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Lord Oranworth took his seat as Lord Chancellor on 'Tuesday, at West- minster. He was accompanied by the Lords Justices, the Master of the Bolls, and the Vice-Chancellors, and attended by Master Humphry and Master Blunt. The oaths were administered to the Lord Chancellor; and Sir George Turner was sworn one of the Lords Justices, and Sir William Page Wood one of the Vice-Chancellors. The various Judges haying congratulated Lord Cranworth, retired to their courts.

At a Vestry meeting held in the parish of Islington on Thursday,—the Vicar in the chair,—a motion proposing the adoption of the Bath's 'and 1Vashhouses Act by the parish was rejected on 'a show of hands, by 60 to 24. Those who favour the project demanded a poll. At a previous meeting a committee had been appointed to inquire whether similar in- stitutions already in existence were remunerative. They 'had not found them to be sufficiently so, and declined to make a repott. Nevertheless, they proposed the adoption of the act. The main ground of opposition was, that baths and washhouses should be self-supporting, and not main- tained by compulsory rates.

A "Free Church of England" building at Stoke Newington, recently erected, was opened on Sunday. The Reverend Mr. Donovan, a gentle- &an who was ordained some years ago by the Bishop of Ohio, and was Some time since refused a licence to officiate in the Metropolitan diocese, on the ground that he was admitted into holy orders by 'a foreign prelate, is to be the officiating minister. The Reverend J. E. Gladstone, late mi- nister of Long Acre Episcopal Chapel, whose name has been so 'pro- minently before the public, took .partin the services; - as did also the Re- verend Tenison Cuff, who seceded from the Church of England in the early.part of last year.

The-Council of the Colonial and International Postage Association have (sane to the following resolution respecting Colonial rates of postage-

" That the Kist objeot of the Association is to extend the system of uni- ftm penny postage, already in operation between :the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, to the 'whole of the British Colenies and .possessions. The total amount of postal revenue deriVed from all the Colonies does not exceed 200,000/. a year. The whole obviously could not be sacrificed by the measure proposed ; but it would be sound national policy to abandon even the *hots to promote in so eininelit a degree 'the commerce, education, freedom -of communication, and friendly 'relations between thetolonies and the Mother-country."

A 'manuscript furnished by the PostmasterGeneral pitts the Astsoeia- tion in possession of the items. The highest sum is that derived from the Indian mail, . 79,0184 Next to this stand the American, 33,237/., and the West Indian, 23,8841. The African mail, exclusive of the Cape, yields the lowest sum, 8831. The Secretary of the Association, Don Manuel de Ysasi, has published letters received by him Trout the Russian Postmaster-General, highly fa- vourable to the project. It appears that cheap and uniform postage has for years been established in Russia.

%Pe have to chroniele a nalv agricultural she* in the Ilfetropolis—a dhow of poultry. For some time the attention of the British faitner has been .drawn tothis fruitful sonrce of profit, and poultry are no* becorning as much objects of competition as short horns and 'South Downs. The first annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits, was opened en Tuesday last, in the Baker Stix,...t -Bazaar. Amongst the wonders of the yard were the Cochin China fowls ; for one pen of which, 'consisting of a dock and three hens, no less a sum than sixty guineas was demanded. Other notables were the Poland fowls; three geese, weighing together forty- eight pounds gigantic Indian pigllins • and Australian pigeons, con- spicuous freal the beauty of their plimage, Eight of the Detective Police watched over the eggs of thAtorre411106ble birds. Among those enrolled as contributors and supportels at the Illithibition, are the Duke of Rutland, tin; Marquis of Statabury, the Usti tit Derby, Earl Stanhope, Lord Cettenhani, the Earl of Stradbrelte, the. Earl of Harrington Lord Ducie, the Earl of Clarecdon the Earl of Lichfield, the Earl of Stamford, Lord N.-. versham, .Lord-Matiitste, the Martinis orpranby, Lord Sandys, Lord Guernsey, the Honourable Mrs. 'mom aff'd the Honourable Mrs. Finch. The object of the Exhibition is "to enable the public to improve 'their collections." Many thousands of persons visited the yard during Wednesday and Thursday ; when the show closed with an auction.

Vice-thanoellor Sinderslay has refused the injunction applied for by Mr. Murray to restrain Mr. Bogue from publishing a Handbook of Switzerland alleged to have been pirated from Murray's famous Handbook. The Vice- Chancellor did not think Mr. Murray's book had been sufficiently used in the process of eompiling the book published by Mr. Bogue to warrant him in restraining its sale. But he thought that Mr. 'Murray's was so far the bet- ter work that he need not fear the competition.

In the course of business in the Bail Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Faie stated, that in all eases of verdicts against acceptors of bills of exchange, makers of promissory notes, and drawers of cheeks, execution would issue in four days without special application to the judge ; but in all other cases, and where the parties were only secondarily liable, the exemitien would not issue until fourteen days.

Henry Hotter, the man who cut his wife's throat while exasperated at her threatened removal from him by her mother, Was hanged at Newgate on Monday morning. Some circumstances are reported which attach more than the usual interest to this ease of capital punishment. Holier had strong hopes of a commutation of his sentence. Alibut ten 'days before that appointed for Horler's death, the Sheriffs, Messrs. Alderman Carter and Croll, acconr- panied by the Ordinary of Newgate, waited'epter Lord Pahnerston at the Home Office for the purpose of begging the Royal clemency to the case. They had been urged to this by the misoner, who dictated a petition. The Sheriffs dwelt particularly upon the fact of mercy hating been extended in several similar cases. Lord Palmerston listened attentively to the applica- tion, and expressed an opinion'thatTheliheriffs haa only done their duty in laying before him certain facts that had not transpired at the trial ; but he added, that, after conferring with the judge who tried the prisoner, he saw no reason to recommend the exercise of the Queen's prerogative ; in fact, he was not Bute that the frequency of crimes Similar to the prisoner's had not arisen from the clemency referred to. loner still hoped. But eventu- ally he prepared for the worst. In the course of a conversation with the Reverend Mr. Davis, on Saturday, he issaid to have made a remarkable ad- mission. "After expressing the great fear he had of undergoing the actual pain of a violent death, he stated that he did not think Ids crime would have cost him his life—that he expected he should have been imprisoned for life or transported ; but that, if he had looked forward to the punishment of death as a probable contingency, he Should not have committed the trims." The murderer behaved with a strew of decorum in his last hours. He was wretchedly ignorant when he entered the prison ; and he confessed that he had lived a wicked life. He seems to have been a-victim of parental ne- glect. It is noted that within ten years no fewer than thirteen persons capitally convicted at the Old Bailey have had 'their sentences commuted; and it would seem that Holier was not devoid Of that kind of knowledge.

Atthe Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, "(leant" Henty Seherr Thoss was tried for stealing three valuable bracelets, the property of Vaughan' and Co., jeWellers in the Stran i

Strand. He went to the shop n a brougham, with a livery- servant, and got possession of the bracelets on pretence of showing them to a lady ; and he left as a-seeurity certain bonds issued at Pesth. The bracelets went -tothepawnbrokar ; the bonds were not forgeries, but they-were worth- less. The "Count" defended himself with great impudence, and was in- solent to the counsel and witnesses. He was found guilty, and condemned to year's imprisonment. He will be tried on other charges if certain con- federates can be produce& Sohn Williate Molloy, en Old-man, who declares that he Was formerly'So- lieltor-Getteral at Berniada,Jairdsubsequently Judge of the llepreme Gotta at Newfoundland., has teen Scuttle prison fiat" the MiddlesexSemions few tivelve months, for fraudulently obtahiing five shillings from the waiter at an eating* house on the strength of a worthless check. He has been in prison before for similar offences.

At the Mansionhouse On 'Monday' Robert Ferdinand Pries, a merchant carrying on business neCtothy Clianthets,-and residing. at Brixton, was charged with uttering 'forged hills of lading, whereby he had fraudulently obtained 18,0001. This afrair has caused muoh excitement on 'Change, as Pries bad been °Smelled with very large dealings in Illeigneorn, as well as having raised, it is said, nearly 40,000/. on false bills -of lading, musing an extensive firm to step payment. The ease that was gone into on Monday was this. Messrs. Holtbrd and Co., bankers of NO( Broad-Street, advanced 13,,000/. upon bills otlading or dorm-Warrants Ifittperting to be issued by Brown mill Young, granary-keepers. -The advanee was to have-heen'repaid on the 3d indent, but Messrs. Hollerd extended the 'time. On Saturday lust Tries gave a check for 30001. on account; -which was not honoured. On Saturday evening,'he Was arrested at Ruston station, as he was about to start forNewcattle ' • it having been' discovered' thatthe signatures to the viarrants were forged. A 'witness now gave nVidenee to that effect. -On Saturdat, clerk who went to the house of the prisoner forted a lady there, Supposed to be his wife : she reed a letter which she had received from Pries, intimating that he had committed crimes and that be intended to destroy himself. Sub- sequently, when an officer went to the house the letter could. not be found; but there was a smell as if paper had just been burnt. -Sufficient evidence was taken to 'warrant the detention of the accused, and he was remanded. The firm, whose suspension of payment was announced en -Monday mein- ivas that of Messrs. Coltman and Stolterieht. Their liabilities amount to 300,000/. Pries is said to have obtained 80,0001. from them partly by the -use of forged bills of lading. With the exception of the them, with Pries, the house Was in a prosperous 'state, With a 'free capital of 40,000/.

In connexion With this subjeet, these renierks eV/mated in the Times City Article written on Monday—" It was considered in the Corn-market today, thatin the investigation of the above affair a solution will arise of the origin of certain large purchases of grain at foreign ports, on English account, at various intervals dining the .past year, and which, inasmuch as they Were made at prices which involved a loss in oar markets, have given rise to con- jectures that they Could only have bean ,cartied on for political objeets. At one time it was rumoured that they had been undertaken by the Protec- tionist party with the view of depressing the 'wheat-market at the time of the elections, so as to increase the dislike of the agriculturists to Free-trade : but this met with little Credence and another equally unlikely surmise was Offered, to the greet 'that they had been conducted at the expense of the French Government, to lessen the English deniatid -for Freneh flour, and thus to keep prices in thatoountry down to a_point.that would insure popular

contentment during the arrangements for bringing about the declaration of the Empire. The general calculations were, that the sum lost by the opera- tion was not less than 100,001)1.; and, as the fact of their being carried on was indisputable, any supposition was more rational than that they were conducted by private individuals for private objects. It will now, perhaps, appear, that by the system under which the consignments were drawn for, .a temporary command of cash was obtained by their realization in London, which has enabled an enormous speculation to be protracted through a con- siderable period."

"Captain" Johnson has been again remanded by the Lambeth Magistrate

who .means ultimately to- him, on the charge of obtaining 100W. from Mrs. Stewart by fals pretences. A gentleman from Bedford stated, that in 1842 the accused "did" him and other people in the town out of some 7001. by his plausible tales and manner. This matter is to be farther inquired into.

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Thomas Wilkinson, a youth of nineteen, who was under sentence of twenty years' transportation for robbery and wounding, has out his throat in MR- bank Penitentiary. At the inquest, it was stated that lie had been in sepa- rate confinement for three months. Dr. Baty, the prison physician, and Captain Groves, the governor, admitted that the plan of imprisoning convicts separately for six months had an injurious effect on their mental and bodily health. There had been no suspicion, however, that Wilkinson was sui- cidally disposed. The Jury unanimously returned this verdict—" That the deceased destroyed his own life by cutting his throat with a razor; he being at the time in a state of temporary insanity, brought on by separate con- finement."

There was an exceedingly high spring-tide in the Thames on Wednesday morning, caused by the wind and the large quantity of water flowing down the river from the upper country. In London a good deal of damage was done, and the low lands further down the river were overflowed.