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TIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1846

EXCHEQUER.-(SATURDAY )
(Sittings in Lyndon after Term, before the LORD Cum!,
BARON and a Special Jury.)
BLACK V. STELNING.

ancient rights and privileges, by sending members to the
Court of Common Council, and to enjoy the same rights and
privileges as Citizens of London. With these few words he
would request his Lordship to receive the petition.
The petition, which is an exceedingly long document, was
then handed to the Lord Mayor, which, amongst other
things, set forth :
" That Edward IV., by letters patent, dated November
9, 1462, granted all the privileges which heretofore were
vested in the Crown, with a yearly fair of three days; also
a Court of Piepoudre, and a view of frank pledge: also that
the citizens might arrest all felons, and take them to the
gaol of Newgate.
" That Edward VI, by letters patent, dated April 23,
1550, in consideration of 6471. 2s. ld., and subsequently a
further sum of 500 marks, granted the appointment of two
coroners, to the exclusion of all other, the King's coroners ;
that the Mayor should be the King's excheator, with the
power to make his precept to the Sheriff of Surrey, granting
also all the manorial rights formerly belonging to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
That the citizens should enjoy the same rights in the bo-
rough as they did in the city of London. And that the
Mayor, Recorder, and those Aldermen who had been Mayor,
should be Justices of the Peace in the borough, so long as
they should remain Aldermen.
" That in pursuance of the above charter, at a Court of
Aldermen held on the 20th of May, 1550, Sir John Avlitre,
Knight, was appointed Alderman of the Fridge Ward With-
out; also that four discreet and substantial freemen of the
city, resident in the borough, should be from time to time
elected by the inhabitants of the borough, out of whom the
Court of Aldermen should elect one to be an Alderman of the
City, and to have tea peculiar rule and governance of the
borough and town of Southwark. From whence it appears
that the intention of the charter of Edward the Sixth was
that Southwark should become a part of the city of London,
possessing the same rights and privileges."
The petition, after proceeding to enumerate a great num-
ber of privileges which they have been dispossessed of, pro-
ceeds to state that in addition to these burdens the inhabi-
tants of Southwark are liable to serve in the militia, and to
have soldiers quartered upon them; from which, if the char•
ter of Edward the Sixth was acted upon, they ought as citi-
zens of London to be exempt.

the Old Bailey Sessions commence. Bail was imme-
diately tendered and accepted.

BOW:STREET.

This was an action on the case to recover damages for the
infringement of a patent, to which the defendant had pleaded
that he was not guilty.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Webster ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Jervis. Mr. Peacock, and
Mr. Pollock for the defendant.
The plaintiff was the secretary of a company who had
purchased a patent, granted to Mr. Smith, for discovering a
new and original mode of applying the principle of the well-
known Archimedean screw to the propulsion of steam and
other ships, and it was to recover damages for the
violation of this patent that the present action was
brought. Mr. Smith was the first to disco-re& that
the Archimedean screw could be made available as a pro-
peller placed in the dead wood of a ship, and the discovery
has long been considered of great value and importance, in
so far as it possessed greater advantages than the system of
propulsion by paddle-wheels. For instance, it gave more
room for stowage, obviated the necessity of having portions
of the paddles above the surface of the water, and in many
respects rendered a steam-vessel more adapted to the pur-
poses of war and commerce. The defendant, who was an en-
gineer at Woolwich, has applied the principle of the screw to
several of her Majesty's vessels in the same manner as that
specified in Smith's patent, and plaintiff now sought to re-
cover damages for the injury he had sustained by this appro-
priation of the invention.

A servant in the King of Hanover's establishment at St.
James's Palace, named Thomas Tyrrell, was charged with an
assault on the door-porter at that establishment.
Mr. Huxford stated that the prisoner was a servant at the
Palace, but had been suspended for a month, and forbidden
the house for that time. He believed the month expired
that day. On Friday the prisoner had an interview
with Mr. Singleton, the house-steward, at which he
was dismissed from the service of the King. At about a
quarter to five o'clock in the afternoon, he again came to
the Palace and obtained admission. After loitering about
the place for a short time he went. away. and in about half an
hour returned and again attempted to get in. Witness
opened the hall door, and told him he could not be let in.
He said he wanted to see M. Singleton, and witness said
that Mr. Singleton had left the Palace, and he would
find him at his private residence. The prisoner would not
go away, and caught him by the neckerchief and attempted
to force his way in. Witness was for a time disabled from
speaking by the violence of the attack; but as soon as he
recovered himself, he called for help, and his son and another
person came to his assistance and liberated him. The
prisoner was then given in charge to the sergeant of the
guard.

The witness being cross-examined by Mr. Lewis, who ap-
peared for the prisoner, stated that the latter had a private
room at the Palace, and that he attempted to force his way
to this room. He had no right there, however, being sus-
pended.
Mr. Harding, the King of Hanover's librarian at St.
James's Palace, partly corroborated the above statement.
Mr. Singleton, the steward at the King of Hanover's Pa-
ace in London, said that the prisoner was suspended by him
at the desire of the Comptroller of the Household, but that it
was not for a month, but for an indefinite period. He had
not forbidden him to come to the Palace, but had requested
that he would not. On cross-exlmination he said that the
prisoner had been discharged with a mouth's notice.
Mr. Lewis, in defence, slid that the prisoner being a servant
at the Palace, and having a room there, had a right to go
into that room. Any person had a right to use moderate force
to get into his own room, and he thought it was not proved
that any unnwssary violence had been used. The pri-
soner was still a servant in the establishment, having received
a month's notice, which would not expire until February.
Mr. TWYFORD thought that the prisoner had used more
violence than was necessar%' and considered it so violent an
assault that he would send the prisoner for trial.
The prisoner was accordingly committed, with the under-
standing, that if he did not repeat the assault, the com-
plainant would not press the charge.

For the defence, it was urged that the invention of the
screw itself being of great antiquity, it had long ago become
the common property of the world, and had been from time
to time applied as a motive power for the propulsion of
vessels, raising of water out of wells, and the accomplishment
of other objects. It was contended, moreover, that the speci-
fication of Mr. Smith's invention was vague and incomplete,
and on many occasions had been deviated from without its
being properly amended.'
The LORD CHO F BARON summed up the case very
minutely, leaving the jury to decide two questions, viz. :
whether the framework was a part of the dead wood, and if
so, had it been placed there in the exercise of a spirit of in-
novation, or was it a colourable imitation ?
The jury found that the frame-work was not deadwood,
and that it was not a colourable evasion. Under his Lord-
ship's direction they found the remaining pleas for the plain-
tiff; they contained the questions of utility, novelty, see.,
usually raised in patent cases.

" That in the year 1660, when the inhabitants were
anxious to be separated from the City, they were strenuously
and successfully opposed by the City.
" The petition concluded by praying that prompt measures
would be taken for effectually uniting the Borough with the
City, according to the intentions of the charters, and for
giving the inhabitants of the Borough an adequate represen-
tation in the Council of the City, and that they may be
exempted from all burdens, personal and pecuniary, in-
consistent with the rights and privileges of the City of
London."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES.

The following is a correct list of sentences passed
upon the prisoners at the last session:—

To be Transported for Life—Thomas Smith, 24.
For Fifteen years—Thomas Bennett, John Reed, alias
Frederick Mason, and Charles Bowen.

The RECORDEII—Do vou wish this petition to be presented'
and brought before the -Court of Common Council ?
Mr. PILCHER—Yes ; and also that it be presented to the
Court of Aldermen.

THE JANUS STEAM-SHIP,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES,

Sut,—The frequent articles inserted in your universally
circulated paper relative to the Janus, indicate that the suc-
cess or failure of the engines, boilers, and lines of construc-
tion are subjects of public interest.
Being thus confirmed in my opinion, I enclose to you
the last report made on the original revolving engine
erected by the late Adtnir•dty in Portsmouth Dockyard, the
performance of which engine gave to the present Board
the confidence they have manifested in promoting the at-
tainment of an object highly interesting to the naval service.
Those only who attempt to introduce an important no-
velty can estimate the effects of jealousy and prejudice. I
confide, however, in your liberality to aid in their removal,
and beg that you will inquire whether any reciprocating en-
gine has ever performed duty equivalent to thirteen copse,
cutive double voyages from England to America (as the
Portsmouth engine has done), almost without repair?
1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Portsmouth, Jan. 8. DUNDONALD.

For Fourteen Years—John Dancock, George Bates
William Wilkes.

The LORD MAYOR said that he would take care that the
wishes of the petitioners were complied with, and would be
most happy to lend his aid in getting a restoration of their
privileges.
The RECORDER observed that the charter of Edward VI.
gave the inhabitants a court of law possessing the same
power as the Lord Ma% or's Court did.
Mr. CLARK, the clerk of the arraigns, said the Court of
Quarter Sessions possessed the power to try capital felonies.
The LORD MAYOR said that lie would take care that proper
attention was paid to the petition.
The grand jury then entered, when, having informed the
Court there had been no bills presented, they were discharged,
and the sessions were adjourned until the 9th of April.

For Ten Years—John Thomas, Philip Wetzel, Fred-
erick Bunyan, Charles Shannon, James Norman, George
Lake, William Frederick Kelly, John Concannon, Wil-
liam Breeson, Edward Cunningham, Henry Mortimer,
William Tapson, William Mills.
For Seven Years—John Kloba, James Darks, Thomas
Pennyfather, John Bradley, Jeremiah Graham, alias
John Scott, William Porter, Henry Harman, Thomas
alias James Henville, John Wilson, Frederick Fitzgerald.
Imprisonment and Hard Labour for Two Years—
William Bennett, Edward Hogwood, George Senders,
alias Andrews.
For Eighteen Months—Dqnnis Shine.

For TWelve Months—Peter Burgess, Thomas Blaka,
Benjamin Brown, John Moore, Henry Brown, Frances
Read, Eliza Cross, John Gordon, Henry Prescott, George
Mitchell, Henry Jameson, William Roberts, Mary Davis,
John White, James Hudson, Emma Austen, Mary Anne
Williams.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
GUILDHALL.
On Saturday, Henry Bushell, a young man of respect-
' able appearance., was brought before Mr. Alderman
' Moon, charged with uttering a forged cheque for 3801.
on Messrs. Child, the bankers, purporting to be drawn
by Lord Ducie, who is a customer of that house.
Mr. Clarkson attended on behalf of the prisoner ; Mr.
Pickering, a solicitor, conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Pickering now proposed to add to the testimony
of the porter and the clerk at the banking-house, the
evidence of tee servant who delivered the note addressed
to Mr. Briggs, and gave Mr. Briggs's a'twer containing
the forged cheque to the porter.
Ruth Alcock, the servant of No. 30 A, Wigmore•
street, stated that on Monday last, the prisoner came be-
tween eleven and twelve o'cloek in the morning, to look
at some rooms that were to be let. He came again about
oae o'clock, when her mistress was our, and asked for
some paper, and a pen and ink to write a note. Masked
if anybody had been there inquiring for him. She said
no person had callee ; but while he was finishing the
note the bell was rung, and the porter now present
brought the letter, which she delivered to the prisoner.
Without opening it he gave her the note he had pre-
viously written, and sealed, desiring her to tell the por.
ter to get back as quick as he possibly could. She saw
the address on it was Messrs. Child and Co.
Mr. Pickering prayed a remand, as he was unable to
put Lord Ducie in the box that day to prove that his
signature had been forged.
Ittr. Alderman Moor; directed that his money should
be restored, amounting to 71., and he remanded the pri-
soner till Saturday next.
MARLBOBOUGH:-STREET.
Mrs. Hughes, of No. 2, Great Rider-street, was sum-
moned by the well-known Mr. Richard Dunn, a bar-
rister, for detaining, without just cause, two portman-
teaus, twenty-five books, a carpet-bag, shirts, Lreeches,
boots, and spurs, &c.
Mr. Dunn, it appeared, during the lifetime of Mrs.
Hughes's husband, lodged in Mr. Hughes's house, in
Bury-street.
In 1841, in consequence of Mr. Dunn's persevering
pursuit of a young lady of large fortune and distinction,
proceedings were taken against him, the result of which
was, that Mr. Dunn was condemned in the costs to the
amount of 801., which he refused to pay, which rail-al
led to his confinement in the Queen's Bench Prison.
After an imprisonment of seven years, Mr. Dunn took
the benefit of the Bankruptcy Court, and obtained his
liberty. The present proceedings were instituted for the
purpose of recovering certain property, which had been
left in the custody of Mrs. Hughes at the time of Mr.
Dunn's arrest.
The answer to the claim was that Mr. Dunn left the
house 141. in debt for lodgings, and that as soon as this
demand was satisfied the property claimed would be
restored.
Mr. Dunn contended that Mrs. Hughes had no authe-
rity to detain the property, or to claim the debt. She
was not the legal representative of her husband, inas-
much as she had not taken out letters of administrwien.
Mr. Humphries, who attended for the deferelant, re-
minded Mr. Dunn that he had recently obtained the pro.
tection of the Bankruptcy Court by assigning his property
to the Court.
Mr. Dunn said there were excepted articles in his
schedule, and the articles in question, he believed, formed
part of those articles-
Mr. Humphries said books could not be among the
excepted articles. He submitted to the Court that Mr.
Dunn was not in a situation to ask for the property in
question ; for, even if proved to belong to- him, it must
be claimed by the assignees of the Bankruptcy Court.
In the course of the proceedings Mr. Dunn made a
long and rambling address, in which he referred to the
persecutions '• he had for years sustained from Mr. Hum:
phries."
Mr. HARDWICK reminded Mr. Dunn that these "per-
secutions," as he trrmed them, were only the result of
professional instructions which Mr. Humphries had re-
ceived from his cli nt.
The summons was dismissed.
IVORSHIP-STREET.
On Saturday Mr. Henry Elteridye, described as a
lieutenant in the navy, was charged on a warrant before
Mr. Broughton with committing a violent assault upon
Thomas John Yardley, a youth, fourteen years of age,
son of Mr. Yardley, vestry clerk of Stoke Newington.
The young complainant stated that on the 10th of last
month he was on Hackney-downs with other boys, play-
ing at a game called " rounder," and had a small dog
with him, when he saw the defendant.coming across with
a large bull dog. and he took -his little dog up in his
arms. The defendant, however, clapped his hands to
set on the great bull dog, and complainant, in fright,
dropped his dog, which the larger one then began to
worry. The, complainant said he was afraid that his
little dog would be killed, and he again got it into his
arms, and threw a stone at the other, upon which the
defendant string hire a blow in the eye and knocked
him down. He got up and begged of the defendant to
prevent the hull dog from injuring his little one, but the
defendant knocked him down a second and a third time,
and would have done so again, but for a man who cam=
up and threatened to knock the defendant himself down.
unless he desisted from his violence. The defendant, he
said, struck him in thi eye with his clenched fist every
time.

REPORT ON THE EARL OF DUNDONALD'S ROTATORY ENGINE
ERECTED IN HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARD AT PORTSMOUTH.
On the 22d of December, 1845, two years and nine months
of constant performance .of the rotatory engine expires,
during all which time it. has been working in the most effec-
tual and satisfactory mariner, nu derangement of consequence
having ever taken place,
It is presumed that these two years and nine months of
constant and laborious operation (requiring no more than
slight attention by the workmen) have gone far to establish
that quality which, until row, had not been sufficiently de-
veloped—namely, durability, and consequent continuity cf
operation.

For Nine Months—Miry Anne Nye.
For Six Months—James Thorn. Arthur Webb, Mary
Barrett, Mary Anne Lloyd, Daniel Cruikshank, Mary
Green, John Young, Pierce Driscall. James Parker,
John Ashford, Richard Carter, William Long, Amelia
Haynes, Thomas Walker, Alfred Hay, Rosina Bayley,
George Evans, Robert Studley, Charles Holmes, Abra-
ham Wheeler. John Mansell, Isaac Hoare, Benjamin
Shepherd, William Stockwell, William Deacon, Mary
Wilson.

- The principal repair the engine has required was taken in
hand about nine months ago. This was so trifling, that
six men could have accomplished it in one day, but having
been much pressed with work at the time, one man only
could be spared, which consequently protracted its comple-
tion for one week.

For *Four Months—William Hewson, John Greimne,
Benjamin Freeman, John Jetty.
For Three Months—Thomas Scalfield, William Cod,
John Wheatley, James Beasley, Edward Heawood,
Barbara Goulding, Mary Green, John Reilly, Thomas
Hamilton.
For Two Months—Edward Home.

Thus after four years and nine months constant working
as a prime mover, two years and nine months of which
have been so successfully performed, nothing more can be
wanting even by the most sceptical to establish its merits
as a powerful, economical, and durable engine, equal in
point of efficiency to any reciprocating engine in her Ma-
jestv's service.
Should additional evidence be sought to establish further
claims as a rival in steam mechanism, it is to be found in the
simple fact, that this first essay on the Earl of Dundonald's
principle, although at. first altered and mutilated to bring it
to perfection, is nevertheless at the present time perfectly free
from those indications of weakness and declining energy
which any other engine, under similar circumstances, might
probably evince, as is proved by its exhibiting a vacuum at
all times equal to 28 inches of mercury.
Another fact which gives great confidence in the utility
and applicability of this principle is its freedom from liabi-
lity tc internal derangement, and consequently the service
in which it is engaged is scarcely ever inconvenienced by
stoppages.
The engine has not been opened for examination since
July last. . _ _

Several other prisoners were sentenced to undergo dif-
ferent shorter periods of imprisonment, varying from one
month to seven days in Newgate.
The following were acquitted :—George John Ford,
Richard Riley, John Tubbs, David Lewis, Elizabeth
James, Susanah James, Ellen Dasey, Richard Warwick,
James Hogan, Anne Hogan, William Barry, Edward
Walker, William Probett, John Brummell, John Strutt,
George Dickenson, Thomas Emmerson, Mary Anne
Sears, Mary Anne Chalk, John Tew, William Oldham,
Thomas Roberts, Mary Roberts, Richard George Reef,
Robert Downs, Thomas Bash, William Bond, Elizabeth
Sanders, James Whitside, Caroline Barbar, Anne Jones,
William Gibbs, Joseph Mitchley, Mary Day, Henry
Joseph Killerby.

There was only one bill ignored by the Grand Jury,
viz., against Isaac Clark.

Judgments Respited—Henry Spicer, Mary Smith.
Remanded to the next Session—George Johnstone,
for murder ; George Green, James Thomas.
The C•Jurt at its rising adjourned to Monday, Feb. 2.

R. TAPLIN, Engineer and ➢lachinist.
Her Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth, Dec. 31, 1845

RAIL • AY ENIERPRIsE.

JUDGES IN ROUTINE AT THE

The following reflections upon railway enterprise are
interesting just now, and are written by an enlightened
man of business:—

OLD BAILEY.

The following are the times and the order in which the
Judges of the superior Courts at Westminster will preside at
the Central Criminal Court sessions, up to Michaelmas Term
next :

"'Tae most remarkable feature of the present age is
the gigantic grandeur of its commerciol designs. Great
public enterprises were formerly the work of great men.
Then the individual stood forth in solitary ;.zreatn.-ss
from th., ma ,s of his fellows—empi.rors. kings, and
generals commanded and their works arose. Thus the
pyramids were built, and the dams of the Nilo con-
structed ; thus the most famous cities were created ;
thus the viaducts of Rome ,ere formed—nay even in
modern times—thus the nay) cf Russia was built ; thus
Napoleon intersected Europe with highways for his
countless armies. But e, change, and that a sudden one.
has taken place. A few years of peace and successful
commerce have raised a crass unknown to ancient his-
tory—a class faintly typified in the merchant princes of
Tyre. Now the mass stands out in bold relief from the
mass of former ages—individuality is on the wane—what
was formerly done by the famous is now being done by
the many ; companies are exercising greater power than
Courts ; the merchants are outstripping the monarchs.
Great men are growing scarce in proportion as things
are being done—they are lost sight of in the grandeur
of the designs in which they are engaged. Men are
looking small by the side of iheir own works.

Monday, Feb. 2, and two following days—Mr. Justice
Williams, Mr. Baron Rolfe, and Mr. Justice Cresswell.
Ilrlonday, March 30, and two following days—Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Mr. Justice Maule, and Mr. Baron Platt.
Monday, May 11, and two following days—Lord Chief
Justice Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Colt-
man.

Monday, June 15, and two following days—Lord Chief
Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice Patteson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe.
Monday, Aug. 17, and two following days—Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Mr. Justice Wightman. and Mr. Justice Cresawell.
Monday, Sept. 21, and two following days—Mr. Baron
Parke, Mr. Justice Mania, and Mr. Baron Platt.
Monday, Oct. 26—The Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice
Williams, and Mr. Justice Erle.

LONDON SESSIONS.
(Before the LORD MAYOR, RECORDER, &c.)
ASSAULT AT A
,RAILWAY COMPANY'S OFFICE.—MT. Rath-
bone, the secretary of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway, was indicted for having rommitted an assault on
Mr. J. D. Lewis, a news agent.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the facts, and called
Mr. Lewis, who deposed that he had been employed by
the Directors of the above Company to insert advertisements
in the different London papers. His bill amounted to 4061.,
and he sent in his account, on which a cheque, signed by
the Chairman and two of the Directors, Was forwarded
to his office. It was, however, crossed, and the figures had
been altered to 3001., and on presenting it to the bankers
they declined to pay it. He therefore went to the Com
pony's offices and saw the defendant, who said that he would
send his clerk round to the bankers to see if they would pay
it. During the conversation Mr. Villiers, the Deputy Chair-
man was announced, and defendant immediately told witness
that he could not do anything in the matter, and wit-
ness must leave the office. Witness expostulated, and
desired to see Mr. Villiers, saying that they might probably
be able to arrange the matter by having another cheque.
The defendant said that another could not be got, nor could
the initials be obtained, as Mr. Field, one of the Directors,
who had signed the cheque was ill, and Mr. Harris had that
morning gone to Italy. Witness was proceeding towards the
board-room when defendant seized him-by the collar, and
attempted to force him out of the room, and then caught
hold of him by the throat, squeezing him so tight that he
gasped:forjbreath, and felt the blood flowing up to his head ; he
contrived to release himself, when the defendant rushed
to the fire-place. and again seized witness, flourishing the
poker over his head, and said, " D—n you, if you don't go
out, I'll split your skull; 11l smash your brains out."
Witness called " Murder," and several persons went to his
assistance. Mr. Villiers was there, but he declined to inter-
fere. During the struggle, witnes►'s thumb was cut with a
paper knife. lie was much injured by the pressure on the
throat, and was under the treatment of Dr. Ogle, in conse-
quence, for a fortnight.
Mr. BALLANTINE cross-examined the witness, in order to
show that the account had been contracted before Mr. Villiers
joined the directors, and that therefore the witness was not
justified in pressing to the board-room.
The RECORDER considered it irrelevant. Mr. Lewis had got
a useless cheque, and he was justified in going to get it set
right ; but, under any circumstances, it was excessive vio-
lence to take up a poker in the menacing way the defendant
was sworn to have done.

" As usual, England takes the lead, in fact, if we leave
America out of the question, British enterprise and Bri-
tish gold are charging the face of the earth. But great
projectors often turn mad, and we are afraid Great Bri-
tain is a little touched. Nevr before was John Bull is
such a state of excitement. In fact he is railway mad.

THUNDER-STORM AT iIHE CAPE
OF GOOD HOPE.
(From a Graham's Town Journal.)
. .

Grahatn's Town was visited on Thursday evening last.
the 16th of October, by a severe thunder-storm, which

was very near being attended with the most calamitous

results. Never do we remember to have witnessed light-
ning of a greater intensity or accompanied with such a
remarkable carmine blaze cif light. The flash at each
discharge, instead of being instantaneous, appeared to be
a continuous stream of electricity pouring down for an
appreciable interval of time, and leaving behind it a faint
streak of white light—whilst the simultaneous crash of
the thunder was truly terrific. The electric fluid struck
several times in different parts of the town, and at half-
past six a broad stream of light was observed to descend
behind the Drosty Barrack, accompanied by a deafening
peal of thunder. This, it was afterwards ascertained,
struck the powder-magazine, containing about 60,0001b5.
of gunpowder, besides large quantities of shells, rockets,
ball-cartridges, &c. The lightning, it appears, first
struck the gable-end on the eastern side of the building
fining the town, where the fluid separated, one stream
passing directly downwards, leaving a black streak on
the wall inside the magazine—the other branching off to
the porch, shattering the wall in several laces, and tear-
ing off a portion of the door-post. The sentry, who was
at a distance of about forty feet from the spot where the
lightning struck, was thrown to the ground, and re-
mained in a state of insensibility, for an hour and a half,
when he was diseovered and removed to the hospital,
where he now is, we are happy to be enabled to state,
gradually recovering. If the electric fluid had struck a
few feet further to the westward on the ridge, there is
every reason to believe that the magazine would have
been laid in ruins. It is sail that in consequence of the
cast wall being rather damp, the powder was removed
f( um actual contact with it some short time ago, and
that perhaps to this circumstance, and to the fact of the
damp wall conducting the electricity more readily into
the earth, our providential escape may he attributed.
About seven or eight months ay. we directed attention
to the exposed situation of this powner magazine in par-
ticular, having on two occasions witnessed the lightning
strike within a short distance of it. Estimates were at
that time prepared by the commanding officer of en
gincers, and sent home, for the erection of two con
ductors. but were disallowed by the authorities at home.
The calculated expense of the two conductors, with the
necessary tanks and apparatus, was, we believe, about
501.; and for this paltry sum the whole, of. the Govern-
ment buildings, and half the town and its inhabitants
have been placed in jeopardy, and have narrowly escaped
destruction- We are happy to learn, however, that ap-
plication has been made to the Governor to sanction their
immediate erection. The private powder magazines near
the mill should also be protected by lightning rods; they
generally contain from 30,0001b5. to 40,0001b5. of gun-
powder.

George Barrow, a farmer's man, said he was at same
distance when he saw the boys playing at rounder, and
one of them came running to him, and begged his pro-
tection for the complainant, who was being ill used by a
man. He himself saw the complainant knocked down
three times, aral the defendant gave him regular knock-
down blows. de then went to the spot, and told the
defendant he was no gentleman to act in such a way,
and desired him to let the boy and his dog alone. The
animal which the defendant had with him was a large
bull dog.
Mr. Yardley, sen., stated that when his son came home
and complained to him his eye was much contus-d, and
it was black for a week afterwards. lie had since re-
ceived a letter, now praduced, from the defendant, in
answer to an application from him, stating that the mat-
ter had been greatly exaggerated.
Holland, the officer who served the warrant, said he
hai made particular inquiry, and ascertained tbat the
defendant was not a lieutenant in the royal navy, but an
officer in the Indian naval service.
The defendant said that was the fact. He was not .n
the royal navy, but a lieutenant on furlough, in the
Indian merchant service. In answer to the charge, he
said that he was abused by th.. complainant, and boxed
his ears in return, but he dente d having struck him down
by blows in the manner stated by the complainant and
the witness, who, he sAi, was at too great a distance to
see what blows were struck; and the witness, he believed, RETIREMENT OF MR. EVERETT FROM POLITICAL
was unable to tell the difference between a hull dog and LIFE.—The lion. Mr. Everett, the late Minister to this
a cat ; for his dog was not a great bull dog, as described, country from the United States, will shortly quit the
but a small one arena of politics for the peaceful paths of learning. The
11f r. BROuguToN said the violent nature of the assault Corporation of Haward University, near Boston, Alas-
was fully established, not only by the evidence, but bj sachusets, a short time previous to the return of Mr.
SOUTH'WARK QUARTER , between a b&l dog and a terrier,
the bruised condition of the youth himself for some time Everett from England, addressed to him a letter, re-
afterwards. After commenting strongly upon its questing him to be put in nomination for the office of
SESSIONS. brutality, he sentenced the defendant to pay the full pe- President of the University in place of the Hon. Josiah
THE RIGHT OF THE INHABITANTS or THE GORHDOH Or nalty of 51., or to be imprisoned six weeks in default. Quinoy, resigned, and informing him that, in that case,
he would receive the unanimous vote of the Board for
PQDTMWARIC TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRIVILEGES Or CLEPKEN WZ4Z,
TIE prriaztls Of LONDON. George Deueltarii was charged with stealing a piece the appointment, which, on the meeting of the Board of
On Friday the first general quarter sessions ia the present of coal, value three halfpence. Overseers, would be laid before them for their confirrna-
mayoralty was held at the Tawn,hall, St, Margaret's-hill,
The prisoner is in the service of Mr. Newton, coal tion. Mr. Everett has recently given an answer to the
before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Lucas, the Recorder,
merchant, of Battle.aridge, and has of late been sus- application, in which he has entlaented to reoaive the
the High Sheriff, and the civic authorities.
,ewnet.re re-opaned on Wednesday last. aentlotffihecrees
In the course of the proceedings, an important discussion PenT
was coal found under Ilia 13,arsTox :SUQAII MARIi.ET, JAN. 2.--Th
qtedanosfivp:rlfteorimngr..
(471:::,Ily.e0,a0v4in,gthhe issrw.osoerekutoonr
sFarididhaey
2ap4lphoinutimt.
took place relative to the violation of the charter which had night he was stopped, and the . . . .
balm granted by various Monarchs to the City of London, smock frock, having been closed for the Christmas recess since the
relative to the krqngh of southwaTic,
and infermed by was eharge to go. before a jury,
commit the accused to Newgate and a few hundred mats Nlauritius, at prices not obtain-
has been a fair demand for raw sugars on the two market
r. Grtaarswooa replied, as that was his desire he days this week, the sales reaching 500 hhds. and tierces,
.4-1' the
After the .granditify h14,1' heen 1137'0n in,
the Recorder that there were no bills for them to try, .
able previously to the holidays. Refined goods are in
had no alternative but to Mr. Plactian the late candidate for the borough, acanitln•!
panted'by several infieearlal gentlemen; pose an 4 a!,14 tAt tar tri,,i.
he had been instructed by it} large holy of higfOlow-inhabtt:
tale ow
A._ tore "that he mouldhail for the prisoner's ap- demand, and prices
ants to present a petition, signed byupwarda of 11500r3laesr nearauee to surrender to answer fur the offence when mercury,
to his Lordship, praying that they wight be restored to tlalr . ti was, however, a matter of SQ trivial a na-

The witnes., in answer to Mr. Ballantine, said he did not
think he had paid more than 2501. out of his pocket-3001.
had since been paid, and there was litigation as to the rest.
Mr. Winton, clerk to the last witness, was called, and cor-
roborated hip evidence in every particular ; adding, that
before the day in question, he called on defendant for the
account, and defendant asked him what `• consideration"
Messrs. Lewis and Lowe intended to give him (meaning what
per centage). Witness said, he could not make or accept
any offer of the sort, but would see Messrs. Lewis and Lowe,
and call again. He, however, did not call, but accompanied
Mr. Lewis to the office.

Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jury for the defendant.
He said that there had not been a word said against the re-
spectability of the Company or their honourable intentions,
and the payment of the 3001. showed they were willing to pay
what was just. He regretted that he had been stopped in the
course of his examination to show under what circumstances
the cheque had been changed, and that Mr. Villiers was not
in connexion with the Company when the claim was incurred,
as he should then have argued that Mr. Lewis was impro-
perly intruding himself. He urged that the actual violence
was very slight, and such as must occur in ejecting an in-
truder—that the mere threat of using the poker amounted to
nothing without the blow.
The RECORDER summed up, and the jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.

•
In passing✓ sentence, the RECORDER said it was a very vio-
lent assault. For the credit both of defendant and the com-
pany, every exertion ought to have been made to get the
cheque set right. The refusal to let Mr. Lewis see the
Directors coupled with the demand of a "consideration,"
which was improper and unjust to the company, looked very
suspicious. The judgment of the Court was, that defendant
p 47 a fine of 20/., and be imprisoned till paid,

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM
PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVEN!SG
LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9.
ZOININSTOMX BANKS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- -----.-
Z s. d. .£ s. d.
Australasia ...... •• •. V. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 26%
BritshNorth American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44%
Cominercia of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21
'2olonial. . 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16
..ondu and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 26
;,ondon Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16
Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 46
Ditto, New....... - 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17%
National of Ireland • • Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 19%
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 36
Ditto, New. ••• • - -5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia .. .. - 25 0 0 25 0 0 24%
Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. Z s. d.
Albion ••• • • 3/. 105 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20
Ditto Marine.• •• • - 61. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6%
la; . .
British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7M
Clericl,Dled. &Gen. Lift 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
r 9s. and 1 40 0 0 5 0 0 -
/ 61. ss. bs. J
. Eagle ...• • . ........... 6s. 50 0 0 i 0 0 5%
Economic Lift .
Eng.& Scot. Law ...... /&30s.
51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life ••. • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .... ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 a 0 0
Globe ..... .• --• • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142%
Guardian .. ••••• • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 51
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 240
Imperial Lite •. • ..•
Indemnity Marine •• • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life.. ... •
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire
London Ship .. • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
Marine .. ..... •• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10N
Med.ln viid & Gen. Life - . 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life • . 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
Palladium Life........ 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s.
Phoenix .. .. .. • • 31. p. ct. & bs. - - 210
Protector Life •• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 OIL 3s.
Provident Life - .. • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life .. .. .. .... .. 4s. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - ISO
Sun Fire • - -
Ditto Lite • .. • • 11. 6s. - - 18
Universal Life
• ---
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company• per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
A s. d. A s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal flank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 165
British Linen Company 61' per cent. - 100 0 0 225
Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 166
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 98%
Western Bank --.• • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 84%
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7
Clydesdale Bank.. - -6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank ...... - 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank - 210 0 6
Edinb.& Glasgew Bank 6/. per cent. - 50 0 7%
amity of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 815 0 15
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 I%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd- 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North Itritlsh Insur 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19%
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65
Ditto, % Shares •• - 51. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 15%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21%
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 35%
Standard LifeAssunice.lsl per cent. J5O 0 0 I 2 10 0 8

Name of Compamy,

DOCKS.

Dividend 1 Amount
. per I
__of

Paid,

Annum.

Share.

s. d.
Commercial
East and West India 5% I
1. pr cent. Stock.
East Country ••.• • • • . 11. per ah. 1100 0 •
L 3ndon .... ••••. • • • • 4 1. pr cent. i Stock.
St Katharine .••• • • • • 5 per cent. I Stock.
Southampton •• ..

Z 8. d.

50 0 0

CANALS.
d
Names of E Dividend Names of Dividend
Price. per Price.
Companies. per Companies. Annum.
cn Annum. cc
A
Ashtn do Oldh 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 Cl. 98
Barnsley 160 121. 180 Maccleslleld.lool - 95
Basingstoke 100 - - Neath ...... 100 201. 365
Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. 260
Cromtiard ...• 100 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's .• • • 33 11. 26%
Derby 100 81. I 103 Rochdale ...• 85 41. 84
Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. I 80 Shropshire • • 125 Si.
Erewash • -1100 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11
GrandJunct n 100 71. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. '2lO Stourbridge .. 145 201. -
tßstr & Brkly. .00. - - Strtfrdc,n Av 79 1/. 10s. -
Grantham ...150' 121. 100 Severn and 26 1/. 85.
Huddersfield. 571 20 Wye Rail.
-
Kemit & Avnl 39 7%. 6,1. 22 Trnt & 50 30/.
Lancaster
Leeds& Livrp in°, 341. 525 Thams &Med 19 - 10
Leicester
78 41. 49
Leicstr& Nth ts.i 41. 62 Binning.
Leughborogh,l42; 70/. 850 Wilts &Bi ks 67 11. 4s. 11
WATER-WORKS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. I 'rico.
Annum. Share.

East London..• • • • • - • •
Grand Junetion • • • • • •

bent..........

21. JO&

Vauxhall .• • • •... •• 51. per cent.
Weet Middlesex ••• • • • 41. 163. pr et.

A. s, d.

100 0 o
46 13 4
1100 0 0
100 0 0
63 12 9 -.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

RAILWAI MAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which thk
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

Week
ending

Jan. 3

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Arbroath and Forfar ••••••• ••

Bristol and Birmingham . •• •• •• •• ••
Chester and Birkenhead . •• •• • • •• ••

Dublin and Drogheda.- • • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath ... .... • • •• • • ••
Durham and Sunderland ..... • • • • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • •• • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern••
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Gbillasow and Greenock• •• • • • •• • •• • •

Grand Junction •• • •
Gravesend and Rochester....
Great North of England •• •• •• ••
Great Western. • • •• •• .••• •• •• •• •• ••

Hartlepool .• •• • • •
London and Birmingham, fee.
London and 81ackwa11...... • • .. • . • .
London and Brighton .
London and Croydon ... •
London and Greenwich . •
London and South Western
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham • .......
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties ...... .....

_ ..
Newcastle and Darlington .............
Newcastle and Car1i51e..............
Newcastle and North
N0rf01k..... ..... ............
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel], and 0r1ean5..........
Paris and Rouen. ••••••,••••

Preston and Wyr e • • • • • • • •

.. -
Sheffield and Manchester.- •••• •• .
South Eastern.. •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• •

Taff Vale .. • • • •• • •

Yarmouth and Norwich • • • • • • • • • • • •
York and North Midland . • • • • • • • • • •

Last
week.

655
572
1,062
329
611
3,005
7,038
2,464
1,099

14,212

729
30,912

695
3,576
1,918

6,141

'a' ..1
0. •
: .4.
co
t
0 to
o F.

480
515
965
280
1,028
2,487
3,799
1,880
955

3,909
5,312
14,355
2,556
1,593
437
1,075

13,184

26,538
644
2,894
1,172

3,162
4,732
___

5,189

387
1,987
6,122
893

932
3,309
4,993
11,739
951
1,230

189
1,347
4,332
3,845

4,462

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

937
3,528
852
580

LexrioN Jaw. 10.—Wind, light breeze, and hazy.
DEAL, AN. 9.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd James
Turcan, Turcan, China ; Ann, Smith, Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, Jax. 7.—Wind light—Arrd. D'Arcy, Gar-
rick, Algoa Bay ; Jane, Moffatt, Paraiba ; Asia, Camp-
bell, Pernambuco; William Large. Remington, amaiea ;
Abbot, Lord, New Orleans; Elizabeth, Davis, New-
foundland. Sailed Medina, James, Singapore; Letitia,
Thorpe, Singapore ; Thomas Fielden, Blackmore, Cal-
cutta; Caledonia, Menhennet, Monte Video ; Penrith,
Gudliet, Bahia ; ,:Grecian, „ Hunter, Barbadoes; Prompt,
Dunlop, St. Thomas; Diadem, Carr, Hayti; St. Clare,
Foy, New Orleans ; Sheffield, Smith, New Orleans;
Huguenot, Goodhire, New York ; Colombo, Runwell, Boston ;
London Packet, Vincent, Azores.
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, JAN. 7. —The
e John of Liverpool
dismasted and abandoned, was fallen in with 31st ult. off the
north of the island, by a hawl-boat, but cast adrift in con-
sequence of the violence of the gale.
TOBERNORY, JAN. 5.—A schooner, supposed to be the
Janet, of Wick, was seen on shore in the Sound of Mull, by
the Thomas Armstrong, arrived here.
PLYMOUTH.—SId. Recorder, Sharp, Cape of Good Hope;
Guineaman, Stanfield, Cape Coast Castle; Eliza Ann, Blyth,
Savannah.
OFF FALMOUTH —Columbia, Cromar, Belize.
PENZANCE.—SId. Sarah Ann, Lakey, Bristol.
SWANSEA, JAx. 9.—Wind S. --And, Underley, Cuba.
DUBLIN', JAN. B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Birman Cann,
St. John's, New Brunswick. ,
CORK, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Brothers, Butt, Newfoundland.
NEWRY.—SId. Princess, Vaughan, St. John's.
,Europe, Grelet, Quebec and Brest.
SUNDERLAND—SM. Victory, Port Royal.
HULL, JAN. 9.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrd. Fergus,
Martin, St. John's.
BELFAST, JAN B.—The Prince of Orange. Evana, from
Beaumaris to Port'Rush, and the Elizabeth Burns, of Belfast,
from Ayr, where on shore on Island Mager yesterday, but
have both got off to-day.
WELLS, JAN. 9.-1 he sloop reported 28th ult., as sunk
about six miles N.N.W. of this port, is supposed to be the
Trial, Minson, of this port, the mast being recognised by a
seaman who formerly sailed in her.

THE " DRAB COLOURED MEN" OUT OF DEBT.—
The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser says :—At Messrs. Shuther's
marble-yard, in this city, may be seen the corner-stone
of the private residence of General Washington. It bears
the, following inscription :—" This corner-stone of a
house to accommodate the President of the United
States, was laid, May 10, 1792, when Pennsylvania was
happily out of debt. Thomas Mefflin was Governor of
the State. When Pennsylvania was happily out of
debt ! What magic words, and what a happy people,
could we but lay a corner-stone at this late day with such
a proud inscription.