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      Monday, July 16. House Of Lords. -Tyne C...

      made for the postponement of all the orders proced " in" thatfor the Committee op Scrrrr until Monday . PniExaiT Societies Kill . —ill . Soiiieeos withdrew his bill . ,-,.,,. * Surri-V . —The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply upon the Ordnance E = timates > which passed through a severe ordeal of criticism . The general pvKitiyAes of . military expenditure ; the policy of making large accumulations of stores , and maintaining government powder and gun manufactinins csiabfehments ; the for tifications and colonics underwent much

      ordnance works in the , discussion by Mr . itain , Mr . Cobden " , Mi-. V . Smith , and Sir . W . Moixswokth on one hand , and loiu o . Kraski . and Colonel Axsox on the other , but no reductions were made in the amount of the « " »• Iran lUu . wATS .-The Hous e ' ^ fj ^ fg committee on thc Advance of Honey ( Atulonc to ^ Iri ^ Sc ^ ssed hiseai-nest sfnricSW -old not be made a precedent of of

      "'" C ^ ELLon thc ExcnEquEn replied that Lavin'alrcndv declined to give such a pledge to mother hon . " member , he could not consistently make the promise suggested . Full and tangible sccuritv was taken for the amount , and the loan wmld ffivc cmplovment to those whomit was essentially necessary to save from starvation In committee on the Disembodied Militia Bill , Mr IIcme expressed his hope that next year measures would be taken to put an end to this

      expen-Mr Pox Mavie replied that the militia force had become a mere skeleton , vacancies occurring were not filled up , so that the object of the hon . member was gradually in course of attainment . Mr . Hatter introduced a bill for the appointment of commissioners to inquire into the claims over the 2 few Forest and Waltham Forest , which was read a first time , as was also the Workhouse Loans ( Ireland ) BUI . Other non-dcbatcable bills were advanced a sta ^ e , and the House adjourned at half-past five

      o'clock . THURSDAY , Jclt 10 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Titles of Religious Congregations ( Scotxaxd ) Bill was read a second

      time . British Passports at Home . — The Earl of Malmesbuky complained that passports had been given by Mr . Freeborn , her Majesty ' s Consul at Home , to foreigners who had held commissions m the revolutionary army in that city . He wished to know whether Mr . Freeborn had acted in this manner from authority delegated to him by the Secretary of State for Foreign . Affairs , or solely on the smrgestion of his own mind . , The Marquis of Laxsdowxe certainly understood that Mr . Freeborn had 'given such passports ; but lie agreed that British passports ought not to have heen « iven to those parties unless they were m danger o ? their lives . That they had been in such to but he

      danger he was not prepared say ; apprehended that that was the cause why Mr . Freeborn had given them passports . After some discussion , in which it appeared that Mr . Freeborn had acted on what he conceived to be the dictates of humanity , the matter dropped , and after some further business their Lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —At the noon sitting , the report of the Committee of Supply was brought up , and the Estates Leasing ( Ireland ) Bill , and several other bills were read a third time and passed . The object and provisions of one of them , the Regimental Benefit Societies Bill—which , in its previous stages , had attracted no attention—were explained by the Secbetakt-at-Wab ,

      In the evening sitting , Mr . H . Drummoxd moved , that whereas a greateramount of taxation is levied upon the people than is required for the good and efficient government of the United Kingdom ; and -whereas large sums are expended in supporting needless places , extravagant salaries , and unnecessary works and establishments ; and whereas the present taxation of the country depresses all classes , and especially the labouring classes , by diminishing the fund for the employment of productive labour—it is the opinion of this House that adequate means should be forthwith adopted to reduce the expenditure of the government . lord It . Grosvexor considered that the resolution implied an unjust accusation against the last and the present governments ; and proposed as an

      amendment another which , premising that no greateramount of taxation ought to be levied than ¦ was sufficient for good government , and the expediency of a searching inquiry as to any superfluous places , salaries , or establishments , resolved that a ¦ vi gilant superintendence should be exercised over the expenditure in all the departments , so that every reduction might be effected therein not prejudicial to the public service . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Lord Jonx Russell opposed the resolution , which was supported by Mr . Home , Mr . Ewaut , Mr . M . Gibson , and CoL , Thompson ' . After a short reply from Mr . Drummond , the llouse divided , -when the original resolution was earned by 71 against 6 S , the government being left In a minority " of 3 .

      Sale or Bhead . —Mr . Baxkes moved the second raiding of the Sale and Manufacture of Bread Bill , which was opposed hy Mr . Laboucuere , because it would impose restrictions upon the trade that would operate injuriously , and was nltimately negatived without a division . The other orders were disposed of , and the House adjourned at one o ' clock . ( From our Tfdrd Edition of last week . ) FRIDAY , Jolt 13 . BOUSE OF LORDS . —The Poor Reiki ? ( Ibbxaxd ) Ehx was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday . Their lordships shortlv afterwards adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMOXS . —The House met at twelve o ' clock .

      The Estates Leases ( Ireland ) Bill weut through committee . Tux Judgments J ( Irelasd ) Bill was then , after some discussion , read a sccond . time . The Hous ? then adjourned till five o ' clock , and at that hour it re-assembled . Lord Jonx Russell intimated that it was his intention to proceed with the Lords' amendments to the Encumbered Estates ( Ireland ) Bill , on Tuesday next , at twelve o'clock , and with the Austra lian Bill on Thursday next , at twelve o ' clock . Supply . —On the motion that the House resolve itself into Committee of Supply , Mr . Jonx O'Conxell moved as an amendment , for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into thc fiscal relations between Great Britain and Ireland .

      The Chancellor of the Exchequer objected to the amendment , which , after a few words from Major Hlackau , Mr . Fkexcw , Colonel Donne , and Mr . Pagan , was negatived without a division . The House then went into committee of supply The British Museum estimates , the militia estimates . and thc remaining estimates and commissariat excess , 1847 . were severally agreed to . The House then resumed , Thc other business was disposed of , and the House adjourned .

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      TOP . O'CO ^ fiSTOK , ESQ ., ALP . Deak aso Honoured Sir , —Having jead your letter in this week ' s " Star" concerning some of the members being' dissatisfied with their allotments , I am ready to take an allotment , at £ 1 G rent , being a shareholder of ihe Leeds Branch of the National Land Company . Having paid for a four-acre share , I have not teen able to pay Bonus money . I should be glad to occupy one as a tenant . I remain , your humble servant , Doncaster , Uobebt Kay . July 8 & , 1849 .

      TO F . O'COXJfOR , ESQ ., M . P . Hojf orniABiE Sir , —If any four-acre allottee on the Bromsgrove Estate is wishful to let his allotment , I shall be glad to take the bouse , land , and crop at a lent of 17 / . a year , for ten or more years ; the rent payable half-yearl y , and to have possession next month . I am , honourable Sir , your humble servant , John "White . Bilston , July 16 .

      23 , Princess-street , Devonport , 14 th July , 1849 . Sir , —Having seen an advertisement in the "Northern Star" of the 7 th inst ., relative to the disposal of an allotment on the Bromsgrove Bstate , and being anxious to rent such—if you should feel disposed to let it , I beg leave to offer the sum of five pounds per acre per annum , and any other little expenses which may be attached will be cneerfully met , . -Bjryour obedient humble servant Hr . X Boonham . SPENCER LuSCOMBE , 144 , High Holborn , Baker and Grocer .

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      -rw ^ f ^ --86 ™ inquests were held on Sfefe Parts or the metropolis , and J ^™ , ^ $ wm chota * » retamelia each case . Tins disease is mating fearful rav-urcs at Worcester , Bristol , ^ ibiSs , S 2 K some villages in MoWouthE . \ ol £ s than 150 S ^ y ? plaCe at P ^ uth wi £ S Misery is caused by tie disobeying © f uature's

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      ATLESUUitJ , JVLx . Killing axd Slaving . — "William Hall , aged 12 rears , was indicted for wilfully lulling and slaying ' William Gibson , on the 1 st of June last , at Chipping Wycombe . —Jlr . Sanders prosecuted the prisoner , who was defended by Mr . Griffiths . —It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased , who was fifteen years old , were playing together on Flaekwellheath , near "Wycombe , on the day in question , with five or six other youngsters , and that after some little time they quarrelled about a bird ' s nest . In the course of their dispute the deceased throw away the bootof the prisoner , who thereupon called him " several bad names . " Irritated at the abuse , thc deceased struck the prisoner two blows over tlie head with the open band . This attack led ta a kick

      at first , and then the prisoner stooping down , picked up a small jagged flint stone , which he threw right against the head of the deceased when within three yards of him . The blow thus inflicted staggered the lad , who placed his head on his sister's shoulder , and slowly repa ' red home . His parents administered such assistance to him as suggested themselves to their simple minds , but , as he got evidently worse and worse , they at last sent for a medical man on the ninth day . At that time the patient was suffering from violent erysipelatous inflammation in the head , accompanied by extensive suppuration from the left ear , in the immediate

      vicinity of which the stone had struck him . Notwithstanding the skill and attention which were bestowed on the case , the lad lingered on in great pain and suffering until the 19 th of June , when he died , and the prisoner was taken into custody on the verdict of the coroner ' s jury . —The jury having found the prisoner " Guilty , ' " the Chief Justice proceeded to pass sentence on the boy , who wept bitterly during the whole trial . His Lordship , after commenting in mild but firm language on the impropriety of his having had recourse to such offensive weapons , even in defending himself from an older antagonist , sentenced him to be imprisoned for three months .

      Attempted Mvbdek . —James Harding , whom the calendar described as a shepherd , and as being 26 years old , was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Alison , on the 12 th of April last , with intent to murder her or to do her some grievous bodily harm . Mr . Sanders conducted the case for the prosecution . —From the evidence of the prosecutrix , a young g irl aged 20 , with no very extraordinary personal charms , it appeared that she and the prisoner had " kept company" in tho pleasant lanes of Dinton from Michaelmas to the 12 th of April , when her mother " overpersuaded" her to reject his proffered hand , and to break off their contemplated union . This determination was announced to the prisoner at seven o ' clock , on his going to the house to take their accustomed walk ; and it would appear that

      he went forthwith to a neighbouring butcher , from whom he borrowed a knife to ** stick a sheep which was lying on the road , " suggesting , before heleft the shop , that " it had better be just touched up on the steel , as he wanted a sharp ' un , " From this shop he went to the stile , close to the house in which the girl lived , and there he waited till she and her mother came out , at half-past seven o ' clock . When the women , who were accompanied by a man named Thomas 2 fewns , approached the stile , the prisoner went up to the g irl , and asked her " whether she was going to leave him ? " He had no sooner received an answer in the affirmative than he drew a knife from his pocket with his right hand , and , throwing his left hand over her head , attempted to draw the knife across her throat . Fortunately , however , 3 Tewns observed his action , and instantly

      seized his right band , and held it so arrested while the girl slipped her head away from her lover ' s grasp , and ran shrieking into a neighbour's house . As soon as the 'girl got clear off , the prisoner dropped ihe knife , and , running away from JTewns , made off to the village , where he bought another knife , and , being so armed , again lurked about the house into which the prosecutrix had escaped until he was taken into custody and lodged in the stationhouse . There , and before the magistrates on the following day , he admitted that he had procured the . knife from the butcher with the intent to kill the girl , adding that he regretted he had not succeeded in his design . —His Lordship having summed up the case , the jury returned a verdict of " Guilty . " In passing sentence his lordship regretted that the law did not enable him to inflict a more severe penalty than two years' imprisonment , which was accordingly passed .

      Gmmixal Assaults on Females . —The Court was occupied all day in disposing of two most aggravated cases of rape , which presented revolting features . In the first case , William Bailey and Jacob Weston were charged with a criminal assault upon Ellen Wilkinson , awidowatBeaconsfield , on the 24 th of June last . Both were found " Guilty . " and Bailey having been before charged with a similar offence was sentenced to fourteen years . The other to ten years' transportation . —In the second case , the charge was preferred by a child , named Mary Ann Cooper , living at Chipping Wycombe , against a

      workman named Frederick Wright , in the employ of her father . Xo charge was ever more clearl y sustained . The child became the subject of dangerous disease in consequence of the offence , and his Lordship , in passing sentence , said no case had ever , in the course of his experience , given him more pain . Everything of cruelty characterising such offences belonged to this case ; and but for the recent change of the law , as surely as he now lived would the prisoner have gone to the scaffold . Sentenced to transportation for life . —This finished the business of the first Summer Assize in Aylesbury

      OXFORD , Jolt 13 . Charge of Mckuek . —James La ) ton , aged 45 , was placed at the bar yesterday charged with having murdered his wife , Martha Lay ton , at the parish of Cropready , in this county , on the 29 th of May last . "W hile the officer was reading the indictment the prisoner was smiling or simpering in a manner which seemed to some indicative of weakness of mind , but to others did not convey that impression . "When the indictment had been read , and he was called on for his plea , he said , after a pause . " I am not fully persuaded that she is dead . I have seen her since with my own eyes "—His Lordship : Then , if she is not dead you are not guilty . —Prisoner : I have heard her steps . I know them well . I know she is not dead . —His Lordship inquired of

      the governor of the gaol how the prisoner had been treated in gaol . —The governor said , that he had not been aware the prisoner was insane . He had been left out with the other prisoners , and did not complain , except when he first came in , when the surgeon gave him some medicine . He had been since sometimes depressed and sometimes lively , but had not been treated as insane . —His Lordship inquired whether there was any medical man present who had attended the prisoner ; and finding that there was not , and that the counsel for the defence wished the trial to stand over , adjourned the-case till nine o ' clock this morning . At that hour , the court having reassembled , the prisoner was apis arraigned , and asked for his plea , when he again answered that he was not satisfied that she was

      dead , and he knew she was alive . —His Lordship : If she is not dead , then you are not guilty . —Prisoner : But , my lord , how can I plead guilty , ( and after a pause ) or not guilty under the circumstances ? —His Lordship having inquired whether there was a surgeon in court , and having privately communicated with Mr . Wood , the surgeon of the gaol , again addressed the prisoner , " Now , what do you say : are you guilty or not guilty f "—The prisoner , after a moment ' s pause , replied , " Jfot Guilty . "The jury -werethen sworn and the case proceeded . Mr . W . H . Cooke and Mr . Cripps were council for

      the defence . It appeared from the evidence that on the 7 th of May last the prisoner and the deceased were seen walking together on the road from Leamington to Banbury , and that the prisoner first shot his wife in the forehead with a pistol , and afterwards cut her throat and inflicted several other wounds on her with a knife . Having perpetrated this brutal deed the prisoner fled across some fields but was pursued and captured , when he confessed that he had "done it . " The unfortunate woman lived twenty-two-days after this horrible occurrence , and died on the 29 th of May , before which she made the following declaration to Mr , Lloyd , a magistrate of the county : —

      I , the undersigned , being fully convinced that I shall not recover , declare that my name is Martha Layton , and that my husband , James layton , did fire a pistol at me yesterday afternoon , about six o ' clock ; that afterwards he cut my throat with a knife ; that he was not in the habit of carrying a pistol with him , but that he has carried one on two or three occasions to Banbury . I do not know why he fired at me . We had not been quarrelling ; hut he had heen " going on" -with me—swearing dreadfully . He has threatened to murder me , and did so on Sunday last He sharpened a knife on Sunday , and several times before , for the purposeofcuttingmy throat . I did not see the knife . He has several times threatened to shoot me with a nistoL said to

      never anything offend him ; but begged of him not to swear so , and be quiet He had three pints of ale at the Harp , at Southam , at two o'clock . I did not wish him to have but one pint ; He had some brandy-and-water near the Fenny Compton wharf I am not sure that he sharpened the knife for the express purpose of cutting my throat , but I thought so . I saw a girl and a woman coming from their work , and wanted to keep up with them , for I was frightened , but he pulled me back I was coming to Banbury to get advice , from my friends ahout my being senaratpd fromhim , but he did not know that He said he was coining to Banbury to get work . The talfe now shown to me is one of my husband ' s knives , but not the one he star pened .

      The case for the prosecution having closed , Mr Pigott jroceeded to address the jury on behalf of the prisoner—contending , both from the facts proved on behalf of the prosecution , and others which , he should prove , that the prisoner was at the time in question not responsible for his conduct , in consequence of being insane . U Several witnesses were then examined , who proved that the p risoner laboured under a delusion as to his wife , her son ( before marriage with the prisons /) , and her brother having cheated him out of property , consisting of several houses . The judge having summed up the j

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      evidence , thejury retired , and , after an absence < ten minutes , returned with a verdict of .- "ffi Guilty" on the ground of insanity . —The prison ) was then ordered to boremoved Since his arraigi ment he had behaved bimseli like a sane persoi except that he was once about to interpose to put silly question to a witness , out on his attornc ffhispcrinsrto him he became quiet . The only sig of emotion he exhibited throughout the trial w ; when his counsel was alluding very feelingly to h wife , and his last interview with her , when 1 swooned and remained insensible for a few minute The case was not over till six o ' clock . The cou : then rose , and thus terminated the assizes for tb county . wtj iCHESTEB . JoxirlS .

      Thomas Holloway was indicted for having beaten William Hollo way , and so injured him that he died . —It appeared from the evidence that the deceased , a little boy between ten and eleven years of age , " was thc son of the prisoner . On the 26 th of May , in the evening , 'the boy was playing in the street , and , seeing his father coming he ran into tho house . The father said he was going in to give the child " a cut or two" for not doing something that he had ordered him to do . The prisoner followed the child

      into the house , and tne child was then heard to cry , and the prisoner was heard beating him with a strap . The prisoner shortly afterwards brought the child down in his arms . He breathed once or twice , and then died . During the time the prisoner was beating the child his little sister cried , " Don't , father , don't , Billy will die . " The prisoner said he had beaten thc child with a strap . The surgeon stated that the death was not occasioned by the Strap , but by a severe blow under the ear . —The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty ;"—fifteen months

      imprisonment . YORK , Juxv 14 . Forged Bask of Esglasd jSoies . —John Hale , 38 , was charged with having uttered two forged £ o notes of the Bank of England . Mi " . Martin and Mr . Adolphus prosecuted ; Mr . Overend defended the prisoner . —A farmer , named Longstaff , at Northallerton fair , on the Sth of May , sold a cow to the prisoner for £ 9 , which was paid in two £ 5 notes . The prisoner on receiving a sovereign in change , took possession of the cow , and Longstaff then went home in good spirits , thinking he had made a good bargain . He took the notes to the bank of the Messrs . Backhouse , at Northallerton , to cot changed

      when it was discovered that both the notes were forgeries . Between six and seven o ' clock , the . prisoner was seen by a person named Wightman , driving the cow on the road between Craike and Kcwburgh , a distance of twenty miles from Northallerton , and in a totally different direction from Hipon , the place where he said in the morning he was going to . The cow had been evidently over-driven , as she was very much jaded and distressed . The prisoner was subsequently overtaken and apprehended . —The defence was that the prisoner had paid the notes without guilty knowledge . —Tho verdict was "Guily , " and the sentence transportation for ten years .

      Dabixg Bdbglasv . — Serious Assault on the Inmates . —Jonas Mitchell , 33 , and William Snowden , 22 , were charged with having on the 22 nd of May last , at Warley , burglariously entered the house of John Hothera , and stolen £ 20 his property . Mr . Boothby prosecuted ; Mr . Hardy appeared for Snowden ; Mitchell was nofc defended . The prosecutor is a farmer residing at Warley , near Halifax . Shortly before one o ' clock in the morning of the 22 nd of May last , the prosecutor was aroused by a loud knocking at thc door , and on looking out of the window he saw four men , who requested him to get up immediately and look at a neighbour ' s cow , which was dangerously ill . The prosecutor accordingly lighted a candle , dressed himself / and opened

      the door , when the four men rushed into the house . Two of them seized the prosecutor by the throat , throw him violently down on the floor , and there beat and ill-treated him in the most unmerciful manner . "Whilst this brutal conduct was going on , the other two men , who were the prisoners , went into the room where the wife and daughter of the prosecutor were , and threatened to take their lives if they did not at once deliver up all their money . There was a lighted candle in the room . The wife at first hesitated to comply with the demand , and held the candle near to the face of Snowden , in order to enable her to recognise his features . Upon this Snow den spat upon his hand , put it up the chimney , and then blackened his face with the soot . The lives of the mother and daughter were again threatened , when the former gave to Snowden a mug which contained £ 9 in silver and a sovereign , Snowden remarked that he knew they had

      more money than that in the house , and if they did not find it directly they might expect nothing short of death . Mitchell seized the mother by the throat , and threw her on the floor . The daughter was also thrown down violently by Snowden , who then took the candle and immediately ransacked a chest of drawers , in which he found ten sovereigns . Tho two men who attacked the prosecutor and thc prisoners immediately decamped with their booty . The mother and daughter , as soon as the ruffians were gone found the prosecutor lying on the floor in a state of insensibility , and covered with blood . There were several bruises about his head and face , and he did not regain his consciousness for twenty hours afterwards . He was unable to identify either ofthemenwho ill-used him , and as they were not seen by his wife or daughter , they have consequently escaped the hands of justice . With respect to the prisoners , however , they were immediately sworn to . On the 4 th of June the prisoners were apprehended . Before Mitchell was told what he was

      taken in custody for , he said , I" was not at Rothera ' s house ; I was in bed at the time . "—Mr . Hardy , for Snowden , endeavoured to prove an alibi , but he failed in establishing it . —His Lordship remarked that the crime of which the prisoners had been convicted was of so aggravated a nature , that sentence of death would be recorded against them . That sentence would not be carried into effect , but they might expect to undergo a lengthened period of transportation — at the very least eighteen years .

      WORCESTER , Jult 16 . . Ingenious Burglars . —Thomas Witherford , aged 25 , boatman , was charged with a burglary in the house of Mr . Henry Stibbs , farmer ,. residing at Warndon , near Alvechurch , in this county . Tho robbery , as it appeared in evidence , was effected during the night of the ICth of June last , in a somewhat clever manner . It appeared that the prosecutor , after retiring to rest , was aroused by three men knocking loudly at the door , and upon the window being opened they informed him that , in passing his fields , they saw the cows fighting

      furiously , and advised him by all means to go and part them . The prosecutor immediately dressed himself , and opened the door , when the men immediately seized him , and , before he had time to give an alarm , he was dragged to the granary , where the ruffians bound and gagged him , and then robbed the house of two £ 5 notes and a quantity of bacon , with which they got clear off . The prisoner : was recognised as one of the men , and , after a short tnal , was found " Guilty ; " and , a previous conviction for felony having b * een put in against him , he was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation .

      LINCOLN , Jolt 10 . Commission of Escheat— Statute of Mortmain—Forfeiture of Estates to the Crown . —This was an inquiry under a commission of escheat , consisting of John Mellor , Esq ., 0 . S . Denison , Esq ., and L . C . T . D'Eyncourfc , Esq , to ascertain what property the late Maria Serena Lowe , of Boston , was seized and possessed of at the time of her death on the 27 th May , 1835 , and to find if there were any heirs to the same . —It was proved by the production of several title-deeds that Miss Lowe was the owner of a farm in the Few Ends , of two pasture fields in Kirbeck Quarter , and two houses in Boston Churchyard . By her will , dated 28 th July , 1828 , she left one of these houses to her friend , Ann Gates , for her

      lifetime , and , after her death , to the Ticar and Churchwardens of Boston , for the use Of "the dispensary . Miss Gates is still alive . The other houses , the fields , and the form , she left to her servant Sarah Wake for her life-time , subject to the yearly fane of £ 30 for repairs of Boston Church : and £ 20 per year for four single women of good character ; Sifi ' w ^ ^\ rit 0 5 evertt 0 Bost <» nChurch . SSw " ft ' dlcd , 25 th A W 18 * 1 ; and-her brother , after a time occupied the house in the churchyard The arrears of rent are £ 69 , but he claimed £ 62 for repairs , and this setoff was allowed . The tenant of the farm , John Bland has paid no rent since 1841 , and his arrears amount to £ 930 . The birth and death of Miss Lowe her father mother , and aunt were proved , and Mr . ILivnPi . '

      bohcitor to the Treasury ; proved insertion of advertisement , ' To heirs at law and next of kin' of the deceased in the london Gazette the Times of the 13 th and 15 th of March , 1849 , and inthe Lincolnshire Advertiser . Several parties replied , but none with the shadow of a claim except one from Herefordshire , who said that Mary Lowe , deceased ' s aunt was the sister of Ms grandfather , but he failed to prove the lineage . Several aged witnesses proved some that they had never heard Miss Lowe mention having any relations , and others who had heard her say that she had none whatever . —Mr . Mellor ( Chief Commissioner ) then summed up to the jury He said that by the 9 th of Geo . II ,, persons were '

      orevented from devising lands and tenements by will to charitable purposes ; there had been a variety of previous statutes on the subject , parties having been induced when on their death-beds to devise lands to religious uses ( under an impression that it would be for the good of their souls ) , to the injury of their rightful heirs . Thus ecclesiastical corporations had been benefitted by such bequests , and kings and queenfliDJm-ed . By the 9 Geo . II ., a gift of lands and tenements for charitable uses must be made good by deed , which deed must be enrolled twelve months before the death of deceased : in this case there was no deed therefore the will was void , and the estates reverted to the heir-at-law , and failim ? tte £ odinffpf any heirs , it became forfeited to the

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      crown . The bequest thus made to Sarah Wake was , therefore forfeited to his late Majesty King William I S he not having asserted hiscaini , it descended Sier present Majesty Queen Victoria , by virtue of w royal prerogative ; thc bequest made to Ann Oatcs would atW death likewise become forfeited to IS Oueen . The annual value of the property to- £ lEvear -A iuror inquired as tothe approwas £ 170 a 5 eai . * J T . J .. ; uhg commissioner SHsaS ^ s ^ ifhei ° Sa esty was pleased to consider in am mca .-rears of rent due , were then found to ha ^ e escneateu to l 8 lSr 6 i « 0 * Matricide .- / . Ward aged 26 wa indicted for the wilful murder of nftmnthfir . Martha Ward , at Thorpe , nextW .

      imfl et , on the . Oth of April lasfc-Mr . Adam »»™ - £ case on the part of the prosecution , and Mr . Wilmoi e conducted the defence . The prisoner h deceased mother / and another member ° f the family , witli a female servant , lived u a small form-house , the prisoner had repeatedly made overtures : of intimacy to the servant , which she declined , and his mother remonstrated with him upon his conduct . He ceased his importunities for awhile , but again resumed them , and thc girl threa tened to leave tie house . He offered to marry her , but both the mrl and the mother were averse to such a step . iUe nrisoncr then endeavoured to effect his object by Lee On the morning of the murder , he had had some ' words with his mother about the servant , and used threats towards her . In the afternoon heentered the house with a gun in his hand , and findin" his mother asleep in her arm-chair , ho levelled the ( run at her , and deliberately shot her through

      the head She died instantaneously . 'lhe servant was the only other person in the house . Of course , she was excecdinglyjerrified , and wished to call for assistance ; but the prisoner prevented her , and threatened her unless she accompanied him . She parleyed with him for some time , and was at length induced to promise him thatshe would go away with him if he would let her go up stairs and get her clothes . He consented to this , and she then escaped , and gave an alarm . The prisoner , finding she had eluded him , also left the liouse and secreted himself , but was soon afterwards found in an out-house , lying on the ground , having made a slight attempt to cut his throat . He was taken into custody and committed . Mr . Wilmore , ' for the prisoner , attempted to show that his mind was affected , but the jury found him " Guilty , " and in a very impressive address Mr . Justice Coleridge passed upon him sentence of death .

      DORCHESTER , July 16 . Perjury . —George Lush , a labourer , was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury . Mr . Ffooks was for the prosecution ; Mr . Edwards defended . At the October sessions of the peace a girl named Eliza Brockway was indicted by the prisoner for robbing him of some money on the night of thc 19 th . of August . The prisoner was the only witness in the case , and he swore most positively to the truth of his charge ; upon which the . girl was convicted and sentenced to seven years' transportation . The prisoner ' s solicitor , Mr . Geo . Chitty , believed , on investigating her case , that she had been improperly convicted , and he forthwith applied to the Secretary of State , who at first commuted the sentence to twelve months' imprisonment , and afterwards a free nnrdon was granted . Upon the trial the

      prisoner was asked if he was drunk , and he repeatedly declared that he was sober . Upon this statement perjury was alleged—the question as to whether . thc prisoner was robbed or not being left undisturbed . For the prosecution a great many witnesses were called , who proved that on the night of the alleged robbery the prisoner was " so drinky" ( as they expressed it ) that he fell down in the road , tumbled into the hedge , nearly cut himself with his scythe , and was ultimately refused liquor by the landlord of the third inn that ho called at , because he appeared to have had sufficient . The liberated convict , Eliza Brockway , was called , and swore most distinctly that she did not see the prisoner on the night of the alleged robbery . Verdict " Guilty . " The prisoner had been four months in prison , and he was sentenced to be further imprisoned for eight months , and kept to hard labour .

      CHELMSFORD , Jolt 17 . Incendiarism . —Benjamin Cross , 28 , a miserable looking man , was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of wheat , the property of Samuel Newcome , with intent to injure him . Mr . Rodwell conducted tho prosecution . —The prosecutor is a farmer at Orsett , in this county , and the fire in question occurred on the night of the 1 st of June . The prisoner shortly before the fire applied to the relieving officer for assistance , which was refused him . About ten o ' clock on the night in question the prisoner applied at the station of tho county Solice , at Orsett , for relief , and the inspector on uty told him he had no power to relieve him , and ho must go to the parish officer . The prisoner replied that he had been there already , and the parish would do nothing for him , and as ho waa going away

      he said that he would give the police a job before long . He then went away in a direction towards the prosecutor ' s farm , and he was seen near the wheat stack by a lad belonging tothe neighbourhood , with whom he entered into conversation , and in the course of it he expressed his intention to have a flare-up among the prosecutor ' s wheat stacks . Very soon after this the stack in question was discovered to be on fire , and before any effectual assistance could be rendered , the whole of it was destroyed , the value of the rick being estimated at between three and four hundred pounds . The prisoner subsequently admitted to a labourer , named Oliffe , that he had committed the act because he could not get relief from the parish . —The jury , without any hesitation , returned a verdict of " Guilty , " and the Lord Chief Baron sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years .

      Joi , Y 19 . Deseetino ak Infant , —Extraordina ry Case , — Jonathan Henry Price , described in the calendar as a dissenting minister , and Priscilla Ruffell , a girl about twenty , surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment which charged them with feloniously deserting an illegitimate infant , to the inclemency of the weather , with intent to murder it , and with a view to relieve themselves from the burden of maintaining the child , and to cast it upon the parish . Tho case appeared to excite a great deal of interest , and the court was crowded during the trial bymembers of the male prisoner ' s congregation , and others who were anxious to hear the proceedings .

      Evidence having been given , the Lord Chief Baron summed up , andthe jury , after a short deliberation , returned a verdict of " Guilty" against both defendants upon that count of the indictment which charged their intent to be to burden the parish with the maintenance of the child , but they accompanied their verdict by a recommendation to mercy for the female . —His lordship then sentenced Price to be imprisoned fbr twelve , and Ruffell for three months . —Before the prisoners were taken from the bar Price addressed the court , and said that the child in question was not his child , and that his fellow prisoner had had an illegitimate Build before . His lordship made no answer to the observation , and the prisoners were then removed

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      Crown And Anchoh.—A General Meeting Of T...

      Crown and Anchoh . —A general meeting of tlie Tower Hamlets was held on Tuesday last at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo-town , when the council decided upon taking the Phoenix Tavern , Radcliff Cross , for a public meeting on Wednesday , July 25 th , to take into consideration the reception of Mr . O'Connor ' s motion for the People ' s Charter in the House of Commons . Chaii to to be taken at eight o ' clock . The subject of an amalgamation of councils generally , was brought under discussion and approved of , and a sub-committee will be appointed to carry the same into effect . The council at its risine adiourned until Tuesdav

      evening next , at eight o ' clock , at 28 , Golden-lane , when all members of the ouncil are invited to attend , as business of importance will be brought before the chair . Berry Edoe . —We are informed that meetings are held here every Sunday afternoon and evening , and that the good cause is progressing rapidly in this locality . Derby . —At a meeting of members held on Sunday evening , July 15 th , at Mr . Belfield ' s Temperance-hotel , < Sreen-street , a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered to Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., for the very able manner he advocated the people ' s rights in the House of Commons on the evening of the 3 rd inst .

      Hisiinisaino Suicide Op ^Wair.-An Inques...

      HisiinisaiNo Suicide op ^ WAir .-An inquest was held on Friday before Mr . W , Baker , at the Three Compasse ^ Balston , on view of the body of John Ball , aged 59 years , who had been waiter for upwards of forty years at Baker ' s Coffee-house , Change-alley , CornhiU . The deceased was discovered ^ on Saturday ni ght last , tying upon the footpath ni the Middleton-road , Dalston , and blood was flowing copiously from an extensive wound in his throat , which he had inflicted with which

      a razor was found lying by his side He was subsequently removed to the German Hosni tal , and lingered in great agony until Thursday morning last , when he expired . The deceased had been in a very desponding state for some months past , which was attributed to the death of his youn ? master , to whom he was much attached . Verdict — " Temporary Insanity . " « u « . t . A jook cornet , having got his skull severely fractured , was told by thc doctor that the IS was visible , on which he remarked " T > n w-s ^ il * 11 mjfather , for he always ^ ifijg » „ ' ° tdl

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      MARLBOR OUGH-STREET . -lMMonALBooKS . - F . Hunt , alias J . Brooks , a bookseller residing at Kb . 66 , Castlc-strect , Leicester-square , was chaigoj with selling and exposing for sale several books anu prints of an indecent nature .-Thomas > f * J > a clerk in the employ of Messrs . T . Davis and Son , tailors , Ko . 19 , Hanover-street , stated that lie ieccived an advertisement , now produced , nonius employer , with directions to purchase the woik named in that advertisement . He went to M . , Castle-street , Leicester-square , and on entering tne shop he saw the prisoner ,- to whom he gave tne auvertisement , and asked him for tho book , therein named . The defendant demanded two guineas as thc price of the book , and wanted to know where he should send the work when he procured it . Witness said he would call again , and having paid the defendant the money he left the shop . On his return m about twenty minutes ho saw the prisoner , who cave him the book produced . Witness , before

      leaving the shop , looked at the hook , and told thc prisoner that ho thought he ( defendant ) had given him the wrong book . Defendant said it was the ri <* ht book which answered to the advertisement he had brought . Ho then took the book to his employer . Cross-examined : Told the defendant that wanted the book for a friend in Switzerland . He was not in the habit of reading such books or purchasing them . The book ' was for a customer of Mr Davis ' s . Mr . Davis was not m the habit of ™ Vwb ! win « such books tor his customers . Witness

      Sid not agree to abandon the present charge if the money was retumed—Poliee-Sergoant 293 A stated that on Monday night , about seven o clock , he went to defendant's shop , accompanied by the last witness . On seeing the defendant , he asked him if he sold the book produced to the complainant . The defendant replied , that he had no knowledge of ' it at all , and that he did not sell the book . Witness then told him that he must consider himself m custody , and conveyed him to the station . Witness subsequently searched the shop , and found a number of obscene books and prints , some of which were exposed for sale , and the whole of which he now produced . —Mr . Davis stated that the adverlead to be

      tisement was so worded as to any person - lieve that the work advertised was the authentic life of Lola Monies . A nobleman now residing m Switzerland , and who was a customer of his , had seen the advertisement , and believing that the book contained the life ' of that celebrated danseuse , he had written to him to purchase it for him . On receiving the book he ( Mr . Davis ) found its contents to be of the most obscene nature . He , therefore , adopted the present proceedings , in order to put a stop to the sale of such immoral publications . —Mr . Bingham held the defendant to bail , in two sureties of £ 50 each , to appear at the Quarter Sessions , to answer any charge that might be preferred against him .

      SOUTHWARK . —Highway Robbery . —John Bray was charged with stealing a nurse containing 18 s . from Matilda Humphreys . The prosecutrix stated that on Saturday forenoon she was proceeding along Horsemonger-lane towards the Borough , with the purse in her right hand . When near Church-street the prisoner ran up to her and suddenl y seized hold of her purse and attempted to pull it from her . She , however , retained one end of it , and called out "Police , " bnt the prisoner pulled her down Churchstreet , making use of dreadful oaths , and in the struggle'the purse broke and the money fell on the pavement . She stopped to pick it up , and while doing so the prisoner made his escape with the other end of her purse and six shillings . A

      policeman shortly after came up to whom she gave information of the robbery , with a description of the prisoner . The prisoner was arrested thc same evening , and , having been identified by the prosecutrix , was committed for trial . Ciidel Robbery at St . Thomas ' g Hospital . — Louisa Hooker , a patient in St . Thomas ' s Hospital , was charged with stealing" two half-sovereigns and four half-crowns from Rebecca Cooper , an old female in a dying state lying in the same ward . Evidence of the prisoner ' s criminality having been given , Mr . Cottingham said he should commit her for trial , but would remand her to give the hospital authorities an opportunity of ascertaining the extent of her depredations while in the hospital .

      Wholesale Sacrilege and Burglaries . —James Canning , a notorious housebreaker , was charged with breaking into St . Michael ' s Church , Stockwell , and stealing therefrom a surplice , black scarf , and three keys ; St . John's Chapel , West-street , Walworth ; Ebenezer Chapel , Bermondsey ; Mr . Owen ' s Church , College-street , Chelsea ; Baptist Chapel , Pond-place , Chelsea ; Crosby-row Chapel , Long-lane , and stealing from them property of various descriptions . The prisoner was a ' lso charged with breaking into Messrs , Barclay and Co . ' s lead warehouse , Great George-street , Bermondsey , and stealing a silk umbrella , eight-day clock , and other articles . There were also other charges of a similar nature against him : —Gardiner-, police-constable 79

      M , stated that during the last two years a vast number of churches and chapels had heen robbed in the vicinity of the Metropolis , but neither property nor thieves could be found until May , 184 S , when the prisoner , and a man named Cobbett , were apprehended , and charged with breaking into St . Mary's Church , Old Kent-Road . Thc property stolen therefrom was found on Cobbett , and both of them were tried at the Old Bailey , when the latter was transported for seven years ; and the prisoner sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment . Since that time witness had ascertained that the same parties had been connected with the other robberies mentioned in the charge . He consequently went to Guildford House of Correction , and took the

      prisoner into custody on the day of his liberation , He had been able to trace most of the property , and had since found out the party who pledged them . She was sister to the transport , and cohabited with the prisoner . —Several witne ' sses having been examined , the principal of whom was Mary Cobbett , tlie transport ' s sister , to whom the stolen property had been given by the prisoner and his associate for the purpose of pawning it . —Mr . Cottingham said there were four eases he could commit the prisoner for , but as further evidence was wanted to complete the others he should remand him for a week . With respect to the female , she must be in attendance , and to ensure that he should order her to find a surety for that purpose , as he very much doubted

      tne judge would order her to be placed alongside the prisoner . He was accordingly remanded , and , at the latter part of the day a young man , who stated he was about being married to Cobbett , came forward and entered into security for her attendance on Monday , when she was released from ousted v . CLERKEN \ yELL .- _ Duel PnEVENiED . —Mr . G W . Whitaker , of No . 12 , Canonbury Cottatjes ) Islington , was brought up on a warrant charged by Mr . Henry St . John Buller , surgeon , of Ko . 24 , Judd-street , Brunswick-square , with havin <* challenged him to fi g ht a duel , and also with ' having threatened his life . —Mr . Buller deposed that he had received a message from the defendant requestin g him to call upon him on Monday morning last at his residence . He proceeded thither in company of

      ms ^ witness's ) brother , and on entering his parlour the defendant produced a pair of pistols , one of which he took up , cocked it , and presented it at witness , saying , "I could tako your life this moment if I chose , and if you appeal to the law , I will settle the business summarily . " Prior to this he offered witness one of the pistols , and challenged him to fight a duel . He ( witness ) said he would decline that mode of satisfaction , and he should appeal to the law for protection . —Mr . Combe Are you aware whether the pistols were loaded or not ? —Witness : I know they were loaded . Witness ' s brother having corroberated this statement , Mr . Combe informed the defendant that he should find bail , himself m £ 200 and two sureties in £ 100 each

      The defendant was then locked up . THAMES , —Fatal Fight . —John Soteher , a labourer , residing at 12 , Sophia-street , Limehouse , was charged with having caused the death of Joseph Dunmore by fighting at the Plaistow marshes , Westham , Essex ; andWilliam George , a seaman Charles Cockling , a labourer , of Bell-alley , and Henry Bolton , of Birehfield rope-walk , were charged with aiding and abetting Soteher in killing and slaying the above-named Joseph Dunmore . —Wm Joseph Dunmore , brother of the deceased , stated that about five o'clock on Sunday morning , the party proceeded to the Plais tow marshes , and a regular stand-up fight took place , the wager being five shdlings a side . They shook hands before the Lht rnicn

      n lasted lor halt an hour and five minutes , Having during that time fought twenty-eight rounds . Cockling and Bolton were seconds to the deceased , and George was one of the seconds to the prisoner botcher . At the end of the twenty-eiVhth round , when the time was called , deceased , who was sitting on one of his second ' s knees , was not able to come u y He was conveyed home , but never spoke after ana died at twelve o ' clock on the sameday . —Cock . Img ; "Your worship , I desired him to give up before the three or four last rounds . —Soteher : Yes and the poor young man was left lying under the hot sun three-quarters of an hour . —Mr . Ingham said he would not proceed further with the case that day He should remand the prisoners until Wednesday Sr im b <> hdd ° n the body in th °

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      «* * nJL ° l fr ? erim . . ts haTe bee * ^ ied atjSt , Petersburgh , by order of the Emperor , to ascertain whether cholera was infectious . Four mur derers sentenced to death were , without being told who had heen its previous occupants , put on a bed recently occupied by four cholera patients who had died ; andnofc one of thorn took the disease It ml then announced to the murderers that they were aboutbemg placed on b * ds . in which four Lrsons had died of mali gnant cholera , and that if they esfnTinf i i *» liv ? S WOuld be spared . -But nstead of cholerabeds , the murderers were put into sols ItStif ° t **¦ oc >^ ^ di 5 K B Pe £ aSltdhi ttvKl ^ « > ct of tfccir feamhat ail torn died within three days .. "Globe .

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      CORN . MakkLane Mos-dav , JuivlG .-Wc had a better supply ofE » gUsh ^ he-rto-day than for many weeks past , and Sit Wbuyers , only tlie best dry samples were takC . i ° at first of the market , at Jast pony ' s pnees , whilst the general qualities sold With diftculty , at Is to 2 s reduction , In Foreign wheat very little was doing even at this abatement , owing to the expectation ot tlie jJanisii blockade being removes ! , and the consequent further arrivals from the Continent . Good fresh flour was scarce , and in demand at full nrlces . Barley , beang , and peas , met only buyers' in retail quantities . Malt , slow sale , Though the arrivals of oats were only moderate , the trade was heavy , excepting for good fresh samples , which are scarce . Kye , very duU sale . Tlwre was rather more inquiry for the best made linseed cakes . A few samples ol new Esssx rapeseed were at market , and offering at £ 28 to £ 30 per last ; the quality , in general , fine .

      BKiTism-Wlieat .-Essex , Suffolk , and Kent , red , 38 s to 47 s , ditto white , 40 s to 58 s , Lincoln , fcorfolk , and York , shire , red , 37 s to 46 s , Northumberland and . Scotch , white , 38 s to 43 s , ditto red , 36 s to 41 s , Devonshire and bomevseU shire , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to —s , rye , 22 s to ' 24 s , barley , 24 s to 30 s , Scotch , 24 s to 28 s , Angus -s to -s Jf alt ordinary , —s to —s , pale , 52 s to DOs , peas , gi-ey , new , 30 s to 32 s , maple 30 s to 31 s , white , 25 s to 27 s . boilers ( new ) , 29 s to 31 s , beans , large , new , 28 s to 31 s , ticks 2 Ss to o-s , harrow , 80 s to 31 s , pigeon , 30 s to 34 s , oats , Lincoln and Yorkshire , feed , 17 s to 20 s , ditto Poland and potato , 18 s to 2 ;! s , Berwick and Scotch , 18 s to 24 s , iscotcli feed , 18 s to 22 s , Irish feed , and black , 10 s to 20 s , ditto potato , 18 s to 24 s , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , rapeseeel , Essex , new , £ 20 to £ 28 per last , carraway seed , Essex , new , 2 as to 233 per civt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 4 10 s per ton , unseed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 2 S 01 os , ship , 31 s to 32 s , town , 40 s to 42 s .

      Foreign . —Wheat , — Dantzig , 48 s to 53 s , Anhalt and Marks , 38 s to 45 s , ditto white , 43 sto 48 s , Pomeranian red , 38 s to 45 s , Rostock 42 s to 50 s , Danish , Holstein , ana Fricshuid , 35 s to 42 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , anil Riga , 35 s to 47 s , Polish .. Odessa , 35 s to 40 s , Marianopoli , and Berdianski , 33 s to 36 s , Taganrog , 33 s to 80 s , Brabant and French , 3 Gs to 42 s , ditto white , 38 s to 42 s , Salonica , 32 s to 35 s , Egvptian , 24 s to 26 s , rye , 21 s to 23 s , barley , Wismar and Itostock , 28 s to 23 s , Danish , 22 s to 2 ls , Sual , 22 s to 27 s , East Friesland , 17 s to 19 s , Egyptian , 16 s to 17 s , Danube , 16 s to 17 s , peas , white , 26 s to 28 s , new boilers , 28 s to 80 s , beans , horse , 25 s to 2 lis , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , Egyptian , 21 s to 23 s , oats , Groningen , Danish , Bremen , ana Friesland , feed and black , 13 s to 17 s , ditto , thick and brew , 16 s to 21 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , loa tolSs , flour , United States , per lOClbs ., 23 s to 25 s , Hamburg 22 s to 24 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 23 s to 25 s , French per ' 2801 bs ., 33 s to 36 s . '

      Wednesday , Jrov 18 . —With wheat we continue to bevery scantily supplied , whilst of oats and barley tlie arrivalsare again large . The weather continuing favourable for the growing crops , and peace being believed to ho restored hetween Germany and"Denmark , by which the Baltic and German ports will again , he opened for the reception o £ supplies of gwdn from those quarters , oui * trade is influenced by these circumstances to the demaniJ being confined to immediate want , that prices of every article are to-day almost nominal . Arrivals this week : —Wheat—English , 820 quarters ; foreign , 3 , 030 quarters . Barley—Foreign , 12 , 330 quarters ; Oats—English , 830 quarters ; foreign , 20 , 310 quarters . Flour , 7 , 548 sacks .

      CATTLE . Jolt 13 . —The supply of beasts was small , and , owing to the morning being cool , there ' was more inquiry for best qualities ; and 4 s was obtained for choicest descriptions . Trade was more cheerful for sheep . We were abundantly supplied with lambs , and the average quality was very middling ; trade was heavy , and late prices with difficulty maintained . Sjiithfieid , Monday , July 16 The supply of foreign stock on offer this morning was extensive , and in fuU average condition . With home-fed beasts we were tolerably well , but not to say heavily supplied , the genev & l quality ot the arrivals from the north was decidedly good . The dead markets being very scantily supplied , and the attendance

      of buyers on the increase , the beef trade was steady , at prices fully equal to those obtained ou Monday last , and at which a good clearance was effected . A few of the primest Scots sold at 4 s ; but the more general top figure for beef was 3 sl 0 dper Slbs . The numbers of sheep were again on the increase , and large , the time of year considered . Still , however , tlie demand for that description of stock was firm , at fully last week ' s quotations . A very few prime old Downs produced 4 s . per Slbs . There was a steady , but not to say brisk , inquiry for lambs , the supply of which was good , at the lute decline in value . Prime small calves moved off steadily , atfull prices . Otherwise , the veal trade was in a sluggish state . The sale for pigs was heavy . In prices we have no change to notice .

      Head of Catixe at SmithfieiiD . Beasts . " .. .. 3 , 234 1 Calves .. .. 393 Sheep .. .. 29 , 880 1 Pigs 24 !> Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the offal ) . Beef ., 2 s 6 d to 3 s lOd j Veal .. 3 s Od to 3 s lOd Mutton .. 3 s Od .. 3 s lOd | Pork .. 3 2 .. 40 lamb .. .. 4 s 0 dto 5 s 0 d . Per Slbs . by the carcase . Newgate and Leadenhah , Monday , July 16 . —Inferior beef , 2 s 2 d to 2 s 4 d ; middling ditto , 2 s Gd to 2 s 8 d ; prime large , 2 s lOd to 3 s 2 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Cd ; large pork , 3 s 2 d to 3 s Gd ; inferior mutton , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; middling ditto , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 4 d ; prime ditto , 3 s 6 d to 3 s 8 d ; veal , 3 s Od to 3 s 8 d ; small pork , 3 s 8 d to 4 s Od : lamb , 4 s 4 d to 5 s id .

      PROVISIONS . Losdon , Monday . —Of business , in the past week we have but little that is new to communicate . Butter . —The transactions in Irish , on boai-d and landed , were neither numerous nor extensive ; and for some descriptions our quotations of this day se ' nnight were scarcely maintained . Foreign declined 2 sper cwt ., and sales not brisk . Bacon , —Irish singed sides were sparingly dealt in , American respectably ; and each at full prices . Scalded Middles without change . Hams trifling less in demand , and the turn cheaper , lard dun . English Butter , July 1 C—In Dorset and Devon butter we note a dull trade , but without alteration in prices . For fresh butter there is an improved demand , and an advance of Is per dozen has been established ; but as foreign is still lower , with a bad sale , we must report the market altogether as drooping . Dorset , fine , 78 s to 80 s per cwt . ; ditto , middling , 68 s to 72 s j Devon , 70 to 72 s ; fresh Buckinghamshire , 10 s to lis Cd per dozen ; fresh West Countrv , Ss . to 10 s .

      COLONIAL PRODUCE , Tuesday Evening , July 17 . —Sugar . — The market has opened rather heavily . 920 hogsheads of West India have been sold ( including 170 hogsheads of Barbadoes and 100 hogsheads of Trinidad ) at auction ; 4 , 731 bags of Mauritius ssdd at rather easier rates ; of 3 , 400 bags of Bengal 2 , 500 sold at previous prices , the remainder were bought in at high prices . A cargo of brown Bahia has beeu sold afloat , for Antwerp , at 20 s per cwt . Coffee . —The sales of Ceylon coffee have gone off steadily at about former rates—730 bags and casks of plantation , at 43 s to COs line ordinary mixed to middling ; 1 , 000 bags of native at 34 s to 35 s ( a few lots at 35 s 6 d ) for low good ordinary to good ordinary . 422 bags of Singapore brought 29 s Gil per cwt ., Mocha was rather dull of sale , and only a portion of 424 bales and half-bales sold at former prices . Privately a cargo of 2 , 500 bags of Itio reported sold at 81 s per cwt . Rice . —A small sale went off without change .

      COAL . Mosdat , July 16 . —Market very heavy , without alteration from last day .

      WOOL . Cirv , Monday , July 16 . —There has been some Foreign wool received since our last . About 3 , 000 hales have come to hand from Sydney , 2 , 000 from Port Philip , and a little from the Cape of Good Hope , Germany , < fcc . The sales arc progressing extremely well , and to afwll attendance . Liverpool , July 14 . —Scotch . —There has notbeenasincle transaction many kind of Scotch this week . All concerned ore looking forward to the result of tlie fairs now about taking place in different parts of Scotland . Laid Highland Wool , per 24 & s .. 0 6 to 7 0 White Highland do . .... 8 0 90 Laid Crossed do ., unwashed .. 79 90 D « n ?" Vf , •• .. 9 0 10 6 1 JO . "Jheviot do ., unwashed .. 80 1 ( 1 0 Do ., do ., washed .. .. .. 12 0 150 White Cheviot do . do is 0 22 0 Imports for the week .. .. Ill bag ' s Previously tins year .. .. 4 , 702 bags ,

      4 . S 13 Fokeios . —There was a public sale of about 400 bales 01 East India this week , which went off at fully late rates . The public sales in London are progiesshig fhvourablv . tvluch gives a better tone to ours . " « rawy , Imports for the Aveek .. .. 537 bales . Previously this year .. .. 28 , 831 bales . 20 . 368

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      _ , _ ,,. DEATHS . IllODublmri'tsftMUM informs us of the death of John iteegan , of that city , for some time ( 1848 ) Dublin correspondent to this journal . We take the following tribute to the memory of tlie deceased from the above-named paper •—« rfttJ ™ ! "T " . t 0 the publie b ? tae ihi ^ ls iih wluch , were subscribed to many of the best noems published in the columns of the Nation , and in o ™ vn . He was a poor man , and had no property but his intellect In our time , that is a miserable patrunonv , These am thA da ? S Of « qianway Kings s - ' . andLen hav £ moSaUhVus Mitchcl remarked , m senp than in Scri pture . We have returned to the iron age , and the poet is regarded as In Mrframan . Poetry is surplus , and the demand does not eonal the supply , r 00 r Keegan Knew this weU hehad htter expenence of its truth . He was a contributor to many of the periodicals ; and the best articles Si in

      peareu JMman ' s Magazine were written by him . From the publication of our first number he was connected with om- staff , and few of our readers will fail to remember his sweet strains . His nature was purely Irish . He was one of the People , and understood them well . There were no legends , familiar to the peasantry , with which he was not acquainted . His poems were thoroughly idiomatic , and racy of the soil They were the Irish ifeart translated and n „ i ° „ fT - They t 0 « ch , 1 us *> ore than the polished lines of drawing-room bards , because they did not consecrate affectation , hut showed us ourselves . The charm of his poetry was its characteristic simplicity . Like the mis-± L ° 1 [ 0 ^ ce-sim ^ a munditiisJt did * not reouireX gewgaws of fsmey . it was plain and exmusite in lis Wth At the tune of his death he was preparing a volume offi for the press ; he died before thly were completed . ^ Even ™ Sr § mentai ?' 8 tate ' thc wovks of such a man deserve 'Ca » S £ T ' » thembcfore WTSS

      laWv ^ wSIk" * " Berry ¥ se » Mr . Joseph Saint died £ , £ hngermg consumption . He was thirty-two vears ES £ » £ i beenf 01 ' mauy * ears azealou * cffit ^ SS JohnBranaghandiedonthe morning of the 12 th in ^ t al ™ f dton ' « 8 ^ 5 ( 5 years . He was ataS aSXi sternly opposed to the monopoly of the soil TvoV »~ S TS-SSSSII

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      k «„« ; 7 ; zz . " ¦""*" , ranting , ? JS ' J ° ' . Great Windmill-street , Haymarket , in the City 5 * westmuiBtcr , for the Proprietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOK , isq . m , p „ and published by thc said William Rider , at Hie Office , in the same street < md parish . —Saturday * July 21 st , 1849 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 21, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21071849/page/8/