The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

1:1IE PROPOSED AUSTRIAN LOAN. ;Fro.* the Times' City Article.) The particulars of the proposed Austrian Five •pr Cent. Loan of £6,000,000, were announced yester- Vby Messrs. Rothschild. The price is to be 80, fad the net amount will therefore be £4,800,000. The existing public debt of Austria is estimated t about £200,000,000, and her annual revenue at 'bout £28,0'00,000. The last loan raised in London Pas contracted on the 31st of May, 1852, and was :)r £2,250,000 in a Five per Cent. stock at 90. A `irther £1,250,000 was at that time subscribed at :'rankfort. The price of Consols was then ap- Ooaching 100, but the scrip during the first fort eight of its introduction remained languid at quo ations varying from Ito 1 premium. Before the , Apse of three weeks, however, it had touched 5 vremium. Subsequently it has been almost entirely bsorbed on the continent, and the little that now femains here is in the hands of permanent investors. In the Stock Exchange yesterday there was no ..ttempt to make any quotation for the new loan, :cid the general feeling seemed to be against the Zirobability of the subscription being accom plished. The members of that body have suffered oep much from having subscribed too hastily to the •various securities introduced during the Vast two or three years that they are at length =disposed to touch anything until they have aicertained the disposition of the public. In the interval before the closing of the lists on the 7th instant new light will most probably be thrown on the political situation by the opening of Parliament, and it is upon this contingency that the success or failure of the proposals may mainly de pend. By many persons the announcement of the loan at the present moment is interpreted as an additional symptom of the prospect of war, but it positively understood that it was to have been brought forward at the end of December, before the recent alarm, and was merely delayed by considera tions which had no connection with politics. At the same time, the object for which it is raised is stated to be to replace the £5,000,000 in course of disbursement by the Government to the National Bank, according to the agreement under which the resumption of specie payments was to be accom plished by that institution. The final moment for receiving applications is 11 o'clock a.m. on the 7th of February, just an hour previous to the time when the speech of the Emperor will be delivered to the Legislative Chambers at Paris. This has been pointed out as giving too great an advantage to the contractors, since they could retain any part of the loan or distribute the whole in proportion as the effect then produced might be favourable or the reverse. On the other hand, however, apart from the consideration that fair dealing is always shown in these matters, the public have the opportunity afforded them of waiting the announcements in our own Parliament, while it is also probable that something will be gleaned in anticipation of the Emperor's speech, either from common rumour or from the movements on the Bourse. (From the Daily News.) At a time when Russia, Austria, Sardinia, and other States are looking wistfully to our market for those pecuniary facilities without which military despotisms cannot be kept up, oppressed nationali ties cannot be kept down, and designs against the peace of Europe cannot be carried into execution, the heavy depreciation of the projects lately intro duced suggests reflections - which, if attended to, may circumscribe the area of loss in future. How happens it that the Brazilian, Chilian and Turkish Loans, as wbll as Bahia Railway shares, have fallen to a discount more or less considerable, and the shares of the Red Sea and India Telegraph Com pany, guaranteed 44 per cent. per annum by the British. Government, to par ? The Brazilian Loan was so eagerly sought after that the aggregate subscriptions represented eight or nine millions sterling, instead of the million and a half asked. Considered in relation to the prize long maintained by the Chilian 3 per Cents., a Chilian 44 per Cent. Loan at 92 is cheap. The Old Turkish 6 per Cent. Loan, secured upon the tribute of Egypt, commands about 91 per cent. ; ergo, the new Turkish 6 per Cent. Loan, likewise secured upon social revenues, ought to be very tempting at the issue price of 85 per cent., and absolutely " dirt cheap" at the present market price —viz.,. 79 per cent., more especially considering that a month hence 3 per cent. dividend will be due. As regards the fourth case cited—that of the Bahia Railway project—surely it is an anomaly that, whilst the Brazilian 41 per Cent. Loans command from 94 to 96 per cent. and the Brazilian 5 per Cents. 3 per cent. pm., a Brazilian guarantee of 7 per cent. stands at a discount. The circumstance that for a portion—viz., 2 per cent.— of the 7 per Cent. Guaranteed, the Bahia Railway Company look to the Provincial Government of Bahia, scarcely helps to explain the anomaly pointed out; for the provincial credit is locally esti mated as high as the Imperial. - Moreover, in the case of the Pernambuco Railway Company, which occupies the same position in many respects as the Bahia, the Imperial Minister of Finance has practi cally simplified the matter by paying the whole 7 per cent., taking upon himself the rectification of accounts with the provincial authorities ; and it is thence reasonably assumed that a similar plan will be adopted with respect to the Bahia Railway , Company. We have instanced a fifth case of de pression —that of the Red Sea and India Telegraph project—the shares in which were eagerly run after at the allotment, but the premium on which has gradually dwindled to zero. The British 3 per Cents. are held to be now worth nearly 96 per cent. ; the Turkish Guaranteed 4 per Cents.—the value of which is determined solely by the British guarantee of 4 per cent.—are maintained at 3 or 4 per cent. premium, after allowing for the dividend accrued : yet the Red Sea Telegraph, with a British 44 per cent. guarantee, is barely kept from sinking to a discount. Perhaps the uncertainty and risk attending telegraphic enterprises may be suggested, by way of explanation. But no ! Ac cording to the statements put forward by the Coin pany, their, position practically resolves itself thus : —The British Government guarantees to the com pany 44 per cent. upon a certain amount of capital : responsible contractors have bound themselves to the company to deliver the telegraphic line in complete working order for a sum within that capital, and to take upon themselves all the risks attending the first establishment of the enterprise. It is, therefore, scarcely an exaggeration to say that we have here a British 44 per cent. guarantee going a-begging at par. In each instance we have confined ourselves to a consideration of the Govern ment guarantee, leaving surplus profits from the railway or telegraph entirely out of the question. Now for the explanation, which is indeed‘so clear that he who runs may read. A large portion of the capital of each of these projects was allotted to speculators, instead of to bona fide and solid holders. We imply no reflection upon the gentle men who conducted the business connected with 'the several allotments. They had merely to distribute the capital as fairly as they could amongst the numerous applicants, each of whom, having lodged the stipulated deposit, had an equal claim to consideration. Rightly viewed, the class ofspeculative subscribers includes all th ose who wrote for a larger amount of stock than they intended to hold permanently. The man who asks to be allowed to take a certain share in a new undertak ing, and is prepared to embark permanently a proportionate amount of capital, is alone entitled to be considered. a bona fide investor. He who applies merely with, a view to netting a'premium, or who writes for a larger amount than he means to pay upon, trusting that the market will give him a better price than par for the surplus, is a speculator. Of the latter class, some of course are greater speculators than others, but the difference in merely in degree. The result has been something after this wise : the public at large, who did not care to participate in or were excluded from the allotment, have evinced little inclination to rush into the market as buyers at a premium, and the speculators have been chilled and disappointed by their. apathy. As a rule, the more frenzied the rush for an allotment, the weaker and more speculative the subscribers. Many were barely possessed of sufficient means or credit to meet the first instalment on their stock. an this case, the obligation of selling was immediate and imperative. Hence the sudden fall which usually follows—sometimes precedes—the issue of allotment " letters." Others hold on desperately !ior a few weeks, until the pressure of accruing calls and instalments forced the stock from their hands --a process involving regret that they had not sold before. And thus in most instances a steady supply of st ock was flung upon an already over supplied and therefore f drooping market. Even when the weak est 'been weeded out., the o the speculative allottees had _sales . continued, for account of persons who h a d investment, d en m t ore stock than they meant to hold for or of . the stronger who were prepa;edb, if necessary, to speculators, meet several successive " isut s Tere at length induced to realise out of sheer of at a _ s a o . unsatis factory each instffalirs. The and disappointing a state approach of the period for determined fresh sales. Even wh en immediate recovery them:• has , for the the capital shall have been paid up, an is not a necessary consequence absorption of the excessive supply of sto c k may require time. - What is the moral of all this ? Simply that the sober public need be in no haste to rush after any new stock, however tempting. Of late, in nine cases out of ten, the ultimate advantage remains, with those cautious persons who hold entirely aloof from the queue of speculative applicants, and are content to wait until the speculator disgorges. They have now the option of embarking quietly such amount of money as they may think proper, under much more settled conditions, and pt an important advantage, either in point of market price or of accrued interest. Let the wary investor eschew the speculative entrainment ; for he will gain by waiting. Possibly he may even pick up at a greatly reduced price some of fife stock pressed upon the market by the original negotiatiors, who, in some cases, seem not to scruple to get out of a scrape upon the backs of those who have supported them. " Promoters of public companies" may well claim a distinct classification in the " Directory," a re gard be had to their number, complete organisa tion, acquaintance with high circles, and rising im portance in the commercial and financial world. Their influence, however, is not a particularly be nign one; and when we regard the vast extension which the spirit of gambling, as proved by the mania for allotments, has acquired of late years amongst all classes of the community, even amongst those which would appear to be most exempt, tho practical discouragement to " jobbing" involved in the instances of disappointment above cited, forms a partial set-off against the losses sustained. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST LANCASHIRE. The directors of this company have decided on recommending the proprietors to declare a dividend for the past half-year on the ordinary stock and shares of the company at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, less income tax, leaving a surplus to be carried to the reserve fund. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. At the half-yearly meeting of this company, held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. T. Brodrick in the chair, the report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum for the half year ending the 31st of Dec. last was declared pay able on the 21st of February. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. LLANELLY. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate hill—Mr. J. Biddulph in the chair. The report stated that the earnings of the company for the past six months had been £13,661, and the working ex penses £9,827, leaving a balance of £3,834 to be added to the balance of £1,002 from the preceding six months, making £4,836. The interest paid on loans was £1,779, and the dividends paid on prefer ence shares £1,611. The net rental to the Vale of Towy was about £825. The receipts of the year amounted to £26,083, as compared with £22,402 in 1857; but this was partly accounted for by 111 miles of extension having been opened for traffic during nine months of the year. A conversation ensued from which it appeared that the shareholders were dissatisfied at not receiving a dividend this half-year, having relinquished a small one (10s. per share) at midsummer, in the expectation of obtain ing a larger one on the present occasion. The chair man stated that the company had to expend large sums of money in laying down the broad gauge to connect the line with that of the South Wales Com pany and in otherwise improving and repairing both the railway and the docks. The expenditure was kept down as much as possible, but, in com pliance with the requirements of the Board of Trade, they had to maintain a staff of signalmen and other officers out of proportion to their present traffic, but which would remain stationary, while their traffic would go on increasing. The cost of working the goods traffic was Bd. per mile, and that of the passenger traffic 7d. per mile, or much lower than on any other lind in England. The report was adopted, the outgoing directors were re-elected, and the proceedings terminated. LONDON-BRIDGE AND CHARING-CROSS. This proposed railway is intended to join the the South-Eastern Railway near London-bridge, passing in a westerly direction near Union-street and the Waterloo Station of the South-Western Railway, and over the Thames 'to Hungerford market. The line, in its course, will cross the thoroughfares leading to and from Southwark bridge, Blackfriars-bridge, and Waterloo-bridge, close to which stations will be provided. Care has been taken to avoid the breweries and other valu able property in its course through Southwark, with a view to economy. The estimated cost of the line and stations is £BOO,OOO. The undertaking has been sanctioned by the directors of the South- Eastern Railway Company, who, it appears, have resolved to recommend their proprietors to contri bute towards its capital, and have entered into an arrangement to work the line, when made, upon favourable terms. The proprietors estimate that the traffic will be immense, and that a dividend of at least 8 per cent. will be secured to the proprietors ; at all events, whether it be so or not, there can be nti doubt that a railway station close to the great thoroughfare of the Strand, near Charing-cross, and communicating with all the railways south of the Thames, will be a great public convenience, and tend greatly to relieve the streets of traffic to and from the stations at London-bridge. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN- COLNSHIRE. The total expenses of this company's railways (including rents, toll, duty, &c.) from the Ist to 23d Jan., 1859, have amounted to £17,773, as against £17,359 for the corresponding period of 1858. The proportion of South Junction, &c., receipts accru ing to this company from the Ist to 23d Jan. has amounted to £1,446, as against £1,452 for the corresponding period of 1858. The proportion of South Junction, &c., expenses for the same period has amounted to £721 as against £837 for the cor responding period of 1858. SOUTH-EASTERN. The gross receipts on this company's lines for passengers, parcels, mails, goods, &c., amounted during the four weeks ending the 15th January . to L 71,251, less £1,921 for collecting and delivering goods, which leaves £70,030. To this sum is added £2,781 for rent and sundries, and £2,324 for steam packet service ; total, £75,206. The expenditure, including rates, taxes, tolls, duty, and expenses of steam-packet service, amounted to £34,689, leaving a balance of £40,517. The total receipts for the 24 weeks ending as above amounted to £527,488, and the expenditure to £222,082, leaving a balance of £305,406. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND 'WOLVER HAMPTON. The total receipts of this company for the half year ended' the 31st Dec., amounted to £121,013, against £122,794, in the corresponding half of 1857. The net receipts for the last half-year were £69,508, against £69,614 for the corresponding half-year of 1857, showing a decrease of £lO5. The expendi ture for the past half-year was 42.57 per cent. of the receipts, against 43.30 per cent. in 1857. After paying the dividend on the Stratford and Moreton Canal and the Chipping-Norton branch, £66,444 remained applicable for dividend. The directors propose to pay the interest on debentures, a full dividend of 6 per cent. per annum on the first gua ranteed stock, and 3 per cent. on the secend guaran teed stock, leaving a. balance of £235. NORTH-EASTERN. The terms of amalgamation between this com pany and the N ewcas tl e an d Ca r lisle Company, it is understood, arc settled, and will be submitted to the shareholders of the former company at a special meeting to be held at York on the 18th inst. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGIIT AND HEARING..--- SPEC. TACLES.--POWERFUL TELESCOPES. --OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. --Messrs. S. and 13. 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Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the' distance from the eyes they can read dull print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by statingtheirag,e. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful small newly-invented i nstrument for Deafness, entirely different from all others, surpasses anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unplea sant sensation of singing- noises in the ears is entirely re moved, and it a ff ords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—. oppositetheYork Hotel, W. LAW INT:ELLIGENCE.—era 31 . ........_. v....* 4..........,........... COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. 'Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.) JOSEPH 3 -T. A.BRAHAMS. Sir C. Cresswell getve his decision in this case, the facts of which were recently inserted in our journal. The Court was called upon to make a decree set ting aside the will of Mr. Abrahams, upon the ground that, when the document was found, it had an ink line drawn through several of its clauses, and the names of the witnesses and attestation clause, and also the attestation to a codcil written on the back of the instrument, were torn off, thereby mutilating the last sheet of the wfil f and papers had been subsequently found referring , to certain legacies which the testator intended to giv . . l away. The question raised was whether the act of Mr. Abrahams was to be considered an act of animo revocandi. It appeared he made this will in favour of his sister, soon after his wife's death, but that he afterwards quarrelled with her ; and, looking at the papers, it certainly seemed that nearly every clause referring to Mary Abrahams had been struck out. Under the circumstances, it appeared to the Court that the will was revoked animo revocandi, and it must therefore decree ad ministration. Trig SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1859. first, and she came to me, and she lived as my wife. We were afterwards married. She told me her godmother had given her £lO,OOO, and used to drive her about in a carriage. She said she had two guardians who were trustees for her. I find we were married in September, 1852. Upon my find ing men smoking at our lodgings at St. Lawrence,' I determined to leave, and took new lodgings, but my wife said she should stop where she was. When my money was getting exhausted I thought I had better go to my own house at Bath, and as I thought Mrs. Stoate had £lO,OOO, I considered it was not of importance that she should accompany me. She followed me soon after that time, and I took her in. She remained with us a few weeks, but then she would go to London. In about four or five months she came back, and upon my finding her in my parlour I .said, as she had gone away without my consent she should not stay ; and I took :her in my arms and carried her out into the street. I I ; ever took hold of her by the hair of her head. She isroke open my chest and took out my title deeds and plate. She also sold a houseful of furni ture, which I had at one time at a place near Mar gate. (M uc h laughter, which was excited by the admission of the witness that the furniture com prised a bed, a bedstead, and a gun.) The statement of the husband was not at all strengthened by the testimony which was called in support of the truth. Sir C. Cresswell having gone carefully through the evidence in his address to the jury. The jury found that Mr. Stoate had been guilty of cruelty towards his wife, and that he had de serted her for two years and upwards. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Jan. 3 NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Philip Coxford, 61, sawyer, a dirty, decrepid old man, was indicted for unlawfully abusing Emma Jane Bulwinkle, she being above 10 and under 12 years of age, and also attempting to know and abuse Rose Bulwinkle. Mr. Sleigh prosecuted upon behalf of the Society for the Protection of Young Females; Mr. Ribton defended. The circumstances attending the case were of a most extraordinary character, and the evidence given by the girl, Emma Bulwinkle, created great excitement. It appeared that the prisoner has for many years been in business as a lath-render at Kingsland, and within a short distance of the chil drens' parents, who keep a newsvendor's shop, at which the prisoner used to deal. In the early part of last year the girl Emma was sent into the ser vice of a lady near her mother's, and after she had been there about six weeks she stayed out all night. The account she gave of her absence was that she had met a neighbour who took her to the theatre, and that when she got home she found her mis tress's house shut up, and walked about the streets all night. This neighbour she aftend'ards stated was the prisoner, and that he met her several times during her stay in that lady's service. After quitting she went back to live with her mother and stepfather, and assisted them in the news business, but having some words with her stepfather she left her home. About a week after that, she being on London-bridge in company with a girl named Cunningham, they were met by the prisoner, who asked Cunningham, whom he appeared to know, to allow the prosecutrix, Emma Bulwinkle, to go with him to a house of ill-fame, and offered to pro secutrix a shillinc , and to Cunningham 9d. Cun ningham refused' to allow prosecutrix to go with him, but at his solicitations went herself, and pro secutrix accompanied them to a house, and waited until they came out. A few days after that prose cutrix met the prisoner again, and he persuaded her to allow him to take her home, to which she agreed. Upon their way home he induced her to accompany him to a brothel in Whitechapel, where ] he seduced her, and afterwards took her home to her parents' shop, and she stayed with them a short time, and used to help in the business. While so doing the prisoner used to meet her and get her to rob her parents and give him the money. He also said he would take her to live with him and allow her a guinea a-week, and that she was to go out at nights and meet gentlemen, and give him what she received from them. After staying at home a short time she again ran away from home and went to live with Cunningham, and during that absence the prisoner used to meet her and be on the closest terms of intimacy. Finally, her mother met her near the Victoria Theatre in company with Cun ningham, and took her home. The girl Cunning ham went with them, and at her mother's shop pro secutrix saw the prisoner, before whom she told her mother how he had acted. Prisoner said it was all lies; and upon the mother of prosecutrix threatening to call the police the prisoner ran out of the shop, and she did not see him again until he was in cus tody. That was on the 214 of last July. The girl Cunningham had since then been got into a re formatory institute. In cross-examination the prosecutrix gave the following account of her acquaintance with the girl Cunningham. She had, she „lid, a few words with her father-in-law. She cut" down the Kingsland-road as far as Shoreditc ,'when the girl Cunningham came up to her and asked he r to take a walk with her. Cunningham was about her own age, 13. Prosecutrix said she wanted to go home, but had been quarrelling with her mother and did not like to do so. Cunningham then persuaded her to go home and live with her, which she did. They went to a house in Kent-street. It was kept by a woman who had two daughters there. Other girls lived in the house with them, and men used to come and see them. The prosecutrix used to go out at night with Cunningham, who used to meet men and take them to brothels, and prosecutrix waited for her until she came out. Cunningham took men sometimes into Kent-street, and sometimes into Smithfield. They did not have their meals in Kent-street, but at coffee-houses. The prisoner used to see her after she left home the second time. She was away then about nine days. The remaining evidence, which is unfit for detail in full, proved that while the prisoner knew where the girl Ann might be found, he visited the mother, and at that tehxep absence ressed h e i ssympathy,f the mother from the time, and during toher shop, criminally assaulted the younger sister, a child about 10 years of age. As soon as the prisoner found the police where after him he absconded, and was not taken into custody until December, when information was given to Inspector Langdon. Mr. Ribton, for the defence, argued most ably on the absence of proof to corroborate the extra. ordinary narrative of the girl. Upon the indictment charging the assault upon the younger child the prisoner was acquitted, but foupd guilty upon the other. The Common Sergeant said the offence of the prisoner was the most infamous he had ever heard, and but for the prisoner's age he should pass upon him the extreme sentence. He was then sentenced to 18 mouths imprisonment and hard labour. The case lasted until a late hour in the evening. give me a shilling if I woilld go and steal the whip, and I went and did it. (A laugh.) The-Lord-Mayor—Have you brought the cabman here to prove the truth of your defence ? The prisoner —Not at all, my lord ; I didn't think it necessary. One of the policemen—l had him in custody here last time for stealing a pair of boots which had been hanging up at a door, and I ascertained that he had just before stolen ie knife with which he had helped himself to the boots. He has been for a great length of time a sneaking thief, creeping about in quest of plunder. The Lord Mayor said that, as the prisoner had been so frequently guilty, and seemed so deter mined to keep himself in practice, an interval of honest employment should be granted to him, and sentenced him to imprisonment for three months, - with hard labour. The occupier of a house in Aldgate High -street was summoned by the Commissioners of Sewers for not having paid due attention to the notice of the Court by taking down the house, which was repre sented to be in a dangerous condition. The surveyor of the district had, it appeared, surveyed the house, and pronounced it to be unsafe. He had sent notice to the occupier a considerable time back, but that gentleman merely " shored" up the building, and it was the belief of the surveyor that if the shoring were removed the building would in an instant be a mass of ruins. The_ extraordinary defence of the occupier was that his wife was so unwell he could not think of removing her from the house. (A laugh.) He begged that the Lord Mayor would grant him some more time in order to get out of the premises with con venience. The Lord Mayor said the defendant was bound to consider that his wife's life was in imminent danger, and that the safety of the public was also jeopardised by the condition of the building. The Defendant—lf I thought there was any danger it is not to be supposed that I would stay in the house myself. His Lordship could not be prevailed upon by the appeal of the defendant to withhold the order, which was thereupon signed, and which directed that the house should be taken down within one week, in the event of non-compliance, by the sur veyor at the charge of the occupier, who was ordered to pay the costs of the present proceedings on the spot. MARYLEBONE.—James Davison, a middle aged man, of rather short stature, and respectably dressed, was brought up on remand, charged with endeavouring to obtain money from charitably disposed persons under false and fraudulent pretences. _ _ _ Mr. Broughton asked if there was any further evidence against the prisoner. He understood that on the last occasion a gentleman stated that he had received a memorial in a similar handwriting, but he believed the prisoner was not the person who left it. Houie, the officer, stated that such was the case. In the course of the examination of the witnesses it was elicited that a paper, purporting to be a memorial, was found near St. Mary's Church. House produced the paper, which was to the effect that it was proposed by a few friends to enter into a subscription on behalf of John Taylor, who carried on the business of a carrier for several years between Marylebone and the city, by which means he had supported a family in respectable circumstances. On the evening of Saturday, the Ist of January, he met with an accident while in his cart by coming in collision with a waggon, when his horse was killed, in consequence of which he was thrown from the cart and received a com pound fracture of the arm. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in a dangerous state. Appended to which was the following : " I have been solicited to draw up this statement in order to raise, by voluntary contributions, a sum sufficient to enable his family to carry on the business as heretofore, and take on myself the responsibility, knowing the case worthy of sympathy. The loss is estimated at £lO. " WALPOLE EYRE GRENFE LL "Dated at the Vestry-room, Marylebone, this 4th day of January, 1859." There were several names attached as subscribed to the object stated in the memorial, among which were those of Mr. -Yardley, magistrate of the Thames Police-court ; Mr. Broughton, magistrate of this court ; Mr. Paynter, magistrate of West minster; the Rev. Mr. Gamier, rector of Trinity Church, Marylebone, &c. The signature of the last name was denied by a rev. gentleman in court to be in his handwriting. Mr. Broughton remarked that the signature to the memorial was a very good imitation of his handwriting, and only by seeing his name attached to such a memorial he was convinced it was a forgery. Evidence was then given showing that a memo- rial to a similar effect 'to that produced had been sent to some other, persons, and Mr. Pares stated that he believed the memorial was the one which was in the note given to him by the prisoner, and 'which lie at his (prisoner's) re quest returned to him. Mr. Broughton now remarked that he saw in court Horsford and Freer, two of the Mendicity Society's officers, and he wished to know if they, or either of them, had any information to commu nicate about the prisoner. Horsford-1 know he has been in custody before. Mr. Broughton—Has there been any conviction against him ? Horsford—Yes, Sir ; four times. Each time for three months. ,On the last occasion it was for making use of one of the seals of the House of Com. mons for the purpose of obtaining charitable contri butions. Mr. Broughton—Vas he ever indicted at the Sessions ? Horsford—No, /Sir ; each conviction was sum mary. Mr. Broughton observed that he should send the prisoner to the House of Correction for three months. He directed that a record of his convic tion should be obtained. Riehary Frowley, a bricklayer's labourer, was brought up on remand charged with cutting and wounding John Bourke, on Saturday, the 22d, at the White Lion, Edgware-road, when he was con veyed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he still remains. Inspector Mackerel, D division, produced a certi ficate from Mr. Cruikshank, house surgeon _of the . . institution, in whiCh the nature of the wounds were described. Police-constable 272 D, who took the prisoner into custody, said that he had seen the house sur geon that (yesterday) morning, who informed him that the man Bourke was proceeding favourably, but he was not out of danger. The prisoner was remanded for a week, bail not being accepted. WORSHIP-STREET.—Matilda Symonds, a well-dressed woman of 40, with a gold watch and gold chain, and with five gold rings upon her fingers, was examined upon the following charge : Mr. E. Lloyd, a draper in Shoreditch, said—l have known the prisoner for a considerable time as a customer of mine, but in consequence of a disco very I had made with regard to her I lately gave directions to my shopmen to tell me when she next called. My reason was that on each of the last two occasions on which she had been there she had made some trifling purchase, and each time had paid for it with a £5 note, both of which I afterwards ascer tained to have been stolen. On Saturday evening she came again, purchased goods to the amount of about 35., and again tendered a £5 note in payment. On being apprised of this I asked her if she had no change, as it was inconvenient to me to give so much gold and silver for such a purchase ; but she said she had not a farthing with her but the note, or she would not trouble me, and I then asked her into the counting-house. I sent one of my people for a con stable, and while he was gone I challenged the pri soner with having been twice there before and passed notes whish I found had been stolen, and said I therefore had very strong doubts whether that she now tendered had not been similarly obtained. She said, " I don't know anything about that, but this, I hope, is a good one. I told her there was no doubt about that; the only question was, had it been honestly obtained P She said the note had been re ceived from a man whom she knew by sight, but not by came, who came to her house with a woman ; that she herself had a husband, that her name was Saunders, and that she lived in Weymouth-terrace, Hackney-road, which name and address I wrote on the note. I then demanded of her whether she had not more notes, and she at length produced another the numbers of these last two being 09,581 and 09,582. She also said she had had the notes 15 or 16 days, but the constable arrived by that time, and I then gave her in charge, that something might be ascertained, about the notes. Goddard, 222 H.—l lodged the prisoner in the station, but as I was leaving it to inquire about her in - Weymouth-terrace she called me back, and said I' need not go there, as she did not live there, and that she lived in Mansfield-street, Kingsland-road. I found she did not live in Weymouth-terrace, - and no person named Saunders was known at either of the houses she mentioned in both streets. A young woman at the last place told me the description I gave her of the prisoner exactly corresponded with that of a woman named Beavan, who had lived there, and, if the prisoner is remanded, 'shall be able to establish another charge against her of passing a £2O note under similar circumstances to these. Mr. T. Garland.—l live at Madras-house educa tional establishment, Hackney, and on the 7th inst, my house was broken into by thieves, who stole a £lO Bank of England note, eight £5 notes, 50 so vereigns, and brooches, rings, and other jewellery, altogether to the amount of about £l2O. Ido not POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Jan. 31. MANSION-HOUSE.—An old Italian named Spiridione Luseo was charged with having stolen two rolls of silk of the value of £8 belonging to Messrs. Candy and Co:, foreign merchants, Wat ling-street. The prisoner pretended to be wholly unacquainted with the English language, but find ing that he was not likely to gain anything by his affectation of ignorance, dropped'it in a very short time, and attended to all that was stated against him. One of the clerks of the firm said—The prisoner came to the warehouse this morning at a little be fore 9 o'clock, and I was directed to show him some dresses. I had seen him frequently in the ware house when he came to look at goods ; but I had observed that he departed upon such occasions with out purchasing anything. I suspected that he was there with the intention of committing a felony, and I requested him to wait until our karesmau should arrive. left him standing near a pile of goods, and as I turned round to speak to our buyer who was entering the door I saw the prisoner in the act of buttoning his coat over two flounce rolls of silk of 18 yards each, the paper in which they were wrapped sticking out under his chin. I told the buyer what the prisoner had taken, upon which the latter immediately took out the rolls and attempted to put them down. The Prisimer—No idea of thieving at all. I simply took up the rolls to look at the pattern marks on them, and the gentleman said I had at tempted to steal them. The Lord Mayor—He says you distinctly put the goods under your coat, and the moment you found that you were observed you trjed to put them down. Prisoner (shaking his head, and smiling)—Not at all ; not true, I assure you, my lord. Policeman 46—When I took the prisoner into cus tody I found in his pocket £1 55., a watch, chain, and seal, ten finger rings, and four keys. At the station-house he said he had merely looked at the goods. I found at his lodings s ome goo d s s i m il a r to those which have been produced, and with pat tern marks upon them, and if your lordship'will remand him I have no doubt that other plundered tradesmen will appear against him. The Lord Maior—Prisoner, youmust go back to prison for a week. The prisoner—Oh! ha, ha! .Very well, I'll go. James Brook, an old fellow, who was stated to have been in custody five or six and twenty times for theft, was again put to the bar. He had been seen to steal a gentleman's whip out of a dog-cart. The prisoner—A cabman told me that he would HAYWARD V. HAYWARD. This case has already been before the Court. It was a suit brought by the wife against her hus band for restitution of conjugal rights. On the present occasion, affidavits were produced to show that the petitioner, Mrs. Hayward, was now an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and that the respondent was defraying the expense of her maintenance there. Under these circumstances, the direction of the Court was asked as to what should be done with, the petition. The learned Judge said, of course it would be impossible to decree a restitution of conjugal rights when the lady was in a lunatic asylum. He should therefore order the proceedings to be suspended, and the payment of the alimony stayed for the present. STOATE T. STOATE. The petitioner, Mrs. Sarah Selina Ann Stoate, was represented by Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Swabey ; Mr. Denney for Mr. Wm. Stoate, the respondent. This was a suit for a judicial separation, brought by Mrs. Stoate against her husband on the ground of cruelty and desertion. The petitioner was the daughter of respectable parents, residing at Bristol, and the respondent was a member of the bar, although he had never prac tised at it. The following evidence was taken in support of the petitioner : Mrs. Sarah Selina Ann Stoate—My father was a Merchant at Bristol. He died when I was quite young, and I resided with my mother, after his death, until she died in 1849. I have four brothers, and they are abroad. I first became acquainted with Mr. Stoate in 1846. He made me an offer soon after. I was living at Ashleydown, near Bristol, at the time. I afterwards went to Ramsgate, and he renewed his offer in September, 1852. We were married in that month at St. Lawrence Church, and took lodgings at Southwood, close to Ramsgate. It was at a very humble house. Shortly after our marriage he became very violent, and used bad lan guage. On one occasion be said he would knock my brains out, and on another occasion after he was in bed, I went down stairs, and he - followed me, and knocked the candle out of my hand, and gave me a black eye. In December, he threatened to scald me with boiling water. He shortly afterwards changed his lodgings to Ellerton -road, near Ramsgate, but I did not join him there, because I had heard it was not a proper place. He said I might stay where I was, and he remained there three weeks. I dined with him at the second lodgings, and before he left I slept there at his wish. About this time he told me he was going to Bath, and I asked leave to go with him, but he put me off, saying he was going hunt ing a little, and would come back and fetch me in a month. He left me no money when he went the next day. As I was walking towards the station with him I asked for some money, but he said he had none, and I had better go to the union, and then ran away from me. That was in the early part of Jan., 1853. I remained at Southwood until the following April, and I received several letters from Mr. Stoate, but lie never sent me any money there. In April I came to London, and went to live in Craven-street, Strand. Mr. Stoate subsequently arrived in London to fetch me, but I would not see him. I received several letters from him in April. The letters pro duced are his. [One was to the effect that a friend of his wished particularly to know whether she was with child, and. it concluded by saying that she had better not act hastily, for that he had sacrificed a lady of property for her. Another was as follows : —" Sarah,—The servant would have more to do for two than one." A third began, " Sarah,---The sooner you comes down the better. I have made a packet of cocoa last me nearly a month, without milk or sugar." These literary productions of the respondent were such as to entitle him to be called an illiterate, rather than a learned gentleman.] I afterwards changed my residence to Brompton and at this time I occasionally received a post-office order for a few shillings from my hus band, but not sufficient even to pay for my roores. In July, I went down to Bath, and resided at No. 2, Belvedere-place, with Mr. Stoate. While there he struck me several times, and once threw me out of the door without clothes, and threw my clothes out after me. This occurred between ten and eleven at night, and I took refuge in a neighbour's house, but I returned home the same night. There was a woman named Mary Morris living as servant with Mr. Stoate, and he treated her far better than he did myself. He frequently struck me and threatened to murder me. I had food but it was of the worst kind. On the 29th of September I left Bath to fetch my clothes from Mrs. Hammond's, at Bromp ton. She, however, kept the clothes, and I returned to Bath early in October. I was denied admittance at Belvedere-place, and I accordingly went to the house of a friend and wrote to my husband, but he took no notice of the letter. I however contrived to get into the house one Sunday morning, and I took away some of my things, and returned again in the evening, when my husband said ho would shoot my brains out if I attempted to come in. There were hundreds of people round the door. I made subsequent attempts to get into the house, and at length succeeded while he was absent. Upon his returning he said I should not stop there, and he seized me violently round the waist. We struggled a great deal, and at length he threw me out of the door into a court. I was very much hurt, and was taken to a friend's house. On the following day I took out a summons against him for the assault, and he was bound over to keep the peace. I went back to Belvedere-place, and Mr. Stoate was locked up. In January he came with some men and nearly stripped the house. Out of humanity the men left me some furniture, for which my husband abused them very much. He after wards came and took away every thing, and sent a person named Taylor to take forcible possession. Taylor let some of the rooms to very low tenants, but I still remained there. Mr. Stoate never came back there. He sent me a notice - to quit in Octo ber, 1855. Cross-examined—l first became acquainted with Mr. Stoate at Weston. We came by the same train to Bristol. I did not tell him I had a fortune of £lO,OOO in my own right. He came to the house with me, but he did not offer to send for some wine. I next saw him at Bath, where I saw him several mes. After the marriage he took a small place at rent, only a parlour and bedroom. He might 'lave expressed.his dissatisfaction at people smoking He left because he received notice to quit consequence of his cruelty to me. After he left me at Ramsgate I disposed of the furniture without consulting him. It was very trumpery. I lodged at various places in London after I came up. I first went to Mrs. Payne's, in Craven-street, and a very respectable person she is. On my subse quently leaving my h. - usband at Bith, I did not say that I was going to my aunt at Clifton to receive £lO,OOO. When I came back he did not say my conduct was so indecorous, in going to London alone, that he would not receive me. Lknow a lady named Sargetson. Not being very proud of my marriage, I may not have told her that I was a married woman. Lore. Re-examined—l was in great distress when I sold the furniture at Ramsgate. It only fetched about 30s. John Fort, a confectioner, of Lansdowne-road, Bath, living exactly opposite 2, Belvedere-place, deposed to having seen Mr. Stoate, at 11 o'clock at, night, drag his wife out of his house by the hair of the head. She was only half dressed, and he threw some clothes out after her. Some further evidence in corroboration of the above testimony closed the case of the petitioner. The respondent was examined in support of his denial of the cruelty and desertion. Mr. William Stoate—l first became acquainted with Mrs. Stoate on the platform at Weston-super- Mare. We travelled together in the train to Bristol. I accompanied her home and gave her some money to procure some wine. I think I gave her a shilling. (A laugh.) I may have tasted the wine. I think she drank the whole of it. I stayed with her about an hour, and we 'afterwards wrote to each other. The next time I met her was b3r appointment in the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand, where we walked about together. She was living in the Old Kent-road. She came down to visit me at Bath, and I found her very easy. (Laughter.) She may have stayed three weeks. We afterwards agreed to go down to Ramsgate. I went down know whether the notes produced are part of those stolen from my house, but the numbers of four of my notes ran in sequence, and I can ascertain more about them upon inquiry. Mr. Lewis (for the defence.)—l contend, sir, that there is nothing whatever in all this evidence which would justify- your further detaining my client. Mr. D'Eyncourt.—lt is proved that she has given a false address, and gone by different names, and I shall therefore remand her. I will take bail in the meantime, but they must be two sureties in .£3O each, and they must be strictly inquired into before being taken. • The prisoner, however, could not get the bail, and was therefore sent to prison. WESTMINSTER.—Sarah Ann Fry, a well dressed woman, was charged with the wilful mur der of her infant ; and James Durant, a•respectable looking man, with being an accessory after the fact and disposing of the body by throwing it into the Thames. After some additional evidence had been given, yr. Paynter said he was placed in a painful posi tion. In the ordinary course of things there would have been a post mortenz examination, and a jury would have thereupon decided whether the child came by its death by violence or not. The male prisoner had removed the body, a jury could not therefore sit upon it, and he was in consequence called up to act as a jury; he would not take upon himself to decide the case, but must send it to the Central Criminal Court. Two sureties in £4O were accepted for the ap pearance of each of the prisoners. HAMMERSMITH.—Two - well-dressed youths, who gave the names of George Anderson, 21, and Wm. Ford, 17. were charged with attempting to pick pockets in St. Stephen's Church, Westbourne park. Mr. Ingham remanded the prisoners for a week, to ascertain if they were known. GREENWICH.—Robt. Murry, 35, and Johanna Murry, 28, described as husband ond wife, and tra velling ventriloquists of no fixed residence, were charged with attacking and robbing Robert Hobbs on the highway of a purse containing a £5 Bank of England note. The prosecutor, a man about 60 years of age, and whose face was much disfigured from recent vio lence, deposed that about a quarter before eight. on Saturday night he was proceeding along the Wool wich road, and when in a very lonely spot met the two prisoners. The woman immediately took hold of his arm and requested his company, at the same time putting her hand in his pocket and taking out a purse containing a£s note, and running off. He raised an alarm, on which two other men came, up, struck him aviolent blow over the eye, and knocked him down in the road. The prisoners protested their innocence ; but Mr. Seeker said he should remand them for a week, when they would be committed for trial. WOOLWICH.—John Young, 33, a discharged soldier of the Royal Artillery, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a set of chaise har ness, value £5, the property of Col. Erskine, of the Military Train, and also two other sets of chaise harness, value £8 and £l5 respectively, the pro perty of Mr. Hammond, proprietor of the Star and Garter Tavern, Powis-street, Woolwich. Mr. Seeker committed the prisoner for trial. TSB EDUCATED MULE AT THE AMERICAN CIRCUS. The following case was tried before a jury at the Birmingham County Court on Saturday : The plaintiff was Mr. Richard Moffatt, equestrian, and the defendant the popular clown and proprietor of the American equestrian company performing up to Saturday evening last in the circus, Moor street. It was brought to recover damages for breach of contract, £2B being the amount claimed. Mr. Hawkes was retained for the plaintiff; and. Mr. Elers, barrister, of .the Midland Circuit, in structed by Mr. Harding, appeared for the de fendant. From the opening of the former learned gentle man, who addressed the jury in a somewhat humo rous vein, it would seem that shortly before Christ mas last the plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the well-known " eccentric mule," and who had also two sons and a daughter in the same profession as himself, hearing that the defendant, who chose to style himself Jim Myers, " The Star Momus of the World"—(a laugh)—was about to open with his American equestrian troupe in the Moor.street Circus on boxing-night, wrote to the defendant from _Belfast offering his services, and those of his family, his mule, and a ring horse, if there was a vacancy for them. In that letter he stated that the performances of himself and family consisted of "pantomime acts," "trick acts," double tight-rope dancing, and feats with the horizontal pole. The defendant wrote him a reply, to which the plain tiff, in answering, expressed his surprise at its nature. He then proceeded, " I offered to come on low terms, in order that you might see what we were really worth. Perhaps you imagine we have not much talent ; and I enclose you a bill of challenges, which you are at liberty to accept. Had you offered £7 a week, and a benefit on mode rate terms, or £8 without a benefit, I would have accepted the terms, purposely to show our utility. Do not suppose my family are children: one of my boys is over 17, the girl is 17, and the other boy nine, and it costs me a considerable sum to keep them in clothing and dresses to make a proper appearance in and out of the ring." The plaintiff also added, " What is the use of talent, horses, good dresses, woodcuts, and lithographs if you cannot get paid for them ?" One of the " challenges" re ferred to Was that the mule, which was also included in the offer of engagement, could be backed for £5O to throw any one who attempted to get on his back. The defendant at length wrote; and agreed to give the defendant £7 a week for himself, family, horse, and mule, subject to a fortnight's notice, which terms were accepted, Moffatt being duly announced to appear as " Don Juan," " The Fat Clown," and as the trainer of the " eccentric mule." The bill stated that the proprietor had secured, "at an immense expense, what the Times had described as the animal of wisdom—the educated mule,' which no person had ever been able to ride." (Laughter.) So Mr. Moffatt and his troupe came over from Bel fast at an expenie of £l7, and joined the corps of the " Star Momus." He .made his first appearance on the Monday ; the house was crowded with an enthusiastic audience, and "Don Juan" and the trained mule went through their performance to the delight of all. Several persons tried to ride the animal, but one after another was pitched .off his back amidst the greatest merriment. The same satisfactory result attended the day performance next day ; but in the evening Jim Myers, who, it must be admitted, was, perhaps, the most inimitable clown of the day, after several persons had been thi own by the mule, offered to give a sovereign to anyone who could ride him. The challenge was accepted by a butcher in the gallery, wno entered the ring, and after three vain efforts succeeded, by dint of almost strangling the animal in holding him so tightly round the neck, i n keeping on him during three rounds in the circle, and Myers had to forfeit a sovereign. After this Mr. Myers did not appear to see much elevernerness in the performance of Moffatt's troupe, and on the Saturday, when he paid the plaintiff, he deducted the sovereign he had forfeited, and gave him a formal intimation that his services would no longer be required, stating that he had been deceived by his representations as to what lie could perform. Under these circumstances Mr. Hawkes submitted that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, unless it could be shown that his re presentations to the defendant were false or in the main untrue. After mentioning that Moffatt held a high reputation in his profession, that he had been engaged at Astly's, Madame Newsome's, and other first-class establishments, and possessed testi.. menials as 'to his accomplishments, Mr. Hawkes proceeded to call evidence. The plaintiff, who was first examined, substanti ated the main facts stated by his advocate, and in cross-examination said he did not hear any hissing during his performances, or those of hi s f am il y, or his mule. lole was only hissed once, and that was, because he had to follow a performer who played a sailor, which was the character into which he changed from Don Juan , and The audience did no t care for the repetition. e made an engagement with Mr. Holder, of the Concert Hall, on the fol lowing Monday, not feeling disposed to remain idle and starve. Mr. Holder, he admitted, complained of the r o p e d anc i ng of his son and daughter, but this arose partially from the slackness of the rope. Mr. Flint, an equestrian agent, Mr. Cashmere, formerly a musician at Newsome's, and Mr. Harm stone, manager at Newsome's, having been called to prove that the performances of the plaintiff and family and the mule had always gone off success fully, and always " drew " well. Mr. Elers addressed the jury for the defendant, arguing as his chief ground that the defendant was justified in breaking the contract which was en tend into upon a tissue of misrepresentations on the part of the plaintiff in his communications with the defendant. The specific misrepresenta tions upon which the learned counsel said ho should rely were as to the " trick acts," the challenge referred to in the bill forwarded to the defendant, and the allegation by inference that the plaintiff and his family were provided with proper dresses. The defendant, in fact, was deceived by the misre presentations of the plaintiff, who was so inace quate his work that he was hissed by audience on more than one occasion. Moreover, as he was instructed, the plaintiff was discharged by Mr. Holder for similar reasons to those which ac tuated the defendant. Mr. Myers was then called, and stated that he saw the plaintiff on the Sunday after Christmas day, when he asked what he should do on the Mon day, to which he (defendant) replied that he should like him to do as much as he could. Moffatt said his sons would perform on the pole, that one of them would ride a trick act, and he himself would "go in" as clown, with his mule, which three things would make a " hit." On the first night he had to complain of the dresses that Moffatt and his sons wore, and told them he must have them altered, as none of the members of his establish ment were in the habit of wearing such dresses ; but they were not changed on the following even ing. The son, who was to ride trick acts, never turned a summersault on the horse, as he (the de fendant) understood he was to do, and which was one of the principal things he engaged him for. Moffatt told him that his mule could not be ridden by anybody, and repeatedly persisted in the asser tion. The first night Moffatt appeared he wa hissed, and he (Mr. Myers) was so disgusted tha he went out to the front of the circus and would see no-more. If he had not had the bills out for the week he should not have allowed a repetition of his performances, nor those of his family. None of them in his opinion possessed " a spark of talent." As regarded the mule, he (defendant) suggested to the plaintiff that he ought to offer a prize to any one who could ride him, and the plain tiff replied, " You can offer what you like, for I am sure nobody can ride him." On the night when the butcher came forward there was general hissing, because he and Moffatt interfered, and the butcher having been thrown three times, caught firmly hold of the reins, and held on th ree ti mes roun d th e ring. He (Mr.i Myers) obse rve d M o ff a tt pus h th e butcher off once by a professional trick, and then left the ring. He wc.•:, Aliged to continue the nightly, because he was ddverti6ed, or "else ho la old a disturbance in the circus. - ..Aarnination, Mr. Myers said that in the folloWing week the lines respecting .1, and his mule, and family, were withdrawn; but by some oversight on the part of the newspapers they were advertised during the next week, though he had the error corrected as soon as he discovered it. M. Auriol, a circus clown, afterwards deposed to the mule having been ridden two or three times to his knowledge, and once by himself; and subse quently Mr. Holder was called. He said he had occasion to complain of the tight rope dancing of plaintiff's son and daughter ; and that the pole performance did not give him satisfaction. The performances of the plaintiff and his mule, however, were well received, and they were both called before the curtain each night. (Laughter.) He only engaged the troupe for a week. Mr. Hawkes having ably replied, His Honour laid the law and facts of the case lucidly before the jury. After a short consultation, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £l4. Costs were allowed, and payment was ordered in seven days. COUNTRY MAR KBTB. COLCHESTER-JAN. 29. The damp state of the weather during the week had af fected many of the wheat sam pl es at this exchange to-day, and as regards these a reduction of 6d to is per qr. was noted. Good samples, however, maintained late rates; the supply was fair. A good show of barley at previous rates. Beans is dearer. In oats and peas little passing. Wheat, white 468 to 50s Beans, Maze,.lin.. 22s to 34s red 36s to 44s Middle & Lail 33s to 403 Barley' 30s to 42s White peas 40s to 42s Oats 22s to 30s Grey.. 40s to 42s STAMFORD-JAN, 29. At yesterday's market there was a very good supply of wheat, and sales were effected at the quotations of this day week. Barley in middling show, at extreme rates. Beans rather scarce, and in some instances they realised a trifle more money. Oats is higher. Wheat ...........44s to 48s Oats.. 2 Bs t o 36 8 I White do 40s to 43s Beans, new 42s to 503 Barley .....40s to 44s I Ditto, old .44s to 483 DERBY-JAN. 29. There was a fair supply of wheat from the farmers to day, and transactions in the market were about the average, wheat selling at the full quotations of last week. Barley in tolerable supply, and at high prices. Beans were by no means plentiful, and very high in price, being is dearer than last week. Oats made the extreme rates of the pre vious week. White wheat, new, 40s to 50s Red do. 4os to 46s Old white 4os to 48s Red do.. 38s to 44s Barley, malting.— . 38s to 44s Barley, grinding 278 to 305 Oats, old, .. 268 to 30s New do 30s to 333 Beans. 48s to 51. s Peas ....--s to YORK-TAN. 29. At the market this morning there was a very good sup ply of English wheat, for which the trade was firm, at about last week's currencies. Oats and barley equally as dear as last week. Beans in moderate supply, and little change in value. CAMBRIDGE-JAN. 29. At this day's market there was less wheat offering, but no progress could be made in sales, except by giving way in price is per quarter. Barley nearly as dear. Oats quite as high. Beans and peas unaltered. Wheat ..38s te42s Oats.... • 22s to 2Gs White .46s to 48s Beans 3Bs to 441 Barley .28s to 30s Peas 44s to 46s KIRKALDY-JArr. 29. We had fair supplies of wheat and oats, but small of barley. Fine barley is per qr. dearer, ordinary much the same as last week. Oats 6d lower. Wheat a ready sale; as also barley. Wheat (N). Barley (N). First.... 34s Od 25s Od Second .. 42s 6d 32s Od Third .. 46s Od 34s 6d Wheat (0). Barley (0). First.... —s Od —8 Od Second.. —8 Od .---8 Od Third .. —s Od --.8 Od COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at 31.' the close of the market.) Walls End. Holywell .... s. d ....... 14 9 Wylam ... . ..... .14 6 Haswell Gas. . . .. . . . 13 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ...... . .. .14 9 Bell's Primrose. ....... 12 9 Walker Primrose .....12, 9 Davison's We s t H art- ley .... Lambert's West Hart .... . . .... 14 Tanfield Moor Butes..l2 0 Buddle's West Hartleyls 3 s. d. South Kelloe l7 0 Hetton. l7 6 Tees . lB 0 Russell's Hetton 16 3 Heugh Hall 16 6 Whitworth l4 0 Nixon's Duffryn 21 0 Nixon's Merthyr 21 0 Powell' s Duffryn Steam 21 0 Cassop Byron l6 0 Gosforth Harton l5 6 Riddell l5 3 Montague Garesfield 12 6 37—Sold, 63. Keno° . Wa115 ..:!. 2 . 1 . d : ~,17 0 Ships at market, SEVERN SALMON FISHERY.--The fishermen near the Gloucester part of the Severn were successful during the last few days ' having captured s ome remar k a bl y f i ne fish. Two, eac h weighing 201bs. and 301bs. weight, were taken near Gloucester on Wednesday night, and on Thurs day a magnificent fish, weighing 351b5., was caught at Mins terworth. The latter was exhibited yesterday at the shop of Mr. Davis, in Westgate-street, and was afterwards for warded to the London market. The price which salmon is now selling at is 3s. and 3s. 6d. per lb. [ADVERTISEMENT.}—Rarey's Hors e an d Cattle Improv ing Food improves the stamina, vigour, endurance, and muscle of ill-conditioned or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Bullocks, ' Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. It causes no extra expense, as it contains far more and better nourish ment than its cost of lid. per feed supplies in corn or hay; hence ensures an actual saving. In a short time it improves the appearance and value of horses and cattle by 20 to 30 per cent. Rarey and Co., sole importers, 77, Pic cadilly, Quadrant, London. Packed in tins of about 42 feeds, 6s. ; of about 90 feeds, 1 ls. ; in casks of abojit 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds, £5, being about lid. per feed. Goods forwarded on receipt of Post-office Orders. Ir4ortant Caution—Beware of spurious imitations offered by the ignorant and unscrupulous. All imitators will be proceeded against. BIRTHS. AINSLIE.—On the 29th ult., at Ulverstone, Mrs. W. G. Ainslie, of a son. BISHOP.—On the 30th ult., at 143, Fleet-street, the wife of Mr. W. Bishop, of a daughter. CARRINGTON.—On the 30th Ult., at Great Missenden Abbey, Bucks, Mrs. G. Carrington, of a daughter. YouNo.—On the 30th ult., at 36, Camden road-villas, Mrs. G. A. Young, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BLoon---JAmEs.—On the 27th tilt., at Clifton, Francis G. Esq., Capt. 69th Regt., the elde s t son o f the late Col. Blood, 68 th Regt., to Charlott e C onstance, eldest daughter of the late John James, Esq., of Severn Bank, Newnham, Gloucestershire, and of Mountcraig, Herefordshire. TnomsoN—WEne.—On the 28th ult., at St. James's Church, Westbourne-terrace, -John Robert Thomson, Esq., son of Alexander Thomson, Esq., of Gloucester terrace, to Eliza Amy, da ug ht er of R. J. Webb, Esq. DEATHS. BECKFORD.—On the 22d ult., at' Rome, William Beckford, Esq., of Ruxley L o d ge, near Esher, Surrey, aged 68. FARLEY.—On the 28th ult., at 42, Amptbill-square, Chas. Farley, Esq., late of the Theatre-royal, Covent-garden, aged 88. FARWELL.—On the 29th tilt., at Weston House, near Tot nes, Geo. Farwell, Esq., aged 76, JAMES. —On the 27th ult., at Coleford, Gloucestershire Thomas James, Esq., aged 85. PTE. —On the 27th ult., at Doncaster Mr. Thomas Pye, o f the Royal Hot e l, aged 65. , Ittrox.—On the 28th ult., at Putney-heath, Frederick John, Earl of Ripon, aged 76 , - • • VINCENT. —On the 28th ult., at Dean's - yard,Westminster, George Giles Vincent, Esq., aged 85. WILLIAMS.—On the 29th ult., at Holford-square, Penton ville, Peter Williams, Esq., aged 72. LONDON • Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, February), 1859. 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