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1"...,1PER IA L PARLIAMENT. ROUSE• OF LORDS, Nov. 22. lord Campbell took his seat on the Woolsack at ti tree o'clock. The continued indisposition of the Lord Chancellor prevented his Lordship from at /,ending. Prayers having been read by the Bishop of Durham, the swearing in of a number of Peers cora -menced. Among those who took the oaths we ob served the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Com bermere, Marquis of Winchester, Lord Polworth, Earl Fitzhardinge, the Lord Bishop of Durham, &c. &c. Their Lordships rose shortly after four o'clock. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Nov. 22. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Among the Members who were sworn in the course of the morning were Mr. Scholefield, for Bir mingham; Mr. Reynolds, for Dublin; Mr. Labou chere (the President of the Board of Trade) ; Mr. Sharman Crawford, Lord Melgund, Lord Bernard, Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. F. Baring, Mr. Muntz, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Nugent, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Aglionby, Lord Ash ley, Mr. Robert Stephenson. of At four o'clock the House, on the motion of Mr. Tufnell, adjourned till to-morrow. BANKRUPTCY and INSOLVENCY LAWS. A public meeting, called by the committee ap pointed at a meeting of merchants, bankers, and traders, held in May, 1842, was held yester day, at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, and to consider what steps ought to be adopted to obtain an amendment of the law of bankruptcy and insol vency, and to receive the further reports of the com mittee in question. Mr. Masterman, M.P., was voted to the chair. Baron Rothschild, M.P., Mr. Foster, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., were amongst those present. Not more than 100 attended. The CHAIRMAN stated that be felt much pleasure in taking the chair. It would be unnecessary for him, he thought, to dilate at any length on the im portance of the subject which they had met to con sider, as no doubt many of them had suffered from the insolvency and bankruptcy laws. He then called upon the secretary to read the report. The SECRETARY read the document, which de tailed at great length the operations of the com mittee since its appointment. The accounts showed a balance of 2761. 7s. Bd. Letters from the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Greenock, Hull, and Bristol, approving of the views of the committee, were announced to have been received. A letter to the same effect was read from :Mr. Commissioner Fane, regretting that his public duties would prevent his attendance. Mr. FOSTER, M.P., rose to propose the first resolu tion—" That the evils under which the country is now suffering from the vicious and disgraceful state of the law of debtor and creditor, imperatively de mand that no further delay should be allowed in its revision, in order to protect the mercantile and trading classes from the systematic fraud and reck less trading which are now permitted to be practised against them, almost with impunity. That this meeting, therefore, receives and adopts the principles embodied in the report of the committee." The Learned Gentleman expressed his disapproval of the present law, and strongly approved of arrest at the instance of the Court of Bankruptcy, becae t was prompt, silent, and sure. The seizure of property was often attended with expense and difficult, but the seizure of the body was always safe, because every creditor knew his debtor; and he considered further, that the officers of the law should be empowered to break open a man's house, and take his body in execution. He said he had not entered very deeply into the subject, but he had that reliance on the committee which justified him in supporting their opinions, and doing ail in his power to carry them out. He wished to see the unfortunate debtor treated well, and the fraudulent one punished as he deserved. It was said that tradesmen should take care of their own interests, add not give unlimited credit; but those who said this, and those who framed the laws of which the committee complained, knew little of the difficulties which tradesmen had to encounter.— (Hear, hear.) The misfortune was, that the labour. lag and industrious classes were compelled, under the present law, to pay out of their oft en ill-r equ it e d labour the rauds to which tradesmen were now sub jected. Ile attributed the defective state of the law to the legislation of lawyers alone in the matter, instead of the opinions of mer cantile men receiving the great consideration which their experience entitled them to claim. The law of partnership was also in a dreadful state,. be cause no law could with certainty he applied to it. There was too much law with respect to partner ship, and also too little; in fact, this was the only country in Europe in which so defective a law on this subject prevailed.—(Hear.) Mr. AMERY seconded the motion. He sail he had had long practical experience in those laws, and be wished distinctly to state the law of bankruptcy and insolvency required vast amendment. lie considered, with Mr. Commissioner Pane, that a law should be framed to facilitate the settlement of a bankrupt's affairs; because at present 99 creditors might be satisfied, and the hundredth, who had no peculiar claim, might upset the wishes of all the rest, and obtain payment for himself. Settlements out of court should be enforced wherev‘r possible. He was one of the profession who considered that the sudden abolition of arrest for small sums had been productive of the greatest evil. His experience justified him in saying that many debts had been irretrievably lost by the creditors not being able to get possession of the debtor's body.--(Hear.) He trusted before long to see an improved stare of things. Tee motion was carried. Mr. MIcuELL proposed the second resolution : " That this meeting recognises the important advan tages to be derived from the administration of the Court of Bankruptcy, and is therefore desirous that greater facilities should be afforded for bringing within its jurisdiction, at the earliest possible period, the persons and estates of insolvents. That the prin ciple established by the County Courts' Act, of punishment by imprisonment fc r fraud, wilful extra vagance, and dishonesty, ought to be extended, and the I .aw of arrest for debt upon mesne process restored, but accompanied with ample precautions against abuse." He said there was a general feeling amongst merchants to keep their names out of the Gazette, if a settlement could be at all made with their creditors. Creditors seldom wished to put their debtors in the Gazett-, unless a preference had been given to one or more creditors to the exclusion of the others. When a man could not pay 20s. in the pound he should first be called upon to show why he could not do so, and if he continued to trade until he could not pay more than 2s. or 3s. in the pound, he should be punished.—•(Hear) Such conduct as this brought the utmost disgrace upon this, country.—(Hear.) The onus of proof of inability to pay 20s. should lie upon the debtor instead of the creditor, for at present all the expense of proof fell upon the latter. The absurd Bill of Lord Brougham was one of the most crude and ill-digested attempts ever made to tamper with commercial property. It was all very well to say that a man must not give credit, but the great pursuits of the country could not be carried on unless credit, on an extensive scale, was given. He was iully persuaded that the commercial greatness of this country would ere long degenerate, unless these laws were based on a more comprehensive scale.—(Hear.) The mercantile mind must be called upon to aid in the discussion of the question. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, M.P., seconded the resolu tion. He said he perfectly concurred in the objects of the meeting—those objects, he considered, were simply mercy to the unfortunate debtor and the due punishment of the fraudulent one. He trusted the Committee would persevere until they obtained an alteration of the law. The motion, like the last, was carried unanimously. Baron ROTHScUILD, M.P., moved the next resolu • and do r ng _ : said that h e exper i ence d great p l easure i n " That the committee be instructed to de ernaryin3 7f t t h hese eGovernm en t i mme di ate measures f or ad mitted that he principles into effect." He ad upon the subject w - "b not well versed in the law chilatntittoonbley experience a s merchant the to give enabledrequired aay practical tbat the Government to the subject than they more serious attention hadmieanuthe past. It appeared to bim a rather diffiwchuoltcould er to deal with•—to 203. in the compel the trader y hat he wished pound to account for his inabilitnyotre\Pva aandedtYparrrevaler was, to see a law to facilitate a tuo . went between debtors and creditors, Dian who had once been an insolvent from a fraudulently into debt with others.--(Hearne.)gelpg question could not be in better hands than in those Thee r. Hawes, and the other gentlemen who had taken so active a part in the matter. Mr. GASIOT seconded the motion. He said when th e law permitted a man to pay 3s. or 4s. in the pound there must be something wrong, and it was therefore the imperative duty of the merchants of the City of London to insistuponareforbrmiefly Mr. JOHNSON, the offilia . i assignee, formerly ad dressed the meeting. He said the time .a. of the Bankruptcy Court wa s swallowed. A up by solvency, its increase had been so g rea present l the law was so defective that a trader who owed 1500/., but who had only 2001., was dragged into the Bankruptcy Court, whilst a banker, '<awned 500,0001., obtai ne d a meeting of his who creditors, - old liialifilthrough the court almost snb silenlio on a balance-sheet made out by his own accountant. , ;--(11 - eur.) -After detailing facts to show the defer , lave state- of these laws, he suggested th a t a meeting au the subject should ae held by the merchants of lend" in the Egyptian liall, the Lord Alayor pre. • ~~~. , S' THE SUN, LONJYON, TUESDAY _IVENI N'G, NOVEMBER, 23, 1847, siding, and that the Members for the City should be invited. Millions of money which ought to go to creditors were annually frittered away in pensions, in sinecures, e nd other matters, which he could not but characterise as filching.—(Hear.) The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. MANIIING proposed the next resolution. " That the thanks of this meeting be g ., en to the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, the Hon. Edward P. Bouverie, M.P., and to Mr. Commissioner Fane, for the valuable assistance which they have afforded in forwarding the views of the committee, and also to the several Members of Parliament who have at tended this day." He was entirely in favour of arrest, because it secured the property of the debtor and kept him in custody for future adjudication. He did not, however, object to his admission on bail, which would secure his property and his appearance. A man after adjudica tion would possess a higher character than under any other mode. He saw no difference between a man who got fraudulently into your debt and another who stole your spoons, and he wished to see these men placed by the law in juxta- position. The motion having been seconded, was carried. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 22. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. DOUGLAS. This was an indictment against the defendant, for merly the East India Company's Resident at Tan jore, for having unlawfully, and against the provisions of the statute 33 Geo. 111., c. 52, s. 62, accepted pre sents from certain native Princes of India. 'fhe indictment consisted of sixteen counts, and alleged the receipt of presents from a certain Sevajee Raja. The case was tried some time since before Lord Den man in London, when the defendant was convicted. A motion was afterwards made to arrest the judgment, on the ground of certain alleged defects in the in dictment, and a new trial was applied for on the ground that some evidence had been improperly admitted. These applications had not been successful, except to this extent, that a nolle prosequi was entered as to seven out of the sixteen counts, and the verdict was affirmed upon the remaining nine counts. The defendant was now brought up for judgment. Sir F. MESMER prayed the judgment of the Court. The notes were read, and an affidavit of the defen dant in mitigation of punishment was put in. Sir F. Thesiger, i Ir. Wigram, and Mr. Forsyth addressed the Court in aggravation of punishment ; Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Peacock were heard on the part of the defendant in mitigation of punishment. Mr. Justice COLBRIDGE then delivered the sentence of the Court as follows :—Archibald Douglas, you are now to receive the sentence of this Court upon nine counts of an information founded upon the 33c1 of George 111., and which charges you with having committed a very grave offence and misdemeanour while holding a public situation in India. It is abso lutely necessary that a severe punishment should follow the crime of which you have been found guilty. The East India Company, in the administration of the immense empire confided to their care, have to deal with many states nominally independent, whose Go vernments are entirely arbitrary, and whose rulers and subjects are wanting in that high sense of justice, that reverence for the laws, and that love of truth which are professed in Europe, and which are neces sary to enable the Company to carry out the Govern ment so as to conduce to the happiness of their sub jects. Keen in intelligence, yet wanting in moral courage, yielding to the hand of the oppressor, and yet desirous to effect their object, they endeavour by in direct and clandestine means, rather than by a straight forward course, to effect their purposes. This has led to the necessity of establishing the high and respon sible office to which you were appointed at Tanjore. It was the duty of your office to stand between the company and the raja, and between the raja and his subjects. And if there be one quality more essential than another to make the appointment of an English Resident useful in carrying out the object for which he is there placed, it is that he may set an example of unspotted integrity, of personal honesty and truth, and that, by denying himself all immediate benefits, he may tell the people and the Governments that he will pursue an undeviating course of honesty. Reason and sad experience hove made the Legislature of this country fed this ; and it has made the receiving of a gift or present, or anything in the shape of a present, from a native prince or sovereign, an offence of a very grave character. You have been convicted of an offence against this Act of Parliament, in receiving large sums of money from a native prince. In miti gation of the punishment to be awarded for this offence, you have urged in your affidavit, and your counsel have urged on your behalf, first that you were ignorant of the law upon this subject. I will hope, that in so saying you were speaking the truth. But this cir cumstance can not operate in mitigation of your punish ment. You had held the office of Resident before, and then you had taken the prescribed oath ; hut on being the second time appointed to that office, you avoided the taking of that oeth. It Ilea been debated at the bar, and you were well aware that for a subject in India to pretend to receive money in your name was a great offence; and that appears by a memoran dum under your own hand. You must have known that you were committing a very grave offence; and it matters but little whether it was against the law of the land, or against the regulations of the Com pany. You have stated also that you committed these offences undsr embarrassed circumstances, pro duced by your removal from office, after your first appointment. But I must say that integrity and ho nour are cheaply purchased when a man's rank and fortune place him beyond the reach of temptation. The trial of integrity comes under the pressure of want. It is vain, therefore, for you to urge that in your defence. Your counsel and your own affidavit have most feel ingly pointed out the heavy consequences which have followed you in the commission of this offence. It often happens, and by an immutable law of justice, that the natural and independent consequences of crime are heavier than those which a court of justice can award. We have been asked whether, if you had been called up for judgment immediately upon the commission of your offence, we should have in flicted upon you a severer punishment than you have already endured ; and when I consider the loss of your rank and character, the sufferings of your wife and children, the destruction of your property, and your imprisonment, perhaps we should not. But those circumstances which persons bring upon them selves in the commission of an offence, and in the endeavour to defend themselves, are not to be brought forward in mitigation when judgment is to b lr )- nounced. They are too uncertain, and have too little to do with the requirements of public justice, to be allowed to regulate the judgment of the Court. The crime of which you have been convicted was systematic; it was committed in a distant part of those dependencies remote from the seat of Go vernment, and it is one which a large class of officers may be tempted to commit. It is one which it is difficult to search out by direct proof; it may often be committed and not suspected ; but it is one which deserves the severest punishment when brought before a court of justice to be repressed. Considering all these circumstances—remembering, we hope, what strict justice requires, with a due censideration of what you have suffered and do suffer, and of the character which you maintained up to a certain period, the sentence of the Court is, that you pay to her Majesty upon each of the counts of the indict ment the sum of 1,0001., the same 1,0001. to be re fervble to each count of the indictment ; that you be imprisoned in the Queen's prison for twelve calendar months; that you do forfeit the sum of 3,5451. 16s. Bd., being the full value of the presents received by you; and that you be further imprisoned until these sums are paid. COURT OF EXCHEQUER,:Nov.22. (Sittings in Banco.) ATTORNEY - GENERAL P. SPILLER. The Attorney-General appeared to show cause against a rule recently obtained in this court by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, who now appeared in support of the same. The case turned entirely upon the construction of an Act of George IV. regulating the collection of the excise duties upon malt. The Court took time to consider. HALL. V. LACK. The Court give judgment in this case to-day, de ciding that the judgment should be for the plaintiff. this deficiency of 3001. until it was pointed out to him I by the official assignee, and informed his accountant of it upon making up the last amended balance-sheet. He did not take any criminal proceedings against his shopman. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said that if the assignees thought this a case for ulterior proceedings, the better course would be to let the bankrupt pass. The Court must have some specific question upon which it could say that the answer given by the bank rupt was unsatisfactory. Mr. LAW said that there was 701. which Townshend stated he had lost by a hail-storm, which did not ap pear in the previous balance-sheets. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN said that there was no doubt but that the accounts were unsatisfactory, and that the bankrupt had been extremely culpable. If there was concealment of property the bankrupt might be taken before the jury. His Honour was of opinion that there was not sufficient evidence to com mit him. Mr. Commissioner HoLRoYD entirely agreed with his brother Commissioner, that the evidence was too weak for a commitment. The bankrupt having been examined by the Court, and stated that he had never taken stock correctly, but discovered that he was robbed, Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUB said we do not consider the evidence sufficiently precise for a com - mittal ; but our opinion is that it is just the case for an adjournment sine die. Mr. Duncan said that now the case was over, he wished to state that the balance-sheet commenced in 1847. The robbery took place before this date, and therefore could not be included in it ; but the bank rupt having been desired to commence his accounts prior to this period, it was accounted for. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN, in his summing up, appeared to adopt the argument used by Mr. Duncan in defence of the bankrupt upon a former occasion, and concluded by hoping that the Legislature gave the Commissioners the power of punishing bankrupts more severely than by adjournment sine die; but they were bound to administer the law as they (the Commissioners) found it. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 22 (Before the CHIEF Commussiorait.) IN RE GEORGE BORN. In this case application was made on the part of the insolvent to dismiss his petition, on the ground that, as a trader, he owed more than 3001., including the debts of a former insolvency. His HONOUR declined to grant the prayer, but named a day for the final order. It was probable that if the debts exceeded the prescribed amount, the petition would be dismissed. (Before Mr. Commissionei Law.) IN RR JAMES WELLS. This insolvent, who had obtained a protection, did not appear. A creditor attended, and a letter was read from the insolvent's attorney, stating that as his debts as a trader exceeded the amount, he would not take the benefit of the Act. Mr. Commissioner LAW thought that unless the Court interfered in cases to ascertain the amount of debts, the Act might be abused. A man could file a schedule, and get a protection for three weeks, and it would then appear that he was not entitled to the protection. The attorney for the creditor (Mr. MsGoon) said in this case a judgment he had obtained had been suspended for three weeks by the protection from the Court. _ _ _ His HoNora made some remarks showing the necessity of watching the cases, and of alterations in the Act to enable the Court to carry out its provisions. He refused to dismiss the petition, and ordered the insolvent's non-appearance to be recorded. (Before Mr. Commissioner Pumurs.) IN RE JOHN MORRIS. This case, which has been several times before the Court, was now concluded. The insolvent was a bankrupt, and it was alleged that he could not be heard in this court until he had applied to the other tribunal to finish his case. He had, by order of the Court, applied for and obtained his certificate in the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Nrcirom, for the insolvent, exhibited the cer tificate, and said the insolvent, who had been on bail, rnust go into custody, and would then be discharged by a judge's order. By his certificate the debts in the schedule were barred. The insolvent went into custody, and it was stated that an application would shortly be made on his be half to dismiss the petition. IN RB JACOB HURREA. This insolvent, a trader, had been relieved by the Court of Bankruptcy, and the debts in his former schedule and the debt in the present would exceed 3001.—the ex':ent allowed to trailers. His I-lo Noun decided that it was a case in which he had no jurisdiction, and he decreed the dismissal of the petition.—Dismissed accordingly. [VENT ILA.TION 0F,711E COURT.-Mr. Commissioner Phillips ordered some alterations to he made in the ventilation of the court. He declared that he would have none of the qusckery of letting in cold and warm air, as in the Central Criminal Court and other places. Persons had suffered severely from the system, and in his court he would have none of it.] WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, Nov. 22 (Before D. C. MOTLAN, Esq.) JUDGMENT.—WHITS V. NUTTLEY, The Learned JUDGE said, this is a proceeding under the 122 d section of the Act 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 95. Mr. White, the landlord, seeks to recover possession of certain premises of which Nuttley is tenant, at a weekly rent of 15s. 6d. It becomes necessary to consider, on this state of facts, whether the Court is ousted of its jurisdiction under the 58th section of the Act, which says, " that the Court shall not have cognizance of any action of ejectment, or in which the title to any corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments, or to any toll, fair, market, or franchise shall be in question." Ido not think the question of title is here raised in such a manner as to bring the case within the proviso. If it appears that the title comes fairly and bona fide into question, no judge of a county court would think of assuming jurisdiction ; but it is otherwiFe if the point is raised, as it appears to me to be in this case, for the purpose of obstructing or delaying the operation of the law. Upon that preliminary question, the judge of a county Court must be allowed to exercise his judgment. In the present case the contract is clearly established between the plaintiff and defendant. The relation of landlord and tenant has been proved, and the latter has estopped himself from disputing Mr. White's title. If any question of title does exist it must be between the present plaintiff and Chinnock ; and Chin nock's rights, whatever they may be, cannot he affected by the warrant I shall now issue to the High Bailiff, authorising him to put the plaintiff into pos session of the premises. The warrant was accordingly issued. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Yesterday George John 21(aris Wilson, a person of gentlemanly appearance, surrendered to answer a charge of assaulting Anne Ho!ford, with intent to commit a felony, and in another count he was charged with a common assault. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Bal lantine appeared for the defence. 80 - lAtts, in opening the case, said that the defendant was a medical man, a person of respecta bility, who resided at the time o f th e occurrence i n Great Portland-street, Marylebone, and he was one of the vestrymen of that parish, and he need hardly, therefore, he said, remind the jury that the present inquiry was one which affected his interests most vitally. The girl upon whom the assault was alleged to have been committed had been an inmate of the Marylebone workhouse for several years, and she went from that establishment into the service of the defendant, and while she was so engaged the assault in question was committed upon her. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail the circumstances of the offence, and said, that upon the girl leaving the defendant's house, which she did immediately after the occurrence, she was again received into the work house, and upon the facts being made known to the parish anthorities, they felt they had no alternative but to institute the present prosecution, their only object of course being that justice should be done to both parties. The prosecutrix was then examined. She deposed that she was sixteen years old, and she went into the defendant's service on the 27th of last September. Before that time she had been in the Marylebone Workhouse, for five or six years, and she was sent to the defendant's service by the parish authorities. The defendant was a medical man. He resided in Great Portland- street, and his establishment con sisted of a housekeeper and shop-boy, and his father and mother lived in the house. His bedroom was behind the shop, and it was necessary for her to go through it when she had to answer the bell. On the 12th of October, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, she heard the bell ring, and on her going into the bedroom she saw the defendant there. He asked her where the shop-boy was, and on her telling him he was in the kitchen, he asked her to kiss him. She refused, and upon this he caught hold of her and threw her on the bed. The witness then detailed the particulars of the attack alleged to have been made upon her, and which are of course unfit f n o a r irtl p i: u ned b b l t i oy ca h i el o rr n . , and she said, that having succeeded i oriw n ef; gettingni :t th:tprosecutrixh tohue o s u eh t oNI O Ni, s f ieth t oo h fu e at underwent Nira,room,onnwoman a bonnet o she na n namedei severe immediately m c d a CI shawlr a dr t i e :n l s gs o r eo anxn cross-exami nation and t l t a n h t a i d n e h , but left them all aftet: to the workhouasever happened, The the course of it she to service at three other places, short period and re turnedsaid that she had been occur rence took place the shop-boyAt the time the was down stairs, and the defendant's father was in the room overhead, but still she did not scream loud enough to be heard, and she accounted for not doing so by saying that she was afraid to do it. It also appeared that the bed to which she referred was a swinging bed or hammock, only intended for one person, and the pro secutrix said that while the defendant was endea vouring to force her upon this bed she made no attempt to defend herself by striking or scratching him. She also said that on the same day the de fendant, at an earlier hour, committed an indecent assault upon her; but although she saw the house keeper and the defendant's mother a very short time afterwards, she did not make any complaint to them of what bad happened, and the reason she assigned for this was that she did not think of it when she saw them. Mrs. Paddington, the woman referred to by the prosecutrix, proved that on the day in question she came to her house in a very excited state, and related to her what had taken place, and that she requested a neighbour named Hales to accompany the prose cutrix back to her master's house. Upon that occa sion it appeared that the defendant denied that there was any foundation for the charge made against him. Mr. BALLANTINE, in addressing the jury for the defence, said that a charge of this description very seriously affected the character and position of any person against whom it was made, but it was utterly ruinous in the case of a medical man, and he en treated the jury to weigh all the circumstances of the case minutely before they came to a conclusion which must be utterly destructive of a man, who, he should show them by testimony of the most respectable cha racter, had hitherto borne an unsullied reputation. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the improbable character of the story told by the prosecutrix, and argued that according to her own showing her conduct in reference to the alleged transaction was such as to disentitle her to belief. Mrs. Tree, the housekeeper of the defendant, and his shop-boy were then called as witnesses, but their evidence appeared to have little or no bearing upon the case. The boy, however, said that he was pre sent at the period when the girl alleged the first in decent assault to have been committed upon her, and he saw nothing of the kind take place. A number of gentlemen among whom were Mr. , Wakley, M.P., and Sir Felix Agar, gave the prisoner a high character for morality and good conduct. The RECORDER having summed up the case with considerable minuteness, The jury, after deliberating for a short time, ex pressed a wish to retire. They left the court at half past six o'clock, and did not agree upon their verdict until eight, when they found the defendant—Not Guilty. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Bum.ocx, and Aldermen CHALLIS, JOHNSON, and Sir PETER LAURIE.) Thomas Jones, 36, described as a shoemaker, was indicted for, and pleaded guilty of feloniously break ing and entering the dwelling house of Richard Brooke and another, and stealing therefrom a cup of the value of seven guineas, their property. The COURT sentenced the prisoner to be trans ported for seven years. John Wheeler, 30, an engineer, pleaded guilty of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Francis Dodd and another, and stealing therein two gold rings, of the value of 51. 12s. 61., their property. Sentenced to hard labour for 18 calendar months. k';'arah Jones, 40, spinster, was indicted for stealing two 51. Bank of England notes, the property of Wil liam Smith, in his dwelling-house. The evidence was clear against the accused, and the jury found her Guilty. Sentenced to six monnths' hard labour. William Jenkins was indicted for stealing a dia mond pin, value 101., the property of William Hughes. The prosecutor stated, that he is a jeweller, carry ing on business at 117, High-street, Borough. The prisoner went into the shop, and asked to look at some jewellery. A tray of diamond pins was shown to him, and while he pretended to be selecting one to purchase, he slipped one into his left-hand coat pocket. He seemed greatly to admire one particular pin, for which he would call on the following Saturday, and he agreed to leave a deposit of 2s. 6d. As he was about to leave the shop prosecutor stepped from be hind a side-door, where he had been watching all the prisoner's movements, and said, before he left the shop he would feel particularly obliged to him if he would turn his coat pockets inside out. The prisoner then took out the pin, and threw it on the counter amongst the others. He was then given into custody. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, seven years' transportation. Fanny Norman was indicted for stealing a ring and a pin, value 10 guineas, and a variety of other articles, value 10'., the property of Walter Hills, Esq., her master, a barrister-at-law, residing in Hamilton terrace, Kensington-park. It appeared that the prisoner entered Mr. Hill's service in February last, and remained until October, when she was discharged. After she was gone the property in question was missed, and the prisoner being suspected, information was given to the police, and the result was that the articles were traced to a TaNs - nbrolier's in Drury-lane, where they bad been pledged by the prisoner for IGs. The evidence brought the charge direct to the prisoner, and The jury found her Guilty. Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK sentenced her to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. The particulars of the case tlre not fit for publi cation. _ _ He was fully committed for trial. John TVilliams and Eliza Saxton were finally ex amined, charged with having attempted to commi suicide. It may be recollected that the prisoners were sweethearts, and the male prisoner felt jealous in consequence of seeing Saxton with another. She purchased some oxalic acici„ and showing it to Wil liams and threatening to destroy herself with it, he snatched it and swallowed it himself, when he was taken to the Royal Free Hospital, where he had ever since been in a dangerous state. Sergeant Lester, E 10, said the male prisoner was now perfectly recovered, and both prisoners were now very friendly, and sorry for what they had done. Mr. CoMDE discharged them, and they left the Court arm-in-arm together. him, and then witness gave him into custody.— Fully committed. WORSHIP-STREET. Wm. Stuart. Sheridan, a clerk in the Excise-office, who was getting on. The pr:soner affected not to knc w stood charged with having administered &ramie to his mother, Mrs. . Francis Sheridan, and thereby caused her death, was placed at the bar for final ex amination, and the following evidence was proceeded with : Catherine Sheridan, the prisoner's sister, was again examined, and, in addition to her former testimony, stated that about Christmas last, she accidentally dis covered two small packets containing some white powder in the pocket of a waistcoat belonging to the prisoner, who told her, in answer to her inquiries re specting it, that it was only some morphine which he had obtained for the purpose of producing sleep. The prisoner, however, appeared at the time in a state of perfect health. He was repeatedly in the habit of uttering complaints respecting the obligatory insurance npon her life, which he had effected at the instance of the gentleman who appointed him to his situation in the Excise-office, to secure some provision for his mother in the event of his death, and more than once declared that it was a waste of money to pay the annual premium upon the policy. He was also in the habit of expressing the same repugnance to the compulsory payment to the deceased of 641. per annum out of his salary, and intimated to the witness, on her calling at the Excise-office, upon a recent occasion, for the half-quarter's allowance, that that was the last time it should ever be received. He complained at the same time with great asperity of the conduct of his mother, in suffering her married daughter to remain in the house, and not compelling her husband to contribute towards her maintenance. Mr. William Randall, the landlord of the house in which the deceased and her family resided up to the time of her death, deposed to a conversation which took place between himself and the prisoner, subse quent to his mother's death, and relative to the post mortem examination, in the course of which the pri soner declared that he would not have had such an occurrence for all the world. Mr. Samuel Giles, one of the clerks to the London Life Association, produced a policy of insurance which had been effected upon the life of the prisoner on the 22d of May, 1828, for 5001. On the 29th ult. (his mother having died on the previous night) the prisoner called at the offices of the Association, and surrendered the policy, in consideration of the sum of 96/. 2s. 6d., which was at once paid to him. Sergeant Hawkes intimated to the magistrate that there was only one witness more to complete the case, namely, the undertaker, who had been called in by the prisoner to conduct the funeral of the deceased, and ,who had most material evidence to offer, but he was at preferent suffering from illness, which pre cluded his attendance. Mr. Humphries, on behalf of the prisoner, then asked the magistrate if he had come to any decided conclusion as to the manner in which he intended to dispose of the case. Mr. HAMMILL said that it was undoubtedly his intention to commit the prisoner upon the charge. Mr. Humphries—Then in that case any observa tions which I might feel called upon to offer would at present be perfectly futile; but do you consider it a case in which bail could with propriety be ac cepted ? Mr. HAMMILL answered shortly in the negative. The prisoner (who displayed the most perfect self possession throughout) was then ordered to be remanded, to enable the police to perfect the evi dence.' COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 22. SUB-DIVISION COURT. (Before Commissioners FONDLANQUE, lIOLROYD, and GOULTIURN.) IN RE JOSEPH THOMAS TOWNSHEND, OF HIGH•STRRET, ISLINGTON, CARPET DEALER. Mr. Pain (firm Pain and Hatherly, of Basinghsll sptruenect)anapfapreatrheedbuapnoknrabpet.half of the assignees, ' and Mr. amined It appeared th at the bankrupt had been ex on s t i w ne o or three occasions, and having been amended balanceA discovered an adjourned he again came up upon an sheet, eet, in which the official as signeeexrrlor of 300/. ; and when called upon to give some anation respecting it, stated that he had been r017b41 by a clerk or servant, to the had examined the bankrupt a short time N a er n s very unsatisfactory, extent i‘ ir . p of A I I O/. rder of committal since, and considering his answers prayed to the Court to grant against him (bankrupt). 1 Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN, before wh o , 4 . 1 , case was heard, did not like to adopt such a ;,,,;',7e se upon his own responsibility , and hence the p resent Sub division Court. Mr. PAIN now subj;:cted the bankrupt to a very lengthened and searching examination, in the course ° ad filed one balance sheet of w hich he stated that he h and two amen d men t s) an d bad made no mention of WESTMINSTER. John Lloyd was placad at the bar, charged with being concerned with Thomas Doyle, George M'Koy, and Thomas Sale, the particulars of whose examination have been already fully detatled, in the murder and robbery of Mr. Bellchambers. William Meyers, of the King's Head, Orchard street, Westminster, said—l was serving in the bar of the house on the morning of the 11th inst. (that on which Mr. Bellchambers came to his untimely end). I know the prisoner; I saw him there at about half past three. He was sitting in front of the her. He went out at about a quarter-past four. He was not in company with the prisoners (M'Koy, Doyle, and Sale) in the house. Mr. Baonanir—Did he leave the house in company with them ? i:ness—He did. Mr. BRODERIP (to prisoner at the bar) —Do you wish to ask the witness any questions ? Prisoner — I did not go out with them. He did not see me sit ting in front of the bar. kr. BRODERIF—I will hear anything you wish to say, prisoner, presently; but do you wish to put any questions to the witness ?—The prisoner did not put any question. Prongar, a police-constable of the B division, said —I took the prisoner into custody in the New-cut, Lambeth, and told him what he W 23 charged with. He said he knew nothing about it, but he did not deny leaving the house a little before four. Prisoner—Did you see me in company with Doyle, M'Koy, and the other ? Prongar—go ; but I saw you a few minutes before four standing at the door of the house. Mr. BRODERIP having intimated that he was ready to hear anything that the accused had to say. Prisoner said, I went out before the men Doyle, 11.1‘Koy, and the other. I went home and was in bed by four o'clock. I was not in company at all with Doyle and the others. My father can prove I was in bed by four o'clock. BRODERIP, addressing Mr. Taylor, an inspec tor of the B division, said—Have you the prospect of further evidence against the prisoner if remanded ? Mr. Taylor—l have. Mr. BRODERIP (to the prisoner)—lt is my duty to remand you upon this very serious charge until Thursday next. The prisoner was then removed. MARYLEBONE. William Grummett, John Hall, Henry Windsor, George Windsor, George Rodu:ell, and James Spencer, were placed at the bar on the charge of having un lawfully dragged for fish in a pond in an enclosed part of the park of Lord Mansfield, Caen-wood, Hamp stead, and stealing therefrom about 40Ibs. weight of perch, roach, dace, &c. His Lordship's agent, whose name did not trans pire, attended during the proceedings. It appeared from the evidence, which was gone into at some length, that at half-past one o'clock on the same morning, as police-constable Cook, 198 S, was on duty around Lord Mansfield's grounds, between Highgate and Hampstead, he heard a number of men talking, and on going to the spot whence the sounds proceeded, he saw Grummett getting over a fence near a pond ; the other prisoners were dragging the said pond with nets, and Grummett, under whose directions the party were acting, told witness it was all right, that they had received permission to drag, and had been there before ; he alleged that the person who had authorised them to get fish was Thomas Caughlin, foreman to the Hamp stead Water-works Company; another constable was sent to make inquiry as to the fact, and he returned with information that the foreman alluded to had given permission, as above stated ; it was, however, deemed necessary to give the prisoners into custody, in order that the matter might be fully inquired into. Two wooden pails, which were com pletely filled with the fish, were produced before tine magistrate. It was further shown that the Hampstead Water-works Company had for many years rented of his Lordship the water of his ponds, but not of the one in question, and that it was conveyed to their premises by under-ground pipes. Grummett was now employed in making a pond for Sir Thomas Wilson at Hampstead-heath, and as he had applied for a few fish to stock it with, Caughlin had told him that he might have a few, but made no mention as ti the particular pond he was to go to. He (Caughlin) had not seen Grummett since, until after the latter was taken in charge. The agent said that Caughlin could have no right whatever to give permission for the taking away of fish from enclosed parts by any one, the water merely being rented by the comprny. The MAIIISTRA.T6 (having heard all the evidence adduced) decided upon remanding the prisoners till Monday next. They were bailed b appear on that day, and in structions were given by Mr. Broughton with regard to the solicitor for Earl Mansfield, and the secretary to the water-works company, being communicated with upon the subject, so that they may have an oppor tunity of attending at the next examination. James Malone, aged 19, described as a clerk, was brought up at the instance of Mr. Barker, superin tendent of the London and North-Western Railway Company's police, charged with having defrauded the said company of 9s. 4id., the amount of third class fare from Birmingham to London. He had no ticket when it was demanded of him at the Euston station, neither had he any money wherewith to pay his fare. He was convicted in the penalty of 205., or 14 days' imprisonment. Robert Singer Revell, a cab proprietor and driver, was charged with having stolen a wooden pad, the property of Mrs. Mary Hayward, landlady of the Load of. Hay, Hampstead. The evidence adduced was to the effect, that on Saturday night last, at eleven o'clock, the son of the prosecutrix went up to his bed-toom, and on looking out of the window saw the prisoner take up the pail from the door, put it into his cab, and drive off. He was pursued and stopped, and on the article being found in his possession he was given into custody. The prisoner denied having stolen the pail, and said that it must have been placed in the vehicle by another man, with whom he had been larking at the public.. house door. He hoped he should be able on a future occasion to bring that person forward..---He was bailed to appear again to-morrow week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Benedict Murphy was brought up for final exami nation, charged with having embezzled several amounts received from customers, on account of his employer, Mr. Thomas Walker, stove manufacturer, Birmingham. Mr. Walker said he kept two shops in Birming ham 58 and 302, Oxford -str ee t. Th e pr i soner was in his employ as collector. It was his duty to pay over all moneys, collected by him, to Samuel Spencer, the clerk. Th• Rev. Henry Lea, of 50, Noel-street, Islington, said he paid the prisoner three separate amounts at different times, namely, Si. twice, and 21. 10s. 9d. on account of Mr. Walker. Mr. Edward Massey, nautical instrument maker, 17, Chadwell street, said he paid the prisoner Si. on account of his employer. Samuel Spencer, clerk to Mr. Walker, said the prisoner had never handed these amounts over to him. There were several other cases of a similar cha racter, but as the witnesses were not present, they were not proceeded with. In defence, the prisoner admitted that he had col lected the money, and had appropriated it to his own use, but it was his full intention to have replaced all the money he had so collected and not accounted for. He was fully committed. John Charles Williams, a young man of respect able appearance, was charged with the following im pudent robbery and fraud : Mr. Lander, haberdasher and draper, 5, Little Pulteney-street, said the prisoner, about the 18th of October last, applied to him for the place of shopman. Being in want of an assistant, he asked the prisoner for a reference to his last employer. The prisoner said he had lived with Messrs. Drew and Drap, Park street, Bristol, and referred to those parties. Witness wrote to Bristol and received an answer in due course, which answer proving satisfactory, the prisoner was engaged. On the following day the prisoner asked leave to go out to put a letter in the post- office ; leave was granted, and the prisoner went out, but never returned again. Shortly after he was gone, between forty and fifty silk handkerchiefs, worth about 61., were missed. Witness the next day re ceived his own letter from the Post-office, NN ith a notice that Messrs. Drew and Drap were not known. John Bell said he was formerly shopman to Mr. Lander. The prisoner was appointed to take his place. Soon after the prisoner came, witness was dressing the window, and was showing the prisoner how this was usually done. The prisoner asked where the bandanas were kept. Witness pointed out the _drawer to him. In a short time afterward', on looking into the drawer, the greater portion of the handkerchiefs were gone. The prisoner had pre viously absconded on pretence of having a letter to put into the post. Witness met the pris oner some 4475 afterWiltdi in Cheopeide, gud asked him how he G PI L DHA LL. ll'am Quick and Sarah RuYkman, the latter one of the servants at the Auction Mart, and the former a carpenter, employed occasionally at that place, were brought before Mr. Alderman 11. Hughes, charged with being found together in the coffee-room, under suspicious circumstances. William Hammond, constable 160, stated that on going round his beat, at one o'clock that morning, be found the door of the Auction Mart open. He rang the bell, and Mrs. Morgan, the housekeeper,' came down. She was much astonished, as s h e had' per sonally seen that all the doors were fast before she went to bed. He and his sergeant were invited in to see who was concealed on the premises. The kitchenmaid was missing from her bed up stairs,land in searching about she was found in the coffee-room bar, where she had been sleeping with the carpenter on the hearthrug, with the slight additional comforts of a pillow and a blanket. Upon the man they found some housebreaking implements. Mr. Alderman H. Humus asked of what descrip tion they were ? The officer said they were two centre- bits. The carpenter observed they were the common im plements of his trade; besides, he had no stock with him, and could make no use of them. The officer replied he had found a stock on the premises which the prisoner had left there some days before. l'hea I h t cPe w a d s a the Alderman would think to leave a tool behind him, common thing for a man nothing Llr at s st Morgan, stated t ha a t widow, s he knew keeper,ew the prisoner Quick, and she thought he had no intention to rob the house. Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES asked if she knew he was courting the kitchenmaid. She replied she had heard of it for some time, but she had no idea that he was in the house on Sunday night. Upon inquiry she found he had been let in by the housemaid, who locked the door again and brought the keys up. Mr. Alderman HUGHES Iluctraßs presumed the kitchenmaid performed the like kind offices for the housemaid on another evening. Mrs. Morgan said she did not know, but she had discharged both. She supposed she was not bound to give a month's warning in such a case. Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES said there could be no doubt that she might discharge instanter per sons guilty of such breaches of good morals. Mrs. Morgan proceeded to state that she had seen all the maids to their rooms before she retired to bed herself, and when she saw the prisoners in the bar she was quite upset. When she opened the door they rose up. Mr. Alderman Humus HUGHES asked how far they were dressed or undressed F--She said she could not tell. The ALDERMAN said she must have been upset indeed if she could not tell whether they were naked or not. She replied she could say they were not naked. The ALDERMAN asked if there were any marks of the centre-bits about the premises ?—?sirs. Morgan said there were not. No property had been dis turbed. The female declined saying anything. Quick said he was not admitted at the front door. He was in the scullery when Mrs. Morgan came round. He thought there would be no harm in sleep ing in the coffee-bar, as he had stopped out late, and the girl came down because he was frightened at sleeping alone in a strange place. The ALDERMAN asked if he had anything to say why he should not be committed as a rouge and vagabond. The prisoner warmly declared he was no vaga bond. He could prove he was an honest respectable man. Mr. Alderman HuGins HUGHES asked who but a vagabond would enter a lady's house to demoralise a part of her household, and ruin the reputation of a young woman, and probably reduce her to the condi tion of a miserable outcast. He was not satisfied about the house breaking implements, .and he should require strong testimonials to his previous career. The prisoners, who each seemed- to be twenty five years of age were remanded till Wednesday, fbr character. CLERKENW ELL. Thomas Burd e tt Howe, a young man, was charged with having violated Elizabeth Maria King, aged eight years. LAMBETH. Alfred Marsh, who has been in custody for some weeks on a charge of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the house of Mr. Bailey, a commercial tra veller, in Swan-place, Swan-street, Old Kent-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott for final examination. In reply to a question from the Magistrate, In spector Valentine and police-constable Richard Davis said they had no further evidence to offer against the prisoner. Mr. Games, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, informed his worship that the coroner's jury em pannelled to ascertain the cause of the fire had, after two or three adjournments, and a full and careful in quiry into the circumstances, returned a verdict that the house had been set fire to by some person or persons unknown. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked, thst there could be no doubt there were circumstances of a very suspicious character connected with the conduct of the prisoner, but they were not sufficient to send him for trial on so serious a charge. Mr. Bailey complained that, though held to bail on a former occasion, the ',prisoner had used threats to his step-daughter, and he had now to claim the protection of the Court from his future annoyance. Mr. ELLIOTT replied that if his daughter had any complaint to make she was at liberty to do so. Miss Rolfe, the young woman alluded to, was here asked if she wished to make any charge against the prisoner ? She seemed somewhat reluctant, but ultimately ascended the witness-box ; and Mr. Games at once requested that her mother and step-father should leave the Court. Upon being sworn, Miss Rolfe said the prisoner had been brought to this Court six months ao for firing a loaded pistol at her, and he was then held to bail to keep the peace towards her and her parents. Since then he had been rather importunate, but he had not made use of any threats nor did she apprehend any danger from him. Mr. ELLIOTT said there was not sufficient evidence to call on the prisoner to enter into fresh recognizances, but he should advise him to be careful as to his future conduct, for if further complaints were made he could not expect much leniency. The prisoner was then discharged, and was re ceived by a number of friends, who were present to hear the case. WANDSWORTH. William Whilby,abriejilaier,living at Putney Lower Common, was charged with shooting and stealing a duck, the property of the Right lion. Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Knight, Vice-Chancellor of England. Police-constable Line stated that on Sunday morn ing, about half-past eleven o'clock, he was in Rock's lane, Barnes, when he saw the prisoner discharge a gun in the grounds of the Vice-Chancellor. He then ran away a little distance, but in a minute or two re turned, and was in the act of putting something into his pocket, when he saw witness, and ran away a second time. There were some ducks at this spot, which appeared frightened, and a pocket of the pri soner's shooting -coat was bulky, as if it contained one. He continued to chase the prisoner for about two miles, who in the course of his flight dropped the duck. Witness ultimately lost sight of the prisoner altof,ether, but took him the same evening, at his sister's house, when he found the coat the prisoner had been wearing, one of the pockets of which had been recently stained with blood. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. COMMISSION OF LUNACY . O❑ Saturday a commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened before Mr. Commissioner Winslow and sixteen special jurors, to inquire into the state of mind of Henry Keith Stewart, Esq., son of the Hon. John Henry Keith Stewart, and nephew of the Right Hon. the Earl of Galloway. The inquiry took place in the drawing-room of the unfortunate gentleman's father, No. 2, Northwick- terrace, Maida-hill. The commission, which was not opposed, was taken out at the instance of the Hon. J. H. K. Stewart, with a view to the due appropriation of 10,0001., at present under the control of the alleged lunatic. Mr. John Bayley appeared as counsel, and Mr. Turner, of the firm of Stone and Turner, as solicitor, in support of the commission. From the statement of the Learned Counsel, the evidence of Messrs. Barker and York, the medical attendants, and other witnesses, it appeared that Mr. Henry Keith Stewart was now twenty-six years of age, and at the early age of twelve had become so frequently affected with epileptic fits as to impair his mind, which at first was manifested by a few unim portant delusions, which were shortly succeeded by a total prostration. of the mind, which had eventually become a perfect blank, so that he was now, and had been for nearly thirteen years, wholly unconscious of what was passing around him—unable to answer the most ordinary questions coherently, totally ignorant of the relative value of money; in fact, in a hopeless state of imbecility. The unfortunate gentleman was at the conclusion of the evidence introduced, and by his deportment so fully bore out the foregoing testimony, that the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict—" That Henry Keith Stewart is now of unsound mind, incapable of managing himself and his affairs, and has been se since the Ist of February, 1847." The Tribunal of Correctional Police at Paris was occupied on Friday with the case of M. Gudin, late orderly officer to the King, who was some time since caught cheating at cards, and who immediately after absconded. Viscount de Septenil, one of the witnesses, narrated how the constant good fortune of M. Gudin at cards having excited his suspicions, induced him after play to have the cards counted, once at Paris and after wards at Chantilly; on the former occasion there were found eleven cards too many, and on the second occasion twenty. When M. Gudin was accused of unfair play, he at once sent in his resignation, and took to Th, Court condemned him, by default, to three years' imprisonment and 3,000 f. fine. ICaa♦ Avis.—A fine • specimen of the speckled diver was shot a few days ago in the Severn, under the college wall in this city. To those acquainted with .the habits of this bird, it will be a matter of surpri,:e thnt it should have been found in this locitliy, and particularly at this season of the year. It was immediately pureln:sed and placed in the hands of Mr. Robinson, bird-stuffier, to be preserved.— Worcester Jountal. A "BLACK SHEEP OFFICE. 7 About three years ago a "Black Sheep Office" "las established in the county of Kilkenny where a scale . of charges for murder, arson, beating &c., was strictly acted upon. Several murders were perpetrated under circumstances similar to those of the present day, and for a considerable time the authorities were at fatilt. At last an accomplice turned Queen's evidence to save his life and get the large rewards offered for the conviction of his companions. A snug farmer was put upon his trial. Mr. Hyland, attorney; defended him, and on that occasion out came the whole history of the " Black Sheep Office." It appeared there was a mile stone outside Kilkenny; and any tenant who wanted to get a landlord or agent shot, maimed, burned out, or only frightened, pro ceeded thither on a Saturday evening, and placed be hind the stone a docket with the name and description of the man to be shot. If he were a gentleman SI. was the lowest fee ; a poor man's value was as low as 30s.—and this money was laid on the paper. The requisitionist did not give his name—neither did he know the party who was to execute his order—the strictest honour , was observed by the murderers. If the murder was done, there was an end of the matter ; butt if not, a note was left at the mile stone on the following Saturday night, to the effect—as was actu ally proved—that " the order could not be executed for some time, as there was much business on hand," or " the party cannot be found." In the latter case the !money was honourably returned. Well, the farmer alluded to procured the assassination of his landlord, through the agency of the Black Sheep office. Presuming his servant boy knew nothing of his design, he employed him to place the fatal scroll with the money at the mile stone. The ser vant was himself one of the confraternity, Bed when the blow up took place very candidly told the part he had performed. The farmer was hanged- Mr. Hyland early ascertained how matters stood, and in a short time frightened nearly all the desperate gang out of the country. A list of intended victims was produced at the time of no less than thirty land lords, agents and incoming tenants. Mr. O'Connell 's brother in law, William Francis Finn, Esq., M• F A " was on it, with W. Francis Reade, J.P., and sever al leading men of the county. Mr. Hyland not will saved the lives of those wretches, but he in all proba bility was the means of saving the lives of several of that doomed list.—Limerick Reporter. RAILWAY SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL, NOVEMBER 22; &rock EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, 146 , 1 1 19 :„, shire, and Cheshire Junction (late C. and B.}, 18—m , 22/. Shares, st /2 dis.—East Lancashire, New, 1 1 ,4 dt cashire and Yorkshire, 32/. Shares, 6 dis.—Ditto, Friths (late West Riding Union), 2% dis.—Leeds and Dews bury, 4 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, lb dis.—London and not" - Western, I,s3 l i : 2 —Ditto (Manchester and Birmingham), 6(! —Ditto, Quarters and B), 4 p.— London, Brighton, 50u South Coast, M an 42—chester, Sheffield, and .Liucolnshire, Eighths, 3 1 ,4 dis.—Midland, 40/. Shares, 42—Ditto, Hal,vesN' I% dis.—North Staffordshire, t dis.—North Union 113h12 140—Shrewsbury, Oswestiy, and Cheshire, 6% 4, Eastern and Dover, New, No. 1, M i l dis.—Ditto, I N°' ~, 23 dis.— York Newcast'e, and Berwick, Extensien , p.—Ditto (U N, E. Purchase), 1 p.—York and /iota Midland, 150. MANCHESTER, Nov. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhea d, cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% dis.—Eastern Counties* IVA—Great Northern, 5% dis.—Hudderstield and Ma; chester Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1 dis.—Lancashi:e gd" Yorkshire, Quarters, 2. 13 di, . — Leeds, Dewsbury, and Man chester, 5 die.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lancolnshir; Preference, IA c. p.— Ditto ditto (Grimsby Dock). 6 in chestDit (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 5 1 % re r and Southampton, 1 13-16 dis.—North Staffordsil 546 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 5.16 die. LEEDS, NOVENB - ER 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, Net dis.—Ditto. Quarters, 15e. die. —Lancashire and V°, , shire (West Hiding Union), 50s. n. dis.—Leeds and Thirsii 163. c. dis.—North British, Halve., 12—DittiN Thirds, Is dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 6s. 3d. c. di-s.—Ditto Ex t en sion, le . dis.—North_Staffordshire, 3s. 6d. dis.-LlCorth- Western. 4% c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (Self p Berwicks), 345. • _ . SIiEFFIELD, NOVEMBER 22. &mac EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern. Counties (York Extension), 2 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, a. , ,, fld ;A i L an in d, colnshire (Sheffield and Lincoln), Preference, 1 A31 1— ' 1 " -- 40/. Shares, 41 3 / 4 —Ditto, New, 14 6s. 3d. dis. field and Rot' erliam, 30—North British, Thirds, Is. dis 'it, York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 13s. 9d. p. HULL, NovEmnitrt 22. STOCK EXCHANGE —gorth British Qllarters, which —Ditto, She readily realised 7s. 6d. discount on Saturday, showed som e tendency to go back during the morning, discount, but at the close of the market again fetched 7a• ba,: discount. York and Newcastle (G. N. E.) were also in ire% request at the price of to-day. The sales are--Lirre• Northern, 40s.—North British, Quarters, 7s. 6d • dis. a Ditto, Extension (Scrip), l ig dis.—York, Newcastle, o n Berwick (G. N. E. Parch.), 20s. p. being done at _9. EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 20. STocx ExcirANGE.—The sales are—Dandee and Perth' New, 13%—Edinburgh and Northern, 171. ex int. Newport, New, Iteg., 235. 6cl. —Great Northern, 87s. 6d. North British, Quarters, 85s.—Ditto, New Quarters (scLiP ) 10s. 9d.—Ditto, Thirds, Reg., 38s.—Scottish Central, 1375. ex bonus—Shrewsbury, and Cheater 10/. Share (8 per cell' guar.), 90s. t he cdisalayasi)rh,aetlomd consid the er evv o r f as% t ry l l i rl e eon C s hß o: u i u s i e kh r ie v ibe a ey tis c ke ari e lme le ds c , electors OPPOSITION TO MR. KERSHAW.—Last night (Fr i ; al date in the room of Mr. Cobden. After some discussion it was unanimously resolved, that Major Marsland sboula qte brought forward as the second Tory candidate. - return of Mr. Kershaw is considered quite codeine Manchester Examiner. 'dent the Rector upon f e a c 6 s t a t o ° r e c i k a n: RESIGNATION.—Mr. Hamilton, the Vice-Fred die _ of 'the Society of Antiquaries, has resigned his situaol°' PROSPERITY OF SEAHAM lIARBOUR.--Wre loa ded from authority that one day last week GS sail of l e o e _ .o3 vessels were dispatched to sea in one tide at S f o , D , Harbour. This was the largest number every t n tic h, Such are now the power and means of this rt,7l,ord was in early days traduced by the appellation pre. Londonderry's duck-pond,' and which , it was na ntS dieted, could never become a harbo ur. The ship are from 20 000 to ;30,000 ehaldrons p er month.---uw ham Chronicle. a Pie ° CARRIER PJGEON.—Some days since _ s. _ alighted in an exhausted condition on boardi:lfi,:',..,: boat, off Southwuld. On examination of the _ ti re s _r e d small scrolls of paper were observed to be Deady would one of its legs. These tiny intelligence, (supposing them genuine') Y!' 'arrived at have been of great importance had they du , ollog ing their destination: the pink papers bear the manuseriLth worild " 7585:" " 5.36." " 394." " Failure, Saint Petersburg, fiv e Paris Bankers loose [lost] five millions, nut Rothschild." t the The white paper quotes the rate o f exchange 2- B ,urse, from which the funds appear at a disceu nt . :--- after a long list of prices, the MSS. says, " London ri"" not known." " The fall was occasion ed by a failure at S'. I'etersburgh, by which Eve Paris Bankers, not Rothschild, lost among them 2 (?) million francs. ItEwARDXFOR PROTECTING WRECKED underwriter % —The owners, insurance companies, and interested in the barque Eliza of Liverpool, which WO wrecked in the parish of Kilkhampton, in this cousitY, during the severe gee in October last ye ar, the vessel being laden with a valuable cargo of g e neral merchan dise, have very hand t;om ely sent Mr. Thomas Shepharel 214/. towards the damages and expenses he was Pet t ° ' in an action brought against him by a man called Ilobbor who was wounded by the discharge of a pistol, wheee' plunder of the wrecked property was attempted. This act of liberality on the part of the owners and under" writers is gratifying to those who were active is savinf the property, as evincing an approval of their oeliac,: under the judicious superintendence of Mr. J. Soare r James, Lloyd's agent. It is an act of justice to Pi: Shephard, wh6 was most zealous in ptotecting the ?f': perty, as also an act of prudence on the part of the `) derwriters themselves, for the more respectable porteio of the community will with the great er readiness I nOter! their aid at any suture wreck, satisfied that their tions will be appreciated. We understand that a battalion of the Gruiltds;is to be required hel in that part din fE to thetnorthern d.e. trier, in the event of an additional numb er of trooPs being glan d i tided Gazette. IRTHS. On Req., th of a eBthins d t a „ . ug at h F te l r. ore ß nce, the wife of B. lierch el 131117' bage, r.,. of g• On the 14th inst., at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the vii's . - Wilbraham Falconer, Esq.,M.D., of a son. On the 16th inst., at Guldington Lodge, near Bedf. °rd ' o t f li : lady of Arthur Littledale, Esq., Bengal Civil service, daughter. mod, On the 19th inst., at Marlborough-place, St the wife of Mr. William B. Minet, of a daughter. C. On the 19th inst., in Russell . co urt, St. J awes% ''''' Ellis, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Iver, Bucks, the Wife of John Walker, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at the Parsonage, Great Long ,_„_ near Bakewell, the wife of the Rev. James Stephen fleas"' M.A., perpetual Curate of Longstone, of a son. MARRIED. 00 Cam onborllet On the 18th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Rev. William Price Lewis, jun , Basset, second daughter of the Re . v. o l f it ß i i t le terrace, l a. c b : r n , A ' ill e x antler wife Galo; g Camborne, Cornwall. A,austil s On the 20th inst., at Kennington Church, Ai r ' Davis' Frederick Phillips, late of Bristol, to Miss Mary Elizi.4o, Cardiff' youngest daughter of the late Edward Davis, <3.'-- r Glamorganshire. Iwo 1 0 voo ak n i :I :t3 t h: l: e e saq2go. l :t 9 dah t g li en7d i s. nat . , at LDa'ryftDo DIED. , i 1 I i ttra Esq.. aged 73. inst., K . Aiki n On the 20th inst„ at Claremont George o h s eloag era, hector Cecilia 0f e s m tre o e i t i , t. On the 15th inst., at Preston, Ellen Elizabet • Robert Segar, Esq., barrister-at-law, R. 1. P. , „,,,. , On the 18th inst., at Dorking, Surrey, Mrs. AY a" -- ifr. 1" _ _ o On the 18th inst., at Park-side, Englefield-grew' M slin, aged 64. of Fen, On the 18th inst., Mr. Bernard Henington• church-stet, aged 78 zed 5 5 . On t b • . - _ .0 19011:1st.. George William Traill, E51•9 11 f .-----" A t ' late Lovd,n: Printed and Published i,v l;4. 2 O. 112, Strand, Printer, at 17,e Sun Offie e, ti of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th ° c - 151iddleiez, Tuesday, November 28, 1847. I Y