The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEIVS BENCH, Feb. 27.
(London Sittings before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a
Special Jury.)
LEFEVRE V. CHAPPELL.

The hearing of this case was resumed this morning.
Mr. COCKBURN (with whom was Mr. Bovill) addressed
the jury for the defendant. He expressed a doubt
whether the letter said to have been received from the
plaintiff by Marchande was a genuine document, and in-
timated that Marchande himself was in truth the plain-
tiff. If so, then the plaintiff had had the opportunity
of stating his own case to the jury, while the defendant
was not permitted to enjoy such an advantage. But as-
suming that Marchande was only an agent, and that Le-
fevre was principal, then he insisted that the contract
was not one in respect of the failure of which the defen-
dant could be held liable. The defendant had never held
himself out as the manager of the theatre in the ordinary
sense of the word, but had represented, and, as he
should show, had represented truly, that he could sell
all the tickets which were not then disposed of by the
manager, and he had sold them to Merchande. It was,
however, a mistake to suppose that the defendant had
represented that the Queen would absolutely come to
the theatre on the night in question; he had, if he
said any thing about it—which was, at least, doubt-
ful—merely expressed his belief that she might come,
and his opinion that, if she did come, her coming
would occasion an increased demand for the tickets.
There was no doubt that both these opinions
were warranted by circumstances. The Queen had
not at that time seen the Propliete. Its reputation
was great; there was a great curiosity to see and hear ir, ,
and it was not unlikely that her Majesty might desire
to witness the performance of an opera which had justly
acquired a great celebrity abroad, and which had been
well produced in this country. If her Majesty should
think fit to visit the theatre, there could be no doubt
that her presence there would be a great additional at-
traction. But the defendant never could have said that
the Queen would go, for it was well known that, except
on occasions of state visits, the determination of the
Queen to be present at the opera was never known till
about three o'clock on the afternoon of the day of the
visit. Here the bargain was made on the Wednesday
evening or the Thursday morning, and, consequently,
before it was possible that the defendant could say any-
thing beyond the expresaion of a mere expectation on
the possibility of her Majesty being present. The de-
fence, therefore, was in substance this—that the defend-
ant hadl not made any false representations; that he had
simply agreed to propositions made him by the plaintiff,
and had literally fulfilled what he had undertaken. He
had given to the plaintiff all the benefit of the tickets,
which at that time were under the control of the ma-
nager, and had assisted in selling them; that from the
circumstances of the lateness of the season and the heat
of the weather, the speculation had not answered was
not his fault, and he was not to be made responsible for
it. He should show that the defendant had done nothing
to deceive Mr. Marchande, and that consequently the
defendant was entitled to a verdict.
Mr. Tibbert—l am the assistant of Mr.- Parsons, the
box-keeper. I recollect the plaintiff coming about these
tickets. Mr. Chappell said he was not the manager,
but Mr. Gye. The house was then in the hands of the
artists themselves. The pit was about half full. No
part of the house was filled. I had endeavoured to dis-
pose of some of the boxes for Mr. Marchande.
_ _

Mr. W. B. Goldsmith, clerk and assistant to Messrs.
Cramer, Beale, and Co.—The firm consists of Beale and
Chappell, the defendant. In 1849 they subscribed for
some boxes in the Royal Italian Opera. They had
about thirty or forty stalls. They had also ten or
twelve to dispose of by the night. I remember the
boxes and stalls being purchased for the Saturday, on
the production of the Prophite. Marchande had the
whole of what had not been previously sold. Cramer and
Beale did not, after their transaction with March ande,
sell a single box or start of their own for that night.
When a private person purchases a box he can only
issue four tickets; when a bookseller purchases a box he
can send in six tickets, four for the boxes and two fur
the pit.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE replied. •
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE left it to the jury to say
whether the defendant had been guilty of any fraudulent
representations. Ile treated as immaterial any state-
ments about the Queen coming, and about the demand
for tickets being great, unless the jury could say (which
he did not think possible as the evidence now stood) that
those statements were made before the contract, and had
influenced the plaintiff in making it. The real point was
whether the defendant had represented himself as the
manager, with a power to dispose of tickets which he did
not possess. If the jury should think that the defendant
had represented himself as absolute manager, with abso-
lute control over tickets, the verdict must be for the
plaintiff; but if the jury should think that he had
merely undertaken to sell to the plaintiff all the
tickets which the manager himself could at that mo-
ment sell, namely, all those not subscribed for and sold
by the subscribers to the opera, and by the booksellers,
then the question would be, whether the defendant bad
not performed that undertaking. It could not be sup-
posed that the defendant was to go round to collect all
the tickets which might happen to be undisposed of in
any bookseller's bands; it he gave to the plaintiff all
in his own hands and all which the manager had then to
dispose of, he fulfilled his contract. It was for the jury
to say whether he had done this. If he had, the verdict
must be for him—if not, then it must be for the plaintiff,
with such damages as the jury might think to be the
amount of the lass occurring through his non-perform-
ance of the contract.

The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 2;.

(Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Chie
Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.)
M'LEAN V. LEEMING.

Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. H. Horn appeared for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., and hi,. Words-
worth fur the defendant.

The peculiarity of this case was, that the defendant
set up his own lunacy as a defence to the action.
The plaintiff is a picture-dealer and picture-frame-manu-
facturer, carrying on business in Fleet-street and Ox-
ford-street; and the defendant was a travelling partner
in a house engaged in the woollen and worsted trade
at Manchester. In August last he came up to London,
and stopped at Lovegrove's Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill,
and on the ith of that month sent the waiter for plaintiff's
foreman, who came, and received from him upwards of
twenty pictures to clean and gild. The defendant then
went to the plaintiff's shop, in Fleet-street, and on
that and the three subsequent days ordered several costly
articles—pictures, console-tables, chimney -glasses, giran-
doles, &c., and gave some more pictures to be cleaned
and gilt. He required that all the articles should be
finished and sent down to his house, Poolev-
park, Manchester, on Saturday, the 11th. On that day
four cases were sent to Manchester by the train, and
the defendant having desired that the foreman should go
down to superintend the unpacking of the pictures, and
to take the pattern for a splendid suite of rosewood fur-
niture which the defendant had ordered, the latter went
down on the Sunday, and on seeing some of the de-
fendant's family, was told that he had come home quite
insane. Some conversation took place subsequently be-
tween the the foreman and a solicitor and a relative of
the family as to his state of mind. The foreman came
back on Monday, but before his arrival two other cases
had been sent off. On Tuesday, tho:l4th, the solicitor
of the family came to town, and explained to the plain-
tiff the state of the defendant's mind, and wished for an
arrangement by the plaintiff sending no more articles
down, taking back those which he had sent, and re-
turning the sum of 1101. 45., which defendant had paid.
This was not acceded to, the plaintiff wishing to keep
the money which he had received, and to be paid for the
articles which he had sent, and offering not to complete
the rest of the order. On the 23d of August the plain-
tiff sent down the remainder of the goods ordered by
the defendant, except the rosewood furniture, and the
family, according to a notice previously served on the
plaintiff, refused to receive them. The sum claimed
by the plaintiff for all the goods sent down was up-
wards of 3201.

The plaintiff's foreman and clerk proved that they
saw nothing whatever in the defendant's manner to
make them suspect he was not of sound mind. On the
contrary, they said he bargained and chaffered about the
prices, and seemed a sharp buyer.

The defence was, that at the time of ordering these
goods he was out of his mind; that these articles were
altogether unsuited to his condition; that he bad no
business for them whatever ; that while he was in
London he was considered by 6U others who dealt with
him as insane; that he considered himself " Selim, the
immortal," and that he had received an appointment as
post captain from the Admiralty, and sometimes that
these pictures and articles were given him by friends,
and sometimes that they were necessary for him in his
new station; that he came home from London on the
Saturday dressed in the uniform of a post captain in
the navy, and that he had continued since then hope-
lessly a lunatic; and further, that the plaintiff and his
men knew that he was not in his right mind when he
was dealing with them, and that the 110/. received by
the plaintiff was more than the value of the articles
actually delivered to the defendant on the 11th of
August.
_

upon the question of lunacy it was admitted, on the part
Several witnesses were called to prove these facts; but
of the plaintiff, that the defendant had been a lunatic
since the 4th of August. The witnesses were, therefore,
not examined.

The Learned JUDGE left three questions to the jury:
—First, whether the defendant was of unsound wind at
the time the order was given upon which the parties
had agreed; secondly, as there did not appear to be any
tcoa;in
vid
case deciding nte a g that notice
with
ticeof
athleuninastaien, it would in thisity was necessary
case be material for the jury to find, whether the plain-
tiff or his foreman was aware of the defendant's insanity
at the time of the order; thirdly, whether the goods
supplied were necessaries and proper for the defendant
and his family, having regard to his position and rank in
life.

The jury, after long consultation found : —First, that
defendant was insane at the time of the contract; se-
condly, that there was no notice to, the
plaintiff ; and
thirdly, that they were not necessaries, even had the
dtfendantintended to furnish a house, not having any
furniture.

They were then asked whether the sum of 1101.,
which had bees paid, was not sufficient to pay the
plaintiff for the value of the work and labour expended
upon the goods, and which could not be returned?
The jury then found that the plaintiff had received
more than sufficient.

The verdict, theiEfcire, was entered for the plaintiff
for the damages in the declaration as security for the re-
turn of the goods, subject to be reduced to Is. when the
goods are returned. Leave was reserved to move upon
the question, whether or not notice of the insanity was
material to be proved by the defendant,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 27.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE FAREY.

The bankrupt, was the proprietor of the Rain Inn,
Smithfield. This was the certificate meeting. The
bankrupt's debts were 1,522/.; his assets, 120/. Mr.
Lawrance supported; Mr. Lucas opposed; Mr. Duncan
appeared for a creditor of the name of Trenholm, of
Stoke Newington, a cousin of the bankrupt's, who had
put in a bill for 5501., and retsins possession of the pro-
perty under it.

His HONOUR said that the bankrupt had behaved very
ill to Mr. Watkins, the opposing creditor. 11,, did not
think that the bankrupt had been justified in making
the large expenditure of 500/. upon the Smithfield pre-
mises. As regarded the reality of the advance by Mr.
Trenholm, he considered the balance of testimony to be
in his favour. On other grounds the certificate would
be suspended for nine months from the examination
meeting, and be of the third class.

ASSIZE IN TELLILTENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT, Hertford, Feb. 27.
Mr. Justice Maule sat this morning in the Crown
Court. The calendar contains the names of forty-five
prisoners, but most of the offences are of the ordinary
description.

William Day, 22, a smart-looking young man, was
indicted for ftealing various articles of furniture, the
property of James Day.
Mr. Rodwell prosecuted, and Mr. T. Chambers de-
fended the prisoner.

It appeared that the prosecutor, who, although of the
same name, is not in any manner related to the pri-
soner, was a labouring man, residing at Little Berk-
hampstead, and the latter was 'AI intimate terms with
him, and was constantly in the habit of visiting at his
cottage. On the 17th of January the prosecutor disco-
vered that his wife had eloped during his absence, taking
with her a good deal of property of various kinds, and
also. one of his children. He gave information to the
police, and the wife was traced to London, where she
WAS found in a lodging jointly occupied by herself and
the prisoner, and the property that had been removed
was also discovered. There appeared to be very little
doubt of the nature of the connexion that existed be-
tween the prisoner and the wife of the prosecutor, but
there was no evidence to show that he had in any way
interfered with the property that had been removed.
The jury, under these circumstances, returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Carlisle, Feb. 26.
NISI PRIUS COURT.— (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)

ROUTLEDGE V. CALVERT.

This- was an action brought in formapauperis by the
plaintiff to recover compensation for the loss of his
daughter's services, who had been seduCed by the
defendant ; to which the :defendant pleaded Not
Guilty.

Mr:. Temple and Mr.lAtherton appeared for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy and Mr. Lawrie for the
defendant.

The plaintiff, it appeared, was a farmer, residing at
White Close, near Stapleton, and had formerly been
the steward of Mr. Fawcett, of Scaby Castle. He had
a family of ten children, six of whom were daughters,
and 'one of them, whose seduction by the defendant
formed the subject of the present action, Mabel, was
21 years of age. The plaintiffs and the defendant's
families had been intimate for several years. Mabel
was in service until November, 1848, when she came
home to be present at the marriage ceremony of one of
her sisters ; and on that occasion the defendant
visited the plaintiff's house and paid much at-
tention to Miss Mabel. It appeared that his
visits and attentions to the plaintiff's daughter
Mabel were continued until February, 1840, and
that in the course of these visits he had succeeded
in seducing her under promise of marriage. About the
middle of February the defendant's attentions suddenly
ceased, and on the 19th of that month he was married
to another woman. The plaintiff's daughter was then
found to be in the family way, and on the 6th of July,
1849, she gave birth to a child. which she affiliated on
the defendant on the 3d of October. For the defence it
was elicited that four out of the plaintiff's six daughters
were pregnant when married, and that the remaining
two, of whom Mabel was one, had given birth to illegi-
timate children. There was no great shock, therefore,
to the plaintiff's feelings or to those of his family by
this occurrence; neither had the plaintiff suffered much
from the loss of his daughter's services, as she was not
in his service in the early part of her pregnancy; and
afterwards, when be discovered it when she went home,
he turned her out of doors.

The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, said it was quite
clear that the plaintiff must have brought up his daugh-
ters in a very loose manner, and they must estimate the
damages to be given according to the facts which had
been proved.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages le.
The only other cause tried was an action for a ser-
vant's wages, extending over a period of twenty years,
which was wholly uninteresting. This finished the civil
business of the assizes.

In the Criminal Court several cases of larceny were
tried, and a charge of assault with intent to commit
rape; after which, the business being concluded, their
Lordships proceeded to Newcastle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Joseph Solomons surrendered himself before Mr. Alder-
man Farebrother to answer the charge of committing a
rape upon the person of Funny Harnswortb, his father's
servant.
The girl, as well as Mrs. Bradshaw, who it was as-
serted had taken her out of the way, was in court.
Mr. Clarkson said, tiat as he had been informed that
his client's recognizances bad the previous day been es-
treated in consequence of some misunderstanding as to the
day, he hoped that now he had made his appearance the
estreat would be taken off.

Alderman FAREBROTBER said, that such being the
case he certainly would comply with Mr. Clarkson's re-
quest, and he therefore ordered it to be taken off.
Fanny Harnsworth, 17, then came forward with much
reluctance, accompanied by Mrs. Bradshaw, and on being
requested by Mr. Roe, the officer of the court, to take
her right hand glove off, she refused to be sworn.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—If she persists in that, I
must commit her.
Harnsworth—l don't wish to prosecute.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—You have your choice of
whither you will be sworn or go to prison.
After some hesitation she consented to take the oath,
The Chief Clerk then read the evidence given by the
girl at the first examination, upon which
Alderman FAREBROTHER asked if that was all true?
The girl was about to answer, when Mrs. Bradshaw
said something which made her hesitate.
Alderman FAREBROTHER (to Mrs. Bradshaw)—You
are only allowed to stand beside her to give her courage,
but not to speak to her. (To the girl)—ls what has been
read to you all true? Harnworth—lt is.
Mr. Clarkson—Has she been examined by any medi-
cal man? Webb, the officer—She has, and the gentle-
man is in court at present.
The next evidence read was that of Webb, who was
called to take her into custody on the charge of stealing
a tippet, when she fell on her knees to the prisoner, and
exclaimed, " Oh, Mr. Joseph, don't let me go to prison
ater seducing me;" after which that of Mrs. Greaves

was likewise read, which went to show that on the first
attempt being made she told her sister, who advised her
to acquaint her master and mistress of it. This the girl
did not do, because she did not wish to make a distur-
bance in th• family, and thought such conduct would
not be repeated.
Mr. E. Archer, surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
said—On the 12th instant I examined Fanny Hams-
worth, and found that the offsnce had been committed.

Mr. Nicholl said, that he now proposed to prove that
money had been given to the girl by some one to keep
her out of the way.
Mr. Clarkson said, that was not evidence against bis
client.

Mr. Nicholl said, he thought by a chain of evidence he
could bring the charge home to the prisoner.
Mr. Clarkson protested against such evidence being
beard, for the charge was merely brought forward to
prejudice Mr. Solomons in the eyes of the public. If,
however, the girl was called, he hoped the Alderman
would caution her that whate►er she might say might
be used against her in a criminal proceeding, and that
she was net compelled to answer unless she liked.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said that he would give her
the usual caution.
Mr. Nicholl—Then I will not call her, but Mrs. Brad-
shaw.

Mrs. Bradshaw then got into the witness•box, and said
she would not be sworn. _ _ _

Alderman FAREBROTHER—I must then commit you.
Mrs. Bradshaw—l will give evidence and speak the

truth, but I decline being sworn.
Mr. Clarkson said he must submit that as a clear
matter of law the prosecutor mast first show, touching
the money, that the party accused bad any share or
knowledge of the transaction, and therefore he contended
that no questions ought to be put to Mrs. Bradshaw, for
there must be a something preceding that to implicate
the prisoner.
The Chief Clerk suggested that as there was a now-
charge of misdemeanour to compound a felony, the soli-
citor should be called upon to state the party against
whom he made that charge.
Mr. Nicholl—l make no direct charge, but an indirect
one, that he (Solomons) or his friends sent the money.
Mr. Clarkson observed, that Mr. Solomons could not
be answerable for what his friends might or might not
have done.

Mr. Nicholl said, that under those circumstances, as
there might be some difficulty of proof, he should leave
the case as it was; and ask the Alderman to commit him
for trial on two charges of violation.

Alderman FAIZEItiOTLIER said, he should like to take
some time to consider the whole subject, and, as it would
not alter the features of the case in any way, he should
remand the prisoner until Saturday, taking the same
bail as before, namely—himself in 2001., and two sure-
ties in 1001. each.

Mr. Isaac; solicitor, got up, and said that one of the
former bail had declined being responsible again.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, if that was the ease he
must have two good responsible housekeepers as bail.
Mr. Lewis said, that tne father would belome one.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, that would sot do.
The bail must be good, and he would examine them ;
for, when one bail retired, it behoved him to be
cautious.

In the course of the afternoon, approved bt iil was
forthcoming, and the prisoner left the court.
AIARYLESONE.
A young man, who gave his name William Barter,
was placed at the bar, before Mr. Lon g, chart.-•ed with
uttering a forged 51. note, and also with having • in his
possession property supposed to have been stolen.
Mr. Compton, landlord of the Crown, 84. Edgew, re-
road, deposed that on that day, at 12 o'c'',lock, the pr,
soner came to his house and called for a filen of sherry

and a cigar, with which he was supplied, and he paid for
the same with a shilling. He the❑ asked if he could be
accommodated with change for a 51. note, and on prose-
cutor telling him he would change it, and examining the
note presented to him, ho at once felt satisfied that it
was a forgery; he directed a friend to keep a close
watch upon the prisoner, and secure him in the " bottle
department," while he went to the station-house, and on
his return home he gave the prisoner into custody, when
he threatened to make prosecutor suffer for having de-
tained him so long; he alleged that he had taken the
note from Mr. Ellison, of Spring-gardens.
Beck, 127 11, produced the note, which was evidently
a spurious one; the prisoner had made various state-
ments as to how he obtained it, and one of the assertions
he made was that he was requested by a person to obtain
change.

The prisoner, upon being asked if he had any-
thing to say in answer t[.) the charge, replied
that he should reserve his ch fence for a future
occasion.

Ile was then remanded till Saturday next.
SOUTHWARK.

Robert Skinner, a powerful young man, was brought
b(fire Mr. A'Beckett, charged on suspicion, with two
other mon (not in custAly), with committing a very
daring highway robbery ut an early hour on the
preceding evening within a short distance of this
court.

Mr. Charles Burroughs, apparently between .50 end
60 years of age, stated, that on returning home
from the Emigration-office, in Thames-street, on the
preceding evening about 7 o'clock, as he was walking
along Brunswick-street, leading from Horscmonget-
lane into the Great Dover-street-road, he was sud-
denly seized by some person from behind. His
assailant grasped him with both hands round the neck
and forcibly held his head back, while another ruffian
came in front if him and violently tare open his coat,
waistcoat, and trousers, and thrusting his hands into his
pockets, divested them of their contents, and alter with-
drawing his hand from his left trousers pocket, exclaimed,
•' I've got it." The moment these words were uttered
the man who held him back in such a position that he
had no opportunity at the moment of distinguishing his
assailants, threw him upon the ground, and they both
made off. He (complainant), although much distressed
from the violence with which his neck was pressed,
managed to get upon his legs, and then observed that
there was a third man, who crossed from the other
side of the street at the moment, and seemed to have
been on the watch while his associates were engaged
in the perpetration of the offence. He (complainant)
saw the three men running in the direction of Union-
street, and called " Police," when three lads came up
and assisted him in giving the alarm, and soon afterwards
a policeman came to the spot, to whom he related the
circumstances of the attack, and was by him accompa-
nied to the station-house, where he gave as accurate a
description as he could of the outrage, and that morning
before he came into court he pointed out the prisoner,
who was in the midst of several other men, as the man
that he had every reason to believe stood in front of him
during the outrage and ransacked his pockets. The com-
plainant added, that he had not his watch in his pocket
at the time, and that the purse which was taken from
his trousers was empty; that in the hurry of his assail-
ant■ to escape, one of their hats fell off, which he (com-
plainant) found lying at his feet when they lett him.
Policeman 156 M stated, that at the time mentioned
he was in Union-square, near Brunswick-street, and
saw three men running from the direction of the latter
street. A moment afterwards he heard the cry of " Po-
lice," and hastened to the spot, when he found the com-
plainant near the corner of the above street, apparently
in a state of much alarm, with the front of his cost,
waistcoat, and trousers, open, and he in a few words de-
scribed the circumstances of the robbery, when he (pc-
!iceman) mentioned that three men had passed him run-
ning before he had heard the cry of "Police 1" adding that
he thohght they were the parties who perpetrated the
offence.

Mr.:A'BEcKETT—Do you believe the prisoner to be
one of the three men who passed you in the square?—
The p9liceman said that he believed that he was one of
the parties, but that they passed him so quickly he had
not time to notice them so narrowly as to be enabled to
swear positively that the prisoner was one of them.
Sergeant Watkins, M division, stated, that on hearing
the complainant's account of the robbery at the station-
house be proceeded to the Black Horse publie-house, in
lient-itreet, and saw the prisoner there. He then charged
the prisoner as one of the accomplices in the robbery of
a gentleman the same evening in Brunswick-street, and
added that he should take him into custody. The pri-
soner merely said that he was innocent,' and expressed
his willingness to go to the station-house. With the
view of testing the complainant's impression as to the
identity of the prisoner the latter was placed that morn-
ing, with other men, in the station-house, and the com-
plainant selected him from amongst them as the man
who hid rifled his pockets and taken his purse. The
sergeant added that the prisoner was previously well
known to the police as a bad character.
The complainant was recalled, and, in reply to the
magistrate, said that he was still of opinion that the pri-
soner was the man who stood in front of him, having had
a better opportunity of noticing his person and drec.s
than he had of the man who held him back, and that the
prisoner had a dark frock coat on.
The prisoner, who wore one of the coats called " Tag-
exclained—" There again you are wrong, for I
have no frock coat."

The complainant, however, said that the coat the pri-
soner wore and a frock coat were so much alike, parti-
cularly at night, that it was difficult to distinguish
one from the other. At all events, the coat the prisoner
then had on was like that which his assailant wore at the
time.

Prisoner—l blow nothing at all about the affair, and
never saw the gentleman until this morning. Why, I
was at the Black Horse iu lient-street when the alleged
robbery was committed, Let me see—l went to the
public house at six o'clock in the evening, and never
stirred out of it till past nine o'clock, so that it could not
be me that did the job.
Mr. ATECKETT—What proof have you that you were
in the public-nome from six until nine o'clock ? Prisoner
—I can bring forward nine or tea respectable people to
prove it.

Mr. A'BECKETT—Then I shall remand you.
The prisoner was then remanded.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—His Excellency the Earl of
Clarendon arrived at Kingstown harbour last night,
shortly after ten o'clock, in her Majesty's mail packet
Banshee. An express train conveyed his Excellency
and suite from Kingstown to the Westland-row terminus,
where the Vice-regal carriage was in waiting, and in
which is Excellency proceedei to the Castle.
Tug REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly
meeting of this association was held yesterday in
Conciliation-hall, Mr. Rafferty in the chair. Mr. John
O'Connell read a letter from the Rev. Dean Burke, of
Westport, county Mayo, enclosing 4/., and urging the
Learned Gentleman to persevere in the agitation for
repeal. The Honourable Gentleman, after some
remark condemnatory of the Government Franchise
Bill, announced the rent for the week to be 14/. In
the course of the proceedings Mr. O'Connell rt
letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell, Roman Ca-
tholic Bishop of Meath, who forwarded 24 as his own
subscription.
DUBLIN STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.—SaIes at the
Commercial Exchange this day—Three per Cent. Con-
sols, 948, Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 961 i;
Four per Cent. City Debentures of 92/. 6s. 2d., 76/ ; Great
Southern and Western Railway Debentures of 5001.,
101, 18 yrs. ; National Bank, 17i; National Insurance
Company, 21 ; Wicklow Copper Mine, 13 ; Great
Southern and Western, 28; Midland Great Western and
Royal Canal, 238. Royal Exchange--Great Southern
and Western, 281; Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junc-
tion, 1; Wicklow Copper Mine, 13; Dublin Consumers
Gas, 58 6.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—The annual dinner o
the Royal Humane Society took place yesterday evening
at the Freemasons' Tavern. The chair was occupied by
the Right Hon. Mr. Fox Manic. After the usual loyal
and patriotic toasts were drunk, including the army and
navy, which were responded to respectively by Sir Wil-
liam Gomm and Sir Edward Belcher, that of the " Royal
Humane Society" was proposed in a most feeling end
striking manner by the Hon. President. The chief fea-
tures of the socieiy's transactions during the last year
were notieed, and among these the fact that the number
of persons who bathed in the Serpentine during the last
year was 530,000; among whom 27 were saved from
drowning by the society's boatmen. During the last
winter 79 persons have been saved by the society's ice-
men. In the course of the evening a number of indivi-
duals who had been snatched from the elutAies of death
marched in procession through the room. Among these
was M. Soyer, the celebrated chef de cuisine ot the Re-
form Club, who delivered an address of thanks, in
simple and appropriate language, for the assistance he
had received from the admirable arrangements of the
society. Several of the heroes of the year were present,
among whom the most remarkable was Master Frank
Powel, who, at the risk of his own life, had saved that of
a schoolfellow. The subscriptions collected during the
evening amounted to between 7001. and 8001 A very
numerous muster attended (upwards of 200), and the
repast set upon the table did the utmost credit to Mr.
Bacon, the proprietor of the tavern; nor must we omit
to mention the exertions of Mr. Harker, the toa,t-master,
whose lungs and discretion went far to preserve the
general order of the meeting.
METROPOLITAN PAROCHIAL WATER-SUPPLY ASSO-
CIATION.--A vestry meeting of the inhabitants of the
united parishes of St. Mary Woolnootb, and St. Mary
Woolchue.ch Haw, was yeld yesterday, in support of the
objects of this Association, when a petition to Parlia-
ment was adopted, and signed by the worthy rector, who
presided, praying the House forthwith to pass a measure
which should secure to the inhabitants of the metropolis
a greatly rucreased supply of pure water, on the prin-
ciple of constant service and high pressure ; and tor
reducing 'the price. by, placing the management of its
distributio n in the hands ot a public board, elected by
the ratepayers and owners of property, in the various
parishes included in the metropolitan district 3. A
deputation, was appointed to wait on John Masierman,
Esq., Member for the City, to request him to present
the petition, and to support the prayer thereof in his
place. in Parliament.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Tuesday morning,
hetween two and three o'clock, a man of the name of
Corney. who for many years past has been in the employ-
ment of the St. Katherine's Dock Company, was taken
to the station-house of the D division, Spitalfields, hav-
ing been found in West-street, adjoining, lying on the
pavement in a state of intoxication, arid incapable ( f
taking care of himself. He was insensible. On reco-
vering himself, he fuund that he had been robbed of
1181. He had that day taken the money, which had been
the savings of years, mit ot the savings' bank, in conse-
quence of having heard so much about the insolvency of
those establishments.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, FEB. 26.—Owing t°
fa-
vourable winds, we had a large supply of grain. Trade reled
exceedingly dull, and to effect sales of even finest samples of
wheat a reduction of Is on the rates of Saturday last had to be
submitted to. Barley, oats, and other articles unchanged.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 26.--The supply of
beasts was large, and trade dull, at a reduction of 3d to 6d per
stone ; part unsold. Sheep trade brisk, and all sold at former
prices. Beasts 830, sheep 4,500. Beef, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; mat'
ton, bid to 6%d per lb.
LEEDS, FEB. 26.—Our supplies of grain are not large, let
quite adequate to the demand. Wheat met a slow sale, and
business done is at a decline of Is per quarter from last week's
rates. There is not much passing in barley, and prices rather
give way. Beans and oats move off slowly.
WISBECH, FEB 23.—We are well supplied with grain Of.
all kinds. The best fresh wheat fully maintains the rates or
this day week, whilst the inferior and out-of-conditioned go'
pies are is per quarter cheaper. The price of oats is in favour
of the buyer. Dry beans quite as dear. in ro!
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 26.—There wer
meal market to-day :32 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280Ibs
imperial, which sold:thus : 9at 115 s Od, at 1/ 43 and
18 at 114 s Od ; average price of the whsle 1145 4d 3-12ths; ;
3 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 275, and lat 2.55. 3 sacks
t.
pot-barley, whereof 2 sold thus :-1 at 5s Od, and lat y ,
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, FEL 1.6*
Oat straw, from 7s 6d to Os 6d per kemple of 16 stenos troll
wheat ditto, 7s od to 8s Od ; barley ditto, 6s 6d to 7s tr
Hay, from 8d to 10d per stone. /53
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 25.—There weretbis
sacks oatmeal, 27 of barleymeal, and 2 of potbarley ye as
day's market; sales ready. Top price of oatmeal cone in
last week ; barleymeal, top, 16, ; flour and peasemeal,
market. .third
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second r 215 od
imperial .. 2136: 001 22s
—s
031 ' Od
Barleynieal, per ditto Od
Peasemeal —s Od --s Od
—s Od —s Od

Flour

Pot barley ... . ... 1 22s 6d I
Duatirx, FEB. 26.—We continue to have ruPPlie:
of gram, yet there was not any improvement
neri.:7:4l:°,l.
market to-day, and we repeat thequota
196 6d to
White wheat, 20s 6d to 23s 6d; red to,
2ls 6d; barley, lOs Od to 12 6d;oat
12s 6d to 166
10s 6d; oatmeal, 10s to Ila Gds tour, seCtad,
Indian corn, per 4801 b, 26s to 28s Od. J
pe barrel, 8s 6ii to

COAL MARK E.
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main Hs 6d
Hasting's Hartley lss Od
Holywell
North Percy Hartley l4s 6d
New Tanfield l4s Od
Old Tanfield 133 6d
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s Od
Tanfield Moor 13utes l3B 9d
Townley l4B 9di
West Hartley
Wylam
Wall's End, &c.

;T.— yEnomay.
160 64
Belmont: ...........•••••
175
6(1
Fletton ..................
Hame1................. 175
v,.
VA
Jona? ohns ..... ....... 151
v,,u,i
Lan-ton ............. • 17.
Gurley ... .......... :.. 16s ili
Riissell's Hetton ..... 171 17
1 S;sewart'a ............... 114 v-,
prhitwell ..... ........ 155 64
icaradoc ..... .. .......... 16s , . ,o 4
) s, Denisonmvvoas
auesest°lthePHaK.n.
e.,:t5.11.1.T0.
01 le: ..e...5. . ..."..
.... ............ ........
.... 11:65:55: uu610::
Ileugh Hall . ............... 15s 9, .
IThornley ............. :. ..... 1.65 tml,
South Hartlepool ..... 16s u'l
Whitwoilfh ............. ... 119 471
I Adelaide Tees .. 161 "5
[ Cownden Tees .......... 151 6-
. 145 6tl
I ;Seymour Tees ......
'' . 05 6d
lSouth Durham......... 151 6 (1,
iIT ees ...... .............. ..
..
179 61
Hartley _ ........... .. 14s 6.1 -
I Sidney's Hartley ... :, 150 0'
I Ships at market. 395'

Brown's Gas . l3s fdi
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's
Killingworth 155 6d
Gosforth
Harton
Hebburn l5B 3d
Hilda 155 3d
Northumberland
Original Gibson
Percy...•- lss Od
Walker
Eden Main
Lambton Primrose
Bell

RAILWAY c=4 tv it • A. it( KET. .
BRISTOL, Fan. 27. farther
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day showS a boo
depreciation in shares, and but little business ha 2 wo,
transacted. Great Western, Quarters, closed at 1354-"'" .
171. Shares, 8 dis. —York and North Midland, 17%.
LI VERrOOL. FEB. 27. btl9l"
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had a very trifling, wer.
ness in our Stock Exchange to-day, and prices are loric,
The transaction's were as follow: - Lancashire and ,
shire, Fifths, 81/8 c. dis.—Ditto, (West Riding UnionPuo,
c. dis.—London and North-Western, 101—Ditto, New.sterr
tern, 6s. 3d. c. dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 14 dis.—bianc-n-ttor
Sheffield, acd Linc Eighths, 11A—Midland, 3914 Jle~
Halves, 25% dis.—North Staffordshire, 11. c. dist—''"ceott
len's (Railway and Canal), New Preference, 6 per rur.
114 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.
chase), 6 per cent. till 1850, (81 paid), 61/i die.
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 27.
STomt Excaexem.—The share market was quiet to-d%;
The only transactions were—London and North-WeSte
New Quarters, is p.—Midland Stock, 40k.

YORK, FEB. 26.