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stances :

The Report was read by the Chairman. It stated, that the
tolls of the bridge, for the half-year ending August 23, amounted
to 74861. 18s. 4d., being 4321. Ss. less than the receipts of the
corresponding period of las year. This decrease the Report at-
tributed to the improVement of Westminster and Blackfriars
Bridges, over which carts and drays could now safely pass.
This Report was approved of, and adopted.
The Auditor's Report was then read. It stated the items as
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follows: •
Expenditure, exclusive of Interest £937,666 19 11
Expenditure and Interest on Shares and an-
nuities, at 8 per Cent.

122,083 4 0

£1,059,740 I I

Per Contra.

By Capital rained .£1,030,052 0 0
Gains
Balance

A Proprietor asked what had been done the 'Last six months,
and what were the profits and the expenditure. He wished to
see the items of the account.

The SECILETAIIN said, the nerollllt9 Were always laid on the
table at their meetings, but the particulars were not read.
A Proprietor asked, if it were at present in the room; and, on
the Secretarrs replying in the affirmative, it was moved and car-
ried that it be read. It was as follows :

Report for the half-year ending the 23d of August, 1826.
To amount of Tolls, from February 23 £7,496 l3 4
Interest received on Exchequer Bills 7l 19 7
Interest on 2,3881. Is. 2d. Reduced 3 per Cents 35 16 5
Bent of Arches and Vaults

Total receipts 7,896 16 10
Per Contra.
Fur Lighting the Bridges and their approaches 97 13 0
Wages of Six Collectors, llonsegate-keepers, and
other Petty Officers
Repairs, Materials, and Labour
Taxes, Rates, and Tithes
Rent of the Company's House
Insurance of Company's Effects therein
Salary of the Secretary and Assistant Clerk
Use of a Room at the Crown and Anchor Tavern 1 5 0
Incidental expences, as Stationery, Advertising,
Printing, Circulars, &c.

- 1 5 '7 '7

Total expenditure £896 8 11
.nterest on Annttitiet, at 3s. in the pound, and on
Bond, &c 6,984 16 0

.e 7,639 19 11
Leaving to be divided among the Shareholders
Mr.. tlatt.taly asked, why the balance of 1,800/. in the first
account, was to: be left as an interminable fond at interest, and
not be applied to the payment of a dividend,

The Secretary replied, that the sum out of which it grew was
raised by the sale of borne of the vaults belonging to the Company,
according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament.
• Mr. Baat.►x wished to know if it was to go towards the pay-
ment of the Annuities, and for what period it was to remain sunk.
rr

Thl) SECRETA Iry replied, that h was to remain for 99 years.
Mr. 11Aiwa-1f that he not a final answer, 1 kuow not whim
Is.—(A laugh).
Sir Joeevu Ynaire wished Mr. Millie to understand, that
what he called " the locked-up fund," was so placed under the
authority of the Act of Parliament, over which of course, they
had no controul. Besides the interest was regularly carried to
the credit of the Company, and it could not, he therefore consi-
dered a locked-up fund.

The Auditor's. Report war then confirmed unanimously.
A Proprietor asked if any application had been made to break
up and Macadamize the Strand. It would be very advantageous
to the tolls of the Bridge if such a step were taken ; as at present
carriages could go from Blackfriar's-bridge to Westminster-bridge
without once coming in contact with the stones.

Mr. WATTS said, such a thing was contemplated iu the parish
where he lived, but it had for the present been negatived. It
was intended to widen the Strand all the way from Charing
Cross • and he thought the time for the application to Parliament
from this Company would be then—(llear).
Mr. BAILUIC asked, if the Committee contemplated any thing
with regard to a lottery of the Bridge, such a measure had reached
his ears in this room ? It was a matter of notoriety, that any one
known to be a Proprietor of this concern was universally commis-
aerated, as a most unfortunate man.—(A laugh.)
Sir Joserit Yonu said, no private gentleman *mild, for the
sake of the amount of the tolls, give half a million of money for
its purchase ; and as to the Government, though they had got a
grant of 000,000/. to improve the metropolis, they were expend-
ing it all in triumphal arches at Hyde Park, and such things.—
(Hear, and a laugh.)—They had spent their money in commemo-
rating the most splendid victory in the English annals ; and when
they complained, they were laughed at, as a set of speculators, who
thought to get 10 per cent. for their money, sod were properly
rewarded with one.—(A laugh.)—with respect to the lottery spe-
culation, it had been bet afloat by those Gentlemen who were lately
kicked out of Somerset House, and bad taken furnished lodgings
in Craven-street, in the expectation of living a little longer, until
the million of unclaimed lottery tickets, which they said were out-
standing, were applied for.—(Loud laughter.)
The Solicitor to the Company explained the rumoured plan
with regard to the lottery of Waterloo Bridge. It was certainly
SS ridiculous a one as could be invented, and was too preposterous
for Parliament once to entertain.

The CHAIRMAN said, no inch pl,in had ever been even submit-
ted to the Committee, and its only existence was in the brains of
some dace or four unemployed speculators.
The meeting then proceeded to the election of four Members (it
the Committee; after which, an adjournment took place.

Mr. C. L. Buonaparte arrived at Liverpool on Mon,
day, iu the Canada, from New York. _ .

At the Public-office, airrningham, on Thursday, a
woman, named Matilda Ron, was committed to the Quarter
Sessions, charged with having on her, person 7,184 counterfeit
shillings, with intent to utter the same. The base coin was
found concealed in a number of pockets in a kind of belt, which
was wrapped round her body under her stays, and supported by
bands across her shoulders. It is supposed she was going to Ire-
land, for the purpaae of passing the counterfeits. She came from
that country on Saturday, no doubt to lay iu a stock at the Bir-
mingham market. There are several other persons in custody at
Birmingham, charged with disposing of forged bank-notes, coun-
terfeit sovereigne, and other base coin.—Derby Mercury.
br'reHA .MUHDEIth.—The following particulars
of William Page, alias " Cobbler Will," are from an authentic
!twee Pey, (not Page), which is his real name, was
wrn in a Lying,ln__ Hospital, in London„ One year after his
birth, his molter died, when he was taken by his grandfather to
Pilcot, x village
in Hampshire, near Odiham, Hartford Bridge.
He was, sablle,qturntlY, when arrived at proper years, apprenticed
to suoentaxer ; dosing this period, according to the account of
a relative, he broke open his grandfather's chest, and was in the
constant habit of purloining every thing he could lay his hands
= upon. Ile married at Wiliam, and, getting into distress by im-
proper conduct, his wife died in the workhouse there, about three
years ago. Since that Period he his cohabited with Mary Ayres.
Ile has a father, row living in Little Pye-street, Westmiutter,
who, we believe, gets his living by selling fruit about the streets.

This was an action to recover from the defendant 84/., re-
ceived in behalf of the plaintiff, under the following eireturi-

In May last the plaintiff, Colonel Meyrick, sent a horse to the
defendants' stables, to be sold by them by public auction, without,
being- warranted. On the day of the sale Mr. Anderson, the
horse-dealer, one of the bidders, publicly inquired of the de-
fendants if the horse was warranted, and was answered in the
negative. The horse was then purChaied by Mr. Angerstein for
841. ; but was returned the following day, lame. Colonel Mey-
rick refused to take back the horokand gave the defendants notice
not to return the price to Mr. Angerstein. Mr. A. gave them
notice not to pay the money over to the plaintiff; but to return
it to him, which they had done, Mr. Angerstein giving them an'
indemnity. It was admitted for the defence, that no blame at-
tached to Messrs. Tattersall, who had not warranted the horse;
but it was contended that Mr. Angerstein bad been induced to
purchase the horse by the representation of a man employed by
Colonel Meyrick to attend the horse, and who had represented
him to be perfectly sound.
The Loan Cnter JUIiTICZ stated that the representations of
this man were not binding, unless it could be shown that he was
authorized by Colonel Meyrick to sell the horse. The plaintiff
I was therefore entitled to a verdict.
£1,053,740 311 Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 94/.

ADMIRALTY COURT, Dze. 7.
THIC

In this case the issue was of so complicated a nature, and the
questions respecting the facts and the forms in the particular
point before the Court were so involved, that we can render the
subject intelligible only by giving a general outline of the case :
The vessel, a French brig, laden with brandy, sunk on the
Kentish coast ; the owners, after repeated efforts to raise the
cargo, virtually abandoned it. The salvors, Messrs. Bell; who
had contrived some machinery for raising sunken goods, offered
to try to raise the cargo at their own risk and expence. They
succeeded in raising nearly 200 puncheons of brandy, for which
this Court awarded them, on the 7th of July last, two-thirds of
the cargo saved, or the sum of 9,000/. issuing a decree and com-
mission of sale, in the natal form, grounded upon the Act 1 and
2 George- IV. c. 75. (altering and amending the Salvage Act
of 12 Aun, st. 2. chap. IS.), which authorizes the sale, on be•
half of the owners or salvors, of so niuch of the property saved
as should be sufficient to. defray the salvage adjudged, and all
expellees attending the same, as well as such other charges as
should be allowed by the High Court of Admiralty; and em-
powers and requires the Commiesionere of the Customs and
Excise, on production of a decree from the High Court of
Admiralty, or of an award by Justices, to allow a sale of the
goods free of duty. By the Act of 6 George IV. e. 105, which
repealed upwards of 400 statutes, so much of the act of I and
2 Gen. IV. c. 75. was repealed, "as related to the sale of goods
duty free to pay the expellees of salvage and other charges ;" and
by an act which passed the same day (c. 107) the clause was re-
enacted in another form, namely, that "it shall be lawful for
the owner, or salvor, of any property liable to payment of duty
saved from sea, and in respect of which any sum shall have been
awarded under any law at the time in fierce, or in respect of which
any sum shall have been paid, or agreed to be paid, by the owner
thereof or his agent, the salvors- to defray salvage, to sell so
much of the property so saved as will suffice to defray the sal-
vage so awarded, or such other sum so paid, or agreed to be
Maid; that upon production of such award to the Commis-
sioners of the Customs, they are empowered and required to allow
a sale of such property, free from duty, to the amount of such
stuns so awarded, or to 'the amount of such other sum as to
the Commissioners shall seem just and reasonable; provided
always, that if the owner or salvor shall be dissatisfied with
any determination of the Commissioners as to, the amount
of such property to be sold, duty free, such owner or salvor
may refer such determination to the judgment and re-
vision of the High Court of Admiralty." This act, which
is entitled "An Act for the General Regulation of the Cus-
toms," came into operation two days only before the decree of
the Court in this case was pronounced, (namely, on the 6th July);
and as the clause just quoted is the only one, out of 144, which
refers to the subject of salvage, or to the jurisdiction of the Court
of Admiralty, this alteration of the law entirely escaped the know-
ledge of the Court and its officers. When the decree and commis-
sion were presented to the Customs, the Commissioners demurred
thereto, alleging that the Act under which the commission was
issued had been repealed, and that they bad ao authority to direct
a sale of the property to a greater extent than would answer the
amount of goods saved, exclusive the amount of the duty ; and
that they were not empowered by law to sell any part to defray
expenses. Application was consequently made last Court-day,
for a monition to the Commissioners, with a view of enforcing
the decree of the Court.
Dr. Pulta.tstoar, on the part of the salvors, was proceeding
to support the motion for a monition, and to state the hardship of
the salvors in being met by technical objections, when
The Ktwo's ADVOCATE,_ on behalf of the Board of Customs,

interposed, observing that his Learned Friend was premature in
his course of proceeding ; he (the King's Advocate) required that
the act of petition should be first read, and that be should have a
prior bearing.
The documents were then read.

The KlNtes ADVOCATE then proceeded at considerable length
to defend the Commissioners from the charge of obstructing the
process of the Court, and from any suspicion of wishing to com-
mit injustice.
The Admiralty Advocate (Dr. AmNot.o) followed on the same
side.

.
Dr. PHILLIMORE contended, that the repealing act had taken
the parties by surprise, for no man could have expected to find,
in a customs act, matters trenching on the jurisdiction of the
Admiralty. The diligence and skill of the salvors were universally
praised ; at the admiralty and at the Tkeitsury great encomia were
passed upon them ; yet they were actually SOO/. out of pocket,
and if the Treasury did not wave thalschnical objections (as they
doubtless would do upon an intimation from this Court), the
partieswould be ruined.
Dr. Lustriticrox observed, that according to the argument of
the King's Advocate, no more than the simple value of the brandy
could be given to the salvors in this case. Therefore it would
follow, that though the Court bad adjudged them deserving of
9,000/, yet, if all the property were given them, it would pro-
duce only 2,0004, which would not defray the expellees. He
could ask the Court to decide nothing; relief, lie supposed, must
be had from the Treasury.
Lord Srowitt.t. here observed that he would strongly advise an
application to that quarter.
The case stands over till next Monday se'nnight.

INSOLVENT DEB'T'ORS' COURT, Dec. 7.

IN Tint MATTER OF COLONEL GEORGE AUGUSTUE 1.0104 A

INSOLVENT DEBTOR.
Yesterday Mr. Comm moved for a rule to be served upon the
above-named insolvent, for hint to show cause why he should not
be brought up before the Court to be reexamined touching his
estate and effects, and also, why in the mean time, his discharge
should not be stayed. The insolvent was last before the Court on
the Bth of June, in the present year, when he was remanded for
eight calendar months, from the date of his petition, at the suit
of Mr. S. Co; a horse-dealer in Stamford street, for having by
fraudulent representations contracted a debt of 80 guineas with

Mr. Coo said, that he grounded his application upon seve-
ral affidavits, which related to a recent discovery made, sad
sn of
wiohicheexociiistetidleraattie property strong suspicion
thnthe imattthe o
e insolvent
discharge.veiotwasinossez,
the term of the iusolvent's imprisonment had nearly expired, lie
(Mr. Cook) trusted that the Court would also grant a rule to
stay the discharge.
Mr. Commissioner Hamm said, that with regard to the 'dis-
charge being stayed, the (;curt could not interfere, because they

had already directed an order to the keeper of the prison to dis-
charge the insolvent at the expiration of a given period. The
Court however, would entertain the other part Of the application,
and grant a rule ids/.
The insolvent's counsel will show cause against the rule on
Monday next.
Phillis Crawley, aged 60, was brought up to be heard on her
petition. She was opposed by Mr. Heath on behalf of two cre-
ditors named Eldridge and Chillman.
Insolvent, cross-examined by Mr. Ha►Ta—Was arrested by
Mr. Eldridge on she 4th of May ; she had assigned all her pro.
perty to her sons, William and John, two days before she put in
bail to Mr. Eldridge's suit, and was ;hen arrested by her son,—
Mr. Burt, at Ryegate, was her solicitor ; the property she made
over to her sons was worth 4001. ; she did not think they would
give it up to her creditors ; she had no thought of going toirison
when this was done.

By Mr. Consca,ther Counsel—Her husband has been dead four
years ; her sons had carried on the business both before and after
his death, and had nothing for it. She was a farmer, a shop-
keeper, end a wheelwright, at Blechingly. Mr. Eldridge had
arrested her for 110/. ; she had paid him 40/. in cash, and he
had had 30/. worth of goods; would have paid him all if he had
given her time, but he would not; her sons had offered to settle
it at Michaelmas—he would not wait, and arrested her. She
could not have carried on the business without her sons.

By Mr. MATH.—The 'debt due to Mr. Eldridge and his.
Chilman was for building a house, which insolvent had now given
to her sons. _ _ .

By Mr. Coon.—He would have been paid if he had given her
time ; insolvent had given him time and credit to the amount of
801.—(A laugh.)
William Crawley, by Mr. Coor.—l am the youngest son of the
insolvent. I have kept the shop ever since I left school, and never
had any thing for it before the assignment. I made an offer to
Mr. Eldridge, but he would not wait.
Cross-examined, by Mr. Hamra.—l never acid that I would
net pay a farthing, and when the old lady came hack, that I would
set the Blechingly bells ringing. Mr. Burt has tie deeds at pre-
sent. The brother corroborated this statement. ' •
Mr. Coo' to Insolvent—You have not told me your motive for
assigning the goods to your sons.
Insolvent7—(with a great show of modesty)—lt was froin pure
love and affection to my children ; and another thing, I was going
to be married. _

This candid avowal, completely upset the gravity of the
Court, who were for some minutes in a state of convulsion, but
recovering their solemnity, they impressed on the sons the pro-
priety of settling the debt, and ordered it to stand over for a
month.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, DEC. 7.

NEW COURT.

Thomas Phillip:, a very young man, was indicted for
marrying Elizabeth Duncombe, his former wife, Ann Maria
Viner, being yet alive.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecution.
Thomas Coulson knows•the prisoner at the bar, and is
father-in-law to Ann Maria Viner, who was married to the
prisoner, at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in January. Wit-
ness acted as " father" at the nuptials. Ann Maria
Phillips, the first wife, is now in Court; the, paper pro-
duced is a certificate of the first marriage.
'Cross-examined by Mr. C. PittuiPs.—Witness obtain-
ed the certificate from Mr. Harmer's clerk ; does not know
Elizabeth Duncombe, the second wife. Since the sepa•
ration between the prisoner and his first wife, he has
been living partly with her mother. . Since his marriage he
has received a small portion.
Sarah Booth knows Elizabeth Duncombe, who was
married to the prisoner on Easter Monday, 1826, at Strat-
ford-le-bow; also knows Ann Maria Viner, the former
wife.

The prisoner said, that although he married Viner, she
never acted with that prudence as a woman ought, or the
separation would not have taken place.
Mr. PHILLIPS called witnesses for the prisoner, one of
whom stated, that owing to the misconduct of the first
wife,•the prisoner once,- in a state of distraction, threw
himself in the canal, and nearly lost his life; his first wife
eloped from the prisoner.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and
the Jury returned a verdict:of °lift, but strongly reco►u-
mended him to mercy.
The COMMON SERGEANT stated that there were many
.u►itigating cireimistances attending this case; for it ap-
peared, that instead of the prisoner forsaking his first wife,
she eloped from him, and her conduct in other respects had
been highly improper; while on the other hand it had been
sworn. that the prisoner acted with humane attention to-
wards her. This was one of those cases where the
offendei could not be justified, yet it never ought to have
been brought into this Court at the instance of the first
wife, who seemed to have been the original aggressor.
The prisoner had been some time in confinement, therefore
the Court would merely pass a nominal sentence—and that
sentence was, that he pay 4 fine of one shilling and be
discharged.
The -first wife (Viner), a very young woman, sought her
expenses, but she was refused; and the Common Sergeant
told her she appeared to have been the worse character of
the two.

The proseeutrix made an 4.,laboiate appeal, but her soli-
citations were unregarded.

WINTER ASSIZES. -
HERTFORD, Dec. 7.
'The winter gaol delivery commenced here on Wednes-
day, before the Honourable Mr. Justice BAYLEY and the
Honourable Mr. Justice GASELER. The calendar is un-
usually heavy for this County, there being nearly 50 pri-
soners for trial.

Field
Mr. Justice GASIELIE.)
James Fie was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's
Act, for maliciouily shooting at and wounding Charlotte,
his wife, with a loaded pistol, at King's Walden, on the
13th of May, with intent to murder her.
The piisoner, a shoemaker by trade, had married the
prosecutrix (who was his second wife) about two .years
lino. They had lived unhappily together; in April last
he had been committed to the House of Correction, in
consequence of having beaten her severely. On the
morning of the 13th of May, he purchased a brace of poc-
ket pistols at Luton, in Bedfordshire, and at his request
the shopkeeper loaded them with bullets, he finding the
powder; he was also furnished with several other bullets.
In the evening of the same day, he Went to King's Wal-
den, where his wife was then living with her mother.
Seeing his wife in the garden, he spoke to her in kind
tarms, and inquired after her health. She answered him
in the same manner, He then presented s pistol at her
head, and fired. The ball entered at the nose, and came
out at one corner of the mouth. , He than ran into a neigh-
bouring wood. Two men who witnessed the transaction,
shortly afterwards pursued him, when he voluntarily sur-
rendered, and gave up the pistols, both of which were
loaded.

The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
Severai witnesses were called on his behalf, for the pur-
pose of proving that ha was of unsound mind.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case, and the Jury
found the prisoner Guilty.
Sentence of death was pronounced, and the Learned
JUDGE told the prisoner that he must prepare to undergo
the last extremity of the law.

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which a patent his lately been taken out by a gentleman named
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the
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of the week, and the hour of the day. It registers the intensity
whether it rained fast or slow at any particular period.
It of the rain for the whole year, so that, by reference, it may be as-
certaineda
separate account of rain for every hour, day, week,
mouth, or year ; and spontaneously separates the weekly accounts
from each other every Saturday night, at 12 o'clock, and at the
same hour at the termination of every month, of whatever num-
ber of days it may consist. Many other services. are performed
by this instrument, which is, undoubtedly, one of the,most curious
tkmps
and useful of the kiwi ever invented.