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SUMMER ASSIZES.
ROME ClRCUlT—lleilford, July 13.
CIVIL SIDE.--(l36fore Mr. Baron PARKE and a

referred to to keep watch. They went, however, into the
round-house, and after sleeping for some time, awoke and
began to quarrel. The deceased wanted to fight, which
Spilsbury refused to do, and the deceased getting very noisy,
and determined to fight, Spilsbury went below to the pri-
soner, who was asleep in bed, to complain of him. The
prisoner told him to go back and fight it out. Spilsbury on
this went on deck, and meeting the mate he had a quarrel
and a tassel with him. Whilst this was going on the pri-
soner came on deck with a pistol in his hand, and parted
Spilsbury and the mate. The mate then went below and the
prisoner then moved towards the deceased, and then, evi-
dently by some accident, the pistol went off, and the de-
ceased was shot. The prisoner evinced the greatest sorrow ;
went on shore immediately and procured a surgeon, and
fetched him again the next morning. His skill, however,
was quite unavailing, and the deCeased died on that day.
Mr. COCKBURN addressed the jury, contending that the
thing was altogether an accident.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up the case, telling the
jury that if they were satisfied
~that death had been occa-
sioned by a careless use of the pistol by the prisoner, it was
manslaughter. If they were not satisfied of this they must
acquit him.
After a long consultation they returned a verdict of Not
Guilty, and the prisoner was forthwith discharged.
Benjamin Hunt was indicted with having unlawfully and
maliciously set fire to a dwelling-house, the property of Sir
J. W . Pollen.
Mr. Polden prosecuted. The'prisoner VMS undefended.
The evidence in this case was very circumstantial, and we
were certainly surprised at the verdict.
A woman was called, who stated that she went about the
country selling nightcaps and lucifer-matches. On the 14th
April she was at a public .holise, when she saw the prisoner,
and he purchased of her two boxes of these matches. On
the sth of April, late in the evening, an uninhabited cottage
of Sir J. W. Pollen, which was situated with several others
near to where the prisoner lived, was on fire. The cottage
was built of mud, with a thatched roof. The back part of
the roof came down very near to the ground, so that a per-
son might have easily put a match into it, and as it was away,
from the road, would not have been seen. Very shortly be-
fore the'fire was observed the prisoner had been seen near to
the house, he having called at a cottage situated close to the
one that was burnt. He was subsequently met by a man
whom he knew, at a short distance from the cottage at which
he had called. The man stopped and spoke him. Whilst
they were talking together the fire was perceived by the wit-
ness, who exclaimed "There is a fire down in old Hunt's
house," which was the name of the person occupying the
cottage immediately adjoining the one burnt. The prisoner
replied to this that he supposed they were singeing a pig.
Witness said he did not think they would be engaged in
singeing a pig at that time of day, and invited prisoner to go
down with him and see out the matter. The prisoner refused
to go, and the witness went without him. He found the cot-
tage on fire, and saw that the fire had commenced in the
thatch. He and several other persons who were assembled
then set to work and endeavoured to extinguish the
flames. Whilst thus engaged he perceived the prisoner
standing by, and asked him to carry a bucket, which he
refused to do ; and did, in fact, take no part in endeavour-
ing to put out the fire. The cottage was entirely consumed:
The next day a search was made near the fire, and close
on the spot, and for several yards beyond it, a quantity of
matches were found scattered on the ground. In a hedge
near to the house the cover of a match-box was picked up,
which, on being shown to the woman who had sold matches
to the . prisoner, was like, she said, those she sold to him,
though she confessed she could not read. A small bit of
brownish paper was also picked up close to the house,
which had evidently been ignited. Next morning the
prisoner was apprehended. He was found at work with
his jacket off, which was lying on the ground at some dis-
tance from him. On the policeman going to this jacket, and
taking it up, prisoner said he was very welcome to search it,
but that he would find nothing there. The policeman
searched, and found a hole in the lining of the pocket, and
within this hole the lucifer matches ; he also found a crumpled
piece of paper, which resembled the bit of paper picked up
near the fire.
Mr. Justice Wriserratass having summed up these facts to
the jury, after a short consultation they returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The Learned Judge, addressing the prisoner, said that he
had been convicted of one of the worst offences known to the
law, as it was impossible to anticipate what loss of life might
ensue from it. It was necessary that the punishment should
be somewhat in proportion to the offence. His Lordship then
sentenced him to transportation for life.
Henry Capel, a respectable-looking man, and a surgeon,
was indicted for the manslaughter of his own child, Emily
Ann Capel.
Mr. Sewell prosecuted.
Mr. Nixping.
The facts of this case are very few. It was proved thak
the prisoner had been married but a short time before the
occurrence. The child killed was his first child, and was
about 14 weeks old. A servant stated that she heard her
mistress shriek out, and went into the kitchen where she
was. The prisoner was there, and she saw a small stick on
the ground, broken in two. On the child's head there was a
mark, and some blood. The prisoner said it would not have
happened, if the stick had not broken. An old nurse stated
that she also went into the kitchen, and saw the stick and
the mark on the child's head. She said to prisoner that he
ought not to strike his wife. He replied that she had made
use of bad words, and that it was necessary to correct her.
She then took the child, which died in a few hours after.
A surgeon proved that he had made a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, and that he attributed the death to the
blow on the head.
Mr. Mississa addreesed the jury for the prisoner, relying on
.the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence.
Mr. Justice WIGRTMAN' in summing up, told the jury that
if they were of opinion that the prisoner had attempted to
strike his wife, and had occasioned the death of the child,
though without intending it, he would be guilty of man-
slaughter, as beating his wife was an illegal act. If, how-
ever, they were not satisfied, and thought the blow was in-
flicted in some way by sheer accident, they must acquit him.
After a short consultation they returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

THE BANK CHARTER.

The following is a copy of the petition presented to
the house of Lords, on Friday, from the Society for the
Emancipation of Industry, by the Earl of Mountcashel :
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and
• Temporal in_Parliament assembled. .
The petition of the Members of the S,)ciefy for the
Emaneipation of Industry hereby sheweth—
That your petitioners are variously connected with,
and interested in, trades and professions sNhich bring
them to a knowledge of the difficulties which the Mone-
tary Law of 1819 has thrown in the way of all classes
of producers ; and to a conviction of the privations and
sufferings which it has inflicted upon artisans and la-
bonrers.

Common Jury.)
COlll3 V. STORY.

This ease commenced on Thursday and did not con-
clude until late on Friday. It was an action brought by
Mr. Cobb, a printer at Hertford, and also the proprietor
of the Her ts "Cowity Press newspaper, against Mr. Story,
the clerk of the peace fur that county, to recover a sum
of 1501., for printing the register of voters for last year.
Mr. Platt and Mr. Grimston were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Montague Chambers conducted the case for the
defendant.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned
Counsel for the plaintiff and the evidence that was ad-
duced, that Mr. Cobb had been applied to last year to
print a certain number of copies of the register of voters,
and he was bound to complete the work v.ithin a given
time, in conformity with the Act of Parliament. By
employing extra hands and making great exertions, it
was completed within the time, and the plaintiff sent in
his bill, which amounted to 1501. A portion of the Ma-
gistra:es at the quarter sessions considered this amount
excessive, and Mr. Cobb was called on for an explana-
tion, when he ass.xted that the charge was a reasonable
one, and offered, in order to avoid all litigation, to sub-
mit the matter to any respectable London house and
abide by its arbitration. The Atigistrates assented to
this proposition, but instead of constilting Mr. Cobb, it
appeared that they sent the register to Messrs. Shaw and
Sens, of Fetter-lane, and inquiry for how much they
would print the same number of copies, and those gen-
tlemen not being aware of the circumstances under
which the register was printed, or the exertions required,
estimated th cost at an amount considerably less than
the plaintiff's demand. Upon this the quarter sessions
refused to pay the bill, and tendered the plaintiff 451,
and upon his refusing to take that sum they ultimately
offered to give 75/, which sum he also refused, and after
various attempts to have the business settled amicably,
he was at length compelled to adopt the present pro-
ceeding to recover the sum due to him.
In support of the plaintiffs, divers persons employed
in their office were examined, who spoke to the exertions
required to complete the work within the time, and wit-
n;sses from Messrs. Spotiswoode's, Hansard's, and other
eminent printing establishments, were called to prove
that the charge made by the plaintiff was very reason-
able ; and it was stated that the charge in London, at
the lowest, would have been 180/. or 190/. for the same
work, so that allowing for the difference of wages in
London and the provinces, the charge was still very rea-
sonable.
Mr. CHAMBERS, on behalf of the defendant, alluded to
the necessity imposed upon the justices of protecting the
inhabitants from any improper expenditure of the county
rate, and he said the defence he was instructed to set up
was that the amount offered to the plaintiff was quite
sufficient compensation for the work performed by him.
Witnesses were called in support of the Learned Coun-
sel's statement, who expressed their opinion that 761.
was quite sufficient payment for the printing of the re-
gister ; and Mr. Dorant, a clerk n the defendant's
office, was called to prove that on a former occasion the
plaintiff had made a tender to print the register for 451
It appeared, however, in cross-examination, that at that
time the work would hare been performed under very
different circumstances; and would not have required so
much exertion to complete it.
Mr. Baron PARKE summed up the whole case to the
jury, who, after deliberating for about a minute, re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount
claimed.

RIDING HABlTS.—Ladies are invited to in-
spect those made by Messrs. NICOLL, Habit-makers to the
Queen and most of the Ladies-of the Court.
Cards may bo had at 114, Itegent-street, Lomion.
Messrs. Nicoll offer moderate prices, as a further indacement to a
correct fitting habit,

That your petitioners have paid particular attention
to the working of that law, and are prepared to prove
from incontestable evidence that it has taken from the
poorer classes of society upwards of thirty millions ster-
ling annually, by depriving them of the fruits of their
labour, to the amount of that enormous sum.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
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LECTURES on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays,
and Professor BACHHOFFNER en Tuesday and Thursday evenings ;
these Lectures, as well as the Morning Lectures, will abound in
interesting experiments. LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE ex-
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the living man. Casts of INSCRIPTIONS, taken by Miss Wilson
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Dudley and other State Prisoners, as well as WORKS of the FINE
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That while taxes have been imposed on articles of con-
sumption, which the producer and the vendors were al-
lowed by means of paper money to recover, during the
late war, from the consumer, the poor producers of
those goods are deprived, by the Act of 1819, of the
means of charging those taxes to the parties who ought

to pay them.
That your petitioners had hoped, that when the time
arrived for the reconsideration of the Bank Charter,
some means would be taken for the correction of this
grievous error ; but they are alarmed to see by the Bill
which has just passed the House of Commons, and is
now before your Lordships' House, that there is no in-

IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000
FLORINS, authorised by his Majesty the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA.
On the 2d of SEPTEMBER, 1844, there will take place at
VIENNA, the DISTRIBUTION of 700 GAINS, amounting to
70,1701. sterling. There being only 700 Bonds in all, each Bond must
obtain one of the above 700 Gains, the highest of which are 23,0001.,
5,000/., 1,500/., 1,0001., &c. &c., and the lowest 50/. each.
A few Bonds can be had for 125/. each, or with the deduction of
the 50/., which they must at least obtain, for 75/. Halves and fifths
in proportion, being a considerable reduction from the former price.
LOAN of the GRAND DUKE of BADEN of 5,000,000 FLORINS,
NEGOTIATED in the YEAR 1841.
The SEVENTH DISTRIBUTION will take place at Carlsruhe,
publicly and Irrevocably on the Ist of AUGUST, 1844, when 400
Gains will be obtained. One Gain of 35,000 florins, 10,000, 5,000,
3,000, &c. The lowest Gains being 65 florins each; and 12 florins
are equal to 11. sterling.
Price of a share, IN. • Eleven for 5/. ; Twenty-three for 101., &c.For full particulars and Bonds of the above loans apply to Messrs.
J. A. Schwarzsehild, Bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine, or, to save
postage, all applications by letter can be addressed, Mr. A Schwarzs-
child, Plough-court, Lombard-street, London.

ten' ion of correcting it.
That, on the contrary, plans are proposed for adoption
which will have the effect of still further contracting the
amount, as well' as the free and proper use of the circu-
lating medium of the country, to the increased injury of
the productive classes, their further impoverishment—
the enriching of those who can live without labour, at
the cost of the poor producers of the wealth ; the en-
riching. of the foreigner at their expense ; and the heart-
less surrender of the industrious members of the commn-
munity to the grasp and thraldom of money dealers and
usurers

_ fiat if this Bill should become law, it is impossible
,fiat the National Debt can be reduced, that the interest
can continue to be paid, and that the taxes can much
longer be extorted from those who are now unjustly com-
pelled to pay them. Already the miseries endured under
our monetary system, introduced in 1819, little under-
stood, but miserably felt, have expressed themselves in a
desire for organic changes on the part of the operative
classes. By such means the constitution of this country
has become materially altered, and symptoms of this
character still extensively exist. Your petitioners, with
reference to the effect of an insufficiency of remuneration
for labour, induced by the causes before assigned, cannot
but refer with alarm to the distressing accounts daily re-

ceived from Suffolk and other English counties.
That the effect of the passing of the present measure
will be an increase of pauperism, which will deprive the
wealthy of much of the benefit they appear to derive
from the lower prices of all commodities ; that the
farmer and landowner will begin to find the pressure of
the rates intolerable, attended, as it will be, by a great
reduction in the average price of corn ; and that dis.
affection and despair will soon convert our labouring
people—once the most loyal, and still the most patient
and enduring of any on the face of the earth—into a
lawless, truculent, and revengeful race.
That the reasons urged for the adoption of the Bill now
before Parliament, are not only not justified, but con-
tradicted by the evidence of history, reason, and expe-
rience ; that the spirit and influence which dictated them
has already seduced the House of Commons to vote—

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 13.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice WiGirrmax.)
John Gurd, a boo, aged 16, was indicted for having fel°.
niously assaulted 'Caroline Berger, a child under ten years
of age.
Mr. Sewell conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. C. Saunders. •
This is a case we should not refer to, but to give publicity
to an important decision pronounced by the Learned Judge
on a point of evidence.
The prisoner had been in the employ of a Mr. Hancock,
who was not the prosecutor, and in point of fact had nothing
to do with the prosecution. When, however, the charge was
made against the prisoner, and before he was apprehended,
his master told him it would be much better for him to con-
fess, and if he did so, he would prevail, if he could, with the
father of the child not to take any steps in the matter. The
prisoner on this said, " If he (Mr. Hancock) would send for
the surgeon he would confess." The surgeon was sent for,
and the prisoner then made a satement.
Mr. SAUNDERS, for the prisoner, objected to that statement
being received in evidence. It was made, he contended,
after an inducement held out to confess by his master who
had sufficient authority over him, to render any statement
subsequently made by the prisoner, in consequence of that
inducement, inadmissible. The Learned Counsel cited 2 Russ
on Crimes, p. 839, and the cases there cited.
Mr. SEWELL, on behalf of the Crown, contended that, in
order to render a statement inadmissible that had been made
in consequence of an inducement held out by a third person,
it was absolutely necessary that that third person should be
one in some way connected with the charge, and having some
authority in reference to it.
Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN (after consultation with his Learned
brother, Mr. Justice Patteson) decided that the party hold-
ing out the inducement being clothed with the authority of
" master," was sufficient to exclude the statement made ni
consequence of such inducement.
Mr. SEWELL then stated to the jury that, in consequence
of the decision, he did not think that be could support the
case, and he should therefore not proceed with it.
A verdict of Not Guilty was then returned, and the pri-
soner was discharged.
Robert Baez was indicted for the murder of John Harrison,
by shooting him with a pistol.
Mr. Sewell prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by Mr.
Cockburn and Mr. Raulinson.
On the case being called on, Mr. RAULINSON stated to the
Court that he should demur to the indictment, which he ac-
cordingly did. Several grounds of objection were urged in
the demurrer, but all were abandoned but one. This was
that the indictment charged the prisoner with having com-
mitted this murder on the high seas, and, that there was no
proper venue. In the margin was thedvepue "Hampshire."
Then there was an inducement stating; Witt the parties were
on the high seas when tip. alleged bffenee was committed.
The indictment after this inducement went on to allege each
fact to have taken place "then and there," without directly
averring that it was upon the high seas.
Mr. RAULINSON contended that the averment of place was
not sufficient. It ought to have averred in express terms
that each fact had taken place on the high seas, 2 Stock Cr.
Pl. 455. The only venue of importance in this indictment
was that in the margin, which was Hampshire. The " then
and there consequently must be referred to this venue, and
not to that stated in the indictment. But even if it were
not so held, it would still be bad for uncertainty, as it would
not then appear to which venue the " then and there " re-
ferred ; and the King v. Rolls, 1 Re. Rep. 223, was cited as
an authority.
Mr. SEWELL argued that the " then and there " must
necessarily have reference to the last venue, which was the
immediate antecedent.
Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN (after consulting with Mr. Justice
Patteson), decided in favour of the Crown; and the prisoner
was called upon to plead over.
Mr. COCKBURN then put in a special plea, which was to
this effect :—That the alleged offence had been committed on
the high seas. near to Spalatro, in Italy. That a charge had
been preferred against the prisoner at Spalatro, alleging the
crime to have been committed within the jurisdiction of that
Court. That that charge had been gone into, and the pri-
soner acquitted.
Mr. SEWELL prayed some time to consider this plea,
which was granted by the Court. After the Learned
Counsel had done, he informed the Court that he had deter-
mined to take issue upon it, which he did in the regular form
and manner.
The jury were then charged to inquire of the truth of this
plea.

contrary to its recorded opinion under happier auspices
—that what is morally wrong may be politically right ;
that the labour, which is destructive to the health of fac-
tory women and children of tender years, which is an
impediment to their moral improvement and religious
instruction, and a means, it is to be feared, of destroying
their souls as well as their lives, is yet so necessary to the
manufacturing and commercial interests of this great
nation, that these wretched slaves cannot be suffered to
remit even a sixth part of their daily toil ; that this
miserable alternative is a consequence of that ill-advised
measure of 1819, which will be more fearfully aggravated
in its effects on these victims of an erroneous money
system, when the new law has given increased severity
to the old one ; and that the blessing of Heaven cannot
be expected to rest upon this country if evils of such
magnitude as these are to be the fruits of its legislation.
That your petitioners humbly submit, that the very
fact of gold being the most convenient measure of ex-
change between countries trading on equal terms,
renders it the most unfit to form the currency of a
country more highly taxed than others—that the only
currency suited to a country in the highly-taxed con-
dition of Great Britain, is a symbolic currency (that is,
one without intrinsic value), a medium of interchange

The prisoner was defended by

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, July 12.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL)
William Anderson was indicted for a burglary in the house
of Ann Wood, at Haworth, on the 23d of April last. Mary
Cowl and Ann Robinson were charged with receiving the
proceeds of the robbery, knowing that they had been stolen.
Mr. Elsey and Mr. Pulleine conducted the case for the pro.
secution ; Mr. Wilkins appeared as counsel for Cowl, and Mr.
Bliss for Robinson.
The principal witness against Anderson was a young lad,
fourteen years of age, who had been an accomplice in the
robbery, and was now admitted evidence for the Crown. He
said that the.day before the robbery was committed he came
to York with the prisoner Anderson, and went to lodge in
Wah-ngate, in the house of Mary Cowl. He came from .u,
and on the way between Hull and Beverley became acll
quainted with Anderson. Anderson, in the course of conver-
sation with him, asked him if he would like to be a "finger-
smith," and said that he (Anderson) would be the "nailor."
The day after they came to York, Anderson and he went to
Mary Cowl's about five o'clock, and after loitering about for
some time they came to Mrs. Wood's house. Anderson then
took a chisel out of his coat pocket and prised the door open.
Both went in and went up stairs. They searched the house
and tried to get into the room where Mrs. Wood slept, but
finding the inmates were being disturbed, they took the
things which they had already found, and left the house.
Knaggs then went on to state that they returned to Cowl's,
and there saw Cowl and Robinson ; that they showed to
them the things which had been taken from Mrs. Wood's;
that they got part of the plunder, and assisted in concealing
the remainder. The fact of the robbery having been proved
by other testimony, evidence was adduced to show that the
prisoner Anderson, in company with Knaggs, was seen
loitering about Heyworth the evening of the robbery, and
about eight o'clock were observed getting over the fence out
of the garden of the prosecutrix. It appeared also, that on
the constable going to Cowl's house, she at first denied that
Anderson had brought any bundle to her house, but on its
being found in the coal-hole with a quantity of stolen pro-
perty, she said he had brought a bundle, but she thought he
had taken it away with him again.
Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Bliss addressed the jury for the pri-
soners Cowl and Robinson.
His LORDSnIP having summed up,
The jury found Anderson Guilty; acquitting the female
prisoners.---Sentence was deferred.
Charles Cluderay was charged with having, at Bradford, on
the 30th of March last, robbed John Clayton.
Mr. Hardy and Mr. Johnstone were for the prosecution ;

in order to prove it, an Italian was called, who swore that
he knew the handwriting of the chief registrar of the Civil
and Criminal Court of Spalatro. He also stated that he knew
the seal of that Court, and had seen the original. A paper
was then put into his hand, and he swore that the signature
to the paper was the signature of the chief registrar, and that
the seal attached to it was the seal of this Court.
The paper was then tendered in evidence.
Mr. SEWELL objected to its reception. He contended that
before it could be made evidence it must be proved that the
Court had jurisdiction over this offence, and that some lawyer
acquainted with the cases of the parties must prove that this
paper was in the nature of a record, and that it was, in point
of fact, a valid instrument.
Mr. Justice WioirrnAN admitted it.
On its being read it proved to be a document in the shape
of a certificate to this effect :—That the prisoner had been
tried at Spalatro for homicide; that he had been convicted
and sentenced to five years' imprisonment; that an appeal
bad been brought in a superior court ; and that the judgment
had been ordered to be suspended, and the prisoner discharged.
It was then contended, on the part of the Crown, that there
was no evidence that the prisoner had been duly acquitted.
That the prisoner ought to have produced the whole of the
record, in order to see what the charge was, and upon what
grounds the acquittal had taken place.
It was replied, on the part of the prisoner, that this docu-
ment was sufficient proof of the trial and the acquittal, and
the case of Rex v. Colson, 1 Leach, 135, was cited as an au-
thOrity.
Mr. Justice WiGirr3tAx decided against its sufficiency, en
the ground that it did not appear, from the paper, that the
judgment was final. The language of the document was that
the judgment be suspended. For anything that he (the
Learned Judge) could tell to the contrary, this suspension of
the judgment had been obtained on the ground of some formal
defect in the proceedings, and not upon the merits, and there
was nothing to show that it could be pleaded in bar to an-
other charge preferred at Spalatro.
The jury were then directed by the Learned Judge to find
that the prisoner had not been previously acquitted, &c.,
which they did, and their verdict was then finally entered.
The prisoner was again arraigned, and pleaded not guilty,
and the trial proceeded in the usual manner.
Mr. Sewell then opened the case, and informed the jury
that he should give up the charge of murder, and press the
case against the prisoner only as a charge of manslaughter.
Having detailed the circumstances of the case, he called
witnesscs to prove it, who spoke to the following facts :
The prisoner was the master of the brig called the Chief-
tain, and the deceased was one of the men under his com-
mand. In February, in this year, the brig was lying off
Spalatro, in Italy. The men one day went on shore and
,several of them got intoxicated, among whom was the de-
ceased and the ship's carpenter, who was now called as a wit-
ness, and who also spoke cf themanner in which the deceased
had met with his death. On their return on board it was
the time of the deceased and SpiLsbury (the ship's carpenter)

Hill for the prisoner.
The prosecutor in this case is, it appeared, a coal-miner,
and on the day in question had been at Bradford-market.
On his return home in the evening, having arrived at a place
called Bowling-lane, near Bradford, he was attacked by four
men, who knocked him down, and took from him some mut-
ton, lard, and other articles. He was so much injured by the
blow he received, that he was unable to give any account of
the persons by whom he had been assaulted, and was con-
veyed home in a very precarious state, so much so that his
life was for some time in very considerable danger. Two
persons who were at some little distance at the time of the
robbery, and saw the transaction, spoke to the prisoner as
being one of the parties engaged in it.
The prisoner was found Gu►lty.—Sentence deferred.

GRAND BANQUET AT APSLEY HOUSE.—His Grace" •
the Duke of Wellington gave a grand banquet on Satur-
day evening at Apsley House, to the officers of the regi-
ments reviewed in Hyde-park durinc, the morning. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Duke with his company,
and among the distinguished individuals present were
General Lord Viscount Combermere, Sir John Mac-
donald, the Adjutant-General ; Lord Fitzoy Somerset,
the Marquis of Londonderry, Sir George Napier, Gene-
ral Sir Willoughby Gordon, Quartermaster-General ;
Colonel Macdowall, Colonel Hall, Lord Saltoun, Colonel
Cochrane, Colonel Barnard, Colonel Lascelles, &c. &c.
The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direction
of Mr. Creston, were in attendance, and played during
dinner a selection of the most popular airs. The party
broke up about half-past nine o'clock, when the Noble
Duke and several of his guests left Apsley House to
attend the Opera.
MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, BY W.
C. TOWNSEND, ESQ., M.A.—We are requested to state
that the second volume of the above work, dedicated, by
permission, to Sir Robert Peel, is published, this day, by
Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now
be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just
published the following:-2. The Hon. Mr. Smythe's
Historic Fancies, 1 vol. Bvo., 12s. bound.-3. Coningsby;
or, the New Generation. By B. Disraeli, Esq., M.P.
3 vols.-4. The Memoirs of the Babylonian Princess.
Dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, 2 vols. small Bvo.-5. The Marchioness of
Londonderry's Narrative of her Visit to the Courts of
Vienna, Constantinople, Athens, Naples, &c., r vol Bvo.
—and 6. The Seventh volume of Miss Strickland's
Lives of the Queens of England, comprising the Sequel
of the Life of Queen Elizabeth, and the complete Life_of
Anne of Denmark.

that, with the responsibility of the Government, and
being receivable in payment of taxation, would be at
least as secure as gold—that, consequently, such sym-
bolic money should be convertible into gold at its market
or real price in such money, and not at an arbitrary
price, which, unless disadvantageous to the country,
cannot come into operation, as no foreigner dealing with
us will be bounl by it; that the inevitable consequence
of fixing a low price on gold is the reduction of the
price ‘of productive industry to the same level. Your
petitioners, therefbre, humbly submit, that even if your
Lordships see fit to pass the said Bill during the present
session, it should contain a provision that the Bank of
England should be required to pay the amount of these
notes on demand in gold, at the market price only, and
not at the Mint price.
That admitting the propriety of such regulations as
may prevent fraud, your petitioners deprecate as unwise,
impolitic, unconstitutional, and unjust, all those parts of
the Bank Charter Bill which limit the amount of private
transactions of trade in the shape of promissory notes, as
tending unnecessarily and mischievously to cripple the
energies of the nation, and to deprive the working
classes of desirable employment.
That your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that
they may be suffered to prove, before a Select Committee
of your Right Honourable House, the truth of the alle-
gations they herein make, in order that the before-men-
tioned Bill may not receive the sanction of your Lord-
ships ; and that your petitioners may receive such relief
as, in the estimation of your Right Honourable House,
their case may seem to require. And your petitioners,
as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Signed on behalf of the members of the Society.
July 9th, 1844.

CIRCULAR TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Office of the Society, 22, Parliament-street,
July 8, 1844.
My Lord,—The Committee of the Society for the
Emancipation of Industry earnestly call the attention of
your Lordship to the consequences which must ensue
from the Bank of England Charter Bill passing through
Parliament in its present state. The Committee are
convinced that the sure tendency of the measure is
still further to impair the fair return to capital
and industry in this kingdom, by a contraction of
the circulating medium, when, in point of fact, an ex-
pansion of the circulation is imperatively required to
relieve the increasing productive energies of this highly-
taxed country ; to prevent the continued depression of
the wages of labour, and the miseries of the operative
classes incident to it ; and to avert that diminution of
rents of land which, viewed in connexion with the exist-
ing charges upon it, threatens to deliver over our landed
interest to the iron grasp of the money power.
The Committee of the Society are induced to hope
that the Bill in question will yet be stayed, until a dis-
tinct inquiry is instituted into the probable effect of the
measure. They are more anxious that this investiga-
tion should take place, because it cannot fail to have
been observed, that throughout the discussion in the
House of Commons, the Prime Minister, who has con-
ducted the Bill, has studiously avoided any reference to
the National Debt and indirect taxation of the country—
essential elements in the question of the currency.
The Society for the Emancipation of Industry have
endeavoured to bring before the public and Parliament
the following important considerations :
That were Parliament legislating for the currency of
a country in which direct taxation only existed, a cur•
rency such as that now proposed, of gold, at 3/. 17s. WV
the continental price, or a paper convertible into
precious metals at that rate, might be consistent and j ust.
That the monetary Bill of 1819 was based on the
erroneous principle of requiring the Bank of England
to take up its notes at a Mint price, fixed prior to the
existence of the present scale of the National Debt and
taxation ; that the fluctuations and panics that have
occurred have arisen from the attempt to compel the
Bank of England to pay its notes in gold, otherwise
than at the market price in such notes, as in the years
between 1797 and 1819 ; and that the more rigorous
" complement" of the Bill of 1819 can only serve to
aggravate instead of to prevent such fluctuations and
panics, when from a failing harvest, or foreign loans,
or other investments, or a disturbance of the balance of
trade, gold shall flow out of the country.
That whenever prices expand in this country to a re-
munerating level,—namely, to that just and proper level
which permits of taxation being added to natural or
gold prices,—then, under our present system, gold, not
being permitted to rise in price, becomes the cheapest
commodity in the British market, and is sure to be ex-
ported in' preference to our manufactured goods.
That Life large amount of taxation in this country,
levied first by Customs and Excise on the producing
classes, to the extent of about thirty-five millions annu-
ally, enhances the price of all commodities produced, and
consequently requires a circulating medium so expansive
in its nature as to permit taxation, indirectly levied, to be
added to natural price ; without such a medium, the
taxation, foi the most part, rests upon the producing
classes—an end unjust, impolitic, in its issue ruinous,
and never contemplated by the Legislature when this
form of taxation was imposed.
That in 1797, the nation, under the administration of
Mr. Pitt, "adopted a legal-tender paper currency, conver-