The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-14 00:00:00

ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE.

The gossips of Bristol have been much enlivened,
and half the tea-tables furnished with small-talk, by
the publication of some correspondence which has
passed between a young man, assuming the name of
llorace lleathcote, and a young lady (personated by
some fun-loving individuals of the male sex), touching
a matrimonial engagement. The correspondence
originated in the publication of the following adver-
tisement :

" MATRIXONT.—A respectable young man, of very
ancient family, liberally educated, of excellent character,
and with tolerably good expectations, wishes to enter
the marriage state with a lady possessed of not less
than 2,0001. (which might be secured if required), and
without children if a widow. This is a bona fide case,
and the utmost secrecy may be relied upon.—Address
Alpha,' Post-office, Frant, Sussex."
The personators of the lady replied to this modest ad-
vertisement, adopting the signature of " Omega, and
requesting the letters to be left at the Clifton Post-
office. The lady's position and qualifications were
thus set forth :—" An orphan child, related to some
of the first families in this neighbourhood, now
under guardianship, is anxious to escape from pre-
sent thraldom, and would gladly embrace the protec-
tion of an honourable mind. Should Alpha feel
disposed to communicate with frankness, he will find
in Omega' one whose pecuniary prospects are fully
equal to his requirements, and of whose mental and
personal attractions time must enable him to judge.
Imprudent as the step Omega' now taken mayap.
pear at first, there are circumstances which she be-
lieves would fully justify her conduct in the eyes of
Alpha,' and should he enter on a correspondence
he will address his letters to the name assumed, at
the Post-office, Clifton."
The gudgeon nibbled, and a very tender corres-
pondence ensued. Mr. Horace Heathcete's passion
daily augmented, and an interview was finally ar-
ranged to take place at the George Inn, Bristol. He
was- true to his appointment, but it is scarcely
necessary to say, no lady made her appearance. The
three concoctors of the plot were present, however, and
they were not long in discerning the real Simon
Pure, who was a young man about 30, and evidently
in the agricultural interest. He walked to the w:n-
dow, and despondingly gazed up and down the street;
he pulled out a note from his pocket, looked at the
clock in the bar, then at the note, which he returned
to his pocket with an air of absolute hopelessness—
again he was disappointed. This convinced the mis-
chievous trio that " Alpha" stood before them. They
then commenced a conversation, in which sundry
" pellets of the brain" were launched at the Lothario,
who stood " looking daggers." After thus talking
at him, one of them accosted him, and after repre-
senting himself to be the natural protector of the
fair " Omega," coolly intimated to him that he had
been hoaxed, and advised him to decamp, which ad-
vice the wooing Horace ultimately acted upon. "If
it were not true," observes the Bristol Gazette
(which publishes the correspondence in extenso)
" that your dull ass will not mend his pace with
beating,' we would give Horace a sound lecture for
the excessive impertinence of which he has been
guilty towards the fair sex, in supposing that any
female would commit matrimony with him upon his
published terms; but his mother will be his fittest
corrector, and we will conclude our connexion with
him by a quotation from the bard of Avon—
" The man that bath a tongue is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
—Gloucester Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY

COUNCIL, Feb. 13. r -
The members of the court present were—Lord
Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Langdale, the
Right Hon. Sir Stephen Lushington, the Right Hon.
T. Pemberton Leigh, and the Right Hon. Sir Edw.
Ryan.

ANUND LAL SING DEO v. MAHARAJA DHERAJ GARROOD.
Mr. Turner, Mr. Forsyth, and Mr. Maule ap-
peared for the appellant ; Mr. Loftus Wigram, Mr.
N. J. Lloyd, and Mr. E. F. Moore conducted the case
for the respondent.
This appeal, which occupied the attention of the
Council nearly the whole of yesterday, was resumed
this morning. The appeal arose out of a disputed
claim to the district of Kasaeper, a portion of the
Bajaship of Pacheet, situated in the Presidency of
Bengal. It seemed that the tract of territory in dis-
pute had been granted by an ancestor of the respon-
dent to the appellant's father for life. The question
therefore at issue between the parties involved the
right of the respondent, who is the present Raja of
Pacheet, to resume the territory.
On the part of the appellant, it was contended that
the claim of the respondent was barred by lapse of

time.

In support of the respondent's case itwas submitted
that the disputed territory formed part of the Raja-
ship of Pacheet, and that according to the law appli-
cable to this case, the Rajaship was indivisable. The
appellant alleged that he was entitled to hold the ter-
ritory by inheritance. It was submitted, however,
on the other hand, that the appellant's father only de-
rived a provision for life, and that it was not compe-
tent for any former Raja to bind his successors by a
permanent grant of territory belonging to the Raja-
ship; and that, therefore, if any such grant had been
made by the former Raja in favour of the appellant's
father, the same would not be binding upon the re-
sponnent. The appellant's father, who had only a
life interest in the territory, having died, the district
re was clearly resumable by, and reverted to, by the
which occupied the whole of the
sit spondent.
Ting concluded, the judgment was
deferred.
ttlges
o. arguments,d
to-day, h a

COURT OF EXCHEQUER,Feb, 13.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
THE QUEEN ON TUE PROSECUTION OF MAXDSLAT
a. LOWB.
Throughout the inquiry the main stress appeared
to be placed upon the patent of Mr. Bramah as em-
bracing
for the specificationprose-
cution went to;
positions which it con-
tained with reference to the wings of a windmill and
ebbunr atticeitnnhgeli
talaaltlaattdhwatitht
that
hte es
witness
defendant'shwe
htnwaswore
the fly of a smoke-jack Was so
utterly incon-
gruousapplied in as to be incapable of being
com-
bination. .
Sir F. TIIESIGER (a consultation having taken
place between the learned counsel on both sides) said
forLearnedconsenting
feltverdict
being
heelfdafendant on all the
counts.

The ATTORNEY. GENERAL said that this wail the
first sci. fa. which had come on in that court, and he
might add at the same time, that it was the first
occasion where a defendant bad obtained real justice
under such a proceeding.
The verdict was then entered for the defendant,
thus establishing the validity of his patent.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Feb. 13.
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
WARD V. PRITCHARD.
This was an action brought on a guarantee. Defen-
dant suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared
that the plaintiff had advanced 1501. to the defendant and
others on their entering into a guarantee for the repay.
ment of the amount, and also effecting a policy of in-
surance, and keeping up the payments thereon.
The Learned SECONDARY held that, as the deed was
set forth in the declaration, and defendant had, by not
pleading, admitted the breach, the production of the
deed was sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict.
Verdict for the amount claimed, and interest at 5 per
cont.
The parties in the other cases not being in attendance
the jury were discharged.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, F4b. 13.
Before Mr. Sergeant ADAM!, Assistant Judge, and

The Court :atl-t3h° by special appointment
at the Guildhall, Westminster, for the purpose of
proceeding with the appeal cases, which had been
nischmoorfiAiilizistrates.)
adjourned from the previous sitting.
DODSWORTH AND ANOTHER V. HENRY PELLY

SAVINGS-BANKS.
This was an appeal on petition by the Rev. William
Dodsworth and William Fox, (trustees of the Christ-
church Savings-bank, Regent's-park,) against Henry
Pelly llinde (actuary of the said bank), under the 9th
George IV., c. 92, sec. 1,
which provided " that it
shall be competent for the trustees or managers of a
savings-bank to make an order upon any person wbo
may be in possession of moneys, securities, papers,
or any other effects belonging to such bank, for the
delivery of the same to such person or persons as they,

the trustees or managers, shall appoint to receive
them, and in case of non-compliance with such order
the trustees or managers are empowered to present a
petition to the general or quarter sessions, which
court can then proceed in a summary way to enforce
the order, or to maize such other order as shall to it
seem fit."

Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry representel the ex-
hibitants, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Man-
son were for Mr. Hinde, and Mr. Huddlestone for
several managers of the bank.

Mr. HUDDLESTONE said he appeared on behalf of
five managers of the bank, who not only disapproved,
but decidedly objected to these proceedings, which
had been instituted by the exhibitants without con-
sulting the managers, and at the outset he would sub-
mit to the Court that they ought to prove that they
were, as they described themselves in the petition,
" trustees."

Mr. BILLANTINE perfectly understood how it was
that his Learned Friend appeared in the case. It
wa', no doubt, a very clever expedient for the re-
spondent to be represented in two ways—first, by his
Learned Friends Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr.
Manson, and then by his Learned Friend Mr. Hod-
dlestone, though ostensibly the latter appeared as the
representative of certain persons whose existence he
should deny until they had been shown to be bona
fide managers of the in,l!tution.
_ _

Mr. CLARKSON denied that this was so, for until
that morning his learned client, who was a gentle-
man of high character and respectability, and a mem-
ber of the bar, had not been aware that the managers
had intended to appear in the matter. But to show
how anxious the respondent was to prove that his
conduct was above reproach, and prove the bona fides
generally of the course he had taken, he was prepared
to pay into court the balance which it was alleged
was due by him to the bank, about 2501., to await
either the result of any investigation the Court might
deem it necessary to direct into the accounts of the
bank, or the decision of any gentleman who might be
appointed by the Court to act as arbitrator in the
matter. Should the trustees decline to accede to this
proposition, that fact would show that their object
was to wound the feelings of Mr. Hinde, who had for
some time gratuitously rendered the institution most
important service, rather than strictly to carry out
their duties as trustees.

Mr. HUDDLESTONR was strongly opposed to the
adoption of this proposition.
Mr. BALLANTINR said, his Learned Friend, though
avowedly the representative of the parties he had
named, very well knew that he was, in truth, the re-
presentative of one or more of the sureties of Mr.
Hinde, and for whom he now objected to a course
which he should contend had been adopted by way of
giving something of an additional colouring to the
proposal which had been made by his Learned Friend
Mr. Clarkson ; and in this way, whilst the latter had
on his behalf made this offer, he was, on the other
hand, setting up a colourable opposition, through the
instrumentality of his other Learned Friend, Mr.
Huddlestone, under the plea that that Learned
Counsel was appearing for some of the managers of
the bank. The Court would readily see why this
course had been pursued, and that by the pursuance
of that course the managers in question were, in his
opinion, endeavouring to defeat the ends of justice, by
thereby enabling Mr. Hinde, who was a member of
the bar, to hold back funds which belonged to the poor
depositors, some of whom, he was instructed, were at
that moment in the court, in a comparative state of
starvation, in anxious expectation of the issue of the
present proceedings. He was desirous of explaining
what were the objects of the trustees in adopting this
course, and then to have acceded to the proposal of
his Learned Friend Mr. Clarkson, when up started the
Learned Counsel for these managers to interpose this
objection. Notwithstanding that proceeding, he
would now ask his Learned Friend what the precise
nature of his offer on behalf of Mr. Hinde was ?
Mr. CLARKSON repeated the offer, remarking that
it must not be understood that in making that offer
he in any way made any admission on the part of
Mr. Hinde, for the trustees would have to prove be-
fore whomsoever might be appointed to go through
the accounts that that gentleman was in any way in-
debted to the bank, and, if so, then to what extent.
He could most confidently deny that Mr. Hinde was
any party to the opposition which had been offered
by Mr. Huddlestone, and added, that the only object
Mr. Hinde had had in withholding payment was in
reference to future liability, not only as respected
himself, but in respect of other persons. He had,
therefore, been compelled to decline to pay the money
to persona who could give no legal discharge or in-
demnity. The money could not be paid to the ex-
hibitants, because the bank was at an end; in addi-
tion to which there was a minute on its proceedings
showing that Mr. Dodsworth had resigned. Mr.
Hinde, consequently, knew not to whom he could
legally pay the money.
Mr. BALLANTINE observed that this offer on the
part of Mr. Hinde showed that that gentleman was
anxious to do all that was right in the matter, and
after the denial of his Learned Friend Mr. Clarkson
he was quite willing to believe that Mr. Hinde was
no party to the course which had been adopted by
Mr. Huddlestone. He would therefore withdraw the
imputation he had cast upon that gentleman.
After some further discussion,
Die Learned JUDGE said he was at a loss to under-
stand how it was that the managers should offer an
opposition to the payment of this money, which, it
was assumed, was due to them from their own officer.
It appeared to him that nothing could be more fair
than the offer of Mr. Hinde. If the whole of the
money in dispute was not to be spent in law, and the
characters of all the parties connected with the con-
cern were not to be torn to pieces, the more quickly
this offer was accepted the better.
A great deal more discussion ensued, and even-
tually it was arranged that the accounts should be
investigated by the Learned Judge, the amount in
dispute to be paid into the hands of the clerk of the
peace, and the managers to be present when the ac-
counts were gone through.
The case was then ordered to stand adjourned
to a future day, and a cheque was at once handed
to Mr. Maude, the deputy clerk of the peace, for the
amount.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Robert Leggett, leather merchant, of Bermondsey,
was brought before Aldermen Carden and Humphery
upon the charge of having assaulted and wed inde-
cent language to a young lady. The case excited
much interest.
The complainant, who appeared to be about 18
years of age, stated that on Tuesday evening, at a
quarter to seven o'clock, while she was waiting in
Leadenhall-market for another young lady who had
gone into an adjoining house upon business, the de-
fendant walked up and addressed her ; she turned
away from him, but he followed and asked her to have
something to drink, upon which she threatened to
give him in charge and ran away. The defendant
persevered, however, in annoying her, and put his arm
round her waist, and she then ran into a shop, in
which she received immediate protection. She heard
the defendant talking, but was so much terrified and
excited as not to be able to distinguish the words he
uttered.
The defendant smiled:while the witness was giving
her evidence.
Mr. Addiscombe' shopman at 6, Leadenhall-street,
said that he noticed the young lady in tears and en-
deavouring to get away from the defendant, who tried
to thrust his head under her bonnet and to put his
arm round her neck. Witness immediately opened
the door and the lady rushed in much agitated. The
defendant, who had followed her to the porch, then
went off, but witness followed him and brought him
back. In the shop the defendant used the most re-
volting language, particularly in addressing the
young lady, so that the witness determined, if she
hesitated to give him in charge, he should not escape
for want of a prosecutor. At the station-house he
uttered the same filthy language in the presence of
the complainant and the female friend who accompa-
nied her.
In answer to questions put by Mr. Buchanan, who
attended as solicitor for the defendant, the witness
said that Mr. Leggett was certainly drunk at the
time, and that he was very riotous at the station.
house.
Mr. G. Brooks, salesman, of Leadenhall Market,
went, amongst others, who were indignant at the
gross violation of decency in the conduct of the de-
fendant, to the assistance of the lady, and heard the
language the defendant was accused of having ad-
dressed to her. He subsequently inquired into the
character of the complainant, and found it to be most
unexceptionable.
The appearance and demeanour of the lady in
every respect confirmed the testimony as to her
re-
spectability. The blunt and indignant evidence given
by a poor fellow named Robert Lincoln, who observed
the terror of the complainant, and joined in pursuit of
the offender, was not the least impressive part of the
representation.
Alderman CARDEN, after having conferred with Al-
derman Humphery, said—My brother magistrate and
I have looked into all the circumstances of this case, and
we concur in opinion that one of more gross indecency
could not have been brought before us. We concur,
too, in opinion that the disgusting
words uttered by
the defendant must have been habitual, and not the
mere casual effusion of drunken brutality.
The defendant—l assure you, Sir, that I was so
drunk as to have no idea of what took place. A
friend and I had dined and taken four bottles of wine
in the tavern near the spot. I had no notion of in-
sulting the lady.
Alderman CARDEN—You were not only able to
run after and persecute her, but to attempt to escape
when you found that persons were ready and de-
termined to protect her, and you greatly aggravated
your offence by repeating language unfit for any ears
in the presence of one to whom as a man you were

bound to offer succour and assistance instead of insult.
We are perfectly aware that a sum of money as a
penalty upon you would be considered of no impor-
tance. You manifested by your smiles and indiffe-
rence, while the young lady was so modestly giving
her evidence, that you felt very little for her, or for
your offence against society, or apprehension as to the
result of this investigation. But it happens as ma-
gistrates we have the power of inflicting a very dis-
greeable substitute for a pecuniary penalty, and we
think that this is a most excellent opportunity of
testing the efficacy of that power. Our sentence upon
you, therefore, is, that for your ♦iolent and indecent
conduct you be imprisoned seven days in the House
of Correction.—(Laughter.)
The defendant was shocked at this judgment, and
assured the Bench that he deeply regretted his con-
duct, and was willing to pay any penalty they might
think proper to inflict. He repeated that he was most
willing to be allowed to apologise to the lady and all
other persons whom he might have offended.
Alderman CARDEN said the Bench did not consider
it necessary to consult the hdy.at all upon the occa-
sion, end certainly could not suppose that she would
condescend to listen to the language of apology from
one who had used language for which there could be
no apology.
The defendant was then taken off to the House of
Correction. There were several 'gentlemen present
who were ready to testify as to the high respectability
of Mr. Leggett, but the Alderman said the case was
disposed of.

James Churchill was brought on Tuesday before
Alderman Gibbs, upon the charge of having pre-
sented a pistol, charged with gunpowder, at William
David Hughes, of the house of Overton and Hughes,
solicitors, in the Old Jewry.
The complainant had, it appeared from the evi-
dence, been concerned in some transactions with the
prisoner, who wanted the advance of a sum of money,
which the former declined to make in consequence of
the nature of the security. On Monday the prisoner
called at the office, and said that in consequence of
the refusal of the advance of the money he had been
obliged to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and
after some other observations took a pistol out of his
pocket and presented it at the complainant, who
jumped up, seized the instrument, and prevented any
mischief. Upon the prisoner's person another pistol
was found. Both pistols were charged with powder
and paper. The prisoner was heard to wish for the
death of the complainant.
The prisoner was ordered to find bail to the amount
of 1001. in two sureties.
GUILDHALL.

Thomas Almond, of 7, Ellis-square, Walworth-
road, was brought up for final examination, before
Mr. Alderman Finnis, charged with breaking open a
cupboard in the office of his master, and stealing five
101. notes and five sovereigns. • notes and

The prisoner was committed for trial ; and the de-
positions being made out and read over he was con-
veyed to Newgate, bail being refused.
A gentleman attended at the justice-room and called
the attention of the Alderman to a subject which he
considered of the greatest importance to the public,
and one of a very serious nature. He stated that, in
passing along Aldersgate-street, he was induced to
purchase a sponge from one of the street hawkers.
It was wrapped up in paper, but he shortly found that
not only the paper but his black kid gloves were
burnt by something poisonous. On examining the
sponge he found that it had been saturated with ox-
alic acid or some similar deadly poison. Now, had
it happened that this sponge had been used for filter-
ing water, the consequences would have been fatal to
those drinking iti; and it was under these circum-
stances he felt it his duty to come and make the pre-
sent statement publicly, so that others might be
placed on their guard against purchasing in the street.
The ALDERMAN said that the public had been
cautioned on the subject, and he wondered complain-.
ant was not aware of it; but as he had been duped in
this way, it seemed necessary to repeat the caution.
However cheap free trade had made many articles,
sponge was not so reduced in value that a gentleman
could expect to buy a is. sponge for 4d.
The gentleman said the man teased him to pur-
chase, and thinking it might be useful, and aware
that it was at its full size by being (as he thought)
soaked in water, he bought it without considering
the fair value of such a thing.
Mr. Alderman Wirsors observed that sponges
hawked about in this way were always bleached and
swelled, either by saturation in vitriol and water or
some other violent poison.
The gentleman said his object was merely to guard
the public against being poisoned, and he was much
obliged to the Alderman for his attention to his re-
marks.

BOW•STREET.
George Milner, an assistant to Mr. Daws, chymist
and druggist, of 24, Abbey-road, St. John's•wood,
was charged with stealing a letter containing a half-
sovereign and a florin.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, conducted
the prosecution.

The prisoner, a young man of respectable family,
lived in the house of his employer at a salary of 101.'
a year, and assisted in the business of the shop, which
is also a receiving-house for the letters of the district.
The frequency of complaints respecting the loss of
cash-letters posted at the shop, induced the Post-
office authorities to authorise one of their presidents
(Mr. Sculthorpe) to test the honesty of the ser-
vants employed in the district, which was done in the
usual mode, namely, by placing marked coins in
letters, and watching their course through the Post-
office from the time of being posted. The letter in
question was posted before nine o'clock in the morn-
ing at the shop of Mr. Daws, and contained a half-
sovereign and a florin (both previously marked by
Mr. Sculthorpe). It should have arrived at the
General Post-office at eleven o'clock, but was not
found among the forty-five letters collected at the re-
ceiving-house, and forwarded in the Paddington bag.
On examining the bill registering the number of
letters in the collection, it was observed that the mis-
sing letter was not accounted for in the certificate;
upon which Mr. Sculthorpe, accompanied by Peake,
the constable, proceeded to the shop of Mr. Daws, to
make inquiries respecting it. The prisoner was pre-
sent, and admitted that he made up the letters, and
that the figures in the bill were his own. Mr. Scul-
thorpe then directed Peake to search him, and identi-
fied the marked half-sovereign among the money taken
from his pockets. In a pocket-book, also found upon
the prisoner, they discovered the letter which Mr.
Sculthorpe had written, and the seal of which was still
unbroken. The prisoner, who said nothing in
expla-
nation of these circumstances, was then takenint
custody.
Cdr. Sculthorpe produced his letter as it was found
n the
prisoner's pocket-book, and examined it in
i
court. One of the aides of the envelope had been
loosened, and tle half-sovereign abstracted ; after
which the envelope had been again secured by gum.
The
Thileorpin risownaesrlmefatdi the
on
no a letter.nsyir ,er
to the charge.
Mr. HENRY committed hint for trial.
It transpired that a letter was received fo
prisoner in the course of the daya s e rvra thent
from
girl, who expressed her willingness
to accept his
protection, and requested that her lodgings might be
out of town.

TVORSHIP-STREET.
A gentleman, whose name did not transpire, but
who described himself as a surgeon, residing at
Ixworth, in Suffolk, applied to Mr. Hammil for his
advice and assistance under the following circum-
stances:—

The applicant stated, that about a month since he
was a passenger in one of the trains from Bury
upon the Eastern Counties Railway, accompanied by
Captain Lloyd, a friend of his, when, upon reaching
Mark's Tey„ the next station beyond Colchester, an
elegantly dressed woman, who had an infant with
her, entered the carriage with a tottering step, and
apparently in a state of extreme illness and debility,
and explained to them that she had been previously
travelling in a first-class carriage, where she was
quite alone, but that, feeling greatly indisposed, she
had been induced to change her place for one in
another carriage, where there were other passengers.
He (the applicant) introduced himself to her as a
surgeon, and tendered his professional services, if she
required them ; but the lady declined his offer on
the ground that her illness was solely attributable to
her being unaccustomed to the fatigue of travelling,
and she appeared to have rallied considerably
by the time the train reached the Shoreditch
terminus, where he again offered his services,
but she told him that they were quite un-
necessary, as her carriage and servant ought
to be waiting for her outside, and requested him to
take charge of the child for a few minutes while she
ascertained whether they had arrived. The lady then
hastily descended the steps leading from the plat-
form, leaving with him and the captain her child and
a small trunk, which he at the time supposed con-
tained her luggage ; but after waiting for more than
an hour the lady did not again make her appearance,
and from that time to the present he had neither seen
nor heard anything of her. After making numerous
inquiries, in the hope of gaining some trace of her,
but unavailingly, he conveyed the infant, which was
a female child two months old, to the house of a
private friend of in town, and on taking off its
clothes they discovered attached to the inside of its
dress a letter containing two 10/.-notes, and convey-
ing a brief intimation that the infant was the offspring
of persons of the highest respectability, who would
continue to contribute all that was requisite to insure
its comfort and proper maintenance, upon being
addressed by advertisement in the papers to that effect,
and that the little charge would be ultimately reclaimed
by its parents. The infant had ever since remained
under the care of the friends with whom he had first
placed it, but he had since received letters upon the
subject, one of which was from another private friend
of his, who was most anxious to adopt the child ;
and in proof of his being actuated by anything but a
me Navy feeliDgp be was desirous tbot the money

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which had been It.ft on its account should be deposited
iu some savings-bank for its future benefit. Thl4
benevolent proposal, however, he was restrair ed fro°
acceding to, in consequence of a second cornmuni,:f"-
tion h tying reached him from some gentleman
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Devonshire, who made a peremptory claim of t °
child and the property attached to it, alleging
was empowered to do so by its own mother, slthouga
he pro lured nothing satisfactory in authenticati(!n
(.f his assumed authority, and threatened bin),
in
the event of his refusal to accede to the demand,
to adopt legal proceedings against him for its it:re
mediate restoration. Under these circumstances, "
was totally at a loss how to act, as his only object voi,lll
to release himself from the responsibility so singular(
imposed upon him in a mariner which would be Joint Y
that ir
conducive to his own safety and the interests of thise
infant, and he was therefore induced to come to
court to obtain the opinion of the magistrate as t° thent
most advisable course to he pursued. The APPIi" d
described the contents of the box which accomPsnle
the infint as exclusively consisting Of vvesring„tinPd.
parel of a tasteful and expensive descriptioA, is
adapted for a female child; and having exPre"2e: • (1
conviction that the infant's mother was 3 in-rteled.
woman, from the circumstance of his noticing a
of
ding-ring upon her finger, and that a
clothing, though still in excellent conditi°ll!
slightly worn in various place., added, that hen--%
been subjected to great expense,. trouble. atlahahneniii'd-
:ince, from the unpleasant position in whit:" 0/-
been placed, and had been compelled to come tIP try
pressly to town, leaving his patients in the collo
the
wholly unattended to, that he might be put iphim
t
way of adopting some measure b which this t° ry
harassing affair might be brought ittisfact°
to A 8
conclusion. yerl
Mr. HAM portion 01
3,
sum. said that it was certainly
singular and unusual application, and he $ tee{rere sn
exceedingly that he could not render the gent,leutbet
any effectual assistance; hut he would suggest' Abe
the best course for the applicant to pursue woof
to place the infant in the hands of the officers °I es
parish in whose district it had been abandoned, $O,
they, he had no doubt, would take such. Steil! d
would release him from all further responsibility,
'l°no
very probably lead to the discovery of the pets° ie
had abandoned the child to the care of strange°
such an unnatural manner.
lot his ad'
applicant thanked the magistrate gpi•
vice and quitted the court ; but it was pretty clop:
feat
from his manner that he was disinclined to
the suggestion thrown out by the Bench.

virrb.
THE Cl/ UN TR I, mAltli-i-d tsir
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET. FEE. ~,,listvr°
supply of wheat from the farmers, but the arrivals 71-; with
were light. Factors held firmly for an advance a' little
which the holders would not comply, and in consegillit-ered•
business was done. Barley, oats, and other articles a° las °
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, FIB. 12..44fre'soci Fart
ki
large supply of cattle of good quality, but trade °gi„,,,ler 'l7;
remains unsold. Sheep trade active, and the nit/ 458 u
bited all cleari.d off. Beasts 800, sheep 4,000.
e
55mutton, 5d to 6d.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 12.--There Aer29Olboo
meal market to-day 23 sacks oatmeal, each weighi4u4S'ici'
imperial, whereof 21 sold thus : lat 115 s Od, 9 it3,11.11t",
and 11 at 1/ 4s Od ; average price of the whsle 114 s 0 sacks
5 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 285, and 3at 25°' ll4O 64
pot-barley, whereof 15 sold thus :-1 at 11 53 Od, I a'
1 at Il 4s Od, and 12 at 11 2s Od.
EDINIURSH HAY AND STRAW MARKET? 'free
Supplies of all kinds still continue large. Oat 50006, -
to 9s 6d per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, joil'er
75 Cd ; barley ditto, 56 6d to Cs 6d. Hay, from 8d t°
stone.
DALIZEITH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 11.--There Aere
bags oatmeal, 20 of barleymeal, and 5 of pot-barlef
day's market ; sales ready ; top price of oatmeal Org. doff°
peek; second and inferior qualities 3d to 6d per bag
barleymeal same as last week; pot-barley Is per bag uPibira
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second 22, 03
imperial .. 23s 6d 225 3d 165 01
Barleymeal, per ditto 16a 6d 16s :3,1 1
„i
Peaseraeal Od --5 (ht

Flour ...
Pot barley

••• ••• I—s
••• •.• —5 Od
..• ... 223 Od

_s _s od ood
Od I

COAL MARE'
Bate's West Hartley 15s 6d,
Huddle's W. Hartley 15s 9d
Carr'e Hartley
East Adairs Main Ds Od
Hasting's Hartley lss 9d
Holywell
North Percy Hartley lss 6d
New Tanfield l5B Od
Ord's Redheugh
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s 6d
Tanfield Moor Butes l4s 6d
Townley l6s Od
West Hartley
West Adairs .... ...
Wylatn
Wall's End, &c.
Buraton Killingworth 17s 3d
Gesforth ..... .
Barton
Hilda l6s Od
Killingworth l7B 6d
Percy ...

-:.—YESTERDAY.
oci
Walker ...............
Lambton Primrose;76 6d
Bell ....................... ;D.
i0)1
Belmont .................. !rj gd
Hatt0n............
Haswell .................. .
6a
Jonassohns ...........
sd
ILambton ............. ]Si
7,
.a
Lumley ................•181
[Loosen's Hatton •*'" 19' led
,Stewart's ...............
oci
Caradoe •••• ..... 180 6j
iCassop.. ..... ....... 460 gd
(Fox's Hartlepool •••''' 185 v„d
Kenos ........ 140 d
.......... 3
Whitw0rth........... 1,
6d
Cownden Tees ••• 17' 0j
'South Durham ••••'""" 19' ,d
Tees .......... •;; 150
spiedrnWey,s
Cllt WilaatrCtrl
ellya.r.t:.3g "A
Ships at market'

iti(El'7.
RAILWAY Ski Alll. 31A ---
Irani'
mate, and little business has been traro3
BRISTOL, FEB 13. ~tintlefi 1 19
STOCK EXCITANGE.--The market Still CO.--d. The on ,
(par, alteration in prices was—Great Western, it)
LIVERPOOL. Fas. 13; yt•as doll ej
STOCK EXCHANGE% little bustnes,s„ ot Prtche
our Stock Exchange to-day, and the teli"e"-:1 at -'r has been downwarsls the market closing beav,,Yrcolo°,
quotations. The transactions were as follow : —.l4l;foteirP
and Yorkshire, Fifths, 75' dis.—London and Nortli-"fitl 1,
112—Ditto, New Quarters, 11. Is. 3d. C. p.—Ditto'
14 C. p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 1/. 18s. 9d. c. 11.--No. 41
llalves, 24 c. die. South-Eastern and Dover t
Gl. 6s. 3d.—Dutch Rhenish, 6 dis.
cloi'
DIANCEIESTER, FEB. 13. to' -
hele,j4o
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was very
and prices lower. The transactions were as tenor'', rfr
cashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7% dis.—Caledovil 'jl3---
ference, 7 13-16 p.—London and North-Western; 11.15.
ete .0.3, 15~•.
Ditto Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (0' q P"...,'""
ii‘,lraenfoorleiensctee,r,
7zi Sheffield,_
N 0 riatihnwNdeurr
el], LincolnshireAsilidla,Staffordshirend,.
,(E1113304,1,119.:::, di S • - ,
mn cil(lyi,tlyeirli(eNsoh. 4), scrip, 6?tiased.ui,
..,_
in.
South- :nil ays tRe rx nc
transactionsna
, tn.ditY.,'
Derby), '2o3' —Shrewsbury ana:l7Bmiramriknegth:mninghs, ri. Is'
9d. dis.

maker, who
emulous of the adlleuralaen dg
:ibtieP::a
LAUNCHES
ON
THE
iev.,
EasAkiii.l.......i,
ofnni heth974is
he kfinri,shvvehioththemre:vanhaisbpdro.uctions over ii;trauti.bdee:a(!tirti
There is everlastingly ina Sunderland
re riphrastcalelty.
of sir into water—s c.' tignadieteriraenodp:
ship reesbelonney.eg
th
i„1„, .. it.
liners ' tiritgi,matsphojuiersefriends,
phiealq a°""ri oefel
native element." Only on Monday last, 14°Igteilell:er'ff
Wilkin, on, and Briggs and Candlish, and '-i:o4ieft. "that
Naseby, and the veteran Laing, were all s'lo3o/7 -o
ships into the Wear; and it comforts us to 916 tcLes;
Mr. Laing's splendid barque, the Talaysrll
apt
s4his
classed at Lloyd's AI, 13 years, has found °Jet in to
in Mr. David Dunbar, who bad once a cro°' going "
head (new happily expelled) that shipping "5 -
it ---
the dogs.—Gateshead Observer. llol'l,-; it
PROCEEDINGS OF TUE BOARD OF Tore i,,
Among the Parliamentary papers issued on t 4 if GI
,A
extract from the minute: of the proceethPfogoviing
General Board of Health. It consists of the the note'
res dution :—" That it has been established bl' roving
missioners for inquiring into the means ofirgrotile
the health of towns, as a general principle Qi. ;ties rli°,,d
which isms: been confirmed by subsequent ingthinn, fl-t,
under the naetropolitan sanitary coniaos,s;;Neisi°4
poßefoaterhrsed
thlo:tashbelproceededice ciluiaelHealth
adopted by the Legislature as a fuldentents`firr as lb:,
yltha
pwApiltcihct,a
bialtesn dto:wtni hhijlni; 0
isag 8 t-itio,e,s, that
neetroP.°l, 0101
the works for supplying the public with wa'neageaieno,
be under the same public jurisdiction or loe joininorf
with works of drainage, paving and surfse°
echerne 0
That, apart from the merits of any particular.otions.:',
new water-works, and pending farther /eve'tiolog Pribe
to the practical means of applying the foregoction to
ciple to the metropolis, it is inexpedient t°_,
~f. stspPi
investment of fresh capital in the same fiele ' to be 'ill
it is probable that the new works will ba", these weer
purchased, and there can be no security Of. beret'
be applicable to the arrangements that WI '''')
01°4
recommended." "thine Tee
[ADyeaTisemexT.]—A lady cured of .t.e„,,es.--4,ith
twenty years' suffering by the use of Holloway's 'row 1 0.-
wholesale agent for the sale of Holloway's Pills it Pelee" „be
Wales alludes, in a letter to Professor Holloway, -, by tekett of
aladyresiding near a hill named the
traordinary cures of asthma effected in that COlel?l,iisr, the
of these invaluable pills, and to one case in part;_e;; eibe,,-,,, of
having for twenty years been affected with great oghte"ese
breathing, and unable in aonsequenee to bear we 0, her soo
ertion, at last used this remedy, and is now, to ~, hill.-- eet,
expression, able to run up to the to of that hlrtablislita
by all druggists, and at Professor Hollowsysv°
244, Strand London.
_____----------if
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BIRTHS , ABe
On the 12th inst , at Brighton, the Lady Als'e'
" Razorbacs diffica,..,ex,
...., Jelerh
a (laughter.
On the 6th inst., at Wormley-house, Hems, '''''..-
Lovello n t hpehBi
iti
ihpBi,n(s)tf.,a Ws'
Dodson, of a son. n.towy'
Cam
the Bee.
On the 9th inst., at Halstead,
adtaurgrahmteirl
Vebin'
Duncan Fraser, of a son. „, e A, O.
On the llth inst., at Upper Tulse-hill, air •
son, of a son. Hamilton street,
wife
of
sburp
MARRIED. tvr,l3l°giverc
On the 12th inst., at St. George-the-Mar .o, of A i the
George, youngest son of Henry Pierce 13onet,dajter.ocitiv„
street, Bedford-square, to Rebekah,
Ytffirgelsi street and
Essex, the
late James Davies, Esq , of (s'racechurc -,
ham-road. , carer
DiED aret,Y COI'
i
On the 7th inst., at Leamington, Mar;_iie g nL3"
arick
hell, widow of the late VieteAdreiral
alio
-ell 'roan
bell, 0.13. Berms
Ellis
Daniel
On the 7th inst., at Torrington, Devon
Da
F.,13,1
.ia,
Commanderthe 7th inst.,,
100 al
al Glasgow,ls,y. James
beth, wife of J Humphreys, Esq.
Portsmouth,
On the 9th inst., at Farlington, near Wood'
Howard, Esq., aged 78. Eicher,' it.
Oa the 9th inst , at Boulogne-sur-Mer,
TlOrlistes
46.
ward, Esq., of Fenning, Essex, aged _ George
of
On the I Oth inst., at North-end, Fulham(
Esq,
t n.
Commander, R.N., aged 68. Joseph pockling-°
On the 10th ina., aged 79,,
,(1--' Of
Camberwell•green. ,T,.? n
iriCl -10'' r#
iaTTRy...., .a 0-' i
I.' 0
London : Printed and Published by P... 0 ()Inc°,
co _tr.
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The ,S 7
in
tile us.
Strrnd, in the Precinct of the 5.V5•.,,,n.
biiddleatx, ThuraJay, February 14, OW
, Catherine