The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-28 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette.) Au Account, pursuant to the Act seventh a rid eighth Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank /Totes, of the several Banks of Issue in En gland and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 15 th day of May, 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and C 0.... 24,820 Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co" . 14,640 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,429 Aylshara Bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copemaa 5,635 Aylesbury Old Bank, kylesbury-Rickford and Hunt . 41,919 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 34,803 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and CooM 16,233 Basingstoke and Odihavr Bank, Basingstoke - Cole, Seymour, and Co. ....... . 22,714 Bedford Bank, Bedford - T. Ba rnard . 34,918 Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. ........................ Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb , Woot ten, and Co. 26,725 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Aat woods, Spooner, and Co , Birmingham and Warwicks hire Bank, Birming h am ---Lewis, Moilliett, and Co ............. .•.. 17474 , Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and. Oak . 782,7539 85 Boston Bank, Boston - Ga rfit and Co ............. , Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co ................ 15,263 Bridgwater Bank, BridgwateE. &J. Sealey 9,305 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 37,043 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 24,266 Bu c kingham Bank, Buckingham-, Parrott, and Co. • ...... Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury - Oakes, Bevan, and Co . Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 41,579 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 55,628 Batr. City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 35,818 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 62,827 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 22,346 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, 16,087 and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons 22,259 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters ........................ 49,281 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and 32,270 Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen -Morris and 20,878 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chcrtsey-Messrs. La Coste 2 . 816 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. 21,225 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co . 41 315 • Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co • Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 20,339 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co 2,957 Cardiff Bank, Carchtf-Towgood and Co 6,855 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 26 ,362 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 19,002 Dias Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,565 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. 13,741 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co Dover Union Bank, Dover-Latham, and Co - Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, and Co 86,884 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man 7,725 15,331 3,06 ... 9,8 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. :05,287 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. . 50,583 Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Waltord. and Co. 53,360 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 34,129 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. 'arringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 7,83 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 14,13. Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 5,465 Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen 21,608 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 20,436 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 14.432 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 29,956 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 33,537 llereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,429 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel _Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. 15,390 Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Aleaanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co 19,8 20,104 Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, a nd Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-0 otch and Sons 8,671 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane ,End—C Ilarvoy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 49,54 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown, and C). Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 446 Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... 29,370 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... 39,697 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... 18,733 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith land Co 95,589 Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St _ Barbe — 4,230 8,12 35,389 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynnßegis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst iT and Co 12,374 Manningtree Bank, Man ningtree—Nunn and Co 6,387 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 16,163 Marlborough aad North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hil lier 1;,705 mer l i onethsture Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .. Miners' Bank,. Wi11iam5,,,,.,, and Co 16,762 Monmouthshire g e av Agricultural and Commercial Bank B e a n i p — Baileys and Co 27,678 Monmouth Old Bank, Chepstow gunk, Bank, Brecon Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead. Monmouthshire Newport Bank, Nevv ' 6 ....................... . 16, 9 47 —W. Williams and Sons... id port - Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey.-n. 988,018124 Newark and Sleaford Bank, a n g s A nd Newark Bank, Newark—Haudl4,apCoeradeoali .................. ... a . t .. n: Hata ' . and Co Newbury Bank; Newbur y —Bunn y an d Slococ-1; ' 1 ' 727 34,721 Newmarket Bank , Newmarket— Eo mond. and Son iss— a3 o Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, D . . T. r and 2,914 Dyson .................................................. 2,914 Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—llarveys and lludsons ............................................. .. 45,324 Norwich an d Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co .......................................... Nottingham a n d Nottinghamshire C 0................................... Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co ............... Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and C 0..... ................................................. Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0.,. ....................................... 23 ' 33. ' New Serum Bank, Sarum—Heti e ... Everett, and Co . 4,44 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 28,740 Ogwestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co 16,5;0 10xford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,455 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson... Old Bank Tunbridge, Tunbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells and .Benoalis Bank, Tonbridge— Beaching 44 Sons ,„ 9,238 ' ties: TREL SUE, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1847. Average Amount. Oxfordshire Witney Barak Witney—Williams , Clinch, and Co 100,65 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 47,530 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,904 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke ........................ 10,277 Peterborough Bank, Peterborough —Simpson, White, and Simpson .............................. 11,355 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Fal Rimou Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—ckets th , Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—gimonas and Co 37,005 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Ri c hmond Bank, Richmond — St a p leton and Co 6,642 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,084 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son — Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 14,658 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 1 5 ;933 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 21,085 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. 12,872 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay 4,244 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron _ ___ 5 033 Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 18,292 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 23,921 Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adana, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingboume —Valiance and Son 3,530 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddicon and Son 17,19g Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,389 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,686 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone — W. M oore 7,080 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 16,595 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,079 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 23,603 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart... 2,326 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,448 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,959 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Toweester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and 15,218 Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 23,968 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 11,05 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, 7,382 17,351 12,607 9,776 10,664 28,155 Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. ... 43,462 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 14,610 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire blank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 4,851 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. . 35,547 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. .. ~ 57,260 Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. . 10,250 Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley,Lavender, ii land Co. 12,678 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 82,588 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner 3,248 12,107 Whitby 7 Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-. kinsOn Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. 19,725 _ _ 21,596 Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,438 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton — Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. . 50,975 Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,165 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swami. Clough, and Co 45,636 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,091 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford.... Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield : Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . .., Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 15,825 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham 128,423 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company: Carlisle 25,121 19,009 34,89 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,096 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,992 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com -25,660 pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 149,243 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 16,920 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield.. 34,004 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,288 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,264 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 39,972 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,205 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,49.5 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,986 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,689 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 65,517 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 54,867 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham... 29,318 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Nottingham 28,615 295 9,520 Company, - igrn. Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 81,914 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksham 57,255 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 79,645 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 57,959 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester ..... ............... - Saddleworth... 3,490 Saddleworth Banking Company, Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,765 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com • pa . 9y, Stamtbrd . -J, OItUILLILUL,t . Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shsrhoipreshßiraenßk,aannkdi.ngS ................ Bank, Lang port 28 ......... Company, . .. frnai . . .. ........... 3 46: 4 95 8 3 4 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn s h P e ' , m il eYI,4S:no and r l b i r l i d u g 4, S C h o:p e a ld ny,Sl,n; Sheffield ariliml: e mshiro Banking Company, Ideydale B arking Sto Company,Banking 25,009 Rotherham Joint , Swaledale and Wen•i151,497 Richmond... Stmkton and Do - ril ' arn .... 6 ............. , _ County B .. pany, Stockton ......... .. - an lag Com- Storey and Thomas's .. Bank. ... Company, Shaftesbury ......... - .......... . Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .............. 9,304 Suffolk Bankin.-, Company, Ipswich ........... 855 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking " Co.. pang, Wolverhampton • - 34,260 Wakefield and Barnsley Union. Bank, Wakefield 1368 5 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven ..... .., Warwick and Leawir_gton Banking Company, Leamington ...... ... West of England au fl South Wales District Bank,Bristol , ......................... . ......... , 79,897 '3,250 0,664 5,074 Average Amount. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,373 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud. dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester York Union Banking Company, York 63,451 York City and County Banking Company, York 92,106 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, May 22, 1847. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 27. (Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in Banco.) COLLINS V. NEWSTEAD. Mr. Sergeant SHEE moved for a rule for a new trial, or that the verdict should be set aside in a case tried at the Surrey assizes, at Guildford, on the sale of a mare which ultimately turned out to be unsound. It was con tended on the part of the plaintiff that the verdict of the ju)7 had been given on insufficient evidence, or from a peculiar bias which had been obtained over their minds bll the peculiar testimony of Mr. Harding, one of the wit nesses, who was well known to them. It wascontended by Mr. Bovil, on the other hand, that the jury had had a view of the mare, for she was trotted out in the streets of Guildford in order to show what the nature of the 1 ailment was to which the mare was subject, but they had seen no reason whatever to doubt her soundness. Mr. Greenlake, who had bred the mare, had seen her before she went to Melton to be sold, and then had observed no fault about her. She had been brought to London partly by rail and partly by hand, and had then been kept in a hot stable without any work whatever, after having been used to carry a farmer of sixteen stone weight, and the consequence was, that if the horse had become unsound at all, the disease had occurred since she came into the possession of the plaintiff. Mr. JAMES said that the mare had been purchased by the plaintiff for Alr. Benedict, a horse dealer at Paris, and he it was who first perceived that the mare was labouring under lameness in her feet. The mare had been brought from Yorkshire and placed in the stables at Lambeth, where she had the advantage of exercise in the ride attached. to the establish ment, and while under supervision there she exhibited that peculiar dotty step which indicates disease of the venicular bone—that is a bone of a shuttlelike form, intended by its moving backwards and forwards to give expansibility to the hoof. ,Mr. Sergeant Shee, in his address to the jury, had improperly influenced them by representing himself as the farmer's counsel, and calling upon them to give a verdict for a farmer in opposition to the evidence of the veterinary surgeons of London. In order to influence them still further he had called a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Guildford, of the name of Harding, engaged in the same business, who was well known to the jury, and through whose inducement they had given their verdict. Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that they were bound to take the general rule of looking at the evidence on both sides, and, considering the observations of the judge, as well as the evidence, he thought that the verdict ought not to be disturbed. Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Justice CRESSWELL eV - pressing their coincidence with this opinion, the rule was refused. - - BROWN V. RICHARDSON.—RESTRAINT OF A CA. SA. Mr. WELLS applied for an order of the Court to re strain the execution of a ca. sa. pending the return of a bill of exchange in return of a promissory note which had been given to prevent the arrest of the applicant. It appeared that a suit had been instituted by a person of the name of Brown against Richardson, which ulti mately went to judgment. To avoid this Richardson and a friend went to Brown, and offered the promissory notes of two other persons as security for the debt, pro vided the judgment was stayed. Brown assented to this if he was furnished with the promissory note of some third person, but took one of the notes then presented, engaging both to restrain the judgment and to return the note which he held on receiving the one which he required. He bad done neither, for, although applied to, he bad neither returned the note nor withdrawn the ca. sa., and the application was to restrain the judg ment pending the return of the promissory note. Mr. Justice COLTMAN directed the rule to be issued. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 27. SIMMONDS V. rzuwrz AND ANOTHER. Mr. MARTIN appeared to show cause against the rule obtained in this cause, which was obtained last Hilary term by Mr. Humphrey, to set aside the verdict for the defendants, and to enter the same for the plaintiff for 501. or 100/. on the indebitatus count. The plaintiff in the case was a traffic-taker, and had engaged to take the traffic upon a certain projected 'railway, of which the defendants were members of the provisional committee. The line was stated to be about 60 miles in length, and the terms of the contract were, that 151. per mile should be paid to the plaintiff for his services by three instalments, the first of which was to be paid upon the commencement of the work, the second upon the de livery of the traffic tables, and the third was made con tingent upon the passing of the Bill. When the traffic tables were completed it appeared that the line was sixty-eve miles in length, and a claim was made by the plaintiff for this extra amount of mileage, and also further sums alleged to be due for services performed by the order of the solicitor of the company, in the remodelling of the tables of the traffic, in consequence of an alteration in the course of the proposed railway. The defendant had paid plaintiff the amount of the first instalment, 3001.; previous to the action having been brought, the second also, amounting to 3001., was paid into court. The third instalment of 3001., the Lord Chief Baron, who said the cause decided could not be reviewed, the condition upon the payment was made contingent, not having t been complied with. The ques tion raised by the rule was, whether the plaintiff could claim for his extra services and extra mileage upon the indebitatus count of the indictment. Mr. HUMPHREY was heard in support of the rule. The COURT decided that the rule ought to be dis charged. Rule discharged accordingly. EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the proprietors of the East Lincolnshire Railway was held yesterday, at No. 36, Great Georgc•street, Westminster; Mr. George Hussey Packe in the chair. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the meeting was a formal one, under Lord Wharncliffe's Act, to agree to the several Bills the company had pending in the present session of Parliament. Drafts of the following Bills were then submitted to the meeting and approved of : " A Bill to amend the East Lincolnshire Railway Act, 1846, and to authorise a deviation in the line of such railway, at and near Boston ; and the construction of a branch railway to join the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, near Grimsby." " A Bill to authorise the East Lincolnshire Railway Company to purchase an existing lease of the Louth Navigation." And also " A Bill to enable the Great Northern Rail way Company to take a lease, or to purchase, amongst other things, the East Lincolnshire Railway." Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting terminated. LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY A meeting of the English shareholders in this rail way took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the necessity o f an immediat e dissolution of the company. D. Paul Esq., in the chair. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con vening the meeting, Mr. WILKINSON addressed the meeting at some length. He said that there was some analogy between the case of the present company and that of the Bor deaux and Cette Railway Company, yet that in many respects they were very different. In the latter case there was no course open to them but to dissolve, but there were far brighter and better prospects for their com pany. The object of the present meeting was to express strongly and unanimously to the French Government the conviction of the English shareholders, that unless some important modification was made in the terms of the contract it was impossible to carry it into execution, and that if these were not made it was necessary to abandon it at the risk of losing the caution money, namely 400,0001., but that if the French Government acceded to reasonable terms the English shareholders were prepared to carry out their engagements to the letter.—(Hear.) The Journal des Chemins de Fer showed that there were 200,000 French shareholders who were wholly favourable to the part which they were desirous of taking. A long discussion ensued, which was very uninteresting ; resolutions were, how ever, agreed to, embodying Mr. Wilkinson's views, and a committee was :appointed to carry them out—the ex pense to be borne by a levy on the shares of sixpence per share. IRISH POOR RELIEF. SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. Relief Commission-office, Dublin, May 15,1847. May it please your Lordships—We beg leave to submit a second monthly report of our proceedings under the Temporary Relief Act, 10 Vic., cap• 7. One thousand two hundred and forty-eight elec toral divisions are under the direct operation of the Act, and many others have means remaining which enable them to hold back; many, however, still re- quire an organised system of relief, and we feel con siderable disappointment that this progress should have been so slow, seeing no good reason why the measure might not by this time have been in full ac tivity all over the country. The means were, to the best of our belief, within the reach of all the local bodies, through whose agency it was to be worked, and without whose assistance nothing could be done; but delays have arisen in many parts from the great disinclination which seems to be gradually arising against the commencement of an extensive system of out-door relief, and a vague impression of other more favourite systems of meeting the difficulties. Some committees have certainly worked with zeal and ability, and are proceeding to carry out the measure with charitable feelings, united to the firm ness necessary to prevent its degenerating into abuse. Others are equally well disposed, but experience difficulties which they cannot find means to overcome without inconvenient delay. Some are negligent from an aversion to this first essay of an out-door provision, as above mentioned, or from a desire to force on a continuance of the system of public works as the general means of relief; some from animosities and dissensions among them selves; and others from a want of willingness and energy to undertake the task. In addition to these causes there has been, in many districts, an assumed excuse afforded for deferring the necessary proceedings under the Act, by the circum stance of old committees or parties having sufficient funds remaining in hand to provide for the most urgent wants of the moment. So long as hopes were entertained that, by the delay of the requisite preparations, the continuance of the expenditure on the public works could be enforced, on the plea that those works were to remain in acti vity till the other measure should be ready, a great negligence was observed in many districts ; and it has been only by the determination shown in a con siderable reduction of the works, that a tertain degree of activity has at length been produced. This has been the only means in our power of sti mulating the Committees to exertion, except by re monstrances through the medium of our inspectors. Amidst the awful extent of distress that prevails generally over the country, and with extreme inten sity in the west, and in parts of the interior, much alleviation has been afforded by the benevolent efforts of individuals, and of associations, and even by the active sympathy of foreign countries. The public works provided for a very large number of distressed persons, but as the extent of the calamity was gradually developed, together with the necessity for providing for the wants of millions of unfortunate beings, all of these means having been found totally insufficient, and the Legislature has deemed it neces sary to meet the emergency, by an arrangement as proposed by this Act, for the seeking out of every distressed individual. • We make this statement to show the enormous arrangement that is dependent on this commission, the great demands that arrangement must necessarily involve, and the real difficulties that must arise in its establishment, particularly when so much opposed to the desire and feelings of so many of those on whose assistance we are dependent for carrying it out, and who are only reluctantly led to lend that assistance because no other means remain for saving numbers from absolute starvation. In the development of this great temporary relief operation, we are met by many objections to our re gulations, by assumed 'difficulties, and by remon strances against the effects of the act itself ; with the latter of course, we have nothing to do, except to show that such effects, whether good or bad, are inherent in the measure, and not arising from our administra tion of it. - The first and most reasonable complaint brought forward is, that it will have the result of feeding vast numbers of able-bodied men, who will be kept in idle ness. We are hardly bound to explain why the insuffi. ciency and enormous expense of a public work sys , tem have precluded the continued application of tha remedy for this inconvenience; but we point out the anxiety of Government for the promotion of legitimate public works, and for the encouragement of private works, and we urge the importance of all proprietors, farmers, and of individuals in general, affording as much employment as may be in their power. It must be confessed that, notwithstanding every effort that can be made, there will still remain a vast multitude of able labourers to be fed without employ ment, and suggestions have been offered as to the propriety of establishing some useful labour in return for the rations ; but they all tend rather to the ad vantage of effecting that object than to the means by which it could be accomplished. We concur in the principle, but consider that the result can be only very partially attained. This we have endeavoured to explain in our circular of the 22d of April. Demands continue to be strongly urged upon us to admit of the administration of relief in aid of wages, on the plea that a man cannot support a large family on his wages, although all above fifteen years of age are allowed to be distinctly entered on the lists. The principle we have laid down has been so com pletely understood and established in England, that it is only necessary to advert to it, in order to explain that, even under the present circumstances of Ireland, there is nothing peculiar to justify its relaxation; on the contrary, we consider that it is essential to avoid at this moment the introduction of a system which we are satisfied is in its nature pernicious, and calcu lated to add considerably to the future embarrass ments of the country. Independent of the encouragement that would be given by this provision from a public fund to early marriages and their natural result, large families, without any prospective means for their support, it is not apparently perceived that the same argument would be equally available for the partial support of small families, or of the single labourer, and that wages would be no longer regulated by the ordinary competition of supply and demand, but would become absolutely at the caprice of the employer. If any deviation were made from this regulation at the present commencement of out-door relief, it would be found extremely difficult to rectify it here after! and we should be accused, and with justice, of having been the means of inflicting a very serious permanent injury on the community. Dissatisfaction has been expressed from many parts at the inadequacy of the amount of ration that we have defined as the scale for distribution. Under the present dearth it would be impossible to afford relief to the degree that every charitable person would de sire ; it must be reduced to what is strictly neces sary ; and we have the authority of the Central Board of Health, to whom we have submitted our proposed , scale, that it is reasonable, under the circumstances of the case. We find it difficult in many districts to obtain the establishment of soup kitchens, as the medium in part of relief. Dry meal is universally greatly pre ferred, and, it is feared, chiefly on account of the opening it affords for abuses, and many Committees, yielding to this popular feeling, or to avoid increased trouble, insist on its use. Other injurious deviations from our regulations are also frequently pressed upon us; and it may be deemed a matter of surprise that persons who appear to have the greatest dread of the introduction of the measure of out-door relief, should, in many cases, advocate proceedings that would greatly add to its evils. A very difficult question has been repeatedly sub mitted to us, viz., the extent of holding in land, or of property in stock, &c., that should disentitlo a per son to gratuitous relief. We consider that this can with reason only be dealt with according to each individual case. Abstractedly it may be thought that the possession of any property should preclude a person from b e i ng cons id ere d destitute ; but,inde pendently of the cruelty of this principle, it becomes a question of policy whether a man should be driven to permanent destitution, when, by some temporary relief afforded him he might hereafter, by such re served means, b e e n a bl e d t o gain an independent live lihood. The sub s tit ut i on under t h e A c t o f re lief by food for that b y public works as hitherto afforded, is ex tremely u n p opular with all classes. Th ere i s a natural in prejudice , favour of the useful effect that must, in a certain degree, be produced by the latter, and for money pay ments ; wh i le t h e ver y great abuses to which the system gave rise are overloo ked, as are also the demoralising effect of the semblance of labour for full amount of wages, and the impossibility by such means of meeting the extent of the emergency. The public wor k s, as a measure of relief, are in course of rapid re d uct i on. as t h e n ew measure is f?rcedinto oper a ti on ; an d we b e li ev e that the judi cious arrangements of the Board of Works are effect ing this obje c t w i t h f i rmness, com bi ne d w ith due consideration for the circumstances of each locality, t under i i anxiously ou r Act. boped, that a large mass of the so as not t o press on the distresse d popu l a ti o n more than is abs o l u t e l y necessary to s ti mu l a t e the relief public committees to pr ocee d w i t h th e m eans of distributing food community, now a b solutely requ i r i ng f oo d , w ill works commensurates ca can be e gradually be a b sor b ed by the prosecut i on o f suc h recommendeduti l utility yo,n t withh e legitimate a d due amount of of work for th e expend i ture, b y un d er takin g s, by public companies, boards, - and by the efforts of indi vidual proprietor; to establish as much labour as shall be in their power. The Legislature has been led by the circumstances of the times to deem it absolutely expedient to pro- vide for the present distress by the searching measure of unproductive out-door relief. As commissioners for carrying out this measure, our efforts are earnestly engaged in the endeavour to avoid the permanent evils to which it must be liable ; but it is manifest that, while we indicate the means by which, to the best of our judgment, this object is to be effected, the interests of the country are in the hands of the local bodies and of local influences, in whom alone the power exists to bring it to the most favourable results of which it is susceptible. While some are aware that such is the case, and are making laudable efforts to carry their districte through the existing calamity as rapidly and with as little mischief as possible, we regret to say that there are others so short•sighted, so indolent, or so perverse, as to leave events to take their course, and conse quently to allow of mal-practices which they might prevent, or even connive at them for the purpose of self-advantage. We accompany our report with the circular orders we have issued since our last. \•ire have the honour to be, my Lords, your most obedient humble servants, J. F. BURGOYNE. D. M'GREGOR. T. N. REDINGTON. R. J. ROUTII. E. T. B. TWISLETON. HARRY D. JONES. To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c. IRELAND. THE NEW LORD LIEUTENANT. DUBLIN, MAY 25.—His Excellency the Earl of Claren don will be sworn in before the Lords Justices and Privy Council, at three o'clock, p.m., to-morrow (Wednesday.) In consequence of the very recent death of the Earl of Besborough, there will be no public entry. On arriv ing at Kingstown, his Excellency will proceed to the Castle in his private carriage. His Excellency intends, before the close of the week, to return to London for a short time, in order to make arrangements previous to his taking up his abode at the Castle. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, MAY 25.—Whitsun week lb not a time at which much business is done at Manches ter, even in periods of prosperous trade ; and, there fore, it will excite little surprise to learn that the trans actions on 'Change to-day were on an exceedingly limited scale. Still there was a somewhat more cheerful feeling in the market than we have observed for a week or two past, the price, though not higher, seemed to lerably firm. ROCHDALE, MONDAY, MAY 24.—T0-day the market has been very thinly attended by buyers, and the busi ness has been more than usually flat. The hand-loom weavers are but partially employed ; and if there be not a change for the better, the power-looms will probably have to adopt short time. The wool dealers complain much of the limited demand for the raw material. HALIFAX, SATURDAY, MAY 22.—The business in the piece-hall seems to become more limited almost every week, and prices are little better than nominat ; the manufacturers being unable to effect sales, even where they are disposed to accept reduced rates. The demand for yarn has been less during the past week, as mer chants are influenced in their operations by the scarce ness of money. Prices are with difficulty obtained. The sales of long wool are to the most limited extent, and staplers are anxious to get out of stock ; but the cau tion of the spinners checks purchases ; and what are effected must be at a trifling decline in price. But little is doing in short wool, and some sorts seem to have a downward tendency. HUDDERSFIELD TUESDAY, MAY 25.—The principal purchases made to-day have been for American houses, who .cull, have se vera l b uyers here. Th e h o me trade is very and but little is doing in the warehouses. —Man - cheater Guardian. BAD NEWS FOR SPORTSMEN.—We regret to lenru that the young birds on the moors are dying in great numbers. W e h ope the fine weather wh;oh - has now commenced will st o p the ditiease,Scotch Alper. TIIE DEATII OF MR. O'CONNELL. The intelligence of the death of Mr. O'Connell, re ceived this morning, produced a profound impression, extending through all parties. The Dublin Evening Post, published this afternoon, thus refers to the event :—" Although his country must for some time have been prepared for the announcement we make this evening, yet the shock caused by the death of Daniel O'Connell will be felt in every city, town, and hamlet in Ireland—by whatever manner of men—by whatever class of religionists—by whatever section of politicians—these may be inhabited. All ranks, all denominations of prople feel,, and all will acknowledge, that ' a great man has fallen in Israel.' But it is an ac knowledgment, also, that will be echoed by England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany—by the two Americas --by the world. " There has been no other man born in Ireland who has identified the story of his life with the annals of his country. For forty years it may, with perfect truth, be affirmed that he has made the history of Ireland. " The death of O'Connell ! What a crowd of asso ciations do these three words suggest ! To the Catholics of Ireland—we care nothing about their miserable dis sensions—the words will be full of sorrow ; but they will, at the same time, awaken a feeling of that gra titude which slumbered, we are afraid, in the bo som of too many of them, and kindle anew that ad• miration with which they were so long accustomed to follow his career, and to hail his triumphs triumphs, too, which, it must be remembered, were theirs also. We do believe that amongst the Liberal Protes tants of Ireland the sentiment is similar. Nay, amongst those Protestants who were hostile to the religion of the man, and to the great cause of which he was the moving, energetic, and indefatigable leader—amongst even these, we believe, there is a feeling of regret that he is gone, and an acknowledgment of his transcendent powers. "At any rate, all men will acknowledge this truth, that for nearly half a century he was the foremost man in Ireland. That we have owed to him that indomitable agitation which wrung the freedom of his country from hostile statesmen, and from the reluctance, in some de gree, of a proud and bigotted Legislature. That eman cipation would arrive at last may be assumed. But, if he had not arisen—if he had not acted as he did act, the blessing might not have been conceded in the time of the present generation. "This is a glory which no enemies of the man can dissociate from his name. " With regard to the subsequent agitation for the repeal of the legislative union, it is needless to say that we regretted, not, perhaps, so much the agitation, as its ostensible object. That agitation has been of great service to Ireland. To its success, and above all to the great victory achieved over the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland and the late administration, we owe the endowment of Maynooth, the Bequest Act, and the Irish Colleges. Wo have no doubt that other good fruits w " follow." REPEAL ASSOCIATION. A notice was posted at the door of Conciliation Hall, this day, of which the following is a copy:— " Alas! alas! O'Connell is no more. The Association will meet at one o'clock to-morrow, to issue an address to the people of Ircland on this most awful and disastrous occasion." From an early hour the quay in front of Conciliation Hall was densely crowded with persons of every rank and sha(le of opinion, whose anxiety to obtain informa tion on the subject was intense and impressive; and as soon as the announcement had been made that O'Connell was no more, they all separated to make way for a sue cession of inquirers, who could scarcely be persuaded that their fears had been realised. It is stated that the remains of Mr. O'Connell will be conveyed to this city, and that a public funeral has been determined upon. The drawing up of the address, to be proposed to morrow, has been entrusted to Mr. °llea, a member of the Irish bar. ADJOURNMENT OF THE CORPORATION. This being the usual day of meeting, the Town Council assembled. The Lord Mayor presided. On the motion of Mr. Cornelius M'Loughlin, seconded by Mr. Thomas Kirwan, it was resolved, in consequence of the death of Mr. O'Connell, and as a mark of respect to the memory of that great man, to whom the country owed so much, that the corporation should adjourn for three weeks. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By the Owen Glendower, arrived at Portsmouth, we have received Cape papers to the 27th of March. We extract the following from the South African Commer cial Advertiser of that date:— _ CAPE TOWN S MARCH 27, 1847.—The latest intelli gence from the frontier represents the Governor as nearly ready for active operations, and a forward movement against the chief Pato, and whoever else may refuse submission or restitution of plunder. Colonel Somerset had been dispatched to Kat River for the purpose of raising men from that settlement for active service. The people there were perfectly willing to serve as a Burgher force to the end of the war, but they refused to enlist or serve as " Levies." A most injudicious method was adopted to overcome their scruples, by threats of for feiture of lands and other matters, under an erroneous impression, it would seem, that the lands there are held by a sort of military tenure, or on condition of military service whenever called for. The people, who are no fools, though their jackets are nut very sound, speedily put this to rights by exhibiting their " titles," and upon a more reasonable tone being adopted by the authorities, some 350 active men joined Colonel Somerset to act against the Chief Pato, as was then (March 17th) gene rally understood. The new Governor, like all new men, requires an oc casional hint from old experience, as to the character of the different classes of people in this colony. And one hint is, that with Hottentots threats are not only un availing, but invariably lessen the authority of the party that employs them. The Hottentot will listen to reason ing, and, if fairly overmatched in argument, he will admit it and yield ; but if he happens to be in the right, let not the educated man rely upon ingenuity or cunninr , words, for these pass by the unlettered men as idle wind. Right or wrong, however, he hardens himself against threats. HQ holds them to be open war, and only thinks how he may defeat them. Those who know the Hotten tots, and deal with them according to their nature, are able to lead them against any enemy, and from one end of Africa to the other. And under such men they are and have been in every war the right arm of the colony. Treat them, then, as men; beware of hurting . their spirit, which, in their circumstances, is naturally jealous, but, above all, observe the strictest truth and justice in speech and deed. The thing they chiefly insist upon is to be " treated like other people." They are not so nice about what that treatment may be, as that it shall be equal. The country looks with some trepidation to the be ginning of this second campaign. The miseries of the last twelve months were caused chiefly by the bad be ginning of the last one. A second Burn's-hill would be fatal. The Zuid Afrikaan publishes the Bill of Indemnity, enacted by the new Governor, " to indemnify all per sons in regard to certain acts done during the recent existence of martial law." _ Another emigrant ship, the Gilbert Henderson, had gone ashore in Algoa Bay, in a " brisk gale," says the report. SYMPATHY BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED —The master cotton-spinners of Glasgow having gener ally given notice of a reduction of 10 per cent. on their spinners' wages, the firm of Messrs. Andrew Scott and Company (following this example) gave the same notice, but stated to their spinners that they would not retain the 10 per cent. until provisions became cheaper or trade improved, then to be deducted in the same ratio that it had been even. To their " day workers" they stated that the prevailing dullness in trade would cause them to shorten the hours of labour in their works from ten to eight hours per day (on and after the Ist of June), but that they would continue to advance them five days' wages for four days' work upon the same terms as granted to the spinners. Under these circumstances their workers met, Mr. Ballantine in the chair, when it was unanimously agreed to present their hearty thanks to their esteemed employers for this almost unprece dented act of kindness on their part , and to give all publicity to the same.—Glasgow Post. THE FALL IN CORN. —That important functionary the bellman, was again called on this motning . to an nounce to te town a piece of news of less questionable character than his last week's proclamation :—" Oh yes, Great fact ! Cheap oh yes, oh yes ! G lorious news ! bread and flour ! London, Mark-lane, Monday. Men, women, and children, inhabiting Bury St. Edmund's, are with great joy informed that there was a large arrival of wheat and flour in the London market yesterday, and that wheat was 6s. Bs. par quarter cheaper, and flour ss. per sack lower to, with a dull sale. God save the Queen and the free traders." —Bury Poet. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26.—Yesterday evening Colonel Campbell, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Hants, entertained the Conde de Montemolin, the Duke de RTcdina Sidonia, his Excellency the Marquis de Villa franca, Colonel Merry, General Montenegro, Captain Barlow, R.E., Captain Pasco, R.N., Major and Mrs. Harvey, Captain and Mrs. Conway Gordon, Captain Stawiarski, Dr. Rolph, and other distinguished per sonages, at a grand banquet at his mansion, Northend, Kingston. This morning the Count and his suite attended a solemn mass at the Catholic chapel, Gosport, where the remains of his mother are deposited. The service was performed by the Rev. Ramon Doria, his Highness's chaplain. After service the distinguished per.y were present at the inspection of the 42(1 Highlanders, ii Colewort barracks in this citadel, in their full Highland costume; thence the distinguished party, accompanied by Captain Pasco, of the Victory, proceeded to the vie tualling establishment, Clarence-yard, and thence to Haslar Hospital, which establishments, under the com mand of Sir Edward Parry, afforded much gratification to the party. This afternoon the 43d Light Infantry, under corn mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Forlong, KAI., were in spected in review order on Southsea-corrnon, by Major General Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, G.C.11., in order to gratify these distinguished foreigners; the manner in which this most efficient regiment went through the various manoeuvres incidental to field operations e..wi!ed the admiration of the immense assemblage congregate to witness them; and, in the words of Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, when he last inspected them, " left nothing to be desired." The Admiral-in-Chief's barge attended upon the august party in all their peregrinations afloat, under the guidance of Captain Pasco, of the Victory. They re turned to town this afternoon by an express train on the South-Western Railway. The Ilecate steam-sloop, Commander West, arrived at Spithead last evening from the west coast of Africa station. The Commodore, in the Penelope, arrived at Whydah on the 12th of March, and gave the Hecate her orders to proceed home on the same day; . she accord ingly left for Fernando Po for coals, which having pro cured, she left on the 22d, taking the Waterwitch, 2, Commander T. F. Birch, in tow cicar of the island, she being bound to Kabenda to fall in with the Commodore, having on board one of the chiefs of the Bonny, who had seized English property on board a merchant vessel's boat; the culprit was therefore taken in the Waterwitch for the disposal of the Commodore. The Hecate arrived at Sierra Leone on the afternoon of the 14th of April under sail only. Having shipped suffi cient coal to take her to the Gambia, she left or the evening of the 17th of April, and arrived there en the 21st, completed fuel and left on ,. the 28th for Guree; where she arrived on the 30th, left in the afternoon of the Ist instant, and arrived at Teneriffe on the 9th, and left, after coaling, on the 14th for SpithQad. All the officers who left England in the Hecate have returned in her with the exception of Mr. Fox, the master, whose death we recorded some months since. The Hecate has been in commission since December, 1843, and was employed on the coast of Ireland, under C, fla naander J. P. Bower, until 1845, when that officer was proinoted. Commander West then succeeded to the appointment, and she left England on the 23d of Jane, 1845, for the coast of Africa. She has made three captures during her slave trade suppression service; one was shared with the Prometheus, and one of the others had 549 slaves on board. When she left the stal the coast and squadron were healthy, but the slave trade was thriving. It is estimated that the number of cargoes successfully landed forms a striking contrast in amount to the number of prizes made by the cruizers. The Grampus, 50, Captain Martin, the Juno, 26, Captain Blake, and the Spy brigantine, Commander Woolridge, were in the bay at Otaheite in the beginning of February last—all well; also the French Urania, 60; two other 50's, two brigs, two schooners, a steam sloop, and some transports. The Juno was taking in stores and completing provisions for six me ntlis from a transport which arrived from Valparaiso on the 11th of January. Our letter says, " The French have several forts commanding the approaches to the town, and watch-houses and towers built on hills at the back of the town to prevent surprise ; they are still fortifying the place. The soldiers have charge of one end of the town, and a number of seamen the other : they expect 1,200 soldiers to reinforce them hourly. Some of the tribes have marched in and submitted to the French. David Thomas, the gunner's mate, who ran from she Vindictive, is :strongly posted in the mountains with about 1,500 men ; he watches the French so closely that they dare not venture out of the reach of the guns his men frequently fall upon the guards in the night at the watchhouses and massacre then'. In the beginning of December last, 400 French troops marched out to a - tack him ; in one skirmish they (the French) lost fifty men, and David so harassed them that very few lived to return. They intend to attack him again la hen the reinforcements arrive. The French are training and arming the tribes who have sub mitted ; they are fine men, most of them exceeding six feet in stature. I think the French will soon be sorry for putting too much confidence in them. They (the French) have offered a very large reward to arty one who shall take or kill Thomas, who has about 20 more Englishmen with him, and frequently ccmes into the town in disguise, but the French do not know him. They have lost an immense number of men since they have been here ; one vessel, the Uranie, has lo.t 400. Provisions are very scarce and dear ; the only fresh meat to be got is a few small pigs and fowls ; there are plenty of cattle in the island, but the French cannot get at them, for they have only possession of as much of the island as their ships can fire over, and when their 1,200 men arrive to reinforce them, I think they will soon eat themselves out of this. A French officer aaid the other day, ' This is a second Algeria ; it has cost us more men and money than it ever will be worth." The labourers in her Majesty's dockyard petitioned the Admiralty last week for an increase of their weekly stipend, which has been for many years only 12s. Their L.)rdships have been graciously pleased to grant their request, and have increased it to 14s. a week until August next, in consideration of the high prices of pro visions. The Joseph Somes convict ship, having taken on board prisoners at Cowes, came to Spithead last night. The Hecate steam sloop, Commander West, is along side the jetty, receiving the stores which she is to take to Woolwich, with which she will leave this evening or to-morrow morning. The Clarence victualling establishment stopped making " relief" bread last night by Government order. The following are more detailed particulars of the capture of the Penelope's three prizes :—On the 17th of March she fell in with the Flying Fish, in chase of a slaver which she had been after four days and nights. She (Penelope) joined the chase, and continued all night. On the following morning she separated. The chase was seen about eight o'clock on the morning of the 18th. The Penelope fired at her, but the slaver did not heave to ; the shot went over her and then she hove to ; she was a magnificent sailer ; she threw nothing overboard for the Flying Fish, although she had put seven shot through her mainsail, but threw everything over board for us, and cut her bulwarks down. She was a fine vessel of 100 tons, with a deck only about 2 feet 11 inches high for 300 slaves to be stowed upon. The Penelope landed her crew at Kabenda, which she left on the 22d fur Congo, where she arrived on the 23d in the afternoon. About 16 miles off Congo she got fresh water and filled up tanks. She left Loando on the 28th of March, anti made for St. Helena. On the 30th saw a sail, chased and came up with her in about three hours ; found her to be the schooner Felicidada, with 312 slaves on board, mostly women and children, 17 men in irons, a sick and miserable looking mass. On the 4th of April, about one, P.M., she fell in with another vessel, and came up with her at sunset, after a hard chase, she having thrown everything overboard. She was the Joanita, named after her captain ; she was from Rio, empty, bound to the coast fitted for slaves, a fast sailer, which they think no sailing vessel would ever have captured. At Kabenda the Commodore inspected the Lorne, Bittern, Heroine, Sealark, and Lily ; all well. T h e Penelope remained at St. Helena on the 12th of April; all well. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY. —This being the day appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birth-day, the anniversary was observed here with the most loyal and universal marks of respect; the artisans employed in the various Government establishments had holiday, and everything was given up to pleasure and rejoicing. The weather was beautifully fine, and added the chief feature to the day's events. At an early hour in the i morning the royal standard was displayed f v r e o r m nni te e; King's bastion and room s, and on all the Go establishments, the ningcolours,e rmerry p e a a n l d s. the bells of the respective I ncluding s l t d t e l e s o before f t h e noon h a o l r t ewtroops in m anded by Colonel thega th rr e iso n n e n o s n i o n b e o r t s h , amoun t e d to nearly the the garrison, in 4, absence ooo m en of Lrd Frederick Fitz o eom Lewis, R.E., who officiated as L ieu t e nant-Governor of clarence, marched up t o the ramparts of the town, and placed themselves in d ou ble filo around the walls, their bands and colours att,ending,the and v a ie ll toy threilreodffioceff a royalrs in full dress. At twelve o c lock salute of 21 gunst ,w id h e ic t h s w p a it s h f e o e l d lo , w t e h d e p by lat a f l e l rm the ha o tt t e h r er s hips in harbo ur u reserving untilAitsftefirresevenas gtu were discharged th e so ldi ers fleet had ceased, a n d then y o pening . . around the walls fired a feu de joie, and so on after each seven guns until the salute was completed, concluding with three three tremendous cheers. Many thousands of spec tators assembled from all parts of the county to witness the brilliant spectacle. Sir Charles Ogle gave a magnificent banquet to a select party, and a ball and supper to about 200 of the officers of the fleet and army, their families, and friends, i n honour of the day. Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, ca, a l so gave a splendid entertainment to all the officers of the dockyard, upon a similar scale of hospi tality, and all the chiefs of the Government departments gave appropriate entertainments to their respective officers and pt i n friendsof the celebration n corporation of the of po occasion, rtsroouth f t o h r e t with he first time since we can recollect, allowed the day to pass without any such mark of respect or festivity. The Portsmouth Naval Club also celebrated the day by a banquet at the Portland Hotel, Souths ea; an d h er Majesty's tradesmen and others in these towns illu minated most handsomely. Mr. H. Craddock, foreman of shipwrights afloat of this dockyard, is appointed by the Board of Trade one of the surveyors under the New Steam Navigation Act, passed last session of Parliament. It is with much pleasure we announce this appointment. Mr. Craddock is a most talented officer. The late visit of the Lords of the Admiralty was one of a series of periodical i ns p ect i ons b y t h e Boar d to the various ports; these visits becoming more frequent must result in the best interests of the service being more generally studied and compassed than heretofore. It was impossible that their Lordships could become pro. perly acquainted with the progress of the various national works connected with the navy and its executive by merely the formally performed visit once or twice a year to the ports. Coming often, and when least expected, is the right way to acquire a knowledge of the matters with which it is so pre-eminently essential that the Lords of the Admiralty should be thoroughly acquainted. These visits will not promote any officer: that usually looked-for consequence of a visit from their Lordships and the display of their flag is abolished, their Lordships not feeling it expedient to continue the recognition of • custom which has led Commanders and First Lieutenants of ships to look for promotion, not so much from their merits as from the chance fact of their having received ' the Admiralty or some part of the Boa rd on their quar ter-decks, which has been the means of frequently producing great discontent as well as disappointment to less fortunate but perchance more deserving men. The Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear ,Vinairal Inglefield, Commander-in-Chief on the East India and China station, was at Penang on the 4th ult. The America, 50, Captain Sir T. Maitland, was at Lisbon on the 12th, expecting to be sent to Malta daily. She will not be paid off betnre \ larch next, it is expected. The Spiteful steam-sloop, Commander Sir W. Hoste, was at Trincomalee on the 24th of March, and is now on her way home.- The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander Hay, Was at Sierra Leone on the 12th of April; at which dateoffh the Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was cruising te west coact, all well. WoaLwien, MAY 26.—The Driver steam -sloop, Cap° at tain C. 0. Hayes, Commander, was paid off yesterday. Woolwich, on her return from the East Indies and Chins station. The Atholl troop-ship, Master Commander pears, will embark two companies of the Roy was paid wages in advance to-day at Woolwich, and under orders for Ceylon, to relieve the two companies at that station. The Atnpl i , m steam-frigate, Captain Woodford J• 'Williams, is still at Greenhithe. -al Artillery, RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting.. ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction, 1 1 , dis. —East Lanett.- shire, New Scrip, Is. 3d. dis.—Great Northern, 315. 3d. die* —Huddersfield Canal and Railway, % dis. ex int.—Leed s and Dewsbury, % dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, l ii P: —Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, % p.—London and North-Western, 171—Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 15 1 A 1 1 .'" Ditto, Quarters (A), 5 p.—Manchester and Leeds, 32L Shares (late Extensions), 1 4 dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 3s. 9d. dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln.. shire, Eighths, 2A dis—Midland, 116—Ditto, New, 24 1 North British, New Quarters (scrip), 1 ,i 3 p.—Ditto, Thud. (vrip), 1 1 4 p.—Preston and Wyre, 35%—Scottish Central, p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), dis.—Son Eastern and Dover, New, No. 1,1% dis.—Ditto, New, No. 2r 5 4 3 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 1 4 dis.—South Yorkshire, Don caster and Goole, 1 dis.—York and Newcastle, New, 4% p.--Di tt° ' Preference, 2 7 1 9 p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 8 P LEEDS, MAT 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergatet,Notting• ham, and Boston, 1 1 4 n. dis.—East Lancashire , INew , 2614 6d. dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), par—East and West Yorkshire, 1 1 / 2 dis .— Great Northern, 29 5. dis. — Leeds an d Thirsk, Nor' 5 n. dis.—Ditto, Preference, Is. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 19s. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 41 6 "; t Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extensions), % dis.—Ditto, Mat Riding Union, Is. 6d. n. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, lock, and Midland, 7s. 63. dis. — Newcast le and Berw New, 1 3 Z 1 p.—North British, Quarters (late Carlisle Br e= 17s. n. p.—Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 2s. 6cl. P harE Staffordshire, 395. p.—North-Western, 1 3 A n. dis.— Tv dale Junction, 24e. dis. SHEFFIELD, MAY 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Amberg a te, Notting. bam, and Boston,' 245. dis.—East Lancashire, 1 1 A dis. Lincolnshire, El 1-t/ 2 p.—Great Northern, 1 % dis.--Leeds ail Thirsk, Preference, par—Malton and Driffield Junction, d. '-- Sh 14 dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, % d' r Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 15 . e f ' Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (G rimsby and field), 8 1 / 2 Sis.—Sheffield. Rotherham, and Goole, 13/ 4 dis• LL, MAY 27. STOCK EXCHANOIL H — U The sales are--Blackburn, Darvrell• and Bolton, 31/2 dis.—North British, Quarters, 84$ —Di ttos Thirds (scrip), 475. 6d. EDINBURGH, MAY 26. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Dundee and Norther" Junction, 295. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, 30% ex 13 „ e r: Ditto, Quarters, 545. 6d.—East Lothian Central, 335.--, N e wport, 5 1; burgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, lls.—Edinburgh and; Northern, 16%—Ditto, New, 565. 6d.—Ditto, —Edinburgh and Perth, 30s. 6d.—Great Northern, 4,l*—: North British, 31s.—Ditto, Quarters, 82s.—Ditto, •Da" Quarters (scrip), 14s.—Ditto, Thirds, 483.—Scottish. Cor tral, 231/2. GLASGOW, MAY 26. STocK ExcllAxoE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 38s 6d.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 535. 6d.—East of Fifer 25s.—East Indian, 2s. 6d.—East Lothian Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 1614 —Edinburgh and Pert h ( New Co.), 31s.—Glasgow, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 39% —Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 538 —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle , 4/. 19s. 6d.—Manchester and Southampton, 9s. 9d —North British, New, Quarters (scrip), 14 s. 6d.—York and New— castle, Preference, 61/a. Messrs. J. and J. Holmes, shawl manufacturers u,y appointment to her Majesty, had two large Brunswick stars, with " V. R. " and foliage, extending the whole range of their magnificent frontage, brilliantly lighted, with gas yesterday evening. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL.—The anniversary festival of this institution took place on Wednesday at the London. Tavern, and was very numerously and respectably ate: tended. The Earl of Auckland filled the chair, stip . - 4 ported by the Earl of Waldegrave, Lord Byron, Admi rals Sir E. Codrineton, Bowles, M.P., Dundas, Sir C. Adam, M.P., Sykes, Sir J. Ommanney, Sir C. Mal colm, Prescott, Festing, Sir S. Pym, and Lysaght • Sir G. Larpent, Alderman Lucas , Capta i n Keppel, Sir J. EL. Pally, Sir G. Bremer, Sir S. Brown, General Taylor, Colonel Ballingall, Colonel Robinson, Captain Meynell, M.P., Captain Murray, Mr. J. Meek, Archdeacon Ro binson, Rev. T. Chambers, Rev. R. Middlemist, and Rev. J. B. Smith. After the usual loyal toasts had been disposed of, the Chairman gave " the Church," which was responded to by the Master of the Temple in an eloquent and impressive speech , where in he vindicated the attachment which existed between the Church and the navy. In proposing Prosperity to the Royal Naval School," the Earl of Auckland adverted to soma dispute which had arisen as to the propriety of altertoi its constitution, so as to admit civilians. He expressea his confidence in the success of the school, althoughthe want of support from the profession had bee n complained of, and he testified to the interest which he took not only officially, but from private conviction, in its wel: fare. The Earl of Waldegrave, Sir E. Codrington, and other distinguished gentleman, in replying to or pro posing toasts, made observations conceived in a similar tone, and strongly urged upon officers of the navy th,e . necessity and propriety of coming forward to suppon the institution in a manner so liberal that its distinctiv e character might be preserved. The subscriptions an nounced by Mr. Eames, the secretary, amounted to 1,5001., inclusive of 1,0001. given by the present Earl of Yarborough to found a scholarship in commemoration of the late Earl, and to provide with an outfit boys front the school entering the royal navy. The whole ar rangements of the evening were very satisfactory, and the charming singing of Miss Dolby, who was included among the vocalists present, made the time pass away most pleasantly - . Mr. Toole was toastmaster, and dis charged eoeft EA Dv t E h ß e T cl ls u E t duties N o . t 3 h_e_ offices E[ADVERTISEMENT.]—SENT INTOwitll hereditary Tn E COUNTRY efficiency Albemarle-street, ll a r k l n 'APcoleue4thsti • UPON APPROBATION invented Spectacles, for relief of the most extreme deafness Glasses and Telescopes.—Patronized by • .—Opera and Ra ce venor, Generals Sir Edward Paget, Field Marshall T. G ros' Keatings, Maiston, Frederick Sir Evan Lloyd, 81! James Russell, and T. 11. Blair. l chm ah : Mor rison, Dyot Robertson, Mackenzie. oodfallow, Clayton, Sir P. Maitland, Woolf, Murray, Thackray, Major-Generals Siryj"oh Walker, R Fox, Price, Lindsay, and Rose, Sir James Cockburn, sir Mackleod, Hamilton, Turner, s, and Cook; Lieutenant - Generals Sir HenryHlouverie Sir em J YB Macdonald, Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, Sir Vm. Eustance, ' SirEd Admirals Lord John Hay, Sir G. cock w b ar urn d Krison, and Buller: Sir George Martin, . Sir James H. 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[ADVERTISEMENT.] —A DANGEROUS DISEASE OF TUN LIVER AND STOMACH CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND Pull. —Mr. Thomas Randall, 7, Cottage-place, Solomon's-lane, Lime house, formerly a farmer, declares that his health for twenty years past had been so very precarious, owing to a derangement of th e liver and stomach, that he was frequently seized with spasms, which so nearly choked him, that he often anticipated being found dead by his labourers ; but spite of such dangerous symptoms , he was perfectly cured in the course of a month by rubbing Hollo way's Ointment into his chest, stomach, and right side, and taking his celebrated Pills, which are sold by all druggists, and at the pro it prietor's establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On 'the 24th inst., Lady Rivers, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., Mrs. Godden, of Watford, Herta, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Thomas Fraser San deman, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at Grove-place, North Brixton, Mrs. Sidney James Fletcher, of a son. MARRIED. Oa the 11th inst., at the Protestant Chapel, Alexandria, Captain Francis Charles Wells, of the 15 th Bombay Ng. Infantry, to Barbara Emilia Susanna, daughter of Rape" Thurburn, Esq., of Alexandria. On the 25th inst., at the Collegiate Church, marichester, Henry Collette, Esq., Captain 67th Regiment, to Kat herin ' youngest daughter of the late T. Sharpe, Esq., Manchester. On the 26th inst., at St. George's Hanover-squirep Sir Frederick W. E. Nicolson, Bart., C a ptain R.N , to gall Clementina Marion, only daughter of James Loch, Escl : , BLP• Glasfryn House, inst., raws f yn ydd, to Elizabeth, youngest On the 26th at Maebynlleth, Mr. Griffith Jarret t, daughter of the late T. Rowlands , LiwYnlYniletb. DIED. On the 21st inst., in Middlesex -place, New-road, London Richard Willan, Esq., aged 45 M . 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