The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-14 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA. CIVIC PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA. Yesterday, upon taking his seat at the Mansion house, the Lord Mayor said that at the present time, when much apprehension was entertained regarding the appearance of the cholera in this country, he was happy to say that the greatest efforts were being made by the City Commissioners of Sewers to enforce the sanitary arrangements of the Board of Health, and that the receipt of a letter that morning from the President of the Royal College of Physicians had given him much satisfaction; and as he thought it might tend to the prevention of alarm, be could not do better than hand it to the reporters who attended for the public press for the information of his fellow c).tiz ens. The following is a copy of the communication : " Dover street, Oct. 12. "My Lord Mayor,—Your Lordship, I feel assured, will learn with satisfaction that the College of Physi cians has appointed a standing committee, consisting of the physicians of the great metropolitan hospitals, and other eminent persons, for the purpose of inviting and considering communications on the subject of cholera, and, if necessary, of suggesting such measures and pre cautions as may appear expedient to insure the confi dence and safety of the public. "I have the honour to be, my Lord, "Your Lordship's obedient servant, " J. A. PARIS, " President of the Royal College of Physicians. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.' , His Lordship then forwarded the letter to the City Commissioners of Sewers. We are informed that four cases, confidently stated to be of .Asiatic cholera, were notified at Uxbridge yesterday. In London scattered attacks were re ported, and very numerous cases of diarrhoea, but no fatal cases. From Hamburgh we learn that up to the 9th instant the total number of persons attacked was 2,229, of whom 1,043 had up to that day fallen victims; that 411 remained under treatment, and 775 had been cured. The information from Lubeck, where the pestilence had broken out, was unfavour able; it was rapidly increasing. WooLwrcer, OCT. 13.—The cases on board the convict-ship Justitia up to this day are twenty-five, six new cases having been reported within the previous twenty-four hours. Of that number five are reported as having died, aid one discharged. The other eighteen are not apparently in any immediate dan ger, but so debilitated that their medical attendants have not considered themselves ,justified in entering them in the list of recoveries. There was no appear ance of any symptoms of the disease in the town or parish of Woolwich, according to the returns of the medical practitioners, up to twelve o'clock to-day. The scarlet fever was abating, and a better state of health prevailing within the last two days. It has been observed that the Justitia convict-ship is at pree sent stationed nppesite, the outlet of a sewer, and that it would be advisable to have her removed farther down the river. EDINDUR6H.—We have not heard of the occur rence of any new cases of cholera since Tuesday even ing., and hopes are beginning to be entertained that the disease will pats over the city without farther in creasing ite mortality. Some of our contemporaries stated yesterday that the number of deaths from cho lera amounted to 25; but we understand that at least three of these were cases of BritiAl cholera. At a meeting held on Tuesday, the general acting commit tee of the parochial board of St. Cuthhert's appointed twelve of their number to carry into effect the direc tions of the local Board of Health, as to the measures to he adopted for the prevention and cure of cholera. During the course of the proceedings it was stated that the board hail an hospital ready for 24 patients, and that if more accommodation was necessary there was another ward which could be put into a satisfar tory state at an hour's notice, capable of holding 23 patients. The local Board of Health is constituted as follows :—The Right Hon. Adam Black, SherlF Gordon, Sir John APNeill, D. J. Thomson, q. (Dean of Guild), Dr. Christison (President of the Royal Colleze of Physicians). and Dr. Pagers (Presi • dont of the Itosesi College of Surgeons). LORD POSSOSBY'S REMEDY FOR CHOLERA.—The following is a transcript of part of a letter from Lord l'onsonby to the Bishop of Derry :—" The cholera is, I perceii;e, making its way in these dominions; I the:4.)re send you a prescription which, if taken in time, is a certaia cure, and has proved to be so in many cases to my own knowledge. Its simplicity, and the extremely mintV.e clean:icy of the doses, will probably induce you to doubt of its efficacy, but trust to this iact, that you will have had experience of its power and virtue before it will be in your power to obtain medical advice; that is to say, in a quarter of an hour or twenty-five minutes. Observe one thing, via., if you take any other thing than cold or iced water its whole effect will be destroyed. All you have to do is to place the patient in bed, and not to overload him with clothes, or plague bins Kith any external application., but leave him to the medicine ; which is, one-sixth part of camphor dis solved in six parts of strong spirits of wine, or two drachms of camphor to an ounce and a half of spirits of wine. Of this, immediately on being attacked, the patientds to take two drops on a little pounded \ sugar, in a teaspoonful of cold or iced water ; in five minutes after, two more drops ; and so continue until the symptoms begin to yield. If the vomiting should be violent, so as to render it difficult for the f stomach to retain the medicine, a small piece of ice about the size of a nutmeg must be given before and after the camphor; proceed till there is a sense of returning warmth, with a disposition towards perspi ration, and a manifest decrease of sickness and cramps, kc. This will never fail if done at once, and will always do good at any period of the disease, but the least mixture of medicine neutralises. the effects of the camphor.—Yours ever, PONSONEY. To the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry. 1832." EMIGRATION. TO THE EDI7OR OF THE SUN. Sza,—As public opinion begins to be favourable to my plan cf emigration and colonization through poor law unions, I beg to go rather more into detail. To make emigration a real benefit to the mother country and the colonies, Government should make a scale, and give land to every union and emigration society in proportion to the number of emigrants they seat out. Suppose the cost of conveying to Australia a man or woman is 201., Government should signify that land in the proportion of twenty acres for every adult, and about five acres for every child, would be placed at the disposal of any party sending out emigrants ; a poor-law union, for instance, could then give the ne cessary notice that it had the land to sell ; and for the purpose of elucidation we will presume that twenty purchasers came forward and took 1,000 acres, no improbable circumstance. This, at 11. per acre, would yield. the union 1,0001., ou t o f w hi c h t h e pas sage money of the twenty purchasers would have to be paid, leaving 600/. to promote the emigration of thirty poor persons, or to aid the emigration of the connexions of the twenty purchasers, as might be agreed on between them and the union. In some cases, perhaps, none but persons requiring twenty acres each would offer, then there would be nothing to spare. My object is to make unions retailers of land ; for, desirable as it is to have ten and twenty acre men in the colonies, as well as great capitalists and mere labourers, yet it is not in the power of Go vernment to crane such a class ; the process would be too tedious, and can only be efficiently done by local authorities. Every person who can pay 201. ought to have a right to demand a passage out and twenty acres of land on his arrival. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Hall, Oct. 9, 1848. T. R. INQUEST ON THE BODY OP MR. SIITJARD, AT BIR.- ximsuAm.-13/RmINGHAm, FRIDAY.—To-day an in quest on the body of the above gentleman was com menced at the Queen's hotel, before J. B. Davies, Esq., coroner, and a hhly respectable jury. Some evidence having been taken, the inquest was adjourned till next Friday. SALE OP THE MEDICAL TIMES AND PHAP-MA.- cEUTICAL TlMES.—Yesterday morning Mr. Hodgson, the auctioseer, submitted to public competition, under the order of the mortgagees in poavession, the copyright and printed stock-of these weekly medical journals: The former, which has been established nearly nine years, gained considerable notoriety a short time since in con sequence of a series of libellous attacks which appeared in its columns upon Mr. Wakely, the coroner, and who was at that time and still is the proprietor and editor of the Lancet, a rieal journal. In consequence of these attacks, Mr. Wektey entered several actions for libel, in all of which he was successful, and heavy damages were inflicted upon the defendant, which in all probability led to the present sale, as the auctioneer stated its receipts at this time to be such as to produce a clear income of 10001. peeannum. The first offer for the entire copy right and right of continuation of the Medical i Imes was 3001, which rose slowly until it reached 1,7101., at which figure it was ultimately knocked down to Messrs. Tyler and Reed, the well-known painters. The Phlr maceutical Times was than put up, but, despite of the elecpence of Mr, fledgion, it Veiled to one single offer, and the sale, after a considerable delay, was ad journed. DIOCESAN VISITATION AND CONSECRATION.-OE FORD, FRIDAY.—The Lord Bishop of o. , Cord hylfi his annitial visitation on Thursday (yesterday), at the Uni versity church, St. Mary's, Oxford. There w. , s a I,,ir7e attendance of the rezident and neighbourin g dot.„). anew churchwarden , . The service (which was a hull eathcd: al one) commenced at eleven o'clock, and w.:s not over until within m;roit,ns of four. His Lordsldp's charge occupied nearly three hours. This morning his Lordship, 2.t!ended by Dr. Philhmore, the Venerable Archdeacon Clarke, R. Morrell, Esq.; the Ws , . Robert Hussey, B.D. ;Charles Page Edf . :n. James Elnin lard, J-2hn William Knott, Thomas Chatmb.:rl.,tin, Rot.ert 11 Fake, thirles Warner, and several other of the paroel,ial clergy, consecrated the newly-erected chapel and bury ing prounil adjoining Helywen Church, and derlient«l it Saint" Cross. This is the third cemetery that his Lordship has oonsecrated in Oxford within the last six . • a s MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) H. J. Worrall, who pleaded guilty at these sessions on Wednesday, to an indictment charging him with a cruel assault upon four of his children, was this morning called up to receive judgment. Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared for the prosecu• tion, which was at the instance of the authorities of the parish of St. Luke, said that this was a most pain ful and lamentable case, for these poor children had been found in such a wretched state that had they not been discovered and taken away death must have put an end to their sufferings. The children had been carried to the workhouse in the most filthy condition, and at that time they were completely covered with vermin, whilst the eldest child was covered with bruises. Hei was quite free to admit that the defen dant was in extremely bad circumstances at the time, and that the pressure of those circumstances might to a certain extent, perhaps, have operated upon his mind, and that in that state he might have been guilty of these gross acts of cruelty. The defendant he understood was li v i ng w ith th e sister of his first wife, and the children were under her care. Mr. BALLANTINE—Yes, that was :in consequence of the present state of the law as to marriage, and this was one only of almost numberless similar instances of its results. The Learned JUDGE remarked, that as the law at present stood, these parties could not legally marry. Where was the elder girl, who appeared by the depo sitions to have been so much beaten ? Mr. PRENDERGAST—The girl was in the work• house, where she would be well provided for. In deed, all the children were under the charge and care of the parish authorities, and such had been the barbarous treatment the poor creatures had received from their father, that they could not permit him to have the care of them. Mr. BALLANTINE said he had but few observations to offer on behalf of the defendant, nor would be in any way attempt to palliate or excuse his conduct towards these children. In the first instance he must be permitted to state that his instructions had been that the defendant intended to plead guilty, and that in truth he had no defence to make in answer to the charge. He could not but lament most deeply what had occurred, but at the same time he was greatly rejoiced to find that the parochial authorities of St Luke's were not blind to the distress of their poorer neighbours, and that they appeared ever ready,; as in the present case, to afford them protection. As he had already stated, the defendant offered no defence. He was the son of persons of the highest respectability, and had been himself in a respectable line of life; but some time since he had gone over to America, from which country he subsequently re'urned in had cir cumstances. With his difficulties he had struggled unsuccessfully, until at length, heartbroken, he had been induced to fly to drink for relief from thought, and it was when in a state of drunkenness that he had been guilty of the acts of inhumanity with which he was that day charged. Doubtless misery and poverty would have an effect upon the mind of a man, and that whilst that effect was operating upon him he might commit some Seri :us act. This unhappily was not infrequently the case. But still much as such a state of matters was to be deplored, parties ouf:',t to know that punishment would be sure to follow. Whatever pen dry the Court might deem it neeeQ.- - y to visit upon the defendant, trusted that a r ,, c..l:ection of the facts he had just urged might lead to a sentence characterised by mercy. No doubt the parish autho rities had done, no more than their duty in preferring this prosecution, hut having done so. their duty wes acecmpiished, - and he should hope that they would not now seek a heavy punishment in a spirit of ven geance._ Mr. PRENDERGAST could not help directing the attention of the Court to the fact that the case was an unusually bad one. There were four of his own children who, but for the timely discovery of thtir 'IN retched position, nut have Wed very shortly. The Learned JUDGE said that, painful as appeared to have been the situation cf the defendant, still that was no palliation for his treatment of the children, and therefore an example must be made. The sen tence of the Court was that he be imprisoned in the Westminster Bridewell for the term of four months. Lewis Foster and Joke Wilson were inflicted for having broken into, and torcibly entered and seriously damaged, certain premises in Milford-lane, Strand, the property of the proprietors of the Illustrated London News. Mr. EallEhitine and Mr. Wild conducted the case for the proseca:ion. The trial of this case occupied many hours, and was not broul.t to its termination until nearly seven o'clock. The facts, however, arc in themselves very limited. It appeared that some two years since the defen dant Foster, who was described as an engineer of unusual abilities, had entered into an agreement with the proprietors of the Illustrated News to manufacture a new patent printing machine, which LAI been invented by their publisher, Mr. W. Little, and that for the purpose of its construction he was allowed to fit up the premises, No. 8, Milford lane, which Messrs. Ingram and Cook held under a lease from a Mr. Taylor, of Essex street. The machine was to have been completed by October, 1347, and advances amounting to upwards of 1,0001. more than the sum specified (9.500 in the contract were made, until early in February las'', Mr. Ingram ordered the work to be alpindoned. The premises in question had been fitted up under the direction of the defendant as en engineer's piece, and the dispute which even tually ensued arose out of the assertion of the defen dant that the premises had been let to him by Ingram and Cook, which assertion those parties met with a flit denial as to its truth, alleging that he was to have the. occupancy only with a view to the construction and completion of the new machine. Matters went on in a bad spirit until the arrival of the 30th of July last, when the defendant, with assistance, broke into and took possession of the premises, when he caused every pane of glass (200) to be broken, and every window-sash and frame to be taken away, and then proceeded to unroof the building. The above is an outline cf the case. The defendant, who defended himself, contended that he had been the tenant of the premises, that he had been badly treated by the prosecutors, and then said that the question as to the right of possession would be decided in another place. The defendant, however, was unable to prove the payment of either rent or taxes for the premises, whilst, on the part of the prosecution, it was stated that he never had made such payments. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended the second defendant, Wilson, to mercy, as he had only acted under the direction of Foster. The:Learned JUDGE ordered Foster to be corn= mitted to the House of Correction, Westminster, until the next sessions, for the purpse of inquiries being made in the meantime as to his pp,ver of pay ing any particular fine to the Queen. With respect to the other defendant Wilson, he must enter into his own recognizances to come up to receive judgment on the same day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKEN WELL. Nineteen young women, evidently in great distress, and whose appearance indicated starvation, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to solicit hi 3 advice and assist ance under the following circumstances : In consequence of seeing bills announcing that young women were required to work at ladies' cloak making they were induced to apply at the address named—in Goswell-street, Clerkenwell—where they saw a person who gave his name Owen. He had en gaged an apartment of Mr. Draggins, at 60, Goswell street, in which were placed forms and tables for the purpose of a work room, and the materials, &c., for cloak making were introduced. Twenty-four young women were engaged at 93. per week. They commenced their work on Tuesday last, and continued at it from early in the morning till late at night until Saturday night, when the forewoman took the cloaks to the establishment of Mr. Pawson, of St. Paul's Churchyard, and on her return she said she had not been paid her bill for the work done, and the appli cants not being paid were left destitute and starving. She assured his Worship that whilst they were at the work some of them had had no more than a piece of dry bread to eat during the day. Mr. Owen they could not now find anywhere, and they could not ob tain any redress from the forewoman. They still had their bills up all over the City for hands at cloak making, and they had no doubt that this was a sys , tern carried on for the purpose of cheating poor needlewomen of their labour, and hoped the case would be exposed for the protection ofpoar girls and women who were willing t 9 obtain an h ones t li v i ng by their industry. Mr. TYRW2ITT sympathised with the poor crea tures, and said it was lamentable to find that they had been so ill-treated ; he felt satisfied that Mr. Pawson, whose establishment was highly respectable, would not sanction such a procedure with anybody in his employ, or continue them in his set vice if the circum stances were made known to him. He felt satisfied that he woul;i do anything in his power to relieve the distress of applicants who had been so egregiously duped. Mr. Bestow, of Vernon-place, Bagnigge- wells, and one of the board of guardians of Clorkenwell parish, who happened to be present, said that he was aware of of th e l a b our an d di stress o f such persons as app. cants ; and knowing Mr. Pawson, he felt assured that he would not sanction or encourage anything like what had been stated. He was satisfied that if the applicants waited upon him he would redress their grievances. Mr. TYRWEIITT said, unless the principal interfered for them he, as a maL,,itrate, was po , ,verles.g, and he 4uggested that if Mr. Bestow would take the trouble of accompanying them to Mr. Pawson's and explain the particulars he would be doing them a service. Mr. Bestow instantly acceded and left the court with applicants, who were humanely assisted by the worthy magistrate, and Mr. Bestow kindly gate some of them instant employment. The poor half•famished creatures seemed grateful for the kind attention shown them and returned thanks with tears in their eyes. SOUTHWARK. William Foster, a tradesman carrying on business as a tin-plate worker in Union-street, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with inflicting a severe wound on the head of Henry Hyne, a hatter, with a life-pre server. The complainant, a portion of whose head was strapped with adhesive plaster, stated, that he had known the defendant for a considerable period, and that they were always on the most amicable terms; that he was in the habit of visiting at his house; and that he went there on Wednesday night, and saw his wife, the defendant being from home at the time ; that while he was there the defendant returned, and with out the slightest provocation rushed upon him with a life-preserver and struck him with it on the head : that he was confident he would have murdered him there and then had he not escaped out of the house, and that it was only miraculous that he was enabled to effect a retreat, as the wound inflicted by the blow cut open his head, which bled profusely, and a medical man pronounced that if the blow alighted on a different part of the skull it would have killed him. As it was he (complainant) was extremely ill from the effects of the attack, and was incapacitated from attending to his daily avocations. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said, that for some time past he had suspected that an intrigue was carrying on between his wife and the complainant, for the latter always took an opportunity of calling at his house when he was absent; that in order to satisfy himself on the point, he concealed himself in a cupboard in the house when his wife supposed he was from home, and had not been long there when the complainant made his appearance, and from the conversation that he overheard between the par ties he was satisfied that he was correct in his conclusion as to the nature of their intimacy. He, however, remained in his hiding place until he heard the complainant and his wife go up stairs, and when he was in the act of getting out of the cup board he threw down some pots and kettles that stood in the way ; the noise made by it alarmed his wife, who came running down with a candle in her hand ; he met her on the stairs, and, rushing by her, sprang into the room where the complainant was, and in the height of passion attacked him, not with a life preserver, as he described, but with a large street door key, with which he struck him on the head. He added, that he had correctly described the circum stances, and only regretted that he had not " given him much more," and should have done so had he rot made a precipitate retreat from the house. Mr. COTTIMIIIAM said that the explanation just given by the defendant threw a very different light upon the affair, and that if he had grounds for sup posing that the complainant was carrying on an illicit intercourse with his wife, such provocation was sufficient to cause him to take summary vengeance on her seducer. The complainant declared that there was no foun dalion fur such a suspicion, and, as he had said before, he and the defendant had been on very intimate terms, and he merely went to the house to see him, not ex pecting he was out, and that he only went upstairs into a room where goods were kept, and he wished it to be ureiersood that he did not go into any bed chamber. He added that the defendant was a man of a violent temper, and that it could be proved that he had maltreated other persons without just cause. The defendant denied the latter imputation on his character, and said he defied him to prove his assertion. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that it certainly was a very savage assault, and might have ended in the death of the person who was attack e d. Th e defendant, how t leer ; had given an adequate reason for his attack on the complainant, and as the latter had states' that his assailant was in the habit of attacking persons without cause, he should allow the case to stand over until Monday, in order to bring forward witnesses to prove his assertion, and that in the meantime the defendant should enter into his recogniaances in the sum of 401. to appear on Monday. LAMBETH. Yesterday having been appointed for the final ex amination of Mrs. Linfield and others charged with causing the death of Eliza Wilson, the court, as on former occasions when the same parties where exami ned, was much thronged by persons anxious to hear the proceedings and obtain a sight of the prisoners. Their curiosity and anxiety were doomed to disap pointment, for when the case was called, a message was delivered to Mr. Norton, the presiding magistrate, to the efE2ot, that the prisoner Dryden still remained so ill that it was not deemed safe to have her removed from liorsemonger lane gaol to the court, and the case was further adjourned until Thursday next. Mr. NOUTON directed that the prisoners should be made acquainted with the further remand, and also told that if any of them had anything to state lie was ready to hear them. The Magistrate's message was delivered to the prisoners, and in a few minutes Mrs. Linfield and her son (as she called him) William appeared at the bar. _ _ _ _ r.ddressing the magistrate, beg ged to know the precise nature of the charge against ? Mr. NORTON replied, that the whole of the evidence was not as yet before him, but under the impression that it was not of so serious a character as the other prisoners, he had consented on the last examination to take bail for his appearance. Mrs. Linfield admitted that the charge against her was one of a very serious character, and therefore it was essential that her son should be at large, in order that a counsel might be engaged to defend her upon her trial. Mr. NORTON repated that he had offered to Jibe rate the young man at the former examination upon his giving such bail as he thought sufficient to insure his attendance. Mrs. Linfield said that her son was subject to fits, and she was herself of rather an eccentric character, so that they never associated themselves with their neighbours, and from this circumstance they were considered proud, and a strong prejudice, she had no doubt, existed against them, and to this fact she attri buted her son's inability to find bail. For some years, she said, she had herself laboured under considerable bodily suffering under the care of the doctor, and she might say, bed-ridden, while her son kept the shop, and merely sent up stairs to her such patients as made application for her assistance. Mr. NORTON remarked that he had no wish what ever of depriving her of the means of procuring the assistance of counsel on her trial, and, under the circumstances, he had no objection to admit the young man to go at large upon his entering into his own recognizance of 501. to appear there on Thurs day next. Mrs. Lintleld said the stock in the shop was worth at least 1001., and her son, who blubbered like a child while at the bar, having consented to enter into the required sureties, was liberated. THE RIGHT TO THE BED AND SOIL OF THE RIVER TH..4111.ES DISPUTED. Samuel Scales, a firsherrnan, living at Bern fleet, at Rochford, was summoned on Saturday last before William Gurdon, Esq., the judge of the Essex County Court, by Mr. Henry Wood, the owner of Lamb or Canway Island, in an action of tort, which charged the defendant with having unlawfully re moved, taken, and carried away divers quantities of cockle-shells, shingle, and other tidal deposit, lying'or being, or found on the sea walls or sea shores adjoin ing to and forming part of a farm, land, and premises of the plaintiff, called Le Bick, in Canway Island, whereby the plaintiff had sustained damage to the amount of 11. Mr. Gregson, of Rochford, attended as attorney for Mr. Wood. Mr. Martin, from the office of the City Solicitor, attended, and stated that the City Solicitor had been directed by the Lord Mayor, as conservator of the river Thames, to attend on the part of the defendant, and to deny the right of Mr. Wood to the ground and soil from which the shells were taken. He also called the attention of the judge to the 58th section of the Act for establish ing courts for the recovery of small debts, which provided that the Court should not have cogni zance of any action " in which the title to any corporate or incorporate hereditaments" shall be in question. The Judge said that he doubted very much the right of the Corporation to appear in this case, the question being between a person who claimed the land as owner and a wrongdoer ; and as regarded the question of his j urisd i ction, he considered that he had a right to hear evidence as to title, but not to decide upon it; an 1 that it appeared to him that the City were unnecessarily interfering on behalf of persons who were not acting honestly in removing the shells. Mr. Martin stated he claimed to tender himself as a witness for the defendant. In this case it was considered that the defendant was on ly exer cising his lawful right, which the Corporation felt it to he their duty, as the body who had the regulation of fishermen, to protect and defend. So far from the Corporation thinking the defendant to be dishonest, they considered that he had been oppressed by persons who claimed an interest in that which they had not the slightest claim to, and the Corporation would not for a moment interfere on behalf of any person who had been guilty of any unlawful act. lie was pre pared with evidence as to the title and claim of the Corporation to the soil and bed of the river, and several of the assistant water-bailiff-, and witnesses of great age, were also in attendance, who could prove that for fifty years fishermen had taken shells and exercised the right of fishing on the shore claimed by Mr. Wool, without the slightest interruption from any person. The judge stated that he would proceed to hear the evidence, and accord ingly directed Scales to be sworn. In answer to questions from the Judge, he admitted having taken the shells without the saLction of the City Water bailiff, and that he left off taking them when Mr. Wood's bailiff claimed the shells as his master's pro perty. He said he claimed to take the shells as his right, and that he had taken muscles and winkles many times before. He considered that he had as much right to take the shells as to take fish in the river. The place in which he took these shells was from 200 to 300 yards from the river wall in Canway Island; the tide flowed and re-flowed over the part of that shore, and seven feet water over it at high water. Russell, Mr. Wood's bailiff, said the shells were a protection to the river wall. Mr. Martin referred to the great distance between the river wall and the place from whence the shells were taken, and the small quantity removed. The Judge said that made no difference. The great bar, or shoal, off Yarmouth, was a great protection to the town of Yar• mouth, although situate a long distance from the shore. After much discussion, the Judge determined to adjourn the case to the next court, either party to be at liberty to give further evidence as to the situa tion of the shells, and the plaintiff to support his right to the locus in quo. IRISH FRACAS at GREAT CROSBY. On Wednesday evening, at about six o'clock, a number of Irish labourers, amounting to about a dozen or fifteen, assembled at one of the inns in the village of Great Crosby, for the praisew o rthy purpose of "getting drunk and kicking up a row." It appears that they had been employed by a farmer in the vicinity to dig up some pota toes, and Paddy, with great forethought, per ceiving that the esculent was deteriorating very fast, and must be got out of the ground as speedily as possible, and that at the moment labour was rather in demand, resolved to " strike" for higher wages. A proposition to this effect being ma de t o th e f a rmer, it was of course rejected, and Paddy, in a fit of des peration, had recourse to the old "dodge " of astonish ing the natives with his "sprig of shillelagh." Now, the implement used for this purpose happened to be a most formidable weapon, and being kindred in more re spects than one to that recently in vogue in Ireland among the rebels, Paddy was not at a loss to know how to wield it, and there was no danger of its becoming like the sword of Sir Hudibras, which "for want of fighting had grown rusty," so, with the pitchfork or pike (the agricultural implement employed for dig ging potatoes), Paddy pitched into the inhabitants without showing any quarter, and, as it turns out, fully succeeded in his undertaking of making a forcible impression on their weak nerves. In the village of Great Crosby there are only two policemen stationed, a sergeant and a constable, and the Irishmen having multiplied in numbers to more than twenty, all well armed, the chances were decidedly in favour of the peace-breakers. The two policemen passed through the village, and were immediately attacked by three or four Irishmen with their forks, which they plunged about almost in every direction, for, having been turned out of the beer-hou-e in a state of excitement, they were callous to the con sequences. Policeman 302 was knocked down, and as soon as he recovered himself he ran away to the! station-house, leaving his comrade, the sergeant, on the ground also, and about to be butchered with the pitchforks. Some women, fortu nately, closed round the poor fellow to save him, and probably their screams, more than anything else, frightened off the Irishmen. Sergeant L'ye, a very muscular and powerful man, rose to his feet, having received a wound of a pike under one of his eyes, and several blows across his body, and urging the male bystanders to his assistance, followed the Irishmen up will the intention of appre hending inhabitants foll ow ed le.nding the ringlvalc:= , • up for a short distance, but, with ao unaccountable cowardice for Englishmen, the moment the attack was made they ran away, leaving the sergeant a n d one man to receive the whole body of pitchforks. This man struck heavily about him with a life-preserver, and the sergeant, with his stafl, kept oil - the forks; the civilian (a man of the name of \Vesthead) re ceived the end of one of the forks in his hand, which stuck fast, and the officer struck the Irish man on the arm and broke it, causing the fork to drop from his hand. One of the inhabitants, a farmer, who stood by, gaping with his m ou th open, and without taking any interest or active part, was nearly made to swallow a pitchfork ; he re ceived a bad wound from the prongs in the head. The bravery of the sergeant is beyond commendation ; he felled three or four of the Irishmen with ease, and rendered them unable to use their weapons ; but the numbers being so great, and coming to the assist ance of their fellow comrades, it was impossible to apprehend any of them. At last, the Irishmen ima gining, as it is supposed, that assistance might be at hand, moved off down the village, and the sergeant and the man Westhead, covered with blood, made a final attack to try and apprehend the ringleader, en immensely powerful Irishman ; they laid hold of him, after some difficulty, and the villagers now closing up, thinking that the Irishmen Is ere running away, they succeeded in scattering them, and the big Irishman, after wrestling a little, knocked two or three men down and ran away, closely pursued by the sergeant, who at last succeeded in capturing him and making him a prisoner in the lock-up. Altogether, such a disturb ance has not occurred in this part of the country for some time; but as such rows may visit it again, it be hoves the authorities to make some preparviens, and if they will have but two eonstablrs stationed there, lot them both be Englishmen with " courage longer than their legs."—Liverpool Courier. HORRIBLE MURDER IN LISBON. Lisbon has been thrown into a state of much ex citement, not by any event of a political nature, but by a murder accompanied with horrible circumstances. About eight o'clock on the night of the 12th of September, one of the city gatekeepers saw, between the Fundaqao and Campo de Santa Clara, a large bundle on the ground, near a wall. On examining it, he found that the substance enveloped in the cloth was a mass of dead flesh. Fearing to proceed alone in his examination, he gave information to the nearest guard-house. The parochial authorities were summoned, and, accompanied by the man, they proceeded to the spot where the bundle was lying. .fo their horror they found it contained the naked trunk, all covered with stabs, of a woman's body, merely the trunk, for the head, hands, and legs had been cut off, and were not in the bundle. The mutilated body was removed to the guard house, and the man who first discovered it was detained in custody. Early the following morning a policeman appeared, bringing with him the legs and hands, which he and a comrade had dis covered the previous night in . the street of another pariah. The head not having been found at seven o'clock in the morning, a sort of inquest was held on the body by the civil authorities, and some medical men. Seven stabs from a broad dagger or knife were found on the left breast over the heart, and twelve on the right breast. The legs and hands had been separated from the body with a sharp instrument, and with considerable sur g7cal precision. But there was no clue for Llentif3ing the body. A dense crowd of people surrounded the guasd-house all day. Over 8,000 per- sons were admitted to see the body, but no one could recognise it. About three o'clock a young woman pressed forward to flee the corpse. The Regedor of the parish immediately recollected that he had a few days previously summoned this young woman to answer a charge made against her by her mother. The charge was, that the daughter had stolen a gold chain and three moidores. The daughter, when summoned, denied the charge, and said that her mother was not right in her head. The Regedor said that he would send the mother, as she was unwell, to the hospital, and the daughter to gaol. " To gaol! my daughter, to gaol! That I —no I I declare she stole nothing from she." The Regedor dismissed them, and promised to the mother an order of admittance to the hospital. On the following day the daughter went to the Regedor, and told him that the mother being now better, had determined on not going to the hos pital, and had sent her to thank him. The Regedor thought n.o more of the circumstance until he saw this young woman pressing forward to look at the mutilated body. He asked her where was her mother ? She left the house this morning. Where is she gone ? I do not know. notwithstanding the cool collected manner in which she answered these questions, the Regedor strongly suspected her, and sent her off to the magistrate's house, with a meseage that she was suspected of being the person who com mitted the murder. After some questions put to her by the magistrate, the police were sent with her to examine her house. She sat down to blow the fire while the search took place. Two knives covered with blood, a hatchet and a strong needle, half a foot long, were found. A little garden at the back of the house was dug up, and every recess examined, but nothing further was discovered until Maria Jose arose from the place where she had been sitting. It was remarked that the earth of the flew of that spot had recently been disturbed. The po lice dug up the ground, and found deep down the head of the murdered woman. The youeg woman, seeing that further concealment was useless, frankly declared that that was the head of her mother, 'Matilda da Luz; that it was not she who had committed the murder, but a man of her acpseint ance, and would not tell his name, even though they did to her what he had done to her mother. It was eight o'clsek on the morning of the 12:h that be committed the deed; as soon as he entered the house he stabbed the mother, and, she added with a smile, " One blow finished her ; he cut off the head with the hatchet thet had been found, and the legs and hands with a rezor, and the two bloody knives." She had not attempted to save her mother, because he had threatened to kill her also if she interfered, and did slightly cut her in the hand when she attempted to in terpose. This story she told without an appearance of remorse or alarm, frequently smiling at the questions put to her. She was subsequently sujected to a seven hours examination. She did not vary in her story ; but in spite of hercaution, said some things that will greatly aid the authorities in searching for her accom plice. The object of the murder was to secure the gold chain, some moidores, and other trifling property. It was with great difficulty that the mob were pre vented from inflicting summary punishment on the wretched but reckless prisoner as she was going to prison. Even though she should be convicted of the murder, Maria Jose can only be banished for life. The law of this country exempts a woman from the punishment of death. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 19, 1848. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Charles Lyell, Esq., jun., F.R.S. FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 10. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Gaillard de Ferry as Consul at Liverpool for the French Republic. FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 12. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Joseph Antoine Limperani, as Consul at Gibraltar for the French Republic. - WAR OFFICE, OCT. 13. Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Hugh Gough to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Morris, who retires; Cornet George Henry Littledale to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gough; James Ainslie, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Littledale, Oct. 111. 17th Light Dragoons—Cornet William Frederick Webb to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miles, who retires ; Joseph Haythorne Reed, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Webb, Oct. 13. 4th Foot—Lieutenant Wadham Wyndham Bond to be Adjutant, vice Thomson, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Oct. 13. 9th Foot—Lieutenant John Hanham, from 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Waishe, appointed Paymaster to 12th Dragoons, Oct. 13. 10th Foot—Major George Dobson Young to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Strickland, de ceased; CaptainfThomas Miller to be Major, vice Young; Lieutenant Edward Lee to be Captain, vice Miller, Aug. 1 ; Lieutenant Henry M`Manus Sall to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lee, appointed Paymaster, Sept. 12; Ensign Charles Nedham to be Lieutenant, vice Lee, Aug. 1; Henry George Edward Somerset, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Nedham, Oct. 13. 12th Foot—Ensign Lord Frederick Montagu, from 52d Foot, to be Ensign, ♦ice Lalor, who retires, Oct. 13. 36th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Archibald Cubitt to be Captain, without purchase, vice Creighton, deceased, Sept. 4. 45th Foot—Major Henry Cooper to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase, vice Erskine, deceased ; Captain William R. Preston to be Major, vice Cooper; Lieutenant Stephen R. Gordon to be Captain, vice Pres ton, July 19. 48th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Wheeler to be Captain, without purchase, vice Mountsteven, who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign Samuel John Maclurcan to be Lieu tenant, vine Wheeler ; William Henry Knight, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Maclurcan, Oct. 13. 52d Foot—Charles Henry Lambert, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Lord F. Montagu, appointed to 12 h Foot, Oct. 13. 55th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Alfred Poynt.z James, from half-pay 50th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Han ham, appointed to 9th Foot, Oct. 13. 85th Foot—Nelson Rycroft, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Floyd, who retires, Oct. 13. 88th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Frederick York She 'og, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kerin, appointed to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guar,ls, Oct. 13. • 90th Foot—Lieutenant ilyenry Lecky to be Captain, by purchase, ♦ice Chester. who retires; En?-ign Joh❑ Christopher Guise to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lecky; Henry Hope Crealeck, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Guise, Oct. 13. 91st Foot—Major Charles Cooke Yarborough to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lindsay, who re tires; Captain Berne Edward Murray Gordon to be AL.jor, by purchase, vice Yarborough; Lieutenant Fre derick J. Bayley, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gor. don; Ensign Count George Rivarola, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bayly; Robert Gordon Hope John- Itone, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rivarola; Oct. 13. 98th Foot—Lieutenant Lawrence Shadwell, to be Ad jutant, vice Richmond, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 21. 2:1 West India Regiment—Ensign Henry Abraham ',V hitmore Ayton to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Williams, who retires; Ensign Patrick M'Loughlin to he Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bruce, ap pointed to 29th Foot ; Ensign Frederick Blanco Forster to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gordon, ap pointed to 96th Foot; Frederic Cipriano Palacios, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Ayton, Oct. 13 ; James Lambert Byrne, Gent., to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice M 4 L-u;hlin, Oct. 14 ; Forward Rumley, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Forster, Oct. 15. 3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Bryan Thorn hill, from half-pay 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hills, appointed Paymaster, Oct. 13. HOSPITAL STlFF. — Assistant-Surgeon Richard Gam ble, M.D., from 4th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Shegog, appointed to 86th Foot, Oct. 13. MEMORANDUM.—The names of the Major on the half pay 12 t h Foot are Park Percy Nevill, and not Neville, as previously stated. Errata in the Gazette of 12th September. 10th Regiment of Foot—For Lieutenant Edward Lee to be Paymaster, vice Barlow, appointed to 9th Light Dragoons, read, " Captain " Edward Lee, &e.; for Lieu tenant Mowbray Baumgartner, from half-pay 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice L. e, appointed Paymaster, read, vice " Sall, promoted," Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. West Kent liegiinent of Yeomanry Cavalry—Neville Ward, Gent., to be Cornet, •ice Springett, resigned; Thomas Hextell Smith, Gent., to be Surgeon, Oct. 2. THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Lords Commissioners of her Altj:•sty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the neductiou of the National Debt, in purivance of the Act, 10 Geo. IT., c. 27, sec. I,' that the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof, for the year ended the sth day of July, 1848, by the sum of one million seven hun dred and one thousand three hundred and thirty-eight pounds thirteen shillings; The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that no such sum will be ap plied by them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provisions of the said Act, between the 12th day of October, 1E346, and the sth day of January, 1849. S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General. Natioral Debt-office. Oct. 12, 1848. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Haynes Barrow Higginson, merchant, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. Richard Field, warehouseman, Barge-yard, Bucklers bury, to surrender Oct. 19, at twelve, and Nov. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as signee, Coleman-street -buildings; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Bread-street, Cheapside. Catherine Choules, ironmonger, Reading, Oct. 26, at two, and Nov. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Gem and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields. George Ackland, Moorgate-street, City, and Henry Oswin, Cecil-street, Strand, merchants, Oct. 27, at two, and Nov. 24, at half. past one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Wilkinson and Gurney, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street. George Price, innkeeper, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan shire, Oct. 26 and Nov. 23, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Phill potts, Cardiff; Bevans, Bristol. Rees Davies, innkeeper, Cwm Tawe, Brecknockshire, Oct. 27 and Nov. 24, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Hargreaves, Neath ; Leman, Bristol ; Nicholls and Doyle, Bedford. row, London. Solomon, Flatow, jeweller, Leeds, Oct. 23, and Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Few and Co., Henrietta-street, London; Upton, Leeds. Henry Nicholls, innkeeper, Eastham, Cheshire, Oct. 25, and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Sweating and Co., Southampton-buildings, London ; Liverpool. James Pratt, stock and share broker, Liverpool, Oct. 30 and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sh arpe an d Co., Bedford-row, London; Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson, Liverpool. George Henry Husband, builder, Salford, Oct. 24, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assign ee , M anc h ester; S m i t h, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Andrew, Manchester. John Foster Taylor, grocer, Bakewell, Derbyshire, October 26 and November 21, at twelve, at the Manches ter District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Milne and Co., T em pl e , L on d on ; S u tt on . Manchester. Nicholas Brown, timber merchant, Hexham, North umberland, October 24, at half-past ten, and November 23, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Sud lows, Torr, and Janeway, Bedford , row, London; Hodge, Newcastle .upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. H. Regless, F. Skerratt, and R. Bonsfield, St. Mar tin's-lane, Charing-cross, woollen drapers, Nov. 3, at twelve-Catherine Elton, Whitechapel, ironmonger, Nov. 3, at eleven-A. Fielder, Alton, Hampshire, brewer, Nov. 3, at half-past elven-V. F. Strong and W. Hosking, Dye House-wharf, Ciink-street, Southwark, coal merchants, Nov. 3, at half past twelve-J. E. Smith, J. R. Beard, and R. T. Smith, Cheapside, warehousemen, Nov. 3, at one-J. Bishop, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, linendraper, Nov. 6, at half past twelve-H. Gibbs, Ox ford, grocer, Nov. 6, at eleven-J. Every, Lewes, Sussex, ironfounder, Nov. G, at twelve-T. H. Forster, flay. market, chemist, Nov. 6. at o:;e-S. Woodgate, West moreland-place, Southampton-street, Camberwell, auc • tioneer, Nov. 6, at half-past eleven -T. Ridsclale, jun., Milton, next Gravesend, Kent, ironmonger, Nov. 6, at half-past twelve-N. Mackenzie, Nevegate-street, fringe manufacturer, Nov. 6, at half past eleven-J. Butler, Saffron Walden, Essex, upholsterer, Nov. 6, at half-past two-R. Oakley, Southampton, market gardener, Nov. 8, at twelve-E. Tibbey, Frith-street, Soho, diamond merchant, Nov. 9, at half-past one-R, Sharpe, Chelms ford, Essex, draper, Nov. 9, at twelve. In the Country. J. S. Whitaker, Salford, Lancashire, spirit dealer, Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester-Margaret Hassell, Manchester, milliner, Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester-S. Langdale, sen.,nd y andS a . rm L , an gdale, jun., Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, a York shire, corn dealers, Nov. 7, at one, at the Court, castle-upon-Tyne-`V. at eleven,'l'odd, W a t the h i teh a ven, Court,Nev Cumberland, ye. ironmonger, pon castl 7, at N ewcastle-upon-Tyne, ryne - N,)v, IV., glass• manufacturer, Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —A. Halliley and R. Halliley, Wigton, Cumberland, calico printers, Nov. 10, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyue—T. T. Clarke, Sun derland, baker, Nov, 13, at eleven, at the Court, New castle-upon-Tyne—J. Came, jun., Falmouth, grocer, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Stanbury, Cawsand, Cornwall, grocer, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. Hooper, Honiton, Devonshire, market gardener, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—S. B. Serjeant, Callington, Cornwall, attorney at law, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Medland, St. Austell, Cornwall, common brewer, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. H. Hill, Plymouth, veterinary surgeon, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter—B. Martin, Ply mouth, ale and porter merchant, Nov. 9, at one, at the Court, Exeter. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Sankey, Birkenhead, blacksmith, 101, on Thurs day, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. G. Francis, Liverpool, tailor, Is. 9d., on Thursday, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. J. B. Falkner, Liverpool, share broker, kid., on Thursday, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Li verpool. M. M‘Divilt, Liverpool, merchant, 75., on Thursday, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. T u rner, Liverpool. J. C. Dreaper, Liverpool, corn merchant, 71d., on Thursday, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Li verpool. H. A. Stewart, Liverpool, ship broker, 75., on Thursday, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Li verpool. R. D. Evans, Wrexham, draper, 55., on Thursday, Oct. HI, or any other subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. Smith and Hewitt, Liverpool, tailors, 3s. ad., on Thurs day, Oct. 19, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. J. Burt, J. Burt, jun., Manchester, and W. T. Watson, Leeds, commission agents ' 9d., on Tuesd a y, O c t. 24, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Burbury, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, maltster, 4s. I Id., any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bermingham. J. Prince, Coilioe, Durham, grocer and draper, 3d., on Saturday, Oct. 14, or any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle upon Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. T. S. De Vear, Lisle-street, Leicester-square, currier, Nov. 6, at one—J. Blake, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, builder, Nov. 6, at half-past twelve—J. Saunders and E. Turrell, Fleet-street, publishers, Nov. 6, at three—T. Woodfield, Little Ebury-street, Pimlico,: plumber, painter, and glazier, Nov. 4, at one—J. Newman, Vent nor, Isle of Wight, builder, Nov. 4, at twelve—W. E. Hammond, Uxbridge, seed crusher, Nov. 4, at eleven — J. E. Jones, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, en gineer, sculptor, and patent lamp manufacturer, Nov. 8, at one—G. 11. Haworth and R. Archbutt, Manor-street, Chelsea, iron founders and engineers, Nov. 8, at eleven —W. Saul, Brook -street, Bayswater, furnishing iron monger, brazier, and bell hanger, Nov. 4, at one. I❑ the Country. J. C. Shaw, Bristol, carrier and wharfinger, Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. J. Ferens and R. Ferens, Durham, drapers and grocers, Nov. 7, at half past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Ro berts, Liverpool, ironmonger, Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Ashley, Liverpool, underwriter and broker, Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool— A. Humphreys, Liverpool, boot and shoe maker, Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. P. Baldy, Devon port, apothecary. Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Ex. eter—E. Ellis, Wednesdury, Staffordshire, builder and timber merchant, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Birm ingham—T. Stacey, Eckington, Derbyshire, coalmaster, Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—Margaret Hassell, Manchester, milliner, Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Williamson, Glasson, Lancashire, inn keeper and dealer in timber and elate, Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. At the Court of Review, Nov. 3, M. Archer and T. Halal, timber merchants and joiners —T. Robson, Manchester, agent—J. Gatrell, Lymington, Hampshire, upholsterer—ll. HiMar, jun., Birkenhead, Cheshire, innkeeper—W. Hignett, Liver pool, tobacconist—W. Watson,iElland, Yorkshire, iron monger and innkeeper—T. William=, Llangefai, Ang lesey, draper and grocer—J. Starkey, Horseferry road, Westminster, builder—J. Lowe, Birmingham, factor— T. F. R. Shaw, Birmangham, factor—Jane Bowdler, Shrewsbury, jewellsr—G. J. Bradley, Great Saint Helen's, City, wine merchant—J. Dodgson, Wakefield, Yorkshire, innkeeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. IL Blake and J. Velletier, Richmond-buildings, Dean street, Soho, importers of walnut-tree wood—J. Hup dleston and J. Dodd, Wark, Northumberland, maltsters —E. Dit ton and T. Fowle, Cranfirook, Kent, cabinetmakers—E. Lion, M. Lion, and E. Lion, Fashion-street, Spital-fields, shoe manufacturers—W. J. Coulsting and S. Turner, Manchester, engravers— S. Nevison and A. Nevison, Darlington, Durham, tailors and drapers—R. Venables and C. Venables, Wellington, Shropshire, tailors and drapers—C. Parkin and W. M'DAnell, Savanna-place, Essex-street, Kingsland-road, hook and eye manufacturers—J. Twiname, F. Maxwell, and 3. Twiname, Liverpool, corn merchants (so far as regards J. Twiname)—S. H. Mowbray, and S. English, Ito!beach, Lincolnshire, brewers—S. D. Cubitt and R. Thorns, Norwich, ironmongers —A. Bergman and C. Salichtegroll, Bread-street,Cheapside—J. Priestley and 11. Bennett, Birstall, Yorkshire, starch manufacturers— W. Hardtnan, J. Dugdale, J. Smith, and W. Preston, Radcliffe, Lancashire. spindle and fly manufacturers (so far as regards J. Smith)—J. Austin and G. T om b s , Burnham, - farmers—G. J. Parker and W. Claxton, Ta vistock-street, Covent-garden, printers—J. Nunn and W. Gelsthorpe, Nottingham, chemists and druggists— G. Hull and Sarah Hull, Barwell, Leicestershire, grocers and provision dealers—J. Peak, S. Peak, N. Peak, and C Peak, Manchester—J. Barrett and J. Hadfield, Bir mingham, and King's Head -court, Beech-street, City, varnish manufacturers—D. Cooper and J. Holt, Lon don, and Sydney, New South Wales, general merchants. INSOVENT PETITIONERS. William Colley, New Brompton, Kent, grocer. Isaac.Hodgson, Chorley, Lancashire, brazier. Isaac Grimsby Stephenson, Leeds, grocer. James Morley, Chatham, Kent, dealer in h a t s . Thomas Smith, Norwich, fishmonger. Samuel Benjamin Sherrington, Ace, Norfolk, attorney at-law. Charles Thomas, Bristol, Butcher. James Broad, Barrow Gurney, Somersetshire, mason. Samuel Churchill, Dowend, Gloucestershire. J. Hill, sen., Bristol, fly proprietor. F. Newton, Dore Moor, Derbyshire, licensed victualler, John Newman, Keynsham, Somersetshire, baker. J. Moss, Filkins, Oxfordshire, blacksmith. Luke Ogden, Grenoside, Yorkshire, licensed victualler. Matthew Bridgeton, Bristol, beer shop keeper. William Taylor, Sheffield, shoemaker. Benjamin Robert Heath, Stoke, Ipswich. Lionel Welham Moore, Debenham, Suffolk, surgeon. George Thurston, Earl Stonharn, Suffolk, butcher. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending October 10, 1848, is 235. Nd. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London .New Price Current of Oct. 13.) SUGAR.—To-day importers of raw Sugar were less disposed to realise, and refrained from submitting any to auction. West India Muscovado was in good demand, for scale and pan, but merchants were compelled to accept former low rates. The purchases amount to 850 hhds and trcs, making for the week 1,157 hhds and trcs. The fall in the value for that time is 6d per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined goods met with little at tention, but in the value there is no variation to make known. MAURITIUS is little required by grocers or refiners, and an enlarged quantity has been pressed upon 11le attention of buyers; former rates are in consequence not generally supported. Of 8,900 bags submitted to public sale a small part only sold; the chief consisted of the better descriptions. Mauritius is still higher - in value than West India, with the exception of brown sorts. EAST INDIA.—With strong yellow kinds of Bengal the market has been abundantly supplied this week, the demand having been limited; prices suffered a de cline of is to is 6d per cwt, the quantity on offer like wise far exceeds the wants of the trade. For white and yellow Benares a decrease is visible in the amount of business concluded, and quotations must be considered 6d lower. There are sellers of brown upon low terms, yet few buyers are to be met with. Of the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 10,400 bags, not above two thirds sold. FOREIGN.—The market has been more freely supplied this week, and on the part of merchants more desire is manifested to realise. There has been little inclination manifested by exporters to do business, few purchases have been made for home trade purposes, and our refiners working under bond aro not much in want of Sugar at present. At auction 3,713 bags, 12 cases, 8 barrels, and 514 bales of Santa Martha have bean offered, and a part only sold. The private sales made in foreign Sugar this week are a cargo of yellow Havannah at 19s, one of Maceo at 18s 6d, and one of Bahia at 20s for is hite. MoLAssEs.—West India can be obtained upon the low terms of 15s to 183 per cwt, still on the part of buyers little desire was manifested to do business. Ben gal Treacle is held for 15s to 18s per cwt ; there is not much demand. Honey sells with more readiness. COFFEE.—This afternoon mine desire was manifested to do business in Plantation Ceylon at the public sales, which consisted of 2,400 bags col 14 casks, and the whole sold at full rates, good middling 503, middling 46s to 475, low middling 42s 6d to 44s 6,1, other sorts 34s to 40s, inferior 27s to 30s, and damaged 20s to 375. Of Native 600 bags only in part sold at 27s 6d to 28s for good ordinary rather colury. COCOA.—OF West India there is a plen:iful supply, and on the part of the trade little desire is shown to do business. At public sale. a small part only of 867 baags Trinidad found buyers. For Foreign the market is in a cull state, and prices tend downwards , . TEA.—Today the public sales of Tea went off with out spirit at former rates. Gunpowder was rather cheaper. Of 8,856 pkgs offered, 2,500 sold. On Tues day 12,000 pkgs will be offered at auction. FaulT.—The demand for Currants this week has been good at 40s to 42s for new, and 34s to 35s for old at public sale, 107 butts 50 cribs and 58 barrels damaged 1 Patras were offered, the greater part of which sold from 38s to 425, the quality very good. Valentia Raisins continue very dull at 40s: at auction 511 boxes and 351 half-boxes damaged were sold from 37s to 395. New Turkey Figs ex Sultan, were yesterday offered by the trade, a portion of which suld at 70s—the price was reduced to-day to 655, and a good deal of business done. iffRICE.—To-day at auction 149 bags Bengal Rice were sold; Bengal, good white at 12s, damaged 9s to I ls; Bombay sound white at 103 to Ils 6d, and damaged 8s to 103 6d. SAGO.—To-day at public sale 180 boxes of Pearl Sago were sold at 20s 6d to 21s 6d per cwt. SALTPETRE.—There has been little desire manifested by exporters or home trade buyers to do business by private treaty, and a further decline is apparent in the value of 6d per cwt. At auction, 1,500 bags were dis posed of. The rates asked for British refined are 29s 6d to 30s, still the amount of business done is of little • moment. SPICES.—Mace met with less demand, and must be quoted rather cheaper, as there is an enlarged supply; at auction 25 packages were sold. Brown Nutmegs are wanted and full rates obtained, there is also a plentiful supply; at auction 57 packages found buyers. With Black Pepper the market has been well supplied this week, and as only a limited demand existed prices have slightly given way. Of the parcels offered at auction amount ing to 3,743 bags, and 4,410 robins not above half found buyers. To-day at auction 77 bags of white Pepper went at 4id to Ofd per lb. SPIRITS.—The sales made in East India Rum have been to a small extent only, and is bd to is sid is the value of proof. For Leeward Island there is a dull market, and prices are on the decline, they rule at Is 6d to Is bid for proof. Demerara has been dealt in with caution, and strong sorts can be obtained at 2s 3d to 2s Bd. There are few buyers of Jamaica for home consumption, and export orders come in slowly. The value of good and fine 30 to 38 per cent. over proof is 3s 6d to 4s 4d, low and middling 28 to 33 over 3s to is sd. Brandy is unaltered in value, but there is a fair demand. Cognac of the vintage of 1847 is 4s 10d to 55, and ditto 1846, 3s 10d to 4s per gallon. Geneva export kind at 2s to 2s Id per gallon. In British made Spirit there is no variation to notice. INDIGO.—The quarterly sale of East India has been well attended by exporters and home• trade buyers, and is proceeding better than was expected. To-day during the progress of the sale 202 chests were withdrawn; 955 chests have passed the sale. The brisk demand which we noticed previously for the middling shipping qualities of Bengal has continued at an average advance of 4d on the last sale's prices. Ordinary and low sorts were also in better demand at from the July rates to 2d advance. Fine shipping descriptions, however, above 4s 9d do not show any improvement. Ordinary and low Madras is selling at about the July sale's prices, whilst good qualities (owing to their scarcity) average at about 6d advance. The quantity bought in is only 34 chests. Of the quantity which has now passed the sale (3,230 chests) 480 have been withdrawn, and 450 bought in, leaving 2,300 sold. COCHINEAL—This afternoon there was more demand for Cochineal, and the public sales of 100 bags Honduras went at full rates ; silvers at is 6d to 4s sd, and black 4s 6d to 5s Id per lb. OlL.—This afternoon the market for Cocoa Nut Oil had a dull appearance, and at auction 86 pkgs of Ceylon were taken in at 39s 6d ; 182 casks of Palm 31s to 323 661 per cwt. TALLOW.—This afternoon the public sa►les of Tallow went off flatly, and at lower rates; 350 casks of New South Wales sold at 39s 9d to 445; 107 casks Odessa Ox mostly taken in at 443 3d; 61 mats of Vegetable Tallow 46s to 4ss per cwt. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a moderate amount of business transacted. Bristol and Exeter, New Shares, 14 dis.—Great Western, Quarters, 57, 8 die —York and Newcastle (Extension), No. 1,3% dis. LIVERPOOL, Om 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market still continues depressed, with prices much the same as yesterday. The sales are. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares, 9% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 5/. Ss. 9d. dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, dis.—London ar.d Norti-Western, 101 1 ,4—Ditto, .Nof Quarters, 2 1 4 dis.—Midland Stock, 75—Ditto, New Halves, 13% North Staffordshire, 7 c. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 12 1 4 dis.—Ditto. No. 4, Thi r d s , 61. 6 s . York Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 4 dis. MANCHESTER, OcT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ence, 1 13-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 71 is c. Eastern and :Dover, No. 4, 6 5-16—Leeds .Fifths, 5% dis. —Ditto, Preference, 1 4 dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 5-16 dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), —EasterniCounties, 12. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are—Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Stour Vall e y, 5% di s.— N orth Staf ordshire, 7% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 4% dis.--• Shropshire Union, 336 die.—South Staffordshire, 4% die. YORK, OCT. 12. STocx EXCHAWGE.—The business transacted to-day wall as follows : —Great Northern, Ei - ---North British, Quarters, 3 1 4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension), No. 1, 111. l s. 3d.—Ditto E. Purchase), 41. 65.3 d. GLASGOW, Ocr. - 12. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer . once, 635. Glasgow, :Kilmarnock, andAyr, 50—Ditto, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 98Y,—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 563.—Great Northern, 64s.—North British, Thirds, 79:I.—Scottish Cell" tral, 21%. [ADTERTISEMENT.]—John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton Hall, near Huddersfield, continues to receive from 5 11 parts of the kingdom the highest testimonials to the efficacy of the celebrated medicine known throughout the world as Kaye's Worsdell's Vegetable Restorative Pills. Rheumatism, of the most obstinate character , soon yields to its searching and purifying influence. Mr. John Everett, gamekeeper to Sir J. Beckett, Se: merby Hell, near Gainsborough, says—" I was afflicted with Rheumatic Gout for about five years, had the ad vice of eminent physicians, and visited Buxton, Askerne, and other watering places, but without benefit. I tried your pills, and soon found myself better of 10' complaint. I could not have supposed that so great sn alteration could have been effected in so short a space of time." 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These Pills are eqally efficacious in curing old coughs, recent colds' asthmas,:sore throats and all pulmonic disorder& Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establishments 244, Strand, London. REFUSAL OF CONVICTS TO CONSORT WITII A MURDERESS. —The Lord Auckland, convict-ship, n° rir lying in Kingstown harbour, has on board a large otimJer of female convicts, as well as free settlers—in all mono!" ing to 263. Amongst the convicts is the wretched o ld woman Conolly, con v i c t e d a t t h e l ast Cl onmel ass i zes o murder, For this murder (that of a neighbour whose name we now forget) two of her sons were hanged at the previous assizes, and she and another were s ubsei quently convicted, and sentenced to death, which sell' tence was commuted to transportation for life. It was proved upon the trial, that after their victim had been felled by her two sons he was; dragged into the house and his throat cut, the old woman holding a basin under the wound, in order to receive the blood of the dying man, and prevent its markin g th e fl oor I Wh en b ro ugh; t. on board yesterday, the aged d emon was regar d e d horror by the other convicts, who are divided into messes of six; but none would consort on earth with hero and she had to be placed in a corner by herself, and tv take her food alone. This is a favourable trait, that even in the most abandoned of the sex the idea o f cold blooded atrocity is frau g ht with h o r ror . —Li verpoo l Ma ll. MILITARY MOVEMENTS. -- A detachment of tu -Ist Rdyilla"(about-l-50),- under the command of CePt ell , i , Isaac, arrived at Aberdeen on M on d ay night, to re piec" the 93d Highlanders, who are about to proceed to Dna' dee, Perth, and Stirling (head-quarters)—the first cle tachment leaves to-day, and the remainder on Pride).* During the time the 93d have been in Aberdeen the con' duct of the officers and men has been in every Wag worthy that distingui s h e d corps , an d t h e i r d epar t u re generally regretted.—Edinkurgh Witness.: ROBBING A JUDGE I—The Areal York Sun, Sept. „.." has the following among its "Telegraphic dispatches; "Broke Gaol.—Albany, Sept. 25.—80 b Sutton, the r e torious pickpocket, un d er i n di ctment f or ro bbi ng Judg e Harris, escaped from the city gaol this morning." 81 ATE& On the 11th inst., Mrs. Thomas L. Shuckard, of a soa• es On the 11th inst., at Ellen Bank, Dundee, Mrs. JO Edward, of a daughter. MARRIED. At *t. Mary' s , B a th w i c k , Bath, Lieutenant B. Ileds°l 7th Madras Inf an t ry , t o J ane, fourth surviving daughter ciff the late Lieut.-Colonel Charles J. Doveton, Ben al ~,v, al Army' On the 12th i ns t., a t S t. P ancras Church, JaMes Esq., second son of Major John Hamilton, late of her N' t e , jesty's 77th Regiment, to Anne, eldest daughter of Jam' Offley, Esq., Great Moor, Staffordshire. On the 12th inst., Jane Troughton, eldest daughter of I t J. Combs, E sq ., t o H enry B urton, second son of J. T. Wes t° of the Limes, Tenterden, Kent, Esq. ( I,ot. On the 12th in s t., a t St. G eorge ' s, H anover-square , Francis Price Bl ac k woo d, R.N ., t hi rd son of the l a t e wil l- Admiral:the Hon. Sir H. Bl ac k woo d , B art., to J em i ma SO ° second daughter of the late J. C. Strode, Esq. deli s On the 12th inst., at St. G eorge ' s , Bl ooms bury, Fre, ete r H. Elliott. Esq., M.A., t o S usan , e ld est daug h ter of Pearse, Esq. On the 12th inst., at St. John's, Paddington, George Taylor, E•q., o f th e M a d ras Ci v i l Strvice son of Alt r i ar General Taylor, C 8., of Clarendon-place, 'Hyde-Park"- dens, to May Henrietta, daughter of Scott, Esq. , place, St. John's-wood. DI ND -On the 26th nit., at St. Thomas-street, Southwark, 1" Derrig, aged 31. On the 3d i ns t., a t Cheltenham, Charles T. Lyndon, tile infant son o f M a j or B o l ton, of the sth Dragoon Guards' a ria On the 6th inst.; at Belfast, Emma Georgians Frazer, aged 25.1., wife of T. Frazer, Esq., surgeon, R.N . ' Aon On the 7th i ns t., at T un b r i dge :wells, aged 71, Dirs. r , Abbotts, relict of Mr. R. Abbots, late of Ely-place, Skinae street. On the Bth i ns t., a t Leamington. Priors, aged 67, the Bell' J. Johnson, notor of - entweg, Norfolk. 17,1i0v On the 11th i ns t . , at Richmond-barracks, Dublin, --„ , beth Ameli a , th e i n f ant daughter of Major Daubeneh of the 55th Regiment. On the 11t11 inst., at Ventnor, Fanny, the wife of , --- ILf r' A. Jones, of Great Rassell-street, Bloomsbury, ' aged '27. ." On the 12th inst., aged >i years, Henry, son of kJ . ' Smith, of Vassall-road, North Brixton. e London : Printed an d P u bli s h e d b y MURDO YOL, rtziG 02, No. 11l Strand, Printar, at The Sun Ofnot xt t , at Strand, in the Precinct ri the Savoy, in the chi t " Middlesex, Saturday, Octtiber 14, 1848. ~~ -- it,a. day • fecto coats it th, et by lit Mil Tw, rw, No Dee E. their 1 755.,1 ( post fr 17.1 seat S mid th sal /L IN Berat e 'Rot Brews ebs, tyro, ' titenej E. 1 Isstei 3 4, S 5 Clan Public like fa Las lee They ant tt or fan Net set Fr Waled inxstr i and di tlsn A 0 solitar Doctor Lillibi iternt,, This fitick tamed *lent 0