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N°. 18,244.] LONDON, FRIDAY EVENtNG SUN MARCH 14, 1851.
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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
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26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
DISECTOI.9.
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tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S.
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ACTUARY.
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profits divided amongst the assure,
plication.

F. FER,

U3O- CAMROUX, Manager.

SU N LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
LONDON.
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to those profits, and according to the conditions contained in the
Society's Prospectus and Act of Parliament.
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are much lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers
are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad-
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CITARLLS lIENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary.

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DR. LAIIIERT ON THEND
M SECRET INATURITYIRMITIES OF YOUTH
A
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON sTEEL.
lust published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, aid
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" F-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
aunhe,cosoosdful Treatment of
; with Practical
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, which destroy
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
oafndlis
feelings,ory a tiaonnds exhaust
tato: t
certaint hov energiestitlrevwi,
in
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and the various injuries that aro produced in them by solitary
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BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D..
37, BEDFORD-SQUA", LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
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Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Ifunterlau
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of 1847 the payments were generally in arrear, and at
the end of 1848 above 2,0()0/. were due to the plaintitfo.
Early in 1847 they received intimation from the engi-
neer not to deliver so rapidly, and ultimately were
stopped altogether. It was proved that for the pur-
pose of performing their contract the plaintitfa had taken
premises and established works at Chesterfield, and
entered into sub-contracts with other iron masters

—to one of whom they had paid 5001.
by way of compensation for not accepting iron
according to the sub-contract. The delivery of
the chairs continued at intervals to December,
1849, and the railway was opened from Nottingham to
Grantham in July, 1850. Evidence was given on the
part of the defendants to show that as early as March,
1848, the company had given notice to the plaintiffs that
no more chairs would be required than were necessary
to complete the line to Grantham; and that one of the
plaintiffs had then said that they might take as many as
they pleased. The secretary of the company swore that
at that time the plaintiffs were paid 500/. on condition
that the company should not be compelled to take more
of the chairs than they required, but in the entry of the
payment in the minutes no mention was made of that
condition. Since the date of the contract the ♦alue of
iron railway chairs had Wien 2/. per ton; and the plain.
tiffs roughly estimated their loss by the breach of con-
tract at between 3,000/. and 4,0001.

Mr. MACAULAY, on behalf of the defendants, sub-
mitted that as the contract was under seal the plaintiffs
eauld not be discharged or exonerated from th• perform-
ance of any part of that contract, except by some other
instrument under the seal of the company, and that they
were therefore bound to have tendered the chairs to the
company for acceptance before they could maintain this
action.
The Learned JUDGE, however, held that they were not
bound to tender the chairs, after they had received no-
tice from the company's engineer that no more would be
accepted, and he directed the jury to consider the acts
of the engineer as the acts of the company.
The jury returned a ♦erdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
1,8001.

Metreli 13.

(Before Mr. Baron ALDERS() the wilful
Edward Jeffries, aged 15, was indicted for
murder of Jonathan Brett.
Mr. Barker conducted the prosecution; Mr. W. H.
Adams defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of Saturday, the Ist of
February, the prisoner and the deceased were together
at the Red Lion publie-house, at Worksop, in which
town they both lived. At about a quarter-past t
they wore both turned out of the public-house; and
there was no doubt that both were to some extent in
toxicated. They went together into the house of the
deceased, and soon afterwards quarrelling was heard.
A witness went into the house, and they wore found
standing up as if to fight. They had been quarrelling
about cards. A man of the name of Graves was also
in the house, and the prisoner said, " I will finish you
both." That was about one o'clock. The prisoner
then left the house, and was next seen running in a
direction towards a place called the gashouse, which
was kept open all night, and where there was a fire and
light. On his way he was met by a man, to whom he said,
" Jonathan Brett and another has been punching me,"
and " fetch a taste to give it hint." At the gas-house
there was a man named Parker lying down fast asleep,
and one named Coulton lying awake. Both had been in
company with the prisoner and deceased that evening at
the public-house, and had left it about the same time. The
prisoner stared at Coulton; and then took from the cor-
ner of the gashouse a gun belonging to Parker. That
was a gun which would take to pieces without disturb-
ing the charge if it was loaded. Parker had discharged
it with powder only on the Friday before, and had not
loaded it since. Ho stated that it was broken, and he
should have been afraid to discharge it loaded with shot.
That gun was taken away by the prisoner, and soon
afterwards the report of a gun was heard. The wife of
the deceased went home about two o'clock, and found
her husband lying on the floor of an upstairs room,
wounded in the bead. A surgeon was called in, and
upon examination found a gun-shot wound over the left
eyebrow. A part of the hair and scalp of the head had
been carried away and fixed to the ceiling of the room.
From the position of the mark on the ceiling and the
character of the wound, it was clear that the gun had
been fired by some one standing close to the door of
the house, which was below the window, and a little to the
left. One shot only was lodged in the scalp, and one in the
brain of the deceased, who lingered till the following Tues
day. The rest went into the ceiling of the room. The pri-
soner on the night in question went home to his sister's
house, where he lived, about two o'clock, and wen Ito bed.
In his room was found Parker's gun, and also in the house
another gun, which belonged to the prisoner, and a lkowder- '
fissk. Parker's gun appeared to have been recently dis-
charged. The prisoner, upon being first charged, said,
" I was at home, ever since nine;" to which the con•
stable replied, " I myself turned you out of the Red
Lion at half-past twelve," but at that time the priiouer
still appeared to be in a state of intoxication. After-
wards he said that ho fetched the gun from the gas-
house, that he went to Brett's and called him up, that
Brett put his head to the window, and that he fired the
gen off, but not with the intention of hurting him—
merely to frighten him.
Mr. ADAMS, in addressing the jury for the prisoner,
contended that the statement made by him was consis-
tent with all the circumstances of the case. lle hud cer-

tainly been guilty of a ♦ery foolish and wicked act; but
there was no reason to suppose that he intended to kill
the unfortunate deceased. There was no evidence that
he had loaded the gun; and it was not likely that he
would have taken Parker's broken gun instead of his
own, if he had known that it was loaded with shot. If
he bad intended to kill Brett, he would have chosen a
better position for taking aim than that which he had
taken; and the motive suggested was one which would
account for an intention to frighten the man who had
offended him, but was altogether insufficient to account
for the deliberate intention to take away his life.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence; and

the jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP expressed his concurrence with the ver-
dict; and sentenced the prisoner to be transported fur

ton years.
The business of the assizes terminated about one
o'clock, and the Learned Judge proceeded to Derby, to
open the commission for that county.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 12.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT)
Alexander Preston and William Marshall were charged
with having, at Bradford, on the 4th of January last,
feloniously assaulted and robbed one William Mawson.
Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for the prosecution;
Mr. Dearsley defended the prisoner Preston; the other
prisoner was undefended.
On Saturday night, the 4th of February, the prosecu-
tor, who is the son of a blacksmith near Bradford,
having heard that his uncle, who lived at Bradford-moor,
was very ill, was proceeding to his uncle's house about
eleven o'clock; when ho got near the moor he passed
three men, one of whom spoke to him, and asked him if
they were going the right way to Leeds. And no sooner
had he spoken than ho received a violent blow on the
face, and was failed to the ground; and they rifled his
pockets of his watch and some silver. Two of the men
then went away, leaving the third standing over •him,
who said if hu did not lie still while he went away, he
would give him something that would make him. The
prosecutor identified the prisoner Preston as the man
who stood over him, for, though the night was dark,
there was a great glare from the Bowling Iron Work's
furnace, which enabled him to see him distinctly. He
then went on to see his uncle, and on his return to
Bradford gave information to the police, with a descrip-
tion of the robbers. One of the Bradford police had seen
the two prisoners on the road about eleven o'clock. The
prosecutor picked out the prisoner Preston from amongst
a number of others in the gaol. He could not identify
the prisoner Marshall, but a witness named Raistrick
saw him the day after the robbery take a watch out of
his pocket, and go and hide it in a hole in the wall of
the Spink-wsll Tunnel, and subsequently Rsistrick went
there with another man, and found the watch hidden,
which was the identical watch of which the prosecutor
had been robbed.

Mr. DEAUSLEY addressed the jury for the prisoner
Preston.

His LORDSHIP having summed up.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
A. previous conviction having been proved, his LORD-
SHIP sentenced them to be severally transported for ten
years.
John Easterby Swale, was indicted for embezzling
divers sums of money, amounting to 1401., the property
of his masters, the Yorkshire Banking Company, In
whose service be was in the eapacity of a clerk.
Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Hale prosecuted; Mr. Joseph
Pollock defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk in the York-
shire Banking Company, at their branch at Thirak, and
that at certain times, when notes which were worn too
much for use were returned to the bank, they were not
re-issued, but when a sufficient quantity was collected
they were done up in bundles, for the purpose of being
sent to the main office to be cancelled; and the manner
in which they charged the prisoner with having em •
bezzled the money was, that when ha recoived money
over the counter, he abstracted some of such money
from time to time for his own purposes, and then, in
order to make his cash balance, he went to the bundle
of notes which had been placed on one side to be sent
for cancellation, and took enough for that purpose, and,
altering the label, which described how many notes the
bundle contained, then ho re-issued the notes. The
strongest point against the prisoner was, that his salary
was only 41. a month, and ho had paid away money in
notes of the company.
At the close of the opening of the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution, Mr. JOSEPH Pommex submitted
that there was no case for the jury.
His LORDSHIP said they had better hear the evidence.
At the close of which his LORDSHIP intimated that it
was not sufficiently clear to bring the case home to th e
prisoner, and that the whole difference might have arisen
through a mistake in adding up the notes which had
been placed in the bundle and labelled. The jury, there-
fore, Acquitted the prisoner.

GENERAL DE NOZA.—The Danish General de
Noza, by whom the battle of Idstsad was decided, is an
Israelite, a native of Copenhagen.—Jewish Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
William Bacon, a lad about 17 years of age, was
brought up before Alderman Wire for fir,al examination
charged with stealing three spirit lamps, and a variety
of other articles, the property of Mr. Button, chemist,
Holborn-hill, and Charles Gibbons, a marine store
dealer, was charged with receiving the same, knowing
them to have been stolen.

Alderman WIRE raid the evidence was so strong
against Gibbons that he felt no hesitation in at once
committing him for trial with the prisoner Bacon. With
regard to three reams of paper found on Gibbon's pre-
mises, evidence was produced to show that it was the
property of the Government Stationery-office, and that
it could not possibly have come properly into the posses-
sion of the prisoner, as it was of a peculiar make, such
as the Government only use. Witnesses appeared, who
proved the three reams to be a portion of 500 reams de-

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livered into the Stationery-office in the latter part.. of
last year, and also the re-delivery to the Government
printers, from whose premises it must have been stolen.
Gibbons declined to account for the manner in which he

came possessed of the paper, and ho was accordingly
committed for trial for ha►ing unlawfully in his posses-
sion three reams of paper, the property of her Majesty's
stationer, without being able to render a satistaetory
account of the same.

Alderman Salomons rose to make the following appli-
cation to the sitting magistrate, Alderman WIRE:—He
said that what he was about to mention was a question of
considerable importance to the public, who expected on
every occasion that justice should be adminbitered dis-
creetly and impartially, and that the poor should meet
with that protection that wealth gives to the rich, He
was sitting at the Old Bailey Court on Saturday with
the Recorder, and as the Court was about to break up a
poor old woman came in in a most pitiable state of mind,
having just learnt that her son, who bad been tried in
the course of the morning, had been convicted and sen-
tenced to transportation, end that, too, without having
one word said in his defence. She said she bad paid a
man repesenting himself - - lie' - - 35., that being all
the money she had, to irosaresownsie fond her snr.
He told her that was rat t esellgh, Gad Abe accordingly
went home, and after Beau% j,thitti she possessed
in the world, and by dint of borrowing t—ui triends, she
succeeded in raising a further sum of 155., which she
handed over to the same person. No counsel appeared,
and the poor woman, having been fleeced of her all, wap
now its a perfectly destitute state. Harding, 3, police-
sergeant, went to tb s person's address, and was there
informed that he had left early in the morning and had
not been back since. It was suggested that a warrant
should be issued for his apprehension, but after some con-
sultation, the Recorder and he (Alderman Salomons)
came to the decision the. it would perhaps be better to
take the middle course, and issue a summons to require
him to appear and explain his conduct. On the after-
noon of a subsequent day the person alluded to appeared
in the court, and acknowledged having received the
money of the unfortunate creature, and promised to re-
turn it. He had not done so, and the worthy Alderman
thought he was only doing his duty as a magistrate to
the public in applying for a summons against him.
Alderman WIRE said that he could have no hesitation
in such a case in granting a summons. He thought the
public would feel indebted to his friend Alderman Salo-
mons for having brought the matter under the notice of
this court.

In the course of the afternoon the prisoner Gibbons
applied to be admitted to bail.
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Alderman WIRE said ho should increase the amount
from what it was before to a very heavy sum, as there
were two cases against him.
Bail was then put in, two sureties of 2001. each,
and himself in 4001., to appear and answer the charge at
the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey,
WORSHIP-STREET.
David Pemberton, a fellow of dissipated appearance,
was charged with a brutal attack upon his wife.
The wife, whose face was strapped up with adhesive
plaister, and who appeared to have been very cruelly
treated, stated, that while doing hwr family's washing
on the preceding evening the prisoner, who was con
stantly in ;he habit of wasting his means in the gratifi-
cation of his drunken propensities, staggered into the
house in a state of intoxication, and, advancing to the
fireplace, on which was a saucepan filled with boiling
water, lifted off the lid, in the expectation of finding
something in it to eat. On seeing that there was not, be
seized the saucepan, and hurled it, and its boiling con-
tents into the tub at which she was standing. and, on
her darting back to escape being scalded, ho dealt her
such a ferocious kick on the lower part of the stomach,
that she was partially lifted off her feet, and fell heavily
upon the floor. Not satisfied with this act of brutality,
the instant she had fallen he struck her a violent blow on

the side of her head with his fist; and, on her attempt-
ing to rise, dealt her such a terrible blow in the face, as
to slit her nose completely downv Thcibletd-imree-
diately gushed out over here but by a violent
effort she succeeded iu getting on to her feet, and, rush-
ina out of the house, made the best of her way to the
police-station, from which one constable was dispatched
to effect the prisoner's apprehension, while a sec,nd was
sent with her to a surgeon's to get lit r injuries dressed.
The poor woman added that she had bean most cruelly
beaten by her husband many times before, without
more provocation than she bud given bim upon
this occasion, and expressed her apprehension that,
if he wero not properly restrained, one of his at-
tacks upon her would be attended with most serious
results.

The prisoner pleaded his intoxication as an excuse
for his conduct, but

Mr. HAMMILL considered that an aggravation rather
than the reverse, and sentenced him to pay the extreme
penalty of 51., or in default to stand committed to the
House of Correction for two months, end furthermore
ordered him at the expiration of that term to put in
two substantial sureties in 25/. each for his peace-
able conduct towards his wife for the succeeding three
mouths.
The prisoner was unable to pay the penalty, and was
therefore carried away in the van.