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The adjourned meeting of Bank of England Proprietors was held on Wednesday, to vote on the question of the dividend. The Directors hay-. ing last week proposed a dividend of 3i per cent, Mr. Fielder moved an amendment far an additional bonus of 1 per -cent. On the closing of the ballot, the result was declared by the scrutineers to be in favour of the Directors' proposition; the numbers being 138 for 3 per cent, 123 for 4i. —majority for the lower rate, 15.

A quarterly General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was held on Wednesday; Sir James Law Lushington in the chair. The subject of Major Edwardes's gallant services at Moulton, in- troduced in the form of a question by Mr. Sullivan led to the reading of the minutes of recent proceedings in a Court of Directors on the subject. It appeared that the Court, in exceedingly compli- mentary terms, had voted a gold medal to Major Edwardes; a tribute cor- dially approved by the India Board, in a letter from Mr. Thomas Wyse, Mr. Poynder made his customary charge on the payment to the Temple of Juggernaut; and Mr. George Thompson took a little ride on his hobby of Salters. On a declaration from the Chairman that the Directors had not neglected the subject of tribunals in India for the recovery of small debts, Mr. Sullivan withdrew a motion for the production of papers.

The Marylebone Vestry met in great strength on Saturday, after a six- weeks adjournment. A demand by the Metropolitan Commissioners for 4,1141. over and above the amount provided by the parish police-rate, was the subject of indignant comment; and resolutions showing an intention to contest the surcharge were unanimously adopted.

Progress was reported by the joint Committee of Vestrymen and Di- rectors and Guardians of the Poor in measures for the emigration of pauper children. A plan has been arranged with the Government for assisting the parish by sending young orphan girls and others, whose parents are consenting parties, to the Australian Colonies as emigrants. The parish's to provide the outfit and 51. towards the passage of each young female; the balance of the expense being defrayed from Colonial funds. The girls are to be selected for their good character by the Emigration Commis- sioners; and the Colonial authorities are to be instructed to provide for their reception, and for proper superintendence so long as they remain of tender years. Twenty-seven young woman and twenty-three young girls between twelve and sixteen years of age have already volunteered.

In last week's Spectator we noted briefly the commencement of the trial of Dowling, the Confederate and Chartist conspirator' on Friday. The trial was not then finished; and as the evidence in it will be common to many of the other numerous Chartist trials, and in addition some remark- able personal incidents occurred, the case is entitled to fuller detail. We begin where we left off last week.

The Attorney-General explained the origin of the present law. "The Legis- lature, feeling the defeats of the law as it formerly stood, and believing that many foolish and vainglorious persons were induced to commit offence.s which were designated as high treason, solely for the purpose of being considered martyrs, and that this inducement would no longer remain if the crime were reduced to the class of common—or, if he might use the expression, vulgar offence of felony" —had altered the law to the present state. He alluded to the position of the prisoner. "The prisoner moved in a very different sphere from the other prisoners in the dock with him. He was a man of education, and an artist by profession; possessing considerable talent, which, if properly employed, would have enabled him to live respectably."

He sketched the political objects of the prisoner and his colleagues. "The body of persons in this country calling themselves Chartists had joined with Confederate Clubs of Irishmen to do all that laid in their power to embarrass the Government, and to harass the respectable and peaceably-disposed portion of the inhabitants of the Metropolis. Things came to such a pass, that the Chartists arranged themselves into classes; they divided the Metropolis into districts, and by means of secret organization possessed the power of raising simultaneous meetings throughout the country, and thus to a certain extent embarrassing and paralyzing the exertions of the Government." The prisoner appeared, from docu- ments found on him, to be Secretary to the Davis Club; and he attended meetings in that character. "At one of these, an Irishman named Doheny congratulated the meeting upon Ireland being in arms; which statement was received with acclamation, and a resolution was carried that every man should make himself as strong as he could to oppose the Government.. At another, Mr. Kenealey was present, and, it appeared, moved a resolution disclaiming all connexion with Chartists, or physical force; upon which the prisoner moved an amendment, that the resolution should be postponed to the Day of Judgment; and the amendment was carried almost unanimously." The evidence of Powell the informer, and of other witnesses was taken. Powell stated that he joined the " Cripplegate locality" of the Chartist Society just afterithe Kennington Common meeting on the 10th April; and soon after- wards, a Council of Management was appointed, consisting of five persons. Pow- ell was one of the five, as he was thought "a resolute man." This Council managed the general affairs of the Association. In July, a Committee, called the Secret Committee, was appointed, which met apart from the Council at a separate place; and the Council elected Powell a member of that Committee. The pri- soner was also a member. On the 20th July, the Committee held a meeting, at which Powell and the prisoner were present. It was proposed, after reports had been made of the feeling in each locality with regard to the physical-force movement, that a return should be made by each delegate of the number of men in every locality who were willing to fight. When this had been done, another Committee was appointed for the purpose of drawing up five plans for action, and the prisoner was elected a member of that Committee. They were in deli- beration for three hours, and adjourned soon after twelve at night. At the next meeting, one Mullins produced a map of London; and all the others present had papers in their hands, on which there were sketches of different localities. The person who acted as chairman said "Mind, gentlemen, our object is if possible, to destroy the power of the Queen and establish a republic." There was a general acquiescence in this by every. one present. There was then some conversation about vitriol, and about assassinating the Police; and Bose said "We mast first assassinate the Police, pull down the stationhouses, and build barricades." This was also acquiesced in by all present. The Committee at the Black Jack was dissolved on this occaeion, on account of two of the members being suspected to be spies; and another Committee, called the Ulterior Committee, was appointed in its place. It was generally understood what this Committee was appointed for, but nothing was said. [Powell himself IVO suspected, but always " indigmut- ly repudiated imputations of being a spy."]

"At a meeting on the 1st August, there was a little jealousy about there not being a sufficient number of Irishmen in the Ulterior Committee, and four Irish- men were placed upon it. On the 4th August, a motion was made that all the delegates should act according to the decision of the Ulterior Committee; and a vote of confidence in the Committee was carried. A resolution was likewise car- ried, that each delegate should appoint four men as telegraphs, to be stationed all

the way from the Dispatch Coffeehouse to Kennington Common, where a Chartist meeting was advertised to be held on the Sunday following. On the 7th, in con- sequence of the report that Smith O'Brien had been arrested in Ireland, the Com- mittee-men resigned. Mullins had previously stated that he had no confidence as the four Irishmen who had been added to the Committee, because he had not seen their plans; and a fresh Committee was appointed when the other resigned. At this meeting also, a resolution was passed that a ' visionary ' President should be appointed; but no name was mentioned. Ile was to be somebody, and he was to be nobody. It was also arranged that each member should enbscribe three-farthings to provide a salary for the 'visionary' president. On the 9th, the Vice-Chairman called on all the delegates to express their al- legiance to the Committee, and their intention to act as they desired for the good of the people: and all of them did so, some of them expressing their readiness to lose their lives in the cause. On the 14th, it was proposed that a deputation should wait upon some of the North-western Railway engineers, who at that time had a difference with their employers, to know if they would join in the proposed movement; and two persons left the meeting for that purpose. Nearly the last meeting was held on the lath, at the Lord Denman public-house. At that meeting pieces of ribbon were distributed among the delegates, in order that they might be known as the leaders of the people; they were to be worn on the left arm. One of them was given to me, and the other delegates also had one given to each of them. A motion was then made that the Committee should retire and consult; and they did so. They were absent about an hour, the delegates awaiting their return. When they came back, Cuffey said to Mulling, 'Now, Mr. Chairman you had better give the instructions as quickly as possible.' Muffins then Gentlemen, you are aware the Committee retired to consult; they have directed me to give you some instructions. We have no reason to doubt the correctness of Mr. Lacey's statement, that the men of Birmingham and Manchester are up tonight; and therefore, tomorrow night, gentlemen' you must come out and strike the blow. It is necessary you should speak out loudly and boldly, for there must be no flinching in the matter.' Cuffey said, the Chairman had better put it round to every one present, and let them answer 'yes' or 'no.' He then put the question to me, Will you?' I replied, Yes'; and he walked round the room and pat the same question to every one present, and they all agreed to come out to fight, except Ferdinand° and another delegate. Mul- lins then said, that they should take up four positions: Clerkenwell Green by Mr. Brewster; the Town Hamlets by Mr. Payne; the Broadway, Westminster, and the Seven Dials, were to be taken by Mr. Mullins and Mr. Barrett. They were to go out on the next night; and on one of the delegates asking how they were to get te the meeting-place with their pikes and poles, Mr. Mullins said, as well as they could. It was next arranged that they were to meet at twenty minutes past nine o'clock to a second; and Mullins proposed that Richie should superintend and direct the men who were to fire the houses and railway stations. R' ichie under- took the duty; and it was arranged that the 'fire' men should meet at the Orange Tree. A pass-word was then talked of; and it was arranged that the word 'justice' should be the pass-word, instead of 'Frost' or 'Mitchel,' as was first proposed. A list of the fire' men was made out; and it appeared there were forty-six who were ready to undertake the task of firing the houses. When they were about to separate, Mullins said, May the bitterest curse of God rest upon any man who shall betray any of us.' The prisoner was present at all the meet- ings except the one from which the deputation went to the engine-drivers.

On his cross-examination, Powell stated that Dowling always spoke peaceably and quietly, and took no active part in the proceedings. Concerning himself, Powell protested that he joined the Chartists from curiosity, and remained with them for the good of his country. He took notes of all the proceedings, and put himself in communication with the Police. "1 made ball-cartridges and bullets, and dist ibated them. I made them for Gurney, and at his request. I made al- together fifteen or sixteen dozen bullets. I never made any pikes or pike-handles. I never gave powder or bullets to any one of the men except Gamey, who was our Warden. I don't recollect having had any conversation with a man named Donaine,:uponthe absinility of the moral-force doctrine. I believe I have been partly living lately at the expense of her Majesty, but I used to live better before. Money is given me for my subsistence." [The Attorney-General said, he did not consider this was a matter at all relevant to the inquiry; but he had no hesita- tion in saying that the witness was paid one pound a week for his subsistence.] "I never urged them to commit violence: I may have said that I was sick of their talking, but I don't know what I meant by the expression. I never told them they were going too slow, and that the only way for them to get their rights was to set fire to London. I don't believe I ever made use of such an expression. The only way I stimulated them on was to give Gurney half a pound of gunpow- der. It was suspected that I was a spy on account of a certain person with whom I was in communication being seen to come to my house. The charge was made against me; but I successfully refuted it, and the person who made the charge was turned out of the room. I did not press myself forward. I was desirous to get into their confidence gradually, in order that I might betray them the more securely. When Mullins said, 'May the bitterest curse of God rest upon any man who would betray any of us,' it was not addressed to me; but I thought a good deal of it. I have not made so much by being a spy as by carpentering." In addition to the evidence of Powell, and some formal depositions, a letter was produced which was found on Dowling when he was arrested. It was addressed to his aunt, and signed "Roderick M'Alpine Dhu "; but was in his handwriting. In that letter he informed his relative that it was all up with him; that his neck wee in danger, and he must fly the country; but if he should be taken he was Pretared for the worst.

On Saturday, Mr. Kenealey commenced his speech for the defence with an onslaught se the Attorney-General; whose conduct in the prosecution was, he solemnly believed, as bad as that of the very worst of the infamous Attorney- Generals in the ...famous days of the Stuarts and Tudors. The law of the country is supposed to be eqta3 for all; its principle is to presume every man innocent till he is convicted of crime- and the duty of the Law-officers is to administer that law with calmness, feria:enlace, and humanity. But the present high officer of the Queen in the middle of his opening speech, turned round on the young gentleman at bar, and with a menacing voice and gesture called him "a felon." [No such expression is reported: we have given the only reported expressions relating to felony.] The Attorney-Cameral had a precedent onlY in the eternally reprobated words of Attorney-General Cots,2

o when the illustrious Sir Wal- ter Raleigh ventured some defence of hi , "-lied him a "spider of hell." The Attorney-General had also had the indecency to "1 that he blushed for the profession to which Mr. Kenealey belonged, in consequenta of having found it stated that he had moved a moral-force resolution at one of the meetings at which the prisoner was present. The Attorney-General had spelten in the venerable presence of their Lordships the Judges: if he had said it elseahere, he should at once have chastised him.

Mr. Justice Erie felt called upon to say, that he could not allow leamea coun- sel, in his presence, either to profess an intention to violate the law, or v. exhort others to do so.

Mr. Kenealey said he was not exhorting others to violate the law. Iss. would ask what right had the Attorney-General to say that he blushed for him? The learned gentleman (Mr. Bodkin) who was along with the Attorney-General in support of the present prosecution had presided at a Repeal meeting in Ireland, and yet no fault had been found with him for so doing. Mr. Bodkin denied having ever presided at a Repeal meeting in Ireland.

Mr. Kenealey said, that if he had been misinformed he was sorry he had made the statement.

Mr. Justice Erle was of opinion that it would be much better if the learned gentlemen would limit his observations to the evidence before the Court.

Mr. Kenealey proceeded, at great length, to argue upon the law of the case. He was more than onoe stopped for introducing irregular topics; stating the law in a way that the Judge thought unfair and inaccurate. Toward the end of his address he commented with effect on the tainted evidence of Powell; who had not dared to look the Jury in the face, lesethey should see his passions and his falseness. From this topic he verged into comments that again called down the rebuke of the Judge. He urged that Powell was the instrument of the Police; who were " known to be unscrupulous in what they did "— Mr. Justice Erie begged to tell the learned counsel, that he had no right to slander the Police, or any other body of men. He thought it right to say, also, that he had found that those who spoke disrespectfully of the Police were in general accomplices of criminals.

Mr. Kenealey—" Does year Lordship mean to apply that remark to me ? " Mr. Justice Erie—" I said in general.'" Mr. Kenealey said, his Lordship seemed to know more about the Police than he did.

In reply, the Attorney-General said he would trust his character to those) friends at the bar who knew him best, and to the public who had marked his public life. With regard to the expression " felon," which it was alleged he had applied to the prisoner " if he had used that expression at all," he had not intended it. He set Mr. Kenealey right as to the law. He endeavoured to reinstate Powell with the Jury. " The counsel for the prisoner thought Powell unworthy of belief, because he did not give earlier information that violent mea- sures were contemplated: but Mr. Kenealey was himself present at a meeting where moral force was, on the motion of the prisoner, postponed to the Day of Judgment; yet he, a barrister, did not give information to the Government," Mr. Kenealey remarked, that he had said nothing as to the transactions of the Attorney-General at Horsham; nothing as to his private practices, corrupt as they were alleged to be.

Mr. Justice Erie begged to press on the mind of the counsel for the prisoner, the extreme impropriety of travelling out of the question before the Court. The few words which had now dropped from his lips were of the nature of an insult.

Mr. Kenealey observed, that the Attorney-General was not stopped when he said he blushed for his conduct in presiding at the meeting in question. On Monday, Mr. Justice Erie summed up. He stated the nature of the charge, explained the law, and arranged the parts of the evidence under the heads of the charge to which they were relevant.

The indictment charged, first, a conspiracy to levy war against the Queen, in order to force her to change her measures and counsels; and secondly, a con- spiracy to depose the Queen, and deprive her of her style of Qaeen of Great Bri- tain and Ireland. On the first charge he explained, that levying. war was not in the law what it was in common parlance. If the prisoner Intended to as- semble with persons prepared by force to prevent the Government from exer- cising any of its lawful powers' that would be levying war. There need be no military array, no military discipline, arms, or banners. The intention is the crime; and therefore the crime may be perfect though no actual conflict occur. Any intention to interfere by force with the free action of the Govern- ment would be a levying of war, whether the object were the gaining of what is called the People's Charter, the repeal of the statute of the Union, or the open embarrassment and paralyzing of the Government in the disposition of its troops. Four overt acts were alleged to prove the intention charged in the first count; and with regard to the evidence of conspiring, when two or more persons conspire towards an illegal object, each is answerable for all the detailed acts of the other conspirators: the first act was the confederating and conspiring to depose the Queen; the second, the providing arms, ball-cartridges, and munitions, to slay the Queen's troops and the police; the third, the planning to burn the police stations and railway stations; and the last, the enrolling in secret clubs and societies and holding secret correspondence, to excite rebellion. The overt acts charged in support of the second charge were the planning to subvert the Monarchical in atitution in England, and the proposal to dissolve by force the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr. Justice Erie mildly animadverted on the conduct of the counsel on the preceding days. He did not wish to censure, but he certainly regretted that the learned counsel had adopted that course; as he considered that in a court of jus- tice, especially in such a solemn inquiry as the present, personal attacks of that character ought not to have been introduced. The Jury retired about one o'clock. About seven they returned, and requested the Judge to read over to them the evidence which confirmed the statement of the accomplice. This was done, by Mr. Justice Williams, in the absence of Mr. Justice Erle. The Jury retired again, at half-past eight; at half-past nine they returned with a verdict of "Guilty on the second count of the indictment."—that which charged intention to deprive the Queen of her style of Queen of the United Kingdom.

The trial of the prisoners Cuffey, Lacey, Fay, and Mullins' was begun on Mon- day. A new witness, Charles Tilden, was examined against Coffey. Tilden was anxious to be under the leadership of Cuffey, "expecting if he obeyed his orders he should become a General, and perhaps eventually President of the Common- wealth." Afterwards he turned spy, and endeavoured to entrap Cuffey into steps that would be evidence against him if he should be tried.

On Tuesday, Powell the informer repeated the evidence that he gave against Dowling; but, falling under the skilful hands of Mr. Ballantine, who cross-ex- amined him for several hours, he was thoroughly exposed as a man of bad cha- racter and a notorious liar. He had been a blind at a betting marquee paid to bet, and "aware that what lie did was to deceive the people in the booth and make them bet"; a thimblerigger; and a runner of races, at which he "sold the race and his backers to get more money." He led his Chartist associates on by telling them lies, because others told lies as big. "He told the lies for talk- ing's sake, but was not in the habit of lying." lie made " Calthorpes" [cats] for laming and crippling cavalry, and produced them at Chartist meetings; throwing them down on the table to show how they would always fall with their spike uppermost, and to lead the other conspirators to imitate him.

Baron Platt-6 You did it for a trap to try them?" Witness—"I did, my Lord; that is the solemn position in which I stand." Throughout his examina- tion, he would deny none of the damaging questions put to him, and would not positively affirm any fact in favour of the prisoners; exphtining that he saw some half-dozen men in the court who would be called to contradict him; he therefore would only state on his belief—his memory was bad. Among the witnesses examined on Wednesday were, Thomas Barrett, a jour- neyman shoemaker, a sincere moral-force Chartist and member of the Robert Em- mett brigade; Charles Baldwinaon, a Chartist class-leader of the Lambeth dis- trict; and George Davis, a shoemaker, and member of the Wat Tyler brigade. Barrett's cross-examivation disclosed several acts affecting his character for ho- nesty, Baldwinson's evidence was rather loose: Davis spoke in a distinct and straightforward manner: he gave this account of himself- " I am not a Chartist, but merely joined them for the purpose of obtaining infer- -sotion. I wished to ingratiate myself with them on purpose that I might betray tn I was not employed as a spy by any one—I employed myself. I had no object of °'"Iament, but merely desired to protect life and property. I wished to retire ".8‘n this 'artiness several times; but the Superintendent and the Inspector of Polioe would not let ae. I do not expect to be paid ani more remuneration than will

make up for the.

, -ps of trade 1 have sustained. The Government have not masts ins may prom'Oti nuieration. For the last few weeks the people at Green- wich have suspected me of being a spy, and I have lost my trade in consequence of it. I was not examined before a magistrate, and I am sure the prisoners would have no means of knowing what I was going to say. I come here today as a voluntary witness. I applied to be examined, and I was not summoned or sub- peenaed. I have been asked to appear as a witness, but I refused. I came for- ward in consequence of what I read in the newspaper of the cross-examination of Powell; and seeing that he made rather a bad figure, and knowing that such charges could not be brought against me, I thought I would come forward and give evidence of the truth- I thought the Jury would not believe him on his oath."

Mr. Ballantine--" Perhaps, after reading what you did of him, you would not yourself believe him on his oath?" Witness—" I should in this matter, because I know he spoke the truth." Accordingly, the whole drift of Davis's evidence was to corroborate that of Powell.

On Thursday, Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry made speeches for the defence; and witnesses were called to show the worthless and unreliable nature of any evi- dence given by Powell.

James Pans, who had worked as foreman carpenter over Powell in the shop of Powell's brother-in-law, deposed that Powell had told numberless lies to his fellow workmen, and was known as "Lying Tom." Paris would not believe Powell on his oath, nor even on his dying bed. Paris was no politician, but Powell tried to seduce him to join a rising against the "weak Government."

Richard Pennel, another fellow workman of Powell's, had often heard him say, "So help me God, I would swear anything if I got paid for it." He had seen him read Scripture in an old Bible of his own, and would say—" The Apostles were the biggest scoundrels I ever heard of; except Judas "—" Judas was the best fellow of the lot. He got paid for the work; but I would have done it for half the money"; with more offensive ribaldry.

Alfred Carr confirmed this evidence, and produced some memoranda, in which the date "9th February 1840" occurred: "That referred to the date of Powell's attempt to murder his father."

Similar testimony was given by other witnesses—some of them Moral-force Chartists, others "unpolitical men."

At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Montague Douglas Scott, aged twenty-four, "an attorney," pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing plate from divers persons. This case has been mentioned before: the 'Prisoner pretended to hire the plate, and when he had got possession of it pawned it. The counsel for the prosecution stated that Scott had made some reparation, recently, by doing all in his power to return the goods. In consideration of this, the Common Sergeant passed a lenient sentence—nine months' imprisonment.

Isaac Harding Harris, described as "an agent," but said to be a Dissenting clergyman, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. He went about London with a subscription-book, containing names of most respectable persons, and pretended that he was authorized to receive donations in aid of a church and school lately erected at Salem in Carnarvonahire: he obtained money by these means; but it turned out that church, school, and Salem itself, were all imaginary, and that most of the subscriptions in the book were forgeries. In passing sentence, the Common Sergeant said that, as the accused made no defence, and as he appeared to be the agent of more guilty persons, the sentence should be only twelve months' imprisonment, instead of transportation.

Edwards and Piddick, porters, and Norman, a carman, were tried for burglary, and Williams, a hairdresser in Drury Lane, for aiding them. Edwards had been a porter on the London and North-western Railway; he planned the robbery of a counting-house at Camden Town station; and, along with Norman and Piddiek, broke into the place and stole two five-pound notes and other money. They sold the notes to Williams for 71. 108. All were convicted. Edwards was sentenced to ten years' transportation, Norman and Piddiek to seven, and Williams to two years' imprisonment.

On Monday, Solomon Cowan, a general dealer, was put on his trial for receiv- ing goods which had been stolen from Messrs. Dickenson and Co., the stationers. He had sold cards of their make at a very low price; but the evidence did not prove that he had bought the goods with a guilty knowledge; so he was acquitted.

John Rickman was tried for attempting to murder his wife. The particulars of this case were mentioned last week, the man's name being then given as "Richmond." The Jury acquitted him of the attempt to murder; but found him guilty on the count charging "cutting and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm." The sentence was transportation for fifteen years.

At the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, Smith, first engineer of the Lion steamer; Reid, second engineer, and seven others, firemen and trimmers of the same vessel were charged with having piratically endeavoured, on the 16th of September, to make a revolt on board, upon the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admi- ralty, they being of the crew of the vessel. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Neville, the master, that the vessel plied between London and Friezland in Holland; she was at Harlingen on the 16th; the fires had been lighted. The firemen brought many baskets of poultry on board, saying they were for Smith; but the master refused to allow tbem to remain in the vessel. On this, Smith was very abusive; he said he would play Mr. Neville and Mr. Robinson, the owner, "a trick "; and he ordered the firemen to rake out the fires. They did so; and all the men accused persisted with Smith in refusing to work the ship; which was thus detained for several days, at a considerable pecuniary loss. Smith behaved in the most violent manner; and the Consul and merchants at Harlingen reasoned with him in vain. The prisoners were remanded for a week; bail not being per- mitted.

At Southwark Police-office, on Tuesday, Edward Lucas, foreman to Mr. Silver lock, a printer in Doctors' Commons, was charged with stealing type, stereotype, and "leads," from his employer. Lately, much property had been missed, but Lucas was the last man to suspect: two compositors who lodged in his house found some "leads" there; this caused a search, and a large quantity of type partially melted was discovered. The property was identified by the maker. Lucas said it was impossible that any man could identify it in that state: it was metal he had bought. He was remanded.

At Worship Street Police-office, on Thursday, Mr. Samuel Bateman, a dust- contractor, was charged under the Public Health Act with suffering a dangerous nuisance to exist on his premises. Mr. Bateman owns a wharf on the Regent's Canal, in the Wenlock Road, Holton; and he has accumulated there an immense amount of stable-litter, manure, street-sweepings, and other more offensive mat- ters. It was alleged that the exhalations thence arising were hurtful to health, a public annoyance, and injurious to the value of surrounding property. Mr. Bal- lentils° said he could rebut these assertions; but, for the satisfaction of all parties, he advised his client to remove the cause of complaint. So the summons was ordered to stand over for a fortnight.

At Lambeth Police-office, last week, a distressing case of attempted suicide was brought before the Magistrate. On Thursday, Mr. Edward k ranklin Kerr, a middle-aged man, of gentlemanly appearance, was charged with attempting to drown himself in the Thames. He had hired a boat to take lain from Horseferry, stairs to Lambeth; when mid-way, he plunged into the stream; the waterincf, managed to rescue him, and he was taken to Lambeth Workhouse. Mr. Kyr- ca". the Magistrate that misfortune had driven him to attempt suicide; be` ",e now felt remorse, and would not repeat the offence. Three documents wer"" °Pm nun, an uvowndly written Co explain to a Jury why he bad d‘-'r°Ya" unwell" One was a " synopsis " of his life. After narrating early intArtnneel the paper stated that the writer went to live at Boulogne, where he became interpreter to the courts of law: as editor and proprietor of a newspaper, he was prosecuted, im- prisoned, and rained. In this year, the National Assembly having abolished local courts, he lost his employment at Boulogne; came to England; and applied for help to his brother, who, although" well off," with " no incumbrances," gave him a sovereign only, and refused to do more. The second paper was ad- dressed " to the Coroner of the district in which the bod.y " should be found; and it briefly explained the causes of the suicide. The third was a will, in which books, clothes, &e., were left to the testator's sister-in-law; who was desired to pay 11. 8a. due to his landlord. The landlord was present in the court, and stated that Mr. Kerr had used every means to get employment. Mr. Norton allowed the ac- cused to go home with this person; but desired him to appear again on Saturday.

On that day, a number of gentlemen, who had known Mr. Kerr in prosperity, gave him a high character. Mr. Norton thought the case was deserving of sym- pathy, and hoped that publicity would lead to something being done for Mr. Kerr; in the mean time, he gave him a sovereign from the poor-box.

Miss Eliza Wilson, a young unmarried lady, died on the 22d, under circum- stances that have led to a Coroner's inquest; and that again has led to revolting disclosures. Miss Wilson was taken by Richard Orpin, a married man with whom she was on terms of criminal intimacy, to the house of Mrs. Lindfield, a midwife in 1Valworth: there she took medicines and underwent a surgical and premature exercise of Mrs. Lindfield's vocation, and in a few days she died. The Coroner's Jury have found a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Mrs. Lindfield as a principal, and against Richard Orpin and one Mary Anne Dryden as acces- sories before the fact. Many witnesses deposed, that for years past, ladies of all ranks have come to Mrs. Lindfield's house, and staid there a fortnight, for a pur- pose sufficiently obvious.