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GUILDHALL, Bleach 12, 1847.
THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the
CITY'S LANDS will MEET at Guildhall on Trisnar, the
23d of March instant, at Ono o'clock precisely, to reclye TENDERS
for LETTING ON LEASE, for 20i Years, from Lady-day next,
a House, No. 8, on the east side of the City-road, near Finsbury-
square; two Houses, Nos. 9 and 10, on the south side of Castle-
street, City-road ; two Houses, Nos. 21 and 22, on the west side of
Windmill-street, City road ; and also Tenders for Letting on Lease,
for 21 Years, from Lady-day next, a Uouse, No. 97, on the east side
of White Horse-street, Ratcliffe ; and also Tenders for a piece of
Ground at the corner of Narrow-street, Ratcliffe-cross, on a Building
Lease for 61 Years, from Lady-day next.
Further particulars may he obtained, and plans seen, by applying
at the Office of Works, Guildhall.
THOS. SAUNDERS, Comptroller.

LECTURES on DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY during LENT, at the
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HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON
A GENERAL COURT of this Corporation. to celebrate the
A niversary of the Battle of Alexandria, will be held at the Free-
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Ills Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G , president in the Chair.
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NEW EDITION OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY.
This Day is published, in 4 vols. Svo., price 525., cloth,
THE HISTORY of the CHURCH of CHRIST.
By the late Rev. JOSEPH MILNER, A.M. With Addi-
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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, IlAitcn 19.

STOCK ExcHiainx.--The sales are —Biri:enhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, % p.—Eastern Counties, 19%—Ditto, York Extension, 14
dis.— Great Northern (Nos. I to 108,000), 1,4 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk,
2147 dis.— Ditto, Preference. 1% p.—Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, I% p. London and North-Western, New, Quarters, 103 i p.—
Ditto (G. J.), Quarters, 714 p.—Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares
(late Extensions), 2% p.— Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire,
Eighths, 1 dis.—Midland, 11614—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 4 p.— D.t to,
New, 3 p.—North-Western, % dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (B),
Bs. 9d. p.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 344 p.—Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 2 dis.—Shrewsbury and Cheshire,
New, Is. 3d. dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 9/. 12s. 3d. -hares
(B), % p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 37% -- West Riding Union, l
p.—York and Newcastle, Preference. 4 p.—Dutch Rhenish, 58s. Id.

AIAICTCHESTER, liAnca 19.

SToca EXCELNOt.—The sales are—Ambergate. Nottingham, and
Boston, 3-16—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, %—•
Blackburn, Clithsroe, and North-Western, Preferentials, I% East
Lancashire (late B. and P.), New, 1% —Ditto, New (scrip), 1
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, % —Great Northern
(Direct Northern), Scrip, Reg., % —Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 2%—Leeds and Thlrsk, 2 3-16—London and
North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 6
Ditto, (C), 6—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, %
Manchester and Leeds, 32/ Shares (late Extension), 2%—Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 1 11-16
—Manchester and Southampton, 20s. 6d. —North Staffordshire,
3 1-16—North-Western, par—Northern Counties Union' I%—Old-
ham Alliance, % —Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares
(II), 14 p.—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, I-16—West
Riding Union, 1 11-16—Wharfdale, 1-16 dis.
LEEDS, Mancit 19.

STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 4s. 63. dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, Bs. dis.—East
Lancashire, New, 1,,4 p.—Ditto, New (scrip), 245. 6d. p. —East and
West Yorkshire, 13s. 6d. c. p.—Great Northern (late Londen and
York), 3s. dis.— Ditto, Extensions, par—Leeds and Dewsbury, 51,4
p.—Ditto, New, Extensions Scrip (pink), 13s. p.—Leeds and Thirst,
2% n. dis.—Ditto, New, 15$. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 28s. 6d. p.—
Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 14s. dis.—London and Brighton
and South Coast, Fifteenths, 3s. 6d. p.—Manchester and Leeds, 321.
Shares (late Extensions), 2% p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 9q p.—
Ditto, New, 3% p. —North British, Thirds, 2% p.—Ditto, Quarter
Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 358. p.—Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 13s.
p. =North Staffordshire, 3 c. p.—North-Western, Is. p.—South
Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, par—West 'tiding Union, 1% p,
SHEFFIELD, MA.C. 19.

STOCK EXCIAWOK.—The sales are—Leeds and Thirsk, 2% dis.
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby), 201. Shares,
1% dis.—Ditto, ditto, Docks, 2N dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln),
345. dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.—Leeds, Wakefield and 3iid-
land, % dis.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, March 19.
CROWN count
A person of very respectable appearance,
who, it ay
peered, has since his apprehension refused to give his
name or any information respecting himself, and who
was described in the indictment as " a man whose name
is unknown," was arraigned on a charge of fel
setting tire to a stack of wheat, the property of Thomas
Macey. oniously
Mr. Rose conducted the prosecution; the prisoner him-
self cross-examined the witnesses, and evinced a great
deal of tact during the inquiry.
Mr. Macey deposed that he was a farmer at Strood.
and on the 21st of February he had a stack of wheat
standing in a field near the high road. He saw the stack
safe at half-past five o'clock, and between seven and
eight o'clock he heard an alarm, and found that it was in
flames, and the whole stack was eventually consumed.
The stack had contained between forty and fifty quarters
of wheat.
George Wilson, a tailor, residing in Rochester, said he
was on his way home when he observed the stack on
fire, and when he got up to it he saw the prisoner stand-
ing about ten or twelve feet from the fire. Witness
,poke to him and remarked that it was a very bad job.
eid the prisoner paused a little and then said, ' Yes, to
burn corn when so many poor families are starving fur
the want of it."
Wm. M`George, a Rochester policeman, said he was
on duty in the High-street about a quarter to ten o'clock
on the night of the fire, when the prisoner came up to
him, and asked him where the station-house was? He
asked him what he wanted, and whether it was about u
robbery, and he said it was. They then went to the
station-house together, and when there the prisoner
addressed the night-inspector, and iaid, "I suppose you
have heard of the fire this evening—l am the person
who did it." Witness then sent for the superintendent,
and upon his arrival the prisoner repeated the statement
that he had set fire to the stack, and said that he did it
with one lucifer-match, and that he had his reasons for
doing it, which he would never tell tow: one. While
he was talking he took a quantity of snuff train a paper,
and continued to do so until he had emptied the paper,
and he then threw it into the fire-place. He was then
asked to give his name, and he answered that he hoped
they would not think him rude, but he must decline
giving it.
Mr. John Tuff, the superintendent of the Rochester
police, deposed that in consequence of a communication
he received from the last witness, he went to the sta-
tion-house, and found the prisoner in custody, and im-
mediately he saw him he said that he had come to give
himself up, for setting the stack on fire. He asked him
his name, but he refused to give it, and upon wit-
ness reminding him that it was a very serious charge,
and asking him if he was aware of the conse-
quences, he replied, that he was perfectly aware what
he was doing. After this caution the prisoner made a
statement, which witness took down in writing. He said
that he was at the Coach and Horses public-house, near
Rochester, and had same refreshment, on the evening of
the fire. He left the house about seven o'clock, and as
he was passing the field where the stack was, he went in
and set the stack on fire with one lucifer match from a
box he had in his pocket. He then threw away the
box and the remainder of the matches under a hedge,
about a hundred yae ds from the stack. He then said he
stayed for some time to see the fire, and afterwards went
to Rochester to give himself up. The prisoner then told
him that if he made a search he would find the lucifer
box in the place he described. Witness again asked him
to give his name, but he refused, and upon his examining
his clothes to see if there was any name marked on them
the prisoner smiled, and said he had taken care of that,
and pointed to holes at the top of his stockings where he
had cut the name out. Upon a further examination of
the prisoner's person, he discovered a faint trace of the
letters M. C. A., a dart, and an anchor on one of his
arms, and the prisoner said this was done when he was
eleven years old. The prisoner afterwards said that he
had no wish to remain in this country, but that his
friends were very respectable, and no one should know
who they were. He asked the prisoner to sign the state-
ment he had taken down, but he refused to do so, al-
though he said it was all true.
Chest' Justice WILDi asked the witness whether he
found any money on the prisoner? He replied only one
halfpenny. lie added that a search was afterwards
made at the spot indicated by the prisoner, and a lucifer-
box was found there, which he produced.
The prisoner asked the witness whether, when he
asked him if the statement be had taken down was true,
he did not say that he had correctly taken down what he
had said, and not that it was true?
The witness did not appear to understand the distinc-
tion suggested by the prisoner, and the Learned Judge
explained it to him, and remarked that there was a very
material difference between a man saying that a state-
ment was correctly taken down, and saying that the
statement itself was true. _ _

The witness admitted that the prisoner might have
made the answer in the form he had suggested,
The prisoner here interfered, and said " What I said
was, you have taken down correctly everything I said."
Chief Justice WILDE inquired of the witness whether
ho had any further conversation with the prisoner ?
The witness replied, that when he was conveying him to
Maidstone, to take his trial, the prisoner told him that
he had been to sea, and that Tawell, the Quaker, who
was hanged for murder,'sailed in the same ship with him
to Sydney to look after his property. He likewise said
that he had been married, but that his wife was dead,
and he hail two children, a boy and a girl, one seven and
the other nine years old, but he said he had not seen
them for two months.
In answer to further questions from the Court, the
witness said that the prisoner refused to sig❑ the state-
ment, and when writing materials were offered to enable
him to communicate with his friends, he declined to make
use of them. _ .

The landlord of the public-house, mentioned by the
prisoner, was then examined, to show that he was at his
house at the time he stated; and evidence was also given
of the finding of the box of lucifers in the hedge close to
the spot where the fire happened.
A statement made by the prisoner when under exami-
nation before the magistrate was then put in, and it ap-
peared that upon that occasion he asserted his innocence
of the charge, and said that his object in making the ac-
cusation against himself, was merely to obtain a night's
lodging and a breakfast.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, on being called upon for
his de ence ad-
dressed the Court, and said he would first explain why
f,
he had refused to state his name, or to give any clue to
his connexions. He had two children who
had been
brought up respectably, as he had been himself, and he
did not wish them to know that their father had stood at
the bar of a court of justice as a criminal. The prisoner
then addressed the jury, and in earnest terms asserted
his innocence of the crime, and asked whether it was
likely that, if he had really committed it, he should have
remained upon the spot afterwards, or have given him •
self up, when he might so easily have made his escape?
He concluded by declaring, that finding himself without
money, he was induced to make the charge against him.
tn to e
self in order to obtain a night's lodging, exPecteag st e
-db a
discharged in the morning, and not havingthe
that it would be the means of placing him in his present
degrading position.
Chief Justice WILDE, in summing up, said this was
certainly a very extraordinary case, and but for the fact
been very well known that there had been many cases
where persons had charged themselves with crimes of
which they were entirely innocent, the confession of
the prisoner might be taken as conclusive against him.
It was the duty of the jury, however, to consider that
statement with the one that he now made, and to look
at all the other circumstances of the case, and then to
say whether they considered that the charge was clearly
established against him. The conduct of the prisoner
had, no doubt, been most extraordinary. Ho was evi-
dently a man of some education, and his manners showed
that he had filled a respectable position in society ; and
it appeared that he was an entire stranger in the neigh.
bourhood , knew nothing whatever of the prosecutor
and therefore could have had no motive of to in-
duce him to commit the offence. Both the statements
made by the prisoner were very improbable, but the
jury would consider them together, and see whether,
under all the circumstances; they could feel that the
guilt of the prisoner was clearly proved. He concluded
by observing, that if the verdict of the jury should be
adverse to the prisoner, he would have no one to blame
but himself for such a result.
The jury, after deliberating for a short time, returned
a verdict of Not tjuilty.
Chief Justice WILDE said, he thought this was the
safest conclusion to come to under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, and if he had been upon the jury he
should have delivered the same verdict. The Learned
Judge then addressed the prisoner, and told kim that he
had tried a very dangerous experiment, and he should
advise him never to repeat it.
Soon after the Courts sat this morning, it was an-
nounced that the six actions of ejectment involving the
question of gavelkind tenure, and in which Sir F.
Thesiger and Sir F. Kelly had been specially retained,
would be postponed till the next assizes. In consequence
the
ence
ef the state of business, Mr. Sergeant Channell a
request of the Lord Chief Justice, disposed of several
common jury causes in the Record room, and Mr.
Ser-
geant Dowling tried prisoners in the grand jury -room.
room
.).
The latter sergeant sat nearly twelve hours
and the assistance thus rendered was a great Jlesfetrod the,
business of the assize, and a saving of expense to the
county, by releasing a great number of witnesse Before
the postponement of the actions above referreds.to
quite determined upon, the Judges decided upon was
adjourn-
ing
the commencement of the business at Lewes from
Tuesday to Thursday next, and business will be com-
menced on the latter day in beth courts at • nine o'clock.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Derby, March is.
CROWN COUR i'.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON).
Elizabeth Parker, aged 12, was charged with having,
at Codnor Park, feloniously murdered Sarah Wardle.
Mr. Gale appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Wilmore
for the defence.
Mr. Gale stated the case.
Elizabeth Wardle examined—l am the wife of John
Wardle, of Codnor Park. The prisoner at the bar was
in my service as nursemaid, and had care of a child four
months of age. She had been in my service six weeks
before this occurrence took place. She was twelve years