The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

I.I.O:XAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND. BALM ORAL, MONDAY MORNING. Prince Albert did not go out shooting on Satur day, as was expected, but accompanied the Queen, and several of the royal attendants, in a drive, as far as Loch-na-gar, in a pony equipage and the customary outriders. Her Majesty seemed highly pleased with the beautiful scenery. There are very few visitors in the vicinity of the Cistle, indeed nearly all the houses in the village are temporarily occupied by !persons whose avocations are immediately concerned in the visit of the Court, and no further accommodation could be afforded if required. ROYAL VISITS TO ABERDEEN IN OLDEN TIMES. The Aberdeen Journal, apropos of the present aus piciotis occasion, gives the following historic sketch of the circumstances under which some of her Majesty's royal predecessors have honoured Aberdeen with their presence : Some of our old chroniclers will have it that Aber deen was one of the residences of the usurper Grig, commonly called Gregory the Great, whose misty history belongs to the latterr half of the ninth century. They, stssu're us that he had what they magnilo quenty call a " palace" in Aberdeen ; that he be stowed on the city its first charter ; and that he was so specially fond of it as to speak of it as " his own city." These statements, however, are not borne out by any trustworthy evidence, and must be regarded as—in a great measure, if not wholly—fabulous. It is most likely that Aberdeen owed its first charter, if not its origin, to the munificence and en lightened patriotism of David I.; since the oldest charters extant are partly confirmatory 'of privileges conferred on the citizens by that monarch, but make no reference to earlier marks of royal favour. The first monarch of whose residence in Aberdeen there is authentic evidence, is King William the Lion, grandson of David I. He appears to have resided frequently, either in the city or county, between the years 1179 and 1214. The oldest extant charter of the city was granted by him, and is believed to be of the former date. It is still in good preservation. William appears to have had a house in Aberdeen, which, about 1211, he bestowed on the order of the Trinity, Red, or Maturing Friars, whose chief busi ness it was to collect funds for the redemption of Christina held in slavery by the infidels in Palestine. Of this palace nothing now remains ; the site is occu pied I . ly the Old Trades Hall. But there is still to be seen sr the new hail a ponderous table, at which tra dition says the leonine monarch used to preside. It is a very curious piece of furniture, consisting of a massive slab of artificial stone, smoothly polished, and set in a beautiful oak frame of much later date ; the style of the ornaments showing that it belongs to the early part of the 17th century. The framework bears the arms of Dr. Guild, who purchased and fitted up tae ruins of the monastery as an hospital for decayed burgesses of trade. Alexander 11. appears to have been frequently in Aberdeen, between the years 1222 and 1235. Old Wynton says that, in the former year— " Ho held his yule in Abbyrdene." He, too, is said to have had a palace in the city, which he afterwards bestowed on the preaching or black friarciin4riTer of which ho was a great patron. Its site was in what now forms the garden of Gor don's Hospital. The building was destroyed at the period of the R4ormation ; and not a vestige of it was visible for many years, until latterly its founda tions were accidentally di , covered. Between 1272 and 1369, Aberdeen was the occasional residence of Alander 111., John Baliol, Robert the Bruce, and David 11. The unfortunate Baliol was taken captive here by John Cornyn, Laird of Strathbogie, and de livered up to Edward I. of England, at Montrose. Edward himself came to Aberdeen, on the 14th July, 1506, and remained in it for five days. On the 17th he received the homage and oath of allegiance of the bur gesses and community. For this act, however, the citi• zens afterwards made so ample an atonement to " the Bruce," that that illustrious monarch conferred on them many privileges, which are set forth in what is justly called the Greet Charter of the Burgh. In some of the battles which he fought in vindication of his title to the Crown, the citizens of Aberdeen seem to have afforded him signal assistance. We may here men tion, incidentally, that the citizens gave undoubted proof of their loyally and bravery at the battles of Herlaw,'July, 1411, when their gallant Provost, Sir Robert Davidson, and many of the burgesses, were slain in de ending the rights of the Crown against the usurper, Donald of the Isles. In the month of July, 1448, James 11. paid his first visit to Aberdeen, when the magistrates made him a present, under name of a " propine," of two tuns of Gasoony wine, wax candles, and sweetmeats. His Queen paid a visit in -January, 1455, and was jresented with 100 marks in money. James W. visited Aberdeen in 1492, 1495, 1497, 1504, 1507, 1509, when he received " propines " of wine, wax, spiceries, and money. In May, 1511, Aberdeen was visited by his Queen, Margaret, eldest daughter (If Henry VII. of England. The occasion was afterwards celebrated i❑ a poem written by Dunbar (who seems to have accompanied the royal park), entitled "The Queeneie iZeception at Aber dein: ' Great preparations were made to receive her Majesty with suitable pomp and circumstance. Coin • miesioners were appointed to raise money to defray the expenses of the occasion, and the citizens were ordered to decorate the fronts of their houses with arras-work, evergreens, and flowers. It appears from Dunbar's poem that the Queen was met, at some distance from the city, by the bur geieses, " richelie array it, as became theme to be;" four of their number, " men of renoun," " In gounes of velvet, young, able, andlustie, To heir the pall of velvet cramasie, Abone her held, as the custowe has bein." Under this canopy the Queen took her seat, and was borne to the Shiprow Port of the city. Here she was welcomed by- another procession, " in cap of gold and silk full pleasantlie," and was treated with a succes nof masques and pageants. The first represented The Salutation of the Virgin— " The sound of menstrallis blaming to - the sky." Then came the pageant of " the Orient Kiwis three ; then the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, by an Angel, with the sword of,violence." Lastly, came the Bruce— " * ** that ever was bold in stour, Richt awful strang, and large of portraitour, As noble, dreadful, michtie champion." Then followed a procession, of " four-and-twenty maidens young," all clad in green, with white hats, and " of marvellous beautie"— " Playand on timberallis, and singin richt sweetlie." In fine— " At her coming, great was the mirth and joy; For at the Cross abundantly ran wino : Unto her lodging the town did her convoy; Her for to treat they set their haill ingine; A rich present they did to her propino, A costlie cup that large thing would contain, Covered, and full of coin-ed gold richt fine: Be blyth and blissful, Brugh of Aberdeen !" The gold in the cup amounted, to ,two hundred ppunds. In 1537, James V. visited the city, and was sump tuously entertained in it for the space of fifteen days. The unfortunate Queen Mary visited Aberdeen about August, 1562, when she was received with every mark of loyalty and attachment. She was also here i the end of October that year, when the Earl of Iluntly was defeated by the Earl of Murray, in the battle of Corrichie, fought in one of the glens of the till] of Fare, in this county. The Gordon chief and many of his followers were slain ; and many prisoners were conveyed to Aberdeen, including Huntly's second son, the gallant and handsome Sir John Gordon, for whom the Queen is said to have had at one time a strong attachment. lie was beheaded, in Castle-street, on the 2d of November, to the profound grief of the Queen, who was so situated as not to have the power of saving his life. James VI. often found a loyal re ception and comfortable quarters in Aberdeen, be tween'the years 1581 and 1600. On all these occa sions ?,se received propines of money, and sometimes levied it needful contribution. Oa the occasion of his marrage with Anne of Denmark, the citizens fitted Out a vessel called the Nicholas (after ;the patron saint of the city), which was commanded by one of the baillies, and sailed from Aberdeen, to join the royal squadron bound for Denmark, on the 16th of April, 1589. The vessel was completely armed, and decorated with " ensigns, flags, and streamers of war, red side-cloths, and gilded tops." It would ap pear that James contemplated a visit in 1617; for the rotiakclsntrastes received a dispatch, recommending " that "ur :g i g 8 be prepared in the most h an d some , civil, and 'well meted- tI Y 114fluar ; with good bedding, well-wa s he d and cient largenzerie ; clear and clean vessels, of suffl• Suitable prepara't. plenty of provisions and vivres." no. farther north than Sir w ere Castle. In 1620 one Pearl, aTtiomas Menzies, presented to his Majesty a large , found in the brook of Kelly, which runs intos he .Ythan, not far from Haddo House, and which Crown of Scotland paid t o be " th e top pearl in the . or this gift the King stoWed on 'Menzies the hone . ur of knighthood. be- The next and last gover who visited Aberdeen was the " merry monarche4gCl meat 11. During his , Cenlytkh:vin first exile, the Scottish Parliamh issloners, one of him iiimg of Great Britain g proclaimed whom was Provost Jaffrey, ef Abe rde e nwere dis patched to bring him over from the Con embarked under convoy of a Dutch fleet, an e rf a lie at Speymouth on Monday, the 4th of July , In6dZed After resting at Bog of Gight, now Gordon Castle he arrived in Aberdeen on the 7th, and took up his residence in Castle-street, which some conceive to have been that which is now called the " Bursars' House." His visit to the city was intimated to the magistrates in the following letter from the Commis sioners, of date 23d June, 1650 : " Worsehipfull and good triendis, we have directed these to let you know, that the Kiog is saiflie arryved, and intend is, if God permit, to be at Abirdein on Thurs- THE SUN, LONDON, day at night; thairfore ye will tack such cair to prowyd Bnrortmlza.—The hops have mnch improved within fitt ludgingis for him, and for the Commissioneris, and the last ten days, being so unusually thick on the for the trayne, as may be best raid, on so short adver- branches, particularly on the good cultivated grounds. teismentis; and we beseik you let nothing be wanting We still think of getting a fair crop. Picking will cora quhich may testifie your effectioun to the native King, mence on Thursday next, but will not be general before quha haith fullio assured all the desyr of his people. Monday, the 18th instant. No further, but we ar your werie assured friendis. BURAVASH.—The hops are now rapidly arriving at (Signed) Cassillis, Lothiane, Brodie, Geo. Wynram, J. maturity. Many of our planters will begin picking in a Smith, Al. Jaffrey. Speymouth, 23d Jany. 1650. For few days. Opinions as to the amount of the crop are the Richt Worschipfull the Magistratis of the town of conflicting; all think, however, it will be large. Abdn. Thess." EASTKOATHLY.—With regard to the hops, the ques- On his arrival he was received with every mark tion isinow pretty well decided that they will not grow of distinction and popular attachment. He conferred out to their wonted size, consequently must come short of an average crop ; th e r e b e i ng no more must necessa. the honour of knighthood o n th e provos t, F arqu h ar o f Mounie ; and on Mr. L es li e o f Ed en, who had for- rily act against the pi c k ers . merly held that office. The King remained in the FLETCHI ean ING.-UT hops continue to go on well, an d re avery c Several of our planters are ab ou t t o town but one night, proce e di ng nex t d ay t o Dunnot- commence peck .. ing this week, and there i s eve r y appear tar. He would appear to have been again in Aber- ance we shall have an average crop. deen on the 25th of F e b ruary , 1651—th e l as t time FARNHAM.—Picking has commenced in a very few that our city enjoyed the presence of royalty. Now instances in this parish, and the result, as far as it goes, that, after the lapse of nearly two centuries, we are is very satisfactory; it will be general about the middle about to receive a renewal of that distinguished of the week. honour, under the happiest auspices, well may we ex- HEATIIFIELD.—The hop-picking has commenced in claim with old Dunbar— some few instances in this neighbourhood, but the result "Be blyth and blissful, Brugh of Aberdeen." of the "rising" to the bu s h e l, or o f t h e we i ght, have not been made known. Mr. James Relf, of Streetend farm, who (with rare exceptions) is the first in this locality to begin, will commence on Monday the 11th, and several others will follow about Wednesday. On Monday, the 18th, the picking will be general. Although some of the bops are tolerably well grown, there are many very small of a burr-like appearance. They have had but little sun, which is the cause of their being entirely destitute of " condition," and the consequent inference is, that the duty is far too highly estimated, as is almost invariably the case in wet and cold summers. HIIRSTOREEN.—The hops are very much improved this week, and a larger quantity is now expected. Picking will be commenced about the latter end of this week or the beginning of next. The duty is estimated at 200,000/. MAYPIELD.—The hops have improved during the last week; they are coming fast to maturity, and the picking will soon become general. They have grown larger than usual this season, consequently there will be more bushels required than usual to the cwt. NEwicK.—The warm weather has not improved our hops so much as was expected. They hang very thick on the branches, but are very small. Picking will com mence generally in the course of a week. NitirlELD.—The hop plantations in this locality have made great progress during the last week. Picking commenced in one garden last Friday, and will be general this week, with every prospect of a high duty. PRISTONS IGHTHAM.—There is no improvement in the hops this week ; most of them will be very smal'. The mould still continues to increase. ROVIIERFIELD.—The hops in this neighbourhood con tinue to improve, and the growth is likely to equal, if not exceed, that of last year's. RTE.—The fine weather we have experienced during the past week has proved highly beneficial to the hops in and about this neighbourhood, and leads us to believe the duty will exceed 200,0001. Many of our planters in tend to commence picking this week. TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—During the last week the fine weather has caused a great improvement in the appear ance of the hops In this neighbourhood, and we may ex pect that the picking will commence on some grounds during the next week. FRANT.—The hops in this district have not made the progress this week as we had been led to expect after such congenial weather. Many poles are but little past the burr, and the same appear quite stationary. UCKFIELD.—Our hops are still doing well in this parish. Picking will commence about Wednesday at a few places, when use shall be better able to judge of the crop. The duty is called 205,0001. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SEPTEMBER 12 Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, and the younger branches of the Royal Family have taken their usual exercises in the grounds about Osborne. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe left Osborne yesterday morning for Portsmouth. The Fairy steam-yacht was in attendance this morning off the Trinity Wharf, to embark her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and party on an expe dition round the island. The Viscount de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister at this Court, left town yesterday for Liverpool, to embark on board the Brazilian steam-frigate Affonso, on his way to Lisbon.—During his Excellency's ab sence, the Chevalier de Ribeiro, Secretary of the Legation, will act as Charge d'Affaires. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from a visit to Lord Ashburton, at the Grange, Hants. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The last exhibi .ion for the present season of the fhwers, fruits, &c , produced by the competitors for the prizes given by the South London Floricultural Society took place yesterday in the grounds of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, under the arrangements of Mr. Tyler, the proprietor, and the committee of tho society. The " show was more than equal to anything hitherto exhibited in the same place in the way of horticultural science, either as regards flowers, plants, fruits, or culinary vegatable: The collection of dahlias, which forms the great feature of the exhibition, was superb. Amongst the specimens were some that were almost unique in colour and shape. A great number of msd its were awarded by the judges to the successful candidates. Those who gained the gold ones were—Mr. Cole, of Dartford, and Mr. Hemp, of South Lambeth, for miscellaneous collections of flowers; Mr. Howard, of Burnham, for twenty-four dahlias, and Mr. Robinson, of Pimlico, Mr. Pope, of Chelsea, for twelve dahlias; Mr. Pawley, of Bromley, for miscellaneous plants; Mr. Turner, of Chalvey, for dahlias; and Mr. Bragg, of Slough. In addition to the show there were the usual attractions of music and fire works, The gardens were thronged with several thou sand visitors. HERRING TRADE.—We are now glad to announce to our readers that there exists no longer any doubt that the long expected and wished for armistice be twixt Denmark and the German Confederation has been amicably settled. The news will be hailed with joy by all interested in the herring trade, as shipment may now be made in British as well as foreign bottoms, of all flags, to the Baltic and German ports without molestation. In making this announcement, we would also hope that the trade, generally, would moderate for a time rather than increase shipments; for although markets are in general hare of herrings abroad, any large and simultaneous export, without fixed sales on beard in this country, would have a most depreciating effect en prices. _Dealers abroad, counting on consign ments, would consequently withhold their orders, in an ticipation of such being largely made. By advises re ceived from Stettin down to the 26th ult., 7,400 barrels of herrings had reached that place, and the other ship ments known on 'Change. Prices, which commenced at 10 dolls. to 10f dolls., had re ce d e d to 9f dolls., and a further decline looked fur as arrivals got in.—Banffshire Journal. IRISH PRODUCE.—The importations of grain and general provisions into the port of Liverpool from the Irish ports during the week comprising from the 11th to the 17th ult. consisted of the following, viz.:- 7,214 firkins, 303 half-firkins, 345 boxes, and 1,876 other packages of butter ; 13 bags of wheat, 2,373 sacks of flour, 526 bags and 940 quarters of wheat, 164 loads and 205 bags of oatmeal, 72 sacks of malt, 116 quarters and 59 sacks of barley, 671 packages of linens and cottons, 98 casks of whisky, 37 bales of hams and bacon, 19 firkins and 7 barrels of tongues, 10 casks, 150 kegs, and 10 firkins of lard, 11 barrels of pork, 30 bar rels of meal, some of the farina and seed, 150 quarters of beans, 55 barrels of beef, and other articles. Those of the port of Bristol, in two days in the same period of time, comprised 2,118 barrels of oats, 218 quarters and 213 barrels of barley, 21 casks of whisky, 106 firkins of butter, several of malt, linens and other articles. The importations into the port of Liverpool, from Ireland, during the subsequent week, comprising from the 18th to the 24th ult. inclusive, consistin g o f th e f ollowing, viz., —3,145 firkins, 293 half-firkins, 193 boxes, and 1,607 other packages of butter ; 541 packages of linens and cottons ; 22 bales and 21 casks of hams and bacon ; 212 quarters, 182 sacks, and 50 tons weight of raw: wheat a a o:f ; 5 f1 6 3 0 8 7 u brea;arsks of barrels, , b a a u r d r s o whisky,soto u 9 p a 2 o , 9 r w k e s ; i a g e l h k , 4 t s u s a b n q u d u l a k r l t o B e f r s o , b a a t 6 s r 3: 99 loads and 100 sacks of oatmeal ; 74 kegs and four tierces of lard ; 16 sacks of farinsate:dn of 50 330 quarters of ;broehaotnhssee, same at a2mBe thes period sacks k spoof of rt malt, otifm 0 Bristol consisted n d s i 57 sacks of seed. twon 1 days ll and 152 barrels of b ar l ey, 23 casks of quarterswhisky,il 1,700 barrels and 20 tons weight of oats, 450 packages of rye meal. 152 firkins and 120 cas k s of butter;six tons' weight of oatmeal, 29 quarters of malt, several of linens, and other articles. Th e f ollowing is a compen dium of the importations of such articles into the metro polis from the sister country during the period compris ing from the 17th to the 30th u l t . , viz.: -230 packages of linens, 420 hampers a n d b a l es o f b acon, 447 casks of porter, 175 bales of feathers, 30 casks of whisky 383 , bales of paper, 333 packages of ma l t , 372 casks and other packages of lard, 31,275 cask s an d other packages of butter, 407 boxes and cases of eggs, 238 casks of pork, 21 of hams, 50 of general provisions, 277 boxes of sal. mon, 1,150 of soap, a quantity of live cattle, horses, a n d a variety of other articles of food of lesser importance and of general merchandise, which need not be m ore particularly enumerated. This account of the recent supplies of articles of food from Ireland, the produce of that country, will be of interest. A SMART Dos. --A shepherd once, to prove the who was lying before the fi re i n quiek theho n u e sses of hiswhere dog, eWere talking, said to me in the mid- die of a sentence conaerning - something else—" thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid no stress on these words, and said them iu a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who ap peared to be asleep, immediately jumped up, and leaping through the open window, scrambled up to the turf root of the house, from which he could see the potato field ! He then (not seeing the cow thure) ran and looked into the barn where she was, and finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shep herd said the same words again, and the dog repeated his look-out; but on the false alarm being a third time given,the dog getup, and wagging his tail, looked his master in the face, with so comical an expression of interro gation, that ho could not help laughing aloud at him, on which, with a slight growl, he laid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, and as if determined not to be made a fool of again. —American Paper. A MATcn AT CHE S S.—A celebrated chess-player, Mr. Harrwitz, of Breslau, was expected to visit this town yesterday. He is to meet the members of the Liverpool Chess Club, and play two games at the same time, with out seeing the chess board. A recent feat of this extra ordinary player is thus noticed by the Glasgow Citizen, " Herr Harrwitz, the celebrated chess-player, being on a visit to the d , ff-rent chess clubs in the north, gave a soirée to the chess players of Glasgow, on Wednesday evening, ut the Athenceuna. Upon this occasion he 1 played two games at the same time, blindfold, against four of the strongest players of the Glasgow Chess Club, two playing at one board, and two at another; the sepa rate parties consulting together upon the m3ves. The result was that Mr. Harrwitz won one game, and after a hard fight. the play extending to sixty-one moves, drew the other."—Liverpool Mercury. Advices from Rotterdam state that the Dutch Trading Company have announced a sale for the 18th inst., comprising 78,957 baskets Java sugar, which are likely to maintain the prices paid at the sale of July 27, more particularly now that the armistice concluded in the Baltic will admit of shipments to that quarter, and that the refiners there will probably be anxious to lay in stocks before the season closes. The sale on the present occasion will comprise a preponderating quantity of brown and yellow assortments, with only a very small proportion Of good and fine white. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM. An adjourned meeting of this company was held at Shrewsbury on Tuesday; Mr. W. Ormsby Gore, M.P., in the chair. At the half-yearly meeting held at the same place a fortnight ago a good deal of divided opinion was ex pressed by various shareholders touching a series of reso lutions brought forward by Mr.G. B. Thorneycroft, one of the directors, to the effect that it was expedient to raise the sum of 155,0001., by the creation of preference shares, in order to enable the directors to open the line next spring. At that meeting an amendment was moved by Mr. Thorne, of :Leamington, that no prefe rence shares be issued, but that the directors should en force the payment of all arrears of calls due on the ori ginal shares. The CHAIRMAN said the directors had in the whole proceedings studied to the utmost the wishes and conve nience of the shareholders. Many gentlemen who at tended the last special meeting seemed to entertain the idea that undue influence had been used by one of the officers of the company in obtaining proxies in favour of the preference shares, in consequence of which it was agreed that proxies should be sent to every individual shareholder, to enable him to vote as he thought proper. He could state that the imputation against their officer was not deserved. He could only say that th• officer had no private views whatever in the matter. The SECRETARY having read th• resolutions and amendments, Mr. J. H. EDWARDS said it was his decided opinion that the directors had no power whatever to issue pre ference shares, and it was his intention even if he should stand alone, to apply for an injunction against it. legal opinion o n th at po i nt. The CrtentsrAN stated th at t h e di rectors had con sultedASTELLS thought a step b etween the two pro jects produced might b e ta k en, wh i ch was to the e that a it would be d es i ra bl e to strike off 41. each ff effect Mr. now C share, which had been paid on class A. shares to the Stour Valley line, and which formed no portion of the main line of this company, whereby the A and B shares could be consolidated. The CHAIRMAN said, he very much feared this propo sition could not be legally carried out. Mr. Pnu.Lips read a memorial praying the directors to create preference share s , and whi c h was s i gne d b y a large number of London shareholde rs . Mr. SLANEY, M.P., said, with every deference to the directors, he thought it would be better to try first the effect of calls, and if that failed to have another meeting and then adopt preference shares. Mr. SPARROW, at considerable length, deprecated the creation of preference shares. After some further observations by Mr. THORNEY cnoFT and other gentlemen, the meeting (which had then been sitting three hours) became impatient to put the question to the vote. The CRAntmAN said parties who had not paid up their calls would not be allowed to vote. He then stated that the directors had received 5,831 answers from share holders in favour of the issue of preference shares, and 4,263 in favour of calls, leaving a majority of 1,568 in favour of the preference shares. lie proposed that Mr. Sparrow, jun., and Mr. Phillip s s h ou ld act as scrut i neers to examin e te proxies. The CHAIRMAN next put the amendment, that no pre ference shares be issued, but that the directors make such calls as may be necessary to enable them to raise the money required. On a show of hands there appeared 40 in favour of the amendment, and 8 against it; upon which the scruti neers retired to another room to examine the proxies, which occupied several hours, the scrutiny not being complete until after twelve o'clock at night. On Wednesday (yesterday) morning Mr. Gore again took the chair, when the scrutineers reported that there were-- Against the amendment Fur the amendment 5,401 Majority in favour of preference shares 921 The original resolution was then put by the Chair man, and baying been altered so as to divide the 155,0001. into 19,375 shares of 81. each, instead of 15,500 of 101., and thus allow one preference share for every five original shares, it was unanimously carried, and the proceedings terminated. T HE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAIL WAY. Btamisroxasr, WEDNESDAT.-011 the termination of Captain Simmons's examination last night, the Coroner directed that Matthews, the driver of the Colonel engine, should be brought into the room. On entering, the Coroner informed him that he need not make any state ment which in any way might tend to criminate himself. One most important point of the inquiry was the speed at which the train was travelling, and if the jury should be of opinion that the speed was beyond safety, he (the driver) would be implicated. It was, therefore, a matter for his consideration whether he would make any state ment at all. lie (the Coroner) should not swear him, but all that he said would be taken down in writing, and, if requisite, would be used for or against him, as the case might be, if any future proceedings should ensue. Matthews, who bore marks of the injuries which he had received, replied that all he knew of the accident was, that they were thrown off their own line of rails, from some cause of which they bad no knowledge, and that he was not driving the engine at more than the ordinary rate of an express train. The CORONER, after reading his notes of the first day's proceedings, was excused by the jury the task of going through the remainder of the immense body of evidence which lay before him. The jury, he remarked, would have to take into their consideration the most im portant element in the inquiry—he alluded to the ques tion of speed. Some of the witnesses had spoken of its extraordinary rapidity, and also of a certain bumping, commenced shortly after leaving Wolverhampton, and which was greatly increased when the train arrived on descending gradients. Upon this point the evidence of Mr. Parker, a servant of the company, and whose professional avocations rendered his faculties particalarly alive to this phenomenon, was of more than ordinary value. He stated that when he found the bumping re peated, he looked out of the window, thinking it proba ble that the wheels or wheel of the carriage were broken, or, as it were, " scotched," for that was the kind of sen sation produced. There was a great deal of evi dence with regard to this bumping and oscillatory motion ; the consequence of which was, as Mr. Parker thought, the last carriage (belonging to the Scotch Central Railway Company) was thrown off the rails, and the re s t o f the train speedily fol lowed. That was the hypothesis of the witness to whom he had referred, and it had received consider able confirmation from Mr. Trivethicke and Mr. Norris, two eminent practical engineers, in the service of the London and North-Western Railway Company. On the other hand, they had in the Government Inspector of Railways, a most competent witness, who, while he ad mitted the possibility that the last carriage having left the line might be the cause of the engine and the rest of the train being thrown off the rails, still expressed doubt as to the correctness of such an hypothesis. He did not conceive that it was forced. Captain Simmons did not, however, state any more certain cause. He seemed to think that the accident might with more probability be attrbuted to high speed, his chief reason being that Mr. Osborne was enabled by his watch to say positively that the train travelled from Wolverhampton to Newton bridge, a distance of seven miles, in 10 minutes. Al though this by figures was only 42 miles per hour, yet he (Captain Simmons) thought the train would go one and half mile before it got to that speed. He was in clined, therefore, to put the speed at the time the acci dent occurred at 50 miles an hour, which he thought the limit of safety. But, as the jury would gather from the questions put by Mr. Carter, if Captain Simmons took one part of Mr. Osborne's evidence, he was bound to take the whole. And so were the jury. Mr. Osborne stated that he travelled often by railway upon that line, and that the train on the night in ques tion was proceeding at not more than the ordinary rate of an express train. That rate, as stated by Captain Huish, was from 42 to 43 miles an hour. Other wit nesses of great experience represented that 50 miles an hour upon that line, and even upon that particular curve where the train went over, was safe. The jury would give this evidence a fair and dispassionate consideration, having in view the authority from which it emanated. They would bear in mind the protection which the public demanded from the occurrence of such accidents; that they were in the presence of the press. They would recollect also, on the other hand, the protection against unreasonable and unfounded accusations, with their pecuniary penalties, claimed by the great railway guilty. If they should be of opinion that a n y interests, to w h om , f or f ac ility in travelli ng an d ot h er neglig ent l y caused the lamentable disaster whi c h c ommunication s , they were criminally so much indebted. Th ey would fir s t h ave to consider w h et h er any person was servant or other official of the railway company had wil fully or ligently led t o th e death of Colonel Baird, their verdict must be one of ma ns l aughter. If there ha d b een a want of rea sonable car e on the part of any one f or the lives of in dividuals, th en their verdict must have been in that form. Th e only question upon that point was one o f speed. Th ey would observe that he had refrained from swearin g the engine-driver—he had done so mos t reluc tantly—fi-)r he (the Coroner) could really see i n th e evi dence nothing to pre ven t Matthews b e i ng a d m i t t e d as a witness ; b ut h e was resolved, if ho erred at all, to err in the e xerc i se of an excess of caution. He trusted they would give all the circumstances of the case their best consideration. If they did not consider that there were any proved ground s of complaint against any individual —if it were altogether misadventure, then their verdict must be a cc id ental death,l accompanied, if they thought wise, by a ny the subject. The jury, a f ter considering. f o r an hour and a half, the th ey m i g h t w ish to express upon returned a verdict of " Accidental death, caused by the faulty construction of a carriage belonging to the Scotch Central Railway Company." The Coroner' was requested by the jury to thank Captain Simmons for his assistance —an assistance which could not but have an important influence upon tEe inquiry. The jury were then formally discharged. ESTIVITIES AT STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.-- Festivities and other scenes, on a grand scale, are ex patted to take piece during next , week and the follow ing, at Stockton and the vicinity of Wynyard-park. There will be a flower show at Darlington, under the Patronage of the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, and other members of the nobility. The exhibition will be followed by a bazaar, under the patronage of the Marchioness of London derry, for the benefit of the funds of the new church at Thorpe. Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Lord Rokeby, Sir James Graham, and a numerous party, are shortly e x p ected at Wynyard, where t h e M arch i oness of Londonderry p urposes giv i ng a b a ll an d oth er en t erta i n . menu on a scale of great magnificence. The neigh. bourhood will be gay indeed for at least a fortnight. THE CORN TRADE. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, SEPT. '.9.—With the excep tion of a few alight showers on Tuesday and Thursday, the weather since this day se'nnight has been every ' thing that could be wished, and by to-night it is cal. culated that fully one-half of the wheat and barley will ' have been secured; of other grain little has yet been housed. The trade during the present week has been in a very listless state, and the business done in either wheat or flour has been trifling, at a decline of 2s. upon old, and 3s. to 4s. per quarter on new wheat, whilst on flour the reduction may he stated at fully 3s. per sack; other articles at the same time being offered at lower rates without exciting attention. At our market this morning we had a large supply of wheat from the growers, which consisted almost entirely of the new crop, the condition of which was much better, but we cannot note any improvement in the quality. The trade, upon the whole, ruled firmer, and a fair extent of business was done in new and old at the decline above noted; new commanding from 48s. to 565., and choice old red, 563. to 585.; white being worth 2s. more. Bonded was held with much firmness, a probability now existing of the duty falling to minimum. In flour few transaction occurred, holders being unwilling to accede to the views of our dealers; what sales took place were at 395. to 4th. for households, and up to 425. for whites. Barley scarcely so much inquired for. Fine malt is wanted, but inferior qualities totally unsaleable. Having only a moderate show of oats from the country, fresh threshed samples were the turn dearer, as were also the best Scotch; but foreign, although more saleable, cannot be called any higher. The best ,Seotch, weighing 421 b. to 431 b. per bushel, made 285., and the best new, for mealing, 265. to 295. per quarter respectively. WISEEACII, SEPT. 9. I' he supply of wheat is small, and the yield being badly spoken of farmers show great firmness, and, on the whole, last week's prices are given for all good qualities. But f e w oat s or b eans s h ow i ng , and each rather dearer. LEEDS, SEPT. 12.—There is a fair arrival of wheat reported to this day's market, which meets with a ready sale at an advance of Is. per quarter over the rates ob tained on Friday. Barley nominal. Beans as last quoted. No alteration in other articles. HULL, SEPT. I2.—The last circular described a com plete downward panic in the trade; we ventured to anti cipate its being of short duration. On the Tuesday the farmers seemed capable of but one idea, and that the getting rid of their produce; scarcely had Tuesday passed before there was a return to sober-mindedness, and daily since then the trade has recovered itself; and although the transactions of the week have necessarily under such a state of things been most limited, yet we have heard of no sales at prices correspondent with the noted decline of this and other markets, and know of no holders disposed to give way in a like proportion; in deed, throughout the whsle of thin district, old wheat is in too narrow a compass (not deficient in quality, but in few hands), and will be too much needed for admixture with the new crop to warrant this, and we may reason ably expect to see good qualities of such an improved • request ere long., HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the Maastone Gazette.) BOROEGII, SEPT. 1 I. W e are this day supplied with about 25 p ckets of new hops, the quality pretty good for first pickings. As yet there is no demand for them The duty is estimated at 205,0001. Yearling Kent pockets Ditto Sussex ditto 42s. to 565. MAIDSTONE.—T e hops have rather gone back in many grounds during the past week, in some cases be coming " foxy," the mould increasing, and generally the plant having been " stung" by the late cold nights. Picking will commence generally in this district in the course of the week. It is thought here that the duty is over rated. MILLING —Hops are getting firm, but will be small, and there aro very few grounds without mould. Picking will not be general till next week, though some few will commence towards the end of this week. ULCODID.—The reports of extensive ravages of the mould, which have appeared in some of your contem poraries, are unfounded. Although not free from the mould, it has not yet done much damage. TALDINO AND lIUNTON.—Out hops, since the fine weather, have done wonders. In many gardens, and especially below the hills, a good crop is anticipated. In some, grounds, however, where the mou ld h as b een predominant, there is no improvement. HORSHONDEN.—Picking commenced in this parish by three planters on the Bth, but has been discontinued for another week. The hops are very uneven. The mould rages in all directions, and should it keep on, the whole of the plantation must be infected, more or less. We cannot even guess at the weight or quality at this early stage. CRANDROOK.—The crop still appears flourishing in this neighbourhood. Parties here are strongly of opinion that the duty you last week quoted must have arisen from a typographical error, experienced growers being decidedly against such an enormous sum as 210,0001. Picking commences at places in a few days. [The figures were correct, according to our letter.] WROTHA3L—The hops are: looking generally pretty well, though it i s ca l cu l ate d t h at a third of the hops in this parish have the mould in them, and therefore will not be gathered, as I hear the farmers about hero have come to the resolution of gathering no mouldy hops this year. 'WITHAM AND SEAL.—Although the weather has been more favourable during the past week, there is scarcely any perceptible improvement in the hops. Those which have no disease have grown but little, while those infected are going brown. The general opinion is the duty is much too high. GOUDHURST.—We have commenced picking in one or two places ; about the middle of this week it will be general. There has been a very great improvement within this last fortnight, but the hops are as uneven as the bine has been. 120 acres have been grubbed in Goudhurst and Horamonden; if every two parishes have done the same quantity, and taking that as a ratio through the whole plantation, it is evident that there must be between 4,000 and 5,000 acres less; on the other hand there might be the same amount of '47 planting or first polling this year. These two parishes will not ttve verage 1 cwt. per acre, which will be the same in various parishes. 'lnking into consideration the grubbing, the smallness of the hop, mould, &c., the prevailing opinion is, that the duty will never exceed 200,000/. I have seen hops on the poles completely rotten, which I:cannot ac count for. ORPINGTON.—The hops are getting ripe fast. We commenced picking on Monday (yesterday). The white mould has stopped thoir growing out. We expect as many as last year, and shall leave the mouldy ones on the bine. CANTERBURY.-Th e hops hero are :f ast approaching to maturity, and pick ing will comme nce i n t h e most for ward grounds during the present week, and b ecome gene ral on the 18th and 19th instant. It is estimated that the duty for this district will fall at least one-third short of last year's amount, as in many acres of plantation the failure is so very decisive, that a gasket will not be put in the grounds, and indeed the bine in some have already been cut and tho poles drawn. The mould has com mitted great havoc, and the red rust is becoming gene ral in the gardens that have surmounted it. Judging from the state of the crop here the estimate duty is generally considered much higher than:will be realized; but should it do so, their probable price will fall short of a remunerating one to the planters of this neighbourhood. FARNIIA3I, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, SEP TEMBER 11.—The plantations have improved within the last fortnight, but the hops have not grown out. We think the duly is overlaid at 12,000/. for the district. Picking ham partially commenced, and will be general on Wednesday vs Thursday next. WoacEsTiar..—Hop-pickiug has partially begun, and by the beginning of this week will be general. The growth iu mast instances will be small, but the quality will it is expected be an average one. The duty is called 18,0004 (From the Sussex Advertiser.) BEcKLEY---The hops are now nearly ripe and picking will be genera 1 in this district during the week. Except ing the mouirly grounds we anticipate a good growth, as they appear to be full of "condition." BATTLE.--aile hops are looking splendidly in some of the 1 3rooks, nd whe re th e y are we ll po l e d a b out 15 cwts. to the acre will be the quantity of the best of them; but there are re aaly pie ces o f h op ground here so deficient of good poles, which wiil very materially lessen the quan tity it rough weather accompanies the picking. We' have had sinx e days of excellent weather for them, and they have felt the effect of it, as they have grown in a surprising xo miner. There is an appearance of unfa vourable w , ;ether. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1848. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) John Taylor, aged 21, very respectably attired, was indicted yesterday, for having robbed Sir Wymondham Anstruther of a purse containing 11. ss. 10d. It appeared that Sir Wymondham Anstruther, who resides at 16, York-terrace, Regent's-park, was walk ing in Regent's -street about five o'clock in the after. noon of the 4th inst., with a friend, whilst on the other side of him was walking his daughter, a little girl, of whose hand he had hold. Just as they were turning round the corner into Piccadilly Sir Wy mondham felt himself somewhat pressed from behind. This circumstance instantly brought to his recollec tion that he had placed his purse in his coat pocket, and thereupon he felt in that pocket, when he dis covered that the purse was gone. At the moment he made the discovery of his loss the prisoner walked passed him with his hands crossed before him. Sir Wymondham's friend, however, said that the prisoner must be the man who had robbed him, whereupon the former followed the prisoner. The latter seeing that he was being pursued threw the purse away and took to his heels. He was not quick enough, nevertheless, to accomplish his escape, for Sir Wymondham con tinued the pursuit until he overtook him just as the man was about to be stopped by two gentlemen whose attention had been directed to the prisoner by his being pursued. Sir Wymondham took him back to his friend, who in the meantime had picked up the purse. The prisoner was then given into custody and now pleaded " Guilty." The history which Lockyer, an active officer of the Westminster House of Correction, furnished of this prisoner, was that he had long been associated with the swell mob, and obtained his livelihood by his thieving depredations ; that he was most expert in his avocation, and had been previously convicted not only at these sessions but at the Central Criminal Court. The Learned JUDGE now said that it was impos sible such an old offender should be allowed to remain in this country. The sentence upon him therefore was, that he be transported beyond the seas for the period of ten years. Jeremiah Connelly, aged eleven, John Connelly, aged fourteen, and John Keefe, aged eleven, were indicted for an assault upon another boy of the name of Charles Black. It appeared that Black, with some other lads, was returning from school on the 18th of August, when he was attacked by the three defendants, one of whom struck him across the back with a broomstick, a second hit him between the shoulders with a stone slung in a handkerchief, and the third hit him on the head with a stick. The result of this violence was that even now the little child can neither walk nor stand, and upon the present occasion he was carried into court by his mother in whose lap he was laid while he gave his evidence, and there is every reason to fear that he has been made a cripple for the re mainder of his days. The statement of the child was corroborated by his brother and another schoolfellow. On being called on for their defence, Jeremiah Connelly said, that he was not at the place at all when the row took place; he knew no thing about it... . Jan Connelly said, he knew nothing about it, for he was not there, and what was more little Black himself had said so. Keefe, like the others, denied all knowledge of the matter, and said he was not there at all. The Learned JUDGE then supposed that the poor little boy, who was so much injured as to be unable, even at that moment, to stand, had half killed himself as a matter of pleasure. John Connelly would take his oath that he was not near the place. The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. John Connelly here exclaimed that he had got a witness who had come to swear that he was not pre sent when the boy was hurt. The Learned JUDGE told this boy, John Con• nelly, that he was the worst of the three. The dif ficulty which now pressed upon the Court was as to the mode in which the children at the bar ought to be dealt with. Had they been grown up men the course would have been very clear, they would have been sent to prison for eight or nine months ; but with such young children as the defendants it was not very easy to deal in such a case. This assault was very closely bordering on a felonious assault, and more properly, perhaps, ought to have been sent to the Central Criminal Court for trial. The Court, however, would sentence each of them to six months' imprisonment, for here was a poor little innocent child in all probability rendered a cripple for life by the strangely violent attack which had been made upon him by the three children at the bar. (We were informed privately that there are at Poplar two excellent charity schools, the one for the children of Protestant parents and the other for the children of Roman Catholics. Recently a feeling of anger ap pears to have sprung up in the breasts of the latter towards the former, and the present assault was sup posed to have had its inciting cause in that feeling.) It is requisite that the public should be cautioned against the importunities of a person who, we are informed this morning, has lately been hanging about this court, and offering for a sum of money to sup press reports of particular cases. In several instances which the informant mentioned the fraud has been completed. The object of the present notice is to state that the individual in question does not attend the Middlesex sessions for any newspaper, or even in the character of a reporter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Friedman, the German Jew, was brought up for final examination on the charge of playing defrauded Mrs. Wingrove, upwards of three years ago, when she was Mrs. Davis, of 301., under pretence and promise of marriage. The additional evidence was as follows :-- The prosecutrix had stated upon a former examina tion that the prisoner was to have paid the 301. with which she had intrusted him to Messrs. Musgrove and Gadsden, the agents to her landlord, in satisfaction for rent, and the Lord Mayor desired that evidence should be produced to prove that the money had not been so paid. Mr. Winterflood, clerk to Messrs. Musgrove and Gadsden, of Old Broad-street, stated that his em ployers were agents to Mr. Thorpe, to whom the house No. 22, Jewry-street, which had been tenanted by Mrs. Davis upwards of three years ago, belonged. They were in the habit of receiving the rent of the house from Mrs. Davis, who lived there many years. " I recollect," said the witness, " her leaving the house. She called between Christmas-day and Lady day, about a week or ten days before the quarter ended, and said that she was going, and that she would pay the rent when the parties who were:going in should pay for the furniture, which they had pur chased. The sum of 36/. was then due for four quarter's rent. I always received the rents. I never saw the prisoner. He never brought me any money to pay the rent of Mrs. Davis's house, and the amount remains due to this day." Mr. Barnett---It does not follow that he did not pay Mr. Gadsden. The witness—Mr. Gadsden never receives any rent. The LORD MAYOR—The prisoner can prove to the ury that he paid the rent by producing Mr. Gads den's receipt. Upon his cross-examination, the witness said he knew nothing of the sale of the furniture by a Mr. Patchin. The prosecutrix said, in answer to the LORD MAYOR, that she had sold all her furniture at the pri soner's request, and that the 301. which the prisoner had taken was the produce of the furniture. The LORD MAYOR—How soon after the day on which you sold your furniture were you to have been married, according to your belief ? The prosecutrix —ln a very few days*. The LORD MAYOR—Did he repeatedly tell you he would marry you I' The prosecutrix—He did. The Loan MAYOR—If he had not declared to you his, intention to marry you, would you have intrusted him with the 301. ? The prosecutrix—l would not. Mr.. Barnett—Do you recollect a gentleman of the name of Patchin, a broker ? The prosecutrix —I do. Mr. Barnett—Upon your oath, did you not refuse to leave the money, as previously arranged between you and Mr. Patchin, in that gentleman's hands, to pay-the rent with it ? The prosecutrix—l did, be get into his own. —(A cause the prisoner laugh. induced me to stop it, th at it ; might ) Mr. Barnett—l merely desired to be answered yes or no. The LORD MAYOR —You must not ask her ques tions, parts of which comprehend inferences whic h you are not justifi e d i n d rawing, and you mustil her to answer y our quest i ons in .her own way. a w Mr. Barnett —Y ou sa i d on a former exam . ination 'that he owed you, independently of this 301. , the sum of 201. for b orrowed money ? The Prosecutrix—l said he owed me 201. for borrowed money and board. Mr..Barnett—Did he promise to marry you (pre viously to th e i ncurr i ng of that debt ? The Prosecu trix—During the time he was incurring it. Mr. Barnett —Did you not yourself register the marriage? Say yes or no. The Prosecutrix—l did register the marriage, but he came with me, and re mained outside. lie gave me a half-crown to pay for the registering, and that's all the money of his I ever set my eyes on. It was at an oil-shop in Mark-lane, kept by the clerk of the parish, and he stayed at the door. Mr. Barnett then addressed the Lord Mayor for his client —After this long and protracted inquiry, in which your Lordship has taken so much trouble, I trust you are of opinion that there is something like doubt attached to the case made out for the prosecu tion, and that there is something behind the scenes which has necessarily been hitherto withheld from public observation. The facts are within a narrow compass :—A foreigner comes from abroad to London with a considerable sum of money. He is introduced to this house, No. 22, Jewry-street, very unfortu nately for him, and, being a man of kindly feeling, he joins in pleasure parties, in the course of which the idea of matrimony enters into the lady's mind. Determined to accomplish her object, she not only puts up the bans herself, but she actually registers the marriage, and, as I am instructed, altogether without the knowledge of my client, who not relish ing the business, is now treated with the alternative of a charge of robbery to the amount of 301. There are some matters connected with this affair with which your Lordship is not acquainted. You do not know that the lady sold the furniture of the house for 1001., and that she did not pay one shilling of the money she owed i n th e ne i g hb our h oo d ; so that her landl or d is not the only person who has reason to complain. She has acknowledged too that she has offered to drop the prosecution altogether for 101. Under all the circumstances, I trust that your Lordship will not allow this poor foreigner's cha racter to be tarnished by a trial on a charge the grounds for which are so extremely weak and im probable. The Loan MAYOR—I have gven the subject a great deal of consideration, and the result is that I am per suaded the prisoner has by systematic attempts suc ceeded in defrauding this poor woman of her 301. He irst goes to board in the house, and he contracts a debt with the prosecutrix and borrows her money. Not satisfied, however, with defrauding her to the extent of !01., he perseveres in his unprincipled system, and, under pretence of a permanent union, prevails upon her to dispose of her goods, and to de posit the proceeds in his hands for the payment of her rent ; after which he disappears, and she is left dis tressed and miserable, after having made a sacrifice of everything upon his positive assurance of the promised event. It is true she got up the bans, but it was at his desire ; and that she registered the marriage, but it was by his direction, and while he waited outside witnessing the success of his schemes. You men tioned at a former examination that, as he was a Hebrew it was absurd to suppose he could think of a marriage with the prosecutrix. I consider that such a promise as he made is aggravated by the fact that there existed an insurmountable impediment. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, I am con vinced that the prisoner has acted upon a deliberate systematic plan for the purpose of defrauding this poor woman, and I therefore commit him for trial at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner was then committed for trial. Ann Trinham, the unfortunate creature who leaped with her child in her arms into the Thames from the London Pride steamer, was brought up for final ex amination. The certificate of the surgeon of the Compter stated that she was in a very desponding condition. There was no additional evidence, and The LORD MAYOR said he had no alternative but to send the case to a jury, who would of course dis pose of it to the best of their judgment. BOW-STREET. The examination of Emma Beaumont, Jane Fitz gerald, and Thomas Fry, the prisoners in the arson case, was resumed b e f ore M r. J ar di ne. Ann Garrett—ls now a waitress at the Aldersgate dining-rooms in the Minories, and is a married woman. In May last she was in the service of the prisoner Beaumont, at the European Coffee house, Long-acre, where she remained six weeks only, having left in June. On one occasion Beaumont told her that she wished the house to be set on fire, as she was insured and wanted money. She wanted witness to go to the theatre with her one evening, as Bagster, the young man lodging in the house, was going to fire it in their absence. Witness declined having anything to do with it, and left the situation in consequence of the proposal Beaumont had made to her. Her mistress offered to make her a present if she would stop, but she refused to do so. She called at the house several times in the course of the fort night afterwaftle, because she bore her mistress no ill-will and *anted to see the newspaper advertise ments with thewiew of getting another place. Catharine.Alathews, of 5, York-street, Borough, a married sister,of -Beaumont, produced a number of duplicates and a 51. note, which were found among the prisoner's bundles; the note being one of those given by the pawnbroker upon the articles pledged by the prisoner before the fire. Witness recollected hearing her sister (the prisoner) in conversation with Mrs. Robins, of Oxford-street, the morning after the fire, when the latter was advising her to " make a confident of her brother." She did not know what was referred to, but she heard her sister reply, " No, I cannot do that." Witness had not been on friendly terms with the prisoner for several years prior to the fire in •Long-acre, which, she said, happened while she was apceremorne, but she did not know how. A Clerk in the Westminster Fire-office proved the transfer of the insurance policy, about a year ago, from Ann Beaumont to Emma Beaumont, the pri soner. It was otiginally held, in 1838, by Hannah Beaumont, the prisoner's mother. There were several witnesses whose evidence, being merely corroborative of what has already appeared at the previous examinations, it is unnecessary to report. Thompson and Pocock, detective officers, deposed to the apprehension of the prisoner, and the discovery of the duplicates which related to property of consi derable value collectively, but had been included in the claim made by Beaumont upon the fire-office, among the goods said to have been destroyed by the fire. The prisoner- Fitzgerald, after being cautioned in the usual way, made a very long statement to the Court, which differed only in a few particulars from that :which she had volunteered to Mr. Storr, and which appeared in The Sun of Tuesday. It included however, several important additions. She said that from the time when her mistress first talked to her about setting fire to the house, she would not let her go out to see her friends. She stated that she was insured for 4001., and when she had got the money she intended to go to Australia with her young man (Fry) and take a farm. A few weeks before the fire she made her assist in cutting up the bedticks and making pillows and bolsters with the feathers, all of which, together with her dresses, linen, and quantities of other things, she (Fitzgerald) took, from time to time, to the pawn broker's, wearing out a pair :of boots that cost her 4s. 6d. Then her mistress made her help to chop up a bedstead for firewood, because she said that too many bedsteads and no beds would look suspicious. She wanted her to chop up another bedstead and some other things, empty boxes, &c., but she refused to do it. In reference to the fire, the prisoner said : " My mistress and her young man went to the theatre on the Thursday, expecting that I3agster would fire the house as agreed upon. She returned before the theatre was over, and she told sue that she could not stop at the play because she was so miserable from thinking that the house was on fire, and she wanted to know how it was getting on. When she found that Bagster had taken away the three pounds, and did not fire the place, she went up stairs and looked out of the window for an hour and a half, thinking he would return. She said Bagster did right not to fire it that night, because it was an opera night, and there were a great many people about. The next morning Fry came to breakfast with her, and she said, if nobody else would set fire to the house, she would do it herself. Fry advised her to send out for some powder, and she said she thought turpentine would do better. She offered Fry and me 201. to do it, but he declined. I did not say that I would or I would not. She said that Mrs. Robins had advised her to be very careful in doing it, so as not to let it appear as if it had been done by the hand ; and she said that Mrs. Robins had a brother in-law who did the same thing for the insurance money, and it was never found out. When Mrs. Robins came, in the evening, she told me to be very careful how I did it; and I told her not to puzzle me. She said that she was surprised my mistress let so many into the secret, as it would certainly be found out, and blamed her for leaving the written pledge of secreay which we had made upon a three penny stamp in one of her bundles. When Mrs. Robins went away she took so many things— books, dresses, linen, &c., th a t s h e sa id s h e s h ou ld he obliged tohave a cab ' - but she brought back a tea-cani s t er , say i ng i t would not do to have that in her possession, as her husband would find it out. She said that he hated Miss Beaumont, and she and he were going to part, because they could not agree. When I was left in the house alone I shut-up the coffee-house. Bagster came and spoke to me at the door, and I told him that perhaps I should fire the place. At about half-past ten o'clock I put the boilers over the fire and the kettle over the gas, as I was bid; and then I put some aprons on the horse before the fire, near enough to catch. There were lots of old files and papers lying close to the horse. After this I went up to bed, and in about an hour's time I heard the police at the door, and my room was full of smoke. 1 got into the cockloft, an d two men lifted me over the roof to Mr. Tucker's. The pri soner concluded her statement by mentioning a number of very respectable establishments where she had been in service, and exclaiming—" an - s sorry to say I have been led astray by my thistresa, and to the will of ' God." must now deliver myself up She hoped his worship would let her out on bail for the sake of her child." Beaumont was anxious to make a statement to the Court, in spite of the remonstrance of her solicitor, whom she wished to pay for his trouble, and then confess it all. Mr. Binns (who appeared for Fry) offered re spectable b a il for his client, if his worship should think there was enough to commit him for trial. His father (a jeweller) had been a householder in the neighbourhood for a great many years. Beaumont exclaimed—" For God's sake detain him, for they are all guilty. I must tell all." She,lle prisoners s so w ne it r h s dwieffireculftuyily cogi removed, from the do ck. 1 thit,{, e 4 for trial , b being accept e d f or F ry. THAMES. 713 lof Thomas and J en ki n Jones, brothers, in . thceroP - • of Mr. R. B. B yass, w i ne, ale, and porter merch a l of No. 1, L ang b ourn-chambers, Fenchurc h.stree , were brought b e f ore M r. Y ar dl ey, c h a rged causing the death of Susan Colledge. The deceased was servant to Mrs. Haddon, o f 111 1 , High-street, Whitechapel, and was sent to the opr site side of the way upon an errand on Wednes da , d l e evening. Sh e was return i ng, and wh il e cros sing t' road a horse and cart belonging to Mr. Blass , an driven by the prisoner Thomas Jones, which is' 3 _ s coming along at a quick pace, knocked her do pe ; and one of th e w h ee l s passed over her body: She was conveyed to the surgery of Mr. Cook, In t High-street, who said she could not exist long, bu advised that she should be immediately remov ed ti the London Hospital. She di e d b e fore her arri v there. The prisoners were det a i ne d, and informa tion having been conveyed to the station-house in Lernft 3 : street, Police-Sergeant Oram, 18 H, repaired to tb spot and took both prisoners into custody. Mr. YAR DLEY having ascertained that the cor oner l A inquest wo u ld no t be held until this evening, remanded the prisoners until to morrow. Mr. Pelham tendered bail for the prisoners. Le Mr. YAR DLEY —N o , I cannot take b a il for tu present. THE LATE FORGERY. out MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—At the Boron's- C - ° , 70 this morning Willi am F ranc i s M ` Naughten, the 3 7 ° 11 0 3 man charged with forging a cheque on the branch 5 of England hero, purporting to be signed by Messrs. s, and S. Henry and Co., in whose employment be ; 00 for 3,4501., was brought up, H e was rema nded 0. r ides' Saturday last to allow time to have sufficient before the Court to warrant his committal. d Mr. Newman, f rom t h e o ffi ce of Mr. F res hfiel A to London, solicitor t o th e B an k o f Englan d , at tend prosecute. volt Mr. Alexande r B a lf our, l ate teller of the branch of of England in Manchester, stated that on the 291.- ,a March last he cas h e d a c h eque, purporting to ba signer by A. and S. Henry and Co., for 3,430/. The F i rie y ° was not the pers on w h o presented the cheque. i-T e ; 'l 4 0 the person who did so s i x 5001. notes, f o ur to notes, and 501. in gold. He hero recoghit, e r t three 500/. no t es stoppe d at the bank o f die be Cunliffe and Brooks, as three of th e no t e s Which re had paid for the c h eque . H e b elieved the sign-11 "A. and S. Henry" to that cheque was a forgery. firm Mr. W. R. Johnston, one of the partners in the pt o of A. and S. H enr y an d C o., stated that the signat tir " se the cheque produced was a forgery. It purported l e if his signature on the part of the firm, and was extrerseot like it. He drew no cheque for 3,450/. on the 2,9,0 0 . March. The prisoner was assistant-cashier at Te,sses Henry's, and was frequently employed in taking c„," e : o s. to the bank. He did not return to the office of Dies' after the 29th of March. e fr A it 3 Mr. Kearsley, th e manager of Messrs. Cull" — 004 Brooks's b an k, p rove d t h at he had stopped t h re e 5 0 notes, for which an o th er person and the prisone r wa e re . a letter of credit on Liverpool. He told them b o o s quired a reference, and they said they could pr° c , tl ");, reference from M essrs . Henry. They then le f t the il' ote s and did not return. He recognised the three jog which Mr. B a lf our sta t e d h e pa i d for the cheque as be the three which he stopped. Mr. James Finley, high-constable of Newfounu'os stated that on the Ist of August last a warrant t he placed in his hands by Mr. Carter, a magistrate, apprehension of two persons named William P o f O'Kelly and Thom as B ra d s h aw. Witness, in ortPhos with some police, proceeded to th e l o dgings c" him persons, and found Bradshaw in his room, and in' d st immediately conveye d to th© police-office, and stay p e e d. the house until Bradshaw's luggage was r ee3 , f og re• p Shortly afterward s Willi am Philip O'Kelly weL e i r,„` sO hended, and a watc h was found on his person. 7, - „ o in subsequently f oun d a trunk in the prisoner's boa . " ce; and two trunks in the parlour which he occupied. ing s the following d ay w i tness went again to the I°43g„ther which the prisoners occupied, and there found si r , d trunk, marked with O'Kelly's name, in which be '"„ te n , a purse cont a i n i ng t h ree 5001. Bank of England 11:0,1;- which are now produced. Having found the not e s a tba nes. returned t o th e police-office, and baying gluon the prisoner O'K e lly th e usua l caution, asked h i m ar ,i" did, trunk belong to him? The prisoner admitted that ' L os and said he bought it at New York for fire dollars- her/ purse was afterwards exhibited in a private otfint' i w t hst both prisoners were present, and Bradshaw sai u ,i;ing the purse belonged to O'Kelly ; the latter said IV''' . r, to this. Whilst on the voyage to England the Pri s° l• in conversation with witness, called Bradshaw for 1 first time Brady. h e ter Mr. Beswick, c hi e f super i ntendent of the Mann- 6 r police, stated th a t upon t h e arrival of t h e prison M`Naughten, a li as Willi am Philip O ' Ke ll y , at Mficeir, chester, he r ea d a bill to hi m, d escribing h i s apPearsn ;at and charging him w ith f orgery, an d h e a l so to ld hiul,';og he would b e id en tifi e d as f orging the cheque an d ta" 10 , it and getti ng th e money . Wi tness then caut i on ed ` prisoner, w h o sa id t h at Brady forged the cheque , Pre , sented it, and had taken up the money at the bank. • Mr. Harding, solicitor, on the part of the prisoner stly n milted there was no evidence against him but his oer rt admission, Th e ev id ence went to show that Brady h.iti y committed the forg er y an d o b ta i ned the money and 'f- M•Naughten h a d d one was to accompany him; out °- the country. Mr. Maude said it would have been more satisfactori: had it been sho wn h ow t h e c h eque had got into the 11107, of Brady or M‘N sug ht en . H owever, he need ne t through the circumstances of the case. It was quite el° the prisoner had left his situation on the day of the P r ; gory without n o ti ce ; h e was seen vouch i ng for the w il d who obtain e d th e money, an d nothing more was neade . The prisoner M`Naughten was then committed to to his trial at the next asizes at Liverpool. RAILWAY SHARE MARKh BRISTOL, SEPT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The Share Market has an uP lol th ra tendency. The sal es are —G reat Western, Quarter S 11 8!„ , /, 4 1 h dis.—Great Western, 1 7Z Shares. Sil t dis.—Caledonian' 2O L 4 —Ditto, Preference, 1 A dis. Taff V a l e , Quarters, 2" . LIVERPOOL, Sarr. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.-- We have had rather a dePr esea o market for s h ares to - day. Stock was freely offe red,lti, prices lower. The sales are—Birmingham an - d Oxford , r'ij, —Caledonian, 20 ?ia—Lancashire and Yorkshire. III"' rs, 18s. 9d. dis.—London and North-Western, I A, dis.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), p.—Midland S.t ee r d.. 85 ex div.—Ditte, New Halves, 9% dis.—North Sla",bs shire, -,;47i, dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (Shrewsbur , er , vestry, and Chester), dis.—South E • and Dcrf - astern , , No. 4, Thirds, 6-Pi dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick 14 B rwle i ` N. E. Purchase),l4 dis. MANCHESTER, Serr. 13. T, t acr STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Birkenhead , shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9% dis. ex int.—Esst A c - ..-- cashire, 161 4 — Lancashire and Yorkshire, Firths, 3 „Il Ditto, Preference, 3-16 p. — Manchester, Sheffield, an' — abf Neff Quartet colnshire (Grimsby), 50/. Shares, 29 dis.—Ditto Dock), 14% dis.--North Staffordshire, sc. dis--Sh re ol bury and Ch ester, Preference, 12'ji —South-Eastern Dover, No. 4, 6 13-16. BIRMINGHAM, Sarr. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The s a l es are— Caledonian, Pare' P,rence, 3s. 9d. di s .—Mi dland (Bristol and Birmingham ) , cent., 115 4—York, Newca s tl e , an d Berwick, 28 '.4 e x u. b . North Staffordshir e , 5 di s. —Sh rewsbury and Bi sl l3 nning (B), 4 1 4 dis. SEPT. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.— TOR Th e K, business transacted to-del: co , as follows : G reat N orthern, 6/. I3s.—Great North fof land, 230 Midland, New, 11—North British, Quarter s ,, , , —York, Newcastle, and ° Berwick (G. N. E . P urc hase), iv GLASGOW, Sarr. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE. --Th e sales are--Caledonian, Prefe rence, 49 s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 10 4gory,Z;1 go, Kilmarnock, an d A yr, 59: , s(4—Ditto, 51. 16s.—Great Northern, 61. 16s. —North British, c.,0tt1 5 3!. ntr 165.a1, 6d.—Paisle,y, Barrhead, and Hurlet, Ce 22% . FLURRIED IN MIND..--" Does th e Court *ll-der' o f stand you to say, Mr. Jones, that you saw the e ditor .r. the Augur of _Freedom int ox i cate d ? " " Not at 41,6.1 ea, j I merely said th at I h ave seen him frequently so florri in his mind that he would undertake to cut out copy wl the snuffers—that's all."—New York Harbinger. 8.1411E14. On the 6th inst., at Markham-square, Chelsea, Mrs , - ISr Creswick, of a son. At Elm-field, Upper Clapton, Mrs. Joseph Savo* of i daughter. On the 9th inst., at Salcey-lodge, near Northampton, Wile of G. T. Stone, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at tvring-gale, Hyd e , I s l e of Wight, the Hon. Mrs. G. H. Holland, of a son. T. Wilki nson, Esq., of F ort' On the 10th inst., the lady of land-place, Lower Clapton, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Upp er H arley-street, the wife „, — f J L..llollanid,Esq.,jou., a f at a son. On the 12th Ca mden - road-villas, Mrs. G. inst., at Cl a ph am -rise, the Wife of the Be'- n. Bickers eth, Yoouang, the o 12th of a son. Aid AIQE.L----"—'"-----T ' On the 11th inst., at Pinner, Mr. James Gibbs, of Pi ke mall, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Alr.J. Tilbury, c'' New -road. On the 9th inst., at Stewklev,.l3ucks, Edward Smith, , 5 6 ' of Uxbridge, to Catherine Jana youngest daughter 0 ' late John Cowze, Esq ,of Streatham Surrey. „ger On the 12th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-C - ric Alexander Clendinning Lambert, Esq., o f C ra nmore-1 0 0 , Mayo, t o E mma Maria, daughter of the late Guy L en Prendergast, Esq., of Gratton-street. rsut , Oa the I.:tit inst., at St. M ary l e b one Church, B. —a- tte, EA , late of M adras Civil Service, to Isabella Charlottes eldest s urv i v i ng daughter of J. W. Grant, Esq., B.C. s '' of Elshies, Morayshire. DIZD. „„ r uert On the 10th i nst., at St. George's -place, Ilvde-per , "" the Right H on. C harles Lord Douglas, aged 73. l o On the Bth i ns t., at Brighton, Ann, relict of the 1305 be -- Cooper, Esq ,of Sutton's-gate, Hornchurch. On the 9th i nst., at Rose-hill, Iffley, Richard WOon, Esq., bankcr, Oxford, aged 84. At Notting-hill, on the 9th inst., Walter Bickerton, g scl :' of Pall-mall East, aged 54. On the 10th i ns t., at S outh-place, Finsbury, Robed Denton, a , red 52. On the 10th inst., a t N orwood, Sarah. relict of the . 2 „, t-6 , 11 . Burton, Esq., M.D., o f the 12th Royal Lancers, an d ofull berland street, Bryanston-square. gre O On the 11th inst., at Howland- s t reet, Fitzroy-ecln . Gowing, E s q., aged 81. On the 11th in s t., at B roo k -green, Hammersmith, ag e 81 W. Cox, Esq.. formerly of the Coldstream Guards. o ' l 4l On the 11th i ns t., a t Benham-house, Beeks, Majur-Geo William Dickson. 7.1 ondon: Printed and P u bli s h ed by AITJRDO YOUZ I IO9 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sign OiEst, ll.' -It Strand, in the Pre c i nc t of the Savoy, in the __ te Middlesex, Tburedicy, September 14 r.! • 37, Ali ha qtl ter Afl Un tin ..3 1 " Pas. the .• ( the A . ( Lit 1 5 , 41#Jel niitt 0: e►er T 1;;; Pack Brut +~. otttu Chee •4, •t eoxt ne Gro, Lead !ets, and . , to d e 19th there remD c may whic 6. 4 - en hind , L, A ever Th Chars /to. 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