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which he denied *l.l:knowledge of the robbery.—The log**
Judge then summed up at cotauderoble length, when Ike
jury nsturned a verdict of Guilty. The Judge, in passing
sentence, direeted that the judgment of death be recorded;
iodinating that the prisoner's life would be spared.

WRSTRRN cutcyrr.--11XTral4 MARCH 77-
Came Geeme—bra Mr. Baree Mat and • Spend Jury Men
the City.
THE BLOM' OP EXETER AND THE " WESTERN yiseit"
RISOINA a LATIMIL—LIRBL.—This ease, which hal ex-
cited the greatest interest, and has been postponed for
two arises, came on for trial this morning. The court end
the passages were crowiLel throughout the trial.—Thornes
Latimer, the editor of the Western Times, a newspaper
widely circulated in the county of Devon and the west of
England, was charged by the indictment with having pale.
lished • false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory hbel
against the bishop, milling him a brawler and a consecrated
and careless perverter of truth. To this the defendant
pleaded not guilty, and a justification under the 6 and 7
Vic., c. 96, fee. 6, and that it was for the public benefit.—
Mr Crowder, in opening the case said that the Bishop
of Exeter complained of libel charging him with hav-
ing uttered a gross and deliberate falsehood in a matter
connected with his church government and in the dim
charge of his parliamentary duties in the Howe of Lords.
He therefore appealed to the laws of his country for protec-
tion. He then stated the facto of the cue as follows • lathe year
1832 the Duke of Somerset, who was the owner of the manor
of Bridgetown, and the patron of the living of Berry Pome-
roy, had built, for the use of his tenants, a church at Bridge-
town. The duke met the Bishop of Exeter in the summer
'of 1838, and expressed • desire to have the church eons,-
crated. The bishop inspected the building, and expressed
himself perfectly satisfied with its appeartinse, and under-
stood from the Duke of Somerset that it had been built for
the purpose of being used for worship according to the rites
and ceremonies of the church of England. Some conversa-
tion took place as to the mode in which the consecration
could be obtained. The Bishop of Exeter informed him of
the course which ought to be pursued, in order that the duke
might retain the patronage—namely, that it should be en-'
dowed; and something was said as to the amount of endow-
meet. Subsequently a correspondence took place between
Mr. Maberly, the agent of the duke, and Mr. Banta, the
secretary of the bishop, the object of which was to ascertain
the proper mode of obtaining consecration, so as to secure to
the Duke of Somerset the exclusive right of nominating
the officiating minister. During this correspondence it was
understood by the tishop that the chapel should be exclu-
sively applied to the worship according to the rites of the
church of England, and that although it was not then re-
quired that the church should be immediately consecrated
before service should be performed, it was distinctly under-
stood that the church should be ultimately consecrated, and
upon this Undendandinp.a license was granted by the bishop
to perform divine service until consecration mould Ohs
place. The Rev. Mr. Edwards was the vicar of the pada
at that time, and the rectorial tithes being in the Duke of
Somerset it was necessary that the incumbent should nomi-
nate
the individual before the bishop could grant a license.
The incumbent accordingly nominated the Rev. Mr. Shore,
a minister of the church of England, and a licence was
granted. In 1836 Mr. Brown became the incumbent of the
perish, and unchr him aleoefdr. Shore continued to offinate
in Bridgetown Chapel. fn 1843 Mr. Cozens became the in.
cumbent, and in consequence of some supposed dif-
ference with Mr. Shore with respect to his doe.
trine being the proper doctrine of the church of
England, Mr. Cozens deemed that Mr. Shore was
not a fit and proper person to be nominated and to
preach is Bridgetown. Mr. Shore applied to Mr. Cozens,
but he refused to nominate him, and the bishop was, there-
fon, bound to refuse any new licence, and be revoked the
thence that had been granted ; and in the early part of the
year 1844, in consequence of this, Mr. Shore declared him-
self to be a protestant dissenting minister, and for the
purpose of continuing the service in the chart at Bridge-
town, in February, 1844, the chapel was ergisiiri et by the
Duke of Somerset as a place for the performance of dissent-
ing worship in that district, under an act of parliament au-
thorising that proceedinp. Mr. Shore continued to officiate
an the minister, and for so doing was bruught before the
Courtof Arches, and condemned. lie subsequently applied to
the Court of Queen's Bench for a prohibition, hut failed ;
and then he presented a petition to the House of Lords,
which was laid before the house by Lord Brougham.
Having presented the petition, Lord Brougham made some
observations in the House of Lords, and in consequence of
these observations the Bishop of Exeter conceived it to be his
duty to make a statement, in the course of which he said
that he had originally granted a licence to Mr. Shore upon
receiviug thetiasurance of the Duke of Somerset—first, that he
would endow the chapel referred to; and secondly, that the
building should Only be used for divine worship according to
toe rites and ceremonies of the church of England. He
(the bishop, was grieved to ray that his grace had departed
nom both engagements, and that subsequently. when the
rector who had succeeded to the rectory of Berry Pomeroy
refused to nominate Mr. Shore, he (the bishop) had
' revoked the licence; and that Mr. Shore continu-
ing to officiate in the chapel, afterwards registered
as a dissenting chapel, he thought it necessary to proceed
against him for this breach of ecclesiastical discipline.
This having taken place in the House of Lords
a short time afterwards, Lord Seymour, son of the
Duke of Somerset, and member for Tomes', called • meeting
of his constituents for the purpose of adverting to certain
misstatements that had been made In the House of Lords,
respecting the Duke of Somerset ; at that meeting Lord
Seymour addressed them, and in the course of his remarks,
charged the Bishop of Exeter with having uttered a deli-
berate falsehood in the statement he had made in the House
et Lords. This speech wee afterwards inserted in the news-
peper, of which the defendant is the editor i the IVestern
Ti ogee), and upon which the editor commented. The com-
ment of the editor upon that speech was the subject of the
present indictment. This indictment against Mr. Latimer
was preferred instead of an action against Lord Seymour,
because the speech of Tomei Seymour, not imputing any
crime to the rev. prelate, and not being written, could not
be made the subject of an action against Lord Seymour, but
when printed and commented upon by Mr. Latimer
in his newspaper, it gave the Bishop the opportunity
of commencing these proceedings, which he did at the
earliest possible period, and which, by reason of the
illness of the Duke of Somerset on one occasion, and the
pressure of business at the usizea on a second occasion, has
been postponed for the last two assizes.—Mr. Crowder aid
that he might content himself with simply putting in the
roper centainine the libel, and so leave Mr. Latimer
ti produce the corm spondence relative to the chapel at
Bridgetown, which has been the cause of the observations
containing this libel, and thus he might again have an oppor-
tunity of addressing them, but he was instructed by the
right rev. peel ite to lay before the court all the correspond-
mite, and to state everything which induced the Bishop of
Exeter to act as he had done in reference to the chapel at
Brulgatoan, and for which he bad been so libelled and held
up to public slander and ridicule, by a coarsely ahmive,
scurrilous, and scandal ~us attack upon him by Mr. Thorns.
Latimer, in his newspaper, which circulated exteneively in
the diocese of Exeter.
The Bishop of Exeter was then called and examined, sup-
posing all that had been stated by Mr. Crowder. On his cross-
examination he admitted having made the speech alluded
to, althuugh he stated that he had not used the word im-
puted to hm in the paper. lie thought he had said
violated' in reference to the Duke of Somerset; be
also stated that Mr. Brown had exchanged with Mr.
Cozens, and that when the latter gentleman came to the
living he had a conversation with him, and particularly cau-
tioned Lim in strong terms in relation to his duty with re-
gard to that part of ti e parish over which Mr. Shore exer-
cised his influence, namely, Bridgetown. lie did not give
him instrueions not to appoint Mr. Shore; he had no differ-
ence with Mr. Shore, hut on one occasion he
Lad reproved him in reference to the part he
hot taken in the ChucUeigh election, in which
tl ielionitants have a right to elect the miuister.
Mr. Sarre hiving been • candidate with Mr. Palk,
ai:d Mr Cumming, had addressed a circular to the electors,
nsignine in (femur of Mr. Polk. He reproved him, think-
ing it a meet indecent thing to trect on election of that kind
in the same way as an election for a municipal officer, or tor
a member of parliament. There had alai been a disgraceful
(auras' cirried on ; he did not make a claim to the preset,-
toti m of Chudleigh, although he was edema to do so, con•
ceiving that it had lapsed to the see by reason of non-pre-
sentation. He had particularly cautioned Mr. Cozens with
regard to Bridgetown, and probably advised him to make
inquiry as to Mr. Shore. He had not given the same warn-
ing to Mr. Brown, although he had continually seen him
from time to time. The time that he had given the caution
was utter the Chudleigh election. He Wad appointed bishop
in 1831, and the first debate in which he took part was re-
hating to tithes.
Mr. Cockburn, for the defence, was about to examine his
lordship as to certain statements which he had made in the
Howie of Lords in 1831, and in consequence of which Lord
Grey had accesed him of misstating the circumstances. and
that the bishop had thereupon cor.'essed hums, if to be in the
• wrong, when
Mr. Crowder objected to this mmi; of ( xamination. as the
question turned entirely upon the torrespondence and the
documents connected with it.
Mr. Cockburn said that as the real question at issue was
between the Duke of Somerset and the Bishop of Exeter. it
would be for the jury to decide which of these exalted per-
sons had been guilty of misstating the facts connected with
this case, and he was, therefore, desirous of showing that the
Bishop of Exeter had on many accasiens made statements
which he had afterwards berm compelled to withdraw:
whereas, in no one instance come i: he alleged that the Duke
of Somerset had been guilty of r.i tiilr em—lact, and that it
was open for him to prove the want of credibility in the
Bishop of Exeter by these meins.
Mr. Baron Platt thought that such evidence was inadmis.
b,hle ; that the whole issue depended oeost the correspond-
ence and the documents connected tin.r..‘itb.
The correspondence between th, p „. was then put in.
There were several letters from Mr. Moberly, the agent for the
Duke of Somerset, and Mr. Barnes, the Wilton's setgetary, in
which the matter was treated as a negotiation to obtain
consecration, and not merely to obtain a licence for a pro-
erla chapel. After several letters. the following was ad-
dressed by Mr. Moberly to Mr. Barnes:
Bedfiwt-rew, Landon, slept 12, 1X32.--teir, I begin to apprehend
that the anent abject of the Duke of somereet and the Bishop of
Lawler WS NA he attainable tat through the inedium of the Court&
Building Ommidesees. It will require some consideration to des
anis wing lemieddea to lay bekre them on the subject. It mar
she tom est SA dodder% apprehensien of its be necessary to
Ist • twelvemonth it round Is well-founded; and this would be so
much sole dem for the chapel a ready. At the sane time also that
it Wide mid tee duke in iktermining definitively what he may be
Indies' le de sidles to endowment, Sun., if an experiment could b.•
Zret mole Yew the thesei lelbsty to answer. Under tbewoonsidera-
dens abirald beg eimpost thee it would be better to retreat of the
Emaynt:the bas Wilms% the licence as if it versa proprietary
, which seed set* fag meansimply thereby that the Weed
t ant wageWellan b atandoned. The opening of the
demi Is this way win, is the Wane of a few months, probably amble

Oct., 1837, it was maintained that Makin bed no legal I
pewee whatever over the deed. The defence was that two
deeds bad been drawn, but the fact wee not established ; and
• verdict was returned for the plaintiff, damages 6001., to be
reduced to 40s. when the deed shoald be given up.

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To that letter Mr. Mabirly wrote the following reply, god
upon this letter the question turns, as contended by the doe
Sealant :
Mod Sept., Bedford-row.--Sir,—l beg to ackeewledge the mild
arms Amour, width, with your request of • pin he., 1 will WINO.
OM* uniannicat eto hi, gram, ma I dug; act agag he ssissis,
demi Is seam his emcee thanks 1, NM MOM Ili younelllge yone
Wiese egoation. I write, lognsegylle Grum =pule
dusk year letter, and to sonwellr ii at say future
edseederstendine, unlikely as It app to I tomb that
the essemunicution of the lishorp_ .Reef to license ie sc.
by words front you, tinkle Seigedhled mid unexplained,
="emeent to an Implied ge• se Ihe pert of the
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do, at all mote, and unite el
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..., iseesseselseee attended. edit y to endow and convey
etehle.ter rentemmitlem Are IN a man who would be '
to the letter in the slavery iota of what he
'..le sonaldered, either dined, Mr igeginadoes to have en- •
peed ex, lit become, the more aessemy zee to Mks care that hie 1
' Wee &snot lay himself under Was ealculated, by say I
peedblity, es !wing him Into a It is his emcee meet
mime sod determined intentias gad lilt to do his best, through
the moth= of the churen ooteara~s or otherwiae, to pro- 1
• cure the sosseeration of this chapel, sod to make Mr it • perms-
nent maim delowment of proper .meet el ith the expreseloo '
of this Mention the bishop will, I dead vot, knowing his gram'*
1 attachment to the eetsblistiniest, he salaried and regt content I
But It la passible that there mop he hernitteente, uelooked-/m
emllailfihms. *Sedan Made. Isterfiriuse with patronage, or the
like, that may make It unadetrable, lathe view of his grace, or of sip
stescasbie moo, to wowed to the conveyance and coneecration mot
"wrath, Woes Maumee to wish to wait till roma further Iltighime .1
live regoletkos .Nord better facilities, and remove difficulties tbst
may lathe present state nil the law exist. I should, therefore, elledo
as Ws erases dissection in these matters beyond what your words
mem, That the bishop is mutant that the duke should have this I
do sot doubt, nor do I think that you meant to imply to the as..
teary; loot if you reed agnin your words I think you will end area
the qedilication is necessary which I have here taken the liberty to
,oaks. I will rend you the plan, he ,es eon as I reeeire It sad
then be obliged by the fern of the peados you propose to send me.
I am, he., Josera MAIMISH.T.
To this the following was in answer :
Bieier. Sept. li, 1832.—Sir, —I have coneulted the blade upon
your letter of the 22n.d. The bishop's authority, as stated In your
letter of the 12th. woo founded correctly, MS lordship thinks, on the
previous communicatinn ; but the biehop, on perusing your letter,
authoriece me to nay that he is content to license the building on the
declaration therein contained. I than be glad to give every despatch
to the business on your furnishing me with the matter mentioned in
your former totter.-1 am. 1k0... RALPH BARNIS.
In accordance with the practice' therefore, a petition wu
filled up and signed by the duke, stating that he had built a
place of worship, and was desirous of having a licence, at
the same time agreeing to devote the chapel for ever for the
performance of service according to the rites and ceremonies
of the church of England. This was a formal petition, and
the license was granted in the terms of the petition.
These letters and the petition were put in on the part of the
prosecution, to show that the Duke of Somerset had broken
his engagement to keep the chapel for ever for divine mortice
according to the rites of the church of England, in allowing
it to be registered for dissenting warship.
The article in the newspaper was also put in and read as
follows. It was inserted in the Western Times of July 25,
1846 :
BISHOP hiILPOTTS AND rer Dees OF Smencre.—lf there etc in ex-
istence any two individuals totally apeman to each other in all the
grit and distinctive peculiarities and traits of human nature, moot
assuredly we may my as much of the ten distinguished pereenagee
whore name head the. article. The bishop is an adroit nun,
knowing rather then intelligent, and cunning rather than clever'.
Eyeriestuagly in hot water, but WWI clean withal. SODA
characters are celebrated fur their freedom from stain and
reproach; no matter who may be their gradients, there
is as inmate purity in their comporridon which bids defiance to the I
thane of calumny end the assaults of envy. Others there ore, on the '
contrary, whose reputation is of that description, that anything
whatever said to their disparagement Le sure to gale credence. Our
bishop's character is one of this descriptor.. lie la mo notorious as •
brawler, that any dory respecting his rule and discipline, provided
it du not contain the imputation of any of the milder virtues, is re-
ceived without Iluestian, and circulated from mouth to month es
gospel. Tie. is a melancholy etwernent, brit alum ! a true noel sad
that Is why we nay he le not clever, for no men can be at all Mom and
under all Ometble circumstances in the wrong—and yet no one ever
believes the biehim to be in the right. Take the last cue which we
have to record—his reply to Mr. Shore's petition, presented be Lord
Brougham, and which is no forcibly expoied by Loral Seymour
In our paper of tide week. Lard Brougham gave the bald,
an opportunity of knowing beforehand the contents of
the petition. He bad plenty of time to refer to
facto, in order to fortify himself with a true answer. But unfortu-
nately he gas quite the other way; and his reply is so directly the
opposite of the truth, that he Wends branded as a consecrated, care-
less pereerter of fact., and one who don no creditto the mitre, which
he is paid Mel a stet, or the nsthoute, to wear. This view of the
ease before us is not ours— it is not even Lord Sepuour's ; but it le
the constrained concluded drawn from the Bishop's reported state-
ment in the Bowe of Lomb., and the contrary statement in the
Bishop's secretary's letter, which is quoted by Lord tepuour, and
given at length in the report of his speech. We started
with the idea of drawing a contrast between his (erase
of Somerset arri the old gentleman in question—(indeml. he
is always an old gentleman in question, became no ewe
ever takes for granted all be eays)—but we shall not
pursue it, because the datement of the names contains the whole of
the parallel. The duke's word was never quegtiened, anal we shall
not do that meet estimable nobleman the cement.. of es en curing
the fact, necessary to be Miami where any word of Bishop ehilletta is
in dispute. We allured regret that hio grace's son, Lord Feymnur.
bin felt it necemary to wade so niuth virtuous indignatiOn upon the
old gentleman. It is throwing awaya good commodity. The censure
which would touch a right-minded man to the quick, glider off from
his impenetrable mind, even Se water rolls down a duck's hack.
1 There is no oarm in etaliug tiny particular fact illustrative of his
' nature, because we liner other bishone coming an. Man and we
want posterity to understand the sort of man that it 6 not very con-
venient to society, nor ereditable to the church, to have fur a
bishop; but works of censure or blame should never be applied to
the old gentleman. because he is what be is, and at seventy years of
age we do not look for violent reforromicme of character. save on the
deathbed. If, therefore, we dtaw attention to the adroit attempt to
pledge his grime inipisally to an endowment, it isnot because we with
to reprehend the old gentleman, but because we desire to point out
something enentially Pbtipottoc. The noble lord will, we Irma, pardon
the familiarity with which we address him, and overlook the me-
sumption in whmh we lay down the law of the bishop's nature ; lout,
if we hare a weakness, it is embodied in the belief that we do, in same
meagre, comprehend the old irenileman and his paychologkal mani-
festations. We have studied him long, and, we trust, not altogether
in vein. To the remaining portion of Lord Seymourie oddness we
would wish to direct the memos attention of our reader's, especielly to
that portion which refers to sugar, in which will be sound arguments
that supply a [adrift-et deficiency in our own hasty observations upon
this question.
Thy was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Cockburn addressed the jury on behalf of the defend-
ant, and said that the real question in this case wu not be-
tween Mr. Latimer and our sovereign lady the Queen, hut
between his grace the Duke of Somerset and the Bishop of
Exeter. It appeared that the Bishop of tEleter had made
certain observations respeelinie a transaction, charging the
Duke of Somerset with having violated his engagement.
This had been repelled by the Duke as being false ; and Mr.
Latimer, having supported the view taken by the Duke of
Somerset, and commented in his paper upen the transaction,
had brought upon himself the present prosecution.
He said that the attack of the Bishop of Exeter
upon the Duke of Somerset was the most un-
called for and unprovoked that he ever remembered ;
t.e stated 'hat the object of the Duke of Somerset
uniloubtedly was that the chapel ebould be endowed and
conse crated, hat in the meanwhile it should be licensed for
the performance of divine worship, according to the rites and
ceremonies of the Church of England, hut that when the
bishop revoked the licence and so deprived MrShore and his
family of the means of existence, the duke thought the act
of the bishop so tyrannical and unjust that he caused the
place to be registered as a dissenting chapel according to the
se, and allowed Mr. Shore still to officiate as the miniver,
conducting the worship, as it had always been carried on,
according to the rites of the Church of England, and to the
a ...i.rne! ion of er,ry one who hid been in the habit of
attending the chapel.
Mr. Baron Platt then summed up, and told the jury that
there were two questions for their consideration-Ist.
Whether the defendant had published the libel imputed to
him ; and, 2ndly, whether the matter was libelleus. That
after they had heard the law upon the subject laid down by
him, i would still be for them to decide upon the question
of last, whether the mat'er was or was not libellous. The
defendant had pleaded that he was not guilty, which was the
first issue, and also that he wee justified in uttering the libel,
because it was true, and the publication of it was
for the public benefit. It would therefore be
for the jury to decide whether or not the Duke
of S.:MOM( hod entered into the engagement con-
tended for on the part of the Bishop of Exeter, that he
would for ever set apart the chapel exclusively for the per-
formance of divine service according to the ntes and cere- 1
monies of the church of England, and had accepted the
licence upon that undertaking; or whether, as contended
for by the defendant, he had accepted the licence as an ordi-
nary licence granted to a proprietary chapel, in which case
it would be quite legal that the duke should afterwards
divert it to any secular purpose that he might think proper.
The learned judge said that there did rot seem to he
any question as to the first issue, because the publi-
aatiun of the libel was admitted ; and if they should be
rit. opinion on the second issue that the Duke of Somerset
had broken his engagement with regard to the chapel at
i Bridgetown, in that case, as the bishop would have uttered
that which was perfectly true in the House of Leeds, the
justification of the libel would fail, and it would be their duty
to find a verdict for the crown upon that issue.
The jury retired for upwards of an hour, and when they
returned into court gave their verdict for the crown upon
the first igaue, and for the defendant upon the• second issue :
this is equive;ent to a verdict for the defendant upon the
whole indictment. The verdict was received with shouts of
applause, and spread throuFh the city like wildfire. Vegy
shortly afterwards a procession was formed, which proceeded
through the city with a band anti flags.

POLICE.—►YESTERDAT.
OtTILIMIALL.—LIABILITY OF MASTIRS TO SUPPORT
THEIR APPRENTICES WREN ILL-3h. ✓oAn Axon, book-
binder, was summoned for refusing to pay the wages due to
Matthew Bennett, his apprentice.—The father of the oces-
plainant stated that about IS montks back he appreetiood
his son to the defendant for six years, and he was to receive
4s. per week during the term of his servitude. A short
time ago the lad became ill, and wu obliged to attend at
the hospital as an outdoor patient, in consequence of which
he was unable to work, and his master refused to pay him
his weekly wages. There were three weeks now due at 3s.
per week, an arrangement having been entered
into when last before the alderman that complain-
ant should take Is. less if the boy continued ill.—
Mr. Axon 'thought that he was not bound to sup-
port the lad when deriving no benefit from his labour.—
Alderman Challis said that the 4th of George IV. was im-
perative on the subject—The defendant said he would not
pay a farthing.—Ald. Challis said that in that case be must
go to prison. The lad looked too ill to work.—The de-
fendant replied that he would do that in preference to
giving a penny.—The deposition of the parent was then
taken, and Ald. Challis ordered the payment of the three
weeks and the costs of the summons to be paid.—After a
little hesitation Mr. Mon ultimately changed his mind and

paid tite money.
CLERKENWELL —A COAL COMPANT.—Mr. Lock-
stone, a half-pay officer, applied to Mr. Combe for his advice
and assistance. Applicant stated that at the commencement
of the present month he saw an advertisement in the news-
paper stating that respectable partieswho wished to increase
theirincome would be employed as collectors for orders and
money, by applying to " B. C.," No. 61, Charlottestreet,
Islington. Applicant presented himself, and was introduced
to a person who represented himself as the manager of the
Mechanics' and General Coed Club Company, newlystarted ;
capital, 20,0001 , in shares of 11. ; deposit, Is. per share. The
office had a business-like appearance: several persons were
acting as clerks. Having been informed it would be news
eery for every collector to take forty shares at Is. each, he
readily assented, and paid the money. his appointment j
was made out, in which it was specified that he was to pay
the further 'am of 61. on or before the nest, or, in .
case of default, the shilling per share for the forty shares was
tt
to be forfeited. The applicant was to receive 801. per annum, a
payable out of the profits of the company, and was engaged S.,
for a particular district. He was to solicit orders, and sub- 'I
collectors, who were to take three shares each, at If
Is. per share, were to receive 151. per annum, I
Hs went on actively with his duties, collected 11
ansnerous orders, end engaged several sub-collectors g
up to Monday evening last, when he proceeded
to the office of the company and discovered that
the place was closed, and all the parties hod a
" bolted." The place was besieged by duped and dLsep- it
pointed collectors, and tradesmen who had been swindled, „;
and although every possible inquiry bad be' n made no I
tidings whatever could he traced or the manager or his COI- el
leagues.—Mr. Nesbitt, one of the ushers of the court, said *
that I respectable persons had applied there for biros,
ma•ion how to act, as they had been detrauded under similar
circumstances to Mr. Lockatone. Inauiries had been made ej
by the police of the district, who had ascertained that the g
"Mechanics' and General Coal Club Company" was a com-
fil
plete fraud.—Mr. Combe, after listening attentively to appli-
II
cant, regrew d that he could do nothing for him under the
ll
circumetances.—Applicant thanked the worthy magistrate
and left the court. SI
LEOACT.—Our reporter is requested to state that 201. has ri
been forwarded, the amount of a legacy, to the poor-box, by di
the late Mr. Macklew, of the Albany, and of Twickenham. g
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STAHHING CASE IN
DUDLEY-ATM:RT.—Heat y Parker was charged with having 4
stabbed Eliza Burg. as, and her mother, Mary Ritchie. The t,(
case of Mary Ritchie was taken a short time ago, as her
wounds were sufficiently healed to enable her to come for-
ward and give evidence. On this charge the prisoner was „,e l,
ordered to stand fully committed. Eliza Burgess was new ei
sworn, and said I 1102 a single woman, and I lodge with my a
mother at No. 26, Dudley-street. I have kept company •
with the prisoner for about two years. On Saturday sight,
the 10th of February, we came home together to my mo-
ther's, and he wanted to stop there all night; but my mother
objected, and the prisoner left, saying, " I shall not see you
any more." On Sunday morning, I was looking out of the
window and I saw him go by. I went down stairs and asked I
hint if he had any money. He picked up a great stone and said j
he would dash my brains out if I did not go away from him.
I then left him. About ten minutes afterwards he knocked
at our door, and when 1 opened it we had a few words about
money, upon which he struck me in the mouth. I ran up
stairs and called to my mother. Ile tried to pull me back,
and tore my clothes in the struggle. About ten minutes
after ha came up to our room and pulled out • knife.
He said " That's for the l air of you." Then
my mother came before me to save me. I saw the prisoner
make several blows at her with the knife, in the stomach. I
screamed, and my mother ran out of the room. Prisoner
directly tried to lock the door. I pulled his arms bock.
Then he ran at me with the knife. I turned my back, and
he stabbed me in the back. I tried to get out of the room,
but he prevented me, and placed himself against the door.
I took hold of his alms and swung him round, and be then
"jabbed" the knife at me over his shoulder, and stabbed
me on the forehead. I got cut of the toom, and assistance
came, and I was taken off to Charing-cross Hospital. I was
in the (smile-way by the prisoner at the time, and I have
sines Aron erinitnnA in she hoakiiiiil.—bar. Oteggen, nouse•
surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, described the wounds
which witness had received.—The prisoner made no defei.ce,
and was fully committed.
BEHEERT TO THE POOR•BOX.—MT. Malton, solicitor, of
Carey-street, mot • letter to the magistrates, announcing
that, under his will, Andrew Macklew, Esq., of Twicken-
ham, and of the Albany, had left a legacy of 201., to be
plated in the poor-box of the court, for the relief of deserving
indigence.
SOU IHWARK. JEALOUSY. —Amelia Bray was
charged with taking a quantity of laudanum with intent to
poison herself. On the preceding afternoon the prisoner
walked into the Surrey Coffee-house, in Union-street, and
sailed for a cup of coffee. The !coffee having been placed
before her, a person sitting in an adjoining box heard some-
thing fall on the floor, looted over, and saw that it was an
empty phial. lie picked it up and found that it had con-
tained laudanum, which she had evidently swallowed. She
was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, w,.ere the stomach-
pump was used, and with good effect. Her step-mother at-
tended, and said she was a girl of excellent temper and dis-
position until she became attached to a man whom she tad I
very recently seen enter a concert room with another female.
She had • good home, and friends willing to receive her, if
she would promise not to repeat; the attempt.-1 he magis-
trate said that he should not sane:ion her release unless she
found good security for not repeating the attempt ; and he
should straigly advise her parents to let her remain in pri-
son, where she would be taken every care of in the infirmary,
and have time for reflection, besides receiving the wholesome
advice of the chaplain of the gaol. The prisoner was then
isrset
; I committed. •

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.
Slit Faits Car..—Before Mr. Baron Rolfe.
BOWAER L. BROWNRILL.—ILLEOLL DITENTION Or A
DEED.—The plaintiff in this case was one of the trustees of
the Princi.'s Tavern Building:Society, in existence in Man-
chester from 1937 to 1843, and the defendant was a gentleman
residing in the fame town. In October, 1837, one Obadiah
Makin was the proprietor of three shares in this club, and in
autumn of that year became possessed of a loan of 3601. from
ae eociety, to whic he became entitled. He gave
security for this the deed of a parcel of landtl
which he had purblind. The deed was executed on the 29th
Sept., 1337. and on the 27th Oct., in the same year, was
duly assigned to the eoeiety. On the 17th July 1838,
he borrowed • farther sum of 1201., by way of 'further
charge upon it, making 4801. in all. In 184,
when the
club closed, the deed was found to be gone, and subse-
quently traced to the procession of the defendant, who re-
fused to give it up, claiming upon it a lieu,
_pir • debt slue
to him by Makin. After the assignment duffs On the 27th

THE EXPItEt3S, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARSH 2i 1848.

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alms. bo idol la or Isouloi. Me
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away ram ea ligir rompaset•• ape%piipli at dr
of dartikairot no Moodie osiesi ; psi lob
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dee islaim ow plo rain mriolt2.
ippalkibloi Mho didl pay. up Slabt=l4.ltap writ. NM tie
=MOW to soulevwiph th• estroar solknlrt asil Mama
oak lbe Praia ANSON' Mr le
dipp of tap one imostut, slat no Iwo boTAZlMillsat=
tam be Ns& IR Ileo seenutiazue memo a dim:4Mo ; that the bur
dos boot be felleaddlek gad that the preeeot call now annollnieel he
MR pereMBlBl In.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.-MADRID AND VALEN-
Tia.--Reveral of the neutral mripholders is this company have agreed
to a requiaitioe calling on the directive to name an early dee for the
annual meeting, the day for wiikli has gone by for acme considerable
posit. The report of the Spanish directors having paid back the de.
Thu to the ecripholdere In Madrid is the cause a the movement
amongst the neutral portion of the acripholders.
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE.-The formal
opening of thla new line of railway in to take plane to-day ; end
on Saturday, the let of April, the line end be opened for public
teak.
811 ARR LIST.-LONDON, MARCH 28.
NOTE-The quotidian,. of Knee le Unman character" denote actual
treaseotluns; thaw of lines to Dati,, sellers' prima.
rate. rate.
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44,,,'"rti!gs.'"us. 1'
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11 tana.,Salistad reoestl C
3 I Maueb..Huat,aMat.!l
13 M 717,7451 fir.irt. 111.'il
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71 Do. ,tt'ew Irl. l'rel.•l k
26 Do.ot.Griss.,Shrtf
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71 Do. Shope:Dl:L.lnd.
1M Du. Griotobt Dort'
82a Du. Man.,Lot.thi.
4 MdAcit. eberstivanDl 11
100 Midland . ... 100
1- 0 De. CorV. irVi-. .
15 1i0.564. share. ... 1
100 Do. Dfrei.&3l
100) Do.O.Brtilte. 'll6
38
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40 MLl.bt. lilesLif;:ißDl
100 Nelocaude et antlair
161 Ammar/At
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8170
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1 Do. Nets. NI: .._
O Do. Gr. 51 p. CI. Bd.
18 Do. A.Ol. 5
p. Cent. 3 •
2 Do. do.Watenet V.I
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2 ,it' or 1 h it Ste. western id.
42 isor4B titetfuedastre dl
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t2tlN•oltire Midland
21 Do. d ~
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4 ' Do. do. ~.. .. ... D 3 21.1.
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8 Do. Hahn
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40 limn. . 21 201
16 I La. Pralereaut .
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33 ,S. Eastern d, borer. ..24 3
Si Do. 4u ........0.410*
17 Do. do 2li
10 IM. 1141.. ~ ...
24 Do. du. Third.. 4if
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4 C.o. Yuk kai.am. A Iled.
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Vale utlVe..de
ll'Airrairv.it Farmer
Wilts,Oran.,&Weym. 148 /
W.. &nsatd.ll rte.
York, N ewe., ft her.
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YorkkNortliMilland 61 i a
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6 /Ammo. at ld Sombr; 0; 344.
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OVL

RAILWAY NEWS.
Our market was but indifferent yesterday, and we
quote shares generally in decline. Eastern Counties
were, however, in fair demand, at a alight advance of
price. The dealers, in the absence of active business,
commenced reading up their books for the settlement.
It is stated that the shareholders in the Great
Northern of France, on application for the dividend
now due, have been advised that on payment of the
call last made, and overdue, the dividend would be
deducted and showed. This is calculated to create
some embarrassment in the share market, as the
jobbers will not deal in the shares with any call upon
them beyond the 101. previously paid up.
RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
BILLS READ A SECOND Ting YeATEnumr.—Birmingham
and Oxford Junction Railway (deviation than Leamington to Wu.
wick and purchase of the Stratford upon Avon Canal Naiigation) ;
Edinburgh and °bestow Railway and Edinburgh and Eathgate Rail-
way *mitigation; Bills.
ERRATA .—The second readings of the Dundee and Pm th
Railway (Tay crossing), and the Edinburgh and Perth Railway (from
North Gueenterry to Scottish Central Railway, Manche., Sic.) ladle,
were negatived on division. and not affirmed, so stated in our report
' of the prooeedings on railway bills In our impression of yesterday.
MEETINGS.-6LASCIoW, KILMARNOCK, AMR ARDROS
sue.—Liniltye.rlg Ansley.-Glasgow, March 25.—The Earl of
Eglinton end Winton in the chair.—The report stated, that In conse-
quence of the monetary turroure, the directors had refrained from
emenceeneing the works contemplated tart year, and had conllned
their operations to the line between the Irvine and Pereeton branch,
and the Ardroesan railway at hubby. Application had been made to
the railway commissioners for an extenston of time which had been
related. The Glasgow, Barrheiut, and Neilston Railway was on the
ere ot being opened, a matter of great importance to this eoinPanYi
from the facilities it would afford in the conveyance of materials,
during the conirtrution of the main line. The repot t '
further stated, that, notwithstanding the penetration of trade,
and the numbsr of furnaces temporarily out of blast in Ayrshire,
the traffic of the Ardrossan Railway continued moat satisfac-
tory; and for the year ending 31st Delier lost the receipts
amounted to 9,7991.10 a. 1101. The harbour receipts for the nine pe-
riod were 2,229/.50. 51(1.—The Chairman said he had but little to add
to the report, dzoept that, with a view to prevent en tuusecemary es-
legal and parliamentary ruiners, the
ill*ertieettourere hod 1 theilentereir in
an movement with the Glasgow and .tyr
Company, whom they considered in the light of opponents, that nei-
ther party should proceed with any hill for any branches in Ayr. of
countt the report, as would happen in railways in process of
making, was not altogether sitedory; sod the p[ to of railways
a nemlly were not setisinct‘xy; bat be ceeld not help calling :men-
tion Ito the fart tied Ur very moos which caused the de/nee-
r'. In railway
tom ESIOSiy, the disturbances on the con-
tinent, would Km st to vibe them again, not only by
driving took to Ole easstry tbesmode of absentee% but by
also inclining pawls he bed may to invest, to insist
it in the ask atistry wldeb, d Its tranquillity and the loyalty of
the pork to at ervair seem ark to em
rain undisturbed. He
moved dr skid= et report—Mr. Gourley asked if It was the
intentka of dr Mrsobere to enforce the payment of the all of 51.
Lately nekb—Tbe theiness aid the ea wax payable at two dates in
this rig; 10 ekes ■ woe made It sae with the undmtanding that
the call *mid Melba isseerdy premeil. It had been made more for
the puma g sgaseml kr the employ Lea anything else.-51r.
J. Bain Nessted the ~los et the report, slink wee corded.
Dunn may.—ikaitag of illisrebidors.—Liver-
pool, Mardi resitioassi boil kr Ike wpm et signing a
requisitite to the Ilkeekkt elk adsesee la the potoseed salt an the
.hsreitoides.-41r. Wks staid ko olio* k OW. • nookition
easereittestirillid*=l br 811=1. that
allstle the
ot the task et Os oraparat le Os puebose re leseiCitartei-ire
to em
fully detersbut to is their sirens emery earths
That in tisk sidt ism {aerates was obtekst rtLet.
°omelete et lee to Peals int Gormasy, week be see
only inexpedient bst saluidltallo Is expert mos away on
syCll parts of line aa, In the isms ot Ors eaten lan,

Lovra.t.
••

MONEY MARKET.
TVUDAT Emus°.
The further extraordinary fall in French stocks
yesterday, as brought from Paris this morning, made
a strong impression upon the market, and in effect
may be said to have arrested that onward progress of
prices here which it was thought in some quarters
might else have carried Consols to or beyond 86 be-
fore the settlement. As it was, prices drooped, and
at one time were called as low as 821 to :2„ but even-
tually they rallied to 83 to 1 for money and account,
and so left off. In respect of business it was a quiet
day, with few speculative transactions, and less money
purchases than of late. Exchequer Bills 30s. to 345.
premium. Bank Stock for account was quoted, and
bargains done, at 192 to 4.
The foreign market was almost deserted. Mexican
were rather better at 15 to 1, and Portuguese at 15 to
16. Dutch were lower; the Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 40 to 2; the Fours, 60 to 2. Spanish Fives,
12 to 1 ; the Threes, 22 to 1 ; Passive, 3 to 1.
'There have been various rumours in circulation to-
day about political convulsions in Russia and other
parts of the continent, too absurd to require notice.
Foreign exchange was all abroad, and rates can
scarcely be quntedovith any precision. Three months'
paper on Paris could not be negotiated at all. On Am-
sterdam business was done at 12.31 to on Rot-
terdam at 12.6 i to 7 ; on Hamburg, 13.141 to 131, at
three months; on l'aris, at short, 26.25 to 70.
In the Express of Saturday last, attention was
drawn to the retrogressive position of the Bank of
France, as exhibited by its latest balance sheet made
up to the 22nd instant inclusive. Taking the items
of more especial importance, it appears that the specie
in hand, non-inclusive of that in the branch banks,
was little more than 36 millions of francs (say
2,230,000/.), whilst the notes out (including post
bills) amounted to nearly 274 millions, or approaching
to eleven millions sterling. Bills in hand, and be-
coming due, are stated at nearly 2431 millions, whilst
close upon 10 millions besides, say 400,0001., are
admitted to be due, say rather overdue, and being
paid on presentation may be presumed bad. The ave-
rage amount of loss by bad bills, as shown in the
general balance sheet of former and ordinary years,
laid before the proprietary at their annual meetings,
has nanaily fallen short of 100,000 f., say 4,0001. But
the point of more striking interest is the treasury ac-
count, or what is represented here under the head of
" public deposits.' This item of the Bank attrUctites
less than 20 millions of francs, say less than 800,000/.,
as the totality of the fund remaining for the state to
draw upon. The stoppage of the Bank during several
days for active business with such a portfolio of bills,
such an extent of inconvertible circulation, and such a
minimum of metsllic money, may thus be readily
accounted for.
Meanwhile the Minister of Finance has not hesi-
tated to open still more widely the doors to an incon-
vertible paper currency. The joint-stock banks of
France are now endowed with this dangerous privi-
lege, and although the amounts in each case are pro-
fessedly limited for the present, it is not difficult to
foresee that either by further license of authority, or
by the good will and pleasure of bank directors them-
selves, on urgencies which cannot fail to be expe-
rienced, the issues, or right of issue, will be earned
much further. The capitals of the banks thus em-
powered to issue inconvertible paper may be thus
tabularly exemplified :
eipitaL Circulation allowed.
Bordeaux
........3 140 ,000( .
Rouen 4000,000 . 15,000,000
Santos
Lyons . 2,000,000
NtirselOrs
Havre ........... 4.000.000 6,000,000
Lille
Toulouse.
Orleans

23,430.0001. 102,000,0800.
Thus, upon an aggregate capital of about 937,0001.,
issues of notes not redeemable in specie are authorised
to the extent of 4,080,0001., that is, to four and a half
times the amount of the capital stock. Even wore
the evil of such paper money to be confined
within the precise limits of the law, and the
figures above stated, it would still be tants-
*aunt to little short of a general banking