The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

.THE WEST INDIAN MAIL. The Royal Mail steam-packet Forth, C. M. Chapman commander, arrived at Southampton on Sunday morn ing, at nine :o'clock, bringing thirteen passengers and mails of the following dates:—From Demerara, Nov. 19; Tobago and Trinidad, 20; B. rbadoes, 24; Grenada and St. Vincent, 26 ; St. _Lucia, Martinique, Domi nica, and Guadeloupe, 27; Antigua, Mo.itserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's, 28; Tortola, 29; St. Thomas's, 30; St. Jago de Cuba, 19; Jamaica, 23; Jacmel, 25; and Porto Rico, 27. She also brings, on freight-810 dollars on merchants' account, 2,723 oz. gold dust, 991. Is. British coin, 400 francs in gol,l, and 1,697` oz. of silver. Cargo-2 cases of cigars (Havannah), 38 serons of sarsaparilla, 5 serons of indigo, 2 serons of hides, 113 serons of tobacco, 14 tierces, 12 barrels, and 4 half-barrels of coffee, 1 tierce, 8 half-tierces, and 35 barrels of ginger, 125 cases of succades, 40 kegs of succades, 8 cases of tortoiseshell, 1 tierce of beeswax, and 30 packages and parcels. The Forth had a fine passage home, excepting on leaving St. Thomas's, when she experienced a atrong headwind and heavy sea. At the time of her leaving that island the Royal Mail Company's ship Clyde was in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dee was on her passage from Grenada to Jamaica, the Teviot on the Spanish Main, the Trent had sailed from Havannah to Jamaica, the Eagle to Porto Rico and Grenada, and the Reindeer was at Demerara. We learn also, that her Majesty's ship Imaum was at Port Royal, her Majesty's ship Pickle was on her voyage to the Bahamas, and her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius to Barbadoes ; her Majesty's ship Thunder was fitting at Bermuda, preparatory to proceeding on survey at Antigua. The following Spanish men-of-war were lying at St. Jago de Cuba :—the ship Soborano, the steamer Con greso, and the schooners Teresetal and Isabel 11. Merchant Shipping—The British barque Ellen Simp. son, the brig Alderman Pirie (Captain Gardiner died at sea), and barque Helen Hardy. British shipping at Kingston, Jam a i ca , N ov. 23: The Superior, of London ; the Elizabeth, of Newport ; the Alice Haviland,. of Liverpool; the Union, of Bremen; and the Grange, of Glasgow. The Forth exchanged colours with the Isabella, from Liverpool, outward bound, on the morning of the 18th, and in the afternoon with the Providence, lat. at noon 48deg., lon. 10deg. 40m. M. de Fabron, a passenger from Guadeloupe, has been delegated to advance the money for compensation on the emancipation of the negro population in the French Islands. The news from the other islands is unimportant, ex cepting the favourable reports generally as to the grow ing crops. The 48th Regiment at Jamaica and the 71st at Barbadoes have received orders for Cork, and the Vengeance and Belleisle are expected out to take them. We have our usual file of Jamaica papers by the Forth, by which we learn that the House of Assembly bad been opened by the Lieuteettnt-Govcrnor, in the absence of his Excellency Sir Charles Grey. There is like to be a brisk session. A Bill has been brought in for reducing all the salaries of public officers, including the clergy. The subject of proposing an income-tax had been suggested. The agitation on the Sugar Duties Bill was kept up, numerous meetings had been held in different localities, and the following resolutions had been agreed to by the House of Assembly : "1. That the policy pursued by the Imperial Parlia ment towards the West India colonies has been most de trimental to the interests of property ; and the Sugar Duties Act, passed last session, by which they are to be subjected to an unequal struggle with slave-cultivating and slave-trafficking countries, must tend to complete their ruin, and exhibit a flagrant violation of national faith, consistency, and honour. "2. That with a limited protection to their produce, and that fair measure of support from the parent state, in procuring free African labourers, which they had a right to expect, the British emancipated colonies might, in a few years, have been restored to prosperity, and rendered capable not only of producing, as they for merly did, more sugar than England could consume, but of competing successfully with slave sugars in the general market of the world, when protection should have ceased to operate in their favour. "3. That by withholding that assistance, and preci pitately withdrawing protection in our yet infant state of freedom, the enormous sacrifices made for benefiting the African race will not only have been made in vain, but lead to the aggravation of their misery. Sugar cultiva tion must and will be extended in slave-cultivating coun cries as it declines in the free ; while freedom, fostered and encouraged, would far - more efficiently have secured to England the object for which she endangers her own colonies, rivets the chains of slavery, and compromises her character in the cause of humanity. " 4. That although the colonists have painfully felt that the diminution of more than 1,500,000 of annual exports, and that the scantiness of productive labour, are mainly traceable to imperial policy, yet they feel more deeply still, that the recent imperial policy, which tends to foster the increase and to prolong the duration of slavery in foreign countries, has destroyed all moral value of the exercise of the imperial will in 1833, in re spect to the natural rights of man, and has weakened the veneration of the colonists for the moral character, here tofore high, of the mother country. " 5. That, in the now reduced state of the colony, the prospective benefits of free trade will afford no ade quate compensation for the protection so hastily with drawn, and more especially when those principles are but partially applied to our relief; irnprtant restrictions being still maintained to our prejudice for the protection of influential interests in the rarent state. "6. That, urged by the British Government, and actuated by our sincere dezire to make successful the great national measure of negro emancipation, we have. amidst accumulating difficulties, largely increased the public burdens of the island to provide the costly estab lishments rendered necessary by the change in our social systi m. r MORTALITY IN THE ARMY AND ) NAVY. The numbers of those who perish in battle, or "after wards from wounds, is small compared to those who die from other causes. During the last three years of the Peninsular war, the total number of deaths in the army amounted annually to about 16 per cent. of the whole force. Of these only 4 per cent. died in battle, or of wounds which proved fatal soon after. The number of men sick in hospital usually averaged about one-fourth of the whole. In less than three years and a half, out of a force the average strength of which was 61,500 men, nearly 34,000 died, and of these only one-fourth fell by the sword ; and this enormous mortality occurred among a body of men, all of whom, a short time previously, must have been in the healthiest vigour of youth or prime of manhood ; so that it required the annual sa crifice of 6,400 able-bodied men, to keep in the field a working force of less than 50,000 men ! If such was the amount of suffering and waste of life, when every expedient was adopted that foresight could suggest to provide proper food and raiment, and every other attain able comfort both in sickness and in health, what must it be when these precautions are neglected ? Of such neglect and its terrible and execrable consequences, Napoleon's campaign of 1812 and 1813 afford memor able examples. From want of proper supplies alone, the French troops perished literally by hundreds of thousands ! There is a remarkable difference between our land and sea services. The Channel fleet, which consisted of 24 sail of the line, with frigates, &c., on its return to Torbay, in Septemb er , 1800, after a four months' cruise, sent only sixteen men to hospital. The average mortality in the years 1810, 1811, and 1812 was only 31 per cent., since 1830 it has not been more than 1.4 per cent., which is less than the general average among men of the same age on shore.—Quarterly Review, 1846. THE AMERICAN RIFLE.—From the sounding name of " American Rifle," the reader will expect to partake of a rich treat in the description of the various peculiari ties attached to them, but we regret that the treat can not be realised. The American rifle is only great in fame. There is no science displayed in the construc tion, which it not to be met with in every part of Europe; they have every degree of spiral that has ever been re commended, every variety of groove, and every size of bore—from 16 to the lb. to 140 to the lb. —every variety of length end every weight. In truth, the celebrity they have obtained is not for any perfection in their arms, for a vast majority of those they have are the com monest "Brummagem rubbi s h," made with no attention to science, but only for profit. No, the truth is, the Ame deans use the rifle more, probably, than any nation in the world. They are more expert generally in their shooting practice, and this has done everything for them, and not the merit of their rifles. We have seen American rifle barrels which were far from straight, and far from being correctly rifled, yet they shoot well. Why! Be. cause the bore is very small, the barrel burning powder sufficient to give a high velocity up to 100 yards, and, as we have already remarked, accuracy at short distances is the American rule of perfection. Occasionally the back woodsman may venture a long range, but in a vast majority of cases the balls used are so small as to be per fectly useless a greater distances than 150 yards. To write a long article on the American rifles would be but a repetition of previous matter, as they have no established rule or principle, save in their military arms, and here uniformity is necessary, and the display of scientific princi ples in these is not very apparent. The military rifle is 2 feet 9 inches long, carries a ball 30 to the lb. The rifling is different from any used in Europe. The grooves are 14 in number, with 7 projections more pro minent than the others, an arrangement very objection able, as it is clear these " projections" must either grip the ball so as to indent it, or to allow the extra cuts to be of no use E or if not gripping it, why have so many " furrows and lands ?" two sizes remind us of cutting a file with half the teeth higher than the other half. The rifle, as a whole, is a handy weapon, but with the " old plan" of a " hook main spring" and " tumbler," it is what we may designate as a very nice " tool" for a gentleman's amusement, certainly not a military weapon as it ought to be. It is very near akin to the Prussian rifle, will shoot well at 200 yards, but no further.— Greener's Science of Gunnery, BEET-ROOT AND BREAD.—The Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, Paymaster of Civil Services in Ireland, has ad dressed a public letter to Mr. Labouchere, drawing at tention to the fact that beet -root and flour, mixed in equal proportions, make excellent nutritious bread. We have had the experiment tried, by rasping down a red beet -root, and mixing with it an equal quantity of flour ; and we find that the dough rises well, bakes well, arid forms a loaf very similar to good brown bread in taste and appearance. We regard this as an important dis covery ; because there is no crop which can be so readily introduced into Irish cultivation as the best, and its varieties, because no crop will yield a larger return, and because an abundant supply of seed may be had of it from France. We have long since shown the great value of a beat crop, in point of nutrition ; that in fact it ranks higher than any known plant which is cultivable. But there was always the difficulty of how to consume it, for men would find it a poor diet by itself, and the present circumstances of Ireland are not snch as to justify the introduction of produce which can become food for rns n only after having been transformed into pegs and oxen. The discovery, however, in Germany, of the facility with which it may be combined with bread, removes the difficulty, and places beet incontestably at the head of the new articles which should be introduced into Irish husbandry. In its relation to potatoes, beet stands as 1,020 to 433, if its nutritive quality is con sidered ; and as 8,330 to 3,480 in regard to utilisable produce of all kinds. It is still to be determined what kind of beet could be best cultivated for this purpose. Red beet produces brown bread ; white sugar beet would probably yield a white bread, and of still better quality ; Mangold Wurzel wo have ascertained to form bread of inferior quality, but still eateable enough.— Gardener's Chronicle. HINTS FOR PIANISTS. Have your pianoforte tuned at least four times a year, by an experienced tuner ; if you allow it to go too long without tuning, it usually becomes flat, and troubles a tuner to get it to stay at concert pitch, especially in the country. Never place the instrument against an outside wall, or in a cold or damp roma, particularly in a country house : there is no greater enemy to a pianoforte than damp. Close the instrument immediately after you practice ; by leaving it open dust fixes on the sound board, and corrodes the movements, and if in a damp room the strings soon rust. Should the pianoforte stand near or opposite to a window, guard, if possible, against its being opened, especially on a wet or damp day ; and when the sun is on the window draw the blind down. Avoid utting metallic or other articles on or in the pianoforte, such things frequently cause unpleasant vibrations and sometimes injure the instrument. The more equal the temperature of the room, and the less the soft pedal is tiled, the better the piano will stand in tune.—lllusical WRECKING.—Four men have recently been con victed at Stratton, in the penalty of 201. each, or three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in default of immediate payment, for plundering from the wreck of the Eliza of Liverpool, driven on shore in the parish of Kilkhampton, in the gale of the 21st October last. The parties, with seven.' others, were proceeded against on the complaint of Mr. J. S. James, Lloyds' agent for the district, who expressed his determination, by every means in his power, to bring to punishment those who offended the law, giving occasion for the opinion enter tained as to the habits of our countrymer, , and attach ing so much discredit to us as a county. One of the parties, whose position in life and circumstances should have taught him to set a better example, paid the penalty, rather than undergo the disgrace of the treadmill ; the other three were committed to gaol.— West Briton. The Count d'Abrantes, who was sent by the Go vernment of Brazil to conclude a treaty aft Berlin with the German Customs Union, has embarked for Rio de Janeiro, having been unable, it is said, to agree upon the bases of a treaty. AN UNENVIABLE SITUATION. —About three o'clock on Thursday morning, the policeman on duty in Croxtetle road, near the Tanneries, heard a noise in a new building. He got a light, and on searching found a man naked lying down and drunk. He said his name was Ryan, that he came from Warwick, and that he supposed he was going to bed, but where he had un dressed himself he could not tell. Every search was made for his clothes, but they could not be found. The poor fellow was clothed in a policeman's topcoat, and conveyed to his lodgings in Thomas-street. Daylight discovered his clothes lying in a field near the spot.— Liverpool Journal. THE EXTENSIVE FIRE IN DRURY-LAN E ON SATURDAY MORNING. —The following is a report of the damage:—Mr. Noblett's factory and contents nearly de stroyed, with two upper floors of the front house and the roof—insured in the Westminster Fire office;-Messrs. Kendall and Son, wholesale shoemakers, Nu. 25, roof burned off—stock insured in the same office, and the building in the Royal Exchange; Mr. Durieu, oil and co lourman, No. 23, back premises and stock damaged, and part of front roof burned off—insured in the Imperial Fire- office. Several other buildings have also been damaged to some extent by fire, water, and removal of goods. THE LOCOMOTIVE ESTABLISHMENT AT ASHFORD. —There can be no doubt that the approaching comple tion of the Paris line to the coast will materially increase the traffic of the South-Eastern Railway. It is not alone or this increase of traffic that the company are, by the erection of an immense locomotive establishment at Ashford, preparing. The North Kent line to Gray- "7. That, now cast -off by the Governfuent which pressed those changes upon ni with an impatience and recklessness, justified only by its avowed abhorrence of slavery, and with little hope of returning prosperity, it becomes the p sinful tan imperative duty of the House, in justice to the public creditor, to the owners of pro perty, and to the labouring population (for all must suffer together), to reduce the whole of the island estab lishments commensurately with the diminished and diminishing means of its impoverished inhabitants. " 8. That at the period of the passing of the Emanci pation Act, the Government held out to us the most solemn assurances of assistance and protection, to secure a successful issue to that great measure of philanthropy. If that course of policy is now to be abandoned—if we are now to be inv, Iced in a ruinous competition with slavehelding foreigners —if -. her—Majesty's Government are now of opinion that the protection and assistance which alone can avert our destruction are incompatible with the national interests, it will then only remain for us, in the face of the nation and of the world, to demand of Parliament that equitable compensation so which as British subjects we are clearly entitled. " 9. That a committee be appointed to draw up a re monstrance and petition to the Queen in terms of these resolutions, faithfully setting forth the depressed condi tion and hopeless prospects of the colony, and humbly praying her Majesty to direct her Ministers to review their proceedings, and grant us relief." Jamaica papers announce the arrival of the Indus at Port Royal, from St. Ilelena, with 340 emancipated Africans, captured by her Majesty's brig Waterwitch on the coast of Africa, and chartered to Jamaica as free immigrants. MURDER AND SUPPOSED SUICIDE. Between the ho urs o f 10 and 11 yesterday mornin two boys, who obt a i n a li v i ng by dredging along theg, water side, whilst passing along the bed of the river nearly opposite to Waterloo dock, found a human body firmly embedded in the mud ; on towing it near they dis covered that it was the body of a female, with a child tied round her waist by means of a piece of rope yarn. The arms of the woman were both pressed round the neck of the child, leaving one to suppose that in the agonies of death she was firmly pressing the little innocent to her breast. The two bodies were immediately removed to the vaults of St. John's Church, in the Waterloo -road, where a more minute examination was made. It was there found that the child was of the male sex, apparently about fourteen months old, the female seemed to be between 33 and 36 years of age. The latter was dressed in an old black stuff gown, black stockings, and side lace up boots. The rest of the apparel appeared very old and ragged. The child, a fine-looking boy, wore (to all ap pearance) a black frock, long worsted socks and callico under clothing. The dress of the two denoted extreme poverty. Tax FOREIGN MAILS. —The following notice, fixing the dates on which the foreign mails will be made up in London to be forwarded rid Southampton Mar smiles, Liverpool, and Falmouth, and the dates on which the return packets will be due at the said ports, was issued on Saturday at the General Post-office :—" Ma. dein+, British West Indies, &e.—The mails for Madeira, the British and foreign colonies in the Wet Indies (ex cept Honduras, Bermuda, and the Havannah), and Vene zuela, will be made up on the morning of the 2d of January and evening of the 16th ; Mexico, Honduras, and Havan nah, on the morning of the 2d only ; Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the even ing of the 16th only, rid Southampton ; mails due on the 7th and the 22d at Southampton. Mediterranean, India, &c.—The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and china, will be made up on the evening of the 2d and morning of the 20th, to be forwarded rid Southampton. By the fortnightly closed mail to the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, &c., via Marseilles, on The evenings of the 7th and 23d. British North America, &c.—The mail for Bermuda, British North America, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the 4th, to be forwarded by the Hibernia steamer rid Liver pool ; Cambria due on the 15th. Madeira, Brazils, &c.—The mail for Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, Will be made up on the evening of the 4th, rid Falmouth; her Majesty's brig Crane due the 27th. N ew S out h W ale; &c :. -:-Th_e mail for Sydn e y, N ew S outh Wales, on Abensaitadraleiau, van Diemen ' , Land, and New Zealand, will the evening of the 31st, to be forwarded by the rn ia)thil sail ing - Packet el: i Gravesend. France, Sic.—The°rnaill ance and Belgium are made up every evening at the , andGeneralOstend Post-of fi ce and forwarded via Dover, c a w. y Wednesday des(dSundays excepted) ; due daily. Holland. ever and Saturday morn ing ; due Wednesdays and Th ursday s, every Tuesday and Friday evGeneinntigrZrutees. Tuesdays and Hamburgh, Saturdays, forwarded by the Company's peels eta from the Thatnies."B lan NaVjgati°ll The Ministers are leaving town for th e h o li days Lord Grey, for Bo wood Park, on a v i sit to Lord " -..: downer- Lord John Russell, for Wob urn Abbey the . . rest of the Duke of Bedford; Lord Clarendon, th e cellor of the Exchequer, and the other members of th e Cabinet, for different country seats. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE Ind will require a very large carrying stock. The im mensity of the river passenger traffic to and fro between London and this town, is too notorious to need particular remark. Experience teaches us that a great portion of this will inevitably pass over the South-Eastern Rail way. The directors are looking forward to the con struction of the stock necessary to work such a traffic. The ground on which the works at Ashford are being erected was originally a hollow, the surface rising in the direction of the railway (east and west), and to the south. This hollow has been filled up level with the rail. The works consist of a large engine shed, a repairing shop, smiths' and boiler shops and tender sheds. The engine shed, which is for the accommoda tien of 16 loeornotives, with their tenders, is 208 feet 9, by 63 feet, parallel with the railway. Four lines of rail extend longitudinally through the whole length of the building. The repairing shop has room for 15 engines and tenders. The length of the building is 395 feet by 45. Attached to the front of this building is to be a stationary engine of 25 horse power, for driving the works. A tranverse crane will move on iron rails, lon gitudinally along the shop. It will be capable of' lifting 20 tons at its centre. To the south, and parallel with the repairing shop, is the smithy. This will contain 20 fires. It is 176 feet long by 45 wide, and 28 hi g h. These an d other buildings comprise ab out one-half of the works that the South Eastern Company intend to carry out simultaneously with the construction of their new lines. —.Kent Herald. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 19.—The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, had the adjustment of her compasses completed yesterday. She has bent sails, and is now nearly ready for sea. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was hauled down from her moorings alongside the jetty yesterday, prepara tory to being docked to-morrow. In consequence of the frequent and long excursions which her Majesty now every season takes to sea, and the increase of the Royal Family, the accommodations of the yacht, as originally con structed, have been found insufficient for the Royal Family; her present docking is, therefore, not from any break down in her machinery or steerage apparatus, nor from any of those other causes or ills which ships of a certain construction are alleged to be heir to, but merely for the purpose of having the nursery and store-rooms, and such other offices as may contribute to good lodging and living, enlarged. The Resistance troop-ship, Commander Lowe, will be ready for sea about the 30th inst. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, left yesterday at 3 p.m., for Sheerness, with supernumera ries. If her defects are found considerable, she will be paid off. __ _ A plan, which was laid before the late Board of Admiralty, and which, having been submitted to and approved by the present Board for organising all the workmen in Plymouth, Chatham, Pembroke, Sheerness, and this dockyard, into brigades, to be drilled a certain number of days in each year to the exercise of great guns and small arms, will' be submitted to Parliament next session. The artisans will be instructed in the naval great gun exercise (we are told) in ships to be brought alongside the several dockyards, armed with guns of the largest calibre, and in the land artillery practice in the various batteries contiguous to each port. The first instructions will be given by gunnery lieu tenants and naval gunners, the second course of instruc tion by artillery officers and men connected with the corps. The drill is not to interfere with the works in progress in the dockyards, but take place in the summer months for an hour or so before or after the working hours in the dockyard. Each man to be paid extra when on drill. By these means it is expected that an avail able force of 5,000 men will be raised for the defence of the different arsenals in the event of an emergency. We are also informed that there is to be an increase of the Royal Marine force, to the extent of about 1,500 men, or about ten additional companies. The number of Royal Marine cadets in the Excellent are also to be in creased from 15 to 20, at the commencement of the en suing year. Orders have already been received by the Colonel Commanding the Royal Artillery in this garri son to exercise the dockyard artisans in the great gun practice. The committee appointed to examine the fortifications and defences of the naval arsenals, consisting of Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, RN., the late Colonel Sir George Hoste, RE., and Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, RA.. among other reforms in the defences of the island of Portsea, recommend that the works at Hilsea should be put in a proper defensive condition, and that an officer and detachment of artillery should be placed therein to keep them so. In pursuance of this recommendation the clearance of lines; ditches, &c., has been commenced, and a formidable redoubt and barracks are being con structed on the south-east end of the glacis, close to the Brighton and Chichester Extension Railway. This bat tery will be constructed so as to sweep the greater part of the harbour of Langston, and the streams which flow into it from Emsworth, and entirely protect the entrance into Portsmouth harbour from Post-bridge. Lieutenant Tylden, R.A., is the officer who has been appointed to superintend the construction of this fort. WOOLWICH, DEc. 19.—The Rhadamanthus steam vessel, Master Commander Aylen, having had her de fects made good, will leave Woolwich for Greenhithe on Monday next, to have her compasses adjusted, and then proceed to Plymouth for further orders. The Centaur steam-frigate has her steam up to day, for the purpose of being taken round to Portsmouth to be made ready for sea, and commissioned at the port. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 21.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W., moderate breeze, and thick weather. It has blown heavily with much rain during the night and this morning. OFF ST. ALBAN'S HEAD, DEC. 17.—Windhound, Notting, Monte Video, for Antwerp. OFF TILE START, DEC. 17.—Lanark, St. John's, New Brunswick, for London. PORT MADOC, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Royal William, Quebec. SHIELDS, DEC. I9.—Wind W. to W.S.W., light. —Sid. 18th, Westmorland, Suez and Bombay. HARTLEPOOL, DEC. 19.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Thetis, White, St. Thomas. The Agenoria, of Shields, on shore 11th inst., has been condemned; materials saved. YARMOUTH, DEC. 18.—An oar marked "T. A. London, N. 5.," with a rudder and. tiller, &c., came ashore near here yesterday. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—The Farewell, from New York to this port, was abandoned on the 27th alt., lat. 40, lon. 56, with nine feet water in her hold, and pumps choked ; crew taken off by the Sheffield arrived here. The Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, from St. Jagode, Cuba, to Swansea, with two men dead and three laid up with fever, was spoken on the 13th ult., lat. 40, lon. 64, by the Niagara, Russell, arrived here. The 574, from Quebec to Swansea, has been wrecked on Anticoste ; crew and horses saved. 20th. A vessel's mast, erperolicular in the water, with a gilt ball on the masthead, was passed on the 12th inst., lat. 48, lon. 21, by the Isabella, Robb, arrived here. The Clifford has been spoken at sea, dismasted. DIAL, DEC. 19.—Wicd W.S.W. to N.W. moderate.-20. W.sAV , fresh.—Arrd. 20, Mary Sparks, Bushby, China; Duchess of Buccleugh, Collier,Calcutta; Greenlaw, Johnson, Calcutta; Japan, Tinte, Mauriiius: Caroline, Hughes, Mau ritius; Isabella Blyth, Paddle, Mauritius; Tweed, Walker, Cape Coast Castle; Clipper, Africa; Jessy, M‘Gills, Callao, for Shields; Vrebona, Vandycke, Valparaiso for Hamburgh ; Swan, Blanchard. Havannah ; Robert G. Shaw, Dunbar, New Orleans; Hardee, Soul!, New Orleans, for Brem e n ; European, New O r l eans , f or B remen ; Queen Victoria, Charleston, for Hull; Othello, Honduras; Camillus, Spragge, Demerara; Ruby, May, St. Kitts; Roland, Steengraffi., New York, and sailed for Antwerp; Lanarkshire, Turner, New York ; Eclipse, St. John's for Ipswich ; George, Quebec; Planter, Chester, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Thomas Arbuthnot, Thompson, Port Philip; Kingston, Harwood, Adelaide, South Australia ; Mountstewart Elphinston, Thom son, Sydney, New South Wales; Thomas King, Sobbins, Sydney, New South Wales; Amelia Mulholland, Wilkinson, Mauritius; St. Vincent's Planter, Ryan, Sierra Leone. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Mountain Maid, Robertson,' Cape of Good Hope. Put back, Alexander, for Havannali. Scansottot:Gir, DEC. 19.—The Trent, Melvin, from Lynn to Sunderland, came on shore near here to-day, and is ex pected to be a total wreck. RAMSGATE, DEC. 19.—The Walter, from London to Fal mouth, which got on the main near Shingle End, 17th inst., has been got off, and has arrived here. PutratEm, DEC. 18.—About 121 barrels of flour have been washed on shore near Portinllaen, supposed to be from the Zebra, wrecked on the Skerries. PETERHEAD, DEC. 17.—The Progress, Webster, from Riga to Londonderry, put in here to-day, leaky, and with pump choked. and it is expected will have to discharge. LYTHAM, DEC. 19.—The Lennah, M•Gechan, from Liver pool to Ballina, struck on a bank near Blackpool this morning, and was run on shore at this port, nearly full of water. Cargo discharging in a very damaged state. YARMOUTH, DEC. 20.—The headr :il of a vessel, with the name Mansfield in yellow Roman lettprs upon a black ground, and two small pieces of a clinker-KUM boat, painted green inside, were picked up, 18th inst, off Winterton. OFF PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—Elizabeth, Newby, London, for Liverpool; leaky. 'ETTER STEALING by a SOLDIER SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY, Dec. O.—Yesterday Fre derick Loyd Sims, a private in the 30th Regiment, a depot of which is now stationed at Sunderland Barracks, was brought before Joseph Simpson and John Scott, Esqrs., two of the magistrates for this borough, charged with stealing a letter containing a cheque on the Branch Bank of England at Newcastle for the payment of 261. The case excited considerable interest, from the circum stance of Sims being respectably connected, and having obtained a local literary fame by the publication of a volume of poetry, which have been lately very favour ably reviewed by the Sunderland and Newcastle news papers. From the evidence adduced in the case, it appeared that Sims was the person sent to the Sunderland Post office for the letters addressed to the (Akers and soldiers of the depOt. On Wednesday, the 18th of November, a letter was forwarded by Captain Macdonald, the pay master of the regiment, through the Newcastle post office, to Captain Heard, the commanding officer at Sun derland barracks, in which he inclosed a cheque on the above-mentioned bank for the payment of 261. This letter ought to have reached Captain Heard on the fol lowing morning, but it was never received by him; and after much inq u i r y, S ims, t h e lett er-carrier, was sus pected and taken Into custody, Whilst at the station house he made a written confession, for the purpose, as he says, of " preventing innocent parties coming under suspicion, and in token of contrition and reparation for the wrong he had done to others." In this docu ment he states that he was induced to commit the offence by being involved in debts which preyed upon his mind. He presented the cheque himself at the bank in Newcastle, and receivad 261. in gold; he endorsed the cheque in the name of Barker, and sent 5/. by a Pest-office order to a friend in London. The most extraordinary part of his statement is, that he put 201. of the money in a purse, which he placed under his pillow on the night after his return from Newcastle, and it was stolen while be slept. This part of his story was corroborated by a comrade called before the magistrate yesterday, who deposed that on the 20th of November he met the prisoner in the can teen. The latter charged him with having stolen the money from under his pillaw, and offered to accept half of it to say nothing about the matter, intimating that with this money he would leave the country. Sims declined making any statement before the magis trates, and was fully committed to take his trial at tt.aw next Durham assizes. ORSHIP • ST-----REET.....0-14 Friday last Mr. Bingham made some observations upon the misconduct attribu',;ed to William Cotton, the discharged soldier of the 22d Regiment. The facts of his case are, as we are informed, as follows :—He was enlisted on the 14th of December, 1835, at the age of 16 8.12 years, and was discharged on the 11th of June, 1844. His claim to a pension was for feited by three convictions of desertion, viz., on the 18th of May, 1837, the 31st of January, 1888, and the 26th of December of the same year. Ile was besides cot 'fined in prison for another crime, from the 11th of November to the 18th of December, 1837. His wound was rec eived from the firelock of one of the guard at Sukkur, on an alarm of an attack at night, when a sentinel on his post, in February, 1843. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, DEC. 18.--A steady business has been done this week at former rates, and the market has closed with a firmer appearance. The re fiued market is also more animated, and rather dearer. The Judges have at length declared their decision, ai visitors of the Inns of Court, on the Inner Te.mple Benchquestion. It is, th a t Q ueen ' s Counsel have- no legal right to the office of bencher, but that the mode of election pursued at the Inner Temple is improper, rind ought to be abolished. In other words, the benchers have dose a wrong thing, though they had a legal right to do it ; which is precisely what we have mainttilMO from the first—From a Correspondent. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1846 LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE- CHANCERY COURT, Dec. 21. VINCENT V. HUNTER. This was a cross bill filed by. Sir Francis Vincent for the purpose of discharging an order that had been ob tained by the defendant on the 15th of December, 1846. The facts were as follows: —The defendant it his suit al leged that the plaintiff owed him the sum of 2,0001., for which he agreed to give a mortgage on his estate to that amount to a person named Leigh, the defendant, Hunter, being indebted over 1,9001. to him, Leigh. A power of sale was given with the mortgage, and the money not being paid, the estate was put up to sale, and purchased by Hunter. The plaintiff in the present suit alleged that he was abroad at the time of the sale, that ha never granted the mortgage, but that the defendant agreed to raise 2,0001. fqr him, out of which he only received 137/. 10s., a picture valued at 1,2001., a bill of ex charge, which was dishonoured, and a bill of costs which was never received, and therefore that the sale was fraudulent. His HONOUR deferred making any order on the matter for the present. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 21. MITCHELL V. MOORE. -- LIABILITY OF PROVISL,NAL DIRECTORS. This was action brought by Mr. Mitchell, the adver tising agent, residing in Red Lion -court, Fleet-street, to recover the sum of 1,040/ for advertisements inserted on behalf of the Great Western Extension (Atmospheric) Railway Company, of which the defendant, Major Moore, was a provisional committeeman. Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Barstow were for the plaintiff; Mr. Crowder and Mr. Montague Smith for the defence. Mr. COCKBURN said this was an action to recover for work and labour done in advertising the prospectus and other documents of the company in question, in the London and country newspapers, commencing on the tth of September last year. He would prove that the orders were given, and that at the time Major Moore was an acting member of the committee, he having been put on the direction at his own request, and prior to the issuing of the prospectus. the Learned Gentleman concluded by calliss his witnesses. Mr. Henry Owen, the Company's solicitor, Mr. Few, Mr. Alpine, and Mr. Hill,. part i es connected with the origin of the company, were severally examined in refe rence to its commencement and the issuing of the pro spectus. Mr. Brooke teas the projectorof the scheme,and the company was provisionally registered in the latter end of August. Ou the 3d of September, on application to Major Moore, he consented by letter to be a provisional director, and on the 4th (the day following) the pro spectus was issued. That document was given by the solicitor to the plaintiff to be advertised in the usual way. The defendant subsequently at tepeled two meetings, and took part in the proceedings, though no special orders for anything were given by him. The company continued in opera tion till December, when it broke up. In the cress -examination of these witnesses it was ad mitted that subsequently a second letter had been received from the defendant, intimating a conditional withdrawal from the company, making it to depend on the continu ance of a certain party on the directory. The insertion of the prospectus and other announce mentos of the company, by the plaintiff , in the newspapers, was also proved. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. CROWDER submitted, on the authority of the di ci sions of the Court of Exchequer in " Reynell v. Lewis," and " Wilde a. Hopkins," that the plaintiff should be nonsuited. The proof of liability in the present case was less at least than in the first one cited. His LORDSHIP thought that the facts ought to be sub mitted to the jury, and their opinions taken before any ulterior proceedings. Mr. CROWDER then addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that no proof of any contract, direct or implied, on the part of defendant, had been given. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said the case before the jury was one involving the liability of certain parties called provisional directors ; and the question they had to consider was, whether the defendant in the present action had requested his nama to be placed in the list of the provisional directors of the Great Western Extension (Atmospheric) Railway Company, and whether, in so d o i ng , he be came liable to the expenses subsequently in• curred in the formation of the company. If it were held that the function of a provisional committee was the superintending and carrying out the formation of a company, and if it was satisfactorily proved that any particular director had consented to be on the same, he was clearly of opinion no proof of a specific order for any particular kind of work was necessary, the general powers of the committee being sufficient for that purpose. With regard to this function of the provisional com mittee, he was of opinion that it was a question for the jury in each particular case. The function of a provi sional committee appeared to be the carrying out and formation of a particular company; therefore, on this head, he would ask the jury the question, " Does a person who gives his consent to be one of such a committee engage to do all things which are necessary for the formation of such a company ?" If they (the jury) thought so—if, from their knowledge of business and the nature of such undertakings, they considered this to be the true function of such a committee—if they were satisfied that the defendant had requested and allowed himself to be placed on it, then they must find a verdict for the plaintiff. The Learned Judge then went through the facts adduced in evidence in support of the main question left to the jury. In conclusion, if they con sidered that the business of a provisional committee was to do all things necessary for the formation of a company, and were satisfied the defendant had given his authority to be on such a committee, then they must find a verdict f or th e p l a i nt i f f ; b ut, should they not hold this to be the function of a provisional committee, the verdict must be for the defendant. In taking the former view of the question, they would have to consider how far it was affected by the alleged withdrawal of the de fendant—the letter respecting which had not been pro duced, having been lost. The jury, after an absence of a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 21. stEnTost V. CANROUX. This action was brought to recover back the sum of 3551., paid by one, Mr. Thomas Lee o •o the National Loan Fund Association, in consideration of two annuities, one immediate and one deferred, to be paid by the society to him. Mr. Lee shortly after died intestate, and the present action was brought by the plaintiff, the adminis trator to his property, to obtain repayment of the money, on the ground that he was of unsound mind at the period of entering into the contra c t. In support of the plaintiff's case, seem' witnesses were called to prove the insanity of Mr. Lee. One of the witnesses (s solicitor) stated that he was of opinion he was of unsound mind, because he lent several sums of money to poor persons without sufficient security, at the rate of 5 per cent. Another stated that he had a most voracious appetite, and that he ass at times very desponding, and at others con siderably elated by the suoeess of his business. S,veral other incidents, such as the purchase of cheap brooches, and of a waistcoat which did not fit him, were also brought forward to substantiate the in- sanity. The medical adviser was called, who stated that, in his opinion, deceased was affected with pa ralysis of the brain, and that it was not competent to discharge its functions. After his decease no post mortem examination had been made. Another medi cal gentleman (Dr Goulding Bird) was called, who stated that he had had considerable experience in the treatment of persons affected with insanity, and, in his opinion, deceased was what would be called a lunatic. He was not mad upon one point, as is the case in per- Sons afflicted with monomania ; he had lost the use of his reasoning faculties altogether, and it was his opinion that the disease had for some period been making insidious advances upon the deceased, and' was not induced by any sudden attack of phrenetis, or af fection of the brain. Mr. WHATELEY, on the part of the defendant, con tended that, from all the evidence which bad been laid before the jury then, no case could possibly be made. The conduct of the deceased had been precisely that of a sane person, and with refer ence to t h e evidence of the medical gentlemen, nothing could be gathered which would at all go to show that the deceased was, at the time of entering into the agreement with the company, of unsound mind. The substance of the evidence called on the part of the defendant, went to show that the deceased person had uniformly been in the habit of transacting business for himself; without the slightest suspicion of his being an office uct b y from en. insane I p . e T rs u c E st. sic ER, the charge o f any im i p n r e o e p p ri ly et , y az in qu t it h t e e i d r t e h o e nd tering into an agreement, with the deceased, but if it was proved that the deceased was insane at the time of entering into the agreement the company would be bound to repay the sums, and although it might be hard upon the office it would be still more so upon the rela tives of the deceased. The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said that the present action was one of the most important that he had ever been connected with, either professionally or judicially, and he should simply take the opinion of the jury upon two points : first, whether the deceased was in a sound state of mind at the period of his entering into the contract, and, secondly, whether the agreement was perfectly fair and proper in itself. It would certainly involve an enormous amount of litigation and confusion if the every -day transactions of life were to be entered into in that state of u ncerta i nty w h ich a kind of post mortem investigation into the character of the contractor would necessarily produce. He merely threw out this suggestion in order that the subject might be more fully discussed elsewhere. The jury retired, and after a short absence, returned the following verdict:—" We find for the plaintiff; that Thomas Lee was of unsound mind at the time of the transaction, and we find that the transaction was a bona fide one on the part of the office at the time of its being entered into ; that the • office had no notice of the condition of the deceased at the time ; and that there was nothing in his manner to lead the office to consider him of unsound mind, and that the trans action was an ordinary business-like affair, such as a person in the position of the deceased would enter into." Damages 3551. 6s. 2d. Leave was given to the defendant to move to set the verdict aside. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 21. The v. Cour t was eng age d a l l the morning with a case, Young Ivimey, respecting th e i n f r i ngement o f a patent, but the particulars were of no interest except to the parties zoneerned. MEETING OF PARLIADIENT.—At the Privy Council held at Windsor Castle on Saturday afternoon, a procla mation was ordered to be issued, directing Parliament to assemble for the dispatch of business, on Tuesday, the 19th of January next. CENIRAL CRIMINAL COURT. SENTENCES AND RESULTS. Subjoined are the principal sentences as finally fixed, after the termination of the session : Sentence of death recorded against—James Denny, aged. 43, for setting fire to a house, persons residing therein. TRANSPORTATION BEYOND TEE SEAS. MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, PA c. p.— Birmingham and Oxfoid Junction, 8 1 % p.—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 1 1 / p.—East Lancashire, New (scrip), 1 1 h p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3:r i dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 14 dis.—London Manchester, and Birmingham, 75—Manchest er and Leeds' Extension, 1 3.16 p.—North British Quarters, 2 11-16 p.—North Stafford. shire, 3:r i p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, an d G oo l e, 13-16 p.— Scottish Midland, 3 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, p. LEEDS, DECEMBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share trade has been inactive since our last. Prices are steady, and no indications of pre sent decline observable. Stock is not plentiful, or, we think, more business could h ave b een d one, as t h e small quantity offering has gone off readily at quotations. The sales are— East Lancashire, New, 3 5 / s p.—Ditto, New Scrip, PA p.— Huddersfield and Manchester, p.—Ditto, Thi r d s , PA p. —Leeds and D ews b ury , Half Shares, p. c. n.— Ditto, Extensions scrip (green), 20s. p.—Ditto, New Extensions scrip (pink), PA p.—Leeds and Thirek, New, par c. n.— Ditto, Preference, 22 5 . p.—M a l ton and Driffield Junction, 1 1 4 1 n. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1 1 / s p.—Midland. Preference, 41 p.—North British, Thirds, 595. p.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 20s. p.—forth-Western, I I s . p.—Shefield, Rotherham, and Goole, 18s. 6d. p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 51. Is. 6d. n. p.—L ee d s , W a k e fi eld, and Midland, 12s. dis.—London and York, Half Shares, 10s. dig —London and Portsmouth, 16s. 6d. p.—Northern Counties Union, 1 1 4 dis.—West Riding Union, 31. 19, ...ng . NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, DECEMBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, p.—Edinburgh and Northern, New, 1 1 4 p.—Newcastle and Carlisle, New, 10 1 , p.—Newcastle and Berwick ( North Shields, 13 p.—North British, 12 1 ,i—Ditto, Quarters, .545. p.—Ditto, Extension, 20s. p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 101 p. HULL, DECEMBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, 37 Ditto, Quarters, 755. 6d.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 20 s . p.— Ditto, Thirds, 2!. 18s.—Y or k and Newcastle, Preference, 5 p. —Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bo s t on , dis.—Birming ham and xford Junction, 8A p.—Northern Counties Union, 255. p. YORK, DrCEMBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-London and York, 2/. 4s. 6d.-North British, Halves, 16-Ditto, Thirds, 3/. 18s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 175.-Ditto, Extension, 11. 13s. -North-Western, 3/. Os. 6d.-York and Newcastle, New, 121. Bs. 9d.-Ditto, Preference, 74 Is. EDINBURGH, DzwanEtt 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 24/. 58.- Airdrie and Bathgate, 41. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281. Ditto, Halves, 15/. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, 6s. 6d.- Ayr and Galloway, 1/. 6s. 6d.-Caledonian, 28/. 'W.-Ditto, New, 2/. lits. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 1/. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 341.-Cornwall and Devon Cen tral, 1/. 155.-Deeside Railway, 3L-Direct Northern, 21. ls. -Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 75.-Dundee and Ar broath. 45/. ex new-Ditto. New, No. I, 344-Ditto, New, 284-Dundee and Perth, 261. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 114 10s. -East of Fife, 1/. 18s. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 2/. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 155.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 75/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 204-Ditto, Quarters, 18/. 12s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 2.1/. 10 s -Ditto, Preference, 21L-Edinburgh and Northern, 15/. 7s. 6d. ex new-Ditto, New, 5/. Os. 6d.-Ditto Newport, 6/. 12a. 6d. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New, 31. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 145.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 691.-Ditto, New Stock, 38/. 155.-Ditto, Quarters, 171.7 s 6 d.-Ditto, Halves, 8/. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 65.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 16 5. -- Glasgow and Garnkirk, 41/. -Ditto, Quarters, 104-Glavrow General Terminus, 12/.103. -Glasgow and Greenock, 17 4-Ditto, Half Shares, 8/. 10s. -Ditto, Preference, 8/. 55.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ar drossan, 3/. 17 &-Great North of England, 2371.-Great North of Scotland, 2/, 55.•-Great Western, 1341.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 11.35, 6:L.-London and York, 2/. 7s. 6d,-Ditto, Halves, 1/. 17s. 6d.-Newcastle and Ber wick, 84/. 10s.-North British, 37/. 172. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 161. 29. 6 , 1.-Ditto, Thirds, 4/. Ss.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, scrip, It 1 Is. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 10s.-North Wales Mineral, 201.-Ditto New, 10/. ss. - Scottish C e nt ra l, 21 / . 17s. 6d.-Scottlsh ' Grand Junction, 155.-Scottish Midland, 14/. 17s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Here ford, 155.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6/. 16s. 3d. -Ditto, New, tea. 9d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/. 13s.- ' Stirling and Midland, 2/. 10c.-Strathern Junction, 41. 43.- Wishaw and Coltness. 48/. 1.08.-York and Newcastle, MI. I ex new-. Ditto, New, 15/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 71. 2s. 6d. -Direct Bombay and Madras, ss. 9d.-East Indian Railway, 125.-Great North of India, Ss.-Great Southern of Madras, ss. 3d.-M a d ras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 3d. GLASGoW e s , ECEMBER 18. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The are—Aberdeen, 241/2—Cale donian, New, 478. 6d.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 395• cum int.—Direct Bombay and Madras, ss. 9d.— Direct Northern, 41s.—Dundee and Arbroath, 451.—Ditto, ' New, N o . 1, 351.—Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 291..—Dundee and Perth, 27 4—Ditto, New, 11%—East of Fife, 35s.—East Indian Railway, 123.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 20;8—Ditto Quarters, 18 3 4—Glasgow, Dumfri e s, and Car lisle, 6/. ss. dd.—Glasgow, .Kilinarnock, and Ardrossan, 77g. Glasgow, Aigkie, and MoAkland Jun c ti on , 443.—nar• For fifteen years.—Edward Billington, aged 60 (the captain of the " Maosrnen"). Pourtecn years.—C. Potter, J. Scully, and J. Young. Teti years.—J. C. Young, and J. Brown. Seven years.—Mary Evans, Elizabeth Russell, W. Henderson, Henry Meynard, G. H. Jones, G. Walker, Thomas Burgess, W. Jones, Henry Eteen. J. William son, Henry Jones, W. Heath, G. King, and H. Noise. IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR. The undernamed were ordered to be confined in the houses of correction for the counties in which their of fences were committed, and there kept to hard labour for— Two years.—J. Smith. Eighteen months.—Josef Toney, J. Whaite, Hugh Roberts, Richard Marshall. Fifteen months.—J. Brown. Lr one year.—J. Phillips, alias Austin, J. Orchard, R. S Smith, Louisa Turner, J. Catchpole, J. Slater, W. Alford, James Anderson, H. Ford, F. Webb, Sarah Smith. For nine months.—Ann Sneed, Ann Richards, J. Finlayson. C. Barrel!, J. Shepherd, D. Parsons, J. Walker. For eight months.—Mary Ann Brooks, G.W. Andrews. For six months.—Margaret Donohue, Jamie Curtada, alias James Carter, G. Williamson, F. K. Beauchamp, W. O'Brian, J. N. Burton, J. Jackson, J. Benjamin, D. Carlton, H. Morgan, Thomas Sneed, N. Baker, W. Gray, J. Judd, J. Brown, G. Smith. For four months.—Ellen Morgan, J. H. Morgan, J. Robertson, G. Cooper, William Harris, James Wall. For three months—Matilda Hester, J. Fitzpatrick, George Thompson, T. Peacock, Mary Hennesy, J. Harris, Ellen Sweeney, Jane Smith, John Smith, Thomas Gore, J. East, D. Carley, W. Bevis, T. Jones, E. Wilmot, J. Upton, H. Hoar, G. Ray. For two months.—Evelina Cheetham, Ellen Farley, Elizabeth Williams, H. Cerro], J. Murphy, J. Miller, T. Healey, J. Smith, W. Evans, H. Rowland, W. Payne, J. M‘Cann, R. Nash, R. Lear, T. Roots. The court adjourned to the 4th day of January next. The grand jury ignored the bills preferred against the undernamed persons, who were brought into court and discharged by proclamation, viz. :—E. Baker , H. Jones, D. Bailey, Caroline Forest. Acquittals.—The petit jury declared the undernamed not guilty, and they were discharged forthwith, viz : Sarah Freeman, Catherine Brian, Catharine Hoare, Susan Bull, Susan Watts, Susan Austen, Ann Brown, Mary Webb, Ellen Sweeney, T. Lally, W. Brand, C. Cotton, R. Stokes, W. Frost, J. Frost, W. Gibbs, C. Prutt, T. Dove, T. Johnson, M. Hodgskiss, R. Stevens, D. Buckley, M. Donovan, T. Sculley. J. Leverett, J. Pearce, J. Briscoe, Luke Keefe, E. Williams, A. De Preece, Ellen Flaherty, G. Brown, J. Smith, C. Cotton (18), W. Burgin, j ttn. MINOR SENTENCES AND ADJUDICATIONS IN NEWGATE (WITHOUT LABOUR).—lmprisoned for six weeks, 1 ; for one month, 11 ; fur three weeks, 1 ; under fourteen days, 10 ; confessed by pleading guilty, 21 ; called on recognisance, 4 ; convicted and judgments respited, 3 ; remanded to next session, 3 ; traversed to ditto. 3 ; discharged by the court, 1 ; fined, 1 ; surrendered in court, 9. The court adjudicated upon 162 prisoners during this session, who were comtnit.ed from the following districts: —London, 37, Middlesex 84, Surrey 38, Rent 1, Essex 2 ; total 162. The following statemens show their comparative ages —Between 10 years and 20, 62 ; between 20 and 30, 79 between 30 and 40, 19 ; between 40 and 50, 2 : total, 162, - - -- --- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET James Ewer, a respectable-looking young man, was charged with robbing John F. Nehan. James Naigle, barman at the Tower public-house, in Tower-street, said he was told on Saturday night that several persons in the tap-room were plotting to rob a gentleman there. He went in and saw a gentleman sit ting there helplessly drunk, with two valuable band kerchiefs about his neck hanging quite loose, a handsome watch, with guard chain and appendages, all of gold, on his person, but quite exposed and loose, and three or four gold rings on his fingers. In the room at the same time, and about him, there could not have been less than twenty persons, most of them ill disposed and suspected. When he laid hold of the gentleman to take him out of the room several of them opposed it, and expressed their disapprobation, and some cried out, "Knock him down," meaning witness. The pot-boy then said to the prisoner, "Come give up the handkerchief that you have got;" but he denied having any handkerchief. However, as witness saw that he held his band obstinately in his pocket, he insisted on his giving it up, and he then pulled out a handkerchief and gave it up. John Frederick Nehan identified, and said the hand kerchief was his, but he could not say who had taken it from him. The prisoner, who had not been seen by any one to take the handkerchief, said he put it in his pocket as a thing which nobody owned. Ile gave a good account of himself, which was found to be true, and he was dis charged. The Goldsmiths' Company sent in their annual dona tion of 101. in aid of the poor-box. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DICE3IBER 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas gow, Halves, IN p.—London and North-Western, 194 Ditto, Quarters, New, 13 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 1718 p.—lVld land, New, 4 1 / 2 p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, % dis.—South.East ern an d D over, C onsolidated Thirds, 1/ 3 p.—Ditto, No. 4, % p.—York and Newcastle, Prefer ence, W s p.—York and Selby, Preference, 10 1 ,2 p. —East Lancashire, New (scrip), 31s. 3d. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, New, 1 p.—Ambergate and Eastern Junction, 1 ,4 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 3s. 9d. p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 8% p.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, % p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1 % dis.—Newry and Warrenpoint, 314 p.—North Staffordshire, 3:% 4 p.—Shrewsbury and Here ford, 6s. 3d. dia.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2 1 /i p.— Ditto (B), 1 1 / 8 p.—Shropshire Uni on R a il way and Canal, 6s. 3 is. d. dis.—West R i di ng U n i on , 1% p.—Dutch Rhenish, d nock, and Ayr Direct, 36s.—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. —Manchester and Southampton, 29s.—North British, New Quarters (scrip), 31s. 6d.—Scottish Midland Junction, 151. Stirling and Dunfermline, 70s.— Wishaw and Coltness, 491. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. IB.—There has been more firmness in this branch of trade during the present week; sales have been rather more extensive, although they have been chiefly to supply the present wants of the manufacturers, and not arising from any speculative excitement. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, DEC. 18.--There has been a fair average business done in foreign wools this week, and prices are firmly suported. LEEDS.—The usual dulness of the season has pre vailed at our cloth markets both on Saturday and Tues day last.. The merchants continue to purchase only to order. Goods maintain their price, and the stocks in the manufacturers' hands are not larger than usual at this period of the year. Although business is, as usual so near Christmas, dull in the warehouses, the severity of:the weather for the last few weeks has tended to create a demand for heavy winter goods ; the stocks in the mer chants hands are in consequence lower than they were a few weeks ago; but the foreign houses are doing little. BRADFORD MARKET, DEC. 17.—The demand for combing is again somewhat more restricted, on account of the staplers having raised the prices. As there is a great disproportion between the price of wool and yarn, the spinners buy very sparingly, and with the greatest care. We can report no improvement in the yarn trade. The production of yarn is reduced to a very low point, and there seems to be no chance of in crease until the turn of the year. There is an average business done in pieces for the season. A universal impressment secmsl to prevail that we shall have a fair, if not excellent spring trade, and we hope there will not in this case be disappointment. There is no alteration in prices within these two weeks ; some manufacturers, with rather heavy stocks, have been much reduced. MANCIIESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.—AS it would be a hopeless task to give an intelligible account of the state of our market this week, it will not be therefore at tempted. The trade is thrown into utter confusion by the speculation in the staple, and no two persons appear to be asking the same price for the same article. Short time is, however, commencing in good earnest. Messrs. Birley, the largest consumers of cotton in Manchester, are now working short time, both in spinning and weaving. They employ near 2,000 hands. Some of our spinners who were so fortunate as to lay in very heavy stocks of cotton at the lowest point, as well as to pur chase freely at a small advance, are now, instead of keeping it for use, actually sending it down to Liverpool for sale, being certain in that case of realising a large profit, whilst if kept to carry on their establishments, if a loss should not be sustained, at least no profit would possibly be:derived. This is, indeed, " taking coals to Newcastle." Such a state of things cannot last long we may be sure, still the fact is a strange one. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) . This market is quite deranged, in consequence of the • monstrous and phrenzied cotton speculations in Liver . pool. Producers have generally, until yesterday, when there was rather a disposit:on apparent in some quarters, to sell, declined to name a price, whether for goods or yarns ; and, indeed, buyers have mostly kept aloof frcm even making inquiries as to rates, knowing they would be such as they could not pay. There has been some thing done in anticipation, at slightly advanced rates on those paid last week, but buyers will rather wait the rerult of business in the spring than pay the extreme rates required. Printirg cloths and shirtings are, of course, in demand, as this is the season when printers lay in their stocks, and higher relative prices are, con sequently, paid for these than for other classes of goods. It appears that the immense concerns at Stalybridge, Ashton, Todmorden, and elsewhere, are not simply going on to short time, but are about to be closed altogether. This is grappling with the cotton evil right vigorously ; and we should hail it with unmingled satisfaction but tor the sufferings which thereby must be entailed on the operative classes.—Manchester Times. NoTritionAm.—The trade of Nottingham has deci dedly improved during the last week or two, in the cotton and hosiery d e p ar t ments, an d a to l era bl e trade is expected in February and'Alarch. LEICESTER.—The present seasonable weather has caused more business to be done than usual, at this period of the season, in the glove and hosiery branches, and as it will enable the :hopkeepers to clear off their winter stocks, a good general demand is expected at the beginning of the year. Worsteds are steady, and cotton yarns are looking upwards. Wools are firm, at prices in favour of the seller.—Leicester Journal. To HAVE LAYING POULTRY.—It is with poultry as with all other animals removed from a warmer to a colder c li ma t e , th e y exist but do not thrive without warmth, and whether to fatten them or to promote their laying at an unseasonable time, a temperature adapted to their constit ution should be provided them ; tbis will be one point towards success. I will now mention two more points, viz., age and diet ; attending to these three particulars I have at all seasons an abundant . suppl y of large and new-laid eggs: the age of poultry should never exceed three years (except when it is wi s h e d to keep an indi vidual for the sake of breed), after thi s age they rarely lay from the moulting season till lat e i n t h e following spring, consequently it is folly to keep an unprofitable tnimal when one in profit would consume no more food: she plan I pursue and recommend is, to part with all poultry after the third autumn l a yi ng, and to put in their place the previous spring chickens, by which is meant chickens hatched through the months of March, April, and May; birds of January and February hatch ing are apt to have their feet swollen by the cold in some situations, which is unsightly, and besides this being ready for markets in May, they are too valuable to be kept for stock when birds of less market value, but equally good for laying, can be had ; the March pullets will begin to lay in September, and the others will suc ceed them in rotat i on - of hatching; to these in November will be added the hens rising two years old, and about January, if favourable weather, the hens rising three years old will begin to lay; by attending to age, a suc cession of laying hens will be had through the whole year. The next particular to be attended to is dint ; with poultry, as with other animals, variety has its charms, and greatly promotes both fattening and laying; poultry confined to a yard should have given to them food as similar as possible, and as various as that they would feed on if allowed to roam at large ; they require vegetables, seeds, insects, gravel, ashes or dry mould, as much as corn of different sorts, to keep them in health, and plenty of clean water, rain water is the best ; if a feed of mixed corn is given the first thing in the morn ing, let this be followed at eleven A.M. by a feed of bar ley-meal, mixed with boiled potatoes or parsnips, or both ; to this pieces of fat meat chopped may be added, the fowls will fill themselves to repletion ; about three r.at. a little corn may be thrown them, soon afterwards they will prepare for roosting ; fowls prefer meal to corn, and I have observed that those birds that had rolled crams of barley and oatmeal required feeding only twice a-day, feeding to satisfy each time, and resting nearly the . whole of the interval ; by feeding with me a l made into stiff dough or crams with milk, or liquor of boiled meat, more eggs and larger and fatter fowls will be obtained than by corn. feeding. Of giving peppercorns to poultry I have no knowledge, neither do I think any benefit will attend it. —J. S., in Agricultural Gazette. The Lords of the Admiralty have suspended the completion of the vessels intended to receive screw pro pellers, for six months. We understand that this delay is occasioned by the wish to have the results of further experiments upon the principle, in order that the sup posed advantages of the screw plan may be clearly esta blished, previously to finishing the large number of vessels now in progresA.— United Service Gazette. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTO N , DEC. 20.—The Oriental and Peninsular Company's steam-boat Oriental, Captain Keene, took her di part ure from the Docks at 10 a.m., this day, for Alexandria and Malta, with the East India and China mails, in charge of Lieutenant Tancock, R.N. The Oriental has a valuable cargo in bale goods, and takes out ninety-three passengers. On Friday evening (but too late for the train) the Gibraltar packet Queen, Captain Weeks, arrived in the Docks, and landed the mails, which were forwarded by early train yesterday. The Queen's dates are--Gibraltar Dec. 6th, Cadiz 7th, Lisbon 10th, Oporto 11th, and Vigo 13th. She brinws thirteen naseemsaes_ POTATOES. The following important information, upon the sub ject of the potato disease in Poland, has been received by Government from the British Consul at Warsaw:— " Warsaw, Oct. 16, 1846. "My Lord,—ln a report on the result of this year's harvest in Poland, which I had the honour to torviard to your Lordship with my letter (Consular, No. 25) of the 28th of last month, I stated that the potato disease was totally unknown in this country. Since making that statement I have heard of cne exception to the rule, which has occurred on a small estate, not far from War saw, farmed by a Mr. Kedzlie, a British subject of mach intelligence, long established in Poland. The potatoes which have furnished ihis cxc ption, are of the kind culled the • Ash-leaved English Kidni.iy Potatoe,' and were obtained from England two years ago ; they were planted in the midst of Mr. Kedzhe's other potato crops, on land of the same quality, and prepared exactly in the same way as the rest of the ground, which has yielded perfectly sound fruit. This circumstance would seem to prove that the disease is not attributable to at mospheric influences, as is, I hear, the generally ceived opinion in other countries. Here, in Poland, at persons to whom I have spoken on the subject think that the potatoes in the rest of Europe are tainted in the germ by over cultivation ; and it is certainly re markable that here, where the soil is generally light, and where less manure is used than in any other coun try, except Russia—and never immediately preceding the crop of potatoes—those plants should have com pletely escaped the infection, which threatens their ex tinction in all parts where greater pains have been taken in their cultivation. Ido not iApagine that the opinion alluded to, on the isolated fact which I have mentioned, will decide a question which has so hopelessly occupied the attention of first rate scientific men in many coun tries ; but I hope that the notice of the circumstances will not be deemed irrelevant, at a time when the dis ease in question is the cause of such dire distress in her Majesty's dominions, as well as in other parts of igurope.—l have, Sac., (Signed) " GUST. DU PLAT." 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The cause of death is ascribed to had been in I n di a 23 years. sl sl " stf• MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED Wir A 53 cu ed At the Liverpool Assizes, on Mond* is 7- t• 0 for bigamy , e ge gamy. After the death of his -re , t he roa r-5 ..7003 18 : her sister, but being informed that _r am :other " Da, illegal, he put her away and marrie d "" the Pi, tl es on A, He was acquitted of the charge of 14 81331 i bin ,7.008 1 j. that his marriage with the sister 0 to • wife was null and void. A writ of error ilyst • - n tle• in the superior courts to set the question u n s ti oe g e t iets; THE DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEa/t;:;xerogifijlgoott2; men of the Inner and Middle Temple selves to get up a ball at the Hanover-roc:4111;w 141 ,„ so' instant, the proceeds of which will he,,g 0 ,0 08 ", meritorious charity, the Distressed Neew e , ciety. We sincerely hope that their eioso in 10 8 pectations may be realised. took aters ° A curious instance of toleration e Dantzic on the sth. Dr. Grabowski, !""godst pastor, at the baptism of his son, chose 5 1 ; 5 , 4 ,1 fir•• , 00 from the different religious sects of that eaP" - bolle , CO J' Lutheran, one free Protestant, one Bom a n e German Catholic, one Calvanist, all Galignani. ' DI WII 0 1 rir. PROBABLE ASTRONOMICAL DISCO VER tbe the conclusion of a very interesting sea nce i v i gio? it Irish Academy, on M on d ay even i n g, Sir „or 01 ; , 111 0 0 ; milton stated the probability—in bl is s ., ; cer tB , 6 - 0 , 0 01 : amounted almost to a certainty—that, hicP,„ f iab thematical process, which he stated, bu'' 71 ) 0 P",,r" be unintelligible to the general reader ---° or al I ' o o approached, if he did not actually hit, the ce o wit sf s pe d the star round which the luminary of 0 0 r os cerw t bs and his satellities revo l ve . Sh ou ld this be ra iny' demonstratively, the disco ver y w ill be, ce. 011 v oco greatest achieved in the present centnrYer during the period which has elapsed, six II 0 00 , II leave been detected —one of them attended bY the last, probably, also, as well as Saturn, e IIC ' ling.—Dublin Evening Post. 10 ° pg sir „ is l' oe [ADVERTISEMENT].—CURS OF DB°` Du- hie lt di r WAY'S PILLS . — Mrs. Langley, residing at Castle ' s d osing been suffering from dropsy for the last two Year" t ' h ought t t • 02.; riod she had been tapped several times , no Or; Went,' - t a ti.,„ je get over it ; however, by living on solids, eatin gs' food, abstaining from the use of all vegetables, and ise%. Dec° e . course of Holloway's celebrated pills for about sel eq ueP'i n perfectly cared. FemaleS at the turn of life, W" Jittle..; l l.l OA" it dropsical, would do well to take from time to thine "„ te ge , ", 9,11. generating medicine, thereby speedily removing All ' c i ro ggt' - ' toms attending this critical peri o d.-Sold by Leo do-' Proie.sor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Straw , - 0 f On nno Robert et st hJBoth mi e n i s:l i t ' . : a bt at d A e n r p d , Fin' the 15d1 WA Esq., of a daughter. ear 13r On the 14th inst., at Christ Church, Naibe* n tb 0 the wife of the Rev. Frank Ho w son , of a SOU,. ~.h3 b 401 1, , On the 15th inst., in Pemb ro ke - squar e , k uare A• e " --- . , if. oPEßraisstßger trrifouse, Loch — e , a wife of John Jackson, E ° e-sci ' On the 18th inst., in Bermo Esq., of a son. lift s ' eter , On the 17th inst. , at Springfield Villa, El W. Whitchurch, of a son. 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