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POETRY. FOUR YEARS. At the midsummer, when the hay was down, Said I, mournful Though my life is ia its prime, Bare lie my meadows, all shorn before their time; Through my scurched woodlanùs the leaves are taming urown, It is the hut midsummer, when the hay is down." At the midsummer, when the hay was down, She sioud uy the brooklet, voung and very fair, With the first white bindweed twisted in her hair- Hair that drooped iike birch-boughs—all ia her simple gown; And it was rich midsummer, and the hay was down. At the midsummer, when the hay was down, Crept she, a willing bride, close into my breast; Low-pi!ed, the thunder-clouds ha 1 sunk into the weot; ked-cyed, the suu out glared, like knight from leaguered town, That eve, iu high midsummer, II hen the hay was down. It is midsummer, al! the hay is down; Close to her bo.<o n press I ii_\ing eves, 1 laying "Gud shield her tid we meet in Paradise;" Biess ber, ill Love's name, whu was my joy aud crown; And J go at midsummer, when the hay is down.
IMERTHYIt COUNTY COURT.
MERTHYIt COUNTY COURT. [Thomas Falconer, Esq., Jud^e.] This court was held on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of August. On this occasion the following barristers ap- peared in court, with the view of attending the circuit of the county court,—namely, Edward Compton L. Fitz- william, Esq., of Newcastle Emlyn, Rowley Lascelles, Esq., of Nojaddwillim, and J. Thirwall, Esq. There were 3(57 causes entered for hearing, and among them were actions fur £SO, £-10, ft3, and £ '20, also an action of replevin, and an action on the warranty of a horse. WILLIAM ELLIS AGAINST THOMAS CHARLES. Mr. Simons appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. F. James for the defendant. His Honour said The defendant is sued for damages, which are laid at £'2,), under the following circumstances: —L appears that John Lindsey, of Aberdare, made a verbal agreementwith the defendant, Thomas Charles, for the lease of a house, known by the puffing uame of "The House of Lords," and dedicated to the sale of beer. Ihe lease was 10 be for a term of fourteen years, at a rent of £18 a-year. A draft of the proposed lease was prepared and engrossed but there was no deed exe- cuted, nor was any agreement signed by the defendant. The term was to commence on the 1st of June. and El is says possession wa" to be given all the 14th of May; but Lindsey himself is, perhaps, more correct. In reply to this question—" You say possession was to be given on the 14th of May 1" Ellis," Lindsey answered, I believe, got it on the 14th." In the draft there is an erasure of the date, touching this part of the case, which was unexplained. In the early pnrt of the month of May, the defendant recommended the plaintiff, Ellis, as a tenant to his intended lessee, Liudsey, that Ellis should, in fact, be a sub-lessee. Ellis says he was to be tenant of Lindsey, and lhat he never in his life had any con- veisation with Charles (the defendant) about taking the house of him (Charles)." The arrangement for his tenancy was made with Lindsey. It was for this object that Charles accompanied the wife of the plaintiff to have a personal interview with Lindsey. Mrs. Ellis says, she was thus introduced—" Mr. Lindsey, I have brought you a tenant; they are good people and tidy, and I with you to let them have the house." And Mr. Lindsey states that at that time Charles told him Ellis was a man who could pay his wuy," The communications between the parties led to the following arrangement, according to the version of plaintiff:— Lindsey was to let him the house for twelve months that they Werc 10 eome in on the 141h 0f .May, and were not t0 draw beer until the 1st 0f Juue, the defendant, Charies, giving up two rooms to them, and also making way for their lodgers, but Charles him- self remaining until he should complete the removal of his own goods to another house, where he and his wife were going to sleep, called the Lower House." After- wards, Charles said lie could not give up possession until he had agreed ubout the dung, and the price of two settles and a bench. The price of these things was after- wards fixed, but the plaintiff has not paid for them. The defendant (Chartes) says that the arrangement was, that Ellis was to come iu and to have his 10Jgers with him in his (Charles's) house, and to pay him (Charles), and that he (Ellis) would pay anything that would please him (Charles), and that if Mr. Lindsey did not have the house, they were to look for another place; that he (Ellis) did not say what he would pay, but that he (Charles) expected to get eighteen pence a-head a-week." The variation in the two accounts is very material; but the facts are more consistent as stated by the plaintiff and his witnesses, than is stated by Charles. It is ad- mitted, however, that Charles was to stop in the house until the 1st of June. The plaintiff and his family moved into the House of Lords," and the defendant removed nearly all his furniture into what he calls the Lower House," and, in removing some articles, was as- sistedbythe plaintiff. The plaintiff set the garden with plants, and obtained a license for the sale of beer; but not, it appears, by the admission of Mrs. Ellis, with the knowledge of the defendant. Afterwards, and but a few days before the 1st of June, the defendant (Charles) having had an offer of £2 a-year more rent,—namely, jE20 instead of the £18 agreed to be paid by Lindsey, violated his engagement with Lindsey, and executed a deed, being a lease in favour of one Thomas Williams. The plaintiff was then told that he must leave the house. Whether he was told to leave before the 3d day of June is disputed between the parties. It cannot, however, be overlooked, that the business of Ellis was, by the terms of the original arrangement, which are not disputed, to commence on the 1st of June, and on that day Charles was to quit, and Ellis was to draw beer; and that Mrs. Ellis says, they had obtained a license. When we find, therefore, that, on the first of June, Williams is substi- tuted as a landlord in the place of Lindsey, Charles (the defendant) still remaining in the house, and the expecta- tions of EHis to commence business altogether checked, it seems probable that Ellis should have been told of the change, and that he should have been informed, before the 3d of June, that he was to leave, and that all ar- rangements made with him were at an end. However, on the 3d uf June, at five o'clock in the evening, the proceedings occurred which are the chief foundation of this action. Williams (the new landlord and Charles (the defendant), on that evening, told the defendant he must leave. Williams asked the plaintiff if he was going to move," and he added, that if he did not leave by fair means, he must leave by other means." He then took a chair—part of the furniture of the plaintiff—and put it out on the road. He and Charles then put all the goods of the plaintiff ont of the house, and part of them were placed on the road and part on a wall. Charles then gave the plaintiff permission to occupy the "Lower House," to which the defendant's own furniture Was re- moved. The plaintiff admits that this offer was made to him, and that he was also told he might remain in the Lower House" for a week or a fortnight; but he says he did not accept the offer, for he thought one throw was enough." When all the goods were removed, in the manner mentioned, the plaintilF was told that the place was ready for him to go;" and, he says, he was taken by the collar and dragged outside the door, and his wife was pushed out by the shoulders. It was about seven o'clock when they were thus turned out of the house. The wife, who had a child in her arms, watched the things the whole night. and remained in the road with them until five or six o'clock the next morning. In consequence of this exposure they caught cold, and re- mained ill for some time. Itwasnotutttilaboutaspace ot three weeks afterwards that the plaintiff was enabled to obtain a house. The chief point argued at the hearing re- lated to the interest which it was alleged the plllintitf had in the premises under his own agreement with Lindsey, and also through the agreement made between Charles and Lindsey. The plaintiff altogether denies that he came into the house under any agreement to become tenant to the defendant; and I give full credit to his statement, and believe it to be true. He was to be the tenant of Lindsey. Now let it be assumed, that there were a valid agreement only for please between Charles and Lindsey, and that Liudsey himself had entered into possession, then Lindsey would have been tenant at will until rent was paid by him; and upon the payment of rent, he would have been tenant from year to year, on the terms of the original lease (Doe v. Amey., 12, Ad. and Ell. 479; 4, Bingham, 446), or a yearly tenant until a lease should be executed on the conditions it was contracted for (12 Ad. aud Ellis, 479). In the case of Braith Waite v. Hitchcock (12, L.J. 38), Baron Parke said, where there is an agreement for lease, and an occupation without payment of rent, the occupier is tenant at will, and if rent is subsequently paid, the occupier becomes tenant from year to year. Many cases might be cited in addi- tion to these, establishing this rule. The payment of rent, however, under such circumstances, must be made with refeience to a yearly holding, and must be for the year, or for an aliquot part of a year (4, Taunton 128-17 L J. tiS). Secondly, let it be assumed, that for which there is no pretence for saying, but which is very im- portant for the purpose of illustration,—namely, that in addition to the existence of a valid agreement, Lindsey had by entry become tenant at will to the defendant, what then would have been his position 1 As tenant at will he might have been put out whenever it pleased his lessor to put an end tp the tenancy, and without any further notice to quit than the expression of his will that the tenancy should be at an end. The duration of such a tenancy is limited by the time that the landlord wills it to continue, and no longer (Doe v. Cox, 17, L.J. 41), so so that if Lindsey himself had entered on the premises, his interest in them belore any payment of rent, would have ceased the moment that Chailes had told him to quit the premises. But there was no valid agreement between Charles and Lindsey, neither did Lindsey enter; therefore there was no interest in the premises that Lind- sey had which he could transfer to Ellis. He (Lindsey) could only have had a transferable interest against Charles by showing that he was tenant from year to year (12 L.J. 38), but, in fact, he never even became tenant at will. All that passed, therefore, with reference to the transac- tions between Charles (the defendant) and Lindsey may be put out of sight, for Charles had conferred no interest ia the premises on Lindsey. So, also, may what passed between Ellis (the plaintiff) and Lindsey be disregarded, for Ellis could have no interest in tbe premises derivable from Lindsey, who himself had no interest in them. What, then, was the position of Ellis 1 He was, accord- ing to his own statement, to be permitted to enter and to remain in the house, with Charles, uutil the 1st of June, when he was to commence business on his own account, and he had contracted with Lindsey, and not with Charles, for the future occupation of the house—so that, if he had remained, and no lease had been granted to Lindsey, he himself would only have been tenant at will until some agreement had been made with him, or some rent had been paid to Charles, either by him or for him,.in respect of his occupation of the premises. But so soon as the landlord tells a tenant at will to leave the premises, the tenancy is at an end, and the tenant is bound at once to remove, and if he remains he becomes a trespasser. The question then arises, can such tres- passer be removed by force from the premises, supposing no outrage or excessive violence to take placet In the case of Newton v. Harland, 7 Man. and Gran. 646, the facts were these:—The plaintiff hired of Harland rooms in a house occupied by Harland himse1f. Six months having expired and rent not beiog paid, Harhlnd dis- trained on the goods of Newton. Mrs. Newtou also having locked the doors aud refused to give up the keys, the tenancy being determined, Harland employed a blacksmith to pick the locks. In the eveniug Mrs. Newton was requested to leave the premises, and having refused, Harland entered the room with four or five per- sons, and compelled Mrs. Newton and her servants to leave the apartments, Harland himself laying hold of the arm of Mrs. Newton and leading her out. At the first trial Baron I'arke told the jury, that thb plea of justifica- tian was made out, and the jury so found. Anewtria) was afterwards directed, in order that the facts with respect to the time and the manner of the entry by the defendant might be more precisely stated. The cause was a second time tried, and Baron Alderson told the jury, that the case raised a mixed question of law and fact, that where a part of a house was let for a certain period, and the tenant refuses to quit at the expiration of of the term, his licence to remain ceases, and his land- lord is entitled to turn him out, using no unnecessary violence in doing so, and the jury were asked, whether the term for which the apartments were hired having ex- pired, Mrs. Newton, on being required to quit, had re- fused to do so. A new trial was moved for on account of this direction of the jndge, it being contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that no case justified the land- lord in committing an assault on retaking possession. On the part of the defendant it was said, that the land- lord might oust the tenaut, who remains on the pre- mise? by sufferance, that is, that he might expel the tenant by force, using no unnecessary violence. Chief Justice Tmdal said, the question was one of very great importance, and it was, whether, after a tenancy has been determined by a notice to quit, the landlord may enter the premises whilst the tenaut still remains peisonally in possession, and after being requested to depart and give up possession and if, ou refusing so to do, the landlord may turn him out of possession by force, using so much force, and no more, than is necessary for the purpose. The plaintiffs had declared on iln assault com- mitted on the wife by forciug her illto the street; and the defendant justified by reason of being the landlord in lawful possession of the house, and the wife of the plaintiff being unlawfully therein, and that the wife was gently put out who had refused, when requested to de- part trum the same. If," said the Chief Justice, "the landlord in making the entry was guilty of a breach of the provisions of a positive statute against forcible entry, or of an offence against the common law, it appeared to him to be such a violation of the iaw in waking the entry a, to cau$e the possession thereby obtaiutd to be illegal, and that, therefore, the defeoUaoi iym not law- fully in possession at the time the assaultwas committed." I M r. Justice Coltman, however, held, that if the defendant were guilty of a forcible entry, he was responsible for it in the way of criminal prosecution, and yet that as against the plaintiffs, who were wrongdoers and altoge- ther without title, he had obtained by his entry lawful possession, and might justify, in a civil action, the re- moval of the plaintiffs in like manner as in the case of any other transgressor. The other judges, however, concurred with the Chief Justice, and a third trial took place, when the jury were directed to find according to the rule of law expressed by the court, and they gave forty shillings damages. Exceptions were taken, both by the plaintiff and defendant, to the ruling of the judge, but the bills of exception were afterwards withdrawn. It is the ersonal injury alone that can, in such a case, be the matter of compensation for it is quite clear that no action of trespass qllare cloitsmn frey i't would lie at the suit of the tenant against the landlord for a forcible entry after the expiration of the term. The decision, however, in this case of Newton v, Harland has not been assented to by other judges. In the case of Harvey v. Lady Bridges (9 Jurist. 7.59) Baron Parke said—the next point was that raised in Newton v. Harland, and if it were necessary to decide it I should have no difficulty in saying, that where a breach of the peace is committed by a freeholder, who, in oider to get into possession of his land, assaults a person wrongfully holding possession against his will, although the freeholder may be respon- sible lo the public in the shape of an indictment for forcible entry, he is not liable to the other party. I cannot see how it is possible to doubt that it is a perfectly goo 1 justification to say, that the plaintiff was in the possession of the land against the will of the defendant, who was owner, and that he entered accordingly, even though, in so doing, a breach of the peace was committed. Baron Anderson, also, stated, that he retained the opinion he expressed at the trial of Newton v. Harland. In the case of Harvey v. Lady Bridges the argument was a demurrer, and it was said, that the plea of soil and free- hold was no justification of a forcible entry and expulsion from land, much less from a dwelling-house but it was held that the plaintiff ought to have newly assigned, that is, that he might have said, I do not go for slight force but you entered in a forcible manner so as to commit a breach of the ppace," which would thus have raised the same question as iu Newton v. Harland. In the ease of Davison v. Wilson, 12 Jurist. 647 (1848), the action was brought against the defendants, for that with a strong hand they brok" and entered a dwelling.house, then being in the actual occupation and possession of the plaintiff, and, with force, assaulted and expelled tbe plaintiff. The plaintiff argued ou demurrer, that a freeholder can- not legally take possession of his freehold dwelling-house in a manner which amounts in law to a forcible entry, whilst such dwelling-house is in the actual occupation and possession of a third party. On the rart uf the de. fendant, it was alleged — At a forcible entry, when a defendant has a right to enter, is matter for indictment but does not entitle the plaintiff to damages for what is not his judgment was given for the defendants. It was said the action was one of trespass for breaking and en- tering the dwelling-house, which was a substantive charge, and that the entering with a strong hand was a circumstance attending the trespass and were aggrava- tion. The plea was sufficient if it justified the gist of the action which was, "the breaking and the entering." If the plaintiif had intended to complain of a greater amount of force than the Jaw would allow, he should have made it the subject of a new assignment, or of a restriction, in the natureofanew assignment. The ex- pressionsin H awkin's v, Pleas of the Crown" were, also, assented to as being in accordance with other authorities, and his expressions are —"At this day, in an action of forcible entry, if the defendant make himself a title, which is found for him, he shall be dismissed without any inquiry concerning the force, for howsoever he may be punishable, at the King's suit, for doing that which is prohibited by statute as a contemnor of laws and a dis- turber of the peace yet he shall not be liable to pay any damages for it to the plaintiff whose injustice gave him the provocation in the matter to right himself." (Hawk, P.C., c. 28, s. 3, p. 495). Other cases illustrative of the principle in question are Taylor v. Cole, 3. T.R., 292; Perry v. Fitzhowe, 10 Jurist. ÎUÐ, and 8 Q.B. 707 Butcher v. Butcher, 7 B. and C. 399 Weaver n. Bush, 8 T.R. S I Hillary v. Uay, 6 C. and P. 284. The in- ferences from the cases are—that if any outrage or vio- lence is used, the party who employs excessive force shall be liable to be indicted, and according to the deci- sion of the Court of Common Pleas, may be liable in a civil action for damages. The better opinion, however, would seem to be that criminal proceedings alone can be taken agaÍlJst the party, who having a legal title employs force against the person who, after his term of tenancy has expired, wrongfully keeps him out of the possession of his land. Secondly, that force, which is not excessive, may be justified to remove a party wrongfully retaining possession or wrongfully intruding. This, in the case of Gregory v. Honour (T.R.), the defendant pleaded to an action of assault, that he was possessed of a house which he then inhabited with his family, which the plaintiff entered and continued therein without the license and against the will of him (the defendant), but there was no denial of the battery and ill-treatment set forth in the declaration. The court held, that though the plea of gently laying hands wouldjustify what the law considers to be an assault, such as might be necessary to put the party out of the house without outrage or violence, yet it would be no justification of beating or wounding, or knocking a party down. So in the case of Roberts v. Taylor, 14 L.J., and 9 Jurist. 330, it was said—the pro- per justification of the assault would be that you were justly in possession of the property, and that being so, the other party intruded on you, and that you therefore turned him out by force. I have given these illustrations of two class of cases, to show that force may be used to remove a person who wrongfully holds possession of land, namely, cases where the term is ended, and also where an intrusion is made by a wrong doer on the occupation of another. The proceeding of employing force is, of course, at all times a dangerous one, but there are cases in which force may be justified, provided it be not exces- sive. In the case before me, there was no excess. The plaintiff and his wife were invited 10 quit the house and they refused; another house was, by their own admission, offered to them by the defendant for a week or a fort- night, and they refused to accept the offer. The appar- ent harshness, therefore, of being pushed out of the house, and remaining in the road all night, were evils which they themselves, by their own acts, subjected themselves to j they had the opportunity to avoid them, and preferred to encounter the evils they suffered. They complain of inconvenience and illness from exposure, and yet on a summer evening, by going the breadth of a lield off they might have hau protection anù coveting ami rest during the night of that and of following day*. When they were told to leave the house they were bound to have removed, and there was lm justification of their remaining, for they weie only permissively there from hour to hour during the day. They had no exeuse to occupy the house after the assent to their beillg in it was re- voked, and they had no title to be there except as the invited guests of the defendant, or as temporary inmates of the house with him. If the defendant, not using un- necessary violence, were not entitled to remove persons thus resisting his wish that they should remove, both the strong and the weak might be almost dispossessed for a time of their houses, and their minds might for months be rendered miserable simply because, through favour, or from mercy, they had permitted, for the purpose of a temporary sojourn, some unprincipled or conceited per- sons, to enter their houses, who afterwards, in order to inflict injury, or prompted by dishonest suggestions, might insist on the wrongful retention of such parts of the house, which for a brief time and for a particular object they were permitted to occupy. I am now, let it be observed, dealing with a case in which the landlord himself was in occupation of the house. If persons so admitted info a house could not be instantly removed, on their refusal to go away, men of manly minds would be placed in a position that would be unendurable and a breach of the peace would be inevitable, for their courage would make them rebel against a shameful submission to persons who would thus have them in their own homes without the power of removing them. The breaking Into houses, owever, in opposition to those within, in or er o gain possession, the beating, striking, or mal- treatment o hose who resist, are acts which the law will not fail to punish; and what I now say does not excuse any such outrage, or any riotous action in remov- ing pai ties. In this case, however, what the defendant did was no in excess of what the law authorised him to do my only difficulty relates to the costs. The defen- dant alleged that the plaintiff was to pay him for his oc- cupation but the undisputed facts of the case prove that this could not be—for the defendant took Ellis to Lind- sey and recommended him as a tenant—he invited him to come at once—he made the bargain about the settles the dung, and the bench, a previous condition, and he admits that he never spoke to the plaintiff about the payment of rent. I shall not, therefore, allow costs to the defendant. His own advocate, Mr. James, I am quite satisfied, never expected him to set up the defence he made, and the statement I condemn was made en- tirely in the answers to questions which I myself only put to him. The case of the defendant, as put by Air, James, was quite free from censure or blame. I should have been willing to have acted on the statement of the defendant, if I could have done so, without disbelieving the plaintiff for in that case, such notice to the plaintiff to quit ought to have been given, the absence of which would have subjected the defendant to the payment of damages for removing the plaintiff. Judgment, there- fore, will be for the defendant without costs. The only reason I do not order defendant to pay the whole costs is that I think it to be public importance, that parties should not be under the impression they may wrongfully hold possession of property, and provoke contests with their landlords, and afterwards seek for damages on account of the consequences of their own provocations. WILLIAM WITHERS v. EDWARD ROACH. Mr. Simons appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. F. James for the defendant. This was an action for the recovery of jElG, on account of a breach of warranty of soundness of a horse. Mr. Kent, of Bristol, "ery dis- I tiuctly proved the unsoundness of the horse, and that the disease of the knees was incurable. The principal point in the case was, whether or not the party who sold the horse had warranted it to be sound. The defendant had given orders to David Rees, who sold for him not to warrant. His Honour said, that if a servant, authorised to sell a horse, gives a warranty, and the master will not assent to it, he is bound to take back the horse and return the money, otherwise, he wouid be enabled to take advant- age of the wrong and misrepresentation ot his own servatif. A receipt was produced in which, in very distinct printed letters, the warranty of soundness was stated and the description, price, date, and owneiship were in writ- ing. This receipt and warranty was signed by David Rees-both at the bottom of it, and aiso across the stamp. Rees admitted the signature to be in his hand- writing, but affirmed that it was not read over to him, and that he believed that he was only signing a receipt. He said, also, that he did not tell the buyer that he was not to warrant the horse. He was asked, in court, to read the words of t:1C receipt and warranty, and declared that he was unable to do so, IInd that he could not even make out the tettets "a" in the word warranty," though his own name "David Kees" was written very legibly. Withers, also, who bought the horse could not read or write, but he was profited with a book of printed forms, with blanks, of receipt and warranty. The re- ceipt in this case was distinctly filled up by one Uitchen, who was also a dealer in horses. He said that he dis- tinctly nad the whole to D. tlces before he signed it. His Honour commented UI1 these and other facts of the case. lie said Ihat the rule caveat emptor, or that the buyer must uc cautious — and tl1e sa) lng, that" a bargaill IS a bargain," places persons on their guard, and prevents much litigation, for that without such a rule parties would constantly apply to courts of law to supply their own want of care and cir- cumspection. It was not, he said, a stnet iule 01 morality for the general duty of persons is, not to retain the full value of a sound article when it is found to be defective. However, he had oldy to ueal with tbe rule of law :—If there were no warranty the price was paid or an unsound horse if there were a warranty, it was for a sound horse. Thinking there was nothing ill the circumstances and facts of the sale or in the price given (£19) which did not justify Withers in asking for a warranty and that theie was nothing which precluded the defendaut from having the receipt aud warranty read to him by others, if he could not himself readit, —tii» Honour gave jydjjnjent for the plaintiff, GRIFFITH DAVIIJS V. DANIEL JON KS. Mr. Simons for the plaintiff, aud Mr. F. James for the defendant. This was an action for damages caused to the external wall of a house by the removal of earth that supported it. The defendant was a sub-contractor doing the work under the direction of the Board of Health. Mr. James objected that as the defendant was employed and was acting under the direction of the Board, notice of the action ought to have been previously given under the 11 and 12 Victoria, c. 63 s. 139. His Honour held, that such notice ought to have been given. The sub- contractor was not working on his own account, or by the direction of private parties, but by the II direction of Local Board." He did the work under the direction of the Board, and, therefore, he is protected. The object of the provision is to prevent litigation, and enable all who are employed in carrying into effect the public objects of act to make amends to persons who have any cause of complaint. The plaintiff was nun -suited.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MILFORD…
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MILFORD AND WATERFORD. We have been exceedingly gratified by the following piece of intelligence which is given in the last Waterford — We have much pleasure in announcing that the arrange- ments for putting steamers on the line to Milford are fully completed, and that the Great Western Company have signed the deed binding themselves to contribute £50,000 toward the cost of four magnificent steamers, to be put on between Waterford and Miltord. The South Wales Com- pany will contribute the balance. One of the vessels is expected to be launched in three months, and the vessels will be put on the line as quickly as possible," This is the first step in a most important enterprise soon, we doubt not, to be completed but concerning which the only matter of regret is, and ever will be, that it-was not commenced at least seven years earlier. A great mistake, we have long been convinced, has been committed by our two great companies, in expend- ing hnndreds of thousands, or rather millions, in a strife about Liverpool, when the real question was to be solved elsewhere. The Great Western Railway determined to find its way to Liverpool; the London and North-Wes- tern resolved to prevent its rival from ever reaching that town. Between 'he two more money was wasted in this useless strife than would have opened another, and, probably, a better road to America. Liverpool must always remaiu one of the CHIEF porls for our Trans- atlantic trade. But it certainly will not always be the FIRST. Had the Great Western never attempted to reach Liverpool at all, we might long since have seen cumpleted,- 1. The South H ales iiaihvay. 2. The steam-boat communication with Waterford. 3. The direct communication from Waterforll to Limerick. 4. The steam-boat communication from Limerick to New York. Ali this will be accomplished in a few years; and the result will be, tirst, that a traveller may leave London in the evening, and be at Limerick by noon of the next day; and, secondly, that leaving Limerick in the after- noon he will be in New York in seven or eight days. And, as Jonathan is a close calculator, any line that will save him one day out of ten will attract at least six out of every ten of the passengers. Nor ought this to be the only advantage. Let the boats be swift and powerful; but plain and economical. Let the passage-money be £3 or £ 4 from London to Limerick, and £ 18 from Limerick to New York, and a passage of nine days, at a cost of £21, will carry more ihan five-sixths of the business. This is the enterprise which the Great Western Com- pany ought to have entered upon in 1845. We rejoice that it is commenced at last. Once fairly taken in hand, final and complete success is certain.
THE METAL TRADE.
THE METAL TRADE. BiRMDJdiiAM, August I2.The state of the iron trade in the neighbouring districts of South Staffordshire and East Worcesteishire continues to be be highly satisfactory and, notwithstanding recent threatening appearances, has been but slightly disturbed by the intended partial turnout ofthe puddlers. The men generally seem sensible that the masters, with the present high prices of materials, and the uncertainty of a continued demand, would not be justified in an immediate advance of wages. The pig makers con- tinue to exact exorbitant rates, and the produce of the dis- ti ict is far below the consumption of the ironworks. Iron- stone, notwithstandingconsiderable importations of inferior quality from a distance, is scarce, and no doubt, in some measure,justifies the high price of pigs. The execution of old contracts at the present price of pigs is a considerable drawback upon the proflts of mauy heavy contractors. Prices nominally remain firm, but some, if not all the lead- ing firms, will not accept orders at last quarter day's prices. The speedy opening of the recently discovered ironstone mines in the neighbourhood of Pelsall, may soon, however, accomplish a most desirable and beneficial alteration. The coal trade is active, and the colliers generally attend to their work well; at leist they keep to their pits the aver- age length of time observed for some time past. The copper market is steady at the prices obtained for some weeks past; but the demand for home consumption is not so great as a few months tigo. The manufacturers of braziery Koods are scarcely so busy, while the exportation of copper to France in particular has decidedly fallen off. This reduction in the make of brass and copper implements and vessels, as well as in the make of some description of steel toys, is attributed in some degree to the many failures which have recently taken place in the building trade throughout the country, Birmingham being about the first town in the kingdom to feel the effect of such reverses. But the great consumption of copper in this neighbourhood is tor wire locomotive tubing and sheathing. Mr. Muntz alone. at his great works at Smethwick, is said to use for his patent yellow sheathing not less than from 85 to 90 tons weekly. For these descridtions of manufacture the demand is Immense. The loads of brass and copper pigs continually being delivered at the foundries of the Ordnance con- tractors tor casting the heelplates, guards, pipes, &c. for military guns create much astonishment, and speculative notions invest the minds of observers as to how such vast piles of metal can be consumed or required for such simple purposes. When, however, it is considered that the Board of Ordnance issue single orders occupying probably a single line in money value to the amount of X6,000 or £ 9,000 it is not surprising. The 90,000 of Mr. Westley Richard's pattern muskets now under order will require about jE9,000 worth of furniture castings. Besides the various brass-mounted guns daily manufactured are very considerable, and neces- sitate an enormous consumption of metal.
THE NEW BEER BILL.
THE NEW BEER BILL. Yesterday was the first day on which the new Beer Bill came into operatioA, and after ten o'clock at night there was some excitement in the vicinity of the railways. Half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the time appointed for closing the different houses, passed off, generally speaking, without any disorder; but as the hour of 10 drew near, most of the licensed victuallers, who had put the hands of their clocks forward some few minutes, so as to clear their houses in sufficient time to avoid the pains and penalties of the new law, had the greatest difficulty in getting their customers to leave. Many refused, unless they were turned out by the police, and owing to the arrangements made by the respective superintendents of each division, in having constables placed roulld each house, the various taverns were soon cleared. It was remarked by the police that they .c never found the trade so anxious to conform to any act of Parliament as on the present occasion. .r In the immediate neighbourhood of the South-Western Railway terminus, in the Waterloo-road, upon the arrival of the various excursion trains from Hampton-courl, Rich- mond, Windsor, and Southampton, it appeared that some of the passengers were ignorant of the new bill having come into operation, and having been refused any refresh- ment in the towns they had visited, they expected that they would meet with every accommodation on reach- iogthemetropolis. A crowd of nearly 200 surrounded the hero of Waterloo, and claimed the right of being supplied with refreshments, on the ground of being travellers, but Mrs. Okey refused to serve them. A similar scene took place at the York, the corner of the York-road. Mr. Potter refused to supply any as travellers uuless a bonaJile case was made out. Several of the metropolitan houses having tea-gardens attached to their premises were exposed to greater danger of being proceeded against than others, owing to the visitors calling for more drink than could be consumed in the time allowed by the new bill; the orders given were disregarded by the several guests, but the houses were, after some trou- ble, closed at the appointed time. In the neighbourhood of the Eastern Counties Railway at Shoreditch a similar scene of disappointment took place, the various passmgers being refused ietreshment upon their arrival by the different trains from Yarmouth, Nor- wich, Colchester, Cambridge, and other places. In several places, more especially in the neighbourhood of Lunbeth, persons who had travelled by the traius from the country, after demanding admission on the ground of being travellers, oil being refused, pretended that they were seized with the cholera, but, without tbe interference of the police, none of those were served.— Times of Monday, 14th August.
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r No Family should be without a stock of WOOLLEY'S VEGETABLE ANTIBILIOUS PILLS at hand; they are a sate and exceileut medicine for all complaints to which adults and children are liable (particularly at this season, when they indulge freely ill fruil.) Many persons suffer with pains in thehoweloand sickness during the fruit season; to all such WooHey's Pills are a safe and effectual remedy, an l if taken at tli f-commencement of the attack, according to the directions attached to each box, soon eradicate these symptoms Irorn the system, and clean-e the stomach and bowels from all impurity. These diseases, if not taken in time, however slight at the commencement, often bring on DUrrhcea, Fever, and other serious maladies.—Sold by all Chemists iu boitta at la, ) £ J., 21, 91, and h M. each.
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SIR BENJAMIN HALL. One of the grand promises of the session was, that the Reform Act was to be enlarged and carried out. It is sometimes observed that promises are predictions, and that whatever has been once admitted into our stock of hopes never wholly falls to the ground. We are inclined to take that consolatory view of one very important, though hasty and almost accidental measure, hurried through at theelose of the session,—we mean the Health Act, as inter- preted by the appointment of Sir Benjamin Hall to the Presidency of the General Board. The great difficulty, and in the eyes of many people, the most exceptionable re- sult of the Ileform Act has been the metropolitan members. As a class they are noisy, troublesome, garrulous, and inca- pable. They make innumerable motions and speeches; they are always invading the puttie offices at a time when minutes are precious, with deputations at their heels asking ques- tions & offering suggestions more or less incompatible with regular government and with one another. Lord John Russell, with other reforms, has gravely, and without a suspicion of irony, laid down that the metropolis did not want more members, inasmuch as a metropolitan member, by his ready access to tie public oflices and the abundant use he made of that opportunity, might be considered equi- valent to we forget how many provincial representatives. But what is to be done with a man who, almost by the ne- cessity of his position, is a mouthpiece—vo.v et preeterea nihil? No disparagement to mouthpieces; there must be agitation and without talkers this world would be not only a very dull, but a very bad world. But the metropolitan members have certainly been hitherto found the most mis- chievous and unmanageable creations of reform. Every one of them stands for deputations, petitions, correspon- dences, audiences,questions, explanations innumerable, and some of them have had the rare luck to turn out a Mini-try, or, at least, to quicken the downfall of a Minister. Now, what is to be done for them? A metropolitan member must have his mission. He must fit into something else. All things are double; every Jack has his Jill; and if one had the wit to find it, there is a use to be found for this hitherto impracticable being. To Lord Aberdeen's Admi- nistration belongs the credit of a great discovery, or, at least, a great experiment. It has taken decidedly the most active, clever, and inconvenient metropolitan member, and boldly put him in oflice to stand morning deputations and evening interrogations. Sir Benjamin is now that which be has been looking at this many a day—a responsible servant of the Crown. He will sit behind the desk instead of be- fore it, with his back to the official grate, instead of his face at n modest distance, catching its indirect beams. Wearied with the perpetual admiration ot his friend, Dionysius put him on his own throne for a day, and gave him a taste of power. The Damocles of Marylebone will now have the sword over his head, in the shape of a deputation always knocking at his door, and a sharp, nasty, ciutankerous question always ready to assail him when he enters the llo jse. Such, then, is the real Reform Act No. 2—the use found out for a metropolitan member. The revolution in Sir Benjamin's ideas must be very con- siderable. He suddenly liuds himself at his own antipodes. He is turned to¡)sy turvy, inside out, hind part forwards, upside down, everything, in fact, that he least was before. He has not had the smallest opportuuity of forestalling his dignity or his troubles. Of course, it was virtuous not to dream of office. but it is now very inconvenient, because it implies an utter want of that special preparation which forethought alone can impart. It haq been said that the difference between an English and a French Opposilion- d fl't! t e it such an Opposition as there used to be in the last two reigns in France—»as, that whereas an English Opposition was always trimming its angriest atticks with a lutking thought of office, a French Opposition always spoke and acted as if its banishment was eternal. Of course it eniered oflice at last somewhat less prepared for it than our owu more cautious if not more honest politicians. That appears to have been Sir Benjamin's course through the whole of his parliamentary career up to this new epuch. So how will he adjust his ideas to his new position? He will find himself involuntarily writing memorials and soliciting interviews with his secretary or himself. Jeames of Berkeley-square jumped up behind hi, own carriage, and Sir Benjamin Hall "ill find himself standing, hat in band, on the landing at 9 his own oflice door, soliciting an early interview with Sir Benjamin Hall. What answer will he then make to him- self? ,He will never enter the door without looking round for his seconder at his elbow, whipping up his tail on the stairs, and whisperintr. Keep close, gentlemen, and remember, one at once." We shall watch the progress of this experiment with deep, patriotic, and affectionate interest. Sir Benjamin is wealthy, clever, and most ener- getic; but lie is not a member of the 11 governing classes." In high political circles the appointment is regarded as a betrayal of the fortress to outsiders and a desperate expe- dient, one of Lord Palinerston's pranks, and a useless attempt "to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." But why should not a President of the General Board of Health, and perhaps eventually a Minister of State, be made out of a member for Marylebone ? To be sure, some luither questions may arise. The other metropolitan members will become still more active and tioublesome, unless indeed they all begin to show by a more courteous and rational demeanour how fit they are for a responsible office and X2000 a-year. We incline to expect a mixed result- more questions, more speeches, more deputations, but ra- ther more reasonable and civil. Sir Benjamin's objection to the former General Board of Health, and Lord Palmerpton's first scheme for its recon- struction, was the absence of responsibility. It had, of course, II sort of responsibility to private remonstrants, and the Home Secretary had also to make explanations for it. But there was not the man to stand with his bare breast before all the world, and receive as many darts as St. Sebas- tian in the pictures. That was the deficiency as it presented itself to the practical miud of Sir B. Hall, and he now makes it up in his own person. He is now the man to answer all kinds of questions, and give those reasons which Parliament so often accepts in place of success. Sir Benjamin announces that he intends not to assume powers which he does not possess over the metropolis itself, and to wield his powers meekly over England at large. Certainly nothing can be done without the cordial co-operation, if not of all parties, at least of the principal and the best informed. But Sir Benjamin, of course, is aware that oflice does not consist in negations, and that now. if ever, something should be done. The most impoitant part of his office is the privilege of adviee, and, as Sir Benjamin has never shown himself slow to advice, it is to be presumed that he is prepared to take counsel, and to offer well-considerell plans for the supply of our chief wants, and the correction of our worst evils. We have already intimated the peculiar embarrass- ment Sir Benjamin may feel at having to cotWrnct plans of his own, instead of pulling to pieces those of others Everybody can criticise, but it is not everybody who can suggest what will stand criticism. Sir Benjamin, however, though a critic in Parliament, is a man of business in his private capacity, and knows the difference between talking and doing. So we doubt nut but he will do something, and, if he only applies to it the same rules of judgment that obtain in regular mercantile operations, he will at least advise the public better than the disciple of Laputa whom he has just superseded.—-27me».
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-=- LONDON MA R K E T S CORN-KXCHANGE, MONDAY. At this morning 3 market thure was a very small show of Old wlieat from tilt* neighbouring counties, and only two or three small lots of new were exhibited. The latter, havi; been harvested too hurriedly, scarcely affords any criterion as to tht-quatity of this year's growth; we shou!djud.;c the weight to vary from COlb. to Gillb. per bushel. Fur a lot of Talavera 72s. per quarter was, we believe, made. The sale for ofd wheat was difiieull; but there was so little English to dis- pose of, that prices did not vary materially here and there Is. to as. per quarter less was taken. Foreign was plentiful, and, having only a moderate country demand, it was impossible to make mnch progress in sales from 011 board ship; the business done was at rates about 2s. per quarter below those current on Monday Ust. We heard of no transactions in floating cargoes. The sale for town-made flour was decidedly slow; quota- tions underwent no change. Country flour, more especially Norfolk, WaS more pressed, and in some cases Is. per sack lower. American could only be placed in small quantities though offered at an abatement of Is. per barrel. There were several samples of new barley from Kent, mostly coarse and of dark colour; being, however, the first lots shown; high prices were asked—say, 3tis. to :18-1, per quarter; these rates the maltsters refused to pay, and but little business was done 3;\s. to 34s. per quarter would probably have been taken if a po-itive otrer had been made. In old grinding barley there was little doing, and prices were the turn against the seller.—Malt was easier to buy. There were very few oats of home growth fresh up, but the the foreign supply was liberal, and amply sufficient to satisfy the demand; indeed, the dealers acted with great caution, and succeeded in buying lid. to Is. per quarter below the currency of this day se'nuight. There were not many English beans fresh up, and prices did not vary materially; but Egyptian were offered several shillings per quarter lower. The new peas are very fine; but the rates asked have thus far been too high to allow of business being done. The trade for seeds presents no noticeable variation. Kapeseed continues in moderate supply, and fully maintains its value. New winter tares were at market this morning, and sold at good prices. New trefoil is at market, of good to fine quality; but few sales have been made, and prices are yet un- settled. Canaryseed remains very flat. Calcutta and Madras linseed has changed hands at from to 6lt.; Bombay, and lilack Sea, for forward delivery, 61s. per quarter; Calcuita rape is quoted at 55s. to 5t.is., with a moderate demand. New seeds are yet uncertain in value. Old qualities are neglected. Cakes move off steadily at full prices. CURKENT PRICES ofGllAINSt FLOURin MARK LANK s. s. s. s.- Wheat English. 58 73 White Pea 54 .55 Kye — — Gray Peas 41 43 Barley 33 35 Oats (Potatoe) 27 .13 Malt 68 74 Ditto (Feed) 24 29 Beans 41 .561 Flour 44 60
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SMITH FIELD, MONDAY. The arrival of cattle and sheep from the continent into the port of London during the past week has been very large. The Custom-house return gives all entry of 1,31)5 oxell, cows, 9o3 calves, 725 pigs, and t>37 sheep, making a total of 9,806 head. The supply of meat was generally very plen- tiful to-day at Sinithfield, and, as the weather is much against slaughtering, business was dull, and prices heavy. Of beast* there were upwards of head returned for toll, being t:le largest supply for a considerable time past. The demand w", naturally rather limited, in consequence of the warmth of the weather, but the largeness of the supply also caused the butchers to purchase with less activity, and a general fall of 2J. per stone in prices took place. The supply of sheep wa" also very full, the numbers being nearly 33,000 head. The trade was slow throughout the day, and prices were all lower by from 2d. to 4d. per stone. Lamb also experienced a further decline, and anything but first-rate quality was unsaleable- Veal was likewise a dull sale. Beef. 4s. 4d. 4s. 6d.4s.tM. Veal 3s. 2d. 4J. Mutton 48. Od. 4s. 4d. 4s. 8d. j Pork 3s. 4d. 4s. 4J Lamb 4s. 6d. 58. OJ. I
THE METAL TRADE.
THE METAL TRADE. Metal Market, Londo 1, August 11, 1854. KEMARK?.-AB improved tone in our market is evidently manliest; the prices of some metals have advanced, while others are very firm, and assume rather an upward tendency. Buyers are now beginning to gain confidence, as our market ill getting somewhat clear of those metals on which advances bad been made, and were being offered about bv holders for almost what they would realize. Copper is still tirm at our quotations, without much altera- tion in the demand, which is very dull. There has been very little opportuuity afforded for speculalion in this metal for some- time past, as the continuance of the same high price haa- allowed no room for it. Iron.—There is a good business doing in English Bars, the' American and Madras markets principally attracting the iitte#<" tion of shippers. Rails are neglected, and can be secured out easy terms. Orders for Staffordshire qualities at the niomenC are not so pressing. The market for Scotch pigs has mud* improved, gradually rising, when on Wednesday there wao a very animated feeling, and the price of mixed numbers attained 869. cash, but yesterday dropped about Gd. per to-n; to-day sellers are quoting 855" free on board in the Clyde. Lead is ill moderate request, at current rates. Spelter appears to be slowly recovering its position £ '0 IOs. per ton has been paid for a parcel. The market in Silesia iu9 not been affected by the chauge here, which is confirmed by< the difference in price for arrival to that on the spot. Tin,—The market for English qualities is weak, with a pro- bability of some reduction in price taking place shortly. The- Dutch tin sale took place on the 9th iustant, when the whole" quantity was sold at 66 f. per cwt. Banca and Straits liavu- consequently advanced, and sellers are holding even for higheff prices than those quoted JEnoperton for Straits has beem readily paid. Tiu-l'lates.—A great many second-hand parcels are pressing the market, and may be bought at about <3. per box. ujider makers' prices. SteeL-Keg is much wanted. Quicksilver as last quuted.—Mining Journal. v £ 8. Ll. l s. d IaON— Bars, Welsh, in London ..ton 10 5 0 1'0 10 0 Ditto, lo arrive 0 0 U-LU 0 0 Nail rods U 0 0-11 0 0 Bars, Staffordshire, in London 12 10 0-13 0 O Nail llods ditto 0 0 0-13 10 0- Hoops ditto 13 0 0 —14 5 01 Sheets (single) 1-1 0 0-14 10 0. Pig, No. 1, Clyde 4 6 6- 4 8 0 No. 1, in Wales 415 y— 5 5 0 Hefiued Melal, dilto 5 0 U—.5100 Bars common, dttto 8 15 0- \J 0 0 Ditto, railway, ditto 8 0 0- 8 5 0 Ditto, Swetlisli, ill London 13 0 0-14 10 0 Stirling's Nou-lamiuating, or Hardened Surface Rail 9 0 0- 9 2 0 Stirling's Patent in Glasgow. U 0 U— 3 13 ti Toughened l'igs ( inWales. 4 0 0- 4 5 0 Indian Charcoal Pigs in Londoll 0 0 0- I) 0 I) STHIIL-Swe,lish keg 0 0 0—» U Do. faggot 18 0 0—21 tf O SfBLTBR—Ou the spot per ton 20 5 JJ— w Ditto, to arrive. g o-} LLI to ZINC—In sheet "N O ?I~ Coi'PKtt—Sheets,sheathing & bolts.. ll>* 0 1 2 Bottoms 0 0 0-013 Old copper.••••■••* ft 0 0 0 1 Oi: Best selected ton 0 « 0-U»» 0 tf Tough cake tou- 0 0 ()- I jt; 0 01 Tile 0 0 0-126 0 » Yellow Metal lb. Q 0 0— 0 1 Wetterstedt 9 Pat. Metal.cwt, 0 0 0— 2 2 South American "12-1 0 0-126 0 ¡)I LKAD tun. 23 0 0—23 10 O %hvet. 23 10 0-24 0 0 T.N-Bi^r.?:1 juud w °' J 0 0 0-Ll'J J 0 f""0ts 0 0 0— 0 U/ 0 0 0 0-120 0. O Kel'ued 0 0 0-122 a Q, (Jrilhl 0 0 0— 0 0. «. Fine grain O 0 0— 0 I* Hanca 114 0 0-116, a. ? Straits 110 00-114. 10), Q Tin l'tATKs—IC Coke box 1 u 0 tu t.t IXditto. V 15 ft— 1 ltji 0 IC Chareoal 1 14 0— 1 O IX ditto a Q g- 1 0 Canudii plates ton 0 n~ 0 2 I FRIDAY, AUGUST IS. 1854. 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THE CHILD AND THE FLOWER.
THE CHILD AND THE FLOWER. Oh tell me, mother," said a fair young child, he gazed with his "amest eyes, W ho made this flj.ver hat painted it so What gave to it that deep rich glow, LiKe the blue of the beautiful skies lie who trade that flower, my darling boy, Maketh the thunders roll He made the earth, the sky, the sea, The ti >wer, the fruit, the leaf, the tree, And gave to thee thy soul." Is His nome, dear mother, the southern JanJ, here the perfumed breezes pla; W here the gorgeous birds, with golden wing, Wake bright the never-changing spring Iu bowers that are ever gay I" "His homp, my child, is heyond the skies, A paradise of flowers, \V here little children—angels there- Taint those flowers so bright and fair, And bring thera to th:s land uf uurs." Oh how I wish that home were mine. And you "re with me too I would paint a wreath so strangely fair, And twine ifc mother, fur you to wear A crown of heaven's oivn hue
CARDIFF POLICE—MONDAY. ~~
CARDIFF POLICE—MONDAY. [Before John Batchelor, Esq., Minor.] DISOKDEKLX CONDUCT. Elizabeth Edwards, au old o'Fender, "as charged by P.C. Chi ids with bein^ disorderly ind. obstructing the thorough- iA;e in Butc-stroef, at 'our o clock on Friday afternoon la, Sentence—ov.e mor.in's imprisonment and to be kept at hard la'uoc r. Edward Rets, a young mat; who has repeatedly appeared in this cnurt tor ui-sreputabie conduct, W8S charged with wittully oreak'.ng a window in the Horse and Groom public- house. As no person appeared against h¡:u, he was admo- nished and discharged. DESERTION. Andrew Muiik, an Austrian seaman, was clnr^ed with de-erting from the ,hip Plode, now iying in the Bute Dock. The delendant stated, in defence, tint he had not eullkient food on board, bu; this was flatly contradicted by the cap- tain and mate.—Ordered to be sent on board. [Before John Bitchelor, Esq.. C. C. Williams, Esq., E. P, Richards, Esq., and W. Williams, Esq.] Catherine John, a respectable-looking woman, was charged by an aged woman, who keeps a lodgiuT.house in Lnioa-street, with assaulting her on Saturday' night, the otli of August. It appeared, from complainant's evidence, that they both live in the same house, and that a dispute arose about a pennyworth of beer, which the com- plainant had purchased aud drank for her supper; defen- dant was dissatisfied that she had not had a .hare of il. Hijih words eusued, and ultimately the defendant caught hold of her and struck her several times.—-Witnesses hav- ing been examined for the defence, the Bench considered both to blame, and dismissed the case. Mary Williams was charged with having a pair of boots in uer possession, supposed to have been stolen but as it appeared to-day that she had purchased them, they were returned to her, and she IN, discharged. ASSAULTING THE POLICE. John Conybeare, William Thome, and Samuel Gwyo, three athletic young men, were charged with the following assault on the policeP.C. Henry Ilutter deposed that on 1 bursday night last he was cilled by the landlord of the Borough public-house, who stated that the prisoner Gwyn had broken a square of grass and refused to pay for it, and gave him in charge. The prisoner Thornecame up and tried to rescue him: another constable came to the wit- ness s assistance, and was immetiiately struck down bv Thorne. and Conybeare struck him several times while he was on the ground. After they got into the house the pri- • h!ll h £ 3S Tery drunk» 8truek him d°wn. and white he was down Conybeare kicked him severely.—P.C. Thorne fully corroborated Rutter's statement.—John Ban- bury, landlord of the house, gave very conflicting testimony, as appeared on his cross-examination by P.C. Rutter, and lIvT,heVere 7 reP;rirnande(1 by the Mayor, and o.dered to leave he witness-box—Samuel Gwyn, who it appeared did not strike eitherot the constables, was admonished and discharged, ?V,lorne and John Conybeare were seve- rally nneu ten shillings and cost?. T?J ALLEG £ I> assault ON THE HIGII SEAS. Edward White mate on board the ship Rapid, of Ips- wich, was charged by Jeremiah Allen, master of the same ship with assaulting him. while on their passage from Malta o Cardiff, on the 7th of August—The capfain de- posed that on the day named he fell in with the brig Para- gon, of Ipswich, the master of which vessel said he wanted provisions which he (the witness) gave to him, and went on board his vessel for that purpose; after he returned to his own ship, the matfe WdS very insulting, and held out such Shin r »at' fornlsown Mf««y, be went into the cabin and brought out a pistoi; that the prisoner got hold ot a la ge iron w.nch-haudle and struck him several times !t 0re h" Urt,0ir'Vs back' a"d beat him mo<t un- h^ rrel nf fh that he (tlle witness) struck him with the Lot Km p T the hea<1-and some tlie ni .Mr^K3 f 10 8CUiHe °De 0f the men th«-eW the pistol overboard that the prisoner again rushed on him and were it not for the men no doubt he would have mur- dered him; and that through fear he was obliged to signal to the master of the Paragon to lay by him all night, as he was in danger of his life, which he (.the master) did: on his arrival in Cardiff, be gave the mate into custody. Uiaiies Freeman, a seaman on board the ship, deposed to having heard a noise on deck, and on getting up he saw rnatf cln^Ttl °/- C*bin with 3 PU,o!! that the bo h S f ,i° •"m l° guard ic off, and they J' 'k°, thecaP,ain struck the mate several times • the mate had no winch-handle in his hand. that on ./°Tn' ,T ai,ilren1t,ce ou b'>ard the Rapid, deposed f ™,i J !° dlsturbance took place, he was on the P^on .'h"" W( the cap,aia Came on board from the M har»waf, TrulinbliD* about his tea; witness went to the wheel to allow the Cook to go and get tea read,. Alter he was relieved from the wheel he went down below, and soon after another boy said that the captain had cot a pistol. He went ou deck, aud saw the mate trying to get ti;e Pistol from him. The men tried to separate them, but could not succeed for some time. One of the men took the pistol and threw it overboard the captain threw the mate 011 the deck; he did not sce the mate strike the captain. Kobert Easten depooed I was in trouble on the voyage fur mlscunduct. I saw the captain go into the cabin, and come out with a pistol iu bis hand. I did not see anything of the commencement of the row; but I saw Charles Freeinau take the pistoi out of the captain's hand, and throw itoverboard. I did not see the winch-handle in the mate's hand, nor did I see him strike him John Pallen, cook ou board tiie ship, deposed • I w»9 the wheel when the disturbance took plsce It originated through the mate speaking to the captain about hi ?ea huUS 'r £ ? sa;d he wouid f,=«, hi„ ,be captain th. °Ter 'hC h"d' 1 diJ »»' ">« ™» .Stki ine captain Ine mate was disrated and sent forward to live with the crew in the forecastle. I saw the winch- nandle in the mate's hand, and when the captain was com- ing up out of the cabin with the pistol the mate threw the winch-handle on the deck and jumped at the captain to try and take the pistol. I saw the captain's clothes torn, hut I don't know who tore them. James Lord. another seaman, deposed that on the day in question the captain went on board the brig Paraxon, and UtJ uot come on board again till about five o'clock. Wit- ness was in the forecastle, and Robert Easten called out and said the captain was gone i-no the cabin for his pistol, swearing he would have the mate's life. Wituess then went on deck and saw the captain with a pistol in hiahand. threatening if the matecame one inch towards him, he would ow iii$trains out. He did not see the winch-handle in the mate s hand at the time. There was a scuffle between them, the mate tell on the deck, and the captain struck him several tunes with the barrel of the pistol; the mate had hold of him at the time, aud the captain called out to us to come and take the mate away. and while we were doing so the capiat,, struck him on the head. The ship was put about, and the Paragon Wail signalled, and our cap- i 1 lethma3 er °J the 8hiP if had 'any pistols, as the mate had threatened to take his life. He (the captain) also asked bun if he would lay by him for the night, which JVP' »ni > .ne9S ft T *ee lhat the caPtaiQ bl»<* eye till two days after the row took place The Magistrates, after a short consultation, ordered the mate to be discharged. Richard Williams, a black seaman, was charged with going into the Army and Navy inn, Bute-street, and steal- nig a portrait of Mrs. Quelch, the landlady, on Saturday morning last—Mary Connors, a servant in the house, de- posed that the prisoner, in company with another man, came into the parlour, and had some beer. The portrait was on the chimney-piece at the time. The prisoner was the first that left the house, and some time afterwards she missed the portrait. Airs. Quelch identified the case which contained her portrait, and which was produced, III her pro- pertv. P,C. No. 23 stated thattronointormation he received I he apprehended the prisoner iu Bute-street, who informed him where the portrait was. They went to the Black Prince public-houge, and the landlady immediately brought J nown the case; the likeness was obliterated and she stated tVnm'tK*"3 'n 9ame.state 38 when she received it Th^irTSOner ~He wa3 Ful,y committed for trial, waistcoat tho"eS W3S °'3ff,Te^ w'tf' stea'ing one coat and same hou's^> Pr°Pei"ty of Ihomas Ettle, who lodged in the week IipTp^T ,CTplainaDt deP°8ed that on last Monday last he m L clothe*m his Wioom and on Sunda? on FrVivT i «em' prisoner slept in the same bed deio«p<i th ^atur^ay laat.—Lewis Harnett, pawnbroker, » a on Tuesday last, the prisoner came into his <3ml*v Paw"ed the clothes now produced; that oa } evening he came again to the shop, and said he wou Kive him the money and the tickets if he would say the things were not pawned there, and to take his name off the book; be was theu given into custody.—Committed for trial. Mary Hewitt, who was remanded on last Monday week, charged with passing base money, was this day committed lor tnal. 1 DISORDERLY FEMALES. Mary Ann Liston, Margaret Thomas, and Margaret Grif- fiths, three unfortunate young girls, inhabitants of Whit- more-lane, were chari-eil by P C. Thorne witll bein" disor- derly and making use of disgusting language at luilf-past ten o'clock on Sunday night last. They were each com- mitted to hard labour for one mouth. John Caitle, a plasterer, was charged by Phillip John, with threatening to take his life, this morning. The case was considered a frivolous one by the Magistrates, and it was dismissed. CAUTION TO BEER-HOUSE KEEPERS. Edward Rowland, landlord of the Odd Fellows' Aims, beeer-house, was charged with seiling beer during divine service, on Sunday, ihe Gtn of August.— Fined aDd costs. John Jones, landlord of the Prince Llewellyn, Ellen- street, was charged with allowing persons to assemble and drink in his house during divine service ou Sunday, the 6th of August.—Fined 5s. and costs. Thomas Piddel!, landlord of the Black Prince beer- house, Bute-town, was charged with a similar offence, on the same day.—Fined 7s. tid. and costs. James Ciements, landlord of the Seven Stars, in Char- lotte-street, was also charged with a like offence, on the same day.—Fined 7s. 6d. and co.ts. DRUNKENNESS. John Thomas, a boatman, was charged with being drunk on Sunday evening last, and iined five shillings. Intiick M'Carthy, a repulsive-looking little Irishman, was chaiged by Mr. William O'Brien, a potatoe merchant, with being drunk and making use of insulting language towards him on Sunday evening last.—Fined 5 shillings. Joiin Long and John Wayne were charged with breaking the door of Thomas Hitchens's house, on Saturday night last. Comptaiuant not appearing, John Loog was dis- charged, and John Wayne, who, it was stated, was drunk, was tined 5s. Three Swedish seamen were brought up in custody, charged with deserting from their ship, the Frauzen, now ]y ing in the port of Bristol.— The captain deposed that they absconded from the ship on last Monday week, taking the whote of their etothes with them, and that he did not see them again till last Friday, iu Cardiff, when he had them apprehended.—The men, in defence, said the captain did not use I hem well, and that they did not get sufficient food, The captain said the men got very good food, even more than the law of the country allowed.J £ be Weu were gr. dersd to be tept back ta 1D; vw»«l,
GUILDHALL POLICE COURT.
GUILDHALL POLICE COURT. Mr. Francis Quick, a watchmaker and jeweller of Bristol, was brought up before Mr. Alderman Garden on Friday last for further examination relative to the charge of obtain- ing goods to the amount of nearly .eIO,Ot)D. within three months of his bankiupicy, under faise representations, with intent to defraud his creditors. Mr. James Hammond, a wholesale watch manufacturer, of Northampton-square, said—-I know the bankrupt; he called upon me on the 10th of February last, and wanted me to let him have a quantity of watches, but I refused to supply him; he said it was of very great importance that he should have the goods as he had an order to complete for Australia that was to be entered or shipped that day; he also said if I would trust him he would prove to me that he was worth £ 8000. when all his debts were paid; upon that representation I let him have a parcel of goods to the amount of E160 19s. those goods consisted of 22 gold watches, and he stated that the necessity tor shipping them that day would prevent him hiving his name engraved oil them as is usual in such transactions; the watch 10,047, produced, is one of thofe watches; I have neither seen any of the others since nor been paid for them. Cross-examined.—These goods were sold on the under- standing that they were to be paid for when I went my journey in May I had refused to do business with the pri- soner about twelve months previously, and told him that he had too many watchmakers already; on one occasion he ob- tained goods in my absence, and I wrote to him to return them, but he sent me back a bill of exchange, wlrch was paid in due COursc. Henry Hellier, assistant to Mr. Atfenboroogb. pawn- broker, Newington-causewav. satrl-l know the prisoner, and have been in the h.bit from time to time of advancing him money upon stock; upon the 11th of February I ad- vanced him £ 100 upon twelve gold watches, and he signed the deposit note produced in my presence; I know Isaac Isaacs; he came on the 7th of February, and I advanced him JH70 on a quantity of miscellaneous jewellery I gave IsaACI a deposit note. William Diniel Harding, clerk to Messrs. Toplis and Sons, auctioneers, at St. Paul's Churchyard, said-I was employed by the assignees to redeem the goods pledged by the bankrupt I redeemed twelve gold watches pawned on the 11th of February, seven of which were identified by their numbers by Mr. Hammond as part of the 22 he sold to the prisoner; I also redeemed the jewellery standing in Isaacs name for £70; I received the deposit notes fioin the assignees. Isaac Isaacs said—The deposit notes for the 7th and 11th of February relate to goods which 1 pawned at the priso- ner's request; he gave them to me for that purpose on the same days that they were pawned, 1 sold some watches for hill) on the loth of February, hut I cannot particularize them, as I sold other goods for him on the two preceding days; I mixed all three days'sale in one in my memoran- dum; I took no receipt from the prisoner for the money I received and paid on liis account. Mr. Taylor said this was the whole of the case. Mr. Lewis submitted there really was no case to go for trial. as the watches in pledge had not been identified by iNIr. Hammond, and the numbers of them being the name was no evidence that they were the same watches Mr. Ilim- inoud sold to the prisouer, as every watchmaker numbered his watch from No. I upwards, so that there were many in existence of the same number. Alderman Garden, after hearing the depositions, decided upon committing the prisoner for trial, and said he would take bail for the prisoner in two sureties of X750 each, with twenty-four hours' notice. Committed accordingly.
GENERAL MISCELLANY.
GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Court will go into mourning for three weeks for the late King of Saxony. No opposition will be offered to the Te-election of Sir Benjamin Hall, for the horough of Marylehone. The Berlin Journals announce that the King of Prussia is quite recovered from his late accident. The King of Portugal has in a great measure re- covered from his indisposition, at Berlin, and has con- tinued his journey to Vienna. Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., G.C.B., has re- turned to his duties as commander-in-chief at Devon. port, and has re-hoisted his flag. A few nights since some burglars effected an en- trance at Clarisford House, the residence of the Bishop of Kilaloe, after his lordship had retired to rest, and succeeded in taking off plate to the value of about f 200. We regret to announce the death of the Howager Duchess of Beaufort, who expired, after a very brief illness, on Saturday afternoon, at Westbrook Hall, near Berkhampstead, where the Venerable Duchess had been staying with the Hon. Granville Dudley and Lady Georgiana Ryder since the death of her son the late Duke. The deceased Duchess was in her S4th year. REGISTRATION.—Each revising barrister receives 200 guineas without reference to the time he is oc- cupied in his circuit. The total for this year will be £ 17,850: about £ 8000 a-year is paid to clerks of the peace, and some £30,000 a-year out of the poor-rates for the purposes of registration. ANOTHER "BOON" TO THE FARMERS.—The House of Commons, on the motion of the Govern- ment, has reduced the duty on foreign hops to 208. per cwt., thus rendering the duty on foreign and home-grown hops equal in amount, and removing the little protection which the English grower has hitherto enjoyed. THE ADMIRALTY AND THE POST-OFFICE.- The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have arranged with her Majesty's Postmaster-General that all letters received from officers of the Royal navy serving on foreign stations for conveyance to the united kingdom, upon which the full amount of postage has been paid in advance in penny postage stamps, will be treated as paid by the Post-office authorities. A QUACK DOCTOR.—A verdict of "Manslaughter" has been returned by a coroner's jury at Bradford against one Ward, of Leeds, who described himself on his sign-plate as ''a curer of cancer without cutting." The description attracted the attention of a woman resident at Horton, and she placed herself under his care for a tumour in the breast, which he proceeded to treat in such a way that she sank from constitu- tional irritation. The unfortunate patient expressed a desire that an inquiry might be made into the cause of her death, as a warning to others.-Leeds Intelligencer. THE CHOLERA.—A great deal of, fortunately, needless alarm has been created in this city by the re- port that several cases of cholera have occurred. We have made inquiries, and believe the following to be the real facts of the case. In the excursion train on Saturday were no less than four persons afflicted with premonitory symptoms of cholera. Soon after their arrival at Bristol the whole four became very seriously ill with the complaint, and three of them subsequently died, in spite of the greatest care and skill. The cases have been all traced to the metropo- lis, and one was from Bermondsey, the very home of cholera in London. The fourth person attacked has recovered. Every precaution was taken after death to prevent the possibility of any infection being con- veyed and there is, we rejoice to learn, not the very remotest ground for alarm on that score. While thus deprecating any unneccessary panic, we, of course, desire to urge upon our readers the use of all proper precautions; but we have deemed it better to make these facts public in order to remove the painful impression which had got abroad.-Brtstol Mirror. DARING BURGLARY.—We have to record a means of robbery which has been very general in the north, but we believe this is the first attempt of the kind in this city. On the night of Friday, the premises of Messrs. F. & J. Amory, grocers, Bridge-parade, were entered by thieves (access having been obtained through the adjoining void house), whose sole object it appears was to plunder the iron safe, the door of which they opened by means of gunpowder, but in- side this usual wall safe Messrs. Amory had fortu- nately recently placed one of Milner's Patent Hold- fast, Violence, Robbery, and Fraud-resisting Fire Safes. This the thieves got out, and endeavoured to open by the same means, but without success. The report from the explosion of the gunpowder was heard in the night by several parties at a considerable distance, but did not attract the attention of the police, one of whom saw two men leave the adjoining void house about half-past four o'clock on Saturday morn- ing, and chased them down Thomas-street, and into Temple-street, where he lost them. During the chase they dropped a parcel containing picklocks, &c., and a crow-bar and centre bit have since been found on the roof. It has been ascertained that the burglars were on the premises upwards of six hours. Mr. Milner's safe was, however, strong enough to resist all their efforts to get it open. Had they succeeded in doing so, their booty would not have been large, as it only contained a small sum, it being Messrs. Amory's practice to bank daily. No goods of any kind were stolen, but considerable damage has been done to the premises by the explosion of the gun- powder, the counting-bouse window, dome light, &c., (iei«$blown to pieces,—Mef, THE HARVEST.—A large quantity of wheat has j been cut during the past weejk in Devonshire, and on Friday some samples of new wheat, barley, and oats were exhibited in the Exeter corn-market. The were exhibited in the Exeter corn-market. The wheat crop is most luxuriant, and, if the recent fine weather should continue, the harvest will be a most abundant one. The crops of barley and oats are also heavy; the green crops are exceedingly promising— never more so. The potatoes, however, are much diseased in some localities, but a very large breadth has-been sown this year, and at present they are plen- tiful and cheap. In the western counties—Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall—the crops are generally promising, and, according to the statements of seve- ral eminent agriculturists in each county, the wheat crop will be fully an average, and in some districts more than an average, if fine weather should conti- nue. Barley and oats are equally promising, and the green crops were never finer. Owing to the wet weather a few weeks ago, a large quantity of hay was spoiled, and the hay harvest generally has not been a good one. SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD JOCELYN.—We have very great regret in announcing the sudden death of Viscount Jocelyn, M.P. for King's Lynn, which took place at half-past one o'clock on Saturday morning, at the residence of Lord Palmerston, in Carlton- gardens. Lord Jocelyn was attacked with Asiatic cholera during Friday afternoon, while fulfilling his military duties at the Tower (he was colonel of the Essex Rifles, now quartered there); and the vio- I lence of the attack in a few hours overcame alike the efforts of his medical advisers and the vigorous con- stitution of the noble lord. The deceased, Robert, Viscount Jocelyn, was eldest son of the Karl of Roden, and brother to the present Marchioness of Londonderry, was born in 1816, and married, in 1841, Lady Fanny Cowper, daughter of Viscountess Palmerston, and Lady-in-Waiting on Her Majesty, by whom he leaves two sons and two daughters. THE NEW MINISTER OF HEALTH.—Sir B. Hall transacted business for the first time on Saturday at the General Board of Health, Whitehall. The hon. baronet has appointed Mr. Arthur Berrington to act as his private secretary, and has continued Mr. Taylor as secretary of the board. The staff of the oflice is completed, with the exception of the inspec- tors. Dr. Sutherland and Dr. Granger will be employed, as medical inspectors, to act for the metro- polis, and to confer with the various local authorities in all measures for arresting the spread of the disease. The Postmaster-General has appointed Dr. Gavin to be Medical Superintendent of the General Post-office during the prevalence of cholera. The health of the officers of the department is therefore closely watched, and, a supply of medicines being kept at the chief office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and at the principal branch offices, immediate relief can be given in cases of illness. A HUGE PRIZE.—In 1799, the four British fri- gates, Naiad, Ethalion, Alcmene, and Triton, cap- tured the two Spanish frigates, Thetis and Santa Brigida, bound from Vera Cruz for Spain, with specie, &c. The treasure in the Thetis was worth £311,690, and the other prize contained as much or more specie, besides a valuable cargo of cochineal, &c. The prizes were safely carried to Plymouth, and the treasure was forwarded with great pomp to London, and deposited in the Bank of England. The prize-money, exclu- sive of the value of the hulls and stores of the fri- gates, was distributed among the officers and crews of the British frigates in the following rates Cap- tains, £40,730 18s. each: lieutenants, £5091 7s. 3d.; warrant onicers,.E2468 10s. 9id.; midshipmen, &c., £791 17s. otd.; seamen and marines, £182 4s. 9id. THE MORMONITES.—At Ayr, one evening lately, a party of three women and one man were seen walk- ing together on the beach, and separated, the man taking his position barely out of pistol shot; and, to the surprise of on-lookers, he commenced stripping as if going to bathe. But surprise was succeeded by consternation on the part of the spectators when one of the women began to divest herself of her clothes. The man met the lady half way, and, to the amaze- ment of all who witnessed the spectacle, gave her his arm, and slowly and ceremoniously marched into the sea knee deep. Adult baptism was the key to this proceeding; for the man, after pronouncing some gibberish, immersed his companion over head and ears, and, pronouncing a benediction, they slowly returned to their respective places. The party went off singing psalms aloud. Subsequent inquiry eli- cited the fact that the dipper is a Mormonite, a disci- ple of Joe Smith, and the dippee is a newly-made convert. Many of the sect, strangers, have been seen lately in Ayr.—Greenock Advertiser. FRAUD RY A SOLICITOR.—On Thursday Mr. Joseph Drew, a solicitor of Bath, was charged before the magistrates of that city with stealing £9 15s., the property of the Sun Fire Assurance Company. The accused was the agent of that company for the Keyn- sham district. Some injury having been done by fire to a house at Paulton, in February last, an estimate of the damage was made at f8. The prisoner suggested that the sum should be set down at £7 10s., lest the company might think it was a made-up account. The prisoner sent in an account to the company, in which the total damage was estimated at £17 5s. At Michaelmas the prisoner held a balance in favour of the company of £8 68., and the difference between that and the £ 17 5s. was at his request transmitted to him from London. When the fraud was discovered the prisoner said he was led to the act through po- verty. He was committed for trial for obtaining the money from the company by false pretences. The magistrates accepted bail for the prisoner's appear- ance at the sessions. ST. MARK'S CHURCH.—It may be recollected that the spire of the new church of St. Mark, Wor- cester-street, in this city, was struck by lightning on the afternoon of Whit Monday, 1853, and somewhat damaged, the finial being partially destroyed, and some of the other stones thrown down. The spire has this week been furnished with a lightning con- ductor, and the finial is being renovated. The scaf- folding used for this purpose is one of peculiar con- struction, and far cheaper than that usually adopted. We understand that the builder used a zig-zag ladder to ascend the inside of the spire, and then removed one of the stones, thtough which a pulley and rope were protruded and fastened inside. With this rope he raised himself to the finial on the outside, a frame work (similar to that used in cleaning the chamber windows of lofty houses) was placed against the flat surfaces of the spire, and planks were placed upon it, thus forming a stage, which is guarded by ropes. Hundreds of people have watched the builder ascend and descend from the dizzy height, on a seat drawn up and down by a rope. Messrs. Samuel Brown and Sons, of Sheffield, are doing the work; they have used their patent copper octagonal tubular lightning conductor, and the spire will now be surmounted by a weathercock.—Gloucester Chronicle. MURDER OF AN INFANT BY A NURSE GIRL.— A nurse girl, only nine years of age, has been com- mitted to Warwick Goal, to take her trial for the wilful murder of a baby, a few months old. Her mistress, the wife of the gamekeeper to Mr. Beech, of Brandon-lodge, had sent the girl to fetch home a few knives and forks that had been lent to some charcoal burners in Brandon-wood, and she took the infant with her in her arms, received the knives and forks, and set on out her return. A scream was heard by the men in the wood, and, proceeding to the spot, they found the baby with its throat cut in the arms of the girl. Her story was, that a man came behind her and tied a handkerchief over her eyes, and told her to leave him the baby and the knives, or he would kill her. She told the man that she durst not, and would rather that he would kill her than the baby; that the man then trailed" her a distance to a tree, that he bade her stop there till he told her to move, and presently the man called to her, and she took the handkerchief from her eyes, and went to the baby, and it was breathing its last. On the ground over which the girl said she was "trailed" the grass was undisturbed, as were the brambles, that must have shown traces. One of the knives appeared to have been wiped, but still had marks of blood upon it; and the girl had spots of blood upon her pinafore. Search was made at the time for the man she spoke of, but no one was to be found.—Leicester shire Mercury. ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT OF CLIMBING Boys. —At the New Bailey, Salford, on Thursday, two per- sons were convicted for violations of the Act of Par- liament which prohibits the employment of boys in the sweeping of chimneys.—Mr. W. P. Roberts said he appeared on behalf of Mr. Wm. Wood, who de- voted himself to putting down the system of employ- ing boys to sweeping chimneys, a practice which was productive of great demoralisation. The informations were against Thomas Pearson, a servant of Mr. Richard Travis, of Patricroft; and against Richard Pollitt, residing at Winton, in the same locality. Mr. Roberts was about to enter upon some justifica- tion of the course taken by the layer of the informa- tions, when Mr. Trafford remarked We know Mr. Wood; he is a benevolent old gentleman, who has a strong opinion on this matter."—Mr. Roberts And he gets no part of the penalty; it is given to the Ragged School."—James Banks (a sweeper by machine) was then called, and proved that a little after six on the morning of the 7th of June, he went into the house of Mr. Travis, having seen a sweep boy enter, who had no machine. Pearson, the de. fendant, was in the kitchen, the cloth was up before the grate, and the boy was up the chimney. On going outside the house, he saw the brush project from the top of the Hue, and on going in again he saw the boy come down. Witness asked Pearson who employed the boy, and he replied tnat he was en- gaged by the master. The evidence being conclusive a penalty of £ 5 was imposed.—Mr. Richard Pollitt' of Winton, was also summoned for having employed the same boy to ascend his chimney, The offence took place shortly after the one just mentioned The witness Banks, knowing that the lad was going to Mr. Pollitt's, went with him, and told Mr. Pollitt that it illegal to employ the boy. and off™™ we" p the chimney with his machine. He refused to allow this, and would only suffer the boy to ascend the chimney. It was urged by Mr. Roberts that on ac- count of the master (notwithstanding a warning) having persevered in bteaking the law, a heavier penalty should be inflicted than in the previous case. —Mr. lrafford imposed a similar penalty of £5, but directed that in default of payment in this instance, the defendant should be imprisoned for a month in the former case the imprisonment to be fourteen days. FRAMPTON S PrLL OF HEALTH is a medicine of long- trieil efficacy and its celebrity as a gentle Aperient Medi- cioe IS daily increasing. For bilious and liver comptaint", denoted by sick headache, pain ill the forehead and over (he eyes, dizz'neos, singing noise in the head or ears, heartburn, loss of appetite, indigestion aDd weaktu-ss of the stomach, drowsiues?, sense of fulness after eating, wind, spasms, &c., they are admirable, and for elderly |>ers ms, where an occa.ioua) Aperient Medicine is requited, uothitiK Cil) be better adapted. The manifold advantage'1 to the so Families ftoni the possesion of a Medicine of Known efficacy, that may be resorted to with confidence, ana in cases ot temporary sickness, occurring in all families more or less every day, are *o obvious to all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every housekeeper in the kingdom.—Sold by all medicine vendors, Pnce lid- per box. See the name of Thorns fiout, 229, Stiuud London," an UH, gomumeiit THE GRRAT BRITAIN.—The screw steamship, Great Britain, Captain Grey, which left the Mersey on tha 12th June for Australia, was spoken on the 29th of the same month, in lat. 8'24, N., long. 27*30, W.,—17 days out,—by the Great Britain ship, arrived from Callao, at Queenstown. Captain Gray reported the passengers all well. Mu.V. S. O'BRIEN,—I he Limerick Chronicle hag the following :—"The family oi Mr. William Smith O'Brien received a letter this week from that gentle- man, dated the last week in May, from Van Diemen's Land, when he was preparing to avail himself ot her Majesty's gracious pardon, and to leave the colony for Europe. Mrs. Smith O'Brien and other relatives wili meet the liberated exile at Brussels, where it is probable he will reside; and we have pleasure to in- form his countrymen that Mr. O'Brien accepted with the best feelings his Sovereign's spontaneous clemency in remission of the penalty for a political offence."
FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZET rE.-BANKRUPTS.
FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZET rE.-BANKRUPTS. George Tapliu, carpet warehouseman, Wood-street, Cheap- side Henry Bennett, linen-draper. Christcluircli, Itaots Michael Soloman, china dealer, Lambeth-walk Frederick Flawrse King, carpenter and builder, New Shoreham James Willi, cotton spinner, IIurst, Ashton-under-Lyne James Wovenden, eating-house keeper, Manchester Thomas Mellor anti Samuel Eicon, merchants, Liverpool Moselv Nathan, wntcli manufacturer, Liverpool John Ffookes. brewer, Sherborne, Dorset Samuel Garratt,contractor, Perran wharf, Cornwall John Stint's, liakfr. M ii.intone, Kent James Abraham Sinitti, lighterman, Lambeth Thomas Frederick. Goodj;er, olllnibus proprietor, Bromley George Lowry, flix spinner, Salford William Gehtar), i<hij> owner, North Shields Edward Staples the younger, miller. Solium, Cambridge Thomas Belsliain Iiuiton, wine and "pirit merchant, Bir- mingham William Yorke, builder, Cheshunt TURSDAY'S LONDON GAXRTTR.—BANKRrrTs. Alfted Henry E Ipley, Hotcadate, Suffolk, innkeeper Philip ltimer, Uravesend, cigar merchant Francis Wildbore, W isbeach, hotel-keeper William Ivory. Norwich, wholesale grocer John Thomas Jenkins, Depttord, builder Henry John Ashley. Newbury, artificial manure merchant Henry Davy, Crediton, Devonshire, linen manufacturer William Murine, Paignton, Devonshire, fly proprietor William and Ileury Shaw, Mold-green, near Huddersfield dyers Thomas Mellorand Samuel E*son, Liverpool, merchants William Coveney, Manchester, silk manufacturer Simeon Stansfield, Little llulton, Lancashire, cotton spinner