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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1846.

tion was, however, qualified by a statement, that although
such a result had been obtained, under particular cir-
cumstances, and had elsewhere been used as the basis of
an argument in the examination into the merits of the
broad and narrow gauges, yet it was not meant to con-
tend for its absolute accuracy under all circumstances.
The experiments by the committee appointed by the
British Association, and those by Mr. Scott Russell, and
by Mr. Stephenson, were adduced on the other hand, as
confirming in a remarkable degree the results obtained
by Mr. Harding and given in the paper.
The resistance on railways being analysed, was con-
tended to be composed of the friction of the wheels and
axles which remained constant at all velocities, and the
frontage resistance which increased as the square of the
velocity:

But there was also shown to exist a large remainder
of resistance, which it was important to consider the
constitution of. It appeared that this remainder in-
creased in the direct ratio of the velocity, and not at the
squares. The term " concussion" had been used to
designate this cause of the expenditure of power, as it
was contended that, in the passage of a train, a motion
resembling that of a wave was communicated to the
comparatively inelastic earth. This vibratory action
must be caused by an expenditure of power, and it was
contended that the striking of the flangs of the wheels
against the rails, the flexure of light rails, insecure
chairs and fastenings, unstable sleepers, the 'action of
the springs, and even the motion of the passengers in
the carriages, all absorbed power, causing resistances,
and it was argued that the remainder sought would be
found in these circumstances, which had not been gene-
rally considered by experiments. This element of re-
sistance also increased directly as the velocity, and not
as the square. The effect of the lateral resistance of
even a light side wind upon a long train was shown to
be excessive, and it was stated that it had been given in
evidence that on several occasions seven engines had
been required to arrive at a moderate speed with a train
of 100 tons in a gale of wind acting laterally.
The experiments on the resistance to trains descend-
ing inclined plains by their own gravity, as tried fur the
British Association, were quoted as being still the most
conclusive record. It was, however, shown, that the
atmospheric system afforded the best opportunity for
testing absolutely the resistance, as by observing accu-
rately the vacuum in front of the piston, shown by the
barometer, and the velocity of the train, its positive
weight being known, the air being presumed to enter
behind the piston at the atmospheric pressure, and al
lowing 1001bs. for the friction of the piston, a most per-
fect dynamometer existed, and all the attendant circum-
stances being mama, accurate results zulglit be arrives
at ; it was therefore suggested, that as such great dis-
crepancy of opinion existed on the subject of resistance
(varing between 181 b. and 721 b. per ton), an application
should be made by the institution to the Croydon
Railway Company, for permission to try a series of ex-
periments to settle the question on certain basis ; and
that this investigation should be restricted simply to the
scientific inquiries as to resistance, and not touching at
all upon the commercial or the comparative value of the
locomotive and atmospheric system of traction, they
being foreign to the views of the institution.

ItV appeared generally admitted, that the method of
computing resistances, from the quantity of water used
as steam, in a locomotive engine drawing a certain load
ata given speed, under a pressure indicated in the
boiler, was liable to error, as so many circumstances
must be taken into consideration. Indicator diagrams
were exhibited and reasoned upon, but it was shown
that the present knowledge of the action of steam in the
cylinder of a locomotive engine was very limited ; and
that no positive reliance could be placed on the results
obtained, except as a check against error in the other
and better method of observation. Still the subject of
the action of steam in a locomotive was one of such
great interest, that its discussion must always lead to
useful results. It was shown that Mr. Hawksley's for-
mula, for computing the velocity of the passage of fluids
in piles, might be advantageously applied to this subject
also; and by its application he contended that a speed of
sixty miles per hour could not be maintained upon a
railway without great expense.
The first paper read was a description by Mr. Bidder,
M. Inst. C. E., of his swing bridge over the Wincum, at
Norwich. The bridge was described as covering, by
two spans of 45 feet each, 85 feet of the river and a
portion of the land on the Norwich side. It was so
constructed, that turning upon a centre pin, fixed upon
piles, the two sides opened simultaneously, thus balancing
each other, and giving great facility for opening and
shutting it for the uses of the navigation and the rail-
way traffic. The whole structure, the details of which
were elaborately given with the method of building it,
was of cast and wrought iron. It weighed 347 tons,
and was manufactured by Messrs. H. and M. D. Grissell,
from Mr. Bidder's designs. The paper was illustrated
by a very complete model, presented by Messrs. Grissell,
and by a beautiful set of drawings by Messrs. Cheffins.
A paper was read " On the stability of arches, with
practical methods for determining the proper form of
ther sections," by G. Snell, Assoc, Inst. C.E. This
paper consisted of four sections, with an appendix : the
first section treated of the general conditions of stability
in arches ; the second discussed the conditions of sta-
bility in an arch composed of infinite strength to resist
compression. The arch being similar and similarly
loaded on either side the crown, and one of the points
of rupture therefore being assumed to be at the crown.
The third section showed how the results of the inves-
tigations in the second section might be applied to actual
practice, or to the case of an arch of limited strength
to resist compression, which was actually the
condition of the strongest material, and which
greatly affected the results of the problems in the
former sections based on the hypothetical conditions
of infinite strength of material. This seetion showed
how the form of section of an arch might be designed
according to the strength of the material of which the
arch was to be composed ; but in this section, as in the
second, the arch was supposed to be similar, and similarly
loaded on either side. The crown and one point of
rupture was assumed to be at the crown. The fourth
section investigated the conditions of stability of an
arch, either similar or not similar, or similarly or not
similarly loaded on either side of the crown of the arch,
and the various points of failure were determined with-
out the assumption of one of them. By means of this
problem the proper form of section might be designed
for an arch, to be subjected to any number of pressures
acting in any position and direction. Thus the effect of
men walking over a vaulted ceiling, or any other pres-
sure, in vertical directions, might be counteracted by the
particular form of section arrived at by the application
of the method described in this section.

The author followed the principles of Professor
Moseley, and applied them to the proof of a tentative
process, which was advanced by MM. Lauri and Cha-
peyrou, and proved by an abstruse process, requiring the
aid of the infinitesimal analysis on principles entirely
different from those of Professor Moseley. The investi-
gation and problems in this paper did not require the
application of Algebraical analysis, either in their proof
or practical application ; no more than a knowledge of
the first laws of statics and the leading principles of
geometry was required, either to work the problems or
to understand the problems on which they were founded.
The appendix contained some observations on methods
of finding the centres of gravity without algebraic cal-
culation ; and the paper was illustrated by a complete
series of large diagrams, which rendered the problems
very cleF.
The papers announced for reading on the meeting of
June 30, on which day the ballot was announced to take
place, were 745, " On the effect produced by the deep
wells of the metropolis, on the supply of water in the
London basin," by Frederick Braithwaite, M. Inst.,
C.E., and a " Description of the Iron Gates for the Docks
at Sevastopol," by W. Shears, Assoc. Inst., C.E.

LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRE-
LAND).

sation if hindlore allow or shall be willing to allow them
to remain in possession after determination of their
leases, &c. _ _

18. ,In cases of voluntary agreements, compensation
how recovered.

19. In cases wider compulsory agreements or award
or order, compensation how recovered,
20. Compensation, when to be recovered by petition to
a court of equity in such last. mentioned cases.
21. Landlord may resist claim, if tenant assign or sub-
let after date of his proposal. Exception of land and
butilings already assigned or sub-let
22. Power to person liable to pay compensation to set
off cross demands for rent, dilapidation, &c.
23. Landlord to have a eharge on the land for sums
paid by him to tenants, or for the improvements executed
by him. Charge to bear interest at five per cent. The
charge to cease by instalments. As to sums allowed by
a declaration or certificate to landlord, first instalment
with all interest to cease on the Ist of January next but
one after the eviction of the tenant, or the death and de-
termination of the interest of the tenant. In such case
the other instalments to be annual, and to be computed
from the first instalment day. No apportionment of in-
stalments or the year's interest ; except that such in-
terest on sums allowed to landlor as shall accrue until
the determination of landlord's interest shall be consi-
dered as accruing and liquidated daily.
24. On the eviction or determination of an immediate
landlord's lease or interest, after compensation has been
paid by him to tenant or improvements have been made
by him, ho may recover from superior landlord.
25. The claim of the tenant or of the landlord (whose
lease shall have determined) shall be charged against
and recovered from the person entitled to the rents, on
the determination of tenant's interest or landlord's
interest.

26. Landlord making improvements, and his interest
expiring before charge becomes payable, to be entitled
to recover from succeeding landlord the additional rent.

27. When immediate landlord holds the lands for a
term of three lives or thirty-one years, he shall transmit
to his superior landlord copies of notices, awards, decla-
rations, and certificates under this Act.
28. Landlord may, with assent of tenant, liquidate the
tenant's claim by payment, and he may charge the tenant
5 per cent. per annum on such sum paid, and recover it
as additional rent. Remedies for additional rent.

29. Landlord undertaking to execute improvements,and
failing to execute them within limited time, liable to pay
damages, to be recovered by civil bill.
30. Sub-tenant entering into occupation after the
passing of tbis Act, without consent of superior land-
low, shall not recover compensation from superior land-
lord.

31. Compensation not to be recovered for buildings or
improvements made in pursuance of any contract, &c.,
nor in case of ground let for building or for con-acre, &c.
32. No preliminary proceedings in respect of proposed
improvements to be of any force, if commenced after the
service of an ejectment.
33. Registry of documents by the Clerks of the Peace.
Copies and searches.

34 In the registry of charges for works executed or
compensation paid, and satisfaction of such charges may
be entered therein.

35. Interpretation clause.
36. Schedules and forms deemed to be part of the Act.
Errors not to vitiate, &c.

37. Act to extend only to Ireland.
38. Act may be amended,oe tbiss&s. t, cns.

EJECTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL,

The following is a comprehensive summary of " A
Bill to amend the Law in Ireland as to Ejectments and
Distresses, and as to the Occupation of Lands," brought
in by Lord Lincoln and Sir J. Graham:—
Whereas it is expedient to amend the law in Ireland
as to Ejectments and Distresses, and as to the Occupa-
tion of Lands ; be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,'and by
the authority of the same, that in all cases of ejectment
for non-payment of rent, the amount claimed to be due
for rent, and the times at which the same accrued, shall
be stated upon the declaration or summons in ejectment
or civil bill, and upon payment of the rant so specified,
and costs, within the time therein specified, to the lessor
of the plaintiff, or plaintiff, or his attorney, all furth*r
proceedings in such ejectment shall cease and be stayed
accordingly. The defendant to be at liberty to have the
costs taxed.

2. In such ejectments in the superior Courts money
may be paid into Court for rent and costs.
3. At any time before execution issued in ejectment
for non-payment of rent, upon payment or tender and
lodgment of the rent and costs the proceedings shall
be stayed.
4. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
defendant in any civil bill ejectment for non-payment of
rent, six clear days previous to the day on which, by
such civil bill, he is required to appear, to deposit with
the Clerk of the Peace a sum of money for rent, together
with the sum of for costs, for which deposit the
Clerk of the Peace, upon payment of a fee of one shil-
ling, shall give to the defendant a certificate, according to
the form in the schedule (C) hereto annexed, which,cer-
tificate shall be free from the payment of stamp duty.
and of which certificate a copy shall be entered by the
Clerk of the Peace in the book kept by him for entering
decreesiti civil bill ejectments ; and the defendant shall,
four clear days previous to the day on which he is re-
' quired to appear as aforesaid, deliver to or leave at the
place of abode of the plaintiff, his agent, receiver, or
attorney in such case, such certificate ; and in case the
plaintiff, or his attorney in such case, shall receive
from the Clerk of the Peace the sum so deposited, which
the said Clerk of the Peace is hereby required to pay
over to the plaintiff or his attorney, on demand, such
receipt and payment shall be deemed to be in full dis-
charge of the rent claimed by such civil bill and of costs,
but in case the plaintiff or his attorney, after such certi-
ficate shall have been delivered or left as aforesaid, shall
not accept the sum so deposited, and shall proceed to a
hearing of such civil bill, and it shall thereupon appear
that no greater sum than the sum so deposited was due to
the plaintiff for rent and costs at the time of the service
of such civil bill ejectment, and that such ejectment has
been delivered or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
the Assistant-barrister to dismiss such civil bill, with the
cost of all the proceedings s.usequent to the time of the
making of such deposit, as in other cases of dismisses of
civil bill ejectments.
5. In such civil-bill ejectments, if the defendant before
a decree pay or tender the rent and costs, the proceed-
ings shall be stayed.
6. The writ or warrant for execution in ejectment for
non-payment of rent in the Superior or Civil Bill Courts
shall state the amount due for rent and costs, and upon
payment thereof, with certain Sheriff's fees, execution
shall be stayed.
7. The provisions of the 6 and 7 William IV., c. 75,
as to civil-bill ejectments, extended to terms for lives
and years concurrent.
8. Ejectments under 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 75, ex-
tended to cases of permissive possession acquired within
twenty years.
9. On executing a writ or decree for possession in
ejectment, the Sheriff, upon the plaintiff's consent, may
deliver possession without the removal of the under-
tenants or occupiers.
10. In all cases of distress for rent, a written notice of
the rent claimed shall be. given.
11. In cases of distress for rent a tender before the
sale shall be sufficient. _

12. And be it enacted, that no distress for rent made
otherwise than by the landlord of any premises, or his
known agent or receiver in person, shall be lawful,
unless made by virtue of a written or printed warrant or
order to distrain, signed by the landlord or his known
agent or receiver, directing the bailiff or other person to
distrain the tenant or tenants, person or persons named
therein, and bearing upon it the date when and the name
of the place at which it is signed, nor unless such war-
rant or order shall be signed within twenty days next
before the time when such distress shall be made ; pro-
vided, that such warrant or order to distrain shall be
free from the payment of any stamp duty.
13. The provisions of the 56 Geo. 111., c. 88, autho-
rising the distraining of growing crops for rent, re-
pealed.
14. Party distraining for rent not a trespasser ab initio
by reason of subsequent irregularity.
15. 57 Geo. 111., c. 93. 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 17. No
person making any distress for rent, taxes, rates, &c.,
where the sum due shall not exceed 201. to take other
charges than mentioned in the schedule annexed; nor to
charge for any act not done.

16. Party aggrieved by any such practice may apply
to a justice of the peace. Justice may adjudge treble
the amount of the monies unlawfully taken to be paid,
with costs, which may be levied by distress.
17. Justices may summon witnesses. For not an-
swering summons, or refusing to be sworn or affirmed,
as the case may be, penalty 40s.
18. If complaint unfounded, justice may give costs to
the party complained against. No judgment to be given
against any landlord unless he personally levies the dis-
tress. Parties not to be barred of other legal remedies.
19. Signature of the justices proof of judgment.
20. Brokers and others making any distress to give
copies of their charges to the persons distrained.
21. Printed copy of part of this Act to be hung up in
sessions-houses.

22. Interpretation of the Act. Number. Gender.
" Landlord." " Lands." " Assistant Barrister."

23. Schedules to be taken as part of the Act.
24. Act to extend to Ireland only.
25. Act may be amended, &c., this session.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the youthful Royal Family, intend to prolong their sojourn at
Osborne House until the 6th proximo, according to present arrangr-
merits. The royal christening is expected to take place the third
week in the ensuing month. _ .

A special messenger was on Thursday in readiness to
convey to her 'Majesty the intelligence that the Corn and Customs
Bills had actually passed, and to obtain her Majesty's signature to
the Commission for the royal assent to them and about 50 other Bills.
The royal assent will probably bo signified this afternoon in the
House of Lords.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTS IN THE LATE STORM.—
Yesterd ly morning, between twelve an ime o'clock, the following
frightful accidents, which occurred during the heavy storm that
visited the metropolis, were admitted into the King's College Hos-
pital. The first happened to Eliza Beesley, a young woman about
twenty-two, living at 31, St. Clement's-lane. As she was walking
down the lane home, a portion of a chimney-pot suddenly fell upon
her head, and fractured the Agin, besides making an ex' ensive lace-
ration of the forehead. The other accident happened in Fetter-lane,
to Mary Thorn. aged forty-eight, a widow, who was running, to take
shelter out of the rain, which at that moment was descending in
tenants, when the poor creature slipped down on the stones and
broke her right leg. She remained in this helpless condition for
nearly ten minutes before assistance arrived, when she was removed
to the above institution, where it was considered that the process of
amputation must be resorted to.
ACCIDENTS BY LIGHTNING.—During a heavy thunder-
storm on Thursday last, John Porteous, a boy in the service of Mr.
Thomas Young, Cowdenknowes Mains, near Kelso, whilst returning
from the field where he had been for the purpose of cutting thistles
with a sickle, was killed by the electric fluid, which seemed to have
traversed the whole length of the body. About the same time a horse
drawing a roller in a field at Smailholm Mains, belonging to Mr.
John Tait, and two fat beasts belonging to Mr. W. Chisholm, Lana-
i/4W mill, W4/9 killed by the electric tjuit.l,--Nacco4iit Ackfitor•

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 25.
BANKS V. GOODE.

This was an action to recover the sum of 5601., for which
the defendant was alleged to be liable.• The defendant
pleaded that he never was indebted, and that he had paid
the debt, whereupon issues were joined.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Willis appeared for the plaintiff ;
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Rawlinson for the defendant.

The plaintiff in this case was an advertising agent, and
had inserted general advertisements in the months of Oc-
tober and November last, in several town and country
newspapers, and in the railway journals, concerning the
Salisbury and Lymington Railway. The project was one
out of the large number which found their origin in the
speculative spirit of the last year, and appears to have been
got up by the Messrs. Wheel and Berkeley, solicitors, who
were assisted by a barrister named Mellor. An office was taken
by the solicitors, in the Old Jewry, and a provisional committee,
consisting of several gentlemen, was in a short time formed.
In this part of the formation of the project, a gentleman
named Downs, who resided at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight,
appears to have taken a considerable share. At the request
of the solicitors he became a member of the provisional
committee of the company, and was indemnified by them
against any liability he might incur in that capacity. Some
short time after he bad become a party to the concern he
saw the defendant at Ryde, and communicated to him the
circumstance of his being on the provisional committee of
the Salisbury and Lyirington Railway. The defendant
thereupon expressed a wish to have his own name inserted
in the list, and it was said that he applied by letter to the
solicitors for that purpose. That letter was lost, but in
compliance with the defendant's wish, he was admitted a
member of the provisional committee, and was offered in
that capacity an allotment of a certain number of shares in
the line, which, however, he appears to have declined. The
intention of holding meetings in London was notified to the
defendant on each occasion, with a request that he would at-
tend them. On one of those occasions the defendant stipu-
lated in writing that his travelling expenses should be de-
frayed, an act which the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff
construed into a consciousness, on the part of the defendant,
of the responsibility of his situation.
Mr. CROWDER, on behalf of the defendant, represented the
case against his client as one which differed from any
hitherto brought before the Court, inasmuch as it was at•
tempted to fix the defendant with liability, simply from his
having been willing to allow his name to appear on the list of
the provisional committee. The question which arose upon
that state of facts, was, whether it was the law, that the mere
circumstance of a man having had his name inserted in the
list of provisional committee, authorised the attorney, the
secretary, or any individual connected with the company. to
order goods upon the representation of his being a responsible
party. That was a question which, as he apprehended,
had not as yet been decided, and it was one of such magni-
tude and importance, as under the particular circumstances
of the case, should exonerate his client from liability. The
application of the principle of agency, on which the plea of
partnership rested, would determine the question in favour
of the defendant, and he, therefore, confidently submitted
that he was entitled to the verdict of the jury.
The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up,
The jury retired, and, after an absence of half an hour,
returned with a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 26.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
oultmEr THE ELDER v. GURNEY AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by Mr. Gurney, a gentleman
who formerly held an office in this Court, to recover 9001.
on a bill of exchange from the firm of Gurney and Chapman,
late of the Union Brewery, Lambeth. The circumstances
which led to the action are shortly these : One
of the defendants is the son of the plaintiff,
and the latter, it, would appear, gave his son a
sum of 8,0001., to purchase a share of Mr. Chapman,
the other defenant, in the Union Brewery. A partnership
was in consequence formed, during the existence of which
the younger Gurney gave several bills of exchange and pro-
missory notes, in the name of " Gurney and C 0.," to his
father and other members of the family. In course of time
the affairs of the brewery became embarrassed, and Mr.
Chapman caused an inquiry to be instituted, which led to a
dissolution of the partnership. The younger Gurney, in con-
sequence of the proceedings in which he had been engaged,
became bankrupt, and the affairs of Mr. Chapman were
also placed in a state of serious embarrasment. The elder
Gurney sued his son in legal form on the bill of exchange,
and the latter allowed judgment to go by default. That
circumstance induced the plaintiff to bring this further
action, to decide whether the giving of the bill of exchange
was an act of partnership, or whether it was only a private
transaction of the younger Gurney. In fact the material
point at issue was the responsibility of Mr. Chapman, as
being the partner of the younger Mr. Gurney.
A special jury was impannelled to try the case.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Montague Chambers ap-
peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Humphries
for the defendants.

The examination of witnesses on the point we have stated
was then proceeded with.
A great number of witnesses were examined on both sides,
at -the close of which counsel addressed the jury at consi-
derable length on the point at issue.
➢lr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up, and the jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the de-
fendants.

SHERIFFS' COURT, SESSIONS HOUSE,
NE IV June 25.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff ABBOOT.)
DAWSON AND OTHERS V. MOLONEUX.

This was a writ of inquiry to assess damages. Plaintiffs
are advertising agents in the City, and sought to recover
1,1721. 6s. 6d. of the defendant, who is a banker at Lever,
and a provisional committeeman of the proposed Brighton,
Lewes, and Tunbridge Wells Direct Railway.
H. Goodman, clerk to plaintiffs, proved to receiving orders
from the secretary and clerks cf the company to advertise the
prospectus and proceedings of the railway company.
G. Phipper, clerk to plaintiffs, produced bills for advertise-
ments. They claimed 8/. 6s. Bd. per cent. as commission.
Cross-examined—The Times allowed no discount ; the
other papers allowed a discount from 5 per cent. up to 30
er cent.

Mr. Collinson, treasurer to the Morning Chronicle, stated
that they allowed 5 per cent. discount to agents only. Would
not allow a discount to railway companies.
John Franks, clerk in the Morning Herald office, deposed
that this journal allowed a discount of ten per cent. to agents
only.
Mr. BRAMWZLL addressed the jury, and contended that
the claim set up was an extravagant one, and that plaintiffs
had no right to charge their commission upon sums beyond
money actually paid by them. The line was twenty-two
miles. The plaintiff's charges for advertisements only was at
the average of 551. a mile. _ _

The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and the jury returned a
verdict for the amount claimed-1,1721. 6s. 6d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A young man, named John Jenkin, who styled him-
self a cutler by trade, was brought before Alderman
Gibbs yesterday, charged with having endeavoured to
obtain by imposition pecuniary relief from Pascoe St.
Leger Greenfell, Esq., of Hyde Park-square.
Mr. Pelham, who attended for Mr. Greenfell, stated
that yesterday morning the prisoner called upon Mr.
Greenfell with a petition, of which the following is a
copy:-- "London, June 8, 1846.
" These are to certify that the bearer hereof, Mr.
David Jenkin, master, with two others, seafaring men,
were part of the crew of the merchant-schooner Jane, of
Swansea, which unfortunately run down, on the night
of Friday, the sth day of June instant, on her passage
from St. Ives, bound to Swansea, laden with ore, when,
melancholy to relate, out of her crew, consisting of
master, mate, three seamen, and one boy, only the said
three men were saved, who, finding their vessel sinking,
took to their boat, in which they remained fur several
hours, till picked up by the crew of the sloop Industry,
Swansea trader (Walters, master), who landed them at
this port on the 7th day of June instant, in a distressed
condition.
" Given under my hand at Swansea, this Bth day of
June, 1846. " G. J. WALTERS, Si.,
" Master of the Industry."
Several names were attached to the petition, and se-
veral sums marked down as contributions from the gen-
tlemen whose signatures were forged, amongst which
was the name of" J. H. Vivian," placed with a contri-
bution of 101. 103. The prisoner brought with him a
letter, purporting to be written by J. H. Vivian, Esq.,
M P., and recommending the prisoner as a fit person for
the exercise of his sympathy. Mr. Greenfell being in a
hurry, told the prisoner to call upon him at his office, in
Thomas-street, in the afternoon. At his leisure, Mr.
Greenfell having looked more closely at the petition, sus-
pected the genuineness of the instrument, and wrote over
to Mr. Vivian in Belgrave-square, who replied that the
whole was a gross imposition. The prisoner was, upon
his next visit, taken into custody. Mr. Greenfell thought
the fellow ought to be proceeded against for forgery,
but he (Mr. Pelham) was afraid the magistrate's juris-
diction was confined to a summary disposal of the case.
Alderman GIBBS having looked over the documents,
which were written in a good clear clerk's band, asked
Mr. Greenfell whether he had given the prisoner any
money.
Mr. Greenfell replied in the negative.
Alderman Grins—You ought to have given him the
shilling. I can only treat him as a rogue and vagabond.
What have you (to the prisoner) to say to this ?
The prisoner—lt is all false, my Lord.
Alderman Grues—What is all false ?
The prisoner—The paper. My cousin gave it to me.
My father was dead, and I wanted to bury him,
and tried to get a little money to do it. I buried him
yesterday.
Alderman GIBBS—What are you, and where have
you come from ? You are not a sailor.
The prisoner —I worked eighteen months ago at
Greenwich. I live there now. I am a cutler, and worked
there.
Mr. Greenfell confirmed the statement made by the
solicitor, as did Mr. Vivian, and both of those gentlemen
thought the majority of the signatures were false.
Alderman GIBBS then committed the prisoner to pri.
son to hard labour for three months.
THAMES.
Benjamin Gibbins, the man who stands charged with the
wilful murder of Anne alias Jane Sloman, at No. 6, Labour-
in-Vain-street, Shadwell, where an illicit still was in opera-
tion for some weeks previous, was brought before Mr. Ballan-
tine for final examination.
Since the last investigation, Inspector Valentine and pollee-
sergeant Townson, of the K division, have been actively em-
ployed in pursuing their inquiries and endeavouring to un-
ravel the mystery which hangs over the affair, but the only
additional facts that came to their knowledge was one of a
very singular nature. It appears that on the morning of the
2d of June, after the body of the deceased was discovered,
a woman named Petty, the wife of a mechanic, pulled down
a window curtain with blood stains upon it, from the window
of the front room, but she made no mention of the occur-
rence till Wednesday, when she was directed by the police
to attend as a witness, and readily did so,sibtrotnshse, was not
i that the
called upon to give evidence. The suppo
and that the
death-blow was inflicted in the front room,wnh the
p stairo ice sh
aivneto
also
woman was either forced or thfrouwnnd.do
passage, where the body
ascertained, that the decewasased °gave information to an excise
officer a week previous to her death, that aepftrhihvaeatrtep her
ve
satrrielelmlelauar_s
at work in the house, and the supposition is,
tion of the secret came to the knowledge
Gibbing, or some other persons connected with the still, and
that she was made away with on that account.
William Parramour, a police-constable of the K division,
who was not examined before, was called. It will be recol-
lected that the prisoner, in accounting for the way in which
he spent his time on the night of the Ist of June,-said he
yigited a Wifeolll9P, oPPoilto UAdyfell Church, twice. 04

the first occasion he said he was there from one o'clock till
half-past one, and that he went out and returned again at
three, and remained till nearly four. It was shown by the
witness Parramour that he walked from Mr. Crafford's
coffee-shop to the rear of the house, where the alleged mur-
der was committed, got upon a wall into the yard of the
house, and after entering the dwelling itself returned to the
coffee-shop again in ten minutes only. He further said that
any person could walk from the coffee-shop to the house in
Labour-in-Vain-street in three minutes, and that on Wed-
nesday night, and also on that morning, he got upon the
wall and thence into a piece of " blank ground," behind the
house, without interference. The easiest way of obtaining
access to the house was by the lower window, not the upper
one, which the prisoner did enter on the morning of the 2d
of June, at seven o'clock.
Dr. Letheby, lecturer on chemistry at the London Hos-
pital, who gave medical evidence on the last examination,
again proffered his evidence. He gave his opinion last week
that the blood on the prisoner's jacket was living blood, con-
taining fibrine matter, and that it came from the human
head, whilst that on the matting on which the deceased's
head rested was from a dead person, and contained no fibrine
matter. He now produced samples of each, on glass, and
the difference was very striking. He stated that since the
last examination a piece of wood, part of the beading of the
lower window, had been handed to him. It bore the im-
pression, apparently, of a blood stain. He had applied the
usual tests, and found it to be nothing but colouring matter,
made up of ruddell and albumen, or size. He had painted
a piece of wood with similar colouring matter, and the ap-
pearance was precisely the same. He produced the two
pieces of wood, 'and said he laboured under the impression
that the beading of the lower window had been painted to
resemble blood, for the purpose of testing the evidence he
gave last week, and to ascertain whether it was speculative
or 'not. The red colour was very similar to stains of blood,
but on the tests being applied, the difference was soon evi-
dent.

Police-sergeant Townson stated that he saw what appeared
to be the impression of a blood-stained hand on the beading
of the window, and he thought it was but right to remove it
and give it to Dr. Letheby.
There being no other evidence, Mr. BALLANTINE said he
should commit the prisoner to Newgate to take his trial for
the wilful murder of Anne Sloman.

The prisoner, who exhibited great composure during the
reading over the depositions, here betrayed much anxiety,
and said he was an innocent man, and that justice had not
beea done him. He said he was very anxious that the
woman who supplied him with refreshmentiat the coffee-
shop, on the morning of the alleged murder, should be
called, and she could prove what be had, who was in the
next box, and how long Le remained in the place on each
occasion. He also wished the coal-whipper who accompanied
him to the coffee-shop on the second occasion to be brought
forward.

Mr. BALLANTINE said the female could prove nothing more
than Mr. Crafford, the proprietor of the coffee-shop, had
done, and he had not thought proper to encumber the case
with her evidence. As to the coal-whipper, he had been
sought after in all directions by the police, but could not be
found. The evidence of that man would be the most im-
portant, because he was seen to leave the coffee-shop with
the prisoner on the second occasion.
The prisoner said, the man was to be found any morning
at the coal-whippers' office.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Perhaps you can tell us his name.
The prisoner said, he never saw him before of his know-
ledge, and he made an earnest request that the case should
be adjourned for a week, and that the woman belonging to
the coffee-shop should be produced, and the coal-whipper
apprehended.
Mr. BALLANEINE saw no necessity for another adjourn-
ment, and told the prisoner he could call the woman as a
witness on his trial. If the coal-whipper could be found, he
should certainly be forthcoming at the Central Criminal
Court.
The prisoner was then committed.

MARKET NEWS. -(YESTERDAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.

The present week's arrivals of English Wheat having been on a
very moderate scale, the stands here were scantily filled with sam-
ples. Still, however, as it is expected the new duties on foreign
Corn will be receivable at the Custom-house to-morrow, the dealers
were very cautious in their operations, indeed the trade was in a
most uncertain state, yet we can notice no alteration in the quota-
tions. The imports of foreign Wheat have been good, and the article,
free of duty, commanded very little attention at late rates. The late
line showers having produced a very beneficial effect upon all spring
Corn, the sales progressed heavily, and in some instances the quota-
tions had a downivaxd tendency. Superfine Malt being scarce com-
manded full prices, but all other kinds were neglected.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
3,700 qrs. 1,740 qrs.

Oats flour.
3,150 qrs. 1,850 sly.

English • • • • • •

Irish .•••.. .. I -
Foreign .• •• .. I 10,320

560
10,790

Malt, 4,060 qrs.
SVIITIIPIELD.

Our market was on the whole tolerably well, but not to say heavily,
supplied with Beasts, the general quality of which was by no means
first rate. The attendance of buyers being more numerous than for
some time past, the Beef trade ruled firm, at fully Monday's quota-
tions. We had on cffer 60 Oxen and Cows, together with 350 Sheep,
from Holland ; 12 Oxen, from Prussia ; and 40 Scots from Scotland.
Sheep, the supply of which was seasonably extensive, moved off
steadily, at late rates. The number of Lambs being large, the de-
mand for that description of stock was somewhat inactive, and prices
were with difficulty supported. Calves and Figs ruled very dull,
and the currencies had a downward tendency. Milch Cows were
selling at from 161 to 181 18s each ; Suckling Calves, 18s to 283 ; and
quarter old Store Pigs, 16a to 193 each. Beasts, 647; Cows, 139 ;
Sheep and Lambs, 13,070 ; Calves, 597 ; Pigs, 290.

NENVGATE AND ZIELA.DENHALX.M.
We had a very inactive demand.
BOROUGH HOP 10TATLICEIC.

The late line showers having greatly benefited the growing bine
in nearly all parts of Kent and Sussex, the demand here has become
very heavy, and prices are with difficulty supported. The duty is
backed at 130,0001. New Kent Pockets, 61 to 81 8s ; Ditto Sussex
Pockets, 51 15s to 71.