The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-28 00:00:00

THE GLOUCESTER ELECTION COMMISSION. SHIREHALL, GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY. Commissioners, James Vaughan, Lucius Henry Fitzgerald, and Richard Griffiths Welford, Esqrs. Secretary, Mr. Coleridge . The Court resumed the inquiry at 10 o'clock this morning. The-first witness called was Mr. Geo. Moffatt, formerly M.P. for Ashburton, who was examined as to the interview at the Re form Club in London, spoken to by Mr. Wilton. At that interview Mr. Surrell, Mr. Monk, and Mr. Wilton were present, and Mr. Price during a por tion of the time. The deputation represented to Mr. Monk that Sir R. Carden was very unpopular in Gloucester, and that if he would come forward as a candidate he might be elected for £1,200 or £1,500. Nothing was said as to how the money was to be spent. They said they believed that a large sum of money had been spent by Sir R. Car den in bribery. About the 10th of April he re ceived a letter from Mr. Price, in which he said he believed money would be required for preliminary expenses, £5OO, and he would be glad to have it got ready by the time the agent for Mr. Monk was appointed. His (Mr. Moffatt's) impression was that something was said about sending down the money—the sooner it was sent down to Gloucester the better. He was rather pleased that the com munication should come from Mr. Price, as being a man of experience, and not likely to misapply the money. On the receipt of the second letter, I had sent the cheque for the money to Sir W. Hayter, and on a receipt of the letter he :sent an order to deliver the cheque. The amount was £5OO ;it was a cheque on Mr. Ralli, Mr. Monk's father-in-law, to pay the bearer the £5OO. Mr. Price had re quested that the cheque should be sent to Sir W. Hayter, and he accordingly sent the cheque to Sir W. Hayter for the money to be applied, according to Mr. Price's approval. The person who was to take the money to Gloucester was Richard Thompson. He came to witness with a note from Sir W. Hayter, who described him as a trustworthy person to convey the money to Glocester. Did not destroy the note ; saw it two months ago, and most likely could find it among his papers. It was about 10 days before the elec tion that the transaction took place. Never under stood that that money, or any portion of it, would be required for any other than the legal expenses. Mr. Commissioner Vaughan—Were younot under an impression to believe that any portion of that money would be spent for the purposes of bribery ? Witness—l had no reason to believe that it would; on the contrary, I believed that it would be properly applied, as it would be applied at Mr. Price's in stance. The Commissioner—l suppose you are aware that all payments snould be made through the auditor P Witness—l certainly ought to have known that fact, as I assisted in passing that act, but until your secretary, Mr. Coleridge, reminded me of it a short time ago I was not aware of it. The witness then said he was not aware until he read the evidence on the Glocester petition how the £5OO had been ap plied. Some time early in June appifcation was made to him by Mr. Wilton for money to pay Glo cester election bills, and he then obtained from Mr. Ralli £2OO, and sent it to Mr. Wilton. Witness had heard that there was another sum of £2OO sent to Glocester to another Mr. Wilton, of which sum £BO had been disbursed, and £l2O was left in Mr. Wil ton's hands. By Mr. Welford—Considered £1,200, or £1,500, a very fair expenditure for such a constituency as Glocester. Did you think it necessary, if the expenses were legal, to send the money down secretly ?—I fol lowed Mr. Price's instructions in that. Did not the fact of the secrecy observed give an impression to your mind that something wrong was to be done with the money ? Witness replied that he did not consider the fact of sending the money by private hand made the matter secret. He added that he had never seen Thompson before or since. Sir W. Hayter, M.P., was next examined. He made the following statement :—A short time be fore the general election I had a communication with Mr. Moffatt in the House of Commons in reference to the Glocester election. He told me that he had been in communication with Mr. Price respecting the probable expenses that would be in curred by the election at Glocester, and especially with regard to the expenses that might be incurred by Mr. Monk, for whom Mr. Moffatt, as I under stood, was acting as a friend, and he told me as the result of that communication that very probably a snm of money would be required to be sent down by some private hand to Glocester on behalf of Mr. Monk, and he asked me if I knew anybody who would take it down. I said I did not, but that I would inquire and let him know. That was the whole of the conversation that passed between us. That conversation never was renewed, nor am I aware that from that until after the general election I saw Mr. Moffatt. On the next day, I think it was, that I saw a person named Webb, the chief clerk of Mr. Gilbert, a Parliamentary agent ; told him what Mr. Moffatt wished, and asked him if he knew a person who could take the money. He said he could recommend a person on whom he could entirely rely, and that his name was Thompson, on which I gave a short note to introduce Thompson to Mr. Moffatt. Here, as far as I am concerned, the whole matter would have ended, if it had not happened that I was going to remain longer in town. But about the 21st of April I received a uote from Mr. Moffatt containing a check for £5OO drawn on Mr. Ralli (Mr. Monk's father-in-law). In that note Mr. Moffatt stated that he was going out of town, and he requested me to give the check to Thompson, if I received a communica tion from Mr.. Price to that effect. I put the check into an envelope, and my impression—for I will not be certain—is that I put the note and the check in the same envelope, in order that the one might demonstrate what the other was meant for. I put that envelope sealed into a despatch box. Time passed on, no communication with Mr. Price took place, and I went out of town to my own election. But before I went I saw Mr. Parkes, and asked him in the event of any note or letter coming from Mr. Price, to have the kindness to do what Mr. Price directed. When I was at Wells I received a letter from Mr. Parkes stating, among other things, that he had given the cheque to a person who had called for it, and who had authority to receive it, and there is an impression on my mind that he enclosed a letter from Mr. Price to me, stating that the money was to be paid to Mr. John Wilton ; but I regret that these letters are destroyed. I thought the matter was done with. That is the whole of the case as far as I am con oerned. Sir William was next questioned by Mr. Vaughan and said,—l lad but one conversation with Mr. Moffatt, and that was in the House of Commons. I can't say how long that conversation took place be fore the Reform Bill was introduced by the late Government. Had no recollection with regard to the time, but it could not have been long before the dissolution of Parliament, because it had reference to Mr. Monk's candidature. Can't recollect the date of the division on the Reform Bill. Thinks his conversation with Mr. Moffat took place before the beginning of April. Mr. Moffatt gave me no statement connected with the object of sending the money in any respect. Had no conversation with Mr. Moffatt other than that I have stated. Mr. Moffat simply said he wanted some person to send down to Gl.cester with money on behalf of Mr. Monk. He did not state from what source he ob • tained the money. Never heard the name of Ita lli before I read the cheque. I had known Mr. Gilbert for 15 years as an active electioneering agent in East Somersetshire where I re• sided, and he held an official position in _ _ Bristol. Last autumn Mr. Gilbert - wrote to me that he had come up s to town to practise as a Parliamentary agent and soliciting any assistance I could give him, and consequently during the con test i n E as t W orcestershire, when I was applied to by Mr. Foley to recommend a person to manage the Conduct of that election, I recommended Mr. Gilbert and he was employed in one of the districts of Worcestershir e and conducted himself with great propriety there, and I have received a letter from Mr. Foley e xpressing his sat isfac tion at it . I.'hat is the sole reaso n wiy j applied to Mr. Gilb ert. At that time I certai n ly had no knowledge that any money at all was to be sent to Gloucester for an improper use. Moat !assuredly nothing was said about any money being spent in bribery. Mr. Monk never said a word in w hi ch it was implied that the money was intended to be sent down for the purpose of bribery. I re ceive d the l e tt er f rom Mr. Moffatt at my lodgings in Rydew- s t reet. They are lodgings taken for myself. I had. to do with many elections for a party, and it was convenient to myself to have lodgings centrally situate. The check on Mr. Ralli forr6o o is the only sum of money I have heard of as connected with the Glo cester election. Daring my absence from town I asked Mr. Parkes to open my letters. I did not know that Thompson had been connected with elec Lion matters for some time in any way ambiguously. I most solemnly say that I never knew him before, or of the existence of such a person. I was deceived —no doubt of it. I relied upon Mr. Price in the matter. Mr. Price stated to me that there was a great difficulty in Mr. Monk obtaining any agent at-all, and that a pressure was being made upon him for money for messengers and for various other matters, and that he (Mr. Price) had provided his own agent with money, but that no money came from Mr. Monk's agent. He said there was diffi culty as to the agent at Glocester, Sir Maurice Ber keley's agent refusing to act, that there was in fact no agent, and that under the circumstances he thought Mr. Wilton was more like the agent than any one else. That statement was made subsequently ' to the sitting of the Parliamentary committee. I re lied on Mr. Price, and considered that the arrange ment made by him was one which could be justi fied. He did not think Mr. Price would make any which would involve a Thestion of bri bery. So far as I am concerned, I solemnly declare that I never knew and had no infornaation to lead me to the knowledge that the money was intended to be applied to the purposes of bribery. By Mr. Fitzgerald—As to the , term " trust worthy," I understood that the pe'cson was one to be trusted with carrying down the money, but I had no notion that such a person would be em ployed to disburse it. By Mr. Welford—l know a good deal about the character of borough constituencies. Mr. Welford—l supposes you know as much as Mr. Coppock did ? Witness—l know a little ; Mr. Coppock knew a great deal. (Laughter.) Does not Mr. Parkes hold the situation formerly held by Mr. Coppock ?—No ; no person occupies that position, it is quite open. (A laugh.) As to the character of Gloucester it happens that of the many constituencies wit h which I have been con nected I never had on ainy Occasion any connection with Gloucester. Then you are not aware that the borough has been charged for years past with bribery ?—I cer tainly know that the character of Gloucester does not stand high. It is notorious. You were aware of that at the time when you were asked to be the imedium of sending down the money. At the time when you were so asked, had ,you any suspicion of the intended application of the money ?—When you come to " suspicions," you must pardon me saying that that is rather hard to inquire about a man's suspicions. (Laughter.) Sir William further stated, in answer to further questions, that although he ought to have been ac quainted with the requirements of an Act of Par liament which he assisted in passing, it was practi cally useless. The practice was to send the money to the agent to pay the election expenses, and not leave them to be paid by the auditor. He knew nothing of any meeting in London last Friday re specting this matter, had no knowledv of any money having been sent to Glocester in 1857. £3OO was advanced to support the petition on the part of Sir Maurice Berkeley afterwards, but prior to the petition he was morally sure no money was sent. He believed, on the contrary, that Sir Maurice Ber keley was rather hurt that no assistance was given. Certainly the Reform Club was not in the habit of sending down money to carry elections in boroughs. ' This money was supplied by agents from private sibscriptions. He was morally sure that not a farthing was sent to Glocester ,from the Reform Club at the last election. Mr. Ralli, Greek Consul General in London, and father-in-law of Mr. Monk, proved that on the 19th April last he had an interview with Mr. Moffatt, who applied to him respecting the funds for his son in-law's election. He was led to understand that the candidate could not interfere in respect of the costs until after the election was over, and there fore he consented to advance £5OO. This was for legitimate expenses, of course. (Laughter.) Pro ducing a letter from Mr. Moffatt enclosing docu ments, he said these documents were letters from Glocester asking for more money. Mr. Moffatt was recalled and examined on these documents. The letter was from Mr. Wilton, ask ing for £5OO more, and enclosing documents which were statements of engagements made, and which they wanted the money to satisfy. His impression was that the applications were for money to satisfy illegal claims, and hence in his letter to Mr. Ralli he spoke of them as unsatisfactory. The telegraph clerk having produced a bundle of telegrams, Mr. Parkes was examined as to some of them which contained the words " I have seen P. and made it all right." He knew nothing ofit. He had seen nothing of the man to whom he had delivered the envelope containing the check, except on that one occasion. He corroborated Sir W. Hayter's statement as to instructions received by him from Sir William, and which he carried out. He denied that the Reform Club had had any thing to do with sending money down to the borough for the last two general elections, such arrangements having been made independently of the Reform Club. John Clarke, the witness who gave evidence on the Parliamentary committee, was next examined. He stated that he was by trade a fancy milliner, living at 22, Enfield-street, Hoxton, and that he became acquainted with Thompson as being engaged with him and a Mr. Crouch in conducting elections for the Conservative party. He had been engaged in more than 20 elections with Thompson during Mr. Crouch's life, and as many subsequently. Had been engaged with Thompson in conducting perhaps a dozen elections on the Liberal side. He had been engaged with Thompson in acts of bribery at elec tions on both sides. Thompson lived at 4, Bridge road, Hammersmith. The witness repeated, with little variation, the evidence given by him before the Parliamentary committee as to his receiving a telegram at Maidstone requiring „his presence in London. Here he found instructions to go down to Glocester to meet Thompson, and he went down accordingly. He described his inquiries for and subsequently, his meeting with Thompson, and con ferring with him at Mr. Wilton's. Thompson went by the name of " Thornton" at Glocester, and wit ness was known as " Brettles." Witness told Mr. Wilton and the Glocester people that he came from the Reform Club, but in reality he did not. (Sensa tion.) He and Thompson wished to lay out the money, but the Glocester people preferred to do it themselves, and he blamed Thompson for giving away all the money to Mr. Wilton and leaving none to take them home. Mr. Wilton came to them at the Glocester Railway Hotel, and Thompson went out to him. Witness had previously counted out the £5OO and packed it up in parcels of 25 sovereigns, which Thompson gave to Mr. Wilton in the passage, witness being in the coffee-room. On Thompson's return he said, " He's got the money, hut he shall have no more. On the nomination day Thompson told him "He had s•en the parties and could have £l,OOO if he wanted it, and he must give an acknowledg ment for it." Thompson also produced a roll of notes from nis pocket, and said he had given an acknow ledgment for £l,OOO. Witness was to have £5O for his services, but had only received £5, and had paid £3 for expenses. He had received £25 from Mr. Gilbert's clerk before he was examined before the committee. The commissioners shortly after adjourned for the day. THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT LEJVES. ADJOURNED INQUEST. LEWES, THURSDAY, SEPT. 27. The jury meet again this afternoon at five o'clock, and the coroner, Mr. F. H. Gell, informed them that he had communicated with the Privy Council of the Board of Trade, requesting them to send down an officer of theirs, and the Council had re plied that they had not the power to do so, but that it rested with the Home-office. They would remember that he had corresponded with the Se cretary of State, who declined to interfere ; there fore it would be for them (the jury) to decide upon what course to take. The coroner then read over the practical evidence of Mr. Jackson, a steam engine builder at Brighton, and Superintendent Jenner, who watched the case for the police, called George William Bailey, a miller at Cuckfield. Witness then deposed—l was at the sheep fair, and witnessed the explosion. I know a person names Plummer, and had some conversation with him about a‘quarter of an hour after the accident. In speaking of it, he said he was round there, and saw the pressure at 301 b, and he tried the safety valve. By Mr. Briggs (who again attended for the Messrs. Cheale) ; ---There was no one present on the hill when this conversation took place. There were mans persons round about, but we were talk ing by ourselvss. Albert John Skinner, a lad, a resident at Lewes, deposed—l was about four feet and a half— (a laugh)—from the engine at the time the explosion took place. I had been standing there , about ten minutes. I saw a man (Gold) with the engine, and saw him turn on a tap on the right-hand side of the engine, and saw him stir the fire. John Haywood, in the employ of the Messrs. Cheale as principal engineer, deposed,—l went up the hill in consequence of hearing of the accident, but cannot speak at all as to the state of the engine previous to leaving the premises. I went up in consequence of receiving instructions from my master to go and pick up the fraginents of the chaff-cutter. I picked up the safety-valve, and put it into the cart, and conveyed it back among the rest. • Coroner—When you picked it up did you ex amine it at all P NBVitness—No, sir. y Mr. Briggs—When the engine went away waltveritninestshehegraen from the prem i s ° _ es she had quite three inches of screwed down corroborated ge o . fth the evidence as to the w pr i e th vio t us be N v vo a r ly k e in d e o n w gi n ne a w 4 r an sh d e sh w o o t r h k e e n d blew off at that pressure. When I told him that I should box he contiued to drive in that w not atop I p the in f o fore man-. Whe n m b a o n — thought it was dangero u s. t careful driver. when Foreman —Then he was not a Was he in the habit of g e tting drunk work. out ! Witness—Not when he was on at Foreman—Haven't you llad some eonversationin the shop as to the strength of t hi s engine p Witness—No, sir ; we always thought her safe enough. John Sadler, in the employment of the London and Brighton Railway Company, under Mr. Craven, the superintendent of the locomotive department, was next called, and deposed—l am foreman of the locomotive department, and in that capacity received a portable steam engine from the Messrs. Cheale, in November, 1858, for the purpose of being re paired. I received instructions to repair the fire box and put a few new ferrules to the tubes, and I was also requested to test the boiler by hydrauli pressure. I did those things as requested. I put three additional plates and five extra stays to the fire-box, and I only tested the boiler after I had got those secured. Coroner—What power did you use ?—I tested 801 b. pressure, and I also put a ferrule on the sprin, balance, so as to prevent the pressure exceeding 45 And you returned it in this state to Messrs. Cheale ?—Yes, sir. no you consider it advisable to have an indica tor ?—lt is advisable. The spring balance does partially indicate what pressure you have in the boiler if properly attended to. Do you consider a boiler with angle-iron safe without stays ?—Not after certain pressure. Boilers are all constructed with angle-irons. Superintendent Jenner—What part of the front of the engine would have most of the pressure ? It would be equal all over. By a Juror—l cannot tell why the steam did not blow off at 45. Engineers have been known to put a wedge in to keep the valve down to get more pressure. The Foreman—The jury wish to understand whether if you had general orders you would have done more to the engine in the way of repairs ?—I only had the boiler, and understood Mr. Cheale was doing some of the work himself; and we don't do general repairs unless we have the whole of the work. The court then adjourned. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN BIR MINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING. At 40 minutes past 10 o'clock this morning a dis aster, attended with the most frightful results and accompanied by circumstances peculiarly afflicting, occurred in this town. The cause was an explosion upon the premises of Messrs. Phillips and Pursall, percussion cap makers, of Whittall-street, in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's, one of the most densely populated, or, rather, closely built districts of the town. At the hour above named all the people employed were at their work. There are various rumours as to the number, but it ranges between 60 and 70, of whom by far the greater proportion were women. There were an extra number of hands, for the prin cipals have in course of execution a contract for the Turkish Government, and its completion within a given time is imperative. The premises upon which the business was con ducted are three story, the room which is called the " priming shop" being upon the first floor : in that room there were several persons employed; suddenly and without a moment's warning, a violent explo sion occurred ; it was followed by another instan taneously. A loud report was heard, houses in the neighbourhood were shaken, then a crash, and the building fell in, leaving nothing standing but the front wall immediately facing the public street. The timber within the walls became a mass of flame, so violent and so intense that in an incre dibly short time the beams were burnt to a charred mass. The instant after the explosion a suffocat ing vapour arose. From the barred windows of an adjoining factory poor creatures who had been at work on the premises upon which the explosion had occurred were seen struggling, half-suffocated, maimed, and blackened, vainly endeavouring to ob tain an exit: Messrs. Callisher and Perry, breech loading gun makers, whose premises adjoined, and which had bepn partly blown down, did their best to rescue the sufferers; and, in one or two instances, succeeded ; but the fatal consequences of the catastrophe were too rapid. The fire-engines arrived promptly ; the flames were got under speedily, and such of the poor creatures as had escaped with life were taken, six teen or seventeen of them, to the General Hospital. Most of these were in a frightfui state, burnt with more or less severity. One woman died immedi ately ; several others were between life and death. In the meantime thousands had assembled ; the engines played upon the blazing and smoking mass, as a precaution against another explosion. Very soon after that event had taken place a couple of dead bodies were pulled from the ruins. Soon after a number of men were set to work to dig over the smouldering mass of bricks and material—the con tents of the pile of building. As this process went on gradually bodies were discovered ; in one or two instances the poor creatures are said not to have been 'lead, but to have struggled convulsively yet vainly for help, which could not be given to them with sufficient haste. These must have died in extreme agony. As' hour - after hour went on the interest became painfully intense. There was no muster-roll of those who were missing, and a crowd of anxious faces stood expectantly by. The work of the dim gers went on, and body after body revealed itself, a blackened mass too frightful to behold, and too ap palling a spectacle to describe. Towards the afternoon, about 3 o'clock, the ex cavators had made their way into the line leading from the front door of the premises ; buried three or four yards beneath the ruins of the walls and fragments they dug out the bodies of three women ; it is almost needless to add that all were dead. The story of these poor creatures is soon told. They had doubless been working. on the floor, had heard the explosion above, and rushed to the door, but before reaching it were buried beneath the ruins. These three made 14 bodies which had been dug out up to that time ; but it was known then that there were others still entombed, and presently afterwards others were discovered. Those nearest the surface had been burnt to death, and a speedy work that mast have been, such was the fury of the flames. Crushed beneath burning and explo sive material, or stifled by suffocation, the remain der must have died as speedily. Tattered female garments were dug up, and many hundred-weight of p'ercussion caps, from beneath the smoking pile. The cause of this explosion will probably for ever remain in conjecture. It may have arisen from something in connexion with the detonating pow der itself—the accidental connexion with it of some foreign and sufficiently chafing substance to cause an explosion, and against which no human fore sight or care could guard. Indeed, the rays of the sun might have been sufficient to cause the disaster; but be this as it may, this, the third explosion of the kind within three months here, makes it in cumbent upon the authorities to interfere. It can no longer be tolerated that manufactories of this kind should be permitted in the centre of large towns. The risk is great enough for those em ployed in this perilous trade, without its.beinf,r, in truded into the midst qs a dense population. In the occurrence of to-day windows were shattered in the neighbourhood, houses shaken, and it was only by a miracle that several persons residing near escaped serious injury. Messrs. Phillips and Pursall are partially insured in the Phoenix-office. In the midst of such excitement as prevailed on the spot to-day and of - such vast crowds who had assembled it was almost impossible to procure defi nite information of any kind. Bad as the disaster has been, there were many exaggerated rumours afloat ; but the above narrative is believed to be not far from correct. 7 30 P.m. Since the above was written it has been confi dently stated that four more dead bodies have been dug out, making 20 killed. This is by no means improbable. There were not more than six or eight men em ployed upon the premises ; and one of many affect ing incidents which might be narrated is that of a man who, having rescued his wife froin death, him self perished beneath the ruins. 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THE7SITN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859. ALLEGED BRUTALITY TO A FEMJLE IN T. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE. ADMONITION TO THE MASTER. Yesterday the Board of Directors and Guardians of the Poor of St. Pancras, sat at the Vestry-hall, Camden-town, and were occupied several hours in investigating a charge of cruelty preferred against Mr. AVinlo, the master of the workhouse, towards an inmate named Kate Sullivan, or. the morning of Sunday last. Mr. Churchwarden Cameron having been called to the chair, Mr. Sheffield inquired whether any complaint had been made before the magistrates in petty session on the previous day, in reference to the ill treatment of an inmate by the master. The reason he had asked the question was, that he had received a letter signed "A Sick Inmate," stating that a female had on Sunday been brutally assaulted by the master, and that the party ill-used had made a statement to the local magistrates on Monday. Mr. Flaw, the clerk, said he did not hear any such statement. Mr. Howlett said he knew nothing of Mr. Shef field's correspondence, but he had heard of the mat ter in question, and considered an investigation should at once take place ; and he called upon the board to hear the evidence of Miss Barnes, the mis tre4s of the infant school. (Hear, hear, and cries of " What for?") After some discussion, it was resolved to hear the statement of Miss Barnes, and that the moment she said anything affecting any other officer, that the party should be palled in and hear what she had to say, or any other evidence that might be taken. Miss Barnes said, as mistress of the infant school, she had the assistance of Kate Sullivan, an inmate, as nurse. About 12 o'clock on Sunday she sent Sul livan to the kitchen for the children's dinners. She returned with one tray of meat, and then went back for potatoes. Shortly after she was astonished and alarmed at hearing the cries and screams of a woman lout in the yard, and was more astonished when she went out and kr,..w the master (Mr. Winlo) and her nurse struggling fearfitll7. The master had hold of her by both wrists, which he was twisting and wrenching round, and exclaiming " You shall come, you shall coma," The nurse got hold of the railings, and he then called Wool, a gate porter, and Neville, one of the paid nurses, and they set to work drag ging her away, and the nurse fell down and Wool on the top of her. The proceedings so frightened the school children, 50 in number, that they all set up screaming, and she (Miss Barnes) went out and said, " Oh, what a disgraceful scene on a Sunday," and complained of the violent treatment of the mas ter, and exclaimed, "What has the woman done that she should be so treated ?" Neville called oat, " Leave her alone to us ; the woman is mad ;" and she (Miss Barnes) repied, " She is no more mad than you are. What has she done ?" The master said, " She has grossly insulted me, and she shall be taken away." At this stage the board considered the master should be present, and Mr. Winlo was called in, and Miss Barnes repeated her statement in his pre sence. She added, when the others arrived she said (alluding to the master), " That man ought to be ashamed of himself to behave as he has to that woman." Sullivan's wrists were scratched very se verely with his finger nails, and one of her wrists so fearfully wrenched that she was in great pain, and had to keep it in hot water for three or four hours. Understood that the whole cause of the pro ceeding was the way in which Sullivan was wear ing her hair. The witness added, that on the previ ous day (Monday) the master had them all " car peted" before him in the workhouse board-room, and he examined Wool and Neville, and others, with a view to get up some charge against her (Miss Barnes) and make her out a liar. Mr. Winlo, on being called upon to answer this statement, said he was in the kitchen on Sunday, when the woman Sullivan came in there with her hair in flowing curls. He told her, while an inmate of that workhouse she must conform to the rules and wear her hair like other women, and added, "Go to your ward, and do it at once." She turned round and abused him, and said it was not his busi ness, and that he was mixed up with that villain Kingston (alluding to the Settlement Club, which was taking steps to remove her to Ireland). She left and went towards the infant school, and stopped again and said something, and he then seized her and said she should go to the separation ward. She began to screech and put her arms round the iron railings, and hurt her wrists. He then called to Wool, and he and Mrs. Neville came and laid hold of her. Miss Barnes came out most excited, and behaved in such a manner as to be the cause of fur ther uproar. Tb.is woman Sullivan was at all times violent when not permitted to do ;iv she liked. lie wished the board to call Wool, Davy, Mrs. Samson, and Mrs. Neville. In answer to questions, The Master stated that he had never spoken to the woman before about her ringlets. Had never noticed her before. When he told her to go - to her ward she left the kitchen and proceeded in the direction of the infant school, and he followed her, and when she hesitated he thought she did ndt in tend to go, and then he laid hold of her and said she should go to the separation ward. Kate Sullivan, the inmate referred to, was then called in. She is a tall, lady-like woman, about 35 years of age, with very dark hair, full black eves, and bears evidences of having been very hand some. She said she was an inmate of the house, with her three children, who were in the infant school, where through the kindness of the matron she had been placed. She then said—On Sunday I went into the kitchen for the children's potatoes. The master was there, and on seeing me he said, " How dare you wear your hair in curls ? Go back instantly to your ward, and alter it, or I will send yo u to the separation ward." I replied, " The matron has never said anything about it, and has been very kind to me, and I will do it." I then left the kitchen, and proceeded across the yard to the infant school. The master followed me. When I got towards the gate he seized hold of me and said, " You shall go to the separation ward," and then commenced dragging me. I caught hold of the iron railings. He said " Let go—l'll break your arm if you don't let go." He then called to Mr. Wool and others to come and help him. Miss Barnes called out " Let the woman alone, what has she done ?" They , said " She is mad," and a stout man came and tore me from the railings, and I fell down and he over m e . Id o no t remember any more. By the Board—The master had seen me in what they call curls before. Mr. Belletti is the father of my three children. He is in the insane ward, but has £lO a-month, and yet they want to conspire to get rid of me to Ireland. Had been three weeks in the house. The Master said he told her to go to her ward kindly. He had never seen her to his knowledge before. She moved a little and then stopped, and he thought she did not intend to go—that was why he laid hold of her. Did not threaten to send her to the separation ward. When he first told her to alter her curls she made no answer. Nurse Neville, Mrs. Sampson, and Wool, were examined on the part of the master. The first said she thought Sullivan was mad by the way she screamed and raved, and Mrs. Sampson only spoke to the struggle, and Mr. Wool said Sullivan's con duit was very violent, and Miss Barnes wag not re spectful to the master. The master had them before him to investigate the matter on the Monday. Mr. Winlo, in answer to Mr. Turner, said he had made no report in his book of this affair to the board. 'Thomas Cole, the cook, was examined at the request of Miss Barnes. He said he remembered Sullivan coming into the kitchen, and the master telling her to go and put up her curls. She replied, at first, " I am going to leave in a few days, and I don't think it worth while to alter them." Some other remarks were made which I did not catch, but I heard the master say Silence, madam; or I'll send you to the separation ward." She then left, and shortly after, on crossing the yard, I heard dreadful screams, and, looking, I saw the master dragging the woman by the arms. As I looked I thought the master saw me looking at him, and he left go his hold, and then called out to Wool and others, and I went on my business. A discussion here took place as to the character of the curls, and while the master, Wool, and Samp son said they were ringlets, the woman Sullivan showed the board that her hair was only one roll curled round on each side of the face. This was corroborated by Barnes and by Cole. The witnesses being ordered to withdraw, the board entered into a discussion, and Mr. Howlett hoped they considered him justified in bringing the case forward. (Hear.) Mr. Turner said he considered the conduct of the master was harsh in the extreme. It was said the woman was excited, and he did not wonde: at it. A most suspicious thing was that the master int& not reported this disgraceful affray taking place in the house o,t a Sunday. He moved the following resolution :—" That the conduct of Mr. Winlo on Sunday last towards Kate Sullivan was extremely harsh and uncalled for, and the board admonish him to use kindness and forbearance to the inmates invariably." Mr. J. A. Fisher seconded the motion. Mr. Austin thought the motion too strong; a master must have some discretion allowed him, He thought the justice of the case would be met by the following, which he would move 'as an amend ment :—" That in the opinion of the directors, Kate Sullivan ought to have obeyed the master's orders, and regret that the master, in the spirit of the moment, should have acted as he did on that occa sion." Mr. Furnis, churchwarden, seconded the amend ment. The Chairman considered the observation proved by Cole, the cook,•that she was going to leave the house, and did not think it worth while to alter her curls ; this proved that she did npt obey the mas ter's orders. On the question being put, the amendment was negatived, and the original motion carried by a majority of two to one. The master was called in, and the resolution was read over to him, but he made no remark. The proceedings then terminated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—..Sept. 27. GUILDHALL—Thomas Stowell, the informer, was summoned before Sir 1 W. Carden to answer the charge of conspiring with others not in custody to cheat and defraud Messrs. Lockhart and Sons, manufacturers, of Kirkaldy, in Scotland, of goods alleged to have been obtained under false pretences. When the case was called on Stowell applied for an adjournment, as he had only received the sum mons late on the previous night, and was not pre pared with counsel to defend him. Mr. Lewis, jun., for the prosecution, objected, inasmuch as he feared that any adjournment would only be hiving Stowell and his accomplice s ti me t o get out of the way, and so frustrate the ends of justice. Sir It. W. Carden said the application was a very reasonable one. Mr. Lewis said .he was prepared to go into the case at once. If Stowell had been in custody his application could not have been entertained with out the case being heard. His client would solve the difficulty at once by giving Stowell into cus tody. Stowell was then taken to the police-station, where the charge was entered in the regular form, and when he returned he found his counsel, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, had arrived, and asked for per mission to sit near his counsel, instead of being placed in the felons' dock, and his request was ac ceded to. Mr. Lewis having stated the facts of the case, Louisa Dodgson deposed to the prisoner having taken an office at No. 4, Angel-m urt, Throgmor ton-street, about the 20th of July last, in the name of " Thomas James Stevens," and to his having the name of " T. J. Stevens.and Co." painted up on the door-post. He occupied the room about five weeks, and then went away without paying the rent, and witness never saw him after. She never knew him in any other name than Stevens. Mr. Moses Gregory, a Manchester warehouseman, at 34, Minories, said—About two days before the 13th of August last a person called on me, but not with sampls, and the next day the prisoner, I think, came by himself. • He said his name was Stevens, that his office-was at 4, Angel-court, Throg morton-street, where he carried on business as a general merchant, and that he had a parcel of sacks or bags which he wished to dispose of. The person, who appeared to be Stevens's clerk, showed me a sample, but I do not think the prisoner did. There were three different sorts of sacks, and I said I would look at them in bulk, and if we came to terms would buy them. On the following day he brought the sacks, and left them with me to exa mine, and when he came again on the 13th I agreed to buy the whole parcel, 600 in all. The price I offered was 200 at sd. each, 200 at 7d. each, and 200 at 9d. each, which he accepted. The price of the 600 sacks amounted to £l7 10s., which I paid to the prisoner, and he made out the invoice pro duced and signed the receipt at the gape time in my presence, in the name of "T. J. Stevens." I had only known the prisoner about six weeks or two months, but I certainly never knew his name was Stowell. He has brought me other goods of a similar description. Cross-examined—As far as my memory serves me I bought the goods in bulk without seeing a sample first, and according to my judgment I gave a price for them, one that would leave me a fair profit. I got a very small profit on some of them. I bought them believing I was dealing with re spectable parties, or r should not have bought them at all. I think I gave the current market price for such goods. I should think £34, the price charged by the manufacturer to Stevens, a very stiff price. By Sir R. W. Carden—l have had only one other transaction with Stowell besides this. The goods I bought on this occasion consisted of sacks. Stowell was introduced to me by an agent, but whose name Ido not recollect. The bales did not appear to have been opened. They were in the same state in which they had been sent dut by the manufacturer. Sir R. W. Carden—And does it not strike you that the difference between £34, the manufactu rer's wholesale price, and £l7, the price you bought them for, is very extraordinary ? Witness—l do not think I got t4em remarkably cheap. Those I bought at sd. each I sold for 7d. ; those at 7d, for 9d. ; and those at 9d. for 11d. Mr. Jas. Birrell, agent to Messss. Lockhart and Sons, of Kirkaldy ssid—On the sth of August last I called at the office, 4, Angel-court, Throgmorton street, in consequence of a communication from my principals, with samples of sacks of three different prices. I saw a person there (not the prisoner Stowell) who represented himself as Mr. Stevens. I had left the patterns for them to look at on the day previous, and when I called again Stevens handed me a written order for 600 bags, which he said were required for potatoes to be imported from Hamburg, and that if they suited they would give a much larger order next time. I forwarded the order to Messrs. Lockhart and Sons and on the 12th of August th e goods arri ve d a t ;he Irongate wharf. The terms agreed upon were cash in a month with 2 discount. On the 17th of the same month I went to the office in Angel-court, and found the door locked and the office to let. I then went to Irongate-wharf, and found the goods were gone. I then went to No. 16, Bear-lane, an office kept in the name of Richardson and Co., and the clerk informed me that Stevens and Richard son had gone out together. I went to a house in the neighbourhood, where I found Stevens, and asked him for the money or the goods. He said the goods were in his warehouse in Thames-street, and on my desiring to see if they had been sent right, he said it was too late, as the warehouse was closed for the day and the man had gone home with the key. He then appointed to meet me the next day. He produced a bill .for £4O 125., which he said they had received from a country customer, and said he would give it to me if I would give him the difference in cash between that amount and the price of the goods, but I said I had not enough money to do so. Up to that time I had never seen anything of Stowell. I proposed to Stevens to go out and have a glass of ale, so that I might intro duce Moss, the detective officer, to him ; after which we went back to Angel-court, where Moss told Stevens he must either pay the money or give up the goods. Stevens said they could have the goods immediately. Moss then told Stevens that he had know him for years, and also knew that he was not Stevens, as his right name was Joseph Clarkson. He at first denied it, but afterwards admitted the fact, and then appealed to a foreigner who was in the room to give up the goods, but he refused to do so until Stevens came. Moss then left with Clark son, and returned shortly after with Stowell, who said the goods were shipped or about to be shipped, and that he could not pay the whole of the money. After some discussion he gave me £5 in cash, and a promissory note for £29 12s. at 21 days, which on falling due I presented, and it was dishonoured. I had not the slightest knowledge at the time that the goods had been sold in London at 50 per cent. below cost price. The bill was drawn by m . eon Thomas Stowell, and made payable' at his residence, 24, St. George's-road, New Kent-road, Southwark. I have seen him several times since at his private house and elsewhere, and he has promised to pay me, but he has not done %o. Stevens and Co. still occupy the office in Angel-court, although it is to let. They have also another office in the-same name a t No. 12, Circus, Minories. Stowell gave me that address. £34 12s. 6d. is a reasonable charge for the goods in question, and it is the regular trade price for such goods all over the country. Sir R. W. Carden—Did you make any inquiry about Stevens and Co. ? — Witness—Yes; but not until after they got the goods. Sir R. W. Carden—That is not the usual way of doing business. - Witness—No, sir ; but my suspicions were not aroused till afterwards. John Mos ;, city detective, was the next witness examined. •He had had to make a great many in quiries in connexion with the parties charged, and ip.ld a warrant for the apprehension of one of them. They are all connected. Stowell said he expected £l,OOO worth of ° Tapes from Hamburg, an d th a t as soon as he g o t them he, would pay Mr. Birrell in There was a foreigner in the office, and it was believed that these parties were connected with others carrying- on the same system at 40, Broad t reet-buildin gs, under the name of Palmer and Co., Wallis and Co., and a host of other commercial aliases. 'lf the prisoner were remanded he had no doubt but that there would be other charges against After some discussion Sir It. W. Carden decided upon accepting two sureties in £25 each, and Stowell's own recognisances in £lOO, to appear on Monday next. Stowell, not being prepared with hail, was then removel, and ultimately conveyed in the prison van to Newgate. HELATH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) At the close of the period in which summer cholera is prevalent and fatal, the weekly returns of mortality wear a more favourable aspect, and the deaths have declined to the point from which they rose at the end of June. The total number in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,058. If the deaths from cholera in the corre sponding weeks of the two years 1849 and 1854 are excluded from the calculation, it will be found that the totai deaths as returned for last week are less than the number which the average rate of mor tality in the third week of September in the 10 years 1849-58 would have produced. The decrease in fatal cases of diarrhcea is shown by the' numbers of the last three weeks, which were 148, 82, and 61. Of those returned as cholera or choleraic diarrhcea, last week gives only 3, and these occurred to infants. Scarlatina, which destroyed 83 lives, prevails much, but chiefly in the East dis tricts ; 8 deaths from it are recorded in St. Leonard, Shoreditch ; 5 in St. Paul, St. George-in-the East ; 5 in Islington West. Small pox was fatal last week in 23 cases, syphilis in 10, delirium tre mens in 4, intemperance in 4. Five nonagenarians died, all women, the oldest of whom was 96 years, and died at the Female Almshouses, Whitechapei. Of bricklayers 3 died last week; of bricklayers' children 7 ; of carpenters 6 died ; of carpenters' wives 7 ; of carpenters' children 25 ; of painters 3 died ; of painters' children 12 ; of plasterers' chil dren 2 died. At the census of 1851 there were in London 13,919 bricklayers, 23,458 carpenters, 15,309 painters, 4,378 plasterers. Last week the births of 886 boys and 866 girls, in all 1,752 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849- 58 the average number was 1,572. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUG., 1859. The waters used in London have been analysed during the month of August by Dr. Roht. Dundas Thomson, F.lt.S., of St. Thomas's Hospital. The analyses are recorded in the following table. For the sake of comparison the composition of Loph Katrine water is added, and likewise that of one of the shallow wells of the metropolis, which are all contaminated by sewage matter, and have been proved in many instances to be injurious to health t Total impurity Organic im - per gallon. purity. gra. or deg. gre. or deg. 00 0.0 Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glas gow Well in Camberwell THAMES COMPANIES. Southwark Chelsea Grand Junction West Middlesex Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. New River East London Kent 2°14 • 0.8 62.67 , 10.60 16'40 1 . 60 1720 1'52 16'08 0 . 84 15'40 0 . 72 1728 120 1524 1728 21'84 o'BB 0.80 2.32 The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains In the gallon 2•14 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which '8 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.652 in. The highest and lowest readings were respectively 29.91 in. on Sunday, and 29.25 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the week was 56.5 deg., which is 1 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was below the average on every day till Friday, and having been 52.6 deg. on Wldif nesday, it rose to 674 deg. on Saturday, which lat ter is 124 deg. above the average. The thermome ter fell to 41.5 deg. on Tuesday, the lowest point in the week, and rose to 76 deg., the highest, on Sa turday. The range i n th e we k was therefore 34.5. The mean daily range was 191 deg. The lowest temperature on Saturday was so much as 62 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 59.2 deg. The difference between the mean temperature of the air and dew-point temperature was 6.3 deg. The mean humidity of the air was 78. The wind blew during a considerable part of the week from the south-west ; on Wednesday it moved at the rate of 200 miles in the day. There was rain in the week to the amount of 0.64 in. Auroral streamers were seen in the evening of Saturday. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT ST. JAMES'S_ PALACE, SEPT. 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rear-Admira the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Lieutenant-General Berkeley Drummond, resigned. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant- General Berkeley Drummond to be an Extra Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas M. Persse as Consul at Galway for fhe United States of America. BOARD Or TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Port-au- Prince, enclosing a copy of, a law recently passed by the Government of Hayti, repealing the tax in kind hitherto levied upon coffee exported, and substituting an export duty of one piastre and three-quarters per 100 lbs. net, the duty to be payable at the option of the Government, either in drafts on Paris or in Haytian currency. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting that the Board of Health at that capital, has declared the ports of Alicante and Carthagena and the ports of the kingdom of Hanover to be suspected of cholera morbus. The saute board has also declared the port of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, to be considered as suspected of yellow fever since the 2d March last. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Naples, enclosing copy of a Neapolitan Royal Decree, prolonging until the 30th June 1860, the decree, authorizing the free admission into the kingdom of Naples' of wheat, barley, oats, maize pulse and rice, and flour of same. BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27. . _ The Right Hon. the Lords of the Comniittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Florence, enclosing a copy of a Tuscan decree, reducing the export duty on rough hewn and chiselled alabaster from 3 liras per 1001bs. to 10 soldi, and the duty upon works of alabaster from 1 lira per 1001bs. to 10 soldi. The same decree also reduces the export duties on vegetables from 5 soldi per 1001bs. to 2 soldi. ADMIRALTY, SEPT, 22. First Lieutenant George Dan; Dowell to be Captain, vice Wood, placed on half-pay. .Second Lieutenant Wm. Bentham Morris to be First Lieutenant, Vice Dowell, promoted. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 24. First Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Foster to be Lieu tenant and Quartermaster. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEITTENANT. County of Merioneth—Edmund Buckley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Ist Company of Pembrokshire Rifle Volunteers—George Noel Clarke, Esq., to be Lieutenant, 7th Company of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—Robert Ellis Green, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Walter Watson, Gent., to be Ensign. . Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Charles Frederick King, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ramsay, promoted. Ist Company of Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—Major- General George Borlase Tremenhere to be Captain; Hem y Dobree, Esq. ) to be Lieutenant; Thomas Cornish, Esq., to be Ensign. Ist Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Charles Glynn Prideaux Brune, Esq., to be Captain; John Tred wen, Gent., to be First Lieutenant. prints of Wales Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia- Lieutenant Charle.sEßncsgnsiset Att Tlio h m ur so w n otoolfbreeyCßariptadgie to be Captain, Latham, resigned , Lieutenant, vice Thomson, promoted ; Ensign Henry Bar clay Dunlop to be Lieutenant, vice Cameron * removed iu consequence of long absence without leave. Renfrewshire Volunteer Rifles-3d Company—Alexan der Fullerton, Gent., to be Captain; William Carlile, Gent., to be Lieutenant; James Anderson Mac Kean, Gent., to bo Ensign. 4th Company—Alexander -Crum, Gent., to be Captain;, Robert Gullies Lowndes, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Edinburgh City Artillery Militia—First Lieutenant Geo. Charles Finlay to be Captain, from Sept. 8, 1859, vice Nicol, resigned; Second Lieutenant John Gordon Davidson to be First Lieutenant, from Sept. 8, 1859, vice Finlay, promoted. Northumberland Regiment of Militia Artille r y —Al ex. Leslie Gracey, Esq., A.M., M.D., late Senior Surgeon to the ,Artillery of the Turkish Contingent, to be Surgeon, vice Nettlefold, resigned. County of Middlesex— Sir John Gibbons, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Robert Henry Bolton, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gibson, resigned. MEMORANDUM.-3d or Royal Westminster Light In fantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia —The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commis sion in this Regiment held by Lieutenant William John Ralfs. sth or Royal Elthorne Regiment of Middlesex Militia— The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resig nation of the Commission in this Regiment held by Assis tant-burgeon James Edward Gibson. Wooten or 2d Surrey Subdivision Volunteer Rifle Corps —Henry Walker Kerrich, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Barclay, 'Esq., to be Ensign. Brixton or tith Surrey Company Volunteer Rifle Corps-- Thomas Eman, Esq., to be C ap t a i n; Ed war d Griffiths Syms, Esq., t o be Lieutenant. Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry —Lieutenant William Erle Welby to be Captain, Little dale Hon. H. D. Curzon, resigned; Cornet George Henry . L . dale to be Lieutenant, vice Sir F. He gate resiee4 We u lb net George Henry Finch to be Lieutenant, vice y, promoted ; Charles Phillips, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Finch, promoted. oannsyonoft Vo be [The following a pp o i n t men t s are s ub t st e itil 3 ted th n f i or s t t h l ose which appeared in the Gazette of h Reigateß ifle. or e s o t r h p (andT notCorps—The H t o h n e 4th) William Surrey 70174 Captain • Franci s H e nry Beaumont, Esq., to be Lieute nant; Henry Lainson, Esq., to be Lieutenant. Ist Company of Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers— The Right Hon: John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, t o b e C apta i n. 3d Company of Essex Rifle Volunteers —J o h n C oope Davis, to be Captain ; William Henry Clifton, Esq to be Lieutenant; Henry Martin Harvey, Esq., to be Ensign. NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, AdMiralty, Somerset-h ouse , S ept. 26, 1859. Notice is herbby given 'to all:persons interested therein, that preparations are now being made for the intended distribution of the award for stores recovered from the wreck of her Majesty's gunboat Jaseur in the month of April, 1859, by the Cuba or Zeldina, 'tender to her Ma jesty's ship Imaum. Agents or other persons having any just and legald mend, unliquidated, against the said award, are require ( ' to transmit the particulars of any suc h demand to th e Re gistrar of thelligh Court of Admiralty, in order that ther, same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that Offic , e and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons.holding powers of attorneY , prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share belonging to any salvor, are requested, with as little delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual documents, ' to the Prize Branch ' of the Department of the "Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset- House." Due notice will be given, by future advertiseme nts in the " London Gazette," of the date proposed for the commou encef . ment of distribution; and, at the same time, the amnt o- an individual's share in the respective cl asses will be an nounced. surrender 4 ct. cl 2 l , " t i tt er o Court of Bankruptcy. n a e n , d a l n e d at N hb o r v. se l l o le , r, at ß t e w rm e g 6 at Charles Henry Baker and Joseph Aguilar, so% Mogi facturers, Water-lans, Great Tower-street, City, ct. t twelve, and Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Banruptg; Oct Robert Squire,:draper, Kendal, Westmoreland, V and Nov. 2, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dia trict Court. Joseph RichMond, corn factor, Brad Oct. 8 and Nov. 19, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. d John Machin Hall, paper dealer, Sheffield, Oct. Bau Nov. 19, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. , A ater- Joseph Yardley Vernon, draper, Stourbridge W°,l*--.;„triet shire, Oct, 10 and 31, .at eleven, at the Birmingham ''''-- Court. Joseph Morris , Morris, needle manufacturer, Feckenham, t t he cestershire, Oct. 7 and Nov. 4, at half-past eleven) a Birmingham District Court. .. --- _ - way, Derbyshiro, SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Peter and Thomson Aikman, shipowners, Glasgow' James Mitchell, accountant, Edinburgh. 4 .,„ Edill" James Thomson, inspector of poor, Caneog a 'si burgh. William Cameron, commission agent, Glasgovi. Robert Smith, watchmaker, Inverness. Alexander Glasgow Carswell, salesman, Glasgow- COUNTRY MARKETS. DRISTOL--SEPT. 27. of At our market to-day there was ood attendance buyers attracted by the low range of pr ices, but their ides: and those of holders did not agree sr, far as to induce On business in wheat. Barley dull, owing to the expecte d sales of heated on Thursday. Gate quiet. —SinT. 27. The market to-day was LIVERPOOL only noticeable by steadin ells price and a moderate demand. No chancre therefore, made in the quotations of last week. SHEFFIELD—SEPT. 27. les s old The show of wheat was rather small. Fine gaol ) , titia moderately well at la s t wee k' s quotations ; for infeno con. lities no demand. The quantity of barley shown wis_:„ess siderabL, and the quality varied gr eatly, but little bus "' dons. In oats and flour no change. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s Od t° 1 „ 7 :01 61 White ..18s Od to 2u 6d fl ff ...168 O dd to 17 : od New rod New white " 11 : ..17s 6d to 19 . _ . ff ~ .. 19s Od to 20 01 Beans p„ Grinding bar l ey , • per qr . ...... ; .............. 33s Od to out. ..... ..... .33s Od to 408 ua Peas, per qr... , ff Malting ditto s ), ................. Q2 , od Oats 24s ua w u I, .................. ~s iod pe r Millers' prices for flour—ls 6d, 15. Bd, and I 141 b. straw , 11 - ay, 80s to 85s ,• wheat straw, 28s to 36s ; oat to 36s ; turnips, 14s to 16s per ton. .. .. 46s Od to 5 ., 25_ mix - - LEEDS—SEPT. 27. fili° We had a good supply of new and old wheat ; A ro qualities sell at extreme rates; for other sorts whea t fully those obtainable on Friday last. Trader atillrbeforo. The prices of good barley nominally , the alon e °the. Beans in limited demand at late rates. Oats, sz articles unchanged. Arrivals this week :- 2,180 Ors• 115 Wheat . Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans 292 Malt Linseed &l2 Averages for the week : Wheat 3,841 qrs., at ........ 44s 3d Peas _ g Od Beans . .. . • ~ ........ , , 164 „ . ;44s 21a Barley, ....... • 1 , 23 , 7 , ....... 3/ g 1 ,1 Oats , , ....... a A 238 ........ 20 14- Rye 3B ~" ........ 32s 10a NEWCASTLE—SEPT. 27. We had a fair supply of wheat from the countrY firms , as which met a rather slow demand, but prices were flox on last market day. Barley a small show, and, 1 , 611 , 0 2"cee• malting qualities freely inquired after at very t u g Other articles inactive. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YEsTEittOS% 11, l ' Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — . 11 16/ U . 9 Antwerp Brussels — 25 27/ l'i 6 ' Hamburgh -, 13 5 , 15 15 Paris Ditto 26 311 Marseilles — 25 32/ 8 Frankfort on Maine — 1171 1 2 11 30 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 34 49i Madrid Cadiz 5O 30 0 Leghorn - 30 71 2 5 65 Genoa — 25 50 401 Naples Palermo — 1221 1231 Messina — 123 52 Lisbon Oporto ' .. Rio Janeiro — .. Ne Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per Oz. 0 Oi Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard).... I FOREIGN . MAIL PACKET LIS In the followingtable E signifies that letters are despsw"` by evening mails from London, and M by morning op evening mit...L....a. , , , Na t gel DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of ~“e. of Mails. Despatch. ;...` __-- . -- ---- Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New Sep. 30, E Liverpool.. 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If the sufferers bsehh°llotildatTilbe let their friends and relatives urge a trial of 11 ° 11e lo l ti' medicines, which work wonders on every tissue, by. Et r. tuting pure for impure blood, and giving nervnl___lv BITS. ARGYLL—On the 22d inst ß ., atH I nve rary, her Grace the Duchess of Argyll, of a daughter. BowßiNc..--On the 27th inst , at 69, Westbo urne- terrace, Hyde-park, the wife of Edgar Alfred Bowring, Esq., 0 a 11011. GREY.—On the 26th hut., at Cheltenham, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Grey, of a son. • PROSSER..-011 the 26th inst., at 45, Grosvenor-place, OA Lady Harriet Wegg Prosser, of a son. M ARRIAGES. HANEIIRY—jORNSTONE. Hanbur On the 10th ultimo, at Christ Church, Bombay, Gurney y, E s q.. MM.'s Bth Hussars, younges t son of Robert Hanbury , Esq., Pole 4 Herts, to Emma, youngest daughter of the late J ames Johnstone, Esq., of Drum, co. Monaghan. KING--SLADE.—On the 27th inst., at St. Mary's Catholic Chapel. 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