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for some time. He was found with a turkey i❑ his pos-
session, which the prosecutor's servant identified as one
that had been stolen from her master's flock. _

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Thomas Cleary, a well-known thief, was indicted for
stealing a purse containing 4s. 6d. and other moneys, the
property of Herbert Johnson.
It appeared that the prosecutor was walking along
Ludgate-hill, when the prisoner managed to abstract the
purse from his pocket.
A verdict of Guilty having been returned,
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said no less than
three convictions, and those for serious offences, had
been recorded against the prisoner, and it therefore be-
came the duty of the Court to sentence him to ten years'
transportation.

A respectable-looking man, named Frederick Stricker,
described as a house painter, was indicted for stealing a
looking-glass and two sets of fire-irons, the property of
Lewin Mosely.
The prisoner was engaged by the prosecutor to paint
his premises, and shortly after the termination of the
job the above articles were missed and traced to a pawn-
broker's, where they were pledged by the prisoner.
Tie was found Guilty, and in consequence of his pre-
vious good character he was sentenced b only four
months' imprisonment.
_ _ _

John Mellett, aged 12, was found Guilty, with a re-
commendation to mercy, of stealing a quantity of tools,
and sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.
Mary Anne Tay, an elderly female, who was most
respectably connected, pleaded Guilty to an indictment
charging her with stealing a shawl, the property of
Edward Lloyd.
Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a most
excellent character, in consideration of which the Court
sentenced her to only two months' imprisonment.

were placed at the bar, before Mr. Burrell, charged with
assaulting Thomas Smith, stonemason, of No. 8, John-
son-street, Westminster.

The complainant stated, that himself and his wife
were standing, with an infant child, before the bar of the
White Hart, Milbank-row, about half-past eleven o'cl,ck
on Monday, when the prisoner, Noonan, acc)sted 1- n,
and immediately afterwards ran upstairs, and returned
with his companions and commenced a brutal assault
upon him, striking him to the ground. When he rose
he was again struck, and while Noonan was
striking him, Shehen seized him, one by the throat, and
the other behind, and again threw him to the ground,
and while there repeatedly kicked him. One of his
friends, named North, then interfered, and dragged him
from among them. North was in turn attacked, and
also knocked down, and the fray was ultimately termi-
nated by the interposition of the palice.
Philip James, also a stonemason, corroborated the
last witness's statement. He went to North's assistance,
when he was immediately struck himself by Shehen.
This was the signal, he conceived, for a general uproar,
for he was struck from all directions by the assailants,
receiving a severe black eye by a blow from a knubbed
stick used by Sheen.
_

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Sir George Carroll took his seat for the
first time as Lord Mayor in the justice room.
Several young men were brought before his Lordship
charged, some of them with having picked pockets, and
others with having attempted to pick pockets, on Lord
Mayor's day.
A lad, named James Neill, was accused of having
picked a man's pocket of a pocket- book.
As Gecrge Wardle, City policeman, No. 25, was on
duty between 11 and 12 o'clock on Monday, near the
Guldhall Coffee-heuse, he observed the prisoner make
several attempts on the pockets of different persons. At
length the hand of the prisoner went deliberately into
the pocket of one man, and took out something, which
he put into his own pocket. The policeman instantly
Followed the plundered party, communicated to him what
had happened, and took into custody the prisoner, in
whose trousers' pocket he found a pocket-book, which
WAS identified by a tailor, named Robert Linfort, as his
pr perty.
The prisoner said that somebody in the crowd, no
doubt with the view to get out of a scrape, thrust the
pock t-book into his pocket, and the policeman mistook
one person for the other, and unluckily accident had
favoured the suspicion.
C .remitted for trial.
Thomas Swindle was doubly charged.
George Kemp, 82 N, of the Metropolitan Police, who
had been in search of the prisoner, saw him near Lon-
don-bridge on Monday, after the embarkation of the
Lord Mayor, putting his hand into the pocket of a lady
of the name of Pickford, the wife of a wine merchant.
The officer at once seized the prisoner, and found in his
hand two shillings and five halfpence, which the lady
said was the exact amount which she had in her pus es-
sion before she was robbed.
Elizabeth Woodcock stated that on the sth of No-
vember she was in Margaret-place, when a Guy Faux
nassed, end in the crowd was the prisoner, who slipped
his hand into her pocket and drew out her purse, con-
taining 103. 6d. in silver. She saw the fellow pull his
hand out, and pursued and took him, and held him about
ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, but could get no
ases'ance, and he escaped. She afterwards informed the
policy of the robbery, and she had no doubt of the pri-
soner's identity.
Polic mata 82 N, while looking out for the prisoner
upon the char2e just uttered, cast his eyes upon him as
he was committing the robbery described in the first
case, and caught him in the act.
The prisoner said that people were liable to mistakes
in the streets, in which there were such crowds and con-
fusion ; for his part, he never commi:ted the robbery,
and if he suffered, he should suffer innocently.
The LORD MAYOR, who perceived that the prisoner
was a regular processional thief, committed him for trial
upon the two charges, in order to gat rid of him for
some time from the streets of London.
Alexander Ogilby, a man of large size and peculiarly
brutal appearance, was charged with having committed
most dangerous assaults upon the police.
John Monaghan, (341) City policeman, stated that at
half-past nine on Monday night, he was called by an in-
habitant to remove the prisoner from a shop in Fen-
church-street. The prisoner appeared to he drunk and
refused to leave the shop, and witness took him to the
station house, where the prisoner, who had a knife in
his hand, struck and tried to stab him.
Inspector Merchant stated, that he was obliged to lock up
the prisoner; his violence was of the most violentcharacter,
and when witness opened the door to remonstrate with
him, the brutal fellow cut his hand completely ac'oss.
The witness then went to get assistance, and upon his
return found an officer, named henry Martin (49) strug-
gling with him on the ground.
Martin said, that when the Inspector went for more
assistance, he had the prisoner by the collar, and imme-
diately the prisoner took a clasp knife out of his pocket,
swore he would " give it to" witness, made a stub at
him, knocked him down, and cut his hand severely
between the thumb and the forefinger.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner how it happened
that he had b'en guilty of such desperate violence to
men who had been temperately doing their duty towards
the public ?—The prisoner said he knew nothing at all
about the business, as he was, in fact, dead drunk.
Remanded till Thursday.
William Burn was charged by Mr. Gilbert, of the
Minori-s, with having most cruelly beaten one of the
horses he was driving in a waggon. He had been sitting
on the middle horse, which was without reins, and he
struck one of' the poor animals most desperately about
the hea I with the butt end of his whip. The horse fell,
and the brute struck it even more brutally when down.
The LORD MAYOR expressed great indignation at the
conduct of the defendant, and was about to fine him to
the utmost extent, when he suddenly learned that the
fellow had a very large family, and that the infliction
would inevitably fall upon the heads of his wife and
children.
The LORD MAYOR (to the defendant)—You deserve
the weightiest punishment, but I cannot think of punish-
ing your wife and children. The sentence of the Court
upon you is that you pay a fine of ten shillings, or be
confined in the House of Correction for fourteen days.
The defendant thanked his Lordship, and paid the
fine.

medium of an interpreter. He said he was intoxicated
at the time, and did not know anything whatever re-
specting the charge.
He was committed to Newgate for trial.

EDINBURGH HIGH COURT OF

JUSTICIARY. - -
- -
CHARGE OF MURDER.
Janet Campbell or M'Lellan was on Thursday last
placed at the bar, charged with the murder of her
husband, James M‘Lellan, by means of arsenic or other
poison.
The prisoner, who was dressed in deep mourning,
and appeared to be about forty years of age, pleaded not
guilty.
Hugh M‘Grgor Mason, who lived in the same house,
proved that on Sunday, the sth July last, the deceased
was taken ill immediately after taking his breakfast of
tea, which had been prepared by the prisoner, but of
which she declined to partake at the time ; that when
requested by the deceased to go for a doctor the prisoner
excused herself, and the witness went instead, and that
the sick man died the same evening.
Margaret Drew gave evidence of considerable
ill-
feeling having subsisted between the husband and wife
for some length of time before the death; and another
witness spoke to threats uttered by the prisoner against
the deceased.

Henry North, who appeared to be suffering dread
fully from the beating which he had received, and was al
lowed a chair whilst he gave his evidence, corroborated
the evidence of the other witness. He was endeavour
ing to part Smith and Noonan, when a number of per
sons came down from an upper room, and he had hardly
got to the foot of the stairs when he received two blows on
the head, one from Sheen, and the other from a person
he did not know. While down he was struck and
kicked by several persons at once, and at last succeeded
in escaping through the trap-door of the bar, although
so nearly strangled that he could not speak. The land-
lord sent for a cab, and he was taken to the hospital,
where plasters were applied to his head and face, and ban-
dages were wound round the whole of the upper part of
his body ; and he was still suffering severely from the
ill-usage both in his back and on the side of his face.
The MAGISTRATE here directed that a certificate
should be obtained from the surgeon of the hospital,
whither North was about to return, as soon as he had
given his evidence.
Mr. Thomas Watkins, landlord of the White Hart inn,
Milibank-row, stated that he was inside the bar when
the circumstances took place, and generally confirmed
the evidence which had previously been given. He
further stated that after the first part of the fray, which
occurred between Smith and Noonan only, the latter
went up stairs, and shortly afterwards came down with
eight or nine of his friends, and commenced the affray.
Police-constable 147 C took the three prisoners into
custody as the ringleaders of the uproar, though not
without some difficulty.
Noonan, who appeared with a couple of black eyes,
replied that it was " a fair quarrel " between Smith and
himself, and as for the kicking of North he was perfectly
unconscious of anything of the kind.
Sheen, who exhibited a foot tied up, alleged that he
only used his stick to walk with, and that it was not
until North had struck him on the bridge of the nose,
which " bothered" him ; and he believed that he did
strike James almost without knowing anything about it,
as he happened to be holding the stick Irish fashion, by
the middle—that was all he knew of the matter.
Shehen said that all the truth was that he was just
having a bit of a raffle for the benefit of his " missus,"
and the row came on, but he never saw any kicking at
all. He would call his witnesses.
But the first was a very unfortunate call, for when
Mrs. Mary Connor was put into the box she was im-
mediately charged with having struck the constables in
the discharge of their duty, and with attempting to
rescue the prisoners, and was accordingly taken into
custody.
The prisoners stating that they had other evidence,
which they could not just then adduce, the magistrate
remanded them till Saturday. He would allow each of
the prisoners to go on bail of 100/. fur themselves, and
two sureties of 501. each.
SOUTHWARK.

Robert Flood, alias Long Bob, well known i❑ the Bo-
rough, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a
sack of potatoes, value 10s. 6d., from a cart, near Lon-
don -bridge.
A man named Sharp, said that he had charge of the
carts that morning in Wellington-street, near the Bo-
rough-market. Saw the prisoner go behind Mr. llope's
cart, take a sack of potatoes on his shoulders, and run
away. He pursued him, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner, who denied he had stolen the potatoes,
was committed for trial.
In the course of the morning, a man named John
Spilling, beaten in a shocking manner about the head
and body. was assisted into Court for the purpose of
applying for a warrant against his assailants.
From his account of this brutal assault, which he
uttered with difficulty, it appeared he went into a public-
house in White-street, kept by a man named Sweeney,
and freiuented by a number of the lower order of Irish,
on Sunday night. He had not been long in the tap-
room when a quarrel arose, and he was attacked by
three men, who knocked him down, kicked, and beat
him in such a desperate manner, that had it not been
-nr the interference of sonic persons present they would
have killed him. As it was, the unfortunate man has
received such serious internal injuries that it is a matter
of doubt whether he will recover from the effects.

Two females deposed to having purchased poison for
the prisoner, at her request, shortly before the husband's
death; and evidence was also given of expressions used
by her prognost!cating the. death of her husband, which
took place on the following day.
1)r. Young, Dunning, deposed to having been sent for
on the Sunday, to see deceased, and said—l have heard
a report of deceased having been poisoned, and the
symptoms were quite in accordance with such a thing. I
took away some of the stuff which deceased vomited, to
which I applied the liquid tests, and one of them indi-
cated the presence of arsenic. Mrs. M4Lellan, three
weeks before the death of her husband, applied to me for
poison to destroy rats; but I did not give it to her, be-
cause of the sports that were current, and also because
of the way in which she aske,l for it; she said, " Will
you give it to me?" Remember selling poison to Helen
Aitken (a person employed by the prisoner to purchase
it), upon either the Monday or Tuesday before M•Lellan's
death. She got as much for a penny as would kill at
least four men. She also said it was to kill rats.
Dr. Thompson, Perth, read a report on the post-
mortem examination of the body of the deceased, made by
witness and Dr. Malcolm, of Perth, on the 6th of July,
and also on an analysts of the contents of the stomach
and other parts of the body. In the latter they gave it
as the result of their repeated analyses, that they had
found arsenic to a considerable extent in the stomach,
also in the liver, a much smaller quantity in the lungs,
but none in the leaves or in the tea-pot. They gave it
as their opinion, -taking the symptoms of the disease
which led to the death, and the result of the anal) ses,
that James M'Lellan died of poison, and that the poison
was arsenic.
For the defence evidence was given of the deceased
having applied to a medical man for poison, and having
threatened to poison himself.
After a charge from the Lord Justice Clerk,
The jury retired, and after deliberating for fifty mi-
nutes, returned a verdict, finding, by a large majority,
the charge Not Proven.
The prisoner was then dismissed from the bar. During
the whole of the trial she sustained herself with won-
derful composure.
The verdict appeared to excite considerable surprise
in the minds of the large assemblage which, crowded
the court-room.

THE SMALL DEBTS ACT
(From the Law Times.)
Curiosity is on the rack to learn what is being done
or contemplated towards setting in motion the machi-
nery of this measure, or we should rather say towards
its construction, for the statute does little more than
prescribe an outline; all the practical details are to be
supplied by the Privy Council, the Lord Chancellor, cr
the Judges.
The country is impatient for the consummation of a
desire so ardently pursued, and from which such impos-
sible benefits are contemplated, and the lawyers will not
be:displeased to have the measure of their good or evil
ascertained. Be-ides its suspended animation operates
most inconveniently just now. Clients are every where
holding back their claims, waiting the advent of the
cheap writs. The next term will exhibit a vast diminu-
tion in the number of writs, and the contraction of many
an agency office. We understand that to Mr. Espi
nasse, well known in the profession by his work on Nisi
Prius, has been committed the task of preparing a draft
of the forms of procedure, to be afterwards considered,
revised, and approved by the judges. Abler hands
could not have been employed upon this important duty.
But to him and the judges the work will be dis-
tasteful. To frame any forms of procedure that shall fit
the schedule of fees, will lash to the utmost the ingenuity
of the framer. He can scarcely hope to give satisfaction.
He will be laughed at by the lawyers for the brevity,
or be abused by the public for his length. Mr. Espi-
nasse's reply must be, what sort of law do you expect
for fifteen shillings ?
We hear the Lord Chancellor has resolved that the
duties of the judges (who will number about 100), shall
be onerous that of necessity they must abandon private
practice. In all, save the very large towns, they will
lead peripatetic lives—a perpetual circuit.
To carry out the "cheap" principle that has inspired
the entire statute, the
.judges (who must be barris-
ters of seven Tear.' standing), it is said, are not to be
paid for the first two or three years by salary, but by
fees. The object of this is to apportion pay to work.
It is supposed that the amount of fees will indicate nearly
the quantity of labour, and that the salaries may then
be fixed at the average of the annual fees.
In the choice of judges, we understand, the Chancel-
lor considers himself by no means bound to appoint
existing judges of local courts, save where the statute
has expressly required it. He will fearlessly remove all
incomptent persons. And his single mindedness is
such, that the most perfect assurance may be entertained
that in the selection of judges he will be guided by no
other iufluence than a sense of public duty. Lord Cot-
tenham is, by universal admission, not only one of the
ablest judges, but one of the most inflexibly upright men
that ever sat upon the woolsack. •

Laudon .•• • . •
Qt. Katharine • • • • • • • •
Southampton • • • • • • • •

Name of Company.

Maria Oldoah was charged. A policeman said that
on Cornhill the defendant had flowers for sale, and, be-
ing in a drunken condition, was soon surrounded by a
crowd ripe for any mischief. Upon being requested to
go away, she castigated the policeman severely about
the head and breast with her fists, and belaboured his
country, which was Ireland, with her tongue. The con-
sequence was that she was introduced to the station-
house.
She denied that she was capable of using the ugly
words attributed to her, and said that she brought out
the flowers to sell in honour of the day.
The LORD MAyon—But I cannot forgive drunken-
ness in a young woman. A female who indulges herself
in that vice subjects herself to the worst insults.
The defendant—Oh, my Lord, let me go ; and if you
ever catch me before you again, you may do what you
like with me.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAXOR—I shall fine you five shillings for
tieing drunk and disorderly, or you must go to prison
for seven days.
The money was paid.
MARL BORO UGH- SRTEET.
John Parnel was charged before Mr. Long for raising
a disturbance, and committing an assault on the pro-
prietor of the public-house, 3, White Lion-street, Seven
Dials, kept by Daniel O'Connell, who said the defen-
dant had been turned out of his parlour last night for
m•tkitfg use of obscene and disgusting language. Shortly
after complainant beard a knocking, and went to the
door ; he saw nobody there, but on putting his head
out received a blow which cut his brow open and felled
him to the ground.
George Roche, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, saw de-
fendant commit the assault.
The defendant, who said he had received provocation,
was fined 31., or six weeks' imprisonment.
A well-dressed, elderly gentleman, who gave his name
as Roberts, was placed at the bar, charged with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of himself.
Police-constable 93 E found the defendantio in the
streets and took him to the station-house.
Mr. LONG—What do you say for yourself ? The de-
fendant—Why, your Worship, I'm a loyal Welshman.
Mr. LONG (interrupting him)—What privilege have
Welshmen to get drunk ? (There had been so many
loyal citizens before the Magistrate, who had been ce-
lebrating Lord Mayor's-day, that Mr. Long had to be
reminded by the clerk that it was the Prince of Wales's
birthday.)
The defendant—l had been jolly, and celebrating the
day like a loyal Welshman ; but when this man came
across me I was at my own door. Your Worship, I
couldn't find the key-hole, and the key had slipped from
my fingers, and I couldn't find it, but this constable, in-
stead of helping me to open the door, took me to the
station-house. That's all.
Mr. LONG —Petween loyalty and this kind of glorifi-
cation, it is difficult to see the connexion, but you may
go this time.

Mr. SECKER immediately granted warrants for the
apprehension of the assailant‘.

WORSHIP-STREET.

James CuVeil, a young man of very juvenile appear
ance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having att-npted to stab Mr. Henry Stephens, land-
lord of the Rutland Arm-4 Pearson-street, Kingsland-
road, with a clasp knife.
The prosecutor stated that, shortly before clever:
o'clock on the preceding night, the prisoner entered the
house and called for some liquor, but was induced by the
persuasion of his mother and sister, who cune in imme-

diately afterwards, to leave the place and accompany
them home without it. This he did very reluctantly,
and ten minutes had scarcely elapsed when he again
hastily entered the house, followe I by another of his sis-
ters, who in an agitated manner requested witness to give
her brother immediately into custody, as he had just be-
fore attempted to murder the young woman who had
previously accompanied him with a large clasp knife he
had then (Ten in his pocket. The prisoner had in the
mean time entered the tap-room, and was seated on a
table, when the a i ness approached him and seized one
of his arms to get posses; ion of the knife, but before he
could do so the prisoner suddenly drew out the weapon
and p:unged it with such force at his breast, that it
penetrated his coat and waistcoat, but then fortunately
g)t firmly fixed in one of the buckles of his braces, or he
was satisfied it must have entered his body. The pri•
soner wriggled the blade about to release it from the
buckle, but before he could do so witness forced him
back against a wall, where they continued struggling
together until a man named Ifurlock came to his assist-
ance, and in his efforts to wrest the knife from the pri-
soner snapped the blade off close to the haft, in doir.g
which three of his fingers were cut to the bone. The
prisoner was then secured and held until the arrival of a
policeman, into whose custody he was given.
The prosecutor's potman fully corroborated his
master's evidence, and added, that the prisoner's conduct
was of such a reckless and outrageous description, that
but for the circumstances referred to the prosecutor's
life would have been in all probability sacrificed.
On being asked if he wished to say anything; in answer
to charge, the prisoner said, he should decline offering
any defence at present, and he was ordered to be fully
committed for trial.

ARRIVAL or THE EAST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTIP.
AMPTON, Nov. 9.—The Oriental Company's steamship,
Erin, Captain Brooks, arrived at the Motherbank at
three A. M. this day, and landed the East India mails,
which were forwarded to London by the first morning
train. The Erin has a full general cargo, and fifty pas-
sengers. Her dates are Constantinople, October 20,
Smyrna, 24th, and Malta, 28th. She is expected to be
released from quarantine either this evening or early to-
morrow morning.
It appears that the terms of agreement entered
into between the Great Western and South Wales Com-
panies have been modified, to the extent of guaranteeing
the shareholders of the latter undertaking five per cent.
in perpetuity, with equal division of surplus profits above
that amount five years after the opening of the line.
The intended provision for amalgamation at the expira-
tion of ten years, and which was considered objection-
able in some quarters, has been by common consent
withdrawn.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH PRUSSIA.—TIie
Augsburyla Gazette states that a postal convention was
concluded on the 19th ult., at Loudon, between the Go-
vernments of England and Prussia.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF MALT LIQUOR.—At a meet-
liansgt,oift
was theedometmeromninberdewtoerr e the
saisfShfiVrt held on Monday
e of malt liquor
3s. per barrel. The present high piice of barley for
the ordinary price at pre-
malting left the brewers no alternative. In August the
average price of barley was 265. 9d. per quarter, and it
has now reached 41s. Bd. ; last year, at this time, it was
33
liquor is,F5 2rs
therefore,
fine
tthee
g u
a e
maltingar tr.barley,
ri'i;erinse in the price of malt
sent
commercial necessity, which will
exist until, either by importation or an abundant harvest
next year, barley is reduced to a moderate rate. It is
stated that the produce of the barley crop is turning Out
even worse than was anticipated, both in quantity and
quality.—Shejfield Times.
HONESTY.—The Liverpool agent of the Royal
calledthh)
ewig n
toh)a.eanrloe
Victoriau to-day ce rue natsnctdmo
setahiy(eie Casrhosme
apcgaaotnn,ye' hwdeheri
ceekn:
Victoria Steam Company has this week sent the 101-
—Pt
passenger
farevvg. rE
nw
r3at by
s
55., and that Captain Hudson missed collecting her fare.
She has never until now been able to repay it, and has
requested me to transmit the amount, which is annexed
in postage stamps.—J. D. Ttiosirsosr." To this com-
munication Mr. Thompson adds this significant post-
script—" N.B. A very rare occurrence."—Carlisle
Journal.
It is said that if the prevailing winds be easterly
about the time of the vernal equinox, a dry season will
follow ; if westerly or south-westerly, a wet one.—The
Plough.
FUNERAL OF A TEETOTALLER.--OR Sunday last
the remains of Richard Turner, originator of the name
teetotaller as applied to abstainers from intoxicating
drink, whose death we noticed in our last week's paper,
were interred in St. Peter's Churchyard, ground having
been purchased for that purpose through the exertions
of a few zealous friends of the temperance cause. A
very large number of teetotallers attended the funeral,
and in addition to those residing in Preston, there were
several from Wigan, Hindley, Bolton, Blackburn, Burn-
ley, Padiham, Lancaster, &c. The funeral procession
was preceded by the Rechabite band; after which came
the teetotallers, two abreast, headed by Messrs. Swindle-
hurst, Howarth, Simpson, Bradley, D qirden, and other
members of long standing. Next came the corpse,
in a hearse and pair, then the relatives of the de-
ceased, followed by the singers and Sunday school
children connected with the Primitive Methodists, of
which society he was formerly a member. Alto-
gether the number who attended the funeral amounted
to about four hundred. The streets through which
the procession passed were thronged with spectators.
The deceased had been upwards of fourteen years a
member of the Temperance Society, having signed the
pledge at the request of Mr. Swindlehurst and Mr.
Dearden, in St. Peter's School, in October,
1832, while
in a state of intoxication. It way not be generally
known how the term " teetotallers" became first adopted
by the members of the Total Abstinence Society, bute
we may inform our readers that Dickey (that being the
name by which Mr. Turner was familiarly calledj:in
one of his speeches, which were generally characterisedlo
for a word which would conve to the audience that he
by an equal mixture of wit and blunders, being at a ,
was an out-and-out total abstinencegn said, "I have
signed the tee, tee-total pledge." tils
spe
of the
livered in the Cockpit, at the latter e._
ech was o
ed year
was im-
-1333. The word being short and expressly,' •
-, and
m sdiately adopted by the abstainers of Lancashis,
ultimately throughout England ; nay, we may ss,
throughout the world, for both in America and India I
the term is adopted by those who are pledged to abstain
limp all intoxicating liquors.—Preston Chronicle.

THAMES.
John Duggan, a man of very repulsive appearance,
was brought up before Mr. Broderip, charged with
having caused the death of a labouring man named
Joseph Gale.
It appeared from the evidence of a woman named Ann
Cooke, who, it was understood, was a paramour of the
deceased, that they went on Tuesday evening last into
the Seven Stars pulslic-house, Rosemary-lane, where the
prisoner acted as potman. Deceased was watching a
party playing at cards, whilst the prisoner was skylarking
with a young girl. Duggan:happened accidentally to
touch deceased upon the eye, when an angry discussion
ensued, and Gale was removed to the tap-room, which
Duggan entered shortly after, when the quarrel was re-
newed, and the deceased gave Duggan a slight slap on
the hce, which, to use witness's expression, would no,
hurt a fly. Gale then left the tap-room, and as he wat,
entering it again the prisoner gave him a tremendous
kick on the lower part of his stomach, which caused him
to fall immediately. Witness contrived to get him out
to the step of a door in the neighbourhood, where he lay
in great agony until police constable H 24 came to their
assistance; and then the deceased, with the assistance of
two men, was conveyed to his own home, but had sub-
sequently to be removed to the London Hospital, where
he lingered until Sunday, when death put an end to his
sufferings.
Mr. J. C. Wordsworth, one of the surgeons of the
London Hospital, saw the deceased on Saturday, when
he appeared to be doing well, and he consequently did
not interfere with the treatment of the dressers. Ile
continued doing well till Saturday evening ; but it
appeared on Sunday morning the deceased had occasion
to go to the water-closet, where he remained so long that
one of the nurses went in search of him, and found him
in a state of great exhaustion. When he (Mr. Words.
worth) was called to see him he found him in a state of
extreme collapse, from which he never recovered.
The prisoner said in his defence that the statement of
the woman Cooke was untrue; that the young girl he
was larking with accidentally touched the deceased in
the eye, when a scuffle took place, and both parties
kicked at each other. He (Duggan) was not able to
fight the deceased, the latter being the bigger man.
As no post-mortem examination had taken place, and
there were no external marks of violence, Mr. Broderip
remanded the case until Wednesday next to allow an
opportunity of examining the viscera.
A good-looking young Spaniard, named Antonio
Oudiros, was put into the dock, charged with stabbing
man named John Maguire, at the Harrow public-house,
Poplar. The evidence was very brief.
It appeared that the complainant, about half-past
eight o'clock the previous night, was standing by the
fire at the Harrow public-house, with his hands in his
pocket, when the prisoner milled in with an open knife
in his hand and stabbed the complainant in the left arm,
and immediately ran away. The'cornplainant had never
seen prisoner before, or given him any provocation for
the act. He had occasionally met him in the house,
but had never had words with him. The knife pierced
the complainant's jacket and two shirts, inflicting a
wound nearly one inch in length, and dividing the lute-
moments.

Jeremiah Holland confirmed this statement, and added,
that in drawing away the knife the foreigner cut Ma-
guire's hand. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was taken
into custody at the Green Dragon, by police-constable
264 K, having been given in charge by the prosecutor,
whose arm was bleeding profusely at the time.
Mr. Robertson, the surgeon of the division, deposed
to the nature of the wound, after which
The prisoner was heard in his defeneo through tho

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER, 11, 18i6.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM

PANIES' STOCK.
From Ae OfjYcial List,

ÜBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING
LONDON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Pree
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d.
tustralasia ........ • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
Brash North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
:'ominereial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
........... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
fxmiln and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
'London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 15%
Metropolitan - 25 0 0 7 10 0
Provincial of Ireland •• V. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New Bl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Env.. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 d -
Ditto, New....... •• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of L0nd0n..... per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prie..
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
AThion ••••••• • • • • • • • 3/. 105 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
klliance grit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0
' Atlas . 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15
British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
& Gen. Lite Si. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10
.;ounty ...... •••• • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle ••• • • • ...... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 61;4
Eng. & Scot. Law •• • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
F:eemasons' .•••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe
Guardian .................r cent. 100 0 0 3G 10 0 48%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Indemnity Marine • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
Law Life.. .•••• • • .. I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 514
i.ondon Fire •••. • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 151%
London Ship ...• 108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 151 A
Marine.. ....• ••• • .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -3.!ed. Invlid& Gen. Life 4% /. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0
ational Lean Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
National Lit'e 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 8%
alladium Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Os.
3/. p. ct. & bs. - 205
Protector Life • . •• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Provident Life •• • • ,W. sr. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life............ 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Roy al Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock.
Sun Fire .
Ditto Life .......... 11. 6s. 49
Universal Life pr cnl 100 0 615 0 -
LIST or SCOTTISE COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. i Price.
Annum. Share.
£ S. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 175
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 159
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162%
National Bank ...... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 141.14 s
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 92%
Western Bank .....• • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 84
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 71,g
Clydesdale Bank • ....• 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Eastern Bank.. •• • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 4/. 4s.
Edinb.&(llasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 -71. Os
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. Gs
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 248. 6d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur. ••5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Edin!..tirgli Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 1814
Edin. &Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 72
Ditto, 1A Shares 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
Glanw & Ayrshir Bail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 09 tAi
Cllasgw & Greenck Bail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16%
Glsgw& Garnkirk Bail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee& Arbroth Ball. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard lifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 10 0 9

DOCKS.
Dividend Amount -
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X s. d.
Commercial .• • •
East and Nast India 6'. pr cent. Stock. 142 'Ai
East Country
andon ••• . •
Qt. Katharine .. • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. 100

5/. pr cent. 1 Stock
5 per cent. ! Stock.
4/. per cent. 50 0 0 , 50 0 0

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend I Amount
per of

Animm. I Share.

s. d.
100 0 0
41 13 4

ion 0

Vauxhall .. •• • ..• •. •• M. per cent. 100 0 0
%Vest Middlesex . . . 5/.ss.pr cnt. 63 12 9

Paid.

Price,

TIiwSDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE,

FOREIGNMFFICE, Nov 7, 1816.

The Queen, has been pleased to approve of Mr. Saul Salo-
mon, as Consul at St. Relena for his Majesty the Emperor
of Brazil.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, Nov. 7.

The names of those who were tl:is day nominated, by the
Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to serve
the office of Sheriffof the county of Cornwall.:—
Nicholas Kendall, of Pelyn' Esq.
Sir William Pratt Call, of Whiteford House, Bart.
William Daubez, of Killion. Dig.
WIIITELIALL, Nov. 5.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Pratt, of
Wootton Bassett, in the county of Wilts, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed William Norris,
of Manchester, in the County palatine of Lancaster,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.

MARKET NE WS-(YESTERDAY.)

COLONIAL.

SucAn.—British Plantation has been rather inactive, only
about 150 hhds having been sold, exclusive of a small portion
in public sale. The public sales consisted principally of 263
casks Trinidad, 174 casks 24 barrels St. Lucia, and
5,70 bags Mauritius, 4,354 bags Bengal, 380 bags
and 37 casks and cases Penang, nearly all of which
were taken in, being held for higher prices, except-
kg the Bengal and Penang, which chiefly sold at
the previous value. 56 puns St. Lucia Molasses brought
only 22s 6d for mid quality, being rather lower. There
was no Sugar landed last week at the East and Wesi; India
Docks, but there were taken for home, consumption 1,267
hhds 129 tierces 406 barrels. The stock of British Planta-
tion in the port of London on the Ist inst. was 15,493 hhds
1,969 tierces against 19,502 hhds 3,007 tierces at the same
time last year.

COFFEE.-206 bags Ceylon (British plantation kind), 215
barrels Rio, 809 bags foreign (chiefly La Guayra), and 136
bags East India. The Ceylon was disposed of, but again
at rather lower prices. The remainder was mostly taken in.
'The stock of British Plantation is lower than at this
time last, year, but of Foreign the stock is nearly double that
of last year.
Min.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks, was 11 hhds. There were taken for home
coriumption '296 puns 41 hhds, and exported 162 puns
• hhds. The stock in the Port of London on the Ist inst.
was 16,111 puns 2,023 Wads against 15,573 puns 2,258 hhds
at this time last year.

SPICES —342 chests Cassia Ligttea, and 350 bags Sumatra
Pepper, were offered by auction ; the forn.er sold at 53s to
53i 6d for mid quality, but coarse, which are about previous
P• s, rices The latter was withdraw at 23d for ord dusty to
good quality, being the former value, but at which there
were no purchasers.

SALTPETRE.-1,115 bags Bengal sold at 255, for 11 per
cent. refraction.

TALLOW. —P.Y.C. is 48s 3d to 48 6d per cwt on the spot
and Town 52s Gd per cwt.
TEA.—The market is rather firmer. Consumption steady

ez§ Y /VIA. SCAMTP.

SmirnFlELD.—MeadOW Hay, 218 s Clover ditto,
3/ 8s to 4/ 16s; ant. Straw, 11 7s to 1/ 12s per load. Supply
good, and trade rather dull.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2l 5s to 3/ 18s; Clover ditto,
318 s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 81 to 1/ 13s per load. A fair
average supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2l 5s to 31 17s ; Clover
ditto. 318 s to 5l; and Straw, 117 s to 1113 s per load. Trade
dull, at the above quotations.

(From the London New Price Current of November 10.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was rather more activity in the
Raw market, but no improvement occurred in prices, al-
though there was a falling off in the quantity of all descrip-
tions brought forward.
REFINED —To-day Refined Goods were purchased with
caution by the home trade, and prices declined from 63s to
63s 6d for brown melting lumps, 64s to 64s 6d for brown
grocery, and 65s to 65s 6d for standard lumps. In Bonded
Crushed Sugar there was little-passing, and there are sellers
of first quality at 33s 3d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—HoIders have manifested firmness, but there
has been only a limited business transacted by private treaty
in any kind. At auction 5,703 bags were all taken in and
withdrawn 2s to 3s per cwt above the value.
FOREIGN.—AII kinds have met with little attention by
private contract for home consumption, but white, yellow,
and brown are held for the previous currency. At auction
542 hhds and 70 barrels of Porto Rico were sold. Foreign
has been sparingly dealt in by exporters and our refiners
working under bond, but holders are firm, and will not sell
but at full prices.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon four parcels of Bengal Sugar
amounting to 4,203 bags were offered at public sale, and
the whole sold at a decline on former rates of 6d per cwt.
CoFFEE.—This afternoon there was little passing pri-
vately in any kind of Coffee for home consumption or expor-
tation. Ceylon good ordinary native can be obtained at 38s
per cwt.

briatTs.—Previous improved rates have been fully sus-
tained for all descriptions of Jamaica Rum, and the demand
has been active. For Leeward Islands the demand has been
good, hut no further rise in prices can be quoted. East India
is wanted, and fetch full rates. Demerara has been in good
request at the previous value Any further advance in the
value of Brandy has been prevented from taking place by the
announcement of a large public sale ; but holders are arm,
and the demand has been good for all descriptions.
A further:decrease has taken place in the stock of Brandy.
To-day there was less demand tor all kinds of Rum, but
holders were unwilling to make any concession in price, as
the stock is diminishing.
SmEs.--Cassia Liguea has met with attention, and rather
higher rates ; black Pepper has rot risen in value. Ig
white several purchases have been made privately chiefly
at 4d to 6d per lb. Ginger is still wanted, but
quotations have ceased to rise. For brown Nutmegs
the demand has been good, and the rates equal to
those previously current. Mace is much wanted
and prices tend upwards. In Cinnamon several purchases
have been made upon the last quarterly sale. For Cloves
the demand has been limited. Cassia Buds are held firmly at
62s to 66s per cwt. Pimento has been in excellent request,
and a further improvement occurred in prices.
COCIIINEAL.—This afternoon Cachineal met with atten-
tion ; 211 bags Honduras silvers at auction all sold at Id per
lb. advance.

TEA.—The market has an improving appearance for Black,
the demand for all sorts much increased, and the business
transacted has been greater than for some time. In Green
many purchases have been made, and there are not sellers
upon previous terms.

FRUIT.—At public sale 52 butts 5 crtls 7 brls Cephalonia
Currants damaged, all sold from 53s to 555; 55 butts 32 crtls
46 brls Patras, 533 to 58s; 7,480 drums of Turkey Figs at
37s to 48i.

Ott...s.—The market has still an improving appearance for
Olive Oil ; there has been an extensive demand chiefly from
the home trade, and prices moving upwards. Linseed Oil
met with less attention, and prices have fallen 9d per cwt.
Rape Seed Oil has been extensively dealt in, and prices are
yet on the advance, the supply being less than it was For
Cocoa Nut the demand has been active, but any further
advance in the value has been prevented from occurring
by the market being less freely supplied. In Palm there
has been a good business transacted, but holders have been
compelled to take rather lower rates.
TALLOW.—A further dec!ine occurred in the value of all
descriptions, a large quantity of Russian having been again
received, and arrivals of other descriptions having been upon
a more extended scale, while large parcels from all quarters
are likewise near at hand.