The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

IRE NAVY. 4111 1, A M mita letter, dated Valetta, Nov. 22, says : `` H er Majesty's paddlewheel sloop Scourge, Commander Toner J, left port on the 17th inst. for Candia, and the gun boat Boxer, Lieut. Galliver, on the 19th, for Tripoli. Lie' it. Porcher, R.N., and Lieut. Smith, R.E., proceeded in' ner. From Tripoli these officers are to go on to Cyrene to examine certain ruins of high historical interest known to exist there, and I understand they are provided with ti 11 kinds of implements for excavating, a tent, and Pother articles suitable for campaigning, also a photo graphic apparatus, which has been sent out to them by the Foreign-office, under whose auspices the expedition has been organised. Lieut. Porcher has been engaged before in Labours of this kind, and Lieut. Smith was successfully en gaged for two years with Mr. Newton on the ruins of Hall carnassurs. " H.M. screw corvette Scylla, Capt. R. Lambert, arrived here on the 19th inst. from Messina, leaving at that port H.M. tine-of-battle ship Cressy. The Cressy had on board several cases of the extraordinary pulmonary disease simi lar to that which had manifested itself on board the St. Jean d'Acro, and she expect , d ,o winter at Messina. When she left Naples on the 15th inst. there were 13 cases of smallpox on board the Renown, and nothing said of her going to Malta. The Queen was ready to bake Mr. Elliot to Marseilles. " Later news was received this morning from Messina by the French packet Pausilippe—via., to 21st inst.—at which date the Cressy was still there, and two French line-of-battle ships, one of which, the Tage, bearing an admiral's flag, was about to proceed to Gaeta, and replace the admiral at present there. " H.M. troopship Mega3ra, Cora. Henderson. which left this port on the 12th inst. for the lonian Islands, returned yesterday from Corfu and Zante, having touched at the lat ter island to take on board 50,0001 b. of currants for the naval victualling yard at Malta. She brings the following passengers :—Mr. and Mrs. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. Wel lesley, Capt. Barfield, 22d Regiment, Lients. Pilsworth and Dillon, do., and Major Bowden, do. ; Deputy-Assist. Com missary-General Mills and Mrs. and Miss Mills, Miss Eisenbach, Miss Grant, 29 invalid sailors and soldiers, 3 women, and 11 children. The Megaora left Cerfu on the 16th at noon, at which date there were at anchor in that port the Marlborough (flag of Vice-Admiral Martin), Ex mouth, Neptune, Orion, James Watt, and Mars (which ship arrived the day before from Malta), and the fri gate Melpomene. Her Majesty's gunboat Alacrity, Com mander Baird, arrived this morning, bringing later news from Corfu (20th inst.), and despatches from the Comman der-in-Chief. A letter from Corfu of that date says :—'Two two-deckers left yesterday, destination unknown —report says Malta. It is said that the Melpomene frigate is about to proceed to the coast of Syria, to relieve the Liffey, of the same class.' The Megwra is expected to leave Malta on or about the 26th inst., with invalids from the Malta naval and military hospitals, for England. His Excellency Lieu tenant-General Sir William Codrington, who returned to day by the French packet from Italy, will embark in the Negfera for Gibraltar, to resume the Governorship of that garrison." The Barracouta, 6, paddle, Commander W. Wood, arrived at Spithead on Sunday evening, with the yellow flag lying at the fore, having on board upwards of 30 cases of fever from her Majesty's ships Imaum, at Jamaica, the Icarus, and other vessels on the station. Six deaths have occurred since leaving Jamaica on the 24th Oct., but the re maining cases on board are now progressing fa vourably. The ship called in at Bermuda on the 3d of November and remained there until the sth, when she left for England. She remains at Spit head for farther orders. The Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander B. C. Pim, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and anchored at Spithead to take in powder and. shell, prior to proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope. The Gorgon will call at Devonport, where she will take charge of the Swift, fitted as a coal depot for the Cape. The Frederick William, 86, screw, will make her official trial of speed at ,Portsmouth on the 29th inst. The Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Sir M. M'Gregor, will test her speed on the 28th inst.; and the Pelican, 17, screw, will make her official trial on the 2d proximo. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. W. Howell, to the Jason ; Lieut. Colin W. Lindsay, to the Daunt less, additional, for service in the Coastguard ; Jas. Ross, First-class Assistant Engineer, to the Indus for the Lark ; and John H Cooper, Second-class Assistant Engineer, to the Cumberland for the Cochin. TER ARMY. The following important notice was issued yes. terday:— " Horse Guards, Nov. 26. "The Competitive Examinations hitherto held of candi dates for the Artillery and Engineer services of the Indian army will cease, and all candidates for the Artillery and Engineer services generally willin future have to go through a course of instruction at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. " The next Competitive Examination in conformity with the annexed regulations will commence on the 7th January, 1861. "The number of vacancies to be competed for is 70. Ap plications of candidates, as required by Art. VIII. of the regulations, will in this butane° be received until the 20th of December next. "The successful candidates will be admitted in the first instance to the Royal Military College, Addiscombe, and eventually transferred to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. " As in the prospectus formerly issued for admission to Addiscombe College it was provided that candidates might be examined in the use of astronomical and surveying in struments, there will be an examination in that subject for such as desire to take it up in January next ; after which date, however, it will not be included among the subjects of examination for admission to Woolwich ; 750 marks will be allotted to this subject as heretofore. " W. F. FORSTER, Military Secretary.' THE VOLUNTEER MoVIOIEN2. The Inland Revenue companies of the Cir it Ser vice Regiment of Rifle Volunteers will parade at 4 o'clock every Wednesday afternoon at Somerset house, and will march to Westminster-hall for drill. The 41st Middlesex Rifles, composed of officers and artificers attached to the Royal Small-arms Fac tory, Enfield-lock, assembled on Saturday at half past 2 o'clock, and proceeded, headed by the band of the corps, to a field in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of being inspected by Col. Ibbotson. On the arrival of Col. liibotson he was received with a general salute, and the corps afterwards marched past in slow and quick time, in colamns of compa nies, then advanced in line and repeated the salute; after which the corps was formed into three sides of a Square and addressed by Col. Ibbotson, who com plimented them highly on the progress they had made, and added some advice as to their future pro ceedings. Major-Gen. Connop, Lieut.-Col. Dixon, R A., Major Baddely, R.A., Captain Goodliffe of the 11th Herta Volunteers, and a number of other per sons were on th e groun d . A competition took place on Saturday last, at the practice ground of the West Middlesex Rifles, Wormwood Scrubs, for a very handsome challenge cup, value £25, presented by Mr. F. H. Bridg man , Captain Bridgman, an d Ensign ' Phillips, the com petitors being the four winners of the battalion prizes and eight of the next best shots each man f ir ing 10 rounds at 700 y ards , ' being six feet square, wfth range, the target the regulation size. Th Lwo-feet cen t re , or half e cup was won Charles Hall, of the A Com p a ny, who made seven Mr se!ven hits in the 10 rounds. Many of t h e competitors had not previously fired beyond 600 yard s , and it was found, after the contest was ov er, that th e majority of the shots had struck the butt from one 1 to four inches over the target, there being a s t rong wind blowing up the range, and too much eleva tion given to the rifle. The commanding officer (Lord Radstock) nas signified his intention of giving a prize of £5, to be competed for early in the spring, by those members who attend the greatest number of parades and drills during the winter months. The Westley Richards breech loader will also be competed for at the same time. Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of presenting prizes to the Bth Surrey Rifle Corps took place at the King's Head, Market-place, Epsom. The con tests had been decided some days since at the Ep som Rifle-ground, near the Downs, where there is a range of 1,100 yards. The prizes were divided into two classes of recruits, and two classes for the other members of the corps, and the following re milts were obtained. :—For recruits, five rounds at 150 yards, first prize, £2 10s., Mr. Sayers ; second Prize, £2, Mr. Tidey; third prize, £l, Mr. W. Keeling. At 200 yards, first prize, £3, Mr, Rasch; second prize, £2 10s. , Mr. Streadwick ; third prize, £1 10s., Mr. Sawyer. There was also a second class prize, consisting of a silver cup, value £4, to e awarded to the marksman making the greatest number of points at the two above-mentioned .angel. Mr. Streadwick won this prize. The first- class prizes were—At 300 yards—first prize, £3 10s., Mr. .Holland ; second prize, £2 10s,, Mr. W. Holland. At 400 yards—first prize, £3, Mr. G. R. Keeling; second prize, £2, Mr. Peak:. At 600 yards—first prize, £3 10s., Sergeant W. Alexan der; second prize, £2 10s., Mr. Peake. At 700 yards—first prize, £3 10s., Mr. Hards ; second prize, £2 10s., Mr. H. Andrews. A prize cup for the man making the greatest number of shots in the aggregate at the four ranges collectively, won by Mr. Keeling. There was also a cup, value five guineas, for the greatest score at 900 yards, five shots, the competitors being the best 10 men making the greatest number of points at 300, 400, 600, and 700 yards collectively. This cup was the gift of the Hon. Mrs. Greville Howard, of Ashtead park. Conjointly with this prize was a hand some silver challenge medal, presented by Mrs. James Norris, of Epsom, the medal to be held for one year, but if won for two consecutive years by the same member to become his property. Mr. Hards was successful in winning this prize, having scored five points ; and Mr. Peake took a second prize in cash, for the next best score, four points. A cup, value £5 55., presented by Mr. E. W. Northey, of Epsom, for the best shot and regular attendance at drill, was given to Mr. Chutter. The donor, in presenting this prize, announced his in. tention of giving a similar prize under similar con ditions for 1861. Mr, Carter, of Epsom, also pre sented four medals, won at 200 yards' range by Captain Hastie, at 300 yards by Mr. Radford, and another by Mr. Wood, at the same range; at 600 yards, Mr. Keeling. The several donors of the special prizes having presented them to the winners, and the general prizes having been given by Mr. Stillwell, in the name of the subscribers, Captain Hastie returned thanks on behalf of the corps, and after three cheers for the Queen and the ladies, the business terminated. The Ist Surrey Rifles on Saturday last met at head-quarters, and marched out, preceded by their band, through Peckham, Camberwell, Denmark hill, to Brockwell Hall, Dulwich, the residence of Mr. W. H. Cox. After going through a few evolu tions, and having partaken of the refreshments kindly provided by Mr. Cox, the corps marched through Half Moon-lane into Dulwich, and home again to Camberwell-green, where they were dis missed, after giving three hearty cheers for Lieut.- Colonel Macdonald, who congratulated the Ist Sur rey on having had a fine Saturday. On this occa sion the Cadet Company marched with the corp's for the first time. The number attending was over 300, and another march out will take place on Saturday week. In order to encourage the practice of the Ist North York Rifle Volunteers, as shown by the high scoring in their two recent shooting contests, the Ven. Archdeacon Long (East Riding) has in timated his intention to present the corps with a second silver cup, which, while being of as great pecuniary value, will differ from the Fitz william Challenge Cup in becoming the abso lute property of the fortunate winner. Lieu- tenani• General N. Norclife, of Langton-hall, York shire, is also to present the corps with a rifle. The competition for these extra prizes will, it is expected, take place early , in spring. Sir J. V. B. Johnston, M.P., of Hackness-hall, Yorkshire, has also an nounced his intention to present the 6th North York (Scarborough) Volunteers with a silver cup as a prize for the best shot. Sir John has further in vited the corps to Hackness at Christmas, and has promised to provide them an enemy to attack in the shape of Old English Christmas cheer. The Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Northum berland and Newcastle-xpon-Tyne has co nmuni cated to Sir John Fife, Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the Ist Newcastle Rifle Volunteers, th• permission of the Secretary of State to organise in Newcastle a second battalion, the recruiting for which is going on steadily. A. fund is also being raised in the town for the purpose of providing a covered drill house for the corps, which will, it is expected, afford the space for both battalions of 700 men each. The Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, M.P., has offered a prize to be shot for by the members of the corps, and several smaller prizes have been offered by gen• tiemen in the town with a similar purpose. STORM AT WICK. Seldom has the coast of Caithness been visited by a more severe storm than that which burst upon it on Wednesday last, rivalling as it did any gale of the present year, with the exception of the hurri cane of the 3d of last month. In the early part of the week a considerable quantity of, snow fell, ac companied by a strong north-westerly gale, and followed by a fresh, under the influence of which the snow disappeared, torrents of rain poured down, and a hurricane of south •easterly wind threw such a mass of sea ashore in tremendous columns as has not been seen, even on this exposed coast, for many years. Waves of terrific power dashed themselves against the frowning reeks that protect our coast, and threw immense masses of spray almost in credible distances into the interior of the coun try. The storm was in some small degree presaged on Tuesday, when the Prince Consort steamer, on her southern voyage, had a good deal of difficulty in getting her cargo taken on board. Next morning the bay was quite inaccessible, and the Hamburg had to proceed to Ackergill. By midday the storm had greatly increased, during which a number of vessels were observed running in the direction of the Orkneys, for the shelter which could not be found on this dangerous and refugeless coast ; among others one was a coal-laden vessel for Wick, another was bound for Lybster, and the other two were the Charles and. Ann Flem ing of this port. A fifth, the Martha, of Wick, John Cormack, ma s t er , w i t h staves for ' Wick from Perth, and which had sa il e d from Fraserburgh on Tuesday, ran for Sinclair's Bay, where anchor was cast on Wednesday evening. In the morning she was riding all tight, but as the gale and sea in creased, it was evident that she was critically situated, and great anxiety was felt for the crew. Some fishermen unsuccessfully attempted on the previous evening to get an anchor on board, to render her more safe, as it was evident, even then, from her heavy pitchings and heavings, that the moorings might prove insufficient. On Thursday morning the dangerous position of the Martha be came known at Wick, and it was not long till con siderable anxiety was manifested throughout the town. With his characteristic promptitude, Capt. Tudor despatched a messenger to Ackergill to ascertain the state of the vessel. On his return he reported that both the Martha and her crew were in imminent danger, upon which Captain Tudor ordered that the lifeboat should at once be conveyed to Ackergill, which was done with a readiness and speed that cannot be too highly commended, Capt. Tudor himself driving out in a gig, with lifelines and lifebelts, to make the seeded arrangements be fore the arrival of the lifeboat. On reaching the locality Capt. Tudor found that a steamer's boat had been conveyed along the beach from Ackergill to opposite where the Martha lay at anchor ; and he instantly prepared to have the steamer's boat manned ; putting on a cork jacket, and setting his customary example of daring and promptitude in such cases of urgency; he was speedily accompanied by the following whose names deserve to be recorded: —Finlay M'Lean,gamekeeper,Ackergill ; W.Thain, fisherman, Ackergill ; David Taylor, fisherman, Broadhavcn ; J. Donaldson,fisherman,P ultney to wn ; Thain, jun., fisherman, Ackergill; Rode- rick 111(Leod, fisherman, Wick ; John Sutherland, seaman, Pulteneytown ; John Oag, carpenter, Pul teneytown ; George Cormack, fisherman, Pulteney town. Launched under the farm of Shorelands, the boat, steered by Capt. Tudor, proceeded on her voyage of mercy, narrowly escaping being over whelmed by two tremendous billows, one of which completely filled her, and the large mass of specta tors that h ad by this, time lined the beach awaited afterwith t i h n e te e n e s b e si a d nxi e t y the appearance of the boat s h u o m w m b i e t a e u f ti afuelml y e a n ellh c e e of the wave. It was wonderful perseverancetew ards tda e er r tt g ihi elad. heavyand The billow, h mounted eayiear n o od n fw t t i hht with h e e r butaeemi two seas, in addition to inejneecrtginyg the noble crew pulledwhat o f water on board the boat, talarcgaeptquaan,atditeyr over, but in a couple of seconds thew llant.captain was again at his post, and the boat a was rapidly speeding away towards the vessel. No special circumstance occurred till the brave crew reached the Martha's side, when Mr. Cormack and his com panion gratefully took advantage of the opportu pity afforded them of leauing their vessel, no w pitching and rolling at a fearful rate. In a few minutes the boat was once more on her voyage to land. Guided by Capt. Tudor with great skill, the more dangerous seas were avoided till she reached the land breakers, when a scene of intense interest was witnessed. - The crowds of anxious spectators stood gazing in agonised suspense, holding their breath as each successive wave burst upon the boat rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1860. and ever and anon threatened to ingulf the crew. I Still she pursued her cautious way to the land, and after a brief period of extreme danger, in which wave after wave struck the boat with threatening violence, land was reached, numbers of men rushed into the water, and amid hearty and heartfelt cheers the gallant captain and his brave crew, and the grateful rescued mariners, received the warm congratulations of the delighted crowd, whose ap preciation of their exertions, and of the energy, caution, and skill of Capt. Tudor, gave expression in loud acclamations.—Northern Ensign. are saluted with serenades. There is poor chance for any public performer like myself to do great business, the theatre of the hustings being the one at which the most attraction is offered. Yet I have no reason to complain. Opera has been tried, but to no effect; and tragedy has but few vota ries; yet for the past five weeks I have had a house crowded nightly to my entertainment in Concert Hall, and in this my sixth week am still doing a good business. I close in Philadelphia next Saturday, and go on to Bal timore, in Maryland. By Christmas I expect to be in Wash. ington—just when Congress is sitting. I shall then, in all probability, see much that is amusing, and have occasion to make a few notes which will be of interest to your readers, although I am very well aware that American politics are not the most absorbing topic to a reader on the other side of the Atlantic , and that partly because he knows so little of America generally he feels but slight interest in things American. The visit of the Prince of Wales, however, ' will go far to make a knowledge of this country more re quired by Englishmen, and I hope induce many of Queen Victoria's subjects to come over and see for themselves that which Brother Jonathan has to show them.—For the pre sent, allow me to remain, yours very truly, JOHN HENRY ANDERSON, Wizard of the North. LA TV INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 26. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMO. NIAL CAUSES. (Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Justice Wight man, and Mr. Justice Williams.) SHEDDEN AND SHEDDEN T. PATRICK AND PATRICK AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The hearing of this petition for a declaration of legitimacy was resumed. Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Couch appeared for the petitioners ; Mr. Rolt, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Powell for the respon dents ; and Mr. Bourke for the Attorney-General. On Saturday some copies of deeds were tendered in evidence on the part of the respondents for the purpose of proving thestatement of Mr. Rolt, that in 1797 a deed was executed by which certain land was conveyed to the mother of the elder petitioner under the name of Ann Wilson ; that upon her marriage with Vincent in 1799 the land was set tled to separate use under the name of Ann Shed den ; and that in 1801, after her marriage with Vincent, she disposed of it under the name of Ann Vincent. The original deeds were not produced. Their Lordships this morning held that they were not at liberty to receive secondary evidence of them in the absence of sufficient proot that search had been made for the originals, and that they could not be found. The case of the respondents was then closed, and a few letters were given in evidence in reply on the part of the petitioners. Mr. Rolt, in summing up, pointed out that the body of the letter written by Mrs. Vincent to Mr. Patrick was in a different handwriting from the signature, which was evidently that of an un educated person. ire submitted that the respon dents had produced three distinct pieces of evi dence, each of which was conclusive against the petitioners' case, first that of the let ters, especially the deathbed letters of Wil liam Shedden • secondly, the conduct of the elder petitioner and his statements in the suit of 1848, when all the facts were known to him ; and thirdly, the parole evidence of habit and repute, which completely answered the burlesque evidence on that point relied on by the petitioners. Mr. Bolt, in conclusion, said that Mr. Patrick was well aware that there were persons of strong sympathies and weak understandings who would still be willing, notwithstanding the evidence given in the course of this case, to listen to an idle tale cleverly told, But he hoped that, if their lordships' judgment should be for the respondents, the persons who, as they were told, had given their assistance to the petitioners, would bear in mind that there was something due even to an adversary, and that the gratification of their sympathies, although it might be sport to them, might be ruin to the health and fortune of an aged and honourable man. Mr. Bourke regretted the unavoidable absence of the Attorney-General, who had intended to ad dress the Court, and said that cases under the Legitimacy Declaration Act might be divided into three classes :-Ist. Where the only parties were the petitioner on one side, and the Attorney- General on the other, and where it would be the duty of those who represented the Crown carefully to investigate the claim and the evidence adduced to support it. 2dly. Where there were two appa rently hostile parties, yet it might be the duty of the Attorney-General to interfere on the ground that the proceedings were of a collusive character. And, 3dly. The Crown might interpose in cases where it might have a separate and distinct interest in supporting or opposing the claim. He did not think that the Attorney-General was called upon to interfere in this case upon any of the above grounds. The petition contained two prayers—one that the petitioner should be declared legitimate; the other that he should be declared a natural-born British subject. The last was a question of Jeer sonal status distinct from that of a capacity tb in herit or the right of succession. If his parents were not married he owed no allegiance as a duty incident to his birth. He was then flius nullius, and the retrospective character of the law of Scot land could not alter his status. If his parents were married, was he a natural-born British subject ? His father was undoubtedly so at his birth, and there was no evidence that he was ever deprived of that natural allegiance, which could not be for feited or dissolved except under special circum stances. The petitioner, therefore, being the son of a natural-born subject, would, under the statutes of Ann, George 11., and George 111., be a British subject himself. The treaties of 1783 and 1794 did not affect the status of the petitioner's father. There fore, the whole case came to this :—lf his parents were not married at his birth, he was not, and if his parents were married at that time, he was a natu ral-born British subject. But that was the exact question between the petitioner and the parties cited. The evidence was before the court. He did not think it expedient, on the part of the Crown, to interfere between the parties, and, as the Attorney- General was desirous that this question should be settled as soon as possible, he would only add that if the court considered the evidence sufficient to establish the first marriage, there was no objection on the part of the Crown to the petitioner being de clared a natural-born British subject. Mr. Collier replied upon the whole case. He complained of the vehemence with which Mr. Rolt had attacked the petitioner, and said he should en deavour not to follow the learned counsel's exam ple, although he should be obliged to deal some what harshly with Mr. Patrick. He submitted that the petitioner had made out a prima facie case in favour of a marriage between William Shedden and Ann Wilson prior to his birth. As to the let ter of the 12th of November, 1798, he was in structed by Miss Shedden to say that if she had believed it to be genuine she would never have prosecuted this claim, and that if it was genuine there was an end of their case. But, on the other hand, it almost, if not entirely destroyed the re spondent's case. He contended that the evidence of habit and repute of a prior marriage was remark ably strong, considering that 60 years had elapsed since the death of the parties, that lapse of time being the misfortune of the petitioner and the fault of Mr. Patrick. It was not until 1849 tbat any evidence came into the hands of the petitioner that his mother had ever claimed to be his father's wife prior to the deathbed marriage, and he then, for the first time, saw the affidavits which had been sent by Mrs. Vincent to England with the certificate of the second marriage. The suppression of this evidence by Mr. Patrick in the first suit, although it appeared from his own letters that it had come into his hands some time before, showed that the first suit was collusive. He then commented upon the evidence of habit and repute, and dwelt upon the improbability that a merchant of high standing, a man of mark, as Mr. Shedden was admitted to have been, should have lived openly for years with a woman of notoriously bad character. Barr's statement that she was one of the most abandoned women he ever knew was inconsistent with all the rest of the evidence and with the admitted facts. New York was then a small town with not more than 30,000 inhabitants, the lines of demarcation between different classes were less strongly marked than at present ; it was a matter of history that there was a great deal of the old Puritanical spirit in American so ciety at the end of the last century, and it was utterly incredible that William Shedden should have lived an openly profligate life for years, and yet that none of the persons who remembered him should know anything about it. Unless the re spectable witnesses, Mr. Arden, Mr. Ogden, Mr. Vermilye, and others had committed deliberate perjury without any possible motive, it was clearly proved that Mr. and Mrs. Shedden were reputed to have been respectable married people and to have occupied a highly honourable position. This evidence was confirmed by that of Miss Jean Shed den, whose recollection was distinct and appeared to be accurate. The only witnesses on the other side were Neilson and Barr. Neilson's evidence amounted only to this, that he did not meet Mr. hedden much in society, and that he looked on him as a bachelor. Barr s evidence was so strong that it was incredible, for it was impossible that a woman of such an infamous character as hell had ascribed to Ann Wilson should have lived with Mr. Shedden without public scandal and censure, of which there was not the slightest proof. The deathbed marriage was not inconsistent with the prior marriage. Many persons thought that mar riage ought properly to be regarded as a religious ceremony, and when he was in his last illness Mr. Shedden might have felt a conscientious scruple ' on the point, or he might have desired to render his marriage more easy of proof. By tho will Mr. Shedden did not dispose of his estates in Scotlard, and it was therefore most pro bable that he thought they would descend to his eldest son as his heir, and that he had no notion that his legitimacy would be disputed. He ,left his widow some slaves and plate and furniture, besides the 400 dollars a-year, and treated her in every re spect as his wife. The learned counsel then referred to the letters of John Patrick, of New York, and submitted that they led to the inference that during the last illness of William Shedden John Patrick conceived the idea of putting his own family into possession of the Scotch estates. With regard to the letter of the 12th of Nov., 1798, he pointed out, the improbability of such a letter having been written by a person in extremis the very day before he died, and of the two copies called a duplicate and triplicate having been sent to Scotland by the same vessel. The correspondence between William Patrick and Hugh Crawfurd proved that the suit and the appeal of 1802 were fraudulently and col lusively instituted and prosecuted for the purpose of depriving the heir of his property, and prevent ing him from claiming it at any future time. The Court adjourned before the learned counsel had concluded his reply. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, Nov. 26. Joseph Locke, a young man, surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, in having committed an indecent assault upon a young girl named Eliza beth Webb. Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution, under the instruction of the City Solicitor ; Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. F. H. Lewis were counsel for the defence. This case occupied the Court for several hours. The Recorder having summed up, the jury re tired at 4 o'clock to consider their verdict. They returned into Court at a quarter past 5 o'clock, and found the defendant not guilty. There was some applause among the audience when the verdict was returned, but it was promptly repressed, and the Recorder threatened to commit any person who was guilty of such indecent con duct in a court of justice. The defendant was ordered to be immediately discharged. Robert Ernest Graham, 35, a gentlemanly-looking young man, described as a clerk, was placed at the bar to plead to a great number of indictments charg ing him with stealing watches and other articles of jewelry, the property of Samuel Lewis Nathan, his master. The prisoner was also charged upon other indictments, with obtaining various articles of jewelry from diderent persons by false pretences. The circumstances connected with these charges have appeared very fully within the last few days in the Guildhall police report, and it will be re membered that the total value of the property al leged to have been stolen by the prisoner was esti mated at nearly £2,000. The prisoner, when called upon, pleaded "Guilty" to the whole of the indictments - which charged him with stealing the property of his master, and " Not Guilty" to the other charges. Mr. F. H. Lewis, who was instructed for the prosecution, applied to the Court to defer passing sentence for the present. He said that a great many pawnbrokers who had possession of large quantities of valuable ;property were not then in attendance, and it was necessary that they should be so, that an order might be made upon them to deliver up the property that was in their hands. He said that he also wished for an opportunity of considering whether it was advisable to proceed upon any of the other charges to which the prisoner had pleaded " Not Guilty. The Recorder acceded to the application. Edward Collins, 24, a private in the Royal Ar tillery, pleaded " Guilty" to a charge of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of Samuel Russell. The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner, after having committed the offence, went and gave himself up immediately, and said that his object was to be sent out of the country, in order to get out of the service in which he was employed. He would, however, be very much mistaken, for the practice of the Court in such cases was not to send the offender out of the country, but to pass upon him a long and severe sentence of imprison ment, and he would find the condition in which he would be placed much worse than that of any honest service in which he would be employed. He then sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for 10 years. William Johnson, 49, and George Burdett, 27, pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in the dwellinghouse of Robert dainford, with intent to steal. Sergeant Lockyer informed the Court that John son had been known as a thief for 20 years, and he had been repeatedly convicted of burglary. He was tried for that offence at the last session, but acquitted, and the moment he obtained his liberty he committed the burglary to which he had now pleaded guilty. The other prisoner, Burdett, was not known. The Recorder sentenced Johnson to six years' penal servitude, and Burdett to nine months' hard labour. POLIO INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 26. MANSION HOUSE.—Mary Webb, about 25 years of age, a domestic servant, was charged before the Lord Mayor with robbing her master, Mr. Thos. Jones, a partner in a firm of hosiers, at 171, Fen church-street. The complainant said he lived in the house over the shop of the firm of which he was a member, and the prisoner had been in his service eight months. He had lately missed articles from the stock in the shop, and money from the till. The prisoner had access to the shop, but it was no part of her duty to be there. On Sunday, on his return home about one o'clock in the day, his wife made a communica• tion to him, which induced him to go upstairs to the prisoner's bedroom. The prisoner had been sent to church, and had not then returned. He saw a cambric handkerchief nearly new lying on her dress ing table, and the circumstance exciting suspicion, he wail ed until she returned, when he asked her to follow him upstairs to her room, which she did. Then he informed her that his suspicions had been raised by the fact of missing articles from the stock, and he should like to see the contents of her box. At firEt she objected on the ground that it was Sunday, but at length opened the box in the pre sence of him and his wife. The result of a search was the dLeovery of six pairs of best kid gloves, ten cambric handkerchiefs, a quantity of flannel made up into petticoats, anoth.r pair of gloves, and a great quantity of new linen, a 1; which he had reason to believe were taken from the stt:C.k of the firm. He called a policeman and gave her into custody. The prisoner, in angiwer to questions put by /12 11, said , with respect to the six pairs of gloves, first 1:;_lat she had bought them, and then, declaring she would tell the truth, that she took them from the stock in the shop that day fortnight. The hand kerchiefs she said she had bought at a sale in Whitechapel of a draper's stock, but on being shown a trade-mark of complainant's firm on one of them she made no reply, and did not attempt to account for her possession of the flannel or linen. The complainant added that she had been very kindly treated while in his service, and having reason to suspect that she had robbed bim to a greater extent, he asked that she should be re manded, to enable him to make some necessary in quiries. _ _ _ - The Court at once complied with the request. Thomas Saker, a dissipated-looking man, living at 15, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate, having the ap pearance of an artisan, was charged with a serious assault upon his wife. The complainant is 70 years of age, and the pri soner 44, and they had been married about three years. She was a tidily-dressed and respectable peron, though poor, and was described by several of her neighbours, who accompanied her to the court, as a hard-working woman, notwithstanding her advanced age. According to her own state ment the prisoner, who was a man of dissipated character, had been drinking on Sunday week and on the three following days. On Thursday he went to work, and on Saturday returned home drunk, when, provoking a quarrel with her, he seized a poker, broke almost everything in the house, threw her down, and then struck her a very violent blow on the arm with it. He had, she said, so ferocious a look that she fled the place, believing her life was in danger, remembering also that on the pre vious Monday he had threatened "to do for her." Often before had she been obliged to leave the house in the dead of night to seek in the neighbours' houses protection from his violence, or to walk the streets. She added that by her own industry she had kept him and herself since their marriage, until at length he had brought her to a state of beggary. Her story was borne out by some of her neighbours. The prisoner did not deny the charge, but ex pressed his regret, and sought to extenuate his conduct by saying he was very tipsy at the time and did not know what he was doing. The Lord Mayor characterised the assault as a very brutal one, for which a mere expression of sorrow was not sufficient to atone, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three calendar months. GUILDHALL.—Lewis Robert Poole, of the bankrupt firm of Poole and Bryan, boot and shoe manufacturers, of Northampton and New Oxford street ; Mr. James Cooke, a tanner and currier, of Walsall; Mr. Roger Dawson, a solicitor, of North ampton ; Thomas Chapman, an innkeeper ; George Billingham, a furniture broker, of Nort , ,ainpton ; and Free Brick Walter Ventris, clerk to Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co., the accountants, were fur ther examined relative to the charge of conspiring together to defraud the creditors of the bankrupts, and, with the exception of Mr. Dawson, with hav ing committed wilful and corrupt perjury in the Court of Bankruptcy. After a long examination of witnesses, the de fendants were remanded until Friday, the same hail being accepted for all the accused who have hitherto been alloin ed to put in bail. Ventris and Poole remained in custody. BOW-STREET.—William Ballan, aged 15, late errandboy to Mr. Day, of the Strand, trunkmaker, was charged «ith embezzling a sum of £lO, being the change of a cheque on the Union Bank, with which his master had sent him to the Temple-bar branch of that establishment, where he has an account. On the 16th inst. the prosecutor handed the cheque to the prisoner, with instructions to take it to the bank and get £lO worth of silver. He did so, but instead of returning to his master, he ab sconded, and no more was heard of him till Sunday last, when Roger Dillon, a policeman of the M division, 162, being on duty in Duke street, London bridge, was called to a coffeeshop in that street to take him in custody for stealing ss. from another boy. He offered no defence, and was committed for trial. • SOUTHWARK.— BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN AGED WIFE BY HER HUSBAND AND HIS PARA MOUR.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—William Daley, a smart-looking old man, a tailor, and Catherine Wilcox, a widow about 20 years his junior, were charged with committing assaults upon Harriet Daley, a very aged female, under the following cir cumstances : _ The complainant, who exhibited a severe bruise on the left eye, and another on the chin, said she had been married to the male prisoner 30 years, but for some years past he had ill-used her, and kept her almost in a state of starvation, while ho and the female prisoner enjoyed themselves. They all lived in one room, and she was not allowed to touch any thing. On Saturday night while at supper the female prisoner struck her, and then her husband actually held her down while she beat her over the head, and caused the bruises on her eye. On Sunday, while they were out, and had locked every thing in the shape of food up, she searched about the room and found a few stale potatoes and a small piece of fat, which she cut up and put in a frying pan. While she was cooking them her husband came home, and, after making use of disgusting language, he took the fryingpan from the fire and threw the food away. He then knocked her down, causing the bruise on her chin. She got out of the house as soon as she could, and proceeded to the police-station, when an officer returned with her and took the prisoners into custody. Mr. Burcham—l recollect you. You came to this court a few weeks ago with your husband, and then it was shown that he lived with this young woman in the same room with you, and you were forced into the coalhole to sleep. Witness—Yes, sir, that is true. We all sleep and live in one room, and the female prisoner sits on the board with him while I am iilused and starved. Mr. Burcham—How many beds have you in the room ? Witness—Three, sir. Their beds are on one side of the room and mine is up in a corner. I dare not say anything; if I do they beat me. Mr. Burcham—l suppose, then, you are jealous of the female prisoner ? Witness—Oh, no, sir ; not I. I want to get away from them, but I cannot without his allowing me something to maintain me. Mr. Burcham—How long have you lived in this frightful manner Witness—Oh, a long time, sir. Mr. Burcham—Then I think you have acted wrong in doing so. The conduct of your husband and his paramour is disgraceful. The female prisoner here denied that anything wrong was carried on. She was a poor widow, and worked for Mr. Daley, and he allowed her to sleep in the same room, but she did not sleep with him. Mr. Burcham—You are a disgusting woman, but that has nothing to do with the charge before me. What have you to say for knocking this poor old woman about ? Female prisoner—She called me names, and then I only pushed her, and then she fell down and hurt herself. Male prisoner—That is true ; I never touched her. Mr. Burcham—She says you held her down while your paramour hit her, and on Sunday you attacked her again because the poor creature was preparing a little food. You are a brutal and dis gusting old man. The complainant here informed his worship that two years ago they knocked her about so that her left arm was broken. Inspector Reed stated that he understood that the complainant was entitled to considerable pro perty in Chancery, and that the prisoners ill-treated her and neglected her, in such a manner as to make it appear that she was insane, so that the man could put in a claim on the property. The male prisoner declared that he wanted to have nothing to do with his wife's property. She was a dirty, drunken beast, and he wished she was away from him. Mr. Burcham told the prisoners that he had no doubt as to their brutal violence towards the old woman, who appeared to have suffered much, both in mind and body. He should, therefore, commit them both under the Aggravated Assaults Act, and sentenced the man to two months' and the female to one month's hard labour. PROFESSOR _ANDERSON IN AMERICA. The following letter from " The Wizard of the North," we extract from the Aberdeen Herald:— " Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1860. " SIR, —Most materially has the ♦isit of the Prinee of Wales to this country strengthened the entente cordiale between Great Britain and the United States. His pre- sence on this soil has done more to obliterate from Ameri- can minds the rancour which had its birth at Lexington and Concord than could have been effected by any diplo macy, any amount of oratory, or by books innumerable. Coming to these shores as heir to the throne of England and son of Queen Victoria—a name which all Americans re- epect—Prince Albert Edward has done the work of years in a tour of three months. The boom of the cannon fired on Bunker Hill the 19th of April, 1775, has kept up its echoes to the present time. Those echoes have never rolled away into silence until the last few days. In the history of America few subjects will be more the theme of elo- quently imaginative pens, and scarcely will another picture stand out in bolder relief on the panoramic canvas of her country's story than the meeting of the Prince and the Pre sident at the grave of Washington. The Americans inter • pret that act of the Prince as the very highest compliment he could have paid their country. To stand with head un- covered in view of the tomb of him who defied Lord Howe and his 30,000 troops, and to whom Lord Cornwallis capi tulated at Yorktown, virtually yielding up the sceptre of America to her own people, was doing something which the sensitive excitable American can accept as an act of homage to his country, surpassing any political professions and better far than any alliance negotiated by diplomatic artists. Every newspaper that I saw seemed to accept the event as a happy augury of the good fellowship for all time to come of John Bull and Brother Jonathan; and of such importance has the Government deemed it to be, that one of the best historical painters in this country has been commissioned to represent it upon canvas, that it may be preserved in the memory of Americans for all time to come. While the visit of the Prince of Wales has had its grandly historical importance, it has, of course, presented some very ludicrous features. The manner in which the doings of his Royal Highness has been chronicled daily in the newspapers, has proved amusing in the extreme. Everything has been warranted and deemed of sufficient importance to be printed in the columns of the morning journals. Not merely what the Prince said and did, but even when he had his hair cut, how he was shampooed, and which way he lighted his cigar. I have frequently seen paragraphs in the papers of the United States, with reference to the news in the Court Circular, of the London Times, and _Morning Pei', ridicu ling the absurdity of chronicling when her Majesty walked on the slopes at Windsor, and when the Royal Family took an airing, but the Court Circular is newwhere, and Jenkins of the Morning Post is a most meagre writer in compa rison with the reporters of the American papers. To them every incident, however trivial, connected with royalty has been of the utmost importance, and every movement of the Prince as much a matter for careful record as Caesar thought the events of his Gallic invasion to be, or as Napier valued the incidents of the Peninsular war. The New York Herald scorns the reports published in the Times as not being sufficiently minute, and eulogises in its own eulo gistic way the accuracy of its own reporting corps, who were observant enough to notice when the Prince placed his hat on his head at an angle of 80 deg., and when he deflected it to an angle of 81 deg. The ball given to his Royal Highness in Boston seems to have passed off with very great eclat. The Academy of Music there is one of the theatres in which I have recently peformed, and I can vouch for its being one of the most magnificent and most commodious. The attendance was large and the receipts very great. There is scarcely in all Boston a gentleman more liked and respected than Colonel Chickering, the pianoforte maker, and his lady was one of the happy few on whom the Prince conferred the honour of se lection as a partner. Won't Col. Chickering's pianos sell now 1 His " Prince of Wales' Grand" will be in every drawing-room throughout Now England. In Boston, more so than in New York and cities south of that, the presence of the Prince was made the occasion of general festivity. It was made so to such an extent, indeed, that the tradesmen closed all their shops to join in the gene ral frolic ; not but what they could well afford to do so, for the amount of money put in circulation by the Prince's visit must have been enormous. Tailors, milliners, and dress makers must have reaped a harvest, the like of which does not live in their remembrance. One of ray friends—a Scotchman, too—Mr. William Bogle, the inventor of the hyperian fluid, took four thousand dollars for headdresses alone, irrespective of all the cosmetics and pematums he sold for the occasion. Boston had good right to delight in the Prince, and from that which I have heard, I believe that the Prince delighted in Boston. Amongst other places which he was taken to visit was Bunker-hill, where stands the tall monument of Quincy granite in the centre of the grounds inoluded withinthe breastworks of the old redoubt on Breed's-hill, so famous in the commencement of the great war of independence. It was certainly somewhat deli cate matter to invite his Royal Highness to visit a spot, the recollections associated with which are certainly none of those 'likely to be pleasant to a desceidant of the Third George. But time has buried the hatchet, and good-fel lowship has made flowers to grow over the embedded can non-balls. I di not know whether the Prince ascended the monument and smoked his cigar as a calumet of peace on the summit, but he should have done so, that he might have enjoyed the glorious view from each of the four look.. out places; a view which has been said is " worth a thou sand miles of travel to see." Boston and its magnificent harbour, Cambridge with its fins old university, and Long fellow's delightful residence ; Dorchester Heights, charm ing Jamaica Plains, the far-distant peaks of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the romantic peninsula of Nahant, and the pleasantly situated towns of Salem and Lynn. Beneath and more adjacent, the ground on which Gage, aid Howe, and Clinton fought, the colonists who were led by the American generals Pomeroy and Warren —the latter an apothecary turned soldier, who displayed the most exalted patriotism and gallantry, and whose mo nument is one of the fairest preserved at Bunker Hill. The Bostonians escorted the Prince to Bunker Hill, but the Philadelphians did not take him to see Independence Hall. Whether his Royal Highness knew of there being such a place within five hundred yards of where he was lodging, whether he felt a disinclination to visit, or whether from motives of delicacy the civic authorities refrained from in viting him, I cannot tell. It has been the subject of much debate and conjecture in the city. Certainly it would have been a sight worth seeing, to have beheld the room in which the "Declaration of Independence" was passed by Congress, on the 4th of July, 1776 ; and in which John Hancock, after signing, threw down his pen, exclaiming— " There! John Bull can read ray name without spectacles, and may now double his reward for my head; that is my defiance." A find bold signature it is, the boldest of all on the framed paperwhieh hangs up to public gaze on the wall of the room. There is a chair, too, in that room which I think the Prince would have liked to have seen, for the mahogany of it is from the walls of the house in which Co • lumbus lived, and the first house built by Europeans on American soil, while other portions of the same chair are formed out of the wood of the tree under which Penn signed his treaty with the Indians, and the wood also of that tree which overshadowed the home of Washington. Whatever his Royal Highness did see must, however, have impressed him strongly, and, to judge by his admis sions, most favourably. I sincerely hope that he has formed as good an opinion of this country as America has formed of him, and that the bond of brotherhood between Britain and the - United States, which his visit has done so much to strengthen, may never be broken. Americans were proud of receiving the representative of the race from which they have nearly all sprung. In honouring England through the son of her Queen they have felt, to use the poet's words, that— We speak the tongue that Shakspere spoke, The faith and morals hold that Milton held ; • In everything we are sprung from Earth's best blood— Have virtues manifold. The Prince has sailed from Portland. The excitement oc casioned. by his visit is over. Sensational as the people of America are, no excitement lasts very long, and they re quire that one should rapidly follow another. The grea one now, the excitement of all excitements to the United States citizens, is the Presidental election. Tuesday next, November 6, will be an eventful day, and every day which precedes it will be a day of unrest to all who dabble in polities ; and, in America, who does not ° On the 6th of November will be settled the important question whe ther the next Government is to be Republican or Democratic whether Mr. Lincoln, of Illinois, is to reign at Washington for the next four years, er whether the ruler tkere shall be John Bull, Judge Douglas, or the present Vice-President, Mr. Breckenridge. Recent events point strongly in the direction of Mr. Lincoln, and indications of his being elected are so numerous that the New York Herald accepts his election as a conceded fact; at the same time, it prophecies that much disaster will be the result. The Republicans, of whom Mr. Lincoln is the representative, are opposed to the extension, if not to the ex istence of Slavery, and the Southern States are alarmed least their slaveholding rights should be interfered with. From some of them—Georgia and. Virginia, for instance—threats of secession from the Union, in the event of Mr. Lincoln's election, have been promulgated in very strong phraseology. ,But I do not ant:cipate that anything so serious will result. That which is said before the election and that which is done afterw ar d s are u sua lly t wo ver y diff eren t t hi ngs; an d nex t Tuesday will act like oil on the troubled waters, no matter who may be uplifted to the Presidential chair. Meanwhile, the streets are alive at night with torchlight processions, bands of music, and every form of political demonstration. In front of the hotels, some distinguished Democrats:or Republicans nightly harangue the listening crowds, and - - THE SERVICES AND THE PRESS. A non-commissioned officer of Engineers at Chat ham invented, or professed to have invented, a new form of gabion, known as the iron-boind gabion, and this invention, both as to its intrinsic merits and its proper paternity, became a subject of great interest and hot discussion among the non-commis sioned officers and men in the Engineer quarters. Corporal James O'Hanlon, who is reported to us as being a man of superior intelligence and great zeal for his profession, took a warm interest in the controversy, and when at last the discussion reached its inevitable result—namely, the appearance of the controversialists in print, the corporal was at once fixed upon by the authorities as the man who had committed the dreadful mili tary offence of giving the public the benefit of his practical experience in the making of gabions. An inquiry was ordered by the offi cer in command, and, without, as we are informed, a ,' - ,ft;tle of evidence to prove that Corporal O'Han lon hae committed the offence alleged against him, that „„ „omissioned officer was found guilty, deprived of his ripes as a corporal, and forthwith We have been furnished reduced to the ranks, with some details respecting; the manner in which was eni ;ducted, the sort of the court of inquiry evidence on which reliance was placed, and the efforts which were used to indue:: Corporal °Manion to criminate himself, which, - i n the absence of more exact documentary evidence, we hesitate to publish. All we shall at present do shall be most earnestly to entreat the Commander in-Chief and the Minister for War to call for full particulars, in older that they may judge for themselves as to whether this inquiry has been conducted accordinc , to the rules of the service, the law of the land, * and the principles of common justice and English fair play. We shudder when we read of the iniquities of the Spanish inquisition, we exclaim against the French mode of criminal procedure ; but let us take heed that in this enlightened 19th century, and in this free and constitutional England, we do not ourselves tole rate proceedings which may rival the cruelty of the one, or outdo the unfairness and injustice of the other. One would have thought that it would hare been the delight of any sensible commanding officer of Engineers to see his men busy discussing gabions and fascines, and scaling-ladders, and all the other appurtenances of their important branch of the service ; but in Chatham it appears that an entirely different view is taken of such proceedings, and that if a non-commissioned officer is anxious has e on ly to be alittle more than his military brethen, and to be anxious to give the civilian public:some information on matters in which they take a very natural interest, and for which their pockets are made to suffer so severely in each year's estimates, United Service Gazette. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. 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The reproduction of manuscripts by photography was one of the first applications of Mr. Talbot's method in the very infancy of the art ; and since then it has been occasionally practised more or less without leading to any discovery of interest. A. curious fact has, nevertheless, .been recently brought to light—viz., that photography will revive effaced writings on old parchments. M. Vincent, a mem ber of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Let tres, a short time ago presented to that body the first facsimile of a MS. reproduced photographi cally by M. Silvy. It was the Sforza manuscript, the original of which is in the possession of the Marquis d'Azeglio ; and we need not say that all the designs and ornaments of this precious work have been reproduced with magical fidelity. But the cir cumstance which deserves peculiar mention is, that not only is the copy more legible than the original, but that certain passages which could not be deci phered on the old parchment have been actually re vived ; and this was particularly visible on the last page, where a note, written in German under the signature, has become both visible and legible, where there is not a trace of it left on the original. M. Figuier, who mentions this circumstance in the Presse, explains it as follows :—" On old parch ments, the ink, under the influence of time assumes a yellowish tint, which often becomes undistin guishable from that of the parchment, so that it cannot be read without the greatest difficulty. Now, during the photographic process, the brilliant and polished parts of the parchment reflect light much better than those where the ink has been deposited. However colourless it may appear, the ink has not lost its anti-photogenic qualities, op posed to the photogenic ones of the parchment ; and, thanks to this oppo.:=ition, black characters may be obtained on the sensitive surface, in return. 'or much paler ones on the original." .%.,,MO.Ml===l U NTR Y IIZ ARt; fiTS. COLCHESTEIt —Nov. 24.. 1a A fair supply of wheat was brought into tak'rket to-day, and the condition as bad as ever, with a dull trade, and prices were 2s under former currenoies for all saunples. Wheat, white 60s to 68s I licans, Mazagan..4, to 48s red 44s to 60s I Middle & small 44k' to 50s Barley 4os to 504 White peas ......4 8 r to 52s I Oats 22s to 28s Grey, . 42 4* 486 CHELMSFORD-NOT. 23. A large supply of wheat to-day, and prices at 2s under late rates for good samples; inferior samples 3s to 4. per qr lower. Fine malting barley in fair demand, and sold at fully is lower Wheat, white... 42. to 62s 1 Peas, Partridge ..43s to 448 red 51. to 62s 1 White ........ 438 to 46. Barley 348 to 418 • Boiling ...... 43s to 47. Chevalier 37s to 448 Dun 39s to 42a Grinding 32s to 36s Beans, Tick ....38. to 46s Malt 61s to 67. Harrow Ticks 398 to 49s Chevalier 648 to 698 i M azagan 328 to 43s Oats 26s to 31s i NORTHAMPTON—Nov. 24. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in tolerable sup ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68s for white, and 42s to 62s for red. In barley a good business, malting 40s to 445, grinding 32s to 35s per qr. Oats in small supply, and prices stationary—quoted at $2:45.t0 38s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 54s to 56s ; peas, 448 to 545. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 725; flour, 33 s to .3.45 per sack. KIRKALDY—Noy. 24. We had a large supply of barley to-day, and fine 17 — ties brought about the prices of last week; indifferent parcels were sold at is to 2s lower. Old and new wheats were in small supply, and is to 2s cheaper. Oats in fair supply, at about late rates. Wheat Barley Oats First.... 49s Od 30s Od 21s Od Second.. 56s Od 40s Od 28s Od Third .. 64s Od 42s Od 29s Od COAL MARKET—Nov. 26. (Prima of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. Walls End. Walls End. d. a. d. Hetton .. 22 0 Auckland Park.. ....18 0 Harton 2O 0 Framwellgate 21 0 Thorpe .. .20 6 I West Hetton 20 9 Russel's Hetton 20 9 I Hedley 19 0 Ships at market, 23; sold, 22. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) Dee. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Dee. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds ' Dee. 6. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. • • Nov. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) • • Nay. •-•-• Canada, &c. (via Galway) . Overdue. Cape of Good Hope, &e. Dec. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Dec. 2. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 26. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue. India(Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. 2. Do. 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To all in tending purchasers of watches this establishment will be found well worthy of a visit. The magnificent display of ormolu clocks, of recent manufacture, together with the immense number (.1‘ watches, form one of the sights of the visitor to the neighbourhood of St. Patil'a.' r —ifornistg Past. Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, post free for two stamps, is descriptive of every construction of watch now made. Watches safe by post to all parts of the globe. [ADVIIRTISEMENT.]—We are happy to quote the follow ing interesting information from Du Barry's Report on cures without Medicine by Du Barry's Revalenta Arable& Food. Cure No. 4,2oB—Servant of Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlingtan Rectory, Norfolk, of eight years' dyspepsia, ner vousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea. Cure 18,216—Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 36,212—Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. I,6o9—Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debi.. lity, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's Reralenta Arabica Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen. Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment, and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence per day, saves 60 times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually , without purging, P c s o i tequences. Certificate nervous, bilious and complaintsliver r tipation indigestion andall h (dyspepsia) No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the and his a penalty of agents ; and the pretences £5,000 against t iery ent for Arabi ca F oo d an d that Du tt high at. treNd C e o Hy p o he f ra s C N h ae a vp n ia c i Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 1113. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s 6d. ; 51b. lls.; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40e. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London ; Fortnum Mason, and Co. ; Abbit, 60, Graeechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox b3rd-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and. Ce, tea-deitiers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street City ; at 127, Hi g h H o lb orn ; an d all grocers BIRTHS. JOLLIFFE.—On the 26th inst., at 16, Stratton-street, Lady Agnes Hylton Jolliffe, of a daughter. MACNEE.—On the 24th inst., at Montague-place, Bath street, Glasgow, the wife of Daniel Macnee, R.S.A., of a daughter. Woon.—On the 24th inst., at 31, Loinstor-gardens, the wife of the Rey. Richard Wood, perpetual curate of Christ Church, Paddington, of a son. MARRIAGES. MAcEvor—sETTEuviLLe.--On the 22d inst., at Dublin, Joshua J. MacEvoy, Esq., youngest son of the late Jas. MacEvoy, Esq., of Tobertinan, co. Meath, and brother of the present M.P. for that county, to the Hon. Mary Netterville, second daughter and co-heiress of the late Viscount Netterville. OXENIKAM —ABERCROMBIE.-011 the 22d inst., at St. John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, Mr. Henry Oxenham, of Oxford-street, to Katharine, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Wm. Henry Abercrombie, of Southampton street, Fitzroy-square. DEATHS. BURN.—On the 22d . inst., Mr. James Burn, of Albany- street, Regent's-park. CROLT.—On the 24th inst., suddenly, the Rey. George Croly, LL.D., of 9, Queen -square, Bloomsbury, rector of the united parishes of St. ttephen's and St. Benet's, London. GREENE.—On the 26th inst., Benjamin Greene, Esq. of 45, Russell-square, London, and of Bury St . Edmunds, aged 81. LE mx.—On the 22d inst., at Lewes, Frederick George Leigh, Esq., nephew of George, sixth Lord Byron. NORFOLK..—On the 25th inst., at Arundel Castle, the Duke of Norfolk, E.M., aged 45. TYNTE.—On the 23d inst., at Ha'swell H ouse , S omerse t, Colonel Kemeys Tynte, formerly M.P. for Bridgewattr, aged 83. 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