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f brie et wa s roe ;over to - inolence," that t ide in to P wi"ool t was , t the lest bat ore dale. defenee: e ha d , the et,,f,ce• of vin nonu' Arit gge , bee' , m igbt, ;c1 anu l L,rned The 7 - b e ta ich b a " ~ ca ll a P , d e m l ed gen th . and lepP ro ' w rtiol! r n one coa 3 • eat to prl' w ith tbe rso lt .c• fr. oce B url 5 be call het if s be d be as 00 t ars old, sbe ' or girl dea d bed ae to io be r 0° but 11°tIliPg ,DA it at pipe orn do f f , Blain a inei si the P ° ug ° the I) I n e n the ac t ti of lfilroen f e r CrelaP t ;ciit lc ' sbY for tilt l ed . No t Cotop a lo l of 1836 . , 11 3', as well as to various houses. In the t/r h e t ht he l„ had,btheee..tesas Were decidedly bad—much inferior ur the-7,,ghteut,ii in preceding years. °Pesi, East "e was for two years • inspector of teas 18, h„lndia Co In PanY• After the trade was thrown br s `l e 4 04 six 7 received another a_ppointment. He had been 14 0 , ) , (i r s and a half. His late father was a tea te of h is "' an d had been with his father ten years. "'eight I_,!eting teas was by taking from the " mus -41 h ued f rom a silver 6d. and putting it in water. He oual•e taken seven to ten millions' worth of tea, and oehundred n durin g eed the time he had been inspector, ,) 'at , l alit,thousand cups of tea. The season corn '.°eginning of September and terminated •to uri n 'tr e , iB col lie do _ g that period the tea and tea-men con- N flp a tily a tm " 1 . 1 from the interior to Canton. Contracts 1 - I;, ° ' the s: in the April and May preceding the be nereheas°ll in September. To secure purchases, uase i no _nto. were obliged to send up a portion of I :i ttryi ad ti e keer u t ly into the interior. beforehand. Contracts . ize s f! to the desire of the parties, without :eb e „Rke,. That was settled in Canton, at the •r tl : l ` The earlier that the contracts were made, ''Ci ziki t s and t h e great competition between the Hong f. !1. ti 11tiVe Ens great merchants. The agency houseS ie 9 es .r: . at difficulties to contend with. There are Th e , but they bore no proportion to the nng merchants (of whom there were only Pl aintiff s. CO , -. ..: 11 ,,4 01 Y. He knew the firm of Messrs. ().,toiquitiffe canton, and saw the orders sent to them 4 41 )0 148 1)kt . a ` - `e was employed by Messrs. Daniel and s h .., roll& It value the teas purchased by them for the '4 1 .7 0 11, ir ea l . t Was the custom of merchants to employ The e en ,c e w ere rather inferior in 1836-7 to preceding la ,,ltosi' s tia s hipped were as good as could have been 4; tie should a sans. Th e y was not one chop of low 'lskiPPed was say say that the quality of the whole of the a t th e ',goon. He remembered having made a - ';good . "i'y h ad t that the cargo was exceedingly well b e been sh ri. as the agents would have chosen if s t'' in th P i n ng for themselves. Using the term ty ti,4Ve been e sense usually understood, the plaintiffs ,",N7 , ltb s atisfied with the teas shipped. ,p e ,_ion i n .----Did the congous shipped answer this ttifire flavour , order " black, wiry, strong, and '41,1 b et e l le aves ",;, and free from any admixture of brown EOe sone t h I have not " small" dOwn ; but they e Worse for being a. little large. They were t re ,!_lav olit, „rather strong," I have it—and they had a t zt fr ee fr ...°llgh not perhaps a full pekoe flavour. They eikt to °r P any. admixture of brown leaves, but there 4q airy l ear _ l d niure them. *You 'could hot meet with teas without, some admixture of brown :a t --q tlat . :b t to n eN ea liter ;Tntinued.—The order for congous could not Per , hest e n a llY fulfilled, neither could the amount ordered 44k;tteti as far have been obtained in the market. It So t I t i S th e h sr as it was possible to execute it. With w ter, ch a ,.., )s °o, the order had not been executed, corn hae, ,aFters with those of the order. It was not ktClaidt.nght, wiry, blackish leaf." To correspond s lid liotT°4l(l have 'been of a higher-character. Such ;' ) e a s_ot whlTtetbheen Purchased at the price mentioned, ssw, ey thought would snit. tie N . M. replied, and submitted a minute calcu li 't 4 in rec tness of which was admitted, estimating the 1141 b tl e plaintiffs at X,6676. agreed having summed up, the jury retired to lig ree h 'v on erdict. In twenty minutes they returned, a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages, V tri , T he let f or 41 _ btirr. -- nAwroN v. UPTON. ealtrt rose at a few minutes past six o'clock. ... _ --------,- blelaL-Cl4-13WN COURT.-THURSDAY. , -'' took his seat at Nine o'clock. wi atel __ RAPE. H of f or 4 ivatte, 62, a bald-headed, toothless man, was . in. 11°113 rape p ag e the body of Mary Ann Smith, a little it . zritati rs o f f . age, at Heaton Norris. it t I PPe ar ' Prosecuted ; the prisoner was without counsel. * eat ' t it fro it . to lir e ra the statement of the prosecutrix, that t te t todi et e with prisoner on the Friday !'. ~l 111"; t o belt' as servant; tbatthe prisoner insisted upon evereing stated ',,r l toslch h e e ° with him, where he perpetrated tli crip e 410 lef t I.:was charcred On the followmg morning h rie i rialicl br e u .. l ' s , eellar,bfirsi making it secure,leaving some t.retNtach bread and butter, for the prosecutrix. The prin 'lloe,t2 a el tn°rn ing left hi 11 under similar cup' - 4'a ti- the • s ce kept i custody until the hz olr 4 N t iaad ay P . ro!e_c e ut x The e i vid w en as ceet th n e surgeon went to hZ,k l 44 , I , l i e eaPital offence had been perpetrated. The ke l 'ed, ~,the case are of too disgusting a nature to be reta rii the .case . rap er ed with rY retired from court for about an hour, f ';er to a te ,. a verdict of guilty-but recommended the ,le c i l 'le li si `eY on account of his age. Sentence deferred. ''ote ar ged I .' e r 23 , a Young man of respectable exterior, b et a aiic with h. M Having feloniously, unlawfully, and carnally 1 ' -aqua Lunt, on the 28th of April, at West Cllr rilit ,6ae r kl '8 Prosecuted, and Mr. MURPHY defended , i , i - liro see ' : " I::: 'l s trb t: on .11 k I , It a i: in a a female of weak intellect, about 22 La '9iie • PPeared that the prisoner met her the 6., N ts -p aay hial t place . called Dirt w y h -l e a r n e e h , e an e d om m o m d t k , t. Dersaii rosecutrix cried ‘ et k i ee. 13 _ o a private place, out for assistance, Illt a ct n eed d d , ll 'e, 1 The : ea rne up at the time, who were called in evi t - Naste.r eCenseccutrix several times went into fits whits `ktty _ et, in e. The jury being of opinion• that the se x, the first instance, had been a consenting J the Prisoner. f ° h4 . l 'N 'i Phell °Bl 20 4ALICIOUS STABBING. 4 1' 'I , Wi t t ! Was indicted for feloniously cutting Barnard fi', 4l, . V s . !i n intent to do him grievous bodily harm.. It:l• ol.ss prosecuted ; the prisoner was without , It h il i t ll,, ea ,s r e d that ( 1 14 1' riti rst. on the 18th of July, the prosecutor was ttr ts . e p r i, street ; there was a disturbance . ther.e., an 4)1 ) ti ?at a j lt ier was engaged ; prosecutor interfered , t;Tl i e d la th K Place between them, and the prosecutor was r b ei e scum,. tikrierlitthl3ectue doubt with respect to the intent of tr lt a , i "e Jury acquitted him. t'l tl t e le d 4 4114 BIGAMY. ,VJitia, 480 a, (out on bail) was indicted for . having , s turns, her former husband being alive at the N . ti t , Il li e er • nl' Prosecuted ; Mr. MURPHY defended the 4l t It ta la of kl)p 411,- . this ea t 1 1 . 544 - ‘ l l4, eni , se are simply these :-The prisoner's 1 ~1 14, t ai, 4 wed 10 years and 9 months ago, and went 'tr, oft% Years she heard nothing at all of him, but at e l I a,.. at ti tne tip k l o p dui eb , , , heard from -a man who had there ett s , 'Ater. S ome Land that her husband was serving _ . returned It 4 4; "'eine 18 Months after this, hearing nothing 1 Brea 1, ey .iitaterdislursband, and being left in:ith two children in Al, • ar as ess, she married again with a person named i,""l ta b , •,. After being 'married for 6 years, the first ll l4 l.ti' e "rne, and instituted the present prosecution. te,t:itiry fou nd Merely went for a light punishment. _ 4 t e). Qu orl the prisoner guilty, but recommended her 41, 1 ' Lo b ,ed CHIP If b e '? said he thought the ends of justice would ent. be ~iBt passe d a sentence of 113 days' im p risonment. r„.'ll t4 °Ph & r EMBEZZLEMENT. \ l ,'/0,,,, t.lle ,;ern.!B Todd, 27, was indicted for having ern iltzti,liollailetoehetehi,htiliare,di £3OO, and sums of £l5O, £3o, e, tl u 4 n , t a r n eri r v e ed t for, d an o d ffi o e n er a , of Edward of certain parties tetor s - r,h,usiness under the el. name of the Company of , ; 11i; Pris o ,7 the 13 ank of Liverpool, to whom he was clerk. L .4 rit) e° „"ps - en t a dlleon a former occasion pleaded not guilty. lil e ° 'as "tr. MURPHY, said, that after maturely . con- Ili a ' ilud ese i he had advised the prisoner to withdraw ,totiis Loll Plead °nut _a ti a t t loO ta sli m ,lP said, r. 1 11 . of ••••e ale Ihe • " with respect to the ;oh - .It 4 Puni sh east difference hoped it was understood that this t , , e r . I t b ,, nient. 're 'ad r s'l - said he was aware of this ; but as the pri -4N,lth'lvltli w e t t e i7 es_ in the bank, it would . but rake up mat e'he- o tile painful to think upon, without being of any 1, A Driso h I) nsonr gi ar a b -er the • 1 / 4 4 ch s , er of n Pleaded guilty. known to hi l " o t k eter. ,tespectable witnesses were called te . ) 4-, a aa stu of time, and that they ` ll , th ' lei t .„ l he whole of them deposed to having s . _ ,4, eO, olirable t Oth t ` lB ot er ~ honest, young an. had always considered 'let 4)111 4 t when placed at the bar, appeared to be in I le w a q had and kept his face covered ' with his handker , Ile o , d _ula head upon the dock. gie l ciu e the ',.1e,( 1 to stand down a ,'t ll e ty t : l4l l3 a V t i guilt of the court,. William Watts, the old , a rape was placed to the bar. . ti t ,ll , ect,,. :_r t iatt apa s i laeld:leat the' jury had recommended him to 'ev ' esc en a ground he did not agree in. He must not . 'serer , ue sh oo , Punishment fo . r the capital offence , rihai.eteants.invell, a 4) 1 ,, rd 4 1 ,,(1 take time to consider of his case. . , 4 lahe' was sentercegd to two years' imprisonment, Yong man who had pleaded guilty lir. ttitto,. ,ilt 1 , , 1t0 a , P; ) 4 4l,..` l "isee t rt " FOR REPORTERS.-We havebeen . s a o s m si : e - N, tt ert zv e , 10 , hat the parties having authoriYlnti2 A ,at ati,`, e:ercised that authority on behal f of th e assize re ;ril-`'` satiation ,t,r te, have not provided them with that ac r,kze:lect , 'eY have been wont to receive. They have . fleet Lo th A),, , rith r\A ant e greatest inconvenience throughout_ the tip 61,,,;„0f acc ommodation, whilst parties, 'tlei e t : ZR on hand than to gratify idle curiosity, s ha r v o e . who have , Peciaii„ ,!.!lf importance, monopolised the seat P ' tor the gentlemen of the press. 1,4 ills, _ • t cl n PLIUS COURT.-YESTERDAY. (~ -'4 't AT BLOOMSBURY CASE. thellk.ketr, BID SHALE is ~ -re v h , , SHALE V. CRAVEN. . 1 kr,; , =‘e, . iv ,,' 3 5 aron MAULE and a Special Jury.) I,; tl itit t ftst an illeh has long been looked forward to with e 0 'rigda Ilety by the sporting world throughout h Ntr est ,oa r „: I ' l , i and scarcely less so by thosevast num fore c i ,,, 14 tri atte r l . .and other towns who take an "amateur" G el der ,:,,.trkireo_h_ relating to the turf, came off yesterday. tf A, ha y , 7 1 1 :, was one of an unusual character. All PaZred f e i with,,„`"at had arisen out of transactions in the 11 1 71 r s° th e A`'",.,' any exception that we are aware of, bee tbi a .tits,; i 'llorti - „ °e KeY Club, or to some other tribunal corn ( 'tie - •-• g •-•g gentlemen• It appears, however, that in til,ioleaill Lord Lichfield, a p'art intereste, saw some diffi k%iteil:‘ hi s i o e ,:aY of an adjustment by the usual course, , 're s i(l [48.14 was in error on one point in coming to "N ue w ole kii it was resolved to submit the matter to the k , t ti e h as l a i d ° i l lside r ation of a special uof assize. The \tell Wa stbe t this COIIIIty. j ry 0 08 by theerest excited, by the novelty of the case, aillet' , , 4 large amount which it involved,. in stakes P ot) be '''t th e one Ive olv ed , Problem in the laws of sporting which ?t,i °lit a i_re b e )? ,the result, . that the doors of the craouardte q.lietlieal,ardvai%e_cl_ at an. early hour, and rs a rush was from Londen, tti?lt'lreth4 ;,ayorni; epdisacezßeporte Newcastle, and other towns, pj 9 tri t)° "•er s Y t ° the few ' seats appropriated fr the US 2 of i(irt4f.hed; rid (the accommodation hem' g o exceedingly th lt le. t x .he el t 4 t° the al mostexclusion, for a great tp r .na ti 'oi the - entire also rt 'teed•Y of th ebelonging to the newspapers' of the 4 N.t'lifi lag s e gentlemen of the bar, not engaged in to 44 to ' 'were, owing to the smallness of the court, ry t ar i d sta nd , g wit 'ttoll,ls,°thers intermu the crushing of attorneys, ___ ~,,,,,t .b, r _ demo_ested, as well as of the general audi hallg kenastrated the crying necessi newt immediate tr i - ir, e Use. for the erection of a and adequate 1- 4,, til e l a re . as well A s 1 4 ,2ti a l', -latifis t ' ~..----r. Knowles, and Mr. Martin, appeared •I' l l ,,at Q . ' aed 4 'lr. Sergeant Wilde, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Viliell, tleniehr• Worthing, for the defendant. The fol k); G, geieteher't,e°ruPosed the Special Jury i \ViliSea e \ ',l,, ts n ' '' S q' . James Fairfield, Esq. \ ‘'iti,N4 0 i)oa : Wm. Mothersill, Esq. J ktat a ra ?th lyeii, s. Wm. Alex. Brown, Esq. A„, )3 a 4 4 „tes, ta,„ Es q' Samuel Lees, Esq. k -it. k La nd , 4. Isaac Hudson, Esq. 11 ; 14 e., iti c° , l vt.t s atll ' Es q. Simpson Smith, Esq. il tt''- r° PeZ ti ieh th ° Y e lled the pleadings, stating that this was kreil CiN of the' qu.estion to be tried was, whether a colt, tq„,r. (.: a ti the Plaintiff w 1 discribed on being „• ,1 11 1 ,, 114 oe at A.,_ . proper y "(' th -tl eed P,wte,t, Statedsayi ng, the particulars of the case. H . e iqt ' sal,. Rhoold, that had he been told twelve months N v aa, iir Jee t, he sflave been called upon to address a jury on I tV i4d that s hove been have been truly incredulous ; but he 1) )e t teligeat, since it had been so decided, the N I( e ase e (mew gentlemen he saw before him would , 4 kl, :s lad 4 1% 4 l°ll at issue impartially and justly. N i l l is ter e ' t t ,ye`al. cut of a race for the Ascot Derby i i "kti i 7,e h e , ills h4suct,which his client, Mr. Ridsdale, 4 u ; ar il : was 404.-°lornsbury. There was no dispute le ,l,rat o , lu fir st ',fairly weighted, or fairly ridden, and spit .C'erl ' 'the question was merely as to whether Y .1,,Y described. lie was stated in the entry to ‘ 4 4to ' Qin of Seroggines dam, The entry was made, in behalf of the owner, by Mr. Weatherby, and the stakes were placed in the hands of that gentleman. After thel race, Lord Lichfield, who was interested, claimed the stakes, as did Mr. Ridsdale, who required that they should not be given up. (The learned Counsel here read the letter of Lord Lichfield to Mr. Weatherby.) The question at issue did not involve any :nice distinction relating to racing that required much judgment in sporting, but the decision upon evidence of a simple fact. Lord Lichfield had protested against the matter being described by the Jockey Club, being under the erroneous impression that he could not com pel the attendance of witnesses on the inquiry ; which, however, under a recent act of parliament, regulating arbitrations, he could have done; and Mr. Weatherby beset by two quarters, was compelled to apply to the court for relief. The result was, that the money was ordered to be paid into court, to be given to the successful party, on the tnal of the issue-" Whether the horse called Blooms bury was properly described ;" and it was required in the order that no question should be made as to the nomination of the horse, and the evidence of R. Ridsdale, the brother of the plaintiff, inight be made available, if required, for Lord Lichfield, the learned judge giving his lordship this advantage. The question they had to try, under the order, was, whether the horse was properly described as a colt by Mulatto, out of Scroggins's dam. Scroggins was a celebrated horse, as was Sir Giles, both out of the same mare,-the latter winning the Derby in 1832. Mr. Ridsdale, who was a breeder of race horses, and had a celebrated stallion named " Tramp." In the summer of 1834, this horse, 26 years of age, being debi litated, was given away by his cient, who procured another' stallion in his place, named Mulatto. The dam of Scroggins and Bloomsbury, " Arcot Lass," was at Mr. Ridsdale's, and the plea of the defendant was, that Mulatto was not the sire of Bloomsbury, but Tramp ; or at least, that the mare had been covered by Tramp, as well as Mulatto, and that the entry was, therefore wrong. The learned counsel then went on to state the facts of the case, which, he should prove in evidence, showing that there was no foundation for the assumption that Tramp had ever covered the mare in question ; that he had been sent away in January, 1835 ; did not cover that season at Mr. Rids dale's, and that Bloomsbury was the veritable progeny of Mulatto, as described. He also detailed the collateral cir cumstances, which appear in the subsequent evidence, and concluded by stating, that he felt assured that he could prove the facts stated, by respectable witnesses, and would, there fore, be entitled to the verdict of the jury in behalf of his client. Thomas Taylor,-I live at Park, as stud groom to Lord Chesterfield. I was with Mr. Ridsdale, as groom at Martinmas York Races. I went in 1826 and remained till 1836. He had a large stud. It was the practice to have a stallion for the use of his own and other mares. Mr. Ridsdale had a stallion called " Tramp." I must say he was there in 1835. In 1834 I saw him. He was 24 then. He failed in serving the mares, in 1834, the last day of May. Figaro was put to him, cannot tell if any produce. I know Don John's dam. Tramp would not cover her ; she was put to another stallion. Two other mares (not named) were co vered by Tramp, and had to be again covered by other stal lions. Tramp failed in May, 18341 Mr. Ridsdale got ano ther stallion next year-Mulatto. He came last week in December, 1834. After 1834 Tramp covered no mares at Merton. .1 knew Arcot Lass. She used to be sent to be covered at Merton. She was not charged for, in consequence of arrangemente between the owner and Ridsdale. She came in 1834, and was covered by Tramp and then Velocipede. She had no foal. Mr. Cattle intended to send her to Li verpool after that. I conversed with Win, and he sent her to Merton to be covered by Mulatto. She had foaled on 31st Dec. 1834. This was unlucky in time. We talked of this. I left Merton on the 24th of February. I think Arcot Lass had not then come. This book was kept by me up to 24th February. I had it when in the service of Nowell. I cut out the leaves while with him, and burnt them. In Ist age a list of barren mares, written by my son. When I left I left the book with Colthurst. I told him to put down when the mares were covered, and when they foaled. I got the book again in 1836, after Ridsdale's failure. I had staid at Newmarket from 1835 till then. The book has since been in my possession. It is in the same state now as when given up to me in 1836, except the initials of the Epsom stewards. Arcot Lass came to Lord Chesterfield's. I do not know who entered Bloomsbury for the Ascot races. Bloomsbury was a colt got by Mulatto, out of Scroggins's dam. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILD-Bloomsbury was nominated so ; but I did not see her covered by Mulatto. I received that book in 1836. I parted with it after the Epsom Races in London, after 15th May. I had mislaid it. I found it in October, 1838. I found in a cupboard bottom, amongst some children's books. There is no entry of Arcot Lass being covered on 2nd February, but one on the 28th February. Tramp was there in 1834. I cannot tell you when he was last there. I cannot say if he was there in 1835. I had been longer in the service of Mr. Ridsdale than the other grooms. It was not my duty particularly to attend to him, but I was always present when he covered mares. 1 am not aware it was iu 1834 Columbia was covered. He covered Don John's dam in 1834. She produced Don John. He covered Flo renten and two others, who produced. He covered Miss Arm strong-a filly. He covered Sevilla and another. I don't think Sevilla produced. Redotto was Mr. Robert Ridsdale's mare. It appears by the book that Sevilla foaled 13th February. We had no other stallion but Tramp in 1834. Charity be longed to Mr. Ridsdale. The brood mares were all covered in 1834. Charity produced a foal 31st December. Neva was put to Tramp and St. Nicholas, and produced "a colt. Miss Letty's dam was covered and another. Wharker was covered by Tramp ; but I don't know the produce. The mares he covered in 1834, and that missed, I can't think of them. I can give no information on it. I cannot bring it to mind. Flora missed to Tramp. She was not covered by any other stallion that I know of. Lunacy missed to Tramp. She was a mare of Mr. Ridsdale's. 1 can't swear it was not to Wa verley she missed. I can't speak to what mares missed. That book contains a list of Mr. Ridsdale's mares to be co vered in 1835. During the season it is usual to keep a stal lion book. I never saw a stallion-book of Mr. Ridsdale's. He never kept a book that I know of. There was a book for his own mares from season to season. There was a book to enter the stallions. In it mares covered not belonging to Mr. Ridsdale. The book contained the names of mares covered by Tramp in 1834. It was destroyed the latter end of 1834, or beginning of 1836. I cut them out and burnt. them. I was then at Merton. It was in August. I had not kept that book above a year or two, but I can't tell the number of years.. The stallion-book related to other people's mares. I had more than one stallion-book. When one was filled I took another. I can't say how many I had. It was a small book. I put the book in the fire at once, and a great many more. It was after Mr. Ridsdale's stud was sold, and all was done away with. Payments were made when other people's mares were covered. The book contained an ac- count of the mares covered, the Keep, and corn, and the money received, for covering. About the middle or latter end of June is the usual time for covering, and Mr. Ridsdale generally,took that time. Arcot Lass foaled about the 12th April, in 1834, or thereabouts. The colt came after Arcot Lass two months or so. lam sure they did not come to gether. The colt came in January, 1837, and remained till November following. While I was at Newmarket, I went only once to Merton, and remained about two hours. I can't say if all the barren mares were covered before I left Merton, on the 23d February. There were some covered. There were five or six covered in 1835 before I went, by. Mulatto. The book is headed-" Mares covered by Mulatto." The nine first entries are of barren mares, covered by Mulatto. " Harmonic, by Lottery, out of Redotto," means the pedi gree of the mare. In these nine first entries of the mares they were covered by other stallions than Mulatto. There is an entry of Arcot Lass, covered by Mulatto in that list. None of the writing in the book is mine, nor is at all my son's. Some of it is Colthurst's, but I can't speak to his handwriting. The book was kept in the saddle room. The entries of mares covered were made there on the following day. I do not know which when writing the page that begins 1836. There were James Colthurst and - Gott. They were gfooms. The others were helpers ; John Scaife and Wm. Mills. There was another called William, but I don't remember his other name. I left them there when I went to Newmarket. My son was in the racing stable and ridin„,g in exercise. He was servant to Mr. Rids dale. I or Colthurst gave the information to make the entries. Re-examined by Mr. CILESSWELL.-My son left when I did. The beginning of the book contains a list of barren mares. I can't say what horse covered in 1834, the mares marked barren in 1835. Tramp covered Mr. Ridsdale's mares. Perhaps four mares were sent to another stallion in 1834, after being covered by Tramp. Tramp became unable to cover mares in the beginning of May. Two mares missed to him were put to other stallions. Cross-examined.-It is not usual to put mares to two stallions. James Colthurst sworn.-I was formerly employed by Mr. Ridsdale. I went in 1832, and remained till he failed. I knew Tramp. He broke down in May 1834, and Mr. R.'s mares 'were in consequence put to other stallions. Mr. R. procured Mulatto in 1835. He came to Merton in January. I can't swear to the time Tramp went away. Tramp covered no mare of Mr. Ridsdale's in 1835. Taylor went to New market on the 24th of February. Arcot Lass came and was put to Mulatto. When Taylor went he gave in this book. 11Iarchesa was covered by Mulatto. Taylor gave me direc tions how to. enter. He told me Arcot Lass was to be put to Mulatto. She was covered On the 38th of February and 2d of March. I held her, and Gott brought the stallion. Arcot Lass was not covered by any other horse than Mulatto. Arcot Lass returned to Mr. Cattles in May. She came back to Mr. Ridsdale's and foaled " Bloomsbury" on the 3d of February, 1836. Taylor returned in 1836, and I gave him this book. Tramp was kept in a box in a yard. He was kept in a barn till he went away. He was not kept in any other place in 1835. He was a savage horse. Cross-examined by Sergeant WILDE. - I gave Taylor the book back on the 4th of August, 1836. I have not seen him from that time till Wednesday. Tramp was kept in a barn at the back of Mr. Taylor's house. Tramp was kept there in 1833. After he left, we used to put some young foals there after weaning them. .Tramp was afterwards kept in a box , opening into . a yard. Joseph Gott.-I am in the service of Mr. George Swan, banker, York. I was in Mr. Ridsdale's service in 1834. I remained till the establishment was broken up in August, 1836. Arcot Lass came there to be covered in 1834. She was covered by Tramp. I attended the stallion. She was tried with Tramp more than once, and was sent to Velocipede, because Tramp would not serve her. She was barren. She came back in February, 1836. I remember Ridsdale's horse going to Newmarket in February. In 1835 Mr. Ridsdale had Mulatto from 'Earl Fitzwilliam. lam sure that Tramp did.not cover a single mare in 1835. I think he went away in January. A man came and took him. I remember Arcot Lass being covered that Spring. I don't know how long she was there before. She was covered by ,Mulatto. I know the book kept by Colthurst. Arcot Lass was covered twice. About ten days between each time. She was covered by no other stallion but Mulatto. She foaled in February, 1836. I kept this book, and Mr. Thompson wrote in it. He wrote this only by my directions. I can write a little but not so well as Thompson. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILDE.-Thompson was not employed by Mr. Ridsdale. I said that to the best of my belief Arcot Lass came in February ; but I am not sure. I never said nor believed that she came in January. There was an affidavit, but I never did believe she came in January. I have always believed that she came in February. Arcot Lass having missed to Tramp was put to Velocipede in 1834. She missed to Velocipede also. I cannot tell where Tramp covered but in 1834. Arcot Lass left our place in May. I don't recollect when she foaled. It was late in May when she was sent to Velocipede ; but I have nothing to lead me to say. Mr. Sergeant WILDE here called for the declaration of witness, dated Bth May, 1839. Witness.-1 signed this. Mr. Richardson drew it out. The Learned Counsel here read a passage from the affidavit, to the effect that the mare came in January. Witness.-That is a mistake. I heard this read by Mr. Richardson. I did not read it myself. It is a mistake in putting down January. I made a declaration that the con tents of that paper were true ; but that " January" is not true. I don't know whether Mr. Richardson read this cor rectly or not. It was read. I have stated this to the best of my belief. Tramp left Merton farm in January, 1835. The declaration of the witness was here read. Cross-examination resumed.-This is the memorandum which is said in the declaration to be made by me. It is written by Thompson, by . my direction. In that paper it is said that ' ramp left early in January, to the best of my be lief. I will not pledge my oath that he went away either in January or February. I cannot swear that he went away. before the end of February. I will not swear that he did not go away before March. A young man fetched him away. I and Colthurst delivered him, frour a loose box aside of the saddle-room. There are no circumstances that enable me to say whether he left before March. Reexamined.--I did not notice the word January in the affidavit. It was done in a burry, I know a Mr, Harwood, He came to look at Mr. Ridsdale's stock. John Thompson.—l am a cattle dealer, at Merton, and lived there in 1836. The last witness lives about twenty yards from - the house where. I live. I was in the habit of passing my evenings with him. He has asked me to write for him in this book. This entry of Arcot Lass is in my writing, made by direction of Joseph Gott. I think it was in the beginning of January. The other entry was made at the time of the mare's foaling. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILDE.—The name of the mare was put first, and the entry of her being foaled was put after it occurred. I wrote the date and other par ticulars. George Taylor.—l am in the service of John Scott, trainer. I was employed by Mr. Ridsdale. I went with my father from Merton to Newmarket. He gave me this book, with directions to make entries. The last entry by me was a mare by Comus, out of Petuaria. Witness spoke to another entry relative to Young Petuaria. These entries were written by me in 1835. Mr. Cattle.—l am a farmer. I was owner of Arcot Lass. I sent her to be covered by Tramp in 1834. I received in formation which induced me to take her away some time in May, and sent her to Velocipede. She proved barren to both. I sent her to Merton, with orders that she should be covered by Mulatto. This, to the best of my belief, was the latter end of February, 1835. She came back in May, and I sent her back to foal, and afterwards sold her to Lord Chesterfield. Cross-examined.--A man named Peter Pickering took her to Mulatto. When she was taken to Velocipede, she had been a day with me. The same man took her. It was un derstood that Mr. Ridsdale should have the produce of Arcot-Lass. On Mr. Ridsdale's bankruptcy, the mare and foal came back to me. The sale to Lord Chesterfield was done through Mr. Ridsdale. Upon my oath, I never asked 600 guineas for the two snares and the two foals. I agreed to sell the mares for £6OO. I got the foals back. They went to Merton, and thence to Lord Chesterfield. I never received more than £6OO. At the time . I sold the mares, I said to Mr. Robert Ridsdale, " Now, you have been a good friend to me, and you may take the foals along with them." Mr. Ridsdale did not take the first produce of " Miss Giles," but it was understood he should take those foals she after wards produced. E. Cave.—l lived at Merton in 1834. I knew Tramp, and have seen him cover. In that year I have seen him fail. He went away, to the best of my recollection, in. the latter end of January, or beginning of February. I don't know when Arcot Lass was covered. Mr. Cattle recalled. —Pickering is dead. He died last year. He was in the habit of driving beasts for me. His wife is living there. John Harewood sworn.—l know Mr. Ridsdale. In 1835 he applied to me for a loan of money. I went over to his .place—Murton. I knew the box where Tramp was kept, and I knew the horse. Mr. Richardson accompanied me. Tramp was not there, nor in the yard. I did not see him at all there ; it was Monday the 9th of February. I re member it from having lent Mr. Ridsdale £lOO on the fol lowing Wednesday, of which this is the memorandum. We went over the whole of the 'grounds and premises. There were some fillies in the barn. Charles Swan.—l am employed by Mr; Carrie, horse dealer, York. He keeps stallions. In 1835 we had one callee Starch. I took him on the 23d February to Murton, to cover a mare. I know Tramp. I did not see him there the year before. I saw him in a box made for him. When I went over there were three fillies in his yard. I went again on the 25th and 27th, and did not see Tramp. My son en tered my going over to Murton in a book. Cross-examined.—The fillies were all in the box in which Tramp had been kept. George Swan.—l am the son of the last witness. I made the entries in this book as to the times of Starch going over to Murton, on the 23d, 25th, and 27th February. William Jeff.—l am groom to the stallion Voltaire. I took him to Middlethorp in February. About a fortnight after, I met Taylor in York. I went to Murton. I know where Tramp was kept. I went to the box, but he was not there. There were three fillies in it. I did not see Tramp on the premises. George Smallwood.—l am a farrier. I remember seeing Taylor with the last witness in York in 1835. I received some money from him. I believe it was the 14th, a Satur day. I went over to Murton in the following week—l think the 16th. I went over the whole stud. (The stud went off on Tuesday.) I did not see Tramp. I saw every place ; there were three fillies on the premises. Arthur Stephens, Esq.—l am private secretary to Lord Lichfield. That letter is signed by him.—[A letter was here read, addressed to the stewards of Ascot' races—before al luded to. It concluded by protesting against any decision being made on the question of the disputed stakes.] Mr. Taylor called.—This letter is in my handwriting. — [The letter was read, stating the times Arcot Lass was co vered—twice in February 1835, and again on the 2d March.] To some questions put to witness as to a discrepancy in one of the dates stated in the letter, and his testimony, he said the statement in the letter was a mistake. Cross-examined by Mr. CRESSWELL. — I do not think Arcot Lass was covered on the 2d February. If so, I should have known it. Colthurst called by Mr. CussswELL.—Arcot Lass was not covered on the 2d February. Several other witnesses gave similar replies. This closed the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant WILDE addressed the jury for the defence. He said the question to be decided was whether Bloomsbury had been properly described for the race called the Ascot Derby Stakes. These Races were now under the superin tendance of the Stewards of the Newmarket Races, the Mas ter of the Buck Hounds being, ex officio, a Steward of these Races. Races were valuable, not only in their effects in im proving the breed of horses, but as affording one of the most popular amusements of our country ; and he believed they had done much good. But the breeding of horses was at tended with much expense, and few but noblemen, or such gentlemen as Mr. Ridsdale, who understood the art, could afford to pursue it. It was, however, of great importance that, as immense sums were at stake, the rules and regulations should be so framed and carried out as to prevent fraud and imposition. And in 1823 his Grace the Duke of Richmond, whom he should call, was a member of the first racing club in the land, and he would speak to the consolidation and im provement of several of the rules of the club bearing on this subject. The question was not whether Bloomsbury was the offspring of Mulatto or Tramp, but " whether the mare, his dam, was covered by Tramp." The time of foaling was very uncertain, and it was one of the rules to be adhered to at Ascot, as well as Newmarket, that if the produce of a mare, which had been covered by two horses, was entered, the fact of her having been so covered must be clearly stated, with the names of the horses. The entry, however, was that Bloomsbury was the produce of the Arcot Lass, by Mulatto ; and the objection was tutu Trauip's mentioned. The practice of thus evading the established rule was exceedingly disreputable. The parties who resorted to it did so for the purpose of protecting themselves from loss should they chance to lose_in the race, by declaring that the entry is erroneous, and thus avoiding all responsibility ; but should they win, (which they hope to do, without the de tection of the fraud,) they quietly pocket the money. The horse was nominated in 1837 by Lord Chesterfield, who made the entry ; but Mr. Ridsdale afterwards appeared, and claimed to be owner of the horse, and to have the benefit of the nomination. The horse was erroneously described, not only in the Racing Calendar, but in the Stud Book, which last gave an account of the colts, and their condition for each year. Mr. Weatherby was the Editor of the Stud Book, and applied to Mr. Ridsdale for imformation relative to his stud, and Mr. Ridsdale said, that if Mr. Orton (judge at the York races, who was employed by Mr. Weatherby to obtain in forrisation for him,) would come down, he should have all possible information. That information was given—but er roneously. It was to the effect that the produce of Arcot Lass would be (in 1835) of Tramp or Mulatto. Mr. Orton afterwards sent a letter to correct the statement, and it was stated in this, on the authority of Mr. Ridsdale, that all was correct but the account of Celeste, thus leaving Bloomsbury as before. This was Mr. Ridsdale's own return, and what better evidence could they procure? The consequence was, that parties were deceived. The learned gentleman detailed at considerable length the particulars of the evidence which he should adduce. He contended that Tramp had covered the mare, and thus increased the value of the progeny. The Stud Book was the strongest proof against Mr. Ridsdale ; and it was remarkable, too, that the stud book of the plain tiffs said one thing, the covering book another ; their wit nesses vacilated, and many of their books were burned. He , trusted that the evidence he should adduce would satisfy the jury that his client was entitled to a verdict. The Duke of Richmond, sworn—l am a member of the Jockey Club. I was a steward in 1828. RulelB,in the Racing Calendar of 1837, was then consolidated; rule 58 in the same volume was also consolidated at the same time (1828). Rule 17 was also consolidated. Its object was to prevent fraud. I consider the Ascot Races subject to the same rules as New market, because the Newmarket stewards are ex officio ste wards of Ascot. It is not uncommon for a horse to be dis qualified upon an objection ; the consequence would be that the stakes go to the second horse, and the bets be void; but a case may arise in which, from error, the stakes would go to the second horse, and the bets to the first. I should buy the progeny of Tramp rather than that of Mulatto. The pro geny of a favourite stallion is more valuable than that of an unknown stallion. The Stud Book is much referred to." Cross-examined by Mr. CuEsswELL—You have stated that if an error is made, honourable men take advantage of their own error, and withdraw their bets ?—I have known one instance—it was Mr. Greville. It was before the race. The nomination was not complete, and when he discovered it he withdrew his bets. This mare was drawn, and did not run. Re-examined--I know of no other rules acted upon. The stewards of the Newmarket cannot act except according to Newmarket rules. I have known an instance in which an entry had been objected to, of a mare stated to be sister to a certain horse. It appeared there were two sisters, and the particular one not being specified, the one entered was dis qualified. Mr. William Hibbert—l am clerk of the Ascot races, and have known those races many years. Up to 1836 the Master of the Buck Hounds acted as steward. After that the ste wards of the Jockey Club, in conjunction with the Master of the Buck Hounds. They first acted In 1837. Up to 1836 the races were advertised previously to be run subject to the rules of Newmarket. In 1837 they were not advertised with that clause, owing to the stewards of the Jockey Club hav ing been appointed stewards also at Ascot. Mr. Stanlake Batson—l have been steward of Newmarket Races, and have bred horses. I have been attending,Ascot Races for twenty years. The rules of Newmarket were there observed. Supposing a mare covered by two stallions, is it possible to tell which is the sire ?—ln one instance, " Pleni potentiary's Dam," I have known a mare carry her foal for twelve months. This was a very extraordinary instance. The usual time is eleven months, within a week more or less. If a mare is leaped by two stallions, one an inferior, and the other a superior one, the progeny would be more valuable if proved to be the progeny of the better one. This would ap ply also to match-making. Tramp was well-known as a good stallion. Mulatto was not known known. Mr. Charles Weatherby,—Am assistant keeper of the Match Book. I published a second edition of the third volume of the Match Book in 1832. I was about to publish a fourth volume. I applied to Mr. Robert Ridsdale for a proper ac count of his stud for the new Stud Book. He said, Orton shall come over to Merton. and make it out for you. I em ployed Orton sometimes to get information from small breeders in Yorkshire. I have got the return. Mr. Orton lives at York. Before I published my Stud Book I got a correction. I also received an account of the foals to be dropped in 1836. I published my 4th volume in May, 1836. In page 15 is the entry. I received no other general account of the stud except this. This letter (Taylor's) was delivered to me in October, 1838. I believe it was delivered to me by Mr. Ridsdale. Cross-examined by Mr. CRESSWELL. — The whole account of Mr. Ridsdale's stud is in the 4th volume, which came out in 1836. Orton was pretty well known. He was judge of the races at York. He often sent me information. When Ridsdale said Orton should make it, I don't know whether he spoke of him as his agent or mine. Both Ridsdales had told me before that the Stud Book was wrong. Ridsdale brought me this letter. Re-examined.--I employed Orton chiefly to get informa tion from the small breeders, and a few of the large breeders near York. I spoke to Mr. Ridsdale in August, 1837. Mr. James Mainning.—l am clerk to Mr. Weatherby. I supplied Mr. W. Ridsdale on the 9th of June, 1836, with the 4th volume of the Stud Book. George Taylor.—ln 1835 I lived in the service of John Scott. I was a training groom. lam still in his service. I knew Murton. In 1835 I went there. I took a letter there to Mr. Ridsdale, for Tramp. I saw Gott and Colthurst. I got. Tramp and led him away. I took him to Mr. Scott's of Whitewall. He was an ill-tempered horse. A groom set me a part of the way. He was put in a loose box a little bit below the house. I knew Mr. Allen. He lives at the lodge at Merton. He has a mare called Nerissa. Tramp covered her that day in Mr, Scotts yard, I led him again mu day, and he leaped Nerissa again. The first time he leaped her, George Ezart and Ambrose Kaly were present. Ezart is dead, White, Allan's groom, was there. On the second morning I led Tramp away to John Newton's, How Bridge. Cross-examined.—l thought Tramp served the mare the second time, the first time was a failure. James White.—l was groom to Mr. Allen, of Malton, in 1835. His mare, Nerissa, dropped her foal on the 19th Feb. I was at Mr. Scott's, Whitwall. I went there with Nerissa. Tramp leaped the mare. He got on to her the second time, and served her. It was on the 3d of March, Crouglety Fair. There was a sheet list kept at Malton of the coverings of the mares. I saw Tramp next day—and he served her as before. George Taylor brought him to the lodge, He took him away on the 4th. I told my son to enter the coverings of Nerissa, and he did so that day or next. This is the entry— Tramp served Nerissa on the 3d and 4th of March. He did not cover her on any other day in that year. I afterwards sent the same mare to a horse called the Saddler. Ido not know when she dropped her foal. Cross-examined.—The entries of the coverings by Tramp made on the 4th. The mare, Wharncliffe, was covered by Tramp. Nerissa was put to Saddler, because she did not seem to hold. Re-examined.—The Wharncliffe was coverd by Humphry Clinker on 22d and 23d of February. My son made the entry. Mr. Wm. Allen.—l reside at the Lodge, Malton. I keep brood mares. I had one called Nerissa. She foaled on the 19th of February. She had gone over her time about four teen days. She came in use again in about twelve or fourteen days. I sent her to Whitewall to meet Tramp. 1 saw Tramp in a farm yard of Mr. Scott's. He was with George Taylor —" stiff George." It was Crouglety fair. There were pre sent several others named. Whitewall is on the way from Ridsdale's to Mr. Newton's. My servant kept an account of the coverings. Tramp came next morning, and served the mare again. I did not think he served her effectually. .He came to me again on the 23d or 24th March, and stopped two or three days. He was then taken back to Mr. Newton's. I meant to have him for the season but did not. I backed Bloomsbury, and was a winner. lam quite as certain as that I stand here that it was on the day of the fair. Witness spoke to Mr. Ridsdale, having stated that the entry of his stud in the Stud Book was all right, except as regarded Ce leste. This was after the Ascot Derby. Cross-examined.—After I sent Tramp back, I sent several mares over to him. I have seen Bloomsbury, and said when I saw him that he was a Mulatto. Henry White.—l am the son of last witness but one. I kept the account of the covering of the mares, either on the same day or the day after. I (lid not write this word stet. Mr. Allen explained that he wrote the word stet and why. White cross-examined.----I wrote the account out by direc- tion of my father. He kept a sort of memorandum-hook. Mr. Robert Hudson.—l am a farmer. in March 1835, I rode to Malton, and saw Mr. Allen's Nerissa. I met Mr. Allen the same day. We talked together. He mentioned Tramp to me, and in consequence I put up my mare at the Crown and Anchor. It was the fair-day, Shrove Tuesday. James White recalled.—l put down the memorandums in a little skin book, and rubbed them out when my son came. Welborn Garbut.—ln 1835 I was with Mr. Scott. I re member Crouglety fair. I saw Tramp with Nerissa that day at Mr. Scott's. He covered Nerissa. I afterwards went to the fair. Mr. Sergeant WILDE said he wished the papers of Mr. Orton to be read. Mr. CRESSWELL objected, unless Mr. Orton were here, and sworn. The object of his learned friend was to make out Mr. Orton to be the agent of Mr. Ridsdale. All that Mr. Ridsdale said to Mr. Weatherby was—that " if Orton comes over, he shall have all the information possible." Orton was the agent of Mr. Weatherby—not the agent of Mr. Ridsdale. _ _ Mr. MARTIN followed on the same side. Mr. Sergeant WILDE said, the words used by Mr. Rids dale were—" Orton shall come over, and make it out for you." The information was therefore to be considered as coming from the plaintiff. The subject dropped. William Gill.—l am clerk of the Lunacy Office under the great seal. I have known Mr. Robert Ridsdale, from August 183 G. I have conversed with him on his disputes with Lord Chesterfield. It was in November or December 1837. He spoke relative to his lordship having discharged Mr. Wm. Ridsdale, and also about the colt of Scroggin's dam. He said that Lord Chesterfield had entered the horse, and he supposed he was under an agreement to keep them. He said that sooner than Lord Chesterfield should keep him and Scott (his trainer) train him, he should disqualify the horse as Lord Chesterfield had entered him wrong. Cross-examined.—l have no other employment than that at the Lunacy Office. I have lost at betting about £2O. I never saw the stud book but once, and that was since this trial. Mr. Sergeant WILDE read the extract from the Stud- Book, vol. 4. " ARCOT LASS, 1836, BY TRAMP OR MU LATTO-Mr. CATTLE." Mr. Gill recalled.—The conversation was in November or December 1837. John Burden.—l was stud groom in 1834 to Mr. Armi stead. I remember Arcot Lass brought on the 10th of May, and was served by Velocipede. She had a filly foal. It is usual when a mare is served a second time to state that fact. Some mares will take the stallion in a shorter time than others after foaling—from six to 12 or 14 days. The distance from Merton is 38 miles. Such a mare would take two hard days to do the journey. The notice of objection served before the race, was then put in and read. This notice was from Lord Lichfield, and informed Mr. Weatherby that his Lordship objected to the qualifications of Bloomsbury. Mr. CRESSWKLL addressed the jury for the plaintiff, in a humorous and finally argumentative speech. He commenced by noticing the opening speech of his learned friend. He then contended that the whole case arose out of a mere mis take in the Stud Book, and that his client was not to blame. The information was given to the publisher of that book by Mr. Orton. In the Stud Book, Tramp was put into the wrong year. In one of the years the mare was covered by Tramp and Velocipede: in that year it was stated in the book that she was only covered by Velocipede; and in the other year, in which she was covered by Mulatto only, it is stated that she was with foal by Tramp or Mulatto, Tramp being transposed by mistake from the other year. He noticed the several books containing the entries of the different cover ings and these, he thought, fully proved that the foal w as Mulatto's, and not Tramp's. With respect to the witness who signed the declaration in which there was a mistake, he was very deaf ; and when it was read, he had, no doubt, not heard it distinctly, and did not notice the error, otherwise he would have corrected it. On the other side, it was at tempted to prove that Tramp had covered mares on the 3d March. But no one but " stiff George" spoke to the horse harpy, nw. v fmTp_Riedsdale's As to ills covering mares on the 3d and 4th March, that had nothing to do Aim the case. Admitting that he did so, the question was, where did he come from ? Not, lie ventured to say, from Rids dale's. He next noticed the evidence of Gill, and with allu sion to the minor witnesses, implored the jury not to disbe lieve them merely because they were in humble life. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to sum up and read over the evidence carefully, explaining the law of the case, and the requirements of the Jockey Club. The Jury retired, and having been absent about thirty-five minutes, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, which was received with considerable acclamation by the multitude as sembled in the court. The Court broke up about half after eight, having been oc cupied the whole of the day with this cause, which, of course, will settle the other case of Ridsdale v. the Earl of Lichfield. THE CHARTISTS. Towards the conclusion of the above case, the Crown Court having previously closed, the proceedings were stayed for a short time, in order to prefer some bills found by the Grand Jury, so that they might be discharged. No fewer than five " true bills" were found against Feargus O'Connor and his Chartist followers, to the numbei of about twenty, for misdemeanours. Amongst them was the noted Benbow. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-TUESD AY. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. Mary M`Cartney, a well-dressed young woman, appeared to complain against Margaret M`Kenna, who was decently, but not very fashionably, attired in the habiliments of widow hood. Mary M`Cartney stated, that she kept a shop in Vauxhall road. She was expecting her husband home, as it was getting past ten o'clock, when she heard a knock at the door. She went to see who it was, when the defendant appeared at the door, and asked for a quarter of cheese. She demurred at serving her with it without the money, when the defen dants seized her by the hair of her head, and dragged her into the middle of the street. The defendant in reply, said the complainant was her cou sin. Formerly, when her (defendant's) husband was alive, she set the complainant up in business. She was now a widow, and very much reduced in circumstances ; the complainant owed her a sum of money, which she could not get from her, though she knew that she was frequently in want. She did not deny that she had struck her cousin, but she was exas perated at her. Mr. Rushton said he would not allow respectable people to be struck and dragged out of their houses into the street. The defendant must pay a fine of 2s 6d and costs, or in de fault of payment be imprisoned five days. The defendant said she was unable to pay, and she was therefore imprisoned. ILLEGALLY PAWNING. Esther M'Cruik was charged with having illegally pawned goods belonging to Thomas Black. Mrs. Black stated, that the prisoner lodged with her. Some time since she found her chest broken open and a chemise missing. She did not know whom to suspect. She, however, got her chest mended, but shortly afterwards it was again broken open, and she missed a tablecloth. She again got her chest mended, but a few days ago she discovered that it had been again opened, and several articles of wearing apparel taken away. It was afterwards discovered that the prisoner had taken the articles. Mr. Davenport appeared for the defendant. It was proved on the testimony of the pawnbroker that the prisoner had pledged the articles. But it turned out that the complainant owed her the sum of 28s, which she thought she might take this method of recovering. Mr. Rushton adjourned the case for a few days, before which time the goods will doubtlessly have been released. YESTERDAY. ANOTHER THREAT TO STAB A POLICEMAN. Lennard was charged with assaulting a man named Sefton. It appeared that the wives of both parties had been quarrelling, and that without any provocation defendant as aulted complainant. Leonard had behaved most out rageously, and while in Bridewell said, that if he had a knife he would run it into the policeman. He was fined 10s., and costs, ss. The penchant for running knives into policemen and others has become terrifically prevalent : it is high time that the ruffians who adopt such a means of revenging sup posed or real wrongs should be more severely handled than they have lately been. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. NAMES OF TILE COUNCILLORS WHO RETIRE NOV. 1, 1839. No, 1. EVERTON WARD.—James Heyworth, Esq.—C. No. 2. SCOTLAND WARD.—Richard Houghton, Esq.—C. No. 3. VAUXHALL WARD.—William Shand, Esq.—C. No. 4. ST. PAUL'S WARD.—John Barton, Esq.—C. No. 5. EXCHANGE WARD.—James Mellor, Esq.—R. No. 6. CASTLE-STREET WARD.—Thomas Bolton, Esq.—R. No. 7. ST. PETER'S WARD.—Richard Bright, Esq.—R. No. 8. PITT-STREET WARD.—John Bibby, Esq.—C. No. 9. GREAT GEORGE WARD.—C. Lawrence, Esq.—C. No. 10. RODNEY WARD.—John Nelson Wood, Esq.—C. No. 11. ABERCROMBY WARD.—T. Brocklebank, Esq.—R. No. 12. LIME-STREET WARD.—Vincent Higgins, Esq.—R. No. 13. ST. ANNE'S WARD.—Joseph Moon, Esq.—R. No. 14. WEST DERBY WARD.—John Smith, Esq.—C. No. 15. SOUTH TOXTETH WARD.—F. Jordan, Esq.—R. No. 16. NORTH TOXTETH WARD.—G. Ramsden, Esq.—R, BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. There are 16 aldermen, radicals, chosen by the council. There are 48 councilmen chosen by the rate-payers, of whom 18 are conservatives, and 30. radicals. Of 29 magistrates, chosen by the Lords of the Treasury five are conservatives, and 24 radicals. A short time ago, a wedding coach, containing eight p , sons, among whom were the young bridal couple, returning from the church where they had been married, passed through the village of Bollwerk, near Elbing, in Germany. The hor ses suddenly took fright, started off at a furious rate, and fell with the vehicle into the Elbing river. Five of the in mates of the coach found there a watery grave : only the bridegroom, his mother-in-law, and a maid servant escaped. The bride was among the drowned, The dead bodies were found cramped in a convulAivo maw= to the onts of the carriage. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The FAREWELL BENEFIT of MR. VANDENTEIOFF, And Last Appearance of Mr. & Miss Vandenhoff p revious to their departure for America. Last Week but One of Mr. ANDERSON. PHIS present FRIDAY, August 23, 1839, will be pre. sented Mr. Sheridan Knowles's Play of THE WIFE. Julian St. Pierre Mr. Vandenhoff. Leonardo Mr. Anderson. Ferrardo Gonzaga.. Mr. Gray Lorenzo.. Mr. W. H. Bland 8art010.... Mr. Baker. . (the Wife) Miss Vandenhoff. After which, the Farce of THE LIAR. Young Wilding.... (the Liar).... Mr. Vandenhoff. Papillon .... Mr. G. Horncastle. Miss Grantham Miss Cleaver. Miss Godfrey.... Mrs. Baker. Kitty.... Mrs. Clarke. To conclude with the Burletta of BOMBASTES FURIOSO. King Artaxomines Mr. Baker. General Bombastes Mr. G. Horncastle. Distaffina Mrs. Tellet. On MONDAY NEXT, MR. ANDERSON'S BENE FIT, and his Last Night but Four, on which occasion MR. DOWTON, of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden, and Drury-Lane, who is engaged for a fortnight, and Mr. F. VINING, of the same Theatres, who is also engaged for a limited period, will make their first appearance this season, in Shakspeare's historical Play of HENRY THE FOURTH. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton ; Hotspur, Mr. Anderson ; Prince of Wales, Mr. F. Vining ; Lady Percy, Miss Cleaver. To conclude with the Musical Drama of the SLAVE. Gambia, Mr. Anderson •, Matthew Sharpset, Mr. F. Vining ; Fogrum, Mr. Baker ; Clifton, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Malcolm, Mr. Barker; Sam Sharpset, Mr. Slaiter ; Miss Von Frump, Mrs. Clarke ; Zelinda, Miss Grant; Stella, Mrs. P. Crowe. The New Play of RICHELIEU will be repeated on TUES DAY NEXT. Richelieu, (first time) Mr. Stuart ; Julie, 'first time) Miss Faucit. Mariana . Elie kibtrpoot &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1339. The merits of the noted Manchester corporation question will come before a jury in Liverpool next week. Of legal intricacies, and the nice questions which are submitted to counsel for learned opinions, it is not for us to judge. If common sense and a sound consjderation for the real welfare of the town of Man chester were all that could enter into the case, we sup pose it would be soon decided: Whig lawyers, from John Campbell down to Joseph Parkes, have contrived it otherwise. The affair is involved in the subtle meshes of a legal net, and will not be easily unravelled. We have been informed that it must necessarily result in a special verdict, and be referred to the decision of a court above : and not only so, but that a ponderous reference will be requisite in order to ascertain the value and genuineness of innumerable signatures to infinite petitions. And since, " J—a —w, jaw, Is the mainspring of the law," we think the Manchester corporation question may be reasonably expected to survive the Melbourne ministry. We have been a good deal amused with the naive confessions of the ministerial papers, who begin to dis cover that the scope and design of all these proceedings is to bring the whole Municipal system into contempt. Bless the helpless innocents ! Bring them into con tempt ! " Prose," said Monsieur Jourdain (the gentle man Burgess of Moliere,) "Prose, why that's what I've been talking all my life." Contempt, our Radical friends may cry, bring contempt, why that's what we've been brought to from the first ! If the noodles think that they have gained any notoriety at all, they should flatter themselves most exceedingly upon so singular a circumstance. It must be a singular state of politics that could bring Reform Mayors (or Mares, as we are credibly informed a certain would-be functionary pre fers to write it,) into the foreground of the fight. The ancient Egyptians had a superstition which forbade their destroying a cat or an ape : and Cambyses set these warlike animals in the van of his army. This is the only precedent we recollect for municipalities like ours (how different from the independent citizens of the middle ages !) rising into public importance. We purpose hereafter to consider this subject with them at more length. We are inclined to support Ministers in any measure for the Suppression of Slavery, provided only it were an honest and an effectual one. We expressed our seri ous apprehensions that the Measure of the present Session was neither the one nor the other. When the amended Bill was brought in we suspended our opi nion until we should have an opportunity of ascertain ing its merits. `l'e regret to say that our love for it is, like Slender's [ove for his wife, " small at the commencement, and it pleased Providence to decrease it on further acquain tance." We are compelled to revert to our former ar aliment that a declaration of WAR by the Executive Government was me most collb4l,—,l.—d and have been the most effective means of putting down this horrid traffic. n how unfortunate a predicament does England place herself, when she assumes a tone towards Portu gal, which she neither can maintain, nor even dares to assume, towards other more powerful nations ! How far does she exceed her proper province, and how la- mentably does she compromise her proper dignity, when she issues from her Legislative Chambers a brutum pitmen against parties who are not subject to her law ! Portugal is bound to us by treaties. How are these treaties to be enforced ? The Crown is the depositary of England's honour. Let the Ambassador at Lisbon insist upon a prompt compliance at Portugal's proper peril. Let the Ministers appeal to Parliament for those sinews of war—increased supplies. Let us show our selves in earnest. Let us speak plain words, and do intelligible things. Firmness and energy in action are worth many an act of Parliament and whole heaps of paper protocols. But Lord Palmerston is a man of straw, and the Cabinet a heap of rubbish. The Duke of Wellington expressed his dissent from this Whiggish measure in the following manly and truly British language, in the debate on Monday : tion by the temperate leaders of his party, he acquired a certain kind of distinction in the Conservative ranks. He was " a man (as the new lights phrase it) before his age." He was never satisfied. However rapidly the Conservative re-action might go on, or however steadily sound politics might prevail, he was still champ ing the bit. And no wonder. Excitement was the breath of his life; and his atmosphere must be ren dered fragrant by incense burnt before the altar of his overweening vanity. He then began to find out, what every body but himself knew very well before, that A very small man as a Tory Is a very great man as a Whig, and so he went over to the enemy. Now if he had gone over openly and straightfor wardly, we would have said nothing more than " alas ! poor Yorick !" but to coquet for many weeks with the understrappers of the opposing party in London and their agents in Ipswich, —to retain his seat and vote against his constituents until his vote could be spared by Ministers,—then to make a mock-heroic sham ad dress,—and then, finally, to come in as a Radical, and something more :—surely the rejected of Ipswich is a fitting Liberal Candidate for Cambridge, and that pure and independent stronghold of Mr. Rice, the patriotic and public-spirited Barnwell ! Mr. Brindley deserves the highest praise for his admirable exposure of the wickedness and folly of the " Social System" of Mr. Owen and his followers. The lecture of Tuesday evening, of which we have given an outline in another column, will long be re membered in Liverpool. Hundreds were then made acquainted, for the first time, with the blasphemous and disgusting doctrines of this new school of Atheists. We rejoice that Mr. Brindley has come forward so fearlessly and boldly to oppose the champions of So cialism. The progress of this abominable system among the working classes in this country renders it necessary that some strenuous efforts should be made for its extirpation. Many of our readers will no doubt be surprised when we inform them, that there is scarcely a town of any magnitude in the kingdom in which Socialism has not taken root. Mr. Owen and a band of active missionaries have been travelling from place to place for the purpose of making converts, and they have succeeded so far as to form into one body all the scattered Infidels of the country. The press has also teemed with publications in which the hellish princi- . ples of this sect are developed, and thousands have, we fear, been corrupted by the perusal of the disgust ing trash contained in the Social publications. It is, therefore, high time that something should be done with a view to reclaim those who have unfortunately associated themselves with the degraded Owenite crew, and to prevent, as far as possible, the further spread of the abominable system. It is high time for the Clergy to take the matter up, and to put their flocks on their guard against the poisonous and destructive tenets of the Socialists. We hesitate not to say that it is the duty, the imperative duty, of every one holding the sacred office of a Minister of the Gospel, to bring the subject prominently before his audience. This is especially the case in Liverpool, where we find the Socialists making such an ostentatious parade of their increasing numbers—where their pestilential publica tions are disseminated by hundreds and thousands— where lecturers are engaged, Sabbath after Sabbath, in delivering the most seductive addresses—and where a magnificent building is in course of erection, under the desecrated title of the " Hall of Science," in which the demoralising principles and the obscene practices of Socialism are to be publicly and statedly expounded and recommended. We have one charge to bring against the Socialists which was not included among those enumerated by Mr. Brindley : it is that of enormous lying. They are the most shameless, the most brazen 7 faced, and the most unscrupulous liars that ever existed. In this respect they fully identify themselves with those who are called in Scripture " the children of the Devil." The Socialists may with truth be said to be of their father the Devil, " who was a liar from the beginning." We do not make this charge lightly and inconside rately, but seriously and deliberately. The whole of their periodical publications teem with lies—lies of every imaginable hue and description—lies of implica tion, lies positive and palpable, malignant lies, and vainglorious lies. Of the last-mentioned sort there is an unequalled exuberance. This any one, possessed of the least grain of candour, may satisfy himself of, if he will only take the trouble to examine any dozen num bers of the Ni,. , Moral World, a number of which we have now lying before us. This practice of enormous lying, for which the Socialists enjoy so unenviable a notoriety, is never more conspicuous than in their controversial discus sions. The moment an opponent subjects these men dacious wretches to the inconvenience of quoting j against them an obnoxious passage from any of their publications, he is assailed with charges of misrepre sentation, and accused of attributing to them senti ments which they disavow. It matters not that the work quoted from should be expressly printed and published for the " Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists ;" it matters not that it should be exposed for sale at the Socialist repositories and lec ture-rooms; it matters not that it should bear on its le page the name of Robert Owen : whenever lan. guage is quoted from any of their works which the So cialists are ashamed to acknowledge, they immediately resort to " a refuge of lies," and deny the authority of the publication. This is certainly a very convenient mode of argument—but not a very creditable one. Yet it was the only mode resorted to by Mr. Finch on Tues day evening, during his frequent and indecorous inter ruptions of Mr. Brindley's lecture. We especially al lude to his positive denial that the Social Bible ever is or ever was (we quote his exact words) an authorised publication of the Socialists. We leave him to recon cile this statement with his subsequent exclamation that "it is withdrawn." We leave him to explain how any work could be "withdrawn" if it was never acknow ledged or authorised. Want of space precludes us from prosecuting this subject to day. Its importance, however, demands that we should recur to it. BURTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WESTMORLAND. TO THE REV. B. WALLER, VISITOR, AND MESSRS. HORNBY, ARMSTRONG, ATKINSON, WILCOCK, MORLAND, " Members of the Committee heretofore named and formed for appointing a Schoolmaster." GENTLEMEN, -- I beg t 0 acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 20th instant, intimating your " conviction," from circumstances which you mention, of my having re signed the mastership of the above school, and your inten tion of proceeding forthwith to elect " another person to fulfil the situation ," (for which you have my full permission and consent) and I avail myself of the earliest opportunity of addressing you, in order to make a few suggestions which may prove useful to yourselves and the public. The will of the founder directs, I believe, that in case no master is appointed, the proceeds of the endowment are to be divided between the poor of the townships of Beetham and Burton ; and I humbly submit whether, under existing circumstances, you would not be acting more judiciously and beneficially, if you were to relinquish the idea of inducing a gentleman, who must be a Master of Arts, of Oxford or Cambridge, in order to be eligible, to take a situation from which I am of opinion, i and you, I presume, must be simi larly impressed, that it s not very easy to demonstrate, that he will be able to derive anything like an adequate remune ration for his services? If, however, you consider your selves not to be at liberty to attend to the forgoing sugges tion, and you are resolved to have a master for the school, I would respectfully recommend the propriety of your informing one who may announ ce hi mse lf as a can did ate f or the situation, that there are no exhibitions for either of the Universities in the above school ; but that there is an endowed Grammar-school, conducted by a very able master, about five miles from Burton, situated in the beautiful village of Heversham, near Milnethorpe, which has exhibitions for, I believe, both Oxford and Cambridge :—that the decree directs that, after the premises of the estate whence proceeds the endowment which at present will not afford the master more than £65 a-year at the most, shall have been put in sufficient repair, the remainder of the proceeds, " or a com petent part thereof," (awfully ambiguous terms !) be handed over to the master by the churchwardens, in whose sole management the estate and its income are vested ; and that as a necessary consequence, the master must always be in the power of the churchwardens of those very civilized parts of Westmoreland, Burton, Holme, and Dalton. I would also suggest that you inform him that he could not look for more than five boys from the parish of Burton, to be in structed in the classics, and that he must not expect to obtain 12s 6d per quarter, for the highest grade of commercial education. In conclusion, permit me to recommend that your deliberative assemblies, respecting the election of " another person to fulfil the situation" in question, be held in a private and not in a public-house, as heretofore, as in the former your counsels will not be disturbed and dis tracted by the noise and confusion, and other circumstances attendant on the latter.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen your most obedient servant, Liverpool, August 22, 1839. SAML. FENTON IMMENSE ANNUAL ISSUE OF BASE COIN.—WC heard it mentioned yesterday, by Mr. Sergeant Atcherly , the AttorneY - General for this county, in allusion to the importance of the Mint prosecutions, that not less than three thousand persons are at present engaged in counterfeiting and uttering base coin in the united kingdom, and that the amount annually put into circulation is not less than £600,000. Doubtless the evil would be still more extensive but for the exertion of the Mint, through their indefatigable agent, Mr. Powell, in bringing offenders of this description to juatice,—X,f4 " In his opinion, the foundation of the political power a this country was its moderation and its justice; and, in his opinion also, if moderation and justice were banished from the diplomacy and acts of all the councils in the world, that vessels engaged in commerce (as we understood) ought to find an asylum in the councils of the British Government ; and, instead of passing this bill to put down that traffic, which most certainly was infamous, if the Government had taken the more manly course of declaring that they would go to war with those powers who refused or neglected to perform their treaties with this country, there could be no doubt but that by return of post they would learn that they had effected the object which noble lords opposite had in view. (Hear.) Looking back to the probability of the exercise of the right of search being extended to many powers with whom this country had no treaties whatever, and re membering that the greatest judge who had ever presided in the Court of Admiralty had held that search to be illegal in ime of peace, he thought their lordships ought to be most cautious on this subject—a subject which he earnestly re commended noble lords opposite well to consider before they proceeded to carry this bill into execution. He would not make any professions of an anxiety to put down the slave trade. He had passed a long life of honour in the service of her Majesty's predecessors. He had served her Majesty's predecessors in diplomatic situations, and in their councils as well as in arms, and he believed people could not accuse him of saying one thing and meaning another (hear, hear); but thus much he would say, that on, this subject of the slave-trade there was no person, excepting one illustrious individual under whose directions he had acted, and whose loss, whose melancholy loss, he had never ceased to deplore —with the exception of that one individual, there was no person now living, or who was lost to the public service, who had written more, or negotiated with one-tenth the zeal, than himself, on this very subject, with which he was now told he was not conversant. (Hear, hear.) He should certainly say " not content" to the passing of this bill. (Hear, hear.) But many words are needful for Lord Palmerston, and nothing is done after all. A few from the Duke i carry meaning with them to the ends of the world. We trust, however, that an useful lesson may be learned from the Debates on this subject. The nations of the world will know that Great Britain has taken this question seriously in hand. With her own hands pure, she demands the extinction of the nefarious traffic. Rather than that the faintest suspicion should go forth of her want of earnestness, this Bill (bad as it is) is suffered to pass the House of Lords ; and what is of infinitely more consequence than the impression to be produced in Portugal, greater and more powerful nations will learn that the Duke is ready to declare, and the nation is anxious to sanction, WAR, INTER MINABI WAR, against these worst of Pirates, com mon ene._;ies of our common kind. Let them look to r- it. The dainty-feathered springald of Ipswich has a mind, it seems, to be plucked at Cambridge. There seems to be no end whatever to his absurd fatuity. Notorious for his excessive zeal as an ultra Tory, (no good sign of wisdom mixed with honesty,) impatient of the 'wholesome restraints laid upon his soaring arnbi- THEATRE-ROYAL. Cumberland's play of the " Mountaineers" was performed on Monday night. Despite of a judicious compression into two acts, leaving the hero's words and business untouched, this all but obsolete drama retains but a questionable claim to occasional representation on the modern stage. Octavian is a character with which not one mixed audience of twenty is disposed to sympathise. The words suggest little that is either agreeable or generally interesting. Instead of point ing forwards, and in self-banishment and wretchedness " hoping against hope," while talking_ fustian with his own shadow and to the winds about the " tyrrany of fathers"(!), he nurses feelings that are not merely moody, and morbid, but mawkishly retrospective. In the action of the drama, Octavian is less an essential agent, than a superadded patch : his cues to feeling are far fetched. and like the victim him self, passive rather than active. Hence, nothing but subtle acting, and of the Romantic not the Melodramatic school, can enable actors of sheer experience to make this part tell upon a house whose enthusiasm is not at a pitch of impres sible excitability. Stage history and experience prove this. The elder Kean, and perhaps Mr. Ward—before he became a truant to him self—were the only two men who, in the role of Octavian, have succeeded in rousing, and carrying with them the sym pathy and appreciation of different assemblies. And even their success was only partial : it did not depend on a sus tained, or level performance, but on the striking out of sudden and dazzling beauties—points as pleasing and thril ling as unlooked for. The part is an eccentric one of the Jaques and Timon class, unrecommended however, by that philosophy and adherence to nature by which Shakspere has depicted his manly, and, although disappointed, yet great creatures of circumstance"—misanthropists, disappointed ones, and whiners tho' they are. The other parts in the " Mountaineers" were as well played as they could be ; indeed, one or two of them better than they need to be where the return is alike thankless. In that fine old glee, to the air of " Ye ancient Spanish nobles," Mr. Horncastle's voice was heard to marked advantage. Of Mr. Anderson's Octavian we speak with reluctance, for while disinclined so much as to seem, and much more to be, un necessarily opinionative respecting his acting, yet it was as bad as it could be in the hands of a sensible man of some expe rience in his profession. Something besides a thorough knowledge of stage business is required; otherwise all acting, up to the highest, would be reducible to a branch of Animal Mechanics : the overlooking of this is one of the most fruitful sources of fallacious criticism, although it is undeniable that a knowledge of stage business is a sine qua non ; hence, far from undervaluing it, it is so important an acquirement, that any sensible reader possessed of it, may walk through such parts as Hamlet, Cato, Werner, Othello, and Brutus, with silent credit before judges, and with more than satisfaction to ordinary audiences. In a word then, now that our mean ing cannot be misunderstood, M r . Anderson's Octavian has only the feature of a conversance with " stage business" to recommend it ; and on Monday so disfigured was it by me chanical imitations of Macready, that, while disguised in such drawbacks of manner, we think that he will prevent himself from ever securing the admission of the competent that he is the third actor in his mixed line, of melodramatic tragedy and level comedy, on the s t age o f his own day. He is far from wanting natural ability he has many enviable endowments : for example, a dressable person ; and in its undertones especially a fine voice, but sacrificed to a set and monotonous sing -song, alike inflexible for the effects of sus tained declamation or of impassioned level-speaking. Such, with others, is a dispassionate estimate of Mr. An derson —now, in 1839. Men and things should be spoken of as they are. Three years since, he was a more promising and vastly more pleasing actor, inasmuch as he seemed to rely on his own resources, and drew upon them with the unmistakable impress of natural feeling. Were he without talent, or an indifferent performer, he had passed unnoticed, and if his own eye should chance to fall upon this notice in a reflecting vein, he will more than bear with all that is said, and discover, while opportunity is on his side, that to study a reputed model intellectually, is one thing ; to parrot and caricature mannerisms with angularities (pardonable only in an original) are very different. A faulty original, with merit, is preferable to any copy, however cunningly taken ! John son said, or some other employer of a horse-power phrase ology enough to sprain the most elastic organs of speech in attempts to mouth it ; that the " servile aberrations of a hallucinary copyist call aloud for the wet sponge of annihilation." True; for as a successful artist has recorded —" to admire in principle, is the only way to imitate, with out the loss of originality." We cannot better take leave of an interesting subject, than by inviting attention to the fol lowing lines of a French critic, whose acquaintance with human nature, public assemblies, and the drama, is admitted by all appreciators of his poetry. Speaking of acting and imitators, he says : Votre premier maitre est surtout votre cceur. Soyez toujours vous-meme aux yeux du spectateur ; Le desir d'imiter vous cache un pnicipice. Il en est qui sans cesse au balcon du theatre, Admirant un acteur dont on est idolare, Copistes de son jeu, singes de ses defauts, Gauche imitateurs des accens les plus faux, Se sont fait une longue et puerile etude De ses gestes d' emprunt de ses tons d'habitude ; Et qui sans verite, sans grace, sans chaleur, Sous les talent d'un autre, ont etouffe le leur. That last line is worthy of a place in every artist's creed and in every artist's practice. Throughout the week the afterpieces have gone off with spirit. In the " Illustrious Stranger," Miss Grant's singing elicited a deserved encore, and Mr. Baker, as Ben Bowbell, kept the house in a roar. This evening a strong bill of entertainment is available on the occasion of Mr. Vandenhoff's " Farewell," and the last night—it may be for years—of his playing in this country. Comment is unnecessary. Father and daughter cross the wide Atlantic with the best wishes of the good people of Li verpool, and may rest assured of a hearty welcome from the inhabitants of every city in the United States. In the face of whatever self-libellers affect to the contrary, educated Americans are lovers of England and the English, by the in dissoluble tie of a common language and its endearing asso ciations. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.—At the annual meet ing of this bank last week, in the Clarendon-rooms, a very numerous and respectable body of the proprietors attended, and the report of the directors, as to the state of the bank, was most flattering. After deducting £lO,OOO, set aside for a reserved fund, they were enabled to declare a dividend of 7 per cent, per annum, for the half year ending 39th June, and stated, that every branch of the bank was paying a hand some profit. The expense of the new building in Derby square would not exceed £12,000, including cost of land ; and the directors, from the numerous applications which have been already made for offices, had every right to expect that, when completed, they would sit rent free. It was sta ted by the manager, that the bank had not, and never had, any transactions with the Phoenix Bank, and that, owing to the arrangement of its management, it was almost impossible that any defalcation could take place in any of its officers, without instantaneous detection, and that every officer had given heavy securities to the bank. The directors had per sonally inspected the accounts, and had actually counted the cash and bills in the possession of the several branches, and had found all correct. This they did to satisfy the proprie tors of the correctness of the banks' proceedings. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN EDEN, ESQ.—At a meeting of the committee of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society, held on Tuesday last, at the society's house, Slater-strect, the Rev. James Lister in the chair, the Rev. Robert Davies, M.A., one of the secre taries of the society, called the attention of the committee to the recent decease of one of their highly-valued members, the late John Eden, Esq., it was resolved unanimously, " That the secretaries be requested to convey to the widow and family of the deceased the expression of this committee's sincere condolence on the occasion of Mr. Eden's lamented decease, and of their sense of the loss sustaihed by this society, in common with many other religious and benevo lent institutions in the town, by the removal of one pos sassed of so much unbending integrity, active benevolenc3, high principle, and practical Christian liberality." On Sun day last a sermon in memory of this estimable gentleman was delivered by the Rev. John. Jones, in St. Andrew's Church, with which place of worship he has been connected as trus tee for the last twenty years. The British Queen, steam-ship, which will sail for New York on the Ist of September, has, we hear, 150 berths en , gaged already. The Great Western sails to-morrow. Sit James Duff, colonel of the 50th regiment, is now the senior general officer of the army. He commanded this gar rison during the Irish rebellion in 1798.—Limerick Chroni cle. OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION.-By October, 1841, there will be thirteen large and splendid steam-ships running across the Atlantic ocean. Not one will be smaller than the Liver. pool, and more than half of them will be larger than the Great Western. Four of the thirteen will ply between Liverpool, Halifax and Boston, and the balance will run from Bristol, London, Liverpool,.and the Clyde to New York. The Bri tish Queen and President will be followed by the United Kingdom, City of New York, the Clyde steamer, and the United States, in rapid succession. The four Halifax steam- ers will be ready early in 1841. There may be twenty or thirty steamers running over the Atlantic from different ports in Europe to' merica, but we can only speak positively of thirteen. A gentleman who arrived in the Liverpool told ns that the frame of the President was up, and that she would be ready to enter the lists by the first of next May. She is lar ger than the British Queen.—Courier. REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE—PARISH Or TARBAY.— There is a huge stone in the parish of Tarbat, Easter Ross, on which tradition relates that at one time four lairds used to sit, and yet all of them sat on their own separate properties, each with his feet on his own land. There was a hollow in the centre of the stone which contained the bottle and quaich, from which, in the ancient days of feudal festivity, these worthies, no doubt, drained copious litations.—lnver ness Herald. In one of the cuttings of our railway, near Croydon` a few days since, one of the workmen found a gold noble of Edward 111., in excellent preservation. On the obverse side is the king in a ship, crowned and in armour, with a sword and shield, the latter bearing the arms of England and France.— Sussex Advertiser. The speaker, it appears, gained the prize for the best pig exhibited at the late Oxford agricaltund meeting. Thi s , some of the Oxonians say, is owing to th.: right hon. gentle man having' been so long accustomed " to go the whole hog ; and others that it was a fit award to the member for Hampshire. The Western Vindicator, Mr. Vincent's unstamped news paper, is to be continued and edited by the Publisher, with the assistance, it is announced, of Mr. Frost ; the last num ber indirectly suggests the firing of corn fields.--Cheltenham Examiner. PHYSICIANS' FEES. - At Smnersetshire Assizes on Mon day, an action was brought by Dr. Hickes, of Bath, against a Mr. Fraser, to recover the sum of 4,015 guineas, for 4,015 medical attendances. The trial lasted two days ; and the jury at length decided to " throw physic to the dogs," and gave a verdict for the defendant. BRUSSELS, AUGUST 8. Yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, a terrible storm, with hailstones of extraordinary size, burst over the town of Arlon and the en virons. Almost every pane of glass is broken, entire roofs are blown off, all the standing crops are laid waste, and the inhabitants of the country are in despair. The loss cannot yet be estimated. No such storm has occurred in the coun try in the memory of man. - At Virton the disaster com menced at half-past four ; some of the hailstones were as large as eggs ; they were driven by a most impetuous wind. All the corn, potatoes, and fruit are destroyed. A letter from Hichtel in Limburg, dated August 5, says, " Yesterday, at half-past four, during a violent storm, such a quantity of hail fell, that all the standing corn in the commune of Helch tren, and in the north part of that of Houthalen, was destroyed." DEXTERITY OF THE INDIANS WITH THE Bow.--While the men were packing the horses, after breakfast, I was again engaged with my Indian friend. I took his bow and arrows in my hand, and remarked that the latter were smeared with blood throughout. Upon my expressing surprise at this, he told me, by signs, that they had passed through the body of the buffalo. I assumed a look of incredulity : the counte nance of the savage brightened, and his peculiar and strange eyes actually flashed with eagerness as he pointed to a dead antelope lying upon the ground. aboutforty feet from us, and which one of the guard had shot near the camp in the morn ing. The animal lay, upon his side, with the breast towards us: the bow was drawn slightly, without any apparent ef fort, and the arrow flew through the body of the antelope, and skimmed to a great distance over the platne-wnsmiln 4 Journeg -across the Rvek# Afountaißet won