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WEST INDIA MAIL. and from that time I was subjected to occasional , '"'"")
marks , The Primate of Ireland has endowed a chair of cede-
The leviot arrived at Southampton on Friday ; she of his displeasure. In January, 1849, about the
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este he siastical history in Trinity College, Dublin, and appointed
tringt947,B7B dollars, 200,000 of which are in California stated to me that a lady had influenced me 9 emAist him. the Rev. Dr. Butcher to fill it.
told dust. She also brings 500 oz. of gold dust, entered For her sake 1 repelled the charge. . -lb .e finial was The inhabitants of St. Mary's, Torquay, feeling dis-
y weight. couched in terms too direct and unequive
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est. This Me. tressed at the mode in which the tractarian incumbent
JAMAICA, MARCH 10.—The English mails of February Forrest pronounced as unpardonable..
-le 'geld he could conducts the service, have resolved to erect a new church.
The university of St. Andrew's has conferred the degree
2nd did not reach Kingston before the Bth of March, in not permit any man so to address him,, writ Live with any
consequence of the bad weather experienced by the Avon woman who id it. He imperatively demanded that we of D.D. on the Rev. Joseph Wolff, LL.B. (vicar of Isle
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between Bermuda and Havannah. There is no political should live apart. I reluctantly, but fallv arta implicitly, Brewers, Somereetshire.)
news of importance. The Colonial Standard notices the acquiesced in his pleasure. From thin, - time it was dis- The parishioners of St. Just have, congratulated Mr.
successful cultivation of rice in the morass lands about six tinctly understood that we should sepweeee and live apart. Gorham on the successful issue of the suit with the
miles from Kingston. The commercial accounts state Mr. Forrest accompanied me to rat residence of Mr. Bishop of Exeter. The rev. gentleman has sent an ap-
that ample supplies, with a limited demand for consnmp.- Parke Godwin, and there left me to bean inmate of that propriate reply.
bon, continued to depress the market, and no speculative highly estimable gentleman's Ftwase, and the associate of The Bishop of Exeter's chaplain has followed the ex-
feeling existed. himself and his amiable and greed lady. Not merely for ample of his chief, and has created much angry contro-
There is very little news from Nicaragua. At Grey this, but for my first iretrnduction to this estimable versy in his parish on religious matters. The Bishop of
Town everything was perfectly tranquil. The news from family, I was indebted le Mr. Forrest. They are his Exeter has refused to interfere.
the interior was contradictory, but matters were said to own friends; for them be has always expressed, and 1 An address from the great body of the Evangelical
be in a very disturbed state. believe entertained,:ants still entertains, the highest re- clergy is about to be presented to the Archbishop of Can-
The Isthmus has lately been very unhealthy. Great spect. Alter we had 'been long separated, Mr. Forrest terbury, expressive of the gratitude they feel:towards his
numbers of Americans continued to return from Cali- informed me that report attributed our separation to a Grace for the firm stand he has made in the defence of
fornia. cause which reflected unfavourably upon him, and that the pure principles of the Established Church of England.
In the British Guiana the revenue is said to be in every he must establish the existence of another motive. He About forty clergymen, belonging to Hull and Bever.
satisfactory state. The weather was favourable, and the suggested a diyerce, employed counsel, and at length, in . ley district, have presenten an address to the Archbishop
colony quiet. At Nevis, St. Kitts, and Montserrat, the January, 1850,1 sought similar assistance. Our counsel of York, expressing their gratitude for his grace's appro.
weather was very dry, and the crops were much affected met, and with my approval it was offered that I would not vat and sanction of the late decision of her Majesty's
by heavy drought. In Barbadoes the weather was very oppose Mr. 'Forrest's application for a divorce, or any privy council, in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of
dry, and the crop of sugar not expected to exceed 13,006 similar act which might conduce to his happiness, pro- Exeter.
}Ads. In Antigua the weather was most unfavourable; vided he would not impeach me with want of virtue. It The Rev. T. Mereweather, Dean of Hereford, who so
the want of rain had jeopardised the crop, and rendered was said to be impossible to obtain a divorce without violently opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden as
the prospect of the planters and inhabitants most gloomy. making this charge, and many propositions for the pre- Bishop of Hereford, died on day morning, at the
servation of secrecy were made to me. To all such pro- vicarage, Madeley, which he held with the deanery. He
INDIA. positions, though accompanied by the offer of a provision was about 54.
FIGHTINGS AND MURDERS. for life, I felt myself bound, by every consideration of On Friday the new church of St. Philip's, Bradford-
We have received by express, in anticipation of the over- honour, virtue, and duty, to return an absolute and un- road, Manchester, was consecrated by the Right Rev. the
land mail. our usual India letters and papers. The dates qualified refusal." Lord Bishop of Manchester. This church has been built
are—Bombay, 2nd March, and Calcutta, 29th February. under the auspices of the Ten Churches' Association, and
By these accounts it appears that a very uneasy feeling IRELAND. is the fifth which that society has been the means of
continues to prevail throughout and conceening the Pun-
—4— erecting.
jaub.- The late assassinations at Lahore and Peshawur, The repeal rent for three weeks, ending last Tuesday, LLANDAFF EPISCOPAL PALACE.—The Ecclesiastical
together with reported attempts elsewhere, have given amounted to the entire sum of twelve pounds, five shil- Commissioners have made arrangements for the house
rise to the impression that the Sikhs, unable to get up a lings and eleven pence. Poor little gentleman ! Hadn't and demesne of Llandaff Court, so that the diocese will
fght with us in the open field, are resorting to the system he better give it up ? Mimic grandeurs are at a discount. now have a resident bishop, after a lapse of upwards of
of private assassination. On the 2nd of February about PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION.—On Sunday week, 400 years, the last bishop's residence, then called the
I,ooo'men of the Affreedie tribes attacked the camp of a in the parish church of Croagh, county Limerick, no less Bishop's Castle, having heen destroyed by Owen Glen-
party of Sappers employed in making a road through the than fourteen persons, who had been for some time under dower. The non-residence of the bishop for so long a
bills between Peshawur and Kohat, at. a pass about 18 the spiritual direction of the Rev. William Archer, publicly time has been mainly attributable to the practice, now
=ilea from the former; twelve of our men were killed, read their recantation of the errors of Romanism, in the done away with, of holding the bishopric of Llandaff with
gna wounded, and the camp plundered. To avenge this presence of a large congregation. the rich deanery of St. Paul's.
massacre a strong force under Colonel Bradshaw, with NERVE.—Dr. Langley, who was acquitted at Nenagh The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour has pointed out an ex-
the Commander-in-Chief and Sir C. Cempbell in corn- Assizes for the murder of his wife, in order, as was alleged, traordinary mistake in the Bishop of Exeter's letter,
pany, _marched from Peshawur on the 9th, notice having to marry his niece, actually slept while the jury were deli- The Bishop quotes, to prove the primitive opinion on
been previously given that the villages of offenders would Lerating on their verdict, and when a few moments more baptism, a canon of the Fourth Council of Carthage,
be always thus avenged. The force returned on the 14th, would decide his fate, whether life or death, for thirty which he says " has been received generally, and was
having been completely successful. Six villages and a minutes, and it was only by laying a hand on his shoulder adopted by the General Council of Chalcedon." Mr.
great number of the enemy have been destroyed. There that his slumbers were broken. After the verdict of ac- Seymour proves, incontrovertibly, that not only was this
was a good deal of skirmishing on the 10th and 11th, and quittal had been pronounced he exhibited a number of Carthagenian council never mentioned at Chalcedon, but
also in returning through the passes on the 13th. Our arsenic pills which he had concealed in the lining of his also that there seems to be no doubt that these canons
loss is—Knsign W. H. Titwell, 31st Native Infantry, waistco,t, and with the utmost composure said that had had never any existence. His lordship has already had to
'killed ; Lieutenant T. W. Hilliard, 23rd Native Infantry, the verdict been an adverse one, he would have swallowed acknowledge one mistake in his letter, and this in con-
and four Europeans, severely wounded. Coke's Punjaub the poison. nection witd it does not stamp his lordship as entitled to
Infantry have behaved well, and suffered severely. Sir the accuracy which is usually accorded to him.
C. Napier was to leave Peshawur about the 17th. ASSIZE IVIISCELLANY.
Murder and robbery are rife at Peshawur. Two artil- RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
crymen were set upon and killed on the night of the 6th At Carlisle assizes a widow has been awarded £3OO •
of February, about 500 or 600 yards outside the fort. The from the county bridge surveyor for the death of her hus- Mr. Brunel is having constructed for the South Wales
thieves are frequently fired at, but only one has hitherto band, upset in a gig by a stoneheap on the high road. Railway a great iron bridge to be thrown over the Wye,
been shot. A witness, a labourer, at the Kingston assizes, stated at Chepstow, 600 feet in length, with four arches, one of
The north-western papers report disturbances at Wus- that he was making hay in December ; and being asked 300 feet, and three of 100 feet each, so as not to interfere
seerabad and Umritsur, and anticipate them in the neigh- what month this was, replied, " September." with the navigation.
bourhood of Bunnoo. A gunpowder plot is said to have On Wednesday, at the Warwick assizes, a firm, iron COMPLETION OF THE RAILWAY ARCHES ACROSS THE
been discovered at Lahore. Attempts to assassinate the merchants at Birmingham, obtained from a merchailt and TWEED.—On Tuesday se'nnight, the key-stone was
Deputy-Collector of Deena Nugur, and Mr. Blythe, banker of that town, £5OO damages for having stated that Placed in the last arch of the railway bridge which for
Assistant-Commissioner at Buttala are reported. Both they were " done up." , three years past has been in the course of formation for
gentlemen are said to have been wounded, and some of Instructions have been given that the Birds, who were the purpose of connecting, by a permanent way, the Ber-
the attendants of the first killed. acquitted at the Exeter assizes, on the indictment for the wick and Newcastle and North British Railways.
murder of their servant Mary Ann Parsons, shall be in- WIGAN COMPETING WITH NEWCASTLE.—The direc-
A gallant Paris feuilletoniste, criticising the new de'but dicted for an assault on their unhappy victim. tors of the London and North-Western Railway Company
of the Countess_de Rossi in the Conservatoire, insists that At Gloucester assizes, Alfred Dancy, a boy only 14, have entered into a contract with certain coal proprietors
she must be, `.` not Madame Sontag, but her own daugh- was found guilty of shooting another youth, at Bristol. at Wigan to forward coals to London at the rate of y. per
ter," and that she and Mr. Lumley have imposed upon He was sentenced to ten years transportation. The jttry ton per mile. This will amount to about 9s. per ton for
the public. found him guilty of manslaughter only, as they believed the whole distance from Wigan to London; and, as the
At Thorn, in Prussia, the waters of the Vistula have he fired the pistol in the heat of passion, but the judge terms of the contract are that 200 tons shall be forwarded
overflown, and have inundated all the adjacent country. said that if he had been found guilty of murder, he should daily, the income from this source alone will be about £4O
In some places the water is thirteen feet deep, so that a certainly have left him for execution. a day, or £12,520 a year, excluding Sundays.
great number of persons have perished, and the damage BREACH OF COVENANT.—At the Chester assizes, on
done is immense. Tuesday, .Mr. Swallow, of the Waterloo Hotel, Great COURT AND FASHION.
A Melancholy accident occurred to Mons. Roche, the Crosby, sued Mr. Heyes and another for breach of cove- ---4,—.
aeronaut, last week, at Saintes, Bordeaux. The balloon nant, whereby defendants undertook to repair and paint On Saturday her Majesty and the Court returned from
in which he made an ascent came in contact with a chirn- the hotel in question. For the defendants it was alleged Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace to await her Ma-
nley. He fell into the street, and had both his thighs and that the action had been brought with a view to get rid of jesty's accouchement.
one ofihis arms broken. the lease altogether, and the jury gave a verdict for the A lion, lioness, tiger, five gazelles, and two pairs of
Mrs. Heald (Lola Mantes) arrived in Paris on Thurs. plaintiff with a farthing damages. ostriches have been received by the Queen, being a pre-
day evening from Boulogne, and on Monday left the At the Kingston assizes, last week, Thomas Denny, aged sent from the Emperor of Morocco.
Hotel , Victoria, where she had been staying, until the 32, was convicted of the wilful murder of a new-born male illkeeee.
Chateau Beaujon, in the. Champs Elysees, which has been child, of which a woman with whom he cohabited had
taken by Mr. Heald, could be prepared for her reception. been delivered, by stabbing it in the throat with an awl. LAW INTELLIGENCE.
4r. Heald was to arrive at the Chateau Beaujon on A painful feature of the case was that the prisoner's own ---4
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BREAM OF COVENANT.—At the Chester assizes, on
Tuesday, .Mr. Swallow, of the Waterloo Hotel, Great
Crosby, sued Mr. Heyes and another for breach of cove-
nant, whereby defendants undertook to repair and paint
the hotel in question. For the defendants it was alleged
that the action had been brought with a view to get rid of
the lease altogether, and the jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff with a farthing damages.
At the Kingston assizes, last week, Thomas Denny, aged
32, was convicted of the wilful murder of a new-born male
child, of which a woman with whom he cohabited had
been delivered, by stabbing it in the throat with an awl.
A painful feature of the case was that the prisoner's own
son, a child eight years of age, was one of the principal
witnesses against him. Mr. Justice Maule passed sen-
tence of death, observing that he could not hold out the
slightest hope of mercy.

TERRIFIC COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN BELGIUM.—Mons,
March 25 :—The number of workmen in the mine at the
time of the explosion was 85 ; 11 only were able to save
themselves, and they were seriously wounded, the 74
others were all killed • 46 bodies have been recovered,
and from the state of the mine there is no hope that any
of those remaining will be got out alive. The part of the
mine where the other workmen are known to be has not
'been penetrated on account of the foul air it at present
contains. One workman has lost his life in the attempt
to render assistance.
BRAZIL AND THE RIVER PLATE.—The ships Sappho
and Pilot Fish, which have arrived at Liverpool, have
brought accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 25th of Janu-
ary, and from Bahia to the Ist of March ; but the intelli-
gence is of very little interest. General Roses, in his last
message, had declared his readiness immediately to ratify
the convention with the British government ; and it
seems to -be thought that the documents to be brought
by the next mail packet would show that Mr. Southern's
negotiations were progressing favourably. From Brazil
there is no political news of any interest.
PROGRESS OF THE LAVA OF VESUVIUS.—The whole of OL
that magnificent and extensive wood, Bosco Reale, is now Tuesde.
-destrotwd ; not a vestige remains ; and the fair crops of numerou.
springirk, wheat, the pasture and arable land, where are the sports ~
they ? • They no longer form a part of this earth's sur- return :—A i
face. ;The lace of the country to within a short distance 5 sovs. forfeit, .
of Pompeii is changed, the roads, the landmarks, the means 10 sovs., and the
of communication from one point to another, are oblite- four miles of count'.
rated,llrlieS buried under a superstratum of from twelve Mr. Green's ch m to
to fifteen feet of lava. The lava has now nearly reached Brown, 3d.—THE HUNT STAKES
the sec, and it is said covers a superficies of about fourteen 20 sovs. added, for horse., °-
miles. It is the cpinion of the cognoscenti that no fur- with Sir T. P. 1"- '
Cher damage; it danger need be apprehended. the ste-- '
SYMPTOMS OF THE COMING CRISIS IN PARIS.—The
President reviewed the troops at Vincennes on Monday.
Ile was accompanied by the Minister of War and Colonel
Edgar Ney in his carriage. The Prince on his return was
greeted with discordant yells and screechings. Crowds of
men in blouses howled out, " Vive la Republique Demo-
cratique et Sociale I" and at length one of the escort hav-
ing touched a man, to make him get out of the way, the
carriage was at once surrounded and the Prince was in
the most imminent danger. His self-possession and
pluck never deserted him for a moment. He remained
as calm as Wile were presiding at one of his own dinner
parties ; and at length the escort made a vigorous dash,
and the Prince was extricated from the clutches of ces
Eons Parisiens.
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SINGULARDEATH ORTRANon IN THEUNITED STATES. A requisition has been got up by the advocates of pro-
-Thete has been considerable excitement at Frederick, tection, and is in course of signature by the electors in
Maryland, in regard to the sudden death of Mr. George South Essex, calling upon Sir Edward North Buxton, one
A. Cole. A correspondent of the Hoggerstown Mail of the members for the division, to resign his seat.
says : After being kept for a period of four days, he was The Portsmouth correspondent of the Times throws
placed in Mr. Hart's vault, in the Lutheran grave-yard, out a rumour that Sir Francis Baring is likely to retire
'with the lid of his coffin open, as there were very serious from the admiralty, and that Sir James Graham will
doubts whether or not he was in a trance. His disease, once more become the first lord. Sir James ,Graham
the doctors say, was erysipelas, the only indication of refused the post, when it was offered to him, after the
which was a small pimple on his lip, causing much swel- death of Lord Auckland, and it was then accepted by Sir
ling, and of which, in the short space of three days, he Francis Baring.
died. Many persons have daily visited his remains, and THE ADMIRALTY AND SIR CHARLES NAPTER.—Sir
nil express their doubts. Though in this state for more Charles Napier has published in the Times a correspond-
than two weeks, his cheeks are as rosy and fresh as when in ence between himself, the admiralty, and Lord John
good health; his lips, at first somewhat blue, now have a Russell, consisting principally of the gallant Admiral's
-very natural and life-like colour, and his limbs are as own letters in which he labours to repel an imputation of
pliant as ever, not having the rigidity of death at all ; his indiscretion which had been fixed, as he conceives gratuit-
eyes are not at all sunken, but natural as when in robust ously, upon him by Sir F. Baring. All the parties whom
health. •T here is not, as yet, the least appearance of de- he addresses express a high opinion of his professional
city, and no offensive smell. His parents visit him dallY, character, but Lord John adds to this that he shares the
to ascertain if any change has taken place, either for the doubts held by the first lord of the admiralty of his dis-
better -or worse. Though doctors say he is dead, many cretion. These doubts are distinctly confined to the con-
persons in the community doubt it. He was fifteen or duct of the gallant admiral in publishing a series of letters
sixteen years of age, fine looking, and intelligent. On in the Times respecting the constitution of the admiralty
Sunday he was in excellent health, enjoying himself with board, and the management of the navy.
his7companions ;on Wednesday night he was declared a AGRICULTURE AND THE POOR RATES.—At a meeting
se)rpse.—American paper. at Godstone a few days since, a respectable farmer, Mr.
DREADFUL STEAMBOAT DISASTER.—The Alabama, Page said, " the poor were fast sinking into a state of
2lontgemery journal, has a full account of the dreadful semi-barbarism ; for it was impossible that the farmers
accident to the steamer Orville St. John. She was burnt could pay the rates, and they were .sinking fast into a state
about four miles below Montgomery. It is supposed that of degradation. Had her Majesty looked out of her
there were 120 persons on board, many of whom leaped palace-window she would have seen three incendiary fires
into the river, and were drowned, others perished in the lately. Tatsfield, where I live, is a small parish, and we
flames, and others were crushed by the guards of the boat have only four ratepayers ; and last year we had to pay
falling. The ladies threw themselves into the river, and £143 for establishment charges, and £33 for the relief of
most of those on board were burnt. Mrs. Hall, with her the poor. (Loud cries of `shame, shame," disgraceful.')
daughter in her arms, were drowned. The clerk of the lam one of the guardians, and I have been to the corn-
boat (Mr. Mear), in attempting to save her, was nearly missioners and have explained all about it; but now, we
drowned. The only article on board that was saved was would not make a poor rate, and they are going to put in
the trunk of Colonel Preston. There were a number of a distress upon the overseer. (Shame, shame.) Now, I
returned Californians on board, who lost their all. Col. say, if anything will bring abbut a revolution, it is such
Rodman Price, of the United States navy, agent from Ca- things as these. First people get discontented,' and then
lifornia, lost his baggage, with which were 43250,000 be- they go on and get disaffected, until at last they break
longing .to the Government. Mr. Maul, a returned Cali- out."
fornian, was very, severely injured. F. H. Brooks, of MO- AGRICULTURAL COMPETITION.—It is perfectly certain,
bile, rumoured to have been lost, was saved. In addition and will not be denied, that such prices as 205., 225., and
to the money lost by Mr. Price, there were S°lo,ooo be- 245., for wheat, have often been heard of in the world,
longing to Mr. Knowland, and a large sum by Mr. though we are ready to admit that they have not yet been
Schmidt. A considerable portion of the sum in charge of- the ordinary or average prices. But the effect of the
Mr. Price was golddust in the safe, and may be recovered. throwing open the English market will be found to be
The register of passengers was lost. The clerk of the boat very great. It will place corn in the same position as
has furnished a list of the names as far as ascertained. cotton, and the result will be just like that of the cotton
Hugh Hughes, mate; Peter, steward; Esther, the chain- imports. There is a market open which will, just now,
bermaid. The second cook and eight negroes were saved, take corn in any quantity, at 325. or 335. It will be grown
also all the crew, with the exception of the second mate. and sent there in abundance. Soon the price may
fall to
Another account supposes there were 50 lives lost and 31s. or 30s. But the valley of the Mississippi can grow
46000 dollars. Many persons are still missing.—New any quantity at that price, and gain a profit. Just as
York Courier. cotton gradually declined with the advancing growth, so
Tun, FORREST DIVORCE CASE—THE REPLY OF will corn. But the growers do not cease producing—they ilns. FORREST.—Mrs. Forrest has replied, in a com- only send the more the lower the price falls. Well, then,
Inunicittion to the authorities of Pennsylvania, to the : the English farmer must address himself to the work of
statement of her husband. She says—" The imputations vigorous competition. Will the free-traders seriously re-
contained in the petition of Mr. Forrest, now on the files commend this ? A farmer in the Western Valley buys
of your senate, and printed in the numerous journals, are the fee-simple of his land at a dollar per aere. He gets
of such a character that silence on my part is impossible. for this price a soil so fertile that, to use their own saying,
Though I would cheerfully suffer any other evil rather "If you stick a crow-bar in the ground overnight, it will
than say or do aught in opposition to my burband, in this sprout tenpenny nails before morning." He throws in
particular matter I cannot give even a tacit admission of his seed year by year, and reaps a large harvest, which is
charges which, if established in a due course of trial, all his own. A net price of 12s. or 14s. for wheat will
would justly exclude me from virtuous society, involve make him a rich man in ten years. And against this sort
ray innocent young sisters in shame, and bring the hairs of farmer you would pit an Essex corn-grower. This man"
et my beloved father with sorrow to the grave. To do has first some 30s. an acre to pay for rent, and about 15s.
and suffer all that Mr. Forrest desired save this, I have per acre for rates and taxes. Then, to grow corn he must
freely Offered ; but to submit to this degradation I have " farm high,"—i. e., spend largely in artificial manures,
declined, and must still decline. Silence might seem an Ac. Is it not quite obvious that this is just as hopeless a
admission, and, therefore, I am constrained, though re- .eompetition as it would be to start one of our London
lactantin to make this statement. Mr. Forrest was .vab-horsus against an Arab of the desert ?

An address to Mr. Justice Talfourd is now in course of
signature among the bar of the Western Circuit, expres-
sive of 'their full confidence that his lordship's summing
up in the late trial at, Exeter was strictly legal, and that
the comments of The Times were wholly uncalled for.
The Birds have absconded.

SLANDER. ON A CLERGYMAN.—At the Gloucester
assizes, on Tuesday, the Rev. J. S. Karr, vicar of Berke-
ley, sued a Mr. Ruther, a labourer, for compensation in
damages for slanderous words which he had uttered. The
defendant had been a labourer in Mr. Karr's service, but
was dismissed. He afterwards frequently stated that
Sarah Knight, Mr. Karr's housekeeper, had been in the
family way by Mr. Karr, and that he had given her
medicine to make her miscarry. It appeared that the
housekeeper in question usually slept at home with her
husband. Sho did miscarry, and was attended by a re-
spectable medical-man, who was employed by Mr. Karr ;
and, though there did not appear to be any grounds for
the slander, it was stated in evidence that they were very
familiar with each other. The jury found for the plain-
tiff, dame'

The commissioner of the Sheffield Bankruptcy Court
has declared that he will not feel justified in giving a first-
class certificate to any bankrupt who holds shares in a
joint-stock bank.

At Wincanton county court, neat Wolverhampton, a
schoolmaster recovered a quarter's payment from a lady
for her two sons' education, though they had not attended
the school, she not having given the usual notice of their
intended removal.

ties one shilling

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

OEMSKIRK STEEPLE-ClLZSE.—Thisaffair came off on
Tuesday, and was honoured by a fashionable and most
numerous attendance. The land was in prime order, and
the sports turned out super excellent. The following is a
return :—A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 Soya. each,
5 sovs. forfeit, with 50 soya. added. The winner to pay
10 sovs., and the second horse to save his stake. Over
four miles of country. Mr. Reed's ch h Champagne, Ist;
Mr. Green's ch m Laura, 2nd ; Mr. Cowell's b m Nelly
Brown, 3d.—THE HUNT STAKES, of 3 sovs. each, with
20 sovs. added, for horses that have been regularly hunted
with Sir T. P. Hesketh's harriers. Over three miles of
the steeple-chase course. The winner to pay 4 sovs, and
the second to save his stake. 12 st. each. Capt. Ander-
ton's b g Cunning, Ist; Mr. Balshaw nd. b g Wicklow,
2nd ; Mr. Harris named b m Sweetbriar, 3rd. —SELLING
STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 10 sovs. added. Over the
same ground as the Hunt Stakes. 12 at. each. The
winner to be sold for £lOO, if claimed, &c. If entered to
be sold for £BO, allowed 4 lbs. ; £6O, 71bs. ; £4O, 101bs. ,•
£3O, 141bs. ; £2O, 211b5.. Mr. Rogers's b g Hazard
(£6O), Ist; Mr. Maloney's b g Doll Dust, 2nd ; Mr
Hayes 's c m The Merlin (£3O), 3rd.—A SwEEpsTA -
for beaten horses, for which seven started, was
canter, by Golddust.

won in a

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