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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1‘25) 18,6

t. title in his name to some land, for the
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upon
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to the l: ,t..! 1 !h•o, the whole
a I' ,• !et' then the
tu , •: y • on hearsay
he d ti I:• Court would not
take any procet:dings in a case in etch the offence
charged was a criminal one, and consequently indict-
able. Besides, if, the case was allowed.to proceed in its
present form, the defendant might be betrayed into
the admission of statements which might be used
against him on his trial. The proper time to
make such an ,opposition was, when the ulterior
pt.( ceedings had been completed. In a case re-
ported in the sth of Barnwell and Adolphus.
Lord Dentn in was reported to have said with re-
spect to a rule calling upon two solicitors to show cause
why they should not be struck' 4 the rolls for improper
conduct, that the offence was an ineli:ea le one, and that
the defendants should undergo the ordeal, of a trial
before such an application was made to the Collet. The
Learned Gentleman cited a number of other cases
which favoured his view of the case, and trusted the
Court would discharge the rule.
Lord DENSIAN suggested that the matter should go
before a master of the Court. • _ _

tr,:ttt,r wa

17VVrrE11;s14)1;;;;1 the adoption of such a
course, as the defendant preferred to have the whole
mutter brought before the Court, and as an investigation
before the master would be most expensive; besides he
anticipated that a private investigation would not be so
effectual as a solemn investigation before a judge and a
jury.
Mr. JAMES called the attention of the Court to the
fact that the defendant had become a bankrupt, and that
he had been examined before Mr. Commissioner Fon-
blanque, who had refused to certificate him en account
of his improper conduct. He apprehended that the
Court ought not to dismiss the rule until further inquiry
was made into the defendant's case.

Mr. WIIITEIIIIRST explained that the money was lent
on a bill at two months, which became due on the 20th
of December, 1844. the title deeds being given to Mr.
Pell as security. The bill was not paid, and the pro•.
perty to which the title deeds referred was put up to
auction, but an arrangement was made between Mr.
Pell and the defendant, by which he was to pay 101. a
month until the amount of the bill and some other debt,
amounting altogether to 1301., was settled, but the pay-
ments were stopped on aczount of the defendant becoming
a bankrupt. The defendant, in the whole transaction,
had acted as the attorney of Luke, who set forth in his
affidavit that he purchased the property referred to i❑
1803 ; that his name was feloniously entered in 1826,
and the title deeds stolen; that he employed the defen-
dant to frame new ones, which he did ; that the pro-
perty was his (Luke's); and that the reason the deeds
were renewed was, in order that he might place them
with Thompson for 821. 10s., which he had agreed to
obtain for him for two months. Other affidavits set
forth that it was _ well known that the pro-

perty did not belong to 'Luke, but to a
person named Wyman, who only allowed him to occupy.
.

it on account of his poverty ; that the defendant had
admitted that the deeds were fraudulent, and asked Mr.
Pell not to take proceedings against him, which it

appeared he indignantly denied. The Court should bear
in mind that Mr. Pell wa3 a solicitor in the same town,

and that he did not take proceedings until the defendant
became a bankrupt, and long after the circumstances
had taken place.

(The Case was proceeding when our report left.)

RAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
THE QUEEN V. THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF
CUMBERLAND.
Mr. MANISTY moved on the part of the Keeper of the
Queen's prison, for -an 'order upon the treasurer of the
county of Cumberland, to pay a gum of money towards
the maintenance and relief of poor prisoners, as directed
by the Act 53d Geo. 111., chap. 113, sec. 2. By the 2d
section oi that act, it was enacted that every treasurer of
every county mentioned in the Act should, on or before
the Ist day of August, in each year, pay from the public
stock of such county, a certain sum of money, according
to the terms mentioned by the Act to the treasurer of
the county of Surrey, to be applied to the relief of poor
prisoners in the Queen's prison. On reference to the
schedule of the Act, it would appear that the treasurer
of the county of Cumberland, was to pay 101. towards
the Queen's prison, and 51. towards the Fleet prison.
Then came the Act, 5 and 6 Victoria, chap. 22, by which
the Fleet prison was abolished, and section 8 of that Act
enacted that the money payable to the account of the
Fleet prison, should be paid to the Queen's prison. By
the 53d Geo. 111, it was also stated that in case of non-
payment, this Court, on the affidavit of the keeper of the
Queen's prison, should have the power to make an order
for the payment of the money. This was the first appli-
cation which had ever been made under the statute.
Mr. Justice PATTESON—As it is the first application,
you' may have a rule nisi for an order. The rule should
be absolute.

case.

of the same company, to bind him for any contract
eonnt cted with the Company, and that the solicitor in
the suit hal the power to give a. y orders, and thereby
bind the ttefetidant. We think that no such consequence
follows as a matter of law. The mere fact of the
defendant being a provisional committeeman, such
agree ment amouLted to no more than a mere
promise on his part to the effect " I will
act with other persons for the purpose of
carrying forward some scheme," it may be in
a committee or in any other body who have taken upon
themselves to perform that duty subject to the approval
of the general body, the acts are to be confirmed by the
great body whom they propose to act for. The agree-
ment to be a committeeman is an agreement to carry out
a certain scheme under such circumstances as may have
given rise to the scheme. The objects of a provisional
committee may. be various, it may be to establish
an hospital, or any other charitable institution,
to which persons are to subscribe,-either for a charitable
motive or any other, it may be to establish a school, or
a place of meeting, in which the persons subscribing are
to have beneficial interest as shareholders. It may be
that a provisional committee is formed for the purpose of
obtaining an Act for the construction of a bridge, a
canal, or a railway. Whatever the object may be it
makes no difference in the relations of a member of the
committee, whatever be the object he seeks to obtain,
and the legal consequences are the same in
all cases, and if the object of the party be
charitable cr not charitable, according as it
is—if for improper motives it may excite upon some
occasions improper prejudices in the minds of the jury
who may have to dispose of the facts of the case. Such
associations as provisional committees constitute, how-
ever, no agreement to share in the profit or loss of the
concet n, which constitutes the real essence of partnership.
It would be absurd to suppose that such a relation was
meant to be made in any case in which a provisional
committeeman consented to act as such. Now, applying
these cases, in some cases there is evidence, beyond the
mere fact of the defendant being a member of the pro-
visional committee, there are some instances where the
question does not seem to rest upon the same grounds,
and where there is evidence that the defendant has not
only consented to act as a provisional committeeman,
but has actually authorised his name to be inserted in
the prospectus of the company. Now, in some of
these prospectuses there are certain persons described
as the acting committee, and in which there
appears also the names of the solicitor, and the
secretary to the company. In some prospectuses
it is stated what are the duties and functions,
and what the objects of the provisional com-
mittee; such prospectuses have, in many cases, been
circulated by the defendant's express consent, and the
jury would presume that if such prospectus were taken
to the plaintiff, and that it had been showed to him,
and that he had acted upon such prospectue in the per-
formance of his contract; and the question. therefore,
is, what inference should reasonably be drawn from the
contents cf such a prospectus. This would of course de
pend entirely upon the terms of such prospectus, if
stated the mere names of the committee, and nothin
more ; and if no light could be derived from it w
reference to the intentions of the committee, then

does not alter the liability of the defendant, and he can-
not be responsible as a mere member of the committee;
and the publication of the fact cannot therefore alter his
position or relation. In some cases, however, there are
acting committees, who take the whole management of
the concern instead of the provisional commit-

tee. The functions of the provisional committee
having ceased, or in such cases it may mean that the
provisional committee have appointed an acting coin-
_

inittee to act on their behalf, and to be their agent. In
that case the proviFional committee would be clearly
liable for the acts of the acting committee. Again, do
such prospectuses mean where the solicitor or the se-

cretary's name is inserted, that such persons are regu
larly employed or appointed by the provisional cow:

mitiee, Or by the acting committee, on their behalf
Then, again,. another question rises, what bu

siness should attach to

the solicitor

or the

secretary in question. In all those cases the results
must depend upon the particular terms of each prospectus,
and the reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom.

Now, applying these observations to the two cases which
have alone been argued before us, Reynell v. Lewis and
Wyld v. Hopkins, we are of opinion that in the
first case there was some evidence to go to the
jury, we think that the manner in which the question
was left to the jury was perfectly correct, but we think

there should have been i new trial upon payment of
costa, but we think that a new trial should be had

in order that the jury may have the opportunity of

considering the facts of the case, according to
the view of the Court. In the case of " Wyld v. Hop-

kins," we entertain much doubt whether there was any
evidence to go to the jury; and we think, therefore,
that in the case of " Wyld v. Hopkins," a new trial
. .

should be had generally Upon the whole merits of the

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Right Hon. Charles Buller, M.P., was this moin.
ing called within the bar as one of the Queen's Counsel

RE HEMSWORTH.

The defendant, who bad been attached for contempt
in refusing to deliver up certain wine warrants, in com-
pliance with an award which had been made an order of
Court, was this morning brought up for judgment,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the present case came
before the Court on the report of the Master, in which
the defendant was taken up on an attachment
for a contempt of Court. With regard to the
interrogations on which that attachment proceeded, it
was shown that the defendant, formerly the plaintiff in
the case, out of which the present proceeding had
arisen, had been in repeated instances guilty of a con-
tempt of this Court, acting on the advice, it would
appear, that he could defeat the award the Court hail
previously ordered to be made. The defendant, how-
ever, would find any attempt of his impotent to defeat
the enforcement of the award, and that he was utterly
mistaken in supposing the Court had not full power Co
vindicate its rules and orders. It was their determina-
tion to render the law effective in such cases as this as
far as the Legislature had given them power
to do so. Though it was to a certain extent
uncertain whether the Court should fix a certain term of
imprisonment, or order the confinement to be continued
till the award, for the contempt of which the defendant
was in custody, was fulfilled ; still they were strongly of
opinion that any term of imprisonment they might order
would not liberate the defendant from the contempt of
the Court, but that he would still be liable to be brought
op and committed for the same. The defendant was
charged not with one act of comtempt, but for continued
contempt, and any term, of imprisonment would not ex-
punge the liability, which could only be removed by the
completion of the award, or by the payment of the value
of the wine, spirits, warrants, &c., with the costs incurred,
Looking at all the facts of the case, the Court were of
opinion that the defendant had possessed the means of
completing the award, and his not doing so, but acting
in continued contempt, called for no consideration on
their parts. With the object, therefore, of vindicating
the authority of the Court, and giving effect to such
awards, protecting the civil right of the parties interested
therein, the judgment on the defendent was, that he
be imprisoned for a period of two years, or until such
time as he had paid the value of the property made in
the award with the costs since incurred.

The defendant was then removed in the custody of the
officer of the Court.

EDWARDS V. SRAW.

This was an action brought by an attorney resident
at Birmingham against the plaintiff, as Vice-Chairman
and provisional director of a railway company, for work
and labour done on behalf of the said company. The
action was to have been tried at the last Warwick assizes,
but before the case came on, it was arranged between the
parties that the bill of particulars should be amended, so
as to give the defendant credit for 5001., which he had
paid. The action would then be for 3001., the balance
alleged to be due. The defendant denied the liability,
and through some mismanagement, which the plaintiff,
in his affidavits, attributed to the neglect of the attorney
of the former, the case as amended, was not entered in
time for trial. A rule was moved this term, on behalf
of the plaintiff, to change the venue to Middlesex, and
to have the declaration and issue amended.
drgbelanr.tMcehlalonrnealppfoerarite.d this day
againsti% Rulei r S
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absolute.
Sand Mr. Mellor appeared this day
against the rule ; Mr. Se

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
The whole of the cases this morning were undefended,
chiefly on bills of exchange, and none were of the
slightest public interest.
The Learned SECONDARY said that much unnecessary
trouble and expense was saved by the plaintiffs obtain-
ing a judge's order on the defendants to admit their sig-
natures to bills, as in a great number of cases the de-
fendants vexatiously pleaded non-acceptance, without
having the slightest ground of defence.
A verdict was given in each case for the plaintiff.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURP.
Joseph Jones was indicted for forging an order upon
the Bank of England, for the transfer of 3/. 10s. Bank
Stock, the property of George Edwards and his wife, of
Ebury-street, Pimlico.
Mr. Clarkson was retained for the prosecution ; Mr.
Prendergast defended the prisoner.
George Clifden, one of the Bank clerks, testified to
the stock standing in the name of the prosecutgr pre-
vious to the transfer.

Mr. Samuel Stephen Lowe, a clerk in the Long An-
nuities Transfer-office, witnessed the transfer on the skh
of January last.
George Edwards, a retired coachman, of Ebury-strect,
Pimlico, deposed that his wife, whose name before her
marriage was Sarah Swift, and himself, purchased the
long, annuities in question on the 6th April, 1840. This
stock he had never given authority to any one to dispose
of in any way, and on the production of the Bank book
declared that the signature in it was not his. He d-mi,:cl
that the letter purporting to give the authority, which
was also produced, was his, and said he knew nothing
whatever of the transfer until he heard of it through a
communication from his daughter.
Cross-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—Cannot read
or write. The four first years after their marriage they
had lived together, but since that period they had been
separated, and had not received a letter from her for
more than three 3 ears. He had given his wife the
money from time to time to be taken care of, but what
afterwards became of it be was not able to tell, though
he believed it was to be put into the Bank.
Mr. Thomas Crumpton, a stockbroker—Occasionally
,fficiated for Mr. Baillie, another stockbroker, who had
an office on the same floor with himself in Lothbury. In
January, 1842, he had transferred 31. 10s. Long Annuities
for that gentleman, at the desire of a person whom he
believed to be the prisoner. He had sold the stock to
Mr. Clement Smith, a stockbroker, and paid the
money over to the person who represented himself as
George Edwards, ;he owner.

' The Learned JUDGE reproved the witness for his want
of caution in identifying a person at the Bank whom he
had never seen before that time.
Carlton Anthony Goring, now a private i❑ the 31st
Regiment, stated, that in 1842 he was clerk to Mr.
Baillie, whose business Mr. Compton was in the habit
of transacting when he was away from London. He
confirmed Mr. Compton's evidence, and identified the
prisoner, and also the paper which he had produced, as
being Mr. Edwards' authority to her husband to sell
the stock.

Charlotte Arnold identified the writing of the pr

soner. She had known him as Henry Clark.
Mr. James Hunter, of 34, Bloomsbury-street, had
known the prisoner under the name of Henry Hitch-
cock Barrow. The document produced, purporting to
be the authority of Mrs. Edwards, was decidedly the
prisoner's writing. •
Mr. George Cowldrey, a goldbeater, of Eccleston-
street, Clerkenwell, stated, that he had known Edwards
and his wife, the latter for twenty years. Knew the
prisoner in January 1842. The last time witness stsw
him was on his apprehension on the 9th of September
last, when Mrs. Edwards was with him, and they gave
their names as Mr. and Mrs. Jones. He had seen Mrs.
Edwards in 1845, when he went with her to Mr.
Peppercorn's, a . stockbroker, to purchase some
stock ; and, in consequence of what passed
then the Bank porter was sent for, with whom Mrs.
Edwards communicated, and to whom she gave a de-
scription of the prisoner. After that witness and Mrs.
Edwards went to Mr. Baillie's office, and told that gen-
tleman what had passed. Mr. Edwards immediately
afterwards went to the Bank. On the 4th or sth August
he saw her again at his'own house, in company with the
prisoner at the bar, when she introduced him as her
husband, under the name of Joseph Jones. Witness
then immediately recognised the prisoner as the man
who had, some years before, called with a message from
Mrs. Edwards, and who then represented himself as
Mr. Handley's servant, of Newark. Some conversation
then ensued on the prisoner's change of name. At that
time he saw a gold watch in the prisoner's possession,
which he knew belonged to George Edwards. Mrs.
Edwards at that time told him that her first husband
had been dead for two years, and showed him a ring on
her finger, which she said prisoner had put on. He
identified the handwriting of the prisoner. The autho-
rity was then put in and read.
Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, who found him Guilty.
He was sentenced to be transported for life.

NEW COURT.
Thomas Watkins and John Hill were convicted of
stealing rags to the value of I Os., from the warehouse of
John Beamish, the master of Hill.
Watkins, who had been before convicted, was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation ; and Hill, who
was believed to have fallen into the hands of an old thief.
to six months' imprisonment.

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MIDDLES EX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Ann Davis, an old offender, who had been already
convicted about twenty times in this Court, Ives in-
dicted for stealing a quantity of meat, the property of
Joseph Smart.
Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, the police-
constable, who had charge of the case, was not in at-
tendance, and the prisoner was consequently ordered to
be discharged for want of evidence.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE commented strongly
upon the negligence of the constable, and ordered his
recognisances to be estreated.
Thomas Montgomery, another well-known thief, was

indicted for stealing a handkerchief, the property of
some person unknown.
Mr. O'BRIEN, who appeared on behalf of the prisoner,
took an objection to the form of the indictment, on the
ground that the property was described as belonging to
some person unknown to the jurors, while in point of
fact the depositions showed it to be the property of a
person named Frederick Martin.
The Learned ASSISTANT. JUDGE coincided in the ob-
jection, and remarked that this appeared to be a parti-
cularly lucky day for thieves and pickpockets, as it
seemed fated that the more notorious they were the
more likely they were to escape--no less than four of
the best known in the calendar having escaped that day
without even entering upon the merits of the charges
against them.
Elizabeth Beazeley was indicted for robbing her fur-
nished lodgings of a quantity of bed clothes and furni-
ture, the property of William Hales.
The prisoner must have been carrying on an extensive
system of plunder, not alone in the lodgings where she
was detected, but also in other places, as upwards of
seventy pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon her
when she was taken into custody.
A verdict of guilty having been returned against the
prisoner, she was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment.

James Wilson, was indicted for stealing a quantity of
metal piping, the property of Henry Murray, his master.
It appeared that the prosecutor was an, extensive
plumber. The prisoner had been his foreman for three
years. On Monday week he was observed by a police-
man to enter the shop of a marine store dealer several
times with a bundle, and information of the fact having
been conveyed to the prosecutor, it was ascertained that
the prisoner had stolen a quantity of lead, which
he disposal of at the shop for about a quarter of its
value.

He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' im.
prisounient with hard labour.

CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Whitehall, whose head scarcely could be seen
above the bar, and who stated his age to be only 15
endendwriatipierr,o3bBbr
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Sears,T hpoonliac sew-
caDobell,osnsctha
153 N stated that last night about
twelve o'clock as he was passing the door of a brothel
in Henrietta-street, Shoreditch, he saw the prisoner,
who had a large bundle with him, standing inside, talking
to a female. Discovering him to be an apprentice of
Mr. Dobell's, he went up and asked him what he was
doing in such a place at that hour, and also what he had
in the bundle. The prisoner replied that he was taking
the parcel to a lady at Lansdown-terrace, but not be-
lieving the story the constable took him back to Mr.
Dobell, when the property was found to have been stolen
from the stock.
Mr. Dobell said he was knocked up out of his bed
that morning by the constable, who inquired after the
apprentice, when he said he was in bed, as he had no
idea he was in the habit of getting up after all the rest
had retired, and letting himself out with a second street-
door key, of which he had possessed himself. Mr.
Dobell identified the property, which consisted of table-
cloths, napkins, and other articles, although he found
that the private mark of the firm had been partly effaced
with some kind of acid.
The policeman said ho had ascertained that the pri-
soner, young as he was, had been in the habit of visiting
the house in Henrietta.-street for a considerable time.
The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial.

JUPITER AND HIS MOONS.—There will be a most
beautiful and interesting grouping of the moons of
Jupiter on the evening of the 2d of November at nine
o'clock, when all will appear to the eastward of their
primary in rare and close companion.;hip ; the second
and fourth moon occupying a position nearly parallel
with the belts, and once his diameter from his limb; the
first and third parallel with his equator, and distant two
and three diameters. Owing to the rapid and now op-
posite motion of the first and second satellites this con-
vocation of worlds will be of short duration, and the
beautiful group will separate; but not as a distinguished
lecturer has said " never to meet at the same time on
the same side of their magnificent primary ;" but again,
on the evening of Dec. 30, at 76. 16m. mean time, as if
by mutual concert, they congregate and occupy the
opposite or western hemisphere of Jupiter, where in bold
and beautiful relief they will exhibit the same triangular
configuration as described on the 2d. The belts of
Jupiter, which for a series of years have exhibited
marked inequalitieS of distinctness, this year are stroßg
and well defined.—New Bedford (United States) Mer-
cury.

PEACE VERSUS WAR. —A very large meeting was
held at the Hall of Commerce, in Threadneedly-street,
on Tuesday night, for the purpose of hearing Elihu
Burritt, " the learned American blacksmith," deliver a
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eight o'clock, the hall, to which there was free admission,
Friends." Immediately after that hour Elihu Burritt
commenced his lecture and continued it without inter-
mission for nearly two hours. " Thechlaeraaerntederis
s which is attri-
buted seems like one who has laboured rather in the
study than in the smithy, and does not exhibit mueh of
. For nearly two
the robust physique of the forge. His features are
strongly marked, though of a mild and rather intellec-
tual
on the misery
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the precepts of
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pronunciation
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hours, with a strong, rough, but monotonous, and not
the Scriptures, and its violation of all the softer feelings
vaenrdy
sinfulness distinct v ooifc ew,
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the
opposition lecturer
to
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of humanity, aiding his memory from time to time
with very copious notes. His argument was founded on
the preaching and practice of our Saviour, and he con-
tended that under no possible circumstances could Chris-
tians justify an appeal to arms. Towards the close of
the proceedings he was highly applauded, and the thanks
of the meeting were given him by acclamation, and with
long-continued and vehement applause.
."' THE LONDON CITY Mrssiort.—Last evening the
fourth annual meeting of the members of the North
London Auxiliary to this Association was held it the
Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square. The Rev.
Lord Wriotesley Russell, M.A., presided, and was sup-
ported by the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, the Rev. W. R.
Dibdin, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, R. C. L. Bevan,
Esq.,
and gentlemen. several other clergymen and From the
annual report it appeared that during the four years of
its existence the auxiliary association had remitted to
the parent society the sum of 128/. By the London
City Mission 160 agents were employed,
who devoted
their whole time to the work of visiting the poor in their
own habitations. The report showed in detail that the
church accommodation of the metropolis was only for
351,290 persons, and the chapel accommodation 601,418,
population of 2,103,279 persons. The report was
of a popu
adopted, and resolutions expressive of confidence in the
ie meeting to its support, were
mission, and pledging I

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passed.
DETENTION OF THE OVERLAND MAILS.--Yester-
day the Post-office authorities gave notice that the
Oriental, which sailed on the 25th of October with the
mails for India, China, and Egypt, via Southampton,
left Malta for Alexandria on the Bth inst. without the
mails dispatched from London on the 27th of October vid
Marseilles. the packet conveying these mails from Mar-
seilles to AZalta not reaching that island till the 11th inst.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed
early walk yesterday, in the gardens and pleasure
grounds of Osborne House. His Royal Highness Prince
Albert afterwards rode out on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince cd Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, rode
out on ponies yesterday. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Helena was also taken an airing.
Mr. Marjoribanks, Mr. W. Ewart, and a deputation of
the College -of Preceptors, had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Mr. Arthur Crooke, from Liverpool, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his
official residence in Downing -street, and presented a
memorial respecting sugar.
Mr. Gregory had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day at the Colonial•ofce.

The Bishop of London had an interview yesterday
with Lord John Russell.

Mr. Warburton had an interview yesterday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Rev. W. A. Soames, Vicar, Mr. E. W. James,
Vestry Clerk, and two other inhabitants of the parish of
Greenwich, had an interview wish Sir George Grey
yesterday at the Home•office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood had a dinEer party yesterday at their residence in
Eaton-square.

Lady John Russell had an evening party yesterday at
her residence in Chesbam-place.
The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday for his
seat Strathfieldsaye, Hants.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor af Ceylon.

THE LATE FIRE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—An exaggerated account having appeared in
your paper of a fire that took place at one of our branch
factories, quite detached from our principal works, we
beg to state that the total loss is under 2,0001., that the
greater part is insured, and that it will not interfere, in
the slightest degree, with the conduct of our business.—
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, PALMER and CO.
Nov. 25, 1846.

We are authorised in stating that the Count de
Montemolin, or, as he is called by his adherents, his
Majesty Charles Luis King de jure of Spain, arrived in
the metropolis on Sunday night. His Royal Highness
travelled under the strictest incognito, and was accom-
panied only by General Montenegro, and his private
secretary, Don Romualdo Mon. The Marquis di Villa
Franca Duke di Medina Sidonia arrived in London a
few days since.— Times.
IMPORT OF PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.
—The Saranak, which arrived at Liverpool from Phila-
delphia on the 21st inst., brings 2,854 barrels of flour,
12,000 bushels of wheat, 5,000 bushels and 40 bags
Indian corn, 30 casks of beef, 9 casks of bacon, and 7
barrels of potatoes.
SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING AT LUCCA.—(Extract
of a letter from Italy.)—His Royal Highness the Duke
of Lucca having had experience of the ruin which gam-
bling tables have entailed on many visitors to the baths
of Lucca, has by a royal ordinance, dated the sth No-
vember instant, suppressed all games of hazard in his
dukedom ; and has directed that the casino erected at
the Baths of Lucca, for the convenience of strangers,
be converted into a reading room, &c., as well as that at
Viareggio.
COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—Yesterday a deputa-
tion of gentlemen conducting private boarding schools,
in different sections of the country, headed by J. Majori-
banks. Esq., M.P., and T. Ewart, Esq., M.P., had an
audience of Lord John Russell, on the subject of the
recently formed College of Preceptors. His Lordship
received the deputation graciously, and patiently listened
to a detailed plan of their future movements.
FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.—We are very
sorry to have to record another of those unfortunate
collisions in which the use of the knife has been resorted
to, with, we fear, too great a probability of a fatal result.
The particulars of the case, so far as we have been able
to learn, are as follow :—At about one o'clock this
morning the attention of the police was drawn to a
squabble between two sea-faring men in South Castle-
street. When they came up it was found that one of
the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was im-
mediately arrested, and on him was found a large broad-
pointed clasp-knife. The injured man was conveyed to
the Northern Hospital, where he now lies in a most pre-
carious state. The wound, from which his bowels were
protruding, is a little below the naval and about two
inches long. His name is Charles Winslow, and he re-
sides at a boarding house in Barton-street, having re-
cently arrived from St. John's, New Brunswick, in the
Champion, of this port. Liverpool Standard, of
yesterday.
PRICE or LAND.—Yesterday, by an order from
the Court of Chancery, a piece of land, known as the
Gospel Oak and Five-acre Fields, lying between Kent-
ish-town and Hampstead, so called in consequence of
the bishops preaching the Reformation tit that locality,
beneath an oak, which is at present standing there in
the last stage of decay, was put up to auction at the
Gray's Inn Coffee-house, for the purpose of the erection
of villas. The land was exonerated from land-tax and
tithe free, save a payment of 4d. per acre, and a pay-
ment of 4s. yearly rent to the lord of the manor of
Tottenham; it formerly being copyhold of inhwitanee
of the manor of Tottenham. There were but little
more than two acres, which sold for 1,4001., or 700
an acre.

THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PORTUGAL.—Though the
probable result of the present struggle in Portugal is a
problem that ordinary persons seek in vain to solve, it
would seem that in very high quarters the difficulty is
not so great. We judge so from a circumstance that has
been stated to us on apparently good authority. We are
assured that orders were given, before the departure of
the Court for the Isle of Wight, for the immediate pre-
paration of aprtments in Windsor Castle, in case the
Queen of Portugal, and the King-Consort—first cousin
of his Royal Highness the Prince Field Marshal—should
find it advisable to avail themselves of British hospita-
lity. Arrangements are also made for the reception of
their Majesties four sons and two daughters, who may
naturally be expected to accompany their royal parents
in this involuntary visit. It is added that the mysterious
mission of Colonel Wylde, about which people have
wearied themselves with conjectures, had reference sim-
ply to the offer of this asylum to the royal family of Por-
tugal.—Morning Post.
_ _

On Saturday night last, while a gentleman, who
had just returned to Glasgow with the train from Edin-
burgh, was passing along London-street on his way
home, a young fellow, dressed in moleskin clothes,
suddenly rushed out of the through-going passage leading
down St. Andrew's-lane, and darting his hand into his
vest pocket carried off his gold watch, gold guard. chain,
ring, and key, along with a button of the vest to which
the guard was attached, making his escape by the same
entrance from which he emerged. The whole was the
work of an instant, and the villain was off before the
gentleman had discovered his loss.—Glasgow Herald.
MADAME ANNA BISHOP.—The engagement of this
accomplished vocalist, at Drury-lane Theatre, will ter-
minate, on the 23d of December, after which Madame
Bishop will make an extensive tour to fulfil her engage-
ments in the provinces.
MADAME EUGENIA GARCIA.—This vocalist, who
was the Prima Donna in turn at Drury-lane, the Prin-
cess's, and the Surrey, seems to have surprised the ama-
teurs at Rovigo, for she was called for at her benefit, if
we are to believe tho France Musicale, 58 times ! ! in one
night I !

-DUPREZ.—This artist having dedicated his "Art of
_Singing " to the Duchess de Montpensier, her Royal
Higness has presented him with a magnificent pencil-
case, surmounted by a rich diamond, accompanied by a
letter, in which the wish is expressed that the pencil may
serve to write another of the too rare vocal gems which
Duprez has yet published.
• CrEßMANY.—Mendelssohn's Paul has been given in
Vienna by 1,000 executaats, Staudigl being the principal
singer. Liszt has gone to Constantinople, and Ernst is
about to visit Russia. Conradin ICreutzer has been no-
minated successor to Nicolai, at the Court Opera, the
latter going to Berlin.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.---1 COL REWARD.—Yester-
day's Government Police Gazette contained the offer of
the above reward for such informatiun as will lead to
the apprehension and conviction of the individuals who,
on the evening of the 20th ult., caused such injuries to
Mr. David Congreve, near his own residence. on the
Holbeach Turnpike-road, by shooting at him with slugs,
as to endanger life—viz., 501. by her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and 501. by Mr. David Congreve.
Lord ,Brougham left Paris on Monday on his
return to England.
ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LIVERPOOL,
Nov. 24.—Yesterday morning a dreadful explosion of
fire-damp took place at Harvey's Coppell Colliery, near
Standish, Lancashire, by which several lives have been
lost. It seems that the man whose business it was to
renew the fires below omitted to do so, at three o'clock
in the morning, and in consequence of their going out,
fire-damp accumulated. When he went down at six
o'clock, for the purpose of relighting them, an explosion
took place. Three men were killed, several were
seriously hurt, and it is apprehended that six others, in
a different part of the mine, have also been killed. This
report was brought to Liverpool yesterday morning, but
no other particulars were known.
DREADFUL MURDER IN FRANCE. A dreadful
murder was committed yesterday morning in the Rue
Bertin Poiree, No. 9. A girl, aged twenty -eight, by
name Alexandrine Boulanger, was lately dismissed from
the service of M. R—, a cloth merchant, who had just
got married. She considered herself ill-treated, and
complained loudly of what had been done, threatening
vengeance on M. It— and his young wife. Yester-
day, understanding that M. R-- had gone to the
country, she knocked at the door of his apartment, and
seeing it opened by a young woman, she took it for
granted that this was Madame R. She accordingly
threw in her face the contents of a phial of vitriolic acid,
and then, precipitating herself on her, stabbed her with
a knife in eight places, leaving the unfortunate victim of
her passion a corpse. She then threw herself out of the
window of a landing into the street, but a market cart
that happened to pass at the moment received her, and
she escaped nearly unhurt. When taken out she de-
clared that she had killed Madame R. On persons
going up stairs to ascertain the truth, it was discovered
that it was the servant-girl who had succeeded her that
had thus suffered by mistake. Alexandrine Boulanger
has been removed to the Prefecture of Police.—
Galignani.
THE DEPLORABLE EFFECTS OF TIIE REPEAL OF
THE CORN-LAWS.—We understand that at the Michael-
mas audits of the Right Hon. Lord Feversham, held at
Helmsley and Kirbymoorside, last week, not one of his
Lordship's numerous tenantry made default, and that
there was not a single arrear,— Yorkshireman.

I LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
IN BANKF, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COX

PANIES' STOCK.

From tie Official List,
ÜBLISHED EVERY TtrEsDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING
LONDON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24.
JOINT-STOCIE BANNS.

Name of Company. Divpied:nd Amountt Paid.
I Price
A 211111121. Share.
-----------
----- --....
X s. d. £ s. d.
iustralasia .......• • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0
Britsh North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0
50 0 0
ommercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0
.S'olonial . • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 20 0 0
15
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 00 2
London Joint-Stock . 61. per cent. 50 0 0 00 0
Metropolitan ......... 10 0 0
25 0 0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 l 0 0
0 4N
Ditto, New... ••• •• • 81. per cent. 10 0
0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0
Nat. Provincial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0
Ditto, New.— ... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0. 0
Union of London. —5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0

of INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
eY Name of Company. per of Paid. Pric
Annum. Share.
ry
in X s. d. 4 a. d.
Albion •.-•.•. • • • • • • 31. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18%
at Ditto Marine.- -• • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5%
Atlas ... .. .. .. ..... .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15%
~ British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7%
'''' Olcricl,Med.&Gen.Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle 6s. 50 9 0 5 0 0 53bxd
Eng.& Scot. Law .. • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3
European Life ••• • • • 53¢ per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' . - ...• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe - 135
Guardian ....... ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 473
i n Imperial Fire .....• -6/. and bonus! 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
:11 Imperial Life •••• .. .• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Indemnity Marine.. - 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
10 Law Life.........• .. IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
le Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 Gii
in Landon Fire •••• •• • • 101. 25 • 0 0 12 10 0 1514
..•ondon Ship •• •.•• • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15%
- Marine .. •••••• • • • .. 51. per cent: 100' 0 0 lb 0 0 -
Red. Invlid&Gen.Life 437. per Ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
). National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life....
Colladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os.
Phcenbt - - 205
le Protector Life.... •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Provident Life •• IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
is (lock Life .... .. .. .... 4s. 50 .0 010 0 4%
n 'loyal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - -
s Cun Fire • • - - 210
Ditto Life U. 6a. - - 49
Jniversal Life -
0
1 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
I Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
1
•
. .
B 4 s d
flank of Scotland - 100 0 0 175
' Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 159
' British Linen Company Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank -•• 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 16234
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 141.14 s
Union Bank of Scotland '7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 923
Western Bank • .... •• • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 85
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7%
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 4s
Eastern Bank.. ... •• • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank - 210 0 4/. lls
Edinb.&Glasgowllank 61. per cert. - 50 0 71. Os
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 6s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. Od
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Seetind- Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Incur... 534 /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 273¢
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 223
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 I) 0 12 10 0 183 i
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. lib 0 0 50 0 0 7536
Ditto, % Shares.... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Glaagw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 %
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 27. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 163
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee&Arbroth Rail. 67. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 '
Standard LifeAssarnce.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9
•
CANALS.
Names of g Dividend) Names of d Dividend
Companies. ~.,,d per I Price. Companies:per Price. ,
r/_• Annum. Annum. Annum. cc t
X 5 IJ
Ashtn& Oldh 57 51.55. p c 70 Monmouthah 100 8/. - d
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51.
Barnsley.... 160 121. lBO Macclesfield. 00 - -
Basingstoke.. 100, - L--• Neath ••• • - • 100 171. 340 C 7
Brknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. -
Cromford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 ,
Dudley lOO 4/. - Regent's •• • • 33 1/. ss. -
Derby ..• • • 100 61. 73 Itochdale .. • • 85 41. -
Elismre&Chs 133 4/. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. - st
E:ewash •• • 100 321. - Somrset Coal 50 71.105. 130 hi
Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. -b,
GrandJunctn 100 71. 83 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 270
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. -
Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. - Stourbridge- 45 201. 315 hi
• Ilstr& Brkly 100 ' - - Strtfrd on Av 79 17. 10s. -
Grantham •• 150 121. - Severn and/
26 11. Bs. 32 Ch(,
Huddersfield. 57, - - Wye )tail.s
Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5% Tnit &MI
50 301.
ti
Lancaster ..• 47 1/. 10s. - sey, 14 sh.tt
Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 520 Tharns&Med 19 - -
Leicester
78 V. 43 ti
Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 52 Birming. j
Loughborogh,l42 701. 850 Wilts & Brits 67 11. 11

Name of Company.

Paid. I Price,

- 99
- I
-74
0 0, -

mum penalty affixed by the Act of 1 and 2Wi
IV., and also why the verdict for ten pounds on send.
ing out an improper ticket with the coals should not be
increased to twenty pounds, the maximum penalty im.
posed,by the Ist and 2d Victoria. This rule was sought in
order to raise the question whether. the
.Court ought not
at the trial to have fixed. the amount of the-several
pena:ties, instead of leaving the question to be decided
by the jury.—Rule granted.

COURT OF COMHON PLEAS, Nor. 24.
PICK V. LE BLANC.—QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT.
Mr. COCKBURN appeared against a rule obtained by
: Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, on the part of Mr. Aaron Pick.
calling upon him to show cause why the entry of a
book entitled " The Bible Students' Concordance," at
Stationers' Hall, in the name of Colonel Le Blanc, of
'54 Chelsea, should not be expunged, or the name of Mr.
Aaron rick substituted as the proprietor of the said
work. Colonel Le Blanc had assisted in collating tho
work, had paid for the printing, and it had been agreed
that the copyright should be vested in him.
Mr. Sergeant TALPOURD having been heard in sup.
pprt of the rule,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE suggested that an arrange-
ment should be come to, by which if the claim of Colonel
Le Blanc was liquidated, the copyright of the work
might be given up to Mr. Pick.
Ultimately it was arranged that the rule should bo
enlarged till next term, and that if in the interim the
claim of Colonel Le Blanc was discharged the rule
should then be made absolute ; and, further, that should
there be any dispute as to the amount claimed, the
matter should be left to the arbitration et' Mr. Mellor.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ROB-
BERIES IN BERKSHIRE.
ABINGDON, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The examination of
the %itnesses still continues, but, both yesterday and to-
day, have been partially private, as was that of Mr.
Salisbury, a large maltster and brewer, taken this after..
noon, but of the testimony given in open Court the fol-
lowing is the most important. No other person has yet
been arrested, but it is said Superintendent Wyatt has
warrants for the apprehension of several who are impli-
cated by the evidence of the last few days.
William Beechey—About two years ago I was out of
employ, and remember meeting Thomas Prior, the pri-
soner, on St. Helen's-wharf. He was boatman for Mr.
Pemberton. He ai: d I had some conversation together.
lie told -me he had some malt and hops. He said he
shoved his boat up a back way, pointing towards Abing-
don-bridge, and they got out six sacks of malt and some
hops. One of the men present had a blne coat on, with
pigeon tails, and a bunch of keys on his arm. Prior
said he thought it was the foreman, and said, " Why,
that must be Jones," but he said, he thought
it was Gardener. From the description of the other one,
I thought it must be Edney; and there was another
man, whom I did not know. Prior said that the man
with the keys showed him about the place. " The
brewery" was mentioned by Prior as the place where
the malt and hops were got from, and by his saying he
shoved his boat back up the water, I thought he must
mean Miss Spenlove's. I understood he was going to
take his: boat Birmingham way. This transaction
was a common talk about the wharf at the time. I heard
it spoken of twenty times. Prior told me he looked out in
the night, and saw " Old Dusty" trying to take one of
the sacks out of the boat, and he called out to him,' Let
'urn bide," and then " Old busty" cut. He soon after
started with his boat. I don't know what Dusty's name
is besides " Charley." (By "Dusty" is meant a man who
has absconded.) '
The evidence of another witness proves a loss in Miss
Splenlove's stock before the management was confided to
.ar. Marshall.
The interest as to the result of the inquiry daily in-
creases, especially in Oxford, in consequence of the re-
spectability of the alleged receivers in that city.