The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY. 41EV , I,i_ :1 a se On Saturday afternoon, Sept. 5, the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel sailed from the Victualling- office, Ply mouth, for Cork, with a portion of the 55th Regiment from St. George's-square Barracks, Davenport. The Dee steam vessel, after being repaired, will follow in a few days with the remainder of the regiment. The sth Fusileers, under the temporary command of Major Johnson, arrived at Plymouth last Thursday, and marched to Devonport yesterday (Monday). Three companies have yet to arrive from Cork, which will be brought over by the Rhadamanthus in a few days. The total strength of the regiment is 1,060 men. The regiment last served in the Mediterranean, and will probably proceed to the East during the next year. The sth Regiment was highly distinguished in the Peninsular war, having served from Roleia to Toulouse. The regiments be longing to the Plymouth division were inspected by Major-General the Hon. H. Murray, last week. The Reverend Mr. Mathias, who has succeeded the Reverend Mr. Gleig in the chaplaincy of Chelsea Hos pital, officiated for the first time on Sunday last. The salary attached to this office is 3001. per annum, with perquisites. Both clergymen, in early life, were com missioned officers. Mr. Gleig served while connected with the 85th in the Peninsular, North American, and the New Orleans wars, and received some severe wounds. Mr. Mathias was at one period an officer in the 79th Highlanders. EDUCATION IN THE ARMY.—SOM9 weeks since we announced that the Government had directed attention to the general condition of the soldier, and that one of the first reforms about to be introduced into our military system was the establishment of normal schools at Chelsea, for the training of teachers for the army in general. The Royal M.litary Asylum at Chelsea was first established in 1801 by the late Duke of York, the commander-in-chief of the period. It affords accommo dation to about 1,000 boys and girls, who are instructed on Dr. Bell's system. The boys on leaving have the option of altering the army or going to any other em ployment suited to them, while the girls are placed out as apprentices. The instruction now imparted is as simple as it was on the first establishment, and the inmates merely learn spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, with little, if in deed any, geography or history. It may be add that even in these branches the children are seldom profi cient, owing, no doubt, to the system of employing an irregular class of teachers. According to the War-office announcements, the edu cational staff at the new schools will comprise :—A head master, who must be a clergyman, a second master and juniors, &c., and all of wh.nn must be efficient instruc tors in the higher branches of general education, including the first rudiments of the art of military theory, of field plactice, &c. &c. An examination of candidates took place within the last few days, but, we believe, resulted only in the selection of a person to the boys' school. The other appointments may not be made for / some time. The Rev. G. R. Gleig, principal chap lain to the forces, resigned the office of chaplain to Chel sea Hospital, which he also held about three weeks since, but he continued to perform service at the institu tion up to Friday last, and on the following day made the necessary preparations for a visit to France, Prussia, Austria, &c., where he will make inquiries into the modes adopted for the education of the army in those countries. On his return he will make a report to the Secretary-at-War, upon which, of course, will depend the movements of the Government. The Rev. Gentle man will, for the future, be the inspector-general of military schools. TESTIMONIAL TO THE BRAZI LIAN CONSUL AT LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Aug. 10, 1846. Dear Sir,—The merchants and shipowners of this port connected with the Brazil trade, whose names we beg to hand you herewith, being desirous, on the occa sion of your leaving Liverpool for the metropolis, to mark their appreciation of the kindness and attention you have uniformly exercised towards them, and also their approbation of the efficient and courteous manner with which you have fulfilled your official duties during ten years' residence in this important commercial town, and having deputed the undersigned to constitute a com mittee for the purpose of carrying their views into effect, we have much pleasure in presenting fur your accept ance the accompanying service of plate, as a token of esteem, which we trust you will receive with feelings of gratification equal to those with which it is offered. With best wishes for your future welfare and happi ness, we have the honour to remain, dear Sir, Your most obedient servants, BENJAMIN DARBYSHIRE. . J. M. BRAGA. WILLIAM HADFIELD. JOSEPH PATER. JAMES RYDER. ROBERT AKED. The Chevalier da Silva, Brazilian Consul-General, Liverpool. Names of the Subscribers to the Testimonial presented to the Chevalier da Silva, Brazilian Consul-General at Liverpool:—J. Bramley Moore, Esq. ; Messrs. Samuel Johnston and Co. ; M'Calmont, Brothers, and Co. ; William and James Tyrer; Crabtree, Aked, and Co.; Cetesworth, Wynne, and Lyne ; Ashly, Brothers ; James Rider, Esq.; Braga and Co.; WTear and Had field ; Charles Ironside and Co.; Stewart, Ker, and Co.; Imrie and Tomlinson ; Harrisons and Latham ; Higgin and Lane ; James Dalglish and Co. ; Benjamin Darby shire, Esq.; Todd, Naylor, and Co.; Edward Jones and Co. ; William Moon, Esq. ; Lyon and Fynney ; Robert Singlehurst and Co. ; C. and F. L. Schwiud.—Liver pool, 10. h August, 1846. _ - - Liverpool, Aug. 12, 1346. Dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you did me the honour to address t 6 me on the 10th instant, accompanying the service of plate which the merchants and shipowners of this important commercial town, connected with the Brazil trade, have deigned, through you, to present to me, as well as a token of their esteem, as a mark of their satisfaction of the manner in which I have, during a residence of ten years, fulfilled my official duties as Consul-General for the empire of Brazil in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. I have received with unfeigned pleesure feelings of the greatest gratification these tokens of their esteem, which I shall cherish as long as I live, and regard as a proof of the approbation of so distinguished and inde pendent a body of the English Nation. I only fear that the fulfilment of such dutia, on my part, may have fallen short of the value which they so flatteringly have been pleased to bestow 'upon them. Before concluding, I beg to assure you that I shall always bear a lively remembrance of the courtesy and many acts of. kindness whia I have invariably received from you., and the gentlemen whom you represent, and that I shall deem it a pleasing duty to endeavour to merit their continuance. With these sincere feelings, and my warmest thanks, which I beg you to accept, and to convey to the sub scribers, with the assurance of my distinguished consi deration, as well as best wishes for your and their wel fare, I have the honour to remain, dear Sirs, • Your most obedient servant, ANTONIO DA SILVA, junior. To Joseph Pater, E,q., James Ryder, Lq., Robert Aked, Esq., Benjamin Derbyshire, Esq., J. Marques Braga, Esq., William Hadfield, Esq., &c., &c. BARON PLATT A BUTLER.—The worthy Baron travelled nearly all night, in order to be in Wells as early as possible on the following morning. On reach ing one of the inns on the road, finding that Boniface had retired to the arms of Morpheus or his better half, his Lordship attacked the door with such vehemence that locks, bolts, and bars flew back, and admittance was gained in a trice. having fortified the inner man, his Lordship was proceeding from the room he occupied to his carriage, when ho met " mine host." " What have Ito pay ?" ho asked. " Oh, nothing, nothing," was the answer, " we don't charge butlers when they bring their masters here." The worthy justice shook his sides with laughter at the idea of her Majesty's representative being taken for a butler, and the sides of the generous host shook under very different emotions when he discovered that he had made so great a mistake.—Somerset County Gazette. How OLD as ova PLANET 2—Some years ago, some person or other (in fact I believe it was myself) published in this magazine a paper from the German of Kant, on a very interesting question, viz„ the age of our own little earth. Those who have never seen that paper, a class of unfortunate people whom I suspect to form rather the majority in our present perverse generation, will be likely to misconceive its object. Kant's purpose was, not to ascertain how many years the earth had lived : a million of years, more or less, made very little differ ence to him. What he wished to settle was no such barren conundrum. For, had there even been any means of coercing the earth into an honest answer, on such a delicate point, which the Sicilian canon, Recupero, fan cied there -was, but which, in my own opinion, there neither is, nor ought to be (since a man deserves to be cudgelled who could put such improper questions to a lady planet)—still what would it amount to ? Wha t good would it do ns to have a certificate of our dear little mother's birth and baptism ? Other people—people in Jupiter, or the Uranians—may amuse themselves with her pretended foibles or infirmities: it is quite safe to do so at their distance; and in a female planet like Venus, it might be natural - (though, strictly speaking, not quite correct) to scatter abroad malicious insinuations, as though our excellent little mamma had begun to wear false hair, or had lost some of her front teeth. But all this we men of sense know to be gammon. Our mother Tellus, beyond all doubt, is a lovely little thing. I am satisfied that she is very much admired throughout the solar system, and, in clear seasons, when The is seen to advantage, with, her bonny wee pet of a moon trip ping round her like a lamb, I should be thankful to any gentleman who will mention where he has happened to observe, either he or his telescope, will he only have the goodness to say, in what part of the heavens he has dig. covered a more elegant turn out. I wish to make no personal reflections. I name no names. Only this I say, that though some people have the gift of seeing things that other people never could see, and though some other people are bore with a silver spoon in their mouths, so that, generally, their geese count fir swans, yet, after all, swans or geese, it would be a pleasure to me, and really a curiosity, to see the planet that could fancy herself entitled to sneeze at our earth. And then, if she (viz., our earth) keeps but one moon, even that (you know) is an advantage as regards some people that keep none. There are people, pretty well known to you and me, that can't make it convenient to keep even one moon. And so I come to my moral; which is this, that, to all appearance, it is mere justice; but, sup posing it were not, still it is our d uty (as children of the earth), right or wrong, to stand up for our bonny young ma mma, if she is young; or f or our d ear old mother, if she is old; whether young or old, to take her part against all corners; and to argue through. thick and which (sober or not) I always attempt to do, that ' she is the most respectable member of the Copernican systera,—De Cheincey, i. Tgies,Nagazine. SINGULAR ELECTION AT GALWAY. THE KING Or THE FISHERMEN.—Sunday last, after mass and evening prayers, the fishermen of Chuidagh proceeded to the election of an Admiral and Vice-Ad- iniral for the future government of the interests of their colony. Impressed with the importance of the issue to their welfare, this primitive people determined upon making their choice from the most impartial and experienced among themselves, and to conduct the elec tion with the utmost decorum and propriety. At the appointed hour the very Rev. T. D. Folan, 0. P., prior of the West Convent, with the Rev. Messrs. Mul lins and Meath, 0.P., Bernard Murphy, Esq., solici tor ; Counsellor Fitzpatrick Patrick Joyce, Esq., Do minick-street ; Bernard N'Donnell, Esq., solicitor ; Mr. 'Joseph Murphy, Mr. Finarty, of the town, proceeded to the new piscatory and national school in the district, to preside over and witness the election. The Very Rev. Mr. Folan requested our respected townsman, B. Murphy, Esq., to receive the votes and place them to the credit of the respective car, didates. The fishermen having taken up their position outside the school, where a piper was placed to amuse them with some old Irish airs, a person was placed at the door to admit only one at a time to enter to record his vote. The proceedings occupied about two hours and a half. Previous to the close of the election, the Rev. George Commons, P.P., of Claddagh, the Rev. B. J. Roche, P.P., St. Nicholas East, and the Rev. Dr. O'Toole, principal of St. Mary's College, made their appearance, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the exemplary conduct and de corum of the poor people. No fisherman was allowed to vote under eighteen years of age. Before closing the election, the Very Rev. Mr. Folan directed a per son in attendance to visit every lane in Claddagh with a bell, and to invite the presence of those who might wish to vote ; but the answer returned was that more than half of them could not come for the want of clothing. The election having concluded, Mr. Murphy acknowledged the votes in favour of each can didate, when it appeared that Bartholomew Hynes as adrenal, and Owen Jones as vice -admiral, had an overwhelming majority in their favour. Hynes is a very respectable old fisherman, and does credit to the choice of the poor people. The other candidates were then appointed as a council, with whom the admiral and vice-admiral are to consult upon every important question affecting the interests of the colony. The Rev. Mr. Folan having communicated the result to the fishermen who were in waiting, the name of their king was hailed with loud cheers, the piper striking up " Garryowen." The Rev. Mr. Commons then addressed them in Irish, telling them as the admiral and vice-admiral were of their own choosing, it was imperative on them, in everything in which their fishing interests were involved, to render them implicit obedience and act upon their advice, to which the poor people responded with hearty cheers. They then quietly returned to their homes, and as the even ing turned out wet, were prevented gracing the oc casion with the amusements which they had in con templation to celebrate the election of' their sovereign. They, however, erected a bonfire in front of the con vent gate. The following evening (Friday) the Very Reverend Mr. Folan went in the Admiral's boat to remain fishing with them during the night ; and we are glad to mention that there was a very general though rather small take of excellent harvest herrings on the occasion, which will afford some temporary re lief to numbers of the poor creatures, who have been for a considerable time in the most wretched condition imaginable, and who, the moment this relief ceases, will, unless other means be found to assist them, be in as pitiable a plight as ever.—Galway Vindicator. BELFAST PROTESTANT ASSO ciAno/sT. The third annual soirée of this society took place on Thursday night, in the Music Hall, Belfast. The at tendance was numerous. Orange banners were placed round the walls, on which were inscribed appropriate ; mottoes. The flags belonged to the following lodges of , the Orange Society—viz., Nos. 631, 1,033, 182, 132, 347, • , 586, 246, and 245..- The stewards and a large proportion , of the meeting wore orange and purple scarfs, collars, • and rosett, s. The favourite tints were also very pro : fusely displayed on the dresses of the ladies. The refresh ments, consisting of tea, cakes, and - fruit, were of the very best description, and in great abundance. There was a brass band in attendance. We observed the fol lowing gentlemen on the platform:—William Blackwood, Esq., J.P., Saintfield House; J. D. R. Cleland, Esq., ex-J.P., Rathgael House; J. R. Biers, Esq., ex-J.P., Bainbridge; J. Bates, Esq., W. Seeds, Esq., J. Wilson, Esq., D. M'Connell, Esq., Dr. Mulholland, Dr. Beck, James Rogers, Esq., S.T.C.D., Henry C oo k e , E sq ., T.C.D., Rev. Daniel M'Afee, Rev. Mr. Pierce, Lis naskea, and the Rev. Mr. Hamilton. William Black wood, Esq., was called to the chair. The secretary then read a letter from W. G. Johnson, Esq., apologising for his unavoidable absence, and en closing 11. towards the funds of the society. Letters of apology were also stated to have been received from Lord John Chichester, M.P., enclosing 1/. ; Earl of Roden, enclosing IL ; Earl of Rathdown, Lord Adam Loftus, Earl of Enniskillen, the Very Rev. the. Dean of Dromore, Colonel Bruen, M.P., and Rev. J. M. Bellew, Drogheda f enclosing 21. The chairman, in a brief in troductory speech, stated that he had great pleasure in meeting the members of that association, inasmuch as they had shown their deep-rooted attachment to the glorious principles of the reformation at a time when the rulers of the land and tha leaders of the people had apostatised from the truth and the integrity which charac terised the deeds of their heroic fathers. After callieg upon the electors not to vote at the next election for any candidates who would not pledge themselves to Protestant principles, the speaker exhorted them to ex hibit in their lives the evidence of Christian faith and freedom. He besought them to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, and to be ready, if need be, to lay down their lives in the defence of the cause of civil and religious freedom, the cause of Protestantism, and the cause of Ged. The chairman then proposed " The Queen, long may she enjoy health, hap piness, and prosperity ; ever mindful of those principles —religious and political—which placed her illustrious house on the throne of these realms."—(Cheers.) " Prince Albert, and the rising scions of the house of Brunswick. (Cheers.) " The Reformation and the Revolution ; and no surrender of the blessings be queathed to the Protestants of these lands, as well as all others, by those glorious events." (Tre mendous cheering.) Mr. Rogers responded in an eloquent speech. " The Protestant Established Church of the empire, may it be made and kept pure from all Popish and Tractarian leaven, and thus maintained as a blessing to our land."— (Great cheering.) Air—" The Boyne Water," Rev. Mr. Pierce briefly replied. "The Sister Churches of the Re formation; long may peace and brotherly affection unite them together in the truth of the Gospel."—(Cheers.) Rev. Daniel M'Afee, of Derry, responed. " Th e Earl of Roden and his fellow-defenders of Protes • taut truth in Ireland."—(Prolonged cheering.) " The Protestant electors of Belfast." John Bates, Esq., re sponded. During the course of his speech, he reviewed the struggles of the Protestant electors since 1832, and stated that they were as ready at the approaching elec- Von to gain the victory, as they had frequently shown themselves before. J. D. R. Cleland, Esq., was then called on to preside, when the thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Blackwood, for his dignified conduct in the chair. At twelve o'clock the numerous meeting terminated.—Belfast News Later. CoLossEum.—On Saturday the Princess of Prussia attended by the Countess Ker, Lord Denbigh, Count Puckler, and Baron Bunsen, visited the Colosseum. Her Highness was accompanied through the establishment by Mr. Bradwell, who had the honour of explaining the various admirable attractions, so agreeably distinguish ing this 'valuable exhibition, to her Royal Highness and suite. &RT-UNION EXIIIBITION.—The works of art se, leeted by the prize holders of the year 1846, and re cently exhibited to the subscribers at the Suffolk. street Gallery, were on Monday thrown open to the Fablic gratuitously. Until the 12th of the present month the exhibition will be open from ten o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the evening, and in order that those persons whose business occupies them all day may have au opportunity of seeing the works, the rooms will be _ _ . opelied on the Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th from seven until ten o'clock in the evening. Tickets will be required for the evening exhibition. The visitors on Monday were extremely numerous. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 7.—MILITARY MOVEMENTS.-- Brigade-Major Cuppage's company, 9th battalion Royal Artillery, left Woolwich this morning, at half past three o'clock, for the Nine Elms Terminus of the South- Western Railway, en route for Southampton having received orders to emb ar k on b oar d t h e mail steam packet which leaves to-morrow for Gibraltar, to relieve Captain Shone's company, sth battalion, stationed in that garrison since August, 1840. As Brigade-Major Cuppage does not proceed with his company, the com mand will devolve on Second Captain J. B. Dennis. THEFT OF BOOKS FROM GRAY'S INN.-011 Satur day information was received by the police, that a num ber of bound volumes of Acts of Parliament had been abstracted from the library of Gray's EXTRAORDINARY AGITATION OF THE SEA—VTOM a paper read at a late meeting of the Penzance Natural History Society, by Mr. R. Edmonds, jun., it appears that, on the Ist ult., the day on which the awful storm occurred in London and other parts of England, about four o'clock in the morning an extraordinary agitation of the sea was observed by the labourers employed in excavating Penzance Pier, the tide being then about five hours ebb, and the sea very calm. The water sud denly returned towards the shore tothe depth of between one and two feet, and, ufter an apparent pause, rushed back "like a river " to its former level ; the time occu pied in the influx and the reflux, including the time of the water appearing to be stationary, was about six minutes. The influx and reflux was observed only once. It appears from the same paper that, with only one ex ception, all the shocks of the earth and extraordinary oscillations of the sea in Cornwall during the present century, whose elites are known, have happened nearer to the moon's first change, or quarter, than at any other. —WeAt Briton. A VALUABLE MONKEY.—Some time ago a monkey kept in a stable yard of the hotel at Launceston, was observed to be scrutinising the inside of an old glove, with an air of unusal mystery and importance. Upon examining the glove it was found to contain a 10/. note, and the pieces of about five 11. notes, of the old Tamar Bank, dated ten years since. This became the property of " boots," who sold his bargain for 3/. 10s., and the pieces were secured by the ostler. The monkey must have selected the glove from a quantity of rubbish which bad been lying in the yard for seven or eight years. The Tamar Bank has merged into the Union, which latter gavo 12/. for the notes. REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. Although the weather has throughout the week been highly favourable, and rapid progress has been made with the harvest in the north—which would, under ordi nary circumstances, most probably have produced a further depression in the corn trade—business has al ready in some degree rallied from the temporary inacti vity of last week. This must be wholly attributed to the continued spread of the potato disease, respecting which the most alarming accounts pour in from all parts of the kingdom. What portion of the crop may be ulti mately saved in a condition fit for human food it is yet impossible to say ; but from the rapidity with which the disorder is extending, the most serious apprehensions are entertained. In many localities, where a few weeks ago all was thought safe, the fields now present a black and burnt appearance, the air around being tainted by the stench which arises from the decomposition. We still hope that the failure may not turn out so complete as is at present feared will be the case ; but that the yield of potatoes will be exceedingly deficient admits of no doubt. Taking into consideration the fact that this useful roet, besides affording support to a large propor ticn of the population, is extensively employed for feed ing cattle, it is difficult to form a conception of the vast extra consumption of grain which must be consumed by a failure, or even great deficiency, in the yield thereof. Already the value of bacon and other sorts of animal food have risen considerably, under the impression that, in consequence of the apprehended scarcity of potatoes, the cost of fattening pigs, &c., will be greatly increased ; and there is too much reason to fear that prices of all sorts of provisions will be high during the coming winter. Some influence was produced on the Wheat trade by the dull advices from Mark-lane on Monday last; and at all the principal markets held in the early part of the week prices gave way about two shillings per quarter. The fall was, however, only temporary ; and the value of the articles has already in some degree re covered from 'the depression. Contrary to expectation, a falling off has taken place in the arrivals of wheat into London, only 12,610 quar ters having been reported up to this (Saturday) evening. The quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by land carritige samples from the home counties has also been small. On Wednesday the show consisted of what had been left over from previous receipts, there being little or nothing fresh up either from Essex or Kent. This imparted con fidence to factors, and they were less eager to press sales than was the case at the beginning of the week. Buyers, on the other hand, manifested more disposition to purchase, but found they were unable to do so on as easy terms as before; and a clearance was effected at rates not previously obtainable. Later in the week the inquiry for English wheat became more active, and the little offered on Friday was easily placed at an advance of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. Foreign wheat having been held relatively higher than that of home growth, and the superior condition of the new rendering a mixture of old less necessary than in ordinary seasons, the transac tions in foreign have been on a restricted scale through out the week. On Friday there was, however, a some what improved demand for fine Danzig and Rostock, at prices which could certainly, not have been realised on Monday. The inquiry for bonded wheat on French account has rather increased than diminished; and had holders been more reasonable in their pretensions, rather extensive operations would probably have been entered into. The prices asked have, however, been too high to admit of the execution of the orders received; and the actual business done has, consequently, been unim portant. The duty is still at the maximum point, and is likely to remain there for some weeks; but if the potato crop should really turn out so deficient as is ex pected, and an importation of foreign wheat become necessary, prices of the articles will, later in the year, rise so as to cause a material fall in the duty. Town-manufactured flour has been in moderate re quest, at the recently enhanced terms; and there is now no prospect of the millers reducing their quotations. The arrivals of this article coastwise have been quite trivial; and towards the close of the week good Norfolk Households were held ls. per sack higher than on Mon day last. For American flour the demand has been active; several parcels have changed hands, in bond, at 245. to 245. 6d. p er b r l .; and for good brands' of Western Canal 283. to 295. per brl., duty paid, was asked, and in some cases - nlstained, on Friday. The stock of free foreign flour has already been greatly diminished; and as future arrivals are likely, in the first instance, to be stored under lock, the probability is, that what is now free will bring higher prices than those at present current. • Indian corn has met a ready sale at 345. to 355. per quarter, being Is. per quarter more than it was worth last week. REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE. We have advices from New York of the 20th of Au gust, being six days later than the news per Hibernia steam-ship. Harvest operations had been nearly brought to a close in the United States, and supplies of new wheat were coming forward freely. At New York a fair extent of business had, it appears, been done in flour for expert to Europe; and prices had, on the whole, rather rallied; for fine brands of western canal 4 dolls. 64c. had been paid, and superior George-town and Brandywine had realised 4 dolls. 184 c. to 4 dolls 25c. per barrel. Wheat and Indian corn had also been taken for export; good qualities of the former at 81c. per bushel, and the latter at rates varying from 51c. to 54c. per bushel. The Philadelphia market, on the 17th of August was tolerably well attended, and several par cels of flour were taken for shipment at 4 dolls. per barrel. Of wheat, 3,500 per bushel prime old Penn sylvania red had been taken at 85c. per bushel. Tht next accounts from America will most probably inform us of a material rise; as the advance which the value of wheat underwent here about the middle of August would, no doubt, occasion holders on the other side to raise their pretensions. All over the continent of Europe the value of wheat ran up immediately it became known that England would in all probability require foreign aid, in conse quence of the failure of the potato crop. Prices are nearly as high now at Baltic as they were previously at Mediterranean ports ; and there is certai n ly not muc h prospect of business being done unless a further and material advance takes place here. Letters from Dantzic of the 29th ult. state that a great deal of excitement had prevailed there, and that sellers had hardly known what prices to ask for the finer kinds of wheat. Fine high-mixed could certainly not then have been bought below 495. per quarter free on board, and other sorts were held equally high, 455. had actu ally been paid for secondary sorts of mixed wheat, weighing only 601bs. to 611bs. per bushel. The exports to France, Holland, and Belgium had caused a very ma terial decrease in the stocks, and it was estimated that of the 9,000 lasts remaining, little above 1,000 lasts con sisted of fine quality. In Lower Poland the wheat crop was not well spoken of, but in the upper provinces both the quantity and quality would, it was thought, prove satisfactory. Rye had produced very badly ; and tae crops of most kinds of spring -sown corn would, it was expected, be de fective. At - the Lower Baltic prices of wheat have run up in the same proportion as at Dantzic ; and, notwithstand ing the late important rise here, quotations are still re latively lower at Mark-lane than they aro at any other market in Europe. From Hamburgh we have advices of Tuesday last. In wheat there had not been much doing, the demand having been almost wholly of a local character. Fine 62ilbs. Marks was then held at equal to 48s. 93., and lighter qualities at from 445. to 475. per quarter free on board. A good many contracts for barley and oats, to be shipped from Denmark, bad been closed since the previouspost day. For the former article prices varying from 225.' 93. up to 245. 63. per quarter., according to weight, &c., had been paid ; and for 38ilbs. Danish oats equal to 19s. 9d. per quarter, free on board had been realised. A letter from Bruges, dated Ist instant, states that the quality of new wheat grown in that neighbourhood was generally approved of, but that in point of quantity the crop was decidedly below that of ordinary seasons. Barley, rye, oats, and potatoes would all prove short, and of inferior quality. From France the reports respecting the harvest are as bad as well as can be ; and in Italy, and other southern countries, the yield of corn seems to have greatly disap pointed the growers. The value of wheat has risen to a very high point at all the leading ports in the Mediter ranean ; and the high value of this article has caused a good deal of attention to be directed to Indian corn. At Marseilles as much as 275. 91 per quarter, free on board, had, on the 29th o f A ugus t, b een paid ; and a large vessel, capable of carrying 2,000 quarters, had been charged to load for Great Britain at ss. per quar ter, with 10 per cent. and 10 guineas gratuity.—Mark lane Express. ASRBURTON.--PEAT GAS.—A company, of which Mr. Vargo is the principal, has taken a certain portion of the moor from the Duchy, for the purpose of cutting peat for gas. They have made their experiment here with the most complete success. The consequence has been, that they have taken the Ashburton gas-works from the old company for five years. They will com mence lighting at Michaelmas, and they engage to supply the gas at 2s. per 1,000 cubic feet less than the present company. The light is said to surpass that made from coal or any other combustible material. It is patent, we believe; and in the manufacture of the peat there is a mixture of coal, tar, and rosin with it. The company will have in their employ about 60 men, who will be engaged cutting peat during the remainder of the season. It is possible for a good turf cutter to obtain under favourable circumstances as much as 30s. a week. —Devonport Telegraph. TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS IN SCOTLAND.---OIICe upon a time, we will not say hew long ago, a carter, in the exercise of his vocation, was leading a cart of coals for a spirit dealer called Weir, in the Brigton of Glasgow. Previously to discharging his cargo of black diamonds, the horse' gave a significant look and a low neigh, or, as it is expressly termed in the Doric, a nigghcr, w hich arrested the attention of a weaver named Johnny Auld, then passing. The honest wabster was as struck with the sound as if he had heard some long forgotten air which had been buried in his memory since boyhood. He stood gazing a minute at the musi cal quadruped, then disappeared a little, and returned with his hat in his hand, filled to the brim with oats. Giving them to the horse while the carter looked on, thinking he was demented, he gave a clue to his benevolence by saying, " Oh, man ! (stroking the head of the humble Bucephalus affectionately) I kent him ling syne as weel as ony ane in the Brig o' Glasgow. He wrought wi' me in the same shop for eight Years thegither, and our looms were as near ane tanither as you an' me. Oh, sir ! (to the carter) ye maun use him weel, for he was a good weaver in his day, and as fine a fallow as ever keepit the crown o' the ciusie !" This anecdote, in all its essential points, is literally true, having been told to us by an eye and ear witness, Our informant did not learn how the weaver accounted for the strange transmigration of his former companion at the loom.—Dumfries Standard. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH-EASTERN. ! Extensive improvements are being made on this line and its branches. At Dover the work consists in the enclosing, by a seawall of 200 feet leng, a space of ground for the erection of an hotel. The wall is heiug formed under the direction -of Mr. P. W. Barlow, the company's engineer, in compliance with an agreement with the Commissioners of the Harbour. At Ashford capacious buildings are being constructed for the stowage and repair of the locomotives employed, and when com pleted it will be the company's principal locomotive depot. The works were designed by Mr. Stephenson, but will be carried out by Mr. Barlow. Their estimated cost is 100,0001. In the immediate vicinity of the station, the company are building a church and cottages for four hundred workmen'. A breakwater has been erected in the Whtstable Harbour, which has been singularly sue cessful in its action, having deepened the entrance and the harbour from four to seven fret, and will enable it to be used by colliers of any tonnage. An ex tensive coal-pier is also in course of erection, as the harbour is now certainly the best for the supplies of the county of Kent with coals. It will be the coal harbour of the railway. The object of the operations at Folkestone Harbour is the deepening of the entrance so as to enable the continental steamers to enter and depart at low water. The work at present in hand is the removal of the rocks which lie under water immediately at the entrance. It is proceeded with by a staff of divers, who fasten chains round the prominent portions of the rock, which are then raised by cranes in barges. From sixty to eighty tons per day are removed, and are used in the construction of a pier at the cast end of the harbour, which operates as an improvement to the entrance by retaining the shingle, or beach. On the rocks being entirely displaced, the entrance will be further deepened by dredging and by a proposed backwater at the upper part of the harbour. The wall of the upper basin or backwater will form a station to which passengers will be brought by the branch line to the edge of the quay where the steamers are lying, thus avoiding the inconvenience attending' their conveyance in omnibuses from the upper station. The whole of these works have been designed and are being carried out by Mr. Barlow. The Tunbridge Wells Extension is a work of a very interesting charac ter, from the difficulty of the country and peculiar posi tion of the town. It is situated in a basin formed by a ridge of hills, which nearly surrounds it, and the rail way is extended from the present station, which is out side the ridge, by a curved tunnel, to a station in the centre of the basin, which is remarkable for its central and convenient. position in the town. In the extension to Hastings, the railway will pass a second time through the ridge by a tunnel. The railway is nowhere above the surface of the town, and the station may in fact be said to consist of an enlarged part of the tunnel, so that the line passes through the very centre of the town, with the existence of a railway being scarcely perceptible. BIRMINGHAM, LICHFIELD, AND MAN CHESTER. BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY —.A special meeting was held at Dee's Royal Hotel this day. The chair was taken by Mr. Spooner, M.P., chairman of the board of directors. There was a tolerable attendance of shareholders. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meet ing, read the terms of the agreement entered into by the directors of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and of the London and North-Western Companies, the latter company agreeing to purchase the shares of the former company by paying any sum not more than 16,0001. for the expenses of the company's stmessful application to Parliament, and a furtar sum of 20,1201. fur a bonus of 21. per share on those allotted and paid up; the London and North-Western Company agreeing to proceed with the works of the proposed line, and com plete them within the specified time. A SHAREHOLDER inquired when it was probable the 21. per share bonus would be paid. The CHAIRMAN explained that the London and North Western Company would have to give four weeks' no tice of the meeting of their proprietory, after which he did not doubt that the affair would be speedily ar ranged. Mr. R. C. CHAWNER, of Liehfield, informed the meet ing that he had recently been assured by Mr. Swift, on behalf of the London and North Western Railway Com pany, that as soon as their meeting could be called, and the arrangfn3ents confirmed, the money would be 'mid over and the affair settled. Resolutions confirming the above arrangement were then passed, and powers given to the directors to complete it, and attach the seal of the company to the transfer.• STATE OF THE LAW. (From the Commercial Magazine.) The parliamentary session having drawn to a close, and the fate of many of the railway projects being now ascertained, parties connected with them are naturally anxious to understand their legal position, and the nu merous cases which have been investigated and decided in our law courts during the last few months, render the present a favourable opportunity to present our readers with the following brief summary of the best established principles affecting the liabilities of the different parties who are concerned in railway proceedings :- 1. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ALLOTTEES IN ABANDONED SCHEMES.-It is now clearly established that an allottee who has paid his deposit upon shares in a scheme which is abandoned without applying to Parlia ment, can recover back his deposit from the promoters of the scheme, without any deduction for preliminary ex penses. Thus, where the promoters have failed to allot the requisite number of dares, or having allotted them, have abandoned the scheme without applying to Parlia ment, or have induced the public to apply for allotments by means of fraudulent representations, in all these cases the entire deposit may be recovered back, and the expenses must fall upon the managers. In most of them the allottee may bring an action at law, or file a bill in Chancery, against any one of the promoters who has acted, or held himself out to the world as acting, in the formation and carrying out of the scheme. The allottee of shares in such an abandoned scheme cannot be sued for the payment of the deposit, if he have not paid it, nor can he be compelled to contribute towards the payment of the debts and expenses which the pro moters have incurred. ry 2. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ALLOTTEES IN SCHEMES WHICH ARE NOT ABANDONED BY THE PRO. MOTERS.—The position of an allottee who applies for shares in a scheme which the projectors do not abandon, but carry out so far as by prospectus they may have con tracted to do, or so far as the conduct of the allottees will enable them to do, is somewhat different to the position of those who have formed the subject of our first division. These allottees, if they make default, may probably be liable to an action to recover da• mages from them for the breach of their contract with the promoters, or to a suit in Chancery for the double purpose of recovering the deposit, and enforcing the execution by them of the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement. 3. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF A LLOTTEES IN SCHEMES WHICH ARE REJECTED BY PARLIAMENT.— Before a scheme is brought into Parliament, the usual deeds are invariably signed by the allottees, and these deeds confer upon the promoters ample powers to carry on or abandon the scheme, and to pay all necessary ex penses attending the same. Therefore, in cases where the promoters have done all that is necessary to place the merits of the scheme before Parliament, but Parlia ment rejects it, the allottees must submit to the terms of the deed they have signed ; and probably the only power they possess is that. of checking the promoters in any improper payment or dealing with the funds of the company. But where the allottee has signed the usual deeds, but the proper number of shares are not sub scribed, or any fraud was practised upon him by the promoters, or the scheme is abandoned in an unautho. 1 rased manner, he will have the same remedies against the promoters as if no deed had been signed by him. 4. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ScanenoLDEas.—A mere purchaser of scrip, or of letters of allotment, or of bankers' receipts, has no rights against, and incurs no liabilities to the promoters. If the scheme in which he has acquired an interest be abandoned, he must look to the party from whom he bought, and it is very doubtful whether he has any implied rights against him. The case of Thomson v. Sanders, which appears to establish such rights, is not relied upon by lawyers, although it has not yet been expressly over-ruled. It is, however, possible that the holder of these documents may have a right to use the name or the original allottee for the purpose of proceeding against the promoters, but there are many difficulties in the way of such a step, and the point has yet to be decided. 5. RIGHTS OF CREDITORS TO sun THE PROMOTERS, ENGINEER, SOLICITOR, OR OTHER OFFICER OF A SCHEME.—The creditors, like the allottees, may sue any one of the promoters who has acted, or held himself out to the world as acting, in the formation and carrying out of the scheme. These parties constitute the company, or project, or scheme; and each and all of them is or are liable for all debts properly incurred for the advance ment of the common design. The engineer, solicitor, secretary, or other officer of the company, may, by their conduct, render themselves personally liable; but the mere circumstance of their holding office in the company, that is to say being the servants of the company, cannot render them responsible for the debts of the company, their employers. On the other hand, they have no power to bind the company by virtue of their offices alone ; such a power must be expressly conferred upon them. There fore, the engineer's assistants or the solicitor's clerks, or any other sub-contractors, cannot sue the projectors or company. If this w ere suffered the confusion it would cause would be indescribable. It would be just as ab surd as to allow al: a tailor's workmen to sue a customer who had ordered a coat from their master for wages due to them from him for making the coat. 6. Maras OF DIRECTORS OR PROMOTERS.—The di rectors or promoters may recover contribution from each other for all expenses connected with the scheme which they are called on to pay. At law they may recover the proportionate Part of each, with reference to the whole number of promoters, but without any regard to the sol vency of the others; thus, if there are ten, and One pays a debt, only a tenth can be recovered from each of the others; but in equity an equal contribution can be enforced from all the solvent„parties, without any regard to the original number cf promoter 3. The promoters are the parties with whom all the contracts connected with the scheme are entered into. They must all of them sue for any breach of contract on the part of allotteee, engineers, or others. As the promoters are generally very numerous, and have in most cases undergone changes, it will be difficult to maintain proceedings on such contracts; because the same parties must sue with whom the contract was made, and the mere fact that one di rector i s e l ec ted to succeed ano ther in a scheme w hi c h h as no c h ar ter or Act of Parlia ment, will not give th e p arty so a ppointed any power to sue upon his pred ecessors ' con tracts. Hence appears the indiscretion of entering into contracts by a general name of office, as "Committee," or " Directors," &c. It will be important for the future to have oontracts with companies of this kind made with a certain small num ber of persons as trustees. After the act is obtained, the directors have great end summary powers given to them to recover deposits Am shareholthrs, and to act gene rally in the affairs of the company, which will be found in the general and special acts relating to the subject. They must, however, be careful not to exceed these powers. The recent act for facilitating the dissolution of certain railway companies (9 and 10 Vic. c. 2?), will also require attention, but we must reserve our notice of its provisions fbr a future paper. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, • and a Bench of Magistrates.) The September general session of the peace for the counts of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday at Hicks's Hall, Clerlienwell-green. The calendar contained the names of 118 prisoners for trial, of whom 100 were committed charged with felony. Of that number twenty two prisoners were between the age of 16 and 10 years. A Nannow ESCAPE.—Previous to the opening of the court the prisoners whose trials are expected to come on in the course of the day are conveyed from the prison van to a cell beneath the court, to which there is a com munication by a private staircase. By some accident the door opening into the dock was left unbolted, and one of a batch of prisoners just placed in the cell, after reconnoitring the position, finding, egress easy, and the coast clear, quietly put on his hat, and passing through the court, succeeded in making his escape. The pri soner's name was Rice. He was charged with stealing goods to the value of -10 s., and, it appeared, was an old offender, having been previously convicted on two occa sions. ; He would doubtless, if again found guilty, have been transported for ten years. JUVENILE OFFENDERS.— William Brown, aged ten years, was indicted for stealing a cap, value 2s. 6d., the property of George Massey, the elder. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. The Learned JUDGE briefly referred to the previous sentences which had been pronounced upon this boy for criminal offences of a comparatively trivial character, and which he had committed in all probability from the absence cf parental control and instruction, for he was unfortunately an orphan, and appeared neither to have friends nor relatives to interest themselves in his behalf. These were circumstances which led the Court particu larly to commisscrate the case, and to regret the state of the law which rendered it imperative upon the Bench to consign the child to a prison. There was only one satisfaction which the magistrates of the county expe rienced, that they had done everything which was in their power to render the time passed by such children within the walls of their county gaols of advantage to their intellectual, moral, and religious improvement, but that object it was most difficult to effect without losing sight of the discipline and wholesome fear which should be inseparable from criminal punishment. The truth was, the two objects were incompatible ; but until the Legislature provided asylums proper for the reception of this class of children, the Court had no other course to adopt. They had established good schools in their county gaols, but if a proper education, with other ad vantages, were given to all criminal children of tender years incarcerated in them, it was impossible not to see that that would be a premium for the commission of offences, that the gaols would be divested of a wholesome terror, and diverted from the purpose for which they were erected and maintained. The prisoner was sentenced to imprisonment for six calendar months in the Westminster Bridewell. Henry Fackrell, aged 12 years, was indicted for steal. ing four sovereigns and other moneys, the property o Joseph Fackrell. The boy pleaded Guilty. The Learned JUDGE inquired into the circumstances of the case, and finding that the prosecutor was the child's own father, he questioned him as to his method of training the boy. The father said he had educate'd him, and that he had previously displayed thievish propensities. The mother was living, and he had three children younger and one older than the prisoner, The Bench consulted, after which, The Learned JUDGE said that he was almost inclined, whenever a parent thought it necessary to bring his child to that court, to pass a very severe sentence: Some parents thought it a very flue thing to bring their erring children before a magistrate, and rid themselves of the responsibility of their punishment and reformation, for getting that by so doirg they stamped the brand of a criminal upon them for life. The Court sentenced the prisoner to confinement with hard labour in the'House of Correction for six calendar months, one month of which was to be spent in solitary confinement. lionitEnv AT Bow FAIR.— William Warren was in dicted for stealing a watch, value 31, the property of Henry Trower, from his person, upon the 25th of Au gust last. - Mr. O'Brien defended the prisoner. The prosecutor, accompanied by his wife, it appeared, walked into the fair in the evening, and had not been there many minutes when they were surrounded by a gang of ruffians, who hustled the prosecutor, and upon his attempting to get away from them one of their num ber seized his watch chain, and drawing his watch out of his pocket, twisted it off the guard. He never lost sight of the prisoner till be gave him into custody. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Learned JUDGE said that he was a very notorious character, and bad only recently been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. From the circumstances which had come to his knowledge, he evidently belonged to a desperate gapg. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported beyond the seas for the term of ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday last, a felloW named Dennis Shine: who had been sentenced to imprisonment for the term of 18 months for a most desperate assault, contrived to escape from Giltspur-street Compter, after having undergone nine months of his sentence. He had, while the brick layers, who have been at work at the top of that prison were absent, managed to reach the roof by their means of access, and after having stripped off his prison jacket and shoes, to slip into a neighbouring house at the garret window, and to escape through the house and out the hall door without interruption. Shortly after one o'clock the escape was discovered, and officers were dispatched to watch the different neighbourhoods in which the friends of Shine resided, as he had not a far thing in his possession, and would have been compelled to seek the assistance of those who knew him, or return to his old quarters or perish. The calculations of the police were correct. After having undergone incon ceiveable fatigue in evading pursuit, he gave himself up on Sunday morning, and was reconducted to the Comp ter. He contrived immediately after his escape to reach the house of one James Conway, with whom he had been well acquainted, and to obtain a coat, waistcoat, and hat there, with which he expected to be abl e to di s • guise himself , but that manoeuvre put Conway to incon venience without in the slightest degree benefiting Shine. Conway was apprehended and charged with having been an accessory after the fact, to the escape of Shine, by accommodating him with the clothes. The state ment of the witnesse , - , went no further than proving that the prisoner called at Conway's lodgings, and prevailed upon Conway's wife, by operating upon her fears, to let him have the clothes, and that at the time Conway hi:lt self was absent. It appeared, from what took place during the exami nation, that even amongst the friends of Shine there was so great a terror of his savage disposition, that affection could have had very little to do with his absence from the place to which justice had consigned him. Indeed, he admitted, as was stated by one of the officers of the prison, that fatigue, sore feet, hunger, and that sort of awkward sensibility which " makes each bush an officer," completely beat him. Conway, who said he had no notion that the man had escaped until informed of his visit, and of the free dom which he made with the wardrobe of the family, was at once discharged. Mrs. Ann Tomlinson, the wife of Mr. Tomlinson, of Lower Thames street, was charged with havinc , used a candlestick and a chair upon his head and back on the the night before, by way of correcting him. The complainant stated that his wife returned tome on Sunday night in a state of the most awful intoxica- tion, distil - 64 every one in the house, used the weapons he had described in the way he mentioned, and threa tened to set fire to his bed, and to burn him and every one else in it except herself to death. Alderman WiLioN—What did you do all this while ? The complainant—l ran out naked into the street and sprang a rattle. Alderman WlLsoN—What! naked?, The complainant —As naked as a bird or a babe just born. Alderman WlLsoN—Why, I wonder you were not taken into custody by the police yourself for such an act. The complainant—l couldn't run after her in any other way at the time, for she tore every stitch off me. She was so violent that she didn't leave a morsel of a shirt on me, and I wasn't going to let her escape, when I knew my life was in danger. I wonder she didn't tear the skin off me at the same time. The defendant, in a very mild tone, denied the cor rectness of her husband's accusation of her, and recri minated upon him the charge of having kept her upon short allowance, while he was pampering himself with civic luxuries. The complainant—My Lord, she is quite angelical when she pleases. She won't talk above her breath, but by this, (striking his fist violently upon the table), she'll murder me if you don't protect me. The defendant, in a still milder voice than that in which she began her defence, submitted to the Magis trate that her husband was only displaying a little of his gentleness of disposition, and that some notion might be formed of his conduct at home, when he could not control it even in the presence of the Magistrate, be fore whom he had brought so degrading a charge against his wife. The complainant—There it is, my Lord. You see how kind and pretty her Ards are.—(Great laughter.) But, my Lord, you must come home to see her in her real character. She is, and no mstake, the devil him self.-(Laughter.) • •• Alderman WILSON regretted to perceive such symp toms of animosity, and asked the complainant whether he could swear that he considered himself in danger from his wife's violence ? The complainant—ln danger ! Why the was near knocking me over head and heels wtth the chair. I swear, solemnly, that my life's not worth a button while she's at liberty. In danger ! Why I have no chance with her at all. Alderman %YrLsox—Well, I shall restrain her for some time at any rate. I shall make her find sureties to keep the peace towards you for three months. The defendant—l thank you, my Lord. Alderman WILSON—She must find two sureties in 101. each to keep the peace towards you for that term. But you'll come here in a few days and beg to hare her discharged. —(Laughter.) The complainant—No, I won't. Alderman WlLsoN—Yes, you will. You'll bail her out yourself. I know you will. The complainant (striking the table, but not a hard knock)—No, never. Ho then walked solemnly out of the Nom, casting a glance at his wife in which it was easy to see that the avenging spirit was already dying within him. WORSHIP-STREET. William and Reuben Bray, two muscular labouring men, and Mary Anne Bray, wife of the first-named pri soner, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged with having assaulted and wounded police constable Hussey, ii 214, whereby his life had been seriously endangered. Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared, that between five and six o'clock in the evening of Tuesday, the 26th ult., as police-constable, K 196, was on duty in Manchester-street, Bethnal-green, he observed the three prisoners knocking violently_at the doors of several houses ' and on requesting them to desist, be w as a tt ac k e d by one of . the male prisoners with such ferocity that he felt it necessary to hasten off for assistance. Having met the constable Hussey in an adjoining street, they both returned to the spot, where the prisoners still kept up the same riotous behaviour, and the second officer was about to seize the mo .t violent of the three, when the prisoner, William Bray, wrested his truncheon from him, and struck him such a violent blow on the head that he was felled to the ground, and rendered insensible. Finding himself unable to contend against such powerful assailants, the other officer has tened once more to procure further aid, but before he returned several" other policemen very opportunely ar rived, and found the three prisoners beating and kick • ing the officer Hussey, who was lying on the ground completely helpless and covered with blood. After a severe struggle the prisoners were ultimately over powered, but it required the united efforts of nearly a dozen policemen to convey them to the station-hoese. Mr. Mears, the divisional surgeon, described the na ture of the injuries the officer had received, from the effects of which he had ever since been confined to his bed, and continued for several days in a state of immi nent danger. Mr. Heritage, who appeared for the defence, strongly urged . the Magistrate to deal summarily with the case, in consideration of the previous good character of the prisoners, but • Mr. BROUGHTON said that the offence was of far too serious a character to be summarily disposed of, and he should commit the two male prisoners to Newgate for the assault, but permit the woman to be discharged. In the course of the day, Mr. Thomas Graeber, soli citor, of Billiter-square, accompanied by two of the churchwardens of St. Matthew, Friday street, who, were alleged to have sanctioned the r emova l o f th e extensive deposits of broken coffins and human bones from the vaults of the church, in. Friday-street, to the field ad joining the Regent's Canal, where they were found pub licly exposed, presented himself in Court, and intimated to the Magistrate, that in consequence of the serious, statements which had appeared in the. public papers relattie to the above transaction, his clients had felt, it their duty to -come forward at once, and express their readiness to furnish every information on the subject whenever their attendance was required, and they confi dently expected to put quite a different , complexion on the case, and to afford such an explanation as would be considered in every respect satisfactory. Mr. BROUGHTON said that it would be premature at present to offer any observations on the subject, as the investigation would be resumed on Friday next, when every opportunity would be afforded them to offer what ever explanation it was in their power to furnish. WOOLWICH. Captain John Patterson, of the collier brig Volunteer, from Cardiff, appeared to show cause wby he refused to pay three of his crew, named Charles Smith, John Chapman, and John Thomson, able seamen, their full wages. Charles Smith, who acted as spokesman for his mess mates, stated that on the 10th of August they shipped on board the Volunteer at Cardiff, for Landon and back, at 41. 10s. per month. They signed articles on these terms. As soon as the brig reached London the master (Patterson) discharged them, leaving them to get back to Cardiff in the best way they could. The defendant offered them the wages due to them, but left them to get home to their wives and families as they pleased. On telling the defendant of the agreement entered into he threatened to kick them over the side of the vessel. Captain Patterson produced the articles, and said that it would be seen nothing was mentioned of the voyage back at all, and that there was th e i r mar k a tt ac h e d to it; he Lad only acted in accordance with his orders from the owners. Smith raid the captain read the articles over to them very differently, and they -signed their marks (not being , able to read and write) with the und ers t an di ng th at t h e voyage was from Cardiff to London and back. This was always their practice. They bad been five days without money to purchase food. The defendant at length offered. to ship them home, but they refused to go after such treatment. The cap tain said he was bound to act by the magistrate's deci sion, but the owners desired him to discharge them at the end of the voyage. Mr. TRAILL said that articles ought to be read over in the presence of the crew, then defendant could prove by one or more of them. The magistrate then ordered the residue of the wages to be paid. The balances being paid, the parties withdrew. .HAMME.RS.II/11TIL - - John Welham alias Greenwood, George More, George Gardener, James Gardener, and John Jackson, alias Smith, five members of a gang of thieves, known as " Greenwood's Westminster G ang ," were brought up before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magistrate, for final examination on the following charge of burglary:— Thomas Sapp deposed that he was one of the park keeperr, residing at Hyde4ark- gate, Kensington. About five o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the Ist inst., he left the gate-house and went within the park, by tl e side of the high road, to unlock the gate by the Half way house. On the way he saw the prisoners Jackson and More by the nursery of Messrs. Gray and Co., on the other side of the high road. The prisoner More had a picture in a gilt frame under each arm, and Jackson was en a little before him. On passing Park-house they turned into the meadow at the side of the road on which Ennismore-gardens are about to be built, and as he passed he saw them standing behind some pales. Wit ness then went on, and unlocked the gate by the Half way-house, and as he returned he saw toe same two pri soners together at the end of Park-house-wall, without the pictures. They then came out into the l;igh road again, and went down it until they met the other three prisoners, a distance of about one hun dred and fifty yards, and after a little conversation the) turned back, the five together, and walked towards the meadow. • Witness was at that time unlocking the small gate opposite the Countess of Blessington's, after which he went home and unlocked the carriage gates. He then went out into the high road, when he saw the five prisoners coming buck from the direction of the meadow along the high road until they came to Gore lane, lead ing to the Brompton-road, down which they turned, and witness lost sight of them. Witness went immediately in search of a policeman. Witness assisted the police to search in the, meadow for the pictures, when they f oun d the two produced under a large mortar board, which was covered over with a number of tiles. Witness had no ..„ doubt but they were the two pictures he saw the prisoner:- More and Jackson carrying. Witness also found one of the handsome china chimney ornaments and the roll of brown holland produced in Hyde-park, within the -rail. ings, just under the coping -stone. All the prisoners had passed and repassed the spot. - 'Dunbar, T 91, corroborated the evidence of the pre vious winless as to the finding of the pictures. Witness also found the ivory work-box produced, and in it several letters addressed to " Henry Duesbury, Esq., No. 1, Upper Gore, Kensington." Witness accordingly went to Mr. Duesoury's house, which was about. 200 yards distant. lie found one of the drawing-room win dows open, and on going into the drawing-room he saw both foot and hand marks on the window-sill, both out side and inside. Amos, T 151, deposed to having assisted the two previous witness in searching the meadow, both on the morning of the burglary and on the following day. On the latter, witness found the china standing dish, the chimney ornament, the card case, four D'Oyleys, and four damask table napkins, produced. The latter have Mr. Duesbury's name on them. Sergeant Skelton, B 4, gave testimony as to the ap prehension of the prisoners. Sarah Hailes deposed that she was cook in the ser vice of Mr. Duesbury. The drawing-room windows look into the high road. On the Monday night witness shut the drawing-room doors. It was not the custom to shut the drawing-room window, it being sixteen feet from the ground. The next morning she found the room had been entered by means of the window. The pictures, china ornaments, and other articles prod u c e d were all the property of dr. Duesbury, and were of the value of 501. and upwards. The prisoners' all denied any knowledge of the rob bery, and behaved with the greatest levity. The police said the prisoners Jackson and Welham had been before convicted, and the others were well-known thieves. The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. PUNISHMENTS IN THE FRENCH ARMY.--in official report on punishments in the French army, during 1845, contains the following:—Of 334,091 men, com.• prising the municipal guard and the fire-brigade, such being the effective force of the army, 4,100 men had rendered themselves ameanablo to punishment, or a proportion of 1 in 84. Of this . number 2,987 wore sentenced, which gives aproportlon of 1 to 112. The number of condemnations t 9 peines afflic• elves et infamantes, that is to say, death, imprison ment, herd labour, solitary confinement, was 420. Con. demnations to peines correctionnelles were 2,567. The peines infamantes inflicted were as 1 to 795. The peines correctionnelles, 1 in 130. Of 90 capital sentences, 85 were commuted by the royal mercy. Of the five who suffered death, one was for the assassination of a Frenchman in France, one for the murder of a French man in Algeria, one for insubordination, in Algeria, and two for acting as spies against the French in Algeria. Among the volunteers the proportion is 1 accused in 27, and 1 condemnation in 35. Among the recruits the pro portion is 1 accused in 103, and 1 condemned in 148. Substitutes, 1 accused in 51, and 1 condemnation in 68. In the cavalry, 1 condemnation in 134 ; in the infantry, 1 in 108. ' Artillery, 1 in 104; in the engineers 1 in 231. Among the veterans 1 in 177. Among the staff and scholars from military schools not a single case of repri mand. In the fire-b r i ga d e a t P ar i s 4 condemnations in 653 men. The municipal guard only had 3 condemna tions in an effective corps of 3,158 men. Among the gendarmerie, in 15,000 men there was only one case of reprimand and one condemnation. SLEEPY VETERANS.—A curious notice is posted on the chapel door of Greenwich Hospital, stating that complaint has been made that many of the pensioners are in the habit of sleeping during divine service. The bcatswains are therefore directed to wake them, unless the y are very old and infirm, and especially during the reeding of the creed, and to report all such offenders to he captsia of the week. COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON MRS. CUMMING. FOURTH DAY. The proceedings in the above singular and extraor dinary case were resumed . yesterday at the al° Tavern, Kennington, a t w hi c h t h e l a dy (Mrs. Cummieg ) was present, as before—Mr. James and Mr. Cole „ar peering as counfs , -I for the commission ; and Mr. re' tersdorff, with Mr. Parry, on the part of Mrs. Cummil The first witness examined was a young lady name, Lucia Wrixen, of Quebec-street, Montague-place, ". stated, that having seen the reports in the newspapers of the fi rst part oethis inquiry, she wrote to her mother; and was consequently brought to town, and introduce" to Mr. Dangerfield, solicitor to the commission, by w h r i s she had been subpcenaed. In the spring of 1842 5 11 .. Cumming called on her mother relative to a charade; of a servant, and she remained about four hours. lj b e e conversation and conduct appeared very flighty: ° it , not only sat on the sofa, but in every chair In t il l , room. She talked incoherently, frequently losing t e thread of her con versa ti on , and running from ° I ?., subject to another. " Sh e expressed a wish , " s tliu the witness, "to make our aequaintaacc, and # 1 , 1 , 3 1 ; cited us to he r h ouse , at Maida Vale. I with my mother and sister. She called for us , ,a to took us in her c a rri age . W e were shown il l h the drawing-room, in w hi c h I w as very w il p e nt surprised to fl e d th ere were no c hairs oi e 'r one—an easy chair—and she t o ld is to make curs e '? es comfortable.—(Laughter.) She left the room, sta),;! 1 1 away half an hour or more , an d we were k e pt stanu ln „' all the while. She th en re t urne d, an d some chairs weer brought, and she afterwards bro ug ht some tea from bra bedroom, and also a plate with shrimps. There "ice ,about a, dozen shrimps in the plate.—(Laughter.) the were about two hours and a h a lf a t t ea .. She did the honours of the table. She poured out the first cuP;lg after about an hour and a half (Mrs. Cumming 121 % - a all the w)ile) she gave us the second eup.—e ne%. r o c , laughter.) She said she kept the hens in herbdfc°ll, and she brdught an tegg from her bedroom, saying she saw all the eggs l a id b e f ore h er , an d ttl at each ern cost her half-a-crown. She took a s ilv e r salver from ' ts sideboard, and fed the cats upon it, saying that her cot e were always fed upon silver. On that occasion s t y spoke to us of her family, saying that she had an 14 child, a daughter, seven years of age, who Was v beautiful and very accomplished, and was adopted i;t a colonel and hi s family. Sh e ca ll e d u p o n us ull i . ° ll , three times afterwards, at our residence in chester.street, once to abuse the servant. Her .. - a 6 was very absurd, her mantilla fallina• off her s houltl e 'ii and her bonnet covered with gwers inside are out. She was not particularly clean ; her hands /v :t- ' e dirty, and her nails particularly so. At her house " e 'a had a little girl, whom she said was an orphan, a hoc l‘ s ,a to tremble in her presence. She said the little girl '4 some property, and that her aunts were contin°,, t h bothering her to get her property away. We at le ll °a discontinued her acquaintance, and when she called ag" refused her admission. her The witness, in her cross-examination, said that sole object in coming forward voluntarily was to 1 )r° :; $ this lady's insanity. With respect to Mrs. Cumrci v : r e bonnet, there were not so many flowers in it as there 0,1 in Covent-garden, but they were of as m a ny hues old varieties. Her eyes rolled most particularly ; she co not show the jury how, but there was no one in C e ll o whose eyes rolled like her's, nor had she seen any persons do so who were of sound mind. C u On this witness departing from the Court, Mrs. 0 ming proposed to kiss her. Dr. Pritcb -d, nf th' -alder Vra riteharu, one of the commissioners u_ Ashley's Lunatic Act, stated—l went with another ° III : missioner to examine Airs. Cumming, at York 11° % e i and after examining her I was decidedly of opinion t r tite she was of unsound mind. Th e witness went on to st re , the ground of his opinion, which was similar to the P vious medical testimony. sa' There was nothing material in the other evidenc e duced, and the inquiry was main adjourned. RAILWAY 811.R1 MARKETS' MANCLIESTER, SEPTEMBER 8. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Blackburn, Clitheroe , 1 5-16 dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, I is. dis. — C ni t oo) , and Blythe, par—East Lancashire (late Blackburn and F,r e l l ield , 94 p.—Exeter and Exmouth, % c. dis.— Goole, Doncaster,.bn e soci' &c., 9-16 dis.— Great Grimsby and Dock Extension, 1% (Ls. -- ly dersfield _and Manchester Railway and Canal, 2% 61 d tension, % p.—Leeds and Thirsk, dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury' te r, Birmingham, Manchester; 3% p.—Leicester and % Tamworth, Coventry, &c., % dis.—Liverpool and Bury, 8 Ditto, New Shares, 1 13-16 p.—London and York Extension, _ --Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 2 7-16 p.—Manchest e lorfil Southampton, 13s. 6d. dis.—Norfolk, Extension, % P' u a nd Eastern, 1 1 / 4 dis.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 1-16 dis. - Presto itto Wyre, Halves (B), 5-16 p. —Sheffield and Manchester, 106-45., Quarters, No. 1, 4 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, i, , outli-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated, N 0.3, 4% p.—Ditto , No. 4 .34 p. —South Staffordshire Junction, 3s p.—Trent ec., 7-16 p.—West Riding Union, 2 11-16 p. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 8. Srocit ExcHANGE.-I.he sales are—East Lancashire, 9 4 Ad fr Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.—lD h bitto , field and Manchester, 2% p.— Leeds and Dewsbury, 3 P.' 0, Branches, IIA p.—Leeds and Thlrsk, 3 1 A dis.—Ditto, New, o no —Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 2/. Bs. 6d. p.—Newca , 'Z and Berwick, 12% p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 60s. p.—.3lrorilO, Newcastle, New, 9% p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bostonhq,, —Buckinghamshire, 6s. 9d. dis.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 13 5 . u oti• Great Eastern and Western, 1% dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, an d ,eol , .; land, 105. Gd. dis. —Leicester and Bedford, 6s. 6d. dis.—Livq, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4/. 3s. p.—London and York, 78. 6d ion, —Malton and Driftield Junction, 17s. 6d. p.—Manchester, 13ir;ford, Matlock, and Midland, 275. Gd. p.—North Western, 6s. P tO O . iyitney, and Cheltenham, 18s. dis.—Sheffield, Rotherharo, Goole, % dis..-West .Riding; Union. 51. Is. s. ,ER 8. &rock Excrtasme.- The HULL sales P are -York and North 3 - 1 i do Selby, 70% -Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 103.1-8 134 09. -- Clitheroe, &c., I 1 ,4 -.Boston, Stamford, and Birminghant , it ttekinghainshire, dis.--East Lincolnshire, 12s. 6d.-G l3 js. , Dumfries, and Carlisle, 325. 6d.-Leicester and T a mworth,, 4 , j og North Western, ss. 9d. p.-Shropshire Union, % don Union, 41. 19s. 3d.-Armagh, Coleraine, And Porstrush, 98.--"'" 1 ;tid" and Bantry, 9s. 6d.-Leicester and Bedr.lll, 14s. 9d.-South land, 13s, 6d. p.-South and Midlands Junction, 28s. NE WCASTLE-UPO:N -T S EPT EmßEK: iension , las. L • x ten.- STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonlea,, , i f,i Leeds dis.--Leicester and Tamworth, par.-Manchester sion, 2 s p.-Newcastle and Darlington, 17% p. -- SH, STOCK ExcuANGE.-The EFFIELD sales are- SEPTEMBER Eastern CeL.' diues, 2231•-; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis --Ditto, Docks, ',7v?akedela, Dit:o, Extension, % dis.-Midland, New, I*,, dlan cl ' and Midland, 12s. dis.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and A n L 1 p.-North Western, 4s. 6d. p.-Sheffield and Lincoln, , , South Yorkshire Coat Railway, 9s. dis. YORK, SEPTEMBER 8. (S dirge) STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are- Grand Union ° d and Lynn), 135.-Ipswich and Bury, 8%-Ditto (Cambridge an I % -Leicester and Bedford, 14s. 6d.-London and York, _lO Mahon and Driffield Junction, 3-N or th British, Half SheregllV -Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 4/. 3s. 6d.-North Staffordshire, 0., West Riding Union, 5-York and Newcastle, New, la 18S i l ioo York and North Midl an d E xtension, 38 %-Di t t o (East an Riding Extension), 12%, EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are-Aberdeen, 91. 165. - 41 and Bathgate, 31. 17 s . 6d.-A r b roat h and F or f ar, 281.-Pitt Shares, 151. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, ii. 65.-Banfishi re, Ditto' British and Irish Union, 21. 2s. 6d.-Caledonian, 161. 25. 6 d ~,*- ; 010 , New, 11. 13s. 6d.-C a l e d on i an E xtens i on, 1/. 12s. 6d.,--Ci`piree and Dumbarton, 11. 25.-Clydesdale Juncti on , 291. 10S. ;33 ,," ; Northern, 11. 175.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/.-Dit:o, N e Ln 0 n 1 0s.-Dundee and Perth, 251,--East of Fife, 11. ls.-Edinb„ w f,ofc'' Bathgate, 2/. 155.-Edinburgh and Gl asgow , 731.-Ditto, 181.-Ditto, Quarters, 17-. 10s. -Ditto, ditto, New, 17/. 105.---05/ burgh, Leith, and Gianion, 191.-title, Preference, 211 ; 22 , 64 : Edinburgh and North ern , 101. 10 8. - -Ditn , Newport, ' l l ' -Edinburgh and Perth, 21. ls.- Forth and Clyde .1 unction, -007 -Glasgow and Ayrshire, 771. -Ditt o , N ew Stock, 42/.-Dit t° ' , : s ;. 66. ter Shares, 181. 158.-Glasgow, Dunthies, and Carlisle, 1/. Door -Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Glasgow a n .„ d kirk, 391. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, Sl. 15s.- Ditto, Preference, 1/. 15s.- Great Forth of -Granton Junction, 10s.- -Inverness and Elgin, 17s. 6,1 %., and York, 2/. 55.-North British, as e .-Ditto, H a lves, Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 4,. 25.-Perth and Inverness , ` 6d.-Scottish Central 191. 10s.- Ditto, New, 9/. 103.-Scett !sll os.' tral and Caledonian Junction, 11. 10s.-Scottish Midland, 7'• Scottish Southern, 11. 178.-Stirlifig and Dunfermline, 11. 6 5 . GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 7. STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 345. --- a V dee and Perth, 25 1 4 -East Indian Railway, 16s. 9d.-Edinbu r g ti ol_ Glasgow, New, 18% -Edinburgh and Northern, 10% - t }l D j General Terminus, 91 -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Sew, 41% -Glasgow, Dumfries; and Carlisle, 365.- Glasg°ljai", marnook, and Ardrossan, 33g.-Glasgow. Airdrie, and 31 01 ' Junction, 395.-Lanark and Loth:ans, 455. 6d.-Manchest er 01 0 ' Southampton, 245. 6d.-North British, Extension to Car,islB' -South kidland, 55s.—Stirling and Dunfermline, 26;. SUDDEN DEATH OF A THEATRICAL PEE2OOI.IIj —Mr. Patrick Sutcliff, who has been for many Ij p engaged at the Dublin Th ea t re, was a f ew ma re since found dead in his bed. .„00 1 EADVERTISEMENT.]__A LIVER AND STO , - Bobs' COMPLAINT.--WONDERFUL EFFICACY OF HOLLOWAY'S - , 0 0. 1 The son of Mr. 'Thompson, national schoolmaster, t ' ° ,.'tDl had been in a most precarious way for upwards 01 0p . ,: years, and at l a st be c a me so consum pti ve as to be jo 1 3w rently in a dying state. - Three fistulous - ores formed ,; chest, so that the stomach usually reje c ted b o th food a n 'i r aoli e l d dicine. Mr. Robert Calvert, chemist, Stokesley, bears test r that by the use of Holloway's Pills, the youth is now nearl}[ de ' s re; of his ailments, his appetite and digestion being good, be,.. 5 , 4 gaining strength and flesh ; yet, be it remembered, this suffer o l eS; nearly at death's door. Is not this truly extraormaarY 7 „meo" Pills are sold by all druggists, and at the Proprietor's Estabe -- 244, Strand, London. sdit b► BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Brighton, the wife of William P' Esq., Royal Engineer Department, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Caversham, Oxfordshire, the Mrs. John Gellibrand Hubbard, of a son. e th e On the 6th inst., in Devonshire-street, Portland-PIO , lady of the Rev. J. H. Butterworth, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., in Queen-square, Westminster, the of T. Elde Darby, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Greenwich, the wife of Samue l liams, Esq., of a son. , . On the 6th inst., at Beomond, Chertsey, the wife of Malden, Esq., of a daughter. 4oot ll‘ On the 7th inst., the lady of Henry Cohen, Esq., of wick-crescent, Hyde-park, of a son. - - MARRIED. Se o tty On the 29th ult., at St. Giles's Cripplegate, H . Ai • of Camden-town, to Elizabeth, relict of Daniel Penn. On the 29th ult., at St. Mary's, Kilkenny, Charles W ho ,. o Tupper, Esq., 7th Fusiliers, to Frances Letitia, daug Sir Wheeler Cufl'e, Bart. ToOr b On the 3d inst., at Islington Church, James John titer son, Esq., High-street, Wapping, to Harriet, only di lua of the late Thomas Faulkner, Esq. lED On the 29th of June, at Ku D rrachee, Lieutenant John Serill Dawson, 12th Regiment of Native Infantry. ' too On the sth inst., at Malshanger House, ne ar Basing the Right Hon. Lord Metcalfe, aged 62. E. L' On the 28th ult., at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wig ht ' Miller, only hiltchld of G. Miller, Esq., aged 15. thfO r On the 28th ~ Mr. William Henry Pim, of Ea ham, near Dublin. iIS r ref On the 30th ult., Mr. George Wynne, late of the el . Theatre. late On the 31st ult., William Taylor, Esq., solicitor , Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. On the 3d inst., at Bridge House-place, Newington' way, Thomas Neats Moody, Esq., surgeon, aged 33- , , ao cle t On the 4th inst., at Framfield-place, Sussex, Al e-- of Donovan, Esq., aged 70. • iv'o On the sth inst., at Pit House, Beddington, MD, W IC ' , 11' the late John Williams Bristow, Esq. aged 85. , u sse On the sth:inst., Mr. William Tay ' ler, of Great ''' ~, street, Bloomsbury, a ge d 75. s n Of Li' On the sth inst., at B ournemou th, Charles, only Beaufoy, Esq., of Upton Gray, Odiham. M" vf' On the sth in s t., M r . John Green, of Parsonage -ron't ington, Surrey, aged 80. sil• On the 6th inst., at Woolwich, George Quarter- I.l°. 1 101 London: Printed and Published by AXED°. YOU— of l'Opr Strand, Printer, at The Sun 081ce, No. 112, Strand , in Y" , of the Savoy, in the County ct middioaex, o n viredav iicia temper 9, 1846, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1846.