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amounting to 12,2G4. If the work now given were distributed
1 more equally it would be of
,renter benefit to the workmen,
and afford an increased produce to the manufacturers. He
still hoped that her Majesty's Government would allow this
Bill to pass, in spite of the unadvised statement of the Noble
Lord, and would also pass it in its original form.
Mr. TRELAWNY rose, but was for a long time inaudible,
in consequence of the confusion which prevailed in the House.
He objected to the measure on this ground, because it was a
distinct invasion of the rights of property; it invaded not
only the capital invested in manufactures; but the labourer
who, with a large family, desired to work 14 or 15 hours a
day, was affected by it also, for it limited his ability of pro-
viding for those dependent on him. lie would give his op-
position to the second reading.
Sir G. STRICKLAND would not have addressed the House
were it not for a statement made by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and repeated by the Hon. Member for Bath, to
the effect that the factory labourers were as well off as agri-
cultural labourers. The first thing which would strike the
House in drawing a contrast between the two employments
was this, that the agricultural labourer was away
from home twelve hours a day, and worked in the
invigorating air of heaven for ten hours, the factory labourer
was away from home for fourteen hours each day, and
worked in an overheated and unhealthy atmosphere for
twelve hours each day. The agricultural labourer returns
home to his domestic comfort in the winter seasons at four
o'clock in the afternoon, the factory labourer, on the other
hand, did not leave the factory till eight in the evening.
But it had been said that there were maxims of political
economy so stern and so unbending, that whatever amount
of injury might be made out, it was impolitic to interfere.
He denied, however, that such stern and unbending
maxims were to be found in political economy.
In all cases where he bad had the opportunity of testing the
opinions of the operatives he had found that they were per-
fectly willing to receive less wages for their reduced labour,
as it would give them an opportunity of increasing their do-
mestic comforts. He was decidedly in favour of the Bill,
and should certainly vote for the second reading.
Lord EBRINGTON considered that the principle of the
measure was disposed of when the Legislature dews mined
to limit the hours of labour to twelve hours, and he
therefore should not detain the House upon that pout.
The Bill, in his opinion, was justified upon economical grounds,
because when operatives became ill from over-exertion the
expense fell upon the State, while the profit of that over-
exertion went into the pocket of the employer.
With regard to the general principle of interference with
children, he considered that it was perfectly justifiable. It
appeared to him that the right time to cease interference with
boys was when they attained the years of discretion. He
considered, however, that the introduction of the principle of
interference with adult female labour was one most danger-
ous. He thought it right to state those points in which he
differed from other Hon. Gentleman.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BEACH, Feb. 17.
( Before Lord DENmAN.)
NIGHTINGALE V. NIGHTINGALE.

Mr. Crowder appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant
Shee for the defendant.

This was an action brought for a breach of contract. It
appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff bad sold to the
defendant the use of the road, so far as he was concerned,
between Merton and London. After the contract was com-
pleted-the defendant had broken-its covenants. The engage.
ment was entered into on the 22d of February, and the
breach of contract complained of did not occur until the 29th
of July. Respecting the breach of contract there was no
doubt, but there was a question as to what the injury in-
curred really was. It was very evident that the omnibuses
were plying on the road up to the 29th of July, and t hat con-
stituted the ground of the present action.
The witnesses to prove the case having been called,
Mr. Sergeant SAFE replied.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up.
The jary, being divided in opinion, retired to consider their
verdict, and, after some time, returned for the plaintiff—
Damages, Six guineas.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
tFORSHIP:STREA7'.
Yesterday Mr. BRoUHTON resumed the adjourned investi-
gation into the conduct of police-constable Charles Andrew
Amos, of the H division, who stood charged with having
grossly assaulted, and unlawfully taken into custody, a young
woman named Ellen Bolton, on the night of the 10th met.,
under circumstances which were stated iu our paper a few
days since.
Mr. Medlicott, the superintendent of the division, was
present to watch and report upon the case, and Mr. Heritage
was retained for the defence.
The evidence given upon the former occasion having been
read over by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, the complainant,
Ellen Bolton, and her witness, Jane Reeves, were subjected
to a severe cross-examination by the defendant's solicitor,
and fully corrobated each other in the main facts of their
previous statement; but, upon being further qnestioned
differed moat. materially upon several essential particulars, of
too indelicate a nature to be distinctly detailed, and which
carried the assault to a much greater and more gross extent
than had been before sworn to. The witness Reeve added
that upon the officer being balked in his designs upon Bolton,
he used towards her the most insulting language, and not
only ordered her off; bin pushed her along by the back with
great violence, until she threatened to report his previous
misconduct at the police-station, when he at once took
her into custody. • The witness followed the con-
stable) and Bolton to the door of the station, with
the intention of giving evidence in favour of the com-
plainant, but was prevented doing so by Amos, who told her
she was not wante I there ; and, although she next morning
requested the officer on duty there to take care of Bolton,
who was subject to fits, she was not admitted to see her.
Bolton herself also stated, that she felt so much hurt at the
insults to which she had been subjected, that she was in
tears all the way to the station-house, on her arrival at which
she communicated to the inspector on duty the fact of her
having been ill-treated, but was prevented making a full dis-
closure of the particulars from the precipitancy with which
the charge was taken, and she was locked up in the cells.
Sergeant Coleman, the acting inspector at the time, was
then called and stated, that on Bolton being brought to the
station. she was certainly not crying, as she bad stated, nor
did she bear the appearance of hating previously done so ;
and that although she.complained to him that the policeman
had offered her money to accompany him down the court,
she said nothing of the gross acts of indecency alleged to
have taken place, although she had ample opportunity of
doing so. The sergeant added (as indeed the women them-
selves had acknowledged), that both the complainant and
her friend were common prostitutes, and lodged at the house
of a man named Sheen, which was the resort of the lowest
characters in the district.
Mr. Heritage addressed the Magistrate at great length on
behalf of his client, who had instructed him to deny in the
most decisive manner everything that was alleged against
him, and to whom a conviction on such a charge would be
little short of destruction ; and after pointing out the dis-
crepancies which appeared in the statement of the two
women, said that lie was necessarily precluded by the very
nature of the case from offering any direct evidence to rebut
their testimony, but should call numerous witnesses he had
in attendance, who would give as strong a refutation of it as
the circumstances would admit of. The Learned Gentleman
then called—
Police-constable Galavin, 73 H, who stated, that while
going the round of his section, at half-past twelve on the
night in question, he came upon the defendant's beat in
Well-street, stile-end, and saw him desiring the two women
Bolton and Reeve, who were using most disgusting language
in a loud tone of voice, to go away quietly. Witness also
desired them to go home, and Reeve persuaded Bolton to
do so, but they still kept repeating the same filthy ex•
pressions through the length of several stre.ts, and witness
left Amos and them together, Amos telling him that he
should be obliged to lock them up, "they were going on
so." The women were surrounded by a large crowd of
persons, whom their conduct had collected, but whose pre-
sence did not stop their disgusting language. Witness was
not present at the commencement of the transaction, and
could not, of course, speak as to what might previously have
taken place.
Green, 61 11, also deposed to the utterance of this language
by the women, and to his own interference and telling them,
as they were making a great disturbance, that if they had any
complaint to make they should go away quietly and lodge it
at the station-house.
Mary ,Webb and Martha Walbank; two married women
living in Anne's-court, Well-street, the scene of the alleged
outrage upon the •person. of the complainant. stated, that
they were both up on the night referred to till long after the
time at which the offence was stated to have been committed
by the constable, and that they beard no cries for assistance
whatever, or struggle, or noise of any description, and the/
if there had been they must have heard it, as the court only
contained four houses, was very quiet, and was not a
thoroughfare.
Richard Graves, a tradesman at the corner of the court,
gave precisely the same testimony as to no screams or
remonstrance having been uttered at the time spoken to,
and, as his shop was not closed till a quarter past ono
o'clock, had. any woman been so ill-treated, she had an
opportunity of procuring assistance or complaining, and no
one did so.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge, the wife of a pewterer, also stated
that while a male customer was making some purchases at
her shop in Old Montague-street, about the time in question,
the man was most grossly insulted by two women outside,
although he had never seen them before, and who uttered
such foul language towards him that it was impossible for
her to repeat it.
Mr. Wellesley Medlicott, the superintendent, Inspector
Ellis, Sergeant Teakle, and.Alderrnan, the gaoler, were then
called as witnesses to character, and all described the de-
fendant as an exceedingly well-conducted, promising, and
pains-taking young man, who was very anxious to perform
his duty correctly, and who had kept his beat, which was the
resort of prostitutes of,the lowest order, more peaceable than
It had ever previouslyibeen. Alderman bad know him before
he entered theforce, when he was in business for himself, and
both he and his friends were respectable. He was also a
married man, with one' child, and his wife was the daughter
of a tradesman in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Heritage said he could calla number of other witnesses
to the same effect, butionsidered it useless to do so.
Mr. BRoUGIIToN said that this wasundoubtedly a question
of much importance, both as regarded the administration of
justice, the conduct of the police force in general, in which,
if the charge were established, it must go a great way to
shake the public confidence, as had been justly stated else-
where, and the defendant himself; who, if the statement of
the women were true, had been guilty, if of anything, of an
attempted violation, followed by gross perjury, for which any
judge who tried him must sentence him to transportation ;
for the moral status of the women offered no extenuation of
the offence and a case was upon the books in which two
soldiers had been tried and executed at Exeter for a rape
upon a prostitute. The Learned Magistrate then went care-
fully through all the facts of the case, and the evidence bear-
ing upon them on both sides, and after commenting upon the
important discrepancies in the woman's evidence, and the
improbability that an officer should attempt such an offence
in full uniform, by which he could be so easily identified, and
with the knowledge that the other woman was close at hand,
and that he might be momentarily detested by one of his
superiors while going their rounds, concluded by saying, "If
the evidence of these two women had been consistent in its
chief particulars, or corroborated :by other impartial testi-
mony, I should certainly have felt it my duty to send the
defendant for trial for perjury, when, good though the cha-
racter may be that he has hitherto borne, I have no hesita-
tion in saying that it would have very little weight in the
sentence; but, after taking every pains that I possibly cou:d
in sifting and investigating this matter in all its bearings, I
must express it as my opinion that the evidence of the
women, with such manifest contradictions, is not such as
any jury or magistrate can safely depend upon, and under
those circumstances I shall order the defendant to be dis-
charged."
The case, which was not over till a late hour, excited great
interest, and the court was most inconveniently crowded
during the whole proceedings.
LAIPJBETH.
Yesterday Mary Ann Brooke, an exceedingly good-look-
ing woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on a
charge of robbing her master, Mr. Denny, a surgeon in the
London-road, and presenting the property to a person in the
Queen's Bench prison, who represents himself as a Lieute-
nant in the Royal Horse Guards Blue.
It appeared that the day before Mr. Denny received a let-
ter from a person confined for debt •in the Queen's Bench
prison, who represents himself as a Lieutenant P—, of the
Royal Horse Guards Blue, stating that some time before he
had met his servant (the prisoner)
eat the table of a Mr.
B—, a fellow-prisoner, andthra
that she subsequently visited him
very frequently in his own
him (Lieutenant P—) with that during these visits
the prisoner had presented m ;
various articles which she represented to be her own pro-
perty, but he
(Lieutenant P—), suspecting now that they
were the property otMr. Denny, and that the prisoner had im-
properly possessed herself of them, was willing to give them
up. This appeared all right and proper, but theemaining
, remaining
part of the letter went clearly to show that the
•
prisoner had become more Intimately acquainted with other
debtors than Lieut. P— fancied, and that the letter forwarded
to her master had been written more from a feeling of
jealousy than compunctious visitations about the property
being dishonestly come by. On receipt of the letter, how-
ever, Mr. Denny proceeded to the Queen's Bench prison,
and in the room of Lieut. 1) found two carpets, a footman,
a china basket, and other articles, which he recognised, and
which were at once delivered up to him. He then returned
home, and accused the prisoner of stealing these articles,
when she replied that she had merely lent them to the
gentleman in whose rooms they had been found, lira he
then gave her into the custody of an officer. Her boxes and
the drawers which she used were examined, and they were
found to contain several articles of property belonging to
Mr. Denny.
Police-constable John Payne, 156 L, deposed that he had
been called in to take the prisoner into custody on the pre-
ceding evening, and on his telling her what it was for, she
replied that she bad lent the things to Mr. P—, who was is
the Queen's Bench prison. She also said she .was sorry for
what she had done, but Mr. P— wished her to take her
master's property. She said she should not do so, but would
lend him two or three things, which he was to return.
The prisoner offered a similar defence, and was remanded
to a future day, when the case will undergo the most search-
ing investigation.
TILE LATIt EXTRAORDINARY CASE —After making the ap-
plication to this court on Tuesday evening, the parents of the
lad who had been detained et the Railway Hotel, Nine Elms,
by Mrs. Boys, proceeded there, as directed by the magistrate,
for the purpose of possessing themselves of their youthful son,

Mr. NE WDEGATE said he regretted that he was too late
to present a petal:la from Huddersfield, signed by the soli-
citors, the merchant-traders, the physicians, and. the manu-
facturers in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill.
Mr. MARSLAND said that the Honourable Mem-
ber for Oldham had not acted upon his own precepts.
As the manufacturers of this country had to com-
pete with foreign manufacturers, the House ought to
pause before it consented to place restrictions upon
them which could not fail to have the eft et
of pi.ve.ting them from competing so well as they could it
they were left untrammelled by legislative enactments.
The time chosen for seeking to pass this measure was
most unsuited, as the manufactures of the country were in
a very perilous condition, He was in favour of giving the
labouring classes of this city more relaxation for innocent
pursuits, but he was adverse to its being given through the
hands of the State.

Mr. DUNCOMBE said, as it was the wish of the House to
come to a division without delav, he would not detain them
for more than three minutes. fie agreed in one observation
of the Hon. Member, that the master manufacturers were
tired of the agitation; but he might have added, with equal
truth, that the workers also were tired of it. An
Eleven Hours' Bill was an absurd proposition, and it showed
that the Government, in favouring one, had doubts of a
measure of that kind.—( Hear.) uch a measure
could not be beneficial to the employed—they al-
most universally called for a Ten Hours' Bills
Those who were for the restriction of labour in factories were
of opinion that ten hours, and ten hours alone, was the mea-
sure which ought to be granted. The Secretary of State for
the Home Department bad said, that he would not be a
party to keeping up the delusion, that the people would re-
ceive twelve hours' wages for ten hours' work.
He knew that the people did helieve that they should
receive for ten hours' work twelve hours' wages,
and they had many instances in which a reduction of the
hours of work had been followed by an increase of wages. He
had one instarfceio give. in a letter from a competent autho-
rity, written to him, and which stated that experience had
proved that where the hours of work were reduced wages
did not fall in proportion, and the moral condition of the
workman would be much improved. Feeling, as
he did, that the Bill would give to the people
of this country greater recreation and improved
moral habits, he should give it his cordial support.
Mr. B. ESCOTT (who rose amidst a storm of confusion,
noise, and cries of "Divide") said that he rose to move the
adjournment of this debate.— (Oh, oh.) He moved it for
a good reason. On a former occasion the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government had said that he would express his
views en the second reading of the Bill, and the Noble Lord
had not spoken upon the second reading of that measure.—
(Cries of " Yes, yes.") He had not. The Noble Lord had
said a few words, but he had not entered upon the principle
of the Bill. Neither had he heard the opinion of the
Honourable Member for Tamworth, nor the opinion of the
Noble Member for Lynn, the straightforward leader
of a very large party in that House. —(Cries of " Oh, oh.")
The Right Hon. Gentleman the Recorder for Dublin was
crying out and interrupting; would it not be better to answer
him when he had done? For the reasons he had stated, he
moved the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. SHAW said he would only say one word in answer
to the Hon. Gentleman who had just spoken. He believed
that the only object of the Hon. Gentleman who had last
spoken was to throw every obstacle in the way of the pro-
gress of the measure.
Mr. LABOUCHERE thought that the reasons the Hon.
Member had brought before the House why the division
should not. be entered iato were very unsatisfactory. tie
had often known the }louse to consent to an adjourn-
ment because some Members were desirous of addressing
the House on some important question, and they had not
had an opportunity of doing so, but he had never
before heard in that House that when a Member was
not desirous of addressing the House that the House
should adjourn for the purpose of hearing him.
His was prepared to give the measure every fair op-
position in his power; but he could not consent to
the course taken by the Honourable Member for
Winchester. After two days' discussion, and consi-
dering that the question had been so often before the House,
he did not think they would be justified in adjourning the
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ment of the kind.—(Hear, hear.) When the Bill
was introduced he stated he would not oppose it
in that stage, but that he still entertained his
previous opinions against the measure, and would in its
future progress offer it all the opposition in his power.
He had always opposed the principle of the Bill,
and retained the same objections to it now, but he had
made no promise that he would speak on the present
debate.—(Hear, hear.) When the subject had been
so long discussed already, and no new arguments intro-
duced, he thought it would be better for him to remain
silent and record his vote against the Bill.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said he was still in favour
of the Bill, and would now vote in its favour.
. Mr. BRIGHT said it would be in the recollection
of the House oa that day week, that at the
conclusion of his observations he made some remarks on the
conduct of the Government in regard to this measure. He
wanted some explanation of this conduct, and the Hon.
and Learned Member for Winchester appeared to be
wanting the same. This was an important discussion,
and should not be taken on Wednesday at all, when ,
for the first four hours so few Members were present, but
sbould be taken on some other day, when it could be more
fully considered. Ha would second the motion fur adjourn-
ment

The gallery was then cleared for a division, when there ap-
peared--
For the adjournment
Aga;nst it. ,.- 282
MAjority against the adjournment -275
The House then divided upon the question, "That the
word now' stand part of the question"—when there ap-
peared—

For the word " now"
Against it B7
Majority —loB
The House then adjourned at ten minutes past Six o'clock.

PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
HOUSE OF CONDIONS
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were completed, and the standing orders complied
with :
London and South• Western Railway Acts Amendment
(Powers to London and South- western Railway Company
to raise further capital, and subscribe to various under-
takings).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Branch from
Ipswich to Woodbridge).
Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway (Extensions
to Stephen's-green).
St. Mary's in Bathwick (in the city and borough of Bath)
Ch-arch Acts Amendment.
Leominster Canal Navigation Sale.
Blandford and Bruton Railway, from Blandford to join the
Wilts, Somerset, and Wey;nouth Railway at Bruton, in
the county of Somerset, with powers for the London and
South-Western Railway Company to make or purchase, or
hire the same.
This opposed case was then resumed. At the close of the
inquiry, the standing orders were found not to have been
complied with in several instances.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.)
UNOPPOSED
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were completed :
York and Newcastle Railway (Pelaw Tyne Dock Branches,
&c.)
York and Newcastle and Newcastle and Berwick Railways
Amalgamation.
York and North .Midland Railway (Nottingley Branch).
York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch, Bo-
ro3ghbridge, and Knaresborough Extension).
York and North Midland Railway (East Riding Canals Pur-
chase).
Herne Bay and. Canterbury Junction Railway.
OPPOSED CASE.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branch from Burntisland
to Dunfermline Branch ; Deviation and Extension of Dun.
fermline Branch ; Branch from the Strathearn Deviation
to the Scottish Central Railway; Great North Road
Dal:
keith Railway Crossing, Dun
Cross-
ing (Strathearn Deviation), and Road Crossing, a
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his opposed case was gone into,
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inquiry
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 17.
(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.)
FOSTER V. IRELAND.
This was an action for the recovery of certain sums
due for commission for the superintendence of certain
buildings at Walworth.
Mr. Montague Chambers appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Sergeant Byl,s for the defendant.
It was shown in evidence that thv plaintiff had been
engaged to make plans for two cottages at Wal worth,
the amount of the expenditure being restricted to 4001.;
but the plaintiff brought in a plan which would involve
the spending of more than 6001. On that account !the
services of the plaintiff were repudiated, and it was now

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sought to recover the amount for the work actually done. and arrived just in time to accomplish their object. It seemas
The defendant had no objection to pay it; but the damages that at the very moment the parties had been making appli ...-
ought to be limited to that point. From the documents
submitted to the Court, it appeared that thecharge Railway Hotel, an d
'cation at this court, the father of the other two lads whot el
Mrs. Boys bad with her, arrived at the Rai
made would give 441. 10s- to the plaintiff. There was a not at
commission beyond this for a few pounds, but the whole charge they had been confided, at once removed them
Mrs.
all relishing the then' condition of the lady at whosfron 1
amount did notexceed ra. or 61. On these grounds the . her care. Finding herself freed from
this encumbrance,
Boys sent for a cab, an
Learned Sergeant submitted that a verdict should be
given for his client. leaving the hotel ; and had it not been for the a
Yhe should
Loan CHIEF J ' ignorance of her youthful companion as to w! ,a
d expressed her intention
fofetatofonthcee :
run-
TheITSTICE summed up, and the jury pay the waiters of the establishment, she would have •
returned a verdict fur 1941. 4s. 6d. b wad's
ceeded in carrying him off. She was seated in the ca _id,
a jewel-case and several small boxes, containing, it w."2.Zile,
considerable property, beside her, and ready to stot ; Y"'"„_
her '° dear Frederick," as she called him, was left CP ev%.l"i`
the bill. He did so, and left the hotel to ask what he shesiliA
pay the waiters? She replied five shillings, and this std
the youth offered, but it was refused. He returned to the
cab to inform the lady of the circumstance, and the latter'
directed him to give the ten shillings or even 1/., so ththse
they might get awa my
but before he had time to settle
matter, his parents came up, and by threats ar.d ra.nries
succeeded in getting him away. Mrs. Boys, is the
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terim, sad upon seeing the parents of the lad come tire al..
rected the cabman to drive on 'and she was driven in cap,
No. 870 towards town, but whither no person at the hotel i
aware ot. _

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WESTMINSTER.
Captain G. Losack attended at this court to prefer A cerr,l:
plaint against a cab-driver for conduct of the most ruXa,n_
description. The proprietor of 2,813 had been surnmeneamil
produce the licensed driver of the cab, which he did; ",,n
the latter havieg stated that he had been suddenly tete
ill, and had employed what is generally termed bUC _
on the night the .ffence was committed, who had drivert
Wil
liam Stacey, the man so employed, and erff_
was in attendance, was ordered to stand forward, and 1;7:
that itv
licensed driver put into the witness-box to prove
had entrusted the cab to hie care. t (41
Captain Losack, of the Ist West India Regiment, Oa Qfrti
that a little before twelve o'clock on the night of the
instant he hired the defendant's cab at the Haywir.:
Theatre, and ordered hint to drive to Shattesbury-terre?!
Pimlico. On arriving at King-street, Westminster, tirf;
fendant suddenly stopped at a public- house, and, 'Y.1.0
brutal oat h declared he would not move another inch un'...°
the gentleman gave him something to drink. ComPlain7o
observed that he appeared to have had enough, and told
if he did not go on, he would lodge a complaint against
M
Defendant, after using two or three more oaths, and ex.
ing his determination "to give the gentleman a %lin
slammed the cab-door with great violence and motiater
the box again. He then drove into Great George-stresO
where he caused the wheel of the cab to come in colic
tact with a stone, put for the protection of a lamp
olu
and which caused the cab to jerk considerably. On resea
the park gates he refused to drive through them, and turn,
down Princes-street. Complainant told him that he 1";
going the wrong way, when defendant observed, " Oh, II
be d—d, I know the way better than you do," and then PP'
ceeded towards Westminster Abbey, where he suddeal
turned off in the direction of the bridge. Complaillt
several times put his head out of the window, and told 111,1-
to stop, and each time that he did so defendant struck /0'"
over the hat, and said, "If you don't get in I'll cut your
head off." On arriving at Bridge-street, a person to IOW.;
complainant called stopped the cab, and then two or ther,
other cabmen came up, and asked defendant what was ,t`i
matter, when he informed the bystanders that a fellow '4O
got into his cab with a woman, and thatehe would not come
out of it, nor would the fellow pay the fare-Is. 6d. T!,
persons then stepped out of the crowd, and inquired whet
defendant was hired? to which he replied in the negauf:
and added, " As soon as I get this woman out, I'll take ic'A
up." The cab was at this time in the middle of the 111.8"'
with the snow ancle-deep, when complainant, who vtasrai
companied by his wife, handed her out, and although be Po
not ridden a mile took the advice of some gentlemen Wio,
came up, and paid the driver the eighteenpence whici!
demanded. .011
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said, " I went -„,•
the cab to the stand and there some gentlemen gave
something to drink. I suppose I must have taken this Pi
tleman (Captain Losack) up, but I don't remember it. I
think halt of what he has said is false, but I was tipsy'

know." bsi
Mr. BRODERIP observed, that of all the cases that 0
ever come within the experience of a magistrate, this :id
one of the most ruffianly. All the answer, if answer it A,
be termed, made to it was, that the defendant was inttia
cated; but that was no justification, for if it was to be PLI
so, no person would for a moment be safe. He should I;
that he but ill discharged his duty to the public if,sd
neglected to mark his sense of the series of cffences he 0,4,
committed—namely, demanding considerably more than Jill
fare—his extremely abusive and offensive conduct-odt is
wanton assault upon the gentleman. As a punishmenro•
this case, and as a warning to others, he should, for the Po
tection of the c,mmunity, commit defendant for six fie
to hard labour in the House of Correction.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRO:
INGEIAM RAILWAY (SFAMFORD AND WI"
BECLI LINE). of
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of
_the shareholitens,

this company was held iesterday—at their offices, N°
Sag
Abingdon- street, Westminster. Thomas Macaulay,

president of the board of director; in the chair.
After the usual preliminaries, hot
The CHAIRMAN said that, although so shorts time the
elapsed since the last meeting of the company, yet 1-7
byrd
present was a regular half-yearly meeting, the Secretor,'
thought it nght to make a report. sr
The SECRETARY then read the report, from which it 6,
peared that the shares had been reduced from three to ono
and that the directors had made a call of I/. 14; a shariej,66o
also stated that all the Bills alluded to in the report had 4186
read a first time, and that the balance of assets was '"
6s. Bd., the sum stated at the last meeting. TOO
The CHAIRMAN said it would not be necessary to
any lengthened observations. It could not be supposeo_',..m.
since the last meeting the directors had-much to
municate. The directors were carefully superinten_oeieT
the progress of the Bills laid before, the last ,%petl
ing. The latter part of the 'business trien`etp
in the advertisement was a subject for the special ,„ eir the
ing that would take place after the conclusion °•-
present meeting. Considerable advances had been troilfl for
wards the capital of the company, though the Per"... 130
the payment of such, had not arrived,* and there W°- „
doubt that the requisite capital' would be supplied by ger;
tlemen who knew the value of B,re per cent. certain, end std
per cent. in perpetuity.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Pearson had
given his most valuable services to the company as a super:
intendent, for which they proposed to allow him 4001.11i-
annum, only 2001. per annum of which would come Oti`;„r
the poAets of the company. He would conclude by
the adoption of the report in the usual form.
Mr. GRIFFIN seconded the motion.
Mr. LEACHMAN proposed as an amendment that tilt:
salary of the secretary should be increased from 1501*
3501. per annum. Hared
After some discussion the amendment was altered
cons!
into a'resolution, to the effect that the meetinget
it inexpedient to increase the allowance of 1,0001 r
annum for any salary to the managing director.
This amendment was negatived. 464
The original resolution was then put and carried by A
majority.
This terminated the business of the half-yearly steetinot
A special meeting was then held to confirm the agre,13,1,0.0
entered into with the directors of the Great 10
~,'„„tor
Railway Company by the directors of the Bel to
Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Compaq .00
sell and lease their line, • with the exterollot
to the former company, which had already been Orli:AO
at a general meeting of the shareholders, and also to

the following Billa, viz.:—
A •,.mittr
Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Bi— too
ham Railway Company to make a railway from the Woe
and Peterborough Railway, at or near Peterborough, t°fld
Stamford and Wisbech line of the Boston, Stanifortkilol
Birmingham Railway, in the parish of Thorney and IFe
ElyA
. 110
Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birnlingbibe
Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from .„(1
Stamford and Wisbech line of the Boston, Stamford, ;0-4
Birmingham Railway, at Wisbech, to Wisbech Harbour,
to construct certain works at Wisbech Harbour. Wit
A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Dirrnintiv
Railway Company to make a Railway from Wished' to ":"0.
ton Bridge, with a Branch to Sutton St. Mary, and W

prove the Harbour at Sutton Bridge.
di?
The agreement and the Bills were confirmed without
sent or discussion. t.•ifi°
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and t.•
rectors.—The meeting then separated.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT WHOLESALE X ,ore's 6,
,'",00
No. 2, BuCKLERSBUItY, CHEAPSIDEO—FaMiIieS
consumption is large, and study economy, will deriti.
considerable advantage at this establishment. one,"„
eli
form price is affixed, by which the purchaser of ¢ 5"
pound can obtain it on the same terms as the trade.
Black Tea 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d, 3s. 8d ,4s 4s. 4(1., 55'
Green 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d., 55., 65., 75. sj,
Coffee 9d., Md.. is., is 2d., Is. 4d., is. 6d., 15* 0
Onelmaund sent tree to any part 4.f towp. Orders fro
the cOutitry forwarded the same day; and when :14
quantity' is for 61b. weight (tea only), the carrisPeo,
paid to any part of EngIand.—MANSELL and
wholesale tea dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside.
Dispatches werel.4 ceived 3esterday at the Colooll/0'
office from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also fr°
the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Ettri
The Bishop of Toronto had an interview with
Grey yesterday, Mr. James Field had also an We'
view with his Lordship at tho Colonial-office.
WolP
[ A DVE R TIMM E T —A DisEasED KNEE.---__A
DESFUL CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—John NT, yes
aged 19, of Kinnegs, parish of Longhall, near Armagh, was 50,,0
with a pain in his knee, which la.ted fur three months, and i" •
commenced to swell ; six months afterwards, it broke out into
dreadful wound, and discharged tor 'twelvemonths, although eyed
remedy was used that medical men could devise, both at tit!,
county inert and local dispensary, yet no appearance of
presented itself; untiLhis father purchased SOME of Holloway's Pi:
and Ointment, which soon effected a sound cure. NO mounds, sac',
or ulcers, however long standing, can resist the proper use of tll
line medicines. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway
establishment, 244, Strand, London.

MR7IIB.
On the 10th inst., the wife of John Potter, Esq.. solicitor, w ...—.wilt
of a son.
Oa the 12th inst., at Greenwich, the wife of F. L. Wallace, 251.94
of a son.
On the 14th inst., at Porchester-terrace, the wife of Ildround D.
Bourdilion, Esq., of a daughter. Arnett,
On the 14th inst., at Cheltenham, the wife of the Rey. 0. So
of a son.
the lady er*
On the 14th inst., at Canonbury-square, Islington,
Guedalla, Esq., of a son. ~... of SO
NO
On the 14th inst., in Orchard-street, Chichester, the H....,
Henty, Esq., of a daughter. T hteckll,olll
On the 15th inst., in Albemarle-street, Mrs. R. u .
of a son irloirits
On the 15th inst., at Tooting-common. the lady of P. r Tr-
Dito
Esq., of a son.
_, 8 req.,
On the 15th inst., at Hastings, the lady of W. B. AJDP ,
Captain sth Dragoon Guards, of a daughter. aArth
On the I6th inst., at Hyde park-gardens, the Hon- Mrs'
Kinnaird, of a son.
On the 16th inst., in Russell-square, Mrs. G. CloNles -•"*"...°11.

MARRIED. vas lindi
On the 7th of October, at Meerut, In the East Indies, -- 10.
Helena Angelo, fourth daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John --ornpier
Of the 3d Regiment Bengal Cavalry, to Captain John Aborcr
of the Bengal Horse Artillery.

DIED.
On the 21st ult., at Nice, Letitia Sarah, only
Major-General Sewell. MOD
Of the late
On the 24th ult. ,mat Tottenham, Sarah, relict o of
Huffam, aged 73. Esq" Sheriff
On the 6th inst., at Leamington, Andrew Murray, eet
Aberdeenshire. , leting
daughter of the Ist°
On the pith inst., at Pelham-place, Bromptoll, Ellin°
daughter of the late W. Webb, Esq. aged 36. LL..Of
On the 16th inst., at Doctors'-commons, J. DaubonY, Esq" wife -
On the 16th inst., at Union-place, Lambeth-road, Jenne"'
Willi am Sawter, Esq. 4,. .ft den% the 111'
On the 16th inst., at Gloucester-road, Hyde-Par"*.-.1.
fent sen of Edward Morris, Esq

INO* II!;
Lont4en: erinten And ifablistied by WEIRDO YOUN. „,gn..
'strand. Printer, at the Sun ftico. No. 11t. ettrane, in the 1— to
of th° say", in the County of Middlesex. T
Druary 18, 1847.