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z.... ) 4 . _ .:. -; ~..,, e g, , v tr 1 , . 17 , 1 0 t t t o 4 : ..k i ., ; 1 , ..;„r0f vn i 4i.,, SUN 0 PFIC F., Seven o' Clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) SOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. 3124.15T01.. AND EXETER (TAUNTON AND aa.STlail CARES BRANCH). The Committee met at the usual hour. The first, witness called on behalf of the promoters was Mr. , Silas Clarke, residing at Street, and carrying on the busine s s of a general dealer, who gave it as his opi nion that the line would be of great service to the Country. Mr, George William Columbus Clothier, farmer of Street, Mr. W. Ilex, and other witnesses, were examined in fe.vour of the - proposed line. The Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow. GROUP VIII. The S elect Committee appointed to consider the merits OP the Bills comprised in this group met at the usual hour this morning ; Mr. Young in the chair. sciVrn DEVON (AMENDMENT AND EXTENSION). The Committee was engaged the whole of the day in hear; ng general evidence in favour of this Bill. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP X. The Committee met at the usual time this morning; lord Clive in the chair. VASTER= COUNTIES (IXMOR.D TO TU.- DUP."' FORT AND SOUTHEND). The Committee were engaged the whole of the day in hearing, general and engineering evidence in favour of this Bill The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXX. OT.:MAT NORTEEEN (ISLE Or .B.X.HOLIVIE EXTENSION). The Committee met at the usual hour. Mr. B. Denison, M.P., was examined on behalf of the promoters of the scheme. Several other witnesses were called for the purpose of giving evidence on the same subject. GROUP MIX. TOMX AND NEWCASTLE (AMENDMENT OF MAIN LINE). The Committee met shortly after twelve o'clock, Lord C. Wellesley in the chair, when Mr. Sergeant KNOWLES opened for the promoters at normidera;le length, after which Mr. Woods, an iron =aster at Newcastle, was examined, with other wit nesses, on the general merits of the Bill, and in order to thow the respective positions of the petitioners for and against the Leeds and Thirsk project. TANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The following Bills were passed before Lord Shaftes bury's Committee : Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Alteration (near Reedh am). London and North-Western Railway (Coventry and Nuneaton Branches). Northampton and Banbury Rail way. Nanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Manchester and Lincoln 'Union Railway, and Chester field and Gainsborough Canal Amalgamation. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Ayreshire and Bridge of Weir Railway. Dundee and Perth Railway (Alteration and Extension). Great Southern and Western Railway Extension (Por tarlington to Tullamore). Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Branch from Navan to Kelly). Dublin, Dandrum, and Rsthftrnham Railway. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) CROWN CASES.—ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. POWELL. This was an information flied by the Attorney-General and the Board of Customs, charging the defendant with having fraudulently concealed and brought into con sumption twenty-four chests of tea without the payment of duty. The manner in which the fraud was committed was as follows :—A sailor of the name of Partridge, formerly resident in Jersy in 1845, became acquainted with the ilefendant Powell in the month of November. Powell ws.s at that time in charge of the steam-boat called Lord Collingwocd. At Christmas in the above year they left Jersey and came to London. In the mean time Powell told Partridge that he could put him in the way of making his fortune, by run *ling tea through the Custom-house, coastwise. Partridge immediately concocted the plan, and they arranged it that a bond should be given to the Custom house, and purloined, and that the profits arising from it were to be distributed between Powell, Walsh and Partridge. This having been settled, Partridge obtained drafts upon the London and Westminster Bank, to purchase tea in bond, and he carried this busi ness on for twelve months, under the name of Clark. Be obtained a parcel of tea from the Custom-house, the destination of which purported to be Liverpool, but the goods were removed to a warehouse, and never for -.varded to their destination, but were brought into con sumption. Ultimately Partridge was taken into cus tod v, and put into Whitecross-st. - eet Prison, and infonmation that he gave led to prosecutions against his conf,deratt s, Powell and Walsh. It was proved by the Comptroller of Customs at Liverpool that he only received a packet in respect of the bonds, and he searched in vain for the con signees. For the defence it was agreed at length that the known character of Partridge rendered him un worthy of credrnce, and that the jury could not give a verdict against Powell on his evidence. The jury returned a verdict against the defendant in the single value of 3201. The Attorney-General appeared for the Crown, and lir. M. Chambers, Q.C., for the defendant. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING O'CLOCK. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 5 to 1 agst Conspiracy 7 to 1 agst Grimston 10 to 1 agst Best of Three 12 to 1 agst Eryx. GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 2 agst The Hero 12 to 1 agst Fitz Emilius GOODWOO D STA K 10 to 1 agst The Questionable 12 to 1 agst Vampyre 25 to 1 agst Stultz 40 to 1 agst Bantam ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Cossack 6 to 1 agst Van Tromp 12 to 1 agst Foreclosure 20 to 1 agst Black Dwarf 35 to 1 agst Coningsby DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Flatcatcher • 25 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum J M VEINAL PA RLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordship met at Five o'clock, when the Earl of SHAFTESBURY presided, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, for some time, during which several Bills were brought up from the Commons and laid on the table. The LORD CHANCELLOR having taken his seat on the Woolsack, other Bills were brought up and forwarded a stage. PORTUGAL. Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask the Noble Mar quis the Lord President of the Council whether it was true that sonde Bomfin and tile Portuguese troops had been sent to Angola for greater security, because the people of Madeira were favourable to their release? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought not. Lc,rd BROUGHAM—Oh, but has the Noble Mar quis any doubt about it?—(Laughter.) HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Lard DENMAN presented a petition in favour of the health of Towns Bill. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY Lord LYNDHURST then rose to move the further consider ation of the report of the COmmittee appoint©d to inquire into the truth of the allegations contained in the petition of the Great Western Railway Company re lating to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway. Th& Noble Lord then proceeded to say that the directors of the North-Western Company had purchased 4,000 sharps in the new company, and read over the names of several of the directors, engineers, solicitors, locomotive superlntendents, and clerks, who had purchased those sharee, among whom the names of Mozely and Tootal occupied a prominent place. He would ask their Lord ships what they thought of such a proceeding? Now, whoa was the next step which was taken? A meeting was telvertiseel, for the purpose of appointing an additional nonaber of directors, anda at that meeting six more were elided to the original eighteen, u ,. A ie der the direction of the North-Western Company. next step taken was to try to remove four of the old directors. fC The dis pute was t h en brought into the Court of Chancery, and 1 311 w Queen's Bench, and how not for him t subsequently into the Court of to obtain the thou should succeed there • to say. ent, and the Bill was reported A Bill vets then brought into " P vi a a rliam ent : t' avr-era saactort 0 the ,- , • the Lornmittee who sat upon it. s on farourabry by Some , arose upon it, and it was re _ efterwerus dixussion , for it. The of coilmitted, with the seine resul:;, and the Parliament was subsequently obtainete and it was then brought before their Lordships, i t rensoined for them to decide what course they should adep t in reference - to those strange prcceedings. Let hire _suppose, for a moment, how this matter would h a ve .stood if dii arcementr! had been en tered into by the Gi 'eat Western Company to accomplish a similar o bj ec t, -,would anybody for an instant suppose that a non coaiplianoe with the standing orders would in any way have, prey , nting the consideration of the merits of the Bill, or that it would in any way have affected the de cision of the Committee. It was perfectly evident to any one ,in the possession of common sense, that these shares had been placed in the hands of the present holders tot for the honest gurpose of deriving en income from them, but in order to obtain a prepond erance o f in terest in the( 'kern, with a view to influence the opposition and obtaining the defeat of the Bill. This wa s th e rea son why they were placed in such a situation, and he was quite sure that, considering the matter in that light, that their Lordships would not allow any merely tech nical obstacle to stand in the way of substantialjustice to the parties. And he felt the greater confidence on this point, because, in fact, at the time the report of the Committee was made, they were not aware of the precise position in which the Bill stood before the Committee of Standing Orders, and should, therefore, move, that, in compliance with the instructions which they had received, the Committee should be directed to take the evidence, and inquire into the merits of the Bill pending the deci sion of the Committee of Standing Orders. A conversation here ensued aeross the table between Lord Lyndhurst, Earl Grey, Lord Brougham, Lord Redesdale, and the Duke of Richmond, at the conclu sion of which The Earl of DEVON moved in return that the Com mittee do proceed in the usual way. The Duke of RICHMOND then explained that it was the custom of the Standing Orders' Committee to allow of one months' to go to the shareholders in the event of their being a non-compliance in any particular. Such was, in fact, the position of the Bill at the present moment. Lord KINNARD said on a former occasion ho voted against going into Committee, because he did not think it wise for the Legislature to interfere in the matter while it was before a court of law, but their Lordships having decided to appoint a Committee, he was inclined to support the motion for going further into the inquiry. It was alleged that the directors having delayed the issue of the sealed cer tificates depriving the shareholders of the power of voting upon the Bill, but urged in justification of the directors that these shareholders had purchased their shares for an object. He had no doubt whatever that such was the case, but he altogether disbelieved the statement that the shares were purchased with the funds of the London and North-Western Company. Esrl FITZWILLIAM supported the motion for a further inquiry. He had supported the appointment of the Committee, because he thought inquiry necessary for the public good, and because he thought it behoved their Lord ships to assert the powers which they delegated to the promoters of that railway, and which powers were sought to be turned aside by the conduct of cer tain parties. He regretted that the Commit tee had not gone into the inquiry, and with all due respect and regard for the Noble Lords com posing it, he would support the motion of the Noble and Learned Lord, or he would go further and support the appointment of a new committee, who might take a ditfdrent view of the proceedings. Earl CHICHESTER said that as chairman of the Committee which had been appointed by the House, he thought it necessary to make a short statement of the grounds upon which the Committee had come to report against proceeding without further instructions from their Lordships. The further observations of the Noble Earl were perfectly inaudible. (LLFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. REPORTS. The following reports on Bills were brought up, and ordered to lie on the table:— Hartlepool and Stockton Junction Railway. Lytham Improvement. Newcastle and Berwick Railway (Cramlington and Percy 3lain and Killingworth and other Branches). Newcastle and Berwick Railway (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton Sluice, and other Branches). Wakefield Gas. THAMES CONSERVANCY. The report on the Thames Conservancy Bill was, upon the motion of Colonel T. WOOD, ordered to be taken into consideration to-morrow (Friday) week. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. The reports on the following Bills were further con sidered and agreed to : Eastern Counties Railway (Purchase of the North Wool wich Railway, &c.) Edinburgh and Northern, and Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railways Amalgamation. Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway (Leith and Granton Junction). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Eaglescliffe and Stillington Extension). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melmerby to Northallerton, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.) York and Newcastle, and Newcastle and Berwick Rail ways Amalgimation. York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Extension). LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to : Commercial Gaslight and Coke Company. British Commercial Insurance Company (No. 2). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (Deviation of Line, &c.) Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway (Stourbridge and West Bromwich). Bristol Building and Improvement. Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Chester and Alteration of Levels). Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke. Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains bc.rough and Doncaster). Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Branch from Ipswich to Woodbridge). Leeds Central Railway Station. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Ossett Branch and Dewsbury and Morley Stations). Leominster Canal Navigation Sale. Limerick Docks and Harbour. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks. L verpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne June _ Lion Railway (Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch). Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle•upon-Tyne Junc tion Railway Acts Amendment. London and Blackwall Railway Improvement and Branches to the St. Katharine and London Docks. London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Pur chase of the Iluddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway). London-bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement. Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railways Amalgamation. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef field Canal Purchase). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Junc tion with the Midland Railway via Barnsley, and Branches therefrom). Midland Railway (Extension from near Leicester via Bedford to Hitchin and to Northampton and Hunting don, and Enlargement of the Leicester Station). idland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse June- tion). North British Railway (No. 1). North-Western Railway (Diversions at Skipton, Cas terton, and Sedbergh). Oldham Alliance Railway. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway. South-Eastern Railway (Widening of the Greenwich Railway and Arrangement and Enlargement of the London-bridge Station). South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway (Penistone, &e. and Purchase of Sheffield, Rother ham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal). Swansea Harbour. Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers. York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock En largement). RATE-PAYING CLAUSES. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition in favour of the abolition of these clauses. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Lord MORPETH presented petitions from the clergy of Leeds, the inhabitants of Suffolk, and several other places, in favour of the Bill. Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from the mayor and burgesses of Wigan in favour of the same Bill. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17 2 184?. EDUCATION. Mr. M. MILNES presented a petition from certain Roman Catholic clergymen is favour of the Poor Roman Catholics participating in the vote for education. PORTUGAL Mr. B. OSBORNE gave notice of a motion in oppo sition to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Fins bury, to the effect that, as Government had interfered in the affairs of Portugal, it was just and proper for the intervening parties to guarantee the full constitutional rights and liberties of the people of Portugal, and, if necessary, to enforce the same. Mr. HUTT said he wished to ask the Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) whether the blockade was likely to continue, as it would effect the interests of the British merchants. Lord PALMERSTON said that as the Junta had accepted the terms offered by the Government he hoped that the blockade had been taken off before this time. Mr. B. OSBORNE said that the Queen had issued a decree infringing the personal freedom and the liberty of the press, and he wished to ask the Noble Lord if it was the intention of the Government to support this policy ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the latest advices received at Bristol contained no account of what the Hon. Member alluded to. Sir DE LACY EVAN3—Sir, I would observe with respect to the prisoners now confined in Fort St. Julian, that I trust they will not be deprived of their liberty after the official assent of the Junta has been recognised by the Government of this country.—(Hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE—Has the Noble Lord any objec tion to state, in conclusion, what course he intends to pursue for the future with respect to the affairs of For tu; al and cries of " Oh! Oh I '') Lord PALMERSTON.—It is quite unusual to make a statement of what a Government intends to do, especially in a matter of this kin d what we have d one s (Loud cheers)—we cannot state %hat we int en d to d kind—(Loud cheers)—we is sufficient to state you a u pp ce r essfully, a n d t o as k, a f ter suc h an explanation, if ove of the course we h av e t a k e n. The subjectthendropped CURRENCY OF b P e ORTUG AL. On the order of the day in C o mmittee on the Poor Relief Bill, read for going into l, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. rose to call the atten• tion of the Ho use to the infraction o f the Ist, 17th, 342 and 18th Articles of the Treaty of Lisbon, of J u l y ' 1842, and to ask her Ma j esty s Ministers wheth er any and what for thepast, and • steps have been taken to obtain from the Government of the Queen of Portugal, redress security against future injuries of a like kind done to priti o 4 in. terest. He said that this was a question in which the British merchants, resident in Portugal and in this country were deeply interested.—(Hear.) It would be within the recollection of all those who had read the papers which had been presented to the House, with respect to the affairs of Portugal, that Mr. Southern, on the 16th of November last, ad dressed a letter to Viscount Palmerston, informing him that a decree had been proclaimed by the Queen of Por tugal, which compromised the interests of British mer chants resident in that country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Noble Lord then read a long statement made by Mr. Southern, pointing out the disadvantages under which they were labouring by the compulsory use of the bank notes of Portugal, which, as they were of much less value than the sums for which they were issued, materially interfered with their opera tions, because it compelled them to take paper which would shortly be valueless ; and the consequence would be that they would be compelled to suspend their opera tions. Now, the first article of that decree runs in these words—" Any person who from any motive should reject the notes of the Lisbon bank, will be liable to transportation, and subjected to a fine of from 50,000 grains to 500 grains of gold, to be placed to the public account. The fine in every case to be regulated by the judge, according to the amount of the transaction and the sentence of the transgressor. The 15th article provided, that under the engagement of the Queen of Portugal the commerce of British sub jects in the Portuguese dominions should not be re strained or interrupted by any monopoly of the Lisbon notes; that they should have unrestrained permission to buy from and sell to whomsoever they pleased, and in whatever form or manner was agreed upon by the pur chaser. An article of the 17th of December had abro gated that to a great extent, and at present the British subjects in Portugal were compelled to take payment in notes of Lisbon, which were depreciated in value to the enormous amount of fifty-four per cent. This was fully stated in a dispatch of Sir George H. Seymour, dated April the 9th. Although by the articles of this commercial treaty, con• eluded by Lord Waldegrave, they were entitled to buy and sell, and to receive in exchange, auy payment which might be agreed upon between the purchaser and the seller. He should have occasion afterwards to refer, as regards the seventeenth and eighteenth articles of the treaty to trial by jury. By those articles, as Honourable Members would know, all British subjects were entitled to trial by jury, but of that they were deprived. So, then, all British merchants or ma nufacturers should have suffered a depreciation at the present time, on the whole amount of 54 per cent., if they had contracted any bargains with Lisbon houses since November last. This state of mat ters continued to exist, and to be tolerated; notwithstanding the frequent protests of Mr. Southeron, addressed to the Queen and her Ministers. He could not avoid drawing a contrast between the conduct of British Ministers in regard to the Court of Portugal, and their energy, when the Junta appeared to them to be guilty of any infraction of the rights of the British sub jects, or of the law of nations. On the 4th of March, Colonel Johnson wrote to Mr. Southeron, stating that the Junta had seized stores in the town, part of which belonged to a Mr. Russell. This was instantly com municated to her Majesty's Ministers, and Lord Palmerston, on the 26th of March, had sent off dis patches to Mr. Southern relative to his communications. Now, he wished to ask Hon. Members would this stipu lation in the treaty, signed by the Queen in 1842, be permitted to be violated without any explana tion being demanded by her Majesty's Govern• ment ? So much for the infraction of the treaty as regarded the rights of British mer chants to deal in any way they pleased with the Portuguese merchants. He would now proceed to deal with other infractions of the treaty. On the 30th of December Mr. Southeron wrote from Lisbon that a violation of trial by jury had taken place in Portugal, and that British subjects were placed in a different posi tion to that intended by the 17th and 18th articles of the treaty of 1842. It might not be known to many Honourable Members of that House that in 1842 there existed a Court of Justice in Portugal for the trial of British subjects; but by that treaty pri vileges were granted to British subjects by the institution of Conservatorial Courts. As far as he had been able to gather from these papers, no remonstrance had ever been entered into upon the subject. He wished to know whether any steps, and if any, what steps, and when, had been taken to redress these wrongs of British subjects in Portugal ? Lord PALMERSTON said that he understood the Noble Lord to ask him a question relating to the decree which had been passed, giving force to the paper cur rency of the Bank of Portugal at a forced or a nominal value, and, secondly, with regard to certain suspended guarantees with regard to the British subjects in Portugal. Now with regard to the first point, without pretending, as he had at firrt thought of doing, to justify the Portuguese Govern ment for the financial measures which it bad resorted to in its pecuniary embarrassments, he would call the attention of the Noble Lord to other facts. The Noble Lord would admit that this was not The first instance in the history of nations of Govern ments being obliged to give by law a forced value to a paper currency which was suffering from considerable depreciation, and that paper had been received at a value somewhat different to that which, according to the free trade notions of the Noble Lord it would fetch in the market. (LETT BITTING. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. The nineteenth anniversary festival of this excellent society was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•street. B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., occupied the chair on the occasion, and was supported by T. Wakley, Esq., M.P., J. Masterman4Esq., M.P., Mr. Pendarves, M.P., H. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C., Mr. Bain, M.P., Edward Wigram, Esq., Dr. Rice, Rev. D. Major, Rev. J. Briscoe, Rev. Sidney Turner, Charles Pearson, Esq., J. Braithwaite, C.E., &c., &c. On the removal of the cloth, the Benedictus having been sung, and the usual loyal and national toasts dis posed of, The CHAIRMAN proposed " Prosperity to the Free Hospital, and associated with it the name of Dr. Rice," and, in doing so, alluded to the benefits which -this society had conferred upon the public; it had released more cases than the three other kindred institutions in the metropolis, viz., King's College, Charing-cross, and University Hospitals; and he was sorry that Sir Robert Peel, in presiding at the festival of the King's College Hospital, had omitted to make any allusion to the bene fits conferred upon the poor by it. The present society was essentially one for the poor; its doors were open for their admission without any letter or recommenda tion whatever. Poverty and sickness were the only requisites for admission into the asylum. Since the foundation of :this charity, in the month of February, 1828, ho was happy to say that 231,725 persons had participated in its benefits, and he found that during the past year, according to the medical report, the number of patients relieved by means of the charity had been— Persons afflicted with malignant and con- tagious diseases V 19,432 Ditto, suffering under various diseases Accidents relieved and sent home ' 804 Patients under the dentist 462 Total In addition to the above, there have been 1,286 totally destitute persons admitted into the wards, of whom 68 have died, and 1,189 have been discharged cured. Total relieved It was needless for him to dwell upon this amount of good in order to enforce the claims of the charity on the liberal support of the public.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy to learn that the amount of debt was diminished, but the total amount still remaining was 5,246/ The receipts during the year had amounted to 4,6321. Bs. 6d., while its expenses amounted to 5,017/ 2s. If ever there was a case made out for the liberal support of the public, it was that of the Royal Free Hospital; and he hoped that its friends and supporters would rally round and support it with a spirit of increased liberality. Dr. RICE returned thanks, and, in alluding to the benefits conferred by the charity, stated that, in all his experience in the medical department of the hospital, he had never witnessed any deviation from the strictest rules of propriety on the part of those who were the re cipients of its benefits. Mr. HUMFREY, Q.C., proposed the next toast, which was, " The Duke of Buccleuch, the President, and the Vice-Presidents of the Society." With respect to his thet t G pwhea r an a std c ne e ado el i;hnra D greei u ut k yap e rl o rt oit f eirse ß : st c o o ; e h u i c s h , p i r t n w ee a l s y a f o w r e t u l 1 n - k e n ow was n f e a x c w a o n r d th h y e fel ofh t co ieh n o v n i o n u c r e e d d t p h a a t t ro t n h a e g r e e and support than that of the Royal Free Hospital.— (Cheers.) It had been well said that, in order to depict to the mind in its full extent the horrors of war, they must not speak of the extended battle-field, where the mind was drawn from the contemplation of individual suffering by the splendour and glories of the scene before it, but that they must look at some desolate indi vidual—some weeping family robbed of its parent and protector, and then, and then alone, would the mind feel in all its intensity the full horrors of the dreadful carnage; so in the case of the Royal Free Hospital, the mind was drawn from the contemplation of general and wide-spread distress and misery to a recollection of the circumstance that more than 20 years since one single desolate, distressed, and friendless female was found dying upon the door-steps of a house in this metropolis, with no one to aid her, and no one to succour her. It was to the contemplation of that picture of dig tress that this institution owed its rise, and it would in the end prove a subject of rejoicing to every huniane heart to feel that the contemplation of that bitter moment had been the cause of doing so much good, and that the sacrifice then accomplished had been the means of saving thousands and tens of thousands from a similar fate.—(Cheers.) Had the friends of this society wished to inscribe a sentence in which all good men might unite in its praises, they could not have de sired it to be couched in terms more eloquent, or which would strike more closely to the heart, than that heart felt sentence upon the title-page of the report of this society : " Foreigners, strangers, and others, in sickness or disease, having neither friends nor homes, are admittedinto the wards of this hospital on their own applicati on, so far as the means of the charity will permit. All sick and diseased persons, having no other means of obtaining relief, may attend at this hospital every day at one o'clock, when they will receive medical and surgical ad vice and medicine free." Could any words state more forcibly the claims and objects of the society than that simple sentence ? (Hear, hoar.) An appeal was made to the liberality of those present, which he was sure would meet with a hearty response, on behalf of those whose life was one continued scene of misery and wretchedness, whose whole life was like the roll of the prophet, written within and without, and what was written thereon was "lamentation, mourning, and woe."—(Cheers.) Mr. WAHLEY, M.P., proposed the health of the Chairman. At one period of his life he (Mr. Wakley) had been opposed to this institution, but he frankly avowed his change of opinion on that subject. He was now one of its most ardent admirers.—(Hear, hear.) Other institutions of a similar kind, literally gorged with wealth, and absolutely sleepy with satiety, possess ing incomes of from 40,0001. to 60,0001. annually, did not effect such an amount of good to the distressed poor as the Royal Free HospitaL—(Cheers.) The main principle upon which this hospital was founded, and which he most admired, was that disease and distress were the only passports required for admission within its portals.—(Cheers.) He had no doubt that this in stitution would soon become the model upon which all other hospitals would be conducted. The CHAIRMAN, in a brief and appropriate speech, returned thanks. Various other toasts were disposed of, and the com pany broke up at a late hour. In the course of the evening subscriptions were an nounced to the amount of 1,0951. Among the list of donors and subscribers, we noticed the names of Mr. Peadarves, M.P., 101. 10s. ; Mr. Shepherd, M.P., 211. ; Mr. Masterman, M.P., Si. ss. ; T. Wakley, Esq., M.P., 10/. 10s. ; Lord Southampton, 25/, ; Earl Listowel, 51. ss. ; Messrs. Reid and Co., 50/. ; H. Allen, Esq., Si. ss. ; Rev. Sidney Turner, Si. ss. ; J. Braithwaite, C.E., 10Z 10s. ; Jos. Tucker, Esq., 211. ; Thos. Fowler, Esq., 101. 10s. ; J. D. Masterman, jun., Esq., 51. ss. ; Mr. Cochrane, 51. ss. ; Dr. Marsden, 101. 10s. ; W. Baxendale, Esq., 101. 10s. ; Dr. Rice, (eighth donation), 51.51. ; Miss Fowler, 51. ss. ; Miss Smith, 21. 25., &c. The gallery at the end of the room was occupied by ladies, who not only graced the festival with their pre sence, but in addition swelled the catalogue of bene factors to the charity by their very substantial donations to its funds. The musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr. Jolley, assisted by Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Genge, Mr. J. L. Hatton, and Masters Pope and Barnes. Mr. Higgs officiated as toast-master. The dinner and the whole of the arrangements were such as to ad 1 to the already well-deserved credit of the proprietors of the establishment, and to afford satisfac tion to the numerous guests. DERBY ELECTION. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16.—At nine o'clock this morn ing the members of the Town Council took their places around the council table of the Guildhall, and W. Mousley, Esq., the mayor, his seat as returning officer, when the doors were opened, and every seat in the large room was soon filled with voters and other inhabitants of the town. The Hon. Mr. Gower and his friends took their seats on the right of the mayor, and Mr. M‘Grath and three of his friends placed themselves on the left. The precept was then read, and also the Bribery Act, after which the Mayor briefly stated the object of the meeting, and hoped they would allow every party to have an impartial hearing. DOUGLAS Fox, Esq., then rose amidst loud cheers, and nominated the Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower as a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Derby in Parliament. Mr. MADELEY seconded the nomination. A Chartist of the name of M'Grath was also nomi nated, and received with great cheering by the crowd. The Hon. Mr. GOWER then arose, amidst great cheer ing, and stated his political views on many of those questions that had been mooted by those gentlemen who had moved and seconded his nomination. He thanked them that though a comparative stranger amongst them, he had during his canvass received much kindness at their hands, and that if elected it would be his greatest honour and happiness to promote their welfare and that of the community of which they formed a part.—(Cheers.) The Honourable Gentleman stated that he detested bigotry, whether amongst the Catnolics in foreign countries, or amongst the " No-Popery" party in England—was opposed to church rates, and objected to paying the priesthood of Ireland out of the public funds; that the surplus resources of the Irish Church ought to be appropriated to the purposes of education in that country. Reason and experience had taught him that free trade was beneficial to the country at large, and the greatest guarantee of peace with other countries. He was an advocate for shortening the duration of Parlia ments, and his opinions in favour of vote by ballot had been confirmed during .his canvass, where. he. had met with many parties who had wished him success, and pro mised that if he were endangered by a Tory they would come to the rescue, who otherwise were inclined, from a fear of their superiors or employers, not to vote at all. He rhould do all he could to put an end to such a spirit of cruel intimidation. The Hon. Gentleman then went on to deplore the extreme views of many dissenters on the subject of Government aid in education, and hoped they would never allow those things to give an advantage to their common enemy—the Tories. He (Mr. G.) repudiated the doctaine of finality, as it respected the franchise, which he thought should be extended. Many were now excluded by education and otherwise, that ought to be admitted to so great a principle ; but the best friends of this cease were those who promoted education—enlighten the people, and then their cause is irresistible. (Cheers.) He did not look upon the Government scheme of education as a perfect plan. Money was proposed to be given to aid voluntary efforts— this was soon objected to by those who in 1839, when such a measure was proposed, not only unopposed it, but petitioned for it ; therefore, however greatly he respected the body of dissenters, he deprecated the divisions they might create on this subject.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentlemen then referred to other measures affecting the amelioration of the condition of the work ing classes, and the removal of taxes from articles of necessity, to which he should give his attention, if re turned their member, and hoped that if ever he voted against their interests in this respect, it would be an error of judgment and not of the heart.—(The Hon. Gen tleman sat down amidst loud applause.) After a long speech from Mr. M`GRATIT, The MAYOR called upon the electors for a show of hands, stating that none were eligible to do so but such as were voters, and after declaring the saline to be in avour of the Hon. Mr. Gower, his Worship declared ( * he Hon. F. Leveson Gower duly elected, who returned thanks in a few words, and the return was there and then made, the proceedings having lasted three hours. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. JUNE 15.—Sir John Rennie, president, in the chair. The paper read was, " On the law which governs the discharge of elastic fluids under pressure, through short tubes and orifices." By William Fronde, M. Inst. C.E. The subject of the paper admitted of a much longer communication than could be read at one meet ing, and the train of reasoning was such as could scarcely be perfectly entered into on merely hearing it read ; nor is it possible within our limits, to give a complete analysis of a paper which, for accuracy of perception, closeness of reasoning, and terse ness of diction, has rarely been equalled in any scientific society. A succinct review of it must suffice. The law proposed was a modification of that which has been usually assumed, viz. a simple application of that which holds good with respect to non-elastic fluids. This law is, generally, that the velocity of issue is directly as the square root of the pres sure, and inversely as the square root of the density; but this law neglects wholly the reaction that must arise from the expasion necessarily taking place in the course of issue. The nature of the aetion was il lustrated by the following example : —lf a b a l a n ce be supposed, with an equa l we i g h t i n eac h sca l e , one o f t h e weights being a spiral spring, lik e that of a spring ba lancehe in a state compress e d l engthw i se with i ts ax i s vert i ca l , an d Id of compression by a cord. Now let the cord be suddenly reversed so that the spring is enabled to extend itself verticaily. The scale in which it stands will obviously be depressed, the spring reacting on it as it expands upwards, and conti nuing to press till wholly relaxed ; or if the scale in which it stands were ascending by a preponderance given to the other scale, the rate of its ascent would be in the same way retarded. The amount of the retardation would depend on the strength and the weight of the spring, and on the length to which it would extend itself when released. Now in the dis• charge of an elastic fluid, there is an action, strictly analogous, operating continuously however instead of per saltum, the strength and weight of the spring being represented by the elasticity and density of the fluid, and the length to which it would extend itself by the degree of expansion, in the course of issue. The reduction in quantity of discharge, due to the action, was to be measured by the velocity imparted by expansion, to each particle of the elastic fluid in ,course of issue, the velocity of each particle after expansion, would be its velocity before expansion, multiplied into the rate of expansion, and the primary force must be subdivided in generating each additional unit of velocity, so that the portion applicable to the generation of velocity be fore expansion would be the whole force divided by the rate of expansion; thua the velocity before expansion would be divided by the square root of that rate. For instance, an elastic fluid expanding four times in course of issue, would be discharged with only half the velocity of a non-el as ti c fl u id, un d er t he same circumstances of pressure an d d ens i ty . Thi s mo dification was shown to fulfil the g enera l d ynam i ca l l aw "that a given force acting for a given time will produce a given momentum, whatever be the weight of the mass acted upon." This seemed to be the essence of the law for non-elastic fluids ; but it was disregarded by the unmodified:application of that law to elastic fluids, in which there would be a great accession of velocity, of particles issuing under a given pressure,with out any reduction of quantity discharged in a given time; if, however, the quantity be produced as proposed, in the ratio of the square root in the density, and the velocity be accelerated in the same ratio; the final momentum would be the true equivalent of the pressure. This, in its practical application, explained what was inexplicable by the ordi nary theory ; the difficulty experienced from the back pressure of the waste steam in locomotive engines, and a diagram was given, showing that, at sixty miles per hour, this would be at least equivalent to Blbs per inch throughout the stroke, thus showing a loss of r.early 50 H. P. As applied to the case of air discharged into an exhausted receiver the re • suit was highly curious. The rate of discharge instead of increasing throughout as the degree of vacuum was increased, would be maximum at fifteen inches of vacuum, although nearly uniform for many inches above and below that point ; it would, how ever, progressively decrease above that point, because the expansion would increase in a higher ratio than the pressure, and ultimately, at the point of per fect vacuum, it would be at a minimum (indeed stationary, were air perfectly elastic), because at that point the expansion would be infinite, but the pres sure only finite, viz., thirty inches of mercury. Experi ments made, by permission of Mr. Brunel, with the qouth)Devon Railway atmospheric apparatus, confirmed the theory. The line traced by an indicator apparatus was shown to accord very closely with one traced by this theory, whilst it was widely at variance with the result of the ordinary theory. After the meeting, Mr. Lambert exhibited his flexible diaphragm water ♦alve, which was intended to remedy some of the defects of the plug-cock. It avoided the leakage, and necessity of repairs. There was apparently no friction, and appeared very durable, and well calcu lated for the newly introduced system of constant pressure. - The paper announced to be read at the next meeting, Tuesday, June 22, was " A review of the Plans which have been proposed for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a navigable Canal." By Joseph Glynn, M. Inst., C.E. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—Last night, a public meeting was held in the United Presbyterian Church, Oakshaw-street, Paisley, in furtherance of the objects of the Evangelical Alliance. John Hart, Esq., of Cartvale, was called to the chair. The Rev. Mr. Banks commenced the proceedings by leading the devotional exercises; Rev. Mr. France briefly explained the objects of the Alliance ; Rev. Mr. Jordan, in a neat address, refuted some objections to the Alliance ; Mr. Whitelaw, of Nor wich, delivered a short address ; and the Rev. Mr. James followed, in his usually masterly style. The attendance was good, and the spirit which evidently characterised the meeting, was of a very pleasing nature.—North British Mail of Wednesday. WHALES.—About seventy whales were captured at Stronsay last week, and have since been sold at about 2/. each, on an average, leaving to a great number, who were engaged in the capture, about 155. to 20s. each—a very good day's wage for the few hours spent in driving the bottle-noses ashore.—Caledonian Mercury. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—The Governors of this Insti tabion, at a Court held on Tuesday, unanimously voted a tes timonial of their approbation to Mr. G. J. Gill, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, a former pupil and present exhibi tioner of the hospital, to whom the Porson prize of this year has been adjudged. Mr. Gill also gained the Porsen prize last year. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 16. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice WlLLisms ) RICHARDSON V. STEELE. This was an action for dam a ges for a breach of pro mise of marriage. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Ryland appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Spinks for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant BYLES, in opening the case, said, the plaintiff complained against the defendant, who was a chemist and druggist at Brighton, for having inflicted upon her a most serious injury. The plaintiff was the daughter of a tradesman at Messing, near Kelvedon, in Essex. In the years 1842 and 1843 the plaintiff and the defendant lived together at the house of a Mr. Waugh, a chemist in Regent-street, the one as an assistant, the other as a lady'smaid. An attachment had sprung up between them, and without any reason whatever the de fendant had returned the letters of the plaintiff, and had repudiated the contract he had entered into. The plaintiff became ardently attached to the defendant whilst at Mr. Waugh's house. Fortunately, although the defendant had destroyed the letters the plaintiff had written to him, she bad preserved those she had received from him, and they should be laid before the jury in order that they might see whether justice could be ad ministered to the plaintiff in a court of law. The plain tiff's brother had thought it necessary to see the de fendant with respect to his intentions, and the defendant then expressed his love for the plaintiff and his intention to marry her. He would call the brother before the jury, and would prove a voluminous correspondence to have taken place, from 1843 to 1846, between the plain tiff and defendant; and although he would not read all the letters, he would refer to two or three, to show the terms on which the parties were contracted to each other. The first letter was as follows: " Friday, June 2, 1843. " My heart is axed, I cannot range; I love my choice Too well to change. " First impressions (carefully made) of those we find some thing in to admire, esteem, and love, are seldom, if ever, effaced from our memory, and stand proof against the slander of our most secret enemy. " Love has many doubts, but without proofs should cherish none." The Learned Sergeant" then read several long and rather tedious letters, in which, mixed up with allusions to business and other matters, were occasional expressions of attachment. One letter mentioned "sending a news paper" to the plaintiff, which " contained three cases of murder;" another mentioned sending her " Ilumphrey's Clock;" and most of these letters concluded, " Yours truly and affectionately, Stephen ;" " Your affectionate Stephen, with love ;" " Your absent lover," and so on. During the whole of this long courtship the defendant had been looking out for a settlement in life. The op portunity at length presented itself, and he was set up by his father in a very flourishing business at Brighton. The jury should now hear what the effect of that pros perity was upon 'he defendant, in his conduct to this in nocent and confiding young woman. His neglect and long silence induced her to write to him, and, broken hearted, to go uown:to Brighton to see him; after which she received from him a letter, which he would read to the jury:— " Nov. 29, 1845. " Elisabeth,—l received yours of the 25th, and feel sorry you should have troubled yourself with any such apology, as I had not the least desire to receive any such thing. You appear to quite misconstrue the meaning, that the future may, perhaps, make amends for the past; but understand it this way for your own good—if you wish to gain respect in future, reflect before you act, your actions will be less likely to give offence. You must be well aware that two possessing opposite feelings and opinions never can be happy together; such undoubtedly is the case; therefore it is my wish, which I trust will meet yours, that no further correspondence will be carried on between us upon the terms unfortunately that have been ; but I shall always feel that interest by which I hope to hear of your success and happiness. I hope, by re flection, you will be of the same opinion, and put the best construction upon this letter. which I feel will be decidedly to the advantage of both.—l remain, still your well-wisher, " Miss Richardson, 17, Vere-street, Oxiord-street, London." Probably it would have been better that she should have sent her father or her mother down to Brighton than have gone down there herself. The young woman most earnestly solicited one more interview with the defendant. lie cuuld not lay the plaintiff's letters before them, as the defendant had burnt them, and she kept no c.pies of them. She wished t) know if there had been anything in her conduct to give reasonable offence, and the fol lowing was the answer she received (Post-mark, Brighton, Jan. 8, 1846): — "Elizabeth,--I received yours on the 6th instant, and am at a loss to know why you wish an interview, as I thought my last letter was sufficiently explicit; but it there be any matter you wish explained, it you write and name it, I shall be happy to satisfy you ; otherwise, for the benfit of both par ties, let there be no further communication." No signature or date was appended to the letter, and it was addressed the same as the last. In the course of the courtship many little pledges of affection had been interchanged; and in May, 1846, the p:aintiff received an envelope containing everything the defendant had ever received from her, with this letter:— "I forward to you everything I possessed that once belonged to you, as I wish that every circumstance connected with the past may be forgotten. The letters I had have been long since destroyed, so that now I have not a single thing. Trusting they will arrive safe, I wish you health, happiness, and prosperity." There was no address at either the beginning or end of the letter, end so terminated the correspondence. He need not inform the jury of the irreparable injury which had been inflicted on this young woman. The bloom of her youth had been sacrificed, her feelings had been wounded, her chances of a comfortable set tlement in the world had been wasted by this in sincere and heartless man. The evils of our dense population tell most heavily upon young women; many of them, in every way capable of making good wives, were, from the circumstances of the other sex, compelled to waste their existence; and the man who took the bloom of a young woman's life and deluded her out of a chance of future settlement, inflicted upon her an injury which no damages of a jury could compensate. From the age of 19 to 24 this young woman's life had been thus wasted. If left to herself she would never have brought this actio❑ ; but her family and friends insisted upon it, and determined to obtain for her justice in a court of law. It was the duty of the jury to mark their sense of this conduct. He should show that the defendant was in a flourishing business at Brighton, and able to pay damages. The damages were laid at 5001., every shilling of which he thought would not be too much to give. It was the duty of the jury to mark their sense of the injury which the plaintiff had received. He called - Wm. Henry Richardson (who was examined by Mr. RYLAND), brother of the plaintiff. Was a shoemaker in London. His parents lived In Messing, in Essex. His sister was about 28 years of age. The defendant was formerly an assistant to a chemist named Waugh, in Regent-street,;and his sister was living as lady's-maid to Mrs. Waugh. In May, 1843, the defendant sent for him, and told him he had formed an attachment to his sister, and wished to make her family acquainted with it; that he was satisfied of her suitability for his wife, and wished to marry her. Witness wished him to un derstand that his sister had no property, and wished him to consider that. He replied that he had property of his own to set him up in a first-rate way of business. It was not he said money that he looked for in the choice of a wife, but manners and disposition. He was admitted to the family on the terms of a suitor till June, 1845. During that time he said he was looking out for a business, that he had property to take a first-rate business, but could not find one. He had repeatedly been out with the defendant and his sister together. On one occasion he was looking at a newspaper, and there was a very long name in it, and that led to conversation about names, and defendant said to his sister, "Yours is a very long name, Elizabeth, but I will soon change it for a short one." He also said he did not wish his sister to take another situation on her leaving Mrs. Waugh's, as he did not wish it to be afterwards said that his wife had been a lady's-maid. There was no change in his manner until March, 1846, when he had another conversation with defendant about his sister. De fendant bad then taken a business at Brighton, and wit ness went to see him. He was carrying on a very large business as a chemist and druggist, in St. James's• street, in Brighton. It was on Sunday. Witness told him he had come to see him, as he was informed by his sister that he (the defendant) had altered his mind in regard to her, and he (witness) wished to know if anything had occurred on her part to effect this change. He told wit ness, there had not ; on w hi c h witness expressed his surprise at such con d uc t, an d told him that his sister had kept h erse lf res p ec t a bl e a nd disengaged, relying on his former promises, and was willing and ready to marry him, and a s ked his reasons for now ref using to fulfil his promises. He said, there nd we b r e e s h o a m d e fti l l t ix tle m m ad a e p tte u rs about which they disagreed, a his mind not to marry her. He knew the defendant's handwriting perfectly well. The letters put in were in defendant's handwriting. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILKINs —He car ried on business at 2, Mulberry-court, Vincent street, Finsbury. His: sister was in court, in the gallery, in a blue shawl. He had made boots for the defendant. There was no one with him but his sister when the con versation about the name of his sister took place. They were on board a steamer going to Greenwich. He knew nothing about the art of distilling, and never proposed to supply defendant's employers with spirits of wine. His sister, after leaving Mrs. Waugh, went to live with a friend of his at Islington, then to Kilburn, then to Kensal green, to his aunt's, and resided amongst different friends until she took a situation, in which she stayed a few months. Then she went to her father's unwell with a bad leg, and then went to live with a lady named Mash, in Wales, and went with her to Paris, and then came to London. She then went to live with Mr. Birch, in Vera street, Oxford-street, an Irish linen repository, as shop woman, where she now was. Did not tell defendant that he would publish his conduct throughout Brighton when he saw him. Never told defendant "he had better pay him 1001." he denied that altogether. His sister had been " two years, come July," in Yere-street. First heard defendant refused to marry his sister in Novem ber, 1845. He had other sisters, some of whom were in service, and others, young ones, living at home with his father. His sister was educated at Messing. His sister, the plaintiff, was about 17 years of age when she went to service. Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES—His father had nine children, and did not send them all to boarding schools; but his sister was competently educated. Wit ness had been ten years in business as a bootmaker in London. His sisters went out to service when they were competent for it. Mrs. Bars, aunt to the plaintiff, examined by Mr. Sergeant BYLES—In 1843 the plaintiff was visiting witness, and subsequently; and on those occasions the defendant, Mr. Steele, bad visited the plaintiff at wit ness's house. She objected to his attentions, thinking they might not be honourably meant, but the defendant said his intentions were honourable, and he meant to marry her. _ _ _ The correspondence opened by Mr. Sergeant Byles was then put in and read, together with the following let ters, after the conclusion of the defendant's correspond ence, demanding the fulfilment of his promise, " 26, Carey-street, London. " Sir,--Miss Richardson has consulted me relative to your conduct towards her, in desiring that no further correspond ence be had between her and yourself. She is totally at a loss to account for so sudden a determination on your part, after so long an intimacy and your promises made to marry her, and am to request the favour of your informing me if it be your determination not to marry her, and if so on what grounds you refuse to do so. " I am, Sir, yours very obediently, " THOS. BISGOOD. " Mr. Stephen Steele, chemist and druggist, " St. James's -street, Brighton." There was no reply to this letter, and ultimately, to a subsequent letter, demanding a reply, a reference was given by the defendant to his solicitor. Mr. John Cook (tailed and examined by Mr. Ser geant BYLES) lives in. Crawley-street, Oakley-square. Knows St. James's-street, Brighton, and had seen the de fendant's shop there. It is one of the principal thorough fares in Brighton. Had been at defendant's shop two or three times. It was a good-sized and a very respectable shop. The defendant was in a very excellent way of business, from what he had seen. He had heard de fendant's father had retired from business. Did not know it. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wu.x.ms—What are you ?—A gentleman. Were you ever in business ?—Yes. What business ?—No answer. Were you a draper's assistant ?—No answer. Were you one of those gentlemen who stand behind a counter in a draper's shop, rub their hands, and ask " If they can show the ladies and gentlemen anything else ?" —(Laughter).—Was in the employment of his brother, who was a draper. Had been in bu.iness since on his own account, but it did not answer. What took you to Brighton ?—Went there when he was married. Oh, married ! What ! had you to go to the drug gist's shop after you were married ?—(Laughter). What did you want ?—A few little things. He knew nothing else about the defendant or his shop. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then addressed the jury for the defendant. He said, his Learned Brother had stated that the plaintiff's friends were determined to bring her case before a jury, to see if they eould obtain justice in a court of law. Had he been sincere in that desire he would have refrained from many topics he had intro duced, and from many manoeuvrings he had resorted to. An inquiry of this kind was calculated to set the feelings of the jury at war with their judgments. It was one of those cases which engaged the best feelings of our hu• manity, and which required the strongest exercise of the mind and judgment to keep those feelings in control. They had had a strange mélange read, to them for the last half hour, composed of love, murder, physic, "Hum phrey's Clock," and last not least, about " the man with the white hat of asinine qualities." Never before that day, though having some experience in love corre spondence, had he heard read such a correspondence as this. His Learned Brother had talked of the plaintiff being broken-hearted—it was a phrase which often meant nothing—and when he heard it said of the buxom young woman in the gallery, he could not help thinking of the Irishman who went blubbering out of court after hearing his counsel's statement of the injuries done him, crying out, "By the mother of Muses, I did not think I was half so badly threated as I am." Laying aside his Learned Brother's poetic effusions, let them turn their attention to the plaintiff and the defendant in 1843, when the attachment spoken of began. His Learned Friend had spoken of the plaintiff's humble circum stances. The plaintiff and the defendant were living in the same house, and the defendant then wrote to her a kind of Valentine:— • " If you loves I As I loves you, No knife shall cut Our loves in two."—(Laughter.) What sort of love that was every boy knew. The plain tiff and defendant were in the same house together. The defendant sees Betsey in the same house together. The defendant sees Betsey in the morning sweeping the stairs; he sees her in the daytime waiting at table, and he sees her at night carrying a light to the bedrooms, and has a sly n hiiper to her. But time had begun to have upon him its proper effect. Some of the jury might have sons. What would they think of an at tachment between one of their sons and the housemaid of the people with whom he was placed? No doubt when the defendant was a boy he had written those passionate epistles, but the later letters were very dif ferent. When the plaintiff returned from France, the defendant discovered that his boyish impressions were very different from what a great many silly people mis took for affection and:love, though widely different things The defendant had attempted no disparagement of the plaintiff's character. His affections were not under his control, and intercourse with life had so changed his views that the daydream of his youth had vanished before a sounder discretion. His Learned Brother had spoken of the defendant's " wasting the bloom of the plaintiff's life." He might, indeed, have wasted the bloom of her life, for it appeared that she had been completely under his control; but he had never in the slightest degree transgressed the rules of propriety. The defendant at length d is covered, what he did no choose to explain to the brother, that there were many little points in which they differed ; but it was those little points, however impalpable, which constituted the happiness of it human life ; and under those circum stances, was not more just, nay, more religious (if he might use the phrase), to break off rather than complete such a contract, which would not only take away the bloom, but the fruition of life itself ? They had heard a great deal about the defendant's property, but they had not proved that he was worth I s . I t was qu i te compa tible, and in accordance with th e statements made, that his friends had set him up i n b us i ness ; and as to his fine shop, there were a great many shopkeepers in Regent -street who would be but too glad to get out of them, as well off as when they got into them, and they all knew that a few gilded bottles and mahogany drawers made a great display at little cost in druggists' shops. As to the young woman being broken-hearted, true sorrow never paraded itself, and never called to its assistance the meretricious aids of rhetoric. The beggar in the streets who stood shivering in our view was not the man that demanded pity, but the quiet man who sought to hide his misery in retirement. True grief never paraded itself ; and the very circumstance of any woman parading a transaction of this kind before a jury was always a very strong proof to his mind that there was a far greater desire to get money than to get public sympathy. His Loapstar, in summing up, said, it was not dit-- puted that the plaintiff had successfully proved the de fendant's promise to marry her. The defendant had most deliberately formed the engagement , and the plaintiff was entitled to a fair compensation. Their disparity in life was no answer, as the defendant was aware of it at the time. The: jury, after a . short consultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2501. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH. Mr. Alfred Marshall, the young man charged with firing a pistol at Miss Louisa Rote, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm, was again placed at the bar. Mr. Binns attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Games for the defence. Mr. William Smith, the first witness called, deposed that he lodged in Swan-street, Kent-road, at the house of Mr. Bailey, who was stepfather to Miss Rofe, and knew tho prisoner Marshall very well. Had heard Marshall abuse Mr. Bailey and his Wife, and say, he should wait for the former some time or other. He had .also heard him say, he had advised Miss Role to leave her home, and told her that her stepfather was no father to her; and at that time lie indulged in strong terms of abuse of Mr. Bailey. Mrs. Mary Ann Buller, who resides in Swan-street, opposite to the house of Mr. Bailey, said, that about three weeks ago she heard the prisoner say, he should not mind being hung for shooting Mr. Bailey. On the night of Sunday week witness was in her sitting and heard a stone thrown at the door of room, o This was about nine o'clock, an d she went out i ,. and ßai s i a . the prisoner a short distance from Mr. Bailey's house. In her cross - examinttion by Mr. Games, the witness said, she had not seen either a pistol or a gun in the pos session of the prisoner at the time she spoke of. A lady named Hobbs was called, but her evidence was not of the slightest importance as affecting th e p r i soner . The next witn ess ca ll ed was Miss Rofe, and, after her former evidence had been read over to her, she swore to its perfect truth, and to having seen ,hearing the report the prisoner s w to it l h on a pistol in his hand , anti his discharging it at the house. She was no party to the publication of the banns for marriage with the pri soner; but understood that the prisoner had got the m put up and published. Mr. Binns said that this was his cose ; and after call ing his Worship's atteution to the facts of the threats made use of by the prisoner, about shooting Mr. Bailey, and his not caring being hung for shooting him; and further, the fact of both Mr. Bailey and Miss Rofe see ing the prisoner not only with a pistol in his hands, but also their hearing the report of a pistol shot, he should leave the case in his Worship's hands to d eal with as he might think proper. Mr. Games replied that he should not trouble the Court with any remarks, but would proceed to cell witnesses, whose testimony he had no doubt would negative the more serious part of the charge against o hnce i' client, mei induce his Worship, after hearing it, at to discharge him out of custody. stated Richard Davis, 55 P, was then sworn , and that on the night of Sunday week Mr. Bailey came to the station-house in Lock's-fields, and complamed of e shot being fired at his house by Alfr ed Marshelly which broke his window. Witness in consequence ac companied him back to his house, and, on examining the window that he represented to have been broken slo 11, the discharge from the pistol, he found t hat a w' piece of one of the squares was broken ; b ut upon 1' ex.: amining it more clearly he felt qu it e convinced t hat had been broken from the inside, and in this belief be was confirmed by the fact that the g l ass was foun d on the outside. lie did not perceive the slightest War ear: ante of shot or a ball, though Mr. Bailey h a d decle!! he heard the shot, after the pistol had been fired, rat tle against th window. tbet Two co e nstables were next called, who de p osed the marks in the brickwork in front of Mr. Bailey 1 house, and which were alleged to have been occessi°l l .% by the shot discharged from the pistol, been caused by knocking at an early hour in the mornw' ing with their truncheons to awake a young ma n lodged there. s hot, Inspector Valentine produced three grains of mr which he said he had found close to the Well bo i Bailey's house on the morning of Monday week. lied in resen.s. could not say whether they had been discharged from gun or pistol. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked, that had the evidence gone: far enough to show that the prisoner had, an n he n la against him, discharged a pistol at the young woman with the intention of doing her some serious ie/.. harm, he should have felt i t to be his duty t o c° 111 1 .• him for trial. The evidence, however, fell short iat the blishing the charge of shooting with intent, 1211t ,;(Mr. same time there was sufficient shown to justiftn:T it hail Elliott) in calling on the prisoner to find euln e ` — ads to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour toYi m a jestY Mr. Bailey, his family, and all others of her subjects, for six months. the The required bail was put in and accepted. 50d prisoner discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. cha rged A well-dressed man, named Alfred Evans, Was r el with having feloniously obtained and disposed of seYe tto chests of tea and other grocery goods, of the Y e of 751. the his Taylor, the prosecutor, stated the prisoner Tn the his service as shopman, and left in August las t ' : a lien, following March he was in expectation of an lase he and went to consult the prisoner as to what cou'i t i o a should pursue. He told him to come to a cOnWn e ,; oo with his creditors, but to remove a considerable P° l is of his stock, and he would bring a cart and e 1 1 .% he away himself to the house of his mother, and P°s l3 - est' could dispose of it at an advantageous price to it and relative of his; assent was given to this proposit ion ' i s ee a few mornings after he came to Mr. Taylor's P re , .A ir with a horse and cart, accompanied by his brotu e i s , o f law, a man named Price, and removed a large clutL i eti tint goods. The conditions upon which he entraste",ito with the goods were expressly that he was to turn to into a fair money value if he could do so, and if not to return them. A rough agreement was drawn up' 0 0. signed by Mr. Taylor's creditors, by seated to receive ss. in the pound, and as the pai lli re .. of the first instalment of 2s. 6d. entirely depended the ceiving the goods, or the produce of the goods in the prig soner's possession, he applied to him repeatedly for which they w e nt restoration of them or their value, but could never ceed in obtaining them, or the slightest infortnettur!, further than that they were in the possess i on of P e e so , son named Ratcliffe, in Granby-street, Betbnel4loo. In consequence of this conduct he (Mr. Taylor) n'a e , able to meet the approaching dividend, and, thereleso„ he called his creditors together, an d made th ens v ed quainted with the way in which the prisoner ha d screed him and having by their kindness and liberaliti_'-to trieved his embarrassment, and finding it useler to treat any further with the prisoner, he gave On 10 custody. John Purday, the alleged purchaser of the prosenlvo tor's goods, said, about five weeks ago, the prisoner,rs, was an entire stranger to him, and his brother -in loj Price, with whom he was slightly acquainted, ee'bis upon him. Price said he would put a sovereign b an g. pocket. He said a tradesman he knew was going off rupt, that he and the prisoner had got some goo n b e y his premises away from the creditors, and that es ken, could not find the person to whom they we re liod they wanted him to say that he was the party wh o 0 0 had them and sold them. They said there a' n ex t danger . at all. He agreed to meet them at ten 11 '„, morning at the Grapes, in Old-street-road, where be 7 1 - 0 , cordingly went with a man named Duke, and wet the prisoner and Price, the prosecutor (Taylor) being,eeti in the parlour. hen he (Purday) went in the r a t soner addressed him as " Mr. Ratcliffe." He had bad told him he was to go by that name, and said th e e y be come about " those goods." Purday said, " We," „ i " brought them to his place, and told him to get tu e— „ ci ad as fast as he could." Taylor instantly started uP at exclaimed, " Why, he must have goods of mine to value of 751.; surely lie don't mean to say tbat bas made away with all those?" Taylor further sa id be °sod a great rascal for selling his goods in that triaoner,_ turned away in a rage. On Taylor, in four or five rs ., afterwards, calling upon him and asking wher e th perry was, he told him that he did not know lea upo n _„ ss about it. The prisoner shortly afterwards c alled him, and asked, if he knew sand P house, to ri! 1 _ 1 1 - 1 li he could bring Mr. Taylor and say that he bad 11 4 1 .; there and run away. When he found that it sum° to 751., he got frightened. Mr. Pelham shortly contended that although there might hare been o dius er ee between the prosecutor and prisoner for a not vel ove d addressed the Magistrate sad ditable purpose, nothing more than that bad !leen pro • against his client, and it was really scantle - l or ge se man should be placed at the bar on so serious 6 o nce! such that of felony, under as had been disclosed. extraordinary Circe/31j anew to ate case Mr. BROUGHTON said, the only en— e n r authorised would be that the prisoner was a pa rtner , that .,- -! was not to dispose of the goods in this manner , snu e; h might established. It was a monstrous fraud, wu'e d the have been the ruin of Taylor. Ile itt depositions of the witnesses to be taken for trial s , be fur s should or but the mean time would accept the same bail a Ol, offered—the prisoner in SOL, and two sureties i n each, and the officer must inquire into their i solve s uer The bail was immediately found, and the Psa thereupon liberated. The Sardinian Government have just conlPle ted or their contract for iron rails for the great Turin Railway' which they had requested tenders. - [ADVERTISEMENT.]—SENT INTO THE COUNTRY FBI UPON APPROBATION.—No. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadill •W; ekadg d e e Gbt a ,y : F e sf s iaii s er . li — do wE o m,v p a e arsc r n a lhaayLu ns a tio n o t nr d y..: :: ::.l i vented Spectacles, Invisible and all kinds of Acoustic Glasses for relief mdn o of Generals Telescopes. — Patronized s z m p o e s s t . p e wF x ara t ter r rdd e oe m nrii e lizc John ven Keatings, mais r ton E , rison, Dyot Robertson, Mackenzie, Galway Biggs, Sheodde , , S r i h r a P ekr . 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