The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,' MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 29, 1845.

pariah authorities, and this may be reckoned amongst
the greatest of the benefits conferred by such institutions
on society at large.
Such is the modern club, a sort of private restaura-
teur's, with the advantages of good wine, good food,
respectful attendance, and moderate prices. Much has
been said of the disadvantages attendant upon them ;
but as all, of them, being twenty-two in number, are
quite full, and in some instances with thousands of ex-
pectant candidates on the list, it seems quite plain that
their utility or their agreeableness must fully counter-
balance anything that can be said against them. Their
names are as follows:
White's. These are the oldest of the modern clubs
Brook's. of London. White's is referred to by
Boodle's. Addison.
The Union.
Alfred.
Arthur's.

Senior United Service.
Junior United Service.
The Army and Navy.
Travellen'.
Oriental.
Carlton.

IThese two club-houses, in magnificence
Reform. I of architecture, splendour of decors-
Conservative. 1 tions, and sumptuous style of furni-
Iture, surpass all the public buildings
of London.

Athenaeum.
Senior University.
Oxford and Cambridge.
Wyndham.
Parthenon.
Erg ethwum.
Garrick.

The Law.
Of those that have had their day of fashion and popu-
lat ity, hut exist no longer, we may mention the Cocoa
Tree, Gre'am'r, Wateirs' (the favourite resort of the
Prince of Wales), the Albion (dissolved in 1841), and
the Clarence.

The mode of admission is by ballot. In some, one
negative in ten excludes the candidate; in others, a
single black ball is sufficient—the most absurd of all
regulations. The admission fee varies from its highest
point of 321. I Is. to five meetings, while the annual sub-
scription is in most clubs six guineas, in the lowest
five; and in none does it go beyond ten.

' IRELAND.
COUNTY TIPPERARY.

ATTACK ON MR. PRENDERGAST'S GATE-KEEPER.---•
On the night of the 16th inst., about the hour of seven
o'clock, a party of armed men, six. in number, went to
the gate-house of Johnstown Park, the residence of
Thomas Guy Prendergast, Esq., and having entered the
gate-house, they attacked hie sportsman, Thomas Con-
sedine, and his wife, demanding arms. Consedine
immediately rushed towards the room where the gun
was, upon which, one of the party made a blow at him;
on putting up his hand to defend himself, the fellow
smashed his arm in two. The wife took up a chair and
struck the fellow who knocked her husband down.
Consedine, notwithstanding his being disabled, made for
the roomwhere the gun was, when the fellows decamped,
and, with it resting on the shattered arm, he contrived to
fire after them in the direction they took.
CAPTURE OF A ROCKITE PATROLE.—On Sunday
night last, about the hour of eleven o'clock, as constable
Raymond and a party of fire police were on patrol in the
neighbourhood of Lisbunny, they lay concealed in am-
bush in the fields ; they heard a trampling on the road,
as if by a military or police force, and, having stealthily
come upon the party, which consisted of five men, they
captured the fellows, and brought them into Nenagh
gaol. On the person of one of them was found a loaded
butt, on another a bayonet. One of the fellows had the
mark of a recent bayonet wound in his breast, which was
still bleeding.

CAPTURE OF THE THREATENING NOTICE SERVER.—
A fellow of the name of Mackey has been arrested and
committed to gaol, charged with having twice gone to
the house of a farmer named Bryan Touhy, in Carriga-
toher. near:Nenagh, and cautioned. him not to plough his
land, which he was in the act of sending horses into for
the purpose,on pain of death.Touhy has been in possession
of the land for many years, and had actuallyr nrchased
the interest of Mackey's in the land before he entered
into possession.
On the 17th instant head-constable Charles Browne
received information that some bad characters were at
ork ut Toomaysra; he went into a public-house and
found a fellow named Kennelly in the act of writing a
threatening notice, and en searching him found in his
pocket a quantity of gun caps.
During the past week several shots were fired on the
lands of Carrigatoher, near this town.---LVenagh Guar-
dian.

GORGED LERCHE3.—Considerable excitement has
of late prevailed amongst the professional and unpro-
fessional public, by the discovery of the fact, that for
the last seven or eight years, the immense majority of
leeches employed in France have been previously gorged
with the blood of animals, in order to increase their
weight and their price. M. Chevalier, Professor of the
School of Pharmacy, and member of the Academy of
Medicine, has published on this subject an interesting
pamphlet, from which we extract the following passages:
—"The ponds which formerly furnished, in France, an
abundant supply of leeches, have now been for some
time completely exhausted by the avidity of the persons
engaged in the traffic, who sold the youngest leeches
and thus left no chance of reproduction. France has
been, for the last eighteen years, obliged to obtain from
foreign countries what h er own fens might have given
her ; and it is from Egypt, Turkey, Wallachia, and
more particularly Hungary and Russia, that she imports
leeches. The extent of the trade may be judged
of by the statement of the fact, that from the year
1827 to 1844, no less than 500,000,000 leeches have
been imported into France ; and, at the same time the
price of leeches has increased from 15c. to 40c. a-piece.
Whop sale dealers purchase them by the weight, and in
order to increase their own profits, gorge the leeches
with the blood of mimmiferous animals—the sheep, the
calf, the ox—for increase, so that a thousand middle-
sized leeches, weight two pounds and a half, value 75f.,
are changed, by the addition of two pounds of blood,
into large leeches, weighing four pounds and a half, and
sold at 1801. or 200 f." M. Magendie, Professor Royer
Collard, Dr. Louis Barth, and many other distinguished
members of the French faculty, have also investigated
the subject, and fully concur with M. Chevalier in de-
precating the fraud, in stating that the origin of the
blood contained in the bodies of gorged leeches being
unknown, may become the source of contagious diseases
transmitted from animals to man, and in warning the
public against imposition alike injurious to commerce
and to health.—Medical Times.

The infirmary at Salisbury was threatened with
destruction by fire, on Thursday. The flames were 'first ob-
served in the laundry, but by prompt attention they were
extinguished befoie much injury was done.

At Alarylebone Police court, on Saturday, Mr.
John 'Watson, a retired tradesman, possessing large property,
and who for some time past has resided in New Church-
street, Portman-market, was committed for trial, charged
with having committed an assault of a grossly indecent
nature upon Lydia Crickmore, only twelve and a half years
old, in Paddington churchyard. The accused is upwards of
sixty years of age.
ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL—We are en-
abled to-day, by means of an extraordinary express, of un-
exampled rapidity, to lay before our readers the information
brought by the Overland Mail, from 'Bombay, to the Ist De-
cember, which reached us at an early hour last evening, and
which hut for the extremely boisterous state of the weather
would have arrived in London on the evening of the 24th.
Great efforts having lately been made to prove that the route
through Germany via Trieste, or Venice, was more expeditious
than the route through France via Marseilles, and the expe-
rience we had gained in expressing our Indian dispatches
having fully convinced us that if the same exertions were
made to expedite our courier through France as Mr. Waghorn
made in his late attempt, the result would incontestibly prove
that the route via -Marseilles was much the shortest, not to
speak of the great advantages it possesses over the Trieste
route in other respects (the latter route being impracticable
when snow is on the ground), we determined, notwithstand-
ing the unfavourable period of the year for its performance,
upon undertaking the present experiment; and, in despite of
the very severe weather that has lately prevailed, we have
succeeded in our endeavours to lay before the British public
information from India, conveyed overland, in a shorter time
than was ever before accomplished. For the success we have
achieved we are in a great measure indebted to the assistance
we have received from the French Government, who, upon
learning our intentions, at once sent instructions to the
proper French authorities to expedite our couriers as much as
possible, and offered to help us in any way we could suggest.
For the assistance we have thus derived, we beg publicly to
thank the French authorities; and we cannot help adding,
that the French Government, so far from wishing to place
obstructions in the way of expediting the English
mails through France have evinced the greatest possible
anxiety to assist us in this important undertaking. Having
said thus much in acknowledgment of the great aid we have
received from the French authorities, we are bound to add,
that we are much indebted to the Egyptian Government,
who assisted our agents in every possible manner, and to
whom we also tender our unfeigned thanks. The dates
brought by this conveyance are :—Bombay, Dec. 1; Cal-
cutta, Nov. 21; Madras, Nor. 22. There is nothing from
China later than reached us by the last mail. The news
from India is highly important. The prospect of a
collision between the British and Sikh troops was
becoming every day more imminent. The latter had
already commenced their march towards the Sutlej, with
the view of repelling the anticipated aggression. Meautitsse,
strong measures of defence had been adopted at Fesozepore,
and as Sir Henry Hardinge has upwards of 50,0'00 troops at
his disposal, any attempt on the part tF the enemy to pre-
cipitate hostilities can hardly fdll to be attended by their
overwhelming defeat. The Sikh army had been arranged in
three divisions; puP commanded by Sirdar Tej Singh (the
late Governor of Peshawur), another by Raja Lall Singh,
and a, llsird by Sirdar Jewun Singh. The affairs of the
Government continued to be administered by the Ranee.
"sibuolab Singh wasstill at Jamoo. Sinde was perfectlylquiet,
and the troops generally healthy. For the rest we must be
content to refer our readers to the copious extracts from the
Indian papers which will be found elsewhere.—Herald.
THE POTATO DisHAsE.—We have received a
copy of the lecture delivered by Dr. Buckland, at Oxford,
which we have already noticed. Whilst on this subject,
we owe, it to Mr. Reed, vet. rinary surgeon of Crediton,
to state that we have had by us 1, ussome time past, some
numbers of the Farmers' Journal, published in Septem-
ber last, in which he describes the disease, predicates the
cause, states the necessary consequences of contact be-
tween sound and unsound potatoes, and, in short, points
out the remedies, which received but little attention till
they afterwards came forth under the " authority " of
Government Potato Commissioners.— Western Times.
THE LATE ELOPEMENT.—The parties who lately
Beloped
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Augustus Henniker, of Plashwoods, Haughley, as stated
in our paper of last week, made the best of their way,
it seems, to Tintagel, the vicar of that place being a
relative; and having remained there the
u F
onecesrsiadrayy time
to procure a license, they were
and immediately left in a carriage and four to meet the
day mail at Launceston, homeward bound.—West Briton

IRISH LINES.
(From the Irish Railway Telegraph.)
We submit particulars of the several railway projects
for which deposits have been made with the clerks of the

peace:—
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and its Branches ;
length, 72 miles, 1 furlong, 7i chains.—Engineers,
Messrs. Bendel and M'Kensie.

Do. Extension from Monaghan to Randlestown
length, 17m. sf.—Messrs. Rendel and M'Kenzie.
Belleek and -Ballyshannon ; length, sm.—Robert Ste-
phenson.
Baltinglass Junction ; length, 23m.—G. and A. Taylor,
Clonmel, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow; length, 53m,
7f. sch. 40 links.—Messrs. Leahy and I. K. Brunel.
Cork and Waterford; length, 78m. 8301k.—1. K. Brunel.
1. Branch to Tramore ; length, Iw, 1,6501k.—D0.

2. Branch to Fermoy ; length, 18m. 2ch.-Do.
3. Branch to Cove ; length, sm. 73ch.-Do.
Cork, Ballincollig, and Macroom; length, 22m. sf. 52y.
-R. W. Townsend.
Cork, Passage, and Kinsale ; length, 23m. 71. 176 y-
. W. Townsend.
Cork and Passage ; length, 6m. 112y.-Messrs. Leahy.
Cork, Macroom, and Killarney ; length, 56m. 132 y-
. Leahy.
Cork, Midleton, and Youghal, with Branches to Fermoy
and Cove ; length, 27m. if. Bch.-Sir John Macneil.
Cork and Fermoy Direct ; length, 19m. 3ch.-Edgar
Clements.
Dublin and Enniskillen ; length, 77m. 311-Robert Ste-
phew on.
Branch to Trim and Athboy ; length, 13m.-Do.
Branch to Belturbet ; length, 3m. 61.-Do.
Dublin and Armagh Inland ; length, 851m.-Henry L.
Lyndsay.
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction (Portadown to
Portrush), with Branch to Armagh ; length, 70m.-
Messrs. Armstrong and Barnes.
Do.-Branch to Ballymoney and Randlestown ; length,
14m.-Messrs. Armstrong and Barnes.
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, and Waterford, with
Branches to Kingstown and Carlow ; length, 171 m-
. K. Brunel.
Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Junction to Per-
turnna ; length, 33m. 2f.-Sir J. Macneil.
Dublin, Dundrum, and Enniskerry.
Drogheda and Kens Branch of Belfast Junction; length,
26w. 71f.--Sir J. Macneil.
Dublin and Sandymount Atmospheric Railway ; length,
3m. ich.-Sir J. Macneil.
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine (2) ; length, 84m. lf.-
Messrs. Armstrong and Co.
Enniskillen and Sligo; length, 40ns. 5f.-Sir J. Macneil.
Do.-Branch to Pool ; length, 3m. 21. 100y.--Sir John
Macneil.
Erne Railway and Steam-boat Company Improvement in
Lough Erne ; length, 3m. 61.-Thomas Rhodes and
William Vanderkiste.
Do. -Belleek and Ballyshannon Railway • length, sm.
-Thomas Rhodes and William Vanderkiste.
Great North Western Junction, Letterkenny Division ;
length, 21 miles.-Stewart Gordon.
Do.-Buncrana Division ; length, Bm. 15th.
Great Southern and Western, from Carlow to Kilkenny;
length. 25m. 2f.-Sir J. Macneil.
Great Munster and Leinster, from Kilkenny to Clon-
mel ; length, 31w. 5f -Sir J. Macneil.
Galway and Kilkenny ; length, 70m.-Messrs. Hitching
and Carter.
Great Munster ; length, 120 w. 21. 51ch.-Messrs.
Leahy.
Do.-Branch to Killaloe ; 3m. 2f. 8/ch.-Do.
Do.-Branch to Rathkeale and Newcastle, 13m. 3f. /ch.
-Messrs. Leahy.
Do.-Branch to Tarbert ; length, lm. lf. 7ich.-Do.
Grand Canal Atmospheric,Dublin to Ballinasloe; length,
95m. 6f.-No returns.
Great Hibernian Central Junction Railway ; 1461 m-
. Rhodes and Nicholson.
Do.-Branch to Templemore; 18m.-Messrs. Rhodes and
Nicholson.
Great North Junction ; length, 34m. sf. 115y.-Sir J.
Macneil.
Great County Down (Newry and Belfast) ; 80m.-J.
Rastrick.
Great Southern and Western, Limerick and Waterford
Junction, Clonmel to Tharles ; length, 15w. 21.-Sir
J. Macneil.
Kilkenny to Clonmel, Branch to Callan ; 31m. 61:-
Sampson Carter, Esq.
Irish North Midland, from Kilcock to Bell urbet; length,
65w. 41. 44th.-Sir J. Macneil.
Do.-Branch to Newtownbutler ; length, 7m.-Sir J.
Macneil.
Irish Great Western, Extension to Castlebar aed West
port, Ballinasloe to Castlebar ; length, 61m.-Sir J.
Macneil.
Castlebar to Westport ; length, 12w. sf.
Irish Great 'Western, Portarlington to Galway ; length,
91w. M.-Sir J. Macneil.
Do.-Athlone to Roscommon ; length, 18m.-Sir J.
Macneil.
Londonderry and Enniskillen, Branch to Stranorlar ;
length, 14m. 2ch.-Messrs. Stephenson and Ross.
Do.-To Lough Swilly ; length, 7m. 7f. *h.-Messrs.
Stephenson and Ross.
Do.-Altered Line; length, 23m. 4y.-Messrs. Stephen-
son and Ross.
Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena; length, 38m.-No re-

turn.
Do.—Larne and Carrickfergus Branch ; length, 14m.
4f. 9ch.--No return.
Da—Junction with Belfast and Ballymena Railway ;
length, 3m. 4ft. 4ch.—No return.
Midland Great Western Railway, Extension from Mul-
linger to Galway ; length, 72m.—John Stawell.
Midland Great Western Extension, Longford to Sligo;
length, 56m. o.—Richard V. Boyle.
Do.—Longford Deviation.—George W. lletnana.
Do.—Liffey Branch Extension ; length, 2m. lf.—George
W. Rectums.
Newry and Carlingford; length, 14m. 4f.—Messrs.
Bush and Sons.

Newry, Belfast, and Banbridge Junction ; length
27m. 3f.—John Godwin.

Newry, Warrenpoint and Rosstrevor ; length, Bm. 2leh.
—John Godwin.
Newry and Castleblaney ; length, 20m. 4f.—lL Lindsay.
Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry Junction ; length,
_ 37m. M.—Sir John Rennie.

New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Junction ; length
25m. If.—Sir J. Macneil.

Omagh, Dungannon, Armagh, and Belfast ; length, 41m
—Messrs. Armstrong and Co.
Roscrea to Parsonstown ; length, 22m. 4f. 121y.—Sir J.
Macneil.

Waterford and Kilkenny Extension to Carlow ; length,
20m. 26.—John Valentine.
Do.—Extension to Ross; length, 151m.—JohnValentine.
Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia ; length, 178 m. 2f.
—William Gravatt and W. B. Hays.
Do.—Branch to Fermoy ; length, 9m.—William Gra-
vatt and W. Hays.
Do.-2 Branch to Tralee ; length, 19m. 3f.—William
Gra watt and W. Hays.
Waterford and Tramore ; length lm. 50y.—R. W.
Townsend.
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin.—Sir J. Macneil.
Strabane Ship Canal ; length, 9m. sf.—Messrs. Cubitt
andßazalgette.

Cork and Bandon.—On Tuesday, Robert Carr, Esq.,
vice-chairman of the board (attended by the directors, en-
gineers, and secretary), laid the first stone of the viaduct
near Castlewhite. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm
of all present. It gives us much satisfaction to observe the
steady business-like manner in which this undertaking
is being worked out. We understand that the directors
will not find it necessary to call in more than one-half
the amount of each share. Should they be able to carry
out the entire undertaking with one-half their capital,
shareholders will owe them a deep debt of gratitude.—
Co, k Repot ter.

Earl Delawarr, who has been slightly indisposed
during the last few days in Upper Grosvenor-street, is con-
valescent, and yesterday left town, accompanied by the
Countess and family, for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, for the
holidays.
FATAL WRECK AT BIDEFORD.—During the storm
on Saturday night last, the yacht " Fanny," the pro-
perty of Charles Montgomery, Esq., of Swansea, was
lost on Bideford bar, and all hands perished. The shore
is strewed for some distance with the fragments of the
vessel.— West Briton.
LOWESTOFT, DEC. 25.—0 n Monday, Lieutenant
Roberts, RN., commander of the Victoria revenue
cutter, picked up at s. a a Southwold pilot boat, dis-
masted, with nine men in her. The sea was running so
high at the time, that the pilot-boat foundered immedi-
ately after the men were taken out of her. The poor
fellows thus saved from being wrecked were landed at
Lowestoft.—Norfolk Chronicle.
DEATH FROM DELIRIUM Timm:rm.—Mr. Wakley,
M.P., held an inquest at the Windsor Castle, Abbey-street,
Regent's Park, on the body of Joseph Hardy, aged thirty-
five, a butler, lately in the service of J. Romer, Esq., of 10,
Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park. Mrs. Ann M•Stay, of
No. 1, Ernest-street, said deceased had lodged but for a
short time in that house, the landlady of which (Mrs. Nichols)
asked her to sit up with him on Tuesday night last. Wit-
ness did so, and at first found him aitupified and delirious.
At times he was sensible, and told her he had taken nearly a
wine glass full of laudanum. She asked him why ? and he
replied, "Iva out of my mind, and I hope the Lord will for-
give ine for it." He freely took the medicines prescribed for
him, and said," I wish to live, in order to repent." He died
on Christmas-day, between two and three o'clock. Mr.
John Wilson, surgeon, of Albany-street, said he had attended
him from the Tuesday evening till his death. He had ejected
from his stomach the laudanum, and he laboured under de-
lirium tremens, piuduced by excessive drinking. He con-
fessed to have taken the laudanum, but said he was not
aware of what he was doing at the time. He died of the
disease of the brain called delirium tremens, combined with
the effects of laudanum. The Coroner said, that since he had
been in office the large number of gentlemen's butlers whose
deaths resulted from suicidal acts was astonishing. Verdict,
" That deceased died of delirium tremens, after an attempt at
suicide."

On the day before Christmas-day Mr. Kirby, one
of the principal clerks in the banking-house of Messrs.
Jones, Loyd, and Co., received a note signed S. J. Loyd,
the principal of the firm, inclosing a draft for 1,000/., to
be placed to the credit of the " Clerks' Christmas Fund,"
as an acknowledgment of their services, and of the rea-
diness with which they met the trouble and additional
labour of the past year.
YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 27.—Considerable
business has been transacted again to-day, notwithstanding
our Exchange remains closed. There were more buyers
than sellers in the market, and the business done was at a
further advance in prices. The principal transactions were
in York Extensions, at 301/i ; Berwicks, 15; North British,
Catlisle Branch, 2% to 3; Grand Union, 134 ; Manchester,
Buxton, and Matlock, 4%; Welsh Midland, 2. Newcastle
and Darlingtons were in demand, but no sellers. Brandlings
were offered at 551/2, but afterwards withdrawn.
It is said that the Midland Railway Company in-
tend keeping London time after the Ist of January.
The rails on the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway
are about being laid at Collingham, and at various other
portions of the line.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COORT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 27.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)
MARSHALL V. CULL/EN.

The defendant, Edward Beaufort Cullen, who ad-
mitted himself to be the projector of a company called
" The Great British Advertiser, and United Kingdom
Broad Sheet," was summoned, under the .Small Debts
Act, for 15L

It appeared that the defendant was discharged by this
Court under the Act about twelve months back, at which
time he owed a debt for lodging, and had renewed the
debt. paying 101, and giving his acceptance for 151,
which had been paid away to Mr. Marshall, who had
sued the defendant thereon. Thedefendant was examined
on the present occasion on his oath. He said he had
formerly been in the army, and now received assistance
from his friends, who resided in Ireland. In answer to
a question whether he was or was not at the present time
connected with a company, he said he was secretary to
a newspaper company, on which he had spent a large
sum of money. It was " The Great British Advertising
Company." It was an undertaking on his own account.
He was the originator and proprietor of the concern.
The person to whom the defendant had given the bill
said he showed him about 1001. when he paid him the
101., and the reason he did not pay him all was because
be wanted to open a banking account, showing him a
prospectus of a company.
Mr. Commissioner GotmnuriN decided the case by
saying that the defendant must pay 1/. a month or go to
prison.
The defendant made no objection to the order.
IN RE GRAHAM AND CO.

To-day was appointed for the proof of debts and choice
of assignees, under the bankruptcy of George Graham
and Co., warehousemen, in Cheapside. Graham, the
senior partner, had committed suicide a few days back,
on account of his railway speculations. M'Farlane,
another partner, had absconded ; and Adams, the other
partner, had surrendered to the fiat. The debts and
liabilities of the con•:ern are calculated at about 40,0001.,
the stock in trade about 9,0001., and the good debts
about 10,0001. There is a large quantity of " scrip," in
which deposits to about 7001. have been paid.
Mr. Lawrence, as solicitor for Adams, who was pre-
sent, made an application to the Court to allow him the
expenses of an accountant, in order to make out the re-
quircd account. Adams, who had not mixed himself
with the speculations of the other two, had surrendered,
but he was totally unable to prepare the accounts of the
house. Adams had no knowledge of the speculations
until they had attained a fearful height ; but on ascer-
taining the position of the other members of the firm, he
consulted an attorney, and made an assignment for his
creditors, on which the fiat had issued. Mr. Adams was
the buyer of the house, and unacquainted with the rail-
way speculations of the other parties
Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN thought the application
was one that might be made at a future occasion. He
asked whether any similar cases with regard to costs had
occurred.

Mr. Lawrence remarked that this was not a case with-
out assets. The debts were about 40,000/. The stock
in trade on the premises had cost 9,0001., and the debts
owing to the firm were about 12,0001., so that there
would be from 81. to 10s. in the pound for the creditors.
His HoNouß asked whether there was any opposition on
the part of the creditors?

Mr. Brace, as solicitor to the fiat, thought the applica-
tion was premature, and that if granted it would prevent
M-FArlane from coming forward. The attorney fur
M•Farlane was in Court, and it was necessary that he
(M•Farlane) who had kept the books should make out
the accounts.

The COURT said the application by Mr. Lawrence
could be considered on a future occasion.

Some debts were proved. Messrs. Thompson, of Man-
chester, were creditors for more than 20,000!. On the
present occasion they proved for 11,000/. Mr. Thomson
and Mr. Schwale were chosen assignees. By the next
examination the accounts must be rendered.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

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On Saturday a young man, named Dennis Shine, for-
merly belonging to the police force, was charged with
having assaulted most desperately several policemen and
others.
The first witness was a jobbing porter, who appeared
with a frightful cut in the head. He stated that the pri-
soner, who was drinking and quarrelling at the bar of
the Bell public-house, little Friday-street, suddenly,
without provocation, seized a large poker, and com-
menced an attack upon every one in the room, in the
most ferocious manner, and amongst others struck the
w tness on the head, and stretched him senseless on the
floor, where he lay for some time bleeding copiously.
The waiter of the public-house stated that the pri-
soner was making a great row, and had commenced
strangling a man, when he interfered, but was prostrated
by the prisoner, who leaped upon his face, and injured
him greatly.
Another witness, who was present when the police
came, and went to assist in taking him, also was knocked
down.

Four different policemen gave evidence that they were
called in, and used their utmost endeavours to capture
the prisoner, but were unable to do so for three- quarters
of an hour. He had gone up stairs and locked himself
into a room, where he defied any one to enter. He had
placed the furniture against the door, so that the police
could not open it. At length an entry was effected by a
policeman named Monaghan, who was knocked down
and seriously injured by the prisoner, who had armed
himself with a pair of tongs and a poker, and inflicted
the most desperate blows on all sides. The body of
police who were present at last managed to capture the
prisoner and take him to the station. house.
The prisoner only said that he was mad drunk, and
was determined not to be taken.
The LORD MAYOR, having heard that Monaghan
would probably be able to attend on Tuesday next, re-
manded the prisoner till that day, but told him that he
should certainly be committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.
On Saturday, Mr. Stacey, the secretary of the City of
London Literary and Scientific Institution, A ldersgate-
street, was summoned by the churchwardens of St.
Botolph, Aldersgate, to show cause why he refused to
pay 38/. los., the amount of nine quarters' poor-rate due
to that parish by the institution.
Mr. Clarksou appeared for the parish.
The question at issue was, whether the institution was
exclusively devoted to the advancement of literature,
science, and the fine arta, by voluntary contribution,
whereby it would be exempt from the payment of the
rate by the 6th and 7th of Victoria.
Mr. Stacey contended that it came fully under the
meaning of the act. He, however, tenanted a portion of
it by virtue of his office as secretary, and which portion
was assessed as a beneficial occupation.
On being cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Stacey
stated that the institution consisted of a lecture-room,
reading, and otht r rooms, and library ; and that the
lecture-room was sometimes let for concerts, &c., and he
received money for it.
Mr. Clarkson then put it to the Bench, whether by
the latter admission, the defendant had not made him-
self liable to the claim. It could not be said that the
letting of the It cture-room for concerts, or for a dissent-
ing congregation, could be termed the voluntary ad-
vancing literature and the fine arts.
After some further discussion the magistrates on the
Bench, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Sydney, and Mus-
grove, retired for about five minutt s, and then decided
that they were of opinion that so much of the institu-
tion as was voluntarily devoted to the advancement of
literature, &c., ought to be exempt ; but the lecture and
other rooms, which were let out on hire, were clearly
liable to pay the rates.
It was at length arranged to let the summons stand
over for a week, in order that both parties might 'come
to a determination how much of the institution was legally
intitlA to be assessed.

same discharged upon your paying me the bonos of 501
down, and to give me a bill of 501. at 18 months date
from this day, the 11th of Deer., 1845, and the said
Benjamin Brown is to give me, the said Charles Jacobs,
a bill of 95L 10s. to hold as his security.

" BENJAMIN BROWN,

" Received 501. in gold."
Witness, upon this agreement and understanding, paid
over to the prisoner 501. in cash, and his acceptance fur
50/. more at three months. The prisoner, on receiving
the money, remarked that he might require an advance
of salary, and on his replying he did, he handed him
back 51., and placed in his hands with the agreement a
bill of exchange, of which the following is a copy:-
951. 10s. London, Oct. 24, 1845.
Four months after date pay to my order the sum of
ninety-five pounds ten shillings for value received.

—BENJAMIN BROWN,
To Mr. William Mead, 17, Northampton-street,
Milo-end.

Accepted, payable 43, Moorgate- street, City ofLondon.
WILLIAM MEAD.
He subsequently pressed the prisoner to induct him into
his office, but he put him off with one pretext or another.
On Thursday week witness met the prisoner at 43,
Cranbourne-street, where he said he was about to get
up some offices. He also said he had paid for some
goods to fit them out, and borrowed three pounds, as he
said, to pay for the goods. This, he said, he would re-
turn to him in the morning, but from that time to the
present he had not got it back. This and other circum-
stances induced him (witness) to make inquiries about
Mr. Mead, the acceptor of the bill placed in his hands,
and discovered he was not worth one farthing. He next
made application to an attorney, who recommended him
to give the prisoner into custody on a charge of fraud.
He, in consequence, went to the residence of the pri-
soner, Hope Cottage, Mill-street, Lambeth, and on see-
ing him, he asked if he was going to return his money
and his hill? He replied that he could not do so then,
but should in a fortnight, and ho then gave him into
custody. In reply to the questions of Mr. Henry, the
witness said he had made inquiries at 43, Moorgate-
street, about the prisoner, and was told there that he
had merely occupied an apartment there, and had nothing
whatever to do with the railway company there, though
he wrote his letters upon the paper belonging to the com-
pany, and having this description in copperplate at
the top. . . .

Mr. HENRY remarked, that it was really astonishing
that any person should have been so soft as to part with
his money under such circumstances.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his name
was Benjamin Brown, and that he was in the service of
Mr. Agula, who had formerly been a Spanish merchant,
but was now a civil engineer and projector of railways.
His offices were at 94, Cheapside, 4, Charlotte-street,
Mansion House-street, and 43, Moorgate•street, the
latter peing the principal office ; and witness was em-
ployed to carry messages to and from the directors. He
concluded by declaring he had not told the prosecutor
nor his witness that the railways projected by him were
registered, but merely said he was about to register them.
The prisoner was remanded until Monday, when it is
believed other charges of a similar description will be
brought against him.

JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND.

Scotland is deeply interested in the issue of the
present attempt to alter our commercial system. It
must affect the means of our population for better or
worse. They have pretty generally decided in favour
of one mode of concluding the crisis; but they have
not the means of enforcing their decision. A general
election must occur by-and bye, and the old farce of
sending up fifty-two gentlemen to represent Scotland in
a House of Commons, to which England furnishes five
hundred members, will be re enacted. Glasgow, says
Sir James Graham, is the second city in the empire;
but Glasgow, he also says, practically, shall have no
greater influence in the Legislature than Harwich. At
the same time Sir James and his friends, like other
parties and their friends, talk of appealing to the people,
as if the distribution of the representative districts was
not the greatest practicable satire of representation.
Mr. O'Connell demands for Ireland 150 members, in-
stead of the present number, 105; and this request is
characterived by greater modesty than usually marks
his objects. Ireland, even by the test of avenue, is
fairly entitled to 150 members; but in Sc gland we pay
taxation on the English scale, and we should be repre-
sented on the English basis.
There is a very common oversight, in estimating
the proportions of revenue paid by the three divi-
visions of the empire. England from the manner in
which the customs duties are collected, has credit
for large payments to the revenue that are really
contributed by Scotland or Ireland. There can be
no fact much more evident than that the duty on
two-thirds of the tea, and one-half of the sugar
consumed in Scotland or Ireland is credited to London,
Liverpool, or Bri,gol. The tame remark applies to
wines, to foreign spirits, and many minor articles, on
which, nevertheless, a considerable duty is paid. We
may therefore assume, that the customs returns furnish
no very obvious means of ascertaining the amount of
duty paid by each of the three kingdoms.
" The property and income-tax" does not supply any
better means of arriving at an accurate conclusion on the
subject ; for a considerable part of that tax paid in Eng-
land is in reality supplied by Scotland and Ireland.
Many Scottish and Irish landowners pay the sums levied
from their incomes in London, although the cause of the
tax, and the moans of meeting it, are alike supplied by
Scotland or Ireland. We mention these circum-
stances to meet the possible statement, that as
England furnishes the largest proportion of revenue, it
should have a correspondingly large number of repre-
sentatives—a statement for which there is no ground in
reference to Scotland. We pay the same taxes that are
levied in England ; and if the wealth of a nation is
centre d in any locality, as in London, it does not seem
very logical to charge the distant portions of the country
with !poverty, occasioned, if it exists, by that act of
centralization. Scotland kept its liberty against
steel to fall before gold. The corrupt nobility at the
period of the Union sold their country to supply
their wants. We do not say -that the Union was
an impolitic measure ; bat we might have had the bar-
gain on better terms. The time that has elapsed since
the date of that measure has greatly changed the posi-
tion of the two countries. Notwithstanding many and
great disadvantages, Scotland has struggled forward in
agriculture, in manufactures, and commerce, to an
equality with the wealthier partner. The tonnage of
Scotland bears to that of England the proportion of their
respective populations. The number of persons engaged
in manufactures north of the Tweed is equal at least to
the proportion employed in that manner south of the
border waters.

When the empire was engaged in its fiercest struggles
for existence, the blood of the children of the mountain
land was fre ly shed on many fields where life was beaten
out in anguish, to vindicate the interests and the objects
of the commonwealth or its rulers. The day of danger
—the hour of difficulty—the moment of defeat—never
found her sons unwilling to bear their share of the trial.
In science they have achieved more than their nurne •
rical share ; and in literature fsr more than their
proportion of the empire's w orks since the union was
closed. In all respects we have a right to its revisal.
It is no inviolable document. Already it has been
broken and altered in several particulars. It must
stand or fall as men find it advantageous' or other-
wise. For the interests and the good of all the con-
tracting parties, it should be preserved, but then it
should be amended. We have not vowed fealty to its
frailties. We have not given our troth to its fail-
ings. We are not bound to abide by its faults. In the
councils of the State we have a right to insist that the
voice of Scotland shall be fully heard, and its influences
be fully felt. No argument suffices to persuade us that
a composition of fifty per cent. should be accepted
when full payment can be made. England returns
five hundred members to the House of Commons,
and Scotia+ d fifty-two. Now, either we should rise
to one hundred, or England should fall to two
hundred and fifty. The justice of the de-
mand is palpable. A statesman's wits are not
requisite to sift it. A schoolboy with the multiplication
table on his tongue could solve the whole matter. And
eien if the alteration merely conferred escape from in-
dignity it should be made; but a great reform is involved
in the change—a reform equally advantageous to Eng-
land as to Scotland, and which would directly tend to
terminate Government by a class for its interests.—Glaa-
gm National.