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London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Northampion, July 15

The cause list contained three cases—one being an
action for debt, undefended; the second was for an illegal
distress, verdict for the plaintiff with 6/. damages; the
third was a tithe cause, between University College,
Oxford, and the vicar of Towcester; but it was nettled
without the necessity of swearing a jury, so that the
civil business was over by twelve o'clock the first day.
In the Criminal Court, Ruth Wells, aged 31, was
char2ed with the wilful murder of her new born male
child, at Abthorpe, in this county.
Mr. Flood conducted the prosecution.
It was known the prisoner, who is a single woman, was
pregnant, and the child, after its delivery, was seen on a
chair in the bed. ro qn; she afterwards came down stairs.
and put it in the privy.
The evidence of the medical men went to show that
the child was born and died from suffocation ; but it
might have been caused by the bel clothes.
The prisoner was found guilty of secreting the birth.
Sentence deferred.
John C. Kromby, aged 38, was convicted of having
uttered a false acceptance for 491. 75., and sentenced to
ten years' transportation..
Mr. Macaulay prosecuted and Mr. Miller defended.
This case closed the business of the assizes.

NORTH ERN ClRCUlT.—Bedford, July 15,
CIVIL SIDE.—(Bpf pre Mr. Baron ALDERSON
TEBBS V. BEVAN.

Mr. Sergeant Bytes and Mr. Worlledge were counsel
for the plaintiff; Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Fitzpatrick ap-
peared for the defendant.
This was an action of trespass, for assault and bat-
tery, to which the defendant plead.d not guilty.
The plaintiff is the landlord of the George Inn, in this
town, while the defortatit was the head waiter at the
Swan Hotel. The case arsse from a broil when the de-
fendant was intoxicated.
The jury, after about fifteen m;nutes' deliberatiorr,
found a verdict for the plaintiff, with one shilling da-

wages.
Eke Learned JUDGE, on being applied to, refused to
certify the right of the plaintiff to costs, so that each
party pays his own costs.
CROWN COURT —(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)

DELIBERATE ARSON.

William Ellis, aged 20, was indicted for setting Ore
to a stack of stubble, at liumbershoe, the property of
Daniel Gutteridge.

Mr. Worlledge conlucted the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner is an unmarried agricultural labourer,
and the prosecutor is one ..f the guardians of the poor
for the Luton Union, in which capacity he would seem
to have been singled out by the prisoner as the most
proper man on whose property he might commit an act
of incendiarism, and so proinit-e to himself the benefits
of transportation, together with tie trifling accompani-
ment of food. From the evidence of the witaeales called
for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner had
been for some time out of work, and not many days
before the fire in question, which occurred on the night
of the 15th of May last, he said to a man named
that he could not get any work, and they would not have
him at the union (where, however, he had never applied
for relief), and that be must set some plate on tire to
get hitnselt transported. On the night of the fire, %%hieh
was confined to the destruction of the stack, he was pre-
sent, as msny others were, and at it. termination ,aid
to his trirnd Wright, " Well, I have dune the trick
told you of last week ; I set fire to old Gutteiiiige's
smelt, and if that 'oat do settle fire to sunimet
else." It further appeared that just before th, fire
happened he told another min that " he hut no wok,
nor mosey, nor food, not home, and that he was
going to look for a job on the railway, tailing which
he should do something as to get him a job some-
where." On a subsequent occasion, a few, days after
the fire, he was found lying lazily at full
length on the grass. Turning himself, and being
asked what he was doing there, said. " Nothing ; and
I can get nothing to do. I have been tryiig a long time
to get a job, and I can't; and I ain't got a Mt of bread to
eat." " Well," said the interrogator, " why don't you
'list, and go for a soldier?" " Oh," said he, " I've bad
the shilling offered to me many a day, but I 'ont go a
soldiering by tie mariner of means. I'd rather be trans-
ported, and so I've set fire to Dan Gatteridge's stack."
When called on for his defence, the prisoner said he
had nothing to say to the jury, and, as might be ex-
pected, they had nothing to say to him except that he
was Guilty.
Mr. Justice PATTESoN then proceeded to pass sentence
on the prisoner,. for whose offence he thought that want
of work did not afford an excuse, as he had been in-
formed that there was no lack of it at the time in sues
tion in this county. Even if he had been out of work
the union was open to him, but he had not availed him-
self of the relief provided fur the poor and needy, con-
tent rather to do mischief to the property of his neigh-
bour, under the vain delusion that his condition in a penal
colony would be superior to tl,stt which he filled in his
own country. In this he would find he was greatly mis-
taken, for the worst condition of an Englishman at home
was preferable to the life of a convict in a penal settle-
ment. The prisoner, however, would have an opportu-
nity of testing the fallacy of his hopes, for, as his offence
was a monstrous one, the sentence of the law was that
he should be transported for 15 years.
With this ease terminated the assizes.

X s. d.
.'ommercial .• • •
East and West India , 61. pr cent. I Stock.
1
East Country
' )ndon .... ..... .... ,N. pr cant. I Stock.

X s. d.

St. K atharine • • • • • • • •
3.-mthampton • • • • •• • •

5 per cent.
2/. per cent.

Stock.
50 0 0

o n

104

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Albion ••••••• • •• •• • • 31. 105 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance ?Set. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17%
Ditto Marine.•• •• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas .••••••• • • • • • • • • 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 00- 5 0 0 7
Oeriel,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 20%
Jounty ••••••• • • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
Orown ••••••• • • • • • • • 125. 50 0 0 5 0 0 II
Eagle .. • ... ...... ...• 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 54
Eng.& Scot. Law .... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Europeaa Life .• •• •• 536 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
F:eeniasons' .• ••• - •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
.;obe ....... • • ...... 6/. per cent. Stock. - 127
Guardian ••••• • - .. - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47%
Imperial Fire •••• - • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 -
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1414
Indemnity Marine.. • . 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 .5 13 1 -
Law Life.. .•••• • • - 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
egal and General Lite - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
andon Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
Loudon Ship •.••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
Marine .• ••• • • -.... SI. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 9 4
Med. Invlid&Gen. Lite 04/. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
!?.ational Loan Fund. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
stational Life •••• - . - )4/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
P ,Ilit•huin Lite ... • ..• . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 4ls xd
Ph enix - - 185
p.•itector Lite.. • •
Pof identiLite •.• • • • -
It ,ck Lite• .••••• • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange N. per cent Stock. - 180
.to Fire • • • • . • • • • •. - - -
Ititto Life . • • •• • • - - -
Universal Life • • -
LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PR,IC.ES.
- - -----
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. I Prim-.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. £ s. d i
Bank of Scotland - 100 00 I 1611
Koyal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 1 151
British Linen Compan) 81. per cent. - 100 00 1 200
Commercial Bank .• 6/. per cent. - 100 00 I 162
National Bank • ..... - 10 0 0 14165.
Union Bank of Scotland 7561. pr eent. - 50 0 0 88
Western Bank •••• - • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 82
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 6.4
Clydesdale Bank •. • ... 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 1314
Eastern Bank •• - • ... 5/. per cent. - lo 0 0 Ile 128
Caledonian Bank - 2 I() 0 41. 95
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. - 50 0 7
.2ity of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. , - 10 0 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 120 0 0 1 0 0 225. 6d
ilercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. !WO 0 0 10 0 0 j i 2%
lnsur. Co. of Scetind 5/. per cent ! 10 0 0 All paid. BTi
gorth British Incur slx6 1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 26
Caledonian Fire Insur lO/. per cent.loo 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Faith. & Giasg. Railway I /.10s. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 19
Ditto, 14 Shares• • - 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17
Edin., Leith, le Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 204
Hasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6136
•lasgw & Oreenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 ..111 paid. 18
11s7.;w8t Garnkirk Rail. AL per cent. 45 0 0 All paid. 39%
i unlace& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
•itAndard Life Assurnce.l Cl. per cent. 150 0 0 I '2 10 0 9

Name of Company.

W'ArtZlt.-'W'oac..llCo.

Dividend Amount
per of
Annum. Share.

£ s. d.
r:ast London..• •••• • • • 8/. 100 0 0
Grand Junction .. •• .. 31. 10s. 41 13 4
3/. 100 0 0
Vauxhall .. ••••• • • • • • 100 0 0
West Middlesex . . . 51.105. pr alt. 63 12 9

Paid. I Price.

MARKET NEWS.--(YESTERDAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Scarcely any English is neat has been received up to
,:nr market. coastwise or by land cairiage, striae Monday.
The tew samples fresh up cottunataled a steady, thou.. h
not to say brisk, inquiry, at fully the last improvement
in value. l'pwards ot 23.000 quarters of Foreign Wheat
have come in this week, mostly in middling condition.
The finest qualito s cornnyinded a ready sale, at very full
prices; but all other kinds were dull, and somewhat
cheaper to all. In Barley next to nothing was doing,
yet prices were mostly supported The show of that
article was small. So little was doing in Matt—the sup-
ply ot which was small—that prices were almost nominal.
Oats moved .ff steadily, at late rates. Beans, Peas,
Indian Corn, and Flour, commanded very little attention.
ARRIVALS.
Barlay.
260 qrs.
400
4,750
malt. 1,510 ars.

1 Wheat.
E.nglish • • .. • . 1,270 qrs.
Irish. ..... ... 860
Foreign •••• •• 22,630

Oats I Flout
50 qrs. 3,160 .1, P.
100 and
6,790 I 17,6801nis

SMITUPIZI.D.

Although our market was very moderately supplied
wirh Beasts, both as respects number and quality, the
demand for all kinds was in a sluggish state, at barely
but at nothing qu, stable beneath. M.,niday's prices. There
w, re on offer. 371 B usts, 1,540 Sheep and Lambs, and
212 Calves from abroad ; as, slso, 194 Scots from Scot-
land. The supply ot Sheep was, comparatively speaking,
small. As most ot the butchers have purchased very
spartegly of late at Newgate and Leaderiliall, the Mutton
trade, this n orning, was firm at, in 81,133 Q instances, an
advance in the currencies ot 2(1 per Sibs, the primest
Downs producing without difficulty, 3,4 d per Sibs. In
Lambs. it full average amount of business was transacted,
at a rise in value of kin) 2d to 4tl per Sibs. The Veal
trade, from the exc, ss of supply, was heavy, at barely
late rates. Pizs were very dull, but nut cheaper. Mulch
Cows sold at from 161. to 191. each.

Per gibs. to si
a. d. to s. d.
38 4 0

;ink the offal.

s. d to s. (1.
,ccund quality ditto 4 6 4 •

ntertor Beasts.....

+scowl quality •• • 4 2 4 4 Coarse-vvoolled ditto 410 5 0
?rime large Oxen .• 4 6 4 8 •:outlitlown blether 5 2 5 4
Prime Scots •• •• .4 10 5 0 Ditto out orthe wool
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs ...• •• 4 0 46
Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 --mall Porkers •• . 4 8 5 0
-tickling Calves •18 0 2B 0 .2uarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
[memo Sheep • • 4 2 4 4 Lambs •• •••• • • 5 2 6 4
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
%,r
991 SbarT. Calves.
I 11,470 725 Pies
I 270
..4..E-tA7GA.TE AND 1411.43.DENUA.161..
We had a steady trade hen., at very full prices.
At per stone by the Carcase.
8. d. to d. s. d. to,. d.
3 6 3$ ' Mutton, interior •• 310 4 2
310 4 0 i middling•• 4 4 4$
4 0 4 2 1 prime 410 5 0
4 2 4 41l Pork, iarge• • 310 4 6
310 410 I small ••••.... 4 $ 410
Lamb. 58 to 6s.
noaouGn 110 P 111A32.11.ET.
The accounts respecting the wowing bine being con
sidered rather more favourisole our market fur all kinds
of Hope is in a very dull state, but we can notice no
actual decline in the qu,tations. although the supply on
off.r is rattier extensive. The duty is called from
145,0001 to 150,0001. Susm.x pockt-ts. 41 to 41 10,;
Weald of Kent .!itto, 41 10, to 51 ss; liLd and East Kent
ditto, 51 12s to 71 7s per cwt.
COMONIAM.
SUGAR.—The busine don, in British Plantation has
rather incre4sed, but the low qualities are in com-
paratively full supply. Bright grocery kinds have been
at fully previous rates. Brown haii been at 34s to 38s.
At unction 111rbisd,,es realise d 45s 6d to 46s 6cl for fine
yellow; and Si. l.ucia 32s for low brown, and 38 to 39s
for low yellow; chr.ystallised Demerara sold at 43s to
47s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.—The demand has improved, and standard
lump, have realised 58- 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA. —Bengal has maintained full prices. Fine
white Benares has been sold at 47s to 47s 6d, and ord at
445. Mauritius, good and fine 3 ellow, sold at previous
rates; but brown and grey interior went cheaper; 4,815
bags 19 casks, by auction, sold'at 38s to 39s for low
yellow, and at 458 to 47s 6d for fine ; brown, fine and
good, realised 36s to 37s 6d. China has realised 43s to
43a 6d for low white.

Ueei.intenor...

- middling ....
- prime large ..
- prime small • •

FOREIGN.-St- Croix has been sold at 47s to 52s for
good and fine, and at 466 for mid; 1,027 buxes 588
chebts ilavannah were mostly sold at 40s to 436 6d for
washed low to mid yellow; Brazil was taken at Os to