The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

THE CATHEDRAL FESTIVAL AT COLOGNE. COLOGNE, AUGUST 14.—Six hundred years have elapsed to-day since the foundation stone of the cathe dral of Cologne was laid in the presence of emperors, electors, dukes, bishops, princes, and barons. The wealth of the empire of Charlemagne was almost at the command of its founders ; the genius of the architect and the skill of the workmen have never been excelled, rarely equalled ; the heart and faith of half Europe were in the task ; and yet on this 14th of August, 1848, the cathedral stands half finished, the ancient part of the edifice crumbling in decay visible to the most careless eye, beside the additions finished within the last few hours, presenting a most melancholy contrast, one of the sternest proofs of the impotence of human purpose ever given to the world. The history of the building is involved with that of the whole German empire from the 13th century down wards, for the works were first arrested by the quar rels of electors with emperors, and the prince bishops with both, and the conflicts of. the unruly burghers with all three. The funds that should have raised the temple of peace were seized by the strongest to defray the expense of wars ; the Refor mation came and dried up many of the sources whence the revenues were derived, and from that period its history is nearly a blank ; in 1620 Cologne did not pos sess even mechanical skill enough to repair one of the chapels—the old traditions of the craft had perished. From the beginning of the 18th century nothing was at tempted but the patching of rotten roofs and decaying walls, with great difficulty even keeping it water tight, till within the last seven years, when a movement, partly religious, partly political, commenced, which re sulted in the present attempt to complete the gigantic design, and atone for the poverty and indifference of The only parts of the cathedral finished when the works were arrested were the eastern end and choir, with the side chapels, and half of one of the western towers. As thousands of tourists, must remember, these colossal fragments were connected by a mass of sordid, ignoble buildings, that might have been bar racks or stables for any character or dignity they pos sessed; the companion tower was also commenced, but had been raised but little above the foundation. The impression made by the aspect of the whole structure was that of magnificence, incompleteness, and decay combined. It is to the now triumphant idea of Gorman unity that most of the success of the present effort to realise the gorgeous conception of the founders in all its splen dour is to be ascribed. That idea was proscribed, and accordingly it adopted any method by which it could be, theugh but indirectly, expressed, without the possibility of the rulers opposine it. The completion of a work of which all GP:111111y might be proud was a purpose that gave an eneortunity of united effort when all was divisiere Iteditsious zeal had much influence doubtless; but the cathedral literature of the past ten years (for it his a press of its own) proves plainly that German nationality was the most active power. The piety, faith, and earnestness of the old founders of churches and temples cannot be so plainly traced in all that has been said and written by the advocates of the movement as that political " unity" of the empire which the completed cathedral was to embody and ex press. To carry out the work practically, the people formed committees, unions, and societies all over Ger many, with hampers, badges, and insignia, and threw into the task much of that spirit which with us creates such bodies is the Odd Fellows, Ancient Druids, and Foresters. They had cathedral bands of music, cathedral singing societies, and unions of the trades employed, ali atf a time-vvhen4everyekind-erfetssoeiation wax an object of suspicion to the Government. It would be unjust to assert that the bodies thus organized were turned to a political purpose ; but they fostered and kept alive an idea that could find no other mode of ex pression so open ; there was a worldly object combined with the religious one. The groat impulse was given to the movement by the present Ktng of Prussia, who on Easter-day, 1842, laid the first stone of the new works, and " endowed" the undertaking with 50,000 thalers a year. Since that time the works have been carried on as rapidly as the limited funds permitted; and it is understood that they have now almost failed. Without some general contri bution from the people of Germany, prompted by na tional enthusiasm, as their forefathers were animated by religious zeal, the cathedral wtll never be completed; the exchequers of the Sovereigns at the present period have nothing to spare. The portion of the edifice added since 1842 is soon described. The choir and the tower have been united on the south, by carrying up the stone work to the point where the light shafts are to spring from the plain square buttresses ; the three portals on this side are nearly completed ; and the nave is so far finished, that with a temporary- roof it can be used for Divine worship. It is in this south side that the stained-glass windows, presented by the King of Bavaria, are placed. On the north side nearly the same amount of plain work has been finished; but on both all the most expensive labour has yet to be bestowed, in the elaborate carvings and tracery of the pinnacles and shafts, in which the modern workmen are to imitate and reproduce the triumphs — of their ancestors. The old stone-work, dark and wore to roughness by time, contrasts strongly with the smooth white imasonry of yesterday; in form, of course, the ancient plan has been rigidly ad hered to; time will harmonise the colour, but at. present the effect is harsh. The carved work on the front of the south tower is so decayed that large patches of grass are actually growing in the roses and fretted ornaments above the portal; the tracery looks as if it; would turn to dust with a touch: when the eye passes from it the fresh solid masonry, the text that condemns " the new piece on the old gar ment" occurs involuntarily to the mind. The portion of the fete celebrated to-day was not so brilliant as anticipated. A grand concert was given at the Casino in the morning by the Gesangverein, and till late in the afternoon, when a procession was formed and started from the Nenmarkte to the cathedral, there was nothing to occupy the citizens who have made up their minds to a three days' holiday. The streets on the line of route were splendidly decorated ; enormous banners waved from every window, from which also de pended at - intervars tapestry of brilliant colours; some decorations made of flowers and evergeens, in thi form of Gothic windows, were actually works of art. It was four o'ctock before the procession reached the cathedral ; it was composed of the Burgher Guard, the chorus of the boys' schools, the orphan children, the masons and carpenters of the works, with their flags, ali the building committees, with their badges, the Archbishop, several Bishops, and the clergy. They wore their full canonicals, and with their attendants formed the only brilliant part of the spectacle. As soon as those who were ad- mitted within the cathedral were placed, the choir chanted Lcetatus. scan (the 121st Psalm), on the con clusion of which the master of the works, with a short address, went through the form of delivering the new portion of the edifice to the Archbishop. It will be consecrated to-morrow. The 83d Psalm (Quam delecta tabernacula tua) was then chanted, and the Archbishop dismissed the congregation with his blessing. The King of Prussia arrived by the railway at the Deutz station, between seven and eight in the evening. He was received by the Burgher Guard with hearty Cheering ; he crossed the Rhine in a small steamer, and proceeded immediately to the apartments prepared for him. He to be serenaded during the night, and a torchlight precession is to be formed in his honour. The most characteristic event of the day was an acci dental one. Shortly before the arrival of the King a band of peasants going on the annual pilgrimage to the chapel at Cafen entered the city by the bridge of boats. It was composed of very old men and . . . women in their p;ovincial costume, dusty and footsore with their day's march. They walked in two long lines, the women first, with folded hands, chanting the Avc Maria; a priest in full robes followed, breviary in hand and the crucifix borne behind him. Then came the men, aged, bald, and wrin kled, stooping under the weight of years and toil; many of them were the very types of the peasant in the etchings of Holbein's " Dance of Death;" most of them repeated aloud a prayer as they walked along. Several covered carts closed the procession, carrying the baggage and a few children, half delighted, half-scared by the great floating banners, and the noise and rush of the great city. They will rest for the night outside the walls, and resume their march to-morrow, having still three days' jour ney before them. It was a fragment of the life of the middle ages brought suddenly on the scene ; and it was almost tiro only event of the day that left an impression of earnestness or depth of feeling. A WOMAN STONED TO DEATH !—When Smith (the fellow convicted of the outrage upon Mr. Hadow) stated, on his apprehension that he had killed ono person already on that day, no one for a moment could suppose that there was any foundation for the assertion. There is now no moral doubt of its correctness. He had literally stoned a poor woman to death ! The woma n's n ame was Ellen L aw ren c e, res idi ng a t C o lli ng b ourne , a few miles from the residence of the Rev. Mr. Hadow. She 'bad been taking some dinner to a labourer at work in a field, and was on her return home when she was brutally murdered, in the way stated, in the public road. ~ho was discovered by a gentle man passin g the road in a gig, who immediately gave jinformation to some reapers—observing, "There she lies ust as I found her, I have not touched her !" and then went on, saying that he was going to Weyhill. The poor woman was breathing at the time, but she died shortly afterward?. She presented a most frightful spectacle. Her head had been " battered" with large stones, apparently thrown with force enough to kill a horse. An inquest was held on the body on. theseMond and adjourned to this day. It is to be hoped, for nds of justice, that the gentleman who first discovered her will attend and give evidence. Whether there will be sufficient legal evi dence to convict Smith of the murder is uncertain. At present there is only his own confession. —Devizes Gazette. It is fully anticipated that the works of th Level Bridge will be so far completed by the end 111 Q -- the present month that railway by e w e ' n il d be of. enabled to cross and . re-cross the Tyne with th most perfect regularity and safety. Th e arche s ever the Manors, leading from the janction of thee North Shields Railway to Pilgrim-street, have, during the present week, been tested by several engin es and carriages having passed along that portion of the line The whole of the works are of that strong and substan tial character which is calculated to ensure the safety of the public, and to reflect the highest credit on the con tractors, and it may be stated that the bridge and via ducts will be completed in all their parts in about twelve months from this time.—Newcastle Journal. GAS-LIGET AND COKE CO: , ANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- X. s. d. A. s. d. British •• •..•.• • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 16 Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 23 Bristol ........ ••• • • • 01. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton City of London .....• 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 Ditto, New ...... • • 851. pr share 150 0 0 37 10 0 Equitable— ...... •• 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 36 Imperial ... ... ••• • • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69 independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64 L0nd0n.................... ........ .. •. 50 0 0 SO 0 0 Ditto 50 0 0 50 0 Phcernix . ...... • • .... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 31 Ratcliff ..... ...... • • 51. and bns. 100 0 0 90 0 0 7S United General —•• • • 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15 Westmiaster Chartered Si, 50 0 0 55 Ditto, New .•.. • • . . 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 , lON PRICES OF SHARES order to prevent a recurrence of these complaints and annoy- IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.. an T e lt 3 Committee then broke up after a sitting of no l ass th an PANIES' STOCK. 73 days. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. CHELTENHAM. The rebutting evidence on behalf of the sitting Member having closed, Mr. JAMES summed up, after which Mr. GURNEY replied on the whole case. The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a short consultation, came to the following resolutions : "That Craven Eitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., was not duly elected at the last election to serve as a burgess in the pre sent Parliament for the borough of Cheltenham. " That the said Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., being a candidate for the said seat at the election held on the 30th of July, 1847, was, through hi s agen t s , gu il ty o f treat i ng; and the said Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley was, in conse quence thereof, disqualified from offering himself as a candi date at the election held in June, 1848." The CHAlitivux wished to know what course the parties intended to pursue now? Mr. GURNEY said the petitioners claimed the seat for Mr. Gardner; and he proposed now to put in evidence to prove that notice of Mr. Berkeley's disqualification was given to the electors previous to the last election, which, he con tended, would be sufficient to justify the Committee in seat ing Mr. Gardner. Mr. JAMES said he was not prepared to meet that question then, and he had therefore to pray for an adjournment, as the matter involved a point not only of local, but constitutional interest. The Committee acceded to this request, and adjourned to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. HORSHA The Committee was occupied the whole day with the evi dence of Mr. Padwick, the alleged agent of the sitting Mem ber, who was called to prove that he did not act as Mr. Fitz gerald's agent, but only as his friend. All he did at the elec tion was in his capacity of a partizan and not as an agent ; but he positively denied having bribed, or attempted to bribe, any of the electors. No doubt treating was resorted to, but it was not, he contended, to influence the votes of the elec tors ; but the refreshments were given to them by himself and others as friends, and without the knowledge or consent of Mr. Fitzgerald, the sitting Member. LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. TOTNT-STOCZ BANILS. same of Company. _Australasia .......... Britsh North American Ceylon .............. Jommerdal of Loadon Gloucestershire ...... lonian .............. Londn and Westminetr _ . Ditto . London Joint-Stock Provincialof Ireland Ditto, New..• • National of Ireland Nat. Provnclal of Eng Ditto, New... .• • • • South Australia - Union of Australia Unioa of London 'Union of ➢ladrid Name of Company. Charing-cross Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. Ditto Sw of 7)4 p.c. Waterloo ............ Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... • • . Av. INS' Name of Company. Albion • • • • • ..... • • • • Alliance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine....... Alias • • • • British • Commercial .. Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life County .............. Crown .............. t aisle . • • Eng.& Scot. Law .... ~ :aropean Life •• • • Family Endow= t Soc. Freemasons' . • • • • • • • • Jzot.e Gnirdlan ............ I nperial Fire •• I iiperial Life .• .• Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire LAW Life • Legal and General Life L.lndcn Fire ........ Landon Ship 2.farine • • • • • •• •• •• •• Med. Invlid& Gen. Life `hitional Lean Fund.. ational Life.. Valladiuna Life Pelican •••• •• •• 'iicenix • • Pi otector Life.... ... Provident Life tock Life.... ........ loyal Exchange S•in Fire i,itto Lite Universal Life.•...... 'Victoria Lite . same of Company. Aurnercial .. East and West India... .mast Country ........ Loudon . Ditto 80nd5•. ...... S'. Katharine ........ Ditto 80nd5...." Smithampton • • ...... Dividend per Arinam. Aztonat of Share. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 151 per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. Ed. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 13.55. per cent. it. ss. 4d. it. 2s. 2d. It. 17s. 'CZ a Dividend per Annum. 31. 10s. 6 per cent. 6/. per cent, 130.6 d. pr sh. 7s. per share S pr ct.& bs. 145. 6s. 51. per cent. 15% per cent.! & bs. 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. 57. per cent. 12 per cent. 12s. 11. sh. bs. 1/. 16s. 41. per ct. 51. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. 31. p. sh. & bs. 51. per cent. 11. 55. 45. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. 10% pr cnt. pop Dividend per X 1. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X. s. d. 632 12 S 50 0 0 100 0 0 Annum. 70 10 3 111PAIIT: Amount of Share. 4 8. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 C 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 Amount of Share. 41. per cent. 6/. pr cent. 255. per sh. I. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 341. pr cent. 21. per cent. 4 s. (1. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 Paid. Paid. X a. d. 50 0 0 Z a. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 4 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 - 20 0 0 21 13 0 0 - 10 0 0 - 25 0 0 - 10 0 0 - 22 10 0 1' 35 0 0 - 10 0 0 - 22 10 0 - 25 0 0 - 2 10 0 - 10 0 0 - 40 0 0 - .4. s. d. 25 0 0 60 0 0 I 27 40 0 0 V Paid. 4 s. d. 50 0 0 1 7 11 0 0 6 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 - 50 0 0 20: 10 0 0 - 513 1 21 2 10 0 - 10 0 0 - 2 0 0 41 12 10 0 - 12 10 0 1 15 0 0 - 2 0 0 1' 2 10 0 - 50 0 - 20 0 - 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 " 0 9 0 01 25 40 0 4 Paid. I Prl raid. I Pri4 e ' CANALS. . Names of g !Dividend' Names of .11 'Dividend rico P . Companies. per Companies. a c i s 1 per Price . 0 4 Annum. ec I Annum.;-- - _ X X Ashtn & Oldh 97 71. p c i 80 Macclesfield . 100 Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. 'lrknk&Abrg 150 Si. 85 Oxford.... • • 100 201. 190 Birmingham 35 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 - - Coventry ..• • 100 25/. - Regent's ••• • 33 11. ss. 183 G Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale -• • 85 41. 54 Ellsirre&Chs 133 41. 48 Somrset Coal 150171.105. 130 E:(3%s ash ... 100 32/. - D e .LkFdSt 121 61. p. c. _ GrandJunctn 100 5/. 77 Stffrd&Worc 1401 281. 290 Grand Surrey 100 - 35 Shrew s bury.. 125; 151. - lirand Union 100 11. 10s. 25 St oar b r idge.. 145 201. 285 Grantham . • 150 121. - Severn and/ Kennt & Avit 39 7s. 6d. 4% Wye Rail. 3 26 11. 85. 23 Leeds& Livrp 100; 341. - Warvrick& l • Leicester .. • . 140, 101. 75 Itirming. } 1 -00 -- A - 65 Letcstr &Nth 83 41. 36 Warwick& / 100 _ L Loughboregh 142' 701. - N apton..3 46 , Monmouthsh 100 31. - W orcs t r &1 7g 21. 39 Mntgemrysh 100 51. - Birminßrks MeltnMwbryi 100 101. - Wil ts & - 11. 11 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. , - X e. Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 195 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank. ••• • • 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 123 Commercial Bank -•• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 150 Eastern Bank .. ... •• • 6/. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 9/.195. Edinble Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 5% Exehange Bilk of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 40 isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 - National Bank 634 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 133` North of Scotland Bank 7/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 31.155. North British Bank - 50 0 0 10 0 3 Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 1183 Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 81 Western Bank •••• • • • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 70 Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 23% B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 011 95 Od ilritish Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 95 Od Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 21. 43 Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 17 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 116.0 d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 46s 6d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 II Incur. Co. of Scetlnd•• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 7 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 11. 75 Mercantile Life - 10 0 0 0 10 ss. Od. National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 205.6 d North British Insur. North & West of Scot 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 17a0d, Scottish Life and Guar - 20 0 0 0 11 ss. Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 1 0 0 0 15 105.0 d Scottish Union Insrnce. NI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 11. Os Standard Life .. • ... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 9% United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 25.10 d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. _-,-. X. s. d. X. s. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 45. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 - Canada ... •••. . • ... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 • - Uppr Canada ' Bonds M. per cent. - - - City Bonds.. ........ 3% Lpr cent. - - 82 Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 00 1 100 0 0 - 1 Eqnitable Reversienry sf. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 91% Gen. Steam Navigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 183( London Institution ... - - _ 10 i Peninslr & Orient.Stm. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 523 Reversionary Int. Soc. 43¢1. pr cent. 100 0 - 0 100 0 0 Royal Mall Steam • ... 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 44 e South Australian ... .. 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 Van Dieman's Land., - 100 0 0 23 0 0 - Universal Salvage •• • • - 25 0 0 50 0 - . ELECTION COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) DUBLIN. At the sitting of the Committee yesterday morning, Mr. JAMES announced that it was not the intention of the parties to proceed with the petition presented against the return of Mr. Grogan, and he was therefore happy to con gratulate' the Committee upon the termination of their labours. The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a short consultation, agreed to the following string of resolu- tion : " That John Reynolds, Esq., was duly elected at the last election to serve as a burgess in the present Parliament for the city and borough of Dublin. " That Edward Grogan, Esq., was duly elected at the last election to serve in the present Parliament for the city and borough of Dublin. " That the Committee have amended the poll by striking off the names of 200 electors who were not entitled to vote at such election." The Committee further came to the following special report : "The ttmiee,w T i m e h m s i a t t te i e n fi l n B d 3s t . b 6 a , t m t a n d e e fo a rm sp e e r e i D al u r b e l p i n o E t, lec t t t i h on e; C eefff o ee m cc i That the state of th e mun i c i pa l l aw o f D u b r r n . o so c ti i v si e n a a n t d he un fr j a u n s e t, h t is h e a ; t a i n t ( p i re th cl e ud c e o d ili n m is it n t y ee e , le t c h t e o r r e s fo f r r e o , m re e c x om er: mended the House to take this defect into its consideration, with the view to its amendment.' " This Committee entirely concur in that opinion ; and they cannet refrain from expressing their regret that the House has allowed that report to remain unnoticed, since the result has been that on the present occasion several parties in terested in the r epresentation of the city and borough of Dublin have been put to most serious expense in prosecuting the inquiry which the defective state of the law has rendered necessary; and the Committee beg to press upon the House the necessity that exists for their taking this subject into their serious consideration at the earliest possible period, in Price, 25 0 0 100 0. 0 5000 100 0 0 10 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 29 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 BRIDGES Dividend per Annum. NWALTEIL.-ViTORIES Dividend Name of Company. ! per Annum. Birmingham. Nast L0nd0n.......... Grand Junction New Rivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall ............ West Middlesex . . . 21. 106. 21. 10s. 51. per cnt. 61.0 n. pr cnt. Amount of Share. Z s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 MO 0 0 .£ s. d. 25 0 0 FRANCE. Price Le Siècle states that Colonel LEFLO had arrived at St. Petersburgli as Envoy Extraordinary of the French Re public, and that the Emperor NICHOLAS had recognized the new Government of France, and was about to appoint a Minister to represent him in Paris. By order of General CANAIGNAc, M. DUBODAN, Representative of the People, General CHARON, Director of the Algerian Department in the Ministry of War, and M. FEI.LMAN, Under Director in the same Ministry, have been ap pointed members of the Committee charged with divining the means of transportation of the insurgents of June. A Communist procession took place at Avignon on the 14th inst. The Communists were loud in their threats against the rich, and several citizens who were in the streets at the time the procession passed were in sulted and beaten. M. TONASSCO arrived in Paris on Monday on a specie: mission from the Republic of Venice to the French Re- M. LUCIEN MURAT has returned from Italy. SAVOY. The military commander of the Syndics of Savoy has :ssued the following circular:-- " Chambery, August 15. "His Excellency the Governor announced to me that, if the intervention of France ever became necessary, it would be only on a formal request of our Government, and after the expiration of the armistice of six weeks, concluded on the 9th instant, between Italy and Austria, to negotiate the conditions of peace. Now that period 4nust be employed in re-organizing—tbse,:arnaY-4,every means already ordered and in progress of execution, for ce . the purpose of making sure of an advantageous peace, and it is with that view that the Extraordinary Commissary of the Government has, by his proclamation, called all the Savoisians under arms, and decreed the mobilization of the district militia; because a people, who wishes to obtain peace on honourable conditions, must above all be prepared for war." LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The subscribers being about to leave for York by the afternoon trains, mustered in strong numbers at the room, but there was very little business going forward on future events. In fact, Dough and Re membrance were the only horses in request for the Ebor Handicap ; and the only offers on the St. Leger were to back Springy Jack at 3 to 1, and either Justice to Ireland or Flat catcher at 4to 1 each. A few bets were made on the Great Yorkshire Handicap at our quotations. The latest prices are as follow : EBOX HANDICAP. 5 to 2 agst Mr. J. Murphy's Dough—take 3 to 1 5 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale —take 6 to 1 7 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Remembrance—take 8 to 1 8 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin 12 to 1 agst Mr. Drinkald's Pillage. GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. sto 4 on Springy Jack—offered ; 4 to 1 agst Springy Jack winning this and Doncaster St. Leger—offered. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Cawroush—take 8 to 1 10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair—t. 12 to 1 11 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre-12 to 1 t. 100 to 8 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Reminiscence—taken 100 to 6 agst Mr. Disney's Keleshea—taken 100 to 6 agst Mr. Holmes's Vesta—taken. THE ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—offered 7to 2 agst Dk of Bedford's Justice to Ireland—t. 4to 1 4 to 1 agst Mr. Green's Flatcatcher—offers to take 11 to 2 agst Mr. Clifden's Surplice—offered 20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken, aft. off. DERBI , 1849. 1,000 to 15 agst King of Kildare—taken. STATE OF TRADE. Ice. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The frightful state of the weather, and the consequent apprehensions for the safety of the harvest, coupled with the unfavourable nature of the accounts from the East Indies and China, have had a depressing effect upon our market to-day. It is un derstood that orders to some considerable amount are in the hands of the buying agents; but they show very little inclination to give them out until the fate of the grain crops is better ascertained. The business done to-day has, consequently, been on a very limited scale; but prices, on the whole, have been well maintained, and the market, altogether, exhibits, under the depressing influences which now prevail, a degree of stability which promises well for the future, provided the apprehensions for the safety of the harvest should be removed by the return of seasonable weather. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The annual wakes, which take place this week, have somewhat interfered with the attend ance at the market to-day; but there has been a fair demand for flannels, at the rates of last week. I n t h e wool market there has been no change. HUDDERSFIELD, TUF.SDAY.—The attendance of buyers to day has been good, but we cannot report a brisk market. The untoward state of the weather, and the uncertainty re specting the harvest, cast a gloom on all, which it is hoped . a succession of fine days will dispel. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.— The trade in our Piece Hall is as inanimate as ever, and the amount of business doing in the ",, s warehouses is far from extensiv e , b u t somewhat more than 11 „ it was a few weeks ago, and c hi efly in fancy goods. Yarn remains pretty much as noticed in our last. Wool is firm, and the spinners purchase rather more freely. There is more 9s. inquiry for some description of short wool, and a trifling ad vance is asked, but does not appear to be generally obtained. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have had but a quiet cloth mar ' ket to-day, and very few goods changed, which may be ss, attributed to the unsettled state of the weather, as well as to 3 the unfavourable accounts from the country respecting the potato disease. Our manufacturers continue to be pretty well employed.—lllanchester Guardian. Od A SSIZE INTELLIGENCE . Jackson, n and Od ( 4 8 / e o co r r a e 1 11 4 1 r J . J o u h s n t i esetCreßeEt,SB7saEaLL.c NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Li verpool, Aug 21. 4s Alexander Catherine G i b son, were indicted for a bu r glary • Od, in the 6d house of Joseph rossley, at Salford. Mr. Pollock and Mr. Wheeler conducted the prosecu tion,• the prisoner Street was defended b Mr. M kon , and Jackson by Mr. Mew. Worrall pleaded o 6d It appeared that the shop of the prosecutorg had been t entered by the skylight, and a large quantity of pro 'od• perty had been r emove d. Th e chief witness ag ainst p the 0d prisoners was a p erson o f t h e name of Bacon, who .. os leged that be had b een i n th e company of the prisoners )iiOd at a public-hou se i n th e ne i g hb ourhood the night of the robbery, and that he was solicited by them to join in it. They had several times asked him before, but he had always declined. He said, however, that he had gone to the house with the others; that it was pointed out to him as a place where robbery could conveniently be com mitted, as no one slept in the house, and that he was wandering about the neighbourhood while the robbery was committed. There was no other direct evidence against the prisoners, except some casual observations which were sworn to have passed in the dock while be fore the magistrates between Jackson and Street, im plying their presence at the robbery. The jury found Street and Jackson Guilty. 14i His LORDSHIP sentenced Street to be transported for fifteen years, and Jackson and Worrell for ten. ' 54 Michael Hogan was indicted for cutting and wounding John Williamson, a constable, in the execution of his duty, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecution; Mr. Pollock the defence. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that he was on duty at Manchester, late at night, when he found a numb er o f women of loose character making a noise in the street. He told them to move on; while he was doing so, the prisoner came up, and asked if he had seen the woman whom ho (the prisoner) was looking for, using at the same time some very coarse expressions. The officer took him by the shoulder and told bim to go home, on which the prisoner drew from under his coat a bar of iron about two feet and a half long, having a han dle formed by twine lapped round it, and struck him a blow on the temple, inflicting a severe wound. The pri soner then ran away, but was pursued by the prosecutor and another officer. He ran into a court, but found there was no exit at the other end. In returning he met the prosecutor, and again struck him, but Was fi nally secured. The weapon he used, and which was now produced, was a moat murderous one having a sharp point at one end, an d b e i ng formed like a chisel at the other. Witnesses were called .for• the defence, to show that the prosecutor had behaved improperly to one •of the women in the street, who appeared to be the prisoner's wife, and afterwards assailed the prisoner when he in terfered in her defence, but this was not made out. Verdict, Geilty.—Sentence deferred. CROWN COURT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22. (Before Mr. Justice CRESS WELL.) John Mitt= was indicted for having, on the 3d of April last, committed a violent assault on Richard Bl ee , a collector of accounts, residing in Acton st ree t, i n Manchester, with intent to do him some grievous b o dil y injury. Mr. PoLLocx stated the case. It appeared that in the month of January last the pro secutor called upon the prisoner, who owed a❑ account to Mr. Whitehead, surgeon, of Oxford-street. It was arranged at the prisoner's request that the account should be paid by instalments of one shilling per week. On the 3d of April the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house, and, being drunk, threw down a shilling upon the table, and said to the prosecutor, with an oath, " Tell me whether you will take it or not." Seeing that the pri soner was drunk, and his wife indisposed, the prosecutor asked the prisoner to leave the house, and come again when ho was sober. He declined to do so, and became very abusive. The prosecutor then turned towards the fire, and took up the poker to stir up the fire.- The pro secutor's wife then said to the prisoner, " Do, for God's sake, my good man, go home, and come aga i n w h en you are sober," when the prisoner struck her a violent blow on the mouth, which knocked her down, and rendered her insensible. The prosecutor, on hearing the screams of his wife, hastily turned from the fire with the poker in his hand, when the prisoner wrested it from him, and struck him with it on the head. The blow cut the prosecutor's head nearly to the bone, and a niece of the prosecutor's then gave an alarm to the neighbours, which caused some of them to run into the house, where they found the prosecutor bleeding from the head, and his wife fainting. The prisoner had the poker in his hand, and threatened to kill any one who came near him. The poker was ultimately taken from him, and he was appre hended. Several witnesses having proved these facts, Mr. Golland, surgeon to the Manchester police force, stated that he attended the prosecutor and found a seri ous wound on the head, which, for some time, he thought was dangerous. The jury, after some deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty of an assault.—Sentence deferred. Wm. Willan pleaded guilty to having, in Salford, in June last, forged the endorsement to a bill of exchange, with intent to defraud Wm. Charles Brown.—Sentence deferred. Samuel 1 orthington, 27, was charged with having, at Pendleton, on the 27th ult., stolen a variety of articles from the house of William fleshed], and having afterwards burglariously broken out of the said dwell ing-house. It appeared that on the night of the day in question, and for two or three previous evenings, the prisoner had slept at the house of the prosecutor, his brother in-law, at Pendleton; that during the night of the 27th ult. he left the house of his brother-in-law, and that after he had gone, a clock, some candlesticks, and a quantity of wearing apparel, were missed. The prisoner on the following morning went to the detective office, at the Town-hall, Manchester, and gave himself up for the robbery. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner, who was convicted of felony at the spring assizes for 1847, and was sentenced to imprison ment for fifteen months, was now tramported for seven years. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yester.lay.) In the case of Robert IVynn, a clerk in the Post-office, who was charged with stealing and secreting two letters, The jury, after an absence of nearly three houni, returned into court with a special verdict, to the effect that they be lieved that the prisoner secreted the letters but did not steal them, and that he secreted them from the fear that if they were found upon his person he would be subjected to punishment. Mr. Laron PLATT considered that the verdict would, in fact, amount to one of acquittal. • Mr. CLARKSON, for the prosecution, did not take the same view of the case. In the indictment the prisoner was charged with secreting as well as stealing, and the former act as much as the latter was subject to punishment under the statute. Ultimately, by the consent of the Learned Judge and the Copusel 0,4 1.4.tt4 sides,. it was arranged. that `.the nature oft theverdict should be brought under the consideration of the Judges. George Thomas IVitchell, 25, postman, was indicted for stealing a post letter, containing two sixpences and a pawnbroker's duplicate. The same counsel were engaged for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantino was engaged for the defence. This charge was clearly established against the pri soner. He was engaged in sorting letters, and was ob served by one of the inspectors at the General Post office to act in such a manner with regard to one of the letters as excited his suspicion. The letter in question was found shortly afterwards in one of the water-closets torn in half, and its contents abstracted. The duplicate was found in the closet, and on the prisoner being ques tioned he admitted his guilt. He had, it appeared, been married shortly before the offence was committed. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. William Harvey, a post-office letter-carrier, was in dieted for secreting and stealing a newspaper, value 5d., the property of the Postmaster-General. Mr. CLARKSON said that the offence with which the prisoner was charged was not felony, but misdemeanour, created by a recent statute, which enacted that if any person employed in the Post office embezzled or stole any printed paper open at the sides and sent through the Post-office, whether a Parliamentary paper, news paper, or any other document of a similar character, he should be deemed guilty of the offence of misdemeanour. The Learned Counsel said, that in consequence of the numerous complaints of irregularity in the delivery of marked papers passing through the post, this enact ment had become necessary ; and, although the property stolen was not of any very considerable value, yet it was perfectly clear that the offence was one of a very mischievous character, and which required to be re pressed. He then stated the facts, from which ft ap peared that on the 13th of July the Times newspaper was posted addressed to a lady named Robinson, in the New-road, Croydon, and this paper never came to hand. A few days afterwards a search was made in the house of the prisoner, who is a postman at Croydon, and the fragments of a newspaper, which, from certain marks upon it, there was very little doubt was the one sent to Mrs. Robinson, were found in it; and on his being ques tioned he at first refused to give any explanation, but at length said that he could not account for the possession of the paper. These facts were proved by the witnesses, bat Mrs. Robinson, in answer to a question put to her by Mr. Ballantine, said that she had known the prisoner as a letter-carrier for a considerable period, and he had always delivered her letters and papers correctly, and she thought he must have forgotten the paper in question. Mr. BALLANTINE adopted this line of defencs, and urged that it was not probable a man who bore a good character, and who had for a long period conducted himself with propriety, should sacrifice his position for the sake of an article of such trifling value ; and that it was far more likely he had taken the paper home by forgetfulness, and while lying about it had been torn up either by his wife or some other person. Several highly respectable witnesses, who had known fNot gave him an ex- Guilty. cell th e T e p ha r et i j s e o uh n ray e r r ar a ce tt g eur r r e ni t ee t rd number of e t o o f years, The Learned BARON remarked that although they had come to this conclusion, it was clearly a case in which it was the duty of the Postmaster-General to in stitute an inquiry. Where suspicion was directed to a public officer there was no alternative but to send the case before a jury, in order that it might be properly in quired into. The jury said they quite concurred in the observations of his Lordship. They thought it was a very proper case for inquiry. Mr. BALLANTINE said, on the part of the prisoner, he did not offer any complaint of the proceeding. Indeed, the experience he had had of the manner in which the solicitor for the Post-office performed his duty satisfied him that no case would be sent for trial which did not demand an inquiry to be made for the interest of the public. John Prenderville, 39, letter-carrier, was indicted for feloniously stealing a letter containing a cheque for 291. 7s. id., the property of the Postmaster -General; and on a second count he was charged, in conformity with the statute, which has only become law within the last few days, with feloniously receiving the cheque, knowing it to have been stolen. The same counsel were engaged for the prosecution. Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner. The evidence adduced in support of the indictment was of the most conclusive character. It appeared that on the Ist of July a gentleman named Grainger, who carries on business in the City, - enclosed a cheque for 291. 75. ld. in a letter addressed to Mr. Ponsford, South Wharf-road, Paddington. The letter was never received, and on the 4th of July, three days afterwards, the prisoners went to the establishment of Messrs. Moses, in the Minories, accompanied by another man, and represented his name to be Marshall, and required clothes to be made for himself and companion, the price of which amounted to 71 12s. On his being asked for a deposit he tendered the cheque in question, and Messrs. Moses having sent a messenger to Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Stone's, where it was made payable, and ascertained that it was a genuine cheque, they gave the difference, and it was arranged that the clothes should be ready and be sent for on the following Thursday. The cheque, it appeared was marked " and C 0.," so that in the ordinary course it would only be payable through a banker, and Messrs. Moses having endorsed it " Bank," they k eep i ng land, i t was paid in due course. On the 10th of July a banking account at the Bank of Eng the prisoner sent a boy with a letter to Messrs. Moses, requiring them to deliver up the clothes, but in conse quence of a communication they had had with the Post office authorities the boy was questioned by the police, and from his statement suspicion was immediately directed to the prisoner, who, directly afterwards ab sconded. In addition to these facts it was shown that the prisoner was employed on the Ist of July as a su pernumerary letter carrier 'in the North Paddington district, and it was suggested that by some mistake in the sorting, the letter in question, which belonged to the South Paddington district, had come into his possession. The prisoner was followed to Liver pool, where he was taken into custody by Peake the officer, and he then made a statement to him that he had meta person, with whom he had some slight acquaint ance, who told him that he had found a cheque which could only be cashed through a banker's, and he advised him to go to Moses' and get i t c h ange d, and he con sented to accompany him. He declared that in the first instance he had no su s pi c i on o f th ere being anything wrong about the cheque, but he admitted that be did subsequently su s p ec t it h a d b een improperly obtained, e e a e n e d e h eg e a w en as e , ee th ta er h e i fo m r s e e , l i f n f d o u r ce t d he to s a h b a s r c e o h n e d h fo a r d fear tak o e f a th in the transaction.e Mr. Baron PLATT, at the close of the case for the pro secution, remarked that Messrs. Moses appeared to have acted very incautiously in taking a cheque from a stranger which they could see, by being marked " and C 0.," was only intended to be passed through a banker, and giving v a lidi ty to i t by send i ng i t t h roug h their own banker; and he said they ought to have detained the cheque, and not have assisted in passing it. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of feloniously re ceiving the cheque, and he was sentenced to be transported for ten years. ------- Sir Rupert Geo rge an d Sir James Coc h rane had interviews yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-office. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1848. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, CLERKEN WELL. George Colesbrook, a journeyman baker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged with having assaulted several officers of the G division. The prisoner exhibited a severe wound on his head, and was otherwise most dreadfully injured. Mr. Robinson attended to conduct the defence. It appeared from the evidence of police constable 32 G, that on Sunday morning the 13th inst., at about half, past twelve o'clock, there was a disturbance on Saffron hill, where the prisoner and other persons had assembled togkher. Ho ordered the prisoner to move on, which he did. Subsequently he was found further from the spot sitting on the step of a door. He refused to leave when requested to do so, and became violent, kicked wit ness several times on the legs, and once on the mouth. Assistance arrived, when the prisoner resisted and called for a knife, threatening to kill them. Mr. Robinson inquired whether the prisoner was not seized and dragged by them, and called out for a knife in order to cut his neckcloth to prevent them from strangling him ? Witness—No, he cailed for it to kill us. By Mr. Robinson—l struck him once on the arm with my staff. The people called out " Shame!" from the windows. The prisoner bled profusely. The officers were also bleeding through the prisoner's violence. They were followed and pelted by the crowd. He was kept in the police-yard five hours after the charge was taken, when he was bailed and sent home in a cabriolet. Taylor, 130 G, corroborated this evidence. Witness struck him over the arms with his staff. The prisoner was violent. in his resistance, and kicked the police. Mr. Robinson—Pray, was he not covered with blood in consequence of your violence? Witness—No; not through mine. Constable 85 G, was in Turnmill-street when he re ceived information that two officers were nearly mur dered on Saffron-hill, and he proceeded thither, and found policemen 52 and 130 G with the prisoner on the ground. The prisoner kicked witness on the nose. Saw the offiurs strike the prisoner with their staves. 153 G was called to assist. The prisoner resisted. Witness struck him on the arm, and once or twice over the legs with his staff. George Henry Adams, undertaker, of Easton-street, Clerkenwell, a special constable, deposed to having seen the prisoner kick 52 G. Mr. Robinson suggested the necessity of allowing some one to examine the prisoner's legs. He had re cently broken his leg by accident, and it was now in a most shocking state through being beaten with the officers' staves. He (Mr. Robinson) never saw so bad a leg, and it would be a considerable time before he would be able to obtain a livelihood. The prisoner hero burst into tears. Mr. COMBS—The question is, whether he did not brine' ' it upon himself Mr. Robinson called Mrs. Elizabeth Slade, wife of Mr. William Slade, master hatter, of 16, Hatton- wall, Hatton-garden, who said she was awoke out of her sleep by a noise in the street. She opened the window, and saw the police men dragging the prisoner, who was exclaiming, " My dear sirs, it you will let me alone I will go quietly with you." The police bad tightly hold of his neckcloth, and nearly strangled the man. He called out, " Give me a knife for God's sake, to cut my handker chief, or I shall be choked." She knew the prisoner to be a hard-working, quiet, sober man. The people called out "Shame !" Another witness spoke as to the prisoner's sobriety. Mr. Robinson addressed the Bench, and censured the violence offered by. so many officers with their staves, and begged that his client's present injured state might operate in mitigation of .anyputfishment-ithat - filight be inflicted, if it was the intention of the Bench to convict. His client was a little man, and it would be absurd to think that it required four officers to use their staves for the purpose of securing him. Mr. COMBE said, that there was no doubt the prisoner resisted and assaulted the police whilst in the execution of their duty, and that it required violence on the part of the police to take him to the station-house. He should fine him 205., and were it not for the injuries he had re ceived, he would have punished him more severely. The prisoner paid the fine and was liberated. SOUTHWARK. Jo/ui Harris, a Baptist minister, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with obtaining money by means of a fictitious petition for subscriptions in aid of the repairs of a chapel and a school room attached, in Wales. Mr. COTTINOHAM said, he considered that frauds of the above description, perpetrated under the guise of re ligion, by a person of the prisoner's sacred calling, were of the most aggravated description, and richly deserved punishment. In order, therefore, to give the police an opportunity of apprehending the other person engaged in the offence, he should remand the prisoner until that day week, when he would be brought up fur further ex amination. The,prisoner was then sent to the county gaol. LAMBETH. Toseph May, who had been remanded from the pre ceding day ou a charge of grossly ill-using his son, a boy of ten years of age, was again placed at the bar, before Mr. Norton, on a further charge of grossly ne glecting and cruelly ill-using his second child, Maria, aged eight years. A spe - cta;le more wretched than that which the poor child presented it is impossible to conceive. The coun tenance appeared unearthly, with the right eye and cheek much discoloured from recent violence; the hair matted together, and neglected; the body so attenuated as to be merely skin and bone; and the few filthy rags which partially covered it a mass of vermin. The wretched child, upon being questioned by the Magistrate as to how she received the injury on the right eve and cheek, said it had been caused by her going in . the dark to the water-closet. English, one of the summoning officers, however, in formed the Magistrate that on going to the prisoner's house, the child, in answer to a question put by him, said it had been caused by a blow given to her by her father. The step-mother of the child endeavoured to extenuate the charge against her husband, by saying that it was poverty alone that had brought the children to their then condition. The landlord of the house, however, and several of the neighbours, spoke of the negligence and cruelty with which the prisoner and his second wife treated his children; and _ _ Mr. NORTON remanded the case, to give Mr. Aldrich, the relieving -officer of Camberwell, an opportunity of taking the opinion of the guardians as to whether they would prosecute the prisoner ; he (Mr. Norton) ex pressing it as his opinion that they should do so. Henry Schneider, the young German who has been in custody for some days past on various charges of fraud, was brought up for final examination. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the present sessions at the Central Criminal Court on all the four charges. ___ _ THAMES. Margaret Alsturn, who has been in custody a week, was brought before Mr. Yardley, on remand from the Infirmary of the Clerkenvvell House of Detention, charged with attempting to murder her infant child by cuttin g its throat with a knif e , an d a f terwar d s attempt ing to destroy herself. The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with grief and in an exceedingly weak state, made no defence. It was explained to her by Mr. Yardley on a former occa sion that he could not decide the case, and that not withstanding she was in a state of delirium from typhus are exceedingly fever when she committ e d t h e act h e must send her be tore voluminous, ajury. havingT h e depositions, re adover, which Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial, and bound over the witnesses to prosecute. His duty would not permit him to discharge the unfor tunate woman, but she would be properly taken care of. George Holden, a man about forty years of age, who has been in prison on various remands for the long pe riod of three months, was brought before Mr. Yardly for final examination, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding William Payne, a lad aged 16 years, with intent to murder him. Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner for trial for feloniously wounding with intent to murder. ,THE PEMBROKE COLLECTION OF Cum.—The sale of this extraordinary and important collection of coins, after lasting twelve days; was brought to a close on Satur day, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the auctioneers, of Wellington -street, Strand. Among the coins sold on the last day those which fetched the highest prices were some curious gold coins of Cyrene, of great rarity, which sold for 57/. • two little silver coins of Nubia, ve r y rare, sold for 41. As. • a curious " contomiate," or ticket of admi ss i on to the public games and spectacles of Constantine the Great, stated in the catalogue to be unique, sold for 2/. 15s. The most remarkable coins in the day's sale were the Roman Im perial coins and the coins of the Byzantine Emperors, most *1 which were purchased for the British Museum. The fol lowing were worthy of notice :—Romulus Augustus, struck A.D. 475-476, and of extreme rarity on account of the Ro man empire in the west ending with this emperor, sold for 9 guineas ; Michael 111. and Theodora, his mother, struck A.D. 842-856, having on the reverse the bust of our Saviour, in the act of blessing it, sold for 4 guineas ; a coin of great rarity of Theodore, A.D. 1054-1056, baying on the obverse the bust of the Empress, and• the reverse a bust of Our Saviour, sold for 4/. 78. Among the miscellaneous objects, three curious antique Roman bronze weights were bought for the British Museum for 11. 35.; a beautiful medallic carving in wood, 1 inches in diameter, representing two royal personages habited in the costume of Germany, of the early part of the 16th century, stated to be " cut on wood by Albert Durer," and mentioned in a book giving a full description of the works of that artist, under the title of " Das Leben and die Werke Albrecht Durer," published by Heller, at Bamberg, in 1827, sold for 31. 14s. The sale was wound up by the disposal of the cabi nets which had contained this rich collection, and, although they were dropping to pieces from age, they fetched remark ably high sums. The collection produced in the aggregate 5,905/. 14s. It will be gratifying to know that the most valuable of the coins still remain in the country, our own national collection, the collection of Major-General Fox, that of Dr. James Bird, recently Physician-General at Bombay, &c., having been greatly enriched by it. For the continen tal museums Mr. Curt purchased largely. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.42; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.32 k, it follows that gold is 0.38 per cent, dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price . of gold is 4334- per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10Id. por ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.91; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.9, it, follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in llarnburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is quoted by the last arrivals at 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.33 per cent. against England; but the quoted exchange at New York lasing tor bills et 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. IMPERIAL PA RLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF CONEL!ONS. August 23. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) THE GRANT TO THE DISTRESSED POLES. On the question that 10,700 t. to defray the expenses of the allowance to the Polish refugees, Mr. OSBORNE said it was high time this vote was put a stop to. At first the grant was only conceded for one year, but although there were thousands of their own fellow-coun trymen absolutely starving, it was still proposed to put the country to an expense of 10,0001., to support parties who were strangers to the land, and many of whom were, by their own industry, placed beyond the want of such assistance. He found by the last report of the Society of the Friends of Poland, that several of the parties who were participators in the proceeds of this vote were actually engaged in thriving trades; for instance, there was one refugee in re ceipt of a pension of 451. per annum who filled the office of teacher to the French Schools; another, with an unpro nounceable name, who carried on the business of a fencing and dancing master at 101, Sloane-street ; and a third named Albert, who kept one of the finest tobacconist's shops in London. In fact, there appeared to be a list of about twenty of them, who were all in receipt of pensions, and who were all earning good livings in business. They must be just before they were liberal, and while their own countrymen were suffering so many privations, it was high time that they had abolished this grant of 10,000/. a year, and he should therefore take the liberty of dividing the Committee upon the vote. But, independently of the vote itself, there was an expensive staff kept up to superintend the dis tribution of the fund. The secretary received 2751. a year, his clerk received 60/., and these two sums, together with the Polish officers, made up an additional expense of 7001. a year; and as it was high time a step was put to this spe cies efextravagance, he should certainly give the vote his most decided opposition. Lord DUDLEY STUART—Mr. Bernal, I am very sorry to hear the observations which have just fallen from my Hon. Friend with respect to this vote. I be lieve when the whole subject comes to be fully and pro perly considered that both my Hon. Friend and the House will entertain a different opinion with respect to the grants, and that he and they would admit that it is based upon the broadest grounds of justice, and ought to be continued by this country. I know very well that nothing gains more popularity than an Hon. Member advocating a reduction of the public expenditure either of large or small amount, and who points, as the ground far doing so, to the distress of our own people.—(Hear, hear.) Those who come forward and adopt this line of policy are sure to meet with a cheer—not in this House alone, which cheered the Hon. Member when he ex pressL d a desire that the grant should be abrogated alto gether, but in all assemblies in which, my Honourable Friend, or any one else, may enunciate such sentiments:- -(Hear, hear.) I think, however, I shall be able satis factorily to show the House that it would not be justi fied in doing that which has never yet been done—l mean, stopping those charitable grants which it has ever been ready to vote to persons in distress.-- (Cheers.) I think, if the House were to stop this grant to the Polish refugees in this country, that it would commit one of the most ungrateful acts ever done by the British Parliament, and besides, acting accord ing to the Hon. Gentleman's advice, would confer no ad vantage whatever on ourselves.—(Hear, hear.) My Hon. Friend has made several statements which I think evince that he is not well informed of the whole circum stances of the case; and whilst the Hon. Gentleman complimented me upon my kindness to the Poles, he said the expenditure of the whole of the grants was con fided entirely to me. Mr. OSBORNE—I said great trust was very properly reposed in you on the matter, and that your advice was invariably sought with respect to the eligibility of the parties seeking aid to receive it. Lord D. STUART—I cannot but feel grateful for the sentiments which my Hon. Friend entertains with re spect to me, and for his explanation that I had not the complete control of the fund. It happens that I have no control over the expenditure of the grant. Mr. OSBORNE said, nevertheless, a statement to the effect that the Noble Lord had the entire control of the grant was in the evidence of a man named Jebb. Lord D. STUART—I call upon the Noble Lord on the Treasury benches (Lord John Russell) to confirm the statement I have made, that I possess no control over the expenditure of the grant.—(Hear, hear.) I have no control over it at all. There was a time when I had.—l mean when the grant was first made. The dis cretion of deciding who were fit recipients of the grant was in the first instance confided to me. This was done by me for four years, after which time the Treasury took the expenditure of the grant into its own hands. My Hon. Friend complains that an expensive staff is kept up for the management of the office entrusted with the expenditure of the money.: —(" Hear, hear," from Mr. Osborne). Now, during the time that I had the management of the grants, there was no charge whatever.—(Cheers.) I repeat at that time no charge was made connected with the ex penditure of this charity .—(Renewed cheering.) Then my Hon. Friend says, that persons are on the list who are carrying on very good and profitable occupations. Now, I should be very glad indeed if my Hon. Friend could prove that the persona he names are carrying on the lucrative occupations he mentions, because, if they are in such circumstances they should not receive any aid out of the fund ; what they improperly receive should be handed to the really indigent. Ido not deny that many are in busi ness, but I would ask the commercial men of this House, if it be not possible to carry on a large and ap parently thriving business without, in point of fact, realising any profit whatever.—(Hear, hear.) If per sons, I repeat, are on the list who ought not to be there, and this is proved on inquiry, I shall for my part feel no objection to their being removed; but I think you would carry the severity of security far beyond its limits —you would be guilty of an unusual degree of carefulness in the expenditure of the public money-- if you were at once to stop this vote. There would be something harsh in the adoption of such a course in ap plication to the case of the Poles of such a public proceed ing, if you would so proceed—something so unusual in such a course—for it has never yet been adopted—that I cannot think this British House of Commons will con sent to it.—(Hear, hear.) There would be something harsh in that course of proceeding. Whilst I bad any control over that grant, and when I have had occasion to recommend to the Government persons fit to receive aid, I have invariably been at great pains to ascertain that they were either young persons without the means of support, or persons of more mature years in a state of destitution. I think, if my Hon. Friend will inquire into the way in which the grant is administered, he will find that the whole of the control which I have over it consists in recommending deserving persons. One person has been placed on the list in consequence of a vacancy, and three have been r e moved in consequence of not being fit recipients of aid. The Committee of Miscellaneous Estimates recommended that the substitution of others for the three struck:off should not take place. :Sir, when I recollect the feeling that was displayed by the House at the time the grant was first voted—when I recollect that at that time the House and the country considered that the persons whom it was proposed to relieve out of it were persons who had fallen in their advocacy of nationality and liberty, and that the House was pleased unanimously to grant them aid, I am surprised at the state of feeling on the part of some Hon. Members now. When I say I recollect that these refugees have been brought into their present state of destitution in consequence of their attachment to the cause of liberty, and the indepen dence of their country—that they were influenced in an eminent degree by these sentiments of liberty and attachment to country, which have ever distinguished this country, and been so highly appreciated by its people, when evinced by others —that the vote was ori ginally passed without a dissentient voice —(Hear, hear) —and though often objected to, and its policy discussed in this House, yet never abrogated, I confess I cannot think that this British House of Commons will revoke all that it has done—that it will stop in its career of benevolence to unfortunate, brave, and deserving per sons.--(Hear, hear.) Not only was no objection made to the grant, but in 1838 a proposal was made to in crease it ; and, although the then Chancellor of the Exchequer was averse to it, so strong was the feeling on both sides of this House. and out of it, that it was raised from 10,0001, to 1 5,0001.—(Hear, hear.) I do not deny that it was voted for only one year.—(" Hear, hear," from Mr. Osborne.) There can be no doubt about that, but the feeling in favour of it was so strong, that it was continued.—(Hear, hear.) It was voted for the first time in the year 1834, and the next year in reply to a question, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that he should feel great pleasure in continuing the grant if it was the wish of the House that he should do so, and the announcement was re ceived with loud cheers by the House.—(Hear, hear.) It was then increased to 15,0004, and as the claims fell in it was reduced to its present amount, 10,7001. Mr. OSBORNE—The whole charges upon the grant are not included in that. Lord D. STUART—Yes; that sum includes the en tire charges upon the grant and the cost of its adminis tration. If my Honourable Friend will turn to the evidence collected upon the matter, be will find that the Chancellor of the Exch e q u er had stated that in the course of a few years the grant would be totally abo lished.—(Hear, hear.) Do Hon. Members suppose that this grant is the only one made on behalf of those who have been driven from their native laud to seek a shelter favour of these bravo and ga a r . ) p in this hospitable country—that l i l t i n s t an o e o sc l e e p — tio th n a m t aidtt;iins "n the policy of this country something unheard of—that it is a to n eanidtirpeleyrsnoenws plrikinocitphlee e S u ir n , h w es e it h a a ti v n e gl o y ti d ly on d e on fo e r t t h h a e t fortheunfor tunat ePoles w Poles?hic we W h h3 a; refugees of almost all the nations of the earth.—(Loud cheers.) The only difference between th e grant to the Poles and to the unfortunate persons who have come to our shores from other lands in a forlorn state is this, that less has been granted to the Poles than almost to any other distressed people.—(Cheers.) It, Sir, we look into the records of Parliament, and read what was done, in this respect, in former times, we shall find that refuges from all parts of the world have received aid from this country —not to the amount which the unfortunate Poles have received, but an immensely increased amount. In 1800, the grants made by Parliament for the relief of refugees from all parts of the world amounted to no less a sum than 250,000/. for one year; and if you louk at the amounts of the different grants, you will find that they vary from 15 0,0001. and 160,0001. to 167,000/ These immense sums were voted once for French and Dutch retugees, and in fact for the relief of t) , >r ong fru:A ail nonutin, ; and in later times large sums were granted to the Spanish refugees. I think, therefore, I that the Polish re f ugees may be allowed to enjoy this very small sum, the more especially as the claims qr . it are very l arge an d are increasing. But do not let Hon. Gentlemen suppose that this country stands alone in its generosity to the Poles. It may truly De said that England is the richest, and at the same time the most generous nation in the world:-- (Hear, h ear )—b ut I may be permitted to say that in the case of the Poles it has not shown much liberality since this grant amounted originally to 10.000 L, the n to 15,0001., and now it is gradually diminishing—corn' pared with what other countries have done towards the support of these unfortunate persons. No country. which enjoy s a f ree constitution has omitted to send large sums of money for the relief of the distressed Poles. Switzerland—poor Switzerland—has aided them. One of her cantons has given halt the sum voted by this country, and Belgium has also given them their aids the bounty of France has been greater than the rest. I hold in my hand a paper, which I have procured from France, which contains a statement of the sums voted 10 aid of the Poles during the time we have also so genes rously extended aid to them. From this paper it ap pears that from the time we began to assist them the French Chambers have not voted but 10,000/., as we have done, butlloo,ooo/. or 2,500,000 francs.—(Hear:) Last year it amounted to 5 0,000/.—(Hear)—and this year a sum of nearly like amount has been v oted. Mind, I am not at a ll say i ng that we should continue this grant because France has given so munificently , because Ido not deny that the Poles have a greater claim upon the generosity of France than upon this country ; I merely mention the fact to show that what we have done is not so extraordinary as the Hon. Gentleman would wish to lead the House to suppose, and that we do not stand alone in our benevolence. Id o n ot blame the Hon. Gentleman for advocating economy. am as anxious for economy as any man, which is evi denced by my votes; but if you carry out the principle of economy, let it he real in its nature, and not apply it to such a miserable sum as this; do not take away from these unfortunate persons the miserable pit tance they are now receiving, and thereby bring them to the most abject state of destitution. To show that I advocate economy in the public expen diture, I may state that I voted with the Hon. Gentle' man the Member for Montrose for the reduction of the army and navy. A reduction in that expenditure would center a real good upon the country; it would be felt; but if you reduce this miserable dole, it will go forth to the world that England, notwithstanding all her great ness and her wealth, was carrying the principle of eco nomy to an extraordinary extent. Its abolition would confer no good upon the country at all; it would notgive one man half a glass of beer more, or one womsa an additional teaspoonful of tea.—(Hear and laughter.) It will, however, do this. If you withhold the grant it will place an additional burden upon the parishes in which the Poles reside, and the rates will have to be in creased in consequence; for when you take away the little aid you now give them they cannot be permitted to die of starvation. The grant will therefore have to be paid in some other and less palatable way. You could not apply to them the Alien Bill which has un shappily-paesed through this House. If you were inhuman . enough to desire t o a ppi y i t to them you would be unable to do so, for you could not send them out of the country by force after the length of time they have re sided here. The Act was not passed for any such pur pose, and such a construction of it would not be toleratd fora moment.—(Hear, hear.) Then, again, this grant does not aggravate the distress of the country, and the people know this full well. If you doubt it, I ask where are the petitions against the continuance of the grant? The feeling of the country is not against it. Is the table, I ask, covered with petitions seeking its abrogation 7—(Heer, hear.) Whenever I present myself at a public assembly I find myself flattered instead of condemned for my exertions on be half of the Poles.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) It is all very well for my Hon. Friend to ridicule what I tun saying, but I merely proclaim a fact—(Hear, hear) and it he had been present he would have found that what I state is correct. Why not cut down other ex penses, not one of which was more necessary than this grant to the Poles? Why, if we are to carry out a rigid system of economy do we b uy pictures for our public galleries, or Elgin marbles for our museums?—(Hear, hear.) Why if this principle is to gu id e us, do we maintain all the splendour and dignity of the Court, and which it is the right of the Sovereign to keep up? I say that this grant to these unfortunate, brave, and virtuous men does more to uphold the dignity of the Sovereign and the character of this country than all the proud array of the Palace and the Court. I believe that the people of this country would rather assist struggling men in distress than pay for all this uselessness. How does it happen when this grant is objected to that the House acceded to the last sum specified in the miscellaneous estimates for the entertainment of foreign princes—(Hear, hear)--- for the entertainment of foreign sovereigns, foreign princes, and foreign grandees, whom the people stare at? —(Laughter.) They would feel less pleasure in tieing so if they knew that the princes sent here are entertain ed, when here, out of th e p oc k ets of the people. In looking over the votes for this purpose during the last few years, I find that almost every sovereign and foreigner that exists has been here. I find in the list the Emperor of itis sia and the King of Holland—(Cries of " Question, question.") I am speaking to the question. lam showing that there ar o ot h er t hi ngs to cut down besides this small grant to the Poles.—(Hear, hear.) lam showing that we have had nearly every sovereign in the world here, and that we have entertained them magnifi cently out of the pockets of the people of England, for whom Hon. Members profess to have so much regard. Read the miscellaneous estimates, and you will find whole pages of the expense of bringing them over, entertaining them here, and taking them back. —(Hear.) They would find that a vast expense had been incurred in carrying the King of Greece to Bavaria from Greece, and taking him somewhere else; they would find all sort& of things of this kind. For instance, an enormous sum had been expended in entertaining Ibrahim Pacha.—(Roars of laughter.) You had, for instance, to pay the expense of bringing him from Alexandria to India, and also the expense of bringing over three Egyptian young gentlemen to England—(Laughter) -.-and from 2,000/. to 3,000/. was expended in entertaining them. Ido not say that you ought to cut these down, but if you wish to do so, surely you have an ample field without trenching upon the seipend to the Poles. I am not one of those who wish to do away with all the splendour that attach to a Court and Government, b ut I seriously think that some reduction might with propriety be made.—(Hear, hear.) I do not wish for republican simplicity, but I say if you wish to re d uce the national expenditure. I do not think it world be well for you to take away that assistance you have now, for so many years, so generously given.—(Hear, hear.) Task you, if the Poles stood in n ee d o f this aid years ago do they not in a much more degree stand in need of it now? Whatever . may be th e views entertained of the conduct of the Poles in the affairs of the continent—and I shall be ready at the proper time to defend it—l do not think the House will act so ungenerously as to condemn the , Poles on that account, and to make their conduct a plea for abolishing the grant. I must say that the conduct of this country to the Poles has been most exemplary. In former days the Polish Diet acted in a way not un like the English Parliament. As it was not indifferent to English distress or English exiles, a large sum of money was voted for a considerable number of years for the Poles, during the time of Charles the Second.— (Hear, hear.) If Honourable Members would look into the Blue-book they would I find that in consequence of deaths and departures the grant: was reduced to its present amount; and it is in rapid pro gress, according to the report of the committee, towards final extinction, the number on the list having, in 1838, been 680, and being now reduced to 365. It must also be allowed, and that too appeared from the evidence taken before the Committee, that the conduct of the Poles in this country was, with few exceptions, exem plary. They had been brought into their present un happy condition by their patriotism and their virtue. I must protest against being supposed indifferent to the distress of our own countrymen, but this grant did not aggravate that distress; the refusal of it would in no de gree alleviate it. I hope therefore my Hon. Friend will not press his opposition to it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY said the Nobl, te Eord hid atade out as good a case as he could in support of the grant, but he had failed to show that during all the years these Poles had been here they had been unable to make a subsistence, and, next, to find their way ba c k t o th e i r awn country.-L(Hear hear.) It was not right th e y s h ou ld continue a burden on the people of this country, many of whom, owing to their distresses, would be glad of pensions. He did not think this grant should continue for ever. He should vote against the grant, unless the Government told the House that it would not be con• tinued.—( Hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said it was surprising that the Poles in four teen years had not been able to provide for themselves. He could not but think that the Noble Lord was gratifying favourite notion at the expense of the people of this country, and at the sacrifice of his duty to his constituents. The case was much worse than had been stated. Oat of the whole time the money had been paid but one Pole had been magnanimous enough to resign. He deprecated John Bull being made a mulch cow by the inhabitants of other countries.—(Great laughter.) In 1834 the House acceded to the grant on the distinct understanding that it would be but temporary.-- (Hear, hear.) He trusted this would be the last vote, or at least the last but one, and that the Government would give. a pledge to that effect.—( H ear, h ear.) It was the saving o f small sums that made a large general saving. Mr. HUME said he was one of the Committee to whom the allotment of aid out of the vote to the distressed Poles was granted. The sums, he admitted, wer e very small, but they were given merely as aid, and in order to support them until they could support themselves. That principle hid been altogetner contravened. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer would give a pledge that this and other grants would be reviewed and not pressed again if found that they could be dispensed with, he should advise his Hon. Friend not to press his amendment. The Pole and ever,' other foreigner could ow return to his own country. . OSBORNE now return to his own country. the Mr. OSBORNE intimated that he could no t consent to the suggestion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER reviewed the circumstances under which the money was granted. The vote was one which could not be considered a permanen t charge up on th e country.—( " Hear, hear.) He did not th ink the House w ou ld b e di sposed to take away this aid from o ld persons who had been long in the receipt of it—that would be an act o f crue l ty; b ut young persons able to earn thei ▪ r h oiy o n ns l e iv t i h n a g t c t o h u o h ld a n t aotibioeualldlohweedto carefully receiv re e v i i t e . w H od e . assured t h e Sir J. th J.T e Y th E a L no L ol d lo id r . o n f o th t e w E i x sh nh t e o go ac er t h cr a u d e n lly ot , b m u a t de in lodudo hi▪ s t opinion a I s v t e r l o l n t g o itsc a u llo e w fo 4r,o oo th i snt n continuance. e d . isc H on e ti t n h u o e ug it x h n t e th t ar ou ey y , o u nlessin be much complimented) could show a very urgent case (hw for its year, the Noble L or d t h e M em b er f or Marylebone • contmuance to certain parties. Lord R.GROSVENOR accounted for the Hon. Gentleman ( llr. Bright) calling John Bull a milch cow by his having sat seventy-three days on an Irish Committee. He thought the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the best. Mr. 11. BERKELEY said,when they had a heart to feel for the woes of foreigners, he trusted that some share of their humanity would be given for the distressed people at home. Conqituerpt generally remarked that the 11 , ,ttQo afforded liuerat aid to foreigners whilst they neglected the distressed condition of the people at home. He considered that neither the army or navy could now be reduced with safety He should support the amendment. UM in t' hi g; the trey alb .Ivitl tha - 1 awa the tot of t der( due par 0 da y Not ivitl