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London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

N°. 17,641.3 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING

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The SEVENTY-FIFTH ANN
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TO MORROW (Wednesday). the 1
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MARKETS.
nent of the quantities of
London from the ports in
:o the 14th April, 1849,

- .1 •
a I t . . c 4
'3 , 7. 4 -.2 ZS g 4 .
'; 4 A 3 4 4 4'
Colchester — 330 39 405
Harwich .. ............
Leigh
Maldon

CHELMSFORD, APRIL 13.—The trade opened this morning
with a briskness in wheats, and an advance of Is per quarter
was demanded; these prices were, however, barely maintained
at the close, but more business than of late was transacted. Other
descriptions of grain without variation, and with a dull sale.
Wheat, white, old 45s to 51s; new 44s to 505; red, old
39s to 465; new, 38s to 455; barley, 27s to 31s; chevalier
28s to 325; grinding 225 to 28s; oats 16s to 245; malt 56s
to 608; chevalier 585 to 62s ; peas, partridge 305 to 345;
white 30s to 345; dun 28s to 335; beans, tick, new 23s to
27s ; old 26s to 315; harrow ticks, new 24s to 285; old
26s to 32s ; mazagan, new 2ls to 25s • old 25a to 28s per qr.
HADDINGTON, APRIL 13.—The following are the prices of
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
First 50s Od 28s 6d 20s 6d 303 Od
Second ... 42s Od 25s 9d 18s lld 27s Id
Third ... 31s Od 20, Od 15e Od 2.5 s Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 312 qrs., 284 sold
Do. Barley do. 224 qrs., 204 sold
Do. Oats do. 724 qrs., 694 sold
Do. Beans do. 114 qrs., 105 sold
KIRKALDY, APRIL 14.—The following are the quotations
up to this date :

- Wheat.
First ... 493 Od
Fecund 45s Od
Third 403 Od

Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas,
I
28s 6d 20s Gd —s Od —s Od
25s Cd 18s 6d —s Od —s Od
I
21s Od 17s Od —s Od —s Od

Oatmeal, per bat of 2861b5. imp.. 26s to 00S.
GLASGOW, APRIL 12.—Provisions—Cheese, 35s to 42s Od
per cwt ; retail, 46•21 to 5d per lb. Skim milk, Os Od to Os per
cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to lld per lb ; Irish pow-
dered, in lumps, 9d to 10(1; country powdered, wholesale, 81d
to 9d. Country eggs, 10d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s 4d
per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s 6d per pair ; ducks,
2s 6d.

BERWICK, APRIL 12.—Wheat, 40s 104 d; barley, 24s Ws
oats, 16s 4id ; rye, Os Od ; beans, OOs Od ; peas, 00s Od are•
rage per imperial quarter.
Kxs.so, Arms. 13.—Wheat, old, OOs to 00s ; ditto,new, 30s
to 36s Od ; barley, new, 17s to 20s 6d ; ditto old, Os Od to
Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, I3s to 14s 6d ; com-
mon oats, Its Od to 13s; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; peas, 21s
to 22s Od ; beans, 21s to 22s per boll of six imperial bushels.
HAWICE, APRIL 12.—Wheat, new, 32s Od to 37s Od; ditto
old, 34s Od to 38s Od; barley, new, 17s to 21s; potato oats,
14s Od to 15s 6d ; common oats, Ils to 1430 d ; peas, 27s Od
to 28s Od ; beans, 27s Od to 28s Od per boll of six imperial
bushels.
STIRLING, APRIL I3.—Wheat, foreign, 23s to 26s 6d ; ditto
home, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, 19s Od to 225; barley, per
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 17: Od to 21s Od ;
oats common, Os Od to Os Od ' • ditto new, lOs Od to 12s 3d ;
ditto Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt
distillers, 35s Od to 38s ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s 9 • beans,
per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 12s Od to 14s 6d; peas,
14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 36s to ."7s ; ditto common
ditto, 25s Od to 26s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od;
ditto new 26s 6d to 27s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bid to Os Od ;
fresh butter, per lb. 9d to Ild ; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d;
hay per ton, 42a to 455.
Plum', 'Arum 12.—Wheat, 40s Od to 45s Od ; barley, 22s
to 25s Od; oats, 15s to 19s ; peas and beans, 22, Od to 25s Od
per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s.
FALKIRK, Aram 12. —The supply of grain in this day's
market was 648 bolls; wheat at 21s Od to 24s 6d per boll ;
barley, 188 Od to 21s 9d ; oats, 13s Od to 15s Od; beans, 13s Od
to 155 Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.

COAL MARKE'
Chester Main lss Od'
Holywell Main lss 6d
North Percy Hartley.. 15s Od
Ord's Redheugh
Stewart's Hartley 145 001
ranfield Moor
Walker's Primrose
West Hartley
Wall's End, &e.

YESTEEDAY.

lb Jonassohns —16 s
Lambton
Lumley Steam
Lyons l7s 9d
'tewart's
Shotten
Caradoc ..... .. ... l7s 6d
Cassop l7s 6d
Hartlepool 195 Od
Hudson's Hartlepool.— 16s 6a
Heugh Hall
Kelloe lBs 6d
South Hartlepool
Thornley
Whitworth lss Od
Bishop's Tees... ......
Tees
West Cornforth
West Hetton l7s 6d
Nixon's Merthyr ._ 2ls Od
Whitworth Coke
Ships at market, 195.

Acorn Close
Framwell Gate 17s Od,
Gibson
Hebburn l6s Od
Hedley
Hilda l6s Od
Percy Bensham lss 6d
Washington
Walker
Lambton Primrose
Braddyll's Hetton lBs 6d
Bell
Hetton
Haswell l9s 6d

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April lg.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, Mr. Baron PARSE,
and Mr. Baron ROLFE )
CORBETT V. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.
This was an action brought by Mr. W. Cobbett, a
prisoner in the Queen's Prison, against her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Home Department, for an
assault and false imprisonment, alleged to have been
committed on the plaintiff within the precincts of the
Queen's Prison. The case was tried at Guildhall, before
the Lord Chief Baron, when a verdict was entered ge-
nerally for the defendant.
_ _

Mr.-Cobbett, in person, now moved for a rule to show
cause wby the verdict for the defendant should not be set
aside, or a verdict entered for the plaintiff, upon the
general issue. We understood the plaintiff to con-
tend, that the verdict passed for the defendant
on tho issue raised by the plea of " the
general issue by statute," on the ground, that the
defendant was a privileged person, and was entitled to
demand that the action should be brought in the county
where the wrong was alleged to have been committed.
Here the venue was laid in London, and it was said it
ought to have been laid in Surrey, where the Queen's
Prison is situated. Mr. Cobbett insisted that a wrong
view was taken of the Acts of Parliament relating to the
venue, at the trial of the cause. _ _ _

After Mr. Cobbett had addressed the Court at great
length,
Mr. Baron PARKE intimated that the Court would
take time to consider whether the plaintiff was entitled
to a rule, although their decision on this point would
only involve a question as to a small amount of costs, as
there were other pleas going to the substance of the
actio❑ on which the defendant must retain his verdict.

Mr. Cubbett said the matter involved a principle.
Judgment deferred.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COUI?7'.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)

his determination to represent the case to the Poor-law
Commissioners, and ie the meantime gave orders which
secured a supply of refreshments to the poor creature
and their admission into the union.
SOUTHWARK.

Daniel Donovan and Stephen Powell were brought be-
fore Mr. Cottingham for re-examination, charged with
criminally assaulting Mrs. Eliza Seal, the wife of a
commercial traveller, in Coleman-street, and also with
stealing from her person a brooch, ring, and four
shillings.
Mr. Binns attended for the prisoners.
When the prisoners were placed at the bar, Mr. Cot-
tingham was informed by policeman 167 M, that the
prosecutrix was not in attendance, although both she
and her uncle, who accompanied her to the court on the
former day were aware, that the further examination
was to take place that day.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that in a case of this descrip-
tion, where the lives and liberty of two men were placed
in peril by a complaining party, on an accusation of such
a serious nature, she ought not on any account to have
neglected coming forward, and he added, that he was
determined to compel her attendance.
The Magistrate
inquired if the landlady of the Welsh Harper was pre •
sent, who, it was alleged, had seen the parties together
in that house The answer being in the affirmative,
Mrs. Donne then ascended the witness box, aad
on
being sworn, she stated in answer to the magistrate,
that on the night of Sunday week, about nine o'clock,
Donovan, accompanied by a woman, with a handker-
chief tied round her head, entered the house together,
and he called for a pint of half and half, which they drank
together at the
_bar. That while in the house the
woman, who seemed to be under the influence of liquor,
endeavoured to conceal her face by holding up a hand-
kerchief to it and turning her back to witness, who, how.
ever, thought she should be enabled to identify her if
she saw her again. The prisoner Donovan and the
woman talked familiarly together while standing at the
bar, and he advised her to apply eye water to her eye.
Mr. Binns said that the latter circumstance showed,
at all events, that the complainant was the woman, as
it appeared that she had received a black eye from her
husband on the night (Saturday) that it was reported he
turned her out of the house. That the evidence of the
witness distinctly proved that she did not appear to be
under any restraint while in the public-house, for she
drank and left the house ,with the same man that had
accompanied her there.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that, in the absence of the
complainant, it was impossible for him to proceed with
the investigation that day. He, however, would not
allow such a charge to pass over without further in-
quiry, and directed the policeman to call upon the com-
plainant again, and inform her that if she failed in her
attendance on Wednesday, a warrant would be issued
to compel her.
Mr. Binns said that the prisoners could procure bail
for their appearance on the next examination, and he
trusttd the magistrate would accept of sureties for them,
particularly after hearing what took place in the Welsh
Harper public-house.
Mr. CorrniGnast, however, rejected the application,
saying that he believed the complainant's account of the
outs age.
The prisoners were then removed from the bar.
MAR YLEBONE.

A MAN DISGUISED AS A WOMAN.—E, Woodall was
charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief, the pro-
perty of Mr. George Peach, a clerk,. residing at West-
bourne-grove, Bayswater. The prisoner was attired in
a mousseline-de-laine dress and slate-coloured polka,
and a straw bonnet and black veil.

—Mr.-BROUGHTON (to the prisoner)—What are you ?
Prisoner—l am a ballet-dancer, and am known at several
theatres. lam now engaged at the St. James's.
Mr. BROUGHTON.—And does the manager know that
you are going about in the disguise of a woman ? Pri-
soner—lt was only done for a lark, sir, and I have my
own clothes underneuth.
Sergeant Walker, 5 1), deposed that on the previcus
morning, between one and two o'clock he was spoken to
by Mr. Peach, who, pointing to the prisoner, said, .‘ That
girl has stolen my handkerchief from my great-coat
pocket." Witness wont up to the prisoner and told her
what she was charged with, when she said, " Don't take
e to the station-house, I want to speak to you, and
will give you something to drink. lam no girl, but am
m
a young man living in Pickering-place? The young
man who had lost the handkerchief also told him that he
had been in the company of the prisoner for nearly an
hour, and that he (prisoner) had put his arms round him
many times; his belief was that the prisoner was a girl.
Mr. BROUGHTON inquired whether the owner of the
handkerchief was in attendance, and he was answered in
the negative.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said "I was
not aware of the risk I was running, and if I had in-
tended anything wrong by putting on female apparel I
should not have had my own things on underneath.
The person who said he had lost his handkerchief was
rather the worse for drink; when he met me he said, "Are
you going home alone, miss," and I said Yes." Ile
would not let me go, or I should have been glad to have
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Mr. BROUGHTON looked upon the offence in a serious
light. The assumption of
women's attire by a man was
at all events an offence contra bonos mores, and from such
practices great abominations• rob ably •
might pro a y arise.
The
prisoner was bailed, himself in 40L and two
sureties in 30Z each, for his
being again forthcoming at
the court; and it was directed that a summons should be
issued against Mr. P eaeh, whose evidence is material in
the case.

FATAL OCCORREINCE.—J. Wardley,
WESTMINSTER.
aged 49, a la-
bourer, was charged before Mr. Broderip on suspicion
of having caused the death of Anne, his wife, by as-
saulting her.
Caroline Donelly, a woman in bumble circumstances,
stated
that the prisoner and his wife occupied an apart-
ment immediately over hers, at No. 1, Leg-court, Peter-
street,. Westminster. On Saturday evening, at about
tea-time, she heard the prisoner and his wife quarrelling
in their room, shortly after which the latter left him, and
as she came down stairs made use of angry words.
She then passed along by witness's door, and went out.
In about 15 or 20 minutes more she again heard them
quarrelling up in their room, and on listening she beard
what she thought to be a tremendous combat between
them, and
i she made use of very low language to her
husband, immediately after which there was a heavy fall
which shook the place. As witness
was going out
shortly afterwards she heard a heavy sigh, which she
thought proceeded from the prisoner's apartment. She
paid no particular attention to this, and went to market;
but upon her return in two hours found that prisoner's
wife was dead.

A great deal of evidence was gone in, but it appeared
that a post modem examination had not yet been made;
and the prisoner was remanded for a week.

LONDON INSTITUTION.--.-ELECTRO BIOLOGY.--Tho
last soiree of the season took place on Wednesday night,
when the institution was attended by nearly eight hun-
dred of the proprietors and literary and scientific
tors. During the evening Mr. Alfred Smee delivertid3
a
lecture on electro biology, or the relation of electricity
to the functions of animal life, upon whichsuhj.ecthe has
•
recently published an elaborate treatise,
° ranimal
brain, a
life it is necessary to have a central portion
arterial
or
peripheral or body, both supplied with bright
blood, and connected together
by nerve fibres. Mr.
Smee traced the analogy between this arrangement
that of a double boltaic circuit, and demonstrated_, or, in other
the communicating portion might
be
fluid
words, that tubes tilled with fluid would serve as well for
electric telegraphs as ordinary wires, and that the nerves
thatand
butthat theho
presence perform iorm a similar office in the body. He stated that there
were
way
ofascertainingfluid,
had succeeded in overcoming that difficulty by the use
greatof adifficulties
voltaic
current
in e
ntthtiny
of what he termed the electro-voltaic test, which was
exibited to the audience. In imitation of the action of
light upon the eye, the lecturer statedi that he had con-
structed numerous voltaic currents n which the current
was solely determined by the action of the sun's rays.
In imitation of the other organs of sensation, Mr. Smee
exhibited a contrivance in which the voltaic circuit was
caused by in another contrivance a similar cur-
rent was produced by savours; in others the current was
sat in motion by heat or force. The effect in each case,
notwithstanding the delicacy of the experiments, was
extremely well marked, and elicited much applause.
Mr. Smee exhibited voltaic; combinations in imitation of
the consmissures of the brain, and of the theoretical
structure of that organ, which he stated is sufficient to
account for all mental phenomena. The artificial elec-
tric eel dellLcted the galvanometer most powerfully, to
the great delight of the audience, and the artificial mus-
cular substance moved a long lever over the space of
three or four feet. The functions of the blood corpus-
cule were strikingly illustrated by an analogical experi-
ment with artificial corpuscale made of menhare and
per nitrate of iron. The injections of brain ex-
hibited under the microscope in the library
were of surpassing beauty, and well illus-
trated, " How fearfully and wonderfully we are
made." The lecturer summed up by showing that sen-
sations, mind, thought, and all functions of animal life
were entirely due to voltaic action, and obedient to phy-
sical laws; but, nevertheless, that science no less leads us
to infer, than religion commands us to believe, that man
is immortal, though that which is mortal should never be
confounded with that which gives to man his immor-
tality. In the library there were exhibited a number of
scientific inventions, the most prominent and most
admired among which was a series of daugereotype
portraits, taken by the improved process recently in-
vented by Mr. Mayall, of the American Institution, in
the Strand. The portraits were equal to any that have
been produced by the most celebrated photographists;
indeed, they had all the appearance of steel engravings
of the better class, but possessed this additional and
startling peculiarity, that the portraits were twice the
size of those ordinarily produced. This is a great and
decided improvement in an art which seemed already to
have reached perfection.
Letters from the relatives and friends of the officers
and seamen serving in the Artie seas, in her Majesty's
ships Erebus and Terror, Enterprise and Investigator,
will be forwarded by her Majesty's ship North Star, if
sent to the Secretary of the Admitalty on or before the
Ist of May.