The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-27 00:00:00

FEARFUL GALES ON THE SOU7II-EAST COAST . PERILOUS POSITION OF THE MAID OF KENT, WITH FIFTY LIVES ON BOARD. DOVER, SUNDAY, 6.30 P.M. Throughout the whole of yesterday and this morning a succession of strong gales, and heavy seas have been raging ; indeed, since the wreck of the ill-fated Violet (Imperial mail packet) on the Good win Sands in 1857, such rough weather cannot be well remembered. During the whole of last night the piers and harbour approaches have been kept in a continuous state of excitement, and fears for the safety of that magnificent new iron steamer the Maid of Kent, Captain Bennett, belonging to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany, which had been telegraphed as leaving Calais harbour at four o'clock in the afternoon. As night closed in the storm increased in fury, and vessels (signalling for pilots) drifted past the harbour with frightful rapidity; but though it blew a hurricane and poured a deluge until mid-day on Saturday, there were women, the wives and daughters of men on board the steamer, who were hardy enough to brave the violence of the elements throughout the entire night, and daybreak found them wet and shivering on the piers, with the same anxious look seaward as when darkness set in ; but there were no tidings of the missing vessel. Shortly before midnight, the steam tug Resolute (No. 1, Liverpool', having the electric coil on board, got her steam up, and proceeded in search of the Maid of Kent, it being supposed that her peculiarly constructed engines had been found inadequate to the " green seas" which prevail during the equinoc tial gales ; but 11.10 this morning the Resolute returned to harbour without tidings. Telegraphic communications from point to point of the coast had in the meantime been resorted to, and at 11.20 a telegram from Deal announced a large steamer with yellow funnels had been seen in the vieinity of the Downs and near to the Goodwin Sands. At 11.30 the Vivid, Imperial mail packet, steamed out of harbour. At this moment a large steamer, with her foremast and bowsprit gone, was observed struggling in a tremendous sea ; with some difficulty she was boarded by a Trinity pilot (Moon) and brought safely into harbour ; she proved to be the Jovellanos, bound from London for Lisbon. The schooner Petrel, which sailed from Dover last week, also put back, and the Mary Stuart, Liverpool steam tug, with jury masts, got in with her funnel red hot, after beating off and on for thirty minutes. At four o'clock the Vivid, Captain Hammond, returned to Dover with 35 passengers and luggage from the decks of the Maid of Kent. He had fallen in with her on the outside of the Downs and near to the Gull stream ; both anchors were down and the chains entangled, so that it is impossible to get her off until the morning tide; her windlass was also gone, A number of carpenters and sailors hav ing been procured, the Vivid again started for the spot, where the Maid of Kent has been anchored from 2 a.m. The shipping casualties on the Dover coast have been but few during the week, although a serious encroachment of the sea has swept away half a mile of shingle, destroyed the Marine-parade, and laid bare faggot groins that have been buried in beach and sand 15 years. Two pilots are missing, but hope has not abated for their safety. 7HE GALES. MORE FATAL LOSSES. The most disastrous accounts of the effects of the late heavy gales continue to be received. In addi tion to the sad havoc which has been caused on the shores of the United Kingdom, a long catalogue of disasters has come in from the north coast of Europe, and up to Saturday upwards of 100 wrecks and more than 500 casualties, attended with great great sacrifice of life, had been reported on Lloyd's books during the week. There was a lull in the violence of the weather in the course of Thursday, but late on Saturday evening the wind again came on to blow strong, and it is feared must have told with serious effect upon the shipping which had ventured out of port. Several homeward-bound ships which have succeeded in reaching Falmouth and other western ports report the moat terrific weather in the chops of the Channel, and some of the vessels, to escape foundering, had to throw their cargo overboard. By the Speenlant, which arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, intelligence has been received of the abandonment of the brig Token, of Dartmouth, bound from Belize, with a cargo of mahogany, to Queenstown, and melancholy to re late, the captain and twelve of the crew are reported to have been drowned. The remainder of the hands were rescued by the Speculant, which has brought them to England. Of the crew of the large ship Bencoolen, from Liverpool to Bombay, which was driven ashore at Bade Haven on the Cornish coast, only six were saved, the captain and two mates being amongst those who perished. The ill-fated vessel was dis masted when she struck, and within an hour after wards she went to pieces. The captain went into his cabin to get something when the ship struck, and a heavy sea washing away the companion he was drowned in his cabin. The lifeboat was soon on the spot, but the sea that was running rendered her going off most difficult. A rocket-line was fired over the wreck, and a man in trying to get hold of it was washed overboard and perished. The survivors got ashore on pieces of spars, and the greatest kind ness was shown them by the inhabitants. The coast was strewed with wreck. The names of the survivors are Ands ew Hollman, Thomas Smith, Wm. Stran ger, John Whiteside, Thomas Aspinal, and George Welsh. Several of the bodies have been picked up. The B:ncoolen was nearly 1,500 tons, and was laden with machinery, railway iron, &c. Later telegrams speak of considerable damage amongst the colliers and other coasters navigating the North Sea. A large barque called the Atlantic, belonging t 3 Weymouth, bound to Sunderland from Honfleur, was driven ashore at Thirsted. The Dutch and Danish ports furnish a long list of disas ters, the gale having raged on that line of coast with great fury, accompanied in some parts by thunder and lightning. Some of the cattle steamers had to put back with a considerable loss of their live cargo. The timber-laden ships ap pear to have been particularly unfortunate in weathering the gale, an 4 a fleet of vessels from the Baltic have had to put 'into Christiansand and other ports all more or less damaged. The barque Black Eagle, laden with wheat, from New York to Glasgow, foundered 15 miles from the Calf of Man, and the mate and second mate pe rished. The masts were cut away to righten the Ship, when she went down. The mates were washed overboard with lifebuoya round them, and after floating about a quarter of an hour they sank. The remainder of the crew were picked up by the schooner Gardner and landed at Fleetwood. Great fears were entertained fur the safety of the steamers trading from London and Hull to the northe rn continental ports; but it appears that they all have been ve a r c y co n u a n r t r e o d w fo e r s , ca a p lt e h . ough some of them hav e I h ada MELOc ii. Friday m ornin OLY LOSS OF LIFE. smacks belonging to i o x n:lecident happened to several Pin Mill, whi c h hZt rwich, to Colchester, and to ulted in the drowning of ten men. It appears that f ou r smacks—the R nh _ i _ n° at low tide the crews of Cyrene and Ranger, both b of 4 " ei :' Harwich ; the sma ll village inhabited b y n a b tng to Pin Mill (a V iers, and others engaged on the e Z te , atone dred miles up the Orwell), and a . smack r, about six Colchester were engaged i n st r ippinotekioefnogunindgerteod of the brig C. S. M., of Lo ndon, whiephthe Wreck in Gold wer's Gatwa y , b y the West ite nesday. Almost all the men were on thr:red. only one or two having been left in charg e o eac h of the smacks , when suddenl y , with out the f least warning, the wreck turned completely over, carrying the 13 men who were on board with her, and immersing them in the water. The men who had been left on board the smacks did their best:to rescue their comrades, but they were start handed, and their comrades in the water were hampered with the wreck, and only three were got on board the smacks, and these in a very exhausted state, the remaining ten being drowned. Two of the men, be tonging to Harwich, leave large families, THE BULLET IN THE WOUND. (from the Examiner.) The generous and gallant soldier in whom the affections of Italy are bound up still lan, uishes on his bed of pain. Unused to inactivity d confine ment his spirit droops; the quick cu-rent of his blood stagnates ; he sleeps heavily, it is said more than enough ; and his appetite flags; his frame be comes attenuated ; and, as yet, there is no symptom of the injured limb being healed. He says himself that the treacherous bullet is still in the wound. English advice told him to believe otherwise ; and, grateful for the disinterested friendship which offered it, Garibaldi tried to believe what he was told. He sought manfully not to mind his present pain, or to think of hid future lameness, but to re main quiet, thankful it was no worse , and consoled by the assurance that after a time he would be as strong and well as ever. He has sincerely endea voured to be patient and striven to persuade the excitable friends around him that the advice sent from England was as judicious as it was (Es ' interested, and as prudent as it was pure. But nature will not be gainsayed. The bullet is still in the wound : " I feel it ; no potion can make me for get ; sleeping or waking I feel it always ;"—and in such accents those about him begin to fear they catch the sound of warning that the tide of life is slowly ebbing away. It may not be so ; and the feverish solicitude of friendship and patriotism may bewilder its power o f accurate o b servat i on. B ut there is no di sgu i s i ng the fact that the illustrious victim of Aspromonte lies in a most critical state, and that nobody of skill or judgment ventures to say that he sees any safe or speedy way of his recovery. The type of Italy is here. After great sacri fices and heroic efforts, at the ,very zenith of fame for pure and noble deeds, Italy finds herself pro strated and lamed in a part which, though said not to be vital, proves to be essentially connected with the use and preservation of life. She cannot stand upright, she cannot get on, she cannot even lie quiet while the open sore of misrule and misery remains at Rome. The treacherous bullet is still in the wound. Were it removed, the wound would heal of itself ; partial exfoliation, though painful at the time, being of little moment, the loss being certain to be supplied by the quick ened powers of nature. But so long as the cowardly and cruel missile continues where it hath no busi ness to be, no progress towards returning health can be expected, for none indeed is possible. The dismissal of M. de Thouvenel, accompanied as it has been by that of MM. Lavalette and Bene detti, and the substitution in their stead of undis guised opponents of Italian unity, verifies, sooner than we looked for, our anticipations regarding the policy of Bonapartism beyond the Alps. The miserable show of an independent Administration carried on by MM. Rattazzi and Pepoli is about to come to an end. It is only wonderful how it should have lasted so long. And what is to follow ? The King seems more possessed than ever with the in fatuation that his safety and that of his dynasty lies in keeping his Imperial patron in good humour. At the very moment when the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and the French Envoy at Turin are changed, avowedly in the interests of the Temporal Papacy as opposed to those of the Italian Kingdom, and when the one set of vice-regal puppets are about to be discarded in conformity with the change of Imperial tools at Paris and elsewhere, Victor Emmanuel is said to be able to think of nothing better than the finding of another set of Bonapartist marionettes, whom he is ready to rig out in new suits of feathers and gold lace, and set up to play the mimic part of Italian Ministers. Count Areze has been used before in this capacity. The body of him was born, they say, near Milan ; but his spirit, such as it is, belongs to St. Cloud. He was the champion and trusted friend of Louis Napoleon during his wanderings in the proba tionary wilderness through which he wended his slow way to the promised land of empire. Count Pepoli is the Emperor's cousin, as he loves to remind his convivial associates upon all occasions ; and under the circumstances it was a sufficiently strong measure to give him an Italian portfolio. But people forgave the rela tionship they could not deny, for the sake of the nullity of the man. And Pepoli is as outspoken, laughing good fellow, whom nobody ever suspected of betraying a secret, because nobody ever believed that he had been entrusted with one. Count Arese is altogether a different man. Personally without reproach, and through long training in the ways of the world, not inapt in the transaction of busi ness; a man of competent fortune and of re respectable life. But to be the Minister of Italy at a crisis like the present he is obviously and egre giously unfit. He would be, and would be men • nised as being, a mere automaton in the hands of M. Dronyn de Lhuys ; and as such, his nomination could only serve to inflame the popular resentment and rage against French influence throughout the Pe ninsula. THE COLLISION ON 7HE WEST MIDLAND _RAILWAY. EVESHAM, Friday.—The magistrates sitting in petty sessions here to-day have been occupied in investigating a charge made against James Callow and Daniel Langstone for wilfully, maliciously, or negligently omitting to see that the line over which they had superintendence was clear, whereby the safety of passengers travelling on the line was en dangered. This charge arose ont of an accident on the West Midland Railway near this town last Tuesday evening, when the London express train, which passes the station at 9 a.m., came into colli sion with three goods trucks, which had been left on the line after the prisoners had been shunting a train from a siding. Callow is foreman porter and signalman at Evesham station, and Langstone is horse-driver employed to assist in shunting trains. His age is 17. Mr. Bentley, of Worcester, attended to conduct the prosecution for the railway company, and Mr. Eades, of Evesham, defended the prisoners. The evidence of Henry Crompton, the driver of the express train from London to Wolverhampton, on Tuesday night, went to show that on approach ing the Evesham station, which the express passes about 9.10 p.m. without stopping, he found the sig nals all right, and ran through the station at about 40 miles an hour. He had got about 200 yards be yond the station when he ran into three trucks, which bad been left on the main line near to a sid ing. The trucks were smashed, his engine was dis abled, and the lives and limbs of the passengers were endangered. Evidence was then given to prove the duties of the two prisoners. It was Callow's duty to attend to the signals after 7 o'clock at night. He acted as goods porter from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., from which latter hour up to the departure of the last train.__ sometimes 11 or half-past 11 at night—he officiated as signalman. It was his duty to see that the line was clear and especially when any train was due. A porter named Marsh assisted in shunting a train at half-past 7 p.m., and saw the three trucks left on the main line after one had been removed to be forwarded to Chipping Norton, Langstone moved the trucks with the horse, and Marsh last saw him proceeding with his horse in the direction of the three trucks left on the main line. It was Lang stone's duty to move the trucks from the main line back to the siding. Mr. Dewsbury, stationmaster, proved that it was Callow's duty to see that the line was clear, and, if not, to keep the red light " danger" up. Mr. Eades, for the prisoners, cross-examined the witnesses, with the view of showing that it was possible for some mischievous person to have re moved the trucks from the siding► to the main line; or that the wind might have moved them had they not been " blocked" in. The statements made by the West Callow stated prisoners to Mr. Lindley, l ocomot i ve superintendent on the Mi dland Rail wa y, were t h en proved. that he S SW the three trucks placed back again in the biding a f ter the shunting, and, finding the ,, stop block" had not been placed to prevent the trucks running Langatone, in his statement, said that after shunt trucksing the Chi ; ba ck ou the main line, he put the block on. ppalg Norton waggon, he drew the three back again into the whether he had p ut the stop-b lock on afterwards. s iding, but could not say On saw oin tae ho e after p ut ting hie h orse in the stable he , (Callow) at the station, and g g signalmanm,af r told him to put his signals on " all right" for the express train, for that the line was clear. Mr.ADcocK, secretary to the West Midland Rail way, gave Callow a good character for respecta bility and attention to his duties. He had not known so much of Langstone, who was compara tively a new servant. Mr. EADES having addressed the bench, and com mented on the fact that Callow was employed from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and sometimes later, submitted that his duties were too heavy. The magistrates having consulted together, the chairman, Mr. NEW, announced that they had de cided on convicting both the prisoners, fining Callow £lO, or two months' imprisonment, and Langstone £5, or one month's imprisonment. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 27, 1862. policy of assurance as an additional security. Of the antecedents of Mr. Andrews we have not heard much, except that he has been a methodist local preacher, and professed to be a teetotaller and a vegetarian. He is not known to have lived ex• , travagantly, or to have speculated largely, and therefore people are at a loss as to what he can have done with the property of the bank. He had lately built a residence near Ashton, called Medlockvale hall, but it is not supposed to have cost more than a man with a salary of £5,000 a year might reason ably afford. The prisoner is a son of the late Mr. Andrews, dyer, of Collyhurst. After his arrest several shareholders in the bank visited him in the lock-ups, and tried to ascertain from him the amount of his frauds. To these gentlemen he admitted they were to the amount of many thousands, but when asked if he could give any idea of the total, he re plied, " No, I cannot ; but you have a first-rate man to examine the books, and he will no doubt make out a statement disclosing the whole. I know I have done what I ought not to have done." It is expected the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates for examination at Manchester this day. ANOTHER GREAT FMB-IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY. Yesterday morning, between the hours of seven and eight, a fire attended with much loss of pro perty took place in the premises belonging to Messrs. Charles and Thomas Lloyd, steam saw mill proprietors and timber merchants, carrying on an extensive business in Waterloo-road, Bishop's-road, Victoria Park. The premises were of great extent, inasmuch as the mills were 80 feet long and 40 feet wide. They were two storeys high, and were most expensively fitted up with machinery, including that in the sawing, planing, and timber compart ments ; those were of course independent of the boiler-houses and engine -houses. About eight o'clock in the morning, as one of the men was entering the yard leading to the factory he noticed smoke issuing from that portion of the mills nearest the boiler-house, and before he had time to give an alarm the flames curled round the boiler-house or engine-room, and took a direction towards the stables. Mr. Green, the porter at Bethnal-green workhouse, and another official named Nettlefold, and Garner, the Royal Society's escape conductor, at once pulled out the engine belonging to that establishment, and with the aid of a number of paupers the machine was got to work from an abundant supply of water, under the supervision of Mr. Edinger, the chief inspector. The flames had by that time, however, assumed too fearful an aspect to yield to the water that could be thrown by one engine, and being fed by such in flammable articles as thin deal cuttings and shavings, they speedily extended to the upper floors of the mills, and also to the costly stacks of timber in the open yard adjoining. Bartony the engineer of Shoreditch parish, next attended with his engine, and that machine was also got to work, but the water thrown b 3 two engines was perfectly in adequate to get any control over such a body of flame as then existed. Fortunately, Mr. Maidman, the engineer of Wellclose-square engine -house, at tended with the powerful steamer by Shand and Mason of Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars-road, and the machine having been backed to the banks of the canal, it was set to work; but in spite of the many toss weight of water thrown upon the fire, it still continued its ravages, and at length the whole of the mills shot forth in one direction such an im mense body of flame as extended to the two floors over, engulphing them as it were, when the scene became one of fearful grandeur, for the fire and sparks rose to an enormous altitude, firing sundry stacks of timber in front and also on the wharf lead ing to the canal. Fortunately Capt. Shaw and Foremen Swinton and J. Gerrard arrived with another steam engine by Shand and Mason, which was also set to work from the mains of the East London Company, and some thousand tons weight of water were momen tarily discharged into the blazing property ; but as the water fell upon the iron machinery, including circular, horizontal, and perpendicular saws, it twisted them into a variety of misshapen forms, and at one time it was feared. the steam-engines would have exploded. Just as an immense number of deals and other planks standing round in front and on the wharf had become ignited, the powerful steam en gines were brought to bear upon the stacks, and fortunately they did wonderful execution by cutting off at once the further extension of the flames through the valuable piles of timber ; but in spite of the in defatigable exertions of the firemen the flames could not be wholly extinguished for some time, and not until the steam saw mills and two floors over, to gether with the valuable stock in trade and ma chinery, were destroyed, the roof burned off, and the stock in open yard considerably damaged by fire and water. Fortunately, the horses were all taken out, and removed to Bethnal-green Workhouse by Messrs. Green, Nettlefold, and Garner. The origin of the fire is at present not known. When the premises were closed the overnight the fires in the furnaces appeared to have been properly extinguished, and not so much as anything smoul dering could be detected, and it was not until one of the workmen went in to look after the horses that the fire was seen, and even at that time it appeared to be confined principally to the boiler.house ; but upon opening the doors the draught caused the flames to extend almost with the rapidity of light ning. The total loss will amount to several thousand pounds, and will fall upon the Phoenix Fire-office. CATHERINE WILSON. EXTRAORDINARY_ STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER. The following is a copy of the statement of her case, drawn up by the prisoner herself a few days before her execution, and transmitted to the Home Secretary to be laid before her Majesty, imploring the clemency of the Crown. The expressions made use of are the prisoner's own, and the document was written in a firm legible hand, and there were merely a few errors in the spelling : "To her Most Gracious Majesty—l most humbly beg your Majesty's pardon for the liberty I have taken in sending this paper, and crave your Ma jesty's most merciful consideration of my case. I am now lying under sentence of death for the dreadful crime of poisoning, which I solemnly declare I am innocent of. I am very deaf, and was unable to hear any of the evidence upon my trial, therefore could not contradict anything that was said. I have been in prison six months, and unable to get the evidence to come forward on my behalf for want of means, my means being all exhausted ; and yet, without one witness, there has never been proved one person or place I had ever had poison of, nor that I had ever had poison in my possession. One witness says I told her the day of the death of Mrs. Soames the death was not a natural one, for Mrs. Soames had taken poison in my room on the Wed nesday night before ; yet this witness, though a friend of the family's for six years before, living with the daughters two years afterwards, never named it to anybody till now, six years afterwards, when I am tried for my life, then comes for wie G A to say I told her this, which I never did. Then comes another witness and friend of the family for 2: years, who declares I told her there would be a let ter come to the house on the Monday. She says I told her this on the Sunday before the letter came, yet before this letter did come it was never told to Mr. Barnes, Mrs. Soames's brother, nor her two daughters, nor any one else until my trial. I never did tell either of those witnesses anything of the kind. How strange those two women should be friends of the family both before and after death. When the inquest was held not a word was ever said by either of the parties what I had said. No, because I h a d never said anything of the kind to them. Mrs. Hawkshaw, a niece of Mrs. Soames, was in attendance upon her most all the time on the Thursday, and Thursday night she attended her alone ; not until Friday and Friday night did I at tend and sit u p w i th the daughter unt i l she died. Mrs. Hawk s h aw was sent by her aunt to buy the penny st amp I p aper to give me f or to show that had lent M rs. Soames £10; it was wrote every word by Mrs. Soames herself. It was never disputed by the family or sa i d one wor d against until now , s i x y e ars afterwa r d s ; y e t thi s w it ness was n ot called. Mrs. Soame s ' s c i rcumstances were no t good, and she could not meet her tradesmen's bills. She be. longed to a building society. She had a cer tain sum of money to pay every week, and to pay that with she always had to pledge her pro perty, The two daughters say they never knew their mother to lend me any money, and I always paid my rent every week, Bs. 6d. I could have no motive for taking this poor woman's life. It was known by the witnesses that Mrs. Soames thought of marrying again to better her circumstances to a man I had frequently heard her talk of, but I never saw. The letters produced in court a day or two after the death of Mrs. Soames came to the house. Two people is called to say they believe it to be wrote by me, although in a d:sguised hand. When asked if they ever saw me write, one says he never saw me write, the other says he saw me write seven years ago. Neither of these two men ever saw me write in their lives. lam sure I did not write that letter. A part of it was torn away. A false report has been circulated in the papers that I understood the nature of medicine, for I had lived with a Dr. Mawer, of Boston, which I never did, nor was there a Dr. Mawer living there at any time. All this proved very injurious to me. Every person that I have attended upon, and done my best for, those that have died, has been exhumed, and nothing found in them like poison, or any poison traced to my possession, or any doctor says anything against me, except one, whose evidence is false, and yet I am condemned to die. I therefore through (throw) myself on your Majesty's most merciful considera tion, and pray to God to be more merciful than man. ',remain, your Majesty's most humble servant, " CATHERINE WILSON." LARGE DISTRIBUTION OF POISONED MUSSELS IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The following extraordinary case has been re ported to the borough coroner this morning :—A day or two ago a wooden vessel, which has been lying in the Birkenhead Dock for the last 18 months was brought over to Liverpool and placed in one of the Clarence graving docks for repairs. On the dock being run dry yesterday the vessel's bottom was found to be coated with thousands of mussels, and the ship carpenters and other persons engaged about the dock collected many basketsful and took them to their homes. A ship carpenter, named Cun ningham, living in No. 5 Court, Prussia•street, took about a quart of them home, and about half-past six they were cooked by his sister, Bridget Cun ningham, 24 years of age, who keeps house for him. Afterwards both brother and sister partook of the mussels, and gave some to a couple of young chil dren residing in the same court. About 8 o'clock all of them were taken ill, with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. Bridget Cunningham grew rapidly worse, and at a quarter before 11 o'clock she died, after suffering great agony. A little before this, Mr. Williams, surgeon, of Leeds-street and Vaux hall-road, was called in, and though too late to save the young woman, his energetic efforts were effec tive in the case of Cunningham himself and the two children, who, after passing through a serious crisis, are now in a fair way of recovery. Mr. Williams was also called in to attend another ship carpenter living in No. 6 Court, Johnson street, who had also taken home some of the mussels, and eaten them. This man's life was despaired of during the night, but he is now supposed to be out of danger, though quite unable to move his limbs. Several other persons in the neighbourhood who also partook of the mussels are also similarly though less seriously affected, and as a great quantity were taken from the dock by various persons it is feared that the ill effects will be very extensive. The attention of the health officers was directed to the matter, and orders were given for the mussels to be collected and destroyed, to prevent as far as possible further mischief. We understand that the hull of the vessel was not coated with copper, but with a green composition, similar to that which is used for the bottoms of iron vessels, and it is supposed that a large proportion of arsenic forms an ingredient in its manufacture. : An inquest will be held on the body on the wo man Cunningham on 11 onday. SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING BY STRYCHNINE. SHIELDS, SATURDAY. This evening Mr. Reid, the coroner for South Northumberland, opened an inquest in the Town hall, North Shields, on the body of Mrs. Jane Gil lespie, of Wellington-street, who died this day fort night, after an hour's illness. The case is causing great excitement in Shields. This afternoon, by an order from the coroner, the body was exhumed in the new cemetery, and this evening Mr. Newton, surgeon, Dr. M'Nay, and Dr. May, of Newcastle, assisted, on the part of the husband, by Mr. Mur ray, of the School of Medicine, and Mr. Fawcett, are engaged with a post mortem examination, and the viscera will he sent to an analytical chemist. At the inquest which was opened this evening, Mr. Brignal, solicitor, of Durham, appeared for the hus band of the deceased, but no evidence was taken, the inquest being adjourned until Thursday after noon. The facts of the unfortunate cases are as follows: Mrs. Gillespie, a tall woman, of full habit of body, had been unwell of a cold, and procured a bottle of medicine from her medical attendant. She was out on Saturday morning making purchases, and re turned to her home about noon, took two table spoonfuls of medicine, and was immediately after attacked with alarming symptoms of tetanus; and though every effort was made to save her she was dead in little better than an hour. Her medical at tendant gave a certificate that her death was from bronchitis; but the husband, from the symptoms, supposing that there was something wrong, gave a few drops to a cat, which died shortly after appa rently in extreme agony. After the interment of his wife's body he took the remaining portion of the medicine to Dr. Pattison, analytical chemist, N6W•-• castle, who after analysing it, gave a certificate to the effect that it contained strychnine in the proportion of 11 grains to each fluid ounce of the mixture. Mr. Gillespie having made the case known to the authorities, the coroner issued his warrant for the disinterment of the body. The Town-hall was crowded with respectable inhabitants of the town daring the short time the coroner's court sat. The name of the medical at tendant did not transpire before the coroner's court. 7HE SHOCKING PIT ACCIDENT AT POR7 OBELLO. lOn Friday the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the men killed by this accident was concluded at the Gough's Arms, Portobello. The accuracy of a plan presented having been proved, the witness for whom the inquiry was adjourned was called. Thomas Griffith, a fireman at the engines connected with the pit at whi c h th e acc id en t happened, said that on Friday evening, while standing near the mouth of the pit, he saw the banksman, after land ing a full skip, hook the tackler skip on the chain, as though to send it to the bottom of the shaft for the men, who the witness su pposed had called f or it. When the skip had, as the witness supposed, reached half way up the shaft i n its ascent to the surface, witness saw the empty skip running towards the brink of the shaft. The banksman, John Dyke, immediately ran to the waggon, from which he wa s standing about three yards , and tried to push it over the mouth of the shaft, but was i mpe d e d b oth by the descending skip and also b y t h e cha i n at tached to the skip in which the men were ascend ng. If a skip were properly " scotched " it would be prevented from runnin g i n t o a p i t, and it was, the witness .thought, the d u t y o f the banksman to use a " scotching '' apparatus. A man named Wel lings,.who was not sworn , asserted that at the time the wind was blowing in a terrific manner. In con sequence of the contradiction given in some points by Robert Heaton to his evidenc e on Saturday, he was again sworn, and stated that he acted under the banksman's directions at this pit. A few minutes before th e acc id ent th e " d ra wing'' skip, which afterwards ran into the pit, was placed on the line of rails, from which it after: wards ran, by the witness. Dyke then " scotched" one of its wheels by the stone produced, which the witness thought was quite sufficient to prevent any skip from moving. The banksman having been cautioned, said that be hung the tackle skip on the chain when a call was made from below. He saw that the " drawing" sk i p was upon . the wrong line of' rails, and thought it was not sate to then put it upon another line, and conseque n tl y pushed it fu r th er away, " sco tching" the wheel with the stone produced_ He then went to the "clapper" on , the oth er s id e, an d s houted to the m en b e l ow . 1 he usual sign was given, and the engine then com menced to draw them U. Heard a skip rattle,and turned a glance to the skip which had been scotched. Saw it going towards the pit's mouth. Tried ti?a push the waggon over but was prevented, by the alp. Shouted, and heard the Mali who was eventually saved say "Go on." Told the engineer to go on. A man came, to whom he said that the skip had fallen, and said he thought some of the men had been ki led. The Jury, after a short consultation, gave the following as their verdict:—" That the deceased me „; came by their deaths through the gross neglect of the ban in having the skip upon the wrong it q m a n , rails; and the jury also consider him guilty of man slaughter."—Birminglian: Post. ALLEGED CHILD MURDER AT D ALSTON On Saturday Mr. John Humphreys, one of the Middlesex coroners, held an inquiry at the Adam and Eve Tavern, Lower Homerton, respecting the death of the newly-born child of Salome Newman, the body of which was found in the chimney of the house in which the girl Newman was employed as a servant. Mrs. E. S. Polt on , 14, N avar i no - roa d, D a l s t on , said that the girl named Salome Newman entered her service on the Bth March. In August witness taxed her with being in the family way, but she vehemently denied it. On last Friday night they retired to rest as usua], but the next morning wit ness was awakened by a noise. She heard the girl saying " Oh, lam dying, I am dying." The girl went down stairs. Witness put on her things and went to the girl, who said she did not know what was the matter with her. She stoutly denied that she had given birth to a child. On the Wednesday the detective discovered the body of the child in the chimney in the girl's room. No man had visited the girl while she was in witness's house to her knowledge. She had a good character with the girl from her last employer. Clarke, 22K, a detective, said that upon searching the premises, he found the body of the deceased in the chimney of the girl's room. It was wrapped in the apron produced, and a staylace was tied round the child's neck. The girl did not say anything. Mrs. Polton said that the apron looked like one of the girl Newman's. Dr. G. F. White said that he was called in to the girl Newman, and found manifest proofs that she had recently given birth to a child. Nevertheless she absolutely denied the fact. He subsequently eaw the body of a female child in the workhouse, wrapped in the apron produced. There was a cord, or staylace, twice coiled round the neck with ex treme violence, but the cord was not tied in a knot. If the staylace had been twisted round the neck to produce strangulation, he was afraid it would pro duce the same effect as that visible. The tongue protruded, the face was livid, and the flesh was raised considerably between the two coils of cord. Death resulted from strangulation. The lungs were fully inflated. By Mr. Shorter—lt was not likely that the liga ture had been fastened round the neck of the de ceased by the mother to assist in her delivery. The birth had apparently taken place down stairs. The girl denied the birth obstinately, but when pressed she admitted that she had been placed in a position that might have led to her pregnancy by —as he understood—a former lodger in the house. The Coroner said that he should adjourn the case luntil the girl Newman was sufficiently recovered to be brought before the court. The court then adjourned accordingly. EXTRAORDINARY FREAK OF A CAPTAIN. 1 The fine barque Usk, built in this port three years ago, and owned by Mr. Thomas Beynon, Dock-street, left Swansea for Caldera, with coals, towards the end of April last. After being a short time out, Captain Mathias, the master, put back to Newport, and the owner had the vessel thoroughly re-caulked and re-metalled. She proceeded to sea from Newport in May, and, after a fine passage, reached Falkland Islands, having been 59 days out, and Cape Horn in 62 days. Here a gale came on, which rapidly increased to a hurricane, and threatened the ship every instant with total destruc tion: She stood beating about to the southward of the Cape, and at length the captain walked aft and " up with the wheel," telling the men " to wear the ship." The mate was then asleep below, and the crew of course judged that the object of this must have been to get out of the hurricane and into smooth water to the eastward of the Cape. They soon found that the ship was speeding along in the direction of Falkland Islands. This also gave satisfaction. But Falkland Islands were passed, and the ship still proceeded on her course, leaving the Cape far behind. The mate then came aft and asked Captain Mathias where he was taking the ship, and why he neithertook her into a place of shelter, nor prosecuted the voy age to Caldera. Captain Mathias told him that " God Almighty had come into his cabin and ordered him to take the ship back to Newport, threatening him that if he took her on her voyage the ship and all her crew should be destroyed." He added that a mystery hung over the matter which should never be revealed, but that the vision appeared to him on the occasion of the hurricane off Cape Horn, and " such being the will of the Almighty, he should not place himself in opposition to it for the sake of the owner, the ship, or anything else." This intelligence must have startled the mate, but he re monstrated with the captain with some firmness. He said, " Consider the serious loss you will cause the owner by pursuing this course." And willing at any rate to save the owners, he went further, and proposed that Captain Mathias should go ashore, leaving him, or putting some one else on board to take command and prosecute the voyage. This course, he urged, would release the captain from the consequences of disobeying the commands of the Most High. Captain Mathias immediately said, " When my command of this ship is taken from me, take a knife and stab me with it till I die. It cuts me to the heart to take the ship home, and perhaps ruin the owners, but such being the will of God, I cannot disobey it for the sake of man." The mate appealed to the crew, but they said that they saw nothing the matter with the captain, and they therefore thought it was their duty to continue to obey him. Consequently, he ceased all opposition to the captain's will, and the Usk continued her passage home safe and sound from top to bottom, her captain apparently happy and free from all care, and devoting his leisure hours to the "conver sion" of his crew. Prayers were held nightly at seven, and from that till nine none were allowed to enter his sanctum, the cabin, where no doubt he passed the time in ghostly studies. Newport and Newport Docks were reached safely on Tuesday evening, and, as may be supposed, this extraordi nary tale was repeated with a thousand exaggera tions and additions throughout the town, with the speed of wildfire. Captain Mathias at once pro ceeded to Mr. Benyon's residence, and reported his arrival to his amazed owner, who became very naturally somewhat excited, when Mathias said, "If you can't behave like a gentleman I shall go home." Mr. Benyon replied that he was his em ployer, and he merely demanded a report of how 'he had acquitted himself of the trust he had reposed in him. Mathias then detailed how the Most High had entered his cabin and warned him against prosecuting the voyage, telling him that he was to go back straight to Newport, and if not, the ship and the whole of her crew should perish. Mr. Benyon, we are told, highly scandalised, here told Mathia to " blaspheme no more," and the conversa tion took a more reasonable turn, Mathias insisting upon his statement, and the owner listening to the tale as the narration of some strange dream. The captain, on Wednesday morning, took away every thing belonging to him from the ship. We may add that the foregoing has been taken entirely from the statements of the mate and the captain them selves, and may be relied upon as the correct version or this extraordinary affair.—Brzstol Mercury. ARRES7 OF A BANK MANAGER AT MANCHESTER. A good deal of excitement was created at Man chester on Saturday, by the arrest of Mr. Jonah Andrews, " manager" of the City Bank of Man chester, on a charge of abstracting and applying to his own use property of the bank to a very large amount. The bank stopped payment last Tuesday, and on Saturday evening a meeting of from 300 to 400 " shareholders" and creditors of the concern was held in the Assembly-room, Free-trade hall, to hear from the manager an exposition of its affairs. The meeting had just commenced, and the manager was about to speak, when it was observed that there was a stranger in the room. The intruder was no other than Sergeant Shanley, of the city police, who on being ordered to withdraw produced a warrant for the apprehension of Andrews, and at once proceeded to execute it. The prisoner was con veyed in a hackney coach to the lockup at the Town hall. The warrant had been granted by the city magistrates on Friday at the instance of Mr. Samuel Lyon, merchant and broker, and charges the pri soner with having taken and applied to his own use the sum of £37 17s. 6d., entrusted to him for the purpose of meeting a bill of exchange at the Union Bank, Moorgate-street, London. There are other charges against him, one of which is that he has abstracted and pledged securities held by the bank, and these malpractices will involve, it is said, a loss to the proprietors of something like £120,000. The City Bank of Manchester, we are informed, was originally started by Mr. Andrews on his own account, but with a very insignificant capital, as a savings bank, but by degrees it changed its character and became a loan and insur ance as well as a savings bank, the persons who lodged their savings in the bank becoming, under the scheme of Mr. Andrews, proprietors, and loan ing their money at high rates of interest. The shares were fixed at £5O each, which a depositor might pay either in one sum, or by monthly instalments of £1 extending over 50 months. The proprietors were divided into and worked in classes, each class appointing a committee to act on its behalf and re ceive and deal with applications for loans under the advice and with the assistance of Mr. Andrews, who for these services was paid a salary of £5,000 per annum, and was in fact the manager. We do not know how many shareholders there are in the bank, and how many constitute a class, but we learn that there are 120 classes, and that the holder of two shares of (£100) is eligible for elec tion upon the committee of his class. Some of the proprietors are mon of property, many of them shopkeepers and small tradesmen, and some of them warehousemen and clerks, who have come in under the monthly deposit scheme. The shareholders appear to have had almost unbounded confidence in their manager, and he had consequently access to all the deeds and other securities held for loans, and some of these securities are said to be for as much as £7,000. The charges for loans varied from 10 to 15 per cent., according to the supposed value of the security offered, and where advances were large the borrower was required to give a life ME7ROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The usual meeting of the Board of Works was held yes terday; Mr. J. TUWAITES in the chair. THE EMBANKMENT OP THE THAMES. A report was brought up from the Main Drainage Com mittee, stating that, the board having on the Bth of August referred to them the report of the royal commission on an embankment for the south side of the river, they had con sidered the same and drawn up their report, and they sug gested that a special day should be set apart by the board to consider it. The motion was put and agreed to. The chief engineer presented the following report on the scheme of the Thames embankment referred to in the act of last session, between Westminster and Blackfriars-bridges " The Thames Embankment Act and the plans referred to therein define in general terms the main features of the work entrusted to this board for execution. But it remains for this board to determine with what materials the em bankment should be constructed, what should be the depth of its foundations, and its solidity, and strength ; also what should be the general appearance or design, whether it should be constructed with or without a cofferdam, and the modes of forming the low level sewer, with its branch con nection and all other matters of detail. The act provides that the powers of the Board for the compulsory purchase of property shall not be exercised after the expiration of five years from the passing of the act; but it does not limit the period for the execution of the work. Having referred to the limits of deviation, the report went on to say that the face of the embankment is to commence at the northern abutment of Westminster-bridge in a line with the existing embankment in front of the Houses of Parlia ment, and it will extend in a slightly curved line to the northern brick pier of Hungerford-bridge. At Richmond terrace it will be 220 feet in front of the present high water line, at Scotland-yard 400 feet, and at Hungerford bridge 300 ft. From Hungerford-bridge it will continue to the first pier of Waterloo-bridge, and opposite Buckingham street it will extend 450 ft. into the river, opposite Salisbury street 300 ft., and opposite Somerset-house 130 ft The solid embankment is to terminate on the eastern side of Temple gardens, where it will extend 200 ft. into the river. A road way 100 ft. wide is to be formed upon that portion of the em bankment nearest the river. From the junction of this road way with Westminster-bridge it will fall, at an inclination of 1 in 80 to the level of the embankment, which is to be 4ft. above Trinity high-water mark. The roadway will pass under Hungerford and Waterloo bridges ; and at the east end of Temple gardens it will be reduced to 70 feet in width, and be carried upon columns rising at an in clination of 1 in 60 to the level of Chatham -place, Black friars-bridge. The river Thames at London -bridge has a clear waterway of about 700 feet. At Southwark-bridge the waterway is about 700 feet. It then rapidly ex pands in width, and will, when the embankment is formed, be 900 feet - wide above Blackfriars -bridge, and 1,020 feet at Hungerford-bridge. . . The ap proaches or connecting roads between the embankment roadway and the existing streets are to be formed in the following manner :—A roadway not less than 40 feet in width, and with an inclination of not less than 1 in 30, is to be carried in the form of a crescent to the foot of Arundel, Norfolk, and Surrey streets in the Strand. A new street is to be formed from Wellington-street, opposite Somerset-house, falling at an inclination of 1 in 40 under Hungerford-bridge, near to Northumberland-wharf, and connected with 'Whitehall-place by a prolongation thereof. A street connecting Whitehall, opposite the Horse Guards, with the embankment roadway is to be formed through Whitehall -yard and Whitehall-stairs, nearly on a level. The approaches to the embankment roadway will require your careful consideration, inasmuch as the usefulness of that roadway will depend mainly on the facilities which are provided for connecting it with the existing lines of thoroughfare. The streets, which run at right angles from the Strand down to the embankment, Norfolk-street ex cepted, are so narrow and steep as to be very incon venient as public thoroughfares. A convenient communi cation between Charing-cross and the eoadway on the em bankment should form a prominent feature in the design, and would probably tend to relieve the Strand and Fleet street more than any other, but provision has not been made for such a line of communication. The most direct and most convenient route that could be suggested would unquestionably be in a direct line through the gardens close to the back of Northumberland House ; but if that should be regarded as too bold and costly an approach, I submit that a very advantageous one may be obtained by purchasing the block of houses between Northumberland and Craven-street, and passing in a curved line from the east corner of Northumberland House, between Northum berland and Craven-streets, on to the embankment road way. This route from Charing -cross to the east would be 400 feet nearer than by Whitehall-place, and 100 feet nearer than along the Strand and down Norfolk-street, and its inclination would not be less than 1 in 56, which is much better than could be obtained by the other routes. It would also most effectually relieve the present thorough fares where they are the most crowded. I submit also, that the high level roadway, instead of starting from opposite Somerset-house, in the narrow part of Wellington-street, should begin in the Strand, at its junction with Welling ton-street, and may be otherwise advantageously modifiad, as shown upon plans which have been prepared for the consideration of the board. Having referred to the powers of the conservators of the Thames, the report thus con cludes :—The borings along the embankment are now nearly completed, and the result up to the present time indi cates that it will be necessary to carry the foundations of the embankment down to the blue clay, which will be about 25 feet below the present bed of the river. This will, I believe, be found to be most economically effected by sink ing iron caissons filled with concrete for the foundations, and by raising upon them from below the level of low-water mark o a a solid granite-faced e m b an k men t, w ithout the cofferdam. The low level sewer will be constructedbewhihniodh, and under the protection of the embankment wa l l, works. The will greatly facilitate the formation of thaegseously divided embankment may probably be advant o ii,t e s which have into two contracts, but the numer.ouarsy p report will require been touched upon in this prelimini m th a e tu d r e e lib d e e r s a ig ti n on s aofndthperbepoaarred tbheofoaroentrraeoctes of the work. Thesebweeourkosbctaaninneodt,ohfotwheeveprr,obpeerctyaratinedd out until possession has the foreshore river which will be of a th n e d serve the notices, and that arrangements in terfered with ; and I recommend. in terests alonggements be forth withToEf ,thEengbinueseinr.ess made to promote this object, and that the proper offi cers be instructed to prepare L I It push forward this necessarily ,, ted js i A ou zA s without delay.• The report was received and ordered to be taken into consideration on a future day, The following is the engineer's report on the southern embankment : , i Gentlemen,--I beg to report that_the Thames Nua- bankment Commission have divided this district into three sections; the first extending from Deptfoi A to Westmins ter-bridge ; the second from Westmin, stet , bridge to Vauxhall-bridge ; an d the third from Vauxl. tall-bridge to Battersea-park. With reference to the first section, the commission have regarded the existing thor,lughfares, coupled with the new stre+et now being formed by yo u, suffi cient for the accommodaWon of the traffic; and they believe that the flooding of those districts may be obviated by a more efficient system of drainage, and consider that no public ne cessity exists for an embankment for this section. They, however, admit that sk.ich art embankment would improTe the navigation of the river, izicrease the wharfage accom modation, and ensure uniform ity of design, and that every facility should be afforded to th e wharfowners and occupiers t o el ; able them to do this work, s.hould they desire it. With respect to their 2d and 3d sect,'ons, they recommend the formation of an embanked road way from Westminster bridge to Batters ea-park, about 4ft. 6in. above Trinity high water mark, and 70n, wide, and tw o Ludes in length. To be on an ornamental viaduct opposite the Houses of Parlia ment to Bishop's-walk, then on a solid embankment, with the exception of a further length of arching from the Lon don Gas Works to Nine Elms. They further recommend the dredging of this portion of the bG'ttotrt of the river to a level sft. below low water, and estimato th ese works, with the requisite approaches, at £1,100,000. submit for your consideration, that a more convenient subdivision of this district will be to regard the distance from Deptford to London-bridge as the first section, from London• bridge to Westminster-bridge as the second section, and from West minster-bridge to Battersea-park as the third section. The first section, then, according to this subdivision, has not been referred to me by you, and indeed does not require your immediate consideration, inasmuch as no works are at, present contemplated for this section on the north side which. would affect the south. With respect to the second section —viz., from London to Westminster bridjes—l am unable to concur in the views arrived at by the Royal Commission, excepting so far as regards there being no necessity for the formation of a roadway along the fore-shore of the river. Indeed, the commissioners, in admitting that an embank ment would improve the navigation of the river :And ensure uniformity of design, have themselves made out a case of public necessity for such an embankment ; which, h t , , wever, they do not admit. But there are other and still more cogent reasons why such an embankment should be, and must eventually be constructed. It has been stated in evidence before the commissioners that the existing em' baukments are defective, and that the low lying: districts behind them are consequently flooded at high. tides; and my own personal observation confirms these statements. The foundations of many of these embankments are very shallow and defective, some of them not being more than three feet in depth ; so that when the embankment on the north side is completed, and the mud banks and shoals in the river dredged away, and the strength of the tideway brought over nearer to the south side, the safety of these wharves will be endangered ; and they will assuredly, if they are not attended to, be undermined and come down. For these reasons, I am of opinion that this section of the south side of the river must be embanked to an uniform line ; and it cannot be left to the option of the different owners and. occupiers of the property to deal with this embankment in detached sections as they think best. I recommend that powers should be given to this board to construct such an embankment, the cost of which I have estimated at about £250,000, and that the property reclaimed should be given to the adjoining owners, and the board should have power to charge such property with a portion of the cost of the formation of the embankment, proportionate to the value and extent of the property so reclaimed and added to their premises. In this way the property reclaimed would pay the owners for the cost of reclaiming it, and the board would receive back the greater portion of the outlay ; so that the public would thus derive a great public improve ment at a very small cost, As to the particular mode of raising the money, and adjusting its repayment by the owners of the property improved the members of the board, should they adopt this view, are more competent to judge than myself. The commissioners have recommended works for the it:tprovement of section No. 3, the main features of which this beard would doubtless desire to see carried out, and the details connected with which will probably be carefully reconsidered before committees of the houses of parliament during the coming session. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) "J. W..BAZALGETTE, Engineer." This report was received, and ordered to be considered on a future day. The rest of the business having been disposed of, the board adjourned. . COUNTRY MARX.LiAS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. Wheat was in fair supply to-day, and the prices of this day se'nnight advanced is per quarter on all descriptions. There was a good quantity of barley, but the high prices asked by farmers checked business; the sales made, how ever, were effected at an advance of is per qr for malting and distilling sorts. In oats, beans, and peas not much. doing. Flour in favour of the seller. ( White wheat. 4tis to 51e Red wheat 42s to 500 Malting barley ...34s to 378 Chevalier barley 33s to 358 Distilling d 0..... 28s io 30s Oats.. 25f , to 30s Flour, 30s 6d to —s Od per sack from the miller. LE ICE STER--SATunnAT. Old white wheat, 60s to 6 2 s ; new, Ms to 58s per 36 stone. Old red, 648 to 678 per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 34s to 388 per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 325; o!d oats, 29s to 31s ; new oats, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, new, —s to —s ; old, 4ls to 43s per 38 stone. NORTHAMPTON-SATURDAY. - - New wheat, 40s to 555; old, 50s to 578. Barley, 28s to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 288; old, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 398 to 425; new, 32s to 38s. Peas, 38s to 44s per qr. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. White wheat, from 66s to 63s ; red wheat, 46s to 608. Barley—malting, 36s to 43s ; grinding, 29s to 325. Oats old, at 258 to 31s Od ; new, 23s to 275. Beans sold at 418 to 45s per qr. Flour, 41s to 445. YORK- SATURDAY. Wheat, red .44s to 48s I Oats . 22s to 24 9 White do .50s to 56s Beans 42e to 44g Barley .32s to 36s Peas . ;ur sto , — 4 - 6 : Malt, 64s to 66s p er qr. ; rye, 39 s per qr.;.• to 42s per sack. CORK-0 CT. 24. The following were the quotations this morning :_Red wheat, 16s Od to 24s 3d ; white, 20s Od to 28s Od, barley, f 0 6d to 13s Od ; oats, 8s Od to 13s 3d. ; new bore, —s Od to —s Od. .00T. 24 d. Beans.. s. 24 0 •• Coto 27 A 0 Bere l5 3 to 16 A v Rapeseed 0 to Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 0 Bakers' flour l6 6 to 21 6 Indian corn DUBLIN• s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 30 0 to 34 0 Do., red .. 27 0t032 0 Do., new .... oto 0 Barley Oats Do., black l4 6to 16 6 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Nov 19. via Marseilles iirazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. N o v. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Nov. 1 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Nov. 2. via Marseilles __Oct. 27" Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Oct. 2 6 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton. •Nev• 24 via Marseilles.... Oct. o`. ' India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Oct. 20. Lisbon Nov. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 26. via Marseilles Oct. ---• Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .............. 23. U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... °et. by U.S. packet.. .• W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and T by en C e a ri n fr a e c l i nr c..k. . Oct. 23. Bahamas, via New York ......... . ......... .. Oct. 29. ........ • • Mexico - . ......................... __, :, Peru , 1 1 All parts of West Indies, including uT . L . I ...... Oct.• 29. California, and British Columbia. .. e .. . t .. . ii. , l c o t v . .2 4 10 . . at 3 0 , , w M a a r l a r a i n W g o t r o t n it• p s t i r a e c e e t : Donaldsonoia daughter. u E g a h l BIRTH S. BELMORE.—On the 24th i n Dublin, the Countess of lielniore, of , a daughter. CALnow.—On the 23d inst., at Red-hill, the wife of R. F. Calrow, Esq., of a son. 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