The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

whereby nearly every house in camp was damaged, ig say being unroofed altogether. The huts of the families of the isth Highlanders were nearly all blown down,und the poor people were exposed to the storm. Itail fell in large quantities,,and upwards of 2.25 inches of rain fell in an hour and a half. It is 041 that Ciisq.,.rat is to be alienated from the Bom bay Rod LIMN Mil to the Bengal presidency : and that Colonel Outran' is to bo re-appointed resident, and thus bring to i.e.,. what has been reported over and over—that ht .BLS to be employed at Baroda under the goverame. , t of India. Mr. Remington has joined the Sudder Adawlut as j ud g e, and M r . Le 0, yt has taken up the judgeship of Poona. Dr. T. Buy t has been appointed deputy assay mas ter at l'ukutta, during Dr. O'Shaugnessy's ah,ence. Mr. 1). C. Leighton is to act as assistant to the commimiener at Sattara during Nil.. Lloyd's ab sence on sick Icave. Sir W. Yardley has returned to Bombay II oni the hills, and the Hon. Mr. Bell has gone on have to the Deccan. Dr. John Mills is to be civil surgeen at Kurraebce. Oriental Bank shares are down to 85, Agras up to 40. Commack:4 to 30, Bombay. to 30, and 50 for R a ilway, per cent. prem. Freights arc at 21. 15s. sad 2f. Ilis. to London and Liverpool. The harbour is fast filling with vessels from Australia, and a very large no über are on their way from Eng land for this isrt ; the Chieftain, from London, came in yesterday. Money is plentiful, and rates uf c h Ing e t vtri, 2 11 to "; six months sight for credit bill,, sad halt a farthing higher for documents. IZAM'S DOMINIONS. Our terms have been accepted so far, and we are to take possession of so much of the country as pill ensure pa) ml w of the contingent and our debt, any Orel plus to tie placed to credit of Nizam's govern meat. As wine uproar may he made by the Arab and other me reenary troops, who will now find them selves without occupation, the formation of what is to l,c called " Ibe army of exercise," at Poina, may have a whoksome influence oc many others who would, perhai.s, be inclined to dispute our right to annex any poi: ton of the Nixam's dominions. BENGAL AND THE NORTH-WEST PROVLNCES. One of the C.dcutta papers is now strenuously urging the rre.l of General Godwin from Iturmah, and Sir W. G ,mm from the Indian command, and very many persons think that both would be for the benefit of the wintry. The same paper states that no further ads sew will be made towards the Burman capital if this can by any means be avoided. The new Postage Act has been read a first time before the Legislative Council of India. There is to be an uniform penny postage ail over India on letters weighing 1J grains, while newspapers are to be charged 4d. es lien under an ouncu and a half in weight. It is a tear that the circulation of news papers in India is wished to be kept down as much as possible ; but the thing will not do. English papers over three ounces will be charged Sd. postage, so that very few, indeed, will be able to take them in. By last opium sale at Ca milla upwards of 317,000!. was realised. Major Ouselcy has been granted a captain's pension. Cul. Low, the resident at the Nizam's capital, is men tioned as likely to succeed to the seat at the supreme council board vacated by Sir W. Gilbert. Captain Alexander Mackintosh, 52nd Native Infantry, super intendent at Neemuch, died there on the 20th May, deeply regretted. The Seikh chiefs in confinement at Fort AV itliam are to be allowed to drive out in their carriage every evening in future, attended as usual by their guard, instead of every third evening. Col. Day will, it is thought, command at Dum Dum when the head-quarters of the artillery are removed to Meerut. There has been much fighting in the Oudh territories, in which the King's troops have been worsted, and anarchy is in the ascendant. bURMAH. The Calcutta Evils/ man of the 19th May, says : All the territo-y now in possession of the British forcer is to be held, but no advance beyond it to be made, unless under the provocation of an attack, in which event it has been decided to march at once upon Ava and dethrone tics King. The refusal of our Commissioners to grant the Burmese even so short a time as three drqs shows their confidence in Being able to enforce the terms a lready , proposed. Had the points in dispute been unimportant, it may be concluded that they would have been given up when the Govern or. General had already consented to the relinquiehmeat of a portion of the conquered territory. Of course it is ins possible to jx.netrate the veil which diplomacy draws over its proceedings; but, if we may hasard • conjecture, it is that a Resident in Ava as stipu lated by the treaty of Taudaboo has been insisted on, and that this ha. been the most distasteful of all. A peace, without free intercourse with the interior, would be of little use to either party ; and after the cap rience we have had of the treatment of British subjects in Ran goon, when unprotected by any agent of their own gevern meat, they could hardly be safe at the capital without some one to whom they could turn in any difficulty. It will of course be the policy of our government to encourage all the people of the interior, whether Burmese, Chieese, Sham, or others, to come at leunre into our territories, with the assurance of the same freedom and protection as our own subjects enjoy; and, in return, we ought to have the same right to hospitality within the dominions of the King of Ave. As both the ministers and the local government are de sirous of bringing the war tog conchnion, it may be inferred that the latter are confident the Burmese cannot brine into the field any force which would cost much effort or trouble to defeat. If an advance on Ava is contemplated, it most take place almost immediately, while the rivers are rising, or be postponed for another twelvemonth, for it can hardly be supposed that a march through the jungles is seriously con templated. If the Burmese leave our troops in undisturbed possession of the places which they lately refused to cede, it will still be necessary to keep a large force on the spot to guard against attacks, and much of the expense end tail of war must be incurred without any of its honours or triumphs. It may, therefore, be fairly concluded that if the expectation enterta ned of the Burmese yielding to the conditions now offered be disappointed, preparations will be made for an immediate advance to the capital, that the war may not be suffered to linger on for another year with out either progress or object. The following is another extract from a letter from Prome, 10th May : The British and Ava commissioners met again to-day, the Governor-General's letter having arrived on Sunday the Bth, the Burmese authorities definitively declined putting their names to the treaty by which they were to sign away Pcgu. It appears that at one time during the conference to day they seemed to be in such doubt, and so much inclined to patch up matters, that our commissioner agreed to urge them a ill further by offering to make the boundary six miles north of Proms ' which would give them Meeaday ; " bet no," oar friendesaid, " they could not sign away any portion of the Burmese dominions." So they were shortly after dismissed with a hint to take themselves out of our territories within twenty-four hoofs. So much fur the hope of • present settlement of • state of war, if war it can be salted. I think it may he possible that the king is scarcely able enough, or sufficiently firm on bit thong to hazard a measure of this kind, which would lao so distasteful to most of his wavering friends. However that may be, we are still, as ever, in a state of unenviable doubt as to whether the war is to be prosecuted to Ava, or whe ther we are to lie upon our oars, and wait for aggressions before making any (nerved movement. I doubt much now if a move to Ma would be so effective us it would un doubtedly have been eight or ten months ago, unlefe , ,indeed our government is prepared to aunt x and occupy the whole country. The bled**, with two gun Mate, goes up immediately after the departure of the commissioners to Meeeday, and there lies to blockade the river. A terrible state of things this, for the whole country ; cultivation will of course be nearly out of the question, and great want will be felt by the p pulafion, who are already very poorly o 8 for their staple commotlify—rice. West the poor creatures will do in August or September next, goodness knows. COLOMBO. Ile Colombo Observer of June 11 says :—ln the interior heavy rains are faking and the prospects fur next crop continue good. Only two vessels have cleared since our last; one of them for Australia. The disparity in the shipments of coffee is greater than ever, amounting now to upwards of nO,OOO cwts. The short shipments of cinnamon are ex plained by the approaching abolition of the duty. Some small shipments have been made in the screw steamers, but large stocks arc accumulati'g for the 3rd of July. The expo . rts of cocoanut oil are more than 100,000 gallons in excess of last year. This article bears a high price in the local market, and the raw material, copporah, is scarce and dear. The change in the N% cathca seems to have had an injurious influence in a sanitory point of view. Cholera which had nearly ceased has become more violent at Colombo, and a European officer, Lieut. Alexander P. Smith of the Ceylon ltifles, has fallen before it in an attack of only fire hours duration. Two ;privates of the same regiment died front the I disease, one on the 25th, the other on t he 30th of May. Or. F. W. Willisford was attacked last eten ing in the Fort but we aro glad to learn that this morning he is out of danger. A number of fatal cases have occurred in the dirtier parts of the native taws within the last week. At Trincomalic fever of a severe type has attacked the European soldit ty. Besides Lieut. Smith, the obituary contains the min of Quarter Muter Imray a veteran soldier who was wounded in the Kandian warfare of 1818; and Mr. Austin of Galle after a residence of forty years in Ceylon. The session of the Legislative Council will be opened in August. In the meantime we are doing our best to awaken public interest to the necessity there now exists for the widening of the basis of this Institution. In 1834 when it was framed there was only one coffee planter in the Interior. Now there are about 300. In the same period the mercantile firms at Colombo have increased from half-a dozen to more than twenty. An order in council has been published placing British currency in Ceylon on the footing which it occupies in the United Kingdom, and limiting silver as a legal tender to 10s. The order will make little change here, all or nearly all our transactions being paid fur in company's rupees. In imports the market is geLerally well supplied. There have been considerable sales of piece goods at reduced prices. Metals are int much in demand. Bass ' s beer is scarce. Stationery supplied. Good harness wanted. Millinery and hats scarce. Glass, ear then and hardwares supplied. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. FI:ILLOl OWIT - ED TO 011 , 1LEIUS BINCII LAST • MAIL. BOWL% T.—Csatell, Lieut. H. J., 14th 11 gt. F.I. ; Lester, Lieut. J. F., 10th N. 1.; Pitcairn, Surgeon W. (Cape of (loud Hope.) Dl Brevet-Msjsr E4win Henry (Cape of Good Ilspr); Boswell, Lieut. and Quartermaster J. It., 61st N.I. ; Leans, Lieut. C. J. A., 42nd N.I. ; Russell, Major tV,lliom, 18th N.I. BENOAL.—Camplin, Assistant-Surgeon J. M.; Gilbert, Bart., G C 8., Hon. Lient.-Gen. Sir W. K.; Thomps on, Surgeon W.; Thurburn, Lieutenant F. A. S, 14th N. 1., .Adjutant Bhopal Contingent. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, MAY 30. Since the departure of the last mail the market has been as doll as it ususl:y is just before the monsoon. Nothing worthy of note has hi en do ne, and such soles as hove been effected have been forced on purchasers at reduced prices. The only large sale which has been effected is one of twist, which will be found particularised wit, our other sales. In consequence of the small quantity of cotton which has hen despatched to China, and the larger than usual room ity which has come in from the districts, the stock now in Bombay is nearly one half greater than has ever been known before at the same season of the year. It is calculated that we have not less than 150,000 bales new in stock. The price has in v.:lE6(4ll'race slightly fallen, but is still much too high to induce European houses to ship in any quantity. The natives, however, are shipping to a consi derable ex. teat, as they generally do at this season of the year, in pro. Greece to housing it for the rains. The commercial news from China are very bad, every description of business almost entirely put a stop to. At Shanghae in particular matters are anything but iie a prosperous state. In the opium market here, however, there is still some husiness doing, but chiefly in the ful filment of engagements entored into come time ago. The price of Melva may be quoted at 950 r. to 97.5 r. per chest. Freights, in consequence of the recent numerous arrivals, have gone down further, and, although we do not know that any ships have been let at the figure we quote, we should not consider tonnage to Liverpool worth more than 2/. 10c, and to London 21. 15s. per ton. To China, 12r. per candy ; nothing doing. Exchange may be quoted at 2s lid., a' 2s. 1 3-16 d. on Englsnd ; on Calcutta, 90r. ; on China, 226 r., at 227 per 100 dollars at 60 days' sight. TIIE BOMBAY MONEY MARKET. EXCHANGES. On London—at six months' sight, per r., 2e lid. for document bills ; sir months' sight, per r., 2s. 1 ed. for credit bills. On Calcutta—at GO days' sight, 994 r. ;30 days' sight, 991 r. On Madras—at 30 days' sight, 1001; at sight, 100. On China—at GO days' eight, 100 dole., 228 r. to 230 r. BANI AND OTHER SNARES. Bank of Bombay I,ooor. each, 1.000 28 per tent. pm. Oriental rank Cor 2.50 r. 83 per cent. pm. ex. di?. Commercial Bank I,ooor. 30 per cent. pm. Agra Bank Bank of Madras GOVERNMENT SECCEITIES. 5 per cent. transfer loan Rs. 110} per 100 Sires „ loan 1825-26 „ 100} tolool per 100 Sieca „ loan 182930 ~ 111 per 100 Siete loan 1841-42 „ 109 per 100 Co.'s 4 per cent. loan 1832-13 „ 106 k per 100 Biers „ loan 1835-36 „ 100 per 100 Co.'s 11 loan 1812-13 „ 100 per 100 Co.'s Pitscrs or BULLION. Sovereigns, each Bank of England Notes .. „ 10 dollars. 222 to 223 _ ___ _ Spanish - . German crowns Syeee silver Gold leaf (range of qua lity) ingots, e 161 Gold ngots, according to touch, for 97 touch .... ~ 15 Hs per tola. FELEIGHTS.—To London, 21. 15s. per ton; to Liverpool, 2/. 15e. per ton ; to Calcutta, nominal, per rasa; to China, 121 n. per candy. CALCUTTA, Java 3. The Hindostsn arrived on the 29th Wt., bringing London dates to the 25th April. The commercial advice., that which relates to indigo, are less encouraging than they have been of l a te - The reports from the indigo districts are not satisfactory, rain being still wanted to complete Bowlegs, and the season owe advanced, The exports of indigo up to the let inst. amount to 25,601 chests, containing fy. mdc. 99,367, of which 8,120 chests have gone to France and 14,160 to Great Britain ; about 1,600 chests remain to be shipped. Sugar was in fair demand during the past f..rtniglit until the arri val of the mail with anfavoureble intelligence, when buyers paused; it would require a fall of 6 to 8 as. per sad. to meet the home prices ; vacuum pan sorts bevel been In good demand. Saltpetre has been in fair inquiry at full forcer value, but stocks are small, and comet of I inferior qualities. Rice has ;been ne t aected. Safflower is obtainable at further reduced rates, which, however, are I still too high to tempt shippers. Shell lac has declined 10 to 12 arenas per and , which has facilitated business. Lae dye has given way fully Its. 5 per md. without increasing the deliveries. Hides maintain their former quotations, and have been largely exported. Owing to the high rates which prevail for linseed, the export. to Great Britain have been lim.ted ; latterly the article has been chiefly monopo lised by the Americans. Rapeseed remains without change. Jute : market nearly bare, and important supplies not ex pected till August. Raw silk : the May Build has partly failed, and the stock exposed to pay previous prices. A good feeling exists in reference to Corahs, but the supply Is limited, and high prices are asked. Our market for cotton piece goods, as might be expected at this period of the year, has been generally very dull. As dealers cannot send away their purchases freely till the rivers open, they buy very sparingly , and only for imme diate wants. In the meantime, they hope that their absti nence will influence the markeifavourably for them: more over, the accounts from the North-Western provinces lately have not been so encouraging. We expect that this branch of our trade will become animated in the course of next month. Mule twist is dull ; with the exception of 20's. all counts are lower, and stocks in first and tecond hands are estimated at the comparatively large quantity of 9,500 bales. l Coloured yarns are quiet ; buyers are holding off in the i hope of lowering prices, but holders are flrm. Very little has been done in metals. More confidence has lately been displayed by the holders of copper, and the decline in value Ms been re I ron is firm, but quiet. Spelter has fallen to Mipse ad. Tau MONEY Mona= is kept fairly supplied, and ac ssessedation is still reauily obtained, but at higher rates a Interest, particularly in the bazar. During the last week the value et government securities has declined. The quotations now are, New Fives, 107-8 ; Second ditto, 100-14; Third ditto, 102-0; Tran sfer paper, 1068. The Four per Cents. are nearly at par. The share market is well supported. Bank of Bengal shares are taken at 2,000 to 2 . 050 • , Agra Bank, at 6.50; North-Western, at 27.5; Bengal Coal Company, at 700; New Orienta l Life In surance, at 380 Eccna'or remains much as it was at the departure of the last mail, viz., 2.11 . to 2.11 credits, and 2-1# to 2.1 1 documents to Great Britain. With China, 229 Rs. per 100 dots. FKLIGHTA have deeincd. We quote to London: Salt petre, at 3/. 10s. ; sugar, 3/. 10s. to 3f. 12s. 6d.; Rice, 34 12.. 6d. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. —Yesterday (says n cor respondent, dating Warsaw, July 1) a merchant's clerk, residing in this town, received a letter from his brother, an officer in a ltussian regiment do stined for the principalities. The latter wrote to his brother that the troops were about to cross the Truth, and would " remain in 'guide-Wallachia through the winter," on which amnia married officers in tended to allow their families to follow them. The clerk read this letter to a friend, and in two or three hours was waited on by a police offimr, who demanded the letter, probably in order to punish the negligent clerk at the post- Wilco who had allowed such correspondence to pass. ACCIDENT ON SNOWDON.—An accident, which it is feared will Fiove fatal, occurred the other day on Snow don. A party of gentlemen from Birmingham were making the ascent, accompanied by a little boy acting as guide. They went by the more unc.ormon route, direct from the Victoria liotel—a perfectly safe way ; but, in order to shorten the distance, the travellers diverged from the ordi nary track. One of the party, in hastily running, missed his footing, and fell down aprecipitous declivity, a distance of more thee 100 yards. Ile is so seriously injured that his life ek-iviired of. IMPUDENT SY.4TEM or FltAUl).—Within the lost few days it has come to the knowledge of the trustees of Islington pari-h, that for some short time past a most de liberate system at fraud has been practised upon the rate• payers of this parish by persons going round and collecting the parish and oMer rates. On Saler: ay the guardians of this parish had bills extensively placarded about, caution ing the ratepayers not to pay without a printed receipt, agreeing in form and particulars with the one left upon , application far the tel. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1853 1510 Court. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Print:' Albert on Saturday morning at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, left town at twenty-five n.inutes before 2 o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Royal suite coexisted of the Viscouots as Jocelyn, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Colonel the Hoe. C. B. Phipps, Sir James Clark, Colonel Bouverie, Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, end the Master of the Household. The Queen and Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of Wel lington, the Marquis of Ahercorn, Lord Camp, Viscount Torrineton, Colonel the lion. C. Grey, Licut..Colonel the Hon. It. B,yle, and Colonel Wylde. A detachment of Lancers escorted her Majesty from Buckingham Palace to the new station at Vauxhall of the London and South Western Railway. Her Majesty and the Prince left by a special train for Gosport. The Princess Royal sad l'rincess Alice remain at Buck ingham Palate, having been both cuff. ring under an attack of measles for the last three days. Their royal lighnesses are passing favourably through the disease. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. R. Boyle remains at Buckingham Palace in at tendance on the Princesses. OSBORNE, SUNDAY. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Wa:es. nt• ten led by the Lull's and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived: it Osborne, yesterday afternoon, at twenty minutes bs fors .is o'clock. The Royal party crossed over from Ossport in the Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclari nee. Tn. Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Courcr, honoured then tj al Italian Opf ra with her presence on Saturday evening. The Dueiess of Kent attended divine service, yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley•etreet. A deputation of the Directors and others in . ere.ted in the E:ectrie Gas Company had an interview with the Right lion. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley on Satur day at the Board of Trade, for the Napo", of esplainirg the objects of that company and suppor ing their applica tion for a charter. The deputation consisteu of Mr. Blab) . Wagon, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Travers, Mr. Shepard, Pro fessor Holum, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Vernon Heath. A deputation from Brighton, consisting of Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Bart., Mr. James Cordy, Dr. King, Mr. Richard Palter, and Mr. I: overtop, had an interview with Eta: Granville (Lord President) at the Couneil-office on Friday. The deputation were accompanied by the members of the borough, Lard Alfred Hersey and Admiral Sir George Pcchell. The Earl of Aberdeen had a dinner party on Saturday at Argyll-house. Despatches were scot on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the West India Islands and the Governor of Gibraltar. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. THE NEW CAB LAW. On Saturday the appeals to this new statute were very numerous, most of them arising from the delay which takes place in the publicatiort of the books of fares. At the City police committee George Downes, a cab driver, number of badge 11,77t 3 , was charged before Mr. Alderman Salomons with an offence under the new cab act. Mr. Alexander Ridgway, a notary of the Royal Exchange said he got into the defendant's cab that morning at the I cab stand adjoining George IV. statue, on the north side of I Trafalgar square, and told him to drive to the Royal Ex change. On arriving there be tendered him Is., the amount of the fare, which was refused, the defendant I &Mending Is. 6.1. lie told hint the fare was what he had offered, and called upon him to produce his "table of fares." He replied he had not any, or any tickets of his , number—u provided by the recent act. Whereupon he directed him to drive to the nearest police station, which he I (lid, and there finding that the demand was an overcharge, I he gave him into the custody of the police. Mr. Martin, the clerk, said by the table of fares the dis. mine was a little over the mile, and therefore the Is. was ample. By the old rate of fares it would be nn more than that amount. He had subjected himself to two fines—for the 6.1. overcharge, and for riot producing a ticket of his number when so called upon. The act enacts that they were to provide every fare with a ticket without bring asked. The defendant said he thought at the time the far• was le. Gd. As to the ticket, ho denied the plaintiff's assertion, that he refused to produce it ; he had it with him ; it was the same as the one he had then with him (producien a small slip of card from his pocket, with the number of the cah written on one side in ink). Mr. Alderman Salomons assured the defendant it was use less f„,- him to fight against the laws which the legislature had thought proper to pass for the better regulation of the public cabs; and to evade it would bring upon him and others, whom he was sorry to see doing all they could to op pose its working, miNery and contempt. Ile was confident that the act would eventually render the cab proprietors benefits which they lit le expected. The defendant said it was very well, but he was sure the sixpenny mile business would not last. Mr. Alderman Salomons said the ticket he had produced was not an authorised ticket ; they were legibly printed, and not written in iuk. lie asked where he got it from. The defendant said his master gave it him when he left with the cab. Mr. Alderman Salomon, said, then he ought to be sum moned for issuing illegal tickets. He was amenable to a! penalty of 40s. In the case before him, it was quite clear that the demand made on the complainant was Gd. snore than the legal fare, and he therefore inflicted on the defend I ant a fine of 205., or 14 days' imprisonment. The flue was paid. At Bow-street, Henry Brett, the driver of a Hansom cab, No. 2,741, was summoned before Mr. Henry for de manding more than his fare, and for using insulting lan euage to Mr. John Fitzgerald, of the Oxford University. The complainant was in town on Monday morning last, and engaged the defendant to drive him from Conduit -treet, Regent-street, to the end of Tottenham-court•road. As the distarce was considerately within the mile, com plainant offered him 6,1., but the defendant refused to have less than a shilling, asked Mr. Fitzgerald if he called him self a gentleman, and pointing to bim in a jeering manner, so that the bystanders might see him, said, " 1 will make you a present of the Gd.," and drove slowly off, without taking any fare at all.—The defendant said he was no scholar, and there. we did not know that the new act had come into operation. lie did not use any abusive language to the gent, as ke know'd of. Ile certainly did laugh at him when he offered a sixpence (and he couldn't help laughing at that), and ho also said he would make him a present of it.—Mr. Henry said he did not believe there was cabman in London, scholar or no scholar, who was not fully aware of the day when the new law came into force ; besides which, he would have been only entitled to Sd. under the old law. For this offence he must pay a fine of '2l. and the costs, or a month's imprisonment; and for his insulting language and behaviour to the complainant in the public street, he (Mr. Henry) ordered him to be com mitted to prison for three weeks. At Westminster police office a cabman applied for a sum mons against Colonel Sibthorp. He said that he drove the colonel from the United Service Club to the House of Com mons and back twice, and thea conveyed him to his resi dence in Chester-street. He had been detained by the colonel six hours, and on setting him down demanded his fare by time, which the colonel refused to pay. Mr. Broderip observed that it was at the option of the person hiring to be driven by either time or distance, and inquired I whether any agreement had been made at the time of the I hiring. The cabman said there was not, but he understood he might charge by either time or distance. Mr. Deo!! erip told him he was mistaken in the law as it now stood. The fare, in the event of there being no special agreement en tered into, must be first taken by the distance absolutely performed, and then the stoppages added at the rate of six-' pence for every quarter of an hour. Applicant had better therefore turn the matter over in his mind, and determine whether he would tabs a summons. Applicant left the court for that purpose. Mr. 'William Milne Newton, barrister-atlaw, also brought a cab question of distance before Mr. Broderip. The gen tleman said he was driven from Daviewstreet, Berkeley square, to 19, Lowndes-equare, when the driver refused to take Gel. as his fare.—Chartes Cos, the driver, said it was above a mile. The gentleman was confident it was not. Both accordingly deposited as. for the measurement, and the wheel being passed over the ground, it was found that the distance was more than three furlongs above the mile. The cabman's ss. was returned to him, the gentleman's went for the coat of measurement, besides which he had to pay the driver's costs and extra fare. At the Lambeth Court George Smallwood, a cab driver, badge 760, appeared before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a summons charging him with having unlawfully demanded and received Gd. more than his legal fare.—Mr. Edward Morns Wilkins, the complainant, stated that on Monday evening last he hired the defendant to drive him to Cam berwell-gate, and on getting out of the cab at the latter place tendered him Is. This the defendant refused, saying in rather an insolent tone, that that amount would not do for him, and that his fare was Is. Gd., and that amount he would have. Witneu told the defendant at the time that Is. was his legal fare, but, as he insisted on an additional 6d. he considered it to be the beet course to pay it to him, and take out a sum mons. Mr. Wilkins added, that being frequently in the habit of riding the same distance, he was anxious to take his Wor ship's opinion as to what the legal fare really was. The de, fendant admitted that the distance was only two miles, and Mr. Norton observed that, upon his own admission, he had charged eel. more than his legal fare, and he must, there. fore, return Mr. Watkins that amount, and pay, besides, a penalty of Ss. 61. The defendant paid the money and was discharged. At the Southwark Pollee Court, George Rowe, a cab driver, was brought before Mr. Combo on a warrant, charged with driving a hackney cab in the public streets without a proper and sufficient license. Mr. Combe toldhim he must have been aware that he was violating the law, and, as a caution to others of his frater nity, he should fine him 405,, and, in default of payment, commit him to the House of Correction for one month. Mr. Edward Martin, a tradesman, residing in St George's-road, Southwark, was summoned by a cabman for refusing to pay him his legal fare, and was ordered by Mr. Combs, upon investigation of the case, to pay the fare, and - 4s. 61. costs, the cabman tieing right as to distance. as a A WIFE STARVED TO DEATH BY lIER HT:SHAND. —On Saturday Mr. Brent held an inquest at the Clerken well vr,rkhouse, on the body of Martha Garnett, aged 33, a married woman, with two children, alleged to have died from the effects of the refusal of her husband to provide her with food, although he is a cabinetmaker in full em ployment. The evidence went to show that the accused, who was pi esent before the jury, was in the habit of treat ing the deceased with the greatest amount of cruelty, key ing her and her children without food for days together, although he was in the constant receipt of 340. and upwards per wick. He bad been known to come home and cook a steak for his own dinner, and sit down and eat the whole of it before his wife and children, knowing, at the same time, that they had had no feed. The deceased had frequently asked her friends and neighbours for food, and had borrowed a halfpenny even for a candle, as her husband was out nll night nearly, as well a. day, and would allow her no ►ight. She had obtained a medical order, a short time since, to come into the workhouse, but, when she got a little better, she begged her discharge, for fear of the neglect end ill treatment of her two children by her husband, with whom they were left. On her going out, her treatment was just the same, and sheer exhaustion, from want of nouriAnn at, induced her again to seek an asylum in the workhouse, where she died the day after her admission. Mr. Gill, the parish surgeon, stated, in making a post mortem examine tion , that the immediate cause of death was consumption. but he believed it to have been accelerated by starvation and neglect. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter ngainst Wiliam Garnett. the husband, and he was commit ted, on the coroner's warrant, to Newgate. ON SATURDAY afternoon a tremendous hail-storm passed over Biiminghans. The wind at the time was a point to the west of south. Masser of ice fell more than as inch is circumference. ARRIVAL OF TUE _COE:IIT AT TAE ISLE OF WIGHT. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Wale", with the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived at this port this afternoon, from London, ea route to the Isle of Wight. The special train, which arrived at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at 5 minutes past 4, why accompanied down by Mr. Crombie, S cretary to the South Western Railway Company ; Mr. Scott, Traffic Manager ; and Mr. Godson, Superintendent. As the royal train entered Clarence Yard the royal sten. deed was hoisted, when it was saluted by the Victory, flag ship, and the Neptune, 120, ordinary depot chip. Tier Majesty immediately alighted from the carriage, when she was received by the Commander-in-Chief, ViCf Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8.; the Lieutenan Governor, Major-General Simpson ; Admiral Superinten dent Fanshawe, C.B. ; Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitz- Hirsute, G.C.H.; Captain Crispin; the flag and staff officers of the port and garrison ; Mr. Davies, Master At tendant, and Mr. Pinhorn, Storekeeper of Clarence Yard ; Mr. Stevens, Superintendent of the Gosport terminus; and a guard of honour from the 42nd Royal Highlan den, which regiment arrived at Gosport on Thursday last from the Camp of Chobham. The guard was officered by Major Tullock, Captain Campbell, Lieutenant Graham, Ensign F. C. Scott, and Lieutenant and Adjutant Bondi's. The band and pipers of the 42nd were also in attendance. The Fairy, screw-tender to the royal yacht, Master Com manding Welch, having received the royal party on board, was soon under weigh and passing through the lines of boats from the ships in commission and the coast-guard. The garrison now fired a royal salute from the Platform Battery, whilst the crews of the Victory, Neptune, and Rolla, in harbour, manned yards and heartily cheered the Queen as she passed. The wind was blowing half a gale from the south-west at the time of the yacht's going out of harbour, whose course it was expected would have been through the fleet at Spithead. Owing, however, to the weather, which compelled the royal party to keep below, this intention was abanioned, and the yacht was taken the nearest course to the Isle of Wight, running to lee ward of the fleet, and, as she approached, a general royal salute was led off by the flag-skip of Rear- Admiral Corry, the Prince Regent, 91, Captain Huth:it. This was immediately taken up by the whole fleet, 'and a cannonade of a most imposing character was the result ; whilst all the ships being dressed in colours, and, notwith standing the strong wind, manning yards, the general effect was exceedingly grand. The Fairy, having the Elfin, despatch vessel, Master Cammacding Balliston, is her wake, soon passed the fleet, reaching East Cowes shortly after five o'clock, the Queen arriving at Osborne in a quarter of an hour later. GENERAL ARISTA. TO THE EDITOR OP TUB REPRESS. Queen's Private Hotel, Queen's-road, Bayswater, July 16, 18.13. Stn,—ln your able article of to-day on Mexico, you have taken u your test Sir Roderick Murchison's an nouncement, oa my authority, that land in Mexico was to be bought at three-halfpence per acre. To prevent misconceptions, you will greatly oblige me by transferring to your columns on Monday the enclosed letter, which I have just addressed to the editor of the Gloucester :Aire Chroniee. I may observe, that that paper has re ported Sir Roderick's observations correctly; while the omission of part of them by the Tunes renders the re mainder somewhat obscure. I am, Sir, &e., MAR. ARISTA. Queen's Private Hotel, Queen's-road, Bayswater, London, 16th July, 1853. TO TUE EDITOR. OP TUS OLOUCESTIIIBIIIIIII CHRONICLE. SIR,—In your number of the 13th inst., in which you have given an account of the pavilion dinner, held in honour of the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting, your readers will have remarked that Sir Roderick Murchison, with reference to information given by me, stated that in Mexico land could be purchased, of a good quality, at three half-pence per acre. I feel it necessary, therefore, to give some explanation of those words, in order that no inaccurate idea may be formed of Mexico, where my authority, deemed to be sufficient, might lead to erroneous inductions. Sir Roderick and I conversed in a manner which might easily lead to a misconception—he in Italian and lin Spanish, with only such guide as the analogy betwixt the two languages might afford. In this manner I answered several of Sir Roderick's questions; and I told him, as a curious fact, that I had sold on the frontier, near the river Bravo, Ur thirty-five thousand dollars, an estate of 500,000 acres of the very best land. We made a calculation of how much this came to per acre in sterling; and we erroneously made it three half-pence, instead of three-pence halfpenny, which is the exact rate. It is a pity that this error, for which I by no means blame Sir ltoderick Murchison, should stand before the public as • fact ; and from the general terms in which it is stated, almost appearing as if applicable to all lands in Mexico; I am induced to rectify the mistake, and, however sightly, to lay before you what I know relative to the prices of land in Mexico. A few facts will answer my purpose. 1. The estate of " La Conde's," situated two miles from the capital, with irrigation and good land, being of the extent of about 3,000 acres, would not be sold by the proprietors, as I know from themselves, even for two hundred thousand dollars, which would be equivalent to 66 2-3 dollars per acre. 2. The estate of Parise-Amilpy, and an adjoining one, lying twe nty-two leagues from the capital, with 30,000 acres of land of fair quality, and partially irriated, has been sold recently for 200,000 dollars, equivalent to 6 2-3 dollars per acre. 3. Lands lying beyond sixty leagues distance from the capital, of gout quality, ulthough without irrigation, can be obtained at 2 dollars per acre. The incursions of the barbarians on the trontiers, and the want of population, are the real causes of the almost nominal price of 31d. per acre for lands in those directions. l The security and prosperity of the capital, as 'ell as its great consumption of agricultural produce, for a m the con trast presented in my first case ; and lastly, th e difficulty of uansport and dist.a.ce of markets account fo': the difference in the two remaining lam, ases. am, NUR. ARISTA. ANOTHER AFFRAY BETWEEN THE IRISH I GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND SHIPPING IN ROMAN CATHOLICS AND TILE ITALIAN ltE• TILE LATE GALE. Ft:GEES. Another serious disturbance occurred last night in the neighbourhood of Gray's-inn-lane, between a number of the lower order of i:ish Raman catholic' and a party of Italian refugees, resident in 11:.!dwin's-gardens and its vicinity. On this occasion, as on Monday lest, the Irish were the aggressor", and owing to the admirable precau tions taken by the police of the G Division several men have been apprehended and lodged in the station-house, on the double charge of assaulting unafendiag Italian., and resisting the police in the execution of their duty. It was shout half. past seven o'clock when the first dis turbance occurred. Information to the etleet that a large numbs r of Irish Roman catholics had left the various lo- cali:iee of Whitechapel, St. Giles's, Lambeth, and the Barough, in parties of two and three, all directing their rte pa towards Gray's-ion lane had previously been received, and the rest rye constablr s from the chief p lice station in flow street, as well as thoze at 1-lingten end other districts, had been summitted to the spot. At 7 u'clock an Italian boot and shoe mkt r, named Daniel Staurengbi, a resident in 13 tide itt's-gardeus, was rcurnii.g from a house in evillt street, used as a resort by many of the refugees, to his oe a residence, when, while passing through Fox-court, a paved thoroughfare leading from Greville-strtet into Genre-inn lane, he was assaulted by an Irish castcrmonger, named James Neale, who threw a round paving -stone weighing several pounds at him train be hind, and then has tily retreated into his hou,e a small tenement in Fox-.lace, an outlet from Fox-court. It does not appear that Neale had any prey ieus personal know ledge of Staurerghi, but as the latter were a red cap of liberty and possessed strongly marked Italian features the Irishman considered him a fair object of attack, and, as she, d, t• row a stone at him with so much violence that it rolled stecral yards in advance of where be was walking. Staurenghi, being an active man, turned suddenly round, and seeing his assailant rosining away he followed him as quickly as possible and marked him enter the house No. 1, Fireplace. One of Mr. Martin's constables was fortunately passing down Fox-court just as the stone was tkruwn by Neale, and the missile actually roll.al close up to where the officer stood; his attention wits instantly directed to elteuresighi runnieg after Neale, and calling to his assist. aura two or three other °Mere they followed the heroin into Fex-place, where they found the house Neale had en tered barricaded against them. After attempting to effct an entrance by the adjoining house, in which they failed, the officers called ape Neale to surrender. Ttiv summers. was answered from the second flan, window by hurling down a variety of missiles, and among the rest an iron mounted plasterer's hammer, which narrowly escape d upon the head of one of the consta'-lea. A renewed sum mutts to surrender himself,.and a threat that if he did not do so the door would be forced, brought Neale to the win dow with a kettle full of boiling water, the contents of which the miscreant threw out upon the oft' acs, one of the sergeants receiving a considerable quantity over his head and lace. It was now felt that further parleying would be useless, and a reinforcement of constables having arrived an entry was effected and Neale's apprehension, after some difficult : , se cured. A second Irishman, named John Carroll, whs assisted Neale in barricading his house and assaulted Mr.' Staurengbi, was also safely lodged in custody. 'the greatest excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood during the progress of this affray, and but for the presence of an overwhelming force of police, all of whom behaved admirably, there can be no doubt very serious consequences would have occurred. Up to 11 o'clock only four arrests had been made—all Irishmen—and although it was thought desirable to retain the police on duty there appear,. a every probability of the night not being further disturbed. GREAT FIRE IN TIM BROMPTOIABOAD. On Saturday evening one of the most extensive em.flagrations that has occurred in the neighbourhood of Brompton for a comiderablo time past broke out about five o'clock. The disaster originated in the promises belonging to Mr, C. Alter, a mahogany and veneer merchant carrying on business in Lower North-street, Brompton-read, adjoining the tallow melting depots of Mr. Cuthbert, of Pateramter row. The lire originated, from some unknown cause, amongst the piles of veneers, Sec., in the north yard. This place was surrounded, independently of the tallow stores, by numerous other erectioas in Queen's-place-gardens, and ti E gu x e o t Ir e - s t tr u e i e l d t consequently, inp. ln the the e. mosto of a lively fe w m apprehensions inuto t i, were, from the first, entertained for the s day of the con. parish engine arrived, closely followed by that of the West of England office, with Mr. Connorton. Several other en gines, of the London Brigade, with Mr. Staples, the foreman us the district C, followed in rapid succession, and a plen tiful supply of water having been procured from the mains eo p u r t e i m nu is i e d s , I of the Chelsea Company, the engines were set to work , and I Yets: i s n tre s pair: of ff which the discharged ,,orkof ra n e t .u hc uct6a blazing and vile after pile of timber fell a sacrifice to the fury of the Hams. During the progress of the fire three or lour houses in North-street, a cow-shed adjoining the timber yard, and one or two houses in Queen's gardens ignited, and the o cupsnts, who were uninsured, were obliged to east their furniture into the street for protection. The total amount of loss, or how Vie disaster was occa sioned, cannot at present be ascertained. TEE LATE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT OLDHAM. The late explosion at the Bent Grange Colliery, Oldham, which resulted in the loss of twenty lives, rag been investigated at great length by the coroner's jury. The proceedings did not terminate till some hours alter our re port of Friday evening left. After hearing the evidence of the government inspector, Mr. Dickinson, and of Mr. Wynne, an inspector of coal mines, the first jury found the following verdict :—" Fur ther, we consider that strict injunction should be given to the underlooknr, that until the furnace is erected, no collier whatever shall work with his lamp-top ofi; under pain of immediate discharge." The seven gentleman who were upon the second jury, but not upon the first, had meanwlale retired to another room, where Mr. Sellers, Mr. Dearden's assistant, had to read over to them the evi dence given on Friday week. They were afterwards sup. plied with a copy of the verdict that had been returned by the first jury, and just before our reporter left (by the last train from Oldham), the coroner informed him that, in all probability, the second jury would merely endorse the verdict of the first. THE REPRESENTATION OF DEVONPORT.—It ie ru moored that, in consequence of the state of his health, General Sir G. 11. F. Berkeley is about to retire from the representation in the House of Commons; but the rumour, we believe, has no other fonndation than the regretted failing health of the General, and the fact of Sir John 11. Maxwell, who was the second Conservative, and one of the defeated candidates for the representation at the last election, being on a visit to some of his friends in the borough. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPRGEONS.—At a meeting of the council on the 14th inst., James Luke, Esq., the senior surgeon to the London Hospital, was elected president; and and George James Guthrie, E.q., F.R S., s.onsulting sur geon to the Westmii.ster Hospital, and William Lawrence, Esq., F.lt S., senior surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospi tal, were elected vice-presidents of the college for the ensu ing year. The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the court of exa miners on the 15th inst.:—Messrs. George Jules Gillam, North Leigh, Oxfordshire; John Heys, Liverpool; William Falconer Clark, Cunningham-place, St. John's-wood; Mat thew Corner, Whitby, Yorkshire; Arthur Edwin Temple Longhurst, Kirk-by-blallory, Leicestershire; William Wright, Lincoln ; Samuel Alexander Patterson, Downham Market, Norfolk ; Thomth , Lewis, Grouger, Llaudilo, Car marthen; John Sutton, Kegworth, Leicestershire; and Francis Goold, Dublin. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.— Mr. Law, Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, will take the place of the Chief Commissioner, Mr. H. Revell Reynolds, resigned; Mr. Scrjeant Murphy will be the new Commis sioner, in succession to Mr. Law; the Hon. Julian Fend s appointed First Paid Attacl4 to her Majesty's mission at ienns, in the TOOT of Mr. Frederick Hamilton, appointed Secretary of Legation at Stutgardt ; Mr. Fletcher Norton. Unpaid Attache at Naples, is appointed Second Paid At tache at Vienna; the lien. Edward Vesey Bligh is ape pointed Second Paid Attache at Berlin ; Mr. Wilber Ilrodie is appointed Unpaid Attaebe at Stockholm; Mr. Augustus Griffiths is appointed Assistant Colonial Surveyor at Sierra Leone.—Olocreer. METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL JOINT STOCK BILEWEItY COMPANY.— A correspondent says: Au extraor dinary general meeting of this company took ; lace on Wed nesday last, at the ngi• es of the company, Upper Welling ton-street, Strand; J. F. Bontems, Req., in the chair. The report, which was read by the secretary, congratulated the shareholders on the entire success of the company, more cape • cially when the difficulties which had beset the company in its progress were taken into account. The directors were able to recommend a dividend of 5 per cent. on all shares paid up. The directors called upon the shareholders to augment the c -mita of the company, either by taking more shares themselves mid urging their friends to do the same, or by lending money on the bends of the company, which bear interest of 5 per cent , and, under the pre/ant circum stmces of the company, might be considered an eligible investment. The report also notices the great benefit which has arisen to the company by the introduction of the imperial bottle measure to the public. The report having been unanimously adopted, the directors and auditors re elected, after a few observations from the shareholders, the meeting separated. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' FETE AT CREMORNE.—Tho Committee of the Licensed Victuallers' School are to bold their annual Frei in these gardens to-ilsy and to morrow. The character of the aasoc;ation and the attractions oilseed on the occasion will, no doubt, induce very considerable. support. The reports received from the Durham aid York shire coast show that the gale of Thursday and Friday last was exceedingly destructive to the shipping, and many gallant men have sunk to a watery grave. Aniencst the vessels lost was the Countess of Strathmore, Captain J. Nicholson. master, one of the A .et cf steam colliers which has recently been put on Intwee n London and the Tyne. The Countess of Strathmore took her departure from Shields abuut halt-pact Bon the evening of Wednesday, for London, and had not t ' , acceded far to the southward before she encountered the commencement of the gale, which is reported to have been ES E. She kept her way, however, the aai making breeches over her bow with great fury. At daybre uk the wind had lacerated, and hare were enter tertained for her safety. As tl.e meriting advanced alto neared :be Yorkshire mast, and it was then discovered that water was fast gair.ing in her from the tremendous waves which kept now and then dashing over ha r; to such an extent, indeed, as to pit out the fire. Te add to the chlti culty, the rumps would not work, havieg become choked, and the foundering of the ship appearing inevitable, unless some harbour was made, the order was elven to bear away for Hard, pool. There was but little etesa• thin in the violence of the weather, and how the vessel lived in the gale so long it a matter of some surprise. Towards evening a billy-boy, called the Sisters, belonging to Boston, observed the distressed steamer ' and at once made C.,. her. Prompt efforts were then made to preserve tl • crew. Their own boat had broken adrift, and it was an nounced that the ill-fated ship was fast ecttlirg down. The fearful state of the sea renderod their rescue the roost diffi cult. Lines wcro thrown to the poor fellows from the billy-buy, by e hied eight of them were dragged from the wreck through lie sea to the barge, and another lot of tour contrived, by some extraordinary good fortune, to reach thew fellow seamen in one of the boats. The captain (Mr. Nicholson) bad secured a rope round his bwly, tut it uatortunatcly breke, said he was drowned. The mate jumped overboard with a holder in his hand, in the hope of diatiog with it to the Sisters, but the poor fellow perished. A third unfortunate sailor shared a like fate. By this period the Countess of Strathmore had gut quite) low down, and within a short time of the surviving por tion of the crew getting clear off her, she went down In deep water, Whithy bearing a few miles distance of her. The Sisters then made for Hartlapool, and landed the exhausted crew. 'rem steamer and cargo, coal and mer chandise, wire insured at Lloyd's ler several thousands. Her life-boat was picked up by a vessel which Lai reached the Tyne. About the time the above unfortunate vessel foundered, a laden brig was seen to disappear with every soul on board, ' it was thought. Mr. Agnes, the captain of the Dolphin. helenging to Rochester, on arriving at Hartlepool on Friday, reported seeing the ill-fated ship go down near Robin ' Bay. 'fho wind was blowing very heavily, and nothing had been teen of the crew. . In the vicinity of Hartlepool the ehip?ing suffered con siderobl. A vessel was wrecked, which was attended by the moat heart-rending circumstances. A Sunderland sloop, called the Sisters, Mr. Lewis, master, bound to Newcastle, was cast ashore, the breakers completly washing over her. The crew consisted of only two men and a boy, sun of one of the men. As she struck, father and son were swept off, but they were rescued by the other man, and the three clung to the rigging. A boat, manned by a crew of tiering fellows, endeavoured to reach them, but the heavy character of the surf completely el,died all their exertions. At 1, ngth, atter a painful delay of some Hires hour , , a rocket line was pasted to the wreck, by which she was bearded. The father and me, the latter of whom was insensible, and had been supported in the arms of his parent for some time, were then gut ashore, but all efforts tailed to restore the boy, and he died from the effects of exhaustion and terror. A tine brig, named the Alexandria, (Joplin) Sinclair, hound to Gorhenhurgb, in endeavouring to run into the harbour to emapo the fury of the gale, was thrown ashore in the bay. Near Seabaso, several coasters were driven on the coast; amongst them the Ilds, of Wis beach, Wave and Fawn, of London, St. Ctildas,of Dunkirk, and Jane Sinclair, of Kanderland. Same of them sent to pieces. Higher up the coast, towards the Spurn and Yar mouth roads, there appear to have been many disasters. A brig named the Rose, of Stockton, bound to London, drove ashore on the I'alliug, and tilled. The London, Hull. and London steam-ship, on her passage to the Thames, went hack into the north roadstead, elf Lowestoft, and landed passengers, and a vessel, repotted u the Royal Prederiek, hound from Sunderland to Portsmouth, struck upon the Knock sand, and being got off, eventually went down. The crew were preserved by a brig bound wlt>e. TWO CHILDREN MURDERED BY THEIR MOTHER IN 13IRAHNORAM. Early on Fr:day morning one of the most fright ful and happily rarest of trag,dies was perpetrated in Mr- mingham The circumstances under which the crime was perpetrated are somewhat singular. About ten weeks ago, a woman about thirty-five years of age, named Ann Brookes, took lodgings iu the house of a person named Thomas Roberts, residing in Byreetreet, at the back of the Reservoir Tavern. She had two children with her; two boys, twins, about two years of age. From the little of her history which was ga thered from her, it appeared that she was a native of Leices tershire, and had biers for some time cohabiting with a man named Brooke - , who earned a living by hawking braces, &c. The untorturate children were the illegitimate c ffspring of that intercourse. Brookes, however, deserted the mother some time ago, and had goo: off with snottier ft male. The circumstance of her desertion, and the fear of want, it is conjectured, drove her to the commission of the crime with which she is now charged. It appears that on Thursday evening, eh+ tat five o'el , ck, the children, who appeared in their usual health, hail some milk given them by the mother, and they were thin put to bed. She did not, however, retire until the usual time, and nothing particular, it is said, wee averred in her liehav :our in the interval. During the night -he was several unit b out of bed, and Mr. Roberts heard her more than once moving about the room, which, with her children, she occupied aloha. About six o'clock in the morning she west down stairs and left the house, exhibiting an indisposition to allow any person to go up stairs to her chamber. She proceeded to the house of a neighbour, end assisted her in wringing out some clothes which had been washed; but she did not remain there long, and went off somewhe re at present unknown. As abc did not return by 10 o'clock, Mrs. Roberto, who is rather an elderly person, proceeded up-stairs to bee how the children were. They lay quite fall, and apparently in a sound sleep ; and Mrs. Roberts, after putting her hands upon their feet, left them, little dreaming that the bleep from which she hesitated to wake them was the sleep of death. On returning down stairs, however, Mrs. Robs its happened to mention to some of the neighbours that tho children were lying very quiet, and that their feet wero exceedingly cold. After talking about it, some cf them went up to the bedroom in which the children lay, and wero horrified to find that they were both quite dead. The excitement which this discovery created was, ns may be anticipated, very great ; audit had by no means subsided when the woman Brookes returned. She was apparently inebriated ; passed them unheeded, and sat down in a chair, from which, however, she almost immediately tell. Some ' of the persons in the house at once acquainted her with the death of her poor children, the announcement of which did not seem to create in her any particular impression; but, I uttcrirg some inarticulate expressions, she suddenly got up, rushed to the door, end started off with fatterinc steps In the direction of the neighbouring canal. She was not, however, permitted to go far, and was brought back to the house, where she was detained. Meanwhile the landlord of the Reservoir Tavern, who had become aware of the circumstances, inotantiv des patched messengers for the assistance of the medical gen tlemen in the vicinity. Unfortunately, however, none of them were at house ; but at length Dr. hinds, of Summer ' row, reached the house about twelve o'cl ek, followed shortly afterwards by Mr. Ilumfrits, surgeon, from the New Workhouse. Upon the arrival of these gentlemen the woman was in an almest insensible condition ; arid from her symptoms, suspecting that she was labouring under the iulluence of some narcotic poison, the stomach pump and other remedies were successfully applied, and she recovered to a consider able extent. Upon being questioned upon the subject of her children and their deaths, she admitted that she had administered poison to them on the preceding evening. The police were consea uen tly communicated with, and she was conveyed in custody to the police station, with direc tion.; that she should be kept walking about the yard, in order to prevent a state of coma. She, however, there become dangerously ill, so much so as to lead to the sup position that she was dying; and in these circumstances it was considered advisable to remove her to the General Hospital. While there a singular circumstance o:curred, which rather militates against the idea that she was com • pletely without resources, or driven to the commission of the crime by fears of starvation. She was seizedwith sick nem, sad vomited • sixpence. This attracted attention, and she then stated that a sovereign still remained in her stomach. On Saturday evening the murderess was still very ii', ...at I Out expected to recover. Mr. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Namea of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, aed received certificates to practise, on f burs day, July 14. 18.53:—Major Cherlll‘ol4, Wakefield-street, St. Voi.cra. ; Cecil Calvert Cogan, Royal Mail Steam packet service ; Griffith Griffith, S altrenddyo, Merioneth shire. THE CAMP AT CIIOSNAM.—On Saturday Woe was a larger muster of carriages on the com mon than could have been expected in the un favourable state of the weather. Lord Seaton, who had been in town on Friday night, returned to the camp the next morning. arriving at Cherteey by tho seven o'clock train from London. Shortly a tter his arrival at Chertsey he was joined by Viscount liardinge, and both 'he veteran officers rode over to the camp together. Among the visitors on the hill were noticed the Countess of Jerst y and Lady Clementinn Villicre, Lord and Lady Wetlehousc and party, Lord Charles Wellesley, General Cavendish, &c. None of the tranps, except those on duty as sentries, stirred beyond the limits of their canvas dwel ling., which, though not waterproof or even watertight, are still preferable to being quite out in the rain. The ith Fusiliers arrived in the camp on Friday evening. On Sa turday evening, at about half-past five, the Xith arrived also, completely saturated with rain. No field-day with the new troops can possibly take pimp I ngtil the weather changes for the better, as:Vgg i tflpefa 'Which reviews I generally come off is one , _ :, • f ...) - • • • • 0: 4 - • ''.4 , • .: ' 1 --j - • .t. :,...).: ! I —i (.. , 1 / 4 4,::•.t, ~......I ." ...p. 1 r- 1. J 4 I 114 1