The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

lessee I quote is not a solitary one ; not a day passes I o ver in whist sales are not readily effected, which, ta king position and convenience into consideration, s een outstnps it. Then, again, as to property in'; the outlets—such as rheum', Richmond, and St. hi:de—which I may liken to Clapham Richmond, I and Windsor, I know I am quits safe in asserting 1 that the prices obtainable in the former would out- I I run by :So p r cent. the fair market price of land in those beautiful and fashionable localities. Since I I terse here there was a paddock of eight acres at St. four miles from town, brought into the mar- ' Lc, which fuel been purchased a few months before ! 1 by Sir. Dalgetty, at what was celled the insane price j a L ow/. six weeks after the purchase he refused i;:,isiot. fur the lot, and within rix months from the original rale, and before the second instalment of the purthase money fell due, it was resold in Messrs. nnant and Ch's rooms for the prodigious sum of I Neither is this a solitary ease; I could quote I aeon ., nay hundreds of others, which, if they would ' elt exactly compare with, would tread close on the heels of the justly celebrated Dalgetty paddock- Bat even 41.1 or 50 miles in the country, in any of I thaw districts likely to be intersected by government ' ro ads, or in the highways to the diggings, land fetches I &price calculated to lead to the be;ief that New Rol land is no bigger than the Isle of Wight, and that its entire subsoil is a stratum of solid gold liberally speckled with gems of the Koh-i-noor tribe. This fictitious value is altogether attributable to the strange obstinacy of the government in withholding the land from hair public competition ; but it is to be hoped that the new order of things will tend to open up other than the mineral resources of this country, and enable thousands who are anxiously awaiting the opportunity of engaging in agricultural pursuits, to "speed the plough," and give us bay, oats, but ter, and segetab:es, at under their present famine rates—for 1 really have a great longing for a canter no horseback from the mud of Melbourne after the day's business is over ; but a guinea a day for the bare keep puts the aspiration hors de combat. While the desire fur a mouthful of nice buttered toast, with a greasy compound ranging from 2e. 9d to 3s. 6d. per lb.. or any turnips to your naked leg of boiled mutton, with walaut.dyed turnips at 6d. a piece, is equally wild and unattainable I pre ferreilthe Ballarat diggings because they are more easily reached ; and from the stale of the roads all public conveyances had been discontinued. 'started alone, with merely the sum necessary for my ex penses on the road, as many bushrangers were known to be on the track from several recent cases of 6 sticking up," as they call it here ; but I got to the end of my first stage without molestation, having met several parties of roaring diggers coming down with their swag to winter in the town. I got three companions for my second day's march, which was through an uninteresting country, pock-pitted with deep cattle tracks, or sheeted with mud; but our third day's march I might call a trip by water, fur our route lay through one ran tinuous shallow lake all the time, and the only surety we had for direction was the detonating cracks of the bullock-drivers' whips. On the fourth day we got into an undulating district, where wo had the satisfaction of liberating a poor fellow who was "stuck up" for over thirty hours and robbed. He happened to straggle from his party, and was pounced upon by a noted " overseer of the highways, rejoic ing in the feudal soubriquet of " The Black Douglas." We lost our reckoning this evening, and wet* bushed ; but with the aid of a prostrate gum-tree and some stringy bark, made ourselves as comfortable as the apprehension of our sable neighbour would per mit, but he did not favour us with a call, and early in the morning the random discharges of firearms directed us to the head quarters of the Ballarat gold fields. _ _ Bills due Mother banks, 17s. Ild. Deposits, 710,8771. 1134.4 d. Total liabilities, 973,5611. 9s. 10d.—Assets: Coin and bul lion, 353,3391 17s. 4d. Landed property, 14,3841. 7r. 44. Notes and bills of other banks, 7,7621. as. Notes and bills discounted, and all other debts due to the bank, 473,86.4. Os. 4d. Total meets, 854,3171. 3e.—Capital and Profits : Capital paid up, 820,0001. Rate per engem of last dividend, 26 per cent. Amount of romped profit after paying dividead, 213,8391 Ifs. 6d. AUSTILALIAN JOINT STMAL BANK.—Liabilities: Notes in circulation, 47,180/. 91. 3d. Bills in eireulatioa, 1,1171. 17s. 9d. Bills due to other banks, 1,6991.35. 2d. Deposits, 129,4441. Os. 4d. Total liabilities, 179,2411.10 x. 6d• —Assess : Coin sad bullion, 14.06,5921. 91. 6d. Landed pro party, 1,1631.175. Notes and bill. of other banks, 7091. 3s. 14. 1 Balances due from other banks, 34,611/. 7s. 7d. Notes and lulls uncounted, and all other debts due to the bank, 137,912!. Is. Id. Total assets, 231,0711.1115. 3d. Capital paid up, 125,0001.—T0tal liabilities of the five banks, 6,265,5571. 19s. lid. Total assets, 5,442,814/. 14s. 6d. Total of capital paid up. 2,444,9001. Amount of reserved profits after paying dividends. 326,0221. 2s. 3d. Letters from Adelaide of the 10th August draw at tention to the extraordinary p usage of the Australian ltoyal Mail Steam Company's Travel Victoria, which had reached that port in the unprecedentedly short time of 30 days and 20 hours from Gravesend. This steamer subsequently lett Adelaide for Melbourne, at which port sho arrived in 64 days from Gravesend. A tcbtimonial was presented to Capt. Champion by the passengers. ANGLO.CALIFORNL4N GOLD MINING COMPANY. Yesterday the annual general meeting of the share holders of this company wu held at the Freemasons' T , Mr. Geonos E. Cortical, in the chair. After the usual preliminariee the Secretary read to the meeting the report of the directors and statement of the accounts, of which the following is an abildgment: " Of the liabilities 1,0001. is the proportionate sum voted by you es remuneration to the directors, but, no profits having been realised, the directors have not drawn that amount. Another liability consists of a rum of 4,5./01., bor rowed from the bankers, 4,0001. of which was remitted to California for the express purpose of enabling Bir Henry Huntley to purchase the Fleuchan lode, in addition to the property previously purchased by the company at Dicks burg. The acquisition of the Fleuchan lode was repre sented both by Sir H. Huntley and Capt. Davies, to be so eswential to the interests of the company, that the board felt itself justified in incurring this liability; but whilst remitting the amount necessary to secure the mine, the board gave Sir H. Huntley only a qualified authority to complete the purchase; at present that purchase has not been completed. The 4,0001. has been drawn by Sir H. Huntley, and forms part of the funds in his hands. The balance sheet shows the liabilities but does not contain any estimate of the value of the mines, machinery, etc., in California. The board recommends that the capital of the company be increased to the extent of 15,000 J.; that such capital be raised by the issue of 30,000 additional shares at par; such shares to be o ff ered. in the first instance, to the holden of original shares, pro rola; any shares not taken pro rata, to be offered to the holders of original shares; any surplus to be allotted gene rally by the board. During the current year much has been done at Dicksburg in the way of preparation for working the veins. Houses fur the officers and servants of ' the company and other buildings have been erected; • level has been driven into the Bricket Ledge, • considerable quantity of quarts has been raised, and, so far as the mill on the property would permit, the quarts from the different veins has been tested. The yield has varied in the different veins from 41. to 101. per ton, and from the accounts trans mitted by the agents, and the concurrent testimony of per sona wholly unconnected with the company, as well as free the feet of 20,0001. having been offered for a portion only of Mae veins, it may be confidently assumed that the company Clissis the mines at Dicksburg a very valuable property. e ffiesmith machinery sent out last year arrived at Sae itialif" Ia December, in perfect order. Two of Bases gemiliers, with amalgamators and separators, were Ia April last, and another of the crushers is iildpgmL The engine and crushing rollers manufactured at Mineiagtiam,amd despatched to California upwards of two pars_ ago, elegiels our present stock of machinery. The heard has 1111111pli the tie*, edsish has taken place in the MosimmoNanOt of as toolles opmations, but which but alms from aeons over WY* mar oadient director had as mistral. Sir H. Huntley, Mat GIB Marysville making ametonte for the transmission of the machinery to Mo Disheharg mines, heard of NOM lout: ledges at a giros mired Brown's Valley in Tabs county. The se apes impostio• appeared to him so desirable an sapid* . that he determined upon securing them for the osogosy. The company is immediately, at its ewe use, to set up the Cornish machinery, to erect hilhgs and workshops, sink a well, make roads, de. TM owners of the mines are to sell to the company • eadieient extent of freehold land for the erec tion of the machinery, buildings, 6ce., and to grant a lease of the mines with timber and pasture lend, and water rights sufficient for mining purposes, for the term of twenty years—that is, the term of ten years (which is all the law allows) in the first instance, with • power to renew for the further period of ten years at the aspiration of the first ten ; the ea penen of erecting the machinery and buildings, sinking we 16, and making roads, fie., to be paid out of the fira s t mhos of the mines after payment of all expenses the raising and crushing the quarts and separating tie gpsild - after which the owners of the rains are to take ane-learhs of the grow produce, and the company the re- 1 oodaiag three fourths; the company to be at liberty to put ' as sod to the lease, and to remove their machinery build ings, de., at any moment they may think fit. Sir 11. Hunt ley, on his own responsibility, and without consulting the Board, entered into the above arrangement with the Brown's Valley Company, and determined to defer work 's,' the Dicksburg Mine until Co arrival from Segiand of the further machinery then en its way oat ; the reasons assigned by him for this step being that the quality of the quarts is the Brown's Valley Mine is saporier to any he has yet seen in the coaatry ; that the situation sews extraor dinary advantages, being only 14 MHO flea tae sky of Marysville, over a fist country, and boldag ems Nis prospect of ultimately being able to work the mmeldisin with water power, without the aid of steam, wide sity of this mine to Marysville will enable him te set op the machinery in half the time, and at half the outlay, required at Dicksburg, which latter circumstance will MI of_perusimot benefit in working the mines. No lima was Ifiloaor Sir H. Huntley had determined to Meats the ommebinery at Brown's Valley, in getting every thing needy* _working the mines. By the end of Septem ber he atadelp d being able to set the machinery in mo tion. The mining works have kept pace with the erection of the machinery. Sir H. Huntley states that two very promising veins have been !aid open, a considerable quan tity et quarts has been raised, and below the surface the locos appear, if anything, more promising than that at the surface. The opinions expressed by Sir 11. Huntley and Captain Davies as to the value of the Dicksburg Mines are so degree shaken ; nor has he any intention of neglect ing them because he has acquired those at Brown's Valley. Ia eoaelusion, the board must freely admit that in their own as well as is other reports, both the time and outlay required foe establishing a mining enterprise in California have been greatly under estimated." The total receipts of the company amount to 36,8251. 2s. 5d., and the expenditure to 28,8011. ls. 6d., leaving a balance of 8,0241. Oe. 11d. The Commas proposed the adoption of the report. Mr. °Lauri. seconded the motion. I was quite unprepared for their extraordinary I I aspect, so totally unlike those in the regions of Cali- , fornia, where for the most part the diggers encamp along creeks, rivers, or on the windings of steep ravines, where, after shovelling . away the surface clay. they place their cradles in the stream, run away their puff, and return to their tents almost as , free from speck or mire as they went out. But here the operations are carried on on level tracts, or easy slopes, without any water but what may be retained on the surface, and holes about 3 ft. 6 in. in diameter are sunk at immense labour and expense, which in many instances are carried down more than 100 feet before the stratum in which the gold lodges is reached. It re sembles pump-boring at home, and from the hard packed nature of all the intervening strata of subsoil is a slow process, all the stuff being taken up by . a bucket and rude windburn ; and where the locality fruitful the borings are so contiguous that it is a Der vice of extreme danger for a nervous person to cross the district, for it resembles& series of candle moulds on a large scale, with the narrow margin shaped into sharp ridges in order to stow away the excavated stuff, so that if you go out to spend an evening in your friend's tent you require to return before cloak, though since my sojourn I have seen reel ing diggers returning from the grog . shops with lanterns, and have not heard of a serious accident. All the subsoil in every district that I have visited is of a gamboge colour, whether it be clay or gravel, so that tne diggings are of • bright yellow hue, and the workmen look at a distance as if they were clothed in chamois, and every implement on the ground or utensils in the tent seem tinged with the same unvarying colour. In some places the precious metal runs in veins or leads, and in others in patches, and those only who are lucky enough to descend upon a vein or patch get as much as a speck to reward their arduous la bour; and I have myself seen instances of a party in one hole washing out as much as six ounces to the tub, when their immediate neighbours were not get ting.the fraction of a grain. Those unlucky folk are continually changing from place to place, and look ing out fresh diggings ; and if one of them chances to bit, the news spreads like wildfire, and with extra ordinary exaggeration, which brings about what is termed • rush, when you will see hordes racing in every direction to mark out their claims. But latterly this species of excitement is less contagious from the fact that store-keepers have been known to propagate false reports in order to bring a crowd to their neighbourhood: and a shrewd black smith wince my advent galled about 10,000 by pre tending to mark out claims for every member of his family, where the dray broke down with his tools, and on his way up a passer-by carried about the tidings, and the smith was soon busy and profitably at work pointing picks and shovels for his dupes, who forgave him in consideration of his tact and cle verness. In my next I will go more into detail. Mr. Coon severely criticised the vacillation of Sir H. Huntley, who alter telling the shareholden that leasehold wee in California an unsafe town', surrendered his old principle of freehold and took a Issas of Brown's Valley. He considered that he was only good at anuses; aad look ing at the way in which the broken and the monied ;men in the City regarded their shares, he would more, as an amendment, the appointment of a Committee of Investiga tion. The New Sara Wales Garet-amen! Gazette of Aug. 9 contain. a general abstract of the sworn returns rendered premed to the Act of Council, 4 Vie., No. 13, of the average assets and liabilities, and of the capital and rafts of the five undermentioned banks of the colony of New South Wales, for the quarter ending the 30th Jane, 1863. We will take the banks in the order in which the y _ appear : BANK Or New 80C111 WALEI.-Liabilities : Notes in circulation, 380,1561. 14e. 3d. (This includes the Victoria Broach). Bills is cireulatiem, 6,4291. 10e. 9d.; balsams due to other hanks, 124,7831. (Ia this amount is Winded 10,6361. 10s., being liabilities of the Old Bank of New South Wale,, guaranteed.) Deposits, 1,667,8861. 2.. Total liabilities, 2,179,2561. 2s. 7d. Assets-Coin and bul lion, 1,195,3981. 11.. 3d.; landed property, 16,3891. 65.; notes and bills of other banks, 9,0241. 31. ; balances due from other banks, 315,8701.8 e. ; notes and bills discounted, and all other debts due to the bank, 630,794 !. 6a. 7d. Total ousels, 2,170,4761. Capital and profits-Capital paid up, 399,9001. Bate per annum of lut dividend, 10 per rent. Amount of dividend, 16,0001. Amount of reserved profit/a, after paying dividend, 44,9601. 11 .. 3d. THE NEw STAMP 9. e[.-The following informs- Tan CoMMIIRCIAL BANILING CoMPANT.-Liabilitiee- tins may help to elucidate the difficulties of some readers Notes in circulation, 183,6881. 6s. 2d. ; balances due to respecting the new act. The receiver of a promissory note other basks, 91. 7.. lid.; dep.wirs, 764,8741.8.. ld. Total at 30 days, two, or three sleuths; or a banker's draft at liabilities, 948,5721. 2s. 2d. Auets-Coin and bullion, seven or fourteen days, is obliged to give a stamped rcceipt 398,6571. 12s. 6d. ; landed property, 11,2361. 2a. 3d. ; ha- for the amount. Railway companies ;are obliged to give lances due from other banks, 373,3744 12s. 64. ; notes and stamped receipts for fares above forty shillings, received in bills discounted, and all other debts due to the bank, cash over the counter at the station. Auctioneen are cora -388,0151. 99. Bd. Total assets, 1,171,3831. 16s. 10d. Capital polled to give stamped receipts for amount above forty shil and profits-Capital paid up, 200,0001. Bate per annum kings, for goods purchased at auctions. Farmers and cattle of last dividend, 10 per cent., and a bonus of 2.5,0001. dealers are obliged to give stamped receipts for cora and among the shareholders. Amount of dividend, 7.6101. cattle sold at fairs and markets. A ',tamped receipt must 6s. Id. Amount of reserved profit after paying dividend, be given fir monies paid on account of a bill delivered, nut 16,8941. 7.. ld. actually settled. Tradesinenare obliged tegive stamped re Tna Bann or ArsTRALASIA.-Liabilities-Notes is Mr. mum for goods sold over the counter, such as grocers, dra eulation, 19.5,9891. 9s. Al ; bills in circulation, 66,8611. Pen, &c. But in all these cases the person paying the 11s. Id. ; deposits, 725,0851. 10s. 7d. Total liabilities, money must ask for the receipt, otherwise there is no obli -987,9361. 14s. 10d. Assets-Coin and bullion, 570,5891. nation as the person receiving money to give the receipt. Os. 9d. ; landed property, 8,7691 4s. 7d. ; notes and bills of One merchant can draw a draft on another merchant for other bask., 1,9371. 181. 6d. Notes and bills discounted, the amount of an account without :paging through a ban and all other debts due to the bank, 384,3181. 18r. W. her, provided the penny stamp is attached thereto, and an Total assets. 965,3651. 2e 7d. Capital and profits-capitol acknowledgment on the back of the draft will be a legal re paid up, 900,0001. Rate per annum of last dividend G per esipt. Letters by the General Post, acknowledging the cent., and a bones of 1/. 4s. per share equal to 6 per cent. safe snivel of promissory notes, bills of exchange, and per annum, free of income tax. Amount of reserved profit other securities for money, are exempt from the stamp re after paying dividend, 50,3271. 7s. sd. ceipt duty ; the law in this particular is the same as it was UNION BANK. or AtATKALIA.-Liabilities: Notes in previously to the passing of the new act. A receipt may be circulation, 217,9321. Bills in circulation, 44,740 i. Ga. Gd. ' given as the back of a duly stamped draft for its contents. Mr. Routosom seconded the motion, which was sup ported by Mr. Kirrvt.i. Mr. GARnArr (one of the directors) would not oppose the appointment of a committee to invistigate the conduct of the directors, provided only a deputation of shareholders should he also sent to California. The CHAIkXAN then pot the amendment, which was on a slow of hands lost by a large majority ; after which he put the original motion, which was agreed to. lie then proposed a resolution empowering the directors to raise 16,0001. additional capital in the manner recommended by the report. This was seconded by Mr. Clarke, and after some explanations from the chair, unanimously agreed to. The election of directors and other routine business were then proceeded with, after which the business terminated with a rote of thanks to the chairman. THE RUBSO-TURKISII QUESTIO.V. CHARTIST MEETING IN FINSBURY. Last evening a meeting, summoned by placard, as held in the School-room of the Cowper-.suet Sehooli, ''rot;i4;litto . " - eonsidera - Jon the above question, and oho to consider what part England ought to take in the event of a European war of principles with its inevitable eons , . (locums. new governments, and Lew territorial arrange ments." . . The two members for the borough bad been invited to attend, but neither of them was present. Tne platform was occupied almost exclusively by mem ten of the Chartist party, amongst whom Mr. Bronterre O'Brien was the most conspicuous. Mr. Exits, a schoolmaster, was appointed to the chair, and in a lengthened speech denounced the conduct of Russia in its relations w.th Turkey. Mr. BRONTLItRIE Wilkins stated that the meeting had been called by a body of working men, and at their request he had prepared a resolution, which he begged to move. It denounced the conduct of Russia for occupying the Princi palities, and applauded the government of Tur key for declaring war against Kuala ; at the same time warned the upprersed subjects of this and other European countries, and e►pecially of France and England, against permitting their respective govern ments to make resistance to Russian encroacbments """'". ------ a pretext for meddling with the internal policy or adminis tration of Turkey, or for counteracting the efforts of Hun gary and other oppressed nations to strike off the yoke of slavery. Mr. LOCKHART seconded the resolution; which, haying becu spoken to by two or three other persons, was carried. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1853. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWA E The eighth half-yearly general meeting of share holders in the above company was held ytmerday at the eent,pany's offices, 3, New Broad-etre. t, for the general business of the company, and aubsequ.ntly an extraordi nary general melting was held for the purpose of °Meaning the sanction of the shareholders to the terms of a contract to be entered into with the Hon. E ut India Company for the construction of the extension lines, and for raising the capital necessary for the same. In the absence of Lord \Vharneliffe, Mr. \V. J. UAMILTON, deputy chairman, took the chair. After the usual formal preliminaries, the Secretary pro ceeded to read the report, an abstract of which appeared yesterday in the Espresso. A statement of ',counts was than read, which showed that the total amount received on shares in England up to June 30, 1853, had been 386,1141. Os. 41., and at Bombay to same period 114,0491. 14s. 3d , making a total of 500,1631. 14s. 7d.; while the expenditure had been in England 186,206/. 16.. 5d., and in Bombay 154,783:. Bs. 91, making a total of 310,9901. ss. 2d.; and leaving the balance in hand in England 158,9631. Is., in Bombay 2101.85. M. ; total, 159,1731.95. sd. Of this last item, the sum spent on engineering, permanent way and works, rolling stock, &c., subsequent to previous account, was 53,1941. 10s. 9d. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. ' A discussion ensued, in the course of which it appeared that the general body of the shareholders were under the impression that the guarantee of the company extended to 'million, and a hope was sap d that this view would be pressed on the East India Company. At its termination the report was unanimously received, and the statement of accounts was adopted. The meeting then resolved i'self into an extraordinary general meeting for the object stated at the head of the report. The CHAIRMAS put a resolution authorising the directors to enter into a contract with the Elet India Company for making and maintaining extensive lines from Kalliaa, Shahpoor, or otherwise, on terms to be set forth, and en thorisiog the raising of " extension capitol " to the extent of one million in the first instance, and such further sums as may be necessary, such sums to become one fund with the experimental capital, subject, however, to the varying rates of interest respectively. He explained that for this extension capital the directors expected to get a guarantee of 4i per cent. Mr. J. Hasztrtwa objected to the extension of the capital of the company beyond a million, or of their works beyond Shshpoor. Ke, therefore, moved that the consideration of this resolution be postponed to the next half yearly meen Hr ti . Nthstothow opposed the amendment, urging that the resolution clearly provided that the money should not he raised until the state of monetary afftirs made the issue of the extension capital an actual bonus to the share holders. _ . . . Mr. ATILTOS read the original contract, and held that it bound the But India Company to a flee per cent. guarantee up to a million. Mr. NICHOI.IIOI.I explained that, although it was true the East India Company had buaranteed the second 600,0001., still it was on condition that they approved of the line. But the Bbull Ohat had proved impracticable, and hence the question at to the woad halt million had been re opened. After a lengthened dimension, Mr. FIILD staved an amendment, the effect of which would he to limit the power of raising capital to a further sum of a million. _ _ Mr. HESRLTIIIII haying withdrawn hie own amendment, wended that of Kr. Field. . . —.— —.......-. The amendment was put and negatived ; and the origi nal resolution carried. The usual vete of thanks to the directors followed, and the proceedings terminated. DINNER TO MR. CRAUFURD, M.P. A complimentary dinner was given at Ayr, on the 25th instant, to Mr. Craufurd, thu member fur the Ayr Burghs. Upwards of 200 of theAorincipal inhabitants of the district were present; and Mr. A. WILLIAMSON oC oupied the chair. After the usual toasts, The CHLIRMAN proposed, in a very flattering speech, the health of their representative, and Mr. Craufurd's name was received with all the honours and with several additional rounds of cheering. Mr. CILAUIPCID retuned thanks : in the course of his speech he said—l most take the opportunity of &minting from the view that the tisse has come when all party dis tinctions should be erased, and all men should join hand is band. That is a view contrary to the bent of our natures, and contrary to essential principles in the conducting of constitutional government. As hinted in the popular Irish song of " Rory O'More," things are kept in order by con tranes—Caughter and cheering); and if there is one thing which makes me look with some anxiety to the state of the political world at present, it is the weakness of the opposition In parliament. (Hear, hear.) INQUEST UPON A DECEASED LUNATIC AT Yesterday en inquiry was held by Mr. Wakley, at the County Lusatia Asylum, as to the death of Mr. William Parsons, thirty-three years of age, and formerly butler in the service of Mr. Frederick WoodSridge, who resided at Wavendoa, sear Newport Pegnell, Buckinghamshire. Several witnesses were examined with reference to some alleged acts of cruelty perpetrated upon accessed while in the Marylebone infirmary. It appeared that be hadeomplained to his wife of violent* committed towards him, and the coroner closely questioned the keepers as to their knowledge of such transactions. They denied that they had used personal violence to the deceased, bat admitted that they had often heard him falling about in his padded room, frequently from the top of the walls eight or nun feet high. John Blencowe, one of the attendants of Swivel' Asylum, received Parsons on his admission on the 22nd. He took him to the bath-room, pat him in a bath, and habited him in the Asylum dress. He was marked with severe bruises on various parts of the body.. He whistled while being bathed, and resisted being dressed, but had no objection to the bath. He refused having any dinner. His face was greatly . braised, it was yellow and green. His right leg was so injured that he could not bear his stocking being pet on. He did not commit any violence towards any one. Wiliam Byrne, another attendaat, said that when de ceased wee reeeivid, his right leg was very much inflamed mar the ankle ; he had a bleak eye, and was otherwise much bruised on various puts of the body. He was very feeble. He was put into a padded room, but so fastenings were placed on his limbs. He was so weak that witness was obliged to feed hiss with a spoon. He wee then ordered Into the infirmary. He offered no sort of violence. John Tipper, the infirmary attendant, had charge of deceased as the 24th. He took about a pint of beef tea, but would have nothing else but water. He had many bruises about the head and other parts of the body. Mrs. Parsons, widow of the deceased, said that when she went to the Middlesex Hospital, five men were tying down her husband, two being at his head and three at his feet. A sheet, twisted like a rope, was tied across his chest. At that time he sods* very reasonaba, and asked her to take I him away. He said that they h treated him so roughly, that they would kill him if they continued it any longer. After this they loosened him all bit his feet, and he became perfectly quiet. Without these straps and sheets he was perfectly quiet and composed. After some further evidence, The room was then cleared, and, after • lopes of about , 1 twenty minutes, the following verdict was returned : " That the death of the said William Parsons was caused by a mortal exhaustion, produced by mania and • natural I disease of his brain, and also by a mortal irritation produced by braises on divers parts of his body, caused by falls in an I improperly padded room in the Ilarylebone Infirmary. i And the jurors further say. they consider that it was creel i of his master, the said Frederick Woo.thridge, Eq. ' to send the unfortunate William l'arsons to London, as he did, while the said William Parsons was in an insane state of mind ; and they consider that the treatment of the said William Parsons in Middlesex Hospital and in the Mary leboae Infirmary was not at all creditable to the character of those institutions." 11 The inquiry, which lasted seven hours, then terminated. TILE CORN TRADE AT ROME AND ABROAD. (rreen the Ner Empress.) The state of the weather is becoming a matter of series' uneasiness; we had a few fine days in the early part •(the week, but since Wednesday an immense quantity of, wet has fallen, and it will need a considerable interval of dry weather to restore the land to a fit conditicn to admit of its being worked. This, at the close of October, is a somewhat untoward state of affairs, and warrants a feeling M disquietude in respect to the future. The ill effects of • late and wet seed-time were painfully exemplified last SOW ; and it is, consequently, not to ;be wondered at that these engaged in the cultivation of the soil, as well se all sennected with the corn trade, should at the present mo ment be influenced by the prospect of a similar viaits this. Neither merchants nor farmers are particularly anxious to realise; and only moderate supplies of grain aro, therefore, being brought forward. Purchasers, oa the other hand, are somewhat nervous in following up their operations after so important a rise as that which has been established within the last two or three months. In this position of affairs transactions are naturally circum scribed, and there is not so much activity in the trade as previous to the advance. At the same time there ap pears to be little prospect of a check to the upward move ment; indeed the probability is strongly in favour of a further rise. The deficiency in the produce of wheat has certainly not been exaggerated ; of this we have daily proof, as in gluiest every instance where the produce of a given number of acres has been thrashed out, the yield in quarters has fallen short of expectation. This appears also to be the case in France; and we are inclined to think that the quantity of wheat harvested io these two great bread consuming countries will turn out to be at least one-third short of an 'usual average, and that the necessity of im porting to provide for this enormous deficiency will, under almost any combination of circumstances, however favour able, cause quotations cf wheat to rule high in all parts of the world, up to next harvest. Meanwhile the actual posi tion of 'Zan is anything but favourable. The weather on the continent has been similar to that experienced, here, land outdoor work has been much impeded—in many cases rendered impossible—by the excess of rain. The sowing of wheat must, therefore, inevitably be late abroad as well as with us. Next in importance to the weather is the poli tical aspect of affairs in the East, fur it is to the Black Su tt at we must look for supplies. In the Baltic old stocks are nearly exhausted, and the new produce will not be fit to ship until it shall have been hardened and improved in condition by frost. At Odessa, Galati, and Ibraila large quantities of wheat and Indian corn are lying in store ; hut the fear of war and the scarcity of vessels have thus far prevented shipments of any importance being made to Great Britain. It is now almost too late in the year to ad mit of the difficulties alluded to being removed in time to insure supplies on an extensive scale, and the latest advices from Constantinople ate certainly not of a character to allow us to indulge in sanguine hopes of a peaceable ar raugement of the quarrel between Russia and Turkey. The wheat trade has maintained an exceedingly firm tone throughout the week ; but, as already intimated, the trans actions have been on a comparatively limited scale, in con sequence of an indifference on the part of sellers to realise except at high prices, and an extra degree of caution exer cised by buyers. The consumption of bread does not appear to have been sensibly diminished u yet by the enhancement is its value ; the fact is, that other articles have risen is fully the same proportion, and bread is 'till rela tively the cheapest kind of food. Stocks of o!d wheat are rapidly decreasing ; and, as we cannot expect supplies from abroad to the same extent as those that have reached us hitherto, our warehouses will probably be pretty well cleared before Christmas. The Baltic arrivals are almost certain to fall off materially, and the causes above referred to will—there is reason to believe—prevent large supplies I from the East; our great dependence must therefore be America, and that she will not be able to furnish so large ■ quantity as to compensate for the short-comings from other quarters we have already on previous occasions en deavoured to prove. It seems, therefore, that, with a greater deficiency in lour own crop than has occurred for years, we shall have to encounter unusual difficulties in obtaining substantial aid frem abroad. Foreign govern ments are fully alive to the dangers of the threatened scarcity, and one after the other has prohibited exports or removed restrictions against imports. The latest intelli gence of proceedings of that nature has reached us this week ; Turkey having, it appears, followed the example of Egypt, and has forbidden further shipments of grain. 'Very little change has taken place in the tone of the trade at Mark-lane since Monday. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into the port of London have been small, and the quantity brought forward by land-carriage has been quite trifling. The Essex and Kent stands were nearly bare on Wednesday, and there was scarcely anything fresh up fur Friday's market. In the absence of supplies the transac tions have necessarily been on a retail scale, and no quo:- able alteration has taken place in prices ; we are inclined to thiak, however, that it would not have been difficult to have exceeded previous rates by le. per qr. at the close of the week if there had been any really good new wheat to dispose of. The last weekly average for the kingdom is 68s. lid. per qr., and the return for Leedom published ea Friday 71s. 7d. per qr. The arrivals of wheat from abroad have =ousted to 16,000 qn. during the week ending this (Saturday) evening. Importers have manifested very little anxiety to sell from on board ship, and quite as high prices have been asked for the fresh arrivals as for parcels in granary. The town millers appear to have tolerably good stocks, a fair proportion of the recently received supply having been imported by them. The local demand has consequently not been extensive ; but we have been visited by buyers from different parts of the kingdom, and a fair Iminesr has been done in the finer qualities. The prices paid on Wednesday wets about the same as thou current in the commencement of the week, and on Friday an advance of Is. per qr. could only be ob• tained in partial instances. The operations in floating cargoes of Black Sea wheat have been on a comparatively retail scale, owing in a great measure to the paucity of offers and the very high pretensions of sellers. There are few cargoes arrived off the coast undisposed of ; for those on passage relatively higher rates have been asked than similar qualities would be worth on the spot. For wheat free on board at Baltic ports the ideas of sellers have like wise been too high to allow of much being done ; for fine qualities of red, 755. to 765. per qr., cost, freight, and in seam*, has been asked. The millers agreed late on Monday to put up the price of flour Se., making the top quotation 755. per sack. This advance has checked the sale, and the operations have bees on rather a retail scale since then. Town household Sou was previously put up to 65e. per sack. The reesipta • 11211 T from America have been quite moderate, viz., 6,000 beersh, and the quantity of really good in warehouse is OMMI. Sellers have, consequently, inested on a farther whence of about ls. per inf., which has not been very hasty paid. On Friday, there was some inquiry fur the •sfkls en French account The arrivals of barley coastwise have been light, and the 'hew °foam*, was small, both on Wednesday and Friday. This principal country markets have also been sparingly supplied with this grain, and its value his continued to tend upwards. The few small parcels which have muse to hand sines our last have commanded fully as much messy as before. Foreign barley for griading has been in good request, at the extreme rates of last Monday I The supplies of malt have barely kept pace with the dos mend, and the turn has been in favour of the miler. The receipts of English and Scotch oats have been quite insignificant ; but we have had slightly increased supplies from Ireland and abroad ; the total arrival amounts there fore to 22,000 qrs., but the market being previously very ban, full terms have been realised. Archangel oats have rises to 25e., and many holders have refused to sell under 265. per qr. Corresponding terms have been dements& and obtained from needy buyers for other description. The receipt' of beans have been small, and late rates bays been well supported. Peas have also found buyers at the full pricer of last Monday. No variation has taken place in the value of Indian cern. Gaits has been held firmly, at 40s. per qr. cost and freight. FOREIGN CORN. Most of the accounts from the Baltic agree in stating that the quantity of old wheat remaining in store was quite inconsiderable, and that but small supplies of new were coming to hand, the greater part of the latter in such soft condition as to be wholly unfit for shipping. Under these circumstances, the transactions bad neces- airily been on a retail rade ; and it is tolerably clear that the supplies from thence will las on a comparatively .—O LONDON REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONd Satar- trifling stale until the spring of next year, as shippers will day the Lord Mayor visited the Reformatory Institution for hardly run the risk of making consignments of new corn adult male criminals, 9, Great Smith-erett, Westminster. lie inquired minutely into the workings of the establish- until after it shall have been subjected in stack to the in meat, and passed some time in the workshops, and probe- fluence of frost. tion rooms. The inmates were assembled in the lecture Danzig letters, dated Monday, state that holders of room, and his lordship delivered an appropriate and wheat hail insisted on an advance of is. to 2s. per qr., instructive address. He expressed himself highly pleased and d with the system adopted for the reformation of the criminal that upwar s of 70s. per qr., free on board, had been outcasts of society. • paid for good high mixed. Ordinary descriptions weighing only 58 to 59 lbs. per bttshel, had brought 629. per qr., fns on board. From Stettin we learn that holders of wheat had re mained exceedingly firm, demanding ffis. for moderately goo,' red of 6111bo. weight, and corresponding rates for the Suer descriptions. B irley was szarce, end nu supplies of oats, beans, or peas had come forward. Barley has risen materially in value, and 511bs. quality was then held at equal to 3Gs. per qr., tree on board. From Rostock we learn that the wheat crop in that neighbourhood hail given a better return than had at first been expected, and the average weight would, it was be lieved, prove about 611 be. per bushel. In the early part of the month the farmers had brought supplies forward pretty freely, but subsequently t►e deliveries had decreased. The advice' from hence had bad considerable cff. ct,and holders of granaried wheat had generally raised their pretensions ; for fine qualities, weighing 1311bs. to 132ibs. Dutch, 70s. per qr. had been asked, but Os. to 69.. per qr., free on board, would probably have been taken. Hardly any spring corn had come to hand, but the barley crop was tolerably well spoken of in regard to quantity as well as quality. At Hamburg, on Tuesday, prices of wheat had an up ward tendency, but the high pretensions of sellers had checked business. Fur upland wheat on the spot, weighing only 581b5., 695., end for 591hs. 71s. per quarter, free on board, had been asked. Other articles were equally high 631bs. Danish barley had sold for immediate shipment at 355. to 361. per quarter, free on board; and for delivery in spring still higher rates had been demanded. - - In the Dutch markets the demand fur wheat appears to hare slackened, and at Rotterdam, on Monday, white was 21. to 35., and red Is. to 21. per quarer lower than on that day week. In the Belgian markets the tendency of prices seems, on the ether hand, to hare been upwards, and very full rates were paid at Antwerp on Wednesday. From Franco we learn that holders of wheat and flour bad insisted on very full terms, which bad been paid with reluctance by buyers. The weather Ira been very wet in most parts of France, which had interfered with the tillage of the soil. From the Mediterranean we have nothing fresh to com municate. Wheat is evidently scarce is that quirter, and prices continue to be very firmly supported. The latest advice, from Marseilles inform us that the de mand from the interior had been very active, and that the greater part of the liberal supply of wheat received earlier in the month had been cleared off the market. From the Black Sea we learn that trade had beets nearly paralysed by the warlike appearance of affairs, and at Odessa prices of wheat hail suffered a material decline. Vessels were very scarce, and a freight of 26e. per qr. had actually been paid for wheat to the United Kingdom. From Alexandria we learn that the exportation of grain from Egypt had been limited to 260,000 qrs. No quotations are given from the latter place. By the most recent advice, from the United States, we learn that something like a monetary crisis was feared. This had tended to check speeulatiJn ; hence less influence had been produced in the value of breadstuff. by the ex citing reports from Europe than might have been expected. The scarcity of vessels and high freights bad also had the effect of interfering with the execution of the others re ceived from England ; and we learn from New York, under date of 15th inst., that the extreme rates previously current for flour were no longer obtainable. As much u 4.. 6d. to 4s. N. per burel freight had been paid for floor to London. THE CHOLERA. (From the General Board of Ile:1th, Oct. 31.) METROPOLIS. From returns made to the commissioners of metropolitan police by the superintendents of the F, K, L, M, P, and It divisions of police, and transmit ted this day to the General Board of Health, it ap pears that between the 18th and 28th instant there haveoccurred in those districts 20 cases of cholera, of which eight have resulted fatally. In one in stance the patient died in 131 hours, and in another after only eight hours' illness. Five of these fatal cases had previously been reported as being under treatment. Dr. Milroy has made a long report upon the state of Brentford, and the conclusion at which he arrives is, that" taken altogether there are few places which stand more in need of sanitary improve ment, and which would be more benefited by the adoption of the Public Health Act." Complaints are also =dean to the state of portions of Blackheath. This is a locality naturally very healthy ; but there appears to be an almost universal negligence in keep ing down the accumulation of sewerage. In many cases it has been found that the inhabitants 61.minot drink the water from the pumps or wells in their neighbourhood. Sometimes it is offensive to the smell and taste, sometimes turbid. This may in se veral instances be accounted for by the proxim:ty of the cesspool or from the ground near the well being absolutely saturated by the drainage from manure heaps, &c. There is very little care taken to prevent the dwellings from becoming damp, and internal cleansing is also much neglected. The ventilation of houses or rooms is often quite overlooked. In almost every house the window only opens from the bottom if it opens at all. The model cottages probably present the only examples of ventilators of any kind,. In 80010 instances it has been found that by far too large a number of persons are crowded into one tenement. This is especially the case with the Irish, but not exclusively true of them. In one small house were lately living 32 per sons ; and in one small room in a house otherwise more full than it should be, there wore found living the landlady of the room, a married couple, and three young women. This room—the common kitchen, sitting-room, and bedroom—is about twelve feet square. The story of the Black•hole at Calcutta is familiar to everybody, and its horrors are only the extreme to which every case of overcrowding is an approximation. The injurious effects, it is true, are not fully realised, because the occupants spend the greater part of the day out of doors; but in wet weather, or when there is little work going on, and when they consequently are more at home, the odour of some of these rooms is absolutely overpowering, and if any epidemic should arise, such houses would be simply hotbeds and centres of disease. SOHAM (CAMBRIDGESHIRE). —Ten deaths from cholera and two from diarrhoea are reported as having occurred in this village since the 21st instant. Of the above six from cholera and one from diarrheea happened within the last thirty hears, prior to the despatch of the latest accounts. Upwards of forty cases (some very severe in their character) occurred on the 30th alone. Front 120 to 130 cases of choleraic diarrhoea are stated to have taken place in various parts of the district. Dr. Lewis has been directed by the General Board of Health to visit the locality immediately, and to advise with the local authorities as to the adoption of precautionary measures. COCKERMOUTH (MARYPORT DISTRICT).-OCt. 29. Deaths—Cholera, 2. One of these cases ended fatally after an attack of "cholera 12 hours." NEWCABTLE..— Oct. 29. Deaths Cholera, 1; diarrhoea, 1. DUNDEL—OCI. 29. Deaths—Cholera, 3. Oct. 30. Cholera, 2; diarrhoea, 2. These make a total of deaths during the present visitation of 12. EDROM (Baawlciesulait).—Oct. 27. Death—Cho lera I (22 hours). EDINBURGH.—Oct. 27. Death—Cholera, 1 (10 hours after attack. This is described as one of malig nant cholera, and as having occurred in a " bad locality." FARTII-CARNNTATH (LANARKSHIRE). 28. PORTOBELLO (DunniNGsToN).—The Inspector of the Poor of lluddingston has reported the outbreak of malignant cholera in the landward part of the above parish. One case (a lad of seven years of age) ended fatally on the 28th instant. The father of the boy had been suddenly seized with vomiting and diarrheas three d iys previously, but the worst symp toms had, at the last report, yielded to prompt treat ment. Another member of the same family had also been attacked by the disease, though in a milder form. TELEGRAPH TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—The tele graphic communication between Lymingfon, in Hamp shire, and Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, is nearly completed. The telegraph cable acme the Solent will be laid down this week. It will cross from Hurst Castle to near Yarmouth. Three submarine cables will be required' fur this line—ooe from Keyhaven, another across the So lent sea, and another across the Medina ricer. The tele , graph is laid under the ground from Yarmouth to Cowes. It will cost several thousand pounds. It would be most de sirable to remove the telegraph station from Lymington to Hurst Castle, where a look out could be kept, and with a proper system of signals every mail packet could be tele graphed to Southampton or LonfLio, Light or day. THE PORT or HULL.—it is a gratifying feature in connexion with the shipping . of ma port, that there has been an increase of full 50t1 tbis year nv.re than during • corresponding period ihiB,so,—lle r a , krt. IRELAND. ~-- Draws, Om 31. Letters and requisitions to the Executive Com mittee of the Exhibition are coming fr nn various quartets, calling on them to keep the Exhibition open during the next month, or at least for the full period of six months originally promised, and which would not terminate until the 12th of Novein'ier; but whether these entreaties be to any extent com plied with, the formal ceremonial of eluting the Ex hibition will be performed to-dat with all the eehit that can be conferred upon it. he Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germans will be present. A selection of sacred music will be performed by an orchestra and chorus of five hundred performers, and his Excellency will then declare the Exhibition to be closed, after which the "National Anthem" will be performed by the orchestra and chorus, aided by the military bands of the garrison. Whether any prolongation of existence be subsequently granted to the Exhibition appears to be btill doubted, but a meeting of the exhibitors will be held to-day in the building, after the closing ceremony to make a final appeal to the eat , entice committee for that Inirpose. On Saturday 23,116 persons visited the Exhibition, and portions of the building were of course toler.tbly well tilled by such a multitude; but the throng was not incon venient in any part, unless to some extent in the pic ture galleries. Up to Friday last large batches of excursionists continued to arrive from England. The price of aduaistion this day will be raised to half-a-crown. --- --- The exhibitors' banquet to Mr. Dargan, which comes off on Wednescluy in the round room of the Mansion House, is expected to be a splendid affair. The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor, anj a great many distinguished persons have signified their in tention to bu present. The bishopric of Derry is now chargeable with a further yearly payment to the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners of 2,00b1., in addition to 4,160/. paid by the late prelate. Ilis successor's income will also be liable to a heavy tax under the provisions of the Church Terapor ilities Act. The vacant mitre is in the gift of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. The l'reeni,m's Journal has the following bio graphical sketch of the late good and lamented Lord Cloncurry : Born in Dablin, in August, 1773, when the independent movement began to agitate men's minds, he was old enough in his tenth or twelfth year to be impressed with the grand ideas of commercial and political liberty which pissed through the heart of the nation like an electric current. Among hie schoolfellows and playmates at the school of Dr. Burroughs, in 1765-6, was the late bishop of Derry, Dr. Ponsunby, who preceded him to the grave by 48 hours' His father, following the evimple ot some of the Irish aristocracy, who looked to the English universi ties less as tcl,e , ,li of learning and discipline than as the media of introilv!ing their sons to high English society, in tended young Valentine fur Oxford, but the patriotic spirit of the son prevailed in. r the intentions uf the father, and he entered Trinity College, where he sir-dueled in 1701. After a brief sojourn on the Continent, he found himself in Ireland not very well disposed to the English govern ment. Ardent and susceptible of the keenest emotions of patriotism—tilting the treachery of all English parties, `which soon after the commercial propo , itions began to co operate for the ruin of Ireland, yuurg Lawless joined the 1" only hope of the country"—the Snetety of Unired Irish men. Fitzgerald, the Emmett., Sampson, O'Connor, were his intimate friends, and en their metiers Lord Cloncurry sheds the clearest light, which aspired to no other change in . . - • the constitution . at that time than the civil and religious equality which all admitted to be thecretically just, though practically inadmissible, on the side of the fatuous oppressor. Mr. Lawless carried over his prioeiplea:to where he established "a branch" of the United Irish Society, and, of course, the government epics were anon upon his track. At the St. Patrick's dinner, in 1798, he happened to appear in green, " tho colour of the true," and making some mistake when the King's health was proposed, not satisfactorily cleared up by his lordship some fifty yeses ' after—we suspect because he could aot—the government grew more intense in its suspicions, and he was scum after arrested with excellent company—the late Duke of Leinatcr, Curran, and Grattan—who happened to be en a visit at his lodgings in St. Alban's-street. They were, however, imme diately liberated. He was taken before the Privy Council —sifted by Wcdderburne and Pitt—significantly asked whether he " woo an United Irishman," which he an- 'seared in the affirsnatsve, " before any law was passed to incriminate the actsof the society. Mr. Lawless, not- withstanding, was discharged, with admonition's to be good for the future. This was in June, '9B. Un daunted by the past, he threw himself actively into the liberal movement, though he had the good sense to keep clear of the fatal net in which so many brave hearts had been immeshed and sacrifLed ; and again he was seized, under a warrant of the Duke of Portland, in April, '99, and committed to the Tower, where he remained for two years, until the expiration of the habeas Corpus Sus pension Act in 1801 restored him to liberty. We selected the early part of his lordship' career be cause the St%oll patriotism and indepeodeat spirit that de termined his latter years drew their strength and vitality from the fountain at which he drank in the beginning of his career. Ilis life was uniform in the principles he pro fessed and practised. They were with him living prin ciples, for without action principles are only hollow professions—:iypocritiml assumptions of justice or virtue, instead of the real essences which shape the lives and actions of good and virtuous men. Lord Clon curry's scarcely underwent a change. In pas•ing through such a long and honoured existence—having seen the rise and fall of nearly three generations—it is almost impossible in the career of political characters that events should not Lometimes create a passing diversion in the straightness of iceir path ; but in Lord Cloncurry's there was a noble so well as a rare consistency from the opining of manhood to the last years, and almost days, of a singularly consistent and protracted life, fur we find his last pu.hlic act was a donation t' the Dublin Library, provided it assumed the addition of " Hibernian Athenteum "—an act trifling in itself, but indicating very strongly the direction of his lordship's thoughts as he stood on the edge of the grave. The following is from the week's commercial re view of the Freeman: Trade has been eery inactive this week, the produce market drooping, and the customs receipts show a heavy deficiency. In shares a little more business has been done, but no improvement has taken place. Credit is well sup ported, and money easy. The market has been stiff throughout the week, in consequence of the foreign news and the wretched state of the weather, which has been in clement in the extreme. Mr. G. Burke, the stolebroker, whose stoppage a week or two back we noticed, has been made a bankrupt. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.-MON DAY, The business of settling was resumed, and satisfactory evidence was affirded that it proceeded mor. smoothly than had been expected. In the course of the afternoon a great deal of money changed hands. Several absentees were spoken of, but from tbeir positi fa and prospects favourable opinions are entertained of most of them. At intervals there was a little betting ou the Derby. Gameleas colt was backed for some money at 50, 45, and 40 to 1 ; and Acrobat, who had been in strong farce at the clubs was in so much demand that he rapidly advanced to 26 to I. In one instance 1,000 to 50 was taken; but the current price at the close was 25 to 1. The events to be decided at Epsom on Thursday and Friday next were not touched upon. WORCESTER HANDICAP. 6 to 1 each a g et Frida and MYsaroui (t) DERBY. 4 to 1 a g et Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat 14 to I Lord Derby's Dervish (t) 22 to 1 Mr. Merry's The Wild ltunorstan (t) 25 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat (t freely) 30 to I Lard Derby's Baiardo (t to 100!.) 30 to I Mr. J. Adkins's Ruby (t) 1,000 to 23 Mr. T. Taylor's colt by Orlando dam by Doa John out of Gamelass (t) 1,000 to 25 Mr. J. Bull's Cone (t) 1,000 to 20 Count Batthyany's Star of Surrey (t) WORCESTER RACES. HORRES ARILIVED.—Astres, Czarina, Indiana, Little Davie, Little Fawn, Past:rook, Radcliff, Here, Mane- Toni, Ethelwolf, Sugar Candy, Rourton, Theodine, &c. NEW LIVERPOOL ALDERMAN.—Yesterday a spe cial meeting of the Liverpool Town Couccil was held, when Mr. Thomas Bold was elected an aldermen in :he r..om of Alderman Relines, deceased. The mayor (Samuel llolme, Esq.) was brought forward, but upon a poll Mr. Bold was declared elected by a majority of 30 to 18. The term of Mr. Bold's altlcrmanic honours, however, expires at the I I end of the munMipal year, whcu he will require to be re elected. Mr. G. V. Brooke appeared at the Theatre Riyal. Liver pool, on Monday evening last, in the character of Othello. The enthusiasm of the audience was gr. it, Mr. Erocke being summoned several times during the prercs • ..1 the tragedy to receive their congratulations. RECOVERY OF A WIFE THROUGH THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —A few days since a telegraphic message was received at the Stroud Station of the North Kent Railway, to the following effect :—" Please to detain two ladies, ono short and the other tall, and a man very much marked with smallpox." The parties were stated to be in etirst ease carriage. In consequence of this communication, on the arrival of the train at Higham, the cauiages were locked, aol the parties were detained on theie arrival at Strood. A message back to London !naught dOssms gat tleman, who claimed one of the ladies to his wißt who it was said had eloped with hie managing m. e. After some parleying the lady joined her liwbaud, and the parties departed in cab., taking different ilireet!ona.—KentisA Obscrrer.