The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Drone, from Newcastle for Philadelphia, March 9, in
lat. 40 N., long. 30 W.
Louisa barque, from Antwerp for Valparaiso, Jan. 4, in
lat. 39 S., long. 44 W.
Mount Stewart Elphinstone, from London for Adelaide,
Jan. 20, six days' sail.
Gratitude, from the Clyde for Moulmein, Dec. 20, in
long. 88 E.
Saghalien, from Manilla for Qzeenstown, Feb. 22, in
lat. 7 N., long. 28 W.
Emma Graham brig, running to the southward and

westward, Feb. 24w, lat. 12 N., long. 26 W.
Vesta, from Dublin for New York, Feb. 26, in lat. 51 N.,
long. 9 W.
Liverpool, from Liverpool for Coquimbo, in lat. 1 N.,
long. 21 W., out 43 days.
Elise, from Tampico for Bremen, Jan. 31, in lat. 5 N.,
long. 10 W.
Lady Hilda, from London, in lat. 20 N., long. 40 W.
Clansman barque, of Glasgow, in lat. 22 N., long. 41 W.
Augusta, from the Clyde for Calcutta, in lat. 2 N., long.
21 W.
Sisters, from Moulmein for London, in lat. 3 W., long.
21 W.
A ship, supposed to be the Clifton, from Manilla for
Cork, the same day.
Wanderer barque, from Liverpool for Havannah, Feb.
28, in lat. 26 N , long. 36 W.
Lenhouse barque, from Calcutta for Liverpool, March
11, in lat. 52 N., long. 23 W.
William of Hayle, March 8, east of Gibraltar.
Pegasus schooner, bound south, March 17, in long. 8 W.
Oriental, American ship, from London for China, Feb.
14, in lat. 3 N., long. 22 W.
Prince Regent, out 35 days, Feb. 20, in lat. 9 N., long.

31 W. _
Lay Landys, from Ceylon, Jan. 23, in lat. 45 S., long.
26 E.
Admiral Kenshuger, from Batavia, Feb. 31, in lat. 35 S.,
long. 20 E.
Symmetry, from Ceylon for London, Feb. 1, in lat. 32
S., long. 15 E.
James Shephard, from the Mauritius for London, Jan.
30, in lat. 35 S., long. 36 E.
Europe, French ship, for Cayenne, Jan. 27, in lat. 44 N.,
long. 13 W.
Mexican, from Bordeaux for Guadaloupe, Feb. 3, in lat.
45 N., long. 11 W.
Perseverant, French ship, for Marseilles, Jan. 8, in lat.
30 long. 11 E.
Mary Ann Peters, from Bristol for New York, March
5, in lat. 41, long. 29.
Caroline Mary Clark, American ship, fur New York, in
lat. 45, long. 17.
Bruy, of Annan, March 11, in lat. 32 N., long. 14 W.
Lusanne, from Singapore for the Mauritius, Dec. 22, off
Java Head.
Annie, from Adelaide for the Mauritius, Jan. 7, in lat.
22 S., long. 68 E.

Charlotte, trom Liverpool for Bombay, Jan. 8, in lat. 23
S.. long. 67 E.
Ottawa. of Glasgow, from London for the Mauritius,
Feb. 1, in lat. 33 S., long. 15 E.
_ _ _

Norjina (?), of Dundee, from Cadiz for Calcutta, Jan.
22, in lat. 17 S , long. 32.
Rosgo, of and for Cork from Rio Grande, Feb. 3, in lat.
1 S., long. 31.

THE BOASTED UNITY OF THE ROMISH
CHURCH. _ _

In the bosom of that Church which called and still
calls herself indivisible, which claimed and still claims
her oneness as her proof of catholicity, there were, and
are schisms as numerous and as alienating as can be
found in the past or present history of any society
calling itself Christian. Let her own historian
enumerate some of them:—Benedict sth anti-Pope
to Leo the Bth ; Bonifsce the 7th, Benedict
the 6th„and John the 14th, all opposed; John the 17th
against Gregory the sth; Sylvester the 3d in con-
flict with Benedict the Bth ; Honorius the 2d contradict-
ing 2d. These are but a few of the occa-
sions on which she has uttered uncertain and discrepant

sounds up to the time of the tale before us. Time and
space would fail us did we more than m',ntio❑
instances in after ages, when Gregory the Sal and
Gelasius the 2d. Celestintiq the 2d and Honorius 2,1,
Auacletus 2d and Innocent 2d, Victor the 4th and Alex-
ander the 3,1. Nicholas sth and John the 21st, Clement
the 7th and Urban the 6th, each anathematized the other,
—each disannulled his rival's laws and judgments,—
each invested with apostolical succesion his own followers,
and pronounced all other orders to be invalid. And
seeing that of none of these irregularities bath the Ro-
man Church ever purged herself,—seeing that her returns
to unity have been forms of compromise between con-
testing parties, not the triumph of an ancient truth—
where is her boasted oneness? What Roman Catholic
can prove to his own conviction that the decisions which
guide his faith are not the voices of usurpers? What
one can confidently be assured that the oil of consecra-
tion which fell upon the head of his soul's priest did not
drop from the wrath-vial of some spurious Pontiff?"—
Hildebrand and the Emperor.

Dividend ' Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Pile,.
Annum. Share.
------
A a. d. s. d.
Australasia •.••• • •• •• 41. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
BritshNorth American W. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Cey,lon ••••..•• • • • • •• 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial.. .. •••• .• • 21. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire ••• • • • 151 per cent. -
lonian ••••..• • • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Loudon and County •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Londn and Westrainstr GI. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 177.,
Provincial of Ireland- 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43
Ditto, New..• ••• • • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rational of Ireland •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0
Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ••.• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia •• •• •• 61 per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union et Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 33%
Ditto ........ • • • • 6/. per cent. - 2 10 0 -
Union of London •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Union of Madrid .•• • • - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
ZrZSITILANCIt COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X s. 4.
Albion .. •.•••• •• • • • • 3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Alliance Brit. and For. 7114 a 6d &bs 100 0 0 ll 0 0 -
Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6 p et. & be. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Atlas .
Argus Life • •• • • •• 4/.per cent. 100 e 0 16 0 0 -
firitisii Commercial •• 'Ts. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 734
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 103 0 0 10 0 0 20
t-2.ounty •. • 41. 100 0 0 • 10 0 0 86
Crown •• • • •• • • 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 15
Eagle ••• • • • ...... •• • • ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
European Life ...... 10e. 20 0 0 All paid. 1134
General 5 0 0 5X
Gibbe
Guardian •. • • • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 56
Imperial Fire •• • 121, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 245
imperial Life • • .• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1838
Indemnity Marine • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 47U,
Law Fire 100 0 0 210 0 2%
11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 46
Leal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 4%
Licensed Victuallers .• 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Lcriden Fire 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
London Ship
'darine 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 6%
Mcd_invlid &Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 ,0 0 20 0 23¢
siational Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 ' 0 0 210 0 2%
iational Life-- fa. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Palladium Life ..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2!.g
l'n(enix .. •• • ...... . • 3/. p. sh. & bs. - 155
Professional Life...... 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 2os. Od
Provident Life • • ...... 11. Os. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
`lock Life.... ss. 5 0 0 010 0 6%
r.oyal Exchange...... 61. p.ct. & bs. Stock. 220
Fire 61. 10s. 209
Pitt, Hie 11. 62. 48
United Kinf;dom 41. p. et& bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4%
univeriel Life........ 10X ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life ..

IiXTATESL-NVORES.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid.
Annum. Share.
.£ s. d. £ s.
East L0nd0n...... •• •• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0
Grand Janction •••• •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0
...• ...... 41. per cat. 100 0 0
Lambeth ••• • .. 51. per cnt. 100 0 0
New Rivr Lndn Erdge 41. Os.
Vauxhall .......• •• •• 51. per cnt. 100 0 0
West Middlesex • • . 61.05. pr cut.
DOGXIS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. £ e.
Commercial •• 41. pr cent. Stock.
East and West Ind's... 61. pr cent. Stock.
East Country
London •
Ditto Bonds •• •• •• •• it. per cent. -
St. Katharine .......• 3% per cent. Stock.
Ditto 80nd5...-. •• 4%1. pr cent. -
Southampton •• •• •• • • 21. per cent., 50 0 0 50 0
itELIIIIM ES
Dividend Amount
Namo of Company. per of Paid.
Annum. Share.
X. S. d. X. s.
Charing-crosS •• • • • •
Southwrk .......... 100 0 0
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0
Waterloo .... • • • • 100 0 0
Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. 4s. 041. 60 0
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. 40 0
Vauxhall Av. 11. 70 10 3
C./1.18-81.13.
mi Divide
Names of Dividend, Names of
, Price. per
Companies. per
Companies. Annul
m ' Annum. cri
X X \
Ashtn& Oldh 971 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100, 21. 10
Barnsloy• •• • 1601 121. 180 `Leath •• •• • • 100 161.
larkuktlbrg 150, 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 100 20/.
Birmingham 401 41. 92 Peak Forest. 7n 31. 18
Coventry.. •• WO 251. 200 Regent's .... 331 1/. 3:
Derby. ••• .. 100 61. 63 Roehdalo..• • 86 41.
Elismre&Chs 1:33 355. 26% iomrset Coal m , 7/.10
(3randJunctn 100 41. pr. ct. GO Do.Litird St 12 61. p.
Do., 6 pr. Ct. - 8 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/.
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 32 Shrewsbury.. 125 -
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stottrbridge.. 145 201.
Kennt Ec Avn 39 4s. 04. 4 Severn and' 21. Os
Lancaster . 100 4/. - Wye Rail. 26
Lecds&Livrp 100 241. 400 Warwick& / 41.
5 Leiceater ..•• 100 51. 66 Birming. lOO
Leicstr &Nth) 83 41. 44% Warwick&)
Lou ghboroglhll42 70/. 510 Napton..3 loci 81.
Monmouth& 100 81. - Worcstr & 78 31.
Mntgomryak 100 - - Birming.3
51eltratwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -11 s.

.£ s. d.

X e. d.

50 0 0

X. s. d.

6000
40 0 0

Dividend

per
Annum

21.1 08,
161.

201.
31. 18s.
11. 3s.

71.105.
61. p. c.
28/.

21. Os.

Price.

57%
97
109%

Price.

Price.

Price,

43,21.5.-I.IGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. is. d. Z. 0. d.
British ••••••• • • • • • • • IL 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial •• • • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton ••••.•• • • • • • 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. •• • • 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
ContinentalConsolidat 02s. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable -••••• • • • • • • 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Imperial ...... ••• • •• 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ..... -• • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London ••-•••• • • • • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0
Dittq ••••••• • • • • • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 6/. 25 0 0 710 0 -
Phoenix .••..• • • • • • 4l. 50 0 0 49 0 0 2834
51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United,General .. •• • • 11 50 0 0 50 0 0 15
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 45%
Ditto, New •••• -• • • 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----.- -.-. - ------
£ s. 0. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 19934
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 113{
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 173
Eastern Bank •••• •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 51. 4s.
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 4%
Esehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 153(
National Bank 6% percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15
Northof Seutlandßank 51. percent. 20 0 0 210 0 21.165.
Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130
Unionßank of Scotland 81. percent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 89
Western Bank.... •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 • 70
Alliance Fire and Life 3341. pr cent. 13 0 0 10 0 0 21
British Guarantee .. •.41. per sent. 10 0 0 10 0 18s 6d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 81
- Colonial Life -••• • • • 50 0 0 1 0 0 21. Os.
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20%
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 60 0 0 217 6 234
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21. 6s
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0
North British Incur 1 0 0 248.6 d
Scottish Union Insrnce. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 241.0 d
Standard Life
lc Halfma
nedarildteStaa American
BondsaLr.esnd 61.
per cent. -
61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 27
United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent., 10 0 0 1 0 0 'l7s 60
MISCELLANEOUS.
,
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
..--..--------- -.---. -.......
A. s. d. A. 8. d.
Assam Tea ••••• • • • • • 20 0 0 20 0 0 5
-
kuctir,n Mart •••• • • • • 21. ss, 50 0 0 - 28
Australian Agrieulturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
Australian Trust •• .. 6/. per cent. - 35 0 0 21
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21
BritishDpuiip ttpt. otor2 10 0 6
-
38 10 0 -
- --
Canada ... • • .... • • .. -
- 107%
City Navigation Bonds- 96
G6/1.. per cent. cceenntt.. 100
_...0 0 32
_lO 0 48)i
31 per cent. -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p.c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 9131
Equitable Reversionry sp.c.g, 58.5/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 109%
Ditto New ........ 50 0 0 210 0 2%
-
Gen .Steam Navigation 10 p. ct.& bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 28%
Hudson's 8ay........ - Stock. - -
Ilungerford ...... •• .. V. 58. - 100 0 0 47
London•lnstitntion ... - 78 15 0 7
-
New Zealand Company - 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New •••• • • • • - 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Russell Institution.... - 26 5 0 -
-
Peninslr& Orient•Stm. SI. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soe. 1%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 59%
Royal Mail Steam • ... 41. p. share. 100 0 0, 60 0 0 783{
South Australian..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 24
Van Dieman's Land., _ ten 0 0 29 0 0 2
AN AMERICAN LADY EDITOR.-The editress of
the Pitsburgh Advertiser says that she has such a contempt

AN AMERICAN ,ADT EDITOR.—The editress of
the Pitsburgh Advert, says that she has such a contempt
for the usual means of preserving health, that the only rea-
son she takes any pains to keep her feet dry, is to save the
expense of spoiling shoes. " I would just as lief walk in the
rain as the sunshine, wade through a run if it is not easy to
get over, and only take care to keep in motion until I get
home, take off my wet shoes, dip my feet irt a basin of cold
water, dry them, and put on dry shoes. I have not one bit
of doubt but a little courage, a daily bath, free breathing, and
Proper diet, would cure two-thirds of all thn consumptions,
dyspeptsia, liver. complaints, and all the other diseases, male
and female, which are so fast rendering us ti nation of doc-
tors, qiiitcks, and patients."
According to official returns, the maintenance of
political xefugece in Switzerland, for the year 1851., has cost
62,242 f.

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1851.

The jury eventually found the prisoners Clarke and
Summers.

The Learned JUDGE sentenced Clarke and Thomas to
bo transported for life, and Thomas Wilson and Harriet
Wilson to be transported for fourteen years.
The accomplice Turner, who had pleaded guilty to an-
other charge of felony, was sentenced to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six months.
These cases occupied the Court the whole of the day,
and were not finished until very late, and they concluded
the business of the assizes.

'MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Warwick, March 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Christopher Neely, aged 19, and Joseph Marshall, aged
20, were indicted for a burglary ut Birmingham.
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. O'Brien conducted the
prosecution; and Mr. Willmore defended the prisoners.
From the statement of the prosecutor, Thomas Mar-
ston, it appeared that during the night of the 7th of
October he was aroused from his sleep by hearing a noise
in his house; that looking down stairs he could see a
man crouching along a pasaage, and that he immediately
went down. Upon reaching the parlour, however, he
found two men there, and, considering he was over-
matched, he retreated up stairs. The men followed him,
and began beating him violently about the ixick and legs.
He then got one of the rails of the banisters to defend
himself with, and he struck at them and beat them as
well as he could; but one of the men had in his hand a
poker, and with that he struck the prosecutor several
times on the head, inflicting four severe wounds, which
bled profusely, and afterwards confined him to his bed
for a fortnight. The men made their escape at the time,
but without taking any property away with them. The
prisoners were a short time afterwards apprehended, and
the only question was, whether they were satisfactorily
identified as the men who committed the burglary. Many
circumstances were proved to connect them_ with it;
and after a protracted investigation,
The jury found a verdict of Guilty; whereupon sen-
tence of death was recorded.
March 26.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and a
Special Jury.)
SPItOSTON V. DAVIES.

This was an action of false imprisonment, to which
the defendant had pleaded not guilty, and, by way of
justification, that he was coroner of Birmingham, and
had ordered the plaintiff to be imprisoned fur a contempt
of his court during the holding of an inquest. The
pleadings were very complicated and voluminous, admi-
rably calculated, according to the statement of the coun-
sel and the judge, to render the matter as unintelligible
as possible.
Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Mellor, appeared for the
plaintiff; Mr. llumfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes for the
defendant.

The plaintiff is a surgeon and general medical practi-
tioner of Birmingham, and the defendant is a physician
there as well as coroner for the borough. The present
action arose out of the proceedings at an inquest held
on the Bth of October, 1849, upon the body of one Abra-
ham Bullows, who had died of cholera; and the Learned
Judge in the course of the trial commented upon the
folly and impropriety of holding such inquest, whereby
the privacy of families was invaded without assisting at
all the detection of crime. At the inquest in question
the plaintiff, who was the medical attendant of the do-
ceased, was examined as a witness, and the foreman of
the jury was now called upon to prove what took place
upon that occasion. He stated that the coroner
first asked the plaintiff, " At what time did you first see
the deceased?" To which the plaintiff answered " be-
tween twelve and one." The coroner then said, " When
next?" To which the reply was, " between five and six."
In answer to another question as to when he next saw
the deceased, the plaintiff replied, "It may be half-past
twelve or one." Whereupon the coroner said," That
will not do, sir, I must have a definite answer. If you
have any doubts you must say about." The plaintiff
replied, " Then say about, sir; but I believe it was be-
tween twelve and one." During this colloquy the plaintiff
had been sitting rather behind the coroner, who then
said, " Come from behind me, sir, and take that chair
in front of me and look me in the face and answer my
questions in a becoming manner." The plaintiff took
the chair in front, and said, " sir, I have endeavoured to
answer yourlquestions in a becoming manner." The
coroner said, "I won't be spoken to in that way ;" and
the plaintiff answered, " I have treated you as a gentle-
man, and expect the same treatment in return." The
examination of the plaintiff was then continued, and at
the end of it the coroner rose and severely reprimanded
the plaintiff: He said, " I have been her Majesty's
coroner for ten years, and was never so insulted before.
As supreme judge of this court—(Laughter)—l will up-
hold the dignity of the court. Now, sir, leave the room;
go; begone!" (Laughter.) The plaintiff was about to leave
the room, but as he was going ho said to the coroner,
" You shall hear from me, sir, in another way ;" upon
which the coroner called out, " Do you threaten me in
the execution of my duty ? Come back, sir." The
plaintiff came back, and then the coroner said, " You
hold out threats against me." The plaintiff replied, " I
hold out no threat, but you shall hear from me in ano-
ther way." The coroner then said he would commit
him, unless he retracted or apologised; but the plaintiff
refused, adding, " What I have said I reiterate." The
coroner then said to a policeman of the name of Long,
who was in attendance, " Take him to Moor-street." In
Moor-street the prison is situated in which at that time
all persons were detained who were awaiting removal to
the county gaol at Warwick. Long, however, instead of
taking the plaintiff to Moor-street, took him to the po-
lice-station in New-street, and the inspector at that
police-station, when he was told for what cause the
plaintiff had been brought there, sent to the coroner
to request that he would come and prefer a
charge, as otherwise he could not detain the
plaintiff. The coroner refused to go or to
sign the charge-sheet, which described the plain-
tiff's offence as contempt of court; but he sent word to
the inspector that the plaintiff must be detained, and
that if the officer discharged him it would be at his peril.
He also stated that the charge was quite right. Th©
reading of the charge-sheet caused no little amusement.
It was divided into columns with separate headings.
Under the heading " Witness" was written "By order
of the coroner;" and under the head " Offence proved"
was written the word " discharged." The Learned
Judge suggested that it was a curiosity worthy of the
Great Exposition.—(Laughter.) The plaintiff was taken
to the police-station at ten minutes past nine in the
evening, and at ten minutes past eleven let out on bail
to appear before the magistrate next morning. On the
following morning he did attend in tho magistrates'
room, and the only magistrate present was the defendant.
Upon taking his seat at the table he said, "I take my
seat here to day as coroner, and not as magistrate." He
then turned to a policeman and said, " Put up Mr.
Henry Sproston." The plaintiff stood up, and his at-
torney then endeavoured to address the defendant, but
he would not hear him. He called upon the plaintiff to
retract or apologise, but the plaintiff refused to do se;
and then the defendant suddenly said, "The case is dis-
missed."

For the it of the plaintiff under the cir-
cumstances above described the present action was
brought. On the pa:ct of the plaintiff it was contended
that a coroner has no right to commit for contempt at
all; and that question was reserved for future considera-
tion in the court above. It was also urged, that, at all
events, the defendant had no right to commit for an in-
definite time, or to any place but the county gaol or the
House of Correction; and that the imprisonment at tba
station in New-street, and at the magistrate's office_ oen_
the following morning, was altogether unauthorised, _l3.
came, as soon as the inquest was over, the defendell t,s
authority as coroner terminated.
essed his
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up,
p ht into
the
regret that this matter should have been es gassed
r
court. It would have been much better_ _if
song, two
and
doctors had used the language of the old
said— Pt
doubt that the
However, in in point of law, he had
" Brother, brother, we're both in the wrong.
goner, at all events, exceeded his
of ,ornmees which
was no tribunal except the Houser `-'
an indefinite time.
fur there
could legally commit to prison have an opportu-
foounlaOduthority;
court above; and to
If he was wrong the defendant
.we
city of setting him right in tti
he would ask them to
assessav oi d thethe
damages expense of each of the imprison-
ments complained of. _ time, and found a verdict
The jury retired for sem°
sanevaorthateerlytrfior
10/. for the imprisonment
-street and at the magis-
trate's for
tthhee
in the imprisonment during the
trato's office, and ls. Ac
inquest.
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LlRCUl—xeter, March 24.
WESTERN attended Divine service in the
clord.i?yd.ge
of the name of Bradford was put to
having murdered her two children
Cathedral hhepdoroijarle
wayroenstneti
with
the bar charged. thew into the canal. This unhappy
by throwingderaeged upwards of two years ago, and
woman was state she threw two of her children into
was committed to prison, and was
into court two years ago, but was two insane
brought
A She was again put to the bar at the last
twhheilceaninal.thatsbe
to plead. -
sumese.
T. assizes, as it was then supposed she was so
much better that she could have pleaded and been diss
Sering so.many people in court, and naming
thell offence with which she was charged, had such au
effect upon her that it was necessary instantly to re-
move her from the court. To-day she was brought up,
•
a appeared
nd quite calm and collected. When called
upon to plead, she said she was Not guilty.
part of the prosecution, said that
heMshro. tiLltl"noz'toonffete
rhany evidence, and a verdict of Not
Guilty having been recorded, she was at once discharged
and given up to her husband.
Henry Dodge was indicted for setting fire to a stack
of corn, the property of Ann Pitts, at Dawlish, on the
19th of August last.
Mr. Jerwood was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr
'Carter defended the prisoner.
The facts were extremely simple. The prisoner was
a farm labourer in the employ of Mrs. Pitts. He did
do his work to the satisfaction of the son of Mrs. Pitts,
and he was paid his wages and told to leave; he made
use of some threatening language, and in the evening he
was seen to set the rick on fire.
The defence was that the sons of Mrs. Pitts were not
to be believed.
The jury, however, found the prisoner Guilty.
He w'is sentenced to 10 years' transportation.
Mr. Butt, Q.C., tried prisoners all day on Saturday.
' The cases in the civil court have been most uninter-
esting so far as the general reader is concerned.

THE COLD WATER CURE FOR VAGRANTS.-At
Wexford—Rays an Irish paper—they have got rid of va-
grants by a simple process: twenty-four hours' imprison-
ment and a thorough washing. No beggar submitted twice
to the cold water. It is an old belief that Truth ha; boars
in a well; and, it would seem that her sister Charity—in her
best moments—is to be found at a pump,—Punch.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
Ali 1
ROBBERY BY A PoLE AT LORD DUDLEY STUART'S.
—Yesterday a Polo, named I?aubushi, 14as placed at the
bar, before Mr. Broughton, cri the charge of bavirg
comicitted a robbery at the residence of Lord Dudley
Stuart, Stratford-place, Oxford-street.
It appeared from the evidence that on Friday last the
prisoner went to the house, and having rung the bell,be
was admitted by one of the servants, to whom he
handed a letter addressed to his Lordship; he took the
said letter upstairs, leaving the prisoner in the hall, and
on his going down to give an answer, he found that the
prisoner had decamped, taking with him a coat belong-
ing to Mr. Birkbeck, a barrister, who, at the time, was
his Lordship's guest at dinner. The letter alluded .to
falsely purported to be written by Lieut. Szulczewski,
secretary to the Literary Association of the Friends of
Poland, and it recommended " the bearer" to assistance
in the sum of 7s. 6d. At six o'clock last Monday eriso-
ven-
ing Police constable 172 C took into custody the p
nor, who was pointed out to him by the secretary, by
whom he was recognised while walking along Piccadilly.
He admitted having stolen the coat, and said that he
had sold it to a Jew, giving his name and residence, for
4s. It was further stated that the prisoner was knows
to llorsford, of the Mendicity Society, as a begging im-
postor.
Mr. Birkbeck was not in attendance, nor had the cost
been traced, and, in order to afford time for the officer
employed in the case to institute further inquiries, the
prisoner was remanded until Tuesday next.
SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday William Huggen, a journeyman tanner in
Bermondsey, was placed at the bar befue Mr. A'Beckatt,
charged with inflicting such injuries on his wife that she
is not expected to survive.
A policeman stated that on the previous night bee was
called to a house where the prisoner and his mily
lived, at Bermondsey, and on entering a room on the
ground floor he found his wife lying on tab floor in a
state of insensibility. There was a part of roken bed
rail at a short distance from her, which he (policewan)
was informed her husband (the prisoner) bad broken
while in the act of beating her and inflicting the injuries
which she had sustained. Finding
an) procured a cab that the woman 'Was,
ts
in such a bad state he (the policem
and had her placed in it, and drove her off to the hospi-
tal. On being examined by the house-surgeon the latter
gave a certificate (produced), which described t theft
patient was utterly incapable of attending the
body.
to cnt.
owing to the severe contusions inflicted on heroken
The policeman added that the woman bad never spolicemansince the alleged acts of violence had been committed,
and that he accordingly took the prisoner into custody.
Upon subsequent inquiries being instituted, it was els"
certained that the prisoner was a hard-working indus-
trious man, having a family of children, but that his
wife was aiven to habits of drunkenness and neglecting
her home; that upon a recent occasion, after having
pledged and made away with most of her husband's and
children's clothes, she left home and stayed away for a
week. On the previous night she returned, and tho
prisoner being at home at the time, under exasperated
feelings at her conduct in abandoning:her children under
such circumstances, he grasped the first thing that callis
to hand, and that was one of the bed rails,
her with such violence as almost to deprive hero f lfe.
ertifi-
Mr. A'BEcKETT, upon the produotion of the 0 _
cate from the hospital where the injured woman 18 lin
rand. beat
lying, remanded the prisoner, who said nothing, until
was ascertained whether she is likely to survive the vio•

lance inflicted upon her.
Thomas Wales, late a patient in St. Thomas's ncisPi-
tal, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes belong'
ing to an inmate of the same institution.
patient in the,
The prosecutor stated that he was a
above hospital, and the prisoner being in the saute war"of
and convalescent, he asked him to brush his suit the
clothes and clean his boots, preparatory to leaving
the
institution. This the prisoner consented to do en
promise of remuneration, and the clothes were Ice°
ingly given to him for the above purpose. The Pr
Eno,
saner, however, instead of performing the job, the
ment he had possession of his fellow-patient' his
clothe.
s
left the hospital with them, and converted them to
own purposes, and was not heard of again until the pre-
ceding night, when he was apprehended in Shoreditcla
with the complainant's coat on his back. The remainder
of the garments he had disposed of.
The prisoner said he could say nothing in "ten"-
tion of his offence.
Mr. A'BEcKETT said the offence was aggravated from
the circumstance of the prisoner acting in such a mar'
ner towards an unfortunate fellow-patient in the same
hospital. The magistrate, however, added that if he
sent the prisoner for trial on the charge of stealing the
clothes, there was a probability that he might escape, as
the complainant had asked him to brush the clothes, sad
entrusted them to him for that purpose. Instead, there
fore, of dealing with the case in that way he (the Msgis-
trate) should deal summarily with it,
vict the prisoner and sentence him to two months' im-
prisonment. and should con-
The prisoner was committed accordingly.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AlAmu 26.
STOCK EXCHA.NGI. —The market has been rather heavy'
to-day, and prices generally are lower. The transaction'
were as follow: Great' Western, Original Shares, 88—
South-Eastern and Dover, 27% —South Devon, Preference, 14

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done to-day has not
been extensive, owing to the settlement, which is to-morrow.
Prices, however, were firm, and the market closed steadily.
The transactions were as follow : Caledonian, 151 A—East
Lancashire, 17%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6214—Ditto,
Fifths, 6% dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, % P.--
London and North-Western, 1291/2—Ditto, New Quarters,
55 p. Ditto, Quarters (C), 2 15-16 p. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3614—Ditto, Preference, 121/2--
Ditto, New Preference, 1,2 p.—Midland, 6314—Ditto, Halos,
13 dis.—North British, 101— Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(B), 614—South-Eastern and Dover, 273,4—Y0rk and North
Midland, 27:1/4—Dutch Rhenish, 41 dis.
MANCHESTER, MARCH 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low:—Caledonian, 151/4—Eastern Counties, 7;3/4—East L-
cashire, 173/4—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding
tion, 63/4 dis.—Great Northern, 18%—Lancashire and York-
shire 62 Ditto, Fifths, 6%—London and North-Western.
130—Ditto (Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, C).
3 1-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 361/2--
Ditto, New 6/. Preference, 3,4 p.—Shrewsbury and Binning'
kam (A), 3%s dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 27%.
BIRMINGHAM, MAncit 26. Juannc
STOCK ExcuArrox.—The share market was dull to-day.
Prices of stock were generally about the MHO as last quo
tations.

YORK, MARCH 25.
STOCK EXCHANGR.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—North British, UN —York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 7%—York rand North Mid-
land, 271.

FRENCH RAIL WAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
;ugaorio.d—s,F2r2o677NslBaf.r; It2otatol, Mar. 396,4 1168 c: Passengers,
ROIJEN.—From Mar. 9 to Mar. 15 : Passengers,
51869H,144,66:45vR9::::.
goods, 76,130 f.; total, 134,594 f.
1.16 : Passengers,
Passengers,
.—Frona ALT.. 9 to Mar. 15 :
sgso.—odFrom
1,23‘314afr..;
Itootatlos,l2l,Ba6rB.
13oRDEAux.—From Mar. 10 to Mar. 16: Passengers,
6251,0653:if.' ; goods, 117,762 f.; total, 182,814 f.
33,243 t.; goods, 35,2231.; total, 68,4661.
VIERZON.—From Mar. 10 to Mar. 16 : Passengers,
ORLEA;
34,061 E; goods, 42,714 f.; total, 76,775 f.
BOULOGNE.—From Mar. 10 to Mar. 16 : Passengers.
12,386 E; goods, 17,0881.; total, 29,474 f.
DIEPPE.—From Mar. 9 to Mar. 15 : Passengers,
3,1321.; goods, 9,266 f.; total, 12,3981.
176,9T1g3Af.s;BguoRood_s,
Fl6l:oBm77mf.;atro.tal2l,
NANTES.—FrOOI Mar. $ to Mar. 14 : Passengers,
3t04,710rf.
8: Passengers,
63,9801.; goods, 61,3171.; total, 125,297 f.
BALE
. From Mar. 3 to Mar. 9 : Passengers,
17,6471.; goods, 15,7871.; total, 33,434 f.
MONTEREAU.—From Mar. 5 to Mar. 11: Passengers,
9,794 f.; goods, 14,570 f.; total, 24,3641.
MARSEILLES.—From Mar. sto Mar. 11: Passengers,
32,3721.; goods, 23,2131.; total, 55,5851.
LYONS. —From Mar. 2 to Mat. 8 : Passengers.
97,224 f.; goods, 34,001 f.. total, 131,2251.
gars,
CHARTRES.—From Mar. 3 to Mar. 9: Pass"
23,743 f.; goods, 12,907 f.; total, 36,650 f.

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