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No. 17,418.] LONDON, MONDAY '74"' N G 17 NY JULY 24, 1848.
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MENTOR LIFE ASSU

RANCE COMPANY.
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PRESIDENT.
MS Grace the Duke of RUTLAND, K.G.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
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The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon.
TRUSTEES.
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The Honourable Edward Mostyn Lloyd Mostyn, M.P.
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
I WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Dorchester, July 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WlLuams.)
Louisa Jarvis was indicted for the wilful murder of
her female child, Mary Ann, at Shaftesbury, in this
county, on the 27th of March last.
Mr. Hodges appeared for the prosecution. No coun-
sel was instructed for the prisoner; but at the request of
the Learned Judge, Mr. Stock took the depwitions, and
promised to watch the case on her behalf.
It appeared from the evidence that, on the 13th of
March last, the prisoner went into the Shaftesbury
union, being then in a state of pregnancy. On the
16th of that month she was delivered of a female bas-
tard child. The mother and the child went on well for
several days. The mother, however, refused to suckle
the child, and it was in consequence brought up by
hand. On the night of the 27th of March the child
cried excessively, and in a most unnatural mauuer,
as if in great pain. The mother was in conse-
quence again applied to to suckle it, but she resolutely
refused to do so. On the following morning the appear.
ance of the child was much altered. She had a mark
under the left ear as if she had been pinched. On the
Sunday after the poor child died. The opinion of the
medical witnesses was, that the death was caused by con-
gestion of the lungs. After the inquest which was
holden upon the body, the governor of the workhouse
went into the room where the prisoner was. The un-
happy woman observed to him, " I did it, sir." He
thereupon asked her how she did it; she replied, "I tried
to squeeze it with my fingers, but as I could not manage
that, I knelt upon it with ray knees and did for it." At
this time she was in a great state of excitement, crying
and tearing her hair. This excitement continued to in-
crease, and in a day or two afterwards it became neces-
sary to send her to a lunatic asylum,
where she re•
mained until the day before her trial. It was further
proved that there had been insanity in her family; and
the surgeon said that her face bore indications of here-
ditary insanity.
The prisoner was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
OXFORD Worcester, July 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Rom%)
The Court was occupied a great part of the day in dis-
posing of cases unfit for publication. No trial of import-
ance came on.

for a highway robbery on that occasion, accompanied
with violence.
There were several counts is the indictment, to meet
every conceivable suggestion as to the time of the rob-
bery, whether before or after death.
Mr. Willmore and Mr. Denison conducted the case on
the part of the Crown; Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Adams
appeared as counsel for the prisoner.
Mr. WILLMORE opened the case for the prosecution,
and narrated the circumstances at great length; but as
they have been brought repeatedly before public notice
a:ready, in connexion with the charge of murder founded
upon the same case, and which was tried at the last
assizes, it is unnecessary to repeat them again here.
Numerous witnesses fully supported the Learned
Counsel's statement. We subjoin the evidence of a new
witness.
William Fell.—l am a bricklayer. I came in the lat-
ter end of December to Kirton. It was several weeks
before this occurred. I mean the latter end of the first
shooting month (September). Was living there with a
woman. On Saturday, the fore end of the day, I had
been at the Greyhound Inn. Went home afterwards.
Was at two or three public•houses in the course of the
day. I went to bed at about seven or eight
o'clock. I had some words with her. I left her some
time about the middle of the night. I went down hill
as far as the Gainsborough-road, turned to my left,
and went down a,lane leading to the Gainsboroughsroad.
I laid myself down by a haystack. It was a round one.
I don't know whether I had any sleep or not. I heard a
dog bark that appeared to be very savage. There was a
hedge between use and the road. I gut over a hedge,
and went into another field, and laid myself down and
crept lull-length on the ground to the hedge by the road.
I saw that man (the prisoner) and another scuffling.
Travis hit the other with a stick on the head, and the
man seemed to full back into the hedge. Travis fell
down upon him, and after they had been down some
time, I heard something like coin rattle. Travis then
went back towards Kirton. The man said, " Travis, if
you rob, don't murder me." Then Travis, after he bad
got a few yards, turned round and downed him again,
and after they had been down some time the man's
throat seemed to rattle as if he was being choked,
and there was a stamping or kicking of a foot and
leg. Then Travis rubbed his band upon the grass
or ground, I can't say which. He then rubbed
his hand upon a gate or stone. He then went away off
towards Kirton. I got over the hedge, and wont across
two or three fields, and then came back into the lane
through the same gap I got through before. I walked
as far as the Gainsborough-road, didn't know where I
was, and stopped to think a bit, and found myself right
opposite to Travis's house, and I went across their stack-
yard, and into a sort of greenhouse or summerhouse.
When I had been there five or six minutes Travis came
up to the door. I don't know whether he knocked or
not, but there was a rattling, and there soon came a
woman down, and she let him in. I stopped there a
good way on to an hour, to see if he'd come out again.
I then went home, and went to bed, and when I'd been
in the house the value of twenty minutes or half an
hour, the clock struck five. I did not go before the co-
roner. I had known Travis pretty nearly from my first
going there.
Cross-examined by Mr. MACAULAY—I came from
Grimsby to Kirton. I did not live there a year. Before
that time I lived at a place called Barrow, with a master
bricklayer. Before that time I came from Hull. I don't
know what felony is. I never was tried for stealing a
watch. I've been taken up for two or three drunken
sprees. Mr. Wright and I were drinking together. He
didn't know what had become of it (the watch). I was
not tried for it. I was tried for stealing some money
from a marl named Osborne, at Louth, within a day or
two of my coming there. I've spent two years and eight
months at Leeds. A place (named) six miles from
Louth, is my native place. I had a dog with me. He
didn't bark. He lay by my side. I wasn't prepared to
go before the coroner or the magistrates. I had a swelled
face and a black eye, and some blood about one. I told
George Travis (the prisoner's brother) and his wife
about this. I never worked for a Mr. George Travis.
He is a master bricklayer. I have not tried to get
money from Mrs. Travis. I have had a sovereign from
them, and never worked for him. I have also had a
sovereign from the prisoner. Before Travis was com-
mitted, this time, I was examined two or three times
before the magistrates. The magistrates did not say
that unless I told a different tale I should be transported.
When I was taken before the magistrates, I had about
me the account of the coroner's inquest, cut out of a
newspaper ; not an account of the last trial here. I saw
Travis strike him with a stick. It was a very heavy
blow. I have a song-book which I borrowed of young
Spencer, the baker, and it had Travis's name in it. I
had several knives in my house. I knew that a reward
of 100/. had been offered. I saw handbills about the 1001.
reward. It struck fire o'clock twenty minutes after I got
in. The woman was asleep. I put my mark to what
was written down when I was t xamined before the
magistrate. I did not say I could'nt write. I wasn't
asked. The gentleman told me to put my mark, so I
put it. If you were to tell me to write my name I
should write it.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. MACAULAY addressed the jury for the defence.
His LORDSHIP, in summing rip the case, appeared to
assume that the jury would attach no weight whatever
to the evidence of the man Fell.
The jury, in less than five minutes, returned a verdict
of Guilty, and the prisoner was thereupon sentenced to
transportation for the term of his natural life.
This terminated the criminal business of these:assizes,
that on the civil side having been concluded shortly
before five o'clock.

£3OO dated 12th January, 1848, No. 11,891
£320 12,922

£2OO „ 11th January „
£4O „ Bth January „
£2O „ Gth January „

13,064
49,233
33,147

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above reward, or a proportionate part ther,of for any portion of the
notes so recovered, if lost, or upon recovery and conviction of the
offender, if stolen. _ _

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IVORFOLICJIRCnkridge, July 22.
The business of the assizes for this county commenced
this morning, before Mr. Baron Parke, in the Nisi Prius
Court, and Mr. Justice Maule, in the Crown Court.
The cause list contains an entry of thirteen actions, most
of which are of considerable pecuniary importance, end
some of public interest. The calendar contains the
names of twenty-five prisoners. Two of the prisoners
have been committed for arson, one for burglary, four
for cutting and wounding, one for rape, one for placing
obstructions across a railway, and the rest for offences
of minor gravity.
William Ward was indicted for wilful and corrupt
perjury.

Mr. Palmer and Mr. Burcham conducted the prosecu-
tion; Mr. Couch defended the prisoner.
The perjury charged was committed in a paltry case
in the County Court. The prisoner was found Guil:y.
Sentence deferred.

The other cases were not of general interest.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 22.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTKAN and a
Common Jury).
ROBERTS, CLERK, V. TUCKER, CLERK.
This was an action brought by the Rev. Mr. Roberts,
the stipendiary curate of St. BotolWs, Colchester,
against the Rev. Mr. Tucker, the incumbent of that
parish, to recover damages for a breach of contract.
The declaration alleged that an agreement was entered
into between the parties, by which, in consideration of
the plaintiff duly performing the duties appertaining to
his office of curate, and to the satisfaction of the Bishop,
&c., the defendant undertook to pay him a certain 'Mi•
pend derivable from the Queen Anne's Bounty fund, and
also to take the necessary steps required to be adopted
by the incumbent of a parish to obtain from a certain
society, celled the Curates' Aid Society, an additional
allowance of 701. per annum, and that the defendant ne-
glected to perform this latter portion of his agreement,
and consequently the plaintiff had been deprived of the
additional stipend, and this action was brought to re-
cover the amount of that stipend for the period for
which it had not been paid through the alleged neglect
of the defendant. There were several pleas put upon the
record by the defendant. There were several pleas put
upon the record by the defendant, but the principal one
was a denial that any such agreement as the one alleged
in the declaration had been made by him.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Montagu Chambers and Mr. Peacock for the
defendant.

Callaghan, D.
Devereux, John T.
Fox, Richard M.
Greene, John

The caso having occupied the Court a considerable
me,:

Mr. Justice COLTMAN. said he had-notioubt the agree-
ment came within the statute of frauds. There might
also be considered a doubt whether the plaintiff had
proved the contract he bad set up, but it wus not ne-
cessary to discuss that point as he was clearly of opinion
that upon the former point he must direct a nonsuit.
The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.

WORTIJERN CliCUlT.—York, July 21.
CROWN COURT.— (Before Mr. Justice Edmv..)
Joseph Itedgwich, Richard Lodge, and George Mathews,
were charged with having feloniously cut and wounded
Noah Hook, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Hardy were
for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Joseph Pollock defended Redgwick and
Mathews, and Mr. Price defended Lodge.
The prosecutor, Noah hook, a gamekeeper to Mr. T.
W. Beaumont, of Breton Park, near IVakefield, stated
that whilst he was on watch,in company
with other
keepers, on the night of the 21st of May lust, he heard
a gun fired in a wheat field near to where they were
watching. On looking into the field the watchers saw '
three or four men, whom they pursued, the prosecutor
being the most active and foremost in the pursuit. When
they approached to within twenty yards of the men,
they stopped and pointed their guns at the prosecutor,
but they did not fire. The men then turned round and
ran off, closely followed by the prosecutor and his com-
panions. When at a distance of seven or eight yards
from the objects of their pursuit, the men stopped and
made a furious attack upon Hook and the watchers with
their gun-stock, hitting them upon the side of their heads,
and thereby inflicting several dangerous wounds. Redg-
wick was taken into custody upon the spot. Mathews
and Lodge escaped, but in their haste their gun-stocks
were left behind, and were identified as belonging to
them.

The jury, after a very protracted consultation, re•
turned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and
they were sentenced to be transported for fourteen years
each.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Lincoln, July 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTEsox.)
Elizabeth Garner, a little girl of pleasing appearance,
only thirteen years of age, was capitally indicted for
adminiatering to Mary Smith,
her mistress, a certain
deadly poison, to wit, arsenic, with intent to kill and
murder her.

Mr. Wildman, assisted by Sir Eardley Wilmot, con-
ducted the prosecution; Mr. Flowers appeared as coun-
sel for the prisoner.

It appeared that the girl had left her parental home
for the first time, and entered into the service of the
fiatrfinrohm"ts hee c
jug,
prosecutrix, a bedridden old woman, residing at Calceby,
in this county. She became uneasy in her place, net
it
Ili i 1
tbtyie,
because she was ill-used at all, but simply because
she was unhappy at leaving and being away
anal y
zedra it
t
her home, and oao day finding some fagwater (a
mixture containing arsenic, soft soap, and water,
and used to destroy vermin on sheep) in a jar in a
cupboard, she took half a cup full and poured it into a
i,
jbuyg
for o f '
her milk
mistress,she had
who d fetchedrenkm
so frome
oaf
The mistress soon vomited a good deal,and belr.
h. i
the surgeon, was sent for. The mistress ga v
remainder of the milk in the jug, an
and found it to contain arsenic. He analyzed the vomit
nt to confess
also without detecting any, but it was not the first. The
vomiting and timely remedies used probably saved the
poor woman's life, and the surgeon stated that she was
now out of danger, though still suffering from the effect.
The only evidence to prove that she knew that she had
administered poison, was her own confession to the sur-
geon, made in the presence of the prosecutrix and of
Mrs.tte dB eioguhtbtoouhr.er
no
eudemsuuorgeoa having first
a e
the confession was admitted as follows:—~‘I knew it
strhuantt he e n ' held lnd
was poison; I believed it would kill,
'the woman; I gave
it her to be set free from my place.
Mrs. Brunton, the neighbour, being called
to corro-
borate, stated that the surgeon did say, .. it
Would be
better for her if she would confess."
The counsel for the prisoner then objected to the con-
fession being received as evidence. but,
The Learned JUDGE, after conferring with tho Lord
Chief Justice, determined to keep the surgeon's evidence
before the jury, and reserve the point, if necessary.
Mr. FLOWERS having addressed tho jury for the
defence,
His LORDSHIP SPmmed up the case to
of the jury, ob-
serving that between the age
seven and fourteen
'ears an infant was presumed to be irresponsible cri-
minally ; but then malice will supply the deficiency
of
age ; and it was a question fur the jury whether there
was here sufficient evidence of malice to supply it, and
to satisfy them that there existed a mischievous discre-
tion, and a consciousness of the nature of the act done.
They must take into consideration what she had said to
the surgeon, and if that had been improperly received,
she would have the benefit of it. lie certainly should
not have received the evidence if what the surgeon
had in the first instance said to her been previously
disclosed.
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Guilty.
His LORDSUIP then feelingly addressed the prisoner,
and concluded thus—Sentence of death will be recorded
only against you, and I shall recommend her 'Majesty,
who, I have no doubt will attend to it, that your life iiee
spared, though upon what terms I cannot say."
THE KIRTON MURDER CASE.—Joseph Travis, who
at the last assizes was tried for the wilful murder, at
Kirton, on the 18th of December last, of John Copernan,
and after a protracted trial acquitted, was now indicted

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(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
SATURDAY, JULY 22.
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND).
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That leave be.
given to bring in a Bill to empower the Lord. Lieutenant, or
other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, to apprehend
and detain, for a time to be limited, such persons as he or
they shall suspect of conspiring against her Majesty's Person
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Forster, Matthew Noel, Gerald J.
Fortescue, J. W. .Norreys, Lord
Fortescue. Chichester Norreys, Sir D.
Freestun, Colonel O'brien, Sir Lucius
Frewen, C. H. Ogle. S. C.
Fuller, A. E. Osborne, Ralph
Galway, Viscount Ossulton, Lord
Gaskell, J. M. Paget, Lord A.
Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, Robert
Godson, Richard Palmerston, Via.
Gordon, Admiral Parker, John
Gore, W. 0. Pattison, J.
Goulburn, Henry Peel, Sir Robert
Graham, Sir J. Preenrfiement,t,R. Colonel
GGrraeenhbey:T3hiaormquasls of
Philips.
Sir
G.
R.
Grenfel , Charles W. Pigott, Francis
Grey, Sir G. Plowden. W. H.
Grey, Ralph:W. Powell, Colonel
Grogan, Edward Powlett. Lord W.
Gwyn. Bowel Price, Sir R.
Yale, It. B. Pusey, P.
Hall, Sir B. Reid. Colonel
Hall, Colonel Repton, G. W. J.
Hallyburton, Lord Ricardo, Osman
Hamilton, G. A. Rich, Henry
Hamilton, J. H. Robartes, T. J.
Harcourt, G. Romllly, Sir John
Halle, Archibald Russell, Lord John
Hawes, Benjamin Russell, F. C.
Mayes, Sir;E. Rutherford, A.
Ilayter, W. G. Sadleir, John
Headlam, T. E. Sandars, Joseph
Heald, James Scrope, G. P.
Henry, Alexander Seymer, H. K.
Herbert, 11. A. Shell, R. L.
Berries, J. C. Shelburne, Earl of
Heywood, James Sheridan, R. B.
Hildyard, T. B. Sibthorp, Colonel
Hobhouse, Sir John Smith, John A.
Hodgson, W. N. . Smith, M. Tucker
Hood, Sir A. Smyth, J. G.
If ornby, John Somerville, Sir W.
Horsman, E. Sotheron, T. H. S.
Howard, C_ W. G. Spearman, IL J.
Howard, E. G. Spooner, Richard
Howard, P. H. Stafford, Augustus
Howard, Sir R. Strickland, Sir G.
Hume,:Joseph Tancred, H. W.
Hutt, William Taylor, T. E.
Ingestre, Viscount Tennent, .J.
Jackson, William Thicknesse, R. A.
Jervis, Sir John Thompson, Colonel
Jocelyn, Viscount Towneley, John
Jones, Captain 1 ownley, R. G.
Keogh. William ' Turner, Edmund
Kershaw, James Tynte, Colonel
Labouchere, Henry Vane, Lord H.
Lascelles, W. S. Villiers, Viscount
Lennard, T. B. Villiers, Charles
Lewis, Sir T. Vivian, J. E.
Lewis, G. C. Vivian, J. H.
Lindsay. Colonel Vyse, H.
Littleton, E. R. Wall, C. B.
Lockhart, A. E. Walsh, Sir J.
Lockhart, W. Ward, H. G.
lti'Cullagh, W. T. Watkins, Colonel
Mandeville, Viscount Wawn, J T.
Manners,Lord C. Welby, G. E.
Marshall, William Wellesley, Lord C.
Martin,, C. W. Wilcox, Brodie
Matheson, A. Williams. John
Maule, Fox Williamson, Sir H.
Maxwell, J. P. Willoughby, Sir H.
Di elgund, Viscount Wilson, James
Meux, Sir H. Wood, Sir Charles
Miles, William Wood, W. P.
Milner, W. M. Wortley, J. S.
Willies, R. M. Wy vill, Marmadttke
Mitchell, A. T. Young, Sir John
Mensal, William
Moody, C. A. TELLERS.
Morpeth, Viscount Tanen, Henry
Morison, Sir W. Hill, Lord M.
Morris, David

'MINORITY—NOES, 8.
O'Connor, Feargus TELLER!.
Reynolds, John Fagan, William
Scully, Francis Crawford, W. S.
Sullivan, Michael

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(SATURDAY.)
DUBLIN (CITY).
This Committee (Lord Robert Grosvenor, Chairman)
re-assembled at eleven o'clock to-day, and proceeded with
the scrutiny into the votes for Mr. Reynolds. The ob-
jections were for non-registration of the voters within
the time limited by statute. Nine votes were struck off.
The majority of Mr. Reynolds is now reduced from 104
to 15 votes.

Adjourned until eleven o'clock on Monday (this day).

NORTH CHESHIRE.
The Select Committee appointed to try the petition
against the return of Mr. Cornewall Legh, at the late
election, met tor the first time to-day at eleven o'clock.
It is composed of the following Hon. Members:—Lord
Courtenay (Chairman), Right lion. Sidney Herbert,
Lieutenant-Colonel I3uldero, Mr. Mangles, and Sir De
Lacy Evans.

- -
Counsel for the sitting Member, Mr. Merewether and
Mr. Cole; agent. Mr. Cole. Counsel for the petitioners,
Mr. Sergeact Kinglake, Mr. Edwin James, and Mr
Phinn; agent, Mr. Coppock.
The petition alleges bribery and treating. The peti-
tioners have abandoned the charges of bribery, and in-
tend to rely only upon those of treating.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE opened the case, and argued
that the statutes against treating (7 William HI. and
5 and 6 Vic.) were equally applicable to counties and
boroughs.

After the writ, with the return and the poll-books,
had been put in, the petitioners proceeded with evi-
dence of agency of carious persons on behalf of the
sitting Member.

Mrs. Bagulay, landlady of the Red Lion, at Hale.
near Altrincham, was called to prove treating. The
witness (who was not cross.examined) stated that several
persons delivered refreshment tickets to her, and were
supplied with dinners on the first day of polling. Had
not been paid for these tickets, and did not know to
whom she was to apply for payment. Could not tell
what was written on the tickets, and had given them to
her son, with whom she believed they still remained.
At four o'clock the Committee adjourned until twelve
on Monday (this day).

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE

TOWN-CLERK OF GREENOCK.
GREENOCK, JULY 20.—This afternoon, at about a
quarter to four o'clock, as Mr. John Kerr 'Gray, town-
clerk, was passing along Hamilton-street, between the
Vennel and Watson's-lane, a man named Thomson, an
auctioneer, crossed over to him from the opposite side
of the street, and looking Mr. Gray full iu the face,
drew a large horse-pistol from under his coat, and fired
it at him.
Mr. Gray staggered a few paces into the shop of Mr.
M'llwraith, hosier, who, having heard the report, has-
tenrd out of his back shop and caught Mr. Gray in his
arms, as he was sinking on the floor.
Drs. M'Gowan and Henry, whose consulting-rooms
are in the vicinity, immediately repaired to Mr. M'll-
wraith's shop, where they found Mr. Gray seated, and
very weak and faint. They tore open the upper part
of his dress, and discovered that the bullet had en.
tered his chest at the right side, and passed right
through to the inner surface of the left side, without
wounding the heart or lungs. A litter was forthwith
procured, and Mr. Gray was carried over to the
White Hart Hotel, where several other medical
gentlemen were speedily in attendance. The ball, we
are informed, has been extracted; and Mr. Gray, who
is highly esteemed as an amiable, fueling-hearted gen-
tleman, is going on favourably. The cause of this
dreadful outrage, happily of an unwonted kind in Scot-
land, is said to have been that Thomson, who used to
conduct sales at the Cross Shore, was obliged to do so
in rotation with other auctioneers; and he fancied that
Mr. Gray had something to do with the depriving him
of his monopoly. When he fired the pistol he delibe-
rately dropped it on the pavement, and walked com-
posedly up the Vennel. He then began to run; but
two men pursued and apprehended him. He did not
deny having discharged the pistol, and said it should
have been done a twelvemonth ago. Some powder and
f
another bullet were found in his pocket.
Half-past 10 P.m.
I have just ascertained that the bullet enterednwas
imme-
diately below the middle of the right clavicelea,va d
that it not p
found lying beneath the skin over the
didl
is the opinion of the medical menene•
from the one
trate the chest, but passed superficially
.
said to be icle. It
side to the other. The left clavicle is
out of danger.—North Br: uh D I
frac-
tured. Mr. Gray is going on favourably,_,tiiin.jt,iilsfani2t con-
sidered

The Observer of Sunday, July 23, gave upwards
of Eleven Folio Columns of Saturday's Debates to sus-
pend the Habeas Corpus Act and other matters con-
nected with Ireland. The extensive publication of the
Observer commences at six o'clock, and concludes at ten,
Edition, Sunday mornings. Monday s best adapted for
the country and
1l
abroad, is published at four o'clock
.°
Columns
Monday afternoons. Price of the Observer, 40 folio
Vestry,
columns, 6d.
Te
and Observer
atifof
of
Saturdayyete
yesterday
iirgivarv)lebone
e.
Two I'°
and the Kensington Meeting, chiefly on matters con-
nected with gas lighting those two extensive '
parishes.
OPENING OF THE LINE OF RAILWAY
n
RICHMOND AND WINE/SOIL—OH Saturday the first"wEEN
trip was made on this line by the chairmany
chairman, with several of the directors and deputy-
Mr. Horne, the secretary, the engineer, , accompanied by
soli-
citor, and several other officials eon contractor, nected with the com-
pany. The Government Inspector i
ceed to the terminus at Datchet o Ts expected to pro-
on the following Monday the line hursday next, and
will moat probably
be open for passenger traffic a sho ld
port be favourable, of which not the least doubt is en-

INTELLTGENCE.
STAFFORDSHIRE.
SATCIZDAI.—The usual ordi-
ang of the shareholders in this
the station in this town to-day.
, M.P., occupied the chair, and there
was a very numerous attendance of proprietors.
Mr. SAatLTDA, the secretary, read the report of Mr. G.
P. Bidder, the engineer to the company. It stated that
the line was opened between Stoke and Norton-bridge
(on the North-Western line) in April, and that its
working had been most satisfactory; the lino between
Stoke and Colwiek had been retarded according to the
instructions of the directors, and the continuance of wet
weather during the spring had necessarily retarded the
works upon the other portions of the line. The viaduct
at Congleton was eomplete, with the exception of one
pier and two arches, which had to be reconstructed,
and at the Dane viaduct all the piers were complete,
and the centres set for seven arches. Mr. Bidder,
according to instructions, bad computed the amount
of the company's capital account, including stations, sid-
ings, turntables, water cranes, &e., and carrying stuck,
locomotive engines and workshops, and three years;
maintenance of the railway, tind estimated It at
3,400,0001. This, as compared with the Parliamentary
estimates, after deducting 490,0001. for stations, carriages,
workshops, arid three years' maintenance ; also, leo,oool,
excess on the land, owing to the purchase of Niel mines,
and other matters not contemplated by the land-valuers;
and also, 74,3711. Is. Bd. extra expenditure in Perlin-
went, shows that the actual cost will be within the ori-
ginal estimates ; and Mr. Bidder expressed it as his
opinion that no railway of the same Jcngth (viz., 128
miles), with works of the same magnitude, with so effi-
cient a carrying stock, stations, and equipments, had over
been completed at a less cost. Ho believed, too, that it
admired of being:as economically worked a,s it had been
economically constructed.
The report of the directors was next read, in which
they announced that they had followed the course pur-
sued in their last report of completing successively dif-
ferent lengths of the line. The length from the Pones
ries to Uttoxeter, and from Crewe to Burton, 44 miles,
would be completed in August and September ; Ctin-
gleton to Colwich, 24i miles, in September ; Congleton
to Macclesfield, seven miles, in March, 1849 ; and Ut-
toxeter to North Rode, 274, in September, 1849. The
length from Stoke to Norton Bridge, NI, was opened in
April, and had realised in two months a net profit of
1,6681. The directors observed that although this was
beyond their anticipations, still it would be futile to
found any calculations with respect to the whale under-
taking upon this partial commencement. It had, how-
ever, determined two circumstances of great importance,
via., that the tonnage upon what may be termed the
competing part of the canal had not been diminished by
the opening of the railway ; and, secondly, that, great
economy in the expenses of the two (canal and railway)
might be affected by a judicious combination of the joint
staff. The report goes on to say:—
" After a careful investigation, it has been ascertained,
as will be seen by reference to the report of the engineer,
that the amount required to complete the whole works
and plant of the railway will be met by the subscribed
capital of the company, a circumstance, as your directors
believe, almost without precedent in railway history.
Ono more call of 2/. 10s. will be required in the course
of the present year. It is proposed to make this in the
month of September. A further amount of 21. 10s. will
insure the completion of the line, but this call will not be
made till 1849, even if it should be necessary at all, a
contingency dependent upon the issue of debentures. On
this point your directors have some hesitation in giving
an opinion. They aro determined not to sacrifice the
true and permanent interest of their shareholders for the
sake of a present advantage in the market price of the
shares, and they have uniformly refused, in times and
under circumstances far more adverse titan the present,
to issue debentures bearing interest above five per cent.
At this rate they have hitherto been enabled to megotiate
but a small sum; but when it is recollected that your de-
bentures are secured, not only by the revenue of the
railroad, now partially and within twelve months to be en-
tirely opened, and upon which 15/. a share, amounting to
2,522,605/. sterling, will have been paid up, but also upon
the canal, yielding a act revenue of from 80,000/. to
60,000/. a year; and further, that the debentures are for
money raised, not in addition, but in aid of your paid-up
capital, and are guaranteed by calls which may be legally
enforced upon the whole body of shareholders, your
directors do not doubt but that, if this description of
security should again obtain favour in the money mar-
ket, the North Staffordshire debentures will be those
which will in a great degree command a preference. In
the last report it was intimated that the interest received
on capital and surplus proceeds on the canal would
enable the directors to recommend a small dividend on
the shares, and the amount of this was estimated at Ss.
per share. The great depression of trade during the last
six months has, however, so far diminished the receipts
of the canal, that it is not thought prudent consistently
with the expressed determination of the directors to re-
frain, under any circumstances, from trenching MI their
capital for the payment of interest, to recommend a dis-
tribution of more than 4s. per share, for the payment of
which dividend a resolution will be submitted to you."
The report having been adopted,
A dividend of four shillings per share was declared
payable on the 14th of August, and it was also an-
nounced that a call of 21. 10e. would be required ia the
month of September.
! Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

I HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent honoured the performances at her
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday erenin,, with her pre-
sence. In the suite of her Royal Highness were Lady
Augusta Bruce, the Hon. Miss Dawson, Sir George
Couper, and Mr. and Lady Mary Christopher. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the theatre.
Her Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box was occupied by
the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn, Lady Harriet Ers-
kine, Lady Isabella Wetnyss and party. Among the
audience were, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duchess
of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, the Duke of Leeds, the Duchess of
Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald; the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Marquis of .Donegal, the Marquis
of Huntly, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ayles-
bury, the Marchioness Dowager of Sligo and the
Ladies Browne ; the Baroness de Brunnow and
Mademoiselle Olga de Lochner ; the Earl of Mun-
ster, the Earl Bective, the Countess of Lichfield
and Lady Anson, the Earl of Wilton, his Excel-
lency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Swe-
dish Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister.
Baron Nicolay, Count de Berke, Prince Richard Metter-
nich, the Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess
Villiers, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady Warneford, Lord
Dunkellin, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Ward, Lord Gardner,
Lord Sandys, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord W.
Beresford, Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset,
Lord George Lennox, the Hon. Willoughby d'Eresby,
General the Hon. 11. Cavendish, Sir Billiugham Gra-
ham, Bart., and Lady Graham, Lady Palmer, General
the lion. A. Upton, Sir J. Jervis, Bart., and Lady Jervis.
Sir R. Howard, Bart., and Lady Howard, Major For-
rester, Major Buckley, Sir George Carroll, Bart., Lady
and the Misses Carroll, Colonel Fludyer, Hon. Captain
Seymour, Captain Meynell, R.N., Mr. Packe, M.l'., Mr.
and Miss Holford, Major Baring, Mr. Drummond, Mr.
and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Sturt, M.l-., Mr. and Mrs. Hob-
son, M. C. Koudriaffsky, Mrs. Dodd, Mr. and Miss B.
Trelawny, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mr. Broadley, M.P., Mr.
and Miss Ewings, Mr. G. Cornwall, Mrs. Crawshay, Mrs.
Percy, Capt. and the lion. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Sm.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GAIDEIN.—"'
Her Majesty's box was occupied on Saturday evening by
Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn,
Mr. and Lady Margaret Lyttelton. There were also
and
Lady the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord
the Duke and
Lady Ernest Bruce,Hon. Miss Fitzroy,ly
Duchess of Cleveland,
the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Rachel Rus-
sell, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the Mar-
quis of Tichtield, Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis, Earl and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Munster, arlanct
Countess of Glengall, Countess Dowager of Essexd
Miss Johnston,, Earl Bruce, the Earl of Durham,_suull Ilx.Vis-
count Templetown, Viscount Cantilupe, V
Lady Catharine Cavendish,
Ex-
mouth, Lady C. Denison,
Lord and Lady Carington, Lord_Lord and Lady Mil-
Ward, Lord henry Lennox,
Lady Lawley, Lady Mor-
gan, William Paulett, LaLdyad-Smithw,
atirudghSamom, efournd.
ford, Lord George Manners,ster,
b Lady Enfield, Lady
gan, Lady Scott, Lady
Newport, Lady
C. L. Butler, II"' a ad ilea. Upton, Sir Hume and
D. Forteseue, Hon. Mr.
isses Here, Sirßu-
rgoyne,
PakennamW,
Somerset,eHon. Mr. and Mrs. C. Ash-
J. Mrs.
r o rNceo sr ctou on , lion.lotL
Ladybti rnll
Campbell,aln ' lion
. Sirs.
Augustus'.aiies Burgoyne Clifford.
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andr Sir
the T.
Atkinson, Sir Henry
Sir George Colthurst,
GW.ebAbr
- Mills and the Misses Mills, MTS.
Mrs. Dennistoann,
d Mrs.. John Stanley, Miss Rickards,
Horsinan, Mr' and and party, General Sandys, Colonel
Miss Burdett 90onel
B. y
Knox, M.P., Colonel 011ivier,
CSern°,larß' lane, Major Jones, Mr. St. Vincent Jervis,
L3ainre.
HF o. x , l .
Baring, and
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GMerr.arSdackvi
Stuart,lle
Gore, M.P., &c.

biI'ORTATION OF CATTLE.—It will be recollected
that in the autumn of last year, the attention of the offs
cers of the revenue was specially directed by the autho-
rities to the state of the cattle and sheep which should be
imported from abroad, and also in the early portion of
the year 1845, in consequence of a certain disease being
on those two occasions prevailing among them on the
continent. The
tion
have again been made ac officers of the Customs department
q uainte that inform has recently been received that the disease called " a
Variola
oris" is now greatly extendinc, in some parts of the
country, especially in two of thee eastern counties, and
that apprehensions exist that it may be caused by
the importation of infected sheep, and they
have therefore been directed to exercise the greatest vigi-
lance in enforcing the precautions previously authorised
to be adopted in this matter, with a funkr notification
that they are forthwith to state for the information of
the board, whether it appears that sheep are now
being imported at either of the parts of the kingdom
in an infected state. Directions to the above effect have
been given to the officers of the revenue at all the ports
throughout the kingdom, and although there may, per-
haps, be no absolute necessity for apprehending the in-
fected state of the cattle which are at the present time
imported from the Continent, yet these salutary pre•
cautions taken by the Government authorities in the
matter will be duly appreciated by the public.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Rev. B.
Davies, M.A., the secretary to this society, having
been instituted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the
vicarage of Brenchley, the appointment of secretary,
thus rendered vacant, has been conferred on the Rev,
John Tucker, 8.D., Fellow of Christ Church College,
Oxford; and the Rev. 11. W. Fox, formerly missionary
at Masulipatam, has been appointed assistant clerical
q secretary.