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of ~~ •' WAR IN KAFFIRLAND. b 911; (From the Herald.) We have just received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 16th of May inclusive, from which we regret to 4. leap thAt the Kaffirs continued their depredations, though with but partial success. The settlers have neither security for their cattle nor for their lives ; and it iS'ilielancholy to think of the deplorable condition to whicli'they are reduced for want of a powerful force to &iv, the Kaffir tribes beyond the boundary, or at least to keep them in complete check. Some sharp skirmishes had taken place between the British troops and the enemy, in several of which the latter were valiantly re pulsed. Very little loss of life was sustained in these several affairs, but the destruction of property was im mense. We subjoin details (From the Supplement to the South African Commercial Advertiser of May 13.) Cape Town, May 14. The Frontier Post arrived this morning. A Government notice, dated Graham's Town, 7th May, gives an outline of events up to that date. The outposts, villages, " legers," toc., have in many instances been relieved, supplied with ammunition, or with such reinforcements as could be spared, and no marked action has taken place on either side. The Governor is waiting for reinforcements, and till these shall arrive, cattle, flocks, and isolated houses are exposed to the destructive enemy. Every public officer, as well as every colonists, is now aware of the urgency of the demand for re inforcements on the frontier, and all are doing their duty by day and by night. It does not yet appear that the Tambookies have joined, and expectations are entertained that they will not all join. The Kaffirs are still only in small parties, within the colony. Wherever met or seen they have been dispersed, or destroyed. All that is wanting on the side of the colonists is "organisation." From Block Drift, Fort Beaufort, and Somerset, and from the fort and posts of Kat River, there is no intelligence of moment. Attacks of small parties of Kaffirs, always repulsed with loss to the enemy, and scarcely any loss of life to the colonists, but with great loss of property, continue from day to day. And such will probably be the condition of the whole frontier till the Burgher levies are fairly in hand. The most important announcement brought by this post is the appointment of Sir A. Stockenstrom to command the North-western levies, and probably to come down on Kaffir land from that quarter, when the forces enter it on the right of the mountains. Besides the intelligence given below, letters from Graham's Town, written at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, mention that Colonel Richardson had arrived from Fort Peddle, and that he had a gallant affair with the enemy at Trompetters' Drift. The following is from the Extra of the Graham's Town Journal of May 2, which reached Cape Town at half past one o'clock on Sunday last, the 10th instant, and brings down intelligence to Tuesday, May 5. COPY OF COMMUNICATION FROM COLONEL SOME/SET. M‘Luckie's, Kareiga, Sunday, May 3. . . I am here surrounded by Kaffirs, and I only irrivea here on Friday night, just in time to save the lives of about fourteen families assembled here, and at Dells' farm on the Kasouga, and of five hundred people, women and children, at Theopolis, who had fired away their last round of ammuni tion. had a good fight with the Kaffirs this morning in the Cowie bush, and have given them a famous dressing. They came out to fight us in two bodies, from the points of two dense kloofs. I got a good position for the gun, and dis mounted my men and sent them in the bush, and after half an hour's fighting we drove them off and silenced their fire, killing several. We got one gun and ammunition from them. My object in sending in now is for ammmunition. I have no more than what I have in the pouches, having distributed all I have to the farmers, and I have given 400 rounds to the school (Theopolis) people, which is in fact nothing. The Kaffirs have taken about 5,000 head of cattle from this and the school. The latter still retain about 1,200 head, but I was obliged to reinforce them last night with 30 men, or they would all have been destroyed. I can do nothing without I get 500 more men. lam much vexed that neither Mr. Salis nor the party I detached to Salem have joined me. It cripples me entirely, and I doubt if I can save those people yet, if the force do not join me. The Kaffirs are burning and destroying:every farm, and all the oat-hay, and my people are so worked that I cannot prevent it. I cannot have any communication with Bathurst. The whole Kowie bush from Woest's Hill to the mouth of the Kowie is full of Kaffirs. I beg you will write to the Lieutenant-Governor, and acquaint him that unless he send the Cape Mounted Rifles, as well as the cavalry, to cross at Kaffir Drift, and that as soon as possible, the Bathurst country must be de stroyed. I cannot help them, unless I have 500 men instead of 140. If I hold the country, it is as much as I can pos sibly do. If I had not come here, every house would have been destroyed, and every man, woman, and child murdered. The following is a copy of Col. Somerset's official dispatch to the Civil Commissioner of Albany : M`Luckie's Farm, Kareiga River, May 4. Sir,—Having moved with the troops under my orders to this part of Albany on the Ist inst., in order to afford pro tection to the inhabitants against the attacks of the Kaffir tribes, and knowing your anxiety, as well as that of the public, for their welfare, I feel it necessary to acquaint you that I arrived here about seven o'clock P.M. on the Ist inst. Having observed on my route that the whole of the Kowie Bush was thickly infested with Kaffirs, I moved a patrol early_on the morning of the 2d inst. to Mr. Dell's farm on the Kasouga, where I found Several families collected in a great: state of anxiety—the -Kaffirs having carried off all their cattle, amounting to about 2,000 head, and the people exhausted from fatigue with watching. Learning that the people at Theopolis were in great distress from want of ammunition, I communicated with that station from Mr. Dell's ; in a short time Mr. Taylor, the minister, came over to me and acquainted me that his station had been attacked several nights successively, that his people were entirely without ammunition, and quite exhausted ; that unless I could assist them that night they were without hope, and that there were 500 persons who must fall a sacrifice to the Kaffirs, who had stated they would attack them again that night. I detached a sergeant and 12 men of C.M.R. with Mr. Taylor, and I supplied him with 100 rounds of ammunition as an immediate help. I also left at Mr. Dell's a party of 12 burghers, as a reinforce ment for the night. Having thus afforded some relief to that suffering people I returned home, and at nightfall I sent another detachment of 20 more C.M.R. to Theopolis, under Eneign Harvey, with a further supply of ammunition, andl thus secured these people for the night. At daybreak yester day morning I was fortunate enough to fall in with a large body of Kaffirs, who appeared to have established themselves in the Kowie Bush, and attacked them with the troops and punished them severely, which I hope will keep them quiet for a day or two. I then proceeded to Theopolis, and having communicated with that station, I arranged with the mis sionary to bring them all up here this day. I hope to forward their tamilies to Graham's Town at an early hour to-morrow morning, together with some other families, who are here in a state of destitution ; the whole of their property, houses, and all they possess, having been set on fire by the Kaffirs as soon as they saw the troops advancing. These latter Ibe to recommentlto the Government to be put on rations, anrll to have sorrfOodgings allotted to them. The troops under my command having been detached by the Lieutenant-Governor for the protection of this part of the country, have been, under Providence, the means of savin the valuable lives of several helpless families ; had they ar riTed forty-eight hours later all must have fallen a sacrifice toi these ruthless savages, who were only waiting to complets their work of destruction (by murdering the helpless families' and children) to occupy and establish themselves in their, houses; find having been defeated in this by the opportune] arrival of the troops, they set fire to the buildings, haystacks' and all their property. From Mr. M'Luckie's about 1,80 head of cattle have been carried off, from Mr. Dell's abou 2,000, from Theopolis about 1,200, besides the total destruct tion of almost all their hay crops. It now only remains for nie to express my admiration the gallant stand that has been made by the inhabitant here for- the , protection of their families, although stir , rounded by hundreds of the savage enemy ; they have stood 'forward like-'men. And although seeing their prapertyt destroyed, their homest ea d s i n fl ames, an d t h e i r all at the ;mercy of these barbarians, have never flinched, but have (even with a cheerful countenance) supported their charac.: ter as men and Britons in defence of all most dear to them, and if they had not done so, the assistance the troops hav4 been able to afford would have come too late. I am also much indebted to Messrs. Fuller and Ferreira, of Qrahara's Town, fiur their assistance in patrolling and hi escorting the missionaries and their families. There is yet much to be done; several more families on the right bank of the Kowie yet require protection, hundreds of Kaffirs being in the . Kowie bush for a distance of 20 miles. But I cannot hold oat any immediate hope that I can cross over into the -Bathe at District, either to afford protection or to intercept 1 ttcoattle that the Kaffirs are driving into ICaffirland. Prot bably the - Lieut.-Governor will see fit to detach the cavalry *om .Vort Peditie to that district. I request that you will communicate the contents of this dispatch to his Her m , the Lieutenant-Govemor, as I am so pressed for time that I eattuot forward a dispatch to him.— I am, ke., H. SOMERSET, Comm. Field Force. The Civil Commissioner of Albany , &c., Graham's Town.. (From the Graham's Town Journal, May 9.) The following particulars of a spirited affair are given in a letter before use dated— " Itnuckie's, flay 6 . " On the morning of the sth inst., Colonel Somerset, with * detachment of his force of 60 men and a field piece, moved from his position at M‘Luc.kiA's to the mouth of the Kowie distant about twelve miles, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the petit held by Mr. W. Cock. and if necessary of rendering him assistance. On nearing the point on which they were marching the detachment observed a large drove of cattle in the poseeseion of a considerable body of the enemy, but who were so near the edge of the Kowie buil); that- although a dash waa instantly made at them, only about.l2o bead were recaptured, the Kaffirs taking shelter in the bush, with the loss of two men and many wounded: Colonel Somerset, on reaching Mr. Cock's dwelling-house, situated on a commanding height overlooking the mouth of the Itree,dearned that about an hour before his arrival the Kaffirs in - force—the number being estimated at from 4 to SOO—rushed down upon the cattle as they were being driven to water, drove in the CA ttle guard, and captured the whole , herd. This body of Kaffirs were mostly armed with fire locks, and kept up an incessant fire, which was _spiritedly returned by the little garrison with a loss to the Kaffirs of several killed and wounded,--a small cannon at the building being well served and doing good execution. It was here ' ascertained that almost the entire country on the left bank of the Kowie had been laid waste and burnt, the cattle carried off, poultry, destr oyed, and pigs burnt alive in their styes. The Kaffirs fought with great determination, and must. have suffered a great loss in killed and wounded; eleven or twelve brJdie3 were seen, but many more are supposed to have fallen. The following Morning while operating upon the kloofs h this locality, a . h eavy tiring w a s h ea rd at the camp at ItPLuckie'A, and the detachtneet instantly where galloped to that point, it was found that the enemy, taking advantage of their absence, 1141 attacked the post with great spirit, but were met with uri , daunted gallantry by Ensigns Harvey and Carey, the officets • in charge. The troops had repulsed the enemy at every point, and had driven a strong body of them into a kloof in which they were hemmed in. On being joined by t he d i - • tachment it was i mmed i ately reso l ve d t o -follow them in o their strongh o ld. Accordingly di s mounting, the trop , consisting of th e C ape Mounted Rifles, and a few of the 71h Dracoon Guards, under Captain Hogg, en tered the bush, iind.e.ewllich a murderous conflict was for some time maii *X the rival combatants being so close that in several thopowiler of the Kaffir f guns burnt the hands and of men. Lieutenant Bisset had his hand slightly j retlja iy "'eseorched in this way, but we are happy to say sustained no i otlutrinjury. The Kaffirs are said to have fought with the greate.it desperation, and it was not. until the field-plec9wits . ' got to play upon this position, that the enemy was completely 1 .." ` routed: The Kafirs are known to have lost in • thetas affairs a great many of their number, 25 being .. t s Algid dead, and Many wounded being dragged off the v • . Illeill into the buile - by their comrades, it appearing to be the ' ------...A.-..---- s r ` l 3 r THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1846. invariable object of the enemy in all his encounters, to con ceal, if possible, the loss he sustains. On our side the loss I has been comparatively trifling—amounting only to four men—three of them wounded badly—one dangerously. . The Cape Mounted Rifles, both officers and men, distinguished themselves by that wonted courage and activity which has earned for them, throughout this trying campaign, the high character of brave men and good soldiers. The small party of the 7th Dragoon Guards, under Capt. Hogg, also behaved well in this bush fighting, a kind of warfare very foreign to that to which they have been trained." We have an account of a spirited affair in which a trader, named Murray, now Kaffir interpreter, with a few of the Cape Corps, and a party of Fingoes, made a dash upon a herd of cattle, in the possession of the Kaffirs, near Fort Peddie, and succeeded, besides killing two or three of the enemy, in capturing 500 head Information received to-day that the leger of C. Buckner, on the Bushman's River had been attacked by the Kaffirs, and who succeeded in getting off with about 600 head of cattle. The attack was made just at the close of the day, the Kaffirs rushing down in great force amongst the cattle. An Englishman, named Middleton, was shot dead in this affair, and Mr. Buckncr is said to be wounded. TWELVE o'CLocx.—Received this moment the following from the Beaufort division : Botha's Post, May 5. The Kaffirs passed within two miles of this post at day light this morning, driving flocks of sheep and young lambs, to the number of about 10,000, from the colony, right over the mountains in the direction of Wiltshire. We succeeded in capturing about 800 during the forenoon. It was a heart-rending sight to see the beautiful flocks driven by the infatuated wretches right in front of the mili tary post, and yet so weak is this detachment that we scarce dare leave the boundary stones of the fort, far less attempt to give chase when we see the stock of the co lonists pouring into Kaffirland. As it now is, all we can do with saftety is to preserve our lives, and keep the position we hold. Information has come, in a letter addressed by M. R. Ayliff to the Rev. W. Shaw, that the Kaffirs, about 300 strong, attacked the merino flocks of Mr. J. Howse, while in the field on Thursday last. The account states, that on the Kaffirs opening their fire a party of Dutch boers, mounted, immediately fled. Mr. Ayliff dispatched a party of 16 of his men, chiefly persons of colour, who maintained a fight for some time, but who were overcome, leaving three of their number dead on the field. The engagement took place within sight of the fine pre mises of Leeuw Fontein. Five Kaffirs were killed. Mr. Ayliff writes—' The Kaffirs have now taken from here, from myself, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Oats, 380 head of cattle, 7 horses, and 17,000 sheep." About one hundred people, including Burghers, are dependant upon Mr. Ayliff for food, and he has not a sheep left to kill. _ _ _ We hivie further accounts from the N.E. boundary, the purport of which is, that the Tambookies have not yet joined in the war, and it is confidently affirmed that Umti rare (lJmtikaka) will not join in the confederacy. The in tentions of the other principal chief, Mapassa, are doubtful, blit as he is uncle to Sandilli, it is thought that he will join the hostile party. Kreli, it is affirmed, has already committed himself, and the Europeans in this country are in great alarm, and entreating help to Sasist them in getting into the colony. There are no fewer than 58 white persons now there exposed to the most imminent danger. Information came in this morning from Fort Peddie of an affair with the enemy, which the safety cf the country re quires us to pronounce as one of the most discreditable it has yet been our painful duty to record. The details, as collected by us. after very careful inquiry, appear to be as follows : On the Ist instant, the Fingoes being attacked near the Beka station by Pato's Kaffir's, an alarm was given at Fort Peddle, and the troops were immediately placed under arms. Our journal on Saturday closed its accounts from hence exactly at this point. It now appears that a force was ordered from Fort Peddle to the scene of action, consisting of two troops of the 7th D. G., a small party of the Cape Mounted Rifles, two field pieces under Lieutenants Hill and King, a detach ment of about 60 of the 91st, under Capt. Campbell, and a few mounted burghers. The alarm was given at half-past 12, and yet these troops only moved from Fort Feddie, under t be com mand of Col. Richardson, 7th D. G., at half-past two o'clock, the distance to march being about five miles, and which was done within an hour and a half, consequently reaching the spot on which they halted about four o'clock P.M. This point is a round hill, abutting in a fine open ridge, sprinkled with low thorn bushes, being upon the whole a very favourable position for the movements of cavalry. The detachment of the 91st had been directed to make a little„detour, and one of the guns was halted about a mile in the rear. On reach ing the top of the ridge the Kaffirs were seen in great force along the opposite valley, in which is situated the Missionary Institution, called the Beka Station. The enemy, on seeing our troops on the height, instead of retreating, with unparal leled audacity made a signal by waving a kaross, when in stantly, in the face of the troops, the village or station was fired. They then moved boldly forward in the high road, and advanced in force to confront them. In the meantime, however, the gun had got into position, and a few shells were thrown, the first three doing no execution, but the latter, fired by Lieutenant Hill, killing, it is said, some twenty or thirty Kaffirs. Nothing daunted by this the enemy moved steadily forward along the high road. On see ing this Lieutenunt Colonel Richardson, instead of dashing forward, ordered the bugle to sound a retreat, and without firing a carbine, the troops were actually wheeled round, and retired at a brisk pace to Port Peddie! So peremptory was this order to retreat, that time was not given for the discharge of the field piece, though actually shotted, and though, as affirmed, the officer in charge of it entreated he might be permitted to fire. The civilians were anxious, and also the Cape Corps, to engage the enemy, and it now remains for the officer commanding this force to show wherefore he withdrew to the shelter of a fort, when so favourable an opportunity was presented for crippling, or, as Colonel Hare would say,. for "striking a heavy blow" upon the enemy.. We call for inquiry into this affair—for rigid, searching inquiry. The facts, as we have stated them, are, as we are reluctantly compelled to believe, after the most careful inquiry, substantially correct ; and if this be so, then ' in what a painful position does it place those on whom rests the responsibility of this retrograde movement. Lay bare the strong points of the case and they are these :—A body of about 200 British troops, chiefly cavalry, with two field pieces—with 300 armed Fingoes in their immediate vicinity, and who had single-handed maintained a long engagement with the enemy, with the strongest fortress on the frontier only five miles in the rear, and a body of five hundred more Fingoes immediately at hand, the road perfectly unobstructed ; and yet, despite of all these favourable circumstances, a strong body of cavalry, well mounted, and whose bounden duty it is to defend this part of the Queen's dominions, retired before a horde of savages, and that at the very moment they were about to rush into and lay waste the colony. We repeat that in all its circumstances this is one of the most deplorable affairs we have yet had to record, as well, as one of the severest blows the colony at this eventful crisis has yet received. That such is the fact is seen by the subsequent proceedings of the very savages, before whom this body of British troops were made thus to retire. The Kaffirs, it is said, immediately dispatched messages to i the neighbouring chiefs, boastin g th e y had driven) the Dragoons before them with so much precipitation. that they rode one upon another, and had even killed their dogs in their hurry to esca p e . Th e pu bli c l oo k to Sir Pere grine Maitland, as he values the lives of the inhabitants of, this frontier, which are now i n i mm i nent per il , to dea l w i tht this affair upon ite own merits. We shall not attempt to make conjecture in order to ac count for this extraordinary forbearance towards the enemy. We have had it intimated to us that Lieutenant •Colonel Richardson, in thus retreating, only acted in accordance with' the peremptory orders received by him froth Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay, 91st Regiment. IRELAND.' THE ORANGE ANNIVERSARIES. Dunune, JULY 10.—T1}e preparations to commemoratej the approaching anniversary of the battle of Aughrim appear to be general in the province of Ulster ' and serious appre-' hensions of disturbance are entertained by the peaceably dis posed inhabitants of the north—Protestant as well as Roman Catholic. The evil tendency of these political gathering 4 was forcibly depicted by Mr. Justice Crampton, in opening the commission at Armagh on Wednesday last. " There is on the calendars," observed his Lordship, " one case upon which I think it right to offer you some observe.: tions. It has occurred during the course of the past month. It is a can of riot, in which a considerable number of persons are implicated. It is a riot which, I fear, has grown out of party spirit, and, indeed, p er h a p s I might say, out of wha is often called religious differences; although I must say, that I much doubt the propriety of the application, and thad I think they would be more appropriately termed anti Christian disputes, because I believe it is not, it can not be, from the root of religion that such bitter fruits arise. It is not in the nature of things that such should be the case. The spirit of the Christian religion, which we all in common profess, would, on the other hand, inculcate peace and brotherly love in all and towards all. We may, no doubt, in discharging the good offices which come in our way, prefer those who are members of our own household of faith, and to whom we are bound by sympathy; but we should recollect, also, the precept of Him, whom we all ac., knowledge as our Head and our Master, 'to do unto all men as we would wish they should do unto us;' and that this spirit is within us it should be our aim to demonstrate as much as possible. We should strive to restrain ourselves, and others, from all demonstrations of a different spirit. The species of party demonstrations, to which I have re ferred, are essentially selfish. They are entirely selfish, inasmuch as they do not spring from love, they do not lead to love, they are of the spirit of evil ; they tend only to opposition, and to the creation of dissension, to strife, to bloodshed, and to murder. Ido sincerely trust, that the peasantry of this country, and the artisans, may feel the propriety of acting on the advice of those gentlemen who should exercise the leadership over them, who reside among them, and who ever prove themselves their best friends and protectors, and that they will open their eyes to the absur dity as well as the sinfulness of such preposterous practices. I trust they will abstain from every species of party proces sions, or displays calculated to excite opposition. If there be past events, either of a religious or of a secular nature, the anniversaries of which may seem to some to be fit subjects for celebration, in the way ofjoy and merriment, ldtihein be ce lebrated as it becomes loyal subjecfs and as becomes Christian men —men desirous to observe and respect the law of the land, and that Christian law which all of us profess to follow and to obey. Formy own part I would earnestly inculcate on all, that they should abstain upon this, as upon all occasions, fromany at lead r b i s n t e a s t.: nn bf and rron a em s e h u ee tr ;3 e yf n public or irritating display of their particular opinions, doc canpeealrcueoeflated to excite anirnofity, or to g all ian to . the provoking or ca or ll in u sTlt n in guage to their neighbours, and from the exhibition of all party symbols and party badges of every description ; to put forward nothing having the name otparty attached to it, and to make it their rule of life to give offenc e to none. I ara convinced, that, if the people of this country knew their own interests, and consulted them, they would attend to these admonitions, given, as they are, in the spirit of peace, by the humble individual who now offers them ; and that, if they adhered to their loyalty, and respected the lsw of the land, and the Christian law, it would do more to preserve the peace of the country, to promote its happiness and its of pros perity, than would even numerous regiments soldiers, or the most stringent laws which could be devised. It may be that these obserVations are not in place, as far as regards the case to which I .just now referred; but, whether or not, it may not be amiss to impress on the magistrates, the gentry. the peasantry, and upon all classes, their importance. I say this, because I have heard of threatenings having been made, of getting up some manifestations of the kind; and I will only say, to such as threaten to join in them, that they should not do so, that they are unbecoming, that they are unmanly ; it i s not for me to say now that they are illegal, but they are unconstitutional in spirit and also un-christian. On the other hand, the man must, indeed, act absurdly, he must be weak, he must be mad, who could be tempted to join in them, after all the lessons which have been written, in blood, in the history of the country. But, absurd and foolish as such a man must be, there is equal folly and mad ness,Jand wickedness displayed by any . one who would attempt to offer him opposition." MANCHESTER ATHENAIIM SOIREE.—The Right Hon. Lalor Sheil, Esq., M.P., has accepted the invitation of the directors to be present at the approaching soirii. DUTCH, FLANDERS, AND HAM- BURGH MAILS. THE HAGUE, JULY 7.—The Niewsbode affirms that his Majesty is expected to return before Saturday, and will set out next week on his intended tour to the pro vince of Overyssel, namely to Kampen, there to view the exhibition of works of art and manufactures. he• turning from this excursion, his Majesty it is said will go to Limburg and Luxemburgh, and thence to Berlin, and to his estates in Silesia. It is affirmed that his Majesty will return by way of Weimar, where the Queen will be about that time. After stopping there some days his Majesty will return with the Queen to the Hague. We hear that before his Majesty's departure, the commissioners for negotiating a treaty with Belgium, presented to him the draught of a treaty with which Mr. Mercier, the Belgian Minister, set out for Brussels yester day. THE HAGUE, JULY 9.—The King after having pre viously visited the Anna Paulowna, arrived on the 7th in the Niewe Diep, on board the Lewis steamer. His Majesty was received on landing by the officers of the army and navy, the civil authorities and the clergy, after which he visited the maritine establishment at Willemsoord, and then set out in the same steamer for Harlingen. His Majesty was received at this town by the Governor of the province, the Burgomaster and other magistrates; and on the Bth, in the morning, went to Leenwarden, where he was received with great re joicing by the people. It was expected that his stay would be very short. The election of deputies to the Second Chamber of the States General, are now proceeding with much spirit. Several of the deputies going out by rotation have been re-elected. BRUSSELS, JULY 9.—The Senate, in its sittings to• day, after receiving several reports relative to several supplementary votes of credit, continued the debate on the project of law on the organisation of the Council of Accounts. The King will return to the palace of Lacken this evening. Te Deum will be performed on Tuesday, the 21st of this month, in the church of St. Gudule, on occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the King's coronation. News has been received from —I. Blondel, who was sent by the Government on a mission to St. Thomas's and to Guatemala. After having been detained a long time by illness at Zacapa, he proceeded to the city of Guatemala. Ile had transmitted to the Government his report relative to the colony of St. Thomas before his illness. r BRUSSELS, JULY 10.—The Senate, lifter receiving several reports, termina.ed the debate ofi the law for 'organising the Court of Accounts, which' is adoptt d. The journals of Friday atitl Saturday contain long accounts of the dreadful accident on the Northern Railway. We have to announcelanother accident. The train frot , m Valenciennes to Brussels, which set out this morning-, arrived at the station of Blanc Misseron, when the guard gave the signal announcing its arrival.: The conductor, a young man 28 years of age, stooping to see if it was time to stop, leaned too forward, so that his head was dashed against a tree, and he expired shortly afterwards. The King arrived yesterday evening at ten minutes before nine o'clock. His Majesty had learned at the station of Floreffe the dreadful catastrophe which affl.cts this country. The traffic on the railway from Brussels to Paris is not interrupted ; the train set out this morning with 25 passengers. We are assured that Prince Frederick of the Nether lands has just purchased the magnificent building and the 1,100 hectares of land, meadow, forest, &c., which the Government desired the Legisla ture to purchase, as the agricultural depot for able-bodied mendicants. Yesterday morning two young men, coming from Flanders, arrived near the forest of La Cambre ; they both had pocket pistols. Soon after wards two shots were heard, the cause of which was soon known. The young men, tired of life, had committed suicide; or rather, as appeared from a note found upon them, they had agreed to shoot each other. One was killed on the spot, the other expired two hours afterwards. BRUNSWICK, JULY s.—According to accounts received here from London,. there is no doubt that our former Duke, Charles, has purchased the " German London Journal," for 6,000 or 7,ooo . dollars, and takes a very active part in the composition of it. Some numbers have been received here, and we read them with much interest, as they contain various articles on our situation. In one of the latest numbers, we see that Duke Charles must have renounced all thought of recovery of possession of our Duchy by force of arms; a notion which it is well known he had entertained. Many re.lerfrs, doubtless, remember that, about ten years ago, he made prepara tions in France, had uniforms got ready, and appointed, a Pole to the command of his troops. The ex p e di t ionN was not, however, undertaken. There was, in fact, no prospect whatever of success ; and if see are not mis taken the Duke was involved in a vexatious and expen sive law suit. The uniforms have been lying for some time in London, and the Duke is now desirous of getting rid of them. An advertisement in the German London Journal announces that 6,000 complete uniforms, quite new, are deposited at the office, and are to be sold for 12.0001. sterling. 1 , POLISH FRONTIERS,JUNE27.—The term expirin g July 1, when, according to the ukase, the Je ws of theking dom were to lay aside their Jewish costumes, have be,4, prolonged by the Prince Governor till the Ist of October next. The Ist of October is the next day after the great festival of the atonement of the Jews, on which they were to wash away their sins; and therefore it is. pecu liarly proper to put on new clothes. The Prier, Governor is said to have had in view only the great dis tress prevailing in the kingdom. It is a remarkable regulation which allows Jewish vagabonds and other suspicious persons to continue to wear the Jewish cos tumes, so that Galicean Jews, if they come into the t kingdom, must lay aside the Jewish dress. O r d ers are said to be given to treat Poles, who are brought in pri soners, with greater mildness; and we hear no more of, any executions. The Emperor is said t o h ave made I himself very popular on his late visit to Warsaw, by visiting the exhibitions and other places in plain clothes and without any attendants. ST. PETERSBURG. JUNE 30.—His Royal highness the Crown Prince of Wurteraburg arrived the evening be fore yesterday in Peterhof on, board the R uss i an steamer Kamtschatka, which was sent to Lubeck to meet him. The Imperial family have resided constantly at Peter hof since their last visit to the capital. Nothing cer tain is known to the public respecting the celebration of the marriage. WARSAW, JUNE 26.—We must correct a statement which has lately been copied from the English journals into almost all the journals of the continent, and it was affirmed that the cholera was so extensive and fatal in Posen, that a third part of the population of Medschid had been carried off by it. Some truth there cer tainly is in this statement; but ii occurred not last year —but in the year 1832. POSEN, JUNE 29.—A strange report is in circulation here, which is spread with an appearance of design. It is stated " that the Emperor Nicholas means to resign in favour of his son, and to take on himself the govern ment of Poland, which shall be bounded by the Oder and the Bug. The strangest thing however is, that this, fable is believed. HAMBURGH, JULY 10.—The number of ships tha passed the Sound in January, 1846, was:— From the North Sea From the Baltic 739 1,406 Total 2,145 Of these the English were:— From the North Sea 179 From the Baltic Total —llamburgh Papers, July 10 481 DISEMBARKATION OF THE TROOPS FROM THE BAS OF IsLANDs.—On Tuesday afternoon, the divisions of the 58th and 99th Regiments disembarked from the ships of war on their return from the Bay of Islands. The 58th Regi ment, after nine months absence from here, bore strong marks of the service they had undergone. After they had quitted the boats, they were formed under the direction of that ac tive brave officer, Adjutant M'Lerie; and in excellent spirits, headed by their gallant Colonel Wynyard, marched to the cheering airs of their excellent band, to the new barracks. The 29th followed soon after. The Lloyds is daily expected from Sydney, with a further detachment of the 99th, con sisting of 100 men, under the command of Major Last, Cap tain Armstrong, and Lieutenant De Winton.—The New Zealander. DREADFUL SUICIDE BY A LAW WHITER.-011 Satur day, Mr. Wm. Baker, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Bridge Hou..,e Tavern, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of Mr. Henry Arrowsmith, aged 27, a law-writer, of 17, Can ning -terrace, in that neighbourhood, who destroyed himself by discharging a loaded pistol through his heart. George Arrowsmith, brother of the deceased, said that on Wednes day afternoon, whilst he was sitting in the front parlour, his attention was suddenly arrested by hearing a discharge of fire-arms. Knowing that the deceased was in an adjoining room, he called to him, but not receiving an answer, he pro ceeded to the room, where he found his brother lying en the bed in a pool of blood, and a pistol firmly graspe d i n Li s hand. He was then alive, but unable to sp ea k. D ur i ng his mind. Verdict, upwards employment the last two or three years he had suffered much f rom a ner ovf two on s affection, ffe cti o months,n, and which he had bad y e been pre o d u tof upon Temporary Insanity. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT TO MISS SPANILIE.--SORday night, soon after eleven o'clock, much alarm was occasioned in the vicinity of Russell-square by the sudden appearance of fire in the residence of Mrs. Spankie, widow of the late Mr. Sergeant Spankie. It appears that Miss Spankie, in ascending the staircase, for the purpose of going to bed, set fire to her dress, in consequence of a lighted candle having been left by one of the servants on the middle landing. The young lady shouted " Fire 1" and then .ran into the draw ing-room, the flames at the time mounting over her head. In passing round the room the muslin window-curtains also became ignited, and for some time it was feared that the building would have been destroyed. The butler promptly rushed into the apartment, threw his young mistress down, and rolled her in the hearth rug, fortunately extinguishing the fire. It is needless to state that Miss Spankie was severely burnt. She was put to bed, and a medical gentle man sent for. The fire in the drawing-room was extinguished by the servants. DANGEROUS BUILDING IN WYCII - STREET.—The o f icial referees under the Metropolitan Building Act, having received notice that the house No.. 17, Wych-street, Strand, was in a dangerous and ruinons-condition, proceeded under the 40th, 41st, and 42d section of the above Act. The cer tificate of the district surveyor fully bearing out the informa tiOn, notice was given to the owner and occupier, that unless the building was secured within fourteen days, the overseers of the parish would proceed to pull down or shore up for the safety bf the public, all expense to be borne by theileale of the material of the house. This was the first Casa-tinder these sections. _ REPEAL OE THE CORN LAws.7T-In-spite of tIA repeal of the corn-laws, the:estates of the late Philip Dykes, Esq., at Roydon and Bressingham, were sold by auction at Dias. on Friday last by Mr. Rix, at thirty-four years' purchase, on full annual rental.—Su f folk Chronicle. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE ON THE GREAT FRENCH NORTHERN RAIL ROAD. We lay before our readers the following details of this me lancholy affair, as published in the Paris journals of Friday capital up to post hour on Saturday. and and Saturday, was fo found d n which ece s had sar y become t o borrow " known fromi in Valenciennes the French following on the autho rity of a person who was at the scene of the accid en t, an d gathered his information from persons who wit nesse d it : "The train consisted of twenty-four carriages, a n d was drawn by two locomotives. At five minutes past three the train was in front of the village of Fampoux and near R ceux , where there is an embankment near a deep l a ke over a p ea t bog,. At this point the rails were either di s join e d o r dis placed, or broken. The first locomotive, how ev e r , go t over them, but the second entered the sand witho u t go i ng com pletely off the rails. The violence of the shock, f rom this sudden stoppage, was such that the chain w hi c h un i te d t h e carriages to each other was snapped like glass, not p r ecisely close to the locomotive, but at the fifth or sixth carriage. The carriages thus detached were thrown into the m ars h. T h e first was literally broken to pieces, others we r e upset and submerged. Yesterday there were nine carriages lying on the embankment where they had stopped after the first im pulsion had ceased. Nobody can know exactly th e num b er of passengers killed or drowned. The water is very d ee p a t this spot. The company admits that 11 dead bodies have b een removed. The person from whom we had our inform a ti on , heard on the spot, • that up to ye s t er d ay it was ascerta i ned that there were 17. killed. Th e Lib era l o f D oua i states the number to be 2 0 . As to the number of wound e d, one account gives 15. At Douai and Arras, how ever , it was said that 50 persons had been wounded, whi c h is not impossible, as 15 carriages ran off the mile, and we may Suppose that most of the passengers in them received more Or less injury. It is impossible to conceive the alarm and anxiety that were felt at the different stations towards Bel gium at the non-arrival of the train. The delay was th e subject of general conversation of the crowd who lied assem bled at the stations. When p the report of the accid e n t h a d pread there was a concert of imprecations against the coin any. It was said that they were not provided with ma t er i e l, that their personnel was without experience, and that th e ( whole service had been carried on in a shameful ma nner t was added that in many parts of the line it wa s eas y to ee that the earth had sunk, and the dire c t o rs w ere bitt e rly eproached for having opened the line with ou t h av i ng t a k e n proper precautions for the safety of the p u blic. S o g r eat, indeed, was the indignation, that it was f oun d necessary to rder the troops at Arras, Douai, and V a lenciennes, to enter he different stations to prevent ser i ous disturb anc e. Car riages had been sent for to D oua i, b u t there wer e none there, those belonging to Bel g i um . Whe n it was known that li nen , e l ?e n r o , t i o a n nd ti s e u z a ie m s i c e a. 1 g i e n n s e t r r a u l m e n G t s e n h e r a a d also b lOudinot t n a s n e d n t hisfo r, ttie wife were in the train, but quite at the end, iil their private car riage, and they experienced no injury. It is said that one of their men servants was precipitated into the water, and saved himself by swimming, M. Lestiboudois, the Deputy for Lille, was in one of the submerged waggons, but he saver, himself by swimming, and had only his wrist put out of joint." The Epoque states, from information received on Thurs day, that the number of persons killed was sixteen. The Gazette des Tribunaux gives the following account of the accident : " At a quarter past two the train had passed Arras, and was approaching the station at Rceux. At this place the road is over an embankment about seven metres (22 feet English) in height, and is in the midst of the peat grounds which abound in this part of the country. On each side of the road are deep marshes, full of stagnant water. The loco motives, followed by their tenders and waggons, passed 'freely over, but all at once a sudden shifting of the rail thresse'sthe baggage waggon off the line. The first carriage was upset, and remained suspended over the bank; the other carriages struck against it, and were falling 'one after the other into the water, but one of the chains that connected the carriages broke, and the remainder of the train remained on the road. Some of the waggons thrown off the road disappeared in the water; others that were upset nearer the bank were half in the water with their wheels in the air. Amongst the passengers who escaped, all who were not paralysed with fright hastened to the assistance of the persons who had fallen into the water. Admirable traits of courage and devotedness are recounted. M. Lestiboudois, the Deputy! for Lille, who was in one of the last carriages of the train, plunged into the water six times at the peril of his lite, and brought out one of the passengers who was on the point of perishing. A man in the service of the company, named Carre, at the sight of the danger jumped into the water and swam away to avoid the carriages, which were falling into it; but en hearing the cries of the sufferers lie returned, and plunging several times saved five lives. The number of persons killed or drowned is not yet known, but we are assured that three of the rail road carriages, and a messageries diligence called Les Picardes, had completely disappeared in the water." The Debuts says :—" The private carriages of the Princess de Ligne, wife of the Belgian Ambassador, of Madame la Marechalle Lauristan, and of General Oudinot, which were immediately behind the locomotives, were completely pre served. The water on the peat ground, where the carriages were thrown over, is several feet in depth, and this caused the death of some persons by drowning. The Minister of Public Works immediately sent off to Fampoux M. Frissard, inspector of ponte-et-chaussees, and charged with the direc tion of the Northern Railroad." The Patric of Friday evening states that the number of carriages forced off the rail by the shock was thirteen, and that eight of them and a luggage waggon wore precipated into the water, which is of considerable depth at this spot, the extraction of the peat having been carried down very low. "At the date of the last account (says this journal) the Laffitte diligence was still at the bottom with its passen gers. The numb er of dead known was fourteen—viz., the Aide de-camp of General Oudinot, Madame Demeldes, of Armen tieres; Marie Flamand, ot Bouchain ; Mademoiselle Leguay, of Fampoux ; Dr. Lecomte, of Isselle ; Bourgeois and De guen, soldiers; Tabery and Picard, two boys, one taken up at Arras, the other at Creil ; a person named Lefevre, of Roceincourt ; a nun and a child, whose names are unknown, and two persons whose bodies had been seen in the water, but had not been taken out." In a subsequent article the Palm says that it is assured by a person who was in the train, that the number of killed exceeds thirty-five, amongst whom were two of the conductors. A correspondent writes :—" The Procureur-General and the First President of the Cour Royale of Douai proceeded on Thursday to the scene of the accident, and commenced a rigid investigation into the circumstances. The portion ot the road having been made by the state, the only just complaint that can be brought against the railroad company, is for not having examined with greater care an embankment made over ground of such little solidity." In an account given by the Independance of Brussels of Thursday, we read : " More than three hours elapsed before assistance arrived. The peasants of the environs locked on with astonishment, and the wounded passengers could hardly obtain water to wash their wounds. A sad scene presented itself to the spec tators. Young females who lead been in their holiday dresses were taken out bleeding and covered with mud. Some victims had their heads separated from their bodies ; p n l f a es c s e''' to his wife that he was others, with broken limbs, were lying by the sides of the road. An aide-de-camp of General Oudinot was on the edge of the pond, his loins and three ribs br o ken, an d p ra ying for death. An Englishman, who was travelling with his family, but notwithstanding his s h u a ff d er a i n n g a s ri e b r l o w k o e u n l d i n n t o h t re c e o wounded. At the end of the train were nine private car riages, in which were the Princess de Ligne and her four children, the two daughters of the Polish General Skrzvnecki, in the Belgian service, and a Russian lady. The three last immediately opened their trunks and placed all their linen at th , service of the wounded, at the same time giving to them their personal aid." The Northern Railroad Company have published the fol lowing report from the sub-inspector who accompanied the train, dated Fampoux, July 10, five ..e..m.:— " As you have seen, by my short letter of yesterday, the train ran off the rails on the Bth, at five minutes past three, at a distance of eight kilometres (two leagues) from Arras, when going at a very moderate rate, as acknowledged by several passengers, whose names I have. 0f23 carriages, 13 were precipitated into a deep peat pit, having eight feet of I water. Although the first locomotive did not go off the ; rail, and the second so little that the fourgon (baggage' waggon) No. 1,002, which followed, remained on the rails, f the running off commenced with the two next carriages.' These two waggons were first detached from th e t ra i n , an d fell into flee water, where they now lie crushed by the three I diligences which followed them. The we ight o f these dili- I gences seems to have dragged the other carriages off the rails. There are, therefore, piled up, and wholly or partially de stroyed, eight carriages: The fifteen carriages at the tail of the train, and the fourgon at the head after the locomotives, escaped the accident. We have now to deplore thirteen known deaths. The following are the names that we have, been able to obtain. (Here the report gives the same list as the Patrie, omitting the aide-de-camp of General. Oudinot) : —Wounded Madame Picard, of Montalaire, the shoulder broken, and severe contusions on the head;' Madame Braine, wife of a notary at Arras, contusions; the Aide-de-camp of General Oudillon (since deed). M.. Deguay, chef d'escadron, seriously wounded; an Englishman' and his wife, at the Mite! de Flandre, at Douai, the husband in the arm, the wife contusions ; M. Grapinet, a lace-dealer r of Paris; another Englishman, at the Hotel de Flandre, at Douai. The Cour Royale of Douai has taken up the affair. An examining counseller and M. liesche have interrogated me; he is partly convinced, as far as we can judge, that the company is perfectly innocent of this unhappy event. In addition to the two conductors killed, we have no person in the employment injured. The rest behaved perfectly well, and one of them named Hoeg, saved eight persons by swim ming. I have also to praise the excellent cooperation of M. Haillot. We had in this unfortunate train the PrincesS de Ligne and her four children; the Marquise de L aur i s t an; Marshal Salagne (Portuguese); M. Lestiboudois, D e p u t y; and General Oudinot, miraculously saved, for hi s carr i age was crushed under the diligence, and his aid-d e - camp has duce died of his wounds. We do net appear to have had more than four or five persons severely. wounded. Eighteen carriages have been already dispatched to Arras and Douai ; these have not suffered, but the others are in a deplorable , state." °'` a .„ Another report to the company, from Douai, dated July 10, says : "The accident which has just occurred is, in fact, exceed ing grave, though not so much so as we feared from what we heard on th e wa y. Th e t r ain went off the rails at Fam pnux, near th e s t a ti on o f R emi se. The second waggon went off the rails, no one knows why; the others, to the mem b er of 13 or 14, followed it, and fell down a high embankment into the bed of an old peat bog, where there were ten feet of water. The others remained above. The chain of the second waggon which had gone off the rails, no doubt in the rail ; the first r em a i ne d on the way. There have b een _ . breaking, slightly drew the second locomotive of the train off 14 victims, two of whom are conductors; nine persons whose names are known; two whom it has been impossible as yet to extricate from the interior of a diligence; Guerin, and a child since dead from its hurts. Th e greater number were drowned in a carriage which was submerged. Some were crushed, and amongst the rest a conductor who had been at Massagran. The other passengers escaped by breaking the glass of the doors. A great number were so much disturbed in mind that they got out on the bog side, but the most of them saved themselves or were saved by others. A conduc tor named Hocq saved seven or eight persons. The men in tile employment of the company disp la yed much in telligence. M. Haillot and M. H ove lt directed everythi ng; the latter did not quit his train. The circulation has not been interrupted. The Cour Royale of Douai has taken the matter up, and since yesterday persons have been employed in inquiring judicially into the matter. The magistrates who have commenced the investigation have as yet dis covered nothing to involve the responsibility of the company. M. Buache and Barrault are on the spot directing the work men with the greatest zeal ; they cannot say anything as to the cause of the accident."—(The other reports relate the same facts). A Douai journal states that M. de Lagrenee, who returned lately from his embassy in China, was in the train, but escaped injury. Th e P r i ncess Czartorisky is also said to have been a passenger. The Courrier Francais, of Friday, in a stop press, dated one in the morning, Liyes an account another accident on this'ioid, and at the ulna spot, Thurs. day. It says : , _ ' We stop the press to communicate to the public the fol - lowing facts, the full authenticity of which we guarantee Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two, the train from Brussels, which left at half-past seven, arrived without making the usual signals at the veryi spot where the catas trophe of Wednesday took place. The rails over which it had to pass were encumbered with cranes that had been used to take the remains of the waggons out of the water. The train being at full speed broke these cranes, and the pieces struck the soldiers and workmen who were on the bank with such violence, that sixteen of them were more or less wounded. One had his thigh broken. Afriend of ours, who came from Brussels by this train, saw him carried away." The following has since been sent round to the journals by the company : " The representative of the board of directors, who arrive.] last night by the nine o'clock train, has confirmed the details transmitted in the morning to the company. The number of dead is 14, and that of the wounded 10, two of whom griev ously. The death of an aide•de-camp of General Oudinot was erroneously stated. (His wounds are, however, exceed ingly severe.) The passengers of the train which went off the rails speak in high terms of the devotedness of the men belonging to the company. The board of directors is pleased to publicly render homage to the conduct of these men. It has raised to the grade of inspector of the first class M. Howell, sub-inspector, who after having been himself precipitated into the water, and obliged to escape by swim ming, had sufficient coolness to organise all the help de manded by the circumstances, and did not quit his train before all the carriages were raised up. The conductor, Hocq, who saved eight persons, has been named chef de convoi. M. Haillot, head of the service at Douai, and M. tuber, in a similar situation at Arras, manifested the greatest intelligence in these sad circumstances. Two of the engineers of the company are on the spot to examine into, conjointly with the engineers of the Government, the causes of the accident." THE GREAT INCETNDIARY FIRE AT SOFIAM. CAMBRIDGE, SUNDAY NIGHT.—In compliance with a previous arrangement, the magistrates of Soham, the Rev. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Dobede, were engaged the whole of yesterday (Saturday), at the Crown Inn, in in vestigating certain charg s preferred azainst Mr. Corne lius Harvey - , a wealthy farmer, and his nephew, James Harvey, as being felon;omly concerned in the origin of the recent great fire in that village. It will he recollect, that the prisoners underwent a brief examination on the klav after the fire, and were romanded to the county gaol t Cambridge until yesterday. when they were brought up in custody of Mr. Orridge, the governor. The elder prisoner's apprehension appeared to 'nave ',resulted from a volu'itary statement made by him. I Having been noticed by a private watchman a few mi nutes before the outbreak walking from the spot where !the flames were first seen to rise (ifr. Pachey's farm), he iwas interrogated on the subject. He admitted being the (individual ; that he had been watching about the neigh bourhood the greater part of the night ; that when he went home he went to bed, but did not pull off his clothes. The reason he gave why he did so was that he was fearful something would happen, and on being further questioned why he watched that particular spot, : replied that he expected a fire would break out; but gave :no satisfactory account why he entertained such a sup iposition. These and other suspicious circumstances being reported to the magistrates, his arrest was ordered; and, in addition to the watchman's statement, other witnesses spoke positively of having seen him walking up and down a bye lane at the back of Mr. Pachey's farm, and every now and then peeping through the hedge in the direction of the spot where the fire broke out. It was attempted to be shown that the prisoner had been watching his own property, that it bad been his practice to be on the watch for se veral weeks past ; but on the night in question the wit nesses declared that he was watching some distance from his farm. He was viewing the premises of Messrs. Pa chey and Staples. As regards the younger prisoner he had insured his stock in trade in the Suffolk Fire Insurance Office for 3501. The fire did not originate on his pre mises, but in one of the barns of Mr. Pachey, that stood within a few feet of his stores or warehouse, which sub sequently caught. When broken open by the inhabi tants very trifling property was found in the place. The 'day after the fire he was met by an assistant agent of the company he was insured in, who, seeing that he had hurt his hand, asked him how it happened. He answered that it was done during the fire, in attempting to save his goods. The agent inquired of him if any had been saved, to which he made answer, "Nothing whatever, that he had lost twice as many as he was insured for." In the latter part of the day the prisoner made his claim of the amount of his loss to the agent, upon which he wa: given into custody on a charge of attempting to defraud the company, Froof having been adduced to show that he had, prior to the fire, removed the chief bulk of his stock, &c., to various parts of the town. With a view of showing that the prisoners had acted in concert, it was nroved that the elder prisoner had advanced his nephew 300/. to set him up in business, and attempts were made to show that the uncle urged its payment, and had connived to obtain the amount of in surance on the nephew's goods, but a witness swore po sitively that the sum was given as a gift, to start the nephew in business. Another one was called who had acted to vales the salvage of the nephew's property, and in the course of his surveys the prisoner begged that he would do all he could for him, for it he could not get the money for his insurance, he could net pay his uncle the 3001. he had lent him. The nephew lived in the uncle's house. But it did not appear in evidence that he was was seen in the neighbourhood at its outbreak, although on the alarm being raised he was immediately on the spot dressed. At the close of the evidence the magistrates retired to a private room, and, after nearly an hour's concultarion, returned, when the chairman, addressing the prisoners, said, they considered the evidence fully warranted them in committing them both to take their trial at the ensuing assizes. RAILWAY SH. IRE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, JULY 11. - - STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos ton, and Eastern Junction, 1% die. - -Derby and Crewe, 4!f, p.— East Lancashire, 4 p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, Ip. —Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 5-16 dis.—Leicester and Bedford, % dis.— Liverpool, Ormskirk, And Preston, 1% p.—London ~nd York, 1-16 dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 9 3-16 p.—Man • chester and Leeds Extension, 2SA p.—North Staffordshire, 3 9.16 p. --Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 16s. dis.—Freston and Wyre, Halves (A), 2% p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1, 5 p.—Ditto, Halves, No. 4, 7-16 p. —West Lancashire Coast, 18s 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 21A p LEEDS, JULY 11. STOCK EXCKANGE.-Th« , Share Markets continue better, and pros pects are favourable for further improvement. Higher prices have been realised during the week for New Midlands, London and Bir minghams, Bradfords, East Lancashires, Eastern Counties (York Extensions), Great Westerns, Birmingham and Oxfords, Matlocks, New Darlingtons, Berwicks, North British, North British (Carlisles), and York and North Midland (East and West Ridings). London and Yorks are fiat, and considerable disinclination is expressed to incur the responsibility of registering tmse shares. There can be no doubt the difficulty in raising so large an amount of money as the London and York requires, will be • very considerable. The Manchester and Southampton Company, after a warm contest in committee since the 25th of May last, have succeeded in proving their preaml le. Black walls are inquired for at advanced rates, in consequence, it is said, of some project being afloat between them and the London and Ilir mingliam company, It is expected that Government will propose a Bill to fix the period for making the first call on any railway passed this session, and limiting the further calls so as not to be made more quickly than at a eel tam per centage per annum. This, of course, is but rumour; it is, however, generally believed in well-informed circles, and would, In our opinion, do much good Local shares arc firm to-day, and prices close at, say Bradfords, 38',4 p. ; Leeds and Dewsbury s, 2y, p. ; Iluddersfields and Sheffields, 6p. ; and Rudders fields and Manchesters, I dis. Foreign shares are dull. The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p - Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6 p.-Leeds and Brad ford, 354 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 2 1 4 p. -Manchester and Leeds, Extensions, 2 1 ,4 p.-North British, Half Shares, 3 p.-Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 15s. 6d. p.- Clitheroe Junction, 19s. dis.-East and West Yorkshire, 21s. dis.-Grand Union, 16s. 3d. dis.- Great Eastern and Western, 14 dis.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 2% dis.-Lincoln,' York, and Leeds, 21s. Gd. dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 235. p. - Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 17s. p.-North Staffordshire, 3/. 1 Is. p.-North Western, Is. dis.- South Midland, 14s. dis.-Welsh Midlands, 1% dis.-West Riding Union, 4/. 65.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 375. 6d. dis. HULL, JULY 11. STOCK EXCKANGE.—The sales are—North British, Carlisle, 41s. 6a.—Leicester and Bedford, 25s.—London and York, 2 1 %—Mallon and Driffield Junction, 48 s. —Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 21. 19s. 6d.—North Western, 225.—North Staffordshire, 51. 14s.—Shrews bury and Birmingham, 24—West Riding Union, 4/. Gs. 6d.—York shire and Glasgow Union, 12s. SHEFFIELD, JULY 11. SToca EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 4% p. —Grimsby and Sheffield, 4 3 /, dis.— Ditto Ex tension, 283. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18s. 6d. dis.—Ditto. Rail way and Dock, 2% dis.— Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 8 p. Isle of Axboline and Goole, 1 4 dis.—London and York, 1% dis.—i Leicester and Bedford, dis.—Manchester, Midland, and Greati Grimsby, 20s. 6d. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 17s. 6d. p.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 225. dis. Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7s. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 1% dis.--2 Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, P2s. dis, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—TIie sales are—Lancashire and North York shire, 225. dls.—Liverpool, Ormsk 'rk, and Preston, IN p.—Manclies4 ter, Buxton, and :Matlock, 1 p.--Newcastle and Berwick, 104 p.--t Northumberland and Lancashire, lls. dis.— Welsh Midland, 1% diet —York and Carlisle, I%—York and Selby, Extension, 20 p.—Ditto East and West Riding, 12%. YORK, JULY 1 1 . STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), Ils.—Great North of England,New, 58y, —lpswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), I/. lts.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, I —Leicester and Bedford, I6s.—Leicester, Tamwor h, &c., 1/. 2s.— London•and York, li. Gs. 6d.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2%—Newcastle and Darlington, New, 10% —North Jlri• tisb, Carlisle Extension, 21. Gs.—North Staffordshire, 5.74 —Northum. berland and Lancashire Junction, 11. 73.—South Midland, 13{,—.. York and North Midland, East and West Riding Extension, 13/. Gs. 3d. EDINBURGH, JULY 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 91.--Aberdeen Banff, and Elgin, 1/.55. 6d.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 31.45.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. IN.-Armagh and Portrush, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. Bs. 6d.-Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir, 2/. 45.-Banffshire, 175.-Belfast and County Down, IL 155.-British and Irish Union, 21. Is. W.-Caledonian, 14/.-Ditto, New, IL-Caledonian Extension, 11. 125.-Caledonian and Dumbarr. ton, 1!. 45.--Caledonian and Northern Direct, 1/ IN.-Chelmsford and Bury, 12e. W.-Clydesdale Junction, 17/.- Cornwall and Devon Central, I!. 95. 6d.-Deeside Railway, 31.-Direct Northern, 11 ss. -Dublin and Enniskillen, 2/. 105.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/.- Ditto, New, 21!. N.-Dundee and Perth, 221.-Ditto, Kinross Exten sion, 2/. 65.-Eastern Counties Extension, 2/. 2s. &1.-East Indian Railway, 9s. 9d.-East of Fife, 11. Is.-East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 1/. 75.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. 1 Is.- Edinburgh- and Glasgow, 741.-Ditto, Half Shares, 17/. - Ditto, Quarters, 181.- Ditto, ditto, New, 181.-Edinburgh and Leith At mospheric, 165.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 15/. 10s.-Ditto, Preferente, 19/.-Edinbareh and Northern, 5/. 158.-Ditto, Newport, Bs.- Edinburgh and l'eebles, 11. 12s. - Edinburgh and Perth, 11, I 2s.- Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh. 1/. 95.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 11; I'3s.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 75/. -Ditto,.New Stock, 321. 10s.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18/. 105.-Glasgow and Bel fast Union, 2/. 65.-Glasgow, Dumfries. and Carlisle, 11. 15L-Glas gow and Dundee Junction, 11. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk - , 401 10s.-Glasgow General Terminus, 8/. 12s. 6d.- -Glasgow and Greenock, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 81. 15s.- Ditto, Preference, 1/. 15s. -Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 11.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 1/. 7s. 61-Glasgow, Kilmarnock. and Ardrossan, I/. 15s. 6d. -Glas gow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 2/. 18s.-Granton Junption, 105. -Great County Down, it. 12s. 6d.-Great ITArth of Scotland, L. -Inverness and Elgin, 1/. Is. 6d. -Lanark and Lothians, 21. 4s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 65.-London; Bristol, and South Wales, 11. 3s. 6d.-London and Hounslow, 155.-London and Manchester (Rust.), 3/. 145.-London and Manchester (Remington's), 155.-London and York, 1/. 10s. -Ditto Hall Shares, 21.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 175.-Morayshire, 11.-Newcastie and Ber wick, 261. 55.-Newry and Londonderry - , 14s. Gd.- North British, 30!. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 11/. 155.- Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 2/. 3s. 6d.--Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 61. 10s. -North Staffordshire, 6/. 2s. 6d.-North Wales Mineral, 141 10s.-Ditto, New, 6/. 10s.- Perth and Inverness, 1/. 125. 9d.-Scottish Central, 191.-Ditto, New, 71. OIL-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, It. IN - Scottish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71. -Scottish southern, 11. 175. -Shrewsbury and Herefo rd , 7 5. -. Shrewsbury, 03westry, and Chester, v.-South Midland, 11. 69. 6d.-Sti r li ng and Dunfermline, it. 12s. 6d. -Stirling and Midland, 21. 7s. 6d.-Strath earn Junction, 1/. 108.-Wishaw and Coltness, 47!. 10s. GRATIFYING FACT.—We are glad to announce that at the annual meeting of the mast er carpet - manufacturers, held in Y York on the 2d instant, it was . resolvtql iinsWei- to the request of a deputation of workmen from Durham, Kendal, and Yorkshire), to give an advance of ten per cent. on the weaving of Scotch carpeting. To commence on the Ist of August next. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. Yesterday, a young man, named Robson Harrison, was brought before Alderman Farebrother; charged with having obtained under false pretences a quantity of sherry wine, of the value of 871. 1 ls. 9d., from Jonathan Cooper, of Stephen's road, Bighbury, clerk to Messrs. Corrie, colonial brokers in the city. The prisoner was a person of fashionable appearance. Mr. Cooper stated that he carried on the wine busi ness on his own account ; end that, on the 31st of April, the prisoner was introduced to him as a gentleman who wished to deal with him for wine. The place of intrc duction was the corner of Mark-lane, when the prisoner pointed at a person, whom he called Mr. Clementson, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange which he had, and a respectable man, capable of paying the amount immedi ately. Witness consented upon the representation to take the bill, and to hand over the wine warrants for some sherries lying in dock to the amount bargained for. The bill was drawn by the prisoner, and purpirted to be accepted by Mr. Clementson, and made payable at Bar clay's banking-house, but it was found that the acceptor had no money at that establishment, and that the whole business was a swindling affair: Alderman FAREBROTHER-- Did you make no in quiries before you party d with your wine warrants? Witness—No : I made inquiries the day after I parted with them.—(Laughter.) He told me the acceptor was a highly respectable man, and I thought so too. Alderman FA REBR , THER—And y ou to o k his word ? Witness—l did. Next day I made inquiry, and found that it was all wrong. I found that there had been some days a distress in the house, and that a man had been actu.elly in possession for fifteen days. Alderman FAREBROTHER—And you took the bill upon the statement of the prisoner, who was unknown to you, that the acce.ptor was a respectable man? Witness—l did. Mr. Goodman (the chief-clerk at the Mansion House) —And how can you expcct that the law will protect a man who does not exercise the necessary caution ? \Von ss—l had no suspicion until the next day. llere the solicitor for the pr•secution stated that his client was extremely inexperienced in matters in which bills were concerned. Alderman FARERROTHER—Was Mr. Clementson pre sent when the prisoner spoke of him as the acceptor. Witness—He was Alderman FAREROTHER—Did he say anything ? Witness—Nothing at all. He was present when the prisoner vas introduced to him as a buyer of port and sherry wines. Alderman FAREBROTHER—Perhaps the bill will be paid.—(A laugh.) Witness—lt has been presented and dishonoured, the acceptor having no account at Bar clay's. In answer to questions put by the solicitor to the pri soner, the witness stated that the transaction spoken of was the only transaction which had taken place between him and the prisoner. It was on the 22d or 23d of April he took the bill from the prisoner. The prisoner —I am the drawer of the bill, and it is a bona fide transaction. The Solieit4 , r to the prisoner —I assure you, sir, there is nothing like a fraud in this business. Alderman FAREBROTHER—WeII, you had better take up the bill if that be the case. The Attorney for the prisoner—Why, the complainant and my client have been on terms of intimacy since the transaction. • The prosecutor denird that he had any further ac quaintance than arose out of the transaction about the warrants with the nr'soner. The prisoner—His wine, which was passed upon me for sherry, was nothing but aniseed and water, and nrt worth 201., although the price was 841. It was totally worthless. I can bring forward a witness to prove that it was bad. Alderman FAREBROTHER said, he can bring forward twenty witnesses to prove that your bill was bad. The policeman, in whose custody the prisoner was brought up, said he had no doubt of being able, in a day or two, to complete the evidence. he.prisoner repeated that the transaction was a re gular one. - Alderman FAREBROTHER—It appears to me to bear strong marks of a conspiracy to defraud this young man, who is evidently without experience in bill transactions. The prisoner—l have made an offer to settle it. Alderman FAREBROTHER—I know of no way of set tlement except that by payment of the bill ; and I shal hold the prisoner to bail to appeare here on Thursday himself in 200 L, and two sureties in 1001. each.-11& manded till Thursday next. COMPLETION OF THE WALPOLE MEMOIRS.—Horace Walpole's " Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second," edited by the late Lord Holland, are announced by Mr. Col burn for immediate publication, for the first time in the octavo form, in three volumes, with portraits, uniform with the " Memoirs of the Reign of George III.," edited by Sir Denis Le Merchant. The manuscript of these " Memoirs of the Reign of George II." was found at Strawberry Hill, on the death of Horace Walpole, along with that of the " Me moirs of the Reign of George III.," lately published by Sir Denis Le Merchant, in two chests, relative to which the author left written directions that they were not to be opened till a considerable period after his decease. That time hav ing arrived, the seals were removed, and the nobleman to whom toe memoirs had beeri bequeathed (the Earl of %Val degr,ve) decided on giving them to the public; and that they might possess every possible advantage, it was arranged that they should appear under the editorial auspices of the late Lord Holland, whose intimate acquaintance with the period illustrated, family connexion with the most celebrated individuals of the time, exalted character, and distinguished scholarship, appeared to point him out as above all men pe culiarly fitted for the task of preparing them for the press. Posr-OFFICE NOTICE. DEPARTURE OF THE FO REIGN MAILS.— On Saturday the following notice was issued, affixed to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand :—Gibrahar, Malta, the Mediterranean, Greece, the lonian Isles, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via South ampton, on the 20th instant The Overland (closed) Mail, via Marseilles, for the ...editerranean, India, and China, will be dispatched hence on the evening of the 24th instant. The Peninsular Mail, for Madeira, Lisbon, Vigo, Oporto, Portugal, Cadiz, Corunna, Madrid, Spain, and Gibraltar, on the morning of the 17th instant; next mail due by the Queen on the 16th instant. The West Indies—The Royal Mail steamer Thames, with the mails of the 17th instant, for the British and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras and Havannah), Madeira, Venezuela, Bermuda, New Grenada, San Juan de Nicaragua; next mail due from West Indies on the 22d instant, from Venezuela, &c., on the 7th of August. North America— The Hibernia, with the mail of the morning of the 18th instant for British North America, Bermuda, and the United States; the next mail due by the Caledonia on the 15th instant. Sydney and New South Wales, South Australia, and New Zealand—The next mail on the evening of the 31st instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres— The next mail dispatched 4th of August; the next mail due by the Express, August 28 (from August to January, in clusive, the packet touches at Bahia and Pernambuco, on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro, the remaining six months on her homeward). Holland—Next mail on the 15th inst. Hamburgh—Next mail on the 14th instant. Rotterdam—A ship letter bag made up and dispatched by the Batavier on the 18th instant. An atrocious attempt was made one night last week to overthrow the train on the Bishop Auckland and Wear dale Railway between Bitchburn and Crook. Some villains had propped back the switches, which sent the engine off the line; but fortunately that was the extent of the accident. —Durham Advertiser. The Avenger steamer, Captain W. Williams, arrived on Thursday last at Portsmouth, from Cork, to fit for the re ception of his Highness Ibrahim Pacha and suite, who, it is understood, are to be conveyed to Alexandria in that vessel. She will go in harbour to have extra cabins erected, and is ordered to get ready next week. FLIGHT OF PIGEON'S FROM DULL TO ANTWERP. —On Saturday morning last the fancy of numerous amateurs of that useful bird, the carrier pigeon, was gratified in the highest degree by the beautiful flight of no less than ii 7 ot those feathered messengers from the deck of the Monarch steamer at this port. The birds, which are the property o: several fanciers at Antwerp, were brought over in the Mo narch for the purpose of deciding by their return flight the distribution of certain prizes as arranged by the association o: proprietors. The birds were let out of the baskets, in which , they had been carefully tended, precisely at seven o'clock. and immediately rose nearlyperpendicularly to a considerable elevation, when, after taking their customary circuits o: observation, they went off in an apparent direction for their native soil. The Monarch, which proceeded soon afterwards fir Antwerp, returned yesterday (Thursday), and by the kindness of Captain Main we have been favoured with the following results of the aerial voa age. Thirteen of the birds reached Antwerp at two o'clock on the same day, having traversed a distance of from 280 to 300 miles in seven hours Twenty-seven reached the city at seven o'clock on Sunday morning, and the whole of the remainder arrived safe on the same afternoon. The extreme heat of the weather is sup. posed to have caused the stragglers to alight on reaching terra firma, or the probability is that all would have reacher; their respective cotes on Saturday. The principal prize was gained by M. Vanden Brook.— Hull Packet. SUPPOSED RAPE AND MURDER —On Sunday morn ing last, a girl about eighteen years of age, named Catherine llinclniarch, was found at the foot of the cliff called the Gill Banks, cal the river Wear, near Sunderland. She was in insensible state, and was removed to the Infirmary, where she lingered until Monday. It would appear that her person had been violated, and it is conjectured that she had after wards been thrown over the rock. A man employed - at the D-rwent Iron Works was seen last in her company at a late hour the previous night. An inque-t was held on the body during Friday and Saturday, and a great deal of evidence was gone into; but notwithstanding the grounds for sus picion, the crime could not be traced with certainty to any particular party. Th e j ury f oun d a ve rdict of " Wilful mur der against some person or persons unknown." FATAL PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER —On Saturday Mr. Bedford held an i nques t a t St. George's Hospital, on th e b ody of Jam es B ennett , age d 50, a labourer, living at F u l h7m. Sarah Bennett, wife of deceased. stated, that at eight o'clock oa the morning of the 17th ult. she was called by a police. man to her husband, who was then lying in a garden by the road side, in Crown-lane, Fulham ;he complained of a pain in the lower part of the stomach, and, on being taken home. he was seen by a surgeon, and removed to the hospital on the following day , when he said h e h a d received the injury from a man who was coming out of the Crown. He thought it would end in death, but seemed quite resigned. Jeremiah Plaster, labourer, was next examined. He knew a man named Gibbs, and had worked with him. Was present or. the i ight in question, and heard the deceased cry out, " He has kicked me." Gibbs was an experienced fighter, and had a peculiar kn ac k o f b utting with his head, which he' did re peatedly against the deceased's belly. Police-constable 89, of the V division. gave confirmatory evidence, and said that the man Gibbs had absconded, and nothing whatever could be heard of him. The jury at length returned a verdict of Man slaughter against John Gibbs. H , BBERY.—Liforination was given at Marlborough street, on Saturday, that John Jones, butler to General Grosvenor, 4-2, Grosvenor-street, had absconded from his situation; after having plundered his master of 951. in money, ar.d a quantity of jewellery; The police were informed of the rubbery, and succeeded in apprehending the offender in the Seven-dials. Mr. Hardwick, on being informed that the butler was in such a state of intoxication as not to be con scious of what be was about, directed the police to bring him up for examination another day. On Sunday a fire bur:4 out in the wood of Va 7 my, an eotitinu:ed burning until the next day. About eight hec • tares (about 20 acres) of timber were consumed. The fire is attributed to malevolence, as this is the second time that th wood of Vainly has been set on fire within a few months,— Galignani. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JULY 13.—Wind S.S.E., light breeze, and fine weather. DEAL, JULY 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 11th, Kitty, Benson,, Seas ; Justitia, Gronland, Ri o Janeiro, and sld. for Borga ; Bn' Hardie, Demerara; Trinidad Packet Nassau; Mary, Fresat Rico, and ed. for Bremen ; Trinity Yacht, Hounsell, West Sophia, Adicko, Baltimore; 12th, Queen Dowager, Robit, Dons, Boyson, St. Croix; Berkley, Turner, Jamaica; Greene, Dyet, St. Kitt's ; Sultan, Therney, Matanzas. the river for, 12th, Tanjore, Brown, Calcutta. Arrd. from and sid. for, Ilth, Louise, Elbcrg, Pernambuco ; Patriot , : HavannAh ; 12th, Henry, Walmsley, Launceston ; Oriental , St. John's, N, B.; Tuskar, Rabertson, do. - LIVERPOOL, JULY 11 AND 12.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. 11th, Macdowell, Shangline ; Grecian, Barbadoes; Great Western. New York; Wm. Crow, Mediterranean; 12th, Orleans. CL Eliza, Woolley, Valparaiso; Lama, Patagonia; Royal Bride , Hero, Sedgiey, Rio Janeiro; Windsor, Ceara; Rival, Nasl hassador, New York; Marquis of Bute, Salters, Savannah; Washington, Philadelphia ; Rochester, Britton, New York; Buchanan, Prince Edward's Island. Sid. 11th, Alice Brooke son, Hobart Town ; Santiago, Smith, Valparaiso ; York, C , OFF BRIGHTON, JULY B.—Edwin, Wales, Matanzas ; Kite, Mauritius. l'onTsmouni, JCLY 12.—Wind N.W. to W.—Arrd, Bunt) g, London, and sailed for New York ; Grace Darlinl Madeira. llth, Sid. Maidstone, Nash, Cape of Good Hoj cutta ; Pandora, Cunningham, Madeira; 12th, Ceres, Rimomki ; her Majesty's ship Dido, Plymouth; her Maj , Nautilus, eastward. 12th, Off, P es t on j ee B oman j ee, Austin, Town ; Earl of Hardwicke, Drew, Calcutta; Boletti, It, COWES, JULY 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. William Carey, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY Io.—Arrd. St. Andrew, Rich, • leaky, bound to St. Petersburgh. BuisTor., JULY 12,—Wind N.N.W.—And. Eliza, Smith, 11th, Sid. Three Brothers, Ray, Prince Edward's Island. MARKET N EWS.—(YESTERDIi• CORN EXCHANGE. During the past week the art ivals of all descriptions of home produce for our market has been on a very llml/ 4 whle, from :-cotland and Ireland, very little Corn has come From abroad, however, large quantities of Wheat, Oats, e n ' have been received in good condition. Fresh up to-day the of English Wheat coastwise, as well as by laid-carriage and were on a very moderate scale ; consequently, the stands We' means heavily filled with samples. Still, however (and I standing the attendance of buyers was somewhat numerous) , ' the pressure of free foreign Wheat on the market, and weather tor the growing crops, the demand for Wheat of hi duce was very heavy, at a decline in the quotations eh' Monday last of frnm is to 2s, in some instances 3s per /1 0 a clearance was not eff. cted. In free foreign Wheat, a , little business was transacted, yet we can notice no alit value. To sell, lower rates must have been submitted to. deratand that In parts of Devonshire, Hampshire. and Kent, Wheat cutting has been already co/ The best parcels of Barley supported previous quotations. kinds were slow of sale, at barely late rates. Fine dry quite as dear. In other kinds very few sales took place. own coasts, as well as from Scotland and Ireland, very feN, come to hand ; but we had a large show of Foreign. The rtfied dull, at previous quotations. For Beans there was - inquiry, at very full prices. Peas and Flour, as well as of Seeds, were dull, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE eut Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chev a li e r.... • • v"" Red, New.... 458 to 558 Oats—Yorkshire and ~ Ditto,White, Old.. 48s 62s Lincolnsh., Feed. : 0 " Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe —• • 30 4 coin, Red..... Ms 57s Youghal and Cork, .., Ditto, White.... • . 588 60s Black .••• • • • „7.4 Irish, Red.. —— • • —s —s Cork, White. •• • • : 44 Ditto, White —.. . - —s s Scotch, Feed. •• • • " -- 4 dye—Old •• • ... •. • ... 32s 33s Beans—Tick • • -.. 4 49 New... .... ••• • •• 31s 33s Pigeons . •• • . 3i4 Barley—Grinding ..... 25s 27s Pease—Grey. .... •• • . ; 34 Malting . ........ 29s 32s Maple....• ..... $4 . 3 I Chevalier —••:. • . 338 345 White ... —••• • •• 04 , Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .• • • ..... "19 „ 4 1 folk ............ 55s 595 Flour—Town-made .• • ~,, , Brown .•••• . • .. 518 52s Suffolk .... ...... *';',, 4 Kingston and Ware 62s 63s Stockta & Norfolk 4 v - FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND: oil Wheat—Dantzic...... 538 to sfis , Beans .• ..... .• ••• • • ;a9 Hamburgh ....... •488 508 t Pease ........ • "- 0 1 Barley - ....• • ....• 20s 24s ' Flour—American .• • • 09 Oats —New ... .. .•• . • . 24 s 25 s B a l t i c ......• •• • • , Feed ...... ••• • .. 19s 20s 0 1 SMITHFIELD. bros d V During the past week, the imports of live stock from 04- od, consisted of 200 Oxen and Cows, and 22 Calves from FO R n ifei gether with 16 Oxen from Hamburgh. To-day we had on '', Foreign Beasts, and 500 ditto of Sheep, some of which, e6 ',01 4 A , , A nine of the Hamburgh bea4.3, imp , rted by Mr. Alexander,., very prime quality. Still, h owever , t h e d eman d w' was in a very sluggish state, at about last week's 41 0S Fresh up from our own grazing districts the arrivals '" At were seasonably extensive, and i n ver y prime c y ,A*? Although the attendance of buyers was somewhat nuttle;o Beef trade was in a very depressed state, and the prices el! fot Monday last were with difficulty supported, th e hi g hest Piw,s ./f best Scots not exceeding 3s 10d per 81bs, a n d a t w hich ilZ;r o f 0. 5 was not effected. fhe northern droves consisted of about Lu„sigaAl horns, while front Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridg e :l? received 1,280 Scots, shorthorns, and homebred!' / , western and midland counties, 300 Herefords, runts, Yrj &c., and from other parts of England, 200 of variouLots The numbers of Sheep were again very extensive, while ve_ a oo them were beneath the middle quality. Prime old :D u o steadily at full prices, and all other kinds supported pro l° oB4l tions. Notwithstanding the supply of Lambs was large , . 4 0010 trade ruled steady, at last week' s currenc i es. Calves, the ',tot which was good, moved off steadily at late rates. In Fig nothing was doing. 'i Per Sibs. to sink the offal. 4' s. Or s. d. s. d• 3 6 i I 1 Inferior Beasts .. •• 2 4 2 6 Second qu a lity ditto to A / Second quality ditto. 2 8 3 0 Coars e - woo ll e d ditto 0 $ •/ Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 6 Southdown Nether' 4 l, Prime Scots •. ~ 3 8 310 Ditto out of the wool ~ 9 1 1 1 1 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ..... • ' 8 9 4 1 Prime small ditto .. 4 2 4 G Small Porkers • • -•, 0 9 Suckling Calves .• 18 0 29 0 Quarter old. Pigs '," 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 6 Lambs ...... •••• ' i d NEWGATE AND LEIADENH.II. I4I ")( 4 ? The arrivals of country-killed meat for our markets since last have been seasonably extensive and of fair averst e ett of Although the supplies slaughtered in the metropolis have l e d the general demand, if we except that for inferior Beef 7 _ i f . has ruled steady, and previous rates are well supPertT, se carcases of foreign Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, have been offer. I , At per stone, by the Carcase. d, to' 1 I i 8. d. to s. d. 0 . 4 i .l 0 Beef, inferior.....- 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior •• 6, 3 4 0 middling .. 2 6 2 8 ---- middling • • lO 4 prime large ••2 10 a 2 ---____ mu ne .... . 4 4 1 0 prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large .......• 3 $ Veal.. .. .•.••• • • • • 3 6 4 6 small .....• • • 4 Lamb. 45 10d to 6s Od. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST 9 E a r v i s riff Beasts Sheep _ -., Scotland .............. Yorkshire ........... •......... 20 100 Lincolnshire •••••••••••• •• •• •• •• 13 40 Norfolk 10 30 20 ....- Cambridgeshire .........• •• •• • . 30 40 -- 0 Essex .. .. . Surrey .......................40 50 40 0 Devonshire •••••••••••• •• • • • • • . ..... .--- 50 , 30 80 Wiltshire . Other parts ...........- ........ 20 30 60 ..,.• ___, .—..... 40 _... ~ Total •• •• •• •! ••• • •• 173 330 150 40 - Previous week's arrival.... • • 200 590 140 --.... ----- 0 Difference since oar last •• • • 27 260 10 AS BOROUGH HOP MARKET. h ie, r ill On the whole, the plantation accounts continue favourt o 1 1 ' is very evident picking will be commenced much earlier t uP s ts,ll l general run of years. Our market is in a very inacti!tcoor:l l baroi7 last week's quotations. The duty is backed from I'''slP 14 ..(00/. Sussex Pockets, 5/ to 6/ 6s per cwt.; Kent ditto , 6' if.i ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 6/ 6s to Si 15s. If BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIBZ—.OO6.I The supplies of new p o t a t oes are a l most d a i ly on the to% ow the demand is firm, at from 6s t:, 12s per cwt. The repor ts ing the appearance of the crops are satisfactory. el ci f, The imports of wool during WOOL. ti.e past week have conslsto, 40 bales from Sydney, 250 ditto from South America, 24 „ 6 . t err Hauiburgh, 110 ditto from S m y rna , 255 dit to from St..' 40 and 124 ditto from the Cap e , Th e pu b l i c sales are st ill 10 rvedr4 hut they are going off heavily, at in some instances, IMP ° rencies. By private treaty next to nothing is doing. , TALLOW. rd sl ll.lf This market is steady both on th e spot and for foriv• . d - Town Tallow 40s to 40s 6d net cash. vjeo -0 1,91 NEW PLANET EXPECTED.—The French I Sciences have received a paper from M. Leverrier, t'otov,l of which is to prove th a t th ere ex i sts i n our so l a r B, ol b large planet which nobody yet has seen, but the,, which M. Leverrier has cal cu l a t e d, an d w hi c h, usl may be seen on the Ist o f J anuary next. H e statee_A th 6, was led to this discovery by th e o b serva ti ons collee,l; 1690, on the course of U ranus . The insurmountau,fert.f, culty experienced by geometricians, says M. Lens r representing the real course of Uranus by analytl"7o4 mulct, might arise from various causes. Either W I A i was not sufficiently precise, and th a t t h ey had nee tii7di their calculations some of th e i n fl uence due to the Pe tory action of the neighbouring planets, Jupiter and yam or the theory had no t b een compared with the obse'tsr with sufficient correctness in the construction of t he se of the planet ; or, f i nally, some unknown ca u , e , e ,lh A y , upon Uranus, a dd e d other influences to those vmrsstwAi from th e act i on of the sun, of Jupiter, and of re ," To get out of thi s alternative, it was necessary to 0 074 the whole th eor y o f Uranus—re-calculate, discuss th? i , rations, and compare them with each o th er ; an d 0 , 1 0 , 4 task he undertook. The result i s th e pos i t i ve CO that the irregularity of the movement o f U ranu s is n attributed to a special cause, independert of the el s o t e o P.;) error, and deduced f r om the constitution of the P system itself. The fact of the existe nce o f thi s caus e r e, established, it wa s necessary t o d eterm i ne its ne tu iirO a si therefore a new career opened upon M. Leverrier. d ify e t o admis-ihle, as some astronomers had proposed, to 01 ,. ° 1.1f5 1 2 0 0 law of gravity f o r th e di stant reg i ons in whieP be 0 111 4, moves; or did it suffice io assume the resistance of: / er 0 , 4 01 or the influence of an obs cure sa t e llit e mov i ng roue to sese or the accidental shock from a comet? Or was he bla i f of a still unknown planet, whose existence was showP t el anomalous movement of Uranus ? M. Leverrier a doP . latter hypoth es i s; an d, procee di ng upon that basis, hP,_ to a conclus ton , f rom all his calculations and r piver_vjd that no other is possible. Thi s planet, he says, ifratee„ool; vond Uranus, at a distance double that which Orbit. Uranus from the sun, and in a slightly inclined or Mechanics' Magazine. '. / DOC SINKING OF A SHIP IN TH E L ONDON bofililo On Sunday morning, about six o'clock, the fine 1,00 4 , b " . . Eureta, from Sydney, which was hauled into the - to 9 Dock at eight o'clock the preceding night, sunk „" jJ& A great basin alongside the North Quay, and opposite t ',lsri; warehouse. This very serious disaster occasioned gr e5. 0 1 ,.4 6 in the dock, and also in the surrounding district. The air' has brought home a most valuable cargo of wool and °i Sydney, estimated to be worth 25,000/. f° LC( 1 PRESERVATION oF W ATER.— W a t er has - beenl 00 served, it is sa id , f or seven years, by adding to - to g manganese in the proportion of I I A to 250, and agl liq sconce a fortnight. I , 0 0 ;7 ADVERTISEMENT.] —•A CERTAIN CURE 19.4010'.010 ITEADACIIES, AND ALSO FOR V. EAR AND I)EAANGED STc h- Di caPif II oLtLwAy s In.Ls.—Nothing tends so much t o bring 00" 0000 diseases affecting either the heart, th e li ver , or th e lungs, , coif healthy state of the stomach, w hi c h, i n t h e f i rst instnniTolevg oss of appetite, loss of strength, and loss of energy top tPe few doses of Holloway's justly ce l e b ra t e d Pi lls b e taken Api the blood they will imme s li a t e ly g i ve a h ealthy action 1000 LO vitals, and act like a charm up on th e whole syste in,, l V health and vigour even in er se. , where the physicians' k -11 1 0 4 of no avail.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor irollo7. tablishm, nt, 244, Strand, London. _......--- • it , ----- A On the 9th inst., at the Parade, BIRTIIS. Poole, Doreetshire,ht e 1 of Alfred Crabb, Esq., M.D., of a daughter. 40 1°31 On the 9th inst., at Alb er t- p l ace, Kensington Newl/ . 0 0 Mrs. Charles Deinhard, of a dau g ht er . of °Ore On the 9th inst., Mrs. Parsons, of Lower Tooting, lc On the 10th inst., at Cambridge-square, Hyde-P ar Rob,rt Lloyd, of a son. of /3 On the 10th inst., the wife of G. H. Lewes, Esq'' ford place, Kensington, of a son MARRIED. On the Bth i ns t., a t Chi gwe ll Ch urc h,lr d t bei V Parry, 111 D., of Liverpool, to Eli za , e ld es t d aug hter 0. Rev. John Bontpte Lines. G Dmh. o re On the 28th ult., at Britonferry, near Swansea' tO Farquhar Cameron, Esq., aged 43. „d CO On the 30th ult., at the Trinity-ground, Deptford' cl 99 Robert Dawson, aged 83. 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