The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1848.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.
Before D. C. tiloylan,
BUIRIL C. THE REv, THOMAS HORTON HARDINGE.-
The plaintiff, a servant out of place, sued the defendant,
the Rev. Thomas Horton Hardinge, residing at No. 23,
Park-lane, some months since,for 111. 10s. for money lent.
The defendant did not dispute the debt, and an order was
made for him to pay it in instalments of 51. per month. This
he neglected to do, and now appeared on a judgment sum-
mons to show cause why he should not be committed to
prison.—The plaintiff said the proceedings he had taken to
recoeer the money had cost him near 301., and he never ex-
pected to get a farthing of the defendant. All he wanted
war to send him to prison, for he was able to pay if he liked.
—The defendant, in answer to the court, said he had no
means at all at his disposal. He had means is pro-
spective, and would then pay. Since he was last
before the court he had not received ss. The house
he lived in belonged to his wife, who merely
gave him board and lodging. Some time ago he gave up all
his property to his creditors and applied to the Insolvent
Court, but he did not put plaintiff e debt in the schedule.—
Plaintiff: The only thing I want is to committ him to pri-
son. This money was lent for the purpose of getting his
protection from the Insolvent Court. I fed him and sup-
plied him with eating and drinking. His wife has a large
income.—The defendant admitted she bal ; but he had lost
8,0001. His wife resided with him, but be had considerable
difficulty to prevail upon her to do so.—The Judge: Then
you have the benefit of her property I—Defendant bad no.
thing but his bare lodging and house room. He believed
the plaintiff had been in consultation with his (defendant's)
wife, in order to annoy him. All the debts he had contracted
since he was here before was one of 24a for an article he
could not do without. He never omitted to pay his debts when
he was able.—The plaintiff said he lent the money last Sep-
tember twelve months at the instigation of his wife, who
thought the defendant an ill-used man. When be lent him
the money he said he (plaintiff) was the best friend he had
in the world and gave him property worth 401. as security.
He subsequently procured from him the key of the room and
sold the articles.—The learned Judge said that if that took
place after Mr. Hardinge petitioned the Insolvent Court he
should have no hesitationin saying that it was a fraudulent
transaction, and should dismiss the case.—The defendant
said it was before, the money being lent for him to go to the
court. He denied most emphatically that he sold the articles;
they were seised by the landlord for rent. He positively
denied also that the plaintiff ever " fed" him. Hearing that
a writ was out against him ho got out of his back-window,
and took shelter in the house of a Mr. Fenn, who resided
next door, sad where plaintiff was servant. He took his
own provender with him, and remained there two days.
The defendant having offered to pay when he got money,
the learned Judge said be could make no conditional order,
and the best course for Mr. Hardinge to follow was to make
some offer to the man which would be accepted, to save him
!the judge) the painful duty of sending him to prison for
contracting the debt when heknew be lad no means of pay-
ing it.—The plaintiff consented to take the debt and costs by
instalments of 11. per month, with the understanding that
upon the defendant failing in the payment of any one of
them. immediate execution should issue against him.

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Cnarson OF STEALING • CAHN-
BOL.—A. &heifer, a German, was re-examined charged '
with having been concerned in stealing a cash-box con-
taining 341. 6s. 3d., the property of Mr. Laming, of
Mark-lane (the General Screw Navigation Company's
Offices). The cub-box was stolen immediately after the
prisoner bad bolted himself and the rest of the esta-
blishment of which Mr, Laming is the head in an office
within that in which the property lay. There must
have been an accomplice in the robbery, and most of
the evidence gone into upon the present occasion referred to
the person Luppnaed to have been concerned with the pit
soner.—W. Dickinson, the clerk, said that during the time
the prisoner came about the premises they had several visits
from a foreigner, dressed like a sailor, from 20 to 23 years of
age, who came upon some begging or triftmg occasion, and
called himself Hillier. He was rather abort, of a sallow
complexion, bad blackish hair, and wore a cap. When the
prisoner came on the 31st of December, when the robbery
wee committed, he had on a striped or checked blouse.
Witness took the prisoner into the inner office to procure for
him the information he required, and when they were all
Inside be shot the bolt, so that en accomplice had the oppor-
tunity of taking off the box while they were shut in —J.
Turner, housekeeper to Messrs. Donaldson and Dixon,

in the same building in which Mr. Laming's offices
are, remembered having seen on the 31st of December
a man in a blouse or smock frock, and another
staneing near Mr. Lansing's door. Tbo prisoner was a few
feet nearer to the door than the other, who was • German
boy. It was about the hour at which the robbery appeared
to have been committed. Had been in the habit of seei
de.ng
the German boy every day. He was dressed in the way
scribed by Mr. Dickinson, and the smock frock or blouse on
the other man was just such as had been described.—C.
Birnbaum, interpreter, said he hail seen the prisoner several
times, but had no particular acquaintance with him. Knew
A. Hillier, a boyish lucking young man, without whiskers,
about 21 years of age, dressed in the manner described by
the other witnesses. On the left shoulder of his jacket was
a brown patch. I saw Hillier in company with the
prisoner
once in Leman-street, 17 or 18 days ago. They both came
from Cologne—By Aldermen Musgrove : Had seen them
together at Cologne, and never more than
.once here. I was
present when the prisoner was at a public-house in Little
Arliestreet, after he robbery, and asked him when he saw
Hillier. lie said Hillier was gone to Rotterdam. Assisted
the officer to find thin prisoner, who said that be had nothing
at all to do with the younr man ; that be had merely met
the led at the office in Mark-lane, where he had gone to act
• passage to Corunna ; and that if Hillier had robbed
the office, he (the prisoner) had nothing to do with
it —J. Davie, 651, took the prisoner into custody
at • mumbling-house. He refused to go without knowing
what for; and when witness said it was about a cashbox
containing 35 sovereigns, he made a dart at witness's neck,
and endeavoured to throw him down, and to rush out of the
door. Witness had a struggle with him until two or three
policemen came to his aasietance.—The cash-box was found
by a metropolitan policeman, and brought to the station-
house. It bad been forced open with a sharp instrument,
and there was blood inside ; and, upon examining the pri-
toner's hands,a deep gash was found upon one of them.—
Mr. Buchanan, forthe defence, submitted that it would be
rather too romantic to ascribe the blood in the cashbox to
the cut in the prisoner's hand, and the evidence of the con-
nexion between the prisoner and the boy alluded to was of
too loose a nature to justify a committal.—The prisoner was
remanded.
CIIASITY.—The Lord Mayor acknowledged the reotipt
' of 101. 10s. from the Merchant Tailors' Company, through
)Ir. Fisher, for the poor box.
GUILDHALL.—Cnertive—A gentleman presented a
cheque for 101. 10e., for the poor-box, from the Merchant
Tailors Company.
BOW-STREET.—Cnetton or FORGERY.—G. Walker
was reexamined, charged with uttering a forged cheque for
$OOl., purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Mayhew and Rey-
nolds, of Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn, on Messrs. Dixon and
Co., bankers, of Chancery-lane—Mr. Mayhew said that he
had made inquiries, the result of which was, that he wee
convinced the prisoner had no guilty knowledge. Indeed,
he now regretted that the prisoner had been confined se
long, and he would not hesitate to make any ressemabie
compensation to him. At the same time, he would wish dee
prisoner to be bound over to appear on • future musics, if
required.—Mr. Henry accordingly discharged the primmer,
holding him to bail to appear again in the course of the
next month.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Tres Cnekon or STRALING •
Hostel anti Li lo.—l. Barnard, recently a town traveller in
the service of Messrs R. Miller and Co., Princes-aired,
Spitallields, was reexamined, charged with having stolen a
horse and gig, the property of his employers—The plraer
is answer to the charge at the former examination,
that the chaise bad been driven away by a friend of
named Taverner, and that the latter had subsequently
assured him that he had entrusted it to the care of a mm to
whom he had given express directions to take it to the pro-
secutor's premises.—Sergeant Teakle informed the magi,-
teatt that the account of the transaction furnished by the
prisoner had been since confirmed by his friend Taverner,
and that the prosecutor had recovered possession of the horse
and gig, which had been deposited in the green-yid by a
policeman, who found them standing unattended in &secluded
street near Stepney, at a late hour of the night after their
ri isappearance.—Mr Broughton said that under these circum-
stances the charge of felony was at an end, and was about to or-
der the liberation of the prisoner, when the prosecutor said he
was prepared with evidence to establish a charge of embez-
zlement against the accused, and that if the magistrate
would allow him further time he should be able to bring for-
ward at least twenty cases of • similar deacription.—The
prisoner emphatically denied the charge, and said that he
had never received a farthing of the prosecutor's money that
he had nut faithfully accounted for, and that the prosecution
solely emanated from the vindictive feelings with which his
late employer was actuated towards him—After hearing evi-
dence in support of the charge, the magistrate ordered the
prisoner to find ball for his appearance next week.
CHARITT.—A donation of one guinea was received from
" H.M.P." for the poor-lox
Rzezene up FORTUNE:A person of lady-like address,
who gave her name Charlotte Helena Thomson, residing
at 16, Singleton-street, Heaton, applied to Mr. Broughton
for some pecuniary assistance from the poor-box. The ap-
plicant, who was so convulsed with grief that she could
scarcely articulate, stated that her maternal grandfather
was • distinguished colonel in the army, and that after the
death of her father, who was • captain upon half-pay unat
tached, end allied to the daughter of a deceased noblemen
lately holding a high diplomatic appointment, she was
adopted into the family of Sir Benjamin d'Urban, with
whom and his lady she went to the Cape of Good Hope, of
which he was then governor, and subsequently proceeded to
Bombay, to join • female relative who was established there.
At Bombay she was introduced to her husband, who was
the principal of an extensive mercantile house, but shortly
after her marriage she was compelled to return to this coun-
try for the benefit of her health, age was speedily followed by
her husband,whose sitars had become involved in irretrievable
embarrassment by the misicomluct of one of his junior part-
ners. By his persevering exertions, however, he succeeded
in partially recovering his former position, but was ensue-
ceseful in obtaining • sufficiency of credit from firms in the
India trade to carry on his operations, and alter struggling
fur some time against her misfortunes was compelled at
length to relinquish the hopeless contest, and was now liable
for debts amounting to about 1,0001., for several of which
executions bad been taken out against his person. Undo,
the first pressure of their difficulties she communicated her
situation to Sir Benjamin d'Urban, who then afforded them
some temporary assistance, but that had been long since ex-
hausted ; and in consequence of the death of Lady d' Urban,
and Sir Benjamin receiving a distant colonial appointment,
they could derive no further aid from that source, and was
reduced, with their two children, to a state bordering upon
starvation, which was aggravated still mere by an intimation
from their landlady that unless their small of rent was
immediately liquidated, they must seek other apartments. As
her husband was unable to leave the house from fear of tarot,
she had proceeded herself that morning to the East India
Docks to reek an interview with the captains ef several Tomsk
which had formerly had consignments to her bushanffie
house, but had been unsuccessful in her exertions, and after
wandering about the whole of the day without any refresh-
went, she had resolved, as • last resource, to appeal to the
magistrate for assistance. She had now an opportunity of
establishing herself in • small school, which she was qualified
to conduct, but had not • single friend to apply to for the '
trifling amount necessary to enable her to embark in the
undertaking.—Mr. Broughton said that this was one of the
most painful and distressing cases that had ever been brought
under his notice, and directed a small sum to be given to the
applicant for her immediate wants, preparatory to a further
investigation into her urgent claims upon the feelings of the
—The applicant thanked the magistrate in an
agitateda manner for his kindness, and leg the court sobbing
bitterly.
MARLBOROUGHSTREET.--APTAIRA OP Hogooll."
—II. Neville, • gentleman of fortune, living at No.
133, Oxford-street, was charged by Mr. Benson, to-
bacconist, of No. 133, Oxford-street, with being about
to fight a duel with • gentleman, named Jessup.—Mr.
Benson said he bad been told by the defendant, who
occupied apartments in his house, that it was his intention to
fights duel with Mr. Jesup, and he thought the best way
to prevent a breach of the peace was to bring Mr. Neville
before the court to have him bound over.—Mr. Neville
having admitted that he did intend to fight with Mr. lamp,
Mr. Hardwick ordered him to find bail, himself in 3001. and
two sureties in 1501. to keep the peace for three months.
After the disposal of the above case, two women applied to
Mr. Hardwick to interfere to prevent the son of one and the
husband of the other from lighting together. The belli-
gerents were both tailors; they bad quarrelled over their
goose, and had agreed, as soon as the one bad done basting
• coat and the other had finished quilting a collar, that they
should put down a sum of money and go • little way out of
town to aseettain which was the best man.—Mr. Hardwick
granted a warrant.
Citektev.—The magistrate acknowledged the receipt of
61. from E.F.F.
LAMBETH.—LAMBETH WORE lIOUSE.—Mr. Edwards,
a vestryman of the parish of Lambeth, waited on Mr. Elliott,
and requisted his interposition to remedy the evils existing
in Lambeth workhouse. He charged the poor-law guardians
with neglect of duty in permitting ae they had on the night
before, 60 men and 70 women to enter the carnal paupers'
ward, without being examined by a medical man, or even
washed. These people were compelled to sleep in two
wards scarcely capable of accommodating half the number
that nightly crowded them; and such was the nauseous state
of the effluvia from these places, that the master of the work-
house himself acknowledged they could not be approached.
By the negligence with which he charged the guardians, of
admitting paupers without medical examination or being
properly cleansed, disease was brought to slid engendered
in the workhouse, and at this time the inmates were
dying at tire rate of 18 and 19 a week—a number
far greater than thou of any other period. He (Mr. Ed-
wards) had communicated with the poor-law commissioners
on the subject, but they had no power in the matter, as they
could not compel the guardians to enlarge the workhouse, and
finding this to be the case, he had written to Lord John
Russell. Ile had also brought the matter before a meeting
of the vestry, and the reply of one of the poor-law guardians
was, that if they allowed the casual paupers to be examined
by a surgeon, and cleansed before their admission, they
should have such an influx of casualties, that the workhouse
would be unable to hold them. In conclusion, Mr. Edwards
said he bad examined the books of the house, and found that
the deaths were not those of the aged and infirm, on the con-
trary, the average age was 35, proving that it was by disease
and not the ordinary course of nature they were carried off.
—Mr. Elliott said he should look carefully over the rules and
reulations of the poor-law commissioners, and also request
the g
attendance of the master of the workhouse, with a view
to some improvement.
THAMES.—CRUELTT TO A BOT.—R. Nicholson, master
of the collier brig Ellza, from Stockton, was charged with
cruelty to a little boy named Richard Haley, who, according
to a certificate produced from the London Hospital, was in a
very dangerous state. Two lads named Crawley and Can-
tiler deposed, the previous afternoon the prisoner was super-
intending the melting of tame pitch, at the New Crane,

Shadwell. The day being cold aid wet the injured boy
Holey, the witnesses, and some other lads collected around
the fire. The prisoner ordered his apprentice to sprinkle them
with the boiling pitch, which he refused to de. The pri-
soner then seised the mop_ himself and dipping it is the boil-
ing liquid splashed it in Haley's face, causing the child most
intense agony. The poor little fellow's screams brought
police constable, 190 K to the spot, who on hearing what
had occurred took the primmer Into custody and sent the
child to the London Hospital in the greatest torture.—The
prisoner, when called on for his defence, strongly denied the
charge. He called on his apprentice to sprinkle the
lad with the liquid, nor had be done so himself. Perceiving
the pitch was about to boil over he took the mop to keep it
down and drops splashed out upon the boy's face by acci-
dent. He called no witnesses, whilst Crawley and Cantiior
persisted in swearing that the pitch was deliberately cut into
the boy's face,—Mr. Ballantine committed the prisoner for
trial.
Cnentrv.—Mr. Ballantine acknowledged the receipt of
one guinea for the 000rbox, from H. M. P.
WANDSWORTIL—CONVICTION TOR ILLICITLY MAR-
INO SOAP.—Air. J. Menet*, late of Lower Tooting,
Surrey, was charged with carrying on the business of a soap
manufacturer in certain premises situated in Lower Tooting,
without making the entry required by the Excise, and with
intent to defraud the government of certain duties, whereby
he had forfeited the sum of 6001.—The defendant having
been called and failed to answer, 0. M. Coppard, an officer
of Excise, produced a copy of a summons which he served at
defendant's premises at Tooting, where the offence was com-
mitted and the seizure mentioned in the information made.
—Mr. T. Liston, the supervisor, stated that on the 13,h al
October last, in consequence of some information which he
received, he went to a house in Lower Tooting. Mrn. Turner
(the defendant's wife) answered him, and he went through
the premises to the back yard, where he found a door locked.
He went away. but afterwards got over some other premises
into the place he had found fas
tened up ; he there found a
copper boiling for the purpose of making soap, and there
wen about three-quarters of a ton of °tetanal in the copper;
there was also a large quantity of material for making Keg
not in use. Witness went up a ladder to the top ad ell
sepper, and there found a door leading into a bedrooms.
Is this room he discovered from two to three hundred
gallons of lees which he destroyed, and a large quantity of
materials and utensils sufficient for carrying on an extensile
sod lucrative business, and which he had no doubt boll bum
ferried on since August last. The property seised enstektled
012,000 lbs. weight of fat, 200 lbs. of salt, and misoellegielle
property. He found in the bedroom a note book
an account of soap sold, and a memorandum shoTrui=
defendant was the tenset of the premises. Witness was the
proper officer for defendant to have applied to for
claimed
of
the premises, but he did not do so. The Excise n
of the defendant 2001. for using unentered premises for the
purposes of manufacturing soap; 2001. for using a copper
also unentered ; and a further penalty of 2001. for making
use of • room for keeping materials used in the manufacture
of seep of which no entry bad been made.—Mr. Beadon
convicted the defendant in the two first mentioned penalties,
but declined doing NO in the third, considering the room as
part and parcel of the premisee.—An order was then made
upon the defendant to pay the sum of 4001.

MONEY MARKET.
FRIDAY Evinerieci.
The Nock-market today has partaken of the gloom-
iness of the weather, and was doubtless influenced by
it in some degree. The main cause of decline in the
funds must be attributed, however, to a re-action upon
prices artificially excited by circumstances with which
the readers of the Express in this department are
already familiar. Speculation for an undue expansion
of stock or money values should be held as peculiarly
dangerous for the speculators themselves, seeing how
seriously such an accident as the decaying health, to
say nothing of worse betiding, of the King of the
French, might unexpectedly arrive to create quite a
confusion in the market. On more public and general
grounds such excessive and speculative enhancements
of the prices of stocksare more especially prejudicial, as
tempting the public to copy the example of interested
capitalists and speculators operating for the rise,
under the delusive hope that Consols may again
reach 95 and par as formerly, instead of making their
investments in solid railway securities at present low
prices, yielding 5,6, and 7 per cent. of interest. The
times are gone by with all reasoning men that Con-
sols should reach par, nor is it desirable they should.
The credit and prosperity of a great country is not to
be paged by the price of stocks. Railway and other
industrial enterprise have created already a revolution
in the rates of money. Years must elapse, supposing
the improbability of no otter great economical dis-
covery, before the usance of money shall again fall to
the vile price of 1 discount upon bale as within the
last four years only has been the case. The count'',
will prosper none the less because the inter. et ut
money shall be steadily equal to 5 or 4 per cent, but
in fact all the more. Because, as all observers know.
the excessive cheapness of money has never failed to
be the immediate precursor of all sorts of wild specu-
lation and prodigal expenditure. The government,
making use of the Bank, has ever entered for a large,
if not the largest, share, in all the fallacious " pros-
perity" times which have attended and followed the
forced and unnatural depreciation of money values.
The readers of this department will not be new to
the facts and the reasoning here stated, which are not
ours, but those of the most leading parties of the stock
exchange and money dealers themselves. The prac-
tical result is seen already in the reduction of the
prices of the funds by I per cent. to-day. Consols
opened at 88 for money and account, whilst they closed
86l to 7. Reduced Threes 87,1 to 1. Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents., 881 to Exchequer Bills,
245. to 275. premium. India Bonds, 10s. to 14s.
premium. Long Annuities,Bank
Stock, 195 to 7. India Stock, 234
Foreign exchange was extremel
as before, and the rates were love.
On Amsterdam the negotiations we.
Rotterdam, 12.51 to 6 ; on Antwerp.
Hamburg, 13.141 to ; ; on Frankfort,
26.921 to 97 all at three months. 'I%
material difference--business extremel•
By advice. from Salisbury it ape,.
hold and other property, of Mt
kers, who failed recently, is to
next week, and is expected to roe
There is a failure in Liverpool
connexion with the house of C
'
Co., of /it wcastle, alluded ta.
name, which, by desire of friends
publicity which was certain event
was therefore not mentioned.
The Bank of England averages
ing the Bth inst give, as compares
,'week preceding, the following mei
Circulation issue C25,376,770
Clrculation,achre 18,561,385 ......
Public depueuts
Other depurita ..... 10,658,286
OarernmentsecuriUes in
banking department... 10,993,353
Other securities
thin and bullion
nesen-day and other bilis 846,364 ...
Me rest 3,664,629 ..
The notes in reserve were 7,3
decrease of 550,4451. compared
the week to the Ist inst. Taki
banking department-701,591/,
reserve capital, notes and coil
8,016,9761. The dividends had
payment on the last day incline!'
had evidently, in conjunction
quired for other government
fluence upon the public doper
BANK OF KNOLAND —ACcors'
Notes Issuedazyr

PA _
rovorntoent
Other
Gold
Silver

£2,557.710..

-imm° DI
Prnprtetore' CapPel
Pe4
uha, Depodta Unclad
Elcheq., say.
Comm P. of National
Debt, and Div. AMA.) 6.414,0011
Other Dopoelts . 10,863,226
Bova-day and otherßale 846,364
£35.3.56,M
Jan. 13, 1848.

'3l.
MARSITALL,,CbIe °safer.
ENOLIBII PUN Int
Bank Stock, 196 i 4 India Stock, 236 3 ,m.
!pg 881
LI Ditto liondA, .43,00‘1, 10
Edw.!, undar 4,00^ 10 14 pr.

5 i.lr Ct cv.;1.7i3...
I S Sea outh Stook, Old'Anne,ml
New 31 per Cent Ann., 481 2 Consolx,al4 I 7
Long Anna, exp. Jan. 5, 18t0, Fzeh BOK £l.OOO, 2d., 24 7 4 pm.
8 1348 15.18 i Ditto, E 500,24 7 pm.
Ditto, 30 yrs., exp. Oct. 10,1850, 81 I Ditto, Small. 2/ 7 pm.
Ditto, 30 yrs., exp. Jam 5. Mat 81
PORI:ION VENDS.
5 per Cent. Brazilian Bonds, 8.11 3 per Ct. PPanish BM., 24
1 per Ct. Granada Bonds, 19 i 24 per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 36
Ditto, Deferred, 3) 0 4 Ditto, Deform!, 10
S per Ct Heston, 1816, 171 181 18 21 pm Ct. Dutch Exch., 12 GUIL.
6 per Cent. Peruvian Bawl', 37 541
1 per Cent. Portuguese Mk, 261 4 per Cl. Dutch C,ertllcatice, 854
EXCHANGES AND BTOCKS ABROAD.
Bayamon, JAN. 13.—Lean of 1810, 984; Ditto 1842, 9481 ; Ditto. 11444.
921 • Ditto, 1838. 674: City Loan, 1843, 96); hank of Belgium, 79i.
Nse'hange L0nd0n,_25.67).
ANTINIRF, JAY. 13.—Eschange on London, 25.70; two months.
25.421 471.
FRANKFORT, JAN. 11.—Auet. Floe per Cents., ItGl money; Ditto,
Four per C,enta., 141 bllle ; Bank, I,V) money , PrwAhn Penn, Bob.,
911 money ; Frankfort Thremasideiellalf par Cont.s. 94t money ; Taunus
' 3;,.;4 bins. 356 money. Bella& Rah., 064 lolls, 804 money:
Spanish Ilve per Cents. lArdoinSl, 194 bills, 19 money. Ezehange on
London : short dates, 1211 monev two months, 120 money.

TUE EMBARRASSMENTS IN THE IRON TRADE.—
BIRMINGHAM, JANUARY 14.—The adjourned
creditors of the Oak Farm Works, near Dudmeetin ley, gof has
been held at the Royal Hotel here to-day; Charles
Shaw, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was for
the purpose of receiving a report from the gentlemen ap-
pointed at the first meeting in December, to inquire into

the state of the affairs of Messrs. Boydell and Roper, the '
principals in these works. The discussion is understood to have
been of a somewhat storm?, character, but, as reporters were
mot submitted, I shall abstain from entering into particulars
lseyeed those which are gleaned from the printed
dreads, hewed after the meeting broke up.—Mr.
Freabeekl, of London, *elicitor to the Bank of England, at-
tended on behelf of the greet mortgagees and former pro-
prietors (Lord Lybeltoe, Sir Stephen Olynne, and the Right
lion. W. E. Gladstone). and Mr. W. B. Collis, solicitor, of
Btourbridge, to whom the raisers committed the conduct
of their affairs upon the suspension of the works. The fol-
lowing statement of the accounts was submitted to the
meeting :
OZNIIRAL ITATLICITIT or Tilt
1847.
ATIAI
13, RS fly rue OLE roan COMPAKY.
Lao.
Dr. t a. d. E a. d.
To sundry creditors on bonds and
mortgage'
To amount due to 81r 8. Glynn, Mr
Gladstone, ands Lord Lyttelton 38,710 0 0
To Interest on the above IOW 0 0
10,210 0 0

To sundry creditors who hold gua-
rantee.
To ditto on acceptances and open
T".
=mewed 30,843 12 5
To liabilities on bills
under discount /53,518 14 4
which it la ex-
ected there will
be duly paid

Leaving to doh° °° sms 3 7 2,055 3 7
the 98,011 s 0
nuts.

To sundry creditors
railway and canal
onspanies and car-
riers, who hays
stopped goods to
we then claims 4,098 13 3
To royalties and rents 2,828 14 10

lb Jams Boyden,
capital £24,500 0 0
To Charles Roper,
capital 39,500 0 0 58,000 0 0 58,000 0 0

Total

314,222 3 0
A e.'' sl. a.

ci.
is,ils 5
By unmcr
et of debtors good
bwe
Ina
I.Vw goods teamed la the •
~,aped l?G y coveters, 8.c., for IMO=
aros, se per contra
IS S
11,446 B S
434 1 5

By do., doubtful, 1,5 W. 151. Id. la
estimated to y 4 Id
Ily amoun ol stock Wom atble
Mock icespr
yes 15 per cent

27,445 1 10

Subject to the Urn of Messrs. Patter-
ron and Walker, foe the amount of
their aomptanem and balance of
soaxmt
13,160 6 6

Block of machinery lAA appurte.
senors to work. eumidered maul-
able to general creditors .
Estimated to produce if mid to be
a)
removed (one h
o. 35.171 711
161,033 0 2

Loa rent and royalties due to Sfr 11
Glynne 2,582 2 8
x.Ditto, Lord Ward
----- 2,828 14 10

f 58,204 5
This statement of account sad the rights of the lessee and
mortgagees of the property, and of the retiring partners,
having brut considered by a majority of the unguaranteed
creditors of Messrs. Boyden and Koper, and taking the whole
of the items and circumstances into consideration, and par-
ticularly having noted the small amount of assets that will be
available for the unsecured creditors in the event of bank-
, ruptcy, owing to the large amount of the mortgages and of
the other claims ; and Mr. Freshfield, en the part of the re-
tired partners, having consented to pay 9s. in the pound, by
two instalments at four and six months each, on the several
debts due to the unguaranteed creditors, by the bills of
Messrs. Boydell and Roper, the payment thereof to be gua-
ranteed by a steed of covenant to he executed by the old
partners—it was resolved on the motion of Mr. Sparrow, se-
conded by Mr. Addenbrook,
Thrt it is the interest of the unguarnnteed creditors of Messrs.
baydell and Roper to accept such composition; and this =rung
strongly recommends the creditors not here resent to accede to these
terms, arid that a espy of the resolutions be seat to each creditor.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Byers and
his brother inspectors, for the efficient manner in which they
have discharged their difficult duty.—The actual amount of
capital invested in this concern by Messrs. Boydell and
Roper his been 66,0001, of which no lees than 23,0001. was
brought in by Mr. Roper within the last two years.—For
them the utmost sympathy and good feeling was manifested
at the meeting to-day. _ _

-•— -
AUWERIA.-VIENNA, JAN. 3.—The news of the failure of I
the commercial house of Haber and Son, of Carlsruhe (grand
duchy of Baden), has produced a real panic in this city, on
one hand, because this establishment had great commercial
dealings with Vienna'. and on the other, because it was
known that the banking-house of Arnsteia and Bskalia, of
Vienna, is a creditor of Mr. Haber to the amount of 900,000
effective florins (about 2,300,000 franca.). But the uneasi-
ness created by this intelligence among commercial people, is
now considerably allayed by a circulu published by MM.
Arnstein and Eskalis, in which they declare, that even
were they to lose the whole 900,000 florins, owed to them by
M. Haber, they can still do honour to their engagements.
Caut.loo:H C. BANE FA I LURE. - The Oberrheinische
Zeitung announces the failure on the Bth inst. of the bank-
ing establishment of Messrs. K. It is added that this failure
will raise many obstacles in the way of establishing, as pro-
posed, a bank for South Germany.

RAILWAY NEWS.
There were two failures on the Stock Exchange yes-
terday. It is expected, however, that the parties will
be able to pay all in full. The market was good,
but the brokers were chiefly occupied with the routine
duties of the day, it being the name or ticket-day.
SHARE LIST.—LoxDoN, JAN. 14.
NOTI.—The quotation,. of lin. In Roman characters denote ►etual
traWaCtialA, tit.° of linos In If sellers' prla.s.
PAID.

Aftlll6i
1"2-1k
14':
113411 1:
L!11
3 6 a.
4151 e
181 a•
,k F-rtension 34 144.
Hare,. fl,f k 104 104
otn.,klVeym. 16
kw.* S. Ilex.
Nom., & Her. RI
rig.Newcttlier 314 I
6hieklP4r eh
14. NolikiN •• 134 14
oNAN•realler;l:4
INEPuror ,94
kNortblikllaud'762
Prefermico 130
‘l.BtW.llldx.Ell33
IL • R•WAYS.
k Amiens. 14 134
Vol 131
P 3 44
nll6;;li[Liti.
France
BordistuJilllS
iLion• . Aim
i yr-leans 14ti
Rouen '3l 343
Strsaboaul,lll
Meuse T
twat* 44-
7i oid-

MBETINGS.—LANCASTER AND PRESTON.—Acijourned
Meetings—Lancaster, Jan. 13.—Mr. J. Bushell in the chair.
The meeting was convened to consider the present position
of the company with reference to their connexion with the
canal company as lessees of the line. There was a numerous
attendance of shareholder.—The Chairman, after regretting
the failure of negotiations with the canal company, gave a
lengthened explanation of what had taken place since last
meeting. It would be known to them all that an attempt
had been made by the directors to come to some arrange-
ment with the canal company, and a conference had been
sought. The conference was attended by See railway direc-
tors and a rather scanty number of the canal board. It was
slated that the question 01 lease was not to be mooted, as it
had been resolved at a former meetin4 of the railway direc-
t tors to negotiate apart from the consideration of the lease.
The canal board, on being asked if they were wil-
ling to ?taiga their interest in the railway company,
on receiving a fair consideration, replied that they were.

- ------.
87; to 1516. Bank Te.ib„,,,,„ 'l9l7d. -.if -Lon.kN.Wthi..L.lth. 34
234 to 7. 2,lAmberg..Nl.4. &Bost 21 Md. 1 Do. New .7 .... ...His
to Mr.* al.& Dudley 4 OD. 2 Do. 11M6
emely inactive to-day, tot sir. Wol. &S. Volley 11 ta. 40 Do. 401. th...84...iii. 61161
lower on some points. 20 Bum• e oiloriJP. 90. 74 13:11:g...11:1,131,11r,:
28 were 1154 to i; on st thirTZ. and Rzder .. 16 is& t D0.101,15.,_14.k8 e 5
ntwerp, 26.5 to 10 ;on 2810,.. mckinci.**".D.• rll.l. • ••••••• • 6,144.11. 4 1..D4,..4",,,k1W,44.4449,,,,,: 14 tp.
inkfort, 1231 ;on Paris, re ousts:sum 3446461 314 Do. New. 591....... 314
iths. The rest without 60 Do. Coos. Tentlu.. 3 Id.
xtremely inert. 12 1. Do. Prefattoco, lll 40 Do. do. Tent Al.... 31d.
yli, Dcb,,,:il.thrao,7l;" lit 4. 25 DO. New. 404. ~.. 24}
ViDadrer4Cr . . • • 81 Do, Third, ._ . 11044.
t appears that the free- 10 Do.toei..i•,;.'et: 14 Lon.,Batieb.de i:0;4111 etu.
Mears. Brodie the ban- io I Do. 24G., big, Cf. 3 I Maach.,Hust..sMaL! sit
26 thibliii&Dcirt...tise. 22 INL 3 lama. lforthamPl3. -11
o be put up to auction 1610.km,5e,...i.ki,
Irealise some 15,000/. n Ettiel"*. aLiti.1..,413 106 Lolt.tr:::::14 i
pool reported to-day, in 2 Do. 131.10 e. E.&11.0g 1 100 Do. Birm.k.ltTft96 _
Cargill, Headlam, and 14 istrioceir. tiw• •• • 111 16 1 1 r t:Ciiihrjld" •°F"2I 223
to yesterday without oil Do. do Ns. i .u. par 35 32id.ht. Wert. lirishl
60 Do. do. .. No. 2 . 10G Nrwrartk dr Carl
riends unknowing of the to DO. York keen.. lir 181 Newmarket .......
eventually to take place, 60 DoNorthak Muth; 52 M North Ititheis ..... ,26g G
12} Ito. 1 shares ... ... 1113 Do. 1:11::.. lll}
33 I Do. New as. pht Do. shares .. • ... rt.
Drages for the week end- I*Eltn". Zir. ••• • 1
Do. .- .1 se
neared with those of the Is lame Lancashire. 3d. 1 Norfolk - . .
.115
13 Do. New 1 . 0 Do. Nas, 101. ~, !3 2d.
g results : * Do. NON} AOKI
O
5
*
li"r"g .?! lir 7} North itileff.'pjahlr... 71 i 1
ill
i Do. New . . . 36 031.,Worces.kw.oiv. 901
53
58
11
34
re
. 61 Do. New. 4.....-162 51p. ~ Both, e 6 3d.
7,315,3651., showing . ,0, Do, Jr,. gok ....138401). stmts.. & the. el...nig}
iced with the return for
itco DB. (V:412.4...::::V69. I
Dia4;..3.!ei;i(ii ....... 41
Ming the coin in the 60 Do. 4
awes 60 gs 4 Do. Raton 22 s
911.-the total disposable 171 D.. i,BBBree ••• ••• •HI 1 Do. °twain
20 Do. Ifths 3
coin, would amount to st Do. New, 171 1 Do.B !rend. Pm!: -1 3p
had only been in course of 21 1h2t2.era1,:4121:1 1 11*. go sou Der °n.......
21
..
luded in this return, but so Huh and Seky
25 Do. ;shares 49 51 1 South Stalrowteltirr...2 118
on with the amounts re- ist Do.
.t- A,,,,i ls sp. 3.1, ussielgssterssoomlq I
t purposes, a marked in- irs iss-,,,,eu,,urr.ete"itis„
7,ifts..atmndwth.ae
.cirdingculajt.ionB.. :04 lit-iii....).1.x..:th-ci,d:f(layvTate.riak .12 24 Do. d 0....... No 1,
17 Do. de •11 1
20 Do. d 0... ~.. . 3 6 NI.
60 Lancoater & Carlialoo 71 Do. do. Thirds .. 4101 }
Wril ZIT.
4 Taw Pak Eslension
(jur.'79me9t7*ss*** - L77'275'168 93
I""tirg 174 Thames Hawn. D. 2le 4421
Other Securities...... 2,9.4 MO 12 D°' ° 8 6.1.
Gold cot. =a u‘ioo 10.476.5 M ?LI Do. tat," •--• 31 21 11 Will.B.B4lBYie.Y.• 16
41 Was. &M. b. ii DO.
Silver Bullion ..... ... 1,460,147 •er, I,4:l;ffilla ••• - • ti- ' 26 York, Newe„ Ili Bee .344
~.,A,=„,,, si, Do. Sixteenths . ... DI. par 25 Do.ong.Newettlicrl3l}
"'"'"'"" 6" '' 1.11 lb. Thirds (Regd.) 51d. 26 DeNaintelthPordi.
..... ONT.
Goveminent Securities 38 Do. Liorryl.k itterk 10 Do tis.NolikiN w 13}
iinclud. Dan} Weight 33 I Dolholdertilt enc 10 DodoNo2N sea/M.o2f
Annility) ..... ...... zacon3s3 47} no tiftrefatlo,oB' 8 DoONEPur or Pref,9l I
s2.' Do. W. 11.17n1n0.. lid 1.0 YorktNorthMkllatd.76}
°Ntheote;Sccurl. . ii.. 7. "•• : .. 11:3431.2.:958_,,,m5 25 bolo.P=llV.to;
2.4110.35}0. 10 DeDo....Prcfaer...niccag.gillune
Gold and Slicer Gclln.. MIDI li't, Do:a. '-h 1 ip Poulos 11611.nare.
50 Ueda and itrainord•lo 20 Boulogne k Amiens. 14 1
------
11. Leicester ik Bedford Bradford:
Tar 14 Cert.of Pr.(Or.k Phu 211
1 L35'356'287 36 too.s.sso•thirsit -116- 6 Demerara lb 37
M. MARSHALL.CbIe Cashier. 2ti , Do. New .- . 1412 d. 7 Dutch Rhenish r4!
Do.Prel. New........
I Id. 6 Louvain ala Sambre 6 6
1 FUN 08. 41 Lrots•Dews.. Month. 6 Laraithouro.., ti
India Sloth, 236 3 Pm. 'Lin, Mane. &N. Jn. 5 hyonsekAingniConsifq•
Ditt. Bonds, X 1.606, 10 g • Lir.,thosby,& South. 1 Oki. 14 Namur and Liege
Ditto, under £l,sou, 10 14 pm. 16. f London ek Beackwall,42 03 10 Northern of Fratloo . 1
8.88 88. B.Blt 081 Amu,. 641 M. Do. do No. 2112 11 6 Drlenna a Beedeausl6
Consols, 88 7} I , 171 Do. P.rtemrion . ~1 41 Over nisei 21
]Sack MIN, 1.1.000. 2d., 24 7 4 pen. 50
,1,09., Brighton, 5.00.43} 3 } 10 Paris and Lone
Ditto, .C. 500, 24 7 pm. 30 Dr. Con... E kehths. Id NI. ID Parts and ono
146
Ditto. Small. 24 7 pm. 9 , DO. c10.171da,6P.0. 20 Paris. and Rouen .. '34
60 I fki.Pre.f.Cno.69.4l. 8 Paris and Eltraithourg•4}
FUNDS. 50 • Do. do. 1852_ ...... 30 Boat: and Ilarre_..i'l:
3 per Ct. Spanbth Nis, 194 0 124 London ,tnifOr rout:. 18 Sambre and 6101/60 7
21 per Cont. Wtheauela Bonds, 36 184 Do. Preference ... . 8 Town and Nantes 5 4
Ditto. Deferred, 10 109 London &N. Neaten 1631{ 1 8} Wat Floater/ .••• • 74