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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS•

the internal injuries she had sustained, the liver being ex-
tensively ruptured. The prisoner, it appeared, was some-
what intoxicated at the time.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and his Lordship,
taking into consideration the long period of imprisonment
he had already undergone (nearly six months), sentenced
him to be imprisoned two months more, the last week to
be solitary.
if Several other cases were disposed of in the course of
the day, which were of no public interest.
(Before Mr.Pustice Meree and a Special Jue,y,)
THOMAS V. ANDERSON, CLERK.
The plaintiff; it appeared, is a farmer at Burniston, and
also keeps the Learning-bridge Inn. The defendant is
vicar of Burnistor, and the assault in question was allegen
to have been committed on Sunday, the 7th cf June last,
on which occasion the sacrament was administe'ed in the
defendant's church. It appeared that the defendant, hays
inf 7 reason to believe that the plaintiff's mind was not in
such a state as to render him fit for partaking of that oral-
eence, sent for him into the vestry, and endeavoured, in
the presence of the churchwardens, to induce him to retire.
in the course of his expostulwien, be laid his hand on the
plaintiff's shoulder, and this was the assault complained
of. He refused to comply with the defendant's wish,
and, by the advice of the churchwardens, the defendant
thought it better to admit him to the sacrament. After
the seivce he used abteive language to the defendant,
cellirg him, among other things, a crabtree parson. The
proof of assault entirely failed, it aepearing that the ee-
fendant laid his bend on the plaintiff solely in the way of
kindly expostulation, It appeared, also, from the cross-
examination of the witnesses for the plaintiff, that he was
a more than eccentric character, and that it had been ne-
cessary at one time to place him under restraint. As an
instance of his conduct,,it;was stated that on ono cc-anion
he was found in a certain convenience attached to his own
house, where he was waiting, be said, for the end of the
world, and from which he obstinately refused to move. It
was only after having been induced by the medical nen to
he most copi :ugly bled where be was that hs would con-
sent to leeve it.
Verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

FROM TIM MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
;TIMES.—As from the first, the dealings in the public
securities are confied to the jobbers and speculators, who,
reading the news received from America as more favour-
ahle to the maintenance of peace between the two coun-
tries, have today supported the Government stocks at. an
a 'vane° of full a quarter per cent upon the latest prices
of yesterday, and the market closed with much firmness,
although business, generally speaking, was not active. .4

THE WEST MIDDLESEX AND INDEPENDENT ASSURANCE
COMPANY.—Mr. Connell, of the house of Richardson
and Connell, Scotch Parliamentary agents, of Fludyer-
strect, made a statement yesterday before Sir Peter
Laurie respecting the atrocious system of robbery carrel
on by the West Middlesex- and Independent Assurance
Company. Mr. Connell attended at the request of Sir
Peter Laurie, who mentioned that he hai received a vast
number of communications on the subject of the plunder
carried on by the persons who called themselves the Ma-
naging Di-ectors of the Company, and whose fJrmer
condition he was prepared to represent particularly, in
order to show the public how necessary it was to inquire
into the character of every concern in which pecuni try
matters were transacted, and to show to Parliament that
an investigation ought to be at once commenced into the
conduct of the Company especially alludel to.
Mr. Connell stated the case bf which he had to speak
regarded the department of insurance upon lives. He had
received a letter from Scotland, dated the 24th of Dee. last,
inclosing a letter of credit for 1377. 103. 3d., with instruc-
tions to pay that sum as premiums on those policies of in-
surance of the Independent and West Middlesex Life and
Fire Assurance Company, numbered 3,365, 3 366, and
3,367, for 4991. each, and *.o receive the receipt. -He
was anxious to see the people of the concern, and he went
himself to the office in Baker-street, and asked to see Mr.
Knowles, the resktlent manager. A person of tall stature,
who said that he was Mr. Thomas Knowles, and seemed
to be about 60 years of age, made his appearance; and ho
( Mr. Connell) paid over to him the money of his clients,
and reccised the receipt. It was certainly with reluctance
that the money was paid, but the instructions were positive.
Sir PETER LAURIE—A few days' delay would have been
sufficient to justify your refusal to attend to the instruc-
tions. Did you see anybody else?
Mr. Connell—Several odd-looking people came to the
door and looked in while I was in the room. I bad doubts
about paying the money.
Sir PETER Letere--Were there any clerks in the
office?
Mr. Connell—There were two or three is the room
below ; but I went up stairs to what Ives called the Ma-
nagers' room; one of the persons who looked in was, as
Mr. Knowles said, his son.
Sir PETER LAURIE—There has been nothing so flagrant
as this system of villany for a great number of years,
and the whole scheme was got up by those fellows, Knowles
and Hole. I have here an authenticated list of the indi-
viduals who,lin consequence of reliance upon this Comp a ry,
are now in workhouses. I have given merely the initial,
of a few whose relatives requested thet their names should
not appear :

PO ST.—The view taken at the Stock Exchange of the
news brought yesterday by the Columbia steamer, from
New York, was favourable. The measures that were
about to le adopted by the American Government for the
defence of the country had, up to the end of the past month,
been quits insignificant in comparison with what was done in
1838, on the occasion of the tumults which then occurred
on the Canadian frontier, and which had the a7probation
even of men like Mr, Clay and Mr. Webster. The know-
ledge, too, that a deputation composed of indivi lush not
inimical to British interests was about to proceed to
London for the purpose of arranging the M‘Leod affair,
tended to restore confidence among the jobbers, and, we
may say, among the commercial classes also. -

C H RONICLE.—The news brought by the Columbia
steamer trom the United States is favourable to the cause
of peace, and the state of the English Funds proves that
this is the general opinion here, by a rise of per cent. %,
The private correspondence received by various houses
in the City continue to present the same remarkable fea-
ture as that to which we alluded on a former oecasion.
They enter very fully into the state of the banks and the
Americas Money Market, but are perfectly silent as to the
notion of any war between this country and the United
Status, while they congratulate the commercial world ge-
cerally upon the settlement of the Eastern question.
The rumoured appointment of Mr. Clay on a spe-
cial mission to the Court of Sr. Jame.3's, supposed
to be fur the purpose of arranging the differences
letween the two countries, is looked for with much
interest. It is by no means unlikely to be true, for
it is known that Mr. Webster, now Premier Minister
in the Harrison Administration, was desirous to have
such a course adopted on the boundary question so
far back as the year 1839, and that it was stopped by Van
Buren, because party feeling would not permit him to se-
lect Mr. Webster for the duty; and public feeling pre-
vented him from fixing upon any one else. Commer-
cially, however, we cannot find much in the American in-
telligence calculated t revive confidence in the credit of
that country. The shares of the Bank of the United States
had experienced a further fall of 10 per cet,t., being last
quoted so low as 17. At New York and on the Stock
Exchange lure they have been done to-day et 5/. This
ruinous depression in the shares of the United States
Bank has been occasioned by the belief that the concern
must wind up, and that in doing so the loss upon the
great mass of their securities will be immense. It
is impossible for any one to Fay what etc bulk of
the State stocks, held by the United States Bank
would realize under liquidation, and hence the panic which
has affected the price of shares. That the loss would be
so great, however, as the fears of panic-stricken holders
have led them to anticipate, we do not by any means be-
lieve. The bonds of some of the American States held
by the Bank are undoubtedly good ; and, indeed, generally
speaking, the same observation would apply to nearly all;
but the mere knowledge that so large an amount of State
stocks may be thrown on the market by the possible wind-
ing up of the establishment, deteriorates the value of the
whole more or less, and must have the effect of crip-
pling commercial transactions throughout the Union.
We have reasons, however, for thinking that the panic
in the Aare-ican Money Market will disappear by the next
accounts; for the immediate cause of the heavy fell in the
United States Bank Shares is traced to the failure of a
leading broker in Philadelphia, who was unable to take
his stock ; and the panic was York
aggray.ated by un-
founded assertions in the New York Herald, that the bills
drawn by the Bank upon the London agency would be re-
turned dishonoured. When the falsehood of this state-
ment was ascertained, we should expect to find that the
price of the shares had improved. It is evident that the
suspension of specie payments, and the issue of one, two,
and three dollar notes, will be legalized by the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania.

The Court was engaged for the remainder of the day
with a question teapecting the mode in which the Lee is
and Manchester IZa;la•ay Company had carritkcl their line
over the lighwny in the rarii,ll of Ilasttick, in this county.
The case has not yet concloded.• •

X. E. d.

Ann Tyson, Gloucester 3OO
T. S., Edinburgh 2,000
Joanna Austin, Exeter BOO
Miss White, Nottingham 2OO
Emily Barber, London 495
Mary Scannell, Wiltshire
Grace Hatcham, Suffolk ... 160
Sarah Back, Birmingham... 400 , 6O 0 0
Maria Smith, Newbury lOO
Samuel Craig, Armagh ... 200.
L. B. 41ymouth
W. L. Lan agan, 'Pat erford 330
Miss Tylden, Dover 2OO
J. S. M., Kidderminster

A, 8., ditto
Capt. H3rii=, Weymouth— 550
John Harrison, Pocklingten 200

7,825
Now most of the annuitants were poor people, who hid
given all they had and could gather together in the
world, to Messrs. Knowles, and Hole, and Company, in
the full belief that they would receive the full per centage
which the prospectus promised. The two concoctors and
founders of the Company are natives.of Hythe, in Kent.
Hole's father was a policeman, and his mother was a
washerwoman. After having lived as a shop-boy to a
grocer, now residing at Hythe, ho came to London, anti
opened a shop, but failed in. several attempts to estatei
himself. About twelve years ago, he kept an Italian
warehouse in the Edgwarc-road, and at last joined
Knowles in the West Middlesex. The father of Knowles
was a servant in the brewery at Hythe, and his mother
was a washerwoman. When young, the manager,
Knowles, was a foot-boy. He afterwards became a foot-
men ie London, and about 12 years ago, he was usher at
an academy in the neighbourhood of Chelsea ; and as
will presently appear, he cut a figure as an insolvent and a
bankrupt before he started upon the speculatien which so
completely answered his purpose mad has caused such ca-
lamity. I perceive in the Worcester Journal an account
of an inquest held upon a poor fellow named Thomas
Higgs, whose death, by his own hands, was accounted for
by the death of his wife and the loss of 100/. which he sus-
tained in the West Middlesex Assurance Company.
Mr. Connell said it appeared, if their numbers were
right, that they had issued upwards of 3,000 policies ; but
perhaps the numbers imitated those of many of the watch-
makers.
Sir PETER LAURIE was of opinion that the large per
tentage and the dash which the Company cut with their
equipages must have brought to them an immense number
of customers. He had heard frcm several who were anxious
to have the delinquents punished, but were ashydi to
appear.
Mr. Barrett, the Governer of \Vbitecross-street Prison,
stated that Thomas Knowles, the Managing Director of
the Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Corn-
pany, was committed to that prison on the 18th of April,
1829, at the suit of George Vincent for 401., E. M.
Peatt, plaintiff's attorney, and was discha-ged under the
Insolvent Act in the fallowing August, but did not lei.ve
the prison until the 2d of November, 1829, which maie
the term of his imprisonment upwards of six months.
Knowles, who had been steward done of the wards, asked
to see him (Mr. Barrett) on the day cf his final discharge,
and with tears in his eyes, requested the loan of some
money to redeem a suit of clothes which were in pledge,
and without which he was ashamed to return home. The
sum of 4/. 95. was accordingly lent to him, for which he
banded to the Governor a written ackr owlegment, since
placed in the hands of Sir Peter Laurie, aid made the
most solemn assurances that the money should bs most
gratefully repaid.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I have the acknowledgement ; and,
of course, the money was trey, r paid.
Mr. Bsrrett—Never. Some months after his dis-
charge I net him in the streets better dressed than I was,
and I reminded him of his obligation. He repeate,i his
promise, but he acted as several others have acted, and
when I met him frequently afterwards I took no notice of
him. When, how, ver, I heard that he was a Director 'f
the Independent and West Middlesex Life and Fire As-
surance Company, I tent Mr. Douglas, my priselpal as-
sistant, to the office of the Company. Mr. Douglas
pressed him for the money, but not a farthing was got
from him ei,her then or at any subsequent period, although
several applications were made to hint by 'cit.r and in
other ways.
Sir P.;LAURIE.—Has any search been made in the books
for the name of this Managing Director of the Company ?
Mr. Barrett—lt appears from a :e4rch which was
esterday made at the Court for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors—when Thomas Knowles's last schedule was in-
spected, in which he is described as of No. 2, Lion. ter-
race, Edgeware-road, out of business,—that be had takes
the benefit of the Insolvent Act twice, viz., in 1819 and
in 1829, and that he was a bankrupt in 1825, and obtained
his certificate in 1826.
Sir PETER LAURIE.—And now he is possessed of an
enormous fortune. I understand that he and Hole have
houses in Hythe, and in Edward-street, Portman-square.
These ought to be at once taken possession of for the be-
nefit of the creditors.
Mr. Barrett expressed his surprise that the book at the
Insolvent Debtors' Court was not frequently examined.
For one *lulling in the examination thousands might be
saved, for the schedule told a great many things which
would put people on their guard. Now if any body saw
what he had stated about Thomas Knowles on the books of
the Court was it passible that thousands would be depo-
sited in the hands of such a person as that insolvent and
bankrupt ?
Sir P. LAURIE thanked Mr. Connell and Mr. Barrett
for having come forward on this occasion, and said that
he should call upon those who had been plundered, to
apply to the representatives of the places in which they
resided, to demand, in the most ,stringent manner, a Par-
liamentary investigation into the whole of the nefarious
transactions of the Company. He considered that nothing
would become a representative so well as a firm and ener-
getic effort to punish such systematic villany, and to pre-
vent by a legislative enactment the perpetration of future
robbery by Assurance Companies.

SUN.—After all, and now the news by the Colombia
has come to hand, the public mind in the City ii scarcely
more satisfied than it was previously; since, although the
general tenor of the accounts is acknowledged to be more
favourable, there is, in point of fact, nothing very conclu-
sive in them. The Funds, however, improved about per
cent upon them ; Consols for money touching 88* 3, and
for the Acc,mnt 88i to ; Exchequer Bills were still at
6s. to S. premium, and India Bonds at 164. discount.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were a shade bet-
ter, viz. 961 to
The United States Bank shares have been heavy to-day.
The Foreign Market was more buoyant, hut there were
not any extensive operations entered .into. Spanish Ac-
tive bonds ranged from 221 to 2*„ being a shade better.
Th., Deferred Stock realised 11 ; Portuguese New Five
per Cent!. touched 30i to TT, for the Account ; the Three
per Calif. were steady at 181 ; Mexican bonds of 1837
rose from 27i to 281 and 29 ; Colombian bonds of 1824
went up from 224 to 221 and 23 ; but Peruvians were
only worth 16/ ; Belgian bonds did not realite mere than
994 to 100 ; and Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents were
steady at 501.
The Share Market was dull.—Great Western Railway
shires brought 23 to ; the New, 101 to 11i ; the
South Western, 16/ ; and the Manchester and Leeds
New, 1 prem. ; Brighton Shares were 71 to 61,-; Man-
cheater and Birmingham 15 ; and South Eastern, 161,
discount.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post of this dry observes in a leading article
on the subject of free trade :—" The tendency of flee trade,
or the reciprocity system,' as some people love to call the same
thing, is an abandonment of the weak to the strong—of the
labourers to the capitalists—of those who have great difficulty
in finding employment, to those whose interest it is to beat
down wages by the competition of foreigners. This system
would soon learl to intolerable distress and consequent convul-
sion. It would make Great Britain the victim of grasping
avarice." The Morning Herald contains a eading article on
the late repeal meeting on the Curragh of Kildare, the object
of which is to turn into ridicule the a peech made by Mr.
O'Connell on that occasion. The Morning Chronicle, in an
article on the question of the Irish constituency, and the re.
turns lately moved for by Mr. O'Connell, says :—" Ihe entire
constituency of Ireland at this moment appears from these returns
to be about 88,000. This for a population of eight, or nearer to
nine millions! We have heard of ghosts of vot crs ; here is the ghost
of a constituency. If such a body of electors be a mass of im-
purity and fraud, we would fain know whether there are any
good votes in Ireland at all. Is it all canker ? Is there a leaf
of the rose left? if the ' characters of hell' are so gigantic,

• •,•••-•
it is plain that there is not ample room and verge enough' for
them in a roll of 88,000 voters." The Times, alluding to the
American Boundary question, remarks as follows :—" The
boundary strife, if not already rendered incurable by some
desperate outrage on the part of Maine in executing the mea-
sures of hostility against the Queen's forces enjoined to the
Governor by the resolutions of the Legislature, may possibly,
and just possibly, assume a more favourable aspect when the
new Administration comes into effectual play. But the symp •
toms which incline us to such a glimmering of hope are far,
we confess, from de; ded."

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—A rehearse..
of a now oratorio by Mr. George Perry, entitled " The
Death of Abel," took place at Exeter-hall last evening,
and, as far as we bad an opportunity cf judging, it pro-
mises to be successful. Spme of the choruses are power-
ful and effective, and though a portion of the music is
not of a high or original character, other parts are very
superior to any compositions of the kind produc lately.
The orchestra, composed of a vast number of performers,
was well supported by the singers, and though both occa-
sionally were at fault we have no doubt that under the
judicious management of Mr. Perry and Mr. Burman, they
will be fully equal to their parts by Friday evening, when
the oratorio will be performed with due effect in the great
room of Exeter-ball. The rehearial was made in a small
room barely sufficient for the performers, and as the effect
of a chorus or a solo is so different in a confined space of
this kind compared with that in a hall filled with hundreds
of spectators, we must defer pronouncing any decided
judgment on the oratorio till it is brought fairly before
the public.
TREES AT STUDELY.—A Spanish chestnut
112 feet high and 22 in girth. Another 89 feet high, 12
feet in girth. A lime tree, 101 feet high, 17 feet 3 inches
in girth. Beech, 114 feet 6 inches high, 22 feet iu girtb.
Asb, 104 feet higt, 20 feet in girth. Another (oak
sessiliflora) one hundred and eighteen feet high, and
teet in girth, divided into five principal upright stems
Alpine fir, 130 feet high and 20 in girth. A black Ame-
rican spruce, 121 feet high, 9 feet 11 inches in girth. A
silver fir, 96 feet high, with a girth of nearly 11 feet, and
spread near the ground of 50 feet. A sycamore, 100 feet
high: A Dutch elm, 95 feet, and an English elm, 108
feet high, with 26 feet 8 inches in girtb, and fifteen prin-
cipal upright stems;—and sic de ceteris.—Grant.ile's
Spas of England.