The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—A reference to Lord Stanley's appoint-
ments will prove his preference for the navy, inter-
rupted occasionally by an infidelity in favour of a
scarlet coat—exceptions to the rule more apparent
than real, perhaps. The nautical finance of Captain
Fitzroy in New Zealand enjoys a pendant in the
currency regulations at Cape Coast, in Guinea, which
settlement was this year blessed by being placed
under the immediate control of the Colonial-office (it
had been for many years previously governed by a
committee of Loodon and local merchants), Lord
Stanley sending out, as first Governor, Commander Hill,
R.N. The currency of Guinea is regulated by a gold
standard—all transactions of moment being valued in
ounces of gold and in ackies (the 1-16th part of an
ounce) ; the smaller business of life being managed
by cowries, Indian shells, of which there are some
fifty to a penny sterling. These, however, are com-
monly moneys of account only—trade being barter,
and pieces of cotton cloth (romauls) are in general
circulation ; they were formerly used even to pay
the troops. In short, money's worth is given
for money's worth only, or for what will pro-
cure money's worth from the European merchant.
Lord Stanley and his naval Governor view with
disdain this uncivilised system ; and Mr. Gladstone,
the Master of the Mint, is ordered to pack up chests
of silver pieces worth three-halfpence each, of copper
farthings and half-farthings, which it is proposed to
introduce hito the monetary system of Africa through
the military and civil departments of Cape Coast
Castle, whose inferior servants are to be paid in these
coins 1 Fancy our sable brother, disgracefully ignorant
of Ricardo and Torrens, and of the incalculable advan-
tages of a metallic currency—who had never received
fur his palm oil, his bunch of plantains, or his day's
work, anything but a yard of cotton, which he could
twist round his waist, a piece of lead with which to
sink his fishing-net, or to be cut into a musket slug,
or some course shells, which are the favourite orna-
ment and (therefore) the universal currency of the
interior--fancy a man who never had received
anything not intrinsically useful to himself or
his neighbour, gazing at Captain Hill's copper
half-farthings or three-halfpenny silver—things
unknown to and rejected by his neighbours,
and objectional even as not of that substantial
bulk which constitutes, in a country of clumsy
fingers, and destitute of locks and pockets, one
of the essential merits of a currency! He would as
readily perceive the value of Captain Fitzroy's assig-
nets as of these atoms, inconvertible to any end.
Time may lead him to discover that the silver
spangles are fractional parts of a dollar, but there is
no hope of his ever taking to the half-farthings. Ly-
curgus's iron money may have been as inconvenient
(though our Ashantee or Fantee friend would prefer
it), but that was avowedly issued "as a restraint on ex-
cessive speculation"—as our solemn Premier would ex-
press it. However, Capt. Hill having a vile corpus, the
local corps, on which to experiment, and compelling
them to receive pay in this money, they in their turn
compelled, no doubt after " awful sacrifices" and tre-
mendous palaver, their creditors to receive it; and
these poured it as legal tender into the coffers of the
European merchants. After taking the trash to an
inconvenient amount, the merchants bethought
themselves of asking the Governor to receive it
again for Government bills on England. His Ex-
cellency declined compliance, giving the gratifying
reason that he was not yet in want of money—in other
words, that he had yet stores of the trash in his strong
boxes. On a merchant replying that he must then
refuse to take any more, Captain Hill retorted, that
a refusal to take the " current coin of the realm "
would expose him to a fine; and that if the merchants
refused to take " his " money, he would get Yankees to
settle there who " would be glad of the chance !"
This was assuredly an old menace from an officer
placed to protect British interests and commerce ; but
the science displayed in the remark is more interest-
ing, bringing tts back, as it does, to the type of Cap-
tain Hill's half-farthings and Captain Fitzroy's two-
shilling notes, the French assignats, the projectors
and issuers of all three being evidently assured that
nothing but sheer stupidity or deep villainy could
prompt any one to refuse their valuable issue. It
appears to have been to carry out this philosophic
finance that Captain Hill broke his promise to Sir
George Stephen, of returning to England in the first
ship after his arrival. Sir George's disappointment is
one in which the colony of Cape Coast must deeply
sympathise.
STANDARD.—The decision of the Board of
Heads of Houses and Proctors at Oxford has had the
rare good fortune of giving general satisfaction. This
Is pleasant so far; but it is rather invidious to com-
pliment so emphatically as some of our Whig-Ra-
dical Contemporaries compliment the Board—a body
of educated gentlemen—for acting with good sense
and in a just and honourable spirit. For ourselves,
we never had a doubt of the line the Board would
take, and therefore perhaps it is that we are less
struck with the formal announcement of it. We
hare heard of hut one objection whispered against
the Board's decision, which we will give in the words
of the objector :—" The most objectionable point in
the proposed proceeding regarding Mr. Ward's book
is that with which the case opens—' Whereas it is
notoriously reputed and believed throughout this
University, that a book, &c., has recently been pub-
lished in Oxford, by the Rev. W. G. Ward, M.A.' It
were a hard thing formally to proceed against a man
upon mere notoriety and general belief. Mr. Ward
has, indeed, obviated the difficulty in his case by
avowing, under his own hand in a letter to the Vice-
Chancellor, that the book was written by him, but the
accusation in its present firm stands awkwardly for a
precedent,‘ and we should gladly see it amended."
The case is probably without 'precedent, because
the attempted obstruction to justice is without prece-
dent, for we suppose that never before was what we
may call the effrontery of pettifogging carried so far
as for a man to refuse acknowledging a book adver-
tised, printed, and published with his name in
the title-page, and for months publicly
offered for sale in the shop of every book-
seller in the town in which he resided. In the
absence, however, of precedent, recourse is always
had to the analogy of the law. Now the law pro-
vides that declarations made in the presence of a
party accused are to be received as evidence
against him, not as conclusive evidence, but as evi-
dence to go to a jury, illustrated by the circumstances
of the culprit's demeanour when the declarations were
made. Now it will not be denied that the advertising,
the printing, the publishing, and the exposing for sale
in shop windows openly during months in the place
of his residence, of a book with a man's name in the
title-page, is a sufficiently distinct declaration made in
the man's presence, and as such, according to the ana-
logy of the law, very proper evidence to be adduced
against him ; he, of course, being free to prove, if he
ean, that he disowned the work, or that sickness, or
some other adequate cause prevented his knowing
that such a book was imputed to him. Such noto-
riety as Mr. Ward's book, and Mr. Ward's name in
the title-page, had in Oxford, supersedes the neces-
sity of any formal proof. The presumption that a
man will not allow a book to be advertised, printed,
and published, and for months sold in his name is so
strong, that strong proof must be adduced to rebut
it, and in another analogous case, even the strongest
rebutting proof is not allowed to be sufficient.
Suppose Mr. Ward to have but once promenaded
Oxford with a lady whom he permitted to repre-
sent herself as Mrs. Ward, to have visited in com-
pany with his fair companion the well-supplied
shops of Mr. Loder or Mr. Spiers, in the High-
strket ; and suppose that his lady had thought
fit to run up a heavy bill with Mr. Loder or Mr.
Spiers, in the name of Mr. Ward, the Rev. Gentle-
man must pay every farthing of the bill. It
would not serve him to prove his obligation of
celibacy as a Fellow of Balliol, nor his more
solemn vows of celibacy, taken no doubt,
in the hands of Doctor Pusey and Mr.
Newman, to demand the lady's marriage certificate,
or to give the most satisfactory proof in the world
that his acquaintance with the fair debtor was the
slightest possible. He had allowed her, though for a
single moment, to represent herself as Mrs. Ward, the
lady of the Rev. Mr. Ward, of Balliol ; and the
inexorable law would compel him to settle her ac-
count with Messrs. Loder and Spiers, and to pay
all her other debts, though due to persons who
had never before heard of his name. Such is the
weight which the law allows to notoriety in such
matters. But surely if it is just that a nian is liable
for all the debts of a lady whom he has allowed
to bear his name, for it may be only half an
hour, he is justly liable for the contents of a
book which he has suffered to bear his
name for half a year. There is, therefore, neither
hardship nor repugnancy to the principles of
law in presuming his authorship of it, from the noto-
rious publication of a book with a man's name in the
title-page; and it is absolutely necessary to do so
in dealing with the members of a party who have
moulded their morality upon a system of simulation
and dissimulation, and who would find it very conve-
nient to combine at once all the credit of an inge-
nuous and daring frankness with the security of ela-
borate chicane.

PRICES OF SHARES
!N UANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 17.

Dividend
per

Amount

Aimum.

Names of Com-
panies.

zit!. ;Pri

Canals.
As,. Ir 1 And Oldham..
Ashby-de-la-Zouch—ay
Basingstoke
Breckneek & Abergay.
Birmingham,l-IGthsh.
Do. and Liverp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry ...... .........

000000000
Crom- ford ..............
Danube and I.layme
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash
Forth and
Grand Junction 00000
Grand Union ....
Grand Surrey
Grand Western
Glamotgansh. ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham

Huddersfield ::::::::::::
Kennet and Avon av
Lancaster av
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ........av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield ........
Oxford
Peak Forest .....
Regent's (or London).,
Rochdale...." ........ •tv
Shropshire .......
Somerset
Da. Lock Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury,........ .....
Stourbridge .........
Stratford-on-Avon...av
Swansea.... ......
Severn & Wye & Rail.
Trent & Mersey, sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Binning.
Warwick and Napton...
Worcester & Binning.
Wilts and Berks......av
Wisbeach .
Wey and Aru.... n."...

Docks.
Commercial .....
East and West India
London .... ..... ... .....
Ditto Bonds
Bristol av
Do.B nds, var. amounts
ht. Katharine.
Ditto 80nd5..............
Ditto Bonds
Southampton

13ridges
Hammersnalth
Southwark, new Subs
Ditto New of 7% pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of SI,
Ditto New ditto (471
Ditto Bonds ......
Vauxha1L„,......„.....av

Assurances.
Albion.
Alfred Life:
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas
Birmingham Fire.......,
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Economic Life .....
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons .....
Globe
Guardian
Hope Life
Ditto
Imperial Fire
Ditto Life....
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fund
Neptune Marine
Palladium Life.......,,„
Protector Life
Provident Life
Rock Life
Rayal Exchange..._
Sun Fire
Ditto
University Life
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk rianks
Australasia.... .......
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
London Joint Stock
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Engind
Ditto New ......... .......
Gloucestershire.......,..
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight & Coke
Bath
British ........ .....
Ditto Provincial...—.
Birmingham ..... ........
& Staffordsh
Bristol
Brighton ............
Ditto General
City of London
Ditto New
Continental Consolid
Ditto New
Equitable.......
Imperial
Isle of Thanet ......
Independent
Nice=
South Metropolitan
United General .....
Westmins. Chartered..
Ditto
Water Works.
Birmingham ..............
East London....
Grand Junction av
Kent

Nw fly Lon. Bridg An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex av
Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop

Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birmint. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian .........
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Grand Junction„„,,,,,,
Great North of Englnd
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths .......
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby .......
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and Selby,
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Bhckwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds
London and S. Western
London and Croydon,.
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchatr and firming
Midland Counties.,,.,.
North British
Nurwi h & Brandon
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. die
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre
Stockton & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
lork and N. Midland..,
Ditto New Shares
Mines.
•
Albion Copper
Alten
Anglo Mex., iss. rd. p.m
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos
Ditto Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss.sl. p.m
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron ........
Candonga.
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo
Columbian, iss..s/. p.m
General Mining,,,.._,,,
Hibernian
Imperial Slate Compy
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland
Real del Monte, Unreg,
Ditto Loan Notts
Rhymney Iron
Santiago de Cuba
United Mex., isg.2l. pm
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New Scrip
Literary.
Londn, with Sin. Ticket
London Un:-.-ersity I
Russell
King's College

7/11scellaneons.
Anglo Mexican Mint
Australian Agricnltur
Brit. American Land,
Canada
Upper Canada Bonds
Gen. Steam Navigation
Iberian Mercantile Co.
Ditto Property
Met. Wood Pay., iss. 1/.
Mex. and S. American
New Brunswick (Land)
New Zealand ......

Pcnins. & Urien. steam
Royal Mail Steam
Reversionary Int. Soc
South Australian .....
Thames Tunnel
Van Diemen's Land

An eminent post, in the elegant world of the
French capital, is likely soon to become vacant, by the
retreat of a well-known transatlantic citizen, who is
compelled to wind up his affairs, and return back to the
silence and the shades of his native shores, after haring
passed many brilliant seasons on the very pinnacle of
all that is refined and recherche in French society. There
are many candidates in the field for the vacant post,
ready, like their predecessor, to sacrifice moral dignity
and pecuniary risk, to enjoy the exclusive honour of
being patronized by a leading personage of the fashion-
able world, and of being permitted to open their salons
to those, and those only, whom their patron may select.
—Court Journal.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18 184 i.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 13, 1844.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate
and appoint William Gore Ouseley, Esq. (now Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at Rio Janeiro), to be her
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Con-
federation.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
COURT OI QUEEN'S BENCH, _Dec. 17.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at the Guildhall, before Lord
DENMAN and a London Speeial Jury.)
TOTTIE V. lIOLMES AND ALLEN.
The plaintiff in this case is a civil engineer, and t
defendants are attorneys, carrying on business in Bed-
ford-row. The action was brought to recover the amount
of a bill sent in by the plaintiff to the defendants of
1,806/. 13s. 9d., for engineering, which he alleged he had
been employed by the defendants to perform. It appeared
that somewhere about the latter end of 1842, the defen-
dants, who were attorneys, thought it would be advan-
tageous to form a railway to be called the Middlesex
and Surrey Grand Junction Railway Company, and en-
tered into communication on the subject with the plain-
tiff; who was to be the engineer to the proposed company,
and with a Mr. Smith, who was to be the secretary. The
original plan was for a railway from Southall to Twick-
enham, with a branch to Richmond. Tottie was at that
time about to leave the service of the Eastern Counties
Railway, and he undertook to make the survey. He
then suggested that it would be advantageous to extend
the railway so as to make it a junction railway, joining
all the railways approacihng the metropolis. The propo-
sition was acceded to, and the surveys were made for the
formation of a line from Harrow to Reigate, thus con-
necting the Birmingham, the Great Western, and the
Dover lines. These surveys were deposited with the
clerk of the peace. During this time the defendants had
paid plaintiff 50/. a month according to agreement, and
he had received from them 6301. in all. The company
was formed, and plaintiff was appointed engineer, but
the scheme was finally given up in the beginning of the
present year, and then the plaintiff had brought this
action. The plans were put in, as were various letters
which had passed between plaintiff and defendants. A
witness, named Burleigh, who had been employed by
plaintiff, proved that the work had been done ; and Mr.
Braithwaite, the engineer to the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, deposed that the plans were most carefully exe-
cuted, and that the charges were such as were usually
made. For the defence, it was contended that the 630/.
which had been paid to the plaintiff by defendants was
all that he was entitled to by agreement, inasmuch as it
was proved from his letters that he had agreed to take
50/. a month, as the amount of his expenses from the de
fendants , and that he looked for his profits to the pro-
posed company. He had undertaken to make the sur-
veys in the hope of being appointed engineer to the
company, in the same manner as the defendants had
undertaken the legal portion of the business in the hope
of becoming solicitors to the proposed company, and as
Mr. Smith had executed his duties in the hope of being
appointed secretary ; and therefore he had no claim
upon defendants beyond the 501. a month, which he had
agreed to accept for the expenses incurred, and which
they had regularly paid him.
In the course of his speech, Mr. MARTIN, who ap-
peared for the defendants, read several documents signed
by plaintiff; one of which stated that he should look to the
Provisional Board of Directors, as soon as such should
be formed, for his remuneration ; and another, that, in
consideration of a note of hand from Messrs. Allen and
Holmes for 1001., which he had received, he exonerated
them from all liabilities up to that date.
At the conclusion of Mr. Martin's address, the jury
intimated that they were prepared to deliver their ver-
dict; and a hint was thrown out by Lord Denman as to
the possibility of coming to some settlement. A con.
sultation took place, and it was ultimately arranged the
a juror should be withdrawn.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nomi-
nate and appoint John Fiennes Crampton, Esc. (now
First Paid Attach 6 to her Majesty's Embassy at Vienna),
to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation to the Confe-
derated States of the Swiss Cantons.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nomi-
nate and appoint Francis Farrant, Esq., to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Persia.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Denis Benja-
min Viger, Esq., to be President of the Committee of
the Executive Council of Canada.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Henry
Sherwood, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General
for that part of the Province of Canada formerly called
Upper Canada.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint
R. Y. Cummins, Esq., to be Accountant to the Surveyor-
General's Department for the Island of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint
William Dudley Ryder, Esq., to be Assistant Secretary
for the Island of Ceylon.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEc. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Fuller
Boteler, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in
the Law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court
of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of Fiats in
Bankruptcy in the Country, in the place of Edward
Goulburn, Sergeant-at-Law, resigned.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Cowland Buttress, silk throwster, Steward-
stone, Essex.

B.ANKRTJPTS.
Leonard Watson, smith, Rickraansworth, Hertford-
shire, to surrender Dee. 23, at two, and Jan. 28, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official
assignee, King's Arms-yard; Walters, Basinghall-street.
William Alfred Worth, victualler, Hampstead, Jan.
2, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 18, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old
Jewry-chambers ; Tyke, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Humphrey Charles Balne, grocer, Poole, and P. C.
Henry Mayor and Thomas Skinner, hop and oil mer-
chants, Upper Thames-street, City, Jan. 7 and Feb. 4,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptey. Follett, official
assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Shaw,
Furnival's Inn.
James Thorley, glass and chinaman, Northampton,
Dec. 31, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 24, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
el}{ assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Smith and
Taylor, Basinghall-street.
Francis Fothergill and James M'lnnes, lamp black
21% manufacturers, Bell's-close, Northumberland, Jan. 7, at
3 16 half-past two, and Feb. 11, at two, at the Newcastlesupon-
-3 Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-
-26 upon-Tyne • Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn-
-24' fields, London; llarle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Kent,
28% Newcastle.
Samuel Peach, grocer, Nottingham, Jan. 6, at eleven,
74 and Jan. 28, at one, at the Birmingham District Court.
19% Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Maples, Not-
-19 tingham ; Motteram, Birmingham.
644
isi Richard Blockley, linendraper, Crewe, Cheshire, Jan.
3 and 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
‘,72/ Pott official assignee, Manchester ; Makinson and San-
ders,"' Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; Atkinson
5/.1, and Saunders, Manchester.
400
DIVIDENDS.
20
11 At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
.131.
M. Thompson, ironmonger, Saffron Walden, Essex,
141 Jan. 10, at half-past one- W. Yuill, tailor, Cornhill,
"'"% Jan. 10, at two-I. Isaac, army clothier, Chatham, Jan.
j 6% 11, at eleven-IL Miles, woollendraper, Southampton,
13916 Jan. 11, at half-past eleven-T. Rowell, linendraper,
seimi Cambridge, Jan. 11, at twelve-A. Ha, coach maker,
4-5 X Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Jan. 11, at
16
half-past twelve-D. Button, pawnbroker, Albion-place,
16 Battle-bridge, Jan. 11, at one-N. Blake, linendraper,
2% Edgeware-road, Jan. 11, at half-past one-C. B. Bayley,
draper, Abingdon, Berkshire, Jan. 10, at two-J.
40s.
21s. Battye, linendraper, Courtney-terrace, Kingsland, Jan.
24 11, at half-past two-E. Walker, auctioneer, Newman-
-14 street, Oxford-street, Jan. 10, at half-past eleven-G.
205 and W. Noel, bootmakers, Jermyn-street, St. James's,
42 Jan. 7, at one-J. Marshall, merchant, Birchin-lane,
1514 Jan. 16, at half-past eleven-W. G. Kelson, builder,
lao Canterbury, Jan. 16, at twelve-T. Fraser, Italian ware-
houseman, Brook-street, Bond-street, Jan. 14, at eleven
44% -J. Bird, watch manufacturer, St. John's-square,
464 Clerkenwell, Jan. 15, at one-J. Richards, metal
44203 i broker, George-yard, Lombard-street, Jan. 15, at two.
13ai In the Country.
26% J. C. and G. 11. White, music sellers, Bath, Jan. 10,
J 3% at one, at the Bristol District Court-IL Hetherington,
tanner, Cross Canonby, Cumberland, Jan. 8, at eleven, at
45%
10 the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court-W. Bearup,
1634 joiner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 8, at twelve, at the
1734 Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court - G. Newton,
25 hosier, Seaham-harbour, Durham, Jan. 8, at one, at the
27;4 Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court-G. J. Green, glass
manufacturer, Birmingham, Dec. 10, at eleven, at the
22 Birmingham District Court.
90 CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
130
25 to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
101 R. Buckler, grocer, Portsea, Southampton, Jan. 9-
36 G. and W. Noel, bootmakers, Jermyn-street, St.
25 James's, Jan. 9-F. Howard, publisher, Tonbridge-
place, New-road, Jan. 7-T. Benson, stationer, North-
-150, place, Gray's Inn-road, Jan. 10-P. French, carpenter,
7.3 Worthing, Jan. 7-E. Heron, butcher, llartlepool,
32 Durham, Jan. 9-J. Heron, ship owner, South Blyth,
99 Northumberland, Jan. 9-E. Heron, ship owner, South
60 Blyth, Northumberland, Jan. 9-J. Nichol], worsted
40 spinner, Halifax, Yorkshire, Jan. 6-T. M. Morton,
76 eating-house keeper, Bishopsgate-street Within, Jan. 7
34 -R. Marsden, woollen cloth manufacturer, Halifax,
62„ Yorkshire, Jan. 7-J. Jones, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 7
13'11 -11. Ford, linendraper, Manchester, Jan. 7- B.
O'Beirne, wine merchant, Bath, Jan. 7-T. Eldridge,
23 coach builder, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road, Jan.
oo
7-W.
Bowen, grocer, Merthyr Tydvil, Jan. 7.
56 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
g, J. Bloomfield and C. E. Sayers, builders, Springfield,
55 Essex-J. and T. Browning, Wine merchants,
Great
19736 Marylebone-street-T. Boulton and C. 11. Chapple,
surgeons, Westminster-bridge-road-W. and N. Bong,
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899 earthenware manufacturers, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
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SEQUESTRATIONS.
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38 James AP Farlane, dyer, Glasgow, Dec. 23 and Jan. 20,
25%Re at two, at Black and Lorimer's, accountants, Glasgow.
52 Elizabeth Glass, printer, Edinburgh, Dec. 25 and Jan.
22, at two, at T. Stevenson's, Edinburgh.

a
4 THE SCOTCH BANKS.
5%
7 'We refer, with much satisfaction, to the highly
Bimportant meeting of the county of
aanark, held on
gFriday at Hamilton, and to the very able resolutions
14 deprecatory of all interference with our present
currency and banking system, which were unani-
mously adopted. The requisition to Lord Belhaven,
6 in compliance with which the meeting was called,
10 contained upwards of two thousand signatures; a
Ti fact which we trust will not be without its influence
of 4

upon the Government. The whole proceedings
were, moreover, characterised by the most cordial
unanimity—another fact which ought also to
have its effect in the proper quarter. There
was not much oratory at the meeting. Those
4% % who attended it were men of business, who
met to transact business ; and as there was not one
among them who had not made up his mind upon and
734 thoroughly understood the question, there was no
5% necessity for any displays of elocution to convince the
wavering, or enlighten the ignorant. The resolutions
which they passed are the most clear, able, and cona-
;y: plete expositions of the real state of the matter that
we have yet seen, and might, with great advantage,
he taken as models for all future meetings that may
ru be called to consider this subject. The county of
Lanark, the wealthiest and most populous of Scotland,
% feeling the importance of its unanimous voice upon the
question, has set to work in a vigorous manner. We are
informed that every parish in Lanarkshire will be
% called up to sign the petition—and in addition to this,
% copies of the resolutions and petition are to be for-
t warded to the Convener of every county in Scotland,
cv with a recommendation to get them adopted, and
signed in every district. Were this plan carried out,
as we trust it will be, an opposition to the inter-
ference of Government would be raised, as powerful as
that of 1826—the old national spirit of Scotland
would be awakened, and the Minister would be com-
pelled
~ to leave us alone in the enjoyment of a prospe-
'4 ray which his theories might shake, but could never
have created.—Glasgow Argus.
4

Mr. Watson conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr.
Martin appeared for the defendants.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Hew Byrne, the captain of a merchant vessel, sur-
rendered to answer an indictment passed under the
Act of Parliament of the sth and 6th William IV.,
commonly called the Merchant Seaman's Act, charg-
ing him with having unlawfully deserted Charles
Robert Rowe, one of the seamen on board his vessel,
at Port Nelson, without lawful cause, and not having
a certificate from the authorities of that place autho-
rising him to do so.
Mr. Ryland conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Clarkson appeared for the defendant.
From the statement of the Learned Counsel for the
prosecution, and the evidence of the first mate of the
vessel, it appeared that the defendant was the captain
of a barque called the Himalaya, and in the beginning
of 1843 he was about to sail on a voyage to New
Zealand and South America. Rowe, it seems, was a
lad eighteen or nineteen, and having a strong desire
to go to sea, contrary to the wish of his friends, they
at length consented, and his father placed him in the
charge of the defendant, and he was rated as an ordi-
nary seaman, and sailed in that capacity. Nothing
particular occurred until the vessel arrived at New
Plymouth, when Rowe went on shore, and, on his
not returning, it was found necessary to send the con-
stables after him, and he was brought by force on
board the ship. He then expressed his regret for
what had occurred, and promised amendment ; and he
again resumed his duty and sailed to Port Nelson,
but on the way thither the crew broke open a cask
which contained a quantity of bottled porter,
and the complainant was found to be drunk in
the hold, and a bottle of the beer was dis-
covered on his chest. On his being remon-
strated with by the captain he was insolent, and said
he would not do any more duty; and upon the vessel
arriving at Port Nelson he was taken before a magis-
trate, and charged with neglecting his duty and
getting drunk, and the magistrate fined him twenty
shillings, and in default sentenced him to be impri-
soned for ten days; and at the expiration of this
period, as the complainant did not come on board the
vessel, the defendant sailed without him. In cross-
examination the witnesses said that the complainant
had repeatedly said, while at Port Nelson, that he
would never go on board the -- ship again, and
that when the constable attempted to take him down
to the beach, he resisted him, and got away. It was
admitted that the defendant had not obtained of the
magistrate at Port Nelson the certificate which would,
in law, have justified him in leaving the man behind.
Mr. CLARKSON, in his address to the jury on be-
half of the defendant, commented, in his usual able
manner, upon the facts that had been disclosed in the
course of the case, but at the same time said he was
fearful he could not rescue his client from a verdict of
guilty, inasmuch as he had not acted up to the strict
letter of the Act of Parliament, in obtaining a certi-
ficate of the magistrate at Port Nelson. He argued,
however, that it was perfectly clear the complainant
had virtually abandoned the vessel, and that he never
intended to return to his duty, and the extent of the
offence imputed to the defendant was, that he had
neglected to apply for a certificate to that effect, which
he would, no doubt, easily have obtained, and this would
have entirely shielded him from the present charge.
He said that his client was exceedingly anxious for
the sake of his character that he should lay before the
jury some evidence in support of this statement, and
although he, the Learned Counsel, was fearful that it
could not weigh with the jury in their ultimate de-
cision, yet it would be a satisfaction to the defendant
and his friends to have it shown that he was not
guilty of the wanton and reckless conduct of wilfully
deserting one of his seamen in a foreign land.
Mr. French, the surgeon of the vessel, and other
witnesses were then called, and they deposed that
when the period of the complainant's imprisonment
at Port Nelson had expired, endeavours were made to
get him on board the vessel, but he refused to go,
and repeatedly, with an oath, declared that he would
never go on board the ship again, and that he resisited
the constable with considerable violence when he at-
tempted to convey him on board.
Mr. E. R. Arthur, the owner of the Himalaya, proved
that the defendant had sailed in her for five years,
and had, during the whole of that time, conducted
himself with very great propriety ; and also that he
was particularly humane and attentive to his crew.
Several other respectable witnesses also gave the
defendant a high character for general good conduct,
and particularly for humanity and attention to the
wants of his crew.

The RECORDER, in summing up, said there did n-A
appear to be any imputation upon the character or
conduct of the defendant out of this transaction; but
it appeared clear, from the evidence, he had not ful-
filled that duty the Act of Parliament under which
the indictment was found, and which had a very im-
portant object, required of him. It was very neces-
sary for the protection of seamen engaged in the
merchant service, that the Act of Parliament should
be strictly carried out ; and if the jury believed the
evidence, it was clear the defendant had infringed its
provisions, and that he had neglected his duty in not
obtaining a certificate from the magistrate at Port
Nelson, stating, if it really were the case, that the
complainant had deserted the vessel.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty, but at the same time strongly re-
commended the defendant to the merciful considera-
tion of the Court.
The RECORDER sentenced the defendant to pay a
fine of 201. to the Queen.
The fine was immediately paid, and the defendant
left the Court, accompanied by his friends.
In the course of the day, the grand jury returned
true bills against Joseph Elder and -William Burgess,
for the forgery upon the Bank of England.

DETENTION OF A HOUSEBREAKER.—A namesake
of the celebrated Jack Sheppard was on Monday last
apprehended by Superintendent Russell, at the Hen and
Chickens, in this town. From information received by
the superintendent, he thought it advisable to pay a
passing visit to the house in question ; accordingly on
the evening of Monday last he " dropped in," like Paul
Pry, " hoping he did'nt intrude," and in a short time
dropped on a very suspicious-looking personage, who,
with his female companion, had been domiciling at that
establishment since the previous Thursday. At the
sight of the officer the veritable " Jack" became
alarmed—and this circumstance, combined with the
finding of seventeen skeleton keys and two jemmies,
made out a case sufficiently strong to warrant the super-
intendant in apprehending him. This he accordingly
did, and the next morning he was taken before the bench
of magistrates, who considering " prevention far better
than cure," dispatched the worthy to grind corn or
wind, as the case might be, at the celebrated Northleach
mill, for the term of three calendar mouths.—Cheltenham
Journal.

THE LATE HIGH SHERIFF OF DURHAM.. —lt is in
°4 contemplation to erect a monument to perpetuate the
'tering public and private worth of the late Henry
/34 Thornton Maim Witham, Esq., High Sheriff of the
county of Dctrharn, and the plan :suggested is not to
14 raise the mere useless pillar, or " flattering marble," but
something in accordance with his practical character, his
benevolence, and active regard for the education of the
middle and working classes. The erection of a hand-
some building, epressly inscribed to his memory, is,
projected for the use of the Barnard Castle Mechanics'
Institution, which the late Mr. 'Witham originated, and
for the success of which his efforts and labours were
unceseing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREED.
Yesterday Mr. James James, saddler, No. 8, Bentinck-
street, Berwick-street, was summoned before Mr. Maltby,
by Elizabeth Heslam, for an assault.
The complainant, a good-looking Yorkshire girl, said
she had lived with the defendant as servant for some
weeks, during which period her master had made many
amorous overtures to her, all of which she had rejected.
Her master had also offered her money on several occa-
sions—first a shilling, next half-a-crown, and lastly a
sovereign, which, acting under her mistress's sanction,
who was put in possession of the defendant's proceedings,
she consented to receive. On Friday last her mistress
was sent for to attend her father, who was very ill, in
order that she might remain all night. Before her mis-
tress left home she (complainant) told her she did not
like to remain alone with her master in the house, but her
mistress told her not to mind, but to take care how she
allowed anything improper to occur. As soon as her
mistress had left the house, the defendant came into the
kitchen, and, after placing himself in a chair, began to
pull her about. She resisted, and the defendant then got
up and shut the door. The defendant gave her a sove-
reign, which she took, and he proceeded to attempt
further liberties. The defendant was only induced to
leave off his improper behaviour, on complainant telling
him that some one was coming. As soon as complainant
got rid of her master she called one of the boys, and told
him she was going out of the house, and should not re-
turn all night. Complainant accordingly left the house,
and did not enter it again until the next day, by which
time her mistress had returned home. She immediately
told her mistress of her master's behaviour, and also
made her acquainted with the fact of his having given
her a sovereign. Her mistress told her to keep the
money, as nothing was freer than a gift, and then sent
for her husband, that he might hear the charge against
him. A soon as the defendant entered the room, com-
plainant said she began to tell the particulars of his con •
duct to her on various occasions, but the defendant would
not let her proceed, for he shook his fist at her in a me-
nacing manner, and then took her by the back of the
neck and pushed her violently out of the place. Com-
plainant, at the suggestion of her mistress, applied for
and obtained a summons for the assault.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said there was
no truth in the girl's story. He had never attempted to
take liberties, nor had he given her money at any time
to induce her to comply with his solicitations. The
fact was, that the girl came to him with a message from
her mistress that she wanted a sovereign. He had given
the girl the sovereign, and the girl had then gone out
and had stopped away the whole night. Having ascer-
tained that the girl's mistress had not sent to him for
the sovereign, and being very much irritated the next
day when the girl made her appearance and trumped up
a story to his wife, in order to cover her misconduct, he
certainly did push her out of the house.
Mr. MALTEY asked the defendant if he positively de-
nied having ever acted improperly to the girl ?—The
defendant declared he never had touched her, or made
improper proposals to her.
Complainant—You know you have, many and many
a time. When mistress was out the other day, did you
not try to get at me in the bedroom, but you could not
because I had locked the door ? Your worship, he never
could pass me when I lived in the house without pulling
my frock or laying hold of my neck. I was so disgusted
with his behaviour that I told mistress about it.
Mr. MALTBY—You say the defendant gave you money,
and you took it ; for what purpose did he give you this
money ? Complainant—He pretended to pity me at
first. He said I was a poor girl, without friends, and if
I wanted to buy myself some clothes he would give me
money. He told me he would give me a sovereign any
time I liked, and that he did not care about spending a
hundred pounds to obtain anything he had set his mind
upon. I told my mistress everything he said to me.
The defendant called an errand boy as witness, but no-
thing of any consequence was elicited.
At the suggestion of Mr. Maltby,fthe defendant con-
sented to send for his wife.
The wife, who has much the advantage of the com-
plainant in point of :personal attractions, entered the
Court and was examined. It was quite apparent that
great reluctance on her part existed to state any matter
unfavourable to her husband. She denied that the com-
plainant had taken out the summons at her request. She
admitted, however, that the complainant had told her
about the money ffered by the defendant, and the de-
fendant's declaration about spending 1004 to have his
mind. She also admitted that she had told the com-
plainant to take all the money offered to her.
Mr. MALTBY said he was satisfied that the complain-
ant's statement was true, and he should therefore inflict a
fine of 51. or three months' hard labour.
The defendant immediately paid the money.
A Lieutenant-Colonel, who writes from Tunbridge,
sent 14 for a poor distressed needlewoman, named Ed-
wards. 54 was put in the poor-box, at the request of the
members of the Stock Exchange, being part of the money
subscribed for an impostor named Carr, whose case ap-
peared under the head of Thames police. It was stated
that the subscriptions for this woman and her family ex
ceeded 2201.

MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday, Philip Baker, a gunner and driver of the
Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich, was brought up
in custody:and placed at the bar before the sitting magis-
trate, Mr. Rawlinson, charged with the following
outrage :
M‘Kay, a constable, in the employ of the London and
Birmingham Railway Company, deposed that on the
same morning, at a quarter past nine, the prisoner came
very drunk into the booking-office at the Euston-square
station, and insisted, although he had not taken a ticket,
to pass through to the platform, with the view of going
by the train ; he was told that he was not in a fit condi-
tion then to be allowed to enter either of the carriages,
when he became extremely outrageous and abusive, and
kicked witness with great force upon the groin.
Inspector Challenor said that hearing of the assault
which had been committed upon M'liay, he caused the
prisoner to be conveyed to the Phomix-street station-
house, and while the charge was there being entered in
the book by Sergeant Shaw, he suddenly seized hold of
a poker, exclaiming, " Now I'll let you know who I am,"
and would in all probability have seriously injured him
(the inspector) had not a man on " reserve" duty closed
in upon him and wrested the poker from his grasp.
The prisoner's excuse for his conduct was that he had
partaken too freely of drink. He hoped the magistrate
would be as lenient as possible.
The MAGISTRATE fined him 405., or, in default of pay-
ment, a month's imprisonment.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday, Sarah Smith, a middle-aged woman, un,
derwent a lengthened examination on several charges 41
robbery.
Prisoner had been for the last four or five years en-
gaged as charwoman at the houses of several respect-
able persons at Chelsea and Brompton, and availed her-
self of the opportunity so afforded to plunder her em-
ployers to a considerable extent. Information of one of
these robberies having been given to the police-sergeant
Skelton, of the J 3 division, he went to the house of the
prisoner, who had the reputation of being a very
poor woman, and there found upwards of 501. in gold
and silver, an acknowledgment for 1101. lent by her to a
friend, a gold watch, some gold rings, and a great deal
of property of various descriptions, among which were
many articles identified by her landlady, and some of
those who had employed her.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, of 4, Queen-terrace, Marlborough-
road, Chealsea, said that the prisoner had been employed
by her twice a week during the last twelve months. She
had missed property at various times since the prisoner
had been in the habit of coming backwards and forwards
to her house, and identified six handkerchiefs, a pair of
gloves, and other articles produced, as amongst the
things she had missed.

Mrs. Sarah King, of No. 1, Hive-street, Chelsea,
baker, stated that prisoner had lodged in her house for
eighteen months, but had left some time prior to her ap-
prehension. During the whole of that time she (witness)
was continually being robbed of bread, flour, linen, and
other articles. She, identified some knives, spoons, and silk
cord, and, to the best of her belief, a wedding-ring pro-
duced was the one she had lost, and which prisoner pre-
tended to assist her in looking for at the time, express-
ing much sorrow for the distress she exhibited on the
occasion.

Mr. Todd, of No. 3, June-street, Chelsea, builder,
proved that prisoner had been employed at his house,
but had been sent away three months ago in consequence
of repeated losses. Prisoner had thrown suspicion upon
a girl who was in his service, in consequence of which
the latter was discharged. He identified three pieces of
satin paper, a silver pencil case, a gold snap, and other
articles.

Sergeant Skelton proved finding the articles above
spoken to by the several prosecutors in prisoner's room.
Mr. BOND inquired whether there were any other pro-
secutors in attendance?

Skelton replied that the lady who owned the gold
watch was not present. lb had a reticule belonging to
another lady, who did not wish to prosecute.
Prisoner was then committed for trial on the three
cases above stated.

On the application of prisoner's professional advisers
(Mr. Miller, a barrister, and a Mr. Williams), the former
of whom had cross-examined the witnesses, without
eliciting anything favourable to his client, 201., was or-
dered to be given over to the prisoner out of the money
found in her rooms.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had
a meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Llandaff, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and the Dean of Westminster.

DUNKELD.— AFFECTING INCIDENT.—On Friday
evening se'nnight a very melancholy and affecting cir-
cutrstar.ce happened in the little village of Cotlea, nearly
opposite Murthly, on the north bank of the Tay. A
wedding party belonging to the neighbourhood were
passing through the village, some of whom, according
to a most dangerous and foolish practice that still
prevails in some parts •t the country, had pistols
along with them, ier the purpo3e of ann •uncing
the happy event of a marriage by firing them
opposite every house they passed. When the report
of the pistols was heard, several of the villagers
of Cotlea, with candles in their hands—the even-
ing being dark—came to their doors to witness the gay
party. When it arrived, one of those who had a pistol,
either accidentally, or wishing to blow out a candle
which a young woman was holding, discharged it, when
the contents—wadding and powder—poured into her
eye, and completely blew it out from the socket. The
sad event has caused a deep gloom over the whole neigh-
bourhood, and, what renders it, if possible, still more dis-
tressing, the young woman was standing beside her
sweetheart at the time. They were both intimately ac-
quainted with the bride and bridegroom, and were
shortly to have been the principal actors ill a similar
joyous party themselves,