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EXPENSES PROSECUTIONS BILL.

The amendments to this Bill were considered, and agreed to.
COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDERS BILL.

The amendments to this Bill were considered and ageed to,

ANNUAL INDEMNITY BILL.

Leave was given to bring in this Bill on the motion of ?Ir.
C. LEWIS.

The Bill was subsequently brought in.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Six o'clock.

ELECTION CO.IIIIIITTEE.
ST. ALBAN'S.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
After hearing the arguments of Mr. Sergeant Wrangham
and Mr. Merewether, in opposition to the application of the
sitting Member's Counsel,
The Committee announced their resolution of applying
to the House for leave to adjourn the inquiry until Monday.
The Committee then rose, at three o'clock.

EXTENSION OF THE MUNICIPAL
CONSTITUENCY.
On Monday a meeting of the inhabitants of Billings-
gate Ward was held at Fellowship Hall, St. Mary-at-
Hill, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
present defective and unsatisfactory state of the muni-
cipal constituency, and to adopt such measures as might
be expedient.
The meeting was called by a requisition of 35 of the
inhabitants addressed to the Alderman of the Ward.
The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, M.P.,
who expressed great satisfaction at the opportunity of
beinz able to forward any measure which would tend to
enlarge the present limited roll of freemen electors, and
quite agreed with the wording of the requisition, that
the right of voting for aldermen and common councilmen
of London ought to be extended to all citizens paying
scot and bearing lot within the city of London.
Mr. MURRAY, the ward clerk, having read the requi-
sition,
Mr. BOUSFIELD moved, " That the present roll of
freemen electors, within the city of London, is limited
and capricious, excluding many persons, who, by occu-
pancy and residence, should be entitled to vote for
municipal officers, and that in the opinion of this meet-
ing the Act of 12 and 13 Vic. (one to amend the 11th
Geo. L), has tended to lessen the municipal constituency,
contrary to the avowed object of such Act, and that the
same, and the above recited Act, ought to be repealed."
Mr. BENJAMIN seconded the motion.
Mr. BOWER admitted, as the advocate of the rights of
the existing freemen of the City, that he could go a
reasonable way in support of this resolution for extend-
ing the roll of freemen; but he could not agree to any
one being permitted to come to reside in that
ward f): a short period, and thereby obtain all the
privileges of those who, by long residence and
the payment of fines, have become possessed
of the right of voting for municipal officers. It was
necessary to have a foundation for the corporation of
the city of Loudon, and some kind of payment for that
purpose. There was another difficulty, which was, how
they should get the Government to give up their portion
of the fines.
The CIIAIRIVAN—They will give up theirs if you will
give up yours.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOWER was sorry to say that the City had fre-
quently attempted to induce the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to give up the fines, but they had never been
successful.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving an
amendment, which was in the spirit of the resolution, bat
did not go quite to that extent as to granting the quali-
fication.

SANGSTER agreed on the necessity of extending
the roll of freemen, which he thought highly necessary
for various reasons, but insisted on more qualification
than a residence of a year and a day within the City of
Lond us. A misunderstanding bud got abroad in respect
to this year and a day, for it did not in ancient times per
se constitute a freeman, but was the limited time within
which a man could take up his freedom of the City, and
thereby save himself from servitude. Mr. Sangster con-
chided a very able speech by seconding the amendment.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which was
lost, and the original motion was carried.
Mr. BESLEY moved a resolution to the cff,ct " that
every person occupying premises in the city of London
for tee period of a year and a day, paying scot and bear-
ing lot, is a citizen, and entitled to all the benefits and
privileges, and subject to all the duties thereof." He
took a broad view of the subject by saying that either
the corporation should have an Act to compel all
citizens whatever to take up their freedom, or repeal
the tax altogether, for at present it became an
act of necessity on the poor retailer, whilst the
wholesale man or the merchant evaded the payment. It
was asked by Mr. Bower how the present freemen were
to bo indemnified, to which he would reply that they
had taken up their freedom as a trading speculation, and
they must put up with its consequences,—(Hear.) He
maintained, from history, that the municipal rights of a
citizen were anterior to the establishment of the city
companies, and, therefore, ought not to be curtailed by
these companies.
Mr. BOWER said, that persons could qualify at present
without belonging to any company.—(No, no.)
The CHAIRMAN signified that they could do so, but
they did not enjoy the whole of their privileges. He
thought those who had been thought worthy of being
appointed electors for Members of Parliament, should be
equally admitted to vote for the alderman and common
councilmen of the city of London.—(Applause.)
Mr. GRAVES had great pleasure in seconding the re-
solution.
An amendment was proposed by Mr. SANGSTER, but
was not seconded.
Mr. SANGSTER quite agreed in the movement for ex-
tending the freedom of the City, and was glad to see it
commenced in the ward of Billingsgate, which, according
to their chronicles, had always been forward in the cause of
freedom ; indeed it was to that ward the public was
first indebted for having reporters in the House of
Commons, so fearful were the citizens of their rights
being invaded by Parliament.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FOSTER moved—" That wardmotes be held in
this ward, according to ancient usage, for the purpose of
enrolling such citizens as have obtained their right of
voting, and for other purposes."
Mr. NICHOLSON seconded the motion, which was
agreed to unanimously.
Mr. CARR moved—" That a petition, founded on the
above resolutions, addressed to the Aldermen and Com-
mon Council of the City of London, be prepared by the
ward clerk, and that it be entrusted to Mr. Alderman
Sidney for presentation."—(Applause.)
Mr. BESLEY seconded the motion, which was agreed
to unanimously.
After some observations from Mr. Foster, Mr. Con-
ston, Mr. Young, and others, a vote of thanks was passed
by acclamation to the worthy Alderman for presiding.
The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, hoped it could
not be thought by any gentleman present that he would
be a party to do anything which would tend to lower or
weaken the corporation, of which he was a member,
more particularly when he saw a grasping Government
intent upon invading the privileges of the citizens of
London.—(Great applause.) On the contrary, this ex-
tension of the suffrage would go to strengthen the Cor-
poration, and to the preservation of their municipal
rights. A large. constituency on the basis now pro-
posed would give power to the citizens to withstand
any nefarious attempt on the part of Government,
which now only took advantage of their weak position.
As their constituency had been reduced from 50,000 to
6,ooo—(Hear)—so by this measure would it increase from
6,000 to 50,000, which wan the number of municipal elec-
tors in the time of Charles ll.—(Cheers.) He should sup-
port the
githepveetistiaotnisfiabertiothe: best
tstio,ef reasons,
10 000 ofivrslt,l,boso•coauusoenit.
freemen, and, secondly, because such an extension of the
freedom would tend to strengthen the Corporation of the
city of London, in doing which they might say to even
a powerful Government, " Touch us if you dare."
The meeting then broke up.

LEEDS, TUESDAY.—On. :Saturday there was more done at
the Cloth Hails than has been the case for some time back,
but to-day the market has only been a quiet one. There
has been no alteration to notice in prices, and stocks do not
increase.

63,41.111-,MIGEET AND COME COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Nail oof Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
A. s. d. A. e. d.
Britilb •••••••• • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial 11. 85. 20 0 0 20 0 0 15%
Bright= •• •• •• ••- •• 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• •• 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
OontirtentalConsolidat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equits ble .. •• • • 5OB. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
imps e_al • • 3l. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
independent ....... • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London•• .... ••.•• • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 --
- SO 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0 --
41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 28%
Ratcli ff -
Unitetl General ll. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15
Vests sinter Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 45%
Ditto, New ...... •• 128. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%
%IS r or SCOTTISN COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Male of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
-.--- -
£ s. d. A s. d
Rana of Scotland
Brit! sh Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 199%
Claloi lonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 3 0 11%
Clyd,' :sdalc Bank -• •• •• 6% percent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Cone nereial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 173
East 3rn Bank .• •••• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9/. 4s.
Edin 11.3; Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4%
Eno) :angeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 15%
liati mai Bank 6% per cent. 60 0 0 10 0 0 li
Norl liof Scotlandßank 5/.percent. 20 0 0 2 10 I 21.175.
Roy: al Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130
Dn:.on Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 89
Wet tern Baak•• •• •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 I 70
All.l4ance Fire and Life i%l.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21
dill ish Guarantee
NIA donian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow. Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. Si
Coic ,nial Life ... •• - - 50 0 0 1 0 0 21. Os.
Mk iburgh Life Insnr. 4/. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 21
En.; . & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 60 0 0 217 6 2%
Lift, Assoc. of Scotland 6/.percent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 31. Os
Nvil.ional Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 243.6 d
Idol •th British Insur 6l. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ; 28
Soo ttishUnionlnarnce. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 24t.6d
its ndard Life .. •• .. •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 I 11%
Urd ted Dep.Assarance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 178 ed
rensczurtazrzous.
Dividend Amount
3 'am of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
.... mm,m./..........is
X. s. d. Z. s. d.
Asi ;am Tea .... • • .... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 5
to ctisn Mart.... •• • . 21. 58. 50 0 0 - 28
&a ttrallan Agricultnrl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
A a stralian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. - 35 0 0 20
IL3 gio-Mexican Mint.. it. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20%
1 )itto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 6
RC .tish Amerioan Land - - 38 10 0 14%
Ca nada ... •• .. .. .. .. 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 32 10 0 47
IJppr Canada Bonds 61. per eent. - - -
:Ditto ditto .... 61. percent. - - 107%
Mty Navigation Bends 3/ per cent. - - 96 ,
Ge n. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& be, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 91%
Eq nitable Reversienry 5 p.c. &its. 61 100 0 0 100 0 0 109%
3 Ditto Yew ...... •• - 50 0 0 210 0 2%
G 4 n•SteamNavigation 10 p. ct.& bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28
Hs ,dson's Bay.. • • .• .. - Stock. - 205
111 .ngerford .......... 21. ss. - 100 0 0 47
,Lo udon Institution .•. - - 78 15 0 7
N-I
w Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New ......., - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Es seen Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Pe ninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65
Es versionary Int. Soo. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
R< ,yal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 77%
Sc nth Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
VI zuDieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 2

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian)

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The accounts brought to hand
• the Asia (which will be fuund below) inform us that a
• .od deal of excitement, without subsequent relapse, had been
pr oduced in the different ports of the union by advices re-
ceived and expected from this country. The general
ef 'act of these accounts. on this side, is still further
to weaken the opinion that we are to have a deficient
supply ; though there are well-informed parties who
in, ter from their letters that the quantity to be for-
Wa from the interior is becoming exhausted. The
Li verpool market has been dull both yesterday and to-day ;
an d spinners have found prices rather in their favour. In
on r own market, an increased disposition cautiously to limit
og erations to immediate wants has shown itself amongst the
di ferent classes of buyers; and the day's transactions have
co nsequently proved altogether inconsiderable. Goods have
sic .t fully maintained their value; and, though there is
so ircely any quotable change in most descriptions of reeled
vs .rns, yet the tendency is against sellers—lather more so in F
m ule than in water, and in 20's water than in 30's. Pincops
se.e to be had at rather lower rates.

ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market to-day has
'be en quiet and inactive, and much like that of last Mon-
day. In kerseys and coarse goods there has been very little
loing, and the purchases have been upon a much more
limited scale. The wool dealers complain of the little de-
mand for the raw materials, but still keep up the former
Trices.
MACCLESFELD, TUESDAY. —We are again under the ne-
cessity of reporting a similar state of things to that of last
woek ; very little business having taken place in the in-
terim. The wholesale houses are said to be exceed-
ingly busy, but, as yet, are buying sparingly. It may,
however, be fairly anticipated that they will shortly
become purchasers ; to what extent remains to be
seen, as, up to the present, scarcely a shadow of the
usual spring trade has been done. In thrown silks, a consi-
derable business has been transacted, chiefly the result of the

reduction in prices, which may now be stated roundly at 91
o Is pqr lb. on those asked in the beginning of last month.
No doubt the general admission, on the part of consumers,
that raw silks are decidedly easier of purchase, has, in a great
measure, contributed to this result.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.-Our market to-day, although
pretty well attended by buyers, has scarcely been an average
one: business has not been so brisk in the Cloth-hall;
stocks look heavier than they have done for some time;
most of the exchanges have been in light goods and fancies,
and checks, of new patterns. The warehouses have been
brisk during the week in the American trade. In the wool
market there has not been so much doing. As there is not
much change in the price of the raw material, it is most
likely there will be an advance in the finished goods.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY. —The worsted trade presents no
noticeable feature of variation since our last, the demand for
most descriptions of goods being still languid, and the mer-
chants manifesting great reluctance to purchase. In the yarn
market there have been more sales, under the impression that
prices are at the lowest; but the spinners are producing less,
as the quotations are very unsatisfactory. More wool has
changed hands, partly from the spinners having run cut of
stock, and partly from the belief that the rates are as low as
they are likely to be; but the increased business has had no
operation upon prices.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April S.
Mr. Justice Patteson sat t;-day in the Crnwn Court, and
tried one case, and then left. Mr. Justice Talfourd was en-
gaged till past nine e'clock, and four cases remain for to-
morrow.

CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Pinson.)
Henry Davis and John Roberts were indicted for a bur-
glary in the house of Mrs. Sarah Elsmore, at West Dean, on
the 4th of January last, and robbing her cif twenty sovereigns,
51. in silver, and a quantity of pork, bacon, and other articles.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Cleeve appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. M'Mahon for the defence of Davis, and Mr. Symonds end
Mr. C. Evans for the defence of Roberts.

I appeared that about eleven o'clock on the night of the
4th of January Mrs. Elsmore, hearing a noise at her front
door, got out of bed, and saw three men outside, one of
whom she knew by his dress and voice to be Davis. They
pretended they wanted a gallon of cider, and gave their
names as some of her neighbours; but she knew they were
not the persons they represented themselves to be, and
refused to supply them. Soon afterwards they forced in
the front door. She called up her niece, a girl of fifteen,
and ran to the kitchen door, and shut it against them they
soon forced that also open, and seized her and her niece.
They all had some wrapping over their faces, with holes cut
through for their eyes. Davis had a miner's hatchet in his
hand, end another had a stick, which was afterwards found
near Davis's door. i/avis caught the niece and threw her
down, and was holding her down while another held Mrs.
Elsmore, and the third was searching the house up stairs.
On their using some threats. Mrs. Elsinore asked them not
to hurt her. and she would give them up all the money
she had. Thereupon they let her go up stairs, and she
gave them all her little store, amounting to upwards
of 251. They then fastened the bedroom door, leaving Mrs.
Elsmore and her niece inside, and ransacked the kitchen,
taking away a spare-rib of pork which was cut in a peculiar
manner. The next morning at daybreaa the police came,
and found the footmarks of three persons about the house,
and traced them to a distance of 100 yards from Mrs. Els-
more's, where a fourth track was found. A short distance
further on the four tracks separated, and two were traced
into Davis's house. The police found him in bed (it was
then about nine or ten o'clock on Sunday morning), and
his trowsers and boots were wet and dirty, and drying at
the fire; and on comparing the boots with some of the
footmarks near Mrs. Elsmore's, they found them to corre-
spond exactly. Both Mrs. Elsmore and her niece spoke to
Davis's identity, from his dress, voice, and eyes; but, on
cross-examination, they did not appear to have known him
before. Roberts was arrested on the Bth, and his shoes were
also found to correspond with some of the footmarks around
Mrs. Elamore's house; and it was further proved that on the
Sunday morning, the sth of January, about seven or eight
o'clock, he and two other men not in custody were seen
near an enclosure, in which, on the 20th of February after-
wards, on cutting down some groze, the three masks were
found hidden, and also a part of the spare-rib stolen from
Mrs. Elsmore.

They were found Guilty, and transperted for 15 years.
This was the only case his Lordship tried.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)

William Grey Smythe, 47, surgeon, was then placed at the
bar to take his trial upon several indictments charging him
with felonious assaults upon girls of tender age.
Mr. Payne and Mr. Parry appeared on behalf of the pro-
secution, and the prisoner was defended by Messrs. Clarkson
and Ballantine.
The public have been already made but too well acquainted
with the disgusting details of the offences imputed to the
prisoner by the police reports. It will be remembered that
he carried on the profession of a surgeon in Vauxhall-walk,
Lambeth; and it was alleged that he had carried on a re-
gular system of debauching young girls, a great number of
whom, it was proved, had fallen a sacrifice to his beastly pro-
pensities. The case was taken up by the Society for the
Protection of Young Females, by whom the counsel for the
prosecution were now instructed.
The first case gone into was that of a girl named Charlotte
Steven 2, who deposed that she would be 16 years old ih July
next. She said that in July, 1849, she was playing with a
gi,l named Jelia Weekes in Park-street, Kennington-cross
when the prisoner came up to them and asked Weekes if she
meant to come to his house that night, and she said she did ;
and the prisoner then walked away, and, at the request of
'Weekes, she accompanied her to his house, where they were
taken into a bed-room; and she said that the prisoner then
gave them a glass of wine each, and afterwards proceeded to
commit the offence imputed to him.
Upon being cross-examined, the witness said that she and
Weekes drank some punch with the prisoner after the affair,
and that when they went away he gave her half-a-crown,
and told them to come again on the following Friday. She
said that she and her companion divided the half-crown be-
tween them, and she bought herself a new bonnet, and they
then went to see the people who were going to a masquerade
at Vauxhall-gardens. She also said that they both went to
the prisoner's house on the Friday evening, and that the act
was repeated, and ,he afterwards lived with the prisoner far
two months and slept with him every night. She also ad •
mitted that since the transaction she had been living at a
brothel.
Mr. CLARKSON, in his address to the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, said he was aware that he must necessarily have
to contend with a vast amount of prejudice which would
be very naturally created against the prisoner by reason
of the character of the charges that were made against
him; but he entreated the jury to exert themselves not
to give any effect to what they might have heard or read
upon the subject, but to be guided only by the sworn
testimony, and decide upon that alone whether
the prisoner w,s guilty of the crime of which he
was accused. He would admit that the conduct of
the prisoner had been most disgraceful and immoral, but the
question here was whether he had committed a felony of a
particular description, and he said the jury ought not to
allow their abhorrence of his conduct in other respects to
induce them to say that he was guilty of anoffence which, it
appeared to him, he had clearly not committed. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the circumstances
of the case and the cor.duct of the prosecutrix, concluding by
asking the jury whether it was possible for them, upon the
facts of the case, as they appeared in evidence, to conscien-
tiously come to the conclusion that the prisoner was guilty of
the offence imputed to him.
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up,
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then charged, upon another indictment,
with committing the same offence upon a girl named Eliza-
beth Eliza Hockenden.

The prosecutrix in this case was a girl 17 years old,
and she stated that in the summer of 1849 she was going
about to look for a situation, and in consequence of a
bill she saw in a shop-window, the contents of which
were read to her by another girl, she went to the priso-
ner's house, and on her asking him if he •wanted a
girl, he told her he did, and at once took her up to
the bed-room, where he poured three different sorts of
liquor into a small tumbler, and gave them to her to drink,
telling her the liquor would not hurt her, and the moment
she had drank it she became partially insensible. The wit.
ness stated that upon this the prisoner took off her clothes
and proceeded to assault her; but her evidence failed to
show the commission of a felony. She stated that the pri-
soner eventually gave her a shilling, and told her to come
again to see him the next day, but she did not do so; and
it appears that she did not mention what had taken place
until the police had made some inquiries with regard to other
transactions in which her sister Martha was concerned with
the prisoner.
In cross-examination the prosecutor said that after what
had passed with the prisoner she went home and washed
herself, and afterwards went with Julia Weekes, and Stevens,
the prosecutrix in the former indictment, to the Victoria
Theatre, and that they did not get home till twelve o'clock
at night. She likewise admitted that she had gone to Green-
wich fair with a young man named Teddy Toose, and another
" young chap," and a girl named Maria Baker, who since
then had walked the streets.

Mr. CLARKSON again addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, and he particularly urged upon their attention the
fact that the evidence of the prosecutrix herself negatived the
pt rpetration of the offence.
Mr. Justice EirtLx having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault.
The prisoner was then charged upon a third indictment
with the commission of the same offence upon a girl named
Mary Anne Hall.
The prosecutrix in this case deposed that she was thirteen
years old in July last, and that in January of the present
year she was living with her father and mother in High-
street, Lambeth. About the end of that mouth she said
that she met two girls named M'Lachlen and Martha Hock-
enden, and they asked her to go with them to Dr. Sreyth's.
She consented to do so, but was not aware what was the
object for which she went. When they got to his
house they said to the prisoner, " We have brought
you this little girl;" and he replied, " That is
good," but added that he could not speak to her then, and
that she must come the next morning, when he promised to
take her into his service. She went on the following morn-
ing, and was engaged for two or three days in doing the
household werk, and on the Saturday in the same week she'
said that Martha Hockenden undressed her and made her
go to bed, and then undressed herself, and the prisoner
afterwards came into the room. The witness then gave
some details, which are not fit for publication, with regard to
the conduct of the prisoner; but it appeared that upon this
occasion she resisted him successfully, and that he kicked her
out of bed, and told her to get out of the house. She went
away, but it appeared that she made no complaint of the
prisoner's conduct ; and on the Tuesday afterwards she went
again to the house to fetch away an apron and a pair of boots
which she had left there; and upon this occasion she re-
presented that the prisoner committed the act imputed to
him by force and without her consent.
The prosecutrix underwent a severe cross-examination by
Mr. BALLANTINE, and it was elicited from her that the girl
M'Lachlen was a prostitute, and that she lodged in White
Horse-street, Lambeth, and that she herself had slept at
that house with her on the Monday night previous to the
day on which she represented the prisoner to have commit-
ted the offence. It also appearea that she made no com-
plaint of any misconduct on his part until her mother made
some discovery and pressed her upon the stutject, and it
was then only she disclosed what had occurred. It ap-
peared, however, that when the prosecutrix was examined
by the doctor who was called in for that purpose, she ois-
tinctly denied that the prisoner bad ever interfered with her.
Mr. CLARKSON, in his address to the jury upon this
charge again urged them, with great warmth and earnest-
ness, not to allow the circumstances that had been laid be-
fore them to operate unfairly against the prisoner. He ad-
mitted that the prisoner was a bad man, and, personally, he
said he desired as much as any one present to see him pun-
ished for his grossly immoral conduct; but at the same
time it was necessary for the safety of them all to take care
that the law was not strained unfairly to meet any parti-
cular case; for if this be permitted to be done in the case
of a bad man, they mild 119 t tell how soon the 041110 thing

might occur to a good one. Having made these rornatks
he went in to drew the attention of the jury to C!!<
of the prosecution, end argued that it was impossible to en-
tertain any doubt that she was a consenting party to all that
took place, and that, under these circumstances, although it
was perfectly clear that the prisoner's conduct had been
most disgusting and immoral. 3 ot, he said, it would at the
same time be most unjust to convict him of the particular
felony with which he was charged upon such evidence.
Mr. Justice ERLE then summed up.

The jury having deliberated fora short time in the box,
expressed a wish to retire. They left the court at half-past
five o'clock, and in about half an hour they sent a written
communication to hia Lordship, stating that there was no
chance of their agreeing to a verdict.
The Learned JUDGE, upon receiving this intimation from
the jury left the court, giving directions that he should be
sent for when the jury were prepared to give their verdict.
The kry continued in deliberation until nearly ten o'clock,
when they announced that they wore agreed.
A messenger was immediately dispatched for the Learned
Judge, who arrived shortly before eleven. Mr. Alderman
Challis was present as the second commissioner.
The jury then gave a verdict of Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
TRAMES.

Thomas Turner, a waterman, of Mill Pond-street, Ber-
mondsey, was brought betbre Mr. Yardley, charged with
being concerned with two others notin custody in attempting
to rob and murder Mr. James Joseph Baldwin, a marine
store-dealer, of No. 2, Clarke-street, Stepney, under circum-
stances of a very extraordinary rature.
The prosecutor, a stout man, whose face was seriously cut
and bruised, and who gave his evidence in a very confused
manner, stated that he was in Rotherhithe on Tuesday night
upon business. He got irro a boat at 12 o'clock for the pur-
pose of being ferried across the river. The prisoner as in
that beat, and took him alongside a ship, where he kept him
for some time, and then said, " We must go back again to
Rot herhithe. " Some other watermen then got into the boat,
and he told them to take him to the Thames Tunnel stairs,
on the Nliddlesex shore. He was taken alongside a ship
again, to the best of his recollection, and thought i very
strange, an,l wa, then rowed across the river. On nearing
the Middlesex shore, one of the watermen got up in the
boat and struck him a dreadful blow under the ear and threw
him overboard.

Mr. YARDLEY—What was that for? Mr. Baldwin—To
rob me. One man put his hand in my pocket as I was ap-
proaching the stairs on this side of the river at Wapping,
and I was struck on the ear, and also upon the m ;uth, by one
man, and another threw me overboard.

Mr. YARDLEY—It deep water? Mr. Baldwin—lt, was
done so suddenly I hardly know; there were three persons in
the boat besides myself.
Mr. YARDLEY—Did you get out of your depth ? Mr.
Baldwin—The water covered me.

Mr. YARDLEY—AS you lay on your back, or as you stood
up? Mr. Baldwin—Up to my neck. I was quite under
water once, and was up to my neck as I scrambled out. 1
scrambled out of the water in the best way I could.
Mr. YARDLEY—What became of the men in the boat?
Mr. Baldwin—They rowed away as fast as they could.
Mr. YARDLEY—Did you lose anything? Mr. Baldwin—l
don't know that I did. I had bank-notes in my pocket-
book. and they attempted to take it. There were only a few
halfpence in my pocket. I was not very sober, Sir.
The prisoner, on being asked if he had any questions to
ask, said he was at Rotherhithe-stairs, on the Surrey shore,
when he saw the gentleman come down and walk straight
towards the River, and he called out. to him, " Mind where
you are going." The gentleman came towards him, and ap-
peared to be very tipsy, and lie said, " You had better be oil
away from me." The gentleman stopped twenty minutes,
and he asked him what he wanted, to which the gentleman
replied that he wanted a boat. irectly after that the gen-
tleman got into conversation with five or six other water-
men, who took him to a public-house, and washed the blood
off his face, and cleaned it. The gentleman had a fall before
he came to the plying place.
➢lr. Baldwin said he fell down and cut his face before he
came to the plying place for a boat. He cut his eye. His
face was wiped by the watermen.
The prisoner I was at home when the gentleman went
into the boot. I went home before he went over the water.
Mr. Baldwin - I am certain he was in the boat when I was
thrown overboard.

The prisoner—l rowed the gentleman over by myself to
this side of the river. He would go back again with other
watermen. I was not with him. Did you not ask for change
for a 2'l. note in the public-house over the waer ?
Mr. Baldwin—l was in the public-house, and pulled a
20/. note out of my pocket and asked for change, but I put it
in my pocket-book again. They tried to get at my pocket-
book, but could not, and knocked me clean overboard. I
saw the prisoner afterwards taken from behind a barge while
I was dripping with wet and bleeding from the mouth.
The prisoner said he went behind a barge to relieve a call
of nature, and not to conceal himself.

Alexander Cowe, of 63, Anchor and Hope-alley, Wapping,
said he was en engineer, employed at Pavitt's steam flour-
mills, at Execution dock, and on Tuesday night, soon after
12 o'clock, he was in the mill, and heard cries of " Murder!"
and "Police!" proceeding from the river. He listened, and
the cries continued, becoming fainter, and accompanied with
a "suffocating noise." Not being able to reach the water-
side from the back of the mill, he went round to the front,
and saw the prosecutor struggling in the water and get out
and come up the steps of the plying-place. He went to his
assistance, and the prosecutor said, "They have been
robbing me, and thrown me overboard." At that moment
he saw the prisoner running by the side of a barge on the
shore, and he endeavoured to conceal himself. Witness ran
alter him, and he said, " It's not me what did if, it's not me."
Witness said, " No one said it was you," and detained him
until a policeman came.

Police-constable Miller, Iv 5 K, stated that a carman, or a
man named Carman, saw the prisoner shove off with tae boat,
and had promised to attend, but had f iled to do so in conse-
quenceot an engagement elsewhere.

sir. YARDLEiILYOU must get him here, and make further
inquiries about this matter. I shall remand the prisoner till
Saturday next.

Policeman Smith, 200 K, said the prosecutor had 601. or
701. in bank-notes in his pocket-book when he came to the
station-house.

Mr. YARDLEY said the prosecutor should have mentioned
that before, and that he bad no occasion to be afraid of doing
so in that court.

A young Waterman applied for the restoration of his boat
It bad been taken away by three men for the purpose of tak
ing the prosecutor away and robbing him.
Mr. YARDLEY— You may have your boat; I see no ob.
jection to that.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, April 8
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Ba‘inghall-strt,et.

T. S. Dickinson and R. C. Dickinson, Gresham-street,
City, and Leeds, Yorkshire, warehousemen, May 6, at
eleven.

In the Country.

W. Murdoch, Bristol, draper, flay 1, at eleven, at the
Court, Bristol—S. Firth, Leeds, linendraper, April 29,
at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Bawling, SAby,York-
shire, shoemaker, April 29, at twelve, at the Court, Lauds
—J. B. R. Durant, Stogursey, Somerstrtt,thire, grocer,
April 29, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—W. D. Ewens,
Broadwindsor, Dorsetsbire, butter-merchant, April 29,
at eleven, at the Court, Exeter.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

S. Banfill, Edward-street, Langharu.place, cabinet.
maker, ls., on Tuesday, April 8, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, 13asinghall-street.
J. 13. Montefiore and J. Montefiore, Nicholes-lane,
merchants, 2s. 3d., on Wednesday, April 9, or any sub-
sequent Tuesday, between eleven and at two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
T. Collingwood, Nuneham Courtney, Oxfordshire,
innkeeper, 3s. 2d., on Tuesday, April 15, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of
lir. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basiughall-street.
J. G. Foster, Aldgate, tailor, 6d., on Tuesday, April
s, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basing-
hall-street.
R. Dart and J. Brown, Bedford-street, Covent-garden,
coach lace manufacturers, a second dividend of 23. on the
joint estate, a first dividend of 7d. on the separate estate
of Dart, and of 10,12-1 on the separate estate of Brown,
on Tuesday, April 8, or any subsequent Tuesday,.be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
Al. and L. Rowlandson, Whitechapel-road, drapers
and upholsterers, 10s., on Tuesday, April 15, or any sub-
sequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
T. B. Cousens, Wisbeacb, shipbuilder, 7s. 5d., on Sa-
turday next, and the three subsequent Saturdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Ab-
church-lane, City.
A. Cranston, Winborn Minster, Dorsetshire, cabinet-
maker, 3s. 3d., on Monday, April 14. and two subse-
quent Mondays, between eleven and three, at the office
of Mr. Canaan, Birchin-lane.
C. Coils, C. Thompson, and R. P. Harris, jun., Lom-
bard-street, bill brokers, 4d., on Monday, April 14, and
two subsequent Mondays, between eleven and three, at
the office of Mr. Csnnan, Birchin-1 one.

T. Bentall, Copthall-Chambers, City, stock and share
broker, 5d., on Monday, April 14, and two rubrequent
Mondays, betwee❑ eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Carman, Birchin-lane.

W. Abbott, and W. Abbott, jun., Bermondsey-street,
Southwark, parent felt manufacturers, 6d., on Monday,
April 14, and two subsequent Mondays. between eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Csnnan, Birehin-lane.
J. Crosthwaite, Liverpool, merchant, 2.t., on Wednes-
day, April 9, or any subsequent Wednesday, between
eleven and two, at the cilice of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
R. Bowerman, Ensham, Oxfordshire, carrier, Bd., on
Thursday, April 10, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfield,
Basinghall-btreet.
W. Goode, jun., Monmouth, linendraper, 7s. 101, on
Thursday, April 10, and throe following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stensfeid,
Basinghall-street.
• NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Ccurt, Basinghall-street.
J. Carter, Manchester-terrace, and Upton-villas, RH_
burn, builder, April 30, at eleven—T. S. Dickinson and
Dickinson,ofGresham-street, London, and Leeds,
wRa. rC eLousemen, May 1, at two.
In the Country.
W. Saddaby, Kingston-upon-Hull, seed crusher, April
30, at te,lf-past twelve, at the Town-ball, Kiegbton-
upon-Hull—R. Boyle, jun., Kiwpslon-upon-Ilul,
msr-
nt:ant, April 30. at half-past iwelve, at the Town-hall,
Kingston-upon•Hull—W. Neck, jun., Torre, Devonshire,
corn dealer, May 1, rat one, at the Court, Exeter—G.
Shepheard, Mod bury, D!!vonshile, lineedraper, May 1,
at one, at the Coot t, Exeter—J. Dixon, llorley, York-
.hire, dyer, May I, et eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J.
Leybnre. Yorkshire, draper, Illy 1, at CIPS_43I3,
the Court, Leeds.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
R. Greco, juu., Brighton, ironmonger, certificate of
the second class—J. Colson, Upper Holloway, publican
—F. F. Vouillon, Princcss-street, Hanover-square, court
milliner, certificate of the first class—K. Ditastiale, Ox-
ford-street, saddler, certificate of the third class—W,
Randr.ll, Manchester, calico printer, certificate of the
third class—R. N. Jones, Liverpool, merchant, certificate
of the first class after 21 days from April 4.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

E.
T. Turton and W. Turton, Liverpool, flour dzaler
Jane Turton and W. Turton, Liverpool, flour dealers—
P. Nowell and J. Mitchell, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted
spinners—T. Bowers and P. Warnsley,. Leek,Stafford-