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London, England, 1851-02-08 00:00:00

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THE LIURDER NEAR 13 ARNSLEY.—APPREBENSION
or THE BROTIIER.—Froni what has transpired since the in-
quest was held, circtunstances have come to light which
have induced Mr. Superintendent Green, of the Barnsley
police, to apprehend John Firth, a younger brother of the
deceased, on the charge of murdering him. We understand
that the superintendent has found come very strong circum-
stantial evidence against the accused, which was to be ad.
duced at the adjourned inquest appointed to be held yester.
day (Thursday) at Wortley. The deceased had contracted
very dissipated habits, and had been a source of grief and
shame to his parents. The younger son, John Firth, is about
24 years of age. He was employed at the Victoria Colliery,
and considered a highly respectable youth. llis life and
character were irreproachable, and he possessed a very
peaceable disposition; and no motive can be assigned for the
perpetration of the horrid deed, except the shame and aver-
sion of his brother's dissipation. Without prejudging the
guilt or innocence of the accused, it was fully expected that
he would be committed to take his trial on the horrid charge
of murder.—Doncaster Gazette of Friday.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On the afternoon of
Wednesday week a lamentable accident, which has since ter-
minated fatally, happened to Richard Shuttleworth Streat-
feild, Esq., of the Rocks, Uckfield, near Lewes. Re had
been shooting during the day over his estate, the Rocks.
his companions in the sport being the Earl of Sheffield, Sir
Thomas Wilson, Bart., and Sir Henry Shiffner, Bart. On
their return, while Mr. Streatfeild was emptying his pocket
of game, the produce of the morning's diversion, his ran fell
over his shoulder backwards to the ground, on reaching which
it went off, and the contents, entering his right heel, shat-
tered the sole of his boot to atoms, and lacerated the bottom
of the foot from heel to toe. Medical aid was immediately
procured, and the case at first presented no dangerous
symptoms, but in a few days lock-jaw supervened. The un-
fortunate gentleman expired from the effects of the ac-
cident on Thursday last. The deceased was the pos-
sessor of extensive estates in Sussex. He was some-
what short of fifty years of age, and last year was high sheriff
of the county.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WAKEFIELD.—On MOB-
day afternoon last, a number of men in the cart and
Horses Public-house, Crigglestone, near Wakefield, were
engaged in firing at a candle with a gun and percussion
caps. After several shots had been fired, a gun, which they
had not before used was handed to a man named Joseph
Pitchforth ; he was not aware that it was loaded. He fired
at the candle, and the contents lodged in the abdomen of
one of the party. The poor man lingered in great agony
until the following afternoon, when he died. An inquest
was held on the body on Wednesday, before Mr. Thomas
Taylor, deputy Coroner, when the jury, after a patient in-
vestigation, returned a verdict of "Accidentally shot," and
the coroner was requested to reprimand the men who had
been shooting, and the landlord for permitting such prac-
tices in his house.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.--The
usual
monthly meeting of this society was held last evening at the
society rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand; A. Henfrey, Esq.,
vice-president in the chair. The secretary announced that
several very valuable parcels of British and foreign plants
had been received since the fast meeting, and that the dis-
tribution of the British duplicates (comprising many thou-
sand plants) would take place early in April. Mr. D. Stock
read a paper " On the Botany of Bungay, Suffolk."
ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—The first annual meeting
of the proprietors of this bank was held yesterday at their
banking-house in the Strand, when a dividend was declared
of 4 per cent., free of income-tax, after appropriating 2,000/+
as the first contribution towards a reserved fund, leaving
3,697/. 15s. 7d., including rebate on bills current unappropri-
ated. It was also announced that the directors intend to
issue a limited number of new shares of 100/. each, giving a
prelerence in the allotment of these to the present propiietora
and customers of the bank, in the order of their applications
and payment of 501. per share, as required by the charter.
Attention was called to the advantage which would be de-
rived from the formation of a guarantee or reset ved fund, as
also to the success which has attended the issue of their pro-
missory nptes, wbitjf in. three months amounted,t44s,slBl.
10s. 10d. :The-bank is stated to litve been especially useful
to the smaller class of traders, by-the receiving of their com-
paratively small deposits, and affording them facilities for
discount whenever they can offer evidence of their moral up-
rightness and commercial integrity, as is shown by the large
number of the accounts, and of the transactions through them,
as compared with the smallness of the average amount of the
operations separately, and of many of the balances, the larger
number of which are under 100/.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER,FEB.S.—Thera
has been more animation in our market the last week or
two, and for the best samples rather more money has been
obtained. The finer descriptions of old hops have also found
buyers, and are now inquired after. The following are the
present rates of old and new hops : —Best new, 755. to 84a. ;
middling and low, 68s. to 725. ; 1848's, 30s. to 455.; 1846'5,
3Us. to 40s. per cwt.—. IVorcester Journal.
THE COMMERCIAL DocKs.—A Bill is about to be
introduced into Parliament by the Commercial Dock Com-
pany, entitled, '• A Bill to enable the Commercial Dock
Company to purchase and enlarge the East Country Docks,
to construct a tramway to connect their docks with the
Deptford Branch Railway, and for other purposes." The
Bill contains thirty-seven clauses on the different points con-
nected with the proposed alterations and improvements.
PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—An account
of the net public income of the United Kingdom, in the
year ended the sth of January, 1851 (after abating the ex-
penditure thereout defrayed by the several revenue depart-
ments, &c.), was issued yesterday by order of the House of
Commons. It appears that the total income for the year
was 52,810,88 W., and the expenditure during the same pe-
riod, 50,231,8741., leaving an excess of income over expen•
diture of 2,579,006/. The principal items of ordinary in-
come were as follows :—Customs, 20,442,170/. ; Excise,
14,316,083/. ; Stamps, 6,558,3321.; Taxes (land and assessed)
4,360,171/. ; Property-tax, 5,383,036/. ; Post-office, 820,0001.
Crown Lands, 160,0001. • Poundage, on Pensions, &c.,
4,.621.; Small branches of the hereditary revenues of the
Crown, 16,33 C/. ; Surplus fees of regulated public offices,
116,2461. ; Produce of old stores, &c., 472,394/. ; Imprest
and other moneys, 101,344/. ; received from East India-
house, 60,000/. The expenditure was:—Total charge of
funded debt, 27,6b7,8841. ; Interest on Exchequer. bills,
403,705/. ; Civil list, 396,481/. ; Annuities and pensions for
civil, naval, military, and judicial services, 284,6941.;
Salaries and allowances, 284,662/. ; Diplomatic salaries and
pensions, 159,285/. ; Courts of justice, 1,089,893/. ; Miscel-
laneous charges on consolidated fund, 549,4431: ; Army,
6,401,883/. ; Navy, 6,437,8831.; . Ordnance, 2,553,1771.;
Miscellaneous chargeable on the annual grants of Parlia-
ment, 3,856,8861.; Unclaimed dividends (more than received)
25,9931.

BALANCES OF PUBLIC MONEY IN THE EXCEIE-
QUI:R.—The balances of public money in the Exchequer on
the sth of January, IKO, amounted to 9,748,539/., and on
the sth of January, 1851, to 9,245,8761. The amount issued
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,
within the year, was 2,333,2661. The Exchequer-bills
issued for the payment of supply bills, amounted to
17,703,830/. The total amount of advances for local works,
under various Acts of Parliament, including 1,241,896/. for
drainage in Great Britain and Ireland, and for railways,
union ,workhouses, distressed unions, &c., in Ireland, was
1,935,662/. Of this amount, 1,189,59/. was repaid, waking
the excess of advances over repayments, 746,30 W.
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF TURNPISE-ROADS.
—The total income of turnpike-roads in England and Wales,
in the year ending 31st December, 1848, was 1,249,151/.,
and the expenditure, 1,•161,775/. The debts of the various
trusts on the same day were 8,253,7131, and the arrears of
income, 382,292/.
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APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of medi-
cine,' and received certificates to practice, on Thursday,
LuNecr.—Yesterday morning an
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Lin-
colnshire; William Feb. 6 ;—Fr a u, FiasmT
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inquiry was opened at the Sheriff's-office, Red Lion-square,
before Mr. Commissioner. Barlow and a special jury to
ascertain the state of mind of Mrs. Ann liewson, of Wan' rn-
Bussell-square,
place, an aged lady of large fortune, and
relict of Mr. Thomas Alexander Llews
CoMhtlSsrON oF
on, surgeon, who died
on the 6th of January last. The commission was sued out
by the next of kin, and the
subject of the inquiry had an
income, from freehold and leasehold
property, of 1,500/. a
year, besides the sum of V,OOOl. to which she was entitled
in her own right, andwhich-she could have
disposed of by
will during the lifetime of her husband. The evidence
clearly showed that the unfortunate lady was a lunatic, and
the jury found by their verdict that she had been insane
since April 3, 1845.

ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE TAX.—Lord Robert
Grosvenor has given notice of his intention to introduce the
Bill for the repeal of this tax, which will extend to Scotland
and Ireland, on Thursday, the 20th inst.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. SARAR
ELIZABETH COUNTESS OF WARWlCK.—Yesterday the mor-
tal remains of the late Countess of Warwick were removed
from her Ladyship's late residence in Carlton-gardens, forin-
terment in the family vault, under the chancel of the parish
church, at Reigate, a town seated in the pleasant valley
called Homadale, two miles to the north of the Countess's
family seat, Gatton, in the county of Surrey. The inhabit-
nuts
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ants of the different towosisits.enithtbheirdeodlifligteohr
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cavalcade passed manifested their respect for the memory of
the deceased, by suspending business during the greater part
procession.
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fi tpheersbellspersons a
family, requesting permission, to
itpay a last mark of respect
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Several of the nobilityniemr3h,adbutsen
to the Countess's
body was to be followed to the grape only by the relations of
the deceased and a few particular friends.
Rorer. MARINES.—WOOLWICH, FEB. 6.—Captain
William Clendon.'s company of the Chatham division, serving
at Woolwich during the last six months, will leave the gar-
rison here to-day, and proceed from the Dockyard Station of
the worth Kent Railway, On their return to the head-quar-
ters of the Ckatham diriaion.

(Oillrman), Lord Overatonc, Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr.
1 Cobden, M.P., Mr. Pete, M.P. Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Gibson,
! Colonel Reid, and Mr. Bowring (Secretary).
Mr. Howe had an interview with Earl Grey 3 esterday.
Sir Alexander Bannerman, Lieut.-Governor of Prince Ed-
ward's Island, had also an interview with the Noble Earl
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Sir Robert H Inglis (Vice-President), Rev. Dr. Russell
(Senior Treasurer), and the Rev. J. D. Glennie (Secretary),
of the Clergy Orphan Corporation, had an interview yes-1
terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with a memo-,
rial for the remission of the Legacy Duty on Charitable
Bequests.
A meeting of the Transatlantic Packet Station Commission
was held yesterday at the Board of Trade. There were pre-
sent Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. William Cowper, Sir
James Gordon, K.C.8., Sir Jehn F. Burgoyne, K.C.B„ and
Captain Stephenson Ellerby, Lord Hobart, secretary to the
Commission, attended.
Lord Vaux of Harrowden had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Su. John Herschel! and Captain Harness bad au interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
" Grerille v. Tyler" (part-heard), was resumed, and was ad-
journed. Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward
Ryan, were present.

THE SURVEY or THE MEDITERRANEAN.--We are
glad to hear that the survey of the Mediterranean is not to
remain unfinished, but that in the month of April the Spit.
fire steam-vessel, at Malta, is ordered to be commissioned to
prosecute the scientific work. Of course Captain Graves will
have the offer of the command of the steamer.— United Ser-
vice Gazette.
TEE WRECK OF TEE FLAMER.— The AdMirtilty
have ordered that the officers and crew of the steam-vessel
Flamer, Commander St. Leger, wrecked on the coast of
Africa, shall be borne on the books, and do duty on board the
Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth, until the arrival of the
commander, and the necessary preparations are made for the
court-martial on the officers for this unfortunate accident.—
United Serrice Gazette.