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London, England, 1846-02-12 00:00:00

Orleans and Bordeatut
Rouen and Havre

Australasia • • • •
Provincial of Ireland
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MARKET NE WS.—(THIS DAY.)
italr BT.:MIL/Writ.
Ssirrarinn.—Mc
adow Hay, 31 5s to 41 5s ;Clover ditto, 41 53 to
51 103 ; Oat Straw, 11 103 to I/ 123 ; Wheattraw, 11 12s to 11 14s
per load. Trade dull, at but little variation in prices.
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 41 85 ; Clover ditto, 41 4s
to 51 83 ; Oat Straw, 1/ 10s to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s
per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 83 ; Clover ditto, 41 Is
to 51 12s ; Oat Straw, 11 103 to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, li 12a to 11 14s
per load. S
2WEILT upply moderately good ,AE trade
ZLETS- dull.
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SOUTHALL, FEB. 11.—For Beasts, the supply of which was some-
what on the increase, the demand was inactive, at drooping prices.
In all other kinds of stock a good business was doing at the late ad-
vance In the quotations. Beef from 2s 8d to 41 4d ; Mutton, as ad to
5s 6d ; Veal, 4s 8,1 to 5s 63; and Pork, 3s Gd to 4s 84 per 81bs.
ROMFORD, FEB. 11.—Although the general demand here was by
no means active, prices were mostly supported. Beef, from 2s led
to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 8(1 to 5s Gd ; Veal, 4s 10,1 to Is 6d ; and Pork,
4s to 4s 84 per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 31s; Quarter-old
Store-pigs, IGs to 21s; and Mitch Cows, with their small calf, 161
to 181 lOs each.
Lawn., FEB. 10.—Beef from 3s 104 to 4s Gd ; Mutton, 4s to bs fid ;
Veal, 43 6d to 5s Gd; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per albs. A limited
supply, and.a steady trade.
• NEWIFILTZI AND ZZADENNAILL.
Although the supplies of each kind of meat on offer were but
moderate, the trade ruled heavy, at barely late rates. Beef from
2s ad to 3s ad; Mutton, 3s 64 to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s 6,1 to 5a 8d; and
Fork, 3a 104 to 5s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Feb. 7, 1845, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns 1* England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.

DUTY... I WISEAT.I7I Cd I EAE7SLET.Od 1 OA
65TSOd Bs . I ATEGd . I M
611 Gd ANS. 15s 6d
TEAS.
PRICE .. 545 3d 30s 10d 21s 7d 34s 2d 355 Bd 35s 6d

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY)
The house sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers
present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord
Campbell.

MACPIIERSON V. CEAIGIE.
The further arguments in this part-heard Scotch appeal
were resumed, and occupied their Lordships the ♦►hole
morning.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day, and
took appeals, none of which possessed any points of interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
BORN V. ROGUE.

The arguments on this motion for a rejection to restrain
the defendant from selling any more copies of the thtt volume
of the " European Library," with any passage or articles
copied from a publication called " Illustrations Historical and
Critical, of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici," called the
"Magnificent," with an Appendix of the original and other
documents, by Mr. Roscoe, were resumed and concluded
to-day.

His Howourt, at the conclusion of the arguments, gave
judgment. He had no doubt whatever as to the course which
the Court ought to pursue. He sheuld certainly grant the
injunction, because he thought the case was plain from the
defendant's own declaration, that he had taken a materially
valuable part of the work of the plaintiff. The plaintiff,
however, should be put upon terms to bring such action as
he might be advised, with liberty to either party to apply to
the Court. As to the rest of the motion, in his Honour's
opinion it should stand over.
The Court then proceeded to hear motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WrartAst.)
FULLER v. STEVENS.

This case came on for further directions, but when the
arguments were concluded,
His TIONOUTC said, that upon the evidence and"the state of
matters which had been laid before him, he could not enter
into the case.

The bill was dismissed with costs up to the hearing.
Nothing of interest was before the Court.

ARCHES COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir lIERBERT JENNER FirsT.)

IN THE CASE OF THE RE V. .---CRESW ELL. -JUDGMENT Ol
TH E COURT.

This was a proceeding against the reverend defendant,
who is a clergyman of the Church of England, to suspend
him from his living and divest him of his gown. The
Learned Jqdge went very minutely 'through the evidence
produced in.support of the charges, and said the depositions
clearly proved that the defendant was addicted to drinking,
and was in the habit of frequenting public-houses with low
persons, and was consequently in the habit of swearing; and
was, on one occasion, observed to pull off his coat and cravat
to fight in a public-house. And the Learned Judge said the
Court was of opinion that the conduct of the defendant was
highly disgraceful, and the charges were substantiated; and
the reverend defendant was unfit to perform the duties of a
clergyman of the Church.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY
(Before Mr. Under Sheriff Buncnnu..)
"mouser,' V. SHORT.

This was an action to recover the sum of 5/. Os. hi., for
butcher's meat supplied to the defendant. The defendant
pleaded that he was not indebted.
The facts of the case were these. In the course of last
year the plaintiff supplied meat at the house of the defend-
ant, who was in the habit of paying ready money for every-
thing sent in, and always furnished the cook with money
beforehand ; the cook, however, in this case misappropriated
the money, but made up her book as though it
was duly paid, and so much dependence was placed in the
servants that no receipts were ever required. It was now
contended, on the authority of Lord Kenyon, that a master
who gave his servants money to pay was not afterwards
liable.
The UNDER.SIIERIFF, however, considered that the prin-
ciple was too broad, as each case depended on the mode of
dealing. In this, a former cook had proved, that she
made a contract with plaintiff to serve meat for
ready money, and for twelve months she had
always paid as the bills went in, except in two or three
instances The cook, who had
contractedwhtheree a
debfet,whdaadysbeheand elapsed. the
admitted the re-
ceipt of the money, and that she had not paid it. The ques-
tions for the jury were, first, had there been a contract for
ready money; next, whether the delay of a day or two oc-
casionally could be construed into credit ; and, lastly, whether
the plaintiff had used due caution in giving credit without
letting the plaintiff know that the mode of dealing had been
altered.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

HORRIBLE MURDER and SUICIDE

Between six and s(eTvelinlSo'cilOAckYdlis morning the inba
bitants of Arbour-square, Commercial-road, were alarmed by
loud calls for the police, and screams of murder issuing from
the house, No. 16, in the square, occupied by a respectable
man named Baxter, employed as a clerk in Templeman's
coal wharf. Police-constable Sutherland, who was passing
the house, which is within about eighty or one hundred
yards of the Thames Police• court and station-house, imme-
diately entered, and, on descending to the back kitchen, re-
ceived in his arms the body of a young woman in the last
gasp of death, from a frightful wound on the right side of
the throat, which gaped to the extent of several
inches. She died almost immediately, without ut-
tering a word. Having laid the body on the
floor, he proceeded to the next apartment, which
was furnished in the way of a parlour, and there,
on the floor close to the fire-place, lay the body of a
man about twenty-six years of age, with his head nearly
severed from his body, his throat being cut quite across. A
pool of blood had issued from the wound, and where the
woman lay in the other apartment the place was also deluged
with blood. There was a pond of blood at the foot of the
staircase, and the door, the tables, and the chairs were spat-
tered and smeared with gore. The fender, fire irons, and fur-
niture were scattered about. in every direction, and all things
betokened a silent but terrible struggle. From all that
could be collected in the confusion which ensued, this appears
to be one of these motiveless murders which, had the suicide
survived would, by some sapient jury, have been attributed
to insanity. It seems the deceased young woman, who had
not yet attained her sixteenth year, was the daughter of Mr.
Baxter, the proprieter of the house. Against the father's consent
she married her murderer, Jeremiah Spence Stark, about
nine months since. Though averse to the match, her poor
father took them into the house, in the hope that he might
further their future prospects; but the son-in-law was of a
gloomy and morose temper, and apparently idly disposed.
The only discoverable grounds for the terrible tragedy,
which has fearfully alarmed the neighbourhood, are these :
A little brother of the young woman Ellen Baxter, alias
Stark, slept in the same, apartment with her and her hus-
band, and on the previous night heard the latter abusing her,
and calling her odious names. This he told to his father,
who mildly remonstrated with Stark on the impropriety of
his conduct. It would seem this galled the fellow, and must
have rankled all night in his mind. From the appearance
of the front kitchen, which seemed to be the breakfast room
of the family, the young woman must have been at work
in the place when Stark made the attack upon her,
and the silent struggle between them must have been terri-
ble. Her hands were cut in several places through the
gloves which she had on doing her work. The poor young
woman, who is supposed to have been in the family,
way, is said to have been a sweet, good-tempered girl, of
very prepossessing appearance, and her life might have
been saved had not her too great love for the mur-
derer and suicide prevented her giving a timely
alarm, as there were several persons in the house
at the time. Information of the awful occurrence was in-
stantly conveyed to the Arbour-square station-house, when
Sergeant Shaw, who was acting as inspector at the time,
made all the necessary arrangements, by writing to the co-
roner, and placing officers in the house to preserve every-
thing in the state in which the scene first presented itself.
In a deep pool of blood close to the head of the murderer
there was a comb belonging to the young woman, which
must have dropped from her hair in the commencement of
the struggle. The only object which has been removed is
the weapon with which the horrid deed has been committed,
and that is wrapped up in a newspaper at the Arbour-square
erurc-osqvua,rde
station.house. it is a black-handled carving-knife,
from the point to the hilt with thick clotted gore.

41:11IPING, GUILDFORD, and REI-
- RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A joint meeting of the shareholders in the above line was
held at the London Tavern, in order that the Directors might
explain to them the present position of the amalgamated
Company, and take their opinion on the future proceedings.
The cbair was taken by DAVID SaLomoxs, Esq., who read
a report of the state of the Company; from which it ap-
peared that the amalgamation of the Reading and Reigate
and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Companies had
been formed on principles likely to be very advantageous to
both. The usual deposit of 10 per cent. had been made, and
very little opposition was expected from the landowners re-
sident near the line. The local trafge alone would give a
profit of 6 per cent., exclusive of all traffic that would
pass over the entire length of the line. The report
also dwelt strongly on the fact that the line might be consi-
dered as one of that class of national defensive lines referred
to in Parliament by Sir Robert Peel, as it connected the
arsenals of Woolwich and Chatham with Portsmouth, South-
ampton, Plymouth, and other ports in the British channel,
and concluded by an assurance that with regard to the sur-
veying and engineering business, and all other matters to be
inquired into by the Standing Orders Committee, the line
was quite complete and ready to go to Parliament with every
anticipation of a favourable result. After a few brief remarks
the Chairman concluded by expressing a hope that the
shareholders would continue to repose in their directors that
confidence which they bad always shown, and assuring
them that the directors were ready to do for them anything
they might require, 'and give them every information they
could expect.
Several shareholders inquired what were the expenses of
the Companies, and the amount of capital subscribed upon
each.

The CHAIRMAN said he could not enter into a detailed ac-
count, but the expenses of each Company had been in round
numbers about 14,0001. The capital subscribed in the Read-
ing and Reigate line was about 38,000/., and on the Reading,
Reigate, and Guildford about 54,000/., giving a total of
92,000/.
Several voices in the room expressed dissatisfaction at the
large expenses incurred.
A SHAREHOLDER made a few remarks with regard to the
satisfactory condition of the line, and proposed a resolution
expressing thanks to the chairman and directors, and also
expressing entire confidence in them.
An amendment was proposed requiring an immediate state-
ment of accounts.
The Crranemas said the shareholders ought not to com-
plain of the expenses, for if they at first started two lines in-
stead of one, and incurred the expense attendant upon sur-
veying and getting up two lines, when they knew that one
line would do, was it their own fault. The directors would,
however, be happy to send round to every shareholder a state-
ment of accounts in detail.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WATKINS, a shareholder, said that he thought the
amendment ought to be put to the meeting, and if passed,
he would propose another, to the effect that the meeting
should adjourn until the detailed accounts were produced.—
(Cries of " No, no," through the room.)
The CHAIRMAN begged Mr. Watkins to consider he had no
wish that the Company should be put down in the papers as
a disorderly meeting. There was every discosition to give a
detailed account, and those accounts they would, if the
shareholders pleased, produce in a week, or even three days,
should they require it. The directors would be very happy
to overhaul them with the shareholders, and let blame fall
on those who deserved it.
A SHAREHOLDER asked if the directors of the united com-
panies lied taken anything for their services 1---( Loud hisses.)
Mr. LEVESON GOWER' the chairman of the Reading and
Reigate, said that they had not taken a shilling, or even a
glass of cold water, at the shareholders' expense.
The CHAIRMAN said he had had nothing from the Company
but a great deal of trouble.—(Laughter.)
The sense of the meeting was so strongly expressed against
this question that it was withdrawn, and the questioner joined
in an expression of satisfaction at the business dike way in
which the chairman had conducted the proceedings.
The original motion of thanks to and confidence in the di-
rectors was then put, and carried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting
separated.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

Sub-Committee No. 2, Cloisters, 6.

This Committee met to-day at a few minutes past twelve
o'clock, Sir J. Y. Boller in the chair.
GMILIMF0111), CIEXCHES'rEI7a, PORTSMOUTH,

AND rAREHAM.

The evidence in support of this Bill was resumed.
The Committee were of opinion that the standing orders
had not been complied with by this Company.

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (DnTN...
rErexuratzz BUANC7I).

This was a petition on the part of the Edinburgh
and Northern Railway Company, for the purpose
of constructing a branch from their railway to Dun-
-fermline, intersecting the great coal field of Lochgelly.
The engineer was Mr. Thomas Grainger, and it appeared that
the length of the line was 15 miles, and the amount of capital
187,000/.

The formal proofs were gone through.
There was a petition from Donald Smith Pedding, com-
plaining that the line proposed to pass through his property,
to the injury of the same, and alleging that the standing
orders had not been complied with, inasmuch as the plan
deposited with the Sheriff's clerk at Fife did not delineate the
line with accuracy.
The Committee considered that the standing orders in this
case had been complied with.
There was another allegation of inaccuracy in the plans
and sections, and in the notice of a field.
_ _

The Committee were of opinion that the standing orders
had not been complied with by the Edinburgh Northern
(Dunfermline branch) Railway in this particular.
Parliamentary agent, Sir Chas. Gordon, Edinburgh ; solid-
tors, Messrs, 'Webster, Richardson, and Connell, London.