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had been agreed to at a general meeting of the share-
holders. _

called about being a provisional director, that his nephew
should be appointed one of the local agents. A sub-
sequent meeting of the provisional directors was held at
the company's offices, Finsbury-place, on the 4th of
November, at which the defendant was present, having
come to London expressly to attend. A managing
committee was appointed at that time, and instructions
were given as to advertising the prospectuses in the
newspapers. The witness in consequence of his in-
structions caused the prospectus to be inserted in the
Wolverhampton Chronicle among ether newspapers.
Further evidence was called to prove the order given
for the insertion of the prospectus, and the number of
times it appeared.
Under the direction of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,

A GUILLOTINE SCENE in FRANCE:
Being at Dunkirk a few years ago, I heard that a
murderer was to be executed at Mount Cassel, and I re-
solved to witness the scene. I accordingly rose very
early on the fated morning, and ordered a post chaise
to take me to the town where the dreadful tragedy was
about to be enacted. After a ride of about an hour and
a half, through a fine district, the height of Mount
Cassel developed itself in bold outline in the horizon.
A number of large windmills upon the summit of the
hill met my eyes; and as I advanced more nearly
towards the place of destination, the beauty of the ad-
jacent country and the distant scenery seemed to borrow
new charms. At length just as the clock of the town
struck seven, the vehicle rolled along that part of the
road which runs round the northern base of the lofty
mountain, and in ten minutes more I stopped at the
Hotel d'Angleterre. This establishment is situate upon
the Grand Place, or Market Place, on wnich an immense
crowd had already assembled; and in the midst of that
multitude. rose high in the air the beams and axe of
the dread engine of slaughter which had been erected to
wreak the vengeance of the law upon a criminal.
The morning was now delightful in the extreme; but
never more were the seasons and their changes to shed
joy upon the soul of the doomed one; never again would
it be his in this life to mark the ingress of one, or the
egress of another! Spring, which is so charming, with
its soft mornings, and buds, and blossoms, when earth
has shaken off the icy hand of winter ; Summer, so
pleasant with its blight evenings, and flowers, and rural
scenes, and excursions; Autumn, so delicious with its
golden days, each one of which we could cleave to for
ever; when the fields are heavy with the yellow harvest,
arid the gardens hang ruddy with fruits, and the sun,
shorn of his fiery beams, is succeeded at night by the
harvest moon; and then Old Winter, offering his bright
fire-side, with pleasant friends or pleasant books; when,
in spite of the freesing air without, the flow of soul gushes
most sparkling within; so that while its chilling breath
may blight all nature without, yet it is powerless upon
of
fnan all these seasons, with their
varieda blessings, were now as no-
;
tlo that wretched man whe was hover-
itt nhh upongienghechangesianr t respecta
antudhde soul
theiru
verge of eta rnity ; unless, indeed, that
c ild winter which stands last upon our list, be taken
as an effecting type of the other winter now about to
follow—anthatrllng, cold, freezing winter in which no
The criminal, it appeared, had been convicted of a
heinous offence—that of murder, accompanied by
robbery, and other violence of an infamous nature in
respect to a poor girl, who had acted in the capacity
of servant to the deceased. The victim of the assas-
sination was
.a small farmer residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Mount Cassel, upon the estate of the
Count de Vandamme ; and the perpetrator of the
dreadful action was the farmer's nephew—a dissolute,
wild, and incorrigible young man of only three-and-
twenty. He had been arrested a few days after the
murder, and in course of time was tried at Hazebrouck,
where he was found guilty. The sentence was death.
The culprit appealed unsuccessfully to the Court of Ces-
sation, by which tribunal the former judgment was con-
firmed ; and the day of execution had now arrived. The
prisoner had been transferred, on the previous evening,
from the prison of Hazebrouck to that of Mount Cassel,
at which latter town the execution was ordered to take
place, the crime having been perpetrated in the vicinity.
At quarter to eight o'clock the bell of the church
began to toll. By this time the entire market-place
was thronged with spectators ; and every window
commanding a view of the scene was crowded with
human heads. Five thousand pair of eyes seemed to
have made the scaffold the focus to which all their
visual rays were directed. But there was no improper
conduct amongst that living ocean, which appeared as
if it had come to dash its waves against the guillotine
—that dead and mysterious lighthouse erected there to
warn away the giddy mariner from the shoals and
sunken rocks of life There was a busy hum—a mur-
muring sound--like the whispering of myriads of voices ;
but there were no indecent cries—no querrulous ejacu-
lations—no profane talk—no ribald jokes—no snatches
of flash songs—no loud and boisterous laughter. The
deportment of the multitudes in the market place below
was as respectable and decent as that of the better classes
who occupied the windows of the dwellings overlook-
ing it.
It was now three minutes to eight, and breathless
silence suddenly prevailed—like that sudden and awe-
inspiring lulling of the breeze upon the ocean just before
the wing of the hurricane sweeps over its
surface. That silence was broken by the chant of
sacred hymns ; and from my window at the hotel
I could now descry the funeral cavalcade slowly
approaching from the farther extremity of the Grande
Place. At first it seemed a dark line of persons, whose
sombre uniformity was broken by the white robes of two
priests ; but as the mournful procession drew gradually
nearer and nearer, I could distinguish the tall and mar-
tial forms of the gendarmes with their drawn swords—
the figures of' the usher of the court- which condemned
the prisoner—the jailer, the commissary of police, the
mayor, and other civic authorities—and amidst them all,
the person of that young and luckless man for whom all
this parade, ceremony, anxiety, curiosity, and assembly
of multitudes had taken place. Oh ! say not that one
life is nothing in the great chain of creation—the doom
of' one miserable being who had never done a good action
in his life, and who had hitherto dragged on a grovelling
existence unnoticed and unknown—had caused the
neigt.bouriug towns and villages to pour forth their
crowds—bad set the men of justice and the men of the
sword to work, and had collected altogether in one point
on this fatal morning
No insult was offered to the prisoner as he passed
along the passage opened for him by the crowd ; but if
there were no public demonstration calculated to wound
him, there was also an absence of any kind sympathy
tending to cheer him. A deep, a stern, a solemn, a re-
ligious silence was maintained by the multitude as the
malefactor, attended by the two priests, dragged himself
to the foot of the guillotine. At that moment the exe-
cutioner, attended by his two assistants, appeared upon
the scaffold. He lowered the axe, tried its edg-e and
then greased the grooves, in which it worked up and
down, with a piece of candle. The gendarmes helped
the condemned one up the steps to the platform ; his
face was colourless, and upon it could death impress no
more hideous expression, nor throw a more ashy pallor
than it already wore. His legs almost refused to per-
form their office ; his hands were clasped together in
bitter—bitter agony of mind—but his eyeballs seemed
dead and lustreless, although his brain was at that mo-
ment the seat of such appalling—such withering—such
lightning blasting thoughts I
Oh
yo ! whong
amayn say what agonies were experienced by
that during the few moments he stood upon
the platform of the guillotine, while the executioner's
assistants bound him to the fatal plank ? Who shall
young man
decide whether that short interval of ineffable horror
were not meet expiation for even the dread crime of which
he had been guilty ? Oh too dread subject for con-
templation, if mortal have exceeded the trust reposed in
him, and flown ie the face of his Maker by taking away
even under the semblance and sanction of human justice,
the lives of those who are created in that Maker's
image !
The dread preparations were completed ; the criminal
was bound powerless to a plank, which was then lowered
to a horizontal position, and shoved onward until the
head of the miserable man fitted into a hollow in a block
of wood, perpendicularly placed beneath the hatchet.
Another block of wood, also with a semicircular hol-
lowing was drawn down above his neck, so that
his head was now fixed in a hole resembling those of the
stocks. The priests leant forward to whisper the last
consolation of man in the malefactor's ears, and all being
ready, the executioner pulled a string which let the fatal
axe loose. Down—down the newly greased grooves it
fell, quick as the eye can wink ; and the head was here—
and the trunk was there !
And then the crowds began to disperse, but less
rapidly than they had assembled ; and one by one the
spectators withdrew their heads from the windows, and
the casements themselves were closed, or had their cur-
tains drawn down, and in an hour after the execution
not a trace of that supreme act of the law was left—no,
nut even the blood of the criminal upon the pavement,
nor a rafter of the guillotine in the market-place.

--ft appears that in consequence of some dissatisfaction,
the meeting was subsequently held on the 7th of August,
and was adjourned until the 20th of the same month, and
it was unanimously agreed at that meeting that new
trustees should be elected. A meeting was then held on
the sth of October last, when it was resolved that im-
mediately such election was made those persons who
then acted as trustees, as well as the treasurer, should
hand over all property and effects they held, ex
officio, to the trustees appointed by the subscribers.
The defendants refused to accede to the resolution in
question, and alleged that the same had not been
taken by ballot, and that the proceedings were in
other respects informal. The Act of Parliament
was to the effect that when a majority of sub-
scribers decided upon changing the trustees, that those
who then held trust should give up the funds in their
hands to those who should be appointed to succeed
them. Due notice had been given, and all the requ.si-
tions of law had been complied with. The petition also
prayed for the costs of a former petition in th. suit.
Mr. Russell and another counsel appeared for the
petitioners, and Mr. Wigram for respondents.
His HONOUR deferred judgment.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 19/. ;
being the amount due for the advertisements inserted
after the meeting on the 4th of November, when the
defendant took an active part in the concern.
At the suggestion of counsel, . .

His LORI;9;IIP agreed to certify that it was a proper
case to be tried, as several other causes of a heavier
nature would depend upon it.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. U.

IN RE THE TRING, AFADING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAIL-

WAY CO3IPA Y.

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Dec. 11.
CONSPIRACY.-THE ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. JAMES
BUTTON AND OTHERS.

To-day was appointed for the last examination of the
bankrupts representing the company.
Mr. Graham, the official assignee. applied to the
Learned Commissioner for an order fur the transfer of
the sum of 12,4001., standing in the names of Mess: s. Hill
and Everitt, solicitors to the company, in the Union Com-
mercial Bank, should be transferred to the Bank of
England.

This case was resumed at the sitting of the Court this
morning. It was an indictment for conspiracy, at the
instance of Mr. Lewis, an extensive dyer of Oxecdon-
street, Haymarket. The defendants are James Button,
George Button. his son, Thomas Corduroy, and William
Wellesford. They were all in the prosecutor's employ-
ment. Some of them, especially James Button, had
been for a number of years. The prosecutor allowed
those in his employment to dye articles for themselves
and their immediate relatives free of expense. Instead
of simply availing themselves of this privilege, they took
advantage of it to carry on " jobbing " for their indivi-
dual profit, to the serious injury of the prosecutor.
A considerable number of witnesses were called in
support of the case for the prosecution. Some of them
are at present employed in the works of the prosecutor,
and some of them had been discharged on account of the
" jobbing" in question.- The evidence adduced went to
show that the practice had been carried on to some
extent, and that "jobs" were done through the per-
mission of the first-named defendant, who was the
foreman, and who, it was stated, must have been per-
fectly aware that the articles which the defendants and
others in the establishment brought to dye could not
belong to them or to any of their relatives. Most of the wit-
nesses called to prove fraud on the part of the defendants
admitted that they had dyed articles at the prosecutor's
works for profit, and that they had treated James Button
to drink in consequence. The two Buttons, it appeared,
had carried on this kind of " jobbing" to a much greater
extent than the other defendants, in consequence of the
facilities which they possessed. An understanding, it
appeared, subsisted between the whole of the defendants,
and that all caryied on business on their own account, at
the expense of Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Sergeant ALLEN addressed the jury on behalf of
Button, and contended that the evidence adduced did
not justify the charge brought against James Button.
He could not, however, justify the acts of the son.
There could be no doubt, notwithstanding many asser-
tions to the contrary, that the business of the prosecutor
was conducted in a very irregular manner, and that ad-
vantage had been taken of this by those he employed.
Nothing had been adduced to show that James
Button had done more than he was permitted to do by
Mr. Lewis. If George Button and the other defendants
had taken advantage of the defendant, and used him
as an instrument through whom they might defraud Mr.
Lewis, they ought not to inflict punishment upon him,
but, considering that he was an old man, and that he had
been 34 years in the service of the firm, to give him the
benefit of the evidence in his favour.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and ex-
plained the law to the jury. He said it was for them to
say whether the three defendants, or any two, or even one
of them, were guilty of the charges; imputed to them.
They could find one of them guilty, because one might
conspire with other persons not named in the indictment.
The jury, after a short consultation, found all the de-
fendants guilty of the conspiracy imputed to them.
Corduroy nas recommended to mercy by the jury on
account of the example set him by the Buttons, al-
though they entertained no doubt of his delinquency.
The defendants will not receive the sentence of the
Court until next term.

Mr. JAMES, who appeared for the directors, objected.
He said, that Mr. Graham had obtained an injunctif. n
over the property, and it was not in the power of the
Learned Commissioner to make any such order.
Mr. LAWRENCE, solicitor to the assignees, considered
that the functions of this Court had been superseded by
the bill filed in Chancery, unless the bankruptcy was
superseded, which could be done on the creditors re-
ceiving 20s. in the pound. The debts were not much
more than 4,000 L, and the cash in hand 12,4(01. ; it
would, therefore, save considerable expense if this was
done, as the proceedings in Chancery would then drop.
Mr. JAMES said that Mr. Grahi‘m, as the official as•
signee, had no right to receive more than would pay the
expenses and the creditors 20s.,in the pound.
Mr. GRAHAM said, as long its he was official assignee,
he was entitled to receive ail moneys belonging to the
bankrupts.

It wis then urged both by Mr. Lawrence and Mr.
James, that if Mr. Graham received more than twenty
shillings in the pound, he would be placed in great diffi-
culty as to how to apply the surplus, as there were dif-
ferent equities amongst the shat eholders.
Mr. LAWRENCE said this Court was not in a position
to remove the money, which was at present virtually
under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
Mr. JAMES said Mr. Graham assumed that the moneys
belonged to the bankrupt, but there was no proof of that
being the fact, it stood in the name of Messrs. Hill and
Everitt.

The Learned COMMISSIONER ultimately held that he
had no power to order the removal of the funds, or he
would have done so, but his power, under the 18th section
of the Act only applied to property in the hands of the
treasurer, officers, attorney, solicitor, or agent.
Mr. JAMES said, when the creditors were paid in full,
the injunction would be dissolved, and matters restored
to their original state. He said that the real struggle
was for Mr. Graham to get a large sum of money
into his hands to charge a commission on it.
Mr. LAWRENCE applied for a day to be appointed for
a dividend.

The Learned COMMISSIONER said he would not fix a
day till there were funds in hand.
Mr. LAWRENCE said there were funds.
Mr. GRAHAM said he had only received 2701., and the
costs of obtaining the injunction amounted to 911.
It was ultimately arranged that a dividend and audit
meeting should be held, and that a bill of costs of Mews.
Hill and Everitt, which they claimed as a lien on the
12,4001., and on securities for 6,1001., that the bill should
be paid, and the securities handed over to Mr. Graham.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Dec. 11.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
JOBBING v. BOURCHETT.

The plaintiff is a baker at Kensington, and sought to
recover the sum of 151. Is. 3d. for bread supplied to the
defendant and his family.
The plaintiff's attorney said that the defendant for-
merly resided in Victoria-grove, Kensington, but during
the summer he suddenly left his residence, and was not
discovered until lately, when he was met with at a rail-
way office in Fenchurch-street, he having projected a rail-
way—he at the time admitted the debt, and promised to
pay, but bad not done so, and no one now appeared on his
behalf.

BAIL COURT, Dec. 11.
CLERK V. EAGLE.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a
surveyor, against the defendant, who was one of the pro-
jectors of the London and Bury Railway, to recover the
sum of 6001. for work and labour in making surveys.
After considerable discussion, the matter in dispute
was rt ferred to arbitration, the main question in dispute
being whether the work done was worth the amount, and
ought to be recovered or not.

The jury having heard evidence to this effect, gave a
♦erdict for the plaintiff.
The only other cause tried was Haghe v. Webb for
brickmaking—the question was whether they had been
well made so as to entitle plaintiff to the full price. The
case was totally devoid of interest.
The jury were detained some time in consequence it
the absence of defendant's attorney and counsel, and o
was at length insisted on for the plaintiff that the case
should proceed and it was opened. The defendants'
counsel however soon afterwards appeared. The jury
said they were fined if they did not attend, and it was
too bad they should be unnecessarily detained.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 11.
In this case M
TrELl2aurtien. ElanOrmEß.
Mr. Bramwell appeared
for the ila'ntiff, and Mr. Humphrey for the defendant.
11. is wis an action to recover the value of certain
goods seized by the Sheriff of Middlesex, under an exe-
cution st3ainst a Mr. Smith. The plaintiff, who married
Smith-a daughter, claimed :he goods as his property, al-
leging that they had been given to his wife.
On the part of the plaintiff, Mr. S. Smith was called,
and examined with reference to his marriage with Mrs.
Smitt . He said that he was not married, and that the
subject was at this time pending before another tribunal,
whei e the whole question would he fully discussed.
LORD CHIEF BARON—The matter is n )w before this
court. and you are bound to state your knowledge of the
fact- ;t) us.
Witless—l must decline to answer any questions upon
the subject.
Lo3D CHIEF BARON—You must answer the question.
Was there, or was there not, any marriage or ceremony
of marriage between you and Mrs. Smith?—Witness
(with great vehemence)—There was a sort of ceremony.
LORD CHIEF BARON—Where?—Witness—ln Edin-
burgh.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

A young man, a cab-driver, whose name and number
it is not at present expedient to make public, was placed
at the b,r, before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged with
stealing a great coat, the property of Mr J. S. Robin-
son, of Middleton-square, from the stable:l, of Mr. Grey,
the postmaster, in Earl-street, Black friars.
It appeared, from the evidence of the police and per-
sons in the employment of Mr. Gray, that the coat, which
was fully identified, was stolen about three months agofrom
the stables in Earl-street, when the prisoner's brother was
at the time employed. Several sets of hat ness, and
other portable property, disappeared about the same
period, and i ne of the men meeting the prison, r, whose
brother had fallen under suspicion, and recognising the
coat as one of the articles stolen, gave information,
which led to his apprehension. His defence was,
that, six weeks ago, he purchased the coat
from a Jew, at the cab stand in Gray's Inn-lane,
for 245., and that he could refer for his character to re-
spectable persons who had known him for years.
The officers applied for a remand for a week, to give
them an opportunity of finding the brother.
Mr. Alderman WILSON did not think that their sus-
picions against the brother were proofs against the pri-
soner, whose statement about the purchase might be
true. However, as the latter had bought in the street
from a person of whom he knew nothing, and whom he
could nut produce, he must take' the consequences of his
imprudence, if he really were guilty of nothing more.
But he refused to remand him longer than Monday,
advising him to have a search made by his friends for
the Jew dealer of whom he said he had purchased.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
James Miller, dressed as a seamae, was charged with
begging, and assaulting a licensed victualler.
A. Mackie, 85, Dean-street, Soho, said the prisoner
came into his bar on Thursday night begging. When
requested to leave the prisoner persisted in staying and
begging, till the complainant, after showing him the
door, put him out by force, and in doing so was struck
by the prisoner several times in the face. But
the one door was no sooner shut on the prisoner when
he entered at the other, and complainant this time
pushed him out, so that he fell down on the door-way.
The prisoner, however, re entered, and as the policeman
was remonstrating with him, he forced past the police-
man, and struck complainant again in the face.
Horsford, of the Mendicity Society, said the man was
a well-known vagabond and impostor.
Mr. HARDWICK committed him to the House of Cor-
rection for one month.
CLERKENWELL.
Robert Cross was placed at the bar before Mr. Combo
on the charge of stealing a four-gallon copper measure,
the property of Messrs. Charles Tanqueray and Co.,
distillers, of Vine-street, Bloomsbury.
It agpeared that a constable of the detective force,
named Haydon, met the prisoner running along Skin
ner-street, Clerkenwell, with the measure in his hand,
and followed by two other persons, who were well known
as bad characters. He immediately gave chase, and
upon taking the prisoner into custody he told tha old
tale of having been employed to carry it. Three of
Messrs. Tanqueray's waggons were standing opposite to
a public-house in Skinner-street, and during the tempo-
rary absence of the drivers in the house, the ptisout r
managed to extract the vessel from a large basket, in
which it was placed in the waggon.
The prisoner, when asked for his defence, repeated the
story of having been employed by another to carry it ;
and was fully committed for trial.
Henr,' Venables, a young man, in the employment of
Mr. H. Dunningham grocer, of No. 9, Seymour street,
Euston -square, was Charged with stealing a basket and
a quantity of tea, the property of his master, and also
with having received various moneys on his account,
which he had applied to his own use.
The prosecutor stated that a quantity of tea having
been exchanged by order of a customer, the prisoner
appropriated that which had been sent back to his own

LORD CHIEF BARON What part pf Edinburgh ?
Witness—l am sure I cannot tell.
LORD CHIEF BARON—When did it take place ? Wit-
ness—lt was about seven years ago.
LORD CHIEF BARON---s,:' ho was present at the time ?
Witness—Nobody, as I know of.
LORD CHIEF BARON—Was anybody present besides
you and Mr. Smith? Witness—There was another
person present, but I don't know her; and there was, I
believe, another person.
LORD CHIEF BARON—What was the nature of the
ceremony? Witness—lt was a ceremony which I did
not consider as a marriage.
LORD CHIEF BARON—WLat was said or done? Wit-
ness—l recollect very little about the affair.
LORD CHIEF BARON—You must state to the jury what
took place. Witness—Why, we agreed to live together,
that is all.

LORD CHIEF BARON—You agreed to live together as
man and wife ? Witness—Yes.
LORD CHIEF BARON—Then that is a legal marriage
in Edinburgh. It is, in my opinion, clear that the whole
affair is a juggle between the parties. I suppose, Mr.
Martin, you will not persevere any longer in your case?
Mr. MARTIN—No, my Lord.
The LORD CHIEF BARON then directed the jury to
return a verdict for the defendant.

LAMB V. LAMBERT.-LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COX

MITTEEMEN.
This was an action brought_ to recover the sum of
27/. 65. for advertisements inserted in the Sunday Times
newspaper.
The defendant was a member of the provisional com-
mittee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern
Railway.

Mr. Martin appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hum-
frey for the defendant.
On the part of the plaintiff witnesses were called, who
proved the consent of the defendant to become a pro-
visional committeeman, also the attendance of the defen-
dant upon numerous occasions at the various meetings of
the committee, when the order was given to the secretary
to advertise the company. Evidence was also given of
the order from the secretary to Mr. Dixon, an adver-
tising agent, to insert advertisements in the Sunday
Times.

Mr. Aguillar, the secretary of the company, was called
and said, that the scheme of the company originated
with him, and that he demanded the sum of 15,00/ for
the company, on the ground that the company was his
own. The sum of 15,0001, was a very small one to get
fur the sale of a company.
The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict for the amount claimed.
LIABILITY OF RAILWAY PROMOTERS.—DOUGLAS V. SMITH.
In this case Mr. Humphrey appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Martin for the defendant.
The action was brought by Jane Douglas, a laun-
dress, who was employed by a person of the name of
Campbell, as housekeeper, to take care of a house in
Mansion-house:place, where the defendant and others
carried on business in connexion with a railway pro-
jected by the defendant.
The defendant pleaded that he was not liable, or if so,
that he was only Jointly liable with three others.
It appeared that in consequence of a representation
made to the defendant by Campbell and two others,
he entered into an arrangement, by which they
jointly and severally agreed to bear the ex-
penses attendant upon the projection of the Tours and
Honfleur Railway, and the plaintiff was engaged to at-
:end to the office by Mr. Campbell, whose laundress she
then was, and still is. She had applied to Campbell for
the payment of her wages, and he had referred her to'
the defendant.

use. He (Dunninghamilaad sincoasc---aWained that the
prisoner had received money from various customers for
which he had failed to account.
The parties who had paid the money to the prisoner
on account of his master not being
in attendance, the
further hearing was adjourned.

A verdict was accordingly returned for the plaintiff--
Damages 17/ 2s.

A parcel of 30,000 bricks has arrived by a vessel
. from Hamburgh, and another of 40,000 by the Catalina,
from Antwerp, both cargoes being destined for re-ex-
portation.—Liverpool Ad: ertiser.
TUE FLORES EXPEDITION.—The largest portion
of the men who are on board the Glenelg, or belonging
to her, were paupers, who have received two years'
allowance money from the various parishes throughout
London and suburbs, for the purpose of emigrating, the
parishes thinking it a good opportunity of getting rid
of their able-bodied poor by such means ; and the serious
question arises, in case of the confiscation of the vessel,
what is to be the fate of these unfortunate people, as it
is supposed the parishes will not consent to receive them
into the union houses again, but will leave them to
starve, beg, or steal through the country.—Post.
COURT-MARTIAL. —HONOURABLE ACQUITTAL OF
LIEUTENANT SMITH, ROYAL ARTILLERY.--This gallant
officer (2d),' Ist battalion Royal Artillery (recently em-
barked for Bermuda), who was tried by a general court-
martial in Dublin garrison, Major-General Monro pro-
secutor, for conduct unbecoming the character, &c., ill
dishonouring a bill for 50/., given to a Jew bill dis-
counter named Gorer, has, after a most patient investi-
gation, been most honourably acquitted of the charge
preferred against bun.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 11.
WOODS V. HARDING.-THE LEICESTER AND SHREWSBURY

DIRECT RAILWAY.
This was an action brought by the proprietor of the
Wolverhampton Chronicle to recover from the defendant,
Mr. William Harding, a provisional director of the
Leicester and Shrewsbury Direct Railway Company, the
sum of 271., for the insertion of the company's prospectus
in the newspaper. The plaintiff selected the defendant
from whom to recover the amount, he being a gentle-
man well known, a solicitor, residing in the Potteries,
Staffordshire, and the coroner of the county.
Mr. MARSHAM opened the case, stating that this ac-
tion differed from many others in which provisional di-
rectors had been called to account, as he should prove
that the defendant had taken an active part in the bu-
siness of the company.
Mr. Turner, one of the solicitors of the company,
proved that the defendant had requested his name to be
placed in the list of provisional directors. The pros-
PPettici, immediately afterwards published, contained the
defendant's name. It appeared in all the prospectuses
Published. It was arranged at the time the defendant

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1846