The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

\ . l • • I • , 1 I; I I i , . • `, • • t 1 I 4 Tux CI TY BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. ASSIZE 'GENCE. netrzottory to indicate a sear sppr tat to 22,:i65 283,520 r r , II r . •- r THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1566 who exhibited the greatest coolness, when N had concluded, turned round end walked Maps leading from the dock, apparently The prisoner, the leaned judge qu ickly down the at quite unconcerned. MIDI)LESEX SESSION& HONE CIRCUIT. —MiticsroNS, DSc. 21. (Before Baron ChinaslL) red TUNBILIDGI-WILIS MT-16DM The trial of Anne Lawrence, 28, for the wilful murder of her child, Jeremiah Lawrence, four years of age, was resumed this morning at nine o'clock. Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for the defense in a lo n g and eloquent speech. lie f oommnd by expressing his opinion that the jury wl not, by acquitting the priso ner, necessarll7 intimate that the murder was committed by the man Iligharne, but it would merely show that they en tertained a doubt upon the point, and the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of that doubt. He admitted that the defence he was nut:noted to make for the prisoner was that the murder was committed by the man, but the police seemed to have at once jumped to the conclus;on that the priso ner was the guilty party, and all their efforts were directed to establish that fact, and to met up the man Highams and make him appear innocent. Two persons were suspected, and only one was taken into custody, and it was the object of the other, of course, to clear himself, but he could not help expressing hie opinion that the evidence would almost have equally applied to fix the crime uponHighamsag upon the prisoner. With regard to the question of motive, he said he should not attempt to deny that the prisoner was actuated by a feeling o f deep hatred to the man Highams, and she had good grounds very probably for en tertaining that feeling towards him. He had taken her away from her husband, he had broken up her home, and it was clear that being satiated with the possession of his victim he was about to abandon her and form a oonnection with another woman. Under such circumstances it was natural that the prisoner shouldbe actuated by a feeling of hostility towards him, and that she should desire to do birn some personal injury, but what earthly motive did this suggest for destroying the life of a child who, there was no doubt, she tenderly loved ? It appeared to him that the case in reality depended entirely upon the evidence of Highams, and that without his testimony no grand jury would ever have found s true bill against the prisoner, and he called upun them most earnestly to consider the whole of the facts to which that witness deposed, and he should submit to them that they ought sot to rely upon that evidence. He asked the jury whether it was not an extraordinary fact that when Highanis was first examined, he said that he found the pri soner awake at five o'clock in the morning of the m urder, but in the evidence he had given on the present occasion he altered the time to four, and he said it was for the jury to consider whether he bad not been thinking the matter over, and probably considered that it would be better to fix the hour at four o'clock, because that would allow more time to the prisoner to do what it was sug gested she bad done. He then remarked upon the fact that Highams hail originally admitted/that the razor with which the wound WWI inflicted belonged to him,whereas now he professed to throw some doubt upon that fact, because he no doubt thought that, knowing the prisoner had charged him with committing the murder, it would be a strong fact against him that it was his razor with which the fatal injury was committed. Another point which, he said, was well worthy their consideration was the fact that Highams said he did not see the dead body of the child when the alleged attack was made upon him by the prisoner, and that lie did not know it was dead until lie had been taken to the adjoining cottage, whereas it appeared by all the testimony in the case that it was impossible that this statement of the witness could be true, as the ghastly spectacle of the dead body of the child was the first thing that presented itself, and every one who went into the room saw it immediately. He urged that there must have been some motive for this conduct on the part of the witness Highams, and that the discrepancies he had rehired to were well worthy of their consideration. The learned counsel then proceeded to re mark upon the other f acts in the case, and concluded by reminding the jury that from the very first moment the prisoner hail charged Highams with being the murderer, and that under all the circumstances in which she hail been placed, and down to the present moment she persisted in the truth of that accusation. Baron Channel!, at the commencement of his summing up, said he thought it right to express his opinion that there was nothing to complain of in the manner in which the prosecution had been conducted by Serjeant Parry, who, he said, it appeared to himhad done no more than his duty as counsel for the prosecution in laying the whole of the facts that were material before the jury. He also said he considered M there was as uo just ground of complaint against r. Emer the superintendent of the Tunbridge Wells police, and he considered he was perfectly justified in bringing the matter before the consideration of the magistrates, and when he had done so the matter was out of his hands, and the magistrates were responsible for all that was done afterwards. His lordship then referred to the evidence, and said that, supposing they should come to the conclu sion that the murder must have been committed either by the prisoner or the witness Highams, it would then be their duty to consider to which of the two the evidence applied and appeared to establish guilt. As to the ques tion of motive, it would be a fearful thing indeed if a guilty party were to escape punishment because no as signable motive was apparent for the commission of the crime, but in the present case it appeared to be assigned as a motive that she was actuated by a desire for vengeance against Highams and that having committed the fix cri t he e he herself she sou/it, in order to be revenged, to crime upon Mg ams. If the crime was merely attribut able to jealousy, he certainly thought it was rather ex traordinary that the prisoner should have destroyed her own child and not his, particularly as the removal of the former might have relieved him from the liability to its support. The jury retired at one o'clock to deliberate upon their verdict, and returned into court shortly after four, and found the prisoner Guilty. When she was calledse upon to of state whether sh not e ha be d anything to urge why ntence passed upon her, she said that she should have declared her innocence before the coroner, but she was toll to sit down, and she afterwards had no opportunity of doing so. With regard to killing her child, she declared she was quite innocent. " I declare," said the prisoner, in a firm voice, " before God and man that I did not kill the child. There is no ground for convicting me of that charge. My counsel has defended me well, but if I coull have crow examined Highams myself, I would have made him tell the truth. I am innocent." The learned judge, having assumed the black cap, ad dressed the piisoner,anil said that after a most patient and protracted inquiry the jury had felt themselves compelled to return a verdict of guilty. Every topic had been urged in her behalf by her learned counsel, and he hoped that in his slimming up he had not omitted any circumstance that was calculated to weigh in her favour, and the jury had felt themselves compelled to return a verdict of guilty against her. She had stated that she did not kill her child, but the jury hail found by their verdict that she did, and it was his duty to pass sentence upon her for that o ff ence. She had, no doubt, been very ill-used by the man Highama, and whether she had committed the act in order to fix the crime upon him out of revenge,was only known to herself. He (the learned incise) had nothing t ed to do with the question of motive. The ;ury had convic her of the crone of wilful murder, and it was his duty to pass sentence upon her for that offence. The learned judge concluded by passing the sentence of the law. The prisoner, who is a tall, good-looking woman, did not exhibit the least emotion when the sentence was passed, and she left the bar declaring that she was inn.> cent. (Before Mr. Welkin, assistant Judge.) Themes Cheteemd, 61, and James Swift, 50, were fu dieted for embezzling the sum of 255. received by them for in HuckThere ster's were (lessee a nd on aseount of Mr. John Ba ldw of alao the Haymarket Theatre), their muter. two indictments against Swift alone for stealing opera allures, the property of Mr. Henry Foskett and Mr. James Bollaert Bendel . ) instructed by Mr. M. Williams and Mr. Warren Leigh ( Mr. E. T. Lewis), prosecuted ,• Mr. G. S. Griffiths an de d Ur. Edward Palmer (instructed by Mr. Hubert Wood) fended Chetwynd ; and Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Collins (in structed by Mr. Charles Bassett, of Great James-street) apeared for Swift. Williams, From the opening statemen t of Mr. Mont ag up and also from the evidence of the witneues called in sup =ofietltilyiteappe:drede that ttnhetreo pets: ne n t lli nt o e wers taker and check-taker (the latter as keeper of the free list and check-taker to the dress circle) at the Hayeparket Theatre. It was the practice of Mr. Wright, the treasurer to the theatre every night to issue to the prisoner Chetwynd, 'the money taker, 161 ' checks, or metal tickets of admission to the I dress circle, inch checks being issued to every visitor to I the theatre on the payment of ss. each. It was the duty ' of Swift, on receiving these metal checks, to drop them into t h e, open mouth of a locked box • and at the conclu sion of the performance this box was Laken to Mr. Wright, the treasurer, who unlocked it, examined the number of checks found in it, and for every check so found re quired Si. from the money-taker, be handing him back the unissued checks to make up the number of 161 issued the night before. From some cause not explained in co as not urt, it a ppeared that suspicions were excited that all w going on properly. Mr. Wright, the treasurer. obtained the assistance of a police-constable, and the policeman, in his meaner with a presence, marked 16 1 checks in a peculiar m watchmaker's tool, and these, in due course, were handed to Chetwynd to be issued by him in the ordinary manner. After the night's performance was brought to a close, two boxes containing checks, one kept by the prisoner Swift, and another by a checkaaer named John Gibling, were examined, and in one of them, believed to be the box kept by Swift, five checks were found had that did b not bear the mark of those issued ou the previous night, ut as there been a mixing up of the two boxes, although Sir. Wright was strongly of opinion that it was in Swift's box the un marked checks were found, no furtherl6l ma rked active measures were then taken. The following night checks were again placed in the hands of Chetwynd, and the same night, on Swift's box being carefully examined sepa rate from that of Gibling, and again five unmarked checks were found. Both these persons, Chetwynd and Swift, were then given into custody. The theory of the prosecution was that a quantity of checks had been surrep titiously obtained, and that in lieu of the marked checks issued other checks had been substiteted to make up the ruired number of 11;1, and that for every substitute d check is. was o btained, which VIM divided between the money-taker and check-taker. Both the prisoners had been for some years in the service of Mr. Buckstone, one for six years and the other for nine years. When the case for the prosecution had been gon el m sthru atgha , The Assistant-J u dge said it did not appear to h ease of felony could be sustained, and, under his direction, The jury returned a verdict of Not Gouty. The prisoner Swift was then further indicte ket d fo r stealing two opera - glasses , the property of Henry Foa. The same learned counsel appeared as in the former ciently op eztoteer. The corporation of the City of London has 4uhsist earupleted a special census of its poiulatiott. will not appear a superfluous task, notwithstand ing the excellent arrangements for taking the decennial national census, when the very peculiar ecadition of the City as to population is consianed. The very rules by which the most exact enumera tion of the population of the country at large is sowed in the general census cause it to be all but worthless as it regards the City of London. That census is gathered, for the sake of con venience, while the population is sleeping, whereas the rich and busy classes who snake the City what it is sleep far away from the scene of their labours. To take a census of the City and leave out its bankers, merchants, brokers, and traders would be like taking the ce nsus of Belgravia and leaving out * aristocracy. • The new statiatics to which we have to call atten tion have been collected by the Local Government and Taxation Committee of the Corporation, of which Mr. William Lawley is chairman. The matter was by them referred to a sub-committee of their body, who made the preliminary arrange ments, and subsequently referred the business to Mr. Lawley and Mr. Benjamin Scott, the City Chamberlain, who, together, bign the report from which we derive our information. The instructions to the sub-committee were that it should take the necessary steps to obtain a masusof "the numberof persons en gaged, occupied, or employed daily in business in the City of Lon don," and also of " the number of persona resort ing to the City daily." N o attem p t it appears has ever been made to ascertain the actual number of persons employed in business in the City of London since the period, now two centuries past, when the busness population rremained during the night in the district in which during the day they had carried on their avocations. The consequences of this want of information are sometimes ludicrous, but also sometimes pernicious. The practice of treating the figures of the Imperial census as if they aecou cu rately represented the population of the City ld only lead to absurd results, nevertheless such re sults have been employed for the purposes of measuring representation and taxing power. It will be readily understood that the enumera tion now reported upon was conducted at a dis advantage as compared with that performed by the agents of the government census, whose labours have the sanction and support of the law ; nevertheless it is believed that the results are exempt from material error, and will prove of great service in connexion with the discussion of matters relating to the local government of the metropolis. It was found impracticable to obtain the retunis in one day , and indeed had it been possible, there were reasons connected with the fluctuating nature of the trading population of the City, consequent upon the exceptional periods of holding the dif ferent markets, which made it desirable not to fix upon any particular day of ther e eek for the enu meration. It was preferred, re, to d the work over a week of six working days. so that an average result has been obtained. The days selected were those from the 9th till the 14th April • inclusive, within which the enumeration was with some exceptions completed. It is found that the total day population of the City—that is, the number of persons engaged, occupied, or employed in the City during the day—is 283,520. The official night census of 1861 gives, for the City and liber. • ties, persons. The day census, therefore, is to the night as 2.5004 to 1, or rather more than 2} to 1. The two returns profess to include the same class of persons, the only difference being in the hours of the day at which the enume rations arc respectively taken : the one census numbering the inhabitants while they are sleeping, a nd the City is compara tivel y empty ; whilst the other takes the account while they are waking and employed in their usual avocations. The sub-coin'' mitten believe that the results which they report are considerably below the actual numbers. They say :—" We have arrived, then, at the following conclusion, which may be safely accepted as within , the truth, viz. : that of the whole population of the City, a proportion just over 40 per cent. re- mains in the City at night, and GO per cent. leaves the City Bowler or later after the close of business, to sleep either in the metropolis or elsewhere. In other words, for every two persons remaining in the City at night, three persons employed in the City leave it at the close of the day. Now it may be safely affirmed that the 60 per cent. of the popula tion who leave the City to pass the night elsewhere are composed almost exclusively of the mercantile and commercial classes, employers and employed. This, indeed, can be shown from other information obtained, but not dealt with in this report." It is pointed out, that for the purpose of appor tioning representation, nothing could be more unfair to :any district than to employ an enumera tion which eliminates the flower if its population. Yet this is what has been dime, and is still jus- . tified by some, in regard to the City of London. llad the population thus ignored consisted of degraded, uninformed, and pauperised persons, incapable or undeserving of self-government, little surprise would have been occasioned by withhold- t ing front them. recognition and representation ; but when it is found that the classes thus ignored comprise some of the most influential, wealthy, and enterprising of our fellow -countrymen, bankers, merchant-princes, brokers, and wholesale traders, that they carry on business which has no parallel in the world, contributing in the aggregate a larger share of the public revenues than any, and even than all similar classes, in other parts if the empire, it becomes impossible to understuid upon what ' grounds their exclusion can be justified in re ference 'I to the local representation of the metro polis. I ' We have next to notice the number of persons resorting to the City daily for business or other pur poses. A return relating to this subject was prepared by Mr. D. W. Harvey, the late Commissioner of the City Police in 1860, but as that was based, to a considerable extent, upon mere estimate, it was', thought desirable to ascertain the result by actual I i enumeration, carefully conducted by persons trained to this peculiar work. Mr. Ledger was accordingly instructed to form a staff of qualified I Agents sufficiently numerous to divide the various i avenues which enter the City boundary into six , portions. In this way the whole City was com passed in six working days, and an average of its , daily frequenters ascertained. 'Fite enumeration I took place on the six days 14th to 21st March last, . omitting Tuesday, the 20th March, which would have exceptionally affected the traffic, having been observed as a fast day on account of the cattle plague. The City traffic commences very early in the morning, connected with the trade in the various markets for fish, meat, poultry, and vegetables ; indeed, a large portion of the business of the City is transacted and finished before the mercantile classes arrive at their counting-houses : these latter classes arrive in the City according to their several grades during the hours between 8 a.m. and 12 at noon daily. The traffic was obtained fir every conse cutive hour between 3 a.m and 9 p.m. ; and these returns, which are voluminous, remain at the dis posal of the committee ; but we find them here conveniently summarized in two tables. The first gives the number of persons entering the City between 5 a.m. and 6 p.m., an ordinary day of twelve business hours. This table,however, does not fairly represent a day's business in the City, excluding as it does the market business of the morning, and a considerable amount of commercial traffic which throngs the streets after 6 p.m. The second sum mary gives the number of persons resorting to the City in a day of sixteen business hours, between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. The following are the results ascertained : Persona Total in a day of 12 hours 549,613 Ditto in aday of 15 hours 679,744 The reporters are unable to institute any exact corn periaons between the above results end those obtained by Mr. Harvey in 1860, as he divided the hours of the day Into four periods of four hours each, and a night of wield hours, none of these periods being synchronous with those we have selected es the most useful. The total moults, however, of the two enumeretions are safe Thereeoltsds &yet twelve bows, from 6 ►m. to 6 p.m., in March, 1866, give ............. The results of s day of twelve limn, from 7 a.m. to seven p.m., in May, 1860, give (191,494 + 175,535 + 157,607) .................. . .... Showing • daily increase in 1866 of The results of • day of sixteen hours, from five a.m. to nine p.m., in March, 1866, give......... The results of • day of sixteen hours, from seven a.m. to eleven p.m., in bf a y ,lB6o, give (527,630 + 129,743) ........................... Showing a daily increase in 1866 of 549,613 527,636 21,977 679,744 657,379 2,365 The results of a day of sizteen hours, in March, 1n66, as above ......................... 679,744 Add night of eight hours, eleven p.m. to seven , a.m., as per Mr. Harvey's return 49,242 Total approximate result for a day of twenty four hours, 1866 728,986 The results of • day of twenty-four hours in May, 1860, give Showing a daily increase in 1866 of We have, therefore, frequenters resorting to the City daily in the year 1866 : In twelve hours ................... M 9,613 ........ In sixteen hours ................................ 679,744 I n twenty-fonr hours ................................. 728,986 The Sub-Committee are satisfied that alarger daily increase has taken place between 1860 and 180 0 than is indicated by t he above figures ;. and attri bute the discrepancy rather to over-estimation on the part of Mr. Har ve y in 1860, than to inaccuracy in the returns which we have now obtained by actual enumeration. They entertain no doubt that the traffic resorting to the City is continually on the increase ; and indeed the traffic returns of Mr. Heywood, engineer to the Commissioners of Sewers, make this point sufficiently obvious. It will be seen, by comparing the above figures, that nearly the whole of the increase between 1860 and 1866 (21,977 out of 22,365 persons) is found to be within the twelve busiest hours of the day. The results obtained are thus summarised : 1. The population sleeping in the City is, as we have shown 2. The population , according to the census taken 113,387 in the day time, is 3. The number of persons resorting to the City daily during the sixteen business hours is. . G 70,744 From these figures we gather the following conclusions : The first class, being the sleeping population, consists to a great extent of the care-takers of City premises and their families, and of tradesmen and others, too inconsiderable to posses' a suburban or other residence. This class may be generally considered as non-mercantile, the commercial element having been eliminated, as before explained, pre viously to the night census being taken. Deducting this class from the second, which consists of day residents, we obtain 170,133 persons, representing approximately the banking, mercantile, and trading classes actually engaged in business in the City. Deducting this number of persons, who resort to their offices daily, from the third class (which includes them), we obtain 509,611 persons who re present chiefly the customers and clients of class two. We have, therefore, a fresh series of results for the purposes of comparison : 1. The sleeping population, consisting of care takers and the humbler population chiefly 113,367 2. The mercantile and commercial population engaged in the City daily (not included in 170,133 the above) 3. The total day population residing in the City 28:3,520 4. The number of persons resorting to the City daily in sixteen hours (not included in tho above), being c ustomers, clients, and other frequenters 5. The total number of persons resorting to the City daily in a day of sixteen hours G. The total number of persons resorting to the City daily in a day of twenty-four hours The third portion of the Report relates to the street traffic of the City, but as it is mainly founded on that of Mr. Heywood, the engineer to the Com missioners of Sewers for the City, it need not detain us. The Sub-Committee consider it is undesirable that work of this kind should be in future under taken apart from the official enumeration autho rised by the legislature. They are satisfied that they may depend upon the utmost fairness in the Registrar-General's officials in this respect, and quote Dr. Fares evidence before the select coin mittee of the House of Commons on metropolitan local government and taxation, during the present year, to the effect that it is quite fair, in consider ing the relative importance of the City of London, to take the fact that persons having offices in the City sleep oft of the City into account ; and that in fact the City is of much greater importance than it appears if merely the figures given in the census are considered. They therefore recommend an ap plication to the Registrar-General, suggesting that a supplemental return should be obtained in 1871, and at each succeeding census, of the population engaged, occupied, and employed in the City during the day. 509,611 697,744 SHOCKINO TREATMENT OF A LENATIC.—One 01 the most shocking cases of restraint and confinen.ent of ken a lunatic in a private house, through ignorant and mist of kindness, hes just been brought to the notice of the autho rities by Dr. Arthur Mitchell, deputy-inspector of lunacy for Scotland. About fourteen years ego a young woman, named Janet Campbell, a native of the village of Reay, Caitlinessshire, and then about twenty years of age, was a domestic servant in Edinburgh. Cholera was raging there at the time ; and, whether from predisposing causes or the excitement occasioned by an overwhelming dread of the terrible disease, the poor girl became seriously injured in health and a prey to morbid melancholy. At last she disappeared from her place, and somehow made her way home alone to Caithness. On her return to her friends it was evident that her intellect was deranged, and she soon became so violent that it was found necessary to confine her in a strait jacket. During her fits of violence she would break the windows and the furniture, and the strait jacket she bad torn to rags, so that it afforded no adequate means of restraint. She scarcely slept, and was incessantly in a state of nervous activity, keeping the household in perpetual fear and alarm. Her clothes were torn to pieces, and at last, after she hail been about two years in this condition, she was shut up in a small room destitute of furniture, miserably lighted and worse ventilated, and in that room she has now been imprisoned for about adozen years. Her mother and sister, with whom she lives, are poor people, occupying a small plot of ground, and keeping one cow, and have barely themeans of eking out a scanty subsistence for themselves and her. From ignorance, and a feeling of mistaken kindness, they have hitherto resisted all attempts at in terference in behalf of the poor creature whom they have thus immured ; and, several years ago, when the parochial authorities offered to place her in an asylum fur proper care and treatment, they positively refused to co. sent. So great is their reluctance to entertain the idea of her removal, that they have not only kept her entirely out of sight, but the very existence of the wretched prisoner has almost faded out of mind, and many of their neighbours in the village were entirely ignorant of the fact of her being confined there at all. When visited recently she was found crouching naked on the bottom of a box-bed in the room in which she has spent her miserable captivity of a dozen years, seven or eight of these almost absolute 1 nudity. About eight years ago th in e windows of the 1 1 room in which she is confined were built up with i stone and lime, and since that time the only light that the wretched creature has seen has been admitted by a small sliding panel in the roof, only occasionally opened, as it can be reached with difficulty. The room contained no furniture except the old box-bed, on which she squatted more like a caged wild beast than a human creature. Her guardians admit that she has been stark naked for about eight years. Her hair is felted on the scalp, and has not been combed for many years. It is impossible to describe the appearance it presents. When the tattered and filthy blanket that was on the bed was removed the mass of rot tenness beneath can only be described as a dung heap. On this she crouched night and day, except when she crept to the fire for a little warmth. Crawling is the only term to describe her manner of locomotion, as from long confinement and disuse the muscles of the legs have be come incapable of exercise, and the legs are bent together and permanently stiffened.—John o'Groat Journal. THE Cern' PLAGUE. —With reference to the reported outbreak of the cattle plague at Finborough, near St ow market, it may be stated that on Thursday Professor Simonds came down, and, after examining the live bul locks on the farm in question, he had the dead one disin terred and made a post mortem examination. The mouth and gums were found to be inflamed, while the lungs were dark, and the membranes of the abdominal walls accord- much inflamed and charged with matter ; the Professor ingly came to the conclusion that the animal died from peritonitis and not f r om rinderpsst. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. un THE Or THE WARDEE AT CHATHAM. James Fletcher, 20 , was charged with the wilful murder of James Boyle. Mr. Poland and the Hon. hlr. Stanhope conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury. The prisoner had no counsel, but at the request of the learned judge Mr. Barrow watched the case on his behalf. The prisoner was a convict in the convict prison at Chatharn,under a sentence of se ven years' penal senitude at the time the murder was committed, and the deceased was an assistant warder in the establishment. It appeared that Boyle had reported the prisoner for snaking use of bad language, and another convict and he were ordered to be kept on bread and wat er in solitary confinement for two days for this misconduct. The prisoner's punishment expired on the sth of September, and on the afternoon of that day he was set to work with a number of other convicts at breaking stones, the deceased, and a civil guard named Irvine, having charge of the !thug. The work went on quietly for three hours, and the prisoner then, without saying a word, rushed from ows his is eat at face wit the de ceased and struck him three heavy bln the h the hammer he bad been using to break the stones, and literally smashed the unfortunate man's nose and all the hones of his face, a hole being made completely into the brain. The prisoner was seized by Irvine, who sligltly wounded him with his bayonet, and he then dropped the hammer and gave himself up quietly. He was subse quently handed over to Mr. Evercot, the superintendent of the county constabulary at Chatham, and when he was taken to the police station he inquired when he should be tried, and be was informed that he would be tried at Maidstone in the middle of September. The prisoner then said that be supposed they would make a finish of him, and he at the same time said that he should not have done it if the deceased had not reported him without re porting the other man with whom be had had the dispute, and he also said that he had lost flesh, and he was nearly starved, and be knew he should never live " to do his seven years." When the prisoner was under examination before the magistrate he said, " The reason I did it was the officers were always taking advantage of me and the other men, and reporting us, and getting us punished without the slightest cause. The chief warder, one day when I was in the cell, threatened to send my head against the wall and make my brains fly out. Several men have died of starvation, and we used to eat soap, candles, and potato peelings, and we used to drink the oil out of the cans. I thought when I came out I would do this, and so get shut of my life. I have nothing more to say." It is only right to state that there did not appear to be the slightest foundation for the statements made by the prisoner with regard to the treatment of the convicts, and there was no doubt that the act was com mitted out of revenge for the unfortunate deceased having the prisoner and caused him to be punished. reg ti The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty. Baron Channell addressed the prisoner briefly, remark iag upon the very aggravated nature of his offence, and be passed the sentence of death, telling the prisoner that he mast abandon all hope in this world. In this case it appeared that while the police were 1 searching the lodgings of the prisoner Swift in Walworth 1 they found seven opera-glasses, two of them bearing the name of Mr. Foskett, who is an attendant at the o the theatre, and lets out opera-glasses for the ev ening . These glasses had been missed for upwards of two Tears, but Mr. Foskett positively identified them as belonging to him, be having lost th em and several others during that time. lie had never disposed of them to Swift, nor had he any right to be in possession of them. The jury found the prisoner Guatg, but recommende cter, d him to mercy on acc ount of his previous good chara to which several gentlemen had testified. The Assistant -judge ri sentenced Swift to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. tOPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The weekly meeting of the board was held yes terday, at their offices in Spring-gardens ; Sir J. TAITES in the chair. On the recommendation of the finance committee it was agreed that the parishes, districts, and parts mentioned contribute as follows for the expenses of the board for the ensuing year : City of London .. 26.3.80 6 6 St. Luke, Middle Marylehone .... 14.746 110 sex 2,550 12 11 St. Pancras .... 12.754 18 9 St. George,Sontla . , Lambeth ...... 11,528 17 6 work St. Oeorge, Haut- Bermondsey ... • over-square .. 14,970 0 9 St. George-in-the ] slington 10,382 11 7 East Shoreditch Paddington Bethnal-green .. 2,75.1 13 1 Mile-end Old- Newington Camberwell .... 4,656 1 1 Wasalwich .. •• • St. James, West minster St. James, Clerk- Whitechapel 4,163 13 3 Ins enwell 3,32012 2 trlc t Chelsea Hackney District 0 . 364 9 o Orecnwich, do.. 5 , 20 n 1 6 St. Oiles ..... Balboni Strand Fulham Limehouse Poplar 4,636 15 8 Willesden St. Saviour's .... 3,209 8 2 Acton Plumstead 2,800 0 0 Ealing Lewisham St. Olive 2.083 12 0 Chiswick The Charterhouse 2 6 Is 0 Cro y don Gray's inn Colegjate Church---- !St l'eter, .... 9 6 Total £222,122 S 2 Kensington .... 6,868 411 SUPPLY or GAR TO THE METROPOLIS. The board then proceeded to further consider the report from the committee of the whole board on the supply of gas to the metropoli... It stated that in the event of the government deciding t o introduce a bill into parlia ment for the purpose of establishing a more efficient con trol of the existing gas companies of the metropolis, and of vesting such control in the board, the committee are of opinion that the conditions of such control should be as follows, viz.: That the maximum price of gas be fixed at Is rd. per 1,000 cubic feet. That the illuminating power be Is to Is sperm candles. That the gas supplied be of such purity that it wil f l lint discolour turmeric paper, or paper imbued with acetate o lead when such paper is expweal to a current of gas issuing for one minute front an orifice a quarter of all inch in diameter, at a pressure of not less than half an inch of water. That the gas supplied do not contain more than 16 grains of sulphur in any form in 100 Mille feet of gas, anal that the mode of testing anal controlling the illuminating power. pressure, purity, and distri bution of gas, be fixed mainly in accordance with the recom inenalations .1 the special committee of the House of Commons us the Loudon l'ity Corporation Gas. .Cc , Bill, 1866, with this addition. viz. •—That a public auditor be appointed by the board to examine the aecomits of all the companies indepeie dently of their own auditors. That in the event of the govccii• ment deciding to introduce a bill into parliament for veralng the board authority to purchase the properties of the se gas companies of the metropolis, the committee rare of o in n ary ion that the amount to be paid f or such purpose shonot case exceed a fixed charge of 6 per cent on the present paid up ordinary capital of the companies, the holders of which are now entitled to, and in receipt of a dividend of 10 per cent., and that the board do also have such powers as may be necessary for redemption. After considerable discussion the motion for the adop tion of the report was carried. ENCROACHMENTS ON HAMPSTEAD-HEATH. In answer to Mr. Doulton, the CHAIRMAN said an injunction had been applied for to the Master of the Itolla to restrain certain parties from building on the heath, and he thought that it would not be well for the board to take the question into consideration pending that inquiry. Mr. Stuis TAYLOR then moved that the chairman be requested to seek an interview with Sir Thomas M. Wilson and aszertain whether he is prepared to negotiate fur a sale of his interest in ffampatead.heath and adjoin ing lands to the public use, and if so, upon what terms, and that the result of such interview be communicated to the Works and General Purposes Committee for their con sideration and report to the board. The motion waseventually ad to th some slight alterations, and board adjourned till 4th January. 2,727 12 6 2,827 4 4 2,902 4 4 3,632 5 2 2,877 2 2 1,059 7 6 1,509 8 5 1,980 12 5 --- DEATH OF THE. JUDGE OF THE DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COURTS.—The death is announced of Mr. Win. Elmsley, Judge of the County Courts of Derbyshire, which took place on Thursday evening. The deceased was seized with paralysis on Wednesday week, but from the first it was found to be a hopeless case, and he died as above stated. He was sixty-eight years of Pge. The appointment is in the hands of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Huish, barrister, Midland circuit, is acting as judge pro • 7 ' tem. THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. —At a meet ing of the council of this association held on the 22nd ult., it was resolved that the proposed February breech loading competition should be abandoned, inasmuch as the Secretary of State for War has issued a notice of a similar competition in March, which will answer precisely the une end, viz., the obtaining of an improved military riße. It was also resolved that the War Secretary should be requested to issue 2,000 converted Enfield breech-loading rides to the competitors in the let stage Queen's ; and that he be further requested to issue 60 Whitworth small-bore rifles on loan for the use of the competitors in the and stage Queen's. Lord Eacho accordingly wrote to General Peel embodying these resolutions, and a reply has been received from the Earl of Longford, Under Secretary. The noble earl states that General Peel will have great pleasure in giving directions for the 60 Whitworth rifles to be furnished to the association, but as at the time of the meeting of the association converted Enfield rifles will ; not be available beyond the requirements of the regular army, bee xpresses his regret that he cannot comply with the requisition for arms of the latter deeoriptios. Vans OP swamis aro Mown Portion -Las 20 sa OBTAINED AT THE 017101 07 THII CHIEF ssavorzia, own or Rossavivor, sornomuLirioriumv.l IiAf4KRUPTIL Joffie PRIEST, Newberry, Beziubire, publican, to surrender, Jan. 1, at 18. FEED ZEICK THOMAS laritlTol, Southborough, mar Tunbridge Wells. tutor, Jan. 3, at Jsmitstionthaea,wholesam stay inwanf 11 aettirer,Jan.,4l2. WILLIAM THOMAS HOLLOWAY, Beddlngton, Surrey, Journeyman mattress maker, Jan. 3, at 11. ISAAC TURNER, King-street, liaMMemunith, shopman to an oR and colourman, Jan. 14 Ml 2. DANIEL BeLL, Poplar, stationer, Jan. 3, at 11. CHARLES WILLIAM BOOSNY, Albert-road, liammaransith, litho grapher, Jan. 3, at 11. W I LLIAM HOLLAND GOLDSWID,DeaI,Iate stoekbroker,Jan. t at 11. RTHUR LOUGH, Hackney-road, hans dealer, Jon. 3, Mal JANISPALMER, Stratford, Milkier, Jan. 8, at 2. ' ROBIRT STUART , Brunswickutzeet, Southwark, commission , agent, Jan. 8, at 2 . ' 1 JOSEPH STRIDE, Deptford, chandler's shopkeeper, Jan. 12, sill.. SLID BRovrauttoribom, brewer's draymmi, Jan. 1?, at 12. SAMUEL ENGLEVIELD. Reigate, newspaper reporter, Jan.l2.st 12. I MARE BRYANT, SUtton.atreet, Commercialpoad .East, assiatant to a door cloth warehouseman. Jan. 14, at 2. WILLIAM JAMES MIILUNG, PorUand-street, Commercial-load, and Itheodswell-road, Stepney, marine engineenolan. 14, at 12. HENRI CROSS DAVY, %retain-lane, and Ewen, Slimy, gunpow der manufacturer, Jan. 14, at 1. WILLIAM HaNIIT PATTEN SAUNDIDIS, Dantley-road, Kensing ton, late captain in 2nd Dragoons, Jan. 14 at 2. HENRY KIDD, Milton-street, City, tailor. Jan. 14, at 2. PHILIP SMITH, Upper liedford-place, author, Jan.l4, at T. 060802 K areEtEtt SR, Maids-hil omnibus proprietor,Jan.l6,at 11. EDWIN YATIta, Goldsmßles-row, ILackney•road, picture-frame maker, Jan. 16, at 11. ADAM YOUNG, Woolwich, naval engineer, Jan. 16, at 1 2 . A B RAHAM LIME, New Broad-street•ceurt, City, timber merch ant, Jan. 1. at 12. PHILIP HARE, Richmond - vi llas, builder's clerk, Jan. 16, at lE. PHILIP BUTLER,Lamington Priors , butcher, Ja n. 14, at 12. WILLIAM STEVENSON, ju e n., Wednesbury, builder, Dec. 31, at 12. GEORGE 11000HTON, Handaworth, Staffordshire, scrap dealer, Jan. 4, at 11. JOHN W. LUCAS, Birmingham, MOM, Jan. 11, at It C HA RLS9 HINDLET B xerm , Spalding, Lincolnshire, licensed victualler, Jan. 1, at 11. JOHN TAYLOR, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, Jan. 15, at 11. WILLIAM SAUNnEas PAREITT, Devizes, engine[, Jan. 2, at 11. THOMAS JAMES ORZOORY, NewpOrt, innkeeper, Jan. 2, at 11. JOHN BARNARD, Device', chemist, Jan.!, at 11. WILLIAM 04i8LING, Ugborough, Devonshire, farmer, Jan. 3, sill. HENRY TAYLOR, Almondbury, near Huddersfield, cab proprietor, Jan. 3, at 11. ABRAHAM GoLnaToN, Hull, tailor, Jan. 9, at 12 . GEORGE BUTCHER, Blackpool, La ncashire. builder, Jan. 7, at 11. WILLIAM BOAG, Salford, grocer, Jan. 14, at 11. .TOSEPH REVEL, Dukinfteltl, Cheshire, plasterer, Jan. t 14, at 12. JAME" rrisworrm, Tyldwiley, Lancashire, Jan. 7, a 11. GEoRGE LEIGHTON, Manchester, telegraph company's clerk, Jan. 18, at 11. JUICE HARWOOD, SARAH 'HARWOOD, and EDWARD lIARWoOD, Newcantle.upon-Tyne, milliners, Jan. 11, at 12. sSAntinsdnesrlasan.dL, ,teitole:2}3.dphi,c,enf.:lnineerer, J j an . ..13 1 .. at IL JOHN LT NN.Neweastle-upon-Tyrte.licensed vietualler.Jan.ll.atlY. 11 srriotw ?Arrest-YR, Stanwix, Cumberland, commisaion agent, Jan. 2. at 11. I 00:0:R0ota WTIARINs' I JOSEPH AMBROSE JONES, Newark-upon-Trent, foreman of Um Newark-upon Trent Plaster Company, Jan. 2, at 10. RosEr.v loam Llantyllin, Montgomery, iniikeeper.Jan.lo,at 11 11ENRY WYATT CATER, Batheaston, Somersetshire, farmer, Dec. 31, at 11. lettivin Conic. sen., South Retford, Notts. hosier, Jan. 1, at It R JOSEPH TODD. Calcot, Berkfiltire, servant. Jan. 12, at 10. JAMES THOSI AR, St. Teath, Cornwall, labourer, Dec. 2.4, at 3. NOAH BIDDLE, Worcester, licensed victualler, Jan. 2, at 11. THOMAS RoßsoN, Whitehaven, retired officer of inland revenue Jan. 4, at 10. JAMES WnEstita, Haylands, Isle off. ight, grocer, Jan. 2, at " Titomsa PALMER, sen., Coventry, whmaker, Jan. 8, at 3. JAMES YATES, Hanley, Stafforoshire, butcher, Jan. 19. at 11. THoMAS StAiToCK, Manchester. Umber dealer, Jan. 4. at 9i. WILLIAM RATTRAP. Liverpool, bottled porter dealer, Jan 4, at JOHN GRIFFITHS. Everton, Lancashire, surveyor, Jan. 2, at 3. iloaswr JOHN YANDEREISTE, Everton, Becretary, at 3. THoStAs If EwisoB, Sunderland. glassmaker, Jan. 8, at 12. THOMAS PARRAMORE, Birmingham, ropemaker, Jan. 4, at 10. THOMAS BROOKS, Biriningham, fishmonger, Jan. 4, at 10. AMELIA Itßooas. Birmingham, fishmonger, Jan. 4, at 10. CHARLES II ILSistN, Temple Cowley, Oyon, sawyer, Dec. 31, at GEoRGE SAME. Bestwood Pa, Notts, farnter, Jan. 2, at 11. CH AR L ES BROWN, Ilorneastie gardener..lim 1, at 11. JOHN STRAW PEART, Bpilsby, Lincolnshire, late banker's di Jan. 1. at 11. JAMEY Lock, Swansea. bootmaker, Jan. 2, at 2. RoBERT JOHN lIENLY , Birmingham, commercial traveller, 14. at 12. T HO MAS WooDBALL, Halifax , journeyman plumber, Jan. at 10. MARCUS SPIERS, Southampton. general outfitter. Jan. 16, at RICHARD WILKINSON. Kingston iipun-lf ull, chemist, Jan. 3, r JonN HoLE, Plymouth. smith, Jan. 9, at 11. ALFRED UNDERwoop. Northampton, grindery dealer, Jan.s4 WILLIAM Bat nozwATEit, Northampton, machinist, Jan. 5, , Jolts (DICES. Northampton, working currier,an. 5. at 10. BENJ A atm TAYLOR BAKE R. Crich,l/erbysli , saddler, Dee. 29, ItolLsoN LAMBERT, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, late brass refiner, 5. at 10. JOEL GInDoN, Bolwaa. Monmouthshire, mason. Jan. 5, at 1 JOHN NI ALeAss. Burstein. Statfonlahire. beerseller, Dee. 29, GEORGE CHINERY. Sudbury, Suffolk. borne dealer, Jan. 7. dealer at , CHARLES A LE XANDER WILLIAMS, Gwinear, Cornwall, agricultural seeds. Dec. 29, at 11. JAMES 11TRoN BIDWELL. Royston, Herts. tailor, Jae. 2, at JOAN WILLIAM CAMP, Barkway. Herts. miller, Jan. 2, at 1, SAMUEL DREW, Kingswieford, Staffordshire, master burner, Jan. 4, at 10. GRACE. S'TAM'EN. Brighton, laundress, Jan. 5. at 11. El/WARIi IntooKtts BAKER, Brighton, tailor, Jas. 5, at 11. WILLIAM FRANCIS Br RN ARP, Theme, 11X011, butcher. Jan.. TIIIIMAS TOWERS, Enipton, Leiceatersh.. carpenter, Jan. 5, THOMAS JEREMIAH. Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Jan. 1, at TtioMAs BouLD, Abbots Broniley,Staffordali..butcher ,Jamf BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Dec. la WILLIAM PENNY, Lincohisinn4lelds, printer. Dee. 20 JOHN STILL, Mamaretditreet, Cavendishaquare, liampatead.road. Upper Holloway, licensed victualler. DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND. MICHAEL PARKER, Shop, Westmoreland. coal merchm. dividend Of 15. 54., Dec. 29, and any subsequent Saturda; Laidmids, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. Dec. t Samemetshire, surgeon -29. J. Maw, Derby, wo rd habasher—Feb. 1. W. T. Ward, Coy silk dyer—Feb. 1. W. T. Matthews, Dudley, beerseller—J l SI. Penistan and J. Dantiney. Lincoln, grocers—Jan. 23. gison, Foggatliorpe, Yorkshire, wheelwright—lan 23. Pratt. Lincoln, jeweller—Jan. 23. T. Fell, Iluggate, iii Wilier •J an. 23 M. lanc.ister, Great Grimsby, Lines licensed victualler—Jan. 23. M. Wilson. Feiesthorpe, 1 shire, farmer —.pan. 21. II Milburn, Springthorpe. Lin Col wool dealer—Jaw 7. W. Rowland and W. Cnuikahaw. 5' ter. crinoline manufacturers —Jan. 16. T. P. Lewis. Sun. builder—Jan. 10. W. Avery, I). Avery. Avery, W, I combe, Buckinghamshire, chair manufacturers —Jan. 3. I ford, AslitowunderLyile, bookseller—Jan. 2. I. J. I New Brampton, Kent. bugle major in the ana l J IScott, New Brompton. Kent. paymaster In the roy MD I PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED. J. Jones and T. D. Pierce, Liverpool, corn dealers—E. nington and 11. F. Hall t flaaingball-street, flannel fac, Brookes and T. Swift, Aston, Warwickahire. maltsters--1 son and NV. Tristram. Manchester, merchants --J. Picky Bolt, Nelson, near Burnley. plumbers—T. Wadley. Walker, Ilalifax. lieu drapers—Thirm Summers and S. Nottinehain, pawnbrokers—J. Swan awl J. N. Grovels pool—F. W. Illackinore and NV. A. Kyillii, Boston-BO ton, linen drapers—A. Mills and J. Mill., Liverpool victuallers—J. K Itching and B Nitehing. Leeds, stock .1. Sutton and G. Sutton, Idmiston. Wiltshire. mill Richards and P. If. Rieleinis, Wolverhampton. general W. R. Rutherford and C. It. Richards, Phienill.gard, street, job masters — J. M itchell and SI. Barker, ' Joiners—J. Osborn and C. I. C. Ward, Yenchnrchat. merchants—l. Stable. and IV Plant, London, Staff. china manufacturers —W. B. Wright and Spain, Li master stevedores—T. Hobsof. and E. llobfam, LonlrD fordshire. earthenware manufacturera—Nlary Benaley Man* Elizabeth Johnston, George street. Portman-sqi nem- .1. Hanka. A. Senitton. and P. Campbell, PI/Mitt Umber menhanta—R. Woodward and I'. Young, Ma agents—W. 'AM. J. It. Payn, J. Jennena. and A. N. I Birmingham. cut nail manufacturers so far as regar Cresswell-1 4 Atkinson and W. Kerr, Bishopweannout —1 Waal. G. Hallam, and W. Burton, longton, Stant cDolih:.:}}:aNTiA,K;l:nitillixttain.Hßocu:Ailf:Rila:klirplißt,:l:K:lr;;BC:tilse;;,l7.NYr:jogis.;llllasfpf aSrEA4 , n w BU , ZSTRAr i "' o a n nimliCi6Nlilian. merchant, Dec. . ww w ow . , , ow ste m am er ito cha at nt o . wn ix e .c r,. 28 De . a c t . CDlA)...i:ailnii.:E:lßaBNßgoAoup:xx..,..llGalwiasegitn,wgr, grocer, commission at erc ti h i a e n T: tinburgh, tobacconist, Ilawick. W t i lze u l. , 4,: i tul s t u y T Hall. L G A s la. D s . goz Roin'"Elt.eTlissCß'itiewunilTio'NEd, Glasgow . , tea merchant, Dec. MITER. Glasgow, warehor Faculty Hall. Gi n as t • . ,7v e . FRTI/ERICE AI:01 26, at the Faculty Hall, ()Lwow. Tss Pis . ..- . the fi rst examinatson scheme, has j tiemeelves for _ these 362 pi ssed failed. been for I of a little grammar, %. the increase more than as The examinat career, and ' dealt with f attired of bat 215 tional esaminatioa. THE STRIKE IN THE IRON TRADE.-. generally in the north of England have arced( masters terms and returned to work, except at ton, where two large works, employing 1,600 or Liu, are still sten ing. At the chief of these the only Callae dispute remaining is the refusal on the part of the r ten, Messrs. Itamingham, to receive back four wor' whom they regard as the ringleaders of the strike, any of whom was a delegate to the conference at Glasg, How long this will remain a cause of separation there u possibility of determining. The men, on the one ha assert that they will not consent to sacrifice their lead( the masters, on the other, seem very firm in their ref; to moderate their demand. The state of the iron trail( the district is very bad, and a general impression pre , that ere long another considerable reduction in the will be necescary to enable the masters to compel the cheap l'elgian iron which is brought into the E market, and which is introduced into and manufactut the district where the strike has so long prevailed, obtained at a considerably lower rate than the iror close at hand. ACCIDENT AT A MENAGERIE.-A traveling gene was located on the south quay, Ayr, for two c days, at the close of last week and beginning of this On Monday bight two or three boys bad crept in at terstice between the caravans, and one of them began tempt a leopard with a bone. The animal, getting yoked, thrust out its paw, and caught one of its for tor'' , companions—a boy named John brAdam, years of Age—by the face, tearing a portion of his n cheek, but fortunately inflicting no other serious Dr. Bums was soon in attendance, and sewed the % which are not of a dangerous nature.—Ayr Adrerif Du BARRY'S DELICIOUS REVALENTA loon cures dyspepsia, indigeaUon, cough, serum', consumption, debility, constipation, dlanhcea, palpitation, nervous,Moir liver, and stomach complainta Cure No. e 5,412.—" Rome, : El, 1866.—The health of the Only Father is exosilent, miser gild', abandoning all other remedies, he has confined to entirely to Du Barry's Food, and his Holiness moot this excellent food too hlshly."—Oasette du lain. Du Be. Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Laudon, W. In this, at Wm, tra. Whs.. cos.—fAdvertissesent. ielluir.dt widrhsillemaididacaegl!":4e,3frri.dursiLinosienwo:angimailli '5 uch 1 / 0"'"• -- -- e elfilll • einibtrittp *nttltigenct. ..‘ .• ' . . _. .. . . - • ..-,_ CAMBRIDGE, Die, tg „ , . e' " 1 TEM PREVIOUS EXAMintATION. - The result 0 3..0 e Gut examination for the " Little go," under do i ., hems, has just ao. 503 candidates - iemeelvse for the part of the 01 * • • t om • Me 362 esood in the 01 aus, 56 in the wooed, . /410. 6, aged. T proportion of failures is smaller - the 4 be -- rot , f or s ome years past, notwithstanding the nether 11 .$ - f a little more Euclid; and a paper an Latin and Geri illlckwail- mom ", which ieepked _Nome terror. It would seem tg s to SAL he infirm,* of the dificult7 in the examinatios wilt more than met by the beer diligence it has celled. OD I, the 9 - !he examination also is now placed earlier in a istaQ' set ANT TO:stalN area, and at a time when 'Ojeda ean be nue led; not 215 candidates have nevertheless pseud this 04 tional eseminatioa. ••••-•-•--------.--. --- ELuallatil t° add wb . MARKETS. lIIPWCempIItY sae --ass-- . SUGAR.-BsmeoL, Dsc. 21.-There has bees tft ....... demand this week for all kinds of sugar, sad full pi e • ........... have been obtained. The market closes to-day fir t l, ' ........... Christmas holidays, and will be re-opened on the i t riffile: - Tirst -e January put. Per: further . - ---- :15 : • : . COTTON.-LiweePooL, Dec. 21.-The cotton soh oo.:. ff elosoethi i was firm on Friday, with a fair amount of business; si Saturday the demand became active, and has sine gas • WWI MO It very extensive, particularly from the trade. lioldenias offered their stoola freely ; still prices have Lassoed 0 to gel. per lb. in most descriptions. The Bank rate to riIIMILAD 4e fibbg th eir this day been reduced to A per cent. New York adves s oldOwitibi Uri to the 19th instant quote middling at 35 cents, .emillib PRO sell in Liverpool 15d. per lb. In Sea Island a fur bolu s CITY OF has been done, at previous rates. In American Res i s i s . have been large ; pnces of the common and mid/lo meg, )314A 1 1 ; . ties have advanced gd. to id • per lb. ; the better eollfes s Odds poop ' only id • per lb. Brazil has partaken of the mud i s,. 11 . 7m in 0 ,g 17 ' and , n provementin the demand, slid an advance of goody to Ig, ist fee s. lb. has been establd. Eppptnhas been in goodrs o m - m inium, but being pressed for sale has declined Id. to id. pa 1 . - . ii. ', 7 Smyrna has been in in demand, at an &dyable if : id. to id. per lb. The strong position of East Wags become very apparent this week, in consequence 0 is. O VER large and increasing demand, without any arrivals a es he IST • I. plewsh the reducing quantity in this pert ; Many Imes Imo Southern. TAL ST ' have withdrawn their stocks, but the general Unmet Weed recei Waned amounts to id. to ld. per lb., the lower guess Ades% Ceylon I- °' becoming exceedingly scarce even at the latter admi t , I IV Speculators have taken during the week 26,190 Islik 4r-oth 0, , , ( 1 ~..b„,, ,b D, exporters 2 2,660 bales, and the trade 62,390 bales. T, have had a fair demand to-day, the market remise' tor•lLlng Geo • etesmers leas ,*,, steady at previous rates. The sales are 10,000 Woof cla• steamer 1 K, which 2,000 are for export and speculation. The Week et Sae mou::t are the o ffi cial quotations :-Fair Orleans, l6id.; aide*, = l, r.. • to. 14 d. Fair Mobile, 15gd. ; middling, 14gd. Fair Uplink pton. he 15gd. ; middling, 14gd. it. COTTON GOODS.-MasceSereS, Dec. 2L-Aftee the 1311.8 M i wlck, tr, excitement of the last few days our market foe slupping line first-c , . yarns has relapsed into quietness ; prices , however, is. es • will be despa 10. ceedingly farm. Spinners during the last few &phi', e e l entered into some heavy engagements, and though boas has been quieter to-day there is not the slightest ern end Ca ; ret Universal Oft • ate, way. In home trade yarns also business hie been aside PAIL . 11'1'3 to-da, and the activity which has resulted for sees des AI- past from the rise of cotton and excitement at Limped' • WEAK not maintained. Spinners are not disposed to sinew a 57 direct. price, having eased stock' by recent sales, and in mg twin scree- d 3. cases obtained contracts for future production. In the deli . trade although sellers have not been able to obtain pus r,p le targr .: 3 - which would be warranted by the advance lathe Limped are despite cotton market, yet the activity there has imparted pas Mee. Xff 3 a• to 801rinplitis '' firmness, and this is not affected by the quieter conic THELLIPPIi market to-day. The attitude of manufacturers is mile. it io. termined, and where business has been done they gm, 1. obtained the full prices of last week. The beams doe over the last few days and to-day has been of fair moon E T :leak, il Warehouses will be closed from to-morrow noon till Wed. Deasy next, and the principal market next week take ME T Jan. Friday. in. 4. CORN.-CriEntsroaD, DEC. 21.-We had a 'ma pas ply of wheat to-day, and best rues Is. dearer, pandeoluie ME T 112. red, which is very scarce. Wheat, white, his. to fee, .at 11. extra, 695.; red, 60a to 625. ; extra, 6.34. &del, ice malting, about the same ; secondary lots sold for mac E ie. i ' at leas money. Beans very soft, and consequently sot ale at M. able, except at considerable reduction. Average: When Lat it 60s. 6d. ; harley, 475. 3d. ; oats, 245. 7d. M E 1 r, Jan. LiNCOLN, DEC. 21.-We have had only a limited soppy 1. of wheat offering to-day, and needy buyers bad to pay IL ,st 3. advance. Barley in fair demand at late rates. .at M E at 12. red, 525. to 60s. ; white, 60s. to 675. Barley, 34a. tosl. eater In Oats, 26e. to 345. per qr. WAKEFIELD, DEC. 21.-The market to-day is an M E C It. lit. quiet, but millers take wheat just for their immediate is c inder quirements at the extreme rates of List Friday, sad is M E some c a ses at rather more money. Common barleys alma unsaleable, best qualities maintain their value. Vey thni, Me, , little inquiry for beans and prices decline. Oats and Special 0 . " 11. other articles slow sale. 8, at 11. ----- it 12. COALS.-Losuffir, Ditc. 21.--lambat's West Bart*, 3/IE 12,at10. 17a. 3d. ; North Felton Gas, 14s. 3d. • South Tantield, lbs. ; Walls End Goeforth, 17s. 9d. ; Wails End Pittiagtat ire, and lis. ; Walls End Kelloe, 19s. *.id. ; Walls Ead Eat Hartle pool, 20s. 9d. ; Walls End Original Hartlepool, 215.; Web M E End South Hartlepool, 19s. 3d. ; Walls End Thonde. cant-Ist 18 . . cd.-Shipe at inarket, ss; sold, 48 . irday, at M E -.....''''----''''. TRAFFIC RETURNS. ME !on-Jan. -. uoventry, Mlles Pas- Yaw Tent tat . -Jan. 'Li. &AMWAY , . . J. liar- open. magma Usenet en ee 3. W. 11. Week ending Oct. tl. 6 A g 1 • rorkshire, Fa-at " dian 11291 12,2 W 5,0304 SAO lbill M Week ending Dec. 2. colitshire • Salmi.. and Ca.'s' EXT • 61 496 KM lar - T.incoln- Within. ci..lnshire, Week ending Dec. 9. meneg, London,Tilbury,Pto. uthend - 736 291 964 1, 21 ting.hill inderland, Week ending Dec. 18. West Wy- Caledonian 3. T. Stop- T H ww.._-- . Sommer. Jan. 2. 13. evy. THE TORNADO CAKE. -By advices from Cadiz se learn that the result of the preliminaty investigation iew E. w tor, , Pen- .J tfhrigyealacuteaseo neioofrrtowlntooearuriienntisAahnudgsbuwisposniTlaateomtd,aii,dii., .segaizoodseelyirglfrboeyrtabwitiaicopotoohbarr.er:eScertplaglatince.riistis 1-it. wet - ship is " good prize." This is equivalent to th _... * NOT! icup and J. of a true bill by a grand jury. It is believed in well: Mire at this kkogdo All ii contemplate the surrender of the ship tObythteheoyre7.2.... ‘Yhtsreds.nildilLij(3ll.lvoe?nrl.l. formed ofed COU(lrtuarkesy,rlininthSepahionpetitlhaattththeerSePanish g""""; ail, licensed the payment of amasser. Is: For Agents istaff:',..l'detiebLiTTiiie::'...d:xtrp.E.elffh:N.ir:::::lxl...... meeting,che3iEXPOßTATlON....id e yesterday, ll(.t consider . i theaße r i t (.1 thet. h i a s . 0, 1 i n ibt ea ir T , uo 7 i , T ia. l L to i won E m € r m a•. - from A , t i u et: t , ~ Bradford, Board of Trade in refer once to a new minute of castor. I dawn street, wine requiring additional specifications (to that of quantity awi OE si that oe the r dna an wholesale ii t o di t im e , g SW s flartrin. Staf- y Brook and - alitare, milli- sentattonvieonitifrr e Manchester, ee of I. Creswell. Elle Pia Reads A. N. CRYSTAL PALACF..--Tl: t e Pok7t i te a n'u : lbtrla __, oath, joiners afternoon includes Beethoven's Symphony in D , 7: atm . edriThsvittamkehaasaddiiuiorviignunweecianbeelinstimalnutaeinaashte, cab • I t sill' h itillu e °;''. : ed rese uu nt til b eal t Pattau.d.'3l . l°ll*-"."W"r9risndlinign.*"Yew letter Messrs. Damson 's great trane t to t r% the pantomime on Monday, will be lighted tie sad 1 1 k9 CC. ES, at the diip aye & t 4all ttne r F dshire acult i DA -- N ' c• 27 , at the CRYSTAL PALACE. - ONZ SHILLINffee. 55; FRIDAY, DEC. ''l .- Admissions on pare is y d too by season tickets, 1,185. TostaltAi°fnwctlretno:P:leeireP::"": -Darkt ri C Tower Hotel, [ Advertisement.l-HOLLOWSIN PILS.. ~,.. do cheerless indeed is the present season, when the m..o_, it, Dec. 28 , at aat are far above the average The cane: S probably differed tea!: the dense damp fogs which have laa.o so prevalent Clof Is le . I>a' Dec' 26 . at Pills purify the blood which has been contantinatelll feif . T and e l se tone to the nervous sm, whereby ,91 , ;b 3 n 0 re. 23, at the Class gastric, and bilious fevers are N a y ded off thdlo 1 !•___,,,0 also the best known promoters of dig, atom, the I wr„ - ,, iff.soo onseman, Dec. of the liver, and the most valued and effective Cl all lor{ / ist, when the health is impaired with tors of effec t i ve cit ti sl sleep, this medicine will he found a certain rest ci rarely fail to effect a complete cure. F rein -The men ..r .......".'''.....'", ceded to the DEL_TOi aid It at Darling - BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND or 1,700 men, . only cause of el of th e Glasgow. In v o " ; four workmen wife of S. Da Costa Andrade, of .i.-01 1 . 1 their leaders; Mrs. I v. (Igt Mike, and one CLARK.-Decemiser 19, at Sutton, surrey, AN.DRA7.-December 20. at Augusts-terrace. ad hs • of a daughter . ion there is uo L 1.911.1.1 .-December 19. at Ilarie - I • • ' the one hand, miLOMOS.-Decemiser 20.. at Carifinestreet. Te. the th e site ~it site ~I ti . r . B A . L . nAnts,,lcrißilt:;.,l4;:f il:liiili c l u i e . ::::: .._ „ I. 11 : 61 ..0id_. 00 45t , in . a their refusal VALLANCE.- December 19. at Duchene% illas, Piu_or„;io • . e iron trade in dens, Remington, the wife of .1. Valiance. 11E9 ~0 , ?!770 , . .. ati in the wages Viwntan ' k:Pq " of a so". riessetvhioieouiroedpn.robemadyingiyi VA NSITTA HT.- December 20, at Dover-dreet, U. , • compete with MARRIAGES. ~, ...„„. r, year to the English IiiNDE-CIIANCELLOR. • December Li at.,:y,:ernipo, s manufactured in ton. Surrey. by the Rev. Alfred Cay. '`, d ng velli of u th g is ine we n e a l e t ger 1 . I • iieorM" L 4..-- 11ASPLARstaatithmuireeuceiltlhiudin.‘dlaest,Selef-.:::.Pliirelliond.neißiLleßeo:Lif 1 JPSrit. fjiso.m.-trdieatlDe';ie,ceti.jimv.,llt:al;,r::l:,9t:f;.ull:l:.):'iyi:i:::::'tr:,h.:_e:j:.:)j_,ton..Hrji7'ua.aj_.. C.:: for two or th ree the late J. W. Phillips', L0u.,., late al 1r: 1 ,4`“ Jo ho, lest STEEDE-TIDDY.3IAN.-Deeember 19. a • ._ _ _,... t . Lir 1 apt in at an in- Emily, da hter of the late le. A. Inideruau, b". 4 them s began nose and ta a t h o e f . 1, getting pro- DEATHS. ._ wogs , of its tormen. ARKWRIGHT.-Decemher 17. at minim ScarsdWe darn, about nine the Rev. O. H. Arkwright, ignq 5.1..._, , 1 ,,,, k , Ina BO 1 BA.T.KMAN.-December 17, at Airsiiiir 3 aged , s. sag o .. pur se edA T :Let wounds,i • e r AR a jcA. daughter of late:Lit:el:dl,9J7.l.6Bliss. ir te at. nulatied.n.jactukrd.o:oo: varrio., INTA AILIBICA runn-r.-Lecember'l3, Manchester-square aged 40. MA. C0R1MM . 290.. beloved wife of R. Pigott, EIN. 0 Datrd" senervousr MMUS. STEDMAN.-Deoember lti, at l'aviateciteu nare. ..--" Remo, Js l l Oudiner, widow of E. Stedman, EN, egad 78 _........, .cellent, es= _ .___--- sii 1 coaled --- - neat cannot vans printed Mad Published by WILLtAII Rona rtior , .. 141. Do Barry said Lombard•street, In the City oe Log". a tins, at is. lid; Milos la Lowtbarel-street, in the Ihiewaeat. 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