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A Special Court of Proprietors of Bank Stock was held on Tuesday, to consider important communications from Government respecting the terms for renewing the Charter.' The attendance of Country bankers was scanty, but there was a strong muster of leading London capitalists The Governor read the correspondence which he and the Deputy-Go. vernor had held with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The intereta of these documents, except as matters of record for the parties concerned, is quite superseded by Sir Robert Peel's speech in the House of Comp roons on Monday night, which comprises the results. The Bank audio. Hiles meet the Minister in a spirit of ready liberality ; suggesting points for consideration, but opposing no obstacle to the Government measure. The Governor then submitted the following resolution to the Court- " That the Court of Directors, having taken the subject into their serione consideration, do recommend the Court of Proprietors to accede to the proposal of her Majesty's Government for the renewal of the Charter, and for providing the general regulations referred to in the letters of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, as soon as they should be proposed to Parliament to be adopted." A desultory conversation ensued. Mr. Fielder gave freest voice to the objections: he considered the terms proposed by the Government at most harsh and unfair. There were stringent regulations for the Bank, but none for the Government or the Private Banks. They were to be limited as to their profits, but not as to their losses. It should be re- membered that they had met with losses heretofore—that they had come forward to assist Government frequently, and frequently at an awful loss. Mr. Timperon would throw the proposals of Government to the winds. Mr. Weeding suggested that the papers should be printed, and deliberately considered; and the Court adjourned till Monday for the purpose.

The "Apposition" of Paul's School took place on Wednesday ; after which, the authorities of the school gave a sumptuous banquet to an illustrious and numerous circle of guests, including Sir Robert Peel and other Ministers, some of the Bishops, and the Chief Baron of the Ex- chequer. In returning thanks when Ms health was drunk, Sir Robert Peel mentioned among the distinguished scholars produced by the school, Sir Charles Wetherell, Sir Thomas Wilde, and Sir Frederick Pollock.

The annual festival of the Sons of the Clergy was celebrated at St. Paul's Cathedral, in the usual way, on Thursday ; and then the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the clergy, several of the Judges, the Lord Mayor and several City dignitaries, and others, sat down to a splendid banquet in Merchant Tailors Hall ; the Lord Mayor presiding. The collection of the day amounted to 870/.

Among the charitable and religious meetings at Exeter Hall, have been the following. On Monday, the British and Foreign School Society. Lord John Russell presided, and enlarged on the advance- ment of education. During the past year, 781 boys and 450 girls had been admitted into the parent school in the Borough Road. The total num- ber received since the commencement were-27,140 boys, and 16,162 girls; total, 43,303. The normal schools were represented to be in a state of great efficiency. The receipts of the year, including the Queen's annual subscription of 100/, were 1,0811.; there was a balance at the beginning of the year of 6041.; liabilities, 8401. On Tuesday, the Church Pastoral Aid Society ; which makes grants to 237 incumbents, having charge of 1,935,613 souls ; income, 21,8281.; probable liabilities, 20,9501. On Wednesday, the Protestant Association ; Mr. Plamptre, M.P., in the chair. Tractarianism, Maynooth, and Popery, were among the topics canvassed. The Society has distributed 150,000 tracts during the year ; the receipts (including a donation of 1,000/. from Admiral Duff) were 2,188l.; expenditure, 1,802/. On Thursday, the London Missionary Society receipts, 81,8121.; expenditure, 83,523/.

The promoters of the Association for the Aid and Benefit of Dress- makers and Milliners held their first annual meeting, at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Saturday. Lord Ashley was in the chair, and stated the objects of the society-

1st, To induce the principals of dressmaking and millinery establishments to limit the hours of work to twelve per diem, and to abolish working on Sun- days; 2d, to promote an improved system of ventilation; 3d, to induce ladies to allow sufficient time for the execution of orders, and to encourage those esta- blishments which cooperate in carrying out the objects of the Association ; 4th, to register at the office, free of cost, the names and addresses of young persons of good character and capacity, and to meet the inquiries of employers seeking additional assistants in a busy season ; 5th, to afford pecuniary assist- ance to deserving young persons in cases of temporary distress or difficulty ; 6th, to afford to such young persons as require it medical advice, change of air, and other assistance, in cases of sickness; and lastly, to form a provident fund in connexion with the Association."

From the Secretary's report it appeared,-that 575/. had been contri- buted; 250/. had been invested ; 100/. remained in the treasurer's hands; employment had been secured and relief given in some cases ; but as yet no important general results had been attained. The report was adopted; and also the formal rules and regulations of the society, on the motion of Lord Dudley Stuart.

The supporters of the Literary Fund held their annual, festival at Freemasons Tavern, on Wednesday. The Marquis of Northampton presided ; and about a hundred and fifty gentlemen connected with lite- rature, either as patrons or practisers, sat down to table. The subscrip- tions amounted to 800/.

The usual weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League was held at Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday. Mr. Warburton, M.P., filled the chair. Mr. Villiers apologized for the absence of Mr. Bright, in consequence of a domestic affliction ; and of other leading Repeaters, who had gone down to Lancashire, to promote the return of a Free- trader for the Southern division of that county. The speakers of the evening were Mr. Villiers, Mr. Fox, and Mr. John Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs was introduced to the meeting by Mr. Villiers as a Buckinghamshire farmer, but he described himself as a small farmer and a large land- agent, and father to the editor of the Aylesbury News, a Free-trade paper.

- In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the Solicitor-General applied for a rule calling on Mr. Labbeius Charles Hamfrey, the bar- rister, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for charging the Duke of Marlborough, in an election- speech at Woodstock, with corrupt and disgraceful conduct as a Magis- trate and a gentleman. The statements made by Mr. Humfrey were calculated to injure the Duke in the discharge of his Magisterial duties. There was something peculiar in the case: Mr. Humfrey did not go to Woodstock to canvass the electors, for he said that would be hopeless ; but he rendered himself the instrument of the slander and malice of others. Affidavits had been made contradicting his statements. It was said that one Harris, a tenant of the Duke's, was fined is. and 19s. costs for a trifling trespass ; that two Magistrates refused to commit the man ; and that he was brought before the Duke, sitting on a dog-kennel with a glass of ale in his hand, who committed him to gaol. There was not a particle of truth in the story : Harris was not a tenant of the Duke's until ten months after the occurrence ; he was pro- secuted, not by the Duke, but by a surveyor of highways ; two Magistrates did not refuse to commit him, but one did, because he could not in law ; he was committed at an agricultural meeting in Blen- heim Park, when a Petit Sessions was held at a place called Kennel Farm, but there was no kennel there ; he refused to pay the shilling fine, and persisted in a really contumacious refusal after being remanded for a fortnight to consider of it. It was not true that the Duke refused to pay for his father's coffin : it was ordered by a woman named Glover, whom the late Duke appointed residuary legatee ; it was made of tim- ber furnished by the steward at Blenheim ; and the present Duke only refused to pay for his own materials, tendering the money for time and labour. Smallbones did not lend the Duke money ; the Duke never staid in his house except once, for a few days, during a contested elec- tion • it had been discovered that his farm was badly cultivated, but he refused to enter into any new contract, on account of his age, and he gave up his farm ; the Duke expressed regret at losing so old a tenaift. and offered him for the rest of his life, rent-free, a house worth 25L a year. As to the withdrawal of a pension from one Gray, the Duke knew nO such person. Other tales received an equally direct contradiction. Lord Denman refused the application, on the ground that there was no pre- cedent for granting a rule on account of words used at an election, and that the cases were not sufficient : they did not allege that the Duke acted corruptly in administering his duties as a Magistrate, neither were they calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, and consequently did not call for the extraordinary jurisdiction of the Court. The other Judges concurred, and the rule therefore was refused.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr. Platt moved for a rule to show cause why a writ of certiorari should not issue to re- move the inquisition of a Coroner's Jury, with a view to have part Of it expunged. In the case of Charlotte Griffin, a suicide, the Jury added to a verdict of" Temporary Insanity" a reflection on "the cruel and heartless conduct of Charles James Scratchley, B. A. "; and in con- sequence, Mr. Scratchley has been suspended from his functions as a minister, by the Bishop of London. The object was to have the latter part of the verdict expunged. Lord Denman said that the latter part of the verdict was wholly irrelevant ; the Bishop ought not to have acted on it ; and he was not sure that it would not have subjected the parties to an action for libel. But there was no authority for expunging merely irrelevant matter. It is, however, proper that jurors should know that they have no power whatever to decide any question whatever but that which is submitted to them by the law ; and that, when they un- dertake to do more, they do that which is an injurious exercise of a power which they do not possess. Rule refused.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, William Crouch, a groom, aged twenty-eight, was charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Frances Elizabeth Crouch, in Little Marylebone Street, on the 30th March. The evidence did not differ from that given at the Coroner's inquest. It will be remembered that Crouch and his wife lived at se. parate ' but still visited each other ; that, although expressing affection for her, he uttered some threats against her, such as that he would " hide " her, or cut her throat; and that he went to his wife's lodging, cut her throat, and then slightly wounded his own. The de- fence offered by his counsel was that he was of unsound mind. Mr. Thomas Joliffe Tuffnell, a surgeon, said that, in 1838, Crouch was in the service of Sir Lawrence Palk ; when befell from a horse, hit his head against a stone, and suffered concussion of the brain : he was ad- mitted in the Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he was senseless for three days, and could not answer a question for six. Several witnesses proved that after this accident he changed from a lively to a dull morose man, always sleeping: for that reason he was successively dis- charged from the service of Sir Lawrence Palk, Lord Falmouth, (in whose house the servants called him "the half-crazed man,") and Lord Cadogan. At the last place he fell from a ladder, and again hurt his head. He then became pot-boy at the Crown and Thistle, in Thomas Street, Oxford Street ; and was discharged for drowsiness. He was par- ticularly apt to be excited by drink. Mr. Baron Alderson pointed out to the Jury, that insanity produced, however readily, by drink, is no de- fence, because the taking the alcohol is a voluntary act. The Jury re- tired at four o'clock, and not agreeing to their verdict, they were locked up for the night. On Thursday, they were still at issue, exhausted with want of food, and anxious to be discharged. Being summoned into court, they told the Judge that their only difficulty was the question of insanity. Mr. Baron Alderson further explained the law ; and even- tually the Jury pronounced a verdict of " Guilty." Sentence of death was pronounced.

Augustus Dalmas, who is accused of murdering Mrs. Sarah War- lane, at Battersea Bridge, on the night of April the 29th, surrendered himself to the Police at the D Station in Marylebone, at one o'clock on Saturday morning. He went there and said, "I want to speak to the Inspector on duty." Sergeant Cumming replied that he was doing duty for the Inspector ; on which the newcomer said, "My name IS Augustus Dalmas." Finding his appearance to tally with the Polio* description, Sergeant Cumming formally arrested him. Dalmas served, "I wish to surrender myself to you: I ant hunted to death: the reports that have appeared in the papers are all wrong." Mr. Cum- ming cautioned him, that whatever he said would be repeated to a Ma. gistrate ; but Dalmas went on- " I did not murder her; I was with her at nine o'clock that night at a pub- lic-house ; we had some gin and cloves together ; but I never went over the bridge at all. We had some strong observations about family affair,; when she said my children were very ungrateful to her. She had accompanied me to see my daughter to her new situation, and she told me that if any thing wrong happened to my daughter she should never enter her house again." The pin- sonar then said no more ; but some time afterwards, when he was being ind into a cell, he said, "I was not on Battersea Bridge at all : she walked to the toll-gate : my daughter Charlotte is the only witness who has spoken the truth."

In the morning, Dalmas was taken in a cab to Wandsworth, to be examined by the Magistrate of the district in which the murder occurred. A large crowd followed the cab : one part of it was cut off by closing Battersea Bridge gate, until the cab had gone forward for some distance; but at every point new crowds were collected. While passing through the well-known neighbourhood, Dalmas manifested no emotion ; and for the most part he showed great self-possession. At Wandsworth, he was placed before Mr. Clive, the Magistrate. The evidence resembled that taken at the inquest, with some additional matter respecting his arrest. In his pocket had been found a duplicate-ticket, for a dress• coat pawned at the shop of Mr. Wells, in Broad Street, Bloomsbury, for 3s. The prisoner made few remarks on the evidence. He observed that Sergeant Cumming was wrong in saying that he mentioned Char- lotte as the only witness who told the truth ; it was his daughter Augusta whom he mentioned. When Mr. Connor, a surgeon, described the fatal wound, Dalmas asked if it were possible for a person to walk from the centre-arch of the bridge to the toll-house' [as Mrs. M•Farlana had been described to do,] with such a wound? Mr. Connor thought it possible ; but it all depended on the quantity of blood lost. Chart lotte was brought forward : on seeing each other, the father and daughter became greatly agitated : Charlotte fainted, then screamed hysteri,

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call, and was removed from court; wnile Datums in vain struggled to repress his tears. He declined to say any thing for his defence then ; and he was remanded till Friday. The inquiry was continued yesterday, and the prisoner was again re- Mended for examination today. The chief point for notice is a varia- tion in the account given by Charlotte Dahlias; who said, that when her father saw her in Montpelier Square, on the night of April the 29th, he gave her a pocket-book, containing property of hers ; but her hand Was not cut, nor did he say any thing about Mrs. M•Farlane, but only that he was very unhappy, and uncertain of getting a situation. There was no mark on her hand. If she gas e a different account before, which she was not aware of having done, it was because she was in a state of excitement. The Coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs. M'Farlane was continued on Monday. The additional evidence was not of much interest. The Jury returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder 'S against Augustus Dalmas.

The Police made a general onslaught on the West-end gambling- houses, after midnight on Tuesday. Detachments from the A, B, C, D, F, G. L. P, It, S, and V divisions, each headed by the Superintend- ent of Division, armed with axes and crowbars, and provided with a ladder, proceeded to attack several noted houses. The result was the seizure of a great quantity of gaming-implements, documents of the bind called " I 0 11.," cash to the amount of nearly 3,0001., and seventy- three persons. On Wednesday, the prisoners were brought up at Marlborough Street Police- office ; and the case of each house was taken in succession. The first case was that of "the Cottage," No. 60 Jer- snyn Street. Superintendent Baker of the C division proceeded thither with a strong body of constables, and demanded admission. It was re- fused. Inspector Beresford mounted a ladder, and tried to break open window on the first-floor with his truncheon. While he was doing so, four rungs of the ladder broke ; and he hung by his hand, injuring one Of his fingers. At that moment, the porter opened the door, and the Police entered. They seized Everett, the porter; William Cauty, sup- posed to be the manager, who was drinking brandy-and-water in a room up stairs; William Leech, George Williams, and William Reeves, a hazard table, a roulette-table, with other gaming apparatus: two dice. boxes were found in Cauty's pocket. For the defence, Mr. Wilkins contended that it had not been proved that gaming was in progress, or that the visiters were there for any other purpose than refreshment. Mr. Hardwick, however, considered the case to be proved ; and Cauty was sentenced to pay a fine of 60/. or three months' imprisonment, Everett to a fine of 30/. or three mcnths' imprisonment, and the others to 3/. or three weeks' imprisonment. In the second case, John Jones, John Wilmot, and John Maywood Harris were charged with being in the house 27 Regent Street. Superintendent Mallaliea entered the house without let; found it splendidly lighted, with gaming- apparatus; but only two of the prisoners smoking in one room, and the third concealed in the kitchen. The defence was, that the house was a restaurateur's; but the Police said that it was not licensed, and that visitors were scrutinized through a middle door before admission. Fines of 3L were inflicted. In another case, some amusement was occasioned by seeing Ledbitter, the Police-officer, among the prisoners ; but it ap- peared that he had only been smoking in the tobacconist's shop, No. 12 Bury Street, which was attached to the gaming-house. Here :Super- intendent Hughes and his men were obliged to break open four iron- bound doors. Fines of 3L were inflicted in this and several other similar cases.