The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 6. Business commenced to-day soon after twelve o'clock. The calendar contains the names of 73 persons, of whom two are charged with murder, five with manslaughter, two with sacrilege, five with arson, four with robbery, nine with burglaries, two with forgeries, two with con cealing the births of children, two with cutting and wounding, two with uttering counterfeit coin, and the rest with larcenies. There were 36 causes entered for trial, of which three are for special juries. Is the Crown Court no case of interest arose during the day. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice Mimi, and a Common Jury.) BINGHAM 7). EVANS. Mr. Keating and Mr. Skinner appeare d for the pla intiff, and Mr. Godson for the defendan t. This was an action against an auctioneer at Chelten ham, to recover the balance of the proceeds of a sale which he had made under the plaintiff's direction. The defence was that he had paid the a mount in question to a person whom the plaintiff had employed as her general agent in winding up the affairs of her brother, to whom who described himself she executrix. This person, NM as an accountant, stated that he had got a cheque for the amount from Evans, and given it to the plaintiff, who returned it to him, and that he then went to the bank and received the amount. The plaintiff gave no receipt for the money (about 720, and signed no document whatever reecting it • Some other sp witnesses proved that the plaintiff had employed this person as her agent. The jury, however , . did not place implicit faith in them, and found for the plaintiff. WESTERN ClRCUlT—Taunton, April 6. CR OWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESBWELL.) John Shearn, George Shearn, and James Hawkins were indicted for assaulting and robbing John Godfrey of a purse and two sovereigns at Midsummer Norton, on the 12th of September. Mr. Stone was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Saunders defended the prisoners. This was rather a singular case. Mr. Godfrey stated that he was an articled clerk to a Mr. Govet, who had offices at Midsummer Norton, close to which village Godfrey vesided. About half-past eight in the evening of the 12th of September Godfrey was going home from the post-office. When he had got about 200 yards from the post-office, and within 100 yards of his own house, be saw four men ; one of them (John Shearn) came up to him, caught hm by the collar, and bellowed in his face ; the three others then came up, and made the same bellowing noise. They jostled him, and went away to wards the village. He found his pocket torn down. He followed them and overtook them, when they again began making the bellowing noise. A mob of 150 or 250 people collected and made bellowing noises at him. He pushed through them to a window in which there was a light, and he was then enabled to recognise the other two prisoners (George Shearn and Hawkins) as the persons who had first attacked him. He went into a house, and remained there for nearly two hours before the mob had dispersed. He then went home, and then found that his purse, containing two sovereigns and a half, was gone. In his cross-examination the witness said that Mr. Govet lived in London, but the witness carried on busi ness for him in the country. He had had occasion to sue a great number of people, and there was a strong feeling against him in the minds of the poor : he had become a very unpopular man. John Shearn had an noyed him before. It was proved that John Shearn had left the village, after this, but had come forward voluntarily to-day to take his trial. For the prisoners, it was urged that this was no rob bery, but that the parties had a strong feeling of dislike against Godfrey, and intended to insult and annoy, but not to rob him. Mr. Justice CRESS WELL, in summing up, said the at torney was adopting a most irregular and improper practice in allowing an articled clerk to transact his business in the country while he himself was living in London. The jury acquitted the prisoners of the felony, but found them guilty of an assault, and they were sen tenced to 14 days' imprisonment in the gaol. Thomas White and James Cave, the witnesses against whom Mr. Justice Cresswell ordered bills of indictment to be preferred for perjury, were this morning placed at the bar, and pleaded " Not Guilty " to indictments for perjury and conspiracy, and traversed their trials until the next assizes. The Learned JUDGE said the prisoners might be held to ail, White in his own recognizances for 801. and two sureties in 40/. each, and. Cave himself in 401. and two sureties in 20/. each. Thomas George Sartin was indicted for maliciously cutting and wounding Thomas Clarke, with intent to murder him. The prisoner was deaf and dumb, but could read and write well. Mr. Gane, the governor, acted as inter preter when it was requisite. Mr. Allen was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Saunders for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 30th of December, about five o'clock in the afternoon, the prosecutor, who was a painter at Bath, was going home. Upon turning a corner the prisoner rushed upon him and collared him with the left hand, and cut him in the neck and face with an instrument he held in the other. It was a sharp in strument. The prosecutor, finding himself cut, threw the prisoner down, and then went for a policeman. When he returned the prisoner was gone. The prose cutor had known the prisoner for three or four years, but had never had any quarrel with him. Their wives were distantly related. The prisoner was seen with a long knife in his hand to rush upon the prosecutor. When the prisoner was taken into custody he wrote on a slate, " I did it wilfully." He then rubbed that out, and wrote, " I threw the knife down a grating in Cornwall. buildings." He then rubbed that out, and wrote, "I did it because I was jealous of him, as my wife had one child by him." The knife (a small dessert knife) was found in the grating, as described by the prisoner. There was a wound on the left jaw, and on the back part of the scalp; they mast have been inflicted by two cuts. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, but strongly recommended him to mercy. Sentence deferred. NORTH WALES ClRCClT.—Chester, April G. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGEITNAN.) Thomas Jones, 23, was indicted for feloniously stab bing Joseph Edge, with an intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor and the prisoner were both mariners, and their vessels on the 26th of August last were lying in dock at Runcorn. About seven o'clock on the evening of that day they went to the inn to get a glass of grog together. On going from the public-house the prisoner and a lad belonginc , to his flat quarrelled. The prisoner was about to punish him, when the lad called for help from the prosecutor. Edge interfered, and the prisoner threatened to thrash him also. A scuffle then took place, and in the course of it the prosecutor received a stab about an inch in depth on the upper part of his back. The prisoner was found Guilty of the felony. Sen tenced to four months' imprisonment. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) The cases tried in this court during the day were, with one exception, actions for debt of small amounts, and of no public interest—the exception being an section against Mr. Mogan, auctioneer, of Birkenhead, for a trespass in having wrongfully detained at his sale-rooms a horse and cart, which had been seized for rent by a bailiff. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Two well-dressed persons of very respectable appear ance, named James Chandler, alias Johnson, and ..Ehzez Temprell, alias Johnson, who have for some time lived toget.her, and well, upon contributions levied upon the were ch arge d b y Horsford, an officer of the Mend!city Soci e t y , w i th having practised one of their ingenious expedients, Mr. Knevitt, assistant-rnam i g er, attended. Horsford stated that on Tuesday he saw the prisom"rs together, and kno w i ng t h em to be begging-lette r im postors he followed them. They stopped in Fleot street, opposite to Messrs. Hoare's banking-house, a.md the man pointed to the house and spoke to his com panion. They then walked towards Ludgate-hill, a,nd went into a public-house in Shoe-lane, where they r, 3.• mained a short time. The woman then went by hers aif to Hoare's banking-house, and after she came out Hors - ford made inquiries of the porter, and learned that slit had left the following letters for the perusal and chari table consideration of the principals, and that she was tc. return for an answer:— " St. Mildred's parish, Middlesex, March 19. "Havin g an accurate knowledge of the circumstances which have occurred to place the family of the late Mr. James Palmer in their present embarrassed position in society, I have, at the request of several of the most inti mate friends of the deceasedauthorised this statement,. to be dra wn up, with a view deceased . enabing the widow, Mrs. Anne Palmer, to establish a s minary for the tuition of youth, for which occupation sh e e is duly qualified, by the contributions of those whose means will enable them to promote so praiseworthy an object. " It will be remembered that Mr. P lmer died on the r 17th of Nov em b er l ast, whose death :a the severe loss es h e sustained by the fail re te reeeloef Id by Frampton, of Old B roa d- street, in conjunction vgithurrsi. successful railway speculations, and consigned the family rescue absolute indigence. The object of this appeal -rs to rescue a deserving family from the last and painful re source of parochial aid; and I do sincerely trust that this statement will meet with that sympathy which un merited poverty deservedly meets. " (Signed) W. W. F. Jackson, 51.; T. Thompson, 21.; Chapman Marshall, 21.; Grissell and Pete, 21. ; W. Magnay, I/.; Anonymous, 2/.; Peter Laurie, 21. (paid); J. 11. Polly, 21.; Capper and Co., 11; Messrs. Drum mond, for J. S.,' 31.; Gosling and Sharpe, 2/.; John Pirie, 31., & c ," The second letter purported to be the certificate of a medical gentleman, who has been dead for some time:— " Aril 10. " I hereby certify-th a t M rs. Palmer is professionally sttPrided by me, and at present incapable of leaving her home without aggravating her serious indisposition, arising from an attack of influenza, accompanied with symptoms of delirium tremens.' JOHN SCOTT, Surgeon. " 10, New Broad-street." " The bearer is a trustworthy domestic deputed by Mrs. Palmer to receive any contributions, for w hi c h , if necessary, her signature will he given." Witness then followed the woman, who was joined by the man, and who returned to the banking-house in about three-quarters of an hour, where she was taken into Custody. The male prisoner, who had been walking up and down on the opposite side of the way in a very fi.igety state, was also apprehended. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1847 Another officer of the society recognised the prisoners as old hands, who prospered exceedingly by pretending to be the victims of every sort of awful calamity. The LORD MAYOR said the list of pretended contri butions than onenscontam. instance,edinter of rank nalandu falsehood.—(A unmistakeable e ( vidence,in more laugh.) Sir J. PIRIE negatived the signature of his name, and Mr. G. Magnay stated that the name of " W. Magnay " was not in his brother's handwriting. The female prisoner said she certainly had been guilty of the deception, but disavowed any knowledge of the man. She assured his Lordship that her exertions to support herself deserved any name but that of idleness. On the contrary, mendicancy, as she practised it, re quired great labour, ingenuity, and memory, and the least slip exposed her to detection, of the consequences of which she was perfectly aware. The male prisoner said that the fact of his having spoken to the woman in the street did not prove that he knew anything of the papers with which she had pro vided herself. wase talents u i t te obvious et a t m h b e a l en t t the aie n. The LORD MAYOR d e s a a p c i e d h e o t l i f a t r h c p o r i u s n O t n: a r n s d t u s r e n n e t e d n t c h e Bridewell for two months, with the addition, in case of the man, to hard labour. William: Johnson and John Hounslow were charged with having robbed Messrs. Chambers, of Bishopsgate street, ironmongers, of 16,000 nails. The latter pri soner, who was coachman to Messrs. Chambers, had a few days ago, in consequence of the suspicion enter tained that he had been concerned in thu robbery, swal lowed so large a quantity of poison that his stomach vomited it at once, and the sickness saved his life. John Spittle, 671, observed Johnson with a heavy bag on his shoulder, and judging from his manner that he had become improperly possessed of it, tock him into custody, and soon ascertained that he and Hounslow had contrived to pack together a large quantity of nails in parcels which bore the marks of the prosecutors. John son said) Hounslow had suggested to him to take the nails, and that they went together to the warehouse in which the property was deposited, and were to be part ners in the produce of the sale. Hounslow, who had acknowledged to one of the police that he knew something of the robbery, now positively denied any knowledge at all of the matter. The prisoners were committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Lawrence and Ernest Sultz, two well-dressed young men, were charged with having picked the pocket of Miss Julia Hammond, in an omnibus. Miss Julia Hammond, of Elizabeth-place, New-road, said she got into an omnibus at llungerford-market with her sister on Thursday, about 6 o'clock in the even. ing. The prisoner Lawrence shortly afterwards got in and placed himself by her side. Sultz followed, and placed himself by the side of her sister. When near the Quadrant, in Regent-street, her sister asked her to lend her some money. She immediately put her hand in her pocket and drew out her purse, in which she had seen a sovereign just before she entered the omnibus. The sovereign was, however, missing, and she told her sister of the loss. Miss Martha Hammond said she was with her sister on Thursday last. As they rode in the omnibus towards Regent -street she felt that some one was trying to take something out of her reticule. She watched, and she observed that the prisoner Sultz, who sat by her side. was acting in a suspicious way. The prisoner saw that he was noticed, and he desisted from his attempt. Wit ness then looked at the other prisoner, who sat by the side of her sister, and she saw him with his hand by her sister's pocket. Sultz, who appeared to notice that she was observing his companion, touched Lawrence's toe with his foot. Lawrence drew up his hand quietly, and put something into his waistcoat pocket. Sultz touched Lawrence's foot a second time, and then witness, who suspected that an attempt had been made to rob her sister, asked her sister to lend ht-r some money. As soon as her sister produced her purse and stated that she missed a sovereign from it, witness turned to Lawrence and said, " Sir, you have extracted a sovereign from my sister's purse." The prisoner Lawrence replied that the charge was not true, as he had two or three sovereigns of his own in his pocket. Witness replied that she saw him place something in his waistcoat pocket, which she had no doubt was the sovereign stolen from her sister. Witness then turned to Sultz, and told him that he had made an attempt to steal something from her bag. The prisoner denied the charge rudely; and, the attention of the passengers having been by this time attracted to wards them, one of the gentlemen inside said the charge had better be investigated at the station-house. Police-constable Jones, D 37, said he was at the Marylebone station at the time when the charge was brought. The prisoner Lawrence, when he got out of the omnibus, walked into the station, but went back im mediately, saying he wanted to pay the omnibus. Hav ing paid the conductor, he was brought into the station house and searched. In his waistcoat pocket were found a sovereign and a half in gold. On his person were found some keys and two diamond rings, one of some value. On Sultz were found several sovereigns. Police-constable, D 37, stated that the prisoners were both known to the police. Sultz had a certificate on him from the surgeon of the Penitentiary, to the effect that the prisoner had a bad leg, and could not be put to hard labour. Mr. BINGHAM asked Miss Julia Hammond if she was sure she had a sovereign in her purse when she got into the omnibus? Miss Hammond said, she was positive she placed a sovereign in her purse just before she left home. The prisoners, who had a professional adviser, de clined to say anything in defence, and were fully com mitted. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. John Johnson, a licensed victualler in the City road, appeared before Mr. Arnold upon a warrant, charged Kith having, in conjunction with another person not in custody, committed the following violent assault upon Mr. Thomas Watson, a tradesman residing in the same neighbourhood:— The complainant, who, notwithstanding about a week had elapsed since the occurrence, had one of his eyes terribly cut and contus e d, s t a t e d, th a t h av i ng occasion to enter the parlour of the defendant's house fur the pur pose of procuring refr es h men t on th e evening of the . 3d instant, an altercation aro se b e t ween th em regarding a document he had t a k en o ff th e t a bl e , an d momentarily held possession of in satisfaction of a sovereign due to him, in the course of which the defendant attempted to wrest the paper from hi m , an d, h av i ng f a il e d in so doing, , was immediat e ly succee d e d i n the attempt b y a friend of his, who rushed at him, and seizing him by the throat, thrust his fingers into his mouth with such brutal roughness, that not only was the back of his movith seriously lacerated, but one of the strings of his tongue was actually snapped in two. Not satisfied with this degree of violence, he (the complainant) was then seized round the body and forced back over a table, with which his arm came into such violent contact that it was bruised most painfully from the elbow to the wrist, and had been so seriously injured he had almost lost the use of it for several days; and he was finally struck such a terrible blow upon one of his eyes that he instantly dropped to the ground in a state of total insen sibility, in which he remained for a considerable time, and his first notion of recovery from which was finding himself seated in a chair, and being roughly shaken by some of the persons present ; upon which the defendant, on seeing he had regained his senses, renewed the attack by striking him a violent blow on the side of his head, and was proceeding to further ill-treatment, when he was rescued from his violence by a gentleman in the room, who interposed in his behalf, and facilitated his escape from the premises. Mr. Heritage, who attended for the defence, addressed the magistrate on behalf of his client, contending that the plaintiff had brought the whole of the injuries he had received upon himself by his own misconduct, and called a person named Crawford, from whom it appeared that the defendant had some time since advanced a consider able sum of money to an acquaintance of the com plainant, for which the latter engaged to be answerable, and gave the defendant an I 0 U for the amount. It was this 1 0 II which was the cause of the contention between them, and on the complainant entering the parlour on the night in question, and the defendant adverting to the value of his acceptance, the former positively denied th a t an y suc h d ocument was in exist ence, and dared him to produce it ; upon which the defendant did so, and laid it upon the table, but it was instantly snatched up by the complainant, who retreated with it to the end of the room, and attempted to swallow it ; th a t a f r i end of the defendant, upon wit nessing this action, immediately seized Mr. Watson by the throat to prevent it, and that a violent struggle thereupon ensued between them for the possession of the acceptance, in which the defendant took no part what ever, but which resulted in the complainant and his anta gonist being thrown several times to the ground together; and, a table having been upset in the contest, the com plainant had fallen heavily upon and against it, and received all the injuries he complained of ; no blow whatever having been struck by either of them, and the force used towards Mr. Watson being no more than was absolutely necessary to prevent his swallowing the I 0 U, which he was sworn positively to be apparently doing at the time. The complainant energetically declared that there was not the slightest foundation for the insinuation conveyed in the defence set up ; but Mr. _ARNOLD said that it was impossible for him to come to a satisfactory adjudication on a case in which such serious ill-usuge was sworn to on one side and so totally denied on the other, and, as it was manifestly a matter on which a jury alone could determine, he should send the case to the sessions, and order the defendant to put in bail to the extent of 501. to answer the charge. The bail was immediately found, and the defendant thereupon liberated. THAMES. 3 Gyeeoarrg:oAtllaisg aii O v erton, nen d r a a p t e a r l , tall, was c h well-dressed arged ro arrying with Anna Louisa Foster, while his first wife w m i a th n, i a n b te o r u! vs as alive. Pear..-e J. Dixon, clerk of St. John's district church, Ahnal-green, produced the register-book of marriages, fit nil which it appeared that George Allison Overton, chelor, and Harriet Any I ves , spinster, were married 13; , bann s on t h e 3d of July, 18 39. Mary lies stated that she is aunt oft t 's 'st wife, and th at when she heard othheprisoner !t* niece in 1839 s h e wont to St. JohnPsniCtr age of n ak tisfy herself of th e f act. The prisoner and her niatl to ..erwards lived to ge th er as man and wife, and heweecnet 63 • the name of Ove r t on, an d carried on the business of Et Tv tendraper. The prisoner separated from his wife t ti, ree years and eight months ago. On Monday last eri) Lness went to the residence of her niece, who was tkc :n from home, but on the following day she received a 'tetter from her stating that she intended if possible f,o present herself at the police-court, but she had not cf,ot to so. cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, the witness said 'the prisoner and her niece quarrelled in the street, and ,he returned to his dwelling in Limehouse-causeway, put 'si goods in a cart, and left the neighbourhood. He re f lut d to allow his wife to accompany him, and used threatening language towards her. She (witness) had no doubt her niece left the prisoner in consequence of his ill-usage. Her niece was afterwards reduced to great distress, and she sent her to Yarmouth, where her friends resided. She never heard that her niece was unfaithful to her husband, but he had been very unfaith ful to her. She never heard the prisoner was a man of unsound mind. Witness heard of the second marriage some time ago. The mother of the prisoner married his wife's father. Mr. Pelham—l see—it was a family compact. Anna Louisa Foster stated that she was married to the prisoner at Whitechapel Church on the 22d of July last. He married her in the name of George Hoshaiah Allison, and she never knew him by any other. When she first became acquainted with him he was in business as a linendraper, and she was in the habit of making pur chases at the shop. He paid his addresses to her for 12 months previously to their marriage. On or about Christ mas last he told her that he was married to another wo man, and that he did not like to mention it before, as he feared the news would distress her. She continued to live with him until the 23d of February last, when they had a few words, and, after kissing her, he said she would never see him again, and left home. She had not seen him since the 23d of February until that day. The witness fainted away when she had given her evi dence, and was carried out of court. Robert Sheffield produced the certificate of the register of the last marriage at Whitechapel Church. Mr. YARDLEY said, the case must go before a jury, and there was not a single extenuating circumstance in the case to justify him in taking bail. He committed the prisoner for trial. LAMBETH. John Phillips, the son of a gentleman of respectability, was charged with exposing his person in Coldharbour lane, Camberwell, on the preceding evening. The case was clearly proved, and when the prisoner was called on for his defence, his father, who seemed very much affected, rose and said that for many years his son had been the source of the greatest possible un happiness to him, and after dissipating a very handsome property, had enlisted in the 45th Regiment. Soon after he accompanied his regiment to India, and had been in all the desperate battles during the last two years. The awful description of the carnage he had witnessed, which he had sent home, induced him (the father) to send out a sum of money to purchase his discharge, and he con sequently came home. On his arrival, a short time since, his head was one mass of blister, and it was his im pression that this must have affected his mind. During the whole of his former profligacy he bad never known his wretched son to be guilty of any such offence as the present, and if it was his Worship's opinion that hi had been really guilty of the charge he should be the last to screen him. Mr. ELLIOTT felt perfectly satisfied of the prisoner's guilt, and committed him to the House of Correction for three months. ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK. On Tuesday morning, at 11 o'clock, a meeting of the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, was held in the vestry of the parish church for the election of church. wardens for the ensuing year. The chair was taken by the Rev. Dr. Croly, the vicar. Not more than 20 per sons were present. The minutes of the last meeting of the vestry having been read and confirmed, Mr. W. ROCK, churchwarden, observed, that it was now twelve months since the last vestry meeting was held in this parish. The reason of this was, that in the intervening time several questions relating to paro chial affairs had been under the cognizance of courts of law ; and it was therefore felt unnecessary to continue the meetings which they had been accustomed to hold in that place. The litigated questions to which he re ferred had, however, now been decided, and he was happy to say that in every instance the decision had been in favour of the parishioners, and against the select vestry. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas had unanimously declared the election of Alderman Gibbs to the office of churchwarden to be illegal and void. Those with whom he (Mr. Rock) acted had been ad. vised, by the legal authorities they had consulted, that the effect of this decision was to put an end entirely to the select vestry in the parish of Walbrook. There could be no doubt that there had originally been a select vestry in the parish ; but in order to preserve a custom it was necessary, when that custom was at variance with the common law, that it should be strictly adhered to. In this case the custom had been departed from, and the result was that the vestry of St. Stephen's, Wal brook, would henceforth be an open vestry.--(Hear, hear.) It was true that Alderman Gibbs bad inti mated his intention to appeal against the unanimous de cision of the Judges of the Common Pleas, but it was of course open to him to take any measure that be might choose to adopt. The meeting was aware that during the last four years a Chancery suit had been carried on between Alderman Gibbs and himself (Mr. Rock), in which the parish was not immediately concerned. He (Mr. Rock) had pledged himself several years ago that he would extract some account from Alderman Gibbs, and that pledge he had now fulfilled.—(Hear, hear.) It was necessary, in the course of the suit to carry the accounts into the office of one of the Masters in Chan cery, and at that time Alderman Gibbs' accounts ex hibited a balance of upwards of 1 800/. which he claimed from the p ar i s h of Walbrook. 'The' Master, however, after investigating the accounts, struck off 1,3001. of the 1,8001. ; and the Vice-Chancellor subsequently decided that the remaining 5001. could not be recovered by Alderman Gibbs. This claim of 1,800/. was, therefore, annulled, arid all the money that Alderman Gibbs had received since the commence ment of these proceedings would go to the credit of the parish. As the income of the parish was above 7001. a year, and as upwards of three years had elapsed since legal proceedings were commenced, it followed that Alderman Gibbs had now in hand from 2,0001. to 2,300/. or 2,4001. to the credit of the parish ; for during the three years he (Alderman Gibbs) could not have ex pended more than 1801. or 2001. The parishioners had achieved in this struggle all that they had desired to obtain; iedbr a ubs n rai d weor t of h at e tl h y dh ee n ta o almak w eoeta demanded payment from Alder cut hat care w ee eh that years.heha t h ad ih accumu lated the Haccounts e hope hoped theoi of p hisa the. r hm i a s l an h n I sG n parish were more regularly kept by their future church wardens. After a few words from Mr. FLIGHT, expressing his concurrence in the observations of the previous speaker, Mr. CIINLIFFE observed, that he was sure the meeting would admit that the late churchwardens, Messrs. Rock and Flight, deserved the thanks of the parishioners for the trouble they had taken with regard to the matters which had been referred to, and he begged to move their re-election to office for the ensuing year. The motion was seconded by Mr. KENDRICK, and was unanimously adopted. The Rev. CHAIRMAN called the attention of the meeting to the state of the parish church, which, he observed, was most scandalous. He had said three years ago that the church was not in a fit state for the per formance of divine service, and he might now repeat the statement with much greater force. His only surprise was, that any congregation assembled in the edifice, for, independently of the possible casualty of the roof falling down, the cold during the recent inclement weather had been almost insupportable. The church was in a state of utter insolvency. There was a sum of 140 guineas due to the organist; the sextoness had a claim for up wards of 2731.; and four years' stipend, about 1601., was due to himself (Dr. Croly) as lecturer. Mr. Rock observed, that a notice had been published, signed by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Ramsay, convening a parish meeting for Friday next. He considered, there fore, that they ought to ascertain the names of all the select vestrymen, that they might know with whom they were fighting—whether with men of substance or with men of straw. As Mr. Flight and himself had been chosen churchwardens of the parish, he wished to tell any gentlemen who might claim to act as churchwarden s that his colleague and himself were ready to declare war to the knife. If any other persons took any step as churchwardens, he could assure them that actions would be commenced the next day. Dr. CROLY intimated his intention to attend the meeting on Friday. A vote of thanks was then given to the Rev. Chairman and Messrs. Rock and Flight, and the proceedings terminated. EDUCATION IN ROME. THE EVENING SCHOOLS. (From the Roman Advertiser.) There are many elementary schools for the benefit or the children of the people, diffused throughout the regions of Rome, and collecting so large a num ber of the young as to be able to stand in competi tion with those of Paris, London, and other capitals. We shall here limit ourselves to giving some account of the nocturnal schools, which, coming to the aid of the diurnal ones, complete the system of popular education, in supplyin g i ns tructi on f or th ose children who are bliged to work during the day, and have no time to pass in school except the early hours of the evening. The nocturnal schools of Rome had their origin in 1819, by means of Giacomo Casoglio, a carver in wood, who, from love towards his fellow artizans, conceived the design of collecting their children in the evening, in a large chamber in the Via Guila, where, besides the catechiom, he taught them reading and a little writing, attracting his young pupils by presents. This labour, so much of love, but so imperfect in the hand of a.n artizan, was assisted the very same year by the Nocturnal Oratory, which Monsignor Giannoli opened near the school, in the Church of St. Nicola degli Incoronati. The oratory asssisted the school during the lit of Casoglio, and afterwards the good priests continued the work commenced by the artizan. But this seed soon bore much greater fruit, when the Advocate Gigli, full of benevolence towards the people, opened, in 1830, a school at his own expense, in St. Maria de Marche giani' which locale being too small, it was afterwards transferred to St. Simone e Guida. He founded an other in Borgo, in 1833, and desiring to extend these benefits over the whole city, transferred that of St. Simone e Giuda to a more suitable place at the Mar chera d'Oro, so appointing it that it might be taken as a model for all the rest. But, whilst bent on these charitable designs, death cut him off in the time of general mourning, 1837, when, having converted his school into a house of relief, and going every day with the others who recruited in the task of nursing, to the houses of cholera patients, he was seized by the disease, and perished the victim of his singular charity. But though he was dead, his work did not die with him, as the two schools, although interrupt e d b y this calamity, and deprived of their ordinary succours, passed into the hands of the Abate Palotta, a model of benevolence, who not only re stored them to their pristine state, but remitted the funds in the amount of the deficit sustained in the interval, exerted himself so much that the aids augmented, and prevailed upon his parishioners, who were subsidiaries of the Cassa di beneJleeaza, to contribute two scudi a month in those places where the schools had been opened. By such pious industry, he increased the revenue to 500 scudi, with which he was enabled to open a new school in the Via dell'Arancio. When he was obliged to leave Rome on account of his health, the Cardinal della Porta, then vicar, perceiving the utility of these schools, took their interest greatly to heart, and confirmed the pious society by the decree, " Delle scuole nocturne di religions," under the in vocation of the Vergine Addolorato, some being de sired to contribute by money, others by labour. In order to increase the benefits resulting, he' desired to place them under the guidance of a man who might be their voluntary director and promoter, as was found in Monsignor Morichini, who having already assumed the direction on th e i nstance o f Pallotta, retained it with hearty willingness, accord ing to the wish of the Cardinal. It was not possible that the choice could have fallen better than on this individual, in respect for whose g enu i ne mo d es t y we shall only say, that his ability of mind and benevolence of heart are known to all. If the uni versal interests of the Church, and the recompense of merit in such a prelate, ought not to be paramount to particular advantages, the loss that Rome has sustained in so energetic an ecclesiastic would be too severe. [He has been elevated to the dignity of Nuncio at the Court of Bavaria.] It was then that an established order was given to this institution, the administration set on a firm basis, the regulations compiled, and the instruction determined. Then (1829) its course became continually more progres sive, and its benefits gradually extended over the principal centres of the city, The truly apostolic zeal of the good priests, and the assistance of charitable and distinguished persons, gave increment to the pious work, and since 1841 the regulations in regard to the institution, the worship, and instruction, have been in print. In respect of the first, all is confided to a directive council, composed of president, vice president, directors of the schools, secretary, and accomptant. The president is chosen by the council, and the members of this by the general session of the society, this last being composed of associates, some exercitants, some contributors. The council meets once a month, the society on the occasion of the annual balancing of accounts, and for the election of the members of the council, who are in office two years. The evenings of vigils and festivals are dedi cated to religious exercises, when all the schools assemble in their respective oratories, for catechetical instruction, and prayers are given, and two feasts especially celebrated, those of the Mater dolorosa and St. Luiga Gonzago. On the afternoons of festivals, the pupils are conducted to some gardens, where they pass their time in amusements till the evening. The schools are opened at the hour of 24, and the in struction begins at a half an hour later, lasting till 1 o'clock, and three-quarters of the night (24 is now 6 o'clock, the first hour of the night 7). Every school is divided into three classes, in which are suc cessively taught, reading, writing, and arithmetic, ] and catechi sm f or t h e last quarter o f an hour. In the third class are taught the elements of linear ] design, and of geometry app li e d t o th e arts. Ch oral music is also taught to some extent, enabling the children to sing at their devotions, and on returning home at night. It certainly awakens peculiar emo tions when, at the second hour of the night (8 o'clock), one meets bands of these children, or hear them as they pass under our windows, singing the praises of Mary, and going to the homes where their mothers receive them with blessings, whilst they bless also th e p i ous care of those who thus train their children in the paths of virtue. CHRISTOPHER COLOMB. True genius is seldom to be put down by clamour, though, unfortunately, instances of this kind do sometimes occur, and unquestionably had not Felicien David been possessed of strength of mind ,as well high talent, he would have sunk under the storm of abuse so ungenerously raised against him last year, on the occasion of his " Moise," whieh, because the public was disappointed in not finding it another "Desert," was universally cried down as a worthless rhapsody, and its author as something like an im postor. Some of your men of genius would have taken this sorry treatment—and sorry and shabby enough it certainly was—in dudgeon, and forsworn Apollo in a huff —nay, some of our acquaintance would infallibly in such a strait have blown out the small portion of brains appertaining to them ; but M. David did far better—he betook himself, not to Avernus, but to Auteuil, where he avenged him self on his detractors by writing a symphony. which not only restores him to celebrity, but places him beyond the reach of all future cavil among the first composers of his time. The subject is a grand one, the conception of a man of genius —the discovery of the new world; the title Christophe Colomb, ou, la Discouverie do Nouveau Monde. It was produced at the Theatre of the Conservatoire, for such was the effect of the clamour to which we have alluded that not a lyric theatre would open its doors to the com poser, and it was to the generous i n t er f erence of one of the Princes that this smile, which belongs to the Crown, was placed at the disposal o f M . David. The symphony is divided into four parts—" The Depar t u n e d , " ~ A Night at the T rop i cs, " " The Revolt," a The New World." Th ese are all described with " an imitative power really wondrous, though r the auditor is no doubt largely indebted to a re citative well delivered by M. Henry, o f t h e Opera Comique, w ho, by a kind of runn i ng commen• tary on the events described, ke e p s t h e audience the old Greek t rage d y. The sub au courant of the intentions of th e aut h or, l i ke the chorus in ject opens with the preparations for th e d eparture o f the expedition, the undulation of th e waves, and the ships riding at anchor, being exp resse d with singular felicity. The embarkation amid th e prayers of the people, the signal for sailing, and the departure of the fleet, with the various feelings o f regret and alarm at such a moment experienced by th e a d venturers and those who remain behind, were admirably d ep i c t e d , and this part concluded amid loud and long plaudits. The composer subsequently describes the features of a long navigation—the weary calm, the langour of the tropics, a tempest, a dream of h ome , a revo l t on board, and lastly, the sight of the new world ; the. rapture of the nearly hopeless sail ors at t h e prospect, and the dances and choruses of th e na ti ves; a ll were ehl applause, which, as th e b eaut i es un folded to the audience, rose at l eng th t o received themselves e with enthusiastic demonstrations of d e li g h t. T he sym phony, we should mention, is n o t w h o ll y instru mental, the subject being developed by several choruses and other vocal morceaux, all of considerable merit, but we must add that the execution seemed on the whole inferior to the work. The composition is of colossal grandeur, and it would demand all the resources of a first-rate theatre to do justice to such a production. MUSICAL MEMORANDA. Mr. Braham has kindly consented to sing at the festi val of the Royal Society of Musicians, on the 19th inst., Lord Saltoun in the chair. Miss Rainforth, the Misses Williams, Miss Maria B. Hawes, Signor F. Lablache, and a host of other eminent vocalists have promised to attend on the occasion. ANCIENT CONCERTS.—FieId Marshal the Duke of Wellington will give a grand banquet on the 21st instant to the directors of the Ancient Coneerts and a select party, previous to the performance. Mdlle. Lutzer, the celebrated German cantatrice, will make her dibut at these concerts on the occasion. Jullien gives a concert this evening at Manchester, at which Herr Pisehek will sing. He will also sing at several places in the provinces previous to his appear ance in London, which will be at the concert of ancient music. Mr. John Wil son, accompan i e d b y M r. L an d , h as given his Scottish entertainments at Aberdeen, and several other places, with his wonted success ; he will resume his performances at the Music Hall, in Store.. street, next M onday. AMATEUR SOCIETY.—The programme for next Fri danayn'isveprseirfoyrmenance by the Amateur Society in Store street, consist of the overture to Rossini's L'ltalian : Ta vern, when Haydn .s symphony, the Letter Q; selection of Donizettes Lucrezta ; a symphony by Rousselot, and Beethoven's overture to Fidelio.—Conductor, Mr. Bilfe. The. Western Madrigal Society will celebrate its eighth and Italian writers will be performed by nearly a hun dred n sews,. r a r l h fi u n r e s daynex compositions, a t the by t Freemasons'he old English dred voices. Mendelssohn will arrive in London on the 13th inst., and his oratorio, Elijah, will be performed at Exeter Hall, on the 16th, under his direction. Vieuxtemps will arrive in London on the 19th inst. from St.. Petersbuh where he has been sojourning for in playing. and . There creatingis a paying us a v i sit this season; nor i s P ar i s h Al vers lik e l y doubt quite a about u fu ror e r youngo e by jo his ac v h i i o m l to come; but Godefroid, the eminent harpist, will be here shortly, for the season. The Gl ee Club will meet on Saturday next at the Crown and A nc h or T avern; a nd the rehearsal of the third Philharmonic Concert will take place in the morn ing of the same d ay . Itis confidently re ported that the installation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert will take place at Cam ,bridge early in July. According to ancient custom, the co:nrnencement will begin on Saturday, the 3d of July; arid the performance of the Ode on the 6th. As usual, there will be a musical festival, but as yet nothing has been de.initively settled. [ADV ER'n'ISEMENT.]—SHINTISEASES. — Dit.PowELL's TEsrnsoNy ttiF TIIE (EFFICACY OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND Or NT MENT.—Xxtritet of a letter, dated 16, Blessington-street, Dublin, Feb. 9, 1847. Professor Holloway.—Dear Sir,—Having devoted my particular attention for some years to the treatment of cutaneous, or skin :diseases, I think it right to inform you that I have, in a great many case ~ reconunended the use of your Pills and Ointment, and invariably found them to have the most perfect _effect in removing those diseases, even when of a very desperate nature. (Signed) W. E. POWELL, 24.1). In cases of scald heads, ringworms, pimples or tetters on the face, the effect of the medicines is astonishing.— Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Lstablishrriont, 244, Strand, London- BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette.) Au Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth 7ictoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, or the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 27th day of March, 1847 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Rnapp and Co.. 24,291 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and C 0... 17,054 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,787 Aylsha.n Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 6,063 Aylesbury Old Bank, kylesbury—Rickford and Hunt 41,610 Baldock Bank and Ba:dock and Biggleswade Bank, italdock—Wells, Hogg, end Lindsell... 36,230 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple- a-ake and Co. 15.308 Basingstoke and Odihatv. Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedfotd Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— Trapr, Halfhead, and C 0..... Bewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicestet and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford 7,572 Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co. 26,616 t3irmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,887 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham --Lewis, Moilliett, and Co . 17,370 marlittord Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak. 8,305 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 72,995 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 14,699 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 10,058 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 37,199 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 23,943 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham —Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. . 25,548 Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 40,457 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... 50,595 Baer. City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son 3,407 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 37,608 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradtord Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co — Britlport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 23,856 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co 12,916 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge and Co Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 17,642 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co••••• Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 3,395 22,880 30,715 Sons Chcrtsey Bank, Chertsey—Mersrs. La Coste 3,382 Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- Ci e ty oc ß k ank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co 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 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, 41,426 47,304 9,539 21,554 77,009 2,353 6,816 8,454 13,788 43,991 27,211 Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, 17,989 10,566 and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—:Lathana, and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bauk, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 12,096 59,466 81,655 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. I , 7,sattac Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford, and co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co. Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Varringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley I Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Hayden... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford 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 I larwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank. Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Koniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Ilitchen Bank, Hitch en—Sharples and Co. (len:ford, 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— Alexarders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—G etch and Sons... Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Ilarv;:y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Low_rhborough Bank, Loughbr 10,900 43,270 111,459 49,668 57,994 33,220 19,130 8,999 13,612 5,627 6,084 19,424 13,413 27,362 32,702 19,003 22,579 19,967 53,523 5,657 22,550 _ ign tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co Manningtree Bank,Man ningtree—Nuna and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .. Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and. Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son . Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons 43,792 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co 70,557 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 8,895 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co 5,251 Naval Bank, ,Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0... 27,111 New Serum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co • .. 14,011 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 28,994 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Crox on and Co 14,821 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,479 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson... Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells - Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beaching and Sons... .................. 9,854 loroug, 23,386 20,795 78,860 16,480 24.40' 7,937 20,280 42,793 9,202 5,406 51,041 35,495 486 30,467 40,883 19,797 88,3C7 23,621 iddle- 7,155 4,063 40,947 13,640 12,257 6,626 14,932 12,188 7,925 17,802 26,888 16,050 7,676 27,971 53,385 35,150 20,523 2,725 • Average Amount Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance —Batten and Co - l'eterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough —Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—j. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—simonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 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 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co .. Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough —Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market. Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Sou thwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Ban's, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 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. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 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 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester— Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham .and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkeswnrth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and 'Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough. and Co JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of WestmOreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 46,043 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... 17,659 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 16.035 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,828 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,919 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 24,876 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 160,184 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,106 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,795 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,345 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,089 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 35,745 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,455 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,847 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,943 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,720 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,830 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 52,106 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, 11,738 46,255 10,795 10,242 11,816 12,190 37,361 41.338 5,942 11,206 4,175 9,823 15,238 15,661 21,489 11,216 4,136 41,631 19,679 22,520 9,893 43,214 3,0 4 0 16,560 13,893 2,740 24383 8,774 0,008 6,368 16,517 14,522 31,709 16,346 25,521 2,292 26,490 12,929 10,105 13,065 10,947 12,725 10,410 15,029 26,078 10,354 27,854 3,421 43,333 13,785 21,320 6,106 15,413 35,772 61,913 7,073 9,873 13,033 83,720 12,483 19,38 24,354 2,900 9,523 49,580 12,445 8,393 44,338 9,510 Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 336 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,295 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 28,960 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 76,126 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wiltr. Banking Company, Melksham 62,901 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 84,091 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverp001....... 60,114 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,457 Sheffield Bankiil2; Company, Sheffield 34,274 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, B r i s t o l S omerset- 55,418 shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Coin ,r 425 pany, Stou r b r id ge Sheffield and 1191 lamshire Bankin g Company, 22,002 Sheffield Sheffield and • Rotherham Joint-Stock Bankir' 52,098 Company, Sheffield y Co: "" Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking t ...... 48 ,870 Richmond.. , g Com- Stockton and Durham County Bank ............ pany, Stockton...... Company, Storey and Thomas's 8ank;;,,... 9,873 Shaftesbury afield ....... 755 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, iiiwich ............... Suffolk Banking Cornpany.ishire Banking Com- Wolverhampton and Staff ......... Union Wakefield 3 1 4 3: 8 12 1 5 2 pany,Wolverhamp", Wakefield and Barzt-:xk Banking Company; 31,352 Whitehaven •;iir_gton Banking Company, Whiteha ven Warwick and 11 4 Leamington 81141 South Wales District 36,082 West of E r gl ai v Bank-Bristol. Average Amount. Wilts anal Dorset Banking Compan , ,,, Salisbury 75,651 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 71,075 • York City and County Banking Company, York 90,196 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar ef Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Apri 2, 1847. ASCENT of MR. GALE'S BALLOON. The public curiosity, which had become more than ordinarily excited by the announcement of the intended cent of Mr. Gale, in a balloon of a novel construction, from the grounds of the Rosemary Branch Tavern, at Pef:kham, was gratified yesterday. Mr. Gale, whose name, though new in this country, as an aeronaut, is well known in New York, and on the continent, ascended at six o'clock, in a splendid balloon, made of silk ma nufactured in Spitalfields, and of the largest dimensions, being capable of containing 34,000 feet of gas. This aerial machine has been already described, and it is, therefore, needless again to set forth wherein it differs from the old and somewhat antiquated machines hitherto employed in voyages through the skies. It has reser voirs to receive the disharged gas, is of a lighter con struction as to the car, and is less encumbered with grapnels and other apparatus, and has an improvement in the valves and other more minute parts. The ink- tion was commenced at ten o'clock, with a pressure of five inches, the gas being supplied by the Metropolitan Gas Company, and measured by means of one of De frie's dry gas meters, of' which the accuracy and the ex• cellence are most surprising. By three o'clock, 28,900 feet of gas had passed into the balloon, and it was in s , fate to ascend ; but as the hour advertised for the ascent was later, and as much company was expected to arrive about five o'clock, the ascent was postponed till later hour. Every preparation was made, and amongst other accessories a capital barometer, made by Messrs. Home and Thornthwaite, by which altitudes can 1/ 0 measured at the distance of three miles from the earth with great accuracy, was placed in the car. The ascent was a grand one, many thousands being assembled to witness it, all of whom cheered Mr. Gale and his sole companion, Mr. Byrne, as they mounted in the air. The balloon took a direction south-easterly, passing, as far as could be conjectured, over the districts of Norwood, and making over those of Blackheath' When at an immense height in the air, Mr. Gale lowered from the car in which he and his companion were seated another car, which having descended about 25 feet, Mr. Gale made his way into it by means of a rope ladder. This perilous exploit was beheld with astonishment, not without fear, by the spectators, but was performed 1 0 an admirable manner, and the aeronaut having reached the lower car in safety, sent off a sort of shell or fire' work, composed by Mr. Mortram, of well-known pyro technic celebrity, which exploded with a very loud re' port, and then proceeded to discharge a series of shells or petards, attached to the lower car, but which de' scended a considerable way before they burst, and pre vented any danger to the balloon. This ascent is certainly a curious variety in aerosts' Lion, and removes the monotony of a parcel of p eo ple going up in the clouds at dusk and coming down a little after dusk, to the amusement of nobody but themselves , and the indifference of all but the very idle and igricr rant. From the construction of the double car a nu mber, of experiments ma y b e attempte d , and some aid affor d e d to science. It is fair to say that the arrangements wer e well made, and that praise is due to Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the grounds, for the manner in which th e whole was conducted. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Aram 7. STOCK ExctrANGa.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting" ham and Boston, % dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Juno' tion, 8 1 / p.—Eastern Counties, 19—Ditto, York Extensioll 3Gdis.—East Lancashire, New S cr ip, 1 1 / s p. —Edinburgh and lasgow, Quarters, 17 3 / 4 —Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.)' New, 1% p.—Great Western, 171. Shares, 3 1 4 p.—Hudderr field Canal and Railway, 21 / . p.—Lancaster and Prestoll. Quarters, 14 —London and North-Western, 175—Ditto, N. ° Quarters, 10% p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnsh_,ir e ' (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 5 1 / s dis.—Midland, 4 1 r, Shares, 331 ; p.—Ditto, New, 2 3 / 4 p.—North Staffordshire, 2$ p.—North Union (B), 15—Northern Counties Union, 2 cli s ; —Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), p.—Shrewsbury ar D. Chester (late N. W. M.), 4 1 / 8 p.—South-Eastern and Dover,' New (No. 4), fis. 3d. p.—South Y or k s hi re , D oncas t e r an Goole, par— Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), 1 4_ York and Newcastle, Preference, 3% p.—Dutch Rheft' 2 dis. MANCHESTER, APRIL 7. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Birkenhead, La i r, cashire, and Cheshire, 1 / 8 dis.—Edinburgh and Glasga" Halves, 9—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction! Xs Great Northern, 7- 1 6—Huddersfield and Manchestif .ailwav and Canal, 2 5-16—Ditto, Thirds, %—London North-Western, 176—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 91 / 4 :f: Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extension), VA—M anc h ester , S" A field, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, I%—Ditt o , Sheffield an; Lincolnshire, 1% 8 c.—Manchester and Southampton, 159 ; na North Staffordshire, 2 13-16—Oldham Alliance, 5 4- - " P res —• and Wyre, Sixths, s%—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (BP Dover, 9d.—Shropshire Union, 1 5-16—South-Eastern and 36 1 4—Ditto, No. 4, 5-16. LEEDS, Aran, 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are—East Lancashire, Nef! 245. p.—Great North of England, New, 10s. dia.—Leo' and Thirsk, n. dis.—Ditto, New, 15s. c. ference, 255. 6d. p.— London and Brighton and South Cow' Fifteenths, 3s. p.—Malton and Driffield Junction, 12a. 6d.t —Manchester and Leeds. 321. Sh ares (l a t e E xtens i on ), 2, p. —Di t to, West Riding Union, 28 s . 6d. p.—M anc h es ter, BO" ton, Matlock, and Midland, 6s. p.—N ewcas tl e and Bet' wick, New, W I p.—North British, Thirds, 465. Extension (scrip), 21. 14s. 6d. p.—Northern Counties up! 375. dis.—North- Western, 7s. 6d. dis.—Wharfdale Juuctio ss. dis. SHEFFIELD, APRIL 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottio.s ham, and Boston, 6s. ed. dis.—East Lincolnshire, 2% P. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and s ti m ia field), 375. dis.—Ditto, Do c k s , VA (S h e er and Roth erham ), 32 1 / 2 —Northßritish, Thirds,' 2% rt. •,` oo le, Staffordshire, 234p.—South Yorkshi re , D oncaster , Oa ‘1 Is. Gd. dis. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 7. 4 1/... STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sa l es are ,—Midland, 1157; West Riding Union, p.—York and Newcastle, 9p. HULL, APRIL 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern unt ie* York Extension, 135. dis.—North British, Quarters, 76 t,.., Ditto, Extension Scrip, 13s. p.—Fiackburn, Clitheroe , Preference, 255. p.—North-Western, 1 / 2 dis.—Wrest Union, 30s. p. EDINBURGH, APRIL 6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 271. 17 5 ., 1 6 1, -Airdrie and Bathgate. 31. 18s.-Arbroath an d Forfar, ... .1 0 ".. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. ls. not Caledonian, 261. 15s-Ditto, New, 21. 7s. 6d.-Caledonit and Dumbartonshire, 21. 2s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, ° l j, 53.-Deeside, 31. s.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callenderio, 12s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 42/. 10s.-Ditto, New: 0, 30L-Ditto, New, No. 2, 301.-Ditto, N ew , N o . 0, . 4 1 155.-Dundee and Northern Junction, 2/. 93.-Dundee Perth, 381.-Ditto, New, 19/. 17s. 6d.-East of Fife , t i r 165.-East Lothian Central, 2 /. 165.-Edinburgh and Ba gate, 61. 102.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 711. 15s. ex dil'• Ditto, e% Halves, 191. 15s. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 181 4 div.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 20/. 2s. 63.--m . ' Preference, 211.-Ditto, Ne w , 2/ . 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Q u arte o, it, 14s. 93.-Edinburgh and Norther n , 161. 5 5 .-Ditto, 31. 17s. M.-Ditto, Newport, 71. l ls. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, T 1 2/. 128.-Edinburgh an d P erth (New), 3/. 2s. 6d.- - P, T " . 01 Halves, It ' 25.-Glasgo w an d A yrsh i re, 62L-Ditto, g, Stock, 381 . -Ditto, Halves, N o . 1, 51 . 5 5. -Di tto, ditto,ls°:ol BL-Ditto, Quarters, 16/. lOs -Glasgow, Dumfries, ft Carlisle, 5/. 1 55.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.-Glas9l, General Terminus, 121. 55.-Glasgow an d Greenock, Tf, -Ditto, Halves, 9L-Ditto, Preference, 8/. 53.-Glar Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 5/. 18s.-Great North of „ f at land, 2331. 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 21. es Northern (late Direct North ern ). 3/. 9 5 .-Ditt o (l a te Lco l ." tt p, and York), 3/. 9 5 .-M anc h ester an d Leeds, 1081.- - ,D 0 1 ,... Sixteenths, 81. 55.-N ewca , t l e an d B erw i c k , 27/. /0, North .-D British, 321. 15s. ex di v .-Ditt o , H a l ves , 151.; 6 .0 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 19s. 6ditto, New CP:lib* (scrip), 11. 75.-Ditto, Thirds, 31. Bs. 6d.-Ditto, 6/. 155.-Scottish Central, 221. 17s. 6d.-Scottish (-l a y Junction, IL la.-Scottish Midland, 20/. 155.-Sbrew s and Hereford, 1/. 12s. 63.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry,ferTa. Chester, 81.-Ditto, New, 1/. ls.-Stirling and Viotti/ line, 4/. 2s. 6d.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 7 ' 6 , 14/. 15s• and Coltness, 491. ex div.-York and Newcastl',.__Direel -Ditto, New, 15/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Preference, °' North Bombay and Madras, 45.-East Indian, Bs.-Great „Jo. India, 35.-Great Southern of Madras, 35.-Madras , lore, and Arcot, Is. 9d. GLASGOW, APRIL 6. t , STOCK t xcatAxGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and 1 6 %0 M""^ , Ltrn • Central, Wis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, -- ro j burgh and Perth (New C o .), 59 5 . 3d.—Glasgow Ge,n„ze,„.. Terminus, 13 1 / 2 —Glasgow, Kilmar noc k, an d Ayr, 6i_ysini. Ditto, Quarters (5 per cen t. guar. ) , 1514—Glasgow, fries, and Carlisle, 5/. 16s.—Manchester and Southanig,t‘ 283 —Midland, llalves, 4%—Scottish G ran d J unc tion, ' 4 ,1 0 , 6d.—Stirli ng an d Dunfermline, as. —York and Newest ' Preference, 151. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon ° a visit to her Majesty Windsor Castle. BIRTHS. th e On the sth inst., at De Coigny House, Leamington' wife of IL Ch ar l es Fawley, Esq., of a d aug h ter . On the 6th i ns t, at Westbourne- s t ree t, H y d e -park s Walter T. F awc t , of a daught er . k 21 0 ' On the 6th i v ' r•, in Chest er -t errace , Regent's-park, 111111 William Benet , of a daughter. _...... daughtr MARRIED. o n the p t inst., a t Ch r i stchurch, Hants, Henry 101114 „ 1 13 4 E sq. o f jasinghall-street, L on d on, so li c i tor, to Mary, se cji of Mr. W. Lipscomb, late of Sherborne, Dorset' DIED. the 6th inst., at Rottingdean, Thomas Beard, sfl ' t 80 years. On the sth inst., in Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-80 3re ' ..he Right Hon. Joseph Planta, aged 60. On the 25th ulf., the Rev. M. Hughes, Kildare, 1re10' 3 % 4 On the 27th u lt., a t Bonn, on the Rhine, Major fle i ;:gi Jones Grove, K.H., lat e of her Majesty's 80th Regiment Foot, aged 63. On the :31st ult., at Sha c k erw i c h H ouse, Captain dal-- m e Burdett NM, half-pay 71st Regiment. On the 3d inst., a t Ch avenage H ouse, near Tetbury , c3lo ll ' cestershire, Mary Anne, widow of the late Rev. J. PnelP g : of On the 4th in s t., a t th e M ount, H arrow, Justina , w i fe William Mackenzie, Esq., aged 47. On the 4th i ns t., a t H as l emere, P . Wi ll i ams, Esq. , ag ed 9 ' . On the sth inst., B a ld w i n D uppa D uppa, E gg., o f 110 1, '"' d bourne House, a m ag i s t ra t e and deputy-lieutenant, age 66 —, ~,, On the sth inst., a t Brighton, Abraham Goodman, De: aged 67 ; also, on the 15th u lt., Rosetta, his wife, aged Ott the sth inst., iu N ew Bond-street, Mr. Charles Le m caster, aged 61. On the sth inst., at Frimley, Surrey, Captain Abraham' On the sth inst. ' Ann, relict of th e l a t e Ri c hard Walbar ov Esq., of Clay-hill, Enfield. ant At Brussels, Palmyra, th e w id o W o f th e l a t e Lieuten Francis Crowther, of the 80th Regiment. London: Printed lola Published by 111 - ITRDO YOUNG, of No. 1 6 Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Pad a, of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, Thuradar, AO / 1847. ' .;., t ,~y~a