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London, England, 1846-04-24 00:00:00

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X. s. d. X
49,895 1 ,in 47,500
50,519 12 0 in 48,400
199.816 10 4 . in 189,500
99,222 6 9 in 93,900
104,747 0 2 in 99,700
14,994 16 3 in 14,500
206 16 6 in 200
42,088 17 9 in 40,700
37,463 2 6 in 36,000
36.899 1 2 in 35,300
1,992 17 3 in 1.900
8,568 14 3 in 8,300
4 029 3 9 in 3,900
4,300 2 8 in 4,100
4,425 13 6 in 4,300
18,732 7 0 in 18,200
56,226 0 10 in 54,300
14,924 2 6 in 14,500
20,585 0 0 in 20,000
1,339 16 3 in 1,300
41,913 19 9 in 441,600

Exchequer-bills
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811,891 18 10 in 777,100

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The whole amount charged as commission on the purchase
of the said securities was 459/. 1 ls. 5d., of which sum
275/. 145. 10d was received by the Accountant-General, and
183/. 16s. 7d. by his broker.
No portion of the Stock or Exchequer-bills has been sold,
but the sum of 56,815!. 3s. Bd. Three per Cent. Consols has
been transferred, and Exchequer-bills, amounting to 494,4001.,
have been delivered out to parties by orders of the Court,
without any charge as commission on the said transfer or de-
livery being made by the Accountant-General or his broker.
The remaining Exchequer-bills are still standing in the name
of the Accountant-General to the credit of the several rail-
way undertakings.
WILLIAM RUSSELL, Accountant-General.
Accountant-General's-of:Hee, Feb. 14, 1846.
G. MORTIMER, Broker.

DARING ROBBERY BY A CLERIC
EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.
On Saturday last, information was received at the T digi-
t sion station-house, Kensington, that, about one o'clock that
1 attesnoon, a young man, named Henry Norman, clerk in
the service of Mr. Villiam Hoof, the builder and exten-
t' sive railway contractor, had absconded, stealing and taking
r with him -the sum of 571., the property of Mr. Hoof. Oa
the same evening Mr. Horeceived the following letter from
his dishonest servant, which was a curiosity, as a confession
of misdeeds :--
"Sir,—l have to inform you that I am not what I repre-
sented myself to you when I came to your office, and to give
you a alight history of myself, that you may understand that
it was quite impossible that I could remain a clerk in your
service. At 17 years of age I entered the Queen's service,
in the ' customs' of Jamaica, and continued robbing them
of many thousands of pounds before I was 21 years of
age. I afterwards went to the United States of America,
where I committed numerous crimes, not even hesitating
at murder, and finished of by robbing a pawnbroker's
shop of about 1,000/. worth of money and property.
Since my return to this country I have committed so many
robberies in different places, and so many people know my
renown, that you must have soon discovered it. Circums
stances over which human beings can have no control have
made me what I arn. The principal is my having had the
misfortune to have the most degraded, drunken monster for
a father that ever a p tor devil had. What I might have
been had not the Almighty made me the son of a despicable
wretch, I dare not think of, or I should drive myself mad,
Caesar, in his account of his Gallic war, says he took I,S'OO
cities by assault, and slew a million of men. I have com-
mitted more than 1,800 distinct robberies, and have been
concerned in five murders, besides many other atrocities,
which, on a small scale, entitles me to consider myself as
great as Cxsar. Fortune sent him into the world nobles
born, in fortunate times, to push his fortunes, and the some
jade sent me into the world the son of a low --, and that
scoundrel took care that I should not have a chance of being
anything higher in the social scale. Mr. add is at --. If you are lucky enough to catch him
sober,ress he
will inform you of the truth of what I tell you, or you mase
ascertain it by calling at the Custom-house, in Thames-street ;
ask to see the secretary. The greatest gamester, felon, villain,
murderer, and swindler in the world, bids you farewell for
ever.
" HENRY- NOR M AN."
The letter was addressed to " William Hoof, Esq., Ma.
deley House, Kensington," and bore the post-mark of
" Judd-street, New-read." Similar letters were also saint to
Dr. Palin, at whose school at Barnes, Surrey, the debnqnent
was educated, and to another gentleman to whom he was
known. It has subsequently been ascertained that he re-
signed his situations in the Customs on the 31st December,
1841, his defalcations amounting at that time to 7501., and
also that he was apprehended, by Superintendent Beresford.
C division, in August, 1842, on a charge of stealing a gold
watch from a house in the Haymarket, at which he was
lodging, but was acquitted. Inspector 'Shackell (detective police), Inspector Itsvell (T division), and other active
officers, are engaged in tracing the retreat of the fugitive ;
and. there is every reaosn to believe that he will be soon in
custely. He is described as about twenty-seven years of
age, five feet six inches high, dark hair, eyes, and whiskers,
rather bow-legged, and the little finger on his left hand
contracted ; was dressed in a blue pilot-coat, blue trousers.
with black vest and stock, and was tbrmerly clerk to Messrs.
Richirond, of Whitehall.

•
SALE OF THE GREYHOUNDS of MR. PALMER, O
Bateroe.—Wednesday the entire kennel of greyhounds of Mr. Palmer.,F of Bristol, who has declined coursing, Was disposed of by auction, by
Mr. Houghton, at Aldridge's Repository, St. Martin's-lane, which was
numerously attended. Among the lots, of which there were twenty-
five, there were some celebrated winners of cups. The following
were the prices at which several of the lots were sold ;—Pilgrim, a
red dog, the whaler of the Great Western Puppy Cup, beating Bow-
yer Sinytlt's Spinster, and several other does, in 11s. ; Priam. Lawn dog, out of Little Vic, 10 guineas ; Little Vic, a well-known
winner of many cups, 7 guineas; Paler, a fawn and white puppy,
91. 19s. 6,1. ; Peregrination, a fawn bitch, Si. las. 6d. ; Perseverance,
a red and white bitch, 91. 19s 6d. A puppy whelped this year sold
for five guineas, another for six guineas, and a third for 61. 15s. Gd.,
in consequence of the excellence of the breed.
ACCIDENT TO THE REF. H. WINCH.—On Thursday
last the reverend gentleman, who is a brother of Lady Sale, was re-
turning to Rye in a small four-wheel carriage ; on approaching
Messrs. Roars ship yard, on the Winchlisea-road, the horse skied,
and becoming unmanageable, kicked the front of the carriage to
pieces. The servant escaped by jumpleg out, but Mr. Winch, who
had hold of the reins, was forced out by the phulging of the horse,
and was dragged along the road for some distance between the wheels
of the carriage, till at length the horse broke away from the carriage
with the broken shafts at 11:s heels. Assistance was procured, and
the reverend gentiman, who had received several contusions on the
head, was conveyed to the Cinque Port Arms, and in the course of
the evening was removed to his residence.
ITALIAN POTATONS.—A vessel, called the DeWdr Op, arrived at the port of Liverpool from Leghorn, had on board ten tons
of potatoes, the produce of Italy. The importations of potatoes
from the Channel Islands continue at regular intervals; several
arrivals of the article having taken place since the matter was last
noticed.
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.—Alderman Gibbs has pre-
sented to himself a valuable snuff box, as a slight testimonial of his
esteem, in honour of his having again elected himself churchwarden
of Walhrook. After the election Alderman Gibbs invited the church.
warden to dinner.—Punch.
PALMERSTON IN PARIS.—It is an extraordinary fiat
that Lord Palmerston dined with the King of the French on Sinday,
and nevertheless the Nation did not the next day warn its readers
that France was sold, and perfidt Albion had bought her.—Pance.
The remains of the late Earl of Erroll will be removed
on Monday next, from Portman-square, to Wimbledon, Surrey, there
to be interred. The Queen Dowager visited the Noble Earl's of tinted
family on Wednesday.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Made-
moiselle Lisboa, eldest daughter of his Excellency Commendeur
Marques Lisboa, Envoy of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil at the
Mash Court, and Madame de Lisboa, with the Chevalier de,
Sequeira, Secretary to the British Legation at the Court of d d
de Lima. After the,
in York-place, Portman square, by the Nev. Dr.
nobility and members of the
ceremony, a distinguished party of thee
was celebrated on Wednesday, at the residence of the bride's father,
atphiewirepyreenste.nce at
a ciiieuner given by that lady, in celebration
JURORS.—On Tuesday night a very nu-
merousPAYMENT of diplomatic corps honoured Madams
fleeting of the inhabitants of Wandsworth WAS held in the
dLisb°O; the happy
la
1-eroolm of the Rain Inn, for the purpose of petitioning Paths-
meat for an alteration of the law relating to jurors, as advised by
Lord Chief Justica Denman at the Lent Assizes at Kingeten. Mr.
I. Benchard, one of the churchwarden.s, took the chair, and after
several speeches, in which the hardships to which petit jurors are
now exposed, were dwelt upon, petitiona to Parliament were agreed
te, praying that petit urors, in civil cases, may be properly remus
aerated for their loss of time.
THE VICTORIA FOUNTAIN AT BRIGHTON.--Her
Ma-
jesty's approaching birthday, the 25th of May next, has been fixed
upon as the day for opening the Fountain on the Steine, and it is in-
tended to celebrate the event with no little eclat. The programme
include, a fancy bazaar, a fete in the royal gardens, and other at-
tractive amusements.--Brighton Guardian.
DANGEROUS FREAR.—Some mischievous scoundrels
have amused themselves during the past week with cutting about six
feet out of the centre of a narrow bridge on the banks leading to
Bracebridge. The bridge is at present left in this state, te the great
danger of poring returning from Lincoln te Bracebridge night.—
Ilhcoln Her.
EMIGRATION.—The number ( f German (migrants
constantly arriving in the port of London and sailing for the United
States is beyond all former precedent. Every New York packet-
ship has taken from 200 to 300 emigrants to America during the pre-
sent year. The regular liners leave the St. Katharine Dock three
times every month. The last three carried out 600 emigrants, prin-
cipally from Prussia.
THE REAL RAILWAY RING.—A gentleman in the
Queen's Bench has papered his room with nothing but railway share t.
The effect is very rich. It is calculated that not less than three
millions of capital has been sent in this way to the wall. Every
county in the United Kingdom is there represented. The whole
railway world is compressed into the space of eight feet by six. The
gentleman breakfasts in England, takes his tiffin in India, dines at
Paris, and sleeps in Switzerland, just according as he moves his chair
We must not forget to mention that every share has been made to
run in the direction of the fire-place. In this way the flue Inge-
niously represents the grand central terminus of all the lines in the
world. —Punch.

The licensed public-houses in St. Heliera amount
o 192.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Philip Whaindtadislhdyen,tfeioaos:snritaunildmeeelinu,tt
of St. Edmund's Roman Catholic College, near Ware, and nephew of
the late Cardinal Weld, was accidentally drowned the other day,
while engaged in the amusement of boating with some of his fellow-
collegians at the Rye-house, near Broxbourne. lie was
a tailor
aacitait:torvueiirrn:
promising youth, about 17 years of age..
CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.—The Universal German Gazette
states, on the authority of letters from Riza, that the cholera has
just penetrated into Russia from Persia, and has advanced as far asi
ffitarsti,tl3°thve.
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Monday, accompanied magistrate of this
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youtb, and arnved at the Ex-
eter station just in time for the earkv express train. They
reached London in safety; and after a hasty repast, pro-
ceeded to view St. Paul's, the Tower, Westminster Abbey, the
new Palace of Westminster, and other sights. At half-pat
five they were again in the railway carriage at Paddington
station ; and soon after eleven were seated around their own
festive board, recounting the wonders of London; having
travelled about 430 miles, and spent seven hours in the great.
metropolis.--Exeter Gazette.

A Return of the Aggregate Amount paid to
the Accountant-General in Chancery during
sion of Parliament, on account of Railway Co
also, Statement of what Portion of the said 74
_CAL.
invested in Stock or Exchequer-bills, with the Date of each
Investment;—also, the Amount charged as Commission on
the Purchase and Sale of the said Securities, showing by
whom the said Commission was received.
The Aggregate Amount paid to the Account of the Ac-
countant-General, during the last Session of Parliament,
on account of Railway Companies, was 3,444,3061. ss.
The portion of the said Money invested in Stock was 56,2001.,
invested in 56,8181. 3s. Bd. Three per Cent. Consols, on
the 23d of April, 1845; and in Exchequer-bills as
follows :

I 1845.,
I February 20
February 20
1 February 22
February 24
March 12
March 15
March 13
March 15
April 1
April 1
April 5
April 22
April 26
May 8
JuLe 20
June 20
June 20
June 20
June 20
June 25
August 11

ezDICI WATER AT Lo:VDOI.C-RRIDGE THIS DAY.
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