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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1846.

the parties, notwthsfand:ng the absence of evidence for
thy, thp ;earned GentlPman who was re-
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jury I.cLi:'ed, and .-hur;;
turned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 4001.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY)

IN RE NORRIS-BUILDING SPECULATIONS.
This bankrupt, Who had carried on business in Great
College-street, Camden-town, as a builder, came up to
pass his last examination.
The Solicitor to the assignees said that the accounts
rendered were very unsat!sfacory, as there was not a
single date throughout the whole, and t-ey had only
been filed at the la t hour; the assignees, were, there-
fore, desirous of fully inquiring into the state of the
bankrupt's affairs. He had contracted debts to the
amount of 5,0001. in two years, and without having a
shilling for his creditors he had sued out the fiat in
bankruptcy.
The bankrupt's Solicitor contended, that the ac-
counts having been filed in due time, the assignees ought
to have been prepared.
The Solicitor to t.ne assignees said it had been impos-
sible for them to ascertain the correctness of the ac-
counts. He said that two creditors had seized the whole
of the property, and one had taken forcible possession
with the aid of the police, and held in oppoLition to the
authority of this Court.
His ilorrourt said the assignees were entitled to fur-
ther time, and, under the circumstances, he should ad-
journ the examination sine die, giving the bankrupt leave
to come up at his own expense on giving notice to the
assignees.

SECONDARIES'.---(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
WARD V. HUNTER.

The plaintiff in this action is a brick and tile merchant
at Honduras Wharf, Bankside, and the defendant is a
carpenter. The action was brought to recover the sum
of 81. 65., for bricks sold.
The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted
beyond 71. 103., which he had
_tendered, and imw paid
into court.

The case lasted all the morning, but the simple ques-
tion was as to the quality of the bricks, which were
charged as the best, which the defendant denied, but went
to plaintiff and offered to " split the difference," and pay
Si. rather than go to law; the offer, however, was re-
jected, and the present action was brought.
The jury, after hearing the evidence, which was un-
interesting, gave a verdict for the defendant.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
Thomas Scully, indicted for breaking into the George
IV. public-house, at Brompton, was acquitted.
J. Childs. C.Piper, Edward Parker, Thomas Oliver,
James Pratten, and E. Childs, were indicted for unlaw-
fully entering upon, and taking possession of a piece of
ground at Woodford Wells, in the parish of Woodford,
in Essex. the property of Mr. William Wiggins.
The ,point in dispute was, whether or not this land
was the property of Mr. Wiggins. '
Mr. PAYNE, with whom was Mr. HounT, contended
that it was the property of the prosecutor, and had been
so since 1836.
Mr. BALLANTINE, on the other hand, who appeared
for the defendants, contended that the land was origi-
nally waste land, and that the prosecutor had acquired
no right of property therein. Various witnesses were
examined to show the state of the land at different
periods.
After the proceedings had continued some time,
His LORDSHIP interfered, expressing his opinion that
a clear legal right to excusive possession in the prose-
cutor had been established ; and he had a great objec-
tion to proceeding criminally where the civil process was
sufficient. The right, be which way it might, was not
worth contending for, and it seemed unwise to persevere
in the case.

Mr. BALLANTINE, under that advice, would withdraw
the defence, and
His LORDSHIP then, admonishing the prisoners on the
illegality of their violence, directed them to enter into
their own recognizances of 101. each to appear for judg-
ment when called upon.
On the counsel's advice Mr. Child and the prosecutor
shook hands in Court, and thus gave a termination to the
trial not often seen in a Criminal Court.
Frederick Webb, a waiter at Webb's Hotel, in Pic-
cadilly, and his wife, were indicted for stealing three
51. notes from the bag of a lady, named Andrews, who
resides at Northampton, and who was stopping at the
hotel on the 3d of November.
Mr. Balluntine prosecuted, and Mr. Doane defended
the prisoner.
Mrs. Andrews deposed, that on Tuesday, the 2d of
November she received one 51. note from her son, and
on the following morning three more. The last she put
into her bag in the morning of the 3d of November,
and pat the bag under a great coat in her sitting•room
at Webb's Hotel. On her return in the evening, she
saw the bag lying on, instead of under the great coat,
and the money gone.
Mr. T. J. Andrews, the son of the former witness,
stated that on Tuesday, the 2d of November, he gave to
the male prisoner a cheque for 601. upon Messrs. beni-
son's bank. The money was brought to him by the
head waiter, and consisted of eleven 5L notes and five
sovereigns. One of the notes he gave to his mother
that day, three more the following morning; six of the
others he paid to Messrs. Maccrakin, Custom House
agents, and one he paid to a clerk in the post-office at
Charing Cross.
George Bentley, a milkman, deposed that he received
a 51. note from the wife of the prisoner for change. This
note was shows to be one of the notes taken from Mrs.
Andrews' bag.
Policeman 119-F, who apprehended the prisoner on
the 27th November, stated that on telling Mrs. Webb
that he had come to take her into custody, she said that
she had received from her husband a Si. note in a letter,
which she got Mr. Bentley to change.
Mr. BALLANTINE allowed that there was no evidence
against the woman.
Mr. DOANE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, insisting that the charge against the female pri-
soner must tall to the ground, and that the testimony
against her husband was altogether inconclusive.
Mr. Commissioner BULLCCIC summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the
male prisoner, but acquitted his wife.—He was sen-
tenced to twelve months imprisonment, with hard lab3ur.

triving to slip away, he returned to Mr. Hughes's, and
said nothing of what had occurred. He continued to do
ayevs, &e.,berore, until last right.
tatlL having "found him out, gave him in
custody.
Mr. JARDINE leftit to the father to decide whether he
would press the charge or not.
he father said that if the prisoner would go home
with him, and promise to behave better in future, he
would forgive him ; and the prisoner having been with
great difficulty induced to consent, and give the required
promise, was set at liberty. The parties then left the
Court, Moore observing, as he went out, that the prisoner
was " the artfulest young devil he ever knew."

LITERATURE.
A CATHOLIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
L By W,11;
,Ifac
After the illustrious and remarkable NVriterS WIIG have
written the history of this our England, any work, now-
a-days, at all bearing upon that noble study appears a
superfluous, and, to some extent, an impertinentin-
trusion. So many inimitable authors have penned
the records of the land, that any addition to their
labours, is apparently an act of utter supererogation.
Whoever would adventure upon the publication of
such an addition must prepare himself to
be regarded with suspicion ; and must even apolo-
gise for his audacity by a candid and minute
explanation of his reasons for attempting such an un-
dertaking. The public invariably expect this, and,
to speak plainly, they are fully entitled to expect it.
Otherwise the press might be teeming with the lum-
ber of modern commentary upon ancient events. The
jealousy which is thereby evinced, for all historical
compositions, protects the public from libraries of
useless
and unwieldy o
unf Rapin,wieldyof
volumes. With the voluminous
productions
ll
Lingard, and others upon our °blooinkshshedel of Hume,ves—wth of
the
inestimable fragments contributed to our national
history by Hallam, by Sharon Turner, by Lord
Lyttleton, by Charles J. Fox, by Sir Thomas More,
and the like—with the perspicuous historiettes of Oliver
Goldsmith and his followers, at our command—we
must acknowledge that we are disinclined to wel-
come any one, however eminent, or however learned,
who, to employ a vulgar simile merely "dishes up''
old materials in a new form.We have a species of
antipathy for any one who will thus dare to profane
a sanctuary hallowed by, the footsteps of the writers
already enumerated. We look with suspicious cu-
riosity even to the forth-coming work by the Right
Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay. We are satis-
fied that this distinguished man will give some satis-
factory reasons for the employment of his capacious
mind upon a history which has already evoked the
wisdom, the eloquence, the research, the impartiality,
and the judgment of a Sharon Turner and a Hume, of a
Lingard and a Hallam. Still we shall look for those
reasons, as an explanation to which we are fully en-
titled. Impressed thus earnestly with the necessity
for some comprehensive unbosoming, in every new
historian of English history, we have turned with
much inquisitiveness to the introduction prefixed
to this preliminary volume by Mr. Mac
Cabe. We have read that introduction attentively,
and have subsequently scrutinised the eleven chapters
of his history as yet published. And after a dispas-
sionate examination of these pages we say, that the
work promises to be a valuable addition to our
national literature. It interferes in no one particular
with the writings of preceding historians, and that it
does not, a few words will testify. The merit of Mr.
Mac Cabe's work is the novelty of its conception and
execution. Instead of filtering the stream of history
through his own judgment, as his predecessors had
invariably done, he here gives us the waters of that
stream pure and sparkling from its different fountains.
The book indeed is scarcely so much a production of
his own as a transcript from the productions of
others. It is a series of well-connected translations
from various ancient writers, the obscurities of which
are elucidated in foot-notes, and the contradictions of
which are reconciled by a similar arrangement. The
author had remarked, in his historical studies, that
Rapin, Hume, and the rest, had all of them their
apparent ble'mish—their authorities are always ex-
cluded from their pages, and the "English reader is
seldom permitted to know more of them than the titles
of their works." For the purpose of correcting what
appeared to him such an intolerable omission, Mr.
M'Uabe conceived to himself the notion of
affording us the descriptions of these ancient
authorities themselves—of stringing those descriptions
together, so as to form a tolerably connected whole,
and thereby of producing a pure and unimpeachable
record of our national events. W herever there might
be discrepancies or improbabilities in these authori-
ties, the reader could judge for himself, instead of
trusting to the opinions of any intermediate party. If
this work have any merit at all, says Mr. Mac Cabe,—
" That merit will be found to consist in the originality
of its plan—in the attempt, however feebly executed, to
make the reader acquainted with the writings ; with the
thoughts of Gildas, Nennius, Bede, Asser, Ethelwerd,
Florence of Worcester, Eadmer, Simeon of Durham,
William of Malmsbury, Eddius, Henry of Huntingdon,
.
Roger de Hoveden, John Bromton, of Newbury,
Roger de Wendover, Mathew Paris, Nicholas Trivet,
Ralph Higden, Goscelin Sprott, W alsinghain, Knighton,
Capgrave, &c., &c., &c.; to do this, not by mere extracts
from them, but by making their words the text out of
which the history is compiled, and by combining them
together, to give a consecutive narrative of the ancient
annals of the country. In short, by introducing the
reader to those venerable monks, and leaving him to learn
history from their lips."
From the writings of Aldhelm, Boniface, Alcuin, and
Lanfranc, he might have selected a multitude
of passages in illustration of the brilliancy and
vividness with which they can delineate a
scene, pourtray a character, or narrate an occur-
rence. Mr. Mac Cabe has contented himself
dwuicthtioan. few,T hwehpicrhesehnet has interpolated
closesterpolatedwiitnh histhe ir.netirgon-
of Egbert, in 836. It is a most copious and pictu-
resqueiiistorirceael sordociofetay i
lltsbealprereacdeydiennggeavgeendtsin. TthheeEnglish
publica-
tion of our ancient chroniclers,biographers, and histo-
rians, in their original languages. The present book
is a translation of those chroniclers, biographers, and
historians. To the scholar the former work will be
most valuable. To the general reader the latter work
will be invaluable. Mr. M'Cabe deserves every com-
mendation for the extent to which he has tasked his
erudition, and for the industry with which he has
compiled his materials. The " Catholic History of
England," while it affords us a knowledge of the
English people, as well as of the English kings, in re-
mote times, is a lasting monument of the research
and intelligence of its author.

DESTITUTION IN ZETLANH.--A criminal trial took
place at Lerwick, a few days ago, of two men who were
tried before the Sheriff and a jury, on a charge of house-
breaking and theft. It appeared in evidence that the
" two lads had broken in through the slated roof of a
warehouse at North Yell, and taken a quantity of meal."
And what was the cause of such a crime ? The defence
was, that hunger had compelled them to this mode of
getting food." The panels were found guilty, but were
" recommended to leniency, we suppose, on account of
their poverty and hunger," and they were sentenced
each to three months' imprifonment. Such is the state-
ment of this case, What dces it disclose ? What, but
that in Zetland there are individuals—young men—per-
sons hitherto of unblemished e..arantor, but now having a
stigma affixed to their names for life—driven to crime—
not from choice butlof necessity, compelled to break the
laws of their country to keep in their existence. We are
told they entered a storehouse, and stole a " quantity of
meal." Why did they not take tobacco, sugar, porter,
soap, molasses, crockeryware, tea, or other articles ?
Why was it merely "a quantity of meal ?" There is
a truth telling eloquence in the words,
" a quantity
of meal." It speaks of starvation. Bad as Ireland
really is, it is not, on the whole, in a condition nearly
so wretched as the county of Zetland. In Ireland,
no " lad" need starve. A gbnerous Government has
provided means to prevent such a calamity there.
But what is doing for Zetland ? Why, the same corre-
spondent who furnished us the report of the trial we
have referred to, informs us that " poverty has now got
loose amongst us. No work is to be had, except for a
few men, employed in draining by Mr. Davidson of Lax •
firth." He adds a hint that, if some public works were
set agoing, " they might save many from utter starva-
tion." This is truly a most pitiable state of matters,
and calls loudly for aid. A patient, persevering, yet
deeply wrongly and oppressed group of islands is on the
brink of starvation, and there is nothing doing on its
behalf I The Zetlanders have been long overlooked—
their social and physical condition has not been inquired
into—and we hold that, unless something be immediately
done on their behalf, results the most disastrous cannot
but follow.—John 0' Groat Journal.
THE NEW PLANET.—The presentdistance of the
new planet, expressed in common measure, is about
3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun, and about
3,100,000,000 from the earth. Its distance from Uranus
i
is
largest in our
sh
—whose motions it disturbs—is about 150,000,000 miles.
Its diameter is about 50,000 miles.
about 35,000 ; of Jupiter, 85,000 ; of Saturn, 79,000 ;
oeThatt of Uranus
to that of
thes
system except Jupiter and Saturn ; and since these two
earth
he a earth, th
250, to
1. 8,000.
The
ets new cubic
planet bulkis
planets, as well as Uranus, are each attended by a train
of satellites, it is extremely probable that the new
Planet will have a similar accompaniment. We had the
pleasure of seeing the planet on Thursday night from
the Calton-hill. It comes to the meridian a few minutes
before nine, and is within a short distance of Saturn.
With a power under 200, it is not distinguishable from a
fixed star.—Edinburgh Paper,

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR 011 Thursday night
the inmates of the Fountain Hotel, Sheerness, were much
alarmed by the following occurrence :—Shortly after
Mrs. Gregory, the landlady, had retired to rest, she
heard her bed-room door opened and shut again, but
imagining it to be her husband, she took no notice of it;
but the opening of the door a second time attracted her
attention. when she saw, from the dim light of a night-
shade, a short figure, which she concluded was that of
her mother, who slept in an adjoining room ;
however,
shortly afterwards, hearing a rustling noise
under her
be, at the same time noticing a smell as of
something
burning, she became alarmed, and hastening to her
mother a bed-room for assistance, returned with her to
her own bed room, and, looking under
the bed,
observed the naked feet of a man. Alarmed at the
circumstance, they immediately ran down stairs for help,
when Mr. Gregory, vecmpanied by the waiter, pro-
ceeded to the room. The fellow having been disturbed
in his concealment. attempted to make his escape, and
which he would have effected at the moment, but for
two pntlemen who were staying at the hotel, and who
intercepted him in his intended flight. He was then
handed over to the watchman, from whose custody ho
escaped, and running down to the pier, took refuge in a
barge, lying alongside. The crew being aroused, quickly
routed the intruder from his retreat, and after inflicting
on him a severe chastisement, he was suffered to depart.
He was dressed in the garb of a sailor. Under Mrs.
Gregory's bed were found his stockings and a piece of
burnt rag, which he is supposed to have ignited, for what
purpose does not appear.

I COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
ye,,,crrilyEX,l2.!lArol
rirt.
of
the
busiLs it)l t>1:;(, I,lto C,lLdrr;lt;ol: the
third rcae.ing of " A Bill for declaring the Qualification
of Frcenv n of London to be elected Members of tho
Coinnii.n Council."
The Court was numerously attended.
The bill, which was brought in by Mr. John Wood,
by the direction of the Court upon the report of the
General Purposes Committee, after repealing all the de-
clarations, orders, resolutions, and ordinances of the 23d
N.,veraber, 1710, and the 14th of June, 1716, and of the
whole of the interval between those dates and the pre-
sent time, enacts " that any freeman of London, being a
householder, and any freeman of London, though he may
dwell out of the City, shall be capable of being elected a
member, provided, at the time of such election, he is,
and for twelve months previously he shall have been the
occupier of a house, shop, counting-house, or office
situated within the ward for which he shall be so
elected ; and provided that he is, and for twelve months
previously he shall have been rated in his own name to
the consolidated rate in respect of any house, &c., within
such ward ; and also provided, that during the time of
his being so rated he shall have resided in such house,
or habitually resorted to such shop, counting-house, or
office for the purpose of carrying on any art, mystery,
trade, profession, or occupation therein."
After the second reading of the bill, which occurred a
few days ago with closed doors, a Court of Aldermen
was held, in which a discussion took place, the public
being, as in the instance of the Court of Common Coun-
cil, excluded, and a resolution was unanimously passed
condemnatory of the measure, as an infringement of tha
laws of the Corporation.
Mr. JOHN WOOD rose to move that the bill be read a
third time.
The LORD MAYOR—Before any further proceeding
with this bill, I call upon the Recorder to read to the
Court a communication which he has been ordered to
make by myself and my brother Aldermen.
Much dissatisfaction was expressed by Mr. WIRE and
several other members of the Court at what they con-
sidered to be an unfair interruption to the usual course
of proceeding in matters of corporate legislation.
The RECORDER proceeded to read the communication
referred to by the Lord Mayor, amidst frequent cries of
"Na, no," and other evidence of dissent from the great
majority of the members. The Learned Gentleman
stated that the paper related to the bill which had been
just named, and the Court at length became tranquil and
listened to him.
The following is a copy of the communication :
" Carroll, Mayor.—An especial Court was held on
Wednesday, the 16th day of December, 1846, and in the
10th year of the reign of Victoria, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, &c.
" Resolved,—That after mature consideration of :all
the circumstances of the bill entitled A Bill to declare
the Qualification of Freemen of London to be elected
Members of the Court of Common Council,' the Lord
eursmtoemns,acrehaortferosp,inaniodnlathwastosfutchhisbcililtyisco;
declare their dissent from the bill,
ndd Mayort
ftrrhaoer
myyanadt odno the Aldermen
tbhyer proceedings therein.
" Resolved,—That the Recorder be ordered to com-
municate the above resolution to The Court of Common
Council.

" MEREWETHER."

Mere there was a loud and general call for Mr. Wood,
and several members cried out " Proceed with the bill."
Mr. WOOD rose with the bill in his hand, but

The RECORDER stepped forward, and said—The Lord
Mayor directs me to say that he cannot put the motion
for the third reading of the bill, and he cannot allow any
further proceeding with the measure, as he has already
concurred with his brother Aldermen in declaring that
it is against the customs, charters, and laws of the City.
Sir PETER LAURIE —I beg to say that I do not agree
with the Lord Mayor and my brother Aldermen in their
view of the question.—(Loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR—Sir Peter Laurie was not present
when the subject was discussed. All the Aldermen who
attended agreed in the propriety of the resolutions just
read.

.......
Mr. Join.; Woon—My Lord Mayor, I move that the
bill be read a third time.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir PETER LAURIE—I second the motion.

The IA nu MAYOR—I cannot put the question.

Some of the members attributed to the Recorder the
course of opposition which it was obvious the Lord
Mayor intended to persevere in, and said that the Court
could proceed without the assistance of the Learned
Gentleman.

Deputy CORNET submitted that the dissent of the
Court of Aldermen possibly proceeded from some techni-
cality, which a communication between the two courts
might have the effect of removing; and that, by a kindly
co-operation, the bill might be passed in a somewhat
altered form, to which no objection could be reasonably
started.—(A few cries of " Hear, hear," and over-
whelming shouts in the negative). In the absence of
the reasoning of the Aldermen upon the subject, a depu-
tation to that body might set the question at rest.—
(Loud cries of" No," and laughter). What was the use
of a bill which, when passed, might prove to be a nullity?
—(General murmurs, and cries of " Move, move.") He
then moved that a deputation should be appointed to
confer with the Court of Aldermen upon the subject.
The amendment having been seconded, and
The RECORDER having risen to put the amendment,
Mr. AsuurtsT started up and charged the Learned
Gentleman with having always shown a readiness to ad-
vise the Court of Aldermen in matters opposed to the
views of the other branch of the Corporation. He knew
that the opposition of the Aldermen to the present bill
arose from their apprehension of another bill which they
were a% are would follow, and which would prevent them
from dipping their bands into the pockets of their fellow-
citizens.—(Loud cheers.)
The RECORDER indignantly disavowed all nation of
advising any course that was not calculated to render
service to both branches of the Corporation.
Mr. ASHURST said he did not mean to give any per-
sonal offence to the Recorder, but the words he had just
used were substantially correct. _

-The RECORDER said he had distinctly represented to
the Court the difficulties which, upon the perusal of the
bill, struck him as insurmountable. He had delivered
his opinion without reserve, and he considered it ex-
tr( mely uncandid as well as unjust to attack a public
officer, whose duty and anxious study it was to do all in
his power to protect the privileges of every branch of
the Corporation.—(Hear, hear, and murmurs.)
Mr. WIRE repeated the statement made by Mr.
Ashurst, and accused the Aldermen of having employed
a professional man to assist them in riding over the
rights of the citizens, and in asserting a power which
they did not possess.
Mr. ANDERTON cautioned the Lord Mayor against the
alternative of vacating his seat before the decision of the
Court should take place. If his Lordship pursued that
course the Court would doubtless imitate the conduct of
the Common Council of 1648, when the Lord Mayor
having refused to put a motion at their request, they
went direct with a petition to the House of Commons,
complaining of the contempt, and they there received
the warmest assurances of support, and the warmest
commendations upon their independence.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE said that the very manner in which
the Court uI Alther men had mwdo tha communication was
as offensive as words could make it.—(Hear.)
Mr. R. L. JONES condemned the course taken by the
Court of Aldermen, whom he accused of neglect of their
duties in not attending the committee in the progress of
their labours.

Alderman WILsoN said, it appeared from the language
used by the Court, that they considered the Aldermen
had objected without reason to the bill, which was by no
means the fact. They were opposed to it from the
commencement, but they waited till they had an oppor-
tunity of examining the words in which it was framed.
They had taken counsel's opinion as to whether they
could be consenting parties to such a measure, and they
were told that it was in direct opposition to the usages
and customs by which the Corporation was governed.
Here the amendment was put, and after great confu-
sion and noise, there was a cry of " Divide."
Mr. WIRE and several other members begged that the
Court would not divide, and intimated that a manoeuvre
was intended by which they might be betrayed into an
rror.

Alderman SIDNEY said no man more respected the
privileges of the Corporrtion than he did, and therefore
he opposed the bill. The power assumed by the Court
of Common Council could only be exercised by the Le-
gislature itself.

Sir I'. LAURIE said he heartily supported the bill,
and he was prepared to support the bill which was to
follow.—(Cheers.)
After some observations from other members,
Mr. CORNEY cried out, " Why, my Lord, there is no
Court."

Here the utmost confusion prevailed. The Aldermen
had, one by one, slipped away unperceived, until the
Lord Mayor was left but with one of his brethren (Sir
P. Laurie) on the bench, and the presence of three Alder-
men is necessary to ccnstitute a Court.
It was stated by some that there was an alderman in
the adjoining room, and the Lord Mayor was requested
to send the mace bearer to compel the attendance of that
gentleman. His Lordship declined to do so, and said
that he could not stultify himself by putting a question
which he and his brethren considered to be of a nature
calculated to interfere fatally with the privileges of the
Corporation and the rights of their fellow• citizens. llis
Lordship then left the court.

THE SWELL-MOB IN THE PROVINCES.—The ap-
prehension of Shaw and Wood, two members of the
swell-mob, for the robbery of the Half-moon Inn, in
Gateshead, has elicited communications from the pro-
prietors of inns ill various parts of the country, detailing
losses of a character exactly similar to that experienced
by Miss Murray, and identifying the prisoners by their
description, as parties who were suspected at the time,
but whose adroitness saved them from punishment. Mr.
H. Baldock, landlord of the Hand and Sceptre Inn,
Tunbridge Wells, has written to Gateshead, stating that
two men, corresponding in appearance with the prisoners,
robbed his house in September last of 1571. Wood's
wife, who was remanded on a charge of being concerned
in robbing the George and Angel Inn, at Stamford, has
bee* discharged, her connexion with the affair being of
the same doubtful character as at Gateshead.
BANK or ENGLAND.—Yesterday, a quarterly
general court of the proprietors of this corporation was
held at the Bank of England, pursuant to the terms of
the charter. There were but few of the proprietors pre-
sent, as it was not generally believed that any discussion
would take place. At.twelve o'clock, the Governor,
the Deputy-Governor, and a majority of the Court of
Directors entered the audience room; and the secretary,
by the direction of the Governor, read the minutes of the
last general court. It was resolved that the minutes
read, in which are contained votes of thanks to the past
Governor, the Deputy-Governor, &c., for the able man-
ner in which they had exercised the duties of their
various cffices, should be fully confirmed. No other
business having been brought forward, the Court ad-
journed,