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ho would take the responsibility upon himself of suite, cabins are being built which will prevent her
giving him into custody. completion before the middle of next week.
Mr. Gompertz, who was sitting at the attorney's The Sealark, 10 guns, Commander Moneypenny
table, then rose and accompanied Mr. Haddon to the w ill sail far the coast of Africa as soon as her rigging
station-house, and in about ten minutes Mr. Gom- is complete.
pertz, who is a tall well-dressed man, middle-aged, The hands employed on the Vivid steam-packet,
and of very gentlemanly appearance, was placed at building, to insure her being launced this month,
the bar, charged with obtaining six bills of exchange work by task -work and extra hours.
for 3581. 6s. Bd. from Mr. Haddon by means of false The Rochester, Sudweeks, Master, sailed this day
pretences. with stores for Plymouth and Pembroke yards.
Mr. Ballantine stated the circumstances at great Mr. Flynn master-rigger of this yard, is appointed
length. They were very complicated, but will be boatswain at Sheerness Dockyard.
better understood from the evidence. The first wit- The Princess Royal steam-vessel embarked at the
ness was then called. Sun pier a company of the Royal Artillery from
Mr. John Cooke Haddon, civil engineer, 14, Lin- Brompton barracks for duty at Sheerness.
coin's Inn-fields, said, the prisoner was introduced WOOLWICH, JAN. I.—The Banshee steam-vessel,
to him about July last, it being stated at the time built by Mr. Thompson, Rotherhithe, for one of the
that he was the Mr. Gompertz who had been negotiat- Holyhead mail packets, went down the river yester-
ing for the purchase of some gems belonging to a Mr. day on an experimental trial, and proceeded beyond
Tyrrell. Prisoner said, "Mr. Haddon, lam in some the Nore to near the Mouse light. Her speed was
difficulty, as a loan of 30,000/., which I was to have ascertained to be 16i knots, or 18i miles per hour,
received from:the United Kingdom Life-office, has and the vessel is described as starting very easily, and
gone off." He added, the reason was that although the without any sudden jerks in any of her motions. On
sureties had been approved of, the office had in a most her return up the river she ran into the Lightning
extraordinary manner placed warrants of attorney steam-vessel in Dagenham Reach, near Erith, and
before the sureties for their signature, which took destroyed a part of the paddle-box and bulwarks. A
them so by surprise that they declined to execute court of inquiry, by order of Commander Sir Gordon
them, and so the matter went off, and consequently Bremer, K.C.8., and K.C.H. is to take place, when all
he was unable to continue the negotiation about the the circumstances connected with the collision will be
gems he wished to purchase. He then said he had made known before Captain H. T. Austin, C. 8.,
contracts for iron, and inquired whether witness could and Commander Wolfe. Mr. Atherton, chief engineer
borrow money on them. He observed the contracts at Woolwich Dockyard, and Mr. Lang, junior-
were for 100,000 tons of iron rails ; that they were assistant to the master shipwright at Chatham Dock-
not in his own name, as his schedule was still on the yard, who designed the Banshee, were on board that
file of the Insolvent Court and he could not hold vessel during the trial of her speed.
property ; and that they were in the name of a Mr. The Columbia steam surveying-vessel, 100 horse
Lane Fox, who had married the sister of the Duke power, commanded by Lieutenant Shortland, is
of Leeds, Mr. Fox being his (prisoner's) trustee in hourly expected at Woolwich, with Rear-Admiral
the matter. That upon the contracts 2/. per ton had Owen on board, on his return from North America.
been paid off the purchase money of 8/. 7s. 6d. per The Charon steam-vessel, arrived from Chatham
ton, and that, therefore, if iron was at that time on Thursday to have repairs effected here.
CL 7s. 6d. per ton those contracts were worth The Acheron steam-vessel, Captain Lort Stokes,
200,0001. He assured witness on several occasions lost an anchor below Gravesend by the chain break-
that the contracts were his own. From his plausible ing, and another was supplied at Woolwich previous
manner witness believed his representations, and took to her leaving the river. The Monkey steam-vessel
means to obtain him money on the security of the con- went down the river yesterday and found the lost
tracts. On the 28th of July a bill for 1101. was given anchor,-and brought it to Woolwich.
by witness to Mr. Gompertz. Previous to this being
delivered, however, the prisoner had added to his for-
mer statements that he had made 370,000/. by pur-
chasing up the Birmingham, Boston, and Stamford
Railway shares, and selling the railway to the Great
Northern Railway Company. He said that, owing
to his unfortunate position with the Insolvent Court,
that sum was in the hands of trustees for his benefit ;
and that when he had arranged with his creditors the
balance would be paid to him. During their conver-
sation as to obtaining the money, prisoner told wit-
ness he had been negotiating with a Mr. Brett to
purchase some pictures, but that was also at a stand-
still through the failure of the 30,000/. from the
assurance company ; he could, however, get time
from him if he had something on account, and
that he had no doubt Brett would take witness's
bill for 500/. This was before any bills had
been given, and this led to all of them being
given. They had an interview with Brett, after which
Gompertz told him he was still in some difficulty, as
hecould:not get the contract for iron from his brother,
Mr. Mote, without paying some money which had
been advanced upon it, viz., 10s. per share, and re-
quested witness to give him a bill for 500/. He de-
clined, but agreed to accept for such amount as a
friend, a Mr. Ranyard, would go halves in. Finally
he agreed to accept for 3001., provided a contract was
placed in his hands for 500 tons as security. Upon
this a verbal agreement was come to. Witness gave
the bill produced for 110/. to Mr. Gompertz, or to Mr.
Tyrrell in his presence.
Mr. HENRY here interrupted the proceedings, and
said, he thought it would be very difficult to make
out a case of false pretence upon this evidence, as the
contract was the cause of the money being advanced,
and not any of the representations made by Mr. Gom-
pertz.
Mr. Ballantine said, that if he proved that the con-
tract was not a bead fide, but an entirely false con-
tract, this would be a false pretence.
Mr. HENRY said, the fact would eeable the prose-
cutor to bring an action for deceit, but it would not
establish a criminal charge. A prosecutor must part
with his money upon a false pretence alone, and not
upon any contract whether good or bad. Mr. Haddon
had, after hearing all the representations of the pri-
soner, distinctly refused to advance the bills upon
those representations alone, and he himself proposed to
take the contract as a security.
Mr. Ballantine argued at some length against this
opinion of Mr. Henry, and stated several cases which
Le thought bore upon the case.
Mr. HENRY, however, said his opinion was quite
against him in this case. He did not, he repeated,
think that he had established the fact that the money
had been obtained under a false pretence. Of course
it was at the option of the parties to prefer a bill of
indictment at the sessions. He, however, ordered Mr.
Gompertz to be discharged.
The accused then left the bar, declaring that he was
quite able to pay all legal demands against him, and
that Mr. Haddon had preferred this charge in order
to extort money.
Mr. HENRY received a donation of Si. for the poor-
box from " Sir Richard Sutton," who requested its
acknowledgment in the daily papers.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT. —The Severn
steam-ship, Captain Vincent, arrived this evening
from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing also the usual
West India Mail. She was not expected for two or
three days, but having been favoured with fine wea-
ther, she has made an extremely rapid passage from
Bermuda, her last island of departure. Her latest
dates are—Tampico, November 23; Chagres, No-
vember 26 ; Carthagena, November 28 ; Vera Cruz,
December 1 ; Trinidad, December 7 ; Jamaica, •
December 8 ; Granada, December 9 ; Demerara,
December 5 ; Havannah, December 10; St. Thomas,
December 13 ; and Bermuda, December 20.

PORTSMOUTII, SUNDAY.—In the official Navy List,
published yesterday, the name of Lord William Paget,
a Captain of 1826, is struck out throughout the work
by order of the Lords of the Admiralty.
The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, re-
ceived her gun carriages yesterday. She is ordered
to sail for Lisbon on the morning of the Bth inst.
The gallantry of her First Lieutenant on Sunday
last, in rendering timely succour to the drowning
steward, had not escaped our knowledge. We have
expressed our opinion of Lieutenant Need upwards
of twelve months ago, when an unworthy attempt
was made to transfer him to another ship, and put
an " honourable" brother officer in his place. His
hon. rival has, however, been since promoted.
We regret to say that the effects of the late acci-
dent met with on board the Victory by Commander
H. Goold will prevent that gallant and respected ve-
teran returning to the duties of the Ordinary, of
which he was the commander, his medical advisers
considering it probable, should any other accident or
irritation arise from his return to active duty, that it
might terminate fatally.
Lieutenant P. Ambrose (1810) died yesterday
morning at this port, aged 68. This officer served in
the expedition to Holland ; in the Phoebe at Trafal-
gar; and in the Endymion at the passage of the Dar-
danelles; was Acting-Lieutenant of the Port
d'Espagne at the siege of Martinique, and in the
gun-boat service at Gibraltar. He was a Genoese by
birth.
The Columbia, steam surveying-vessel, Lieutenant
Commander Peter F. Shortland, which arrived on
Friday evening at Spithead from Plymouth, sailed
yesterday afternoon for Woolwich, to be paid off,
taking supernumeraries for the eastern ports.
The Acheron, steam surveying- vessel, Captain J.
L. Stokes, sailed yesterday morning for New Zealand.
The Cygnet, 6, Commander G. Kenyon, sailed yes-
terday afternoon for the west coast of Africa, taking
dispatches for Commander Sir C. Hotham, K.C.8.,
letters, parcels, and supernumeraries for the squadron,
and specie for public purposes.
Wind S.S.E., light breezes and cloudy.
The following are the promotions and appoint-
ments of the past week :

PROMOTION.

Commander—Robert Tryon, to be Capt&in (sen
ority October 27 last).

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain—J. Nott, to the Ocean.
Commanders—E. Collier, to the Ocean ; Arthur
Grant, to the Coast Guard ; James G. Gordon, from
the Ocean to the Ganges, for service in Sheerness
Ordinary.
Lieutenants—W. H. Stewart to be Flag-Lieute-
nant to Sir E. King; Richard Purvis to be Flag-
Lieutenant to Sir C. Hotham ; J. 0. Freeland, A.
R. Dunlop, and F. C. Herber, to the Ocean ; E. W.
Vansittart, to the Victoria and Albert ; J. C. Bailey,
to the Sealark; Samuel H. Derriman, to study steam
at the factory at Woolwich ; J. F. Arnold, Charles
B. Stockoiale, T. Tribe, W. G. Hemsworth, and
Francis Collins, to the Ganges ; R. Madge and T. S.
Scriven, commanding steam-packets on the Dover
station, to be borne on the books of the Ganges.
Masters—George Stratton, to the Prince Regent ;
Joshua Taylor, to the Ganges ; Luke Smithett
(acting), and Robert Sherlock, commanding steam-
packets, to be borne on the books of the said ship.
Surgeons—T. W. M`Donald, to the Victoria and
Albert ; Dr. Alexander S. Allen, to be Surgeon and
Medical Storekeeper at Plymouth Hospital ; Benja-
min Bynoc, to the Ganges.
Paymasters and Pursers—W. H. Breay, to the
Ocean ; James Huggins, to the Ganges.
Second Master—W. B. Calver, to the Royalist.
Clerk—R. M. Munday, to the Ocean ; Alfred
Wood and E. W. Gordon, to the Ganges.
Midshipman—Hon. 11. Moreton, to the Victory.
Naval Cadets—H. T. Burgoyne, to the Inconstant;
W. H. Sanctuary and A. Butler, to the Prince Re-
gent ; H. Corbett, to the Vengeance.
Acting Second Masters—John 'Warman, R. L.
Canney, Henry Cullen, Edward Hare, E. C. Rutter,
J. Hammond, and Charles Anstey, to the Ganges.
Master's Assistant—Stephen Court, to the Cale-
donia. _ _

The Severn has brought a goodly freight, consisting
of 693,418 dollars, on merchants' account ; 9,400
ounces of gold dust, nearly 9,0001. in British eoin,
four bales of silk, 326 balls of pimento, 12 serons of
cochineal, 228 bales of tobacco, 57 cases of cigars, 23
cases of barilla, nine packages of Indio, &c.
MOVEMENTS OF TIER MAJESTY S Suffrs.--The
Daring was at Sacrificios and the Endymion at Bar-
hadoes ; the Vixen arrived at Vera Cruz on the 30th
of November and left on the following day for Ja-
maica; the Persian and Vindictive at Bermuda; the
Imaum and Pantaloon at Jamaica; the Alarm had
left that port.
The Severn brings advices from Mexico down to
the Ist of December, but nothing of any particular
moment had occurred since the receipt of the last
intelligence from that quarter. It was, however, as-
serted, on the departure of the packet, that the
Governor of the city had given orders for the
suppression of the press, in consequence of some of
the newspapers, established there since the city had
fallen into the hands of the Americans, having pub-
lished certain articles inimical to the views of the Go-
vernment. This was the report, but I cannot vouch
for its correctness. _

A large party of volunteers from America, to the
number of 3,000, had arrived, and had committed
great excesses in the city.
It was reported that an American war or troop
steamer had been wrecked off the island of Lobos.
The Severn brings 28 passengers.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
The accounts of the quarter's revenue will not be
made up before Wednesday evening next, nor given to
the public before Thursday morning. It is impos-
sible, therefore, to give any accurate detailed state-
ment beyond the fact which is anticipated pretty
generally, that a considerable falling off may be ex-
pected both on the quarter and on the year, as com-
pared with the corresponding periods of 1846. This
decrease, we regret to add, may be expected to be
exhibited in the leading and important items which
constitute the largest sources of income, and which
indicate the condition of our foreign trade, and the
prosperity of our domestic condition. The loss on
the Excise in the quarter just ended was fully antici-
pated, and is to be placed to the account of the same
causes which marked the decline in the last quarter.
The falling off in the Customs may be attributed to
the unusual dulness and depression of the last three
months, rather than to any causes at all likely to exert
a permanent influence on this important item of our
national resources. It should be borne in mind that the
depression now brought before the public view is entirely
comparative. The receipts of this quarter even, though
somewhat behind the corresponding quarter of 1846,
are still of a fair average amount. The receipts of
the former year were unusually large, from a combi-
nation of various causes. It is satisfactory to be able
to state that, notwithstanding these unfavourable
appearances for the moment, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer will not be under the necessity of asking
any assistance whatever from the Bank in this
quarter, no more than in the last. This fact will in
itself be calculated to allay any anxiety that might
otherwise be felt in quarters not sufficiently informed,
and will also enable the Bank to continue and extend
the accommodation to the commercial classes, which
the increased means at their disposal have already
enabled them to confer. The bullion continues to
arrive in large quantities. Although the importations
of grain still continue to come in to an extent which
the present demand might not seem to countenance,
still the arrivals are not to any hazardous extent, and
may be easily accounted for by a desire to keep up
stocks, which can be done free of all duty up to
March, when the new sliding scale will recommence
its operations for eleven months from that date.
Everything bids fair for a steady and safe revival of
trade and commerce with the opening of the new
year. Money is again abundant for every legitimate
purpose, and the accounts from the manufacturing
districts are of the most satisfactory description.--
Observer.

BIRTHS.
On the 2d ult., at La Chine, Montreal, the wife of Captain
Wetherall, late 13th Light Dragoons, of her 18th child.
On the 31st ult., at the Terrace, York-town, the lady of
Captain E. Wetherall, Royal Regiment, of a son.
On the 27th ult., at the school-house, Ruthin, Denbigh.
shire, the wife of the Rev. E. L. Barnwell, of a son.
On the 27th ult., at St. Peter's, St. Alban's, Herta, the
lady of the Rev. Thomas G. Smith, of a daughter.
(in the 28th ult., at Edinburgh, the lion. Mrs. C. Gran-
tham Scott, of a son.

MAJULIED.
On the 29th ult., at Brixton Church, F. CI Hills, Esq. of
North-terrace, Camberwell, to Ann Ellen, second daughter
of the late Mr. James Rawlings, of Cambemell-grove.

PIED.

On the Ist. inst., at his residence, Gloucester-road, Re-
gent's-park, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Babington, late of the
14th Light Dragoons.
On the 7th ult., at Funchal, Madeira, aged 22, R. A.
Darwin. Esq., of Elston Hall, Nottingham.
At Madeira, on the 13th ult., H. F. \\Tilde, fourth son of E.
A. Wilde, Esq., of Duke-street, St. James's. park.
On the 27th ult., at Newcastle-place, Clerkenwell, Mrs. A.
Davies, of Tollington-park.

CHATHAM, JAN. I.—The Bonetta, 4-gun brigan-
tine, Lieutenant and Commander Forbes, was towed
away this day to Sheerness by the Charon steam-
vessel. The destination of the Bonetta is for the
Pacific. _

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7'ke San Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the county of
Middlesex, Monitay, January 3, 114 .

In the Meander, 44 guns, Captain the Hon. H.
Keppel, for the accommodation of Mr. Brooke and

[ADVERTISEMENT.] DROPSY.— ANOTHER VERY
SEVERE CASE CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mrs.
Martha James, of Newport, between forty and fifty
years of age, was in a most awful dropsical state, the
lower extremities being dreadfully swollen, arising in a
great measure from inattention to herself at this par-
ticular period of life, when, almost too late, she applied
to different medical men, and also became an inmate of
two hospitals, but at the several places where she
sought relief she was pronounced incurable; fortunately,
on her return borne, she was persuaded to try Holloway's
Pills, and by their use, with strict attention to diet, in a
few weeks she was restored to perfect health. Sold by
all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.
THE WEST-END REFUGE FOR TILE DESTITUTE
POOR.-0n Saturday eveni❑g the above refuge, for the
nightly shelter and relief of the houseless poor, situate
in Market-street, Edgeware-rcad, was opened for the
winter months. It is capable of receiving 200 indivi-
duals nightly. The number of distressed applicants
were much greater than the asylum could contain. Each
individual admitted is relieved with a supper of bread and
a pint and a half of beef soup, a comfortable bed, and
next morning a breakfast of bread and milk. Soap and
hot water are plentifully supplied to cleanse their per-
sons and clothing. The establishment has been nine
years in existence, during which period more than
200,000 pour have been relieved.
THE WESTMINSTER MURDEE4lP""ingtructions have
been received by Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate,
from the Secretary of State, that in the case of M•Coy
and Sale, convicted of the murder of Mr. Bellchambers,
the extreme penalty of the law is to be carried into effect
on 'Monday, the 10th inst. The sheriffs, on being in-
formed by Mr. Cope of the fact, lost no time in com-
municating to the wretched men that all hope of a com.
mutation of their sentence was at an end.—Observer.