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at the Court, Nottingham—H..l. Hinxman, Barg, Lan-
cas'iire, apothecary, April 15, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—C. Gough, Altrincham, Cheshire, iron-
monger, April 12, at tvrelvr, at the Cour', Manchester--
H. Sutcliffe and J. W. HarriF, Bank's Mill, near Tad-
morden. Lancashire, cotton-spinners, April 12, at twelve,
't the Court, Manchester.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
J. Creft, Markham-street, Ct elsea, general dealer—
W. Butt, jun., It.r.le Bay, schoolmaster, certificate of
the first class—E. J. Inchley, Drayton, Leicestershire,
corndealer.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, con•.
pnted from the returns made in the week ending March 19,
1850,' is 265. 73/4 d. per cwt.
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A.TTEMFT TO _UILDER.—The magistrates Of St.
Alban's have been engaged the la,t few days investi-
gating a most diabolical attempt to murder a policeman
in the neigt; bourhood of Harperit'en, a tow milks distant.
A air. Davies, a farmer, having lost several fowls, he
desired the polie•?-officer, Richmond, stationed in ae
neighbourhood, to watch his premises, and on Tuesday
night he heard voices whisr ering in an adjoining lane,
and a fluttering of fowls in the farm sheds, The men in
the lane, on seeing the constable, ran away, having pre-
viously given a signal to the persons who were after-
wards bound on the farm premises. Richmond rushed
into the farm, and, turning his light on, saw three men
taking the fowls from their roosts. The officer drew his
ectla,..., and stationing himself in a door through which
they would have to nes., desired them to surrender.
They instantly tnade a tierce attack upon him, and in
the acme° the prisoner Jenning and the other two got
past hint, and apt arently fearing that he would follow
them, Jenning levelled a pistol at him and fired. Pro-
videntially it mis.ed him, the ball striking 3goinst the
brickwork. The whole (f the men ri,ourned to the
placP, anti proceeded to maltreat the policeman in a
most shocking manner by beating and jumping on his
body. They then decamped, and the constable having
recovered to a slight extent, he contrived to crawl to
the dwelling and alarm the inmates. Having given his
brother officers the necessary information of the aff.ay,
a man named Richard Jenning was apprehended near
St. Alban's on the following day, and a cut, as if from a
cutlass, two or three inches in length, was fiend on his
arm. The magistrates remanded the prisoner, so as to
give the police an opportunity of catching the other
ruffians.

SMALL TENEMENTS.—Yesterday was printed the
Bill as amended by the Committee, respecting the rating
of small tenements. As it now stands, 6/. tenements are
to be rated to the owners in respect of poor-rates and
highway rates, instead of to the occupiers.
MELANCITOLT ACCIDENT.—A lamentable occur-
rence took place in the family of Mr. Walter Paul, of
Mk:l:grove, near Te.bury, on Wednesday evening. Mr.
Pact gave a ball and soiree previous to his son, Captain
Paul, leaving hume to join his regiment. At about nine
O'clock Miss Pdul retired from the bail-room, having an
attack of tic douleurcux; sho proceeded upstairs to her
own room. It is supposed that she fainted as she pro-
ceeded from ono room to the other, the lighted candle
from her hand, and her dress, being composed of
white lace, rapidly ignited, and the young lady was in-
sta-Itly enveloped in flames. She endeavoured to ex-
tinguish the tire by throwing a basin of water over her-
self, and her screams alarmed the attendants; but we are
sorry to say that before their efforts could subdue the
flames she was so severely burnt as to leave but faint
hopes of her recovery. We have lately received the
following additional particulars from a correspondent:
—About 11 o'clock on Sunday last she ceased to live.—
Was Siandard.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—Yesterday morning
general parade of tie troops took place at Mount Wise,
consisting of the Royal Artillery, under the command
of Captsin Shuttleworth, the 28th Regiment, under
Msjor Adams and Major Wheeler, the Royal Marines,
under Lieutenant-Colonel Wearing, and the 82d Regi-
ment under Major Slater. In the absence of the Major-
General, the Hon. H. Murray, the command of the
carrison devolves at present on Colonel Holloway, R.E.
The regiments formed square, on the Parade, and Cor-
poral Francis Ryan, of the 82d Regiment, who bad been
previously tried by general court-martial, for drunken-
ness and drawing his bayonet on a picquet, was brought
forward, and the confirmed sentence of the court was
read. He was found guilty on all the charges, and sen-
tenced to be reduced to the rank and pay of a private
soldier, and to undergo twelve months' imprisonment in
the military gaol. The troops having marched past in
quick time, returned to the barracks.—Plymouth Journal.
A MAYOR IN TROIAILE.—The Journal de l'Aisne
relates the following story, which, it says, will form a
strong argument in favour of the tew law relative to
mayors :—A person in a commune in that department,
who was the only grower of hemp in that district, find-
ing that his property was frequently stolen, stationed
himself, with some of his children, in a small building
near the grounds in order to detect the thieves. On the
night of the 9th inst. be perceived four persons advancing
towards the place. Two men immediately began to cut
and tie up some of the hemp, whilst two women kept
watch. The owner of the property, wishing to show the
robbers that he was armed, fired a gun into the air, and
then fell on the two men, at the same time uttering loud
cries in order to bring assistance. The thieves turned
ort to be the mayor of the commune and his son, and
the women, who had immediately taken to fiigfit, were
his two daughters. The men confessed that they bad
robbed the hemp grounds on two previous occasions.
The nizyor, it is sand, has taken to.flight.
John O'Grady, a wealthy farmer in the county of
Limerick, has been convicted for the murder of his wile
and maid-servant on the let of November, 1848, and
sentenced to be executed. The murder was particularly
remarLable for the total absence of all apparent provo-
cation. The pri:,orer first murdered the :•ervant in the
s:abie by stabbing her with a bayonet fixed on a stick,
and then killed his wife by &scheming two pistqis at her
while sbe was in bed. The defince was temporary
aberration of mind, but this was not sustained by any
evidence. Mayhew and William Gavin were convicted
at the same nssizes for the murder of John Ryan, at
Coppamore, and sentenced along with O'Grady to be
executed on the 10th of next month.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICERS OF FLOUR.
—The Liverpool correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says-64 The Niagara steamer, which sailed
on Saturday, carries out accounts cf a decline of
Is. 6d. per barrel on American flour, the best old
Western Canal having been sold as low as 21s. per barrel
of 1961b5. ; and new as low as 18s.—the highest price
of our market is now about lid. per lb.; and here allo w
me again to allude to the continued discrepancy between
wholesale and retail prices. I believe it will be
found that the retail price of flour in the bread shops
of Lancashire is twopence the lb, or 6 lbs. for a shilling,
which is equal to 325. 6d. the barrel of 196 lbs.,
and this generally for a mixed description. The
present low prices can hardly be taken as a
fair average, but 25a. is as high as the article can be
expected to rule in years of plenty. As to the United
Stater, prices have ruled lower there than now, as the
following figures will show; but we must bear in
mind there the population increases, perhaps in a
greater ratio than their means of production:—Ave-
rage prices of wheat, 60lbs. to bushel, 1840, 1 dollar;
1841, 94c. ; 1842, 1 dollar ; 1843, 75c. ; 1844. 89c. ;
1845, 86c. ; 1846, 1.04 ; 1847, 1.33 ; 1848, 1.19
dolls. The nine years give an average of 1 doll. per
bushel, or 7d. a bushel lower than present prices in
New York, 1.15 dolls. Seeing, therefore, the little
chance there is of any considerable change, it is most
desirable that retail prices should approximate to whole-
sale ones, thereby not only increasing the consumption,
but contributing most extensively to the comforts of the
people." _ _

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A JEwtsu MARTYR.—It is our painful duty to
record a case of martyrdom which but recently occurred
in the empire of Morocco. We give the awful details
from a private letter which we have seen, received by
Mr. Abraham Sebag, a respectable Jewish merchant, re-
siding in Castle-street, St. Mary-axe, London, whose
brother has fallen a victim to the barbarity of the in-
habitants of that uncivilized country. It appears that
Judah Sebag, a Jewish merchant, who resided in a town
called Alig, near Mogador, was maliciously accused of
having spoken blasphemy against the Mohammedan
faith. The cause of this malice was the jealousy of
some Mohammedan merchants. He was dragged before
the governor, or, rather, the chief magistrate of the city,
whose name is Lcchusman ben Hassam. The evidence
against him having been heard, the sentence of the judge
was, that he either must embrace Mohammedanism, or
be turned to death. Judah Sebag indignantly refused
to deny his religion, and nobly chose the alternative—
death. The governor immediately ordered a large fire
t) be made, into which the man was thrown, and soon
devoured by the flames. He was but twenty-four years
of age. The letter concludes with the following words
of consolation :—" Ile died for the glory and sanctifica-
tion of his faith acid his God, and may his soul be bound
up in the bundle of life."—Jewish Chronicle.
A JEW ELECTED AS REPRESENTATIVE FOR HAM-
'BURGH IN THE ERFURT PARLIAMENT.—We are in-
debted to a correspondent for the following information
received from Hamburg!), dated the 16th inst..—The
election of a representative for this city to the German
Parliament now assembled at Erfurt has been decided,
the choice of the electors having unanimously fallen on
Dr. Gabriel Biesser, the champion of Jewish emancipa-
tion in Germany, who has agitated this question for 20
years, and has now seen it nearly universally carried
out. It is a remarkable fact, that it is scarcely twelve
months since the Hamburgh Jews have acquired the full
right ef citizmiship, and now a native Jow is sent by the
city is their representative to the German Parliament;
but this election is quite in honour of the man and his
great principles. Ile was last year in the Frankfort
Parliament, as member for the dukedom of Lauenburg,
and for
a lungforsonie absencetimeitsv i theicoepre
presidentsidenthefalie n
d thethe
chair
during most
critical period, and was one of the delegates to Berlin
t) cffer the imperial crown to the King of Prussia. Dr.
Gabriel Itieseer is a warden of the ilambureh Jewish
cuLgregetion.—J,wi.sli Chronicle. b
A CLEVER TRICE.—Eirly one morning about a
fortnight since a beat was rowed under the Hoe, when
the crew hoisa•d keit a chest, not unlike one of thote
last mansions of mortality," yclept coffins. Some of
them proceeded with it towards the town, when a by-
stander—end, rumour s'ates, attired not unlike a pre-
ventiv- man—va,s asked, - Which is the way to the
I)',7Yitie-zround in NV eetwell-street ?" The bystanders,
like the Quitter, answered the question by asking an-
otht r, " Wha have you got there ?" The reply was,
" Oh, One of our shipmates is gone off, and we are going
to bury him I.'"l'he road to the burying-ground was
then poineal out; but by a dodge the chest was taken to
the railway station in time fur the early train, and in a
few brief hours the chest was "far north." Those oho
laugh most at the hoax, say the chest was full of cigars,
nye. real Haysnnahs!—Plymouth Journal.
FonciGs Figi.—Sotne very large arrivals cf fish,
of foreign taking, the production of the Dutch rivers and
the North Sea, of various kinds, are at the present time
taking place from Rotterdam, amounting, in tome in-
OW" to ictillli huluirod skcknee.