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THE S N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1845.

proceeding in this House in the present session, such Bill may he I
ordered to be engrossed without any further proceeding in respect
thereof.
July 4, 1845.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JULY 5, 1845.
Her Majesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, appointing Sir John M. F. Smith, Lieut.-
Colonel of the Royal Corps of En&ineers, late Inspector-
General of Railways ; George B. Airy, Esq., Astronomical
Observator in her Majesty's Observatory at Greenwich ;
and Peter Barlow, Esq., Professor of Mathematics in the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, to be her Majesty's
Commissioners for inquiring whether in future private Acts of
Parliament for the construction of railways provision ought to
be made for securing an uniform gauge, and whether it would
be expedient and practicable to take measures to bring the
railways already constructed, or in progress of construction,
in Great Britain, into uniformity of gauge ; and to inquire
whether any other mode of obviating or mitigating the
serious impediments to the internal traffic of the country,
which are represented as likely to arise from the want of an
uniform gauge, could be adopted.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Tennant,
Esq., to be Secretary to the Central Board of Commissioners
of Public Roads in the settlement cf the Cape of Good Hope.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held specially for the purpose
of receiving and taking into consideration the report of
the Committee relative to the Charitable Trusts Bill,
now in its progress through the House of Commons.

taken away at the time. I had not time to turn my
head, when I recived the blow.

The LORD MAYOR—How did you proceed then ?
Complainant—l went back to my office. I still con-
sider my life in danger from Captain lleriott's violence.
I admit that at the time we were both very warm.
City poticeman, 519, stated that he was called to in-
terfere when Mr. Vincent's man, and a person in the
employment of another gentleman, were quarrelling
about a wine basket. Mr. Vincent cane down, and
Captain Periott asked for his card, and the former said
the latter was a blackguard, and refused to give him his
card, and declared that he cared no more for the captain
than he cared for the stones in the street.

The LORD MAYOR—And you swear that he struck
you, Mr. Vincent, on the following day ? The corn.
plainant—l do, and I am still afraid of his violence.
Captain liarcott —You need not be in the slightest
degree afraid, upon my honour.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Captain Heriott, the
assault is distinctly sworn to, and I shall bind you over
in your recognisances to the amount of 201. to appear at
the quarter sei*ioni to answer any charge Mr.
Vincent may think proper to bring against you.
Captain Ileriott said the fact was he interfered,
when he saw .the two cellarinen disputing abJut the
interest of their ma,ters, to prevent a breach of the pea,e,
and the consequence was that he was grossly insulted, as
he could prove by the statements of several gentlemen
who were present, and who heard the unprovoked lan-
guage used by Mr. Vincent.

Ilere somegeutlernan showed an anxiety to be allowed
to gpeuk.

The LORD MAYOR, however, obj cted to hear them,
and said that Captain Heriott might, if the matter
went further, call forward his witnesses elsewhere. Tim
duty of the magistrate was quite plain in ouch a case.
Captain Heriott—The provocation was, as I can show,
very great.

The- LORD .11AYon—The assault took place on the
day after the alleged provocation was g.ven. I cannot
alter my decision.

Evari Evans, who was some days ago charged with
having presented a forged cheque for the sum of 7301.,
for payment at the bankiir4-house of Messrs. Jones
Loyd and Co., was brought up for further examination.
Mr. MuLtAxs, of the firm of Bush and Mullins, soli-
citors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection
against Frauds and Felonies, said, he had no objection to
consent to the discharge of the prisoner from custody
upon entering into his own recognisances to appear at
any time he might be called upon.
Mr. HumpuuErs, upon the part of the prisoner, at
once acquiesced in the condition, and the prisonei was
liberated upon entering into his own recognisances in the
sum of 501.

A man named Baker, was brought up for final exa-
mination upon a charge of bigamy.
John Tucker stated that he was present when the
prisoner married Sarah Alsworth, at Bath, thirteen
years ago, and he produced a copy of the notice of the
marriage in the books of the church there.

Prisoner—Then you are quite sure that woman
(pointing to the female who had him apprehended) is
the person I was married to. Witness—Yes. I
swear she is.

The prisoner's marriage %•ith another woman subse•
qoently having been likewise proved,
The LORD Mason committed him for trial.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, JULY S.—Wind S.W., light breezes sod fine,

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DEAL, JULY 7.—Wind s.M. S.E. awl W.S.W., light and squally ;
P.M. W. by N.—Arrd. from the River, and sailed, James, White,
Trinidad ; Cato, Scott, St. Vincent; Elphinstone, Quebec. Arrd,
from the Liver for, Union, Todd, Launceston ; Viscount Canning,
Codrington, Sierra Leone ; Lotus, Ikad, Demerara ; Charles Brooke,
Hunt, St. Vincent.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship
Bitten', Cape of Good Hope; sailed 7th May, from St. Helena 21st,
and Ascension 27th. Sid. New Holland, Parsons, Alexandria.
FALMOUTH, JULY 7.—Wind S.—Arrd. Minstrel Boy, Maine, Lima.
OFF PORT, JULY 6.—Graaf Van liege Doop, Dentlaas, Batavia, for
Rotterdam ; 7th, Chronometer, Furse, Saldanha Bay.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 7.—Wind S., light--Arrd. Henrietta, Whitby,
New Orleans. Sld. Parker, Risien, Demerara; John I‘l'Lellan,
Garrity, Jamaica ; George Stevens, Cushing, New Orleans ; Poto-
mac, Perry, Alexandria. Off port 7th, Strabane, Bombay; Cathe-
rine, Savannah ; Oxford, New York ; Mazeppa, Safeguard, Ben
Nevis; Nonanturn, Nightingale, Albanian and Belhaven.
Coax, .JCLY -).—Arrd. Lady Harvey, Duncan, Bird Island. Off
port, Casteretta, Prideux, Newfoundland, and sailod for Liverpool ;
Surprise, Prewett, ditto, and sailed for London.
NEWPORT, JULY 7.—Sld. Emily Brock, Bermuda ; Diamond,
Pearce, Halifax ; Wanderer, I'aulk, Corfu; Emily, Forster, and
Alicia, Johnson, Grenada.
LIMERICK, JULY s.—Wind W.—Arrd. Ann, 31`Fees, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

BELFAST, JULY 3.—Arrd. Tom Bowling, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Teignmouth Castle, Pigg, Miramichi. Sld. Ann M'Leater,
Lockhart, Quebec ; James Hunt, Somerset, Antigua ; Rebecca, Camp-
bell, and Robert, Watson, Miramichl.
NxwitY, JULY s.—Arrd. E. Thorn, St. John's, New Brunswick.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY s.—Sid. St. George, Harnanan, Quebec.
SANDGATE, JULY 6.—A smack, name unknown, is on shore about
a mile to the westward, but expected off next tide.
rLYMOUTH, JULY s.—The Tritonia, Furze, which was ashore near
Wimbury Church, has been got off and taken into Yealm.

WICK, JULY 4.—The Border Chieftain, 3laltman, from Newcastle
to Dublin, drove on shore this morning about three miles S.W. of
this port, during a strong gale from the east, and has since gone to
pieces ; crew saved. The Countess of Selkirk, of Stornaway, for
Banff, has been brought in here very leaky, and with loss of sails.

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WELLS, JULY 7.—The .Tacqurcn, Lassen, from liensburg to this
port, in entering the harbour yesterday foundered on the bar,
became leaky, and filla with the tide.
PWLMILLI, JULY, b.—The Vicarage, Hill, from Port Madoc, drove
on shore near Aberirch, but was got off to-day with trifling damage.
The smacks Under and Linnet, b...th from Port Madoc, went on
shore in Aberdaron Bay. The former has got off and into here.

REDUCTION OF IMPORT DUTIES BY THE
EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.
Gibraltar, June 26, 1844.
Sir,—With reference to what I lately had the honour
of stating to you, in respect to the heavy import duties
on all kinds of goods in the ports of Barbary, I have now
to communicate that the Emperor has since reduced
them by one-fourth, so that only 75 per cent. of such
duties will now be exacted, and the goods deposited in
the Custom-houses previous to the first augmentation of
duties will be admitted at the old tariff.
The duties upon India spices, all kinds of drugs, and
paper are reduced to 20 per cent. ad valoi
I think it not unlikely that ere long a further reduc-
tion will be made in the duties on other articles, when
the Emperor finds that it does not produce the intended
increase in his revenue.
It appears from the best source of information that the
French Commissioner-General Delarue has terminated
negotiations with the Bashaw at Larache, and that the
ratification at Fez may be looked for very shortly.
I have the honour to be, Sir, &c,
(Signed) LLOYD'S AGENT.
To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Lloyd's.