The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

CROSSED CHEQCES. (From the Times ) A number of communications have been received on the bill just introduced by the Attorney-General to give validity to t h e practice of crossing cheques. The feeling of the mercantile public is universally in favour of the principle of the measure, and there will be ground for great regret if the bill is not modified in time to prevent its technical defects from being used by the bankers as a pretest to de feat it altogether. In the days when a crossing upon a cheque was supposed to give protection the comm on practice was for the drawer to write "and company" upon it, leaving the person to whom he paid it to pre fix the special name of his banker, if he should think fit to do so, as a greater precaution. According to the wording of the proposed bill, however, this course will not be available, as no crossing will have legal force except such as may have been placed upon the cheque by the drawer previously to its issue. Out of this a multitude of complications are certain to arise, some of which are pointed out in the letters subjoined. The whole difficulty might perhaps be met by persons drawing cheques in the following manner :—" Pay to —, or bearer, through the Bank of ;" leaving the holder to fill in any special name so as to make it Bank of England, bank of Messrs. Glyn and Co., itebarts and Co., or any other establishment. But in the present state of t he law an y such addition to the body of the document after its issue would be liable to be treated as a forgery. Apparently that which is wanted, t herefore, is an act to give the holder of a cheque power to fill up a blank of this description " Burton-on-Trent, June 5. " Sir,—lf you have given the whole of the new bill re lating to crossed cheques in your impression of this day, there will, I foresee , arise t . o bankers a difficulty of a most peculiar nature on the passing of the act. "Every crossing of a cheque done by the drawer himself or by his authority before the issuing of the same will be governed by the new Act, whereas all crossings subsequent to issuing will be controlled by the 19th and 20th of Vic toria, cap. 25. "Owing to this eircumstance, it will be necessary,' when ever an informality in presentation takes place, for the banker on whom the cheque is drawn to identify, as well as he can, the writing of the crossing before he can know how to treat it. Suppose, for instance, Banker B has pre sented to him by Banker C a cheque crossed with the name of Banker D. Before deciding what course to take he must form the beat conclusion in his power as to the date of the crossing. If crossed by any one under the authority of the drawer before the issuing of the cheque, the banker is bound to return the cheque at once to C. If, on the con trary, the crossing has been subsequent to the issuing, he is bound to pay the cheque to C, and is liable to an action if he does not do so. " Here is a pretty fix for bungling legislators to got a poor banker into ! " I am, sir, yours obediently, " E. B." " Sir,—lf the Attorney-General's Bill is passed as it stands now, it will be illegal for the holder of a cheque crossed in blank to prefix the name of his banker to the words ' and company,' for to do so would be to add' to the crossing. It follows also that if the holder does add the name of his own banker, he will not thereby oblige the banker on whom the cheque is drawn to pay its amount to the banker whose name is so added, the cheque having been originally crossed with the words 'and com pany' only. The crossing being now a material part of the cheque, it might oven be doubted whether a holder who added the name of his banker to a crossing in blank would not be indictable for forgery. " I presume these several consequences are notcontem plated, and will be obviated by necessary alterations, but it isa.pity that so little care should be taken in framing important Bills. "I may add that pay such cheque,' although collo quilly used, is not good English. What you do is to pay the amount of the cheque. 6$ W. " Your obedient servant, The following note purports to show that bankers have no means of protecting themselves against the possibility of the crossings of cheques being oblite rated by chemical means. The argument is that the use of prepared paper could not be enforced, as some customers do not use printed cheques, but plain writing paper. Hence a suggestion that if the new law is passed the bankers must refuse pay ing any crossed cheques whatever. Of course it will he perfectly open for them to do so. The question they would first have to consider would be whether new banks would not be immediately started that would consent to accept the full responsibility thus attempted to be reAted, and which, after all, is only such as, until a few years back, was generally supposed.to exist. It is to be remarked, moreover, that banks are not compelled to pay upon cheques drawn on other than their own forms, provided they choose to make a stipulation to that effect, which it would be perfectly reasonable for them to do. Finally, it must be pointed out that the way in which the banking interest generally have used their influence to obtain exceptional legislation in their favour, and to avoid having legitimate respon sibility thrown upon them, is neither conducive to their reputation nor their permanent prosperity. It was a great error of Parliament to allow a clause to be introduced in the Penny Receipt Act to ex onerate them from the consequences of paying cheques with forged endorsements. Bankers were at liberty to refuse to receive accounts except on a private stipulation that this liability should not be encountered, and there was consequently no oeca swn to alter the general tenour of the law of the land to meet their convenience. With regard to thedanger of paying crossed cheques,the experience of many years can be cited to show that it is little more than nominal, and the same is the case as regards forgeries. The loss which to a banking firm would be of small consideration in their yearly ave rage might, 1. owever, be ruinous to an individual customer, and it is bad policy on their part to restrict the advantages that may be gained by resorting to them. Everything that diminishes the convenience and security of a banking account must in the end be injurious to those who carry on the trade ; and there is lees excuse for the narrow course taken, since, not only would the danger of the responsibility be of a trifling character, but there would be the power, by establishing a clear ing-house guarantee fund, to redu ce it t o a m i n i- Tyvttm point : If any private or j o i n t- s t oc k b an k , without waning for alterations of the law, would at once invite customers by a promise not to avail itself of the exemptions that now can be pleaded against responsibilities that should naturally fall upon such concerns, it would deserve to receive the support of every house interested in the main tenance and extension of healthy commercial usages : " 1 4, Lower Berkeley-street, June 7. " Sir,—ln your article to-day about crossed cheques you say, If they (bankers) were to suffer from crossings being obliterated by chemical means, it would simply be from their own neglect in not having their cheques printed on paper that would preclude the possibility of their being tampered with.' As customers are not obliged to h ave printed cheques, and often write them on plain writing paper, if bankers are to be responsible for not finding out an undiscoverable obliteration as above, they will be obliged, in order to protect themselves, to refuse paying any crossed cheques whatever.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " T. RAIKEg." AnnexEd is anot'er communication on banking matter=, which indicates that the resort to legal pleas by bankers to escape reasonable responsibility is not generally regarded as creditable, and deser vedly points to th' quarter whence the most con spicuous instance of the kind has proceeded : "London, June 5. Sir,—ln the city article of the 2inies of to day an observation is made with referenc e t o th e proposed new law regarding crossed cheques, to the effect that private bankers might perhaps refuse to receive accounts if any additional responsibility were thrown on them; but that the joint-stock banks certainly would not do so. Permit me to observe that only ono case has as yet been brought before the public in which a bank paid a cheque crossed ' awl Co.,' to a private person, and denied its liability to loss iu consequence, and in that case a joint-stuck bankicg company were the defendants.— I am, Sir, your obedient fiervaxt, " A PRIVATE BANKER." Another correspondent makes the following practical remarks on the loose recommendations lately given with respect to non-cluipliance with the letter of the law iu the mode of cancelling cheque stamps : " Sir,—The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced the practice followed by the Bank of England in regard to the cancelling of adhesive stamps, and has expressed a hope that the other banking establishments will follow the example. It is very desirable, however, that law and practice should correspond, particularly where the former gives so explicit directions as to require that the names or initials written across the stamp shall be the mode of dis charging it. " In the case of a cash credit on which draughts have been passed, and the adhesive stamp may not have been crossed, except in some such manner as that the date or amount in .figures has been marked on it, and where the principal on the cash credit bond has afterwards become bankrupt, the securities, when called on to pay up the amount, will find legal groutads for disputing their liability for the debt incurred by such draughts. Persons in their position are not unfrequently inclined to take advantage of such deviations from the law, and it is not fair towards our jades , when th e l ega l enactment i s spec i a l, t o as k them to admit the authority of practice. The sugges ti on t h at t h e mode of cancelling draught '4"npanity for should be enlarged was so reasonabl e , and the opprt b n pareod y the Att doing so in the bill w hi c h i s being pre if the Chancello7neY-General so tit, that it would be well eubjeet. of th e E xc h equer would reconsider the " Theroi s atlotrhadie another point i n re f erence t o d raug h ts ,on bankers, which p approve. It is, that it should so far as I can learn, would uld be enacted that all draughty wherever or however draw n,_..ali v o e uld be subject to the Cuty without ltr tjg . tecomr. There are two reasons any exemption firs tis that wa a intact or complete in itself. In commercial I m youcher should be presentation, which has been authorised in by personal in r E . lions may arise long after—at the instance , ao-lce, ques who are securities on a cash credit bond'. B ofpersons pnte the personal presentation, and legal proofs be dis easy to establish it. The second reason is that it is doubt ful if the personal presentation of a cheque on a cash cre dit, whereby a debt is contracted, and not money o f the drawer's own taken, would be legal without a stamp. Could not this also be remedied in the bill now being pre pared by the Attorney-General by it being required that all draughts shall, without exception, bear the stamp ? I am, sir, your most obedient servant, A BANJUL " Scotland. June 4." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE W 10, 1858. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDI- TION. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 9. The wire squadron, as it is termed In nautical circles here, is still anchored in the Sound, and only waiting now the signal which will permit its clear ing out to sea. As far as preparations are con cerned, every vessel was in a position to start yes terday evening, and the only cause assigned for the continuance of the delay is that Professor Hughes has not yet completed those electrical experiments through the coil which, we are told , will restelt. in a greatly improved rate of speed in transmitting words. At present the arrangement is . ns t m ha it t t t n i i i g e Agam e e v m e evening, , i sbtuot i t get w u n n u d l d e r certainlyw a y sto-morrownrpris e ( T n h n unrnse clay)here to find this still further delayed, and it is not at all improbable even now that the thi starting will be put off till Saturday mornin g . however, is completed for going at a moment's notice, and within an hour after the signal is hoisted all four vessels could be clear outside and going down the Channel. Since the return, both the Agamemnon and the Niagara have each re ceived an additional length of 50 miles of wire, and every spot on which coals could be piled, and on very many where, as it turned out, they could not, the vessels have been crammed choke full. This, as we have before remarked, makes very little dif ference in the trim of the Agamemnon, but the poor Niagara seems as if the provocation of another ton or two wouid send her to the bottom. It is impossible for any one to look now at her heavy water-logged aspect and believe she is of the enormous tonnage stated. The Himalaya, which anchored near her, though five shorter, has a finer shape, and looks in every way a fair match for the Transatlantic frigate. It has been erroneously supposed by some that, as during the experi mental trip the cable was broken two or three times in rapid succession on board each ship, the trial was therefore a failure, and that the path to success with the undertaking itself is still as obscure and difficult as ever. These opinions, however, have no foundation in fact. The experimental trip was decided on for the pur pose of putting the cable and the various apparatus for laying it to the most severe tests, and, in fact, to make mishaps, in order that the value of the dif ferent machines for remedying such disasters might be practically ascertained. From the beginning it was intended to lose or expend the cable with which these experiments were made, and for this very purpose the Agamem non and Niagara were each provided with some 20 miles of coil which had been condemned as worth less by the company's engineers. We have already informed our readers in what manner this was ex pended in the Bay of Biscay ; let U 3 now see the results which have been achieved from such trials. Every step in the whole course of the experiments was watched with the most jealous care, and at the time of the first fracture of the cable it was re marked with surprise on beard the Agamemnon that the rope had parted in the machine in stead of, ashas always been the case in submerging cables, at the last wheel going over the stern. The second, third, and fourth fractures also taking place between the wheels of the paying out app t ratus, and in precisely the same spot as the first break, endeavours were made to account for these unpleasant coincidences. The cause was soon ascertained. In the process of paying out, the cable passes over two large wheels, each of which has four very deep V shaped grooves. Before the present improved paying out apparatus was de signed, the great difficulty in sinking cables had been their liability to surge when an attempt was made to check their speed—that is, the rope slipped over the wheels without turning them. In the pre sent machixe, to obviate this serious danger, each of the eight grooves in the wheels was made with a regularly increasing circumference of one-eighth of an inch, so that the slack rope, if any, would be absorbed entirely in the continued stretching the rope underwent in passing round. Apparently the increase of circumference was so trifling as to be of no importance either one way or the other, but a moment's reflection shows that, in reality, it effected such a change in the condition of the rope as would render it little short of an impossibility to submerge it without breaking. The increase of one-eighth of an inch in each groove stretched the piece one inch and one-eighth in passing through the machine. The whole length of the wire in the machine at one time is 120 feet, but 30 feet makes a complete cir cumference of the two grooved wheels, and, of course, as there could then be no surging or slipping back, it amounted to a stretch of one inch and one eighth in each 30 feet for every fresh length of 30 feet, so to speak, " went through the mill," and was stretched to its gradually increasing diameter, coming out at last 30 feet 1 inch long. If the whole length of cable was thus paid out, it would 1 stretch it some 11 miles longer than it is now. A. weight of one ton suspended to 60 feet of the wire stretches it one inch, but it would require nearly three tons to stretch 30 feet 14 inch longer. What made this strain the worse was that it was one of which the dynamometer indicated but a small share. Therefore, when the cable broke between the wheels, wis h the dynamometer standing a certain strain, it only gave the amount of force required to overcome the resistance of the machinery and brakes, with the addition of the strain exerted at a powerful leverage to stretch the wire between the wheels. In truth, therefore, there is no knowing the actual weight at which the coil broke, and it can only be presumed that, as the company have made many hundreds of experiments on its strength, and have never yet met even with a faulty piece which broke at less than four tons, while very many have stood as high as eight, none of the ropes broken during the experimental trip gave way at a lower strainthan the lowest we have mentioned. Directly the trip was over and the squadron anchored in the Sound there was a general meeting of all the engi neers and others in charge of the machinery on board both the Agamemnon and Niagara, and what ever doubts remained as to the risk incurred by the increasing diameters of the wheel grooves were at once done away with when it was found that the Niagara's cable lead on all occasions also broken in the machine, and at precisely the same spot as the same accident occurred on the English vessel. This was regarded as conclusive, and accordingly it was resolved to land the wheels at Keyham and have all the grooves planed down to the same diameters, which was done forthwith. Mr. Amos and Mr. Ap pold objected to this operation as unnecessary, in asmuch as the wire was not stretched 1 inch in 30 feet, but only 1 inch in 120, and that in fact the stretching was required to prevent the coil surging or paying back. At the same time, however, they distinctly expressed their opinion that though un necessary the planing down would do no harm. There can be no manner of doubt but that this al teration is a most important and valuable improve ment. There is not the least possibility of the cable surging, as the tar prevents it. When the action of the machinery was reversed for hauling in, of course the cable was wound iu at the largest wheel and off at the smallest, and the cable, if ever, would have surged then, but it never did, though the strain at one time was at its highest point. As far as other matters went on board the Niagara the experiment was perfect. At no time did the dynamometer indicate a higher strain upon the wire than 51 cwt.—about 6 cwt less than that on board the Agamemnon. The greatest speed at which the coil was run out was at the rate of 100 fathoms iu 64 seconds, or rather less than 6 nautical miles an hou r ; about the same (within a few f T a h tl e io N m iga slerfa not only the greatest speed of the Agamemnon. cast loose her large buoy and buoyed four miles of cable, but she also attached one of her small buoys at about a mile from the largest, Both answered the purpose in everyrespect. Shortly after huciying with the smallest the coil parted from the Niagara, mad the sudden jerk caused it to break away from both the buoys in precisely the same manner as it occurred with the Aeameme non's wire. An examination into the cause of this showed at once th a t the fastenings , used to secure the cable to the bu o y s were not sufficient either in grip or strength, in case of any sudden pull. These have accordingly been altered, and made capable of enduring ten times the strain the wire can ever put on them. The form of the splice also has been li modified, from a s em i c i rcle to a slight sseg mentof g htl y a eircle,a d n e d sn b e y nt thi i s s still furthertheehanee o g ft h sut e lagrd wire gee€dt laignatinvisstt.ingTihn its us, every precaution which skill and foresight. aided by practic al e xperience, can has been adopted, and all the apparatus may now be regarded as perfect. Seine doubt still exists whether the Agamemnon will sail or be towed t 3 her destination in mid ocean. Captain Hudson, of the Niagara, is determine d on steaming ; but the Agamemnon is already so full that it is no longer doubtful that she cannot take the coals ne cessary for 18 days' steaming. Though the sacks are stowed in temporary bunkers along the main deck, it has nct been found possible to cram more into her than 480 tons, or, at the most extreme computation, only coal for 15 days. Under the most favourable circumstances this is the time she must occupy in the voyage ; but if even a single day wore lost in making the splice she would be unable to steam at the most critical part of the voyage, namely, when approaching the coast of Ireland. How this difficulty is to be got over is not yet decided, though most probably it will be arranged by giving the Agamemnon, towed by the Valorous, a couple of days' start of the Nia gaatrTa.riny This would do all that is wanted. The Por cupine surveying vess e l h as a l rea dy b een d es p a t c h e d to Newfoundland. it She will wait for the Niagara intricateßay, and pil o t h er care f u ll y th roug h it s navigation to the Bay of Bulls, where, if all goes' well, the wire will be landed and the latest advices from New York and Washington instantly transmitted. During the paying out no messages are to b 3 sent through the wire from ship to ship, but merely constant currents to show that the 111811 , lation and electrical continuity are perfect. The rendezvous in mid ocean for which the squadron steers on leaving is 52 deg. 2 min, north latitude, 33 deg. 18 min. west longitude. Where the American side of the cable will be landed is in 47 deg. 49 min. north, 54.0 west, and the telegraph house at Valentia is in 51 dog. 56 min. north, 10 deg. 25 min. west. The precise distance between the two points is 1,720 nautical miles. The length of wire in both veseels amounts to 2,966 nautical miles, so that there is at least 80 or 90 per cent. allowed for slack and contingencies. In our account of the experiment trip we stated that Mr. Wood house went on board the Niagara as electrician. This was a mistake. Mr. Woodhouse went as superintending engineer, and Professor Whitehouse was electrician. THE BALLOT. (From the Daily News.) In the division of Tuesday night there voted for the Ballot : all the Members for the Cities of Lon don and Westminster and the Metropolitan Bo roughs, except two who voted against it, and two who were absent ; the Members for Birmingham, Manchester, Salford, Sheffield, Southampton, Edin burgh, Glasgow, Paisley, and Dundee. There is scarcely one of these gentlemen who is not a man of mark in the Liberal ranks, independently of the importance reflected upon him by the con stituency he represents. There is not one of them that can fairly be called a man of extreme opinions —for even Mr. Roebuck will be allowed to be no mob-flatterer, and Mr. Bright is an intensely " middle-class man." An immense majority of the gentlemen who supported Mr. H. Berkeley's mo tion with their votes are quite asinfluential leaders of public opinion as those we have specified. Thera can be no doubt that the 222 members of the House of Commons—voters, tellers, and pairs—who on Tuesday night recorded their votes in favour of the Ballot constitute the substantial strength of the Liberal Party, and they constitute one entire third of the representative branch of the Legislature. It is rather ominous, therefore, to find opposed to this phalanx such a largo proportion of those whose claims to office are mainly based upon the belief that they enjoy the confidence of the Liberal Party. Let us run over this dispiriting muster-roll : Members of the late Cabinet—Lord Palmerston, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Labouchere, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. M. Talbot Baines. Members of the late Government—Mr. R. Lowe, Sir A. Ramsay, Mr. J. E. Elliott, Mr. W. F. Cowper. Liberal Leaders not in the late Government.— Lord John Russell, Sir. F. Baring, Lord Melgund. Peelitea.—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert. In vain would we attempt to shut our eyes tothe fact. A gulf is opening between the official Li berals and the elite of their party, across which ere long it may be impossible for either to pass to the aid of the other. The Ballot is only one question; but it is one of many which mark the distinction between the existing generation of Liberals, and the survivors of a past generation of Liberals, or those who have inherited its traditions. In 1830 2 the advocates of the Ballot were a minority among the already enfranchised, perhaps even among these whose enfranchisement was contemplated by Earl Grey's Reform Bill. It was easy, therefore, for the Whig leaders to persuade public meetings— except in the case of open-air meetings in the manu facturingdistricts—to keepsilence about the Ballot, lest dissension should be introduced into the Re form ranks. It was still more easy for them to suppress all mention of the subject in Parliament. Nearly thirty years have elapsed since that time. Since then a new generation of politicians has emerged into active life, who take their opinions from the circumstances and discussions of the time in which they live. Events have taught men who startled at the idea of Vote by Ballot as a novelty, and men who thought nothing about the matter, to recognise it as en urgent necessity. The lan getage they hold upon the subject is the first that has been heard by the younger generation of poli ticians ; it has bosn incesantly dinned into their ears until it has become part of their political creed. The third part of the House of Commons who vote for the Ballot represent the existing opinion of liberal progressive England. The other two thirds represent the opinions of the masters of counties and close boroughs. The official Liberals we have enumerated above must make up their minds to choose between the two parties. Whatever their choice, we have no wish to deny that it will be made in good faith. We know how difficult it is for men strengthened and confirmed in their opinions by the conflicts of well nigh half a century to unlearn the lessons of their youth. But while we shall respect their consistency we must admit that it relegates them to political inaction. The adherents of the political creed of an extinct generation cannot possibly be the leaders of a new generation which has abjured that creed. We entirely concur in the complaint made by Mr. Bright of the manner in which this question has of late years been discussed in the House of Commons. While the votes recorded in favour of Vote by Ballot have been steadily increasing, the interest of the debates has been proportionally de creasing. A few of the supporters of the Ballot have made it the groundwork of jocular and telling addresses ; the far greater number have merely made tame duty speeches in its favour, in order that they might be able to say to their constituents that they had spoken for it. But the deep and growing earnestness with which the great mass of the community yearn for this boon has found no adequate echo in the Legislature. In the House of Commons the supporters of Vote by Ballot argue in its favour as coldly and calmly as they would demonstrate some abstract proposition in Euclid. They are met, not by arguments, but by trivial jokes, or by haughty declarations that no concession will be made. Honourable members complain of the pertinacity which bores them with such a discussion year after year ; and the Times, and their other flatterers in the press, echo the complaint with exaggerated foppishness. But out of doors the craving for the Ballot is a burning passion. Every supercilious denunciation of it—. every silly jest at its expense—is recorded and treasured up as an insult to be avenged. The tenant, the clerk, the working man, the poor man in embarrassed circumstances, compelled to vote against their conviction ; the intelligent artisan, who longs for the franchise as a recognition of his full right of citizenship, and yet shrinks from it lest its exercise should become a badge of slavery ; all these are almost as little edified by the wit of their advocates as by the insolence of their opponents. In what temper are such men likely to read a remark that fell from Mr. Sotheron-Estcourt " Since the last general election, be fell in with a constituent of his—a farmer. He asked him what he thought of th e Ballot. His reply was that he was all for the Bal lot, for at the last election he had to vote against his conscience, having been solicited for his vote both by his landlord and the parson's wife. He (Mr. Estcourt) did not see of what use the Ballot would have been to such a person except to cover Lis delinquency." What does Mr. Estcourt mean by " delinquency?" Doss he mean that it would havelbeen " delinquency" in a fat mer to act'accord in„, to his conzcience ? or does ho scorn the man who had not courage to assert his conscientious conviction at the risk of ruin to himself and family ? Mr. Estcourt has a keen eye for the cowardice of the unconscientous voter ; but he is blind to the ruthless tyranny of those who intimidated him. He sees the mote in the farmer's eye ; he cannot see the beam in his own. Ho and his class make cowardly rascals of their tenants-at-will; and then taunt them for being what they have made them. Our squirearchy are using their wealth as the Barons of old used their arms : first they degrade their weaker neighbours, and then they jeer openly at their degradation. What the consequences of Baronial oppression were, may be read in the in surrections of communes, in the jacqueries of peasants, in the Frmch Revolution. The self-will of our squires may in its turn produce like bitter fruits. But we are wandering beyond the subject to which it was our object to call attention. One-third of the House of Commons support the principle of secret voting. This third of cur representatives speaks the wishes of nine-tenths of the out-of-doors community. Read over their names, you will find the list to be composed for the most part of men entertainosl p yok e ste c t me i a e a nt Vivian a wi f e el 01 like William Schol-field, Aspinall Turner, Wal n ter Buchanan, Adam Black. These are not wild t o d Gr ah i woulday, dreamers m e 0 withe n lookrs s i da; sword affect ja h copttr e oi oydnn opinions. : e Thl o n pew o i e ro t t;rah,,mded advocacy 0: i ll who, Vote by Ballot is the result of protracted and :elaoyt c ci l ynla o eo s 'oie e trf observatien ; it is the consequence of rooted con viction. They cannot change their minds, and even if they , could, their const i tuents will not c h ang e their s. The principle of secret voting is , for the Party of Progress what the handful of leaven of the Parable was for the three measures of meal among which it was hidden. It is steadily going on to leaven the whole mass. What hope is there, then, fur a re-organisation of the Liberal party so long as we see all its members, to whom men have been accustomed to look as aspirants to , high office, obstinately opposing the earnest and growing wish of the only party from whiehlthey can expect effective support ? So long as this an tagonism between the leaders and the followers exists, wo may have 'intermittent, ephemeral ac cessions of the Liberal party to office, but we can have no permanent, powerful Liberal Government. Unless the Liberals who have hitherto led can be brought to concede the point of the Ballot, the Party of Progress must be contented to remain in its present disorganised and unsatisfactory state until new leaders can form themselves, and earn the confidence of the public, in the Parliamentary arena. Did we believe that it was reasonable con viction that rendered the old leaders hostile to the Ballot, we would not urge this consideration upon them : but no man who watches their sayings and can fail to see that there opposition to it is simply a matter of personal feeling. Are we to accept the absence of Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley from the Division as an indication that their eyes have been couched ? NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The assembling of the garrison in honour of the visit of his Excellency the Swedish Ambassador and some other foreign personages, who intend visiting Woolwich to-day, is ordered to take place at two c'clock p.m, Col. Bloomfield, aide-de-camp to her Majesty and senior officer of the garrison, attended by the local staff will receive the distin guished visitors, and accompany them to the re view ground and over the departments of the Royal Arsenal. For some time past serious complaints bave been made by the military authorities connected with the several branches of the service at Chatham of the scarcity of water in that garrison, and this scarcity has within the last week increased to such an extent that garrison orders have been issued directing that the troops are to discontinue their bxths in the se veral ablution rooms, and that every precaution be taken to prevent any waste of water. The garrison is supplied wi h water from several old wells and tanks which have been in use for some period, and, although there are waterworks satablished for the supply of the whole of the barracks, the authorities have not yet taken the necessary steps to obtain an unlimited supply from that source. In addition to the inc nvenience arising from a deficiency of water the barracks at Chatham are in a very crowded state. The authorities have attempted to get over the difficulty by placing several hundred troops under canvas, but owing to the coutinned arrival of recruits to join the various East India regiments at Chatham the number of men occupying the barrack-rooms is still dispropor tionably large. At Brompton barracks a large por tion of the building has bean set apart for a hospital, - in which about 200 s'ck soldiers are packed in the very centre of a barrack crowded with troops. Already there have been several cases of measles and small-pox among the troops, caused, there is no doubt, by the overcrowding of the men. In accordance with a divisional order the whole of the troops attached to the head-quarters of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry were drawn up on their parade-ground yesterday morning, for the purpose of witnessing the cere mony oireading the sentence of a district court martial on private John M )ulton, 73d company, who was tried on a charge of having deserted from head-quarters, and not returning until brought bick by military escort. The prisoner, who has borne a very bad character in the corps, was sentenced to be imprisoned for 168 days in the military prison, Fort Clarence, Rochester. The Cadmus, 21, steam screw corvette, is ordered to be brought forward atCh atham for commissioning. Capt. F. W. Haultain, 10 Battalion Royal Art il lery, has taken up his appointment as Captain In structor of Artillery in the Royal gun factories, Woolwich, vacant by the resignation of Captain Vandeleur. The g u n bc aim Misletce and Julia have been docked at Woolwich, and the Spanker and Sandfly un docked and admitted into the fitting basin. The Admiralty yacht Vivid, in command of Capt. Seymour, C. 8., of the Victory, in the special ser vice of the Prince Consort, returned to W oo l w ich yesterday. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Commander M. B. Cockraft to be Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Commander St. Ledger, whose period of service has expired ; R. N. Tarraway, second master, to the Oberon ; and F. Gilbert, paymaster, to the Irnaum. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 9. a ---- (Before the Assistant-Judge at Clerkenwell.) Abdullab, 18, and Rumjan, 30, sailors, natives of Oude, were indicted for having stolen two watches, of the value of 9/. 195., the property of Richard Sayer Arnell. They were also indicted for having stolen two watches and two chains, the property of Bernard Davis. Mr. Salter appeared for the prosecution. The prosecutor, Mr. Arnoll, was a watchmaker and jeweller, carrying on business at 98, Edgware road, and it appeared that on May 10th the pri soners, who were in AQiatic costume, called at his shop, and said they wanted two watches for a gen tleman, and that they came from the Prince of Oude's. Two watches were packed up and handed to Rumjan, who .went away, leaving Abdallah in the shop. In about half an hour Rutnjan returned, and said he had not been able to show the watches to the Prince, as he had gone out, but he had ]eft them with the Princess. Abdallah put his signa ture to a memorandum, - and both went away, Mr. Arnell, of course, being under the impression that they really were connected with the Oude family. Subsequently Abdallah, Rumjan being in his com pany, pawned one of the watches at Mr. Gill's, 8, Hampstead-road ; the other was pawned, at Ram jan's request, by a person with whom he lodged in Ewer-street, Gravel-lane. In the other case, they obtained two watches in precisely the same man ner.frona Mr. Davis, 430, Euston-road. Abdallah told Mr. Davis that he was interpreter and reader to the Prince of Oude. Nawab Mehdee Koollie Khan Bahadoor, great grand-son of Nadir Shah, and secretary to the Prince of Oude, 15, Warwick-road West, examined through Mirza Ally Akbar Khan Bahadoor, inter preter, proved that neither of the prisoners be longed to the Prince's establishment, but they came over to this country as menials in the retinue of the Prince of Oude, who died some months back. They had no authority to say they were connected with any of the family. The Assistant Judge told the jury that the priso ners were guilty, if they intended to get possession of the watches by a trick, and to deprive the owners of them. The Jury found them guilty. The Assistant Judge sentenced each to six months' hard labour in Coldbath-fields. Geo. Wise, 19, was indicted for feloniously em bezzling three sums of money he had received on account of Ebenezer T. Jobbins, his master. Mr. Metcalfe was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton for the prisoner. The prosecutor was a baker, at Kilburn, and the prisoner was in his employment, and had to carry broad t 3 customers and receive money. In several instanc©s he had appropriated sums he had received for his master to himself, and there were three charges in the indictment, having occurred within six months. The Assistant Judge held that the evidence in support of the third count did not amount to legal proof, and withdrew that count from the considera tion of the jury. In summing up, his lordship called the attention of the jury to the evidence bearing upon the third count with reference to the two first counts. Mr. Ribton submitted that such evidence ought to be altogether excluded, the particular charge to which it related having been struck out of the in dictment. The Assistant-Judge said he was satisfied that the evidence could properly be put before the jury. Mr. Kibton wished that th© point might be re served for the Court of Criminal Appeal. The Assistant Judge could not accede to that, as he had no doubt at all that the point was not an arguable one, and the matter was one entirely within the discreticis of the Court. Mr. Rbton said that no doubt it was so, but the law was very anomalous on the subject. If the mat ter in dispute was a bill of exchange, he could go to the full Court and apply for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, but in a case of this kind, it depended upon the mere will of the presid ing judge whether he would allow a point to be reserved. He knew of a case in which Mr. Baron Platt positively refused to reserve a point, and a sentence of death was paqsed. The Home Office, however, caused the point to he stated, and it was successful, and the prisoner was thereby saved from being hanged. An improvement of the law in this respect was greatly needed. The Assistant-Judge said he must perform his duty as the law required, as it was now. He could not, using his discretion, reserve the point. The prisoner was found guilty on the two counts, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour. _ Charles Brewer, 27, and Robert Clarke, 42, were indicted for stealing six trusses of hay, the property of William Pullin, of Highgate, their master, and Thomas Malton, a carman, having a stable at the Boston Arms, J unction-road, Kentish Town, was indicted fnr receiving the same feloniously. Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh defended Clarke, Mr. H. Brown was for Malton, and Mr. F. H. Lewis appeared for Brewer. The juryacquitted Clarke and Mallon, and found Brewer guilty. He was sentenced to eight months' hard labour. a protection, and left the court evidently disap pointed that the act did not protect her, GREEN WICH. —CONVICTION OF A POLICE CONSTABLE FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY. Thomas Hawkes, police-constable 140 M, was charged be fore Mr. Seeker, bylidirection of the Commissioners of Police, with neglect of duty. Edmund Lyle, master mariner, of 4, Elizabeth terrace, Rotherhithe, said—On Wednesday, the 2nd inst., wishing to give a woman, named Ann Swanson (since convicted, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment) in charge, for robbing me of certain articles of wearing apparel, and not see ing a policeman, I went to the station-house, and ' there saw Sergeant Cooper, 20 M, who sent the defendant with me to my house, where the woman was working; On the way the defendant asked me why I had not got the man on the beat to take the charge. I told him I had not seen a constable, or I should not have walked to the station. We then went to the house, and on entering the kitchen I called the woman and told her I intended giving her into custody for robbing me, and told the defendant to take her away. The defendant remarked, ".Come on, old woman, you must go with me." The woman replied that she would when she got her bonnet on, and went into the back kitchen apparently for that purpose. The defendant then said he would go out and see if he could find a constable on the beat, and left the house, returning about five minutes afterwards with police-constable 300 M. Whilst defendant was away I went and fastened the front door, thinking the woman might attempt to escape, and on going to the back kitchen to see where she was, I found her in the water-closet, where I have every reason to believe she contrived to get rid of pawnbrokers' duplicates relating to the stolen property. The woman was taken to the station by the other constable, and on the way there the defendant remarked to me that he was on the sick list, and that it was no part of his duty to take the charge. The defendant said he had been told by his super intendant to change his clothing on the day in question, and that he did not think he was doing wrong in getting another constable, only being absent a minute. Mr. Superintendent Brandon here remarked that the defendant had not received any special order to change his clothing as stated, the order being for the men generally. Mr. Seeker said that the defendant, having been sent to do a particular duty, he ought to have carried it out. Mr. Superintendent Brandon, in reply to a ques tion, said the defendant had been eight years in the force ; and when confronted with the com plainant, he denied ever having seen the woman before he brought the constabl', in consequence of which the present charge had been preferred. Mr. Seeker said the charge preferred against the defendant was one of the heaviest that could be brought against a police-constable, whose duty it was to take such hold as the law allowed of persons given into custody, and to keep them safe until brought before the proper authorities. The con duct of the defendant had, in his opinion, been most culpable, and had, he thought, led to what the complainant stated, the making away with that which would have at once shown where the stolen property was to be found. So wilful a dis regard of duty could not have been committed, as the defendant had reiterated, innocently, and he (the magistrate) thought it almost unnecessary to mark his sense of such conduct by inflicting the full penalty of 10/ , or three months' imprisoßment. He should, however, impose a fine of 205., and in default of payment to be imprisoned one month. The defendant, who repeatedly asked his worship not to inflict a penalty, as that would lead to his dismissal from the force, was then removed in custody. HAMMERSMITH.-IMPORTANT APPLICATION. —THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS V. CHISWICK. —Mr. Woolrych, the clerk of the Me tropolitan Board of Works, accompanied by several gentlemen, applied to Mr. Ingham for an allow ance to a poor rate assessed upon the parish of Chiswick, by order of the Metropolitan Board, in default of the:overseers of the parish. Mr. Wool rych stated that in 1856 the board issued a precept upon the overseers of Chiswick to raise the sum of 9311. 175., being part of a debt due to the late Commissioners of Sewers. The overseers had re fused to obey the precept, and the Metropolitan Board now proceeded as the law allowed, to make a rate, considered as a poor rate, and to send down their own collector to receive the money. Mr. Ingham said this was the first case of the kind that had been brought under his notice, and therefore he wished to know under what clause of the act the board pr, seeded. Mr. Woolrych said similar rates had been made in St. George's, Hanover-square, and also in Lam beth, and the magistrates had allowed them. The clauses under which they acted were, first, the 188th, 161st, and the 181st. Mr. Ingham asked if Chiswick was not included in the area of the Metropolitan Board ? Mr. Woolrych said it was not, but was included in the area of the late Commissioners of Sewers. The act gave the board power to recover from the outlying parishes all the debts due to the late commissioners Mr. Ingham said, in the 181st section he saw that the board bad power to require of the over seers in the outlying parishes to pay, but it gave them no powers to enforce it. Mr. Woolrych admitted that the clause was not carefully drawn, but argued at some length that hie worship should take into consideration the joint effect of the three clauses. Mr. Ingham said there was considerable force in the arguments of Mr. Woolrych, but at the same time he entertained a doubt whether he bad any power to proceed in this way. Under the 161st section the board had power to apply for a man damus in the Court of Queen's Bench for the over seers to be compelled to collect the rate. It was an extremely important case, and he thought the board should go t o th e C ourt. Mr. Woolrych said they would very likely be too late this term, and it was doubtful whether they would be able,to obtain the mandamus for some months. It was a very important matter to the exchequered ratepapers, as they would have to pay the mosey, instead of those who lived in the parish when the rate was assessed. His worship would remember that those objections could be raised upon an appeal against the rate. Mr. Ingham, after considering the question, thought he might allow the rate, from the fact that all he had to do at the present time was to see that the rate was duly made by an authorised body. The other points could be raised upon summonses being applied for. His worship accordingly allowed the rate, by attaching his hand and seal to the rate-book. THAMES.—CANNIBALISM.—Johanna Foley, an Irishwoman, aged 30, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with violently assaulting her rela tive, Julia Foley, and biting off part of one of her fingers. It was a case of Irish row in Nightingale buildings, Ropemakers'-fields, Limehouse, where more savage assaults have been committed than in any other part of the district assigned to this court. Evidence having been given, a portion of the third finger of the prosecutrix's right hand was put before the magistrate and then handed round the table of the court. It had been bitten clean off between the first and second joints, and the nail, which exhibited no indications of cleanliness, was quite perfect. The prisoner entered into a long history of fa mily rows and feuds, which the magistrate said had nothing to do with the case, She then said, "I don't know whether I bit her finger off or not." Mr. Yardley—l can't pretend to punish such a case as this, I shall commit you for trial, and you may call any witnesses you may think proper before • a jury. - - [ALVA'. aT iSHMENT. 1— SMUT AND HEARING - SPECTACLES -- POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PEasPECTIvs GLASSES.—S, and B. S o l omo ns, opticians, 39, Albemarle stroA, Piccadilly. Observe —opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex traordinary impiOT • eme nts in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eyepiece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a -half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly, The Royal Exhibition, 1851. --A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses, Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles, They aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can see with the .° lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the clan , gerons effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send ing ono of the glasses out at their spectacles in a letter, and stating the dist wee from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their ago. Deafness.—New Disoovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prole ably can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hoar distinct lyat church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the cars is entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could bo desired.-39. Alba. marlo-street, Piccadilly—Opposite the York Hotel. W, HEALTH OF LONDON DURING T. WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar General.) The deaths registered in London, which rose in the previous week to 1,108, declined in the week ending last Saturday, June sth, to 1,087, of which 583 are deaths of males, 554 those of females. In the ten years 1848-57 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 964 ; but as the deaths.returned for last week occurred in an increased population, they can only be com pared with the average when the latter has been r:dsed in proportion to the increase, a correction which will make it 1,060. The comparison shows that the mortality of last week exceeds that which is obtained by calculation from former experience at the beginning of June, but that the excess is not considerable. Zymotic diseases increased last week, as regards the number of fatal cases, from 259 to 291 (the corrected average for last week being 261.) This increase arises from measles, the deaths from which iu the last two weeks were respectively 45 and 62 ; from whooping-cougb, which was fatal in 61 and 69 cases ; from typhus, which was fatal in 32 and 43 ; and from diarrhoea, which was fatal in the two weeks in 14 and 18 cases. Six children died from measles in the sub-district of Greenwich West. An old man died on the 2d inst. from cholera, after six days' illness, in Smith-square, Westmin ster. Twelve women died from diseases inci dental to childbearing ; 20 children died from having been born prematurely ' • 16, of whom nine were a year old, died from teething ; 44 from con vulsions. Twenty violent deaths were registered, 16 of which were accidental, and four by suicide (all of these last by hanging). A woman, aged 90 years, and five men, aged 90 years and upwards, were returned, the two oldest having been respec tively 97 and 103 years. The centenarian had been forum rly a sergeant in the Foot Guards, and had served in the Walcheren expedition and Peninsular campaigns, and was pensioned previously to the battle of Waterloo. He possessed remarkable physical strength, and retained his mental facul ties to the last. Latterly ho followed the occupa tion of a tailor ; he died on the 25th ult. et Bridge field-place, Wandsworth. His medical attendant, who supplies most of the above particulars, has seen the certificate of his birth, now in the posses sion of his daughter, which runs thus :—" John Ewing, born 16th October, 1745, at Carronshore, parish of Larbert, shire of Stirling. Extracted from the record. John Bunce, clerk." _ _ Last week the births of 765 boys and 780 girls, in all 1,545 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1648- 57 the average number was 1,465. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.894 in. The lowest barometrical reading was 29.64 in. on Thursday • the highest was 30.01 i n ., an d occurre d on the following day. The mean temperature of the week was 66.2 deg., which exceeds by nearly 10 deg. the average of the same wee k i n 43 years ( a s determined by Mr. Glaisher.) On Monday and the three following days the mean daily temperature was from 11 to 14 deg. in excess of the average. On Tuesday the thermometer attained its highat point in the shade, which was 85 deg.., and also - its highest in the sun, which was 119,5 deg. The lowest temperature occurred on Sunday, 30th, and was 50.1 deg. The entire range in the week in the shade was, therefore, 34.9 deg. The mean daily range was 24.7 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 62.1. The difference be tween the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 10.70 deg. The mean humidity of the air was 68, complete saturation being repre sented by 100 ; on Monday the humidity was only 58. Rain to the amount of 1.16 in. fell on Satur day. A severe thunder storm with vivid lightning occurred between six and eight o'clock on Satur day morning. An eak in Greenwich-park was struck by the lightning and stripped of a portion of itS bark. Rain fell to the depth of an inch in less than an hour. Hail also fell during the storm. THE FLOWER SHOW AT CHISWICK. The fete of the Horticultural Society yesterday was, happily, governed with the three moat essen tial elements of a successful exhibition of the kind—charming flowers, elegant company, and magnificent weather. It was a display iu every respect worthy to be associated with those earlier show fetes ct Flora, when as yet Fluvius had not taken to mar the festivities bykis cumbrous showers. The recent election of the Prince Consort as the president of the society, combined with the exer tions which have been made by the best friends of horticulture, appear to have given new life and vigour to the society. Notwithstanding floral fetes at the Crystal Palace, the Botanic Society Gardens, and elsewhere, the public cannot spare these charm ing reunions of Chiswick, and it would have been a lasting shame to us if the appeal made a short time since to the public to assist the society in pre serving these delightful grounds had not been libe rally responded to. It is almost entirely owing to the exertions of the Horticultural Society that gar dening in the United Kingdom has reached its un rivalled position. The flower, fruit, and vegetable shows throughout the kingdom took their origin from the parent society, and Sir J. Paxton and other eminent men may date their success in life from their- knowlege first obtained at the gardens at Chiswick. The expenses incurred by the society have been heretofore mainly defrayed by the pro fits obtained out of the garden exhibitions ; but unpropitious weather, the attractions of the Crystal Palace flower shows, their accessi bility, and that of the Botanic Gardens, have materially damaged the old society's earnings in this respect. There is really no reason what ever why the Crystal Palace should be preferred to Chiswick, even in regard to its accessibility, if only a little exerticn was used to make the facilities of reaching the gardens duly known. Chiswick is not so far fr.oit London as the Crystal Palace--eteaua boats go to within a short distance of the grounds ; the North London Railway, in connection with the Brentford branch, provide a station scarcely 100 yards from the society's grounds ; • the South- Western Railway carry passengers from Vauxhall or Waterloo-bridge to Chiswick itself, and there is an entrance into the grounds directly opposite the railway station, only unfortunately it is not always open, and was not open yesterday, and those who went down by that line had a pretty little rural walk of about half a mile along the Sutton green lane, with a delicious odour of roses, laburnums, and white and pink May, and the newly mowngrass, which 'twere worth a much longer walk to enjoy. By the South-Western Railway the entrance is at the rosary and American plant garden, and the contrast between the' rich and luxurious blossoms of the rhodiodendron and the carefully cultvated garden, contrast strongly with the rustic simplicity of the lane, and the few neat but stragglingcol}n try-looking cottages. The whole of the Chiswick gardens have been newly arranged ; and it must be remembered that here most of the trees and shrubs rare rare specinseus, and labelled with their cossnion and botanical name , , and the collection of fruit trees is the most p rfect in the world. We rejoiced to see that the public, who used to flock to Chiswick in the days of its glory, thousands who love flowers and fruit, and everything connected with a garden, did endeavour to show their grati tude for benefits conferred by the society, by an attendance which, if not, perhaps, quite so nume rous as on some occasions that we have witnessed, might compare with any of its predece-sors for the rank and fashion which it contained. At the head of the list of th e b r illi an t compan y we have the gra tification of pla c i ng the names o f her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Princesses Alice and Helena. The fruit and flowers were, as on former occa sions, arranged beneath the enormous marq uees, supplied from the manufactory of Mr. B. Edging ton, of . the Borough. The geraniums were, as usual, perfect masses of gorgeous colours. T h e roles were charming and delicious, the fruits tempting i n th e ex t reme , the orchids, quaint and bizirro, and glowing bright in their colours. There was also.a large show of horticultural im plements of a ll ki n d s , h o t-houses, conservatori es, machines of all descriptions and - forms used in the garden. Numerous slYcimens of Ransotne's impe rishab'e siliceous stone fashioned into the most artistic of vases, gave the charms of the sculptor's art to the show, and presentA a pleasing appear ance on the walks and lawn. Music was there, too, with all its charms ; and there are few among those present who will soon forget the admirable manner in which the three uni , ed Guards bands pei formed the seleciicns from the incomparable music of " William Tell," or the picturesque appearance of the Guards, %vial the groups of elegantly-dressed ladies promenading upon the clean mown sward, or seated apart beneath the cool shade of the deep foliage of the trees. LIVERPJOL, June 9.—The screw steam-ship City of Baltimore, Capt. Leitch, belonging to the Liverpnol, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship company, sailed from Liverpool to-day with a large number of steerage and t 7 cabin passengers, a ship letter mail, and a fair cargo. The Royal Mail steam-ship Persia sails for New York on Saturday, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 9. GUILD HALL.—Jonathan Mirehouse, a well dressed young man, was placed at the bar, before Alderman Mechi, charged with being found in the unlawful possession of a gold chronometer, value 481., and a gold guard chain, value 121., which had been obtained o f Mesas. Parkinson and Frodsham, of Change-alley, Cornhill, by fraudulent means. It appeared from the evidence that a detective officer, named Green, having gone to the warehouse where the accused was employed, after some con versation received from him the watch in question, which was one of several alleged to have been ob tained from various jewellers under fradulent pre tences, by a man named Rawson, now in Newgate on the charge. The accused further admitted that Rawson was his brother, and that he had re ceived the watch and chain for him to take care of. After some further evidence, The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —ATTEMPT ED SUI CIDE. —Eliza Lloyd was brought before Mr. Bing-- hurl, charged. with having attempted to drown herself iu the Serpentine. Geore Clark, Brunswick-street, clerk, sail he was in Hyde-park on Tuesday about 12 o'clock i❑ the day, when he saw something floating in the Serpentine. He immediately went into the water, and ascertaining that it was a woman on the point of drowning, he, with assistance, got her out, but not without opposition on her part, and cries of "Let me die, let me die." It appeared that the prisoner was a servant out of place. She had, within a few weeks, l os t t wo good situations, one in Conduit -street the other in Princes-street. The prisoner having expressed contrition for her conduct, Mr. i3inghatn decided on remanding the pri3oner till Saturday, when she would be delivered into the care of her friends. DANGEROUS CONDITION OF TEE CELL DRAINS. The business of the court was yesterday for some time suspended, owing to the dreadful stench aris ing from the drains connected with the cells on the basement. It was neces,ary to throw open all the windows and doors in order to ventilate the court, and of course this process could only go on while public business was suspended. The same thing has occurred from time to time during the last two or three years ; and though the dangerous and insuf ferable nuisance has been frequently brought under the notice of the proper au thoritie4, nothing has been done to remedy it beyond a little useless patchwork alteration. The drain, itappears, is of brick, and is said to be below the level of the main sewers, which prevents the soil from running off. During the present hot weather, besides the nuisance of the stink, there is the danger of an infectious disease manifesting SOUTHWARK —CHARGE OF BURGLARY.— William Jones was charged with breaking into the Star and Garter Tavern, Star-corner, Bermondsey, and stealing therefrom a quantity of tobacco and money. Samuel Howell said that his uncle kept the house, and he lived with him. Witness saw all closed up at eleven o'clock at night, and about an hour afterwards be was retiring to his bedchamber, when he saw a light in the shop. He immediately descended, and looking through the keyhole he perceived the prisoner behind the bar emptying the drawers• He called in the police and kad him se cured. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. --- LA.MBET ---TIIE DIVORCH AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES AOT.—A d ecent l y -d ressed an d ra th er good looking y oung woman, for prot ec ti on un d er the above act, and said that her husb an d , w h o had left her, had t h rea t ene d to bring a b ro k er and dispose of all h er h ouse hold applied to the magistrate goods ; and as.they had been principally purchased by her own money, she wished for a protection. Mr. Elliott—How long has your husband been away from you ? Applicant—Three days, your worship. Mr. Elliott—Only three (lays Applicant—That is all, sir. Mr. Elliott—Tho law does not contemplate pro tection in such a case ; and therefore I cannot help you. The applicant - said she understood she could get Country Markets, EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JUNE 8. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from lOs Od. to 13s Od per kemple of 16 stenos tron ; wheat do., 8s Od to lls Cd ; barley do., 8s 01 to 10 , 1 Od. Hay from 10d to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL—JUNE 8. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, (mob weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 40s Od and —O. DALKEITFI MEAL MARKET—JuNB 7. There were in the market to-day 26 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third' imperial Barleymeal, per ditto --a Od —a Od —a 0 4 Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —a Od —s 0(1 —8 01 Pot-barley, new, per ditto —3 Od Od 04 DUBLIN—JUNE 8. White wheat, 27s 0.1 to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to 2 6 ' 61; ditto new, a Od; barley, malting, lie tolBs Od; grind" ing, —9 to —s ; oats, old, 15s to 16s 6d; ditto, new, to —s ; oatmeal, 14e 6d to 16s 3d; bore, new, —s to Od ; rapeseed, —s Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, Os Od to 18s 64 per cwt; Indian corn, 35s Od to 37s 6d P' 430 lbs. COAL MARK . Prices of Coals per ton al ;7.—JUNE 9. tho close V the markot s. d.j Walker Primrose .........11 9 Howard's West Hartley _ . Wall send, Stu. Netherton - 14 6 Buddle W. Hartley l5 0 Grey's West Hartley l3 9 Longridge's Wst Hartley 15 0 Morpeth West Hartley 14 0 Ta.nfleld Moor Butes 12 6 Wylain Acorn Close l5 1 lienson 14 Eden l5 ° Rraddyll l5 i 9, kPowell's Duffryn Steam 20 v. Whitworth l4 : , Rough Hall 1 4 ' Hetton l7 6 ,Lambton lf 0 ISoath Kelloe 16 i , aosforth l4 6 Oartlepool l6 3 82 ; sold, 59. Wallsand, Ate. Framwellgate l4 6 Haswell 17 Tees l7 Ships at market, LOCAL SHARE MA.RKBTL LIVERPOOL—JUNE 9. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market to-day has been dull/ but advanced 4 per cent. at the close. Birkenheads, 7 1 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 371 B—London all North Western, 91 4 4—Lancashire and York s hi re , 891 --Midlands, 914 2—Eastern Counties, 12 A—Caledonia n % 41 4—Blackburn, 91 10 —South Easte rn , 20 1 A_Nort British, 124 4—Dutch Rhenish, 41 t o d.—Great- Westeril of Canada, 184 184—York and North Midland, 3 5 1 Chester and Holyhead, 174 to 174—Berwicks 221 t°, —East Lancashire, 884 to 89—G raa d T run k o f Canad a, 114 to 4—Leeds Northern, 221 3. MANCHESTER, JUNE 9. with STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened quL : e.., an inanimate business, but prices were rather &rat; Leeds, 90—Dovers, 20 7-16—Midlands, 914—Truax"; 11 11-16 —Londons, 91j 2—Sheffields, 37/—Caledonio rl 81i—Berwicks, 90. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 9. _ A id STOOK EXCHANGE.- This market was steady to-dan, - „ 4 1 prices rather better. Birmingham and B r i s t o l (Mia r ' ll 73, 6 per cents.), 138 —Londons, 91i—North St a fford'. 0 1 1 —South Staffords, 10 (buyers)—Birmin g h am Canals, ' [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pak This niedioioe has been constantly increasin g in public estimation fot y.ars, and is now ackno w l e d ge d to be the most wonde r iul remedy in the world. It acts directly on the gin removing all obstructi ons f rom th e s t o mach, renove tl° , the springs of lib, and purifying the blood, totally °lit, dicating liver complaint, that mainspring of so Ea?,, D ; diseases, indigestion, loss of appetite, pains in the el; • and general debility. It is also a remedy on which t io asthmatic may place the greatest dependence, and obt."„, perfect restoration to healtb.—Sold by all medicine c ° *;, l dors throughout the world ; at Professor Hollow s , Y,,, Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Meia e i lane, New York ; by A. Starnpa, C6nstantinople Gaidicy, Smyrna ; and E. 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Policies in sured within the dedacted iron iti!otlee is HerFeble; 'ASP Ve Deed of Sett', I;,„,',._be held at tl kIt_uRSDAY, the Precisely, to e di;_..ord 1112 h Chic jetors and one au ?The will be p ropos , 4 Director to be In omee anti By ord ACCIDENT Aei,,bI6,TICE IS TIM thi;;'„ental Death 4AVELLERS' the l'ere, ate are Policies of I Ife ri : guarar 00„,molt!e Insurance ( tlons tinder wh: T?tal Policies Claims 4 4 7. ,, :ti t a n n tt es al e epiffnaeicd si c o t rn : 4,7 , ,a11el Marine R te it "PlY at the Chief P 4 n7, 7, Bank B 7, ia Buildings, BE RNT] rIETY 142 4 ,4 b - ,: e B37 .—Pay . er Poli o n and still t tttir r i " of assurance ,411se„, premin, Within the y, 2 ts, nr tif " g en at h be C -r-T TUE IN 4.llDowerei by Act VIVORSHIPS EDMOND Si iZnn Renworthy B 4 01p,, 1 'ling-Chun 4 allotson M 'at.% Itt "lesor Wheatsu Elllotson, M W. S. B. NY, Messrs. Glyi 440 8. 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