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London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXC.

Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 13&
Altona l3 131
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 Aonths 25 96
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 954
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*
Cadiz

Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Sovilla —

Tna TRENT.—The Royal Mail Company's ship
Trent arrived at Bermuda on the 18th October. She left
Tampico the 29th Sept., Vera Cruz on the 2d October,
Ilavannah on the 11th, and Nassau on the 13th. She ex-
perienced very bad weather in the Gulf, and was obliged
to slip from Tampico, leaving her anchor and seventy-five
fathoms of chain cable, as also the whole of the freight at
that place, amounting to 1,722,000 dolls., it being found to
be impossible to ship it, the bar being impassable. She
was also obliged to leave 130,000 dolls, at Vera. Cruz, the
administrator not being inclined to run the risk of ship-
ping it during the Norther. She had on board, on freight,
343,171 dollars in silver, 91,415 dollars in gold, 25
five-franc pieces, 181bs. 1 loz. of plata Brute, 12oz.
of plata Labrador, 1161bs. 13oz. silver bullion, and
541bs. 9oz. Tastellanos Clatina, and eleven pas-
sengers for England, viz., Mrs. Bonfield and fa-
mily, and Mr. llorrer, from Vera Cruz ; Mr. Genald,
from Bogota ; Mr. Crelago, from Havannah ; and Mrs.
Reager, from Nassau. The Trent left at Vera Cruz her
Majesty's ships Inconstant and Spartan ; and off Tampico
the Rose hove to in a gale of wind ; at Havannah the
I Romney ; and at Nassau the Lark.—Jamaica Morning
Journal.

DESTRUCTITE FIRE. - Yesterday forenoon an
alarming fire broke out in the marine signal-light manu-
factory, in the occupation of Messrs. Robeson and Hig-
hams, the patentees, situate in the Commercial-road
East, near the Regent's-canal. The premises were
about 30 feet long, by 18 wide, and were contiguous to
the extensive range of buildings known as Brunton's
Chain Factory. Owing to the very combustible nature
of the stock in trade, the progress of the fire was un-
usually rapid, and in the course of a few minutes the
building became one blazing mass, causing the greatest
apprchcnsisn for the safety of the adjoining and more
valuable property. Information of the fire having been
forwarded to the Brigade and West of England engine-
stations, the engines belonging to those establishments
hastened to the scene. The Regent's-canal afforded a
plentiful supply of water ; but although the firemen
exerted themselves to the utmost, they were unable to
extinguish the fire before the stock in trade and the
buildings in which the fire originated were nearly de-
stroyed. Fortunately the adjoining premises were un-
injured. Of the origin of the fire no certain information
could be ascertained. Messrs. Robeson and Highams
are uninsured.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Limerick Chronicle, Dec. 14.
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This day three parties of the 30th Regiment, from
this;garrison, were detached on district duty—two officers
and 40 rank and file, to Newport (Tip.) ; an officer and
20 rank and file, to Castle Connell ; and an officer and
• 20 rank and file, to Cappamore—to assist the local ma-
gistrates and police in checking disturbance.
Head- quarters and five companies of the 6th Regiment,
with band and colours, under command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Michel, landed at Dublin on Thursday, from
Liverpool, by the Dee steamer, Lieutenant Driver, R.N.,
and marched to Richmond barracks.
Captain Greathed and Captain Brown's companies of
the Bth, from Bolton, have taken up the quarters of the
6th Regiment at Preston.
The 67th take up the quarters of the 56th in Dublin.
Captain Layard, M.P., has joined the 37th Regiment
at Portsmouth.
Captain O'Halloran's company, 69th, has joined head-
quarters at Templemere, from Cashel, having been re-
lieved by another company of the same regiment.
The last division of the 56th, under Major Palmer, has
sailed from Dublin for Liverpool in the Rhadamanthus
steamer, Commander Leen, R.N.
The soldiers of the 65th Regiment were ordered out
of chapel, at Castlebar, last Sunday, when the priest
commenced reading Dr. APHale's bull against the Cha-
ritable Bequests Act.
Captain Mostyn's company, 54th, has marched from
Shannonbridge, to bead-quarters, Mullingar.
Captain Palmer, 60:h Rifles, having been this day
week arrested at Fermoy, head-quarters of his battalion,
by the Sheriff of Cork, under an attachment in " W.
Mackinnon, M.P., v. the Executors of the late Lady
Palmer," counsel applied to the Master of the Rolls, on
Tuesday, for the officer's discharge. It appears the
order obtained by plaintiff to invest a large sum in the
cause had never been served on defendants or the so-
licitor, and Captain Palmer, in total ignorance of the
order, was committed to Cork gaol, though in bad
health, yet prepared to meet the order. The Master of
the Rolls ordered the officer's immediate discharge, and
that Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., should pay the costs of at-
tachment and motion.
General Lord Combermere will preside at a grand
provincial Freemasons' lodge, at Chester, on the 27th
instant, St. John's-day.
Captain 11. Young, 24th, who recently attended the
sick bed of a soldier's wife in Waterford, to afford spi-
ritual consolation, has entered into controversy with the
Rev. E. Dalton, of that city, upon the paramount im-
portance of pure scriptural instruction, apart from the
ceremonies of the Church of Rome.
Effective strength of the 72d depot, under command of
' Brevet Lieut. Colonel Maclean, at Cork-13 sergeants,
5 drummers and pipers, 210 rank and file. Recruiting-
-3 sergeants and 15 ditto.
Captain Beauclerk, 7th Fusiliers, has joined at Gib-
raltar.
Lieut. Bourke, 17th, on the recruiting service at Mary-
borough, will succeed to the vacant company by the
death of Captain Lockhart.
Lieut. Edgar succeeds to a company in the 26th Regi-
ment.
A company of the 85th arrived at St. Lucia, on the
24th October.
Captain Trevor, R.A., and Mr. White, arrived at Bar-
badoes in the Tweed, from Southampton, on the 7th of
November.
Lieut. Raines, Royal Artillery, arrived in the Imogene
at Barbadoes on the 4th ult.
The son of Lieut. Aggas, Ist West India Regiment,
was drowned at Jamaica on the Ist ult.
LATE BRITISH LEGION.—A committee of officers has
been formed, and is in correspondence, through Sir
de Lacy Evans, with the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, respecting the compensation, and his Lordship
has shown every attention ; and in his last cummunica-
tion ha informs them that he had instructed the British
Minister at Madrid again to urge upon the Spanish
Government the immediate settlement of it. Mr. Bulwer,
it is said, has obtained a settlement.
An old soldier of the Lth, discharged in 1784, visited
the regiment at Belfast, this week, when the officers and
men subscribed twenty guineas for the veteran warrior,
who had so many years ago served in the ancient " Gos-
lings," or " Fighting Fifth."
The 50th, at Cawnpore, lost a captain and two lieu-
tenants within a month. The last death is that of Capt.
James, which promotes Lieut. Enoch, son of Capt. Enoch,
of the 23d, deputy assistant-quartermaster-general at the
horse Guards, to a company.
The death of Lieut. Considine, 63d, who was in orders
for trial by court-martial at Bellary, is announced.
There is to be a grand military steeple chase meeting
at Northampton in March, patronised by the officers of
the Horse Guards, Royal Artillery, sth Dragoon Guards,
7th Ilussars, 13th Light Dragoons, Coldstream Guards,
and 32d Regiment.
16th Regiment, Cork Barracks.—The head quarters
division of four companies, landed from Dublin, consist
of the following officers :—Captains Luxmore, Copinger,
and Hudson; Lieutenants Cassidy, Goldie, Paymas-
terk, Kirk, 21 sergeants, 2 drummers, 285 rank and file,
46 women, 42 children, with the band, &c.
32d Regiment—Four companies and head-quarters,
with their band and colours, marched from Richmond
Barracks, Dublin, to Great Ship-street Barracks. They
were played all the way by the hand of the 73d Regi-
ment. Major Hill is commanding the 32d Regiment,
Lieutenant-Colonel Markham being on leave of absence.
56th Regiment—Royal Barracks, Dublin, head-quar-
ters and five companies. Recruiting—four sergeants and
eight rank and file. Effective strcngtk-43 sergeants,
17 drummers, and 780 rank and file.
73d Regiment—Richmond Barracks, Dublin. Recruit,.
ing-6 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 15 rank and file.
2d Battalion Ist Royal Depot, Enniskillen—Captain
Byrne and Ensign Deane are stationed with a company
at Ballyshannon. A recruiting party is ordered to march
for Dublin, to embark, per steam-vessel for England
ca route to North Walsham, to be stationed. Major
Graham is commanding.
81st Depot, Templemore.—Major Creagh has joined
from leave. Captain Renny is or. leave of absence till
embarkation to join the service companies in Canada.
Captain Bowyer is on leave till embarkation.
A party of the Ist Royal Dragoons joined head-
quarters at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, Dec. 9, from
Maidstone Cavalry Depot.
The 14th depot arrived in Dublin on the 10th, head-
quarters, under Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, on
the 11th, and remaining company on the 12th of Dec.,
to embark for England. Effective strength-1 acting
sergeant-major, 15 sergeants, 4 drummers, and 232 rank
and file. Recruiting-12 rank and file. Officers present
—Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, Brevet Majors
Smith and Wood, Lieutenants Strike, Archdall (Depot
Paymaster), Prothero (Depot Adjutant), O'Toole and
Trevor, Assistant-Surgeon Telfer.
!34th Regiment, Mullingar.—Recruiting-3 sergeants
and 8 rank and file.
65th Regiment, Castlebar.—Captains Young and New-
enham are stationed with a detachment at Galway ; and
Ensign Turner, Lieutenants Wolfe and Marshall, are
with a detachment at Ballinrobe. At Westport—Lieut.
Bazalgette and Ensign Meyler. Lieut. Cuthbert is at
Loughrea wilh a company. Ensign Bernard is at Oute-
rard with a detachment.
69th Regiment,Templemore.—Recruiting-3 serjeants
and 9 rank and file. Captain O'Halloran, Lieutenants
Mundell and Kearney, are stationed with a detachment
at Cashel. Captain Tudor and Lieut. Edgar are sta-
tioned with a company at Roscrea. Captain Walker and
Ensign Evans are at Thurles with a company.
95th Depot, Kinsale.—At head-quarters, 3 companies.
Effective strength-8 serjeants, 4 drummers, and 156
rank and file. At Charles Fort—One company, consist-
ing of Captain Hume, Lieut. Holme, and Ensign Vialls,
3 sergeants, and 60 rank and file. Recruiting-2 ser-
geants and 13 rank and file.
Rifle Brigade Depot, lit Battalion, Athlone—Captain
Rooper is in command. Recruiting-3 sergeants and
21 rank and file.
The 55th are recruiting at head-quarters, Chichester,
under the following sporting hand-bill :—" Wanted, 500
unmarried, handsome, and gay young fellows, from 18 to
25 years of age, for her Majesty's 55th Regiment of
Foot. Any gallant young fellow so disposed will apply
to Sergeant O'Neill, King's Arms, and who, on entering
the service of her Majesty, will be taken care of, and in-
vited to drink her health in a bumper."

INCORPORATION OF BRIGHTON.
BnioirroN, TUESDAT.—An adjourned town meeting
was held yesterday evening at the Town-hell, for the
purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning her
Majesty in Council for a charter of incorporation for this
town. Mr. Chittenden, the high constable, was in the
chair, and shortly after the meeting opened there were
upwards of 1,000 persons present, including most of the
influential owners and occupiers of houses in Brunswick-
square and terrace; who had pledged themselves almost
to a man to opposo the petition. The magistrates of the
Brighton bench were also on the platform, and soon
after the notice convening the meeting was read Lord
A. Hervey and Captain Pechell, the borough Members,
entered the room, and were greeted with loud applause.
Mr. Dempster, a solicitor, after speaking against a
charter of incorporation, moved the following resolution:
—" That in the opinion of this meeting, it will not be
beneficial to the inhabitants that the borough of Brighton
should be incorporated ; but, on the contrary, highly in-
jurious, and therefore that the recommendation of the
committee contained in their report, presented at the last
meeting, be not adopted ; and that this meeting be dis-
solved." Mr. J. Cordy seconded it. A tailor, named Brad-
shaw, moved as an amendment, " That the recommenda-
tions in the report be adopted, and that it be referred
back to the committee to prepare a petition, and get the
same signed and presented to her Majesty in Council,
and that the committee be authorised to adopt such
measures as they may think requisite to obtain a charter
for incorporating the borough." Nearly seven hours
were consumed in discussion, and at one o'clock this
morning the question was put to the vote, when the
chairman declared the original motion carried. There
were about two to one against incorporating the Own. A
vote of thanks having been moved and carried to the
borough Members and the Chairman, the meeting sepa-
rated.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO Two Cows ON THE SOUTH.
AMPTON RAILWAY.—On Monday night, as the last up-
train had passed a short distance from the Andover-
road station, the engine-driver fancied that something
impeded the progress of the train for a short distance,
which caused him to stop. lie then found that the im-
pediment was caused by the train passing over two cows
which had strayed on the line and laid themselves across
the rails. The night being very hazy they were not seen
by the engineer. They were both mangled in a dreadful
manner ; one had its head and fore legs literally cut off,
and the other was completely ripped up and the head
cut in two.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held for the
dispatch of business.
FREEDOMS OF TIIE CITY.
Presentments were made from the inquests of tlikl
wards of l3assishaw and Cheap against persons who.
carried on business in the City without being free.

CHARGE AGAINST THE CITY POLICE.

Alderman COPELAICD presented a petition front a
man named Burgess, who had been tried and acquitted
at the last London Sessions. The Alderman stated
that he was one of the magistrates who were pre-
sent at the trial of this prisoner for an assault upon
some of the officers of the City police. A more gross
case upon the part of the police he had never heard.
The Recorder, on whose judgment the Court had
such great reliance, the magistrates, and the mem-
bers of the bar, expressed themselves most strongly
upon the occasion. The Recorder had, in fact, ob-
served such extraordinary discrepancies in the evi-
dence of the police that he recommended the jury to
acquit the petitioners who had been, in the opinion of
all who had heard the case, most dreadfully mal-
treated. lle wished the petition to be sent to a Co.m-
mittee, in order that an investigation might take`
place into a matter so deeply reflecting ttpon the
character of the police. It was due to the city
police,. as well as to the public, to have an inquiry
instituted. The petitioner had been
most dreadfully beaten by the officers, at the satire
time that they had bound him hand and foot ; and
the men who had come forward to establish the case,
had most frightfully prevaricated and contradicted
each other. Alderman Copeland moved that the pe-
tion be referred to a Committee for examination.

The motion having been seconded,
Sir Wiwast MAGNAY said he hoped the petition
would be referred to the Committee. He happened
to be the magistrate who presided when Burgess, the
petitioner, was charged at the Mansion-house with
the offence relative to which the trial had taken place,
and a more gross case he had never heard. He had
not only committed the prisoner, but he had advised
the City police to prosecute for the sake of public jus-
tice. The petitioner who, he regretted, was not pre-
sent, had been frequently brought before him during
his mayoralty. For what ? For having gone into
taverns, dined extravagantly, and paid the landlords
with a snap of his fingers; and for assaulting the po-
liceman to whose custody he was intrusted in the most
desperate and dangerous manner. On the particular
occasion to which reference had been made, the peti,
tioner, who had raised such sympathy for himself, bit
the thumb of the policeman, and, in fact, nothing
could exceed his brutal ferocity. On the trial there
might have been some apparently irreconcilable
statements on the part of the police in evidence, but
he was convinced that a greater ruffian than the pe-
titioner could not be produced.
Alderman Wir.soN said the observations which had
been just made by Sir William Magnay, who had had
opportunities of observing the case from its com-
mencement, most strongly showed the necessity of
sending the petition to a Committee. He had him-
self
been struck with what appeared to him, upon
reading the newspapers, to be gross prevarication
upon the part of the City police, and he considered
that it was due to that body that an investigation
should take place.
Alderman FAREBROTHER thought the Court ought
to pause before they sent the petition to a Committee.
It appeared that the late Lord Mayor, upon hearing
the case, had recommended the prosecution of the
petitioner by the City police. The impression upon Sir
William Magnay's mind must indeed have been a
strong one when he proposed such a course ; and it
would be injudicious to allow such a feeder upon the
public, such a; feeder upon policemen's thumbs, to
enjoy the triumph to which he would no doubt think
himself entitled, resulting from the success of his peti-
tion. The petitioner was absent, and no doubt he had
good reasons for his absence, and it would be advisable
to reject the petition at once.
Alderman CHALLIS was for inquiry. The refusal
to investigate would be an act of injustice to the police
as well as to the petitioner. He was present at the
trial, and the discrepancies which took place in the
evidence for the prosecution were such as caused the
expression of a feeling which was truly English. He
hoped the police would show that they were justified
in the course they had pursued, but he certainly
thought that ample opportunity ought to be given to
them to prove that the estimate formed by the late
Lord Mayor of their conduct was correct.
Sir PETER LAURIE disapproved altogether of the
idea of presenting a petition of the kind. He was
sure the Court would not be justified in re-trying a
case which had been tried and decided upon in an-
other Court. Nothing could tend more to the com-
plete subversion of the justice which it professed to
facilitate.
Alderman COPELAND lamented that the Recorder
was not in his place. At the suggestion of that
Learned Judge, for whom they all entertained so
much respect, and with the approbation of all who
heard the case, he had stated that an investigation
should be made into the circumstances. He would
not say that the petitioner was immaculate, but he
would say that the treatment the man had received
was most brutal and most unnecessary, and that the
policemen who had been called as witnesses had most
grossly prevaricated.
The petition was then referred to the Committee.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY.

Tha Chamberlain's report on the subject of the
non-freemen was brought up. It required from the
Court some direction as to the proceedings against
those parties who declined to take up the freedom.
In answer to a question from a member of the Court,
The CITY SOLICITOR said there appeared to be,
on the part of those who were non-freemen, no appe-
tite for going to trial for decision upon the merits of
their grounds of rejection.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said he had seen an ad-
vertisement, purporting to come from those who were
determined to resist the application from the Cham-
berlain to take up their freedom, and he looked upon 1
it as the last kick of the wholesale dealers.
The CHAMBERLAIN said he had summoned all who
were returned to him as non-freemen, without dis-
tinction, and some of them had not responded, while
others had expressed themselves determined to resist.
The CITY SOLICITOR, in answering other questions
put by the members, stated that in the question pend-
ing, he, and some of the most respectable members of
the profession engaged for the parties who resisted
the Chamberlain's application, agreed to proceed in
such a manner as was likely to occasion the least delay,
trouble, and expense.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—At what time may the
matter be brought to trial ?
The SOLICITOR—Most probably it will be heard at
Easter.

Sheriff SIDNEY felt strongly upon the subject. lle
looked upon this conduct of the Court of Aldermen
as most unjust and ungenerous.
Alderman WILSON said that when a member
brought such a charge as that of being unjust and
ungenerous against the Court, he was bound to prove
the correctness of the accusation.

Sheriff SIDNEY said it was undeniable that the
Court of Aldermen had acted unjustly and ungene-
rously towards the shopkeepers, by obliging them to
take up their freedom, while they passed over the
great wholesale dealers.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you not know that several
actions have been brought against wholesale dealers ?
Sheriff SIDNEY said he knew of none ; but he
knew that actions were invited by those who were
determined to resist them. He believed that the Cor-
poration had power over the wholesale dealers, and
he hoped the authority of the Chamberlain as to pro-
secutions would be suspended until the case relating

to such dealers should be decided.
Alderman WILSON said he believed there were
forty-one actions pending against wholesale dealers.
a he So' Ic,:roit said +tot, of forty-two per,,ns aguirrt
whom it had been determined to proceed, several had
taken up the freedom, and the proceedings had imme-
diately been abandoned, and without demand of costs.
Some had entered appearances, and had expressed
their intention to go to trial ; but there was no wish
on the part of tho City to multiply actions.
After some further observations from members of
the Court, the Court agreed to direct the Chamber-
lain to proceed with such actions as should be con-
sidered expedient.
The Court then proceeded, with closed doors, to
discuss the propriety of relieving Giltspur-street
prison by sending the prisoners charged with assaults
and misdemeanours to the Borough Compter, which,
in consequence of the new Debtors' Act, is now
empty.