The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT.TER SA LL'S--NESTERDA Y. The betting was canfined to about half-a-dozen horses, and, except in one instance, was flat and uninteresting. The Rosalie colt was the exception, 12 to 1 having been taken to 2001., and two or three offers made to bac him at an advance of a point. Closing prices : DERBY. 12 to 1 eget Rosalie colt—taken and afterwards offered 20 to 1 agst Coronation—taken 22 to 1 agst Ralph 25 to 1 agst Prince Carapoc 28 to 1 agst Palmmon—taken 30 to 1 agst Gilbert—taken and afterwards offered 40 to 1 agst Van Amburgh—t., and afterwards off. 2000 to 30 agst the Nob—taken 2000 to 30 agst Warlock—taken 1000 to 20 egst the Nob, and 4000 to 43 agst Warlock were laid previous to the above bets. In the introductory part of our report of Monday's betting, we spoke of " fifties to one," with reference to the Duke of Wellington ; it should have been " forties to one," which would have agreed with the quoted prices below. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. SECOND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE.—Nov. 1840. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. (The names are arranged iu the order of proficiency.) PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. — 4 l. Richard Quain, University , College ; IJohn Padden, University College; Edwin Wing, School of Physic in Ireland. SURGERY.—tJohn Charles Bucknill, University Col lege; Thomas O'Meara, Mercers' Hospital, Dublin ; Thomas Williams, Guy's Hospital, and Webb-street ; Richard Quain, University College. MEDICINE.--*f Thomas O'Meara, Mercers' Hospital, Dublin ; fJohn Douglas Strang, University College ; John Charles Bucknill, University College ; Edwin Wing, School of Physic in Ireland ; Thomas Williams, Guy's Hospit 41, and Webb-street. MIDWIPERY.—f John Douglas Strang, University Col lege; Richard Quain, University College ; Thomas Wil liam., Guy's Hospital, and Webb-street. STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLCGICAL BOTANY.—John Douglas Strang, University College. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF DOC TOR OF MEDICINE.—Nov., 1840. Anthony French Carpenter, M.B„ Lond. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BA CHELOR OF LAWS.—Nov., 1840. PAS 3 EXAMINATION. (The names are arranged alphabetically.) Edward Elcock Molyneux, U.:iversiv College ; Fre derick John Wood, University College. EXAMINATION FOP. HONOURS. Frederick John Wuod, University College. " To each of these gentlemen has been awarded a University Medical Scholarship of 501. a year for two years. fi To each of the-se, a Gold Medal of the value of 51. t To this gentkimii has been awarded a University Law Scholarship of 50/. a year for three years. NAVIGATION OF TIE& DOURO. (From the Madrid Gazette of the 7th inst.) According to the accounts received front Lisbon, it would appear that the Chambers have closed their dis cussions, without approving the regulations for the free navigation of the Douro. We know not which to ad mire most—the constant endeavours of our neighbours to frustrate the effects of the Treaty of the 3lst of Au goat, 1833, or the condescension and friendly conduct of Spain in implicitly yielding to all the dernends of Portugal. Tne statements made in the Chambers of both countries at various times, and the writings of per- sons employe I as celamissieners upon thie question. place us in a position to judee of it with effect. Tiro question at issue is extremely A Treaty for the tree and common navigation of the Douro by both countries, having been signed and ratified on the :Ilst of Aug 1e35, a Committee was next appointed at Oporto, for the purpose of drawing up and agreeing in a series of regulations for the navigation of the river. These regulations having been signed by the Committee, they were approved by her Majesty at the beginning of tie year 1536. Portugol, on the other hand,refused to ap prove the regulations, alleging that several of the clauses were injurious to her ceanneree, ;mil demand lig that it should be inserted that all articles of foreign ceninierce goiter up the river, and intended for Spain, should pay the duties in the Portuguese Customhouses. Notwithstanding the injustice and absurdity of the do mend, it was agreed to by Spain, with the hope that the rest of the regulations would be sanctioned. But, far from approving them, they next demanded that Spanish wine intended for foreiga exportation should be subject, on pissing down the river, to a duty of 300 reels the pipe ; that is, to a suns double, and sometimes three time:: the value of the tviae itself. Still, wishing to see the treaty and regulations in execution, the Spanish Go vernment not only ceasented to this proposal, ex• travagant as it was, but ale° ill ' wed the proposal to be extended to brandies awl liqueurs, although, by the article of the Tr2aty, un abslinte freedom of duty upon goods exported from Spain was established. Portu,:,al text demanded the free introduction of Portuguese silt, tobacco, aed other colonial productions into Spein ; in short, a thousand nutters which hid co connect on whatever with the treaty, It vas then ojeteeeil tit it the regulations agreed to at Oporto contained tinny things contrary to the IiVA'S of the country ; and two Commissioners were in consequence named to revise and purge the regulations of the cbjectioneble clauses. Portugal neet added that it was indiepensible that the subject should be submitted to the Cottes the their approbation. The Spanish Governen replied that ie would be preferable, sooner than softer the delay which such a course would produce to name another commission to expunge from the re gulations everything that was not actually necessary. A new revising coramission was in consequence oppointed in Lisbon, which performed its task to the satisketion of the Portuguese Government; but the latter, without recollecting their former promises, now p resente d t h e revised and modified regulations to the Chambers. One of the Cham bers of Deputies began its labours by discussing the treaty itself—that is, a solemn law and agreement —and next the clauses of the new regulations. With such slowness and interruptions was the discussion con ducted, that it now 'Oeiettlle obvious that tha object was to gain time, and to permit the Chamber to close 4fore the discussion would be concluded. This is what has actually just taken place, and we see the Portuguese journals, of all shades and colours, not only opposing the regulations, but calling in question the treaty itself. In Loch a predicamect what are are the Ministers of Spain to do to vindicate the national honour and in. terests, thus obviously trampled upon ? We do not pretend to know ;!...ut we cannot do less than invite the whole periodical press to join *re the discussion of this question, and to urge the Regency, if this he necessary, to use all the means in its power to effectuate the conditions and clauses of the treaty and regulations of Oporto." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning chronicle.) We have culled from two of our Contemporaries two communications on the subject of the correspondence respecting the conduct of Mr. William Tooke, in his capacity of Treasurer of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, which appeared in the Chronicle of Tuesday last. The correspondence, which com menced with a letter from Mr. Thomas Duncombe to the Committee of the Society, on July 8, 1840, charg ing Mr. William Tooke with having perverted the in fluence and resources of the Society to electioneering purposes, closed with a communication from Mr. Tho mas Coates, their Secretary, to Mr. Duncombe, dated the 10th December instant, informing him that " the Committee regret that in two cases the influence of the Society has been used in a matter foreign to the objects of the Society," thereby'deciding that the charge brought by Mr. Duncombe egainst Mr. Tooke bad been fully proved. The correspondence, however, ta bhshes another point, besides the decision of the Commit tee, that Mr. Tooke had perverted the influence and re sources of the Society to his own ele c ti oneer i ng purposes. viz. that " Mr. Tooke had solemnly derted, at a 'fleeting rf the General Committee, tiiat there was any truth in the charges which had been brought against him." 'rite Committee, therefore, decide that their Treasurer was guilty of the charge, and guilty of the falsehood of de nying it. It cannot be said that there was any undue eagerness on the part of the Society to sustain the charges against their Treasurer. So far from this being the case, the Society have compromised themselves not a little by the evasions, savouring . almost of chicanery, to which they resorted, wieh the view of defeating Mr. Duncombe, and screening Mr. Tooke from inquiry. When, after much ado, Mr. D . uncombc obt a i ned the appointment of a Sub. exnm:ttee to investigate t 1 0 forday--was th 7 inycsti„. , atioo the Treasurer, though he had recei red d t,;metion, del not attend. On diet oeca x D s'en, s h o ever, Mr. uncoinhe not NJ to attend, though he reniar:: , ...•l," that be thought the absence of the Tie aitircr was ri.'ithir respeetrulto the Correnittee,nor creditable to Mr.T at . id lie .. Iy es tablished his case. N o w, under these grave c i rcumstance s, Mr. Tooke addresses to tine Morniv lleraid a letter (the first of the communicati o n s which appear in our columns ibi s d a y, un d er the h ea d " M r . William Tooke") which, with all due submission to him, we c?nceivo insulting, bo:h to the public End to the So ciety kr the Diefa.:iori of Useful Kno.ayil.fe. .‘ Al. though," he begins, •• revoltin; to ail my be:ter feel• ings to submit voluntarily. to bring m y name in juxta pos.tion with that of Mr. Thomae Duncombe, yet his trumpery darge 111-ought against me," Ste. We should suppose that Mr. 'l' buncombe can have no particular anxiety to place either his person or his name in plata-po s i t i on with the person or name of Mr. Tocke ; but to call ale charge of perverting the influence nod resources of a great an d noble institution to Mr. Tooke'e own ele c ti oneer i ng pur- poses teumPo'. l / 661 /gee m ere l y proves that the Treasurer of the Seeley for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has yet to learn that most useful branch of knowledge—a proper sense of moral obligation. He betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Society, and placed its efficiency in peril by perverting its inflaence to his own purposes. He insults the Society, by calling that trumpery, the occurrence of which draws an expression of regret from its Commit tee. Levity under such circumstances is anything but becoming. The charge is a very serious one, whatever he may think of it ; and he would have evinced a more correct sense of what was due to the public had be en deavoured to account satisfactorily for his direspeet to the Society in failing to attend before its Committee on the day appointed for the investigation. But Mr. Tooke impeaches the decision of the Committee— " The resolution of the Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge on the supposed use of its influence, and which I utterly deny, was opposed by Sir G. Staunton, who moved the previous question of it, and which was carried by an actual majority of the few mem bers present, the numbers being eight for, and seven against, the previous question ; when Lord Nugent, who rarely, if ever, met the Committee before, having hers, no doubt by special accident, induced to attend on this occa sion, was, owing to his rank, inadvertently called to the chair, and by his two votes, an original and a casting one, turned the scale in favour of the resolution." All this round about merely says that the decision would hare been different bad Lord Nugent not been present, that then Mr. Tooke would have been screened by a majority of one in favour of the previous question. We do not know what the Society may think of this disclosure of what otherwise would have remained unknown to the public, but we think Sir George Staunton has been very poorly requited by Dlr. Tooke for his exertions in his behalf, for assuredly the publica tion of the part taken by Sir George Staunton will not raise the honourable baronet in the estimation of the public. But even if Mr. Tooke had bean screened by the previous question, and there had been no Lord Nugent present, the votes of seven members of the Committee, that he had perverted the influence of the Society, the other eight merely shrinking from an opinion, would, we should think, have afforded little cause for exultation. Some insult appears to be intended to Lord Nugent, by the expression, brother paymaster, with the com ment in a note of " Lucus a non lucendo, par nobilz., Arcades ambo." His Lordship's title to be present, or to vote at all in the Committee, is questioned ; and it seems Mr. 'Tooke has applied to the Noble Chairman of the Society (Lord Brougham) to convene a special ge neral meeting of the Committee for the purpose of ex punging Lord Nugent's double vote and establishing the previous question. This, to be sure, would be a mighty triumph. We suspect, however, Sir G. Staunton, by this time, by no means shares Mr. Tooke's anxiety for this victory. But the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge must feel that they have already, in endea couring to screen their Trßasurzr, done no small injury to themselves without benefiting that individual. They have laid themselves open to strong and not altogether unmerited censure from the Times, for the somewhat disingenuous manner in which they sought to escape from their duty. In seeking to screen Mr. Tooke they have drawn down on themselves an accusation of not being sufiieiently alive to the demands of honour and principle. The public eye is upon them ; and it must be aliowed that the conduct of the Society has not been such as to justify the public is laying aside all anxiety as to their future conduct. Mr. Tooke, too, has added to his former offence that of insult to the Society, in the language in which he has chosen to indulg4 - ..• tov.etrds Lord Nugent, the chairman of their cenimittee. (From th The tranquil and unoffendine issue of the grand cere monial of Tues.:lay last in the French capital, s report of which was published yesterday exclusively in the limes, was a relief to rn my timid and :3 ainfermed :ar sons, both in France and England, who dreaded lest the excitement of sued a scene, and of the recollections associated with it might - have led to disastrous corne quences. Not only, hoe ever, was there no attempt at violence, but, so fir as the private letters Isom Paris can be looked upon as authority, there is is not amen; the spectaters of the funeral any symptom of en inc.i nation for mischief. Teat silly nuisance, calling its if " La Jeuee. France," or rathsr the apothecary-notion of young France, midis a noise, hut nothing in ire, and had the mortification of fieding itself suffered to dis perse without either punishteent or notice. Never theless, the zeal, ,amounting to enthusiasm, wh'ell seemed to pervade the vest tILIA; of pop ul a• titan te;sembled about Paris on that critical day is not uowortiry of attention. In to far as it was earnest and unanimous, it was not a feeling to be treated by fo reieners with disrespect. As a ieere show, the spec tacle was a fine one ; but, deducting from the impression made by it all that belonged to or was produced by a mere plecant,—in bath which charecters the lees:races of the day had an importance for the people of Paris which no such cabioitien could have here—there was left behind a mass of strong emotion, powerfully iudice tire, nut alone of the public sentiment which prevails towards other nations at this moment, but of the rulitig passion which at all times predominates in France, and which both distinguishes, and unfortunately too often separates, the French from every other people. While the rest of Europe has been taught by sad experien,:e 1 to reprobate the name of Bonaparte as the greattst cli,turaer and destroyer of mankind Irmewn to mod, rn l history, France regerds him as her petrel) and her :del. \Vey is tills ? lie shed more Frenchmen's blood in :20 5 . ..nrs than had been spirt for a century hsfere ihim ; lea heel gone further towards eradiceting Cie %Tr: seuds and principles of honest industry—towards I - • wasting on unjust ambition the resources and the 1 fruits of commerce—towerde rendering successful Itieleuce the standard both of policy and honour— ; towards perverting useful knowledge to the ends of desolating barbarism—trampling on religion end its ministers, and utterly depraving the whole mind of France, thee had been effeeted front the accessioa of Louis XLV. and the massacre of St. Bartholomew to 1793 inclusive. It the French, in their political and military character, be a M. Mentalcm. bort described them, " detested thronghout Europe for the exorbi taney of their pretensions over surrounclieg states," it is to Bonaparte himself they owe that universal oblo quy, and to his system of heartless and excruciating eppeession inflicted upon the nations of the earth. It . France, from the downfal of the Executive Direc tory to the day on which Louis XVIII. was restored, had no atom nor shadow of civil liberty, no rights, no institutions, no freedom of speech, no privilege of action in public affairs or private, no law, no protec tion, but one man's will, it is to Bonaparte alone they are indebted for such moral burniliatioes. Again, we say, is it not almost beyond the belief that the agent and author of all those tremendous ea;'s should be next to deified by the people upon whose heads they fell? He gave them one thing in return ; it was to France collectively a phantom ; yet it was all sufficient ; it was " military glory," slaughter, devastation, and bulletins which mocked at truth. It was to individuals promo tion, rapine, the license of tyranny over all foreign lands, and the unbridled indulgence of every schist' and vicious passion. The French are the only people in Europe who make love to war for the sake of war. That it is a war of unprovoked aggression, and therefore abhor rent to God and man moults no feather in the soldier's mind, and under Bonaparte ail the French were soldiers. His appetite, like the instinct of the nation, was for war. Seconded by the martial prowess of a brave army, his genius long secured them victory. It would be too much to expect of a people go verned by incorrigible impulses, that they should even yet look with an eye sobered by experience and reflection, at the debt side of the account, and ask them selves " What solid fruit has Bonaparte left us of his triumphs ? What have we now to show for them but the proved necessily of turning the French capital into a fortress, that it nay be able to withstand for a fort night the assaults of another coalition !" No ; the French multitude cannot thus reflect. They look back to the premises of the Bonaparte school of logic : the conclusion they are eager to forget. But it is this very spirit of reckless, uncalculating war, to which M. Thiers, though not himself the dupe of it, has been ap pealing from first to last of his negotiations with the Allies, and more especially since his fall from of fice, when he boasted of projects which it is pos sible he had never seriously entertained. know ing that be had no longer the responsibility of a Minister to fear, and at all events a large share of rabble popularity on which to reckon. The Ministerial Papers affect to make light of any ill con sequence to be dreaded front the refusal of the Porte to sanction the continuance of Mehemet Ali in Egypt. We devoutly hope that the sanguine expectations of our Downing-street brethren may be realized without delay. But there are so many quarters whence dif ficulties may be looked for, and acme quarters so much interested in their aggravation, that we confess the next advices from Constantinople will be expected by us with deep anxiety. If the Porte be prudent or well advised, there can be little doubt of the mut ter being speedily settled. But if Lord Ponsonby, as we have heard it positively stated, has Leen the in stigator of this fresh back-handed blow, the chances of a happy result are not in our minds of the most cheering nature. (From the Morning 4I• .1 . • • An articl;, o a r pp t e l ared in thefiL;a l t e tg 7 ' P 'P o l s . t ) of Tuesday I ,,l t ":" o __h e i , r 'h . , n t s..e le sake of justice, it is impossible to ; vnaloo over w ' inia il m .nee. A person.; says it, "of tit?. hers for the town s ' cal harangue to . some f w c ho appears to be one of the Mem .oventivir, has iate:y made a poi.i peopiki there." Now the P. st 1 boasts of being ehgaenteel anti well-conducted newspaper. zpsecrinrtco characterise Mr. Williams, How it should one .of the riletr: person" un known to it, flied)/ true that Mr. „ r.l t . u a s in s.b . o to ima4tne. It is per il sr.:tritely ...,_ c _ n ' n , t rY , 03 " 0 architect of his own " f l o l : tone ts a . g . entleman who is the equally true that from poverLy lie has attain ,-, (1 w . ea l ' t .: ::. , and if there be anythi:; in the ftielintr of Ervrlishinen able than any thin; clsrt, it i, t,o honour more commend and inde pendcrwe acquired by in:'.ividual mer i. Flow the P I could for one moment so f s `for betray itself o - "1 raeterise Mr. \V. Williams , the M.P. ror co„e t n o t Yclia a person unknown to it, it i 3 ut ter ly i mpossible forr as 1 to couccive. We believe it to he a mist a k, in the u l ll 3 S2l3Ce Of tile Edi:or. Mr. Williams is a gentlernuu of high character—of grelt 14lowledge, so far a s in,tzu. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, JBlO. - factoring industry is concerned—of inoffensive man ners—of sterling integrity, and, so far as questions re lating to the commercial interests of the country are con cerned, a most able adviser. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Times imputes, " very delicately," as it says, "to Mr. Mark Philips, as well as to all the Liberal Representatives of manufacturing constituencies, includ ing Messrs. Grog, Muntz, Scholefield, Ward, J. Parker, Oswald, Dennistoun, Lister, Busfield, E. Ellice, W. Williams, Stansfield, Baines, Sir William Moles worth, Brocklehurst, Sir P. Fleetwood, Brotherton, Standish, and Ewart, that, let their industry or ac tivity be what it may, they are one and all of them utterly destitute of weight and influence in Parlia ment. This somewhat sweeping way of disposing is the " weight and influence" of all these gentlemen of adopted in order . to dispose the minds of the Manches ter electors, in particular, to make choice of Sir George Murray, " unquestionably one of the first men in the country." The Times recurs to what it calls Mr. Gib son's " explicit acknowledgment of his own utter unfitness to represent an immense cotton community, of whose peculiar trade-economy he declared himself profoundly igr.orant." May we ask bow much Sir George Murray knows specially about cotton? Or how much Burke knew about the staple commodities of his Bristol constituency ? Or how much the Hull-venerated Wilberforce knew about blubber ? Thus much Mr. Gibson knows about cotton, at all events—that Squire Corn should not drive his cabriolet over it. Does Sir George Murray choose to know even as much as that ? Ask him, gentlemen 1 As to the deficiency of " weight and influence in Parliament," attributed indiscriminately to all Liberal Members for manufacturing towns, we place the sentence on record, as amounting virtually to an avowal that, with the Times and its party at least, the interests represented by those gentlemen have no weight. Will the Times affirm that Sir George Murray is superior to each and all of these gentlemen in the ap propriate knowledge which ought to give weight as connected with those interests ? Or will it affirm that the dullest country gentleman is not allowed " weight" enough to inflict his tediousness on the House, so that his talk be but of landed interests ? If, then, what the Times asserts were true to the dis advantage of a score of Members, many of whom can not be denied to he men of talent and instruction, and all of them at least up to the ordinary agricultural ave rage, then we say that the inference to be drawn from the statement would be the condemnation, not of those gentlemen, but of that party at least in Parliament who have predetermined to allow no weight to the faithful organs of commercial interests. (From the Standard.) We copy from the Globe of lard n i ght a severe at tack upon ourselves—less for the purpose of animad verting upon it than in order to exhibit a curious illus tration of the close approximation of the lower-class Conservatives to the Ministerial faction. Mr. Frede rick Shaw takes Lord Morrell's arm, fetches and' carries for him in the passages of the House of Lords, end the Morning Post leans in like manner upon the Globe. The friends may spar a little with mufflers before the public, but let the Morning, Post get into nay serape, and it is sure to have the Glebe to fight its quarrel. The article which we have copied is n display of championship such as we describe. It would.be unjast to the Globe, however, to deny that, in buckling on its arms for Mr. Shaw and the Morning Post, it is faithfully and effectually serving its o•rin party,though most reLcting personstrill see throuA the stratagem. " You have traitors in the city," said a great man, more than 2,000 years ago. " I will give you an unerring test by which to d& test them. Who are toe men with whom your open ene mies traffic and txehange gifts and compfiments ? Who are the men whom your worst enemy is ever forward to ai,l and to defend ? They are the traitors." Tile title of the Globe's Morning Post article is a falsehood. We said nothing of an Iris/ Peer. 'What we said was, that more than one Noblem:.n, men as warmly attached to the Duke of Wellington as it is possible to be, understood certain expressions of his Grace as "a profession that he had been de. ,cived"— his we repeat. From the Duke's letter we have inferred that he was misunderstood ; and we lied .one what we believed to he the whole of our duty in publishing the pdtt of his Grace's. letter which affmied the inference. Tun whole litter has since appeared, and tl:ey who judge candidly will be able to say why we did not give the whole in the firs instance, and why we read with pain the part of a sec:end fetter which Mr. Shaw thought proper to pub lish. Every hour co:.vnces of us the propriety of our con duet in declining to comply with the il!ustrious Duke's demand, and we will add that every hour also reconcilers us to the silence of the noblemen whose unfortunate misunderstanding of tlie Duke's language was the occa sion of whatever error has urisen. (From tile Courier.) The Irish Pap- rr afford an instructive specimen of the sort cf freedom of e'eetion which now exists in Ire lan Eve 'y one recolce's the denunciations whic'a ema nated from the se;f-styled Ll,eral party upon the intrc flucion of Lord Stanlry"s all, the object of which was to f ive the elective franchise in Ireland upon a !air, secure, and satisfac:ory footh:7,, bat the restless agi tators had the hardihood to characterise that measure a; a Coercion Bill. The fallacy, as well as wickedness of this assertion has been too often exposed by us to snake it necessary that we should rots attempt to refute it. We think it a duty, however, to point out to public I eprobation the real advocates and practisers of coercion. They are the Irish priests and revolutionists who abet the cry of repeal, and who, with freedom of election in their mouths, are ready to resort to the worst species of tyranny and intimilation over the honest voters. In another part of the Courier we give from the Dahlia Evening Mail a letter addressed ,by a certain Father Henry to Sir Roger Palmer, in which the Rev. Gen tleman, with: most unseemly impertinence, takes upon hint;elf to say, that the support of Conservative prin ciples is the sure road to unpopularity. Without at the present moment thinking it worth while to refute this silly assumption, we cannot avoid remarking upon the indecency of the conduct of one individual, who has no control over the affairs of another taking upon him self the task of a monitor and adviser, and this by a mode the most objectionable and uncourteous. The Rev. Richard Henry goes on to say that if Sir Roger Palmer should use " undue influence with the eke tors"—that is to bay if he should exercise the legitimate rights of property—he, the said Richard Henry, would hold him " personaqy responsible." Whether this be a threat of incitement to a duel we do not exactly know, but if it be only an 'intimation that Sir Roger cannot exercise his judgment without in curring the serious displeasure of the meddiing priest, we leave it to every reasonable man to say whether in either case to write such a letter is not a k zlost unwar rantable and impertinent interference, no:Yfaly with the freedom of election, but with the courtesy of private society, and the acknowledged right that every man has to act according to his notion of propriety and the dic tates of his conscience. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Taft Gloucester House on Wednesday, for Nliddletan Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey: Mr. Greg, M.P., for Manchester, remains firm in his intention to retire from the representation of that place, in consequence of the state of his health. Mr. Mil ner Gibson is at present there, pursuing his canvass with every prospect of success. The 13th, 26th, and 49th regiments are to have " China" upon their colours and appointments, in comme moration of the first capture of a territorial possession made by a British military force in the " Celestial Empire." TIIE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOP LIGHTING.— The plan adopted for lighting shops was, until within two or three years, the moat absurd and unpbilosophical that could well he contrived. Even now it is only in the principal streets in London that reason and common sense have been triumphant in this matter, and still in the greatest thorough fares do we frequently find the old mode adhered to. The former plan was to arrange a number of brilliant lights on a level with, or below the eyes of the spectators, so that the dazz!ing effect, though good as an illumination, prevented • the goods in the shop windows from being seen. It might be supposed that the object of this plan was to hide the de- ' fects of the goods exposed, instead of displaying their beau tie:. Yet such a hold had habit obtained, that even when the immense improvement was shown of a different ar rangement of the light, shopkeepers were reluctant to make a ceange which seemed to detract from the brilliancy of their night display. The absurdity of this system at length forced itself upon the mind of some boldinno vator; who, reflecting that the articles exhibited, were the things intended to be seen, and not the light, which was only employed to make them visible, he contrived the plan of shading the light from view, and permitted its rays to come reflected only from the goods. The great improvement of this mode was immediately perceived, and various modes were contrived for producing this new effect. In some shops lanterns had been placed outside the windows, haling gas burners and re flectors within ; but this gives the shop-front an unsightly apecarance, which is not compensated by the effect pro duced. Others, again, have adopted ground glass over the dimini,hci the glare of light, gas burners. This, indeed, but at the same time reduces its quantity and produces a great waste! of light inside the ground glass globe. An other plan has been to place refle c t or _ s h a d es b e f ore the gas burners. The disadvantage of this arrange ment is, that it produces a disagreeable shadow in the street, and disfigures the wiedow. The sim ple.q and most pleasing disposition o f t h e li g h t i s Lo elevate it high above the eves of the p asingaro . By this nines the rays are . diffusad generally over the th a o n se who sell light, articles in the wiedeer, which , ! -- ?fl:c . t their several hues to the eyes of the spectators. unqintinishcd by any offensive glare or sudden cor.W.st, and eurer: x b e tat v e l t o o n p tl r ) od th u e oe r t u h le e ht, or the t m o o l r e. t , P o l b e s a e s r i v n e g d cff in e t t l;e s T ho ' Pa rc o i f s materials from which it is produce.l. In their cases, as the production of light is the main feature of their busi ne.,s, their lamps may very properly be made as conspi cuous and brilliant as pesailde• The philosophy of shop lighting, in shirt, i; this, that the , articles ufferei for sale should he rtia to pr.minent, anal 1..0wn t o the best advati tig:,, w i l ik t the tn;:a.ls b; which they are displayed should be invisible.—laventor's Advocate. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of bu siness. The most important business on the paper was the notice to receive the Report of the Police Com mittee " For the Court to pass the necessary order for makinc , a rate or assessment for the Polic e Esta blishment6for the year ensuing." In consequence of the proximity of St. Thomas's day, when the annual election of Common Councilmen is to take place, all was bustle. ADDITIONAL CONSERVATIVE VOTERS. Sir JAMES SHAW, the City Chamberlain, presented a list of affidavits for freedoms. There appeared fourteen applicants from the ward of Coleman-street alone, all of whom were stated by a Member to have determined to be freemen, in order to strengthen the Conservative party in the Court. Society was applied to the support of clergymen And otheri who bad heel: worn not 1n ;!,: H. , ,rvice of o.ie in• stitution, and vino had, after ileir great and benevolent labours, no other support. Mr. HoOLE opposed the grant, on the ground of the wellth of the Society, which had, he understood, given 5,0001. to establish bishoprics in foreign parts. Mr. D. JONES said that it would not become the Court to run down the Church of England, a disposi tion to do which would be evident in the rejection of the grant. _ _ _ Mr. Low objected to the grant, on account of what he considered to be the enormous resources of the insti tution, Mr. TAYLOR opposed the grant. Mr. R. L. JONES regretted that the Committee had not recommended 500/. for aiding a society which was doing'so much good. Aldcrm - an WHITE strongly objected to the idea of Bishopizing:the colonies. The work of piety had been commenced not by the Bishops, but by the Mora vians ; but now that it proved successful, the former showed their disposition to come and reap golde❑ ad vantages from the labours of those whose sincerity was established. The grant was then carried.—Adjourned. THE CITY RATING FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE POLICE. Alderman THOMAS _WOOD, the Chairinan of the Police Committee, brought up the Report of the Com mittee, to whom it was referred to manage or transact all or any of the matters or purposes which the Court was required to do by the City Police Act. It stated that the Committee had turned their attention as to the monies necessary to be raised for defraying the wages and other charges and expenses of the P o li ce Esta blishment for the ensuing year, in order to enable the Court to fix the rate for the same ; a n d a l so to fix the number of men to be employed in the force, and for their better information on these points they requested the Commissioner of Police to favour them with an abstract, in a condensed form, of the number of men of each rank that in his judgment would be required, with a proximate estimate of the sum which would probably be wanted to defray the charges of their wages, &c. ; and they bad subsequently received a statement in writing from him in reply there to, which they had caused to be annexed, for the con sideration of this Court,and from it it appeared that the Commissioner was of opinion that the force should con sist of the following number :-13 inspectors, 47 ser geants, 482 constables, amounting in the whole to 542 men, at a charge of 30,5711. Bs. for their wages. The Report further stated that the foregoing amount was exclusive of the salary and allowance to the Commis sioner and the Superintendent, the expenses incidental to the police establishment for clothing, station-houses, &c., and also the pensions to the old watchmen, which their Committee had estimated at the sum of 11,5261. 65., making a total of 42,0971. 143. ; and it concluded with stating that, under these circumstances, the Committee felt it to ha their duty to recom mend this Court to order and direct that the number of men to constitute the force, for the year 1811, should not exceed 542 ; and further, to order and direct that the rate for the year ensuing be made at eight-pence in the pound on the net annual value of all houses, and fourpence per square yard for all vacant spaces of ground, in the mode prescribed and directed by the Act. The Alderman stated that the Committee had devoted a vast deal of time and attention to the subject, and had come to the conclu sion, that, although in theory a much smaller number of men was necessary to protect the City, in practice it was found necessary to increase the number voted at the commencement of the new system. Of the whole sum of 42,0971., the City was to pay one-fourth out of its own funds, and the remaitiing three-fourths were io be raised by a tax upon the inhabitants, amounting to eight-pence in the pound. Thus, Lenin the City cash would be taken 10,524/. ; from the Wards, at eight. pence in the pound on the net annual value of all houses, 34,168/. The ward charges to be provided for and subsequently to be charged 00 the wards, were to be raised by means of a separate rate. After these observations upon the new teseLsinent on the wards, the Alderman said, teat, after ell, the inereese was to be on!! cons id ere d as an experiment, and that there was nothing to prevent the Cant from making such changes US ap peared to them from further experience to be expedieut. They were bound to make a rate immediately or the police force couid oat be cut:tinned in their operations, amid the Cievermnent awl the public would hate cause to accuse the Corpuratioa of inertness. He would have wished for wore time for deliberation, but the difficulty and labour 01 making the asse.,sment, to acoomplieh which, it had been necessary to go from street to street, and from house to noes; oecupieil so touch time, that it was impossible to make a greater advauce. Mr. LAWitENCE was opposed to such an increase of, expense us the Report recommended, which was consi derably beyond the expenditure of the Meiroplitan Police, to maintain winch no more than sixpence in the pound was necessary. In Let the rate seemed to him, considering all contingencies, to be more like a shilling than eightpence in the pound. But if it were necessary to add to the expense for pecuniary security, he thought the City funds, which were applicable to charges for dinners and gifts to strangers, ought to be taxed to defray such charges. Mr. HALE thought that a sevenpenny-rate would an swer the purpose. It had been stated that the new system would be cheaper than the old, that assertion had been evidently founded in error. Under all the cir cumstances he should move that the rate should be seven pence instead of eight-pence in the pound. Mr. ()BEARD complained of the present heavy rating upon the inhabitants of Ibis ward. Mr. STEVENS did not think that the new system was zn improvemect upon the cid. Hehowever thought that they ought not to despair, for it was probable that when floe' arrangements were made, a reduction would take place in the expenditure, and the plan wouid arrive at a prosperous maturity: He trusted that next year a diminished expenditure would be exhibited. It appeared that it was impossible to do without the addi tional number of men required in the report, and the men could not be paid less than was at present al/owed. There were, however, many expenses in the first year of a new experiment which were not likely to continue much longer. Mr. ICTAYLO,It said that the question appeared to him to be not whether there was a sufficient number of men to protect the City, but rather whether those men were properly City police were, in his opinion, lo i hh o led a lax t state.fter. T They he were to be seen in pairs, and gossiping with each other and servants at street doors. While the expense of the system was increased the business was not so well performed. Mr. ASHURST suggested the propriety of voting 83. in the pound in the present emergency, upon the un derstanding that the whole of the facts and reasqns should be taken into consideration, and that the Report should be printed. Deputy HicKs supported the Report. He h i d al ys advocated the old system, a n d not hi ng b ut t h e ways fear of losing the privilege of self.lovernment, a loss with which the citizens were menaced, if they did not establish a new police, prevailed upon him to agree to any change. Sir P. Launte said that there ought to be a search. ing inquiry as to the expenditur e greater than cou ld b e justified. , which was much Mr. LART complained of the difficulty of obta4,lng the assistanc e of the police, and stated that that feet was attributable to the smallness of the number of ruin or the bad management of the body. Mr. WELLS was not sorry that Bd. in the pound was required by the Committee, because it wutild draw the attention of the citizens to the wanton and shameless extravagance which prevailed. Mr. MUSGROVE apprehended that the assessment, if mede by the Court, would be taken advantage of by the proportionate increase of tithes and other charge by which the citizens were already heavily burdened. Mr. R. L. JONES said it was quite impossible that the tithes, or any Government tax, could be at all affected by a local assessment. He trusted the City system would prove by and by to be most satisfactory. There was a great mistak e as to the watching in the City of London and the parish of Marylebone. Tha immense amount of property in the City, and its narrow lanes and aileys, together with the fact that innumerable warehouses were left wholl yunprotected by their owners, required a degree of vi g il ance and exertion, not at all known in the west end of the town.—( Hear, hear.) He be lieved that the City police would be effective in an eminent degree, wh en a complete c the force and th e M agistrates, and a freedom from bickering, were e s t a bli shed. Alderman Alderman T. WOOD replied to the objections ad vanced, and the amendment was negatived. The two great point s in the Report, viz.—the asses ment of cightpence in th e pound, and the increase of the police force, fro m 5 04 to 542 men, were then agreed to, as was also a moti on b y Mr. Ashurst, that the whole of the districts should underg o future investigation, with a view to a judicious reduction of the expenditure. PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. Tile Report of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Com mittee was brought up, on the reference to examine the allegations contained in the memorial of the City Coin ! mittee of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. It stated that the So ciety was incorporated by Royal Charter in the year f 1701, for the receivin g , managing, and disposing of such as might be co n t r ib uted for the religious instruc tion of the inhabitants of the British Colonies, for the maintenance of clergy men therein belonging to t h e England, and for the general propagation of the Gospel. That th e i ncome of the Soc i ety f or t h e year 1838, arising from subscriptions, donations, rents, annuities, and dividends in stock, anrouted to the sum of 76,5841. 1 Is. Bd., and its expenditure to 78,3831.9 e. 3d., leaving a balance due to the Treasurer at the end of that year of 1,798/. 17s. 7d. ; and it also appeared that the Society had entered into engagements to ex tend its usefulness at a further expense of nearly 3 0,000/- beyond what it had incurred in any former year, which could not be defrayed without resorting to the sele of part of the availabl e stoc k , amounting to 37,000/., should the bencvolcru of the p u bli c no t he sufficiently extended to the Institution. Tile rep-, rt tiler% recom mended the grant of 2001, in aid of the funds of the Institution. Mr. WELLS warmly opposed the gr,-:nt too body he considered to be richer than the Corporation itself, and inov.7.d as an zrtinclrneut that the report lie on the t ihlc. Mr. GALLOWAY SCCOrlat',l the am.7 , nchm:at. Mr. MAITHIMS said that the funded property of the LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 17. THOMPSON V. LEWIS. The trial of this issue, which occupied the whole of Wednesday, was resumed at the sitting of the Court, and the case for the plaintiff was not concluded until two o'clock. The plaintiff claimed to be the real owner of two horses, which were seized and sold by the Sheriff of Middlesex, under an execution at the suit of the de fendant against a person named Holding. The princi pal evidence in support of this claim was William Hold ing himself, who stated that he had formerly been a wine merchant, and resided at No. 60, Quadrant, Re gent-street. Immediately after the death of .his mother, who owned the house No. 26, Connaught-terrace, he gave up business, and since that time resided in diffe rent parts of the counties of Kent and Surrey. His family consisted of a Miss Atkinson, the step-daughter of his brother, his son (a little boy), and the plaintiff, who was a young gentlemen about twenty-five years of age, the son o a coachrnaker in Long Acre. He had taken Thompson under his care, in cense quence of that gentleman's having had unfortunate differences with his father. Of the six horses that were seized, only two (an old chaise-horse and his boy's pony) belonged to him. Of the others, two belonged to the plaintiff, and two to Miss Atkinson. The young lady had plenty of money. Witness's mother gave her 3001. as a present a couple of days before her death ; and her own mother often sent her a good deal of money. Miss A.'s mother travelled about the country teaching ladies to model flowers in wax, and it was out of the money she remitted to her daughter the horses were bought. In his cross-examination Holding said that he had formerly been connected in business with Probert, the wine -merchant, who was hanged for horse.stealing, and who had been the associate of Thurtell and Hunt. Witeess occupied Gas-hill cottage, near which the murder of Mr. Wee::: tee! .•erpetrated, before it came into Probert's possession. Tile house of witness in the Quadrant was a club-house. h was a gaming-lieuse, and the defendant bad been his partner in it. He denied that Thompson was anything more than his servant in that establishment. Thompson ens not the bonnet, that was a gentleman who received 2/. a-week and drank his wine, for the purpose of inducing pigeons to play. Witie•iss would Dot swear that ha had not been ten times a prisoner in the King's Bench. He had been a prisoner in the Fl e et, and in White cross-street. Ha was a bankrupt in 1816, and again ia 1822. Tiic Commissioners committed him to Newgate, where he remained twelve mouths, until he satisfied his creditors, and suspended the commission. Ha subsequently took steps to pass through the lose!. rant Debtors' Caurt, and he paint.° his schedule ail the debts that had been incurred for thoroughly furnishing the house in Connaught -terrace, and idea debts to a considerable amount contracted with brewers, bakers, butchers, &e., in his name, although the house was his mother's, net his, and he never resided there. In say ing that, be meant he never slept there, nor kept his clothes in it. His mother, before his death, made over the Ileum and furniture to his little bey, and Miss Atkinson had the letting of it. Witness had nothing to do with it. Mr. Thoinion and Miss A. resitlea w ith him at Beckenham, Redhurn, and Langley Firs, at which latter place their horses were seized. He him self went by the name of Atkins, and Thompson was ended Mr. Alexander. In the course of the very se vere cross-examination by Mr. Huinfrey, which excited repeated burst's of lat,;hter, and seine manifestations of indignation, Helding admitted that he left unpaid seve ral bills for the keep of the horses in question, which were incurred in his assumed name of Atkins. For the defence, a horse-dealer, named William Mil ton, stated that the horses claimed by the plaintiff (and by Miss Atkinson, in another suit). were bought by Holding, Miss A. and the plaintiff having no money or property of their own, whilst they lived with Holding. The horses were bought by that person from him ; and in the course of January last, shortly before the seizure, fielding, in the presence of the plaintiff, induced him to destroy the receipts for the several payments, and draw others, substituting the names of Miss A. and plaintiff for his (Holding's) name, to frustrate Lewis, if he should enforce the execution. Several witnesses proved that the horses were always considered • to be the property of Golding, who bad been heard to give orders that Thompson, who seemed to be a dependent of his, should not be allowed to ride the horses. Other witnesses swore that Lewis never had any connection with the gambling-house, and that Gelding acknowledged that he stated Lewis to have been his partner, only to put down Mr. Humfrey.— (Laughter.) Mr. Sergeant HALCOMBE replied at considerable length, and the Learned Judge having summed up, the jury, after ten minutes, deliberation, found for the plain tiff, that he had proved his ownership of the two horses which he claimed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DEC. 17. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) IN RE WRIGHT AND COMPANY . S BANKRUPTCY. In consequence of the former fiat issued in this case having been set aside by the Court of Review, with .the sanction of the Lord Chancellor, a new fiat was to-day opened before the Learned Commissioner, by Messrs. Dyneley and Coverdale, solicitors, of Bedford-row. The firm of the Messrs. Wright and Co. are des cribed in the fiat with the following particularlity as " Anthony George Wright Biddulph, John Wright, Henry Robinson, and Edmund William Jerningham, all now or late of No. 6, Henrietta-street, in the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, .in the county of Middlesex, bihkers, dealers, and chapmen, carrying on the trade or business:of bankers in co-partnership together, at No. 6, Henrietta-street aforesaid, under the firm Wright and Company." The petitioning creditor is Edward Martin Foshan, of Na. 18, South Audiey-street, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, architect, and Mr. Edward Edwards is continued as the official assignee. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. FORGING RUSSIAN BANK-NOTE - S.—Paul Mazeauz, 44, )George Ramuz, 41, described as painters, and Jules Rault, described as a merchant, 32, were indicted for feloniously making and engraving a plate, bearing the characters of a note of the Commercial Bank of Russia, for the payment of 25 rubles. Mr. Piatt, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Duane, appeared for the proseoution, and the prisoners were defended respectively by Mr. Phillips, Mr. Clirkson, and Mr. Chambers. Mr. PLATT stated the case on the part of the prose cution, and called the following witnesses : Henry Salt deposed that he was an engraver, and knew the prisoners Ramuz and Mazeauz. These pri soners carried on the business of lithographers in Church-street, Soho, and he had engraved several ar ticles for them. On the 91.11 of August, the prisoner, Mazeauz, came to him, and produced two pieces of paper, with printing on them, and asked him if he could engrave a plate to correspond with them. Witness looked at the paper, and seeing a water-mark upo • it, he told him that this would occasion n some difficulty, and the prisoner said that the party who wanted the engraving would find the paper. Witness conferred with a person named Gould, who was in his employ, and he then told the prisoner that he would un dertake the engraving ; and the prisoner said that the price was no object, and went away and left the papers. Witness on the same day made a communication to a Mr. Smart, a refiner in Prince's -street, and, in conse quence of what there took place, he went to the Rus sian Consul, and informed him of all that had occurred. The witness then went on to state that after this he had several interviews with Ramuz and Mazeauz, and re ceived money from them ; and he went on engraving the plate, and gave them upon one occasion a rough impres sion of the plate, and he saw Mazeauz transfer the im pression to a lithographic stone. He also stased that Ramuz told him that they did not wish it to be known, but that the papers to be produced from the plate were to represent real money, and he also said that this real money had been taken from a drawer, and the other was to be put in its place. Upon on© occasion Mazeauz told him that the person for whom the plate was heing en raced was in hit parlour, and he watched and saw the prisoner Itault come out of the how° a short time after,vards. The witness then detailed the several proceedings that had taken place in reference to the delivery of the plates to the prisoners Itzmuz arid Mazeauz, and he also proved that Rank was frequently in their employ. Cro.is-examined—Had done other jobs for he priso ners about the same time. He had engraved card and door-plates for them in the way of their business. The prisoners said all along that they were employed by an other person to get the plate engraved, but he did not ask who that person was, as ho did net think it was any part of his business to do so. ile suspected that he bud undertaken an improper job, but still he did not Ask for any.inforal:s.,:jon . , v,:ttiQ...3;i was in CQ...:1:11111.1iLiti011 tic! Consul. 'ravicg was to VVm. Gould proved that he was employed by Mr. Salt to engrave a portion of the plate, and that he saw Rarouz and Mazeauz in communication with Mr. Salt. Mrs. Salt the wife of the first witness prover' also the communications between the parties. Daniel Forrester, the officer, prov. 4 th,,t in cort.e• sequence of information he reccived, he went on the 22d of October to Church -street, Soho, where the pri soners Ramuz and Maz3auz resided. An arrrange *ment had been made with his brother and Ballard, for merly one of the Bow-street officers, and they went into the house and found Ramuz, Mazeauz. and Salt standing together, and Mazeauz had a plate in his hand, which he took from him. Upon a table in the front parlour witness found a border plate and a pocket book and he asked the prisoners whether those articles belonged to them and they said they did not. John Forrester proved that he assisted in the appre hension 'of Ramuz and Mazeauz, and said that when he told them what charge was made against them, they denied all knowledge of the forgery. Witness afterwards met the prisoner Rault in Dean -street, and he went up to him and asked him if he did not live in King-street, and he appeared not to understand the question. He took Rault to the sta tion at Bow-street, and on searching him he found two pieces of paper (impressions from the plates engraved by Mr: Salt), in a pocket-book. The prisoner wrote down his address of where he lived, and witness went there and found some other impressions, and arso a Rus sian passport, and a certificate from the Alien-office. William Ballard, formerly a Bow-street officer, corro borated the evidence relative to the apprehension of the two first-mentioned prisoners, and added that he saw Ramuz crumble up something in his hand, and he took it from him, andiound it to be another impression from the plate. M. Antoine Baer deposed that he was chief book keeper at the cash deposit department of the Imperial Bank of Russia, which was established at St. Peters burgh. He produced a genuine note of that Bank, and identified the signatures attached to it. Those notes circulated in every part of the kingdom of Russia. The name of the Emperor of Russia is Nicholas, and his title was Nicholas the First, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. The Commercial Bank was esta blished by the authority of the Russian Government. The value of the silver ruble was about three shillings of English money. A witness was then called to prove that the prisoner Rault lodged the room where the officers found the im pressions from the plate. M. Louis Rowsell, a Russian merchant, gave evi dence of a similar character to that deposed to by M. Baer. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CHAMBERS then took an objection that there was not sufficient proof that Rault took any share in getting the plate engraved, and that he could not be convicted upon the indictment preferred against him. The COURT, after hearing Mr. Platt, intimated its opinion that the case should go to the Jury. Mr. PHILLIPS then addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoners Ranauz and Mazcauz, and submitted to them that these persons had merely been the innocent dup's of the prisoner Rauh-. Me, CHAMBERS addressed the jury for Rault, ar.d contmded that upon the present indictment he could not he convicted, for there was not the slightest evi dence to show that bo had taken any part in the pro• ceeding orgetting• the plate engraved. Several witnesses were then called, who gave the pri soner Mazeduz and Itawaz a good character for ho nesty. No witnesses were called on behalf of the pri soner Rank. Mr. Justice PATTESON addressed the jury and oh szTved that the present case was certainly of rather a peculiar character, and the main question for them to consider was. whether all the parties were acquainted with the nature or the transaction, and whether the two prisoners who applied to Mr. Salt to engrave the plate in the first instance were aware of the nature of the in strument, and were acting in concert with the other pri soner, and if the jury believed this be thought the case was established against all the prisoners. In the course of the Learned Jadge's address, 'Mr. stated that an important fact had just come to h;s knowledge, and ILllard the officer was recalled, and he stated that after Runtiz and Mazeauz were in custody they give him information respecting R.►ult, and told him where he was likely to be found. Mr. Justice PATTESON then concluded his summing up, and left the case in the hands of the jury. The jury, after deliberating for about twenty mi nutes, returned a verdict of guilty against Rarnuz and Mazeauz, but recommended them to mercy on account of their previous good character, and acquitted Rauh. Upon the application of Mr. Platt, it was arranged that Rault should be tried to-morrow (this day) upon another indictment, charging him with having the plates feloniously in his possession. NEW COURT. George Weston, aged 40, was indicted for stealing a bag. containing a quantity of silver coin, the property of Mr. George Back, the landlord of the George and Vulture, Rateliff Highway. Mr. CHAMBERS prosecuted, and Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prisoner's defence. Mrs. Back, the wife of the prosecutor, stated that on the .sth of this month the; prisoner came to her bar, and requested a sight of the newspaper, and she gave it to him, but shortly after a person in the parlour called for it. The prisoner said he would give it up if she would give him the Morning Advertiser of Friday. Having made the exchange, she left the bar for a minute, to take that day's paper into the parlour ; while there, she heard her money till drawn out, and she found the prisoner reaching over the bar counter. She missed her bag, containing nearly 51. of silver, and ac cused the prisoner with the robbery, at the same time bolting the front door, to prevent his escape. He then knocked her down, unbolted the door, and made off, but he was pursued by her servant, and brought back in a few minutes. The Jury, without heEitation, returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Jonas, the Clerk of the Papers, said the prisoner had been transported, and since his return convicted of felony. A police officer confirmed the fact of a pre vious conviction. The COMMON SERGEANT said no person would be safe if such daring ruffianism was tolerated. The sen tence was, that he be transported for seven years, and note was made that he be sent beyond the seas, and that he had been before transported. DISCHARGE OF THE GRAND JURY.—The Grand Jury having been discharged, the following prisoners, the bills against whom they had ignpred, were brought up late in the evening., and were discharged by procla mation ; viz..— Cecilia Proudfoot, Henry Upright, William Parry, Joseph Charles Tatham, James Mil ton, William Johnson, George Baves, Nathaniel Wright, Elizabeth Long., Charles Horton, Elizaboth Thompson, alias Law, Mary Ann Stevens, William Rose, Henry Brockenshaw, Elizabeth Long, Thomas Walside, Sarah Holden, and Sarah Curtis. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL. Thursday Ann and Maria Bide, two sisters aged 18 and 19, of prepossessing appearance, were brought be fore Mr. Traill, charged with an attempt at self-de struction. Thomas Linsey stated that on the preceding night as he was crossing Southwark-bridge, accompanied by Mr. Day, their attention was arrested on observing something move on the outside coping, and which they were en abled to see through the iron-railing of the palisades. Both he and Mr. Day immediately jumped upon the seat of the recess over the middle arch on the eastern side of the bridge, and then distinctly saw two females as close together as possible in a kneeling position out side on the coping, which is narrow, and just capable of allowing a person to walk along, but on the least false step must be precipitated the height of the bridge into the river. The moment he (Lindsay) and his friend saw the two women they stooped over the balustrades and seized each of them, when they discovered that they were both firmly tied together round the waists with two strong scarfs which were knotted together for the purpose, and went round their bodies two or three tim's. At the moment they were grasped by witness nd his friend, they endeavoured to disengage them selves, particularly Ann, the eldest, who entreated them to let her go, and made strong efforts to throw herself backwards, from the place where she and her sister were fastened together, into the river beneath. After experiencing some difficulty, ho ~ever, the witness and Mr. Day succeeded in dragging back the women over the balustrade on the bridge, and they then said that „., they were sisters, that they had determined on dying together, and with that intention they had come to the resolution of throwing themselv , , , s off the Southwark-bridge. They also said, that although they were baulked on that occasion, yet still that they were determined to carry their project into cff , nt when on opportunity prewnted itself'. When questioned as to who they were, and where they lived, they gave their real names, said that they lodged. at Bermondsey, and their father, who held a situation in the Custom house, lived in John -street, Webb-street, Snow's•fields, bat that he was at present on duty at Gravesend. Toey both begged hard to be let off, and when told th.;t they would be taken to the ret:idenec of their parents they became very much distressed, and entreated not to be taken there : and, in tact, tried to break away from the pet , ons who were the means of s avin g theta from inevitah:e destruction. Linsay and Mr. .13.1 y, finding that the defendants had such a decided aversion to being taken home, con veyed them to the station-house, where the y were kept. all night, wed as it was suspected th at the y still tated suicide, they were accordingly brought up to this Court. Mr. TRAILL inquired if the defendants had any friends }WEN ING E D ITION in 14•nlyi"re^ .1.. 7 ~il' it';CS . ALterupt uj nll ti filld stir rmt ir!:c 11 , ;:.;•, Mr. TRAILL then asked if either of the sisters were known ? Policeman 128 M :stated that he bad known them by sight for a considerable time as frequenting the neighbourhood of the Borough Hospital, and that he used to see them in the company of the medical students. Ho 4 , !,1e(1, that, their fit%wr. ht-Id s ;to. t ri, ;fl ;Flo Cu:toot-ow:se, e ;is man, and that his daughters were known to have given him much distress of mind in consequence of the vicious course of life which they bad been leading for some time. Mr. TRAILL said as the law empowered him to treat the charge as that of one of felony, he should require them both to find sufficient sureties, and in the event of their not procuring them commit them to gaol. The - defendants were accordingly committed. KILIIUSII PET I Y " The rule of the road is a paradox quite, For in riding or driving along, If you go to the left you are sure to go right, If you go to the right you go wrong 1" In this case, a Mr. O'Reilly, a cross-grained, sapless looking "shorten herring" of an old fellow, with a com plexion lik a wlrittr apple, and ferret eyes, whose sphere of vision seemed very limited, got on the table as com plainant, and alter incontinently kicking a few hats about, walking with puddle(' shoes on sundry papers, and all but ovmsetting the clerk's inkstand, in his anxiety to advance —he charged a poor rascal named Malone—better known by the sobriquet of 6' Dark Matt"—with having charged him on horseback on the preceding evening as be, O'Reilly, was jogging peacefully homeward on his little check to his own tenement, " De,ightfully placed in a bog," and apprehending anything in life but a Quixotic tilting match from Mr. Malone, who, it appeared, was all but stone blind, and, on the occasion in question, " a leetle the worse for lickor " While O'Reilly was setting forth the delinquency of Misther Malone a smile of mitgled ri dicule and bel.vilderment sat on the countenance of the latter, who appeared to relish the rather highly-coloured narrative of his equestrian prowess, Magistrate (to complainant)._ Did you sustain any injury? Begor, Sir," returned O'Reilly, twirling his defective visual organs, " I was rowled over an' over in a manner that, be the only sticks ov Cratloe, I thought me back bone, wid all due respect to Coort, ea' stummick, wor c angin' places. My new corduroys, that I bought at M'Currniek's, wor split accrass, an' I was painted to that degree in the dyke o' the road wid wet an' gutther, that I'm lull sure ov the parish priest was passin' be wouldn't know me, I was so frightful in meself !"—( A laugh.) " Daik Matt" was now called upon, but before he could utter a syllable his better half, with all the beautiful devo tion of her sex, and maugre repeated nudges, and " Will ye come downs?" from the p o li ceman , filmy hersel f into the van of battle, and g o t u p h er s t eam thin, isn't id a pitiful sight an' a ra l e s h ame , an' grate dis grace, that the likes o' you, Mick O'Reilly, would come here this day on sich an arrant 1 Oh I murdher alive, mf shame, for to come for to parsacute a dark man, that didn't see a s:im. I dunna whin; arra, poleezenian, let us alone I an' don't tare our ould rags. What a bizzy body ye are! Well, stop—there, ge down, an' let himself explain id."—( Laughter. ) Magistrate—Well, Malone, come, you tell us be vy it was. " Here's how it all riz, sir," replied poor dark Matt. Misth . er " I was puttin' sthraw bottoms in chairs above, at Mungavins,' an' the boys there are mighty arch selves, and so when I was done me work, they geta me fine dose o' punch, an' put me on Sthrawberry, the most well, sir, Mis• viciauses t e in the seven parishes; un ther O'Reilly was coming down the road against me, knownst—hecause twas blowin' an' rainin' like mad. there l' says he, out o' me way, wid you I' easy wid the hay,' says I. '-- your sowl, you c ud says ho, screech& out, keep your own side of the road. 5 sowl back agio, you blizard,' says any ids your own bizuess Oh !be the grate Caireir, the , • horse an warn't out o' me mouth when I hot aginst him , (moke ; in their; Harm, arl' ditruv him from before ma, ""„ didn't an' sure, God bless the hearers 1 twas a Iw a nr- g - i atedh uld come down nueself, Sthrawberry was sich h G role warrior, an' threw up bier hind legs , an' rued "- noises that twos terrible to listen to " Did you pull up to inquire if he was hurt ?'' said his Worship. Matt AVlalone Laughed outright. "Be this book," said he, feeling around him for the swearing book, the Queen ov England's jockey wouldn't pull on that mare I— to'cm l a —( L au ghter.) let alone mesa, an' I holdin' the mane, afther the man." Magistrate--Go down, we can do nothing in this case. " Long life to ye always, g intlemen," chuckled Matt, as heYc'r grasp a e d pairh i s o c f au o b b e n e o n x i a o n u d s t n h u e g s a u n i c d n s h m a nd att o e r f e h d i s m r i b. O'Reilly. " Your a hard !" responded Mr. Malone, sotto twee " an' that's what you arc, you scallcrow." T HE MARKETS. COVNTRY MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Be,nt. Yvr se Per QuArter.l S. to B. Bath ' 62 70 Blandtbrd 58 60 Bridport 68 Chard 96 66 Gloucester--; 56 64 Exwer Guildford PSI 71 Newbury —5O 6S Reading 4s 72 Salisbury 48 60 Shtrburne !t4 (;?, StieptonMallet; 56 64 Uxbridge Warminster —.I 6 66 Winchester 6O 64 i leovil 56 60 s. to 8. S. to s. to SI. 20 38 !4 28 40 80 20 33 24 20 48 ; 72 7; 74 4 7 4 48 28 20 28 149 50 27 34 21 28 40 - 3! 17 32 58 48 50 27 28 19 30 44 54 26 9 1.0 22 42 52 28 35 22 29 4.. 49 20 36 j 22 30 42 50 32 40 22 29 40 52 37 43 23 29 31 43 25 32 30 34 s. to • 4& 81 48 52 48 54 46 4€ 36 46 40 50 ..... .1.1. 44 48 56 43 30 - - 42. 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