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London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

BANKING D,

Proprietors' capital. 14,5E3,000
Rest • • •••••• • • • • • 3,1G2,595
Public deposits (In-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

vidend accounts).. 7,248,920
Other deposits ...... 9,912,504
haven day and other

bills" :....... .... 1,031,710

£35,903,729

Dated the 22d day of November,

COURSE OF EXCH
Amsterdam ......•• •• 12 3

Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 154
Rotterdam .... • • .... 12 3
Antwerp. • ....., ...... 25 SO
Liamburgh • M.B. 13 14 1,4
Ltona • • ..
Paris, 3 days'sight • 25 52%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 75
Marseilles •••••••• .. • • 25 75
80urdeaux......... . 25 75
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 IA
Peter sburgh, Sil.Rble.. 36%
Berlin•• .. • • • • • • .• • • • •
Vienna, effec. do •••• •• 11 10
Trieste, ditto.... •..... 11 12
dadrid• • ........ 49%
Cadiz ... •• .• •• •• •• •• 49%
Bilbao.. •.• • .. ......
Barcelona • • •• ........

tie rille••••• t •••••

SCOTCII WiIISKEY.—We observe that some casks
of Scotch whiskey were recently returned into one of the
Scotch ports, after having been shipped to the West ILI
dies, fur the purpose of improving the spirit by the
voyage. We are not cognizant of a practice of the kind
having existed, or of British spirits having before been
tent on a voyage to the Indira and back solely for the
purpose of improving the spirit,although such a mode of
proceeding is found to have so beneficial an effect on
Cape and also other wine's, and the fact of such a pro-
ceeding in the present instance having been adopted, is
of some interest.

EDUCATION.—OId Experience pointing out the
road to Young Nature—a mental railway, beginning at
birth, and running into eternity.—Eliza Cook's Journal

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov 22.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge.)
ASSAULT AND ALLEGED CRIM. CON.—Mr. Stephen
Bailey, a publican in Newgate Market, surrendered to
take his trial upon an indictment, charged with having
assaulted. Joshua Stopford.
Mr. Horry appeared for the prosecution, Mr. l3al-
lantine for the defendant.

Mr. Hoaar briefly opened the case to the jury,
and suggested that it was a case which might very
properly have been settled out of court, and if that
course were taken the feelings of all parties would be
spared.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the defendant rejected the
suggestion with the utmost possible scorn.
The prosecutor was then examined. He stated that
his name was Joshua Stopford, and that he was secre-
tary to the Artesian Water Company, residing at 46,
St. John-street, Clerkenwell, and occupying offices in
Southampton-buildings. On the 14th of the present
month he had occasion to go to Richmond, and whilst
there he met, by the purest accident, Mrs. Bliley,
the wife of the defendant. They returned to town
together by the
.South-Western Railway, and on
leaving Waterloo station he accompained Mrs. Bailey
over Waterloo-bridge to the end of Lancaster-place,
where she proposed to take an omnibus to proceed
towards Regent's-park. He would have proceeded to
his own home after he had left her, but they found
that it would be some minutes before an omnibus
going to the required destination came up, so they
walked slowly up and down Lancaster-place, and
whilst so doing the defendant rushed up and struck
him a tremendous blow with a brass headed stick.
For the minute, such was the effect of the blow, he
was completely blinded, and when he had recovered
sufficiently to look round, the defendant was tearing
his wife's bonnet from her head and her clothes from
her back. The defendant then said " You I
have caught you at last, have I!" and again struck
him. His face was bleeding, and on a policeman
running up he gave the defendant into custody, Tne
defendant threatened to murder his wife.

Cross-examined—This took place on the day before
the thanksgiving day. Mrs. Bailey is now living in
the house of Mr. Wooller, a friend of mine, No. 10,
Carburton-street, Fitzroy-square. I took her there
and introduced her to Mr. Wooller five weeks ago
last Monday. Of cour. e that was before I met her
at Richmond. I have never slept at Mr. Wooller's
house. I have visited Mrs. Bailey there. I saw her
there on the Sunday before the transaction, and I took
her and Mrs. Wooller to church. Wooller is not my
attorney in this prosecution. I drew up the brief
myself. I went to Richmond for the purpose of dis-
charging an obligation I thought I was under. It was
to pay for the maintenance of Mrs. Bailey's child,
which was with a person named Foster. Mrs. Bailey
had no name for it, and I told her to send the child
where she liked, and I would pay for its maintenance.
She sent it to Foster's, and it was there I met Mrs.
Bailey. I did not meet her by arrangement. I was
in the habit of frequenting Mr. Bailey's house, and
have eaten and drank there many times. I never went
after Mrs. Bailey left. Mr. Bailey turnei her out on the
17th of September. It was on my account. I never
made love to her when I visited the house.

The JUDGE—Do you swear, then, that there never
was any improper intimacy between you and Mrs.
Bailey ? Witness—l do. On the 17th of December
the defendant said I had seduced his wife, and he
struck me on the face with a life preserver, and I bled
profusely. Had my head been in a more inclined
position, he would have killed me on the spot. He
turned his wife out of doors that night. I did not
charge the defendant with an assault then. Mrs.
Bailey then went to live at her sister's, but she was
too poor to keep her, and as she had been turned out
of her house on my account, I thought
I was bound to provide her with lodgings.
I suppose Mr. Wooller will compel Mr. Bailey
to pay the expenses.— (Laughter.) I may have had
some very jocular conversation with her. I may have
kissed her. I kissed her about six months ago. She
was too virtuous a woman to allow any person to take
liberties with her. It was a liberty to kiss her, no
doubt, but I " snatched " it unawares.—(Loud
laughter.) It was stated before the magistrate that
I and Mrs. Bailey went to a coffee-house by the
Waterloo-road. I did not recollect whether we did
or not until I asked Mrs. Bailey. We did. I cannot
tell precisely where the coffee-house was. She wanted
some refreshment, and I took her there. She had
some coffee. We were there ten minutes. I don't
know whether it was a brothel or not. I could not
find it again if I tried.
Re-examined—My only reason for providing her
with lodgings was that she was destitute.

By the COURT—I don't know where Mrs. Bailey's
sister lived. She sent me a message, and I met her
in St. John•street. A boy used to carry messages
between us. I sent a note to tell her that she could
go to Mr. Wooller's.
The JUDGE—HOW did you direct that note ?
Witness—l didn't direct it all. Yes I did though—
I forgot. I directed it Mrs. Bailey.
The JUDGE—Where at' Witness—Oh, nowhere.
—(Laughter.) The child was sent to Richmond by
my direction. I swear that after she left her hus-
band's I did not know where she lived. I took a
great interest in her, because I presumed I was the
cause of her troubles. lam paying Gs. a week for the
child. Mrs. Bailey was very much attached to the
child, and I desired it to be sent to Richmond, so
that it might not be taken from her by the defendant.
When at Richmond Mrs. Bailey had a return ticket.
I had not. I did not go for the purpose of sleeping
there.
A police constable proved having witnessed the
transaction.
The Learned JUDGE said he was reminded of the
very best speech ever made by a well-known Judge.
When on circuit he said in an assault case, " Gentle-
men of the jury, the case for the prosecution is that
my client gave the prosecutor a good thrashing. My
case is that he very richly deserved it." The circum-
stances of this case brought that speech strongly to his
mind. _ _ _

Mr. B.4.LLANTINE then addressed the jury. lie
said he had a very few observations to make, but
there were in this case matters of too serious a nature
to be lightly passed over. The defendant was a
highly respectable man, and had lived fourteen or
fifteen years in the house he at present occupied, and
up to the period when the prosecutor commenced his
visits he bed a good and devoted wife, who had borne
him several children, two of whom only were now
living, but she had been debauched by this man, who
had robbed the defendant of every domestic comfort
he possessed—who had robbed him of his children,
and who now added to his former villeny the infamy
of perjury, for he had deliberately and distinctly
sworn that no criminal intercourse had taken place
between him and the defendant's wife.

Mr. HURRY said, that if Mr. Ballantine went into
these details without proof, he, should claim a reply.
_ _

The Learned JuDGli said that all Mr. Ballantine
could say could not alter the question as to the assault.
What Mr. Ballantine said about provocation would
be addressed to the Court, and not to the jury. It was
not possible, consistently, for the defendant to be
declared not guilty.
Mr. BALLANTINE then proceeded, and commented
with great severity on the proposition made by the
prosecutor, through his counsel, to settle the matter
out of court, m hich circumstance showed, Li said,