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PRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1844.

31s, and considered cheap. Berbice taken in at 70s for low /
middling. `
TEA.—The rates previously established are fUlly sustained
for Tea ; indeed; for the better qualities of Green buyers have
been tompelled to peiy a small advance, the supply being
scanty. Congou, common for cash has fetched Is to is
and good common is id to is Id. Twankay, is lid to la 3d
per lb for common. Hyson, Young Hyson, Imperial and
Gunpowder have met with ready purchasers at stiff rates.
In Pouchong prices do not give way. Flowery Pekoe is
dull of sale, but in Orange Pekoe, a fair business has been
transacted. To-day there was less demand for Tea of
all sorts.
RlCE.—This afternoon Bengal Rice sold at very full rates;
good middling white fetched lls to Ils 6d, fine bold clean
pearly 12s, very small dusty 9s 6d to 10s, sea damaged, first,
second, and third class 9s 6d to lls per cwt. Carolina, good
quality went at 14s to 15s, and mid 13s to 13s 6d per cwt.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDs.—The principal feature in
the Ruin market has been the Government contract for
100,000 gallons, half East and half West Jndia, the whole of
which has been taken by Messrs. Ruck, Son, and Fenwick at
2s 03d per gallon proof strength, being under present
market rates, and 3d lower than the last contract. For
Jamaica no decline in prices has taken place at present.
Leewards are held for previous rates ; Demerara has been
less in request, but former prices are supported. Calcutta
Rum at is 101 d to Is 11d, proof, with certificate. Brandy-
upon the following terms :—Cognac, best brands of the vint-
age of 1838, lihds Ss 70, puns 5s 50 ; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s sd,
puns 5s 3d; ditto 1840, hhds is 3d, puns 5s Id; ditto 1841,
hhds 5s 2d, puns ss; ditto 1842, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s lld ;
middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and inferior 2s 80 to
3s per gallon. Geneva, for exportation, at is 8d to is 90;
fine for home consumption 2s to 3s per gallon. English Corn
Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon cash. To-day proof Leewards 2s
2d, Calcutta proof is 10d, Demerara strong 3s to 3s 3d,
Jamaica 26 to 28 per cent overproof 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 30 to 32
over 3s 5d to 3s 6d, 34 to 36, 3s 80 to 3s 9d, good to fine 3s
10d to 4s 6d, and very superior 4s 90 to 5s per gallon.
Brandy little better than nominal.
INDlGO.—Merchants remain firm, and former rates are sus-
tained; the quality that will be offered at the approaching
sale is expected to be very large. Spanish is held with firm-
ness and is wanted.
Ons.---Southern Oil fine quality at 29110 s to 30/, good 281
to 28/15s, and middling 271 to 271 lOs per tun, but for all
other sorts of common Fish Oil prices on the decline ; pale Seal
at 33/, and Cod 33l lOs to 34/ per tun. Sperm Oil has brought
previous rates, prime British at 751 to 764 and inferior 731 to
74/ per tun. Linseed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s 6d per cwt. Cocoa
Nut Oil at 29s 6d to 30s 6d per cwt. Palm Oil 24s to 255,
and low quality 23s per cwt. Rape Oil at 39s for pale, and
38s per cwt for brown. African Ground Nut Oil 34/ 103 to
351 per tun.
TALLOW.—On the spot P. Y. Candle at 40s to 40s 6d per
cwt ; for delivery 41s 3d to 41s 6d is the value for the last
three months of the year. South American Tallow at 34s 6d
to 38s 90, and inferior 32s per cwt ; New South Wales 35s 6d
to 38s 6d. Town Tallow at 39s to 39s 6d per cwt, nett cash.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Mary 21.

Their. Lordships assembled at Five o'clock.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Bills.
Lord DIELVILLE presented a petition from Feeble-
shire against any alteration in the mode of assessing
Roman Catholics to the poor.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the county of Ayr, praying for protection to agriculture.
Earl FITZWILLIAM wished to know if the peti-
tioners prayed for further protection, or only a con-
tinuance of the present protection.
The Duke of RICHMOND—The petition only prays
for a continuance of the present protection; but L have
no doubt that the petitioners agree with me in thinking
that we could do very well with a little more.
Earl MINTO gave notice of his intention to put a
question to her Majesty's Government, after the recess,
as to whether they intended to propose any other mea-
sure for increasing the salaries of schoolmasters in Scot-
land.
Several petitions were presented in favour of the
Leeds and Bradford Railway.
Earl FORTESCUE moved for certain papers relating
to the dismissal of Mr. Gray from the magistracy in
Ireland.

Earl BROWNLOW presented petitions in favour of
the Leeds and Bradford Railway.
Lord BROUGHAM deprecated the practice which
had grown up this year of laying down a single line of
rails on railways, similar to the Leeds and Bradford,
and Lancaster and Carlisle Railways.
Several other Noble Lords expressed a similar opinion.
Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table of the House a
Bill to amend the laws relating to imprisonment for debt.
FRENCH INTERFERENCE AT TUNIS.
Lord BEAUMONT then rose, pursuant to notice, to
move for copies of the correspondence which had taken
place between her Majesty's Government and the Bri-
tish Consul at Tunis, on the subject of a trial of a
Maltese subject for the crime of murder. His object in
submitting this motion to their Lordships was to
show that a most unwarrantable interference had
been shown by the French at Tunis, and
to show that by that interference the treaty
which had been entered into between the Sublime Porte,
this country, and the Dey of Tunis, had been violated.
If such interference as that which had been shown by
the French in this case was to be tolerated by this
country, he felt that our trade along the Barbary coast
would soon be at an end. He thought that this was a
case which the Foreign-office ought to take up;
and it was in the hope of producing this
effect that he had brought forward this motion.
Who were the persons who claimed in this manner the
protection of the British flag—were they respectable
British merchants ? Very few of them. Were they the
descendants of British residents ? Very few of them.
They were the very dross of the people—persons who
perhaps had, on one or two occasions, acted as interpre-
ters; or who had obtained their protection, and
who made use of it to commit with impunity
robberies and murders of the most atrocious cha-
racter? He trusted the Noble Earl would devise some
means of putting an end to such a disgraceful state of
things. He was sorry to see from the Maltese papers
that the inhabitants of Malta had taken up the cause of
the guilty man, and had presented an address to the
French Consul, praising him for his interference,
and blaming Sir Thomas Reade for abandoning
the murderer to justice. He could understand
how the Maltese might have a fellow-feeling for a coun-
tryman, but they ought to have been actuated by a
feeling of horror and disgust for the murderer. The
Noble Lord concluded by moving that an humble
address be presented to her Majesty for extracts from
the correspondence between the Foreign office and Sir
Thomas Reade, Consul at Tunis, respecting the trial of
the Maltese Xulbet, and the interference of the French
Consul-General Monsieur de Lagan.
Lord ABERDEEN said that the difficulties con-
nected with the jurisdiction of the Levant were
very great indeed, and no man knew them better
than the Noble Lord opposite. He (Lord
Aberdeen) had himself introduced a Bill which
had become the law of the land, and which he
thought would apply a remedy which would remove those
difficulties. He had no objection to lay the correspon-
dence which the Noble Lord moved for on the table
of the House. The case to which those papers referred
was that of a cold-blooded murder, executed in broad
day ; and the course which had been pursued by her
Majesty's Government in this matter was consistent with
existing treaties, and was under the sanction of the
highest legal authority. With respect to the conduct of
certain functionaries at Tunis in this proceeding, it did
not in the slightest degree affect the decision
and the conduct of the Government ; but he did not
think it a proper subject of discussion in that House.
It was more suited for the interference of Go-
vernment, by whom due notice had been taken of
the conduct to which the Noble Lord had referred ;
but although the Government had no wish to protect
crimes committed by British subjects, they were by no
means indifferent to the rights of the Christians
in the East ' • and he wished to take that op-
portunity of stating to their Lordships that
Government had lately succeeded with the
Porte in preventing the revival of an obsolete
practice by. which Christians who had embraced Mo-
hammedanism and returned to Christianity were
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Lord WHARNCLIFFE inquired of Lord Campbell
whether he thought it probable that his Noble and
Learned Friend (Lord Cottenham) would postpone the
Abolition of Imprisonment for Debts Bill?
Lord CAMPBELL said he had no authority for say-
ing that his Noble and Learned Friend would postpone
it ; he thought it highly probable that he would not ac-
cede to any such proposal.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 21.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
PARLIAMENTARY MISTAKE.

Mr. ESTCOURT moved that the Bill, intituled "An
Act to rectify a mistake as to the proceedings in the
Eastern Counties Railway Bill and the Eastern Counties
Railway (Brandon and Peterborough Extension)
Bill," shall be read the second time, be com-
mitted, engrossed, and read the third time this
day. The object of the Bill was to rectify a
mistake which had occurred in the House of Lords,
whereby one Bill had been substituted for another in
the last Royal Commission,a Bill which had only passed
the House of Commons having been inserted in the
Commission.
After a few words from Mr. LABOUCHEItE, the
Bill went through the various stages, and was passed.
The Report on the South-Eastern Railway was further
considered, and ordered to be engrossed.
On the motion of Mr. M. PHILIPS the Manchester
Police Bill was read a third time.

Mr. BOYD presented several petitions from Coleraine
and various other places in the north of Ireland against
the Dissenters' Chapels Bill ; also 16 petitions from the
north of Ireland, complaining of the law relating to Pres-
byterian marriages in Ireland.
Colonel CONOLLY presented petitions from Milford
and other places against the Dissenters' Chapel Bill ;
also a petition from the distillers of Ballyshannon, com-
plaining that the present duty on spirits increased illicit
distillation, and praying for a reduction of the duty.
Mr. CORBALLY presented a petition from Meath,
complaining of the law relating to Presbyterian
marriages.
Mr. HURST presented a petition from Horsham, in
favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Mr. VESEY presented a petition from the Queen's
County, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill ; also a
petition from Kilkenny, praying that the standing order
might be suspended, so as to allow the Dublin and Cashel
Railway Bill to pass this session.
Sir W. BARRON presented a petition to the same
effect.

Lord RENDLESIIAM presented a petition, from a
Wesleyan congregation in Sussex, against the Dissenters'
C :spelS BUL

Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented 102 petitions against
the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League.
Mr. E. IENNENT presented several petitions against
the law respecting Presbyterian marriages.
Sir 1I: Ii AYES presented petitions from Donegal to
the same effect.
Mr. GRANGER presented petitions against the
Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr.
Lockart, Mr. G. Knight, Lord Ashley, and Mr. Villiers.
Mr. GIBSON presented a petition against the rating
under the new poor-law.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition to the same effect.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from York
against the County Courts Bill ; also a petition from
Aberdeen, complaining of the present state of tailoring
there.
Mr. ARKWRIGHT presented a petition against the
union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph.
Lord CLIVE presented a petition from St. Pancras,
to the same effect.
Lord ELIOT presented a petition from Cornwall,
praying the House to afford greater discretion to poor-
law guardians with regard to the payment of medical
officers.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition in favour of Sab-
bath observance.
Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he would that day
fortnight call the attention of the House to the state of
the public accounts, and the necessity of reforming them.
Mr. VILLIERS gave notice that he would that day
fortnight bring forward his motion on the subject of the
corn-law,.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE postponed for a fortnight his
motion with respect to the petition of Charles Price and
William White Thompson.
Mr. CHRISTIE postponed, until to-morrow,
his motion for an inquiry into the state of the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
THE STATE TRIALS.—IRL'LAND.
Mr. WYSE moved for a return of copies of all the
affidavits and other documents in the case of the Queen
against O'Connell.
CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE begged to ask the Chancellor
of the Exchequer when the report of the Commission
appointed to inquire into the Custom-house frauds would
be ready to be delivered to Hon. Members. He per-
ceived by the Times; that that journal was in possession
of the report, as it commented upon it in terms not very
complimentary to the Custom-house, but quite as com-
plimentary as the Custom-house deserved.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
had no knowledge of how that journal got possession of
the report. He was aware that it was in type, and as
soon as ready for delivery it would be laid on the table.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A Mr. Groves, of Peckham, complained to Sir Peter
Laurie that a sort of lottery had been established at
No. 7, in the Old Jewry, and that it was carried on evi-
dently for the purpose of getting hold of the money of
simple or unwary people, whom the bills and labels were
calculated to draw into the purchase of " good luck."
The complainant stated that he had purchased the ticket
No. 5,050, which stated a day for the drawing. He,
however, found that the drawing did not take place on
that day, after having incurred the expense of travelling
into town to witness the caprice of the goddess to whom
the temple in the neighbourhood of Cheapside had been
raised; and he also found, that although the ticket
assured him who held it that the whole lot would be
drawn prizes, the prize to which he became entitled was
not worth twopence. He had, he added, every reason to
suppose that the whole concern was one of those extra-
ordinary humbugs which the genius of the present day
alone was capable of producing, and ho accordingly felt
an interest in checking its progress by appealing to the
Chief Magistrate.
Sir PETER LAURIE, who gave credit to the com-
plainant for the discrimination which led him to place
the present class of sinister dealers higher in the scale
of ,ingenuity than the cadgers and maters of former
days, immediately dispatched a messenger to the
" lottery," which was stated to be carried on in the
house of Messrs. Taylor and Hewitt, tea dealers, at the
corner of the Old Jewry, with his compliments, and his
wish to communicate upon the subject.
A young man of respectable appearance, who said
his name was Newman, accordingly waited upon the
Alderman, and (Mr. Groves having re-stated the grounds
of his complaint) declared that the lottery was con-
ducted upon the most honourable and liberal principles,
and that when the complainant had called and repre-
sented his objections, and what he considered to be his
grievances, the amount of the ticket was offered to be
returned, but rejected. The distribution of property to
the value of 2,5001. was the result of the drawing, and the
prizes consisted of Chines jars, vases, and pictures, and
other articles of drawing-room decoration.
Sir PETER LAURIE—HOW long is it since this affair
commenced? Mr. Newman—lt began in February last.
Sir PETER LAURIE—And there has actually been a
drawing? Mr. Newman—There has been one, and Mr.
Groves, having drawn one of the small prizes, repented
his enterprise, and wanted his fire ; but he
also required to be remunerated for his trouble and dis-
appointment.—(A laugh.)
The complainant—l little thought that, at a place
where I was in the habit of purchasing my tea, I should
have met with such treatment.—(Laughter.)
Sir PETER LAURIE—I see that this ticket is numbered
5,050. Is it possible that 5,050 persons were such fools
as to try their luck at such a game ? Mr. Newman—
You must not judge from the number of the ticket the
actual number of purchasers. 'The buyers choose from
10,000 tickets ; and Mr. King, an accountant, drew two
beautiful jars, estimated at one hundred guineas.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I have no doubt at all'that a few
of the friends of the concern come in for the valuable
prizes.—(Laughter.) But Mr. Groves, although a cus-
tomer to the house, was not, I dare say, considered
amongst the number. Pray where is Mr, 'Taylor, whose
name is mentioned at the head of the responsible parties?
Mr. Newman—He is, I regret to say, in a lunatic asylum.
Sir PETER LAURIE—And advantage is, I suppose,
taken of his melancholy condition to carry on this lottery.
Are you not aware that you have been committing an
illegal act in carrying it on ? Mr. Newman—We had
no idea of the kind at its commencement, and now it is
ended. Everything has been conducted on the fairest
principle.
The complainant—Who could have imagined that a
tradesmen I dealt with for tea would have ventured to
act in such a manner ?
Mr. Newman—You were offered your five shillings.
The complainant—But I must be paid my expenses.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I am actually tired of cautioning
the public against the various plans by which money
is wheedled out of their pockets. Every day produces
new dupes, who venture, with their eyes open, into all
sorts of snares. In this case the complainant has cer-
tainly put a period to the existence of this Chinese lot-
tery by the exposure he has given it here. I would ad-
vise him to consult his attorney on the subject of what
he considers to be his claim upon the parties whose
names are subscribed to the tickets.
An old gentleman, who belongs to the Mansion-house
household, designated the Lord Mayor's young man,
stated that his two daughters had drawn two prizes, the
value of which was about a penny each.—(A laugh.)
Sir P. LAURIE—The notification that all the tickets
would be prizes, has, no doubt, had the effect of giving an
extensive sale, but, I trust, that the moment anything
of this kind makes its appearance in the City, the Lord
Mayor will be informed of it.
The complainant returned thanks to Sir Peter Laurie,
and said that he should certainly act upon the excellent
advice he had received.
A young man, named James Edwards, was brought
up, charged with having defrauded several carriers by
an ingenious mode of deception.
The case attracted a great number of tradespeople to
the justice-room.
Mr. Thomas Moore, of No. 16, Old Change, carrier,
stated that at half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening,
the prisoner, who was unknown to him, brought a ham-
per to the office addressed as follows:—"To the Earl of
Liverpool, Buckstead, Sussex, per railway, May 15th,
1844," to go by one of his carriers, and claimed for car-
riage of the hamper 13s 2d. Witness objected to pay
so large a sum ; but, observing on the ticket, which was
one of W. Kenworthy's of the Axe in .Aldermanbury,
that 6s 6d had been paid upon the hamper at Shrews-
bury, he thought it best to pay the amount required,
which he did accordingly. The prisoner said it.was a
hamper of mineral water, an article which his Lordship
had weekly from Shrewsbury. Witness, when the pri-
soner had departed, shook the basket to ascertain whe-
ther it contained liquid, but found it did not, and
suspecting that something was not completely
right, opened it and saw instead of the mineral
water, a heap of bricks. Witness then ran
out in the direction taken by the prisoner, but could not
find him. On returning home, however, he met him
carrying another hamper, which was directed to " the
Hon. Mr. Cavendish," and contained stones, as was
afterwards ascertained. The prisoner, upon being
spoken to by the witness, threw down the hamper, and
attempted to escape, but was taken into custody.
Mr. T. J. Holt, an agent to Messrs. Kenworthy and
Co., of the Axe Inn, stated that the prisoner was not in
the employment of that house, and that the hamper did
not come from their house ; and that the bill was forged,
although the heading of it was genuine. How the pri-
soner got the printed copy he did not know.
A City policeman stated that he took into custody the
prisoner, who had in his possession seven tickets filled
up, purporting to come from different carmen, and ad-
dressed to several parties, five blank tickets, and the
enormous number of 101 pawnbrokers' duplicates for
articles of all descriptions. The prisoner said, upon
being apprehended, that it was distress that had driven
him to the act.
Mr. R. Gifford, book-keeper, at the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, stated that at half-past nine o'clock
on the morning of Saturday last, the prisoner brought a
rash basket to the office and produced a ticket, saying
he wanted 19s. sd. for it. Witness hesitated about pay-
ing so much money, especially as twopence was all the
profit derived by his employer, but the prisoner observed
that if there was anything wrong there was Kenworthy's
ticket, and they could set it to rights. At last witness
paid the money in a sovereign and took sevenpence in
change. The basket was addressed as follows:—" The
Hon. Wm. Cavendish, Compton-place, Eastbourne,
Sussex, per Kenworthy Rail, thence per coach,
May 15, 1844." It was sent according to the address,
but it was soon returned, and it was found to contain
bricks and other rubbish, and Messrs. Kenworthy knew
nothing at all about it.
The policeman produced a book containing French
prints of the worst description that he found in the pri-
soner's hat.
Sir PETER LAURIE, in committing the prisoner for
trial, said, if he had the power, he would punish the
fellow more severely on account of the book, which no
doubt was for sale, than for the offence with which he
was directly charged.
CLERKEN WELL.
John Shea, and Margaret Shea, who said she was his
wife, were charged with an assault on police-constable
Cale, 54 E, and with assaulting three other constables.
It appeared, from the evidence of the officers, and of
several civilians, that the prisoners, who were perfectly
sober, were fighting in Warwick-place, Gray's Inn, be-
tween six and seven on the previous evening. Cale went
up, and desired them to separate, and taking the woman
by tko shoulders, ordered her to go in an opposite direc-
tion to the male prisoner, so that the quarrel might not
be renewed. She seemed willing to do so, but when he
attempted to remove the male prisoner, she returned,
and both used the grossest language. Finding remon-
strance useless, Cale took John Shea into custody ; but
he had no sooner done so than the ruffian knocked him
down on the pavement. The officer rose, but was twice
more thown upon the flags with the same dreadful vio-
lence. When-Cale attempted to raise himself from the
ground the fourth time, Shea threw himself upon him,
and, thrusting his hand between the policemen's leather
stock and his throat, and forcing his knuckles against
his windpipe, would unquestionably have strangled him
had not several civilians come up at the moment, and
with much difficulty dragged the prisoner away from him.
One of these persons deposed that upon their arrival
the constable was quite black in the face, and seemed to
be in a state of suffocation from the prisoner's violence.
The prisoner kicked Cale on the body, and endeavoured
to inflict injuries on the most delicate and vital parts
of his frame. The female prisoner seized 38 G by the
hair of the head, when he came to the assistance of his
brother officer, and attempted to excite the mob to
rescue John Shea. On their way to the station-house,
in the morning, both prisoners made a most violent and
determined resistance—and Sergeant Dodd, 9 E, Jarvis,
41 E, and police-constable 95 E, received some severe
blows from them.
The prisoners laughed during the examination, and
seemed to treat the matter with the greatest indifference.
The male prisoner, who is a desperate and powerful
fellow, appeared in Court without a coat. He refused
to make any defence.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced him to a month's impri-
sonment in the House of Correction, without fine, and
the female to twenty-one days' imprisonment.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Smith, a young man of very respectable ap-
pearance, who was described as a wine agent, residing
in Great Chart-street, Hoxton, was brought before Mr.
Bingham on a charge of having disturbed and an-
noyed Mr. Charles Packer, a surgeon, in Pitfield-street,
by ringing his door bell without lawful excuse.
The complainant stated, that, about twelve o'clock on
the preceding night, the bell at his door was violently
rung, and immediately afterwards his assistant came up
stairs, and informed him that some one had called and

requested his immediate attendance at a house in Great
Chart-street, to visit a sick person. Feeling very much
exhausted from having been up all the previous night in
attendance on a patient, he desired his assistant to say
that ho was out, which was accordingly done ; and the
person in question, whom he afterwards ascertained to
be the defendant, went away ; but he returned back soon
after, and continued violently ringing the bell, at inter-
vals of about ten minutes, until two o'clock in the morn-
ing; and as he then expressed his determination to
compel witness to go with him, he found it necessary to
send for a policeman. and gave the defendant into
custody.
In reply to the charge, the defendant, who was,evi-
dently labouring under considerable excitement, said,
that his wife, having been taken suddenly and very se-
riously ill, he went to Mr. Packer, whom he had em-
ployed on a similar previous occasion, to request his im-
mediate attendance. The door was opened by the as •
sistant, who, on learning his business, told him that Mr.
Packer would attend immediately, whereupon he re-
turned home ; but that gentleman not having arrived,
he went back to ascertain the cause of the delay. He
was then, for the first time, informed that Mr. Packer
was out ; and naturally supposing that lie had gone to
his house, he hastened home in the expectation of find-
ing him there, but that not being the case, and his
wife's illness appearing to increase, he repaired again to
Mr. Packer's, where he received the same answer as
before, with the additional remark that he had better
seek assistance elsewhere. He accordingly went to an-
other surgeon's, residing in Old-street, who, on being
knocked up, looked out at the window, and in answer to
his application, intimated that he would not leave his
warm bed and go out at that hour of the night for any
one. Not knowing where else to apply, he pro-
ceeded for the fourth time to Mr. Packer's, whose foot-
boy answered the door, and was repeating the same an-
swer lie had previously received, that his master was
out, when, to his extreme surprise, that gentleman threw
open an upper window, and called for a policeman, on
whose arrival he was given into custody. Had it been
explicitly mentioned in the first instance that Mr.
Packer would not attend, he should not only have
escaped the incarceration he had undergone, but would
have obtained elsewhere that medical aid which the
state of his wife so urgently demanded.
Mr. BINGIIAM asked the complainant whether his
assistant was in attendance, as ho wished to put a few
questions to him?
Henry Neale, the assistant, here stepped forward, and
on being sworn, admitted having told the defendant,
when he first applied, that Mr. Packer would attend
directly, but being afterwards ordered to say that lie
was not at home, he returned that answer on each sub-
sequent application, and finally advised the defendant
to seek another surgeon.
Mr. Packer wished it to be distinctly understood that
it was only the violent mode of application of which he
complained, as it was certainly not compulsory on me-
dical men to attend every clamorous summons they
might receive.
Mr. BINGHAM said that it must be considered on the
other hand that defendant's wife was very ill at the time,
but both parties appeared to have acted under a mis-
conception, and all he could do under the circumstances
was to discharge the defendant.
The defendant then withdrew with his friends evi-
dently dissatisfied, and declaring that the matter should
not rest where it did.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY IS, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Bernhard
Hel.eler, as Consul General in the United Kingdom for the
Grand Duke of Hesse.
OFFICE OF ORDANCE, MAY IS.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant R. M. Mundy
to be Second Captain, vice Murray, retired on half-pay ; Se-
cond Lieutenant M. S. Biddulph to be First Lieutenant, vine
Mundy, May 15.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham.
Durham Militia—R. S. Surtees, Esq., to be Major, May 18.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
The Hungerford troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—G. Willes,
Esq., to be Captain Commandant, vice W. Honeyood, resigned,
May 7.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
THOMAS GATERCOLE, coal-merchant, Deptford.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
WILLIAM READ and ENOS PAGE, ship-builders,
Ipswich.