The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

REGENT CIRCUS, PICCADILLY-RAIL AND WATER. The history of the Regent-circus - is closely mixed up with the changes - of modern times. When the brick and mortar fit of his Majesty King George IV. led to the levelling of whole streets, to make one grand thoroughfare from Carlton-park to Regent's park, vested interests caused the new line to make a detour from Vigo-street. Here the Quadrant commenced, and sheltered the pedestrian from the pelting rain or the noon-day heat by its long colonnade, supported by Corinthian pillars. The covered way was found too chilly and dolorous for this damp and dark climate, so Regent-street, the pride of the first gentleman in Europe, was, a a few years back, despoiled of the long row of columns which adorned that end of the street called the Quadrant. At the latter point this great aris tocratic road of the west takes a sudden bend. It, therefore, became necessary to create a wide open ing where Regent-street crosses Piccadilly. A cir cus was formed, and the houses were no sooner run up than the large coach proprietors fixed upon the site as a spot well adapted for starting their well equipped four-horse vehicles. Benjamin Worthy Home seized one side, Sharman the other, and Chaplin opened an establishment opposite to the latter, . The old "Bull and Mouth," the" Swan with Two Necks," the " Spread Eagle," and the " Golden Cross," all first class coaching inns, had their offices in the Circus. The sound of the horn may be said never to have ceased in the Circus, and the starting of those well-horsed mails to Oxford, Cambridge, York, Dover, and Brighton, was a sight worth travelling some distance to witness. All the "crack whips" drove from the Circus, and it was nothing unusual to witness as many as twenty coaches, drawn by some of the finest bred horses in the kingdom, starting at one time. Every evening at 8 o'clock there was a stirring scene halm Circus. Mobs assembled at that hour to see the mails start, and the arrival of the one horse carts from the enief office added to the noise and bustle of this free out-door public exhibition, which could always be seen gratis. Those days are gone by (and we do not cry alas !) The steam horse has supplanted the four horse team, yet the business of the Circus has increased ten thousandfold. The stage coach proprietors adapted their calling to circumstances, gavt up their mails, and joined in the railway enternnise. Mr. Chaplin with his " Spread Eagle," an d 2k-. Home with his " Golden Cross," are still located the Circus, but they are now the monster carriers p! the day. They ai e the railway feeders. They colic t and deliver. Their waggons and carts take up a. d discharge many hundred of loads in the 24 hou s. This gives the Circus the character of a railway depot. In fact, nearly the whole of the houses I tre occupied by steam companies' or railway carro. - s' offices. At No. 43, the Crystal Palace, Bright co Railway, and Telegraph Company are represented. The South Eastern Railway office is at No. 40, Messrs. Chaplin at 34, the Great Northern and Exetern Counties Railways at 32, Messrs. Horne at ;Ki,- and the General Steam Navi gation Company at 3; 7 . Chaplin and Horne jointly represent the London at: d North-Western, the South Western, and other lines. There is no circle of similar extent in the world where so much railway and shipping business is trans acted. All the routes 'to _Parrs and every part of the continent have here their representative. In fact the globe may be said to radi ate figuratively from Regent-circus. In these days of advancing intelligence and public competition, the intending traveller, whether by land or water, looks to have his convenience and comforts con sulted, and the leading railway companies have re sponded to this demand by opening offices in the Circus to accommodate their west-end customers. Every steam company in the United Kingdom, except those having a monopoly, is directly repre sented there, and they find it to their advantage to have depots west of Temple-bar. Even the mono polists ere long may discover that their true inte rests and best policy lie in conciliating the good will of their patrons by studying their require ments. —.Daily News. • THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LABOUR ING CLASSES. A meeting of the members of " the Chorleywood Association for Promoting Industrious and Provi dent 'Habits among the Labouring Classes" was held •at the hamlet of Chorleywood on last Friday evening, when about 80 labouring men and their wives, with a party of the surrounding clergy, gentry, and farmers, sat down to au excellent sup per. There was also a large attendance of the ladies of the neighbourhood. Mr. Wm. Longman, in the unavoidable absence of the President of the Association, Lord Ebury, took the chair, and was supported by the Rev. A. Scrivenor, the incum bent of the district, the Rev. It. Gee, vicar of Abbott's Langley, Mr. Marmon, of Rickmansworth park, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Harvey Fellow es, and others. As the Chairman took the opportunity of giving a full .account of the objects of the association in returning thanks for his health being drunk as treasurer, it is unnecessary to do more than give an abstract of his remarks. After a few introductory observations, The CHAIRMAN said—lt will be well that I should take this opportunity of tracing the history and objects of the asssociation in order that our visitors may become acquainted with the system on which we have proceeded, and that you may all be reminded of the objects we have in view. About four years ago it was suggested that it was desir able to establish allotment gardens in the district, and, after some difficulty in obtaining land we suc ceeded in taking the first step towards our present prosperous state. It occurred to me, however, that it was very desirable to endeavour to embrace other objects that the mere distribution of allotment gardens among you, and that we might attempt to unite all the inhabitants of the district into an association, having for its object the promo tion of everything tending to the welfare and happiness of the labouring classes and the en couragement of mutual good feeling between the various classes of society. You all know the story of, the bundle of sticks ; a single stick is easily broken, but if you bind up a number of sticks together you give a strength to the bundle which no single stick possesses by itself. So it is with an assocation of men. Union gives strength, whether for good or whether for evil, and we may feel satisfied from the experience w.t have had that our association is strong for good, that its strength has been exerted for good alone, and that it has been exerted with the most triumphant success. Our first object, as I have stated, was the distribution of allotment gardens among you, and the giving of prizes to those who produced the best vegetables and displayed the greatest care in the cultivation of their gardens. It was then thought that one of the main objects of our association would be best promoted by the members being invited to meet the surrounding gentry at a supper, and we felt that it would not be in accordance with the fundamental principle of our association—viz., the promotion, of happiness in your own homes and good feeling among all, if, while the men were enjoying good beef and good beer, their wives were left at home to think how their husbands were en joying themselves. We therefore determined that the wives' should be invited to come with their husbands, and I feel sure that this union of the men and women, and this social meeting between the rich and poor has been one of the chief causes of the success of our association. Our next step was the establishment of lectures during the winter evenings, to which the members of the association are admitted gratuitously, and those who are not meMbers for a small payment. By the large numbers who attend these lectures it is clearly shown that we were not mistaken in our belief that they would give you pleasure. We then pro ceeded one step further, and tried an experiment which, to the best of my belief, has never been ed i n any o th er par t o f th e coun t r y. We felt that if we could induce you to try to give a written account of what you heard it would have the best result. We felt that if you came to these lectures with this inten tion, you would listen to them with greater atten tion, and that y ou would read with greater interest any book on the sam e su bj ec t as th e lecture. We, therefore, promised .prizes to those who sent in gond reports of the lectures, and I am glad to find that our experiment h as succeeded. I must how ever, express my hope th a t during the coming , win ter more Men will try thei r hands at giving us these reports. Some men have done so and have succeeded very well, but the greater number of the reports have been written by the women, and by young P • I persons, and especially by young girls Now feel sure that if more men and boy s t ry they will find that a little practice will make it easier than it seems at. first, and that it will be a source of very great pleasure and amusement to them. This is the extent to which we have now proceeded, but it is our wish to extend ourobjects, and there ar e one or two purposes which we think of trying to carry into effect. It has occurred to us that a savings'- bank, confined of course to the members of the asso ciation, might be useful; and Mr. Scrivenor recently suggested to me that you might from time to time make payments, so as to be able to meet pay-day when it came. You have, of course, from time to time put into an old stocking small sums to meet vont- rent, but we are all' liable to temptation, or illness may some, or some accident may happen to the old stoCking, and' when rent-day comes some how or other the old stocking has got a hole in it, which- -has - let all the money out, or the old stockino• has vanished alfc;crether. The establish b ment 4?a tent fund would preserve you from some of these accidents. I have mentioned these two objects in the hope that you will yourselves consider them, and let us know whether you think they would do good. We particularly wish that you should give . us hints relative to any objects - which our association might carry out. You ust know your difficulties and your own wants better than ! we can, and it is one of the bbjects of our associa tion to create that confidence and good will between us that will encourage you to tell us where you want help and to give you a handymeans of commu nicating with us, and I hope you will make especial use of these social annual meetings to state to us your wants. Ido not mean your wants in a money sense, but I mean the difficulties of your position, which you may think we can help you to remedy. We who are above you can help you with our ad vice and with our knowledge. There will always be differences of rank in society, and if we were all made equal to-day we should be unequal to-morrow. But we who are in a higher rank than you are have more means, more time, and more knowledge than you have. We can help you by our contributions to objects requiring more money than you could afford, and we can give you advice on many points on which our greater knowledge necessarily renders us better informed, and you on your part can show that you appreciate our efforts by encouraging good feeling towards us, by the order and regularity of your lives, and by helping us to help you, In proposing " The health of Mr. Gee and success to the Abbott's Langley Association," the CHAIR MAN adverted to the advantage of having a body of gentlemen, viz., the clergy, distributed over the country, who were able to give their time to the wants of their poorer brethren. Many of the gentry are able to give money to support good obj ec t s , b u t ca nnot give their time, while the clergy can give their time when they often cannot give their money, In answer to these remarks Mr. GEE expressed his happiness in belonging to the noble body of men described by the chairman, and stated th e satisfac tion they felt in supporting institutions like the Chorleywood Association. Mr. Gee then described the many comforts which modern civilisation placed within the reach of the labourers, and suggested modes by which the comfort of their dwellings might be still further increased, and remarked that now that papering for rooms might be bought at 4-d.a yard, the wives might, during the absence of their husbands at work, paper their rooms, and thus prepare an agreeable surprise for them on their return. THE RECORDER OF HULL ON POLI TICAL AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS. On Saturday Samuel Warren, Esq., Q.C., M.P., the _Recorder of Hull, delivered his usual address to the Grand Jury. He spoke as follows :—Gen tlemen of the Grand Jury—Our ears are still r i ng i n g with so many elegant discourses, de livered by philanthropic persons on subjects of social interest and importance, that I shall to-day say not a word on the topic of education, nor, be yond a brief allusion to a late statute, the reforma tion,of the'youthful and adult offenders. Those are subjects at all times occupying much of my serious attention, as I have often here attempted to show ought to be the case with grand jurymen, and in deed with all intelligent Christian people. Let me proceed, therefore, at once to the duty—not always 0. light one—which I have for some time imposed upon myself at this period of the year, of placing ph'inly, but compendiously before you and the public, those leading changes which have been effected in the law of the land during the last ses sion of the legislature. I consider this, as I have often said here, a duty of real and great import ance. Gentlemen, I have often been surprised at Sir Wm. Bli,:ekstone's telling us_that though it is necessary that laws should benotified to the people who are to obey them, " the manner in which this notification is to be made is a matter of very great indifference." I think, however,you will agree with me that it is, on the contrary, a matter of very great importance, and that eminent person himself shortly afterwards tells us, that it is incumbent on legislators to promulgate acts of Parliament, and in the most public and perspicuous manner, and not imitate the example of the execrable Caligula, who wrote his laws in a very small Phstract^r and hung them up on high pillars the mare enee t ually to ensnare the people. Gentlemen, let us really listen to com mon sense. If ignorance of the law is not to be tole rated as an excuse for violating it, let us, as a matter of mere justice and humanity, lose not a moment in giving publicity to changes in that law —let us, even, force them upon the notice of the people at large, and thereby leave them really with out excuse or just cause for complaint. Gentlemen, the edicts of Roman Emperors did not acquire legal force till they had bcdn formally promulgated. 'ln free England it is otherwise. But why? Let the reason never be forgotten ; it is because the people themselves, through their representatives, are par ties to the making of every law that binds them. Before printing was invented the King, at the end of every session of Parliament, sent a copy of all the acts passed during that session to the sheriff of every county, with strict injunctions con tained in a writ, in the King's name, and under the Great Seal, to proclaim them, and every part of them, as publicly as possible. This was done accordingly at the County Court, where the copy was preserved for every one to refer to and copy, and this custom prevailed down to the reign of Henry VII. At this day acts of the legislature are simply printed, and sold to everybody at as small a charge as is practicable. But even now, how many of the millions directly and most seriously affected by a new law ever trouble their heads about the matter, till, perhaps, it is too late ? How many, for instance, within the sound of my voice, are at this moment aware of two small statutes passed in July and August last, one of which makes the fraudulently obtaining a man's signature to a bill of exchange or promissory note, or any valuable security, a misdemeanor, punish able with penal servitude for four years, and of an• other which makes tampering with the crossing of a cheque a felony punishable with transporation for life as a forgery. Therefore I think it a high function if they choose to exercise it, of those charged with administering the law, to seize every proper opportunity of explaining at least the main features of new laws, and by so doing at least have the satisfaction of—so to speak—putting people on the scent of what so closely concerns them. During the last session of Parliament, gentlemen, many new laws, some of very great importance, were made, and others only attempted, being withdrawn or postponed. I shall confine myself, of course, to those actually passed, but I shall take very slight notice of such of even them as from their magnitude obtained universal notoriety the moment that the Legislature began to discuss them. One constituted the monster topic of the session—the act transferring the government of India from the East India Com pany to her Majesty. Another provides for the government of British Columbia—that is, in the language of the act, " of certain wild and unoccu pied territories on the north-west coast of North America and adjacent islands, to which divers of her Majesty's subjects had by her Majesty's per mission resorted and become settled on them for mining and other purposes." Here is suddenly opened a new field for the display of our adventu rous national energy, and we see moulded by the hand of a statesman of brilliant genius, and an orna ment to his country's literature—l mean Sir Edward. Bulwer Lytton—a new British colony of great pro mise, but which I foresee may occasion, in the future, ground for no small solicitude. I pass over the important act remodelling the Scottish Univer sity system ; the medical act establishing a code of regulations for the great and noble profession of medicine and surgery, having for its object, as the act recites, " to enable persons requiring medical aid to distinguish between qualified and unqualified persons, and establishing The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.' " Nor shall I dwell on, but I cannot quite pass by, six short acts of great and perma nent importance, of a political character, affecting the constitution of the Legislature itself. The first of these is to prevent seats in the House of Com mons remaining vacant during a whole recess, in the case of a member's having accepted office under the Crown, since a prorogation or adjournment of Parliament ; when that is the case, the Speaker may issue his warrant for a new election during the recess. A second totally abolishes the property qualification of members of Parliament. A third continues the Corrupt Practices Act of the year 1854—varies the statutable definition of " candi dates," and renders it lawful for them and their agents (appointed in writing) to provide convey ances for voters for the purpose of polling, but pro hibits paving money or giving any consideration to the voter for or in respect of such travelling ex penses. By this last, and one or two other provisions, it is sought to prevent bribery under the colour of pay ing travelling expenses. A fourth abolishes the three oaths of allegiance, lu o prema cy-, and abjuration, sub stituting much only of ferthtehtelel-: one as the esil Legislature oath, containing so it right to pres erve . It aolassoeb but le.sJews a s t d o ee makem e (1 cdlencrloadratnioont to affectsincertainnny es of thsio provisions expresslys the Roman enables Roman Catholic Relief Acts. A fifth e ither House of Parliament to p ass , if fit, a resolutick enabling a Je w t o take The thinkew oath, omitting the concluding words "And I make this declaration upon the true faith of a Christian." A - sixth carries into effect one of the main provisions of a bill I myself had introduced into the house during the last Parliament, and have given notice of for the next session, enabling select committees of the House of Commons for the future to examine witnesses on oath in matters relating to private bills —putting both houses, as I have long contended they ought to be, on the same footing in this parti cular. An excellent alteration in the municipal franchise has been effected by an act, which in the case of owners of certain tenements being rated to the relief of the poor instead of the occupiers, en titles the latter to all municipal and franchise rights conferred by the great Municipal Corporation Act, 1855, exactly as if they had been rated instead of the owner. Two other acts . remedy defects existing in those which in the preceding session had estab lished the ne w Probate and Divorce Courts. The judge is armed with new powers, and various valuable im provements are effected in those important statutes. Approaching subjects of a social and sanitary na ture, two acts vest in the Privy Council certain powers, especially in relation to public vaccination. Another is entitled " The Local Government Act, 1858," and its scope and object are sufficiently indi cated by its name. Its great feature is the confer ring on towns and populous districts in England the power of governing themselves in local sanitary matters, instead of subjecting them to a sort of cen tral despotism. The act is, where not inconsistent with the Public Health Act. 1848, to be construed with, and regarded as part of it, and may be wholly or partially adapted to existing local boards or by owners and ratepayers—observe this—if either classes of persons think proper to do so, in the exer cise of powers conferred for that purpose, and guard ed from abuse by certain salutary provisions, espe cially an appeal to the Secretary of State, who is also armed with proper powers of supervision. An act of immense importance,with reference to Ireland, has become,—l may almost say,--of even ten-fold greater importance than it is from its foreshadow ing the speedy adoption of a similar act in this country. I allude to the statute constituting "The Landed Estates Court (Ireland)," a permanent tri bunal established for facilitating the sale and trans fer of land in Ireland, whether it shall be encum bered or not, and arming that court with far more extensive powers than those of its bold predecessor, which dealt only with encumbered estates. It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of this opera tion. An owner of land in fee in Ireland may now submit his title to the investigation of that court. which may give him a judicial declaration, conclu sive and indefeasible against all the world, of his having a good and sufficient title, for the purpose of dealing with the property as he may require. And, when it is sought to sell an estate, the vendor or the vendee may, in like manner, apply to the court for an indefeasibie title and a statutable con veyance of it, and an order for specific performance of the contract at the instance of either party. This amounts, as affecting the legal profession, to a sort of revolution. It supersedes the system f convey ancing ; most seriously affecting the interests of practitioners, but conferring on the public such benefits as, I think, ought to be extended to Eng land, and will, doubtless, be so very shortly. The general administration of justice has been improved by several short, but by no means unimportant, acts. One of them gives the Courts of Chancery powers hitherto wielded by common law courts alone —enabling them even to award damages for the breach of any kind of contract, and to examine witnesses viva voce, on oath, even before juries. As for the county courts, the inconvenient inequalities at present existing in these various districts can now from time to time be rectified by the Lord Chancellor, who may make corresponding changes in the position and duties of the judges, but without increasing them • beyond the existing number of sixty. The jurisdiction of these popular tribunals is further extended, for instance, to actions for da mages sought to be recovered for pirating copyright in designs. Stipendiary magistrates are now autho rised to do all acts .which various statutes empower the justices to do ; but the act is expressly declared not to affect the jurisdiction of quarter or special sessions, or the granting and transfer of licenses. As Ireland has been the subject of a very great legis lative experiment—soon, as I take for granted, to be tried in England—in respect ofproperty, so Ire land has, during the last session, received the benefit of reformatory schools for juvenile offenders, pre viously conferred on the two sister kingdoms. Let all of us wish successto this important movement of a Christian philanthropy. Some of you recollect my briefly explaining to you the nature of the S fled ,L.statos Act, 1553. It has since been in full operation, and its provisions are extended by an act of the last session. All persons interested, as either lords or tenants, in copyhold property, will be glad to hear that new assaults have been made on that antiquated, anomalous, and incon venient tenure, before which it must, ere long, fall altogether. Either the lord or the tenant may now compel enfranchisement, and the act con ferring this, among other boons, came into opera tion on the first day of the present month. Our commercial jurisprudence has been directly and considerably affected by four acts—at two of which I have already glanced, at least in one aspect of them. By one of those two acts, if you cross your cheque with two transverse lines, with the words " and company," or any abbreviation thereof—or if you write across it a banker's name—you render that crossing or writing an integral part of the instrument, materially affecting the position of drawers, holders, and bankers; and if any one obliterate, add to, or alter it, or offer, utter, dispose, or put it off, with intent to defraud, he is declared guilty of felony, punishable with transportation for life. As to the last particular, however, the legislature appear to have forgotten that it had just enacted, as I explained here last year, that "no person should thereafter be sentenced to transportation." The offender is, however, liable, in the alternative, to the punishment enacted for those guilty of forging bills of exchange. The other of the two acts in question also deals very severely with the offence of obtaining by any false pretence, with intend to defraud, another person's signature to a bill or note, or valuable se curity. This is now a misdemeanour punishable with four years of penal servitude, or such other punishment, by both fine and imprisonment, or by either, as the court shall award. It would really seem, gentlemen, as if our Joint Stock Company Law were never to be deemed in a settled state, every session seeing changes effected in the most elaborate acts of former sessions. By one just passed, a very material clause in one of the preced ing sessions is repealed, and now joint-stock bank ing companies may be on the principle of limited liability—except so far as regards the issuing of bank notes. As to them, such joint-stock banking companies continue subject to unlimited liability. A second act of last session relates to joint-stock companies, and amends two similar ones which had been passed in the immediately preceding two years. I wish I had time to put you in possession of the salutary changes, loudly called for, effected by this last act, which ought to be familiar to every member of a mercantile community. It places the winding-up, whether voluntary or compulsory, of these companies on a much better footing than before. It enables the court—to use the very words of the act—" to have regard to the wishes of the majority, in number and value, of the creditor." The court has now greatly extended powers for'protecting the property from being squandered in reckless litigation ; appointing ad ditional liquidators ; enforcing the payment of calls, by contributaries ; and enables the court, of its own motion, or at the instance of any person interested in the matter, to order the prosecution of either any present, or any past director, manager, public officer, or member of the company deemed justly liable to it. There yet remain to be glanced at, and only glanced at, three valuable additions to our statute book, and of general importance and interest. The first makes available evidence, in courts of justice, a great number of non-parochial registers of births, baptisms, and deaths,burials, and marriages, in the case of various great denominations of Dissenters. The second is of a somewhat bold and novel nature,providing, beforehand, against the dis tinction of important but perishing evidence, in ques tions of legitimacy--as to the marriage of parents and other ancestors—and the right to be deemed natural born subjects. All these matters,of such moment to in dividuals and families, may now form the subject of authoritative judicial declaration by the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, on being duly ap plied to, and subject to prescribed safeguards against abuse. The last act amends the recent sta tute relating to friendly societies in important particulars, and especially enacts that henceforth deathn o money shall child be without paidby the t h production d u societies tion of a certi ficate, o n the signed by a qualified medical practitioner , stating the probable cause of the death of the child. e r s o The exceedingly grave reasons on which the Legis lature proceeded in making this enactment I need not dwell upon. Now, gentlemen, I have done. I assure you that it has cost me some little of that time which is very precious to me to prepare—to dispose, condense, and fittingly express—what you haveheard. With me it is a labour of love. How can one citizen be better employed than honestly explain ing to his fellow citizens the nature of the laws under which they live—mid such of those laws, above all, and of great importance too, as they have necessarily had only little opportunity of becoming acquainted with ? But of what use is this if the exposition be but listened to, and forgotten ? - Why all that you and I do here in our official capacity is only an argument for attending to and remembering these things, and inculcating all around us to do the same—and see how you thereby stop the mouths of those who would' indolently or wickedly plead, in excuse for crime, an ignorance of the law they were charged with violating. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ARMY STORE AND CLOTHING SYSTEM. Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, Mr. A. Turner, M.P., Mr. Selfe, and Col. French, the Commissioners en gaged, under the direct authority of the Crown, in inquiring into the state of the military store and clothing depots at Weedon, Woolwich, and the Tower, assembled at the Arsenal at Woolwich, and commenced the investigation they are empowered to institute into the depot there. They were accompanied, as they have been from the first from day to day, by Mr. Dew, their secretary; and Mr. Howell, Director of Contracts in the War-office, was also present during part of the day. So far. the impression on the public mind has probably been that the inquiry of the Commissioners is limited to the system of clothing the British army, and especially that branch of it in operation at. Weedon. That undoubtedly was the primary ob ject contemplated in the appointment of the com mission, but at the instance of General Peel, the investigation takes a wider range, and embraces the condition of the depots for all kinds of military stores, as well as clothing, at Weedon, Woolwich, and the Tower, and the system on which the books and stock have been kept at each of those places. On this new field of inquiry the Commissioners entered yesterday. They were recei ve d a t th e Ar senal by Mr. Morris, deputy military storekeeper, who has been up wards of 40 years in the service, and by Mr. Parkyn, an officer in the department, and by , them conducted over the whole of the depot. Capt. Gordon, the principal military storekeeper at Weedon, has been appointed to the same office at Woolwich, but does not assume his functions there until the Ist November. Some idea may be formed of the extent and value of the military stores accu mulated here when it is stated that it took the Commissioners nearly three hours to walk over the space which they cover. The examination was not, and could not be in the time, anything more than a cursory one ; but so far as it went, the Commis sioners more than once expressed themselves pleased with the arrangements, and with the manner in which the books were kept. For weeks past, it is true, the authorities have had notice of the visit and inquiry of the Commissioners, and it may be pre sumed that they had to some extent set their house - in order. It may or may not have been " swept and garnished" for the occasion, but certainly the ad mirable order which prevailed on all hands justified the eulogium of the Commissioners. The walk through the depot was intended simply to familiarise the Commissioners with the mode of arrangement, and with the enormous extent and variety of the objects kept in store, including every conceivable article used in the modern art of war. It was indeed little more than a stroll through the place, such as an ordinary pleasure party takes, ac companied by an intelligent chaperone. Trophies of the Crimean war, and now and then some humi liating memorials of it, encountered their gaze at almost every step. For nearly three hours they wandered about am ong huge piles of ambulance waggons, field batteries, ammunition, tents d'abris, and all the rest of the paraphernalia of war. Occa sionally the words " obsolete stores from Weedon," posted up, gave rise to a laugh among the Commis sioners, and they had an opportunity of inspectin g some of the many- thousand socks and knee boots sent from Weedon, the disposal of which has formed so prominent a topic in their inquiries. The inspection of the depot over, the Commis sioners repaired to an apartment in the head-quar ters of the department, and proceeded to take evi dence, Mr. Selfe acting as chairman. The first witness called was Mr. Wm. Morris, who said he was deputy military storekeeper, an office he had held for forty years. He was pre viously principal clerk, and had been altogether 42 years in the department. Mr. Francis Perry, who had been the principal military storekeeper, was killed by a fall from his carriage at the Arsenal gate. Capt. Gordon was to succeed to the office, and would enter upon it on the Ist Nov. The de partment consisted of al principal military store keeper, one deputy and one assistant military store keeper, 11 first-class clerks, 7 second-class, and 14 temporary clerks. There were 546 labourers em ployed in connection with. it. The establishment had increased very much of late years in conse quence of the war. It was divided into various branches, the first of which was the correspondence, of which the first clerk 'was the head ; the second was the contract branch, which received all the contract stores; the third the receiving branch for home stations, which took cognisance of all re turned stores and stores from departments ; the fourth the foreign issuing department ; the fifth the home issuing department ; and then there were the ledger and the pay-office departments. There was the laboratory department, presided over by Capt. Boxer ; the Royal carriage department, of which Col. Tulloch is the head ; the Royal gun factory, of which Col. Wilmot is the head. Those were all three manufacturing departments. The money all passed through his (witness's) hands for paying the wages of the men employed in the different depart. ments. He drew an " imprest" for the total amount twice a month, and sometimes he was obliged to have an extra imprest. The imprest varied from £28,000 to £34,000 a month for wages in all the departments, all of which money passed through his hands. The last half month's imprest he re ceived was £14,000. The Chairman said the Commissioners had heard a great deal about guarantees iii the course of their inquiries, and asked witness if he gave a guarantee? Witness said he gave two joint securities to the extent of £l,OOO in the whole. The Chairman —What security, except your own honesty,:is there that you maynot follow the exam ple of Mr. Elliott ? (A laugh.) Witness—l really cannot answer that question. (A laugh.) The Chairman —There is none ? Witness—There is a deal depending on a man's respectability sometimes, and upon his family con nexions. The Chairman —Just so; the Government trusts you as a banker does his cashier, and there is nothing to prevent his robbing the cash box if he be so minded. Witness said he rendered an account once a month of the state of his balance. Mr. Turner said he asked Mr. Ramsay, of the War-office, if any steps were taken in the account ant's office at any time to ascertain if Mr. Elliott, when he was at Weedon, had in his possession the amount of cash-balance which his books represented him to have, and Mr. Ramsay said no such steps were taken; because they trusted to Mr. Elliott being a man of honour. Now, would the witness (Mr. Morris) as an honourable man be affronted if the Government asked if he had really in his pos session the balance which his cash book exhibited at any particular period ? Witness said certainly not, and he had been in the habit of producing the balance shown by his book once a month in that very room in which the Commissioners were sitting. He should consider it rather a compliment than otherwise for the Go vernment to ask him to show the balance due from him in cash at any time. He might state that about three weeks or a month ago a gentleman came down from the War-office on one of their pay days at Woolwich with the intention of asking him to produce his balance. It was a very busy day with them, and the gentleman had to wait half-an-hour before witness could produce his balance, but he did produce it, and to the entire satisfaction of the visitor. Mr. Turner—That must have been since my ques tion was asked of Mr. Ramsay ? Witness could not say. . Mr. Turner—lt is at least within three weeks or a month, and that is sufficient for me. By the Chairman—The superintendents of the different departments sent in a requisition to him every Monday for so much money. Witness drew on the County Bank at Woolwich for the amount, which was supplied to him next morning, and handed over to the cashier of each department on the following morning. The money only remained one night in witness's possession. He had generally a balance of £3OO or £4OO a-week in his hands. He did not know whether the superintendents or The Chairman--Did rm or a clerk, B i o d r y o o ffi u ial cashiers of the different departments gave security. ever at know \voo hav ich caseb being g fa storekeeper, deficient in his balances ? Witness—No. The Chairman —That is the best test, after all. Witness, added that the cash accounts were made up quarterly, and rendered 14 days after the quarter, and that he had rendered his Michaelmas account. He expected Capt. Gordon to take possession of the balance on the Ist November. Their store accounts were settled yearly—the year.ending on the 31st of March. The work of the department had trebled of late years in consequence of the war. The con sumption of military stores in a year of war would probably equal that of 10 years of peace. He would not hold the situation Captain Gordon was about to take for £50,000 a-year. He felt he was too old to bear the 'responsibility and the worry of it. Besides, he was not in actual want, and if he could retire into some quiet appointment he should be satisfied. By- the Chairman—He had nothing t-F. do with the inspection of articles manufactured on the pre mises. The inspection of the main supply of timber received into the department came under the super intendence of the Royal carriage department. Colonel French asked if anything had been done to improve the trenching tools which were found to be so useless in the Criinca ? Witness said, a committee sat during the Crimean rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1858. war on the subject ; and. after that new patterns were adopted. Colonel French asked if the trenching t ols were better now? Witness was not aware: The present pa - ,f,crn, he thought, as far as material went, was ab out the same quality as the last. They had some iit store now, both of the old and new pattern. They -were furnished by tender. Being asked if there were many articles furnished by contractors r( ,jetted on inspection, witness said there were, and 1 - 13 held in his hand the inspection note in reference to cer tain articles which had been inspected th at very afternoon—viz., 2,000 handles for pickaxes„ the whole of which had been rejected, the reasoi t as signed by the inspector being that a great poi tion of were too large, and a very large por don were too small. (A laugh.) The Chairman—We have had it in evidenct at Weedon that a 'delivery under one contract I ias been used as a delivery under another—of b mats, for instance—l suppose you never allow suciii a thing here ? (A laugh.) Witness said, oh no ; they always worked o ,ff the old orders first. He said, in answer to the ( ;hair man, that it had been suggested that the Birming ham contractors wanted to give evident •e be fore the Commissioners. Tools sent fro: n Bir mingham to the department had been rejected L lately, and they had received letters from the con tractors about the rejections, but they scarcely an - p3ounted to complaints. Being asked how sales of stores came to be directed at Woolwich, he said, aft er cer tain stores had been condemned by the t several departments, or recommended to be sold by ; special order, he (witness) went round with the assistants of the master-artificers and allotted them, er.d then made a report to the several departments - with the view to ascertain if they could not be mad': avail able for the service. If the answer was in the negative a sale by auction was authorised., and a reserved price put upon each lot. They b.a, d what was called a "ring" at the sales of co ndemned stores, but it often happened that the lots fetched high prices by a stranger making his appei trance at the auctions or by the Jews quarrelling among themselves. (A laugh.) He could not say they had now a large quantity of unservice able or obsolete stores ; but still they were accumulating from all parts of the globe. There were some things they could not sell at any price at the sales,—for example, the galvanized bits and stirmp irons of which so much complaint was made in the Crimea Some of the worst of the c arts used by the Turkish Contingent had been :sold and taken to Ireland for use among hucksters, and the best of them were piled up in store. He believed they sold a quantity of boots which came back from the Crimea. If any boots had been sold which were serviceable he would be responsible. Mr. Turner (to the witneSs)—You say you have been upwards of forty years in this establishment ; will you be kind enough to say what your salary is ? Witness—£44o. _ _ Mr. Turner—After forty-two years' service ? Witness—Yes. It rises up to £5OO, by £2O a-year. Mr. Turner—l dare not make any comment, but if I did it would be a very severe one—not on you, but on those who pay you £440 a-year after far on to half a century of service. The witness then retired. Shortly before five o'clock the Commissioners adjourned until this day (Tuesday), at 12, when Mr. Howell, the 'Erector of contracts at the War office, will be the first witness called. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. REFORM IN TRINITY COLLEGE. An old and respectable High Tory journal (the Cork Constitution) makes some very singular reve lations respecting the reforms about to be introduced into the management of the Dublin University. New professorships will soon be founded and pro vision made for them out of fellowships which it appears, " now minister to the ease of indolence rather than to the advancement of learning." The Oriental languages, too, are likely to be better at tended to, and their professorships less parsimoni ously. endowed. Se far all highly satisfactory as regards the conduct of the heads of the college. But, says the Constitution,— " We have been told that the concessions recently made were made with less of grace than of reluct ance—that in fact the Board delayed so long that the Lord• Lieutenant, who is always in earnest in whatever he applies himself to, wrote with his own hand a brief note somewhat in these words—' Be so good as to draw up a draught of a Queen's letter, with your own proposals, to-night ; if not, I will do it myself to-morrow.' The story runs that this laconic intervention infused an unwonted degree of vigour into the Board, and that they . deliberated until 3 in the morning, a surrender of income to the amount of £4OO a-year each being among the they parted with. This magnanimous sacri fice is said to have been suggested by a conscious ness that, if left to him, his Excellency intended to carry the pruning-knife to £7OO, instead of £4OO. The seniors among the tutors, we learn, have lat terly been exerting themselves with most uncolle giate activity to obtain compensation for the loss of lucrative places doomed—thanks to the appellants to the ' external tribunal'—to immediate extinction. Even persons who have lately come into a position to distinguish themselves in this self-respecting way have been preferring claims on the ground that had things continued as they were, certain rich bursar ships, &c., might some time or other have been theirs, and that it was not the custom in England to abolish sinecures or even to disappoint expecta tions without compensating the sufferers ! This modest claim, with its adjuncts, would have given to one of the seniors £350, and to another £3OO per annum for seven years, while the five gentle men "next in succession" would have taken respec tively £260, £2OO, £l5O, £lOO, and £5O for the same period. This claim the Government peremp torily refused, and by the refusal what do they declare ? Why, that the Reformers were right, and that the Board which resisted the reforms were wrong. 'And how was the money to have been raised ? Partly, as we understand, by deferring the reforms for two years, and by what is termed within the walls a general squeeze' of every educational outlay, which, of course, would not much contribute to the superiority of Dublin candi dates during the time the screw was on. Nor is this all, though we confess that the next item looks like a draught on the credulity of our readers ; it is stated that certain senior tutors and professors who did not care to accept the two new places called bufferships (value £BOO per annum, wi h next to nothing' to do), on the agreeable ground that they are just as well off at present--that these disinterested tutors and professors had the coolness to ask compensation for their self-denial ! This sounds so incredible that we shall be happy if, for the honour of the College, any of our Dublin con temporaries can assure us that it is not true ; but until then we must continue to believe it. Govern ' ment, notwithstanding its hardheartedness in re fusing to comply with their application, allows the two new senior Fellows, Dr. Hart and Dr.Toleken, to retain for a year their respective offices of bur sarship and senior lectureship at the old figures of £l,BOO and £6OO respectively—the incomes after that to be reduced to their normal state of £5OO and £3OO. The senior fellowships which these gentlemen hold are worth £1,200 a-year, so that they won't be badly off even when the year is out." DREADFUL MURDER IN CLARE. A letter dated Kilkee, Friday evening, and pub lished in the Clare Freeman, says— " A shocking murder has been perpetrated in this locality. Charles Clancy, son of Constantine Clancy, of Tullebar, about four miles from Kilkee, was shot dead last night within a few yards of his own house.:. His brother and cousin were in the house, and on hearing the firearms ran out, and saw deceased staggering towards them, crying out, I am murdered f lam undone !T lie died on being brought into the honk, Head-constable Maguire, of Kilkee, was there soon after, and extracted several large slugs from the wound. An inquest will be held to-day. This bloody deed has caused great sensation in the neighbourhood. Various causes are assigned for it ; but nothing is yet known with certainty. Some say it was about land, and others say that it was in reference to a brother's marriage portion. Strong suspicion rests upon some members of his family. The deceased bore a good character." THE DEVONSHIRE ESTATES. The Waterford Mail has the following statement in reference to the contemplated disposal of a por tion of the vast Irish estates of the Duke of Devon shire :—" The Duke of Devonshire is (we learn) anxious to lessen the mortgages which hang over the property by the disposal of part of his Irish estates, and wishes to sell the property in and about Bandon, and also that in Youghal and Dungarvan ; but he wishes to retain the Lismore estates, the castle, and the property which extends towards Tallow and along into the county Cork. The trus tees of the late Quentin Dick would purchase the entire property if it were for sale, and they have actually offered £1,000,000 sterling for the entire 'property, which would be rather over 20 years' purchase on the rental." EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. A morning paper (the Express) publishes a let ter from Tralee, dated Saturday evening, giving the annexed account of the explosion of the boiler of a steamer, followed by the loss of life and other casualties :—" While the steamer the Weasel, which has been employed for some time as a tender be tween the Canal Basin and the Samphier Roads, w here the Limerick and London Steamship Com. pany's vessels anchor, was in the act of towing a schooner from the Samphier up the Channel, a little before nightfall, the boiler of the steamer exploded, and the fireman, whose name was Hannagan, a Limerick man, blown away, or, it may be, still locked up in the engine -room, as the vessel sunk about three feet, and shortly after went down en tirely. The captain's son was blown into the water with some others of the crew, but picked up by the schooner's people, several of whom were severely injured by the splinters of the Weasel. She was returning from Limerick, where she had been re paired, and was the property of shareholders in this town, in connexion with the Limerick Com pany, whose vessels by their connexion with this port for the last year have been doing a very good business. She cost £1,200, and was bought on the Clyde a short time since, and I am glad to find that she is insured. Further particulars cannot be ob tained this evening." POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Oct. 25. MANSION-HOUSE.—John Gardner and Wm. Payne, labourers, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having committed a desperate assault upon Police-constable J. T. Hassett. Gardner's head was covered with adhesive plais ter. When the case was called on the inspector on duty handed to the Lord Mayor a medical certifi cate, which stated that Hassett was confined to his bed with fractured ribs, and would not be in a condition to attend at the Mansion-house for some days. G. Silverton said—l am a labourer. On Satur day night, about 12 o'clock, I was in Fish-street, and saw the prisoner Gardner and a cabman fight ing. Hassett, the constable came up, and the cab man said to him, " Take him off." Gardner then got up, and the cabman said, " Why don't you punch him ?" The policeman replied, " That's not my business ; that's yours. All I want is that you should go away." Some one then took Gardner away, but the cabman remained in defiance of the policeman, and said that if Gardner returned he would smash him. At that moment Gardner came back, and the policeman said to him, " Then you won't go away." The cabman stood aggravating Gardner to strike him. The policeman shoved Gardner into King's Head-court twice, when Gard ner returned and struck him. He and the police man then had a scuffle together up and down, which lasted about ten minutes. I did my best to prevent the mob from crushing the policeman. When the policeman found he was beset by so many he drew his truncheon and struck Gardner on the head with it. Gardner was smothered with blond. I took him away from the policeman, but he would return. The policeman's rattle was broken, and his hat was knocked to pieces. Three officers came up when the policeman and Gardner fainted—one on one side of the road, and one on the other. The whole of the row was caused by the cabman, who sent his cab home by another man in order that he might prolong the disturbance. The Lord Mayor—You must bring the cabman here. Silverton—lf the cabman had gone away when the policeman ordered him to do so nothing of this sort would have taken place. Gardner—lt was not my fault at all ; the cabman struck me first, and the policeman knocked my head almost to pieces with his truncheon. Payne—l had nothing at all to do with the row. I merely fell over the pohceman, and was then given into custody for assault. The Lord Mayor—Both prisoners will be re manded, but, as no charge at present has been proved against Payne, I will take his own recogni sance for his appearance on a future day. The Lord Mayor requested the press to acknow ledge the receipt of the following sums for Frances Johnston P. C. B. P.," £1 ; " Junius," ls. ; collected by Mr. Westron in the coffee-room of the Elephant and Castle, Whitechapel, BOW-STREET.—Thomas• Bugg, a stableman, was charged with committing a rape on the person of Ellen Hopkins, a girl under 12 years of age. Mr. Cooke applied for a remand, in order to ob tain more accurate evidence as to the age of the girl. Remanded accordingly. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.----Samuel Tibbs, a student, No. 9, Finsbury-place South, was charged by one of the park-keepers with indecently assault ing a young girl in liensington-gardcn.:. Wilcox, a constable of the gardens, said that he was on duty about 1 o'clock yesterday, when he saw the prisoner decoy a girl, apparently under 10 years of age, beneath some trees, and then take indecent liberties. He went towards them, upon which the prisoner jumped up and ran off. He pursued and took the prisoner, and in the meantime the girl ran away. When the prisoner was stopped he offered the constable a bribe to let him go. The prisoner, who appeared - Co be dumb, wrote that the girl was a consenting party. Mr. Beadon said he must enter into his own re cognisances to keep the peace for 12 months. WESTMINSTER.—Ann Orrin, a miserable looking girl, 14 years of age, was charged with begging. Mr. W. Willoughby, a gentleman residing in Victoria-street, Westminster, proved that defendant accosted him on the previous night, and followed and so importuned him for alms that he gave her into custody. Mr. Arnold put some questions to the accused, who said that her mother died six years ago in Whitechapel Workhouse, leaving her to the care of her father, who had absconded andleft her either to beg or starve. She was told that she belonged to St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and applied there, but was informed that she must bepassed by the White chapel authorities. She had lived for the last three months at a common lodging-house in Pye-street. She had an aunt in Camberwell, who had kindly got her a place some months ago, which she was obliged to leave from illness. . _ Mr. Arnold told her she'must not beg, but apply to the parish, and to the magistrate of the district if admittance was refused her. The worthy ma gistrate then inquired whether she thought her aunt would now receive her. On the poor girl replying► that she thought she would, Mr. Arnold sent a constable with her to Camber well, and directed him to use all the influence he could with the aunt to induce her to receive the accused. WORSHIP-STREET.—Harriette Wilson, a thick-set powerful woman of 40, who was said by the police to have been imprisoned nearly 200 times within the last nine years, chiefly for violent as saults and smashing expensive windows, but once also for felony, was charged before Mr. Hamlin with the following outrage : A person named Piper, foreman to Messrs. Lynes, tailors in Bishopsgate-street, was perched on the top of a tall pair of steps at 8 o'clock in the morn ing, cleaning his employers' windows, when he saw a woman run rapidly across the road, and the next moment felt himself grasped by the legs by her, and a most determined attempt made to pull him off the steps. He was not long in discovering that his assailant was the prisoner, against whom seven months before he had been obliged to appear as a witness at this court, when she was sentenced to six month's imprisonment. One of the shopmen, named Rayncroft, who came to the rescue of the witness, was immediately set upon by the prisoner, who was so enraged at being thwarted of her vengeance upon Piper, that she fixed her teeth into Rayncroft's arm and bit it severely. A constable came by at the moment and secured her, but she was taken away swearing she would be hung at Newgate for Piper, and that she would have vengeance upon him the very first time she could meet him. The prisoner in a dogged tone said that she had threatened Piper's life, and that she had meant it. The magistrate, for the assault on Rayncroft, sen tenced her to pay a penalty of £5, or in default to be imprisoned for two months in the House of Cor rection ; and the prisoner vindictively said to him, " That's kind of you, isn't ? I have just come out of prison] for six months, and now you send mo tor two more. You may you live for ever a life of misery !" She was removed by the gaoler, cursing shockingly, and while passing the fireplace made a struggle to get at the poker, but her pur fortunately scen preventedandee thathis i life had po A se lr w . Piper as said hedid not f safe while this w oman was at l arge ; she threatened him so vindictively that he felt assured she would assail him the first chance she had, and he wished to swear his life against her. The magis trate thought that was not the time, while she was in such a state of mind, to take that charge. Sub sequently Mr. Piper repeated his fears, and asked that she might be bound o ver f or his protection. The prisoner, who conducted herself in the most violent manner, both by gestures and language, was ordered to find two bail in £2O each to keep the peace towards the complainant for 12 months after the expiration of the previous two months. On hearing thi s , s h e l ooked fixedly at the magis- . trate, and slowly and deliberately exclaimed, " The first time I meet you I will stick a knife into you !" She then caught hold of the witness-box, and clung so tenaciously to it that the gaoler had the greatest difficulty in dragging her away from it, and, even when locked up in the cell, she kept yelling, her imprecations and threats of vengeance at in tervals until she was removed in the van. CLERKENWELL.—Jane Kerteles, the wife of Thos. Kerteles, residing at 32, Felix-terrace, Liver pool-road, was charged with stealing £5O, an*, number of articles of wearing appall belonging to Henry Ansell, a marine store deal' ?.2 e, living in Chapel-place, Liverpool-road. Mr. Vesey appeared for the prosecu on, and Mr. John Wakeling for the defence. The prisoner, who has been for soi ne time liVing apart from her husband, has until a s port time since been cohabiting with the prosecut( nr, a man nioe than double her age. According to the statement of the prosecutor, the prisoner w Is well aware where he kept his money, and one m :turning she in formed him that she had had a mo. s t remarkable dream about his daughter, who is: an inmate of Colney-hatch Asylum, and that she -; vas sure that the daughter was either ill or dead. 1.7 he prosecutor, upon hearing this went to Colney-h:n tch, and upon his return the prisoner had gone ay. ay, locked up the place, and, as he alleged, taken aNi - ay the money and goods stated to be stolen. Not h ing more was seen of her for some tim9, until the prisoner, hear ing that the police were after 1 Ler, came to this court, and, having written to the prosecutor, gave herself up. Mr. Wakeling cross-examined. lir) prosecutor at some length, and elicited from hi7al the fact, that when:he purchased the household [;oo ds of the pri soner's husband he commiserated h br, and said he would behave as a father to her. Tile prisoner had lived with the prosecutor twice. Mr. Wakeling' then commented in strong terms up on the conduct or the prosecutor, upon which Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had great ih oubts upon the matter, and at once discharged the I Prisoner. THAMES.—Mr. Clubb, a coope3r, residing in Limehouse, appeared before Mr. Yea. dley on a sum mons obtained at the instance of the Limehouse District Board of Works to show cause why he should not pay the sum of £l9 3s. 3d., being his proportion of the expenses of paring Northey street, in the parish of St. Anne, Lin "choose, under the jurisdiction of the Board. John Scott, inspector of nuisances in the Lime house district, said that Northey-std .et was paved in 1856. Mr. Clubb was the own er of several houses there, and the bill for paving- was delivered to him in April, 1857. Mr. Clubb, in defence, said that ,he was not in a position to dispute his liability, bu t that he had an objection to the amount, which ms very un reasonable and very heavy. Mr. Ratcliff, in vindication of the Board of Works, said that one-thirdof the cost had been paid by the Board out of the parish rates.. The defendant said that his how Aes were mort gaged, and that his circumstances ?r,ere such that he could not pay the money. Mr. Yardley—You ought not to, speculate in building houses if you cannot afford to pay for the paving of the street in which they t tre situate. The defendant made an offer to p ay the amount claimed by instalments of 255. per r month. Mr. Ratcliff—The money has be an owing since April, 1857. - - Mr. Yardley—Could you not agree to any com promise, or to the money being paid by instal-* ments ? He should simply make .3.31 order for im mediate payment of the sum claimed, and if the Board asked for a minute of that order, and re quired a warrant to enforce paymtz,nt, he should grant one. He asked if costs were demanded in this case ? Mr. Ratcliff—No, sir, as the defen ilant is so poor the Board will not ask for costs. We. shall be satis fied with £l9 3s. 3d., the amount apportioned on the defendant. Mr. 'Yardley told the defendant that the Board had acted very leniently, and that if costs had been asked for he should have given them,. HAMMERSMITH.—CharIes Stevens,aged nine years, who was dressed as one of the shoeblack brigade, was charged with letting cdf fireworks in the public streets. _ _ Police-constable Warren, of the T division, said that about 9 o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty on Notting-hill, when several o f the inhabit ants complained of boys letting off fireworks in Ux bridge-street. He went there, and after waiting a few minutes he saw the prisoner ;ht a squib and throw it into the air. Witness the a took him into custody. The prisoner had nothing to say, and Mr. Ingham told him that he roped he would caution all his companions that they would not be allowed to let off fireworks on the sth of Novem ber, and that those who were caught would be se verely punished. As the prisoner was a very little boy he should only impose a small fine—namely, 2s. Gd., or seven days. The mother at once paid the money, and straight way commenced boxing her son's ears. COUNT.RY MARK-STS. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—OcT. 23. There was a liberal show of wheat from the farmers to day, and transactions were limited at a decline of is to 2s per qr. Not much doing in foreign wrcels, of which the arrivals are fair, and prices remain about the same as last quoted. A steady inquiry for good malting parcels of bar ley, but all other kinds is to 2s per qr. cheaper. Malt in limited request. Other articles unchanged. Wheat...... 4ss to 50s Oats.. .. . . —s to White .45s to 50s Beans ... ... 44s to 46s Barley .29s to 38s Peas .............38s to 409 YORK—OCT. 23. The supply of wheat from the growers was good, and although an attempt was made to buy at a reduction, the farmers succeeded in obtaining last week's prices. Barley of fine quality maintained fbrmer rates ; indifferent sorts nearly unsaleable. Oats easier to buy. There was very little alteration in beans. White wheat, new, 48s to 49s Barley, grinding .. 28s to 300 Red do. 4os to 44s Oats, old, 24s to 30s Old white 4Bs to 49 s N ew do 24s to 30s Red do. 40s to 44s I Beans... 4Bs to Barley, malting.. 32s to 34s Peas . 46s to 623 COLCHESTER—OcT. 23. We had more wheat on offer ; the best sami•hs were taken at last week's prices, other sorts is cheaper. Fine milting barleys fully as dear; other sorts continue a heavy sale, at very irregular prices. Beans and peas were the same as last week. Wheat, - white 46s to 50s Beans, Mazagan..36s to 40 3 red 40s to 46s I Middle & small 40s to 46s Barley 3os to 46s White peas 44s to 4 65 I Oats 24s to 32s Grey 42s to 453 CHELMSFO Market slow, and wheats 1 prices. Spring corn of all di barley same as last week ; inf quarter. RD—Ocr. 22. barely maintained last week's lescriptions also dull; malting ferior qualities reduced is per Wheat, white....37s to 48s red 33s to 45s Barley 34s to 41s Peas, Partridge . 4ss to 47s White 42s to 44s Boiling 43s to 49s Dun 4ss to 47s Beans, Tick .. . 39s to 41s Harrow Ticks 39s to 43s Mazagan 37s to 40$ Chevalier ....38s to 45s Grinding 28s to 33s Malt 70s to 73s Chevalier 72s to 73s Oats 26s to 36s NORTHAMPTON—OcT. 23 At this market there was a moderate supply of wheat. Good barley maintained its value. In oats there was not much doing. In other descriptions of grain there was very little doing. Red wheat, 40s to 44s ; extra, 46s ; white, 43s ; barley ) 33s to 40s ; oats, 30s to 34s ; beans, 48s to 50s per qr. KIRKALDY—OcT. 23. There has been a limited show of wheat to-day, .which was sold at fully last week's prices. Wheat (0). Barley (0). Oats (0). First.... 33s Od I—s Od —s Od Second.. 46s Od —s Od —s Od Third .. 50s Od —s Od —s Od Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N). First.... 34s Od 26s Od 22s Od • Second.. 42s Od 31s 7d 24s Od Third 48s Od 33s - Od 26s 6d CORK. 1 CT. 23. At this morning's raaricei thcieNvas very little doing in grain, and prices remained without much change. Wheat ....16s to 21s Oats.. lOs to 13 8 White do 20s to 23s Beans, new —s to - -- s Barley ....10s to 16s Ditto, old —s to —"II In the butter market upwards of 2,700 firkins were on sale. Prices—First quality, 104 s; second, 101 s; third, 93 8 ; fourth, 89s ; fifth, 705.; sixth, 50s. •RIRTH S. BOOTIL—On the 22d inst., at Clare-park, Farnham, the wife of George Sclater Booth, Esq.; M.P., of a daughter. HAMMERSLEY.—On the 21st inst.,` at Cork, the wife of Major Hammersley, of a son. HOBART.—On the 24th inst., at 16, Eccleston-square, the Hon. Mrs. Frederic, Hobart, of a daughter. SITIVELL.—On the 21st inst., at 1, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Lady Sitwell, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. GITISON—BAUMBACH.—On the 23d inst., at Parkstone Church, Dorset, Edward Gibson, Esq., of Montpelier square, Knightsbridge, to Margaret, third daughter of George J. Baumbach, Esq.,' Parkstone. Monnis—PßlCE.—On the 21st inst., at Stratford Sub- Castle, James Morris, Esc(., of Surrey Lodge, Penge, to Charlotte Elizabeth, eldegt daughter" of the late Rev. IL Price, M.A., rector of Newton Tony, Wilts. DEATHS. BULLER.—On the 21st inst., at Pound, near Tavistock, Isabella Jane, the eldest daughter of Sir Antony Buller, aged 53. BURTON.—On the 23d inst., Mr. John Burton, of Rose house, Brook-street, Upper Clapton, aged 95. OnAMBERLAINE.—On the 21st inst. at Seend, the Rev. G. T. Chamberlaine, of Keevil, Wiltshire, and rector of Almsford, Somersetshire, aged 81. CLEur.- - -On the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, James ClerYl Esq., Paymaster R.N., aged 70. DENT.—On the 24th inst., at 61, Strand, Louisa, wife of Mr. Frederick Dent. GRAVES:—On the 23d inst., at George-street, Minories, Mr. Thomas Graves, aged 83. GREGORTE.—On the 16th inst., at the Villa Colombaia, Florence, Charles Gre,, ,, orie, Esq., formerly Captain 13th Light Dragoons, aged 67. LoN - DoN : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, Qctober 26, 1868, c. t4 l) ` , ° me 4 urn 44_4(