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THE GLOUCESTER ELECTION COMMISSION. SHIREHALL, GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY. Commissioners, James Vaughan, Lucius Henry Fitzgerald, and Richard Griffiths Welford, Esqrs. Secretary, Mr. Coleridge . The Court resumed the inquiry at 10 o'clock this morning. The first witness called was Mr. Geo. Moffatt, formerly M.P. for Ashburton, who was examined as to the interview at the Re form Club in London, spoken to by Mr. Wilton. At that interview Mr. Surrell, Mr. Monk, and Mr. Wilton were present, and Mr. Price during a por tion of the time. The deputation represented to Mr. Monk that Sir R. Carden was very unpopular in Gloucester, and. that if he would come forward as a candidate he might be elected for £1,200 or £1,500. Nothing was said as to how the money was to be spent. They said they believed that a large sum of money had been spent by Sir R. Car den in bribery. About the 10th of April he re ceived a letter from Mr. Price, in which he said he • believed money would be required for preliminary expenses, £5OO, and he would be glad to have it got ready by the time ;the agent for Mr. Monk was appointed. His (Mr. Moffatt's) impression was that something was said about sending down the money—the sooner it was sent down to Gloucester the better. He was rather pleased that the com munication should come from Mr. Price, as being a man of experience, and not likely to misapply the money. On the receipt of the second letter, I had sent the cheque for the money to Sir W. Hayter, and on a receipt of the letter he - .sent an order to deliver the cheque. The amount was £.500 ;it was a cheque on Mr. Ralli, Mr. Monk's father-in-law, to pay the bearer the £5OO. Mr. Price .'lad re quested that the cheque should be sent to Sr W. Hayter, and he accordingly sent the cheque' to Sir W. Hayter for the money to be applied, according to Mr. Price's approval. The person who was to take the money to Gloucester was Richard Thompson. He came to witness with a note from Sir W. Hayter, who described him as a trustworthy person to convey the money to Glocester. Did not destroy the note ; saw it two months ago, and most likely could find it among his papers. It was about 10 days before the elec tion that the transaction took place. Never under stood that that money, or any portion of it, would be required for any other than the legal expenses. Mr. Commissioner Vaughan—Were you not under an impression to believe that any portion of that money would be spent for the purposes of bribery ? Witness—l had no reason to believe that it would; on the contrary, I believed that it would be properly applied, as it would be applied at Mr. Price's in stance. The Commissioner—l suppose you are aware that all payments snould be made through the auditor? Witness—l certainly ought to have known that fact, as I assisted in passing that act, but until your secretary, Mr. Coleridge, reminded me of it a short time ago I was not aware of it. The witness then said lie was not aware until he read the evidence on the Glocester petition how the £5OO had been ap plied. Some time early in June application was made to him by Mr. Wilton for money to pay Glo cester election bills, and he then obtained from Mr. Ralli £2OO, and sent it to Mr. Wilton. Witness had heard that there was another sum of £2OO sent to Glocester to another Mr. Wilton, of which sam £BO • had been disbursed, and £l2O was left in Mr. Wil ton's hands. By Mr. Welford—Considered £1,200, or £1,500, a very fair expenditure for such a constituency as Glocester. Did you think it necessary, if the expenses were legal, to send the money down secretly P—l fol lowed Mr. Price's instructions in that. Did not the fact of the secrecy observed give an impression to your mind that something wrong was to be done with the money ? Witness replied that he did not consider the fact of sending the money by private hand made the matter secret. He added that he had never seen Thompson before or since. Sir W. Hayter, M.P., was next examined. He made the following statement :—A short time be fore the general election I had a communication with Mr. Moffatt in the ,House of Commons in reference to the Glocester election. He told me that he had been in communication with Mr. Price respecting the probable expenses that would be in curred by the election at Glocester, and especially with regard to the expenses that might be incurred by Mr. Monk, for whom Mr. Moffatt, as I under stood, was acting as a friend, and he told me as the result of that communication that very probably a sum of money would be required to be sent down by some private hand to Glocester on behalf of Mr. Monk, and he asked me if I knew anybody who would take it down. I said I did not, but that I would inquire and let him know. That was the whole of the conversation that passed between us. That conversation never was renewed, nor am I aware that from that until after the general election I saw Mr. Moffatt. On the next day, I think it was, that I saw a person named Webb, the chief clerk of Mr. Gilbert, a Parliamentary agent ; told him what Mr. Moffatt wished, and.,asked him if he knew a person who could take the money. He said he could recommend a person on whom he could entirely rely, and that his name was Thompson, on which I gave a short note to introduce Thompson to Mr. Moffatt. Here, as far as I am concerned, the whole matter would have ended, if it had not happened that I was going to remain longer in town. But about the 21st of April I received a note from Mr. Moffatt containing a check for £5OO drawn on Mr. Ralli (Mr. Monk's father-in-laiv). In that note Mr. Moffatt stated that he was going out of town, and he requested me to give the check to Thompson, if I received a communica tion from Mr. Price to that effect. I put the check into an envelope, and my impression—for I will not be certain—is that I put the note and the check in the same envelope, in order that the one might demonstrate what the other was meant for. I put that envelope sealed into a despatch box. Tune passed on, no communication with Mr. Price ;took place, and I went out of town to my own election. But before I went I saw Mr. Parkes, and asked hi m i n t h e even t o f any note or l etter coming from Mr. Price, to have the kindness to do what Mr. Price directed. When I was at Wells I received a letter fro m M r . Parkes stating., among other things, that he had given the cheque to a person who had called for it, and who had authority to receive it, and there is an impression on my mind that he enciosed a letter froni Mr. Price to me, stating that the money wits to be paid to Mr. John Wilton ; but I regret that these letters are destroyed. I thought the matter was done with. That is the whole of the case as far as I am con• c :rned. Sir William was next questioned by Mr. Vaughan and said,—l had but one conversation with Mr. Moffatt, and that was in the House of Commons. I can't say how long that conversation took place be fore the Reform Bill was introduced by the kte Government. Had no recollection with regard to the time, but it could not have been long before the dissolution of Parliament, because .it had reference to Mr. Monk's candidature. Can't recollect the date of the division on the Reform Bill. Thinks his conversation with Mr. Moffat took place before the beginning of April. Mr. Moffatt gave me no statement connected with the object of sending the money in any respect. Had no conversation with Mr. Moffatt other than that I have stated. Mr. Moffat simply said he wanted some person to send down to Glocester with money on behalf of Mr. Monk. He did not state from what source he ob tained the money. Never heard the name of Ralli before I read the cheque. I had known Mr. Gilbert for 15 years as an active electioneering agent in East Somersetshire where I re sided, and he held an official position in Bristol. Last autumn Mr. Gilbert wrote to me that he had come up to town to practise .as a Parliamentary agent and soliciting any assistance I could give him, and consequently d ur i ng th e con test in East Worcestershire, when I was applied to by Mr. Foley to recommend a person to. manage the conduct of that election, I recommended Mr. Gilbert and he was employed in one of th e di s t r i c t s of Worcestershir e and coriducted himself with great propriety there, and I have received a letter from Mr. Foley expressing las satisfa c ti on a t it. Th at is the sole reason way I applied to Mr. Gilbert. At that time I certainly had no knowledge that any money at all was to be scat to Gloucester for an improper use. Most assuredly nothing was sa id about any money being spent in bribery. Mr. Monk never said a word in which it was implied that the money was intended to be s en t down for the purpose of bribery. I received the letter from Mr. Moffatt at my lodgings in Ryder-street. Ti.le are lodgings t a k en f or m yself. I had to do with many elections for a party,. and it was conveni en t to myself to have l o d g i ngs cen t r ally situate. The check on Mr. Ralli for £5OO is the only sum of money I have heard of as connected with the Glo cester election. During my absence from town I asked Mr. Parkes to open my letters. I did not know that Thompson had been connected with elm• tion matters for some time in any way ambiguously. I most solemnly say that I never knew him before, or of the existence of such a person. I was deceived —no doubt of it. I relied - Upon Mr. Price in the matter. Mr. Price' stated to me that there was a great difficulty in Mr. Monk obtaining any agent at all, and that a pressure was being made upon him for money for messengers and for various other matters, an 1 that he (Mr. Price) had provided his own agent with money, but that no money came from Mr. Monk's - agent.. He said there was diffi culty as to the agent at Glocester, Sir Maurice Ber keley's agent refusing - to act, that there was in fact no agent, and that under the circumstances he thought Mr. Wilton was more like the agent than any one else. That statement was made subsequently to the sitting of the Parliamentary committee. I re lied on Mr. Price, and considered that the arrange ment made by him was one which could be justi fied. He did not think Mr. Price would make any arrangement which would involve a question of bri bery. So far as I am concerned, I solemnly declare that I never knew and had no i n formation to lead intended to to the knowledge th at the money was to be applied to the purposes of bribery. By Mr. Fitzgerald—As to the term " trust worthy," I understood that the person was one to be trusted with carrying down the money, but I had no notion that such a person would be em ployed to disburse it. By Mr. Welford—l know a good deal, about the character of borough constituencies. Mr. Welford—l suppose you know as much .gs Mr. Coppock• did ? Witness —I know a little ; Mr. Coppock knew a great deal. (Laujhter.) Does not Mr. Parkes hold the situation formerly held by Mr. Coppock ; no person occupies that position, it is quite open. (A laugh.) As to the character of Gloucester it happens that of the many constituencies with which I have been con nected I never had on any occasion any connection with Gloucester. Then you are not aware that the borough has been charged for years past with bribery P—l cer tainly know that the character of Gloucester does not stand high. It is notorious. , You were aware of that at the time when you were asked to be the medium of sending down the money. At the time when you were so asked, had you any suspicion of the intended application of the money ?—When you come to "suspicions," you must pardon me saying that that is rather hard to inquire about a man's suspicions. (Laughter.) Sir William further stated, in answer to further questions, that although he ought to have been ac quainted with the requirements of an Act of Par liament which he assisted in passing, it was practi cally useless. The practice was to send the money to the agent to pay the election expenses, and not leave them to be paid by the auditor. He knew nothing of any meeting ini London last Friday re specting this matter, had no knowledge of any money having been sent to Glocester in 1857. £3OO was advanced to support the petition on the part of Sir Maurice Berkeley afterwards, but prior to the petition he was morally sure no money -wig sent. Hebelieved, on the contrary, that Sir Maurice Ber keley.was rather hurt that no assistance was given. Certainly the Reform Club was not in the habit of sending down money to carry elections in boroughs. This money was supplied by agents from private subscriptions. He was morally sure- that not a farthing was sent to Glocester from the Reform Club at the last election. Mr. Ralli, Greek Consul General in London, ani father-in-law of Mr. Monk, proved that on the 19th April last he had an interview with Mr. Moffatt, who applied to him respecting the funds for his sou in-law's election. He was led to understand that the candidate could not interfere in respect of the costs until after the election was over, and there fore he conseoted to advance £5OO. This was for legitimate expet , ses, of course. (Laughter.) Pro ducing a letter froza Mr. Moffatt enclosing docu ments, he said these 3ocuments were letters from Glocester asking for me - re money. Mr. Moffatt was recalled and examined on these documents. The letter was li . om Mr, Wilton, ask ing for £5OO more, and enclosing documents which were statements of engagements made, and which they wanted the money to satisfy. His impression was that the applications were for money to satisfy illegal claims, and hence in his letter to Mr. Ralli he spoke of them as unsatisfactory. The telegraph clerk having produced a bundle of telegrams, Mr. Parkes was examined as to some cf them whirl contained the words " I have seen P. and made it all right." He knew nothing ofit. He had seen nothing of the man to whom he had delivered the envelope containing the check, except on that one occasion. He corroborated Sir W. Hayter's statement as to instructions received by him from Sir William, , and which he carried out. He denied that the Reform Club had had -any thing to do with sending money down to the borough for the last two general elections, such arrangements having been made independently of the Reform Club. John Clarke, the witness who gave evidence on the Parliamentary committee, was next examined. He stated that he was by trade a fancy milliner, living at 22, Enrield-street, Holton, and that he became acquainted with Thompson as being engaged with him and a Mr. Crouch in conducting elections for the Conservative party. He had been engaged in more than 20 elections with Thompson during Mr. Crouch's / life, and as many subsequently. Had been engaged with Thompson in conductin g perhaps a dozen elections on the Liberal side. He had been engaged with Thompson in acts of bribery at elec tions on both sides. Thompson lived at 4, Bridge road, Hammersmith. The witness repeated, with little variation, the evidence given by him before the Parliamentary committee as to his receiving a telegram at Maidstone requiring his presence iri London. Here he found instructions to go down to Glocester to meet Thompson, and he went down accordingly. He described his inquiries for and subsequently, his meeting with Thompson, and con ferring with him at Mr. Wilton's. Thompson went by the name of " Thornton" at Glocester, and wit ness was known as " Brettles." Witness told Mr. Wilton and the Glocester people that he came from the Reform Club, but in reality he did not. (Sensa tion.) He and Thompson wished to lay out the money, but the Glocester people preferred to do it themselves, and he blamed Thompson for giving away all the money to Mr. Wilton and leaving none to take them home. Mr. Wilton came to them at the Glocester Railway Hotel, and Thompson went out to him. Witness had previously counted out the £5OO and packed it up in parcels of 25 sovereigns, which Thompson gave to Mr. - Wilton in the passage, witness being in the coffee-room. On Thompson's return he said, " He's got the money, but he shall have no more. On the nomination day Thompson told him "He had sea the parties and could have £l,OOO if ho wanted it, and he must give an acknowledg ment for it." Thompson also produced a roll of notes from his pocket, and said he had given an acknow ledgment for £l,OOO. Witness was to have £5O for his services, but had only received £5, and had paid £3 for expenses. He had received £25 from Mr. Gilbert's clerk before he was examined before the committee. The commissioners shortly after adjourned for the day. TILE FATAL EXPLOSION AT LEWES. ADJOURNED INQUEST. LEWES, THURSDAY, SEPT„ 27. The jury meet again this afternoon at five o'clock, and the coroner, Mr. F. H. Gell, informed them that he had communicated with the Privy Council of the Board of Trade, requesting them to send down an officer of theirs, and the Council had re plied that they had not the power to do so, but that it rested with the Home-office. They would remember that he had corresponded with the Se cretary of State, who declined to interfere • there fore it would be for them (the jury) to decide upon what course to take. The coroner then read over the practical evidence of Mr. Jackson, a steam engine builder at Brighton, and Superintendent Jenner, who watched the case for the police, called George William Bailey, a miller at Cuckfield. Witness then deposed--I was at the sheep fair. and witnessed the explosion. I know a person named Plummer, and had some conversation with him about a quarter of an hour after the accident. In speaking of it, he said he was round there, and saw the pressure at 301 b, and he tried the safety valve. By Mr. Briggs (who again attended for the Messrs. Cheale)—There was no one present on the hill when this conversation took place. There were many persons round about, but we were talk ing by ourselves. Albert John Skinner, a lad, a resident at Lewes, deposed—l was about four feet and a half—(a laugh)—from the engine at the time the explosion took place. I had been standing there about ten minutes. I saw a man (Gold) with the engine, and saw him turn on a tap on the right-hand side of the engine, and saw him stir the fire. John Haywood, in the employ of the Messrs. Chcalc as principal engineer, deposed,—l went up the hill in consequence of hearing of the accident,• but cannot speak at all as to the state of the engine previous to leaving the premises. I went up in consecfuence . of receiving instructions from my master to go and pick up the - fragments of the ehafi-cutter. picked up the safety-valve, and put it into the cart, and conveyed it back among the rest. Coroner—Whnn you picked it up did you ex amine it at all Witness—l\To, sir. By Mr. Brig gs __ hen the engine went away from the premises s h e had quite three inches of water in the gauge. Witness here corroborated the evidence as to the previous working of the engine, when she worked with the valve screwed down at 45, and sho then blew off at that pressure: By the foreman—When .. I told him th at I s h ou l d not stop in the box it he continued to , drive in that way, I thought it was dangerous. Foreman—Then he was not a careful driver. Was he in the habit of getting drunk. when out ? Witness—Not when he was on at work. Foreman—Haven't you had some c .onversation in the shop as to the strength of this en gine ? Witness—No, sir; we always thoUght her safe enough. • John Sadler, in the employment of t he Lori don and Brighton ailway Company, under Mr. Craven,' the superintendent of the locomotive department, was next called, and deposed—l am foreman of the locomotive department, and in that capacity received. a portable steam engine from the Messrs. Cheale, in November; 1858, for the purpose of being re paired. I received. instructions to repair the fire box and put a few new ferrules to the tubes, and I was also requested. to test the boiler by hydrauli pressure. I did those things as requested. I put three additional plates and five extra stays to the fire-box, and I only tested the boiler after I had got those secured.. Coroner—What power did you use ?—I testa. to 801 b. pressure, and I also put a ferrule on the sprit) ; balance, so as to- prevent the pressure exceeding4s l you returned it in this state to Messrs. Cheale ?—" Yec-4, sir. Do you oonb ;der it advisable to have an indica for ?—lt is advise. :'le• The spring balance does pressure you have in the partially indicate whal boiler if properly attended. tJ. Do you consider a boiler wita Boilers ' without stays P—Not after certain pressur43. are all constructed with angle-irons. Superintendent Senner—What part of the front of the engine would have most of the pressure ? It would.be equal all over. By a Juror—l cannot tell why the steam did not blow off at 45. Engineers have been known to put a wedge in to keep the valve down to get more pressure. The Foreman—The jury wish to understand whether if you had general orders you would have done more to the engine in the way of repairs ?—I only bad the boiler, and understood Mr. Cheale was doing saue of the work himself; and we don't do general rep,:irs unless we have the whole of the work. The court then adjottlined. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN 3111- MINGHA3L BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING. At 40 minutes past 10 o'clock this morning a dis aster, attended with the most frightful results and accompanied by circumstances peculiarly afflicting, occurred in this town. The cause was an explosion upon the premises of Messrs. Phillips and Pursall, percussion cap makers, of Mittsll-street, in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's, one of the most densely populated, or, rather, closely built districts of the town. At the hour above named all the people employed were at their work. There are various rumours as to the number, but it ranges between 60 and 70, of whom by far the greater proportion were women. There were an extra number of hands, for the prin cipals have in course of execution a contract for the Turkish Government, and its completion within a given time is imperative. The premises upon which the business was con ducted are three story, the room which is called the " priming shop" being upon the first floor : in that room there were several persons emp'.oyed ;suddenly , and without a moment's warning, a violent explo sion occurred; it was followed by another instan taneously. A Llnd report was heard, houses in the „,?ighbourhoed were shaken, then a crash, and the build.ng fell in, leaving nothing standing but the front wall immediately facing the public street. The timber within the wails became a mass of flame, so violent aO4 so intense that in an incre dibly short time the bums were burnt to a charred mass. The instant after explosion a suffcicat- ing vapour arose. From the barred windows of an adjoining factory poor creatures who had been at work on the premises upon which the explosion had occurred were seen struggling, half-suffocated, maimed, and blackened, vainly endeavouring to ob tain ar exit Messrs. Callisher and Perry, breech loadinc, gun makers, whose premises adjoined, and which had been partly blown down, did their best to rescue the sufferers; and, in one or two instances, succeeded ; but the fatal consequences of the catastrophe were too rapid. The fire-engines arrived promptly; the flames were got under speedily, and such of the poor creatures as had escaped with life were taken, six teen or seventeen of them, to the General Hospital. Most. of these were in a frightful state, burnt with more or less severity. One woman died immedi ately ; several others were between life and death.' In the meantime thousands had assembled ; the engines played upon the blazing and smoking mass, as a precaution against another explosion. Very soon after that event bad taken place a couple of dead bodies were pulled from the ruins. Soon after a number of men were set to work todig over the smouldering mass of bricks and material—the con tents of the pile of building. As this process went on gradually bodies were discovered ; in one or two instances the poor creatures are said not to have been dead, but to have struggled convulsively yet vainly for help, which could not be given to them with sufficient haste. These must have died in extreme agony. As hour after hour went on the interest became painfully intense. There was no muster-roll of those who were missing, and a crowd of anxious faces stood expectantly by. The work of the dig gers went on, and body after body revealed itself, a blackened mass too frightful to behold, and too ap palling a spectacle to describe. Towards the afternoon, about 3 o'clock, the ex cavators had made their way into the line leading from the front door of the premises ; buried three or four yards beneath the ruins of the walls and fragments they dug out the bodies of three women ; it is almost needless to add that all were dead. The story of these poor creatures is soon told. They had doubless been working on the floor, had heard the explosion above, and rushed to the dooi, but before reaching it were buried beneath the ruins. These three made 14 bodies which had been, dug out up to that time ; but it was known then that there were others still entombed, and presently afterwards others were-discovered. Those nearest the surface had been burnt to death, and A speedy work that must have been, such was the fury of the flames. Crushed beneath burning and explo sive material, or stifled by suffocation, the remain der must have died as speedily. Tattered female garments were dug up, and many hundred-weight of percussion caps, from beneath the smoking pile. The cause of this explosion will probably for ever remain in conjecture. It may have arisen from something in connexion with the detonating pow der itself—the accidental connexion with it of some foreign and sufficiently chafing substance to cause 1 an explosion, and against which no human fore sight or care could guard. Indeed, the rays of the su2 might have been sufficient to cause the disaster; b ut bd this as it may, this, the third explosion of the kind within three months here, makes it in cumbent upo7l the authorities to interfere. It can no longer be ton2rated that manufactories of this kind should be pern:.'tted in the centre of large towns. The risk is gr ,eat enough for those em ployed in this perilous traue without its being in truded into the midst of a deny population. In the occurrence of to-day windows w - re shattered in the neighbourhood, houses shaken, ant; .it was only by a miracle that • several 'persons residing near escaped serious injury. Messrs. Phillips and Pursall are partially insured in the Pheenix-office. In the midst of such excitement as prevailed on the spot to-day and of such vast crowds who had assembled it was almost impossible to procure defi nite information of any kind. Bad as the disaster has been, there were many exaggerated rumours afloat ; but the above narrative is believed to be not far froth correct. 7 30 P.Af. Since the above was written it has been confi dently stated that four more dead bodies have been dug out, making 20 killed. 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Mr. Churchwarden Cameron having been eitiM • to the chair, Mr. Sheffield inquired vehrther m. ll emplaint ha 4 been made before the magistrates in petty ses§l9P on the previous day, in reference to the ill treatment of an inmate by the master. The reason he had asked the question \vas, that he had received a letter signed "A Sick Inmate," stating that a female had on Sunday been brutally , assaulted by the master, and that the party ill-used had made a statement to the local magistrates on Monday. Mr, Flaw ; th 9 clerk ? said he did not hear any such staseilieht . Mr. Howlett said he knew ziolhin4 c"f 1 r. Rte field's correspondence, but he had heard of the mat ter in question, and considered an investigation should at once take place; and he called upon the board to hear the evidence of Miss Barnes, the mis tress of the infant school. (Hear, hear, and cries of " What for ?") • After some discussion, it was resolved to hear the statement of Miss Barnes . , and that the moment she said anything affecting any other officer, that the pgrty should be called in and hear what she had to say, or any ether evidence that might be taken. as mistress of the infant school, s ce of mate Sullivan, an inmate, as nurse. u is r s se ß . tial i g b as.e o s p sis t satll lia a' 20'glocit on undo:y She sent tsi 4 i. Bran, to the kitchen for the children's dinners. She returned with P4PI.TU of meat and then went back for potatoes. Shortly after she was astonished and a isemed at hearing the cries and screams of a woman asiS in the 7ard, and was more astonished when she went out an saw the master (Mr. Winlo) and her . nurse struggling fearfaiii, The master had hold. of her by both wrists, which he was twisting and wrenching round, and exclaiming " You shall come, you shall come." The nurse got hold of the railings, and he then called Wool, a gate porter, and Neville, one of the paid nurses, and they set to work drag ging her away, and the nurse fell down and Wool on the top of her. The proceedings so frightened the school children, 50 in number, that they all set up screaming, and she (Miss Barnes) went out and said, "Oh, what a disgraceful scene on a Sunday," and complained of the violent tre4tmpt of the hw ter, and exclaimed, What has the woman done that she should be ,so treated ?" Neville called out, " Leave her alone to us ; the woman is mad and she (Miss Barnes) repied, " She is no amore mad than you are. What has she done ?" The master said, "511. c has grossly insulted me ; and she shall lag taken away," At this stage the board considered the master should be present, and Mr. Winlo was called in, and Miss Barnes repeated her statement in his pre sence. She added, when the others arrived she said (alluding to the master), " That man ought to be ashamed of himself to behave as he has to that woman." Sullivan's wrists were scratched very se verely with his finger nails, and one of her wrists so fearfully wrenched that she was in great pain, and had to keep it in hot water for three or four hours. Understood that the whole cause of the pro ceeding was the way in which Sullivan was wear ing her hair. The witness added, that on the previ ous day (Monday) the master had them all " car peted" before him in The workhouse board-room, and he examined Wool and Neville, and others, with a view to get up some charge against her (Miss Barnes) and make her out a liar. Mr. Winlo, on being called upon to answer this statement, said he was in the kitchen on Sunday, when the woman Sullivan came in there with her hair in flowine. curls. He told her, while an inmate of that workhouse she must conform to' the rules and wear her hair like other women, and added, "Go to your ward, and do it at once." She turned round and abused him, and said it was not his busi ness, and that he was mixed up with that villain Kingston (alluding to the Settlement Club, which was taking steps to remove her to Ireland). She left and went towards the infant school, and stopped again and said something, and he then seized her and said she should go to the separation ward. She began to screech and put her arms round the iron railings, and hurt her wrists. He then called to Wool, and he and Mrs. Neville came, and laid hold of her. Miss Barnes came out most excited, and behaved in such a manner as to be the cause of fur ther uproar. This woman Sullivan was at all times violent when not permitted to do as she liked. He wished the board to call Wool, Davy, Mrs. Samson, and Mrs. Neville. In answer to questions, The Master stated that he had never spoken to the woman before about her ringlets. Had never noticed her before. When he told her to go to her ward she left the kitchen and proceeded in the direction of the infant school, and he followed her, and when she hesitated he thought she did not in tend to go, and then he laid hold o f h er an d sa id she should go to the separation ward. Kate Sullivan, the inmate referred to, was then called in. She is a tall, lady-like woman, about 35 years of age, with very dark hair, full black eyes, and bears evidences of having been very hand some. She said she was an inmate of the house, with her three children, who were in the infant school, where through the kindness of the matron she had been placed. She then said—On Sunday I went into the kitchen for the children's potatoes. The master was there, and on seeing me he said, " How dare you wear your hair in curls ? Go back instantly to your ward, and alter it, or I will send you to the separation ward." I replied, "The matron has never said anything about it,. and has been very kind to me, and I will do it." I then left the kitchen, and proceeded across the yard'to the infant school. The master followed me. When I got towards the gate he seized hold of me and said, " You shall go to the separation ward," and then comm ence d dragging me. I caught hold of the iron ra ili ngs . He said " Let go—l'll break your arm if you don't ,let go." He then called to Mr. Wool and others to come and help him. Miss Barnes called out " Let the woman alone, what has she done ?" They said " She is mad," and a stout man came and tore me from the railings, and I fell down and h e over me . Id o not remember any more. By the Board—Me master had seen me in what they call curls before. 'Mr. Belletti is the father of my three children. He is in the insane Ward, but has £lO a-month, and yet they want to conspire to get rid of me to Ireland. Had been three weeks in the house. The Master said he told her to go to her ward kindly. He had never seen her to his knowledge before. She moved a little and then stopped, and he thought she did not intend to go—that was why be laid hold of her. Did not threaten to send her to the separation ward. When he first told her to alter her curls she made noanswer. Nurse Neville, Mrs. Sampson, an d W oo l, were examined on the part of the ma s t er . Th e fi rst sa id she thought Sullivan wa s '• a d by the w a y s h e geream Sampsonsai d Sullivan's . to violent, and Mi ss B arnes was not .rugr,aavneda, Mr. 1 re spsctful to the master. and 'The 1111 rool r master had them b e f ore him to investigate the matter on the Monday. oSlc, v:td andgl ,ai 707 e Winlo, in answer to Mr. Turner, said he had ma d e no report in his book of this affair to the board. Th o mas Cole, the cook, was examined at the request of mi ss Barnes. He said he remembered Sullivan coming into the kitchen, and the master telling her to put up her curls. She r e pli e d, at first, ~Igo and am going to leave in a few days, and I don't think it worth while to alter them." Some other remarks were m ade which I did not catch, b u t I h ear d th e master say Silence, madam, or I'll send you to the separation ward." She then left, and shortly after, on crossing the yard, I heard dreadful screams, and, looking, I saw the master dragging the woman by the arms. As I looked I thought the master saw me looking at him, and he left go his hold, and then called out to Wool and others, and I went on niv business, A discussion here took place as to the character of the earls, and while the master, Wool, and Samp son said they were ringlets, the woman Sullivan showed the board that her hair was only one roll curled round on each side of the face. This was corroborated by Baines and by Cole. The witnesses being ordered to withdraw, the board entered into a discussion, and Mr. Howlett hoped they considered him justified in bringing the case forward. (Hear.) Mr. Turner said he considered the conduct of the master was harsh in the extreme. It was said the woman was excited, and he did not wonder at it. A most suspicious thing was that the master had not reported this disgraceful affray taking place in the house oa a Sunday. He moved the following resolution That the conduct of Mr. Winlo on Sunday i last towards Kato Sullivan was extrem e ly harsh and uncalled for, and the board admonish him to use kindness and forbearance to the inmates invariably." Mr. J. A. Fisher seconded the motion. Mr. Austin thought the motion too strong; ; a master must have some discretion allowed He tholght the justice of the case would be met by the following, which he would move as an amend ment :—" That in the opinion of the directors, Kate Sullivan ought to have obeyed the master's orders, Tilt SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING; .___EII,ITENTBER 28, 1859 UTALITY Ta and . , rt Vret thaCTITeI7; aster, in the spirit of the moms. nt, sheuld have acted as he did on that occa sion." Mr— rurni.l; churchwarden, seconded the amend ment.. The Chairman considered the observation proved by C , )le, tile cook, that she was going to leave the house, and did not think it worth while to alt er h er tee's orders. curls ; this proved that she did not o b ey the mas. on tile r question twing flit, the amendment was negiitti - eit:;4nd the td!iginal motion carried by a nlajOi:ity o tWe to tine: ie inastei 4 Was Bulled iu, and the resolution was read over to him, but he madeno remark. The proeeediw then t?l,4pipate.l, in'ALLICI-ENC.V..- , .Sept. 27. GUILIJHALL.-7-Thornas Stowell, the informer, was summoned before Sir R. W..Carden to answer the charge of Conspiring With others not ivatodv to cheat and defraud Messrs. Lockhart any" manufacturers, of Kirkaldy, in See:: .- inns, -land, of goods Whan alleged the to have been obte'- ...wed under fal se p re t ences. - . • case wag called on Stowell applied for ati adjournment, as he had only received the sum late on the previous night, and was not pre pared With counsel to defend. him. Mr. Lewis, jun., for the prosecution, objected, inasmuch as he feared that any adjournment would only he giving Stowell and his accomplices time to get out of the way, and so frustrate the ends of Justice. Sir R. W. Carden said the application was ass reasonable one. Mr. Lewis said he was preparaf, +- into the case at once. If Stowell Is- b: it custody his t; go application could rm 4:, ' een coon entertained with the diffiee' out the case beiw- . 6 near/ His client would so l ve • —any at once by giving Stowell into cus tody. Stowell was then taken to the police-station, where the charge was entered in the regular form, and when he returned he found his counsel, Mr. Tindal Atkinson; had arrived, and asked for per mission to sit near his counsel, instead of being placed in the felon s ' d oc k, an d h i s request was ac ceded to, Mr. Lewis having stated the facts of the case, Louisa Dodgson deposed to the prisoner having taken an office at No. 4, Angel-ccurt, Throgmor ton-street, about the 20th of July last, in the name of " Thomas James Stevens," and to his having the name of " T. J. Stevens and Co." painted up on the doorpost. He occupied the room about five weeks, and then went away without paying the rent, and witness never sew llm after, She l ever ' kneW him iu any o th er name than Stev - Mr, Moses Grego r y, a M eme h est , ‘ing. warehouseman, at 84, Minorio4 4ald—Al/".!,, two days before the 0,9 1 qt August last f).. , r, re'.:son called on me, but not wtth samples, and . ' the next day the prisoner, I think ; came ty himself. He said his name was Stevens, that his office was at 4, Angel-court, Throg ; Marton-street, where he carried on business as a general merchant, and that he had a parcel of sacks or bags which he wished to dispose of. The person, who appeared to be Stevens's clerk, showed me a sample, but I do not think the prisoner did. There were three different sorts of sacks, and I said I would look at them in bulk, and if we came to terms would buy them. On the following day he brought the sacks, and left them with me to exa mine, and when he came again on the 13th I agreed to buy the whole parcel, 600 in all. The price I offered was 200 at sd. each, 200 at 7d. each, and 200 at 9d. each, which he accepted. The price of the 600 sacks amounted to £l7 10s., which I paid to the prisoner, and he made - out the invoice pro duced and signed the receipt at the same time in my presence, in the name of "T. J. Stevens." I had only known the prisoner about six weeks or two months, but I certainly never knew his name was Stowell. He has brought me other goods of a similar description. Cross-examined—As far as my memory serves me I bought the goods in bulk without seeing a sample first, and according to my judgment I gave a price for them, one that would leave me a fa;s e profit. I got a very small profit on some of 4 3 ,,,em. I bought them believing I was dealing with re spectable parties, or I should not have kought them at all. I think I gave the current inarket price for such goods. I should think £34, the price charged by the manufacturer to Stevens, a very stiff price. By Sir R. W. Carden—l have had only one other transaction with Stowell besides this. The goods I bought on this occasion consisted of sacks. Stowell was introduced to me by an agent, but whose name Ido not recollect. The baleh did not appear to have been opened. They were in the same state in which they had been sent out by the manufacturer. Sir R. W. Carden—And does it not strike you that the difference between .£?4, the manufactu rer's wholesale price, and. £l7, the price you bought them for, is very extraordinary ? Witness--I do not think I got them remarkably cheap. Those I bought at sd. each I sold for 7d.; those at 7d, for 9d. ; and those at 9d. for 11d. Mr. Jas. Birrell, agent to Messrs. Lockhart and Sons, of Kitlealdy said—On the sth of August last I called at the office, 4, Angel-coUrt, Throgmorton street, in consequence of a communication front my principals, with samples of sacks of three different prices. I saw a person there (not the prisoner Stowell) who represented himself as Mr. Stevens. I had left the patterns for them to look at on the day previous, and when I called again Stevens handed me a written order for 600 bags, which he said were required for potatoes to be imported from Hamburg, and that if they suited they would give a much larger order next time. I forwarded the order to Messrs. Lockhart and Sons, and on the 12th of August the goods arrived at the Irongate wharf. The terms agreed upon were cash in a month with 21 discount. On the 17th of the same month I went to the office in -Angel-court, and found the' door locked and the office to let.• I then went to Irongate-wharf, and found the goods sere gone. I then went to No. 16, Bear-lane, an office kept in the name of Richardson and Co., and the clerk informed me that Stevens and Richard son had gone out together. I went to a house in the neighbourhood, where I found Stevens, and asked him for the money or the goods. He said the goods were in his warehouse in. Thames-street, and on my desiring to see if they had been sent right, he said it was too late, as the . warehouse was closed for the day and the man had gone home with the key. 'He then appointed to meet me the next day. He produced a bill tor £4O 125., which he said they had received from a country customer, and said he would give it to me if I would give him the difference in cash between that amount and the price of the goods, but I said. I had not enough money to do so. Up to that time I had never seen anything of Stowell. I proposed to Stevens to go out and haVe a glass of, ale, so that I might intro duce Moss ' the deteCtive o ff icer , t o hi m ; a f ter w hi c h we went back to Angel-court, where Moss told Stevens he must either pay the money or give up the goods. Stever s said they could have the goods immediately. Moss then told Stevens that he had know him thr years, and also knew that he was not Stevens, as his right name was Joseph Clarkson. He at first denied it, lnit afterwards admitted the fact, and then appealed to a foreigner who was in the room to give up the goods, but he refused to do so until Stevens came. Moss then left with Clark son, and returned:shortly after with Stowell,- who said the goods were shipped or about to be shipped, and that he could not pay the whole of the money. After some discussion he gave me .£5 in cash, and a promissory note for £29 12s. at. 21 days, which on falling due I presented, and it was dishonoured. I had not the slightest knowledge at the time that the goods had been sold in London at 50 per cent. below cost price. The bill was drawn by me on Thomas Stowell, and made payable at hi t s residence, 24, St. George's-road, New Kent-road, Southwark. I have seen him several times since atahis private house and elsewhere, and he has promised to pay me, but he has not done so. Stevens and Co. still occupy the office in Angel-court, although it is to let. They have also another office in the same name at No. 12, Circus, Minories. Stowell gAse me that address. -(-'34 12s. 6d. is a reasonable charge for the goods in question, and it is, the regular trade price for such goods all over the country. Sir R. W. Carden—Did you make any inquiry about Stevens and Co. ? Witness—Yes ; but not until after they, got the goods._ Sir H. W. Carden—That is not the usual way of doing business. Witness—No, sir; but my suspicions were not aroused till afterwards. John Mos z. city detective, was the next witness examined. He had had to make a great many in quiries in connexion with the parties charged, and held a warrant for the apprehension of one of them. They are all connected. Stowell said he expected £l,OOO worth of grapes from Hamburg, and that as soon as he got them he would pay Mr. Birrell ih full. Thera was a foreigner in the office, and it was believed that these parties were connected with others carrying on the same system at 40, Broad street-buildings, under the name of Palmer and Co., Wallis and Co., and a host of other commercial aliases. If the prisoner were remanded he had no doubt but that there would be other charges against After some discussion Sir R. W. Carden decided upon accepting two sureties in £25 each, and Stowell's own ree9gnisances in £lOO, to appear on Mondaynext. _ _ Stowell, not king prepared with hail, was then removel, and ultimately conveyed in the prison van to Novgate. . ery EL .211 OP .7077v,.L5..."--U7l-1-6711.T WEEK. (Prom the Registrar-General's Report) At the close of the period in which summer cholera is prevalent and fatal, the weekly returns of mortality wear a more favourable aspect, and the deaths have declined to the point from which they rose at the end of June. The total number in London in the week thai ended last Saturday was 1,058. If the deaths from cholera in the corre sponding weeks of the two years 1849 and 1854 are excluded from the calculation, it will be found thP',, the totni deaths as returned for last week P l ess than the number which the average tality in the thi r d week of Sept- r in the 10 - years 1849-58 would have pr- - -.amber of mor- The decrease in fatal - - oduced. by the numbers of' 148, 82 eases of diarrhoea i s s h own and - last three weeks, which were 0 1 10 1,-7 1 u'.. Of th ose re t urne d as cholera or . "alarrhcea, last week gives only 3, and these ° e..,urred. to infants. Scarlatina, which destroyed 83 lives, prevails much, but chiefly in the East dis tricts ; 8 deaths from it are recorded in St. Leonar , ' Shoreditch ; 5 in St. Paul, St. George-- East ; 5 in Islington West. Small po— last week in 23 cases, syphilis in " mens in 4, intemperance in 4, died, all women, the olden" and died at the Femo Of bricklayers children 7; ^^ wives 7 • in-the was fatal delirium tre e ve nonagenarians of whom was 96 years, .0 Almshouses, Whitechapei. J died last week ; of bricklayers' carpenters 6 died ; of carpenters' . ; of carpenters' children 25; of painters 3 ; of painters' children 12 ; of plasterers' chil dren 2 died. At the census of 1851 there were in London 13,919 bricklayers, 23,458 carpenters, 15,369 painters, 4,378 plasterers. Last week the births of 886 boys and 866 girls, in all 1,752 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849- 58 the average number was 1,572. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUG., 1859. The waters used in London have been analysed during the month of August by Dr. Robt. Dunda* Thomson, F.It.S., of St. Thomas's Hospital. The analyses are recorded in the following table. For the sake of comparison the composition of Loch Katrine water is added, and likewise that of one of the shallow wells of the metropoliP,, which are all contaminated by sewage matter, and have been proved in many instances to 'Je injurious to health t Total impurity Organielm per gallon. purity. grs. or deg. grs. or deg,. 01) 0.0 Distil/eel Water Gip..e water, new supply Wei _, in Camberwell THAMES COMPAN I Es. Southwark Chelsea Grand Junction . West Middlesex. 2 . 1-f 0.8 G 2.67 10.69 16'40 110 17.20 1.52 16 . 08 0 . 84 5'40 0 . 72 17 . 28 1.20 Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. - New River East London . 1728 0-80 Kent The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 2'14 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which '8 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.652 in. The highest and lowest readings were respectively 29.91 in. on Sunday, and 29.25 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the week was 56.5 deg., which is 1 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher): The mean temperatUre was below the average on every day till-Friday, and having been 52.6 deg. on Weri_ nesday, it rose to. 67.4 deg. on Saturday, which_ iat ter is 12.4 deg. above the average. The the - anome _ ter fell to 41.5 deg. on Tuesday, the lowr,st point in the week, and rose to 76 deg. the l' turday. Th e range i n the week Iv - '....; , hest, on Sa as therefore 34.5. The mean daily range was 1.,-:j. deg. The lowest temperature on Saturday *was so much as 62 deg. The mean temperature -„f the water of the Thames was 59.2 deg. Tb",, difference between the mean temperature ef f'Aie air and dew-point tempe r at ure was 6.3 des.. The mean humidity of th e ai r was 78. The w irul. blew during a considerable part of the Week from the south-west ; on Wednesday it mo ve d at die rate of 200 miles in the day. There was rain in the week to the amount of 0.64 'in. Auroral streamers were seen in the evening of Saturday. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT ST. JAMES'S PALACE, SEPT. 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppe], 1i.C.8., to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, ir, the room of Lieutenant-General Berkeley Drummond, resigned. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant- General. Berkeley Drummond to he an Extra Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty., FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 24, The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas M. Persse as Consul at Galway for fhe United .States of America. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Port-au- Prince, enclosing a copy of a law recently passed by the Government of Hayti, repealing the tax in kind hitherto levied upon coffee exported, and substituting an export duty of one piastre and. three-quarters per 100 lbs. net, the duty to be payable at the option of the Government, either in drafts on Paris or in Haytian currency, The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State fo r F ore i gn Aff a i rs a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting that the Board of Health at that capital, has declared the ports of Alicante and Carthagena and the ports of the kingdom of Hanover to be suspected of cholera morbus. The same board has also declared the port of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, to be considered' as suspected of yellow "fever since the 2d March last. The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of St a t e f or Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Naples, enclosing copy of a .lreapolitan. Royal Decree, prolonging until the 30th June, 1860, the decree authorizing the freo admission into the kingdom of Naples of wheat, barley, oats, maize pulse and rice, and flour of same. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her 'Majesty's Charg6 d'Affaires at Florence, enclosing a copy of a Tuscan decree, reducing the export duty on rough hewn and chiselled alabaster from 3 liras per 1001bs. to 10 soldi, and the duty upon wor k s o f a l a b as t er from 1 lira per 1001b s . t o 10 soldi. The same decree also reduces the export duties on vegetables from 6 soldi per 1001bs. to 2 soldi. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 22. First Lieutenant George Dare Dowell to be Captain, vice Wood, placed on half-pay. Second Lieutenant, Wm. Bentham Morris to be First Lieutenant, Vice Dowell, promoted. ' ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 24. First Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Foster to be Lieu tenant and Quartermaster. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Merioneth—Edmund Buckley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. let Company of Perobrokshire Rifle Volunteers—George Noel Clarice, Esq., to be Lieutenant, 7th Conipany of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—Robert Ellis Green, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Walter Watson, Gent., to be-Ensign. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Charles Frederick Ping, Gent., to be E ns i gn, v i ce Ramsay promoted. Ist Company of C ornwa ll Rifle Vblunteers—Major- General George torlase Tremenhere to be Captain; Henry Dobree, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Cornish, Esq., to be Ensign. Ist Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Charles Glynn Prideaux Brune, Esq., to be Captain; John Tred wen, Gent:, to be First Lieutenant. Princ4 of Wales Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia— Lieutenant Charles Bisset Thomson to be Captain, vice Latham, resigned ; Ensign Arthur Woolfrey Bridge to be Lieutenant, vice Thomson, promoted ; Ensign Henry Bar clay Dunlop to be Lieutenant,. vice Cameron, removed in consequence of long absence without leave. Renfrewshiro Volunteer - Rifles-3cl Company—Alexan der Fullerton, Gent., to be Captain; William Carlile, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James Anderson Mach ean, Gent., to be Ensign. 4th Company—Alexander Cruin, Gent., to be Captain ; Robert Gullies Lowndes, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Edinburgh City Artillery Militia—First Lieutenant Geo. Charles Finlay to be C,aptain, from.S,ept. 8, 1859, vice Nicol, resigned; Second Lieutenant John Gordon Davidson to be First Lieutenant, from Sept. 8, 1859, vice Finlay, promoted. Northumberland Regiment of Militia Artillery—Alex. Leslie Gracey, Esq., A.M., M.D., late Senior Surgeon to the Artillery of the Turkish Contingent, to be Surgeon, vice Nettlefold, resigned. County of Middlesex.— Sir John Gibbons, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant. sth - or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Robert Henry Bolton, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gibson, resigned. MEMORANDI:M.-3d or Royal Westminster Light" fn• fantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commis sion in this Regiment held by Lieutenant William John Ralfs. sth or Royal Elthorne Regiment of Middlesex Militia— The Queen has been graciously pleased to accept the resig nation of the Commission in this Regiment held by Assis tant-Surgeon James Edward Gibson. Wooten or 2d Surrey Subdivision Volunteer Rifle Corps —Henry Walker KetTich, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Robert Barclay, Esq., to be Ensign. Brixton or 4th Surrey Company Volunteer Rifle Corps— Thomas Eman, Esq., to b e C aptain; Edward Gr i ff i t h s ym.s, Esq., to be Lieutenant. Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry —Lieutenant WilliaYn Erie Welby to be Captain, vice Hon. H. D. Curzon, resigned; Cornet George Henry Little dale to be Lieutenant, vice Sir F. Heygate, resigned ;, Cor net George Henry Finch to bo Lieutenant, vice Welby, promoted ; Charles Phillips, Gent., to be Cornet; vice Finch, promoted. [The following appointments are substituted for tilos() which appeareirin Ihe Gazett-e of the 13th inst.] Reigate or sth (and not the 4th) Surrey Company of Vo hinter Rifle Corps—The Hon. William John Vonson to be Captain; Francis Henry Beaumont, Esq., to b e Lieute nant; Henry Lainsen, Esq., to bo Lieutenant. Ist Company of Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers— The Right Hon. John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, to be Captain. 3d Coinpany of Essz,x Rifle Volunteers--JOhn Coope Davis, to be Captain ; William Henry Clifton, Esq., to be to ee Ensign. Lieutenant; Henry Martin Harvey, Esq., NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant -General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 26, 1859. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now being made for the intended distribution of the award for stores recovered from the wreck of her Majesty's gunboat Jaseur, in the month of April, 1859, by the Cuba or Zeldina, tender to her Ma jesty's ship Imam. Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidated, against the said award, are required to transmit th e p ar ti cu l ars of any such demand to the Re gistrar of th e Hih Court of Admiralty,cd by that Officer , in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allow and paid un d er th e sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other person:l holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, cz other instruments, by virtue of whi c h th ey may be legally entitled to claim the snare belepro-ing to any P...'s possible, to transmit the same accompanied by theusual documents e'llvor, are requested, with as little delay ro the Prize Branch' of the Department of the 4C A - ' ii te gdntant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset -arouse." Due notice will b e g i ven , b y f uture a d ver ti seme nts in the " London Gazette," of the dat e p ro posed for the commence an individ ua l' meat of aisfribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of flounced. 8 share ; AI the respective• classes will be an jolly • BANKRUI , TS. surr- ei r. alder Oct. 2, at pne, Paid Nov. 10, at twelve, at tla Sag, currier and less her seller, Bermondsey, t o ,ourt of Bankruptcy. Charles Henry Baler and Joseph Aguilar, sox mane facturers, Water-lane, Great Tower-street, itY, 6t • ' twelve, and Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Ba nkrupt: Robert Squire :draper, Kendal, Westmoreland, Oct. and Nov. 2, at twelve, ' at the Neweastle-upell - TY ne trict Court. Joseph Richmond, corn factor, Brady** Oct. 8 and Nov. 19, a t ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. John Machin Hall, paper dealer, Sheffield, Oct. S. ance Nov. 19, at ten, at th e C ounc il-h a ll , Sh e ff ie ld. s ter-• Joseph Yardley Ve rnon , d ra p er , St our b r idge, liTorce erbyshire) t shire, Oct. 10 and 31, a t e l even , a t th e BirminghamDistric Court. Joseph Morris, needle manufacturer,Feckenham, Nord cestershire, Oct. 7 and N ov . 4, a t half-past eleven, at t Birmingham District Court. • SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Peter and Thomsen Aikman, shipowners, Glasgow* James MitcheD, accountant, Edinburgh. James Thomson, inspector of poor, Canongate, burgh. Willia m Cameron, commission agent, Glasgow. Robert Smith, watchmaker, Inverness. Alexander Glasgow Carswell, salesman, Glasgevr• COUNTRY .11(A.RKBr& BRISTOL—SEPT. 27. At our market to-day there was 8. good a ttendallet i ° „ f buyers attracted by the low range of p r ices, but their idise3,7 and those of holders did not agree Sr) far as to induce trarea business in wheat. Barley dull, ow i n g to the exP"' sales of heated on Thursday. Oats quiet. LIVERPO'OL—SIIPT. 27. madein iee in n and the a quotation a e r t j a o t r e , s The market to-day wa.g, only noticeable by steadincels in last week. eeNk.o change, therefo•re, The show SHEFFIELD—SEPT. 27. s old_ 1 moderately i well at last week's quotations ; for inferior qu a • bf wheat was rather small. Fine samples l s. vs no demand. The quantity of barley shown -was .coll 0 d iderabl-a, and the quality varied greatly, but little busin" ona. In oats and flour no change. d Red wheat, pza- load of 3 • .l6s Orl to 17s C , White Imperial bushels:. Od to 20s C a ..ISS New red 7) » ...Ws Od to 17s . e d 2 P New white " . ..17s Gd to 19s ( 4 Beans il ), .... 19s Od to 203 I Peas per g r " '' . 46s Od to 528 ( ?c,I Grindin *********************** 33s Od to 35s barley, per qr ****** ixi **** Malting- ditto, 33s Od to 405 Oats /I 24s Od to 32s _l9 _ Millers' prices fO'r flour—ls 6d, is Bd, and is 141 b. ll n a s :,r ; , t B m o s ni t o p 5 8 , 51 4s wt to e i a 6 t s st p r e a r w t , 0n 28 . s to 365; /8 • oa t straw, LEEDS—SETT. 27. We had a good supply of new and old wheat ; and f sY a re qualities sell at extreme rates ; for other sorts Pric e :,. ; fully those obtainable on Friday la s t. Trade rather i f : i re. The prices of good barley nominally the same as eb be t Beans in limited demand at late rates. Oats, and ° articles unchanged. Arrivals this week : Wheat Barley Oats .... Rapeseed . Beans Malt Linseed . .2,180 qra. . 115 Averages for the week : Wheat 3,841 qrs., at 44s 31 Peas • • 7, 44s 20 s 01 Bean 164 Barley.. .... „ 1,237 „ 37s 8 1 a Oats 238 94, lid „ Rye 33 „ Vs 10c1 NEWCASTLE—SErT. 27. We had a fair supply of wheat from the country to 4 , , ati n snot met a rather slow demand, but prices were fir ' on last market day. B ar ley a small show, and sur d o. malting qualities freely i nqu i re d after at very hig h P Other articles inactive. COURSE OF E XCHANGE.--YEsT EBDIT ' 15 Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 16/ 30 Antwerp 25 27i 271 Pr 30 Brussels,,,,) 6 — 3 • 1 - Hamburgh Paris - ol; 3a Ditto Marseilles _ 25 321 Frankfort on Maine —117 i Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 34 Madrid —49 i Cadiz — 50 Leghorn — 30 Ii Genoa, 25 25 33 11 30 8 12 1 2 1234 s 4A. St 1, 30 I ° 2 5 65 4' no 40 122 f 123 51,1 52 Naples Palermo 12:: ' 12`z i Messina - 62 ; , Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — •• •.; 9 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 1 6 1 i Oi Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 U. 11 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST, Is bed In the following table E signifies that letters are despa L i . by evening mails from London, and M by m orning ai l I r 1 a il dg e. DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of of Mails. Despatch. -----_. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York I . Sep. 30, E Liverpool.. Canada, &c. (by Cauadn. pckt.) Sep. 20, E Liverpool.. 1: Cape of Good Hdpe, Ascen sion, and St. Helena Oct. 5, E Devonport China, Penang, and Singa pore, via. Southampton. Ditto, via Marseilles I Gibraltar, via Southampton — SoutharuP• Hondura y s ia an 3 d ia ß rs le e wti ille e s lds India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Via Southampton India (Bombay), Southamp. ( . 8 Sep. 26, E ........... via South ampton Sep. 27, 31 Southamp. S Ditto, via Mars e ill es '. Lisbon, Bra zils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Sep. 27, 31 Southamp. S Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton — Southamp. S Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N SOeept: 233 , , 3 8 1 L Southamp. ive r p 001.. 0 America (by British packet) Sep. 23, E Liverpool.. SI Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, 31a- 001.. 0, &Ira, and Teneriffe Sep. 23, E Liverp West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey- 01 town, New Granada, &c Oct. 3, M SouthaMP:___- Oct 10 Oct . 3 , 2 9 ' Sep Oct I Oct, 2 4 Sept • 25 Sept • 16 Sept • Oct. 2 , 6 Sept • " Sept • 05 ; 9 Sept •' Oct- 5 .1 Sept • **— Sep t; 18 Sept Oct. • • ISePt 29. lOct. I 9 10ct..2 I [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Chest Affections.—The unusually mild damp fully tolls on the human frame, deteriorating th e b ;-s. the lus ti. and producing morbid results in its reservoir -- Hence on all sides are we surrounded by bronchitis, p ry 3 ily risy, asthma, consumption ; all of which might be rea ive cured by Holloway's never-failing remedies, whose act . , principle purifies the blood, and causes all inorbific WO te. l speedily to be expelled from the body. The back and chi S i ;; previously washed in warm salt water and dried shoes 50 , well rubbed with the ointment. If tte sufferers be listl 4 3 ~ 0 let their friends and relatives u trial f Holloww. '' • rge ao medicines, which workwonders tissue, by suta 11- on every • - tut' the foie 311, mg pure for impure blood, and nervous powei.. , ITH S. the ARGYLL.—On the 22d inst ß , Invera ry, her Grace Duchess , of a da . . BOW RING. of —On th Argyll e 27th ins u t , at ghter 69, Westbourne-terri IN Hyde-park, the wife of Edgar Alfred Bowring, Esq., of a son. GREY.—On the 26th inst., at Cheltenham, the wife , of Lieut.-Col, Grey, of a son. PROSSER.—On the 26th inst., at 45, Crosvenor-place, th ° Lady Harriet Wegg Prosser, of a son. MARRIAGES. ANBuRY —J OH NSTONE.—On the 10th ultimo, at Ch . 1 t H Church, Bombay, Gurney Hanbury, Esq.. U..'s 3 4 ' Hussars, youngest son of Robert H anbur y , Esq. F °ll (A llerts to Emma, youngest daughter of the late' Jana Johnstone, Esq., of Drum, co. Monagh M an. KING—SLADE.—On the 27th inst. ary's Cathol 1° Chapel. Chelsea, John Donald. at St 'Tiling, barrister-at-bo to Caroline Georgiana, third daughter of Sir Frederi 'lc Slade, Bali., of Maunsel Grange, Somersetsbire, and l' f the Middle Temple; Q.C. COOP DEATHS. BOLLAND.—On the 24th inst., at B ath, Mrs. Rebece 3 Rolland, aged 85. ER--On the 25th inst., at Woodstone, near Pet( e - borough, Mr. Charles Cooper, formerly of Great Rawl ] ' street, Bloomsbury, aged 64. EVELEGIL—On the 2lth inst., at Standen, Newpo rt, Isli of Wight, General Henry velegh, R.A., aged 87. FIELDER.—On the 26th inst., at Manchester street, Thos. Fielder, Esq., aged 85. IN GLIB.—On the 25th Juno, killed in the battle Rote ' mouth of the Peiho, Lieut. Henry L. T. Inglis, Marines (Light Infantry), younger son of the late Lieut. Patrick Inglis, R.N., aged 23. PARDON.—On the 28 th inst. , at Bcaumont-square, 0 Le: wife of George Frederick Pardon, of a son. PRICE.—On tbo 20th hist:, at Rose -hill Cottage, L yon s fr hall, Hugh Morgan Price, Esq., of the late firm o f Price', Farmer, and Gwyn, Sidney , agd 44. _____--------.7r—_______-------f LONDON: Printed and Published by MUILDO YOUNG,. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sem Office, No. 112 t: Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the comity of Middlesex, Wednesday, September 28, 1859. to D. tor] *; Ar i cor opE eho too, de al 11Pm I