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churching—which hitherto has been in some degreet
of a private character, usually taking place either
before or after the evening service—to the full, broad
gaze of a crowded congregation. If once the female
portion of his flock declare unanimously against him,
we would not give much for the Bishop's chance of
success in his innovations ! He will be beaten to a
dead certainty, and have ample cause to rue the hour
when he brought a hornet's nest about his ears. As
regards the question of the surplice, which
seems to have given such offence to the
good people of Exeter, we can scarcely wonder at
their dislike of the innovation, for trifling
as it is in itself, it becomes of consequence when
taken in connexion with the revival of other wages
notoriously borrowed from the Church of Rome. It
is evident, indeed, from their present conduct, that
the Tractarian clergy, and those in authority who
approve of their tenets, are endeavouring by degrees to
habituate their flocks to Romish practices, and to wean
them from their long-cherished distrust of Popery.
ady they have succeeded, to some extent, in their
jesuitical attempts; and it is high time, therefore, that
a b'ld, resolute stand should be made against
them. We will even go further, and add, that
no clergyman who advocates the Tractarian heresy,
should be allowed any longer to linister at a Pro-
testant altar, or receive the emoluments of the Pro-
testant Establishment. He should be looked on as
a wolf in sheep's clothing, and be driven from the
fold without delay. It must come to this at last,
and the sooner, therefore, the Tractarian zealots are
thus summarily and vigorously dealt with, the better
it will be for the interests of that great national
Establishment, which is now placed in imminent peril
by their underhand practices.

The Times of yesterday published a leading
article, the text of which was supplied by the me-

he rebels in their recent attempts on the frontier of
the province of Huesca."
The following paragraph appears in the letter of a
Bilbao Correspondent :—" A Spanish vessel, which
has just entered this town from Havannah, after a
passage of thirty-two days, left that town almost de-
stroyed by an earthquake. The finest buildings have
been subverted ; there have been a large number of
victims, and a part of the population is fled to the
country"
Mr. BULWER, it is said, had obtained a settlement
of the arrears due to the British Legion.

morial of Mr. FRANCIS HEALY, one of the many
victims (for many, we fear, there have been) of the
bad organisation, the bad management, and, worst

of all, the bad faith of the New Zealand Company,
We have recently animadverted on the defects of that

MADRID BOURSE, DEC. 3.—The Three per Cents.
are per cent. higher to-day, closing at 30 9-16
cash, and 31 at 60 days ; 53,000,000 done. Five
per Cents. 24 for 7th January, and 211 at 55 days.

The contract for the new French loan of
200,000,000 f. (8,000,0001) was completed at Paris
on Monday. The adjudication took place at the
office of the Finance Minister at noon. The only
bidders were—Messrs. DE ROTUSCHILD and DE ST.
DIDIER and BAUDON, as representatives of the Re-

ceivers-General, Messrs. HOTTINGUER and Co., Messrs.
DURAND, and Messrs. BARING. The price offered by
the former company was 84f. 75c., and by the latter
83f. 95c., consequently the loan was adjudged to
Messrs. DE ROTHSCHILD and DR ST. DIDIER and
BAUDON. The minimum of the Minister of Finance
was not precisely known, but it was understood to be
83, so that the offer of Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and Co.
exceeded it by lf. 75c. This high offer had excited
considerable surprise at the Bourse, yet parties were
eager to purchase at an increased rate. At the open-
ing of the Bourse the new loan was done at 86f. 50c.
it quickly rose to 87f. 50c., and closed at 86f. 90c.
for cash, and 87f. 15c. for the account. The French
Government, according to a letter from Otaheite of
the 2d of June, has taken under its protection several
other islands in the Pacific. The letter states that
the chiefs of Wallis's Islands and of the Island of
Fontana, are henceforward under the protectorate of
France, this step, which was applied for several months
back, being consented to by the French Government.
The Governor of Otaheite, in consequence, dispatched
a vessel to these islands to notify that they were to be
occupied. The protectorate of the Gambier Islands
has also been notified.

body's original constitution, and the wavering and
inconsistent relations at different periods subsisting
between it and the British Colonial Department; on
the exorbitancy and favouritism of the powers and
grants virtually conceded to this incorporated body ;
on the fearful responsibility accruing to the officer
exercising the authority of Government in the
colony, by reason of the virtually withholding of all
protection to those under his jurisdiction, and his
deportment subsequent to the massacre at Waken.
Another Contemporary, the Morning Advertiser,
having devoted its columns to the exposure of the
wrongs and the spoliation sustained by numerous
complainants who had themselves, or were the re-
presentatives of those who had, invested money in
the New Zealand Company's scheme, on the faith of
promises and contracts which it has never since ful-
filled or redeemed, we shall not at present enter into
the particulars of the disgraceful charges so seriously
implicating the Direction of the Company at home,
and its agents abroad. But we observe in the Times
the following passage, which, as applicable to Emi-
gration Companies in general, seems to call for some
remark :—" To imagine that en Emigration Com-
pany is to be trusted on the point, of all others in
the world, of a bargain and sale of land ! Why, for
what other object is an Emigration Company formed,
at all—if not for this of getting rid of supposed
landed estates to would-be emigrants ?"
Perhaps the Times does not care for any distinc
tion which may be taken between " Land Companies,"
properly so called, and " Emigration Companies,"
under which designation it attacks the New Zealand
Company. But we must observe, that if Land Com-
panies are to be classed in the same category with
those Emigration Companies of which the New
Zealand concern is to be taken as a type, great in-
justice will be committed by the assumption of an
equality of mismanagement, to say nothing of the
much graver question of moral delinquency. The
" Canada," or the " North American" Land Com-
pany, for example, has not, we apprehend, rendered
itself obnoxious to such a comparison. It has not,
that we are aware of, been challenged by any Mr.
lIEALY with taking the money of a " would-be emi-
grant," as the Times calls him, for lands which he
cannot procure after going out to locate himself upon
them ; which either were never in the possession of
the parties who have ostensibly sold them to him, or
which, if so possessed by them, these parties have
either never been in a condition to transfer, or have
wilfully abstained from executing a legitimate title
to, for the benefit of the purchaser. We know of
cases in which blocks of land, some of very con-
siderable, some of smaller dimensions, have been
purchased, transferred, and occupied in Eastern and
in Western Canada, with as much good faith and
prompt dealing as any transactions of the sort could
have been conducted with in England. In short, it
is neither reasonable nor consistent with facts to infer,
from the assumed misconduct of the New Zealand
speculation, that no Emigration Company is to be
" trusted in a bargain and sale of land ;" or to say
that it exists for no conceivable object, if not for
that "of getting rid of supposed landed estates." For
our own parts, we entertain a strong and conscientious
impression that, for a country like ours, with all the
existing exigencies of its social and moral condition,
to neglect the duty of maturing a sound, extensive,
and permanent system of emigration, under well-
digested guarantees of encouragement and protec-
tion on the part of the Imperial Government and its
coknial officers, is to repudiate the magnificent career
which PROVIDENCE has opened to us and to our pos-
terity in another hemisphere, and under other skies.
The primary condition on which we hold our almost
unbounded colonial dominion we conceive to be to re-
lieve, at present, the pressure of our native redundant
population and surplus industry and unoccupied en-
terprise to those transmarine possessions, of every
variety of climate, soil, and produce, which open
exhaustless fields for their settlement and improve-
ment; and by the process of gradual and beneficent
development, finally to establish in these wild and
half-reclaimed regions, and among their now semi-
barbarous people, the arts, the sciences, the religion,
the institutions, the commerce, the genius, and re-
finement of the old country, from whence it will be
their pride hereafter to date the era of their improve-
ment and their greatness. With these views and
opinions we cordially concur in the concluding sen-
timent of the article from which we have already
quoted. " The more" (writes our Contemporary)
" public attention becomes fixed on our modern
methods of colonisation, the more remarkable will be
found our inferiority, on this point, to the heathen
nations of old." Undoubtedly. May we add an ex-
pression of regret that the writer does not lend his
powerful aid and influence towards the organisation
of some great emigration movement, which may
rival, in the extent of its application, the benevo-
lence of its objects, the wisdom of its details, the sa-
gacity of its management, and the liberality of its
superintendence and administration, those generous
efforts by which Phoenicia and Carthage, Egypt'
Greece, and Rome, hived their own redundant swarms
of native population in the most eligible localities for
their future establishment and prosperity, and thus
diffused their inventions, their learning, their his-
tory, their sciences, their civilisation, over the fairest,
but, in their time, least peopled countries of the
globe ?

The following is the only news of the slightest
interest in the papers :
The Constitutionnel publishes the following from its
correspondent at Berne, dated the 6th :
" The imprudent decision by which the grand council
of Lucerne has sanctioned the encouragement of the
Jesuits, in spite of the popular repugnance, begins to
bear fruit. The Government of Lucerne, disliked by
the great majority of the population, particularly in the
chief town, is obliged, in order to get itself obeyed, to
have recourse to violent means, which, if they are not
croe ned with a prompt success, will only render its
position more critical, if they do not cause its complete
overthrow. Already the first act of the Jesuitical drama
has just been played. According to information received
this morning, an insurrection has burst out at Willisau,
a little town six leagues from the capital. The Govern-
ment bad ordered the prefect to arrest some men of the
place known for their opposition to the Jesuits. One
hundred men of the line were called out to give assist-

Madrid papers of the 3d instant have been received.
The accounts from Logrono, and the north of Spain
generally, are some of them of a painful character.
According to the Castellano, the disclosures made by
Zunnarto's sons led to the apprehension of M. GAM-
BOA, General ITURRE, the Advocate OTNELEY, and
a number of other persons, who have been conducted
to Logrono. If this information be correct, we fear
there has been some foul play in the business; for it
is not likely these young men would have made any
disclosures whatever, unless on the understanding
that their lives would be saved. The Eco del
Com ercio publishes a letter from Logrono, stating
that ZURBANO'S country house had been levelled to
the ground, the furniture burnt, and the cattle killed.
Two hundred persons were seized at Saragossa on the
26th ultimo, eighty of whom have been thrown into
prison. A Council of War had been constituted
:a. dO inn thethe
for the trial of the insurgents in other did-
Chnamthbr ,eN ofA Deputies,RVAEZ,
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apps re
a Bill for " granting pensions to the families of the
officers put to death, after being made prisoners, by

ance to the authorities, but when the commanding officer
wished to proceed to execute the warrant, the people
raised 'a riot, and opposed so strong a resistance, that
the officer ordered the troops to fire on the mob. But
the soldiers, far from complying, took part with the
people. At this moment the insurrection threatens to ex-
tend to other localities, even to the capital itself, where the
greater number of the superior officers are hostile to the
Government, on account of its predilection for the Jesuits.
Such are the scenes brought on by the proceedings of
the reverend fathers to force themselves on a population
by whom they are detested."
According to the Constantinople letter of the 20th
ult., in a Vienna journal, RIFAAT PACEIA, who was
lately Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been made a
member of the Great Council. SAmst-EFFENDI, ex-
inister of Foreign Affairs, is to go to London as
Ambassador in place of AALI-EFFENDI ; and NAFI-
EFFENDI, formerly Ambassador to France, to replace
MOUKIITAR BEY, Ambassador at Vienna.
A Constantinople letter of the 20th, in the Augs-
burrgh Gazette, informs us that a serious misunder-
standing had taken place between ADDULLAU PACHA,
the Governor of Trebisonde, and the English Consul
at that place. The Governor, in consequence of some
pique against the Consul, had ordered 2,000 blows
to be inflicted, for some real or supposed offence,
upon a young Greek who was under the Consul's
protection, and the victim had already received 800,
and was almost dead, when the Consul reached the
spot, and insisted on the remission of the remainder
of the sentence. The letter adds, that Sir STRAT-
FORD CANNING has ordered an inquiry into the cir-
cumstances, and declared that if the Consul's account
should be substantiated, he will demand not only the
dismissal of the Governor, but some signal chastise-
ment.

THE BOURSE—MomnIY, DEC. 9.

First Highest Lowest Lasi

Prim. Price. Price. Price.
Frencn Five per Cents •• • • 121 05 .• 122 .• 121 05 .. 121 65
Three per Cents •• . 85 .. 85 65 .. 85 .. 85 20
New Loan .• •• •• • • 86 90 .• 87 25 .. 86 85 .. 86 85
Bank of France 3250 .•3260 .•3250 —3260
Laffitte Bank, 5,000 f• Sharesso6o "5080 —5OBO ..5080
Belgian Fives, 1840
Two-and-a-Half.. • . 62 25 .. 62 75 • • 62 25 .. 62 75
Spanish Threes.. • ..... 361 .. 361 • • 36/ 36/
Active •••••• • • • • • • 321 • . 321 .. 32f .. 320
Portuguese Five per Cents • . 561 .. 561 .. 561 .. 561
Neapolitan.. •-••• • • • • • • 99 50 • • 99 50 • • 99 50 .. 99.60

llutCh Two and-a-Half... 631 •• 631 .. 631 . 631
Rowan ... ...... ..... .... 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.• • •• • • • • • • . • 455 .. 455 .. 455 .. 455
L.B.•••••• •••••• 327 50 .. 330 .. 327 50 .. 330
R0uen•......• •• ••••••••••1027 50 . 1027 50 —1027 50 ..1027 50

Rouen to Uavre•. 793 75 .. 793 75 -. 793 75 .. 793 75
Orleans •• ••••••• •• •• -• •••.1071 25 ..1072 50 ..1067 50 .•1070

Strasburg to Baie•• •• •• •• •• 295
Avignon to Marseilles 930

•• 295
•• 930

. 292 50 .. 292 50
•• 930 .• 930

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEC 16.
St. Germain 985 985 .. 985 .. 985
Versailles, R. 8.....• •••••• 457 50 .. 457 50 .. 457 50 .• 457 50
L. 8..•.•.
Rotten 50 .•1032 50 ..1027 SO ..1027 50
Orleans • lO7O —1072 50 ..1067 50 ..1070

Strasburg to 8a1e.... • ..... 295
A.vignon. to Marseilles...• .. 935

.. 295
.. 935

.. 292 50 .. 292 50
.. 927 50 .. 927 50

ALARMING FIRE AT BRIXTON.—This morning,
shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke out in the house
belonging to Mrs. Powney, town carrier, situate at
No. 7, Chrystal-road, North Brixton. The Waterioo
brigade engine promptly attended, and was followed
by the West of England, and anoth'er from
Southwark-bridge-road. There being a good supply
of water instantly procured, the firemen set to work
most vigorously, and before two o'clock they suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the fire, not, however, until
very considerable damage had been effected. Owing to
the density of the smoke, the inmates in the upper part
of the building had the greatest difficulty in escaping,
and for some time it was believed t'nat Mrs. Powney had
been burnt to death, as she could not be found. Upon
examining the premises after the fire was extinguished,
no trace of any person having been burnt could be dis-
covered ; the probability, thereceire, is that she was from
home at the time of the di,,aster. As to the origin of
the fire, or whether or not +,,he sufferer was insured, we
could not learn during the excitement that prevailed.
DE BEAUVOIR NAT:ONAL SCHOOLS.—Last even-
ing a general meeting of the subcribers to the De Beau-
voir National schools was held in the girls' school-
room (St. Peter's, Kingsland), to take into con-
sideratiou the 'propriety of the immediate dismissal
of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, the master and mis-
tress of the schools. The charges brought against
these teachers were, that they bad made certain dis-
closures injurious to the moral character of the minis-
ter of the district, the Rev. F. T. Moncton. After the
deb;ete bad extended some length, a show of hands was
talien upon the resolution, when the numbers were—For
t:ne dismissal, 8 ; against dismissal, 14. The proposition
was consequently negatived.
EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS.—Last night a very
numerous andA highly respectable meeting, in connexion
with the Drapers' Mettupolitan Association, was held at
the Mechanics' Institute, Southampton-buildings, Hol-
born, in order to effect a more p,.erieral early closing of
shops throughout the metropolis among the whole of the
different trades. Mr. Ambrose M oore, who was called
upon to preside, said it was extvemely desirable that
establishments
;
metropolisan objectto effect
whit ;h
,h there should be a cordial co-opera. Lion among the trades-
men
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the _
tainecl by adopting conciliatory measures. The early
closing of shops would not curtz iii the tradesman of the
profits of his business ; and he was certain that great
benefit and advantage might be attained by its adoption.
The meeting was addressed by Dlr. Payne, the barrister
and deputy-coroner ; the Rev.. Mr. Thelwall, the Rev.
Mr. Cumming, arid several other gentlemen. Resolutions
in furtherance of the object of tl xe meeting were agreed to.
Mr. J. Payne said that in his p rofession he had long suf-
fered from the late hour systea c---he alluded to the even-
ing sittings at the Central Cris ninal Court, which he was
happy to say were now to be abolished. They were
produ
ctive of great evil, and wvere alike unsatisfactory to
pi 'isoner, and all
the judge, the counsel, the officially
connected with the adrninistrati of justice in that ce;ert.
A Committee was formed to w Irak. upon the shopkeepers
of London, in order to induce them to co-operate with
the meeting.
LINLITHGOW.—It will be gratifying to learn that
the ancient and royal palace pf Linlithgow has lately
undergone extensive repairs, ul ider the sanction and at
the expense of the Government ;. This venerable build-,
ing forms one of the noblest 1 tiles of ancient architec-
ture in Scotland, and, with the a weet and p! acid loch re-
posing amidst the graceful undo lations Oft the neighbour-
ing landscape, forms altogether in obltect of much aoauty
and interest. Some encroachrc s having tent h •
ng been made
on the boundaries of the loch by ' some of the small pro-
prietors whose lands come dew n to the water's edg
Mr. Donald Horne, from the office of her
Majesty's
Works, inspected the locality u few days ago, and w
understand has fully confirmed i the ancient right of th:
public to free access round the 10911.—,Edinb„srh Wiens _ -
8.

!IDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1844

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the
Judge of the Prerogative Court.
JONES V. GODERICH.
The further arguments in this part heard appeal from
the Prerogative Court were resumed and concluded to-
day. Their Lordships postponed giving judgment.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Lord DENMAN sat at Nisi Prius to-day at the Guild-
hall. with London Common Juries. During the course
of the morning several causes were disposed of which
were of no interest except to the parties immediately
concerned.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court disposed of all the common jury cases of
the present sittings, and rose at twelve o'clock. There
are many causes on the special jury list, which will be
taken to-morrow, Thursday. The Court will resume
the sittings at Nisi Prius in Westminster-hall, on Satur-
day, 21st inst.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
Jvanhoff Kantrowitz, sen., and Ivanhoff Kantrowitz,
jun., who give concerts at Crosby•hall and other places,
under the name of the Polish family, charged Mr.
Woolfond, a respectable tradsman, living in Old North-
street, Red Lion-square, Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Pullen,
broker, with assaulting them.
Solicitors appeared on both sides. The complaint was
simply this :—That they having taken lodgings at Mr.
Woolfond's house, were forcibly expelled from their
apartment by Messrs. Woo!fond and Pullen. The as-
sault was not a serious one. The complainants were
dressed in singular costume, and an interpreter was re-
quired, in order to translate the Polish language to the
Magistrate.
The defence set up by the defendants was, that the
younger Kantrowitz and his brother had taken an apart-
ment several months ago, but, as they were 51. in debt
for rent, Mr. Woolfond ejected them ; they were forcibly
expelled, the door locked, and the key given up in the
usual manner. The complainants again took possession
of the room, and it was contended, even if Mr. Wool-
fond and Mr. Pullen had by force expelled them from
the room, they were justified in doing so, as they had
been already legally ejected. The bed had been removed
from the complainants' room, and they brought in a
bundle of straw, on which they lay, refusing either to
give up possession or pay their rent.
Mr. COMBS bound over the defendants to answer the
charge at the sessions.

THE LATE BANK OF ENGLAND
ROBBERY.
FINAL EXAMINATION OF BURGESS AT
THE MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY).

Long before the hour appointed for the re-examina-
tion
of the Bank clerk, Win. Burgess, the various ap-
proaches to the Mansion-house were crowded by re-
spectably dressed persons, who appeared eager to obtain
admission to the justice-room. In the immediate vici-
nity of the Mansion-house, there were many persons
anxious to obtain a sight of the prisoner, but in this they
were in a measure disappointed, as he was conveyed to
the Mansion-house some time before the hour at which
it was stated he would be brought up before the Lord
Mayor. The justice-room was not inconveniently
crowded, and the reporters were, as on the last occa-
sion, accommodated with seats below the bar.
The Lord Mayor entered and took his seat at twelve
o'clock precisely, and after the disposal of three cases
the prisoner was placed at the bar in the custody of John
Forrester, charged with having fraudulently obtained the
transfer of 8,2001., which stood in the name of William
Oxenford, Esq., in the Bank of England in the Three per
Cent. Consolidated Annuities.
Mr. I. C. Salomons appeared for the prisoner ; Mr, -
Weir, from the office of the Bank solicitors (Messrs.
Freshfleld and Co.), attended to conduct the prosecution.
Burgess looked more concerned than during his ex-
amination before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday last.
He appeared to be suffering considerable pain in his left
leg, and was accommodated with a seat, as he was al-
most unable to stand. It appeared that he caught a se.
vere cold whilst endeavouring to escape from the officers
who pursued him from the hotel in Boston to Brewster's
Island, nearly eleven miles distant, and that it settled
into a severe attack of rheumatism.
The first witness examined was Mr. C. C. Lawrence,
cashier in Messrs. Lubbock and Co.'s bank, who stated
that at about twenty minutes to two o'clock on Tuesday
the 3d of September, the cheque now produced was of-
fered to me for payment. It was for 8,0001., and was
drawn on the bank of Charles Keazer, a gentleman of
considerable property, who keeps his account at Messrs.
Lubbock's. The cheque was presented by a shorter per-
son than the prisoner, but he (the prisoner) accompanied
him. On inquiring the name of the person who pre-
sented it, they gave that of William Oxenford. I wrote it
on a piece of waste paper. I asked them how they would
have it, and the person who accompanied the prisoner
said, " All, or part in gold." I answered, that if they
wanted it in gold they had better get it at the Bank,
adding, that I would pay the cheque in notes. To this
they assented, and I handed the' notes to the prisoner's
companion. The notes produced are those I gave him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Salomon—Mr. Keazer is in
the habit of drawing large amounts from the banking-
house, much larger in amount than 8,000/. He keeps a
very large account. I did not get the prisoner's friend to
write his name on the back of the cheque. I had no
suspicion that there was anything incorrect, and consi-
dered that it came fairly into their possession. Mr.
Keazer does a great deal of business on the Stock Ex-
change.
Mr. Thomas Agar, a teller in the Bank of England,
was next examined—On the 3d of September, a person
unknown presented notes to the amount of 8,2001. to
me for payment. My principal, Mr. Dean, directed me
to pay the money. As we were out of cash in our de-
partment, I made an order on another department of the
Bank for 10,000/. in gold ; 8,000/. was paid to that per-
son, and the rest he handed to me. This person pro-
duced two canvas bags and a carpet bag. The gold was
emptied into the canvas bags, and they were put into
the carpet bag. The prisoner was not present. The
person endeavoured to carry the bag, but did so with
difficulty. I remarked that it was heavier than
he thought. I offered him the service of two
porters to carry it to the door of the Bank. He ac-
cepted their services, and they left him at the entrance.
Cross-examined—l did not get the person to write his
ded to address the Lord
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Mayor on the part of the prisoner. He presumed his
Lordship had been informed under what Act of Par-
liament the prisoner had been brought before him. In
his opinion the charge against him could not be main-
tained. He begged his Lordship to bear:in mind that
the prisoner did not go to the Bank of England to receive
the money, but that the other person went there and re-
ceived it. He contended that the prisoner was not the
person who represented Mr. Oxenford. It was true he
was present at the time, but he submitted that he did
no more than auy stockbroker would have done. The
Act of Parliament was somewhat ambiguous as to the
punishment of persons fraudulently identifying persons
transferring stock. He had no intention of defrauding
the Bank of England when he identified the person
Vernon as Joseph Elder. Was it not probable that the
prisoner—a young man of five-and-twenty—might hive
been made the dupe of a man about town, and a no-
torious horse dealer, as Elder was ? He admitted that
the prisoner had acted with great imprudence
Burgess had received an excellent education, and had
obtained the appointment which he held in the Bank
through the instrumentality of one of its present Direc-
tors. After addressing the Lord Mayor at much greater
length in behalf of the prisoner, he concluded by sub-
mitting to his Lordship that there was not sufficient evi-
dence to justify his Lordship in committing him for trial.
The LORD MAYOR Said he was quite warranted in
committing the prisoner for trial on the evidence which
had been adduced before him.
%Ir. Salomon said he could give very cogent reasons
why the prisoner nbcormilod.
The LORD MAYOR—If he was innocent why did he
run away from justice? But he did not intend to make
any remarks on the case, which would be fully investi-
gated before another tribunal. Burgess, I shall commit
you for trial.
The prisoner, who hung down his head and cried bit-
terly during his solicitor's address, rose and bowed to his
Lordship.
The depositions were then read over, and the prisoner
was fully committed for trial, and walked from the bar
with difficulty.
led

FATAL ACCIDENT on the DOVER
RAILWAY.

This morning, about Ave o'clock, a most frightful and
fatal accident occurred on the Dover Railway, near the
Bricklayers' Arms station, Old Kent-road, by which one
man, named Thomas Buckley, an engine-driver, was
killed on the spot, and William Wilkinson, the stoker,
received such extensive injuries, that his recovery is
utterly impossible. Several other persons were also se-
verely injured and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where
they received every attention from Mr. Edward Cock,
the resident house-surgeon. It appears that shortly after
five o'clock this morning, the Dover luggage train ar-
rived at the above-named station in the Old Kent-road,
immediately afterwards the engine and tender ran off
on to another line, and before the driver had time to
stop the engine he found that the switchman had
neglected to shift the rails, as was the usual cus-
tom. The consequence was, that the engine and
tender ran off the viaduct into the field adjoining
(a depth of 25 feet) with a most horrible crash.
Several persons connected with the railway station ran
to the spot, when a most heart-rending sight prellepted
itself to those who went to the rescue. The engine and
tender wo---

.....umplotelY smashed to pieces—Buckley was
lying quite dead several yards from the mutilated parts
of the engine and tender, and Wilkinson, the stoker,
was near him in an insensible state bleeding from a severe
fracture of the skull, he was also dreadfully scalded over
the whole of his person. Buckley was conveyed to a
shed in the Ileiglll.- L ~.., life was perfectly extinct.
shed
OUT Ovu as.
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~ „,Lipson was removed with a man named Cook, a
plate-layer engaged on t 11® am
ward of Guy's Hospital, wheretheseline, to the accident
greatest attention was
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paid to 41prot ;k
the house. -surg
Wilkinson, who lies in an, Mr. E. Cock, who
gave not the of W
slightest hoget

insensible state. The event has caused the greatest ex-
citement in the neighbourhood of the railway station.

SPORTING IN
(RECEIVED
DEF

10. to 1 agst Alarm—taken
freely
20 to 1 agst Cobweb c.
20 to 1 agst Ledger
20 to 1 agst Idas
20 to 1 agstYoungEclipse
22 to 1 agst Pam
30 to 1 agst Newsmongcr
30 to 1 agst Rebecca c.
35 to 1 agst Laird o' Cock-
pen

TELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.)
tEY.
40 to 1 agst Old England
—taken
40 to 1 agst Connaught
Ranger—taken
1000 to 15 agst Iron Master
—offered
1000 to 10 agst Black Prince
15 to 1 agst Forth's lot
7 to 1 agst John Day's
lot

6 t7)l aget Scott's lot—t.
CHESTER CUP.
40 to 1 offered on the field.
COURSING.
NORTH BERWICK AND DIRLETON MEETING.
The Puppy Stakes (14 dogs) were won by Mr. Cal-
lender's Princess ; Mr. ibson's Percy ran up.
The All. Aged Stakes (14 digs) were won by Mr. W.
Sharpe's Daint:e Davie ; Mr. Curror's Scorpion ran up.
The Champion Stakes (8 Fobs) were won by Mr. Cur-
ror's Colonel ; Mr. Innes's Valiant ran up.
The Consolation Stakes were won by Mr. J. P. Mit-
chell's Warrior ; Mr. Innes's Victor ran-up.
W ESTON GRANGE MEETING.
The Silver Cup was won by Mr. Gibbs's Stockton ;
the Subscription Purse by Mr. Garner's Spotless, and
he Consolation Stakes by Mr. Stephens's Victoria.