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CENTRAL CRLIIINAL COURT—Tan. 6. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron 'Martin.) Francis Higginson, 59,. described as a seaman was indicted for misdemeanour. Mr. Giffard and Mr. Talfourd Salter' conducted the prosecution. Mr. Giffard, in opening the case, said that the defendant was a lieutenant in her Majesty's navy, and the complainant was Mr. Alderman Salomons, one of the magistrates of the City of London. The charge against the defendant was that of having , committed an assault upon Mr. Salomons, and the facts connected with the actual offence lay in a very small compass, but in justice to that gentleman, and in consequence of the course that had been taken by the defendant, it was necessary that. he should. state some circumstances that had taken place be fore the assault was committed. Upon one occas sion when Mr. Salomons was discharging his duty as a magistrate in the City of London, the defendant appeared before him, and made an application for a summons against the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany to recover penalties for what he alleged to be an infringement of the provisions of the Joint Stock Compdnies Registration Act. His applicas tion was listened to, but it turned out that there was n e ground whatever for it, and the defendant was informed so, and upon this he conducted him= pelf in such an intemperate manner that Mr. Salo : wens found it necessary to direct that he should be removed from the court. The defendant at first complained of having lost a considerable sum of money by the company, and it was supposed that he had been a shareholder, and that he was a loser by the failure of the scheme; but it turned out that he had nothing whatever to do with the company, and that the only ground he had for the allegation—that he was a loser in connexion, with it—was that he had made some offers of services to the company that had not been accepted, and he had in consequence lost the amount he should have received if they had been, and which he appeared to have estimated at the sum of £l,OOO. There was a great deal of absurdity in the proceedings of the defendant, and many persons entertained an opinion that he was under some delusion ; but, according to his instructions, Mr. Salomons treated him with the utmost courtesy and kindness, and every means were taken to satisfy him that there was no ground for the application he had made"; but he was told, at the same time, that if he could satisfy the, clerk, who was the legal adviser of the magistrates, that he was entitled to a summons; there was no objection to his having one. Nothing more was heard of the defendant after this until the 22d of December, when, as Mr. Solomons was walking close to Bartholomew-lane, the defendant rushed upon him, and committed the assault that was the subject of the present indictment. The facts of the case were very short, but in consequence of the course that had been taken by the defendant on former occasions, he felt it only due to Mr. Alderman Salomons to say that he had no unkind feeling against him; that all he desired was to be protected from personal violence ; and that the evidence would make out that he had acted through:- out the whole matter, as every one who knew him would expect him to do, as a gentleman and an upright magistrate. Mr. Abraham Cohen, brother-in-law to Alder . - man Salomons, deposed that on the 22d of Decem ber he was coming out of the London and West minster Bank, Lothbury, in the direction of St. Bartholomew's-lane, about half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the defendant came up tO him and asked if he was Mr. Alderman Salomons. Witness told him ho was not, but that the Alderman was in the London and Westminster Bank. About half an hour after this witness returned to the bank, and met Mr. Salomons coming out, and they walked together in the direction of the Bank of England. When they got to the cor ner of the street the defendant came up to Mr. Salomons, and said something to him in an excited tone, but he could not hear what he said. Shortly afterwards he heard the defendant say, " What do you mean by delusions?" and at the same instant he raised a stick and was in the act of striking Mr. Salomons with it, when witness seized him by the arms and prevented him from doing further harm. He was eventually given into custody and taken to the police-station. The defendant cross-examined this witness for considerably more than an hour upon matters of all kinds that had apparently nothing to do with the question before the court, He appeared to wish to show that, after he had been taken to the station Alderman Salomons had acted as judge and accuser, and etirected the inspector to allow him to go at large upon his entering into his own recognisance to appear on the following morning, and that by this means he had acted unjustly and illegally to wards him, and this, and the refusal of the sum mons, appeared to be among the principal griev , ances he thncied he had sustained at the hands of Mr. Salomons. Mr. J. Mills confirmed the evidence as to the as sault, and stated that he saw defendant make a sort of snatch at Alderman Salomon's face, and when he drew back he attempted to strike him with a stick. After defendant was secured he heard him say that he had intentionally assaulted the alderman, in or der to bring his case before the public. This witness was also examined at great length upon the same topics as the former. Alderman Salomons was then examined—He deposed that on the day in question he and Mr. Cohen were walking together from the London and WeStminster Bank, when the defendant walked quickly up to him, and asked if he was Alderman Salomons.' He told hint he was; and he then said ; " Don't You know me ? " Witness replied, "Non' are," or, "Are you Lieut. Higginson .?" He then said; " Yon say that I am a madman ? Witness re s plied that he had not said he was a madman, but that he was under delusions. Defendant said ; " What do you mean by being under delusions ? ". Witness told him he must put his own construction' upon that, and the mgment he said this defendant drew his hand acrosshis face and touched his nose, and witness at the same moment raised his own arm and struck up his hand. The defendant was then about to strike him with his stick when Mr. Cohen,' his brother-in-law, laid hold of him, and a polices', man was sent for, and he was given in charge.. He did not make use of the slightest violence towards the defendant, and merely endeavoured to protect himself, and he did not give the defendant 1 --the, least provocation for his conduct. JJ The alderman was cross - examined by defendant i for nearly two hours. He admitted that lie had told the inspector to allow the defendant to be dis charged upon his entering into a recognisance to appear the next day, but he said that in doing . so he was solely actuated by a feeling of kindness towards the defendant and a belief that he was acting under some false impression. The defendant put a number of questions to show that, in his con nexion as shareholder with the Atlantic Telegraph Company, he had prevented him from obtaining the compensation to which he was entitled from that company, and that he had been the means of suppressing a pamphlet he had 'written - to show that the Atlantic cable must be a failure, but the , alderman positively 'denied that there was any foundation for the suggestions that were made with regard to these matters. Baron Martin interposed in the course of the cross-examination, and said that three hours and a half had been occupied in a case that really ought not to have occupied a quarter of an hour to dispose of, and he must request the defendant to put clues. tions that had some reference to the matter before the court, end not continue to inquire into subjects that were entirely irrelevant. The defendant, notwithstanding the remark of. the learned judge, continued for a considerable time longer to cross-examine Alderman Salomons, but without eliciting a single fact that in any, way altered the complexion of the case. The defendant then read a long and very well written statement to the jury in his defence, the effect of which was that he had patented several important inventions, and that in 1851 he had in vented an electric cable to pass between the Land's end and New York, and the Atlantic Telegraph Company had made use of his invention without giving him any remuneration. It then went on to assert that he was persecuted by the alderman on behalf of the company, because, he had mad e it publicly , known_ that the pretended telegraph in communication between this country. and America was a swindle, and that no message had ever been sent through it. The defendant asserted that he had no intention to commit any assault on the day in question, but merely, desired to speak to Alderman Salomons, and that he pushed him rudely aside, and this, of course, aggravated him. With regard to any fear of future violence, he said it was not likely an old man like him, who had had his leg (which he exhibited to the jury) three times broken in the service of his country, could be any subject of alarm to a person like Mr. Alderman Salomons and his brother-in-laW, both of whom were athletic men. Baron Martin addressed a very few observations to the jury in summing up. Ile said the only ques tion they had to consider was whether an assault had been committed, and if they believed the wit nesses he did not see how they could return any other verdict than the defendant was guilty of the offence with which he was charged. The jury, after deliberating a short time, returned a - verdict of guilty, but strongly recommended the defendant to mercy. Baron Martin said the defendant had clearly committed an assault, and the only questicon was how to protect Alderman SalOmons from such a proceeding in future. It was a very gross outrage to assault a gentleman and a magistrate in such a manner- andhe would give the defendant until the morning to consider the matter, and to make a declaration .that would be satisfactory to Mr. Salo mons that he would not repeat such con iuct. The defendant said he was ready to oso rmw. He should never commit such an act again. Alderman Salomons said he hadnev entertained the least ill feeling towards the defe ant, and so far as he was personally concerned he had no desire that any punishment should be inflicted. The out rage that had been committed upon him had very seriously affected him at the time, and he had on one occasion nearly lost his life by falling out of a railway carriage, so great was the shock to him. The defendant was putback for a shorttime, and he was subsequently brought up, and Mr. Baron Martin, addressing him, said that there could be no doubt that he had committed an assault under the feeling that he had sustained some wrong from Mr. Salomons, for which there did not appear to be the slightest fOundation. That :gentleman, on the con trary, :appeared to have acted towards him with the greatest possible kindness, and even since his con viction he had expressed a desire that he should not be punished, and all he asked for was protection for the future. It was: a Most gross outrage upon the feelings of a gentleman to act as he had done, and he hoped he would. avoid doing such a thing again. He then ordered the defendant to enter iirto his own reccognisance in . £lOO to keep the peace,' and also to apPear and receive judgment upon the present indictment, if called upon to do so, and he said that if -he remained peaceable he should hear no more of the- matter, but if he com mitted any act of violence towards Mr. Salomons he would be brought up and punished. :The: defendant at once entered into the required recognisances, and was discharged from custody. -George Lelievre, a gentlemanly looking young Man, surrendered to fake his trial for the man slaughter of Charles John Williams. Mr.- Sleigh and Mr; W. A: Holdsworth were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Montagu Cham bers, Q.C.; was specially retained, with Mr. Met citlfe, for the defence. . . • The learned counsel for the prosecution said that the inquiry the jury was about to enter into was one of a very painful and melancholy nature. The prisoner was a young .man very respectably con nected, and there could be no doubt that by his act the unfortunate deceased, who was also in a re- spectable position, and in the prime of life, had been deprived of existence. 'He then proceeded to give 'a narrative of the facts :which :have appeared very recently, and the following evidence was then adduced:— Frederick Carter deposed that on the evening . of the 31st Dec. he was in the Mile-end-road, in com pany with a person named Harris, about 11 o'clock. The prisoner and another person were there also, in a state of intoxication, and the prisoner's friend seemed to have been on the ground. When witness came up the prisoner asked him to assist him with his friend, and he laid hold of his arm and walked a short distance, when'the prisoner accused him of picking his friend's pocket, and made a blow at him, and he jumped into the road. The . prisoner followed him a short distance, and his friend fell down, and the prisoner. returned to him, and he went after him, and saw the deceased and the pri soner standing together. The prisoner asked Mr. Williams to assist his friend, and he refused to do so. 'the prisoner •then challenged the deceased to come out into the road and fight, and the deceased replied that he had better sense than to fight. The prisoner immediately struck the deceased with his fist three or four times; and the; deceased struck at him again, and they had a scuffle, and both fell down.. They got up, and the deceased walked away towards the road, and the prisoner pulled off two coats •and • went after - Mr: Williams again, and struck hini three or four times about the head, and they again fell down, and the deceased could not get up. He was picked.up, and some persons were carrying him across the road,.when the prisoner followed, and was in the act of striking at him again; when witness's • companion, Harris, threw somestones at him, and they hit him on the back of the lead. The deceased was perfectly sober. • Cross-examined—Witness was-first asked to assist the prisoner's friend, and he did sd, and walked with him about ten yards before, he was accused of picking his pocket. Witness ran away, and the pri soner followed him a short distance and then returned to his friend. At this time deceased came up and the first thing he heard was the prisoner ask him to assist him with. his friend, and when he refused, .a' word or two passed bet3veert them, but he could not tell what the words were, and immediately after wards.tho prisoner challenged the deceased to fight. There .might have been. 20 persons present at this time, and some hooting:andlaughing was going on at:the prisoner and his .drunken. friend. The de ceased was a more powerful man than the prisoner —he was a tall strong man: He did not- r...ee him do anything to protect himself - when the prisoner struck' him. ;Re-xarained—Deceased did not make any resist ance to the attack made upon him by the prisoner. Wm.. Harris, the person who •was in company with the last witness confirmed his evidence as to the condition of the prisoner and the deceased. He also said that he saw the deceased coive up, and the prisoner asked him to assist his friend and lie re fused and they had a few words, and the prisoner challenged the deceased to fight, and the deceased replied that he had too much good sense to do that, and the prisoner struck him immediately and they both fell. He did not see the deceased endeavour to return the violence in any manner, and he did not say or do anything. offensive to the prisoner. The deceaged was undermo3t when they fell, and he was unable to get up, and some men assisted him across the road, and he was conveyed to the hospital. Cross-examined.—A good many people were standing about the nrisoner and his friend. When Carter left hold of the prisoner's companion he fell down.. He was so drunk that he could not stand on his legs. The deceased and the prisoner scuffled together, and fell off the. pavement into the road, . Witness threw some stones at the prisoner as he was following the deceased, apparently with the' intention of striking him. •They were only small stones that he threw at him.' • 41m . Roper, a police-Oonstable, deposed that he was in, the Mile-end-road at the time in question, and heard a cry of " Police,".and on going to the spot he found the prisoner with. a drunken man. He was told that he had assaulted a man who wOi on:the opposite side;of the road, and he took the. prisoner across, and .the deceased gave him in charge for injuring his leg. He observed blood at the• bottom of the trousers of the - deceased at this time. • Cross-examined—Witness told the prisoner after wards that the deceased's leg was broken, and it might cost him his life, and he replied, " My Gad, you don't say so. I hope not ;" and appeared very much affected. Mr. E. Simmons said that he .was present at the coroner's inquest, but was not examined. He saw the occurrence, and heard an altercation take place between the prisoner and the deceased, and when the former asked him to fight, he replied, " You are a fool." , . . . . Mr. Hill, house surgeon at the Londou Hospital, • proved that the deceased had sustained a compound - dislocation of the ankle joint, und the smaller bone . of the leg was also fra4ured. A portion of the :broken hone. was removed and the deceased was .under his care until the 25th. of December, wh en •he died • from mortification of the leg, resulting •from the injury he had received. • Mr. Montagu ChamberS made a very able specolia .to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and said it „appeared 'to him that the unfortunate occurrence '-was-of that character described by ancient writers - as chancumedley, and that it did nut amount to manslaughter. He then- remarked upon the cir cumstances of the case, and said there could be no doubt.that the prisoner was somewhat the worse for liquor, although not so bad as his friend, and that they were surrounded by a number of people, who were acting in a manner that was very . likely to have excited the prisoner still more. He shoUld be very sorry to say a single word to the disparage ment of the unfortunate gentleman who had lest his life, but he could not help saying that it would only have been an act of kindness on his part if he had :assisted the prisoner in the condition in which he was placed with his friend„in such a helplessly drunken/ state, but instead of doing that he had no doubt irritated him still more by calling him 'u fool. •He then urged that there could be no doubt that a scuffle took place .between them, and .that-the' melancholy.result was to a great ex tent. to be attributed to. accident. _ The learned counsel concluded by stating that whatever might be the result of the present inquiry, the melancholy occurrence would be the source of dgep and bitter regret to the prisoner for the remainder of his existence. • A great many most respectable witnesses were then examined, who gave the prisoner the character of a kind-hearted, humane young man. They also stated that he was remarkably abstemious on ordi nary occasions, and was not at all addicted to violent conduct ... Mr. Baron Martin summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty. The learned judge, in passing sentence, said that the jury had' found the prisoner guilty of causing the death of Mr, Williams by an illegal act, and they could not have come to any other conclusion upon the evidence before them. There was no doubt at: the same time, however, that he never contemplated causing the death of he deceased, and the thing would not have. occurred if he had been sober. He could not pass over such an offence, however, without punishment; and the sentence he [HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 7, 1859 should inflict upon him would be one of three months' imprisonment, without hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) Alexander Kochanowsky, 21, labourer, Myers Goldberg, 39, waterproofer, and Jacob Goldwater, 43, tailor, were indicted for feloniously having in their possession, without the authority of the Em peror of Rus g ala, steel plates, upon which were en graved certain parts of a promissory note, to wit, a note.for the payment of five roubles. The prisoner. Kochanowsky pleaded guilty.. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, with whom was Mr. Sleifh, appeared for the prosecution ; and. Mr. T. Atkinson appeared for Kochanowsky. The defence set up by Goldberg and Goldwater was that they had, acted as innocent agents for Kechanowsky. The, jury found them both guilty. Mr. Atkinson, on . the part of his client Kochan 'oWsky, said that . he was a young Russian of a . good family, but had fallen into the hands of bad advisers. His lordship, in passing sentence, said that the conduct of Kochanowsky was, from his position, and education, rendered far more heinous than that of his companions, whom he had led into the e'en-mis sion of the offence. They' , had, however, aided in the commission of an offence of a N''ery grave character ; but Considering the position in lift which they filled, and that they were ignorant and poor men, he should make a difference in their sentence,-but still pass a severe one. Kochanowsky was then ordered to be kept for ten years in penal servitude, and the others for five years. Upon an application being made relative to the expenses, the court concurred with Mr. Sleigh that the conduct of Rolls, the 'engraver, was very proper. .A letter taken from the prisoner Kochanowsky, addressed to some one in Russia, proved that an organised system was in existence to pass off. these false notes. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Jan. 6. The January quarter sessions of the peace for the trial of prisoners for, offences committed in the county of Middlesex, commenced yesterday morn ing at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, before the Assistant• Judge and a bench of magi strates. Frederick Brewer, 18, was indicted for feloniously receiving 33 pennyweights of gold, the property of James Green, he well knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; the prisoner was unde fended. Frederick Bell, a boy 15 years of agc—l am an apprentice to Mr. James Green, watch-case maker, of No. 15, President-street, St. Luke's. I have been with him for two years. I had not known the prisoner before November last, although I had seen him standing about King-square. I remember Sunday, the 28th of November, and on that day I was with my brother in Market-street. The pri soner called me from my brother and I went up, to him. He asked me if I could get him some gold. I said, "No ; I was not going to rob my master, who was very good to me." He said, " Oh, that don't matter ; if you only take a small piece he won't miss it." He had by standing in the square seen the place to which I belonged. I said I would not take any gold from my master. On the following Monday there was a melting-pot broken at my master's, and I saw a small piece of gold sticking to a clinker. I took it, and when I went out at dinner time I saw the prisoner stand ing by the church. I gave him the clinker and gold, and asked him if he could sell it. He said he would break it, and see what he could get for it. The next day I saw him, and I had two or three little grains of gold. wrapped up in paper. I gave them to him, and he gave me 2s. for them and that on the clinker. Mr. Cooper was here about to examine the wit ness as to other occasions upon which he had met the prisoner, but Mr. Creasy interposed, and said that as the pri soner was undefended it was his duty to take care that no evidence should be given that was not legally adraissible, for if it were necessary to go into these transactions they might be made the subject of other indictments. Mr. Cooper said he. thought he might show these transactions ; but, of course, he would not now pursue this evidence. The prisoner then, with considerable effrontery, commenced a sort of cross-examination upon points not adverted to by the learned counsel, the answers to which questions having a tendency to prove the case against him. Mr. Creasy warned the prisoner as to the effect of the mune he was taking ; but if after this he should refer to other matters not strictly then be fore them he should feel bound to admit the evi dence which he had stopped the learned counsel from fUrther proceeding with. He was now warned, and of course he could ask what questions he pleased. The prisoner, in an impudent manner, attempting a forensic style, went through the evidence of the different witnesses, commenting upon each, and concluded by calling upon the jury to believe him in preference to the witnesses. Mr. Creasy summed up very briefly. The jury almost immediately returned -a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Creasy said—This is one of the worst cases of receiving that has ever come before me, and as 1 never met with a more disgraceful wretch, I shall protect society from you for some time to come, by sentencing you to be kept in penal servi tude for seven years. 71IE STATE OF NETVGATE. Mr. J. Anderson. Rose, ' ex-Under-Sheriff of London, in a letter to lt contemporary, says : Sonic time ago attention was called to the state of Newgate, and its utter unfitness for the renten tion of prisoners or punishment of criminals. That part appropriaten to male prisoners has in conse quence been reconstructed, with what advantage the report of the ordinary of Newgate, lately pub lished in your columns, has clearly disclosed ; but the portion still used for the imprisonment of women is as it was, and there are among those who have the care and control of Newgate some opposed to any further improvement of this gaol. The fol• lowing statement of facts may serve to clinch your representations as to the necessity completing the alterations by reconstructing the portion ap propriated to *omen, so as to admit of the classifi cation and separation of female prisoners and criminals, of - whom it may be said that while women generally are better than men, when they fall they sometimes discover (-difficult perhaps) a lower depth than the worst of men. To the facts, however. In one room I have seen confined in Newgate a woman--:-Mary Ann Alice Seago by name—who had beaten her step child to death under circumstances of unparalleled barbarity. The process of murder oc cupied some considerable time • but I cannot write the details, and it would be sickening to read them. She was a clever, cunning woman, well educated,. and with a very competent knowledge of the law relating to prisons, with which she often favoured the officials, and full of grievances. Sir George, Grey, the then, Secretary ,of State for the Home Depart ment,: would not remove her from Newgate on account of a supposed delicacy of health, and the most effectual stop to the outrages committed by this woman in • prison was a threat to get her re moved froM Newgate. • Confined with her was one Celestina. Somner, also well educated ; convicted of cutting the throat of her child, 10 'years old, in a coal cellar, with a carving knife, and whose conviction was secured by the evidence of a servant girl, Raehel, who slept usually in or on a bed in the kitchen, through which the mother and daughter passed on their way. to the shambles in the coal cellar, and who, awakened that night, heard the butcher in the act of murder , :informing her. victim, that she would " teach the —to tell lies." That servant girl-- her nervous system strung in an agony of fear— became many years older that night ; for her mistress, carving-knife in hand, came to ,Rachael's bed to turn, her over and see whether she was to asleep, which she pretended to be. "I did not go sleep," said this .witness at the trial; "I lay awake all night," The softening influence of prison asso ciations on the, heart' of Celestina Somner May . be imagined, when she informed her convict com panions that she was sorry she. had not finished the servant as well as her own child. The last of the three companions was a woman who, by three different men, had had three children, who,. wishing to visit a paramour in the country (whether the father of any one of her offspring I forget, but I think not), and finding the expense of moving all four more than she could .afford, deliberately took two of. her children down to a canal and held them under water until they were dead: This woman before her trial trumped up a deliberate lie with elaborate circumstances against the policeman Who foOk her into custody, which She adhered to after dial and conviction, but in the imminent prospect of the gallows she admitted the whole to be false. These three were associated together in one room, —vain of the attention they excited and received, —as such criminals usually are, the more so the worse the crime and the more notorious the criminal. They were attended by the doctor, the clergyman, the governor, the matron, the visiting magistrates, the sheriffs, the under-sheriffs (to say nothing .of visitors), who are privileged, some. daily and some weekly, to wait upon criminals to hear a statement of their coMplaints and s grievances. More, much more might be added ; but this is enough to. prove that Ncwgate wants fnrther im provement. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP WRECK Yesterday a meeting of the Royal National Life boat Institution was held at its house, John•street, Adelphi—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also present—Admiral Sir Thos. Herbert, K.C.B. ; Admiral Gordon, Deputy Master of the Trinity-house ; Alexander Boetefeur, Esq.; Admiral Cator ; Capt. Washington, R.N., Hydro grapher of the Admiralty ; Admiral McHardy ; W. H. Harton, Esq. ; Capt. Lambert Perrott ; and Capt. Ward, R.N., Inspector of Lifeboats to the In stitution. Mr. LEWIS, the Secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, the following rewards were then voted : Nineteen pounds to the crew of the institution's life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, for putting off late on the night of the 15th ult., and rescuing eleven men from the Portuguese brig Prophete, which was wrecked during a gale of wind on the Scroby Sands that day. The service was attended by great ex posure to cold and extreme difficulty in obtaining an early communication with the wreck. £4' to the crew of a lifeboat at Appledore for putting off in her and rescuing seven men from the brig Felicity, of Milford, which; during a strong wind and thick fog, went to pieces on Bideford bar early on the morning of the 18th ult. The master of the vessel was at first insensible-of the-danger he was in, but was afterwards induced to abandon his vessel, and on the flowing of the tide she broke up. The life boat of the institution stationed at Newcastle, Dun drum Bay, was reported to have saved the crew of five men belonging td :a French lugger from Bor deaux, wrecked off Newcastle on the 12th nit: The lifeboat performed this service with much prompti tude. Rewards- amounting to £l5 were also voted to the Yarmouth and Lytham lifeboats for putting off, in reply to signals of distress from ships, with the view of saving life. The Lytham lifeboat was likewise reported to have assisted in bringing the schooiter "E. D., of Salcombe, into port in safety: A reward of £6 was also voted to a boat's crew in con sideration of their laubable conduct in rescuing one out of three persons from the smack 'Catherine Anna which was wrecked during stormy weather off IVlaryport. The boat succeeded only in taking off one man on her first trip, but on her second she was too late to save the life of the'captain, who, in the meantime, had been washed off the wreck and drowned ; another man had come ashore on a piece of the wreck. Had there been a good lifeboat, with an experienced crew, at Maryport, such a calamity could hardly occur. The silver medal of the insti tution and £1 were voted to John Nloss, seaman, in acknowledgment of his gallant conduct in saving, at the imminent risk of his own life, one out of two persons who had been thrown out of a small boat off Dungeness. Moss had sprung over the bows of ,the lugger and secured one man by tying a rope round him, who Was nearly ex hausted when brought on board. Moss again, nothing daunted, darted overboard a second time to the rescue of another man, and had actually suc ceeded, by great exertions, in placing him on the bobstay of the lugger when a heavy wave washed both of them off. The man unfortunately sunk this time to rise no more, and the gallant Moss him self only. narrowly escaped from sharing a similar fate. A sum of £4 was also voted to a boat's crew for saving six persons from the schooner Sealby, of Maryport, which during a heavy gale of wind was wrecked off Innishofin Island, on the coast of Donegal. The boatmen had put off with much promptitude, and had succeeded in rescuing the crew just in time to save them from a watery grave. £2 was also given to a boat's crevv, for their credit able and prompt exertions in saving three men be longing to the brig Florence Nightingale's boat's crew, whose boat had been swamped off Arklow during squally weather. A sum of £8 was also voted to a boat's crew of four men for putting off and rescuing the, crew of three men from the schooner Oaks, of Goole, wrecked during a heavy gale of wind off Blakeney, on the Norfolk coast. £3 was likewise, granted to a boat's crew in consi deration of their laudable conduct in rescuing five men from the brig Sampson, of Waterford, which during stormy and cloudy weather was wrecked off Badinacorty, near Dungarvan. The institution is, it was reported, about to send a new lifeboat to this dangerous locality. Various other rewards were voted in acknowledgment of meritorious ser vices in saving life from wrecks on different parts of the coast. It was reported that the institution had during the past month sent-new lifeboats and carriages to Cullercoats, near Tynemouth, and to Carnsore and Tramore. Payments amounting to £721 Bs. 3d. were ordered to be made for various lifeboats and their equipments. A tabular statement showing the services of the lifeboats of the institution during the past year was laid before the meeting. The boats had attended upwards of 40 wrecks, and had saved more than 100 lives. The society had paid its lifeboat crews nearly £6OO for their laudable services on those occasions. It was stated that the institution was much in need of funds to maintain in a state of thoreugh efficiency its 80 lifeboat establishments ; that, the committee had been compelled to draw largely on its small reserved fund to meet their largo• out goings ; and that the present income of the, society is very inadequate to meet its necessarily increas ing expenditure. A SUBMARINE 'BOAT. An American invention has just been brought to this country, with a view to its being disposed of either to this or any other European Government, and which, if it ; does one-half of what the patentee.. g uarantees can be done with it will make such a change in the mode of carrying on a naval war as will put steamers out of the question, and render of no avail the tremendous forts of Cronstadt or Cher bourg. It is, nothing less than a submarine - boat made only for working under water, in form much" resembling the shape of a porpoise;but capable of being made large enough to contain 8, 10, or even 15 men, if necessary, with .a proportionate quantity of explosives. In a kind of specification which„ has . now been laid before this and the French GovernL . ment the patentee says he has invented and 'Oori;-,. strutted a s übmarine boat, weighing about' eight tons, in which he has, with others, sunk in Lake "Michigan,and remained under water for four hours' without any air tubes or other communication lead-' ing from his boat above the , surfaCe of the "water, and propelled the boat in and near the bottom of the lake for several miles, at the rate of about three miles an hour. Hehas;vrhile in his: boat, and under, water, by, means of machinery working through its side, sawed off timbers 14' inches square. He can sink his boat' froth 'the surface 'almost instantly, either to a few inches or feet from the surface of the water, or to 100 or more feet, and again rise quickly or"very slowly to ' or near the 'Surface"; go forward, back, or sideways, or come " up bows first or otherwise; as may be required. He can attach powder torpedoes to the outside of his boat on its deck or sides, and proceed under water out to sea, in any weather, to an enemy's ship in sight, fix or anchor :the torpedoes under the ship's bottom, 'set in motion clock-work to fire the torpedoes, simulta neously or at intervals,'an'd retire; still - under water out of danger from. the explosion and out of reach of an enemy's guns. He can also convey powder torpedoesin,sid,e his boat of 100 lb. (or More) Weight: and when under an enemy's ship, pass them 'out of the side of his boat through his patent hatch, and fasten.,them to a ship's bottom and fire them as above-named. He can enter an' enemy's harbour under water andmake surveys, only showing-above` the surface a sight tube, nci more .than'one half inch in diameter, and retire still under water, and proceed outside to sea and make his re port to the commander of • a fleet or ship. He can go out to 'sea, meet a hostile fleet, go under. their bottoins, fix torpedoes to go off by clockwork, or bore_ holes in their bottoms, and come away unseen. With a large boat he can carry , a 12 or 24 pound (or euen larger) gun in the for ward end of his boat near the top,' so rigged that lie can load in 100 feet depth of water, rise near 'to the surface, sight the horizon for an tnemfs ship, and if one is in sight take the course for her and pro ceed towards her even within a Stone's throw, rise quickly, so near the surface as only to show the muzzle of the gun through the outside porthole valve, aim at the ship near her water line; fire, then instantly sink to reload, and rise at another point to fire again and repeat. If required, with a large boat, he can remain under water with several men with him, and do service at sea off or in harbours for several days, without landing or showing one inch of his boat above water. If the boat is required for pearl fishing he can work all day on a pearl bed raking up and taking in pearls and suffering no in convenience from impure air, and as the boat is pro vided with light for deep water work, he can move about on the bottom like a fish and see pearls where a diver would not. If the boat is required to visit wrecks and remove treasures or goods, it is so con structed that" lie can saw, bore, or make fast chains or ropes to any point of a wreck, and if required, one or more persons can, while under water, go out of the boat through the side hatches, enter a wreck or dO other service, and return inside of the boat again without inconvenience. Curiously enough, the gentleman who has come over here with this invention, and who, though - net the inventor, is part proprietor of the patent, was ihstructed not to oTer it to the British Government , until it had first been offered to the Emperor of the French. The reasons for making such a distinction arises from the notion which our transatlantic cousins entertain of the red-tape system of the Eng lish Government, and their slowness to adopt any sudden or great improvements. That this idea is , hardly well founded is shown from the fact that when the invention was first brought under the notice of the Secretary'of the United States' Navy, he merely wrote to the inventor to say, by way of badinage, that American ships were required in the water and never wanted to go under them. The proffer to the Emperor of the French received even less attention, as no answer was returned to the letter at all. Contrary to American expectation, when the letter was brought a few days since under the notice 'of the English Board of Admira,lty it received• full and prompt attention, and Sir Baldwin Walker has already had interviews with the gentle man to whose care the disposal of the patent is intrusted. Nothing definite has yet resulted from these audiences, though as the cost of building the submarine boat is very small, we believe that one will eventually be constructed in this country, and if it only fulfils half what the patentee expects of it the invention will be purchased by the British Government. PROPOSED UNION OF CITY CHORCIIES. On Tuesday afternoen a general meeting of the Fellows of Sion College, comprising the incumbents of all churches and parishes within the. old Arch deaconry of. London, took place in their great hall, for the purpose of considering what answer they should return respecting the bishop's inquiry rela tive to the proposed union of some of the city bene fices. The Rev Wm. Scott, M.A., incumbent. of Christ Church, Hoxton, the President of Sion Col lege, took the chair. It may be mentioned, iwtx plana,tiou of the' object of the meeting, that some years since :the Rev. Charles Hume, rector of St. Michael's, Wood-street, made a formal proposition to the lath Bishop of London for a union of some of the parisheS in the city which, having considerable endowments, have little or no resident population, with a view to the endowment of additional churches in destitute portions of the metropolis and its out skirts. The late bishop concurred in Mr. Hume's suggestion; and introduced a:bill into Parliament to effect that object, but it'met with a strong opposi tion; and wag eventually. withdrawn. The present Bishop of London, in his primary charge to the clergy of, his. diocess in Nov. last, adverted to the subject, and has ,also addressed formal inquiries to them, with . a View to determine, what course he ought to adopt in reference to the matter.. The an swers to the inquirieS ,of the bishop made by the clergy .present some . curious features.. The Rev: J. - Charlesworth,. rector. . of. the joint parishes of St. Mildred, Bread-street, and St. Mar gaset Moses, replies in answer to the biSheP's inter= rogatories that the largest attendance at any of his church services is 10,- that his net income is £220 a year, and that the population is 258. The Rev. J. lklinchin, rector of the joint parishes of St. Mil dred, Poultry, and St. Mary Colechurch, reports that the largest attendance at his services is 30, his net income £2BO, and the population 500. The Rev. Thomas Darling, rector of St. Michael Paternoster Royal and 'St Martin's Vintry, reports, that his largest attendance is 25, his net income £240, popu lation 430. The Rev. Dr. Kynaston, high master of St. Paul's school, reports that the attendance at the church of the joint parishes of St. Nicolas Cole Abbey and Sf:' Nicolas Olave, of which he is rector, is . 30, his income £263, ,with a house in, good repair —population- 592. The .Rev.. Charles Mackenzie, rector of the joint parishes of St. Benet, Grace church, and St. Leonard, Eastcheaii,. of which he is rector, is 48, net income £287, population 300. tThe ~Rev. Dr. Stebbing, rector of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Woolchrirchllaw, reports that his largest attendance is 40, net income £260, population un known: The Rev. ThomaS' Jones, rector of 'All hallows, Lombard-street, reports that :hiS largest attendance is 50, his net income £396; population 456. The Rev. F. J. Stainfortli, incumbent of 'All hallows Staining, reports that hig largest attendance is 50, net income £BOO, population 500. Many More of the same sort might be given from the official returns, and in• some cases there is an attend ance of 100, or 150 - persons where the income of the incumbent is upwards of £l,OOO a-year. The patrons of these city cluuches, with whom it is belieVed there would be no-difficulty in carrying out - the Bishop of London's views of amalgamation, are Eton College, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury,,the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, the Corporation of London, . the Grocers' Com pany, Balliol College, Oxford, the Duke of Northumberland, 'Magdalen College, Cambridge, the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the Dean : and Canons of Westminster, the master and wardens of Merchant Taylors' Company, Corpus. Christi College, Cambridge, the Drapers' Company, and a few private individuals. The meet ing held at Sion College on Tuesday was of a private character, although a very large• number of !the clergy were present, and took a strong interest in the discussion. It was agreed that the opinions of the incumbents whose interests it was proposed to affect should. be collected and arranged 'for pre sentation to the Bishop of London. . TILE D_E'AN OF CARLISLE ON CHRIST 3IAS FESTIVITIES. At a, - meeting of the Carlisle Total Abstinence Society, du Tuesday, the 28th ult., the Very Rev Francis Clo§e, D.D.,' Dean of Carlisle, thus -.re ferred to the festivities and amusements of Christ- , • mas and Other - holiday' Occasions : To a Christian mind there ' was no single thing more painful than thiS fact it had certainly dwelt upon his own heart---.that-those' seasons which are observed by, Ihe great majority 'of our countrymen in comme moration of great gospel events, such as the birth of - • - Christ, and the descent of God's Holy Spirit, at Whitsuntide --- that these are the seasons of all 'otherl When in a Christian country—aye, let them acknowledge it. with shame, in a Protestant coun try—that-these are the seasons when the devil keeps high holithiy-, and when it seems to be an excuse — a thing taken for granted—that people should be drunk. (Applause.) ASk them why they go about reeling in drunkenness, and they tell you they are le.:ping' Christmas. .(Laughter,) There was 6 some thin to his mind perfectly painful in- the e, news papers of that morning—something calculated to strike the heart of the Christian, and send us all on our knees to pray to God to avert the -judgment we deserved. The London. newspapers devoted whole :columns and pages to descriptions of the special- temptations and wickednesses. of the theatres., And, in connection with this, he found 'that on the next morning,. as usual, the police courts were thronged with persons charged witlroffences arising from the same cause ; but it was ObserVed, he was glad to say, that at somei of the police offices the numbers were not so great as they generally were on, these occasions. But what :Struck him again was, that the worthy magiStrates sitting in _the chair of justice let the offenders off more easily than usual, " because they were keep ing Christreas - 1" To his mind, if he had been in the Magistrate's place, he would.have. fined them . double for ''being drunk on Christraas-day. (Ap plause.) But it showed the. vulgar notion, which had reached even the bench itself, that was held as' an excuse and a palliation for a man . making a beast . of himself, that he did it_on a day which hin fellowXhristians kept in memory of the love of God to' His creatures. He (the . Dean) would not do more than allude to a frightful circumstance that had taken place the day, before. At one of . the low theatres on the south side of the Thames an alarms of fire was raised, and in consequence, no leSs than -15 vermin§ were killed. This was at a Christmas keeping theatre. And it was remarkable that the_ persons killed were all youths, not one of wham was above 21 or 22 at the utmost, sonic of them much younger. It was what they called " boxing* night," and at a place where theperformanceWas , so , popular, that they were obliged to have two audiences a. day—aa afternoon and an evening exhibition. Oh ! that they could See the time when they would be . obliged to have double services on religious subjects ! ' -,: : This was indeed a painful and humbling -event. God. forbid that he should say that those poor, thoughtless boys, many of them the dregs of the population; had been visited by a special judgment. No ;' they were not to say that those on " whom the Tower of Siloam fell were greater-sinners" that those who escaped. God's ways were not our ways ; but the lesson this accident read to them all was, that if they kneW better who 'were restrained from drunkenness, debauchery, and even from those deubtful placeS of public amuse ment called theatres, which were, in his humble judgment, -the, receptacles of vice of every de scription—let them .net think themselves better than others, but rather remember ;that God, by this very fact, had . put • then). under the solemn responsibility of doing all they 'could- - to prevent people from doing these thin' gs—that 'if • it was not for the. grace of God which enabled them to restrain their.passions, they should be just like others. ;If they had the Se. promises and hopes, let them do all they mild to • restrain the wicked, to prevent and : lay hold upon and arrest the course of sin and vice in this country. Therefore it was that he was there that night. - (Applause.) BANK _RETURNS. An Accon .t, pursuant to the- Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circu lation during the week ending Saturday, the 25th day of December 1858 • PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co. £9,393 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 10,567 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and C 0..; 23,460 Baldock Bank and Baldoek and Biggleswade Bank, . Biggleswade-Wells, Hogge, and Co. Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 7,046 Basingstoke' and . Oldham Bank, Basingstoke- • SeymoUr, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Befford- . --Barnard and Co 28,198 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-NiChols, Baker, and Co 12,080 Bicester and Oxtbrdshire Bank and 0 - x2o:d Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co 15,701 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham - Attwood s, Spooner, and Co. Easton Bank, Boston-Claypons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sc,aley. 7,525 Co - Bristol Bank, R.istol-Miles, Miles, and -: ...". 27,717 Bzoseley and Bridgnorth • and 13 - .:idgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchaxas, Boycott, and. Co. BuckinDiani Bank, Buckingham-Ear l:lett; Par rott, and Co. -Bury and Sullblk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow market Bank. Bury St. Edmunds-Oakes, Bevan, and Co.: Banbury Bank, Banbury - -J. C. and A. Gilbert - Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 26,790 I.4:ll!ordsbire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. Birmingham Bank,. Bkrninghain-Lloyds and Co. 23,647 13:afford Old Bank, B - :adibrd, 17 1 0 - 2kNhire-Harris and Co' Brecon Old Bank, Brecon,-.-Wilkins and Co 50,462 Biighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Co. Burlington and Driffield Bank„Burlingion-Hard .ing, SMith, and Co. 9,355 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Woriledge and Co. Cambridge . Bank,: Cambridge-Mortiock and Co 14,727 'Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge =Messrs. Fosters 42,355 Canterbury tank, CanterbUryHammond and Co 27,113 Carmarthen Bank Carmarthen-David Monis and 20,676 Sons Chel tsey Bank, Ch4rtsey-La Coste sud 50n.... 2,302 Colchester Lank, Colchester-Round, Green, & Co. 13,647 Colchester and Essex. Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester- • Bawtree, and Co. -,, - 1 , Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co. 37,780 Coventry Bank, COventry—Lkale and' Woodcock 5,530 City Bank, Exeter,-Millbrd and Co. C:eayen Bank, Sale—Alcocka, • Birkbeck, and Co 6 1 ,436 Che - )stow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth :Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, B - zecon Bank; and Ross and' Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow— , . Broinage, Snead, and Co Derby Lank, Deiby---W. and S. Evans and Co. Derby Lank, De - t•by—Samuel Smith and Co 36,855: De - ..by, Old 1.1. - tuk . and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, .De -- .lly---Crompton,,Newton, and Co 23;473 Devises and Wil.;:shire Bank, Devi ms—Locke and " Co. Diss Bank, ,Diss-I?incham and Co 10,333 Doncaster Bank. and ,Retfozd Bank, Doncaster-- Cooke . and Co " 52,124 Darlington Lank, Dwharn. Bank, and Stockton-on- Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse and Co 75,805 Devonpor Bank, Devonpovt-L-Hodge and Co 8,321 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshi?eEank, Dor chester—R. and. H. Williams 43,348 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Ricling Bank, Beverley—Bower and 47,623 Essex Bank and Bishop's'Stortford Bank, Chehns fcr:d—Sparrow, Round, and Co 34,397 Exeter Bank, Emeter-L-Sandeis, and Co 25,578 Fariingdon Bank and Lank of -Wantage, Farring don—Bames, Medley, and,Co.., 6,694 Far4ham Dank, Farnham--4ohn. and Jas. Knight 8,972 Faershana Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 5,311 Goclalming Bank, Godal.ning 7 :-MellerSh and Keen 4,215 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon 11,755 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co 26,672 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—Mat thews and . Co 11,864 Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Dank, Hull — Shin, Brothers, and . Co Hun - ',,indon Town and .County Bank, Hunting doh—Veasey and Co. Harwich Dank; Harwich—Cox, CO'obold, and Co 4,098 Hertfordshire, Hitchin Dank, Hitchin—Sharples and CO. ......... . Herefo - 4-Ross, and Archerfield Dark, and Ross and Archon:field Bank, Ross—Morgan and Co 16,412 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co • lB,Bl Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had -leih g Batik, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Eank, Ipswich—Alexanders & Co 55,886 Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Randall, Mercer,- and 14,087 Co.o. • Kington and Radnorshire Dank, Kington—Davies and Co. Kneresboroug - h Old Bank and Ripon. Old Dank, :.Kiiiresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crowdson. &Co 39,917 Longton Staffordshire Bank, Longton—C. Harvey and Son Leeds Dank, Leeds—Lockett and Co Leeds Union Lank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown, and Co. Leicester Bank Leicester—T. and T. T. Paget 29,834 Lewis Old Baul -- ,Lewis—Whitefeld and Co 22,415 Lincoln Dank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison and Co 74,000 Llandovery Dank, Lampeter Bank, and Llandilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middleton and Cradock • . - 6,290 Lyinington Dank, Lywington—S. and G. F. St. Barbe _ _ 3,310 _ Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Legls— Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co 9,490 Macclesfield Tank, Macclesfield—Brockleb.urst and Co . 13,072 Manningtree Bank, Manning-tree—Nunn and C 0... 877 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son 9,312 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co. Monmouthshire An-I.:cultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co 2 4 )709 Monmouth .Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Banlf,Chepsow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ito& and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth— Broma , re Sneacl and Co.. .. Newark Lank, lsjewark-G0c12.-ey and Riddell .... 24,926 Newark and, Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford-Hanley, Peacock, and 'Co, I\ -, • ewbury tank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co.. 16,770. .NeWmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Hanunond, and Co. ' •• - • - • 16,317 Norwich CroWn Bank and Noalk and Su frolk Bank, Norwich- , -Harveys and Ilitd§ons Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenha.n Banks, Nor wick-Gurneys and Eirkbecks Nottinghaniand Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting ham-Hart,-Fellows, anti Co. • 8,397 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddock and Co. Naval Bank, Plyinouth-Hanis & Co , . New Sarum -Bank,Sarum-Everett and Co. 9,095 Nottingham Bank, Nottlagliam-Sainuel Smith an Co. Oswestry Baak arid Oswestry Old Bank, Oswestry -Crokon and. Co. 8,536 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Pa::sons and Co. 32,201 Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Dank, Tonbriclge and Toabrid:,2, - e- Wells . and Seveaoaks Bank, Tonbridge-T. H. , and S. Beaching ' ' 7,538 Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J. W. Clinch and Sons • . - 9,278 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank ar d . Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease andCo , 44,699 Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter _ • borbugh-D. Yorke and Co. P.embrokcshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and Co. Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens, Blandy, & Co 28,034 'Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co. Rochdale' Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, & co. ' Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochester- Day. and Nicholson Royston .Bank, Royston-Forclhara and Sons ...- 11,695 Rugby Bank; Rugby-A. Butlin and Son * 8,759 'Rye Bank, Itye-R. C. Pomfret and Co ..... Ross Old. Bank; Herefordshire, Ross-Allaway and MacDOugal Saffron. Walden and North Essex Bank, , Saffron Walden-Gibsons and Co 27,193 Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Eurton, Lloyd, &Co 11,711 *Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough-WoOdall • - and Co. Shrewsbury Old' Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury- 7 1tocke, Eyton,' and C 0..... 35,394 Sittinbourne and . Milton Bank, Sittin,gbourne- Vallance and Co. Southampton To'wn and COUntY 'Bank, Smithamp - - - ton-Maddison and Pearce 10,988 Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co 11,184 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton ..=Atherley, Fall, and Co.. • - 2,850 _ Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-LStevenson and Co. 'Statifottl and 'Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,' Caylcy, and Co Shrewsbury and Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury- Beck, Downward, and Co. 20,124 Taunton Bank, 1 auuton-11. and R. Dadcock 26,802 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and Co. ThornburY Bank, Thornbury-Harwood and Co 9,357 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns ford and Co." 11,432 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northamptonshire, Thrapsion.-York and Eland . 10,991 Tring Bank and Cliesham Bank, Tring-Butcher • and Son Towchester Old Bank, Towchester-Percival and Co 6,059 Town and County- of Poole Bank, and Ringwood ` and Poole Bank,•Poole-G. W. Ledgard and Sons 8,176 Union Bank; COrnwall, Helston-Vivian and Co,-. 12,966 Uxbridge Old Dank, ITxbridge-Hull, Smith, &Co. 9,673 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Hedges, Wells, and C 0.7 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank,' Warwick ' Greaves and Co: - 20,485 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, . • Brothers;and Co' . ' 3,523 West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract • Bank , -Leatham, Tew and Co ' 4 1 , 138 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby---Simpson, Chapman, and Co." ' ' ' 13,888 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Winches ter-Bulpett and Co. Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Wey mouth-Elliot; Pearce, and Co Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank- Arkwright and Co. ...... 33,967 Wisbech mid Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-Gur -- n.eys - and Co 42,631 Wiveliscombe Bank, IViveliscombe-P. and W . ,H a ncock 6,392 .Wolverhampton Bank, WolverharaptonGoodricke - a nd-Holyoake . 'Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 57,441 Wolverhampton. Bank, Wolverhampton-R. and - W. F. Fryer 10,102 Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank; Yarmouth-Gurneys, Birkbeck, • and Co, g. , 44,341 2,944 Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank Grua t Yar mouth—S.A. E. H. K. Lacon, Part., and 13,007 York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and C 0....... 35,033 JOINT STOCK BANKS Bank of Westmorland, Kendal £8,123 , Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley 8,982 Bradford Banking Company, Bradford.. . Bilston District Banking Company, IV°lvor hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven .. . 25,075 Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford 18,638 Burton,. Uttoxeter, arid Staffordshire Union Bank ing Conipany,Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Com pany, Chesterfield. Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry. Coventry Cnion Banking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Co., Cheltenham 97,554 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Co., Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Co., Dudley 32,771 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 20,030 Darlmgton District Joint Stock Banking Company, Darlington 20,801 Bast of England Bank, Norw:cb. 27,159 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 129,810 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 17,9 03 • Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 32,800 Hull Banking Company, Hull ..... 26,4 00 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 10,344 Halifax and Huddersfield Union BankingCo.lialifax. 40,862 Balaton Banking Company, Holston' 1,5 01 Herefordshire Banking Company; Hereford. Knaresborough and Claro Banking - Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsb..ridge Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking 'Company, Leicester. 61,6 36 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,249 Leamington Piiors and Warwickshire :Banking Company, Leamington Pricks Ludlow and Tenbury Bank,:Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham _ ~ .. 28 ' 6 82 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bankini; Com- parry, Nottingham - .-...- National Provincial Bank of England, Birirl'ngham (Head Office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, Lon don) 413,5 10 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham . 40, 405 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 70,3 2 NorthamptonshireßankingCompeny,Nor.thadnpton 19, 001 North and South Wales .Bank, Liverpool - 59,89 6 Peres's Leicestershire Banking Company, L eicester 47,0 83 , Saddleworth Banking. Company, Saddlewor th .... 1, 60 ' Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffie1d..?. .. Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Coinpany,3 0 Siiamfo,rd . . Stuckey'a Banking CoMpanY,-• Thistol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshirelßank, Ltingport . 334,6 53 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnal1..... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany; Stourbridge. Sheffield and Hallawshire Banking Co., Sheffield 22, 881 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock lianking ComPany, Sheffield - - . Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com - party, 'Wolverhampton . 28,2° Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wttkefield.. • 14,3 03 Whitchaven Joint Stock Banking Co., Whitehaven 25,21 Warwick and Leamington Banking Co., Warwick. 24,4 West of _England and South, Wales District Bank, 44 B r i sto l Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,q4"„, West Riding,Union . Banking Co., Huddersfield 32,sv Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3, 539 Worcester. City and County Banking Company, Worcester . 5 ,4 2,i York Union Banking Company, York York City And County Mankino• Company, York 83 ,9 °,1 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leda- 119, 3 °' W. W. DALBIAC, Acting Registrar of Bank ReturO, Inland Revenue Office, Jan. 1, 1859. 8,546 31,580 COUNTRY MAR LB T 2. MANCHESTER—JAN. 6. With a fair supply of wheat from the growers, the trad e was steady, at about the rates of last week, with an upW tendency in the value of the best ,samples. Millers gear rally sell flour for is per sack more money, but on the sale made not more than 6d was obtained. Oats and oatme 7 sold slowly at previous rates. English beans ruled steakiii Egyptian improved Is to is 6d per qr. Indian corn is P Q 4r. dearer. BOSTON—JAN. 5. There Was a tolerable, supply of grain at market. Sal e generally were brisker, and,prices advanced fully is per e In spring corn no quotable change. White wheat, new, 42s to 48s Barley, grinding.. 26s to 3 ',: Red do. - 37s to 42s Oats, old, . l7s to 2 4 ' Old white 42s to 45s New do 17s to 2,' Red do. 37s to 42s .Beans... 388 to 4''', Barley, malting 26s to 33s Peas • .. 37s to 4°' _ . Averages for the week : Wheat 4,235 qrs., at 40s 6d 8ar1ey......... 45 •„ • 27s 6d Oats 368 .„ 2os 9d Rye — ~ —s Od Beans 250 „ 4os 5d Peas i_s9 1, 42s 7d LOUTH-JAN. 5. There was a fair supply of wheat from the farmers t' day, and transactions in the market were dull, with I re ' . little change in prices. . .... Wheat 38s to 42s I Oats.. 9 2s to ~2'7 .. White do ........ ' s to 46s 1 Beans, new 3.5 s to ,ii Barley .. 30s to 338 I Ditto, old .. .3 5s to iFI BIRMINGHAM----JAN. 6. At to-day's market a• moderate business was transaol in wheat, white of good quality being in demand at is qr. over.the rates of last week Fine barley fully supPo late rates. More inquiry for oats. Beans at about is 0 1 late rates. No alteration in the value of peas, and act sale. EDINBURGH GRAIN—JAN. 5. Supplies good. Sales ready. A good clearance, 81/ prices better. i Wheat on the top Os 6d down average Os lid uP' Barley on the top Os 6d up average is Od up. Oats cn the top is Od up... —average 3d uP• Beans on the top Os 6d down ..average Os 6d do Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat Wheat (N). Barley 1 10 8 4-12ths Oats -12ths Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ' .1334 qrs * Sold 1173 qrs Barley... 2025 qrs Sold 1754 qrs Oats .1752 qrs Sold 1541 qrs Beans 172 qrs Sold 155 qrs GLASGOW--JAN. 5. The weather continues miltb. This day's market iv pretty well attended. Wheat Was a tolerably ready sal °, an advance of 6d per 2401bs ; Hour the turn in favour of t' seller. Barley improved 6cl. Per 3201 b.; beans Ed higherP boll. Oats and oatmeal firm, but demand slow. CORK—JAN. 4. The following were the quotations this morning wheat, 17s 6d-to 20s Od; white, 20s to 22s 6d; barley 103 to 13s 2d; oats, Os Gd to 12s Od. An improved sale. DERBY SMINFIELD—JAN. 4. The supply of fat beasts to-grVAs pretty large, but quality was only middling.' The number of sheep was 10 and better sold. The show of pigs was about the avers without any improvement in the demand. Fat calves W . scarce, and better sold. Beef Cd to Cld Veal Mutton 6d to 7d Pork Lamb ..od to —d Rough fat, 4s 10d.65pdledr sttootoall:1°11 llidca, 4d to std; •ci if skins, 4-la to Std. COAL MARE (Prices of 'Ojai per Scin at .ET—JAN. 5. the close of the market.) Wa31.8 End. s: d. Davison's West Hartley 14 9 . WYlam 15 • 0 Hartlepool r. Hartleyl4 3 Tanfield l2 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 12 0 Lambert's W. Hai tley 14 6 Walker Prinirose 13 0 Buddle's West Hartlevl4 6 Holywell 11 6 'Russell's Hetton 18 Northumberland _ ..„ 16 Belmont l6 •Bell l6 'N. IT arton 16 Eden Main 'l7 Harvey Cassop 18 "Whitworth... 16 HeUgh Hall 17 . Howden Main. . 13 'Haswell . . . . l9 Ni.ion # s Duffryn 21 Powell? s Duffryn Steam 21 Nixon's Merthyr __ 21 Walls End. Hartlepool. 19 0 South Hartleliool 17 9 Bradyll's Heiton 18 3 South Hetton 19 0 Stewart's 19 0 Kepier Grange lB. 6 Ships at marke ,t, 88—Sold, 71 BIRTHS. L . ALLEN.—On the 6th inst.; at s; Woburn-place, the wife 0I C. J. H. Allen, Esq., of a son. MAcLEAN,---On the 4th inst., at Carshalton, Surrey, A wife of Lieut.-Colonel Peter Maclean, Royal Artilleo of a son. SEYMOUR..—On the lst lust , at St. Helier's, Jersey, th lady of Charles H. Seymour, Esq., of a son. TUFNELL.—On the 2d inst., at Waltham House, Mrs. Tufnell, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. .11 1 CHALLONER—DE SALIS.—On the 6th inst., by spec,' r , license, at Harlington Ch ur ch, Colonel Bi sse of Portnall-park, ? Surrey, to Henrietta Emma De Sto'd youngest daughter of the late Jerome Count De s t ais, Dawley Court, Middlesex. CUEITT — CUBITT.—On the 4th inst., at Catfield, Norfl Edward Cubitt, Esq., of Honing Hall, Norfolk, late o f the 4th Light Dragoons, to Emma, eldest daughter o f the Rev. B. Lucas Cubitt, rector of Catfield, county Norfolk. DEATHS. DIGIITON.—On the 2d inst., at Nice, Isaac Dighton, Vs c i' l of the Hermitage, Hampstead ) abed 81. ti DoNALDsoN.---On the 31st ult., at 178, Piccadilly, Ire ll Donaldson, Esq., aged 60. DuNLor.—On the sth inst., at the Hollies, Keswick, Eli e , both, eldest daughter of the late Col. Dunlop, of lions"' hill, Renfrewshire, aged 87. lINSKINS.—On the sth inst., at the Hulvers, Cuckse Notts, John Haskins, Esq., aged 75. LAA I 7.—On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the let William Law, rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, and P. Fellow of Trin.-Col.-Cam., aged 56. LANUR.—Onthe 6th inst., at St. Leonard's, Mr. John Lander, aged 37. LOCK.—On the 4th inst., at Halcon Lodge, near Taull° Edward Lock, Esq., aged 74. LONDON : Printed and Published by MiTUDO of Na. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112 E Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county . 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