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TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING
Six O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
9 to l agat Abd-el-Kader
12 to 1 agst Vain Hope
12 to 1 agst Rat-trap
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.

Even money on Grecian

1.,,, CHESTER CUP.
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1 apt Rhesus
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20 to 1 agst The Flying Gout
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METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
12 to 1 agst Sunrise
16 to 1 agst Minimum
18 to 1 agst Rhesus
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DERBY.

6 to 1 agst Grecian—taken
6 to 1 agst Prime Minister—taken
12 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt
20 to 1 agst Lamartine
40 tot agst Bonnie Dundee

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.))
(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, before the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.)
RATCLIFF V. PEARCE.
This was an action in trespass to recover damages for
alleged injuries done to the plaintiff's property.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Charnock conducted the plain-
tiff's case; and Mr. Crowder and Mr. Lush appeared for
the defendant.

Mr. lirrowLze, in opening the case, said the plaintiff
was a glass-cutter, carrying on business in Gray's Inn-
road, and the defendant a builder at Camden-town. In
the month of August last year the defendant was build-
ing some first-class houses in Camden.town, and be re-
quested several glass dealers to furnish him with esti-
mates of their charges for glazing the windows with
plate glass, and among others the plaintiff, whose tender
was accepted, the terms being that ready money should
be paid on the completion of the work. The defendant
accordingly sent the wooden frames to the plaintiff's
shop for the purpose of having the plate put in. In. the
meantime the plaintiff learnt that Mr. Pearce had in the
previous year taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors'
Act, and being anxious not to lose 801. or 901., the value
of the glass, he refused when the frames were finished to
deliver them up to him unless he had either the money
or some security for it. After some negotiation the
plaintiff was at length induced to send them in a van to
the premises, and on arriving there he refused to pay
the money as agreed upon, observing that the plaintiff
had two alternatives, either to trust him or to take the
glass out of the frames. The plaintiff said he would not
accept these terms, and the defendant thereupon
ordered a body of Irish labourers, nearly 20
in number, to stop the van and to seize what
he called his own Property. They blocked up
the wheels and seizes the horse by the head
and there being no o❑e to resist them except the driver
and the plaintiff's foreman, they proceeded to hammer
out the glass, and in doing so destroyed many panes and
injured the rest. On seeing the work of destruction
which was going on, the plaintiff was anxious to save the
glass, and he offered to deliver it if they would desist,
but no notice was taken of the offer. The damage
done to the glass amounted altogether to 401. Bs., and it
was to recover this sum, as well as compensation fur the
annoyance and inconvenience which the plaintiff had
suffered, that the present action had been instituted.
The defendant had paid 31. into court, which he con-
tended was ample to cover the value of the glass de-
stroyed.
Evidence having been given in support of the plain-
tiff's case,

Mr. CROWDER addressed the jury on the part of the
defendant. He admitted the trespass, but said the defen-
dant hal been aggravated by the great delay in sending
the windows, which had had the effect of injuring the
houses. He also contended that 31. was sufficient to
compensate for the loss of the plaintiff.
Several witnesses were called, who stated the glass
was taken out very carefully, and that not more than
31.'s worth was broken.

Mr. KNovan replied, and
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury
returned a verdiet for the plaiatiff—Damagea 601.

GERMANY.

The Prussian Constitutionell Zeitung protests that
the European counter revolution proceeds steadily on
its onward course, and that rumours and signs are
frequent which indicate that another coalition cam-
paign is intended to come off in spring.
" The very men," says the Constitutionell Zeitung,
" who strove to represent themselves as the 'peace party,'
who talked of the enormous cost and sacrifice of war, at
a time when we protested against any concessions on the
part or Prussia, because we knew that those very oon-
cessions were pregnant with war and other manifold mi-
erics—tho:e v.:.ry men have now a liking, in the interest
of their reactionary plans, to fan foul of Switaerland and
Sardinia, and perhaps to restore Henry V."
The Berlin official Gazette and the Ministerial
Deutsch Reform publish! a lengthy statement of the
miseries to which the inhabitants of the Hessian pro-
vince of Fulda are exposed in consequence of the
occupation of those districts by Prussian and Aus-
trian troops. These papers express a hope that the
sufferings of the poor Hessians will excite the charity
of the less unfortunate inhabitants of Prussia. The
Liberal press abounds, of course, in caustic remarks
on this tardy compassion on the part of the organs of
the Government.

The Neue Preussiche Zeitung states, from Vienna,
that the last financial account, comprising the period
from the Ist November, 1849, to the end of July,
1850, shows a deficit of 55,533.619 florins. From
another comprehensive account of the Austrian Pub-
lic Debt it appears that at the commencement of 1848
the debt amounted to 1,013,000,000 florins, or
101,300,0001. This debt has since been increased by
554,000,000 florins, of which 519,000,000 are unse-
cured. The total of the debt amounts, consequently,
to 1,532,000,000 florins, or 154,200,0001.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo!
sack at Five o'clock.

Lord STANLEY presented several petitions against
Papal aggression.
The Bishop of NORWICH presented several petitions
to the saute effect.

The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several pe
Lions from various places in Ireland to the same effect.

BANKRU-PTCY COMMISSIONERS.

Lord BROUGHAM explained that i❑ his statement
on Friday he had no intention whatever of reflecting on
the Bankruptcy Commissioners. More efficient officers
had never adorned the judicial bench. He considered
that nothing could he more satisfactory than the
manner in which Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce
had performed his duties. For upwards of three
months the greater part of the equity jurisdiction of
this court bad, in consequence of the death of Sir Lan-
celot Shadwell and the illness of Vice-Chancellor
Wigram, fallen upon Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce,
and he had ciant industriously and most admirably per-
formed those duties.
The LORD CHANCELLOR bore his testimony to
the great merits of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce.