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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING; NOVEMBER 5 1849

that the Limerick Institution almost stood alone in
refusing to cast him off in the time of his trouble ;
and in doing so, they marked their appreciation of
the high feelings which induced him to sacrifice him-
self and all that was dear to him to arrest the down-
ward progress of his country.—(Cheers.) He begged
also to return thanks for the honour they had done
him in inviting him to be their guest that evening, as
he was fully aware that • he had done nothing to
deserve it.—(Loud applause.)
" Mr. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD also alluded to Mr.
Smith O'Brien, and said, " although he differed from
his political opinions widely, yet from the many and
frequent opportunities he had of conversing with him,
he believed him to be attached to Ireland with a
strong, devoted, and unmercenary love." That there
should be honest, manly Irishmen to express their
opinions above board, anywhere and on all fitting
occasions, is not matter for astonishment; the matter
which the ultra-loyal bigots cannot digest in the
business will be—that Dr. Higgin's Protestantism,
Lord Monteagle's dignity, or Mr. Monsell's Conser-
vatism were not overwhelmed by such rebellious pro-
nouncings. Amid all the lickspittling which takes
place around us, the pride that licks the dust, and the
mercenary patrioti-m which only lives to subserve
England and English interests, at the expense or the
degradation of their own, we rejoice to see a scintil-
lation struck out, now and then, which shows that
there is some vitality at the national heart.—Cork

Examiner.
ORANGE PROCESSIONS ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.
The Northern Whig of this day (Saturday) says:—
" Our information continues to encourage the ex-
pectation that there will he no Orange processions
on Monday next. The Government, however, are
taking the course of wise precaution, and placing
troops at the various points where danger might be
apprehended ; and the public, of all parties, with the
exception of a few of the extreme Orangemen, will
sustain them in any necessary measures to put down
disturbance, should it be attempted?'
Respecting the military movements, the same
Belfast journal contains the following :
" No. 2 company, composed of Captain King,
Lieutenant Hogge, three sergeants, one bugler, and
sixty rank and file, marched yesterday (Friday) from
Belfast, en route to Deady, to be stationed there, in
aid of the civil powers, until their services can be dis-
pensed with. No. 8 company, composed of Captain
Forester, Lieutenant Brown, three sergeants, two
corporals, one bugler, and sixty rank and file ; No. 4
company, composed of Lieutenant Straubenzie,
Ensign Murchison, three sergeants, two corporals,
one bugler, and sixty rank and file, under command
of Major Wilkinson, marched from Belfast at the
same time, en route to Ballynahincb, for the same
purpose. Tattoo, which has heretofore been at nine
o'clock, has been changed to eight."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, Nov. 3:

ALL SOULS COLLEGE ELECTION.--This evening
Mr. Alfred Lennox Peel, 8.A., and Mr. William
Parsons Warburton, 8.A., of Balliol College, and the
lion. Algernon Fulke Egerton, 8.A., of Christ
Church, were elected Fellows of All Souls College.
BALLIOL COLLEGE.—An election to two scholar-
ships and exhibitions will take place at this college
on the 29th inst. The scholarships are open, with-
out limitation, to candidates who shall not, on the
above-mentioned day, have exceeded their nineteenth
year. One exhibition, founded by Mr. C. Haws, is
limited to the sons of freemen, or of inhabitants of
the city or the county of Oxford. Another exhibi-
tion, founded by the Rev. R. Greaves, is limited to
candidates educated at Ludlow, or, in default of such,
to candidates from any other school in the counties
of Salop and Radnor. Candidates must present to
the master, on the 24th inst., certificates of their
birth and baptism, together with testimonials of cha-
racter.
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.—An election will libe
held in this college on Friday, the 7th of December,
of two scholars; one from natives of the diocese of
Bath and Wells, and one from natives of the
county of Lincoln. Candidates must be under
nineteen years of age on the day of election, and must
present themselves to the President at half-past seven
o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the Ist of Decem-
ber, with certificates of the marriage of their parents,
and of their own baptism, competent evidence of the
day and place of their birth, testimonials from their
college or school, together with a Latin epistle to each
of the electors.
The Rev. R. H. Millington, M.A., of St. John's
College, has been appointed to the incumbency of the
Holy Trinity, Warton, Warwickshire.
The Rev. C. H. Morgan, M.A., of Trinity College,
Rural Dean of the deanery of the Forest, has been
collated to an honorary canonry in Gloucester Cathe-
dral.
The Rev. L. T. G. Manson, D.C.L., of Magdalen
College, has been presented to the vicarage of Glossop,
Derbyshire. Patron, the Duke of Norfolk. Value,
1141. Population, 22,898.
The Rev. Henry Tickell, M.A., of Queen's College,
has been presented to the curacy of Lidlington, Bed-

fordshire.
The Rev. C. IL Main waring, 8.A., of Oriel Col-
lege, has been presented to the rectory of Whitmore,
Staffordshire. Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. Value,
2851. Population, 9,838.
The Rev. W. Lambert, M.A., of Exeter College,
has bean instituted to the rectory of Tibberton, GI )u-
-cestershire. Patrons, Mrs. Scott and Trustees. Value,
2671. Population, 344.
The Rev. H. Farmar, 8.A., of Exeter College, has
been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Oakridge,
Gloucestershire, Patron, the Vicar of Bisley.
The Rev. G. 1). Adams, of Balliol College, has
been appointed chaplain to the Earl of Kintore.
The Rev. C. W Belgrave, M.A., of Lincoln Col-
lege, has been appointed chaplain to her Majesty's
ship Leander.
The Rev. Edward Nangreave Maugin, MA., of
Wadham College, has been collated to the vicarage
of Horsley, Gloucestershire. Patron, the Bishop of
Gloucester. Value 1501. Population, 3,064,
The Rev. N. J. Ridley-, M.A., of Christchurch, has
been appointed to the perpetual curacy of St. Thomas,
Wootton Hill, East Woodhay, Hants.
The Rev. Lewis Page Mercier, 8.A., former'

scholar of University College, has been appointed
Head Master of the Birmingham and Edgbaston
Proprietary School.
The Rev. George Hadow, M.A., of Balliol College,
has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of the
chapel of St. Andrew, Plymouth. Patron, the Vicar
of St. Andrew's. Value, 1151.
The Rev. E. A. layman, 8.D., late Fellow and
Tutor of Exeter College, and Rector of Shillingstone,
has been appointed Rural Dean in the deanery of
Whitchurcb, Dorset.

THE MOUNTAINS OF ASIA

The mountains of Asia take precedence of a,
others in altitude and length of range. The mean
height of the Himalaya is stupendous. Captain
Gerard and his brother estimated that it could not be
his than 16,000 to 20,000 feet; but from the average
elevation of the passes over these mowtains, Baron
Humboldt thinks it must be under T 5,700. Co-
lonel Sabine estimates it to be only 11,510
feet, though the peaks exceeding that eleva-
tion are not to be numbered, especially at the sources
of the Sutli-j. Indeed, from that river to the Kalee,
the chain exhibits an endless succession of the loftiest
mountains on earth ; forty of them surpass the heights
of Chimborazo, one of the highest of the Andes,
and several reach the height of 25,000 feet at
least. The valleys are crevices so deep amd narrow,
and the mountains that hang over them in menacing
cliffs are so lofty, that these abysses are shrouded
in perpetual gloom, except where the rays of a ver-
tical sun penetrate their depths. From the steepness
of the descent the rivers shoot down with the swift-
ness of an arrow, filling the caverns with foam and
the air with mist. Most of the passes over the
Himalaya are but little lower than the top of
Mount Blanc; many are higher, especially near
the Sutlej, where they are from 18,000 to 19,000
feet high; and that north-east of Khoonawur is
20,000 feet above the level of the sea, the highest
that has been attempted. All are terrific, and the
fatigue and suffering from the rarity of the air in
the last 500 feet is not to be described. Animals
are as much distressed as human beings, and many
of them die; thousands of birds perish from the
violence of the winds ; the drifting snow is often fatal
to travellers, and violent thunder-storms add to the
horror of the journey. The Niti Pass, by which Mr.
Moorcroft ascended to the sacred lake of Manasa, in
Tibet, is tremendous ; he and his guide had not
only to walk barefooted, from the risk of slipping,
but they were obliged to creep along the most
frightful chasms, holding by twigs and tufts of grass,
and sometimes they crossed deep and awful crevices
on a branch of a tree, or on loose stones thrown across.
Yet these are the thoroughfares for
,commerce in the
Himalayas, never repaired, nor susceptible of improv-
ment, from frequent landslips and torrents. The lot%
tiest peaks, being bare of snow, give great variety of
colour and beauty to the scenery, which in these passes
is at all times magnificent. During the day, the
stupendous size of the mountains, their interminable
extent, the variety tied k,harpness of their forms,
and, above all, the tender clearness of their distant
outline melting into the pale blue sky, contrasted
with the deep azure above, is described as a scene of
wild and wonderful beauty. At midnight, when my-
riads
of h
oft starste mountainsinsparklelooks d
the
blackearth and psekry , and
still
belowthe
pure
blue the
pale white gleam of the
effect is of unparalleled sublimity;a
nd
lan-
guage can describe the splendour of te sunbeamsoi
daybreak streaming between the high peaks, and
throwing their gigantic shadows on theom omuanntai,
no
below. There, far above the habitation f
living thing exists, no sound is heard ; the very echo
of the traveller's fbotsteps startles him in the awful
solitude and silence that reigns in these august

dwellings of the everlasting snow.—Blackwoods
Magazine.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.

10 to 1 agst Bolingbroke
11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
20 to 1 agst Clincher
20 to 1 agst Sweetheart
20 to 1 agst The Italian
20 to 1 agst Deicoon
25 to 1 agst Mildew
20 to 1 agst Cyprus
33 to 1 agst the Nigger
30 to 1 agst John-o'-groat
40 to 1 agst Garforth

Six o'CLocx.

CHESTER CUP.
1,000 to 10 each laid agst Kennington, Cossack, Esse-
darius, Baroness, and Lismahago.

3IETROPOLITAN STEEPLECIIAsE.
3 to 1 agst The Commoner
4 to 1 agst British Yeoman
8 to 1 agst Sarah Sykes.

Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening, from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the Falkland
Islands.
THE WEST JERSEY TORNADO.--A Bridgeton paper
of Wednesday furnishes some further particulars con
cerning the tornado that swept over Cape May on the
4th inst. It made its appearance about five o'clock,
travelling from the west towards the east. From the
effects ot the wind upon a corn field below Jonas
Corston's house, it is believed that two currents of air,
one from the north-west and the other from the south-
west, met together, and after meeting moved eastwardly,
literally tearing in pieces everything in its track of 50
yards in width. Fields of corn, fences, trees, barns,
dwelling-houses, everything, were as straws in the hands
of a giant. A large new house, occupied by Joseph
Godfrey, was blown prostrate to the ground, although
h.
family, consisting of hie wife and two children,
miraculously escaped without material injury. The
house of Jonas Corston was raised off its foundation,
turned over twice, and then torn into a thousand pieces.
In this house were two women—one, the wife ot Mr.
Corston, was taken up dead about thirty yards distant
from where the house stood; the other, named Eunice
Young, sister of Mr. Corston, was mangled in such
a horrible manner that there is no hope of ber
recovery. The next house destroyed was occupied by
Somers Young. This was a strong-built two-story
house, but not one piece of timber was left standing
upon another. The wife of Mr. Young, with two young
children, were sleeping in the first story of the house.
Although her bed.tead was broken to pieces and the bed
blown from under them they escaped unhurt. The
second story was occupied by a woman and her daugh-
ter, who were found in the ruins of the building, con-
siderably, but not dangerously, cut and bruised. Several
outbuildings, shops, and barns were torn down. A
large two-story house, occupied by Wal.hington Willets,
was taken up, carried about ten feet from its foundation,
and then let down without any other material injury.
Large trees were lifted out of the ground and carried
many yards by the force of the current. A portion of
the root of one of the houses was taken up in Peck's-
bay, more than three miles distant, and shingles, articles
of clothing, &c., were found on Absecom- beach, more
than five miles from the houses whence they were car-
ried, to which place, by no possibility, could they have
fl sated. Those who heard the tornado described the
noise tccompanying it as resembling thunder. It was
attended or followed by a vivid blaze of light, so brilliant
that the women in one of the houses blown down sup-
posed that the building was struck by lightning and on
fire.—New York Tribune.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, .Nov. 3.
,Sittings at Nisi Prins, in Michaelmas Term, before
Mr. Baron PLATT and Common Juries.)
ELLIS V. KING.

Mr. W. H. Watson -and.llli. Hawkins appeared
for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Ball was for the defendant.
The action was upon a bill of exchange for 301.,
drawn at three months after date by one Henry King
upon his brother, the present defendant, which had
been eventually indorsed to the plaintiff.
There were a vast number of pleas put upon the re-
cord, and amongst others of fraud and covin.
It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff is
a tradesman in the Minories, and also that the de-
fendant is a clerk in the Post-office, and that on the
26th of March last Henry King had drawn the bill
in question upon his brother, the defendant. Upon
that very day the bill it seemed from the testimony of
one George Lewis, who described himself as an auc-
tioneer, and the keeper of a " loan office," at 41,
Gray's Inn-lane, as well as in the City road, at which
office advances were made by way of "loan" of
from Si. to 501., came into his hands. When the bill
had been placed in his hands, in the first instance, by
one Satchell, for the purpose of discount, he had re-
tained the instrument, stating that he must make some
inquiries about the parties to it. The bill having been
indorsed by Thomas Bailey and Co. to Satchell, this
witness advanced from 131. to 151. upon it by two dif-
ferent payments, and prior to making any further ad-
vance upon that sum he had required that Satchell
should indorse the bill to him. He then made a

further payment of money on account of this bill for
301., in all amounting to 191. 14s. 6d. That was the
whole of the advance he had made, and subsequently
he sold the bill to a person named E. Levy for 271
To that person he had in due course indorsed it, and
by Levy it had afterwards been indorsed to the present
plaintiff.
Mr. BALL, on behalf of the defendant, contended,
that originally there had been no indorsement by
Messrs. Bailey and Co. to Satchel], and in support of
that line of defence called

Mr. Bailey, who having described himself as a com-
mission agent, carrying on his business in Philpot-
lane, stated that he had not indorsed the bill to
Satchel!, but that he had simply put his name on the
back of the bill to oblige, and as an accommodation to

his friend, Henry King, the drawer.
Satehell then proved that he had himsAf indorsed
the bill, because he had been required to do so by
George Lewis.
Mr. W. 11. WATsoN having replied,
Mr. Baron PLATT intimated to the jury that the
indorsement by Bailey was clearly a general in-
dorsement, and that in his opinion the plea, that
that indorsement was special, was no defence to
the action. The plaintiff was consequently entitled
to a verdict. He would nevertheless reserve leave
to the Learned Counsel for the defendant to move to
enter a nonsuit. From the evidence it was apparent
that all that George Lewis had advanced upon the hill
of 301. had been 191. 14s. 6d., and then that same
man Lewis had gone on to swear that he had sold the
bill to E. Levy for 271. Of course the jury could
form an opinion of such a transaction. However, in
a strict legal point of view the plaintiff was entitled
to a verdict for the full amount of the bill.
The jury returned a verdict accordingly, but added
that they were extremely sorry that the law com-
pelled them to give such a verdict.
One of the jurymen followed up this expression of
opinion of the jury as a body, by applying some very
strong language of a condemnatory character in re-
ference to the conduct of the witness George Lewis.
Upon the rising of the Learned Judge Lewis made
an application to the officers of the court with the
view of obtaining the name of the juryman who had
offered the opinion just referred to.
The application, however, proved unsuccessful, and
Lewis thereupon followed the juryman out of the
court vociferously demanding his name, for the pur-
pose of enabling him to adopt ulterior proceedings.
Whether he succeeded in his object we were unable
to learn.

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.
CRIMINAL CASES RESERVED.-MRS. MANNING'S CASE

We were informed, at the rising of the Court, that
notices had been forwarded by direction of the Lord
Chief Baron, intimating to the Attorney- General,
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, and Mr. Ballantine—the last
named of whom it will be in the recollection of our
readers appeared as counsel on behalf of Mrs. Manning
at her trial, together with her husband, at the Central
Criminal Court, whilst the Learned Sergeant was
counsel for the husband only, and the Attorney-
General conducted the prosecution—that the Court
sitting to hear and consider arguments in "Criminal
cases reserved" would on Wednesday morning next
hear counsel on the point reserved by his Lordship
on the trial, as to whether Mrs. Manning, being a
foreigner by birth, was entitled to be tried by a jury
" de medietate lingua," or whether that right had been
lost to her by her marriage to a husband of English
birth.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD THOMAS DELAFIELD'S

BANKRUPTCY.- TLIE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
This was an adjourned meeting for the proof of
debts, and the last examination of the bankrupt, late
lessee of the Royal Italian Opera.
Mr. Lloyd, of the firm of Ford and Lloyd, ap-
peared on behalf of Mr. Pearce, manufacturer of
stove grates and fenders, No. 5, Jermyn-street, Re-
gent-street. to support a proof for 602/. for goods
supplied to the bankrupt, and Mr. Arthur Webster,
at Willow-bank House, Fulham. Mr. Lewis ap-
peared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Lawrance for the
assignees. The case was appointed for hearing at
eleven o'clock ; but owing to a delay of the Commis-
sioner in taking his seat, the proceedings did not
commence until the hour of twelve. It may be re-
collected, from the report of the case that appeared
in The Sun, that on the bankrupt's coming of age, in
1845, he became entitled to a sum of 100,000/. under
the will of his late uncle, Mr. Edward Delafield, and
that after the payment of certain debts contracted
during his minority, he was left in possession of a
clear capital of 92,3821. He subsequently became
lessee of the Royal Italian Opera, which responsi-

bility terminated in April last, with unsecured debts
to the amount of 33,3371., and no assets.
Mr. LAWRANCE objected to the proof tendered by
Mr. Pierce, on the ground that it was on a judgment
obtained against the bankrupt and Mr. Arthur
Webster, on a joint debt for goods supplied to Willow-
bank House. He relied upon ex parte Field, in
which the Vice Chancellor Sir Knight Bruce decided
that, in case of a joint debt, the creditor could not
prove except for the purpose of voting in the choice
of assignees against one partner whilst another was
in solvent circumstances. In this case there was no
partnership strictly speaking, but it was a joint debt.
Mr. LEWIS objected to the proof altogether, on the
ground that the goods had been supplied to Webster
solely, and that the judgment against Mr. Webster
and the bankrupt jointly had been obtained during
the absence of Mr. Delafield on the Continent.
The COMMISSIONER said he had no jurisdiction to
revere a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, and
the proof could not be rejected on this ground.
Mr. LEWIS then supported the view urged by Mr.
Lawrance, and referred to a similar decision by his
Honour Vice Chancellor Shadwell.
Mr. LLOYD referred the court to a different decision
by Sir John Cross, the Chief Commissioner of the Court
of Review in cx parte Crossfield, re Samuel Cooper,
as reported in 2 Montague and Ayrton, 543. There
was no actual partnership between Mr. Webster and
the bankrupt, and the decision of Vice Chancellor
Sir Knight Bruce only applied to a case of actual
partnership, and not to one of a mere joint liability.
The decision of his Honour Vice-Chancellor Shad-
well was similarly irrelevant to the case before the
court. Here Mr. Webster was not a trader, or liable
to the bankruptcy laws.
The COMMISSIONER said he could not reconcile the
conflicting decisions. The main principle of the
bankrupt law was to effect an equal distribution of
the assets of the bankrupt. The judges had, in the
main, adhered to the law, the object of which was to
throw the creditor on the solvent partner, and thereby
to diminish the loss of the body of creditors. This
had been the course generally pursued during the
last hundred years, and the last decision had been in
accordance therewith. He should, therefore, decide
that Mr. Pierce could not prove. As to the other
point, that of his right to prove for the purpose of
voting in the choice of assignees, he must disallow
that also. The proof was consequently disallowed
altogether.
It was stated in court that this decision would
affect the claims of four or five other creditors under
precisely similar circumstances, whose debts amount
to upwards of 4,0001.
Mr. LAWRANCE said that the main facts of the
present case, as developed in the accounts so satisfac-
torily prepared by Mr. Banks, were these :—The
bankrupt's debts, wholly unsecured, were 33,337/. ;
those to creditors holding security were 3,037/.•
there were further liabilities to the extent of 2,9341.
To meet the unsecured debts and liabilities there was,
at present, not a single shilling of assets. The only
chance of the creditors getting anything was in the
proceedings instituted against certain parties. The
bankrupt, it would be observed, debited himself with
a capital, in 1845, of 92,3821. His Honour would
find that 81,355/. of the bankrupt's losses was occa-
sioned by his lesseeship of the Royal Italian Opera.
There was a gift of 5,0001. to Mr. Webster. There
were also some minor items of losses. The total sum
which the bankrupt debited himself with in capital,
profits, and debts now owing, was 145,8561. He
had no doubt but this amount had been distri-
buted. The gift to Mr. Webster of 5,000/. was never-
theless a very suspicious item. At the time of giving
it, Mr. Delafield was in good circumstances. The
acquaintance originated at college, betore Mr. Dela-
field was of age, and fir. Webster had made Mr.
Delatield a debtor. It was subsequently agreed that
Willow Bank should be purchased, which was made
with Mr. Delafield's money. Mr. Webster said, and
the bankrupt concurred in that statement, that Mr.
Delafield gave him that property. The next thing
was to disburse a sum of 8,536/. in rebuilding. The
whole outlay was thus 13,5261., and which was now
said to have been given to Mr. Webster. Mr. Web-
ster was not now in this country. Mr. Delatield had
an influence over him which the assignees had not,
and if the Court would now decide that the bankrupt
should not pass his last examination until Mr. Web-
ster had come forward to put the assignees in posses-
sion of all the information that he possessed, that
course would doubtless procure his presence. But the
sum of 13,5361. was not all. The house was most
luxuriously and sumptuously furnished. Mr. Web-
ster had, en the 9th of March, 1849, executed a deed,
and it was in favour of Mr. Delafield's own attorney.
But it was very strange that he had
in that deed expressed a doubt of his
right thus to dispose of the property. Mr.
Beale now claimed a lien of 7,000/. upon the pro-
perty. A deed was subsequently executed both by
Mr. Webster arid Mr. Delafield, in which they jointly
and severally ratified what had beoia done. Mr.
Beale then paid off a mortgage debt owing to Mr
ppleton, and everything in short that the bankrupt
possessed became invested in Mr. Beak. The deed
was executed on Sunday, the 22,1 of April. This
deed was clearly an act of bankruptcy, because Mr.
Delafield therein assigned over to Mr. Beale his in-
terests in the Opera Home, and in short denuded
himself, as was now said, of every shilling of property.
And yet OR the Ist of May, Mr. Delafield being then
abroad, was executed the joint deed of assignment
referred to over the property at Willow Bank.
The COMMISSIONER—Was this after the act of
bankruptcy had been committed ?
Mr. L AWRANCE—Yes. The next thing for Mr.
Beale to do was to turn everything at Willow Bank
into cash. A sum of 10,4001. was realised by the
sale. The catalogue was a most interesting docu-
ment of itself, and the auctioneer's charge was ae great
a curiosity in its way. Not that he had any right to
complain of what others might pay that gentleman for
his services if the property should be proved to be theirs,
but if it should be proved hereafter to belong rightly
to the creditors of Mr. Delafield, he thought that
Court would exercise a liberal use of the pruning-
knife. Now it was most important that the as-
signees, in order to sustain their right to this pro-
perty, should have the opportunity of examining Mr.
Webster. The general impression at present was,
that Mr. Webster was never in a position to buy the
property, and that it belonged to Mr. Delafield.
The COMbIISSIONER—AIthough not paid for?
Mr. Levritexce—Yes. But there was some uncer-
tainty as to the portion that had been paid for.
Some discussion here ensued upon this point, which
was terminated by several creditors joining in say ing
that they knew by their own experience that payment
had not been made for several thousand pounds worth
of property contained in Willow Bank mansion.
Mr. LAWRANCE continued—fie thought he had
said enough to warrant the belief that when the
parties executing. this last deed expressed therein a
doubt of their right to thus dispose of the property,
a jury would not hesitate to decide that they had
not such right. Mr. Delafield was clearly the appa-
rent owner of the property, and he thought there could
be no doubt but he was also the actual owner. lle
was anxious to give the bankrupt credit for having
placed himself at the disposal of the assignees, and
had given every information in his power. But the
question was, situated as Mr. Delafield was, with
debts for so large' an amount, and with not a shilling
for his creditors--was it too much to require that he
should submit to some personal inconvenience by a
delay in passing his examination ? The sum of
10,4001. would remain in the hands of the auctioneer,
subject to the decision of a superior court, and it was
necessary, for the satisfaction of the assignees, and all
other parties concerned, that Mr. Webster's evidence
should be secured. With respect to other
circumstances that affected the bankrupt's
conduct, he might remark that there was in his ac-
counts a sum of 9,000/. that was only partly vouched,
and a further sum of about 4,0001. wholly unvouched.
Looking at Mr. Delafield's youth, and the kind of
persons into whose hands he had fallen, he did not
think, however, that they ought to be very strict in
requiring information on this head. From the little
value that he had placed upon money, it was very
probable that he had expended this sum without being
able to produce vouchers. The personal expenses had
been large.
The ComeassioNee.--eI do not see anything respect-
ing the amount of the personal expenses in the balance-
sheet.
Mr. CANNLN, the official assignee, referred his
Honour to the page in which they appeared, where he
found that the amount disbursed under this head was
at the rate of about 7,0001. per year.
The COMMISSIONER then said that he had listened
to all that Mr. Lawrance had said more for the satis-
faction of others than himself. The only point, after
all, was, whether there should be an adjournment,
with a view to obtain the presence of Mr. Webster.
He thought Mr. Lawrance went too far in requiring
that unless his presence was obtained the bankrupt
should not pass at all. He could not go that length.
His inclination was to have an adjournment for a
reasonable period, in order that the circumstances at-
tendant upon the gift of 5,0001., and the expenditure
of 3,000/. more, should be investigated. It was a
very large sum to be disposed of in such an unusual
way, and he did not see how he could refuse to accede
to the wish that had been expressed, to obtain, if prac-
ticable, the evidence of Mr. Webster.
Mr. LEWIS submitted that the assignees had no
right to ask for what they had now asked. They
had had the opportunity during two months of ex-
amining the bankrupt's accounts, and had not done
anything. All the money that had been received by
Mr. Webster, with the exception of the 5,000/ , was
handed over to Mr. Delafield. An account had been
given to this effect, and Mr. Webster, so far from
being a debtor, was a creditor to the extent of 2,3001.
The COMMISSIONER—Do you mean to say that
notwithstanding all that Mr. Delafield gave, Mr.
Webster is a creditor for 2,300/. ?
Mr. lawn—Yes, and be thought it was too bad to

reserve all these objections to the last moment. The
gift of 5,000/. was made at a time when Mr. Delafield
was worth 70,000/., and in receipt of an income of
10,000/. It was not necessary for the gratification of
newspaper readers to enter into the circumstances
which had occasioned the gift. It was sufficient to
say that there was not one scintilla of evidence to
rebut what had been stated. The moneys referred to
had been received by the bankrupt, Mr. Webster's
name being merely used.
The COMMISSIONER said the bankrupt's enormous
losses appeared to have been sustained principally in
the seasons of 1847 and 1848.
Reference was made, when it was ascertained that
the opera loss on the old account of 1947, by taking
to the debts due by Mr. Beale, the former lessee, was
21,144/. ; the loss in 1848, 34,7561.; and the loss in
1849, 25,4551. Total, 81,3551.
Mr. LEWIS continued—The principal losses were
in the payment of salaries. The private creditors
were only 2,0601., and although the bankrupt's ac-
counts related to the disbursement and loss of the
large sum of 145,0001., all had been satisfactorily
vouched, with the exception of about 4,000/. e
adjournment of a bankrupt's examination was always
considered in the light of a slur upon his conduct.
Mr. Lawrance had acknowledged that the bankrupt
had been most anxious to give every information ; and
Mr. Cannan, the official assignee, who was present,
would confirm this testimony. He ttustcd that the
Court would, therefore, pass the examination.
His HONOUR said the question was simply this
Here was a case in which the bankrupt's debt,
were—

[ative :

To unsecured creditors ...
To creditors holding security
To liabilities ... ... ...

..X33,376 16 6
.. 3 037 10 0
2,934 8 4

£39,348 14 10
On the other side, what was there to liquidate these
debts? Absolutely nothing. The presence of Mr.
Webster was desired to explain circumstances that
were very singular. Would he confirm those state-
ments ? That was an important point. Now, it was
only four months from the date of the fiat, and yet it
was said that the bankrupt should be allowed to pass.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary circumstances of
the case—notwithstanding the bankrupt did not pro-
duce sufficient to pay the ordinary expenses of the
fiat, this was now urged upon the Court. He found,
on reference, that the assets consisted of good debts,
3/. 14s. 6d —(Laughter)—some property, value not
ascertained (Laughter) this property, against
which no value was put, was an interest in a piece
of land of from four to five acres, situated at Sanderton,
near Bledlow, Bucks; and an interest in the lease of
a mansion, No, 14, Clifford street, Bond-street. The
value of the interest in the land was properlyleft blank.
The value of the interest in the lease was properly left
blank. In short, the case was a blank altogether.—
(Great laughter.) It was the wish of the assignees
that the bankrupt should exert his influence upon Mr.
Webster, in order to procure bis presence, and test
the validity of the transfer of property as against the
creditors. He thought it but proper to tell Mr. De-
lafield that it was his duty to accede to this wish.
Mr. LEWIS wished it to be understood that the as-
signees had not before expressed to the bankrupt any
desire upon the subject.
His HONOUR continued—He did not impute to the
bankrupt anything worse than that he had evinced a
degree of folly that had operated injuriously to him-
self as well as to others. He would adjourn the
examination to the first Thursday in February next,
at one o'clock.
Mr. LEWIS inquired whether (as there might be
an insuperable objection on the part of Mr. Webster
to be examined in this country) his Honour would be
willing to issue a commission to take his examination
at Brussels ?—(Laughter.)
The COMMISSIONER (smiling)—No;l cannot do that.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-S7'REE7'.
Mr. Robert Knowles, an auctioneer and appraiser,
in Great Cain oridge•street, Hackney-road, appeared
before Mr. Arnold upon an adjourned summons, in
which he was charged with unlawfully detaining a
feather bed, valued at eight guineas, the property of
William Jones, the working gunsmith whose case
has been so frequently mentioned in this; paper, and
attracted so much public notice and commiseration.
It may be recollected that the article in dispute
formed part of the goods belonging to Jones, which
were taken in execution under a writ of fieri facies
from the Palace Court, and subsequently transferred
to the defendant's premises, where they were sold by
auction, and only realised the sum of 14l 155., although
their actual value was estimated by the complainant
at fifty guineas. Oa examining the condemned pro-
perty immediately after the sale, it was discovered
by the complainant that instead of his own bed,
another one of very inferior description had been
substituted in the interim, and knocked down, it
was alleged, to the defendant's porter for ls. 16s. ;
and as all his efforts to obtain compensation had
been wholly unsuccessful, he was ultimately com-
pelled to seek redress at the hands of a magistrate.
Several witnesses were examined at the former
hearing, the particulars of which have already been
fully detailed, and the magistrate adjourned the case
to take time for considering his decision upon the
somewhat conflicting evidence brought forward on
either side.
On the case being now called, Mr. King, a solici-
tor, who attended for the defence, renewed au applica-
tion he had previously made for the removal of the
proceedings before another tribunal,but the complainant
strongly Wajected to such a course, and expressed a de-
cided preference for final adjudication upon the matter
in this court.
The defendant's solicitor then addressed the magis-
rate, and contended that the complainant's witnesses
had entirely failed in establishing the fact that the bed
removed from his house, under the defendant's super-
intendence, was not the same which was afterwards
sold at the auction, while, on the other hand, it was
clearly shown by the testimony of the Palace Court
officer and another witness, that the bed taken in
execution was only worth about two guineas, and
that during the interval that elapsed between its
seizure and sale it had remained under the charge of
the porter, Baldwin, and never left the defendant's
premises. It had also been proved that the defendant,
in the first instance, had only appraised the bed at
two guineas. which could never have been the case if
its real value were upwards of four times that amount,
and the sum it afterwards realised at the sale was such
as to furnish a further presumption that it was the
same article, and that its value had been fairly and
properly estimated by the defendant. With these
observations, he should leave the case in the hands of
the magistrate, and he confidently submitted that the
charge had not been sustained, and that the summons
must:therefore at once be dismissed.
Mr. ARNOLD, in pronouncing judgment, said that
there was certainly a good deal of difficulty in the
case, from the absence of direct proof that the bed
actually removed from the complainant's house was
not the same as that subsequently sold at the auction,
but after carefully considering the testimony of the
complainant's aunt, who had originally made up the
bed, and had seen it for years in his possession up to
the week prior to its seizure, together with other cor-
roborative evidence to the same effect, he could come
to no other conclusion than that another bed, of an
inferior description, had by some means or other been
substituted for the complainant's, and that it produced
at the sale a much smaller amount than his own would
have realised. He fully exonerated the defendant
from all moral culpability in the transaction, but
could not help expressing his regret, that instead of
entirely disregarding the complaint preferred by
Junes on the day of sale, as he appeared to have done,
he had not instituted an immediate investigation
into the matter, which would probably have obviated
the necessity of any further proceedings. Under all
the circumstances, he considered that the charge had
been satisfactorily made out, and fixing the value of
the bed at the lowest amount at which it had been
estimated, while the one sold at the auction had only
produced 1/. 165., he should order the defendant to
pay the difference, namely 3/. 45., together with the
costs of the witnesses, exclusive of the complainant's
own relations, who waived all claim to compensation
for the loss of time and inconvenience they had in-
curred in their attendance.
On hearing the decision, the defendant made two or
three attempts to address the magistrate, but was
stopped by Mr. Arnold, who intimated that the case
was disposed of, and he must decline to hear any fur-
ther observations upon it.
The following communication from a solicitor, who
had gratuitously conducted the prosecution of an
appeal on behalf of Jones, against the judgment
obtained against him at the suit of the loan society, in
the Palace Court, was received by the magistrate :
" Sir,—William Jones has this day received the sum
of 11. 35„ which the judge of the Palace Court ordered
to be returned to him, and I have been paid the law
costs in which the plaintiff Ford was condemned,
amounting to 6L 17s. Bd. As these costs result from
proceedings in which Jones has been the sufferer, and as
I professed to undertake his case without remuneration,
I beg to place the sum in your hands, and I have to re-
quest the favour of your adding it to his list of contribu.
tions. The above includes a fee of one guinea paid to
his counsel, which that gentleman has returned.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" A SOLICITOR TO THE PALACE COURT.
" T. J. Arnold, Esq."

A QUIXOTIC ACCIDENT.—A curious accident
happened last week in the neighbourhood of Chichester.
In order to avoid a picket, a private of the Coldstream
Guards, lying in our barracks, took refuge in the Port-
field Windmill, and on leaving by the opposite door he
was struck by one of the sweeps and cArried a consider-
able distance into the field. Ile was conveyed to the in-
firmary in a state of insensibility.—Brighton Gazette.
A gold imperial coin of Flavius Jovianus has lately
been discovered by a poor boy, at Seater. It is rare
and valuable, few coins having been struck in the Em-
peror's brief reign of eight months, in the year 363.
.Lincolnshito Chronicle.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER

Manning has not had any communication with his
relatives since his arrest at Jersey; indeed, for some
time before the murder he had ceased to have any

ntercourse with them.

This is accounted for by th-;

ill-feeling which was known to exist betweeli his
family and his companion in crime, Maria Manning.
Manning has another brother and sister in London.
The brother just referred to has only recently re-
turned from the Mauritius. He received, on Wed-

nesday, the following letter from his wretched re-

"My dear Edmund,—l have an order for you to
see me on Friday evening. Come with Mr. Binns.
" Your most affectionate brother,
" F. G. MANNING.
"llorsemonger-lane Gaol, Condemed Cell,
Oct. 31, 1849,"
The interview accordingly took place about one
o'clock on Friday, in the presence of the Rev. Mr.
Roe, the chaplain of the gaol ; Mr. Keene, the
governor; Mr. Binns, the solicitor, and the officers of
the gaol aprinted to be constantly with the unfor-
tunate man. Manning was seated in the condemned
cell at a small table, and so altered and mentally pros-
trated that his brother scarcely knew him. He shook
hirn fervently by the hand, and held his hand in his
grasp tor some moment!, during which time neither
was able from the force of their emotions to utter a
word. Those present were moved by the sadness and

the awful reality of the scene.
At length the brother said, " Surely, Frederick,
you are not guilty of this horrible charge ?" Man-
ning immediately replied, " No, lam innocent. I
have told Mr. Roe everything. I have confessed all
to him; have I not, Mr. Roe ? (Mr. Roe nodded
assent). Edmund, she murdered him. I was up
stairs dressing myself at the time she shot him. I did
not know she was going to do so. I had no hand in
the murder. Mr. Rue knows lam innocent." The

unfortunate man continued to assert his innocence
with much vehemence and excitement, and then added,
in consequence of his brother having asked him if he
had not written to his wife to cleanse her breast by a
full confession, " Yes, and I have authorised you,
Mr. Roe, have I not, over and over again, to get her
to see me, because I could put such questions to her
that she could not evade." Mr. Roe replied, that he
had done as he said, but that she had declined to see
him. Manning then handed to his brother the letter
he had written to his wife, beginning, " I address you

as my wife," and couched in the most endearing terms,
to confess, so that the world might know the great
disparity between their guilt—how innocent he was,
and how deeply guilty was the part she had played in
the awful drama, for upon the truth of her statement
depended the issue of life and death to him ; and as she
knew he was innocent, he implored her to save him
from an ignominious death upon the scaffold. The
letter concluded by imploring his wife to grant him
an interview. The letter covered three pages of letter-
paper.
Mrs. Manning, soon after the receipt of the above,
called for pen, ink, and paper, and indited a long
letter to her husband, and covered four sides of letter
paper, closely written. She began by saying, " I
address you as my husband," and it contained more
than once the expression "my dear." She said, in
effect, that she was innocent of the diabolical charge
of which she had been shamefully convicted, and that
he alone could save her. Then, upbraiding him with
the course he had pursued towards her from the pe-
riod of his arrest up to the trial, she went on to say
that he alone could save her—that she could not think
of granting him an interview until he had stated in
writing that she was innocent of Mr. O'Connor's
murder. Then followed this remarkable statement :
—" You know that the, party who went with you to
Jersey committed the murder, and that I was from
home when it was committed ;" adding that if he
would make this statement in writing she would grant
his request and gee him. It will be seen that she en-
deavoured to induce her husband to declare that a
third party committed the deed, that she was far
away from the scene of blood at the time, and that
the third party and her husband fled to Jersey after
the commission of the murder.
Manning's brother, atter he had perused the letters,
exclaimed, " Frederick, she exculpates herself from
the charge, and accuses a third party; who does she
mean ?" He replied, "My dear fellow, her state-
ment is altogether false ; no one accompanied me to
Jersey. I know, Edmund, you will believe me
when I assert that I am innocent, for you have
always been try best friend, and I should never have
married that woman if I had listened to your advice."
After a long pause the brother urged his unhappy
relative to make his peace with God, who would
receive his soul if he was, as he said, innocent of the
awful crime. Ile immediately exclaimed again, «My
dear Edmund, I am innocent, as Mr. Roe knows
perfectly well. I hope God Almighty will commit
my soul to hell flames if I am guilty of this murder.
Mr. Roe is in possession of the whole of my state-
ment. I have told him all. I declare most solemnly
that I shall die innocent of Mr. O'Connor's murder.
I never hurt a hair of his head." He asserted his
innocence, and declared he was perfectly prepared to
meet his Maker.
There no longer exists any doubt that it is the in-
tention of Mrs. Manning's legal a iviser to bring the
point raised by her counsel at the trial, that she should
be tried by a jury partly composed of foreigners,
before a higher tribunal. A certificate was signed
by Mr. Parry that he considered the decision of the
judges erroneous, and there were good grounds for
an appeal to the House of Lords. This certificate
was forwarded to the Attorney- General, whose sanc-
tion it was necessary to obtain before an appeal could
be made, and that Learned Gentleman, after consult-
ing with his professional brethren who conducted the
case with him on the part of the Crown, wrote back
to Mr. Solomons, Mrs. Manning's attorney, refusing
to give his consent, as he perfectly agreed with the
decision of the Learned Judges. The Attorney-
General, however, added that Mrs. Manning could
bring the point for discussion and decision before the
Court of Appeal in criminal cases, appointed by the
late Act of Parliament, and that, as far as he was
concerned, he would afford every facility for bringing
the matter to a speedy issue. Of course the object of
the prisoner was delay, because the appeal to the
House of Lords could not be tried until after the
meeting of Parliament, whereas the appeal to the
Court of Appeal in criminal cases will be disposed of
very speedily.
The execution of the Mannings, husband and
wife, is appointed to take place on Tuesday, the 13th
inst., at Horsemonger-lane gaol. The day is fixed
by the Sheriff in all cases ; the time allowed between
the sentence and the execution varying according to
the custom of the several counties. The day fixed in
the case of the Mannings will give time for an argu-
ment in the Court of Appeal in criminal cases on the
point made for Mrs. Manning, should it be -seriously
persisted in..
Another case, scarcely less remarkable for treachery
and deliberate cruelty, is the case of a young man,
Aired Jordan, alias Dowland, who attempted the life,
at Dulwich, of a woman that trusted him, and who
at the very moment bore in her bosom the unborn
pledge of her affection. This is as bad a case of at-
tempted murder as there is on record ; but as it is, by
the interposition of Divine mercy, an attempt only, it
is possible that the culprit may escape through the
merciful interpretation which of late years has limited
almost exclusively the execution of the capital punish-
ment to cases of actual murder.
Monday has been the usual day for executions in
the metropolis ; but Tuesday is substi uted in order
to avoid the necessity of any preparations being
made on the Sunday night preceding.—Sunday Paper.

RAILWAY SHARE NIARNETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was firm to-day at
the quotations. The sales are— Caledonian. 13— Ditto,Dlicrteo-
ference, B%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 61
Unpaid up, 39 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 61. fis. 3d. London and
North-Western, 114%—Ditto, New Quarters, 11641
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference,4— I
id-
land, 48— Ditto, Halves, 21 c. dis.— Shropshire Union (Rail-
way and Canal), 3i Bs. 9d.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 3.
Srocx EXCHANOK.—The only transactions to-day were—
North Staffordshire, 834 db 3.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A) 714 dis. London and North-Western, 1161/2.
YORK, Nov. 2.
Srocx Excnawarc.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 173/4 Ditto (G N.
E. Purchase). 3—Eastern Counties, 741 Midland, 47--
York and North Midland, 193/4.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions tc-day were as
follow :—Caledonian, 133/4—Hartlepool Dock and Railway,
guaranteed 8 per cent., 129—Ditto. New Fifths, 4 p.—
London and Blackwall, 3A—North British, 'Thirds, 3,4
North Staffordshire, 8 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
17% —Ditto, Extension, 117 Q.
GLASGOW, Nov. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transaction to-day was—
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 48IA•

SUPPLIES TO PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.—Her Majesty's
ship Daphne, which sailed from Valparaiso on the 14th
of July, for the islands of the Pacific, being ordered by
Admiral Hornby to touch at Pitcairn 's Island, for the
purpose of communicating with the inhabitants, and
conveying to them a supply of things
. usually sent from
that place by such opportunities, the following were
kindly taken charge of by Captnin Fanshawe to give to
them :—A bull and a cow, supplies for the passage being
provided : agricultural implements, iron pots, saucepans,
fishhooks, soap, printed and white cottons, thread-
' needles, writing paper, steel pens, &c. The value of the
above, amounting to about 200 dollars, has been raised
amongst those kindly disposed towards that secluded
though happy little community. Other things were
also forwarded that had been given for them, such as
clothes, boots, newspapers, &c.; also two pair of rabbits
-.which they had re quested might be sent to them ; the
same request had been made for the bull and cow.
They will likewise receive a good supply of excellent
books for their schools, church, and for general reading,
which have been sent from London by the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge. United Service
Gazette,