The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-13 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

RODERICK MACKENZIE, writer to the signet, Edin-
burgh, July 17, and Aug. 7, at two, at the Royal Exchange
Coffee-house, Edinburgh.

Rev. ALEXANDER SCOTT, Colinsburgh, Fifeshire,
Jaly 19 and Aug. 9, at two, at Mrs. Ronald's Inn, Colinsburgh.
ROBERT ALLARDICE and JAMES L AUG HTON,
booksellers, Kirkgate, Leith, July 16, and Aug. 6, at two,
at the Chambers of Johu Murdoch, Leith.
PRICE OF SUGAR,
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The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending July 9, 1844, is 335. Bd. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSUR-

ANCE COMPANY.

GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of the UNITED KINGDOM LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY, held in their Office,
No. 8, Waterloo-place, the sth of July, 1844.
Hananel de Castro, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the
Directors, in the chair.

The annual reports of the affairs of the Company for
the year 1843, required by their deed of settlement,
having been laid before the meeting and approved, Mr.
Stuart expressed the great satisfaction with which the
Directors again met the Shareholders' to have an oppor-
tunity to explain to them the very favourable progress
of their affairs. lstly. The assurances effected during the
year 1843 amounted to above 350,000 L, more-by above
60,0001. than in 1842. 2dly. The premiums of assu-
rance were greater by 7,7731. in 1843 than in 1842.
3dly. The increase of the funds of the Company in 1843
amounted to 26,6451. And, 4thly, the report of their
Actuary, Mr. King, showed that the number of deaths
of the assured since the establishment of the Company
in 1834 had only been 136, instead of 238, the number
provided for by the tables of the Equitable Society.
It would also be gratifying to the Proprietors to learn,
that the amount of assurances ef%icted in the first half
of the ye* 1844, was greater by 35,142/. than in the
first half-year of 1843; that the premiums of assurance
were proportionally greater to the extent of 1,064/., and
also that the annual income of the Company, at 30th
June, 1844, as nearly as it can be ascertained, was 72,1701.
The general result on which Mr. Stuart congratulated
the Shareholders, is, that in about ten years the paid-up
capital of the Company, all of which is invested in
Government securities, had been far more than quad-
rupled after payment of all claims and expenses, after
appropriating a bonus of two per cent. per annum from
the dates of their policies to the assured holding par-
ticipating policies, and after payment to the Shareholders
of half-yearly dividends, at the rate of four per cent. per
annum, from the dates of their advances to Ist January,
1841, and of six per cent. from that date.
The meeting would also, Mr. Stuart added, be glad to
know, that the Directors had secured the additional
accommodation required for the office bearers and clerks,
in consequence of the increasing transactions of the
Company, by the acquisition of the premises adjoining
to those of the Company, now in the occupation of the
London and Westminster Bank, to be ceded by the latter
on removing their establishment to a house in the neigh-
bourhood now preparing for them.
Mr. de Casto, the Chairman of the Meeting, expressed
his entire concurrence in Mr. Stuart's statements, and
confirmed the view of the affairs of the Company laid
before the meeting. He congratulated the shareholders,
that there were good grounds for their believing that
their affairs were managed with caution, prudence, and
judgment.
The meeting unanimously approved of the reports
made to them, and voted their thanks to the Chairman,
Deputy-Chairman, and Directors, and most especially to
Mr. Edward Boyd, the Resident Director aad the Founder
of the Company, to whose unceasing exertions and to the
talent he had displayed, the Company was under the
deepest obligations.
The thanks of the meeting having then been voted to
Mr. de Castro for his conduct in the chair, the meeting
separated.

PLEASING RESULTS.-With the gaiety assumed by
nature in the brightness of the summer season there are
few disinclined to participate; and in pursuit of those
rational enjoyments personal agremens, in all their
variety, are necessarily objects of desire—those, of
which the perfection and durability are at once obvious
and important, meet their most available preservative in
Gowland's Lotion ; first, as a decided remedy fur all
cutaneous impurities • and, secondly, as an elegant, mild,
and effective appendage to the toilet, removing every
species of local discolouration, defending the skin from
all the well-known effects of heat upon its surface, and
as contributing largely to continued delicacy and fresh-
ness of the complexion.
THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL.-Mr. Roebuck has
been abusing in Parliament the daily press. What, in the
name of pity, have we clone that we are not included in the
Hon. Member's abuse ?—Pitneh.

BENNEVIS WHISKY.—In a late number of our
paper an account appeared of the sale of the wines,
spirits, &c., of the late Duke of Sussex, in which it was
stated that two dozen of whisky, presented to his Royal
Highness by one of our Scotch Members of Parliament,
sold for 10s. per bottle. The whisky, for which this
unprecedented price was given, we now learn, was made
by Mr. Macdonald of the Bennevis Distillery, and,
though only a few years old, was preferred to the differ.
ent other celebrated old whiskies' some of the patriarchal
age of twenty-five, in his Royal Highness' cellar. The
dew of Bennevis, so famous among the hills " the land
of the mountain and the flood," it appears, stands as
high as " the cloud-capped " mountain whence it arises.
Nor is it less known and relished abroad than at home,
in proof of which it may be mPP.tioned, that Mr. Mac-
donald was appointed last year to make wWsky for 1114
Majesty the King of Holland, •It nay adde4, as tho
fact is not gperally tsnoyvii; tliat'Whisky may be sent
abroad, for ship stores, duty free.—lnverness Courier,

SUMMER ASSIZES.
OXFORD ,ClRCUlT—Abingdon, July 12.
(Nisi Prius Court.—Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL).

GREEN AND ANOTHER V. BRADFIELD.

Mr. Godson (with whom was Mr. Carrington) appeared in
this case for the plaintiffs; and the defendant was represen-
ted by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Tyrwhitt.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 301., al-
leged by the plaintiffs, the assignees of the estate and effects
of one Richard Pusey, a bankrupt. to have been paid to the
defendant by way of fraudulent preference. The trial occu-
pied between four and five hours, but [the really material
facts of the case may be stated in a very few lines. It ap-
peared that Pusey, the bankrupt, who carried on business as
a baker at Drayton, found himself a good deal embarrassed
in his circumstances in August and September last, when a
person named Cox, from whom he had purchased some wheat
for flour, repeatedly made applications to him for money,
and at last induced Pusey to promise that he would let him
have the amount which he was to receive from the Abingdon
union, which Pusey supplied with bread, at the end of the
September quarter. The defendant (Bradfield) had also ap-
plied to Posey for some money for flour which had been sold
and delivered, and.on the morning of Monday, the 2d of Oc-
tober last, Posey gave his brother John an order for 191.,
which he had received from the Abingdon union, and 11/.
more in cash, to hand over to the defendant. On the same
day a Mr. Griffin, whom Pusey had expressed a wish to see,
called upon him, and some conversation took place about
Pusey's affairs, when Pusey said, that he owed a great deal
more money than he could pay, and that he could not
carry on his business. He was recommended to go to a
solicitor, and having acted upon that recommendation, an
assignment of Pusey's property for the benefit of
his creditors was agreed upon, and Mr. Cox, afterwards
the petitioning creditor, and one of the plaintiffs in the pre-
sent action, consented to act as one of the trustees under the
deed. The present defendant was then applied to for the
same purpose, but the deed of assignment was never acted
upon, as Mr. Cox subsequently found out that the defendant
had received the 30/. now in question, and expressedldsde:
termination to make Pusey a bankrupt rather than that the
defendant should retain the money. The defendant was
equally resolute ; " he had got the money, and he should
keep it ;" and on the 22d of November a fiat in bankruptcy
issued against Pusey, upon a declaration of insolvenCy made
and advertised by, Pusey himself. Reliance was placed, on
on behalf of the assignees, upon statements made both by the
bankrupt and the defendant, that there had not been any
" pressure" on the part of the defendant to compel Pusey to
pay the 30/. ; and the bankrupt himself admitted in the course
of his examination to-day, that he might have said,- perhaps
half a dozen times, that the reason he had preferred paying
Bradfield was, because he was his largest creditor. Pusey
stated, however, that at the time when he paid the money he
did not think about becoming a bankrupt, but that it was
his intention to try and get on again ; although it appeared
that his debts altogether amounted to 4501., while the debts
owing to him which could be put down as " good," amounted
to 591. odd, and the doubtful debts were 2501.

Lord Chief Justice TIxnAL, in summing up the evidence,
told the jury, that the ground on which the
.plaintiffs
sought to recover the 301. was, that Richard Pusey, know-
ing that his affairs were in that condition and posture
that a fiat in bankruptcy would be issued against him,
thought proper, of his own accord, to pay
.that sum to
Mr. Bradfield, one of his creditors; and if the jury were sa-
tisfied upon the evidence that the money was paid without
any pressure on the part of Mr. Bradfield, and also that
Pusey knew he must be a bankrupt, and paid the money in
contemplation of bankruptcy, the plaintiffs had a right to
recover ; but unless both 'circumstances concurred, they
should find for the defendant. The two points, therefore,
which they must consider, were very narrow indeed, and the
evidence relating to them lay within a very small compass;
for it did not signify a doit, as it seemed to him, whether
Cox had pressed for his money or not. Cox was pressing
Pusey for payment, no doubt, from night till morning, aftd
so might twenty other persons have done; but the question
for their consideration upon the first point was, whether the
money paid to the defendant was a voluntary payment. In
order to constitute "pressure," it was not necessary that
legal proceedings should have been resorted to ; but if the
pressure was such that it overweighed Pusey's own inclina-
tion, and induced him to pay against his will, that would be
sufficient pressure within the meaning of the bankrupt laws.
Assuming them to be satisfied that the pressure was made
out, they would then have to say whether they were also
satisfied that the payment was made in contemplation of
bankruptcy. They would observe that the fiat did not issue
till nearly seven weeks after the payment of the money ; and
although there was no doubt that Pusey was in embarrassed
circumstances at the time, it did not necessarily follow that
he contemplated bankruptcy, as a man might hope that his
affairs would rally and come round again. Nothing appeared,
either, to lead the mind to the conclusion that a bankruptcy
was contemplated at the meeting which took place when the
assignment was proposed, and the bankrupt himself stated
that he had never thought of such a thing. However, they
would take the whole of the evidence into their consideration,
and return such a verdict as they thought the evidence would
warrant them in finding.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
The special jury cause of "Doe, dem. Major and others v.
Cundell," was settled, and the civil business having been all
thus disposed of, the Lord Chief Justice tried two or three
prisoners, and rose at five o'clock.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCNERLEY.)
Thomas Crofts, aged 48, a hairdresser, was indicted for
having, on the 18th of November last, at Newbury, com-
mitted a felonious assault upon the person of his own daugh-
ter, Ann Crofts.

Mr. Selfe conducted the case for the prosecution, and the
prisoner was defended by Mr. Carrington,
It appeared from the evidence given by the prosecutrix,
that in November last she resided with her father at New-
bury, her mother being dead, and that on the day upon which
the offence was perpetrated, her father came home in a state
of intoxication, about nine o'clock in the evening, and was
assisted by her up stairs to bed. According to her account,
violence was then offered to her, but she did not call for as-
sistance, because her father threatened to cut her throat if
she cried out. Two or three hours afterwards the prisoner
went down stairs and left the house, saying that he was
going to drown himself ; upon which Ann Crofts went to
the house of a neighbour, a Mrs. Challis, and went with her
in search of him. She said nothing, however, at that time
to Mrs. Challis, nor to a person named Eliza Ann White, who
came and slept with her that night, about what had occurred
upstairs, nor did she communicate her story to anybody till
the 28th of November, although she had two married aunts
living within half a mile of Newbury. On the 28th of No-
vember she told Mrs. Challis what had happened to her, and
Mrs. Challis taxed the prisoner with it; but although he ad-
mitted the fact, according to the evidence for the prosecution,
no charge was preferred against him till May last, when a
quarrel having taken place between Ann Crofts and the pri-
soner, who had then lately come into possession of between
1001. and 2001., he struck her, and she convicted him before
the magistrates of an assault. He was fined 10s. 6d. for the
misdemeanor, and while Ann Crofts was going down stairs
from the justice-room, she told the magistrates the same
story about the occurrences of the 18th of November which
she repeated to-day.
Mr. CARRINGTON addressed the jury for the prisoner.
Verdict—Not guilty.
Thomas May was found guilty of a rape upon Janette God-
dard, a child between ten and twelve years of age, and was
sentenced to transportation for life.
SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION.—Thomas Robins, a good-
looking lad of 18, was indicted, under the statute 9 George
IV., c. 31, for having taken Jane Willavize, an unmarried
girl under the age of 16 years, out of the possession and
against the will of her father, William Willavize.
Mr. Selfe conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was de-
fended by Mr. J. J. Williams.
The prosecutor is a farmer occupying 600 acres of land,
for which he pays a rent of 7001. a year, at West Woodlisy,_
in this county, and the prisoner was his under-carter. Mr.
Willavize kept no female servant ; and it appeared that his
eldest daughter Jane, a buxom-looking lass, apparently 18
years of age, although her father stated she was 15 years
old on the 9th of October, 1843, occasionally- performed
menial offices, which brought her in communication with the
young and handsome under carter. On the night of the 6th,
or the morning of the 7th of May, the prosecutor missed
both his daughter and the prisoner, who usually slept in
the house ; and it appeared from the evidence of the young
lady herself, that
“On such a night as this,"
she found a ladder placed against the door of a hay-)oft,
which communicated with her bed-room, saw her swain
standing at the bottom, whom, she said, she expected to
find there, and ran off with him, first to Reading, and thence
to Old Brentford, where they were found by the incensed
father living together as man and wife about a fortnight
afterwards. The young lady frankly admitted that it was
she who had offered to go off with the prisoner, and not the
prisoner who had proposed to run away with her.
Mr. Williams submitted • that under these circumstances
there was no " taking" within the meaning of the Act of
Parliament.

His LORDSHIP, however, was of a different opinion, and the
jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, the prisoner was
fined Is., which he immediately paid, and was discharged.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Buckingham, July 11.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON. )
James Holbrook was indicted for feloniously setting fire to
a wheat rick, the property of John Harris, in the night of
the 28th of March.

Mr. Birch prosecuted the prisoner, whom Mr. Saunders de-
fended.

The prisoner was a carpenter, and the felony in question
was committed from private and personal motives. He had
married a niece of the prosecutor, and one consequence of
this union appeared to be, that private disagreements grew
up between the prisoner and his wife's uncle, and frequent
quarrels took Ace. In the evening of the day mentioned
in the indictment the wheat rick of the prosecutor was dis-
covered in flames, and the prisoner was seen deliberately walk-
ing in a direction from the fire towards his own house , he did
not attempt to assist in extinguishing the flames. From this
circumstance, and that of the prisoner having indulged in
some threats against his uncle, suspicion fell on him, and
he was apprehended, and immediately admitted that he had
committed the offence. This he continued to assert for
some time; but on the following day he regarded his situa-
tion as one of peril, and denied that he himself did it, but
said that it was committed by a little boy, to whom he gave
the matches with which the fire was lighted. Evidence of
threats against the prosecutor on the part of the prisoner was
given, and he was shown to have been loitering about the
rick-yard just before the fire broke out.
The Learned BARON summed up the evidence, the jury
found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced t 4 be trans-
ported for life, after an impressive admonition,
The other eases tried were of the mp.st commonplace cha-
racter.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, July 11.
The Northern Circuit commenced yesterday by the arrival
of the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Creswell last even-
ing, when the commissions of assize were opened both for the
county and for the city of York.
This morning the Lord Chief Baron charged the grand
jury of the city, and the Learned Judges breakfasted, as is
usual, with the Lord Mayor.
At noon their Lordships proceeded to the Castle, where
the Lord Chief Baron took his seat on the civil side, and Mr.
Justice Cresswell proceeded to charge the grand jury of the
county in the Crown Court.
The assizes are not likely to be heavy. The entry of causes
is not yet closed, but is not expected to be more than between
60 and 70.
The calendar contains the names of 68 prisoners for the
county, which are comprised in 46 cases. In the city there
are four prisoners, in two cases. There is one charge of wil-
ful murder, in which no fewer than six persons are accused ;
2 eases of forgery, 7 of robbery, 8 of stabbing and wounding,
3 of manslaughter, 5 of sheep stealing, 1 of horse stealing, 1
of arson, 1 of letter-stealing. Upon the whole the calendar
is considered light.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
BORRODALE V. FREAR AND ANOTHER.
This was an action for assault and false imprisonment.
Mr. Wilkins appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
the defendants, 'an for
4t, appeared that the ,deft ndan
had been the constables
Of New Mahon, in tli Yorth Riding, for the years 1842.3,
and. on the 15th-of April, 1843, had been chosen and sworn
in to the same oMee fbr the following year. A little before
eleven O'CIOCk in the evening of that day, which happened
in gaturday, they went round the town to clear the

public-houses and beer-shops, that being the hour at which
they were bound to shut up. There was a person names
Noble who kept a beer-shop, into which they went, and the
people turned out. They then went into the street, and
soon-after, hearing a noise,in a house which, it was said, khey
ini.itook for Noble's, and which adjoined to it, they wet in
and turned the owner and' his wife out of their otvu house.
The noise and hubbub occasioned by these proceedings
brought a number of people together, and the plaintiff
among the rest. Altercation ensued between him and the
constables, and it was sworn by one witness that one of them
struck him a violent blow on the thigh with his staff, and
brought the plaintiff to the ground. They then took him
to the lock-up, procured the key, and thrust him in, where
they kept him during the whole of Saturday night, all Sun-
day, and Sunday night, and it was not till Monday morning
that he was liberated.

Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury onfthe part of the de-
fendants, and denied that they struck the plaintiff, and said
he was instructed that the cause of his coming to the ground
was that he threw himself down to resist .being taken to
prison. The Learned Gentleman did not call any witnesses
in support of that version of the story, and admitted that
there must be a verdict against him.
The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the evidence, and
the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, 201.
CROWN SIDE. .

Samuel Petty was indicted for forging a certain receipt
and acquittance for 1491. 9s. 2d., with intent to defraud one
William Taylor. _
__ . _

Mr. Bainti.s and Mr. H. Hill conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. Wilkins and Mr. rashley the defence.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been a clothier at Bradford,
in rather a respectable way of business, and in the beginning
of last year had dealings, amongst other parties, with Wil-
liam Taylor, a woolstapler in the same town. In the January
of that year Taylor sold to the prisoner a considerable quan-
tity of goods, the invoice of which was delivered to him at
the time. On the Ist of March, these goods not being paid
for, the prisoner applied to Taylor for a further pared. This
Taylor refused to let him have, except on condition of the
former parcel being paid for, and on these terms the prisoner
finally received goods from Taylor to the amount of
143/. 48. 2d. An invoice was sent for these goods in the
handwriting of Taylor. In the course of the same month
Taylor, having met with a heavy loss by the failure of Thomas
Baines and Co., was obliged to call his creditors together,
and an assigment of all his goods for their benefit was exe-
cuted by him to John Adamson and others. In the course
of May following Mr. Adamson, in collecting the debts due
to the insolvent Taylor, called on the prisoner, by whom he
was informed that his debt to the insolvent's estate amounted
to about 1701., to which sum it had been increased by the
addition of a bale of goods on the 2d of March. On a subse-
quent application in the month of November the prisoner
stated that his account, with the exception of 351., had been
settled, and he produced two invoices, one for the goods de-
livered in January, and one for those delivered in March,
both purporting to have been settled by Taylor. An inter-
view subsequently took place, at which Taylor, the prisoner,
insolvent,
were his solicitor, and some of the trustees of the
were present, when Taylor declaredthe receipt, or aufaittace„
appended to the second invoice to be a forgery. An action
was commenced by the assignees to recover the full amo*at.
The prisoner pleaded payment of all except 351., which ha
paid into court. The case came on for trial at the last York
Assizes before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a verdict was obtained
for the plaintiffs. This prosecution was accordingly com-
menced.
The jury, after a considerable retirement, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty. The sentence was deferred.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 11.
The commission for holding the assizes for the county of
Hants was opened in this city between five and six o'clock
yesterday afternoon, by Mr. Justice Wightmau, who was
met at the railway station by the High Sheriff. IFIr. Justice
Patteson arrived by the mail train. This morning their
Lordships attended divine service at the Cathedral, and soon
after twelve o'clock repaired to the Courts, Mr. Justice Wight-
man presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Pattepon
sitting at Nisi Prius. Although it was expected_ that the
business here would have been heavy, still it hake turned out
otherwise. There are only 12 causes and $t prisoners, but
among the latter are the following char"-e., s :-1 for murder;
2 for manslaughter; 1 for maliciously cutting and wounding;
3 for arson ; 3 for rape (2 of them on children of 7 and 4
years); 2 for highway robbery; and 2 for burglary.
In the Crown Court Mr, Justice Wightman kas tried a
man for cutting and wounding, where the wound was of the
slightest description, and in which the jury considered the
prisoner had acted under such provocation that he was fully
justified in acting on the defensive, and he was therefore ac-
quitted. His Lordship has also tried a man for manskughter,
but in this case the whole affair was a public-br,use quarrel,
ending in a fight, which the prisoner threi4hout had been
anxious to prevent.
In the Nisi Prius Court, Mr. Justice Patteson, after taking
some undefended causes, tried two actions of ejectment,
which will form a subject for discussion in the Courts next
term.

tiILAMORGANSHIRE.—Cardiff, July 8.
These assizes commenced this day before Baron Rolfe.
The cause list only contained 11 causes, and the calendar of
prisoners only 15 prisoners.
John Rees and Ann Williams were indicted for administer..
ing poison to the female prisoner's mother, Mary Vaughan.
Mr. Williams and Mr. Richards appeared for the prosecu-
tion ; the prisoners were undefended.
Verdict—Guilty. Transportation for life.
William Edwards, William Jones, and R. Thom as were in-
dicted for feloniously haVing set fire to and burn clown a cer-
tain outhouse at Merthey, in this county.
Mr. R. C. N. Came and Dr. N. Came appeared for the
prosecution ; and Mr. V. Williams and Mr. Richards de •
fended the prisoners.
The whole point of this case turned upon the word " cow-
house" in the indictment, and which word is not in the Act of
the 7th William IV. and Ist Victoria, c. 89.
The Learned JUDGE, after hearing the arguments of coun-
sel, decided that a cowhouse was not a stable within the
meaning of the Act, but he would reserve the point as to the
word " outhouse ;" however, the prisoners were acquitted en
the merits.

Tuesday, July 9.
THE QUEEN V. DE BURGH THOMAS,
Mr. Wilson appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. V.
Williams defended the prisoner.
The prisoner is a gentleman, and brother of Mr. D. Tho-
mas, of Pwllyurach, in the county of Glarr.organ, a man of
considerable landed property. The prisone•zwas indicted under
aggravated circumstances, for cutting and stabbing one W.
Rice, with divers intents.
William Rice—l am gardener to Colonel Tuberville, at
Lanblethian, in this county. I remember meeting the pri-
soner; ho was with my sister, coming out of a shed attached
to my father's house. I did not like the prisoner to follow-
my sister, as I knew it was for a very bad purpose. I tried
to take my sister from him. She ran from me. I then went
to Mr. Thomas, and desired him to go about his business.
He was then on foot. It was near eleven o'clock. He then
got on his horse. I again told him to be off ; he v.
was very abusive. I threatened to strike him. He then backed his horse for three or four yards. I went to him and again told
him to be off, and raised my arm up, and then I felt my arm
as if a sharp instrument had entered it. I felt wounded, and
then I struck him, and he then g92.loped off. I called out to
my father that I was shot in tile arm. I thought I was shot,
because I knew that the ii,iisoner generally carried pistols.
I bled very much. I Vialked to Cowbridge, nearly half a
mile, to Mr. Lewelbjn, a surgeon. I felt very weak. I• had
my wound dressed that night and next morning. I was be-
fore the magistrate on the Sunday.
John Rice, the second witness, said—l am the father of the
last witness. I remember my son calling out that he was
stabbed by Mr. De Burgh Thomas. I saw my sen and Mr.
Thomas, and Mr. Thomas said, "Don't toucti me for yaw
life." My son said he had been shot in the r.rm. I saw the
hole in his coat, and blood flowing out. He then went to the
doctor with my other son. (This man had been made so
drunk as to be unable to give his testirdony, and was com-
mitted by the Judge.)
Mr. Lewellyn, a surgeon—l examined prosecutor's left
arm. I found a wound about an inch long and about the
same in depth. It was a cleanly cut wound b, a sharp in-
strument.
M. Hervey—l am a policeman. I grodace the bloody
clothes.
(The clothes were here produced., literally soaked wit
blood.)
William Rice was here recalled by the Judge, and upon
being questioned about his f'ather's intoxicated state, he
stated that some of the prisoner's relatives had got hold of the
witness (his father), and b:ad plied him with drink so as to
make him incapable of giving his evidence. This disgracefuk
conduct was severely Commented upon by Baron Rolfe.
Mr. V. WILLIAM'S addressed the jury for the prisoner, who,
after a short comultation, returned a verdict of Guilty of a
common assault& Sentence—three months' imprisonment.

COURT CIRCULAR,
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and prince Albert walked
this morning to the farm. Her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness returned to the Castle in a pony phaeton.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an
airing in the forenoon in a carriage. Their Royal Highnesses
the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were taken in the
pleasure grounds of the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited he
Maj esty.
In the afternoon. the Queen, accompanied by the Princess
Royal, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn and the
Hon. Miss Paget, took an airing in an open pony carriage
and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the.
Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, were
on horseback.
The royal party returned to the Castle soon after six Q: clock.
this
Her Royal Highness th
b e Duchess of Rent took. an airing
afternoon, ed Lady Anna Maria Damson, in an
open carriage.
y
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice weA taken an air-
ing in the Slopes, this afternoon.
The Royal dinner party at the Cast, this evening, innna-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady A
Maria Dawson, the Countess, Josephine Wratitlaw, Sir George
Couper, Bart., and Lieut.-Colonta Berkeley Drummond.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended dating
dinner.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at the Castleclueing the evening.
The Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended at the
Castle on Thursday evening, and perfomied during dinner
the following pieces :—Overture, (Weber); Waltz, "Dublin,"
(Labitzky) ; Selection, " Peri," (Ringmuller) ; Quadrille&
(Leduc) ; Polka.

-weir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duche of Cam.
bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke an''d Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baros, Knesebeck and
Baroness Ahlefeldt, honoured the D
and Duchess of
Beaufort with their company to dinner
yesterday at their re-
sidence in Arlington-street.
Her Majesty's Honourable
idol rps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were inspected yesterday at St. James's Palace, by their
Captain, Lord Forester, who expressed his approbation of
the appearance of tiv., corps.
The Governor -And Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Hag-
land had 9:4 interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterdr..y, at his official residence in Downing- street. Mr.
John. Chairman of the Board of Encase alto had an
interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.

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JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—The Government have fol-
lowed up their line of policy with respect to public comps_
nies, &u., by bringing in a Bill " to regulate joint-stock banks
in England," which contains 45 clauses. It enacts, amongst
other provisions, the following :—Joint-stock banks hereafter
established must conform to this Act, and no more than six
persons will be allowed to carry on the trade of bankers in
England, under any agreement or covenant of co-partnerdhip
entered into after the 6th of May last passed, unless by virtue
of letters patent, to be granted by her Majesty. The pro-
posed company must petition for a charter, to be granted oil
tle favourable report of the Board of Trade. A deed of sea,
tlement, containing
_provisions for certain special purposes,
must be prepared. No company to commence business until
the deed is executed, and at least one-half of the shares paid
up. Incorporation is not to limit the shareholders' liability.
All bills of exchange and promissory notes made, accepted,.
or endorsed, on behalf of a company must be signed by two.
directors. The 43d clause enacts that existiag compabiaa
may be brought under the operation—that is, " take the be-
nefit" of this Act.