The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

NETBO.POLITAX BOARD OF WORKS'. A meeting of this board was held yesterday, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. The president, J—Thwaites, Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock. FINANCE. The cash statement for the current week showed a total general balance of £138,218 19s. 3d., which includes the second instalment of £50,000 of the loan from the Bank of England, paid to the trea surer to the account of the board. FINSBURY-PARK. The board received a numerous deputation from the vestry of Islington, to present a memorial on the subject of the proposed new park for Finsbury. The churchwardens of St. Luke, Old-street, also attended to support the memoriamemorialW. Cox, Esq., M.P., addressing the board, sa id that the prayer of the memorial was that th e b oar d should take immediate,action in obtaining the land necessary for the formation of the park. He com plained that a year had now el a p se d s i nce t h e Royal assent to the bill for this park had been given, and that nothing whatever had been done towards carrying the measure out. A very general feeling had gone abroad that the board did not s....riously contemplate doing anything immediately, which had caused very general dissatisfaction to th e in habitants, which was increasing by the knowledge that the board had done something in the matter of the approaches to Victoria-park. The PRESIDENT explained that the cases differed very much. Land and funds had been contributed by individual inhabitants in the latter case and not in the former. Mr. Cox said that this explanation would, no doubt, be satisfactory, and proceeded to urge strongly that if the land was not immediately secured it would continue to be built upon, and the expense of purchasing would be immensely in creased. Mr. SAVAGE moved that the memorial be re• ceived. Mr. Hows seconded the motion, which was car. ried. The deputation then withdrew. THE NEW MEMBER FOR. BERMONDSEY. The President introduced Legg, Esq., the newly-elected member for the district of Ber mondsey. PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS. Mr. Deputy HARRISON brought up a report from the Finance Committee recommending that the board should sanction, in writing, the borrowing by the vestry of St. Pancras of a sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of £B,OOO, for the purpose of paving or putting into a proper state the foot and carriage -ways of portions of the said parish, at a rate of interest not exceeding £5 per cent. per annum, such loan to be secured upon a mortgage or mortgages of such of the rates leviable within the said parish as the said vestry may deem advisable, and as may by law be applicable thereto, and to be repayable within a period not exceeding 20 years from the date thereof. After some discussion the recommendation of the committee was adopted. FLEET VALLEY RAILWAY. Mr. Deputy HARRISON, pursuant to notice, pre sented a memorial from Mr. Charles Pearson, at the instance of the House of Commons' Committee upon metropolitan communications, in favour of the Fleet Valley Railway and City Termi nus , i n con junction with the raising of Holborn-valley and other street improvements, within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and moved that Mr. Pearson be heard, to explain the details of the plan suggested in his memorial, and that it be referred to the Works, &c., Committee, to examine and report thereon. The memorial, which is a lengthy one, was then read as follows : "To THE HONOURABLE THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. " The respectful memorial of the undersigned, Charles Pearson, City Solicitor, formerly Common Councilman for Bishopsgate Ward, and lately M.P. for Lambeth, " SHOWETH,—That during the 40 years he has been connected, as a member or officer, with the Cor poration of London, he has taken a" deep interest in all measures of street improvement proposed within the City and the metropolis at large. " When railways had successfully established themselves in the north of England, and were ap proaching the metropolis, with the intention of fixing their general stations at the outskirts, the undersigned projected a plan for uniting them, by means of branch lines at King's-cross, to a trunk railway leading to a station at Farringdon-street, so as to place City passengers by the northern lines within a walking distance of the great City establishments in a locality bearing about the same relation in point of distance to the centre point of business, and giving the same amount of accommo dation as the London-bridge and Fenchurch-street stations afford to the provincial and suburban pas sengers by their lines. " In 1844-5, the merchants and wholesale dealers of the City petitioned the Common Council to render assistance to the project, and the Court having passed a resolution in its favour, the requi site capital was subscribed, and the necessary Par liamentary notices were given to carry it out," in conjunction with the raising of Holborn-valley and other street improvements in the vicinity, which the Corporation was then able and willing to under take. But two or three of the great railway com panies, and several other projectors, attracted by the advantages which a City Terminus would give to railroads north of the Thames, proposed various other schemes, which, if carried into execution would have occupied nearly one quarter of the City. " Alarmed by the magnitude and multitude of these projects, her Majesty's Government issued a commission to two noblemen, a retired Chancellor of the Exchequer, a military engineer, and the then Lord Mayor, to inquire ants these projects. "The commission was issued at a time when the world was wild with railway speculation, and it was obvious that the inquiry was directed more by financial than engineering considera tions. A report was shortly afterwards made, disapproving of all the plans, and recommending that no railway should be permitted to approach nearer to the City than the junction of the Edgware road and Oxford-road on the north-west, the New road on the north, and the City-road, at the Canal Basin, on the north-east of the City. " The undersigned exhibited his maps, sections, and models, end gave evidence before the commis , sion in support of his plans in conjunction with the requisite street improvements. The commissioners commended the plan in general terms ; but as it extended very far within the prohibited limits, it was placed in the condemned category, and so for a season it was set at rest. The commissioners, however, stated in their report that they had been furnished with but very insufficient materials to enable them to form a conclusive judgment upon the important subject submitted to their considera tion, and they recommended if, upon further expe rience, it should thereafter be deemed expedient to allow railroads to be extended to the City, that it should be done under the supervision of the Cor poration or other local authority, in connexion with street improvements, to be made at the joint ex pense, in just proportions, of the public and the railway company. " In 1855, the undersigned was summoned before tli t e House of Commons, sitting to consider the N' -"t i *4 the City and metropolitan thoroughfares. Thy - , zeral maps and models ex plaining his project were 'Nzain examined in con nexion with the Metropolitan,. ailway, for which an Act of Parliament had at tl time passed, em bracing, with some modification.; considerabis. portion of his original plan. The repu,t That wherever, as for example in the cdst..(d the Metropolitan Railway, works for improving the communication of the metropolis can be carried out by private enterprise, that course be adopted ; and the committee consider that most important results may be secured in this way. That when the im- Partake mor e o f the provements contemplated cha racter of a public benefit than a commercial specu lation, care be taken by such means as econo mising the waste spaces of the river, or opening new streets through poor neighbourhoods, to di- Minish the cost of the undertaking to the lowest possible point ; and that where the fore going objects can be more efficiently carried out by the combined agency of railways and street im provements suggested by Mr, Pearson, it may be desirable to economise expenditure by uniting the two objects under the superintendence of the tended Metropolitan Board of Works, as recom mended in the Railway Commissioners' Report of 1846, referred to in the evidence of Mr. Pearson.' " The oral and documentary evidence adduced before the committee conclusively proved that the population'of the metropolis had more than doubled during the preceding 40 years ; that the overcrowded state of the courts and alleys in which the poor re sided, and the overcrowded state of the thorough fares of the metropolis, and particularly of the City, had advanced of late years with a constantly accelerating, rate of increase. " The number of hackney carriages Plying in the streets was, in 1821, only 1,000, the same number as in 1768. Since 1821, the number constantly plying has increased to upwards of 4,700_,,, m _ buses, which were unknown thirty years ago, make upwards of 10,000 journeys a day through th e streets of th e me t ropo li s. The gigantic vans which are' now traversing Our streets were like.wise, till recently, unknown ; and it is a fact observable to all, that the stoppag e in our principal thorough fares occasioned by this confluence of traffic, light and heavy, renders it unsafe for any man who has an appointment to keep, to trust himself to a car riage conveyance through any of our principal streets. " The undersigned repeats, with increased ear nestness and confidence, what he has been for the last twenty years frequently asserting, that these evils will go on increasing until the business of our principal streets will be forced into other channels, unless measures be taken to give the means of rail way communication both for passengers and goods, from, to, and through the City, the heart's core of this constantly extending metropolis. " During the three years -which have elapsed since the date of the committee's report, the under signed has abstained from pressing the subject upon your board's attention, from a knowledge of the difficulties which impede the action of all newly constituted bodies, and of the important questions affecting the metropolitan sewage, to which your attention has been imperatively directed. " Circumstances have, however, recently arisen, which compel the undersigned to grapple with the evils complained of, by again forcing his project upon public attention, as the powers of the Metro politan Railway Company's Act for securing to the public the first instalment ot this great measure of relief, are in danger of dying a natural death, un less means be taken by the Corporation and the Board of Works to render some assistance in the manner referred to in the House of Commons Com mittees', and the Royal Commissioners' reports. "It is understood that your honourable board has referred it to a committee, to consider amongst other street improvements, the propriety and neces sity of getting rid of a serious impediment to one. of our principal public thoroughfares, by raising Hol born-valley, and readjusting to a higer level Far ringdon and Victoria-streets. Such an alteration of the levels would offer great facilities for the traffic to the proposed railway stations in Farring don-street, and it would give great encouragement to the promoters of that undertaking, if your hon ourable board would, by means of that and other surrounding improvements, lighten the burdens which press down the railway enterprise. "It is right to state that the Metropolitan and Fleet Valley Railway and City Terminus, as now proposed, are very much less in their proportions than they were when presented to the public bodies to whose proceedings I have already referred. " When the plan was originally devised, the Corporation of London was out of debt, and had a large income available for the great street improve ments to which the plan in' its larger dimensions would have given rise. The great railway com panies, too, whose vital interests required a City terminus for the use of their most frequent and best-paying customers, had at that time abundance of capital and credit at their command. The under signed does not retract a single expression of his con fident opinion, if the Corporation and the great railway- companies had at that ti me d ea lt w ith the whole matter in a manner worthy of such a great and important interest, and if the Govern ment had not interdicted the introduction of a railroad into the City—a well-paying measure, combining railroad accommodation with street im provements, would have been established in this dull and dreary locality, which for beauty and utility combined, need not have been ashamed to compare with any other city in the world. " Having regard to the altered financial position of the great bodies who were formerly looked to for means to carry the Fleet Valley Railway and Cen tral Terminus into execution according to the ori ginal design, it would manifestly involve a waste of time and energy any longer to struggle against the current of adverse circumstances with which it has had to contend. It has been, therefore, deter mined to make a vigorous effort to carry into imme diate execution the powers of the Metropolitan Railway Acts, by which a comparatively cheap line and station, in the new street north of Holborn valley, may be constructed in such a form as will at once serve to bring both goods and passengers from the northern and western suburbs, and the Great Western and Great Northern railroads, to the City, leaving it to a future period to complete the grand design, by extending it in a subway through the City and over the river, to communicate with the railroads south of the Thames. " The Fleet Valley Trunk Line will, in fact, form the back-bone or first instalment of a system of subway railroads, which, sooner or later, must be adopted to bisect the metropolis from the east to the west, as well as from the north to the south, for the purpose of conveying merchandise, coals, and market goods by night, and passengers by day, from, to, and through the centre of this ever-extending me tropolis, without choking up the main stre e t s . " As has been already observed, the metropolis has more than doubled its population in 40 years ; during the same period public conveyances of vari ous kinds have more than quintupled in number, and there does not appear any good reason for doubting that, during the next 40 years, the same rate of increase will be mai n t a i ne d in the number of the inhabitants; and that the same increased de mand for the means of carriage conveyance would take place, but that it could not be satisfied, be cause of the physical inability of our streets to afford any further accommodation. " By means of subway railroads intersecting the densely-inhabited parts of the metropolis, and by a systematic organisation of the existing and future lines that may be established in the country round London, the metropolis of the empire may progress for centuries, enlarging its boundaries, without in conveniently pressing upon its busy centre. " Railroads, which have been not inaptly termed the thews and sinews of commercial enterprise, and the veins and arteries of social intercommunication, appear to be especially designed to favour the in definite growth of great cities, by relieving them of many of the evils which have hitherto attended their increase. " Regarded in a financial point of view, such a mode of conducting the traffic of a great city, whether undertaken by the public authorities, or by private enterprise, could not fail to be in the highest degree remunerative, whatever might be the amount of the original outlay requited. It is by extensive and costly machinery that quantity and cheapness in every department of manufactures can be obtained. When the density of a given population is sufficient to create a large quantity of passenger traffic, there is no de scr ipti on o f machi nery in the world so well calculated, as a railroad, to illustrate .this principle. Upwards of two mil lions sterling, or nearly £7,000 daily, are expended by the inhabitants and wayfarers of the metropolis, in the cost of omnibuses and cabs, nine-tenths of which amount, it has been ascertained, is absorbed , in the working charges, notwithstanding they pad nothing for the_tear and wear of the streets. Tha at all times, and under all circumstances, a consider. able portion of this expenditure would be required for these purposes in passing from street to street —but that a great present, and still greater future amount would be applicable to the main arterial intercommunication of both passengers and goods, by means of subway railroads, there can be but little doubt. " The undersigned, therefore, prays your honour able board to take into consideration the foregoing facts and arguments, which, with the sanction of the House of Commons" Committee, he has taken leave respectfully to lay before you. " If, as the undersigned has been informed, your honourable board has it in contemplation to confer upon the public the inestimable bonefit of raising Holborn-valley, and re-adjusting the adjacent streets tethe improved levels, the undersigned prays your honourable board to consider your projected improvements in combination with the intended Metropolitan Railway, in order that by united action the greatest amount of public accommoda tion may he obtained at the least possible cost. " "London, Oct o b er 8,1858. CHARLES PEARSON." Mr. PEARSON (who we regret to say did not ap pear in good health) intimated his willingness to attend the committee, and give every information in his power upon the subject, but was not suffi ciently well at present to enlarge personally upon it, and his petition was therefore framed so as to state his views in reference to the matter. 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Ladies' maids understand it all, for it is far easier than needlework or clear starching ; and, though we have heard of one who owned herself beaten by the " procession" of the equinoxes, the whole affair lies within the reach of a village school, from the nutation of the earth's axis to the discovery of the last new planet. The mind contemplates a vast shadowy order *revolv ing worlds, and is satisfied. The truth leaves so little to the imagination, it establishes so impass able a gulf between us and every other celestial body, that minds bred in the school of life and sen timent recoil from this, the cold certainty of solid spheres moving by iron laws. What have we to do with the planet Jupiter, or even our own moon ? Tell us, if you can, whether they are inhabited; what like beings occupy them; how they live ; and if possible, open communication with them. What are they to us, or we to them ? Your discoveries only make matters worse. Desist, and let us imagine what science forbids us to believe. Mean while, thanks to the dull, able men, who, with their cold piercing eyes and subtle algebra, have dis sected this great puzzle, not only have illusions vanished, but the very pageant of the visible heavens has lost its charm. Who knows, or cares to know, the thousand spectacles that astonomer, shepherd, and sailor once watched and waited for The con stellations, the heliacal settings of the chief stars, the planets, their onward and backward paths, the harvest moon, the Milky Way, now brilliant, now turbid, now in many streams, now in one, have become almost hidden lore to us, who know, as we think, the substance of which all the se are shadows. Happily for men of science themselves, to give a motive for further research, and to suggest some thing beyond a mere eternal order, the fact which they discover is ever in advance of the law which they know. As they scrutinise the vacant places of our own system, or project their gaze deeper and deeper into the infinite, they encounter a strange caprice, a wild variety, shapes as fanciful as those of Flora'sowridevising, mysterious movements, and the traces of terrible catastrophes. We see stellar systems, or rather universes, exceeding all our notions of magnitude in the eccentric shape of ringlets, horses' tails, dumb-bells, crowns, discs, and sickles. In our own system, where an eternal law had seemed to prescribe certain planets at cer tain distances, that law is found to have been rudely interrupted by the explosion of one globe into fifty smaller ones. Even the sun itself sug gests the hope, or the fear, of changes affecting its own structure, and the condition of every planet that basks in its rays. We have, then, a celestial history as well as order ; events as well as method. In the noble heavens around us there is not only an eternal present; there is a past, and there is a future. But of all these changes and events, portentous yet welcome, there is none so historical, so fearful, or that so bespeaks a still creative hand, as those wondrous visitors one of whom is to-night, as they tell us, at its brightest and nearest. We all speak glibly of dimensions, and distances,:and velocities ; but as Ariel or Puck is to. slow mortal man, so is this heavenly sprite to the vulgar rank of planets. As he has been seen for several nights past, with his head in the latitude of Arcturus, vertical to Jamaica or Bombay, he has flung a stream of light to a latitude vertical to the northern part of this island. Even in this hazy atmosphere the spectre has been traced to a length of 40 degrees, which, taking distance and angles into acconnt, cannot stand for less than 50,000,000 of miles. But when we ask who and what this is,—what is his sub stance, his work, and his law, all are at fault. Astronomers, new and old, materialists, and mystiO cists, mathematicians and nurserymaids, medieval sign -mongers and modern philosophers, are all re duced to one rabble of guessers. When they have made head and tail of it their discoveries come to a standstill. What is a comet ? By numerous tests it has been found impossible to detect any weight in it sufficient to affect the motions of a planet or a satellite. But for this we should have had our own - "-ear frequently lengthened and shortened to such an extent as to throw all our chronology out of gear, and supersede the almanac as much as a dis solution does our " Parliamentary Companion." Our shadowy visitors themselves pay the pro foundest homage to our superior gravity; they bow to this planet, they linger for that; they hasten to another ; with a series of weak compliances, they change their speed, their orbits, even their winter quarters in the extra-solar heavens. By all the time, in our dull material pride, we budge not one inch of our state or our progress for these charlatans of space. Yet the nucleus must have gravity, for how else would it gravitate or retain hold of its tail, if, indeed, it does ? Is the tail solid or hollow ? Is there any portion of it dense enough to shut out the light of the smallest telescopic star ? Even that is doubtful. Yet the bulk of the head itself is sometimes immense-4.a million of miles across. As for the tail, it defies all theories of gra vitation, of light, or of heat. Is it a flame ? Is it a smoke ? Is it a steam ? Is it a bubble ? Is the whole affair a balloon, of which the nucleus is the car ? Does that stream of light shoot out, as they tell us, at the rate of ten millions of miles a-dc.y, return to the parent stock, or is it left behind ? Does it precipitate itself, as some say, back again on the outward-bound nucleus ? Is it a mere illu sion ? We hear a good deal of the heavenly archi tecture and celestial mechanism. Is it compatible with our notions on those points that a column of imponderable matter fifty millions of miles high should move through space, entire and undispersed, at the rate of two or three millions of miles a-day ? The Comet of 1843, the most wonderful on record, whisked round the sun, close to it, at such a rate that its tail, a million of miles long, described in two hours the half of an orbit equal to the earth's. Supposing the tail to have held together during this process, the extremity of it went over as much space in two hours as we do in half a year, travel ling at the rate of about three miilions of miles in one minute. As this staggers all belief, we must conclude that a good deal of the tail was left be hind, brushed off in nether, if nether there be, while the tail itself was continually restored during those wondrous two hours by fresh issues from the nucleus, which, however, to do that wor k would have to do the somewhat less speed of one hundred million of miles in two hours, or about one million of miles in a minute. Can anybody now pretend that there is nothing to be learnt, nothing more to be discovered in the skies ? It is stated that the periods of two hundred comets have been calculated, which looks rather like a step towards reducing these vagrants to order and civilization. But there is almost always a hitch as to the actual return of a considerable comet. Either it does not come at all, or it comes so overdue that people hesitate to acknowledge it, or when it comes just at the very.nick of time it has changed its character so much that its own prophet,, after a most solemn announcement, is afraid to recognize his protege. For a long time it might be said there was no comet in the sky. Except the tail of that of 1843, seen by a few fortunate observers, We have had none of any importance since 1811. So, now is the time to attack this wondrous problem. What is a comet ? Does it come to drown us in a deluge, to shroud us in blight, to sadden us with fog, to quicken us with fresh oxygen, or to burn us with fire? Be thou spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from Heaven, or blast. from Hail, Be thy intents wicked or cha r it a bl e ? We trust science will set to work to question the nature and office of these fair apparitions. We cannot willingly believe harm of them. Ten yards of low earth mist would utterly extinguish the twinkle of any star in the firmament, yet on Tues day night Arcturus glittered through .a million miles of comet tail, not only with no reduction of his brilliancy, but with a mar k e d i ncrease, and with bright prismatic hues. What if we were to be involved for a few minutes, or hours, in so pure an atmosphere ! Our only fear is that it would never be able to penetrate through this thick overcoat of coarse terrene atmosphere. Possibly, however, we may have to add to our scientific facts a brush or two from the tail of a comet. Venus on the 17th of this month will have a narrow escape from the embraces of this celestial visitor. Had he come five days earlier he would have rushed straight into her arms. What a - warm admirer for a virgin planet P The astronomers talk in their usual posi tive tone as to our security from this danger, and tell us the odds are we forget how many millions to one against it. On the other hand, they compute the number of comets in our system at several millions. To vulgar apprehension the chance of a collision with five million tails, averaging fifty millions of miles, dancing all sorts of pirouettes within the contracted space of the earth's orbit, does not seem so slight. We rather put our security in the fact that we have come to no harm yet by these mysterious visitations. He who made this beauteous earth, who made sun and moon, made comets also, and made , them•for our good—not our ill.—Times, POLICE INTELLIGENCE— Oct. 8 MANSION-HOUSE.---Thom as Jones, who had been remanded upon the charge of stealing a watch from the person of Mr. J. Messenger, of Germans villas' Lewisham, was agai n b roug ht b e f ore the Lord Mayor. The evidence was to the effect that while thepro secutor was standing on the Onstom-house Quay on Friday last, looking at the shipping, the prisoner approached him, and, after standing by his side for a moment, tore his watch from the chain. The pro secutor felt the tug, and accused him of having robbed him, and the watch was then found lying at the prisoner's feet. A mob soon collected, an 2. the prisoner tried to escape, but Allum, the con stable belonging to Billingsgate-market, arrived at the moment, and took him into custody. The prisoner, when placed at the bar yesterday, admitted his guilt, and said he was sorry for what he had done. Smith, a police-constable, said that some months ago the prisoner was in custody on a charge of rob bery at Epsom, but was acquitted for want of suffi cient evidence. The Lord Mayor—Have you brought anybody here to speak to your character ? Prisoner—No, my lord; I have tried in vain to get into the Brixton or Westminster Reforma tories. The first was full, and I was not old enough by half a year to be admitted into the Westminster one. The Lord Mayor—How have you got your living of late ? Prisoner—To tell the truth, I've lived for years by thieving. I am very ill at the present time, and don't know what to do with myself. The Lord Mayor—l have received information that you are ill. I shall commit you to Holloway gaol for three months, and I have no doubt when you are taken there you will be placed in the infir mary. When you come out of prison I hope you will enlist in the army. Have you ever tried to enlist ? Prisoner—No, my lord. The Lord Mayor—Then I advise you to try that. The prisoner was then committed for three months. The Lord Mayor requested that the press would acknowledge the receipt of the following donations for Frances Johnson :—From I. H. Stephenson, 1/. ; a few friends at Campbell's S co t c h a l e stores, Beak street, 2/. ; "M." (Brighton), 2/. ; "A Friend to the Unfortunate," 1/. ; "F. L.," 10s. ; "R. D.," 1/. ; Stephen L. Lucena, 21. ; Heywood, Kennard, and Co. ' 51.; "A. 5.," ls. ; Pier H o t e l, G reenw i c h , 11.; " A Father," 3/. ; George Forrest and Son, 1/. ls. ; " Advena," 10s. ; Major Henry Lyster, per Mr. B. Scott, 1/. ; " A Father and Three Daughters," ss. ; F. A. Lewis, ss. GUILDHA LL—William Goodwin, a shoemaker, of Rose and Crown-court, Eldon-street, Finsbury, was brought up on remand before Mr. Alderman Phillips, charged with unlawfully appropriating to his own use two 201. Bank of England notes, the property of Mr. Nugent, a shipbroker, of 80, Lon don-wall. On the last occasion Mr. Nugent stated that he lost two 201. notes in Broad-street-buildings, and on procurin g th e num b er o f th em h e advertised his loss. In consequence of the advertisement the pri soner called at the prosecutor's premises, stating that his wife, Mary Goodwin, had found two 201. notes in Broad-street-buildings, and that he was willing to give them up on receiving a suitable re ward, which he fixed at 2/. His demand was, how ever, refused, and a reward of 11. offered to him, which he declined, and left the premises without restoring the notes. Inspector Edward Harding apprehended the prisoner shortly after, and found on him between 51. and 6/. in gold and silver, and on making inquiries into his character he ascer tained he was a very clever workman, but too indo lent to work the whole week. The prisoner accounted for the possession of so much money by stating it was the proceeds of his hard earnings, and added that he gave the notes up to a gentleman he saw at 80, London-wall, at a subsequent period of the day, and that he received a reward of £2. Inspector E. Harding now said that he had not been able to trace the notes, but he had been in formed that the prisoner sold them to a man in the same trade, who sold them again to a Sew dealer. Ald. Phillips said there was no evidence to show that the notes of the numbers stated were ever in the prisoner's possession, and he must therefore be discharged; but if any fresh evidence could be ob tained the prisoner could be given into custody again. MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam M'Carthy, in the employ of Mr. Robinson, a butcher in Salisbury street, Lisson-grove, was charged by Mr. W. Love, chief-constable of the Royal Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following cruel treatment of a horse. Richard Sinclair, an officer of the society, de posed that on the same morning, while in the Marylebone-road, he saw the prisoner driving a horse and cart, and, noticing the very miserable appearance of the animal, he stopped. it. Upen examination he found on various part of its body large wounds which were quite raw, and the har ness was rubbing into them, the horse was ex tremely weak, both of its knees were broken, and it had apparently fallen from exhaustion. Mr. Broughton went to view the animal, which was outside the court, and on his return said that it was evidently totally unfit for work ; the wounds were really shocking. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said it was by his master's orders that he had brought the horse out, and he was perfectly aware of the state it was in, he (Firisoner)• having pointed out to him the wounds. Mr. Love said he believed that the present was one of those cases in which the owner was really the most culpable party, and he begged to call the magistrate's attention to the 19th section of the Act, which clearly gave a justice the power to detain the horse and vehicle as security for the payment of any penalty which might be inflicted. Mr. Broughton, on referring to the act, said he found that such was the case, and inflicted a fine of 20s. and costs ; he should allow the prisoner to go, but the horse and cart would be detained until the penalty was paid. The society's officer took the property away to the Greenyard, there to remain until the fine was paid. Chas. W. Mackintosh, late a private in the Life Guards, was charged, on remand, with having stolen money to the amount of £4O, the property of Mr. Turner, 84, East-street, Manchester-square. Mr. Vaughan, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner took a lodging at the house of the prosecutor about three weeks ago, and suddenly quitted without giving notice of his intention to leave; soon after his departure the £4O was missed from a drawer, and he (prisoner) was ultimately taken into custody by Francis, 72 D. The missing property had not been found. Some additional evidence of a strongly •cireum stantial character against the prisoner in reference to the charge was now gone into. Mr. Weatherall, the governor of Newgate, said that the prisoner had been tried and convicted at the Sessions, and sentenced to two months' impri sonment for forging a certificate of good character, in order to get an appointment in the city police. The prisoner, who, by the advice of his solicitor, said he should re se rve hi s d e f ence, was committed for trial. SOUTHWARK.—John Shackleton, a general dealer of Bermondsey-street, was brought before Mr. Burch= for final examination, charged with receiving 17 raw American hides, value £25 10s., well known the same to be stolen. James Mackintosh, an inspector of the M division, said, that a short time ago he received information that the premises of Fish and Co., fellmongers, Tyer's-gateway, Bermondsey, had been robbed of a quantity of American hides. In consequence of that he went to a warehouse in Black Swan-yard, and there found 11 of the hides, which he took away. The prisoner afterwards came to the sta tion-house and said they belonged to him. Witness said that if such was the case he must take him into custody for the unlawful possession of them. The prisoner then said that he purchased the 11 hides of two seafaring men in the street, and he thought they were all right. He (Mr. -Macintosh) told him he had attempted to sell them to Mr. Macree for 255. each, but that gentleman would not purchase them unless he gave a better account of them. The prisoner replied that such was the case, and he afterwards sold them to Mr. Lewis for £l3. Witness found a memorandum on him to that effect. He then searched the prisoner's house, and found the six remaining hides. Chas. Eversfield, warehouseman to Messrs. Fish and Co., fellmongers, Tyer's-gateway, said that a month ago he stowed away 500 salted American hides. Shortly after that he sold 400, and 17 were missed. He identified the hides produced, and they were worth £25 10s. Henry Hawes, fellmonger, 43, Bermondsey-street, said that he let a warehouse at the rear of his house to the prisoner about three weeks ago, and a week after he saw several raw hides in his shed, and the prisoner asked him if he could tell him where to dispose of them. Witness told him there were plenty of persons who purchased hides, but he did not specify any particular name. 'Witness's premises were about 40 yards from Messrs. Fish and Co.'s. In answer to the charge the prisoner said he bought the hides in a fair and honest manner. Mr. Burcham told him that must be for a jury to consider, as he should, commit him for trial for re. ceiving them knowing them to be stolen. LAMBETH. Michael O'Brien, formerly a labourer employed at the factory of Messrs. Maudsley and Co. and who has been in custody for nearly six weeks on a charge of committing with others a very violent and serious assault on Samuel Ecott, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, for final examination. From the evidence in the case, which was of considerable length, it appeared that on the night of the Ist ult. an oyster shell was thrown into the shop of complainant, which struck his wife, and on his goieig to his door and asking " what was their game," the prisoner and three other men made a violent attack on him. The prisoner was the first to knock him down, and while on the ground he and his companions kicked him violently. When taken up the complainant was found to be in a very helpless state, so much so that it was found advis able to remove him to Guy's Hospital, and on an examination there it wai found that his right leg was broken in two placeeand that there were seve ral severe contusions about his head and face. The complainant, who came from the hospital for the first time, identified the prisoner as the per son who first struck and knocked him down, and Mr. Elliott, considering the case to be one of a serious character, committed the prisoner for trial. COINING TURKISH PIASTRES. (From the Birmingham Daily Post.) On Wednesday night the Greek, Antonio Calvo coressi, who is already committed for trial at the Borough Sessions, charged with the above offence, was liberated on bail ; and the same evening wit nessed the capture, by Superintendent Glossop, of another Manchester merchant, charged with being concerned with Calvocoressi in causing the piastres to be made. The name of the second accused per son is Thomas Moss, aged 66, a merchant in exten sive business at lleathfield, Manchester. From information Mr. Glossop received he thought it his duty to secure Moss, who, he had been informed, had arrived in Birmingham. After a search occcu pying nearly the whole of Wednesday; the prisoner was apprehended at the Wool Pack Inn, Moor street, while at dinner. He at first denied that he was the person sought for, but his identity was afterwards proved beyond doubt. On Thursday the prisoner was taken before Messrs. T. C. Kynnersley and W. Wills, at the Public-office, Moor-street, when the charge was partially gone into. Mr. J. Mottram, barrister of the Oxford Circuit, instructed by Mr. A. Walter, the public prosecutor, and assisted by Mr. G. R. Collis, Turkish Consiil. in Birmingham, conducted the prosecution ; the defence being intrusted to Mr. T. Harding, solicitor. The court was crowded during the evening by a respectable auditory. Mr. Mottram, in opening the case, said he was instructed on the present occasion, as he had been on a former one, to conduct the prosecution on a charge of coining Turkish piastres. The charge on this occasion was preferred against a Man chester merchant named Thomas Moss, and was brought under the same Act of Parliament as the one against Calvocoressi—the 43d of George 111., chap. 139. At that time he (Mr. Mottram) statedthalthe evidence would to a certain extent implicate a gentleman occupying a good po sition in this town. That gentleman, whose name he then forbore to mention, and to whom the evi dence pointed, was Mr. Wood, of the firm of Wood and Sons, who carry on business in Bath-street as merchants. After giving the evidence already ad duced the most careful consideration, he (Mr. Mot tram) felt bound to say that, though there might be some difficulty in fixing a criminal charge on Mr. Wood, his conduct in the whole case had been extremely negligent and culpable. They had not been able as yet to reach all the parties who had originated the transaction, but Mr. Wood, through his solicitor, Mr. Wright, placed in the hands of the prosecution all his letters, books, and papers referring to it, by the means of which they would, at least, reach one of the parties who had been en gaged throughout the transaction. That person was the prisoner Moss, of the firm of Otho, Han son, and Co. ' of Manchester. The evidence al rea dy taken would be again laid before the Bench, and would be further strengthened by the testimony of Mr. Wood himself, who would tell the Bench the part he had taken in the matter. He (Mr. Mot tram) felt bound to repeat that Mr. Wood's con duct had been most negligent, culpable, and indis creet ; but he had been informed that Mr. Wood would tell the Bench that the supply of copper had been forwarded to Dipple after he bad been led to believe that the authority of the Turkish Govern ment had been received for the manufacture of the piastres. Mr. Mottram then called the following witnesses : Mr. Heaton M'Neill, clerk to Messrs. George Wood and Sons, was th. first witness. He said— Otho, Hanson; and f Manchester, corres ponded with our firm. Co., The defendant has called upon us with members of that firm, and without, to order goods. About the 2d o f March I remem ber the defendant and Calvocoressi coming to Messrs. Woods' warehouse. I saw them, and Moss asked me if tokens were made in Birmingham. I replied that they were ; and in order to satisfy them that such was the case, I produced an ordinary token. Calvocoressi then produced what I have since learnt to be a Turkish piastre. Both took part in the conversation, and I was re quested to accompany them to some of the manu facturers. I went first to Messrs. Heaton's, and saw Mr. George Heaton. They produced the coin a g ain to him, and asked f or M essrs . H ea t on ' s pr i ces. Mr. George Heaton weighed the piastre, and gave a rough estimate of the cost of a bulk. Mr. Heaton also said that before they could be made the autho rity of the Government or Finance Minister of the country where it circulated would have to be pro cured. One of them said such an authority was not necessary. Very little passed beyond that ; we then left, and all three went to Mr. George Bow ler's, in Great Charles-street. I introduced the sub ject to bowler, and began the conversation by say ing that we were come to see if he could make any of those coins, the piastre being again produced. I cannot positively say who produced it. Mr. Bowler said he could make them ' • there would no difficulty about that. I then told him the conversation we had had with Mr. Heaton as to its illegality. Mr. Bowler then said, " Oh, if there is anything of that kind, I'll have nothing to do with it." One of them asked Mr. Bowler if the coins could not be made without its being known. Mr. Bowler said " No, seeing that it would have to pass through so many different hands." Nothing further was said, and we then left. We then all three went to our warehouse in Bath-street, by which time Mr. G. Wood was there. After some further conversation - with Mr. Wood, to whom what had taken place had been ex plained, the defendant and Calvocoressi still seemed to think it could be done, and asked Mr. Wood to accompany them again to the same persons. Mr. G. Wood was next called. He said, on the 2d of March I saw Calvocoressi and Moss at my warehouse. My clerk said they had been to Messrs. Heaton's and to Mr. Bowler. As far as I can re member, I was told that they had been to Heaton's to ascertain the price of some copper coin. I believe a written estimate was seat for 9s. 6d. per gross. Mr. Harding here pointed out that there cer tainly was a mistake in the evidence. Mr. Wood went on to say—l believe I saw the estimate. I think it was sent to my warehouse. Thp prisoner Calvocoressi said th e y cou ld _ g i ve an order at 9s, 6d., for -which purpose we went down to Mr. Heaton again.. We first saw Mr. George Heaton, and Mr. Ralph Heaton, jun., also came into the room. I said we would order at the price named. One of the Messrs. Heaton asked if we had a proper authority ? Calvocoressi said he did not think we wanted any authority. A little argu ment then took place as to the necessity of the authority, which ended in the production of Messrs. Heaton of the Act of Parliament, and it was read to us. When that was read I said to them " You see it can't be done, I wash my hands of the matter altogether." We then left. On the way to their hotel, at the bottom of Snow-hill, one of them said he should like to see Mr. bowler again. I said, " Very well, we'll go and see him." We did go, and saw him. I again introduced the subject. Mr. Bowler said he could make any quantity. I told him what had taken place at Messrs. Heaton's as to the necessity for the authority, and he said, if Messrs. Heaton could not make them he could not. He was urged to make them by Calvocoressi. The latter asked if it need be known that they were being made ? Mr. bowler said that, in a manu factory like his, it was impossible for them to be made without its being known. We then left, and I said, " You see it is impossible to get them done without authority ; you must get authority." They said they could easily do so. After that I went with them to their hotel, where I found my clerk, Mr. Neill, waiting outside the door with a parcel of inkstands which they had bought at Mr. Bow ler's. Nothing further took place with me, and I left my clerk with them. That was about the 2d of March, and I did not see either the defendant or Calvocoressi from then until now. On the 10th of March I received a letter from Mr. Moss. It is in the handwriting of the letters I usually . received from Manchester, signed Moss, upon which I have acted for Otho, Hanson, and Co. Hardin; objected that such identificaiion was not sufficient. _ _ M r . Mottram said he could not produce better identifiCation that day. Mr. Harding then said, with the exception of the letter, the Bench had heard the whole case against Mr. Moss. He, did not come again to Birmingham. A witness from Manchester being necessary to prove -tl'A handwriting of Moss, a conversation took place PA t o the day to which the case should be re mandetl, in order not to interfere with the business of the si - !.fisions. It was ultimately decided to ad journ it till Saturday, at 10 o'clock. Bail tt ) the amount of £4OO was accepted for the prison er't ; appearance on Saturday. THE Li.iTE MURDER IN ST. HELEN'S. THE INQUEST. On 'Thursday - morning, at ten o'clock, the inquest was he Id on the body of the deceased Robert Vose, who was killed, under .circumstances of the greatest brutality, on Tuesday morning last. The three prisoners, Patrick Murphy, Hugh M'Cabe, and John Henley, were p resent during the inquiry. They all appear young men, from 19 to 24 years of age. On e only, M'Cab e, worked with the deceased at Messrs. Pilkington's l Tlassworks. He also is the only married man )))))) prisoners. The Peel Arms, where the inquest was held, was surrounded during the day by a largo mob. The first witness called was. • Richard Vose—l am a glassmaker in St. Helens. I Deceased was my cousin, and lived with me in Rigby-street. He was 2'2 years of age, and a glass maker. On Monday night _we went together to the Peel Arms, with Jelin Pemberton and Thomas Heaton, about 11 o'clock. About a quarter of an hour after we went in the three prisoners entered, with Andrew Pullen. I kilow the three first, but not the other man. Son le months ago the deceased found a block which 11 ['Cabe had hidden at the works, and when MT abe came in, he and my cousin began to have words. No blows were struck in the house. I and my cousin started off home about ten minutes past 122 o'clock, as the landlord said it was shutting-up time. Deceased stopped for a necessary purpose, and the three prisoners followed us, and began _fighting with the deceased. I did not see who struck first. Murphy was coming to help M'Cabe, who wafs then on the deceased, but I knocked him down with my fist. I then picked M'Cabe off my cousin, who ran away, and I never saw him . again. A policeman (Thornton) came up, and ran after him. I thought my cousin had gone home, so I went too ; but M'Cabe and Henley got hold of me by the neck, so that I could hardly take my breath ; they dragged: me along to the corner of- Brook-street, M'Cabe shouting " Murder," "Police." An officer came up, and M'Cabe said, " I give this man in charge." But the officer made them leave hold of me. They all three then fol lowed me, and Murphy came running and said he would have my life. I turned the corner more quickly than they did and so got away home. I waited some time for ii;v cousin, but as he did not come I went to bed. Deceased and I had just three glasses of ale each. The crisoners may have had some, but were not all the woi - se for drink. Police-constable Thornton—On Tuesday morning about a quarter to one, I heard erie.s of " Murder," " Police. On arriving at th e P ee l A rms I found the prisoners, with Richard Vose and the deceased, fighting at the corner. There was a strange man, whom I saw in the attitude of striking M'Cabe. He ran when he saw me and I followed him, but he escaped. I returned in about five minutes and found Henley and M'Cabe holding Richard Vose by the collar. Murphy came up behind. M'Cabe said that Vose had kicked him when on the ground. He wanted me to take him in charge, but I refused as I had not seen the assault. This was in Brook street. They.then went again to the Peel Arms corner. Police-constable Stewart came up just as I met the men. I heard M'Cabe say, "I wish I had a hold of Robert Vose for ten minutes," and Murphy said, " He has not done with it yet." Andrew Puller, a collier at Hollinshead, said he knew the prisoners by sight, and was with them on Monday night. After describing what passed in the house, the fighting at the corner, and the running away, he said—l came down to the corner again, but no one was there. I heard a groaning noise, and, on looking about, I found a man lying on his face on the waste ground opposite the Peel Arms. He was rattling in his throat as if he wanted to vomit. I turned him on his back, and went across the road and spoke to a woman, who was standing at her door with a boiler maker. I said there was an old man drunk, and the woman said if a policeman came up he would take him. On going on further, I saw the prisoners talking with two constables. I then went home. I saw nothing of Vose. It was not ten minutes from the beginning of the fight to my finding the man groan ing. [M'Cabe's coat was then produced, and recog nised by the witness.] Police-constable Hodgson—On Tuesday morning, at a quarter to six, I was coming off duty; when I saw a man lying on the slope on the waste ground opposite the Peel Arms. His head was down the slope and his feet about a yard from the kerbstone. He was lying on his.back. I called to him, and gave him a good push with my stick, turning him on to his face. I went down and got hold of his arms, when I found him stiff. I sent to the police station, and police-constable Turner came. We found a great deal of blood on his breast, and a wound below the throat. We carried the body to the Peel Arms, where it has since remained in charge of the police. I found a cap in Westfield street about half-past four that morning. Police-constable Thornton produced a coat, found in M'Cabe's house, in Raglan-street. The coat was torn, and there was a great deal of blood on both sides and on the collar. It was also very muddy. Police-constable Turner apprehended Michael Murphy on Tuesday morning, at his mother's house, in Glover-street, and on searching him found a knife and other articles, also a small handkerchief, much smeared with blood, which seemed quite fresh. Murphy told him that his nose had bled. Police-constable Hoghton on Tuesday morning apprehended M'Cabe at the glassworks. He turned very pale and trembled. Witness helped him on with his coat. He said, "Is it about that job last night ?" Witness said, "It is." As they were going along, he said something about a row, and suddenly asked, "Is he dead ?" Witness had not charged him at all with the murder, or mentioned the deceased to him. On his shirt breast were a few small spots of blood. Sergeant Rowland apprehended Henley on Tues day morning in bed, and asked him if the clothes by his side were those he had on the night before. He said " Yes." There were small spots of blood on various parts. Sylvester Grimes, surgeon—l examined th e b o d y on Tuesday. D ea th had taken place recently. The cuts on the clothes corresponded with those on the body. I found an incised wound running right and left, above the clavicle, about two inches in length, dividing the subclavian artery and vein, and sufficient to cause speedy death. also found an incised wound on the back of the arm, about three inches from th e s h ou ld er . Th ere i s no bl oo d on the knife produced. The Coroner then summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, brought in a verdict of wilful murder against M'Cabe, acquitting the other prisoners. On the way to the police-station M'Cabe tore his hair and cried like a child, the mob hooting him the whole way. Manchester Guardian SHOCKING SUICIDE AT DOVER. DOVER, FRIDAY. . A suicide has just taken place here under very shocking circumstances. Air. Godden, corn and hop factor, of Ashford, the deceased, who was about 30 years of age, has for several months past been a frequent visitor at 25, Snargate-street, a house of ill fame, kept by a person known by the name of Cullen. It is stated that he has been known to take up his abode in the house for several days together. From what can be gathered it appears that he arrived at Dover from • Ashford by the 9.30 train last night, intending to proceed this morning to Canterbury, where he had business to transact. On his arrival here he repaired as usual to the house above described, and there remained the night. What passed during this time is not yet known, but it would almost appear that he was seized with some sudden impulse to commit the horrible deed, as he was shaved and dressed apparently in readi ness for his journey to Canterbury, when his remains were discovered at about half-past 11 o'clock this morning. According to the statement of the people of the house, he was just upon the point of starting, when he returned to the bedroom he had occupied under the pretence of fetching something he had left behind, shortly after which they were st ar tl e d b y a loud report. O n t h e room being entered, the deceased, it is stated, was found weltering in blood, which was rapidly flowing from a wound in the side of his head, just beneath the jaw, which had evidently been inflicted by the de ceased's own hand with a revolver that was lying by his side. Life was then scarcely extinct, bu t before Mr. Barton and Mr. Coleman, the medical gentlemen who were called in, could arrive he bad ceased to breathe. The re vo lver with which the act was perpetrated is a five-chamber weapon, and when it was found the whole of the chambers were loaded and capped, with the exception, of course, of the one which had been discharged. The deceased brought a portmanteau with him from, Ashford, and this was found in the room in which he had slept, but on examination by the police it was found to contain nothing which could tend to throw the slightest light on the melancholy affair. The • coroner's inquiry is to be held to-morrow. CRYSTAL ; PALACE. — HALF -CROW DAY.—Friday, Oct. 4--=Adiiiisaions pn payment, 715; ditto by riettSoll tickets, 420; total visitors, 1,135. SINGULAR REGISTRATION CASE. At the Glasgow Circuit Court, a lady-like youn i i woman, named Margaret Bennet or L ove ll, p l ea ded guilty to fraud o n a registrar, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. As the case did not go to trial, the particulars were not given bilti as we happen to be acquainted with them, they null be stated as follows :—ln February last, a female , who gave her name as Jane Smith, waited upon Mr. Thomson, the registrar for the Hutchesontorlii district, and entered the birth of an infant under the name of John Bennet Wilson, as the' lawful son of John Wilson, a seaman in the merchant service , and of Margaret Wilson, his wife; whose =WO name was Bennet. The woman Smith represented herself as the child's aunt, and she said that it had been born in the district. In due course some hints reached the registrar to the effect that the woman Wilson, or Bennett, or Lovell, had not been married at all ; and this female having been got hold of, she admitted the fact, and went before Sheriff Steele , in whose presence she declared upon oath, that the child, of whoin she was the mother, was illegitimate' and the register . was altered accordingly-_a pro. cess which can only be effected by authority of the sheriff. Anon; more light. breaks upon Mr. Thom' son, the registrar, to the. effect that the young woman was not the mother of the child at all, and that no such person as the merchant seaman existed.' Bennett, or Lovell, was appre: hended, and finally admitted before the cow' that the whole affair was an imposture; It appears that the unfortunate woman haa, entered into a vile a lli ance w i t h a loose man of high station in the city, but as he had latterl shown symptoms of coolness, she conceived that if she could, present to. .him a child as his own, sh e would have a better hold upon his feelings. She accordingly went t o • Edi n b urg h , and commenced operations at the Maternity Hospital there, bS offering £5O for a decent-looking bairn of either sex, although a male child would be preferable. The superintendent did not deal in human stol ,, and rejected the overture with considerable indig; nation. By . -and-bye, however, Bennet discovered that there was a poor woman in the hospital wile had the very article she was in want of, and wb o r did not well know what to do with it. As the one was anxious to get rid of an infant, and the other equally anxious to obtain one, a bargain was struck; and for the sum of ss. the child was transferred to the purchaser from Glasgow. This is the poor infant which has figured twice in the books o f the Hutchesontown registrar. It is now in charge of one of our parochial boards, and nobody knows to whom it really belongs. Such is the brief chapter, of guilt and sham e regar di ng our first crimio registration case.—Glasgow Herald. COUNTRY MARKBTS. LIVERPOOL—OcT. 8. The trade continues in the most lifeless s - tate and in e absence of any de man d o f consequence, prices of all article except prime old wheat, continue to tend downward. Th e weather is stormy and wet At this day's market there 0 1.1 the merest retail demand, at barely Tuesday's rates. O 3 and oatmeal were again i d p er 451 b and 6d 'per load lower? and still a slow sale. In barley, beans , and peas there Wt 4 no change to note. Indian corn was freely offered at ou per qr. less money, without leading to any business worth,' of note. RIPON—OcT. 7. There was an average supply of grain to-day, and a faf, business at the annexe d pr i ces :— Whi te wheat, from u° 6d to 5s 9d per bushel ; red, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; barley, 30s t ° 36s per qr ; oats, 24s to 30s; beans, 58 9d to 6s 3d. WAKEFIELD—OCT. 8. Our supplies of grain continue liberal. The wheat trad!, is firm to-day, and, as supplies are reported to be falling °' in the agricultural markets, factors in some instances cony menced by asking rather more money, but where this Iva; done it checked the sale, except for fine white which 'so' scarce. All other sorts steady at last week' s prices. FL? barley in fair request, at late rates ; inferior parcels are 8 difficult to quit. Beans, oats, and shelling each a dull sale at declining prices. Averages for the week : Wheat 3,984 qrs., at. 44s 11d Barley.-- ... 1,234 ~ 34s 91d Oats B3 „ Beans Peas lO „ 4 28 O Rye » •• • • .....—s Od EXETER. -OCT. 8. We have to report a small supply of wheat at market► and prices ruled about the same as last week : Wheat, white.. 5s 3d to 5s 6d I Barley. 4s Od to 4s 64 ,, A Ditto red 5s Od to 5s 3d Oats 2s 9d to-3s Flour, fine, 30s to 31s ; seconds, 29s to --s per sack. CATTLE.—The market was well supplied with stock, B the attendance was numerous, but business appeared to b a small. Fat beef, p score, lOs to 10s 6d Pork carcases, do 8s to 9s Od Lambs, per lb. Od to Od Rough fat, Ewes, per lb ... Ad to Ocl, Wethers, d 0... „ . 60 to OU, Fat calves, d o , _Mid to 7u 4d per lb. BRISTOL . SUGAR—OcT. 8, The transactions this week are againona limited scale , and prices are rather lower. Refiners' produce also cow tinues extremely dull of sale at barely former quotations' Rum firmer, and more inquired f or , an d th e recent arrival 6 will probably meet an early sale as soon as the samples Al l ready for the market. COAL MARKET—Om 8. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.) Tyndale W. Hartley, 14s. 6d. ; Haswell Gas, —s. N.; Hartlepool West Hartley, —s.od.; West Wylam, — s . 0c1.; Moor, —s. Od. Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s Od.; Wy1.0 1 ; 14s. 6d. ; Walbottle Hartley, —s. ; By ass ' s B e b s id e We rt Hartley, —s. Od.; Walker Primrose 135.; Holywell,l4s ". Buddle's Wst Hartley, — s . Od. ; West Tanfield, 13 s . ocl• Birchgrove Graigola, —s. ; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. a ; Gawber Hall Hartley, —s. Od. ; Nixon's Duff/7n, — s .ocl.; Powell's Duffi-yn Steam, 21s. Od. Walls End—Hetton Lyons, 16s. 6d. ; Byron, —s. Oct; Hunwick, —s. Od. ; Whitworth, 14s. 6d.; Shineliffe, Od.; Haswell, —s. Od. ' • Hetton, 18s. 6d. ; Cas so p, Northumberland, —s. Od ; Lambton, 18s. Od. ; Whari r eliffe, —s. Od. ; Kepler Grange, —s. Od. ; Tees, 18 s . 603. Russell's Hetton, 17 s . 6d. ; H ar t on, 16s. 6d. ; Drybuill Grange, —s, Od ; Heugh Hall, .16s. 9d. ; Riddell, 16s. Od. . Ships at market, 40 ; sold, 38. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-OCT. 8. Owing to absence of business the market was dull to-dal , and closed with hardly any change in price. Birkenhead* 671 B—Blackburns, 11 - Caledonians, 851 6 Cheste r and Holyhead, 371 81—Eastern Counties, 121 9-1 6- ":„ East Lancashire, 931 i--GreatWestern, 54 I—Lancashu; and Yorkshire, 941—London and North-We s t erns , 91a B Sheffield, 35 I—Midland, 98 4 1 —North British, 571 Berwicks, 944 s—York an d North Midland, .n 4Leeo: Northern, 481 9—Dovers, 22 1-16 I--Dutch Rfienish, 3i dis.-Grand Trunk of Canada, 91 I—Great Western °f Canada, 181'1. • MANCHESTER-OCT. 8. - --•— The transactions were very few in number, but there we, io change in pri ce . N or th S tafford, 41 dis.---Dover, -16—Sheffields, Ml—North British, 57. BIRMINGHAM-OCT. 8. - -- The closing prices in this market to-day were—L o ndoll and North-Westerns, 91f 92—Great Westerns, 53 1 to 6 1 1 Midlands, 69 to 71—North Staffords, 4 dis. LEEDS— OCT. 8. The market to-day continues much the same as yester day. The .sales have been at the following prices North-Western, 10 /—London and South Western, 95. - V Midlands, 9 8—North Britsh, 561-. _ADVERTISEMENT.] —HOLLOWAY'S PILLS SINGULAna EFFICACIOUS IN CURING} LIVER COMPLAINTS.—Mrs• Bebbington, of Park-street, Hulme, was afflicted for a v erY long time with liver complaint, palpitation of the heart, ol d pains of both shoulders, headache, giddiness, loss of appe tite, and want ,of sleep, together with other signs of d l6- order of the nervous system, for which she took almost every medicine generally recommended in such cases ; but deriving no benefit from them, she determined to giv e Holloway's Pills a trial, and, by persevering with them for,. a feiv weeks, she h as b een restored to a perfect state 0 , health, which she still continues to,enjoy. Printed direc tions for the use of these pills are affixed to each box. BIRTHS. , BARXER.—On the 6th inst., at Eton House, H am p s tead, the wife of W. S. Barker, Esq., of a son. BUNYON.—On the 7th inst., at 4, Queen's-terrace, the wife of Charles John Bunyon, Esq., of a daughter. KEMP.—On the 7th inst., at Castleton-hall, Rochdale, the wife of G. T. Kemp, Esq., of a daughter. Roan.—On the Bth inst., at 10, Ch es t er-square, the wife of Captain Robb, R.N., of a son. MARRIAGES. GinnoN—JA.comß.--On the 7thinst., at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Septimus Gibbon, Esq., M.D., of 3; Finsbury-square, to Janet, the eldest daughter of Thomas Jacomb, Esq., of 11, Lansdowne' terrace, Notting -hill. HUGHES — LER:mini—On the 7th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Finchley, Major Spicer Hughes, 84th Regt., to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of J. Lermitte, Esq., of Finchley. DEATHS. Esq., formerly of Rio de Janeiro, age d aged 79. BATE.— On Carolinestohpeh T a t h n i a n t s e t , , w i a d t wTudor the Lodge,latlate BIRKHE • R B i ri ch z a to rd n, BMartse; AD —On the 7th inst., at Hans-place, Sloane-sty Benjamin Birkhead, Esq., aged 78. CANTWELI..—On the 6th inst., at 25, Wimpole-street, Ca vendish-square, Robert Cantwell, Esq., aged 66. FRASER.—On the 12th August last, at Mussoorie, Colonel Hugh Fraser, C. 8., Bengal Engineers, late Commandant at Agra, and officiating. Commissioner for the North- West Provinces of India. GREEN.—On the 6th inst ,at Porthill House, Bengeey Herts, Thomas Green, Esq., aged 77. HURLSTONE.—On the 2d inst , Jane, wife of F. Y. Hurls tone, Esq., of Chester-street, Grosvenor-place. SAnmoN.—On the 6th inst., at Woodbridge, Suffolk, Mr. John Salmon, aged 56. ,ONDON : 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, Saturday, October 9, 1858.- any ti and tip Not Revs aonal Sect of trak Port tained to TR Z Rani TILE / Ea The COMPA Aricn i , Comp ai t eed an eurance di Lions . ei4nts toz e th l 'roPosa ,nPPIy tc "alPan •• 7 , - Ban INTE 'Boc tatablis Grace_ Society statidino Of grace: payment the office - 11 PAnliowei sußvr Vir. Kenn Samuel John Ellis P.R,s. Profess J. Ellic Ilessrs. G The flea in May, 17 PoEey taken outin ...---- 18,18 1841 1845 1848 1851 The folic Internatic The Soc Two-thi. elr Ita-ery five subs( Its inve amounted Its annu The nu , About o Since itE ti k,wards pi or pros Chan,' Ties 1 Th from and *Prim Willi Ovt, Lieui 1L Swyr ASe ether 11a] aßain terest Par World Wiry the oi