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JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,395
Billiton District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford .... ..
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking

Company, Chesterfield - - 7,092
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Irnion flanking Company, Coventry 14,605
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,040
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,515
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington . 24,145
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 134.921
Halifax Joint-Stack Bank, Halifax 17,783
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,825
Hull Banking Company, Hull 28,627
Halifax Commerekl-Banking Company, Halifax 13,674
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Bvking Company, Helstoa . 1,461
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,541
Knaresborough arid Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborongh 27,236
Kingsbriti,pe Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,315
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 47,121
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 48,681
Leamingtol Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Hiding Banking Company,
Leeds..... 20,999
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,957
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,057
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 30,778
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 73,518
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 54,529
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 75,712
Northamptoflahire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 48,785
Pares's Leioastcrshire Banking Company, Lei-

cester
Saddleworth Ba ,eking Company, SaddleworLh 7,926
Sheffield Bankirg Company, Sheffield 33,299
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamibt ri
Stuckey's 8ank;1..., Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banitiog Company, Shiffnall ...
Stourbridge an'l Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbi itlAe
Sheffield and lial:amshire Banking Company,
Sheffield ..
Sheffield and R ,therham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, St. ellio'd
Swaledale and ‘llzusleydale Banking Company,
Richmond.. .
Stockton and Dur:iam County Banking Com-
pany, Stockt: -- 6,332
Storey and 'I; ~,ruas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury .
Sheffield and I.l.%ttord Bank, Sheffield ..
Suffolk Bankint-, +.:ompany, Ipswich
Wolverhampto.. aud Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton
vde andn j
,13,ianrt. );:teoyek
BankingUnionßank ,
CWakefield, 3147,857188
Wakefield
IVhitehaven .
Warwick and Le,oon.gton Banking Company, 27,315
Leamington
West of England and South Wales District
Bank, Bristol,

Average Amo9nt
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 70,647
Wt.st Riding Union Banking tJompany, Hud-
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dersfield ...... ...
Whitehurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,

Whitchurch - - - 6,303
Worcester City a od County Banking Company,
Worcester.... , 4,799
York Union Bao't.ing Company, Y,,tk 72,230
York City and C, • inty Banking Company, York 87,865
Yorkshire Bankir. ;Company, Lpeils
P. 1 .EANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Ta_*- es, Jan. 25, 1815.

THE OCCUPATION of OTAHEITE

THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY AND
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
The visit of the King of the French to her Ma-
jesty the Queen having appeared to the Directors a
suitable occasion for presenting to the King a respect-
ful, but faithful, statement of facts connected with
the former history of Otaheite, and its present la-
mentable condition, as the result of the French
aggression, the Directors deemed it also highly
desirable that a small deputation of their body should
solicit the honour of presenting such a document, that
its details might, if necessary, be more fully ex-
plained, and its design respectfully urged on the
humanity and justice of the King.
In soliciting an interview the Directors were un-
successful ; but their memorial to his. Majesty was
presented through the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs, by whom his answer was also communicated.
That answer, the Directors deeply regret, is altogether
unsatisfactory; but they still indulge the hope that
the Government of France will yet be convinced of
the impolicy, as well as the injustice, of maintaining
the occupation of the island, and generously restore
to the deeply-injured Queen and her people their per-
fect freedom and independence.
The following is the memorial presented through
M. Guizot to King Louis Philippe :
MEMORIAL ADDRESSED BY THE DIRECTORS OF TILE
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO HIS MAJESTY
LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF TILE FRENCH.
May it please your Majesty,—The following Me-
morial of the Directors of the London Missionary
Society, presented with sentiments of profound
respect,
Showeth,—That your Majesty's memorialists are
entrusted by a numerous body of constituents with
the direction and management of the London Mis-
sionary Society, one of the Protestant institutions of
Great Britain, designed to extend among pagan and
other unenlightened nations the blessings of know-
ledge, civilisation, and religion.
That the institution which your memorialists have
the honour to repesent was formed in the year 1795,
and consists of members of different Protestant com-
munions, including Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and
Congregationalists ; and that it is now employing
upwards of 700 agents, partly European and partly
native, who prosecute their self-denying and be-
nevolent labours in different parts of India, China,
Africa, the West Indies, and Polynesia.
That, by the blessing of God vouchsafed to the
operations of this institution, multitudes of the human
race, once the victims of savage life in its lowest state
of misery, and of pagan idolatry in its most cruel and
degrading forms, are now enjoying the inestimable
advantages of social order and happiness, secured as
well as heightened by the influence of Christianity.
That, by the literary and philological labours also
of the Society's missionaries, the holy Scriptures
have been translated into the languages of China and
various nations of India; while to many tribes of
Africa and Polynesia, previously unacquainted with
any written form of language, they have presented
the inspired volume in the vernacular tongues, and
have taught the people to read and understand its
hallowed truths.
That your memorialists deem it proper very ex-
pressly to inform your Majesty that, among the
earliest spheres selected for their efforts of mercy by
the founders of the London Missionary Society, were
included the populous islands of the South Pacific,
and more particularly Otaheite and other islands
known in Britain as the Georgian and Society
groups, discovered nearly thirty years before by our
navigator,. Captain Wallis.
That, in the year 1796, a band of enterprising and
devoted missionaries, sent forth by this institution,
landed on the shores of Otaheite, where they found
the natives in the most abject state of social wretched-
ness and moral pollution. The power of the chiefs
was despotic and cruel ; the national idolatry was
equally sanguinary and licentious; human sacrifices
were frequent; infanticide general; and these, with
other depopulating atrocities, combined with frequent
wars, then threatened the speedy extinction of the
Otaheitean race.
That, amidst these revolting scenes, and while
exposed to hardships and dangers almost incredible,
in which their lives were in continual peril, and they
were often driven from the island, these self-denying
men persevered in their endeavours, by instruction
and persuasion, to enlighten and bless the miserable
people, till at length the islanders were influenced by
these means, and by these means only, to renounce
idolatry, with all its cruel and polluting rites, and to
embrace the Gospel, both as the warrant of their faith
and the rule of their practice.
That, for the subsequent period of more than thirty
years, Christianity has gradually diffused its benign
and salutary influence over the minds and habits of
Otaheitean people; during which a system of good
government has been adopted, and a code of laws,
equitable though simple, has been established ; both
the persons and property of foreigners have been re-
spected ; the various relations of social life have been
honoured ; education has become general; the Holy
Scriptures have been translated, printed, and widely
circulated; and the practical observance of Chris-
tianity, both in its public ordinances and its personal
and relative obligations, has been exhibited to an ex-
tent but rarely seen in European nations.
That the internal harmony and progressive im-
provement of the islanders have, however, been grie-
vously interrupted by a series of calamitous events,
originating, as your Majesty's memorialists believe,
in the attempt of two Catholic missionaries, subjects
of France, in the year 1836, to settle on Otaheite, in
opposition to the established and well-known law of
the island, which prohibited " any master or com-
mander of a vessel from landing any passenger with-
out special permission from the Queen and go-
vernors." Your Majesty's memorialists do not
feel it incumbent on them to sustain or justify
this application of the law in the:case of Messrs.
Caret and Laval, but they cannot suppress the con-
viction, that the measure was adopted by the Queen
and the native authorities rather from an apprehen-
sion of civil, than religious, dissension—a fear which
subsequent events prove not to have been groundless.
To the operations of the same law, however, the
agenst sent forth by tho London Missionary Society
have ever been subject; and your memorialists ven-
ture most respectfully to remind your Majesty, that
in France, and other enlightened kingdoms of Europe,
the same principle of right on the part of the Sove-
reign and the Government to regulate the admission
of foreigners to their respective territories is strictly
exercised ; and your Memorialist; submit, that if the
exercise of such authority be deeme,l essential to the
safety and well-being of ancient and powerful mo-
narchies, its equity cannot be questioned or its neces-
sity denied to the defenceless Sovereign and the feeble
Government of Otaheite.
That, while entertaining these views as to the right
of Pomare and her chiefs to establish and enforce re-
gulations for the government and protection of their
own country, your Majesty's memorialists most em-
phatically disclaim all desire on their own part fur
any restriction on the propogation of religious
opinions and practices by Christian communities from
which they differ. While, therefore, the Directors of
the London Missionary Society cannot but regret
that the Catholic missionaries of Prance should wish
to obtrude the peculiarities of religious controversy
on a people so recently rescued from the depths of
ignorance and paganism as the natives of Otaheite ;
and while it would have appeared a nobler exemplifi-
cation of Christian charity and self-denial had their
labours been directed to the other islands of the Pa-
cific, where multitudes are still enduring the unmiti-
gated miseries of barbarism and idolatry, your Ma-
jesty's memorialists nevertheless concede most readily
to all, and would strenuously claim for all, the
right which they claim for themselves—the right of
propagating, with unrestricted freedom, by instruc-
tion, argument, and moral influence, those sentiments
and principles which they believe to be revealed and
sanctioned by the authority of God.
That, for the enforcement, however, of the Otahei-
teen law on your Majesty's subjects, Messrs. Caret
and Laval, a fine of 2,000 dollars was imposed On the
Qaeen, in the year 1838, by Captain A. Dupetit
Thouars ; and in the year 1839 the law itself was
abrogated, in application to natives of France, at the
demand of Capt. Laplace, of the Artemise ; since
which period the Catholic missionaries of your Ma-
jesty's dominions have enjoyed a liberty never granted
Ito the Protestant missionaries of Britain—the liberty
of residence on the island without the previous sanc-
tion of the Government.
That the occurrences now recited by your Ma-
jesty's memorialists were followed by the establish-
ment in Otabeite, in the year 1842, of the protecto-
rate of France, and, during the year following, by the
assumption, in your Majesty's name, of the absolute
sovereignty of the island, the dethronement of P.
mare, and the forcible occupation of her country. As
the result of these aggressions on the rights of the
Sovereign and the liberties of thpeis,bitlendd,;weare peaceful,w-i
tliits
attendant desolations, has since prevailed;
inhabitants have been scattered, and their villages
destroyed; the schools of the missionaries have been
dispersed, and their congregations ruined ; their wives
and families have been compelled to flee for safety
from the island; their own persons have been in fre-
quent peril, and one of their number has (though un-
intentionally) been killed; thus, withiu a few months,

a train of miseries has been produced which the labour
of many years will he required to counteract.
That, while your memorialists are happy to ac-
knowledge the honourable decision of your Majesty's
Government in declining to assume the sovereignty
of Otaheite, and while they d aibt not that the de-
struction of human life, and the other multiplied evils
to which the invasion of the country has given rise,
will be to your Majesty an occasion of sincere and
deep regret, they are encouraged also to entertain the
assurance that a similar course of upright and gene-
rous policy would have been pursued in reference to
the French protectorate in Otaheite had your Ma-
jesty's Government at the time of its commencomen
been accurately acquainted with the means by which
it was established; inasmuch as it is now notorious
throughout the civilised world that, instead of being
a measure sought by Pornare and her people for the
protection of their country, it was forced upon the
Queen in the approaching hour of maternal anguish,
and under the alternative of invasion and war; and
that, under the compulsory influence of these circum-
stances, she subscribed a document to which she had
been no party, and which could not but prove fatal
to the peace and the best interests of her country.
That, with the knowledge of these facts, which
are now indisputable and universally understood, your
Majesty's memorialists indulge the sanguine hope,
and prefer their most importunate entreaty, that your
Majesty will exercise a generous Inagnimity, alike
worthy of yourself and of your powerful and en-
lightened country, by restoring to the Queen and the
people of Otaheite their perfect liberty and indepen-
dence, securing only to the subjects of France those
rights, civil, religious, and commercial, which are
enjoyed in the island by foreigners of other nations
both of Europe and America.
That, in the hope that your Majesty's Government
will be generously inclined to remove from Queen
Pomare and her subjects every just cause of opposi-
tion and complaint, your memorialists entertain the
strongest conviction that the honour and interests of
France will be thereby better secured than by the
perpetuation of a power obtained by means so justly
repugnant to the islanders, and which cannot fail, so
long as it exists, to be the fruitful occasion of discord
and contention.

That, in earnestly soliciting this boon from your
Majesty's Government on behalf of the Otaheiteans,
your memorialists feel it due to the institution which
they have the honour to superintend, to assure your
Majesty that the London Missionary Society is en-
tirely unconnected with any political objects or inte-
rests; that it receives neither pecuniary nor other
support from the Government of Britain; that its
income is derived from the voluntary contributions of
its members ; that its agents are wholly dependent on
its funds, and subject, exclusively to the control of its
Directors; that they are sent forth, in private and
unarmed vessels, at the expense of the Society; and
that the members of the institution, no less than its
Directors, would feel an insuperable objection to the
use of civil authority and compulsion of every kind
for the establishment of their missionaries among the
heathen nations, entertaining the conviction that such
means are most calculated to defeat the moral and re-
ligious objects of their benevolent enterprise. Your
Majesty's memorialists feel it due also to themselves and
to their constituents, in preferring their importunate
petition for the freedom of Otaheite, to disclaim all
desire of securing any secular or political advantages
for their missionaries labouring in the island ; in cor-
roboration of which it is only necessary to state,
that during a residence of nearly fifty years the agents
of the London Missionary Society have never pos-
sessed any portion of the land, but such as may have
been granted during the pleasure of the Queen and
the native chiefs ; that they are strictly prohibited
from accepting any appointment from the native Go-
vernment ; that, although in the early part of their
labours barter with the natives was indispensable for
the sustenance of the missionaries, the necessity
having now ceased, they are forbidden from engaging
in trade or any mercantile pursuit; and that any vio-
lation of these restrictions would be followed by the
immediate withdrawaient of the Society's confidence
and support.
That, in expressing solicitude for the withdraw-
ment of the French protectorate from Otaheite, your
Majesty's memorialists deem it all but superfluous to
repudiate the desire of seeing that island transferred
to the dominion of Britain, or of becoming in any
degree subject to its control ; that they are well as-
sured that Otaheite, from its geographichal position
and limited resources, must he regarded as politically
insignificant alike by the Governments both of Eng-
land and France ; and that your Majesty's memo-
rialists would feel the deepest regret that the islanders
should be deprived of the right of independence, and
the blessings of perfect freedom, by any foreign
Power ; being sincerely anxious that, in the history of
Otaheite, it may be made evident that, by a course of
intellectual and moral training, a race of savages may
be elevated to the power of salutary self-government,
and be inspired also with respect for the rights and
interests of other nations.

That your Majesty's memorialists, in common with
their countrymen, have felt the deepest regret that
the occupation of Otaheite has already threatened to
interrupt the cordial understanding existing between
the Governments of France and Great Britain, and
they sincerely rejoice that the pacific relations of the
two countries have, notwithstanding, been happily
preserved : they are gratified also, that their mis-
sionaries in the island, amidst the peculiar difficulties
of their position, employed their best influence, though
in vain, to prevent the effusion of human blood ; and
they fervently pray, that under your Majesty's pro-
lotwed and peaceful reign, the people of your great
and enlightened kingdom may continue to reciprocate
with the subjects of Great Britain the practical expres-
sions of sincere goodwill and fraternal amity ; and
that under the gracious destinies of Divine Providence
the two nations may be found in future years blend-
ing their powerful energies to extend the blessings o
social order, solid happiness, and true religion, to the
degraded and the suffering children of men of every
country and in every clime.
By order and on behalf of the Board of Directors
of the London Missionary Society,
FREDERICK SMITH, Chairman.
ARTHUR TIDMAN,
Secretaries.
J. J. FREEMAN,
London, Dec. 13, 1844.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The correspondence between the secre-
t-ries of the London Mission, and the French
Government, forms a curious supplement to the
dispatches and debates on Otaheite. Our opinion
on this question has uniformly been, that whilst
sound policy, and a comparative estimate of the in-
terests involved, alike forbade making its discussion a
subject of unnecessary irritation between the two
countries, it still less became Englishmen to hush up
or gloss over manifest facts from a fear that their
mention might be unpleasing to France. To those
who hold the latter opinion, indeed, whether private
individuals, journalists, or Cabinet Ministers, the cor-
respondence in question must be a most un wel-
come publication ; for it puts strong truths in
a clear light, and dashes asi:le, by a few pungent
facts, a vast deal of diplomatic -pomp and eloquent
sophistry by which the question has been obscured.
We will allow for the appeal of the Londoa Mission
being called an ex parte statement, for the short reply
of the French Minister does not enter into any of the
facts there detailed ; but it is one that refers to certain
events and occurrences in Otaheite, the contradiction
of which is easy if incorrectly cited. The Society's
memorial of 13th December may be divided into
three portions :-Ist. The Society's recapitulation of
its missionary labours up to 1836. 2. A. Narrative
of the subsequent introduction of French influence,
and its effects on the island. 3. A Demand
for the relinquishment of the French Protectorate
on the grounds of justice and humanity. The first
cannot but be regarded as highly creditable to the
Landon Mission. No reasonable person can doubt
that the Otaheiteans of 1796—sunk in superstition
vice, and ignorance, and, as we are there informed,
verging towards extinction from infanticide, human
saerifices, and sanguinary feuds—were a complete
contrast to the same people in 1836. This is fair
ground for congratulatory reminiscence. A people of
considerable physical and moral capabilities (their
spirited resistance to the French during the
last year proves the former, the latter is
confirmed by the statements of all contemporary
observers) gradually introduced to civilisation
based on the foundation of Christianity, offers a
subject of congratulation to all well-wishers to the
human race, and is highly creditable to the So-
ciety by whose agency it was effected. In 1836
occurred the arrival of the two Catholic mis-
sionaries, and their expulsion under a law of the
island, " prohibiting passengers from landing with-
out permission from the Queen and governors."
This trenches on delicate ground, for the French have
always assumed that it was done at the instigation of
the agents of the Mission : this the latter deny, or
at least imply as much, and disclaim "all desire for a
restriction on the propagation of relgious opinions by
other Christian communities. We must take this
statement with some allowance, fora is in the nature
of things that these agents for the propagation of a
strict form of Protestantism could not look with com-
placency on the introduction of Roman Catholic doc-
trines, to say nothing of the risk of diminished social
and political influence, which weighs with all men
from diplomates to missionaries included. In 1830
a fine of 2.000 dollars was imposed by Captain
Dupetit Thouars, for injuries received by I /M. Caret
and Laval, the expelled missionaries ; and in 1842-3,
the protectorate and sovereignty, following each
other, led to the destruction of our influence in Ota-
heite, the abandonment of the missionary schools, and
the other events of which we have lately heard much
by speeches, correspondence, and diplomatic notes.
Then came the demand for the withdrawal of the
French protectorate, made formall► by Messrs.

Smith, Tichrian, and Freeman, in the name of the
London Mission, on grounds of justice and humanity.
It is easy to smile at such a demand, the answer to
which was certain ; for we are far enough from a
state of society in which the expressed wishes of a
body of religious teachers can outweigh the political
designs of a powerful nation. But perhaps each
party sustains its character herein the Mission,
strong in its spiritual functions, puts aside all po-
litical interests, and demands that the French eva-
cuate Otaheite on grounds of moral justice
and for the benefit of the islanders; M. Guizot,
in his reply, strives with diplomatic finesse
to turn his opponents' position, and deduces
from sentiments "of humanity and toleration" therein
set forth, the startling conclusion, that "the mis-
sionaries will aid the authorities, charged to execute
the protectorate, in the work of civilisation, &c." An
emphatic disclaimer of this presumed co-operation 00
the part of the Society closes the correspondence.
However ludicrous may seem this protocolling be-
tween a religious society and the Cabinet of France
to the worldly wise, some serious matter for reflection
is suggested by it to all thinking men. We will now
only indicate three points, the last of which has been
lately handled by some of our Contemporaries ; these
are-1. The theory of protectorates as developed in
practice at Otaheite. 2. The social prospects of that
interesting island. 3. The policy of allowing re•
ligious bodies to conduct diplomatic correspondence
with foreign Powers. On each of these heads we
hope to say something at a future opportunity.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday, in the course of the sittings before the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh Rate and his
witness attended for the purpose of completing their
depositions in support of the charge preferred against
Mr. R. Forbes, jun., for having published certain
false, malicious, and defamatory libels of and con-
cerning the firm of Messrs. Rickards, Little, Rate
and Little, and particularly of and concerning Mr.
L. M. Rate, one of the parties of the said firm. The
particulars of the extraordinary case were fully de-
tailed in the journals of Tuesday's date, and the pro-
ceedings of yesterday's were limited to the mere read-
ing over and signing the depositions, and binding the
witnesses, in the usual recognisances, to appear and
prosecute at the session of the Central Criminal Court.
The defendant, Mr. Forbes, jun., was in the justice-
room, but took no part in the proceedings.
Mrs. Mary Frances Keele surrendered, in discharge
of the recognizances entered into by her husband on
Wednesday last, for her re-examination upon the
charge of bigamy preferred against her by her mo-
ther-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Keele, of Canterbury.
Mr. Clarkson appeared on behalf of the defendant,
who, in consequence of her ill state of health, was
ordered by the Lord Mayor to be accommodated with
a chair in front of the bar. The evidence which had
been given by the prosecutrix: and her son (the
husband), as well as the statement made by the de-
fendant at the last examination, having been read over,
John Dixon, City policeman 619, produced two
marriage certificates from the register of the parish of
St. George's, Hanover-square ; the one of a marriage
solemnised between John Weller and Mary Frances
Witham, on the 7th June, 1831, and the second of
the marriage of William urney Keele with Mary
Frances Weller, in the month of October last year.
Mr. Clarkson remarked that the defendant had
never denied or concealed the fact of her first mar-
riage—on the contrary, she had always spoken of it
to the young .man, her present husband, who had
sworn that he was of opinion the defendant believed
her former husband to be dead. If she had sought
concealment of the fact of her previous marriage, it
was somewhat singular that she should have taken
the young man Keele to the very church where the
evidence of her first marriage existed. In short, so far
from attempting any concealment, she had afforded
the only evidence which existed against herself.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutrix)—Are you
prepared now with any further evidence in support of
the charge ? The prosecutrix—No, my Lord. I
have written to the sister of the first husband, Weller,

but she,has refused to have anything to do with the
matter.
The LORD MAYOR —Then you have no further
evidence ? The prosecutrix—Only that my son
wants to get rid and clear of the defendant altogether.
Mr. Clarkson—l rather think it is somebody else
who wants to get rid of her.
In answer to a series of questions put by the
Learned Counsel, the prosecutrix stated that prior to
his marriage her son had been in the habit of allowing
her Bs. a-week out of his earnings, but that this
allowance had, since the marriage, been discontinued,
though some money had been remitted to her, as she
thought, by her son,' though she would not swear it
had not been sent by the defendant. The witness
had visited them since their marriage, and washed for
them, but she had not been in the habit of endeavour-
ing to persuade her son to leave his wife and return
to Canterbury. She had, however, done so since she
had heard the first husband was still living. She
positively denied that she had ever promised her son
that if he would leave his wife and return to Canter-
bury she would not appear before the Lord Mayor,
neither had she threatened to prosecute them both if
he did not return to his father's house.
William Gurney Keele repeated his former testi-
mony, and added that this prosecution had not been
instituted by his desire or wish. The letters pro-
duced were in the handwriting of his mother, who
had repeatedly applied to him to leave his wife and
return home. Since his marriage he had not sent
any money home, but when he and his s‘ ife left Can-
terbury to come to London, the latter, knowing the
condition of his mother, gave her thirty shillings.
Mr. Clarkson—Answer this question : Have you
not stated since you have been here to-day, that
nothing on earth should induce you to leave the
defendant, though your mother has stated that you
wished to leave her?
The witness hesitated, but on the question being
repeated, replied that he had no reason to complain
of his wife's conduct, and that he should not wish to
be separated from her in case her first husband was
really dead.
Mr. Clarkson submitted that the only question
was as to whether the first husband was alive or dead.
Of this important fact there was not a scintilla of
evidence, and therefore the charge must fall to the
ground.
The young man, Keele, said he would become an-
swerable for his wife's appearance in case she should
be required again.
The LORD MAYOR intimated to the prosecutrix
that, if she could procure any evidence to show that
the first husband was still in existence, the defendant
could be brought up again—at present the defendant
was discharged for want of evidence.
The parties then quitted the justice-room together.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Miller, a middle• aged man of muscular
appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with having created a violent disturb-
ance at the house of his brother, a builder in the
City-road, and assaulted and wounded his daughter,
a child about three years of age.
It appeared from the statement of Mrs. Jane
Miller, the prisoner's sister-in-law, that the prisoner,
who had been for some time in the employment of
her husband, and had been accommodated with
hoard and lodging in the house, was a person of
very irregular habits, and repeatedly returned home
in such a state of intoxication as to occasion the
greatest annoyance to herself and family. On the
preceding evening he entered the house in a highly
excited state from the effects of the liquor he had
tak-n, and had no sooner got into the apartments in
which she was sitting, with an infant in her lap, than
he began to abuse her in the grossest language,
threatening to smash all the furniture in the place,
and set fire to the house. She expostulated with him
gently on his conduct, and used her utmost endea-
vours to moderate his violence, but all to no purpose,
for he became still more outrageous, and at length
suddenly caught up a carving-knife from the supper
table, and, with a shocking oath, hurled it at her
face. She providentially saw the action, and by
making a hasty movement to avoid the weapon,
escaped the intended injury to herself ; but the blade
of the knife unfortunately struck the child upon the
forehead, and inflicted such a frightful gash that its
face was covered with blood. She instantly raised
an alarm, which brought other persons to her assist-
ance, and, after a strong resistance on the part of
the prisoner, he was overpowered and taken into
custody.
The police-constable who took the prisoner in
charge stated, that upon being called to the house he
found the prisoner conducting himself with great
violence, and that he repeatedly threatened he would
" do for" his brother, and burn the place down.
The prisoner now said, that he was very sorry he
should have misconducted himself in the manner de-
scribed by the witnesses, 'but she had been drinking
more that he was accustomed to do, and had not the
slightest recollection of what had taken place.
Mr. Brno lIAM said, that nothing whatever could
extenuate the gross outrage of which the prisoner had
been guilty, and he might consider himself very for-
tunate that he was not standing where he then did
upon a charge of manslaughter. He had very great
doubts whether he ought to deal summarily with the
case ; but, rather than subject so near a relative to the
pain, expense, and inconvenience of appearing against
him elsewhere, he should take upon himself to do so,
and punish the prisoner to the utmost extent in his
power. He should therefore order him to pay the full
penalty of 51., or in default to stand committed for
six weeks to the House of Correction ; in addition to
which he should require him to find substantial bail
for his good behaviour for the next three months.
The money was not paid, and the prisoner in con-
sequence was removed.
CLERKENWELL.
This Court was crowded with spectators, in conse- '
pence of its-having been generally known that the

parish officers of St. Luke's were about prosecuting a
woman, living in 3, George's-yard, Golden-lane, St.
Luke's, for cruelty of a most atrocious character ti.)-
wards her step-child. _ _ _ _ _ _

John Marks, a smith, and Anne Marks, Ms wife,
were brought up on a warrant, charged with cruelty
towards Anne Marks, aged 10 years, the daughter of
the formar and step-daughter of the latter prisoner.
Several of the parochial officers of St. Luke's were
in attendance. Between four and five o'clock on
Saturday evening last, a poor woman, living next
door to the prisoner, went to the police-station, and
informed the sergeant on duty there that a child had
been most brutally treated in George's .yard. The
police-sergeant Ridney, and police-constable Few,
154 G, went to the house of the prisoner, and found
the female prisoner sitting in a lower apartment,
somewhat intoxicated; they asked fur the child, but
she refused to give any answer concerning her until
her husband was present. The husband was sent for
to a public-house, and, upon his arrival, the child,.
who had been washing out a room, was produced.
The officers declared that her appearance shocked
them. She had no covering but a threadbare shift,
black with dirt, and a piece of sack, quite as filthy,
about her shoulders. There was an ulcer on one
of her feet, and a bruise on her back, and another
sore on her neck. Her skin was literally covered
with scales of dirt, and the smell proceeding
from her was intolerable. When brought into the
presence of her parents she cried and seemed terribly
frightened. She refused to say a word. The officers
sent for Mr. Birch, the relieving-officer of St. Luke's,
and he had the child removed to the workhouse. Mr.
Birch and the two policemen then proceeded upstairs
to the apartment in which the girl was chiefly con-
fined, and in which she and her three brothers always
slept. Upon entering the room they were so dis-
gusted with the smell as to be obliged to retire.
Upon re-entering it they found the floor covered with
human excrement, and the only thing it contained
was a small heap of carpenter's shavings which had
been picked from the dust-holes, and huddled into a
corner of the room, and on this heap the prosecutrix
and her three brothers slept, with no other covering
than a part of a filthy old sack. The child said that
they strove to keep themselves warm by huddling to-
gether when the nights were cold. There was only
one small window to the room which was closed, and
the constables declared that it would be cruelty to
put a dog or a pig in it. The house contains but
three rooms, and that in which the female prisoner
was found, and in which herself and husband slept
and lived, was rather a comfortable apartment, and
was as well furnished with food and furniture as most
mechanics' dwellings. When Mr. Birch spoke to the
mother she laughed at him, treated his remonstrance
with the greatest derision, and set his authority at de-
fiance. He accordingly applied for and obtained a
warrant.

The child cried bitterly on being brought into
Court, and seemed to regard the female prisoner with
the greatest terror. She sobbed so bitterly and fre-
quently that there was great difficulty in collecting
her testimony. She was lame from the ulcer on
her foot.

Mr. COMBE determined on sending the case for
trial for the assaults inflicted on the child on Satur-
day, and hence the child's testimony was confined to
what occurred on that day.

She deposed—My name is Anne Marks, and I
shall be 11 years of age next April. My mother sent
me for a kettle of water on Saturday morning, and
when I returned with it she met me at the door, and,
saying that I had been idle, she seized me by the hair
and dragged me into the passage. She lifted me up
in her arms and threw me down as hard as she could
on the floor, and kicked me on the body. I screamed,
but she took me up, and " chucked" me down again.
She kicked me on the side ands n the thighs, and when
I was lying on the ground she poured the kettle of
water on me. I lay there crying. When my
mother went away, I went out and sat
upon a door step in the court. I sat
there crying for half an hour, when a woman
came and took me in. I had nothing to eat up to this
time. The sore on my leg was caused by a kick my
,father gave me a fortnight ago. My back was very
sore. I stopped more than an hour in the neigh-
bour's house, when my father came for me, and
brought me home. As soon as my mother saw me
she ran at me and kicked me again, but my father beat
her for doing so. The child added, that she did not
wish to hurt her father, who had given her bread and
butter. All the clothing she had on was a slat and
a bit of a sack, and sometimes the skirt of a petticoat
fastened upon me with a rope. The poor child, who,
as she proceeded with her testimony was becoming
more and more convulsed with grief,at length swooned
away in a paroxysm of grief, and was removed from the
Court in a state of insensibility. The male prisoner
burst into tears, and seemed deeply affected, as was
almost every one present. The female prisoner did
not seem in the least moved, but actually shook her
head and laughed when the child was borne by her
like a corpse.
Mary Dowlan, a poor Irishwoman living next door
to the prisoner saw the child sitting on a door step
and took her into her house. The only covering she
had was a dirty ragged chemise, and a piece of a sack
round her shoulders, both of which were saturated
with wet. She made the child dry herself at the
fire, and gave her a potato. Before the child
left the door-step she told witness to watch her
mother, lest she might be at the window. She was
trembling from cold, and said her mother had kicked
and thrown cold water over her. There were several

bruises on her, and a sore on her leg. One bruise
was on the small of the back. The child was very
hungry. Witness never saw any one in so horrible
a state before. When the child's rags were dry, wit-
ness went in to the mother, and begged that she
would not beat the child, and she promised she would
not. When the child was taken in by her father she
heard her screams, and soon after seeing her crying
at the window gave her another hot potato, which she
eat up.

Sarah Angelina Hewett, a very respectable-looking
matron, corroborated the above testimony in every
respect, and also deposed to the general brutality of
the female prisoner towards her. There was an ulcer
on her neck about a fortnight ago, as if she had been
burnt. Her back and legs were bruised. Witness
went into the house of the last witness whilst the
child was there, and the latter seeing her said, " Oh,
Mrs. Hewett, pray do take me from my mother ; she
beats me dreadful." The child had her hand on her
back, saying it ached very much from the kicks.
After the child was taken in by her father witness
heard her screams for ten minutes after, and her cries
for " mercy." Heard the female prisoner say,
" You -, by - I will have your life, ifyou
go into a neighbour's house again ; or the life of any
neighbour that will harbour you." She used other
horrible expressions and threats.

The female prisoner here exclaimed, "And your
life too, you b—y perjured wretch !" and she held up
her clenched fist menacing the witness.

Mary Hewett :and John Ward corroborated the
above testimony in every respect.

Elizabeth Howse, the workhouse nurse, deposed to
the nature of the injuries above described. Her flesh
was encrusted with dirt, and it required great labour
when the child was in the bath to scrape the dirt off;
the smell was horrible. On Sunday morning when
the child got up she said her bones felt sore from
lying on a bed, she had been so unaccustomed to it.

Mr. COMBF said, he should discharge the male
prisoner, but send the woman for trial, and wished to
know if she had anything to say, telling her she
might say nothing if she pleased.
The woman—Then if I may not I will say nothing►.
She was committed for trial.
THAMES POLICE.

A man, who seemed by trade a shoemaker, waited on
Mr. Broderip and stated that on the preceding night
his wife was called in to attend a woman who was
said b be in a dying state at the house, 63, Rose-
mary-lane, kept by a dairyman named William Chap-
man, who is the owner of thirteen or fourteen cows,
and is considered by the neighbours to be worth a
considerable sum of money. On going to the house
she was almost suffocated with the nauseous smell
which issued from the place, and informed her hus-
band of the circumstance ; he went back with her,
and the dying woman informed him that two brothers
lived in the house who entertained a deadly animosity
to each other, and that but for her interference some
thing terrible would be the consequence. Mr. Cripps,
surgeon, of Wellclose-square, was sent for, but before
his arrival, the woman expired. The applicant hi.aring
the sound of distress in an upper apartment, proceeded
up stairs, and in a small room more like a cell than
an apartment, having neither window nor fire-place,
and lighted day and night by a rushlight, he found a
miserable creature, who, though only forty-five years
old, seem bowed down by want and age to the verge
of the grave. His beard seemed to be the growth of
several months, his face and body were terribly
emaciated, and his legs, which were swollen to an im-
mense size, were eaten into by sores as large as a half-
crown piece.

Mr. BRODERIP—Was he sane ? The applicant
said, he seemed to be as sane as a man in so wretched
a condition could be supposed to be. Ile stated, that
he had property in some houses in Leicestershire; but
that no rent had been paid out of it for some years.
The only furniture in the rootn was an old bedstead
on which the wretched man sat with a piece of old
sacking wrapped about his loins, and the filthy rags
upon the bed were calculated to create a contagion.
Seeing a human being in such a condition, applicant
thought it his duty to apprise the magistrate of the
matter, that some inquiry might be made into it.
Mr.BRODERIP commended the man's conduct, and
directed Macready, the warrant-officer, to inquire
into the case, and, if necessary, report it to the pa-
rochial authorities.

Macready, on his return, stated that he never be-
fore witnessed anything so filthy as the premises.
The deceased woman was sister to the two brothers
who resided in the house, and her parsimonious habits