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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1845.

every fitting occasion that has presented itself for some
tie.►c past we have earnestly and honestly endeavoured to
advocate the interests of her 31,t3EsTy's Navy. Considering
thet arm as the most powerful which the national service

ro‘,esses, we have ever felt the most anxious solicitude to

watch over the course of all events which had a bearing on
it w efficiency and healthful vigour. The anxiety under which,
from time to time, we have endeavoured to press its pre-
eminent claims upon the public sympathy and protection
b ,; been at once justified and rewarded by the flattering

a,!!:nowledgments which have been addressed to us
he parties long attached to the profession, and whose
approbation we, of course, consider the more valuable
hr resvoa of their great personal experience and technical
knowledge of all the details into which it has been our duty
to enter. But if we have endeavoured to strengthen the
appeals preferred by, or on behalf of the neglected and meri-
torious officer, we have not forgotten we trust the perhaps
yet, more important claims of the hardy seaman. In pointing
out the veal considerations which gave a more than tem-
porary interest to the important complaints, and revelations
of defective construction, and deteriorated sailing and hand-
ling of our ships, which were so usefully, albeit unceremo-
niously, produced before Parliament, by such uncornpro-
nlising professional critics as Sir Cri.tnr.us NANER, Lord
14:n.s.ritE, Capt. Rous, and Capt. BERKELEY, the main
abject that it seemed to us our duty to insist upon was, the
better treatrceot of our sailors. It was so self-evident
that the majority of the defects, moral and material, which
had been brought under the review, first of the Admiralty,
and secondly of the Legislature, arose from that vice in our
naval admPhistration, which neglected all established provi-
sion for maintaining the crews of our men-of-war in a
condi-
lion of permanent efficiency, that we at once concluded the
remedy of this error to be at the root of all practical reform
the service. Retiring pensions, or half-pay, or some other
when paid off from one ;palm +of maintaining able seamen,

tip at one time, not only in a condition, but with a desire to

the first expedient necessary to be adopted.. The mere equity
and justice of the case demanded it, and every consideration of
expediency and policy was in favour of a Ilan which
could not fail to impart confidence and affection to thoss
lant spirits whose interests it would be its especial purpose
honourably to secure. Therefore we have, on all opportu-
nities, attempted to do justice to the long-delayed pretensions
which, until the commencement of the present Parliament,
have found so few supporters to persist in pressing them as
topics for conciliatory adjustment, before some great political
exigency should arise to convert them into imperious de-
mands of uncontrollable and almost hostile necessity. While
there is yet time we trust that all the arrangements and con-
ditions necessary fi r the attainment of this great object will
be completed promptly as well as liberally.
We are led to offer this suggestion the more emphatically
in consequence of an announcement we have recently copied
from the Western Conservative, touching some very unfor-
tunate manifestations that have exhibited themselves on
board her MAJESTY'S ship Albion. We have read this ac-
count with infinite pain, and we trust shall not be suspected
of any lukewarmness of regard for the comforts or the feel-
ings of our tars in general in protesting that we consider the
conduct of the parties concerned in these disturbances to
have been of the most flagrant and offensive character. We
will even go further. Doing all justice to the motives which
may have actuated those gallant, humane, and
distinguished officers, Commander CHAMBERS and Capt.
LOCKYEAR, in the very forbearing spirit in which
they exercised their authority in repressing the mutinous
disposition of the malcontents in the Albion, we do think
that that forbearance has been pushed to a point almost in-
compatible with the safety and honour of the service. Acts
of more mutinous insubordination—excesses of more inso-
lent violence, short of personal outrage—mischievous and
malignant destruction of the ship's equipment and stores,
so far as they went—more utterly unworthy of the manly
character of British seamen we do not remember to have read
of. The generous moderation of the Commander (Crum-
BEES), twice exemplied under circumstances of irritating
disobedience of orders, seemed to produce no sort of effect upon
the mutineers—for such we must call them. What the absti-
nenceof the commander failed to produce the more decided,
though still very forbearing course adopted by the captain, did
not accomplish. The affair ended—for the present, at least—by
releasing thirty-three of the men who had been put in iron',
and retaining seven others in durance, to await a more signal
punishment. Our own impression of the circumstances re-
mains immovable, namely, that such culpaple criminality re-
quired a more extensive example, seeing how many were
known to be engaged, and how many more, in the darkness
of the night only presumed to be so, in these outrages. It is
of the last consequence that it should not go forth to the
crews of other of her MAJESTY'S ships, that such demo-
ralising examples may be sett to the most nume-
rous branch of the service with comparative im-
punity. If such a notion were for a moment permitted
to acquire general credit, there is no estimating the injurious
tendency it might produce by its influence upon some fo-
reign powers, which would seize with avidity upon any in-
dications of such an auxiliary to their hostile designs as in-
cipient disaffection in the British fleet. This is one of those
cases, then, in which it behoves the authorities to institute a
most searching investigation, with a view to visiting some
marked, though not excessive punishment, for such acts of
incipient mutiny. Those authorities must be prepared, how-
ever, while they visit penalties on others, to take theirjust share
of public censure and displeasure as to themelves. Nothing,
it may be, can sufficiently excuse these sailors of the .Albion
for what they have done; but there may be much to account
for and extenuate it. This very probable result ought not
to deter them, in a matter of such vital interest to the nation,
from instituting and carrying through such an inquiry. It

Africa, by order of the Minister of War,- to be attached to the
hospitals. Others have embarked at Marseilles. We 'are
assured that diplomatic negotiations are about to be com-
menced with ABDERAIDIAN, and that a naval division, or
perhaps the entire squadron commanded by Admiral PARSE-
VAL DESCHENES, will proceed to Tangiers to support the re-
clamations of our Consul. But to what purpose is it to ne-
gotiate again with the Emperor of Monocco? Has not this
Sovereign always protested his friendship for France, even
whilst his son and his generals at the head of an army of
40;000 men were attacking our army on the frontier. ?"
We find little domestic intelligence from these papers
of any interest. The accounts of the harvest and the
state of the grain in the southern provinces were favourable.
According to accounts from Dre:den of the 20th inst., the
address of the Lower Chamber was adopted without amend-
ment-by a majority of 55 to 12. During the discussion
several Members protested against the claim of the Govern-
ment to alter the religious oath without the consent of Par-
liament. The Minister of the Interior skilfully turned aside
the question raised, declaring, for the satisfaction of his op-
ponents, that the Government would never forget that
Saxony was the cradle of Protestantism. The reformation
commenced by RONGE, was still spreading, and the feelings
against the Church of Rome were generally and loudly ex-
pressed. The following declaration made by the German
Catholics of Pforzhem, in Wirtemberg, we give as a
specimen :

" We cast from us the chains of Rome, we desire that the
German priests should recover the right which every man pus_
ceases to choose a wife for himself. We demand that auricular
confession should no longer be abused—that prayers may be said
in our mother language, and that the priests should no longer
anathematise the Christian Protestants, which but tends to destroy
concord and peace in families and in the communes, and excites
in the breasts of the people hatred one against the other."
" On the 21st the Emperor and Empress of Russia embarked at
Genoa, accompanied by their suite, for Palermo, on board several
Russian frigates which were waiting to receive them. The King,
Charles Albert, repaired to the frigate which had the Czar and
family on board, to bid them adieu. The artillery of the town and
forts kept up an incessant fire during the whole time of leave-
taking, which lasted more than half an hour."

At TonTorit's on Sunday, the Three per Cents were done
at 82f. 35c. We subjoin the prices of shares in new lines as
quoted at Marseilles and Lyons :
MAnsnimns, Ocr. 22.—Marseilles and Avignon, I,olof. ;
Vierzon, 745 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 676 f. 25c.
LYONS, Ocr. 23.—Marseilles and Avignon, I,ooof. ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,192 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,015 f.; Orleans and
Vierzon, 737 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 27.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 10 Namur and Liege
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. 17 OverYssel •••
Central of Spain ..... Paris& Lyons (Laffitte)
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... Ditto (Calon's)....
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Paris and Rouen
Dijon and Mulhouse Paris and Strasburg
East Indian ........ 31/8 (Ganneron's)
Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est)
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 3% Rouen and Havre......
Do. (Le Boeuf ) Royal North of Spain.
Do. Pepin le lialleur — Sambre and Meuse ....
Great Paris and Lyons — Strasburg and Basle ...
Great Western Bengal 1 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jamaica Junction — dent, and Hasselt...
Do. North Tours and Nantes
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe.. 34 Verona and Ancona
Lyons and Avignon—. 2' West Flanders .

may be found that the duty devolving on the crews of these
experimental squadrons, by reason • of past errors in the pro-
ceedings of the Admiralty ; the dispersion and discourage-
ment of able bodied seamen ; the all but invincible difficulty
experienced in re-enlisting them ; the time consumed and the
obstacles to be overcome in forming them ; the faults and ruinous
economy of sending ships-of-war to sea, with peace or reduce
complements, with no matter how small proportions of able
men ; the consequent increase of the same hardships by reason
of increased labour, increased watches, diminished comforts,
and abridged indulgences, may have formed the staple
grievances complained of by the mutineers on board the
Albion. Again, we repeat, that they cannot justify nor ex-
cuse the enormous delinquency of which the culprits have
been guilty, in sullying the prestige of British naval loyalty.
But their being clearly ascertained to have formed the ele-
ments of a past catastrophe, may be, we trust in Gon, the
certain means of obviating their recurrence in future. The
one thing needful that remains to do is—that which ought long
since to have been done—justice to our seamen.

It is evident that the monopolists are now perfectly re-
signed to their fate, and that Sir ROBERT PEEL may, when
he pleases, carry a measure for the repeal of the corn-laws
through Parliament with quite as little difficulty as he car-
ried his measure fur the imposition of the Property-
tax. We last week alluded to Lord ASHLEY'S most
remarkable letter on this subject, and the publication of
that letter has given rise to a still more remarkable speech
from a gentleman of still higher Tory principles than Lord
ASHLEY-a gentleman who is generally considered as one of
the Duke of BucKrsotrAat's Members—we mean Mr. BILK"-
HAM Escort'. Thus does he speak of Lord ASHLEY'S letter :

Lord Ashley is an able man, sees truly what is coming; but
then Lord Ashley is tainted with that which is the feeling of so
many coun'y Members, or, if not their feeling, it is the mode
in which they speak and write. He writes of the corn-law as
given up, but then he describes its loss as a blow, and a blow,
in another place, destructive of the prosperity of his constituents.
Why, surely, if the Noble Lord thinks this, then the House of
Commons is the place where he and others who think the same
should ward off the blow, Lord Ashley is quite right in saying
the corn.law is given up ; but how can he be right in submitting
quietly to allow his constituents to suffer heavy blows I, Gen-
tlemen, the truth is—and it had better be spoken plainly—
it is the conduct of the special representative of what they
call agricultural opinions which has precipitated the fall
of this corn-law. Why, I have sat in the House of Com-
mons and heard a gentleman, a worthy friend of my own—pur-
its character, high in fortune and station—harangue the repre-
sentatives of the people by the hour on the low price of beef, mute
ton, veal, and lamb—and do this avowedly for the purpose of
supporting agriculture and pro,ping up protection; in other words,
arraying the supposed interests of agriculture against the real in.
'crests of the people, whereas I always thought that the only way
to maintain any system of protection was to show, if you can, that
the interests of the community required it."

Mr. Bicturam Escorr is quite right. The only way to
maintain any system is to show that the interests of the
community require its continuance ; and it is because the
most clever advocates of monopoly in bye-gone times (in-
cluding among them Mr. BICKILVM Escorr himself) have
failed to show that the interests of the community required
protection, while, on the other hand, the most subtle oppo-
nents of free trade have been compelled, even while they
opposed it, to admit that its doctrines are the doctrines of
common sense, that the doom of monopoly is sealed,
and the avatar of free trade is at hand. Now
Lord ASHLEY considers this will be a heavy blow
to the agricultural interest ; Mr. BrciurAm Escorr,
on the contrary, although he feels with Lord ASHLEY
that " the game is up," dreads no blow. lie thinks
the change inevitable, but he does not despond for the result.
Nor is there the least reason for desponding. On the con-
trary, the farmer will be greatly benefited by the change,
for ho will have attained a sure and certain basis on
which to form his calculations for the future, and will
be no longer the victim of those who have sought to make
him believe that legislation could do for him that which
•very man of common sense was perfectly aware it was out
of the power of legislation to accomplish, viz., fix a minimum
price for his produce; and have under this false pretence
induced him:to promise to pay a rent higher than they were
in justice entitled to demand, or than he was in in prudence
justified in giving. Mr. BICKILM Escorr thus proceeds—
" Lora Ashley is, indeed, right on one point ; when the leading
men of all parties are agreed to support common seism, it roust be
very uncommon nonsense that can prevail against them."

We hope, therefore, that there will be no factious opposi-
tion to the change which is now inevitable, but that the less
enlightened Members of the monopolist body will "read,
mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the words of certainly one
of the most talented and courageous of their champions, and
keep their " uncommon nonsense" to themselves.

Madrid papers of the 20tiTinst. have been received. Ac-
counts from Barcelona state that slight disturbances had
taken place at Gerona, St. Andres de Polamar, and some
other small towns in Catalonia, but, not as had been reported,
on account of the new tax. They appear to have been caused
chiefly by the despotic conduct of General BRETON and a
rigid enforcement of the recruiting system. At Gerona an
officer of the civic guard bad been killed, and two of the
recruits said to be implicated were to be shot. BRETON, in
consequence of these events, had set out for Gerona on the
15th, accompanied by a strong detachment of troops.
A letter, dated Santander, October 17th, says :—" The
day before yesterday Sir Jostru.t. WALMESLET, accompanied
by the celebrated engineer, GEORGE STEPHENSON, arrived in
this town, for the purpose of examining the road between
this place and the canal of Castile to Valladolid, with the
view to establish a communication by railroad. Sir J.
WALmEsi.Er was received by the provincial deputation, and
the illustrious travellers are to be attended by a special com-
mittee during their stay."

No business was done on the Madrid Bourse in the Five
or Three per Cents.. but Coupons not to be capitalised were
quoted at 24 for cash.

The Paris papers contain no further intelligence relative
to the battle between a division under General LAmoniciEnE
and the Arab troops, of which Ann-EL-KADER was said to be
an eye-witness. "We expected," says the Journal des
Debuts, " to find in the Afessager the close of the telegraphic
dispatch from PERPIGNAN which had been interrupted by the
night. Our evening Contemporarv, however, contains no-
thing on the subject, and the fog which has prevailed all day
no doubt is the cause." Some of the French journals specu-
late on the means to be adopted by Marshal BUGEAUD to
put down AnD• EL-KADER. One of them states that the
campaign which is about to commence cannot be of long
duration, in consequence of the rainy season, but in the
spring a complete expedition will be organized
to pursue the restless chief to his last re-
treat. A letter in another, dated Toulon the
20th, says :—" It is believed that the Governor-General
will penetrate into Morocco at the head of a column of 15,000
men of all arms, after having pacified the province of Oran,
and driven Ann-EL-RADER into the territory of the empire.
Everything announces that the military operations will, on
this occasion, be conducted on a grand scale. Thirty
assistant-surgeons have arrived in our town to proceed to

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Ater the serviee in any other vessel, at any other time, when
'inked by the Government autlorities—this seemed to be

TrIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1845.

.4.1.0NEY aiid COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO 171RE1i.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, NI ere 2,000
bales only, at former rates. The market-cmtinued dull. A
moderated business was done in shares, Mit generally prices
were drooping.
There is rather a duller market for cotton advised in the
accounts received to-day from the I.7l.ited Stet s, but the
flour market does not seem to have varied much. •
The public securities have ruled at about the previous
quAtations, being fluctuating; however. Consols are called
96% to 97 for pre,ent transfer, and 97 to 96% for Account.
The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 395. to 41s.
Bank Stock has been 205% to 2061/2. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have been 981/s to 9734, and the Three
per Cents. 96 to 95%.
The Foreign market is quiet. No bargains are reported
in Spanish Stock. Portuguese Small Bonds have been 56i ;
Mexican are worth 30% to 31; and Equador, 3 to 7e ;
Danish Stock, realises 86; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half rer
Cents. are 581.
Shares are firmer. The settlement in a few of the scrips
is heavy, but goes off better than might be expected.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock •••- ......2051/. 206% 205%
3 per Cent. Reduced ...... 9534 96 95% 95%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 97 96% 97 96% 97
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 314 per Cents
tiongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 10 11-16 13-16 10 13-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 265
India Bonds, 1,0004. .....
Ditto under 1,000/. • • —
South Sea Stock 10714
Consols for Account ...... 97 96% 97
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 40 39 41 pm. 41
Ditto 5001. ... 41 39 pm. 39
Ditto Small

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela.
Danish 80nd5,1825, 3 per Cent... 86
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837......... 31 30% 30%
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent 56
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Equador 334%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

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ONE
O'CLOCK

CLOSING
PRICES

98 1/2

92

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
HALLWAY SHARES PAID' LT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 124 ... 124
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O —

Ditto New 2 —
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4% 1'........... 4%
Do. New
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Direct Manchester
(Remington's) a 2%...... 3%34
. .
Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5.4 ..... 5%A,
Direct N orthern - 2% 2%
Dublin and Galway._ .. 4
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 21% 22 ...
Ditto New 4/. 16s. BlO4 p.......
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Perth l% —
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2%
Great Eastern &Westerii 2% ...... 2%
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo
Ditto, New
Great Western BO ......146 150

33%
5%
414
21%

2114

Ditto % Shares SO
Ditto Fifths

Guildford, Fare'm, l'orts. 2% ... .. 214 2v,
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
Leicester and Tam worth 495.
p
• % p
Liverpool& Leeds Direct 2% .....2 6 3% 4' 3
, a
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New
castle Junction
..
London and Birminghmloo •016 215 217
Do. 14 Shares
_ _ ___ _ _

London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d. 9% 9%
Do. New
London and Brighton... 50 ...... 621/2 62 63
London and Croydon, 131: 15s. 9d. 22 21% 22
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London, Hounslo*, and
Western
Lond. &S. Western 411 6s 10d 74 75 ......
Vo. New
London and York .
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster

5
81%
791/4
11%

London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry &Coleraine 2!,.;...... 5
Lynn and Dereham 5 —
Manchester and Binnin. 40
Do. New Quarters ... 2
blanchester,Buxton,and
Mattock 22s. 4% 4 5 p...... 5 p
Manchest. & Southampt 2 ...... 4 i/41/2 4l/,
Midland 100 156%
• _ _ 1561/0
_._ -

Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ......
Do. New Brandling... 15
Neweamle and Berwick 5 l5
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston
North British
Northern and Eastern 45
Do. New

47
15%

N. Kent & Direct Dover 21/;.. .. 3
North Statiordshire 425....... 4%14 p 4% ,
Norwich and Brandon... 16
...... ••• 00000000 •. • 24
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham ...... 2
Oxford and Worcester... 2% B% 73/4
Oxibrd, Witney, and
Cheltenham..., ....... 1% —
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
:.•cottisli Central
Scottish ;Midland ......... 1% 4
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm ...... 21/2.... . 5%
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
South Midland 225....... 514 4:M4 p...
South Staffiirdsh ire June 2l/2 —
South Eastern & Dover 33/2s 4d 37 •••
South Wales 214...... 5%6
Tean and Dove Valley IA 1%••• ..... .. l';''s
Trent Valley 2 .... .
['rent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Vale of Neath 2
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
NV at erford, 'Wexford, and
Valentia
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union ..... 1%... .. IYB 2%
York and Lancaster 2% 2% ......... ... .. 2%
York and North Midland 50 110
Do. Extension ll% —
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 8
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... ...• 53.
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 3%14
Great Western Bengal... 55....... 3/1
Jersey
Louvain and Jeineppe... 4 ...
Luxembourg...
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... 1714
Orleans and Bordeaux..: 6 ...... 103/4
Paris &Lyons( Laffitte's) 2
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's) 3 -
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... 2
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ...... 23/
Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 ......
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's) ....

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SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRCIIELL.)
BRICKLEY AND ANOTHER V. BARDELL.

This was an action to recover the sum of 154 193. Id., the
amount of an attorney's bill. The dt feniant pleaded that he
never was indebted.

Mr. THOMAS appeared for the plaintiff; Henry Edwards, formerly
clerk to the plaintiffs. In March,lB43, a Mr. Earle cailed at their
offices and introduced a person as Mr. Bardell, an omnibus pro.
prietor. Witness did not know him then personally nor since.
Instructions were given to issue a writ against a person named Wall,
and proceedings were carried on and brought into thi. Court.
The action was not tried as the matter was settled on the day of
trial. He could not speak to the whole of the business being
done except through having since been in the employ of Mr.
Dickenson, the solicitor to the defendant In that suit, from which
he knew it.

Cross-examined—The instructions were given by Earle and the
other person ; the only doubt he had was, whether it was Bardell
who was with him.

Mr. KENT, the defendant's attorney, submitted that there was
no evidence to go to the jury.
The UNDER- SHERIFF said if it was admitted that the work had
been done, there was sufficient to go to the jury.

—• Earle, cab-proprietor, Pancras.road, Tottenham-court road,
examined—Had called two or three times on plaintiffs, Messrs.
Brickley and Tweedale, and gave instructions for a letter to be
written to Wall for three guineas due to him, witness. They were
only to write a letter to frighten Wall, and he never gave any
instructions for a writ to be issued. Bardell did not go with him.
Not a soul went with him.
Cross-examined—There was an action between Bardell and Wall.
Witness was called as a witness, but Bardell and Wall settled the
matter, each paying costs, fur Bardell knew nothing about it.
Barden never bad anything to do with it.
Wall examined—Knew nothing of Bardell, nor ever had any-
thing to do with him. On the el?), of the previous trial Bardell
was sent for. Witness did not know him. Bardell knew nothing
about the action, but after some talk witness compromised with
Earle, who was the party to whom he was indebted.
Mr. THOMAS, in reply, urged that there could be no doubt
that Bardell was aware of the action being brought, and that he
was in some way or other interested in the suit, or he would not
have settled the matter.

The UNDER.-SHERIFF said it did not matter whether the debt was
due to Bardell, or Wall, or neither; the question was who gave the
instructions ?

The jury instantly gave a verdict for the plaintiff's.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT:

15/
2%
3%

(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL.)
Henry Tarling, a labourer, 22 years of age. was indicted for
having burglariously entered the house of William Andrews, hair-
dresser, Newington, and stealing therefrom four live pigeons, a
towel, and a candlestick.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor had, as he
thought, safely locked up his premises at nine o'clock on the
night of the 21st of October, and on his return at eleven he
found that his house had been entered, and the above articles
gone. Suspicion attached to the prisoner, his lodgings were
searched on the following morning, and the pigeons and candle-
stick were found in his house.

MINES.

The defence set up was, that these things had been left by
some person unknown in the prisoner's room on the night of the
robbery. He could not ace the young man, as there was no light
in the room.

Real del Monte Unregd.

The Recorder summed up, and the jury found the prisoner
guilty.

S:ntenced to imprisonment and hard labour for one year.

Ann emit, a very respectably dressed girl, was placed at the
bar charged with having robbed her master, the Rev. Mr. Reeve,
of Mortlake.

Mr. Bodkin was for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson for the
defence.

Mr. BODKIN opened the case, and afterwards called

Frederick John Reeve, incumbent of ➢Mortlake, who stated that
the prisoner had been in his service, in the capacity of cook, for
about a year. The family on the 20th August left for Brighton,
the prisoner having left on the previous day to prepare the real.
deuce for them. The servants had been ordered some days before
to take only such things of their own as were absolutely necessary,
and to leave the others behind them. The prisoner had her
things put up in two boxes, one a large and the ether a smaller
one. The latter box was sent to Mrs. Neeve, the wife of a
labourer, and the former was sent to Brighton. In consequence of
some information given to Mrs. Reeve at Brighton, the latter
taxed the prisoner severely, and she left her situation, and resided
some days in the Lord Nelson public.house. Witness came up to
Mortlake, and saw the box which was left at Mrs. Nesve's. He
took it down with him to Brighton, called in the prisoner, and re.
quested her to open the box before he paid her wages. The pri-
soner after seine hesitation took off the canvass with which it was
covered, and he saw that the box belonged to himself. The pri.
soner admitted that it was his. The box was then opened, and he
found many articles belonging to himself. They were principally
sheets, towels, napkins, portions of carpeting, &c. He then re-
turned to Mortlake for the box which had been left at home, and
took it also to Brighton, where it was broken open in presence of
the prisoner. He found therein two books, one a school book and
the other an odd volume of the " Heiress of Bruges," and
other articles not mentioned in the indictment.

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Mr. CLARKSON cross.examined the Rev. Gentleman at great
length, and,amid shouts 01 laughter which the Court endeavoured
in vain to repress, he showed that the articles, which were evidently
of great antiquity, had been valued ridiculously high, although the
prosecutor had taken credit to himself for the reluctance with
which he pressed the charge, and the low figure which he had
placed on each article.

(The care was proceeding when our report left.)

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)

Edward Johnson was charged with burglary and theft.
Mary Anne Bayn lives in St. Pancras. On the 17th Sept. she was
roused at midnight by a sound in one of her rooms as of keys
falling. She went up the kitchen stairs, and thinking one of her
lodgers might have risen, asked aloud whet was wanted. But her
attention was now attracted by a light in the backparlour ; she en-
tered the room and saw the prisoner standing at the table. lie, how..
ever, immediately made off by the window, leaped on the top of
the wash.house, :and slipped down from the walls into a neighbour-
ing street. At this point, when witness was about to lose sight of
the prisoner, she screamed out "thieves and robbers." She found
on the table at which the prisoner had Leen standing, silver sugar.
tongs, a gold ring, silver medal, ac., articles which she had ►ef
locked up in a box the evening before. Beneath the table was a
bunch of keys, the falling of which had awakened her. These,
among ether keys, had been left on the dresser in the kitchen.
Folice.constable 107 2G, was on duty, and heard the cry of
"thieves and robbers," just at the moment that he saw a person
throw down his boots from the top of the wall and slip down after
them; he gave the prisoner chase.
Police constable 25 G saw the prisoner coming up, and heard
a sound as if of a piece of iron drop from him on the way. lie
caught the prisoner, and asked him were his shoes were. Prisoner
said he had lost them running after a man wl:o had just jumped
from the top of a wall.—(The prisoner here smiled at his own fabri.
cation.) Some lucifer matches and 2s. lid. were found on him at
the station house, and the iron chisel produced in Court was picked
up at the spot whence the sound heard seemed to come. The con.
stable went to prisoner's lodgings and found a black si►k handker.
chief and a knife up the chimney.
Mrs. Bayne here identified the handkerchief as one she had worn
the Sunday previous. The prisoner had not been home after the
affair on the night in question.

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The COSJJION.SEWGRANT said the evidence did not prove bur-
glary. The window might have been left open, or might have been
opened by another, which, though but an inch open, would free the
prisoner.

The prisoner was found guilty of theft, and sentenced to seven
years' transportation.

His sister in the gallery, on hearing the sentence, burst into loud
shrieks, and had to be removed.

Joseph Nicholls, alias:John Blackburn, was charged with stealing
a coat, trousers, waistcoat, and ten half• crowns, the property of
the Rev. John Foyster Grantham.
The Rev. J. F. Grantham saw a parcel made up containing the
above artieles,:and sent it away by his groom to the carriers. The
parcel was made up in brown paper, and addressed to Mr. Moir,
72, Oxford-street.

The prisoner (who had no counsel)—Vat coin was in it? Wit.
ness—Half-crowns and shillings.
Prisoner—Vat was their date ? Witness did not know.
Prisoner—Was it seared up? Witness not sure.
Prisoner—How was the parcel made up inside? Witness—ln
four separate parcels.

Thomas Wilder, carrier, got the parcel from his mistress, and in
London gave it to Jackson, the stable-boy, to deliver it.
Prisoner—Did you; not give it to Bloomfield? Witne?s—No,
to Jackson.

Prisoner—You may stand down.
Jackson said he had been out the two previous nights, and was
tired, and therefore gave the parcel to Nicholls, promising him 3d.,
half the porterage, for delivering it. Nicholls gave Jackson's wife
the ad.. This was on Saturday. On Wednesday Jackson asked
whether prisoner had delivered the parcel. Nicholls said.he had.
On Thursday, having seen the carrier, he understood the parcel
had not been delivered, and in consequence went in search of
Nicholls, whom he found in a public-house in St. Giles's. The
prisoner said before the policeman the money was all spent.
Prisoner—Ven did you give me the parcel ? Witness—On
Saturday, between twelve and two o'clock.

Prisoner—Vat did I say ? Witness—That yeu were going to
Broad-street, and would take it for me.

Prisoner—That'l do.l

The prisoner (who had been charged with :felony in August,
1844, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, under the
name of John Blackburn) was found Guilty, and sentenced to
seven years' transportation.
Prisonor—Thank you, my Lord, it's just vat I vanted.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
A woman named Far was charged with passing a medal, repre-
senting the same to be a half. sovereign, and obtaining thereon ten
shillings, the money of Mr. Rayner, the landlord of the Empress of
Russia public.house, St. Johns.treet.road.

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MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
ICILY ma.r....iarris.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 125 to 51 ,• Clover, 4/
Os to 61; Straw, 11 16s to 2/ per load. Trade tolerably
steady, at our quotations.
CUMBICRLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 5/ 5s ' • Clover,
4/ lOs to 5l 188; Straw, 1/ 160 to 2/ per load. Supply
moderate, and trade .firm.
WRITECTIAPEL.-11 leadow Hay, 31 16s to 513 s ; Clover,
4/ 12s to 6/ 4s ; Straw, 1/ IGs to 2l per load. A fair average
supply, and a steady *trade.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firm, and a
fair business has been done at rather higher prices, establish.
ing an advance of fall v Gdisince this day week. The public
sales have consisted chiefly of 85 hhds Barbadoes, and 774
bags Manilla, duty paid. The Barbadoes sold at 47s to 54s
for low to fine yellow, being fully former rates. The
Manilla found buyers (for refining) at 475 6d to
48s 6d for good brown to mid greyish yellow, clayed,
which is comparatively shwa the value. The only transac-
tions which have transpired privately worth reporting con-
sist of two cargoes, which have been .sold, deliverable over the
ship's side in London for rermini; in bond, the buyers paying
the landing charges—one consis ting of about 600 hllds Porto
Rico, at 23s 6d; and the other 400 chests of Brown Bahia,
at 235. The quantity of British Plantation landed
last week at the East and West India Docks was
90 hhds 4 tierces 17 barrels; the re were taken for home con-
sumption 1,743 hints 158 tierces' 356 barrels. The stock in
the same places is 15,147 birds 2 ,016 tierces 2,809 barrels.
COFEEE.-6,278 bags Ceylon and 122 bales Mocha at
auction; nearly all the Ceylon's% as disposed of, but went off
very irregularly for the British PI sntation descriptions, which
brought 54s to 77s for fine ord to a iici coloury quality, being in
some instances rather lower price 3, whilst good ord mixed of
native growth sold readily at 44: ; to. 46s 6d, which are fully
previous rates. All the Mocha wins tai'een in at 52s to 58s for
ord to mid quality.
Itum.—The quantity landed last ws. ek at the East and
West India Docks was 31
puns 85 hhds ; there were taken
for home consumption 255 plans 28 hinds, and exported 102
puns 16 hhds. The stock in sable pact ' the I s is 13,322 puns
1,089 hhds.
SALTPETRE.-3,529 bag, Bengal chiefly
sold at 25s to
26s 6d for 13i to 5 per cent. refract wbeing &ln, d dearer.
SPICES.-880 bags Malabar Per oer at aucrion only partly
found buyers at 3hd to 3id per lb :ior fair heat:y, being rather
cheaper; good heavy shot kind was taken in at 31d per lb.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 415 6d to 41s 9d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 44s per cwt.
TEA.—The market is tinr, and •,-the deliveries continue good.

Mrs. Rayner stated, that at dusk in the evening, the prisoner,
who was known to her, asked her for change for a half.sovereign,
and placed in her hands a piece, which she then supposed to be that
coin. She gave her 10s.; and, on the following day, having
discovered that she had been defrauded, she gave information to
police.constable 19 G, by whom she was apprehended.
The officer informed the magistrate that he had been to Mr.
Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, who bad stated that the offence
was not an indictable one, the medal not being in imitation of the
current coin of the realm.

Mr. L. J. Pa
evening of tll3 9th October.
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Mr. Greenwood asked the prisoner if she wished to say any-
thing ?

She made answer that it was all true that Mrs. Rayner had stated,
and she had made use of the money by paying her rent.
Mr, Greenwood discharged her with a caution, and recom-
mended Mr. Rayner to summon her to the Court of Requests,

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MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY).
James Linnett, of " No. 10, Argyle.place, Regent's-street, gen-
tleman," was charged with being drunk and unable to take care of
a horse and chaise he was driving, and running over and endanger-
ing the lives of Mr. Joseph Taylor and his wife.
The police-constable who took the prisoner into custody handed
to Mr. Hardwick the following certificate:—
" I hereby certify that I am attending Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, of
No. 32, John-street, Cambridge-heath, Hackney, and consider
them unable, from the injuries they have received, of leaving home
for the present. " H. B. LANGLEY, Surgeon,
Gwynne's place, Hackney-road."
Mr. John Wilson, a gentleman residing in Westbourn-road,
Paddington, stated that about six o'clock last evening, as he was
passing along Regent-street he saw the prisoner in a gig, driving
a very spirited horse, at the rate, he should think, of ten miles an
hour. He turned sharply the corner into Argyll-place, and
witness then heard an exclamation of terror, and saw
something under the horse's feet, which at first ap-
peared to be a bundle of clothes, but presently perceived
it was a female—be assisted in removing her into a milliner's
shop opposite, and in a few minutes afterwards Mr. Taylor, the
husband of the female, was brought in bleeding, and apparently
very dreadfully injured. The prisoner was afterwards brought
back in custody into the shop. He was evidently intoxicated, but
expressed great sorrow"for what he had done. The police then
tool, charge of him, and he was conveyed to the station-house.
Mr. Haanwrcit—Did the wheels pass over the female? Wit.
ness—l should think so; but I cannot speak positively—the horse
severely trampled on her.
It was further stated that the prisoner, after the accident had
occurred, drove recklessly on, and was stopped by a gentleman
seizing the bridle.
The prisoner very feelingly expressed his sorrow for what had
occurred—he certainly had taken too much wine.
Mr. HARDWICK, after consulting with Mr. Fitzpatrick, the
chief clerk, ordered tke prisoner to enter int olecognizances to ap-
pear on next Friday week.

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THE LATE FIRE AT GRAVESEND.

The recent calamitous tire at this place has caused the deepest
sensation in the neighbourhood, and during yesterday hundreds of
persons visited the spot, while several men were employed in shoring
up the buildings adjoining the houses which were burnt, and in
searching the ruins for the body of Thomas Mee, who is supposed to
have perished in the flumes. From inquiries amongst the parties
who were sleeping at the Black Horse pnblic-home on Saturday
night, the following facts have been gathered with reference to the
outbreak of the fire :

It appears that a man named Calcraft, who slept on the premises,
perceiving a strong smell of fire, immediately got up, and he then
found that the lower part of the house was in flames. He directly
shouted " Fire," and in another moment he heard some of the par-
ties stirring in the rooms overhead. Mrs. King, the wife of the oc-
cupier of th 3 house, instantly threw up the sash of her bedroom win-
dow and jumped into the street. The poor creature was considerably
injured by her fall, but she was conveyed immediately to
the Five Bells Inn, where every attention was paid to
her, and we are glad to state that she has sustained no
serious injury. A man, named James Ford, also a lodger.
at the Black Horse, was so alarmed that he jumped out of
the third floor window, and was taken to the workhouse apparently
in a dying state, but yesterday tie poor fellow was able to give an
account of the occurreice. He states that he was awakened by
Thomas Mee's calling out " For God's sake get up, as the house is on
fire, and I can't tell how we are to get out, as the flames arc coining
up stairs." Ford jumped out of bed, and upon opening the door and
looking down the staircase saw the flames mounting wi h the most
frightful rapidity. Thinking it would be bettor if he could get into
the floor below, be and Thomas Mee attempted to descend the stairs,
but this they could not effect, the flames being too powerful for them,
so he begged Mee to follow him into the bedroom again and jump
after him into the street, as there appeared no other chance of
escape. Ford having jumped out saw no more of Mee, nor has be
since beer seen or heard of. A servant girl was saved by being
taken through a side window into an adjoining house. Several
other persons escaped over the roof. Cleveland, one of the Graves-
end fire police, states that when he arrived at the scene the lower
part ofthe premises were alight, and the screams of tke people in the
house were heartrending. He obtained the engine ladders, mid
climbing into the first floor of the Catherine Wheel public-house for
the purpose of rendering any assistance he could to the sufferers,
got upon the landing just in time to rescue the servant of Mr. King,
who was standing at a window. He then went on to the gutter of
th✓z Catherine Wheel, and after having the hose hauled up to hint the
heat became so intense that it melted the lead, which ran in a stream
at his feet and compelled him to quit the spot. At this moment a
man named Aldridge came to his assistance, and succeeded in saving
another woman In a similar manner. They then ran along the
parapet, and Aldridge saved himself by sliding down a piece of iron
used as a stay to the stack of chimneys, by which he was badly
burned. and he now lies at the Five Bells very ill. The engines were
worked most effectively, and the police arrangements, under Super-
intendent North and Inspector Oxley, were well carried out. There
were present at the fire about 20 of the 10th Regiment of footfrom
Tilbury-fort. The engines would have been earlier in their arrival
but for the fact that two of them, under Superintendent Aitkin, of the
Gravesend fire-police, were at the fire at Mr. Smith's farm, at
Northtleet-green. There were four other engines, from Chatham,
Dartford, and Northfleet, all of which were worked till a late hour
on Monday, in the afternoon ; notwithstanding which, the fire was
not extinguished until seven houses were destroyed, and others ma-
terially injured.
Search was made for the body of the unfortunate watchman Mee
during the whole of Monday, but up to five o'clock only a small
bone of an arm was found. It is said that an Italian, who was
lodging at the Black Horse at the time of the outbreak, is also
missing.

At tile meeting of magistrates yesterday (Monday), George
Simmons, son of a blockinaker, was tined 31. for assaulting a cor-
poral of the 10th Regiment in the execution of his duty ; and John
Davis was imprisoned for a month, for picking the pocket of Mr.
Oakes, a magistrate, at the fire.

The following is a copy of the official report of the damage caused
by this disastrous event, as far as can at present be ascertained :
" Sunday, Oct. 26, half-past 5 A.M.
" A fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Sir. Thomas
King, licensed victualler, the Black Horse, 52, High-street, Gravesend.
The cause unknown. Dwelling-house, stock in trade, furniture, and
other effects entirely consumed. The ball-room, tap, kitchen, and a
workshop at the back of front premises also destroyed. Insurance
unknown at present.

" No. 53, high-street—Mr. Tallis, butcher. Stock in trade, fur•
niture, and building consumed.

" so. 54, High-street--Mrs. Smith, grocer. Building gutted, fronl
walls pulled down. The furniture and contents of shop destroyed,
insurance unknown.

" No. 51%, High-street—Mr. Nestiham Henry, bootmaker. Coi
tents of building consumed, furniture end house destroyed. Ui
insured.

" No. 51, High-street—Mr. Hollendall, draper. Building burned
down. Stock in trade destroyed, and furniture burned. Insurance
not known.

" so. 50, High-street—Mr. Hall, china-dealer. First and second
doors bunted out. contents of ditto destroyed. Stock in front shop
extensively damaged by fire and breakage.
" No. 25, High-street—Mr. Parsons, perfumer and haircutter.
Front of house severely burnt. Furniture and stock in trade damaged
by water and removal.

" so. 26, Iligh-street—Mr. Taylor, baker. Front of premises
damaged by fire.

" _N-o. 24, nigh-street—Mr. 31`Donald,licensed victualler, the Rose
Tavern (adjoining the Town-hall). Front of building severely
scorched.

" No. 1, Globe-yard—Mr. Hollendall. Building burnt domn.
" No 5, Globe-yard-31r. Blackman. Building and contents partly
consumed. Insurance unknown.

" No. 4, Globe-yard—Mrs. Murray. Front of building and fund
titre seriously injured by hasty removal. 'Uninsured.
" Back of Globe-yard—Mr. Tallis's slaughter-house and kltehm
burnt down. Mrs. Smith—A large warehouse and contents de
stroyed.

"-No. 55, High-street—Mr. W. Dawson. The Catherine Whee:
Tavern. Roof of building damaged by fire and watt r."

DREADFUL FIRE •AND LOSS OF LIFE,

NORTHWICII, SUNDAY AFTRRNOON.—This morning, about half.
past eleven, a fire broke out in the farm buildings of Mr. Furber,
a farmer, at Shipbrooke, about three miles from this town, which
ended, we regi et to say, in the deaths of three children, and the
destruction of the whole of the barns, stabler, and other out-
buildings on one side of the premises, with hay, straw, and
grain, the whole of the produce of the late harvest, and im.
;dements of husbandry. The fire had evidently been burning
in the barn for some time before it was discovered, for on Mr.
Furber going to the spot on the first alarm, he found the
whole of the contents in a blase, and, melancholy to relate,
he could hear his children within, but from the intensity of the
heat and smoke was unable to reach them. It was some con.
siderable time before search could be made for their bodies,
rani theta nothing but charred remains were discovered.
Mrs. Furber, the mother of the children, who has been for some
months in a state of ill-health, has by this blow lost all her chil-
dren ; and it is feared that her own death will speedily follow. It
seems that the children, having obtained some lucifer matches had
gone to amuse themselves in the barn, where they set fire to the
straw. The premises are about a mile froas the parish church
(Davenham), the service in which was stopped on the alarm being
given, and the neighbours hastened out to render assistance. Mr.
Harper, of Davenham the owner of the premises, was first
called out, and with the Rev. Mr. Bage, the curate, was very active
in endeavouring to arrest the progress of the fire, but many per-
sons stood idly looking on, and when their assistance was requested
excused themselves, "as they had got their best clothes on I" The
buildings were insured, but we understand the stock and imple.
ments were not. The engine from Northwich was sent for, but
the lire had got too much head by the time it arrived for it to be of
any service.

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