The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

THREATENING LETTERS.

On Friday forenoon last, Mr. Comrie, of the Royal
Hotel, Glasgow, came to the Police-office there, and pro-
duced a letter which had been addressed to him, of a
rather alarming nature. The communication, which was
anonymous, was dated and had been posted on Thurs-
day, and the writer demanded that the sum of five
pounds should be inclosed to the address of Johu Thomp-
son, by one o'clock on the following day. He then called
attention to the conflagration of the City Theatre, and
stated that, if the request was not complied with,
the Royal Hotel would unquestionably share the
same fate. The writer continued by taking Gad to
witness that, if Mr. Comrie breathed the circumstance,
or should take any steps to discover the person who
might call for the answering letter, the same fate would
still await him as if he had refused to send the money.
Mr. Comrie had no sooner retired, after tabling this
furious epistle, than his place was taken by Mrs. Cotton,
of the Wellington Hotel, who, in no very contented frame
of mind, produced " another of the same." Thirdly
came Mr. Alexander, to complain of the threat to raze
his beautiful theatre to the ground, and his private
dwelling-house into the bargain—that is, unless the cash
was forthcoming. Mr. Miller, of the Adelphi, made ap,-
pearance the fourth, and (as his own popular place of
entertainment had had rather a narrow escape when the
City Theatre was so unfortunately consumed) he had,
undoubtedly, much cause for anxiety and alarm. The
fifth claimant for the law's help was Mr. Mac-
Naughtan, of the George, whose hotel and stabling
were Placed under the seine fiat of annihilation. This
was- pretty good for one forenoon's work ; and' di*,
police had scarcely time to consider what should
best be done, when Mr. M'Donald, of the Star, made
his bow, followed at a short interval by Mrs. Nelson,
commercial lodging-house keeper in Glassford-street.
These latter epistles were of tfre same tenor, with
the exception that, instead of one 9'cia-cir;their bills
were. payable at Mr. Hicks' post recAving-house, in
Queen-street, at half-past eight precisck7., This; we
may remark, showed much inexperience on the part
of the writer, as letters are not delivered at any of
those receiving-shops. The superintendent ; of po-
lice ,promptly acted on the complaint first made to
him, and put a letter in the post-office to the re-
quired address of John Thompson, at the same time
setting an 'intelligent man to watch for the person
who should call for it. An individual accordingly
did call for the letter between one and two o'clock,
and he was immediately apprehended. This perse n
was able satisfactorily to clear himself of the chars e
of writing the letters, but such information was ob-
tained from him as gave a clue to the real Sim on
Pure ; and after the exercise of much industry and
-ingenuity, Captain Wilson apprehended him in Queen-
street, about nine o'clock, immediately after leaving Mr_
Hicks' shop, where he had called to inquire for his let-
ters. The prisoner is a genteel young Englishman,
named George Smith. He was at one time a waiter in a
hotel in this city, and has latterly been a clerk in the
office of the Scottish Central Railway in Edinburgh; but
he had either left or been dismissed from that situation.
He admits, we believe, having written and sent the letters
with the view of raising funds, of which he was much in
need ; but although these letters were calculated to ex-
cite much alarm, especially with the females to whom
they were addressed, no one accuses him of any serious
intention of carrying his threats into execution. The
prisoner was brought before the police magistrate on
Saturday, and the case was remitted to the Sheriff.—
Glasgow Herald.

SINGULAR CASE OF 'POACHING.

At the last meeting of the Kingston Bench of Magi-4-
trates, a person of respectable appearance, named
William Stacey, attended to answer an information,
charging him with having unlawfully trespassed upon
the estate of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
at Coombe, near Kingston. in pursuit of game. Arthur
Dunford, gamekeeper in the service of his Royal High-
ness, deposed that about nine o'clock in the evening of
the 18th November, he was on duty the game preserve
at Coombe-wood, where he observed a greyi,":"Mtl, which
in his presence turned up a hare, Which it piZeued,
overtook, and killed, and was about to walk off witb
it in its mouth, when he struck it with a stick,
and it then dropped 'the hare and ran away. He fol-
lowed the dog to one of the entrances of the wood,called
the Gravel-pit-gate, where it joined two personal; Who
walked away, accompanied by-the dog. He gave in-
formation to one of the, horse-patrol, who followed the
parties, and he himself, . shortly afterwards, went in the
same direction, and came up with the defendant and
another person, and, upon his asking who the dog be-
longed to, the defendant said it was his, and he at the
same time gave his name and addrt as In answer to a
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went to the gate, where they were seen by the keeper
to look for him, and shortly afterwards the dog came up
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to them, and they walked away, not at all imagining
that the dog had been doing anything wrong, until they
were followed by the keeper, and on his stating what
had happened he readily gave his name and address.
With regard to the alleged poaching propensities of the
animal he assured the Bench that ,he was perfectly igno,
rant that it pursued them ; and he was not even aware
that he was near a game preserve at the time the dog
'left him and his friend. He assured the. Bench that, if
he had committed an offence, it was quite unintentional
on his part.
The Magistrates, after a short consultation, convicted
the defendant, but, under the circumstances,
,said they
should only inflict a fine of 2s. and the cos*
The amount was immediately paid, and; Wee the ap-
plication of the defendant, the greyhound was ordered to
he delivered up to him.
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Tilt St N I,oN.DoN MONDAV MottlsTlN. 6, DECEMBER 1, 1845. .
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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 29. between debtors and creditors. The insolvent had un- pocket and hold it in his hand. The prisoner turned the creased price. Spicer occupied some premises of his, where 'lt will thus be seen that there are about equal proportions ' LATEST PRICE'S
,HER CO*
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord Chief Justice TIRMAL fortunately been engaged in " hill transactions," and corner into a court, and witness gave him the double and ran he impounded furniture, and whenever he seized any he of men and boys wounded. The fact of so many of the boys
COUR7' OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Roe. 22. and a Middlesex Common Jury.) hence his embarasements. He had a good estate at Cam- round to the end of another court, met him, took himlntolocked .p. (Stevenson)
-book was. At property in possession of another, and having seen the ap- to take their breakfasts mere generally than the men. As PANIES' STOCK.
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND 01
LIREL.-HIS SERENE HIGILNESS THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK WALTON V. TRoWER AND ANOTHER. den-town, through which, it was to-day for the first timewhere the pocket
custody, and asked him
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V. MATHEW TRENDEE PEARSON. This was an action against the assignees of a bankrupt, as stated, a railway was intended to pass, and, therefore, that moment a boy came to witness and handed him the praiser sworn by the police, and the articles valued, he was they were all in or about the more immediate scene of the
From Ca Official List.
assignees of a house, and .
was brought to recover damages forF 511°
This was an action for libel brought by the Duke of Bruns- would increase its value. The estate was charged, and book, which was identified by Mr. Williams, and contained not aware when they
.were afterwards offered to him that he explosion, their escape from instant death is attributable to
all the p city described. did any wrong in buying them. the boiler flying upwards, carrying along with it the roof
wick against the present proprietor of the Satirist, and the the injure done to that house by the removal of certain fix- ;,,
was
alleged by three dissentient creditors, who resisted GeorgPeroßell, a boy in the employment of Mr. Davis, of After a great deal of conversation, much of which was and all above and around it in its flight, and a great portion
Duke to-day appeared in Court and conducted his case in tures, and for the
value of those fixtures. For the defence LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
the application, that they eventually expected to be paid Bull's "s d b tt d irrelevant, of the fragments of which alighted, not in the works, but at
it was represented that the defendants, though they were the . Head-court, .1. ewgate-street, as an erran - ey, sa e
person, in a-Court unusually crowded. in full. On the other side, thirty-seven creditors had that as he was walking up Russia-row he saw Harding run- Mr. BURRELL ordered Spicer to find good bail for his ap- a distance. The injury sustained by the wounded appears JOINT-STOWE/ B ATMS.
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The proprietor of the Satirist was defended by Mr. Cock- bankrutt's assignees, ware not the assignees of the house • PO
burn, Q.C., and Mr. Hugh Hill. and, also, that the fixtures removed were set up by the' agreed to a proposition under the Act in force rein along, and the constable in close pursuit, calling out pearance. at the Central Criminal Court, to answer the charge to have been mostly about the head, a circumstance easily
'el • th h liehter against accounted for by the fact that they were standing in the Dividend Amount
of re Id.
The Duke opened his case by stating that he had, during bankrupt for the purposes of trade, which he, or his assignees, in bankruptcy, that 2,0001. should be raised to satisfy "Stop thief!" The prisoner turned down Robin Hood. court, of conspiracy ; but, consi enng e case muc . Name of Company. per
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the greater part of the ten years that he had been in this bad therefore a right to remove. their debts, which would pay, after expenses, about 4s. and witness followed him and saw him drop the pocket-book Stevenson, said he should be content with his own recog- works, and were injured from the fall of the materials blown
On the part of the plaintiff several witnesses were called in the pound. Against this arrangement for immediate produced. upwards by the explosion. - --- ---
x s. d. X 9" . SI
country, been assailed by the Satirist newspaper with charges
to prove the following facts :-The house in question, which satisfaction three persons presented themselves, and their Witness picked up the pocketbook, and when nizauces to appear at the same time and place.
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of the most libellous and calumnious nature, and that feeling
is situated in King-street, Hammersmith, was let' to thehe got to the end of the court he saw the prisoner in the Spicer was locked up.
WORSHIP-STREET. THE MURDER AT KENNINGTON. Australasia •. • ....... 6/. per cent. 40 0 0
their object was only to intimidate him and induce him to
a person named Johnson, at a rent of 100 .er bankrupt,
the pocket-book, in Hardin 's presence. CHARGE OF STABBING.-On Friday, Benjamin Freeman THE INQUEST.e 0 0 13Y•
Commercia )of London Si.6l. per cent. 100 0 0 •••,.,
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purchase exemptions fcom this sort of persecution by givitig, .P a Chancery suit." It appeared that the parties who
annum, on a lease for twenty-oneyears. On Johnson's
. .nson s 'failing The witnesses, Coram and Bell, on being questioned by was charged before Mr. Bingham with stabbing a young Colonial . 5 . cent.
1 'er too 0 0 2.5 y
On Saturday, at half-past three o'clock, Mr. Carter,o ea ° 13%
to the libeller of his life and conduct money, he had deter- inwere in opposition, or the holders of the securities whichLoniln and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0
b • h 1 dl d
of
business t e an or seized a portion of his goods for a Mr. Robinson, for Jones, stated that they had thatwoman, named Mary Ann Webb, with whom he cohabited.
not seen one o
f the coroners for and a resnecteble jury, 0 in 0
Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 .50 I) 94.,
mined to prosecute the editor. There were two allegations constituted their debts, about three years ago consented William Long, 77 K, stated that about eight o'clock on Surrey, e - London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0
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sum of moue due for rent, the whole f which h eo e re- prisoner a a in company wi i ar mg.
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libel in the declaration. The first was, that the defendant
cot erect. It ;as after this that he became bankrupt The to,. take their share in the arrangement, which would re- - Robert And Dr • policeman, stated evening he was called into a house in Collingwood-
rews, Metropolitan A 36, assembled at the Peacock Inn, High-street, Newington, ePtreoifieil)coilaiti aoifi
Inland..
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br hrdon the 3d of November, 1844, a libel in the fol-
had pub is , assignees knowing that part of the fixtures were erected Thursday
anse about 7s. in the pound. They were now offered that he was in Cheapside between one and two o'clock on the street, Bethnal-green, where he found young . awoman lying to inquire into the circumstances attendant on the
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lowing words :- • whom he knew to upon a bed and attended by a surgeon, and was informed lamentable death of Daniel Fitzgerald. The witnesses
harineacross
" Our Old Reader, who dates his letter from C , .by Johneon, had a sale in the house at which a folding-door, that 320 L, which constituted their debts, would be paid day in question, and he saw the prisoners, w National of Ireland .. 5... per cent. 50 00 _ 0
' a water-butt c • d' h • l di Court if the would fall further • • be notorious thieves, together. He J pass same- that she had been stabbed in the abdomen with a knife now who were examined at the Lambeth police-office re- Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0035 0 j 44
is assured that Mr. Gregory is better than, under the merci- , a sersice-pipe, an some ot er artic es, were s- into, ey fore
less and unmerited persecution which he has experienced, we posed of. The house was left in a very dilapidated state the and enable the parties to raise the money in question to thing to Harding, who immediately crossed the road. Jones produced. The prisoner was sitting in the room, and from pealed their evidence, which has already appeared in Ditto, New.. •:•• • • • 5/. per cent. 20 _ 25 .0 is
holes which had been dug in order outthe .? •Y ran up ChoPside towards St. Paul's, and crossed to the op- what was stated, it appeared that he had become irritated by The Sun. anion of Australia.... - 25 0 0
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could be led to hope. He has been sustained under his
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and other holes in the roof and walls had been left open.
savage and unchristian' treatment by mental energy alone, ply himself to the prdession he had adopted. r. . apham, surgeon, of 3, Queen's Head-row, , _.....
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All the fixtures
and we mistake much if he will not have abundance of energy except the service-pipe were admitted to be Mr. COOKE, who represented the insolvent, posit side of the street, and went towards the Bank, and the refusal of the female to partake of some provision which IA wp.
witness pursued and took him into custody at the corner of he had brought in for their supper.
mentioned - • • • - Newington, depoeed that on Thursday evening as he was
walking- along High-street, Newington, he heard the UT ATEXL-Vf oracs
fixtures erected by defendant for purroses of trade. The the offer of money into Court, and urged its acceptance Milk-street, and lodged him in the station- house. A certificate was produced from the London Hospital, to O6
left to make his enemies quail, be they the worthless occu-I 'hi fal hde-ed stating that the wound Dividend Amount
Tai
of great houses, or the g,rovelling dabblers in legal I
c amage done, and value of fixtures, were estimated by one of
by the dissentients. per
Plaintiffs witnesses at 16/. 155., of which one-half was forthe policeman who was with him that he had seen anything was of a very dangerous nature.
filth. We understand it is the intention of Mr. Gregory to louder than the ordinary report of a pistol, and im- Annum. Share.
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give to the world a statement of all the facts in connexion
of . • • .
• the fixtures Four months after the sale the key and lease It was stated that several projects for railiays to pass and
from Jones to Harding, as the case was his (witness's), A large double-bladed clasp knife was exhibited, the large - - 93°
the house were given up to the landlord. throu h the - ' £s,d. I
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with this extraordinary case-extraordinary as being from itsg property at Camden-town were expected and not his comrade's. Neither had he mentioned at the blade of which appeared to be stained to the extent of nearly mediately after he saw a person run out from the end
of the street from where the ieport proceeded. He did
commencement sustained in strong truth-extraordinary Mr. Sergeant BYLF.S addressed the jury at great length on to be made in the next session, and the property would station-house that he had seen anything pass between the two inches, the depth of the wound. East London... • - .... 8/. 100 0 0
from the legal injustice which has been done him, and most the part of thedefendants. The assignees, he said, were not ne- be increased ;n value. prisoner* The prisoner, who appeared grieved by the occurrence, not take any particular notice of the man, but im- Grand Junction • • .... 3/. 46 IS 4
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extraordinary from the worse than ' Bastile' treatment to which cessarily assignees of the house, though they were of the Mr. Commissioner LAW declared, at the conclusion. Inspector Walter stated that the witness Andrews said at stated that it was entirely accidental. He was eating at the, mediately after another man, dressed in a flannel-jacket. Kent •••••••• . • • • ••
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bankrupt, and they could not be made so unless they deli- that the dissentients had assented to an arrangement the station-house. that . , hat it
he saw nothing of the robbery, but time with the knife in his hand, and was not aware t ran out, and said , " Stop him, he has shot a man. - ..."'':
he has been sub; ected under the tyrant sway of judicial and Tory West Middlesex ...... 4/.165. pr ct. 63 12 9
berately accepted the lease. Now the only evidence of their some years ago, and he had heard nothing for them to -
that he had seen the prisoners together before He then came to the end of Peacock-street, from whence
despotism. Mr. Gregory will be much gratified, we are sure,
by the generous and manly expressions contained in the accepting the lease was their taking possession on the change their minds. With that intimation, and assum- The LORD MAYOR did not consider that the evidence The Magistrate remanded the prisoner for a week.
. , • . was painted towards the female.
the man ran out, and seeing a policeman enter the house XNBUICANCE COMPAIIIE.
letter of 'An Old Reader,' and we shall take the earliest op- day of the sale. Even this, he contended, was not an ac- against Jones was sufficient to warrant the committal of that SO U 7 H WARR.
, they were then in, he was induced to follow, and saw a
ing that the parties had stated all they intended, he Dividend Amount
portnnity, after the termination of his unjust sentence, of lay- ceptance of the:lease, as, in two cases to which he, Mr. Ser- would definitively say on Monday what was to be done prkoner and discharged him. DARING ROBBERY LN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.-On Friday, Joan I la'
man lying on a table. There was a slight pulsation at Name et Company. of
in the letter before him. geant Byles, referred, it had been held that the entering • e e - Harding was committed to Nesvgate for trial. examinedhis
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a house to sell the goods, and even the offering the lease for in the case. It_was stated by several of the policemen present that both :fir= the time, but he died immediately after. He
the head, and not observing any injury, ho opened -.. -........-- 4, 0
" Several correspondents have expressed a doubt en the o7:s!nalic.7l.otehne SI Samuels, iet:V37:a sr: elolf: darxelidernei ecnarh; fdorzri
subject of the statement made last week of an attempt on sale, before giving it up to the landlord, was not an except- prisoners were constantly together, and that Harding had stealing upwards of 501. in sovereigns and silver, besides twoZ s. d. X il' 0 0
hest and observed some blood. He also eo 0
ante of the lease, and did not render the assignees assignees Albion ••••••• • • . .• •• 3/. 103. 500 0 0 - 00 1
the life of the Duke of Brunswick, grounding their suspi- CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. been tried at the Central Criminal Court, in the name of watches, in a public-house called the Old Justice, in o • observed a
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cion on the improbability of some of the details. Many of the house. He, Mr. Sergeant Byles, therefore submitted OLD COURT. Stevens, fora robbery- some time ago. Ditto Marine. ••• • .. 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 , . 0 1
Bermondsey-wall, and also with committing violent assaults circular wound on the left side of the breast, apparently p 5 0
that this action was wrongly brought against the present It was indeed matter of regret, that the testimony against on policeman 237 M division and on a young man. named caused by a gun-shot. He removed the dress of the de-
things, however, seem improbable, which, nevertheless, are Henry James, 20 ; John Bushell, 23 ; Henry Smith, 17 ; Jones, who is the elder and more experienced' thief, was not Samuel Brown. ' ' Atlas .. •.. .. ..... .. .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 " ~ I 6
defendants. Again it was admitted, that all the ceased, and was enabled to see that the bullet had passed
found to be based on truth, and this, we believe, is one one of Frederick Morrison, 21 ; James Lackington, 18 ; and John • • A
British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 " I
them, and, with reference to the apparent anxiety for the con- fixtures sold were trade fixtures, erected by the Brett, 20; all paupers, were charged with breaking and sufficient to sanction Ins committal for trial. Mrs. ]liar Wickens, the wife of the landlord of the Old out behind. Mr. Smith and myself probed the wound, ClericloMed.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2Le o
cealment of the facts, it would not be difficult to assign very bankrupt himself,, except one, which. was of but GUILDHALL. Justice public-house, stated, that between two and three hut the probe not being sufficiently long did not pass County •• .••••••••••••••• •• •• •• •• 31. 100 00 10 .
entering int s the house of Giles White, schoolmaster of St. a • 10
little value. Now, though fixtures, even if erected by the 'Os. and
plausible reasons for such a course, especially when it is pos-Pancras workhouse, and stealing therefrom three fourpenny On Saturday Mr. R. Fenneil, a warehousman in Al- o'clock on Thursday afternoon the two prisoners entered the through. The wound he bad was such as would be Crown ....... • ...... f 14000 5 , 0
Bible that the ends of justice may, by that means be best tenant, are the property of the landlord, yet such is not the pieces and other moneys, the property ofJohn Mylett ; also a derinanbury, attended before Mr. Alderman Wilson, house, and inqu y .
ired if the could be accommodated with a caused by the mark of a bullet. I was then Eagle . .
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answered. We did not, our readers may be sure, publish the case with trade fixtures, which, when erected by the tenant, silver thimble, and other articles, belonging to John Hamil- with a view of obtaining a summons against Mr. Beck- Private room to tran .
sect some important business, saying that of opinion that his death must have been imme- Economic Life...
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statement in question on light grounds; and even those who his own. Now, as the value of the was one-half
are .
they had been there on the preceding week,
diate, from the nature of the wound. On making E / & 30s.bs. 5 • g4' 1 '
are most sceptical on the subject may, if,they take the trouble the estimated-damage, this reduced the injury to 81. 7s. 6d; assisting the others to commit the felony. lawfully detained scrip for shares in the Suffolk Railwayin which theyhad been
shouldwish to oc • the same room •
isupyr.
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and it had been roved, on cross-examination that the him that on that occasion. NS, 'flues{ - ant examination, he found on the chest a European Life ••• • • • 5% l. 0 if
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to make a little inquiry, easily learn that a rumour of the a . P , . Mr. Prendergast was retained to prosecute. Company. Id be accommodated in the large quantity of serum and blood. The bullet entered Freemasons' ..• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 -9.,
bankrupt had improved the value of the premises to the "n confusion, but that they cou
leading facts was in circuletien for several days before we From the evidence it appeared that at the instigation of Globe • -- 000
amount of 250/.,b outhouses and other erections so that 1
y , at he This case has previously been before Mr. Alderman in
They, however, replied that they had some letters the chest by the pericardium, passed through the heart •• 6/. per cent. &Ask.
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gave it the additional publicity of our columns." Brett the prisoners broke a hole in the wall of the oakum •m„ • b • •Guardian .....• ••• • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 ,0 - I--
had, even at his own calculation, gained 240/ b • the bank- erove, who dismissed t e case on the ground that tthat th did lot wish to be broken in upon, and 1 and lower edge of the left lung, and ultimately made its
The second allegation of libel was upon a passage which sub- , .
iny Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 5,' ~, 8
s improvements. the' ' did confusion, they did -after passing through g'
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matter not come under the jurisdiction of a that as to the room mentioned being exit, the eleventh rib, through Imperial Life •• •• •• •• 12s. 100 00 10 it; 1 0
sequently appeared in the Satirist, relative to the examine- rapteinto the dining-hall, where a number of boxes belonging to ; , ,- e , , ,
nation of T. H. Hooker, before the magistrate, at Marylebone Mr. Sergeant BYLES here called several witnesses to show th • magistrate. it appeared told too comPiainalit bought of not mind that so that they would not be interrupted. Witness the back on the left side. The wound is of such a nature indem"" Marine •• • • I/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 •', 0 i
e chanty boys were These boxes they broke open, and
that the plaintiff was aware from the e ' •stairs to the club-room on . , Law Life....
Police-office, when Hooker was charged with the murder of b ginning that the took therefrom any little articles of value they could find. the defendant an allotment letter for thirty shares in the accordingly accompanied them up as; to produce instant death. There were no injuries on
defendants did • not intend to accept the lease, and also to at the table they Legal and General Life - 50 o o 2 81)
James Delarne, upon which occasion the noble plaintiff ob-above company, fifteen at a 9s. premium, and the re- the first floor, and on taking their seats the body, and the wound
They were afterwards seen dividing money- by the otherhe described was, therefore, London Fire .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 001.10 0 I
show that all the fixtures sold were glass of hot am--and-
a seat on the bench by permission of the magistrate, to tenants' fixtures,called for pen, ink, and paper, and a
dthat paupers who slept in the ward. mainder at 10.. The complainant paid up the deposits,undoubtedly. the cause of death. From the nature and London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 00 12 /
and the amount of injuryi done to
witness the proceedings. The libel ran in these words :-
_,_ the pre- The Learned .JUDGE summed up, and the jury found a ver- and forwarded the banker's receipts to the defendant, so he •landlad said they expected a
water, and addressing t . y, .
position of the wound, I am of opinion that the person 5 0 I
Marine... •.•••••• •• •• ••• 5/. per cent. 160 0 0 0, g
" CONGENIALITY.-The Duke of Brunswick, the papers tell !°l3es was exaggerated. A etter was also put in diet fNot Guilty. as to get the scrip, and, after several days' delay, ten of gentleman there, but that if he called she was not to permit
gent . receiving it must have been either standing or sitting when _
M ed.ln vhd & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2in it .
us, was accommodated with a seat on the bench at Mary- "(knee in •
in evidence , which the plaintiff requested the assignees tohim up stairs, but to et him remain
1 h" • below in the parlour National Loan Fund • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 2-0 4'
, 0 ~ A
This case, uniinortant in itself, and most uninteresting to them were sent to his office. The remsinder,
,however, h ceived it, and the ball must have been dischar d h National
ge att oLife
lebone Police-office, on the examination of the alleged mar- decide whether they would or would not accept the lease, the listeners, from the number of witnesses examined, and forthcominguntil they were informed of his arrival, and that they would ere
deter, Hockey. The journals do not add whether his Sere- anc! if not, to send the key and lease back to him, which the pertinacity with which they were cross-examined by the •
were not ; and, after three or four weeks down d 1 • The witness then left the room, and, front of his person. The bullet produced was such a
go an see him. Palladium Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 ' iI•T
Pinenix .. .. ...... •• • • 3/. p. -0
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nity took a pinch of snuff with the prisoner, who, it is stated, was done. had transpired, the defendant promised to borrow ten by way of precaution, although she had not the slightest ius. one as would have inflicted a wound such as that he had Protector Life.... 1 - 0 .
counsel in turn, occupied the Court four hours. •• • • W. per cent. 20 0 0
10 0
handed his box about in the most affable mannerimaginable.,, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, resting the case almost . for him, which was done and duly forwarded. The others, picion of the two customers, on passing her own bedroom, on described. Provident Life •••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 o to 0
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
Theplaintiff's complaint was that the defendant had by these entirely on the question whether the defendants had or had the in
however, were still kept back. The defendant urged the same floor, she locked the door and placed key Mr. CARTER here asked Mr. Inspector Carter whe- Rock Life 4s. 50 o "
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.-On Friday George Gamble, 31, 0
last-mentioned libels, or writings, attempted to cause it to be not accepted the responsibility of assignees of the house. that the reason why the scripwasting materials and
was not forwarded was, her pocket, and afterwards sent up the. Mier, if the case was adjourned until Wednesday next, Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock.
watchmaker, and Adolphus William Both'', 31, traveller,- 0
believed that the libels for which the plaintiff had successfully The jury returned a verdict for the defendants. that the contract deed was not in town, and the party who the glass of rum-and-water by her neice, who observed that Sun Fire...:....... . 61. Jos. _
were charged, the former with stealing eight watches, valuehe could produce any witness to show the animus ? Ditto Life .. . - 6 ;3°,
prosecuted Gregory were in fact not libels, but were true. 1001. the property of John French, and the latter with felo- had had the letter of allotment had been unable tob ' t t on some manuscriet
both men appeared. to einen up . Mr. Carter said he could produce the brother or step- Universal Life ..
The necessary documents to prove the liability of the de- COURT OF EXCHEQUER, _Nov. 29. niously receiving the same, well knowing that they had been sign it. then •ted
which one was reading to the other. The niece qui e
brother of Quennell, and also another witness, who e
fondant as the proprietor of the paper called the Satirist, (Sittings after Term before Mr. Baron PLATT and a stolen. Mr. Fennell remarked that he had waited upon the in about a quarter of an hour afterwars the
the room, and .
sbag, had been examined before the magistrate, but who was LIST 01' SCOTTISH CORIPANIEEr__,I4,
were then put in by Mr. Fred. Harrison. Common Jury.) In addition to this indictment there were five others against Company, and had been informed that the scrip was left the house, one of them emissaries a blued ag,
prisoners .
An officer from the Central Criminal Court produced an GREERSON v. EDOLEY. the prisoners, the whole amount of the property stolen bein which he was seen Almost • not preeent
to have on their entrance.im- , • • Dividend AA. /
g issued shortly after he had sent the defendant thofthe the landlady The CORONER thought it was but right the jury should Name of Company. per mount P-
oe mediately after the departure
examined copy of the conviction of Hooker at the Central '
This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover 340/., in value above 1,000/. The case occupied the Court a con-
Criminal Court. the amount of the bill of exchange endorsed by the defendant siderable time, but it will be snore easily •
----"11 1111
Lord DENMAN observed, it was admitted on the record by to the plaintiff, to which the defendant had pleaded non form of a narrative than if the evidence were given in detail. Mr. Alderman WILEoN said that was a very impor- ajar, she quickly entered, and found that her drawers had adjourned the inquiry till Wednesday next. £s.d. £ OllO
Gregory's conviction, that he had charged the plaintiff with assumpsit, traversing the allegation in the declaration of the It appeared that the prosecutor carries on a very extensive tant fact, and, under such circumstances, he would been forced open, and and a bag containing . between 201. and Bank of Scotland
0 ' er
notice of dishonour. 30L in sovereigns, a bowl containing 30/. in silver, and two Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 „ Ole,
the murder of Eliza Grimwood. business as a watch and chronometer maker in Cornhill, and grant a summons. MARYLEBONE VESTRY.
Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Cowlin a eared for the lint 'ff
gpp pi i , and BOW-STREET. watches also had been taken. She hastened down stairs, and British Linen Company Si' per cent. - 100 "I, Kt
Edward Scott, the policeman, who had taken ap Hooker the prisoner Gamble had been in his service as foreman, ando n I 1
Mr. Lush forthe defendant.. husband a hurried account of the robbery, On Saturday, at the meeting oar the Marylebone Commercial Bank ... • 6/. per 100 „, ,
to the police-office, said he saw the Duke at the examination, 'acted in a confidential capacity for several years, but on On Saturday Charlotte Browne, a woman about thirty having given her National Bank. ..... - ",; lit
The defendant's handwriting to the bill was admitted b • desired him to mind thebar
while she went in Quest of the Vestry Mr. George Daniell, churchwden • ', in the chair
Cross-examined-There were many persons present ; some , . 3 the 16th October, in consequence of some circumstances that years of age, with an infant in her arms, was charged 1 d - - H , Union Bank of Scotland 7%7. pr cent. - 50 '‘ 1;
a Judges order, which was , put in, and a witness thieves. She ran down Bermondsey-wal ,an at the same Mr. UNE, M.P., stated that since the meeting of the
on the bench ass pectators. had come to the knowledge of Mr. French, he was d• h isc arged, with stealing six satin handkerchiefs, value 2L 55., from . - •Western Bank.. .... • . 6/. per cent. - 50 ''' I I
P. Fell, from Marylebone Police-office, saw on the bench afterwards called to prove that hegave a notice of
the dishaddressed but at this time it would appear that no direct suspicion was the shop of Mr. E Whitelock, of the Strand. her I tth "r fullest extent, gave notice
time exercising wigs oei Committee appointed to resist the attempt ofthe P "" - - ,orinot Scotland Bank Cl. per cent. - 5° '1 11/
dishonour to the defendant, at his pri- of the plunder that had just been committed in her house ° f 1,
, law Commissioners to interfere with the parish of St. Clydesdale Bank
.6/. per cent. - 10 0 0
but Lord Mountford and the Duke upon the 4th of March,entertained against him, Almost immediatelyafterwards, M Ford, B.
stated' -
vale residence at Colesbill near Man h
, c ester, to bewhich soon attracted the passengers, e eary
..ve lebone, he had, at the request of the Committee, 2 In° o ,
the second examination. however, some further inf • • d • information was receive which led to
t' into the Manchester st-effice. The f llowin to his master's shop, and, having selected several articles, a • d S muel Brown, who joined in the pur- u • - • • • • Caledonian Bank -
Baron Audlau, late equerry to the Duke, believed the two Pu e.. .P° • so g the prisoner Gamble being apprehended at the Waterford y oung man name a t himself in communtcation with Sir Robert Peel upon Edinb& Glasw Bank 6/. per cent. -5" 0 .
paragraphs relative to the murder of Eliza Grimwood and morning ne met the defendant, who told him that he bad not Arms, in the Haymarket, by Hall, sergeantof the Ccr • a - ordered them to be sent to 122, Long-acre, but it suit. They running until they got into the Spa-road,
• subject. H d ' b f h ff
Pie j e was estrous, e ore e o ered any re- City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 16
8 0 0
the Duke ofißrunswick were put in juxta-position purposely received the notice which the boy hadposted
on the pre- sion ; and upon his telling him that he was charged with rob- turned out that she was not known there, and, on taking when the landlady' obtained a distinct view of the two priso-
k' b marks, that the correspondence which had taken place Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0
in the Satirist of 10th November, and he thought the impu- vious evening, but he had seen a similar notice which had stock, it was discovered that the property in question ners, whom she pointed out, and they were soon overta en y Hercules Insurance Co. 71. er cent. 100 0 0 10
,n 01(ii;
bing his master, Mr. French, he said that it was all over with between
tation was, that the Duke was accused in some quarter of been addressed to another endorser, named Good. had been stolen. Brown, who, perceiving that Samue s g,
I carried a blue bag, the ye.. , -try the Secretary of State, and his own Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 ..-- • v •
0
being accessory to it. Mr. L . user contended that this was no evidence that any tic
in.
and that there was nothing before him but transporta-
So far as tl • ' • Several other shopkeepers were in attendance, who immediately tried to arrest him. Samuels, however, die- letter to Sir Robert Peel, should be read. North British Insur 5% /, pr cent. 200 0 0 10 . 0
0 10
.0 t) 0 0
The Duke stated that was his case. notice of the dishonour had been sent to the defendant lf from the -oung man's grasp and r Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0
an into The vestry-clerk then read the resolution of the is aII
engaged himself a .
appear to be any doubt of his guilt for after he was in sus- stated they knew that the prisoner was in the habit Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 1- 0 -
Mr. Cocicenex, Q.C., began by expressing his astonish- Mr. JAavis urged that it was. The defendant might notßr n dir tl
a gateway, followed by the other prisoner. ow ec y vestry passed November the 26th, in pursuance of which
tody, he sent for the brotherofthe Mr. Wm. of frequentingth •and that they hadrepeatedly
prosecutor,
meat and his pity at the exhibition which the had just have received the written notice of dishonour, but a wit- went in after them, when he was attacked by Samuels, who the correspondence had taken place. Ditto, 1,4 Shares sl.percent. 12 10 0 Au 0
French, and told him he admitted his *ltand d missedwhen she gm , ea property
witnessed on the part of the noble and distinguished plain- ness had proved that he did receive a parole notice. had a "life-preserver," with which he struck him a severe Mr. FLOOD, the vestry-clerk, then read a letter ad- Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 00 20
~,16. ,
tiff, who had gone so far out of his way to tell the Court and Mr. Luse' admitted that parole notice had been given, his deep regret for his conduct, stating, at the same time, that Mr. Clarke, of 88, Strand, proved that the prisoner
- • • blow on the head, in his attempt to secure him. By this dressed to Sir James Graham by the vestry, requesting Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 57. per cent. 50 0 0 AB r,,,0, ~
Glasgw& Greenck Rail. 2/. All jd. r
per cent. 25 0 0
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jury who he was, and what was his station. He could not but it was given a day too late. he had given a great number of watches to the prisoner B -
dill and another person, whose name he mentioned, for the
Bo- had come to hint on one or two occasions. The last time •
time policeman 237 M arrived, and a desperate struggle
an audience with him for the purpose of explaining their Glsgw& Gamkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 .11...,, .96. '
see what could be the reason why he had thus put himself r. Baron PLATT overruled the objection, reserving, how-sheorderedproperty to the value U, to be sent to
purpose of being pawned, and he declared that neither ofobjections to the proposed measure. To this letter the Dundee & Arbmth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 dip 0
forward as his own advocate, or why the case might nothave ever, to Mr. Lush the right of moving fora new trial, and those persons ever gave him either the duplicates or any Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, but it turned most determined resistance, during which Samuels, still in
following answer was received from Sir James Graham: Standard Life Agsarnee.) 5/ per cein. 150 0 0 I 2 .
been left in the ordinary way to one of the learned profession.
• e jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. share of the proceeds. He also stated that he had repeatedly out that she did not live there, and after she was gone •of the weapon, turned upon the policeman, and
pousession
Ti... Anil/ rrintilra ha ..."111,1 onnicantilrob fn.. thi• was_ flint thn SMITH V. STAPLETON AND ANOTHER. An,nii.d s. Rm." to
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Mr. Coorisum, Q.C., began by expressing his astonish-
ment and his pity at the exhibition which the had just
witnessed on the part of the noble and distinguished plain-
tiff, who had gone so far out of his way to tell the Court and
jury who he was, and what was his station. He could not
see what could be the reason why he had thus put himself
forward as his own advocate, or why the case might not have
been left in the ordinary way to one of the learned profession.
The only motive he could conjecture for this was, that the
plaintiff expected and hoped, by appearing thus in person,
that he would by his rank and connexion effect that which
proved to be the great object of his life—namely the putting
down and crushing of the Satirist newspaper. tie thought he
would, however, be able to show that there never was a person
of his high station who had so fotgotten his own dignity ; nor
was there ever a more trumpery case brought into court than
that on which they were then engaged ; and if so, he was sure
the jury would not forget what was due to a person so ar-
raigned and so circumstanced. Whilst the plaintiff talked of
protecting himself, he (the learned counsel) thought that
the plaintiff had sought by this mode of proceeding to put
money in his pocket ; and he now, perhaps, could divine
the reason why he preferred advocating his own cause in
person rather than by counsel. He must have been induced
to act thus because he could not otherwise secure to himself
an opportunity for displaying that rancorous and vindictive
feeling which characterised his present conduct, and which
blindly carried his animosity to the extreme, in the hope to
crush, as if it had been an active responsible agent, an ina-
nimate paper, whoever might happen to be connected with
it. The plaintiff certainly had a right to come there when
assailed by a newspaper slanderer, and defend himself, and
seek redress by filing a criminal information against him.
He had come in that way into Court to repel the charges of
Barnard Gregory once and twice, and convicted, perhaps
ruined the libeller for ever ; certainly had driven him from
the naper. (Here the Duke expressed his dissent.) One
would have thought that, wrapped up in the mantle
of innocence so clearly established, he could have afforded to
say to the defendant, " I will treat you with the scorn you
deserve if you reiterate accusations disproved by a decision
of a jury in the Court of Queen's Bench, where my character
has been fully vindicated in the highest court of justice in
this free country. I have brought my defamer to justice,
and lam content." This, he should have thought, would
have been the attitude such a plaintiff might have safely
assumed. But not so thought the plaintiff; for instead of
proceeding criminally against him, instead of purging him-
self of the imputed crime by his own oath, he stood here to-
day a noble and illustrious plaintiff seeking by the verdict of
a jury, to put a few paltry pounds—happily a few paltry pence
—:n his illustrious pockets out of the proceeds of this most
pitiful and contemptible newspaper. Did the plaintiff, by pro-
ceeding in this way, seek to offer the defendant an oppor-
tunity to prove the truth of the alleged libel ?—(" Yes," in-
terrupted the Duke, " that is what it is.") Mr. Cockburn
continued— It was not so; that was not what the plaintiff
sought, and he could and would prove it was not what he
sought. There could be little doubt that if the jury should
give the Duke 405. damages to-day, they would hear to-
morrow that his attorney had commenced another action on
his own private account. He trusted that the jury, whilst
generously disposed to protect a foreigner against any unjust
attack by fellow-subjects, would weigh nicely in the balance
the amount of offence offered as well as the atonement, and
by giving the lowest possible coin in damages, if damages
they must award, check the vindictive feelings of the prose-
cutor, and rescue a comparatively poor and weak party from
the grasp of his would-be oppressor.
Mr. Henry Crocker, attorney for the defendant, had called
upon the Duke's attorney, Mr. Graeffe, when there was a
conversation upon the contents of a paragraph in the Satirist
of the 9th of March last, and upon a second paragraph in the
same paper. The Duke's attorney said the actions had been
brought because the Duke considered it was a libel. There
were three actions commenced at once, and on the next day
of publication there was a paragraph inserted in the Satirist,
disclaiming, on the part of the editor and proprietor, any in-
tention to mix the Duke up with the offender Hocker or his
propensities. And, previously to the trial, the defendant had
been served by the Duke's attorney with notice that a copy
of the paper containing that disavowal of all such intention,
would be produced at the trial. The three writs were all
issued on the same day.
The Duke of Brunswick replied, disclaiming all desire to
reap pecuniary benefit from a verdict.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence with great
care and impartiality. If the jury thought the inuendoes
pointed to the plaintiff this was a case of malice and not
of mistake, so" t!aerefore not contemplated by the statute
passed protect publishers of a newspaper, who, without
melLze, published a libel upon a party who brought his action.
-Upon the whole, he would put the case to the jury upon the
plain intelligible ground of making the complainant's case
their own, and deciding accordingly.
The jury retired for nearly half an hour, and returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 29.
WRIGHT V. WALKER.

This was an action for a breach of promise of mar-
riage. The plaintiff, Miss Wright, is the daughter of a
law-stationer, who resided in Newgate-street, and she
first became acquainted with the defendant, who is a
medical student in Norfolk, about the beginning of 1842.
The young lady was stated to be very accomplished, and
to possess great musical abilities. Her " majestic
voice" (to use his own expression) soon produced an
effect on the defendant, who was also addicted to musical
pursuits, and her appearance and manners being agree-
able to him, his sensibility soon led him from the chords
of harmony to the chains of love. Letters were pro-
duced and read in Court, which went to prove that an
O'er had been made by Mr. Walker.
Mr. J. Lee, for the plaintiff, had offered to take a
verdict of 40s. damages ; as, said the Learned Counsel,
the object in bringing this action was not to receive
heavy damages, but merely to clear the plaintiff's cha-
racter from any aspersions that might have bear, cast
upon it.
Mr. EDWARDS, the counsel for the defendant, would net,
however, consent to this, as he thought he could show
that an offer of the kind asserted had never been made
by his client.
Witnesses were called who had received Mr. Walker
as Miss Wright's ardent lover, and no doubt had been
entertained by them as to the defendant's intentions.
The evidence for the defence showed that Mr. Walker
was only allowed 70/. a year for his maintenance; that
he was employed as a surgeon's assistant; and that he re-
ceived no remuneration for his services ; when he did
receive remuneration, it would be no more than 304 a
year.
Mr. EDWARDS, on behalf of the defendant, said that
his client did not for a moment deny having made the
engagement, but it was an engagement which was to be
fulfilled when he should be in a condition to support a
wife. He submitted that his client was in a most la-
mentable position ; he was now 30 years old, and had
an engagement with a gentleman who did not give him
a single tarthing as remuneration, with a salary of 301. a
year in perspective. He had not even funds enough to
pass the hospital, and he put it to the jury whether a
man in his position would do right to saddle himself
with a wife.
Mr. LEE briefly replied.
Lord DENMAN summed up, and told the jury that, if
the defendant were not in a position
to support a wife, he
should not have made advances to the plaintiff.
The jury returned a verdict of 201. damages, and 40y.
MO.

This was an action on the case brought to recover com-
pensation for injuries done to a valuable horse, to which the
defendants had pleaded that they were not guilty.
Mr. Jarvis, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and Mr. Macmahon
appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Branwell for the defen-
dants.

Mr. URl,ts stated the case for the plaintiff. It was a
common running-down horse case, but he believed the jury
would find that it presented an uncommon and unusual fea-
ture, for he understood his Learned Friend was there to prove
not that the injury had not been done, but that there was no
such cart in existence at the time of the accident as the one
which the plaintiff alleged had caused the injury. The facts
of the case were simple enough, and might be stated in a
short compass. The plaintiff was a carman, and on Satur-
day evening, the 14th of June last, one of his carts, drawn
by a valuable horse, was returning up the New-road from
the City. When the cart reached Baker-street, the driver
observed another cart, with two men in it, coming in a con-
trary direction at a rapid rate, and he called out for them to stop,
but they heeded not the caution, and the cart passed over the
hoof of Mr. Smith's horse. The parties in the cart, who were
dressed in the garb of dustmen, took no notice of the
circumstance, but continued trotting on until some
bystanders, who witnessed the occurrence, stopped them. It
was then ascertained that the cart was the property of the
defendants, who were the well-known dust contractors, and
that the number of the cart was 20. Application was, there-
fore, made to them to repair the injury their servants bad
done, but their clerk denied that they had any such cart. It
was true, he said, that they once had a number 20, but it
had long since been broken up. While this conversation was
going on the defendant's foreman made his appearance; and
on the clerk's relating the accident to him, he quietly ob-
served that " it was all gammon about number teventy having
been a doin' of it," for he could prove " that number teventy
wam't out on that ere day." These conflicting statements
strengthened the belief that the cart was the plaintiff's pro-
perty ; but, to clear up all doubt upon this point, the plain-
tiff's attorney hit upon the plan of getting one of the parties
who witnessed the accident to watch the defendants' men as
they left their premises on a Saturday night, to see if he
could recognise the two men who were in the cart in ques-
tion. After watching for a short time, one of the men
made his appearance; but he no sooner saw the
party who was watching than he took to his heels.
This clearing up all doubt upon the question, the plaintiff
brought the present action for the injury done to his horse,
and it was now for the defendants to show that their cart,
No. 20, actually had been broken up, or returned to " dust"
previously to the 14th of June last. Perhaps his Learned
Friend, who appeared for them, would endeavour to throw
" dust" in the eyes of the jury by calling all the dustmen
in their employ to prove that they had no number 20 cart,
but he felt convinced after they had heard the evidence he
should bring before them the jury would say that it was one
of the defendants' carts that did the injury he complained of.
Evidence having been adduced in support of the statement,
Mr. BRANWELL disclaimed all intention of wishing to
throw dust in the eyes of the jury, or to call before them
the 140 dustmen in the employ of his client to prove that
they had no cart number 20; but he should call witnesses
to prove that their cart number 20 was not out on the day
of the accident; and he should moreover prove, to clear his
client from all suspicion, that at the time the accident was
alleged to have taken place all their carts were in, and their
men had been paid their wages and gone home.
Witnesses having been called to substantiate the Learned
Counsel's statement,

Mr. Janina replied, remarking that the defendants' case
had fallen to the ground, and it now only remained for them
to make his client some recompense by speedily coming down
with the dust.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages,
20!. 14s.

KEY V. GILES AND OTHERS.

This was an action to recover a sum of money from
the defendants as shareholders in a defunct Company,
entitled " The Union Flint Glass Company."
The plaintiff was a plumber, and did work for the
Company, which carried on its works in Bromley, Mid-
dlesex, for some time, but ultimately failed. Not being
able to get his money, he brought his action against
the defendants, who were shareholders in the Company,
and whom he wished to make liable for the amount
due to him.

Mr. JARVIS, with whom was Air. Sergeant Jones,
contended that the defendants were not liable on this
ground. The original prospectus stated that the Com-
pany was to be carried on by means of some 30.,000
shares, whereas only about 5,000 were subscribed for.
The Company, however, (sent on, and no evidence was
given to show that the defendants were made aware by
the directors that they had gone on with the works
with a less capital than that stated in the prospectus,
therefore it having been shown that this Company had
gone on making glass with a less capital than that an-
nounced in the prospectus, and no proof having been
given that the defendants were cogei'zant of that fact,
the defendants were not liable..
After a good deal of dscussion between the gentle-
men at the bar and the Learned Judge, it was agreed
that a nonsuit shonid be entered up, with leave for Mr
Watson, on the part of the plaintiff) to move to set it
aside next 'lm, when this important question of law
will be raised.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 28.
(Before Mr. Commissioner G0t:1.13m1.)
IN RE OLDHAM.

In this case to-day was appointed for a dividend. A proof
was tendered on the behalf of trustees under the marriage
settlement of the bankrupt) as for mosey had and received by
him to and for th use of the claimants as trustees. The
proof was opposed on the ground that, under the deed of
settlement, the trustees had a power to exchange furniture to
the amount for that of equal value (3000, but they had no
right to transfer stock generally. The Lord Chancellor had
referred a case to the judges, whether a debt arising on the
sale of stock by trustees was an admissible proof. Three of
the judges agreed, but the fourth dissented, and the Lord
Chancellor again referred the matter, when it was
decided that when stock or articles were specified to be sold
on a particular day, and the value could be then ascertained,
it was a provable debt ; but not so when the trustees were
exercising a power. In this case the trustees had concurred
in the sale, and handed the proceeds to the bankrupt ; and
it was urged that the claimants had committed a breach of
trust on the part of the trustees, and that the assignees had
a right to stand, in right of the deceased's wife, and claim
the value of the trust from the trustees on behalf of the
bankrupt's estate.
After a long argument, it was determined that the case
should be adjourned, in order that a special case might be
111
prepared for the common-law courts.

In addition to this indictment there were five others against
the prisoners, the whole amount of the property stolen being
in value above 1,000/. The case occupied the Court a con-
siderable time, but it will be more easily understood in the
form of a narrative than if the evidence were given in detail.
It appeared that the prosecutor carries on a very extensive
business as a watch and chronometer maker in Cornhill, and
the prisoner Gamble had been in his service as foreman, and
acted in a confidential capacity for several years, but on
the 16th October, in consequence of some circumstances that
had come to the knowledge of Mr. French, he was discharged,
but at this time it would appear that no direct suspicion was
entertained against him, Almost immediately afterwards,
however, some further information was received which led to
the prisoner Gamble being apprehended at the Waterford
Arms, in the Haymarket, by Hall, a sergeant of the C divi-
sion ; and upon his telling him that he was charged with rob-
bing his master, Mr. French, he said that it was all over with
him, and that there was nothing before him but transporta-
tion. So far as this prisoner was concerned, there did not
appear to be any doubt of his guilt, for after he was in cus-
tody, he sent for the brother of the prosecutor, Mr. Wm.
French, and told him he admitted his guilt, and expressed
his deep regret for his conduct, stating, at the same time, that
he had given a great number of watches to the prisoner Bo-
dill and another person, whose name he mentioned, for the
purpose of being pawned, and he declared that neither of
those persons ever gave him either the duplicates or any
share of the proceeds. He also stated that he had repeatedly
applied to Bodell to give him the duplicates, as he intended
to redeem the property, but that he would not do so, and that
be had threatened to expose him to his master if he did not
take more property ; and this had led him to commit further
depredations. The prisoner Gamble, in addition to this, also
told Mr. French that he should never have committed the rob-
beries if it had not been for the solicitations of the prisoner
Bodill, who had suggested that they should open gaming-
rooms at a house in Panton-street, Haymarket, for the pur-
pose of playing at French hazard, as a means of making
money, and that this scheme was tried. The evidence against
the other prisoner, Bodill, was of an equally cogent charac-
ter. It appeared that in consequence of information which
had been received by the police in reference to the robbery,
a sergeant of the C division, named Gray, went to the shop
of Mr. Rochford, a pawnbroker in Brewer-street, who ap-
peared to have acted in a most creditable and proper manner
in the transaction, giving all the information in his power
tending to convict the guilty parties; and the sergeant then
found the prisoner Bodill, who was at the time dealing with
two gold watches that had formed part of the stolen property.
Upon questioning him, Bodill informed the sergeant that he
knew Gamble, and said that he had seen him shortly before,
and that he had an appointment to meet him at five o'clock in
the City. The sergeant then told him that he should take
him into custody upon the charge of being concerned in
the robbery of watches from Mr. French ; and upon search-
ing him he found no fewer than one hundred and ten
duplicates, all referring to watches that had been
pledged, the amount advanced upon them being over
700/. In addition to this, it was proved that the prisoner
Bodill had been in the habit of visiting Gamble at Mr.
French's, and that they were on intimate terms; and it was
likewise shown that apartments had been engaged in Pan-
ton-street for their joint use, and, as there was very little
doubt, for the purpose referred to in the statement made by
Gamble to Mr. French. The watches, which formed the
subject of the present indictment, were produced by the
pawnbroker with whom they were pledged, and they were
clearly identified as being either the actual property of the
prosecutor, or as belonging to customers, and for which he
was, of course, legally responsible.
Mr. DOANE, on behalf of the principal, did not attempt to
set up any defence, and said that he was merely instructed
by the friends of Gamble to watch the evidence, and see that
the charge was legally substantiated. Having done this,
he had no further observations to offer, than to state that
the prisoner appeared to have made all the reparation in his
power by confessing his guilt, and assisting in the recovery
. of the property.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury on behalf of Bodill,
and called some witnesse., who gave him a good character.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up,
The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty against both prisoners.
Upon their being called up for judgment, the prisoner
Gamble declared that he had been dragged into the commis-
sion of the offence in consequence of his being surrounded by
a nest of gamblers and swindlers.

Mr. Justice Cot,TmAx, on passing sentence, said he was in-
clined to believe the statement of the prisoner Gamble, and
he thought it very probable that he had been led to commit
the offence by the solicitations of the other prisoner. That,
however, was no excuse or mitigation for his conduct, but
merely made the offence of the other prisoner of a worse cha-
racter. He then sentenced Gamble to be transported for ten
years, and Ilodill for fourteen years.
Mr. BODKIN said there were six indictments against the
prisoners, and as it would not be necessary to proceed with
the whole of them, be applied to the Court to order that the
whole of the property which formed the subject of those in-
dictments, and which had been identified, should be delivered
up to the peosecutor.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said he taw no objection to this
course, and the property, consisting of valuable gold and
silver watches, was accordingly ordered to be given up to
Mr. French.
John William* and 74ett traywood, who were convicted
at the September Sessions, were then placed tht
It will be recollected that the prisoner Way*ood was
charged with stealing n quathity of teaohe property of his
employers, and the other prisoner was iliargta with feloni-
ously receiving the property, Waywood pleaded guilty, and
was afterwards called as a witness, and an objection being
taken by tormsel as to the admissibility of his evidence
undo: such circumstances, judgment was respited, and the
prisoners were now brought tip to hear the decision of the
Judges.
Mr, justice Coitiirk..t,. after belying. briefly alluded to the
clteumstances, said the ;TUciges were of opinion that the evi-
dence was legally admissible, and that the Recorder, who
tried the case, was justified in law in examining the witness,
and the conviction must therefore stand.

The prisoner was remanded for a week, to give time
for further inquiry.
LAMBETH.

The RECOMEIt then passed -sentence, and said that
the offence of the prisoner Williams was of a very
serious character. It appeared, that being himself a
dealer in tea, he had been in the habit of going
about with a horse and cart, and receiving property
of that description from person' who had plundered their
employers of it. He considered his was a very aggravated
case, and, therefore, he felt it his duty to pass upon him the
extreme penalty of the law, which was that he be transported
beyond the seas for fourteen years. With regard to the other
prisoner, the seiitence upon him was, that he be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday Mr. Inspector Carter, of the L division
of police, applied to Mr. Henry for a summons for the
attendance of Mr. Quennell, the builder, in Kennington,
the half-brother, and late employer of the prifoner S.
Quennell, as well as that of the unfortunate man Fitz-
gerald, on Monday next, to give evidence touching the
conduct of the alleged murderer at the time of his dis-
charge the Saturday night pievious to the murder, as
well as anything which was within his knowledge as to
the conduct of the parties towards each other up to the
death of Fitzgerald.
Mr. HENRY at once granted the summons.

Inspector Carter (in reply to the Magistrate) said that
he had found out a lad from whom the prisoner had pur-
chased au ounce of powder on Thursday, just an hour
and a quarter previous to the commission of the murder.
lie should also be prepared on Monday with other con-
firmatory evidence of the prisoner's intentions respect-
ing the destruction of the unfortunate deceased. The
inspector said he could also produce a boy named Jewell,
and a girl named Dwyer, who would speak to the identity
of the prisoner as the person who shot the deceased man
Fitzgerald.
Mr. HENay observed that those witnesses would be of
importance, as the evidence of the witness M•Carthy was
somewhat confused on this point, and desired the inspec-
tor to have them in attendance.

Cook, the gaoler, here remarked that immediately
after the prisoner's examination a most marked change
took place in his manner and appearance. In fact, he
appeared to have lost all his strength, and was obliged,
though a muscular and stiff-built young man, to be lite-
rally carried into the police-van on being removed to
Horsemonger-lane gaol.
After the examination, Mr. Henry having heard that
the family of the deceased was in great distress, re-
quested Inspector Rutt to visit them, which he did, and
on his representation Mr. Henry forwarded them a
sovereign from the poor• box.
CLERICENWELL.

CHARGE OF STABBING.—On Friday, Benjamin Freeman
was charged before Mr. Bingham with stabbing a young
woman, named Mary Ann Webb, with whom ha cohabited.
William Long, 77 K, stated that about eight o'clock on
Thursday evening he was called into a house in Collingwood-
street, Bethnal-green, where he found a young woman lying
upon a bed and attended by a surgeon, and was informed
that she had been stabbed in the abdomen with a knife now
produced. The prisoner was sitting in the room, and from
what was stated, it appeared that he had become irritated by
the refusal of the female to partake of some provision which
he had brought in for their supper.
A certificate was produced from the London Hospital, to
which the female had been conveyed, stating that the wound
was of a very dangerous nature.
A large double-bladed clasp knife was exhibited, the large
blade of which appeared to be stained to the extent of nearly
two inches, the depth of the wound.
The prisoner, who appeared grieved by the occurrence,
stated that it was entirely accidental. He was eating at the,
time with the knife in his hand, and was not aware that it
was pointed towards the female.
The Magistrate remanded the prisonsr for a week.
80U7H1Y ARK.
DARING ROBBERY LN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.--011 Friday, John
Watson and John Samuels, two well-dressed men, the former
about 45, and the latter 30 years of age, were charged with
stealing upwards of 501. in sovereigns and silver, besides two
watches, in a public-house called the Old Justice, in
Bermondsey-wall, and also with committing violent assaults
on policeman 237, M division, and on a young man: named
Samuel Brown.
Mrs. Mary Wickens, the wife of the landlord of the Old
Justice public-house, stated, that between two and three
o'clock on Thursday afternoon the two prisoners entered the
house, and inquired if they could be accommodated with a
private room to transact someimportant business, saying that
they had been there on the preceding week, and that they
should wish to occupy the same room in which they had been
on that occasion. Witness informed him that the room was
in confusion, but that they could be accommodated in the
parlour. They, however, replied that they had some letters
to write, that they did not wish to be broken in upon, and
that as to the room mentioned being in confusion, they did
not mind that so that they would not be interrupted. Witness
accordingly accompanied them up stairs to the club-room on
the first floor, and on taking their seats at the table they
called for pen, ink, and paper, and a glass of hot rum-and-
water, and addressingC the landlady, said they expected a
gentleman there, but that if he called she was not to permit
him up stairs, but to let him remain below in the parlour
until they were informed of his arrival, and that they would
go down and see him. The witness then left the room, and,
by way of precaution, although she had not the slightest ans•
picion of the two customers, on passing her own bedroom, on
' the same floor, she locked the door and placed the key in
her pocket, and afterwards sent up the writing materials and
the glass of rum-and-water by her neice, who observed that
both men appeared to be intent upon some manuscript
which one was reading to the other. The niece then quitted
the room, and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards the
prisoners left the house, one of them carrying a blue bag,
which he was seen to have on their entrance. Almost im-
mediately after the departure of the strangers the landlady
went up stairs, and perceiving the door of her bedroom was
ajar, she quickly entered, and found that her drawers had
been forced open, and and a bag containing between 201. and
301. in sovereigns, a bowl containing 30/. in silver, and two
watches also had been taken. She hastened down stairs, and
having given her husband a hurried account of the robbery,
desired him to sr.ind the bar while she went in quest of the
thieves. She ran down Bermondsey-wall, and at the same
time exercising her lungs to their fullest extent, gave notice
of the plunder that had just been committed in her house,
which soon attracted the passengers, amongst whom was
a young man named Samuel Brown, who joined in the pur-
suit. They running until they got into the Spa-road,
when the landlady obtained a distinct view of the two priso-
ners, whom she pointed out, and they were soon overtaken by
Brown who, perceiving that Samuels carried a blue bag,
immediately tried to arrest him. Samuels, however, dis-
engaged himself from the young man's grasp. and ran into
a gateway, followed by the other prisoner. Brown directly
went in after them, when he was attacked by Samuels, who
had a "life-preserver," with which he struck him a severe
blow on the head, in his attempt to secure him. By this
time policeman 237 M arrived, and a desperate struggle
took place between them, both the prisoners making the
most determined resistance, during which Samuels, still in
possession of the weapon, turned upon the policeman, and
struck him with such force on the head as to cut through
his hat, and inflict a wound near the temple. The policeman
was stunned from the effects of the blow, but be still retained
hold of his assailant until he was at length disarmed of the
life-preserver, and both the prisonerswere ultimately secured.
The blue bag which Samuels was previously known to have
carried was missed, and on 'a subsequent examination of the
place under the gateway where he and his companion had
taken refuge in the heat of the pursuit, the bag containing the
whole of the money was discovered concealed under a quantity
of mould, which had evidently been recently dug up for the
purpose. The bag, with its contents, was produced in Court,
and it was further stated that the two watches were found in
the possession of Watson, upon whom were also found a crow-
bar and several picklock keys.
At the conclusion of the examination, Mr. Traill perceiv-
ing that the prisoners had refused to give their addresses at
the station-house, asked them if they were now willing to
disclose their places of abode?
Samuels, who is supposed to be a Jew, with an air of com-
plete nonchalance, said that he was not going to tell where
he lived, but that he was prepared to abide the consequences
of his conduct.
The other prisoner said that he was willing to take the
whole responsibility of the act of plundering the Old Justice
upon himself, and that Samuels had no hand in the affair.
In reply to a question put by Mr. TRAILL, the policemen
in attendance said that they could not identify either of the
prisoners; but It was stronly suspected they belonged to a
gang of well-dressed thieves who have committed robberies
to a serious extent in the houses of licensed victuallers. The
men in custody were well-dressed and respectable-looking,
their appearance being well calculated to throw the landlords
of public-houses thoroughly off their guard.
Mr. TRAILL said that he should remand the prisoners until
Saturday, and probably other charges of a similar nature
would be preferred against them.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION IN
BISHOPWEARMOUTH.

John Collins, ;was charged with a violent assault upon
Thomas Mason, a foreman bricklayer, in the employ of a
builder in Islington.
The assault occurred in Highbury-terrace, and the facts
will be seen from the Magistrate's statement.
Mr. GrIEENwooD observed that he regretted very much
that all the prisoner's fellow-workmen were not in court, be-
cause if the open administration of justice did good by ope-
ratingeTohmi shsi aes
at
sh e
mr euscuhl t
as of
tchoemyb
kaet h
eWloarnk
as an example, it would be highly useful in this case.
li
ma
allo mi
wed g
them
e nowm
to
combine—it used not to do so, but they might now sell their
labour as highly as they could—they might ob-
tain even extravagant wages if they could. and do
that by combination, but when they overstepped that
mark, and resorted to violence, they laid themselves open to
the law. In this case a foreman was left by his master in
charge of the men, with orders to report to the master, upon
his return, the conduct of the men. The foreman reported
to his master, in this case, that the prisoner had not dons hie
duty, and he was, consequently, discharged. Finding this,
the prisoner treated the complainant in the most brutal
manner; knocked him off a scaffold eight feet high; the
complainant fell on the ground head foremost, and laid there
Insensible for some time, from the shock. The man was so
bad that a surgeon was obliged to take blood from him. If
the prisoner had killed him, he Mr. Greenwood, could not
see what could save him from the gallows. He would fine
him 41., or eight months' imprisonment.--He wascommitted.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
SERIOUS efiAilcii! Co.lStilfhite7.—On Friday, Henry
Spicer.. a broker; residing in the Marlborettigh-road, Chelsea,
And Hee!" et_.*tet;e4soii) the proprietor of the Crown beer-shop,
College-street, Chelsea, were charged with ecinspiracy:
The circumstances of the case, as stated by £ f, Itabinsom
andproVed by the evidence, are these ;—Mr.ltiomas Docket,
of Higit-sheet; Mitfylehotiet, (Welk/neer and appraiser, who is
agent for a Mr. White, was desirous of getting possession of
a house belonging to that gentleman, at o. 8, Robert-street,
tsheisea, odupled by tt linty tiatrted French but finding this
a matter of no little difficulty, he accepted the proposal of
the prisoner Spicer, who undertook, by the exercise of some
ruse, to effect that object. As there were considerable ar-
rears of rent due, Spicer was armed, on the Bth of SoYeni-
ber, with a distress warrant, but was distinctly told by Mr.
Docket, that if he succeeded in getting in, he was not to
touch or move a single thing, but leave a man in possession
until he (Mr. Docket) was made acquainted wi
h t the circum-
stance. On Monday, the 10th instant, Spicer called on Mr.
Docket, and, to his great surprise, informed him that he had
made all entry, and had removed all the furniture, and im-
pounded it at Stevenson's. Mr. Docket then went to Chel-
sea, and in the presence of Spicer, and a gentleman named
King, the friend of Mrs. French, that lady gave up possession
of her house—Mr. Docket, from feelings of humanity, as the
lady had seven children, undertaking to restore the whole of
her furniture excepting eight articles named, which were to
be sent to Mr. Docket's house, and detained until the unfor-
tunate lady should be in a condition to pay 10/. Spicer drew
out the list of these articles, and a note to the effect above
stated was appended in his presence, and read by him.
Shortly after the arrangement had been effected, Stevenson
was made acquainted with it in the presence of Spicer, and
told that on the lady producing the inventory, with Mr.
Docket's signature to it, the whole of her property, with the
exception of the eight articles, were to be given up to her.
On the 13th instant, not having received the goods, Mr.
Docket went to Stevenson, and asked him the reason they
were not sent, when he replied, "Me send them, what have
I to do about sending them?" and then added, Spicer had
borrowed money of him upon the goods, and lie should not
let them go until 57. was paid, as Spicer had instructed him.
Mr. Docket informed Stevenson that no expense wes to be
incurred upon the things after the first dal-, as all had been
amicably arranged, and they were not to be condemned. On
the 15th instant, Mr. Docket again went to Stevenson, when
Spicer told him that the eight articles had been condemned,
and Stevenson then admitted, in the presence of Spicer, that
the condemnation had taken place on the previous day, and
that he had bought them, and added, that if Mr. bocket
would give him 51. 125., he should have them. On Mr.
Docket expostulating and threatening to go before a magis-
trate, Stevenson said he would kick him out of the place.
Spicer and Stevenson were perfectly well acquainted with
the nature of the agreement, and the former, from first to
last, never had any authority to dispose of the property.
Spicer, in answer to the charge, pretended that as he had
had a warrant given him to distrain, lie was perfectly justi-
fied in removing and impounding the furniture, and was
bound to sell it in five days after the seizure. He had been
at a great deal of expense in getting into the house, moving
the goods, &c., and sold the things to reimburse himself, as
Mr. Docket would not pay his list of charges (amounting to
nearly 51.)
Stevenson declared most positively that he had no con-
nexion with Spicer, and that the relation in which they stood
to each other was simply that of landlord and tenant. lie
assured the magistrate that he never had the goods in his
possession until after they were regularly appraised in the
promo of a policogna, when In bought them at an in-

"Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th
instant, in which you request that he will appoint a time
for receiving a deputation from the vestry and board of
directors and guardians of the parish of Saint Maryle-
bone ; and I am to inform you that Sir James Graham
is unwilling to give to the deputation the trouble of
coming to the Home office, for the act of the Poor-law
Commissioners of which they complain is not within the
control of the Secretary of State. The decision of this
matter is by law vested absolutely in the Poor-law Com-
missioners. Any objection to the proposed arrangement
should be addressed to the Commissioners ; and, having
no authority or right to interfere, Sir James Graham
must decline to take cognizance of the matter in dispute.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"S. M. PHILLIPS."
The following is a copy of the letter addressed by Mr.
flume to Sir Robert Peel:—

" TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., H.P., ETC.

" Bryanstone-square, Nov. 28, 1845.
" Sir—l have the honour to inclose for your perusal a
copy of a resolution of a joint committee of the vestry
and of the guardians of the poor of the parish of
Marylebone, and of correspondence between the vestry-
clerk and Sir James Graham.

" I have been• always the advocate for reform of the
old poor-law system, and have given it my humble but
zealous support on principle clear and defined. But as
the Act the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 101, passed by
your Government, appears to the vestry, as it does to
me, to be, when applied to the parish, at variance with
the principle on which the new poor-law was proposed,
we were anxious to explain to Sir James Graham the
manner in which we consider the provisions of that Act
will operate upon the parish.
"I came up from the country to attend the deputation,
the names of which are stated in Mr. Flood's letter to
Sir James Graham, and I was greatly surprised to learn
that be had refused to receive the deputation appointed
to explain the grounds of complaint.
" An interview with the Poor-law Commissioners led
to no fatisfactory result, and I therefore request you
will give the deputation the opportunity of stating to
you the consequence to this parish if the orders of the
Poor•law Commissioners are enforced.

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MARKET NEWS.—(SATV- of,
COVENT-GAMMON. „ere r-yi
The supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables "000,0)f
extensive, yet the trade ruled firm at our q
—Potatoes from 2s 6d to 5s 6d per cwt ; Turl3lPsed
Carrots, 4s 6d to 6s ; Greens, Is 6d to 2s 361;
8d to Is per dozen bunches; Onions, Is 6d to no
10 y
is 3d; to 4s; Pears, 3s to 6s; and Spinach, 19 ria.e.-At,
half-sieve ; Hot-house Grapes, 2s 6d to SS; obD9:110
5s to 8s ; and Filberts, 4d to 8d per lb ; w„,
to 63 per dozen ; Celery, 8d to is 8d ; Brocol" pine'o,
and Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle ; N 6 'IE Per 01
to 12s ; Lemons, 8s to 13s; and Walnuts, 80° itegV
NUNGERFORD, dp- ..„A hot
Although the supplies of most kinds or Pi" st
moderate, the general demand ruled heavi'
variation in prices. o „tp'o
NE-ix/GATE AND MICADIO-1%0f
Prime Beef, Mutton, and Pork sold steadilivig q °,l
Otherwise the trade ruled inactive--Beef, frolo,04;
Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 43 'orti•
3s lOd to 5s 4d per Blbs, bT the carcase. 23 i;oe'r
to 6s 6d ; Geese, 5s to 78; bucks, is 3d t° . tpf
Rabbits, 18 4d to Is 9d ; Wild ditto, 8d to 10;11x, ti
to 8d ; and roasting Pigs, 8s to 105 each ; Is 000'
per couple ; Pheasants, 3s to 4s ; Partriclge4 0
3d ; Hares. 2s 6d to Ss 8d; and Grouse, is ,td tO
,A;
NEWPOILT. to 49°'.5111
Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s o'-`
4s to 4s 10d: and Pork, 4s 2d to 5s 4d per
limited, and trade firm.
32XLIACNGSGATZ. Whititf; cfy•4
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SUNDERLAND, THURSDAY EVENING..—The excitement
consequent on the terrible explosion at the Bishopwear-
mouth Ironworks has partially subsided, but still the spot
has been visited by thousands in the course of the day, and
the most anxioes inquiries are made respecting those suffer-
ing from the injuries they received, all of whom are going on
well, with the exception of three—namely, Richard Pearson,
William Carr, and George Siddle, who are not expected to
recover. The inquest on those who have been killed will be
held to-morrow morning, and will probably occupy the whole
day. Downey, the engineer, is much improved, and it is
considered that he will be sufficiently well to attend the in-
quest. lie was not, it appears, actually within the engine..
room when the explosion occurred, but just on the outside,
and his injuries were caused by the fall of materials pro-
jected with such violence into the air.
A witness of the appalling calamity observes that the top
of the building for a moment rose like a cloud, but the
next it flew to pieces, and, along with nearly the entire
contents of the building, the boiler and the steam escaping
from it, ascended as if from a volcano, and instantly the air
was filled with the wreck of machinery, broken splinters,
iron, bricks, tiles, wood, and dust, which were driven in
every direction. In the vicinity of the works, and to a con-
siderable distance, the appearance of the roads and houses
was as if the ruins of the entire factory had been strewed
around. The boiler itself, which had exploded, huge as it
was, was broken into several pieces, and distributed to va-
rious distances. One piece weighing between two and three
tons, wag dashed against a portion of the warehouse adjoin-
ing the road, which it burst through, and alighted on the
opposite side of the road, having been driven from its posi-
tion a distance of nearly ninety feet. Another large frog-
mufti weighing about a ton and a half, was thrown into the
yard of Messrs. Hartley. and Co.'s glassworks, which are
situate on the north side of the road, nearly 200
feet from where the explosion occurred. A piece of
pipe connected with the boiler, weighing about cwt.,
was actually thrown a distance of 687 feet, and alighted
in Johnston-street, where it made a deep indentation in the
ground ; and, strange to say, another piece ascended so high,
and was thrown to such a distance, that it entered one of the
lofty chimneys of Messrs. Hartley and Co.'s works, where
it failed an obstruction for some time. When pieces of iron
of such immense weights were thrown to such distances, it
may be well conceived how flakes of iron and missiles of
brick, wood, and tile would be showered around. No lives
were lost by the falling materials beyond the works, though
various individuals were slightly injured by the light mis-
tiles i others had a narrow escape, and the houses in the imme-
diate vicinity of the catastrophe sustained slight damage.
Mr. Hutton, of Ford Paper-mill, had a narrow escape, he
having just passed a spot on the road on which a lofty
chimney was thrown. A huge bark of timber was thrown
against the house of Matthew Smith, a farmer, nearly oppo-
site the works. It struck the window, broke the sashes
and glass, and a portion of the splinters were dashed across
the room against a plate-rack on the opposite wall, where
it shivered the shelf to atoms. Fortunately, none of
the family were in the apartment at the time, the do-
mestics being engaged sorting diseased potatoes, in a
shed behind the premises. Another portion of timber
wits thrown over the house on to the roof a kitchen behind,
the roof of which it smashed in ; but again there was, fortu-
nately, no one near at the time. Indeed, casualties of this
kind are too numerous to particularise, there being scarcely
a house in the vicinity of the works but has sustained more
or less damage. One poor woman, named Ann Hurst, on
the eve of her confinement, was so much alarmed as to bring
on premature labour, and she was removed from her own
house to another, some distance from it, in a state bordering
on frenzy
A mere list of the wounded can be of little interest to par-
ties at a distance from the locality, but to the following are
appended a variety of particulars which will serve to convey
some notion of the neture of the calamity, and the amount of
suffering it has occasioned.
DEAD.—Charles Conforth, John Sugden, and William
Phillips, the latter having entered the works just before the
accident with his father's breakfast. John Oxley, who was
taken out alive, but died soon afterwards. His wound is de-
scribed as a compound fracture of the skull, or more properly,
fracture of the dorsal vertebrae. He was forty-five years of
age, and has left a wife and eight children.
MEN WOUNDED.—Thomas Hurst and Richard Oliver, cut
about the head; Thomas Pearson. cut in the back, and se-
verely injured internally ; Owen Thomas, skull fractured, and
otherwise much cut and bruised; John Lumber, head injured
and nose carried away, scarcely expected to survive ; Wm.
Almond, cut on the head; Thomas Downey, the engineman,
cut in the head and arm ; William Lewis, head fractured ;
and Richard West, cut in the head and arm.
YOUNG MEN AND BOYS.—John Shotton, much scalded;
two brothers, named Gardener, hurt in the arm and head;
John Pegman, seriously injured, and carried to the infir-
mary, where his fingers, which had been broken, and were
hanging by mere threads, were taken off; William Richley,
cut on the head; John Mowbray, skull fractured ; William
Pearson, very much hurt, having received a compound frac-
ture of the skull, has been trepanned, and is not expected to
recover ; Richard Boswell, slightly cut ; Mrs. Boswell, the
mother of this boy, was nearly smothered in the ruins, while
bringing her son's breakfast, she escaped with great fright ;
James Robson, much cut about the head and arms; William
Carr, skull fractured, and not expected to live; George Sid-
dle, much cut and bruised internally; Henry Cornforth and
William Buskell, braised about the head and arms.

" We consider that we ought to be heard against the
provision of the Act of last session. whatever course you
may think proper to adopt afterwards respecting them.
" I have the honour:to remain,
" Your obedient, humble servant,
" JOSEPH HUME."

Mr. HumE said to that letter to Sir Robert Feel he
hail, up to the present time, received no answer, but he
had no doubt he should receive one in the cburse of a
day or so, and would then lose no time in commun icat-
in.. with the committee.—(Hear.)
After some further discussion, it was resolved to enter
the correspondence on the minutes.

Turbots, 8s to 17s; Cod-fislT,isTo 85; 'BO- ei4
3d; Crabs, 6d to 2s ; and Lobsters, 8d to lb; 1
6d to 3s 3d per pair ; Salmon, 10d to 1.8 3d Per r
4d to is per lb. A
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WHITZOICAPEL. ad. . ,
Beef, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 38 4d to 48 oh; tlle 01l
to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Sibs ''' 00
0
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BREAD. 11
trolo Pr 0
The prices of Wheaten Bread in them 410 dr
9d to 9id; of Household ditto, 7d to Sid Per 11
o'ooo 0
HIDE IVEAR.XXT. jIP .1b
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to
4d3d tP077:),:r0,:,1615;1,
721 b, 3d to 3id ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3id to "11,4"t•LF
861 b, 3Ld to 4d. ; do. 881 b to 961 b,
1041 b, 46d to sd; Calf Skins, each, 3s 6d to 1460
13s; Polled Sheep, 3s to 3s 7d; Half-bredstiotl,
.ell
Downs, 2s 4d to 2s 10d; Lambs, 2s 6d to 210* d;
41,T ivizs.u3buiTs• i,„ to ' •
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, from 31 lu- 10 ' otrlliPl
ditto, 4/ 10s t• 61; Oat Straw, 11 14s te I! st I°lj
Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/18s per load. Trade stool/ Be;; 001
CU26/211MLAICD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs t,e, 1118 :01t
'
ditto, 4/ lOs to 6/ • Oat Straw, 1/ 16s two ji .e tor l'o
Straw, 1118 s to 21 per load. A/air aferav fey
o steady demand. to 51 Gi t
1/se
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Ha 3/ 108 . _Jo
41 lOs to 6165; Oat Straw. 1/ 14e to 11 lo'lnti o'
1/ 16s to 1/18s per load. Supply moderate .--
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dull.
• BIRTHS. 00(7' ibly
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On the 16th November, at Lewishattl, the log. 0
der, jun., Esq., of a son. a i° itill
On the 20th November, at Clarence-tett!'" ' file
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wife of E. J. Barker, Esq , barrister, of a e„ere'deter ,_s ir
On the 22d November, at Red-hill, -0' 'seot, tP
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G. G. Richardson, Esq., of a son. e' er' i
On the 24th November, at Ulcombe-Ple4
e, se' ,
Frances Fletcher; of a son.
On the 25th November, in Sussex-Pleheter. the d'
the wife of C. Cumberlege, Esq., of a dallgai- ore, e
On the 26th November, in Lowndes''''' to
A. Walford, Esq., of a son. terttlee'
On the 26th November, at Porchester-
E. D. Bourdillon, Esq., of a daughter. 1,1,
op' tov
MARRIED. rscv .0 mot
On the 18th 'November, at All Sou /000;‘,1,- el,
Lieut. W. Southey, 48th Madras Nati, ste/( 1/2410;
Magdalene, second daughter of Col. P..'" friatli,,, :‘,Oll
Royal Artillery. viroonfe, ' co"
On the 23d November, at St. lifar,v'e_,,,fordsl24,46 /
W. T. K. Davies, Esq., Croft Castle, tier Str- rOtAtiti
fifth daughter of the late M. O'Brien, -e•e'r' st. Aril e
of Limerick. tirchr, Viol
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On the 27th November, at the iNe'„er. J..,,ieg_trlP
by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, the -'-' 00'1 ;yr il
second son of the Bishop, to Sarah, onlYftege°' toe./
D. Jardine, Esq., of Cumberland-terrace,
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Robertson, of the East India CornPoll)bertSe"' 1"
third son of Major-General Archiba
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H. J. Bell, Esq. of White Knight's-lot-4 Dedt. iterbj Ao",
On the 24th' November, in Lowevr ~,,stl yyttoop°"eloe,
Williams, Esq., 31. D., Fellow of the '''l7-1"' eos •', Clivoio
cians, and Senior Physician of St. Thli_terrsf.;st s I,
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of the Savoy, in the County of AU %••
li 1846. I

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 29.
IN RE WILLIAM lIOL3IES.
This matter, which involved a somewhat important
point, and which was before the Court on Thursday,
again engaged the attention of Mr. Commissioner Law.
It was an application to divest the Court of its title over
the property of th, insolvent in favour of the Court of
Bankruptcy, under the Mt for fitcilitOwg armagereento

William Harding and Thomas Jones, notorious members
of the thieving fraternity, were brought before the Lord
Mayors charged with having robbed Mr. R. V. W. Williams,
of a pocket-book containing property to a very large amount.
Mr. Robinson attended for Jones.
Mr. Williams stated that he is a solicitor, and that he car-
ries on business at 3, Paper-buildings, Temple. That on
Thursday, at about half-past one o'clock, he was returning
from Masterman's bank, where he had received some bank
notes, which he had placed in his pocket-book, and deposited
in his inside coat-pocket, and that on his return to his cham-
bers, in about an hour, he missed his pocketbook. He had
passed through Cheapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Boo-
verie-street, to the Temple. That he had a bundle of letters
in his pocket, and at the top of Bucklersbury, in Cheapside,
he fanc►ed be had his pocket touched, but upon feeling his
pocket and finding his bundle of letters safe, he concluded
that his pocket-book , with its contents, was also secure.
The pocket-book which he afterwards ascertained he had
lost, had at the time nine 10/. Bank of England notes,
three. 5/. Bank of England notes, two orders for the payment
of 1,0001, each, an order for 5001., an order for 50/, and
several bills of exchange, which were overdue, and had been
paid.
Mr. Thomas Brand, cashier at Masterman's bank, stated
that at about one o'clock on Thursday lie paid to Mr. Wil-
liams, the prosecutor, the nine 10/. Bank of England notes
produced, and the two 5/. Bank of England notes.
John Coram (policeman 403) stated that at half-past one
o'clock, in consequence of information which he received that
a gentleman's pocket had been picked, he went across the
street in Cheapside and looked down Gutter-lane, and saw
the prisoner Harding with both his hands in his pockets.
Witness followed him down the lane. The prisoner turned
his head round and witness knew him. The prisoner then
began to run, and witness cried out "Stop him," and pur-
sued. The prisoner ran as far as Goldsmith-street, across
Wood-street, through Mitre-court, and back through Russia-
row, Where yritneg saw him take a pocket-beok out oi his

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LIST 01' SCOTTISH COIVEPANIES,, 4 deli, Yikl k'"
17 'tr ~, -Cr.
Dividend Amount ..,00 .. we 1-'
Name of Company. per of rBl4' / the ..11 Of '
bi "'Ai their
Annum. Share. tekt 410
•4, 'AO Lat LZl'. on ;
X B. d. X 71 0 lil 4r et
, lere ,
Bank of Scotland
0 i '114„:.et110(1,,
Royal Bank of Scotland per cent. - 100 0 Oiy, ,2(11' Tek. 4
ci'ro‘litt4ttre.._
British Linen Company Si• per cent. - 100 0 I ,Fi
Commercial Bank •• . • 6/. per cent. - 100 I F -nit i,_• On t
National Bank 6/. per cent. -- 10 0i O. 11,k..
50 ° 1 1: 44)4 et'
f r tl
Union Bank of Scotland 7% L pr cent. -
50 ° 1 11: to tiZ
Western Bank.. .... • . 6/. per cent. - sO' I it' '(Le Si
North of Scotland Bank Si. per cent. -
Clydesdale Bank per cent. - 10 21 1, 1-oi4 bt„,„
Eastern Bank. ..... - 10 011 1 v7,ko l0.1,1"'O
2 11 0 11,,
Caledonian Bank - 4410 the n
5 0 0 I.
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. - 11, xo,
815 O. lOU City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - eon. 11 .N
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 •0 v ~,
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 00 10 Aa• f, ti°11)1
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 Allrolo • th„. f' '
OK NN,
North British Insur 5% 0. pr cent. 200 00 10 n 1) 0. 0 `'ll9o,'
Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 00 10 ",, 0 0 ItDertk' tilt'
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cant. 100 0 0 10."0 0 „Ili CO3 In. e
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 ...10' 7, &pi ttr, leli
AII l'-0 1" te 'l4. ,-,41e
Ditto, IA Shares
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 00 20 410,1 / lice 44 ..00,1
tIIII.YI
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 A_ll ;Ala. I ,
Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 .1;1' ;0/(l,' iri 0c b
tilsgw& Gamkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 AA,
~ ;AP I klet N-41
Dundee & Arbmth Rail. 6/. percent. 25 0 0 "4"%.0 0 *Ar'qtt'Pi
Standard Life Aqsarnee.l Si per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 ' )41.irtill)
iOll, WI
Docxv. le ~..t, .4:ily 1
e'.....!.11
Dividend 1 Amount i raid. / Azt,
Name of Company. per of 48 h
Annum. Share., hip kteci
r----- d,
)tli,i'l '"4 by
;A i• 10 Dil,ltta 72 G,
.£ s. d.
~.... ti
Commercial ....
E astand West India... ,5%,1. pr cent. , Stock. - ilk,
I.ohtl 4,
-- 101 _.,m 0„
East Country
- 11
tit:lt
wl
Lyndon ...... •••.• • •• . )434/. pr cent.; Stock.
St Katharine ••••• • • • 15 per cent. Stock. ---0
I/ If------'
50 Ictq
Southampton ••••• . • • i 4/. per cent. ;500 0 - / IV
'144 sithol
CANALS.
...........-, 1 4 kilk:tirl ',lll,
_Ad r 'r: f'tl44'
1 e; Diw- 14 it
Names of OD Dividend Names of . 1”- tvi t th, pret
.... Price.ll24::ks;44,(
Companies. ;I per Companies. mow,/
cn Annum.
...../,' teehe4 ; _Mee
t,ltimls; `4cl,
‘4l'4t ,'Otil
£ £ 94 10 ‘,.0th,4,41ne,
Ashtn&Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 , 51. ij
Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 , !rj tiil,l
4,4 ,t t
Barnsley.... ;160' 121. 180 Macclesfield • 100
,t 0 ri, k 1411111414 )10
Basingstoke-11001 - - Neath lOO i $l. lik,c, eu,,,4l)pr
Brknk&Abrg I 1501 Si. 85 Nottingham . 150 41, *11144412"111
,‘ Drev - Is%
Cromford....lloo 18/. 150 Peak Forest. 78 oir, ,
bt.th,Ent ,a
Dudley ...... 100 4/. - Regent's ••• • " 41- 4 at,,,P.sF
Derby .• .. .. 100 8/. 103 Rochdale .• •• 85 $l. it ' ~,,t,,t,,
Ellsture&Chs 133 4/. 80 Shropshire - 125 ~, id' Nto 'as ``',
,ktpi. 4, ~,
Erewash ... 100 32/. 300 Somrset Coal 150 ''' p°' 1.1
a / '4lO,
Forth & Clyd 100 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 914 k / •44.4
I
GrandJunctn 100 '7l. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 151, /
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 /04
Glamorgnsh .1172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 11, lu" ' v 4 I
1
Glstr&Brkly11001 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 441,
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