The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATITRDA It EVENING. DECEMBER 1, 1849.

duty of 63. would add even one halfpenny to the 41b.
loaf, or, rather, whether the loaf may not remain at
the present price, notwithstanding the imposition of such
a duty. The change in the navigation-laws is only
now beginning to make itself felt. It is calculated
that it will reduce freights 53. or 6s. a quarter, and with
the advantage of freights so reduced it might therefore
be practicable to draw a small fixed revenue from wheat,
without raising bread to the smallest fractional amount
above the present price to the public."
When the writer proves that farmers can be as
effectually relieved by a reduction of rents, and that
lands are not at present let at exorbitant prices, he
may be able to convince the consumers of bread that
their stomachs, however lightly, for the ultimate
ads antage of the landlords. ;

At the Great Consolidated Mines hi-monthly account
a dividend of 101. per share was declared. The profit
on the two months of September and October amounted
to 1,7581. 133. 101; and the balance in hand, after pay-
ment ef dividend, is 1,4581. 14s. ld. The mines are re-
presented to be looking very well.
At the Providence Mines meeting a dividend of 1,1201.
was made, being 101. per share; the profit realised dur-
ing the three months amounted to 1,4321 15s. 5 1. After
paying the balace of 2161. 103. Id. against the company
at last account, there remains to credit 96/, ss. 4cl.
At the Wheal Margaret meeting, for the quarter end
ing September, a profit of 2,029/. 13s. Bd, was shown
from the sale of about 117 tons of tie. A portion of
about 50 tons Lad been reserved during the previous
quarter, in consequence of the depressed price of the
metal. A. dividend of 12/. per share, amounting to
1,344/. was declared, and a balance of 1911. 9s. 21. car
ried to credit of next account, after discharging the
debit of 4911.4,. 6d. found against the mine at the last
account.
E'gair Llee (South Wales) Mining Compsry and
Cwm Erfin meetings were hold on Monday and Tuesday
last, when some more efficient arrangements were en-
tered into, and committees of management formed for
each mine. The prospects were represented to be very
erimniraging ; and when the newly- adopted measures
come fairly into operation, the results w ill, doubtless,
prove bent ficial.
At Wheat Anderton meeting the accounts showed-
Ores sold 4191. 3s. I Id., with a balance against mine,
531. ss. 41., and calls to receive, 281/. 2s. 8,1,
At West Downs meeting the accounts showed belance
in favour, 571. 14s. 4d.
At the East Buller meeting a call of 103. per share
was made.
At the Wheal Reeth meotiog, the accounts showed-
Costs and merchants' bills, 6,7331.-By tin sold. 5,9881.
7s. 71; calls, 2031. 103.-leaving a balance against ad-
venturers, of 540/. 3s. 2 1.
At the West Whesl Seton meeting, hell on 27. h Nov.,
the accounts showed-Copper ores sold, 7201 13s. 91-
Labour cos', merchants' bills, and materials, 72e/. 4s. 1(1.
-leaving balance, 9 Sd.; to which add balance last
account, leaves in hand, 104/ 15s. 6d.
At the Camden W heal Hooper meeting, the resigna-
tion of 49 shares from d;ff rent parties was accepted, and
six forfeited; Mr. Jos ph o,ton ras appointed purser.
A call of 91. per share W 35 made, payable in 14 dap,.
The accounts showed a balitece against the mine of
5051.9
At the Huenaforcl Coombetne.etine:, the occcunta
shows& cost for Sep:ember and Octobcr, 2711. Se. 6d.,
and a balance in favour of adventurers, 2231.19 e 1(1.
At the Wheal Heneock meeting, a report from Cap
rain James was read, in which he inf 'rimed the slisre-
holders of corte, extraordinary discoveries of lodes, made
up of rich gossan, containing silver, copper, and carbo-
mite of lead; and states that there are thousands of
fathoms of ground from which those min( rats may be,
raise d at great profit, and for which a good market has
!seen discovered. A call of ss. per share was made.
In (,:reign mines there has been some consieerabl,
biedness dune in Mexicans, arising from the important
advices received by the Mexican mail. St. John del
Hey, Copiapo, Imperial Brezdian, Cobra Copper, Alten,
and National Brazilian, have also been done. The
Bsdanos r' pert to the 4th October contains nothing very
encouraging.

WATERMEN'S STEAM-PACKET

COMPANY.
The annual general meeting of the proprietors
was held yesterday, at the London Coffee house,
Ludgate-hill, Mr. R. W. Jennings in the chair. The
secretary read the report of the directors, which
stated that the general earnings of the company's
vessels for the year amounted to 23,476/. 7s. 4rl, in-
cluding the hire of the two boats on the Gravesend
station. Deducting from that amount the working
expenses, repairs, &c., which were 23,0831. 12s. ld.,
and a sum of 3,6001. as the depreciation in the value
of the boats, they would have a balance against the
company of 3,207/. 53. 91. The balance from last
year's account on the same side amounted to 2,105/.
3s. 41. The directors accounted for this deficiency
by the fact that the number of passengers had been
seriously diminished by the unfavourable character of
the weather and the opening of the new railway.
During the year they had purchased a hulk to be
, used as a store for their boats, and had also bought up
336 shares, making the whole number so bought in
777. They had done their utmost to reduce the ex-
penses ; and they hoped, by means of an arrange-
ment now under consideration, to effect a reduction
in the item of pier dues, which at present amounted
to 25 per cent. on the gross earnings. By these
means he hoped to have a more favourable account to
present next year.
The CIIAIRMAN, ice ttia-swer to several questions,
stated that the boats could not call- at Hunger ford-
pier just now, because an agreement existed which
debarred them; but that agreement would expire
soon, arid the irectors hoped to make an arrangement
more beneficial to the company. They had purchased
up the 336 shares at 881, the money paid upon them
being 880/. They had purchased the engines of the
Admiral under the misrepresentation of a servai,t,
6ince tl.at time dismissed, intending them for their
own boat, No. 9, and they had sold a boiler fur 201.,
the tubes of which NNWe resold for 35/. by another
party, under the 'same rnisrepTesentation.
A very long conversation ensued as to particular
items in the accounts ; but explanations satisfactory
to the meeting were given by the chairman, and
Mr. LAING stated that the liabilities of the corn-
pny were 5,7131.; the available stock, estimated
low, was worth 5,119/.; and there were besides
twelve boats, which they valued at 2,7001. each, a
depreciated value.
The report was received.
The other ordinary business was transacted, and a
vete of thanks to the chairman hying been passed the
oeeting seTart.ted.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWLY TEAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rahe
frays for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which th
-es?eetive returns are made, together with the receipts of the sane
Week in the previous year:—

ding NAME OF R A.ILW ,LY

Lest
week. !fi

21 i .I.berdeen

2i Amiens and Boulogne •• ••• • • .....
21 Belfast and Ballymena ••••••• • • • • • • •
2d Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
25 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y.
23 Bristol and Exeter • • ..... ••• • ..

.. ..„......._
25 Cheater and Ilolyhead. • • ........ •• ..
22 Dublin and Drogheda •• •• • • ••••• • • • •
27 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • •
24 Dundee, reith, and Aberdeen •••• • • • •
25 East Anglian.... •••••••••• • • • " • • • • •
24 Edinburgh and-Glanovr .• • • •••• • • • •
21 Edinburgh and Perth •••••• • • • • • •
25 Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
liEast Lancashire .: • ......., . • • • • • • • •
25 Eastern Union • • ..... —•• • • •••• • • • •
2 I Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ....
24 Glasgow and Greenock.. •• • • ... .. ..
18 Great Northern and E. L. •• • • .... ..
24 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • •
25 Great Western, Stc ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
21 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • ...• •. • •
13 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • • • ..... •
18 Leeds and Thirsk ••.. ..
25 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport• •• •
24 Londonderry and Enniskillen.. • .....
25 London and North Western, &c. .....
25 London and Blackwall— • • ..........
24 London and Brighton. •• • • ..........
25 London and South Western .........
25 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
25 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
25 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •• ••

Monklands .• ••••••••• • • •• • • • •
25 North British .... •• ..
Paris and Rouen. •••••••• •• • •
Rouen and Havre .. ••••• • • • • •
25 Scottish Central ••••••• • • • • • • •

24 Scottish: Midland ••••••••• - • • • • • • •
26 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • • • •
25 Shropshire Union ..........• .
24 South Eastern and Branches ••• • • •
18 South Devon ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
21 Taff Vale •• •• • •
25 - ...

Ulster . .
Waterford and Limerick-- ......
Whitehaven Junction ..• • .
York and Newcastle . • • .• .•
York and North Midland •••• • • • •

9'68
2,588
:i,630
17,1,93
11,765
80

123
34,435

'519
8,288
7,597
4,611
18,933
1,169
3,03

"no

2.987
1,582

35
1,452 1

8 3,4498 z.
1,198 1
2,199 1
763

222
12,176 13,
6,629 7,

IRELAND.
(FRO➢L OUR COIRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, P2IDAT EVBNING.—There was but one
case adjudicated on in the Encumbered Estates Com-
mission to-day. It was only remarkable for the
tenacious forbearance with which the Commisioners
demean themselves in reference to all proceedings in
the Court of Chancery. In this matter a Mr. Ed-
ward C. Villiers was the owner, and a Mr. Sayers the
petitioner. Counsel 'appeared for Mr. Timothy
O'Brien, a gentleman residing in the county of Li-
merick, to show cause against the making absolute of
a conditional order for a sale, and in case the order
should be made absolute, to apply to have the carriage
of the proceedings taken from the party who had ob-
tained it. The application was grounded on some

proceedings in Chancery.
Baron Richards, in giving judgment, said, that the
application should be refused with costs. ''=' The
Learned Commissioner remarked that where it ap•
peered that proceeding had gone to a certain extent
in the Master's office for the purpose of ascertaining
the rights of creditors, the commissioners should give
a certificate to be laid before the Chancellor, that his
Lordship might be satisfied that he could allow the
proceedings to go on to some extent, notwithstanding
the order of their Court. The Commissioners' order
stayed proceedings in the Court of Chancery with
reference to a sale only, but did not stay other pro-
ceedings.
Some other cases that appeared on the list were
postponed.
Baron Richards said, be thought it well to observe
that for the future the Court would be very strict as
regarded the attendance of counsel. The Commis-
sioners would not postpone cases in consequence of
the non-attendance of counsel, so that gentlemen who
could not attend there had better give up their prac-
tioe in that court,
The Court then adjourned till Thursday next, the
Chief Commissioner observing that, Judge Keatinge
having a very heavy case to go into, the Commis.
sioners could not have the use of his court sooner.
They (the Commissioners) would, however, sit in
chamber daily as usual.
Tna UNIVERSAL DEPRESSION OF TRADE.—The
despairing complaints of the farmers, and the re-
clamation) of corn merchants, conjoined to the
rumour that a fixed duty of six shillings per quarter
upon corn occupied Ministerial attention at a recent
Cabinet Council, have excited great agitation in the
minds of people here. Already even some of the
Liberal and quondam frce-trade journal., have
" come out." in favour of the fixed duty. I have just
seen an early copy of a respectable weekly paper, the
Register, Dec. 1, which advocates " fixity" on this
mode :
" We observe that the conviction is forcing itself
every day on the most intelligent men in this country
that we cannot go on if something be not done in re-
gard, at least, to wheat. We have at present in our
harbour a regular fleet of Austrian, Turkish, and Gre-
cian vessels, all laden with corn. There is a constant
influx of grain even in a manufactured state, breaking
up the milling establishments of which we used to be so
boastful. We could not help being struck ss ith an observa-
tion of one of our few manufacturers, some time since, in
view of a French vessel. ' Observe that ship,' said he to
the writer, 'it is landing flour free of all port charges; and
if I freight it on its return with linen, the ariele
will enter a French port loaded with 40 per cent.
duty.' ' It is not easy to see any trace of the
reciprocity. which we were promised in that state of
things,' said the writer. ' No,' replied the merchant,
• our all es, the French, are now erjoying what
what may be considered a monopoly of our flour mat ket,
to the ruin of our millers, and our only manufacturers
are practically excluded from their ports.' Such a state
of things is, on the face of it, anomaly us, and the feel-
ing is becoming every day more prevalent that it cannot
by possibility work to our ultimate advantage::
For the satisfaction of the consumers, the writer
thus essays to prove the change will be a matter of
small moment to them :
" The statistics of the question are these:—A quarter
of wheat, consisting of 4801b5., is transmutable into a
gr.:at number of four potted loaves. It yields in the
North Dublin Union 154 loaves, a moiety of fine
flour being added to the fine and coarse of the wheat
oself, ground on the spot. We will suppose that a
quarter of wheat will, in general, supply materials
for 114 of the loaves usually sold in bakers' shops.
Ti ese 144 loaves are delivered to so many pur-
chasers, each 'aging a portion of any tax, or duty, to
which the raw commodity may be subject. Suppose
it to b.e a fixed charge of es. that will enhance
the price of the 41b. leaf exactly one halfpenny, or
add a farthing to the 21b. loaf, which is more commonly
delivered to the public. A halfpenny added to the cost
of 41bs. of bread is an imperceptible burthen. It. would
only make that 7d. which is now eid., leaving society
the agreeable consciousness that it
.enjoys great modera-
tion in the cost of the principal article of food—a mode-
ration not known for many years.
" Bat it may be very questionable whether a fixed

tried, convicted,- and sentenced to 12 months' impri-
sonment in 1846.
Mr. Childs—Then the man was Lberated in 1847,
and having suffered for infringing the laws of his
country he of course had purged himself of the
offence.
In the Sergeant's further cross-examination, he sail
that Mr. Jones had been landlord of the Globe for
three years, and that no complaint had been made
before the present occasion as to the manner in
which the business of the house was conducted.
Mr. Childs contended at some length that the de-
fendant had not infringed the terms of his licence,
the words in the Act specifying that he must have
knowingly hart;oured men of notoriously bad charac-
ter to meet at his house. Now, the evidence adduced
(lid not prove anything of the kind, and surely the Le-
gislature never meant or intended that the landlords of
public houses should be suhjected to the infliction
of penalties for admitting persons into their houses
who were of dishonest character. That it would be
altogether a different question if the parties meet there
to ph-tn or concoct schemes of plunder; but in this
instance nothing of the kind appeared. The men
! found in the house were chiefly standing before the

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 30.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before the
LORD CHIEF BAR©N and a Special Jury.)
GREENLAND V. CHAPLIN.
This was an action to recover compensation for
certain injuries which the plaintiff had sustained whilst
travelling in a steam-boat on the Thames.
Mr. Humfrey, Mr. Ryland, and Mr. Fry, appeared
as counsel for the plaintiff, and the defendant was
represented by Mr. Sergeant Shea and Mr. Bramwell.
Mr. Humfrey, in stating the case, said the plain-
tiff, Mr. Greenland, is a carriage liner, who has
for many years been in the employment of Messrs.
Laurie, carriage builders, in Oxford-street ; and the
defendant, Mr. Chaplin, is a member of the eminent
carrying firm of Chaplin and Horne, and owner or
part-owner of a steamer called the Bachelor, plying
between Hangerford- bridge and Vauxhall and Chel-
sea. The injury which the plaintiff sustained, and
in respect of which the present action was brought,
was occasioned by a collision between a boat called
the Sons of the Thames, a Gravesend vessel, and the
defendant's vessel the Bachelor, the circumstances
of which will be found stated in the evidence given
below.
Robert Chipperfield, on the part of the plaintiff,
said—On Sunday, the 16th July, IS4B, I was on
board of and commanding the steamer called the Sons
of the Thames. She was lying at Hungerford, and
about to go to Gravesend. The Atalanta was between
her and the pier, and the passengers going by, the
Sons of the Thelma had to cross the Atalanta. When
.the Sons of the Thames left the pier she got into tie
regular passage way, and as she was nearing the
Adelphi pier the Fire King was seen lying at that
pier. A little further down, at the halfpenny pier,
the Sunbeam was in the act of swinging round with
the tile to go to London bridge. The Sons of the
Thames then stopped her engine, to avoid a collision
with the Sunbeam. At that moment a boat called
the Bachelor came up, and, in her attempt to
pass between the vessels, struck the Sons of
he Thames on the corner of the paddle
box. She went on, and then struck the how
of the Sons of the Thames. The anchor of the Sons
of the Themes was lying partly in the vessel and
partly ever the bow in the usual way. The Bachelor
couLl have prevented the accident it the captain had
been using the same caution as witness.
Cross examined by Mr.' Sergeant SHEE—During
two years and half in which witness had been in com-
mand of a vessel on the river, there had been several
accidents like this with his boat, and one or two
persons travelling in his boat had had their legs
broken. During a year he might have had occasion
three times to throw out - his anchor above bri-lge.
There were about 150 people on board his vessel on
the day in question. There was nothing to
prevent persons on board his vessel sitting
near the flukes of the anchor. Some pre-
caution might have been taken the next Sunday
to prevent a similar accident, but witness
could not say whether it was dune cr not. Since
this last accident witness had fastened the anchor.
Thera was no rivalry between the Sens of the Thames
and the Bachelor.
Henry Sparrow deposed that he was mate on board
the Sons of the Thames, and remembered the 16th
of July. There was not sufficient room to admit of
the Bachelor aaesing between the Sunbeam and the
Sons of the Thames when she attempted to pass.
George Morris, the fore cabin steward on board
the Sons of the Thames, witnessed the accident and
corroborated the preceding wit-nrses account of it.
William flare, a coach trimmer and a fello w-
wcrkman of the plaintiff's, deposed thtt he was in
company sorb the plaintiff on board the SODS of the
Thames on the morning of the accident. The plaintiff
was sitting on a camp stool near the bow of the
vessel. When the Bachelor came in collieion
the Sons of the Thames, the anchor struck the plain-
till's leg and jammed it against the companion hatch
way. Wittiess assisted to remove the plaintiff after
the accident to the hospital, where it was found on
taking off his boot that his leg was broken. The
plaintiff, before the accident, was earning 365. a week,
but since the accident he has lost his situation, though
he has been employed occasionally with the Messrs.
Laurie.
Sawley, a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital,
proved that he saw the plaintiff on his removal to the
hospital on the day after the accident, and that he had
sustained a fracture of the fibula into the ancle joint.
He remains din the hospital until the 22(1 of August.
Dr. Roe had seen plaintiff's leg on Monday last,
and it had not then recovered its ordinary healthy
tone. There was great deformity, besid,s the injury
to the joint.
Mr. Sergeant SHER addressed the jury for the
defendant. He contended that the mode in which
the parties in charge of the Sons of the Thames
carried their anchor was so negligent as to occasion
the accident, and therefore that they, and not the
defendant, should have been responsible to the plain-
tiff for the injury he had sustained.
Henry Barrett, on the part of the defendant.
proved that he was captain of the Bachelor on the
16th of July, 1848, the day when the accidt nt occurred.
He never saw the Sons of the Thames until she
struck the Bachelor. Saw the Bee coming out from
the halfpenny pier. She gave way, and the Bachelor
went on ; then the Sons of the Thames came along-
side and struck the knuckle of the Bachelor. Had a
distinct recollection that the Bachelor was overtaken
by the tions of the Thames, and that the Bachelor
was proceeding in the proper and ordinary course.
The Bachelor carried her anchor inside the boat alto-
gether, unstocked.
Cross-examined by Mr. Husainaar—Had been
three days captain of this boat when the accident hap-
pened.—(Laughter.) It is not "once a captain
always a captain"—they did not do business in that
way.—(Renewed laughter.) The Bachelor was
going very easy when the Sons of the Thames touched
her. The Bee did not give way for the Bachelor
until the mischief was done.
John Wheeler, mate on board the Bachelor, cor-
roborated the preceding witness's account of the
accident.
Other witnesses were called on the part of the de•
fence, but it is sufficient to say that there was the
usual amount of conflicting evidence given in this as
in all kindred cases, each of the litigants, by their
witnesses, charging the other with being instrumental
to the accident.
Mr. Htniarnar replied upon the defendant's case.
The Loan CHIEF BARON summed up, andi
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 2001.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
FALSE ENTRY IN TUN PARISH REGIST:IY.—ID
the course of the day, Mr. 13onxrs applied to the
Court to fix the amount of bail for the appearance of I
Lord Dunboyne at this court, to answer a true bill of
indictment that had been found against him by the
grand jury for causing a false entry to be made in the
Parish registry of marriages. The Learned Counsel
said the proceedings had been taken under the 6 and 7
Will. IV. cap. 86, sec. 41, and the facts leading to
the charge were these. His Lordship had, on the
27th of August, 1842, married the late Lady Dun-
boyne at Paddington church, and in the March of the
following year she, as a widow, raised 4,5001., by way
of mortgage on her estates, representing that so long
as she was a widow, she had power to raise money
on her estates, which were considerable. In Decem-
ber, 180, his Lordship again married her at St.
George's, Hanover-square, then causing a false de-
scription to be entered in the parish registry of that
church, forming the subject•matter of the present
proceedings. Her Ladyship was since dead, having
died about the year 1846 or 1647.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who opposed the application,
said that there were now no less than three suits in
chancery pending about this matter, and the present
proceedings were only taken to harass and intimidate
the family.
The RECORDER said he wished the application had
been made before the judges in the other court, and
asked if Lord Dunboyne could not put in bail ?
Mr. BiLLANTINR said he could not—he was not in
London.
After some discussion his Lordship fixed the bail at
1,000/. ; Lord Dunboyne in 5001., and two sureties
in 2501., with the usual notice.
Mr. BALLANTINE said it should be put in.
The RECORDER said that if Lord Dunboyne came
to London, he should suggest that the affair be at once
taken before a magistrate.
At a later hour in the day the RECORDER informed
Mr. Bodkin that he had consulted the judges, who
entirely concurred in the step he had taken.

POLICE INTELLIGE.NCE.
soUTHWARK.
Yesterday Mr. Thomas Jones, landlord of the
Globe public-house, in the Borough-road, was sum-
moned, at the instance of the superintendent of the
M. division, for unlawfully and knowingly harbour-
ing persons of notoriously bad character to meet and
remain in his said house.
Mr. Childs attended on behalf of the defendant.
Sergeant Berry ststed that on the evening of the
27th instant, he went into the defendant's house, and
saw seven men in the tap-room, among whom were
two convicted thieves. Ile (the sergeant) called the
defendant's attention to the fact, and bis reply was,
that "he could not help it; that he could not shut
his doors against any persons who conducted them-
selves properly while in the house." On two occa-
sions the same evening the sergeant said that he again
visited the same house, and observed other men of
equally bad character standing at the bar, and that
he again spoke to the landlord on the subject,
and he gave a similar answer as he did on the pre-
vious occasion.
In the Sergeant's cross .examination he described that
one of the men ho saw in defendant's house had been

bar. That it was a casual meeting ainongat there
and it was a fact well known that many persons o
bid character lived about the immediate neighbour,
hood of the Globe, and how was the landlord to act ?
He could not he expected to institute inquiries into
the characters of all his customers ; and as long as
they behaved properly while under his roof he was
not bound to turn them out. Such persons, although
they may be known to be bad characters, still they
were not to be excluded from the public-houses; fur
if they were fleeted from one particular hous'e they
would find others where they would be received. Mr.
Childs added that it would be an exesediegly difficult
l task for a man in the defendant's position to know
i how he was to act if it was laid down that he was to
refuse serving persons known by the police as having
forfeited their characters for former offences.
Mr. SECKEit here observed that he should not give
his decision in the above case until he heard the evi-
dence on another charge of a similar description pre-
ferred against Mr. Watkins, landlord of the Red Lion,
in Pearl-row.
Sergeant Berry stated that he visited this defen-
dant's house three different times the same night, arif
saw some convicted thieves standing at the bar ; that
he mentioned the fact to the landlord, who said,
" What am I to do ? I am net going to shut up my
house."
In the sergeant's cross-examination he said the
parties were all at the bar of the house. ; that he never
l heard of any complaint, either by the police, the inha-
bitants, or the parochial authorities, against the house
in question.
Mr. SacKEr observed that on carefully perusing
the words of the Act, he certainly coincided with Mr.
Childs' view of their meaning, and that in neither
case had it been proved that the defendants had know-
ingly harboured had characters to meet at their
houses; that they seemed to have casually met there,
and there was no evidence to show that they met for
the purpose of concocting plunder, or were harboured
there for ?rich purpose by the defendant. Therefore
he should dismiss both semmonses.
L ~13,1 B 1•_:' TH.
James Sinclair and John Anderson, powerful
fellows, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliot, and
charged with the commission of three most deter-
mined and desperate robberies that have taken place
in the metropolis for many years.
The first witness called was Mr. William Davis,
who, upon being sworn, deposed as follews :—Oti the
night of Wednesday week, in proceeding from Long
acre to my residence, 33, Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-
road, I proceedsd through Russell-square and
' CI ome r street, and in passing along the latter 1 saw
a man behind me. This person I supposed to be
following use, and I also saw two men straggling
behind at a little distae.ce on the other side of the
street. Supposing the man on my side of the street
to be following me, I turned into Speedy-street or
court to allow him to pass, and he did so, but in-
stantly returned and seizing me by the throat, turned
me round, and held me by the throat until one of the
other men came up and struck me three violent blows
on the head with some hard instrument, and I should
have fallen from the effects of the blow had not the
first man held me up by the throat. The second
man, as soon as be hail struck me the third time,
commenced unbuttoning the top part of my dress to
get at my pockets, and while doing so a third man
came up and said " Police, say he is drunk," and
immediately after all three left me and hurried away.
In a moment or two I recovered, and followed them,
hut they soon got out of my sight.
In reply to the questions of the Magistrate, Mr.
Davis said that he at first noticed the man who sub-
s( quently seized him by the throat in Russell square,
and suspecting that he bad been following him, he
ran through some streets not in his direct way home
When attacked he had a small sum of money about
him, but did not think he had been robbed of anything.
This, however, as well as his assailants starting in such
a hurry, he attributed to the approach of a person now
present, and who would be called as a witness. He
did not think the prisoners were the parties, but if even
before Lim he could not swear to them.
Mr. John Tipping, of No. 20, Speedy-place,
Cromer-street, deposed that about two o'clock in the
morning of Thursday week, when returning home,
and cn reaching close to his residence, he heard a sort
of gagling noise, On approaching the end of Spezdy-
court he heard a man say, "he is drunk," and saw
three men dragging a person, who subsequently turned
out to be Mr. Davis, up to the left side of the court,
and heard one of them exclaim, "he is very drunk."
The men then left him, and Mr. Davis almost directly
afterwards recovered and followed the men, as did he
(witness) also, but they soon got out of sight. He
(witness) could not swear to either of the prisoners as
being the men, but in size and appearance they re-
sembled them very much.
This was the whole of the evidence as respected the
desperate attack on Mr. Davis.
The prisoners, in reply to the charge, in the most
dogged manner said they knew nothing about it.
The next charge against the prisoners was, that of
attacking a young gentleman named William Jacob
Conder, on the public highway, and stealing from his
person a gold watch, a brequet gold chain, and about
103. in silver. The complainant in this case had been
so frightfully maltreated by his ruffian assailants that
his lice had been for several days in great jeopardy;
and the robbery committed on him was of so daring
ar.d violent a character as to seriously alarm many in-
habitants of the neighbourhood in which it had been
committed.
Mr. Corder, upon being sworn, said he lived at No.
4, Holland-road, North Brixton ; that on the evening
of Tuesday week, about six o'clock, whilst proceed-
ing from Kennington-common, along the pathway
leading to Wyeethain street, a man came up be-
hind him and caught him tight by the collar. As
soon as he had done so two other men came up, one
of whom struck him several blows on the head,
and the third man robbed him of his gold watch,
chain, and 10s. in silver he had in his pocket. The
man who held him called out to the other who was
striking him on the head, and said, " Hit him again ;"
and the man did hit him again. The man who robbed
and struck him ran away as soon as they had dune
so, and the third man, who held him, as soon as they
were gone, lifted him off his legs, flung him to the
ground with great violence, and then ran away. The
attack was so unexpected, rapid, and violent, that he
had not much opportunity of observing the men, and
therefore could not take it on him to swear the
prisoners were the sone. They were much such
men, but the man who held him was, he thought,
much bigger than either of them.
Edward Fox, butler to Mr. Thomas Henry Hell,
barrister, of 19, Old- square, Lincoln's-inn, and
Tavistock-square, stated that on the evening of the
13th November, his master on leaving his chambers,
and whilst passing along Lincoln's-Inn-square, was
attacked by three men near the College of Surgeons,
who robbed him of a valuable gold watch and about
282. in cash. From the statement of his master to
him (witness), it appeared that one of the men came
behind him and placed his hands on his mouth so as
to prevent him calling out, whilst the other two men
robbed him.
To prove the extent of violence which had been
exercised at the time, the witness produced a pair of
trousers belonging to his master, and which he had
worn at the time, and the whole of the buttons in
front and one half of the left leg were completely torn
off, and the latter (in which part was the pocket with
the money) was carried right away by the thieves.
His master was at present at Cambridge, but he ex-
pected home him in a day or two, when he would
appear against the prisoners.
Police constable Thomas Hardwick, 7 D, who sp
prehended the prisoners at Astley's Theatre, said
that from private information he received he had no
doubt whatever the prisoners were parties to all the
robberieS mentioned, and others of a similar class ;
and if remanded to a future day, he had every expec-
tation of being able to produce one or more of the
stolen watches, and further evidence against them.
The prisoners merely- denied the charges, and were
remanded until Tuesday next.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS:
WAKEFIELD, Nov. 23.—The artival continues good
of wheat, and though holders are very firm, tho trade is
Linguid and the business small, at last week's prices.
Barley is very dull and is lower, the commoner qualities
being unsaleable. Oats and shelling are without change.
Beans are heavy, at late prices.

TURKISH SPIRITS.—An importation of a parcel of
a Turkish spirit called " Rild," having talirm place at
the port of Southampton, from ConAlntinople, it was
returned by the officers of the revenue for duty as set a-
cted spirits, but the importer, considering that it was not
liable to that duty, requested that it might be delivered
as spirits unsweet,2md. It appears that the spirit was
mix. d and flavoured with a resinous gum, and it was
therefore considered that it became liable to the high
duty as sweetened spirits, and ordered to be charged ac-
cordingly.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.---Th
paned their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise on Thurs.
day :—Samuel Reynolds, Debach ; George Edward
Gains; Edward Humphrey Paget, Leicester.

Nev.v

EMBEZZLEMENT FROM TILE second, Its; barleymeal, lls 8d; peasemeal, 148 to 15s; bran
ROCHDALE SAVINGS BANK. per stone, Od to 8d; first flour, per 2801 b, 36s to 375; second
• 28s ; oatmeal, best, per stone of I4ib imperial, Is 6d to Os Od •
A case of fraud, the most ingenious and compli- second, Is 4d ; barleyrneal, Is 2d; peaseineal, Is 4d; first flour,
gated, has recently been divulged, in consequence of 23 9d cash, 3s credit; second, 2s 3d cash, 2s 64 credit. Pota-
the death of Mr. George Haworth, the actuary of the toes, per stone, 4d to Od ; beef, per pound, 4d to 7d; veal, 4d
ravings Bank at Rochdale. That gentleman, to 6d; mutton, 54 to Ed; pork, 4d to 6d; fowls, each, 00d to
who held a hi
,hl honouraWe position in the town, ' 00001; celTackens4
(lii.ezrenpaBir(i Oto0d9d!o
bouddercituftr'kessh, each,perlb 0048 d to
o
and was universally respected for his probity, integ- , COd; sall'tri2rl to 00d; croudie (curds) 21d to Od four-pound
city, and general upright dealing, had held the (Ace loaf, caeh, 6d to 7d, credit, 61c1 to 710; coals, per cwt, 9d'
of actuary in the Savings Bank for a period of more hay, per stone, 8d to 9d.
than twenty years. On Monday, the 19th of Novem-
ber, he suddenly died, and at a meeting of the trus-
tees and managers of the bank on Tuesday last, the
object of which was to appoint another actuary, some
investigation of the books took place, which led to
the discovery of a series of embezzlements, extending
over a long series of years, and amounting to a sum
more than that annually deposited in the bank.
It was discovered, in fact, that Mr. Ha-
worth had kept a private ledger, in which he en-
tered the accounts of a great number of the depositors
distinct from the bank accounts, actually pocketing
the whole of their deposits, no accounts of which
appeared on the books of the bank. At the
period of the meeting most of the banking books held by
lepositors had, in accordance with the r. virements of
the Act of Parliament, been scat into the bank for the
purpose of having the accounts examined ; and the
managers, atter a searching investigation during two
days, discovered that an amount of between 34,000/.
and 35.0001., represented by those books, did not
appear on the accounts as having b.en paid into the
bank ; and it is feared that further investigations will
show the amount embezzled to be even snore than that
sum. The official inquiry has not yet closed, the
trustees having issued hand-bills calling upon the
depositors to send in the outstanding books forthwith ;
therefore there is no authoitative statement as to the
amount of the defalcations, or the precise mode in
which the enlist zeletnent was effected ; but we have
reason to believe that 30,C00/. is under the mark, and
that the fraud was committed, as we have stated,
by the actuary keeping a double set of books ; being
in fact, the agent of the savings bank for one part
of the depositors, and a banker on his own account
for another portion. It is supposed that this
system of swindling must have evended over eight
or ten years, during the whole of which period
Mr. Haworth was held in the highest esteem
by the inhabitants of Raclelale generally, and
in fact by every one with whom he came, in contact in
business matters. Ile was the proprietor of the Castle-
ton Town Mill, and employed about 200 hands, to
whom he was a most liberal master, so much so that
during the periol of dull trade in 1847 he for meat'
weeks gave his hands two dolys' wages per %veek
while the mill was stopped, and, if it was required,
lent them as much inure. lie Ans the land agent of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Conpany, and in that
capacity large rums of money must have passed
through his hands. He was also steward and land
;gent to the owners of a great quantity of property in
Rochdale and the adjoining district. It is said that
ho had effected a policy upon his life for 3,000/,
Shortly before his death he suede a sale of 15,000/.
worth of cotton twist, which he had held for a consi-
derable period, and if the whole of that money be
realised it will go far to cover the deficiencies.
Within the leot two years he suede v ill, bequeathing,
it is said, in various ways, no less a sum than 20,0001.,
and leaving an annuity of 3001. per annum to his
widow and an only daughter. The real amount or
assets, however, is not at present known, but it is no
anticipated that they will equal the amount of his de,
faleations. Mr. Tidd Pratt will visit Rochdale nex
week to investigate the matter on behalf of the Go
vernment.

COAL MARK E L-YESLICEEDAY.

Carr's Hartley
Davison'sWestHaitley 15s °dißussell's Hetton
East Adairs Ma n..... 13s 9(.lStewart's
lia.sting's Harthy lss OdCaradoe lBB rd
Old Tan field
~ est Hartley
West Wylam
Wylam ........ ...... .. 16s o,lAnthraeite. ..
Wall's End, &c. N. Abbey Graigola
Brown's Gas . l3s 9‘ Cowper Hartley
13ensharn ..
Eden Main • lBs OdlNixon's Merthyr and
'Tatou
N. liettcn Lyons ..
Ships at warkw. 42.

RAIL N y ti Arc ARKETS. -
BRISTOL, Nov. 30.
:?roux ExcitAsron.—The transactions to-day were as
follow : Great Western, Qtv:rters, 11% dis.— Midland Stuck,
Taff Vale, Quarters, 2914.
vEttrouL, Nov. 30.
SToclr. ExcuAttioa—Thre was a very good demand for
shares to-day at the quA,itions. The transactions were
a$ follow .—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Censol., 60—Ditto,
Halves, ltlt c. dis.—Ditto, Fifths, OA c. dis.—Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire, 16'./ dis. Caledonian, Preference,
874 c. Great Western, Halves, 23—Preston and Wyre
(No. 1), 33—London and North-Western, 115—Ditto, New
Quarters, 1 p.—Manchester, Sheflicl 1, and Lincoln, Pre-
ference, 91. 16s, 3d.— Midland, 51—Ditto, Halves, dis.
—North- Western, 101,i dis. South-Eastern and Dover,
Coissol. ('so. 3), 1834—Ditto (No. 4). 6,4 c.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till
1850, die.