The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-12 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN•

A Court of Aldermen wa held yesterday.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE drew the attention of the
Court to the case of Mr. Marshall, the cashier of the
Bank of England, who had been returned as an inquest
juryman of his ward, but had refused to serve.
Aftor a long discussion it was decided that Mr. Mar-
shall should be called upon to take the oaths.
Mr. Marshall (who was accompanied by Mr..Fresh-
field, solicitor to the Bank) declined to comply, where-
upon the City Sol•citor' was directed to take the neces-
sary steps to enforce compliance. The same course was
.idopted with regard to Mr. Tyrrell, another of the resi
dents within the Bank, who refused to take upon himself
the office of inquest juryman'.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND presented the report of the
Inspectors of Weights and Measures, from which it ap
peered that 406,tradespeople had been convicted during
the course of the past year in the City of London for
using fraudulent weights and measures. The worthy
Alderman also directed the attention of the Court to the
frauds committed in Smithfield in the packing of hay
and straw.

Mr. Knill was ordered to show cause why he refused
to serve as Common Councilman for the ward of Bil-
lingsgate.

The
report of the Coinmittee of General Purposes
on the subject of the regulation of steam vessels was
brought up, and copies of the bye-laws therein recom-
mended were ordered to be sent to the parties interested,
preparatory to the matter being brought forward at a
future. Court.

Upon the motion of Alderman JOHNSON, a report was
agreed to, recommending that a petty sessions should
be held every Saturday, at the Guildhall, for the pur-
pose of determining cases connected with bastardy,
pauperism, and other matters on which the presence of
two magistrates is necessary for adjudication, and that
all cases of the kind within the City be referred to the
Court over which those magistrates shall preside.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of
the above railway was held, yesterday afternoon, at the
Paddington station, Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., in the
chair. There was a very full attendance of Share-
holders. The Chairman, in his opening address, pointed
cut the advantages of the various extensions and
branches which this Company had undertaken, and said
that it was the intention of the Directors, with the sanc-
tion of the Proprietors, to go to Parliament upon those
lines of this Company which the Board of Trade had
reported against., provided the Directors should not be
satisfied with the reasons to be given by the Board of
Trade. This statemect was received with much ap-
plause. The Hon. Gentleman also stated, that on the
10th of March trains would be started to accomplish the
journey to Oxford in an hour and a half, to Cirencester
in two hours and a half, to Gloucester and Cheltenham
in three hours, Bristol in three hours and a quarter, and
to Exeter in five hours.

Mr. Saunders, the Secretary, read the report of the
Directors, which stated that the receipts for six months,
to the 31st of December last, had been 440,0461. Is. id.,
presenting an increase of 62,2481. 10s.' sd. over the
former corresponding half-year. It comprised, however,
the income from thirty-two miles of railway which were
not opened for traffic in 1843. The separate receipts on
the Great Western Ittilway had been 332,8911. 3s. 3d.,
Bristol and Exeter Railway 90,5951. 19s. 6,1., on the
Cirencester Ine 10.3721. Is. 7d., and on the Oxford
Railway 6,1861. 16s. 9d. The expenditure, the particu
lars of which were furnished in the accounts, showed a
charge of 143,2791. 13s. I Id., equal to 321. per cent.
upon the receipts. The balance in hand was 281,766/.
7s. 2d., out of which a dividend was to be declared of
8 per cent. per annum. The report and statement of ac-
counts were unanimously adopted, and resolutions em-
powering the Directors to take the necessary Parlia-
mentary measures, with respect to the proposed exten-
sions and branches, were then passed. A dividend of
eight per cent. was declared, after which a resolution
was passed, empowering the Directors to contribute
500,000/. towards the construction of the South Wales
Railway. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and
Directors, and Mr. Saunders, the Secretary, which,
being acknowledged, the meeting separated.

COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amyterdam CF 12 8
Ditto, at sight l2 6
Rotterdam 2U. 12 81
Antwerp
Etamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 0
ntarseilks
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fi. 3 M lO
Trieste, ditto
Madrid.
Cadiz
Bilbao
36
Barcelona

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Leghorn ... 31

Genoa ...... 26 10
Milan .................

Vanice .... ..... ..... 47

Naples
Palermo, ;ie.. 0z..... 118
Lisbon ........ 531
Oporto •• . ........ 531
Rio Janci,()
Bahia
Buenos A y. -ts
NewYoli-.."....dyssight
Philade,:.l,iF ......

PRICKA .11.1 LI lON, En
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Foreigt .',‘,ll,l)ars i 3 17 9
Portot,,x mold Coin 3 17 5
New .1), ...; ,00ns • ,j 0 0
New s 4 9A
4 1

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX.—A meeting of
the ratepayers of St. Pancras was held at the Vestry-
rooms, Gordon-street, Gordon- square, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the best means to be
adopted for the purpose of obtaining a total repeal of
the window-tax. Sir Charles Napier, the Member for the
Borough, and several other influential gentlemen, ad-
dressed the meeting, and several resolutions, condemna-
t.;ry of the window-taxi were unanimously passed ; and
a deputation was appointed to co-operate with the other
parochial deputations, in endeavouring to obtain the
repeal of this tax.

MISPRINTS. - Misprints often strike what arc
termed unlucky blows. The omission of a t mak• s the mortal
the moral, and the immortal poet stands praised as the im-
moral poet. We read a short time ago a lamentation on " the
frightful increase of morality in the metropolis ;" and once
saw the advertisement of a treatise on " the blessed immo-
rality of the soul ;" we have met with the glory of a con-
queror turned into gory by the dropping of the liquid conso-
nant ; our loyalty has been shocked by the announcement
of a " most reasonable attempt on the life of a sovereign ;"
but, worst of all, we lately saw the Duke of Buckingham de-
scribed, through the dropping of the dog's letter, as " the
Farmer's Fiend."—Examiner.

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—Last Saturday Con-
stable Williams, of the Ballinamulla station, received information
that a young girl, named Mary Brennan, recovering from a fever, had,
while In a state of insanity, the night before, murdered her mother at
Foxborough, about four miles from this town. He called on Denis
B. Kelly, Esq., J.P., and, after communicating the afflicting circum-
stance, was accompanied by that gentleman to his officer, Captain
Colclouglt. They at once gave directions to the constable to bring
with him Dr. O'Connell (surgeon to the constabulary in the dis-
trict), to ascertain if the girl could be removed to the bride-
well, to await the result of the inquest. They went, and
Mallet the poor creature sitting in one corner of the wretched
cabin, and the remains of her mother on the middle of the
floor. She appeared perfectly deranged, anti UIICOIIBCiOUS of
having committed any crime. She very distinctly said she killed that
" dirty thing" with a crook—" that it was not her mother at all."
A car was procured, and she was taken in it by one of the sub-con-
stables, and lodged in the Bridewell• A coroner's Inquest was held
next day. Witnesses proved that the prisoner was of Insane mind.
The coroner then addressed the jury briefly, explained the law in rela-
tion to the case, that the prisoner, being decidedly of unsound mind,
is sending her to trial there could be no danger of her life. The jury
returned a verdict accordingly. Her committal was made out 1,3,- the
coroner, and next morning she was sent to Roscommon Gaol.—Athlone
,Sentinel.

CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.—The following is a
list! of Members who claim to be excused from serving on Election
t.,'ounnittees, as being upwards of sixty years of age As-
tell, Esq., Colonel BaiHie (Honiton). John Mica, Esq., Thoms3
Bunbury, Esq., Sir Charles M. Burrell, Hon. Colonel Butler, William
Ralph Cartwright, E3q., Aaron Chapman (Whitby), Eal., Sir John
Chetwode, Edward Bolton Clive (Hereford), Esq., William Shar-
man Crawford, Esq., William Joseph Deui,on (Surrey), Esq., Sir
Howard Douglas (Liverpool),'Willima Feilden (Blackburn), Esq.,
Augustus Elliott Fuller, Esq., William Ormsby Gore (Salop), Esq.,
John licatheote (Tiverton), Esq., Nedgwin Hoskins, Eq., Joseph
Hme, Esq., John Irving, Esq., Sir Charles Knightley, William Gore
Langton, Esq., Sir Charles Lemon, Janice Loch, Esq., Lord Charles
Manners, Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., Ord, Esq.,
James Oswald (Glasgow), Esq., George I'ahner (Essex), Esq.,
Edward William Wyllllo Pendarves, Esq., John Philpotts, Esq.,
Esq.,Br Sir
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ho tdh
Colonel ltushbrooke, Tlrunas Sheppard, Esq., Sir. f;corgc; llc :Ty
sm3thnd
(Co!chegthr), corlg:neSl trkkl:r.l, ,sknosl-ri Ta:rilichee
Richard Walker, EsqE.,sgßobccort Wallace,
Vatkin Williams Wyatt 41,I• outgomer:thire).
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