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ment to Ireland, and several cargoes have been taken
during the week for that destination at very full rates.
In bonded wheat the operations have not been particu-
larly extensive, the high pretensions of holders having
checked business. 'the terms asked have been within ls. to
2s. per quarter of those at which similar qualities have been
offered free, the smallness of the stock under lock, and
the belief that no great addition can now be made to the
same by fresh importations till next spring, having im-
parted great confidence to holders. Several purchasers
from France have attended Mark-lane, but they appeared
to consuler the rates demanded too high, and few bar-
gains have, consequently, been closed.
The concession made on Monday by the millers has
been followed by a somewhat more active business in
flour; still the operations have not been important, the
bakers having shown a determination not to buy more
than required for immediate use. Country-manufac-
tured flour has moved off steadily, at previous prices,
and for American barrels quite as much money has been
obtained.
The arrivals of English barley have been larger than
during any previous week since harvest ; and we have,
besides, received liberal supplies from abroad. This
grain has throughout the week been difficult of disposal,
without, however, any further reduction taking place in
its value. The conviction that our own barley crop has
yielded indifferently is quite as general as it was at the
time of harvest; still the maltsters are very reluctant to
pay the existing high prices, and so cautiously have all
parties acted of late, that there has been no accumula-
tion of stocks in the hands of either maltsters, brewers,
or dealers.
The foregoing remarks are equally applicable to malt
as to barley, the operations in which have, during the
week, been on a strictly retail scale, and quotations have
remained nominally unaltered.
At length we have to report a somewhat increased
supply of oats coastwise, 3,360 qrs. of English and
3,299 qrs. of Scotch, having come to hand within these
eight days; meanwhile we are without receipts from
Ireland, and though 30,604 qrs. have arrived from the
north of Europe, considering the previously bare state of
the market, the total supply cannot be regarded as very
large. That the high value of oats has csused a de-
creased consumption is plainly proved by the extreme
langour which has characterised the trade in this article
for some time past. The stocks in the hands of the
dealers have, nevertheless, been gradually reduced, and
are now less than is usually the case at the correspond-
ing period of the year. Under these circumstances it is
reasonable to suppose that they will ere long have to
buy somewhat more freely; and as we are not likely to re-
receive any further receipts of foreign of moment, high as
prices are, they mustinevitably advance still further, unless
the receipts from Ireland should hereafter prove much
more liberal than anticipated. The factors are fully
aware of this, and have, ..herefore, shown rio disposition
to press sales. Slow, therefore, as has been the de-
mand, the tendency of prices has been rather upwards.
The cold weather has hitherto failed to increase the
demand for beans, and the trifling business done during
the week has been at about last Monday's currency.
Peas have been held with rather more firmness ; but
previous prices have not been exceeded either for white
boilers, grey, or maple.
Indian corn has been in brisk request for Ireland, and
no difficulty has been experienced in placing floating
cargoes at high terms. This article hes become a great
favourite with the poorer classes in Ireland, and the
recent advance has brought the price on a level with
that at which fair qualities of wheat may be bought.

WINTER ASSIZES.
NORTHERN CIRO( IT.—Liverpool, Dec. 8

The trial of the prisoners under the special commis-
sion commenced here to-day. The commission was
opened yesterday evening, and to day their Lordships,
Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Wightman sat at
twelve o'clock for the dispatch of business. The calen-
dar is not so heavy as usual at the winter assize. There
are 60 prisoners for trial. Of these 3 stand charged with
murder, 5 with manslaughter, 7 with stabbing, 7 with
rape, 2 with burglary, 6 with bigamy, and 6 with
forgery.

(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)

Milton 11.7allwork was indicted for bigamy.
Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution ; the prison( r
was not defended by counsel.
The two marriages of the prisoner were proved in the
usual way. He had been married to his legal wife many
years ago, but had been separated from her for a long
period before his marriage to one Betty Jones, who was

called as a witness.
The prisoner conducted his own case with great self-
possession, and cross-examined the witnesses to show
that it was in consequence of the gross misconduct of
his legal wife that he had been separated from her. Betty
Jones, also, in answer to the questions put by him in
cross examination, stated that she had also been married
to another, and that her husband about eight years ago
had gone to America; but no question was put to her
as to whether or no she had been aware of his existence
within the seven years preceding her marriage to the

prisoner.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that it had been
sought to show that Betty Jones had a husband at the
time of her being married to the prisoner, but this hail
not been proved, and even if it had so appeared, the
validity or invalidity of the second marriage on that
ground would have made no difference in this case.
Verdict, Guilty.—Sentence deferred.
Joseph Turtonshaw was indicted for cutting and
wounumg Bernard Foy, with intent to du him some
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Pollock.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that,
on the evening on which this occurrence took place, he
was standing at his own door, when his attention was
attracted to some women and a policeman, who were
at the door of an adjoining outhouse. The policeman
was knocking at the door, and insisting on its being
opened, threatening to break it open if this was refused.
The door was finally opened, and the prisor.er and a
woman came out. The prisoner then ran into the pro-
secutor's house, on which the prosecutor, saying he
should not remain there, took hold of him, turned him
round, and thrust him out at the door. While the pro-
secutor was pushing him oat, a policeman came up and
took hold of the prisoner at the other side. The pri-
soner then made a blow at the prosecutor, who found
that he had received a severe wound on the wrist. The
prisoner was then taken to the Bridewell by the police-
officer, and, on being searched, a fleam and a knife were
found upon his person. On the knife being produced,
the prisoner said that was what he had done it with, and
that he had intended to run it into the villain's heart,
for he had been robbed.
Verdict, Guilty.—Sentence deferred.
Newton Barrow and Thomas Taylor were indicted for
a burglary in the house cf Mary Hankinson, and stealing
therein rtain spoons, coats, shoes, and other articles, the
property of Thomas Coward.
Mr. Pollock conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
Taylor was defended by Mr. Monk.
The prisoner Newton Barrow was, it appeared, the
nephew of Mrs. Hankinson, by whom he had been
brought up, and in whose house he resided. He had a
key to the outer door. For some nights before this oc-
currence he had not been at home. On the night of the
robbery there was no proof of the doors having been
fastened when the family retired to rest, but the follow-
ing morning the back door was found to be open, and it
appeared the articles in question had been removed from
one of the upper rooms. In the course of the following
day some of the property was found to have been
pledged by the prisoner Taylor at the shop of a pawn-
broker in Manchester, in consequence of which he
was apprehended. It now appeared by the testimony
of several witnesses, inmates of Taylor's house,
that the prisoner Barrow had come to Taylor's about
three o'clock that morning, having with him a carpet
bag, in which were the articles in question. Taylor
and the other persons were it was said, up at that early
hour in consequence of a person in the house being ill.
The prisoner asked for lodgings, but his request was
refused. He then asked to be permitted to sit by the
fire till morning, and was allowed to do so. He took off
three coats which he was wearing over his own. These
he asked Taylor to pledge. Taylor assented, and when
the shops opened pledged them for 7s. in the name of
Holt. While Taylor was absent Barrow also gave one
of the persons in the house (a woman) a silk handker-
chief, a penknife, and other articles, all which proved to
be part of the property taken from Mrs. Hankinson's.
The spoons, it appeared, belonged to the prisoner him-
self', having belonged to his mother, but had been, after
her death, in the possession of his aunt since the time
when he, an infant, had been placed under her care.
On the conclusion of the case,
His LORDSHIP intimated that there was no case
against Taylor.
The prisoner Barrow addressed the jury, contending
that there was no evidence of any burglary, but admit-
ting he had been guilty of the theft.
Verdict—Guilty of larceny.
A previous conviction having been proved against him,
His LORDSHIP, after a severe comment upon the base-
ness of the prisoner's conduct, sentenced him to be
transported for seven years.
(Before Mr Baron ROLFE.)
Owen Morris and Thomas Kelly were indicted for
having, on the 4th of September last, cut and wounded
Robert Johnson, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm.
Mr. Cross conducted the prosecution ; the prisoners
were defended by Mr. J.Tollock.
It appeared that the prisoners, with four other men,
all Irish reapers, had, in the latter end
,of August last,
been employed by a person of the name of Latham, a
farmer at Great Lever, to cut down a field of grain of
nearly two acres, Cheshire measure. For this they were
to receive 2/. 17s. 6d. and 50 quarts of beer. On the
4th of September, when the job was about completed,
Mr. Latham and his wife happened to leave home for the
purpose of attending Turton fair. While they were ab-
sent the six reapers came to the house, in which there
was at the time no person except the female servant and
Mr. Latham's children. They made some complaint
about not having had the quantity of beer fur which they
had stipulated, and insisted upon having some mere. She
gave them two gallons, but they were still unsatisfied,
and under the influence of. the threats which they used
she was induced to let them help themselves to what
they pleased. On Mr. Latham coming home, he found
the farmyard in an uproar, and was immediately assailed
by the reapers, who got him down and threatened to
murder him. He got away, and went for assistance to
Mr. Johnson. the prosecutor, the constable of the
township. Mr. Johnson accompanied him back
to the farm yard, they having taken with them
to their assistance some brickmakers whom they
met on their way, among whom was a person
the name of Woods. When they got to the yard the
disturbance was still continuing, and some of the party
attempted again to assail Mr. Latham. Mr. Latham
directed Johnson to take Morris into custody. Johnson
expostulated with the men on the impropriety of their
conduct, upon which they, Morris being the ringleader,
began slashing with their sickles in all directions, John-
son being severely cut about the head and hands, until
he succeeded in wresting from Morris a pitchfork, with
which he had armed himself on his sickle breaking. With
the handle of this he knocked Morris down, on which
the others ran away.
Mr. PoLLocts addressed the jury for the defence.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury by their ver-
dict found Morris guilty of the felony, and Kelly
guilty of a common assault.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned Coun-
sel as to a second indictment which it was not considered
necessary to try, that the person Woods, already men-
tioned, hail had one of his figures so severely injured by
the blow of a sickle that amputation became necessary.
His LORDSHIP said, that the only circumstance of mi-
tigation in the case, and which induced him to abstain
prom passing a sentence of transportation, was that the
Prisoners, it would appear, had not deliberately armed
hemselves with these dangerous instruments with a pre-
conceived intention of inflicting these injuries. The
offence, however, was one of a very aggravated kind ;
and he had some doubt whether, as to Morris, he was
justified in stopping short of a sentence of transportation.
He would nut, however, piss that sentence, but they
must each of them undergo a very long period of impri-
sonment.
Morris was then sentenced to be imprisoned for two
years, and Kelly for one year
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REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The Britannia mail-steamer arrived early in the week,
bringing New York advices of the 15th, and accounts of
corresponding dates from other parts of America. Great
exertions were being made to get supplies of flour and
grain from the interior to the ports of shipment, and
there can be no doubt that rather considerable supplies
of bread stuffs will be forwarded from the United States
previous to the frost putting a stop to the inland naviga-
tion, and thereby cutting off further arrivals from the
west.,lt may be questioned, however, whether even when
got down to the coast, the means of transit across the At-
lantic may not be wanting, vessels having become very
scarce, and freights unusually high. At New York
4s. 3d. per brl. for flour to London had been actually
paid, being a rise of nearly one hundred per cent. on the
rates current in the early part of the season. The latest
reports from Europe being considered somewhat less
favourable than previous advices, a slight reaction had
occurred in prices of flour, 6d. per brl. having become
an extreme rate for Western Canal, and many holders
having consented to accept 61 cents per brl. less for very
good brands. The exports from the Ist to the 10th
of November had consisted of 24,893 brls. of flour,
91,150 bushels cf wheat, 91,204 bushels of Indian corn,
From Montreal we have letters dated the 9th ult.
Flour had been in good request during the preceding
week; 31s. 6d. to 325. had been paid for fine, and
335. 6d, to 345. per brl. for superfine. The arrivals from
the interior had fallen much short of expectation; and
the stocks on the spot being light, no decline in prices
was looked for. Wheat had been sought after, and as
fast as it had come to hand it had found ready takers
at 55. 7*d. to ss. 9d. per 60lbs. for Upper Canadian.
From the north of Europe the advices are very un-
interesting at present. A letter from Dantzic, of the
28th of November, informed us that only about 40 lasts
of wheat bad changed hands there during the week, and
this purchase had been for shipment to Belgium. The
price obtained had been equal to 50s. per quarter free
on board, the quality being inferior, and the weight not
more than 601b8. per bushel. The weather was then
mild, and the water in the Vistula had rather risen—a
circumstance which had given rise to hopes that the
barges, detained by the shallowness of the river above,
might still get down before the close of the navigation.
The accounts from Stettin, Rostock, &c., are of pre-
cisely the same character as previously. Little or no-
thing appears to have been done in wheat at these places
for shipment, the supplies having only just kept pace
with the local demand. The weight of the wheat of this
ear's growth is described as very inferior to the pro-
duce of 1845, rarely exceeding 601bs. per bushel. At
Stettin, on the 30th ult., new Uckermark and Pomera-
nian wheat, weighing 581bs. to 591bs. per bushel, was
worth 50s. to 51s. per qr. free on board.
From Hamburgh our advices reach up to Tuesday
last ; the Elbe was then still open, but the frost had
been, and was severe ; which rendered it doubtful
whether the river would long continue navigable. The
business in wheat since the previous post day had been
principally for the use of the city, the prices paid varied
from 535. t,) 565. per qr., according to quality. Barley
had become dull of sale and prime Saale bad been offered
at equal to 385. to 40s. per qr.
From the Mediterranean we learn that the demand
for wheat had continued active at the leading ports, and
that previous prices had been well maintained.
The accounts from the Black Sea are also firm. By
advices from Odessa, of the 13th of November, we learn
that the universal want of shipping had been as much
felt there as at other places, and that the difficulty which
had been experienced in obtaining vessels had interfered
greatly with business. Holders of wheat had, never-
theless, remained exceedingly firm, and for superior sort
Polish equal to 353, to 40s. per qr., free on board, had
been asked. The purchases made had been principally
for shipment to Mediterranean ports, comparatively little
having been bought on British account. Stocks were
large, amounting to about one and a half chets. ;
of
which, however, one-half was the property of m'rchants
who had purchased on Mediterranean account.—Mark-
lane Express.

THE PRIVILEGE OF ARUNDEL.—It appears to have
escaped the notice of the historiographers of her Ma-
jesty's sojourn at Arundel Castle, that there is a privi-
lege connected with that ancient stronghold well worthy
of being commemorated as a curiosity. The Duke of
Norfolk is also Earl of Arundel ; but he is so not by
creation, patent, or descent : but simply because he is
the possessor of the Keep whose antiquity may be traced
hack beyond the days of Alfred. This is, in some
words, the privilege of Arundel, which gives to its pos-
sessor the title of an Earl, and the peerage of the realm,
without creation. Could the Duke, by any possibility,
he deprived of the venerable fortress (as by forfeiture,
for instance), the individual on whom the Crown might
b. stow it would, by virtue of the gift, become Earl of
Arundel. —Hampshire Advertiser.
A SCOTCH COUNTRY INN ON SUNDAY.—Even in
this ago of rapid locomotion, there must be few of my
readers who have not been, at least once in their lives,
the habitant of a Scotch country inn on a Sabbath
evening. It is necessary, however, that they should
have been in the same situation on some other evening
of the week, that they may properly appreciate that
sober quiet, that softened stillness, that more than partial
cessation from labour, and din, and disc, rd, of things
animate and inanimate, that pervades the precincts of a
country inn on the evening in question. The lighting of
a bed room candle, or the ringing for a pair of slippers,
at such a time, seems to be done under protest. The
chambermaid who, the evening before, looked so made
up of " becks, and nods, and wreathed smiles," that you
wondered whether she smiled thri ugh her sleep, or even
if she ever shut her eyes at all, they glanced so brilliant
.
and cheerful, and happy, now 10 dis demure and grave,
while every
dimple seem to say, " Nae daffin the night,
ye ken it's Sunday." Go down stairs, and you find the
istler seated at the kitchenfire, listless, inactive, with a
face ten times more demure than the maid's, his finger
'end thumb inserted in a well wore editi,,n of the " Scots
Worthies," or the " Confession of Faith." Passim, the
bar, you observe the landlady seated similarly occupied;
her snow white cap and collar, and sober silk gown, pro-
claiming that maid and matron are at peace. Scolding is
banished for a day. Mine host is stretched, pipe in hand,
now eyeing his portly helpmate, anon watching the
clouds that curl in regular succession from his almost
motionless lips. The clock at the top of the staircase is
the only object within or without that seems to court
your observat on ; its constant, well-marked march,
sounding amid the stillness louder than you ever heard
it before, till you attach an importance to it that amply
makes up for your neglect of it in times past, because
you have nothing else to listen to.—Tait 's Magazine.
A STEAM BOAT PACKED IN BOXES.—We under-
stand that Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., have just
completed, in a novel manner, a beautiful little steamer
for the Austrian Government, intended to be employed
in the canals of Venice, and occasionally, in fine weather,
on the Adriatic, contiguous to that romantic city. She
is of iron, 70 feet long, 12 feet beam, has a rudder at
each end, and her internal arrangements were made
with an eye to the accommodation of persons of distinc-
tion. This vessel was put up in frame, in the usual
way ; the plates were all prepared and adjusted, the
cabins were completed, &c., and then the whole was
taken to pieces, packed in boxes, and put on board a
ship bound for Venice, but now in the East India Docks.
The Queen Dowager has contributed the liberal
donation of 201, towards the fund for the building of a
National School at Pool Keynes, Wilts. Her Majesty
has also given 101. in aid of the erection of a school for
the education of the children of the poorer classes at
, Leiston, Suffolk.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 101_ 1846.

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several hundreds of children had been summarily con-
victed without the world knowing anything Nt a'l
the eases, and, of course, without any benefit either to
the prisoners or the public ensuing?
The juryman—But it would save juries a greal deal
of trouble if it were done.
The Learned JUDGE —Would the juries, then, rather
than devote a comparatively few hours and put up with
a little personal trouble occasionally, with the view to the
amelioration and improvement of the condition of these
children, wish that the old system of summary conviction
should go on, and thc.r-by continue to cast a heavy burden

on the county at-large?
Another juryman thought it was high time something
was done with regard to these young criminals. There

ought to be some alteration in the system.
The Learned JUDGE—No doubt there should; but the
alteration that was called for was in the law itself. A
law was required that should affect their eases and con-
dition, and so prevent the vast mass of increasing juve-
nile offenders. With regard to summary punishments,
he could assure the juryman who had suggested that
that method should be continued, that it had done end-
less mischief. It was only the year before that tribunal
had been established that there had been 1,600 cases
where summary convictions had taken place of chihiren
between the ages of seven and fifteen. All of these
children had been thus sent to prison, from the police-
court, without coming before a jury. Their circum-
stances were thus unknown, the world was altogether
ignorant of their condition, or indeed of their convic
tion, and therefore nothing could be done to improve or
ameliorate their condition. If the jury were to ask him
whether he approved of such scenes as they painfully
witnessed, as in the present instance of this mere baby,
in that Court every session, his reply was, that he did
not. But even that was very far better than the system
of summary conviction, where the child was sent to
prison, and the world knew nothing of his case, or its
causes; whilst, when he was brought before a jury,
the matter became one for close inquiry, the cir-
cumstances and the condition of the child were ascer-
tained, and the whole went out to the world ; so that
in the end, doubtless. something would be done for this
class of offenders. It was manifest that things could not
go on as they were. In the present session, as he had
occasion to tell the grand jury on the preceding day, he
had a list of 24 children, whose ages did not exceed 12,
and there was at that moment one at the bar who was
seven, and not more than three feet ten inches high. Was
it not heartrending that such a baby must be sent to a
common gaol ?
The father and mother, both in the utmost dittress,
here rushed forward, and entreated the judge to let them
take the boy home. If his Lordship would allow them
to have him home, they would take care that he should
never get into such trouble again. If he had done that
which was wrong. they were sure it must have been at
the instigation of other boys.
The Learned JUDGE—Yes, that was it, no doubt; for
it was hardly possible to conceive that so mere a baby
could of himself have arranged and committed this act.
There were two older boys with him. and they had set
him on to the commission of the act ; but that was part
of the system which was adopted. Here he had been
laid hold of by two older boys, who had made him their
tool. He was aware of the whole plan, for he had spent
hour after hoar in the prisons of the county, and had
ascertained from many of the boys the manner in
which they carried on their occupation. A little boy
was enlisted into the service of young but yet old
thieves, who, upon the promise of a penny, in some in-
stances, would become an acting party. A theft was ac-
complished, and then the article stolen, if it was not
money, was taken to certain persons who were in the
habit of giving small sums for these things in the street.
Such persons did not keep a shop, to which the boys
were to go to them. These were the receivers of stolen
property from boys, who usually spent the money so ob-
tained in the purchase of gingerbread or some such thing,
and at other times in going to the penny theatres.
The father again implored that he might take his child
home. If he were permitted to do so he and his wife
would adopt every means in their power to prevent him
from again mingling with strange boys. Indeed, they
would not let him go out alone.
The Learned JUDGE—Then let the responsibility rest,
as in truth it ought to rest, upon the father of this child.
There he was, not more than seven years old, a mere
baby, convicted of having picked a pocket. There stood
the parents, upon whom the whole responsibility of that
child's behaviour and future happiness in life depended.
Do not let him be told, as he had been, that there was a
state for the children, and that the children ought to be
sent to the state for correction. The parents had now
sought to be allowed to have their child. They should
have him, and on their heads rest the responsibility; but
they, with their child, must take also this warning, that
if they did not keep such care over him as should pre-
vent his being brought again to a criminal bar, and, by
their neglect, he was brought to that bar, they might
rely upon it that they would never see that child again.
The sentence of the Court was, that the boy be impri-
soned one hour, and then delivered into the care of his
father.
The parents. having thanked his Lordship, quitted
the Court with countenances that betokened the removal
of an overwhelming load from their minds.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
RoBERIEs BY SERYANTEL-Henry Morgan, a young
man, employed by Messrs. White and Co., of No. 108,
Cheapside, warehousemen, was charged with having
robbed the firm.
Mr. White, jun., having been informed by one of the
servants of the establishment that a shawl was found,
wrapped up in a piece of brown paper in .the dust bin,
snspicion fell upon the prisoner, who was occupied in
the shawl department of the warehouse, and who was
placed in the custody of Furnell, City policeman, No.
32, after a hort investigation. The prisoner, on his
way to the station-house, confessed to the officer that he
had secreted the shawl, and said that as it was his first
offence, and it was caused by the illness of his wife. and
his great poverty, he hoped Mr. White would fere:ive
him. The officer found in the prisoner's pocket 21. Bs.,
and in his lodgings a piece of satinet worth 31 10., which
had been missing since last May, from Mr. White's
warehouse.
The prisoner made no defence, and was committed for
trial.
Thomas Johnson, porter to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne,
carriers, of Hamboro'-wharf, in Thames-street, was
brought up for re-examination, on the charge of having
stolen a truss of silk, value 1251., which, with other pro-
perty, he was intrusted to deliver. The justice-ronm
was crowded during the investigation, a statement having
been made that three thieves had received the truss from
the prisoner in Charterhouse-square, and driven off with
it at full speed in a cart.
Mr. Riches, clerk to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, in
answer to a question from the prisoner's solicitor, stated
that the house had received a very good character of the
prisoner from Messrs. Pickford and Co., and never before
had had cause to suspect his integrity.
John Fry, a lad in the employment of Messrs. Chap-
lin and Horne, stated that it was his duty to attend the
waggon, to watch the goods taken out to he delivered
to the various consignees. On the 24th of November he
attended the waggon to several places with the prisoner,
who kept the book. He saw the truss safe in Bishops-
gate-street, but after they left that street he never saw
it. They then went to Ratcliffe Highway, and from
thence to Charter-house-square, where they were to
deliver some property. Upon going into the square the
prisoner said he had forgotten the book at the last
place they visited, and he sent the witness for it. The
delay was considerable, and when witness returned they
went to Bunhill-row, where the prisoner told him to put
out the truss, but the truss was nowhere to be found,
and the prisoner said it must be lost or dropped off.
The LORD MAYOR desired to be informed wh, ther
anything had been said to the prisoner about the value
of the truss.
Mr. Riches—No; but the mark " Silk " was on the
delivery ticket, and he, of course, must have known that
it was of considerable value.
In his cross-examination the witness said he had
never left the prisoner except when he went back to the
place in which the book had been left, which was
at a chemist's shop where they had delivered some
hampers.
Inspector Woodruffe said it was evident the book had
been left at the chemist's shop in order to give an ex
cuse to the prisoner for sending away the boy from
Charterhouse-square, as the prisoner must have heard a
person from that shop call out to him to return him
his book.
The prisoner was ordered to be brought up for final
examination on Friday, when he will be committed.

. ____ -- -
SINGULAR ti A LLUC INATION.—A respectable-look-
ing man, past the middle age, was placed at
b the bar of
f
the Court- house, on Saturday last, char:red y Edwar
Smith, with having committed an assault upon him.
The d4endant, whose name is Williana Horne, and his
residence at Holbeck, appears, hy.the statement of Mr.
Naylor, solicitor, and the complainant, to have imbibed
the extraordinary notion that a lady residing near him
"
has defrauded him out of considerable property ; and he
takes every opportunity of annoying her, byshowingshowingg
after and assaulting- her servants and work-people, and
other species Of annoyance. Early last week the Com..
Plaidayinail'iltqsnv:ss employed to repair some railings for th.
question, when defendant rushed from the h ',use,
armed with a poker, claimed the rails as his ,
his commands, he
and dared the complainant to repaihelped"r them, property,
Smithy way
a
.. crack" with the weapon. Mr. Horne, in defence,
still
persisted that the property had belonged to himself, and
unjustly taken from him, and for the t '
of enforcing
troth of his aver-
ment appealed to a gentleman in c
that it was an idle chimera. The curt, who protested
consequence was, that
Mr. Horne was bound over, in his
201., and two sureties in 101. each, to answer any charge
preferred against him at the sessions.
did not end here; Mr. Horne had scarcely But the matter
scarcely reached home,
when he renewed his attack u
especially fallen under his displeasurePpoor Smith, who has
morning he again made his b ; and on Monday
in the character of a ' ow to the bench, this time
prisoner. Mr. Sanderson,
tor, defended him,solici-
and bench bound him '
the
two sure ies of 251, over in
and himself in 'O/
peace.—Lecds Times. J , to keep the

- A CONTRACTOR'S ENTERPRISE.—Mr. J. Gordon,
contractor fur the extensive drainage at Poyntzfield, near
Invergordon, has- purchased a very superior set of
vehicles, with horses, for more efficiently performing the
tlsk. Four draught horses were selected by Mr. Davie,
of the Royal Hotel, Elgin, and have since been fitted
with very superior harness by Mr. M‘Bean, saddler. In-
deed, the whole turnout is highly creditable to the en-
terprise and perseverance of Mr. Gordon, who employs
upv‘ arch of 100 workmen in It, shire. The horse and
carts left. Elgin yesterday for l'o) ntzfield, and were very
much admired for their uniform appearance.— Inverness
Journal

. _
The Ecch,siastical Commissioners for England h.,d a
general meeting yesterday at their office, in Whitehall-
' place.

GREAT RIOT IN CUPAR.
A riot, accompanied with assault on a magistrate, was
raised on the evening of Tuesday last. Mr. Crichton
had on that evening assembled a meeting about what he
is pleased to call county reform. The meeting, during
the greater part of the evening, was miserably small.
He congratulated the whole of Fife that they yet pos-
sessed him—that they had yet one magistrate and one
gentleman who looked after the public interest. Hitherto
there had been nothing worse than words, but now Mr.
Crichton, galled by the thinness of the meeting, pro-
ceeded to handle the delimpencies of the Herald. lie,
therefore, proceeded to called the editor of that paper
an infamous liar, a low drudgo, a dirty tool, a filthy
calumniator, &c., &c., till Mr. Brown, ,of the Herald,
who was standing in the end of the hall, said he would
go up to the fellow, and stepped forward. As he was
doing so, some of the ruffians in the meeting endeavoured
to hold him, while others were calling out, " Put him
out," " Knock him down." On this Bailie Tullis, along
with the quiet portion of the meeting, passed in behind
Mr. Brown, who got sate up to the platform. The
pressure was now so great that some of the stage
scenery was overturned ; and Mr. Crichton himself
knocked over, and dashed to atoms, the decanter out of
which he drank his water. When Mr. Brown, in the
heat of the fray, ventured to take a little out of the
tumbler, tfr. Crichton turned fiercely upon him, called
him " a dirty dog," and ordered him to " let alone my
things." Mr. Crichton now began to call Mr. Brown
and Bailie Tullis " dirty dog, filthy blackguard, low
scoundrel, infamous liar, dirty drudge, low blackguard,
Aberdonian, mean hound, too bad for kicking, too dirty
to be touched with a tongs," &e., &c. ; grinding his
teeth all the time, and beating Bailie Tullis on the head
with a copy of his own Fife Herald. The row now got
pretty hot, on which Bailie Tullis, as a magistrate, re-
quested the town-officers to take Mr. Crichton into cus-
tody. This they refused to do. and Bailie Tullis to:tk
witnesses. The riot now got better and better, but Mr.
Crichton was the first and only man that drew blood,
which he did from the Bailie's countenance. After Mr.
Brown had concluded, Mr. Crichton commenced again,
and showered another fresh storm on Mr. Brown, Bailie
Tullis, and Mr. Tullis's shopman, who created a good
deal of amusement by popping up his head above the
screen behind Mr. Crichton, and quietly warning him to
take care what he said about him, as he would perhaps
not be inclined to let him off. He concluded by making
a challenge to all the three, to come forward and reply
to what he said. This challenge was readily accepted
by Mr. Brown. In the end the deputy-lieutenant and
magistrate was led off by the town-officers. At the
door he gave directions to them where to carry the col-,
lection ; on which a gentleman, who had annoyed him
considerably during the evening, remarked that this
would not be a but densome task. The rent collected at
the door on this occasion, we are told, was 35. 6d. ; but
deduct for broken decanter (exclusive of its contents),
say 9d.-2s. 9d. And thus ended the proceedings.—
Fife Journal

THE SWINDLER WYNDHAM.
The truth of Wyndham's death, which was recently
published, having been questioned in a letter signed " J.
C. Dowsing, late manager," the Gloucester Journal,
which originated the account of the swindler's exit from
the stage of life, gives the following further particulars:
—" Alter reading the above letter, we deemed it abso-
lutely necessary to make some more minute inquiries as
to the truth of our original statement, the result of
which has been to satisfy us of the general correctness
of the paragraph, with one important exception, namely,
an inaccuracy of date. The death of the person Page,
Wyndham, or Wellesley, took place, not on the 20th of
June, as previously stated, but on the 29th of August,
at an inn on the banks of the Wye, between the towns
of Hay and Huilth, and he was buried on the Ist of
September. At the time of his death he was, as we
stated, accompanied by a woman who passed as his wife,
but who, when her companion was seized with sudden
and mortal illness, acknowledged that she had no claim
to the title. and had only known Mr. Page a fiw weeks,
having met him in London, and agreed to accompany
him into Wales. On death taking place, a highly re-
spectable gentleman of the legal profession was sent for
to examine the deceased's papers and effects, and
amongst them found the names of Wyndham and Wel-
lesley, with bankers' vouchers in both those names.
Particulars as to his family and connexions were also
obtained, and communication of his decease made to
them, as we mentioned in our former paragraph. We
onght perhaps to state that we have obtained these facts
through the medium of gentlemen connected with an
extensive banking establishment in this city, who have
been in correspondence on the subject with the attorney
who made the examination of the dead man's papers,
and supplied the bank with the particulars. The de-
ceased, we understand, will be remembered in the city
of Hereford from his exploits there a few years ago,
where, as Captain Page, he created a great sensation in
the character of a military man and man of fashion, but
left the place very considerably in debt. That the de-
ceased Mr. Page was identical with Captains Wyndham
and Wellesley we think there can be no doubt—the
bankers' vouchers alone,- accompanied by the names, af-
fording tolerably circumstantial proof. But though this
particular gentleman may have finished his swindling
career, he is not the last of his class ; and the suspicions
or Mr. Dowsing are not, therefore, at all misplaced.
Captain Wyndham's mantle will, no doubt, fall upon
some other brother of the trade,' against whose plau-
sible contrivances for carrying on fraud and imposition
the public cannot be too much on their guard."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, DXCEMBER 9.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate and East-
ern Junction, par—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction, 235. 9d. p.—Birmingham and Dudley, 53/4 p.—
Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 p..—Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham, % p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 5034
Eastern Counties, York Extension, 13% p.—East Lancashire,
(Nos. 1 and 2), New, p. ex new—Ditto, New (scrip), 11/2
p.—East Lincolnhire, 1 p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 1% p.
—Glasgow and Ayr, 68%—Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
Halves, 8% p—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Extension, 1%
dis.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4% p.—Ditto, Ex-
tension, 28s. 9d. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 103/4 p.—Leeds
and Thirsk, 2 dis.—Ditto, New, ls. 3d. dis.—Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 1% p.—London and North-Western,
195—Ditto, New, Quarters, 13% p.—Ditto (G. J.), Quar-
ters, 21% p.—London and Manchester and Birmingham, 75
—Ditto, Quarter Shares (A), 7% p.—Manchester and Leeds
Extension, 1 p.—Midland, 1261/2—Ditto, New, 4% p.—
North British, Thirds (scrip), 2% p.—North Staffordshire,
3% p.—North Union (A), 223—Shrewsbury and Chester
(late North Wales Mineral), 5 p.—Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham (A), 368.3 d. p.—Ditto, 91. 12s. 3d. Sharas (B), 1
p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 3s. 9d. dis.—
South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, lh p.—West Riding
Union, 13/4 p.—Whitehaven and Furness, 2% dis.—York
and Newcastle, Preference, 5 p.—York and North Midland
(East and West Riding Extension), 12% p.—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 93/4 p.—Newry and Warrenpoint, 3 p.—Dutch Rhenish
114 dis.

MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 114 p.— Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction, 7 p.—Boston, Stamfotd, and Birmingham,
M p.—East Lancashire, No. 1, New, 338 p.—Ditto, New
(scrip), 1 5-16 p.—East Lincolnshire, 'A p.—Ely and Hun-
tingdon, J p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/fi p.—Great Northern
(late London and York), NI dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 314 ex n.
—Ditto, Preferential, 7fi, p.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manches-
dantsd.—LMeaends-
ter, Branches (blue), 61/2 C. n.—Ditto, Extension. (green),
p.—Liverpool, Manchester,
lan:.
cheater, Buxton, and Matlock,—NNeva cnacsht el es
I el/4r
Extension, 1 p.—North British Extension, 15-16 p.—North
Staffordshiret p.—Northern Counties Union. 146 c.
p.—West
North-Western, 1/2 c. p.—Oldham Alliance, 11-16 p.—Pres.
ton and Wyre, Halves (A), 21/2 p.—Ditto (B),
Riding Union, 1 11.-16 p.
LEEDS, DECEMBER 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, 414 p.
C. n. —Ditto (Blackburn and Preston), 4M p. c. n.----Ditto,
%p.....llpti.—ddEearsst.
New Shares, 41/4 p. c. n.—Ditto, New Scrip, 21s.
Lincolnshire, 19s. p.—Glasgow and Dumfries,
(green), 1
field and Manchester, 4M p.--Leeds and Dewsbury, 103/4
Ditto Half Shares, 6M P. C. n.—Ditto, Branches
c. p.—Ditto,. Extensions
(blue), 2,% p.—Di p.—Leads
and Thirsk, 134 dis. c. n.—Ditto, New, Is. n. p. c. n.—Ditto,
Preference, 225. p.—Malton and Driffield Junction, 17s. p.—
Manchester and Leeds Extensions, it/
pMidland, Prefer--
ence, 4% p.—North British, Thirds, 50s. 6d. p.—Ditto,
Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 21,E p.—Ditto, Ex-
tension (scrip), 19s. p.—North Staffordshire, 31/4 p.—
North-Western, 7s. 6d. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and'GoOl;
14s. 6d. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 1% p.—York
and Newcastle, Preference, 51/s p.—York and North Mid-
land, Preference, 10 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos-
ton, 25. 6d. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 11s* 6d
dis,—Northern Counties Union,' IIA dis.—West Riding
Union, 31.175.

, SHEFFIELD, DECEMBER 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Extensions, 28s. 9d. dis.—Huddersfield and Man-
chester, 41,4 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury Extensions, 11A p.—
Midland, New, 496 p.—North Staffordshire, 31,4 p.—Shcffield,
Rotherham, and Goole, % p.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Mid-
land, 13s. dis.

HULL, DECEMBER 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—A small amount of business only
continues to be done, without any material change in our
quotations. The sales ,are—North British, Quarters, 675.
—Ditto, New (scrip), 20s. p. -Ditto, Thirds, 21 115. 6d. p.
—Amhergate, Nottingham, and Boston. 2/. 11s. 6d.—Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 11—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c.,
29i.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 19s. p.—Leeds and
Thirsk, 1% dis.—North-Western, Bs. p.—North Staffordshire,
3/. 9s. p.—Northern Counties Union, 225. Axholme, 425.

YORK, DEcEiktnErt 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are— Mahon and Driffieli
Junction, 31. 2s:—North Staffordshire, 8 th —Sheffield, Bother
ham, &c ,
.3%—York and Newcastle, New, 121/4—Ditto
Preference, 6/. 18s. 9d.—York and North Midland, Prefer
ence, 12.

EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 8.
STOCK. EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 231. 10s.-
Airdrie and Bathgate, 4/. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-
Ditto, Halves, 151. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, 6s. 6d.-
Ayr and Galloway, 1/. 7s. 6d.-Caledonian, 28/. 10s.-Ditto,
NeW, 2/. 64.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 11. 17s. 6d.-
Clydesdale Junction, 341.-Cornwall and DevdnCentral, 1/.
155.-Deeside Rqilway, .31.-Direct Northern, '2l. Os. 6d.-
Dundee and Arbroath, 41/. ex new-Ditto, New, SOL-Dun-
dee .and Perth, 251.-Ditto, New, 101.-East Indian Rail •
way, 12s. 3d.-East of Fife, 11. 165. 6d,-Edinburgh and
Bathgate, 2/. 155.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76L-Ditto,
Halves, 20/- 103-Ditto, Quarters, 181. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh,
Leith, and Granton, 211.-Ditto, Preference, 211.-Edin-
burgh and Northern, 151. Os.. 3d. ex new-Ditto, New, 4/.
155.-Ditto, Newport, 31. 18s. ex near-Ditto, ditto, New,
2/. 18s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 155.-Glasgow and
Ayrshire, 69L-Ditto; New Stock, 381.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/.
78. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 8!. 55.-Glasgow, DUmfries, and Car-
lisle, 61. 55.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 165.-Glas-
gow and Garnkirk,. 411.-Glasgow General Terminus, 11/.
12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Greenock, 17/-Ditto, New Stock,
8/. 58.-Ditto, Preference, 81. 55.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and
Ardrossan, 1/. 165.-Great North of Scotland, 2/. ls.-Lon -
don, Bristol, and South Wales, 1L 3s. 6.1.-London and
York, 2/. 7s. 61-Ditto, Halves, a 17s. 6d.--Midland and
Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, 34/. 10s.-
North British, :361.-Ditto, H dyes. 15/. 55.-Ditto, Thi,ds,

3/. Its. Quarters, 3/. io,—Ditto, ditto, New
scrip. 11. 135.--Ditto, Fifths. 71.—N.rth Staffordshire, 91.
North Wales Mineral,• 201—Ditto, New, 101. ss. —Scottist
Central, 22L—Scottish Grand Junction, 15s.—:-Scottish Mid-
land, 13/. 17s. 6d.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 15s.—Shrews.
bury, Oswestry, and Chester, 64 16s. Pd.—Stirling and Dun.