The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE •
OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court. Basinghall- street.
T. Brooke, Boxton 011-town, baker, March 11, at
eleven—Joseph and John Baker, Fore-street, machinists,
March 11, at eleven—R. Baker, Cheapside, tailor, March
11. at halt-past eleven—G. Gale, Winchest,r, corn
chandler, March 11, at one—E. G. Shackell, Leadenhall-
street, March 11, at twelve—F. Clark, jun .. Bury St.
Edmund's, innkeeper, March 13, at two—F. Macnaghten,
Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street; merchant, March 10, at
half-past twelve—L. Alexander and W. Bardgett, Old
Broad-street, merchants, March 13, at eleven—S. May,
Myddleton-street, Clerkenwell, watch manufacturer,
March 10, at two—P. BLekmore, Little James-street,
Bedford-row, saddler, March 10, at two.
In the Country.
D. Williams, Ruthin, Denbighshire, cattle salesman,
March 10, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Harper,
Dudley, Worcestershire, Walsall, Tipton, and Bilston,
Staffordshire, mercer and draper, March 15, at eleven, at
the Court, Manchester—S. Stott, Rock Life- vale Mill,
Lancashire, cotton spinner, March 14, at eleven, at the
Court, Manchester—R. Scholes, Bury, grocer, March
21, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—W. Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, glass manufacturer, March 10, at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—A. James,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, oil and glass merchant, March
10, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
I. N. Pearce, Liverpool, stationer, March 13, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—J. Lee, Coventry, watch ma-
nufacturer, March 16 at eleven, at the Court, Birming-
ham—R. Linell, Shrewsbury, grocer, March 18, at
eleven, at the Court. Birmingham.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
W. Chappelow, jun., Jermyn-street, St. James's,
wholesale saddler, 4s. Bd., on Monday, Feb. 21, and
two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Graham, Birchin-lane,
City.
W. Bennett and H. S. Reeve, London road, South-
wark, victuallers, 4s. 3d., any Wednesday, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman-street.

M. C. Johnstone, Lamb's Conduit-street, linendraper,
2s. 11d., any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
M. J. Stone, Abingdon, grocer, first dividend of Bs.,
proportio❑ of the first dividend of 10s. on new proofs,
any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
W. Bibb, Alnwick, currier, id., in addition to 2s. 3d.,
previously deelared, on Saturday, Feb. 19, or any sub-
sequent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three,
at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Hudson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dealer in marine
stores, 155., on Saturday, Feb. 19, or any subsequent
Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the
office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
R. Greenham, Liverpool, merchant. 5a., on Thursday,
Feb. 17, or any subsequent Thursday, between the hours
of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
C. Hall, Uxbridge, grocer and cheesemonger, March
10, at half-past eleven—L. Chaplin, Weatherfield, Essex,
straw plait dealer, March 13, at twelve—J. Phillips,
Cambridge, boot and shoe maker, March 11, at twelve—
F. Fupouy, Cross-lane, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, wine
merchant, March 11, at one—J. Gesle, New Burlington-
mews, Regent-street, job master and livery stable keeper,
March 10, at two—C. Stuart, Herbert-street, New
North-road, wholesale milliner, March 10, at twelve—J.
Parker, Princes-road, Chelsea, Nutting-hill, coach pro-
prietor, March 10, at one—H. Ashley, Fleet-street, and
Little Carter-lane, Doctor's-commons, carrier, March 10,
at half-past two. . .

In the Country.
A. James, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, oil, colour, and
glass-merchant, March 10, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—E. Porritt, Huddersfield,
Yorkshire, banker and cloth manufacturer, March 25,
at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Bedells, Leicester,
paper and general dealer, March 21, at eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham—E. Lea, Shrewsbury, ironmonger,
Nfarch 25, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—G.

Blake and J. Blake, Liverpool, and Dublin, soap manu-
facturers, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—
W. Gregory, Liverpool, hosier and glover, March 10,
t eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—Elizabeth Mooney,
Egremont, Cheshire, upholsterer, March 10, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—G. Lupton, St. Helen's, Lanca-
shire, tailor and draper, March 9, at eleven, at the Court,
Liverpool—C. Williams, ictualler and flour dealer,
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March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Ed-
wards, Allington, Dorsetshire, sack, twine, and shoe-
thread manufacturer, March 13, at eleven, at the Court,
Exeter—J. 'rite, Clenham-mill, Dorsetshire, flax and
tow-spinner, March 13, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter
—T. Law, Manchester and Salford, corn and flour
dealer, March 13, at the Court, Manchester—J. Collins,
Manchester, common brewer, March 15, at eleven, at the
Court, Manchester.
At the Court of Review, March 10.

H. W. Frampton, Bideford, Devonshire, grocer and
tea dealer—J. Boucher, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, draper
W. Carruthers, Desborough terrace, Harrow-road,
builder S. R. Kedward, Clipatone-street, Fitzroy
square, licensed victualler—G. Kiallmark, Hampstead-
street, St. Pancras, music seller—S. Hobbs, Camber-
well•green, cook and confectioner—N. Batho, Man-
ehester, machine maker—F. 11. Agar, New Windsor,
Berkshire, grocer Sarah Sherratt and G. Sherratt,
Hilton, Derbyshire, blacksmiths W. Reeve and R.
Reeve, New Bond-street, upholsterers—F. Smith, Man-
chester, innkeeper— R. F. Gower, jun., New Boad•
street, merchant—J. Basire, Red Lion-square, and North
flyie, brick maker IL Turner, Old Cavendish-
street, St. Marylebone, tailor—T. Stott, Liverpool,
liceman—J. Johanning, Newman-street, Oxford-street,
commission agent—S. Street, Bedford, draper—T.
Burnell and W. S. Fitzwilliam, King William-street,
City, merchants—J. Welsh, Carlisle, tailor and draper.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Alderman Gibbs, the presiding magistrate, was
occupied several hours on Saturday in investigating
the charge of forgery preferred against William Ed-
wards, a labouring man residing in Brompton-square,
with his mother, who, on presenting herself in the
cc urt, was also given into custody by Mr. Butt,
solicitor, of Ryde, who is conducting the case, as
being concerned in the fraud. She gave as her name
Charlotte Edwards.
The brief facts of the case are these :—A few weeks
since Mr. Butt had occasion to forward a Bank post
bill for 241., on Jones, Loyd, and Co., in a letter by
post, to Miss Mary Ann Charley, living at 51,
Brompton-crescent. By some unfortunate circum-
stance it was directed to 51, Brompton-square, and
was there taken in by a female, known by the name
of Miss Underwood and Miss Mary Ann Charley.
The latter she adopted about the period the letter was
sent to please some gentlemen, who said that she was so
much like the Miss Charley of Bromptun•crescent, that
they wished her to go by the name. The accommo-
dating young lady lodged at the r: sidenee of Mrs.
Edwards. A day or so after the delivery of the letter,
the bill was presented by the male prisoner to be dis-
counted at Mr. Tucker's, in Nicholas-lane. This
gentleman required it to be endorsed by Miss Charley,
and the prisoner accordingly took it back, and the
female who had gone by the name of Underwood,
alias Charley, was stated by the servant girl to have
written " Mary Anne Charley" on the hick of it.
This was the forgery. The bill was then discounted,
and the male prisoner handed the amount over to the
female, who had since decamped. The non-delivery
of the letter to the real Miss Charley led to the de-
tection of the fraud.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS committed the male prisoner
for trial. His mother was liberated on putting in her
own recognizances to appear when called upon to
answer any charge.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Francis Mowatt, M.P., of Devonshire-place,
was summoned for riding furiously through the park,
in the early part of the week.
Ilendillon, one of the park-keepers, proved that
the Hon. Member, in company with two ladies, was
galloping at a hard pace through the park, notwith-
standing the prohibition against the dangerous prac-
tice conspicuously displayed in several parts of the
park.
Mr. Mowatt said he was certainly taking a ride in
the park with his two daughters, and the horses
being rather fresh they went at a smart pace, but not
such a pace as he was aware was not permitted, or
that was dangerous to the public.
Mr. HARDWICK said there so many crossings at
Rotton• row that it was necessary to have some re-
striction put on the pace at which riders might be
disposed to go. He was surprised the defendant did
not know that he must only ride at moderate speed
when there were so many boards w ith this intimation
on it distributed about the park.
Mr. Mowatt said he had recently seen Earl Grey
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer riding through
Rotten-row at a much greater speed, and no notice
was taken of the proceeding.—!' fined 10a. and costs.
SOUTHWARK.
A respectable looking couple, named Richard and
Charlotte Stubbs, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Beadon, charged with working an illicit still.
Frederick Pargiter, an officer of the Excise, said
that on the preceding afternoon he took a man in cus-
tody on London-bridge, with a horse and cart, having
in his possession fourteen gallons of illicit spirit.
He took him before the Lord Mayor, who inflicted
the usual fine, which was not paid ; and after
he was locked up he (witness) took the horse
and cart towards London- bridge, thinking by means
' of the animal that he might discover from whence
the spirits came. When he arrived in High-street,
Southwark, he allowed the horse to have its own
, way, and, on coming to Great Suffolk-street, he
turned round and entered Chapel-place, at the rear of
the police court, when he suddenly stopped at a
gateway and refused to proceed further. Witness
had a key, which he took from the man at the Man-
sion-house, and which he found unfastened the
' gate. On his entrance he found a strong effluvia
from molasses wash, clearly indicating that a still
was at work near the place. While he was looking
about, the prisoners ran out of the house and endea-
voured to escape; but the officers who attended him
, took them into custody. They then acknowledged
working a still, and said that they did so to keep
them from the workhouse. Witness then entered the
room at the rear of the stables, and found a large still
in full working order, running off spirits. It was
fully charged with molasses wash, and capable of
working off a hundred gallons.
In answer to the charge, the prisoners said they
had only been concerned in the still about three weeks,
and that they were not aware whose horse and cart it
was the officer had in his possession.
Mr. BEADON told them that it would be unwise
for them to make such a statement, as it was quite
positive that the horse would not have stopped at
their place unless he had been in the habit of going
there. He should inflict the penalty of 301. on each
of them, and the only way to get it reduced would be
by telling the whole truth to the Board of Excise.
In default of paying the fines, the prisoners were
committed to the House of Correction for three months
each.

TO THE SECRETARY 01P THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir, —On NVer!nesday the 16th, the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill was considered in Committt e.
The most prominent part of the debate was the speech
of Mr. Gladstone. Moderate, sagacious, and just, he
is clearly one of the rising statesmen to whose care
we must bequeath our children when we die.
On local business, I presented the petition of your
solicitors for the removal of the certificate duty ;
which appears to have been the precursor of a general
movement on the subject. Ido not know whether
the petitioners may approve of their petition being
presented in what may be deemed a light vein. But
I beg them to observe, that by means of this I intro-
duced the answer to the stock fallacy adduced in this
and other cases, which is that the tax will be re-
covered from the consumers.
On Thursday was a Currency debate, curiously
got up in defiance of the appointment of a Com-
mittee. From the defection of the Scotch Members,
and other causes, there seemed to be an apprehension
in the House that Ministers would be in a minority.
The question however was carried in their direction,
by 163 against 122.
On Friday came on the Ways and Means, or what
is called the Budget. And here I believe I came in
some respects to different conclusions from some
in my neighbourhood. Having been art and part in
that greatdemonstration at Manchester, which though it
did nut " go for gold" may be surmised to have been
the beginning of the movement which stopped the
progress of the war mania, I of course watched for
tokens of the effect on the measures of the Govern-
ment. And I must avow, if lam to speak my mind
honestly, that with certain exceptions towards the
conclusion of their proposals which shall be noticed,
I felt a firm and increasing conviction, that the Go-
vernment was doing precisely what considerate
and intelligent men would do in such circumstances
for themselves The Government did not make the
war madness; it was the simple consequence of one
" untoward event," over which they had no manner
of control. The unfortunate letter, was the torch
thrown into the peace of Europe. Late and limping
apologies have been made, on the ground of its pub-
' lication being unintended. Military men do not
often make such mistakes; and when they do, they incur
such consequences as leave small risk of the repetition of
the weakness. But if it was so, produce the culprits
and the evidence. Till then, the natural conclUsion
will be, that the letter was cruising about for a
twelvemonth for somebody to publish it. It is
known that six months ago, it was in the state of
being a great secret on the continent. The letter
had carried a bitter feeling towards England into
every cottage in France, and was curiously
directed to calling upon Frenchmen to ran-
sack their history for causes of rancour
of which the existing generation hardly knew the
names. What modern Frenchman, for instance, ex-
cept professed politicians, knew or cared anything
about Toulon, till the schoolmaster called him up and
asked, " Where did the English burn a fleet, on pre-
tence of being the allies of France rr" But for all
this the Government was not to blame. One man
can set fire to a house, and six hundred and
fifty-eight men cannot put it out again. The
Government had nothing to do with any-
thing but struggling with the consequences.
It was clear, that in their position, they must do
something, and that anybody else in their place
must do it too. Assuming, therefore, that the Go-
vernment had as perfect an aversion to the origin of
the mischief as any that met at Manchester, still all
that it could do was to meet the mischief in the least
mischievous way it could. And this, till it came to
a point which shall be mentioned, I certainly
thought it was doing. The several steps pro-
posed with respect to the navy, the army, and the ord-
nance, all seemed to me to be the measures of men
desirous to see the end of the popular disease,
with as little in the way of apothecary's bill as would
satisfy the parish. They honestly declared their dis-
belief in the imminence of war. Two strong reasons
for joining in this, present themselves to my appre-
hension. One is, that peace between the French and
English nations was substantially concluded by the
events of 1830 and their consequences It was a
peace, not between diplomatists, but between the
people on the two sides ; and what the people have
inade, neither diplomatists nor militarists will break.
I saw at that period old colonels of the Empire, men
whose rank and prospects and ambition had been cut
down by the results of the war, going back to France
with tears in their eyes, and declaring that it never
entered into their thoughts that the English people
could behave as they did on that occasion. And the
next reason is, that the Government has, on the rising
questions in Europe, already taken the better part, to
an extent which settles! anxiety on what their line of
conduct is to be. Hence that France at this moment
should be cherishing hostile designs is about as likely
as that she should be doing it when Englishmen in
Paris were demanding to carry a mu-ket in the bar-
ricades. But notwithstanding this, it is impossible to
have a fire put out for nothing; the bill, therefore,
should be laid at the doors of those who fired the
train.
The point where my objections began, was at the
proposal for a Militia ; and one too, where, with that
awkwardness which often marks the proceedings of
the political denomination from which it came, it was
intimated to be desirable that substitutes should not be
allowed. Now on this I invite the most sifting
search. If more force is wanted, let it he fairly pro-
posed in the shape of an addition to the regular army,
and Parliament decide on it accordingly. A militia-
man does not eat less, cost less, than a regular
soldier. He is a regular soldier with the exception
that he is not to do a regular's work. An increase in
the regular army is an operation which nobody need
hear of; but the creation of the novelty of a militia
is sounding the trumpet to every clashing feeling
abroad and at home. In a militia regiment more
port will be drunk, and more offensive toasts
given to season it with,— there will be more
harping on every tender question both in home
and foreign politics, more quarrelling between the
aristocratic feeling of the officers and the popular
tendencies of the rank and file,—than in six regi-
ments of the line. The motto of the militia will ne-
cessarily be—" War with France and French opinions;"
without this, or without talking about it, they wil
be nobody. And by way of helping, the men are
proposed to be raised by ballot, without allowing sub-
stitutes. Is there to be a Chartist company in a
militia battalion, or are they to be divided among the
rest that they may disperse their principles ?
Is a Chartist to have liberty of conscience
and of speech, or is he to be brought
up for unsoldierike conduct if in his sleep he names
the Charter? 'lf ever there was a way to get up a
collision and revive political animosities, it is this.
And to all this what is there to set off? Simply the
desire to enlist on their side the ambition for militia
scarlet. There may be excuse for the uneconomical
force of a militia, which may be called an army with
one leg tied up, when the population is greatly ex-
hausted by military service, and it is expedient to call
on men for one kind of service who might not be
willing to give the other. But there is no such reason
now. Recruiting parties may not be very popular at
Manchester; but a conscription among the working
hands, without allowing substitutes, will be a great
deal less. On all accounts together, therefore, the
plan of a militia seems to be about as wise as to re-
commend a man to tie up his leg and use a wooden
one, when he has got a good leg of his own.
There is a deficiency in the revenue, if I make no
mistake, of three millions and a half; and the pro-
posal of the Government is to make the new expenses
overshoot the old by about 300,0001. Now this is
only some three per cent. on the old; and there is no
man who cannot economise to the extent of three per
cent., especially if his previous arrangements have
not been particularly economical. If nothing else,
the experiment has been tried on the public with the
income-tax, in a way that proves the possibility to
be undeniable.
If, therefore, I was in a position to offer counsel
to the manufacturing and commercial interests, who
undoubtedly have great power in their hands on this
occasion, it would be that, instead of figuring in
a barren minority, they should try what they could
effect by a proffer to support the Government on the
two conditions of the withdrawal of the militia and
the dispensing with the three per cent. addition to the
estimates. To pay up the deficiency, may be hell to
be a necessity arising out of what bills of lading
call the act of God ; but the other is not. And to
the proposal for a militia force the most steady and
persevering opposition should be engaged for, leaving
to the decision of Parliamenj whether more of regu-
lar force is wanted or not.
I had a desire to say something on the subject of
income-taxes ; but it must be deferred to a slack
time.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Feb. 21, 1848.

TERRIBLE CALAMITY.—SIX PERSONS DESTROYED
BY Emit IN KILLARNEY.—On Sunday night a dreadful
fire took place in Killarney, by which six individuals
lost their lives. The extensive pawnbroking establish-
ment of Mr. Carberry, in the New-street, which, con-
tained the deposits of the poor from all parts of Kerry,
to the amount of several thousands sterling, was the
scene of this dreadful catastrophe. Two persons, in
their endeavours to escape, were killed, and four chil-
dren perished in the flames. The affair is a most melan-
choly one.--Freeman's Journal.
On Tuesday Patrick Ryan (Small) was executed
at Ennis gaol for the murder of the late James Watson'
Esq. lie ascended the scaffold at half-past two o'clock,
in a very feeble state, supported by the Rev. Messrs.
Mahony and Quinlan. The wretched man appeared
almost inscnsib'e, and had to be held up while the
executioner was adjusting the rope. He fainted off
before the bolt was drawn, and died instantly. The
evening before his execution he declared his innocence
in the gaol. A great concourse of persons congregated
before the prison to witness thu spectacle.--,Limerick
Chronicle.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

An attempt at murder was made yesterday (Sunday)
forenoon, in Dudley-street, St. Utica's, which it i 3 feared
will be attended with fatal consequences to an aged
woman, named Mary Ritchie, and her daughter, a young
woman, far advanced in pregnancy, 22 years of age.
It appears that a young man named James Parker, a
tailor, but who for some time past had obtained a living
by dancing at public concert-rooms, had been cohabiting
with the daughter, named Eliza, Burgess, for nearly
twelve months. Parker being of very dissipated habits,
she agreed to separate from him. Accordingly she
went to live with her mother, who had lodgings at the
house of Mr. Fleming, a boot and shoemaker, No. 26,
Dudley-street, St. Giles's.
Although living separate from each other Parker
frequently called to see the unfortunate girl and her
mother, but during the last week or so frequent quarrels
had taken place between them. At an early hour yes-
terday morning Parker called upon them, and for
nearly two hours Mr. Fleming heard the parties using
high words. It was deemed necessary to turn him out
of the house, which was accordingly done by Mr.
Fleming. He, however, returned soon afterwards, and
after staying a few minutes in the room of Mrs. Richie
he muttered something, then left in a great hurry, and
went to the house of Mr. Johnson, a shoemaker, No.
25 in the same street, of whom he borrowed a knife,
statir,g at the time that he wanted it to cut the sole
off one of his dancing pumps that had become loose.
Parker having examined it, complained of the
blade being rather blunt pointed, and asked
alr. Johnson to give it a rub or two on the strop
to make it sharper. This was done, when he re-
returned to Air. Fleming's house, and almost imme-
diately afterwards loud cries of " Murder" were heard
proceeding from the room in question. Mr. Fleming
without delay ran up stairs, where he met Mrs. Ritchie
bleeding profusely from the lower part of the body. She
cried out, " I am murdered: catch Parker, he is killing
my daughter now." He rushed into the room, when he
perceived Parker with a knife in his hand and his sleeves
besmeared with gore. He, on seeing Mr. Fleming, cried
out, " What business have you here? Stand off, or it
will be cold coffee with you." At the same time be
threw the bloody knife out of one of the back windows,
and rushed forth into the street. One of the neighbours
having heard the alarm, and seeing Parker's hands
covered with blood, laid hold of him and kept him until
the arrival of a police-constable, into whose custody he
was immediately given, and he was at once removed to
the station-house in Bow-street.
Police constable Bain and other parties, without a
moment's loss of time, took the two injured women to a
neighbouring surgeon's, but such was the dangerous
character of the wounds inflicted that their instant re-
moval to Charing-cross Hospital was deemed necessary.
The younger woman, as she was being conveyed thither,
bled most copiously from the wounds in her forehead
and back, and her mother bled as extensively from a
wound in the lower portion of the belly and another in
one of her thighs. Mr. Steggall, the resident house.
surgeon of the hospital, upon seeing the two women at
, once pronounced them to be in imminent danger. The
abdomen of Mrs. Ritchie was perforated to the extent of
several inches, and so was the wounded thigh. Such is
the dangerous nature of the injuries that her death is
hourly expected.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market keeps firm to-day,
with n small business doing. The business done was the fol.
lowing :—Huddersfield and Manchester, 2% din.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Fifths, 1/2 p.—London and North-Western,
146—Ditto, New Quarters, sth p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 10/. Preference, 1A p.—Midland, 40/. Shares,
458—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 51(4 dia.—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2,
3%2 P.
MANCHESTER, Fan. 19.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bolton, Blackburn,
&c. (A), 6'% dis.—North Staffordshire, %po—South-Eaat:
ern and Dover, No. 4, 11,4 dis.
LEEDS, FEB. 19.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and York-
shire (West Riding Union), 2% dis.—North British, Thirds
3s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 7s. 6d. dis.—North•Weetera,
5/. Ils. 9d. dis.

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 19.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 46e. 3d. dis.—North Staffordshire, p.
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 565. 3d. di&—Ditto
(B), 365. 3d. dis.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and Car-
lisle, 53 ex div.—Newcastle and Carlisle, New Scrip, 102—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), DA. p.
—Ditto (N. and B.), 31/. 12s. 6d.

YORK, FEB. 18.
STOCK EXCHINGE.—The sales are—Great Northern, 4?.
12s.—Northern Counties Union, ss. 6d.—North Western,
'
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B.), 31%
Ditto, Extension, No. 1, 20—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Ber-
wicks), 131/4—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 10%.
GLASGOW, Fras. 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath.
gate, 503.—Caledonian, 35—Edinburgh and Perth, 13s.—
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 1144 —Man-
chester and Southampton, 6s. 3d.--North British, Thirds.
85s. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 453/4—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 10%.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Badsworth hds., Tues , Scawsby Bar; Thurs., Borne;
Sat., Notton Village-10i.
Mr. Lumley's hds., Monday, Sperkin-hill; Wed.,
Crookhill; Fri., Cringley on the Hill; Sat.. Swinnow
Wood-10i.

Rufford rids., Mon., Kennels; Thurs., Upton Village;
Sat., Cocking Moor-10i.
Earl of Harewood's lids., Mon., Spofforth; Wed.,
Hook Moor; Fri.. Wigbill
Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Kelsey River Head;
Fri., Utterby-11.
Sir Tattoo Sykes's hth., Mon., Birdsall Honse-10i;
Wed., Wilberfoss Mill-11; Pri., Scampston House
—loi.
Holderness hds.. Moni, Bessingsby; Tues., Cavil
Hall; Thurs., Cranswick ; Sat., Rise Mill-104.
Cheshire hds., Mon., Davenham Hall; Wed., Dunham
Park; Fri., Black Dog, Saghton; Sat., Withingtoa

Sit:. W. Wynn's hds., Tues., Styche ; Wed., Hawk-
stone ; Fri., Prees; Sat., Loppington
South Essex hds., Tues., North Ockington ; Thurs.,
Hoekley Bull ; Sat., Turner's Gate, by Hadleigh-10i.
East Essex hds., Tues., Stambourn Village ; Sat.,
Marks
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Hartley Wood ; Fri.,
Justice Wood.

Cottesmore hds., Mon., Stocken Hall ; Tues., Throok
Hall ; Thurs., Loddington ; Fri., Knossington-104.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Mon., Long Orton ; Wed.,
Oundle Wood ; Fri., Buckworth Village-10.
Duke cf Rutland's hds., Mon., Croxton Park I.oi ;
Tues., Great Gonerby-12; Wed., Croxton Park; Fri.,
Cranwell-14
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Mr. M. Irgrarn's hds., Mon., Drakelon ; T hurl.,
Spread Eagle ; Sat., Blith field.

THE TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.—E 3 :ICU•
TION OF TUE MURDERERS.—On Saturday moral ng, at
a quarter to nine, Rouseel and Vandenplaas,
panied by the chaplain of the prison and the Abbe Triat,
left their cells. The cortege proceeded along the Ruo•
aux-Laines and the Boulevard-de-Waterloo, as far: Is the
Gate de Hal, against which the scaffold was er acted,
fronting the Rue-Haute. Vandenplaas appeared to be
greatly cast down, but Rouseel walked with fin anew.
At nine o'clock the condemned arrived at the pl ace of
execution ; they embraced their confessors, and Van-
deuplass was then executed. The sound of thy knife
made Rouseel tremble greatly, and his whole frame
shook for some time ; but he regained confidence„ and
gave himself up to his execution, and soon afte, r the
crowd dispersed in silence.

THE CASE OF MICHAEL M'UABE.—We are glad
to learn that intelligence was received on Wedneo .day.
by Mr. Jackson, of York, solicitor for M'Cabe, to the
effect that this unfortunate convict's case is undergoing
further consideration in the office of the Secretar; r of
State. Mr. Justice Patteson, by whom M'Cabe yea
tried, had an interview with Sir George Grey, co
Tuesday.—Leeds Mercury.
HIGHWAY RolmEßT.—On Saturday night sat,
about half-past seven o'clock, a hawker named Curt an,
residing at Greenside, was returning home fig om
Prudhoe, and when about 100 3ards from Mr.
derson's farm-house, at liye, he was stopped by Is co
men, who sprung out of the hedge, keocked him dove Eli
and after several ineffectual struggles on the part s if'
Curran, in which he received some severe blows, the.
succeeded in rifling his right-hand breeches pocket es f
the money it contained, which consisted of more than
41. in silver and then made their escape. Curran, it
appears, had a larger sum in his possession in another
pocket wrapped in a purse; but his cries for assistance
brought the inmates of the farm-house to the spot, and
being alarmed at their approach, the villains hastily
abandoned their victim and fled. No trace has yet%
been discovered of the perpetrators of this daring out-.
rage.—Newcastle Guardian.
Monsieur Alexandre Dumas made a sad mistake
when he visited Madrid. lie inscribed his visiting card.
with the words—" Alexandre Dumas, Escribano,'
thinking to dazzle the poor Spaniards' eves with the
advent of a genuine howne de lettres. In fact he was
received in a very flattering manner, but at the same
time was not a little perplexed, as well as mortified, to
find his appearance in a salon, invariably the signal for
suppressed
laughter. It was some time before he die—
covered the meaning of this enigma. In Spain a literary'
man is called Escritor, a notary Escribano, so that poor
M. Dumas had actually announced himself as a notary!
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BIRTHS.
On the 18th inst., at Lowndes-square, the Lady Mary
Egerton, of a daughter.
On the 22d ult., at Madeira, the wife of James W. Bronghs.
ton, Esq., AI.:D., of a son, still-born.
On the 15th inst., at Porcho.•ster-terrace, the wife of Joseph
llardcastle, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.
On the 16th inst., in Upper George• street, the wife of Joh*
Philpot Curran, Esq., barrister-at •law, of a son.
On the 18th inst., in Upper Brook-street, the lady of R.
Arabin, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 16th inst., at Alva House, North Britain, Captain
Lord Frederick C. P. Bnuclerk, R.N , to Jemirna Eleonoria
Johnstone, sixth daughter of the late James Johnstone, Esq.,
of Alva.

DIED.
On the 15th ult., at Barrie, Upper Canada, Captain John,
Moberly, E.N.
On the 9th inst., at Lausanne, in Switzerland, Lieut..'
Colonel Charles S. Cerjat, formerly of the Royals, or Vat
Dragoons.
On the 18th inst., at the Grove, Clapham-road, asil
Anne, the wife of Alfred Tomlins, aged 39.

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