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AUG UST 95 1851.
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ALL POLICIES INDISPUTABLE.
ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
For Life Annuities, and Loans, and for Perpetuating Leasehold and
Copyhold Property.

Chief Office-9, NEW -12IiiDGE-STREET, Blackfriars, London.

Natintniel Bland, Esq,
.7ohn Boyd, Esq.
James Fenning"s, Esq,
Isaac liaise, Esq.

DIRECTORS.
Ueoroze 31. Murray, Esq.
Charles Stewart, Esq.
Daniel SVane, M.D.
Witite'oek, Esq.

AUDITORS.
G. IL Hodzes, Esq , her Mnjesty's Stationery-office.
1?. L. Mid(llernist, Esq., 13, Great Cor.un-street. Russell-square.
Williams, Esq. (Barnett, Hoare, and Co.), 62, Lombard-street.

PHYSICIAN.
Daniel Wane, MD,
SURGEON.

Henry Charles Johnson, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. George's
Hospital.
- STANDING COUNSEL.
Her Majesty's Attorney-General.
SOLICITOR.
Henry Wickens, Esq.
CONSULTING ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq , F.R.A.S., F.A.S.
" Declined" Lives taken at equitable rates.
Life Policies "indisputable" and not liable to forfeiture.
Policies.granted from 201. to 5.0001.
Medical men remunerated in all eases. _

Immedlate, survivorship, and defk!rred annuities and endowments
oai the most advantageous terms granted.
Loans granted on undoubted security of every description, upon
more 4icivantageous terms t the borrower than in any other office.
Claims payable three months after satisfactory proof of death.
Prospectuses, with the report, may be obtained from the Manager,
r from the Agents.
C. W. BEVAN, Resident Manager and Actuary.
\.l3.—Agents and Medical Referees wanted in the country where
none have been appointed.

I.ERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Notice is hereby given, that the usual DIVIDEND of 5 per Cent.
(les,s income-tax) on the paid-up Capital on the Shares of the Society,
wilt be pr.yabla at this office, on anti atter WEDNESDAY, the 20th day
of August inst.

ACT OF PARLIAMENT.—in consequence of the powers con-
ferred by an Act obtained in the Session of 1,,5 , the provisions of
which came into operation on the Ist of last month, advantages and
pr,vileges will acct ue to all persons now assuring to an extent greater
than can be derived from most other offices. The particulars are set
forth in a Report and a new Pt ospectus, to be procured (free of ex-
pense) by addressing a line to
GEO. H. PINCRARD, Resident Secretary.
99, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London.

AND LIFE ASSUR-
IMPANY.
)-s;TREET, London.
:CTORS.
, jun., Esq., Chairman.
Bart. Deputy-Chairman.
Stewart Mat oribanks, Esq.
John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Henry It. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Thornton, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq.
Henry Vigne, Esq.
!TORS.
t. w. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, this Company now offers to future insurers four-fifths of
the Profits with Quinquennial Division, or a low Rate of premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be declared in June 1835, when
all participating policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
ut Christmas, 1854, will be allowed to share in the profits.
At the several past divisions of profits made by this Company, the
reversionary Bonuses added to the policies from one half the profits
amounted, on an average of the different tv,es, to about 1 per cent.
per annum on the sums insured, and the ,otal bonuses added at the
four septennial divisions exceeded 770,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF OLICIES —Written Notices of, received
and registered.
pARI

GUARDIAN FIRE
ANCE CO:
N.o. 11, LOMBAEI)
DIRE,
THOMSON TIANKEY,
Sir WALTER R. FARQUII
tienry Hulse Berens, Esq.
John Dixon, Esti.
Fr.incis Hart Dyke, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq.
Tobin G. Hubbard, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
JnhH Loch, Esq.
George Lyall, Esq.

41.17Dr_

GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

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ROUSE OF LORDS, August 8.
The HonEe assembled this morning Owlly after

nine o'clock, for the purpose of delivering judgments
in sonic of tho appeal cases that have been argued at
the bar of the House during the present session. The
Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Cran worth, Lord Beaumont, and some others.

THE WINDING-UP ACTS.-BRIGIIT V. HUTTON.-

HUTTON V. '3RIGHT.
It will be recollected, from the report of these
cases, which appeared in our columns on Thursday
last, that they were appeals against the decrees of the
Vice-Chancellor Lord CranWorth. The cases were
argued on Wednesday upon the earnest entreaty of
the parties, in order, it' it were possible 7 that they
should obtan the opinion of their Lordships prior to
the prorogation of Parliament.
The LORD CHANCELLOR now, after entering into a
descrip'ion of the questions at issue, said, that with-
out doubt these were most important cases in refer-
ence to any rules which might be laid down as to the
extent of liability which was undertaken by a
person who became a provisional committeeman
and a shareh elder in a railway company, and
falling within the principle which that House
had laid down by its decision in the case of
Norris v. Upfill. The 'Noble and Learned
Lord Cranworth, and him Self had used their
best efforts with the view to dispose of these im-
portant cases at once, but it had happened that they
had been unable to accomplish that end with any-
thing like satisfaction to themselves. Therefore, not-
withstanding their Unwillitigness to arrive at such a
conclusion, the cases must remain undermined until
next session. It had been the object in hearing the
arguments in these cases to obtain a construction of the
winding-up Acts, but that construction, it appeared,
their Lordships could not gain without the aid of the
Learned Judges, all of whom were engaged in their
respective circuits. The judgment must therefore
stand over.
Lord CRANWORTH was of the same opinion as that
just expressed by his Noble and Learned Friend the
Lori Chancellor. The decision of their Lordships in
these cases must be postponed for the present year.
The questions which were involved in these cases
were of the utmost nicety, and not without consider-
able difficulty ; and, ttwrefore, as the judgment upon
them to be pronounced by that House was intended
to constitute a guide to the Masters of the Court of
Chancery in disposing of the numerous cases before
them—cases which involved an immense amount of
property—he concurred with his Noble and Learned
Friend in the opinion that the cases demanded further

consideration.
Judgment postponed accordingly.
NORRIS V. COOPER.
HUTTON V. THOMPSON.
These two cases were also appeals arising out of an
order made by Master Brougham under the winding-
up Acts, and had come before the House on appeal
from a decree of Lord Cranworth, which had re-
versed the Master's order. The railway company in
the first case, which was in this instance to be wound'
up, was the "Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birken-
head Junction Railway Company."
In the course of the judgment now given by the
House the Lord Chancellor went fully into the cir-
cumstances of both cases, and, as they are of consider-
able importance to the railway interest, as well as to
the public at large, we give an abridged summary of
the facts in each case. In the first case, in the year
1845 a company was projected for making a railway
communication between Birmingham and Birken-
bead, and to effect that object it was proposed to
raise a capital of 1,000,000/. by the creation of 50,000
shares of 201. each. The projected company was
provisionally registered, pursuant to the terms of the
7th and Bth of Victoria, c. 110, by the name and de-
scription of " the Wolverhampton, Chester, and
Birkenhead Junction Railway Company." Plans and
sections, with books of reference, were prepared, and,
in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament,
were deposited at the offices of the Board of Trade,
and with the clerks of the peace of the several coun-
ties through which the said proposed railway was in-
tended to pass. A Parliamentary contract and sub-
scribers' agreement were prepared and engrossed, but
neither of them was executed by any party, and the
same were afterwards cancelled, in order to obtain a
return of the stamp duty. The expenses of obtaining
the said plans, sections, and books of reference, to-
gether with ie charges of the several agents and
others employed upon the business of the company,
amounted to a sum exceeding 12,0001. Samuel
Haines, of Edghaston, in the county of Warwick, was
called upon to pay, end paid, upwards of 500/. to-
wards the expenses of attempting to carry into effect
the objects of the said company. Thomas Upfill, of
Edgbaston, paid the same sum. Robert Wrightson,
of Wymeswouid, in the county of Leicester, also paid
4801. Thomas Harris, of Ilighfield-bouse, Edgbas-
ton, paid 4801. ; and Edward Cooper, of Ilenley-in-
Arden, in the county of Warwick, likewise paid up-
wards of 4201. towards the same object. The said
Samuel Haines, Thomas Upfill, Robert Wrightson,
Thomas Harris, and Edward Cooper, were each also
respectively sued for debts owing by the company,
and an action is yet pending against Edward Cooper,
at the suit of William Stoughton Vardv, one
of the solicitors of the company. The company ceased
to carry on business on the sth of January, 1846, and
on the 26th of October, 1849, the said Samuel Haines,
Thomas Upfill, Robert Wrightson, and Edward
Cooper preferred their petition to the Lord Chancel-
lor, praying that the company might be dissolved and
wound up under the provisions of the Joint-stock
Companies' Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
that it might be referred to one of the Masters of the
Court to wind up the affairs of the company under
the said Acts. The petition was heard on the 3d of
November, 1849, before the Vice-Chancellor of
England, when it was ordered that the said company
should be dissolved and wound up, and that it should
be referred to the Master of the Court to whom it
was referred to wind up the Trent Valley, Chester,
and Holyhead Continuation Railway Company, to
wind up the affairs of this company. Mr. William
Brougham was the Master to whom the said
matter was referred, and the appellant was ap-
pointed the official manager of the company
under the provisions of the said Acts. The
Master, on the 23d of June, 1851, made his certificate
in the matter, and in his settlement of the list of
contributories he included the name of the present
respondent, William Cooper, jun., of Henley-in-Ar-
den, in the character of an allottee, who had applied
for and bad had allotted to him 20 shares. The
Master's certificate also admitted that he had thus in-
cluded the respondent's name in the list of contribu-
tories, notwithstanding it had been proved to him
that the required deposit of 21. 12s. 6i. per share had
not been paid, as required by the terms of the letter
of allotment, nor had the respondent signed either
the subscribers' agreement or Parliamentary cohtract,
and that those documents had been regularly pre-
li
pared ; yet they had afterwards been abandoned and
cancelled for the purpose of obtaining the return of
the stamp duty thereon. The respondent having re-
ceived an official intimation that his name had been
placed upon the list of the " allottee contributories,"
on the 24th ult. appealed against the certificate of the
Master. The appeal was heard before Vice-Chancel-
lor Lord Cranworth on that day, when it was or-
dered that the decree of the Master should be re-
versed, and that the name of the said William
Cooper, jun., should be expunged from the said list of
contributories of' the company as such allottee.
From this decree the present was the appeal from
the official manager.
In the second case, that of Hutton v. Thompson,
the appeal was made by the official manager of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton
Rail way Company, under the Winding-up Acts,
against an order of Vice-Chancellor Lord Cranworth,
which, as in the above case, went to reverse the cer-
tificate and order of Master Brougham, by which the
name of Henry Thomas Thompson had been put on
the list of contributors. The main distinction between
the two cases was this—that while the respondent
Cooper did not pay any deposit, the respondent
Thompson not only accepted the allotment so made
to him, but paid the deposit on his twenty shares,
amounting to 521. 10s.
This case presented an additional feature by the
wording of the letter of allotment. The outline of the
case was as follows :—A company was projected in
1845 to construct a railway frem Birmingham to
Oxford, and thence to Reading and Brighton. The
project was provisionally registered under the title
and style of " The Birmingham, Oxford, and Brigh-
ten Railway." A prospectus having been issued in
the accustomed form, the respondent Thompson, oa
the 10th of October, 1845, applied for an allotment of
thirty shares. This application was responded to by
an allotment of twenty shares, intimated by the fol-
lowing letter:—
"Letter of Allotment. Not transferrable.
" Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton
Railway.
" Capital, 2,000,000/. in 80,000 shares of 251. each. De.
posit, 21._125. ed.

" No. of letter, 8. No. of shares, 100.
" 46„Bloorgato-street, London, 18th October, 1845.
" Sir,—The committee of management have allotted
to you.twenty shim s in this undertaking, and aw. di'
reeted to request you will pay the deposit of 21. 12s. fid.
per share, amounting to 521, 10i., into one of the un°

dormentioned banks on or before Friday, the 24th day
of October, 1845, or this allotment will be null and void.
" This letter, with the barker's receipt appended
thereto, will be exchanged for scrip upon your present-
ing, it at the offices of the company, and uxecuting the
Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement,
which will lie at the above offices on and after the 27th
of October, and notice will be given when the deeds
will be sent into the country.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"J. B. RAYNER, Secretary.

" To Henry Thomas Thompson, Esq."
The respondent duly paid the deposit of 2/. 12e. 6d.
per share on the said shares to the bankers of the
company. Of the 70,000 shares allotted the deposits
were paid on 4,295 only, and the undertaking was
consequently abandoned. The committee of manage-
ment, collectively and individually, paid large sums
of money on account of debts properly contracted by
them in discharge of their duties in the due prosecu-
tion of the undertaking, and other debts of the company
are still remaining due and unpaid. On the 21st
day of December, 1849, an order was made by the
Vice-Chancellor, on the petition of Stopford Thomas
Jones, whereby it was ordered that the said " Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Rail-
way Company " should be dissolved and wound up.
Master Brougham, the Master in rotation, to whom
the windieg-up of the company was referred, on the
28th of January, 1850, appointed the appellant
" official manager ' of the company. The appellant
made out and delivered to the master a list of the
contributories of the company, and in such list he
included the name of the respondent, Henry Thomas
Thompson as a contributory, and as an " allottee of
shares," who had paid his deposit in respect of twenty
shares. The Master settled this list, and included
the name of the respondent as a contributory in res-
pect of the twenty shares. The respondent there-
upon appealed from that certificate, and upon that mo-
tion Lord Cranworth reversed the direction of the
Master, and ordered that the name of the respondent
should be excluded from the list of contributories. Tue
present was an appeal from that order, with a view to
its being discharged, upon the ground that " the said
Henry Thomas Thompson, according to the true con-
struction of the winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, is a
contributory of the said company within the true in-
tent and meaning of the said Acts, or one of them."
The LORD CLIANCELLOR having now recapitulated
the above facts of both cases, said that in the outset be
would confine his remarks to the case of Hutton v.
Thompson, for if in that instance the shareholder
proved not to be liable in the character of a contribu-
tor, he could not, .1 fortiori, be so in the case of Nor-
ris v. Cooper, as in the former case the shareholder
bad performed a most important act, namely, that of
paying the deposit upon his allotment, a pro-
ceeding which had not come to pass in Norris
a. Cooper. Now, the question which arose in
this case was this,—was Mr. Thompson liable to
have his name inserted in the list of contributories ?
It had been argued, in maintenance of the proposi-
tion that he was so liable that, by his application
for the allotment, and his subsequent payment of the
deposits, he had made himself a member of the com-
pany, and therefore that, as such member of the com-
pany, he had thereby rendered himself liable to the
expense of the concern. But the true facts of the
case clearly went to prove that they failed to establish
any such liability in the party. It was competent in
Mr. Thompson to recover back the deposits which he
had paid upon the allotment, and consequently it was
impossible that he could be held responsible and liable
to pay a sum of money under a proceeding in the
Master's office, which money he bad himself the power
of recovering back by a suit at law. Now, as to the
case of Hutton and Upfill, that case was not an
authority which went to establish the liability ; but,
on the contrary, it rather set up the reverse position,
seeing that that case required that there should be two
distinct acts performed in order to make out the lia-
bility, whereas in the present case there existed but
one of two acts. Such being the case, then, he was
clearly of opinion that the decree of the Court below
was correct, and that it ought now to be affirmed by

that House.
Lord CRANWORTII was of the same opinion, and
would not have added a word to what had fallen from
his Noble and Learned Friend had it not been that
he wished to have it distinctly understood that, on
the rehearing of these cases in that House, he had
never doubted the correctness of the opinion and judg-
ment he had pronounced in the court below. He did
not entertain the slightest doubt on the matter. This
was quite clear and distinct, that a person who had
accepted shares in any company was not to be held
responsible or liable for the expenses which were in-
curred in the process of the formation of such com-
pany. Two statutes had been relied on as establish-
ing the liability ; but, in his opinion, those statutes
altogether failed to produce that effect, for they
merely afforded facilities for recovering in those cases
where the liability was already in existence.
The judgment of the Court below was then affirmed
with costs.

ELLCOCK V. MAPP.

This was an appeal from a judgment of Lord Cot-
tenham, pronounced oa the 31st of January, 1849.
The question at issue was as to the construction
which ought to be put upon the will of a barrister of
the name of Samuel Henry Pare, of Lower Bcrneys,
in the island of Barbadoes.

The case was argued in February last.
The LORD CHANCELLOR now moved that in this
case the judgment of the Court below should be
affirmed.

The judgment of the Court below wail then affirmed.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 8.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.)
1N RE J. LIMI3IRD.
To-day was fixed for the proof of debts and choice
of assignees in the matter of this bankrupt, the sta-
tioner in the Strand. There was not a numerous at-
tendance of creditors. The bankrupt's whole liabili-
ties amount to about 1,3001.; the amount of assets
are rather uncertain, the stock in trade having been
recently sold under an execution for rent.
Mr. Starkey, of the firm of Cripps and Starkey,
wholesale stationers, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, was
chosen trade assignee ; Mr. Whitmore is the official
assignee ; Mr. Smith, Basinghall-street, solicitor
to the fiat ; and Mr. Thomas appointed the ac-
countant.
His HONOUR granted to the bankrupt an allowance
of 21. 103. a week.

IN RE SLATE.
This was a meeting for choice of assignees. The
bankrupt was a bookbinder, of King's Head-court,
Hatton-garden. His debts and liabilities are inti-
mated at about 5,0001.
Assignees were appointed, and Messrs. Harding,
Pullein, and Co. appointed the accountants in the case
by the court.

IN RE WINI. WATSON.

The bankrupt, oi the Barley Mow, Salisbury-
court, Fleet-street, applied for his certificate, supported
by Mr. Linklater. There was no opposition. The
accounts prepared by Mr. Thomas showed the debts
to amount to 2,300/, assets about 2301.
Mr. LINKLATER stated that the bankrupt had been
in business many years, and had lately been strug-
gling with the knowledge and consent of his credi-
tors. He had done all he could to benefit his credi-
tors, and five or six of the chief ones, now present,
would not object to even a first-class certificate.
There had been a loss on the realization of property,
and he bad been unfortunate in an action which had
been brought against him respecting a sum of 500/.
His sister was a creditor to the amount of 7001., and
the bankrupt had rendered his services to the as-
signees.
His Homoun awarded a second-class certificate.
IN ER JOSEPH CHARLES RIDGE.
The bankrupt, a wine-merchant, carrying on busi-
noss at Great St. Helen's, applied for his certificate.
Mr. Jer wood, Ely-place, appeared for the assig-
nees, and offered no opposition.
His HONOUR observed that there was nothing at all
for the creditors.

The bankrupt explained that his present debts arose
out of old transactions, and that his expenses had in
no way exceeded his profits.
His Horroutt said that the bankrupt owed to credi-
tors upwards of 8001., independently of liabilities
amounting to 1,4001., and there were no assets. lie
could not grant higher than a common certificate.
Third-class certificate accordingly.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, August 8.
The commission for the county of Surrey was
opened on Thursday, and this morning business was
proceeded with in both courts at ten o'clock, Lord
Chief Justice Jervis presiding on the Civil Side, and
Mr. Baron Alderson in the Crown Court. There are
eighty-one causes for trial, nine of which are spetial
jury cases. A great many of the others are unde-
fended, and the list, it is believed, will turn out very
rotten. The gaol calendar only comprises nine
cases, and all the charges are of the most ordinary
description.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron
AL-
DEESON.)
Baron ALDERSON delivered- a very brief charge to
the grand jury, merely congratulating them upon the
I lightness 'of the calendar and the absence of any
charge of magnitude.

THE FRIMLEY MURDER.
Hiram Smith, Alias Richard Trawler, 27, labourer,

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ri
swo•aoredr, Honest,whose
aapt
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Georgee Ed y
was placed at the bar, to plead to a coroner's inquisi-
tion charging him with the wilful murder of the Rev. ,
Th
improved since he has been under confinement, and
pFrria2aniceeY. has very much
ssho while standing in the dock exhibited the same
calm and unconcerned demeanour he did at the trial
of his guilty companions, not guilty.
pleaded
• Baron ALDERSON, after the
jury had been empa-
nelled, addressed them, and said that in this case no
evidence would be offered against the
prisoner, for very
good reasons, with which, no doubt, they were ac-
quainted. Faith, he said,'must be kept with all per-
sons, and no evidence being offered, they would say
'that" the prisoner was not guilty.
The jury having returned that verdict, his Lordship
ordered the prisoner to be discharged, and he was at
once set at liberty.
Hester Eliza Sleigh, 50, a person of ladylike ap-
pearance, and the widow cf a lieutenant in her Ma-
jesty's service, surrendered to take her trial upon a
-charge of feloniously forging and uttering a receipt
for 193. 3d., with intent to defraud.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Robinson were for the pro-
secution • Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Creasy were coun-
sel for the prisoner.
The nature of the offence imputed to the accused
lady appeared to be that of forging the receipt of the
collector of the assessed . taxes for lthe amount for a
half-year due at Michaelmas,lBso; It appeared that
the prisoner lived with her son, in the village of
Hazlemere, and that the collector for that district was
a Mr. William Berry, who died some time in No-
vember last. The case for the prosecution was, that
upon application being made to the prisoner for the
taxes due at Lady-day, 1851, she asked for time, and
upon her being told that the preceding half-year's
taxes were in arrests' she asserted that she had paid
the amount, and produced the receipt, which formed
the subject of the present indictment. It seemed that
the transaction had excited a good deal of interest in
the village, and that subsequently to this indictment
being preferred proceedings in connexion with the
receipt were tried in the county court for the district,
when the prisoner was examined as a witness, and
she then swore positively that she had paid the
money to the deceased collector on the 281 October,
and stated that he wrote the receipt while he was
standing outside the door of the house, she not
being able to ask him in doors as usual, on account
of a sick person being in her room. The prin-
cipal witness against the accused was the son f
the deceased, who swore positively that he had
applied to her for payment of the arrears of taxes
after the date of the supposed receipt, and that she
never suggested at that time that such a document
was in existence. This witness, in cross-examination,
however, admitted that there was an ill feeling
subsisting between him and the prisoner, and it
appeared that he was a party to legal proceedings that
were still pending with a son of the prisoner.
Several witnesses were examined, who expressed a
belief that the signature to the receipt was not in the
handwriting of the deceased ; but the reasons they
gave for coming to that conclusion were of a very
extraordinary, not to say absurd, character, and were
very far indeed from being satisfactory.
Mr. BALLAISTINE made a most earnest and able
address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He
contended that her conduct throughout the entire
transaction had been that of an honourable and respect-
able person, and that there was not the slightest
foundation for the charge that was made against her.
With regard to any slight difference that might appear
in the writing of the receipt to that of the deceased's
ordinary writing, he submitted that it was satisfac-
torily accounted for by the circumstances under which
it appeared to have been written—namely, while
the deceased was standing up, and probably writing
upon a book or in some other inconvenient manner ;
and he remarked upon the improbability that a
person in the respectable position of the prisoner
should have subjected herself to the serious conse-
quences that must inevitably ensue upon conviction
for so paltry an amount. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to say that it appeared to him that the case
had been got up by the son of the deceased partly
'from a feeling of towards the prisoner, and
partly to prevent her from being a witness against
him in the action which was still pending, and which
if he should have a verdict pass against him would ne-
cessarily cause him serious expense. He concluded a
very eloquent speech by calling upon the jury to
acquit the prisoner and to enable her to return to her
home with the same unsullied reputation which she
had enjoyed up to the period of this transaction.
At the close of the address of the Learned Counsel
there were cries of "Hear, hear," and applause from
the body of the court.
His LORDSHIP immediately ordered that portion of
the court to be cleared, observing that such unseemly
proceedings could not for a moment be tolerated in a
court of justice.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and
The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.
The prisoner was ordered to be immediately dis-
charged from custody.
Nothing of interest took place in the Civil Side.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug 7.
The commission was opened here yesterday by Mr.
Baron Martin. The Crown Court was opened for
business to-day at ten, and the Nisi Prius at twelve.
In the latter court were four cases for trial, of which
one was marked for a special jury—two of the others
have engaged the attention of the Court all day. The
calendar contained the names of 50 prisoners. Of
these 2 are charged with perjury, 3 with forgery, 5
with burglary and housebreaking, 2 with assault and
robbery, 2 with murder, 9 with stabbing and cutting
and wounding, 1 with assaulting a constable, 1 with
bigamy, 1 with rape, and the rest with larcenies and
other cases commonly disposed of at sessions. A
great number of cases have been disposed of to-day,
but they have been, with one exception, of a trivial
character.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
Margaret Williams, 32 ; Ann Lewis, 52; and
Elizabeth Smith, 27, were indicted for having felo-
niously assaulted Daniel Tourbs, and stolen from his
person one gold watch worth 101. and a silk um-
brella, at the borough of Newport, on the 22d of
March last.
Mr. Huddle3tone conducted the prosecution ; Mr.
Cooke defended Williams. The others were unde-
fended.
The prosecutor was returning home late at night,
the
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and was accosted by two women, who left him,
whereupon he was immediate].) knocked down, kicked,
and rendered senseless. The neighbours came up,
and he remained senseless for several hours. He was
a anys
p
and the umbrella to the several prisoners under cir-
cmuamnsyt unablea
witnessesnt
coesido identify n
great u
the robbery. There was also some evidence to show
that they were near the spot in question on the above
night.
The jury found them all guilty of receiving the
goods knowing them to be stolen.
His LORDSHIP said he concurred entirely in the
verdict. It was clear they were associated with a
formidable gang, and therefore it was necessary for
the safety of passengers through the town of New-
port that they should be removed for a time out of
the country, and the sentence would be that they
should be transported for seven years.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron MAaTIN and

Common Juries.)
BOND V. WALKER.
Mr. Whately and Mr. Skinner appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Whitmore
for the defendant.
On the 4th of August last year the plaintiff was a
passenger on the Newport and Tredegar mail coach
from Tredegar to Newport. The defendant was the
proprietor of the coach, and generally drove it him-
self ; but that day it was driven by a man named
Wynne. The road lies through a mineral district,
and is crossed by several tram-roads and a canal,
which also run parallel to it for some distance.
Newbridge was the first stage from Tredegar, and
there the coach changed horses. When the groom
brought out a blind little mare the coachman tld
him to change her harness, as he was going to drive
her on the near side, and added, " Walker tells me
she will not go on the near side, but I have driven her
myself and so has Charles Phillips."
The mare went
awkwardly along the road, bearing from the whe€l
to the pole. The coachman tried to keep her straight
with his whip and reins, and pulled her up more than
once. The mare pulled chiefly to the off side, and
.
once pulled the coach agai9st a hedge on the road-
side. When she pulled against the hedge a passenger
said to the coachman, " You had better change this
mare, or you will get upset;" and he answered,
" You need not fear. There is no danger—she will
go very well directly." As they were approaching that
part of the road which was parallel to the canal the
same passenger said again, " If you do not change
before we get to the canal we shall get in." The coach-
mad replied, " We must change the mare when we get
to Risca." Risca is five or six miles from Newbridge.
The passenger again observed, " It will take only the
same time to change here as there." But the coachman
.aid, " Never mind—we shall be right directly.'
' Tae coach went on tolerably well till it came to a
tramway belonging to the Monmouthshire Railway

Brl3 C" Company, when it 5u,11.,.n1y jt-ANI ittd
threw the coachman of" and upon the horses, who
being greatly frightened aeA uncontrolled,
ran srztv or seventy yards till the coach drove against
the bank on the off side, and was conanletely upset,
and the passengers thrown off. The plainta bad Ds
leg broken, and the scalp of his forehead severely in.
jured. He was in a very dangerous state for a consi-
derable time. His life w.ts at one time in danger.
Erysipelas supervened on the injury t') the scalp. He
was still very unwell and lame, but the medical man
hoped that he would in a short time completely re-
cover. In consequence of this accident the plaintiff
lost the advantage of settling some accounts which
he that day was going to settle; and another person
Who was employed for the purpose got no less than
2501. for the job. The issue turned entirely on the
state of the rails on the trammed. It was clicited'on
cross-examination of the plaintiff's'witneases that the.
rails on the trammed were very high,. over the line of
road, and they were of opinion that the accident was
at•ributabl, not to any negligence on the part of the
defendant or his coachrnan, but to negligence on the
part of the Mcntnouthhire Railway and Canal Com-
pany, in leaving the rails so high above the level of
the carriage way ; and that, in order to prevent any
other accident of the like nature that company should
at once lower the rails.
Verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Yesterday, Colonel Reid, M.l'., attended before
Mr. Jardine, to prefer a complaint against George
nudge, driver of 1,405 cab, for refusing to take him
in his vehicle, demanding more than his fare, and also
refusing to show his badge when required.
The complainant stated that between twelve and
one o'clock on the morning of the .oeh July, accom-
panied by Mr. Richards, M.P., he walked to the top
of the liaymarke.t, from the House of Commons,
when his friend called to the defendant to know the
amount of his :fare to Portland-place. He was
smoking a pipe„ at the time, and he answered " Only
two shillings, whichewas evidently one shilling
more than he was entitled to. Upon which they
bade him " Good evoleg,,,
and were proceeding,
when witness, having changed his mind, said, " Open
the door, and when you et to Portland-place I will
pay you your legal fare." The defendant then placed
himself before the door of the cab to prevent them
getting in. Witness observing he was forgetting
himself, slightly placed his hand upon his shoulder
and moved him aside, when he said " Don't push me,
I won't be pushed by any person, insisting on keep.
ing the door closed. He next demanded that he
would exhibit his badge, but he took no notice ; in
consequence of which dr. Richards went behind and
tool: the number of his carriage.
In answer to the charge, the defendant said ha
derstood Portland Town was the place mentioned, to
which 2s. would be the legal fare, ls. 6d being the
fere to Portland-place, and he thnied having reikeed
to show his badge, which was as usual hanging out-
sid .! his coat, and the gentlemen might have seen it if
they took the least trouble.
Upon examination of the defendant's licence, it ap-
peared he had been fined on a former occasion, and
he was ordered to pay a penalty of 101. fur each
offence, with 63. costs.
In the course of the afternoon the Court was occue
pied in disposing of charges against several pick-
pockets, who appeared to have been exceedingly active
in St. James's Park and the streets adjoining during
her Majesty's progress to the Houses of Parliament,
each of whom was adjudicated to a punishment pro-
portionate to the offence proved.
SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday, Ann Tilson, a poor emaciated looking
female, was brought before Mr. Beadon charged with
attempting to drown herself in the River Thames.
John Gronow, a seaman, stated that while he was
going on board his vessel at St. John's-stairs, Horse-
lydown, he heard a splash in the water, and at the
same time a loud scream. On looking about he per-
ceived a female plunging about in the river near the
end of his boat. He instantly pulled his hat and coat
off and jumped over, seized hold of her dress, and with
considerable difficulty succeeded in getting her
ashore. She was then insensible, but with the assist-
ance of a shipmate he conveyed her to a surgeon's in
the neighbourhood, where the usual remedies were
applied, and she was soon restored to animation. It
was nearly high water at the time, and had he not
heard the plash in the water she must have been
drowned.
Mr. BEADON asked whether anything was known of
the prisoner ? Police-constable 145 M replied that
about a quarter of an hour previous he had seen her
quarrelling with a man in the street, and at his in-
terference they walked away. While he was return-
ing on his beat he saw last witness and another man
carrying her insensible to a surgeon's. She was soon
afterwards restored, and then he conveyed her to the
police station.
Mr. BEADON asked her what answer she had to
make to the charge ?
She replied that she was compelled to support her
husband and children by shirtmaking. She worked
nearly all day and night, and could not earn more
than three or four shillings a week, the most of which
her husband took from her and expended in a public.
house. The children were consequently deprived of
food, and when she remonstrated with him he de-
manded the small pittance which she had earned, and
on refusing him he knocked her down. She then
became desperate, and in a state of frenzy jumped
into the river. She was now heartily sorry for what
she had done, and would promise the magistrate never
to repeat it.
Mr. B ELDON said she had made a very rash attempt
upon her life, and ought to be thankful to the sailor
who had saved her from a watery grave. Whatever
treatment she might have received from her husband
would not authortse her to commit suicide. There.
fore, he should order her to find bail for her future
conduct.