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n.ust 29 , 15451 6,1212,JrJ parliamentarp pro rentno. ---I After. HOUSE OF Lostl)S.loNnAv. !tiret so HOUSE ro utine business, the E ar l o f R ADNOR , i n refer ef „ a statement made the other night, relative to the case " %yilliam s , who had been committed for giving away ,ogiv,ervictnals, said, h e h a d b een informed that the victuals en svittel, .ay consisted o f a cons i derable quantity of meat, 1, 0 , 1 , Lenarge s h e h ad been committed by Mr. Hawkins. n erei,, en_tiono HAM said t's!.e statement of the noble earl was to ro4 e piatte, and he 'Lord Brougham) intended to-morrow lork li or a capy of such documents as would enable their to il l , P s to ikLIAT which statement was correct. The report ease _nneivs )spers said that the learned jusisre who heard the ootti„s,lol4,,dverted on the conduct of the prosecutor and the had n''''',Ltc.ll.:k magistrates in severe terms. He (Lord , Broug,M) co osure : t , I censared the contact of Mr. Hawkins. 'That tom l v s 4 s , P lased on him by Mr. Justice Coleri4e. land tatrfl_RmatiANt inquired it there was any tri . i . th in the et_-_,it,tatit a number of the Irish Itoman Catholic prelates th ose 1 7.4) , had signed a memorial to the Crown in favour of th e dis...r.uisle,l and deludes! persons who had been led from 'th e VArgesof their duty aid committed high treason. _ _ to b„_tarquis of LANSDOWNE had seen the statement alluded co,t'_o,ei.nolsle and learned lord, but nail received no Okla 1401 icatio a on the subject. r t : A lwer to a question by Earl 4 FORTESCUE, Terorquis of L ANSDOWNE said the attention of . the g n o e - Vreo a ,, i hid been irected to the proriet o takin,, soi_ e chole,a, any measures with respect to th y p; f ogress of th 4 that a measura on the sujiject would shortly be Lint taller the notice of their lordships. Th e bn, IseH n OUSE OF COMM—ONAY. e, t i7 ent into committee ONS. o f suppl M y o n the miscellane %um „,,l'abas, and proceeded with various grants up to the iiie"')(lof adjournment, the_ two votes occasioning discus latter T; the grants for New Zealand and Labuan, upon the tolirio°l which the comm ittee divide!, when the grant was a majority of 44— t h e num b ers 56 to 12. ouie resuming, and the question of again going into kove c i`! e e of Supply hatin. , been put, Mr. G. A. HAMILTON Mire:Bton amentlineot upon the order of the day, that an ;Ole!' a ip ',ln:esetited to her Majesty, praying her to direct that "41 , u ,' ° Alhea.tion of the system of national education inlre- Zfhieh.., Hanle as Ina remove the conscientious objections i i%lof i v . k erY large porti ‘ o y f the clergy and laity or the Esta- I T° ,a,cli entert • n t o that system as at present carried . - "set; - ,"," 0 4, or othe a r i w n is o e that means ' may be taken to enable c.ery acid laity of the Established Church 7ho ), sc r i pt 41cli coliscientious obj-ctions to extend the bie,!sings a ur al education in Ire.ointl. While the Roman Lathe oseie,ic"nl are allowed to receive a grant to carry out their stolid atis views of education, the Protestants of Ireland ° l l the sam e anl nna!ous position, that their conscieutipu . s e t tasist auce p.ouit were disregarded and they were le u . S , cl i t t h r at i‘ e ii. : l3 : a a n r , ;:e " , l ell was given to every other sect DI tflat,C.).UnklY. `!!afriet was supported by Captain JON r. 4 TE ' W. VERNER Mr. NAPIER, and Mr. NEWDE °PPOS'AI S ' ir W . . SOMERVILLE, Mr. S. CRAWFORD, ReS Sti.L, Sno 14 M RNE, Mr. —UR, Mr. REYNOLDS, and Lord J. t the noble lord s t at i ng th at t he o bj ect o f t h e presen t ee, ii'Llun was to overthrow the existing s y stem , w h ic h h a d oil , l i e recneration for sixteen years, ; , saild, and the under which the schools tOutfor h aSett in number to four th o; , swtd, scholars to ,OiLlrel thousand—a system whi c h h a d received thesanc (l,,r successive governments during that period, tending as 1 )8 0 to unite Protestants and Roman Cath s lic s . and which, ill a l ar the prejudices o f some of the clergy, would unite them I t , %till greater degree. Under these circumstances he hoped , o uld continue to r ece i ve the support of the legislature. his. ' a till/ .Sioil there appe are d f or tile amendment 15 ; against ply' majority 103; and the house went into committee of sup wit„,accortlingly ;. the principal subjects discussed being the ` 4 fur captured negroes and for consular establishments. D HOUSE OF LO - RDS.—TirEsi C i . AY. ,RNMAN moved an address to the rown, praying her With for to give directions for the enforcement of all treaties coast ot ." 4l DOvvers for the extinction of the slave trade on the tii reeti frica, and for the prosecution ot all British subjects, that er Y. °l' indirectly. concerned in violating the laws against tier p ,,,rle, and that her Majesty would be pleased to take into With tt e ° ' l3( :onsideration the expediency of concerting measures kont allies for declaring slave trade piracy, with a punish the'„s.' evere than that now incurred according to the laws i titn. !..ition for that crime. tql a ,Lit fervent speech against the doing away African tiiti ve r.. Lord LAxsDowNE replied, and themotion was ne ,! without a diio visn. El ey " to ` r ne question of the third reading of the Parliamentary Lord REDEsDALE moved that it be read a second Op ( aY six m on th s, Wh en original motion was carried Sth th Jwity of 3—the numbers 31 to 28. o f he 'notion of Lord BEAUMONT, the substitution of the ipto anaary for the II ti Oct'ter when the bill was to come operation was agreed I to, b ud it'passed. e HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. agar Ditti 13iil having been read a third time, Lord Pike t ' NITINCK moved a clause the object of which was to thine orepre fi ners of su4ar in England on the same footing as Per o ,. Wand, BeLinin, and Hanover, and that they should . enter it l e d , „ whether the sugar was British colonial or foreign, „ Afte r s on Paying the highest rate of duty. eesti en e loo discussion on this proposition, and on the general "oi e 1 . ( Old preNent state of the trade in the West Indie!, the go, ti leivoled, w hen the inotioil was negatived by a majority of Co';(ti t.,..nnbers 70 to 40. 44 th e Y, OI IOE BENTINCK then proposed, two amendments egati,',eration of the scale of duties, the first of wich wae ~t e roni t by a majority of 63 • the numbers 17 to 80 hand the e a 'sed, Y a rnajOrity of 65 ; die numbers 16 to 81, and the bill Mr I/ the r 4. 4 . 1 E5. in a speech of historical details, in reference roteth t rent committees which had sat . on this subject, . 0 th e forward his motion calling the attention of the house ho ast reports f • the committees of that house and the L c ' e se gh o nimercial distress, and moving that t . he ious c o uld ' early in the next session, take the same into its the nu,t,•:_ideration. Prio c i,r , which involved the question of a departure . from flPer cure of the Bank Act of 1844, by an extension of a rr,E o :,,, n eY as a circulating medium, was supported by Mr. OppoihAlr. SPOONER, Mr. MUNTZ, and Mr. HOME, OCHLquea` whorlM. H. BRUM AIOND, the CHANCELLOR Of the 8 4. , oved the previous question, and Sir R. hie HER h ‘ ,on -, in reply, stated at his abject in drawing the att• * °l th e house and the conntry to the subject having sod „„,. 4 lned he should not divide, and the question was put ositv e d reiV,eond reading of the Taxing Masters' Court of Chancery 0 44 ,,,.1i 13111 having been moved. Mr. NAPIEIt was proceeding s" -1 -ss the house when it was counted out at two o'clock. Aft HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDA Y . 14. 4 ' n the pre sentat i on or several petitions the house went 011,?ttimittee of Supply, an d s e ve r a l votes were agreed to. lo w , the question of the .t . 8,700 to defray the expenses of al re to Polish refugees, !Ty ~( , ) s linaNE opposed the grant on the ground of inutility try o„raragance, and intimated that the charity . of this coon • .Wer e "Tht to be extended towa s numbers of its owpeople who prei,„.„ e ndurino. privations instead of being lavished upn neee", e rs who abused its generosity. The grant had originally . tit he c onceded for one year only, and he now thought it high 14 Put a stop to it. i b, • STUART defended the grant. eltra),"louT thought it surprising that the Poles in fourteen 3all not been .ble to provide for themselves, and depre th2"ll Bull being made a milt.h cow of by the inhabitants IV, countries. wit ` 4l , ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the vote was t he e l en could not be considered a permanent charge upon tqe-enntrv. He did hot think the house would be disposed to t Ee,„'„ W aY • this aid from old persons who had been long in the 1'1. 5 4",,` of it —that would be an act of cruelty; but young .tec e i,able to eam their own living could not be allowed to Na y lt• He assured the house thit the list should be care ,,:ey 'l,44,"`,cussion ensued on the proposition of the Regium Do wbisse' n w t h e i r ch Lusit INGTON opposed as d . er . eratory to the 4 4 l ot this country, and moved its omissiol The vote Th e by a majority of do to 28. tic es, Z a „nt of .2,500 to Sir Charles Trevelyan, for extra sec teir e',.aPproved of by a majority of 73 to 14. e ° 0 1) then proposed a vote of .132,000 to wind up Dre4,,l?eniliture for the relief of distress in Ireland up to the rilch! e :',l.lalf-year. In reply to a que tion, he sta ed that the 44 % iv., - ,,`n expended for relief in Ireland up to the end of July Af.,4?liont .9,135,000.: R 4 short . the 1, k 0 SELL obse conversation rved that hon. members, in objecting did not seem to consider that an immense change egenn in Ireland, nor to make due allowance for the LIM t o under which both landlord and tenant were coin -01 e; act • The burden upon landed property in Ireland ,„*" 4 enanged f4OO tOO to .t 1,800,000, in itself a great f,rnl:tant c han g g, • Anot . her chan. , e which had taken place was this— e that whereas, in 1 - 836, there were no corn i u ' i jele4 l nn dealers in Ireland, there were nnw dealers in those to a l' e ,verY part of that country. He thought it was their tiAly , 1 7- 4 in the transition, and that it could not be si • iid they p i n ki, i 4 Y wasted the money of the country by sssisting cer i',14(11,,," to bear the ve great burdens which had been it 4 4 them , borne as s t hese had been, on the whole, with t7 ' et t '' o e t ° ,,f readiness which was highly creditable. With . r . e• oe future, that no doubt mould be . the subject of c' li e and lie did not wish to enter upon it at that late hour. h",n(i t thi n k ito a was that . in ou circu lie „t s no y ild w Ise to lay r down present a system mstances or propose of ore n p . e did not i know what was the extent of the present N t lie ‘, the potato cultivation— what wa . s tIT exact . amount te4e iri th r Y Pleat increase of potato cultivation which took ~e . Present e., know'r as compared with the amount of last k 't D • "let not what amount would be saved, or to Alauces er, o , (.`, the stock would last; and under these circinn l'uougut it would be very imprudent to lay down a i „ HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. %,,`Ne4 "I'ITAG LE moved for certain papers respecting the !ri t ',Dari v _g r aot of Vancouver's . Island to the Hudson's Bay (4,414, a grant which he stigmatized as the most lavish, 13 4 ," gat e . ' al e, and reprelten.ible ever made. The noble lord W it ; ei) .4 ,, sketch of tne rise and progress of the _ Hudson's t Ooa and quoted various authorities to prove that it t'ait4ti' c ielation totally unfit to be trusted with the duties of t a n. ,Lt.y, while he admitted the imnortance of Vancouver's t il at • ka lip - Taded the gr ant as one of the very best means of as a Briti sh possession: Unless the duty of colt). 1v1 1' 6 41 1 4 , -r e Promptly undertaken, that island would inevita ,NiLt'a to the irregular aporopriation of squatters, of Pre„ k alpi.," r e body, composed chiefly of Mormons, already !lie'',arecrt`e(l renuit - ing thither. The Government . was not he rap, ° ,seod a colony itself, but it had lent a willing ear to ,1 1 0x;2 1 1411"' of the Hudson's Bay Company, and from all that tCt p ro e aro he believed that company would exercise the e zt , s posed to be confided in them with great advantage th e e, of civilization and humanity. th e !-,:HANcELLoa then movcil the second reading of r ractices at Elections Bill, but as the feeling of r e ,Z e eted to be that there was not sufficient time left !11 Oerati`nat advanced period of the session for the proper h 1 th.l , 1 4 , — „ n , ~of so important a measure, it was agreed that o , o ly be read a second time, on the understand :""fter progress should be deferred till next session. tit ‘ t r ' the " MUSE OF COMMONS.—Tin ?,` , 04- 14 r.otion that the Diplomatic Relations the Court Ir . (~, iill he committed 141\teilell th.t x 7 u syproposedas a a n n a d m g e a n l d e m tp e , y irl e „ we Y_ three months, n en o t tie th e a t t h i a t t be if c t or att k r 'iltu re „ re negatived , he would oppose its progress a ~,Lorit Ji tfl I. age. -, , ( 1, • 4 err-ART seconded the amendment. . i 1i k 1 i,,,,, h.,• I%ssgm., expressed his determination to persevere Oer ,!li.Ure. . ~g, Afr'llles from Sir J. Tyrell, Mr. Forbes, Lord Drum- We l l It. i ';-I,coner, Sir C. Burrell, and Mr. J. O'Connell. . Yo'lles,l„,ol.ls moved the adjournment of the debate till A e , thi s ' • tit,.s•e i t 1 • ProDOsition Lord J. Russitti. demurred, but ex kA, 4.:ix.llngtiess to adjourn the debate till the evening 4 'VI% ~„ gas th.e i t7, l ",lok place, when the amendme , l ce o s f . Si4 h ß e . Inglis 10;114:11144iout)t1:4TiViotrhietyev"efnin3gosvginl." liOweet?orned debate was then resumed by Mr. Moore, and ht; H. b i t bY Sir. Urquhart,Howard, Mr. I M. P , v ill , l Sir ti . ond, Sir It Inglis, Lord 11. Vane, 3 Nervde wero„ iiarron, Mr. G. Robinson, Mr. Napier, Mr . Lord trq!. Uq i ," . Ar t '„' that-,tixo then moved the adjournment of the debate, in treLl with house might proceed, as Lord John Russell had 4t s, r, iitt,„_vith the Copper and Lead Duties Bill. `riicri4uHT accused the gentlemen opposite of factiously N i ter 4 the bill. iqui;i,litt4leowe herds from Captain HARRIS recommending the qy iroetit. kiirNi_lnkjori.when the a mendment of Mr. Goring was negatived ..Pu k : l '. of 103 over 32 voices Q.;ith . ir-,a ,then attempted to a . ddress the house, but was gp 4 , 4 ~,,.?_ clamours, on which ' TSE Moved the adjournment of the house. t 29. 1S (S, !lON. e tt e Albert, an d ~,, ie Prince of W B O 7 ncess Alice, attz ?, and her 3f B e,, the IF tors within e ; ; ' u e e n en wouldfavboir Voolsvich on S c ,' r her annual e.ct 11 procee d dire t; r oyal , earnv es yalty. 1,5 d! marriage 0. , ig hter of the 11aer., er, and the. f Lord Leizli,r7ti George's " formed b Y bd per vv vi The D _ )es Grosvenosolf cousin. b! Isverior boteeiggi m inster, 0 , 1 8 ,,tch. to le w a i r l Co for bi) ; ), to i ENCE. erbury had a n , Wing- stre et ; the B L ea ora le ' Eta: i f : ire '', I • s eot, eal Purposes..o for tri bated - ° ,llO th e benefit °Jay D owa ger has of S t ' he district_ve Thorp on 1 1 : 140 arils of for la p t Act. It is o r', l 4 out-parish ..1104 dation a 8' A uGusT 24 j f JOY' , 8 Special. . „ in or Cou rt cted by tbe rts io whQt her r a ce n 0 tiff bed D ee 4o 4 , Neer in the. w ith his re0)0 . vas a it ()lone o f ~After ly become rerriied 4 hat wag 4 ifed polio an orPtheo !ntirelY by' do' 1 wary and c redos,actingte,„ b-its o gave the iff almost i°3llle. D. tern roilccaY for head Re ,i 1:/ yo ,t; 13s. ili t , oo d toll 1 ' m eed• I v not irl e sotti l ; of the „",ht been brou , e d avo retort' v0 .1)3' to e 5 0 ,, 3 , 5 hac c i eleetew t-• 4 iscec' t p 1). t° I 4' tsti ii"t Lord JoHN RUSSELL commented on the factious opposition given to this measure by certain gentlemen ot.posite: the most respectable members of their party, among wnoin he spa cially referred to Mr. Napier, had deliberately quittect the house rather than join in it. Captain VYSE ooserved that he had merely moved the ad journment to give Mr. Forbes an opportunity of addressing the house. _ Mr. FORBES then repeated the speech which he had made in the morning. Mr. SPOONNK W4S rising, as Sir G. GREY ima gined, for the same parpose—an idea which led him to stand up for the propriety of observing the long-established rules of the house, which only permitted a membq to make one speech on the same subject, and to point out the inconvenience which would arise from evading those rules by moving the question of wljournment. Mr. SPOONER persisted in his intention of again addressing the house, complained of the slur cast upon him by Lord .5. Russell, and declared that he should not flinch from his oppJ sition to this bi.t, no matter what the house might tnink of it. An animated discussion, partaking rather of a personal cha racter, turn took place, in which Lord J. Russell, Mr. Spooner, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Mr. Newdegate, and some other members joined. At the close of it Captain Vyse withdrew his amend ment, and the house divided on the amendment of Mr. Austey on the original motion, when the numbers were—Ayes, 35 ; noes, II; ; majority against the . amendment, 77. The house then resolved into committee on the bill, and was occupied during the remainder of the evening in deciding on the manifold amendments proposed on it by Mr. C. Anstey cud two or three other members. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY, On the motion for going into committee on the Diplomatic Relations with Rime Bill, some discussion took place, in which Mr. SeooNee, Sir J. TYRRELL, Mr. NEWDEGATE, Lord J. RussELL, and Sir It. Isom:4, to ik part; but eventually the committee was resumed without a division, and the remaining clauses of the bill were a;reed to. In reply to questions put by Mr. ROBINSON, respecting the treatment of the convict Mitchel on his passage to Bermuda, and since his arrival there, Sir O. GREY Said that instructions had been given to the officers of the vessel he was sent oat in that every precaution should he taken to prevent the prisoner from escaping. He was. to be placed in a cabin by himself, a sentinel was to lie placed at his door, and his meals were to be seat in t.) him. He was also to have proper exercise while at sea. On the arrival of Mitchel at Spike Island he was examined by a medical officer, who reported that he was labouring under a chronic affection of the lungs. In consequence of this report he had been removed to a convict ship, where he had been treatel iu every respect like other convicts in a delicate state of health, but that since his arrival he had not been put to the hard labour that convicts are usually put to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved that the house resolve itself into a committee of ways and means. Mr. P. Scam's moved, as an amendment, that no future ap propriation of monies taken from general taxation be made in the poor-rate of Irish unions, except on conditions—first, that it be expended in the productive employment of the able-bodied poor; anti secondly, that repayment he secured by a lied on the property improved by the works, as wed as upon the pro perty rateable to the poor. In support of this motion, the hon. gentieman addressed the house at considerable length, during which he impugued the conduct of the poor law commissione;s of Ireland. After some observations from Lord G. BENTINCE, Mr. Hums, Lord J. RUSSELL, and other hon. members, the amend ment was negatived without a division, and the house went into a committee of ways and means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then proceeded to make the financial statement of which notice had been given by • Lord John Russell ou a former evening. He recapitulated the . main points of the budget of the noble lord at the commence ment of the session relative to the revenue and expenditure of the country, and then proceeded to show how the government had reduced the deficiency that appeared when the house re fused to sanction the increase of the income tax from three to five per cent. He had felt it to be his duty to call the attention of all the departments of the public service to the necessity of diminishing their expenses as much as possible, anti the conse quence had been a series of estimates inucli reduced in amount below that which had been originally contemplated. In ac cordance with the reports of the two committees which had been appointed to investigate the estimates, they had adopted the course to which he had adverted, and the result was that the navy estimates were reduc d by the sum of £208,000, the army estimates by £150,0.0, the ordnance by £123,000, the miscellaneous by £23s,ooo—making, tog,tht r with the saving of £150,000 by not calang out the militia, a total reduction of £828,000. The total expenditure would be £52.422,335. whi:e the income would, in the first instance, be £51,210,060; but by carrying the appropriations in aid to the service of the year, a sum of £500,0110 became available. Froth the barley crop of last year, which was very goof, he anticipated an increase to the excise of £340,000, and £BO,OOO, being the last instalment of China money. The entire deficiency of the year, therefore, would oe only £292,355. The reductions which had taken place he hoped to be able to carry to a stil further extent next year. The deficiency for the present year would be still £2,031,000 if the expenses of the Kaffir war were to be added together with the sum advanced for the relief of the distress in Ireland and for the Cananian emigrants. This deficiency he proposed to meet by a loan rather than resort to a permanent tax to meet what he hoped would be only a temporary emer gency. The house would remember that he had no ordinary difficulties to deal with. 'they had a famine in Ireland, great commercial distress, revolutions abroad severely affecting trade, and insurrections at home. It was, therefore, not to be won dered at that there should be a considerable falling off in the in come and revenue of the country. he believed it was the pa ramount interest of that country to promote the peace mat tranquillity of the rest of Europe, and the best exertions of the government would be devoted to that object. With respect to the harvest, he believed the crop was only partially damaged, and he believed that the extent of the potato disease was not so great as had been anticipated. It might be necessary, how ever, to render assistance to some locadties, but he could hold out no hope of any general system of reAel, such as had been formerly resorted to. The right hon. gent.eman concluded by moving the usual vote in ways and means. Mr. HUME considered the statement of the right bon. gentle man as most unsatisfactory. Lord GEORGE BENTiACK said the Chancellor of the Exche quer had taken en oneous:y into his estimates the continuance of certain duties which would expire this year. After a few words from Mr. J. O'CONA ELL, Sir H. WiLhouGH By said lie had arrived at the conclusion that increased taxation was postponed only for one year. After some observations from Mr. M UNTZ and Mr. H. DRUM- Lord J. RUSSELL said that the reductions which would be made in the various departments would bring their expenditure within the limit of their income. SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.-TUESDAY. :. (lefore. .I.tice Crexswell.) Henry Woodward, 28, w is found guilty of haying, at Brough ton, broken into the dwelling-house of John Ward, and stolen one cream jug and other articles. Thumas case, 22, charged with having, on the night of the 7th of August,-at the village o: West Derby, cut and wounded a po liceman, named Christopher Coupland, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. he jury acquitted the pr.soner of the felonious intention, but found him guilty of an assault. • Joseph Thunpon, 20, was found guilty or wounding a police officer named Oliver Petty, on the 7th of August, an officer in the county constabulary. Patrick Healey, 35, was sentenced to twelve months' impri sonment, with hard labour, for having, at Wa.ton-on-the-Hill, on the kids of April last, feloniously kined, with intent to steal, one ewe, the property of John Cruickshank, a brewer, at Walton. John ' , natant was indicted for having, on the 3(1" of April last, committed a violent assault on Richard thee, a collector of accounts, residing in Acton-street, in Manchester, with in tent to do him some grieTous bodily injury. The jury touted the prisoner guilty of an assault. Samuel FEorthi,igton, 27, was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment, for ht.ving, at Pendieton, feloniously stolen one coat, and other articles, the property of William Hesketh. John Sumner, 3y, was charged with having, at Litherland, stolen three pigs, the property of Henry Harrison. Guilty. Sentence deferred. John hardson, 39, was charged with having, at Warring ton, feoniously torged a bill, or receipt, with intent to defraud Ann Clare. Not guilty. M'Cadden, 2t, was sentenced to one month's impri sonment, with hard labour, tor stabbing Mary Taylor, at Salford. George William Knowles, 25, was charged with having, at Liverpool. on the ;sth of April last, stabbed and wounded Jas. Fisher. Guilty. Sentence deterred. The grand jury came into court with a true bill against Geo. Ar•chdeacwz and forty-five others ?onnected with the Manches ter confederate clubs. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Malice Brie.) • After some undefended causes in the second list had been disposed of, the court proceeded to try a cause in winch Messrs. 6ou:d and Davis were the plaintiffs, and air. NA - iunim Stuck was the defendant. The action was brought to recover the sum of £153 I s. 2d., for stores supplied by the plaintiffs to the sh.p Frederica. It appeared that the captain of the Frederica, Mr. Waddington, went to the plaintiffs place of business and ordered the goods, which were accordingiy supplied to the ship. In the month of J uly the owner of the Frederica executed a bid of sale troth him to Mr. Stock, the defendant, on the Frederica; and, by law, a party who became the owner of a ship, was bound to go to the Custom-house and there make a declaration of ownership. Accordingly, on the `2lst of August. Mr. Stock, the defendant, went to the Custom-house and matte a declaration, that the ship Frederica, of which Mr. Waddington was master, was his property. Messrs. M`Tear, Hadfield, and Thompson chartered the Frederica for a voyage to the River Mate, through Messrs.-Holmes and Severin, ship-agents. 'I he freight for the voyage was paid to the defendant, Mr. stock. Mr. KNOWLES addressed the jury, contending that the goods were furnished upon the credit of Air. Holmes, but the proof of this failing, a verdict was taken for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. THE AFFAIRS OF BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSON. TURNER AND OTHERS V. DEANE AND OTHERS.—Air. Martin and Mr. Cronn,ton appeared for the plaintiffs who were Chas. Turner, Francis 6hauu, and other shareholders connected with the Royal Bank, and Mr. Baines and Mr. Henderson were counsel for the defendants, Mr. Edward Guy Deane and his Son, solicitors. Mr. MA let I N stated the case. The plaintiffs were the assignees oh the firm of - Batton, !Hain, and Higginson, who became-bank rupts last year, and who bad at the time a most enormous ac count with the Royal Bank. The defendants. Messrs. Deane and Son, were most respectable attorneys in Liverpool ; and the question in the case was this—whether the defendants had what is calied a lien upon some title deeds, belonging to Mr. Jonathan Higginson, in respect of a debt due to them from Barton and Co. His LORDSHIP. in briefly summing up . the case to the jury, said that this was a question which must be decided at a higher tribunal, but it appeared to him that the plaintiffs were entitled to the deeds, they having paid to the defendants the .4'160 un der protest. and the lien being co-extensive with the contract. But, in fact, his opinion was of no consequence ; it was subject to review,- and the case would now be taken to the court above. A verdict was returned for the plaintiffs with liberty to the defendants to move a nonsuit if the court should be of opinion that the defendants had a Lieu upon the deeds. CASTLE AND ANOTHER V. LIARBORD The plaintiffs, Messrs. Castle and Jones, are extensive recti fiers and distillers at Bristol, and the defendant was for a con siderable time their agent at Liverpool. The action was brought for the recovery of a sun► due from the defendant to the pia►n tiffs, and which accrued from business transactions. Verdict for the plaintiff for &100,000, damages .1000, sub ject to a reference. ' Counsel not being ready to proceed with any other causes, the Court tried two criminal cases. Ellen Griffith, a married woman, was found guilty of misde meanour, in having attempted to drown her child in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It appeared quite clear that the prisoner was intoxicated at the time. The child, a tine little boy, was in Court, and the prisoner, on seeing h►m, burst into a flood of tears, and declared that she had no intention of drowning her beautiful boy, and that she was really so much intoxicated as to be quite unconscious of what she had done. In corrobora tion of her statement, a female neighbour was examined, and she described the prisoner to be a woman remarkable for her kindness to her offspring. Sentence was deferred. Jane Parson:, 22, was indicted for the wilful murder of her new-horn infant child, at Liverpool, on the 11th of May last. The jury acquitted the prisoner of murder and found her guilty of concealing the birth only. His lordship sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. Parker Uneicorth was found guilty of having feloniously killed and slain John Clarke, at Liverpool, on the 26th May last. CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY. • MURDER AT MANCHESTER. William Adams, a young, well-looking man, was indicted for having, at Manchester, murdered his reputed wife, Diana Adams, by shooting her thrmigh the head with a pistol. It appeared in the case that. the woman alleged to , have been murdered had married, about nine years since,_a man of the THE LIVERPOOL STA*DA-RD. name of Thomas, who was some-time ago transported. Two years after his transporzation she married the prisoner, but this marriage was null and void, because Thomas was still living, and also because the prisoner was himself a married man at the time he contracted marriage with the deceased. She (the deceased) lived with the prisoner as Ins-wife for some time, and then certain disputes having occurred between them, she left him and proceened to London. There, she visited her married sister, but she shortly after returned to- Manchester, in order to pursue her own occupation; that of working at the Hanover mills. She was frequently impot tuned by the prisoner to go and live with him again, but she declined die oiler. About haif pastlive o'c ock on the morning - of the 251 - of June, she was on her way to the mills,. and when she hail got to Stevenson sqiiare,. a witness named Murray saw her in company with the prisoner. Some quarrelling was then taking place between them. She was angry, but he was comparatively calm. 'They went on until they got to the corner of friday-street, and there she was heard to say to the prisoner" if you don't leave me I will alarm die neighbourhood." The prisoner said to her " You-mean to die, do you?" He then took a pistol trom his pocket. She ran, and he followed her. She screamed, and several persons were attracted by the screams. He pulled the trigger of the pistol, and snaiped it at her, but it did act go off the first-time. He then caught her by the triothes, and turned her head round towaids him ; he then tired the pistol ; the bullet passel tnrough her brain, and in a very few minutes afternards she was a corpse. He was taken into custody on the instant. He appeared at the time perfectly coo), sobtr, and collected, but the smell of drink was upon him. tie put the pistol quietly in his pocket, and said, " I loved the woman and I will die for her." To another person he said, " I am quite satisfied with what I have clone." He then took out anoider loaded pistol, with which he said he intended to " exterminate" himself, had he not been so suddenly apprehended. About seventeen days before the murder, he scent to the Hanover mills, and asked to see the deceased, but she having declined to leave her work, he said, 6 ` If ever mini had woman's life, t will have hers." He then pulled out a pistol,.and said. This is the weapon that will do it. Two loaded pistos having be n found upon his person at that time, he was taken before the magis trates, but he was shortly after discharged,. and the pistols were restored to him, and in about a fortnight afterwards he put his many threats into execution, 1.. y shooting the unfortunate female through the head. The prisoner was found guilty. The Judge pissed sentence of death upon him in solemn terms, and said that he coved not hod out to the prisoner the slightest hopes of mercy being extended to him. dillllirrrn Pravers,. 26, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, feloniously ut6ereil two curtain forged undertakings for the payment of .t'3 each, with intent to. deiraud John Pearson. The prisoner, who was the steward of a ship called the Chusan, in May last, lodge l with the prosecutor; and on the vessel's being ready for sea, he produced two shipping notes, which prosecutor cashed for him. The notes were found to be forge nes, and on the discovery the prisoner was given into custody. Guilty of uttering.—Sentence deferred. ledge of the affair,-the Learned Sergeant allowed him to - state what he had heard•which was to the effect that, on tiled., rig question, a imy, a perfect stranger to him, met the prisoner, and asked him to go with him to the tan-yard to sell the hirse• which he was leading, .promising, at the same time, to remu- • nerate him for his trouble.. The prisoner went, and thus be came implicated in tile t "ansaction. At the close of this state ment, the counsel for the prisoner analogized, and said, that in consequence of the short notice he had received, he was unt able to read the whole of his brief; but on referring to it he perceived that there was-au important witness in the prisoner's favour, whom, by permiasion of the Learned Sergeant, he• would call. Accordingly ,a 'fliompson, joiner, came for ward, and deposed to seeing the transaction as stated by the of the jury. Mr. Sergeant Murphy compAmented the juryman, and sail, if it had not be9i for this statement, he would have sentenced the prisoner to seven years; as it was, he should consult with Mr. Justice Cresswell. Before the court rose the Learned Sergi , ant ordered the boy forward, and asked hint if lie had ever been to school. He replied—" To Mr. Cropper's." The Learned-Sergeant then asked if the boy con' be put to school in the g-aol, without the chance of con- tamination with the other prisoners. After being answered in the affirmative, he ordered the. prisoner to be imprisoned fur four months, during which time he was to he kept in school. Mornay Fox, 37, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, for stabbing police-Alder Joseph Thompson, in June last, in this town. . Daniel Davis was convicted of uttering', or forging, tss•o notes for the payment of ,£3 13s. upon Mr. Richard Williams. The only remarkable feature in die case was the obtuseness of the jury, which drew down a severe rebuke from the Learned Ser geant. sentence deferred. _ _ _ •James Barr was charged with having forged a shippinz note for 155., on Saturday, thr 30.1 i of May. The prisoner• was found guilty, and recommended to mercy. Sentence deferred. NISI PRIUS Cf4URT:-TFIURSDAY. RIGHT OF AGENTS TO DETAIN GOODS CASEY AND ANOTHER V. fiLAI ZIVA2 , IOIFIER. — (Specia/ .htrd.)—The plaintiffs in this case were Messrs. Francis and George Casey, and the defendants Messrs. Blair and Sumner, all the parties carrying on business at Manchester. The action was in trover to recover the value of 230 nieces of cloth, de tained by the defendants from the plaintiffs.—Messrs. Martin and Asp!and were for the plaintiffs, and Messrs. Baines and Cross fur time defendants.—The plaintiffs were merchants at Manchester, who bought goods to a considerable extent, as was customary, throutrh commission agents. The defendants were bleachers ' carrying on business in the neighbourhood of Manchester. In connexion with the case was the firm of Messrs. Bills, Watson, and Co., commission agents, who, transacted business to a large extent in their line of business. The practice at Manchester was to buy goods in the gray. They were sent to the person acing as the agent or 'winnow ; a bleacher was employed, and-his cart was sent round to the warehouses to take them to the place where they were to , be blealled. In a few days afterwards the bleacher called at the place where the goods were taken front, received directions as to what should be done with them, and acted accor In this case the oods were part of a quantity bought from Messrs, W. minim W. Sterling, manufacturers, in September, 1847 ; the goods were sent to flirts, Watson, and Co., and thence to. the bleach-works of the defendants, who received directions from the plaintiffs as to the bleaching. Subsequently Birts, Watson, and Co. failed, and were at that time indebted to the defend ants in a sum of £l9OO. The plaintiffs demanded their goods from the defendants. offering to pay the price of bleaching, but the defendants refused to give them um alleging that they would hold them for the £l9OO due to them from flirts, Wat son. and Co. The-question would be whether or not the de fendants had a right to hod the goods for the .el9OO owing to them by Bins and Co.. or whether they were bound to give them up, merely charging the price of bleaching. Time question was one of great importance, as it affected a number of bleach ers at Manchester. who were the real defendants.--Verdict for the plaintiffs, damages .&114 11s. Bd. CLARK AND OTHERS V. Lost As. —This case was decided by the previous one, and a verdict taken for the plaintiffs. MORRIS AND ANOTHER V. LOMAX.—This case also went off under similar circumstances. HEATON (CLERK) V. MOORE AND OTHERS.—An action to recover a debt of Lll7 17s. 5d., alleged to be due from defend ants to plaintiff Verdict, by consent, for the plaintiff. ALLEGED ILLEGAL DISTRAINT. CLARKE v. HuLFOßD.—(Speeial Jury.)—Mr. George Clarke was the plaintiff, and Mr. John Uolford the defendant. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged illegal d,straiut. Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Crompton ap neared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Baines and Mr. Henderson for the defendant. The facts of the case, as appeared from the statement of the plaintiff's counsel, were as follow :—The plaintiff was a sculptor, at Manchester, and the defendant a gentleman of property, residing at the same place. In October last, the plaintiff took a shop and cellar from the defendant, in King,-street, Manchester, at an annual rent of .tllO, payment to be made in advarrce if the lambord required it, In January the defendant's collector called for a quarter's rent, hut, as the pl intiff was abvent, no decisive answer could be given. In a week or two afterwards, the plaintiff, while at Sheffield, was much astonished to see in a Manchester paper that his effects were advertised for sale by Mr. Fullalove, the auctioneer. He immediately notified to the dufendant, through hie solicitor, iris objection to the sale, but defendant proceeded, and sold off all the tff,cts of the shop at a great sacrifice. There was only a quarter's rent due, amounting to £27 Its., but the defendant sold off property valued at £4OO for £6O, thereby oc casioning a loss to the plaintiff of .t 340. It was contended by the plaintiff's counsel that Mr. Fullalove had shown great ig norance in the sale of the goods, which consisted of the va rious pieces of sculpture. plaster, casts, models, &c. In proof of the ignorance displayed on the occasion, it was stated, amidst the laughter of the court. that a figure of Vesta was sold for Madame Vestris, Lord Bacon for Bacchus, John Wes ley for Voltaire, and Jenny Lind for Her Most Gracious Ma jesty. The action was brought to recover compens a ti on i n da mages for the injury the plaintiff had sustained by the reckless sale of his goods, and the tyranny exercised by the defendant. The case was tried at the last assizes before a common jury, but the defendant being dissatisfied, made an application to the court above, and it was thus brought on for trial a second time. Witnesses were called, who proved that the plaintiff's property was sold off' at a ruinous sacrifice, the auctioneer, in selling the busts, being unacquainted even with the figures of Sir Robert Peel and the Puke of Wellington. He put up John Wesley for Voltaire, and a bust of Sir Charles Bell, author of the " Bridge water Treatises," he described as Deaf Burke, the celebrated pugilist .--s Laughter.) There was also a piaster cast of Chantry, which the said auctioneer designated " the bald-headed chap;" and one of Raphael, the painter, who was called, "the long. headed show-boy." The evidence extended to a great length, and at the close of the plaintiff's vase the Court adjourned, TREASONABLE CONSPIRACY. During the day the Grsnd Jury found a true big for a trea sonahle conspiracy against U. B. M'Manus, Lawrence Reynolds, l'atriek Murphy, Francis O'Donnell, Joseph Cuddy, Matthew Somers, Robert Hopper, Edward Murphy. James Laffan, Mar tin Bostull, Thomas O'Brien, Ueorgea,uith, Patrick o'lianlon, James O'Brien, James Carnes Campbell, and several others. There were several true bills returned in the course of the day for misdemeanor against a great number of other Chartists, from the neigh hourhood of Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Ste. PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY. The Grand Jury, before being discharged, handed to Mr. Justice Cresswelk the loilowing presentment against seditious and treasonable clubs : " The Grand Jury cannot separate without expressing their conviction that the law, as it at present exists, is inadequate to cope with sufficient promptitude and effect with these clubs and associations, which, in connexion with li eland and other parts of the United Kingdom, have for some time endangered the tranquillity of these realms. " That troin the difficulty of repressing in their earlier stages the mischievous attempts of these clubs to establish an exten sive system of organization and arming, sedition and treason have been encouraged, the ignorant and unwary have been seduced by apparent immunity into the designs of the disaffect ed ; and formidable preparations have been matured for out break and rebellion, which, with some modification of the law, might have been checked in the outset, by the energy and deci sion of those who are charged with the preservat►on of the peace. "The Grand Jury, therefore, express the hope that such mea sures may be adopted by the Legislature for the vindication of the law wall respect to these clubs, as to its wisdom shall ap pear most conducive to the security of the Throne, the liberty of the subject, and the stability of those national institutions which the country at large is determined to maintain." MSI PRIUS COURT.-WEDNESDAY. JENKINS V. BROWN AND OTHERS. In this case Francis Jenkins, corn-merchant, of London, was the plaintiff, and Messrs. Brown, Shipley, an" Co., merchants, of Liverpool were the defendants. The action was one of trover, to recover the value of a quantity of Indian corn, which, it was alleged, belonged to the plaintiff; and had been illegally sold by the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff was largely engaged in corn speculations, and that he imported a cargo of Indian corn from New Orleans. Bills of Exchange were drawn upon the ',lain tiff by Le Gendre and Co., the home that made the shipment. Two of there bills, for a sum of .t 2,513, were drawn a g ainst the cargo, and became due on the 17th of June, 1847, and these bills were held by Denison and Co., hankers, of London, on behalf of defendants. The plaintiff entered into u contract for the sale of a cargo, and tendered the money in payment for the bills at Messrs. Denison and. Co.'s, but the bills were not produced. 7he plaintiff consequently was unable to deliver the cargo of corn, and no sale could be effected. The plaintiff subsequently became embarrassed in his affairs, and was obliged to effect an arrangement with his creditors, and under that arrangement a composition of 2s. in the pound was paid on the bilis in question. The plaintiff, it was alleged, had therefore a right to recover the value of the cargo from the de fendants, because it had been sold by them in October without any intimation being given. The value of the corn was .t 793 18s. 6d. Mr. MARTIN, in the course of his speech for the defence, stated that the c i Ltintiff had been offered the bids on the 18th, and that he wou,u not take them up; that, subsequently, he offered to throw tip the whole affair; that the defendants were losers by the transaction to the amount of .15,000 and that they had a right to sell the corn, the plaintiff having no claim or title to it. He contended that a more unfounded claim had never been brought before a court of justice. By direction of the Judge, the jury found a verdict for the defendants. upon the ground that, under the circumstances, the plaint 4 was not possessed of the corn, and that they had the right to sell it under the authority obtained from Le Geralre ' and Co. The other cases to-day were unimportant. CROWN COURT.-TH URSDAY. SENTENCES. Ann WilThyme, for stealing s; child at Salford, twelve months' imprisonment. _ _ Afar, Haigh, for having, at Chadderton, attempted to con ceal the birth of her child, six months' imprisonment. Ellen Griffith, for having, at Liverpool, attempted to drown her child, one months' imprisonment and hard labour. Robert Walton, for bigamy, at Saddleworth, nine months' imprisonment. _ .lolsn Smith and Thomas Smith, for burglary, at Liverpool, each twelve months' imprisonment. lienra lVoodu'ard, for burglary, at Broughton, twelve months' imprisonment. _ _ _ John I.:ront, for laceny on the high seas, seven years' trans portation. Walker Ellwood, for stealing in a dwelling-house, at Rad cliffe, after previous conviction for felony, fiftecn years' trans portation. John Nifmner, for larceny, at Litherland, seven years' trans portation. MURDER OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD, Jane WLane, 33, was brought up, and pleaded not guilty to a charge of having at Ashton-under4.yne, wilfully murdered William M`Lane, her illegitimate child.. Mr. Monk appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Atkinson defended the prisoner. On the 24th July last the prisoner, in company. with a man named William Johnson, with whom she cohabited, went to the Old Cross Inn, kept by Mr. Hall, and had four quarts of ale. About five o'clock prisoner was st:.en to leave the vaults and go into the yard, with the child, about nine months old, in her arms. She returned about half an hour afterwards, without the child. She was in a state of intoxication, very noisy, and was turned out of the vaults. Prisoner subsequently returned, and, appearing in great trouble, requested to be allowed to go to he ne, essary. On her being interrogated as to where she had left the child, she replied, "At home." Shortly afterwards the daughter of the landlord went to the privy and discovered the infant in the soil, quite &ad. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and recommended her to mercy. ALLEGED REVOLT ON THE HIGH SEAS. James Farrell, Thomas Coates, John Rigby, James Baine, and Robert Goodchild, were charged with having made, or attempted to make, a revolt on the high sf?as. In November last, whilst the ship Cora, belonging to Messrs. Harrison and I(ogeroon, of Liverpool, was off the coast of Africa, the captain, named Gillespie, died. The prisoner Farrell, bei n g nex t h i command, then took charge of the vessel. Subsequently an order was sent on hoard that Farrell should keep command till the following day, when a person named Dawson would supersede him. Farrell and the other prisoners said that Dawson should not take charge; and, in addition, stated that he (Dawson) had poisoned Captain Gillespi e . They set sail in the course of the following night, and were afterwards pur sued; but the Cora got off after a chase of three or four days. The vessel was afterwards worked to Liverpool, and the pri soners were given into custody. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL re quested Mr. Bliss, the counsel for the prosecution, to state whom the revolt was against; and the learned counsel having acknowledged that there was some difficulty in the case, his lordshio retired to consult his brother judge, and shortly af terwards returned and directed the jury to acquit the pri soners, which they immediately did. Edward Murphy, 20, wits indicted for having, on the 22nd of May last, at Liverpool, uttered a sailor's forged shipping note. On the day above mentioned, the note was offered to a person named Mary Bird, requesting that she would cash the same; she at first refused, but subsequently did so. giving .e 2 ss. in exchange. The note purported to be from the ship Middleton, with the captain's signature. The jury found the prisoner guilty of having uttered the note, knowing it to have been forged. Sentence deferred. Thomas Davies, 29, was charged with having, at Liverpool, feloniously killed and slain Sarah Ann Buchan:. n. It appeared that the risoner, on the 12th July last, was driving a coach and two horses up Stanhope-street, at the rate of about eight - mites an hour; when about halt way up, .as the deceased was in the act of crossing the street, she was knocked down, and received a fracture of the skull, which caused death. The pri soner was acquitted. John Davies, 29, was indicted for having, on the 15th of July last, at Ashton-in-Mackerfield, feloniously attempted to dis charge a loaded pistol at Elias Woodcock, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner had previously formed an acquaintance with a female named Jane Hilton; they had lived together; and, subsequently, the parents of the female interfered, and sent her to the house of Woodcock. Some time afterwards the prisoner went to see her, and on Woodcock meeting and refusing him an interview, he pulled out a pistol, and presented it at Woodcock ; he pulled the trig ger, but it did not go off; he then said he would not hurt hint, and left. The jury found the prisoner guilty of a common as sault. Sentence deferred. Ellen Moss pleaded guilty to the charge of having, at Liver pool, concealed the birth of her child. Sentence deferred. Jape Jackson was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the 22d June last, uttered a forged shipping note. The prisoner, together with a man named M•Connell, went on the above date to the house of Mr. Little, li cense d victualler, Norfolk-street, and requested -him to ca sh the note for X 2. He did so, and on applying to the firm of Messrs. Brocklebank for the purpose of getting it re-cashed, was told that they knew nothing of it, and it was believed to be a forgery. The prisoner, on being taken into custody, stated that her husband had given it to her. The note bore the signature of Wm. Whiteside, master of the Valparaiso; the Christian name, however, of the captain was incorrect. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. GRAND JURY ROOM.—THURSDAY. (Before Mr. Sergeant MURPHY.) In consequence of the great number of criminal cases, a third court was opened, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy lock his seat in the above•named room, shortly after nine o'clock on 'l'hurstlay morning. - - - HORSE STEALINO. William Brownbill, 12, was arraigned for having stolen a horse in Toxteth-park, the property of Mr. Thos. Derbyshire, and John Stretch was charged wit- having received the seine, knowing it to have been stolen. From the evidence it appeared that, at the close of April last, Mr. Derbyshire had a horse stolen from a field in 'foxteth•park. After due search, it was found in the possession of Mr. Stretch, tanner. The horse, which was lame, had been sold to him by two boys 7 -the pri soner Brownbill and another unknown, who has escaped de tection. During the hearing of the trial Mr. Stretch.was dis. charged, it being the opinion of the jury that he was entirely ignorant of the felony. The Judge said there was no ground for the charge against Mr. Stretch. After a long consultation, the prisoner Brownbill , was found guilty, but in consequence of the foreman of the jury (Mr. Longbottom) having heard a statement of the trgpsaction from one who had some 'know- COURT.-FRIDAY. Benjamin Anderton, managing clerk to an attorney in Man chester, appeared to surrender on a charge of having forged two several orders for the delivery of good s . H e appeared to have his trial postponed to the next assizes, which was granted, and he was bound over to apppar, himself In sureties in 100 each. THE INDICTMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY. William Macklin, Joseph Radcliffe, and Wiliam Bolton, were arraigned upon an indictment for a treasonable conspi racy at Ashton under-Lyne. They all pleaded not guilty, and expressed their intention to traverse to the next assizes. James Flinn, Daniel Donovan, Michael Carrigan, Joseph Spooner, Peter Feeny, Thomas Webb, Mark Hulme, William Chadwick, Michael M‘Donnough, Henry Ellis, 'I homas Whit taker. Thomas Edward Clarke Cropper, Thomas Rankin, Ro bert Ramsden, Thomas James Dolan. Joseph Leman, John Joseph Finnigan, Henry Williams, George Rodgers, James Hoyle, and James Downey, were next arraigned on an indict ment for conspiracy at Manchester. They all pleaded not guilty, and several of them expressed a wish to traverse. The following asked to be tried during the present commission : E. C. Cropper, P. Feeny, Chadwick, Joseph rowney, J. J. Fin nigan, H. Williams, George Rodgers, M. Carrigan, Joseph Spooner, and James Dolan.. THE LIVERPOOL PRISONERS The prisoners Cuddy, O'Donnell, Somers, Murphy, and O'Brien, were then placed at the bar, and arraigned on an in dictment for conspiracy. They severalty pleaded not guilty, and expressed a wish to traverse. About three o'clock in the afternoon, however, they were aeain placed at the bar, and de sired to be allowed to withdraw their traverse, and to be tried at the present assizes. Thomas Lees, William Penny, William Morris, and James West, were charzed with conspiracy at Ashton. The prisoners pleaded guilty, but wished to be tried at the present assizes. Joseph Sandiford was sentenced to transportation for life for a rape on a little girl only nine years of age, at Manchester, in May last. . John Goddard was acquitted of having used a certain instru ment to procure the miscarriage of Mary Bailey, at Heaton Norris, in June last. • NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY, The case of Clarke v. Holford, for ine.:al distraint, was re sumed, and after a very humourous examination of the auc tioneer by Air. Serjeant Wilkins, thejury found a verdict for the Waintiff on the first count, for .el7O for the value of the goods, and £l6 for the fixtures. For the defendant on the se cond and third counts; the fourth count was withdrawn; and on the fifth count the verdict was also for the plaintiff. [the verdict, according* to the statute, which doubles the amount of goods illegally distrained upon, is £530.) CROWN COURT-SATURDAY. SENTENCES. The following prisoners were brought up and sentenced : Jane M`Lane ' convicted of the manslaughter of her child, was sentenced to transportation for seven years.—Parker Untworth, the butcher convicted of the manslaughter of a man named Clarke. Three calendar months.—Co, nelins Jones, a boy con victed of manslaughter through careless and furious driving. Fourteen days imprisonment. —Joi n t Finneron, Michael Hogan, and George IVm. Knowles, convicted of cutting and wounding, &c., were severally sentenced to transportation for seven years. EllzcOeth Wilson, convicted cf stabbing. Six months' impri sonment, wit i hard labour.— Anthou y Carroll, Nicholas Car ter, John Smith, John GYhitham, Joseph Thompson, Thomas Case. John Davies, severally convicted of assault, were next put up. Thompson, Case, and Carroll were each sentenced to twelve months, Whittle to nine montlis,Xarter and Smith to six months, and Davis to one month's imprisonment. —Ellen Moss, convicted of concealing the birth of an illegitimate child, was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, with hard labour,—Ethed. Parsons, convicted of forging a post-office order: Eighteen months.—Win. Whillan, convicted of forgery, by endorsing a bill of exchange. Eighteen months.—Elizabeth Marriot, who had pleaded guilty to forging a signature to a postotlice order. Six months.—.Tohn White, who had pleaded gni:4- to uttering a forged warrant. Three months.—Benjantin Anderson, convicted of uttering a for,eil order for the delivery of goods. Nine months.— 31iii:phg and Wm Travers, r ,, spectively found guilty of uttering a forged seaman's note. Twelve months.—His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence on the two latter prisoners, said the crime was, unhappily, of frequent occurrence in this borough. If he found the crime undimi nished, he would punish it with transportation. The case of Dr. M`Douall, the Chartist leader, charged with sedition and conspiracy, was mentioned several times in the course of the day. On his name being called he failed to appear, and the case was postponed for a short time, when the Attor ney• General again moved that the recognizances be estreated, which was done accordingly. About haltpast twelve, however, the prisoner appeared; and on the application of his counsel, the recognizances were restored. A long argument then took place as to whether the prisoner should be allowed to traverse, but ultimately his lordship ruled that the trial should proceed on Monday morning. The case of the Liverpool conspirators was fixed next in order, after M`Douall's case. Serjeant Wilkins advised Cuddy to traverse, but this the prisoner positively refused to do. In the case of the trial of Rogers, Spooner, Williams, and Carragan, for seditious Conspiracy, the case for the prosecution not being ready, Williams and Carragan were discharged on their own recognizances. A similar arrangement was come to in the case of Itealey and others, and also in that of Flinn and others. Tfiiiiinnt Dawson, 39, of Oldham, was sentenced to trans portation for twenty years, for a rape on Charlotte Bradley, a gir; of 16, the daughter of a woman with whom he cohabited. This finished the criminal cases, except those charged with political offences. NISI PRIUS COURT.-SATURDAY, HORSON AND OTHERS V. 1111ANBY.—The declaration was in trover to recover the value of certain goods a!leged to be ille gally held by the defendant from the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are the assignees of a person named Manby, an ironmonger, at Burnley, in this county; and the defendant is his father, also an ironmonger, residing at Skipton, in Yorks' ire. In October last, Manby, whose father had advanced him money to the amount of .t'7so to commence business, by warrant of attorney made over the property in consideration of the sum due, he, Manhy the younger, having at the time corn pitted an act of bankruptcy; and the plaintiffs, the assignees under the fiat, now brought their action for the recovery of the goods.—An arrangement was come to between the parties, by a verdict for *7OO being taken for the plaintiffs. FARRELL V. HaitittsoN.—The plaintiff, James Farrell, is one of the parties who, the other day, were tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, and acquitted, on a charge of piracy ; and the pre sent action was brought to recover the sun] o. .t , 13 10s. for labour performed for the defendant, Mr. Thomas Harrison. The plaintiff was the mate of a vessel called the Cora, of which lessetthe defendant is the owner, and he (the plaintiff) now • brought his action to recover X 4 3. 10s. wages for a voyage per formed hence to the coast of Africa and back, upoot. at vessel. The case set up for the defendant was, that the plaintiff had for feiteff Ins claim in consectuenceof gross misconduct and flagrant breach of duty. The particulars relative to the dispute which gave rise to the present action were published at the time the investigation on the charge of piracy was heard before Mr. Ithsliton, at the Police-court. The Learned Jrrlge•said the ques tron•was this, whether, in their judgmeat, the plaintiff had a wed-founded fear of great, and unlawful, and.pensonai violence, mot whether he slipped the- cable and anchor, which act was the alleged gross dereliction of duty, trotn that well-founded -fear ; if so, they must find for the plaintiff, but if they should be of opinion that the defendant had established the case which he haffinstrueted his counsel to-set up, their verdict must be for him. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for .tl3 10s., damages one shilling. CROWN COURr.-YESTEIMAY. TREASONA BLE CONSPIRACY AT LI V BRI'OOI., On the opening of the Court. Joseph eu.dg, Matthew .comers, .Thmes O'Brien, Francis O'Donn,ll, and Edward Murplig, all confederates, were chargA with. treasonable conspiracy in this town. O'Donnell and Somers applied for copies of the deposi tions taken before the magistrates; on the ground that they did not know the precise charge against them, sor that they could not prepare their defence. H ns LoRDSH I e said they might hear the indictment read at full length, and if they wished to, postpone their trial until next assizes they might; but as they had changed their minds be tore, their election must now be final. After smile parley with counsel, all the prisoners traversed to next assizes, and were put down. TRIAL: OF DR. AIMOUALL. ATTENDING AN ILLEGALIVIRETING, AND USING SEDITIOUS LA,NG Peter 3f urraq Doitall,Wiegls,atttilthown as Dr. 3PDonall, was placed at the bar, charged with having, at Ashton•nndee- Lyne, maliciously and seditiously, with divers other persons, to the number of 300, or more; unlawfully and riotously assem bled to disturb the public peace. One of the•counts also charged him with, on the same night, uttering certain seditious language to the people assembled around him. There appeared for the prosecution the Attorney-General, with whom was Mr. Crompton and Mr. Mathews; for the de fence, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Pollock. _ _ The ATVORNEY-GENEHAL opened the• case to the jury, re peating lunch that had been said in introducing similar cases that have recently been before the public. Parties had a right to «-njoy their own opinions, but not tosstter lanuage tending to sutivert the constitution or law of Ur country. He did nut believe that the prisoner spike from his sincere conviction, for he should endeavour to show that lie was a hired, paid lecturer. He was, moreover, a person of good, education and ability, and therefore on both accounts he was not entitled to that sympathy usually awarded to persons who are unpaid, disinterested, and also uneducated. Letters and papers were found upon the pri-. cotter which he shauld•produce. He then ran over the whole• of the heads of the charges against the prisoner, (as they appear • at full in the evidence below.) He concluded by saving that he. should prove that the meetings referred to were and that the prisoner -there , uttered language which was seditious. The letters found would also prove that the prisoner had.ap pointments its various towns, there also to sow his poison awonust the itnorant and disaff:cted. Robert Newton, chief constable of Ashton. being sworn, pro duced a placard for a meeting on the loth of July at Ashton. Witness, in consequence, went to the Charlestown Meeting house. It was. eight o'clock. A person named Millington stopped me at the door. The prisoner was not then there. When I was stopped a second time he was present. Millington then said it was - not me they refused to admit, but the deputy constable;- 1 was then deputy-constable, and had been chief constable since When the prisoner came up I was still refused admittance. I could see no farther than the passage. I re mained some time, and left several of my men te watch the proceedings. The town was next day quite alive, and I appre hended the prisoner on the 16th, telling him that I had a war rant against him, charging, him with attending an unlawful meeting and using seditious language. 1. read, the warrant to him I now produce. 1 found upon him this. memorandum book amongst other papers; a paper, entitled "The Sung of the Soil," from the Irish Felon; a letter from Bradford ; also two other letters, one of them containing depositions apparently taken before the magistrates ; all dated the• t4th of Jule. Cross-examined by Mr. WILKINs.--Millington said, on my applying to be admitted to the meeting, Dr. M`Donall has said that officers had before so misrepresented what had been said, that he was determined that he would not admit them. or something like this. I did not know if the Stockport news paper employs a short-band writer. I employed no short-band writer. 1 directed my officers to attend about the meeting, to notice what took place, and give Ines report of it. Dr. M' Douai' hat spoken at several meetings at Ashton of late years. I know not how many. I was present at only two. 1 here was a (list !rbance at one of these, four or five years since. There was also a tea-party lately at the Town-hall, the proceeds to go for the eetence of the prisoner on this trial. A Councillor of the borough had the letting of the Town-ball. (Mr. Wi.hins wished to infer from this that there could be no apprehension of a disturbance in the town, when the Town-council let the hall for his use.) His Loansuip entirely over-ruled this view of this part of the evidence. Abel Swan, tailor and draper of Ashton, said he had the letting of the Charlestown meeting house, which is let for a chapel on Sundays, and for meetings on other days. He (witness) was present at the meeting there on the 10th of July. Most of the people who went were admitted. The public and reporters were excluded. The prisoner said something about excluding the police. A person earned James Taylor, presided. Thos. Storer, R. Fillan, and others were also with the chairman. The prisoner also spoke from the pulpit. He spoke about the land which he said the people must look to for subsistence. lie alluded to the parks of the aristocracy, which he said ought to be culiwated. What witness heard was isolated and uncon nected. Prisoner announced a meeting for Friday night, and advised the young men to go to the Chrrtist meeting, and join the National Guard. At the chose, prisoner spoke of an escort, and said they should form in procession. He left the place to a person named West. • Cros-•-examined by Mr. WILKINS.—Mr. M'Douall speaks rapidly. It was not he who spoke about the young men (trill ing, &c. The chapel will hold upwards of I,t 00. The prisoner said that in consequence of the great increase of machinery, the people would be obliged to fall back upon the land. 1 did not hear him speak of the National Land Company. Henry Taylor called.—l am a police-officer. 1 went to the meeting-house on the 10th July, but did not go in The meeting came out abreast, and in procession. The prisoner headed them, and was between two others. A man threw up his cap and cheered, and all of them cheered. (Witness here described the route of the•procession through various strees.) They re turned to the Oddfellows' Arms, where they halted. 'There were 300 or 400 in the procession lit first, and they afterwards increased to about 800. The prisoner spoke to them from the window,saying, " I advise you to organise yourselves, and practice the Caine manceuvres as your enemies. some regi*- ments 1 aye revolted Tbere is no fpro. iron, t h.., The t mons at Woolwich have all revolted in one night. There is a com mittee sitting at the Horse Guards to consider their gri and in a few days there would be a pamphlet issued stating to you their decision. I wish r;ey would call up the militia, but they dare not, as we should then have their guns, bayonets, and cartridges and balls, and they would see what they could do. 1 tell you there are not 10,000 disposable troops, and what would these be amongst five millions of people. 1 tell you that by the time of the harvest, or soon after, we shall have the six points of the charter and something more." He concluded by saying, "Organise! Organise I " Gross-examined.—l have been a police-officer since February, 1846. 1 was a marine twenty-one years and six months. (He was here asked to write hitt name, which he did in a very shaky manner.) He wrote his account next morning; handed it to his inspector, and had not seen it since. (Here Mr. 'Wilkins wished the witness to write—" form yourselves into sections and d'visions," &c., but his lordship overruled this mode of examination. Inspector Dalglish said he had mislaid the notes of the wit ness, but he had read them and they were perfectly legible. Witness re-called (Taylor.)—The prisoner did at one time warn the people against any acts of violence. Dalglish re-called.—He was refused admission at the meet ing, which broke up about half-past ten o'clock. They formed four deep. There was cheering as they started. They went :thing Wellington-road. Oidham-road, and Old-ro.d, passed the Oddfellows Henry-street, then Cavendish-street, to Old street, back to the Oddfellows' house. MSDowall addressed the people from the window. I took a note of it immediately after The note is here. (Witness read it, to the same effect as stated by the last witness, with some little verbal alteration.) There was cheering after he had spoken, and the meeting separated. Cross-examined by Mr. PoLtocx.—What I have written down was part only of a longer speech. There are two copies in the book, one of them written by my father on another leaf. I was busy and he wrote it at home on the same night, at my request, as he was a better penman. (Here Mr. Pollock wished to read to the witness several sentences, which he, with his lordship's leave, would ask the witness to report the heads of; but his lordship thought this would not be a fair test. A sentence was, however, permitted to be read, and a long, poli tical, and not easily comprehensible sentence it was, which witness said he was unable to supply the heads of.) Witness was questioned as to other meetings, attended by the prisoner over some years, and which it did not appear were interfered with by the police. Matthew Marden, an Inspector of Police, at Ashton.—He saw two sharp instruments project from the trousers of two men present. They appeared to be pikes. One in the room said if lie went in he'd be killed. Another said the reporters and police had so sworn in London, that they could not be admitted. They said that had he been Matthew Marden they would let me in; but he was Inspector Marden. (Witness then spoke as to the procession, corroborating the previous wit nesses. He also repeated nearly the same language spoken by the prisoner at the Oddfellows Arms.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed to put in a small memo randum-book, found upon the prisoner, in which there is a list of towns, and dates appended,—apparently appointments to attend meetings at those places, also items as if of payments, wages, &c.,—the object being to prove that the prisoner was a hired and appointed agent of sedition,—and lecturer. His lordship had some doubts of this being . evidence, bearing on the present case. Sonic letters also found on the prisoner were brought forward. Mr. Wilkins objected to these being pot in in evidence, as they did not bear immediately upon the tran factions charged in the indictment—as also did Mr. Pollock. His lordship considered the letters legitimate evidence, and they were read : One from John Cree, to the prisoner, dated London, Gtb July, enclosing .e 2 Bs.; stating the progress of the trials at London, for sedition.. Another letter from the same, contained items for wages, and other payments made to the prisoner. Also a variety of details of tinnily matters, and advice to go and lec ture in towns that invited him and would pay him, and not to be seeking to get up meetings up and down. The " Song of the Soil" was then put in, and the attorney-General was called upon by his lordship to argue the question, which he did. "The Song of the Soil" was put in against the prisoner, but both counsel objected to either document, as they contained nothing but abstract opinions, which it was not shown the defendant entertained. His lordship decided that the song might be received in evidence, as it would explain some of the language used by the prisoner. A copy of a small printed paper, a number of " The Truth Tidier," was next put in, and wus also objected to. His Lordship deemed it admissable, anti it was read. It promised the charter to the people, and stated that the paper would follow up the principles involved. It also offered its exertions to bring about a repeal of the Union. The paper was published in Staley bridge. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. WILKINS then addressed the jury in an elOquent and vehement manner, going over the whole of the evidence, taking strong advantage of every point which logically or otherwise make on behalf of his client. lie dwelt very forcibly and ener getically on the political rights, liberties, and immunities of Lnglishmen, and closed a speech of upwards of an hour's du ration, by a powerful appeal to the jury to acquit the prisoner; first, because the language imputed to him was reported by ignorant policemen, in snatches.—only portions of the speech, —which might have borne a different meaning; and, secondly, that there was no proof of alarm or of riot. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then replied at great length in fur therance of the prosecution. His Loansit ie summed up with great perspicuity, pointing out and defining the meaning of unlawful as‘ein ling, and other points, as he proceeded. He admitted that it was remarkable that three of the witnesses, who put in their notes of the words imputed to the prisoner, should all have hit upon nearly the pre cise same words. lt was for the jury to say whether they thought they had conversed together so as to arrive at thissimilarity, or whether the passages were so remarkable that they impressed themselves upon the minds of all of them with equal force. After reading over the passages seriatim, he thought the latter case probable. He then referred to the letters as showing that the prisoner had been hired to itinerate the country, and he also referred to the Truth Teller, of which one hundred copies were found upon the prisoner. - The jury, after retiring a few minutes, returned a verdict of guilty on all the three counts of the indictment. His LORDSHIP said the prisoner had been convicted, on the clearest evidence, of an act of sedition of great magnitude—cal culated to strike at the comfort and safety of society. was the second time he had been convicted of sedition ; and, after advising him, on his release, to hire himself out in some useful vocation, as he had abilities, and not to seek to stir up the peo ple to disaffection, discontent, and riot, his Lordship sentenced him to be imprisoned in the gaol of the county two years. RIOTOUS ASSEMBLING. John Flynn, 28, James Downey, 33, James 11.100ney,20, Owe* Gunn, 23, and Edward Birch, 44, were charged with having at Newton, together with 539 and more, unlawfully and tumul tuously assembled together, armed with pikes, sworcis, and other dangerotrs weapons, thereby creating a great riot, to the terror and alarm of her Majesty's subiects. It appeared that oat the 31st of 'Ma), two processions, headed by several of the prisoners, one from Manchester and another front Oldham, marched up,. armed, as before stated, and carrying nags, to Newton toll-bar. The prisoner Flynn headed tile O.d. ham procession, and Downey was second in coin/nand near him. Flynn demanded to pass the gate on the high road be tween Martel:ester and Oldham. Mr. Beswick, heancoustabie, was stationed with a number of police. Ike said peaceable per sons ntieiht pass, but no one who was armed. Soule of the. root processwa,showed weapons. He took. One from. the prisoner Mooney—a_ walking-stick with a pike or dagger at Du: end. Others showed pikes in the ranks; also a musket with a fixed bayonet. The prisoners were all sworn to as bring present. Flynn was appreaeaded same day; Downey was taseu sortie days afterwards, and in his possession the poiCce foamd twenty swords, a number of pike heads. a pistol, an-I other weapons which thonseized. These were produced. Pikes were exposed for sale ins he window. Those t hat were 'alarmed wereadowed to pass in single tiles. To put doer: the processions reinforce ments of po:iee and soldiers were procure:l. A gent - A:man, named Homy, who was acting as a special constable, oil his way to Manchester on horseback, was hurt. Mooney wasgiven into custody when the Manchester procession came upait the toll-bar. A witness, Leary, a superiatendent of ponce was at the toll-tsar on 31st of May: was joined by 14cswick. He satin the Manchester procession. They had many of them pikes, and waved them about their beaus. 'I heir conduct Wits calcu lated to, produce alarm. The constables drew their swords. and the shops in the neighbourhood- were•closed. Inspector Taylor teas also present r and saw Downey and Flynn. Atnougst the flags was the Brian Borhu flag. Another inspector saw several persons in the procession throw stones at Mr. I teary. The coach in which witness was going out to assist was stopped by the rioters. (He produced the broken pikes,. handles, flags, &c.) Mr. John S. Henry said he- and Mr. Simpson (another special constable), were together, and were sent to the Town-hall; Manchester, for assistance. some of the men left the procession and threw stones at him. He was also struck on the lip. People on the waiks threw stones_ at him, and (Altars assailed blur with sticks. He received 9 wounds in all. His. horse slipped, having been severely wounded by. some sharp instrument. A Mr. Clarke saw Mr. Henry riding down the road from the toll-bar, and saw. Gunn throw a stone at hint. There were three others with hint, two of them carrying-. pikes. He saw Gunn afterwards with a nag, and had hire: taken into custody by Inspector Carpenter. A female witness. Leant Birch say, as Mr. Henry passed,— 'Sto;abitin, he's going for the soldiers !" Another female corroborated the last. Mr. JAMES, who had defended three of the. prisoners, that addressed the jury in their behalf, at consider:Joie length. and: with great ingenuity, taking advantage of every uvailabke portion of the evidence. He argued that i t did not,. he thought, follow, that on e or wo parties having, fi a. procession, thrown stones at Mr. H enry. , would imphcate other parties who happened to be present. He tilongnt that the only two witnesses again s t With might be. mistaken in the man; and, moreover,. he contended that the first assault alleged against Gunn was a separate as sault. rit a different spat, and under dilferenz circumstances, and that as but one assault was chareed in the indictment, he did not see that the same count could involve another- charge. He contended that there was nothing Mega! in a quiet prcxes .sion, even if they carried pikes or other weapons. He knew of no law to prevent this, and argued that there was nothing riotous or tumultuous in the procession. lie slit:mid call one witness. Mr.. Fry appeared.for Flinn and Mooney, and spoke ably in their behalf, with regard to the assault. Fiinti was not present when the assault took place. (This his learned friend on the other side just intimated to him.). The police were armed, (a new custom,) tuni the defendauts thought they had as good a right to carry arms. Joshua aniwoodie was called by Mr. JAMES, but said nothing that could make in behalf of Gunn, as he had lost sight of him, for a few minutes, at about Site time Mr. Henry was attacked. About 12 o'clock Flyn passed hint and witness spoke to him. lie immediately saw a gentleman mounted, whose fie was cut. He saw no stones thrown, an d F lynn was not then. with the procession. Thomas Flynn, brother of the prisoner, said he saw his brother in Oldham-road, but the latter was sp,etking to a person on the roan. He afterwards saw a gentleman riding with. his face bloody. Mr. PoLeocK addressed the jury for the prosecution. It was, enough to show attiatimidating spirit on the part of an assem bly, without any act of violence. Twenty or thirty pikes were helu up anti waved over their heads, and they proceeded to other acts which alarmed the neighbourhood, so that the shops, were closed, and all was terror and alarm. Some of the in habitants had locked up their houses and gone away, The Learned .lUDGE summed up, exp.nnung the law on the two charges in the indictment—first, the riotous assembling; and, second, an assault on a special constable. His Lordship very succinctly summed up the evidence. The jury found Flinn, Downy, and Mooney guilty of riot; Gunn and Birch guilty of both the riot and the assault. Sentence was deferred anti, to-day. [A vast number of swords, pikes, sticks, guns, bludgeons &c., were brought into cou r t i n thi s case, taken from the riot ' ers, some of them very formidalye weapons.] This terminated the criminal trials of these assizes, and the court rose at half-past seven o'clock. His Lordship, after dis posing of some applications for bail, will this morning take some civil cases. NISI PRIUS COURT—YESTERDAY. His Lordship took his seat on the beach at ititte o'clock, and. proceeded with the special jury cases. _ . BANKEkS' ACCOUNT. HALIFAX AND OTHERS V. IiItoWNRIGG AND OTHERS.—ThiS was an action to recover the balance due upon a promissory note endorsed by the defendants to the - plaintiffs. Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton were counsel for the plain. tiff's, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Hill for the defendants. Mr. MARTIN stated the case to the jury. The plaintiffs were Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, anti Co., and the defendants Messrs. Cockerel! and Co., formerly East India merchaids, the firm consisting of Mr. Cockerel!, Sir George Larpent, and Mr. John S. Brownrigar. The defendants, Mr. Cockerell and Sir G. Lament, bad suffered judgment by default, and the simple question for the consideration of the jury was whether Mr ownrigg was discharged from his liabiiity upon a certain pro. missory note for .155,00 t, a balance upo7. which was still due. H. believed that Mr. Brownrigg was acting under some misappre hension respecting the case, which he (the learned counsel) hoped would be removed when he explained the whole of the circumstances, which he would shortly do. The house of Cockerell and Co. was one of the lai,est Last India houses in the country. In 1843 they borrowed from tine plaintiff, £lOO,OOO, w hi c h Wne reduced, in July, 1846, to -i50,0e0, when he arrangement ,vas made for its liquidation by three instaii----- Abaai that time Mr. Wilson, who was a partner I n o,n4!'„"V".;.!: tent Candle Company, owl to tine Cofirm of ckerell and Co. the sum 0 f 415,5(10, and he gave to Cockerell and Co. two pro missory notes for .t'io,ooo each. The Patent Candle Company had then been transferred to a joint-stock company, and Mr. Wilson had 1300 shares allotted to.lnim as his share of the con peeh r e ri enioi promissory on l r i cy e tei t :. l e : ol t iit e ieo t tst i I c hif t e a o i ra i s fe uly, Mr. l n ia.t7ci ai o,9 ll 7 : s i n i e n tod, b e: e i number of no s ala ;a aee r bt e e ttr s eoat a il si l t o ieoe t em t cu e or t t l icf t y,. 0 0 . the 1300 shares in the company were deposited. in order to negotiate these notes, the shares were transferred to Mr. Wel lington, one of the clerks to Messrs. Glyn and Co., hi trust for the benefit of the plaintiffs. On the 20th July the promissory note for at. 50,000 being two or three months over due, a settle ment was required, when it was arranged to place certain seen rities in the hands of the bankers, and amongst others 1828 • shares in the Candle Company belonging to Mr. Brownrigg. Sir George Larpent, however, by some mistake, agreed to trans fer to Mr. Wellington, on behalf of the plaintiffs, 3123 shares, • which included the shares belonging to Mr. Wilson. The question therefore now was, whether the shares belonging to Mr. Wilson should be applied in payment of the debt due by Mr. Brownrigg, or to the payment of Wilson's own. [The agreement between the plaintiffs and Cockerell and Cc. was then put in and read.] Sir George Larpent was then called, and he stated that he was a partner in the firm of Cockerell and Co., of which Mr. John Studham Brownrigg was a partner. He retired at the end of 1816. At that time Mr. Win. Wilson owed the firm £19,500, which he and his partners wished to realize, and in accordance with which an agreement was entered into. [The agreement was putt in, which secured 1,300 shares in Price's Patent Candle Co. and along with which, two promis sory notes of £lO,OOO each were given by Mr. Wilson to Cock erell anti Co.] The witness continned.—On this arrangement being made and the 1.300 shares transferred to Mr. Wellington, clerk to Messrs. Glynn, the two notes were discounted. The firm of Cockerell anti Co. were also indebted to their bankers, Messrs. Glynn and Co., to the extent of £50,000, and an arrangement 1 1 was made in July, 1546, to pay this by instalments of ..115,000 in October, .4'15,000 in November, and £20,000 in December; in addition to which, a box containing valuable securities was deposited, amongst which was a debt of William Wilson, a partner of Price and Co. Price and Co. afterwards sold the concern to a joint-stock company, each of the members to have shares to the amount of interest in the concern. His (witness's) impression was that tine shares of Mr. Brownrigg; the patent candle company, amounting to 1823, were to be de posited as security for the debt of .t'50,000 due by Cockerell and Co. to Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. Cross-examined. —Air. Brownrigg did not take any active part in the concern after the end of 1845, but he did not go out of the concern until the end of 1846, and he was to have £3OOO as his shre of the profits for that year. The Patent Candle Com pany was a very profitable concern. When the box of secuti ties was last deposited with Messrs. Glynn and Co. they were estimated at considerably more than .1250,000. The bill for .150,000 became due in May, 1 847, and was held over by Glynn and Co. On the 10th July that year security was given for .elOO 000, on condition that about ,e 30,000 above the £53,000 then due should be advanced, and, in addition to which, the box contained securities to the.extent of about £340,0e0. Mr. Wita sox, on behalf of the defendant, stated that the cue that he had to make out in behalf of Mr. Brownrigg, for whom alone he appeared, was that there had been a payment of note of £6270 11. s. cal., which was due to_th a e but £46,543 2s. 7d., leaving plaintiffs on the Brit te vi•asa balance due upon the promissory_ that t ' admitted by the plaintiffs. Then 14th August, 1848. That there was4i e o c d o ci n u t b e t nde pro ceeds of the 1300 shares belonging to Mr. Wilson more than covered the balance due by Mr. Brownrigg, and he contended that was a question for the Court to decide upon, from the evi dence adduced, and was not a question for the jury. He was its a condition to prove that the plaintiffs had already realized ,C 6400 on the shares belonging to Wilson. His LORDSHIP ruled that as the 13,0 shares belonging to Wison had not been appropriated by him to the payment of the particular debt of £50,000, it was in the option of the plait - tiffs to appropriate the proceeds of these shares as they though t proper. . Mr. WATSON wished it to appear upon his Lordship's notes that he contended that the question was one for the considera tion of his Lordship, and not for the jury, and that, therefore, he declined to address the jury on the subject. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff for £6270. Mr. MARTIN applied to his Lordship for speedy execution. Mr. WATSON said the application was a most oppressive pro ceeding, more especially as it was in evidence that the:plaintiffs held a considerable amount of security already. This led to some discussion, and eventually it was agreed that speedy judgment should be signed, but that execution should not issue without an order from the judges. BELL (P. 0.) V. LORD I scEsTRE.-LThis was a special jury cause, and being called on, Mr. WATSON asked for its post ponement, on the ground that a witness, who had come from London to prove some material facts, Lad gone into Cheshire to see his friends. _ _ • His LORDSHIP said it was his duty to be present, and the case ought to go on, and if the witness did not appear, he should be called upon his subpoena. Mr. WATSON said he could not do that. If his learned friend persisted, there was no other course for him to pursue except to withdraw the record. M. MARTIN said his clients were fully prepared to try the case, and all their witnesses were attendance. He, how - ever, would not object to the case being postponed for the day, if the Counsel would undertake that the witness in question should be called. Mr. WATSON said be wouldnot undertake that, as t h e at torney who instructed him, was not present. His LoansumP said the attorney acted very improperly in not being present. The case was then withdrawn. BROKERS COMMISSION. FORSYTH AND OTHERS V. GROVES.—This was an action brought to recover 41003, being the amount due to the plait tiffs, as their commission on business transacted by the plain tiffs for the defendant. The plaintiffs were share-brokers in Liverpool, and the defendant a merchant in this town also. He was formerly one of the provisional committee of the Liver pool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, now amalgamated wi h the East Lancashire Company, the latter being in reality the defendants. The defendant paid 4'273 into court, and as to the residue, pleaded not indebted. The claim of the plaintiffs was for a per centage of 28. 6d. per share on those shares which had been applied for through the plaintiffs, who were brokers in the company, and Is. 3d. per share upon other shares which the (Concluded in the Eighth Page.) .