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(for nothing is omitted which any person can possibly wish to find),
we do say that this " Post Office Directory" Is a most extraor-
dinary undertaking. As a proof of the vigilance which has been
exercised in bringing down the matter to the latest possible period,
Lord Western's name will not be found in the " Parliamentary
Directory." Similar instances of attention might be adduced. As
tests we have turned to several names of persons among our own
acquaintance who have recently changed their residence, and in no
one case have we found the change overlooked. This is conclusive
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prisontnent. The foll Owing year he was tried and
convicted at Stafford, and sent to gaol for one 3,ear.
_Mir the next three years little or nothing was heard
of him ; but in 1838 he was tr ed at Warwick, where
he got three months' imprisonment; and in January,
1839, he was tried at Gloucester, and sentenced to a
year's imprisonment. Lastly, he was apprehended at
Abingdon in the following, or the year after that,
with a woman of the name of Ilarriet Thompson—
whom he had taken to supply the place of his wife,
on her being sent to prison for eighteen months;
and on the 25th of January he was transported for
life, and she (Thompson) was imprisoned for two
/years. Ann Lockwood, if we recollect aright, was
not actually aware of her husband's fate till she saw
Mr. Powell in Leicester gaol. At the expiration of
her term a subscription was raised to enable the
woman Thompson to follow her " husband " to Syd-
ney, and she arrived there safely. In October last
the govern,or of Abingdon gaol had received a letter
from her, stating that " James " (Lockwood or
Thompson) was regularly employed by the chief
builders at Sydney, and at good wages; while she
had also obtained profitable employment. He, it
seems, is very clever as a workman in Gothic archi-
tecture, and at cutting out grotesque heads and other
ornaments for churches.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
CHILD'S CHROMATROPE, exhibiting the most extraor-
dinary and beautiful effects, is shown Daffy and in the Evenings.
New Objects in Nature and Art lior Use PROTEOSCOPE. The
PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Exhibition of a Series of beautiful
DISSOLVING VIEWS. Dr. RYAN'S and Professor BACHHOFF-
NEWS retied LECTURES da.ly. Dr. IZYAN also Lectures en the
Ewuniki;'s of 31,sltdaY, Wednesday. and Friday. All these Lectures
idiound in interesting Experiments. SUBMARINE EXPERI-
MENTS by means of the DIVING-BELL and DIVER. The
HYDRO-ELECTRIC and COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES.
Athaission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.
A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred
additional Works of Art, &c., since the halt revisal, is Just publishe.d.
price Is.

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cuted, the intercourse between Paris and the capital
malebe onflotshtedirect and ::.atis-
factory.—The Strasburg and Bale Company are at
ground between
;:;arrebruck anbd Sarrebourg. The intention is to
construct a branch line from- the former place to the
main trunk, in order to bring the produce of its coal
mines into Alsace. As these mines at present supply
to the manufacturing establishments of the Haut and
Bus Rhin, the carriage of this article would tend to
materially increase the receipts of the company.—
The Courrier de Lyons announces that the Minister
of Public Works has definitively adopted the line
of the valley of the Oze as the route which the Paris
and Lyons line is to take.—The works of the Tours
and Nantes line are to commence immediately in
the department of the Loire-Inferieure. A credit
of 600,000 f. had been already advanced to the head
engineer, by the State, and a second one of
800,000 f, has just been given from the budget of 1846.
—The Central Railroad Company, although not yet
legally authorised, is busy in preparing its stock.
Five locomotives for the transport of goods have been
ordered from MM. Schneider, Freres, of Creuzot, and
a similar number fir passengers, from MM. J. J.
Meyer, of Mulhausen. It is the last-named engine-
makers who have received orders from the Govern-
ments of Baden and Bavaria, and also, it is said, from
Austria.—A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
of CherbOurg was held a few days back, for the pur-
pose of considering what line would prove most advis-
able for a railroad communication between Cherbourg
and Paris. Some persons having recommended Alen-
eon as the best intermediate town (with a branch to
the Rennes line), and others Caen (to join the Rouen
line), the meeting eventually declared in favour of
the latter. The line by Alencon was rejected because
it increased the distance considerably, and, conse-
quently, would be more expensive in carriage of goods
and passengers; and because the traffic with Rouen
was far greater than with Alencon. The vicinity of
Alencon to the coal districts of the Loire did no
seem to the meeting of sufficient weight to counter-
t
balance the other points in favour of the more direct
line, and resolutions were accordingly passed in
favour of the line by Caen and Rouen.—The Direc-
tors of the Marseilles and Avignon Railroad MinisterCom-
ad
working
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line
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from
tsheentexineetuo the
atianAvignon to Lyons. The capital of the intended
tpeanndye r h a
fory e
Company is provisionally fixed at eighty millions of
francs, divided into 160,000 of 500 f. each. The Di-
rectors of the Marseilles and Avignon line being of
opinion that, from the advantageous influence which
both the lines ought reciprocally to exercise on each
other, it will be useful to concentrate the two Com-
panies as much as possible, have decided that the
above capital shall be distributed at the rate of two
shares for one to the subscribers of the Marseilles and
Avignon Company of August 8, 1843, and two shares
for one to the present Shareholders of the said Com-
pany. Such persons as still hold the original shares
may increase their rights, and will have the faculty
of receiving four shares for one. Each subscriber is to
pay in the twentieth part of his subscription.
DIEPPE AND PARlS.—Three different surveys for
lines have been made by this Company, viz.—the
mountain, the tunnel, and the valley lines. The
longest is 43 miles ; the shortest 36.
MONTPELLIER AND NISMES.—This line was opened
on the 9ch inst.
BERLIN.--The Berlin line direct to Konigsberg
will cost 36,000,000 thalers, or 5,000,0001. sterling.
The Austrian Government has resolved to extend
the Great Northern line to Bochnia.
It is said that the Prussian Government has resolved
to impose a tax on the gross receipts of the various
lines, and to look upon time bargains in foreign
shares as upon dealings in Spanish bonds, i. e., as

AGENCIES.-COUNTRY SHOPKEEPERS,
and others are informed that the LONDON GENUINE TEA
(-7"-.IPANY are now lining up their Lists of AGENCIES for the
Present Year, and persons seeking for a respectable aulditimi to their
business, by Which many have derived, duriug the last 27 years, con-
siderable incomes, may apply to the Company, at their Warehouses,
2, LAURENCE POUNTNEY-]TILL, LONDON.

GLOBE, Nov. 16, 1844.
The claims to public patronage of this most elaborate and well.
arranged Directory have been so fully established, as to render any
notice of it almost an act of supererogation, In addition to the
extensive and varied information by which this work was already
distinguished, we find in the volume for 1845, a considerable quan.
tity of new and appropriate matter, arranged under various heads.
All this has been done—notwithstanding the greatly increased size
of the volume—without any additional charge. The yearly outlay
of capital required to produce the work must be immense ; the
reward of the enterprise and labour will, we trust, be in propor.
Lion to it.
HEREPATR'S RAILWAY ♦ND COMMEREIAL AnV ERTISER,
Nov. 16, 1844.
How such a mass of information was ever brought together,
even in the 1,900 large pages of this volume, it is difficult to
imagine, even though we take into account that to effect it, has
tasked the ample resources of its owners for a series of years. The
result, however, is that a commercial book of reference has been
produced worthy of the commercial capital of the world. The
high character of the Post Office Directory has given it a place in
every house of real business ; indeed, not to possess it is to be
without information to which every roan in the United Kingdom
commercially employed should have ready access.
In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space enumeration of the
various subjects cannot be attempted, nor can such be requisite.
It can be only necessary of a work so universally known to say,
that the number of the Post Office London Directory for 1845 is
by far the best and most complete edition of the work which has
ever been produced. Higher praise it would be difficult to bestow,
The Map with which the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," is an entirely new one, and one of the
best plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY REGISTER, Dec. I, 1844.
There are few men of business who do not take in the " Post Office
Directory," and to such, an enumeration of its contents is almost
valueless ; but for those who do not, it may be as well to
make some further remarks, and the more so, as it only needs an
acquaintance with that work to be convinced of its intrinsic value
and great utility. There are some offices where the expenditure
for a new Directory is grudged on the ground that it is laying out
money for what they do not want, and they grub on without a
" Post Office Directory," or with only one of Pigot's or Robson's
superannuated Directories. A sharp, acute man of business would,
however, just as soon be persuaded to part with his inkstand as
with his " Post Office Directory," for it not merely saves more
than its cost in tune, but it is a valuable instrument for carrying
on business. As a means of ready reference it is valuable, as a
man's name, residence, and occupation are soon found, and a re.
ference to an old Directory will show how long he has been en.
gaged in such pursuits, and furnish prima-facial evidence es to
respectability. This is so well understood in proper quarters, that
on such matters the" Pest Office Directory" will be found quoted
in the leading articles of the Times, in Government and Parlia.
'notary reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
Does the Times, with ready sagacity, detect a swindling
firm trying to prey on the community—the " Post
Office Directory" is immediately appealed to, to show that
the pseudo firm is not to be found enrolled in its columns.
It would appear inexplicable that a day register of this
kind should be found playing such an important part in the coin.
mercial community, if it were not well ascertained that its con-
ductors display the greatest energy and accuracy in car-
rying out their undertaking. The return of the circulation of
country banks prefixed to the "Banking Directory" is the best
which has yet appeared, and the only digest of the Population
Returns, applying to the metropolis, is the one in the "City Di-
rectory," which gives the population and income-tax of each parish
in the metropolis, and a laborious analysis of the occupations of the
population, deduced from the Census of 1841.
Were this work more carefully looked to in country places, the
swindling bill and other firms would find a little more difficulty In
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.
In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the Post Office Directory."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, NOV. 23, 1844.
Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk of this
almost indispensable Directory. Well do we remember the mean,
spare volume of other days, with its long lines of large type, and
its shabby sheepskin binding; is place of which we have here a
ponderous large octavo volume, of some 1,900 pages, of two and
three columns each, of small type, comprising " inter alio," direc.
tories, " Official," " Street," " Commercial," " Law," " Court,"
" Parliamentary," "Postal," "City," " Conveyance," " Bank-
ing"—thus combining the advantages of the old " Directory" with
those of the " Court Guide"—the east with the west—and com.
prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find ;
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
information may be found without difficulty. Among other addi-
tions, we perceive souse important and interesting statistics of Lon-
don—as the area in acres, population, and assessment, and a state-
ment from the Occupations' Abstract of the Census of 1841. The

MPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
'.4 to spare are apprised that Agents centinue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
°dices, No. 9, Great St. llelen's-churchyard, Bishopsg,ate-stritet.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one otuicehto a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
lttle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only 1 Is. per
annum, and many during the last ninetee4 years have realised con-
sidurable incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.
Application to he made (if by letter post-paid) as above.

ROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN-
NUITY COMPANY,
9, CHATHAM-PLACE, ELACKFRIAES, LONDON.
Established in 1826.
This Society is supported by an ample subscribed Capital, and by a
considerable accumulated premium fund.
Assuranc,:s are effected at a low rate of preminin, profits,
or at an increased premium, with participation in the pro“ts cf the
Mee.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDFORD AND SOUTII7WESTERN JUNCTION.—
The works on this line are so far completed as to be
ready for the laying of the rails. It starts from the
Woking station of the South-Western Railway, in a
southerly course, is six miles in length, and has been
constructed by Mr. Giles, the engineer, and Messrs.
Treadwell, the contractors. Originally projected as
an independent line, it has now fallen, by purchase
for 75,0001., into the hands of the South-Western
Company, who propose to make it the trunk to their
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth extension,
recommended by the Board of Trade. The Guild-
ford line, amongst other objects, was originally pro-
jected with a view to its becoming the first experi-
mental line in this country of the wooden railway
system, but the transfer of it to the South-Western,
who, on idemnifying the patentee, are to lay down a
single line on the iron system, will preclude the
carrying out the proposed experiment. The South-
Western take possession as soon as the rails are laid,
and the works become consolidated. They will have
to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act
to confirm the purchase. The distance between
Woking and Guildford will be accomplished in a
quarter of an hour, and the line, to be worked by the
South-Western, is expected to be opened in the be-
ginning of April.
CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN.--A memorial to the
Board of Trade in favour of this line was sent from
Lincoln on Saturday last, containing the signatures;of
400 tradesmen and merchants. There were not more
than a dozen parties who refused to give their assent.
—Boston Herald.
MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.—This line will be
opened throughout for goods in a week, and for pas-
sengers on the Ist of next month.
I3RAKDLING JUNCTION.--There is a rumour that
Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Midland Railway,
has arranged to allot a 251. share for each share held in
the Newcastle and Darlington Junction, in order to
complete the purchase of the Brandling Junction, so
that 10/. per share will be paid up immediately.—
Newcastle Journal.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICIC.—The Newcastle and
Berwick (Hudson's line) has received the assent of
the Duke of Northumberland and Sir George Grey.
—Gateshead Observer.
ELY AND LINCOLN.—On Wednesday last a meet-
ing of the committee appointed to consider which
line would be best for the interests of IVisbech, was
held at the Town-hall, Ely, when a memorial to the
Board of Trade in favour of this line was agreed to.
—Bury Journal.
LONDON AND NORWICH DIRECT.—This line, in
the direction of Bury St. Edmund's, will pass over a
portion of the Ickworth property, the Marquis of
Bristol having expressed his desire to afford every
facility to the company. It will then continue to-
wards Farnham, in the line of the Thetford and Nor-
wich.—Bury Journal.
BRIDGE OYER THE SWALB.—It is contemplated, in
connection with the North Kent line to Sheerness, to
erect a bridge over the Swale.—Maidstone Gazette,
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION FOR THE POTTERIES.—
An important memorial from the'committee appointed
at the public meeting in the Potteries on the 30th
December last, has been presented to the Board of
Trade, by Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P. It de-
scribes the want of railway accommodation in the
Potteries, and gives a decided opinion that " the
branch " from Basford to Crewe, and " the branch "
from Stoke to Stafford, for which the Grand Junc-
tion and Trent Valley Companies have respectively
given notice, will not meet the wants or wishes of
that populous mining and manufacturing district, and
that an extension of the Trent Valley line from Col-
wieb, along the Valley of the Trent to Stoke, and
from thence to Crewe, will alone be satisfactory. The
memorialists therefore pray the Board of Trade not
to sanction the proposed branches, and to suspend
their sanction to the Valley line until 1846, by which
time they pledge themselves that a new Company
shall be formed to apply to Parliament for an Act to
construct a direct line through the Potteries from
Rugby to Crewe.—Chester Courant.
IRISH LINES.
KINGSTOWN AND BRAY.--On Saturday the Direc-
tors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway met as
the Provisional Committee for constructing a line
from Kingstown to Bray. The capital to be 200,000/.
in 4,000 shares of 50/. each ; 2,000 of these shares to
be appropriated to the Shareholders of the Kingstown
Railway in proportion to their interests, and the re-
mainder to be placed at the disposal of the committee
of distribution. The Dalkey line is to be purchased
by the new Company at its cost price, 35,000/. The
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A Bonus in ready money, at the rate of 15 per cent. on the pre-
miums receivud (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of about 30
per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial policies on
whfck three annual premiums had been paid In the December
previous.

A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the hold-
ers of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses In ready money, or
have them applied in ang,mentation of their policies, or In reduction
of their future premiums
Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either In one sum, in
a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay-
ments, or on the ascending or descending scale.
Officers of the Army and Navy, on active service, Persons afflicted
with chronic and other diseases, and such as are going beyond the
limits of Europe, are also Assured at moderate rates.
Prospectuses and all necessary information may he obtained at the
Odic°. MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

AGRICULTURE, Co SIMERCE, NAVIGATION, THE
CHURCH.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, 14,
• Coinhill, London, opposite the Bank, have fiaished a few
splendid l'ieces of PLATE, suitable for uresentation le Gentlemen
conmeted with either of the above pursuits or professions, to which
they invite the attention of Committees who are in search of valuable
testimonials for s, c hoccasiona

IJALSE'S SCORBUTIC DROPS, a Sure Cure
for Bad Legs, Scurvy, &c.—ltead the following wonderful
account of Halse's Scorbutic Drops. It must convince the most
sceptical of the safety and great value of this extraordinary com-
pound of Herbs. This Important letter is sent to Mr. liaise by Mr.
W. Matthews, a highly-respectable flirmer, of the parish of Brent,
Devon :—"Brent, March Ist, 1842. Dear Sir,—l consider it a duty
incumbent on me to state to the politic the Invaluable properties of
your Scorbutic Drops. You remember, when I first applied to you,
that I was almost out of hopes of receiving any benefit fur my poor
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continued to get worse, until at last all strength left her, and she was
no longer able to walk ; her body and head were covered all over
with scorbutic eruptions, her appetite had vanished, the erup-
tions would itch in such a dreadful manner that she would roll
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one bottle of them all the itching ceased, her appetite returned, aad
she enjoyed sound and refreshing sleep. By the time she had taken
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limbs was restored to her, and, I thank God, her health is now as
good or better than it ever was.

" I remain, dear Sir, yours respechldly,
" WILLIAM MATTHEWS.e "
N.B. Be sure to ask for " Halse's Scorbutic Dros." Pric 2s. 9d,
a bottle, and in pint bottles, containing nearly six 2s. 9d. bottles,
for Its.
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NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL.
TO ROWLAND HILL, AUTHOR OF THE PENNY
POSTAGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—l enclose a copy of correspondence which has
taken place between Sir George Larpent, Bart., as
Chairman of the City of London Mercantile Com-
mittee on Postage, and Mr. Rowland Hill, on the
occasion of his being presented with 10,0001., part of
the moneys subscribed to the above testimonial.
Thinking the above may be interesting to you,
for the information of the public, I am, Sir your
faithful servant, GEORGE WANSEY, Sec.
3, Aloorgate-street, London, Jan. 22, 1845.
(Copy.) 3, Moorgate-street, London, Jan. 21, 1845.
Sir,—The City of London Mercantile Committee
on Postage have great satisfaction in forwarding to
you a copy of resolutions passed by them in March
last, accompanied by a cheque for 10,0001., part of the
amount raised in carrying out the object therein re-
ferred to.
The Committee reserve, till a future opportunity,
the pleasure of making a more public presentation of
the fruits of their labours, as in many parts of the
kingdom the efforts of their friends are yet incom-
plete, and as they hope to add considerably to the
amount already subscribed by continuing their exer-
tions.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
GEORGE LARPENT, Chairman.
Rowland Hill, Esq.
At a meeting of " the City of London Mercantile
Committee on Postage," held at the Jerusalem
Coffee-house, Cornhill, on Tuesday, March 12,
1844, Sir George Larpent, Bart., in the chair, the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—
" 1. That this Committee, observing a general
feeling to exist that the" important services rendered
by Mr. Rowland Hill are deserving of remuneration,
do take the necessary measures to accomplish that
object.

FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH
Vie manifold advantages to the heads of families from the
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all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every house.
holder in the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the
followihg is respectfully submitted :
"70 NR. THOMAS PROUT, 2'29, STRAND, uenme.
"5, Cooper street. Manchester, March 1842.
" Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicating to you the
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SILL OF HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state. that in the
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I am, therefore, warranted in declaring that they supply to me a
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HISTORY OF A COINER.
(From the Leicester Chronicle.)
We have mentioned in our Town-hall police re-
port, for Monday last, the committal of the woman
Mulhern, alias Lockwood, on a charge of coining and
uttering counterfeit coin ; and we now proceed to give
some particulars of her truly eventful history, with
which Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, has
obligingly furnished us.
The first that is known of her is as the wife of a
soldier serving under Sir John Moore in Spain, and
whom she "followed to the field"—trudging along
with the army and its gallant leader through its
long and remarkable retreat, till the battle
of Corunna. After this she was with the army
under " the Duke," in Portugal, and during the
whole of the Peninsular war, whether merely as
a camp-follower, or with her husband, is not
known ; but he is supposed to have been killed in
some one of the many engagements that took place,
and she to have consoled herself with another, if not
many snore. In one engagement with the enemy, the
sergeant-major of the regiment she followed was
killed by a shot ; on which (while it is imagined the
engagement still continued) she contrived to get at
the body, and rifle the dead man's " kit" of its con-
tents. Among these were his marriage and other
certificates, which she carefully concealed and pre-
served for after use. On returning home she passed
herself off as the widow of this sergeant-major, in
order to obtain a pension ; and afterwards, on a nurse's
place in Chelsea Hospital becoming vacant, she ap-
plied for and obtained it, also as the sergeant-major's
widow ; having all the necessary documents, she was
enabled to answer every question, and her identity
was never doubted. But, when she had been com-
fortably located here for some time, the real widow
came home! Her application for a pension, its denial
on the ground that the widow was already provided
for, and the real widow's reiterated assertions that she
was the widow, caused an investigation by the late
Sir Charles Grant. The result was, that Biddy was
turned adrift on the " wide wide world," and Was lost
sight of for several years. Her first reappearance was
in the character of a coiner, as which she was tried
anti convicted in 1828, and sentenced to a year's itn-
prisontnent. In 1834 she was again tried ; but this
time under the name of Lockwood, and in company
with her second husband, whose real name, however,
vas Stafford, and who was a very skilful mason
by trade. He was convicted, and she was then ac-
quitted, as being his wife, and supposed to be acting
under his direction. In 1836 she was con-
victed at Aylesbury for coining, and she then
said she was 55 years of age. She was ogaiu tried
for the same offence at Warwick, in 1838, but
ac-
quitted, owing to insufficiency of evidence; and in July
of the same year she was again tried, and this time in
connexion with a woman named Perceval, the offence
being the same. Lockwood (prisoner) got eighteen
months' imprisonment, and her companion twelve
months. From that time till the present apprehension
of Mrs. Mulhern, alias Lockwood, Sic., Mr. Powell
had almost entirely lost sight of her; sometimes he
thought he recognised her business talent in the dif-
ferent cases forwarded to him, but was not able to
follow out the clue. In the answers she now gave to
the questions contained in the "Descriptive Paper,"
pl-isoner had in almost every case given false state-
ments, not wishing doubtless to renew her acquaint-
ance with the Mint solicitor; and when confronted
with him she stoutly denied all previous knowledge
of Mr. Powell, till he mentioned one or two "pas-
sages" in her life, when she said, "
told you that tale."
In 1828, Lockwood (her husband) was convicted
at the Surrey assizes of coining, &c., and sentenced
to one year's imprisonment. In 1833 he was con-
victed at Warwick, and sentenced to six months'

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2. That a public subscription be raised for Mr.
Rowland Hill, the author of the Penny Postage,' as
a testimonial to his ingenuity and perseverance in
having devised a scheme of legislation upon this im-
portant subject, which is so well calculated to give
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copy of resolutions passed by the City of London
Mercantile Committee on Postage in March last,
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RI9II GREAT WESTERN.—At a numerous meeting,,
of the inhabitants of Boyle, county Roscommon, just
held, to consider the best means of obtaining railway
communication between Boyle and Dublin, it was
resolved on the motion of Captain Duckworth, se-
conded by Captain Robertson, that the construction
of a line from Dublin to Mullingar, with branches
to Athlone and Longford, would intersect the country
fairly with reference to the western port of Galway,
and the north-western port of Sligo ; and confer
essential benefit on that rich and fertile district. On
the motion of Dr. 'Wallace, seconded by Mr. J.
Bromell, a memorial to the Board of Trade was
unanimously adopted, requesting. that body to re-
commend the proposed Great 'Western line from
Dublin to Mullingar, with branches to Athlone and
Longford, as best calculated to promote the interests
of the central, western, and north-western divisions
of Ireland. The memorialists set forth that the pro-
posed line will be best adapted to benefit the western
seaports of Sligo and Galway, bring Cork with-
in an equal distance of Dublin, and give facility
at a future period for carrying branches to both
towns. They regard, they intimate, with jealousy
and distrust the operations of a rival Company, styling
itself the Great 'Western Railway, and apparently got
up to frustrate the project above-named, but •kirofess-
ing only to run from Portarlington to Galway,
thereby only benefiting a small portion of the West
of Ireland, and that the poorest district, and leaving
out the richest portion of the centre of Ireland west-
ward, the mining districts of Leitrim, and the town
and port of Sligo. They express themselves per-
suaded that there is not sufficient traffic to support
two lines through the centre of western Ireland, and
strenuously recommend the carrying out of the pro-
posed comprehensive project between Dublin, Mul-
linger, Athlone, and Longford. At a similar meet-
ing held at Carrick-on-Shannon, county Leitrim,
resolutions expressive of the benefits to be derived
from the proposed line, and condemnatory of the
Portarlington project, via Ballinasloe to Galway,
were unanimously adopted ; together with a memo-
rial to the Board of Trade, bearing the signatures of
the most extensive landed proprietors in Leitrim.
The sum proposed to be; expended on railways in
Ireland is 8,315,0001. The deposits, however, do not
exceed 411,7501. Waterford Mail.
CONTINENTAL LINES.
The works on the Boulogne and Amiens line, be-
tween the latter town and Abbeville, have. been com-
menced. Mr. Love, who was employed on the Rouen
railway, has just been appointed to the Boulogne line
as engineer, and is about to urge on the works at
that end. The statutes of this company have at last
been sent from the hands of the Minister of Public
Works to the Council of State. The company which
had been formed for constructing a railroad between
Rouen and Caen, has come to an understanding with
the Rouen Railroad Company, which has agreed
to carry out the undertaking-. When the line IP C4t.

ELETATED SEA BEACIR AT WARDIE.--The ope-
rations of opening the ground for the Granton Railway,
has exposed an interesting section of alluvial soil at
Wardie. After a surface of sandy loam, mixed with
some peaty substances, from the decay of vegetable
remains, there is exposed, at the depth of two or three
feet, a bed of sea sand, on the surface of which lie
pebbles and sea shells, indicating in the most distinct
manner the remains of a sea beach. The shells
are smooth and water-worn, and are principally
specimens of the univalves, which exist at present on the
neighbouring shores. This deposit is elevated about ten
or twelve feet, as far as may he hurriedly guessed, above
the level of high-water tides—no great elevation when
considered geologically, but still not the less interesting.
It is ascertained with some degree of accuracy, that the
land in the neighbourhood of the Baltic is rising. The
level of the west coast of South America is also supposed
to have changed considerably, for at certain distances
from the sea there are found terraces, containing shells,
and other marine deposits. At Wardie, the sea at pre-
sent has rather a tendency to encroach, and very likely
did so to a considerable extent before the present bulwark
was erected. The low cliffs on which the villas stand
are probably those against which the sea
before
erilyts beat,
when it laid down the now exposed beach,
of the sea ;
and the sea
pre-
sent elevation, or the subsequent depr,on
now, again, a new action has commenced,
.t _
etlonian Mercury.
eats awe the coast so far as the bulwarks permt .—Ca-
Bart., of Scotto, have received his sanctiou nut
We understand that the tenantry of Sir henry
Durrant,
sftoarrictleleingothode
hspiseaiskas
wnoevuelnocitroonulr;
only to sport on their several
. occupations, but also to
.anTd
which exists between this gentleman and the
invite their friends.
feeling n tg
tenants, but exhibits on the part of the lion, Baronet a high confidence in the character of those whom he has
thus trusted. We hope, nay We feel assured, that thi*
permission will in no degree be abused, and that Sir
Henry will always find as ample sport op, fAls domain
under the care of his tenantry, as Ipu has done at any
previous time.. wich Aferkaay. INDiseosctiox Olp
-41 U. COMMISSIONER DULLOCK.—
Yesterday ii:ifOrnltllioD was receiveti at the Sheriffs'
Court-otfice of the severe incliqultion of Mr. Com-
missioner Bullock, the Mudge of the Sheriffs' Court. In
consequeßce, tbt Vrials appointed to have tahan lohice this
day (Th u r day) ci ay ) are postponed tttitil, V3'..,A next Court day,
in February next. • 1

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---7

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY AND
FRAUD.
At Queen-square Police-court yesterday, Harman
Milton, a well-dressed man, of dark sallow com-
plexion, about thirty-five years of age, was brought
up for re-examination, charged with obtaining 30/.
under false pretences.
The following is a brief outline of the circumstanees
Ivhich are of a very complicated character :—On the
20th of December Mr. John Kinkeade, a retired
wealthy tradesman, residing at 20, Rue Royal, Calais,
met William Milton (the brother of the prisoner)
and a person who represented himself to be Sir Ed-
ward Barry, at the Hotel de Commerce, when, in the
course of conversation, Milton stated that Sir Edward's
brougham and six horses were coming over from
England to go to his establishment at Brussels. On
the three following days he met the parties on the
pier, when they pretended that they were anxwusly
waiting for the arrival of the carriage and.
horses. Sir Edward expressed great dis!.eitisfact en
at the conduct of his servant at Dover, are:
it was proposed that Milton should go over,
:ascertain the cause of the delay, and bring back the
horses and carriage with him. It was then inti-
mated to Mr. Kinkeade that Sir Edward expected re-
mittances in the course of a few days, but was "a-
fortunately at the inoment,m ithout cash, and Mr. Kinkeade lent Sir Edward 14 to pay Milton's ex-
penses, and 4/. to dischaege7,i:the bill at the hotel
where he had beQa stuying.. Milton went to Dover,
and after three days returned with two horses, and
said he expected the rest by the next boat. In a day
or two afterwards Mr. Kinkeade lent 11/. more, and
Milton again came to England. Various excuses
were then sent by him to account for the remainder
of the horses not being shipped as had been directed.
One day the delay was answered by the fog--the
next day the black horse was sick, and had been bled,
and lastly, Milton's brother had a fever, ror the small-
pox, and he had to go to him in London. In the
meantime Sir Edward, as he styled himself, bor-
rowed several sums of money, amounting in all to
401., and, it having been arranged that they should
go to England, the two horses were removed to
Meurice's stables, as security for the money Mr.
Kinkeade had advanced. After going to se-
veral places in quest of Milton they proceeded to
Sittingbourne, where the prisoner was introduced as
Milton's brother. On the following day they went to
Chatham, where some horses and a gig were shown
as Sir Edward's, and Mr. Kinkeade having lent other
moneys, an agreement was drawn up by which it ap-
peared that Mr. Kinkeade was to have possession of
the horses as security for the money he had advanced,
and that Sir Edward gave him a promissory note for
1001., but that the latter was to be considered as col-
lateral security only. Sir Edward was to take the gig
and horse, and Milton the two horses, to Worthing-
ton's, at Dover, and it was arranged that Mr. Kin-
keade and prisoner were to proceed to London for a
brougham and three other horses of Sir Edward's.
They went *to the Black Horse, in Coventry-street,
where prosecutor gave the prisoner a sovereign, anti on the next morning they repaired to the stables in Caroline-street, Coleshill-street, Pimlico, where pri-
soner showed Mr. Kinkeade three valuable horses,
which he represented to be Sir Edward Barry's,
and also a brougham. They went to a house opposite,
where prisoner introduced prosecutor to a lady whom
he described as his sister, and invited him to.
take a glass of wine. Prisoner then asked the prose-
cutor for 301., which he refused to give until the
horses were sent to the railway station. Prisoner
then said, " I may as well be candid with you ;
can't remove them until the rent is paid," at the same
time pointing out of the window to a man, and ob-
serving, " There is the keeper." Prisoner asked pro.
secutor what he was afraid of, as Sir Edward was a.
gentleman of fine property—when prosecutor gave
him two 101. notes, and asked him if that would do.
Prisoner then, taking a gold watch from his pocket,
said he could pledge it, upon which prosecutor ob-
served that he need not do that ; and in order to pay
him the Dl., to make up the 30/., got change of a 100/.
note at the Bank, and gave him the amount re,
quired. Prisoner asked prosecutor whether he should
see him on the following morning, as the horsee
would go at a very early hour; and it was ar-
ranged that they should meet on the funoviing
morning, at the Black Horse, which they did, when
prisoner said he was waiting for some other horses,
and they could all be taken together. Prosecutor
said that he had made an appointrnelit with Sir Ed-
ward at Dover, and he should go there at once, and
prisoner might send the horses and carriages after
him. Prosecutor left town, but did not find the
horses at Worthington's, nor Sir Edward, of whom
he went in quest to Calais, and found that the horses
bad been taken away from Meurice's. Mr. Kin-
keade then went to Boulogne, and found that Sir
Edward had gone with the horses to Folkestone,
whither he followed in a fishing-boat, after being
driven into Dover. He fuund one horse at the
Pavilion. He then went to Canterbury, where a.
person named Beaumont said, that two of this horses belonged to him. Prosecutor was subse-
quently taken to Sir Edward, at a low public-
house, where Sir Edward said he had his bill,
and that it would be paid. Some of the:
above circumstances were proved against the prisoner,
to justify his detention, but we have found it neces-
sary to travel out of the evidence in order to render the
account at all intelligible to the reader. It was further shown that the distress in the stables in
Caroline-street amounted to 71. only.
On the prisoner being placed in the felon's dock,
Mr. Steele, who attended for the prosecution, stated
that a true bill having been found on Tuesday in the
Court of Queen's Bench, by the grand jury for Mid-
dlesex, against the parties for conspiracy and fraud,
on which a judge's warrant had been obtained, he
would not trouble the Magistrate by offering any
further evidence.
Prisoner was then discharged by the Magistrate,
and immediately apprehended on the judge's warrant
by Panting, an officer of the Court, in order to be
taken before one of the judges.

JLIABIoN WITH AN Oxtunus.—Yesterday
afternoon, as an omnibus was coming down the Surrey
side of Westminster-bridge, a person was observed
driving at a furious rate, and evidently intending to
make a passage between the omnibus and footpath—an
intention which immediately became obvious to a young
lady could not be effected without great danger, and she
exclaimed, " Stop ! for God's sake, atop !" but without
inducing him to pay auy attention ; and in another
moment he had forced his way, and the wheel of the
phaeton going over a stone, he was precipitated on to the
ground. Must providentially a man who was passing
seized hold of the reins and stopped the horse, while the
young lady threw herself into the carriage-road and
dragged the unfortunate sufferer from the ground. By
this time a crowd of persons had assembled, and the
gentleman was lifted into the phaeton, though suffering
so severely from his fall as to require assistance in pur-
suing his journey. The conductor of the omnibus (to
whom no blame whatever can be attached) was most
active in rendering assistance. It is to be hoped that
the narrow escape of this gentleman from a dreadful
death will be a warning to others against driving with
such reckless disregard of their own safety or that of
others.

OUR ALLEGIANCE.—A good deal of conversation
has arisen on the subject of our removal within the City.
and it is asked in several quarters whether we shall pay
our allegiance to Gibbs. We beg to say, once ' for all,
that we respect the City sovereignty, and to him who is,
de facto, the Cockney King, we are prepared to render
the homage that is due to him. 'We feel that we owe
Gibbs something, and we trust we know how to pay him
off.—Panich.
ROCHESTER, JAN. 20.—THE CASE OP SHOOTING
AT CHALK....-The county magistrates were engaged for
some time this day in taking the depositions of the
several witnesses in the case of the boy White, who was
shot on Christmas-day in a field at Chalk, and for which
offence George Blake, aged 12, and Charles Rand, aged
14, have been held in custody. From the evidence of
Dr. Brown, who attends the boy White, it appears that
there were twenty-three wounds in the head, besides:
others in the neck, arm, and side. He still considered
his patient in a very doubtful state. From the evidence
of the witnesses, it appears that there was a quarrel be-
tween the parties respecting rabbit-shooting; that White
kicked Blake in the groin, on which the latter said.
took said,t .
r t "hi 1
(1,0.,
" D—n your eyes, I'll shoot you." Rand first took the.
13
it' at White, who ran away, when Blake
gunan
shan't shoot
pointed
him
.it y
you
ut
shoot White,
him."a s but
bohnßvelmakdedeesiatchtereilbii:
instantly fired, hitting him
prisoners wept bitterly during tne examination, and wc,r*
fully committed to take their trial at the next assizes at
Maidstone.
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC LADY,---On.
Tuesday night Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Talbot
death Little Chester-street, Grosvenor-plve,
some property, but of very penuriou-
death of Mrs. Lydia Doran, aged sixtv-
toefn2dle,dGthroesdveecneoar-spedlacfoe,r
tsveuregi7e as t o the
.liatiets.tenitar.'sadhyorotvf
at-
the 16th inst. he saw 1 v -
;verse, and having. ~ stated that he had . e years for bronchitis. On
he sent her smile medicine,
tion, to some exten 10. for the last time. She was then
ki!en directions what was to be done.
but the next morning heard
she was ()tad. lie had no doubt she died from extukuP .
t caused by her penurious habits fo' r
she would refuse herself those necessaries her ste:te re-
quired, lest her property should be exhaust& and she
abotad eoree to want. She had often dismiSged him fur
a time, as she said it was so expensive, and, she hoped to
get better. Mr. Pragnell stated that she was found dead
in her bed, and the medicine had not been touched. She
had sufficient to live on. Verdict—"
tion of God." Died by the visita-
,.. SALE OE A VALUABLE CHURCH LIVING.—On Tues-
day, the perpetual advoweon, with the next presentation
to the living of Trimley, St. Martin, in the county
Suffolk, was disposed of, by public competition, at the
Auction Mart. The large and small tithes had been
commuted at the sum of 5004 per annum. The out-
goings amounted to about 45/. a-year, but were compen-
sated by the glebe, consisting of twenty-one acres. The
ropulation, wholly agricultural, consists of about zoo
Perseus, and the parish comprised above 1,200
ar,res ;
while the incumbent is in his BGth year. The aucesoneer
stated ae value of it to be 7,000 L The first sum offered
we,&. 4,0004, and it was knocked down, after e. spirited
competition, for 3,9504

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