The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

PETERBOROUGH, WtSBEACH, AND SUTTON. The half-yearly meeting was held on. Tuesday at the office, Parliament-street ; Mr. Cary in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated ,that the works were progressing as well as the state of the weather would allow, and it was expected the line would be opened for public traffic in August next. The report was adopted, and Messrs. Cary and Fox, the retiring directors, were re-elected. Railway and other Companies. SEVERN VA T J.F,Y The half-yearly meeting was held on Tuesday at the office, Victoria-street, Westminster ; General Forrester in the chair. Dividends at the rate of 4} per cent. per annum on the preference shares at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares were declared, and the retiring directors and auditor were re elected. CORNWALL• Th e r eport of the directors states that the total expenditure on the line between Plymouth and Truro during the half-year had been £3,357, and between Truro and Falmouth £11,704, which in cluded the final settlement with the contractors, Messrs. R. Sharpe and Sons and Messrs. Oliver and Sons. The total amount received on revenue ac count during the past half-year was £47,072, as compared with £40,716 in the corresponding half of 1863, but the line was open from Truro to Falmouth during a portion only of the latter period. The charge for interest was £7,876 more than for the cor responding half of 1863, being the interest on the capital expended on the line from Truro to Falmouth. The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway was far ad vanced towards completion, and the Burngullow and Newquay Railway was being proceeded with. The capital account to 31st of December last showed that £1,813,361 had been expended. The revenue ac count for the half-year showed that £47,072 had been received, and £26,387 expended, leaving a balance of £20,684 to meet the interest account of 129,113, showing a deficiency of £8,429, which, account to £45,268, the former deficiencies, made a total of £53,697 paid by the associated companies to the 31st of December last. AIALTON AND WHITBY. This new line, by which the long incline in Goth land will be superseded, and a fruitful source of accident avoided, is expected to be ready for opening next summer. The extension of the North Yorkshire Railway from Castleton to Grosmont will be ready for opening about the same time, and the two new lines will together afford to the towns of Malton and Whitby, and the whole of the East Riding, another route to Guisborough, Stokesley, Stockton and the north. Between Whitby and the north the route will be shortened by 50 miles, the existing route being either via Malton or York. GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN. The report of the directors states that the total expenditure on capital account to the 31st of January last amounted to £5,051,560, including £223,009 expended on shares in other companies. The ex penditure on account of renewal of permanent way during the half-year amounted to £17,534, .and the directors proposed to charge £lO,OOO against the present and each future half-year's revenue on this account, which, after careful consideration and con sultation with the engineer, they felt assured would be amply sufficient to meet all requirements ; and thus, while the actual expenditure might be increased or diminished as circumstances required, it would be more equitably divided among the shareholders than by charging each half-year's expenditure against revenue es it occurred. The directors had consi dered it necessary in the interest of the company to apply to Parliament for various powers as to new lines, amalgamations, subscriptions, &c., and they were now promoting five bills for that pur pose. The revenue account for the half-year end ing January 31 last showed that £238,105 had been received, against £230,595 for the corresponding period, showing an increase of £7,510. The total expenditure amounted to £105,824 against £10,602 for the corresponding half of the preceding year, showing a decrease of £4,778. The net receipts amounted to £132,280, against £119,993, showing an increase of £12,287. The surplus from the pre ceding half-year amounted to £1,225, against £1,086, and the available balance to £136,575, against £121,079 in the same half of preceding year. The interest on loans amounted to £25,003 against £24,575, and the sum available for dividends to £111,572 against £96,505, showing an increase of £15,067. After payment of £8,553 for dividend on the 5 per cent. guaranteed stock, and £96,942 for dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum on the guaranteed and preference stock and on the or dinary stock, there remained £6,077 to the credit of the next half-year. The dividends would be pay able on the 23d inst. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines forthe week ending the 11th of January amounted, for local passengers, to £4,086 ; for foreign passengers to £477 ; for mails, &c., to £642 ; for local freight and live stock to £12,876 ; and for foreign freight and live stock to £2,9o4—total, £20,985, and for the corresponding week of last year to £22,149, flowing a decrease of £1,164. DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending Feb. 15 amounted to £2,432, and for the corresponding period of last year to i,8,651, showing an increase of £782. The receipts since May 1, 1864, including the above, amounted to £216,661, showing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year of £33,258. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £4,012, or 42.52 per cent, and for the corresponding period of last year to £3,793, or 44.43 per cent., showing an increase of £219. The working expenses from May 1, 1864, to Feb. 15 last, amounted to £81,151, or 37.45 per cent., and for the year 1863-64 to 38.16 per cent, of the receipts. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS (LIMITED). ; p k The report of the directors state that the balance sheet differed from its predecessors, inasmuch as the capital account was closed. On the 30th of June last there remained a balance of £5,000 to the debit of loan account ; this sum had since been paid, and the loan debt of the company was now, therefore, entirely liquidated. With this payment the direc tors had closed the capital account. The amount of share capital originally authorised to be raised was £700,000 ; of the 175,000 shares representing this sum 148,525 only were actually issued, and the capital raised was consequently only £594,100. At the time of the present company taking over the property and liabilities of the French company, the charges on capital account for leases, buildings, ?Horses, goodwill, and other stock in trade were 1 _ 5 _ 52 , 9 81 ; bad debts incurred on capit al account, 1, 1,465 ; the first establishment expenses, £ 97,108, making a total of £671,554. There was, therefore, a deficiency of capital amounting to £77,454. On Dee. 15, 1859, the directors received authority to raise 160,000 b equalise the capital loans pita or debentures, in order to account, and they obtained power at the same tin The sumlto cancel the shares remain ing unissued. desired could not be raised, and the revenue funds necessarily applied, as far as they were availab e l r e e , to the capital pur poses of the company, and a temporary loan from the bankers supplied the residue. A t a the close of 1864 the charges against the capit a l brought within the amou nt of the share l eount were capital. The capital charges now consist ed of leases, build ings, &c., of £5 54 , 100 ; and the balance of first establishment expenses to £ 40,000, making a total of £594,1000, which was e q ual to the amount raised l on shares. The value of the stores exceeded the sum of liabilities by £5,938. The reserve fund amounted to £40,276, of which the sum of £31,157 was invested in £35,281. Consols, and the residue formed part of the cash balance at the bankers. The comparison of the financial positions of 1858 and 1864 showed a decrease of liabilities of £41,916, and an increase of revenue assets of £79,028; total improved condition of the company £120,944; in addition to which the number of horses and the value of the stock and pro perty were much greater than iiilBsB7l7eiross receipts of the company during the past half-year were £309,753, against £302,895 for tr e same half of 1863, showing an increase of £6,857 ; and the gross expenditure was £279,027, against £278,788, showing an increase of £239. The net profit of the working of thebusinessin the half -yearwas £30,725, against £24,107 in the same half of 1863, showing an increase of £6,618. The number of passengers carried during the half-year was 22,004,262, and the number of miles run by the omnibuses 6,332,844. The aver age number of omnibuses working daily was 600, and the number of horses 6,413. The average re ceipt per mile run was 111 d., and the fare per pas senger 3441. The gross earnings per omnibus per day averaged £2 16s. lid. The mileage duty paid to Government during the half year amounted to £26,387, or above £l,OOO per week. The direc tors had reason to believe with regard to this item that before long some measure of relief would meet with favourable consideration. The balance available for dividend was £25,767, out of which it was proposed to declare the usual dividend of 5 per cent. per annum, with a bonus of . Is. per share, making together 3s. per share, or at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, leav ing a balance of £2,970. DAGENHAM THAMES DOCK. It appears that arrangements have been made by the directors of this company whereby, within six months from the commencement of the works, ves sels will be enabled to unload on the quay of the docks, in connection with the London and Tilbury Railway, from which goods, coal, guano, &c., can be conveyed to any part of the kingdom. Shipbuild ing yards and engineering establishments are in tended to be commenced on the company's land by an independent company. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, DURHAM, March 4. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) George Wilkinson was charged with embezzling moneys of the Friend-in-Need Life Insurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society, at Bishop Auckland. Mr. Campbell Foster and Mr. Trotter appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Meynell defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was the agent of the society in question, by which life insurances were afforded to poor men, and entered into a contract with a man named Story, whereby the latter insured his life for £l2 10s., and secured to himself a payment of 10s. a week in case of illness, and £5 in the case of fire. In return Story was to pay 2s. a week, and it was these payments which the prisoner was charged with embezzling. He was discovered in conse quence of Story falling ill and applying for his sick allow ance, when he was informed that it would not be paid in consequence of his payments being in arrear. This led to further inquiry and the apprehension of the prisoner. He was found guilty, tut strongly recommended to mercy by the jury, and His Lordship sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. MURDER. Matthew Atkinson was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of his wife Eleanor, at Winlaton, on the 18th of September. Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Laycock were the counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for the de fence. It appeared that the prisoner had been married about 12 years, that his wife, who was 43 years of age, was of some what intemperate habits, and that he himself was of an un bridled, ungovernable temper, and in the habit of using threats and violence to his wife both when he was drunk and sober, which terrified the neighbourhood. They had gone to live at a place called the Spen, near to Winlaton a few weeks before the day of the wife's death. On the 17th of September the prisoner had gone, with his two nephews, Matthew Swinbume and Thomas Layburne, to a shooting match at Hopson Pit, where it is probable that they got a good deal of drink, and they did not return home until eleven o'clock at night. The prisoner rattled at the door for a short time before it was opened by his wife, who was dressed, but appeared as if she had just awakened from sleep, and the prisoner asked her repeatedly where she had been. She gave no direct answer, but said, " Come, come, less than that may serve." When the pri soner, seeing that the fire was out and there was no supper prepared, said, " I don't like this." The woman replied in a conciliatory manner, saying, "Now, Mat, sit yourself down," and the prisoner jumped up with the intention of striking her, when she ran out, closing the door as she went, and saying, "To the devil with you, Mat." Lay burne attempted to prevent the prisoner from following her, but he saying "Let me gang, or it will be the worse I for you," was allowed to pass, and he caught his wife at the door of the house of a man called Anderson, and struck her in the face. lie then dragged her back to the door of their own house and pulled her in, she calling "Murder!' and Layburne and Swinburne (both of them mere lads) were perfectly terrified at the prisoner, and went away to call the attention of the neighbours. A man named Purvis lived only four doors from the prisoner, and he was roused from his sleep by a woman to interfere with the pri soner, who was thrashing his wife. He looked out of the window and heard the noise of blows coming from the prisoner's, and a voice shouting "You , I'll kill you, I will, by —!" and the deceased crying "Oh, dear !" and " Murder !" The prisoner's character, however, was known to be so ferocious and dangerous when he was under the influence of drink that Purvis dared not go in to interfere for the woman, especially as the prisoner was heard threat ening to kill dead on the spot any one who interfered with him. It appeared that the prisoner continued beating his wife for a full hour in this unmerciful manner, the blows sounding as though given with the whole might of the strike; and the man Purvis to listen to them, and then all seemed quiet, and Purvis went to sleep. After about half an hour more, and at half-past 12, the prisoner knocked at Purvis's door and called out to him and his wife to get up, for he had "finished her this time." They dressed and went with the prisoner to his house, where they found the deceased seated on the floor, and the prisoner then held her head up with his hand. The woman was covered with blood, and so was the floor, and there was a dish of bloody water on the floor as though the prisoner had been washing her face. He said, "She is done," and then Purvis and a person called Hymers took him out of the house and down the row. His hands and shirt sleeves were bloody, and he said, " I know what I have done. lam quite willing to go to the gallows. It is a bad job." Several other persons were attracted by the sound of the beating, and were actually at the prisoner's door while it was going on, and talking with him, but they did not dare effectually to inter fere, although she called out " Oh, dear ! " several times, and more than once " Oh, dear ! Matthew, lam not dead yet," and the prisoner actually left the house for 20 minutes, but was allowed to return to resume the acts of violence. Some men in the course of the tragedy did venture to go in, and even take the weapons he used, which were the tongs, coal-rake, poker, and long brush, from him, and to tell him he was making a bad job of it, but they again left him, relying on his not resuming his violence. At last, however, several were collected in the room together, and the poor woman endeavoured to speak to them, but was unable, and after giving one gasp she died. She was dreadfully beaten on the head, face, and body, death having resulted from a blow fracturing the frontal bone, and the fireirons were covered with blood, and all of them were bent. Mr. Foster's defence was an endeavour to induce the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter on the ground of the intense excitement the prisoner laboured under when in fluenced by drink or anger, and quoted some dicta of law in HsuisppoL rtdosfhhipispcooinntteedntoiuont that ;but they wore not applicable to the circumstances of this case, and that to have one law for drunken or angry and another for sober or u t i h et . people trywou.lHdebehrsiueryerrseivvieewofedaltlhjeusetizsannede,oradnedr in g in.t i i s ng cou o n u - t that the provocation, in order to relieve from murder, Pu must m be reasonable and must consist always of more than words and gestures (unless the latter were most threaten ing, ing, whereas the poor woman in this case escaped and was dragged back), left the jury to perform their task according to their real belief, and not rejecting the cardinal rules of law upon the subject of murder. His Lordship also com mented strongly upon the want of manliness of the neigh bours in permitting this outrage. The jury retired for a short time only, and then returned with a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner on being called upon to say why sentence should not be passed upon him said that his wife had led him a most unhappy life, and that he was tired of it and wanted to die, and that he had brought her home that night from another man's house, and that had occurred seven times. His Lordship then assumed the black cap, and address ing the prisoner, said that he had been convicted on evi dence which could leave no doubt of the wilful murder of his wife. He said she had led him an unhappy life, but he had beaten her h i,nhtihheemr ohasteksaagvatfien.manuneehar, d an f d od w o h it e e n d she s escaped he rou „, life, 3co m therefore, men ded hima n d to must m prepare e ther e p a b r . ; s to t u s die, e h days of life which remained to him in r ea e ne p od a u i hl r i di s Lordshipnog; t t e that fre Throne of Grace from which no repentant sinner was ever spurned. • The prisoner, who was much affected, simply ' said' " Thank you, my lord. lam prepared to die any time." OXFORD CIRCUIT—OxFont., March 4. NISI PRIUS COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) William Albert Simms was indicted for stabbing with intent to murder Joseph Sykes, at Chipping Norton, on the 27th of October last. Mr. A. S. Hill was for the prosecution ; Mr. T. S. Prit chard defended the prisoner. The case for the prosecution was that the prosecutor, who was in the employ of a Mr. Lynes, a miller near Chipping Norton, had been sent in to Chipping Norton in the afternoon to fetch some yeast, and had spent about two hours and a half there in two publichouses ; that on his return home, having been dismissed by his master, he was carrying his things away in his box and was sitting on it by the side of the road, when the prisoner came up the road whistling, suddanly rushed upon him, and stabbed him three times in front and three times in the back with a sort of short walking-stick, with a pointed dagger at the end. It was a dark night, and though the prosecutor was the attacked party he did not cry out, but the prisoner shouted "Murder" more than once. Assistance appeared, but the prosecutor got into the ditch on the side of the road, and so concealed himself, and as soon as the new corner and the prisoner had gone away he got his box and went over a hedge to the stable of his master (Mr. Lynes) where he passed the night. The next morning he told the postman, who was the first person he appeared to, have seen, that marks of blood and a pain in his side were to be accounted for by the fact that he had had a bad fall the night before from a ladder, and later in the same day he gave information to the police of what had taken place. The prisoner's case was that he had been having tea with his father, and afterwards started to return to Chipping Norton with him and a young brother, who left him at his father's stable, after which he went on his road alone ; that after parting with his father for five minutes he was sud denly attacked by the prosecutor, and in self-defence he used the dagger-stick which he had with him ; and that when assistance came he searched in every direction for the man who had attacked him, but was unable to find him, and he supposed he had run away. It appeared, how ever, that he had no wound upon him. He despatched friends to Chipping Norton to try and discover his assail ant, and before the prosecutor laid his complaint he in formed the police. It appeared that the prisoner was a travelling agent of the Friend-in-Need Society, and had had the dagger-stick made in order to protect him at night from dogs and men in his rounds to collect moneys for the society. He had met with an accident some time back which rendered his nerves weak. The prosecutor was stated to have been drunk on the night in question; and it was alleged that he was unable to give an account of what took place. The prisoner was sober, and bore a very good character. His Lordship left it to the jury to say whether they thought that the prisoner acted under the impression, which proved unfounded, that the prosecutor intended to attack him, and whether he used violence inadequate to the occasion. The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding. His Lordship said it appeared to him that the prisoner had not the evil intention in his mind imputed to him by the indictment, but that, misled by a morbid imagination that the prosecutor had the design to attack him, he had used violence entirely unjustifiable. The sentence was six calendar months' imprisoment, with hard labour. WESTERN CIRCUIT—WINCHESTER, March 4. MEADEN V. REES--MEADEN V. HADEN. In these special jury cases, which were tried at Devizes the name of the junior counsel for the defendant in each case should have been "Mr. Edlin" instead of "Mr. Kingdom." CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) THE B=IMT MURDER. THE QUEEN V. GEORGE BLOOMFIE.LD. Mr. Baron Channell said that an application had been made to him yesterday to postpone this trial. He had had some doubts whether he could interfere in this stage of the proceedings without calling upon the prisoner to appear and plead. The affidavit stated that the prisoner was not in a state of mind to understand the proceedings, therefore he ought to be brought into court that the jury might have the opportunity of trying that question; but the affidavit went on further to state that the prisoner was so ill that he could not come to the court without danger to his life. Upon that ground, therefore, he considered it to be his duty to postpone the trial, and he directed that the recognizances should be enlarged to the next assizes. George Kenvary, Stephen Wallis, James Crouch, and James Collins were indicted for shooting at George Kitcher, with intent to kill or to do grevious bodily harm, or to re sist their lawful apprehension, at Beaulieu, on tho 19th of January. Mr. Prideaux was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Poulden for the prisoners. Mr. Prideaux, in opening the case, said that the case the jury had to investigate was a very serious one indeed. It was only by the mercy of God that the poor man Kitcher, whose injury they were inquiring into, was not killed ; and with the exception of one crime there was not a more im portant inquiry—one requiring the greatest care and anxiety on the part of judge, jury, and counsel. He mentioned this not because he had the slightest doubt that they would most carefully and anxiously investigate the matter, but because it was his duty to assure them that it was the great desire on the part of the prosecution that they should give to every part of the case every fair and reasonable doubt, while they at the same time firmly and fearlessly discharged their duty to the Crown. Tho real prosecutor in the ease was his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch ; the injured man was one of his keepers. The prisoners at the bar resided at Beaulieu. They would find that on the morning of Thursday, 19th of January, a keeper named Kitcher was out with a watcher named Bound ; that while they were out together they heard a gun fired, apparently in Longmead-row ; they went towards that spot, and as they were going they heard another report of a gun coming from a copse. They went towards the copse, and five men came out of it, four of whom were armed with guns. Kitcher went up towards them ; the men stopped, and the two who happened to be nearest to him turned round and pointed their guns at him ; the taller of the tip desired him to stand back, and the other called out anrsaid they had some of his birds, and they would have more whenever they wanted them, and would not be taken by such keepers as they were. Kitcher desired them to put down their guns, and if they wished to fight to fight like men, and it was due to the two men to say that they did put down their guns, and the five men went on together. They stopped again, and the same two men turned round and pointed their guns at Kitcher again. They then went on again, and followed by Kitcher, until they came into a turnip-field, when, Kitcher having gained upon them, they again stopped. They then again turned and pointed their guns. Again they started and Kitcher followed them until they made another stand. The two same men faced round, and the tall man, who had a walk ing-stick gun, called to the other, " Let me have your gun, and I'll shoot him." The other replied. " I'll shoot him my self," and immediately the gun was fired, and the shot en tered the chest of Kitcher over his heart, inflicting a very severe wound, and it was a great mercy that he was not killed on the spot ; he staggered back a few yards and fell into the hedge. He was taken up by Bound, and removed to Newland's farm-house, and there attended by a surgeon. There were in all five men, four of whom were the four prisoners, and a young man named Dunkerson. That an attempt was made to do grievious bodily harm—he was afraid to kill Kitcher—there could be no doubt, that the two 1 men had that intent was abundantly clear when they saw the men had been acting in concert. If one stopped, all did so ; if one went on, all accompanied him. They all went on together; all were near enoughto see what took place. (The evidence did not carry this out.) No one interfered to pre vent had atvholeinenng Theym i othdu rt: s sn jaeic wouldgg u h gt noihetf identifyo, b o nr eu r ot t rs oiKs resist probablyosi ono ehhu e w enorkk h fhwee a s ret t osohpu i h ofee n a rod, d ptebt ewiv b unlloe e it n e omht n ahte eoe d nwmot theya sh n wt e e hhch t aode o tar t ae shdtaohet alli nh e me . otath poor aunhl:dett man. how co theas mm y times stood forward. It was then thought right to permit Dunkerson's deposition to be taken, that he might be called before them as a witness. With regard to the part Dunker son took in the transaction, it would be their duty to watch his evidence with the greatest care and attention. In point of strict lawn jury might take the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, but in practice that course was felt to be so dangerous that judges told juries that they should not act upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice unless the facts appeared to be of such a description that, testing the evidence of the accomplice by the fact, the jury could feel satisfied not only that he wastelling the truth, but that he named the right persons, therefore it would be one of their duties to consider the corroborative evidence which would be called before them, to test the evidence of Dun kerson by the light thrown upon it by the corroborative evidence, and then to say whether they were reasonably satisfied that the four prisoners were acting and concerned in the same transaction. Dunkerson would state that about 11 o'clock on the night in question he and the four prisoners were all at a beershop kept by a Mrs. Wallis ; that they were together, and four of them were armed with guns; that they all went out together for the purpose of killing game ; that they went through several fields and killed two pheasants ; they fired their guns several times ; they were disturbed by the keepers, and that that took place which he had already detailed to them. There seemed to be some doubt whether he would tell them who was the man who fired the gun. (lie swore he did not know.) lie was afraid he knew ; but while a witness under such circumstances did not hesitate to tell the broad facts of the case, he would sometimes make it a point not only to screen himself from the most serious part of the charge, but to screen his accomplices. However that might be, they would fi n d f rom him that neither Crouch nor Collins was the man who fired ; he thought he should show by other evidence that Kenyard was the man who fired the gun, and that the walking-stick gun was carried by Wallis, who took an active part with Kenyard. If they should be of opinion that all four had a common design to resist the keeper, it was immaterial who fired - the gun ; but if they should fairly think that the evidence did not con clusively show that the men had a common design, then it would be necessary to ascertain who the two men were who took the most active part. He should bring confirma tory evidence of the account of the accomplice. First, as to the manner in which they were dressed ; that all had caps on(Dunkerson said in his evidence that two had hats); that they all had monkey-jackets on. The second piece of con firmatory evidence would relate to Collins, Crouch, and Ken yard. He should show that they we re searched. Collins and Crouch had pheasant feathe rs in their pockets, and Ken yardwh watchedt e with h had guncaps in his poc ket, and a loaded gun in his house. gre T at he ca n re e — xt th h eeaeod m o p ! avriisoolei of e shouldfootmarks b eit The jury returned a verdict of guilty with intent to resist their lawful apprehension, but they recommended Crouch and Collins to mercy. The Judge then sentenced Kenyard and Wallis to be kept in penal servitude for seven years, and Crouch and Collins to five years' penal servitude. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON PRURIENT PRO TESTANTISM.—It is surprising how keenly a large audience of fervent British Christians is attracted by the prospect of a little decorous naughtiness. If the Pope could be persuaded to abolish all the nunneries and convents in Europe, the staunch Pro testant professors of Exeter Hall and St. James's Hall would be deprived of a source of the most sin cere pleasure. , To hear of the dark misdoings of nuns and their confessors, with the proud conscious ness that you are looking down on them from the loftiest possible moral elevation, must be a genuine treat of the very choicest kind. There is about the " disclosures," which are always a great feature on such occasions, a pleasing suggestiveness, a prurient reticence, which imparts a charm that even the most improper of French novels cannot rival. In fact, a French novel is very tame fun compared with a thoroughly good oratorical raid against nunneries. The novel must be read more or less in solitude, and the incidents, after all, are not always so very improper. In a great meeting one has all the plea sure and excitement of companionship. The snig gering of everybody around one over indecorous inuendos has a wonderfully delightful effect. Then inuendo is so much more pleasant than the detailed statement of a novelist, and gives so much more employment to the imagination. And a peculiarly indescribable gratification is occasioned in the youth ful or female mind by hearing solemn fathers of families and clergymen talk on naughty subjects. It is always refreshing to find that our loftiest men tors are still beings of flesh and blood like ourselves. The instructors themselves rather enjoy their tem porary release from the gravity and propriety of private life. They share the prevailing excitement, and the novelty of finding ,themselves making un seemly allusions and discussing unsavoury topics before ladies is as tickling to them as to their lis teners. Altogether, the scene of a great anti-con vent demonstration is so truly pleasing to so many kinds of people that the only wonder is that the thing is not more frequent. At all events we ean not be surprised that the most is made of any for tunate opportunity which presents itself. The pother about convents which has been raised and kept up in the columns of a penny sensation news paper could not reasonably be expected to subside until the faithful had made it an occasion for one of in St. James's Hall was all that could be desired. these naughty merry ma ki ngs . Th e r ecent meeting The inuendos were most racy. The excitement was intense, and the eloquence superb. It need scarcely be said that that " there was a large attendance of ladies." But for ladies the entertainment would have lost three-fourths of its zest. A mere assemblage of men talking about the mysteries of the convent would have been an ex tremely tame affair. The great speech of the evening would not have been nearly so pointed had it not been delivered before a large number of the sex which a preposterously ex aggerated propriety commonly debars from all opportunities of hearing how much of a certain sort of wickedness goes on in the world. The orator whose masterly effort contributed so largely to the triumphant success of the demonstration is a divine of some denomination, and this fact was doubtless a comfort to some of the audience who might have thought his line of argument rather prurient if he had been a coarse layman. Besides being a divine and an orator, Mr. Hobart Seymour has been a traveller, and in fact a man of the world. He told his hearers that he had once been to Madeira, where he met a priest, in whose company, with some other young men, he visited a well-known convent. The large attendance of ladies pricked up their ears, but to no purpose. All that he and his companions said and did on the occasion " he was not going to tell them ; in fact, he could not tell a mixed assembly." Great laughter, and one or two solemn nods of approbation, followed this practical joke on the general curiosity. However, "he would say this, that some of the poor girls in that convent implored them with fearful earnestness to come to them at night and assist them to escape, promising to go to the ends of the earth with them on any condition or in any capacity whatsoever." This terrific picture of despair and abandonment had about it the right ring of a genuine polemical anecdote, and the indig nant but tickled audience cried " Shame" with vigorous unanimity. The notion of Mr. Seymour going to the convent "at night," the " fearful earnestness " and the "latent unseemliness of any condition or any capacity whatsoever," were all touchesindicative of the true artist. That German rationalist whom the Morning howAdver tiserwskith a number the po o o f rgirls got ayoung justly holds up to the pity an d con t em pt of readersits eban emoifg suchht indeeda scene a men, and even whether it was not as well that they ted should stop in the convent a s roam over th e wor ld with Mr. Hobart Seymour i n th e vague an d ra th er polygamousway intrudedtheyproposed. But no demon of G er m a u n p on rationalism theenchanted eaudience. h i his Thedespicable only m. criti cismster - ruption to the harmony of the evening occurred when Mr. Seymour declared, th a t w h ence a p oor girl was immured in a convent, " the cry of insulted innocence, the shriek of outraged virtue," could never more be heard. The candid reporter tells us that " this was too much" for a Roman Catholic at the end of the room, "who made such a noise that he had to be removed by the police." What very strange behaviour on the part of the Roman Catho lic ! Perhaps the poor benighted being at the end of the room had a sister or a daughter in a convent; and if so, he ought to have been very much obliged to the kind Christian gentleman who reminded him of her insulted and outraged virtue. If the Roman Catholics were to hold a large public meeting for the purpose of pointing out some defect in orga nisation of a Protestant community, the British public would doubtless listen to the eloquent invec tives with a patience and composure very different the turbulence of the person for whom Mr. Seymour's elegant and moderate language was " too much." After the unreasonable Roman Catholic had been removed by the policeman, Mr. Seymour got slightly dull and statistical for a time, but he soon recovered the appropriate tone. He proceeded to give what the reporter calls a " lively description" of the in terviews he had seen between young monks and nuns "at twilight in Italy." Why at twilight ? "He suggested nothing against the propriety of these young people"—nothing, much as one might have thought it. But " the young people" ought to have been allowed to consecrate an honest affection by an honest marriage, and " had he a scourge of scor pions he would drive from the land the Church which would enact any laws to prevent it." The imagination of the audience was so excited by this graphic picture of Mr. Seymour chasing his adver saries with a scourge of scorpions, that they "broke out into loud and protracted cheering, waving of hats and handkerchiefs for some minutes." The philosophic looker-on would see inthis edifying spec tacle a conclusive refutation of the wicked calumny that the most characteristic feature of Exeter Hall Protestantism is its intolerance ; it can only be re gretted that a timeserving Legislature does not hasten to entrust the power to scourge the Roman Catholics to such temperate and high-minded persons as Mr. Seymour, and those who greeted his Christian aspi rations with loud cheers. After this ferocious out burst he again returned to the amusing aspect of the matter. Not only were the nuns not permitted to marry, but they were permitted to cho.)se a con fessor. " Some nuns selected square confessors, some selected round ones"—a statement which must have had some meaning, because the audience are reported to have laughed at it. When a nun got a round or square confessor to her taste, her confes sions took an hour, or even more. "It was not for him to say what took place on those occasions ;" but the pure-minded audience guessed what he meant, and went on laughing heartily. " Were he not ad dressing a mixed assembly he could relate some fearful facts." After all this scruple was a little superfluous. A fearful fact or two might have helped to tame the imaginative efforts which the orator's disgusting insinuations were no doubt suc cessful in begetting. Another speaker said he could quote cases " of gratifi e d lust and secret cruelty," but, like Mr. Seymour, he contented himself with a few suggestive hints. A third, with immense gusto, read the preamble of the Act of Parliament for the exactly meant to describe. But it would be very chimerical to suppose that any of the persons pre sent knew anything whatever about monasticism. The chairmanovho probably gets his ecclesiastical history from the Times, evidently supposed that the first monk was St. Bernard. Mr. Colquhoun, in fact, was only surpassed by Mr. Seymour in zeal and energy. He considered that as we had put down Thuggee, and infanticide, and the sacrifices to Juggernaut in India, although they were religious practices, so we should show no mercy to convents. "He grieved to say, there were many ladies who had gone into those places from pious " motives, and who were leading holy and upright lives." One is a little puzzled at first to understand how the fact of leading a holy and upright life, or of being actuated by pious motives, can be a matter for grief. But do doubt the chairman meant that, just as the Madeira nuns would have been better off in officiating, "on any condition and in any capa city whatsoever," to Mr. Seymour then in leading the conventual life, so these ladies ought to be com pelled by law, or a scourge of scorpions, to give up their holiness and uprightness, and to come to St. James's Hall to see what real enlightenment and purity and Christian charity could effect. Perhaps as, according to the chairman's own admission, many of them do lead holy lives, they would have been rather astonished at Mr. Seymour's account of the cry of insulted innocence and the shriek of out raged virtue, and of the choice between round and square confessors. Of course, a meeting of this kind could not separate without calling itself a friend of civil and religious liberty. Having bellowed, and waved hats and handkerchiefs, in applause of a desire to extirpate the Roman Catholic Church be cause it holds a certain view about celibacy, these people naturally congratulated themselves on their keen appreciation of the inestimable worth of a re ligious liberty tempered by scourges of scorpions. They see nothing inconsistent with civil and religious liberty in the formation of a great political confe deracy for the purpose of rejecting every candidate at the approaching elections who will not bind him self to vote for a measure interfering with the domestic regulations of religious communities. "If a candidate hesitated on this point let us reject him." " Let every man be in earnest about this matter who respected his mother's memory." If the desired object were ever so expedient, what reasonable man could support in the hands of such advocates—people who talk about that pprtion of the " press of England which is not yet crushed by Romish tyranny, nor debauched by Romish arts ?" The whole proceedings are well worth a careful notice. They show with peculiar force the shame less folly and wickedness which religious fanaticism can develop in people who, in other matters, are probably not wanting either in common-sense or virtue. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE CYCLONE AT CAL CUTTA.—MOst people, we imagine, wondered a little at the mention of 'the Bengal Cyclone in the Queen's Speech, and fancied it a pardonable but bizarre freak of Sir Charles Wood, whose perception of political perspective is never very acute. The papers received this week from India, however, fully explain the paragraph. It is most unusual to men tion in a Royal Speech a tempest, or an explosion, or any one of the calamities within the daily expe rience of mankind, but Sir Charles Wood had be fore him the official report on the Cyclone. This document, so far from diminishing its importance, as official narratives generally do, raises it to the level of the great historic calamities, of events like the destruction of Pompeii, the earthquake in Lis bon, or the catastrophe which in our time half deso lated Catania. The storm of the 4th October, be gotten apparently about the Andaman Islands, rushed in a north-westerly direction along the coast at a pace which rose to 27 miles an hour, struck places as widely distant as Hidgellee and Calcutta with undiminished fury, and from the sea to Pubna and thence eastward to the Garrow Hills—say from Southampton to Chester, and thence in a bold curve to Lincoln—it left a broad track of desolation. Behind it, or rather with it, travelled a storm wave up from the Bay, often 30 feet high, which "swept over the strongest embankments, flooding the crops with salt water and carrying away entire villages." Indeed, if the storm wavel had been sentient it could not have chosen a better spot for its destruc tive play. Right through a spongy tract full of people, and salt, and cattle, and brackish creeks, covered with low close jungle, and full of shallow, mud-lined sedgy marshes, the Hooghly cleaves for it a road often miles wide past the Indian metro polis, past the railway centre, right away through the riceland to the Ganges, and the broad indigo-producing counties of the East. Its first tre- 1 mendous blow was levelled at Midnapore, the great maritime county west of the Hooghly, bearing much the relation to Calcutta that Kent bears to London, and though the great dyke of Hidgellee stood the shocks till the wave overflowed villages by the score. The police report the deaths at 20,665, and " in the track from Kedgeree to Kookrahuttee, a distance of many miles, three-fourths of the population, with their cattle and other property, may be said to have perished." To realise such a catastrophe we must imagine an English county crossed by a body of water such as that which first poured out of the Holmfirth reservoir, but salt, so that when the gale is over the soil is still almost unfitted for cultivation and there is no fresh water to drink. In Tumlook, the salt mart of this district, " out of 1,400 houses only 27 remained standing," the wind hitting harder than the;wave. This was all on the west side of the river,—below Calcutta on the opposite bank and on the east the destruction was still greater. In Saugor Island, a desolate, thinly-populated dis-' trict of 28 square miles, inhabited chiefly by foresters and tigers, with a few peasants, the storm wave literally clove the country in two. The wave was 15 feet above the soil, and so terrible were its weight and force, driven on as it was by the hurricane, that " it cut a channel right across the island, severing it into two halves," a sentence which reads rather like the description of an event in geological history than of any occurrence conceiveble in our oyvn day. Imagine the Isle of Wight cloven in twain by a wave which did its work at 27 miles an hour ! Fifteen feet of water, some 90 yards broad, and 300 miles deep, hurled on you at the speed of a passenger ex press train ! Rushing to form this channel, the water swept away the embankments by which all this low coast is protected, " utterly destroyed all houses, huts, storehouses, and other buildings, 3,565 in number, drowned 7,000 cattle, and left alive out of a population of 6,000 souls only 1,488." Those who escaped did so either by climbing the large trees or by floating on the roofs of their own house, which " were carried inland on the mainland many miles," the wave having force left to destroy one town at a distance of eight miles from the channel. Wherever through out the Twenty-four Pergunnahs of the riverain county on the Calcutta side the wave flowed, it left poverty so deep that the missionaries found the people, maddened with hunger, fatigue, and the im possibility of getting water, trying to eat grass ; and the salt warehouses of Mr. Fraser, the largest Euro pean salt manufacturer, were broken open by the people, " who," says the official reporter, had " been driven also mad by hardship, and who wanted the salt to mix with the kind of grass which they ate eagerly." At Diamond Harbour, says the Superin tendent of Police—a European—within a circle of six miles, " it is impossible to go 50 yards on the road without seeing a dead human body," the popu lation having been overtaken by the water and drowned while in a full flight along the road. In Calcutta 90 miles from the sea, and nearly 29 miles north of this point, 40,698 huts were swept away, the habitations, that is, of 203,490 human beings ; 10 vessels sunk at once, and 145 driven on shore, of which 97 were severely injured, and 36 totally lost. The loss of life, however, was not great, the solid English buildings protecting the town, and the wave striking most heavily on the opposite side. At Howrah, 1,978 persons are reported drowned, 12,762 cattle killed, and property estimated at £600,000 swept away. From thence to Serampore and Hooghly, a distance of 26 miles along the line of railway, and probably more thickly populated than any country district on earth, the homes of the people were either cleared off or so injured that it was necessary to replace them, and the very jungle so battered that months afterwards the track of the storm was as clear as the track of a horse through barley. There is no doubt a possibility of exaggeration in many of these figures, the estimate of property in particular being made with a motive, but it must be remembered that they are put forward by a Government which had declared many of the reports exaggerated, that the police is controlled by Europeans, and that most of the statements are the result of collated re ports from police, salt agents, private Europeans, and the sufferers themselves. The extent of the storm which was in full force over a district 121 miles long by about 19 wide, will of itself ac count for the magnitude of the figures, which are again confirmed by the measures a dopted by Go vernment. The whole population, men, women, and children,were at once taken on the relief list in the Indian mode,work on full wages being offered to all who would accept it ; but, says the secretary, this assistance " was necessarily inadequate to the wants of such a population." A sum of £11,665 was ex pended by private persons in stores of food and clothing, but up to January the Government was compelled to feed all women and children, "no work was procurable on the western side of the river," and the people of the Saugor Island must for some time to come continue to be fed on charity." The disaster, when all is told, is less in reality than that which fell upon the cotton workers of Lanca shire, but a calamity so terrible, and caused by the powers of nature alone, takes a stronger hold on the imagination than any gradual or customary loss. A thousand persons die in Great Britain every day, yet we register isolated deaths by accident, and there is reason in the difference of our estimate. All life is based upon the presumption that nature will retain her habits,—will not, so to speak, declare with her irresistible power war upon our designs. Suppose we had reason to fear, or even to imagine, that the Atlantic, rising 30 feet above its level, might any day hurl itself on Liverpool, or that London might be exposed to earthquake, or worse than all that the Gulf Stream might deflect its course, where would the motive to energy be found? The rush of a wave such as that which on the 4th October struck the bank of the Hooghly is a calamity of this kind, —one which affects the imagination out of all proportion to its result because so sudden, so capri cious, and so entirely beyond all human control. Without cotton cotton-workers must starve, —that sequence is visible, but that a village eight miles from the river should be swept away in a secontl be cause of some atmospheric disturbance three hun dred miles off, that sequence is not visible, and it is effects from causes beyond foresight which the imagination dreads. " THE LONDON REVIEW" ON THE BROTHERS DAVENPORT.—Undeterred by their double defeat, at Liverpool and at Huddersfield, and by their ignominious avoidance of Leamington for fear of being similarly discomfited there, the Brothers Davenport have the boldness to talk of paying a second visit to London. Perhaps, however, the fact ought not to surprise us. Impudence is one of the most important elements in the success of all who practise on the credulity of mankind. It is as neces sary as courage to the soldier, as readiness and tacit to the lawyer, as reputation to a woman, or as a clear majority to a statesman in office. A member of Parliament may get on without brains, a clergy man will sometimes manage pretty well without sanctity ; genius is not absolutely indispensable to the literary man, nor a profound knowledge of the laws of health and disease to the physician. But a pretender to secret powers must be impudent, or he is nothing. It was by the great gift of audacity that the magicians, alchemists, and Rosicrucians of the middle ages attained that grand pre-eminence which sometimes led to fortune and honour, and sometimes to the stake. It was by virtue of this happy art, which in itself is nature, that Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the other great experimentalisers on popular belief in more recent times, became the idols of fashion and the very gods of scepticism. This is the power which, in conjunction with the vast reserve of superstition inalienable from the human mind, has enabled mesmerists, biologists, spirit-rappers, table-turners, second-sight readers, and the rest of the strange rabble of modern pot terers in occult science, to raise themselves from their proper position of mountebanks to that of the apostles of a new creed. The public may be scep tical as to tradition, but it has an unbounded faith in living impudence. The cool, unblushing cheek, the brazen forehead, the unshrinking eye, the unfaltering voice, the nerve which can face an angry audience with solemn protestations of sincerity, and the .dogged resolution which returns to the charge again and again, even after detection is apparently complete— these are the things which take the judgment of the many by storm, and make the fortune of a charlatan out of conditions which would be the ruin of other men. Iteration alone is an immense help to success. The look of confidence is infectious, like fear or the scarlet fever. People " take" it by the mere agency of contact. Theatrical managers have discovered this secret of late years, and have converted many a half-condemned piece into a great hit by simply playing it until the public began to think it must be something wonderful. The Brothers Davenport have seemingly resolved to act upon the same prin ciple, and it is not altogether impossible that they may meet with the same success. Yet it is a dan gerous game to play, and a disastrous ending is very much in the nature of things. The issue is now fairly before the Brothers, and they must take their chance between a reputation as semi-supernatural beings, combined with solid gain, and the infamy of defeat, embittered by smashed cabinets and breathless runs before the violence of exasperated mobs. That the exposure of these American adven turers should have been reserved for two provincial towns, after they had been performing with compa rative success in London for some months, is not very flattering to the metropolis. It may perhaps be urged, however, that even in the case of so egre gious a claim as that of the two young men and col leagues, the capital of the empire was bound to make something like a grave examination of their alleged supernatural power. The country towns — even places of such importance as Liverpool and Huddersfield—might express themselves in a rough-and-ready way on the subject, as Bar clay and Perkins's draymen did with respect to Marshal Haynau. But London, as a centre of philosophers and men of science and learning, might be supposed to lie under the necessity of being more judicial and dispassionate. It must in vestigate, and analyze, and compare, and suspend its judgment. Some advance, however, was cer tainly made in London towards the unmasking of these pedlers in mystery. The Brothers Davenport went into the country with a damaged reputation, and with claims which, if not entirely upset, were considerably shaken. It had been already shown by Mr. Anderson and others that it is not a feat beyond human dexterity to release oneself from a manacle of ropes without the, help of other hands, and to reassume the bonds in an equally unaided way ; and, although the trick was more neatly and expeditiously done by the Davenports than by any of their rivals, the difference was only in degree. The Brothers had resisted certain modes of tying, and they and their friends had got out of temper at being too closely pressed. Still, they had contrived to hold their own pretty well, and they had gathered about them a certain number of believers. At Liverpool, however, the exposure was carried much farther. Ira Davenport was so securely bound, after a fashion communicated to two local gentlemen by Mr. Sothern, the actor, that he was compelled to summon Dr. Ferguson to release him by the human agency of a knife. The same thing happened again at Huddersfield ; and the Brothers have since refused to appear at Leamington, where they were to have given a seance on Tues day evening, because they had been previously in formed that the Liverpool and Huddersfield gentlemen had instructed " the opposition " at the Warwickshire watering place in the art of tying the knot which had twice baffled the resources of the young men. A more complete discomfiture cannot beimagined, The allegation that the particular mode of tying objected to hurt the wrists and im peded the circulation, was disproved at Huddersfield by the testimony of two medical gentlemen ; and it is pretty certain that the blood which flowed from Ira Davenport's w rists at Liverpool was caused— either intentionally or accidentally—by the knife of Dr. Ferguson in releasing the bonds. But, even had the operation been as cruel as it was said to be, what occasion was there for seeking the assistance of sublunary steel ? Why not have closed the doors of the cabinet at once, and awaited the action of ethereal fingers ? The spirits, it seems, are never very long in coming. The phantom hands appear at the aperture in a few seconds; the tambourine and the trumpet are flung out into the room before the audience have time to compare notes. Why, then, this sudden scepticism on the part of the Da venports—this distrust of the powers which have so often, according to their assertion, delivered them from bonds of knotted cords, and which once, as a blasphemous story in an American paper sets forth, miraculously opened their prison doors, and escorted them safely into the outer world? The believers in this mysterious agency are fond of the argument that, as the ways of spirits are unknown to us, we cannot predicate anything of their mode of action ; but it is certainly rather strange that they should always require for their performances precisely those conditions which are most favourable to human trickery, and that what baffles the moral agent in variably confounds his supernatural masters. DEATH OF A SURGEON FROM INHALING CHLORO FORM.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, at Newcastle, upon the body of Christopher Coates Lynn. Deceased was 26 years of age, and was in possession of a. good practice as a surgeon. William Andrew I'Anson said—l was called to see the deceased on Tuesday night. He was then quite dead. When I went into the room I found there was a strong smell of chloroform, more espe cially so when deceased was turned upon his side. He had taken chloroform twice before to my knowledge, and was insensible both times. He used to inhale it, but for what purpose I am not aware. There was nothing else to ac count for death in the surrounding circumstances. I dOn't believe that deceased took the chloroform with the idea of committing suicide. The jury returned a verdict that deceased had died from the effects of chloroform adminis tered by himself in error. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment. — Happiness round the Hearth.—With the sore trials, temp tations, and accidents daily endangering health and life in large cities, it is most important to have at hand some means of stopping the budding evil, for the longer it is neglected the more widespread is the generation. Hollo way's medicaments supply this great want ; they are inex pensive, purchaseable everywhere, can be readily used, are safe in inexperienced hands, and perfectly reliable as healers and purifiers. Holloway's ointment and pills cure inflammations, abscesses, and ulcerations with a facility hitherto unknown. Holloway's noble remedies will give relief to sufferers from skin diseases of the most revolting character, for which in bygone days a dangerous mineral was often administered with fatal consequences. THE SUN, -LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1865. boots of the prisoners ; but he should clearly show that there was this comparison, and that they completely cor responded. The only other piece of evidence was the statement of the prisoners made to policemen in whose cus tody they were. These statements were always watched with great jealousy. No inducement had been held out to them, but they were not cautioned. All the prisoners had, to an extent, admitted they were there, but all denied firing the gun, but Keynard- said it had gone off by accident. This was the outline of the case, and he asked the jury carefully, anxiously, and honestly to discharge their duty. Witnesses were then called, who bore out the statement of the learned counsel. Mr. Poulden addressed the jury for the prisoners, point ing out a very doubtful point as to the corroboration of the accomplice, and particularly a denial by a policeman that he had asked him questions and examined him, and stated to him that if he would become a witness he would get off clear, which the accomplice had positively sworn had taken place. The learned Baron summed up with the greatest possible care, explaining everything where difficulty arose, and told the jury they might find all or any of the prisoners guilty of an intent to murder or do grievous bodily harm, or to resist their or his lawful apprehension, or they might acquit them. . suppression of the monasteries, and the assembly gloated over the recurring phrases descriptive of " vicious, carnal, and abominable living." It can only be hoped that most of the audience were in blissful unconsciousness of what the terms were The Robbery in Cornhill. - ~.--- Plie di trer I.'esumed his search on Saturday forenoon for the recovery of more of the stolen watches, supp ose d to have been throw. ll into the river from. Blackfriars tem porary wooden bricije• Captain Harrirs, one of the com missioners of the mei.ropolitan police, was present on the diving barge, along with other genfAemen, among wh ein was Mr. Walker, jun. Owing to the filthy black condition of the Thames water the diver wa unable to discern any the watches, it was only by his groping about on his hands and knees and feeling for them that he found theta. On Saturday he went down. with Hinke's patent lamp, which burns under water, which enabled him to see much bet ter. In the course of the day he found two more go ld watches, which Mr. Walker, jun., recognised as his pro perty. All the watches recovered were found between the t o mporsa's wooden bridge and that of the London, ch a " than* anal Dover Railway, close by the second arch on the Surrey side, and the inference drawn is that they w er if e drone d from the bridge. The diver is to resume his war' to-da he value of the watches already picked up y; the diver is nearly £ 250 . Captain Harris , the coranln'sa sioner, also 'visited Mr. Walker's shop on Saturday, a, closely examine, I. the iron safe that was broken open. 111° statement that hat.' gone forth that the apprehension of thf) burglars arose from some of the accomplices giving jaw_ mation to the police is untrue. Their detection arose from the circumstance of some of the prisoners having suddel'i amassed property. It was the talk of the neighbourhooic where they lived at Mile-end. It was only a few wee ago that the wife of one of the prisoners was seen wit h al : %oyster -stall in the New-cut. After the robbery of gess Walker she was seen by the police with diamond earriliga in her ears and her fingers adorned with cost l y rings an other jewellery ; this excited the suspicions of the poln w ho commenced their inqUiries. It turned o ut tha out t h e husband (Brewster) had given £3OO for a lease of a in the Mile-end-road, and that he was lay in g out . 4 ' ft more in fitting it out as a pie - shop, and singularly enen,g, Mt. Thomas Beard was t h e so li c itor who was employed gin the &awing out of the transfer of the house in question The The odor prisoners, Casely and Jeffreys, were also asce,e tamed to :be robbery takeif a new house and fitted it with new sty .! "doing well ;" they had since Mr. Walk e i r s ,_ furniture, t o u ch tl w hil e ifrs. Casely, wbo was well known police, was fashion, -ally dressed, and displayed _vt.. jewellery about her. Llthougla the police had no law_ ledge whatever, or informaljon, t o impli ca t e the prisoneT. or either of them, in any robbeiT, yet they were positiveooolB their own minds that they had been concerned in : poi , great depredation, and they accordingly deterra in t dig' apprehending the whole of the prisoners, when f 3 1r. covery was made that they were the act ual burglars ° ill be Walker's robbery. The examination of th e thieves w . ne t resumed to-morrow at the Mansion-house, but it 113 1, 0 r a expected that the case will be sent for trial for a W e ,„ ° oe of fortnight. In the meanwhile it is proba ble that tw os o f the female prisoners, who are known to be the the men, will be liberated. COUNTRY MARKETS. . f ` - ` -- ---._ NORWICH—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was rather limited at this too to-day, but the same dulness which has for B°, l3le „ s las t marred the trade still prevails, while prices rule', - o t week. The barle trade is now slow and ni° 3 ," i a ioe" buyers are full in stock; late prices are about 9111— t ioil'g' for malting qualities. In oats, beans, and peas little o f i! Much rain has fallen during the past week, and ra °6 „ t esel l " lands are too wet to enable farmers to prepare at rea for their barley sowin.S. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 448 i° 455 0 1tia ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 311 s • begin ditto barley. (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 308 to 3iB d i tto :(igig s ?"; (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 305 ; distilling mg 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26 8 ; 2 ~ 5 to to 395; peas (maple), 36s to 38 s per qr ; flour, 6d pe exalt.aves k : —Wheat, 2,342 qrs, 37s 9d ; ba rle y , 3:691(114' 29s 10d ; oats, 140 qrs, 20s 9d. YORK—SATURDAY. Cit °Ci t This day's corn market was moderately atteneietl 1 , D a there was not much wheat offering ; conseclt e y d t week's prices were generally maintained. -" 3 " t : e 0 °- other grain were in fair supply, and the prices We l r the same as last week. 3301)ee New white wheat, 40s to 4 5s ; new red, 36 a l' c) o.ri 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28 s to 30 s per (lr ;,54steLf 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20 s to 22S Pe' 'OO r Beans, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Malt, 58s ; ty qr. Flour, 28s per sack of 2801 b. NO T TINGHAM—SATURDAY. f ity ° f je s At our corn exchange to-day there was a fair ci ,„, 0 31 ,4. wheat on offer from the growers. Some of trdiffene were in good condition, while others were oilli!/1„joste,,11 The tone of the trade to-day ruled inactive, blit',',oey mostly made at the currencies of last weelc• represented, but demand inactive. Beans in tolerabl mand at full rates. ld Ps nearly nominal. poo 1; O white wheat, 41s to 45s ; old red, 370 + 0 4 . 'to white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 3 7 s to 40s per 36 stoneo 334 2 0 ley, new malting, 28s to 35s per qr • old grass to 27s ; new, ,25s to 27s per 30 stone. 'Oats, old, 2°ne. 13etal naw, 22s to 258 ; old foreign, 24 s to 26 s per sto old, 40s to 13s ; new, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. 14; De l Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 38s to white, 40s to 44s ; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 ston a e " v erd ley, malting, 32s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 21' $ toll e " stone. Oats, old, 24s to 26s ; new, 21s to 23s stone,2 Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. red PI - Currencies :—White wheat, 22s 6d to 24s 6d ; j olt od; AO. 20s 6d to 228 Od; grinding barley, 12s Od to 1 35 qaclo ing do., 13s to 143 6d • white oats, lls to 12s l' 10s Od to 118. Od. • Foreign Mail Packet List. g o li , • l 5, Australia and New Zealand, via Southamp ton .... . . )10 ., 6. Ditto, via Marseilles ........................ : ; gar. I. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac..et ....... • .3/10%, 2 , i , Ditto, by British packet " ........... .11,0, ,4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena." .fr ,for 15. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hamPt°ll..Disr. Ditto, via Marseilles .......................... , 4 , Falkland Islands .............. :gar. ~ Gibraltar, via Southampton ....... , , 15, India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Scuthamptol l ••'" ) 37 far• , Ditto, via Mar: eines • "".31 31 ' I S. India (B mbay), via Southampton . ............... sar. 4 , Ditto, via ilarseiiles .. .................... •• Slat '.,,, Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via 3/Larsen e 5... ................... • • ..dia• a - •• Newfoundland •...... • • •• ' ~,, •ji Portugal •••• ... Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. ....... .- • • 1, De' .. rtir . United states and British North America, .1 .' 9 tish packet - .••• Ditto. by United States packet, via Southnia" ten......... .. ... ....40 5, Ditto, via C.;rk jj , Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderrl' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tcneriffe.;• • l3 . , West Indies and Pacific (except BahawaS, .3Dr• and Mexico .......... Bahamas, via New 1 ork. ......................... .! 5 1: • Bermuda, ditto ................................ • Sal' -••• Cuba and Mexico _ f TO _ --- ANOTHER OVtRFLOW OF THE WOR KS Ci tsl itil' THAMES EMBANKMENT.—On Saturday' i'v°oo3l standing the additional precautions taken by 31r. ; 13°111 ; the contractor, and the engineers of the p laceMetrorlit,,eti°o of Works, a much more serious inundation tool' vg vv a.o thatfou found on occurred on Thursday last. It i ll ste ' 00 on Saturday that pumping with the poW e 'f l oot -. 0 engines, eie n et &c ., at the disposal of Mr. Furness l ilt ' on s ' v t of lessening the depth of water in the cin ss is oc e : investigat iontamed as to the cause took place, and it . I ° ,`, cof f , e ,:t damisthat in consequence of the piles a vfli --tiocii.o constructed not having been driven to A 6 ,10,t ', depththrough the stratum of gravel an d '''._..t l ot w ' Pe' !9; ` above the solid clay bottom, and the piling be" th e ''' 04 defective, owing to the accident on Thurn (l ; foree,A4 0 oozed through the gravel, and, seeking its level , T et v: r e a w s ay k u t p o ward6 into the caissons, which have I:Wt./0... gaitl3) a depth to rest on the solid bed of the r i m' i l e cl ( other excavations in the same section are A JS° W al fd ° ' w w a o t r e k r m . e Yesterday (Sunday) Mr. Furness with :0,10 p ry n were on the spot, and took e very P c)S sA t t il e eauptoiosan,4toitswtoasp impossible eleakage ; but, with the i lle io a ;Ve ljt 'oo disposal, to effect more th e ed .. ply / leak gaining upon them. Other and more Ow will be taken to-day ( Monday). / ..••••• - mmommwm...... a...m.................. - ------------ ------ I Births. .., if of Co BEWES.—On the 3d inst., at Hythe, t he 1- 8 10 4 Bowes, of a son. ..,if ofW 6l. „ e t, HADEN.—On the 3d inst., at Dudley, the ~--e „or Haden, Esq., of a daughter. 0 WALTER. —On the 3d inst., at 40, Upper ar e a ' . -' the wife of John Walter, Esq 31. F., of f ' 6-11. '7 bec t il i , C) Marriages. 0, Cho rfo l Ve BADE—DENT.--On the 2d inst., at Ilarling, 0 . 1 4 ° - 0 Edmund Ball, Esq., of Flint Hall, Harli ll f's4 ,g, Emily, eldest dauhter of Edward De" 01 ~ VI, 0 same place. at P" . 0" Del GRAHAM—LITTLEDALE.—On the 28th ult ., - j/14. , Col ) Cheltenham, Captain William Grahalt4,l4loll Major-General Joseph Graham, to Flori_ p' - ' -- pil• eldest daughter of Wm. Dawson Littleclagh ii e ol I . Deaths. „A- Ps' A' BARNES.—On the 2d inst., at Whetstone, OA-I.' oi° J IA „ d e aged 60. the es'' BECK.—On the 2d inst., at Edinburgh, sse t Beck, M.A., incumbent of High Bee , re" 51. W es ' CHRISTIE.—On the Ist inst., at floddesdon, soot Christie, Esq., aged 73. near P't) GouGH.—On the Ist inst , at Hinton 11011.g°, d 73. ixs cot tl very suddenly, William. Gough, En, Kara, Of l' HART.—On the Ist inst., Thomas Hart, ' po cot Wing, Bucks, aged 74. geld - P l6 A i , HOLDSWORTIL—On the 3d inst., at 7 gnY ~,,,,iv sten, Mr. Bowden Holdsworth, a ged 7 . ..., 6 *_, o f B,v- MEYEL—On the 2d inst., Li. L. Meyer , -r-'9.1 ~,,,t buildings, Clapham-common, aged 7. ____--- -- 1 0 s D O4 l O, ~t o A p o f London : Printed and Publikled by SV I J , - *, o ffice , of of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Too Sys: to Coo Strand, in the PreCiKet of the SavoY , w Middlesex, -Monday, March 6, 180. ~~ _1