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LAW

ENCE.

ninety-three bottles, value Bs., the property of George
Barkf.r.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 8.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BUAGHELL
MIDON V. PALMER AND ANOTHER.
This was an action for breach of covenant.
The facts of the case were briefly thcse :—ln 1829 a
lease of some property in Dalton-road, near Croydon,
was granted by Mr. Edward Bullock, deceased, to J.
Palmer, deceased. There was the usual covenant in the
lease for the payment of rent. In 1844 the defendants,
as representatives of J. Palmer, assigned their interest in
the lease to the plaintiff, in consideration of 40/., covenant-
ing in the assignment that all the covenants in the original
lease had been fulfilled. It however appeared that the
covenant for payment of rent had been broken, both
before and after the death of Palmer, and that, in fact,
an action of ejectment was pending at the time the as-
signment was made, and plaintiff was subsequently dis-
possessed of his property.
A surveyor said that the ground was very eligible for
building on, and worth, for that purpose, 2001.
The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff—Damages 90Z.
DUCKLAND V. GREGORY.

In answer to some :questions by the Court, the prose-
cutor said that he is a wine-merchant, residing in
Bishopsgate- street, and the prisoner and her husband
were tenants of his, and occupied a house immediately
over his cellar. In consequence of large quantities of
wine being constantly missed, his suspicion fastened on
the prisoner and her husband, and he went to their
house on the 29th December. He saw them both, and
told them that he wiEhed to look over the house. On
opening a closet he fout:d four bottles of wine, and on
the woman seeing them she pointed to another
eloset, and opening it witness found that the flooring
had been removed so as to allow a passage into the cellar.
The woma❑ admitted having taken a quantity of win&
Her husband was present when she made that statement,
and did not appear to control her in any way. Witness
missed twenty-five bottles from the bin under the open-
ing. There was a case in the cellar which had contained
seven dozen and four bottles of Madeira, but which was
quite empty. Large quantities of wine were also taken
from other parts of the cellar.
The woman begged fur mercy on account of her I
family.
The COURT seemed for some time in doubt whether
the husband was not the criminal, and at length sentenced
the prisoner to six months' imprisonment, and such hard
labour as her state of health would allow—declaring at
the same time that if the offence had been proved
against the husband, he would have been transported.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner very
strongly to mercy on account of her family, but the
Curt declined to alter the sentence.
No other case of any importance occurred.

MAJOR-GENERAL NAPIER.
(From the Guernsey Advertiser of Dec 17.)
The Star of Thursday last has fulminated forth a
lengthy leader of three columns on the subject of Mr.
Guerin, in reference to his deprivation of his commission
as captain in the Guernsey militia by the Commander-
in-Chief, Major-General Napier. This article is one of
great and gross attack on the conduct and character of
the Lieutenant• Governor, and by office the representa-
tive of her Majesty in the island ; and however it may
dissemble its feelings in false and flimsy wording, it
evinces so much malignity and hatred towards that
august personage, that we are led to doubt the oft-
boasted assumption of loyalty and devotion it is so con-
tinually prating of. Had we been inclined to favour
Mr. Guerin's cause, the article we allude to would have
utterly overthrown our con►ictions in his behalf ; but,
as we never doubted that the Lieutenant-Governor's
dismissal of that officer was strictly in accordance with
precedent and practice, the show of rancour and enmity
thus displayed, only tends to confirm us in our former
opinion.
But it is not with a view of casting back upon the Star
—which is ever ready to renew its prolonged insult
against his Excellency—the abuse which we would mark
with the contempt it deserves ;—but it is because all the
other local journals have thought proper to join in these
malignant attacks, that we alone stand forth as the
champions and defenders of the representative of royalty,
whose high office and dignity seem to exercise so little of
the respect and consideration they are bound to call
forth. It is because his Excellency seams to have ao ad -
vocate amongst the local press, that we are determined
to take up the gauntlet our contemporaries have cast
down, and defend the cause inch by inch, and step by
step, with our best energies and abilities ; and we should
not take upon ourselves such an office, which we might
feel some difficulty in discharging, were we not
aware as well from internal conviction and ex-
perience, as by acknowledged facts, that the English
residents nearly to a man, regard with the
utmost indignation and disapproval the course
of insult and aggravation which has been put in practice
against the Lieutenant-Governor and his cause during a
period of more than two years. Their better feelings
and the spirit that in every British heart rises against
such a system of petty aggression revolts when it sees
and hears an English gentleman and officer, the hero of
many a hard-fought field, and now the Vicegerent of her
Majesty in this island, maligned and aspersed with such
audacious impunity !
Now, the last action of the Lieutenant-Governor in
his capacity of Commander-in-Chief—that of depriving
Mr. Guerin of his commission in the militia—has, it ap-
pears, roused in a tenfold degree the ♦ituperative pens
of the local papers. Why so? They admit that
his Excellency has a perfect right to dismiss or
degrade those whom he may think fit. But they
want a reason : expediency forsooth is to them no
reason at all ; expediency—the bulwark of political
action, the shield by which so many dangers and disadvan-
tages are averted. Have they, as editors of newspapers,
studied political economy so little as not to admit the
reason of expediency ? But let alone this reason, we
ask, who, that is in the least acquainted with military
usage, ever heard of a General giving a reason for what
he did, or where should we read of those glorious vic-
tories England has won, if the soldiers spent their time
in considering what their General meant by his orders
instead of obeying those orders? But the Star gives
its own reasons for Mr. Guerin's removal. It was be-
cause that ci-devant officer brought a charge of perjury
against a private of the 27th, which was proved to be
totally without foundation. But an officer of the 27th
brought a similar charge against a Guernsey woman.
Now the officer of the 27th offered instant reparation to
the woman he had accused. The insinuation that the
Lieutenant-Governor degraded Mr. Guerin because
he was a nephew of Sir William Collings, is
so utterly contemptible, and so well becomes
the paltry spirit in which the article was
written, that we pass over it with indignant silence.
But the Star, in its article of Monday, advises
the militia to do nothing hastily in this matter ;—in that
of Thursday, it suggests to the officers of Mr. Guerin's
regiment the propriety of addressing that gentleman on
the subject. We warn them to pause and consider well,
before they commit an act of which they may have rea-
son to repent. Any overt act on their part in combina-
tion is, in military law, rank mutiny, and must be put
down by the strong hand of Government.
Whatever reasons may be assigned for the cancelling
of Mr. Guerin's commission, for ourselves we little care
to fathom the secrets of our superiors in command. As for
the Stir we need only say its shafts fall blunted and harm-
less on the armour of integrity in which his Excellency is
incased. Honest and impartial Guernseymen—and a
vast proportion, we repeat, of the English resident
gentry—look upon the paltry conduct pursued towards
his Excellency, who bleeds in his character the warrior,
the able politician, and the high office and dignity of
representative of her most Gracious Majesty in this
island, with disdainful indignation.

The plaintiff in this action is a brewer, at Hampstead
and the defendant is Mr. Barnard Gregory. The action
was brought to recover the sum of 131. 103. for goods
sold and delivered to defendant's wife before her mar-
riage. The defendant denied his liability.
Mr. LUSH stated the case. The amount claimed was
for goods supplied to defendant's wife between the months
of June, 1844, and January, 1845. The present Mrs.
Gregory was a Mrs. Labarre, niece to Mr. Thompson, a
gentleman residing at the Priory, at Hampstead. Mrs.
Labarre resided with her uncle up to the time of his
death in March, 1843. A dispute then arose as
to the will, Mrs. Labarre claiming the property,
but Mr. Gregory also held a will which was in his favour.
Mrs. Labarre, however, continued in the house, and the
servants looked upon her as mistress. Ultimately, how-
ever, the rival claimants settled the dispute by marriage.
In June, 1844, Mrs. Labarre wrote to a tradesman at
Hampstead, stating that she was about returning to her
seat at Hampstead, and desiring goods to be supplied on
her credit, as the law-suit would soon be settled in her
favour, and desired the servant who took it to call upon
plaintiff, and show the note, and order ale to be sent into
the Priory. There could not, therefore, be any doubt
as to the liability of Mrs. Gregory before her marriage,
and consequently of the subsequent liability of the
defendant.

Peter Archer, 'gardener to the late Mr. Thompson,
was examined at great length ; the material fact was,
that on being served with notices that Mr. Gregory
claimed to be master, Mrs. Gregory said " They are
from Gregory's party, what the ,devil have they :got
to do with it ?" She was mistress, and witness was
to obey her ; and that in June 1844 she paid him 10s.
on account of wages. He could not say when the
marriage took ploce.
Mr. Gregory appeared on his own behalf, and Mr.
Lewis claimed to be heard on the part of Mrs. Gregory.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said that both could not be
heard ; defendant and his wife were " one" now.
Mr. LEWIS cross-examined the witness, and elicited
that he had demanded his wages from Mr. Gregory, who
had raised his wages immediately after Mr. Thompson's
death ; he, however, always considered Mrs. Gregory
his mistress. He was in the habit of taking vegetables to
Mr. Gregory's house, in North Audley-street, where
Mrs. Labarre also resided when in town, but frequently
went to dine at the Priory.
M. A. Clarke, housemaid to Mrs. Labarre, was called,
and proved giving the order for the beer and general
instructions on the part of Mrs. Labarre, as mistress.
Witness, however, had frequently been paid her wages
by the coachman as from Mr. Gregory, but did not re-
member receiving any money from him after June. 1844,
when Mrs. Labarre said that she was mistress. Witness
was not told to show the note to plaintiff.
James Joiner, clerk to plaintiff, proved the order and
delivery of beer. In July, 1844, Mrs. Labarre sent word
not to supply any more beer at the Priory, for it would
not be paid for.

Cross-examined—Never looked to any one else for
money than Mrs. Labarre, but was told by the coachman
Tomkine, that it was for the servants on Mrs. Labarre's
credit.

Mr. Hammond, attorney for the plaintiff, proved that
the first witnesF,'Archer, called on him to bring an action
against Mrs. Labarre, but understanding there had been
a marriage, witness wrote to Mr. Gregory. Mr.
Gregory called, and witness thinking he had called to
pay, said that if defendant gave a cheque for the debt,
he would take it without coats. Witness, however, had
a writ in his desk. Defendant refused to pay, and said,
that if any proceedings were taken, Messrs. Lewis, of
Ely-place, were his solicitors, but, as he became abusive,
witness took out the writ and served it on defendant.—
(Lang h ter.)
Mr. LEWIS, for the defendant, contended that the
goods had been negligently sent in on the order of the
servants, for if Mrs. Labarre wrote a note to otse trades-
man she would have written to another; and immediately
she heard that there was a dealing in her name, she sent
notice not to supply any more. He also raised a point
that there wss no proof at what time the marriage took
place ; therefore the plaintiff's case had not been
made out.

The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, after which the jury
retired, and on their return gave a verdict for plaintiff.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.
:Before Mr. Justice WIGHTHAN and Mr. Justice ERLE.)
SMASHING.—The greater part of the forenoon was
occupied with the trial of John Thomas, for feloniously
uttering a counterfeit sovereign. There was no feature
in the case warranting special notice, and the prisoner
having been found guilty, and a previous conviction
being proved against him for a similar offence, he was
sentenced to transportation for ten years.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—Thomas Smith and Ann
Jones were charged, the first with robbery accompanied
with violence on Thomas Phillips, and stealing from him
a bank note, value 101., his property ; and the second
with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been
stolen. The case, at the time it transpired, was fully re-
ported in the newspapers. The robbery was committed
on December 14, at the house of Mrs. Hamblin, of
Catherine-place, Camberwell, where Mrs. Phillips, the
lady in question, was on a visit.
Mr. CLanicsosf appeared for the prosecution, and
having briefly stated the case, he called the following
witnesses,
Sarah Ann Gollavin was examined, and depos d that
on the evening of December 14, the male prisoner came
to her mistress's residence, and asked to see the lady of
the house, saying he had a letter for her. Witness took
the letter to her mistress. It contained a threat that if
a sum of money was not immediately given, he would
plunder the house. Mrs. Hamblin was in great alarm,
and not being able to find any money, went to Mr. Phil-
lips, her brother-in-law, who was on a visit, and gave
him the letter. Smith was standing all the:time in the pas-
sage, and drew out a large pistol, stating, once or twice,
that if his demand were not conceded, he should call in
other men who were lying in wait. Witness at last saw
Mr. Phillips give the prisoner something, on which h•
went away.
Caroline Hamblin examined—She said that on the night
in question the letter was put into her hands by
the servant. The letter contaiued a threat that if a sum
of money was not immediately produced, he would call
in his men, twelve in number, and plunder the house.
The letter produced was the one received. Being dread-
fully alarmed, and having no money at hand, she was
about to go out to try and get some, but was stopped by
the prisoner, who threatened violence if she stirred from
the house. She then went to Mr. Phillips, and gave him
the letter, on which he went to the prisoner, and learned
from him,.that unless 101. was immediately produced,
the house would be at once plundered. The prisoner
accompanied this threat by pulling out a large horse
pistol with one hand, holding a dirk or dagger in the
other. Mr. Phillips at last gave the prisoner what he
demanded, and he went away. She would not have
consented to the prisoner getting any money had she not
been in terror of her life.
Mr. Thomas Phillips corroborated the previous evi-
dence, and added, that when he objected to give the
money to Smith, he called in another from the garden,
who was similarly armed to himself. He gave the 101.
at last from fear of the house being plundered, and vio-
lence done to the inmates.
The prisouer was clearly identified by all the wit-
nesses.
Several other witnesses were called, proving that the
male had been seen lurking about that evening, while
the evidence of Mr. Attenbury, a pawnbroker, proved
that the female had passed the 101. with him in redeem-
ing some pledges, and that when the alarm was raised,
and he queistioned her about how she came by the note,
she gave evasive and unsatisfactory answers. It was at
last traced to the male prisoner, whom she represented
to be her htisband, and a labourer in the country.
The note was here produced and identified.
This closed the case for the prosecution ; the pri-
soners were undefended.
On the prisoners being asked what they had to say
in answer to the charge, Jones declared that she was
innocent of any criminal intention, She was the wife
of the other prisoner, and it was her duty to go and get
the note chany,ed when she was sent.
_Mr. Justice,EttnE then summed up the evidence, going
minutely over all the facts adduced in evidence, when
the jury, after consulting for some time, found Smith
Guilty. A verdict of Not Guilty was returned in favour
of the female prisoner.
The former was then sentenced to l-e transported be-
yond the seas for the term of his natural life.
We have been informed that the prisoner Smith was
transported for burglary last year, but escaped from the
transport ship at Woolwich ; and the police state that he
is suspected of haring committed a robbery very recently
in Northamptonshire.
Benjamin Freeman, 44, was indicted for feloniously
cutting and wounding Mary Anne Webb, with intent to
do her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Payne conducted the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Doane defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
the prosecutor had been living together as man and wife
for two years, and on the 27th November the prisoner
came home somewhat the worse for liquor, and an alter-
cation took place between them, and in the result the
prisoner took up a knife and stabbed the prosecutrix in
the side, and inflicted a severe wound. Immediately after
he had committed the act the prisoner ran out for a doc-
tor, and expressed the utmost contrition.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common
assault, and he was sentenced to five months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

RETIREMENT of MR. GLADSTONE
FROM NEWARK.
TO THE ELECTORS OF NEWARK.
GENTLEMEN,—By accepting the office of Secretary of
State for the Colonies, I have ceased to be your repre-
sentative in Parliament.

On several accounts, I should have been peculiarly
desirous at the present time of giving you an opportu-
nity to pronounce your constitutional judgment on my
public conduct, by soliciting at your hands a renewal of
the trust, which I have already received from you on jive
successive occasions, and held during a period of thirteen
years.

But as I have good reason to believe, that a candi-
date recommended to your favour through local connec-
tion may ask your suffrages, it becomes my very painful
duty to announce to you, on that ground alone, my re-
tirement from a position which has afforded me so much
of honour and of satisfaction.

I shall ever retain, Gentlemen, happy recollections of
your confidence and of your indulgence; and though I
may no longer stand in any formal relation to you, I
shall continue to feel a lively desire that every blessing
may attend the borough and its inhabitants.
Independently, however, of any such prospective rela-
tion, it is my duty to render to you some account of that
step by which my seat has been vacated.
I regret that, at the present moment, I must even here
make an appeal to your confidence. The obligations
into which I have entered, as a Minister of the Crown,
forbid me to do more at this time than to state in gene-
ral outline the considerations which have governed me,
and which I should have been prepared more fully to
sustain upon again appearing before you as a candidate
fur re-election after the meeting of Parliament.
The events which I had immediately to regard, when
I was invited to re-enter the service of the Crown, were
these :—The Administration of Sir Robert Peel had re-
tired from office. The party opposed to that Adminis-
tration, and led by Lord John Russell, bad endeavoured
to form a Government, and the endeavour had not suc-
ceeded. On the other hand, as I am given to under-
stand, persons favourable to unrelaxed protection were
not prepared themselves to undertake the conduct of
public affairs in conformity with the views which they
entertained.

It was in the critical juncture thus brought about, that
Sir Robert Peel had unhesitatingly resumed the exercise
of political power.
When invited to fill the vacancy caused by the la-
mented retirement of Lord Stanley, I had to ask myself
the question, whether it was to be desired, on account
of the exigencies of the general welfare as they stood,
that the Queen's Government should receive support.
Gentlemen, I judged that such was the case, and there-
fore felt it was for those, who believed the Government
was acting according to the demands of public duty, to
testify that belief, however limited their sphere might
be, by their co-operation. Nor is there anything I could
so much have coveted, except for the cause to which I
have adverted, as the opportunity of vindicating before
you the judgment at which I have arrived, and of in-
viting you to record your approval of it by your
votes. That vindication would have rested, and when-
ever and wherever it may be offered, it will rest, upon no
merely apologetic plea, but upon the assertion that I
have acted in obedience to the clear and imperious calls
of public obligation, and with the same purpose which I
have ever sought to follow, of promoting the permanent
interests of the community anti of all the classes of which
it is composed.
Gentlemen, with strong sentiments alike of gratitude
and of regret, I remain, your obliged and obedient ser
vant, W. E. GLADSTONE.
13, Carlton House-terrace, London, Jan. 5, 1846.

RIDE 4* MANCHESTE
R.--Since Tuesday last the
market has continued to improve, and, within the last few
days a large husinees has been done in yarn, both for present
and future delivery, at slightly improved rates. For goods,
too, there has been more demand; and, in acme cases, a
trifling advance has been paid.—Manchester Guardian.
THE TORY.—This vessel, which has been the
theatre of so many alleged atrocities, and on board of which
such fearful and revolting scenes of blood and massacres are
said to have been enacted, having discharged her rich cargo
of silks, teas, &c., estimated at SO,OOO/. value, cleared out
last week from the West India Import Dock, and is now
lying in the Limehouse Basin, where she is an object of great
curiosity. The chief attraction is the after cabin, where
Captain Johnston sat when lie was said to have cut at
Mars, Cone, and the others. It appears to be about ten
feet by twelve, slanting upwards about twelve inches, so as
to give the person sitting on the bench beyond the table
entire command over any person entering. A beam run-
ning across, and which compels one to stoop, is marked with
several cuts, which appear to have been planed away, and
then fresh painted in patches. There are also several marks.
as of prodding on the door of a locker near the entrance.
Owing to the tragic events which have taken place on board,
and the superstitious dread which sailors entertain as re-
gards vessels so fearfully signalised, it has been resolved to
change the name of Tory on her arrival at Liverpool, pre-
paratory to a voyage to Singapore. Notwithstanding the
disorganised state of the crew, the cargo has been turned out
to great advantage, and, taking the same circumstance into
account, the good condition of the ship is equally surprising,
as she will not require to be put into dry dock. Captain
Johnstone, her late commander, whose trial was expected to
have come on Wednesday, is in a very precarious state, and is
said to have undergone two operations. There is not the
least likelihood that he will be able to take his trial at the
present session of the Central Criminal Court ; and the ru-
mours from Tothill-fields prison would lead to the conclu-
sion that he cannot survive until the next.

CROECUORRDT.
(Before the ER.)
NEW
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.-Mary Bwrett, a miserable
looking woman, aged 35, who appeared at the dock with
an infant in her arms pleaded Guilty to a charge of
stealing twenty-five gallons of wine, value 221., and

.11 91inaq.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1846

t pd4onar and his companion entered the house of the
prosecutor, and called for a pint of a 1,2, which was served
to them in the parlour. The prisoner handed to the
landlord a piece of coin, purporting to be half-a-sove-
reign, and the latter, in order to test its genuineness,
flung it off his nail towards the ceiling, and it disap-
peared as if by perfect magic. No person was observed
to catch it, nor was its sound heard on the tables or floor,
and the prosecutor stood in perfect amazement as to what
could have become of it. The tables, the floor, and even
the measures on the counter, were carefully examined
for the piece of coin, but in vain, it was nowhere to be
found, and its disappearance seemed a mystery. The
prisoner insisted on change for his half-sovereign,
«nd the landlord objected to a compliance with his
request, on the ground that he had not the coin. A good
deal of wrangling took place, during which the prisoner
left the house, and was closely watched by a Mr.
and Mrs. Wild, who had some suspicion of him, and
saw him go close to a timber-yard near by, and deposit
something in a corner, after which he returned. He
then, instead of solicitation, demanded his change, but
while blustering very loftily about his respectability, &e.,
and declaring that he should not be done out of ten shil-
lings in so foolish a manner, the parties who had watched
him returned to the house with a paper full of gilt coun-
ters, some of which closely resembled sovereigns and
half-sovereigns, which the prisoner had stowed away in
the timber-yard. This fact being made known to the
prosecutor, he at once sent out for a policeman and gave
the prisoner into his custody. Some time after, however,
a good half-sovereign was found in the bottom of a
rummer glass, in which there was a small portion of
ginger beer.
Mr. NORTON inquired if it was possible for the half-
sovereign to have dropped into the glass in which it had
been found?
Two witnesses swore positively that it had not, and
declared it must have been dropped there by the pri-
soner or his companion with the same sleight-of-hand
dexterity with which they managed to catch the counter
resembling the half-sovereign when thrown up by the
prosecutor.

e;7l7fcen or twenty t.nra-,th,. Form?, ,louht3
been raised as to his sanity, he was disctiatged from the
yard. Within the last three weeks the prisoner be n
d.
again wai:,ed upon him, and Aced for employment, but
as he appeared to be very excited, and not fit to be _
the premises, he refused to employ him, on which the
prisoner called him by abusive names. In addition to,
that, the prisoner told a workman on the premises that
he intended to terminate the existence of the witness
and his own as soon as possible, and that in the course
of another week he a ould hear of something very, strange.
The prisoner said he had been out of employ owe
time, and had suffertd great privations.
Mr. t..'Aaster, from whom emp;oyrneat was sought, said
the facts relating to the prisoner were very painful in.
deed. The man was at one time in good circumstances,
and he was an excellent workman, and would be NV
employed if he was of sound mind, but unfortunately be
was insane. It was finally arranged that the prisoner
sh,uld be detained in the custody of the gaoler of the
Court until five o'clock, to give his friends an opportunity
of consulting with the parish.
A few minutes after the magistrate had left the Court,
Mr. Kemp, relieving officer of Poplar, accompanied b i
Dr. Mr. Gaster, and olio-a, came to the Courl.,-
for the purpose of certifying to the lunacy of the ma"'
and placing the necessary papers before the magistrate,
For his signature. On learning that Mr. Broderip bad
left the Court, they consulted with Mr. Symons, the
chief clerk, who said there was no alternative but t°
send the alleged lunatic away in the van to the House of
Correction, but he would be liberated, on the 20th in"'
when the sessions commenced, if no articles of the Pow!
were exhibited against him, and the friends of the Pri-
soner could then take ulterior measures to prevent him
doing harm to himself and others.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
DEAL, JAN. 7.—Wind W.N.W. to W., light.—Acrd. Re-
gina, Kreeft, Singapore; Johan Chri.tophe, Bahia, for Hari'.
burgh; Callam, New York; Cahawba, Shcrnan, ditto. Al:
rived from the River, Anne Jane, Rigby, China;
Taylor, Calcutta; Ligonia, Blanchard, Porto Rico; Flora,
Leveque, Jamaica.

OFF
MARGATE.--Lady Rowland, Cleland, Bombay.
COWES, JAN. 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Gratia, Poland,
Pernambuco.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—Wind light and variable.—A.Tl:
Bahamian, Hawkins, China; William Parker, Stratton, ditto;
Thomas Lee, James, Calcutta; Cheshire, King, ditto; Iss:
bella Harnett, Newby, ditto; Earl of Harewood,.►
Madras ; Statesman, Brien, Lonny ; Lady Harvey, Pride
Laguna; Juno, Moran, St. John's, New Brunswick. -
port, John Bibby, Calcutta.
Orr MARYPORT.—Fame, Montreal, for Dumfries.
CLYDE, JAN. s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Lord John Russell'
Lock, Honduras; Blanchard, Blanchard, New York. sla•
illoharch, Crooks, Havannith.
DUBLIN, JAN. s.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. General
Wolfe. Jenkins, Demerara.
KINGSTOWN, JAN. 6.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Odes*
Vaughan, St. John's, New Brunswick; Ouzel Galley, Robin'
son, Bathurst.

NEWHAVEN, JAN. 7.—The Amitie, from Antwerp to the
Cape de Verds, which was ashore in Seaford Bay 4th
has been surveyed and conuemned, and will be sold with the
materials.

IiE3IBRIDGE, ISLE-OF-WIGHT, JAN. 6.—Picked up, inside
the Wight, a Aim of a boat, with the words '•Norfolk, Uf
London," carved in wood.
SOUTIIWOLD, JAN. 7.—The barge Willing Trader, Smitlici
from London, to Lowestone, grounded on the Hoyle Sao
early this morning, but was hove off, with assistance, at high
water.

OFF DOVER.—Acrd. Samarang, 'Toward, Calcutta. Sid
H.M.S. Daring, Bermuda.
BRISTOL, JAN. 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Caroline Alice'
Beaton, Prince Edward's Island. Memorandum—The Cong°'
Parker, for Africa, did not sail as reported yesterday.
LIVERFOOL.—SId. Zenundar, Purdor, Calcutta; je!sie'
M 'Gill, Valparaiso; Mercutio, Bartoletti, Rio Sailor°,
Samuel, Spence, Rio Janeiro; Parastina, Snovick, Bahia;
James Reid, Robertson, Maracaibo; John Scott, Nicholson,
Jamaica; Tuscar, Robertson, Mobile; Ellen Brooks, Free-
man, ditto; Agent, Mills, Savanilla ; Hermann, Welch, Bal-
timore; Hot! ingeur, Bursley, New York; Champion, Davie,
Newfoundland; Trinacrea, Burke, ditto; Moult, Slade/
Azores; Lady of the Lake, David, ditto.
HULL, JAN. 7.—Wind NV.—Arrd. Condor, Whitting, N.O
York and Boston.

MARKET NE WS.-(YESTERDAY.)

xlitor 111..stair,TA.
SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 8s; Clover,
ditto, 4/ 8s to 51 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s; Wheal
Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 13s per load. Trade dull, at the
above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ 12s; Clover
ditto, 41 8s to Si 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 1/ 9s to 1/ 10s; Wheat
Straw, 11 lOs to 11 13s per load. A fair average supply'
and a sluggish demand.
WHITECMAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 10s; Clover
ditto, 4/ lOs to 5/ 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 103 ; Wheat
Straw, 11 104 to 1/ 13s per load. Supply good, and trade
dull.

BICE.A.T 111.11.R.IKETS.
SOUTHALL, JAN. 7.—We had a very steady general de.
mend here to-day, and prices were well supported
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 21; Veal'
4s 4d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per 81bs.
ROMFORD, JAN. 7.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved of
steadily, at full prices, otherwise, the trade ruled heal
Beef, from 3s to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 45 2a
to 5s ; and Pork, 4s 10d to 5s per 81ba. Suckling Calyelt
18s to 30s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 203; and Milo'
Cows, with their small calves, 161 to 191 each.
HAILSHAM, JAN. 7.—Beef, from 3s to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 4°
to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs"
A moderate supply, and a steady trade.
ARUNDEL, JAN. 6.—We had a good inquiry for Sheep, at
full prices. Other kinds of stock were a slow inquiry. Bee"
from 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 43
10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per 81bs.
CHICHESTER, JAN.7.—Beef, from 3810 d. to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 45
to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per 81bs.
Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s
to 20s; and Milch Cows, with their small calves, 161 to
181 lOs each.

NNUTGATZ AND MEADENNALL.
The supplies of each kind of Meat on sale being limited,
the demand was, throughout, steady at full prices. Beef;
from 2s 8d to 33 8d ; Mutton, 33 6(i to 4s 8d ; Veal, 43 to
ss. 2d; and Pork, 3s. 10d to 53 2d per 81bs.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Jan. 3, 1845, made up from the Returns of tha
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns is England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.

WHEAT. BARLEY, OATS. 1 UTE. I BEANS. mtg.
PRICE •• 1555 Id 31s lid 225 3d 335 6d 375 9d 395 Id
DUTY... 15s Od 6s Od 55 Cd 8s 6d 25 6d Is ed

OVERLAND ROUTES TO INDIA.—The success of
Mr. Waghorn in effecting a passage from Alexandria by wall
of Trieste, has, it appears, aroused the jealousy of the French
Government, and inflicted a deep wound upon the vanity of
the French people. These effects should operate as warn-
ings to us, showing the imperative necessity of securing some
other route for our overland communication besides that
through France. l'erpetual peace between that country and
Great Britain is a dream for children, not an expectation to
be entertained by sober waking men. The very feeling
which has been excited in France by Mr. Waghorr's trip le
a proof of this. We may be assured that the French are at
this moment looking out very earnestly to see how matters
are likely to go in the Punjaub. In the state of that coun-
try they have no interest, but England has a very strong
one ; and France would rejoice at any turn of affairs, in any
part of the world, that should humbler her old rival. We
trust she will be diappointed ; but, knowing her wishes (and
no rational man has any doubt about them) we should saV
it would be nothing short of madness to suffer tne safety of
our overland correspondence with India to lie at the mercy of
France one hour longer than necessary. Mr. Waghorn will
shortly commence a series of experiments of sufficient extent
to allow of a just determination of the question between
Trieste and Marseilles. We freely admit that we wish him
success, on national grounds, not less than because his zeal
and untiring energy deserve success.—Allen's India Mail.
HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH.--On Saturday fore-
noon the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council as-
sembled in the hall of the High School in their robes, and
attended by the usual insignia of office, for the purpose of
furmally inducting Dr. Leonhardt Schmitz to the Rectorship
of that institution, to which be was recently appointed.—
Edinburgh Advertiser.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—FALL FROM A WINDOW.--
On Wednesday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a
little girl, four years of age, name Anne Groves, whose parents
reside in Compton street, Soho, having been left in the back
second floor alone, with the window open, she got on a chair
for the purpose of looking out of the window, and, over-
balancing herself, she fell into the back area. She was re-
moved to the hospital almost in a lifeless state.
A FATHER'S FEELING.—The Thames has been
rising for several days past. We are sure it must be in in-
dignation against Lord Ellenborough's appointment as First
Lord of the Admiralty.—Punch.
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BIRTHS.
On the sth inst., at Grosvenor-square, the non. Mrs. C.
Stanley, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, the
lady of ilijor-General Frederick, C. 8., of a son.
On the 3d inst., at the Bath Hotel, Glasgow, Mrs. Patric
Park, of a daughter.

On the 3d inst., at Ramsgate, the lady of A. C. Ayres,
Esq., surgeon, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Bristol, the lady of the Rev. J. IL
Woodward, of a daughter. _

On the 4th inst., at Lansdowne-terrace, Kensington-park,
Mrs. William Henry La Serre, of a son, still-born.

MARRIED
On the Ist inst., at St. Michael's, Highgate, John, son of
W. Cooper, Esq., of Coggeshall, Essex, to Caroline Matilda,
younger daughter of the late Mr. W. M. Russ, of Rose-hill,
Oxford.
On the 6th lost, at St. Mary's Church, Putney, Surrey
Robert llull Terrell, Esq., of Bernard-street, Russell-square
to Anne Mandell, eldest daughter of Thomas Kingsbury,
Esq., of Windsor-street, Putney.
On the 6th inst., at Cheltenham, Septimus Davidson, Esq.,
of Weavers' Hall, Londun, to Elizabeth Henrietta, only
daughter of the late Benjamin Philipps, Esq.