The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

THE SIT.II, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1848.

Average Amount.
'ease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, hull—Pease and Co 43,613
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,898
?ecerborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—M.v,rs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson 9,851
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordw est—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading— iimonas and Co 18,698
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 20,689
Richmond Bank,:ffichmond—Stapleton and Co 2,303
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co 3,153
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 7,437
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 12,253
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12,839
Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 14,902
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co . . 7,747
Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaway
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 10,909
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co 22,326
Shrewsbury and Markel, Dray ton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Sbrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co 23,212
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son 2,703
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddisnn and Son
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 931
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and

King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 5,635
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 14,703
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,613
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. .
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

son and Stuart 1,716
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 18,847
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton— Duns-
ford and Barne 7,278
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 9,793
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co. 8,202
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co. 16,896
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 4,903
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—.
K•lynge, Greenway, and Co. 23,298
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Latham, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 14,533
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 3,810
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,

Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co. 8,776
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 65,213
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— _ _

Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenriek 1,572
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeek, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,975
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten
York Bank. York—Swann. Clouzh. and Co 38,041

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal 7,380

Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 35,517
Bilaton District Banking Company, Wolver-

hampton _ 9,152
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- _ . _

ford ....
11,523
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union

Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield 6,898
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com- _

pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10.553
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company

Carlisle
21,580
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 14,969
Dudley and %Vast Bromwich _Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,705
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 113,775
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 11,691

Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 29,969
Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,973
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-

pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,425
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 13,545
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough .. 25,651
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,990
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 47,456
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,659
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 7,844
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 20,752
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham .
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 32,992
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,

London
296,644

North Wilt:, Banking Company, Melksham 38,130
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 68,560
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,573
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester , _

Saddleworth Banking Company. Saddleworth 1,860
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,387
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamiord
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- _ _ _

._,
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ...
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and lislCmshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, Sholliehl . 51,426
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond".
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury .. 9,201
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ...
Wolverhampton a. I.lStaffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton 31,810
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 9,830
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven , ............................... . 24,235
Warwick and Leumir.gton Banking Company,
Leamingtcn .. ................................. 28,828
West of Englane aiii South Wales District
22,580
Bank. Bristol ••• • • • ........................ ...., 57,176
Wilts and Dorset Banking Corn,pan,,, Salisbury 41,205
West Riding Union Banking
.1.3f1.c.i.n.!
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find-
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester , ..................... 4,0
311 3
York Union Banking Company, Y0rk............ 61.7
York City and County Banking Company, York 80,040
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
' ptamps andTausi January 1,18444

JAMAICA SOUTH MIDLAND

JUNCTION RAILWAY.

An adjourned meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the
London Tavern ; Mr. Shorter in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, the object of the meeting was
to confirm a provisional agreement passed at a pre-
vious meeting, for the amalgamation of the line with
the Jamaica Ra.lway, and empowering the directors
to apply to the Jamaica Legislature for an Act to
carry the resolution into effect. It was for the meet-
ing to say whether this agreement should be con-
firmed or not. He therefore moved its confirmation ;
which, having been seconded by Mr. SMITH,
Mr. CLEMENT RUDING proposed that it be not
confirmed, which was seconded by Mr. SPACKMAN,
who said he represented 9,000 shares—nearly half
the shares of the company—who were unanimous in
their opinion, that the motion of the Chairman should
not be carried.

The CHAIRMAN admitted that neither be nor the
directors were desirous to see their motion carried ;
they merely submitted it as a matter of form.
The amendment was carried unanimously.
Mr. SMITH, a director, stated, in reply to Mr.
Spackman, that the directors would have in hand on
the 31st of January, when they proposed closing their
offices, 14,5001., after discharging all claims.
The CHAIRMAN referred to a letter from a Mr.
Smith in Jamaica, dated the 22d of May, stating that
there would be no further claims from the colony
upon the funds.

-Mr. SPACXMAN inquired what would be the cost
of an Act to obtain the dissolution of the company.
The CHAIRMAN said they would not like to try to
obtain one ; but Mr. Smith said he thought the cost
would be about 3001., whether they were successful
or not.

Mr. RUDING considered that an Act to effect a dissolu-
tion would be unnecessary, inasmuch as the Act would
expire if they did not carry out the powers it con-
ferred upon them. There being no further liabilities,
he saw no further reason why they should not at
once return 10s. per share, retaining the remainder
for any possible expense that might occur.
The CHAIRMAN said they must be guided by legal
advice. It was possible, if they did this, that a small
section of the shareholders might file a bill in the
Court of Chancery against them, and compel them
to pay the money into the court.
Mr. RUDING said Mr. Spackman bad 9,000
proxies ; he (Mr. R.) had 1,500 ; a gentleman by
his side 2,000; and the directors themselves, he un-
derstood, held 6,ooo—being more than 18,000 shares
in the aggregate.
_ _

Mr. SPACEMAN, being callei upon, explained that
it was undoubtedly in the power of any shareholder
to take law proceedings. The shareholders could not
dissolve the company ; all they could do was to allow
it to fall into abeyance, and expire in five years;
and therefore he would suggest that a resolution
should be passed, at a meeting to be called, to em-
power the directors to lend the shareholders a certain
sum upon their shares for five years, when the com-
pany would expire, retaining enough to meet any
contingencies that might arise. This seemed to him
an advisable course to adopt. The shareholders were
much indebted to the directors for the attention which
they had paid to their interests.
The business of this meeting then terminated.

The business of the special meeting, called on the
requisition of several shareholders, was then proceeded
with, and, after some discussion, resolutions were
agreed to, to the effect that the powers of the Act be
at once suspended; that all calls should also be sus-
pended ; that the assets be: returned to the share-
holders (it being left to the directors to consider
whether they could give legal effect to the resolution,
the Chairman said the directors approved of the pro-
position); that the directors be authorised to make an
application to the Jamaica Legislature if they should
deem such a course advisable, for the repeal of the
Act, and that if there was any opposition, and the
Legislature should not grant the Act if applied for,
that the directors be empowered to allow the company
to expire in its natural course.
Thanks having been given to the Chairman and
directors, the meeting separated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 6.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCMILL.)
STEADMAN V. MILLER.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of
4/. 17s. 6d. for professional services as an attorney.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
Mr. THOMAS stated the case. The defendant was
the trustee and executor of a Mr. Yeldham, and the
work chatged for was in respect of taking counsel's
opinion as to the defendant's liability to pay a certain
sum of money to a Mrs. Keene, one of the daughters
of the testator, who was living apart from her hus-
band ; from this circumstance plaintiff declined to
act on her behalf, and wrote to the defendant
stating that fact, but that he was willing to
take counsel's opinion on the point, but that
if he did so, the defendant must understand
that he (plaintiff) would, in that case, consider him-
self as employed by the defendant. The defendant
afterwards gave instructions for the case to be drawn,
which was accordingly done, and counsel's opinion
taken; but defendant afterwards contended that
plaintiff was acting for Mrs. Keene, being the legal
adviser of her sister, Miss Yeldham.

Austin, clerk to the plaintiff, was called, and swore
that he posted a letter in which plaintiff said he
would not take the opinion for Mrs. Keene, and if
one was required, ho would only prepare it on the
defendant acceding to being held responsible. De-
fendant afterwards called at the office and gave
instructions. Plaintiff suggested that defendant
should place the matter in the hands of his own so-
licitors, but defendant said he would prefer the
plaintiff doing it, as he understood the case better
than they did. Defendant afterwards called and pro-
duced an account as executor, end said that if plaintiff
would paws it as attorney for Mrs. Keene, he would
pay the bill. Plaintiff declined doing so, and said
that if he did he would be struck off the rolls, and
on this defendant said he would not pay the bill at all.
Mr. GRAY, on behalf of the defendant, contended
that the plaintiff had throughout been acting for the
Misses Yeldham and Mrs. Keene ; therefore the
witness had not given a faithful version of what ha-I
passed between the plaintiff and defendant, but that
all the it.terviews had been with the plaintiff as Mrs.
Keene's attorney. The Learned Counsel then put in
a variety of letters to Mrs. Keene, in which plaintiff
treated her as his client.

Mrs. Keene was then called, and swore positively
that she retained the plaintiff.
Frederick Miller, son to the defendant, was called,
and proved that he had conducted his father's business
for three years, and always opened the correspondence,
his father residing at Peckham. In February, 1847, the
time when the alleged letter was sent, he was in con-
stant attendance at the place of business in Fenchurch-
street.

Mr. THOMAS replied, and contended that the evi-
dence on the part of the plaintiff had not been in the
least shaken, for the evidence of Mrs. Keene was not
to be depended on in the slightest degree, as she had
admitted that she was living with a man not her hus-
band, and that she was also receiving money from
another in consequence of having had a child by him,
although the child had been dead for four years.
The jury, after being locked up for two hours, gave
a verdict for the defendant.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice PATTRSON and Mr. Justice
MAULS.)
Samuel Uriah Sloter, who was yesterday found
guilty of uttering a warrant or order for payment of
the sum of 551., with intent to defraud Messrs. Mas-
terman and Co., was sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation.
Thomas Duck, aged 40, labourer, was indicted for
feloniously attempting to administer to his wife,
Jane Matilda Duck, a large quantity of a certain
deadly poison called laudanum, with intent to murder
her.

When the prisoner Wa3 placed at the bar he declared
with great earnestness his innocence of the crime im-
puted to him.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk, instructed by Mr.
Hayward on behalf of the Treasury, conducted the
prosecution. The prisoner had no counsel.
Mr. BODKIN having stated the case for the prose-
cution, the following evidence was adduced:—
Jane Matilda Duck deposed that she was the wife
of the prisoner, and they had been married twenty-
two years, and always lived together, except when
she was in the Hammersmith workhouse for one
night. The occurrence in question took place in
November. Before she went into the workhouse she
had occasion to go to the Hammersmith police•court
to complain of her husband's violence, but she forgave
him all that occurred previous to this transaction.
After she left the workhouse she went to live with
the prisoner in a room in White Lion.passage,
Harro w-road. Upon the day in question her hus-
band came home about half .past five o'clock in the
evening, and they were about to have tea together.
Witness made the tea and poured out two cups full
and placed them on a chair, as they had no table in
the room. The witness, who was evidently actuated
by a feeling to favour the accused, then said that her
child cried and wanted to sit on the chair
on which the prisoner was seated, and the
prisoner got up and changed seats with her,
the result of which movement was, that the cup
of tea before her was the one that was intended for
the prisoner himself. The child had been sent for
some milk, and after she went to let him in she tasted
her tea, and observed that it was very nasty. She
asked the prisoner to taste it, and told him she would
see what was in it, and he replied that there was
nothing in it for her. She then poured off a portion

of the contents of the cup, and the prisoner took it up
and threw it under the grate. Witnesi tasted the
other cup of tea, and did not observe anything par-
ticular in the taste of it. She then went out with the
basin and cup, and went to different doctors' shops,
and on her return she told the prisoner that they said
there was poison in the tea, and she asked the prisoner
to go with her to a doctor, but he refused to do so.
During the time they were living in White Lion-
passage she never saw her husband take any pills, but
ever since an accident which he had met with while
employed at King's College he had been continually
complaining of pain in his back and bead.
The prisoner, on being asked by Mr. Justice
MAULE whether he had any questions to ask the wit-
ness, said he had nothing to ask her.
Mr. Faulkner, surgeon, in the Harrow-road, said
that on the evening of the 22d of November the pri-
soner came into his shop, and asked him if a woman
with a child had come to his shop with a cup in her
hand, and inquired if there was any opium in it.
Witness told him no such inquiry had been made, and
he left the shop immediately. About half an hour
after, Pollard, the officer, brought a teacup and basin
to him. The former contained some dregs, and he
immediately entertained an opinion that they were
composed of coarsely-pounded opium, and he was so
satisfied of the fact that he did not waste them. He
again saw the prisoner on the same evening, and his
wife and the officer were in the back room at the
time. Upon this occasion the prisoner said, that if
any one had taken any poison it must be himself', and
it must be in his body, and he wished the stomach
pump to be applied to him to see if such was the
case. There was no appearance about the prisoner at
this time to require such a proceeding.
Jonathan Pollard, a police-constable, deposed that
he knew the prisoner and his wife, and a short time
before November he was called in upon the occasion
of a quarrel between them. On the 22d of November,
the wife of the prisoner gave him a cup and basin,
and at the same time made a charge against him, and
he accompanied her to the shop of Mr. Faulkner.
He afterwards took the prisoner into custody, and
told him that he charged him with attempting to
poison his wife, and he replied that if there was any-
thing in the tea she must have put it in herself. He
also said, that if there was any poison in the tea he
must have taken it himself, and he wished to have the
stomach pump applied.
William Lee, a boy in the service of Mr. Moore, a
chemist at Paddington, said he was 14 years and 10
months old, and he assisted in dispensing some drugs,
with the nature of which he was acquainted. About a
month or five weeks ago, a man, whom he could not
positively speak to as being the prisoner, came to his
master's shop and asked if his master was at home ?
Witness told him he was not ; and the person then
asked for ld. worth of opium, to smoke. Witness
told him he could not serve him, and the man left
the shop.
_ _ . _

Mr. eharles Huyshe, lecturer on practical chymis-
try at St. Thomas's Hospital, deposed that he received
the cup and basin from Pollard, the officer, and ana-
lysed the contents remaining in them. They pre-
sented to the eye and smell every appearance of
powdered opium, and the tests he applied confirmed
him in that opinion, and he added that three or four
grains of opium would be sufficient to destroy life if
no antidote were employed. In his opinion, if the
opium had been put into a cup of tea in the form of
a pill, it would not have presented the appearance he
observed in the vessels shown to him.

Mr. H. Phillips, one of the clerks at the Maryle-
bone police-court, produced his minutes of the diffe-
rent examinations of the prisoner, and the statements
made by him. Upon one occasion he said that the
roof of his mouth was then sore from the stuff his
wife had given him, and if there was anything in the
tea she must have put it in herself. He made several
other immaterial statements, and after Mr. Huyshe
had been examined and deposed to the presence of
opium in the teacup, the prisoner, for the first time,
said, that he had purchased opium pills, to take for a
disorder, and that he had a great many, and must
take a great many more. He also said, that on the
day in question he did put an opium pill into his cup
of tea, and mixed it up, and drank part of it, and
threw the rest under the grate.
Mr. M'Murdo, surgeon to the gaol of Newgate,
deposed that his attention bad been called to the pri-
soner, but he had not observed any symptoms such
as those to which he had referred ; and he was not
aware that he had taken any opium, or required the
administration of such an article.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
said, that he did not buy the pills with the intention
to poison his wife, but to take them himself to do him
good for the malady under which he was suffering.
Mr. Justice Melia having gone carefully through
the whole evidence,
The jury deliberated for a few minutes, and then
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Upon an applicetion made by the counsel for the
defendants, the trial for the forgery upon the Imperial
Bank of Russia was postponed till next session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Byron was brought up by Bradley, ene of
the Mansion-house officers, charged with forgery.
Mr. H. Barrow, clerk to Messrs. Roberts and Co.,
of Lombard-street, bankers, stated that on the 11th
of September Mr. Willis, of Old Broad-street, kept
an account at their house, and on the same day the
cheque produced, for 911. 10s. purporting to be drawn
by H. Willis, was presented for payment at the
counter, but by whom the witness did not know,
Witness paid the cheque in a 501. mote, No. 50,781,
May 6, 1847, and a 401. note, No. 67,213, Jan. 7,
1847, and 11. 10s. in cash.
Mr. Willis, of 37, Old Broad-street, merchant.
stated that he kept an account at Messrs. Robarts and
Co.'s. The cheque produced was not in his hand-
writing. The body of the cheque was in the hand-
writing of the prisoner. The signature to it was in
a feigned hand, but he believed it to be the writing
of the prisoner. The prisoner had been employed as
clerk in witness's office, but he had been absent from
the office on the plea of illness, and during that ab-
sence the forged cheque had been presented. Witness
had given no authority to him to draw it.
The prisoner had been apprehended in consequence
of notice given by Messrs. Bush and Mullen', the
solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection
against Felonies and Fraud, by telegraph, to parties
at Newcastle. lie had joined a company of strolling-
players, and was playing in the name of Morgan, in
the comedy of Much ado about Nothing, when the in-
formation that he was to be seized arrived.
He was remanded till Thursday.
The LORD MAYOR begged to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of Si. from Mr. Jones Loyd, and 51. from "(b)"
for the poor-box.
MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday Mr. Long received from Sir Richard
Sutton the sum of 51., through Mr. Tidd Pratt, for
the poor-box of the Court. Our reporter was re-
quested to acknowledge the donation in this paper.
WORSHIP-STREET.
The MAGISTRATR announced his receipt of a letter
from Sir W. Call and Co., the bankers, enclosing one
half of a Si. Bank of England note for the poor-box
of this Court, from " E.P.," the other half of which
the benevolent donor expressed his intention to for-
ward upon seeing an acknowledgment of the receipt
of the first in this paper.
CLERKEN WELL.
Mordecai Andrews, a countryman, was charged
by a City policeman under the following circum-
stances :
At an early hour in the morning the prisoner was
observed near Smithfield with a horse and cart, the
latter containing two dead cows and a horse, and the
most offensive effluvium proceeded from them. The
policeman, suspecting that they were meant for
sausage-meat, followed the prisoner until he arrived
at the premises of Mr. Lansdowne, a sausage mer-
chant, of Sharpe's-alley, Cow-cross, where he backed
the cart in, but Mr. Lansdowne told the party that it
was a mistake, and the carcases were not meant for
him. The officer, knowing that the dead carcases
were not fit for human diet, questioned the prisoner,
who hesitated, and gave such an unsatisfactory ac-
count of hie possession of the animals, that he took
him and the property to the nearest station-house.
Inspector Julian. G, and the City officer, stated
that there were many dead carcases in Mr. Lans-
downe's yard.
Mr. John Atcheler, 'on being sworn, said, he
was horse slaughterer to her Majesty and the Royal
Family, and he resided in Sharpe s-square, Cow-
cross, Smithfield.—(A laugh.) He had no know-
ledge of the prisoner, and was satisfied in his own
mind that the carcases were consigned to his esta-
blishment, which was well-watered, and kept as
sweet as any lady's drawing-room.—(Laughter.)
His neighbour, Mr. Lansdowne, was a respectable
man, and did not make the common sausages, but
only those that were fit for the west-end of the town.
—(Much laughter.) He meant the real German
sausages, which were of the very best meat, mixed
with a bit of " tommy."
Mr. Mould (the clerk.) —Do you mean Tommy
Cat ? Mr. Atcheler Oh, no ; a little of bull beef,
which makes them good and stiff, and more palatable.
He added, that how the prisoner could have been en-
trusted with the care of a horse and cart and such
goods, was to him a puzzle, for he was as green
as a leek.
Mr. Josiah Knight, veterinary surgeon, of St.
Andrew's-hill, Doctors'-commons, deposed that the
animals were not fit for human food. They had
died Porn disease, and had undergone medical treat-
ment.
Mr, TYRWHITT—WouId they be dangerous to the
health if they were eaten as human food ? Witness
—I csn't say that; but any person of experience
must know that they were not fit for human food.
Mr. TYRWRITT—Do they make sausages of such •
carcases ? Witness—l cannot say.
WIRWRITT-I can only say that parties on

whose premises such carcases are found are liable
to indictment.

Mr. Atcheler—l can only say, your worship, that
if they boils'em in ray coppers, we are always obliged
to put a little bull into it, to make it sound and good,
and stiff, too, for the canines.—(Laughter.)
Mr. TYRWHITT said, that he could not punish the
prisoner, who was the instrument of some person
who cared little about the health of the public as long
as he could make money. He asked the prisoner
who employed him to bring the carcases to London ?
Prisoner—Mr. Henry Parish, of Bishop's Stortford.
Mr. TYRwRITT said he must discharge the prisoner,
but it was a matter of great importance at this period,
when disease was caused through nauseous smells and
vapours, and such proceedings ought to be carefully
watched.

The reporter is requested to state, that the follow-
ing letter was addressed to and received by Mr. Tyr-
whitt, the sitting magistrate :
" Old Bond• street, Jan. 5.
_ _

"Messrs. Sir W. P. Call, Marten, and Co. present
their compliments, and inclose half of a 51. note for
the poor-box, from E. P.' The other half will be
forwarded on seeing an acknowledgment in the
newspapers."

After a short consultation the jury returned a
unanimous verdict of " Wilful Murder' against
Harriet Parker, in both cases,
Some of the jury wished to add to their verdict a
few words expressing their views of the conduct of
Blake, which they conceived to have been most repre-
hensible both towards his wife and children.

The CORONER said he could not permit the addi-
tion ; he was sure, however, that the publicity which
had been given to the facts would sufficiently answer
the purpose contemplated by the jury.
The Court was then dissolved.