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having obtained the amount from him, in gold, r Mr. George Brown, 2, Brompton-place, was a
returned to Baker in the dining room, placed the t prizeholder last year in the Art Union for 251. He
money upon the table, and tendered it to him; under selected a picture valued at 25 guineas from the
protest. Townsend, who was standing by, said to British Artists' Gallery, and paid the prisoner %is.,
Baker, laughing, " Take it, protest means nothing;" the difference.
but Baker said something which witness did not Mr. George Stevens, 72, Arlington-street, Cern-
hear, and made a snatch at it, and succeeded in secur- den-town, treasurer to the Soeiety of British Artists,
ing about 1001. 'Witness then took up the remainder, Pall-mall East, said, the prisoner had been in the
which, however, he again tendered to Baker, who employ of the society, as keeper of the gallery, for
answered that if the money were put down he would the last four years. During that period it was the
seize it ; but would not take it as a settlement, as he prisoner's duty to sell the pictures exhibited in the
was not first in office. Baker then said the best gallery, to receive payment for the same, and to
plan would be to go to Slowman, and ask him to hand the money over to him. The prisoner was
take the money. Witness adopted this advice, and bound to make payments of all moneys received for
set off in a cab with Miles and Townsend in pictures two or three times a week. In the month
search of Slowman. After going from place to place of May last the prisoner had only accounted to him
for three hours, they ultimately found that person in for the sum of 51., as having been received from Mr.
a house in Piccadilly, called the Piccadilly Saloon, Winter. The sum of 101. only was paid to him by
where there were many ladies, and dancing was going the prisoner as the full sum received from Mr.
on. Having been introduced to Slowman, witness Boetefoer. The prisoner had never paid any money
told him that there had been a row at Brunswick• to him which he had received from the witnesses

house; that the officers had broken open the outer
door and got in, and that Baker had taken 1001.
away. Slowman replied, that he had that money.
Witness then said that he had called to ask him to
withdraw the men, it being very disagreeable to have
six men in the house till Monday. Slowman replied
he could withdraw them if the witness would stand

Hillier and Brown. Witness produced the priced
catalogues of the society's exhibition for 1847, the
register of the works sold, and the register of the
price of the works sold that year, together with the
account-book, all being in the hand-writing of the
prisoner.
The prisoner declined to make any defence, and

201., to which the witness assented. He returned to
the house and told Baker what had passed between
himself and Slowman. Baker said he did not care

was fully committed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Seven stout ablebodied male paupers, named Berry,
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Hussey, Rozier, Rosamond, Ske?field, Beckwith, and
Standish, were placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold,
charged with violent and outrageous conduct in the
workhouse of the Bethnal-green Union.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Fairfield,
the master, and Culverhouse, the superintendent of
task work, that for some short time past a number of
the male inmates had conducted themselves in a very
insubordinate and vexatious manner, mixing their
work up together, so that it was impossible to
punish the lazy and idle, as each claimed the
greater portion for his share, and so mutually
bellied each other to thwart the regulations of the
house, and escape with impunity. On Monday three
or four of the men so indecently insulted the matron
while delivering out provisions that it was determined
to give them into custody, but they were ultimately
forgiven upon promise of amendment, and sent to
their work. An hour had scarcely elapsed, however,
when between 70 and 80 of them marched up in a
body to the master's office, and in the most insolent
manner demanded leave of absence from the house, upon
the excuse of seeking work elsewhere. Their con-
duct was so vexatious, and it was so manifestly
only a pretence for the sake of annoyance, that this
was refused, and they went away muttering threats
of their determination to do something. The next
morning, on the hour arriving for commencing
work, they again began their annoyance, and, ex-
pressing their intention not to wait until their tools
could be delivered to them, about 19 or 20 of them
marched out of the workhouse. Nothing more was
heard of any of them until about nine o'clock at
night, when they all came back to the workhouse
and demanded admittance, and conducted themselves
in such a violent manner at the gate that the
porter was afraid to let them in. The master,
however, came forward and gave directions that they
should be admitted, arid they were allowed to go to
their respective wards ; but they had no sooner en-
tered them than more than a hundred of the men sot
up a loud shout of triumph and defiance, and made
such a disturbance that many of the female inmates,
who were then at their suppers, became greatly
alarmed ; three of them were so frighted that they
fainted away, and one woman dropped down in
strong convulsions, continued in fits for a long time,
and had been seriously ill ever since. Under these
circumstances it was found absolutely necessary that
an example should be made, for the comfort of the
other inmates and maintenance of the regulations of
the establishment, and as the seven prisoners had
prominently distinguished themselves in heading the
others in their insubordination, they were selected
from the rest, the police called in, and they were
given into custody.
When called upon for their defence, the prisoners
made various excuses for their misconduct, some say-
ing that they wanted to see their friends, and the
majority that they had really gone in search of em-
Voyment, although all admitted that they had not
obtained it, and four of them, Berry, Rosier, Sher-
field, and Beckwith, expressed great regret, and en-
treating the magistrate to deal leniently with them,
promised to conduct themselves peaceably in future.
It was proved that Hussey, Standish, and Rosa-
mond, had been before convicted and sentenced to
light terms of punishment for similar behaviour, and
that the last named prisoner had only just been libe-
rated from prison.
Mr. ARNOLD forcibly pointed out the hardship it
was upon the heavily taxed ratepayers, many of
whom were scarcely in better circumstances than the
inmates of workhouses themselves, to be made to pay
rates for the maintenance of such idle characters, and
to meet with such a return, and having ordered the
four first-named prisoners to be liberated, sentenced
the other three, who were proved to be the most out-
rageous, Hussey, Rosamond, and Standish, to be
committed to the House of Correction for three weeks
each, with hard labour.

what arrangement Slowman made, he had himself
been pushed about and would be paid, and he asked
for 201. Witness went and told this to the Duke,
who declined paying the demand. He then went to
the police and asked for four or five men for protec-
tion. They were sent. The sheriff's men remained
in possession till Monday afternoon, when witness
showed them a paper from Slowman. He had seen
Slowman on Monday at 12 o'clock, and paid the
balance alleged to be due. On his return he paid the
men about 81., which was claimed for their expenses.
John Harrison, clerk to the plaintiff's attorney,
examined by Mr. HENNIKER—SIowman, in May,
called at the office of plaintiff's attorney, and said
he understood it was desired that the execu-
tion should not take place for a few days,
but of course it must be on the usual understanding,
that he was to be paid his fees. The attorney an-
swered certainly, and asked how much he required?
Slowman answered 201. to postpone the execution for
a few days. He was told that his proposition should
be communicated to the Duke, which was done.
Witness afterwards called with the last witness at
Slowman's, on the Monday after the execution.
Witness said he came to pay the amount due, but
that he did so under protest. Slowman replied he
did not care for the protest. The money was paid,
and a receipt given.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES having unsuccessfully applied
for a nonsuit on behalf of his client, addressed the
jury, and was followed by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and
Mr. E. James.
The following witnesses were then called :
Henry Moxhav, a commercial traveller, went with
Baker between six and seven o'clock in the evening of
the 15th of May, to see what should occur. Baker
went to the gate, and witness stood up on a board
which is half-way up the wall, and thus overlooked
the grounds. Did not see Baker go up to the house,
but observed the house-door wide open, and three or
four men coming out of it dragging Baker to the
gate.
Thomas Thorp, a cab-driver, said that on the even-
ing in question he drove Mills to the top of Harley-
street, when Baker came up and spoke to Mills. The
latter got out and crossed the road near the Duke's
house. Witness drew up his cab on the Ulster-ter-
race side of the road, and from the box-seat of his
cab could look into the garden. He observed a person,
looking like a confectioner, go through the gate, and
with him Baker. Saw Baker run up the steps of the
house door and go into the house. After two or three
minutes saw him dragged out by three men to the
gate, through which, as soon as it was opened, Mills
and another man passed. Witness then got upon the
board mentioned by the proceeding witness, and saw
ten or twelve men pulling Baker about violently.
Townsend then drove up in a poney chaise and joined
Mills.
Two policemen, were then called, who stated that
they had gone to the house, and were told by Baker,
in the presence of the Duke's porter, and other per-
sons assembled on that occasion, that he was a
sherifrs officer, and that he had got into the house,
but had been expelled from it by the porter, and
that the latter had thereupon observed that it was
true, and that he would turn him out again.
Mr. Sergeant ALLEN having replied,
The Foreman of the jury, before the Learned
Judge commenced summing up, said they would not
trouble his Lordship to do so, but wished him to say
something on the subject of the amount of damages.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told the jury that with
respect to Slowman, as he was not present, it would
be for them to say whether he bad adopted and sanc-
tioned the acts of the other defendants, without
which he would not be liable. The great question in
the cause was whether Baker had or not entered the
outer door before the porter laid hold of him, and
tried to put him out. The jury had nothing to do
with the moral or political conduct of the plaintiff,
and they would be forgetting their duty •
they allowed such considerations to influence
them. The law had at all times, and for sound
reasons, held the breaking open of the outer door
of a house a very serious thing, and, in our criminal
law books, many instances were found of deaths
having occurred in the conflicts connected with the
breaking of outer doors. Such observations were
made to challenge the serious consideration of the
jury to the real question in this case. It was for the
plaintiff to make out that the door had not been open
before it was broken open, and if the jury thought
that point established, they would find for the plaintiff.
The next question was as to the amount of damages.
If the jury thought that the 2201. paid by the plain-
tiff under protest was paid for the purpose of getting
rid of the officers, and not simply on account of the
execution, they ought to give that as part of the
damages. The sum to be recovered beyond that was
entirely for their consideration, but he felt bound to
say that where officers broke open an outer door in
the execution of process, it was a very serious trespass,
and ought not to be passed over lightly. The peace-
able execution of the law could only be secured by
binding them to the strictest discharge of their dutie:-.
With a calm and temperate judgment, and influenced
only by the evidence in the case, the jury would say
what amount of damages, in the whole, the plaintiff
was entitled to.
The jury having retired for about a quarter of an
hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, 7201.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, FRB. 9.

STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are--Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 5% c. dig.—East Lancashire, 21—Hud-
dersfield Canal and Railway, 2% c. dis.—Lancashire and
Carlisle, Thirds, 1114 p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire. Fifths,
p.—Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Union), 2% dis.—Lon-
don and North-Western, 147% c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 5
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, %
p.--Midland, 115 c.—Ditto, Halves, 1% dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, % p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), '2 dis.
—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, Preference, p.
—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 2% dis.—Soutk
Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
1% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original), 81%—
Ditto (U. N. E. Purchase), 2% p.—Dutch Rhenish, 4% dm.'
MANCHESTER, Fan. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 42!,4 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 5 7-16 dis.—Ditto (C. and B.), 17 1-16
ex div.—East Anglian, New Preference, 3 9-16—Great
Northern, 6 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 82/. Shares,
4% din.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 2 7-16 dis.—Ditto,
Preston and Wyre (B scrip), 5-16 p.—Londin and North-
Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (C), 34
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 75—Ditto, Pre-
ference. 1-16 p.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 51,41 dis.
—Midland, 501. Shares, 1 1-16 dis.—North Staffordshire,
11-16 p.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2,
va
LEEDS, Pan. S.

STOCK EXCIIINGIL—To-day's prices and the monist of
sales are much the same as yesterday. The prices are—East
Lancashire, 21% —Ditto, New, 3% die.—Great Northern,
6 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7s. 6d. p.—Ditto
(West Riding Union), 2% dis —Leeds and Thirsk, 15/. Us.
3d. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.—Mancheater,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 2s. p.—North Bri-
tish, Thirds, par—Ditto, Quarters, 7s. 6d. dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, 1 tr. 3d. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 33i
dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, 2!4 p.—
Ditto, Ns. 2 (New Berwicks), 34 c. p.
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 9.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Fe& 9.
(Sittings in Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON
and a Special Jury.)
REYNELL V. LEWIS.

This was an action of debt, brought by the plain-
tiff, an advertising agent, against the defendant, as
one of the provisional committee of the Central Kent
Railway Company, to recover a sum of nearly 1,0001.,
in respea of advertisements inserted by the plaintiff
in various newspapers, between the 13th of September
and the 29th of November, 1845.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The only sales wore—North Stafford-
shire, 135. 91 F. —North British, Quarters, IA p.
HULL FHB. 1.
_ _

STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Hull and Selby, 108
—Ditto, Halves, 511/2—Ditto Quarters, 21—Malton and
Dritlield Junction, 471 dis.—North British, Quarters, is.
dis.—North Staffordshire, I Is. p.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4,1% dig.

Mr. Knowles, with Messrs. Bramwell and Wills,
appeared for'the plaintiff; and the Attorney- General,
Mr. Martin, and Mr. Cowling for the defendant.
The case was tried, in the first instance, so far back
as the 24th of June, 1846, when a verdict was found
for the plaintiff. That verdict was afterwards the
subject of discussion before the Court in bunco, and
occasioned an elaborate judgment, which was fully re-
ported in Michaelmas Term, 1846. The Court then
ordered a new trial, which now took place accord-
ingly.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

EDINBURGH, FEB. 8.
STOCK ExcrwiciE.—Tha sales are—Edinburgh and North-
ern (Newport), 8/. 12s.—Great Northern, 4/. IN.—North
British, Quarters, 5/. N.—Ditto, New Quarters, 1 li.—Ditto
Thirds, 39s.—Wishaw and Coltness, 454 ex di,r.

[ALvenTisExteNT.]—Scrofulous Wounds and Dis-
eases of the: Skin cured by Holloway's Ointment and
Pill..—However inveterately maladies of this nature are
rooted in the human frame, Holloway's celebrated me-
dicines possess such curative powers, that by a strict ad-
herence to the rules laid down for their use, the disease
may be completely eradicated, and the most healthful
constitutions re-established ; therefore, let the afflicted
try these sterling remedies, for it is truly astonishing to
know the number of persons that have been cured of
king's evil, scurvy, leprosy, ringworm, and every variety
of skin disease, by Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which
are sold be almost every vendor of medicine throughout
the civilised world, and at the establishment of the pro-
prietor, Professor Holloway, 244, Strand, London.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—We regret to learn
that one of the porters at the terminus here of the Ar-
broath Railway, when in the act, yesterday (Thursday),
of coupling some waggons, was crushed betwixt the buf-
fers, in consequence of the waggons behind him being
unexpectedly set in motion, and thereby instantaneously
depriving him of life.—Montrose Revtay.
WILD SWANS ON WINDERMERE.--There have for
a week back been six swans on Windermere, and hun-
dreds of " divers " of various descriptions, and great
has been the slaughter made by the " long gun " men_
Two of the swans have been shot by Mr. B. Alemby,
with a common fowling gun, right and left, which he
came upon when feeding on the shore.— frestnorlasul
Garette.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET._

Elisha Royal was before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with creating a disturbance at the house of
Mr. Edward Cavendish, No. 2, Great Pulteney-
street, Golden-square.
Complainant said, about eleven o'clock on Tuesday
the defendant and another man came to his house,
and asked to see a lady by the name of Simons.
Complainant said there was no such person residing
there, but that a lady by that name sometimes came
there for letters. The defendant replied that was all
humbug, he knew she was there, and he would see
her. Complainant assured him he was mistaken and
requested him to leave the house ; he refused to do
so, and made use of suck horrible and abominable
language that he was obliged to send for a constable
and give him in charge.
The defendant, who made a very rambling defence,
was ordered to find two sureties in 201. each, and
eater into his own recognizances in 401. to keep the
peace towards complainant for the next two months.
Edward Weixon, keeper of the Gallery of the
British Artists, Suffolk-street, was brought up for
final examination.
Mr. William Winter, perfumer, 205, Oxford street,
said last year he was a prizeholder in the Art Union
for 251. NVishing to change his prize for a picture of
hiKber value, he selected a picture valued at 35
guineas at the Gallery of the Society of British
Artists, and paid the difference, 11/. 155., to the
prisoner. This transaction occurred some time in
May last.
Mr. A. Boetefoer, of 4.5, Moscow- street, Bays
water, said he was also a prizeholder in the Art
Union in April last. The prize was of the value of
401. He went to the British Artists' Gallery, and
selected a 50 guinea picture, paying the difference,
12/. 10i., by a cheque on Messrs. Currie and Co., to
the prisoner.

'S.
On the sth inst., in Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park
the lady of Mayer Carvick, Esq„ of arson.
OR the Ith inst., in Woburn-place, Russell square, Mrs. L.
H. Braham, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Eton, the wife of the Rey. Charles
Old Goodford, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at the Parsonage, Skipton, the wife of tilt
Rev. John Blair, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Warley Barracks, the lady of Lieute-
nant-Colonel Leslie, of a daughter.

Mr. Henry Hillier, 17, Cecil-court, was a prize-
holder in the Art Union, in April last, for 301. He
selected a picture in the British Gallery, and paid
the prisoner the difference, 3/.