The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THE CHOLERA. WOOLWICH, OCT. 16.-,—There have been four new cases since twelve o'clock yesterday, making in all thirty-five cases oChttack. There has been one death to-day, and the names of those who died of cholera having been returned, it appears that eight have died of the disease. The following are their names, and the date of the days on which they died :—Oct. 3d, 0 wen !Janes ; 7th, John Rutherford and James Tones ; Bth, James Bigwood ; 10th, John Debark ; 13th, George Mitchell; 14th, William Eastman; 16, Edward Devine. The number of recoveries are returned five, same as yesterday. No cases, or the least appearance of cholera, have been returned by the medical practitioners in the town and parish of Woolwich up to twelve o'clock to-day, so that the disease is still exclusively confined to the Justitia convict hulk. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 16.—We regret to state that a decided case of Asiatic cholera is said to have oc curred in this town yesterday. Mr. John Cheetham, a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner, was seized with asequivocal symptoms on Saturday evening, and extl7o.a last night. Mr. Cheetham was attended by Dr. 'Wright, Mr. Chavasse, and Mr. Blake, and no doubt is entertained of the disease being that of Asiatic cholera. The deceased was a healthy person, of regular habits, and resided in George-street, Eigbaston, which is considered to be a very healthy part of the town. The cholera, we are well pleased to state, does not make much progress in this country. It has arrived late in the year, and we hope to prove that its fearful energies have been expended in less fortunate climes. It appeared as if the close, damp, oppressive weather which hung over us many days at the commence ment of this month was the cholera blight; for since the air has become more brisk and open the disease seems to have been checked. We are desirous of preventing our readers from experiencing any unne cessary alarm on this subject, therefore we have forborne to occupy our columns with the numerous speculations, nostrums, and rumours thereupon which are going the round of the papers. We believe that vet', few more instances of the disease will be heard of. Even where it has presented the most fatal aspects, the deaths, though exhibit ing a large proportion to the cases, have shown lipt a small one in relation to the population. In Edinburgh, for instance, where of 30 attacked 25 died, those who fell victims a re described as " all persons already broken down by hunger and dissi pation, the very class who form the ready victims of disease." In Hull a few persons continue occa sionlly to drop off, principally in the vessels trading to Hamburgh, where they appear to obtain the seeds of the cholera epidemic, which on the voyage or soon after their arrival break out fatally. On board of the steamer Rob Roy, which arrived at Hull yester day, the stewardess died on the passage. In London comparatively few cases have occurred. No case has yet been reported in Glasgow or Liverpool, and we have every hope that the disease will die out with the present cold weather, and that the towns on the western coast will escape the infliction.—Liverpool Albion. We are happy to state that there has been a marked decrease in the number of cholera cases towards the end of last week. Four cases which occurred on Wednesday were reported on Thursday, the localities in which they occurred being Canongate, West Port, and Newhaven ; three of these proved fatal within ten hours. On Thursday there were only two cases ascertained, both of which resulted fatally; one was a man residing in the West Port, the other man a patient in the Royal Infirmary. On Friday we understand that three cases occurred, all of which terminated in death • two of the victims resided in the Canongate, the other one in the Grassmarket. On Saturday there was only one case, that of a woman living in the last named locality, and who is now convalescent. Yesterday a man residing in Glacbtone's-close, Canongate, died of cholera, and in the evening a woman from the same close, who had caught the epidemic, was carried to the Infirmary. The great mortality among the cases reported cannot but be remarked, but when the condition of the loca ities is considered, as well as the circumstance that veral mild cases may have occurred which have 'n treated privately, and have not terminated !ly, it will occasion less surprise. In Leith cholera is said to have broken out on the 9th inst., and we are sorry to hear that eight or ten fatal cases have oc curred there, chiefly about the foot of the Kirkgate. Li the meantime the authorities of the city are active, end a meeting of the Local Board of Health took place on Friday in the Council Chamber, but the re sult of their deliberations was not made public.— Caledonian Mercury of yesterday. The CIIoLERA.—There are still some cases of cholera occurring here, but their number seems to be gradually on the decrease. On Wednesday then - ) were four cases; but since that time there have beeen only two. It is calculated that about thirty-six cases, in all, have occurred in Edinburgh; and of these, about irty have terminated fatally. In Leith, we are to say, that the epidemic appears to be spreading. drat bro;:a out there on the 9th instant; and it is re prted that, altogether, about a dozen cases have oc curred, and of such a bad type, that most of the indi sinals seized have died after a few hours' illness. In the neighbouring village of Newhaven the disease is also progressing. It is stated that sixteen cases, and eleven deaths, occurred up till yesterday afternoon.— reotsman. fat , " sorr QUARANTINE IN ENGLAND. The notification of the British Privy Council of the sth instant, enforcing the performance of six day,' quarantine by all steam-vessels coming from ports where the cholera is prevalent, is a measure which must excite general and just surprise. We are not here alluding tae the special and partly severe regulations of the edict, but to the entire arrange ments of the same, which, indeed, will not reflect rdditional credit to the often lauded praise of the " practical" mind of England, which does not seldom regard the doings and acting of the European continent with special disdain. All the countries of the European continent, with only the exception of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, have become con vinced by experience of the inutility of cholera quarantines, and in their sanitary regulations have most carefully guarded themselves against the fresh introduction of vexatious obstructions to traffic, by which both commerce and industry have so mate riallysuffered, at the time of the former outbreak of cho lera some fifteen or sixteen years past. England alone is disposed to disregard most glaringly her own in terest and that of the different nations with which she stands connected by her commerce, and thus considers it necessary again to call into existence measures long since acknowledged as useless to the purpose, and merely suggested through blind and ignorant fear. And that at a time, too, when it is thought an un necessary hardship to enforce quarantine against the plague; and in spite of the daily increasing number of voices raised against the same in the British Par liament. Bese , ats, it must be observed that the cholera cuarantine, pursuant to the notification of the Privy Council on the sth instant, is no longer applicable to carry out its pretended object, namely, to prevent the invtzsion of the disease ; for it is a notorious fact that the cholera has already broken out in different parts of England as well as Scotland; consequently any further precautions or preparations directed towards foreign parts must prove worthless, even if the theory of immediate contagion were admitted. However, we :do not doubt, ere long, it will be evi dent that the cholera quarantine is, in every sense, an untenable measure, and that the British Govern ment, when instructed by numerous complaints of the unnecessary and tiresome impediments to com merce caused by its strictly observing an almost uni versally abandoned system, will speedily remedy the evil, by the withdrawal f the order issued by the Privy Council on the sth instant.—[We quote the above from a Hamburgh paper, and, for the sake of our commerce with the northern:ports, we trust bhat the Privy Council may be induced to reconsider The subject. The General Steam Navigation Com pany have appealed to the Sanitary Board respecting the hardship inflicted on them by the order in coun cil, as to ships from Hamburgh being subject to six days' quarantine, making at least four days from their arrival in the Thames.] MEILANCHOLT OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday, the neighbourhood of Neath was thrown into a state of much excitement, in consequence of the following distressing incident. It appeared that a daughter of Mr. Tamplin, a publican, residing a short distance from Neath, acci dentally fell into the canal, which was near the house, whilst playing with her younger brother. The little fellow lost no time in giving the alarm, which was heard by the mother, who repaired to the spot and immediately jumped into the canal. After considerable effort, she succeeded in getting her child into her arms no less than three times, notwithstanding which her attempts to save it proved fruitless. The deceased in her dying struggles proved too strong for the mother, and her foot slipping, both got into deep water nearly out of sight. A man having seen the desperate position of the mother, gal lantly plunged in, when he too nearly lost his life, in consequence of the powerful grasp of Mrs. Tamplin, who pulled him under water. Another man being for tunately at hand, and seeing the state of matters, jumped in and ultimately succeeded in rescuing the other man and the mother, but the daughter by this time had dis appeared. Mrs. Tamplin was carried to her house in- ' sensible, and, when brought to herself, found, to her inexpressible grief, her child was gone for ever. The body was recovered in about a quarter of an hour after wards. The deceased was nearly seven years of age, and was universally beloved, being a very amiable and interesting child.—Cambrian. NEV s' e ithe It CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The details of the arrangements for leasing the undertaking to the southern companiespire now finally concluded, and the agreement has been signed by the chairman and other officials of , ' • the2corapanies interested therein. The Scottish Central is now guaranteed in perpetuity seven per cent. and half :surplus profits by the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Cale donian, Loicaster and Carlisle, and London and North- Western, at which rate it will yield to purchasers at present prices a minimum return of 71. 18s. per cent. Aberdeen ,Ilerald, PROPERTY OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. 1 On Friday the report of M. Berryer , i n th?.name of the Committee of Finances, on the proposition of M. Jules Favre, to declare that all the property com posing the private domain of Louis Philippe should be taken by the State, was distributed to the Assem bly. After some preliminary observations, and after setting forth M. Favre's proposition in detail, the report states that the Provisional Government had decreed that the real and personal property called biens de la liste civile should return to the State ; that the properties known as biena du domaine privet should be placed under sequestration; and that the real and personallproPerties of all the members of the ex-Royal Family should also be sequestrated. The Committee th e n proceeds to say that the proposition of M. J. Favre is of a different character, and would have dif ferent effect to the acts of the Provisional Government. M. J. Favre had laid down that the deed of 7th Aug., 1830, by which Louis Philippe, before formally ac cepting the crown, made over all his private property in France to his children, reserving only a life in terest, ought to be considered " null, of no effect, and as stained with fraud," the object of it being to prevent the legal union of the properties of the Duke d'Orleans to the domain of the crown, in conformity with the old principles of the law. But the Committee shows that the properties constituting the apanage of the Duke d'Orleans were made over to the State on 9th August, 1830; and as to the private patrimonial possessions of the house of Or leans, the Committee declares that though it was the principle of the old monarchy that the private proper ties of the king should go to the State, that principle could not be maintained when an entirely new state of things was established in 1830; and it further shows that a law of 1832 specially enacted that the king should preserve, or dispose of as he pleased, the pro perties which belonged to him on his accession to the throne. The permission to him to retain these proper ties was, the Committee observes, subsequently urged as a reason for refusing dotations to his younger sons and daughters. The Committee declares that, even without the law of 1832, Louis Philippe was justified in making over his property to his children by the deed of 7th August, 1830. " Until (it says) the day on which he accepted the revocable compact between him and the Chamber of Deputies, the Prince, as proprietor, was only subjected, like all French citi• zens, to the rules of the common law. He ascended the throne on the faith of the validity of the act which he was able to make in favour of his children. The events which have caused him to descend from it, and which exiled his family, justify all the provisions of the donation." The Committee then adds :—" Far from seeking under present circumstances an oppor tunity of annulling such an act, justice, good faith, national dignity ought to surround it with more severe respect. Henceforth the holders of the patrimonial properties of the house of Orleans cannot be dispos sessed of them without a manifest violation of the contract; to declare these properties acquired to the State would be consecrating a violent en croachment on the right of property, would be pronouncing an arbitrary confiscation." The report, after branding in strong terms the idea of confiscation, proceeds to state the se cond part of M. Favre's proposition, that a com mission shall be nominated to superintend the liqui dation of the debts of the private domain. It says that such a commission already exists, and that the law enacts that the debt of the Civil List must be paid out of the [private domain. As to the proposition that the princes of the house of Orleans shall be constrained to sell within six months the real properties they possess in France, the Committee thinks it unnecessary and impolitic. " The seques tration of these properties," it says, " appears to us to present for public tranquillity greater security than the conversion of such vast domains into disposable capital." On the whole, then, the Committee recom mends that N. Jules Favre's proposition shall not be taken into consideration. But the Committee recoils mends that a law shall be passed regularising the se questration, and authorising, for the liquidation of the debts, that sales and loans on mortgage shall be effected. It announces that all the members of the house of Orleans to whom the properties were made over by the act of the 7th of August, 1830, have consented, by regularly-executed deeds, to a general and special mortgage on such properties, in order to secure the payments of the debts of all kinds owing by their father. The Committee states that the debts of the Civil List are 30,000,000 f., and that the Treasury is creditor for 25,000,000 f. more. To meet these, the properties of the private domain, which even in these times cannot be estirnatA at less than 100,000,000 f. in value, present a sufficient security. But, as the revenues of them are merely sufficient to pay the in terest of the debts, capital must be raised by sales or mortgage. The revenues are put down at 4,900,000 f. of which 3,200,G00f. to the private domain, 200,000 F. to the properties of the Queen, 1,500,000 F. to those of the late Madame Adelaide, the outgoings for administration, repairs, assurance, taxes, Scc., are represented to amount to 1,900,000 f. ; leaving a clear income of 3,000,0001. The Commit tee recommends that, as the real properties afford sufficient security for the payment of the debts, the personal properties of all kinds and the properties disposed of in marriage settlements shall be imme diately given up to the princes of the house of Orleans ; and that, until the completion of the liqui dation, the Council of Ministers shall fix an amount to he paid from the sequestrated properties to each of the proprietors. " 'We have thought," says the Com mittee in conclusion, " that it would be contrary to the dignity and generosity of France to impose other sufferings and other miseries on those who must feel so much at being proscribed from the territory of the Republic, or of leaving foreign states to offer the homage of their assistance to a family which for nearly twenty years had the honour of governing our country and commanding our army and our fleets." 7` HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday last a woman from the neighbourhood of the Windy Gap elec toral division of Addaergole, stated at our office that a man in her neighbourhood (her own brother-in-law) had made away with his two children (by his first wife), a boy, aged fourteen, and a girl, eleven years, and buried them in a field or skirt of a bog, where the bodies were afterwards found by the neighbours, covered with hettlier and earth. Our foreman instantly brought the woman before Sergeant Conroy, of the constabulary, and Mr. R. Gallaher, clerk of petty sessions, where she made the following statement: The father, step mother, a• d children were in the poor-house, from which they were sent out upon the out-door relief; that the step-mother swore the children should not live with her, nor be partakers of the food allowed by the union; that the children had to go away begging; that they returned to the father's house on Sunday, the 4th instant, wh: n the wife swore a horrible oath that beneath her roof they shout I not sleep, and the father insisted they should remain that night; the children related those facts to their aunt, who told them to sleep in the house, as it was their father's wish. She never saw them again alive; and next day the fath:er was seen, with some bulk in a bag, and a spade under his arm, going in the direction of where the bodies were found. On the fol lowing Thursday er Friday, a man and woman were ob served by the villagers—the man carrying a bulk in a bag—going to the same spot. The man and woman then left the neighbourhood, and went to another part of the union, where the woman's relatives reside. Policemen were instantly dispatched to the place, and there the bodies were found by them as described by the woman. On the same evening the father wai arrested, and on Sunday he was brought before Dr. Dillon for examination, and finally was set at liberty. No inquest had been held that we can hear of—nor were there any of the villagers confronted with the accused.—Custlebar nlegraph. RAILWAY . ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, the ten minutes past eleven A.M. train from Edinburgh, of the Northern Railway, which reaches Ferry-Port-on- Craig at twenty-four minutes past one, struck the wooden barricade at the extreme end of the platform, at the latter place when a concussion was felt over the carriages, and the passengers were pitched with consi derable violence against each other. The shock seems to have been felt most severely amongst the second class carriages, all the passengers in the first and third classes having escaped with little or no injury. So far as we have been able to discover, the parties hurt are—Mr. Smart, Montrose, and his servant, both bruised; Joseph Robertson, sailor, Dundee, cut on the head; Mrs. Fra ser, from St. Andrew, and a gentleman from the same place, both cut about the temples; Mr. Shand, W.S., Edinburgh, presently residing in Ferry-Port-on-Craig, cut on the temple. These, with one or two other trifling cases, seem the only instances of suffering. Dr. Laing Dcaacacr Dundee di dee fortunately ednett ao tnoao hap his kßrp p d house, ol e au n eg e eh to be near the platform when the tay a n n three he Ferry h rd yr their boats, of ar t wounds ohwuenadiwaiting passengers n g dressed. the were The train, continued their trips without stopping, and one of them returned in about twenty minutes afterwards for the pas sengers and luggage left, when the parties for the north were all able to embark. The accident is supposed to have originated from the engine going at too great a speed, a miscalculation of the distance when it should have been checked, but principally from the wet on the rails, making the break have less power over it. The driver, stoker, and (the parties in charge of the train) are all reported to have been steady and cautious men.— Aberdeen Herald. ROMAN REMAINS AT CHESTERFORD.—The Hon. R. C. Neville having, by the kind permission of Mr. Edwards, commenced excavating that interesting por tion of the Borough-field described by Stukely as en closing the remains of the " Temple Umbra," has in vestigated accurately the plan laid down by that cele brated antiquary ; the result of which proves the incor rectness of his statements, the remains being decidedly those of a dwelling-house rather than a temple. We take this opportunity of acquainting our readers with a fact which may not be generally known, that there are at present the foundations of no less than three Roman buildings within the space of a mile, which have been lately excavated by Mr. Neville, open to public inspec tion—namely, a dwelling-house and temple in the parish of Ickleton, and a dwelling-house in the parish of Great Chesterford. ROBBERY AT TUE EXCHEQUER- OFFICE. - The Exchequer-office, Lincoln's-inn, was entered after the termination of business on Saturday, and plundered of a quantity of gold and silver, the thieves getting clear away with their booty. FRANCE [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night]:— _ . " Certain journals," says the Moniteur, " assert that the raising of the state of siege, and the pre sentation of a decree ordering the removal to Algeria of the insurgents of June, condemned to transporta tion, were conditions required by the new Minis ters previous to their entrance into the Cabinet. Those measures were already agreed upon since the vote on the proposition of M. Durrieu. They obtained, moreover, the assent of the whole of the new Ministry." Before the meeting of the National Assembly on Saturday last, a number of representatives belonging to different opinions assembled in a room attached to the hall of the National Assembly, to deliberate on the raising of the siege of Paris. Three Ministers —General Lamoriciere, Marie, and Freslon, were present. The two first entered on an explanation of the present situation of affairs. They declared that the Executive Government was of opinion that the state of siege might at this moment be raised without danger, but that the existing laws on the press and on the clubs did not sufficiently arm the Government, and that it might be necessary to modify them. Those explanations which were mentioned in the standing committees were favourably re ceived. The Commissioners elected to communi cate with the Government appeared to coincide with them. The club of the Rue de Poitiers, after a long discussion, resolved to leave the Members free to act as they pleased. The revelations made by several representatives as to public opinion, and on the proceedings of the clubs, produced a consider able effect in the committee-rooms. M. Berger, the Mayor of the second arrondissement, and other members of the same Committee, mentioned several serious facts of threats uttered against General Cavaignac and the Members of the National Assem bly. Nevertheless the general feeling of the Re presentatives appeared to be in favour of raising the state of siege, giving the Government at the same time additional powers to restrain the press and the clubs, and to renew the state of siege should circumstances require it. It was further proposed, that in caae the Assembly should be prorogued, the Government should be empowered to re-establish the state of siege provisionally on their own responsibility. MM. de Tracy, Combarel, De Leyval, Poujoulat, De Tillancourt, Gerdy, and Porion, spoke in favour of maintaining the state of siege. MM. Dupin the elder, Coquerel, Duclerc, General Changarnier, Degoussee, Moreau, Pascal Duprat, Turck, General Lebreton, Charles Dupin, Glais- Bizoin, Dapont (de Bussac), Berenger, Detours, Chauffour, Flocon, and Menaud spoke In favour of raising the state of siege, with certain restrictions. FRANKFORT. GERMAN PARLIAMENT. In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 12th, Eisenmann asked the Ministry whether it intended to bring the Imperial forces to bear in Hungary ? Berger, after an animated and enthusiastic allusion to the news which the two last posts had brought from Vienna, moved that the National Assembly declare the Imperial Diet in Vienna, and the heroic democratic population of Vienna, to have deserved highly of the German Fatherland. As th s National Assembly would not grant him a hearing, Berger proceeded to declaim with some vehemence against the refusal.—(Clamour on the Right and Centre.) He would not allow himself to be interrupted ; at any rate he would say every word that he had to say. Rather than see his motion referred to a Committee, and thus submitted to the usual drawling routine, with every chance of its purport being grievously frustrated, he withdrew it at once. The House was upon the point of proceeding with the order of the day, when Schmerling, the Minister, said there were two in terpellations for him to answer in relation to Austria. Before replying to them he begged to be allowed to make a communication. The Assembly might imagine that the moment news had arrived in Frank fort of the important events that had just occurred in Vienna, this intelligence had seriously engrossed the attention of the Ministry. With regard to the employment of Imperial troops in Hungary, the Ministry had already come to a determination. This determination had been submitted to the Adminis trator, had been approved by him, and was already being carried into execution. He could not at present enter into further details, but would shortly lay an ample, and, he trusted, very satisfactory statement before the Assembly.—(Faint murmurs on the Left.) In regard to the quartering of the Imperial troops, he would distinctly state that the Central Power intended to accord a proper indemnification for the maintenance of all troops that were employed on extraordinary occasions. Wesendenck said that in consequen e; of the late news from Vienna, and in consideration that the Provisional Central Power can legally execute no thing that has not previously been resolved upon by the Nationally Assembly, he moved that the Ministry be called upon to give an immediate account of the measures which it had adopted with regard to Hun gary and Austria.—(Wesendonck was not allowed to establish his motion any further.) Another Member of the Left moved—" In consi deration that the Imperial Diet in Vienna has de clared itself permanent, the National Assembly re solves that all interference on the part of the Pro visional Central Power shall be condemned as illegal, and as a violation of the rights of the individual states." ( The urgency of the motion was dis allowed.) Wesenclonck said that as he had been refused per mission to establish his motion, and although he could in no wise approve of Imperial troops being sent (supposing this to be the case) against the demo crats of Vienna, he found himself obliged to withdraw his motion. The following sections of the fundamental rights were carried to-day without discussion : " All judicature emanates from the state. No pa trimonial courts shall exist. The judicial power is exercised independently by the judicial court. " Cabinet or ministerial judicature is inadmissible. " No privileged courts shall exist either for persons or landed interest. _ _ " Military judicature is confined to the passing judgment on military crimes or offences, as also on offences committed against military discipline, with the reservation of such provisions as are made for the declaration of martial law. " No judge may be degraded or suspended from his office, or disparaged either in rank or salary, except by formal judgment and application of the law. " No judge may either be translated or pensioned off against his will, except on the ground of a judicial verdict returned agreeably to the cases and forms prescribed by the law. " The proceedings of the court shall be conducted publicly and vied we. In criminal matters an in dictment must be laid. A jury must return the verdict in the case of heinous crime or political of fences. " In matters where particular knowledge of a cal ling is necessary the civil law must be administered or co-administered by judges both versed in the sub ject, and freely chosen by followers of that calling. " Justice and administration shall be separate. " Nowhere has the police the power of criminal punishment. "In the army only one and the same code of mar tial law is valid; this is founded on public process before a jury. " Administratio judicialia is at an end. " The courts of law decide in respect of all viola tions of the law. " Judgments entered in German courts of law, as also public and authentic documents (instrumenta originalia gel authentica), are of equal effect and validity in all German lands." HOLLAND. Tim HA.UE, OCT. 13.—The Firs; Chamber of the States-General , in its sitting of the 12 th October, adopted the twelve projects of law comprising the new fundamental law. The legislative session of 1847-1848 will close on Saturday next (14th). On Monday next, 16th of October, his Majesty will open in person the ordinary session of the States• General at the Hague. The Mi nister of Finance ad interim has published a de claration stating that the existence of the cholera at llamburgh having been proved, all vessels coming from thence will be subject to the quarantine regula lions laid down for vessels coming from Russia, and especially from Finland and the Baltic. The same precautions are to be observed in regard to vessels coming from German ports situated in the Baltic and Elbe, including that of Cuxhaven. In fact, as all the Russian and German ports situated between Aboo and Kiel may be regarded as suspected, all vessels coming from thence are subject to the quarantine. THE NETHERLANDS, EAST INDIES. Perfect tranquillity continues to prevail in the i island of Java, besides which the colonial army s to be reinforced by 2,000 native troops. New barracks are now being constructed for the accommodation of these troops, and batteries are being erected near Batavia. The old fortress situated between Wette vrede n and Buiten zorg i s t o rec eive a very large garrison. We have received the f o ll ow i n g details respecting the rise of the blacks of St. Eustache. The blacks collected from all the pl an t a ti ons , an d repaired to the residence of the Go vernor , M r . D e V ee r, and de manded their liberty, which the King had long since granted to them. Mr. De Veer replied that he was entirely ignorant of a royal decree of this nature, and that consequently it was impossible for him to satisfy their demands, exhorting them at the same time to return peaceably to their plantations. See ing that they were by no means disposed to listen, he called the National Guard under arms. After ' several COMMituication3 they were obliged to Are TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1818. •upon the rioters, who took refuge upon a mountain, -whence they dislodged stones, and hurled them upon the whites. Orders were then given to take the .mountain by assault, which was effected by thirty five Communal Guards. Several blacks were killed, and a European female was struck by a ball, which was, however, extracted, and her life declared out of danger. In the Danish colonies there has been a general :rising of the blacks in the islands of St. Thomas and Santa Cruz. In both these place's the Governments were obliged immediately to publish an ordinance by which the blacks we re declared free. The New Rotterdam Courant gives an account of the discovery of very rich iron mines in the kingdom of Borneo.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 14. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTER. Sarah Freeman, a woman about thirty years of age, late cook in the establishment of Henry B. Baring, Esq., M.P., was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of her child. The attention of the police was first called to the matter through the receipt of an anonymous letter, intimating that the prisoner had been recently deli vered of a child, which, there was too much reason to fear, had been murdered. Mr. William Cumming, Inspector of Police of the B division, sworn—ln consequence of receiving an anonymous communication on Saturday night last, I went to the house of Henry Bingham Baring, Esq., M.P., 13, Eaton-place, about eight o'clock in the evening. I saw the housekeeper, and asked for the cook. In consequence of what the housekeeper there said, I sent Sergeant Prongar to bring the cook back, she having just before left the house, and I afterwards met the sergeant and the cook (the pri soner) and conveyed her back to the housekeeper's room, where she placed a basket, which she had been carrying on her arm, upon the table. I said to the prisoner, " I have received information that you have lately been delivered of a child." She said, " Yes, sir, I am very sorry to say that I have." I inquired where it was, when she pointed to the bas ket I had seen her place upon the tabla. I inquired when it was born, and she replied, on the previous Saturday, between two and three o'clock. I asked her how long it lived, and she said only a few mi nutes. She then stated that she was going to take it to a woman at Chelsea, who promised to bury it for her, so that no one should know anything about it. On the way to the station-house she said, " Oh, sir, what do you think will be done to me ; tell me your real opinion —do you think I shall be hanged ?" I said, "It is impossible that I can know." She then observed, "I would not have done it if that woman had not promised to put it out of the way." She said the housekeeper and housemaid knew nothing about it. At the station-house I examined the basket, and found it contained the dead body of a male infant. The child was forced into the stocking produced, which appears to have had the mark cut out of it. The child was also wrapped round with a piece of cloth, a dress corresponding with which I found in the house, among the prisoner's things. I made a strict search all over the house, in the prisoner's drawers and boxes, and could find no baby-linen, nothing what ever prepared for the birth o f a child. Mr. Pearse, the surgeon, examined the child at the police-station, and it was then conveyed to St. George's workhouse. Sergeant Prongar, 237 A, proved that he accom panied Mr. Cumming to the house in Eaton-place, and remained outside. While he was there he saw the prisoner leave, but not knowing her or the result of the inspector's inquiries, he allowed her to pass on, but subsequently, by the direction of the inspector, he went in quest of the prisoner, and saw her enter a pastrycook's at Chelsea. On her coming out, he asked her if she did not live at 13, Eaton-place, and on her replying in the affirmative, he told her that she must accompany him back, as the housekeeper wanted her, as also a gentleman. She replied that no gentleman could want to see her, as she had not done anything. She had the basket containing the dead body of the child on her arm at the time. Sarah Nuttall, housekeeper at Mr. Baring's, and Sophia Keath, housemaid, who with the prisoner were the only servants left in the house during the last two months in which the family have been from home, proved that the one from her own personal observation, and the other from rumour, accused the prisoner with being enciente, which she positively denied. They were not aware that she had given birth to a child. Observing that she was unwell a few days ago, the housekeeper put some questions to her, when the prisoner, in order to lull suspicion, told her not to make herself uneasy, as she had been equally unwell before. Mr. George Pearse, of Regent-street, Westminster, surgeon, sworn.—On Saturday night I was sent for to the police-station, in Rochester-row, where the inspector handed me a basket, which he requested me to examine. I found in a bundle which it contained a male infant, which had been born at the full period, measuring 21/ inches, with 18 inches of the umbilical cord attached, which had been cut without any liga ture. The body had been forced into the upper part of :a stocking, head foremost, and then enveloped in a piece of dark-coloured print. There were no marks of blood on the body or stomach. I have examined the prisoner, and entertain no doubt that she has been recently delivered of a child. The medical gentleman here went on to:state the result of some conversation that he had with the prisoner, in which she described to him some of the circumstances attending the birth of the child ; after which Mr. Pearse continued—l have made a pest mortena examination of the body, in conjunction with the medical officer of St. George's. The lips and nose appear to have been much com pressed. Mr. BRODERIP—Was that, do you think, caused by the birth, or by being compressed in the stocking? Mr. Pearse—l should say, not the birth. Much blood was extravasated on the inner side of the lips, and the eyes much injected with blood. Mr. BRODERIP—Beyond what would have been the case from the natural circumstances of birth ? Mr. Pearse—Yes, sir. The membrane of the brain, and brain itself, were much gorged with blood, I also examined the heart and lungs, and am perfectly satisfied that the child was born alive. Mr. BRODERlP—Witnesses and prisoner, attend while the evidence is being read over. Air. W. Taylor, the chief clerk, having read the depositions of the several witnesses, Mr. BRODERIP, addressing the prisoner according to law, said, having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you do say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence against you upon your trial. Moreover, it is my duty to give you clearly to understand that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to fear from any threat which may have been holden out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt, but whatever you say may be given in evidence against you. Have you any thing to say ? Prisoner, who had been seated in the dock during the whole f the examination, and had leaned forward on the rail, burying her face in her hands, replied, with a weak voice, " Nothing." Mr. BRODERlP—Prisoner at the bar, it is my duty to commit you to take your trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the wilful murder of your child. The wretched woman was then removed. [An n t i h n e q u j e u s r t y w a r s e t subsequently held d iet o of n w p lf u t l h e rn c u h r i d l e d, r against the prisoner.] LAMBETH. It will be recollected thatontheofl2tthheofElasstatbmlioshed month a highly respectable clergyman Church, the vicar of an extensive parish in the county of Kent, was brought in custody to this court, and placed at the bar, on the charge of passing a counter feit half-crown to an omnibus conductor, in whose vehicle he had been a passenger from Oxford -street to the Walworth-road ; and that, upon an investigation of the charge, it appeared perfectly conclusive that the Rev. Gentleman, if he gave the half-crown ob jected to at all, was perfectly ignorant of its being a bad one. On that occasion Mr. Norton complimented the Rev. Gentleman for the spirit and determination evinced by him in resisting what he conceived to be a gross attempt at imposition, and expressed his deep regret that a gentleman in his position should have been put to such an inconvenience, and treated as he had been. On the followin g day Mr. Norton received a letter from Mr. Peterson, the barrister, on the sub ject, which, on reading, he deemed to be of such im portance that he immediately wrote to that gentle man, requesting his sanction to publish it. Mr. Peterson having left town for the continent on the morning after he had written, his answer to Mr. Nor ton's note had not reached the hands of Mr. Norton until a few days ago, and in that answer he gave his full permission to the publication of his former letter, which was as follows : " 1, Essex-court, Temple, Sept. 18. "Sir,—Excuse the liberty I take in addressing you, but in the police reports of this day's papers I see a case of a clergyman charged with passing a bad half-crown to an omnibus conductor; charges of this sort are by no means uncommon, but very few of the parties have either the courage or spare time neces sary to follow the charge. In my own case, not very long since, I gave a conductor a shilling, I got my sixpence back, and was walking leisurely away, when I was collared by the conductor and charged with passing a pad shilling, which was tendered to me. On declining to give another one, a mob soon gathered and I had the satisfaction of being roughly handled, and was glad to give another shilling, at the same time insisting upon the number of the conductor, which he prevented me from getting, and ran away to his omnibus. The crowd, however, did not leave me until, by good luck, the son of a respectable tradesman in the street recognised me, and freed me from the mob. Now, in the first place, even supposing the coin was bad, the treatment I was subjected to was very unpleasant and wrong ; yet, as the coin I gave was good, and in ninety cases out of one hun dred, when the charges are made, the passenger has given good coin, how hard it is to be duped by a vagabond conductor, passing off his own bad coin, and at the same time having you locked up for a whole night on the charge. In my case the coin tendered was good, having no other money in my pocket but what I had drawn from my banker's, in Bond-street, about ten minutes before I entered the omnibus. Now my object in writing this, is to suggest that in cases of charges like this, the police should have orders to search the complainant, and see what coin he has on his person, and they will most probably find some base coin. One conductor of an omnibus is at this time undergoing his punishment for passing bad coin in change to the passengers, and he admitted that he had made on an average some thing like fifty shillings a week by the trade. Eloping you will excuse the liberty I have taken in making the above suggestion, " I have the honour to remain yours, obediently, "A. T. T. PETERSON. " Hon. G. C. Norton, Lambeth Police-court." WORSHIP-STREET. Sarah Smith, a young woman with a infant in her arms, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with having been found engaged in the ma nufacture of counterfeit coin. Sergeant Brannan, of the G division, stated that between five and six o'clock on Saturday evening he proceeded with Sergeant Dubois, and four constable., to the house, No. 5, Nelson•place, Hackney-road, in pursuance of instructions from the authorities of the Mint, who had received information that the premises were occupied by a notorious gang of coiners. Find ing the street-door secured on the inside, they in stantly burst it open, and hastily entered a lower room, where they found the prisoner seated at a table giving the final polish with a hard brush to a base shilling, to render it fit for circulation. They immediately secured the coin, together with two others which were lying upon the table ; and the prisoner at the same time dashed over a cup contain ing a powerful acid in solution, a portion of which they also succeeded in securing. Upon further search the officer found secreted in the back kitchen a complete galvanic battery, which had evidently been recently in operation for electro-plating coins, and a jar connected with which containing a solution of the same description as that the prisoner had attempted to destroy. They discOvered a quantity of base metal, a strong knife encrusted with plaster of Paris, and other implements and ma terials used in the fabrication of spurious money. The whole of the articles seised were conveyed with the prisoner to the station-house, and witness had been since directed by the Mint solicitor to apply for a remand, to enable him to attend and prosecute the case against her. The prisoner, who was recognised as having been repeatedly in custody for offering counterfeit coin, declined offering any defence, and was ordered to be brought up again for the completion of the evidence. Mrs. Jane Randal, a cowkeeper in Sebright-street, Bethnal•green, was summoned for keeping a large number of pigs upon her premises, and thereby causing a nuisance prejudicial to the health of the in habitants. It appeared that the nuisance in question had ex isted for a considerable time past, in a yard at the rear of the defendant's residence, and in the centre of a cluster of houses, densely occupied by poor weavers and their families, whose repeated com plaints of the mischief and annoyance occasioned by the noxious effluvium arising from the place having been altogether disregarded by the defendant, the subject was brought under the notice of the Police Commissioners, who directed the present proceedings to be taken. The defendant's daughter, who attended on behalf of her mother, denied having been cautioned that they were acting in violation of the law, and prayed for sufficient time to abate the nuisance. Mr. liammlLL, however, said that at a time when fatal epidemics, most of which were engendered by nuisances similar to the present, were impending over the metropolis, it was the imperative duty of those in authority to take the most active measures for their immediate suppression, and he should therefore only adjourn the summons until Wednesday, when, if the cause of complaint should still continue, he should visit the defendant with the highest penalty imposed by the Act under which the proceedings were in stituted. In the course of the afternoon a gentleman, who was understood to be attached to the City Mission, addressed the magistrate, and stated that he was de puted by Mr. Jackson, of that institution, to attend for the purpose of refunding to the poor•box the amount contributed towards the temporary relief of Anne and Emma Lofinck, the emigrants wives, whose case has been so frequently brought before the public. In answer to a question from the magistrate, the gentleman briefly intimated that a passage had be( n taken for the conveyance of the women, with their children, to their husbands at New York, and that they would sail in the Panama emigrant ship on the following day. Mr. IlAmmiu. expressed his gratification that such a proper course had been adopted, and the gentle man having handed over the money, about 305., left the court. NORTHERN ITALY. The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 11th instant, an nounces that M. John Gustavus Heckscher, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central Govern ment of Frankfort, and deputy of the Constituent As sembly, was admitted, nn the preceding day, to a pri vate audience by King Charles Albert. M. Heck scher presented to the King letters from Archduke John, Vicar of the Empire, notifying his accession as Chief of the Central Government, and appointing M. Heckscher Envoy Extraordinary to the Sardinian Go vernment. HAI%IBURGH MAIL. HAMBURGII BOURSE, OCT. 12.—The funds and rail way shares were again lower to day; very little busi ness, however, was transacted. LIAMBURGLE FUNDS, OCT. 12. Bills. Money. Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent.'.... 101% Bank Shares •••••• • • • • •• .......: .... Anglo-Russian Loan • ..... , . .... 97 Ru-3slan meta., 5 per Cent 5.......... 91% Ditto let serieslnscription...„.., .... _ Ditto,3d and 4th series ....... ..... .. _ Ditto, in Certificate • ............... ....• 88% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Ditto Stieglitz ••,•••• • • • .• • • ....... 77 q 77 Spanish New 5 per Cent— ... Ditto 3 per Cent .• • • •............. 16% Swedish Loan • • • • • • •• •• .......... .. _ Ditto, 4 per Cent • • •• .......... _. 95 A ng l o -P o rtuguese Loan, 234 per Cent.. _ Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... Ditto 3 per Cent. • • .............. _ _ Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.• .. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• • ... 66 National Bank Shares •••. • • • ......... RAILWAYS. Ditto, Priority Shares •. • •••• •• • • 95 95 Berlin and Hamburg . • •. • • 63 Ditto, Priority Shares .•••. . • .• 89 Cologne and Minden .................314 73 Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••••• • • • • • 88% Mecklenburg ............ .. Altona and Kiel ..... Gluckstadt • • • . • • • • • • • • '• Hanseatic Steam Company .•••• • • • •• HAMBURGH CORN MARKET, OCT. 12. WllEAT—Polish .......... 132 145 Ant. Magd., Red •••••••• •• • • • • 137 149 Ditto, White ••••.• •• • • • • 136 148 Marks and Brunswick ••••• • • • • • 136 149 Silesian yellow .... •••••• • • • • • • 31ecklenb. Porn. ••.•••• • •• • - • • 131 110 Ilolstein .... ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 132 145 Eider and Busum . • • • Lower Elbe .. ••••• • • • .. RT6 - Silesian ... •• •••• • ••• • • • 62 •72 Ant. and Magd. ................ 6 7 • • 72 Marks., Meek., and Porn. ••• • • 67 73 BAILEY - Mark. and Oder .. •••• • • • • 56 66 Anhalt and Magd .. ••.••• • • • • • • 72 90 Lower Elbe, winter ••••.• • • • • • • 50 56 Ditto, summer ••••• • • • •• 47 55 OATS—Upland ••••..•••• • • • • • • • • 33 46 Meek and Holstein ..... .•• .. 33 46 Lower Elbe, White •• .. ..... 32 44 IluckwirEAT ••• • • • . ..... .. ••• • .. 78 83 PEASE ..... ............• .... • • • • 80 105 RAPE SEED •••• .• • • .. 136 141 BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussxLs, OcT. 12. Actual Debt, 2 1 ,4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • •- • Rothschlld's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • •• Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Ditto Threeper Cent• ••••••••• •• •• •• •• Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto,lB4o •• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 784 Ditto,ditto,lB42 .••••••• • • • • • • ••• • • • 764 Ditto, 1844... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •• • 72 Ditto, 1836... ••..••••••••• • • • •• • • •• •• 61' Ditto of the City, 1832 •••••••• • • • • - • Ditto, 1843 Bank of Belgium • • • • ••••-• • ' • • • •" •• 62 % Issue of 1841 ...... ••••••••• • ' • • • • • • • -- Exchange on London, 25.45. --Brussels Paper. Oct. 12. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OcT. 5. .••••• • • • • • • 64 5 per Cents. .. .. • • .. • • • • 4 per Cent..... • • • • ••• • .• 3 per Cent........• • • • • • • 2% per Cent. ••••••.• •• • • 41X 1 per Cent............................. Loan, 1834........ • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • 127 Ditto, 1839...• ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 85 Bank Shares .... • ...... • • • • • • • 1,085 Esterhazv's Loan •• • • ••••••• • • •• • • RAILWAYS. The N0rthern............ aloggnitz ...... • • Venice-Milan .. . . • • • • • . Budwels ................. .......... 10414 Leghorn •• •• ...... •. Sienna .. •• •••• .... •• • 653 • • .. •••• •• •• 95% A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE. On Thursday morning last [says the Bytown (Ca nada) Gazette], seeing a number of persons hurrying toward the Chaudiere Falls, we inquired the cause, and were informed that a crib of timber, with two men upon it, had passed over the "Big Kettle," and that one of them had been drowned, while the other was stuck on the table-rock, upon the aide of the river, immediately opposite the suspension bridge. Having repaired to the scene of the accident, we found this melancholy tale verified. It appears that being unaccustomed to navigate the channel leading into the slide, which is perfectly simple and easy of access, they had neglected to keep close enough to the shore, until, too late, they found themselves drawn with gradually increasing rapidity toward the fearful abyss, through which no man living had ever been known to pass, although many have found in its deep waters a grave. Upon entering the rapid immediately ap proaching the fall, one of the men (whose name we have since learned to have been Baptiste Beaudran ; that of the other, Paul Filardeau) jumped off the crib toward the shore, since when, no vestige of him has yet been seen. But amongst the anxious crowd gathered upon the beach which could not have numbered less than four hundred persons, sympathy for the unfortunate dead seemed almost wholly merged in the most intense and absorbing interest for the salvation of the living. Standing upon the small rocky island, upon which the miraculous intervention of a merciful Providence had placed him, with a " hell of waters" roaring around him on all sides, his was a critical and fearful situ&- tion In comparative safety, save from the constant exposure to the spray, some proposed that he should remain until the water would fall sufficiently to per mit his passing ; while others, who understood the danger better, suggested that means should be adopted at once to convey him to the main land. In pursuance of this det erm i nat i on, a s t one h av i ng a string attached to it, was after several ineffectual at tempts thrown across the water. A rope was then fastened to the string, which was passed over a high post, and drawn across by Filardeau, and made fast to the rock ; a large iron ring having been put upon the hawser, a small rope was tied to it, a few feet at one end being allowed to hang down for the purpose of securing around his body. This was also passed over by a string as before. The arrangements having been completed, the signal was given for him to prepare for his preca rious voyage. This he did with a great deal of cool ness, arranging the rope round his body with admi rable skill. During the time thus occupied the ex citement became breathless. It arose to the highest possible pitch, when apparently misunderstanding signals made to him, to await some further arrange ments upon the shore, he poised himself upon , the portion of the crib, which had formed a 'jam upon the rock, and launched off boldly wi▪ th nothingbut the thin air between him and eternity. The moment was a thrilling one. A portion of his body dipped into the foami▪ ng waters below—we turned to look upon the effect pro duced upon the multitude around. All seemed to hold their v er y b rea th, w hile with pallid cheeks, and eyes intensely fixed, they gazed upon the scene, A moment passed, which to many there doubtless seemed an age, the rocks resounded with one loud deep shout, in which even the roaring of the torrent itself was lost. Drawn swiftly along the hawser by the ring, in less time than w e have taken to narrate it, the shore is reached in safety, .and congra tulations are poured upon the hero of this adventure for his miraculous escape from sharing the untimely fate of his unfortunate companion. Long will this ex traordinary passage be remem bered from this island, which may henceforth be appropriately designated " Filardeau's Rock." Bytown is on the Grand Ottaway River, far in the interior of Canada. The situation of Mr. Filardeau was one of great peril; quite as much so as if he had been driven on one of the small islands directly above the Falls of Niagara. INTERESTING ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERT.-011 Fri day a valuable addition to the recorded Roman remains in this country was made by Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, of this city, at Aldborougb, the Roman Isu Brigantium. On digging in the garden of the Black Swan Inn, about three feet from the surface, a low wall was ex posed, and found to surround one of the finest Roman tessellated pavements hitherto met with in Britain, being 12 ft. square, perfect, well-executed, and in the highest state of preservation, the tesselce remaining as fresh and bright as when the room was last occupied, some, 1,000 years ago. It is only about 14 ft. distant from another cu rious pavement, found in 1832, on digging to bury a calf, and next spring will, like the latter, have a building erected for its preservation by A. Lawson, Esq., the pro prietor, and will be ready for public inspection.— Yorkshiremun. APPOINTMENTS.--Mr. Leslie is appointed Pro vincial Secretary, and Mr. W. H. Merrit, President of Committee of Council for the province of Canada. — Mr. Sullivan is appointed Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench in Canada West. —Observer. _ _ The Banffshire Journal announces the death of the Rev. John Edwards, of Marnock, the clergyman to whose settlement so great an opposition was manifested, giving rise to proceedings which ultimately led to the disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843. THAMES. Mr. George Wickes, a cow-keeper, in Mill-yard, Whitechapel, appeared before Mr. Yardley to answer a complaint made by Brown, the beadle of White chapel, by order of the trustees acting under the local Act, for suffering an accumulation of dung, manure, offal, and filth on his premises, detrimental to the health of the persons living in the immediate neighbourhood. Mr. Henderson, solicitor, appeared on the part of the trustees. This was a proceeding under the Act for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the preven tion of contagious and epidemic diseases, the 11th and 12th of Vic., cap. 123. A plan of the premises was put in, from which it appeared that Wickes occupied one of the arches of the Blackwall Railway, on the eastern side of Mill-yard, and in this limited space kept 17 cows and six horses. Swine were also oc casionally kept in the same place, which had been visited by the parish officers, by the Committee of Health, and others, who were of opinion it was a nuisance, and prejudicial to the health of the in habitants. Mr. W. IL Black, one of the keepers of the public records, and minister of a chapel in Mill-yard, which has existed 155 years, said he had an official resi dence adjoining the chapel and immediately conti guous to the nuisance, which he described as most intolerable, and constantly emitting a most noxious and disgusting effluvia. He was unable to open the front door and the windows looking south without being annoyed by a most dreadful and overpowering stench. There was a great accumulation of cow dung and filth of every description on the premises. There were no styes in the yard or arch, and the pigs were suffered to roam about the place, which increased the nuisance. Liquid matter of a most offensive descrip tion was constantly oozing through a defective wall into the yard behind a small house, occupied by a person named Macdonald, where fever now existed. The cow-yard was unpaved, and it was a complete sw amp of fetid matter. The d ra i nage was also ex oeedingly defective. Mr. Bl ac k concluded a longas a description of the evil b y d ec l ar i ng that it w complication of nuisa nces qu i te i ntolerable, and ought not to exist in a close neighbourhood amidst human habitations. Mr. YARDLEY asked Mr. Black whether the refuse of the animals was removed daily, or allowed to accumulate. Mr. Black replied that the matter accumulated for several days, and was 'allowed to ferment. When he came home in the afternoon he was fre quently so overcome by nausea as to be .unable to eat his dinner. Mr. YARDLEY said be should pause a long time before he came to a conclusion that the keeping cows and horses was to be prohibited within the bills of mortality ; but the defendant's cowyard might cease to be a nuisance without having to abandon his business, and the first step was to remove the offensive matter daily, and prevent fermentation. The defendant said he was anxious to do everything to accommodate his neighbours, and would obey any reasonable order of the magistrate. Mr. YARDLEY' said this was not a matter of per sonal accommodation, but a question where the public health was concerned. He must, therefore, insist, in the first instance, that the waste of the cowyard be removed daily, and the yard be washed down. The defendant pleaded hard that he should be allowed every alternate day to remove the offensive matter, but the Magistrate was inexorable. Mr. Straw, a trustee and guardian of the parish , said that u n til the place was paved it would continue to be a nuisance. He also complained that the drain age was defective, and that the liquid manure over flowed and ran down an artificial descent into the street. It was alike disgusting to the smell and the sight. The defendant said there was a hole in the wall separating his place from a neighbour's, and the con tents of a cesspool and the water from a tank was continually running into his yard. He had recently expended 101. in repairing his drain. Mr. YARDLEY said he must pave the; yard and secure good drainage, or he must remove his business elsewhere. Mr. Henderson, who appeared in the double capacity of solicitor and commissioner of paving, said the exhalations from the defendant's premises were absolutely poisonous, and arose principally from the keeping of pigs, than which nothing could be more nauseous in such a crowded locality. He submitted that some steps should be taken to limit the number of animals in such a confined space as one of the railway arches. The atmosphere was tainted by the accumulation of so many animals and so much de composed animal matter in such a limited space. The population of the immediate district was so dense that it resembled a rabbit warren. The old notion that a cow-yard in a populous neighbourhood was healthy had long since been exploded. Mr. YARDLEY said he could prevent the defendant keeping swine in the place, but he could not prevent him keeping cows, as long as he removed the offensive matter daily. The defendant said his cow-yard was not unhealthy, and asked the magistrate to look at him. He was the biggest man in the parish, arid in c ipital health, only a little lame.—(Laughter ) Ono of the defendgag neighbogre acid the cow yard was not a nuisance, and that he lived opposite to it, and enjoyed good health. The greatest nuisance was the filthy habits of the lower orders of Irish living in Mill-yard ond vicinity. Mr. YAUDLEY then made the required order on the defendant, "!'n promised to remove all the objections made to his place. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 16.—The Commodore-super— intendentship of the Indian navy, vacant by the death of Sir Robert Oliver, is expected to be conferred upon Captain Sir Henry Leeke, K.H. (1826), late of the Queen, 110. The commit tee appointed by the Admiralty (Captain Horatio Austin, C 8., of the Blenheim; Mr. Brown, Master-Attendant of this dockyard ; Mr. W. 11. Thompson, Master of the Victory ; and Mr. R. C. Allen, Master of the Blenheim) to revise the rigging warrants of the steam fleet sit daily at the Master- Attendant's office in the dockyard. The Hermes steam-vessel, Mr. W. Martin master, sailed to-day for Plymouth, with supernumeraries for that port. The Bellerophon, 78, Captain R. L. Baynes, C. 8., was to have been paid wages today, but her pay-books have not arrived. She is to take a number of disposable boys for the squadron of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart., G.C.8., and guns for the Queen, 110, Captain H. Bruce. The Reynard steam-schooner, Commander P. era croft, came into harbour this afternoon by Admiralty order. The Cuckoo steam vessel, Commander H. Duma resq, is ready for sea, and will sail this evening for J'ersey. The Lightning steam-vessel, Petley master, is ordered to Woolwich, and is to bring supernumerrries or anything else needful, from the different eastern ports to this place. In fact, it appears as if the Ad miralty were ashamed of keeping her here so long in a state of utter inactivity. The Grampus, 50, Captain H. B. Martin, will be ready for paying off next Wednesday. Whether she will be paid off or not will depend on the Pay-office or Treasury clerks at Somerset House, who appear to be anything but diligent. Her marines will have to be sent to their division at Woolwich. The Plumper steam-vessel was undocked and taken into the basin to-day, and the Urgent steamer, Lieu tenant A. Mann, docked in her stead. _ Wind N.E., moderate breezes and cloudy weather. APPOINTMENTS. Mate—J. Edye, to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport. Assistant Surgeons—J. R. Holman confirmed to the Asia, 84, in the South Pacific; R. B. Power, confirmed to the Jamaica Hospital ; John Cotton, M.D., confirmed to the Imaum pendant ship at Jamaica. Midshipman—John Carnegie, to the Victory flag ship, at Portsmouth. Masters' Assistants—F. Fox, to the Kingfisher sloop, at Portsmouth ; F. Skead, to the Penelope pendant steamer, on the coast of Africa. Gunner—James Murray (acting), to the Excel lent, at Portsmouth. Carpenters—Richard Wise and Henry Brice, to the Illustrious flag-ship, at Portsmouth. The Royal yacht was paid off for the season yes terday. PLYMOUTH", OCT. 14.—The crew of her Majesty's steamer Lucifer, 3, were paid wages, and the vessel sailed for Scotland on Thursday. Her Majesty's frigate Dcelalus was put out of commission and the crew paid yesterday. Her Majesty's packet-brig Seagull, Lieutenant- Commander James Smail, which grounded on the German Rock on the 10th, will be taken into dock for examination on Monday. The cutter Orianda, Commander Unkoffsky, be longing to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, anchored in the Sound yesterday morning. This ship was built after a handsome model at Nicolaiefl; in the Black Sea. She is of 188 tons, 24 feet beam, 12 feet draught, carries ♦ery heavy spars, mounts six brass 8-pounders, and has a complement of 36 hands in all. She is registered No. 24 in the Royal Imperial Yacht Club at St. Petersburgh, of which his Royal Highness the Grand Duke Constan tine is Honorary President. On entering she saluted the flag at the Citadel with 21 guns, and at midday the flag of Port-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage with 17 guns. Both salutes were suitably acknow ledged. The Orianda is from Cronstadt, but on her passage touched at Kansoe, in Sweden. She calls here for provisions, and is bound for Odessa. Before leaving Cronstadt she gained a silver cup, given by the Em peror at the regatta. The merchant barque Unicorn, Captain Brett, of and for London, came in to-day, in 29 days from St. Vincent's, in the West Indies. The following emigrant ships are in the Sound : Trafalgar, 715 tons, Captain Richardson, and the Candahar, 642 tons, Captain Goss, for Port Adelaide; the Harbinger, 750 tons, Captain Sampson, for Syd ney; and the Thetis, 540 tons, Captain gainland, for Port Philip. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Ocr. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market remains dull, and little business was done. Great Western, Quarters, were done at dis.— Bristol and Exeter Shares, 40 dis. LIVERrOOL. Ocr. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market still continues depressed, and prices coatinue to rule low. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 9% dis.--- Eastern Counties, 11 .3 / 4 —Great Northern (A Shares), De ferred, VA—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 5 3 / 4 (FL—Ditto, 101. Preference, c. dis.—Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 18% dis.—London and North- Western, 101 c.—Ditto, New Quar ters, 2/. Is. 9d. c. dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, Quarters, No. 1, 10 , A , dis.—Ditto, Eighths, 1 1 4 dis.— Ditto, 101. Preference, LA—Midland Stock, 73% c.—Ditto, New Halves, 1374 dis.—North Staffordshire, 8 dis.— South- Eastern and Dover, 21 1 ,a, c.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, Oy u dis. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 4/. Is. 6d. dis. MANCHESTER, OCT. 16. STocic EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonian, "Prefer- ence, 2 1 / 4 c. dis.—North Staffonishire, dis.—Leeds, 32/. Shares, 11 3 A dis.— Ditto, Preference, dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), p.—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1, 10 dis.—London and North-Western, 101 1 4—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 3-3—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 4 18 n. dis.—East Lancashire. n. dia.-- Great Northern (A), 2% -Leeds and Thirsk, 16. BIRMINGHAM, Our. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are—Great Northern, 1416 dis.—Ditto, Halves (A), Deferred, 2% dis.—North Stafford shire, 81s dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7% dis. ex new—Ditto (B), 41. z ells. ex new—Shropshire Union, 3% dis. YORK, OCT. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted t•-day wall as follows:—Great Northern, ZV l —Midland, 74—North Bri tish, Thirds, 4/. 35. n.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Ex tension), No. 1, 10/. 18s. 9d.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 3/. 18s. 9d. [ADVERTISEMENT.] A DREADFUL ABSCESS UNDER THE CHIN CUttED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Robert Davidson, shoemaker, of An struther, had suffered for more than five years with a very dreadful abscess under his chin. During this time he had been under the care of two surgeons in Anstru ther, and one in Edinburgh, without the least prospect of a cure ; in this miserable condition he began to use Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which in the short space of two months soundly healed the wound, and he is now enjoying the best of health. These fine medicines are admirable remedies for King's evil, wounds of all kinds, burns, scalds, piles, fistula, and bearings down. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establish ment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTEM. On the 13th just , the Countess of Arran. of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Newport, Isle of Wight, the wife of Captain Bowes, of the 69th Regiment, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at South Kilworth Rectory, Leicester shire, the wife of tke Rev. A. Pownall, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Southlands, Surrey, the wife of the Rev. A. Trower, incumbent of Codsall, Staffordshire, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Farnley-lodge, Cheltenham, the lady of C. R. M. Jackson, Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., Mrs. Sampson Samuel, of North-build ings, Finsbury-circus, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Swaton Vicarage, Lincolnshire, the lady of the Rev. H. Knapp, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Richmond, the wife of P. BrarneS Hall, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst , at Greer.stead-green Parsonage, the lady of the Rev. C. Burney, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Yately-hall, Hants, the lady of IL P Collett, Esq., of a daughter, stillborn. MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at Clifton Church, Gloucestershire, T. Bennett, Esq., eldest son of T. Bennett, Esq., of Castleree, county of Derry, Ireland, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of T. Anstey, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service. On the 12th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Islington, J. W. Street, Esq., of Taunton, to Eliza Jane, second daughter of G. Barclay, Esq., Barnsbury, Islington. On the 14th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Charles O. Manley, Esq., of Stanhope-street, Regent's-park, to Eliza, only daughter of B. Williams, Esq., of Whitehall. On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras, James Powell, Esq., of Great Coram-street, Brunswick-square, to Eliza Harriett, eldest surviving daughter of the late W. Harris, Esq.. of the Ordnance Department; and at the same time, J. H. Square, . EN., of Kingsbridge, to Anna Blanch, youngest daughter 0' the said William Harris. DIED. On the 10th inst. at Cockairnie, Fifeshire, Lieut.-Colon el Sir Robert Moubray, K.H. aged 74. On the 11th inst., at iodney.place, Cheltenham, Se relict of the late T. Ingledew, Esq., of Bank-house, KenWe e P Worcestershire. On the 11th inst., at Ross, Herefordshire, the Rev. J. S' Brasier, rector of Whitmore, Staffordshire. On the 12th inst., Marianne, wife of Major George Wathent Military Knight of Windsor, aged 83. On the 13th inst., H. W. Pars, Esq., of Princes - ro ad, Notting-hill, aged 41. of On the 13th inst., near Dartford, John E. Cooper, Est! the firm of Clark and Cooper. Sessions-house, Old Bailey! On the 13th inst., Harriet Isabella, the wife of Frederick W. Strickland, Esq., aged 22. On the 14th inst., at Syddall villas, Tollington-Park, llornsey, T. E. Williams, E?q., of Crutched-friars, London: Printed and Published by IVIURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TLe Sun Office, N. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of tie Savoy, in the coultY 9i ~iddWes, Tuinday4,oct9ber 17,1848. ,8) An Eyent 'Wan tt, been z daily, with r 'Attu' boll.— Ope Asitun ♦d 'Wax Vfkrle IS. St '4s. pi per p Sealin Its. 3d For Matti prices 1, 1 The Parchm and PI to rem from t 1 tels In the cot Sold street, and Flo and gel E l praven RATOI 4 few most di bottles, 74. ; ar lulnlnr Advice ny psis _ . Bold Lender Oxford. Centil and by R. Rah beer-of This paper a the pap .. _ TAX tlay Eti •'cioct, T 12 . 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