The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-29 00:00:00

BdILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NOTTINGHAM AND GRANTIIAM. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London 'Tavern—Mr. J. Wyles in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. _ _ The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it showed their position at the present time, and the accounts explained their operations during the past half-year. The Act of Parliament had altered the name of the company from the Am bergate to the Nottingham and Grantham. The provisions in the Act would enable them to dis charge the existing debts of the company, to reduce their £l2 10s. shares to £l2 each, reduce the num ber of the Board, and to make other minor arrange ments. Although called the Nottingham and Grantham, it formed part of the through line from the important town of Nottingham to London. The directors had looked with great interest to the pro gress of their railway, which now appeared to be going on very satisfactorily. He thought the Great Northern were very sincere in their efforts to de velope the traffic on the line. The mineral traffic showed a considerable increase, and should it go on at the same rate he felt sanguine that their expec tations under the agreement would be fully realised. He could see enough to convince him that the anti cipated traffic would be attained if their line con tinued to be fairly and systematically worked, He had no doubt that in the course of three or four years the line would yield more than the 41 per cent., at which the Great Northern had the option of taking the line. He should feel very much dis appointed if the line did not fully realise that amount ; but they had no fear of the result if pro perly worked. With a view to improve the divi dend on the share capital, the directors had it in contemplation to pay off the debenture debt as it became due, by calling up portions of the re maining two pounds on each share. There was a sum of £BO,OOO which would become due in October next, and it was proposed to make a call of £1 per share to pay off the debentures to that amount. The interest upon which aver aged 41 per cent., while their present dividend was only 31 per cent.; the difference would increase the dividend on the shares, and tend to improve their value. When they paid off their debentures they would have £5,000 or £6,000 a year available to increase their dividend on the ordinary shares, which would then be fully paid and converted into stock. The capital would consist of ordinary stock only, having neither loans nor preference shares. He considered the position of the company now much better than it had ever been, and he hoped and trusted that the traffic would continue to pro gress and give them more satisfactory dividends than at present. Mr. BEASLEY seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report. Mr. HUGGINS did not see the object of paying off the loans to reduce the capital, because the pre sent share capital would be increased by the amount of the loans, and the company would still retain the power of borrowing the money again and thus increasing the capital. The CHAIRMAN said it was the intention of the directors to have no borrowed capital, and in that respect they would be in a better position than any other company. They could not avoid having the power to borrow to the extent of £265,000, but they did not intend to exercise it ; at the same time it might be a great advantage to the company to be able to borrow at some future period any sum they might require to improve their property. They proposed soon to call up £1 per share, but any proprietor might pay up the £2 share in full, upon £1 of which in advance of the call he would be allowed interest at 4 per cent. per annum. In about six or eight months more another call would be made, and the whole of the borrowed money would be paid off within 12 months from the pre sent time. Resolutions were passed 'adopting the report, and declaring a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share, being at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, payable on the 4th of September. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. WILKINSON, a formal resolution was passed authorizing the consolidation of the whole or any number of the shares into a general ctipital stock of the company when fully paid up. The retiring directors, Mr. J. Wyles, Mr. J. F. Burbridge, and Mr. T. Calvert, were unanimously re-elected, and also Mr. Austen, the retiring auditor. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, thanks were voted to Mr. Thornton on his retirement from the board, for past services, and it was agreed that the vacancy should not be filled up. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and directors, and to Mr. Gough, the secretary, for their able service and attention to the interests of the company. WEST CORNWALL. The report of the directors states that there is a continued increase of traffic, notwithstanding that all the contemplated arrangements for carrying through traffic have not as yet been completed. Comparing the half-year's accounts with those of the corresponding period of 1859, it appears that 48,953 additional passengers have been carried, producing £1,100; in the amount received for the carriage of parcels, which include fish, there has been an increase from £6Bl to £1,563, and in gene ral merchatidise 3,055 tons more have been carried, yielding in taoney £785. There is still an increase in the coal carried, but a further falling off in the copper ore. The revenue account shows a total re ceipt of £17,740 as against £16,140 in the corre sponding period of 1859, being an increase of £2,600, while the disbursements show an increase of £1,165 only, leaving a balance of £6,000 to be carried to the credit of general revenue account as against £4,564 in 1859. The balance standing to the credit of the general revenue account is now £9,509. The aggregate of this profit has been appropriated in the form of a suspense account, to provide means for the extension of the business of the company. It is necessary, therefore, that some other mode should be devised ,for providing capi tal for such purposes before the profits which accrue from the working of the line can be available for division among the proprietary. The directors, with a view of meeting the wishes of those prolirie tors who consider that the current profits of the company should be divided, and at the same time preserving unimpaired the credit of the company, are strongly o f o pi n i on th at t h e w i sest course woul d be to obtain power to issue the shares held by the company as preference shares. If this plan meets the approval of the proprietors, the Board will take the steps necessary for making an appli ca ti on to Parliament in the ensuing session for a bill to en able the company to issue such shares, or portions thereof, as preference shares, as from time to time the proprietors may see fit. In the application to Parliament the directors would also ask for power to convert the debenture debt into debenture stock. The directors feel every confidence that if this plan should be carried out the necessary capital can be obtained on easy terms, and the company would thus be enabled to divide the profits among the shareholders_ The directors continue on good terms with the various railway companies with which they are now in communication, and also the same good understanding exists between the directors of the Cornwall Railway Company and themselves. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN. The report of the directors stated that the gross receipts for the half-year ending June 30 amounted to £18,838, and for the corresponding period of 1859 to £17,086, showing an increase of .£1,762.. After deducting working expense, there remained £10,567 applicable to payment of interest and divi dend, leaving a balance of only £920, which the directors recommend should be carried to the next account. In the state of transition in which the company is placed, in regard to its recent junction with the Londonderry and Enniskillen Company, and the advantages to be derived from that junction not having yet been realised, the balance of profit does not enable the directors to recommend for this half-year any dividend on the original shares. The engines and rolling stock have peen maintained in good and efficient order, and, notwithstanding some extensive renewals and a greater mileage run, the ex penses are less than last half-year. The works on the Cootehill branch are nearly completed ; the whole of the land has been procured for the Cavan Extension, and the contract for the works has been let on fair terms to Messrs. Greene and King. The system of through booking with England has been established and passengers and goods are now book e d ‘• trom mot of the company's stations on the Dand alk and IA mdonderry lines to all the chief towns in England. Since the last half-yearly meeting t h e Canadian Steam Packet Company have arranged to make Londonderry- a port of call for their weekly tailings to and from Liverpool, there to take on board passengers and mails. Arrange tnent'' 11 ' 1 " neer " . made with this company, in eon junction with tin e Dublin and Drozheda. and Belfast coinFiViies, to run s.ecial Junctiontrains for the conveyana, of r" 111 ' aLd passengers, to and from Londonderry an Ci Dublin. Although the lease of company commenced the Londonderry line to t hiS on the 31st of c eniber lost, yet the h a lf- year was consideral)ly adru.naed before_ the term s were agreed upon, and some questions of detail still rema i ne d unsettled. me.t directors did not assume the management of that line until the close of th e pre sent half-year, and they could not therefore giv e the details of tl eye accounts on the present occasion. A committee of the Board recently visited London derry, and, in c onjunction with the traffic manager and locomotive superintendent have made arrange ments for the Ns parking of this line in conjunction ` -- - with their own, by which a very large saving will be effected, increased facilities afforded, and, they trust, a combined, harmonious, and beneficial work ing of both lines secured. The capital account showed that £820,695 had been rec:ived, and £800,026 expended, leaving a balance of £20,669. The Clones and Cavan Extension capital account showed that £12,000 had been received from four subscribing companies, and £9,674 expended, leaving a balance of £2,326. COLEFORD, MONINIOUTII, USK, AND PONTYPOOL. The half-yearly meeting was held at Monmouth on Monday ; Mr. Crawshay Bailey, M.P., the chairsnain, presided. Mr. WA DDINGTON, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the traffic had gradually deve loped during the last year, but until the Forest of Dean ore was reached no great increase of traffic could be expected. The directors, however, had the satisfaction to state that the river Wyse was already crossed, and in the course of three months they ex pected to open the extension to Redbrook, and when the additional length to Coleford was carried out shareholders might reckon on the certain suc cess of the undertaking. The accounts showed the expenditure had been £168,:;00. The share capital paid up amounted to £114,700; the debentures to £50,000; and balance due to bankers, £3,600. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port. He congratulated the proprietors that 161 miles of railway had been complete d for £168,000, while a neighbouring line—the Newport, Aberga venny, and Hereford—had cost £30,000 per mile. The revenue account was really satisfactory, both as regarded passengers and general traffic, consi dering the country through which the railway passed. He alluded to the small amount of sup port extended to the directors, and in calling upon the public to assist in carrying out the extension to the Forest of Dean said, that effected, there could be no doubt of a satisfactory dividend. Mr. S. RUSSELL, a director, said, he and several of his colleagues felt:that if additional aid were not forthcoming they would prefer that the line should remain as it was, even if no return were yielded upon the large capital the directors had expended. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceed ings. SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Shrewsbury on Friday, Sir C. H. R. Broughton presided. An abstract of the report and statement of ac counts has appeared in The Sun. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. J. R. GORE, M.P. Mr. H. ROBERTSON advocated a close alliance with the London and North-Western Company, which he said had 400 miles of rail at the northern end of this line, whereas the Great Western, which had a preponderating interest in the board of direc tors, had only 40 miles. Mr. W. H. BAGLEY (a director) said he had al ways been led to believe that the prosperity of the company had very much depended upon the inde pendent position it had always maintained, and he thought its interests would be perilled bya departure from that course of action. He thought they ought to be friends with all, but that no undue advantage ought to be given to one company over another. After some discussion the report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. for the half year ending June 30 declared. The retiring directors were Mr. R. Venables, Mr. A. Grounds, and Mr, E. Chadwick. They were all again proposed and seconded, as were also Mr. H. Robertson, Mr. T. Ashton, and Mr. R. Green. A long and angry discussion took place,the friends of the new candidates affirming that the policy of the board had hitherto been •shilly-shally, and had been too much influenced by Great Western views. The show of hands was in favour of the old direc tors, and a poll was demanded on behalf of the other candidates. After the retiring auditor (Mr. T. Hill) had been re-elected, scrutineers were ap pointed for the election of directors. The poll was kept open till six o'clock the same day, and the meeting adjourned till yesterday (Tuesday), when the votes were declared to be as follows :—For Mr. Venables, 2,135 votes; Mr. Grounds, 2,364 votes ; Mr. Chadwick, 2,135 votes; Mr. Robertson, 3,169 votes; Mr. Ashton, 3,105 votes; Mr. Green, 2,924 votes. An objection was taken to the reception of proxies for Messrs. Robertson, Ashton, and Green, on the ground that it was not stated by the share holders giving them to their agents at which meet ing (both an ordinary and an extraordinary meeting having been oalloa for that ila.l) the proxies wero intended to be used, The CHAIRMAN (Mr. J. IL Gore, M.P. said that under the circumstances he should adjourn the meeting till the 11th of September, in order that proper legal advice might be obtained. RHYMNEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Great George-street, Westminster—Mr. J. Boyle in the chair. The report stated that the amount of capital ea pended during the half-sear ending June 30 was £6,070, including £2,330 for goods engine and tender, and £2,789 for land and works. The gross revenue for the half-year was £16,855, being an increase of £4,145 as compared with the corre sponding period of 1859. The working expenses amounted to £9,709 as against £7,857, being an increase of £1,g52. The net revenue for the half year, after deducting workingexpenses, was £7,147, and deducting £5,308 for interest on loans and rates and taxes, there remained £1,839. To this was added £385 brought from the last account, and £822, the amount due to the Marquis of Bute, since arranged not to form a charge against the company, leaving a balance of £3,046. From this was de ducted £2,015 for claim of Taff Valley Railway Company for the use of six miles of their line, and £1,316 for interest on guaranteed shares, leaving a balance of £l4. The capital account showed that £333,385 had been received and £441,623 expended, leaving a balance against the company of £108,238. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, regretted that he could not congratulate the shareholders upon a dividend. It would be important for them to obtain powers to raise addi tion capital, and to lease the line to the Marquis of Bute. At the next meeting the directors would be able to state further the object of the bill. The quantity of coal had lately been on the increase, and there was a prospect of its increasing still further. The average traffic per week for the last sevenweeks was £620, showing a considerable increase. He might state as a fact that negotiations were being carried out with the London and North-Western Railway, who were anxious to have a dock at Cardiff for the purpose of an import traffic. If that object was obtained, it would greatly increase the returns of the Rhymney, as the traffic from the dock would pass over their line tc the London and North-Western. At present the negotiations were going on very well. In answer to a question the chairman said the amount to be raised by the proposed bill was £lOO,OOO for paying off liabilities on the capital, anti dclacnturo purpngPq t uic; t he Taff Vale Company that opposed the leasing hill in the late session. The dispute with the Taff Vale would be settled by the judge as a special case, and the result would be known in November. The report was then adopted. The sum of £2,105, claimed by the Taff Vale, was carried to a suspense account until the dispute was settled. The meeting was then made special, and the for feiture of 640 ordinary shares on which the calls and interest due had not been paid, were confirmed. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES UNION. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday, at Bristol—Mr. C. S. Thomas in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that the directors had chiefly directed their attention during the last half-year to the ac quisition of land, with which they had made very good progress. A good deal of incredulity and faint heartedness had to be encountered, but he believed that before long their line would be completed. Mr. R. M. HAYMAN seconded the resolution, ob serving that he had never felt the opinion vary from the time of the first meeting held to consider the desirability of making this railway. He believed still in its necessity, and its final benefit to the city of Bristol. He saw nothing at all in the prospectus which was first put forth by the directors of this railway that he was inclined now to withdraw, be lieving that what wag there stated could be sub stantiated. He only wished that in the city gene rally there was the same amount of confidence. Considerable doubt had been thrown on the proba bility of the railway ever being completed, but he thought the question was now set at rest, and that it would not be very long before they would rea lise the advantages which had been anticipated from the opening of the line. (Hear, Ilea e) The report was adopted unanimously. Mr. A. - WARREN, on proposing a vote of thanks to the directors, spoke of the exertions of the con tractor, Mr. Brotherhood, in pushing on the works under very , disadvantageous circumstances as de serving of recognition. Mr. W. COUSINS seconded the resolution, which was carried nem. con. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the Proceedings. SEVENOAKS. The directors in their report state that the works THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1866. on this line were progressing satisfactorily, and a great portion of the land was in the possession of the company. The directors regarded with great satisfaction the success of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company in obtaining the extension of their line to Farringdon-street, City, and Victoria street, Westminster, and also to the principal lines of railway north of the Thames. The capital account showed that £23,925 had been received, and £24,247 expended, leaving a balance of £323 against [ the company. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 28. MANSION-HOUSE. —Frederick A. Daviss, a well-dressed man, about 35 years of age, living at 16, Park-crescent, Stockwell, who had been appre hended on a warrant granted in the early part of July by the Lord Mayor, was charged with feloni ously uttering on the 13th of April last a forged bill of exchange for the payment of £479 6d., know ing the same to be forged, with intent to defraud the governor and company of the Bank of England. Mr. Charles Freshiield, one of the solicitors to the Bank of England, who attended to prefer the charge, said the prisoner, who had been apprehended on the previous evening, was at one time a partner in, or connected with, a firm of long standing and high respectability, trading as silk merchants under the name of Washington and Daviss in .M ill street, Cheap side, in which his father, now dead, was formerly a partner. The prisoner's partners, as he himself alleged, though that was a matter of dispute, were then Mr. Washington, whose daughter, now dead, he married, and his elder brother, Mr. Win. W. Daviss. In Sept., 1857, the prisoner, in the name of that firm, applied to the Bank of England for leave to open a discount account, which was granted in the following month, and afterwards he alone, in the name of the firm, operated on that account. The bank from time to time at his instance discounted bills' for them, which were placed to their account. Mr. Washington had stated that the prisoner was not a partner in the firm, but his brother was, and that the firm con sisted of him (Mr. Washington) and the prisoner's brother. The prisoner, however, made the applica tion to the bank, and he stated himself to be a part ner; and all the operations on the account opened by him were by him, and the authorities at the bank believed he acted as the mana g ing partner of the firm. That account was closed in Dec., 1853, and, so far as the authorities at the bank knew, no forgeries or irregularities had been committed in connection with it. But in Dec.,1859, the prisoner came to the bank and stated to the proper officer there that Mr. Washington had retired, or was re tiring, from the firm, and that the firm was thence forward to be carried on in the name of Frederick A. Daviss and Co. ; that it consisted of himself and his brother, and that he wished the name of the discount account to be changed. The name was changed, and the account began anew in December 1839, was carried down to July last, and the sole person who operated upon it was the prisoner. The transactions in connection with it included, among others, discounting bills by the prisoner drawn upon many persons. One of these, to which the present charge related, was drawn on April 4,1860, by F. A. Daviss and Co., upon Messrs. J. Wreford and Co„ for £479 6cl , and discounted by the Bank for the prisoner on his 'application, and the amount carried to his credit. That fell due on the 7th of July, but on the morning of the sth of that month the prisoner waited upon Mr. Elsey at the head of the discounting department of the bank, and asked permission to take it up. But Mr. Elsey charac terised the application as irregular, adding that his experience told him that it must be of evil import to transactions of this nature if bills were allowed to be taken up by the drawers before they became due, and that where such a course had been taken it often led to great irregularity, and to forged bills being put into circulation. Mr. Elsey there fore very properly declined to allow him to take up the bill. The prisoner had on that very day got cash for a check drawn by him upon the Bank for £479 6d., the exact amount of the bill which he wished to take up, and he told Mr. Elsey he had come furnished with the money to take it up. Mr. Elsey, however, still declined, the prisoner went away, and the authorities at the Bank saw no more of him. The bill, which became due on the 7th of July, was presented and dishonoured, and Mr. Wre ford, one of the firm on whom it was drawn, would explain to the Court the reason why it was dis honoured. On Monday, July 9, a warrant was obtained for the prisoner's apprehension and placed in the hands of Sergeant Spittle, a very intelligent officer, who had ever since been endeavouring to arrest him. The result was that the prisoner was on Monday evening apprehended in a place of seclu sion, where he passed under the name of Richards. Those were the fac:a. There were, he (Mr. Fresh field) was sorry to say, other charges against the prisoner which would require investigation, but into them he did not then propose to enter. John Spittle, examined by Mr. Freshfield, said —1 am a detective officer, and produce a warrant signed by the Lord Mayor, which was placed in my hands on July 9, for the apprehension of the prisoner. I heard that he had places of business in the city, but I did not find him at any of them, and I have been looking for him ever since. The cir cumstances under which I arrested him were these. Yesterday afternoon, about, 0 u'elock, accompanied by two other officers, Brett and Feast, I went to 16, Park-crescent, Stockwell. 1 entered the house and inquired, or rather said I had come for, Mr. Daviss. A woman who answered the door denied him. I afterwards searched the house, and in a back bed room on the second floor I found the prisoner. I addressed him as Mr. Daviss. He said that was not his name. I told him I believed it was, that my name was Spittle, and that I should have to arrest him on a charge of forgery. He again said his name was not Daviss, and he mentioned some other name as his, which I believe wes Richards. I then brought him down stairs, and in his presence asked the landlady whether he was not Mr. Daviss. She did not answer, and I told the prisoner I should take him into custody whether he said his name was Daviss or not. He then said that was his name. We then brought the prisoner outside the house, and there I showed him the warrant, which he read. I read that portion to him relating to the charge, and asked him whether he had read it. He said he had. I afterwards, accompanied by Brett, brought him to Bow-lane police station, and on searching him there found a gold watch and chain, a locket, and other articles. I asked him where his check and pass books were. He replied at the house of Mr. Rucker, at Lewisham. I went there, and in a drawer in a bedroom I found the check-book pro duced. Mr. Morgan, who appeared for the p r i s o ner , as k e d the witness if he was instructed to ask those ques tions of him ? Witness--I chose to ask them. Mr. Morgan—ls that your general practice ? Witness—l adapt my practice according to cir cumstances. Mr. Morgan said that practice smacked of the Inquisition. The Lord Mayor said the officer went there for the cypress purpose of apprehending the prisoner, and he thought he had acted properly. Mr. John Fradgley, principal of the drawing office in the Bank of England, deposed that Messrs. Washington and Daviss had a drawing account there from October, 1857, to December, 1859. Frederick Augustus Daviss was the person who acted on that account. Mr. Washington's name was never furnished in that account. Witness did not know the prisoner. The account was closed in December, 1859, and a new one opened in the same month in the name of Frederick A. Daviss and Co. He did not know under what circumstances it was opened ; the gentleman in the department who could speak to that point was now absent on holyday. (Shown a bill.) Witness held that bill to flie'eredit of the account of Frederick A. Daviss and Co. on the 13th of April last. The bill was put in and was as follows ! " X-179 6s. " London, April 4 1860. " Three mo n th s a ft er d ate pay to our order four , hundred and seventy-nine pounds and six shillings —value receiv e d. DAVISS AND CO. "Messrs. J o h n Wreford and Co., Aldermanbury." (Copy acce J tances.) " 35, Lond on and County. no. Wreford and Co." (Endorsed.) Fredk. A. Daviss and Co." Witness continued—He had reason to know that that bill was then discounted for the firm of Fre derick A. Daviss and Co. On the sth• of July the prisoner brought the check produced to be cashed, and it was cashed on that day in the drawing office of the Bank of England. (The check, which was put in, bore date the sth of July, 1860, and pur ported to be drawn on the Bank of England, by Frederick A. Daviss and Co., for £479 Os., and was payable to bearer.) Tbat check was paid at the counter in banknotes. Mr. Freshfield said the checkbook belonging to the prisoner contained the counterfoil of that par ticular check. Mr. John Green Elsey—l am principal of the discount.office in the Bank of England. I know the prisoner quite well. In the early part of this year the Bank discounted several bills for him drawn by Frederick A. Daviss and Co. The bill of the 4th of April last for £479 6s. was discounted for the firm on the 13th of April. It fell due on the 7th of July. On the sth of July, when the bill had two days to run, the prisoner applied for leave to take it up. I told him it .was a most irregular transaction to apply to take up a bill before it way due, drawn upon so respectable a firm of London merchants as that of Messrs. John Wreford and Co., and I de clined to let him have it. Ho said he was prepared to pay the money, but I still declined. That was the , only bill we held on th a t d a y w hi c h purporte d to bo drawn by Frederick A. Davies and Co. or Messrs. Wreford, and the prisoner distinctly men tioned that particular bill. Mr. SamuelWreford-1: am a partner in the firm of Messrs. John Wreford and Co., merchants, of 17, Aldermanbury. We have had small tranactions, during seven or eight years, with Messrs. Wash ington and Co., who almost invariably paid in cash, but we have had no transaction whatever with the firm of F. A. Daviss and Co. I have looked at the bill of exchange (produced) for £479 6d. That bill purports to be drawn on our firm; it is a forgery; the acceptance was not written by me, nor by any of our firm, nor was it authorised to be written. We never had such a bill. It was presented to our bankers, the London and County Bank, and they immediately refused it, knowing it was a forgery. I don't know the prisoner. Mr. Freshfield said that was all the evidence he had at present to produce. If the prisoner's solicitor wished him to be remanded he (Mr. Freshfield) should not object. A remand would be necessary at any rate until the clerks in the Bank now absent on leave could return to supply links wanting in the evidence. Mr. Morgan did not object to a remand, but he trusted the Court would order that the prisoner's watch, a gold locket, and other things might be re turned to him. Mr. Freshfield said, as far as the Bank of Eng land was concerned, anything that was not essential as evidence in the case might be restored ; but he was bound to say that the prisoner was a mer chant of London, and had property, and he (Mr. Freshfield) assumed a fiat in bankruptcy would be issued against the prisoner in the interest of his creditors. Mr. Morgan thought it was premature to talk of a fiat in bankruptcy at present. The articles he asked to have restored were the prisoner's gold watch, a gold locket which had belonged to his wife, and some other personal ornaments. The Lord Mayor said, under the circumstances, he should at present decline to make any order for their restoration. The prisoner was remanded until this day (Wed. nesclay) week, SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Thomas Goodwin, a gentlemanly-looking young man, a vocalist, en gaged at the Floral-hall, Covent-garden, and Miss Charlotte St. Clair, a ballet dancer of the Italian Opera, were charged with stealing a gold chain, value £3 175., the property of John Woodall. Mr. Woodall said he was a saddler, and resided at No. 76, Upper Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, in which house Miss St. Clair and her mother had . apartments. Since Friday last the young lady and her mother had disagreed, owing to the marked attentions paid to the former by the prisoner, whom the mother believed to be a married man, and wit ness was spoken to on the matter, but on Friday the daughter called him into the apartments and told him that her mother had threatened to cut her throat with a razor she had in her pocket. Witness induced her to give him the razor, and he undertook to ascertain who and what the male prisoner was. Accordingly he found that he was engaged as a singer at the Floral-hall, Covent garden, and an arrangement was made that he should meet them at witness's house on Monday evening. The male prisoner attended according to promise, and was introduced by the female prisoner to her mother, witness and his wife, and a bottle or so f wine passed among them. A dispute, however, ensued, and wit ness's wife took her gold chain from her neck and threw it at him, with an angry word or two. He put the chain in his pocket until the storm blew over, when he passed the chain over the prisoner's shoulders towards his wife, and he had every reason to believe at the time that she took it. A few minutes afterwards the chain was missed, and Mrs. Woodall, having declared that she had not received it back, a search took place in the room and about his wife's dress, but it could not be found. A policeman was called in and the prisoners were given into custody. After that witness found the chain on the table covered with Mrs. Woodall's petticoat, and he felt inclined to think one of the prisoners must have put it there when the police man was sent for. Mr. Edwin, who appeared for the prisoners, said that it was a most unjustifiable charge. His clients were highly respectable young persons, and ;would not be guilty of such a dishonest act. Mrs. Woodall had words with her husband, and having partaken rather freely of the wine threw the chain where it was found, and the prosecutor in his passion gave the prisoners into custody. Mr, Burcham asked if there was any other evi dence against the prisoners ? Mr. Woodall replied in the negative ; his wife would not attend. Mr. Burcham observed that as far as he could make out from the statement of the prosecutor, it appeared that he, his wife, and the two prisoners Ns ere en joying their wine together, and suddenly the har mony was disturbed by the two former breaking out into a quarrel, and the chain in question was flung from one to the other and disappeared for a short time. The complainant then suspected, without the least shadow of reason, that the prisoners had taken the chain, and gave them into custody. All ho had to buy Wll.B that they were discharged, and left the court without the least imputation on their character. Thomas Wright, a tailor, residing at 14, Amelia street, Old Kent-road, was charged with attempt ing to hank and drown himself. The prisoner, after being suitably lectured by his worship, was discharged, and quitted the court with his wife and one of his children. LAMBETH.--Robert Search, the son of a butcher in King's-place, Walworth-road, attended, for the second time, to answer to a summons charging him with grossly and wilfully torturing a cat. The witnesses called in support of the summons proved a case of barbarous crdelty. They swore that on the day mentioned in the summons the defendant caught a " stray" kitten, cut holes in its ears,through which he passed strings, and hung it up by the latter, so that all its weight was supported by those parts of the ears through which the strings had been put. This, however, was not all. The de fendant poured " turps," or turpentine, down its eats and different parts of the body, so that the poor little brute screamed piteously from torture and agony. When allowed to run away, it fell into the hands of a respectable woman, who treated it with such kindness and humanity that, notwithstanding the brutal nature of its tortures, the kitten has recovered. Mr. Dixon, one of the ushers, described the state of the unfortunate kitten to be such when the sum mons was applied for that the Magistrate recom mended its destruction, to put it out of misery. Witnesses were called on the part of the defen dant, whose testimony contradicted some of the stronger portions of the charge, and Mr. Norton, in passing sentence, observed he was glad that it had been so, or he should have felt it to be his duty to send the defendant to prison with out a penalty. There could be no doubt, however, that improper cruelty had been exercised, and for this the defendant must pay a penalty of 20s. The penalty was at once paid. GREENWICH.—James Culley, a police con stable (No. 131) of the M or Rotherhithe division of metropolitan police, was charged with stealing a silver watch and guard from Emmanuel Wooffen den of Hales-street, Deptf or d . The prosecutor said---I am a miner, and reside at Doptford. A fortnight ago last Sunday I had been to see a friend at Rotherhithe, and on my return to Deptford at 2 o'clock in the morning I missed my way. I was perfectly sober, and shortly afterwards met the prisoner near the waterside. He was in his uniform at the time, and I asked him if he could tell me where I could lie down for an hour or two, as I was both sleepy and tired. He said the likeliest would be in one of the boats by the river side, and he pointed one out to me and went to the boat, where he left me and I fell asleep. I awoke about 4 o'clock, and walked about the streets for ten minutes, and on feeling for my watch I missed it from my fob pocket, and the guard from around my neck. 1 then went back about a mile and met the prisoner. He said, " Good morning," and asked whether I had rested well. I replied, " Yes, but I have lost my watch ;" to which the prisoner re marked " that it was a bad job," and took my name and address, and asked me the number of My watch. I told him I could not tell the number exactly, but gave him what I thought the number was. The prisoner then asked me to go to the station-house, and we walked up the street and back again, when he met a watchman belonging to the Commercial Dock Company, and remained talking with him about a quarter of an hour. The prisoner then said to the watchman that he wanted to go, and when he had got about 30 yards from us I men tioned my suspicions to the watchman that the pri soner had got my watch. Robert Altura, a watchman in the employ of the Commercial Dock Company, confirmed the prose cutor's evidence in chief, adding that the prisoner re mark ed to the prosecutor, " I thought you knew I had got your watch, and that was the reason you did not leave me." Inspector Reding said—The prisoner is a police constable under my charge, and was on duty at the place named on the morning in question. I first heard of the robbery last Friday night, through a sergeant of police, and on the following day I went and saw the last witness. 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STATE OF THE CURRAGiI CAMP. The following sketch of the state of the camp at the Curragh is supplied by Saunders's Newsletter. Rifle matches had taken place there on Friday and Saturday, the Earl of Carlisle being preSent on the latter day : " The attention of the visitors to the Curragh Camp on Saturday could not have been attracted by the state of the ground on which the tents which had been occupied by the 4th Light Dra goons were still standing, Even after two fine days the mud was partially dried, Though the sun was shining brightly, and the wind blowing freshly from the west, there was still sufficient water and mud in and around the tents to show what must have been the discomforts and hardships attendant upon life under canvass'in the locality in which for weeks past several fine regiments have endured the rain, which fell without intermission. It was easy to see that the accounts of sickness and distress which came up from the Curragh had not been exaggerated. In the neighbourhood of the tents a person could not have walked without literally sinking up to his knees aievWy - ;tei. The space hollowed out inside each tent appeared to be a pool of water ; the canvass was stained a dirty yellow colour; the ground, torn up by horses' hoofs, appeared to be even worse than a marsh—it seemed, in fact, not unlike a newly ploughed field after a week's incessant rain. On this mud, which under the hot sun was gradu ally becoming hardened at the surface, rugs, large cavalry cloaks, and here and there articles of cloth ing were streaming slowly in the sunshine, in which they were being dried. A glance at the nature of the ground was sufficient to show any person of ordinary intelligence that the results were just those which might be expected to take place after a week's rain. With characteristic prudence the tents had been pitched in a hollow, which might advantageously be converted into a receptacle for the surface drainage of the camp. The men did not suffer one-half so much from the torrents which penetrated the canvass covering from above as from the slush and mud upon which they had to he. If the visitors began to talk with soldiers about the camp, he at once heard from men who wore medals and clasps that they had not suffered greater hard ships from wind and weather in the Crimea than the men of the Light Dragoons, who had only left the camp a few days ago, had undergone during the past fortnight. It is strange, when one considers that there were many other places at the Curragh where the tents might have been far more advan tageously pitched, that no precautions were taken to prevent the results which have been described. A body of the Grenadier Guards were under canvass on the highest point of the rising ground on which the encampment is built. They had, at least, the blessing of walking on terra firma, instead of wading through a miniature bog. The earth under their tents was comparatively firm, but, of course, the rain soaked through the canvass, wetting their uniforms and bedding, which were on Saturday put out to dry. The scarlet coats were dyed of a nondescript hue, and the soldiers looked as weatherbeaten as if they had just retarned from a long campaign. It is too much to expect men to pay for their kits, and at the same time to place them unnecessarily under circumstances in which their uniform must be worn out or destroyed in a few weeks. There is, however, some pleasure in knowing that steps are being taken to remove the men into more comfortable quarters. After a month like the past at the Curragh the soldier may well sigh after the luxury of any provincial bar racks, however ill-built or uncomfortable." COUNTRY MARRAYS. LEEDS, AUG. 28. The business doing in wheat is still on a small scale, but where sales are made 3s advance on last week's prices were realised. Barley unaltered. Beans and oats held for ra ther more money. Other articles do not vary in price. The weather has again become showery. LIVERPOOL--AUG. 28. There was a fair attendance of millers and dealers at this morning's market, but an inactive business doing in wheat, and prices are fully as dear. Flour in slow sale at late rates. Beans and barley have each advanced on the week. Indian corn rather more freely offered at about the prices of this day week, the general price for mixed Ameri can and Ibralia being 34s 9d per 4801bs, Galati 355, and white 395. Oats and oatmeal the turn dearer. NORWICH CATTLE—AUG. 25. The show of store cattle to-day was considerable, and trade was on the whole rather dull at about former prices. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Irish, 35 to 4s 6d ; Devons, 4s Od to 4s 6d (estimated weight when fat). Fat beasts a small show. 8s 6d to 9s 6d per stone. Sheep—There was a large supply of sheep in the pens, and sales extremely slow. Fat sheep, 9s Od to 9s 6d per stone ; prime, Os to Os. Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 25s to 355; fat pork, Gd to Ss Gd per stone. MARG ATE. The directors state in their report that the line was opened from Faversham to Whitstable on the Ist inst., and that the traffic returns are satisfactory. Owing to the inclement weather which has prevailed during the last six months, the directors have been disappointed in their expectation of opening the line to Herne Bay this summer, but it will be ready for traffic early in the ensuing spring. The Board are in negotiation with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway for the purpose of making such arrangements as will enable them to complete the line to Margate by the spring of 1862, which, when matured, will be laid before the shareholders for their approval. The directors have to congratulate the shareholders on the passing of the bill of the London, Chatham and Dover Company for extend ing their line to Farringdon-street, and improving their access to the Victoria station at Westminster. By means of these lines Margate will be brought into direct communication with the city and west end of London, as well as the principal railways north of the Thames. The capital account showed that £110,575 had been expended. THE COVENTRY STRIKE. We introduce our readers this morning to the secret history of a " Strike." We describe it in these terms because such proceedings were never, to the best of our knowledge, revealed before, but we are bound to say tnat the confession is now made with such unblushing effrontery that very little in the nature of mystery can be said to attach to the trans action. More than once on the oce?sion of these deplorable quarrels have we defined the limits within which, if the law of the land is to be observed and the toleration of the public secured, the action of the operatives must necessarily be confined. They are entitled by right and reason to ask what wages they like, just as their employers aro entitled, on the same principle, to say what wages they will give. As a difference between these two standards is both natural and probable, it follows that the men may have to stand out for dear labour and the masters for cheap work before they come to an agreement, and the law allows that workmen may combine together for the purpose of giving greater force to their demands. It is mare likely that an employer would concede terms demanded by 1,000 men in a body than that he would yield to the re quisitions of a single unsupported artisan, and this expedient for placing labour on a fairer footing with capital is recognised accordingly. Men, there fore, may " strike," either for higher wages or shorter work, without any offence against law or opinion. All these admissions, however, proceed on one fundamental assumption, and that is that the men act;ng in combination are voluntary agents, that each and all are impressed by the same con victions and actuated by the same motives, and that they have united together for the prrpose of ' promoting a common object. As soon as any vio lence or terrorism is imported into the proceeding it becomes not only illegal but outrageous. If a number of men, not content with agreeing upon a purpose between themselves, and combining to forward it, proceed to coerce others into joining them, their conduct is an offence against law and right. One workman is just as free as another. It is absolutely at every man's option to join a Trade Union or stand aloof from it ; to "strike " or to continue working ; to take high wages or low, and to subscribe his money or refuse it. He may con duct himself in all these respects exactly as he pleases, and any interference with his freedom by oppression, intimidation, or other species of coercion is tyranny of as detestable a character as any despot or capitalist could possibly assume. It matters not whether a man is robbed of his liberty by the act of one or the act of a thousand ; the loss and the crime are the same in both cases. Now, it has re peatedly been alleged that almost all " Strikes" were maintained by terrorism ; that the men who chose to throw up their work invariably endea voured to make others do the same, and that the principal action, indeed, of Trade Unions consisted in applying this coercion by an organised machi nery. We were assured that the " subscriptions " announced every week were to a great extent prc cured by the most ruthless extortion, and that thou sands of men who would gladly be at work on ob tainable terms were driven by threats of persecu tion and ruin to inaction and suffering. A "Strike," in short, was often nothing less than the enforced idleness of men compelled to obey the orders of a Committee, and provided with a miserable suste nance by the unwilling contributions of others as oppressed and as terrified as themselves. This is what we were told when masons, bricklayers, engi neers, or weavers announced their resolution to stand out for the "rights of labour" against the " tyranny of capital." Of course the imputations were contradicted, but that they are certainly some times deserved will appear from the documents to which we now introduce the reader, and which we really consider as tile most monstrous specimens of brutality and tyranny that we have ever seen. At Colne, in Lancashire, a "Strike" has now been pending for nearly three months. Into the merits of the question we purposely avoid entering. It does not concern us to inquire whether the men or the masters have the better cause. We design simply to - show the agency by which the " Strike" is conducted, and the means employed for raising the funds by which it is supported. Before us lie two copies of a report periodically circulated, and professing to give an account of the finances of the " Strike" for the weeks ending on the 6th and 13th inst. Such documents we never in the course of a pretty considerable experience inspected before. The report descends to the minutest details of col lection, and enumerates to a fraction the pence gathered from particular mills, shops, cellars, rooms, and sheds. It contains also a general abstract of receipts and expenditure, and appears, indeed, for that matter, to be faithfully framed, The astound ing feature of the document is the terrorism it dis closes—a terrorism directed against the most help less creatures, exerted in the most shocking form, and avowed without the smallest attempt at dis guise or apology, The statements of the sums col lected from the establishments laid under contribu- tion are followed by remarks on their sufficiency or insufficiency, and by gross threats of slander, in sult, or persecution, wherever any room or individual is thought below the mark. All this, however, bad as it is, we pass over to something far more infa mous. The specious and favourite objects of attack are women and young girls, who are designated not only by the establishments and departments in which they work, not only by numbers easily intelligible, but by their proper names, printed at full length, while the charges suspended over their heads are of the most abominable description. The agency at work is impersonated under the name of " Punch," and Punch informs these poor girls that if they do not pay, or pay more, or pay more regularly, he will hold their reputations up to shame, these threats being accompanied with the vilest and most dis gusting allusions to peculiarities of person, face, or manner. "IfE. P. does not pay next week, Punch will attach something to her name which she will not relish." "IfM.A. G. won't pay, Punch will say something about her." What this " some thing" means—and the reader must understand that the names we have given in initials are at full length in the original—will appear from the specimens following:—" If that old maid on No. 182 does not pay - next week, ' Punch' will say something about her walking out with a married man." "If No. 90, that young woman who makes a practice of going into the back streets with men, does notipay, Punch' will set somebody to watch her." " 73, look here ! a young woman going with another chap in the dark." We need not go be yond these examples, but what a state of things does such a publication diSclose. It must be understood that this is no case of a petty local squabble raging in a corner. The funds collected by this agency are coming in at the rate of £6OO a week, or £30,000 a year, and the balance-sheet or report which is made the vehicle of these atrocious scandals has a circulation of 18,500 copies weekly, each of which is probably perused by scores of readers. The sheet itself is as large as a railway time-bill, and contains not the least attempt to colour, disguise, or excuse the ter- rorism it expresses. We are glad to see, however, that the matter has attracted some attention on the spot. The Manchester journals have exposed the outrage in becoming language, and from more than one quarter specimens of the Report have been transmitted to us. Its effect will probably be very different from that which its authors antici pated. What was al ways alleged, and often believed, of " Strikes" is here confessed with a, shameless har dihood which shows how completely the system is taken for granted. The Colne " Executive" would never have gone so fearlessly or imprudently to work if they had not looked upon their proceed ings as regular matters of course. They have given us a full view of the machinery of terror ism, and it will be the fault of the public if the exhibition is not turned to good advantage.— Time,. LIFE IN TEE AMERICAN GOLD DIGGINGS. A correspondent of the Neu/ York Tribune, writ ng from Denver City, Pike's Peak, Aug. 2, tells the following tragic story : " This week, at least, I had hoped to spare you the perusal of our ordinary catalogue of crimes ; for though holding, as a journalist, a sort of mer cantile interest in ►hese horrors, the bloody busi ness' hue become extremely revolting. Lut the reign of terror is not ended. "In an affray in this city, a few weeks since, a negro, known as Professor Starke, was fatally shot by Charley Harrison, a gambler. The Rocky Mountain News, in its issue of last week, denounced the homicide as a wanton murder. Harrison felt aggrieved at this language, and issued a handbill, signed by one of our prominent citizens, setting forth that the act was done in self-defence. W. M. Byers, Esq., the editor of the News, appended to this bill an explanatory card, containing a quasi withdrawal of the imputation, and expressing the hope that an investigation about to take place would prove Harrison blameless. " This was satisfactory to Harrison, but not to his brother gamblers, who we re grea tl y i ncense d a t the refusal o the editor to make a direct retraction without satisfactory proof that his charge was false. On Tuesday last Mr. Byer s was sitting in his office, engaged in conversation with General Larimer, Edward Creighton, Esq., from St. Louis, and the Rev. Mr. Rankin, frotn Wisconsin. None of the party were armed, and as the two gentlemen last named had but just arrived in this region, the sue ceeding events must have given them a novel idea of the state of society at Pike's Peak. " Four gamblers, named George Steele, Carl Wood, James Ennis, and John Rucker, suddenly entered the room, with their cocked revolvers in their hands. - Wood seized Byers by the collar, and while the four weapons were all aimed at the head of the astonished editor, applied the most abusive epithets to him, and insisted that he should at once accomnany them to the Criterion Sa i ntm, two squares distant, to meet Harri. m. Resistance was out of the question, for the only weapol in the office was a single shot-gun in another apartment. Mr. Byers was theTefore compelled to go with them, Wood retaining his grasp upon his colla-: during the walk, and repeatedly exclaiming with the most profane and insulting epithets, If any of your f:iends make the !east movemen t for your rescue, I will shoot you upon the sr ot.' "On reaching the saloon they insisted upon a retraction of the offe - asive article ; but Byers main tained his former position. It appeared that Harri son had done all in his power to restrain the despe radoes, and, taking Byers aside under the pretence of conversing with him, he succeeded in enabling him to escape from the room and accompanied him back to the office. " When the gamblers learned that their prey had fled they remounted their horses and returned to The News building. Wood, with his two confede rates, remained near the edifice, pointing a double barrelled shot gun at the front door, and express ing a determination to shoot Byers when he should attempt to escape, while Steele rode round towards the rear of the building and discharged two shots into it. Fortunately they did not reach any of the occupants, and. one of the compositors returning the fire, succeeded in lodging a ball in his shoulder. " By this time intelligence of the affair had spread through the city, and half a dozen armed citizens on horseback reached the scene of the attack. The gamblers fled in tumultuous haste, and were fol lowed in hot pursuit. Steele crossed Cheery Creek into Wenver or Auraria, endeavouring to pass over the bridge across the Platte, but was headed off,' and returned to East Denver. While riding at a rapid galop along Blake-street, near the corner of G, he was met by T. Pollock, Esq., the tnarshal of the Vigilance Committee, also riding at a break neck pace. Mr. Pollock instantly presented a shot gun, and Stele drew a revolver, but before he was able to use it Mr. Pollock fired. Notwithstanding the unchecked speed of both horses, the aim was deadly ; the entire charge of shot entered the head of the gambler near the right eye, and ho fell heavily and helplessly to the ground. He was taken to the hospital and dicd in two hours. Steele was one of the desperadoes driven out of Leaven worth by the citizens two years ago, not on any charge connected with t'ie political troubles, but for his general character as a cut-throat. " Ennis made his escape. Rucker was arrested and placed under guard. Wood was pursued and surrounded on F-street. At first he presented a shot-gun at the crowd, but the sight of scores of revolvers and rifles instantly pointed at his head cowed him, and he gave himself up. While he was being taken to the hall, over Graham's drug store, for safe keeping, repeated cries of 'Hang him!' Hang him at once !' came up from the crowd. He pleaded piteously, however, for a trial, and was saved from summary punishment by the officers of the committee. " In the evening a mass meet;ng of nearly 2,000 people assembled in front of the new Post-office. Mr. Byers related the occurrences of the day; and addresses, recommending watchfulness, and prompt, though deliberate action, were made by Judges Parkins and Waggoner, Dr. Casto, and an old mountain man, who has exchanged his Scotch cog nomen of M:Gaa for the extremely indefinite ap pellation of Captain John Smith. Jack Henderson, of Kansas election frauds notoriety, in a state of inebriation, also commenced to harangue the crowd, but was soon cried down. A resolution indorsing the action of Mr. Pollock was unanimously adopted; and when some one in the assembly called for ' Three cheers for Tom Pollock !' they were vocifer ously given. " The trial of Wood commenced last evening, and is not yet completed. It is conducted by the Vigilance Committee; but the jurors were selected from the citizens without regard to their connection with that organisation. The public feeling is ex ceedingly intense, and many declare that if Wood escapes through any technicalities they will shoot him down wherever he can be found. He is well known as one of the most desperate characters in this region, and is reputed to have been one of the destroying angels' of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake, and to have committed many murders in that capacity. His trial will be succeeded by that of Rucker, who is notorious here from having killed a gambler named Jock O'Neil a few months since. Ennis is still at large. He belongs to the same class, and wantonly shot John Teef in this city, on the 4th ult. " The predominant feeling among the citizens of Denver is that the reign of gamblers and cut throats has continued quite too long, and that the desperate state of affairs requires despe rate remedies. The city has been guarded for the last two nights by nearly two hundred patrol men. Especial watchfulness is maintained over the building in which the prisoners are kept, and two of the officers stationed at every corner in town challenge all suspicious parties, and if they are unable to give the countersign conduct them to the head-quarters of the committee." _HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return,) The deaths in London, which were 1,029 in the previous week, fell to 937 in the week that ended last Saturday. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 34th week of 1854 are excluded from the returns of previous years, it will be found that the average number of deaths in the same week during the last 10 years was 1,068; which, with a correc tion for increase of population, becomes 1,175. It may be stated that the mortality in London is in the present season so far reduced that the deaths of last week were less by about 200 than they would have been if the average rate for the latter part of August had prevailed. This result is duo chiefly to a great decrease in the mortality from diarrhoea, as compared with that of previous summers, the complaint probably having been restrained by the cold ness o f th e season , an d the unusual quantity of rain. The deaths from diarrheea last week exhibit a decrease on the weekly deaths, which were not numerous, of the earlier part of the present month ; they were only 69, jilst in the corresponding w ee k s o f 10 prev i o us rs the average number (corrected for population) was 180. In the same week of last year the num ber was 215. Two deaths were returned as caused by cholera ; a boy, aged 7 months, died on the 17th inst., at 75, Henry-street, Marylebone, of English cholera; and a woman, ag e d 75 y ears , on th e 20th inst., at 80, Frederick-street, Caledonian-road, of the same complaint, after 10 days' illness. A man, aged 70 years, died of eczema. Two children died of scarlatina at 37, Red Lion street, Holborn, where three other children are suffering from the same disease. A labourer died of exitaustion from destitution, having been received into the Whitt..chapel workhouse, probably not long before his death. Five deaths, of which I 4 were those of infants, were referred to murder er manslaughter. A child died of porrigo larvalis ; another ol stcmatatis. Only four deaths occurred front small-pox, 40 from measles, 8 from diphtheria. • Fear deaths from scarlatina were recorded in Pop lar, 5 from measles in Camberwell, and 4 from the latter disease in Belgrave. Eight nonagenarians died in the week, all women, and all widows except one. Last week the births of 827 boys and 780 girls, in all 1,607 children, were registered in London. In the ten corn spending weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was 1,563. THE 111411 LS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Sept. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Aug. 30. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. .. Aug. 29. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Sept. 1. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (vi a Southampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Sept. 9. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. 3. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. Sept. 5. Malta, Egypt, and Adon (via Southampton) .. Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. 3. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto .. Sept. 1. United States, California, &c. .. Sept. 8. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Sept. 14. Greyness, baldness, and other diseases of the Hair, their cause and remedy,:with "Hints on the Hair, its Care and Cul ture," by F. M. HERRING, 32, Basing,hall-street, London post free, Od.—" A very useful little treatise, that may be con sulted with advantage, conveying a considerable amount of information respecting the beneficial effects to be derived from the proper care and cultivation of the hair."—Morning Herald.' —[ADVT.) [ADVERTISEMENT]..--It is ever a pleasing duty of * journalist to introduce to his readers some new discovery calculated to benefit that vast portion of our fellow-crea tures, which has the strongest claims upon our sympathies. It is with this f ee li ng th a t we ca ll the attention of invalids to the following extracts from Du Barry's interesting report of Cures without medicine by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Cure No. 52,422.—Bridgehouse, Frfmley Surrey, 3d April 1854. I have suffered these 33 years con tinually from diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de rangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constipation, de bility, shortness of breath and cough, which have been re moved by your Revalenta Arabica. My lungs, liver, sto mach, head, and ears, me all right, my hearing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaintances. James Roberts. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment, and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence per day, saves 50 times its cost iu other remedies, removing effectually, without purging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Da Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, on the seal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted i n a ll o th ers. P ac k e d in t i ns lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. ? 121 b, and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co, 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, Phillips and Co, o n receipt and Co. ; Abbfs, d 150, Ox -60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 Icing 'William -street, Ox ford-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, DruoPsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement . ; tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., City ; at 127, High Holborn ; an d a il grocers, BIRT fill% Esq., of a daughter. at 38, Harley-street, the wife 7 a L j t II: Lincoln's-inn, c i l o n v l s n i t n ' . B , ; i a :.:t r e 1 , 0 f a inst., Mrs. Burton Ravens- HANKBY.—On the 27th inst. , RA O v f E H N e s n c r ß y 0 A F T 1 e . Ls o H n a n t hkee 27thy, of a daughter. Crofton House, South .. wl c i IrNaoGnf Ravens croft, gT o , of . h_ S e e o r w l li e ; et str ee t, he fe 21 daughter. MARRIA.GES. Commasx—HUNTLEY.—On the 23d inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, Nicholas C. Combrink, of Cape- town, to Eliza Maria, only daughter of Mrs. Huntley of Burlington arcade. , WINSLOW—ALLEN.—On the 27th inst., at Brighton, George, the second son of the late Thomas F. Winslow, Esq., of Montague -place, Russell-square, to Hester, the R.N. youngest daughter of the l a t e C omman d er Henry Allen, DEATA S. ' ASIITON.—On the 26th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Robt. John Ashton, Esq., of 2, Pelham-crescent, and 9, New inn, aged 47. BARKER.—On the 27th inst., at Dane House, Margate, Sarah, the wif e o f W m . B ar k er, E sq., aged 81. CRESSWELL.—On the 26th inst., in Woburn-pl ace , Eliza beth, widow of th e l a t e Ri c h ar d E stcourt Cresswell, Esq. of Pinkney-park, Wilts, PITTOCK.—On the 25th. inst., at the Londo n an d C oun ty Bank, Gravesend, T. E. Pittock, Esq., manager, aged 38. ROUND.—On the 27th inst., the Rev. James Thos. Round, 8.D., rector of All Saints', Colchester, aged 62. WORSLEY.--On the 25th inst., at Clapham-common, the Rev. Henry Worsley, LL.D., rector of Hayes, Middle sex, aged 79. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand., Printer, at The Sun . ..)flice, No. 112, strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the count)? of Middlesex, Wednesday, August 29, 184;0. 0 /3 • al