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of age last October. On Friday morning, the 15th o'
October, she took the child out about eleven o'clock, and
was absent about an hour. On her return the child was
asleep. It continued in that state about half an hour.
and when it awoke it looked curious in the eyes, and it
appeared to be in fits. I observed a peculiar smell, and
thought the child had had ale. I asked the prisoner
what she had been giving to the child. She said she had
given it a little sup of beer; and afterwards she said she
had given it a little ale out of a jug in Mr. Wysehall's
brewhouse. I nursed the child all the afternoon, keep-
ing it asleep as well as I could. From time to time it
appeared to have the same kind of fits again. The
child died.

A constable of the namo of Wallace proved the pi i-
soner told him she had sent a little girl to purchase some
laudanum; that she gave half of a small bottla-full to the
baby, and the rest she threw away. (This witness had
asked the girl how she did it. He was reminded by the
Judge it was not his duty to ask the prisoners any
questions.)

On s post mortem examination being made, it was
found there were about two teaspoonfuls of liquid in
the stomach. One half was milk, the other appeared to
he laudanum; if it was, it was quite sufficient to kill the
child.

The JUDGE put it to the jury, whether the girl knew
it was poison, or that it was a wrong act she was doing.
In the latter case she would be guilty of manslaughter.
If she did it to comfort the child, or at the suggestion of
any other person, they would acquit her.
The jury, after considerable hesitation, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

IVORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 18.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)

Jos. Cockin Hoatson, late a share-broker at Halifax,
was indicted for the forgery of a transfer of tweet}
shares of the Eastern Counties Railway, with intent to
defraud Robert Anzelark Pilling. There were counts
charging the intent to defraud severally four other indi-
viduals, and also with intent to defraud the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, making, in all, thirty-six
counts or separate indictments.
Mr. Sergeant Wit.gaNs (with him Mr. Cowling and
Mr. Overend) stated the case, and called

George Fleming, a boy, who said that after last Mid-
summer, he was employed by James Hoatson, also a
share-broker at Halifax. About that time the prisoner
came into the office one day, and presented a paper (the
transfer) folded up, and told him to sign the name Ro-
bert A. Pilling, upon a place which he pointed out. He
did so, and then the prisoner called in another boy,
called Thompson, and told him to write his name on the
same paper.
Robert A. Pilling examined—He is a retired trades
man. The signature to the transfer was not his, nor
had he authorised ony one to make it for him.
Cross-examined—ln July, 1844, he sold 200 shares of
the Eastern Counties Railway. Mr. Fernyhough, of
Manchester, was the broker. In August he executed
fifteen transfers, amounting to 297 shares. In Novem-
ber he executed seven transfers ; and in April, 1845, he
executed a transfer of 20 shares. Witness had DO broker
at Halifax. He never gave any directions to sell certi-
ficates of any particular numbers. When the last trans-
fer was tendered to him f}rexecution he at first objected
to execute it. He thought the transaction unbusines-
like, and improper, because he had signed a transfer
before fur the same numbers. lie was told before he
executed it that Glover repudiated the former transfer,
which was brought back to him, and witness's signature
cancelled. .

Thomas rarkinson, sharebroker at Halifax, proved
that the body of the transfer was in the prisoner's,
handwriting. Witness received the transfer and two
corresponding certificates from the prisoner on the 14th
August. He sent them to the office of the Eastern
Counties Railway, and received in return in a few days
stock certificates, the new evidences of ownership. He
afterwards received instructions from the prisoner to sell
them. He did so for 4504 103., and settled with the pri-
soner for the amount.

Mr. BLISS (Mr. Hall and Mr. Pickering with him)
addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended that
the shares were the prisoner's own, and by forging the
transfer he could have no intention to defraud, and could
in fact defraud no one.

The prisoner received the highest character for
honesty and integrity from a number of magistrates and
other persons from Halifax and the neighbourhood.
Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up.
The jury retired, and after being absent some time,
returned with a general verdict of Guilty.
On a question arising as to which count the verdict
should be entered on,

Mr. Baron ROLFE asked the jury if they found that
the prisoner intended to defraud all the parties he had
called their attention to, or, if not all, which of them ?

Whereupon the jury said, they had not decided that
question.
They were then sent back, and remained out some
time longer, when they found the prisoner Guilty on
the counts intending to defraud Pilling and the railway
company.
His LORDSHIP said the prisoner probably thought
that no practical injury would result from his act, but
as the act done was one of serious consequence, he could
not permit it to go unelkiiished,Liotwithstanding the very
high character he (th prisoner) had rec • ,aWd. As,
however, he believed that he had committed tilt offence
rather from a mistaken notion of his right, than from a
deliberate intention to violate the law, he should only
sentence him to be confined in York Castle for two
calendar months.
The next ease ended the Crown business of the as-
sizes here, and there is only ene special jury cause re-
maining on the Civil side.

HAND-LOOM MANUFACTURING
IN PHILADELPHIA.
(From a Correspondent of the Economist.)
Philadelphia is the great seat of hand-loom manu-
facturing and weaving. The manufacturers are nume-
rous, and, with some half-a-dozen exceptions, on a very
small scale, consisting chiefly of weavers, or men who
have been such. Many of them employ from two to
twelve looms, in a wooden or framo building, attached or
adjacent to their dwellings, which are worked by
journeymen and women (and in some instances by a part
of a man's family), who board and sleep in the same
house as the employer. By this plan the small manufac-
turers economise their little means. They pay the
weavers in meat, drink, and lodgings, obtaining credit
for the supply of food to the household; and the balances
coming to each weaver are paid in money once a month,
six weeks, or two months.
They are engaged in manufacturing imitations of
Scotch and Carlisle goods ; 7-Bths and 9-Bths blue and
white checks ; two, three, and four-coloured ginghams ;
7-4ths, 8-4ths, to 12-4ths shawls, of cotton and woollen
textures, of flashy colours and patterns; coarse gingham
handkerchiefs and crankies, which are coarse fabrics of
cotton, woollen, and mixed materials, having stripe and
cheek patterns upon them, and are used for summer
coats and pants and boy's jackets, &c.
Much the larger portion of the goods produced are of
low qualities, woven in 600 to 1,200 reeds, and made
from yarns varying from No. 8 to 40, the bulk ben g
about No. 20's, and the warps are all throstle yarn, spun
upon the Danforth frame, and dyed principally fugitive
colours; the gouda counting in the main about 48 shots
in an inch.
The goods, on coming from the loom!, are measured,
picked, folded, tied at each end of the folds, anti then well
pressed in a screw press, and sent off immediately to the
commission agent or auction sales, advances obtained to
the utmost extent, in three, four, or six months' bills,
sometimes in cash, and the goods are sold with all con-
venient speed, to pay back the amount of monies
advanced. Some of the commission merchants have
yarns to sell as well as goods, and furnish the manufac-
turers with warps and weft, by way of advances on goods,
or upon credit. The credits are not open accounts, but
in the shape of promissory notes, at three or four
months date, and endorsed by a friend. Endorsing is a
common practice, and done upon the principle of reci-
procity.
A few of the manufacturers upon a large scale give
the work out ; the weavers carry it home, find their own
gears, return the material in cloth, and are paid once a
month for all the work done in that month. The charges
of the agents or commission merchants, are much higher
than in Great Britain, and the manufacturers who buy
upon credit have to pay dear for it ; so that the bulk of
them fail, and, in some instances, exhibit the most bare-
fmed roguery. Most of the weavers and their bosses
(masters) are Iri,htnen, from the north of Ireland.
Some are Scotch, from Glasgow or Paisley, and some
English from Lancaster, Yorkshire, and Carlisle.
The whole number of weavers in and about Philadel-
phia is over 4,000. They are (unlike those of Great
Britain) the best paid of any operatives engaged in the
manufacture of cotton, woollen, and mixed fabrics. They
are paid by the yard, and earn at this time from 3s. to
Bs. a day ; four-and-a-half to twelve dollars a week.
The best paid work is wide three and four shuttle, plaid
shawls ; and the worst is, 26 inch 70 end, 48 shots on
the inc, blue and white checks. As a whole these
hand-loom weavers are ignorant, reckless, and dissolute;
steady good customers to the taverns and dram-shops;
spending one day or more a week in drinking, and go to
work so much toe harder to make up for it.

THE POTATO.—It was stated in a short paragraph
in our paper of Thursday, that the unexpected quantity of
seventeen loads of potatoes appeared, for sale, in that day's
market. The circumstance appeared to us singular enough,
and we caused an inquiry to be instituted, through which
we learn that the increase is owing to the disposal, by small
farmers preparing to emigrate, of the seed they had struggled
to preserve from the ravages of the distemper, and had ab-
stained from consuming, though themselves assailed by want.
We understand the quality of the tubers thus brought to
light from dark corners and places of concealment, some of
which, we are told, were formed under the very cabin floors,
is not good, some few small parcels only being sound, and re-
taining the farinaceous properties of the root. We may add,
that potato culture i 5 more general than could have bean
expected in this district; very many of the large farmers
'having planted no inconsiderable breadth of land. As far as
the indications go, there
. is a probability of' a productive
crop, the shoots exhibg tokens of great health and vigour.
We are glad, at all events, that the experiments are pretty
numerous. There is no likelihood, we fear, of plenty for an
age to come in Ireland, unless the potato flourishes. No
i 0.38 can ensue, even suppose the whole of the present set-
tings turn out a failure; but if they prosper, a material ad-
dition will have been made to the bulk of home-grown
food.— Southern Reporter.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAncat 16,. 1847.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lard
Foley, to appoint Richard Edward Davies, Esq., one of her
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice
Mac Neil, retired.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Samuel
Metcalf Latham, as Vice-Consill at Dover, and of Mr.
William Curling, as Vice-Consul.at Ramsgate, for his Ma-
jesty the King of Hanover.
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 18, 1847.
MEMBER RETURNED TO. SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Lewes—Robert Perfect, of the Marine-parade,
Brighton, Esq., in the 'room of Sir Howard Elphinstone,
Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Ma-
josty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 19.
3d Dragoon Guards—William Hlckes Slade, Gent., to
be Cornet, without purchase, vice Fetherston, deceased,
March. 19.
4th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Josias Rogers John Coles
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Arkwright, who retires;
Cornet Michael M'Creagh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Coles; John Richard Smyth Wallis, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice ISPCreagh, March 19.
7th Dragoon Guards—Captain Walter Jacks, from half-
pay 20th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Knight,
deceased; Lieutenant Antoine Sloet Butler to be Captain, by
purehase, vice Jacks, who retires; Cornet Charles ohn
Berners Plestow to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Butler;
William Middleton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Plestow, March 19.
13th 'Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Holden to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Thomson, who retires; Cornet
Robert Higginson Borrowes to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Holden ; Luke White, Gent., to be Cornet, lay.purchase,
vice Borrowes. March 19.
26th Foot—Ensign Charles Edward Preston to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Cresswell, who retires. William
Esdaile Thomas, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pres-
ton, March 19.
30th Foot—Ensign Thomas Henry Pakenham, from 59th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice O'Grady, pro-
moted, March 19.
89th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Croker to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet Major Young, who retires; Ensign
John Sears to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Croker,
Marcia
41st FoOt—Lientitient Grenville -G.-Wells-to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Lawrence, who retires; Ensign. Regrnald
Heber Rawlins to be Lieutentant, by purchase, vice Wells;
Robert Cary Barnard, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Rawlins, March 19.
44th Foot—Lieutenant George E. Hillier, from the 14th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, without purchase; Lieute-
nant George Nathaniel Micklethwait, from the 53d Foot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase; Sergeant-Major John
Colpoys, to be Ensign, without purchase, March 19; Amyatt
Ernie Brown, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase;
March 20.
45th Foot—Charles Lewis Griffin, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Dalzell, appointed to the 53d Foot,
March 19.
53d Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign
William George Spiller, vice Gray, deceased, July 5, 1846 ;
Ensign Henry Francis Hastings Parker, vice Micklethwait,
appointed to 44th Foct, March 19.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Ensign John Alex-
ander Dalzell, from 45th Foot, vice Spiller; Edward Moore,
Gent., vice Parker, March 19.
56th ',cot—Thomas Edward Pedder, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Saunders, appointed to 84th Foot, March 19.
57th Foot—William Fowler Jones, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Hunton, who resigns, March 19.
71st Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Jackson, from
half-pay Royal Staff Corps, to be Major, vice William James
Myers, who exchanges; Captain Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart.,
to be Major, by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires; Lieu-
tenant George A. C. Dasbwood to be aptain, by purchase,
vice Sir Hew Dalrymple; Ensign Charles Francis Smith to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dashwood ; Ralph Charles
Browne, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith,
March 19.
72d Foot—Lieutenant Richard Palmer Sharp to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Wilde, promoted ; Ensign Douglas Robin-
son, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sharp; the Hon.
Henry Warrender Fitz Maurice, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Robinson, March 19.
83d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Steele, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brown, who retires ; Ensign Thomas Adams,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Steele ; Herbert Stanley
Cooper, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Adams,
March 19.
Rifle Brigade—Alfred Manners Drummond, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowther, March 19.
BREVET.—Captain Walter Jacks, of 7th Dragoon Guards,
to be Major in the army, Jan. 10, 1837.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major Robert Baillie, from 72d
Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel Robert Fraser, who retires, March 19.
GARIOSONS.—Major John Fraser, half-pay Unattached, to
be Fort Major and Adjutant at Jersey, vice Brevet Lieute-
nant-Colonel Robert Fraser, who resigns, March 19.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 31st of March, 1846.
80th Foot—For Lieutenant Alexander William Riley to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Best, killed in action, Dec.
22, 1845.
Lieutenant Anthony Ormsby to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Scheberras, killed in action, Dec. 22, 1845.
Read, Lieutenant Simon Fraser to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Best, killed in action, Dec. 22, 1845.
Lieutenant Alexander William Riley to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Scheberras, killed in action, Dec 22, 1845.
Lieutenant Anthony Ormsby to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Fraser, died of his wounds, Dec. 25, 1845,
, Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County

Palatine of Lancaster.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Joljn MazisClementi,Gent.,to be Ensign, tUarch William
Ayrton, Gent., to be Ensign, March 13.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

Isaac Linter;; licensed victualler, Upton, Gloncestirshire.

.BANKRUPTS.
John Pells, grocer, Great Yarmouth, to surrender March
26, at half past twelve, and April 30, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane,
Cornhill ; Galsworthy and Nicholls, Cook's-court, Lincoln's
Inn ; Casterton, Yarmouth.
John Hazard and William Beaumont, tailors, High-street,
Deptford, March 26, at two, and April 30, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Parker,
St. Paul's Church-yard.
Charles Brown, plumber, Somerset-street, Aldgate, March
26, at one, and April 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Lawrence, South-square,
Gray's Inn.
George Teil and Basil 31`Kenzie Ronald, merchants, Old
Jewry-chambers, March 31, and May 6, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Hughes, Kearsey, and Masterman.
Thomas Bruce Wavell, miller, Lake, Isle of Wight, April
1 at half-past eleven, and April 26, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ;
Turnley, Ludgate-street.
David Elwin Colombine, money scrivener, Regent-street,
Saint James's, April 3, at half-past eleven, and May 14, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee,
Aldermaubury ; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Thomas Walkden, scrivener, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
April 1 and 30, at ten, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Free-
man, official assignee, Leeds ; Moss, Sergeants' Inn ; Branson,
Sheffield.
William Sarginson and Matthew Rigby, builders, Bury,
Lancaster, March 30 and May 4, at eleven, at the Man-
chester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester;
Clarke, Gray, and Woodcock, Lincoln's Inn-fields; White-
head, Bury.
John Hunt, merchant, Manchester, March 31, and April
22, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee, Manchester; Pearce, Phillips, and Winck-
worth, St. Switin's-lane; Slater and Ileelis, Manchester.
Henry William Shipley, lace manufacturer, Nottingham,
April 1 and 23, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court,
Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Bow-
ley, Nottingham.
Thomas Reader, miller, Foleshill, Warwickshire, April 1
and 22, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Messrs. Dewes and
Sons, Coventry ; Weeks, Ct)ok's-court, Lincoln's Inn.
Thomas Jobling, grocer, High Conside, Durham, March
26, at eleven, and April 29, at twelve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne; Ingledew, Newcastle-upon-'Tyne; Messrs.
Williamson and Hill, Vertillm-buildings, Gray's Inn, London.

, . ....
Richard Dix, saddler, Wells, Soruersetahire, April 6 and
30, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official
assignee, Bristol ; Whitaker, Lincoln's Inn-fiields ; Hobbs,
Wells.

Thomas Hardwick and Winter Hardwick, auctioneer,
Leeds, March 30 and April 19, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Walker, Fur
nival's Inn ; Blackbu7n, Leeds ; Lee, Leeds.
William Glover, woollen manufacturer, Leeds, March 31
and April 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co., London; Pa) • *
Eddison, and Ford, or Bruce, Leeds.
Rev. Andrew Keir, clerk, North Cave, Yorkshire, April 7
and 28, at ten, at the Kingston-upon-Hull District Court.
Kynaston, official assignee, Hull ; Capes and Co., Gray's Inn ;
Robinson, Beverley ; Bell, Hull.
William Smith, mercer, Uttometer, March 30, and April
27. at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Catlow, Cheadle.
Thomas Potts, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 30,
at half-past ten, and April 29, at one, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Inglndew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; %Vll-
lianason and Hill, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-ins.
Thomas Slattery, corn broker, Liverpool, April 9 and 23, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee, Liverpool; Sharpe and Co, Bedford-row, Louden;
Lowndes and Co., Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
R. Perkins, attorney, Nelson square, Blackfriars-road—
second div. of 21,4 d. in the pound, on Wednesday, March 17,
and three following Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Tur-
quand, Old Jewry.
H. Docker, oilman, Pall-mall—second div. of ls. in the
pound, on Wednesday, March 17, and three following Wed-
nesdays, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry.
Lamont, Stewart, and Matravers, brewers, Skinner-street,
Bishopsgate—second div. of 4d. in the pound, on Saturday,
March 20, and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr.
Groom, Abchurch-lane, City.
J. Graham, stationer, Jewry-street, Aldgate—second div.
of Is. 4d. in the pound, on Saturday, March 20, and two sub-
sequent
Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-
lane, City.
John Linnet, goldsmith, Argyll-place, Regent-street—
second div. of sd. in the pound, and first and second div. of
3s. sd. in the pound on new proofs, on Saturday, March 20,
and two subsequent Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Edwards,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
G. Jackson, jun., upholsteser, Hertford—second div. of 3d.
in the pound, on Monday, March 22, and two following
Mondays, at the office of Mr. Carman, Birchin-lane, City.
W. Tunley and R. S. Potts, common carriers, Old Change,
City—first div. of 2d. in the pound, o.iMonday, Marcii2),
and two following Mondays, at the office ofllr. Canaan,
Birchin-lane, City.

W. Tunley, common carrier, Old Change, City—first cliv.
of Is. 111,0. in the pound, on Monday, March 22, and two
following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Caunan Birchin-
lane, City. ,
P. Stewart, clerk in the Ordnance .office, Crayen.place, Old
Kent-road,—first div. of Is. in the pound, on Monday,