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London, England, 1846-04-09 00:00:00

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES)

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. - • • • • .. •.' 206% 206%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities - .. 95% M % 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96 m% 56 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97 96% 971 96% 97
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1868 .. 10% 3-16 10 S-16
India Stock .. ... . • • •• • .... 260 261 v.
II ella Bonds. 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 25
Collsols for Account • • • • • • • • • • 9614 %;%' 9614
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. I%d.
1,0001... .. •• •• 29 24 22 -.. pm. 28
5001... .. -• • 29 24 28 pm. 23
Lltlo Small •• .. 29 24 28 pm, 28

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Beuds,s per Cent .. „ 8114 80%
Danish, 3 per Cent -• •• • • .• 1171, 57%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 32 32
Ditto, Deferred .. .. . • .. 16% 1634
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. ~

Ditto, for the Account .. .
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 81
Ditto, 4 Der Cent .. • • .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. . • .. 58
Russian Bonds .. .. 109
Spanish Bonds, S per Cent .. 24%
Ditto, for the Acceaut • • 24y.
Ditto, Deferred .. ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. „ „
Ditto, for the Account ~ —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certifleates .. 92% 92
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SIL&RES.

57M
109

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. • • • • 2% .... 1% ..........
Bristol and Exeter .. .• •. 74 .
Ditto New .. . • • • • . 5 .... 9 ..........
Caledonian .. • • •. 10 ..., 6X 7%.... • •
Ditto, Half Shares . • • • 2%.... %
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 2% .... 1% ..........
Chelmsford and Bury .. • • • • 1% % 75
Chester and Holyhead .. • • •. 20 .... 17% ...... • • 17%
Chester and Manchester • . • • 425. .......... 1% dis
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2%
..........154
Direct Manckester (Remington's) 2% 11
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 514 .... 8%
Direct Northern .. .. • • • • 2% .... 1 % ..........
Dublin and Belfast Junction 10 .... 4 ..........
Dublin and Galway .. • • • • 4 .... 114
Eastern Counties .. 141. M 5..... 21% • •
Ditto New .. .. • • 61. 165..... 5%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. Its. 4d.
Ditto, ditto, _ .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. n%l pex div pxd
Ditto, York Extension . • .. les... _ I% 1 1
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • 50 .... 71 72 72
Goole, Doncast., and ...heffield, &c. 425. _ % dis. % dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .........
Great North of England . • • 100 .... 210
Great Western .. • • • . 85
Ditto, Quarter Shares . • • • 5 .... 1654 .... • •
Ditto, Fit'ths .. • • •. 20 .... 34
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 4% %
Hull and Selby .• SO ....101
Ditto, Halt Shares .. 7 _.. 24 ......
Leicester and Bedford 225..... % dis 94 do
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%
London an Birmingham . .100 ..•.220 222...... . 222
Ditto Thirds .. 24 .... 61% ..... . •
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 27% 28
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 62% %
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 .... 27%
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 90. 21
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 76
Ditto, New . 12% •..
London and York .... 1 ..
London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. ....
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 254.... ..........
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 7% .... 4 ..........
Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 7 •• •• . .
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .. 120
Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .... 54% ....
Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .. • 9 •••-• • • • • •
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .. • • 9 ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • 754 7 • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •••• par 34 dis....
~100 ....144 143% ••• • • •
Ditto Fifths.. _ 2 .. • • •• .•
Ditto, New 18 .... 29
Midland Great Western (Irish) .. 10 •• • • 214% •••• • • • •
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 42,4 43
Ditto, New . .... 734 ••• • • .....
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 •• .. 16% 1730 ....
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. • . 15 .. • ...... .
North British .. _ 20 .. • • 2454 •••• • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 • • 8 ;•••• • • • • •
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 154 • • 1 5,414 •••• • • • •
Northern and Eastern _ 50 .... 67 ..........
Ditto Scrip (issued at 5 die.) .. 40 .. • • 55 ••••• • • • • •
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% .. • • I%IA .. .....
North Staffordshire .. 425. •• .. 1% 2 p
Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .. • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto. New .. .. 5 7 ••• • • • •• •
Oxld.,Worcester, & Wolverlunptu. 12% •• • • 8% 'At •••• • • • •
Perth and Inverness .. 254 •• • • I ••••• • • • • •
Portsmouth I greet .• • • 14 ••••• • • • • •
Rugby and Huntingdon .. 2 •• • • %I••• • • • • •
Scottish Central . 10 ...• 13% •••• • • 7.
Shrewsbau and Birmingham .. 2% •• • • 194 4•••• • • • •
threwabury and Hereford .. 2% •• • • 134 ••••• • • • • •
South Midland .. 428. ••••• • • • • •
south Eastern and Dover• 33% .... 344 35
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16
1)0., New (do, 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10
Staines and Richmond 1 •• • • •
South Wales .. 5 .... 1% 1........
Welsh Midland •• • • 154 ••••• • • • • •
West Riding Union .. _ 425. •• • • 154 %P. •• • •
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 2, •• • • •••• • • • •
Yarmouth and Norwich 20 .... 24% .....
York and Lancaster •• • • 1% ••• • •
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 •• • •
Ditto. Extension .. 13 .... 3131 ..........

•-• •• ....

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

9
N
1%
I!,‘

1 4
21%
6% P

ib dis
143 Y,

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......... -
31

Dutch Rhenish .. .. . .. 6 •• • • 5%14 I( ••• • • • 5311
East Indian .. . .. .. .. bs• •• • • N -(.? •••• • • • • 1,
G rt. North. of France Constituted 5 •• • • 14 .7.i 76 ..... • • 15
Great Indian Peninsular .. .. Ss. .... • • ........ %
Great Western Itengal .. .. So. •• • • '3ii ••••• • • • • • %
Louvain and Junteppe .. .. 4 .. . .......... 1%
Luxembourg .. .. .. .. 4 .... 1Vi..•••••• 1%
Nanun and Liege .. .. .. 4 .... ........ •• I%
Orleans and Vierzon .. .. .. 10 •• • • .16 • • ..... •• • 1634
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 10 ,f, ...... • . 101<,
Over Yssel .. .. .. .. 41. 3s. 4,1.... •• • ....... 3

Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 ....
Itutien and Ilavre -. .. 20 .... 29 • • ........

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England 35 .... 35%.......... 35%

MINES.

Real dcl Moute, 'Unregistered 234

At length the Place du Carrousel is about to be
levelled and paved. The first operations were commenced two days
ago, and those parts which are now in the worst condition will be
maiediately repaired. By the end of May the pavement of this vast
it is said, amount to
orto‘ovoilfl.—hopta)eng.sullt:apTrh.e whole expanse will,
The Earl of Kenmare has subscribed the sum of 2001
towards the Kerry relief fund.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT._ Gloucester, April 8.
The business commenced this morning at eight o'cloeh
in both Courts—Mr. Baron Platt, on the Crown side of
the hall, being engaged in the disposal of a number of
cases of the most disgusting character, the particulars of
which it is intiossible further to allude to.
(Before the CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
LEWIS V. MEADOWS,.
For the plaintiff were Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr.
Skinner; for the defendant, Mr. Godson, Q.C., and Mr.
James. . _

Both parties in this case, which was an action of libel,
are ministers of a religious sect entitled "Independ-
ents;" Mr. Lewis harif g for upwards of twenty-fire
years presided over a chapel at Glastonbury, and Mr.
Meadows having also for a considerable period had the
care of another chapel in the same town. Some months
since Mr. Lewis received an invitation to go to a new
scene, and to tike charge of another congregation at
Westbourne. After some negotiation, however, the
proposition which had been made to Mr. Lewis fell
to the ground from some cause which he was
unable precisely to ascertain, until he found that
a number of the most infamous and calumnious
reports were afloat respecting him, to which he was in-
duced to attribute the circumstance above adverted to.
Being naturally anxious to clear his character from the
aspersions which it had received, and being, moreover,
desirous to assertain the source whence the fabrications
emanated, he at length discovered that some anonymous
letters reflecting upon him in the vilest terms had been
circulated through the neighbourhood in which hi lived.
Having reason to suspect the defendant Meadows was
the author of two of these, the present proceedings
were instituted, the two letters being selected as con-
taining the libellous matter contained in ale declaration.
The defendant, by his plea, altogether denied the au-
thorship of the first letter, and as regarded the second, he
suffered judgment to go by default. The only question,
therefore, weich remained, was the amount of damages
to be assessed. By an arrangement between the parties
before the trial, it was agreed that the defendant should
pay 2001. to the plaintiff in full satisfaction fur the in-
pry which he had occasioned him, and that each party
should defray his own costs, provided that a sufficient
and ample apology were offered on the defendant's behalf.
Mr. GODSON, on the part of his client, having fully
complied with the latter stipulation, the above terms were
acceded to, and the jury were discharged.

LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.-DENNETT

AND OTHERS V. NASI AND PICKERSGILL.
(Special Jury.)
For the plaintiff were Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr.
Valentine Lee ; for the defendants, Mr. Whately, Q.C.,
and Mr. Phipson.
The Learned SERGEANT, in opening the case, stated
that this was an action to recover the sum of
2,9441.
15s. 6d., alleged to be due to the plaintiffs (who are at-
and was
torneys and solicitors), for work and labour, and for
money expended to the use of the defendants,
one of that class of cases which is daily getting more
numerous, arising from the late general frequency of
railway speculation. The company with which the
plaintiffs became connected as attorneys, and from which
originated their present demand,
was projected in May,
1845, the intention of the original schemers being to
connect Worcester, Wolverhampton, Oxford, and
London by a shorter line than any at present existing.
It was first known as the Oxford and London Direct
Railway, and afterwards as the Worcester, Wolver-
hampton, and Oxford Extension, under which it was
Amongst others, Nash,
registered. This change in the name was made on the
7th of October, 1845 • and a numerous meeting of those
favourable to the undertaking was held on the 9th of the
same month at the George and Vulture Tavern.
be the solicitors,
many resolutions one of the d-fendants, attended ;
zae
Ipiars.s
De di
Dickson
na dtohpet e
sdu,
ravnedy,
or. amongst
si r
.
Pickersgill wa;
other matters, it was settled that Messrs. Dennett should
introduced on the 26th of ieptember,
shortly after which time Messrs. Dannctt entered
into very
"live operations for the purpose of
forwarding all the preliminaries needful to comply
with the standing orders of the House of Com-
mons. The incetiem convened for the 9th of Oc-
tober was afterwards trijoinned till the 10th. eo or
70 letters were sent out to announce the meetings,
both of which ackson attended, and informed those
preseet that it would be requisite for him to hire a con-
siderable ." staff "of surveyors, &c., because he had only
.ci'imle .lien
ls!t e six
weeksalli siv he beforere3V" the
"fated" 30th of November to
s, and, from the great demand for
labour at that time, it was necessary to pay in proper-
ion. On the 14th of October another meeting was held,
Ivhich the defendants both attended—Nash presiding in
:
,he chair, and a smaller committee of six was appointed
to superintend the affairs of the company, both the de-
fendants being appointed to serve upon that committee ;
meetings were afterwards held from time to time,which
they were represented as hating attended. Prospectuses
and advertisements were issued ;
the proposed capital
was stated at 600,0001., in 30,000 shares, and soon after
the anhouncecaent was made public 60,0Q9 elulPe* were

actually paid for. Not very long after a change seemed
to have occurred, difference of opinion arose between the
committee and the plaintiffs ; but still Dickson, the sur-
veyor, went on actively with his operations, and the
plaintiffs also worked day and night. On the 30th of
November all was announced to be in readiness for Par-
liament. No less than 911 notices had been given along
the projected line, which were charged for by the plain-
tiffs at an average of 15s. each. Messrs. Dennett, how-
ever, found that nothing further could be done, although
they called upon the committee either to allot the shares
at once or to dissolve the company. The committee,
however, refused to do either, and the plaintiffs in due
course presented their bill, which not being liquidated,
they deemed it advisable to proceed against some of the
committeemen, and finally determined upon selecting
the defendants for that purpose, although Nash had pre-
viously withdrawn from the committee, an act which
might possibly in some measure affect his liability ; for,
though he seceded from the committee, yet he remained
a member of the company. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd con-
cluded by observing that the plaintiffs had paid Dickson
alone 7001. in cash, and had made other disbursements
amounting to 2,100/. out of pocket, besides having devoted
a considerable amount of their attention and skill to the
subject.

At the conclusion of the Learned Sergeant's speech,
and before any witnesses were examined, a protracted
discussion ensued between the counsel engaged in the
case and their clients, which terminated in an arrange-
ment that a verdict should be entered for the sum of
2,4001.

GARRETT v. ADAMS AND OTHERS.
Special Jury.)

For the plaintiff were Mr. Swergeant Talfourd, Mr.
Whately, Q.C., Mr. Alexander, Q.C., Mr. Greaves, and
Mr. Dowdeswell ; for the defendant, Mr. Keating and
Mr. Selfe.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOD RD, rising on behalf of the plain-
tiff, said that his client was a Mr. Edmund Garbett, an
attorney living at Wellington, Salop, and that the de-
fendants were gentlemen of the highest respectability,
namely, Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. Blandford, Mr.
Webster, and Mr. Holcombe, This case, like the pre-
ceding, arose out of railway transactions ; the defendant,
Mr. Sergeant Adams, having been, in October last, the
chairman, and the other defendants committeemen of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway Company. Mr. Adams,
the nephew of the Learned Sergeant, and a Mr. Yar-
borough, his partner, were the London solicitors,
and the plaintiff was appointed the country solicitor,
in which office he continued to act until about a week
ago. Some little time since the company had fallen
into disunion, and Garbett delivered in his bill amount-
ing to 1,8531. 7s. 10d., of which he had been paid 1,0101.,
leaving a balance claimed by him of 8431. 7s. 10d., be-
sides which he demanded 3041. commission on 4,000
shares disposed of by him for the company, independ-
ently of this other claim. Application was made to the
Master of the Rolls to tax the bill, and he made an
order to that effect, directing further proceedings in the
meantime to be stayed. In addition, however, to the
other debt, the plaintiff made a further demand for
1841., alleged to have been incurred for services per-
formed subsequently to those particularised in the pre-
vious bill, and also for advertisements and other ex-
penses, whereupon the order of the Master of the Rolls
was amended, to allow the action to proceed in respect
of these latter items. The present cause was confined
to the claim accruing since the 7th of January, and
304/. for commission on shares, which it was maintained
the company had agreed to pay, independently of all
remuneration for professional services. The first plea
upon the record alleged that no signed bill had been de-
livered; in reply to which it was urged that, as regarded
the sum claimed for commission, no signed bill was re-
quired, as that constituted a debt due to the plaintiff,
irrespective of his character of attorney. The defend-
ants, however, denied the existence of any such agree-
ment as that to which the plaintiff referred.
The first witness, Henry Pooley, was then called and
examined by Mr. WILATELY—He stated : Last August
I became secretary to the Shropshire Mineral Railway,
and continued in that capacity till February last. I
attended the meetings of the committee during the in-
tervening period. Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. Blandfbrd,
lEr. Webster, and Mr. Holcombe alto attended those
meetings. All the resolutions of the committee wero
reduced to writing. There were several discussions
about the commissions payable to the country agents. I
was at a meeting at Newport, at which Mr. Webster was
present, upon an occasion when Mr. Brown had claimed
commission for disposing of some shares. The members
present agreed that he should be paid, and he was paid.
At the next meeting, a week after, Sergeant Adams was
in the chair. Cheques, I believe, were signed at that
meeting► in order to make the above payment. Direc-
tions were given to me to write to the local agents that
they should have commissions on the shares disposed of
by them. This was about two months before the meet-
ing at Newport. Mr. Garbett was a local agent. All
the local agents were solicitors. 1,000 or 2,000 shares
were allotted on Garbett's recommendation.

Cross examined by Mr. KEATING—AII the time that
I was secretary Mr. Garbett was the country solicitor.
I do not know that the duties of the country solicitor
and local agent were dissimilar. lie attended the

board meetings, they did not. The meeting at New-
port was about the sth of December. Mr. Webster
was present on that occasion. The resolutions re
ipecting the local agents were then agreed upon. I
only attended one meeting at Newport. The claim by
Brown for commission was discussed. I-Ie sought about
3001. or over; he accepted 301. odd. That was not the
first meeting at which the claims of local agents had
been discussed. The country agents and solicitors ful-
filled the same kind of duties.

Re-examined by Mr. WHATELY—Yarborough and
Adams mere the London solicitors to the Company.
Here a suggestion was offered by the Learned Chief
Baron, to the effect that, in his opinion, the point at issue
would be more fairly dealt with by submitting it to the
Master, as he (the Learned Judge) was of opinion that
the items particularised by the plaintiff were taxable by
that officer.

Mr. KEATING, on the part of his clients, observed that
this was exactly what they had desired all along. They
meant not to deny their liability, but they were solicitous
that the amount to be liquidated by them should be spe-
cified by a competent party.
_ _

After a lengthened deliberation it was finally agreed
that the plaintiff should be nonsuited, liberty being re-
serve•l to him to enter a verdict for such sum (if any)
as the Master should find to be due to the plaintiff.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 7.
John Hill and Thomas Quick were indicted for as.
saulting Martin How, and robbing him of some silver.
Mr. Phinn and Mr. Thring were counsel for the pro.
secution, and Mr. Stone for the prisoner.

There was no doubt the prosecutor, who is a butcher,
had been knocked off his horse and robbed of 31. 10s.
The only question was one of identity. The prosecutor
stated that he knew Hill by his voice, having known
him for fifteen years.
. .

Three witnesses said they had seen the prisoners to-
gether near the spot about six o'clock, which was the
time of the robbery.
For the prisoners a vast number of witnesses were
called, who most clearly proved an alibi ; and
Mr. Baron RoLFE stopped the case and directed an
acquittal, at the same time telling the prisoners that he
believed them to be perfectly innocent.
Henry Harris and .Robert Tippaney were indicted for
assaulting and robbing James Charlton, at Keynsham.
Mr Phinn was counsel for the prosecution, sad Mr.
Stone for the prisoners.
This was a case very similar to the preceding. Three
persons swore to the identity of Harris, who, however,
called the person at whose house he lodged, and who was
the postmaster, and he clearly proved that Harris was in
bed at the time of the robbery. Verdict—Not Guilty.

1V ORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 7.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
OLDHAM V. PUGH.
This was an action of assault.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hoskins were for the
plaintiff, Mr. Atherton for the defence.
The defendant is an attendant at the ?:a runswick
Chapel in this town ; the plaintiff a member of a family
who for some time have had a pew there. On Sunday
evening, the 11th of January, the plaintiff, in company
with another person, went to the chapel. The service
had commenced some time before, and they had some
doubt whether they should go in. They were standing
in a lobby at the back entrance, leading to the passage
by which they would descend to the pew occupied by
the plaintiff's mother and family, the chapel being built
in the form of an amphitheatre. While they were there
the defendant came up the stairs, and collared the plain-
tiff, accusing him of having put some dirt in his hat at the
front entrance of the chapel about half an hour before.
The plaintiff and his companion assured him he was mis-
taken, but he persisted in the charge, and dragged the
plaintiff down the stairs and out of the chapel. The
plaintiff subsequently applied to him for a retractation and
apology, which was refused. An action was threatened,
and the plaintiff again offered, if the defendant would
pay two guineas to a charitable institution and one
guinea for the attorney's costs, to allow the matter to
drop, but this proposal was also rejected.
It seemed now clearly established by the evidence of
persons who were in the company of the plaintiff pre-
vious to his attendance at the chaps', that the defendant
must have been mistaken in the party by whom the
affront had been offered him,.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 10/.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
HINDSON v. WARD.
This was an action of trespass and false imprison-
ment.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. James appeared for the
plain-
; Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the defence.
The defendant, in November, 1843t,wasinwas a
hcommand
of a ship called the Bounty Hall, and
mariner on board that ship, thenlyinge plaintiff in the river
Bonny, on the coast of Africa. The trespass and false
imprisonment complain complained of consisted in flogging the
nlaintiff and keeping him in irons fur a period of ninety
days.
toe statements of the witnesses were exceedingly con-
tradictary. According to the evidence of two of the crew,
the plaintiff had been engaged in coopering up some bar-
rels on deck, and had in his hands a hammer and driver,
with which he was employed in fastening the hoops. Some
angry words took piece betw( en him and some of the
other coopers, and the mate, a person named Whitting-
ton, came upon deck to settle the disturbance. The wit-
nesses stated that the mate coming up to Ilindson, took
hold of the sleeve of his shirt, when the hammer with
which Ilindson was working came into contact with the
mate's car, and inflicted a slight wound. The mate sent
for the captain, who was then on share, and on his coming
on deck he called Ilindson aft. Ilindsoa went towards
him with the hammer and driver in his hand. The de-
fendant asked him what he was doing with them, and he
said he was working. On this the captain struck him
over the eye with a gun-barrel plugged with wood, which
he used an a walking-_tick, and directed him to be imme-
diately tied up. The captain gave him eleven lashes, and
the §lOll and third mates then wok the, atond save

him very severe punishment. He was then ehained
down to the tiller in such a position that he could
neither stand up nor lie down. He remained there all
night, and the following day a court-martial, as it was
named, was called, consisting of all the captains then in
the river. The plaintiff was tied up, and while he was
in that position, with his back to the parties, a discus.
sion took place as to his punishment, when they all, with
one exception, agreed he should be flogged again. The
captain called the crew aft, and told them it was at his
option to flog the plaintiff, that he would not do so, but
would put him in irons. He bad accordingly the hand-
cuffs again put on him, and he was chained with the
bight of a topsail close to a small locker about seven feet
long and five feet high, which had been used for paints,
which were cleared out for the occasion. This was for
him to go into when it rained, but he could move back-
wards and forwards about six yards on the deck. lie
remained in this custody for ninety days, and was finally
sent home by another ship. It was stated that his back
was in a frightful state, and the smell was so offensive
that the man whose duty it was to wash him once a week
was scarcely able to endure it.
For the defence it was stated by the testimony of the
mate and some of the captains of the other vessels that
the plaintiff, on the mate coming on deck, felled him by
a blow of the hammer, which inflicted a severe wound on
his ear, and had produced symptoms of lockjaw. On the
captain coming on board with two other captains, and
calling the plaintiff aft, he refused to lay down the
hammer and driver, and on the captain attempting to
take them from him, he attempted to strike him. The
captain then struck him with his fist, and they struggled
together until the captains present took the hammer out
of his hands. It was for this he was flogged and put in
irons ; and it was alleged that his condition, as detailed
by the witnesses, was very much exaggerated.
The case occupied the Court the greater part of the
day, and the jury were still shut up in consultation when
our report came away.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.
Subjoined is a list of all the sentences passed on the
prisoners in the three Courts during the past session:—
Transportation for Fifteen Years —Wm. Kidd, T.
Smith, Ann Sykes, and Mary Turner.

For Ten Years —W. Chaffy, J. Lawlor, E. L. Dwyer,
J. Wilson, J. Maloney, J. Jones, J. Gwyett, Mary Ann
Smith, Elizabeth Nicholson, Eliza Russell, Margaret
Donnegan, Francis Leonard, Sarah Greenwood, Hen-
rietta White, T. Payne, J. Hollywood, T. Wallis, J.
Stone, W. Calle.
For Seven Years—J. Lewis alias Druce, J. Richards,
J. Connolly, C. H. Cross, R. Moore, J. Freeman, 0.
Suffolk, H. Braby, R. Meatyard, Thomas Fidler, Ellen
Bird, J. Braharn, J. Hobburn alias Currier, T. Davis.