The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

• ettrtf *Lc!, 2,0.0 ,SUN OFFICE, Seven f; Clock EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COM PANY.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the shareholders of this company was held to-day at the London Tavern, to receive the report of the.directora and to transact other business. Present, Sir G. Larpent, Chairman ; J. Baxendale, Esq. (for merly Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Com pany) ; Sir J. Campbell, K.C.H. (Deputy Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany) ; C. D. Bruce, Esq.; J. Catley, Esq. ; Major- Ge neral Caulfield, C. 8.; J. D. De Vitre, Esq. ; J. Pascal Larkins, Esq. ,• Captain Alexander Nairne, E. II- Pal mer, Esq., and J. Stewart, Esq. The CHAIRMAN, after the notice convening the meet ing bad been read, said that was the first meeting of the shareholders that had been held since their company was formed, therefore be had to read to them the ra port of the directors, which he would now proceed to do. The CHAIRMAN then read the report, from which it appeared that the affairs of the company were proceeding very favourably; that ve East India r eryadvantageous terms had been entered into with th Com pany, and con c l u ded by a strong r e commendation of the line to the support of the shareholders. The Chairman then read a statement of the traffic estima tes, from which it appeared that the total of g oods carried on the Gan ges in 1844-5, was 2,115,885 tons, and along Mirzapore railroad and Damooda river, during the same period, was 110.474 tons. Tke passenger traffic betweeu Cal cutta and Mirzapore was 570,000 tons per annum. The goods traffic between Mirzapore and Delhi was 446,851 tons. Th e CuantalAN then said, such was the report which the directors had to lay . beforeth . ! shareholders, which gave not on ly a narrative of thproceedings, but ad nsed the company to adopt a certain course, and he thought they ought to take that advice, when they looked at the gentlemen who composed the body of directors, and who were joined with them in their undertaking, consisting of officers in the civil and mili tary service of India, as well as the merchants in this country, whose experience would so materially contri bute to the success of their undertaking. 'the firEt object with which they were entrusted was to obtain ss. per share, and that experiment had realised 22,0001. This comprised all the expense that they had contem plated. Not less than nine hundred miles of railway had been surveyed by engineers, sent out from England at a great expense, in ten months, which showed not only the economy of the management, but also their vigilance. (The Chairman here read a correspondence that had taken place on the subject of railways in India, which set forth their prac ticability, and spoke most favourably of the line of the company.) He thought he had now established two great points, namely, the practicability of railways in India, and that the company's line was the best. He would now advert to the terms proposed by the East India Company. He had always thought that railways in India should, if not actually under the control of the Government there, should at least be identified with it. He must say that, in his negotiation with this body (the East India Company), he had found every disposition to meet the views of the company. He was unwilling to enter into any discussion upon this part of their affairs ; but he must say that the inconvenience that had taken place in the ultimate settlement of the affairs of the company was in no way attributable to the East India Company. He would now call the attention of the company to the cost of the line, which, as la commercial specula ion, must occupy a very important place. 17,000 L per mile was the cost that they had assumed, and when they looked at the cost of the railways in this country and in France, he thought they should not be considered as having been extrava gant. They had taken 10 per cent. for certain pecu liarities of the country. Eight per cent. was the amount taken by the Oriental Steam Nasigation Company. (The Chairman having read a correspondence to show that the want of railway accommodation was felt in the East Indies, continued)—He thought he was therefore justified in stating that the accommodation at present aff,rded to - Ind:a in the way of transit was somewhat like what it was in this country some years ago—that of a pack-horse. He was satisfied that, whether or not this undertaking was carried out, railway travelling must be 3 shortly adopted in India. Great stress had been laid in the report upon the advantages which this line would confer upon the Government of India in a political point of view. There could be no doubt .that it would effect a great deal in this point of view, for in the case of any disturbance arising there was a quick mode of trasesit for European troops by the establishment of the pre sent line. Besides, the great mortality that prevailed among the soldiers, and which was in a great degree owing to the want of speedy transit, would be prevented. He would now refer to the terms which the East India Company had offered. Four per cent. was what they had offered, but though that was more liberal than what other Governments had- offered in railway speculations, he hoped they would be able to make better terms. After some further observations, the Chairman concluded by proposing that the report should be received, adopted, printed, and co.culated among the shareholders, which was unanimously carried. Thanks were voted to the chairman and other direc tors, ter the zeal and ability they had di.played in the discharge of their duties, and a r e so! u tio n con fidi ng t h e rui.ure matiageteees cm mu UM WES or roe company to their hands, was agreed to unanimously. The meeting then separated. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four r , 'elock. EAST SOMERSETSHIRE RAILWAY. Mr. BANNERMAN presented several petitions against this raiN ay. WILTS AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. Lord DUNCAN presented petitions against this rail way. BELFAST IMPROVEMENT BILL. This Bill was read a second time. WINDSOR, &e., RAILWAY STATIONS. Mr. WYSE presented several petitions against the Windsor and Staines Railway Stations. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY. Mr. SEYMER presented several petitions against this railway. GREAT WESTERN PROJECTS. Mr. H. BARKLY presented several petitions against these projects. NORTH-WESTERN PROJECTS. Sir A. H. INGLIS presented several petitions against the projects for these railways. SCOTCH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. BANNERMAN presented a petition against this Bill. GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL. Mr. DUNCOMBE' presented a petition against tl.is Bill. RAILWAYS REGULATION BILL. Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from 1,400 of the principal merchants and traders of the city of Glasgow, in favour of the Railways Regulation Bill. NEiv Lord CHARLES RUSSELL took the oaths and his seat for the county of Bedford. SCOTCH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. LOCKHART presented several petitions from Scotland against this Bill. GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION. Mr. TB,LLA WNY presented several petitions against this Bill. NATIONAL DISPUTES. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in favour of arbitration in national disputes, instead of an appeal to arms. The Hun. Member also presented three petitions from Dissenting teachers in Bolton against the Government education plan. GREAT WESTERN PROJECTS. Mr. SPOONER presented upwards of a hundred peti tions against the several projects of the Great Western Railway Company. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the provost and corporation of Addington praying for the repeal of the inventory stamp tax. EXAMINERS OF PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. 1111 ME gave notice that to-morrow he would move for leave to bring in a Bill authorising the SpeakQr to appoint examiners of tha proceedings of all private Bills nefore the House. REGISTRATION BILL (SCOTLAND). Lord G. BENTINCK prt aimed several petitions from Ayr and othwr places in Scotland, against the Registra tion Bal. (scotland). rrVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. the 4oIcIveAraTIIESON presented four petitions against Education Scheme from Dissenting Con e gre w, i g ne Abbott.t at Ashburton Buckfastleigh, and ANATOMY ACT. Mr. F. FRENCII presented a petition praying for inquiry into the operatton and workin g of the Anatomy Act.WASTE LANDS IIIi)ROVENIENT BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE postponed the Waite Lands Improvement Bill until to-mo.rrow (Tuesday) week. EDUCATION. Mr. WILLIAMS presentnd u petition from a place near Coventry against the Govo:nment scheme of edu eatio n. MEDICAL OFFICERS IN TIIE ARMY, On the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply being read, Sir H. DOUGLAS begged to call attention to the arses of medical officers, surgeons, and pay. masters of regiments, who have not been included in the warrant issuer in July, 1846, consequent upou the motion - made in April, 1815, for an improved retirement to a limited number of medical cfrieers, and all officers of regimental staff, to extend to them in limited numbers, the bene fits conferred by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers •of officers of ail other briine'nes and arms of the ser vice ; which motion appeared to receive the unanimous ,approbation and support of the Committee, and was only withdrawn on an express assurance that the pro p osition, for an improv, d retirement to all officers of ig i me ntal staff, would be taken into favourable con. 4,.dera tion. lie was deeply impressed with the mat:amity which had befallen the sister country, -and he would feel a great difficulty in recommending , t oy measure which would embarrass the Government at I ,he present moment, but the act of justice which he re the Cha ncel lo r of c omreended would not be of such . a description ; and he I was sure that if his Thighs Hon., Friend would be very muc h t be Exchequer were present he I surprised at the smallness of the amount of money requisite to perform this act of 1 rthat justice. He would tell the Right Hon. Secretary at War this demand on the public purse would not,atth I the utmost, exceed 1,3001. per annum. He would state briefly to the House the caseof th a os w e a w rr h a o n se t i w nt a e a re i s a t a s u h ed e advocated. In the year 1842 officers a ng o fa the el infantrypa yreti r em and e n o t a t v o a l e r y I . i m T i t h e d e r n e u w mb er e e r ; o f lieu tenan t-c olorneevlest niajor , 20 majors, This an b d 115 captains, w a ext extended e o d f w h o m were brevet soon after to the ca valr y , the en g ineers, and th e mssrines. To the officers of the latter corps was granted permission to go on in the service, which, however, w as not permitted to the cavalry and infantry. He thought that such a difference ought not to have been made. The boon cost little or nothing, and he said that it should in his opinion be extended likewise to the ' officers of the cavalry and infantry. It was, however, extended to them at length, but the officers of the regi mental staff, the surgeons, the quartermasters, the pay masters, and the veterinary surgeons, were still ex cluded from its benefits. In 184.5 he had given his opinion upon this exception, and the Hon. Secretary at War who was then in office promised that some alteration should be made. In 1846 a warrant was issued, granting an increased retiring allowance to the quartermasters and veterinary sur geons, to the exclusion of the paymasters and surgeons. The maximum pay of a surgeon on full pay after thirty years' service was 11. 25., while the retiring pay allowed them when they left the service was 15s. a day. Now, what he wanted was to make the retiring pay of the surgeons and paymasters in the army 18s., instead of 155., as at present. This was a very small increase, indeed. This arrangement would, to a certain extent, be self-sustaining. At present, when one of these officers retired he was allowed 15s. a day, while the party who succeeded him got but 12s. for the first five years at least. There was, therefore, an actual saving in this arrangement. But, he would ask the House, under such a plan who would consent to retire and take 15s. for 11. 25., and give up in addition the barrack allowance, servants, attendance, coal, candle, &c.? This in addition was equal to 10s., so that the actual pay was about IL 12s. a day. The consequence of this system was that the surgeons, rather than retire, cling longer to their appointments than was consistent with good service. The Hon. Baronet then read certain letters from offi cers in some of the regiments of the line in support of his position. Having granted a boon to the quartermaster, the House ought to extend the same jusiice to the paymaster, but with regard to the surgeons and medical officers of the army, in their case the claim was stronger. An army surgeon had arduous and difficult duties to perform; distressing scenes were continually passing b, f ,re his eyes, and 13 years was generally the extent of his servitude. It would appear, from the returns, that that service of the surgeons had been altogether overlooked. He might teke all the returns which had been made to the Government, and of these he might cite the ser vices of Mr. Lewis, of the First Dragoon Guards, who had served for thirty-nine years. He might also cite those of Mr. Stevenson, of .the Third Dragoon Guards, who had given forty-one years' service as well as of several other gentlemen who had been injured by the present rules of the service. He ought also to say, that they had to complain of the posi tion given by the present regulations of the service. Ac cording to these regulations the surgeon was to receive three shillings a day, whereas the pay of a regi mental lieutenant colonel was eighteen shillings a day. Then as to medical rank, it was always made subservient to regimental service, and not only were the men de prived of their advantages as regards rank, but as affected pension also. The Hon. Baronet then went into the several gradations of rank, but showed that while the pensions for a regimental officer for a forty years' service were 60/., those for a medical officer were only 601. Tae Gallant Member then proceeded to read a letter which he had received from the widow of a medical officer who had served in the Peninsula and in the West Indies, stating that she had lost her husband in the dis charge of his professional duties, but that the pension which ought to have been given to her by virtue of the relative position which her husband held in the service, had not been paid to her, and that in consequence she, with her three orphan chil dren, had been reduced to the most distressing situation. He would now conclude, and he sincerely hoped that in bringing this question before the House he had not spoken in vain. Mr. F. MA ULE had only a few observations to make on the subject. His Hon. Friend complained that the warrant issued in 1846 had not included certain cases of medical officers, surgeons, and paymasters. He (Ur. F. Maule) did not think that the arrangement so lately made should be disturbed. With reference to the case of paymasters, his Honourable Friend said then that he had no fault to find with the arrange ment as far as the paymasters were concerned. There was no question that the paymasters had con siderable duties to perform which required serious at tention, but at the same time it was scarcely fair in arranging retiring pensions to place them on a footing with those who risked life and limb in the service, and who at all times were required to perform arduous duties. He found in looking to the provision made for them pre vious to last year, that their half-pay was only 12s. 6d., and by the warrant of last year it was raised to 155., so they had received a certain benefit. He did not mean by anything which he at present said, to preclude himself at a future time from considering their case further. With reference to the surgeons, their case was more worthy of consideration, and he did not mean Ito use the word in an invidious sense; they rt ct-c vv.vi,ki auvat, aluvua ace (Hear, hear)—and he was, therefore, inclined to look with a more favourable eye upon their claims. There was a general system of promotion among the medical officers of the army already existing, and in his opinion the subject brought forward by the Hon. and Gallant Member was one which ought not to be viewed apart from public considerations and the finance of the country. During the course of the present year her Majesty's Government had made a sacrifice for the benefit of the army of the sum of 50,0001., by the abolition of the poundage of the pensions of the soldiers. Other great ;alterations were made, or proposed to be made, calculated to improve the condition of the soldier, and he could assure the Hon. and Gallant Member that the Government would give its fullest consideration to the subject, and any alterations which could be beneficially introduced would be brought forward upon the earliest occasion, with, however, a due regard to the public ex penditure of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME thought that in regard to the pensioners, the Government had acted wisely, but he was not dis posed to agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. F. Maule) respecting the brevet. He considered that that was money thrown away, without producing any benefit whatever. They had so many demands at present on the public purse, that they should ' be cau tious what they did. Still, if it could be shown that any one had been unfairly treated, he thought he should be redressed, so as to deal equal justice to all. He considered the warrants should be produced, and then it would be seen what were grounds on which the distinction was made. Colonel LINDSAY quite agreed with the latter part of the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman as to the conduct of the late and the present Governments in attending to the c: mforts of the solCier3. Still be thought the lion, and Gallant Member ter Liverpool had made out a strong case for placing the surgeons on the same footing as the other officers in the service. Sir DE LACY EVANS regretted that this was the course of the English law, for if it had been otherwise there would have been some reason fur allowing the claim which now had been made. With respect to the plea that was made for medical officers, he must allow that it;was subject that was fairly cognizant for military purposes. His Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose was mistaken when he supposed that the British army was much more ex pensive than the French. The fact was, that the maintenance of the French army cost considerably more than that of England, while the service performed by the British army was more severe than that of the French. There was another point to which he would allude. Those gentlemen who had been so mueh concerned in the repeal of the Corn-laws last year dwell on the fact of the statement that the armed professions were unproductive classaes. The great master in political economy, Mr. M'Culloch, had given an opinion directly the reverse. He maintained that the soldier and sailor, were magistrates by protecting the rights of the com munity, and were experimentally useful. The motion was negatived without a division. (LEFT SITTING.) TATTERSALUS-THISMVENING. 6IX O'CLOCK. SOMERSETSIIIRE STAKES, 5 to 4 on Clermont 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES. 4 to 1 agst The Liberator (taken) 7 to 2 agst Conyngbam (taken) CHESTER CCP. 15 to 1 agst Mendicant 16 to 1 agat Dulcet 16 to 1 agst The Lamb :5 to 1 agat Newcourt 40 to 1 agst Plaudit 40 to 1 agst Emerald Isle 40 to 1 agst Inheritress METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Clermont 10 to 1 agst Jenny Wren 10 to 1 agst Wolf-dog 12 to 1 agst Rufus 10 to 1 agst Emerald Isle (taken) 15 to 1 agst Gannet DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Planet 15 to 2 agst Van Tromp 15 to 1 agst Glentilt : 16 00 t t to o ol l 15 agstags g t a C War t A on ii y e E n r t g aog h n ani .. _3 0 5 to 1 agst Mr. Martin MELA.Ncn t r y morning, c0t. ..............—___......-......... AciDENT•_011 saturd the 25th ult., a l t r of the parish of Iliratttlejulin you ng roan, p , , ter a ifew minutes past six o clock, as a on the Inches, , 24 }ears of age, a native ~,,a i ' n , theerPloyed in one of the saw-mills saw at which he wrough, l ir e t ' of itr,,,eautiously took hold of stopping the circular the shaft, and part of his el, bweeotniawghicth it was wife and two children. entangled, dragged his head down on the eB s almost cut in two. Ile has left a a ' by —Elgin Courant. LEICESTER TRADE.----Me have again a dull w ee to report, although the receipt of some Continental or‘d'eeerk is one gratifying feature, as is sh ows t h at the demand s from that quarter has commenced. The home demand is still very slack. The American orders are now gene rally expected in the course of the next month ; and it is hoped that they will bear some proportion to the increased amount of business has been daing with the States lately in bread stuffs. Wools and yarns remain very steady, notwithstanding the slackness of trade.—Leicestershire Mercury. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 10. CIVIL SlDE.—(Beforo _ Mr. Justice MAULE and Special Juries.) CHRISTY AND OTHERS V. POWELL, PIDGEON, AND OTHERS. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Gray were Counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Whateley and Mr. Selfe for the de fendant Pidgeon. The plaintiffs, as trustees of the London Joint-stock Bank, recovered judgment for the sum of 2,0031. 2s. Bd., damages and costs, on the 25th of August, 1843, against Walter Scott, the public officer of the Newcastle-upon- Tyne Joint-stock Banking Company. In January, 1846, that company suspended payment, and the present suit was a proceeding by scare facias upon the judgment against the defendants as shareholders in it. The test of the writ of scare facias was the 6th November. Powell allowed judgment to go by default. Pidgeon, who alone appeared now by counsel to defend the action, pleaded " that he was not, nor is he now, a member of the company, in the manner and form IS in the declaration alleged." The plea of the other defendants was to the same effect. The main question in the cause was whether Pidgeon was a shareholder. On behalf of the plaintiffs, a transfer of 250 shares in the Newcastle Bank, in the month of September, 1843, to Pidgeon, by one Thomas Richardson, an original shareholder, and which transfer was signed and sealed by him (Pidgeon), was given in evidence. Upon this trans fer the name of Pidgeon was entered and registered in the books of the bank as shareholder ; and it was proved that three dividends were actually paid on his written authority. His name appeared in the register of share holders lodged at Somerset-house, under the 7 George IV., cap. 46, and it still appeared on the books of the batik as that of a shareholder. The deed constituting the company was put in, and it contained the following clause:—" That every person to whom shares shall be transferred, and who shall not then be a member of the company in respect of any other shares, shall, as to all duties, obligations, claims, and demands upon or against him in respect of such shares, be considered a member of the company from the time of the same shares being so transferred or so becoming vested in him ; but as to all profits and rights, privileges and benefits to arise from the same shares, such persons shall not be consi dered as a member until he shall have executed the deed of settlement, or some other deed of accession thereto." It appeared that Pidgeon had not executed the deed of settlement, or any deed of settlement thereto. On the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. WHATELEY submitted that as the defendant (Pid ge •n) had not executed the deed of settlement, and that deed:deprived all mere transferees who bad not executed it of all right to the profits of the company, and various cases had decided that a community of profit was essen tial to constitute a partner, Pidgeon was not one, and consequently the issue, member or not member, should be found for bim. Mr. Justice MAULE said that this company was not a corporation, or constituted under any Act of Parliament, but in effect an ordinary partnership, and although con stituted by deed, there was nothing to prevent the com pany from coming to any new agreement they pleased, by parole, to vary the terms of the partnership; and that although the deed might hare had the effect of prevent ing Mr. Pidgeon from having si,y claim to receive a share of the profits of the company as between the members themselves, yet when the company dispersed in practice with the effect of the deed, and allowed him to receive his share of the profits, and to be registered both in their own books, and in the public register at Somerset house, as a shareholder, it did not lie in the mouth of Mr. Pidgeon, or of the company, as against the public, or those persons who might give credit to the company, to set up the terms of the deed, or to say that he was not a shareholder. He felt not the smallest doubt upon the subject, and he should direct the jury accordingly. His LORDSHIP then told the jury that the question for them was whether, upon the evidence before them, they were of opion that the defendants, or any of them, were members of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint .stock Bank ing Company. Mr. WHATELEY raid he should except to this ruling, on the ground that his Lordship should have told the jury that, upon the evidence before them, they could not find a verdict against Mr. Pidgeon. The question was one of the greatest possible importance, and in reality involved surx of upwards of 200,0001., and would be, if neces sary, brought before the highest court in the realm . The jury then found for the plaintiffs against all the defendants. The bill of exceptions is to be drawn up her eater. THE STJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1847. PARRATT V. LAMBERT. This was an action by a London advertising agent against the defendant as provisional committeeman of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern Railway Company, to recover the sum of 640/. for advertising the prospectus of that company in divers newspapers. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Phipson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Godson and Mr. Pigot for the de:endant. The evidence of the defendant's liability was, that he was a member of the provisional committee up to the 16th of September, 1845, when they appointed a manag ing committee. The defendant bstns displeased at not being placed on the managing committee, stated then, to one of the directors, that he would not attend again, and did not attend again at any meeting, though he occasionally called to hear how matters were going on. Some orders, to the extent of 148 L, had been given for advertisements up to the 16th of September, by the Secretary of the company, in pursuance of directions given at preliminary meetings, at which the defendant was present. Those for the residue were given after that oily. Tne aetenOant hact not sent In a formal resignation. Air. GODSON having addressed the jury for the de fendant, and His toapsinp having summed up, The jury retired for about ten minutes, and then re turned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1481 This was the last of the special jury cases. The following case was tried before a common jury:— FERREBEE V. PORTING, Mr. Godson and Mr. Greaves were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Gray for the de fendant. The action was for an assault. The defendant pleaded only that he committed the assault in his own defence. The plaintiff is an ironmonger at Stroud, in this county, and the defendant a butcher. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELEN Josiah Gregory and Edward Bynes were put to the bar to answer to an indictment, which charged that a cortain die with the impression of a lion passant being used by the Company of Goldsmiths of the city of Exeter, for the purpose of stamping and marking silver wares, they had, at the parish of St. Andrew, in the city of Bristol, feloniously counterfeited the said die, and had in their possession divers silver spoons stamped with such counterfeit die. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Whateley, and Mr. Gor don, appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Greaves and Mr. Ings for Gregory, Bynes being and 'fended. It appeared that the prisoner Gregory, who was about fifty years of age, had carried on business for nearly fifteen years h i Bristol as a respectable silver smith, and that Bynes, who was an old man about seventy, had been his foreman and ahopman. The motive imputed to them for the forgery in question was, a wish to avoid the payment of the small duty payable on having their silver wares properly marked with the die of the Goldsmiths' Company, within whose jurisdiction they were. A policeman, who went to arrest the prisoners, found in Gregory's house a box containing a punch, a piece of brass, and various other implements of forgery, and some silver spoons. Some of the spoons were marked with the counterfeit die, and the mark on those which had the genuine stamp was slightly defaced, or, as it was called, guttered. A young man, who had been formerly an apprentice to Gregory, and who appeared to-day to be in the last stage of con sumption, swore that he had been in the habit of seeing for years silver spoons, and other silver ware stamped by the prisoner with the die used by the Company of Goldsmiths of the city of Exeter. It appeared that the impression was taken off a genuineiy-stamped spoon, and transferred to the spoons sold by Gregory, in somewhat the same manner as the Post-office authorities were said to have taken the impressions off the seals of letters, and so made new seals to reproduce the same impressions. The apprentice swore that Gregory was in the habit of carrying the box found by the policeman up stairs every night, and of bringing it down every morning, and that it usually contained nearly the same articles that were found in it by the policeman. This witness admitted, on cross-examination, that he had been discharged by Gre gory. It appeared in evidence that the die used by the Exeter Company of Goldsmiths had, besides the lion passant, three other mysterious symbols. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. GREAVES submitted that there was a variance between the allegations in the i n di c t ment and the evi dence, inasmuch as the indictment described the die as bearing only a lion passant, whereas the die proved in evidence had three other marks in addition to the lion. Mr. MUTELY had no objection to the point, if there was anything in it, being reserved. His LORDSHIP reserved it. Mr. GREAVES then addressed the jury for Gregory, contending that they could not rely on the evidence of the apprentice, who was an accomplice at the least, even according to his own statement, and was altogether un corroborated, and was, moreover, hostile to Gregory for having dismissed him. Several witnesses spoke highly of the good characters formerly borne by both prisoners. Mr. WHATELEY having replied for the Crown, and his LORDSHIP having summed up, The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, found both prisoners Guilty, but recommended them to mercy. On the prisoners being called on in the usual manner to say why the Court should not pass sentence upon them according to law, Bynes said that he hafi been already very severely punished. having been frost-bitten in his hands and feet during the severe weather of the last winter, from the coldness of the cell in which he was confined at Bristol. His LORDSHIP, after severely animadverting on the cruelty of such treatment to a prisoner, sentenced Gre gory to eighteen and Bvnes to twelve calendar months' iwprisonmeot, with hard labour. There are still 13 Crown and 12 Nisi Prius cases un tried, and it is probable that the business will not be over before Wednesday. The Nisi Prius Court cannot sit beyond that day, as the distringases are returnable on Thursday, the first day of term. The Belleisle Transport, with the 16th Regiment, arrived at Corfu, On the 24th of March. the ' rii,,reeszior stistoynahmaosng been st ofam s b e s t iionu s e this cm c s o e q u u n e ty ne d e. ul v n during have heard of one farmer losing as many as 100, and tmother 90. It is remarkable that whilst this has been going , on i n H erefordshire, in tho southern counties of England the lambing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and prolific.—Hereford Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK. Wi Liam Hutchinson, a waiter at the Bridge Houso Hotel, London-bridge foot, Southwark, was charged be fore Mr. Seeker with stealing a reticule and pocket handkerchief, dropped by a lady in one of the rooms of that establishment. _ It appeared that on the previous night a ball and sup per took place at the hotel. In the course of the even ing a white hankerchief was missed by one of the com pany, and the waiters were questioned by the proprietor on the subject, when they all denied any knowledge of it. At a later period of the evening a lady dropped her reticule in the supper room, and although every inquiry was again made of the waiters, nothing could be heard of it. The proprietor, however, when the company de parted, called in a policeman, when on the prisoner being searched, both the reticule and handkerchief were found in his possession. The prisoner said the reticule was dropped in the ball-room, and on seeing it he picked it up and put it in his pocket. lie denied that he had been asked about the things, and said that things found on such occasions were considered "waiter's perquisites." The Magistrate, doubting the truth of that assertion, the prisoner assured him that things so dropped were considered so by waiters generally, unless they were claimed by the owners, or asked for at the time. Mr. SECKER said the line of defence set up by th e prisoner a s greatly aggravated the off ence w i t h wh i ch he wand he committed him t 3 p r i son f or one charged, month, with hard labour, for the unlawful possession of the property. The prisoner exclaimed against the decision, saying that he considered he was hardly dealt with, for only doing that which others in his situation were in the habit of doing without punishment. The MAGISTRATE said it should go forth, then, to waiters, that they rendered themselves amenable to the law if they appropriated property they found to their own purposes. WANDSWORTH. William Frederick Beadon, Esq., of the Bedford Circuit, took his seat on Saturday upon the Bench, as the successor to George Clive, Esq., who has been appointed Judge of the Southwark County Court. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. THE HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. On Saturday, at the meeting of the Mary lebone Vestry, the , Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, The Rev. CHAIRMAN said he had to bring before the vestry a subject which was of vast importance to the country—he meant the Bill which had been introduced into Parliament by Government for the Improvement of the health of Towns in England. It would be remem bored that the vestry had appointed a committee to con sider the provisions of the Bill, and they had now pre pared their report, which the vestry-clerk would read. Mr. FLOOD then read the following report to the vestry : " St. Marylebone, April 9th, 1147. " At the committee appointed to take into considera tion the Bill now in Parliament, intituled,' A Bill for Improving the Health of Towns in England,' " Present—The Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, Mr. M•Evily, Mr. John Williams, Mr. Henry Charles Wil son, Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., Mr. Michie, Mr. Joseph, Mr. Powell, Mr. Calder, Mr. Armson, Mr. Ball, " Your committee beg to report to the vestry that they have taken into their serious consideration the provisions of ' the Bill referred to them, and are unanimously of opinion that the Bill is calculated to destroy the right enjoyed by the people of England from the earliest period of conducting their local affairs; that it greatly extends the baneful principle of centralization, is subver sive of the principles of representation, as secured by Hobhouse's Vestries Act, and is calculated to anni • hilate the powers heretofore exercised by the vestry of Marylebone. "Your committee, therefore, unanimously recommend to the vestry that the most strenuous and unqualified opposition be offered to this obnoxious measure, and that the other metropolitan parishes be immediately com muriicated with, with a v i ew o f strengt h en i ng an d orga nizing an opposition which may he effectual in defeating the proposed invasion, at least so far as the metroiolis is concerned. (Signed) "J. HUME SPRY, Chairman. JOHN M'Evri,v, A. MICHIE. JOHN WILLIAMS, FRANCIS CAL DER , EDWARD JOSEPH, GEORGE DANIELL, JACOB BELL, JAS. J. HAMILTON, THOMAS POTTER, CHARLES lIARBUT." THOMAS POWELL, Mr. G. DANIELL moved the adoption of the report. He was happy to inform the vestry that the opposition to this Bill was unanimous, and most determined.— (Hear, hear.) Should it pass into a law, it would rob the country of its right of representation, deprive them of control over all their local funds, and even their charitable institutions. According to the provisions of the 13111 a central board was to be appointed, who would possess all control over the commissioners and the funds, so that while every responsibility rested upon the shoul• ders of the commissioners, who should be men possessing 5,0001., they would be quite powerless as far as the disposal of the parish funds were concerned, for the Bill completely annihilated Hobhouse's Acts, and the prin ciple of local government.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. C. WILSON, in seconding the motion, said it was impossible for centralization and representation to co-exist. Those two principles were so antagonistical that they could not work together. The same men who concocted the disgraceful and degrading New Poor-law Bill, which had given such universal and unqualified dis gust to the country, and which proved a decided failure iu every respect, also prepared this measure, so impro perly called " The Health of Towns Bill."—(Hear, hear.) They were all of the Chadwick school, of whom William Cobbeit said it was an unfortunate occurrence that he was ever allowed to interfere with the laws and liberties of the country.—(Hear, hear.) The object of this Health of Towns Bill was manifest. It was to take all the remaining power from the people, and centralize it in the hands of a board appointed by and who were the creatures of the Government. ---- - Sir PETER LAURIE denounced the Bill as a base at tempt on the part of the Government to rob the peopl e of the last remnant of their liberty. lie assured the vestry that the city of London were already on the alert in this matter, and would assert their right and go to the Queen for the purpose of ind uc i ng h er Majesty not to allow so obnoxious a measure to become the law of the land.—(lleac, hear.) What Mr. Wil son h a d sa id about this measure being one of that class which might justly Ir.) termed of the Chadwick school of legislation was quite correct. Why, it was well known that Mr. Chadwick went to Belgium and Germany to see the workings of ty ranny t h ere, t h at they might introduce a similar system into England.— (Shame.) This was no Health of Towns Bill at all, but a mere subterfuge to create influence and place and pa tronage for the Government. Only y es t er d ay h e (Si r P. Laurie) met a friend of his, a Commissioner of the Westminster Sewers, and on asking him if they did not mean to oppose this measure, he replied, " We are ap pointed by the Crown, and how can we, as officers of the Crown, oppose our own masters?"—(Laughter.) He (Sir P. Laurie) could only say that the Commissioners of Sewers of the City and the Tower Hamlets meant to oppose it, and he hoped every commissioner and parish in the kingdom would do so.—(Hea r , h ear. ) Sir JAMES HAMILTON said, without any reference to what party it might be who had introduced the measure, whether it be Whig or Tory, he viewed it as a most tyrannical invasion on popular . rights, and as such he felt bound to give it his determined oppositi o n, and h e most cordially, therefore, joined in the report of the committee. Mr. JOSEPH denounced the Bill as a tissue of the grossest absurdities that were ever suggested for the im provement of the public health. Amongst its provisions were the following:—ln the first place there was to be an office of health—(Laughter) —streets to be managed; also crossings and scavenging; order houses to be white washed —(Laughter)—no interment to take place less than two f ee t s i x f rom t h e sur f ace; to preven t noxious businesses, and compel manufactories to consume their own smuke—(Laughter)—to approve of places for pub lic meetings; management of cellars for letting or not; regulation of lodging-houses, which are to be registered cleansed, and ventilated; lighting streets, and supplying water by public cisterns; to provide slaughtering-houses and license them ; to affix penalties for having chimneys on fire ; commissioners may provide engines, firauen, and plugs, and affix rewards ; to provide places of public recreation, public bathing places, and public drying grounds ; payment of rates ; and to provide public clocks.—(Rene wed laughter.) In fact the Bill was to provide for everything but that which its title really in dicated.—(llear, hear.) It was altogether a complete piece of Irish legislation ; for, while it ordered the votes to be taken by ballot, it directed that each person should subscribe his name to the voting paper, and that the papers should be left a month for inspection, so that it might be ascertained how the votes were given. Mr. GEORGE DANIELL said there was .not one word in the Bill about li g h t an d a i r —t w o necessary things to ensure health. even CHAIRMANthheeh ri gt of considered that it wa s im p ossible to conceive a more o b nox i ous measu re, which took away appeal. If the surv e y or ordered a change in a gentleman's mansion, internally or exter nally, and persisted in its necessity, there was no appeal, and the building would have to be altered according to his order.—(Sharne.) The report was unanimously adopted and a committee appointed to watch and oppose the Bill, and to call on all the other metropolitan paris he s to co-operate in that o ject. fur the ensuing ELECTION John Williams and Nlr " CutinctiwAnbENs. The following gentlemen were appointed churchwardens and sidesmen sides man, the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon and George Spencer Smith, Esq. ; Parisi; churchwarden and sidesman, Mr. year : —Crown churchwarden and sides- Richsrd Adams Esq., a.nd Mr. Thomas Potter ; All llal ph. After James Nisbet ; St. Mary's, :7 ; ;ouls, Robert Skyp ne; Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wing field ; Christchurch Admiral Daly and Mr. Richard Hickman ; Trinity, Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. 13.: , njamin the vestry se parated. s um© routine business ANOTHER SECED ER T HROUGH TRACTARIANISM TO P OPERY. —lt is rUMOUeeII that an Irish ge ntle . o man, son in:law of a N o bl e Earl, an d who ma de himself very con spicu i.sus last the Romish year by his advocacy o f re p roductive la bour, about to add hi s min i+, to tilts list of perverts to some tinse sh own i tself by the support i nvaria b l y given to the Roma n Catholic can didate for any office in the Church. Hi s bias towards pop e ry has for disposal of which he had a voice, no matter how well qualified the P rotestant compe titor. Having lately, as torem.in of th e G rand Jury, a sum of money for distri bution to charit a bl e societ i es: he gave it all to the Romish charities of th e assizo town, though there are several most meritorious Protestant charities in it. To crown all,. he appear e d i n the crow d e d s treets OR the Mond a y before Easter w i t h palm i n h i s h a t—a melancholy exhi bition truly I—Church and State Gazette. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL S.—The most lamentable feature in the reports from the country this morning is the increas ing disorganization and the more frequent occurrence of ,anguirr , ,ry crimes. Some very shocking murders are reported—one connected with the !and eviction system —another in which the possession of a small sum of money was the object. This latter is a description. 01 crime hitherto very rare in Ireland. There is a!so an account of an attempt—fortunately unsuccessful—to mur ter a magic rate in the county of Limerick. There are again more heart-rending reports of the ravages of famine in some southern and western counties. The accounts of the progress of tillage continue to be favourable !'rorn most parts of the c)untry, and this is almost the only gratifying and hopeful feature in the state of the country. Drainage works on an extensive scale are also undertaken in various counties, Land - lords, in many more cases, are supplying seed to their ten an! ry. The reports of the grain crcps are highly encouraging. The northern agricultural reports state that the young wheats are making great progress, that the breadth of land sown with oats is much beyond an average, and that the better class of farmers are preparing to put down a greater quantity of turnips, parsnips, and other green crops than usual. Notwithstanding the perils attending such a crop, a considerable brea_itli of potatoes has been planted, chiefly by large farmers or country gentlemen; but the culture of potatoes has been abandoned almost entirely by the small occupiers. In consequence of the refusal of several relief com mittees to undertake the duties assigned to them under the Temporary Destitution Act, the Relief Commission ers, it is stated, are determined to avail themselves of the powers conferred by the Act in re-constituting com mittees in the various localities where this very dis graceful conduct has been practised. STATE OF THE PROVINCES. From the northern division of Tipperary, the Dublin Evening Pest contains the following very gratifying report : " NENAGH, APRIL 6.—The relief committees in this locality, twenty in number, are forming, and all goes on well under the admirable arrangements of Mr. Hatchell. inspector, whose kind and gentle deportment endears him to all classes. American flour is rapidly pouring into us every day from Limerick and Waterford. Indian meal has fallen 61. per ton. The farmers are busily em ployed, and every effort made to cultivate the land. Out excellent countryman, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P. freighted a vessel at Glasgow, and brought over 1,200/. worth of seed oats, which his active and intelligent agent, Mr. Walker, is distributing amongst his tenantry on the Ormonde estates. Thus are we going on with the good work. All is tranquil here ; order is restored, and the country, I earnestly hope, will soon prosper." The following most heart-rending report of destitution appears in the Waterford Chronicle : " DUNGARVAN, APRIL s.—To whatever direction you turn you are appalled by the most direful starvation, and shocking d, aths. In the rural parts, the poor are dying like rotten sheep ; in fact, they are melting down into the clay by the sides of the ditches ; no roof to shelter them from the cold or we t o f th e n i g ht, no hand to relieve them, or reach a drink to the gasp ing, dying person. During last week, six or seven persons were found deal on the road sides, in the vicinity of this town. The bodies remain for whole weeks in those places unburied. Fever and dysentery are spreading here to an alarming extent, so much so that our venerated and zealous pastor, Doctor Rally, ever alive to the spiritual and temporal wants of his flock, lost no time in procuring the assistance of two additional curates. What extraordinary fortitude and zeal the Catholic priest must pa,SQSS to support him in the faithful discharge of so important and dangerous a duty !" " KING'S COUNTY. PARSONSTOWN WORKHOUSE, Aram 7.—tide regret to announce tho death of Mr. Stack, the respected rntAster of the workhouse of this union ; he died this morning of fever, after an illness of only about a week's duration ; and we are- also deeply concerned to learn that Mr. Richard Robinion, the clerk of the union, has also b. en dangerously ill of fever for about the same lengtholtimer" LITIGATION, The Dublin Evening Post gives the following very glo my picture of the condition of trade in Ireland:— " We hear, on all sides, of the increase of litigation in the Civil Bill Courts throughout the country. The num ber of processes for rent—a cheap and convenient mode of clearing estates'—and for small sums on I 0 U's, passed fur meal and other necessaries, have increased to an enormous extent. But in the higher courts, also, we are likely to have a vast amount of litigatbn. We are assured, by a correspondent, that already nearly two thousand writs have been issued from the Court of Queen's Bench alone for the term which commences next week. Another very significant fact has been communi cated by the same correspondent. Judges' fiats, to the number of six daily, on the average, are issued against absconding debtors. In ordinary years, perhaps, the number would riot exceed twenty for the twelve months. We mention these facts as they have reached us, and we fear that the information is too true. They afford la mentable evidence of the effects upon trade of the pro tracted sufferings of the country. The shopkeepers and small traders, in all parts of Ireland, have been utterly paralysed. The large wholesale houses in Dublin and in other large towns have, from prudence and necessity, greatly limited their operations. In fine, business is at a stand, and the constant cry is. "There is no money to be had.' Most happy should we be to present a less unfavourable report; but, for the present at least, facts will not warrant us in doing so. One thing satisfactory and creditable to the parties we can state, namely, that amongst the wholesale hoes' s, gen r_lly, there is great forbearance. The struggling shopkeeper is not forced to extremities; and, consequently, notvvithstanding the unparalleled severity of the pressure, there are compa• ra:ivelv few bankruptcies or even compositions." ATROCIOUS AND VINDICTIVE MURDERS. Monday morning, about eight o'clock, immediately after three policemen had left the house of Philip Houri gan, at Ballycullen, near Glen-Bevan, in this county, for their station at Croom, three armed men entered his habitation in search of Hourigan, who, fortunately for himself was out, having gone a little before to the house of a brother, about three or four fields off. The in-• truders turned upon his wife, as she sat by the fire to prepare breakfast, and deliberately fired at her, inflicting a mortal wound in her breast. Not content with this barbarous deed, they struck tho dying woman on the head with their guns, until she lay apparently dead upon the floor. They next turned into a room where the son of the unhappy couple lay on a sick bsd, and dragged the lad, about eighteen years of age, about the house, and then commanding him to stand against the bed-post, another shot was levelled at him, which entered his head, and he fell at once an easy victim before his murderers. Having glutted their vengeance by the immolation of mother and son, these ferocious miscreants departed, re gretting they had not got the husband and father, to complete the tragic spectacle. Hourigan's little daughter would assuredly have been the third victim, as they were determined to spare no human being in the house to tell the catastrophe, only that she, providentially, was in the out-offices milking the cow for her pcor mother. This little girl came in as the murderers departed, and saw thorn going off, but unperceived by them, and sus pecting 1:o harm, the first objscte she beheld inside the door were her mother in the agonies of death, and her brother a naked corpse ! The affrighted child gave the alarm, but before any friend or neighbour came in lieu rigan's wife breathed her last. The distracted father soon found his peaceful home the abode of desolation and mourning—his wife and son in one half hour mangled and bloody cprpses, and no one to point out the accursed murderers, or trace their route, though seen to pass the river Maieue, after the satanic outrage, and without any disguise on their persons. The afflicted and persecuted man, Philip Hourigan, at last assizes, brought to convic tion four persons for having in November, 1846, attacked his dwelling by night, and assaulted him barbarously in the presence of his wife and children. They broke his skull. These fellows were :sentenced to seven years' transportation, the judge having first designed to double that penalty, so gross did the outrage appear to him. Hourigan's life was threatened since this prosecution, and the magistrates found it requisite to have police in the house at night for his protection. But the unfortu nate roan was doomed by those who regard not law or mercy, and watching the departure of the police on the above morning, the murderers accomplished their in fernal purpose, and as they could not sacrifice Hourigan, they butchered in cold blood those most dear to him , the unoffending mother and son.—Limerick Chronicle. BARBAROUS MURDER. —On Monday night a most cruel and savage murder was committed in the county Kilkenny, at a place called Bishap's Hall-gate, within about three miles of this city. The murdered man was a steward of Mr. Milward's, and was proceeding from Waterford to his own home, at Ballynamorahan, where he was attacked. It appears that ho left this city about six o'clock on the previous evening, and when within half a mile of home he called at a public-house kept by a man named John Halligan. He left Halli gan s at nine o'clock, and went in the direction of his own house ; but when within forty perches of it he was attacked and murdered. He was found on Tuesday morning, and his head and face were so mutilated that he was only identified by his clothes. He was robbed of 41. Walsh was a most inoffensive and peaceably-dis posed man. No trace of the murderers has yet been discovered.— Waterford Freeman. ATTEMPT TO MURDER JOSEPH WALLPLATE, ESQ., J. P., CASTLE-CONNELL.—This day (Wednesday), at about half-past eleven, A.M., as Mr. Wallplate was pro ceeding to a farm of his, near Woodlands, from which be bad dispossessed the late tenants a few days ago, he was attacked by two men, armed with pistols, near Doonas. The men jumped over a wall on the road, and Mr. Wallplate, seeing their intent of attacking him, seized one of them and tore the coat from his back. He then seized a large stone and threatened the other, when two shots were fired at him. One took effect under the left breast, the other hit him somewhere in the face. Doc!ors Griffin and Kidd, who were visiting the Rev. Mr. Scanlan, who is in fever, passed about ten minutes after the occurrence. Mr. Weil l - slate was taken across the river to his own residetice. The police went in pur suit of the assassins.— Limerick Examiner. MONSTROUS HAvoe.—About 1,500 pauper labourers entered the town of Gort, on Monday, and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they should have "blood or bread," to the great horror of the inhabitants. They t ventually retired without any outrage on person or pro perty ; but their threats were I .ot idl y meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property of William Lahiff, 1 Esq., of Gun, at pasture, near the lands of Bunnahort, were killed, and carried away I On Tuesday morning Head-Constable M`Carthy, of Gort, arrested seven of the suspected principals in this daring onslaught upon private property.—Limerick Chronicle. THE CORN MARKETS—IMPORTS. NEWRY, APRIL 7.—The reaction in the article of Indian corn meal continues, and the price is now 14s. 6d. per cwt. for both descriptions of white and yellow. Wheat, oats, flour, oatmeal, &c., remain without altera tion. LIMERICK, APRIL 7.—The Pool is almost; in a state of blockade with shipping, while several large vessels are at anchor at Tarbert, Foynes, Beih CaAle, Grass Island, &c., unable, owing to their great burthen, to get a berth at the quay. Since Saturday last 28 vessels tirrivcd in the Shannon, laden with Indian corn, wheat, Shur, meal, and boan3 for this port, from Vianna, An cona, Marseilles, Alexandria, . Boston, Genoa, Trieste, Valencia, S villt, Maur, New York, Smyrna, Corunna, besides the Channel ports. Messrs. J. N. Russell and Sons, who firA lowered the market prices in Limerick, have further reduced the price of Indian meal to 151. per ton. Quantity of " bread-stuffs" imported to Limerick in the last week ;-19,300 quarters Indian corn, 9,500 barrAs and sacks of flour and meal, 900 quarters of wheat, 1,000 quarters rye, 1,356 quarters beans, and 1,100 bags rice, besides seeds, &c. THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS AND THEIR PRETENDED BENEFACTORS. WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR. The Government have at length interfered to put a stop to the proceedings of certain individuals who usually take to themselves the credit of being the origi nAtors of almost every measure brought forward for the bent-tit of the service. The following is a copy of the circular issued on the subject from the Horse-Guards, but, for obvious reasons, the name of the individual more particularly referred to is omitted:— " War-office, April 1, 1847. " Sir,—l am directed to state that the Secretary. at• War has observed, with considerable surprise, a circular purporting to he on behalf of the Newcastle pensioners, suggesting a subscription being made fur a person of the name of , through whose agency, it is alleged, the poundage on pensions has been removed. " The Secretary-at-War requests you will prevent any imposition of this kind on the pensioners, by ex plaining to them that the remission of poundage has in no respect emanated from the exertions of Mr. that the hardship of the deduction from the pensioners, in these severe times particularly, has been repeatedly brought under the consideration of the Secretary-at- War, and ultimately of her Majesty's Government, through the representations of the staff officers of pen sioners, which is the proper channel for the statement of all grievances, whether individually or collectively, on the part of those under their superintendence ; and that it is to this circumstance, coupled with the general good conduct of the pensioners themselves, and the readiness they have expressed on all occasions to perform the duty which her Majesty's Government hare required of them, that they are indebted for this boon.—l am, your obe dient servant, " L. SULIVAN. " To the Staff Officers of Pensioners, District." THE LATE GENERAL DROUOT. General Drouot, a year before his death. drew up a little memoir of his military career. 'We publish it here in its brief and noble simplicity, as a new trait of that character at once so modest and so pure, that Napoleon compared it to the more striking specimens of antique virtue. It will be seen by this memoir, that in the year 1823 Lnuis Philippe, at that time Duke of Orleans, offered to General Drouot the post of governor to his children. It will be seen also, that the General, unfortunately, leaves no more leng4hy memoirs relative to the great scenes of history in which he played a part, and disclaims beforehand everything that may be hereafter published n his name : "I was burn at Nancy, 11th January, 1774, of poor parents, who earned by the sweat of their brow the bread of a numerous family ; they made many sacrifices, and even submitted to many privations, in order to procure me the meas of instruction. They endeavoured, above all, to inspire me with religious feelings, and to inspirit me with the love or industry and virtue. " had just terminated my studies at the College of Nancy, when the wars of the revolution com menced, in the month of April, 1792. On the Ist of June of the following y(-,ar I was admitted into the Schc4)l of Artillery as 'Sous Lieutenant Elem. A month afterwards (on the Ist of July, 1793), I was nominated Second Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment of Artillery, by means of a decree of the Convention, which gave this rank to the ten first eleves to he promoted. I then rose through the different ranks to tl:at of General de Division, to which I was pro moted on the 3d of September, 1813. " I was nominated member of the Legion of Honour on the sth of August, 1804; Officer of the Legion at \Vagram, and Commander of the Legion at Mos kowa ; Grand Officer, the 23d of March, 1814 ; Great Cross the 18th of October, 1830; Baron of the Em pire, the 14th of March, 1810; Count of the Empire, the 24th of October, 1813 ; Peer of France, by Im perial decree of the 2d of June, 1815 ;_ Peer of France, by royal ordinance of the 19th of November, 1831 ; this last favour my state of ill health no longer allowed me to accept. " I have had the good fortune to serve under men who encouraged, supported, and protected me • and I owe my advancement principally to the Generals Loriboisiere, Ebli, and Gassendi, and to my former colonel, General Parnety. The kindness they never failed to show me exercised the most favourable influence on my destiny : their memory will be dear to me, to my last breath. "I had served for several years in the Imperial Guard, when, on the 26th of January, 1813, the Emperor attached ma to his person as aide-de-camp. On the 31 of September following he gave me the supervision of the Guard, with the title of Aide- Major of the Guard. The marks of esteem, confi dence, and affection which the Emperor never ceased to bestow upon me have been the pride and happiness of my life : they will remain for ever engraven on my heart, as well as the remembrance of the favours with which he overwhelmed me. " After. the abdication — of Fontainebleau, the Emperor granted me the permission to accompany him to the Isle of Elba, of which he appointed me the governor. The year following he took me back to France with him : I was at his side at the battle of Waterloo. " The provisionary committee which was placed at the head of the Government after the second abdica tion of the Emperor nomimteil me Commander of the Imperial Guard. Under the important circum stances of the times, I looked upon it as the first of my duties to devote myself entirely to my country, and to shrink back from no personal sacrifice in order to contribute to its welfare. This duty appeared to me all the more imperious as I had myself taken a part in all the events which had brought about our unhappy position. In consequence, after having consulted the Emperor, who approved of my resolu tion, I accepted the command bestowed upon me by the Government; and I separated myself for the time from my benefactor, with the intention and the hope of joining him once more as soon as the country should have been saved. The events which followed destroyed my most dearly cherished hopes. I was left neither the consolation of endeavouring to miti gate the rigours of his captivity, nor the happiness of dying on the field of battle for the deliverance of my country. the~ Having b been included of cludLd ly, in the ordinance of pro scription of 1815, I left on the Ist of August the army of the Loire, in order to return to Paris and render myself up prisoner. On the Gth Of April, 1816, I was taken from the prison of rAbbaye and placed before a court-martial, which was to decide my fate. I was accompanied by my friend Baron Girod (de I'Ain), who defended gene rously and warmly my cause. I was declared not guilty,' and acquitted. " The next day Louis XVlll.lsent for me to the Palace of the Tuileries. After having addressed me in the kindest manner, his Majesty gave orders that I should be immediately set at liberty. I set off shortly after for my native town, where ever since that period I have given myself up to the charms of a quiet private life. " I have refused to accept either the half-pay or the traitement en disponibilite that were offered me under the Restoration. This refusal arose from my fear of being obliged to return to active service, or to be placed in the necessity of taking up my rank and my duties, while my benefactor was languishing a captive upon a rock in the Atlantic ocean. I accepted, how .;.ver, a retiring pension, which was offered me by the Government in recompense of my former military services. " During my retreat I endeavoured to write an historical account of the great events which passed before my eyes ; but my bad health, my utter blind ness, and, above all, my want of talent, forced me to give up an attempt which was beyond my powers; I threw my manuscript into the fire, and I entirely disavow everything that may hereafter be published in my name upon any events of the time, or any other subject. "In 1823, the King, who was then Duke of Or leans, offered me the post of governor to the young Princes his sons. So marked a proof of confidence and esteem has filled me with the deepest gratitude. But I did not venture to accept the important mis sion thus offered me, because I considered myself unable to fulfil it properly, as possessing neither the talents nor the qualities it would have required. " The return of the ashes of the Emperor, in 1840, fulfilled all my last hopes and wishes. Every day I bless that royal wisdom to which the country owes this great act of reparation ; and I return thanks to Prc.vidence that I should have been permitted the consolation of living to be a witness of this great ' event. " Arrived now at the term of my earthly career, I await in peace until it shall please the Lord to reel me to Him, and to admit me, as I hope, to that ever lasting dwelling, where those who have well loved, and well served their country will meet their recom pense. " GENERAL DROUOT. " Nancy, April 13, 1846." LEAMINGTON, APRIL 7.—The foundation stone of the Leamington Proprietary College was laid this after noon, by Dr, Jephson, amidst a large concourse of spectators. A grand public dinner took place in honour of the proceedings of the day, at the Regent Hotel, which was attended by upwards of one hundred guests, over whom Dr. Jephson presided. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 9.—The demand for wool this week has been steady, and prices stationary. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, APRIL 9.—About an average business has been done in foreign wool during the past week, at reef nt rates. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL B.—Easter is generally a holiday week, in which little business is done, and we have no alteration to re p or t f rom last week. LEEDS.—There has been some large deliveries of goods direct from the makers this week, but entirely of low qualities, for shipping ; but in the cloth-halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday, although there was a little more done in finer qualities, yet, on the whole, the markets: were of the same dull character es of late. Prices rule steady, and stocks are moderate. The cold , weather, and the lightness in the money market, keeps the buyers from the market, and business has, in conse quence, been dull in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, APRIL B.—There is more in quiry for wool, owing to the increased production of yarns; but the spinners do not buy freely, as they anti cipate that the new clip will be purchased on easier terms. Short wools are in good request. and, being scarce, improve in price. The shipping houses are busy exporting yarns, and numbers of the spinners are em ployed to order, at a slight advance in price ; but the advance is neither of moment, nor general enough to render the trade profitable. Both, however, for home and export trade, yarns are in fair request. There has been an average market for dress piece goods, but we can report no advance in price. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had very little business transacted either in goods or yarns since this day week, arising from the fact, that in gene ral neither manufacturers nor spinners will sell unless at an advance equal to those on the staple. Time only can determine which will first give way. The market cloes very firmly at the rates current this day se'nnight. There are extensive orders from India and China, as well as from America. NoTTlNou.s.m.—No improvement can be reported as to this market, either in sales or prices. The silk glove branch is a shade better; the other branches are as pre - I viously stated. LEICESTER.—The market continues in a very inani mate state, and with the exception of a few shipping 1 orders, there is little or nothing doing in either the country or town trade. The hosiers, having worked up their cotton stocks, are turning their attention to worsted goods, and on ing to the distressed state of the yaru market, they are enabled to buy in for cash at extreme low prices, though no reduction is professedly made by the spinners. The American packet, due next week, is •; I expected to bring in large orders, and its arrival is- looked forwards to with anxiety. Wools keep their-. 4 prices, and seem likely to do so.—Leicester Journal. f RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10. STOCK ExcliAson.—We cannot note any improvement in Our share market to-dly. The transactions are limited. The sales are—Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western; Preference, 1 1 4 p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire , dis.—East Lancashire, New (Scrip), 16s. 3d. p.—East • Lincolnshire, 2 1 4 p.—Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston, SP: —Great Northern (Nos. 1 to 108,000), 3 / 4 dis,;—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 28s. 9d. p. —London and North-Western, 173—Ditto, Fifths, 13 p.—" - Ditto, ditto, Quarters, \New, 1014 p.—London and South' Western (scrip), 1 4 dis.—Manchester and Leeds, R., 2 1 ,8 P' —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 2 dis. Midland Stock, 113 1 /o—Ditto, New, 2N, p.—North Stafford' - shire, 2 1 % p.—Preston and Wyre, WA—Ditt o Halves (A). TT R p.—Shrewsbury and Cheste r , N ew (N.WAL), 2 1 / 4 p. , South-Eastern and Duver,3o ex div.—Ditto (N 0.4), Thirds' p.— West Riding Union, W I p.—York and Newcastle • (late N. and D.), Preference, 3 p.—Demerara, 1 1 4 3 p. MANCHESTER, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.-':he Pales are-Birkenhead, Lanes' shire, and Cheshire, 7-16 dis -Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7% c. p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, Preferentials , 1 3-16 p.-East Lancashire, New (s cr ip) IA p.-Fleetwood' Preston, and West Riding Junction, % dis -Great Northern , 11-16 dis.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction , 1 t 4 dis.-Manchester and Birmingham, 68-Manchester and Leeds, 32!. Shares (late Exte ns io n ), 2 p .-M anchester, Sh e r field, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 21A, -Manchester and Southampton, 18s. 3d.-North Stafford" ! shire, 2% c. p.-Preston and IVyre, 34- 5 ,4-Ditto, Halves I (A), 3 3 4 p.-Siiropshire Union, 9-16 dis.-West Riding Union , I 3-16- Anabergate, Nottingham, and Boston, % Eastern Counties, 18V., LEEDS, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.-A continuous decline in the value Of all stocks has marked the little business done during the week, and the closing characteristic of the market is dame* with prospect of still further depreciation. The sales are' Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bost o n, 17s. 6d. dis.--Da s Lancashire, New, 15s. p.-Ditto, New Scrip, 15s. t Northern, 15s. die.-Leeds and Bradford, 43 p.-Leeds and • Thirsk, 3 c. dis. -Ditto, Preference, 20s. p.-London and Brie' ton and South Coast, 51s. -Ditto, Fifteenths, 2s. p.-Malt i f, and Driffield Junction, 3s. p.-Manche s t er an d L ee d s , Halves (late Ilud. and Sheff.), 2 p.-Ditto, 32/. Sh ares (l a t e DA . tensions), 1/. 18s. 9d. p.-Ditto, West Riding Union, 22 8 . P• . -North British, Halves, 1474-Ditt o , Thi r d s, 40s. p.-Dit'°' Extension (scrip), 9s. p.-North Staffordshire, 2 P' . Northern Counties Union, 40s. dis.-North-Western, 201. dis.-York and North Midland, Preference, 8% p. SHEFFIELD, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), Midland, New, 2.!.4 p.-North-Western, % Rotherham, ad Goole, 1/. dis.-West Riding Union, PA -Leeds, akefield, and Midland, Is. 6d. dis: NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 10. dis. 2 - 1 4effi. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The only sale is-North British, ; : d2 : HULL, APRIL 10. STOCK Exclessali.-The sales are-North British, Qua!' ters, 695. 6d.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), Bs. p.-Ditt o ,Thira* 60s. 6d. cash-York and Newcastle, Preference, 3 p.-Amber' gate, Nottingham, and Boston, 174-Buckinghamshire, A dis.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 12s. 6d. (LW"' North-Western, 18s. dis.-West Riding Union, 21s. p. EDINBURGH, APRIL 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 271. 17s. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 18s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 155.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-A yr an d G al l oway, 21. is. D ts Caledonian, 26/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 21. 58.-Caledoni7 . ... and Dumbartonshire, 2!. 2s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 55.-Deeside, 31. 55.-Dunblane, Doane, and Callender , 95.-Dundee and Arbroath, 42/. 10s.-Ditto. New, NO:' 30L-Ditto, New, N o . 2, 301 . -Di tto, New, No, 3, 41. , -Dundee and Northern Junction, 2/. /b.-Dundee end Perth, 381.5x.-Ditto, New, 191.-East of Fife, 21. i6L East Lothian Central, 21. 175.-Edinburgh and Bathgr,„ . Cl. IN.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 71/. 15s. ex Halves, 19/. 10s. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 15s. eX cu' -Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 201. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Pt e ference, 211.-Ditto, New, 21. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, ir 9d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 16/.-Ditto, New, 31. -Ditto, Newport, 71. 7s. 6d.-Ditt o , ditto, New, 2/. 1- 15 1 Edinburgh and Perth (New), 31. 4 5 . -Di tto , H a l ves , 11• 3 __"l"' 6d--Glasgow and Ayrshire, 61/. 10 s . -Di t t o, New , 381.-Ditto, Halves, No. I, 5!. 55.-Ditto, ditto, No. 2, *,.. 1 .1„., Ditto, Quarters, 15/. 15s -Gl asgow , Dumfries, and C . f lisle, 5/. 155.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.-Glasgow Get. Terminus, 12/. 55.-Glasgow and Greenock, 18L-Dit to Halves, 9L-Ditto, Preference, 81. 5 5 . -Gl asgow, Kilmarno • and Ardrossan, 5/. 18s.-Great North of England, 2321. -Great North of Scotland, 2/. lls.-Great Northern (f a ' s _ Direct Northern), 3/. Bs.-Ditto (l a t e L on d on an d yorkP 2/. 155.-Manchester and Leeds, 1031.-Ditto, Si x teenth!' 81. 55.-Newcastle and Berwick, 26/. 153.-North British' • 33/. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 15/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarter* 31. 175.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 1/. ss. 6d.-Dit t : Thirds, 3/. 75.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 15 3 .-S co tti s h CentL4. 22/. 12s. 61.-Scottish Grand Junction, IL 3s. 6d.-Scot Midland, 20/. 155.-Shrewsbury an d Hereford, 1/. 12s. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 101.-Ditto, 14 1 11. is.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 4/. I s. 6d.-Stirling 'sr Midland, 2/. 75.-IVishaw and Coltness, 491. 7s. 6dh ex ar t i: • -York and Newcastle, 34/. Ms.-Ditto, New, 15/. 7 5 . -Ditto, Preference, 71. 10s. -Direct Bombay and Ma d / 45.-East Indian, Bs.-Great North of India, 35.--Greta Southern of Madras, 33.-Madras, N e ll ore , an d A rco t, Is. GLASGOW, APRIL 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Gallovisi, 41s. U.-Caledonian, N ew , 45 5 .-Di rect Bombay. and. dras, 4g.-East Indi an , 7s. 3d.-East Lothian Central, bb -- 63.-Edinbfirgh and Perth (New Co.), 625.-Ditto, haloe s ' ' 225. 63.-Glasgow General Terminus, 1374-Glasgow ' marnock, and Ayr, 371 4-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 3 1 * - Manchester and Southampton, 26 5.-Midland, Halves, Or' Scottish Central, 2274 -Wishaw and Coltness, 49%. NEW FISHING STATION.— th a t We understand - t Freswick is about to c ommence operat i ons immedia-e Ir, used on his estate at Nybster, parish of Canisbay, to eleb r uss e d and erect a pier called SummerbankHarbour,,to become as a fishing station. Mr. Oa g is said to ha" • mode l t le ri s c s t e . e_, jaoniclinhoa,s Groat engag e j d ou t r h n e a rats in the Auchingill dir MODEL LODGING-HOUSE IN ST. GILES'S.—A classes has just been erected in George-street, this „. lodging-house for the accommodation of the s l t. ab o o i u l r e l:t s a i n m d il i a s r n be forthwith formew• in the event of the present one answering the purP se . .. for which it is designed, to accommodate 100 'aware': e o s w tab r l e i a sh dy met r ts u , s w e ilic l h t will s ii roposed by al i o per night, each o f w h om w ill have a separate sleepinb place, with the use o f a l arge living room , kiteben , store-room, w as hi ng - room, and every convenience. -The whole to be furnished t o th e occupants at the rate ~ of , fourpence p er n i g h t. The cost of the new buildinb' including 1,27 0 1 . pa i d for the site, has been 6,000 L ~,, [ADV ERTISEMENT.]—A CASE OF UL CERAT ED 13 a, LEss CCB.ED By HOLL OWAY ' S O INTMENT AND PILLS. Extract o f e ---t, ter from Mr. W. Kemp, 37, William-street, Edinburgh, dated g .r 10, 1846.—" P rofessor Holloway—Sir, I beg to inform you that 1:,- five years I suffer e d dreadfully from a great number of ulcert: , ii both my legs, during which time I was attended by several 13 2r714.„ men besides trying various remedies recommen d e d b y my mr.,e, and I &so had advice from 31into House, but all to ne purpose. A 4 however, truly happy to say. I have got my l egs as we ll as everZ o , were in my life by using your Pills and Ointment. (Slgned),,Lor KAmr."—These Medicines are sold by all D rugg i s t s , an d a t r70. , r- Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. _...... MATHS. On the 6th inst., Mrs. Richard Hunter, of Eruneiri ck. square, of a son. On the Eth inst., the lady of the Hon. W. A'Court FRAM ° M.P., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., in Duchess-street, Portland-place, M Slaughter, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Camberwell, the wife of Jeremiah (4 -- 11° Pilcher, Esq., of a son. the On the 9th inst., at Somers place, Hyde-park-square, wife of 11. H. Oddie, jun., Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Christ Church, Hull, Henry Val Bourne, Esq., solicitor, Alford, Linc o l ns hi re , t o Mary, el d er daughter of the Rev. John King, M.A., Hull. DIED. Of On the 4th inst:, Horatio Duncan Read Bloomfield, 5 01 : 1 d Noah Read Bloomfield, surgeon, Wapping, in the 2d fear his age. On the 14 inst. at Nice, Major-General George Cravrf° l3 late of the koyLl kegiment of Artillery. On the 6th inst., in Torrington-square, Mrs. S. AdanlS o On the 6th inst., at Teignm ou th, D evon , H arr iet, relic t the late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Phillips. 1 On the 7th inst., Mr. R o bert C arre ll, o f A nn C o ttage, -- 11°111- Brixton, aged 73. On the Bth inst., at Durham-place, Lambeth, Jane Jo b. phine Henrietta, the lady of Major-General Philip Hap ins On the 9th inst., in Cambridge-street, Hyde-park t '— Marianne Thesiger. L Printed anil Published by BsURDO YOUNG, of Ift, ne s r5...1, Prlnter, at The 54 , . filc,, No. l 12, Strand, in the .. . i m - 12, of the Savoy, In the County of Middlesex, MOlldhr, 1847.