had pro mised Emmerson to go to the rehearsal at Burleigh street, and I called on my way. I drop in as it suits me to take my pipe. When before the grand jury I made a mistake in my description of the window. When I heard the bustle in the parlour I did not go in, because it was no business of mine; but I went to the parlour window to satisfy my curiosity; and I then saw she was sufficiently master to gain the victory, and therefore there was no necessity fur me to interfere. I never was in France. the Court all Emmerson was put into the box by the. prosecution. Sir F. THESIGER eaid , a s he had been.in the time, he should no t ask him a qiiesution. This was the case f or the proseec_uttioe jury on behalf of fir THEIHGER then adsdtrheses dmuhst be aware, he did the defendant, and said, a_ y so under circumstances of some difficulty, because this por tion of their time, c ase had occupied a con sideraoLle time and he had been engag ed from the _ t .?.f the Court ilv be to a sitting that morning , a nd he must necess'a,_ - certain extent exhausted and incapable of pertu..7 lin g saliai'n'A6iik the important duties detolting upon him; bat still he felt t::e7 "sst all be sensible of the extreme that it:7 'would l'onsidet how importance 9f this case , much depended on their neirTa'jnation, ano oxen; Tee their own careful judgment and discretion upon 9.1.1 the eircurastancesi and form their judgment oat of their own minds rather than from the imperfect view he might enabled to give them. He had the honour t o h o r a a pr n a r before them as counsel for a gent leman who fa had peg series of years had held the hig hest character, an formed in a most exemplary manner all There never had he had been called upon to discharge.. tadon; but be was the sacred duties been the slightest blemish on his re i p si u ch, if we jury should now called upon to answer charges w aim, would not only come to a conclusion adverse to e his sacred functions, render it impossible to contin u e state of society. but would prevent his entering into re a u n st y painful and most He most earnestly entreated th h ei e r circumstances of this careful consideration of all t case. lie c alled c ou ld have, to collipt the upon. them as the best safeguard and vote:Aiwa that ihnecezt(l6 near Bermondsey Church, A young man whom he met asked him to sell the skins for him, and offered to ploy him tor his trouble; that he (prisoner) at once assentvO, and knowing the Armfields to be persons not very par ticular as to what they bought, so that they had it cheap, he concluded a bargain with the son as already described. Both the Armfields, however, repelled the insinuations cast upon their characters, and declared that their ver sion of the transaction was precisely what occurred on the ocoasioll. Mr. sEcKER committed the prisoner, And bound ovo 1 the Armfields as witnesses on the trial. facts before them, and the circumstances under which they were produced. The Learned Counsel then went through the evidence given by Mrs. Emmerson, com rnentint, upon almost every senterce of it, urging that her conduct was not that of an injured woman ; that no one could for a moment imagine that a woman who had been so treated would continue to attend a church where a man who had acted in so base a manner preached the Gospel, and this for the paltry pittance of 161. a year for the services of herself and her husband. He contended that her whole story was such that no one could believe it. Would any woman have permitted her husband to make presents to the man who had en deavoured to seduce her? But, as the case was without support, so must it be without contradiction. The de fendant, howe , er, must endeavour to destroy the credit of the only witness upon whom the charge rested. In 1843 she was a singer at the Tivoli-gardens, and dis- charged for her immoral conduct, making overtures of the most disgusting description. Mr. Sergeant SHEE said, his Learned Friend could not go into such matters. Sir F. THEstoun said, until he was told he was pur suing an improper course he should proceed to show the utter worthlessness of her character. He would show this woman tampering with witnesses, and endeavouring to induce them to give:4lse testimony,and it he found a woman endeavouring to pollute the pure source of justice what must she be, and what credit could they give to her— and doing this for the purpose of ruining a man against whom, except from her polluted lips, the breath of ca lumny never issued? When he found such a woman, whose reputation was so blasted, thus charging a man of so good and excellent a character as he should prove him to be, he felt it his duty to call upon hem to dis miss him with the same high character he had hitherto enjoyed. Tremendous applause followed the address of the Learned Counsel, which was delivered in the most ener getic manner. The case was then adjourned until to morrow morning. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lance* shire and Cheshire Junction, 31s. 3d. dis.—Blackburn, theroe,&c., Preference, 2 p.—Cliester anti Birkenhead, Halves, 20—Eastern Counties, I ork Extension, I% dis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, WlA—Great Northern, 265. 3d. dig, ox int.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 2 p.—Leicestas and Bedford, t / dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1% p.—London and North-Western, 184—Ditto, New Quarters, 113,i p.— Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 18 1 % p.—London, Man chester, and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 6 . 5. 3 p.—London, Brighton, and South Coast, 561/2—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5 p.—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 1,4 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union) , % p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 11% die. ex int.—Matlock and Mid land, 1s p.—Midland Stock, 133—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 8 1 / 2 p.— Ditto, New, 4 , 34 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 p. — North Staffordshire, 3 1 4 p.—RuncCrri Gap. 28—Ditt . ,o New, 1234 —Shrewsbury and Chester (late W. M. p. — Ditto, New, 234 p.—Shrewsbury and Biriningliam, 151. is. 9d. Shares (A), IA dis.—Ditto, 9/. 12a. 3d, Shares (B), dis. —South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, dis. ex int.— York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p.—Dublin area Belfast Junction, 13 dis. MANCHESTER, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Not tingham, and Boston, 1 1 7 4 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, an 4 Cheshire, OA dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 1 4 p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, .Preferentials, 2 p.—Eastem Counties, York Exension, e dis.—East Lancashire, New, % dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), 3-16 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 11,4 dis.—Great Northern, 1 y dis.—Kendal and Windermere, 24—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials, 11-16 dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 4 p.—Manchester and Leed , Fifths, 4 1 , 2 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1 ,4 p.—Manchester, Sheffie ld, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 3 1.16 p.—Ditto (Grimsby), 20. Shares, 2 11-16—Ditto (Grimsby and D,;•ck), 314—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 2 7-16 dis.—Manchester and Southamp ton, 1 1 4 c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 3-16 p.—North Staf fordshire and Churnet Valley Junction, % dis.—Preston and \\Tyre, Halves ( B), p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2, p.—Ditto, No. 4, 3-16 dis.—York and Newcastle, Prefer* ence, 5 p. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. A lady named Nowlan, the proprietress of an edte cational and boarding establishment at Upper Clapton, made application to Mr. Broughton for his advice under the following circumsnces. The applicant stated, that in the early part of this year a man, of very respectable appearance, called at her establishment, accompanied by a little boy, and, representing himself as a merchant in the City, 'handed her his card, and requested to be made acquainted with her terms for tie beard and education of a child of the age of the one he had with him. She laid before him one of her prospectuses, and having drawn his attention to a note there, specifically mentioning that the money would be payable quarterly, the terms, about thirty guineas per annum, were aeci ded to, and the child received. On the first quarter expiring the account was sent in to the residence the parent had given, but no notice was taken of it, and, all subsequent applications having met a similar result, she made a personal appli cation at the house specified on the father's card, in Fenchurch-street, and found that no such person lived there. By means of an acquaintance of the parent, however, she had succeeded in again communicating with him, but had been unable to find out his real address, which he carefully concealed, and although she had written occasionally to him, desiring that he would fetch his son away, or she must herself adopt measures to get rid of him, he had made nothing but paltry excuses, evidently w , th the intention of leaving the child upon her hands until the vacation expired, when she felt satisfied he would place it in some other estab lishment and defraud the proprietor in the same manner, and she therefore wished the magistrate's advice how to act, as she did not like to turn the poor child into the street, even if she were justified in so doing, and it was evident the father did not care what became of him. Upon hearing this statement Mr. BR UGUTON directed Holland, the warrant officer, to make inquiries into it with a view to induce the parent to come to terms, and prevent a further exposure, and Holland now stated, that he had called at the residence the father had given, which he found to be a most re spectable mercantile house, tied on obtainir"e an inter view with one of the partners w a s informed by that gen tleman that the person complained of h h a rd vacate d certainlythem had chambers there formerly , he d a long time since, and was wholly unjustified in giving a reference there, as he was certainly a person nut to be trusted even to the extent of 101.; and, from what he had heard of him, he was convinced that he was in the habit of practising similar impositions. He (the officer) had also used his endeavours to ascertain the man's residence, but had not succeeded in doing so, and he felt assured that he was keeping out of the way in tentionally. Mr. BROUGHTON told the applicant that she should have made proper inquiries as to the father's respecta bility before she received the child into her house, and as it was now quite manifest that she had not the re molest prospect of obtaining her money, he would advise her to apply to the parish officers of Stoke Newington, and, upon laying a statement of the cinnunstances before them, it would be their duty to receive the child into their workhouse. The applicant thanked the magistrate and quitted the court, and Holland yesterday announced that Mr. Dos sett, the overseer of the parish, had given directions for the child to be placed in their union on the preceding night. The magistrate requests us to acknowledge his receipt or xi. cea. ea. from " X. Y. Z." for the poor-box, which the donor desired might he notice S.d in this paper. THAME Caroline Mitchell, a young woman who has given much trouble to the magistracy, e police, and the sur geons of the London Hospital, by her repeated attempts to commit self-destruction, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with making another attempt of the same kind, in which she had very nearly succeeded. A respectable woman named Clark stated, that on Monday night, at half-past eight o'clock, she saw the prisoner running towards the swivel bridge, over the London-dock entrance in Old Gravel-lane, exclaiming, I will—l will do it." In a moment the prisoner slipped under the chains on to the pier head, and plunged into the water, which is there more than twenty-four feet in depth. V itness was thunderstruck, but as soon as she reco vered from her surprise she screamed aloud for help, and the servants of the dock company and others procured the drags, and threw ropes towards the prisoner who sank twice, and came up again, when the prisoner caught hold of one rope, and a young sailor was lowered down by the side of the perpendicular wall, and, while she faintly held on, he seized her round the waist, and saved her. The prisoner was taken to a public-house near, and after some time had elapsed she was restored. When the prisoner came to her senses, she raved and said, " Why did you not let me go to the bottom ? I will destroy myself." John Putt, a police-constable, 177 K, said the pri soner once threw herself into the Thames, and after a great deal of trouble was resthc'tated, and since then had made other attempts on her life. On Monday night he met the prisoner in Old Gravel-lane. She was then drunk, and said " I intend to do it, I will ;" and ran away from him. The prisoner was a woman of t h e town, and had just come out of prison, a fter being confined in default of finding sureties to keep to the peace, in consequence of her having attempt commit suicide. He knew that she had made, similar attempts repeatedly. James Wittleton, a police-constable, No. 173 K, stated, that the prisoner was charged with attempting to drown herself about three m onths ago. She then selected the same place as she had done on Monday night, and was with difficulty saved by the medical attendants and others. After she was locked up in the station-house, he on heardn- a r a ttling in the t hroat durin g the ni g ht, and up ope ing the door of the cell in which she was confined, he found a lump of oxalic acid in her m th, which he ou took from her, and he had g ot it now. She was taken to the London Hospital, where she remained for several weeks before she was cured. The prisoner, who treated the affair with much uncon cern, said she had nothing at all to say. a p s u a bl fi ic t doubtedat whether thsaeidp,ritshoanterthwe pers l o r n . Y to Aß b li cl L a E t ir large ought not to be shocked by these u rep i e d a e te w d it a h t o t u e t m t p a t h s in on g the part of a woman to commit sic some measures to restrain her. He should commit the prisoner for trial for the misdemeanour in attempting to commit self- murder. SOU7I-11VARK. Thema, Buckly was charged with breaking into the premises of Mr. William Jenkinson, leather merchant, of York-place, Kent-road, and stealing forty-five dozen of dressed skins. On the night of the lath ult. the complainant's pre mises were forcibly entered, and forty-five dozen of dressed leather skins carried off. Two days afterwards iehu nine dozen of the skins were discovered in o d d e o s w e ho a man named Armfield, a tailor in .13_ e a r th m er n t s ra y ti n e, was with his son, a young ma n in t b he. I g e concerned in the taken into custody on suspicion of . ex e ap i tn a p i e t a ta r t in io .r n , s, th h a o t w t e h v r e e r e , robbery. After undergoing two the Artnfields were discharged, the younger Armfield, told f he had forty-five days any dealings dozen of dressed skins to dispose o c howeverLeap,,acde t r t b e y d . vin T g h a e n hhiima ownto become account, declinedchas having with him, and they separated on that understanding. The pri soner, however, not deterred by the refusal, the same evening conveyed nine dozen of the skins to the house of the elder Armfield, informing him that had one interview with his son, who agreed to leave_become the purchaser of them, and adding that he shouldt them there for him, to bepaid he had for on another oppor ut nity. Armfield senior expressed his have the skins deposited in e hurried away, and, as already hhee'in'a day or two ü b n u w i. i t l h l i gn r msn prisoner by the police, afterwards tho afterwards they were traced place ehended On the were apprehended and both father and son described, charge. When they e taken before the magistrate Y -sion and gave such information came into their possession, they related preciscel were manner in which the skins on the subject that they were admitted to .bil then ntil -ns were devised for the apprehension ot real This, however, was nut effected until within the prisoner since the burglary and ° th ff e end las e. last few ne. -nplainant's premises having absented ffifibber,fibber,sei, fteni usua, . o f the co_ _ ' h aunts. H e , however, fell into rmice evin. e was taken befo:eg attempted tio ;sick a a h tg h e e lit h le a m nd a s o :D a f p t o t ts and, when magistrate at one of the West-end pO.,lice-courts, he we 's identified by a constabl e who happened to he present as the man who had absconded and was " wans:Ce upon the present charge. When the prisoner was asked what he had to say in answer to the charge, he admitted taking the nine dozen skins to Armfield'a house and leaving them there by the desire of his son, who, from the price ho (prisoner) offered them for, must have known they were not honestly come by. The prisoner also asserted that he was not concerned in the burglary, and in accounting for the way in which the stolen property came into his pos gpigoD, said that on the 17th ult., as he was standing LEEDS, JIM 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergatev Notting ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—East Lancashire New, 15. 3d. dig.—Ditto, New (scrip), 3s. 6d. p.—East and West York shire, 245. 6d. dis.—Great Northern, 1 1 / 2 c. dis.—Hudders tleld and Manchester, 1 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 4c. p. —Ditto, Extensions (green), 0,4 dis.—Leeds and Think, Preference, 13s. dis.—Lo Mnanchesß tdon, er rig and Leedshton, and , Halv South es (late Coast, Preferentials, p.— Bud. and Sheff.), 3 1 ./ 2 p.—Ditto, 321. Shares, 9s. Ditto ( West Riding Union), is n. p.—Manchester, Bux.• ton, Matlock, and Midland, is. 6d. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, p.--Ditto, New, 3 p.—North British, Thirds, 1 3 / 4 p.— Ditto, Extension, 2s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% c. p.—North-Western, 245. 6d. dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p. HULL, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 284.-Great Northern, 465.-Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 75. p..-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, 1% dis.-s Newcastle a nd Berwick, New, 2 /. 19 s p.-North British, Quarters, 961. -Ditto, Thirds (scrip), 565.-Northern Counties Union, 261. North Staffordshire, 3 1 4 p.-Shropshire Union, 335. York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p. SHEFFIELD, JUNK 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting ham, and B 'stun, dis.-Manchester and Lincoln Union, 1 5 ,4 dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby arid Sheffield), 201. Shares, 465. dis.-Ditto, 12/. 10s. Shares, 275. dis.-North British, Thirds, PA p.-North-Western, 1 t dis. EDINBURGH, JUNE 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 30L--• Airdrie and Bathgate , 3 /. 10 s. - Arb roath and :Forfar, 261. 105.-Ditto, halves, 141. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. So.-- Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21.4x.-Caledonian and Dum bartonshire, 1!. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 49/.-Deeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 11. 7s. 6d.-Dun dee and Arbroath, 37/. 10s.-Ditto, New, No. I, 281. 7a. 6d. -Ditto, New, No. 2, 301. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31. 2s. 60.-Dundee and Northern Junction, 11. 10s.-Dun dee and Perth, 321. 10s.-Ditto, New, 13/. -Ditto, Quar ters, 3/. 75.-East of Fife, 11. 1 85 . - East Lothian Central, 21.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. 103.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, halves, 221.-Ditto, Quarters, 171. 2s. 6d. -Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181. 108.-Ditto, Pre ference, 20/. 105.-Ditto, New, 2/. la.-Ditto, Quarters, 14S, -Edinburgh and Northern, 18/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 31. 18s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 71. 1 ls. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, 21. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 11. Is. 6d. -Ditto, halves, 6s.- Glasgow and Ayrshire, 1201.-Ditto, New Stock, 41/. IN.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 81. 195.-Ditto, Halves, No. '2, 6/. 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 5/. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391. 2s. 6d.-Glasgovr General Terminus, 12/. 155.-Glasgow and .Greenock, 171. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, Si. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 81.--Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 55.-Great North of Scot laud, 1/. 17s. 60.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 41. Ifs.-Ditto (late London and York), 11. 125.-New castle and Berwick, 291.-North British, 331.-Ditto, Halves, 15/. IN.-Ditto, Quarters, 41. 145.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 165.-Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 148.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10s. -Scottish Central, 27/. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Grand Junction, IN.-Scottish Midland, 18/. 10s. -Shrewsbury and Hereford, W.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 91. 10s.-Ditto, New, 1/. 25.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 51.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 65.-Wishaw and Coltness, 49/.-York and Newcastle, 38/.-Ditto, New, 16/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 12/. 58.-Direct Bombay and Madras , 2 s. 30.-East Indian, 2s. 9d.-Great North of India, 2s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 25.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Is. 6d. GLASGOW, JUNI 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 301,-Cale donian, New, 445.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 348.- Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 675. 61-East Indian, 33.- East Lothian Central, -125.-Edinburgh and Northern, -Ditto, Newport, 71. 13s. 60.-Ditto, New, 545.-Edinburg and Perth, Halves, 61. 6s. 90.-Glasgow, Kilmarr oek, and • Ayr, 1201.-Ditto Halves, No. 1, 9/.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2,6/, lis.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51.95.-Great North ern, 90s. ex int.-Manchester and Southampton, 165.-Mid land, Halves, 10 1 ,4 -North British, Thirds, 545. 9d.-Ditto, Quarters, 925. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 16s. 6d.- %trishaw - and Coltness, 4Ki-York and Newcastle, 38 1 ,4-- I Ditto, Preference, 12 7, g. .r, TUE GREAT BRITAIN. — Oa Friday we paid a visit to the Great Britain, fur the purpose of witnessing per sonally the operations which are in progress to raise he; previous to being floated off. The arrangements are certainly very ingenious, but cannot be clearly described to those who have not seen them. On each side of the vessel are driven upon their ends into the sand, until they reach the solid rock, a number of logs of timber in an inclined position. Near the top of two of these logs is to be a box or case filled with sand, weighing about fifty tons. Upon the top of each log is a sheave of iron, in groove in which runs a rope w hich communicates with the box and with the vessel. The boxes are supported by large chain cables, and their object is to raise the vessel, for according to the principles of mechanism, as they sink the ship rises. There are to be twenty of these boxes, ten on each side of the vessel. Eight of them are at present in the position intended for them, and in process of being filled; the rest will soon be coin. pleted. The greater number will be placed towards the ship's bow, where she is deeper in the sand, nearly to the depth of lour feet two inches, and fewer towards the stern, where she is not so deep. The ship had been sunk seven feet, but by means of lightening, that is, pumping out the water, and placing stones underneath, she has been raised to her present position. She is now perfectly water-tight. Mr. Bremner, the eminent engineer, is constantly on board, superintending the operations. All is expected to be ready for the final effort by the end of the next month. A Government steamer is expected to be present on that occasion, lending her assistance.--• Downpatrick Recorder. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of W. 17s. 10 1 1 2 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.50 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.55, it follows that gold is 0.20 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the ,English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 / I d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.81 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh OR London at short being 13.91, it follows that gold is 0.35 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1061 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per_ cent., it follows that the exchange is 3.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, tie interest must be deducted from the above difference. UNITED STATES. Mr. HUME gave notice that to-morrow he should ask, whether loans bad been granted in any of the United States, and, if so, why they had been omitted from the papers presented to the House to-day. He understood that the sums lent to these states were very largo. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. Mr. WAKLEY wished to know whether there was any law under which the Government might appoint a public prosecutor ? And whether, if there was, the Government intended to avail themselves of it, and to appoint a public prosecutor? Sir G. GREY said there was no law under which the Government might app o i n t a p u bli c p rosecu t o r. The subject had been under the consideration of the Govern ment, not certainly, however, respecting the appoin!mcnt . of a public pr osecutor , b u t w ith respect to a decision of the House res p ec ti ng th e c onducting prosecutions, and the mode of defraying the expenses. Some plan would be submitted to the House, not exactly for the appointment of a public prosecutor, but as a step in that direction. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Lord JOHN MANNERS wished to know if the Noble Lord -would have any objection to lay on the table copies of the communications whi , :h had taken place with respect to education in Ireland ; and whether he would also lay the correspondence of the Right Honourable Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, Lord J. RUSSELL had no objection to produce the correspondence, but he doubted much whether there was any record of the correspondence with the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. 1.4 E ATDEGATE moved that the petition of the clerks, masters, and matrons of workhouses, re• lieving otficer3, assistant overseers, and other officers connected with the administration of the laws relating to the relief of the poor in England and \Vales be printed with the votes. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. EVELYN DENISON wished to ask the Hon. Member for Montrose whether the motion of which he (Mr. Hume) had given notice, and which had been put otf several times, with respect to the Raja of Sattara, would be again brought on by the Hon. Member. Mr. HUNIE said that the notice stood for to-morrow upon going into Committee of Supply, and it was his intention to bring it forward then. HEALTH OF TOWNS. Lord MORPETH presented a number of petitions from various parts of the country in favour of the Health of Towns' Bill. NAVIGATION BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Navigation Bill for the pnrpose of postponing it. REPRESENTATION OF TIIE PEOPLE. Mr. E. DENISON said that there were several Bills at present before the House relating to the representation o the people—he had counted as many as five —one of which had been introduced by the Noble Lord. The subject of these Bills was one which was very interesting, espe cially at the present moment, and he wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to per severe with any of those Bills in the present session. Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he was only enabled to answer the question of the Hon. Member as regarded the Bill which he (Lord J. Russell) had introduced. It was a very important Bill, but at the same time, con sidering the late period of the session, he did not mean to proceed with it a t present. He w i she d to have the Bill read a second time, in order that the House might go into Committee pro forma upon it, and he thought that no objection could be entertained to such a course. With regard to the other Bills referred to he was not answerable for them ; but, as the Hon. Gentleman had asked his opinion, he would state that at the present period of the session it was not de sirable to proceed with any Bills which would make any alteration as regarded the representation of the people. COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WIGAN, Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that Le wished to ask the Right Eon. Secretary for the Home Department a question, and also to call his attention to a subject which required the prompt interference of her Ma jesty's Government. The Right lion. Gentleman was aware that an express had arrived only that afternoon announcing a most calamitous explosion i n a colliery near Wigan, which took place on Tuesday afternoon last. It was the wish of the parties that the case should be represented to the Right Hon. Baronet, and that a commission should be sent down to investi which the accid has arisen. According to the inform ation he had re gate the case and the causes from ent ceived the colliery was situated about two miles from Wigan, and it appeared that for some time p ast of this the men bad been representing to the proprietor colliery that it was not in a safe state, and so much so, that on the very morning on which the explosion took place the men went to the man at the bottom of the shaft, and requested him to take them up, as the pit was not safe. The man refused, and told the men to go back to their work, and in a few hours after the ex plosion took 'lace. Two men were brought to the mouth of the pit, and died instantly, and six or seven others were brought up blinded and in such a state as not to be expected to live. Six men were left in the pit, and although the most experienced men offersal to go down and see if it were possible to rescue, them, the proprietor refused to allow them. Ho i. o p e d that the Government would take such cognizarace of the case as would render these horrible acciderscs less frequent. Sir G. GREY was not acquainted with the facts, as they had not come under lais notice officially, but he believed that an inquiry v;as in process of taking place before the coroner, and he trusted that the coalowners would be found to 'oe blameless; but, in the meantime, he could give no ¶spinion. If the conduct of the coal owners should seem to require it, a strict investigation would be comsn*nded by the Government. Mr. I'. DUNCOMBE said that no time ought to be lost, for it was intolerable that six bodies should be unaccounted for; and that although persons had volun teered to down Sir DE aa(.,y. thepits, liberty to do so was refused, at-War what d b r , catis go jud!,ii they might restoration_ght be afterwards examined before a EVANS wished to ask the Secretary the House at different of eTion had been come to respecting the sinners, so snany t : f i r Pensions to the commuted pen ' ing of the amount they the arrearsntclti'm petitions have been laid before times during this session; and re spectingpensions, been made known sontu ; l y ti the have petitioners, received h c a o d n s theist warrant of 1834, authorising Mr. FOX MAULE said inttdt4eet: pensioners ofsettlementsinenta had been held allowanc e. many of arrange hte Ana restoration e rie a of eon r these fou r stated formerly that in 1832 thought he had allowed out to the years' commutation of their ment was an unsatisfactory one, and sion . ers were thrown destitute upon the colO'nef the p en . not think that the principle should be anis did pensioners who had commuted their pensions should now be permitted to resume them, and not only so, but to be allowed also the arrears of their pensions from the date of entering upon that agreement. JOINT-STOCk COMPANIES' BILL. Sir R. H. INGLIS said the Joint•stock Companies' Bill stood on the list for to-night. It was a most im portant measure. It gave great power to joint-stock companies, and repealed the provisions of all former Acts relating to joint-stock companies. He trusted, therefore, that it would not be brought forward for dis cussion at a late hour of the evening. Mr. M. GIBSON was understoosl to assent to the re quest of the Hon. Baronet, but denied that the Bill either infringed the letter or the spirit of former Acts. Mr. ROSS rose for the purpose of making an expla- QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY, THE QUEEN V. THE REV. 3IR. RAMSA.Y. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Bishop of London, the Rev. Mr. Dale, Sir J. Bailey, the barrister, and several other distinguished gentlemen were called, and gave the defendant a high character, both for religion, benevolence, and morality. Mr. Sergeant SHEA then proceeded to address the jury for the prosecution. He said, when it was his duty, as counsel for the prosecution, to open the case against the Reverend defendant, he had refrained from saying anything which would pre judice their minds or interfere with their calm and dispassionate judgment. He felt it due to him, and the Church of which he was a minister, in a case of such a serious nature, and involving all his prospects in life, peace of mind and happiness, and usefulness in the ministration which he exercised, not to submit any thing which would divert their minds from the dispassionate consideration of the case. It was with great grief that he was compelled to say that it was his firm belief and conviction, after all the evidence which he had heard, that the Rev. Septimus Ramsay was guilty of the offence imputed to him on the record, to the last letter, and that he was one of the most shameless and abandoned profligates ever brought to justice before a jury. —(Sensation.) his Learned Friend Sir F. Thosiger with a degree of eloquence which he never heard sur passed in a court of justice, thought proper to draw a comparison between the positions of the prosecutrix and the defendant—the woman, he said, was looked upon with great commiseration by every one present in the Court, whereas the defendant ap peared with prejudice against him, charged with a crime which it was almost impossible to disprove. But he (Mr. Sergeant Shee) considered they would find, on a comparison of the position of the two parties, that the reverend defendant bad a great advantage over the prosecutrix. Twenty or thirty witnesses of all classes of society, some dignitaries of the church, and some barristers spoke to the high moral and religious re putation of the reverend defendant. Whn look ing calmly and considerately at the evidence which had been produced, he could not help thinking that they would be of opinion that the rev. defendant was guilty of the crime with which he had been charged. It was a matter of experience that even among the priesthood of the very church to which the de fendant belonged there were men who, although they held a very moral and religious cha racter, had been satisfactorily found guilty of of the most abominable crimes. Such men were gene rally watchful and wary in their conduct, and were careful in selecting a moment for satisfying their lusts and appetites. They put on a saintly appearance to their congregation and friends, and seemed to the wh o l e w o r ld not only' incapable of such a charge as this, but eien in capable of the slightest deviation in their conduct, and it was only by some unfortunate accident that the real charge was brought to light and the people all amazed held up their hands in astonishment. It was impossible for the witnesses ho had been called to speak of the defendant's character, to know his conduct towards M rs . E mmerson , H ow was t h e Bi shop of Loudo n capabl e o f k now i ng if h e h a d comm i tted the crimewaa more absurd against snrd and hi m ? In trnth, than n othin t g o witnesses call a num b er of who might preposterous per haps be th e most moral and religious in London, to say that th ey never heard of thelous m en defendant being ' guilty of such misconduct. Two of his Learned Friends at the bar had given evidence of the respectable cha racter of the defendant, and he thought • their testimony was worth more reliance b • eing placed upon it than of all the reverend gentlemen in London. (Laughter.) It amounted to nothing more than this they never heard anything against him, and they were the last persons who were likely to hear of his conduct towards this woman. These and the other witnesses should have called upon the young women who had been insulted by the defendant. The Learned Counsel then proceeded its a very pathetic manner to implore the jury to consider the painful importance of the case to young womon, her husband, and five chil dren. The prosecutrix was as unitnpeached in point of character as any innocent woman could be.—(Laughter.) (The trial had not concluded when our reporter left). Some imputation having been cast upon the paternity of the children of the prosecutrix—that they were not all the children of her husband—they were taken into the Court this morning, and, certainly! they bore more re semblance to each other than the generality of the chil dren of one family. THE COLONIAL Bisoratcs.—Yesterday a meeting was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of raising funds to provide additional clergymen to assist the four bishops recently appointed for Australia and the Cape. Lord Eldon, who has subscribed 1,000/. in fur therance of the object of the meeting, was voted to the chair. The Bishop of Antigua, after a very lengthened address, in which he contrasted favourably the present with the past colonial episcopates, moved a resolution, se conded by the Rev. J. Anderson, to the following effect:— " That the recent establishment of four bishoprics in the southern hemisphere, two to be supported by pri vate munificence, ought to cause deep feelings of thank- 1 fulness on the part of the community, and also stimu late their energies towards providing and sup porting clergymen for the new dioceses." The resolution was carried unanimously. The Right Hon. E. Gladstone said he had no doubt that the meeting and the public would sympathise in the object contem plated, for he believed that they had a deep conviction of the importance of the relations between the mother country and her colonies. These relations could be best and physical • ke pt• uP and strengthened by extending to the colonies iant home, Possible way the religious advantages enjoyed tor this than the appoi n It was notorious that too much of our moral power was transmitted to the colonies, and too littTe si ol made. The Right the intellectual power which controls and guides the former. There could not be a better remedy strengthen the hands Tii Gentleman proposed n tments which had recently been of the new colonial bis a ho r p es s andth the a Bishop them."aiding the society 0 lbuy th meeting pledged itself to additional clergymen tor Archdeaconin providing Robinsona t having addressed the assembly, of Oxford noblO chirmiu, and the meetint seplowere Toted to f' rue BIRTFIS. On the 18th of May, at the Union Estate, St. Lucia, West Indies, the lady of the Hon. Melcher Garner Todd, of a son and heir. On the 24th ult., at the y, Hulettßecto Champflower Somerset, the lady of the Rev. J. Woodhos of a daughter., On the 26th ult., at Clifton -place, Hyde-park, Mrs. John Coysgarne Sim, of a son. On the 17th ult., at Rowling, near Wingham, Kent, pre maturely, the lady of John Riggs Miller, Esq., of twin boys, s till-•horn. On the 27th ult., the wife of John C. F. S. Day, Esq., of a daughter. On the 27th ult., at Rose-hill, Cheltenham, the lady of Captain W. H. Delamain, Bengal Artillery, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Calverley-park, Tunbridge-wells, the wife of Neville Ward, Esq., of a son. On the 28th ult., in Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of 11. M. Boodle, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Rye-lane, Peckham, the wife of C. Lodge, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Lowndes-square, the wife of the Um W. Pennefather, of a daughter, still-born. On the 28th ult., at Strattoa Strawless, Norfolk, Mrs. A. Keppel, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th ult., at Dijon, in Burgundy, Sarah, eldest daughter of the late William Robinson, Esq., of Bury-street, St. James's, to Joseph Bregenzer, of the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. On the 28th ult., at Chester, Francis Pinney, Esq., of Tyndwr Llangollen, to Dorothy, fourth daughter of Hoar y Gisby, Esq., of Ilodycurdane, Thanet. DIED. On the 14th of May, at Georgetown, British Guiana, Mr. Alf r ed Fisher Abbott, merchant , aged 30. On the 22d ult., Mr. John Newell Paget, of Store-street, Bedford-square, aged 33. On the 25th ult., a t Cologne, Lieutenant - General Si r ho.nry Askew, C. 8., late of the Grenadier Guards, aged 72. ( - 1 , 1 the 28th ult., Cornelius. Haynes Butler, Esq., of Ingate ,tone, :Essex, aged 35. Edwin John Quekett , Esq. , M.R.C.S. of W e liclose-square, aged 38 . anduit., O n p On the 28 th ult at Hadley, Jane, second daughter of th e late John Read, _EN., aged 26. 1a.,5,.. 28th Printed and. Puytished by MIIRDO YOUNG , of No. 112 Long= : (Mice, N 0.1 1 2, Strand , in the Product St and, Printer, at The Sln of the Srroy, in tto Count' Blitidleaex. Thursday, July 1, 1947.