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London, England, 1847-03-17 00:00:00

MORNING, MARCII l7, 1847.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Mattcx 16, 1847.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will In)ld
Drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Saturday, the 2-ith
instant, at t wo o'clock.
'REGULATIONS TO RE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAW,
ING-notra.—The Ladies who purpose attending her Ma •
jesty's Drawing- room are requested to bring ,A them two
large cards, with their name, legibly written there-n, one
to be left with the Queen's P.ige in attendance in the Pre-
sence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord
Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Ma-
jesty. And those Ladies who are to be presented are
hereby informed, it is absolutely necessary that their
names, together with the names of the Ladies who
are to present them, should be sprit in to the
Lord Chamberlain's office, before twelve o'clock on Thurs-
day, the 25th instant, in crder that they may be submitted
for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Majesty's com-
mand that no presentation shall take place unless the name
of the lacy presenting, together with that of the lady to be
presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered to the
Lord Chamberlain, which names shall correspond with
those previously sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's-office.
It is particularly requested that in every case written cards
only be delivered.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 12.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Burd,
as Consul at Hug-Kong for his Majesty the King of Den-
mark.

FOREIGE OFFICE, MARCH 13.

The Queen has been pleased to appro% e of Mr. Francisco
Jose de Paiva, as C.,nsul General at ll,ng Kong for her
Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 16.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint ChArles Packer,
Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for the Island of
Barbadoes.

CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 16.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT

City of Canterbury—Sir AlbertiDenison Conyngham,
commonly called ford Albert Conyngham, in the room 01
James Bradshaw, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 19.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed William George Cur-
sham, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court o
Chancery.

WHITEHALL, MASCII 9.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Sutcliffe, of
Hebden-bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own gor.l Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Francis Orlando Henry Bridgeman, Gent., to be
Corner, vice Briscoe, promoted, Feb. 20.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
George Knight, dealer in manure, Wei bridge, Surrey.
Hewson Dutchman, merchant and ship-owner, Torteth
park, Liverpool.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE- CHA vCE I:1' COURT, March 16.
(Before the `'ICE-CuANcx,,Lort. of ExatAxp.)
BIRCH V. JAY.
The arguments in this cruse were resumed to .day.
(Before Sir J. WIGAAM.)
BUMBLE V. SHORE.
Till, ease turned upon the conmtructiou of a will, the tes-
tatrix divided her estate into six parts, one of which she lett
to Sarah Whittaker; but by a codicil to her will she re-
voked this legacy, and the question at issue was as to its
disposition.
His HONOUR delivered judgment to-day, and decided that
the intention of the testatrix, though the will was ambigu-
ously worded, was that this sixth of her estate should be
given -to the other legatees. He was also of opinion that the
tenant for life was not entitled to any interest during the first
year.

POLICE lINTELLIGEriCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Clinker, a mariner. was charged with having
a:saulted a revenue officer in the performance of his duty.
The complainant detected the defendatl, in conveying
a bottle of brandy from one vessel to another, and ,p-
-prehettded him with the brandy in his possesaion The
defendant. however, smashed the bottle, and .truck the
otlicer violently in the face.
The defendant said there was no more than half a
pint of brandy in the bottle, that he merely wished to
give the crew a taste of it, and that the officer in his
anxiety to get hold of the bottle broke it nimself by
knocking his face against it.
The LORD MAYOR (to the complainant)—Did he wil-
fully strike you, or could the blow have arisen from the
struggle to get the bottle ? Complainant—l have every
rea,on to believe that th,- blow was wilful.
The Loin) MAYOR asked the defendant whether he
was aware that if prosecuted for assaulting the officer he
would lba liable to be transported for seven years ? The
defendant said he well knew it was a heavy offence to
assault an officer, and therefore he wai most cautious not
to do anything of the kind.

The LORD MAYon--If you do.not pay a fine of 405.,
you must go to prison for a month.
The defendant chose the imprisonment. He had been
marked as a dealer in contraband.

A boy was charged by the same officer with having
had in his possession a few pounds of smuggled to
baceco.

The defendant had been apprehended in passing from
one of the foreign steamers, and the tobacco was about
his person.

MP LORD MAYOR—Is it usual for boys to engage in
this traffk? The officer said the men were now very
much in the habit of employing boys to take smuggled
tobacco on shore, and to pay them some trifle for the
risk, calculating that if detection shonld take place the
punishment would be cclnuaratively lenient.
The LORD MAYOR fined. the defendant 20s.
Samuel Palmer was charged with having stolen a
piece of beef and half a pig's head in Whitechapel-
market.

The prisoner was seen by a boy "collaring" a piece
of beef which lay upon a board, and was followed and
taken into custody and to the staticn-house, where, upon
being questioned, he sa'd he had just purcha.ed ' the
meat at Newgate market. The butcher would have
given him an opportunity of escape, but that one of the
police found tied up in a :handkerchief in his pock-A the
half of a pig's head, which must have been stolen some
time time before from the same shop. The double rob•
bery determined the complainant to pursue the more
disagreeable course.
The LORD MAYOR —Well, prisoner, you were not
satisfied with what you took at first, but must try a
second time?

The butcher declared that the prisoner bulliad every
one about the beef, stating that ho would bring an ac-
tion for it.

The prisoner—As sure as I am a living man, my
Lord, I bought both the beef and the half-head in New-
gate•market of a man that hawks about cheap wittles.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—Have you got
any evidence as to the pig's head? The butcher—l did
not know it was my property till ! went back and found
the other half in the shop. As I had cut it in two my-
self, I knew it then immediately. You see, my Lord
(producing the other half, and clapping both together),
how nicely they match —(Laughter.) Just look at that
bone, your Lordship, how it fits in where it was smashed,
and don't the animal's jaws look as if the breath was
coming out of them?—(Applause).
The LORD MAYDR—What have you to say now, pri-
soner? how does it happen that you bought the half of
the pig's head in Newgate•market, when the other half
was lying in the prosecutor's shop in Whitechapel?
The prisoner—Why, my Lord, the man I bought it of
goes round all the markets and picks up every where, so
he might have called in and bought the half head he sold
to me ; but please you, my Lord, pigs is so much like
each other in the face that a man must be a good judge
to know one half a head from another. I'm blest if I
ever knew one pig from another from looking in their
faces, and I've seen a good many in my time.—
(Laughter.)

The LORD MAYOR told the prisoner his ingenuity
should not avail him, and sent him to Bridewell for a
month.

GUILDHALL.

Mr. R. A. ;Sprigg artdressed Mr. Alderman Johnson
with a complaint that his name had been mentioned in
the reports of Saturday's proceedings at this court as
one of the directors of the Parcel Post Company, when
in fact he had resigned long ago, and had entered the
proper notice at the Registration-offiee. He put in a
letter he received from the secretary, dated the 3d of
November, notifying that the board had accepted his
resignation on the previous evening with great regret.
It was addressed to R. A. Sprigg, Esq., Great Russell.
street.

Mr. Alderman JoHsisoN asked if he had notified his
resignation by advertisement? Mr. Sprigg said he had
not, because he was not aware that the names of the
directors had ever been advertised to the public. He
was a director but for a very short time, for he soon
saw enough to satisfy him that it would be prudent to
withdraw.
Mr. Alderman JormsoN asked who solicited him to
join? Mr. Sprigg replii d, the person who furnished the
carriages, who said if ho went in the parties would be
under some restraint, and he should not be afraid to
trust them, and should know what was doing. He made
a proposition that each of the directors should put down
2501. towards the preliminary expenses. He was sup-
ported by a director named Balch, of Clapham, but the
rest were unanimous in rejecting it.

i►lr. Alderman Jotirtso;r ask—ed how much, then, he
had been required to pay up? Mr. Sprigg said 351., as
his proportion of the money paid for the premises of the
Corn-law League. He thought the business should be
cleared up as far as possible, and was ready to give
any information to the sufferers by the failure of the
company.