The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1848

SUN,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
there had been an alteration in the estimato to the ex-
tent of 5,000/,, which would be required for addition a
offices that were considered essentially necessary. This
additional expenditure had been sanctioned by the Trea-
sury, but would not be laid out during the present year.
Mr. OSBORNE inquired whether the attention of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had been drawn to note in
one of the Parliamentary papers on this subject, pre-
sented this morning, stating that the additional remune-
ration of the architect for the alterations was to be made
a subject of consideration ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his
attention had been called to all those cases of public
buildings in which additional expense had been incurred.
In the case of the New Houses of Parliament, be believed
the additional expense could not have been foreseen; but
he thought no additional expense should have been in-
curred without the previous consent of the Treasury. He
had directed the additional remuneration to be paid in
this case ; but not in any other case, of a similar
nature, unless the alterations had been agreed to by the
proper department.—(Hear, hear.)
MR. O'NEAL'S CASE.

In replying to the O'CONNOR DON,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
intimated that he had written to Ireland,
and in reply had received a letter from a
Mr. Griffin, stating that during the last five
weeks seventy-five men had been employed on the
estate of Mr. O'Neal, in Galway, and that that gentle-
man was quite ignorant at the time that he bad laid
himself open to complaint.
IsiEW PLACES. _ _ _

Lord LINCOLN inquired whether the return he had
moved for with respect to new places created since 19th
of March, 1845, down to which period a return bad been
furnished, would be laid on the table.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
three•fourths of the return had come in; the return of
some of the legal departments had not yet come in, but
he should immediately take steps to have the return
completed at the earliest possible moment.
AUGMENTATION OF THE POLICE.

Sir DE LACY EVANS inquired if it would be open
to him, on the motion for going into supply on Friday,
to draw the attention of the House to the proposed in-

crease of the police, and the consequent cost?
Sir GEORGE GREY apprehended that it would not
be open to the Honourable Baronet to do so • but it', in
accordance with the rules of the House for him to do so
of course he had not the least objection.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, July 8.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Guildhall before Mr. Justice
WILLIAMS and a Special Jury.
DAVIDSON V. BOHN.

This was an action on the case, brought by the plain.
tiff, a bookseller and publisher, against the defendant,
who is in the same line of business, for the infringement
of an alleged copyright in the words of the songs," Said
a smile to a tear, ' from the comic opera of False Alarms,
or, My Cousin ; " Home, sweet home," from the opera
of Clari, or the Maid of Milan ; and "Fill, fill, till the
glass runs o'er," from the English version of Der Frey-
schutz ; and in the right to set music to these songs.
The defendant put a great variety of pleas on the
record.
Mr. Sergeant Channell, Mr. Lush, and Mr. Scotland
appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd,
Mr. Sergeant Byles, and Mr. Bovill fur the defendant.
On behalf of the plaintiff, it was shown that before
the late Copyright Act came into operation, the
words of the two first songs had been published. in
Cumberland's British Theatre, and of " Fill, fill,"
&c., in the libretto of Der Freyschutz, and the
ownership in these two works was proved by
certified copies of entries in the registry of the
Stationers' Company to belong to John Cumberland,
who had assigned it to the plaintiff. It was also shown
that in March, 1846, the defendant had been cautioned,
by letter, by the plaintiff, not to infringe his copy-
wright; and likewise in the following April, by means
of a printed circular, which was left at the defendant's
shop.
A copy of the work published by the defendant,
called the " Musical Gem," which contained the words of
the songs in question put to music, was put in, and
proved to have been bought from the defendant.
Several legal objections were taken to the plaintiff 's
case, and reserved for the Court in Banco.
The defendant's case was, that James Kenney was the
author of the worth of "Said a smile to a tear," which
was published in 1807, and was assigned by him in the
following year to Messrs. Longman and Co., without
any formal deed or memorandum. Braham composed
the music to this song ; and both the music and
the words were published with Kenney's tacit as-
sent. He assigned his right by deed in 1815, and also in
1844, to D'Almaine and Co. John Howard Payne was
the author of the words of " Home, sweet home," and

Sir Henry Bishop set it to music ; which he adapted
from a Sicilian air. The words were first published in
1823, by John Miller, who had purchased Payne's
interest ; and who sold his right to them to Chri.-
topher Harris, but on neither occasion was the trans-
action evidenced by deed or memorandum. This song,
with Bishop's music, was published in 1824, by D'Al-
maine and Co. George Soanne composed the words of
"Fill, fill," &c., in 1824, under the direction of Sir
Henry Bishop, who arranged the music of " Der Frey-
schutz," for Elliston, at that time lessee of Drury-lane
Theatre. This song, with the music, was likewise
published by D'Alumine and Co., who, in 1837, ob-
tained an assignment by deed, in the two last songs
from Sir Henry Bishop. Their publication of these
three songs, with the music, had never been interfered
with, and copies of each had been purchased by the de-
fendant at various times, who afterwards bound them up
together, putting a new title page in the commencement,
in which he called his work the " Musical Gem," and
had his name entered at the bottom as publisher.
Several witnesses, amongst them Sir Henry Bishop and
Mr. Braham, stated that the composers of the music of
an opera had the right to use the words, and to publish
them, with the music, without asking the author's con-
sent. _ _ _ _

The plaintiff, in reply, gave evidence of a deed of as-
signment, in 1834, of all Swine's right to the plaintiff,
and a receipt from Harris to Cumberland, for the pur-
chase.money of the words of " Home, sweet home," and
that Cumberland had bought Longman and Co.'s right in
"Said a smile to a tear," but without any deed of me-
morandum of assignment.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS told the jury that as to the
defendant's having printed the words of the songs, or
sold them, knowing them to have been unlawfully
pirated, there was no evidence, and said the verdict on
those points must be for the defendant. The only ques-
tion of fact left fur the jury was to say whether or not
the authors had furnished the words of the songs with
the implied understanding that the composers of the
music were to have the right to publish and sell them
with the music.'
The jury retired, and, after a short time, found the
question in the affirmative as to the authorship of " Said
a smile to a tear" and " Home, sweet home," and in
the negative as to Fill, fill," kc.
The effect of this finding, together with the Learned
Judge's direction, was substantially a verdict for the de-
fendant, subject, however, to certain paints of law re-
served in the course of the trial for the consideration of
the full Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Drury liahr, assuming to be a man of fortune, and
holding a commission in the Honourable East India
Company's service, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having contemplated a fraud on a large
scale on Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, silversmiths, Bond-
street, and having committed fraud on other parties.
The prisoner was also charged with having attempted to
utter several forged bills of exchange, purporting to have
been drawn by the melts committee of the 28th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry. The first charge was
for obtaining from Messrs. Hunt and Co. a set of tur-
viols° shirt and waistcoat buttons, value 101., under
false and fraudulent pretences.
Charles Poulten, cashier to Messrs. Hunt and Co.,
said on Thur: day last the prisoner came into their
warehouse in Bond-street, and gave an order for a
service of plate, value 9001, which he said was for the
officers of the 28th Bengal Native Infantry, and which
he proposed to pay for by a bill for 12,500 rupees,
drawn in his favour by the mess-officers of the regiment.
The bill in question purported to be signed by the pre-
sident of the mess committee, and witness having had a
letter advising him on the subject a few days back, had
not the least suspicion that fraud was contemplated.
The service of plate was to come to about 9,000 rupees,
and the balance (3,500 rupees) was to be handed over to
the prisoner. in the course of conversation witness
asked the prisoner if he was acquainted with Messrs.
Forbes and Co., in the City. The prisoner endeavoured
to evade the question, and appeared annoyed at the in-
quiry. The prisoner, however, turned the matter off,
and asked to look at some, turquoise shirt studs and
buttons. The prisoner chose a set which came to 101.,
handed witness the bill now produced for 12,500 rupees,
and left the shop, taking the studs and buttons with
him. Witness subsequently made inquiries in the City,
and then ascertained that the bill was a forgery.
Police-constable Checkley, C division, took the pri-
soner into custody at his lodgings, in Tavistock-street,
Covent-garden. Witness told the prisoner the nature of
the charge against him, and then searched his lodging.
He found a large portmanteau filled with new clothes,
large bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, and also on
the prisoner's person several bills for large amounts in
sicca rupees. Wiiness,.also found sixty sovereigns in the
prisoner's possession, and a letter which proved that the
prisoner had received 1341. from a firm in Fenchurch-
street, on one of these spurious bills. Witness also found
a paper on which was written an oath to this effect, that
he (the prisoner) on his Bible swore that he would ab-
stain from squandering away, lending, or borrowing
money, on any pretence, by whatever means he might get

money.
A smart groom came forward, and stated that he had
been hired by the prisoner to valet him about a month
ago. The prisoner then lived in Trinity-square, in the
Borough, and from his appearance and representations
witness was induced to believe that he was a gentleman
of large fortune, just arrived from India, and about to set
up an establishment of a first-rate character. The groom
said he had been in the prisoner's service a month, and
had as yet received no money.
Mr. BINGuAIt ordered the groom to be paid his wages
out of the money taken from the prisoner.
The prisoner was remanded until next Saturday.
.111,11? YLEBONE.
Theodore Piedfort, a foreigner, carrying on the busi-
ness of hairdresser and perfumer, No. 5, Bury-street,
examined on a charge of having
St. James's, was finally
violated the person of Rose Harris, one of the servants
in the establishment of the Countess of Dundonald.
Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Lewis for the prisoner.
The evidence taken at the previous examination having
been read over by Mr. Phillips, the clerk, the com-
plainant was cross-examined by Mr. Lewis at great
length, without his being able to shako her testimony in
the slightest degree.
Eliza, Manning, the countess's housekeeper, deposed
that the prisoner had dressed her ladyship's hair for
upwards of twenty years. On Thursday week he came
to her Ladyship's house in Chesterfied street, Mayfair, at
twelve o'clock, and was told to call again at nine o'clock
in the evening. Her ladyship thought of returning to
Hampstead on that day, but did not do so until Friday
night. On complainant making her acquainted with the
treatment she had received from the prisoner, witness
communicated it to the uncle and aunt of the young wo-
man, and also to the Countess. Witness had examined
the complainant's back, which she said had been hurt
by the prisoner pushing her against a table in the par•
lour, and found a lump upon her back, which must have
been caused by great violence.
Policeman Crosby, C 151, who apprehended the pri-
soner in Albemarle-street, deposed that when he told
him the charge on which he was taken, he said, It
must be all a mistake."
Mr. Lewis urged that the charge against his client,
which was a very serious one, rested solely on the evi-
dence of one witness, the complainant herself, and asked
that the prisoner might be admitted to bail.
Mr. Lose, howe,er, refused to accept bail, and the
prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial on tho ca-
pital charge.

HAMMERSMITH.
Thomas Oxley and six other costermongers and
general dealers, were summoned before Mr. T. Painter,
by the police, fur permitting their barrows, &C., to stand
longer than necessary for loading or unloading in the
public thor,Aigh faro round Kensington -churchyat d,
whereby they had incurred penalties not exceeding 40s.
or a month's imprisonment.
It appeared that the defendants were in the nightly
practice, with others, of congregating with baskets,
trucks, barrows, &c., on the open space of the high
road, to sell fish, fruit, vegetables, haberdashery, &c.,
forming a compete market, and the summonses were
taken out in consequence of the repeated complaints of
the shopkeepers of the nuisance occasioned thereby.
The defendants pleaded guilty, and said they were
compelled to do so for the purpose of obtaining a liveli-
hood, and keeping themselves and families out of the
workhouse.
Mr. PAYNTER said there could he'll° doubt that it was
quite illegal fur them to do so ; but he had himself ub
served an evening or two before, as well as on other
occasions, a crowd of the_carriages of the nobility and

gentry stopping up the thoroughfare in the high road,
in consequence of some fashionable party, and he felt
that it would be a I:,reat mockery of justice to punish
the poor persons then before him for committing nn
offence which was committed by the rich n•ith impu-
nity. He should, therefore, only inflict on each of the
defendants a nominal fine of one penny, without any
costs.
The poor men appeared much delighted at the justice
of the decision of the worthy Magistrate, and very
cheerfully paid their pence.

THE BEOLEY HALL ESTATE,
WORCESTERSHIRE.
BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—A case of considerable in-
terest in the county of Worcester, and, in some degree,
involving a claim to property of great extent in the
neighbourhood of Redditch, came on for hearing before
J. T. Lawrence, Esq., and other county magistrates, at
Alcester Lanes-end, to-day. Mr. Whitehouse, a gentle-
man of considerable landed property; Mr. Woolaston,
steward of the Beoley Hall estate, acting under Mr.
Oliver, solicitor of London; and four persons, named
Porter, Richmond, Carpenter, and Bolton, were charged
with riot and assault. Mr. Johnson, solicitor, of Dudley,
appeared for the complainant, one Joseph Rogers, who
described himself as being " a yeoman," residing at
Braidley, in Staffordshire.
A brief explanation is necessary to the proper appre-
ciation of the charge.
The Beoley Hall estate, oue of the most beautiful
properties in the eastern division of Worcestershire, was
formerly in the possession of the anciant house ot Shel-
don, and from them descended by purchase to the family
ot Holmes. Some sixty years ago Mr. Holmes, the then
possessor, sold the estate, at that time in its entirety,
comprising the whole parish of Beoley, and consisting of
about 4,506 acres, iu lots to various parties. One por-
tion of the estate, consisting of the hall, and about 300
acres of land, fell into the hands of Mr. Whitehouse, one
of the present defendants; but before the formal con-
veyance was completed (the sale being duly effected)
Mr. Holmes died without a will. The sale was however,
ratified by his successors. Within these last few years,
claimants to the whole estate of Beoley, now divided
into separate purchases, have sprung up in the persons
of a family of working colliers, named Staunton, of
Braidley, near Dudley, who claim as the legitimate re-
presentatives of the Holmeses, and who, moreover, affirm
that the sales made by Mr. Holmes were not of the free-
hold, but leasehold, expirable in sixty years from the
time the leases were executed. This period they affirm
has now elapsed; but it is remarkable that no copy of
any one lease has yet been produced.
Under these circumstances the Stauntons, by the in-
strumentality of Rogers, on Thursday morning last pro-
ceeded to assert and do acts of ownership. It appears
that Mr. Whitehouse does not occupy the hall, but that
the premises were in the care of a gardener named Mor-
ris, and his wife. About ten o'clock on the morning in
question, Rogers, and an attendant bailiff, named Hall,
who did occasional jobs for him, proceeded to Beoley,
and having obtained admission to the hall, they imme-
diately assumed the right of proprietorship. Morris,
the gardener, and his wife, were required to perform
suit and service; the cookery apparatus was in im-
mediate requisition, and the lordly intruders dealt
with everything within their reach as the goods and
chattels of their colliery employers, the Stauntons.
This glorification was, however, doomed to be of
short duration. On Saturday evening Mr. White-
house, accompanied by Mr. Woolaston, and a nume-
rous band of trusty retainers, made their appearance,
when they found doors and shutters bolted and barred,
and every preparation made to resist a formidable siege.
A surrender was demanded, but refused; force became
necessary, the windows of the drawing-room were broken
in, the doors forced, and ultimately the besieged Mr.
Rogers and his knight, finding that the enemy had not
only effected a breach, but that the besiegers were talk-
ing in unmistakeable terms of a contiguous horse pond,
thrust the keys of the mansion into the pockets of
a constable (who was present to keep the peace), ex-
claiming that "he had seen enough ;" and made a pre-
cipitate escape to avoid the personal indignities in anti-
cipation. It was for the assault and riot committed on
the occasion that the present charge was instituted.
Green, the constable, who was called to corroborate
the witness, decidedly contradicted him. He witnessed
neither assault nor riot.
The Magistrate gave no opinion as to the legal right
to the property, but dismissed the charge of riot and
assault.
The constable immediately gave up the keys of the
hall to Mr. Whitehouse, under a protest from Rogers.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
IL Evans, J. F. Skinner, Z. Langten, and T. Foster,
Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, East India merchants, July
28, at eleven—T. Burton, Commercial•road, Lambeth,
builder, July 28, at one—R. Weatherhog and R.
Weatherhog,, Stone, Kent, farmers, July 28, at twelve—
J. O'Donnell, Sidney-street, Chelsea, bricklayer, July
28, at eleven.

In the Country.
A. M. Paterson, J. Walker, J. Boydell, and C. B. T.
Roper, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, iron founders, July
27, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Harland,
Marrick, Yorkshire, banker, July 31, at twelve, at the
Court, Leeds—S. Hawley. Ashton under-Lyne, grocer,
July 31, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—W. Ed-
mond and T. Edmund, Liverpool, merchants, July 29, at
twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Smith and M. Smith,
Baxenden, calico printers, July 28, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester—M. Smith, Baxenden, calico printer,
July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester— R. Smith,
Baxenden, calico printer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—R. Webster, Preston, linen draper, July
28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. W. Montagu, Pleasant-row, Stepney green, com-
mander in the royal navy, 5d., July 10, and two subse-
quent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Carman, Birchin-lane.
W. Bullrnore, Clerkenwell close, and Bedford-court,
Covent-garden, gold wire drawer, 6d., July 10, and two
subsequent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane.

R. Brown, Kingston-upon-Hull, bookseller, second
dividend of 4d., together with a first dividend of 2s. 6d.,
payable on new proof's, any Friday, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull.
R. Goulding, Gainsborough, cabinet maker, 3s. Bd.,
any Friday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Carrick, Hull.

J. R. Clark, Royston, Yorkshire, grocer, second and
final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten
and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.

W. Watts, Doncaster, millwright, second and final
dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.
G. Henwood, Leeds, carver and gilder, first and final
dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.
C. S. Jackson, Leeds, cloth merchant, second dividend,
any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the
office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.

J. Senior, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manu-
facturer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, be-
tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr.
Stansfeld, Leeds.
W. M'Kay, Manningham, Yorkshire, stuff manufac-
turer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, between
the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Leeds.
J. S. Welch, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, printseller,
3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers,
City.
T. Lett, Apsley Guise, Bedfordshire, builder, 2s. 2c1.,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.
C. T. Wood, Drury-lane, licensed victualler, 45., any
Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.
J. Bentley, St. John-street•road, linen and woollen
draper, 3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, City.
Horne ant Burghes, Cheapside, booksellers, 3s. Id ,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.
W. Hosking, Clink-street, Southwark, coal merchant,
205., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall•chambers,

City.
J. Walters, Union-street, Southwark, bottle merchant,
ls., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, City.
J. Turner, Newmarket, Suffolk, saddler and harness
maker, 75. 6d., any Thursday. between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, City.
J. Goodwin, Birmingham, printer, 11d., any Thurs-
day, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham.
W. J. Joyner. Avely, Essex, manufacturer of agricul-
tural machines, ss. 2d., any Wednesday, between the
hours of twelve nad three, at the office of Mr. Follett,
Sambrook- court, Basing hall-street.
S. Cunningham, Minerva-road, Hackney-road, sawyer,
7-id., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and
three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Ba-
singhall- street.
F. Clark, George-street, Adelphi, jewel-case maker,
10d., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and
three, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Sambrook-court, Ba-
singliall-street.
P. Gans, Manchester, cotton spinner, twenty-three
thirty-seconds of one penny, on Tuesday, July 11, or
any subsequent Tuesday, b.etween the hours of eleven
and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
NOTICES OP CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall- street.
A. Carrol, jun., Strand, newspaper proprietor, July
28, at twelve—C. Kowcroft, Hampstead, bookseller,
July 28, at two—T. C. Knight, Fort-street, Spital-
square, undertaker, July 28, at two—T. Borkwood,
Shadwell-street, Dock-street, ship-chandler, July 28, at
one—J. Carter, Swaff ham Bulbec, Cambridgeshire,
grocer, July 29, at one—F. G. Klingelhoefer, Old Broad-
street, City, merchant, July 28, at half-past twelve—W.
Kerr, New-inn-yard, Tottenham Court-road, cabinet-
maker, Aug. 2, at twelve—T. Hair, Miles-street, South
Lambeth, July 31, at half-past one.
In the Country.
J. Worsley, Preston, c itton-spinner, July 28, at eleven,
at the Court, Manchester—A. Marsland, Macclesfield,
silk-manufacturer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—W. Jones, Manchester, stationer, July 29,
at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—T. Brown, Limerick
and Manchester. draper, July 28, at eleven, at the Court,
Manchester—J. Child, Wakefield, grocer, Aug. 4, at
ten, at the Court, Leeds—G. Oddy, jun., Bradford, inn-
keeper, Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Court. Leeds—J.
Holmes, Sheffield, cutler, Aug. 5, at ten, at the Council-
hall, Sheffield—S. Meyer, Burslem, earthenware-manu-
facturer, Aug. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, July 28.
W. Mills, Foster-lane, City, glove manufacturer—W.
Wright, Holland-road, Brixton, builder—E. Hughes,
Liverpool, grocer and provision dealer—J. Gray, jun.,
Liverpool, metal broker—S. Ashbury, Trentham, Staf-
fordshire, brick manufacturer—T. Martens, Middles-
borough, Yorkshire, merchant and shipbroker—Maria
Sirdefield, Emscote, Warwickshire, brassfounder—W.
Harwood, Bristol, merchant—W. Davis, Abercarne,
Monmouthshire, iron and tin plate manufacturer—T.
Y. Greenbank, Manchester, tobacconist and general
commission agent—J. Arnell, Stanhope;street, Hamp-
stead-road, care and coal merchant—W. T. Horsey,
Manchester, maker up and packer—Hannah Prosser and
Ann Prosser, New Bond-street, milliners and dress-
makers—G. Hawkins, Bristol, victualler—J. Wilson and
J. W. Brooke, merchants and shipowners—P. S. F.
Martin, Halsted, Essex, iron manufacturer and lime
burner—J. Robinson, Birmingham, cut nail manufac-
turer—J. Laurie, Liverpool, coal merchant—J. Beckett,
Liverpool, ironmonger.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. W. Ames and E. Dennis, Mark-lane—J. Cleaver
and W. Taylor, Nottingham, trimming manufacturers—
R. Rostron and J. L. Rostron, Stockport, drapers—F.
Bellamy and C. Edkins, Somerton, Somersetshire,
surgeons —W. Rendell and E. Pearse, Callington,
Cornwall, surgeons—F. W. Coates, J. Ingle, and 0.
Wood, Wood-street, Cheapside (so far as regards 0.
Wood)—B. Walker and J. Winstanley, Liverpool, cabinet
makers—T. Rigby and R. Wright, Liverpool, timber
dealers —R. B. Barrow arui M. Kelham, Nottingham, attor-
neys—S. F. Hooper and F. H. Parker, Little Tower-street,
City, tea and colonial brokers—C. B. Carruthers and D.
C. Budd, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, insurance
brokers—J. F. Fixsen, sen., J. F. Fixsen, jun., and F.
Bellenger, Queen-street, City, wholesale grocers (so far
as regards J. F. Fixsen, jun.)—J. Hepherd, sen., J. Hap-
herd, jun., J. Stretch, and T. Powell, Watrington, Lan-
cashire, maltsters (so far as regards J. Stretch)—E. D.
Wilmot, H. Hutton, F. Clark, W. Roberts, and C.
Daniel, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, factors—J.
Winter and J. Burton, Huddersfield, woollen merchants
—H. Steele and J. Thompson, Liverpool, timber mar-
chants—H. S. Conway and E. Howe, Star-court, Bread-
street, wholesale tea-dealers—H. Hull and T. W. Rust,
Leicester, worsted spinners—T. dams, D. Nash. and
W. Nash, Strand, seedsmen (so far as regards T. Adams)
—J. Chaplin and E. Emson, Sudbury, ironmongers—H.
Bishop and W. Wells, Dursley, Gloucestershire, attor-
neys—A. Riddock and J. Riddock, Liverpool, master
porters and general agents—G. Pollard and G. T. Pol-
lard, Halifax, woollen manufacturers—C. Bartlett and W.
Watkins, Arundel, Sussex, millers and bakers—A.
Gaukrodger and W. Kaye, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, fancy
manufacturers—H. Bensley and J. Wragg, Great Yar-
mouth—E. Wix and G. Wakeling, Greek-street and Old
Compton-street, Soho, leather-sellers—M. J. Keighley,
R. Keighley, and C. C. Brochner, Kingston-upon-Hull,
merchants and commission agents (so far as regards C.
C. Brochner).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Joseph Love's, Christow, Devonshire.
W illiam Maunder, Exeter, baker.
Thomas Preston, Salford, clogger and shoemaker.
Henry Smith, Northwich, Cheshire, tailor and draper.
John Smith Lostock Graham, Cheshire, tailor.
George Somers, Newark, stone and marble mason.
William Jerson, Stone, Staffordshire, boot and shoe-
maker.
Thomas Hall, Dover, victualler.
Joseph Goodison, Bradford, Yorkshire.
William Inman, Bradford, Yorkshire, beerseller.
David Hartley, Great Horton, Yorkshire, hawker of
tins.

ALLEGED POISONING FOR
BURIAL FEES.
COLCHESTER, SATURDAY Moans N6.—The discovery
of a horrible murder by secret poisoning, and the general
belief that as many as fourteen or fifteen human beings
have fallen victims under a similar diabolical system,
has during the week created the greatest excitement
throughout the eastern division of this county (Essex).
For several days past, Mr. Codd, the coroner, has been
pursuing a most searching investigation into the whole
of the facts, and at ten o'clock last night (Friday) the
inquiry terminated in a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
against Mary May, for feloniously administering arsenic
to her brother, the deceased, and thereby causing his
death. The subjoined facts, as collected from the coro-
ner's report, briefly detail the whole particulars con-
nected with the dreadful affair. In the parish of
Wickes, a small village on the high road to Harwich,
about six miles from the Manningtree station
of the Eastern L'nio Railway, lived the deceased,
William Constable, anus Watts. He had not been
married. He maintained himself by hawking trifling
things about the country, and for comfort sake lodged
in the house of his sister, Mary May, a married
woman. He appeared to have prepared his own meals,
with the exception of tea, which he was in the habit of
taking with his sister. On the Bth ult. he returned to
his lodgings in good health and spirits, and had tea with
his sister. Shortly afterwards he was attacked with
violent retching and burning pains in his throat and
stomach. These symptoms continued till the following
Sunday, when he died. The moment he was attacked
the sister called in several neighbours to see him. She
assured them that it was almost certain that he would
die, but, strange to rewurk, no suspicion was excited
that anything had been administered to him. On the
declaration of the sister that death had resulted from
natural decline, the body was interred in the parish
churchyard, she officiating as chief mourner. In the
coarse of a few days she called on the Rev. G. Wilkins,
the incumbent, for the purpose, as she explained, of ob-
taining a certificate from the reverend gentleman that
the deceased was in good health a fortnight before
his death, and that he was in his thirty-eighth year
(forty•eight was his real age). This he declined doing, and
inquired of her what she wanted it for. She replied that
she had entered him in a burial club at Harwich
fortnight before his death, and that the society would not
pay the money allowed for the interment of the deceased
unless they had a certificate of his good health at the
time he was entered. He told her that the money did
not belong to her. She said that no one else was en-
titled to it, as she bad done it all herself; and nobody else
knew anything about it. These and some other suspi-
cious circumstances, particularly the number of children
she had buried, coupled with the suspicious death of her
former husband, and the hasty and earnest solicitations
she made in this instance to obtain the fees from the
burial society, induced the coroner of the district to
direct the exhumation of the body. This being done,
the stomach and contents were forwarded to Mr. Taylor,
the eminent professor of chemistry at Guy's Hospital,
for analysation. The inquest was opened at the Waggon
public-house at Wickes, and very conclusive evidence was
adduced.
The secretary of the burial society in question, John
Pratt, of Harwich, said it was designated the " New
Mourner's Society," and paid 9/. or 101. on the death of
a member, the sum depending on the number of mem-
bers in the club. On the 13th of last May the female,
Mary May, accompanied by the schoolmistress of Wickes
school, called at the office and inquired if the club was
full. Being told that it had some vacancies, she said she
wished to enter her brother in the club. He was
healthy man, and she had never known him to have a
day's illness in her life, and that he was only thirty-five
years of age. The secretary then entered the deceased's
name, and she paid the fees, is. 3d. for entering, and
4(1. in advance. On the 6th of June the schoolmistress
brought 2s. for the payments due, and he (the secretary)
heard no more of the party till the 11th of June (Sun-
day), when a man brought a note, signed " Mrs. May,"
stating that Constable hadj ust died from strong inflam-
mation, and that the schoolmistress had seen him a short
time previous. It was shown that the deceased was in
good health up to the moment of partaking of the poi-
soned victuals on the evening of the Bth, and in contra-
diction, of course, to the instructions the sister had
given to the registrar relative to the cease of death, she
having stated it to be " decline;" duration of sickness
" three mouths."
A man named Simpson, who lived in the same house
as the deceased, said that two days before his death
Mrs. May told him that she had entered her brother in
a burial clnb, and counted on getting his burial money
(10/.), which would set her up in business. She in-
tended to buy a horse and cart and go about the coun-
try higgling.
Professor Taylor. F.R.S., lecturer on medical juris-
prudence and chemistry at Guy's, in an elaborate and
interesting report on the analysis, stated that arsenic
was present in the contents of the stomach ; that the
quantity was sufficient to destroy two grown-up per-
sons; that it was taken during lite in the form of pow-
der, and that it caused death.
Other circumstantial evidence being adduced, showing
an attempt on the part of Mrs. May to tamper with the
principal witnesses, and urging them not to disclose all
they knew,
The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against
the sister, Mary May, and she was accordingly com-
mitted to the county gaol at Chelmsford, for trial at the
next assizes.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGFL—We have to report an inactive market,
at prices scarcely so high as those of Yesterday. The sales
are— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, at/.
Shares, 734 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B. ), 271. 10s. Shares, 14
—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifth Shares,
I'4 dis.—Difto, 101. Preference, 6 per cent., % p.—Ditto,
Fifths ( late West Riding Union), 765. 3d. dis.—London and
North-Western, 125—Ditto, New Quarters, 114 p.—Midland
Stock, 104 c.—Ditto, New Halves, 5% dis. ex int.—North
Union (A), 202—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 2, 10% die.
—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, •2% dis. ex int.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p. ex int.
MANCHESTER, JULY 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7% dis.--
East Lancashire, Preference, 3 p.—Huddersfield and Man-
chester (unpaid up), 714 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire (Grimsby), '2Ol. Shares, 85,fi dis.—Ditto, Quar-
ters, 5% dis.—Ditto (Grimsby Dock), 103/4 dis.—North
Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Whitehaven and I,urness, 10 c.
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 13-16 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business was limited to-day, but
prices in favourite lines remained firm. There has been for
the last few days a decided improvement in the tone of the
Share Market. The sales are—North Staffordshire, 2% dii.
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 5 dis.—Ditto (B), 3%
dis. - South Staffordshire. 3 dis.

YORK, SULT 7. !
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows : —Great Northern, 61. 2s. ex int.—North British,
Quarters, 514—Ditto Extension, 4s. 6d.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 32—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks),
—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Exten-
sion),

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Jur./ 8.
STOCK EXCHANGZ.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car-
lisle, Scrip (red), 4 p.—North British, Thirds, 1/. 18s. dia.--
North Staffordshire,,2,A.dis.__

.GLASGOW, JULY 7.
STOCK EXCII A NGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 11.41--
Dundee and Perth, 26—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 89—Edin-
burgh and Perth, 15—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ay
75—Ditto, Halves, No 1, 7%—Ditto, No. 2,7!. 149.
Glasgow and Greenock, 15—Great Northern, 6—North Bri-
tish, Thirds, 535.

GUNPOWDER CONVEYED BY may
not be generally known that large quantities of ow
powder are frequently and safely conveyed by railway,
as much as 11 tons in one day, and in the course of *
few months above 100 tons of gunpowder have been car-
ried on the London and North-Western line to Liver-
pool, Manchester, Leeds, and other places. The wag-
gons in which the gunpowder is conveyed are made ex-
pressly for the purpose. There are eight of these wag-
gons on the London and North Western Railway,
constructed in accordance with the patent of Mr. Henson.
The body of the waggon is formed with bheet iron on the
outside; the inside is lined with two-inch plank, between
which and the iron outside a thickness of felt is carefully
placed. These are screwed together from the outside, so
that there is nothing but wood inside; except on the
floor, which is covered with sheet lead. The door fits
close with a double rabbit, so that it is almost air-tight,
and it is therefore impossible for any fire to get to the
powder inside the waggon. The axles are cased with '
wood. The comparative absence of the usual noise and
vibration in the movement of these powder-waggons is
very remarkable.—Herapath's Journal.
A Constantinople letter of the 21st ult., states that
3,000 houses in the suburbs of Pera had been destroyed
by fire. The choiersi continued to make progress.

m4R1210.

On the 4th inst., at Thicket Priory, Yorkshire, Mrs. D.
Jefferson, of a daughter.
On the sth inst., Mrs. John Seriven, Sloane-street, of
daughter.
On the sth inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, lirel
Bainbridge Daniell, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at the Philanthropic, St. George's-field*
the lady of the Rev. S. Turner, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Weybread Vicarage. the wife of the
Rev. T. K. Thomas, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., in London, the wife of J. Wynne, Es 4.
late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, of a son and heir.
On the 7th inst., at Hertford-street, Mayfair, the wife of
Mr. H. Wilde, barrister, of a daughter.
At the Hyde Parsonage, Bedlordshire, the wife of the Rev.
E. B. Webster, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 6th inst., at Clifton Church, J. Drake Pridham►
Esq., to Elizabeth, second daughter of tke late R. B. Reed►
Lieutenant R.N.

On the 6th inst., at West Hackney Church, F. A. Daviss•
second son of the late J. Davies, Esq., of Upper Holloway, to
Augusta Mary Frances, eldest daughter of T. Washington,
Esq., of Prospect House, Stoke Newington.
On the 6th inst., at Cheddon Fitzpaine, near Taunton, the
Rev. W. D. West, M.A., of St. John's College, Oxford, to
Isabella, only daughter of D. Roberts, Esq., of the Kent•
road, London.