The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-29 00:00:00

NORWICH.

THURSDAY

Till) following memorial has been forwarded to the
Treasury and its receipt acknowledged to the Mayor
of Norwich :
TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, FIRST LORD

OF THE TREASURY, &C , &C.

The Memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of the
city of Norwich,—
Sheweth,—That Norwich is a corporate city, with a
council composed of 64 members, 48 of whom are coun-
cillors, elected by the burgesses in the eight wards into
which the city is divided, and 16 are aldermen, elected
by the councillors.
That we believe that the municipal system, properly
carried out, would confer incalculable benefit on the com-
munity, by training the people to self-government, and
affording opportunities to the citizens of uniting and
co-operating in the local assembly for the promotion of
the general good; but whilst we admire the theory we
can but grieve over the actual results of that system,
shown in the corruption and demoralization arising out
of the municipal contests.
To this subject, which surpasses almost every other
in urk,ent importance, we most earnestly beg your Lord-
ship's serious attention.
We are sure your Lordship is unuware of the full
extent of the alarming mischief which this rapidly-
growing evil of bribery and corruption is causing
amongst the electoral constituencies. It is notorious
that in this city the relative position of political parties
in the town council entirely depends on the suffrages of
some hundreds of corrupt burgesses, who, without any
attempt at concealment, will vote for those candidates
(regardless of their personal fitness or political opinions)
who will give them the most money. These reckless,
profligate men decide who shall be the guardians of the
peace and morality of the city; and the most virtuous
and talented of the citizens bas not the slightest chance
of their support if opposed by a corrupt partizan, how-
ever depraved or ignorant he may be, who will dole out
bribes amongst them.
We beg your Lordship to observe that the prevalence
of this evil is an admitted fact, and that in the last
municipal elections, which took place for this city on the
Ist of November, the system of bribery was carried on

in the most open and unblushing manner; and in one
ward, comprising 400 burgesses, it is said that the votes
of more than 120 electors were directly purchased by
money-bribes; and in many of the wards it is beyond
doubt that the only way to succeed is by corruption.
We lay before your Lordship an authentic report of
the proceedings at the last quarterly meeting of the town
council of this city, in perusing which your Lordship
will observe that no attempt was made to deny or dis-
prove the allegations here set forth, but that even some
gentlemen in her Majesty's commission of the peace, and
therefore under the most solemn obligation to protect
public morality, did not hesitate either to apologize for
or openly to avow a participation in this system of
bribery; and that in the instance of the ward already
referred to, the persons so elected did not deny the jus-
tice of the accusation.
We laeg further to assure your Lordship that so habi-
tuated have the public become to this baneful system,
that there are gentlemen in the Council universally re-
spected and esteemed who are notoriously returned by
the most corrupt means, but who nevertheless retain
their high standing, and speak of successes thus won as
indications of a change in public opinion. The effect of
all this on the morality of the city we believe to be dis-
astrous in the extreme; but we do not charge this offence
upon any one party exclusively. We fear there are but
few active politicians innocent in this matter. But upon
public grounds we implore your Lordship to give your
immediate attention to the subject; for the demoraliza-
tion thus produced goes far to counteract all attempts to
improve the moral condition of the people.
We will now proceed respectfully to suggest to your
Lordships the means, and the only means, which, as
we think, the Legislature can adept to check these
evils. And we would first beg your Lordship's atten-
tion,to the fact that the Municipal franchise is.much
more limited even than the Parliamentary--the number
of registered burgesses for the city being 2,831, whilst
the number of Parliamentary electors is more than 5,000.
Your Lordship is aware that the municipal franchise
is based upon householdership, tested by three years'
continuous residence and rating. Large numbers are
excluded from the register by defects in rating; but
much larger numbers, comprising the entire body of the
intelligent working classes, are disqualified by the sys-
tem of compound rating, as it is termed, by which the
landlord being rated—to the exclusion of the tenant, for
dwelling-houses below 81. in some cases, but in all cases
below 61.—the tenant is deprived of the franchise, though
he may pay the rates as part of his rent to the landlord.
The effect of these provisions in the Municipal Act is,
that the entire body of working men, with very few ex-
ceptions', are virtually excluded from the franchise;
whilst persons not superior to them in intelligence, in-
dustry, or virtue, are permitted to vote.
We press this subject with more earnestness on your
Lordship, as we believe you are now engaged in the
consideration of the promised measure for the amend-
ment of the representation. We would respectfully sug-
gest to your Lordship that if the provisions of an Act
passed in the lust session, entitled " An Act to amend
the law for the registration of certain persons com-
monly known as compound householders, and to facili-
tate the exercise by such persons of their right to vote
in the election of borough Members to serve in Parlia-
ment"—were extended to municipal elections, it would
go far to remedy the evil complained of, and would give
a reasonable and just extension of the franchise, from
which we confidently anticipate many moral advantages
would accrue. _ .

We also most respectfully beg your Lordship to re-
consider your objections to the ballot. We believe that
the ballot, though it would not altogether prevent bri-
bery, would render it much more difficult, by depriving
the briber in most cases of any assurance that the cor-
rupted voter would fulfil his promise; and, moreover,
by concealing the actual numbers polled till after the
poll had finally closed, it would prevent the corruption
which usually occurs in the excitement of the last hour
or two before the closing of the poll.
We beg, therefore, to express our conviction that a
large extension of the franchise with the ballot, will ul-
timately be found the only means of checking corruption.
But if your Lordship should differ with us on these
points, we at all events beg ycur Lordship to direct an
inquiry to be made into the truth of the allegations con-
tained in this memorial, in regard to the prevalence of
bribery in the municipal contests of this city; and we
assure your Lordship that if a commission, similar to
that sent to St. Albans, were seat to this and other cor-
porate boroughs, it would be proved that success at elec-
tions in a large proportion of these boroughs turns upon
the votes of a band of corrupt and profligate men, who
will sell their suffrages to the highest bidder.
We submit to your Lordship that this evil has now
become so flagrant and notorious, that measures must be
taken to repress or counteract it, otherwise the represen-
tative system, one of the chief excellences of our much-
praised Constitution, will become a scandal and a re-
proach, when other nations shall know that the prepon-
derance of any political party in our local councils, and
even in the House of Commons itself, is often contingent
on the successful demoralization of the people.
We, therefore, respectfully but earnestly beg your
Lordship, without delay, to cause an inquiry to be made
into these allegations; and if the same be proved, to pro-
pose to Parliament such measures as your Lordship
may think the exigency of the case requires.
We have the honour to be your Lordship's obedient
servants, &c. &c.
Signed by the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and several
members of the Corporation ; also by Mr. John H.
Gurney and nearly 300 respectable citizens.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 28.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday at the Castle.
The Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes
this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family, took walking
and pony exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this morning, attended by Lieut.-General Sir E.
Bowater, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Aberdeen, and
Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, have been invited,
and are expected to arrive this afternoon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, yes-
terday morning, from Frogmore. Her Royal High-
ness visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House, Ficcadilly, and in the afternoon returned to
Frogmore.
The Hon. General Anson bad an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday, at his
official residence in Downing• street.
Sir J. Owen had an interview yesterday with Lord
John Itussell.
The Commissioners for auditing the public ac-
counts, with their secretary, Mr. Bromley, attended
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the
half-yearly declaration of accounts.
The Earl of Carlisle left town after the Cabinet
Council yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, on a
visit to her Majesty.

THE COAST GUARD.—Returns have been ordered
guard, of the number of chief boatmen, commissioned .
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boat-
men, boatmen, and extra men employed in their respective
to be made by the several inspecting commanders of coast
districts, stating age and service, and distinguishing those
who have served in the royal navy and have been appointed
by the Lords of the Admiralty from civilians who have re-
ceived their appointment from the Treasury or Board of
Customs; this is to be done for the purpose of ascertaining
the number of men who can be made available in case of an
emergency, as those men appointed by the Admiralty having
served in the navy, are well drilled to the great gun exer-
cise, and have obtained certificates of good conduct and of
being efficient seamen, from the commanders they served
under in the navy. Similar returns are to be made by the
officers commanding revenue vessels with respect to their
crews, and also of all boatmen employed in the service of the
Board of Customs. Orders have been issued to the various
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MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday the Court of Alder-
men, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, and their ladies, as well as
several private friends of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress,
were entertained at the Mansion-house. Covers were laid
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Mayoress was unable to be present on this occasion.
the Lord Mayor will, according to ancient custom,
vreidaaYt dinner the master, wardens, and court of assis-
tants the Fruiterers' Company, together pith the deputy
cOlOllll4ll-4treet (hi 4 ludalliA Ward).

EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1852.

twelve miles wide, along the entire course of the pro-
posed router; and the states so endowed with this terri•
tory, have re-granted it in part to companies willing to
construct sections of the railways.
The Illinois Central Railroad is to commence at Cairo,
at the junction of the Ohio and Mississipi rivers, and
proceed through the heart of Illinois to Chicago and
Galana.

The estimated traffic and profits of this line, which is
to open up a country now producing little, are curious.
The estimated traffic is stated as—

Dollars.
150,000 Tons of Coal, an average of 75 miles, 225,000
150,000 Lumber, ~ 100 „ 300,000
„
1,000,000
~ Produce (Ind. corn, &c.)100 ~ 4,000,000
125,000 ~ Merchandise back, 100 „ 625,000
00,000 Passengers, local, ' 300 „ 540,000
26,000 ~ through, 400 „ 312,001
20,000 Tons through freight, 400 „ 200,000

Mails ... ... ...

6,202,000
•• . ... ... 98,000

6,300,000
Expenses at 1 per cent. per Ton or per Passenger, 2,580,000

Estimated Nett profit, 3,720,000
The stock estimated to be required for working this
traffic is stated to be-75 engines, 90 passenger cars, 960
freight cars, and 640 coal cars.
The passenger vehicles or " cars," used on these rail-
ways, resemble, in external appearance, tho caravans
which once were used by Mr. Wombwell for his lions,
but they are much larger, and have ten times the num-
ber of windows. They are long boxes, either very plain
or very gaudy outside, according to their age and the
taste of the superintendent, but are usually fitted up in-
side with taste and great regard for comfort. They
work on bogie. frames, and, long as they are, will go
round the sharpest curves. They are invariably high
enough to enable you to stand upright, and usually
large enough to hold from 60 to 80 persons, the pas-
sengers sitting two together in rows, and a passage be-
ing left down the middle of the vehicle. In cars of the
best construction, the back of each seat is moveable, so
that you may sit either with your face or back to the
engine, as you may happen to prefer it; or you may thus
separate your party from intrusion. Small platforms
are placed on the end of each car, upon which the doors
open out, and thus you may walk from one end to the
other of the train with perfect facility. The conductor
marches through the cars, receives your fare, if you
have not chosen to pay it at the depot before starting;
and takes your ticket or check, if you have one. To
enable the conductor to control the motions of the en-
gine-driver in case of need, a cord is run through rings
at the top of the cars, and connected through the train;
and by means of this he can make two or three simple
signals, and stop, start, or reduce the speed of running.
Every car has a break at each end; and in very long
trains the conductor is assisted by one or more breaks-
men. The cars are warmed by stoves in winter. In
summer the stove is removed; but on well-managed
lines a filter, containing clear iced water, is substituted,
and placed in some convenient corner of one or more of
the cars, for the use of the passengers. This is a great
comfort in hot weather; for the railroads are usually
very dusty in summer, and the fine wood ashes from the
engine drive in at the windows of the cars, very fre-
quently in showers.
In long through trains, at least one car is fitted with
separate closets for ladies and for gentlemen; and a
small compartment is partitioned off, and fitted up with
seats and a couch for invalids. These cars cost from
450/. to 6001. each.

To travel for twelve hours at a stretch, shut up in a
car along with sixty or eighty other persons of every
class, and of varying manners, is hardly comfortable to
exclusive English notions of the comfort of a semi-
solitary coup6s, and of first-class travelling. Though
on most of the lines second class cars aro provided, in
which the traveller, by the way, may smoke if he please,
the low fares and the abundant resources of the people,
lead to a very general use of the first-class. Thus you
may sometimes see a distinguished doctor of the Church,
a judge of the supreme court, or one of the President's
Ministers, in close proximity to some honest carpenter,
or village storekeeper on a very small scale; and it is a
very common sight to see the elegant silk or satin dress
in truo French " mode," of some " upper crust" lady,
within a few feet of the rough coat of a country farmer,
or the homely shawl of the farmer's strapping wife or
daughter. Yet with all this mixing together of classes
in continual contrast, I never saw any approach to
studied rudeness, or even incivility; and it is notorious
that in the United States—would it were so in England
lady may travel alone through the whole country,
in any public conveyance she chooses, without the
chance of insult or personal inconvenience arising from
her want of a protector. In this particular, the people
of the United States prove their essentially good feeling
and gentility, and set an example to us which—now
that railway travelling has become so great a necessity,
that a hundred millions of journeys are made in the
United Kingdom every year—it is essential to enforce,
it we would ensure the comfort of ladies travelling alone.
The fares charged on the railways in the Northern
States are, generally speaking, lower than those de-
manded in districts of less population: and especially in
the Southern States. The through first-class fares on
some of the principal Northern railways are as follows:
Erie Railroad, 469 miles, New York, it per mile.
Michigan Central, 218 miles, Michigan, lid. per mile.
Pennyslvania, 136 miles, Pennsylvania, led. per mile.
Western, 200 miles, Massachusetts, 11d. per mile.
Housatonic, 88 miles, Connecticut, id. per mile.
Boston and Providence, 43 miles, Massachusetts,
per mile.

Atlantic and St. Lawrence, 47 miles, Maine, lid. per
mile.
Long Island, 95 miles, New York, 1 1-163.
Hudson River, 75 miles, New York, id. per mile.
Old Colony, 57 miles, Massachsetts, lid. per mile.
The usual fares on the Southern lines may be gathercd
from the following selection:—
Baltimore and Ohio, 179 miles, Maryland and Va., 23.
per miles.
Central Virginia, 71 miles, Virginia, lid. per mile.
Georgia, 171 miles, Georgia, lid. per mile.
Macon and Western, 101 miles, Georgia, 2d. per mile.
Montgomery and West Point, 68 miles, Alabama, 21-0.
per mile.
South Carolina, 136 miles, S. Certain, lid. per mile.
Ditto Columbia Branch, 68 miles, ditto, 28d. per mile.
West Feliciano, 26 miles, Louisiana, 22d. per mile.
Wilmington and Weldon, ;162 miles, North Carolina,
lid. per mile.
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a elementsdar of
country; yet we see fares in force, even where no com-
petition of any kind exists, from twenty-five to fifty per
cent. lower than our own. The difference is to be ac-
counted for primarily by the lower first cost of the rail-
ways themselves, and in lesser degree by the lower speed
and more economical system of working adopted.
Capital must have its return: and though competition
may bring down prices for a time, or permanently, the
public will ultimately have to pay such rates as will not
merely defray the bare cost of working, but yield a rea-
sonable profit also; and the scale of that profit must
always be more or less measured by the extent of capital
requiring a dividend. Therefore the public have a deep,
though undoubtedly indirect, interest in cheapening, in-
stead of enhancing, the first cost of railways.
Then, again, in England we cover our lines over with
superintendents, police, guards, porters, and a host of
other officials; and relieve the passenger of many of
those troubles which, in America, he contends with him-
self. Travellers in our country would " write to the
Times" in a moment, if they were not attended almost
from the door of the booking-office at one end of a rail-
way, to the cab-stand at the other, by some smirking
official in full uniform. In America., the traveller " fixes"
most matters himself. You go up to some gentleman at
a station, whom you suspect to be one of the porters of
the company,—for, as no uniform is worn, the identifi-
cation is difficult, and request to be informed " If he is
one of the officials?" He will, in all probability, reply,
" Well, suppose I am, now?" On which you will po-
litely point to your trunk, and state that you require its
deposit in the baggage car. If the trunk be a very
little one, the chances are that he will do what you ask;
but if, unfortunately, it should be a very big one, he
may answer, " Well, now, guess I ain't."
When the train is ready to move on the conductor
usually calls out twice, " All on board?" and then off it
goes; the man never thinking it necessary to see that all
his passengers are inside: and if his attention should be
called to the fact, that some pursy gentleman is left be-
hind, he will most likely lean over, and, listlessly exa-
mining the distanced passenger, coolly say, " Suspect,
now, he'll come by next train, he will." Americans learn
very early the excellent rule of self-dependence; and
the railway travelling public wisely consider it their
duty to look after themselves. So there is leas need of
porters, police, interpreters, and inquiry officers than
with us.
The locomotive used in the United States is an ugly
machine, with a "pilot," or iron guard before it. It
runs on ten, twelve, or fourteen wheels, in order more
equally to distribute the weight in driving over lightrw
metals; and has a chimney, broad at the top andbnasraiosta
at the bottom, like a great inverted bell, which assists
the air draught. These machines cost abouti,
almos.
each. They burn wood, in lieu of coke or coal,
ever;
universally. This necessitates frequent stopp g
aat stations,
twenty or twenty-five miles, to take in woodd
onstant as
and the heat evolved is not so regular ank
e ave-
that derived from the consumption of cotbree.o
farthings
rage cost for this fuel is from twopence
or " compensa.
to fivepence per mile run. The wages,
about two
tion," of engine drivers will average
two dollars
dollars a day, the extreme price being
nd run more
, a
and a half; but they work longer.s hoursusual with us.
miles with the same engine, than I half those of
Firemen's wages are seldom more than
important officer
drivers. The conductor, who is f
than the guard of an English train, usually receives from
two to three dollars a day.
e and long, like the pas-
The freight cars are larg
built to hold from seven
senger cars. They are usually
invariably covered,
to twelve tons, and almostare.de
This class of waggon is used
hav-
ing slide doors at the s_t
a-
re
seen a horse, a cow a
for all purposes; and I b
two or three tons of shin
gle
hogshead of sugar, and
board, all loaded in the same vehicle. These cars cost
from 150. to 2301. each.
Massachusetts railways
per-
The working of the may
the •
taken as illustrating ordinary mile-
age,haps be fairly
d expenses, of American railways,
where, earnings, on of lines open, there is the number pen, is where, from The statistics of
consi-
derable competition. these roads, as
how the
made ap last year, show following results :--
Total of railway then open
Total number 0f1,025
Total number of miles run by trains in year 4,436,895
Number of miles run by Passenger trains ..2 2,668,201
Number of miles run by freight (goods)
trains ••• ••
assengers carried Number of p
Number of tons of merchandise carried
Total income from passengers
Total income from merchandise
Total bloom from OA Sources

1 768,694
• 8,782,742
• 2,205,165
£712,810
... £574,723
... £1,350,833

IRELAND.
• • £797,436 DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—The Special Commission
was opened yesterday, when the Lord Chief Justice
of the Queen's Bench delivered an effective charge to
the grand jury. He observed that a large portion of
that county—Monaghar, as well as large portions of
Louth and Armagh, were suffering from all the terror
and all the horror which Ribbonism was calculated to
produce. The Learned Judge then described the
late dreadful murder of Mr. Bateson, and told the
jury that two persons charged with that crime were
about to be put upon their trial. The bills against
Francis and Owen Kelly were then sent befpre the
grand jury, who found a " true bill." The prisoners
were arraigned, and the trial postponed to this
morning.
The railway from Dublin to Castleblaney is guarded
by policemen, so that no damage can be done to the
rails, and the entire road from Castleblaney to Mo-
naghan is covered with police. This precaution has
been deemed necessary from the excited state of the
country.
The official investigation at Forkhill, county of
Armagh, regarding the attetrcot to murder Mr.
Chambre, will be resumed on Friday next ; and in
the meantime a number of prisoner.% have seen re-
manded, besides the persons who stand committed
for trial. The magistrates hold their inquiry with
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t •
The bulletin issued on Monday states that "delirium
is still present, and no improvement in his sympto ms
has as yet taken place.":
This morning we have received the following more
favourable bulletin :
" Mr. Chambri has had a very good night. The de-
lirium this morning is much has.
" The inflammation of the eye and neighbouring
structures is so much diminished that we have been able
to trace the course of the pellet into the eye' and have
reason to hope that it has not proceeded further.
" We are thus enabled to report rather more favour-
ably, though his case is still vary precarious.
" J. W. STRONGE, M.B.
" E. G. BRUNRER,
" Hawthorn Hill, Jan. 27, two o'clock."
Very unpleasant accounts are received from parts
of the county of Down as to the extension of the
Ribbon organization; and it is asserted that some of
the Presbyterian peasantry are connected with the
agrarian combination. There can be no doubt that
the secret confederacy, which has ramifications in
four counties—Armagh, Louth, Monaghan, and
Down—is mainly directed against rents. It is, in
fact, one of the worst species of Communism, seeking
to work its wicked and impracticable objects through
crime and intimidation.
CHIEF SECRETARY FaR IRELAND.—SiT William
Somerville, Bart., left town yesterday by the mid-
day mail for London. It is stated that the Right
Hon. Baronet is to be raised to the peerage, and will
not return to this country as Chief Secretary. This
would create a vacancy in the representation of
Drogheda, for which two or three candidates are
already spoken of.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WINDSOIL-011 Tuesday
afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, William M'llae, the
foreman porter in the Great Western Railway station in
Windsor, was standing on the arrival liL'e in the Windsor
station of the Great Western Railway, nemly opposite her
Majesty's waiting-room, having just given instructions to
the porters under him to pull in two carriages which were
standing outside the station on the middle line to form the
following 7.20 train, he was watching an engine which was
backing some trucks on the arrival side, and had just called
out to the engine-driver to be careful, forgetting his own
perilous situation, when at that instant the buffer of the
second-class carriage, which he had just given directions
about, knocked him down, and the wheels passed over his
body and right arm, which were crushed in a frightful
manner, causing instant death. It is somewhat extraordinary
that the deceased should on this occasion have been oil' his
guard, as it has been a regular occurrence for several months
past to have the carriages brought in at this particular time;
and he had always had the carrying out of this arrangement
Yesterday (Wednesday) an inquest was held on the body by
Mr. Thomas Martin, coroner for the borough, and a verdict
of accidental death recorded.

RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OF ARUNDEL AS M.P.
FOR LIMERICY.—We are in a position to state that the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey has finally resolved to resign his seat
for Limerick borough in a short period after the meeting of
Parliament. The Noble Earl is reported to be indisposed at
Carlton-terrace. His medical advisers recommended that he
should not attend the banquet given by his constituents in
Limerick on Wednesday last. —Advertiser.
DR. DARLING OUTDONE.—ELECTRO-BIOLOGY.—
M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte will continue his series of ex•.
periments on the people in a perfectly wakeful state, who will
go down on their knees to him at the word of command,
imagine themselves to be Negroes, and M. Bonaparte their
owner; believe him to be Alexander the Great, Julius
Cossar, the Caliph Haroun Alraschid, &c. ; and exhibit, in
every particular, the most perfect submission to the will of
the operator.—Palace of the Tuileries, daily, till further
notice.—Punch.

OIL FATAL TO FLEAS.—Mr. Henslow, of Hitcham,
writes thus in the Gardener's Chronicle :—" Our Bob, clever
dog as he is at a rat, cannot contrive to rid himself of fleas.
Partly Scotch terrier, and partly undefined mongrel, he is
short-necked and short-legged as a turnspit. In spring and
autumn, more especially, the fleas take up their quarters in
two positions, one along his back, and the other on his chest,
where they increase and multiply to an extent sufficient to
make the life of Bob very uncomfortable. I recommended
some sweet oil (any oil would have answered) to be poured
over the infested parts, and rubbed in with a rag, knowing
how instantly fatal such an application would be to insect
life. The application succeeded perfectly. I am told the
dead fleas tumbled out by scores; and hundreds fell off him
as the rubbing proceeded. He was afterwards washed with
a solution of common soda, in order to get rid of the oil;
and Bob has assumed the air of a decidedly comfortable dog
ever since."

DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC LITERARY CHARACTER.
—Yesterday an inquest was held at Camberwell on the body
of Mr. Richard Alfred Davenport, aged 75, author of his-
tories of America and India, and several poems of great
ability. On Sunday, about four o'clock, the attention of
police-constable Dwyer was attracted by low moans issuing
from Brunswick Cottage, Park-street, Camberwell (the resi-
dence of the deceased). He knocked at the door, but could
obtain no answer, and he therefore broke into the front
parlour, and found the deceased lying in the pagave nearly
dead, with a bottle that had contained laudanum in his
hand. A surgeon was sent for, but a few minutes after his
arrival the deceased expired. Several bottles were found in
his bedroom containing laudanum, of which he was in the
constant habit of taking large quantities while writing.
Upon the jury going to view the body, the house presented a
most extraordinary appearance—the rooms
,were literally
crammed with books, manuscripts, pictures, ancient coins,
decaying, everything being covered
and antiques of various descriptions. The deceased has re-
sided in the house for upwards of eleven years, during 'which
of the house (of
time it had never been cleansed, and the books, beds, and
wfuirtnhitsurest.weTreherapwi
Which deceased
was the freeholder) were ell broken, the whole plapre-
senting
a most dilapidated appearance. Verdict, " Thcaet the indlydows
deceased died from inadvertently taking an overdose of
opium."
ADULTERATED PEPPER.--A.t the Court of Inland
Revenue yesterday, Samuel Lind
Marsh, Lambeth (Opposite the Lindsey, a grocer, of Lower
charged with having sold mustard
Victoria Theatre), waif
articles, for the adulteratio husks, rice, and other
After the hearing of the evidence, and in imitation of pepper.
sidered the case made out • ence, the Court said they con-
convicted of a similar , and, as the defendant had been
when the penalty of offencelow on the 26th of March, 1851,
now give judgment was mitigated to 251., they should
against him in the penalty of 501.
A FRENcit CA
Eng-
land advertises RD —A certain Professor in
Louis lessons in " Dancing and Deportment." Pro-
fessorsends French citizens Napoleon,
'who gives balls at the Tuileries, and
teacher of izens to Cayenne, may be cansidered as a
Dancing and—Deportation.—Punch.
PORTLAND BREAKWATER.—A lithograpWc marine
view of Portland and its Breakwater, dedicated to. Mr. John
Murray,urra has just appeared from Sherrer's Office. It is taken
from the sands on the sea shore, beneath Sandsfoc.t Castle,
and is a very creditable production.
NATURAL GAS.—The stream of natural gas on
Chat Moss, near Manchester, is still so abundant that it
serves to heat the boilers and work the engine and threw iling
machine at Messrs. Evan's farm, which is situated about
fifty yards from the place where it issues from the earth.
The insurance on the building has been changed to stuit it
to this novel kind of fuel. _ _

.... . --...—........
SUDDEN DEATH OF GENERAL SIR LEWIS GRA WT.
—Yesterday morning, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at
the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of General Sir Les via
Grant, aged 70, who resided at 31, Harley-street, Cavendial`P'
square, and whose death took place under the following cir -
cumstances :—On Monday evening last deceased got into an'
omnibus in Regent-circus, Piccadilly to side to Mortimer-
street, and as he was nearing his destination he was ,sud-
denly attacked with a violent pain in his side. On this
being intimated to the conductor, the omnibus was driven
out of its route to the Middlesex Hospital, and the deceased
was taken into the institution, when, upon Mr. Cafe, sur"
geon, attending upon him, he found life to be quite
extinct.
The medical gentleman having made a post morass examina
tion, proved that death resulted from disease of the heart,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death ac-
cordingly.
GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY.—The steam-ship
with fitly-four
which sailed from the Clyde the 10th inst., -
on
Glasgow,
passengers and freight valued at 106,0004, re-
night. She was struck by a dreadful sea on the evening of
Tuesday, the 20thinst., which carried away the starboard
rof the
The first
crew were ands third
office
bulwarks, the wheel-house, and binnacle, and filled the saloon
with three feet water. Mr. Robertson' the second officer,
wasswepts •
severely
, the
overboardcarpent e r
,an and d drowned.three
ae itur .
engines • ed
injured. Captain Stewart, therefore, thought it prudent to
return. The hull of the
andshiponfounded with
(The " Glasgow" must not be. c
d at Liverthe "City of
pool.
)
Glasgow," which is now losing
ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, JAN. 28.—The
er was relieved yesterday by the fol-
detachment at the Tow .
h 1 ft R ff'
t whic e o a-wharf in
lowing detachmen , one of the
acket Company's boats for London.
Woolwich Steam-P
6
bridge:-1 captain,
i subaltern, non-commissioned officers.
drivers, and 1 t
and rumpeter, ofCaptain Hen..
,
42 gunnersloth battalion.
derson's comPacY2 Captain Henderson com-
manded the Meow:tent, rand was accompanied by Lieu tenant
Newbolt.
ocEAN STEAMERS.—The United States mail
Pacific, Captain Nye
steamer , sailed from Liverpool yester-
day at twenty minutes to two o'clock for New York, with
the usual mails, a full cargo, and 41 passengers. ../' enzl
N4' Lind is expected to arrive in Liverpool by the Atlantic, •hic
11
is due on Wednesday next. The City o f Glasgow sai Is for
Philadelphia on the 4th of February. We learn this t the
steamer Glasgow, which sailed from Glasgow to New Ya rk on
the 9th instant, has put back into Glasgow greatly data aged
RAPID PASSAGE.--The Refuge Wilson, a British
North American built • - Liverpool on Tu.eaday
ship arrived at
last from New Orleans havin made the passage in t virenty-
three days. This ' much the shortest passage ever made
is
between the two porta.

Fiu,—Niach is said about our defenceless state and the
dancer we are in, from the ambition of that uprincipled
tr r, Louis Napoleon. It is rumoured that our army
is to be increased 25,000 men, and our militia called out.
Let me suggest a substitute for the latter, by a plan
which I think will be successful—abate a great nuisance
(the game-laws)—and cost nothing to the State. Let a
licence for shooting game be given to every one who will
enrol himself to be trained for military service, and vo-
luntecr to serva against an invading force. The corps
*Sight be dressed as gamekeepers usually are, and find
their own equipments. I have no doubt that tens of
thousands of able-bodied active young men would thus
form a military corps of Riflemen, who would give as good
an account of Frenchmen as of grouse or partridges.
Poaching would be at an end—the prisons would not be
filled with men whom the laws made criminals, and who
would deserve a cross of the Legion of Honour instead of
3 remain yours, &c,
Sheffield, 22d Jan., 1852.

T. A. WARD.

THE LATE LiEcifT GALE.
The furious gale which swept along the Channel
ani eastern coast during the who's of last Saturday
and Sunday has been productive of the most serious
disasters.

A melancholy one happened on the eastern coast,
between Cromer and Yarmouth. A fine brig called
the Eluide, Mr. Russel master, belonging to Stockton,
wag on a voyage to the Thames from Hartlepool, and
when abreast of Cromer she encountered the formid-
able gale of Saturday. At length sbe sprang an
alarming leak, and the most vigorous working of the
crew at the pumps failed in reducing the water.
Tremendous seas.kept breaking over her, sweeping
the decks and carrying away everything moveable.
As the evening advanced she lost her steerage, and,
‘-atching a heavy blast of wind, went over on her
beam-ends, and instantly foundered in some eight or
ten fathoms of water. The crew had not the least
means of preserving themselves, and, with the excep-
tion of the master, every soul on board perished.
Mr. Russel contrived to make his way up the rigging
as the vessel was going down. He secured himself
in the crosstrees, and after being in that position up-
wards of 12 hours he was taken off by the Inconstant,
of Blyth, and landed near Yarmouth. When res-
cued he was in a most exhausted condition.

Early on the morning of the same day another de-
plorable catastrophe occurred on the same coast.
While the wind was raging with all its force from
the south-west the Elizabeth, Mr. Negus master,which
was on a voyage from the Tyne to London, came in
collision with a barque in ballast. The violence of
the shock may be judged from the fact that the barque
within five minutes afterwards foundered in deep
water with every soul on board. The name of the
El-fated vessel could not be ascertained, and the for-
inidable state of the weather prevented the Elizabeth
iriakiog any prompt efforts to rescue, if possible, the
poor fellows. The Elizabeth lost her bowsprit, and
sustained other damage by the collision. She cruised
about the scene of the catastrophe as long as practi-
cable, in the hope of picking up some of the crew of
th. barque; but nothing of them or the wreck could
be Den. The Elizabeth then made for Whitby, Bor
10 miles distant, which she reached in the course of
the day.
The Kentish Knock, a formidable shoal some 30
-n::-4 from the entrance of the Thames, was the scene
of dep'orable wreck. A schooner, named the Ann
and Elizabeth, from Mogador to London, in beating
up the Channel, was driven on the Knock, and the
violent weather which was prevailing destroyed all
chance of getting her off. She speedily became a
wreck, and we regret to add that a passenger (whose
name has not been communicated) and master were
lost. The remainder of the crew and a second pas-
senger were preserved by the Alpha, of Barking,
which stood for Harwich, and landed them. During
the gale the cre of the Earl of Errol, bound to Bou-
logne, which had sprung a leak and had foundered,
sought refuge on the Kentish Knock light-vessel, and
have since been taken off and conveyed to Deal. In
the upper part of the Swin several sunken wrecks
have been observed, but the fate of the crews have not
transpired.
The accounts from the Welsh coast speak of the
gale having been very destructive. The disasters in
the St. George's Channel have already been noticed,
tlit we may mention that the Leeds Dublin steam-
'9.ll). which was abandoned on Saturday, was reported
yesterday to have been sighted on Sunday morning
t about 2s miles N. by W., from the light-ship, not
having then foundered.

AUTHORITIES IN FAVOUR OF
PAPER MONEY.
THE FIRST KIR ROBERT PEEL.
After the disastrous panic of 1825, the first Sir
Robert Peel addressed a letter to the Members of
both Houses of Parliament dated Bth of March,
traB26, from which the following passages are ex-
cted :---
t 4 Hiving been long and extensively engaged in
ct-Alimeroial dealings, I often witnessed a national em-
barrassment, arising from a defective and impure cur-
r9Lcy, which resembled the present stagnation of
trade; and lament to observe that suffering and ex-
perience havel failed, in this instance'
of producing
their usual good eff
enlargedna-b
rsatcaitneg oaf
business carried in
.ion ecm.
this country,
e
great variety of ,
Suits, a reliance on a metallic illacir-
culation ever did, andthough
n ever will fail us. Gold,
n disappears in eonaecin.neoof
In. itself massy, ofce
war or speculation ; nay,
the breath of rumour itself
Ls sufficient to disperse it. Our domestic concerns
are interrupted, and confidence lost for want of an
ample and improved medium of traffic. I am
nu friend to an unrestrained issue of paper moneyf a due quan,
aed save with concern, in the absence
titqr of specie, notes
admitted into ocirculation, issued
by persons of respectability possessing property, but
e-rid.,.-itly unable to meet a sudden and large demand
upon them. More than two years ago I mentioned
to a friend high in his Majesty's councils, my fears of
the mischief likely to result if this practice were not
discontinued, accompanied with a suggestion to con-
fine future issues of paper money or tokens to the
Bark of England, or other competent bodies of men,
who twould give security in land, the public funds,
can7:l3, buildings, or other tangible property, amount-
ing to at least half the value of their bills or notes in
circulation, My proposition was not favoured with
any notice, yet had it been adopted, I am of opinion
tINI most of the panic and distress now so severely
felt in the nation would have been avoided. If such
an improvement in the banking system could be made
available, gold would become less requisite, and the
coon would be supplied with a statio,nary medium
'4 "leba • • • with ourselves. —Derbyshire
f, nge originating
,OUrier.

toLl:actico":;;;:ra briers' is no such thing 23 a pips of
so_R:.l°,.kl iii",F3,bl3laue-rkSoYMilniari I see English gentlemen go about
, hookahs, pipes,
ions like Irish apple-women. I hear
y., turns Narghiles, Chiboucks, meer-
iowater ;
ct ,r inventions 111)5e, straw pipes, and a host of
sir, is the oird emitting the fumes of tobacco. But
warden's i
p•Pe, the un original alderman pipe, the church-
Was wont to moisten tLlulterated "yard of clay ?" A man
it to his lips; when onoes.tern carefully with bear ere he put
could sit behind that pipieti,3vas alight, it kept alight; a man
y ou,llut
ridiculous figments the can a man sit behind the
now? The yard of clay
is departed. A dim Pipesshadow it lingers sometimes in the
parlours of old city taverns jeomhf met with it once in the Bull
Ring at Birmingham.
nowlerd of it in Chester ; but in
its entirety, as a popular acknwere.owledged pipe,
hered with the things that
of foreign it must be num-
Wirrde. Dichens's Household
The following are the quantities
,
1852 :
_5,437P0b0l for the fortnight
cheese, kc., imported into Liver grain,
['ling 21st January,
~.:4hels ditto, 3,454 barrels of flonr, 7,0284 gs wheat,
...acks ditto, 25,031
79,612
, -14hels Indian corn, 2,118 bags ditto, 5,3
..'", barrels oatmeal, 354 boxes cheese, ,i 20 bushels beans.
and 16 casks ditto.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend I Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price
Annam. Share.
_---- - .....•••
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Albion ••••••• • • • • • • • V. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 118.6d.b5. 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine. -•• • • 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43%
A.las 138.6 d. 50 0 0 510 8 17%
Argus Life ••••- • • •• 41. per cent. 100 8 0 16 0 0 --
British Commercial - 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 27%
County ......., ~
.... 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown
14s. 50 0 0 b 0 0 15
Eagle • • ...... ...... .. ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Eqity and Law .... • • 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 4Y
European Life ••• • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 12
General ............ - 5 0 0 •• 5%
Globe ......... -. . - 61. per cent. Stock. 133
Guardian •• ..••• • • • • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 55%
Imperial Fi:e •••• - • • 121. per ccnt. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 125. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18
Indemnity Marine- • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 50
Law Fire . ...... •• • • 2s. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3%
Law Life.. -••••• • •• - 100 0 0 10 0 0 46%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5%
London Fire .. •• •• -10 s. & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 21%
London Ship ••.•• • • • • 10s. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 21%
Marine.. ........... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 15%
Med.lnvlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
Monarch ••••••• • • • • • - 5 0 0 1 0 0 19s.
national Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Palladium Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
phceni. .. ... . . ... •• • • 31. p. sh. icbs. - - 161
Professional Life.. •• •• M. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 178.6 d
provident Life •••• • • • • 11. ss. lc bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
Rock Life •••••• • • • • • • ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6%
Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & be. Stock. all 227
itua fire.. ... • • - • • -6/. 10s. - •• 209
Ditto Life If. 6s. - 48
United Kingdom
Universal Life lO% ct. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life. 5/. per cnt. - 412 6 5%
BRIDGES
Dividend i Amount
Name of Company. per , of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--.„_.--
X. a. d. X. s. 4.
Hungerford - •• • • ..• •• - - - 15
Southwrk .. .. -.• . . - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 708. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo ••••••• • •• • • - 100 0 0 - 3
Data Old Ann. of 81. 21. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 24%
Ditto Nw ditto 0f.71. 21. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 22
Vauxhall .. .. .• . Av. 21. 70 10 3 - 18
WATER-WORKS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- -
1 £ e. El. £ a. d.
East London.;.• •• .... Bl. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 144
Grand Junction •• •-• 1 4/. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 67
Kent-- - .......... I 41. per cat. 100 0 0 - 81
Lambeth - 97
New River Company.. 1 2/. 10s. - - GO
Vauxha11'............ ' 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 97
West Middlesex. . . 61.05. pr cnt. - - 106
DOCXS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- - -- -- -
£ s. d. X s. d.
Commercial .......... 41. pr cent. Stock. - 85%
East and West Ind' a ... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 144
East Country ~... - . 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 - -
London .... ....... 51. pr cent. Stock.
per cent. - - 121
Ditto 80nd5.... •• •• 41. - -
St. Katharine ........ 3% per cent. Stock.
Ditto Bonds •••• • • • • - 81
13%1. pr cent. - -
Southampton •• •••• • • 1 - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
CANALS.
1 9. Dividend
Names of ...-• Dividend .
Pric. Names of ~
Companies. :1 per " Companies. g i
Annum. Price.
m ."„,ce.
.in
m Annum. in
A i 4
Ashtn& Oldh 98 71. p. ct. 140 3dacclesfleld • 1001 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.... 160 - - Neath ...• •• S
100 , 161. -
Urknk&Abrg 1501 Si. 85 Oxford...-. 100( 13/. 135
Birmingham 40 41. 93% Peak Forest. 78 131. 18s. 70
Coventry.. • • 1001 25/. 200 Regent's .... 33 1/. 3s. 17%
Derby -•• •• 1001 61. 63 Rochdale...• 65 21. 42
EllsmreBsChs 69 2% p. ct. 33% Senarset Coal 150 - -
GrandJunctn 100 31.pr.ct.1 48% Do.LkFdSt
LIDo., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 11% Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 32% Shrewsbury.. 125 - -
k ;rand Union 100, if. 10s. 24 Stonrbridge.. 145 201. 290
Kennt& Am 21. Os. 24 39 4s. 04. 5% Severn andi
Lancaster . 100 - - Wye hall. i 26
Leeds&Livrp 100, 201. 405 Warwick&
Leicester .... 100 51. 66 lairming. J 100 41. 40
Leicstr&Nth 83 41. 44% Warwick& -I
Longhborogh 142 701. 510 Napton-j 100 31. 28
Monmouthsh, 100 - - Worcstr &2
Mntgonarysl4lloo - - , Birming. j7B 31. 33
3ieltn3lwbry 100 - ' - "Wilts & Brks! - I Is. 6d. 7%

OAS-LIMIT AND CORE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. I Price,
Annum. Share.
---- - -
X. s. d. Z. s. d.
British .............. 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 10
Ditto Provincial-, ii, ss. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
Brighton .......... ~ 51. 20 0 0 - _
City of London ...... 61. 160 0 0 150 0 0 130
Continental Consolidat. 50s. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable .... .... .... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27l
Imperial .... ,„ ...... 3/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69%
Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
L0nd0n............., - 50 0 0 50 0 0
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Peri. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0
Phcenix • ............ 41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 26%
Rateliff ..... ........ 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General ...... 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 16%
Westminster Chartered 31. 150 0 0 - 42
Ditto, New .. -... 123. 150 0 0 10 0 0 -
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------ --
Bank of Scotland ..... £ s. d. £ a. d
71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 182
British Linen Company C. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 199
Caledonian Bank ..... 61. per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 3/.lls.
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank-..... 71 ~
`. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 121 12s
Commercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 176
Eastern 8ank........ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9%
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 3%
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 42 0 0 8
National 8ank..,..... ci,
.v per cant. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15
Northof Scotlandßank 51. percent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 132
Urlon Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88
Western Bank -. .. •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67%
Affiance Fire and Life 6% Lpr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
British Guarantee .... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 6 22s 6d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow Life.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 15s
Colonial Life ........ 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 2%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 22
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 34
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 31. 153
National Fire and Life Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 255. 6d
North British Insur. .. 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 30
Scottish Union Inarnce. 65114.1p.eprrcceenntt. 2050 00 00
71
00 00 2912.014 d
Standard Life • • • • • • • •
United DeP. Assurance •
31 per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 20s Cd
MISCELLANEOUS.
I Dividend Amount
Name of ComPanY• j per
Shoa.fre Paid.
_.......Price.
I Annum.
----t -
--
I - I£.
20 ad
dO. 10 10
4.0
9
Aseam Tea • • ...• • • • •
26%
A.knuscttrieEdnia3nlarAtgri• •
c•ui• • .t.;1:1 211.1.53.
35 -0
0 15
35 0 0 204
10 0 0 10 0 0 22
Atinusgtiroa-iimanexiTcrfnts
Mint..
6l.lpLerocde.nt. 110500
-00 00
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 -
British American Land - - 38 10 0 -
Cars.da ......... •• .. 61. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 32 10 0 -
Do. 5 per cent Bonds - ' - - 140
Ditto, 6pr et. Bonds 161. per:cent. - - - City Navigation Bonds i3l per cent. 1 - - 98%
GenDZlTeerws. & Invest. 15p.;._.icbs,2/,100 0 0 100 0 0 95
Equitable rteversienry ,5/ r cent. ;100 0 0 100 0 0
50 0 0 7 10 0 -
•.......
Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28
Hudson's Hay... • 206
Flungerford . . :: •,
- Stock. -
21. 53. - 100 0 0 47
London Institntio'n .1.
-
New Zealand Company - 78 15 0 6%
penintiasteti
to,
rlaNn.etiowrtai.eti.no.tn..s.t.ra.....
81. p - 25 0025 0 0
-
Reversionary Int. Soc. 411. ip• :Prer: 25 0012 10 0 -
-
bartece!..lso2oos
000
00
,1502006
005
000
1007-0%
Royal Mail Steam....
1i• IL share. 100 0 0 1,60 0 0 7734
South Australian. •...
Van Dieman's Land.. 0 125 0 0 23%
IGO oi2B 0 0 i 1
............___

London, andLONDON.
por-
tionicl.tele. fresh air, to raec 'woinnein.ed this
THE DRESS3IAKE ----
relier_rtuhiet
One portion of the inhabitants OP
standing most in need of natsrnf
their exhausted frames, are
dressmakers and plain-work
reflect at
1 high and noble dames, for the adornment 11;
Would
theirFould
the
sons these poor creatures toil through the
night,
per_
and not unfrequently through the long eery day,
how dear a price the graceful robe that displays the ele-
gance of their forms so well is obtained!
then combine together, and resolve to use
powerful influence to change a system introduced throughell-
powerful
desire of meeting the unreasonable demands
dresses to be made up at notices too short to admit of athfet'r
beingw. finished, except by the sacrifice of the sleep of thoselr
lightened of the
ttiben work at them. Could they behold the heavy
eyes,
Pallid cheeks, the attenuated frames, and
care-
worn browsof
made in afe the poor workers on the robes to be
w hours and their consciences would be
cation of their weight of their having, for the gratifi-
accomplished
tvt:mity, exacted that which could only be
Englishwomen a-r s°
is encircled by orientalheavy a penalty to the maker.
times forgetful. :ilnlot unfeeling—they are only some-
those who dive beneathPe
fsir creature, whose delicate throat
gems. Could she but wthaerls, thinks not of the risk of
wave to seize the costly
she tremble! nay, we are not
the operation, how would
admirer of pearls would not°tthsure that even the warmest
thenceforth abjure them• So,
y hours
in becoming robes,
when ladies see themselves
if
they
of toil the manufac-
ture
they reflect not on the wear
of them has occasioned;
70ditild, and we earnestly
hope they will, they would soon
their power to
lighten the labour, and to ameliorate' in
condition, of
the dressmaker.—Countess of BlessintZe

PLACES. Generai
pte ot-nptuicae Fproortm wdis..h t When
London. patched. due.
America (by Brit. pkt.)NlJan. 30 .. .. Liverpool .. Feb. 1
America (by U.S. pkt.) NFeb. 10 .. .. Liverpool .. Feb. 4
America (by TJ.S. pkt.) 14131 arch 3 .. ..ISouthampt. Arrived
Africa (West coast)" N 14th of the month Plymouth Feb. 3
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Feb. 18
Belgium .. .. .. N Daily .. .. .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. .. .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16
Buenos Ayres .. .. M 19th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16
California(viaChagree)M2d & 17th of month Southampt. Feb. 5
Capo of Good Hope Nll4th of month Plymouth.. Feb. 3
Constantinople* .... N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 30
Central America .. M2d & 17th of men. Southampt. Feb. 3
Channel Isles .. .. id Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tx. Th. Sat
Chili .. .. .. . 34117th of the month Southampt. Feb, 20
France .. .. M & IT' Twice daily .. .. Dover • . Twicedaily
Greece* .. .. .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Jan. 30
Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tees. Sat.
Holland .. • • .. M Wednes. & Satur.lLonden .. Mom. Thur
Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the mouthlSouthaxapt. Feb. 29
Ireland .. .. M& N i Twice daily .. .. 'Holyhead .. Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) 3,120 th of the month Southampt. Feb, 23
India (via Marseilles) It Bth& 24th efmonthrDover • • Feb. 1
Mediterranean (via
Sonthairrthn) • • M,2oth of tho month Southampt. Feb. 23
Mediten anean (via
Marseilles) .. .. Ndth&24th ofmonth Dover • • Feb. 1
Mexico .. .. .. M,2d of the month.. Southampt. Feb. 3
Madeira •• • • .. 111'9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 16
Malta* .. .. f 7th,17th,19th,27th } Dover Jan. 30
/ & 30th of month
Naples* .. • • •• Nisth 15th 25th ofmo Dover ..Feb. 2
Papal States* .. .. N isth 15th 25th of moI Dover .. Feb. 2
Peninsular.. • . .. M 7th 17th 27th of mo'Southampt. ,Jan. 26
Peru • • .. •• M 17th of the month Southampt. Feb. 2)
Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover • . Feb. 2
West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Feb. 20
I
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month —lSouthanspt. Feb. 13
* The mails to those o ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
French packet via Marseilles.
The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this
month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily.
CamroaNia.—Mails to and from California, via the United States
are now despatched and dne by every American packet

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JAN. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was more active
to-day, with a tendency upwards. The transactions were
as follow :—Great Western (Original Stock), 85%—Bristol
and Exeter, 84—Taff Vale, Quarters, 34.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feeling ex-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
has been done at advanced prices. The transactions were as
follow :—Caledonian, IPA—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 621%
—Ditto, Fifths, 71. 13s. 9d. dis. —Ditto, West Ridings, 53/4
dis. —Leeds Northern, IPA—Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 1% dis.—London and North-Western, 116—Ditto, New
Quarters, 3 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 234 p.—Ditto (C), Quarters,
IX, p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3114—Ditto,
Preference, 12%—Ditto, New 61. Preference, Ils. 3d. p.—
Midland, 5634—Ditto, New Preference, Bs. 9d. dis.—North
British, 7—North Staffordshire, 8% dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, 201. Bs. 9d. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 171,4—
Ditto, Preference, 31/e dis.—York and North Midland, 21%
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 121 A dis.—
Ditto (Chester and Birkenhead), 1614—Chester and Holy-
head, 2u —Ditto, Preference, 16 LA —Eastern Counties, 71,4
East Lancashire, 1534—Great Northerns, 1814—Great West-
erns, 86—Aberdeen, 11 —Ambergate and Eastern Junction,
3% dis.

MANCHESTER, JA.N. 28.
S:romc Ea MANCHESTER,
has been a fair amount of
61.tA,—Ditto, Fifths, 612 Manchester,
done to-day, and prices were buoyant at the
full rates of yesterday. The transactions were as follow :
kastern Counties, 6% —East Lancashire, l& 13-16—Cale-
donian, 1514 —Ditto, Preference, 7N—Midlands,
South-Eastern and Dover, 2u4/6, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
shir,e, 10/. Preference, 121,‘ D hi' ad Drogheda, Thirds, 11
—North Midland, 6%. u
Sheffield, and Lincoln-

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Monday last an
accident occurred at the kingley Fold Colliery, near Bury,
Lancashire, belonging to Messrs. Scott and Knowles, which
has resulted in the death of three persons, viz., Thomas
Sindley, aged I 9 years, Henry Page, aged 28 years, and
George Grundy, aged 32 years. The accident occurred in
consequence of the ignition of foul air ; but the cause of the
explosion has not yet been ascertained. Ten other persons
were in the pit at the time of the fatal occurrence, most of
whom are so seriously burnt that there is not much prospect
of their recovery•

Baron ALDERSON—And of the opposite opinions ex-
pressed by other gentlemen.—(A laugh.)
Sir F. KELLY said, if he had committed an error in
referring to opinions expressed in the House of Com-
mons, he had been led into it by what fell from the
Bench the other day as to the views of eminent Members
of that assembly. He submitted that the provisions of
the 10th George I. amounted to a legislative declaration
that the words " on the true faith of a Christian" were
no necessary or essential part of the oath of abjuration.
The oath of abjuration sonsisted of many parts, as a de-
claration of allegiance and obedience to the reigning
Sovereign, an abjuration of the right and title of the
Pretender and his family, &c., but it did not contain as
any part of the thing sworn to the fact or statement that
the party ,swearing was a Christian, nor was it the
meaning and intent of the Legislature to impose that
oath, or any part of it, upon any person as a test
of Christianity. If the oath had been intended
as a test of Christianity, it was impossible
that the Legislature should have authorized its
administration to a Jew. There was a series of Acts
after the 10th George 1., from the 2d George 11, c. 31,
to the 6th George 111., e. 7, enlarging the time allowed
for taking the oath of abjuration, which was, by the
last-named Act, extended to the 24th :of November,
1766, se that the time thus allowed was carried beyond
the passing of the 6th George 111., c. 53. He submitted,
' therefore, that the 10th George I. having sanctioned the
omission of the words " on the true faith of a Christian,"
when the oath of abjuration was taken 'by members of
the Jewish religion, and all the succeeding Acts re-
ferring to the same identical oath, the effect of these Acts
was, that from the time of the 10th George I. the oath
of abjuration, as taken by the members of the Jewish
religion, would be taken with that omission. He main.
tained that whenever the law of this country imposed
upon any subject of the realm the duty of taking an oath,
the law not only permitted but required that that oath
should be taken in such manner and form as to bind the
conscience of the swearer. The oath of abjuration was
not one which might or might not be taken, according
to a person's pleasure or interests, but in many oases
it became a matter of necessity on the part
of members of the Jewish religion to take this
oath, and the question was whether the law which com-
pelled a Jew to take the oath compelled him to take it
in a way which would subject him to the guilt at once
of blasphemy and perjury. It appeared from the Ist
George 1., c. 13, and from the recital of the other Acts of
Parliament, that their sole object was to secure the per-
son and Government of the Sovereign, and the succes-
sion to the crown, and to extinguish the hopes of the
Pretender or his family, and that these Acts had no re-
ligious aspect or tendency whatever. It was in the first
instance provided that all persons holding public offices
should publicly take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy,
and abjuration, and afterwards it was enacted that these
oaths should be taken by all Members of the House of
Commons before they could sit and vote. It must be
borne in mind that though it was competent to any man
to accept or reject an office of profit, a person elected a
member of the House of Commons became a Member of
Parliament, with all the duties and liabilities, as well as
with all the privileges of the position, whether ho would
or no. A person so elected could not reject the office;
he was a Member by the election, and was subject to the
jurisdiction of the House, even though he might have
been returned against his own will.
The CHIEI BARON observed that a person did not be-
come a member of the House of Commons until he had
taken his seat.
Sir F. KELLY begged, with great respect, to differ
from his Lordship. He apprehended that, although a
Member of Parliament was, by the express terms of the
statute, prevented from voting, till he had taken the
oaths, he was in every other respect whatsoever a Mem-
ber of Parliament before he had taken the oaths, whe-
ther with regard to duties, liabilities, or privileges, as
he was after he had taken the oaths. It was stated in
" Dwarris on Statutes," supported by reference to
" Hatsell," that, notwithstanding all the forms which
were introductory to a Member taking his seat in the
House of Commons, a person when returned—though he
might not have taken his seat—was to all 'intents a
Member, except as regarded the right of voting, and
was entitled to the privileges the same as every other
Member. He begged their Lordships' attention to the
10th and 11th sections of the Act Ist Geo. 1., c. 13. The
10 h section empowered two justices of the peace, or
any other persons specially appointed by the Crown, to
administer and tender the oath of abjuration to any per
son or persons whom they might suspect to be dangerous
or disaffected to his Majesty,
and if the person to whomithe
oath was so tendered should refuse to take it, such per-
son should be judged a Popish recusant convict, and
liable to the penalties of przemunire. So that not only
at the time when the Aot was passed, but at the pre-
sent day any two justices of the peace, if they suspected
that any member of the Jewish religion was disaffected,
might call upon him to take the oath of abjuration, and
if he refused to take it he became liable to the penalties
of preemunire. The 1 1 th section of the Act was, how-
ever, still stronger. It provided that two or more jus-
tices of the peace might, without any cause at all, sum-
mon any person to appear beesrt them to take the oaths
mentioned in the Act; and it such persons should not
appear before the justices, or at the quarter sessions,
they should bo esteemed and adjudged Popish
recusants convict. The question their Lordships had
to determine, then, was, whether it was the inten-
tion of the Legislature, and whether it was
the true legal effect and construction of the Acts
of Parliament, that this oath, when tendered to a mem-
ber of the Jewish religion, should be sworn in such man-
ner as might be conformable to and binding upon the
conscience of the swearer? If their Lordships held that
the oath must be taken by Jews with the words " on
the true faith of a Christian," either the Jew must take
the oath, using those words, and so commit blasphemy
and perjury
at once, or he must refuse to take the oath,
and so be liable to all the penalties imposed upon
Popish recusants convict. It was absurd to suppose
that the Legislature, when imposing an oath of loyalty
and allegiance which persons of all classes were to be
compelled to take, could have intended to frame that
oath in such terms that ono class, at least, of the
community would be unable to take it. Any one who
looked into the recitals or enactments of the various
Acts of Parliament from the Reformation to the pre-
sent time must be convinced that all the oaths and
tests which were imposed were directed solely and ex-
clusively against Papists, and that it was never the
intention of the Legislature to affect the Jews at :jail.
After analyzing the oath of abjuration, and contending
that the words " on the true faith of a Christain,,,
formed no part of the oath or thing sworn to, Sir F.
Kelly said, if it could be shown that the Legislature in-
tended to Impose this oath as a test of Christianity, and
intended that the person swearing it should swear him-
self to be a Christian, he would admit that these were
words of substance, and ought not to be rejected.
The Cate, BARON observed that unless the words
" upon the true faith of a Christian" were the form of
oath, there was no form at all, for in the statute 6
George 111., the addition of the words, " So help me
God," did not occur.
Sir F. KELLY bad just been about to mention that
fact. In the 6th George 111., which contained the oath
as it was now administered, and upon which exclusively
this action was founded, there was no form of swear-
ing at all, unless they took the words " upon the true
faith of a Christian" to be the form of oath. If the
construction contended for on the other side were the
true construction, the Acts of 1 George I. and 6 George
111. amounted to this—that the Legislature were de-
termined to make all the King's Jewish subjects swear
they were Christians, or suffer the penalties of a
praenunire.
of Bishop
Sanderson
F. Kelly, having referred to the works
and Puffendorff for definitions of
the distinction between the thing sworn to and the mere
asseveration or words of swearing, proceeded to argue
that the Legislature of this country, iu exacting,
oaths from Jews as well as Christians, must have intended
that the form of swearing should be such as would bind
the conscience of a Jew. He contended that the prin-
ciple ho was now maintaining had been established in
the case of Omichund v. Barker"—namely, that when
the law permits or requires an oath to be taken, such
oath must be taken in the form and manner binding
upon the conscience of the Party swearing. Ile cm_

Sir F. KELLY—That might be so, certainly; and
under that view of the matter ho felt relieved from the
necessity of dwelling at any length on this statute. He
would, therefore, without recurring to the points already
urged to the Court, bring his argument to a close. He
felt it to be quite unnecessary to dwell on the vast im-
portance of the questions now raised for the opinion of
their Lordships, but he might state that he should be
much surprised, indeed, if his Learned Friend Mr. Ser-
geant Channel! should succeed in persuading them that
the statutes discussed bore any other constriction than
that for which he (Sir F. Kelly) contended. He could
not do so without persuading the Court that the
.Legis-
lature had committed the enormous crime of forcing all
the subjects of this realm to take an oath which some
could not take without incurring penalties of a most
fearful character. That oath was to be taken by every
one at the requirement of two justices of the peace, and
it would be for the Court, looking to the form of it, to
say whether the Act and the oath should be read so. as
to favour liberty of conscience, and thereby to do jus-
tice, or so as to introduce into this country the most in-
tolerable tyranny which could be devised. For these
reasons, therefore, he submitted that Mr. Salomons was
entitled to the judgment of the Court, and that these
penalties could not be recovered.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL then replied, and at the
outset remarked that he did not feel it incumbent on him
to occupy much of the time of the Court in so doing. It
was not necessary, nor would it be proper for him to
follow his Learned Friend into all of the argument he
had addressed to the Court, for much of it was of a cha-
racter which would have been better suited to another
place and another assembly, and would have come with
perfect propriety from Sir F. Kelly, when returned as
Member for the city of Exeter. Here such topics were
inappropriate, and he should not further notice them.
He should recall to the recollection of the Court the
principal points which he had submitted to them in his
opening. These were twofold. He first objected that
the oath was not properly taken on the Old Testament;
and, secondly, that the oath was a Christian oath, and
that, not having been taken in its entirety, it had not
been taken at all as required by law. He had sug-
gested that these questions should be viewed in the
spirit of the times when the oath wasimposed on
Members by the Legislature, and, having ascertained
that spirit and the nature of the oath, the Court
should then proceed to inquire whether the oath had
been altered or repealed by subsequent legislation.
Much stress had been laid on the caso of Omi-
chund v. Barker by the defendant; but the Court
would do him (Hr. Sergeant Channel!) the justice to
remember that he never flinched from that case. Ho
knew the use to which it had been put elsewhere and
what bad been said about it; bat all that was answered
by the fact that that decision applied to a country and to
a state of things where no precise form of oath existed,
and yet where it became necessary to administer an oath
in some form to a witness. That could not be better
done than in such form as that witness should declare to
be binding on his conscience, and the case was so de-
cided. But it presented no authority for saying that an
oath couched in a form devised and prescribed by Act
of Parliament with a view to Christianity could be taken
legally in any other form and with any other ceremonies
than those prescribed by that Act of Parliament. Such
was the substance of the argument for the plaintiff, and
the question it raised was, whether the 6th of George
111. was to be considered a (I, ad letter or not, or
whether " Victoria" should be substituted for the
as individuals, but in their corporate
woforhdin"gGe,eonrogte." Now, every Act on the subject spoke
capacity; and it was most absurd to say that these
Acts did not so relate to them. The Act for the re-
lief of the Roman Catholics of George IV. spoke of
the oath of abjuration as being " now by law required;
and the 3d and 4th of William IV., which relieved
Quakers, also contemplated its existence under a Wil-
liam; so that the argument as to the censor of the oath
fell to the ground. Authorities, too, showed that this ob-
jection was a futile one. They were, " Regina V.
Green," Ventris 171, and 12 Coke Rep., 350. Then
came the question, was this a Christian oath required to
be taken in a particular form? and, in considering that
question, he wished broadly, distinctly, and clearly to
claim the right to examine contemporaneous Acts of the
Legislature. He had a right to see what was dine just
before and after
the passing of the Act requiring the
oath of abjuration in its integrity, as a means of testing
the meaning of the Legislature in passing that Act.
That had not been used elsewhere, nor had Sir F.
Kelly attempted to meet it hero to-day. We must look
at the spirit of the day to determine what the Legis-
lature meant. Such an inquiry was all-important on
the question whether this oath was or was not meant to
be a Christian oath. Those contemporaneous statutes
showed that the oath was required to be taken on the
holy Evangelists; that it contained the test of the
" true faith of a Christian," and was accompanied by
the necessity of subscription to the declaration against
transubstantiation. All these things taken together
showed to demonstration that the oath was meant
to be a Christian oath, and, unless we are to be met by
the assertion that there is no such thing possible, we
say that it is impossible to deny that the oath is such.
Assuming that it is such an oath, the mere important
question remains, whether it can be taken without the
words "on the true frith of a Christian ? " Now those
words are part and parcel, and are of the essence of the
oath, which is a etatutable one. Sir F. Kelly contends
they are not part of the oath, because the Legislature
never could be supposed to have compelled any man to
commit blasphemy ; but the answer to that is that the
Legislature does not impose on Jews any obligation to
take this. oath. All that they say is, if you presume to
sit, without taking a particular oath, certain conse-
quences shall follow. It is impossible to advert to the
legislation of those days without recognising in it the
spirit of persecution. Penalties were imposed on all who
refused to take oaths in the abstract, and also on those
who abstained from the parish Church, and did not take
the sacrament ; and, though these restrictions were gra-
dually altered, they evince the spirit of the age, and
throw light on the meaning of imposing a particular
form of oatb.
Mr. Baron MARTIN—Does not the declaration against
transubstantiation rather make against than for you ?
It was imposed as a test, and is now repealed.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL —That was a fallacy. It did
not follow, because one test was repealed, all others were
also.

Mr Baron ALDERSON—Your argument is, that if
these words had been introduced into an oath now,
we should look at the law as it now stands in con-
struing that oath, and that, by the same reasoning, we
must look at the law as it stood when this oath was
introduced ?
Mr. Sergeant CsINNELL—Yes, that was tkhiengartghua;
all
ment. Though the Jews were relieved from ttaory
on
oath at quarter sessions, where it Was obligatory
persons
the Legis-
opfersaonmsetmo
btaerk?
with,
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was also to be altered. It might be well which which was to
dtltoaoinieteseu sayt
;r ed,
aiyn, dealing with the
govern a Protestant country
sion, should, when imposing all oathby
Christians, and an
a form which could only be taken
I.
showed that the al-
examination of the 10th Goeoprguer
poses of that Act;" so
proved the rule. For
teration was only
that the exception there really
that the oath
contended
these reasons it was
must be taken in its entirety; and,
oath, and
Christian "for th
assuming thatthreeCinuauinrtedwfoourldhimgiv(eserg e judgment(Sergeant
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plaintiff, it only
as to the 2d and 3d counts, he should enter
The declaration went for three penal-
° E.,"
a poll® utPhtr,autss'—ttnile. finding of the jury in the special ver-
,,,,b" distributive, and the three votes were given on
the defendant could only ho liable for one
penalty.ne
T Learned Barons having deliberated a short time,
The CHIEF BARON stated that the case had been
very well argued on b %th sides, and that, as it involved
questions of great importance, the Court, with reference
to that and to the great length of the argument, would
wish to consider its judgment, in ord.r that, they might
have an opportunity of iuukiug over the Acts. Tile
judgment, without pledging themselves to any particular
day, would be given shortly.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 28.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE SOLO3ION SOLOMON.
The bankrupt was a tailor of No. 1, Strand• This was
the certificate meeting. Ills accounts, from August, 1841,

The prisoner had been in the habit of visiting public-
houseF, and tendering the orders to servants or othars
with whom he could get into conversation. Ho described
himself as a cnequetaker at the various theatres, and
very freely guaranteed the genuineness of the tickets, to
which the names of " Thompson," " Williams," &c.,
were generally attached. He obtained from 6d. to 2s.
for the pit orders, which, on being presented at the
theatres, were detained as forgeries.
Mr. HENRY, after expressing his surprise that the
managers of some of the theatres did not take up the
prosecution, instead of leaving it in the hands of a con-
stable, ordered the prisoner to be committed for trial.
Mr. George Churchill, the publisher of the Lancet, ap-
peared on a summons to answer the charge of having
neglected to forward certain copies of that publication
to the British Museum.

Mr. A. Panizzi, the keeper of the printed books.
stated that the defendant had omitted to send the Lan-
cet regularly for some time, and it was desirable to let
all publishers know that they were bound to supply the
Museum with a copy of each of their publicatious with-
out being first requested to do so. It was no part of
the business of the officials to apprise the trade of their
obligations in this respect. Publishers were bound by
the Copyright Act to furnish them, as a matter of
course.
Mr. Churchill explained that the omission on his part
was merely accidental. He was aware of the obligation,
and had every desire to attend to it; but from indisposi-
tion and a pressure of business, the matter had escaped
his memory. He would undertake to supply copies with
regularity for the future.
Mr. HENRY, under these circumstances, imposed only
a nominal penalty of ls. for each of three omissions spe-
cified iu the summons.
WORSHIP-STREET.

James Turner and John Lye were charged with
having, in conjunction with two other men not in cus-
tody, committed the following outrageous assault and
robbery.
Mr. Joseph Moses, a tradesman in Holywell-row,
Shoreditch, was busy in his shop at half-past two on the
day preceding, when upon looking out he saw one of
the men not in custody lift up the prisoner Turner upon
his shoulders, and Turner immediately pulled down the
sign over his door and commenced breaking it in pieces.
This was evidently done to facilitate their operations at
plunder by keeping him employed, and he ran out to
rescue his property from being destroyed, but the instant
he got to the door the third man dealt him such a heavy
blow between the eyes as to bring him to the ground,
and inflict a serious contusion and swelling which he
now presented. Upon recovering from the stunning
effects of the blow he grappled with his assailant, be-
tween whom and himself a violent contest ensued, and
in the course of it he felt his coat forced open, the
pocket of his waistcoat torn out, and two sovereigns
and a half which were in it were grasped by the third
man, but not
,sufficiently tight to secure the whole, one
of the sovereigns slipping through his fingers, and
dropping at his feet. This was immediately caught
hold of by the prisoner Lye, who attempted to
dart off with it, but was seized hold of by the
prosecutor's wife, who held him with such determina-
tion that he first thrust the sovereign into his mouth
and swallowed it, and then flung her to the ground in
the middle of the road. The woman, however, with
spirited courage still clung to the prisoner, who could
not shake her off, and both rolled on the ground strug-
gling together, when the prosecutor caught sight of the
position his wife was in, relinquished his grasp of the
man he was engaged with, and seized Ley by the neck.
Lye called out to his confederates to assist him, and
Turner and the two other men not in custody exerted
'themselves to make the prosecutor release him; but the
prosecutor retained his grasp with such pertinacity, that
they were obliged to cut the prisoner's neckerchief
through with a knife, and they were all four about to
take to their heels when the prosecutor flung his arms
round the waists of Turner and Lye, and, in spite of the
most desperate attempts at escape on their part, clung to
both men until a constable came up, when they were at
length captured by the officer, the two confederates at
once disappearing, with the remainder of the money in
their possession. The prosecutor, on concluding his
evidence to the above effect, complained that he had
been severely injured in the course of the contest, and
that, in addition to the appearances which his face pre-
sented, he was still suffering from several other serious
bruises on other parts of his person.
The prosecutor's wife fully confirmed her husband's
statement, and having sworn to Turner as the man who
cut Lye's neckerchief while the prosecutor was endea-
vouring to hold him, deposed to distinctly seeing the
latter prisoner thrust one of the sovereigns into his
mouth, while one of the confederates who had escaped
retained the other gold pieces in his hand.
Both prisoners wished to make it appear that the
whole transaction was nothing more than a drunken
piece of folly, and Lye denied that he had ever seen the
sovereign referred to; but a bookbinder named Scott, re-
siding in the Commercial-road, who was accidentally
passing at the time and gave the prosecutor his address,
swore positively to seeing Lye thrust it into his mouth,
and that, suspecting the man had been engaged in a rob-
bery, he called out to the prosecutor's wife to keep firm
hold of him.
Mr. HAMNILL was about to commit both p
ris
trial, but it having been intimated that
one oners for
h
who had effected their escape was a notorious character
not
well known to the police, who it was thought r wouldension also,
have much difficulty in etlecting
until hisathat day week,
Lye and Turner were committed
that the whole might be sent for trial together.
LAMBETH.
The young woman who described herself as Mrs.
Caroline Bishop,w thaenwife of a clergyman of the Esta-
blished Church, an dwho had.been previously examined
on a charge of illegally pawning a quilt and blanket berbail u
poortvom woman
e
-
and,longing to her landlady,
Geohegen,surretardioxer,rteaodnaetocehnt
at-
tended before then
Mrs. the rG.
o seCc
said, that on the last examination the prisoner's husband
had promised to pay her a sovereign off the debt which
was owing for rent; but,instead of this, he had onl
given her 103. y
The prisoner, in reply to the Magistrate, said, the last
time she saw her husband he told her he was going to
St. Albans to get some money, and she expected he
would have been in attendance at the court.
Mr. NORTON observed, that he was anxious to see the
prisoner's husband, and as Mr. Elliott had sat on the
day Mr. Bishop attended, ha should allow the caseto
stand over to a future day, and allow the prisoner in the
interim to be at large on her own recognizances.
At a late hour in the evening Mr. Bishop presented
himself before the magistrate, and complained of the
report of the last examination of the case in the news-
papers as being most injurious to him, and calculated
seriously to damage and injure his character. The reve-
rend gentleman declared he was not aware, when he at-
tended before Mr. Elliott on the former day, that the
young woman charged with the offence of illegally pawn-
ing had represented herself as his wife, else he should
then most positively have contradicted it, as she was not
justified in assuming the character of wife
Mr. NORTON observed that he recollected perfectly well
that the young woman had distinctly stated that she had
been married to him (Mr. Bishop) three years ago, at
Lymington, and that he was in bed at the time she took
the blanket from off it, for the purpose of pawning it to
procure them a breakfast.
Mr. Bishop denied this, and said it was as untrue as
her assertion about her being married to him. He said
that a represeutatioa had guile forth that he had been
allowed as much as 51. and 3/. a week for his support,
but this was untrue, as these sums were merely pro-
mises to hie), but the promise was never fulfilled. His
property, and which, be said, was in the hands of his
assignees, amounted to 23,000/., while his just debts did '
not exceed 5,000/.; but he got so entangled in the hinds
of the lawyers that, though 13,000/, was actually duo to
him, he could not get a pound, and so straitened was
he in pecuniary matters that he had been compelled to
take the coat from his back, and pawn it for 10s, he paid
the landlady.

The MASTER, in placing the name of Mr. Clarke
upon the list, said the object was not now to settle
the general list of the contributories with the view of
making a call, but simply to ascertain who were the
parties responsible for the company's funds contri-
buted by the various shareholders, to whom they
would be called on to account as trustees and as the
acting committee.
The Earl of Harrington, Colonel Elrington,
Major
Croft, and Messrs. Tyler, Spyers, King, and Cum-
berledge were placed on the list in that capacity, thus
completing the settlement of the list of provisional and
acting committee, leaving the general list of share-
holders to be proceeded with, and the charge of the
official manager, calling on the managing committee
to account, to be brought in before the Master.

NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD.--The
works on this line were formally commenced on Mon'
day by cutting the first sod at the intended cutting la
Abergavenny and at Llanvihangel in the presence of
a large number of persons amidst considerable rejoi-
cing. Three of the directors ; Mr. Pritchard, the
secretary; Mr. Bachelor, the late mayor of Newport;
Professor Gordon; Messrs. Rennie, Logan, and
Thompson, the contractors ; Mr. Davis, the mayor of
Newport ; and Mr. Sayce, the resident engineer, took
part in the ceremony. The line is to join at Ponty-
pool the Newport and Pontypool line, which is now
completed and nearly ready for opening. The neW
line will pass through Abergavenny and Llanvihan-
gel to Hereford, a distance of 32 miles. There will
be no tunnel on the whole line from Hereford to Pon-
typool and Newport. The works are to be completed
in September, 1853, and the line opened for traffic.
The works were originally contracted for in 1847
with the present contractors, when the price of every-
thing connected with railways was exceedingly high,
but subsequently the contractors, in a very conside-
rate manner, agreed to modify the terms, in accord-
ance with present prices, and they also fulfilled their
part of the origimal agreement by taking shares in
the company to the amount of 50,000/. A splendid
banquet was given by Mr. Rennie, the contractor, at
the Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, to about 70 gentle-
men interested in the undertaking. Several toasts
were drunk, and the proceeding of the day ended in a
most satisfactory manner.

SOUTH WALES.—The Vaje of Neath Railway
Company are proceeding with the necessary prelimi-
nary surveys for securing railway communication
with the rich and important mineral valleys of Cwm'
dare and Cwmamman. The Taff Vale Compaq
projected branches to these places, but it is now un-
derstood that they have been abandoned, the standing
orders of Parliament not having been complied with.
A. fatal accident occurred on the latter line a few days
ago, when a workman was killed by the passenger
train from Merthyr passing over him, whereby be
was literally cut into two.
LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND.—Yesterdayf
the standing orders were complied with in the case of
this company's Bill, to enable the Eastern Countie9
and Blackwall Railway Companies to construct it,
with a pier or jetty into the Thames and
floating
stage at Southend and Tilbury, and a steam comma'
nication connecting the railway with Gravesend'Mr. Fowler, the engineer to the company, set forth
the estimated cost at 400,000/, to be raised Oil
shares, with power to borrow 133,0001. upon mort-
gage. Four directors of the respective companies are
to be a joint committee for carrying out the under
taking.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—Yesterday the standing
orders of the House were declared not to have Dee
complied with in respect of the plans and sections for
this company's Bill, to make a railway and branches
from Colwich to Wolverhampton and WednesburYo
and to establish the mixed gauge thereon, and oa the
North Staffordshire, with running powers, and to„
make arrangements with various companies, at it
estimated cost of 395,0001., power being sought for
the company to use the Oxford, Worcester, and WOl
verhampton, and Great Western Railways.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE'S7
The standing orders were complied with in this case,.
for limiting the tolls now leviable upon the Trent
and Mersey navigations and Macclesfield Canal, ae-
commodation on such navigations to be given to the
of the tolls demandable by the North Staffordshire.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire on payment

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
LEEDS, JAN. 27.—We were moderately supplied with
n de d
firm,checked
and
pricesbusine sr,
serreates. Barley was steady. Oa"
wheat, and
generallyem 5
the advance d
dear. Other •
and beans quite as articles Without alteration.
hhoigldheerrsirohmowoFvreird,ayw,
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 27.—There were in
the meal market to-day 9 sacks oatmeal, each weighLig
2801bs. imperial, which sold thus :-7 at 1/ 10s .7'
1 at I/ 9s 6d, and 1 at 1/ 9s Od ; average price of the vib°l4s
al 2Hthsk
AlTsaAcklippot-sbTaßrlAeyvv, which
MARKET s sold at
j JAN. 27. E
Oat straw, from 8s 6d to lOs Oct
11E1311°10;
per kem leof 16 stones trod'
wheat ditto, 7s 6d to 98 Od ; barley P Od.
t
di to, 6s Od to 70
Hay, from 9d to I Id per stone.

Prices ofCCOoALaI pegr tAoliat'tThe—cliro:es
Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6411Lumley ................ I6s 3 j
TorthDeAY;
Carr's Hartley ..... ... 13s 6cl},Russell's Hetton ....... 1,g7: 3d
Howard's 'W. H. Neth. 13s 61 ;Scarborough ........... 11— 6d
Longridge'sW.Hartley 13s 6d Stewart's .. ••• —• ''' 1.5 s
9cIA
North Percy Hartley.. 13s 6d Whitwell ..............
1157 s 3,„
3cl
fanfield Moor I3utes... 12s 9d Kelloe '.. 175 -
Townley„ market:••••• 3 j
• ..... ••••• . 12s Od Soutk Hartlepool ..... 16, 93
Wall's End, &c. Th4.-irnley .............. 12s 6d
Gosforth ..... .......... 15s 9d Whitworth • ............ . s 6d
Eden Main ...... ...
. 17i, ~, Bell
16s 6d Seymour 'fees ...... .. 6i
Belmont l6s 94 Cowpon Hartley ..... ,
Braddyll
El etton
17s 3d Lambton