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inconoruous empire, obedient to the House of pensation. It was in this manner that a year or so
Hapsbe'rg. To prevent this, if possible, the Minis- back Mr. Wilderspin, the founder of the system of
infant education, obtained the spontaneous applause
tern of FRANCIS JOSEPH are now endeavouring to of the multitude in the form of a voluntary
counteract the ill-effects of the military incompetence.
testimonial. Another of our conspicuous na-
of Prince WINDIsCHGRATZ—.first of all, by super- tional benefactors has been hitherto disre-
seding him with WELDEN (just as England has garded, but we are glad to learn that there
recently superseded Genoa with NAPIER) ; and, is a prospect of this oversight being at length
secondly, by calling upon Russia to aid her more amended. It is understood that Mr. Kyan, the
discoverer of the means of preserving timber from the
extensively with troops and ammunition.
destructive influence of the " dry rot," has made ap-
plication to th'a Government for participation in the
Against this possible coalition of these two gigantic
benefits derived from what is commonly called the
despotisms there is one obstruction which may
prove an effectual shield to the Hungarians. The Royal Bounty Fund—a fund created for distribution
very lust of territory, which is bringing the among those who may be regarded as having deserved
present vengeance upon Austria and upon Russia such assistance by their exertions for the public wel-
fare, or by their own individual misfortunes. Not
may be the means of disparting their hitherto one, we are satisfied, will gainsay for one instant
united efforts, and of frittering away their hitherto the claim put forward by the inventor of the system
irresistible vigour. The AUTOCRAT has, in the weak- of " kyanizing" wood by the employment of the cor-
ners of Moldo-Wallachia, and in the threatening rosive sublimate—a treatment which not merely ren-
attitude of Turkey, a lure which he can scarcely be ders green timber durable, but ready for immediate
use. The benefits conferred by this gentleman on
expected to forego'' for the sake of affording practical
the public are too obvious to require any detailed enu-
assistance to the policy of SCRWARTZENBURG. meration ; but one circumstance at least deserves parti-
g cular remembrance, that to him we are all of us indebted
Austria again finds, in the events now transpiring
in Italy, unanswerable reasons for the direction of a —from her Most Gracious Majesty down to the most
large proportion of her energies upon Lombardy, impoverished third-class passengers— for being enabled
and through Lombardy upon the Central States to travel throughout the United Kingdom with so
much celerity, comfort, and cheapness. Neither ease,
of the Roman peninsula. Her armies will con-
rapidity, or economy of travelling by the steam-
sequently remain dissevered, and she will engine could have been accomplished but for the ap-
scarcely feel disposed to withdraw her greatest plication of the longitudinal, " kyanized," wooden
Captain, RADSTZKY, from the scene in which his sleepers in place of the old, ricketty, and costly
abilities had so materially tended towards the sleepers of stone originally employed by Mr. Ste-
realisation of the designs of the KAISER. In all this, phenson. Through the instrumentality of Mr.
Brunel, in the first instance, the " kyanized" timber
consequently, we are fain to recognise a guarantee sleepers were substituted for their predecessors, and
for the fair trial of the game of war between the the example of that celebrated engineer has since
Hungarians and their oppressors. GOD grant that been followed upon all the lines of railway by his
these conflicting interests on the side of Italy and eminent contemporaries. Merit becomes the more
Turkey, of Frankfort and Moldo-Wallachia, may con- c
`rendered when years have rendered it venerable.
" "
tinue so long as to prevent a coalition of force against The age of man, it is said, is three score and ten
years, and though some be so strong that they reach
the heroic patriots of Hungary—a coalition so dispro- four score, yet is their strength but labour and sor-
portioned in vigour as to preclude the possibility of the row." Neither the age nor the deserts of this national
continuance of the present struggle towards their benefactor will, we are satisfied, be overlooked.
emancipation! If additional forces are not brought
to bear against Hungary she must inevitably and
very speedily have conquered her independence.
Every additional dispatch from the seat of war brings
to us the most encouraging accounts of the advantages
gained by the insurgents over the Imperialists. On
every point the latter have been beaten by the
superior tactics and nobler valour of the Hungarians.
Both wings of the great army of Austria have been
repulsed : the left has been routed and driven through
Transylvania into the Turkish provinces ; the right
has been ineffectually striving to take the city of
Comorn by assault, and has at length been compelled
to hasten from its walls for the purpose of obstructing
the passage of DEMBINSKI. The centre, under
the command of WINDISCHGRATZ, after receiving
a terrific blow at Waitzen, is already in full retreat.
So that before the arrival of WELDEN from Vienna it
is not improbable that the scattered corps of the
Austrians would have fallen back to within a brief
distance of Raab. Under existing circumstances the
capital of Hungary cannot remain much longer in
the possession of Absolutism. The guns of Buda
cannot compensate for the enmity of the inhabi-
tants on the opposite banks of the Danube. And,
supposing the latest rumour to be correct, namely,
that DEMBINSKI had crossed the Danube near
Waitzen, and was marching directly to-
wards Weissenborg—there is every prospect
that Buda as well as Pestle, that Gran as
well as Comorn, will soon be in the possession
of the Hungarians. In that event—with RADETZKY
detained in Lombardy, with NICHOLAS engaged in
Wallachia, with SCHWARTZENBURG preoccupied by
the difficulties at Frankfort—KOSSUTH might dic-
tate the terms of pacification within sight of Vienna.
To that end every generous heart will continue to
breath forth its aspirations.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the National Assembly, on Wednesday, M.
DUPONT DB BErSAC presented the report of the
Committee on the Laws of Caution Money for the
Journals. The Committee is in favour of continuing
the caution money temporarily on the following con-
ditions :--
"1. The caution money to be reduced one-half. 2.
It must be paid in cash or Five per Cent. Rentes. 3.
Journals published only during the 45 days previous to
the meeting of the Legislative Assembly shall be exempt
from the caution money. 4. Until the meeting of the
Legislative Assembly, publications and circulars relative
to the elections may be publicly sold without any pre-
vious authority, and under the sole condition of their
being signed by the writers."
The Assembly declared the matter to be urgent,
and fixed the discussion for Wednesday next.
It was confidently asserted in the political salons of
the French capital on Wednesday evening, that the
POPE had been restored.

The rumour of the invasion of Transylvania by
the Russians had occasioned a great sensation in Paris.

M. BOUSSINGAULT waa elected a Councillor of
State on Wednesday. The Council of State is now
complete.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 19.

East Indian, 4—Great Indian Peninsula, 4%—Paris and
Rouen, 22X.

We are happy to learn that efforts are about to be
made to obtain, through the intervention of Parlia-
ment, some redress of the grievances to which the
junior medical officers of her MAJESTY'S navy are
subject; though, at the same time, we cannot but
express our regret that the Board of Admiralty
should thus tacitly acknowledge its inability or un-
willingness to give that attention and consideration,
which it undoubtedly deserves, to this important
branch of the service.

It has long been a matter of surprise that the
complaints, loud and deep, which have emanated,
from time to time, from this neglected body of gen-
tlemen, have hitherto been disregarded by those
whose duty it was to have given them at least
some show of consideration; we hope, however, that
the time is now come when these remonstrances will
be listened to with becoming attention, and pro Fer
inquiries set on foot. We have then little doubt that
the grievances, which have been so long, and so
patiently borne, will meet with some kind of redress
and reformation ; for, indeed, no branch of her
Majesty's service needs this so much as that of
which we are now writing. Let any one consider
a moment the position of the naval assistant-sur-
geon, and he will see the truth of our remarks.
He enters the service at twenty-two or twenty-
three years of age, and looks forward
to the higher responsibility of the office of surgeon
at the end of seven or eight years. His capability,
not merely in his present rank, but in the higher to
which he aspires, depends in a great degree on the
devotion of a large portion of his time to purposes of
self-improvement ; he may at any moment be called
upon to treat the most difficult cases, to combat the
most formidable epidemics, to dress the most serious
wounds, and to perform the most unusual operations,
without those advantages which medical men ordi-
narily possess, of unlimited access to books, and of
obtaining the advice and assistance, in all diffi-
culties and emergencies, of the most. distin-
guished and scientific men. Thus placed in
situations of unwonted responsibility, and at the
same time left to his own resources in a much greater
degree than any other professional man, what is his
position ? At the mature age of 30 or 31 years he
finds himself surrounded by boys of from 14 to 16
years of age, all of whom are engaged in the acqui-
sition of an elementary education, and compelled to
mess and associate with them! He finds himself the
only officer of adult age who is excluded from the
general officers' mess, and his position as gun-room
officer makes him ineligible to possess a cabin,
the only place of bonci fide retirement for the pur-
poses of study. How then is he to keep
pace with the rapid march of medical
science? It is not even possible for him to retain
unimpaired the varied knowledge acquired in the
schools, and no system of checks, or re-examinations i
in passing to the higher grades, will compensate for
that self.culture, of which, during a long term of
years, he is thus deprived.
The Royal College of Edinburgh lately received
from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
authority to recommend once in three years one of
their licentiates as a candidate for a naval medical
appointment. In 1847, which was the first
year after they received this privilege, no candi-
date presented himself, and in 1848 only one
such candidate came forward ; while on both
occasions extensive publicity bad been given of the
intention of the Royal College to recommend. These
are ominous facts, and deserve the serious considera-
tion of the Admiralty Board; fOr they clearly and
undeniably demonstrate, that a disinclination exists
on the part of licentiates, and especially of those of
them who are distinguished by superior talent and
education, to enter the naval medical service, and
doubtless their reluctance proceeds mainly from the
unmerited degradation to which they are subjected
In the earlier portion of their career.

Tua ROYAL BOUNTY has been more generously
distributed of late than heretofore. The National
Gratitude is now-a-days evinced with greater discri-
mination than in "the good oli times," when men,
who had devoted their whole lives to the advancement
of science or to the cultivation of literature, were passed
over unnoticed and unrewarded. Very recently we
have seen the Prime Minister providing for two of
the children of the unfortunate and lamented Haydon.
And whenever the Government betrays any remark-
able remissness in failing to recompense any of our
distinguished but neglected countrymen, the people
assume to themselves the duty of approval- and corn-
* How intently the thoughts of the Autocrat are im-
pinged upon the seizure of the Danubian provinces, and how
earnestly his ambition is turned towards the acquisition of
Constantinople, may be learnt in five minutes by a glance
at the debate in the Houie of Commons on Thursday, March
22,1849. This debate which, it will be remembered, was
on the occasion of Lord Dudley Stuart'amotion respect-
ing the cccupation of Moldavia and Wallachia by Rus-
sian troops, has just been reprinted in the form of a
pamphlet. Bvc.. rp. 33. E. DetkivaLondon, 1849.

entire German fatherland, and enabled the man who
possessed universal confidence to respond to the call
made upon him.
" So far as lay in his power the Archduke has justi-
fied the confidence reposed in him, and accomplished the
great mission to which ha had, with such self-sacrifice,
devoted himself. He resolutely and successfully op-
posed the anarchy which daily becomes more encroach-
ing, re-established the supremacy of the law, and
thereby guaranteed peace and order, which were indis-
pensable for the completion of the legal renovation of
Germany.
" The National Assembly, on the other hand, did not
fulfil the expectations entertained respecting it. Instead
of a united and powerful Germany—one consequently
rich in future promise—for the foundation of which it
might have paved the way, it endeavoured to form an
ideal kingdom, an attempt which could only tend to
loosen, perhaps even dissolve, those bonds which for cen-
turies bad conjoined the various German races.
" It is not my intention to follow the course of the Na-

" From the well-directed fire from our gun-boats and
the entrenched batteries on Alsen, the enemy's columns
were soon forced to retire, and thrt e battalions were im-
mediately dvanced through our tete de pont, who cap.
tured two of the enemy's brass guns, and a third could
not be carried off, as it was dismounted. The gun-boats
were not injured, and lost none of their men. The oil-
etrs and men behaved with intrepidity, and fired viith
great coolness and precision."
The Borsenhalle (under date of Hamburgh, April
15) confirms the intelligence of the German troops
having stormed and possessed themselves of the re-
doubts of Duppel, and further states that they had
been then driven from them by the fire of the
Danish gun-boats and the batteries of the Isle of
Alsen.

The same journal (under date of Flensburg,
April 14) says the battle was carried beyond
Duppel, towards Ballegrave and Bardesboy on the
north, and on the east to Ulderup. The Danish
troops took refuge in Alsen, and the Ger-
mans pushed on to Alsensund. The combat
was very fierce, the number of slain being estimated
at 1,000, which, however, appears to be exaggerated.
The Danes themselves destroyed the bridge between
Alsen and Sundewitt, on which occasion two or three
of their battalions were driven at the point of the
bayonet into the water. The mill of Duppel and
several farms were destroyed by fire.
Intelligence from Flensburg of the 14th states,
that on the previous evening the Danes in consider-
able force occupied the Isle of foehr, and many of
the inhabitants took to flight.

tional Assembly since its origin, and to point out more
clearly the evils which its constant vacillations and its
too frequent encroachment on the province of the execu-
tive central power must necessarily produce. I shall
confine myself to the specifying and eiucidating of those
decisions which immediately affect us, and which will
account for the position that, in consequence of them,
we are compelled to take under the circumstances re-
ferred to. _

" Since the present Ministry, in their opening pro-
gramme of the 27th of November last, er.pressel the in-
tention of uniting in one great body all the countries and
races of the Austrian monarchy, there has been formed
in the National Assembly a party which has done all in
its power to render our conjunction with Germany im-
possible. That party thought it had attained its ends
by passing those provisions of the constitutions (dis-
cussed at Frankfort-on. the-Maine) which, for German
countries that, in unison with non German ones, have
one sovereign in common, prescribes a special constitu-
tion, form of government, and administration.
" It was foreseen that such provisions were irreconcil-
able with the principles of the unity of the Austrian Im-
perial State, principles which were not only announced,
but sufficiently explained, as well as fully carried out by
us. Let those therefore who arrived at that unnecessary
decision bear the consequences of it.
" The National Assembly, moreover, by the election
on the 27th ult. of an hereditary Sovereign of the Empire,
deviated from the forms of the contemplated Confederate
State, and put forward those of a single state in a manner
incompatible with the independence of the various Ger-
man Governments, which only with reference to im-
portant federal questions ought to be held within una-
yoidableiimits.

"Finally, through its decision of the 28th ult. (deci-
sions to the effect that the Imperial Constitution drawn
up by the National Assembly alone be carried out
and/promulgated as laws) that Assembly has abandoned
the path of concordance, the only path to which it was
called, the only path to which it had a right to remain,
and the one a hich the Government had expressly held
in reserve. At the same time, by al bitrarily declaring
it elf en permanence until the meeting of the future
Imperial Assembly, it placed itself on illegal ground, to
follow it on which the Governments were not induced.
"Austria, intimately connected with Germany by
long-existing felllowship, by inseparable interests, and
by treaties incontestably still in force, cannot, and will
not, be severed from such a bond. The German Con-
federation, as formed by treaties, is not yet dissolved,
and the rights and obligations of its members still con-
tinue.
"If, under the circumstances which have arisen, we
cannot accept, for tie present, of a Confederate State,
as contemplated in the decisions of the National As•
sembly (even under reservation of the rights guaran-
teed to us by history and treaties), we shall, neverthe-
less, continue to take • lively interest in the fate of our
former associates, and under another aspect of affairs be
always ready to show that interest by deeds.
" This is the opinion of his Majesty the Emperor, to
which he will remain faithful.
" In the same way
as his Majesty in my dispatch to
your Excellency under date February 4, solemnly pro-
tested against being subjected to the Central Power ex-
ercised by any other German Prince, our gracious Sove-
reign is likewise resolved never to place, on any terms,
under a foreign legislative assembly, the legislative power
constitutionally exercised by him in common with the
representative corps of Austria.
The document concludes by stating that there is
no objection to the return of the Chevalier VON
SCHAIIIRLING, as his successor is ready to start for
Frankfort; and that it only remained for the Austrian
Deputies in Frankfort to quit an Assembly which,
as before shetPd, entered upon an illegal course by its
decision of the 28th ult. The document is signed by
Prince SCHWASZENBERG.

FRANKFORT.
Thirty of the Austrian Deputies gave up their
seats in the German Parliament on the 17th.
The German Gazette publishes the official
declaration of the plenipotentiaries of the Govern-
[gents who have given their adhesion to the constitu-
tions agreed upon by the German. National Assembly.
The states they represent are the following :
Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Electoral, Oldenburg,
Mecklenburg, Holstein, Lauenburg, Brunswick,
Nassau, Saxe Weimar, Coburg Gotha, Oldenburg,
Meiningen, Anhalt-Bernburg, Dessau, Schwartzen-
burg •Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Reuss, Hohenzol-
lern, Waldeck, Hainburgh, Bremen, Lubeck, and
Frankfort. These plenipotentiaries say that they
have read with lively satisfaction his Prus-
sian MAJESTY s note agreeing to accept the
Imperial German Crown, and put himself
at the bead of a federal German state, and
his having made that acceptance depend upon the
consent of the other German Governments, is a cause
for great gratitude on their part, and they are satisfied
that his so doing will give a strong guarantee for the
duration of the constitution, and for this reason they
have not hesitated to give their consent to his elec-
tion. They are aware, they state, that the constitu •
tion is not in all points such as they can approve, but
as some of the Governments had previously recognised
as obligatory the resolutions of the Assembly, and
others having evidenced their friendly feeling towards
it, they consider any scruples that might be enter-
tained on this head not worthy of notice, when com-
pared with the great dangers which might result from
a postponement of their adhesion to the constitution.
They conclude by expressing a hope that, by the
formation of a great federal state, with Prussia at its
head, they will eminently promote the happiness and
prosperity of Germany.

Sr FREDERICK TIIESIGER now moved for a new trial,
on the ground of naisdiu,t tion, and that the verdict was
against the evidence. It was an action of trover for a
quantity of bucks which had been seized by the Sheriff
of Middlesex, under an execution against Mr. James
Bohn. The plaintiffs were strangely associated together,
the first being Mr. Scarisbriek, who is representative of
the most ancient Roman Catholic family in this country,
the second being the Bishop of Llandaff, and the other
Mr. Ilyam Ansell, a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion,
and son of the late Jewish Rabbi. Mr. James Bohn
carried on the business of a bookseller in King William
street, City, and these three gentlemen were in the habit
of attending his shop and purchasing very rare and
curious works from his valuable collection of books. In
December, 1843, Mr. Bohn becoming embarrassed in his
circumstances, a fiat in bankruptcy was issued against
him, and the plaintiffs, being desirous of assist-
ing him out of his difficulties, they had the
stock valued, and became the purchas( rs of it,
advancing in different proportions for this purpose.
1,500/. A deed way execute -d making over the property
to the plaintiff 4, anti they allowed Mr. Bohn to have pos-
session of the boils, and to carry on the business in
their behalf. Mr. Bohn subsequently removed to St.
James's-street, where the execution in question was put
in upon the whole stock, including that of the plaintiffs',
at the instance of a Mr. Hoare, and the main question
was as to whether Mr. Ansell's share in the property
had been legally conveyed to that gentleman, so as to
entitle him to take possession of it. The Learned
Counsel submitted that Mr. Ansell ought to be held as
continuing in regular p ssession until the property seas
transferred by a proper deed; and as the transaction was
'a mere verbal one, argued that upon the evidence an
action for trover could be maintained.
The Court took time to consider the decision.

Queen is on shore on the Main. Several light vessels
lave put in here for shelter.
DEAL, APRIL 19.—Wind S.S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrd.
Stad Tiel, Cite valier, Batavia, for Rotterdam. Arrived
from the River and sailed, Ilydrabad, Rat Town; Cha-
mois, Mauritius; Victoria, New York. Sld. Phoenician,
Sydney, New South Wales.
OFF PORTLAND, APRIL 17.—Alert, Buagoe, St. Croix,
Baldur, Rio Janeiro, both for Copenhagen.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
QUEEN V. THISTLETON.
Mr. PHIPPS applied to his Lordship for a writ:of certi-
orari to bring up the depositions in a Crown prosecu-
tion, to admit the defendant to bail. The name of the
defendant was Mr. Thistleton, who was charged with
stealing a horse, but what was the precise nature of the
charge he could not state, as he had not been supplied
with the depositions. He had, however, an affidavit,
from which it appeared that the defendant was a farmer,
residing in the county of Derby, and renting upwards
of 210 acres of land, and 58 years of age. He swore
that no charge had ever been made against him
before, and that the present accusation arose out of
the following circumstances:—ln the year 1847, a
person of the name of Richardson was residing
on the adjoining farm to the defendant, whose son dealt
in horses, and who had since been transported for horse-
stealing. So long ago as the 4th of January, 1847, the
defendant having been told by the son that the son had
a horse fur sale, ho went over to the father's farm, and
saw the horse, which he had trotted out for the purpose
of examining his paces and condition. On that occasion
he was accompanied by two of his neighbours, and,
upon their advice, he agreed to buy the horse for 18/.
10s., having no idea whatever that it had been stolen, as
the price was a fair one, and about the value of the
animal. Some time afterwards he sold the horse
upon a slight advance beyond the 181. 10s. to a party
in whose possession it was subsequently discovered,
by the gentleman from whom it had been originally
stolen, and as it could only be traced to the defendant, he
v a; given into custody on a charge of stealing it, and as
the magistrate had refused to admit him to bail, he was
force] to have recourse to the present motion. Many of
his neighbours and friends had made affidavits of his
respectability, and he was prepered to put in bail to any
reasonable amount.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE granted the application.
THE CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
IN
Mr. PARRY was instructed to apply to his Lordship on
behalf of Mr. George Stracey, the secretary of the
City of London Literary and Scientific Institution in
Aldersgate-street, for a rule calling upon one Edward
Lane to show cause why an order of sessions should not
be quashed. This order had been removed by certiorari
from the court of Queen's Bench for the city of London,
and the present application was to have the order of
sessions queobed, to enable to enable the defendant to
have the case put in the Crown paper for argument. It
would appear, that some time ago Mr. Tidd Pratt
granted a certificate to this institution, under the 6th
and 7th Victoria, whereby it was exempted from
the payment of local rates and taxes, but the appellant,
who was an inhabitant of the same parish, feeling him-
self aggrieved by the certificate, petitioned the court
of quarter sessions against it, and with what success he
had already mentioned.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE suggested that the best course
to pursue was to move for a writ of procidendo.
Mr. PARRY replied that the time had gone by for his
doing that, and the present motion was made to prevent
the appellant from urging the delay which had been al-
lowed to take place as a preliminary objection to the
rule for quashing the order.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked what the objection to
the certificate was?
Mr. PARRY said the certificate was in these terms, " I
do hereby certify that this institution is exempt
from the. payment of rates and taxes under the Act of
the 6th and 7th of her Majesty Queen Victoria." There
was an appeal against this certificate, and upon the
hearing of the appeal it was objected that the instru-
ment was bad, inasmuch as it did not state that the Act
of Parliament which gave Mr. Tidd Pratt the power of
granting the certificate was passed in the sessions of
Parliament holden in the 6th and 7th years of the reign
of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Recorder hold-
ing this objection to be good, directed the certifi-
cate to be annulled. It was quite clear, how-
ever, that the Learned Gen•leman had no power
to entertain the ohj, ction, for the Act of Par-
liament in question provided, that when the certificate
was granted, it should be enrolled with the clerk of
the peace at the court of quarter sessions, which
enrolment was to be taken as a confirmation of the cer-
tificate. Accordingly, the certificate granted in the case
of this institution was duly enrolled, and it was there-
fore quite clear that the Recorder could not nullify a
document which his court had previously confirmed.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE remarked that the case was
one that ought to be fully argued, and grantel a rule

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)

NEWSON AND ANOTHER, EXECUTORS, &C., V. ZONES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as executors,
&c., of a person named Gillham against defendant, who
is an omnibus proprietor, to recover the sum of 201, on
a bill of exchange, which Gillham had accepted for the
accommodation of Jones, and which had been taken up
by the executors.
The defendant pleaded the general issue that he was
not indebted.

The plaintiffs' ATTORNEY said that the defendant Jones
had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act ; but he had
to contend that that did not release the defendant, as
the Bill had been taken up subsequently.
Mr. Dance, from the Insolvent Court, produced the
proceedings in which defendant had admitted he was
hi-debt:o to Gillham in the amount, and that the bill
k -
-was an accommodation bill.
The defehdents' ATTORNEY took an objection that the
bill was not properly set out, and was not identified as
the one claim, d upon, the dates being different.
The SECONDARY overruled the obj,ction, and the jury
gave a verdict for the amount.

EPSOM RACES.

BY EXPRESS.-(THIS DAY.)

EPSOM, Two O'CLOCK.

In consequence of the course being covered with
snow, the Stewards have postponed the races until to-
morrow (Saturday).

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, APRIL 20.—Wind N.N.W.—Fresh breeze
and squally, with sleet at times.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL I9.—Arrd. Meams, Smith, Mo-
bile; Canada (s.) New York, 4th inst., and Halifax on
the 6th instant. Sid. Bangalore, Calcutta; Cumber-
land, Africa; Orkney Lass, Jamaica; Ellen, ditto;
Zenobar, Havannah; Hereyna, Quebec; Margaret
Redley, and Apollo, - Newfoundland ; Catherine, Staten
Island. Off port Prince Royal, New Orleans. The
Harriet, Fuller, bound to this port, :was putting back to
Baltimore on the 2d inst., after being on shore, and with
foremast cut away.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Wind N.E., strong and
squally, with snow.—Off port King William 11., Meek-
man, Batavia, for Amsterdam.

COWES, APRIL 19.—Wind variable and strong.—
Arrd. Elenore and Henriette, Dineker, Porto Rico. Sid,
Randolph, Port Philip.

CARDIFF, APRIL 18.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Cawton,
Portland, United States.

MUMBLES, APRIL 18.—Arrd. Ellen Simpson, Cuba.

CLYDE, APRIL 18.—S1d. Agile, Buenos Ayres.
CORK, APRIL 15.—Acrd. Tyro., Singapore.
LIMERICK, APRIL 16.—SId. Harvest, Quebec.
DONEGAL, APRIL 15.—Sid. Princess, Boston, United
States.

HULL, APRIL 19.—The Elephants, Sorlason, from
London to Nychebord, drove on shore at Grainsthorpe,
17th inst., and is a total wreck ; crew saved. A board,
five feet long and six inches broad, marked " Zepayr,"
in gilt letters, was washed on shore at Essington yes-
terday. The Lord Seaham, Pattison, from Cowes to
Seaham, was driven on shore, 17th, near Cowden, and
is likely to be a wreak.
ILFRACOMBE, APRIL 18.—It blew a heavy gale yes-
terday and last night from N. to W.N.W. and N.E., and
still continues.
YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 19.—The Love
and Unity, Williams, from Shields for Poole, struck on
the Needles Rocks this day, and immediately went to
pieces; crew (except one boy) saved.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 19.—A schooner, with fore-
mast and bowsprit gone, name not distinguishable, was
passed at five A.M. off Beachy Head, by the Shannon
steamer, from London, a heavy sea running at the time,
and blowing hard from the east.
DEAL, APRIL 19.—About four P.m. the wind hauled
to the south-east veering to east, and suddenly increas-
ing to a gale, attended with hail and snow, during which
the Andorinha, Mesquita, of and from Lisbon for Ham-
burgh, was driv( n on shore on the Main, and has be-
come a total wreck, and the cargo all strewed along shore;
crew (except one man) saved. Ten P.M.—Another
vessel is just reported on the Main between this place
and Weimer Castle.

HARWICH, APRIL 10.—It has been blowing a heavy
gale all day from the east, with heavy squalls of rain.
The Nile, Bourgain, of aid for Boulogne, from Blyth,
was assisted in here to-day very leaky, &e. Two
schoenen are 9n limo 431 the lieu Ebb lig.ck, The