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13nusszts, Manx 31.—RECONSTITUTION OF THE MINIS-
TRY. —A supplement to the Moniteur contains several Royal
ordinances relative to the Ministry.
1. P.I. Van de Weyer, Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of London, having tendered his resignation of the
office of Minister of the Interior, his resignation is accepted.
2. M. 'newt de Meylandt, member of the Chamber of
Representatives, is appointed Minister of Interior.
3. Seeing that the resignation tendered on the 2d of
March, 1846, by Messrs Baron J. d'Anthan, A. Dechamps,
J. Malon, and C. D. Hoffachimdt of their respective office
of Minister of Justice, Finance, Foreign Affairs, and Public
Works, and by our Ministers of the State, Count de Mue-
lenaere, and Baron d' Huart, of the functions, members of
our Council of Ministers.

Art. 2. The resignation tendered by Messrs. Baron, J.
d'Anthan. A. Dechamps, J. Malon, Count de Muelenaere, and
Baron d'Huart are not accepted.
Art. 4. Lieut. General Baron Plisse is appointed our
Minister of War.

5. M. G. F. de Baray, Secretary- General of the Depart-
ment of Public Works, is appointed our Minister of that De-
partment.

- Thus, says the Courrier de Beige; a Catholic Ministry puts
an end to the crisis which has continued for these two months
According to oar conviction, it is neither a happy result nor
a final result.

The average price of wheat in the week ending on March
2S was 2:3f. 74c., and that of rye 17f. 58c.

. - - - --
ANTWERP, APRIL I.—W e have now a pure Catholic
Ministry, which, as the Independance observes this morning,
has the merit of putting an end to the system of mixed
Aliniaters, the name of M. de Theux, and this is its second
merit. The country now knows with whom it has to do.
This is a great advantage which it has gained. We prefer
M. de Theux a thousand times to Baron d'Huart, and even to
Count de Mueleneere. The situation is rendered more clear
by a Catholic Ministry, as it would have been by the Liberal
Ministry of M. Rogier, but this latter Ministry is, in our
opinion; only deferred during the existence of the new Cabinet,
which will, doubtless, be very short. The party holding
Liberal opinions will become more compact, stronger, and will
tend to its organisation.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The San of Last Night.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was rather
quieter, but prices were steady. Saks about 5,060 bags,
500 of which were American and taken by exporters. Shares
were dull and prices lower.
Thanks to the perseverance of the Committee of Spanish
American bondholders, the foreign creditors of Mexico have
had full justice done to them at the hands of the Messrs.
Lizardi and Co., the former financial agents of the Govern-
ment of the Republic. There have be n remitted, as all our
readers, especially those more immediately interested know,
sums equal to about 65,0001. for the dividends on Mexican
Stock, but which for a long time past have been hermetically
sealed up by the Lizardi's and Co. A Chancery process has
compelled those parties to come to terms, and bills at various
dates extending over a period of 18 months have been ac-
cepted by the firm just mentioned in favour of Messrs.
Schnieder and Co., who are now the financial agents of the
Mexican Government. We cannot help observing that the
Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, of which Mr.
S. R. Robinson is the most active chairman (and if our re-
collection serves us, for a period of not far short of twenty
years), have a claim upon the bondholders of all the South
American States for something more than empty praise, for
their zealous advocacy of the rights of the foreign creditors
of the States of South America, qll of whom have had to be
driven into a course of honest policy. At the next general
meeting of South American Bondholders, we trust to see
some right. minded creditor of the Republica propose
that the exertions of the Committee, crowned with success
as they have been in the cases (4' Mexico and of Chili espe-
cially, should be not only virtually acknowledged, but that
something more sub-tantial should be awarded.
The English Stocks are at present very quiet, and there is
scarcely any fluctuation in prices. Consols have been 961%
to 96% for money and time. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been up to 29s and is now 265.
The Foreign Investments have been dull, and there is no
speculation except in Mexican Stock, which has been rather
lower, viz., 32 to 3134 for the Actives. Portuguese Con-
verted Three per Cents. have been 5814; and the Four per
Cents., 57. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. have been
arked 5914 ; and the Four per Cents., 92 to 92% ex-div.
Austrian Bonds are 113.
For Railway Shares the demand is slack, but there is
every hope now of an extensive winding up of the different
schemes, and the prosecution alone of those most imperatively
needed, for this would give stability to prices generally.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% % 96%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 1, 1860 ..
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10 7-16 le 7-16
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto, under 1,0001. 30 30
South Sea Stock ..
Ditto, New Annuities 96% 96%
Consols for Account 96%% 96%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 130.
1,0001... .... 29 26 pm. 26
5001. .... 29 26 pm. 26
Ditto. Small 27 29 26 pm. 26
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 113 113
Bends. 1837, per Cott
Ditto, for the Account 3 % 32 31% 31%
Ditto, Deferred 161( % 16%
Portuguese Three per Cents .. 511% 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. •• • • 57 57
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, 1843 .. •• •• •• 21% 21%
Ditto, 1944 .. .. • • .. 20 191(
Ditto, Deferred .. 16% 16%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 593 s 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% 92 ex dlr 92
PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
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Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. 2%•,.. .......... 14
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .......... dls
Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 6%%.•,....• 7
Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1% 134
Chester and Holyhead .. 20 .... 17 4.. .. 174
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... % ..........
Direst Manchester (Itastrick's) .. . . 314 34 .. . .
Direct Northern .. 2% .... 1%34
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 4% 4 434 .. . .
Dublin and Galway .. 4 .... 1 ..........
Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 20% 21 • • ..
Ditto New .. 81. 165... 5% % % p....
Ditto, York Extension .. I e 5..... 134 1.. • • ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .
Ditto 34 Shares .. .... 11 ..
Glonc., Aberyst., & Cent. of Wales 1%
Goole, Doncast., ands heffield, &c. 425..... % dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 16 15% ..... 1534
Great North of England . —lOO ....211 .. ..... 211
Ditto New .. .. 5 .... 33% _ ........ 3314
Great Western .. 85 • • •.144 ... . . . . . 144
Guildford, Farnham, & Portsmoth 5 .... ..• 4%
Harwich & Eastern Count. Junct. 2 .... 1%
Hull and Selby .. 50 • • 101 .......... 101
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 50 .. ....... 50
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%,,,, ........ 234
London an • Birmingham . .100 .. ••210 220........ 220
Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... 52 .......... 51%
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 27 ..........
London and Blackwell 161. 13s. 4d. ..........
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 2%.,... 334 %
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 6234 ..........
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 2034 20 .. •• ..
London andiSonth•Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. ..........
Ditto, New . 1234 .... 21
London and York .. 2% .... 1 ..........
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 2% . •
Manchester and Leeds .. 82
Ditto, Half Shares .. 38
Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 10%..
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. ..........
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 134. ........
Midla•ld ..100 •...145 141....••••
Ditto, New . 18 .. • . 29 2834
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 45 .... 43
Ditto, New . 1 .... 7% 7
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 .... 42 ..........
Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 1734 . • 17%
North British .. .. 20 .... 2434 24 ...... 24
Ditto, Halt Shares . • .. 6 .... .
Ditto, Carlisle Ex tension .. 1 .. 134 . ..... 1%
North Kent and Direct Dover 2% ... 134
North Staffordshire .. .. • . 425. .... 21% p .. • • 1 p
Norerich and Brandon .. 18 • • ..... 2314
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 914 11 9
Rugby and Huntingdon 2 .• •• %..........
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 134 .......... 1314
Ditto New . .. • • •• • • 2% 434 5 ....... 5
Scottish Midland .. .. 10 ...." 6 .......... 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 I% • • ........
South Midland . 425. .... %% dia... • • 34 dis.
South Esstern mid Dovor .. • . 3334 ••• • • .
Ise., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 234 214. 2
Routh Wales 5 . . 234 2 2
Waterford and Kilkenny .. • 5%.... 134 ........ •
Wexford, Waterford, & Valenti& 1% .... 34
Welsh Midland .. •• .. .... 1 07....••., Yfi
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. 14 Ip. • •
34
Wilts, Somerset, and
FOREIGN_
.W. ym. . o nt.
York and North Midland h 0
EftixidtenAsinioiteins .. 15 .... 3134 31U
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten. • • 1 .... 8%
Y 15274.
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528. —%
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128: •••• • • • 234
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East Indian . •▪ •
•.• • '• 1/!•• •• • ..... 6%
••
Louvain and Jemeppe Constituted
15314
Luxembourg • • ' • t • • • 134
Names and Liege •• • • ••'•;••••1% • • •• • • • • 134
Orleans and Bordeaux • • • • :• ••"2 • • ..
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 6 • •
• •
—•• 4%••••
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered
COURSE OF'EXC El A NGE.—(YESTERVAY
Amsterdam —C.F. 12 9i Gibraltar.. ......
Ditto, at sight • ... • • 12 6 Leghorn
26 15
26 15 Milan _
Antwerp • • • • • . • • • • • • • •
Venice.. ...
Rotterdam 2U. 12 10 rlenoa •• ..
••• •• 39%
3 lays' sight •
25 85 Palermo, perm ... . 119%
lilmatomiblau.rg.
..
.. 1325%
Naples
Paris,
Marseilles • .. llO5 .. 46
.. 85224,
atto, 3 months.... -..
80urdeaux............ 26 15 Rio Janeiro ........ • • 24
Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Buenos Ayres ... .. • .
Berlin . .• New York, 2 I days' sight -
- Vienna, effec. flo. ••• .. 10 11 Philadelphia .... • • ....
Trieste, ditto.... • ..... 10 1134 PRICES or BULLION, PER oZ.
Madrid ..
Cadiz ••• .. :
8i1ba 0.......
Barcelona ..... New Dollars ...... 0 4 9%
5evi11e................ Sliver in bars ...... •• 0 4 1134

LLOYD'S
LONDON, APRIL 3.—Wind S.W.
rain at times.

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SHIPPING.
fresh breeze and squally, with

DEAL, APRIL 2.—Wind S.W.,
Hunter, China.

ivally.—Arrd. Duke of Portland,

MiLroan,MAncn 31.—Arrd. Smith, Lewis, Newport, for Cork, with
damage, having been in contact with a schooner offthe Worms Head.
Livnareot, Aran, 2. —Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Corfu, M'Brian, St.
Thomas. Sid. Glenarm, Guy, Calcutta ; Bella Partin. Mott, Arica;
Resolution, Evans. Maranham ; Southerner, Palmer, New York;
Cambridge, Barstow, ditto; lloward, Hill, Boston Coronet; Bute,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Salisbury, Crowe, Quebec; Glenswilly,
Henderson, ditto ; Mary Allan, Wade, Montreal. Off port, Jane
Prowse, Ch na. The Colombo, of, and for, Bombay, was spoken 4th
December, lat. 7 N., long. 84 E., with loss of topgallant masts and
jibboom, and part of cargo thrown overboard.

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BBOADSTAIRS, Aram I.—A foreign vessel is sunk on the Knock
Sand; crew saved.
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PORT LOGAN, MARCH 30.—The sloopreported as having sunk the
let instant, near Cronuck Point, is said to be the James Crawford, of
Itlmsey, 1.M., from Liverpool to Portrush.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 2.—The schooner Venus, Smith, of Boston,
came into the harbour to-day to discharge, having been ou the Bar-
nard Sand.

SUNDERLAND, MARCH 31.—Sid. Mameluke, Steward, St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Bowes, Patteson, Richebucto; Wear packet, Tay-
lor, Quebec; Astrea, Parker, ditto ; Olga, 319111.1911, 4lttO ZllZit-

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A Special General Court of the Proprietors in the East
India Company, was held yesterday at the India House,
for the purpose of passing a vote of thanks to the officers and
men lately engaged in the battle on the banks of the Sutlej ;
Sir Henry Wino& in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said it was pleasing to him, on the pre-
sent occasion, to congratulate the proprietors on the re-
cent successes of the army in India, and to hope
that they would give a cordial assent to the vote
of thanks he was about to propose to that army. Every
successive mail that arrived, brought to them further
proofs of the indomitable bravery of the army. He must,
carried
pleasing however, in justice to Seikhs as a nation, say that their mili-
tary operations had been carried on with considerable skill.
It was ea
Henry Smith, and the admirable manner iii which it was
out. It
It to
proved observeder
the elbli; digested plan of Sir
effective, and the
enemy's forces were broken ap, and while some of the
remaining Seikhs were swept away by the current of the
Sutlej, others were driven into the interior, and never heard
of afterwards. This success, achieved under the aid.of
considerably
Divine Providence, was great, it led to their warmest appro-
bation ; and he was sure the Court would be most ready to
accord it. As he said before, every mail brought them new
proofs of the efficiency of the Indian army, and the accounts of
gallantry were almost overpowering, coming upon them, as
they did, in rapid sacceesion, each exceeding the other
in brilliancy, that they assumed rather the air of
fiction than matter of historical fact.—(Hear, and
cheers.) Four glorious victories had been accomplished
within a very short space, and now they had the native
Seikh Prince coming to the Governor-General to implore
protection for himself, and pardon fur the acts of a rebellious
army which he could not control.—(Hear, hear.) Now, if
these achievements had added lustre to the British army,
how much was that glory enhanced by the forbearance of
the Governor-General.—(Cloers.) He would not detain
them by guing into the details of each battle,—bectuse they
must long ag> have become familiar to every one, and he
would conclude with calling upon the Court to give their
unanimous assent to the vote he had already proposed.
Mr. HOGG seconded the motion in an impressive and elo-
quent address, pointing out to the Court the fact that the
attack of the Seikhs was not provoked, but was suggested by
a desire for pillage, and if possible to destroy the British
Indian empire. The attempt had, happily, however, signally
failed, and that failure was owing to the indomitable courage
of the British Indian army and the consummate skill of the
Governor-General, Sir Elifgh Gough, Sir Harry Smith, and
the other officers who were engaged in the conflict. The
Hon. Gentleman then went into the details of each battle,
commenting upon and warmly eulogising the skill, conduct.
and forbearance evinced by the several officers who led
on the British army on these memorable occasions, and
paying a no lees sincere tribute to the dauntless and untlinche
ing courage of the men, and concluded by calling
upon the Court not only to pass the vote unanimously, but to
pass it by acclamation.
Mr. TWINING was desirous of adding his concurrence to
what bad fallen from the two last speakers, and expressed
his high admiration both of the conduct of the men and
officers in the late glorious encounters on the banks of the
Sutlej.
Capt. RANDALL begged to say that as an officer in her
Majesty's service, in which he had been fur thirty years,
nothing gave him so much pleasure as concurring with the
prevalent feeling and sentiments of the Court which seemed
about to give an unanimous vote on the subject before them.
The Court was then addressed by Mr. Salomons, Sir J.
L. Lushingfon, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. G. Thompson, and other
Hon. Proprietors.
It was then put to the vote, and the thanks of the Court
were severally and unanimously given to Sir H. Smith for
the victory at Aliwal, and to the officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men ; to Sir 11. Harding, and Sir H. Gough,
for supplying the necessary reinforcements to Sir H.
Smith, by which he achieved the victory ; to Sir
Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh Gough, for the splendid
victory at Sabraon ; and to Sir H. Smith, Major-General
Gilbert, the other officers, the non-commissioned officers and
men, in the British and Indian armies.
The Court then adjourned, at half-past two o'clock.

LAW ISTELLIGENCE.
PRI VI COUNCIL, April 3.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day, for the
purpose of hearing petitions for the confirmation and extension of
patents. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
IN THE MATTER OF MUNTZ'S PATENT.
The petition in this case was ordered to stand for hearing on Mon-
day, the 11th of May.
IN THE MATTER OF STEAD'S PATENT.
This case came before their Lordships upon the petition of Mr.
David Stead, praying for the confirmation of a patent taken out by
him for improvement in wood paving, by means of sextagonal blocks.
The petition was opposed by the Metropolitan Wood Paving Company.
Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Wells appeared for tits petition, and
Mr Matthew Davenport Hill and Mr. Webster opposed it.
The Attorney-General appeared for the Crown, but declined to ad-
dress the Court.
Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the arguments at half-past
four o'clock, postponed their judgment.

SECONDARIES COURT, April 3.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
10LAND V. SANDALL.
The plaintiff in this action is a tailor in Panton•strest, Haymarket,
and the defendant is a gentleman residing at Tunbridge W(1 Is.
The action was brought to recever the sum of 131. 12i. for goods
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The defendant did not
plaintiff.
This was the only cause in the list

, aid the jury gave a verdict for the

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

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The Common SERGEANT presided in this Court, in the absence of
Mr. Justice 31aule, who is unwell.

CHARGE OF MURDER.
Martin Jennings, labourer, aged 21, was placed at the bar, charged
with the wilful murder of Mary Murray, on the 14th of March.
There was a second count charging the offence as manslaughter.
James Maloney, brother of deceased,
examined—I saw the body of
the deceased shortly after her death.
Esther Tye—l live at No. 8, George-yard, Golden-lane. I remem-
ber that on the 14th of March my husband and the prisoner came
home at about ten o'clock and stopped until two o'clock; the de-
ceased came in at that hour. She took a bottle from her pocket and
asked us to drink. The prisoner was very drunk then. I did not
notice that deceased was drunk. She got up to go out, and prisoner
followed her and asked her for a shilling. She said she had not get
it, and he then :truck her twice on the face and shoulder. They
both then went out to the stairs, prisoner still asking for the shilling.
I heard a slight scuffle then. I saw her next lying ou the dust-hole,
on her back, insensible. I took her to the next house, and tried to
restore her. The police came soon after, and took her away on a
stretcher.

Cross-examined I can't say that I ever saw deceased much
" tossicated in licker." I hadn't seen her for three months before.
John Waldron—l live with my mother at No. 11, George yard,
Golden-lane. I came home on the night of the 14th of March
about eleven o'clock. I heard a scuffle at Ne. 8. I saw the prisoner
and deceased wrangling in the passage, the former saying that the
latter had taken a shilling from him. I saw him strike her on the
face and breast. I then went away, and I heard a scream. I re-
turned in about ten minutes, and saw her lying in the dust-hole.
Elizabeth Boland—Oa the night in question I saw prisoner and
deceased come out of Mrs. Tye's together. I saw him strike her
about the face several times, and she fell into the dust-hole.
Cress-examined—l did not hear deceased cry out.
Elizabeth Tye, a child about seven
years old, was next called, but
was not examined.

Constable 62 G found the deceased insensible and bleeding. Gave
her some water, and she died soon after, and never spoke.
Constable 226 saw deceased vomit, and she died immediately.
She smelt strongly of spirits.
John Glover Mather, surgeon, examined deceased. Found two
marks on the shoulder and extravasation of blood. There was a
mark over the right eye-brow. Tile cavities of the brain were tilled
with extravasated blood. Cannot say that the blow over the eye
caused that appearance ; rather thinks it was not. The state of the
brain was caused by the rupture of a blood vessel.
To the COURT—The blew hastened death.
Cross-examined—lt is not at all uncommon that persons in the
habit of drinking die in this way. Drunken habits predispose the
blood vessels to rupture. Deceased had what is called a nutmeg, or
drunkard's liver.

In answer to the Court, the witness said he would not like to say
that the blow hastened the death of deceased.
Mr. Courtenay, surgeon, of St. Luke's Workhouse, examined de-
ceased. Is of opinion that the blow in question. coupled with a state
of drunkenness and the excitement of quarrelling, would have caused
her death; but she would not have died without that blow.
Mr. Mather was recalled, and he said he differed in opinion from
Mr. Courtenay as to the effects of the blow.
Here the case closed.

Mr Paula briefly addressed the jury, but did not call any wit-
ness for the defence. He spoke in very strong terms of the ma-
gistrate who committed the prisoner on a charge of wilful murder,
and this branded him for a time amongst his fellows as a murderer ;
whilst they had it in evidence that deceased was an habitual
drunkard, and predisposed, from those habits, to sudden death.

Loansinr, having briefly summed up,
The jury found a verdict of Manslaughter.
Two witnesses were called, and gave witness a good character.
The prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction.

Mary Anne Hicks examined
getstoodquestion, CHlLDindicted
slihu Rfound forp z li:tiadjoining
ra murderrlldeposed
female
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at sister.
a
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up to the 17th of FebruarY%
as a servant. Shdeidlivaeedowevisit,let inweasfoprcri:
iof this witness that, on the day in
ap-
peared from the further evidence
her living
pregnant.
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From the cream-examination of the
had been delivered of a nu
could say, as the mother of children, that
and that she (the witness)
is
apt to cores on quite suddenly, and
the period of accouchehee
the mother might be wholly unprepared
wthat)the prisoner bore an excellent character,
appearances there as left jo.ddottfbrt upon her m,nd that the prisoner
youttelysomeh
who lived next decor, deposed that she heard the
Meer-closet.
a oi
fourneuaei
rift7ibto below i :ehde.pid surface.
shexamined
sal
deposed that the prisoner said in her presence,
SI h depose that lie found the body of a female
d a baby."
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that he tried to put the body of Um
wtiohn was here read, and it was found that he did depose that she used
tehthiled,
He then said that ha did not now recollect the prisoner
these words.
thean aeprels.oner, and found she had
using these words.
Police-constable 205
child through the hole In the bottom of the pan, but it would not pass;
eahnicildfowuasndboa
rmnaairkivoan;
for this purpose he hod placed the pan in a horizontal position, instead
at had happened,
of a perpendicular one.
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opinion i n ed
ttilitae
Mr. Delany, surgeon,
tbanhedeedli -..,earde d
knee,o t a cahnidldis
and that it w. as
but it might have died from loss of blood. The head of a child at the
birth elongates, and than assumes its natural form.
Mr. Cooper, surgeon, was next examined, but his evidence was not
material.—Here the case closed.
The prisoner stood in front of the dock for a short time, but she
became so faint that she was accoimmodated with a seat ; and during
the speech of the Learned Course who defended her, and the charge
of the Learned Judge, she wen, bitterly.
The jury, without a moments hesitation, Acquitted her.
William Kidd, 25, was indicted for feloniously wounding William
Mullett, with intent to do himigrievous bodily harm,
The prosecutor in this caseofstialepolice constable of the G division,
and early on the morning
the sth of March he was on duty in
when he found prisoner,
Saffron-h:11,
very excited state and creating a great disturbance, and threatening
to ~Murder any bloody Bobby who interfered with him." The
constable requested him to go
latry, and was endeavouring to per-
suade him to do se, when, w ut the slightest provocation, the
prisoner drew a life-Preserver, as the instrument is termed, from his
poceet, and struck the constable a violent blow on the head with it,
and felled him to the ground, and then kicked him in a most brutal
manner.
the prisoner Nv
The defence set up by as, that he had been drinking,
and he did not know what he was about.
The Jury proved the prisoner Gu'ltY, and evidence was then given
that he had been on a previous occasion convicted of felony, and
sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
Mr. Buttoex sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 1.
The commission for holding the assizes for the county of
Somerset was opened in this town yesterday afternoon, by
Mr. Justice Erle. The legal business, as has been the case
all round the circuit, is extremely light, there being only 19
oases in the cause list. The calendar, however, is very heavy,
there being nearly 120 prisonere for trial. The fi.lloa lam is

a summary of the offences :—Murder, 1 ; attempting to mur-
der, 3; manslaughter, 3; maliciously wounding, 6; arson,
4; burglary, 7; housebreaking, 3; rape, 4; horse-stealing,
1; sheep-stealing, 6 ; robbery, 4 ; bigamy, 1; bestiality, 1;
larcenies, 60; embezzlement, 3; entering inclosed land by
night, 7 • concealment of birth, 1.
John Hake and Daniel hake were indicted for burglari-
ously breaking and entering the house of William French,
at Otterford, and stealing therefrom several knives and other
articles, his property.
Mr. Cox was counsel for the prosecution.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor's house
having been properly closed at night, on the following
morning it was found that a panel of the door had been
broken through, and that a quantity of knives, in which the
prosecutor dealt, had been taken away. From some infer.
illation which had been received, suspicion attached to the
prisoners, who were brothers residing in the neighbourhood;
they were apprehended, and the stolen property was found
upon them. John Hake confessed that lie had broken into
the house.

The jury found both tha prisoners Guilty.
Sentence—John Hake, transportation for 15 years; Daniel
Hake, transportation for ten years.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Hereford, April!.
The assize business was nearly brought to a close last
night, only five cases being left for adjudication this morning,
and they present no topics of public interest. The following
had not concluded yesterday, when it became necessary to
close and forward our dispatch :
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Benjamin Skyrnal, aged 20, was indicted for firing a loaded
gun at William Hughes, on the 13th of last August, upon
the
.Queen's highway, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. Greavee and Mr. llnddleston prosecuted ; the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Skinner.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a cattle and
pig dealer, living at St. Margaret's, it appeared tharini the
day in question he had been at llereford, and was on his
return home in the evening, when the prisoner, whom he
previously knew by sight, came up t ) him at a place called
the Slough, in the parish of St. Margaret, and entered into
conversation with him, walking by the side of his horse,
until they came to a garden belonging to a man of the name
of Colman, when Skyrnal stopped, and appeared to be taking
something out of the hedge; meanwhile Mr. Hughes rode on
about 100 yards in advance of the prisoner, whom he heard
running after him, whereupon he reined in his horse, and at
the same instant a gun was fired, and his (the prosecutor's)
hat fell upon the neck of the horse. He recovered it, and
immediately galloped off. Very shortly after this Mr. Hughes
procured assistance, and finding the prisoner still at the spot
whence the shot had been fired, he charged him with having
attempted his life, and secured the man at the bar, who ob-
served that it was a person of the name of John Paris who
had fired the gun. The prosecutor had sold about 501. worth
of stock in the morning, and had that amount about him at
the time of the attack.

Additional evidence was adduced corroborative of the
prisoner's guilt; a little girl, to whose father the gun be-
longed, proving that she had lent Skyrnal the gun to shoot
birds with about the time in question, and the gun was
found the same morning after the occurrence above detailed,
ten or twelve yards from the place where Mr. Hughes was
fired at.

The prisoner was convicted of firing with intent to do some
grievous bodily harm; and a previous conviction for felony
having been proved, he was sentenced to fifteen years' trans-
portation.
As soon as their Lordships have disposed of the few re-
maining cases here they will proceed in the course of the
afternoon to Monmouth, and open the commission for that
county, where seventy prisoners now await their trial.
The following is an analysis of the Monmouthshire calen-
dar :—Violating the person, 7 ; housebreaking, 4 ; cutting
and maiming, 2; forgery, 3; sheep-stealing, 9; killing
cattle, 1; highway robbery, 6; stealing from the person, 5;
minor offences, 30; manslaughter, 2; firing stacks, 1—
total, 70.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 1.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PArrEsox.)
Kitts, of the firm of Rothwell and Kitts, cotton-spin-
ners, of Bolton, was tried upon an indictment, charging him
with the manslaughter of Peter Greenough.
This indictment arose out of the explosion which occurred
on the 10th of December last, at the works of Messrs. Roth-
well and Kitts, when several persons were killed by the
bursting of a boiler. The-defendant was the resident partner
and resided on the premises; and the ground of the charge
was that of having suffered an accumulation of steam in the
boiler without any means of escape, in consequence of which
it exploded, carrying away a large portion of the wall of the
mill, and burying the deceased in the ruins.
The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Dundas and Mr.
Pollock, was Acquitted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.

DOG-FIGHTING.—Bow-street, and all the other streets in
its vicinity, have been in a state of popular ebullition ever
since the middle of the day on Wednesday, in consequence
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
laving denounced to the police a gang of dog-fighters, and
their aiders and abettors, assembling at a certain disreputable
house in Neale's-ya:d, Queen-street, Seven Dials. The
police, in consequence of the information thus given them
by the Royal Anti-Cruelty Society, made a grand attack
upon the place in question on Wednesday after-
there they captured upwards of ninety persons, tag-rag and
bob-tail; and among them—so said rumour—were sundry
" noble lords," many "real gentlemen," and a genuine
marquis or two at least; all of whom they marched down to
the Bow-street police-station, together with a bull-dog and
a dead badger with three legs, the other leg having been
"gnawed off" for the recreation of the parties frequenting
the pit, or place before indicated. Great was the hubbub
occasioned by this proceeding. People, men, women, and
children, came running from all quarters to see the show, as
the offenders were marched iu custody into the station; arid
so great was the crush throughout the night, that it required
all the exertions of the force to keep a practicable thorough-
fare for the public. Yesterday morning there was little or
no abatement of the effervescence. The front of the station-
house, the avenues of the Court were thronged with persons
evidently all agape for something out of the common way.
But they were grievously disappointed. It was a parturient
montes, for instead of lords, knights, and marquises being
paraded before the bench, the thing ended in four simple
ordinary-looking persons being placed in that unenviable
situation, viz., John Mansfield, owner of the pit; Andrew
Nash, a deputy cabman unattached ; John Smith, a prize.
fighter past work, with a marvellously disfigured visage and
fiery-coloured whiskers; and Charles Hays, a fire- simile of
George Cruikshank's " Jack Sheppard," with a grass-green
cravat, a turf coat, and having his hair daintily smoothed
with grease.

Mr:Hall presided, and a person who attended as solicitor
for the prosecution, at the instance of the Royal Anti.
Cruelty Society, intimated to his Worship that the pro-
ceeding was instituted not under the Police Act, which
makes all persons present at these disgusting exhibitions
equally liable with the principals, but under the 6th and 7th
William IV., which considers the principals only as liable.
The Learned Gentleman did not point out this distinction,
nor did he say why the Royal Society had chosen to act
under the milder law instead of the more comprehensive
one ; but it was whispered in the Court that they did not
care to have anything to do with noble and gentle amateurs
of cruelty, their only object being to put such things down by
punishing the actual performers. Mr. Robinson was solicitor
for the defence of the four fellows actually before the Court ;
and Mr. Inspector Dodd, of the F, or Bow-street division,
opened the case ; from which opening, and the evidence
which followed it, we deduce the following facts :--In conse-
quence of information communicated to him at the station on
Wednesday afternoon, that a ferocious dog fight was at that
moment going on at a house in Neale's-yard, Seven Dials, he
forthwith proceeded thither, taking with him as many of the
private constables of his division as were then available.
They easily discovered the place, and found it surrounded by
a crowd of disorderly people, from whom they learned that
the fighting was at that moment going on in the room up
stairs. One of the Society's officers led the way up the ladder
leading to that room ; but before he could get through the
trap-door at the top of it, a cry of " The police 1" and
" Murder !" was 'raised by a woman in the room below, and
instantly the trap door was slammed down, and they could
distinctly hear a number of people place themselves upon it,
so as by their weight to prevent its being lifted again. The
officer, however. who first mounted the ladder had seen
enough to convince him of what was going on. In a room
only 20 feet by 18 feet were nearly 150 men crowding round
a place in the middle of the floor, about three yards square,
parted off from the rest of the room by a low partition of
boards, and within this place he could hear dogs "snarling
and grinding" at each other, whilst the men who huddled.
around them were yelling and exciting them to greater fero-
city. The inspector now peremptorily demanded admission,
and the prisoner, John Mansfield, in a short time lifted the
trap and admitted the inspector and the police. The growl-
ing, barking, and yelling of dogs and men had then subsided ;
but the prisoner Mansfield, whose shirt-sleeves were tucked
up to his elbows, and his hand and arms covered with blood,
acknowledged himself the proprietor of the pit, but denied
that there had been any dog-fighting there, although twenty
or thirty bull dogs and bull terriers were found tied up in the
rooms below. Mansfield declared that they were only
brought there to kill rats, and the rats had not arrived. The
floor of the room was strewed with sawdust, except the
square place in the centre, and that was literally covered
with blood. In a box in the room the police found a large
bull dog, panting and quite exhausted, with its head " as raw
as if it had been skinned," and in another box, or rather two
boxes, they found a couple of badgers, one alive and the other
dead, but quite warm, and with one of its legs gnawed or torn
off. In the room there was a pair of scales for the purpose of
weighing the dogs before they were set to fight, and buckets of
water withssponges for the purpose of wiping the blood from
their eyes and chaps, lest it should suffocate or blind them, and
so spoil the sport. They also found the hides of two dogs, pre-
served probably on account of the " pluck" their wearers had
displayed when living. The inspector and the other witnesses
were furiously cross-examined by the solicitor for the defence
The inspector was asked if he did not know that many
gentlemen kept such dogs ? He replied, "I do not ; and in
my opinion no gentleman would keep them, especially for
such purposes as these." Did not know whether there were
any noblemen or gentlemen present or not ; but when the
police entered the room many men were jumping out of the
windows, and they might be noblemen or gentlemen for
anything he knew to the contrary. The Learned Gentleman
then contended that the case had not been proved against
any of his clients except Mansfield, and that was upon his
own confession. He insinuated that noblemen and gentle-
men had been allowed to escape, whilst these poor men were
selected for punishment, although they were mere dupes of
their titled companions, and led into the crime by them, and
for their own amusement.

Mr. HALL, in delivering his judgment, said he hoped the
persons thus alluded to were not gentlemen, or in a station
entitling them to be so called ; at all events they were not
proved to be so ; and there was nothing at all to show that
the inspector had not done his duty honestly. Had this
prosecution been instituted under the Police Act, all the per-
sons captured must have been brought before that court, and
then it would have been seen who and what they were; but as
it was laid under the Act of Will. IV., the principals only
were liable, and they were now here to be dealt with. After
a minute review of the evidence, his Worship sentenced John
Mansfield and Abraham Smith to pay the full penalty of 51.
each, and discharged Nash and Hayes, as it appeared doubt-
ful whether they had acted as principals or not.

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THE LATE HON. W. N. RIDLEY•COLBOBNE, M.P.-
The mortal remains of the lion. Gentleman were Interred on Monday
last in a vault at the Cemetery, 3;044-green, The funeral eves

PRICE SD.

IRELAND. •
TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF MR. CLARKE.
DUBLIN, APRIL I.—The trial of Patrick Rice, and Patrick
Hayes, for the murder of Mr. Clarke, was resumed at Nenagh
(North Tipperary) assizes, on Tuesday morning, having
occupied the Court from the previous Tuesday.
After Mr. Martley, Q.C., had closed his reply for the
Crown, Mr. Justice Ball, at twelve o'clock, proceeded to
charge the jury, who had retired at post hour to consider
their verdict. It is stated that a letter has been received in
town, announcing that the jury returned a verdict of guilty
against both prisoners; but we are unable to state that such
is the fact.

THE ARMY.
The Banner of -Ulster says—" Recruiting has not been so
brisk in this province for many years past as at the present
time. We understand that Lieut. Clarke, of the Royal Ar-
tillery, has a batch of forty strapping recruits to send off."
MR.. GERRARD'S TENANTRY.
The following statement from Mr. Garrard, appears in
Saunders's News Letter

"My attention has been lately called to the statements
which have appeared in certain newspapers relative to the
dispossessing of a number of persons from my estate in the
county of Galway, on the 18th instant ; and as those state-
mentsh
r o u ghartehe enmuicuuls of
your
nvariance with the truth, I beg leave,
your journal, to set forth the true and
simple fasts of the ewe.
known ebr3e,
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eonstfi %ant ;Inn
aosfs, nezn
pesrtai
itneg ianbotuhtat3ocoonuenrteys
slgsaherpelsanoftabt(iiign: ilennisthi reeyeoafrpLim,7e
thirty upland,pelrvsintnhs
sent upwardsni e
in
a proposal in writing to become my tenants, at a rent of
1/. 108. an acre for the upland (nothing for the bog). I kept
that proposal, allowed those thirty persons into possession
under it, and received from one (the principal of them) the
rent half-yearly, up to the Ist of March, 1842.
" In the period intervening between the year 1827 and the
Ist of March, 11142; those 30 tenants sublet considerable por-
tions of the lands to about 40 miserable persons, from whom
they exacted, in some instances, a rent of 21., 21. 10s., and
even 31. an acre. I did everything I could, at all times, by
remonstrances, to prevent the subletting; and to stop it if
possible I invariably insisted upon the full rent being paid by
the principal of the 30 tenants, and never, in any instance,
recognised or received rent from the undertenants.
"The September rent of 1842 having been demanded in
the usual way from the original 30 tenants, they, one and
all, refused to pay it, alleging that they would only pay the
rent of the portions of the lands then in their actual occu-
pation ; and as their undertenants were unable to pay any
rent, that I should settle with these undertenants as best I
could. The same answers were given to the demand for the
rent of March and September, 1843, and March, 1844.
"Accordingly, I was forced to bring an ejectment in
Easter Term, 1844, against those lands for non-payment of
rent, which ejectment it was impossible to serve on the
parties by reason of their violence and lawlessness ; and the
Court of Queen's Bench, in consequence, dispensed with the
usual services, and substituted another mode of effecting
them. At length the partied took defence, and I was
obliged, at a great expense, to have the case brought to trial
at the Summer Assizes of 1844 for the county of Gainsay.
The defence at the trial was, that I did not sign the pro-
posal of 1827, although I let the parties into possession, and
rent was paid by them under it from 1827 to March, 1842.
I, however, obtained a verdict, the jury having found that
there was 708/. 10s. 9d. rent due to me by the defendants to
March, 1844, subject to the point of law as to my non-signa-
ture of the proposal.
" In the Michaelmas term of 1844 that point of law was
argued in the Queen's Bench in Dublin, and the Court having
felt some difficulty in deciding it, sent the case to a second
trial, for the purpose of having that question brought before
them in a more comprehensive form.
" An eminent Queen's Counsel having advised me that I
should succeed upon the point of law, the second trial took
place at the Spring Assizes of 1845, with precisely the same
results; and the same point of law was again brought before
the Queen's Beach. Pending all this litigation the arrears of
rent were increasing, but not one farthing of rent was paid,
although the lands were regularly cropped in the n- eantime,
and the money, the produce thereof, went in part to sustain
that expensive litigation, and the resides into the pockets of
the defendants. _ _ _ _

" In this state of things, on the 15th of September, 1845,
with a view of putting an end to the litigation, I sent a pro-
fessional gentleman from Dablin to have an interview with
the defendants, and to propose to them on my behalf that
they should be forgiven the large arrears of rent and the costs
then due—be allowed to take the crops then in ground free
of all rent, which crops at the time were valued at 7001.
or 8001.—and be allowed to remain in undisturbed posses-
sion of their houses and lands until the Ist of February,
1846, provided they should agree then to give up the posses-
sion thereof. They did, at that time, agree to all this in the
presence of their attorney, and they then signed a consent
to that effect, bearing date the 15th of September, 1845. 1
have ever since faithfully acted up to every part of that
agreement ; how the defendants acted since Callan now pro-
ceed to.show.

"Towards the latter and of February last I sent the same
gentleman again to the lands, to see when the possession of
them, pursuant to the said consent, would be given up. He
remained in the neighbourhood for a month, short of a few
days, an during that period he afforded men, horses, and
carts, at our expense, to such of the persons as desired to re-
move off their lands their provisions, manure, the furniture
of their houses, and, in short, everything that belonged to
,
_ _

remained, and not only would not leave, altli-Ougla some
of them had provided houses elsewhere, but in the teeth of
their own consent, they collected a sum of money for the
purpose of consulting an attorney, which they did, to see if
they could offer any further legal opposition to giving up the
possession of the lands, and thereby, as they declared, exact
money from me.
" It was not until every other means had failed that the
sheriff, with his force, was brought to the lands on the 13th
instant (six weeks after the time agreed on for the posses- '
sion being given), and he gave me the possession of all the
lands, but two houses, and their holdings; a number of per-
sons in my employment attended for the purpose of assisting
the people to remove, and take down their houses after the
possession should be given, which they did. The timber of
the houses was carefully taken down--very little, if any of
it, was broken, and the people were allowed to take it away.
There were two sick families, and only two, on the lands.
By my orders a doctor was fee'd, and was brought to see
them. He certified they were unwell ; and not only was the
possession not taken of their houses, lands, or holdings, but
no person was allowed to approach them, and they remained
in their houses on the 'lands ever since, up to Saturday
night last.
" I have been infonned,and believe, that no accident of
any kind happened to any person while the possession was
being taken ; and the statement that a child was killed in a
woman's arms is a falsehood. It is impossible such a thing
should have happened without my knowing it.
" I have been so credibly informed of all that took place,
that I assert confidently that the people who were dispos-
sess,td were treated with the greatest kindness and consi-
deration by
.my agent, and those acting under his orders, at
all times prior, subsequent to, and during the taking of the
possession and several of them at the time, and since,
thanked him for so treating them. There• were live widows
(of the original thirty tenants) on the lands, to whom I gave
4/. each, after they were dispossessed. The rent, up to the
Ist of March instant, which was due out of the lands,
amounted to 1,602/. 18s., besides poor-rates, county rates,
and the costs of the proceedings.

" It has been also stated that I turned out tenants who
held another part of my estate called Newbridge, the cir-.
cumstances relating to which are as follows :—lt was held
under a very old lease for three lives; and on the death of
the surviving life the tcnants, instead of settling with me
for a new tenancy, as I was desirous they should do, thought
proper to allege that the last old life was not dead, and they
set up the life of a person of the same name as that last life,
although not born for several years after the execution of
the lease; and they (the tenants) actually employed an at-
torney, who took defence to my ejectment in the name of a
pauper cottier, thereby putting me to the expense of a record,
but made no sort of defence upon the trial, except to cross-
examine the witnesses who were produced on my part to
prove the deaths of all the lives which they (the tenants)
were just as well acquainted with as those witnesses, al-
though they went to some expense, and put us to heavy
costs, merely to see if any point of law could be raised by
their counsel upon the trial, which would enable them to
keep possession without payment of rent; and thus, for-
sooth, I am designated a cruel landlord for turning out such
fraudulent people.
"I could, in like manner, satisfy any dispassionate person
that my conduct as proprietor of the property was always
marked by a just and kind feeling for those of my tenants
who deserved favour at my hands by their good conduct and
industry. I have carried on extensive works, given great
employment, and mach assistance at all times in clothing
and food on my estate.
" Under all those circumstances, I take leave to ask any
person who will be at the trouble of reading this statement,
is it not a very great hardship that I should have been
dragged before the public in the manner I have been latek
in relation to my estates in the county of Galway ?—YOW
obedient servant, "JOHN N. GERRARD.
" Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, March 31, 1846."

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Thursday a commission
was'opened at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, before Mr. Commis-
limier Winslow, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Edward
Watkins, aged 61, a wealthy oil and colourman, of Vauxhall-walk
and Kennington. The commission was unopposed, being instituted
by the children of the alleged lunatic, and the circumstances are in-
teresting solely from the fact that Mr. Watkins had recently under-
gone repeated examinations at the Lambeth Police-court, on a
charge of having extensively defrauded the Government byt he sale
of forged stamps. His wife, who was implicated in the charge, is at
this time in Newgate awaiting her trial, but Mr. Watkins himself,
since that period, bad exhibited such manifest tokens of insanity,
that the present proceedings were instituted, and the Attorney-
General was aboat to enter a prosequi en the charge against
him. Mr. Watkins having been introduced and examined by the
commission, and a variety of medical evidence heard, the jury re-
tamed a verdict, dating his unsoundness of mind from Janitary 23,
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTS WITH AN 03INIBUS.—On
Thursday forenoon a series of most fearful accidents occurred in the
Walworth-road, of which the following are the particulars :—Shortly
before twelve, as one of the Atlas omnibuses was proceeding down
the Walworth-road the horses became unmanageable, and the driver
was pitched off the box and fell upon his head with great violence.
The horses uncontrolled dashed on with the vehicle, and In their
course overturned several stalls and barrows belonging to itinerant
fruitmen. An elderly female, living in one of the Fishmongers'
Almshouses. was knockd down, hut fortunately escaped with a few
bruises. The animals after some trouble wore stopped, and the
driver was found to be seriously injured. At the Elephant and Castle
another driver was procured, who mounted the box and was driving
down the road, when all of a sudden the horses ran the splinter bar
of the omnibus against a heAvy cart. The concussion was so great
that this driver was also thrown from his seat, stud falling upon his
head between the horses, his head was much injured, and it is stated
w
that the wheels of thu vehicle passed over his body.
ne
poor
was removed to Guy's Hospital, where he at present remains hout
nue,
hope of recovery. The omnibus proceeded a considerable (1 t
after the second accident before the horses could be stopped•
Th u rs -
A FEMALE SUSPENDED BY A MEAT. rtoeo
aKt.tended with
day afternoon an accident, :which, it is feared, in the service
fatal consequences, occurred to Martha Stone,4o,
in hawing np a
of Samuel Wilber, Esq.
joint of meat in the lar'cleorr, the throat : the
standing, and one of the meat-hooks !aught her
to break, and the poor
weight of her body, however, caused :LI,
iStarICO obtained ; but,
woman tell to the ground. Surgical
Ssltip jpCditiofffs by
which she was
her recovery is considered
wound. her
on an improved plan,
fro
doubtful.the
ITV COLONIES FROM FIRE.--Up..
of Ordnance, for the use of the seve-
raIPROTECTION OF T
dangerous nature of
constructedtliew
Government buildings in tho colonies. They are
garrisons and
built on a perfect new principle. The bodies being made of thick
haveward wards
cern soerdveenrieyd bf;rteh- engines,
orrd'
copper instead of wood, which, in warm climates, is subject to the
rot or worm. All of them are to be made as powerful as their size
will admit of. On Thursday a number having been completed, a series
ofaxperiments took place with them in the tower, and streams of
water from their branches were thrown on to the ettoloalt of the

FRIDAY NIGHT'S .GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 1, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Charles John Viscount Canning to be one of her Majesty's
Commissioners fur inquiring into and considering the most
effectual means of improving the metropolis, and of pro-
viding increased facilities of communication within the urn,
FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 2.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Clements
Frederik Good, as Consul at Hull for his Majesty the King
of Denmark.

I• WAR-OFFICE, APIIII., 3.
• .Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieutenant A. B. P.
Hood _to be Captatn, by purchase, vice Oliver, who retires;
ICornet the Hon. G. W. Mutes to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
, vice Hood ; Lord G. C. G. Lennox to be Cornet, by pur-
-1 chase, vice Miles, April 3.
4th Dragoon Guards—Cornet and Adjutant J. Mullen to
i have the rank of Lieutenant, March 26.
3d Light Dragoons—Captain 11. A. Ouvry, from the 88th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Dyer, who exchanges; Lieutenant
W. H. Hadfield, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Tritton,
promoted in the 10th Light Dragoons; Cornet W. H. Orme,
to be Lieutenant, vice Hadfield; Troop Sergeant Major R.
Shaw, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice
frolnOltthheLliglltiiti Dragoons—aga.oo-eitiosr,
Orme, April 3.
i Surgeonltaorybe tn.Ta.ryßosbuerreosonn:
vice Gloag, who exchanges, April 3.
I lth Light Dragoons—Veterinary Surgeon .1. W. Gloag,
from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon,
vice Robertson, who exchanges, April 3.
16th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant F.T. Meik to be Captain.
without purchase, vice Waugh, appointed to the 10th Light
Dragoons; U. W. Evans, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice
Stevens, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons, April 3.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment ot Foot Guards—Brevet Colonel
H. Armytage, from half-pay 22d Light Dragoons, to be
Captain and Lieut.• Colonel, vice F. Clinton, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant and Captain F. W. Hamilton to be Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Armytage, who re-
tires; Ensign and Lieutenant-Colonel Lord A. Hay to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,_ vice Hamilton ; S.
Burrard, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lord A. day ; Lieutenant and J. 11. Purves to be Ad-
jutant, vice Hamilton, promoted, April 3.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut. T. L. Leader, from the 2d
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Webeter, promoted, April 3.
2d Foot—Lieut. 'l'. Wingate, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Carney, deceased; Ensign E. M. H. Dlainwaring
to be Lieutenant, vice Wingate, March 26; Ensign W. II-
Poulett, from the 54th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Mainwaring,
April 3.
12th Foot—Ensign and Adjutant W. E. Crofton to have
the rank of Lieutenant, April 2; Ensign J. IL Palmer to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Braham, who retires ;
11. White, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,' vice Palmer,
April 3.
14th Foot—Captain .1. V. Fletcher, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major J. M. Wood, who
exchanges, receiving the difference; Lieutenant E. Archdall
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fletcher, who retires;
Ensign W. C. Trevor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Archdall ; S. C. Lousada, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Trevor, April 3.
24th Foot—Captain C. H. Ellice, from the 82d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Spring, who exchanges; Surgeon G. K. Pit-
cairn, M.D., from the 49th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Lori-
mer, who exchanges, April 3.
36th Foot—Lieut. C. W. Carden to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Goodman, who retires, April 3; Ensign F. Pal-
mer to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harvey, de-
ceased, Feb. 16 ; Ensign R. Barnstou to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Carden, April 3; Sergeant H. Ellis to be En-
sign, vice Palmer, April 2; 11. K. Grant, Gent., to be En.
sign, by purchase, vice Barnston, April 3.
49th Foot—Surgeon W. Lorimer' from the 24th Foot, to
be Surgeon, vice Pitcairn, who exchanges, April 3.
54th Foot—T. F. Rolt, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice I'oulett, appointed to the 2d Foot, April 3.
56th Foot—Lieutenant G. Raban to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Paget promoted; Ensign A. G. Woodford to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rebels'; W. Clutterbuck, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Woodford, April 3.
G3d Foot—Capt. F. B. Muller, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice 7. R. Norton, who exchanges; Lieut. G.
N. Harrison to be Captain, by purchase, vice Muller, who re-
tires ; Ensign H. M. ttralmsley to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Harrison ; T. W. Paterson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Walmsley, April 3.
64th Foot—Ensign W. C. Dunn to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Willesford, who retires; IL D. Cane, Gent., to ba
Ensign, by purchase, vice Dunn, April 3.
65th Foot—Lieutenant J. W. Marshall to be Paymaster,
vice Blake, appointed to the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment,
April 3.
68th Foot—Captain J. E. Dyer, from the 3d Light Dra-
goons, to be Caitain, vice Ouvl7, who exchanges, April 3.
74th Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Fordyce, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Eyre, who retires; Ensign R. I'. Smith, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fordyce ; C. Breton, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith, April 3.
82d Foot—Captain W. Spring, from 24th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Ellice, who exchanges, April 3.
83d Foot—Eusign J. W. Crowe to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Naylor, appointed to the Bth Light Dragoons;
W. K. Bookey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Crowe,
April 3.
84th Foot—Surgeon J. Marshall, from 65th Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice D. Armstrong, who retires upon half-pay,

92d Foot—Captain C. T. Graves, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice -P. M'Leod Pettey, who ex-
changes; Lieut. L. E. Haines to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Graves, who retires; Ensign R. Bethune to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Ilaines; J. Cunningham, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bethune ; Lieut. D. Macdo-
nald, from 54th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice rryce Clarke,
who reverts to his former half pay, April 3.
96th Foot—Lieut. H. V. Mundell, from 65th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Horsley, promoted, April 3.
Ist West India Regiment—Captain G. Rawlison from
half-pay Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Robertson, promoted ;
LieirL.,Kmakt...tp..balkvux.chaE. _vice Ilawll-
retires; Ensign A. Tunstall to oe Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Knight, April 3; Ensign F., Miller to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Pogeon, who retires, April 4; R.
B. Ficklen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tunstall,
April 3 ; J. T. Ling, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Miller, April 4.
UNAITACIIED.—Capt. N. W. Paget, from the 56th Regi-
ment, to be Major, by purchase, vice A. Forbes, who retires,
April 3.