The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BAAKRUPCY, April?, (Before Mr. Commissioner EVANS.) IN RR SIR Z. A. DOUGLAS KNIGHT. To-day was appointed for this insolvent to come up for his final order, which had been adjourned, in order that some inquiry might be made as to an alleged claim of the bankrupt on her Majesty's Government for services rendered during the Chinese war. Mr. BEART, the insolvent's solicitor, now put in a medical certificate of his inability to attend. Mr. BAGLET said that he musi press for the dismissal of the petition; the creditors ought not to be inconveni enced by these adjournments. His HONOUR said that an affidavit must be filed. Cer• tificates were of no avail. Mr. BEART said that should be procured, and the case was again adjourned. IN RE FLOWERS. This bankrupt, who is a district-surveyor for Surrey, came up to apply for protection. His certificate had been suspended for six months, with protection from month to month, in order that he might make some offer to his creditors, as he admitted his income was between 400/. and 500/. a ycar ; but he would not make any pro position. - A creditor opposed the renewal of the protection, and said that the refusal of the certificate was no punish ment, as the creditors could not touch the bai,krupt's salary. The defendant still doclined to make any offer, and His HONOUR refused to grant protection. SECONDARIES' COURT, April 7. There was only one undefende(l cause set down for hearing, which was not of the slightest interest. CENTRAL CIUMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF DR. C;RONIN FUR MANSLAUGHTER. Mr. Justice Coleridge took his seat on the bench at ten o'cicck. Immediately after, Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-square, w as placed in the dock, charged with having caus e d th e death of Sarah Ellen Collyer, aged 22, by having ad mine. stered to her certain ingredients, whereby he had been guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner was indicted on the coroner's warrant. The body of the court and the gallery were crowded by respectably-dressed persons, A considerable number of females were present, and the case seemed to excite the utmost interest. Mr. PAYNE then proceeded to open the case for the prosecution. He said the prisoner was chaeged with having caused the death of the deceased, by having pre scribed for her ingredients which caused her death. The following was the prescription : " Compound spirit of ammonia, two drachms ; tinc ture of opium, 16 drops ; prussic acid, of Scheele's strength, 4 drops ; compound strychnia powder, 2 grains ; bitter almond water, 6 ounces ; of which make a mix - ure,'and take two spoonfuls three times a day. Feb. 3. Miss Collyer.—D. C." This prescription was sent to a chemist in the neigh bourhood of Miss Collyer's residence, in Camden Town, on the 15th of February, by whom it was made up, and the deceased, after taking it, became ill, and died in twenty or twenty-five minutes after. The compound strychnia was omitted by the chemist, as he was unable to obtain it ; and it would be a question for their con sideration whether the omission of this ingredient was or was not important. If it was not of any importance, they would then inquire whether the death of Miss Col lyer was or was not caused by the gross and culpable negligence of the prisoner, and if so it would be their luty to find him guilty of manslaughter. The Learned Gentleman then referred to several eminent authorities with respect to the meaning of the term manslaughter, and after saying that it was proved by a post modem examination that the death of the deceased was caused by prussic acid, he proceeded to call the following wit nesses:— Mr. John Ponds, of Camden Town, deposed that the deceased was his cousin, and that she first received ad vice from Dr. Cronin on the 3d of February, on which occasioa he wrote a prescription. When she took the medicine, on the 15th of the same month, she immediately after exclaimed, " Dear me, how queer I feel." She then went to the back door. She had taken a table -spoonful and a little over. He followed her into the garden, where she fell. Two medical men, Mr. With ers and Mr. Reynolds, were called in to see her.c She died on t h e 15th of February—on the day she fell down i n t h e garden—and in abo u t t we nty or twenty-five f l minutes aft er ta ki ng the medicine. The w itness identi fiedrenha. th e p rescr i ption as the one received from 1)r. Cronin. The dece ase d pa id the doctor a guinea fortw Cross-exami ne d b y M r. C IARKSON —Th e deceased only taken one b ottle of the medic i ne up ovisits. had to the 13th of Febru ar y. O n the 4th, Dr. Cronin to at her own ld the deceased that she might have the prescription made up she was chemist's. Never heard the deceased say that be! ter. Mr. J. A. Johnson, of 16, St. Martin's-lane, said he knew the deceased. On the evening of the 15th of February, he took Dr. Cronin's prescription to Mr. Corfield, who made it up, and gave it to him in a bottle. The deceased took a table. spoonful and a half of it. The deceased handed the bottle to him ; it smelt strongly of bitter almonds. Thomas Simpson, a policeman, proved that the signa ture to the inquisition was Mr. Wakley's. Mr. D. Cortield, chemist, carrying on business at Cam den- town, said he received a prescription from Miss Cellyer, about seven o'clock in the evening of the 15th of February. The prescription produced was the one brought to him. He found he had not the bitter almond water or :he compound strychnia powder. He sent a boy for the almond water, and he brought back a bottle full of it. He did not bring back any; strychnia powder, although directed to do so. He mixed up the '- ingrerlient., and put them in a bottle and gave them to the witness Johnstone. He never knew bitter almond water and compound strychnia powder used as medi cine before. Cross-examined—Was not acquainted with the pro• perties of bitter almond water, or of compound strychnia powder, nor were they recognised. Mr. Justice CoLEaIDGE (to the witness.)—r must ray that this is the most monstrous thing I ever heard—to make up a prescription without putting in all the ingre dients ; nor does your ignorance better the matter. Do not misunderstand my meaning (peoceeded the Learned Judge with much emphasis), to make up a prescription without including all the ingredients, is a fraud upon the person who brings it to you. You are not to give simply what you happen to have in your shop, and you ought to have said in this case, " I have not the ingredient." You set up your judgment against that of a physician whose prescription it, was, and you had no right to interpose your judgment. The witness was then asked some questions with re spect to the introduction of new medicines. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE —I don't sea the use of these questions. New medicines are introduced every day. It is not long since arsenic was used as a medicine. Mr. Morson, of Southampton -street, deposed that he replied to the boy who came for the ingredients that he had no compound of strychnia. Had never known bitter almond water used as a medicine internally. Jacob Bell, of Oxford-street, chemist and druggist. supplied the boy who came from Mr. Coraeld's with almond water, hilt as he had not the other he did not send it; but he sent him a prescription from a book for making it. Never knew bitter almond water used as a medicine. It was in about twenty-two different forms and different strengths. Any kind of bitter almond water would have been right according to the order he received. The absence of strychnia powder would not have affected the other ingredients. Cross-examined—Had the prescription been sent to him, he should not have made it up without consulting a physi eician. He could not tell what the object of the prescription was; whether to be used internally or externally,or whether merely for a mercantile purpose. In sending the ingre dients to a chemist, lie should not have written " Poison" upon the bottle. He was the editor of the Pharma ceutical .fowr ,, al. The bitter almond water used was not strong enough to kill a horse, but it was enough to kill a human being. The Pharmacopoeia of the College of Surgeons wa s p u bli s h ed in 1836. Nu new onehalbeen published containing the improvements which had been made, but a chemist was generally told at whose strength , he was to make up certain ingredients. Mr. John E. Spratt sworn, said that he was a dis kensirg chemist in Tichb orne - street, Haymarket. He ept two or three preparations of almond water. He was in the habit of making up many prescriptions. He had made up prescriptions containing as one of the ele ments bitter almond water. Where bitter almond water was used as the vehicle for combining the other medi cines, he would take Gray's preparation, or the weakest. If the stronger preparation were to be used, he should exrect to find the abbreviation con. for concentrated in the prescription. An intimation was hero made that the case need not proceed further. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that the witnesses, with perhaps one exception, seemed agreed that if the pre scription had been properly made out, the medicine would have been harmless. It was inferred by them that where the stronge r form was intended the word con. or concentrated would be added. Mr. CLA.RILSON said there was a a case of similar kind as this on record,tand the jury h a d returne d precisely a an acquittal. Th ere was shadow of doubt that Mr. Wakley ought not to havecommitted Dr. Cronin for trial, if indeed he should haevoe the else at all bitterly eon . before him. His feelings must have bgteletn centrated when he decidi d upon sundie a jury. h case before Mr. PAYE—You can weaken him then if yO, like. The jury not appearing to c ome at once to a decision, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE .aid that if they h a d any doubt in the case they should let the trial go on, or allow him to :um up the evidence already given, and teen con sider their verdict. The case was allowed to go on, and the next witness called was Mr. Robert Venables, BM., University of Oxford, and member of the College of Physicians, had attended the analysis of the medicines on the prescription, and Found that there was enough prussic acid to occasion death. He had never prescribed bitter almond water as a vehicle for conveying medicines, and he was not often in the habit of seeing other prescriptions. Looking at Dr. Cronin's prescription, he saw only one mode of preparing t, and that was by Grey's, which would render:the bitter almond water perfectly harmless. The jury here expressed themselves perfectly s,tis fied, and without calling further testimony returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mfr. CLARKSON said, he had been fully prepared to rove the constant use of this ingr dieut as a medicinal chicle in the torru used in Dr. Cronin'i preicriptwns; but the decision to which the jury had arrived would not entail upon him the necessity of bringing his witnesses forward. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE (to the prisoner)—You are discharged. As Dr. Cronin was retiring some cheering was heard, which was at once, however, suppressed. NE IV COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman Canna.) ASSAULT WITH INTENT.—James Adams, 47, a stone mason, was found Guilty of unlawfully a-saultiag Sarah Wood, with intent, and sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment in Bridewell. Frederick Simpkins, a stableman, was indicted with stealing three bushels of oats, value 175., the property of John Nelson, his master. The jury Acquitted the prisoner. Mary Shagnell was convicted of unlawfully obtaining by false pretences from Elizabeth Bassie 95., with intent to cheat her thereof, and sentenced to nine months' im prisonment and hard labour. William Wild, alias Joseph Stewart, 15, pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a ;pocket hankderchief, value 35., the property of Andrew Hope, from his person, and was sentenced to four months' im prisonment and hard labour. John Machin, a labourer, pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging him with stealing two shillings and three sixpences, the moneys of Thomas Cheer, from the person of Isabella Cheer, and sentenced to four months' impri sonment and hard labour. Mary Beardmore, abed 44, pleaded guilty to three indictments, charging her with stealing at Woolwich an iron pot, value 2s. 6d., the property of William Dench ; one tub and pail, value 4a., the property of William Berry; and one tub, value 25., the property of Joseph Burton, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Henry Stanley pleaded guilty to an indictment charg ing him with stealing six quarts of milk, value Is. 6d., th© property of Thomas Nokes, his master, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. William Brittain, aged lfl, a labourer, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging hi m w i t h stea li ng a basket, containing 100 oranges and one quart of walnuts, value Bs., the property of Patrick Flynn, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Joseph Humphreys, a labourer, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a purse containing 11. 45., from the person of Elizabeth Cheeswright, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. Peter Murray pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of brass and copper, the property of Mr. Sawyer, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. John Dawson pleaded guilty to stealing three loaves of bread, the property of John Elphinstone, and was sen tenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Aslophe Charles Prevost, a watchmaker, pleaded guilty to several indictments, charging him with stealing eight watches, three clocks, and one musical box, value 80/., the property of Ignatz Klaftenberger, and others, his masters, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. THE SUN, LONDON, THURsDAY MORN I 1 APRIL 8, 184,7 MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Margaret Weeks was indicted for stealing a sovereign, the property of Charles Smith. The prosecutor was a linen-draper, and on the even ing of the 31st of March the prisoner entered his shop to make some small purchase, when the prosecutor hav ing left a sovereign upon the counter, the prisoner was observed first to cover it wits a penny pice, and then, when his back was turned, to take it up and put it,in her pocket. __ _ When called upon forher defence, she said she suffered so much hardship, cold, and hunger, during the severity of the last winter, that she could not resist the tempta tion cf taking the money when it was so exposed. She was found Guilty, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Jane Carter was indicted for stealing a sheet, the property of Elizabeth Ashton. The prisoner adopted that trick so general now amongst her class, of knocking at the door of some house in a retired locality, and inquiring for an imaginary Mrs. Smith, when she availed herself of the absence of the servant to take whatever she could from the rooms on the ground floor. She was found Guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. George Anderson, a young man dressed in the most fashionable style, was indicted for stealing two coats, value 41., the property of George Marshall, Esq. The prosecutor resided at No. 27, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, and on this day week the prisoner called and delivered a letter to the servant, directed to Mr. Marshall, saying he was desired to wait for an answer. She went up stairs to deliver the letter, and on her return, found the hall-door open, and that the prisoner, as well as two coats which hung in the ball, had disappeared. He was taken into custody in Bulstrode street. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the ASSISTANT JUDCZ said a letter had been foand upon the prisoner addressed to one of his companions, stating that, as he was a gentlemanly young fellow, he wished him to call upon the witnesses in the present prosecution, and tell them, if they kept out of the way, or gave such evidence as would cause his acquittal, he would give them 51. He was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 6. Both courts were occupied to-day in disposing of the remaining common jury causes, none of which possessed any feature of interest to justify a report. BOYLE AND WIFE V. TARN. This was a special jury cause, tried on Monday before the Lord Chief Justice. The action was brought to recover damages for the false imprisonment of the plain tiff's vt ife. Mr. M Chambers and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Edwin James for the defendant. The circumstances under which the alleged false im prisonment arose were these:—lt appeared that the de fendant is a linendraper, aad the plaintiff and his wife went to his shop and ordered a quantity of goods, which were to be paid for on the Monday following. When, however, the foreman went to receive payment, the par ties could not be found, and the plaintiff's wife, being afterwards met accidentally, was given into custody ; but it appeared that the charge was dismissed by the petite-magistrate, and the present action was brought to recover damages for the imprisonment she had thus, as it was alleged, wrongfully sustained Mr. E. JAMES, for the defendant, characterised the action as a most ahaineless and improper one to have been brought, and said he was satisfied the jury would consider the lowest coin of the realm a sufficient com pensation for the damage that had been sustained. The jary found for the plaintiffs—Damages, id. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouill, April 5. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.) Hannah Thomas, a young woman, about 25 years of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegiti mate child, James Thomas. Mr. Rickards and Sir Thomas Phillips appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke for the defence. The prisoner became an inmate of the Usk a orkhouse in December, and continued there till March, when she was delivered of the child in question. She appeared kind and attentive to it, and it was a fine healthy child. On the 20th March it became unwell. On the next day it died, and on the following day apost niortern examina tion was made, by which it was discovered that death had been caused by the use of diluted sulphuric acid. The peculiarities of the case were, that there was very little of the acid in the stomach; that the mouth was altogether untouched by it, though the parts of the throat, gullet, Sac., between the lower part of the mouth and the stomach, were severely corroded and inflamed, as if the liquid had been put into the child's throat on a spoon, without touching the mouth, and the poor child had, as soon as it felt the pain, attempted to throw up the offensive matter, and so prevented much of it from reaching the stomach. There had been a bottle of diluted sulphuric acid lying for days before the child was tAen ill in the kitchen of the workhouse, and the prisoner had access to it, and had heard of its poisonous qualities; and a woman who had left some i❑ a cup on the 20th of March, after having washed the heads of some children who were afflicted with ringworm, on returning again and looking for it found that all the liquid was gone, and the rag with which she had washed them left, and some spots from sulphuric acid were found on th• child's cap and face. The principal question raised on the trial was, whether the appearances on the body of the child could bo accounted tor by natural causes. The verdict was Not Guilty. This closed the business of these assizes. It was not over before three o'clock. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee had risen soon after two. GLucesler, April 5. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee opened the commission here this evening at six o'clock. Business commences at an early hour to-morrow. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Tuunton, April 5. JURIES.—It is high time that some alteration should be made with respect to summoning juries. At present it would seem that juries are selected from the most ignorant class in the community, and while we are ob taining information as to the state of education of prisoners, it would net be very improper to extend our inquiries to the jury box ; and we question very much whether the prisoners would not beat the jury in point of learning. From the present mode of select• ing juries it would seem that the middle men get off quite free. The special juries are taken from the aris tocracy of a county, and the petty juries are composed of little farmers and small shopkeepers, whose attention is never by any chance riveted to one object for more than 10 minutes at a time, and whose minds, therefore, are incapable of understanding a matter lasting over as many hours.) %Another thing is, that keeping these men sbjected. from their homes for a week in an expensive assize t a is a great cruelty upon them, both as regards their %tia.nec, from We ho me and th outlay to . which thet are Boner guilty, lau a t l tat 04 ,,,,,i ty 7 can new give an illustration of the men ury. At Bodmin a jury found a pri- Justice Williams wished him to mercy. Mr. recommendation. Th h e ed to know their reason for the ltrty replied th at II were for finding th e man guilty, and so they recommended the e was for ac q uittin g h im clay a prosecut or , in giving hi risone r to mercy. Court had had misunderstood that s Ornethi e n v w icienee ' "id' that the previous witness) had said. A juror his sttrvant (a how the prosecutor was aware of what h7sished to know said. The prosecutor replied, that he heasredrvh" haft his evidence. The juror then a pp ea l e d to the Judge to know whether this was legal. Mr. Justice Cr.," told him it was perfectly legal. It was hi s wishtheat ll witnesses should always be out of cou r t ; b ut t h ere was no accommodation for them, and they were subjected to much inconvenience if they were without the court. In another instance a jt.ry found a man guilty of forger); but not with an intenttee r ... fraud. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) Thomac Para! was indicted for killing and slaying William Holland by throwing a stene at him, thereby causing a compound fracture of the skull, of which he lingered and died; and Henry Brake, George Chant, and William Frampton for aiding and assisting him. Mr. Moody was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Edwards for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 7th of September several per sons belonging to the two villages of Odcombe and West Coker, being members of a friendly society, dined together at a public-house. They remained drinking for some hours, and, as is too commonly the case on such occasions, there was a quarrel between the two sets of villagers, and the West Coker men had the worst of it. The deceased belonged to that party. They left the house, and were proceeding on their way home, when the prisoners and others of the Odcombe party came after them and attacked them with stones. Perrall threw one stone which knocked the deceased down; he was taken home, and medical aid was procured. The skull was found to be fractured. Another medical man was called in, and the operation of trepanning was per formed. After this the deceased apparently rallied, but he afterwards grew worse, and died on the 26th of Sep• tember. The medical men were of opinion that the death was occasioned by a blow from some blunt instru ment or stone. An abscess had formed on the brain after the operation. In . the cross-examinati on o f th e me di cal w i tnesses, the question set up on the trial of Lieut. Pym at Winchester was sought to be raised —namely, that the operation was the immediate cause of the death, and not the injury by the stone; that although that injury might eventually have occasioned the death, yet that the death was has tened by the operation. Some discussion took place upon this, and, for the prosecution, Mr. Justice Erie's dictum on Lieut. Pym's trial was relied on. The prisoner's counsel, however, would not say that the wound was not a mortal wound. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL observed, that it was admitted the wound was mortal, and that the deceased might have died in a month, but that he had died in less than a week in consequence of the operation. The wound being mortal, if that which was done by the surgeon was what he considered right to be adopted, there would be no question raised upon that point. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said the prisoners had already been in prison six months; he therefore sentenced them to be imprisoned for one month. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 5. HOWDEN V. STANDISH. This was an action against the late sheriff of the county of Lancaster, to recover the amount of a debt due to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller, against whom process had been sued out, the officer having, as was alleged, failed through his own negligence in exe cuting the warrant. Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson were for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Atherton for the defendant. Professor Keller, as he was called, was, it appeared, the manager of, and principal performer in, a group of artistes who in the course of the last year represented, in various parts of' the country, subjects taken from the antique and celebrated paintings, the figures, male and female, being arranged on a pedestal which turned round, so as to exhibit the composition to the spectators in all its different points of view. Mr. Keller was a powerful man, with large beard and mustache, and possessing a singular command over the muscles of the forearm, by the movement of which he beat time to the music. Tho professor, however, unfortunately had got into debt, his performances in London not having been very successful. He came down to Birmingham, and thence to Liverpool, where he was engaged to per form at a theatre erected in the Zoological Gar dens. The plaintiff (Mr. Howden) was a creditor, to whom the " professor" owed something better (or worse) than 1001., and, in the hope of enforcing the payment of his money, had followed Mr. Keller to Li verpool. A writ had been sued out, and, under a judge's order, the plaintiff was empowered to hold Mr. Keller to bail, on the ground of his being about to leave the coun try. The warrants reached the hands of the officer, a person of the name of Lawton, on Wednesday, the Bth of July. On that very evening Mr. Keller was to per form at the theatre in the gardens, and thither Mr. Law ton, in the company of Mr. Howden, repaired. Mr. Howden pointed out Keller, who was exhibiting studies from the ancient statues, and personated Cain in a group of " Cain and Abel." Mr. Howden, with little reverence for the ideal, saw nothing in Cain or the antique statues but his simple debtor, Mr. Keller, and pressed Mr. Law ton strongly at once to execute her Majesty's writ on the First Homicide, or the Ap )110, or the Dying Gladiator, as might be most convenient. Mr. Lawton, however, " albeit unused," seemed to have been restrained by a kind of superstitious awe from anything so profane—to say nothing of the fact that the stage was some six feet two above the ground, and that the troupe were aware of the danger of the chef, and prepared for resistance, toge ther with the advantage of being able to leave the aggres sors, in a twinkling, in the dark, amid the labyrinths of the scenes, should a seizure be attempted. Mr. Lawton, there fore, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim as he left the gardens. Accordingly after the performance was over they waited for this purpose between the gardens and the hotel adjoining, at which Mr. Keller was staying. In due time a hat, cloak, beard, and mustache, which could belong to no one but that gentleman made their appearance, and their identity was corroborated by the fact, that on the arm of the figure that bore them leaned, beyond all doubt, Mrs. Keller. The officer intimated in the usual way his desire for a further acquaintance with Mr. Keller. Mrs. Keller wept, presented the pro fessor with some money—a matter, she was aware, ne cessary to one's comfortable existence in a lockup—and Mr. Keller, after a hurried embrace to his child, aas snitched away in the clutches of the law. On arriving, however, at his place of durance, the "caption " pro ceeded to disembarrass himself of his heard and mous tache, and appeared in a new character, as Frederiok Huson, a German artiste—a member of the troupe. Again, on the Friday following, an attempt was made to seize the professor. He again made his appearance on the stage, the house being densely crowded ; again, a muffled, bearded figure (this time more stealthily) was seen hurrying from the garden ; again the officer made his seizure, the person being actually pointed out by the plaintiff himself; and again it was found that Mr. Keller had rung the changes on his pursuers, the person seized being one Goodman, and no: the professor. The pro fessor himself remained in hiding for some weeks, having sacrificed on the altar of liberty his beard and moustache, and thus thrown the officers off the scent. He afterwards left Liverpool with his company, and proceeded direct to Ostend. For the defendant it was contended that the officer had used his very best exertions under the circumstances to effect a seizure, and evidence war called to show that it was by the express direction of Mr. liowden himself that no attempt was made to arrest Keller on the stage an attempt which, it was urged, must necessarily have been unsuce , ssful, and would probably have resulted in a terrific uproar. A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff. An action on a promissory n its concluded the busine,s of the assizes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Mr. flumptan, a coal-dealer in Brackley-street, Goldeu-lane, attended on summons before Aldermen Hooper and Weocl, to answer the complaint of Edward Kimpton, a porter to Me-srs. Christie and Munson, the auctioneers, for detaining a chest of drawers delivered to him and his sister by mistake. The complainant stated, that Mr. Bampton's sister was a purchaser of lots at a recent sale, and the defendant attended with her to clear them. A chest of drawers was delivered by mistake, she not having purchased any mahogany chest of drawers. They were missed next morning, and one of the porters remembered that she inquired for the keys of them. As a ruse, a porter was sent to ascertain whether she had them, by taking a bunch of keys, and offering to see if one of them was the proper key. She immediately said she had sent them to her brother's, in Brackley-street. The man went to the defendant, who said, what he had he should keep ; and he would produce nothing. William Wells, a porter, deposed to assisting in load ing and putting the chest of drawers in the van in which the defendant and his sister removed their purchases. He also assisted in unloading the van at her house in Great Warner-street, Clerkenwell, and in putting this chest of drawers into the van again, that the defendant might take them home to Golden-lans. The clearing note, enumerating the lots the defen dant's sister had paid for, was put in, to show that A. had not purchased the chest of drawers. The defendant said he bad no doubt his sister had paid for what she hal. lie had lent his sister money, and she had transferred goods to him in payment. What he bought he had a right to sell, but he did nor admit that he had now or ever had the said drawers. Ihe Magistrates concurred in making an order that he should restore the property forthwith. Ile retired, intimating that he did not mean to submit to their order. SOUTH WARK. Joseph Sparkwood, a cab driver, and Alfred Duckett, a printer, were charged with assaulting and robbing Eli zabeth Hunt of a gold brooch, in the Equestrian Coffee house, Circus, adjacent to the Surrey Theatre. The complainant stated, that she accompanied a female friend to the Surrey Theatre on the preceding evening, and that when the performances had concluded they went into the Equestrian Coffee-house to have a little refreshment. Having remained for a short time in the parlour, they came out together, and on passing the end of the bar she (complainant) saw the prisoner Sparkwood throw some beer over a woman with whom he was having an altercation. She (complainant) feel ing alarmed, hurried forwards towards the door, but before she got there Sparkwood made a rush towards her, seined a gold bro. , ch out of a handkerchief which she had round her neck, and immediately ran out of the house. She followed him, crying "Stop thief;" and saw him cross the road, and run down the Borough-road, and in a short time he was brought, in the custody of a policeman, to the spot where she was waiting. On see ing him the second time she knew him to be the man who had robbed her, but a cr,,wd of persons collecting, Sparkwood was rescued fir a time, but was eventually recaptured and taken to the station-house along with the other prisoner. The complainant then proceeded to de scribe the part taken in the transaction by Duckett, whom she saw with the other prisoner in the Equestrian Coffee-house. When she ran after Sparkwood, his fellow-prisoner came up to her, asked her what she swantedecmur r e . d . robbed her, he (Duckett.) immediately seized her round of the man, and when she answered that he had the waist, and threw her with force to the ground. Her assailant then ran away, but he was pursued, and also ' r t c o -i t n b rn " e r n h t e , con o i r a *Eliza Ge.telas, the person who accompanied the complainant complainant's brooch said she distinctly saw Sparkwood make a snatch at the a ,us,' ref , , e, am afterwards h . o a r rd e s v t i t t i le th nc e e, above and passing out of the house. She • added, that she also saw the other prisoner in the same house, and that she could not be mistaken in the iden tity of either of the parties. Policeman 83 M stated, that on the preceding night, while he was on duty in the Borough-road, opposite the Circus, he heard the cry of " Stop thief," and saw Sparkwood running from the directios of the Equestrian Coffee-house, and he continued his career until he fairly tun into his (the policeman's) arms. Sparkwood made strong efforts to disengage himself, urging his innocence of any crime, and saying that he was running home where he was in a hurry to a rr i ve , a f ter witnessing thi; performance at the Surrey Theatre. The policeman, however, brought him along towards the " Equestrian," and while the complainant was relating the attack made upon her by him, Sparkwood was rescued, and he first ran into the public-house, and then out by another door, and was running with great swiftness up the Blackfriars road, when he was again pursued and takenintocustody. The policeman added, that when he had Sparkwood in custody Duckett came up, and be saw the former pass something into the hands of the latter, who was also subsequently taken into custody. Sparkwood said he was aiming a blow at his wife, when he missed her and struck the complainant in the breast; that he knew nothing of her brooch, and that this was the first time be ever had been in custody; that he had driven a cab fur years, and was known to be an honest man, which could be ascertained at the Stamp office, Somerset-house, where he was in the habit of depositing property of various kinds, left behind by mis take in his vehicle; that be had no acquaintance with his fellow-prisoner, and never saw him in the Equestrian Coffee- house. Mr. COTTINGIIAII—Why did you run away on strik ing the woman ? If it was an accident, why not have remained in the house, instead of rushing out and then down the Borough-road ? Sparkwood said, ahhough appearances might be against him, yet that he wus perfectly innocent of the offence laid to his charge. Duckett, in answer to the part he took in the transaction, denied that he had been in the Equestrian Coffee-house on the night in question, and said that he was walking along the Borough-road, and on approaching the Circus he saw a mob collected, and went over, " like other fools," when ho was immediately charged with being concerned in the robbery and taken into custody. He added that he was a printer, had worked in some at the most eminent printing establishments in town, and that his character stood high ; that his friends were not apprised of the predicament in which he was placed, otherwise he was confident they would rally about him. He added that the complainant was entirely mistaken when she asserted that he had thrown her down. The complainant and her witness were recalled, and questioned by Mr. Cottingham as to whether they were confident that they had seen Duckett in company with the other prisoner in the above tavern, and as to whether complainant might not have been mistaken in her identification of Duckett as the man who had thrown her down, and afterwards assisted in the rescue of his fellow-prisoner ? Both complainant and witness, how ever, still adhered to the accuracy of their testimony, and The MAGISTRATZ said, he had no other alternativf than to commit the prisoners for trial, but be added, that he had no objection to take bail for their appearance. George Putrich Rennell, town traveller to a stationer in Paternoster-row, was charged with deserting his wife and two children. Brooks, the beadle of Newington, said the defendant's wife applied for and received relief for herself and two children, describing that her husband had deserted her, and was living with another woman. He therefore took the defendant into custody. The complainant, a very respectable looking woman. said that the defendant left her in 1339, since which period she had only received from him about 31., although he, as town traveller to a stationer, was in the receipt of excellent wages. She added, that she and her two children were kept from starvation by her master, who received a pension from Government, but that dieing lately she (complainant) was reduced to beggary. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that it was really too bad that a man filling a lucrative situation like the defendant should be permitted to suffer his wife and children to starve. He thought this was a case in which a public example ought to be made of the defendant. The defendant said the fasts were exaggerated by his wife, and that he was willing to grant her a weekly al lowance. If he was sent to gaol, he would be deprived of his situation. The wife interceded for him, although she had suffered so much at his hands, and the magistrate, instead of sending the defendant to gaol, adjudged him to grant the complainant a weekly allowance. WORSHIP-STREET. William Purvis, David Purvis, and Bridget Purvis, mother of th e two former persons, were brought up this day for the purpose of tendering their bail, to answer an assault committed by them upon the person of Emanuel Jones, an officer attached to the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Jones—l am an officer belonging to the Bank ruptcy Court. At a few minutes before eight o'clock on the morning of the 3d instant, by virtue of a warrant I held, I went to the house, No. 5, Old Ivy-street, Hoxton Old Town, accompanied by my assistant, named Lewis. I knocked at the door, which was opened by a female, who told me that Mr. Purvis (the father of the male and husband of the female defendants, and who is property man at the City of London Theatre), was not yet up. I then went into a bed-room on the ground-floor, and found the two male defendants in bed. They said, " What do you want here ?" I replied, " I want your father." They said "He is not here." I then rushed into the room, and pulling the curtains of a bed aside, in which were lying the female defendant and her husband, who was the per son I was in quest of. I then told the latter that I wanted him in consequence of a forty days warrant I held, which had been issued against him by the Court of Bankruptcy. He got out of bed, and said " go yew ' , Th e female, however, ordered me out (tithe room. Upon that the two male defendants jumped out of bed, and said, "He shall nut go along with you." I then told my assi: taut, Lewis, to go for a plice con stable, and whilst he was away, the two sons, aided by the mother, took hold of me, and threw me out of doors into the street. On my return to the house, ecompanied by the constable, the father was gone. William Purvis, one of the defendants, said when the complainant came into the room, he was lying in bed ; and perceiving that the complainant was removing the clothes from the bed on which his mother lay, he laid hold of his collar and turned him out of the room, and no one else touched him, nor did he know who the com plainant was. David Purvis said be had nothing to add to his brother's statement. Mrs. Purvis, the mother of the former defendants, said she did not lay a hand upon the complainant. Bail for the defendants was accepted in the sum of 256 for their appearance to answer the charge at the Aid dlesex County Sessions. THAMES. was charged Campbell, o li n .N a " woman of the town withL i enuatemaea committingtc Aa a r r o c l l i f n i v b ei Thompson. The prosecutrix exhibited a scar on her nose and face, and stated that she was leaving Stepney -fair between one and two o'clock in the morning, and met the defend ant in Arbour-street, near the Police court. lie was very drunk, and iu a state of great excitement, and as she passed him he took a bottle half full of rum from his pocket and struck her a violent blow on the nose with it. She was knocked backwards by the force of the 'glow, and the blood flowed copiously from her nose for some time. She had given no provocation whatever to the defendant. The Lieutenant cross-examined the woman in a very imperious manner, and endeavoured to make it appear that; she had provoked him, but this was distinctly Beni' d, and she stated that the defendant was making a good deal of noise, and acted very strangely in and about the far. After a long and incoherent harangue from the de fendant, Mr. YA RDLEY said he regretted to see a man o f th e lieutenant's rank giving way to intemp erance , an d so frequently misconducting himself. It was a great pity he did not learn to be a peaceable man. The assault was quite unjustifiable, and he sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 405., and in default committed tun to prison for fourteen days. HEARING OF CASES IN THE NEW COUNTY COURTS. —As " ignorance of law excuseth no man," it is neces sary that the public should be made acquainted with the provisions o( the New County Courts Act. The Ac: itself' contains as many as 143 sections, and their sub stance will be remembered when condensed under se parate heads. It is provided by the Act and the rules, that, on the day named in the summons, the plaintiff is to appear, and thereupon the defendant to appear to answers he plaint, and on answer being made in Court, the judge is to proceed to give judgment. No evidence is to be given by the plaintiff on the trial except such as stated in the summons served. The High Bailiff is to make a list of the summonses served, and the same is to be exhibited in the office of the Courts There is a pro vision in this Act which gives power to the judge of the Court to commit a defendant to prison at the hearing. and of making an order, as he might have done in case those jtuhdegpelsaionttittrhehandevr eo obtained a summ ons on an unsatisfied judgment. Th e Legislature havin g i ntrus t e d the with mercy. THE MINISTRY,—We are informed that all the members of t h e Cabinet are expected to assem bl e i n to .vti on Mond ay next.rts w wi h t o h would p t o eco we p r e , r t , t , i j e g L st e i r e d Chancellor selected e We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon. Joseph Planta, which took lace on Monday last at his ba'fia)dr,r) t'v ember, 1830, Mr. -Planta was one of the house at Fairlight, Sussex p in the 60th year of his age. Mr. Joseph hdll'a,l,at,rnhetoia Secretary early Mr. Planta was the son of the late Joseph Planta. F.R.S , a native of Switz. , rland, who long dorniciliated in England, ii, came at length Librarian to the British Writerson, gbnlemAaffn4,irsto, which place he filled for in the Foreign Office, and at length became Under Se aSsocai e r ty re . c i s His nearly ten years. II" accompanied the late Marquis of Londonderry, as private secretary, to the Cui.gress.s of Paris, Vienna, and Aix-la-Chapelle, and was much Member baeprrr(ollinueansttipnagrst, nentheereßdoynatel whom his attainments a, publicist stood in good steed. From May, joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and though he never s hismightParliaments health had been mostwretched,and 1►• usdeath, For . happenl a s t seven n t an y years physicians unexpected, for his mo ment. The , Agricultural Society of Toulouse has pro posed a prize of a gold medal, worth 350 f., to any rearer of silk worms who shall have produced the best results on some improved system, with at least 150 grammes of i ogg I. ie. Museum, .. i rBrfreeu2gsts7aute:iru:t trna BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette.) An Accosmt, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth 7ictoria, rap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 27th day of March, 1847 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Baik, Abingdon—Knapp and Co 24,291 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 17,054 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,787 Aylshaul Bank, Aylaham—R. and E. Copeman 6,063 Aylesbury Old Bank, 4ylesbury—Rickford and Hunt 41,610 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade /Link, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 36.230 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co. 1:V 0S Basingstoke and Odihaxt Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and (o. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Reis dley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicestei and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co. 26,616 Birmingham Bank, Birmingliam-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,887 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham --Lewis, Meilliett, and Co 17,370 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 8,305 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 72,995 Boston Rank, Boston-Gee and Co 14,699 Bridgv:tter Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 10,058 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 37,199 Broseicy and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 23,943 Beck it; ham Bank, Buckingham -Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. duu•y and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Rant ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 40,457 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 50,595 Bati - . City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 37,608 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-II and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co - Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 23,856 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 17,642 anibridge 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, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 41,426 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co, Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 21,554 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, 31,530 and Co 2,353 Cardiff Bank, Carditf—Towgood and Co 6,816 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co 27,211 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew 17,989 10,566 12,096 and Co. I )oncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co — Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 59,466 81,655 10,900 man Dorchester Old Bank and I)orsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. 49,668 Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, 43,270 Chelmsford—Walford. and Co 57,994 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 33,220 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Varringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Merlley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godahning—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 19,424 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 13,413 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 27,362 Hastings Old Bank, Hustings—Smith, Hader, and Co. 32,702 Herefi)rd City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and CO. Hertfordshire Bank aad Ware Bank, Ware— s. Adams and Co. I lull 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 5,657 Hemel llempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Lloniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitehen—Sharples and Co. Iterdord, Ross, and Arehenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, 8,999 13,612 5,627 Hoskins, and Co - 23,386 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and ,Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexat ders 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 7,937 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna:esborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and CC,. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons 9,202 Lane E: - Id Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C nary...) , and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds:—Beckett and Co 51,041 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C 3. 35,495 Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 486 Lci,:ester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 30,467 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co.— 40,883 fii,th field Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 19,797 Lincoin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co • 88,367 Llandoyery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. :.oughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lyinington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St. Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 40,947 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co 12,257 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,626 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough' Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney • ' 14,932 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward; Merriman, and Hillier 12,188 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams rams .i ._ •• . 7,925 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyurns and Co 17,802 1 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 26,888 Monmouth . Old lank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth ---Bromage and Snead 16,050 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons 7,676 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 27,971 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 35,150 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son . Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and J)yson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and llads. Ins Norwich and Norfolk' Bank, Norwich—Gur neys end Co 70,557 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 8,895 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co 5,251 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0.... 27,111 New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and c o ... 14,011 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 28,994 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os wostry—Croxon and Co 14,821 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,479 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robi nson , Parsons, and Thompson Old Bank To4ridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells:Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank. Tonbridge— &oohing and Sons... .................. ....J 9,554 Average Arncent Oxfordshire Witney Bat.lt Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co Pease's Old Bank, null, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. 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—innonas 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 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son 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 (ild Bank. Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market,Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh re wsbury—Rocke, Ey tons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddicon and Son Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—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 Hampshire Bank, Southamp , ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. .. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and. Harts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 11,738 46,255 10,795 10,242 11,816 12,190 37,361 41.338 5,942 11,206 4,175 9,823 15,238 15,661 21,489 11,216 4,136 41,631 19,679 22,520 9,893 43,214 3,040 16,560 13,893 2,740 24383 8,774 0,008 6,368 16,517 14,522 31,709 16,346 son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Panlow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatharu, 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 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wished) and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W 25,521 2,292 26,490 12,929 Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good - ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, 10,105 and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, 13,065 10,947 Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and 12,725 10,410 15,029 26,078 10,354 27,854 3,421 43,333 13,785 21,320 6,106 15,413 35,772 61,913 7,073 9,873 13,033 83,720 12,483 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Cloueh, and Co JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westin'oreland, Kendal ... Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company; Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield ' .. Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry . 28,835 Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 16.035 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,828 Dudley and West Bromwich ?tanking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,919 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington • 24,876 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 1E0,184 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,106 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,795 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,089 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,455 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,847 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,943 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,720 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,830 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 52,106 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds... 336 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,295 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 28,960 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- 19,38 24,354 2,900 9,523 49,580 12,445 8,393 44,338 8,627 9,328 46,043 10,152 30,670 17,659 62,8.56 9,510 32,226 11,222 _ _ Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 76,126 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksham 62,901 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 84,091 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- amptoti North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 60,114 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei- cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,457 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,274 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 55,418 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Cora pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sbeffeld and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond 48,870 Stockton and Durham County Banking Cora pang, S a t n o d ck t on Thomas's Banking C ompany, Shaftesbury 9,873 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield 755 Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich ..............- . --- Wolverhampton add Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton ............................. 34,812 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, 'Wakefield 13,125 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leamirgton Banking Company, Leamington West of England and South Wales Dis t r i ctßoak,Brist9l.76,7B7 BIRTHS. On the sth inst., in Hamilton-place, Viscountess Bracklei of a son and heir. On the 4th inst., in Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, of a son. On the Ist inst., in Upper Harley-street, the wife of Lien: tenant-Colonel Percival, of the 3d Guards, of twin son* and a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Rayleigh Rectory, Essex, the wife of the Rev. W. Twyne, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Derry, the wife of Captain Leach, dal. Royal Engineers, of a son. On the 3d inst., in Upper Harley-street, Mrs. Hay rg• Reynolds, of a son. On the 3d inst., at the Vicarage House, East Ham Essex, the wife of the Rev. W. Streatfeild, of a daughter, still-born. On th e 4th i nst., i n Devonshire-place, the lady of Philip Augustus Browne, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 3d i ns t., a t St. Pancras Church, John Peter They bald, Esq. of Camden-road-villas, to Mi ss M att h ews , it Thateham;Berks. DIED. On the 13th ult., in Dorset-place, Weymouth, James Port. bury, Esq., aged 82. On the 28th ult., in Calvert-street, Norwich, Smith, Esq., aged 78. On the 30th ult.. at Rose-villa, Driffield, Yorkeiire, Boyer, Esq., aged 71. Un the Ist inst., at. Uxbridge, North N. Savery, Esq. On the 3d inst., in Cloudtsley-street, Islington, Ann, tie wife of Mr. Richard C. Ward, aged 57. On the 3d iust., James King, Esq., of Surrey-place, /Cent' road, aged 75. On the 3d inst., at Axminster, CaptCri Gorge Dscrill Paterson, aged U. On the 4th inst.. Mrs. George Cooper, relict of Mr Geom. Cooper, of Piccadilly, aged 56.. llf London: Printed and Published by hiIJRI3O YOUNG. et NO. - Strand, Printer, at The Bun °flee, N 0.112. Straisd, in the ilecu"" Ss of the OAtvoy.. in t h e County of Mlddlows, Thursday. 1847. Average Aar °eat. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 75,651 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud. dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, , Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester. . . • 6,3 96 York Union Banking Company, York 71,0 75 York City and County Banking Company, York 90,196 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, April 2, 1847. _ M ' ) .ARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY. CORN-ILICCILANGE. Since Monday the arrivals of Engtish Wheat, wilt' wise, as well as by land carriage and sample, have beep . , on a very moderate scale ; hence the quantity yen- was small. All kinds moved off slowly, at the late dot cline in the quotations. Foreign Wheat, the supply of which was somewhat on the increase, commanded very little attention, yet previous rates were generally sup' ported. For export we heard of no sales. The show to foreign Barley was good, owing to which the trade ws° • heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported. The Malt trade was exceedingly dull ; but we can notice In further depression in value. Oats, Beans, Peas and Flour were very heavy, at barely late rates. En :11sh Er, sh Foreign •• • • Wheat. 1,680 qrs. ARRIVALS. isa.r.y. 910 qrs. Qstg I Flour. 940 qrs.', 1,170 skl. 640 -:-- 3,661 I -- 1,750 1.670 Malt. WO 031: VITHETEONELPEL. Although the supplies of meat were somewhat on the increase, the generil demand was firm, at very full prices. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 6d ; Veal, 43 4d to 5s 2d and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81b8 by the carcase. CHRISTOPHER COLOMB. True genius is seldom to be put down by clamour, though, unfortunately, instances of this kind d!' sometimes occur, and unquestionably had not Felicia. David been possessed of strength of mind, as well ,' high talent, he would have s un k un d er t h e storm oft abuse so ungenerously raised against him last yeeri on the occasion of his "Moire," whieh, because the public was disappointed in not finding it another "Desert," was universally cried down as a worthleee' rhapsody, and its author as something like an iny' postor. Some of your men of genius would have: taken this sorry treatment—and sorry and shabby: enough it certainly was—in dudgeon, and forswore' Apollo in a huff—nay, some of our acquaintance' would infallibly in such a strait have blown out the; small portion of brains appertaining to them ; but M. David did far better—he betook himself, not , to Avernus, but to Auteuil, where he avenged biro' self on his detractors by writing a symphonft which not only restores him to celebrity, but places him beyond the reach of all future cavil among th i e first composers of his tim e . Th e su bj ect i s a grail° oi4e, the conception of a man of genius —the discover of the new world ; the title Christ.phe Colomb, ON, °I : Discauverie do Nouveau Monde. It was produced at the Theatre of the Conservatoire, for such was the,. effect of the clamour t o w hi c h we h ave alluded tit' not a lyric theatre would open its doors to the coIW poser, and it was to the generous interference of one of the Princes that this salle, which belongs to the Crown, was placed at the disposal of M. David. 1 114 symphony , is divid e d i n t o f our parts— " The p epti c' ture, ' " A Night at the Tropics," " The Revolt', and " The New World." Th ese are all descr ib ed with an imitative power really wondrous, thou the auditor is no doubt largely indebted to are' citative deliveied by M. Henry, of the Open Comique, who, by a kind of running cornrow tary on the events described, keeps the audience au courant of the intentions of the author, like the chorus in the old Greek tragedy. Th e sub', ject opens with the preparations for the departure 01 the expedition, the undulation of the waves, an d the ships riding at anchor. being expressed with singuie r felicity. The embarkation amid the prayers of tb e people, the signal for sailing, and the departure of the fleet, with the various feelings of regret and alarm at such a moment experienced by the adventurers an d those who remain behi n d, were a d m i ra bl y depicteth and this part concluded amid load and long plaudits' The composer subsequently describes the features of long navigation—the weary calm, the langour of the tropics, a tempest, a dream of home, a revolt op board, and lastly, the sight of the new world; th ° rapture of the nearly hopeless sailors at the prospeol and the dances and choruses of the natives ; all wer e received with applause, which, as the beauties tur folded themselves to the audience, rose at length 0 enthusiastic demonstrations of delight. The syn y phony, we should mention, la not wholly instill; mental, the subject bei ng d eve l ope d b y seve rs' choruses and other vocal morceaux, all of considerabl e merit, but we must add that the execution seemed ° _,.. 11 , the whole inferior to the wor k. The composition 1! of colossal grandeur, a n d it wou ld d eman d resources of a first-rate th ea t re t o d o j ust i ce to MVP a production. a ll the - - Sir Robert and Lady Peel are passing the holidays at Drayton Manor, surrounded by a select circle. The Right Hon. Baronet and family are expected to retUrP to town for the season on Monday next. TIIS MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.—We are happy to learn that tile Lord President of the Council iS dually recovering his health, and that there remains n!: ) ! the slightest doubt but that he will be able to attend to the House of Loris at the expiration of the recess. The Earl of Auckland, accompanied by the fit Miss Eden, left t own on T ues d ay for Devonshire. 'i n Noble Earl after s..nne visits, it i s un d erstood, w ill official inspections at Plymouth and Devonport. The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by th e Right Hon. Ch ar l es A r b ut h ut t, returns to Apsiei House on Tue.,:day or Wednesday next from Swath' tieldsaye, Hants. The Noble and Gallant Duke give s ! grand banquet on the 21st instant to their Royal Big': nesses the Duke and D uc h ess o f Cambridge and thy Duchess of Gloucet,tar. OPENING OF TUE NEW STEAM-BOA T PIER, GERFORD- MARKET.—Yesierotty, At twelve o'clock, u' e f new pier at liungerhird-bridge, for the convenience 0 passengers by the steam -boats, was opened oy the director° toll free. The only access to the boats is now by th e pier from th e t ower on t h e Middlesex side, and t he floating pier will be removed forthwith. We have authority to state that there is no foUll; dation whatever for a report which has been circulate d for the last day or two, to the eifeet that Mr. Laboucher° intends to retire from the office of Irish Secretary. The anstitutionnel says, " Th e d ysentery ra ge' among the crews of ti,e French vessels stationed at. th e Antilles and at Otaheite. The first•nareed station ll° lost more than forty men, and the other more than foAl" teen." HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTIONEERING TWO -of the three Members who represent the county are r ° ' ported to be desirous of retiring; and all the gentleqt en who have been thought worthiest to succeed them bar e coyly withdrawn from the fl atter i ng proposal. Colon el Calvert, Mr. Hale, Mr. Spencer Cowper, Sir E. Euliver Lytton; Mr. Boaanquet are reported to have turned • deal ear to all such suggestions. Mr. Brand has bee s retiring for fifteen y ears, or, more properly speakiribi refusing to come forward, for he never actually nn' flounced himself a candidate. But now, at last, wh en the general voice points to him as the fittest person , and- the , most certain to unite the suffrages of one parY at least, he has consented to do violence to his incline' tions, and tp sacrifice his preference for a country life in order to perform the duty which will be thrust upon hiu l of serving the public as a Knight of the Shire.—Bert" ford Mercury. A baker of Berne, in Switzerland, has succeeded in making very palatable bread from Iceland m oss. a l: results from a scientific examination of this breed...ll4s out of 102 parts, it c on t a i ns 44 of fecula or null"' matter. Bread made chiefly of potatoes is said to c„, 0 " • twin only 15 in the 100 parts o f nutritive reatter.--(01. Eynon.; DiENT.-I:xtract of a letter, dated 16, Blessington-Street, Tr.sc it ifo V N E y ß T T E II M E E , N E T EF . IcTc S y I o iN F :D N i o I I EA Low B A E v e C — FIt P A ° li w n ra.L oirrr 'g Feb. 9, /247. Professor ilolloway.—Deal'Sir,—liaving devoted WY:, particular attention for some years to the treatment of cute/3°OIPN °I skin diseases, I think it right to inform you that I have in a Bre st many case.?, recommended the use of your Pills and Ointment, B ,m; , nvarlably found them to have the most perfect effect in remoln those diseases, even when of a very desperate nature. (Signal W. E. POWELL, 31. D. In cases of scald heads, ringworms, pimY l4 or tetters on time face, the effect of the medicines is astodishing ,- ; Sold by all d rugg i sts, and at Professor Holloway's EstablishMO" 244, Strand, London.