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ffik SUN, LONDON, SA ert*RbAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1844

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present, for whom be, he believed, in common w. •.
the members of that Court , had the highest )espeety.—
Mr. Houseman, bad, at the desire of the Committee,
written to Messrs. Bird requesting them to sent' their
ledgers to the Court, in order to ascertain how much had
been written there by Mr. Jenkins, or any other clerk
of works. The answer was, that the Birds threw up
their contract, but no ledger came. He now came to
Bow-street. The Court I ad ordered 1,400/. to be spent
on that work, and the Court had ordered no more.--
(Hear, hear.) The bill, however, for that 1,4001. came
to 2,0601. Now he wanted to know whether that Court
was determined to hand over to parties the authority
given them by certain statutes and a Commission from
the Crown, to persons who were not mentioned in the
Commission, or responsible to that Court ?
The CHAIRMAN (interrupted)—The question had re-
ference to a certain book. He wished to hear the Hon.
Commissioner cite his authority for detaining that book.
Mr. LESLIE—The statute said that every Commis-
sioner should have the tower of seeing that that Com-
mission was properly carried out. Let them bring
the measurement of the work in Ilowland-street, and
Mr. Jenkins with it, and he would prove his statement.
The CHAIRMAN said the indictment was that he, as a
simple Commissioner, had taken a book and banded it
over to another officer.

Mr. LESLIE said that he admitted in the fullest and
most perfect manner that he gave to Mr. Hertzlett Mr.
Jenkins's book, it being all in pencil, and he would jus-
tify his so doing. Ile was only, as he considered, dis-
chargieg his duty as a Commissioner: He thought the
thing wrong, and he would put it on the broad principle
that he had acted rightly.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ILLwKass then addressed the Court very shortly,
and his manner evinced a strong indisposition to bring
himself into personal collision with any of the Hon.
Members. Ilis statement was, that the book taken pos-
session of by Mr. Leslie was not one of those considered
as official. It contained mere private memoranda, for
the contents could not be supposed public matter until
exhibited before the Court, and was not, that he was
aware, considered official in any of the regulations or
orders. He was not aware, besides, that any of the
orders should be written in ink.

Mr. LESLIE wished to know from Mr. Dowley if these
were public documents ?
Mr. DowLEY considered they were.
Mr. Jenkins here introduced the section of Howland-
street.

Mr. LESLIE would remind the Court that this was a
question involving an absolute loss of 15,000/. or 20,000/.
The CHAIRMAN—But the question is, has an Hon.
Commissioner the right to withdraw these books?
Mr. B. BALDWIN—Mr. Leslie is going on to prove
that he was justiti, d in the.course he adopted.
The CHAIRMAN—But supposing, even for the sake of
.rgurnent, that the hooks were wrong—
Mr. LAURIE—Don't suppose anything wrong. Evely-
tiiing can be pr,v,ll.—(Elear, hear.) Mr. Leslie hid,
firt-t, of all, establist,ed that those books were public docu-
mer,ts.

Attec sore int( rruption, which only served to distrac;
the attention of the Court from the main queqion,
Mr. LESLIE proceeded to question Mr. Jenkins upx;
the average depths on the lime of Howland-street. Th,
work was 842 feet 9 inches in length, at an average of
14 iect 7 inches taken at seven several depths. Three
in the first hundred feet, one in the second hundred, one
in the third hundred, one in the next one hundred and
fifty, and another to the end of the work, Mr. Jenkins
thus missing one three hundred feet before he took a
depth.
Mr. JENKINS answered all questions in the affirmative,
and said, when the examination was finished, "1 won't be
bro W-beat, Sir; my books are down in black and white ;
and I defy the man that can say there that black is
white."—(Cries of " Order, order.")
Mr. LESLIE wished to know if the 300 yards was not
the narrowest part ? _ _ _

Mr. JENKINS—My books are there ; I won't be brow-
beat—(Hear, hear)—here as I have been elsewhere.
Captain BAGUE said he had been asked that question
last Court day, and had not seen proper to give the solu-
tion that he did that day.
Mr. JENKINS—The inquiry had never been made.
Mr. LESLIE was going to put other questions to Mr.
Jenkins, when
The CHAIRMAN said he would put it to the Hon. Com-
missioner whether he thought a reference to the How-
land-street sewer would justify him in this matter ?
Mr. LESLIE said he did not know how he could possi-
bly go on without first proving in what way the businets
of the Court had been done.
The CHAIRMAN— Was the course pursued justifiable?
Mr. BROUGHTON, after remarks upon the inconvenience
that would accrue if all members of the Court were
to possess themselves of books as Mr. Leslie had done,
suggested that the Commission should appoint a special
Committee to take the thing into consideration.
Mr. BARRY BALDWIN thought that extreme cases re
ciuired extreme remedies. He, with the Hon. Member
(Mr. Leslie), suspected that pencilled books were not
exactly proper, and he was of opinion that the Hon.
Commissioner did only what any Commissioner of just
principles would do—he had deposited the book with
the chief clerk in the office. He did not hinder any-
body from consulting it; the only exaction he made was
that the book should not be altered or erased
He (Mr. B. Baldwin) would have done the very same.
The: e could be no doubt entertained that the Hon. Com-
missioner intended it all to come before the Court at a
future time, and if he were the Hon. Commissioner he
would take it on the broad principle that the book was
not kept in a proper manner. and that he therefore con-
sidered it his duty so to retain it.
Mr. LESLIE—Why, Mr. Hawkins afterwards got the
book and deposited it with Mr. Hcrtzlett. That notice
on the paper was merely an avant courier sent out by the
Chairman, to ascertain the strength of the Court. The
speaker, after some further observations, all having re-
ference to the question, during which he was frequently
interrupted by other Hon. Commissioners, concluded by
stating that he had only done, as he hoped he had always
done, his duty, and he left the matter now in their
hands.

~~Af►er some other observ'etions, the resolution by an
Hon. Commissioner, seconded by Mr. Hawkins, was car-
ried, '• That no Hon. Commissioner have power to with-
draw books, or otherwise interrupt the officers of the
Court in the discharge of their duties.'
Several members said that the resolution would have
the effect of m3stifying all future inquiries.
Mr. FULLER said the evident object was not to further
any public good, but to put down Mr. Leslie. He was
obliged to the lion. Commissioner, for if he could not
agree in all the particulars, he was satisfied that he was
right in the general principle.
After some fuqher discussion, the question was put
from the Chair, when there appeared for the resolution,
16 ; against it, 9—majority, 7.
The Court then} adjourned.

THE ICE TRADE IN INDIA.

(From the Madras Athenceum.)
Ice has become a great article of export in America-
-60,000 tons are annually sent from Boston to southern
parts, the East and West Indies, &c. The ice-houses
near the lakes and ponds are immense wooden buildings
holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them,
indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built
with double walls—that is, with an inner wall round,
two feet from the outer one ; and the space between is
filled with sawdust—a non-conductor, 'making a solid
wall, impervious to heat and air, and of ten feet in thick-
ness. The machines employed fur cutting the ice are
very beautiful, and the work is done by men and horses
in the following manner :—The ice that is intended to
be cut is kept clear of snow, as soon as it is sufficiently
thick to bear the weight of the men and horses to be
employed, which it will do at six inches ; and the snow
is kept scraped from it until it is thick enough to cut.
A piece of ice is cleared, of two acres in extent, which,
at a foot thick, will give about 2,000 tons. By keeping
the snow off it freezes thicker, as the frost is freely
allowed to penetrate. When the time of cutting arrives
the men commence upon one of these pieces by getting
a straight line through the centre each way. A small
hand-plough is pushed along the line until the groove is
about a quarter of an inch in width and three inches
deep, when they commence with the " marker"—an
implement drawn by two horses—which makes two new
grooves parallel with the first, twenty-one inches, the
gauge remaining in the first groove. It is then shifted
to the outside groove, and makes two more. The same
operations go on, in parallel rectangular lines, until the
ice is all marked out into squares of twenty-one inches.
In the meanwhile, the plough is following in these
grooves, drawn by a single horse, a man leading it; and
he cuts up the ice to a depth of six inches. The outer
blocks arc then sawn out, and iron bars are used, on
splitting them. These bars are like a spade, of a wedge
form. In dropping them into the grooves the ice splits
off, and a very slight blow is sufficient to separate them;
and they split easy or hard, according to the weather in
a very cold day. Ice is very brittle in keen frost; in
comparatively softer weather it is more ductile and re-
sistible. Platforms, or low tables, are placed near the
opening made in the ice, with an iron slide reaching
from them into the water; and a man stands on each
side with an ice-hook, very much like a boat-hook, but
made of steel, with fine sharp points. With these the ice
is hooked with a jerk that throws it on the platform on
the sides, which are of the same height. On a cold day
everything becomes covered with ice, and the blocks are
each sent spinning along, although they weigh two cwt.,
as if they weighed only one pound. The slides are
large lattice-work platforms to allow the ice to drain,
and three tons can thus be easily run in one of them by
one horse. It is then carried to the ice-houses, discharged
upon a plat form in front of the doors, and hoisted into the
building lky a horse. 40 men and 12 horses will cut and
stow away 400 tons a- day. If the weather be favour-
able, 100 men are sometimes employed at once ; and in
three weeks the ice crop—about 200,000 tons—is se-
cur-id. Some winters it is very difficult to secure it, as
rain or thaw may come that will destroy the labour of
weeks, and render the ice unfit fir market ; and then it
may snow and rain upon that before those employed
have time to clear it off ; and if the latter freezes, the
result is snow ice, which is of no value, and has to be
planed off. The operation of planing proceeds in nearly
the same manner as that of cutting. A plane guaged to
ruu in the grooves made by the " marker," and which
will shave the ice to a depth of three inches at one cut,
is drawn by a horse, until the whole piece is regularly
planed over. The chips are then scraped off. If the ice
is not then clear, the work is continued until the pure
ice is reached, and a few nights of hard frost will make
it as thick below—inch for inch—as what has been taken
off above. The ice is transported pp railways. Each
ice-house has a branch railway from the main line, and
it is conveyed in properly constructed box-waggons to
Bostor.—a distance of (as the locality may be) 10 to 18
miles. The tools, machinery, &c., employed, and the
building the houses, and constructing and keeping up the
railroads, Ar.c., are very expensive ; yet the facilities are
such, through good ileenagf FAPPt? that ice can be fur-
nishedat a very trifling cost per pound ; find p. f4ilure
of the ice crop in America would be a great calamity.

NAVAL STATIONS.

(Prom the United Service Magazine f..r Decembet.)
A eheron, st., 2, Lieut.-Cont. B. Aplin, Mediterranean.
A, 'der, 1, st., Master-Corn. J. Hammond (act. ), Pembroke.
Adv ice, 1, st., Lieut.-Commander C. A. Petch, Pembroke.
African, at., Master-Commander J. King (act. ), Sheerness.
Agiocc urt, 72, Rear-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, Knight,
Capta.`n H. W. Bruce, China Division, East Indies.
Aigle, 24, Capt. Lord C. E. Paget, Mediterranean.
Alban, 1, st.• yes., Lieut.-Commander F. Lowe, Plymouth.
Albatross, 16, Commander R. Yorke, Coast of Africa.
Albert, st., Lieut.-Commander 0. Cumberland, Coast of Aftica.
Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockycr. C. 8., Lisbon.:
Alecto, at., Lieut.-Commander W. Hoseason, Mediterranean.
Alert, 6, Commander C. J. Bosanquet, Coast of Africa.
Alfred, 50, Commander J. B. Purvis, Rio de Janeiro.
Alligator, 26, tr. sh., Master-Commander J. N. King, China
Amazon, 42, Capt. James J. Stopfurd, Sheerness.
America, 50, Capt. Hon. John Gcrdon, South -!,meriea.
Anson, 72, convict-hulk, Com. F. R Co<-1;lan, Hobart Town.
Apqllo, 8, tr., Comatander W, Maelet::„, Mediterranean.
Ardent, st., Commander J, Rus•'
ll Coast of Africa.
rn
Asp, 1, st., Lieut.-Co. 1.
, Oke, Portpatrick.
Basilisk, 6, Lieut. H. Hunt (act. ), Pacific.
Beacon, 6, sur, fro ~ Corn. T. Graves, Mediterranean.
Beaver, st., Lieut.-Corn. R. Mudge, Dover.
Bee, st., tender fur the use of students on board the Excellent,
and at the Naval College, Portsmouth.
Belvidera, 38, Capt. Hon. G. Grey, Mediterranean.
Bittern, 16, Commander E. Peel, Cape of Good Hope.
Black Eagle, at. ves., Master Com. S. B. Cook (act.),
Woolwich.
Blazer, 3, st. yes., Captain J. Washington, Harwich.
Bonetta, 3, Corn. T. S. Brock, Mediterranean.
Bramble, 10, Lieut.-Com. C. B. Yule, East Indies.
Caledonia, 120, Capt. A. Milne, Plymouth.
Cambrian, 36, Capt. H. D. Chads, C. 8., Passage home.
Carysfort, 26, Capt. Lord George Paulet, Pacific.
Castor, 36, Capt. C. Graham, China.
Ceylon, 2, Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart., Lieut. R.
Curtis, receiving ship, Malta.
Champion, 18, Commander J. Clavill (act.), Portsmouth.
Charon, steamer, Second Master E. C. Rutter (act.), Dover.
Cleopatra, 26, Capt. C. Wyvill, Cape of Good Hope.
Cockatrice, 6, Lieut.-Corn. J. Oxenham, Brazils.
Collingwood, 80, Rear-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, G.C.H.,
Capt. R. Smart, K. H., Pacific.
Columbia, steamer, Lieut.-Corn. J. Harding, N. America.
Cornet, steamer, Lieut. W. Prettyman, Plymouth.
Confiance, 2, steamer, Sec. Mas. J. Jagoe (act. ), Devonport.
Conway, 26, Capt W. Kelly, (act.), Cape of Good Hope.
Cormorant, 6, steamer, Corn. G. T. Gordon, Pacific.
Crescent, 42, rec. sh., Lt.-Cont. W. G. Hemsworth, Rio
Janeiro.
Cruizer, 15, Com. E. G. Fanahawe, Chatham.
Cuckoo, at., Lieut.-Com. A. Parks, Weymouth.
Curacoa, 24, Captain Sir T. S. Pasley, Bart , Brazils.
Cyclops, 6, st., Captain W. F. Lapidge, Ireland.
Cygnet, 10, Corn. H. Layton, Coast of Africa.
Dtedalus, 16, Captain P. M'Quhae, Woolwich.
Daphne, 18, Captain J. J. Onslow, Pacific.
Daring, 12, Corn. H. J. Matson. Portsm nith.
Dasher, st., Master-Corn. R. White (act.), Weimouth.
Dee, 2, at., Master-Com. T. Driver, particular service.
Devastation, 6, at., Com. W. H. Kitchen, Mediterranean.
Dido, 18, Captain Hon. H. Keppel, China, on passage home.
Dolphin, 3, Lieut.-Com. W. O'B. Hoare, Rio de Janeiro.
Doterel, st., Mas.-Com. J. Grey (act. ), Holyhead.
Dover, st., Master E. Lyne (act. ),' Dover .
Driver, 6, st., Corn. C. 0. Hayes, China.
Dublin 50 Rear-Admiral R. Thomas, Capt. J. J. Tucker,

.
Pacific.
Dwarf, st., Lieut.-Com. W. C. Chamberlain. Portsmouth.
Eagle, 50, Capt. B. Martin, C.B , Chatham.
Eclair, st. yes., Corn. W. G. B. Estcourt, Coast of Africa.
Electra, 18, Corn. A. Darley, West Indies.
Emerald, ten. to St. Vincent, Sec. Mast. 11. D. Beach, Ports-

mouth.
Espiegle, 12, Com. T. P. Thompson, Chatham.
Espoir, 10, Lieut.-Cora. C. H-td4way, (act. ), Coast of Africa.
Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliott, Norih America.
Excellent, Captain Sir T. Hastings, Knt., Portsmouth.
Experiment, 1, st. v. Lieut.-Com. J. Harper, Lake Huron.
Fanny, ten. to St. Vincent, Sec. Master G. Allen, Portsmouth.
Fearless, st., Commander W. L. Sheringham, Portsmouth.
Ferret, 6, Commander J. Oake, Coast of Africa.
Firebrand, st. v., Capt. A. L. Corry, Portsmouth.
Firefly, 2, steamer, Captain F. W. 13eechey, surveyieg Ireland.
Fisguard, 42, Captain J. A. Duntze, Pacific.
Flamer, Lieut.-Commander C. J. Postle, Mediterranean.
Fly, 18, Captain F. B. Blackwood, East Indies.
Flying Fish, 12, Corn. Robert Harris, Portsmouth.
Formidable, 84, Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, K.C.8.,
Capt. G. F. Rich, Mediterranean.
Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., on passage to
China.
Frolic, 16, Commander C. B.' Hamilton, Brazils.
Geyser, 6, steamer, Commander Carpenter, Mediterranean.
Gleaner, 2, steamer, Sec. Master H. Hill, Bermuda.
Gorgon, 6, steamer, Captain C. Hotham, Monte Video.
Griffon, 3, Lieut.-Commander Jenkin, Sheerness.
Growler, 6, steamer, Commander Buckle, Coast of Africa.
Harlequin, 16, Commander Hon. G. F. Hastings, E. Indies.
Hazard, 18, Commander C. Bell, East Indies.
Hecate, 4, steamer, Commander J. P. Bower, Ireland.
Hecla, steam-vessel, Commander J. Duffill, editerranean.
Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Rickets, Cape of Good Hope.
Hermes, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Com. W. Carr, West Indies.
Heroine, 6, Lieut.-Com. H. R. Foote, Coast of Africa.
Hornet, 6, Lieut.-Com. R. B. Miller, West Indies.
Hyacinth, 18, Commander F. Scott, West Indies.
Hydra; 4, Commander H. B. Young, Coast of Africa.
Illustrious, 72, Vice-Admiral Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., Captain

-J. E. Erskine, North America.
Imaum, rec. ship, Coniniodore A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., Jamaica.
Inconstant, 36, Capt. C. H. Fremantle, West Indies.
Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, China.
Isis, 44, Capt. Sir J. Marshall, Knt.' K. C.H., Cape.
Jasper, st., Master-Commander E. Rose, Pembroke.
Lark, 4, sur. v., Lieut.-Com. G. B. Lawrence, West Indies.
Larne; 18, Commander J. W. D. Brisbane, Coast of Africa.
Lightning, 2, st., Mast. W. Roberts, particular service.
Lucifer, st. surv. v., Com. Frazer, Ireland.
Lynx, 3, Lieut.-Commander J. T. Nott, Ireland.
Mastiff, 2, surv. v., Master-Com. Thomas, Woolwich.
Medea, 4, steamer, Commander Warden, Mediterranean.
Medina, 2, et., MasterrCom. Smithett ( acting ), Liverpool.
Medusa, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander J. G. Raymond, Liverpool.
Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, Portsmouth.
Merlin, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander E. Keane, Liverpool.
Meteor, 2, st., Lieut.-Corn. G. Bottler, Ireland.
Minden, 20, hospital ship, Captain M. Quin, China.
Modeste' 18, Corn. T. Baillie, Pacific.
Mohawk, Corn. W. N. Fowell, Lake Ontario, Canada.
Monkey, 1, st. v., Second Master W. Bryant (act. ),Woolwich.
Montreal, Lieut.-Corn. J. Tyssen, Lake Erie, Canada.
Mutine, 12, Corn. R. B. Crawford, Chatham.
Nautilus, 10, tender to Victoria and Albert, Lieut.-Corn. W.
Robson, Portsmouth.
Nereus, store-ship, Master-Com. F. W. Bateman, Valparaiso.
Notley, 8, tender to Caledonia, Second Master F. H. May,
Devonport.
North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., East Indies.
Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., V ice-Admiral Sir
J. C. White, K. C. 8., Sheerness.
Orestes, 18, Corn. E. St. Leger Cannon, Mediterranean.
Osprey, 12, Commander F. Patten, Portsmouth. .
Otter, st. v., Lieutenant-Commander E. Wylde, Holyhead.
Pantaloon, 10, Lieut.-Com. Edmund Wilson (act.), Ports-
mouth.
Pelican, 16, Commander P. Justice, China, on passage house.
Penelope, st., 24, Commodore W. Jones, Coast of Africa.
Perseus, receiving ship, Lieut.-Commander Greet; off Tower.
Philomel, 6, Com. B. J. Sullivan, Brazils.
Pickle, 2, Lieut.-Cortimander J. A. Bainbridge, West Indies.
Pigmy, 1, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com. C. Autridge, Pembroke.
Pike, 1, steamer, Lieut.-Com. A. Boyter, Portpatrick.
Pilot, 16, Corn. W. H. Jervis, East Indies.
Pique, 36, Capt. Hon. M. Stopford, West Indies.
Plover, sur.-vessel, Capt. R. Collinson, C. B. China.
Pluto, 2, Lieut.-Commander P. Crozier, Ireland.
Poictiera, 72, Capt. Sup. W. H. Shirreff, Chatham.
Polyphemus, 1, st.; Lieut.-Corn. T. Spark, Mediterranean.
Porcupine, st., v., Captain Bullock, Deptford.
Princess Alice, ast. Corn. Smithett (act.), Dover.
Prometheus, st. sloop, Commander J. Hay, Coast of Africa.
Prospero, 1, st., Sec. Mas. P. Rundle (act.), reserve packet
Pembroke. •
Queen, 110, Capt. W. F. Martin, Portsmouth.
Racer, 16, Corn. A. Reed, Rio de Janeiro.
Rapid, 10, Lieut. S. Apthorp, Coast of Africa.
Raven, 4, Lieut.-Corn. J. Stephen, Portsmouth.
Redwing, steamer, Com. T. Bevis, Liverpool.
Resistance, tr. s., Corn. C. G. C. Patsy, particular service.
Rhadamanthus, 2, st., Mast.-Com. Laen, Cork.
Ringdove, 16, Corn. Sir W. Daniell, Knt., Coast of Africa.
Romney, depot, Lieut.-Corn., R. M'Clure, Havannah. •
Rose, 18, Com. H. R. Sturt, West Indies.
Royal Sovereign, Capt.-Sup. Sir W. Pell, Pembroke.
Royalist, Lieut.-Com. G. Ogle, East Indies.
St. Vincent, 120, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, 8art.,G.C.8.,
G. C. H.; Captain R. F. Rowley, Portsmouth.
Salamander, 4, at., Cora. A. S. Hamond, Pacific.
Samarang, 26, Capt. Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., China.
San Josef, 110, Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8.,
Capt. H. M. Dixon, Plymouth.
Sapphire, troop ship, Mas.-Com. J. R. Fittock, China.
Sappho, 16, Com, Hon. George Hope, Cape of Good Hope.
Satellite, 18, Commander R. H. B. Rowley Brazils
Savage, 10, Lieut.-Com. J. H. Bowker, Mediterranean.
Scout, 18, Corn. Hon. J. R. Drummond, Mediterranean.
Scylla, 16, Commander R. Sharpe, North Am erica.
Seallower, 6, cutter, Corn. N. Robilliard, Portsmouth.
Sealark, 18, Com. T. L. Gooch, Coast of Africa.
Serpent, 16, Commander W. Nevill, China.
Shearwater, 2, steam-vessel, Commander C. Robinson, sur-
veying Coast of Scotland. •
Siren, 16, Commander W. Smith, East Indies.
Skylark, 4, Lieut.-Commander G. Morris, sheerness.s
Snake, 16, Corn. Hon. W. B. Devereux, Mediterranean.
Snipe, 2, Lieut.-Corn. G. Raymond, particular service.
Sparrow, 6, ketch, Lieut. H. C. Otter, Coast of Scotland.
Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. . B. Elliot, W. Indies.
Speedy, 2, Lieutenant-Corn. G. Beaufoy, Sheerness.
Spider, 6, Lieut.-Cons. R. E. Pro, Brazils.
Spiteful, steamer, 6, Com. W. Maitland, China.
Sprightly, 1, steamer, Master-Corn. Moon (act.), Holyhead.
Star, 10, Corn. R. J. W. Dunlop, Coast of Africa.
Stromboli, 6, Cora. the Hon. E. Plunkett, Cork.
Styx, 6, steamer, Capt. A. T. Vidal, Azores.
Swallow, 1, at., Master-Corn. R. Sherlock (acting), Dover.
Sydenham, at., Lieut.-Com. D. R. Mapleton, Mediterranean
Sylph, 2, tender to Caledonia.
Sylvia, 6, Lieut. Tumour, tender to Seaflower, Portsmouth.
Talbot, 26, Capt. Sir T. Thompson, Pacific.
Tartarus, steam vessel, Captain J. Wolfe (act. ), Devonport.
Thalia, 42, Capt. C. Hope, Pacific.
Thunder, 6, surveying vessel, Corn. E. Barnett, Chatham.
Thunderbolt, 6, steamer, Com. G. N. Broke, C. of G. Hope.
Tortoise, 12, guard ship, Com, 0 Morreh, Ascension.
Tyne, 26, Capt. W. N. Glasscock, Mediterranean.
Urgent, 2, steam-vessel, Master-Com. J. Emerson, Liverpool.
Vestal, 26, Capt. C. Talbot, Cape of Good Hope.
Victoria and Albert, yacht, Captain Lord. A. Fitsclarence
Portsmouth
Victory, 104, Rear-Admiral H. Parker, C. 8., Captain G
Mouhray, Portsmouth.
Viper, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Carter, Brazils.
Virago, 6, st.-ves., Corn. G. G. Otway, Mediterranean.
Vixen, 6, steam-vessel, Corn. G. Giffard, China.
Volage, 26, Rear. Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C. H., Captain
Sir W. Dickson, Bart., Ireland.
Volcano, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Corn. E. C. Miller, Portsmouth.
Warspite, 50, Capt. W. P. Wallis, Mediterranean.
steamer,LLiieeuutt.....Ccoornm..
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Wasp, 16, Corn. S. H Usher, Coast of Africa.
Waterwitch, 10, T. F. Birch, Portsmouth.
Widgeon,Wildfire, steamer, Sa.rbSyc,rWivee;'mpouotvbe.r.
William and Mary, yacht, Commodore Sir F. Collier, Knt.
C. 8., K.C. H. , Woolwich.
Winchester, 52, Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, Captain C.
Cape of Good /lope,
Wolf, 18, Commander A. Vyner (act.), China.
Wolverine, 16, Corn. W. J. Clifford, China.
Young Hebe, Lieut.-Com, W. T. Bate, China.
Zephyr, 1, st., Lieut.-Com. Jas. Small, Holyhead.

Do OBLIGE US Pon ONCE.—Parliament is an-
nounc4d to open on the 4th of February. Really, it
-1,4 paid be a favor, Sir Rnbert, if you would put it oil to
the 990,—Punch.

.MILITARY STATIONS.

(From the United Service Magazine for December).

,I Troops or Service
Companies.

Depots.

Regent's Park ......
Hyde Park
Windsor
Canter bury
Longford ..... .•••
Ballincollig ....
Cahir
Manchester
York
Cape of Good Hope
Dublin
Edinburgh
Bengal
Ipswich
Brighton
Birmingham •••
Dublin
Bengal
Newbridge.... .....
Dundalk
Nottingham
lExeter
Bombay
Madras
Bengal
I Hounslow
Portman Barracks
Winchester
Wellington Bart acks
Tower .........
St. George's Bar
Windsor
St. Ithn's Wood
Gibraltar
Barbadoes •••
Bombay ...... •••
11.•ngal
AI ad ras
Belfast
Dublin
Gibraltar ...... .••••
Bolton
Bengal
Bengal ..... .••••••••
(;hatham
Mauritius •
Mauritius ...... ....•
Bengal
Canada •••
Limerick
Dublin
Aden . ... . ....
China...
Lephalunia
Bermuda ...
Bermuda
Bengal ........
Bum hay
Barbedoes
,Canada
Kilkenny ....
Madras
New ca,tle.on-Tyne.
Cape of Good Hope

BoMbay

Bengal
Limerick . .....

Ifrngal ......

Düblin
New Brunswick.....

Athlone
ltturittus
Newry

Gosport .........
G►braltar
Bengal
Bengal....

Brecon
Malta ...
Malta
Montreal .......
Plymouth
Cape of Good Hope
Gibr ,liar
St. Vincent
Weedon .........
Jamaica
Winchester
Bengal
Van Diemen's Land
Quebec .,,,

!Maidstone

Bengal . .......
Alull!ngar

Chichester
Dublin
Madras ... .
New South Wales.
Portsmouth
Fermoy
Canada
Huttevant

Bengal
Madras

Northampton..„
Castlebar
Dublin
Manchester
Walmer

Templeniore
Manchester.
Granada
Canada
Cork
Dublin
Halifax, N. S

111aidstone

Maidstone

Alaidstoze
Alaidatone
Nlaidstene

Clare Castle •
Enniskillea
Chatham
Sheerness
Chatham

Dublin

FREE TRADE MEETING.
J
Thursday evening a numerous meeting of the free-
traders, and others opposed to monopoly, was held in the
Theatre, Kensington. The chair was announced to be
taken at half-past seven o'clock, but the proceedings did
platform,o
nm.
r.
l a,heodaltph seim,
itdfi building
tv. wliaire, a not commence for some time after. Several respectable
los in
everynd
otherpar t
gentlemen cr o d ed.
inhabitants of the neighbourhood occupied seats on the
connected with the Anti-Corn-law League ascending the
platform, they were roost loudly cheered. The chair was
taken by Samuel Lucas, Esq. It may be added that
several of the agents of the monopolist party showed
their great alarm and consternation by distributing large
quantities of anti-League tracts.
The CHAIRMAN, having expressed his satisfaction at
being called to preside, stated that he was of opinion the
present movement of the League was likely to strike
more terror into the enemy than any other of that
body. Meetings were being held in Lancashire, Cheshire,
and other counties, for the purpose of augmenting the
free-trade registration. Such also was the case with
Nlidilesex. He therefore trusted that the people of
Kensington district would come forward and exert them-
selves in the cause. After some further remarks the
Chairman concluded by introducing
Mr. R. R. Mooee, who commenced by saying that, on'
entering the meeting, he had a tract placed in his hand,
which set out by stating that while there was great ad-
vocacy of free trade throughout the country, there was
no consideration of the effects which would be produced
by the carrying out of those doctrines.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Moore) wondered how such an assertion could
be made at the present time, as no subject had ever mom
engrossed the attention of the League, than the condition
of die working and labouring classes. Since they had
last met in the neighbourhood.- the state of things had
altered considerably ; there had been agitation for free
trade when food was high, and wages low. Since then
wages had become higher, and the price of food had
lowered.—(Cheers.) Wheat was. reduced nearly fifteen
shillings per quarter ; still the advoetftes of monopoly,
and the members of protection societies, asserted that
free trade would be injurious to the labouring classes.
The Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and other ad-
vocates of monopoly, professed, while they were merely
serving their own purposes, to be the friends of the
labourers. Now, he (Mr. Moore) considered that they
would be more benefiting their country, by stating how
a man with a large family was to live on little more
than 19/. per annum.----:(Hear, hear.) In the agricultu-
ral districts, able-bodied men, as he stated on a former
occasion, did not receive more than eight shillings per
week.—(Hear.) The monopolists had also asserted that
those employed in the manufacturing districts were most
cruelly treated. Mr. Moore very ably refuted this state-
ment, by extracts from several documents, and showed
that those who left the agricultural fur the manufacturing
districts, were much better remunerated for their labour
in the latter.—(Cheers.) The League, however, had at
length forced the aristocracy of the country to admit
even at their agricultural dinners—(Laughter)—that
the labourers were in a most deplorable condition, still
not a single measure as a remedy had-been proposed.—
[A voice—Cricketn—(Laughter.) Yes, continued Mr.
Moore, Lord John Manners had proposed cricket, but
for what purpose he knew not. Perhaps while playing
at cricket the hunger might be diverted from them.—
(Lsughter.) Another had proposed agricultural dinners.
—(Laughter.) Still an agricultural dinner might not be
a bad thing, for at it a labourer might be able to obtain
a dinner for once in the year.—(Continued laughter.)
Others had proposed allotments of land; but the people
did not want allotments in charity—they wanted and were
entitled to the use of the land throughout the world.
This right the corn-laws denied to the people of this
country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Moore, at some further
length, and with his usual eloquence, showed the ridicu-
lousness of the long arguments advanced against free
trade, and more fully alluded to the pamphlet before
spoken of. He-next said that there bad been long state-
ments made to the effect that the League was dead. The
present state of the registries was; however, an answer
to such assertions. At the last election for Lancashire
the free-trade candidate was beaten by more than five
hundred votes; notwithstanding, bygreat exertion the
League had changed the state of affairs, and now there
was a free-trade majority on the registry of nearly
1,300 votes. At the next election there would be a re-
turn of two free-traders.---(Cheers.) They were also
exerting themselves in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and other
places. To the boroughs much attention had also been
paid. He could at once come to the great metropolitan
county of Middlesex and impress on those connected
with it to register as soon as possible. In Middlesex
there were not more than 13,000 voters, while in a divi-
sion of Lancashire there were at present 20,000.--(Hear,
hear.) A freehold, he might add. could be obtained very 1
easily—it would not cost more than 50/., end a more '
eligible investmentcould not possibly be made.—(Cheers.) '
Mr. Moore next alluded to the forthcoming Bazaar, and
expressed a hope that the contributions from the inhabi-
tants of London, and the ladies in particular, would be
such as to reflect credit on the metropolis. After im-
pressing
on the meeting the necessity of attending to
the la gistration, Mr. Moore retired ansidst continued
cheering.
Mr. GEO. THOMPSON next came forward and addressed
the meeting at great length, and was heard most at-
tentively
throughout. The Learned Gentleman did not
conclude until a late hour.
The following resolution was then unanimously car-
ried:—" That this meeting has heard with pleasure the
progress made by the League in the registration courts
during this year, and is deeply interested in the present
movement to increase the number of free trade county
freeholders, and pledges itself to the most strenuous ex-
ertions to increase the number of freeholders in the
county of Middlesex. And this -meeting further pro-
mises its most cordial support to the great League
Bazaar, to be held in Covent-garden Theatre in May
next."

we often ventured to remind Lord Ashley last session,
so we remind him now, in time for a few calculations.
He asks the nation to be benevolent. It is the nation
which must be benevolent, if it admits of reasonable
proof, as is alleged, that the manufacturer, with his
existing burdens, cannot.— Times.

CORNWALL and D EVON CEN TRAL
RAIL WA Y.

CO-131'.

TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE CORNWALL RAILWAY

FROM PLYMOUTH TO FALMOUTH.
I have always given a decided preference to a Cen-
tral Line of Railway, which ultimately extending its
branches to different points of the .county, must em-
brace and absorb the whole of its traffic, and only
because the founation of such line then appeared to
be hopeless, assented to the policy of seeking aid from
existing companies, and, of submitting to conditions
imposed by them with a regard to their own interests.
The Central Line being now almost universally
popular, and ample funds offered to its Committee,
their power of raising capital without shackling their
proprietors, cannot be doubted. I believe that the
natural advantages are incomparably greater, rad
that the cost of construction will, relatively to distince,
be lesion the Central Line, but were it not so, the
benefit which that line of railway will confer
on Cornwall and Falmouth in particular, with
which my interests and afft.)ctions are identifit,d,
would fully compensate for the pocun:ary sakT:fice
to Cornishmen; with it, the F,reign Packets, 4G
unwisely and unjustly removed, must inevitably atal
irrevocably be restored ; a restoration otherwise
doubtful at the least ; in fact, our county may again
become, not only the greet highway of Europe, but
its ancient intercourse with the nations of the South
be most advantageously renewed.
Believing it to be right and honourable to act o
my convictions, rather than place others in a false
position by my example, I withdraw my name from:
your Committee, and remain, very respectfully,
G. OROKER FOX.
Grove Hill, Nov. 30, 1844.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
Our trade bears the appearance we have so fre-
quently described during the last few months ; a
large and rapidly extending business is going on, but
unfortunately profits are too frequently in the inverse
ratio of the amount of money turned over—thus,
speaking generally, and our remark will apply tr,
most of the great articles of import, we may say the
greater the business the larger the loss.
Such a state of things, it is argued by many, cannot
last long, but it would be difficult to assign reasons
for the remark ; we have always -seen that when money
is readily obtainable at a small cost, merchants are
anxious to extend their business, and they have an ad-
ditional inducement when manufactured goods can
be purchased at the low rates that have long prevailed
in England.
Thus we may trace to the low price of cotton (a
very losing business of itself) much of the present
losses on commercial operations. Our large foreign
export has been induced by gradually declining
prices in Manchester; a shipper of goods or-
dered in March has found the quotation so low in
July, that he has ventured to ship without orders,
believing that, if the first operation answered,
the second would yield a handsome result; and
again, when in September lower prices still were.
taken, the sanguine merchant has thought to mend
his average by a further export. This, in too many
instances, has been the system acted upon, and the
result is, that low and rapidly-declining prices in
our colonial possessions, and other foreign markets,
have naturally followed a sudden accumulation of
stocks.

The present Indian Mail confirms our last advices
too fully in this respect, and especially is the glut
felt in the Chinese ports. - Liverpool has its full
share in this system of over-trading, and must, of
course, reap its full portion of the reward. The
import trade is not in a much more flourishing con-
dition; the supplies we receive are more than ade-
quate to the consumption that is going on, and with
such a tariff as ours, which precludes the import of
many valuable productions from abroad, we are com-
pelled to receive in payment for exports a greater
quantity of some descriptions of produce than we
require, whilst much that m ould be acceptable
at reasonable duties is refused admission—thus,
from America, we have cotton to such an extent,
that we are compelled to maintain a' stock of nearly a
million of bales in the very face of the largest crop
that has ever been obtained; but, if grain, tobacco,
and other American productions, were admissible on
equally favourable terms with cotton, would not a
portion of this superfluous stock of one article give
place to reasonable supply of other equally necesary
commodities ?

The West India interest have been taken by sur-
prise, by an order admitting the sh.v 'labour sugar
of the :United States, 'Venezuela, Mexico, and seve-
ral other countries, at the same rate of duty as the
produce of Java, Manilla, &c., where slavery is said
to be unknown. We shall now very shortly have.
supplies from the United States, and the close con-
nexion of Cuba will enable the Americans to con-
sume at low rates the produce of that island; while
England will receive much of the United States' pro-
duction (of slavery, too), and this whilst politicians
are saaificing the best markets in the world for Eng-
lish manufactures, because they cannot support a
trade with a country where slavery is tolerated. It
is thought by many that this opening, through an
indirect channel, for slave-grown sugar, of any na-
tion, was fully intended by the framers of the recent
Bill, and it may probably be urged as a strong reason
for a total remodelling of the sugar duties during
the next session of Parliament.
The.trade in Cotton has become more animated,
and some disposition to speculate has appeared ; but
this step is yet injudicious. America can well afford
to supply us at low rates, and with a crop that many
do not dare to estimate, and of which this country
will receive its full share, we can only expect a very
low range of quotations, and although the present
prices may be raised for a time with the assistance of
heavy speculation, yet the consequences will he such
as we have before experienced ; America will be en-
riched at the cost of the manufacturer and working
population of this country without any ultimate
benefit to the speculators generally.

In consequence of the increase of sickness, the con-
tinued ravages of fever, and the increased mortality
which has of late bees prevalent in the badly. drained.
and ill-conditioned districts chiefly inhabited by the
labouring classes in the metropolis, in Liverpool,
York, Bristol, Nottingham, and other crowded and
wretched town districts, Lord Ashley, the Marquis
of Normanby, and some of the leading clergymen
and gentlemen of all political parties, have determined
upon calling an early public meeting at Exe'er-hall,
with• trview of forming a general association for ob-
taining better protection for those classes, and pro-
moting such measures of improvement as drainage,
better and cheaper supplies of pure water, and means
of cleansing those neglected districts—measures which
appear obtainable only by legislative interference, and
to be beyond the scope of the voluntary exertions now
being made for the promotion of public walks, }oaths,
and laundries, in large town's.
THE AUTHOR OF " HILLINGDON MALL,'—Much
curiosity has been manifested relative to the authorship
of the clever novel, "Hillingdon Hall." The Bell's
Messenger, in noticing it, observes, " This is another
work by the author of the humorous novel of Handley
Cross,' which was published about two years since.
There was so much true humour, and so much good
writing in that novel, as to render it a matter of some
surprise to us that the name of the author is not ap-
pended to the work now before us. Perhaps there may
be some want of courtesy in making public a name
which the writer himself desires to conceal; but there
can be no objection that we should mention that the
work before us is the production of a very accomplished
and able gentleman, in whose family the possession of
talents seems to follow a kind of lineal descent. His
near relative, the late Lady El:len,• with some little
peculiar qualities, was one of the clew rest women of her
age, and had a clear common sense, and a strong acute-
ness which, in the early days of their married life,
afforded Lord Eldon equal pride and happiness. We
have merely to add that the 00d-humour, natural wit,
and striking common sense of the family, seem to have
fallen in great share upon the able author of this work.
No-one exceeds this writer in draw ing humorous eharae-
. tern and picturesque incidents. The chief merit of the
work consists in its scenes of country life, and in faithful
and comic pictures of rural manners and habits. In a,
word, the author of ' Hillingdon hall' writes so well
that we wish he would oblige as with a novel every new

year.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH DOCILYARD.—OH
Wednesday afternoon several workmen were employed
in erecting a rack, or frame-work, for supporting bars
of iron, in the boiler-making department, when some of
the rivets which which it was joined together gave way,
and a portion of the frame fell upon four of the men.
named Bates, Marshall, Skinner, and Moody. Three of
the men were so seriously injured, that they were imme-
diately conveyed to the Marine Infirmary, to obt„,,i,
medical and surgical aid ; and Bates ha, since died,
owing to_the severe injuries hg sustained. _
SODDEN DEATH.—Many of our City readers will
be shocked and surprised to learn that Mr..F. Soutter,
who for many years carried on the business of a bill and
exchange broker in Adam's-court, Old Broad-street,
was summoned by Divine Providence on Sunday last to
another state of existence. The unfortunate gentleman,
who was seen by one or two of his friends its the City
on the preceding day, apparently in excellent health
and spirits, entered the shop of a druggist in or near
Holborn on Sunday morning (no doubt feeling ill at the
time), when he almost immediately fell dewn dead. The
immediate cause of this shocking catastrophe is at pre-
sent unknown, but it is presumed that a legal inquiry
will be instituted into the circumstances, although Mr.
Soutter's death was, in all probability, a perfectly natural
one. The deoeaseS gentleman, whose eccentric manner
and habits rendered him well known throughout the
City, and who was much respected in the varioua mer-
cantile and monetary circles, was a native of Siiitnar-
land, and a member of the Swiss Protestant church is
Soho, of which Mr. Audemars is the minister. He has,
we believe, no family ties whatever its this country, but
the Swiss Consul (it is-understood) has undertaken the
last Wielaktikav duties of relationship.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PRIVY COUNCIL, Dec. 6.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
to-day at tie Council Chamber, Whitehall. The
Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr.
Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
JONES V. GODNET.
The further arguments in this part-heard case occu•
pie I their Lordships the whole day.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. G.
The Lord Chancellor, after disposing, of the several
short cases in the paper, proceeded to hear the further
argunb-nts in the part-heard case of " Spalding v.
Ruddick," which occupied the whole day.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. 6.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole day with short causes and unopposed petitions
of no general interest.
(Before Sir J. Wuntiax.)
His HONOUR disposed of short causes and petitions,
taking the unopposed first, after which he proceeded to
the causes ou the paper.

PARKER V. CARTER.
The arguments in this case were resumed by Mr.
Wa:ker. The suit is instituted to recover possession of
the moiety of an estate under a deed made in 1790,
which did not appear to have been acted on by any of
the parties until on a discovery of a deed the title under
it was insisted on.

COURT 01 QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. G.
(Sittingi at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex common Jury.)
GREEN V. WATTS.

This was an action brought by Mr. Charles Green, an
accountant, to recover an amount alleged to be due to
him from Messrs. Watts, the ale merchants, in Lincoln's
Inn-fields, for work and labour done by himself and his
clerks, in keeping the books and accounts of the firm of
Messrs. Watts. In the defence it was attempted to set
up an agreement to do the work for a specified sum, and
the number of hours charged by the plaintiff was dis-
puted. A discharged clirk of the plaintiff's was called
for the purpose of proving the :defendant's ease. The
attempt to set up the agreement felled, but Lord Den-
man intimated that he thought the charge rather high,
and the jury found for the plaintiff, Damages-45/.

'COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 6.
(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
MAY V. FISHER AND ANOTHER.
This was an action on a bill of exchange for 83/. 103.,
the interest 131. 7s. making together 961 17s. It ap-
inareti that the bill was drawn by Harrison and Co., and
accepted by one of the defendants, of the name of Harmer,
in the name of the firm of Fisher and Harmer, drill and
fustian makers, of London and Manchester, in which •
firm he was a partner. The defendant Harmer allowed
judgment to go by default, the other defendant, Fisher,
pleaded that he did not accept the bill, but it was ac-
cepted by Harmer without his acquiescence, he also
pleaded that he had received no consideration. The
only'witness on the 'part of the plaintiff was Thomas
Tower, who was clerk to Messrs. Harrison and Co. at
the time they drew the bill. He proved the drawing of
the bill and the handwriting, and he deposed that
Messrs. Fisher and Harmer were partners at that time,
that Mr. Fisher carried on the business at Manchester
and Mr. Harmer in Loudon. He knew both the defen•
dints, and Mr. Fisher was not present at the drawing
of the bill.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE directed the jury to find's
verdict for the plaintiff, and said that it was evident that
the d.efendants were in partnership at the time, anti
therefore it was sufficient that the defendant Harmer ac-
cepted the bill, and it was nut necessary that both should
sn;nit.
The jury accordingly found for the plaintiff.

COURT OF EXCISE. Dec.'s.
(Bt fvre Captain MERCY, J. F. STEPHENSON, Esq., and

T. HARRISON, Esq.)
ADULTERATION OF BEER.—Richard Knock, of the
White Hart pitubc- house, White Hart ) ard, Drury-lane,
was enarged upon information with adulterating his beer.
John Austin, supervisor of Excise, stated that on the
10th of August last he went, in company with Mr.
Butler, another officer, to the house of defendant, and
requested to examine his stock of spirits. He went into
the cellar, end on the top of one of the ale casks he found
a tap-tub centaining liquor. lie tasted it and found that
it was Saveet, with a little undissolved sugar in it. lie
called Mrs. Knock, who said that the ale being hard she
had put 3lbs of coarse sugar into it. He collected the
contents of the tub in a bottle (produced), which is very
sweet, and took samples of the beer.
Mrs. Knock remarked that although she had told the
officer she had sweetened the beer, such was not the case,
as she was so nervous she scarcely kneW what she said.
She then called a servant girl to prove that she never put
anything Out finings into the beer, and that the tub found
by the officers was used in the making of elder wine.
The Cotter considered the case proved, and fined the
defendant in the mitigated penalty of 101.
Swi Y MORNING DRAM. SELLERS.—Josiah Campbel
Prgy, owner of a small garden near the Bee Hive,
Newington, was charged with retailing spirituous li-
quorS, freer, and tobacco, without license.
Two officers of Ekeise proved being served at &cottage
In th-fendant's garden with beer, spirits, and tobacco.
0 her p. rsons were present smoking and drinking. They
were charged. at the same rate as in the houses of licensed
victuallers. _

..--..-...
A solicitir addressed the Court for the defendant, but
in his address admitted all and even more than had been
proved by Cm officers, and was told by the Court that be
had seriously damaged the case of his client.
The Court inflicted a penalty of 20L-7/. for beer, 10/.
for spirits, and 31 for tobacco.
IMPORTANT DECISION..—Thomas Brady, keeper of the
tap of the Black Lion, IVater-lane, Fleet-street, was
charged with selling liquors, &c., witkbut license.
The deendant pleaded that he sold under the license
of the kerper of the Black Lion Hotel, which the Court
declared to be altogether illegal, and fined him in the pe-
nalty of 351.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. -
HOME CI RCUlT.—Chelmsford, Dec. 6.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAN.s.)
John Young, 27, labourer, was indicted for the
wilful murder-of Elizabeth Phillips, at the parish of
NavestOck.

Mr. Rod well conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Ry-
land and Mr. C. Gray defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the transaction out of which the
charge arose against the prisoner, took place on Sun-
day, the 10th of November. On the afternoon of that
day the deceased, who was a woman of loose character,
was seen to go across a field in the neighbourhood of
Navestock, accompanied by the paisoner, and they
were seen under a hedge together. On the same day
the dead body of the deceased was found lying near
the spot where she was last seen with the prisoner,
and there were some marks of violence upon her
person. The medical gentleman who was called• in
deposed that the death was occasioned .by extravasa-
tion of blood upon the brain, but he would not take
upon himself to say that this might not have been oc-
casioned by natural causes.
The Learned JUDGE, under these circumstances,
stopped the case, and a verdict of Not Guilty was
returned.

Aldhem, and who, it appeared, had taught William ,
Harrell to write, was called as a witness, and he ex-
pressed his opiniOn that the writing of the threatening
letter was very similar to that of this prisoner,
although he would not take upon himself to swear
positively to it.
The Learned Counsel on behalf of the prisoners
explained the precise form of the charge against
them, observing that Taylor was charged as the prin-
cipal, and that unless the jury believed it was clearly
made out that he had a guilty knowledge of the con-
tents of the letter, the other prisoners, who were only
charged accessorially with the commission of the
offence, could not be convicted, and they contended
that the story told by him was perfectly reasonable,
and that the very fact of his going openly to deliver
the letter to his master's wife was almost con-
clusive of his innocence. They also remarked
upon the fact that there was little or no evidence
against the other prisoners, and that the statement of
Lambert ought not to have any weight, as it was
legally no evidence at all against the other prisoners,
and, besides, was clearly only made by him for the
purpose of getting himself out of trouble.
The prisoner. Lambert, in his defence, said he hail
told nothing but the truth, and it would have been no
interest to him to be concerned in writing such a
letter, for he did not belong to the parish of Aldhain,
and had, besides, never been engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Mr. Justice WiLLILMS having summed up, the
jury, after deliberating.a considerable time, Acquitted
Elisha Hurrell and Lambert, and returned a verdict
of Guilty against the others.

SOUTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Dec. 4.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
The Learned Baron, who appears to be labouring un-
der indisposition, did not take take his seat this morning
until a few minutes before ten ; and at four in the after-
noon his Lordship suddenly adjourned, to the surprise
of the Bar, although, in order to deliver the gaol pre-
vious to the time fixed for the sitting at Liverpool (Mon-
day next), it is quite evident much longer sitting sure
required. The grand jury did not separate until nearly
six o'clock, having, we understand, completed their busi-
ness; but the bills laid before them in the latter part of
the day not having been brought into Court, of course it
cannot be known whether they are true bills or not, and
very considerable anxiety prevails on the subject, as it
was understood the case of Winterbottom would be
called on the first to-morrow. A great number of wit-
nesses, gentlemen of the legal profession, have arrived in
town, including Mr. Bush, of London, who is solicitor
for the prosecution:
• William Williams, an elderly looking respectable man,
pleaded guiltf to an indictment, charging him with in-
termarrying with Maria Furness during the lifetime of
his former wife. The prisoner stated in mitigation, that
shortly after his first marriage he enlisted into the army,
and was out of the country for many years. On being
discharged he came home, and found his wife married to
another man, with whom she had cohabited for a period
of thirteen years.. Being ignorant of the law, and wish-
ing for a home, he thought there was no harm in again
marrying.
The Learned JODGE told him the misconduct of his
wife was no excuse for his crime, and sentenced him to
four months' imprisonment and hard labour.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, Dec. 5.
The Commissions for the county and borough of Lei-
cester were opened this day at an early hour, after which
his Lordship proceeded Cu church to hear Divine service.
The calendar -for the county contains some serious
cases, such as two cases of manslaughter, one for bigamy,
one for sacrilege, one for highway robbery, several bur-
glaries, and two cases for cutting and maiming. In the
borough there are seven indictments.
A man, named Cluster, was convicted of assaulting and
wounding Edward Turner, and sentenced to six mouths'
imprisonment and hard labour.