The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

EVENING EDITIO_ set able to say, from sly present knowledge, what I atheeld recommend were I in Mr. Freeman's position ; hn,t I can say, that if Mr. Evans came to me for ad vice, I would say what I have said now, that his con stitution was of a kind that would materially suffer from goatisomeit. The. ATTORNEY-GENERAL —Do you under stand that Mr. Evans is allowe 1 to take exercise on the terrace on the bank of the Thane's ?—I did not ask him particulars, but I think he mentioned the terrace. lam not uainted with the locality. Mr. JONES—Are you acquainted with the banks •f the Dames ?—(oh, oh, and lauzhter.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL---4Do you consi der him in immediate danger ?—I do not. Mr. NUN TZ—Are you aware what quantity of exercise he had been in the habit of taking before his confinement ?—I never keew him until this day. Tha witness was then permitted to withdraw. Lord MAHON thought the evidence recommended his motion that the Sheriff be immediately discharged, and be suggested that the Noble Lord (Howick) would net raove the amendment, which had been suggested, but would make it the subject of a separate motion. Lord HO WICK would not move any amendment, as the evidence he had just heard quite altered his view of the question.—(Cheers.) He doubted whether he should awake the amendment at all.—(Cheers, and a laugh).—and he thought at all events he should postpone it until there was a greater necessity.—( Cheers.) The House th e n di v id e d on L or d MAHON'S me tie,'" that the Sh er iff b e di sc h arge d. The numbers were— For the motion Against it Majotity ---41 Sir J. GRAHAM thought that as the evidence of Dr. Chambers made it apparent that strict confinement wag ioierious to Mr. Evans, it shsuld carefully be con sidered whether it might not be enlarged. He would *move therefore that the evidence of Dr. Chambers be printed with the Votes, and he suggested that his Noble Friend (Lord Howick) would consider whether he alight not move to-morrow for the enlargement which trod tress suggested. herd HOWICIE did net see anything pressing in 0* own, and he would abstain at present from any motion. Probably, after a consideration, he might be iselinad Ito act an the Right Hort. Baronet's suggestion tet , neerreW if no one else did so. Lord INGESTRIE suggested that the Sher" titaaki lee set at liberty on parole.—(Laughter.) The evidence was ordered to Le printed with tL. Tot as. Mr, EMERSON TENNENT, who was very inclistiectif hoard from the noise of Members leaving the Roue, put a question to the Secretary of State for Pereiga Affairs, relative to the present position of the apciation which has so long been in progress, regard iag the compensation due from the Brazilian Govern meat to British subjects, for injuries sustained during Ole insurrection at Para, in 1835. Lard PALMERSTON said that the claims had heel referred to the Queen's Athol:rate s whose decision had sit 70 been received. I■ aaswer to Mr. BARNEBY, Mr. PRYME !raid that he would bring his motion respecting the Corn-laws as an amendment on the esotioit of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton on the 26th inst. In answer to Mr. HOWARD, Lord PALMERSTON said that Dr. Bowring'e Re port would be ready in a few days. The steond reading of the Administration of Justice (Ireland) Bill, and of the Ejectment and Replevin Bill (Ireland) were postponed till Wednesday March 18 ; the Committee* of Supply and Way. and Means were post posed be Friday. Mr. BROTHERTON withdrew th• motion of srlaick Le had given fleece for an:Address to the Crown Mo eonfer some mark of distinction on Captain Clegg of the Huddersfield, for his service and humane conduct toward the passengers and crew of the steam-ship Wil liam Huskiseon. He withdrew the motion because he anderstosd it would be against the usage of the House, and that tke matter might be left is the hands of her Majesty's Ministers. He then moved for a return of the annual exports of British manufactures to the dif ferent West India Colonies, both in quantity and value, seek article being separately stated, from the years 1.35 to 1839, both inclusive. Also, the annual im ports of different kinds of provisions into Jamaica, from 183 ii to 1889, both inclusive. The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned it Seven o'Clock. ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEED. INGS. ea itexclay, the2d inst., the Ecclesiastical Court of I Norwich held a sitting, and several cases were advanced a stage. O the ewe of the Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary v. Charles Childs, being called, the Judge (Charles ibvsas, Esq)., informed the defendant that he was now at lilbErty to state any legal objection which he might have to tie forma of the libel, without going at present to the wukkace of it. CHILL 4 said he felt that he was entitled to ttrga maw objections against this libel, as it was an ema ;onion /roan a type of this Coart, for which, in the person of the Jade', he desired to profess unbounded and moat toilteignod respect, but fcr which, in its pretensions, con- Atiassaien, laws, and practise, he felt only detestation and shltorrettne. With these sentiments, which be wished to taproot with all the force and distinctness admatted by the wraace of society, or of the Court, he should have de. *haul to wine hither; for the Judge was aware that had he atlases to submit to legalized robbery, by quietly suffering tiohrstiatra to distrain, he would not have been cited here; bkit ticy one consideration he had bees induced to appear in the Caere, ask that was the reliance he placed on the gni. veneal testimony to the personal integrity and legal preci. „sive of the gentleman who honoured the Court by presid. tug in it , but whe t he feared, was perpetuating a nuisance, Is, mitt/stain its intensity. The defendant proceeded to say, that having unier this tole inducement became a party to an Ecclesiastical suit, although competently advised that a valid objection would lie is the admission of the libel, he should waive such objec tions, isnd promote its admksion, in order that the facts of flee nays might come before the Court, and afford an illustra tins et the practices and principles on which these pro ceedings had been conducted. The defendant then applied for an order to inspect the rats is the liegistry, to extract from it, and to copy it, which was immediately granted, and he was assigned to put in nut personal answer at the next court, March 20, or the subsesiseet Court. LAbY GREY. BY THE AUTHOR. OF "RovswoN glows s," " FAIR. ROSAMOND," eca.—This ro mance aperes well with some striking scenes in the death cham ber of the young King, whose decease was the signal for the ambitious Srorthurnberland to thrust forward the gentle pupil of 'Roger Ascham, towards the Crown, the Tower, and the scaf ! The poisoned nosegay, which is said to have been the immediate cause of the enfeebled boy's death, is placed by Mr. the hands of ofteitEluskeea, who is made the mother of the Holy Maid of Kent, and to owe her desire for revenge, not merely to that cruel sacr fice of her daughter—tut to the cir earessance, of herself having been at an earlier period ruined and deserted by Henry the Eighth. On such a scale of inven- tien, and with such a moving principle of mischief, it is not aliftletklt to imagine how fearlessly the author dashes through the well-knows historical events of Lady Jan• Grey's brief and melancholy career, the ootlino of whose character is sweetly ckrawn. 't , "he work as a whole is interesting, and perhaps even more re.mr.rkable than the historical novels front the same pen which have proceded it.—Atheneum. The patent spectacles, manufactured by Mr. E. Solomons, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and 10, Old Jewry, City, rank in importance among the greatest of modern inventions, which is of the greatest importance to the public, in conse quence of their improving and preserving the sight, and their being of less specific gravity than any others, will be found highly advantageous to all persons having a determination of blood to the head or eyes. Their great efficacy is most satis factorily authenticated by the concurrent testimony of thousands •f living witnesses of the first respectability in this and the sister kin4do:n ; added to which, the documentary proofs sub mitted through the medium of the daily Journals, decidedly es tablish Mr. bolomons' reputation as an optician and scientific Men. His voice conductors, recently invented, are the most powerful instruments hitherto discovered for defective hearing. Deaf persons are enable'', from their minute construction (being only A of an inch in diameter), to wear them entirely unseen - they are inserted and removed with the greatest facility. 13; their nee musical sounds, and the lowest whisper breathed at 'a public assembly, vibrate on the organs of hearing in such a pleasant manner as to afford the greatest relief to those afflicted wiyh the distressing ailment of deafness. Owing to parties of the same name fraudulently advertising spectacles as " newly inventel;" the public att en ti on is particula r l y di rected to the % address of the above establishments. THE UNITED SERVICZ J OURNAL, AND N A T AL Afn MMITA SY MAGAZINE POE Itaacn.—.The . article of this useful and entertaining periodical, in ea painting en the great value of Magnetic Observ a ti ons, g i ves a lrGllelfrelof the instructions laid down for the guidance of the Seth Antarctic expedition, under Captain Ross, which, if seated 4p to, must be highly beneficial to the cause of science. Undo the head of the " Afilitary and Naval Establishments of Modern Egypt," we have an elaborate and complete account ef all the Paeha's resources for carrying on war ; it is an inte resting and 'feel document. The next paper terminates the aete.otnat of Colonel Parley's Operations at Spithead ; it is a very satisfactory one. The continuati on o f th e memo i r o f t h e " Vietory" forms the subject of th e prevent num b er of Eng laad's Wooden Walla," and is as attractive as ever. " Notes trona Cana‘le," by Bugle, are clever, soldier-like sketches. In *e " klempairs of Costello," the gallant Sergeant of the Rifle t t ris*e, .whose adventures have so often gratified us, we find new teeters., of intermit. His story is as romantic as the best narrative of fiction, and has truth written on every line of it. Ti." Nights on the Fo'castle" contain a well-described dream, is the ifedshipman's story, and we anticipate many pleasant Tares from the sils source. A Spanish Carlisno' con STRAW, his quota to the value of the Journal, by account of the military catastrophe of the Cellist war, and several scien tific, and professional eom munieations corn ' ntualser.—.lPeraiv Herald. piety a ve r y good a *The agent of the Bank of Scotland has received ex, bearing the London postmark, n 1 ng tees. .as intermit on it, stat i ng that the eritce"ihadlseL;eanralayeaahros ago, takes is th e e t ce here oi l s po un d r should Lave received, a g n o rl od ha e d x : n Ycapropriated it to his and " etie T p. h rl. is i R s a ieserves credit act i n ;g on itee r ; p lz t w an ev e z unjustly one than the sum h e .--Inverafts Antrnal. SKELEToNs..--Publie amazement and consider able iturierity were excited in this town during the last fe days., by finding embedded in a p art o f t h e under story wall (i: ejtlyieh there was it one time a p ress or cupboard) of one of the kcises pew being removed for the iraprovereent of the Shannon, bile entire skeleton of an apparently large athletic man, and the thigh; zue4 nos other bona of two others. THE TOLERATION OF THE PRO TESTANT KING OF PRUSSIA. Our Chu:ch party cry up for their own purposes of bigotry the truly Proteet tnt and Christian character of the Kng of Prussia, and eorne of them lately pro posed an humble address of thanks to his Majesty for the encouragement he has given to true religion. How far he deserves these encomiums the following extracts from the last Number of the British and Foreign Review—article, " Political Opinions of the Germans,"—will enable our readers to judge His Psussian Majesty labours, in common with other Continental rulers, under a mania for originating measures for the goad of his people, without allowing them a voice a; to the necessity or the due extent of the proposed inno vations. Of these the most extraordinary has, perhaps, been the amalgamation of Lutheranism and Calvinism in the new Prussian Protestant Liturgy. The wish to unite the Lutheran and Calvinist Churches seems to have been en tertained by the King as far back as the year 1798, when a Commission of three churchmen from each creed was appointed to consult and make proposals for its accom plishment. As nothing was ever heard of the result of their labour s, it is probable that these learned divines could not agree upon any feasible plan. The misfortunes which came over the Court of Frederick William and the Prussian nation in 1807, and which drove that Monarch to seek a temporary asylum at St. Petersburg, are said to have had a singular influence upon the project which he continued to entertain. Ho .was delighted with the re sponses of the choir in the Greek ritual to the priest at the altar, and is said to have borrowed from these rites the plan of the new Church service, which was drawn up at his command by some divines after the establishment of pease in 1616. The Prussian Protestant clergy were, in the year 1822, , formally surnraoned to relinquish all difference of religious tenets, and to unite in the formation of a new evangelical Church. A recent writer on the statistics of the kingdom (Voigtel), gravely observes, that the two principal Pro testant creeds agreed to an anion respecting outward forms, on the expression of the King's wish to that effect, in an order from his Cabinet, dated leth February, 1822. On the authority of this and of other writers who openly support, or prudently evade canvassing, the present mea sures of the Government, we should be justified in assum ing, that all opposition to this wide stretch of Royal pre rogative had now ceased; and that nothing but a cheerful apitit of obedience animated the Prussians, who were thus favoured with a dictation from the throne in matters of faith. How surprising soever such a consummation must appear to all versed in the history of religious controversy, let to those who know that, in the first instance, all the eading ?missies divines, with the eloquent and philoso phical Schleiermacher at their head, formally protested against ouch a mode of legislation, it must appear still more extraordinary that the aduiescence in the royal will should be so general and unconditional. The Lutherans were, is this new Agendum, called upon to sacrifice to the Calvinist form of worship no less than the words used in offering the sacrament of the Lord's Supper : "this is the body and blood of Christ;" the Calvinist form, " this re presents the body," &c., being that adopted in the new ritual. Among a number of articles which candidates for the priesthood arc required to swear te, the duties of a ci tizen towards the state, including the denunciation of trai torous designs against the Sovereign, are inserted ; an ad dition of undoubted northern origin, These articles are also, by a singular misnomer, trmed in the oath, "funda mental dogmas of Christianity. e " In vain did Schleiermacher and other popular writers raise their voices against these innovations, and show by the most forcible arguments, that such proceedings must lot only prove the greatest encouragement of that indiffer ence in religious matters with which the age has been taxed ; but that the conscientious of the two creeds would infallibly be confirmed is their adherence to their distin guishing tenets by these measures ; and thus the union, which by natural means was fast approaching, would be prevented. A lapse of twelve years seems to have been considered a sufficient respite for refractory consciences; for, in 1834, we find penal statutes, in the true course of religious zeal, enacted against Aon-Conformists. The history of the early persecutions against such pastors and their flocks as ventured to manifest a desire to evade or to resist the Royal will, is touchingly told in a work published by hl. icheibel. We confine ourselves to the proceedings of the last two years, which would, under the present restraint on the press in Prussia, have probably not been made public, if the dis pute respecting the arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne had not allowed the barriers which surround it is other states to be a little extended. " Only last year the provincial authorities at Erfurt caused Pastor Graben of Heiligenstadt to be committed to the House of Correction. The tipper Tribunal of Hal berstadt, however, no sooner learned the transaction than it ordered him to be set at liberty; and when the Magis trates at Erfurt appealed to their superiors, the Tribunal drew up a remonstrance to the King, stating that he ought not to allow his subjects to be imprisoned without a legal trial, which they were with difficulty prevented from send. ing to Berlin." " A• order of the Cabinet of the year 1534 imposes fines of front one to fifty dollars, besides other penalties, punish ment in the schools, &c., on Lutherans assembling to re. ceive the sacrament of the Lord's supper. Their preachers have been arrested and committed to prison, as it would seem, for an indefinite term, without even the form •f a trial. This occurred in the case of the Silesian clergymen, who were committed to close confinement i■ Marienwerder but three months back, because they would not promise to abstain from performing their clerical functions." When we read the inevitable results of this singular per secution, we can scarcely believe that such scenes could occur in our own days, in the enlightened kingdom of Prussia, and under a Sovereign whom some of our blunder ing zealots here represent as the head of Protestantism in Europe. Protestantism, indeed lit is fortunate for them selves that they are not in Prussia. The writer continues— " It is a matter of notoriety that, to keep regularity in the registers of births, it is only necessary to know whether children have been christened or not ; the person by whom they are baptized being of no importance ; for, according to the principles of the universal Church of Christ (from which the consistory of Breslaw has unhappily deviated, by ordering, in some cases, a repetition of the baptism), the validity of baptism is in no way dependent on the person performing the ceremony. Now the Lutherans never re fused to deolare that their children had been baptized. Inquiries were, however, made after the persons who bap tized theme, in order that they might be punished under the new penal laws ; but this information was withheld from conscientious scruples. A reseript was consequently issued by the ministers of the clerical arid police departments, dated 12th February, 1835, declaring all who refused to give evidence when required, respecting the person per forming a clerical function, whether it be the father or a mere witness of the ceremony, liable to three menths' im prisonment." _ _ I■ consequence of this decree, it is further stated, many fathers of families, especially in Silesia, were committed to prison, and a most demoralizing system of informing introduced, to put a stop to which, the tribunal of Ratibor was obliged, like that of Halberstadt, as before stated, to interfere, and the Minister was induced to rescind his de cree. But it seems that even the road of emigration is not wholly open to those who desire to quit the &stricts which they cannot inhabit in peace. " It has been erroneously stated in some journals that Silesian Lutherans had emigrated to Australia, for the sake of freedom of conscience. The truth is, that about 430 Lutherans f:orn the Mark, in the neighbourhood of Tulli chau, passed through Berlin in Whitsunweek last, on their way to Australia : and that not long afterwards about 160 others (we cannot be responsible for the numbers) followed them, in company with a few from Silesian villages of the vicinity. That Lutherans from one of the villages which have been the most severely visited with fines for the illegal performance of Church service, we mean the circle of Trebnitz, applied for permission to emigrate, is true. But the conditions imposed by the Government, that every fa ther of a family must prove the possessi , )n of two hundred and fifteen dollars, and every other member that of one hundred and ten dollars, prevented these poor people, who had nothing left on which to raise money, from executing their project. It is said, too, that the landed proprietors opposed this step of theirs by remonstrance to the Govern ment, fearing to lose, with the Lutherans, their beat pea santry, from the neighbourhood which does not s and in the best repute on the score of honesty." This is, then, a picture of the domestic administration of Prussia in the year 1835 I This is the manner in which the liberty of the person and of conscience are treated ! This is tl.e bead of Protestantism in Europe HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, MAPtcu 3.—We have nothing new to state in reference to this market ; at any rate nothing more favourable. Every week seems to add to the gloom and perplexity ; and, for the mast part, the goods that find a market are sold at a ruinous loss. In some styles of new fancy woollens a small profit may, with difficulty, be ob tained; but in plain cloths, and in all other fancy goods, the trade is altogether unprofitable, and, without a speedy change, the most disastrous results will be experienced among mer chants, manufacturers, and shopkeepers. The operatives also suffer much. and we fear their severe trials are nut even near an end.— ilartchester Guardian. CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—At Oxford A ssizes en Monday, Charles Morley was convicted of the wil ul murder of Mary Phillips, at Woodcote Common, near Hen ey-on-Thames, last year. The deceased was upwards of SO, t t o o and resided in a l one ly c ottage. She lived alone, a female i, retire neighbour name d Lamden be i ng i n t h e h a bit of assisting her ti, re n st the an rn d or m n a in k g in o g f thefasther door on leaving her for the eight. o lath of May, Mrs. Lamden, on going th e cott age , f oun d t h e d oor b ro k en open, and the old w oman cruelly saturated with blood.' outside was found a small her skull fractured, murdered, Her b a z, containing wedding-ringa wasfile e a with nd p a some ir o vio lence torn from her finger,About a foot from the door on the f com passes, and some other teats, togeth er with a filryer's tool s . Th e b ag an d it s con house, were identifield b afterwards f oun d i n t h e pr i soner ' s y wasniritness who hail left them secreted in a n e i g hb our i ng i the prisoner wa s accordingly t ' d n th e prev i ous M arc h , an d these tools at the last Midsummer Sessions convicted of stealin g sentenced to seven y ears ' t ransportation s s for thi s C ounty, an d sentence he was shortly afterwards• In pur suance o f t h at Woolwich. Suspicion w as a t the tirrri:Thoved t o t h e hulks at been concerned in the murd er , but there entertai ne d that h e h a d b evidence directly to implicate hi m , he wasnoeting no suffi c i ent on that charge. The evidence upon w hi c h it then a rra i gned to prove his guilt was as follows:—It wa s shown that at on t n ow sought previous to the murder he said that he had no money, day the following day was seen in possession of some silver: a" on La den, the husband of the woman who attended the ele'eeesrn swore to some conversation with the prisoner about a fortnight ell ' previously, in which he had stated Isis belief th a t the old man had a good many guineas in her cottage. He was w . s entenced to death (day not named) without hope of mercy. STEALING A DINNER.—A girl at Brighton was last week sent to the tread-mill for stealing a dinner'from a baker's oven. It was said, and apparently with some truth, that nothing was too hot for her. The aspect of the trade at Leicester is repre sented to be very discouraging , the demand for home bu,iness as well as for export having diminished during the last week. The value of cattle imported into Liverpool from Ireland, in the first eleven months of last year, amounted to 2,91)0,000 /. ; and the value of the insignificant article of feathers, imported into England from that oeuntry , is esti mated to amount annually to 500,0001. THE' SUN, LONDON THURSDAY, MARCH 5, IP4o LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. The sixth annual meeting of the Directors and Pro prietors of the London and Westminster Bank took place at the Company's Offices, Lothbury. The at tendance of Proprietors was very nutaerous, the large room of the Bank being crowded in every part. At one o'clock the Chair was taken by Joszert ESDAILE, Esq. The CHAIRMAN said, in the absence of Mr. P. M. Stewart, who had tho honour generally of presiding at their meetings, the duty devolved upon him of taking the Chair. Gratified as he felt at the opportunity that was afforded him of addressing so highly influential a body of Proprietors, he re gretted the duty had not devolved upon able hands. Circumstances, however, having placed him there, he trusted to the kindness and forbearance of the meeting, while he made a few observations upon the affairs of the Company. The Directors would have the pleasure shortly of submitting to them a statement of their proceedings for the last year, and as it would contain a full detail of their transactions it was unnecessary for him to enter into any lengthened statement. There was one point, however, in which he would anticipate the Report, feeling that it would afford to the Proprietors much gratification —it was with respect to the dividend which was now about to be proposed.--( Hear, hear.) The Directors, having carefully investigated the accounts, and after making due allowance for bad debts and other contin4en cies, felt themselves in a situation to declare a dividend for the year ending 1839, of 6 per cent. The Pro prietors having received in anticipation a dividend of t2i per cent., there remained to he divided a dividend of 3i, which would make 6 per cent. for the year.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Such was the gratif 7 ing statement that the Directors had now the pleasure of submitting to the Proprietors. There was one other circumstance which the Directors considered must be gratifying, viz., that the feeling of hostility which for some time existed on the part of the old London banks had, in a great measure, subsided.—(Loud cheers.) The difficulties which had occurred from time to time since the commencement of the establishment, had now been entirely removed by one and all of the London bankers. He regretted, however, to state, that there was one very important point yet to be gained—their Bank had not yet the power of clearing, but the Directors looked forward to the time when, from the growing importance and influence of the Bank itself, that object would be accomplished. (Hear, hear.) He would now call upon the Secretary to read the Report. The Seca/TART then read the Report, as follows :--• because he thought the Proprietors had every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which they had conducted the affairs of the Bank. He found that, in the year 1834, their profits were only 3,5461. ; in 1835, they were 15,0201. ; in 1836, they were 32,0001. ; in 1837, they were 34,900/. ; in 1838, they were 36,0001. ; and in the year just ended they were 48,0981.—(rhecrs.) They had a proprietary of 8 or 900 gentlemen, and a paid up capital of 600,0001., and what was still more important, they had a connexion with about 150 banks and their branches, and they had besides the build ing they were then assembled in, which they ought to feel much pride in calling their own, and which could vie with any similar edifice in the metropolis. All these were gratifying circumstances, and he then felt much pleasure in moving a resolution expressive of their con fidence i❑ these Gentlemen. The resolution having been seconded, was carried unanimously. Mr. SAVAGE moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Gilbart, their General Manager, and to the Managers of the different branches, for their zealous and effective services. Carried unanimously. Mr. GILBART returned thanks. Their Bank was the first Joint Stock Bank established in the metro polis ; and, of course, they had many obstacles and dif ficulties to encounter which others had not.—(Hear, hear.) Had they been unsuccessful he would be glad to know when the people of London would have heard of a second or a tnird bank ?—(Hear, hear.) He be lieved much of their succ-cs was owieg to the Directors having selected, for the n nagement of th e i r a ff a i rs , persons who had had considerable expe r i ence i n banking He (Mr. Gilbert) h a d b een twenty seven connected with the busi ness o f b an ki ng, years concerns. and for thirteen years of that period he had been a manager. The experience of some of his colleagues was greater than his own, and, as they grew older, their experience would increase. He trusted their duties would be as efficiently discharged in time to come, as they had been in past years —( Hear, and cheers.) The CHAIRMAN had the pleasure of announcing to them that the transfer of shares, which were held very largely in the country, were getting very much into London.—Hear, hear.) He also wished to inform them that they had succeeiled . in letting their old pre mises to a substantial tenant.—(Hear.) Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meetiAr separated. to purchase property on the Middlesex side of the , river, .;to enable them to mike the approaches to the Tunnel, such steps should be necessary. The meeting then adjourned. , AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY. At length the goods have subsided—at least from !sight —exposing the surface of thousands of acres 'which had not net the eye since November. Such a visitati' n cannot be styled '• irrigation ;" for though, unquestionably, the crop of grass must he heavy in those water-meadows which now are covered with a rich vegetable slime ; yet, as much arable land is abso lutely sodden with water, a serious impediment to the labours of husltandry has beer► raised, which does not usually result from the occasional overfhwing of the rivers. Some wheats in the lowlands are certainly ob literated ; and in the up-country we know that the an ticipated sowing of spring Talavera has been too long protracted, and even abandoned. We met with, and consulted agricultural authority upon, a curious report lately made before the Lord 'Mayor upon the approach of famine. A subject of so grave a character startles even by the most vague men dion of it ; but when seriously agitated, it claims the most earnest attention of the wise. Our friend laughed at the subject altogether : his breadths of rich wheat !in full health, his clovers covering acres of the fittest land, and his stock of turnips unexhausted—all these gave him promise of local plenty; and it is but just 'to say that lands of high and dry quality are in prime condition : but there are situations—cold, clayey, poached with water—which exhibit a far different pic ture. In the north-west of Wiltshire, for instance, our lcorrespondeat tells as (per date Feb. 1 1)—" Many of our 'farmers have declined sowing their usual quantity of wheat, not being able to get their land in proper cul tivation. ‘Vhat wheat is sown looks thin and un healthy ; and unless the genial warmth of spring should 'revive it, 1 am fearful the ' fall-sown' wheats will, in this neighbourhood, be a complete failure." Thus we perceive that there is some cause of local anxiety on the ground of one staple crop ; and therefore we do not scoff at the suggestion to sow a greatly enlarged breadth of oats, and, abo►e all, of the Tartary oats, for their yield is enormous. We conversed a day or two since with a farmer, whose hind is springy, and ton wet and cold now for spring Talavera ; he has raised 14 quarters of oats (when thrashed out) from the very land which, upon an average, would not produce above 3} quarters of wheat. Persons in general are not acquainted with tha flour of oats they associate the idea of oatmeal with it ; but the fact is, that the latter is a preparation of the oat by means of heat, for an express purpose ; but simple grinding at the mills produces a flour which (night readily pass for that of wheat ; and, though the trouble to the miller is considerable, and the quality of the meal inferior yet who would hesitate in cases of necessity ? Potatoes also are not to be slighted, :though perhaps too much importance is attached to a root which contains barely one-seventh of its weight of !actual farinaceous starch. We will speak more fully upon the potato at the season of planting. In the mean time we are quite sure that our agricul tural system is very defective ; that it might., under the guidance of science, be brought to a far more improved condition ; and that the actual tillers of the land have by no means kept pace with the progress of the popula tion. We require large experimental farms—not one, but several, situated in various parts of the United King dom, wherein the science of rotation might be com pletely developed ; and principles, determinate, and appropriate to each kind of soil and climate, established upon undeniable evidence of carefully-registered facts. We believe that England could grow its own corn in abundance to meet all home claims, and also to ex port grain, instead of depending upon importation at a ruinous expenditure. Let the English Agricultural Society, with its vast and increasing patronage, look the state of affairs boldly in the face, and devote its ener gies to a great and national undertaking. We quit generals, awfully impressive as they are, to inquire a little into present appearances. The lace of the country is much as it was ; for though the winter has been mild, and profusely wet, and the temperature equable to a great degree, yet there has been little sun, and soddened land rarely favours growth. The turnips have done admirably, and entire fields of the August sown (stubble whites) are still to be seen, well bulbed and verdant. The land turns up nicely, all things considered, and much spring wheat has been sown, and the sowing continues. Some lambs have suffered from the rain, but many are safe. Complaints are little heard, and prices remain steady. Frost set in with the north-east wind on the 17th, and though not at all severe, yet such was the force of the current during several days, that the sensation of cold was con siderable. Ploughing. however, has been in progress ; and time has been given for the waters to subside from the low grounds. We cannot recollect a parallel season ; it is extraor dinary, inasmuch us, without any interval longer than ' a week, there have been nearly nine consecutive wet months. Surely we are at a climax, and, therefore many reasonably hope that the criterion month of March, now at band, may afford evidence of a happy change. Should the spring and summer prose the land is so amply supplied with water, that abund ance may be anticipated, and, moreover, much expe rience may. be acquired by those who seek information from natural facts. EVIPRISONMENT OF THE SANE IN MADHOUSES. (From the last numner of the Medical Gazelle.) It is now about a twelvemonth since we directed the attention of our readers to this painful subject.* In one case detailed on that occasion, a young man was convicted of madness because he lay in bed till ten in the morning, and alarmed the neighbourhood ; added to which Sir J. S. Lillie thought that his disliking to go to the lunatic asylum at Hanwell wits a strong proof of insanity. In another, a patient was shut up in the asylum at Peckham, because, when let out, his tavern bills were unpleasantly large. In a third, a boy of a violent and selfish temper, with the additional disad vantage of having relatives at once irritable and affec tionate, was sent to a mad-house, by way of substitute for a strict school. All this may be mighty convenient to " irritable and affectionate" relations, but strikes us as being anything but just. It is strange to see how easily certificates are signed, when angry relatives have predetermined it. No incoherence so slight, no action so neutral, but is assumed as a proof of insanity. The other day, a Mr. Robinson, whose sanity was the subject of investigation, played a game of cribbage, at the request of his own wife, in order to show an emi• neat mad-doctor that he could count. The physician was satisfied with his counting, but alleged, in his evidence, that had Mr. Robinson not been mad, he would not have consented to play the game. In good truth, this method of investigating the state of a man's mind, with a predetermination to find it un sound, reminds us of Goldsmith's account of the way of ascertaining if a dog is mad. " A crowd gather row(' a dog suspected of madness, and they begin by teasing the devoted animal on every sine : if he attempts to stand upon the defensive, and bite, then he is unanimously found guilty., for a mad deg always snaps at everything ; if, on the contrary, he strives to escape by running away, then he can expect no com panion, for mad dogs always run straight forward be fore them."-f In an instance, however, which has just occurred, the intended lunatic has been more fortunate, and has come off with flying colours. Mr. Paternoster, it seems, quarrelled with his relations, and did not always express his displeasure with the coolness of a sage or an epi grammatist. It would be well if a man always recol lected that ira furor brevis est, and that, if a couple of cool medical practitioners happen to witness his wrath, he ma; find himself deposited within the iron gates of some asylum before he can recover his com posure. Those, on the other hand, who arc requested to sign certificates should reflect that tempers vary like temperaments, and that a thin irritab!e man, dried up in a tropical climate, does not talk like a reviewer. As Dr. Johnson said, wh•'n he was asked why he did not write like Addison, " Sir, Addison had his styie, and I have mine !" Some less tolerant practitioners, however, signed Mr. Paternoster's certificate, and he was conveyed to Mr. Finch's asylum, at Kensington ; but it was so clear that he was not mad, that, when the Metropolitan Commissioners saw him, they gave notice to Mr. Paternoster's father, that if he did not release him they would ! Mr. Paternoster, on being released, brought an action against Mr. Finch, and all the other persons concerned in the affair, and it came, on for trial a week ago. The suit was compromised; on condition of the defendants paying all Mr. Pater•i nester's costs, as between attorney and client, and giving him an annuity of 1501. per annum. This annuity, we believe, was the original bone of conten tion, and Mr. Paternoster's indignation at its being with. held was interpreted into madness. This ease will be a useful warning to every one not to sign certificates on the representation of interested parties ; the law does not ask us to give testimony as to what we have heard from others, but what we have seen ourselves. " Med. Gaz., Feb. 23, 1839. t Citizen of the World, letter 69. FOURTH CENTENARY OP PRINTING.—Great preparations are making throughout Germany to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of printing. Leipsic, the central point of the literary world, will celebrate this glorious event on the 24th, 25th, a.,1 2 Zth of next June, with great splendour ; and Felix Mendelsshon 13artholdy, is now writing a new oratorio for the occasion.— Musical Journal. - , :CHILD-DROPPlNG.—Desertion by parents of their own hapless offspring appears, from all accounts both in town and country, to be on the increase. The parent of this unnatural and revolting crime is, doubtless, want —a deficiency of food often caused by the Corn-laws. The estate of Phantasie, the property of the eminent agriculturist, the late George Rennie, Esq., in the neighbourhood of East Linton, Haddingtoushire, has been sold within these few days fur 63,750/., or about 90/. per im perial acre. The price is not considered by judges to be exor bitant. The purchaser is said to bs Mr. Aiitchell, of Parson's Green.—Scots paper, REPORT. In making their Sixth Annual Report to the Proprietors, the Directors hare to observe, that the monetary character of th• past year was very different from that of the two preceding years. The years 1837 and 1838, were remark. able for the abundance and cheapness of money, and the year 1839 for scarcity and pressure. Neither of these ex tremes is favourable to large banking profits. A state in which money is easy without being abundant, and valuable without being scarce, is most conducive to the welfare of both the banking and the commercial interests of the. co u miry. Th• profits of the past year, after deducting all th• cur rent expenses, and after making ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amount t• 48,0981. 3s. Out of this sum, the Directors paid last September, a dividend at the rate of Two-and-a-Half per Cent. upon the paid-up capital, and they now propose to pay a dividend of Three and-a-Jail per Cent., making an average dividend of Six per Cent. for the whole year. After the payment of this dividend, there will remain a surplus from the profits of the year of 12,261/. 75., which, added to tb• unappropriated profits of former years, will make a aurplua fund of 33,1001. I Is. Id. The Directors would not feel justified in thus raising the dividend to Six per Cent. did they not believe that this rate could be permanently maintained. At the same time they would remind the Proprietors, that the future di►idends must depend upon the future profits, and that these profits will depend, to a certain extent, upon the exertions that may be made on behalf of the Bank by the Proprietors themsel►es. _ _ _ Mr. Gibbes, Mr. Haney, and Mr. Rennie, are the three Directors who retire from office on the present occasion, but these Gentleman, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. PROFIT AND LOSS. Dr. a. d. Payment of the dividend on the 10th Sep. tembcr, 1839, at the rate of 21. 10s. per cent. Payment of the dividend now declared, at the rate of V. 10s. percent., on the 11th of March, 1840 Balance of unappropriated profits £68,937 7 1 Cr. Balance of unappropriated profits 31tt De cember, 1838 Deduct vote to the Directors at • the last general meeting Net unappropriated profits Net profits of the year 1839, after iefray ing the total expense of management (including payment to Directors), and making provision for all bad and doubt. ful debts . 68,937 7 1 Balance brought down £33,100 11 1 Sir CHALLES BURRELL, M.P., rose with great satis faction to move that the Report be received and adopted. The statement that had been made by the Directors required very little observation from him ; and, in fact, the Report carried with it its own re commendation. It showed how well the affairs of the Bank had been managed by the Directors, and all those connected with the different branches.—(Hear, hear, hear.) tie had the honour, two years since, of moving the adoption of the Report, and on that occasion it appeared that the profits for the year were 32,400/., whereas, for the pre sent year they were 48,1001., being at the rate of eight ' per cent. on the paid-up capital. That would be suffi cient to show any person how steadily and well the affairs of the Bank were progressing. Thus their profits had gone on increasing, not by any sudden start or jump, or loans, but by carrying out the principles of legi. imate banking,which alone was the basis of permanent prosperity, whereas the former was only ephemeral and uncertain. Ile trusted that year after year they would have the same satisfactory statement of their affairs. It must be obvious to all that there had been a vast increase in the population of the City and its suburbs—it must be also evident that trade must be contingent upon the increase of population and banking ac commodation. Now, within the last twenty-five years there had been no addition to the old Banks of the metro polis, and he thought it would be worse than illiberal in the gentlemen connected with these old and respectable Banks to find fault with those who had started forward to relieve the public dement' for additional accommoda tion by the establishment of a new Bank,—(Hear, hear.) He was satisfied, from the flourishing state of these old and respectable Banks, that they had done them no injury, and he was satisfied also, that no injury was ever intended to be done them.— ( Hear, hear.) With regard to the subject of clearing, he trusted that the feeling of cordiality which now ex isted towards their Bank on the part of the old Bankers would be carried still farther. He believed that there were many Proprietors of the London and Westminster Bank who, from feelings of kindness and regard to the old Banks, had not re moved their affairs from them ; but if the exclusive system, with regard to clearing, should be per severed in, as he trusted it would not, there would be inconvenience to the old Banks. Suppose a panic or pressure took place, it would be a very natural thing for those persons who continued to vest their property in ti.e hands of the old bankers, to say, " You have done nothing to assist us ; on the contrary, you have withheld a point of great convenience to us, and we shall therefore move our property to the London and Westminster Bank, for the double object of showing you that 3ou ought not to continue this monopoly ; and, secondly, in order to support the Bank in which we are shareholders."—(Loud cheers.) He was far from Easing that by way of threat, but he threw it out as a suggestion which would occur to any person of common sense. He trusted that the unkind feelings which had heretofore existed would shortly disappear, and that in future they would go hand in hand with the old banks of the metropolis. The Ho nourable Baronet concluded by moving the adoption of the Report. The motion was seconded by Mr. GaanY, and car ried unanimously. Mr. I, l l7l.trieLle had much pleasure in moving a vote of thanks to the Directors, and he hoped it would not be an ordinary vote of thanks, but a most cordial vote of thanks, for the good conduct they lied shown in the management of the affairs of the Company. If the Proprietors, many of whom were men of wealth and influence, only put their shoulders to the wheel, he had no doubt that, instead of a profit of 8 per cent. on their paid up capital, they would have a profit of 10 per cent. No persons, he believed, had done less for the establishment with which they were con nected than the shareholders of the London and West minster Bank, but he hoped in future that apathy would be at an end.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. P. Hicssois seconded the motion. He felt much gratified in doing so, more especially after a year of most unexampled and disastrous embarrassment he the monetary wor ld. U n d er suc h circumstances, he thought it very c h eer i ng to fi n d th a t not only was their divid en d cont i nued but actually i ncrease d . —(Ch eers .) The moti on was carr i e d unan i mous l y . The t s h ed e ul D ou ir s e ly et° t r o s. CPutameN briefly returned thanks on behalf of the n s e e y rv h ice ad o d f ev t o h t e ed ßa t n h k em , • little doubt, as had been observed by one Hon. Gen tleman, that if all theproprietors themselves e s h e most had . exerted themselves they would soon be R 2 a condition to divide ten per cent.—(Cheers.) Mr. MoitsoN moved the re-election of the three by Directors wh o went out rotation. He did so THE THAMES TUNNEL. Tuesday the annual meeting of the Proprietors of Shares of this enterprise was held at the London Ta vern, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the Directors relative to the progress of the works, and on other matters. Mr. B. Hawes in the chair. The CHAIRMAN adverted to the many difficulties which had impeded the successful prosecution of the Thames Tunnel in former years ; but the Directors, and he felt confident the Proprietors also, having full confidence in the ability of the engineer, Mr. Brunel, bad expected to witness the works being brought to a favourable conclusion. The Directors, having years since stuck their colours to the mast, had in times of ad versity inclined to the hope that all the difficulties that had impeded the works would be overcome. It was, therefore, with great satisfaction that the Directors met the Proprietors on the present occasion. The expendi ture on this gigantic undertaking had been much less than was generally reported. The Tunnel was com menced nearly 13 years ago, and, including the amounts advanced by the Government, the total sum expended was 363,0001. When it was recollected that the cost of Waterloo-bridge was from 1,000,0001. to 1,200,0001., the Proprietors would be gratified to hear that the Tun nel under the Thames would be completed for less than 500,0001. To the patience and liberality of the Pro prietors must be ascribed the completion of this na tional work. He now asked the attention of the meet ing to the Report of the Directors. The Secretary, Mr. CIIAIILIER, read the following Report " Your Directors, in making their annual Report, desire in the first instance to refer to a passage in their last state ment which held cut a prospect of the near termination of the hazardous portion of this important work. " Your Directors then stated that they had the gratifi cation to meet the Proprietors after many years of anxiety and delay, with the most reasonable hope of having but one more annual meeting between the termination of all the peculiar hazards and difficulties of the undertaking, and such an advance of the works as shall bring them near to the time when their anxious trust will be discharged by the completion of this most arduous enterprise. " Your Directors have the satisfaction now to announce the entire realization of the prospect then held out during the past year. From the first week after the last annual meeting to the present time, they have had the gratifica. tion to observe a steady increase in the rate of progress. " For the first fifteen weeks after this meeting the ave rage weekly rate was under two feet per week, whilst dur ing the last few weeks the average progress has been in creased to nine feet on an average weekly. With the in creased rate of advance also the average cost per foot has been diminished, and has greatly tended to reduce the high average cost of the work per foot whilst the excavation was carried on under the deepest part of the river. " Your Directors, indeed, aro of opinion that could the plan of operation, so elaborately detailed in the two re. ports dated the 18th of April and the 15th of August, 1858, which they referred to in detail in the last re port, have been carried out, both time and money would hare been saved in the construction of the Tunnel, an opi nion which they have before expressed, and now repeat, in order to guard against the exaggerated notions of the cost of a roadway under a deep navigable river, compared with the ordinary mode of communication. " Their experience would now lead them to say that, whilst the steady and solid execution of this work proves the perfect practicability of Mr. Brunel's plan fur con structing roadways under, instead of over, navigable rivers, where circumstances rendered it necessary, no adequate judgment can be formed of the cost of such a work by that of the Thames Tunnel, inasmuch as the engineer has been of such a w or k was d ou b t f u l , t h at i t followtt a plan, th e mer i t o f wh i c h was solely, i y on of th e p u bli c money, and for which riskedw constrained hi ist tt hhee Ipera t o o sbt apboilri object alone it was impressed upon the engineer when the money was advanced in aid of the undertaking. " The total progress during the year has been 245 feet, and the work is now within sixty feet of the wharf wall of Wapping. " Ycur Directors are now negotiating for the purchase of the property on the Wapping shore, in order to commence the footway descent. So soon as this shall be accom plished, your Directors propise to make arrangements to open and appropriate one archway of the tunnel for foot passengers, retaining the remaining one for the purpose of carrying on the works until their final completion. " They have the satisfaction to report, that, according to the present plan, and provided the property could be advan tageously obtained, the footway descent will be placed about fifty feet nearer the wharf than it was originally proposed, by which arrangement this distance of tunnelling will be saved, as well as the earlier opening of the Tunnel obtained. " Your Directors continue to receive from the authorities of the Corporation of London every facility they can give towards the completion of the work. " Your Directors now consider the work practically ac complished ; the great and peculiar difficulties of the Tun nel are daily yielding to the progress making ; and they desire to congratulate the Proprietors and the public in general on the approaching termination of their labours and the great and important work entrusted to their care. " They believe it will long endure to do honour to the science and skill of the engineer, and the spirit and libe rality of the country. They are of opinion that the Tunnel fully deserves the description given of it by the Duke of Wellington, who :rom the first to the last has given it his countenance and rapport. The Duke of Wellington encouraged the con tinuance of this undertaking at a time when it was deemed impracticable, and when necessarily his authority and the interest he took in the work were of the highest importance. The Duke of Wellington in 1825, when the works were suspended, then described it as a work important in a commercial as well as in a military and a political point of view.' " Your Directors would add that not only do they con sider this a just character of the work, but that in point of economy and durability it will be found capable of being most favourably compared with any of the great metropo litan bridges. " Statements of the receipts and expenditure of the Com pany for the year which ended on the 31st of December, 1839, with a general balance sheet, have beef prepared, and are now submitted by the Directors for the information of the Proprietors." The CHAIRMAN observed that, to show that the pub lic attention continued to be drawn to the matter, he wished to state that, in 1838, 23,000 persons visited the Tunnel, while last year not less than 34,000 paid for admission, being an increase of 35 per cent. The rapidity with which the Tunnel had lately been advanced would be apparent from the following facts :—ln 1836 there were 117 feet completed ; in 1837 only 28 feet ; in 1838, 80 feet ; in 1839, 195 feet ; and since the Ist of January last 76 feet had been completed, being at the rate of 460 feet per annum. At present the Tunnel had been completed within GO feet of the Wapping shore.—(Hear.) The SECRETAIT then read the financial accounts of the Company, from w hi c h i t a pp eare d that there had been received 40,0001. in the last year from the Exche quer all Loan Commissioners—that the receipts from miters had been 1,5721., &c. Mr. ADDAMS moved the adoption of the Report, and congratulated the Proprietors on the near approach of the Tunnel to this (the Middlesex) side of the water. To the skill of the engineer must be attributed the completion of this a i reat work, conjointly with the libe rality of the Proprietors. The Repo r t was t h en a dopted, and ordered to h o printed. A ballot for three Directors then took place, and Mr. W. Allen, Mr. R. W. Silvester, and Mr. J. D. Sutton, were re-elected. Auditors were also reelected ; after which Mr. HANKEY eulogised the efficient management of the Board of Directors, and proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman and the Directors, which was most cordially responded to on the part of the Pro prietors. The CHantiktaN returned thanks, and expressed a hope that before the next annual meeting the Propria tors, with the Directors, would have a walk through the Tunnel. During the proceedinL , s of the by it was resolved to empower the Directors to apply to Parliament for power f ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.— CIIELMSPOIO). The commission for thC county of Es ex was opened here on Monday, and on Tuesday business was proceeded tlith in both Courts, Lord Abinger presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Littledale at Nisi Pr:us. The cause list was very short and contained no case of itrerest. The number of prisoners for trial was 32, and some of the of fences are of an aggravated character. ( Before Lord ABINGER.) Augustus Tusher was indPcted for horse stealing. The prosecutor, a farmer name:: Tabr, em, deposed that he left his mare s6fely locked up in his stable on the night of the 25th January, and the next morning he found that his stable had been broken open, and the mare stolen. 'I he mare ryai afterwards traced to London in the possession of the prisoner. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and Lord AntsoEtt sentenced him to b.: transported fur li years. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. • William Henry Cole. aged 30, dvse;ibed as a clerk, was capita), indicted for an offence against Agnes Anne Carter. Messrs aidkin and Doane were for the prosecution, and Messrs. Phillips and Clark.ion defended tha prisoner. When Mr. Baron ALDEMON Wall about to sum up, he was stopped by the Jury, who returned a verdict of Not Guilty RoGert Lemon. aged 23, was indicted for burglariouily breaking into the (Lenin-house of James Good, with in tent to steal. The prisoner retracted his plea of Not Guilty, and pleaded Guilty to the charge. Baron ALDERSON said that, upon looking over the depo sitions, he observed that the prisoner had endeavoured to entice another lad to assist him in robbing his muter, and he had very properly immediately given information of the fact. Phis was a vary aggravated circumstance ag.insT the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the pri,oner, caUcd several witnesses who gave him a good character. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his service eleven years, and had conducted himsel very well u p to thy• time in question. The plea was then amended, but judgment t;as post. pored. Baron ALDERSON called up the lad above referred to, and tol him he had behaved ♦ery well, and he should offer him a reward of forty shillings. Susannah Jane Ckeesnian, aged 19, was indicted fr. r stealing a watch, a chain, and a seal, value 61., the pro. perty of John Collins. Air. Phillips defended the prisoner. Elizabeth Collins deposed that she resided at Deptford. She knew the prisoner, and had employed her to do work for her about the month of November. The prisoner did needle work, and went home every night end came back the next morning. On the 29th November the prisoner complained of being sick and went away. On the Gib December she mis,ed her watch, which she had seen safe on the 25th November, and also the chain and seal. The watch was afterwards shown to her at the Greenwich police court. Cross-examined —Had known the prisoner for three ears. The prisoner did needle-work for her. She had not been in her house as a lodger." She slept there a few nights a week. She knew that the prisoner was a " gay girl" when she came to her house. Would not say that she did not let lodgings, and was not ashamed of it. She did not make money by women coming to her house, but they certainly paid for their lodgings. She was paid by a gentleman for the prisoner's lodgings. Upon one occasion she sold the prisoner an amethyst brooch. Her husband was a commercial traveller, and left London last Saturday on his journey. She did not let lodgings while her husband was in town, but she had a large family. She had eleven children living in the house, but she did not consider they had any bad example set them in her house. A pawnbroker produced a watch pawned by the pri soner on the evening of the 29J1 November, for 51., in the name of Anne Collins. She said that this was her own name. Another pawnbroker produced a chain and seals, pawned by the prisoner for 41., in the name of Mrs. West. . . A police constable proved that he traced the duplicates to the prisoner's posse,sion, and she admitted that she pawned the watch and the other articles, and said that they had been given to her by a gentleman in Mrs. Collins's house, and that she knew it. The prosecutrix identified the articles produced as her property. PuiLurs addressed the Jury, and observed that the poor young woman at the bar was mush to be pitied. On the night of the Coronation she had been trepanned into the house of the prosecutrix, and there ruined. He sub mitted that it was very probable her account was true, and that the prosecutrix was unworthy of belief. Mr. Baron AtraasoN having summed up, the Jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the foreman said they did not believe a word of what the prosecutrix had stated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. An old Irishwoman, named Hannah Collins, who has been long known about Billingsgate-market, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having picked up a half sovereign, the property of Robert Wall, an itinerant dealer in fish, and applied it to her own use. The complainant said that he went to Billingsgate market for the purpose of buying fish for a customer, aed he happened to drop a half sovereign in that very dangerous place. The prisoner immediately picked it up, and sud. denly disappeared amongst several other basket women ; but an officer having been informed of the circumstance, succeeded 'n taking her into custody. The old woman wag found drunk on the ground, and surrounded by several other women, who had been drinking with her in the neigh bouring public-house, but the money was 1111 spent. The Loan Mt cot asked the prisoner why she took the MAWS half sovereign ? Prisoner—Why then, if I didn't take it up, s o m e b o d y e l se wou l d, and it would ' be all just the same. The LORD Ithvoß—But why did you not give it to the poor man to whom it belonged ? Prisoner—Why then, if I gave it to all the poor met, that said it was their's, G, d k, owa it would aot pay the tenth part of 'em, so I thought i best to keep it. The Loan MAYOR—And you were not satisfied with stealing it, but you must get drunk with it? Prisoner—By my sowl, I couldn't help it. The women all got round me, and cried " Halves," and I couldn't get away without giving them a drop a-piece, and I was left without a blessed farthing. The Complsinant—Her daughter, upon hearing what had iripp , ned, said that her mother would Tend an, ther half-sovercign (if she fiiund it), exactly in the same way. The Loan MATOR—These people must be taught that such finding is theft, and she shall go back to prison, if she and her friends do not contrive to raise your half sovereign amongst them. Prisoner—Why, my Lord, the money is not in my hands. It's the publican's; and I had as much right to pick it up in the street as be had to take it from me. I'm sure I ought not to be made to pay it, after being obliged to lie down in the gutter o n account of it. The LORD MAYOR—Let her be locked up till Saturday. Slrne Irish fishwomen then eloquently entreated his Lordship to trust to their honour for liquidating the debt at the rate of half-a-crown a-week, and pat down one in stalment to show the goodness of their intention. The complainant gladly consented to the conditions, and was desired by the LORD (MA YOR to take the 4 finder" into custody again, if regular payments were not made to him. Prisoner—Ah, then, the Lord help us 1 If they punish a poor woman for finding a bit of money, what would they do with her if she got it dishonestly ?—( A laugh.) James Wilson, who was brought up at Guildhall on Tuesday on suspicion of having forged a name on a bill of exchange for 2001., was examined heforc his Lo r d s hip. Alexander Wilson, a gas-fitt er , 7, Dean -street, Soho, brother to the prisoner, swore that " A. Wilson" in the bill was not written by him. Archibald 'Wilson, a gas. fitter, also brother to tho pri soner, swore that " A. Wilson" was written by him. The LORD MAYOR told the clerk of the prosecutor (Mr, Ilannen), that the case was at an end as regarded the forgery. The prisoner was then discharged. KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS " We sot down, an' it took a gallon o' spirits to enplane it." —Lovers' Legends. AN ARBITRATION.—The lower classes of Paddy's land possess an inherent aversion to transacting matters of business, demanding deliberation, without having what they call " a dhrop on the head ov id." Poor Pat thinks it quickens the perceptions ; and, among many other admirable results, tends to remove all dryness from the detail of matter in hand. Mrs. Spellisy, the owner and occupier of a neat little snuggery in the flourishing village of Kilinichil, came before their Worships to ask advice under the following circumstances " A sportin' sort ova young boy," as she termed him, Tom O'Loughlin," who lived next door to her, had taken leave to evince his taste and loyalty by plaeing the candles in such a manner in her (Mrs. Spellisv',) shop window, on the auspi c i ous occas i on o f her °Alaji,sty's marriage, and while the said Mrs Spellisy was soot hir g the sick child of a neighbour, that tne gaudy little win dow-curtain caught fire, the glass was broken, two de canters, three tumblers, and an ample jug ,hared the same fete, not to mention the " much admired disorder" into which the whole establishment was thrown. Magistrate—Why, he ought to hare paid you for the damage. While Mrs. Spellisy was cracking her finger-joints, and preparing to reply, Mr. O'Loughlin, of the " lights," threw his arms around ; and, after making two or three preparatory flourishes, he broke out with " Death a' nekurs, gintlemen. 0 my ! my ! wasn't it all the greatest accidins—nothin' else—an' I'll tell ye how was id. A pecthur of Dan O'Connell shakin' hands wid St. Pathrick, that was on the windy shutter, blazed up unknownst, an' sure 'tie all past an' gone. I offered to leave id to the arbitration of two responsi ble min." Mrs. Spellisy (smiling bitterly)—Oh, ay, arbi tration, how wor you ? E'then that was the dear arbitration. See here, my Lord, I own to God, you'd imagine 'twas the side ov a bog was in dispute. All I could do, they wouldn't meet be day ; " Oh no, wc'il jest settle it to-night at your place," was the word • and then punch, to be sure. Well, the two first referees wor ten tumbler men ; but, my dear life, they said they couldn't agree, be no means, so they brought in another, a tall spare man, that they couldn't hould a candle to in the liquor wax' r'—( Laughter.) Here Toni O'Loughlin broke in, and winked jocu larly at their Worships. " Well, now, ma'am how on of London : Printed and Published by M ETIMO Y 0 • No. 112; Str an d, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, is county of: liddlesex.—Thur s d a y, March 5, 1840. EVENING EDITION. airth could they see the ins an' outs ova biziness o' that contrairy kind, widout a small dhrop to understand the boarins o' the C45e,-and moreover, whir the Queen of Ingland was holdin' a Rportin ' jubilee ?"—( A laugh.) Magistrate—Did they pay for the drink consumed ? " Conslitunin' to the pay," returned Mrs Spellisy. Oh. the n, err a pay, ' k w , tny hook 0411 to you. Oniy eotoin' in free at,' easy ; • yi.o take, James,' one cries to the other ; E'then I'll take a glass o punch, what'll you take yourself ?" The same, then, to be sure : what's good for the goose is good for the gandther ;' an' Tom O'Loughlin—that was the manes or hriogin' id all about—his cry evermore was Every one to their fancy ; I'd have a dandy o' wine negus.'”--• (Great laughter.) " Yon didn't give the decent plo tiwe," urged Torn. Mrs. SoeHis) —Time, eroo ! Why, then, what do you -all eight nights runnEn' till one o'clock in the mortt ?eh ? 'Tis the practice o' some people to give the attorneys a had name ; I own to God 'twould be a'most as cheap to sport a pair ov 'cm, up or down." Tom.—Easy, easy, 11Ioli Spellisy, d'ye hear me " Oh ! my heavy hathred to id for arbithrashin work, groaned the good dame ; whereupon Mr. O'Loughlin. to " mollify' her," declared that it was all for the shop's credit he bore a hand, and that none regretted more than he, that representation of a friendly greeting be tween the " Tutelar Saint." and Modern Liberator should have ended in a " flare up ;" this brought on a sunny smile, which was followed by a " D'ye split tho difference i" from a friend, and they went out to "settle the bizness." CORN AVERAGES. kir,NERAL AVERAUE PRICES OF BRITISIi CORN ,ier the Week ended Feb. 2A, 1840, made up horn the Returns 0. tho Inspector, o, the different Cities and 'fawns in England and per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 66s. 4d. (fats 3v. 411 Bye IMPTAIAL AGGItiCGATY ATLItAGYS OF THIC •II WEFICS PII.IOEDIN6. Wheat rsi. 6d Oats Barley 3 ,1 id. I Rye ... 375. yl . I Pease 444 DUTIIS OW FORZIGN CORN. Wheat......... 215. Bd. Oats I Bariey 4l, 10d. Rye THE MARKETS. COAL A RKET. I,d A/lair's Hebburn Main 2l 3 Holywell i , lain 2O r o r ws iledhugh Pontop Windsor l7 9 West Hsrtley 2l 6/ W y l am. Walls End Clarke and;Co l o Walls End / racis Walls end Heaion .. 2.1 6 Walls End Hilda al 0 Walis End Newmarch Walls End l'e , cy Gensham 26 0, Walls End Perkin: l9 8/ Walls End Riddell's Walls End Walker 2l 9 Walls End Belmont .chips arrived sine, s. Walls Endß d. raddyll'sHetton 21 3 'Walls End Haswell :24 6 \Valls End Hetton ..... 24 9 Wz!'s End Lainbton 24 0 Walls End Stcwart's Walls End Hartlepool 24 WalicEnd Keno° W.lls End Adelaide Walls End Brown's Deanery 22 3 Wails End Cornforth 22 3 Walls End South Durham 22 0 Walls End Tees Hetton Blythe. l5 3 Hartley 2O 0 Howard's Netherton Main 111 0 Stavely Main lll 6 il ,te last market..day • 60. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. j Barley. 1 Oats. Be a n s . P ease. ------. ---- ------ - Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. D. to s. a, to s. sto s. Boston Braintree B ighton 6B 76 44 47 26 29 44 46 -. MI Cambridge - 66 - 45 9.6 - - 35 - 40 Chichester 65 72 38 44 28 '29 43 44 41 42 Dunmow Grant ham - 49 - - Grimsby 56 70 35 39 22 26 4 2 44 - - Hailsham - 46 - 40 Hitchin F4 70 34 46 24 32 25 30 - .... Ipswich 62 701 36 32 24 25 38 40 38 42 Lewes 6B 30 - 43 22 '29 34 40 - Lynn 60 64 35 46 25 31 36 44 - -- Maidstone n 76 36 M) 26 32 40 50 ..... - Norwich Petworth - 46 - Romford 54 74 36 48 24 32 34 42 83 4b Sandwich 56 77 34 43 27 34 33 45 38 40 Thetford Wisbech - Witham 65 '75 34 47 28 34 38 46 44 46 Yarmouth !62 70 33 35 26 32 3s 40 40 44 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-March S. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red - Scotch, Welch, and Manx - Irish, White 8 0 g $ ----- Red 6 8 7 9 - Foreign 10 0 12 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 5 411 -- Irish .... 3 9 311 - Foreign 0U I I BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 44 0 48 0 ----- Scotch and Irish, per 691bs. Feeding 4 0 4 6 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 46 0 52 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 46 e - Foreign floug, English, per 2801 b. 5B 0 62 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 33 6 35 6 INDIAN CORN, "xi' 4801 b. .. Rye, per Imperial quarter HALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) Red 5OB fres. 645. Foreign s4s. 60s. tits. Barley, Malting ' -'24 34s 35s Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey fine and White Linseed Flour (per sack s ,, 4. •,4. 545, Rapeseed (per 10 quarte rs ) CHELTENHAM MARKETS, Per Bushel 3 s.d. to s.d.i Per lb. .. f Wheat Marley 4 0 7 0 Mitten Oats 3 6 5 6 Veal Beans case .... Hay 3/.loi. to 51. Os. Od. per ton. cANTECIBURI MARKET. Wheat, white......- 61s. to 7i s. -. 01d........... -s. to -a. -- red-- ses. to flis. ......... Old.--- Mc to -.4 Barley, Maltistg - 355. to 455. -.... Grinding.. -1. to -i4 Oats .....--- 255. to 305.....,. °bi--- -s. to -.a Means .-....------ 4a5 to 445....., Old---- $3,. to -. Pease -..--- 38s. to -5...... Grey.........- 40s. tot-) CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White 7l to 78 Oats Red Barley Chevalier Grinding - - PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTATION.-- Committees or private inchviduals requiring splendid or simple articles of PLATE fur yresentat:on, may, by addressing yaid let'er as under, have drawings sent for their approval. It is desirable letters should state about the sum inteaded to be expended. T. COX SAVORY. Silversmith, &e., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors f ront Graeechereh- siTee t), Lqnstrxs. A Pamphlet containing a List of the Prices ef Silver Spoons and Forks, Tea and Coffee Services, and other Silver Plate, Plated Ware, Plated o n Whit e Metal Spoons and Forks, Watches, Clocks, &c., with Drawings of the articles, will be forwarded gratis and post free, in answer to a post laid appli-7 cation. SILVER PLATE of LONDON MANUFAC TURE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Workinq Gold smiths, 14, Curnhill, London, opposite the Bank of Engload. The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, Piddle Pattern, 7s. 2d. per ounce ; the King's Pattern, 7s. 4d. po ounce. The following are the weights reeommended, but the arteles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce. oz. s. al X. s. 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver T a bl e S poons 3itat 7 2... 111 15 • 12 ditto Dessert ditto 12 d.cto 'f a bl e F or k s 3O 7 P... 10 15 w 12 ditto Dessert ditto 2 ditto Gr av y S pomis l °o 7 7 2 2 . .....# 7 II 41 1 ditto Soup L a dl e lO 7 2... g ll ' 4 ditto Sauce ditto to 7 1.... 3IS • 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt stros , g) I ditto Fish Slice ,°, L- 12 ditto T ea S poons .. 8 10 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (string)~. 12 hint's Patters Silver Table Spoons . Oat 7 4... 14 15 * 12 ditto Dessert ditt US 7 4... 9 I ! 12 ditt• Tab c Forks 4O 7 4... 14 13 a 12 ditto Dessert ditto 24i / 4.. 911 II 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle ... 12 7 4... 4 2 0 4 ditto S.iu e aitto. 4 ditto Salt Spoons (strong gilt) 1 ditto Fish Slice 12 ditto Tea Spoons 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs . N.B. A Price Current, Stamped as a Newspaper, contain ing drawings, and every information, relative to the purchase 0 1 silver or Sheffield plate, may be had on application, or will be sent into the country, postage free, in answer to a paid letter. ..... B IRTI, On the 29th tilt., at Clopton House, Stratford-on.. Avon, the lady of Charles 1. Warde, Esq., of a son and heir. On the t2d inst., at 13elfast, the lady of J. N. Gladstone, Dig., of a daughter. On the inst., the lady of John Vaughan, Esq., of Knowl ton Court, Kent, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Portland-place, Clapham-road, Mrs. D• T. Clarke, of a daughter. On the 3d inst.. Airs. James Roche, •f Guildford -street, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Highgate, the lady of Harry Chester , Esq., of a son. dRRIED. On the 34th ult., at Gissiog, in Suffolk, SpAman Swain* Seulthorpe, Esq., of Wisbi.ch, St. Peter's, to Eliza, daughte r of Air. Sanders, of Gissing. On the 3il inst,, at Preston Church near Brighton, the Bev Walter Kelly, AI. A., Vicar of Preston, and Hove, Sussex, t° 311ry, only (laughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Buckner, C. B. ,of yke, Chichester. On the 3‘t inst., at Whitchurch, Hants, Edward Knightr Esq., of Chawton House, eldest stn o f Ed war d K n i ght Esq.. f Godinershant-park, Kent, to Adela, daughter of John Portal Eq., of Freefolk Priors, Hants. Die/). On the 99th ult., at Southville, Wandivrorth-road, Alfred , second son of Mr. John Hooper, abed 6 years a n d 11 m onths. On the I s t i ns t., a t St. Mary's, Colchester, William .1111 0 ° ° ' Esq., aged 72. _ _ On the Ist inst., at Sandhurst, Thomas Leyhourne F. R. S., and Senior Professor of Mathematics at the Royal 31i litary College, aged 71. e 0 On the Ist inst., in Brompton-s quare , L ucy , t h e younr,, 5 daughter of Thomas Metcalfe, j un ., E sq. , age d 3 rears an ..... On the Ist inst., William Wiley, E sq ., o f C art h us i an -etre*t , Charterhouse-square, aged 70. Oa the 2d inst., at Battersea Ri se , Harriet Maria, the w ife of Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq., aged '24. late On the 2d in Manchester-squar e , S ara h, w id ow o f the Samuel Jones Vachell, Esq. On the 2d inst., at Leyton, Essex, Ansa Grace, eldest de.t daughter of the 1, to Lieutenant Jam es Gib son, R . N ., " w stock, London District ; Upper Canada. Afr' On the 2d inst., in Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, George Hairs, aged 56. of On the 13th ult., Mr. William Henry Sheen, eldest ~ Mr. Oliphant Samuel Sheen, o f H o lb orn-hill, a passenger : 0 ; board the ship Tyrian, whi c h was run down whi l e a t 1. 01 '" off Gravesend by the st eam - vessel Manchester, aged 23i 6n , cl t hia On the 3d init., Mr. Oliph ant Samuel Sheen, f at h e r 0. 1 ., above, of illness occasion e d b y excessive grief for the u ntitne and unfortunate loss of his son, aged 51. On the 19th ult., at Boulogne, Edward Stephenson , El,: late Major of the Lan cers i n the Spanish Legion, an d former of the Madras Cavalry.