The Express. — London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

REPRESSION OP CRIME. BIRMINGHAM, Silvans'.. •ho I as So-salons. last pare Mr. M. 1). At t te.the in • Hill, Q.C., the Recorder ef this borough, in his ch ar ge 1-,.rod nd jury, - telly. red same iusportaut rero rriear. lo rhe g e geetiatts oa the subjeat of the rep:Liar of comments appeared in the daily payebe learned gent l eman rs at and again re were were made thereupon. l (erred to the sal ject iu his charge today. Mr. Hill's theory is, that all persons who have been convicted, are living without risible means of support, and who, in the belie( of witnesses acquainted with their way of life, are maintaining tnentselve. by crime, as their stated calling, ought to b., :ailed upon to prove themselves in the enjoy cut of soma honest means of subsistence ; that in the ab sence of such proof they should be called upon to give se curit;es fir their conduct ; and, failing to do so, they should be committed to prima for a limited period. The following is the charge delivered to-day At the Michaelmas Sessions of last year I addressed your preileceteur.un the repre.sion of crime: confining, however, my remarks to one branch of that greet subject, sanely, the propriety of bateau; in restraint known nidefacton, who cuutil he s'iown on sufficient evidence to pursue crime as a caltaig, altbough, by their dexterity and geed fortune, they bad been able to elude the proof of any specific offence. This charee drew public attention to an extent for which was not prepared. To those best acquainted with the class to 1,, h. 1.1 in cheek, and with their manifold inflictions on sow •tv, I believe 1 miy venture to state that it met with acceptance; but, basing been handled by men of acute mends, unguarded from error by practial experience, I ought not to wonder that a new question, or at all events a 1 ueet.ais new to the -.. critics, would call forth dissent as well as agreeraeet--il.elent exhibiting itself in a multitude of ingeue.a. objceteese. If I had foremen that any obeena tioue falling from W. could have been deemed worth) of so much notice, I ne.ght have thought it prudent to offer my views to the poeilic, under circumstances which would have enabled me, by treatiug the subject in greater fulness than can will he dune in a charge, to have answered by anticipation the objectione vs. kilt Lave been urged against me. My I reply I intend to give on the present occasion, and, as I hope, without drawing too much on your patience. No doubt 1 might have Laken an earlier opportunity of per forming this task ; but I thought it due to the diversity of 1 optimist to which I have adverted to take ample ti me fur a 1 coueideratitm of what I had submitted to your predecessors,' in order that, by a careful and (so far as any efforts of mine could assure it) a taisolid review of all that has heels urged ou the 'Me side and oa the other, I might either maintain my poeition or retract my errors, and give at the same time publicity * the flaunt. which hail led to my change of opinion. Anil, midlernen, if I know myself, I should not base felt humiliated by such a retractation. On the contrary, it would have les ii eatiefactory too me to reflect that the dis cussion ohm , li I had originated had proved the fallacy of a remedy which, having bean plausible enough to mislead one seen her after truth, might decoy others of more power awl influence, anti thus lead to its being carried tub, isetieu l'ide review I hove at length made, and h ,ve weighed the arguments on both sides. I have also (Asti, into Inc...net o.lle general facts, which have either cone tot., exi•teure in the interval, or have been made more promineut than More; and I am hound to avow myself cenfirmeil in my urigiud views. Gentlemen, I submitted to our prederesmrs a speculative opinion and a practical prp•uel. My sio culatire opinion was, that all persons pas ii.g without risible means of support, and who, in the belief of witneee• connected with their way of life, are maintaining themselves by crime as their stated calling, ought tie be railed upon to prove themselves in the enjoy ment of smile honest means of subsidence ; awl I further submitted that, in the absence of such proof, they should be bound to give sureties for guod conduct; and again, that failing to give satisfaetory security, they should be committed to prison for a limited period. This was my theory. Aid it wa. founded on the wellknown fact (which I paws for ain oneut to state has never yet been controverted) that each individual of the class of prufessional marauden* well known, both permually awl by character, to the police and to hi. neighbour., and MUM be pointed out with per fect ease, Erwin this curt I drew the consequence that society (harm' such ineaosof knowledge within its own reach) was nut oozy jug itie I, but hound to use it fur the general protecieni. lio my practical proposal, however, I stopped abort, and limited the application of my theory to the Cans of offender. who hail already been convicted. I adopted this limitation for several reasons; one, that it is slime well m pmeeeel step by step in an untried coarse, or it • comparatively untried; another, because cowries.* criminals Gaon a large' and by far the moat dangerous pees tines of the predatory class; awl third, because by cos viction they have necessarily forfeited the confidence et society. That they have been guilty men is an ratableshed fact. while in the nisojority of instances there is neither evi dents nor probability of their having abandoned their evil runes.,. Indeed. how should it he? The administration of lave proieeols on the principle of retribution. The no minal is convicted of a given offence, and has measered out to him a given length of punishment. It is true that during his term of confinement we take same step. to re form him. which are more or less adapted to attain that en I. Out his detention is neither in the first instance re gulated loy an estimate of the time required for that peewee, nor is there any power to continue it 1111111 hits reformation is effected. The prisoner is Ole:tell swath a moral disease, but the prison cannot he rousidered in the light of a hospital for its tie.otment without exposing the administration of criminal justice to ridicule. For what should ee think of a hospital fur the cure of a malignant and Infectious disease • (acid wryly no disease Cali Ix more malignant or inure in fectious than crime), if the rule of it. governors were to keep the patient, not until he is cued, but • week, a month, or a year, ...cording to a principle of regulation quite irre spective, of Lie condition at the time of hi. dismissal, and making it altogether a matter of accident whether he is re lieved of hie dietemper, or whether he is sent forth to spread internat. through the land; As long, then, as punishment is me asureol out on the retributive principle, so long an in dividual once convicted must remain an sheet of just and unavoidable suspicion ; and the el ess to which he belongs may 'Town:Ably he selected fur any experiment which the welfare of the euniaiunity requires to be instituted. To i 1113. 4. who hove made it a topic of observation and inquiry it is well known that criminals not unfrequently pursue a .stem of depredation with impunity fur lung periods. With regard to one man very lately sentenced to trumped tatiuie, it has fun pecaliar circumstances occurred to me to know that his career of crime has extended over sees. than thirty years, with t a single conviction; and I base strung reaeous fur believing that his is by no memos • solitary caw. Almost every newspaper contains seerepess graph nursling a critniusi ceploit in which there is • eau bitsatiou ul still and beloluess marking out the perpetrator as experienced in the violation of the law. We often read of attacks in streets and other frequented thoroughfares, by ruffians who seem to have taken us their model the Indian Thug; And their (cab prove them to be as dexterous 23 their master, while in audacity they leave him far behind. Such outrages as these, gentlemen, are not the acts of tyros iu villa ay They imply the skill. the contempt of danger, and the imlifference to the sufferings of their victims, which training and training slope can give. And here we cannot shut our sire to the fact that our present system of punish- Incubi offers great facilities, not to say inducements, to a traiuing to crime. In order to place this unhappy tendency is a char light, let me suppoee for a moment that it were the object of society to defeat the intention of its own laws; and to strengthen the propensity to crime, in every indi vidual in whom such propensity had ever been disclosed, by the commimion of an offence. Let us compare oar present mule of proceeding as to criminals with that which we pursue when our wish is not to deter bat to stimulate and encourage. And I think you will observe a wonderful similarity. What is our treat- ment of oar children in their education ? Do we I net give them short and easy lessons at first lest they should lie disgusted with learning at the outset, and so close their mind., against the lessons of their teachers ? And do we rut augment their tasks with the growth of their strength, and in proportion as practice adds to their abi. lily for mental application ? Do we not, in short, graduate the rate of their progress according to their powers of ac tion roil endurance ? Well, then, let us now consider our treatment of criminals. When the juvenile offender first presents himself at the her we give him a slight Ise. prisonment—just enough to accustom him to short new rations from his companions, and to dispel the isholeetime illusion which had made the gaol a place of fear, because it was a place of mystery. On the nest occasion he remains longer, but lie has become practised in prison life, and bears confinement far better than he would have done bet for his former lemon. This process is repeated Gym time to time, while the moral which the wretched creature draws from his alternations of confinement sad freedom is sot to refrain from offending, but to commit offences in such a manner as shall least 'arise him to the risk of detection, and, more. over, that when at length detected he ought to bear his Privations with as much of contempt and defiance as he I ran eemsoled by the prospect of restored free. =silizhe holm of better fortune in future. Is not this, •Yr wale' 7 And does it not show that our treatment et ordelbeten is better calculated to confirm them In evil doing than to withdraw them tram crime ? It will be •Imarred that I weak of the gemeral working of our Fdon. That them lea .any @modems to the rule I am *balm. No ma aggrociato more hl than Mm labours of army mom= and many aided es they are sibs by wah•Miers of both eassol, who loth oft the criminal, "At as an ostarest to be Ins adds is =Lred trend. hat n es elder brodars. W bs .. Irak V by th mist 1411•1111•11 sad re Mr Is of vdt.dieestod Idadoen v betlreat as be noshed. If Man, geollenn , dr g reembe am well Soooded the member et as atalefaren nen * at Imp nest nein much less of surprise Man erns; but I wadi Saar that we are yet to Impost end. doable Mahler, - le ilde body. It is well nem Y pie, ask pens= of sessedes, that duels, Ms Let Olen the Ins or that great sad gad immii4 this, us. bean • steady program ism= the kibletere the severity of oar eels, dish. der he Me Mews, was the art seer pion et be tired is drain& world. Near an It ban serged per Awned= that the sei.tiesset whisk hr eshensd the Isehistree besides pervaile4 is the ba admi nisonegis• af animbeljositins. Wool h all its pededers bied whit •kr ad spnd mer ug e is bygone dues. The ambled etisty =lSthroth e MS has beau set esk token Veer el Inpiennert bet to seeks tb °mew Tesekt. hmeddeetelin of hes fropsns arreesse is ~ ore to the swerier of caniele der • dieIIMINIMIS whith rend have rdnend t6lll:ll.7eterdesest or s d a l=l " ef wasstelahao the resabon t 411Merat pesisAs IMMO tk la sad drop o hms, ba dad BOW as eddhleed the way 70, 7 tottoualy ag =r 4llllllll l .o s t io nl le e r telidt re• •••••117 • Ire tkia NNW. emuOm THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1851. tin;uieh, this kind of punishment. Penal colonies planted by the mother country, at • vast expense, for the dispesal of her eonsiet population, and which for merly were the willing recipients of these de graded persons (gladly availing themselves of the ample supply of labour thus afforded for bringing their tracts of new lend int , cultivation) have at length diem vered that the moral evils incident on the importation of I malefactors far outweigh the material benefits to ',shish' they (the colonists) had hitherto limited their calculations. It would be unbecoming in me while sitting here, to enter into the controversies and heart-burnings which have arisen, out of this change in colonial policy. AU that I desire A the present moment is to eel your attention to the per I tentous consequences which may, and as I think must, re- suit from the impedima nts thus thtown in the way of trans portation, when taken in connexion with the causes to which I have salverted, as lessening the numbers on whom that punishment would be inflicted, even it the facilities for car rying it into effect were as great as they continued to be up to • recent period. This consequence is the permanent augmentation around us in the number of liberated con victs. What that addition will amount to it is of course impossible to predict, but that it must be very large h pretty certain from the experience of countries having no colonial outlets, and because although sentences for trans portation were at all times more frequently fur limited tonna of years than for life, so few re turnnd that the country might almost be said to be freed for ever from the presence of • con vict when once he had left our shores. ho not, gentlemen, mistake me by imagining that I am pronouncing an eulogy on transportation. Believe me I bear too clearly in my mind the powerful and conclusive arguments by which it has been assailed. All I desire to impress upon you is that tie stoppage of that glee'. sewer which has for so many years earned away the dregs of our population will produce , • most unwholesome affect, other things remaining as they are, and that *elide the country adheres to the principle of', retributive punishment (as it probably will do lone after the voice to which you so kindly listen is hushed in the g rave ) so long that pernicious effect will imperatively call or some spacial remedy, which remark brings me back to the consideration of the one laid beturo your predecessore, and of which I have already given you a sketch. This I will now more fully describe. I propose that every person who has been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor implying fraud (as obtaining goods wider false pretences, I knowingly pining base coin, and the like), shall be liable to be dealt with as follows: If, after the expiration of his imprisonment under his conviction he shall be brought before • magistrate, charged with still persevering in crime, it shall be the duty of the magistrate, if the witnesses by evidence of general conduct satisfy his mind that the charge is established ' to call on the prisoner to show that lie enjoys the means of honest subsistence,either from his properq, his labour, the kindness of his riends, the bounty of the charitable, or from hie parish. Should he succeed in adduc ing this proof, he is to be disclarged. Should no such proof be forthcoming, he is next abe called upon to give hail for his good behaviour. Supposing him to answer this de mand,he is to be still entitled to his diseberta. But ha the event of his failure, he is then to be held to bail on his own recog. nisances, and his case to be sent to a jury at the assizes or a1..11/1111, when, if a verdict pass against him, he is to be imprisoned fur a term to be fixed by the law, but capable of diminution by the judge before whom he is tried. This, gentlemen, is my proposal in detail, and, perhaps, it will appear to you as it did to your predecessors (who honoured it with their approval when I submitted it to them in outline), that it sufficiently guards the accused against the danger of IN ing deprived of MS liberty on fallacious grounds. In the first plan; no proceeding' under the proposed law would put the convict into custody even for a day, except by the ver dict of • jury, unless, indeed, he should forfeit his recogni sances by not appearing to take his trial, when he would subject himself to the well-known consequences of such a contempt. Suppose him then on his trial, and observe how he is fenced round with protections, " covered," as Erskine expremes it, " from head to foot with the panoply of the law." In the first place his accusers must satiety the jury that he was at the time of his apprehension in the course of life which they charge upon him, not merely that he was' so before his conviction. This evidence he will rebut, Wks can, either by impeaching the character of the witnesses, showing that their statements are false or inconclusive, or by explaining away the facts established against him. And in this part of his case, as in all other parts, he may adduce witnesses of his own. But suppose him to fail in meeting the charge. Ile then falls back on his second defence, ...a shows the manner in which ho subsists. Now, if he have in truth ea honest income, it is nut very easy even to ima gine a set of circumstances which disable him from proving a tact so emphatically within his own knowledge. But we will go on to suppose him defeated is this second defence. Even then, unless he is altogether bereft of honest friends, having confidence that he will nut commit crime, he finds hail end remains at liberty. Now, gentlemen, the species of objection to which I thought my proposal must obnoxious is, that it offers too many chances of escape to be practi cally efficient for the restraint of criminals. On this head, however, nose who ../C conversant with the life and habits of the clase in question have the least misgiving, norhas that objection ever been advanced. On the contrary, the alms rous attacks which the plan has undergone have been always directed against the danger of cireensitdas injustice on the convict. That such a miscarriage is within the limits of possibility, I must admit, but that such trials us I propose arc more open to this reproach than tri ile fir specific offences, or so open, I do take upon myself, speaking from a very long experience in Criminal Courts, confidently to deny. No tribunal is infallible. No dis cos-cry has yet been made which supplies a cure touchstone to human testimony. And if the lamentable feet that inno cent men are sometime, convicted were sufficient for the condemnation of criminal jurisprudence no mode of trial that the wit of man has ever invented could stand. But from the strain in which some writers bare indulged, it might be supposed, if experience had not recorded a very different result, that trial foe specific offences never failed' of bringing out the truth, always acquitting the innocent, and ascertaining with exactitude the criminality of the guilty. One short statement will dispose of this fund belief, if any person is so misled as to entertain it. The brother of the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Edward Wilde, was the boamme lent instrument during his year of office as Sheriff of Lew dun of saving six persons from death; showing on one solo siun that the prisoner was clearly innocent; on others, that conclusions had been hastily drawn from facts which did nut justify them, and thus nullifying the proofs of guilt; and with regard to the remainder, adducing evidence which went so far to mitigate their conduct as to prove that to put them to death would he a most unjustifiable measure of se verity. Whoever to whom these events are known as they were to me from time to time as they occurred— whoever reflects that they happened in one court and in one year (nay, in less than one year, for Mr. Wilde held office only for ten months), must see that confining the charge to one specific transaction by no means ensures success in the attainment of the truth. One source of miscarriage is, indeed, peculiar to such trials, and that, indeed, happens to be the most frequent by which the administration of justice is beset. I allude to mistakes as to the identity of the prisoner with the party really guilty. Misconceptions of this kind belong only _to nee mcnts of time (or at all events to very short pease"), and cannot occur when the uestion relates to gond conduit and the tenor of a man 's life. Moreover, whom • Goalie offence is charged, it is no conclusive answer, nee aws it be, that the prisoner had means of livelihood, and Oman is nut to be supposed guilty, which in the prosecutions sug gested by me it is always to furnish. And now let me, gen tlemen, ask a plain question. Is a man who has already been convicted, whose conduct is such that • jury is satisfied he is still a malefactor, who being then called on to explain how he obtains his livelihood has no answer to give, who is so distrusted by all the world that he cannot find bail for his good conduct, is that man—that pest of society—to remain at large? Ought we, on the mere surmise that errors may creep into the trial of such persons (in spite of all the care which has been taken to exclude them), to hold back from the exercise of a jurisdiction of admitted potency for the at tainment of its object, when that object is clearly of such vital importance? Gentlemen, the crying necessity of this jurisdiction so presses itself on my mind that I cannot re frain from adverting to it once more. But few days have elapsed since the part of England in which I reside (the county of Somerset) was the scene of an appalling outrage, filling the distant with indignation and horror. A girl, 15 years di, was is* by her parent.' alone at their dwelling, during their asessary attenos at the neighbouring oar- ket at Frame, On their return hem they fend her bed body stretched ea the floor, and MAW is bleed. kSo open day—la • hose ma distant boa ethos of do leimbi, and near to a sob mai—ha hi ahem idol hot hoe life in the defense, and ads he the oee-iiiaf dsdasso, of her purity ! The pangs of death wen shrspood by the cruel ignominy of vigilance. NOW meek ion Bins bad been bar fate—hew sash lan bitter the Odd bee he scored pommou, had the boa devoured by a hoot at poi Her imp lambi they hoe dwelt in their tail. lied Ipy flew anshba nook-Mu of potions dish it en wit Isr ow beshaledt Is the esemist. I sak,teenheast Oleo synqieare we to haw se sad Wi for the myriads of hoses thful subjects W u p s the use frightful perils, ashy belay; the want tioa. Iter esofort Owings lives isottentimesiselwysibythe hosted Ws whisk hero= their oink link we Omit alloys lad Oa mews , beam direction is isoloood by ems it 7 . 7.e .. 5 . ity la woothsr. Writers who sire the paha ' at the ineassi 50 whirls ow altonliss hr beems, w — a, thumbs so the obta elms altomilo Shit* nose ham as ht• ammo Sea the not linens!' inegbellia an fro to holt oat et WIS. Delibeosto advise has bens gives that web sum sissiii defend ;his doilies with fire-areas. leg es paine Ise a serest to wore what this Oven be tilt implies that a ono eaddsali k arns4trom ilea n ' 71 t aiSt, and ie el the et _maid whist' ma engin sot %iyeses s, midis asinh Ina his asi illsebi as ato 411 . 1 0 lib and endows • sospostod bassime, d disused for o ea bibs to the doh. awd to meats upon ilia the inevosable dean of a egad soisalshineat ! Barely for seek very Isatidisea 'spigots= this is a somewhat startling sorsorwassdadan. Bat whet has reselted ham the promised's of this liaise theatiosea, within a very sheet Storni et doe tee bar cent pumas, on. of ties as Aker of petioe—o instead of an assoiltiat—kare folds tee by the = clergy's., who (as we Amid all ogres). if the pewu end& be direly enercissd byceimes of the , ore tot entitled to the trios , We self - restraint and the asoreifel spirit which patina to sacred Gallia& _awl by the oar lanes which, &bow ell ethen,dsoy man fool at sendit a hi. barSeweoatltenek to his anneal with ell his sins epee kislad I ne. ontionses, if the law will posh haws nil. isms to mob of kap, hoes berbareas needles pabap lIIMMet. mod sot estiminfty SU s he t ( redo who deo not we thh •1111 =N Loom awl delletivi, olealysi bw mail , h lily tos be yr.: hued. I Iwo wow, aseismen, I 1 6 . 1 . 11111 Ws le as dilillod wath ill in a t wn iasa tbal sois% semb4ll. 101 l I Una Mali, IMMO (paniolesi so IS may appear) avowing that I am far more gratified than die concerted at these objections. They prove how deeply Englishmen are imbued with instinctive reverence for the liberty of the subject. This, like every other sentiment, may be carried to an unwarranted length . On the question before you I think it has been so treated ; but I for one will ever bear in mind that per sonal freedom is the surest foundation of oar other liberties, and that hostility to any Interference with it challenges my respect even when it ex ceeds the limits of a reasonable jealousy. If, then, on calm consideration, my proposal shall be found by the verdict of reflective men unwisely to infringe on that noble privilege, none will rejoice more sincerely than myself that I have not been taken at my word. Grateful shall I be to those who will have saved me from the life-long sorrow of having in flicted injury where I had humbly hoped to suggest an im portant benefit. Thanks, gentlemen. fur your patieuu— your task is finished. Mr. Adderley, M.P., occupied a seat on the bench during the delivery of the foregoing remarks. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, OCT. 18.—The senior proctor (the Rev. John Huogerford Polleng, will receive the names of can didates for examination this Term, either from themselves or their tutors, on Thursday, the 23rd of October, from 2 to 4 o'clock ; Friday. the 24th, from 2to 3; Saturday, the 24th, from Ito 4. Each candidate must give in a list, signed with his name, of the subjects and books in which he offers himself to be examined, together with the cer tificates of ~his having responded, and having sat in the schools. CAMBRIDOS, OCT. 20.—QUEENS . COLLEGE.—The undermentioned have been elected scholars of this College : Junior Sophs : Deigleton, Hedges, Lawrence, Lockett, Strugnell, Ward. Senior Sepia Dowson, Frost, Donne. Questioniets : Searle, Smith, BousSeld. CORPUS Cl/LLIOZ.—On Saturday last, A. G. Watson and Iselin wens elected slurs after an examination. There were seven candidates. CONORIMATION.—At a congregation this day holden, the Rev. Barnard Smith, 11. A., of St. Peter's College, and the Rev. George Bainbridge, 8.D., St. John's College, were elected pro-proctors for the ensuing academical year. At the same congregation the following degrees were conferred M.A. : F. M. Arnold, Cain+ College ; W. E. Dickson, Cor pus College; J. C. H. Deacon, Quens' College; C. W Simons, Queens' College. BA. Edward Leigh Kinder'. ley, Trinity College ; James Fitsjames Stephens, Trinity College. ORDMATION.—The Bishop of Sodor and Mann held an ordination on Sunday, the 12th inst., at St. Barna has chapel, {loughs, when Edward Forde, B.A. T.C.D., was admitted into the holy order of deacons. Rev. Wm. Atthill, to St. Faith perpetual curacy, Har• ahem, Norfolk, value 60/. ; patron, R. Radcliffe, Bask Rev. Peake Banton, to St. Katherine's perpetual surrey, Northampton ; patrons, Trustees. Rev. Thomas Duadas Harford Battersby, to St. John's perpetual curacy, Keswick, Cumberland, value 2201. and residence ; patrons, Tustees. Rev. Henry Harney Davies, to Llangsed perpectual ea racy with Llaniestyn curacy and Llanvihangee-din-Sylwry curacy, Anglesey, value 90/. ; patron, It. J. Hughes, Esq. Rev. Wm. Bnadon Ileatheote, 8.C.L., to the wardenship of St. Peter's College, Ridley. Rev. Thomas Scott Huxley, to the Episcopal Chapel, Dundee, Scotland. George Clerk Irving, 8.A., to the professorship of mathe maties, Trinity College, Toronto. Rev. George Whittaker, to the provostship of Trinity College, Toronto. VACANCY. CHAPLAINCY.—Surrey County Gaol, Guildford; patrons, the magistrates; Rey. J. Richards dismissed. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 21.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieu tenant, G. A. W. Welch; Acting Master, W. P. Braund ; Purser, J. Mallard ; Master's Assistant, D. May ; Clerk, J. Shepherd, to Crane. PORTSMOCTII, OCT. 20.—The Birkenhead, iron steam transport, Master Commander Robert Selmond, ar rived to-day from the Cape of Good Hope, having put in yesterday at I'lymouth, where she landed files of the Cape papers. She brought on the mails to this port, and arrived here just in time to transmit them to London by the 2.15 p.m. South Western mid-clay mail to London. She left the Castor and the Hermes, steamer, at Sinaun's Bay; the last-named vessel having landed the 12th regiment from the Mauritius. The Ilhadamenthus, steamer, had gone to the Buffalo Mouth with levies. lEato iintelitgence. BIRMINORANI BANKRUPTCY COURT. YESTERDAY. nerves Ma. eosolosiesea Mints. RCPPORD AND WRAOOE'S BANKRUPTCY. These bankrupts, the partners in the Stoutbridge and Bromsgrove Banks, came up on their last examination. Mr. Knight (of the firm of blottram and Company), who appeared for the assignees, stated that the balance sheet of the Stourbridge Bank no t filed, but that that of the Bromagrove concern wa yet prepared ; there fore, as the accounts of the two estabhahments were so much mixed up, a further adjournment would be applied for. Mr. Elgie, of Worcester, appeared for the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company ; Mr. John Smith, of Birmingham, for other creditors; and Mr. T. S. James for the bankrupts. Mr. ltufford, M.P., one of the bankrupts, was examined at great length. He stated he had handed over to the asugnees all the documents and papers relating to the two banks. On Thursday, the 'llth of June, at hall-past four in the afternoon, he fi rst received notice from Mr. Alger, a Bedford-row, London, that the note, of his bank had been stopped in London. Ile immediately gave directions that the bank should not be opened on the Friday morn log, and had not himself been at the bank since. Before he left he gave directions that all the paper* re lating to the British Alkali Company, to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, and to Sir Horace Paul's affairs should be sorted. Gave no direc tions to destroy any papers, and believed that all he had were handed over to the assignees. Kept copies of some business letters in the bank letter-book ; others were not copied, or had been destroyed at the time they were re ceived. If any parties had since the bankruptcy destroyed business papers, ft was not with his knowledge or by his direction. In reply to questions by Mr. Elgic, the bankrupt further said that Mr. Holt, a clerk in the Bromsgrove Bank, came to him at his residence at Bellbroughton on the Friday, the day the bank stopped. Saw him in the room where he kept his private papers. Mr. Scott and Mr. Biggs were in the MOM at the time. Gave directions to those two gentle men respecting his private papers at Bellbroughton. lie quested them to take them to a person named Hornsby to be sorted, he having previously sorted his papers up to about the middle of 1847. Dunag the present year, prior M the bankruptcy in June, had received many letters from Mastro. Glyn and Co., respecting the state of the account. Tam mostly contained requests to him to call upon them. Many of these letters he had burnt. To the best of his knowledge and belief nothing was said either to Mr. Scutt or to Mr. Biggs on the subject of burning papers; on the contrary, be gave directions that everything might he given over to whoever come to take possession. Gave Mr. Scott his keys, and then quitted his house. And in reply to Mr. Smith, the bankrupt said : Certain arrangements were made with Messrs. Glyn and Co. a few days before the bankruptcy. I had had a correspondence with Mr. Wragge on the subject. Ile wrote to me requesting rue Logo to town. This was on the Monday prior to the bankruptcy, and I did so. Mr. Wragge had given Glyn and Co. his own note of hand for 0,000/. I did burn Mr. Wragge's letters relating to business matters in the present year. Most of Glyn's letters were addressed to me personally. They merely asked me to call upon them, mid after I had read them I generally burnt them. The reason why I burnt Mr. Wragge `s and Messrs. Glyn and Co.'s letters was be cause I did not want them to fall into any one's hands, lest they should find out the state of my affairs. Mr. James—From whom did you wish tocenceal the state - . of your atrium ? Bankrupt —From my clerks, and anybody else into whose hand the letters might fall. Mr.Andrewitolt,formerly a clerk in Burford and Wragge's bank at llromsgrove, was examined with the view to elicit evidence as to his concern in the removal and destruction of the bankrupts' papers. Ile swore that he saw Mr. Itufferd on the Friday succeeding the stoppage of the notes in Lon don by Glyn and Co., that the bankrupt then said that his presence would be required at his residence to arrange his papers. Witness went there with Mr. Scott, solicitor of Bromsgrove, and assisted in sorting the papers, tearing up as he alleged only printed documents of no value or invitation cards; lie never destroyed, and in fact (he said), never saw any letters from Glyn and Co., or from Mr. Wragge, the partner of Mr. litufficd ; subsequently, on the Sunday evening, conveyed all the papers in gs and boxes to the banking-house at Bromegrove, where they remained until the following , Wednesday, when they were removed by Mr. Whitmore, the official assignee, they having in the meantime undergone an examination by Mr. Hornsby, according to Mr. Ballad's direction. Mr. Scott, of Brorasgrove, Mr. ltufford's attorney, was next called, with a similar purpose to that in view in call ing the last witness, but beyond the fact that he had as sisted in arranging the papers, nothing was elicited, the witness explicitly denying that he had had any concern in or knowledge of the destruction or removal of important pa gr rs ..Hornsby of the British Alkali Company, who bad been employed 'by Mr. Itutford to arrange the papers, also denied having either removed or destroyed letters from Mr. Wragge or from Messrs. Glyn and Co. to the bankrupt. Mr. Knight (addressing the Commissioner), said that his Honour would have perceived from the line of examination what object the official assignees whom he represented had in view • indeed, such was the character of the rumours abroad that no other course was open to them • the accounts not having however been fully prepared, he di d not propose to examine any of the bankrupts on the sulnect of them at present, but to ask for another adjournment. Mr. Elgie said there are good rensonswhy the course that has been pursued should have been taken ; the absence of all the important business letters for the year 1851. His Honour (interrupting) said—You had better not say anything, Mr. Elgie. Mr. J.V. Smith (on the part of opposing creditors) then applied to the court to withhold further protection from the bankrupt on the ground that he bad rendered himself amenable to the penal clause in the Bankruptcy Act by having destroyed his papers with the view to conceal the state of his affairs; the fact and the purpose of it had been admitted by the bankrupt in his own evidence. His Honour said, the bankrupt has told you all the con tents of the letters destroyed; he was simply asked to call on Glyn and Co. to arrange his account ; there does not appear to have been anything beyond that; therefore, I sm of opinion he has not committed an offence within the mean ing of the statute ; it is a penal statute, and is therefore not to be too strictly construed. After some discussion, Mr. Wragge's balance sheet was ordered to be made up from the bit of January, 1846, and ein the application of Mr. Elgie, Mr. Wraggo was ordered W Mc an account of all his share transactions, his Honour ninnarking that he wished everybody who had had anything In do with shares was obliged to file an account of their transactions. The following balance-sheet of the Stourbridge Bank only has been prepared by Mr. Percival', of Birmingham, and was to-day laid before the court Da. Sundry croXton, co deposit moats Curren r Notes is f s. d. 114,397 11 3 100.133 16 10 10,600 0 0 Total liabilities tnisecured t 125,036 5 3 Messrs. Glyn nod Co., 04 Landon, bolding securities es per contra Liabilities to Messrs. Glyn and Co., on bills timing 613,071 Is. 541. Capital, 143117, 1816 Guarani e fund, Ist July, 1846 I'bWp Ward, Increase of capital 3,449 8 9 C. J. Wragge, tor Ma note endorsed to Messrs. Glyn and Co ' Aube, 1831, slums tots, deposited so security 5,000 0 0 Pronto B=l t ebtors rood taken at Proparty, Itc., to to talus by the a It 11 44.007 4 3 2,000 0 0 14100 113 0 Asks ... ~ £39,107 17 3 Propesty in which Mean. Orin sad Co. have annuity Inc &Snead liabilities, ea pea oontra, and far debt/ doe from the Brosigrove bank . 31,846 16 8 Amens doe hos Beak .. 130,568 4 8 Amount doe fres Biggs, and Roca d 47,089 10 11 Lease desoostadrawn oat by partners, vie Trend. Rated C. 7. Wasps 6,666 8 6 14,015 11 4 MILITARY. --- : - 17TH LANCERS.—This regiment, which has been stationed at Woolwich since the lit of May, is to remove in two divisions, on Wednesday and Saturday next, from Woolwich, and march to Canterbury, to be there stationed. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAL CAMBRII.GESIIIRE OTAKEII. 11 to 2 sot Ste J. Hanley'. dretai (6 to 1 t freely) 6to 1 Mr. A. Nob l's Newmirrter (t and aft. tamed) 14 to 1 Mr. OA batdraton's Mountain Deer ISO to 6 Mr. Delanserr's Curt (ti 18 to 1 Mr. HaMid's Prime minister (t) 18 to 1 Mr. are.'. The Herta 20 to Mr. Cranford's Clarkin 25 to 1 Mr. Grattriete's The Nigger (t) 25 to 1 Mr. Wanns'a Manifold llreba was in immense force, the takers going on as long as 6 to 1 could be got; Ncwmiustcr was also in considerable &tour ; the quotations againg the other horses returned were little more than nominal. Nancy wu scratched at half-past 4. THE CRITERION STAKES. Ito 1 apt Dimwit/1140On" 11FREFORIPIIIRE 6TEEPI.E.CIIAIL 1 to l mat Bedford DERBY. 30 to I apt Mr. limes'. Daniel O'Rourke DI 40 to I Mr. B. llawbee's Woraersloy (t) 30 to I Lord Cakdon'e Barbarian (0 ACCEPTANCES FOR THE HEREFORD GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. Mr. Davenport'sYeTe73l;Tple,li;iZlil ; Mr. Davenport's Half-and-Half, lOst Sib ; Mr. Anderson's Spring Buck, 10st Sib ; Lord Largan's St. Helier, lOst Glb ; T. Dolby's Plough Boy, 10st 41b; Mr. Darling's Bedford, lost; Mr. Thompson's Hardwick, 9st 101 b; Mr. Land's The Oeneral, gat 1016; Capt. Powell's Vulture, Bat Sib ; Mr. Dobbins's Resignation, 9st 316 —. HURDLE RACE ACCEPTANCES. Lord Lurgan's Fugitive, lOst 121 b ; Mr. Tresham's Cogia. lOst tlb; Mr. Ash's Gehenna, lOst 41b; Mr. H. Burford's Maisemore Lass, Oat 41b. TEE OMNIIII:SES.—Now, we suppose, it will be the people's turn to deal with the multitude of omnibuses called into action during the last six months. Short distance prices appear to be a desideratum, as well as a return to the old threepenny half-distances and Bank fourpenny fares. These, we dare say, will satisfy the middle classes, who would daily and constantly fill the 'buses for short lifts, at say 24., while they retain even 3d. in their pockets. There is wanted, too, in the metropolis—what Liver pool has already got—a working class omnibus at still cheaper fares, for certain distances, even so low as a penny; though it must be admitted that, if these are to traffic throughout the whole length and breadth of the metropolis, the fare for the whole distance must be higher —say threepence—half the middle-class price. The penny omnibuses at Liverpool are literally besieged by the working classes, and taken by storm, end the demand for more is about to be supplied by a new and superior kind of vehicle. In whatever way it may be managed, there is likely to be a reform in the omnibus ranks in the metro polis, and a reform is needed in the vehicle no less than in the fare. Let the Parisian omnibus, even, be simply imi tated, and the proprietors will find the change to be for their advantage, and to enable them at once to rearr ange their low ea the desired scale. A little wider and a good ' deal langer—pestmich a machine as was exhibited in Hyde rah. two mind** sot from Glasgow—will do. Would not eau be loader to draw than these we have, even do* day ware krger ?—Builder. $a Or PIKSPLIITT BY TRUSTERS OP LORD Gantria.—,ha awaihm was held at Morehead Hotel, Devon on Tbminagy. by the direction of the trtudees under Ihe settle r.' elf=ltion. Lord Craves, for selling war out menese. is the whole, about 1,100 Gerle, on ea& side et 1= ring the bar . lour of Direemgmet lies I the limestone Mations, mad sundry quays, docks, public =sl assiihnreh &Lowder lease to Memrs. Sparrow and alhonympihift a reseal of SIM 9s. 4d.. For this pro = Xi. Z. H. Sean bid 5,0001. ; but this offer not hav i ng me=it was put up by the auctioneer at 10,0001., Wag is abeam of that, the lot was bought b. JAL lint NA Ills lissesettle and Agatou Farms, and mbar property la the paisk el St. &Meaux, containing Mb sena, and gsrawarag an annual rental of 11.. 14. This lot was put why Mr. Smith, of Devon pest, ea behalf et Yr. Comm, YT., of Astray, at 8,0001., sad the Malley Mesesesd to 15,08 L edame —rimy were stepped by tbe s 7eses. ti Wok* deem was a re sins bid of 17 at which it was bought in. Lot 3 eamisted of 1 atjammat to Torpoist, suitable for build• kg, sad eompriskag wady eight mires sew producing 341. per year. his was preload by Mr. Slick he Mr. Carew, at 1,6001. Las anehtsd 1111 Mace Beam, and k e t e ßridgearsa alstada pad* of IL Iclats, we epers/do at MI sues, and paelliz t6 : ease el at 2451. Mb was pat to al and the by the eimpettten demi at 8, when , a menu bid was pat is at kilit4 at w h ich it ' banght in. Let 5 wa isted et senwal email emaspidiann in St. John's pubis; aseduislag dugs- 1 ear about 47 saes of greased, awl predwing ea rental at 821. lin M. This wee se y y s t4 was supposed ter the Badat/gout hit Lot 6. Marx et Tregasaube and rat;lrestamgt of 1441.. m. ig nars iegar ead =a et Lot T. Mime or fter's astute, the psokh posildri es mart wet et COL, and essirsiateg abe ali nt CI a old tr i . re ll e ark t a k m Ms. Os ea talrfi. parishesl,44loloi AWN" - therioek, proiallet be rest of 1251. per =sollissigatagmore this MB tellel, was likewise Ma. NEM he Mr. Carew, ta ig = t I s za h . Higher lainuMs, hs Or paste et Maker, 31 aeres, and hatal et the rant et ESL per sense; ova t la for Mr. inimet Coed, of lakfia a amidaneer, m ess sale, mil was Masada Mis , eoikiter, tithe Am al Nam Judo= isiWttliaatia. to that place, and on entering the shop was sur prised to find the prisoner behind the counter. On inquiring for Mr. Kingdom, the prisoner intimated that he had just stepped out to deliver some hay to a customer, and that he had requested him to mind the premises during his absence. Ou asking him whether he had recommended Mr. Kingdom as the surety for another loan, the prisoner replied in the negative, and after remark ng that it was very odd that he himself had obtained a similar accommo dation from the same society, handed witness 21. as the amount of his first instalment on the loan. While they were in conversation, a short, dark.complezioned man entered the shop, whom the prisoner introduced to him as Mr. Kingdom, and he was ultimately induced by their joint representation to accept that person as surety for the second loan, which was subsequently advanced to Wilson. It was subsequently ascertained that both the harrowers and their respective sureties had absconded immediately alter the last transaction, and he saw nothing more of either of them until Saturday last, when he accidentally met the prisoner and gave him into custody. The prisoner was nest charged with having obtained under similar fraudulent representations, the sum of 3/. 10s. from the Woodman Loan Society, in Waterloo-town, Beth nal-green. In this case it was proved by Mr. James Dowerhutts, the secretary, that the prisoner °bulked a loan to the above amount in the month of March last, in the name of George Kingdom, a portion of which he afterwards repaid by weekly instalments, but ultimately absconded together with his surety. A third charge was preferred against the prisoner by the secretary to the Commercial Loan Society, from which he had obtained 6/. in the name of Goo. Blake, under circum stances of a similar description. Mr. Vann, who conducted the prosecution, intimated that he should be able on a future day to bring forward ' numerous other charges of a similar character, and re quested a remand for that purpose. The prisoner was accordingly remanded for a week, but the magistrate consented to take bail for his appearance. MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 20. The sales to-day.—Sugar : 40 hhde., 335. Gd. to 3Gs. 6d. ; 400 boss low white Denims, 335. 9d. to Wm Id.; 130 Mids. Partp Woo, SU. to 375.; 400 Imes brown Perumr, 165.; 200 white ditto, 21s. fkl. ; 130 brown Paraiba, 13s. bd. Iturti :60 pimebeons; Deme rara, previous priors. Kim : 3,100 bogs Bengal, M. 44d. to 10s. 3d. rustle: 60 Woo Maracaibo, 31. Liata-vrouil : 230 tows, at 101. 10s. COTTON.—LIBEttroot., Oct. 20.—The market has been dull to-day, and although the advice, by the Africa item the other side has• not rallied a to table deedne, tadl thae baa b.ets a tlll - r'.ther In I..rour of the buyer. The Liles amount to oh ut 3,000 bates, of which 2,000 bone been taken for esport. l'ernara and Maranhanh Sid. to 14d.; ISO Labia, Sid. to Sid.; SOO Egyptian, Sid. to ; 40, Surat, 21d. to 4d. ;70 tea Islands, 12d. to ISil.; 3,300 American (preview). CORN.—CIKENCESTEP., Oct. 20.—We have a liberal demand toe seed Corn, Cumin being all busily engaged Wheat sowing. There la, however, a matertile supply, and •iles at prises as follows:—What, el. toe, to tel. lON per Loa 1. Barley, 23a. to kin per qr. Outs, les. to els. Beans, IIL to 30i. iiADLLIOII.—Oct. 20.—We had a large supply of Wheat et market to-der. but a tolerable quantity of barley. Though we have to remark a dull tr3de ; yet prime are unalterivl In the but Wheats and Batley'. --—-- • • • • ------- lteantmo, Oct. 18.—Early this morning we had an un usually short quantity of Wheat, and, although It has received seve ral additions subsequently, still fur Michaelmas the supply is ex tremely small. Toe damp atmosphere has injured condition, and, bat for the seaminess of supply, mitosis would have found it difficult to have made a eearonor, except at a reduction As It was, tratic was done at fully the currency of last week. A ve-y few select parcels ob tained is. more mosey. Harley, both malting and grinding, wort supply, but no advance in price could be m idea previous quotations. Beans and Peas without alteration. Old Oats very scarce ; new very abundant; a shade lower. - • STETNINO, Oct. 20.—The trade to-day for all descrip tions of grain saw heavy, at late rates. Wheat, white, old, 91. 10e. to 101. U.; red, al. Ss. to al. ISa ; new, white, 101. to 101 ; red. SI. 15s. to hi. Se. Barley 27a. to 29e. Gd. Oats, 17s. to Ws 6d. Naas, 21.5. W 291. Peas, its. to 70s. C 4TTLE, &c.--CoLcuarrza, Oct. 18.—There was a Carpe plow of Sheep and Beasts to-day, but the trade ruled heavily, the buyers holding off foe the lair en Moody, in the antic:pa:um of puretueing mon mere mode ate terl3l4, con-equently but little bug noo was done. The Pit trade was about the some as last week. Sup ply: Sheep and Lamb., 3,760; Besets, 475; Pigs, 910; Calves, le; Flamer and Ponies, 91. - - - COLCHESTER FAIR.—At St. Dennis's fair, held yesterday (Monday) the show of Sheep sad Lambe was about 1,000 head, the majority of which were cold before the char, at improving pncee. One pew of Hampshire Lambs sold at 29a. per howl. The supply of Beasts wiwi not ro large as we have noticed. The hest .hurt-born reached 141. per head, and Scotch rants from 81. to 121. per he d. Welsh rattle found ready purchasers at good pricer, varying in pro. portion to ase and eandite.n. Upon the whole, a gaud business was done, and prices, upon the average, were considered 10 per ant. higher than those of last year. There °as considerable bustle in the Hume fair, but not ao many good cart Homes and cult. as we have wits named. The beet qualities commanded good prices. flosses of good age, from 30 to id guinea.; 3-yearold eUta, from 201. to 210. • ' and 2.year.olds, IC/. to 241. each. There were nu really fine nags cm offer. Hackneys were plentiful, hat of course varied much In value end eon. ditloo. Ordinary sorts sold at low prices. HEREIOILD GRIUT FAIR, Oct. 20.—This—the largest fair held here during the year— was fully attended. It to fur the sale of stock, hops, cheese, butter, and oniono. From Birmingham, Northampton, and dstant Cellists the attendance of graziers and dealers woe Write The show of steers, oxen. km., fully maintained the reputatios which this district has earn* d for itself. Iletween Y• 0 441peekete of hops were ;inched in the Town.hull. Owing to the show:sot any large buyers the prows were almost nounal, at from W. Se. to fd. 10s. per cwt.; the samples were of prime quality. but this 'mad gen rimulant to any large rochange. The only Women dome was In link .lode,” for private conoumption, not a lot Loge being sold up to three o'clock. nutter from 'Jo. 9d. to 10s. fol. per stone of 1410 s. °Mow, lid. to 10. per peck. The supply of Cheese woo moderate, and rang* d from 335. to Sao. per cwt. We heard but one opinion as td the great drawtork oustain,i by the fuming in terest of this country from the entire deprivation of railway emornu nieotka and the incalculable benefits wbickwoulti 'nevi:ably accrue if there was a line from here to Glmicester or Worceoter {smolt:id, In stead of being as present only talked about., but nut a god yet bring cut. --- ben /root, Oct. 20.—The demand for cattle was scarcely so brisk as lout week, and part boa been left unsaid, still the same prices are amimained. Owing to the short supply of Sheep the demand was brisk; all have been sold up, and at a shade hisher prices. Prime haters brought 40.; @sand clam ditto and fat Rul. Was 4d. to 44d.; half-fat Bullocks and Cows, Sid. to Sid.; prime weddeve, Sid. to 6d, second clam dirt.. and fat ewes, sd. to Sid. ; middling and infe r ewe, 44d. to aid. Tim supply assisted of 1,096 cattle and 5,034 Sheep, being 339 more cans and 996 fewer Sheep then last week, and 454 ohs and ;MI Sheep fewer than the caravanning week last year. ••- • • Noawicx, Ott. 18.—Oor market exhibited a good show of store mule of every desenrelon ; there were a wrest many sales effected, and prime well supported; at we close Dearly a deems' was made. Pat newts, none worth netice. The pens badly tilled, but them sold made as much money as last week. Good store tips It.. to lea per head. Fat Pork, Ss. to la. 3d. per stone. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TVESDLT, OM 21, 1861. The State of the Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock peterda, morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. Bou Sweatt It et Saila of ram mof w . t. State of Weather. !Lunen......_.._ S.W. Gantt Breese Overcast Baleares B.W. Calla Genera Reserves Eohasoreers &W. Gentle Mess Overcast Tasman:me imams,. . S.W. Celtn Overcast GREENWICH B.W. °agile flaws Overcast thrones Lklerreal B.W. Gentle Breese Rain Comtism B.W. Gentle Breese !my Cumulate . Persturoarmes &W. Gentle Breese Overcast 'temente W. Calm Cloadkas Loreseree E. Cahn Overcoat IJAWNOTOPI N.N.W. Gentle Breese Overcoat THIS DAY, Noox. Cowes of Wind. Stiemete Sr Wind. Ono of the Woothor. B.E. Gentle Breese. Clar. BANBURY AND WORCESTER RAILWAT.—SREveyS it is understood are being made with a view to applying to parliament next session for a line to unite Banbury with Worcester. REDUCTION OP FARES TO AND FROM THE UstTED STATES.—The competition that is now going on between the various lines of Atlantic steam-ships, both Bri tish and American, having already benefited the public by considerable and gradual reduction in the length of e actor the ocean, by reason of the increased s intro duced and the superior class of vessels employed when contrasted with those in use some years since, now promises to be additionally advantageous to the travelling commu nity by the reduction of fares between Europe and the United States. Both the Canard and Collins lines of mail steam ships have recently advertised that, after November next, the fares from Liver . 1 to New York will be at the rate of 301. each rat-class, being a decline of 51. each passenger from pre vious rates. This proceeding has been followed by a similar movement on the part of the proprietors of the American rteam•hips Washington and Hermann, who have lowered their first-class fares between Southampton and New York from 311. 10s. to 281., from 261.55. to 241. for lower deck, and in the second class from 16/. 16s. to 151. It is understood, also, that in November the rates of passage money by the Havre, Southampton, and New York steam-ships Franklin and Humboldt will fall to the same level as the Cunard and Collin's lines. There is no doubt that eventually the great competition that will eLW among these four lines of steamen added to the opposition they will all experience from the numerous lines of screw steamers between Liverpool and Glasgow, and New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, will have the effect of still further lowering the rates of Pe money . by the paddle-wheel mail lines. It will, therefore, gi remain to be seen if, with these reduced rates of pesaage-money,. the operations will yield remunerative re sults to the various companies, and if the increased traffic will keep pace with and compensate for the decreased twill of passenger fares. Whatever may be the effect on the finances of the respective semsgwaiwa it is quite clear that the general public will be plasm aot only by the lessened espouse of travelling, but aloe dm greater choice afforded them in the largely • wanks of transatlan' conveyances.—Hants 55:4,504 Il 11 Messrs. Olyn and Co. also have securities on properties belonging to the Ilromagrove Bank, and to the separate estates of the bankrupts; such securities being held to secure the debt due to them at each bank. From the large amount due from Rufford, Biggs, and Rufford (being the old firm previous to Mr. Wragge joining it in July , 1834), there does not appear any probability of anything being received, the 47,0891. 10s. 11d. being the balance due after deducting the value of the properties held in respect of tlie debt. The losses include 61,2211. 3s. 6d. bad debts, and 13,1(181. Bs. 4d. of shares in public companies. Of the bad debts, nearly 44,0001. is due from a colliery at Bloiwich, which for several years has been worked by Mr. Wragge, in canna:ion with • Mr. Walter Dudley, but who has now quitted this country, and resides in Canada. The proceedings were further adjourned until the 20th of December. It is calculated that there will be a dividend of some thing like half-a-crown in the pound on the Btourbri4e Bank, bat that the Brvaugrove concern will barely pay the ea ptmses of working the flat. Proofs of debts were taken to a very large amount to day against both banks. THB POLICB COURTS. WARSHIP -STREET. Gawp Gray Kt) as , but who was also known by the names of South, B , Johnson, and other aliases, was charged with having obtained under false pretences the sum of IX from the enrolled Loan Society, held at the Bricklayer's Arms, Charlotte-street , Old-street. Mr. Henry Cohen Piram, managing director to the above society, stated that in the early part of September last, an application fora loan of 51. was made to him by the pri soner, who bad previously left at their place of business one of their usual forms for that purpose. The prisoner on that occasion stated his name to be George Gray, and i. that be reload at 24, Louisa-street, Nike-end. A wowed Palmer was proposed and ampte d 11 , . surf4y. r o e r Tr h i: [Adverdrimasada— IT fa AN UNDBI4IABLIS FACT i,..„ TUAT 11102/WOMIe• Puss AM IBM MOM 111111111111111 to Mt Wellilli.— M the loan , end the customary in q uinel -- la ail um of lossadr, aottoutoolle of blood to tho Zri ll ast a a t bility appearing at the time to be satisfactory, 1.4 w e . a {d ; woo& bof lie, onsiodww, Om b so ileaslosat in question. was &doomed to the prima:sr, who mows so glow Nab imasdkai lad ma Saw tatAlaid with him the note of hand now proilassi s as • yak at walk as dlsemly ea the ribs. eseurity. About a week afterwards a. Swam ap-, =Th e i SI: "L iel : l L'.. ki wi. 11.1".4 ass midg he Is loan of 34 ZS. oa behalf of a ma soma V ; theta" aR }mar polliwog& la gal Ilan glaaailso cheep, this sera of the year, mai* Iwo imam bra mode to the 000kt7 bY olh a = to abs loom what, would eleseeinty Shaik were o= lita i lf mr daseribed bluest! as a Naos MINS owl Wsww.-11old by al eel et ill , Batlssolvoss, mita'. pousisi Mlnsers litabliisset, 144, Fmk SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Fr earmaiK.d.ata Ike .•tlemppia; Uszutte sal " Liolr• List." CASUALTIES. Johannes Sarkies, from Valparaiso to this port, was stranded in the night of 21st August, about eight miles smith of the entrance to this bay ; part of her cargo (gunpowder) has been ►anded, and the greater portion of the remainder it is expected will be saved ; but the ves,cl will prove a total loss ; the crew have doecrted.—San Francisco, Sept. 1. Placid, from Havana for Falmouth, put into Charleston for repairs, having sprung a leak, and rtneked other damage, during a heavy gale from the N.H. UR the lBth September, in lat. 31 IC, lon. 80, and on the 2 ttli, one tram the W.S.W., hauling suddenly to N.N.E.—New York, Oct. 4. lIKABORNS MAILS. [X *ignites that tae :babe are seat man the Ossera: Post-ofnee 7 the ntiht—an4 M be the bkomine—,:enatt.b.) Day w►en UMW Up is (leDemi rtvt- Odke London. From what Port When dos' atehed. d.e. Linerica(byßritinekat litnericr(brUnited NM& N Amerki paeket) dbyLl.Slatespk s i Africa West Cored) N Alexandria. ee Mims Brazil lll Burnes Ayres ,'AUfurnia(ela Cliairree)lll ' :ape of Goad Hoge N CD n4antiapple • N .'eatral ARIOTICS channel Iglu 'JAB 11 franca MIK N 10et.24 Greece. Rambari 11,4150 d Nanderan N Ireland Id & N tads to Southaw.t.)ll ladle leis Marseille') . ti __ ... _.—_ (,f aou tl . araptna) liittnivia Mantillas) N Mexico SI Madeira W11a• N Naplw• Pays' Ntatee• Peziaculg rem.. Tummy* !I Mee ladies weer lodise (except flu. Nae••ul NI Oct. 29.. . flat. 22 I.4th of the mouth I Vtlilittldh et mutt I %a 9tb y of the smith ' 7th of the month; IndScl7thof wand,' lath of the eumith; 7thl7th27lhof man; 2edia7thof in. tab; tica.,tted.,att I lath of the 'moth ; Twtoe doily . ... ; 7thl7ttafthot moo I Tueeda) 491 Friday I Wednea. at Saito. 11th of the mouth I twice daily .. I bith of the south ; Sthit24thol month Liverpool Oct. 17 Liverpool Oct. 2 Scrithti.pton Oct. 16 tlynionte trotter ILlover iScrtitheer. ton. Nov. 16 ;Southampton. ov. :4 uth....eton. Oct. 16 ,elymoutle Arrived 1 0prer iltiouttiamptn. Ont. 20 . ann•hampton. Su.Ta.da I Southampton. Nov. 3 Dona Twined& a taster :Oct, 30 F Lcatdou ,lttenolat . Lawlna 3lou.Thu southampton Oet. 20 . tlelytteld Snuihaeuptam'Oet. 13 I Dora Now. I 20th of the month" i SM&211.11 n , rhoetb I 2nd of the month I 9tle of the month 7th,17tk,1904,27th 74ethof the month Stol.3th2Aliol mon ithlsth2sCaol moo I 7th17th27t . .10f men I 17th of the month IthlStlaitltofmun I 17th of the mouth I l acoath.uaicton. ' Oct. 22 Dover donthamptcos..!Nov. 5 Southampton.+Nov. 16 Dover lOct. 28 Dove: Durcr Om. 23 Southampton Oct. 26 40thampton , Nov. 3 Dover Saud. 'tipte pet. 26 I Sou.hatnutor. Nor. S 12n4 of the m mthl lilt sum ta. Uwe soantuii Mum monist: 0) aro elkivityci by ems& pullet via Munillea AKRIVKD. AMAMI—at Plymouth, October 19, from LaMar Roma -off Dover, October 17, from Punta Arenas AN4NLI: CAlll , TA—at Liverpool, October 10, from London At aout—at Granretta. October 20, from Ilavannatt A.BIAN —at Oraseeend, October 20, from Bombay RAKVAIIA GORDON—rat Liferpol3l. October 20, from C.d.uo BLAZit—at Gmes, October 19, from Callao Botivaa—at Torbay, October 17, from. --London C.rrtii —at Deal Octoter IR, from Aleaciadria _ . . . ..• 18 from CAN/Ma-off Deal. October 19, from Co be CBl7/111111A -or Falmouth, October 18, from... ........ ff. AMA Cuaasorrs -at Liverpool, October 20, front...-. MesaslS Carertraum-at Liverpool, October 20, fr0m....„-......Val CASOLIMIL-at Gravesend, Oct O'er 20, from ....... .-.... Seas Cnsrimis-at Gravesend, October :0, from B. Ayres DUNA -Eff Gravesend, October 19, from Callao Dear= -at Gravesend, October 19, from Bahia EMILT-rat tilleettliOinn, October 18, from ..- Lavaroudt Ess.ssmia-at Gravesend, October 19, from Inintldio FlOt.nOntOr -et Gravesend, October 19 fr0m....... Riga Finiwita -at Liverpool, October 2 0 , from. Gijon Fatacirr -at Liverpool, October 20, from Jamaica Fosi - mna--alt Deal, October 19, from Gape Gress-oft Falmouth, October IS. from Alenandris Guar Grum -at Folmoutb, October 18, from Callao Or.erinvas-aft Falmouth, tietubir 18, from. --.. St Krt's Gov. Ilasicorair-orf St. Malec; October 19, tram ...... ...Truzillo ll:sus-at Queenstown, October 17, fr0m....... Callao 111001111114.-at Liverpool, October 20, fr0m..,,.., Valparaiso Ilisicsus--at Grimeend, October .0, from ...........Pasta Arnim larogras-at Liverpool, October 20, from Callao looms t MOP -at Gravesend, October 20, from Colontbo Juno-off Torbay, October 17, from Palms Jassy LINO-at Liverpool, October 20. from St. John* N.B. JAX • o Tiroorat -at Liverpool, October 20, from New Orleons Kara Lows-at Gravesend, October 19, from New Orleans LUDT Mawr.-otf Ida-tines, October 19, from Sydney borax-at Oraveriend. October 20, from Petersburg LUDT MAIGAILIM-at UrOVOnend, Oct. 20, from Sydney • Luesionaso -at Gravesend, October 20, from Taganrog Mace Nosing- at Gravesend, October 20, from Calcutta Bellusaui-at Gravesend, October 20, from Callao MA BMWS-at Liter 1, October 20, from New lurk Aloierlikal. --at Lire October 20, from. .Montreal Mossi.i.a-at Liverpool, October 20, from Africa 81.Doriss..-off Veal, October 18, from Callao Mauls ilones-ort Leal, Octutar 19, tram Murrain& ONIVAJLO -at Bristol, October 20, from -Zante PlLlnte‘t -at tialcombe, October 18, from London PIIIOOOIS Aucs-at Torbsy, October IS, from. Loudon ffolltA Dosina-st Plymouth, October 19, from .Landcm PEAVVIAX -At Qat ellitOßO. OcWber IS, from Callao l'Aramr-off Lowestoft, October IS, from Rigs PANIOA ELLOCOA-at Bristol, Oct eller 20. from Tr:soros PICIWAXA-at Liverpool, fr r 2 Octobeo, om - Coquimbo Pansibenes-.t Oriveired, o.tobei 20, friss Cileutta Quivaa--at Torbay, October 19, from London Itownia--at Queetudown, October 17, Iron. ..... —....llloOrande soma,- -at Queenstown, October 17, from Porto Rico RIPLIff -at Liverpol, October 20, from Valporako R. retiLICaSKI -at Bristol, October 20, from Memel laseestossa-at Gravesend, October 20, from Palm Sr. Levis-at Liverpool, October 20, from New York ticlaunoontan-at Liverpool, October 20, from Mobilo .. . _ . ... &tutu liaii — s—a - Ciau . SOuta: October IS: froia l'Atras bYLPH—ue Dover, October IN from Patron tlrctiat—oft Susumu', Oct. .19, _ from. Mauritius Teonta—ogrnwanage, Octobe;l9, fro= Singapore Union—at Ltverptel, October 20, fr0m...... Barcelona WO:WM—a Famsuutb, Oc,ober 19, from Ufa/maestro Zse—at Gravesend, October 19, from. Patras BAILBD. ALIWAL-4,0111 Liverpool, October CO. •to .New York a:owns—from Liverpool, October 20, to ....................NW ap ASCHILINS—trent Liverpool, Octoter 20, to' Bahia ALT I H —from Liverpool, October 20, to N. Video lIIIIHMAD—from Liverpool, ,October 20, to K. VIIIIM HElST—from Queenstown. October 17, to. imam Cerrmw—from Falmouth, October 17, to Maim Carol:ma—front Liverpool, October 20, W..-- ..... .Rio /auks CoSOPM-1-4 from Liverpool. October 20, to Ewe—from Cowes, October 19, to IA = Su:not—from Liverpool, 'October 20, to Naterdaya Honda—from Liverpool, October 20, to St Da= Loan Vas:on—from Plymouth, October 17,_ to ?was AND LVM—from Ltherpool, October 20, to New York . .._ . Lavaam—froes Liverpool, 'Oct . ober 20, to .... ..... ........—Bottestem Lamy Berms—from Liverpool, October 20, to Mini mono—from Liverpool, October 20, to Umlaut! Kama [lowa—from Liverpool, October 20, to Web Illowas— ban Plymouth, October 17, to Net My Osrass—tram Plymouth, October 11, to .Lomice Osamu.— irons Liverpool, October 20, to ....... C. Bolivar Opera—tram tirormead, October 20, to Elsiaoro Parsecs or Warms—tram Liverpool, October 20, to...fit Thomas Paumma—hom Liverpool, October 20, to Nantes Paum—from Karel, October 17, to Beeme--from Oravemed, October 20, to Clyde Ilsroon—freer Liverpool, (October le, to New Odour Inc Bosse—from Liverpool, (October 20, to C. %Welds Saassual—from L i l m m :October 20, to Boston Tamasamb—sram October 2 , 0, to New Orleans WATUWllllll—ifen tb, October 17, to Adelaide Wmreaertvaii—tema Liverpool, October 20, to ltertedoes Were.—(Tam Bristol, October 10, to bt. Michael's Wayne Neweaersa—fry Liverpool, October 20, to Calcutta VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Amaranth (Moyle), from Callan for London, Fept. 19, lat. 9.15 N., 10n.23.43 W. Britannia (barque), of Whitby, from Callao for Coma, 101 days out, Oct. 5, lat. 34.43 N., 100, 33.3 W. Countess of Yarborough, Sept. 19, lat. 4 N., lon. 32 W. Earl of Lonedale (Britian shy), Sept. 17, lat. 7.3 N., lon. 21.18 W. HYdasoo• (brig). 01 Liverpool, from Plymouth fur Pon Adelaide, Sept. , IT tat. 14.19 N., tun 26.41 W,, out 23 day.. Lady Bandya (barque), bound out, 26th uIL, 1ut.10.50 N., lon. 22.40 W. Levet:at& (Moque), standing south-west, Aug. 10, lat. 33.15 3., lon. 38.2 c W. Paragon (barque), from Callao for Falmouth, Aug. 1, lat 38.37 S., Ica. 66.6 W. Perdue. from London for Ada., 18 days, Oct. 9, lat. 43.0 N., lon. 14.0 W.; all well. Potaoma, heat Moulmein for Quenetown, Sept. 26, lat. 12 N. loc. 23 W. 11;M9BM:(41p), Oct. 10, lat. 40 N., lon. 27.30 W. Sir George Seymour (abip), from Calcutta for London, 15 days out, Aug. 16,1 at. 31 &, on. 33.381. Sea Par% from London for Calcutta, Aug. 29, lat. 119., Lon. 27 W. Tinto, from Bombay for London, EMS. 23, lat. 14 N., ton. 33 W. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. __ _ Bt'TLEß.—Oct. 19, at 135, Iteies;Caieet, Mrs. James Butler, of a daughter. COM BE.—Oet. 17, at &nimbi)], the wife of H. T. Bombe, Eaq., of a daughter. CURETON.—Oet le, at the Cloisters, Westminster, Mrs. Curette, of a daughter. DEBINCL—Oet. IS, at Regency-pure, Brighton, the wife of U. Berths, Eaq., of • son. HOBNEB.—Oet. It at the Timm" Everton, the wife of the Rev. J. Horner, of a daughter. BICEERITAPPI—DIEW.—At Bt. Marfa, Toughs', the Rev. H. ItimitermaNa, ma of the Rey. B. Bleherstaffe, Rector of Boylston. Derbritire, to Moos Brougham, daughter of the Rev. P. W. Drew, Rake i f ToogliaL BLACKETT—OLD.--04. 16, at Erroll Bt. Andrew's, Bir E.Bleekett, Bart., of Matta, Northern to•Fratices lee, widow of the late W. H. OA, WA, M.P. for Newport, Ns of Wight. CHURCH—WDOIJOALL—Oat. 1 at Myles Chan* Cornwall. J. Chureh, Em Lieut. R.N., to Emily Jane Henrietta, only daughter of J. D. M.Dougall, Egg., forint* Capt. IM's 88M Emit. of Infantry. GAIIRKIT-11iFFERI3.—OoL It, at Alta. by the Rev H. W. Gar rett, T. P. Garrett, Em of Bt. Peter's , Careteidge, and late of the Madras ary, to Anne Mary, only daughter of H. icier* Req., of the atom glee. DEATHS. BRUCT..—Oet. 13, at Danabi:otreei,Eilf *rib, J. Bra" Fag., lets of Bromide', Jima" CBAYFEY.—Oat. 16, at Blenheim Lodge, Cliftco.read, St. John's wood, 0. T. Mary. Req., aged U. DABBAUVILLE.—Oot. 17, M Comely Bank, N. Demerrille, Seq., egad 76. 1131LLY.—Oat. 19, Agnes Botch, wifeof Sir F. Kelly, Q.C. 111.11CMAYABA.—Oot. 15, D. MlOOllllOlll. Fay, of Ilibridge. NUL ✓em, aged 61. OLIVER.—Oat. 13, at Aleareplasa, Readmit" Themes Arwood Taylor, rot of the Sam J. Weer, of Verocrolar. B3madaddT square, egad 11. Mittel and palltithed by Amstar time Has" of No. a. Lail:soh Ann, Is tho Qty at Mara,. at Qs °ILO& lambs. tont. la drivable cf Otmeavii6llll. I 1, ; 4 JE watch UENI and a to be 1) 1 , er adic tr, &UT , ittiOr rell.l4mauc and I Nan word. Eolu be at. F' Cure terra at the alien e j;"i), and c. pul;a< full a I ; at 22.. rt.. I. City; F day preN Steo the'. don Dui the Bulb and siwc Jiul tors We: the Chr not prui of a er. i mod faro of t laßtl incri ceivi tide ha% I man wil will wit} alto the Non atom and near' brew be d The Wed back MAY men Lou