The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The Prussian squadron of two frigates and s teamer, under the command of Prince Adalbert as Lord. - High Admiral, sailed from Falmouth for Brest on Saturday morning. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty • Lieut. F. Do V. Sanders to the Cumberland. Assistant-Clerk 11. T. Scale to be Supernumerary to the Fisgard. THE ARMY. Numerous complaints having been made to the Secretary of State for War of the inconvenience experienced by officers of the gen9ral and garrison staff in consequence of the prohibition of the em ployment of soldiers as servants, contained in a re cent circular, No. 193, the prohibition has been withdrawn, an d soldier-servants arc in future allowed under the regulations and restrictions pre viously in force. Officers of the Royal Engineers arc to have an allowance in lieu of servants. The shipwright department of Woolwich Dock yard has received instructions to build a 21-gun ship, -to be called the Wolverine, under the new shed recently constructed at the east end of the yard. A circular memorandum was yesterday received at Woolwich from the Secretary of State for War relative to the order issued last week for the esta blishment of .the new regulations affecting the second-class staff sergeants of the Royal Artillery in the allotment of barrack quarters, and the re trenchment of their lodging and fuel money. The memorandum directs the new regulations to be forth with cancelled, and the former rules to remain in force 'until further orders. Its promulgation was hailed with - the utmost satisfaction by the entire garrison. One of the heavy field batteries of 18- pounder guris was yesterday morning despatched from the Royal Arsenal - Woolwich, in charge of Major Barnett and Captain King and a troop of Royal Horse Artillery, for Guildford. Captain Smyth, 4.th company 11th battalion Royal Artil fery, stationed at Shoebur3-ness, was yesterday re lieved by Captain Forbes and the 2d compan y Ist battalion from headquarters, Woolwich. tile mikary transport Star of the' East has been taken up for the conveyance of a detachment of the Royal Artillery for China. She is to sail in the early part of October._ General Peel, accompanied by Major Jervois, RE., arrived at Portland, in the Black Eagle Admiralty yacht, on Friday evening, and landed at the breakwater Works on the following minting, for the purpose of inspecting the forti fication works in connection with the harbour, Mr. Beaufort, engineer in charge of the Breakwater Works during Mr. Coode's absence on the Harbour of Refuge Commission, and Lieut. Clayton, R.E., from the Verne -hill Works, attending the General during his inspection. The General and party afterwards crossed over to Weymouth in the yacht, and left by the 12.20 train for town. Col. H. V. Brooke, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, died on Wednesday last at Holyhead, after a few hours' illness. The gallant colonel was long attached to the 32d Regiment, and accompanied that corps to India in 1846, He served during the campaign in the Punjaub in 1848 and 1849, and for his services in India he was made a Companion of •Ihe Order of the Bath, and subsequently one of her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp. O n re ti r i ng f rom th e 32A he was succeeded by . Major-General Sir J. E. Inglis, K.C.8., the heroic defender of the garrison at Lucknow. The late colonel entered the army in July, 1827, and obtained his rank of colonel in June, 1854 MILITIA. The 3d or Royal Westminster Middlesex Militia, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Glossop, assem bled for 21 days' training at Turnham-green on Friday last. Most of the men who served abroad with the regiment in 1855 and 1856 have come up again, the rest having joined the line. The Essex Yeomanry Artillery and Cavalry will be brigaded with several other volunteer corps upon Nazing Mead, close to the Broxbourne station of the Eastern Counties Railway, on Thursdaynext. The Hertfordshire Militia assembled at Hatfield on Friday last, when the men received their arms and accoutrements and proceeded to Hertford for the usual 21 days' training, under the command of Colonel the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP. All speculation with regard to the future of the Leviathan, so far at least as the exertions of the promoters of the project are concerned, arc now set at rest, as the company have resolved to recommend to the proprietors a scheme which, in their opinion, embraces the best if not the only means of making the ship available. We are enabled to lay before our readers the full details of the proposal, which, according to the terms of the resolution agreed upon at the last meet ing of proprietors, must be submitted to the general body of shareholders before any further step be taken. The directors of the Eastern Steam Navi gation Company, in the first place, repudiate all connection with the proposed Anglo-American Co., of which the public have heard something, but which does not appear to have secured the support or adhesion of any of the large shareholders inte rested in the•original company. The project which, on the other hand, is submitted with the approval of the board of directors and shareholders of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, and which, in point of fact, emanates from them, contemplates the formation of a new company to be called the " Great Steamship Co. ' Limited," with a capital of £330,000 in shares of £1 each. The promoters of this enterprise have addressed a communication to each shareholder in the Great Eastern, containing the following statement :—" The desire prevailing on all hands that the Great Eastern steamship should be set in motion, and a feeling that the national character for energy and perseverance would suffer in the estimation of the world if the completion of so splendid a specimen of naval archi tecture and mechanical ingenuity were to be further deferred, has led to the proposal of forming a com pany for the purpose of purchasing, completing, and sending her to sea. Increased carrying power would greatly accelerate speed, and ability . to coal for an entire voyage could only be efficiently se cured by great size. To carry out this principle, which has now obtained universal assent by prac tical test, the Great Eastern has been constructed, and has cost up to the present time about £GIO,OOO. To raise this sum the existing company has ex hausted the power of making calls on its share holders, and has incurred a debt of about £90,000. The present proprietors arc a comparatively small body, who are not inclined, as a company, to increase their risk ; and although a large and influential portion of them are willing to subscribe their fair quota towards finishing the ship, there are legal difficulties which prevent them from doing sounless the ship he sold; consequently th e y have dtermined upon taking that course. To purchase the Great Eastern as she now lies, and with those • contracts completed which form part of the existing liability of the old company,. to fit her in all respects for sea as a first-class passenger ship, and to provide ample working capital, £330,000 would be the utmost sum required; and this it is proposed to raise by the issue of 330,000 shares of II each, in a company, with limited liability, to be called the Great Steam Ship Company. Calculating from this basis the cost per ton at which the Great Eastern, ready in all respects for sea, would come into the possession of the new company is less than that of a first-class sailing vessel, and not much more than one-fourth that of a first-class steamer, while in comparison with the latter, her working expenses, from her im• mense size, which enables her to carry double the proportionate tonnage at double the velocity, will also be proportionately less. Her chances of success in other respects may be estimated by the fact that she will be- able to carry her fuel for the longest voyages, avoiding the delay and expense of calling at foreign ports, and still have proportionately more room for profitable cargo and a large number of passengers than any other existing ship. She will. be fitted with all the appliances this mechanical age has been able to devise for taking in her fuel and cargo, and for discharglng the latter with the greatest rapidity, and will be supplied with com forts and conveniences unattainable in a smaller vessel. Although there can be no doubt that India and China or Australia, where she would success fully compete with the overland route, would afford the best field for showing the capabilities of the Great Eastern, yet the impetns which will be given to traffic and commerce by the Atlantic telegraph points to the American trade for a more immediate result. Her great length, while offering very little extra resistance to the water, admits of the combination of the screw_ and paddle for the purpose of propulsion, from which a rate of speed hitherto unexampled will be obtained ; for when it is considered that every increase of size has always hitherto been attended with increased speed and of proportionate carrying power, there is little fear that the computations of science will in this case fall short of their usual accuracy. With a speed of twenty miles an hour, the freedom from disturbing motion her great length will give, and the enormous strength of her construction, the Great Eastern cannot fail to haje the preference of travellers and emigrants, and secure the freight of goods requiring speedy delivery, although it is not necessary.she should carry lei full complement of either, to arrive 'at • an exceedingly profitable result upon the reduced capital of the new company. But apart from the consideration of profit, which properly belong to all mercantile operations, there are others which invest the successful prosecution of this undertak ing with something of national importance. It is hardly too much to say that in no other country could such a creation have been possible, and certainly on no other could it confer such advan tages. With colonies and dependencies in every re gion where external aggression may have unexpect edly to be resisted, or internal commotion suppressed, the resources of the empire would be multiplied, and its power almost doubled by the rapidity with which they could by her aid be concentrated for every emergency." The projectors then intimate that their proposal is that 2s. per share of the new capital should be paid upon application, a further share of 3s. on the completion of the contract for the purchase of the ship from the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and the remainder in three calls of ss. each, at in tervals of two months. Should, however, the pro moters of the new company fail to purchase the ship Is. 10d. of the deposit to be returned. It is further stated that a large portion of the capital has been subscribed by the shareholders of the company, who thus show their continued confidence in the success of the undertaking. It is presumed that the vessel, when finished, will be enabled to make 8 voyages within the year to Portland or New York ; and that, according to statistics of existing traffic, the earnings of the ship, after deducting insurance, wear and tear, and every possible contingency, will leave a balance from which a dividend can be de clared of 15 per cent. The estimate of the ship's earnings, as now submitted, is as follows, presum ing that she makes eight voyages out and home within the year :-200 first-class passengers, at £2l, £4,200; 400 second-class at £l5; 2,500 at £7 —£27,700 (less dietary, £4,700) ; homeward, 900 passengers (less dietary), £11,500; cargo, 3,000 tons out and 2,000 home, at £3 and 305.—£6,000 ; total, £38,200. From this there is to be deducted £6,330 for agency, commission, loading, and un loading—making the receipts per voyage £31,870, or for 8 voyages £254,960. The estimated expen diture for the 8 voyages would be £101,500, leav ing a balance of £153,200. From this there will remain to be deducted £40,000 for insurance, £49,500 for wear and tear and depreciation at £l5 per cent., management £5,000, contingencies £9,2oo—leaving for dividend at 15 per cent. £49,500. In order to give effect to the arrangement the fol lowing options are offered to the shareholders in the old company—either: to exchange their shares at the rate of 5 shares in the new company fully paid up for 2 of the present shares ; to exchange at the rate of 10 shares in the new company with ss. paid for one old share on which 15s. per share would remain to be paid; or to exchange at the rate of 5 shares in the new company with 10s. paid, and the liability to pay 10s. more for one old share. It will be seen that the terms thus offered con template giving the old shareholders precisely the present market price of their shares, and no more. The present price in the market is as near as possible £2 10s. per share, and therefore 5 new shares fully paid up would be equal to the market value of 2 old shares. Should the proprietors, on the other hand, elect not to take any new shares at all,the company state that they will be entitled to their divisable share of the assets whatever that may be. It is also stated that the new project, the originator of which is Mr. Campbell, one of the directors of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, has received the assent of the majority of the large shareholders, including the chairman, Mr. Hope, Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., and others. The whole of the new shares are to be offered to the old holders, but should a sufficient number not be taken up, which seems extremely probable, then they are to be offered to the public. Proposals are also to be received from the holders of original shares for shares in the new company in excess of those of which they might be entitled in virtue of these old shares. The meeting to confirm or reject this proposition will be held in the course of three weeks from the present time. THE SLAVER ECHO. (From the Charleston Mercury.) " The real name of the captured brig is the General Putnam. These letters are partially erased and covered over by those of the assumed name Echo, and would doubtless have been restored had success crowned the enterprise in which she was engaged when taken. She is of Baltimore build, say 280 tons burthen, and, it is believed, was formerly a packet in the coffee trade between that port and Rio. On the 6th of March last she cleared from New Orleans_ with a captain, two mates, eight seamen, a cook, steward, and one pas senger. On the 6th of July she shipped a cargo of 455 slaves on the West Coast of Africa, at Kabenda, situated in lat. 5.30 south, long. 12.20 cast. It is in Lower Guinea, in the southern part of the district of Loango, and not far from the River Congo or Zaire. These slaves were purchased in a circuit of 500 miles, and assembled at a barracoon near the point of shipment. The brig set sail with them, and in 47 days made the, trip, reaching the point of destination on the morning of the 21st instant. In this space of time 141 negroes had died, leaving but' 314 alive. A bay on ' Cape Verde,' one of the keys on the north coast of Cuba, lat. 23.40, long. 80.20, was the landing-place, wherei the Echo was detected by the Dolphin. The offi cers of the Dolphin left the harbour of Sagua la Grande the day before, and while cruising west ward in search of slavers perceived the Echo at daylight in the distance, bearing the British flag, and running down the coast a-head of the Dolphin in the same direction. Na suspicion was excited. The brig entered a bay ; the Dolphin ran on her course, and in good time came in view of the bay and the Echo. The captain of the slaver now lost his presence of mind, supposing he was suspected and pursued, and suddenly hauled off from the coast. It was then observed that a number of launches near the shore had their sails set to come out to the brig. This verified the suspicion excited by her strange movement, and the Dolphin gave chase to the flying vessel, still bearing the British flag. Blank cartridges were fired, and it became evident that the pursuer gained. The slaver spread all her canvas in vain, and, finding herself about to fall into the-clutches of the cruiser, thought to be British, hauled down the flag and ran up the stars and stripes. " The - Dolphin followed suit, displaying her true colours, and brought her to with a few shottcd guns fired after her. She was boarded by Lieut. Brad ford and 16 men, and surrendered at discretion. No papers were found, but a signal of a black cross on a white ground, which had probably just been used to notify the party on shore by previous agreement. The crew (19 in number) professed to be all passen gers, without captain or officers ; but Lieut. Moffitt selected the person who appeared to be at the head of the enterprise and took him aboard the Dolphin, with a sick seaman and comrade to tend him. The rest were brought here by Lieut. Bradford. It seems that the captain and those men were not sent to Charleston on board the Catawba from Key West ; as was expected, but are now on their way to Boston in the Dolphin. The names of 18, except ing the captain, are as follow :—Dominica de la Piene, Juan Btevern, Jose Francisco, R. I, Bates, John Basco, Alex. Rodgers, Frank Clea 7, John E, Capell, Arch. Scott, George Plaken, Antonio Almera, Thomas Under, Antonia Somez, Jose de Jave Vital de Miranda, Antonio Milanaoish, William llenr Seno, Jose Gonzalez Seno. One is a Greek, one an Italian ; some of them are Portuguese, some Spa niards, and some English. Some of them talk about New York, but none now admit that they are Ame ricans, or have a whereabouts in this country. These smugglers are a desperate-looking set of fel lows. Under the laws of 1819 and 1820 they will be tried for their lives as pirates sailing on an Ame rican bottom under the American flag. They were committed to gaol on Saturday afternoon. Their trials will take place at Columbia, South Carolina, before his Honour Judge Wayne, Circuit Judge James Connor, United States' District Attorney, prosecuting officer. The Court begins to sit the fourth Monday in November. " Being curious to see the cargo and arrange ment of the Echo, we obtained a permit from Dr. W. C. Ravencl, the port physician, and with one or two others accompanied Licit. Bradford in a small boat from the wharf. Upon clambering up the side of the brig a strange and startling sight presented itself—a deck covered with native Afri cans in a state of complete nudity, with rare in stances of a narrow strip of rag an inch wide round the waist. These people weie seated for the most part with their legs stretched out flat, or drawn up in front, or doubled. up ; some squatted on their feet and hands. A few were standing about and a few lying down. None were tied or fastened in any way. The majority were very young, apparently from 8 to 16 years of age, some younger and some older—scarcely one, however, over 25. Some of them were ablebodicd, good sized, and in good case; but the greater part were half-grown children only, weak and worn. Many «ere emaciated, and showed plainly the effects of their long and crowded passage in a confined ship. A few were evidently ill, and soon to die. All were pure black in colour except the dropsical, whose skins were tawny from dis ease. Their hair is ver y s h ort and cr isp. Those who were well appeagreigdgcluguswaldndchpaltetesreidn,g , some of them ogling, and o cane stems, just as our others smokiv t o bacco out own ne g roes do. Those that were thin and sick looked du ferocious of r short clay pipes with e andbruiri their brutish, there was nothing wild or dull aspect. They looked amiable and docile, and THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1858. readily obeyed the commands of the person who had charge of them. They are great 'thieves, how ever, and appropriate whatever they can on every occasion. There were 246 male and 60 female Africans, who were kept separate on deck and in the holds. The men and boys were kept on the forward deck and in the forward hold, which latter is 55 feet long, 19 feet wide in the broadest part and narrow at the head, and 44 inches high, the floor being formed of loose boards, moveable at pleasure. The hold for the women and girls is be hind this. It is of the same height, 12 feet long, and 19 wide. Under this temporary flooring are stored the provisions, consisting of rice, peas, and water to drink. Their food is boiled like hoppin john,' put in buckets twice a-day, at 10 and 4 o'clock, and placed in the midst of circles of eight or ten each, and well guarded to prevent the strong negroes, from taking more than their share, al though all are liberally allowed. A pint of water is given to each morning and evening. Most of them sleep on deck, being placed in close order, spoon fashion, on their sides, and not permitted to turn or move during the night. At daylight they arc dashed with buckets of water to wash them off. They sing songs, clapping their hands and rocking their bodies in time, and these songs have a great resemblance to some of our negro spiritual. Several of the negro fellows exercise au thority very much after the manner of our drivers, with airs of authority and ridiculous gesticulation and grimaces. Others were cooking the ' big pot' like good fellows, and with old breeches on, too, obtained from the sailors. The captain of the hold understands their lingo, and says they are very averse to going back to Africa, as the United States law requires. Our coast resembles that they come from, and the group of pines opposite the city on the south looks to them like the cocoanut trees of their native Africa. " Yesterday, under the direction of the United States' civil officers, the negroes, 306 in number, were taken by the steamer Gen. Clinch and con veyed to Castle Pinckney, in our harbour, where they will be guarded by a detachment from the gar rison at Fort Moultrie. As they passed the plank to gain the deck they presented a strange and affect ing sight, many of them being reduced to mere skeletons by the suffering and privations of the voyage. Several were in a dying condition, a few dropsical, and a goodly number apparently in health. They were visited on Saturday by Major Macbeth and several aldermen." _ _ The Charleston papers are still discussing the question of what shall be done with these poor wronged creatures. There can be but one answer to this question. The law makes it impeaative upon the President to remove them beyond the limits of the United States, and the News, quoting the law, very justly says : Under the latter clause the President must re move these Africans to some point in Africa, pro bably Liberia, where, under charge of an agent, they will be taken care of at the expense of the United States, until they can provide for them selves and determine on where they will go. In the meantime their support will be at Government cost, under the charge of its officials, and they will unquestionably be sent, as promptly as possible, in a vessel of war to Africa. _ _ " It is evident that the Government officials here have no discretion, and have simply to perform their duty under the above act. Proper respect should be paid alike to their action and motives. Nor should a Christian humanity be shocked by the inevitable return of these Africans to their own country, as every care will be taken of them. They cannot be permitted to be enslaved, nor - would it be either politic or proper that they should be turned loose in the United States as freemen. They are savages, whose condition on their return to Africa will be materially ameliorated. " If the Echo had first come into the hands of the State authorities, the crew, ship, and negroes would have been disposed of under the State Act of 1835, which is very severe ; but now, although the vessel and Africans are within the waters of the State, they came here under federal capture and authority, and must remain so, subject to federal disposal under federal laws, and cannot be brought under State jurisdiction. No conflict of jurisdiction can properly occur." IRELAND. • DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. RUMOURED PRESS PROSECUTION. According to one of the provincial papers, the recent outrageous sayings and doings of the lay and clerical sympathisers with the martyred Tip perary assassins have attracted the attention of the Government ; but, if the following statement be correct, it would appear that the law officers are about to aim the blow, not at the principal per formers in the Nenagh drama, but at a journal re cently established in Tipperary, and which has distingnished itself as the persevering assertor of the innocence of the Cormacks. The Carlow Sen tinel of Saturday says : " The Government have adopted measures to try the /question, how far it may be lawful for Mr. Daniel O'Donoghue, M.P., and Father Kenyon, to promulgate sentiments subversive of social order in Tipperary, and to bring the administration of jus tice into disrepute. A prosecution has been com menced against a journal lately established in Tip perary as the organ of the malcontents, in which appeared several articles and communications, charging the law officers of the Crown, the Judge, and Mr. Gore Jones, R.M., with the murder of the brothers Cormack ; masked under the forms of law, and thus exciting the minds of the peasantry and endangering the public tranquillity. We fed for the unfortunate journalist who has been made . the tool of designing men, whose object is to mar that prosperity which has dawned on the country, and which they foresee is calculated to destroy the prestige they en joyed as agitators, and to uproot that baneful in fluence which they exercised over an ignorant mul titude. The Government were left no alternative but to submit to the fearful charges preferred against them, or to bring the orators into court to prove their allegations or to pay the penalty of the offence committed agai ns t the administrators of the law." TIIE LANDED ESTATES COURT. The arrangements for the establishment of the new land tribunal arc progressing satisfactorily. Petitions for sales are receivable at present, as the recent Act empowers the judges, to receive them during the long vocation ; but the fact does not seem to - be generally known, as very few petitions have been lodged since the month of last July. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The sittings of the court for the session which commenced on the Gth inst. at Clerkenwell were resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall, West minster, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge; Mr. CreasT, Mr. Halswell, Dr. Bateman, and Mr. Gould. there were twenty-eight additional cases for trial, besides the bail list. The Assistant-Judge delivered a short charge to the grand jury. SUMMONING JURORS. On the names of the persons summoned on the traverse jury being called over, several excuses were offered, the ground urged being the frequency with which some tradesmen were required to per form the duty of jurors, while many of their neigh bours, particularly persons of wealth and station above a tradesman, were never summoned at all, or very rarely. One gentleman said he had served for jury, and not long esessions, which he since s i x was months sum on m tnheannoyanceto the thought a great hardship upon him, while others whom he knew were never troubled. One juryman asked to be excused on the ground that he was sixty-five years of age. The Assistant -Judge said that the method of summoning rested not with the Court, but with the bailiff and his officers, and they no doubt did as the law as it at present existed required, or compelled them to do. The Court could not alter the law, it had merely to administer it, and the persons sum moned as jurors must serve, although it might be, and no doubt it was in many instances, a hardship upon them. With respect to the excuse frequently put forward on the ground of age, that, in fact, was no excuse at all. If the name remained on the jury list, the person, whatever might be his age, was liable to be summoned and be compelled to serve. The fact of a person being over sixty years of age entitled him to have his name re moved from the list, and the petty sessions justices held a sitting in the last week in September every year for the purpose of hearing such ob jections, and persons entitled to exemption should attend and see that their names are taken off. The summoning officer to the high bailiff said care was taken to distribute the duty fairly. They could not avoid a few individual cases, but that arose from the jurors having to be taken from Westminster alone, instead of the whole county. Charles Mahoney, 26, was indicted for having stolen a trunk containing wearing apparel, value £2O, the property of John Jarritt, from.the roof of a cab, and for assaulting a police-constable, Abraham Everest, to prevent his lawful apprehen sion. He pleaded guilty, and it was proved that he had but recently served out a sentence of four years' penal servitud e . Th e cour t now sentenced him to seven years. Mr. Salter prosecuted ; Mr. Foot appeared for theyrisoner, William Davis, 24, was indicted for feloniously embezzling a number of small sums of money, amounting in all to about £l3, received by him on account of Thomas Edwards, his master. This charge was preferred against the prisoner as far back as June, 1856, since which time he had been an inmate of Hanwell Lunatic' Asylum. Having recovered, he was brought up for trial at the last sessions, but the case was adjourned. From the evidence now given, it appeared that the prose cutor was a milkman, and the prisoner used to take out milk. He received ready money from the cus tomers, and represented that oredit had been given. The prosecutor said he had no wish to press the charge, and that a better or more honest servant no one could have than the prisoner; but he got into bad company, upon whom he,spent the money he stole, and when he was detected he went mad. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Patrick Conway, 18, and Patrick Welsh, 31, were indicted for unlawfully assaulting Charles Sutton, a metropolitan police constable, in the execution of his duty. Conway pleaded guilty ; Welsh was found guilty. They were each sentenced to four months' hard labour. Henry Chenu, 18, was indicted for stealinc , 53 yards of cloth, value £l5, the property of William Dunn, in his dwelling-house. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to four months' labour. Robert Steward, 39, was indicted for stealing a silver cream-jug and other articles, value £3O, the property of James Stuart Ringer, in his dwelling house. He was convicted, and a previous convic tion was proved. Sentenced to , twelve months' hard labour. The grand jury ignored a bill preferred against Charles Francis Wroc, a porter at St. Martin's Workhouse, for an indecent assault upon a girl named Barry. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Edward - Wilson, 2G, horscdcaler, was indicted, charged with stealing a horse, value £1.3, the pro perty of William Bacon._ ifr. Doyle prosecuted; Mr. Langford defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor, who lived at Bagshot, in the month of May, 1857, turned out a horse, his property, upon Staines Moor, to graze, and on the sth of October it was missed. On Sept. 30, 1857, between six and eight o'clock in the evening, the prisoner was met about 100 yards from Staines Moor Gate, by police-ser geant Atter, 27 T, with a horse ' and wished him " Good night" as he passed on. On October 5, the sergeant received information that a horse answer ing the description of that the prisoner had with him on the night in question had been stolen from the Moor, and having made inquiries he learnt that a similar horse was at Newbury, in 'Berkshire, and communicated with Mr. Bacon, the prosecutor. On the Bth of October, 1857, Mr. Bacon, from in formation that he received, went to Newbury, and having described his horse to Superintendent Deane, went with him to a stable and there identi fied the one which had been stolen from him. On Oct. 13, Superintendent Doane, who had previously seen the prisoner with the horse in his possession at the Black Bear Inn-yard, at Newbury, observed an advertisement in the Police Gazette for a horse answering the description of the one he had seen, and accordingly he detained the horse. On Oct. 19 Mr. Bacon came, identified the horse, swore to it before the Mayor of Reading, and took it away. About Aug. 25, 1858, from information he received, he (Mr. Deane) went to Brill, in Buckinghamshire, and there found the prisoner in custody. When told what he was charged with he said. he knew nothing about it, and dnied having ever been at Newbury. - - - Mr. Langford, for the prisoner, said he purchased the horse at Brockley, and also set up an alibi for him. The jury found the prisoner guilty of receiving the horse. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to imprisonment and hard labour for one year. Junior Severel, 33, cook, was indicted for steal ing three forks and other articles, value 305., the property of Philip Delrose. Mr. ])ickie prosecuted;, and Mr. F. H. Lewis defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is the keeper of a restaurant, 48, Leicester-square, and the prisoner entered his em ploy as cook. He was discharged in August, and after he was gone some knives, forks, spoons, and linen were missed. The articles produced were his property. These articles were found in the posses sion of a man named Leon, with whom they were left by the prisoner for sale, he stating that they belonged to him. He knew the articles by their worn appearance, and they corresponded with those 'which he had now in use. In cross-examination by Mr. H. F. Lewis the prosecutor admitted that he had been convicted of keeping a brothel in - this court, and for which he was imprisoned for three months. He had kept brothels in Morris -street and in Queen-street. The prisoner was in his service for two months, but was discharged becau.se his honesty was suspected. He did not search the prisoner's boxes, although they were left behind for some days after he was dis charged. He had never seen Leon, nor (lid he know that the prisoner was about to enter into partnership with him. Mr. H. F. Louis having, addressed the jury, Mr; Creasy summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. had given the foreman of the grand jury the power to administer. the, oath to each witness, and - any per son so sworn, but afterwards prevaricating in their testimony, would render themselves liable to be in dicted for perjury. He had no further remarks to make but to dismiss thenr to their room. TIIE NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. The trade report of the Freeman's Journal has the following reference to the long-promised im provement in the cross channel postal and passen ger arrangements : "We regret to learn that as yet no practical advance has been made towards carrying out the new postal arrangement between England and Ireland. Statements were not long since very confidently made to the effect that the contract was already signed, and that the ships were being built for the new service. From inquiries which we have made we are in a position to state that the contracts are not signed, that the ships are not being built, and that theie is no probability of the contracts being signed by the Chester and Holyhead directory, who, in fact, have the key to the whole project. We believe it is a fact that the active and able Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, has written to the secretary of the Holyhead line to ask him to sign the contracts, and that an absolute refusal has been forwarded by that company in reply to the application. Thus the matters stand at present, and thus it is said they are likely to remain for some time to come. The Holyhead parties justify themselves by saying that while the new contract would improve consider ably the condition of the Great Northern and of steam-packet companies, it would seriously injure them ; that they have at present a good contract for a long term ; that the new contract would be but for a short term, and would be less productive, while it would involve enormous penalties, aad that they are entitled to some consideration in reference to these points. THE HAR VEST. Later reports from the provinces show that the thunder and rain storms of last Thursday and Friday were far more severe, and likely to be pro ductive of more mischief, than was expected from the tone of the first accounts. In Galway and Limerick the fall of rain was quite out of the common course ; it was more like the bursting of a waterspout, the flood rising to the height of 3ft. on some roads. In Galway two bridges were entirely carried away, and Bianconi's car, from Clifden, was well-nigh swamped in the rush of waters. The thun derstorm was übiquitous, but its chief fury seems to have been sent on the Wexford coast. Nothing approaching to it in violence has been witnessed since June, 1822. In the north the alarm-cry has been again raised with regard to the potato crop, the condition of which is said to have undergone an unmistakeable change for the worse towards the end of last week. it is, however, admitted that the vast yield of this season must dissipate all idea of scarcity, even supposing the blight to prove more extensive than that of 1857. FIRE AT THE BANK OF IRELAND. Between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning large volumes of smoke, accompanied by showers of sparks were seen to issue from the north-western end of the Bank of Ireland. The police were promptly in attendance, and it was soon ascertained that the only cause of alarm was a chimney, communicat ing with a flue leading to the cash-office, that had taken fire. Ina few minutes the fire was extin guished, and all danger at an end IMINIIIMI t SURREY SESSIONS. The September Sessions for the county of Surrey commenced yest er d a y, a t th e C o urt-house, Newing ton-causeway, befor e J. E. J o hnson, Esq., chairman, Thomas Tils on , E sq , deputy-chairman , and a full bench of magi•t rates. The ca l en d a r contains 47 prisoners for tri a l-4 2 f or f e l ony , a nd 5 for misde meanor. The grand jury having been sworn, the Chairman told them that the calendar was much heavier than usual at that time of year, as the majority of the labouring classes found plenty of work in the hop fields and in other agricultural pursuits. The offences, too, we re o f a ser i ous na t ure , th e re being several committed for street robberies, which were much on the increase. There were also embezzle ments by servants, one case being a collector of taxes at Richmond, charged with unlawfully ob taining various sums o f mone y from persons resid ing there. There were also seven shoplifters and housebreakers, w h ose cases t h e y wou ld h ave toin quire into and return bills accordingly. He would impress on their minds the necessity of carefully investigating the circumstances before they ignored any bill, and. he should advise them to send into court for the, original depositions taken before the magistrate, should th ey h ave any, doubt as to the eviolence. By that means all tampering with justice would be frustrated. A recent act of parliament POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE—Eliza Urnehouse, a neatly dressed good-looking young woman, was charged with annoying Nicolo Magge, a private hotel keeper, at 1, Hammet-street, Tower-hill. The prisoner had been similarly charged some weeks before here. It appeared that she had lived with the complainant for some years as his wife (although he was a married man, having a wife and family in Italy), and that he had recently sent her away, after she had had a child by him, for which he had given her a certain sum of money, which she considered to be insufficient, and besides that she claimed various articles of furniture which he re tained at his house, although she alleged that she had pArchased them with her own money:. On that occasion she was discharged, the complainant pro mising to return her a bed which was her property, she at the same time promising not to annoy him again. Complainant now stated that she went to him again and persisted in annoying on him Saturday, till he was compelled to give her into custody. She denied that she annoyed him at all on Sa turday night, stating that she was going past his house when she sawhim standing at the door with a policeman. Upon seeing her he ran indoors, and she gently rang the bell. He then came out again, and she asked him whether he would give up her furniture, but before she could fairly get the ques tion out of her mouth he took her by the shoulders, as she stood on the step of the door, and pushed her into the street. Lord Mayor (to complainant)—When you were here last you promised to give up her bed. Why don't you do it ? Complainant—l have not got it now, but I offered to give her £2 instead of the bed and bed stead. Lord Mayor—Well, Mrs. Urnehousc, would not £2 be better for you than an 'old bed and bedstead ? Prisoner—They were not old ; and besides, he had , several other articles of furniture that belong to me. Lord Mayor—Well, why don't you go to the county court about it ? Prisoner—l have been—that is, I have a sum mons against him, which comes off on the 29th. Lord Mayor—Well, wait quietly till then. Of course I can't say exactly, but this seems to be a very hard case, but still you must not annoy him. Prisoner—l assure you I did not annoy him on Saturday night, and I think he ought to do some thing more for me than he has done, and that his conduct has been very heartless to me. I have thrown away my best days upon him. I was prudent and virtuous when I first went to him, and I am sure my child is no disgrace to him. Lord Mayor--But you yourself, you know, are partly to blame for your connection with him. Prisoner (despondingly)--=Oh, I was very , young then, or I should not have been so easili , led away, but still he ought to do something for me to keep me from doing what he has often told me to do— live by prostitution. Lord Mayor—Perhaps he may have some pecu liar ideas on that subject. However, I will dis charge you if you promise not to annoy him again, and let me advise you to keep quiet, and trust to the decision of the county court about your furni ture. The prisoner (who really seems to be a modest young woman) gave the promise, thanked the Lord Ma or and was discharged. Henry William Clisby was charged before the Lord Mayor with having obtained money from his employer, Mr. Layton, a law stationer, in Birchin lane, under false pretences. The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The prisoner, who is an apprentice of mine, formerly lived in my house, but latterly I have made an arrangement with his mother, by which she supplies him with food and lodging. He is not paid for his work during the regular hours, but he is paid for working overtime. His regular hours are from eight a.m. till eight p.m., and he is paid so much 'per hour for what he does after those hours. It is my practice 'to supply clerks to public companies and establishments that require such assistance. On the 22d ult. I sent the pri soner to the British Iron Company, in Leadenhall street, and his duty there was to do such - writing as was required of him, to render me an account of the number of hours he worked each day, and to bring me a voucher signed by some gentleman con nected with the company. I produce a voucher in the prisoner's handwriting, by which it appears he had worked 77 hours during the week ending Sept. 11, which would make his overwork' amount to £1 Gs. 3d., which sum was paid to him, with 16s. for his board and lodging. (The voucher was put in evidence.) I have ascertained that he was not at ' work during that week. On Saturday I looked at the voucher, and fancied that it did not bear such a signature as would be written by a clerk in the British Iron Company. I immediately proceeded to the offices of the company, and was informed that he had not • been there for two or three weeks. About an hour afterwards he came in with another voucher. I then gave him into custody : • Mr. J. Herbert said that on the 11th inst. he paid the prisoner, in the prosecutor's account, £2 2s. 3d., £1 Os. 3d. charged on the account . as overtime, and 16s. for board and lodging. At the time he paid him, he believed the prisoner had performed the work mentioned in the account. The prisoner, who after the usual caution said he was guilty of the offence charged against him; was fully committed for trial. Sigismund Silkerfield, a commercial traveller, in the employment of Mr. B. Wanskur, fringe manu facturer, of Moreton-street, Manchester, was charged with stealing 10 pieces of fringe, 22 cards of tas sels, and other articles belonging to his master. The prosecutor said—The prisoner was in my ser vice as traveller, and I was in the habit of sending him about the country. I supplied him with goods ' as samples, as well as for sale. Three weeks since I sent him to Leeds. I met him there and desired him to go to Hull, and then to return home to Manchester, where he ought to have been on Wed nesday week last. He had no business to be at Nottingham, but on Monday last I received a letter from him, dated Nottingham, enclosing me £l, and telling me he was coming home that night. The arrangement was that I was to pay him 18s. a week and 2 per cent. upon sales, besides travelling. expenses. He took goods with him of the value of £35 1 1 s. 6d., and remitted me only £6 altogether. I received information from a person in Hull that the prisoner was offering to sell my goods at half their value. I then telegraphed to the police, and received information that he had been watched to Houndsditch, where he was apprehended. The prisoner put a few questions to the prosecutor, but (lid not elicit anything favourable to himself. ____ The constable who took the priSoner into custody produced a duplicate he found upon him for two cards of fringe, which had been pawned for ss. The Lord Mayor—What answer have you to make to that, prisoner ? Prisoner—There was some money due to me, and that ss. was to make up the amount. The Lord Mayor, upon the prosecutor's under taking. to pay the expenses of the officer, ordered the prisoner to be taken to Manchester to be dealt with by the magistrates there. CLERKENWELL.—Patrick Sweeney, apower fully-built Irishman, was placed at the bar on re mand, before Mr. Conic, charged with violently assaulting police constables Sudbury, 425 S, Frith, 103 S, Boyce, 204 S, Brown, 229 S, John Webb, an ostler, and another person. • Mr. j. Wakeling, solicitor (of the firm •f Messrs. J. and T. Wakeling), appeared for the defendant. In consequence of the serious injury sustained by police-constable Frith, the case has been adjourned from time to time, butthe facts are simply these : About three weeks since the prisoner and two other Irishmen were the worse for liquor in front of a public -house in Camden -town. Webb drove up with two horses to the 'water trough, when a row ensued.- The two men and the prisoners picked a quarrel with Webb and another man, kicked the horses, kicked and struck Webb about the body and head, and then tried to get away. Police-constable Sudbury then inter fered, when he was hit on the nose, which made it bleed, and then the prisoner pulled a handful of the constable's hair out. The prisoner then turned round, and bit a piece of flesh out of the arm of police-constable Frith, and. kicked him dreadfully in the groin, which rendered him incapable of fur ther duty, and the surgeon said it, would now be some time before he could do any more. By this time a mob of between 200 and 300 persons had assembled, and the prisoner then kicked and struck Boyce and Brown, and it was found necessary to strap his legs to take him to the station. Mr. Wakeling made an energetic speech on be half of the prisoner, and having said that he had hitherto borne an irreproachable character, hoped his worship would be as lenient as possible. Mr. Come said this was another of the cases which arose from the indulgence in drink. For the assault on Frith he should send the prisoner without a fine to prison for a month ; for the assault on the two other' constables he would have-to pay a fine of £2, or be imprisoned three weeks for each case; and for that on. IVebb he was fined 10s., or one week. MARLBOROUGH -STREET.—John Royston, 22, Broad-street, Blom asbury, saddlers' ironmonger, was charged' with receiving an immense quantity of property stolen from various saddlers at the west end of the town, From the evidence of police-sergeant Crocker, C division, it appeared that he went on Saturday, accompanied by poli,le-constable Joy, to the pri soner's house, and asked him if he had bought any leather lately. The prisoner replied he had bought some about six weeks ago, and he took the con stables up stairs and showeh them a large basket full of saddlers' cuttings. The constable, Crocker, told him he belonged to the police, and cautioned him against saying anything unless he chose to say anything voluntarily. They went down stairs after locking the door of the room. Crocker then looked about and found a bundle of leather tied up in a wrapper. He asked the prisoner if he could ac count for the leather. The prisoner replied, "No more than that I bought it." The prisoner, on being asked if he could show either invoice or book, said he kept neither ; he never entered anything he bought. The constables made further search, and found a quantity of wallet pockets, and in a back room a consiaero .)le number of stirrup leathers. All these goods had been iden tified. There was also about three waggon loads of saddlers' articles, of which the prisoner could give no account. - Mr. Beadon--Have you had any robberies of saddlers lately Crocker—A great number on our ground. The property in the prisoner's house consists of harness, saddles, horse clothing, carriage cushions, and cut tings. I have heard from saddlers complaints that they have been robbed. In fact, robberies of this kind are very easy ; the men working on the pre mises can put the articles up their coats, and no one can see what they take away. Thomas Myring, foreman to George Dale, sad dler, Rupert-street, identified a quantity of the pro perty prodifeed by the police as having been stolen from his employer's premises. Mr. Beadon decided on remanding the prisoner for a week. WESTMINSTER.—Margaret Daniells, cook, and Charlotte Bender, housemaid at the Cadogan Hotel, Sloane-street, were charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles, the property of Mr. Charles Burgess, licensed victualler, and proprietor of the hotel. The prosecutor stated that about six weeks ago he missed a pair of trousers, and had since found several other articles to have been taken away. He went out of town, and arrived at the hotel a few days ago. He then had his suspicions against the prisoners, having ascertained that during his ab sence a box had been removed. He called in a police-constable;who went with him to a house in a street near the Mint, where they found several articles, which were identified by him (prosecutor). Peachey, B 60, produced a gown, two black aprons, two dolls, a bottle of brandy, a pillowcase, and other articles. He was not able to find a box. (The articles produced were identified by prosecutor.) Mr. Arnold—Where was the hotise in which these things were found ? Peachey—/n Vim-yard, Borough. He stated that he took the prisoners into custody. Ellen Kinnahan, scullery maid, stated that about three months ago she saw the cook (Daniells) take some pillow cases out of a drawer. She heard the prosecutor ask for the trousers, when she observed that she put them back in the place where she found them. She further deposed to having taken a box to the Borough, In answer to Mr. Arnold, she replied that she had a quarrel with the cook about a week ago, and that she never told her master what she knew till after the quarrel. The prisoners were remanded for a week. SOUTHWARK.—George Harris, a smart-look ing young fellow, was charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. J. Donkin; at 10, Stain ton-terrace, Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, and stealing therefrom two watches, one gold and the other silver. Sergeant Hodson, 28 M, said that on Saturday morning, about half-past 3 o'clock, he was on duty in the Blue Anchor-road, when he saw the prisoner coming from the rear of Mr. Donkin's house. Hav ing some suspicion respecting him, he stopped him and asked him what he was doing there, when he said he was a -baker,-and going to work near Mill pond-bridge. Witness, however, did not believe him, but took him into custody, and on the way to the station-house he saw him drop the silver watch producedover a fence. He picked it up and searched him, when he found the gold watch and a knife on him. After he had locked him up witness went back to Mr. Donkin's house, and found that it had been entered at the rear by cutting away a portion of the window sash. He compared the knife with the marks and found it to correspond exactly. He roused up Mr. Donkin, who missed the watches, which he had left safe on the mantel-shelf on Fri day night when he went to bed. Witness ascer tained that another house close by was attempted, but the inmates were awake, and the thief was dis appointed. • Mr. Donkin identified the watches as his pro perty. He knew nothing whatever of the prisoner. Mr. Burcham committed him for trial, and stated that great credit was due to the sergeant for the able manner in which he detected the robbery. WANDSWORTH.—.Mrs. Sophia Taylor, a lady residing at the Limes, Lower Tooting, was sum moned before Mr. Ingham at the instance of Mr. H. Anscombe, on behalf of the London and Brighton Railway Company, for unlawfully leaving a train at the Inalham station while in motion. The defendant did not appear but was represented by her husband, who stat e d that his wife was suf fering from very serious injuries she had received by falling from the carriage, and was unable to attend. He pleaded not guilty, and stated that he should be able to prove that the accident was caused by the negligence of the company's servants. Mr. E.. Hill, the station master at the Balham station of the Crystal Palace Railway, deposed that on the evening of the 2d inst. he was on the plat form when the 6.50 train from London-bridge arrived. The defendant *as in a first-elms carriage, and before the train had stopped he saw her open the door, apparently for the purpose of alighting. He called out twice to her not to step out of the carriage until the train had stopped, but before he could reach her she stepped off and fell upon the platform. He assisted her up, and found that she had severely injured her face. He took her to the waiting shed and told her that she had done very wrong, upon which she answered that she was not aware that the train had not stopped when she stepped out. The witness added that the defendant's sister also jumped out while the train was in mo tion, but he happened to catch her, or she would have fallen in a similar manner. By Mr. Ingham—Three carriages passed the lady after she had fallen upon the platform before the train stopped. In answer to questions by Mr. Taylor the witness further said there were two porters and two guards besides himself to attend to the train, which con sisted of ten carriages and a break van. Sometimes 40 passengers will alight from the train at the sta tion, but on this occasion very few persons got out. Mr. Anscombe, the inspector upon the railway, produced the bye-laws of the company, and it ap peared that every person was liable to a penalty of 40s. for leaving the trains while in motion. He stated that he called upon the lady at her house, and she admitted to him she had opened the car riage door. Mr. Taylor said that when the witness called at his house he said he came to inquire after the health of the lady. He very injudiciously admitted him, and he soon found that he had only come to cross question her. She was in a very nervous state and did not know what she was saying, and he re quested him to leave. His (Mr. Taylor's) wif e re ceived severe cuts upon the face, and her side and arms were bruised, from the effects of which she was laid up fora week. He then called his wife's two sisters to show that they were riot riding i n a first-class carriage, but in a second. They had come from the crystal Palace, the sisters intending to go on to the Pimlico station and the defendant to stop at Balham. They declared that the train stopped, and that one of them waved her hand out side the window for one of the porters to attend. No one came, and as the aps tindefendant de a w no a tf s w a t anxious stti n en o i g. s t o to pe b n e ed c t a h rr e ie d d oor o , n an t d o out there was a second motion of the train. One of the sisters ascribed the fall to the carriages being high and the step small, and the other to the fact of the train moving after it had stopped. The ladies were questioned by th e magistrate, and th e y both said they beli eve d the train had stopped when the defendant attempted to alight. One of them said the stopping was ,momentary. The station -master said the carriage was of the usual size, and the step,_ which was abo ve th ree inches from thplatform, was 13 inche s l ong an d nine inches wide. Mr. Taylor then called his son to show that the trains at the Balham station frequently moved after having stopped. He accounted for it in this way When the engine stopped, the buffers of the car riages closed against-each other, which caused th em to expand aga i n, an d there would then be a second movement of the train. He alk) said that he fre quently assisted ladies' to alight from the•carri ages,, iri consequence of the inattention of the servants. Mr. Hill said the son was in the habit of jump. ing out of the trains while they were in motion, and he had cautioned him several times. On the next occasion he should summon him. Mr. Ingham said it was not to be expected that the company should provide a larger number of porters than there were on this occasion. There was one person to every-two carriages, and he considered that was ample attendance for a train of that de scription. He was of opinion that the accident had arisen from the extreme carelessness of the passen gers, and not from any inattention on behalf of the servants. He felt loth to punish a person who had met with so severe an accident, and he had no doubt the company would be satisfied with a nominal penalty. Their object was to obtain publicity, so as to act as a caution to the public in future, andthere fore he should only fine the defendant ss. and 2s. costs. If the company would take his advice, they would set a person to watch the trains, and to sum mon all who got out before they had stopped. He begged to say that in all future cases he should in flict the full penalty. The money was immediately paid. AN ERRANT RAILWAY TRAIN. During the despatch of the return trains from Doncaster on the night of St. Leger Day, a rather unusual incident occurred. A great number of spe cial trains had been put on for the day, and the services of several extra engine -drivers had been engaged. One of these was intrusted with a train for Sheffield, and when the time arrived for leaving Doncaster, either he gave the wrong signal with the whistle to the pointsman, or the pointsman did not rightly understand it, for instead of turning the train on to the South Yorkshire line to proceed to its destination via Swinton, he allowed it to pass on to the main line of the Great Northern. The driver not probably being well acquainted with the locality, and not perhaps exactly comprehending his whereabouts in the darkness of the night, put on steam and dashed along at a good speed, passing Rossington, Bawtry, and Scrooby stations without any suspicion that he was on the wrong road. On arriving at Ranskill, however, he discovered his error and pulled up. The officials at the station were informed of the mistake that had been made, and due precautions having been taken, the train was safely transferred from the up to the down line, and. sent back to Doncaster. On arriving there some passengers inquired where they were, as the' train should have been well on its way to. Sheffield by that time, and received with some incredulity the an nouncement that they had got to the station they had left about three-quarters of an hour . before. The real state of the case was explained, and it produced much merriment among the excursionists, not withstanding the loss of time they had experienced; and when the driver again put his engine in motion he received abundance of advice and geographical information from the occupants of the carriages. COUNTRY MARKETS. CAMBRIDGE-SEPT. 18, There was a moderate show of wheat to-day and a fair attendance of farmers. Good samples of white sold at 50s, red 44s to 48s per qr. Barley sold at 30s to 425. Very, little change in other sorts of grain. Beans sold at 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Oats 26s to 30s per 24 stone. LEICESTER-SEPT. 18. At our corn market there was a fair show of wheat to day, the trade in which ruled slow at a reduction of is per qr. on last week's prices—good samples of white sold at 50s and red 47s per qr. There was a tolerable show of barley, and the trade ruled dull at former priees, new malting sam ples being disposed of at 38s to 41s per qr. Oats were as before. Beans were a scanty show, and quite as dear as the previous week. Wheat ...50s to —s Oats.... 32s to 36s White .47s to —s Beans ..50s to 53s Barley .38s to 41s Rye • ,—s to —s COLCHESTER—SEPT. 18. A moderate supply of wheat ; the trade was dull at last week's prices. Barley was more plentiful, and the best parcels were rather dearer. Beans and peas the tura dearer. Wheat, white 47s to 49s I Beans, Mazagan..—o to red 43s to 47s I Middle & small 47s to 528 Barley 32s to 46s White peas 42s to 48s Oats 24.8 to 28s I Grey • 42s to 488 CHELMSFORD—SEPT. 17. At this morning's market there was very little doing in grain, and prices remained without change. • Wheat, white 41s to 50s Peas, Partridge..4ss to 47s red 37s to 46s White 42s to 41s Barley 35s to 41s Boiling 43s to 498 Chevalier ....398 to 458 Dun 45s to 47s Grinding 29s to 33s Beans, Tick ....39s to 418 Malt 70s to 738 Harrow Ticks 39s to 438 Chevalier 72s to 73s Mazagan 37s to 40s Oats 26s to 36s KIRKALDY—SErr. Here, to-day, we had fair supplies ( ley, but small of oats. Sales quick for and oats same as last day; barley is per Wheat (0). Barley (0). First.... 38s Od --5 Od Second.. 46s Od --s Od Third 50s Od —s Od Wheat (N). Barley (N). First.... 31s Od 26s Od Second.. 42s Od 31s 7d Third 43s Od 33s Od d wheat and bar all sorts. Wheat qr. dearer. Oats (0). —s Od --s Od —8 Od I Oats (N). 22s Od I 2!s Od 26s 6d COAL MARKET—SEPT. 20. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.) Davison's West Hartley, -s. Od ; Holywell, 14s. 6d. ; lloward's West Hartley Netherton, 15s. 9d. ; Tanfield Moor, -s. Od. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s 6d.; Wylam, 14s. 6d. ; Newcastle Hartley, -s. ; Byass's Bebside West Hartley, 16s. Od.; Walker Primrose, 12s. 9d.; Eden Main, 165.; Hastings artley, -s. Od. ; Haswell Gas, -s. Od. ; Lambert's West Hartley, 16s. Od.; West Wylam, -s. Od.; Ward's West Hartley, 15s. Od. ; West Tanfield, -s. Od.; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. Walls End-Riddell, 1.55. 6d. ; Byron, -.s. Od. ;"Benson,lss. 9d. ; Thorpe, -s. Od. • Bell, -s. Od. ; Ht'lepool Hetton, -s. Od. ; Frnmwellgate, 16s. Od.; Haswell, 18s. Od. ; Hetton, 18s. Od. ; Cassop, -8. Od; Bradyll's Hetton, 16s. 9d. ; Gosforth, -s. Od. ; Dryburn Grange, 16s. ; Heugh Hall, 16s. 3d. ; Lambton, 17s. 6d. ; Tyne Main, 13s. ; Tees, 18s. ; Northumberland, 15s. 3d. ; South Hetton, -s. Od. ; Acorn Close, 15s. 9d. ; Wharn cliffe, -s. Od. ; Kepler Grange, 17s ; Shincliffe, 16s. 3d. ; Hunwick, 14s. 3d. ' • Whitworth, 14s. 3d.; South Durham, -s. ; Nixon's Duffryn , 21s. Od. Ships at market, 49 ; sold, 38. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVEIiPOOL—SEPT. 20. Eastern Counties, 12 I—Caledonians 861 87—Great Western, 501 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 941 Sheffield, 35—Midland, 961 961—North British, 551 5 6-- Berwicks, 92 34—Dovers, 211 I—Dutch Rhenish, 431 d. —Leeds Northern, 46 I—York and North Midland, 731 4 —Great Western of Canada, 18 184—Grand Trunks, 9 91—Chester and Holyhead, 341 41—Blackburns, 101 104 ex d—Birkenheads 651 661=-East Lancashire, 901 91 —London and North-Westerns, 901 I—Great Northern, 101 103—Great Luxembourg, 8 1-16 3-16. MANCHESTER—SEPT. 20. The market was firm at the opening, but became Bat in the afternoon, and closed at the lowest point. Dovers, 21g—Midlands, 96f—Sheffields, 35—North British, 56- - Leeds, Blackbarn Purchase 44- per Cents., ls. 6d. p.- Londons, 901—North Staffords, 5k d.—Manchester Assur ance, 8 p. BIRMINGHAM—SEPT. 20. A good business was doing in the market to-day, and prices were rather improved. London and North- Western, 901---Ditto Eighths, 1 dis.—Midlands, 97—Bir mingham Canals, 92F—Gre a t Western Birmingham Pref., 9f. ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Dyspepsia, Or Indigestion.—This is a very common complaint, and though it does not often endanger life, it makes it a burden. Under this scourge existence is too often but one long disease. Pain and distension of the stomach, heartburn, costiveness, or diarrhoea, head-ache, low spirits, and every variety of nervous irritability and agitation, are in the train of its usual attendants. But these symptoms, though little affected by ordinary medicines, are speedily and thoroughly relieved by a course of these pills, which cor rect the disordered secretions, purify the blood, restore the tone of the digestive organs, and invigorate the whole system. They are composed entirely of benign balsams, and are as safe as they are efficacious. BIRTHS. BINGHAM.—On the 18th inst., at Calehill House, Kent, the wife of William Baring Bingham, Esq., of a son and heir. CLARKE.—On the 20th inst., at 8, Dover-street, Picca dilly, the wife of Tanner Owen Clarke, of a son. CLERK.—On the 18th inst., at Whittington Hall, the wife of John Clerk, Esq., of a daughter. Scorr.—On the 17th inst., at Abbotsford, Mrs. Hope Scott, of a daughter. 31 ARRIAGES. OVE RBURY — BAUMANN.—On the 16th inst., at St. Pan cras, Benjamin Fox Overbury, Esq., of Basinghall street, to Mary, widow of the late F. Baumann, Esq., of Albert-street, Regent's-park. WOOD—GARTON.—On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Brid lington, Benjamin Wood, Esq., Shipley, near Bradford, to Lucy, youngest daughter of Thomas Garton, Esq., Lane douse, Bridlington. DEATHS. COOKE.—On the 16th inst., at Union-square, Southwark, Charles Cooke, Esq., aged 27. COOPER.—On the 19th inst., after a short illness, at his residence, Hyde-park-place, Rowland Edward Cooper, Esq., aged 34. FRasER.---On the 25th July, at Cape-town, Cape of Good Hope, on his passage home on sick leave, after the siege and capture of Lucknow, John Mackenzie Fraser, Esq./ of Braelangwell, B enga l Artillery, aged 26. MARRIOTT.—On the 15th inst., at Bradfield, Berks, the Rev. Charles Marriott, B.D. Fellow of Oriel College , and some time vicar of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, aged 47. MONTGOMERY.—On the 15th inst., at Aberdeen, Conrad Montgomery, late 4th Dragoons. • SUMNER.—On the 17th inst., at his residence, Priory-road , Clapham, James Sumner, Esq., many years connected with the Guardian Assurance Office, Lombard-street , city, aged 73. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, inthe comity of Middlesex, Tuesday, September 21, 1858. r'