The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-08 00:00:00

Letidon, Salisbury, and Ygovil ..... ...,......... 11 4•••••• .. Lotidonlerry&Coloraine 285' 4 Londor , lerry r•rul Ennis kilki Lowestoft (4 per ct.) ••• 20 . Ditto (6 per ct.) kancheater•Buxton,and Matlock aleneheeter, Sheffield,_ ... . and Lincolnshire -.100 Da. Quarters (No. 1) 18 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 10 Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 4D Ditto ditto . ......... 13 ...... Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire — Do., Grimsby Dock 2O - Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 4/. 2a. Midland ... ........... ...100 ..... Do. Consolidated Pref.100 Do., do., 501. Shares._ 26 ... .. 91 1 / 4 ... .... Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Do.Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......118 117 1 / 2 1117% Ditto,Brist.&Glocstr. 38 ...... Ditto, ditto ... .- ....141. 185.... Ditto,Leices L&Swan- nington, 8 per cLguar.loo — Midla►nd Great Western Irish lifiddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Neweastleand Carlo e ..dOO Do. Quarters 25 Newmarket ... Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 ...... _ Newry_ and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk ...100 149% Do. New 20/. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 — Do. Guaranteed s%pe. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ..... North British ........ ... 25 ...... 14% 14% Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Extension O% — .. — Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. V AL .. •• 3' North & South-Western 2 North Staffordshire North Wales ... ...... .... 3 1 ,6 North-Western .... lO Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate lO - 9 IA Royston and Hitchin ... 2 Scottish Central .... ..... 25 ...... 26 ...... ...—... 26 Scottish Midland 25 — ..... .••.. Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, Goole (Nor. Div.) ... PA Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 4 ...... Shrewsbury and Birra... 9 ...... •••••• Ditto ditto. Class B. 5 ...... Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) — Ditto Halves ... ditto 6% .._.. .. .... ........ Ditto Oswestry Ditto New DO. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 Shropshire Union South Devon 5O ......_12% . ... 12 1 ,4 Do. Preference - •••• •••• •••• - South Staffordshire 6 4 Sauth Eastern ' Do., No. 1 Do., N 0.2. - •••• - Do., No. 3 .-.... ...... 25 ...... Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 South Wales ...... 28 South Yorkshire, Don- _ r. water, and Goole owans. & Loughor & Ca ... ... naeron's Stni. C0a1.... 6 Katt , Vale Extension ... 8 Tkarnes Haven Dock and Railway ..... ...... 17 1 / ..... • Vale of Neath ... .. 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 17%...... .. .— Waterford and Limerick 47 1 ,E Waterfd Wafrd,Wicklw, _ , arid Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. 5O ...... 54 Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 10 ..... ... ..... -. W est Cornwall west ndon ...... - no. Do. let Class ... 21 „,_Do. D o . 2d Cl ass .- 20 I ...Yhitehaven & Furness 13 Windsor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 9% — "*" " ....... Wilts, Somerset,& W ey- Mouth ........ ........ 40 York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... .... ..... - 25 .. ... Do. Original New and Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25 .... . 2 ...... ..... De. Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. ... 16 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York and North Midland 50 - .• 49 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 1 -)?. East and West Rid- ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 4 nglo Italian (late Its- Ilan and Austrian ) Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 17 Ceylon - D emerara ..... ....... ...... 15 ...... Dendre Va11ey...... 4 Direct Bombay and _ Madras ss. . ». - Dutch Rhenish ......... 74 •• ** ..... ***• East Indian 3 14 — ......•• •••• • Great Indian Peninsular 1 4 ••• Louvain a. la Sambre ... 7% Luxembourg 7 Ditto 10 . ..... 2 1% I ji g Madrid and Valentia... 2 .....• Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... •• » — Northern of France...... 12 Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 .....• ............ ... Paris and Lyons ll ....• ......... ... Do. Do. . JOINT STOCK BAN KS. Provincial of Ireland LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) , LONDON, D EC . 7.—Wi n d S ., moderate breeze, and dull naay weather. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 7.—lt has blown a hard gale bore all day from the S.S.W. to W., and still continues, with heavy squalls. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 7.—The Alert, which arrived here Ondhe sth i nstant, from Marse i lles, has sustained damage is leaky, having had two feet water in her hold. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.—lt blew a heavy gale here last tight from S.W., but all the vessels rode out well. MILFORD, DEC. 6.—Violent gales from the S.S.W. to have been experienced here for the last three ' 4 ) 3 . The masts, yards, and sails of a vessel, supposed schooner, were seen fl oating off Freshwater Bay on the 4th instant. Also part of the sides of a large vessel between Lenny Head and Freshwater. d l lamss:ir (ISLE OF MAN), DEC. 6.—The Tay, of s TYPort, we n t on s h ore yester d a y, on th e J ar by B eac h, : 11 4g a violent gale; but if the weather moderate, is PPcted off next tide. TliitisALE, DEC. s.—The St. Amaro IL, percira, from erceira f or Cork, was stranded yesterday at the west of the Old Head, and became a total wreck; cargo (Indian corn) lost. SCARBOROUGH, DEc. 7.—The Medora, Richardson, Ir onl Lond on to H art l epoo l , h as arr i ve d h ere w i t h da rtrge, havi ng b een run i nto b y a b arque l ast n i g h t , a b out rc'e miles N.E. of Whitby. YARmouTit, DEC.' s.—The Margaret Sophia, Trat pes, and th e Ell en, Granger, both from Middlesborough, London, struc k the groun d 4th i nst. i n com i ng i nto th e G oo; the former made a great deal of water, 'ne latter not so leaky. POOLE DEC. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. James, Ford, Labrador. PALTsorrru, DEC. 7. —Wind S.W., fresh gales.— A _Sultana, Crutchfield, Macao. DEC. 7.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. George ° me. Distant, South Seas; Mary Queea of Scots, Wil y; Buenos Ayres. Arrd. from the River Elizabeth 11 .,ne, Port Natal; Cato, Fox, St. Vincent's. 11.14IVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Wind S.S.E. to W.S.W. and ,-,;vv•—Arrd. the 6th, Courier, Dunn, Copiapo; Ajax, Call M. F. Ward, Trott, New Orleans. 7th. Me era* ainmer, Charlestown; La, Belle, Chaplin, Maran f sin; London, Bruce, Boston. Put back the 2d Sirius, tanZueerViialaorratirsoh;iiipc.hinborazo, for ditto. Sld. GiPscY , alparai tank 1r , Emily , Cape of Good Hope; Loosh- N ew se; Indian Queen, Barbadoes; Challenger, Aber O r leans; Virginia, ditto; Lord Sandon, ditto; ;: t_ N ee .. Savannah; Cambria, New York; Wisconsin, o l f 'tor Richard Aloop, ditto. The schooner Dispatch, th Pr ince Edwards Island, bound to Bristol, was passed Sth inst., lat. 52, lon. 7, with loss of rudder, by the ni l :loud, ar r i ve d h ere. "LIVE ROAD S , DEC. 7.—Arrd. Pascoe Grenfell (supposed) Cuba. CLYDE, DEC . 6.—Arrd. Bellona, Wylie, Quebec. f or, C° ltit DEC: s.—Ar r d. C anton , P ac k ar d, Baltimore, se Liverpool, leaky, an d w i th loss o f ru dd er , jibb oom , •; C. Wright, jun., Pi tter , B oston; C aro li n e Alice, C. St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. Ski. sth, Simon, Hardy, Barbadoes. Russia, New York. sthWeAThEenßarnOgße, Snow,D , DEc.6.--Wind W.N.W. to W.—Sld. Baltimore, United States. QLISIEUICE, D EC . 6 . —Wind W.—Arrd. Thet i s, W oo d , uebec; Primrose, Ferguson, Quebec. r , butinEE, DEC. 6.—W ind W.N.W.—Arrd. Willi am ' a re3 l , Took, Charlston. SHIELDS, D EC . 7.—Wind S• S.W.—Arrd. Clio, Hal- Crow, Mirarnichi. HULL, DEC. 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. Pallas, Bombay. The amount received by the last Lisbon packet on Taccount of the Portuguese debt was about 13,0001., aking r a th er more than 80,0001. in hand towards the Parst overdue dividend (namely that fOr July, 1847), the yment of which, with a deduction, has been advertised tor Pebruary, next. We have the best authority f or I;stating t h at the committee of bondholders will not sub -734 to the curtailment of their interest, but intend pro 4ting a gainst the G overnment measures t h rough Lor d Palmerston ott account. , taking, h owever , w h a t t h e y can get in 4 , GOLD. —The .Richniond Enquirer says 9 .avt r,ccet and exten3ive discov er i es o f d epos i ts o f go l d peen made in Louisa county. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1848. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The strung gales of %hl having prevented the arrival of several vessels laden with grain, the show of English Wheat samples in to-day's market was very limited; while the quality of the supply was by no means first rate. As, however, the attendance of both London and country buyers was small, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was in a very sluggish state at prices about equal to those paid on Monday. The quantity of foreign Wheat on sale was not so extensive as of late. Selected qualities of both red and white were taken to a moderate extent at full prices. The middling and out-of-condition samples were a mere drug. Very little Barley was on show, yet the supply was quite adequate to the demand. The maltsters purchased with extreme caution, All kinds of Malt, the supply of which was small, moved off heavily, but we have no de cline to notice in prices. Oats were tolerably steady at fully late rates. In all other kinds of grain, as well as Flour and Meal, exceedingly little business was trans acted. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. "I'. Va. qrs. 2.680 qrs. 1,110 4ra. Flour. 5130skt. English ...... Irish. • • •• • • •• Foreign ...... 10/60 I 9.300 Malt. 1.620 qrs. sivcrrsrxELD. 4,360 In to-day's market the supply of Beasts on offer was very limited, the time of year considered, and of inferior quality. The few prime Scots, &c., on sale were mostly disposed of at prices fully equal to those paid on Monday last, viz., from 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. per 81bs. In all other breeds of beasts next to nothing was doing, at almost nominal currencies—a total clearance of the supply not being effected. There was an increase in the number of Sheep, compared with those exhibited on this day se'n night. Generally speaking, the Mutton trade was in a depressed state, at barely Saturday's prices. Calves— the supply of which was limited—moved off steadily, at fully late rates. In Pigs only a moderate business was doing, at our quotations. Mulch Cows were selling at from 14/. to 181. each, including their small calf. Per Sibs. to si Enithe offal. s. d. to e. d Inferior Beasts..... 2 8 2 10 .3econd quality • ... 3 0 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 4 0 s. d. to s. d. Second quality iitte 3 6 4 0 Coarse-woolledditto 4 1 4 6 SouthdownWether 4 8 I 0 Prime Scots ...... 4 2 4 Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 Primesmall ditto .. 4 4 4 guekling Calves ..17 0 24 Inferior Sheep • • •_ . _• ... 3 0..„3 Quarter old Pigs •.16 0 21 0 Lambs ..••.•..•. 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Figs. 918 4,540 140 250 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs. 274 910 23 NEVITGATIi AND LEADENNALL. These markets were very dull, at barely stationary prices. The supplies were again extensive. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. 8. d. to s. d. Ileef,inferior.• .• .• 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 3 2 3 4 middling ••.. 2 6 2 10 middling.. 3 6 3 8 primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 prime .... 3 10 4 4 prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, 1arge........ 3 6 4 4 Veal.• •• •• •• •• 3 4 4 4 small 4 6 4 8 The LOAD CHIEF BARON, interrupting the Learned Counsel, said it appeared to him that there was no case to go to the jury. It had been proved by the only witness called, that for several years the plaintiff had been in the habit of having his dividends paid into Deacons to the credit of Knapp and Co., with whom he banked, and it must, therefore, be taken that the party really liable to the plaintiff was the Abingdon house. Mr. WATSON reminded his Lordship that the de fendant did not advise the Abingdon house of the re ceipt of the money till after it had stopped payment, and said he distinctly remember( d that the late Lord Chief Baron held in a similar case to this that the plaintiff could recover. The Lott') Cum, BARON said the plaintiff might have recovered had there been but one single instance of the transmission of money, but hero it was proved that for a long time the plaintiff bad been in the habit of paying his dividends into the defendants' bank, and was content to hold Knapp and Co. liable for the due payment of the amount. The course of business, therefore, in this case, independently of the law bearing upon it, manifestly showed that the plaintiff must be looked upon in the light of a creditor of Knapp and Co., and not of the de fendants. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. Mr. WATSON intimated his intention of tendering a bill of exceptions to his Lordship's ruling. (Sittings in Banco.) EHRENSPINGER 11. ANDERSON. Mr. Baron PARKE gave the judgment of the Court in this me, which arose out of a mercantile transaction between Cruikshank, Melville, and Co., of London, and Campbell, Dallas and Co., of Bombay, relative to the sale of a quantity of cotton. Some time ago the London house made a consignment of cotton to the Bombay house. Subsequently the defendants succeeded to the Bombay business, and they had applied the proceeds of the cotton to paying some bills which Cruikshank, Mel ville, and Co. had drawn upon the Bombay house in re ference to an earlier transaction. There were two questions involved in the case; firstly, whether the form of action for money had and received was correct; and secondly, whether under the circumstances such an action could be sustained. The Court did not think it necessary to decide the first point; and with regard to the second it was clearly of opinion that no action could lie, and therefore a nonsuit must be entered. Large Hogs Small Yorkers 4 i 4 8 COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) THE SAPPHIRE.-CATTLIN V. HALL. This running-down case was resumed at the sitting of the Court. Evidence was adduced on the part of the defendant to show that no blame was attached to the captain or sailors of the Sapphire in the collision which took place be tween that vessel and the Sons of the Thames. Mr. Sergeant Wuaurra replied. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL summed up, and directed the jury, who retired at half-past ono to consider their verdict. The jury returned into court at twenty minutes to three, with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 9001. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) There was only one cause tried " Friske v. Tompkins," to recover the sum of 90/. 4s. for goods supplied under a guarantee given by the defendant in favour of a person named Saul. There was no defence, and the jury found for the amount. CAUTION TO JURORS, —In consequence of the non attendance of jurors, the Secondary directed the absen tees to be called on their summonses, and fined them 40s. each. The foreman of the present jury apologised for his previous absence, and pressed that the fine might not be enforced by making a return to the Exchequer. The Learned Secondary at first refused, but ultimately con sented, on the jurors attending on every jury till the full time had expired. He was bound to do this, as it was most unfair to many of the jurors on whom the heavy duty fell. BANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) IN RE PITT. IMPORTANT JUDOMENT.—The bankrupt had carried on business as an engineer, in York-place, Pen tonville, and to day his Honour gave judgment on the question of certificate. His HONOUR said that one of the questions in the case, whether, as there was no creditors' assignee appointed, the Court had power to grant the certificate at all, as no notice could be given to the as signee or his solicitor according to the Act. He had fully considered the subject, which had also had the consideration of the other Commis sioners, and he thought that he was not bound to refuse the certificate on that ground, the official assignee acting for the creditors, but on looking at all the facts of the case, he did not think the certificate ought to be granted without a suspension. The bankrupt owed 5001, and came to this court without assets, and simply to get" whitewashed," and therefore was not deserving the protection of the Court; he should, therefore, suspend the certificate for six months from this date. The bankrupt's solicitor applied for protection. Mr. Commissioner SHEPPARD refused, observing that the bankrupt must be punished, and six months' impri sonment was not too long. SURREY SESSIONS—(THIS DAY.) Daniel Buckley, 30, was indicted for stealing a sove reign from the person of Stephen Flynn. The robbery was committed a year ago, but the pri soner has eluded the vigilance of the police until a few days since, when ho was apprehended for committing an assault. It appeared that the prosecutor was in a public house in High-street, Southwark drinking with a female, while there some conversation took place between him and the latter, when he was suddenly hustled and robbed of all his money. On his attempting to secure the pri soner, several of his associates surrounded him and al lowed him to escape. The prosecutor was quite certain he was the man who robbed him, as he had an opportu nity of looking at him for some time. In defence the prisoner contended that he was not in the Borough on the night in question; but several po licemen proved otherwise, and the jury found him Guilty. It being proved that' he was an old offender, the Court sentenced him to seven years' transportation. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. Again a small attendance, and a very moderate amount of business. Enough, however, was done to admit of a quotation, the prices being in most cases the same that have been current for some time past. WOLVERHADIPTON STEEPLECHASE. 7 to 2 agst Mr. Moseley's Jerry—taken The following are the acceptances:—Proceed, British Yeoman, Victim, Peter Simple, Alfred, Prince George, Equinox, Richard the First, Thurgarton, Khondooz, Justice to England, Jerry, Venom, Verix, Profligate, Vindictive, One-eyed Malian. CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—taken 2,000 to 40 agst Mr. Eddison's lletman Platoff colt—t 2,000 to 40 agst Lord Howth's Peep o'Day Boy—taken :1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Merry's Limestone—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Howth's Eagle's Plume—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Lillie's Great Western—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Disney's Cawrouch—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Lowther's Glutton—taken 2,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken 2,000 to 25 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken 1,060 to 10 agst Mr. Skerratt's Egret—taken DERBY. 1,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade 1,000 to 25 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—taken 400 to 10 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout—taken 400 to 10 agst Mr. Macdonnell's Saucy Dick—taken 2,000 to 40 agst Mr. Watt's Chatterer—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. W. Jones's Magician—taken The bet agst Magician, quoted from Mancheste'r, should have been 3,000 to 45, not 3,000 to 15. THE NEWMARKET ' CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.—TIIURSDAY. Four-mile Stables. :The All-aged Stake.—Second Ties. Amina beat Hotspur—Bramble beat Rocket—Ma gician beat Am-I-to- win—Roulette beat Dorou. The Puppy Stakes.—Second Ties. Locomotive beat Anticipation—Turquoise beat Bum per—Approbation beat Rex—Wicked Eye beat Tristram. The Exning Stakes for Puppies.—First Ties. Fairtoes beat Racer—Agnes ran a bye—Drift beat Becky Sharp—Glentilt beat Abbess. Robert Houdin resumes his entertainment at the St. James's Theatre:early in the ensuing week. During a stay of some weeks in Paris, he has composed or per. fected a variety of new and most extraordinary experi ments. WELSH MUSIC—A most interesting lecture on this subject was given at the Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution, last night (Thursday), by Mr. Jones (Talhaiarn), assisted by Mr. Ellis Roberts, the Welsh Harper, and Miss Ellen Lyon. Mr. Jones proved the high antiquity and honourable character of the minstrel's art in ancient Britain. He showed that the science of har mon y was cu l t i vate d at an ear l y period; and stimulated, in practice, by the construction of the harp, with its triple row of strings, two rows being um. sons. The character, so full of fire, sportiveness, and ten derness, of the Welsh airs was most tastefully exemplified by Ellis Roberts, who, if he be a fair specimen of the Welsh harper, proves that the artist who takes nature for his model, may take little account of the rivalry of mere tricks of execution. Mr. Roberts throws his whole soul into the expression of his native melodies. Several of the most effective of the Welsh airs were sung by Miss Ellen Lyon, with great taste. The sprightly tune "Llwyn Onn," better known as " Cease your funning," in the Beggar's Opera, and in which the legend of the Rock of Ceder Idris is told, elicited an encore, as did two other charming Welsh ditties sung by the same young lady. And our old friend, " Poor Mary Ann," was sung with feeling and character by Miss Vaughan. Mr. Jones gave the audience a specimen et the Penillion singing, in which the singer is expected to extemporise a stanza to any tune that is played. The lecture, with its illustrations, was most unique and highly successful. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.—Last evening M. Guizot and the Chevalier Bunsen were admitted hono rary Fellows, on the introduction of the Marquis of Northampton and Sir George Staunton. The President (Viscount Mahon) was in the chair, and addressed the illustrious foreigners with remarkable grace and pro priety, referring to the excellent labours of both in the field of antiquities, and especially to the Chevalier Bun sen's late learned work on Egyptian History. M. Guizot returned thanks with great energy of manner, promising to attend the meetings of the society frequently; and the Chevalier Bunsen expressed how happy he should be at all times to contribute to the progrLss and prosperity of the Eociety. They were received with lunch cheering. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, THURSDAY. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked as usual about the grounds this morning. The younger branches of the Royal Family took their accustomed exercise. The Earl de Grey arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. The Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting to her Majesty, leaves Osborne this afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived in town yesterday, from his residence at Kew, and visited and inspected the exhibition of the Smith field Cattle Club. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan cellor, the Marquis o f L ans d owne, t h e E ar l o f Mi n to, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auck land, Sir John liobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labou chere, Lord Campbell, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council sat two hours and a half. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. The Secretary at War had an interview with Lord John Russell on Wednesday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at their office, in White hall-place. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne ar rived at Lansd owne H ouse on Wednes d ay , f rom their seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Earl Grey had a di nner party on W e d nes day, at his residence in B e l gra ve-square. The company in cluded Lord and Lady John Russell, the Earl of Minto, Sir George and Lady Grey, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, and the Hon. H. Grey. The Countess Grey had afterwards a select evening party. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DIORNING PAPERS OF THIS DIY. TIMES —There is a fatality this year about emi grants and emigrant ships. We have scarcely recovered the shock of the Ocean Monarch's loss, and now there has come upon us another calamity more appalling, more heartrending, more sickening than even that. There, indeed, wherever they turned, the wretched creatures who embarked a few hours before from the quay of Liverpool so full of life and hope saw before them but an election of two modes of destruction. Fire or water —their option must be made. It seemed impossible to match the horror of such a scene. The reports spoke of mothers who held their little children aloft from the fiery storm that raged around them, until life departed, and with it hope; and then mother and child fell to gether from the burning wreck into the sweeping tide below. All circumstances considered, we then thought that in our memory nothing so sorrowful had occurred. The burning of the Ocean Monarch is, however, outdone now. In the cabin of the Londonderry steamer, on the night of Friday last, there happened a scene so fearful, that the mind instinctively recoils from dwelling, even for a moment, upon human suffering in so intense and agoniz ing a form. If we here repeat the details of what occurred, it is with no wish to harrow up the public feeling, nor even of signalizing to public indignation the persons by whose gross indiscretion and most criminal carelessness the tragedy was brought about. It is rather with a view that Government may be at length compelled by public opinion to look more closely into the condition, not only of emigrant, ships, but of all vessels licensed to convo y passengers from one port to another throughout th e Unite Kingdom. What security have we now for the skill and competence of the commander to whose care the lives of so many human beings are for a time confided? What precaution is taken that steamers such as the Lon donderry should convey no more passengers in each of their compartments than their means of accommodation will justify? Is a storm of such rare occurrence in the Irish Channel, in the month of December, that the con tingency of the deck passengers being compelled to take shelter below ought not to have entered into the calculations of the proprietors and commanders of ! such vessels? These are general points, and are appli cable to the entire system of the coasting conveyance of the three kingdoms. In the case of the Londonderry we must, however, go further. It will be no answer for Captain Johnstone to say that the steerage cabin was but 18 feet long, 10 or 12 in width, and about 7 feet in height. We do not know yet with precision the exact number of human beings ho caused to be crammed into this space. We are only told that 70 were found dead when the door was opened, and air was admitted into their prison. A storm levels all distinctions. It matters not much whether an ante-chamber to the tomb be a state-cabin or a fore-cabin. If the weather were so rough that danger really existed, was there no other part of the vessel where a section of the emigrants might have been sheltered until the decks were opened to them once more? The state-cabin of the London derry was occupied by three persons on the fatal night of Friday last; the steerage cabin by about 150. Why not have let the poor creatures remain on deck? Had a score of them been washed away, what would it, by comparison, have signified? Of bullocks, twenty only were killed ; of passengers, on board the Londonderry, seventy perished, and by a most frightful death. The Londonderry, it seems, left Sligo about four o'clock on Friday afternoon. There were on board her three cabin passengers, a number of sheep and oxen, and about 150 emigrants who were to be conveyed to Liverpool on their way to America. As the night wore on the wind and sea rose. Most people who have crossed the Irish Channel have seen at one time or another the strange gaunt figures of the deck passengers crouching about the deck wherever the) can find shelter from the spray. This, no doubt, was the case at first on board the Londonderry, but as the gale freshened they ' were probably found to be in the way of the working of the ship. Captain Johnstone, in an evil moment, gave the order that they should all be sent below. We must here pause for a moment, and ask how could the mind of that man be constituted who, knowing the number of deck passengers on board his ship, and being necessarily acquainted with the extent of the accommodation forward, could issue such an order ? How can such a mandate be ex plained away ? It may be accounted for, but never ex plained. There was no intention of deliberate murder, but there was indifference, there was incompetence, there was brutality. The sufferings of these poor people mat tered but little to the crow, so they could find room to work their ship without interruption ; so with oaths and blows they drove below the unfortunate beings, so many of whom were never destined to see again the light of day. And now the story becomes unintelligible. We cannot, on the one hand, attribute to Captain John stone and his crew the deliberate intention of murder, but, on the other, is it possible to conceive upon any known principle of human action how a com manding officer in such a situation could issue an order that the only aperture by which air could enter into the fetid hole in which he had confined his passengers should be hermetically sealed ? The companion WAS closed, a tarpaulin was nailed over it, and further, the entry was secured by ropes, so as to make egress almost impossible. Captain Johnstone was afraid of the water getting in! But did the water get in in any quantity to endanger the safety of the vessel, when the cabin door was at length opened? Had the weather undergone any notable change between the time of their imprisonment and the moment of the re lease of the survivors? We think not; first, because it was not by the free act of the screw the wretched crea tures were at last released; and, secondly, because ne very great interval could have elapsed, or not one would have survived to tell the tale. Be this, however, as it may, it needs but a slight effort of imagination to con ceive what must have passed in the shambles of the Londonderry from the description of the scene which met the eve of the mate, when at last a steerage pas senger had forced his way out, and communicated to him the terrible intelligence:— " The mate instantly became alarmed, and obtaining a lantern went down to render assistance. Such, how ever, was the foul state of the air in the cabin, that the light was immeliately extinguished. A second was ob tained, and it, too, was extinguished. At length, on the tarpaulin being completely removed, and a free access of air admitted, the real nature of the catastrophe exhibited itself. There lay, in heaps, the living, the d) ing, and the dead, one frightful mass of mingled agony and death —a spectacle enough to appal the stoutest heart. Men, women, and children were huddled together, blackened with suffocation, distorted by convulsions, bruised and bleeding from the desperate struggle fur existence which preceded the moment when exhausted nature resigned the strife. After some time the living were separated from the dead, and it was then found that the latter amounted to nearly one-half of the entire number." Captain Johnstone appears at length to have been made aware that he had become a main actor in a scene of the most horrible atrocity within the memory of man. But he was uncerta'n what to do. He put his steamer into Lough Foyle, but it was twelve hours before he could make up his mind to pass up to the quay at Derry. Lest it should be supposed that the former extract might convey but nn impression received amidst horror and confusion, here is how wo find the condition of the steerage cabin described when entered on Sunday morn ing by the mayor and magistrates of Decry:— "The scene on entering the steerage of the steamer was perhaps as awful a spectacle as could be witnessed. Seventy-two dead bodies of men, women, and children lay piled indiscriminately over each other, four deep, all presenting the ghastly appearance of persons who had died in the agonies of suffocation; very many of them covered with the blood which had gushed from the mouth and nose, or had flowed from the wounds inflicted by the trampling of nail-studded brogues, and by the frantic violence of those who struggled for escape. For it was but tco evident that, in that struggle, the poor creatures had torn the clothes from off each other's backs, and even the flesh from each other's limbs." We have nothing, more to add to this brief but tragic tale save that the coroner's jury have found Alexander Johnstone, captain; Richard Hughes, first mate; Ninian Crawford, second mate, of the Londonderry, guilty of manslaughter, and have expressed in the strongest terms their abhorrence of the inhuman conduct of the other seamen on board throughout this unhappy transaction. We will not anticipate any defence these persons may advance at their trial. But upon such an occasion as this we must remind the public that their lives are con fided every day to the ignorance and indifference of per sons of Captain Johnstone's class. Suppose a storm had come on in good earnest, and a question had arisen of saving even the chief•cabin passengers, or of the crew making good their escape, which course would Captain Johnstone and his men have adopted ? Even if we can not secure proper persons in command, at any rate for the future let some proportion be observed between the passengers and the accommodation and shelter the vessel can aftbrd. POST.—Many persons have felt and expressed some surprise that Mr. Barkly, M.P. for Leominster, a thoroughgoing Peelite, should have found such favour in the sight of Earl Grey and the Colonial•office as to have been appointed to a Colonial Governorship. That surprise will not be lessened when we inform them that Sir Robert Peel's second son is already in the field, or in the town rather, to secure for himself the seat in the House of Commons which the appointment of Mr. Barkly will make vacant. This is, no doubt, a very cunning arrangement, and well calculated to impress the public with a sense of the hig h-minded sincerity with which this young gentleman's father accepted the new system of the Reform Act as one which should thence. forward form a part of the British Constitution. Mr. Faederick Peel has addressed the worthy and indepen dent electors of the borough of Leominster, and says flint he has been " induced respe c tful ly to offer them his services as their representative in Parliament." We do not marvel that it should have required some inducement to cause a modest young man, like Mr. F. Peel, to offer himself for the representation of Leominster, especially as he proceeds to state, at the very outset, a very suf fi cient reason why he has no business to intrude himself upon the worthy and inde pendent electors of that town. " I have not," he s a y s , " the advantage of local connex i on with your town or neighbourhood, and my claim upon your confidence must therefore mainly re s t upon your general app rova l of the course which i t is my intention, if returned to Parliament, to pursue." Nov, we are far from saying that, under the existing circumstances of the representa irti;:)cuyngwias man,w representa tive system of this country,. .any man desirous of serving his country in l'irliatnent is noattipmeirtfteinegdytiaiits,li‘bveerdtye.itty,,. ask the favour ot • a seat frut b i t i h : at, e t .: l :it y : 1 1 17 that has st no i fair or c c' reasonable nncl °n who has no public character —no public services to appeal to —who is as destitute of any general as of any local claim to the favour and consider a ti on o f a constitu ency, should thrust himself forward as Mr. F. Peel does at Leominster: lie would not dare to do so except ho had expectations bused upon some underhand ar rausement7some plotting in the dark—which is not a whit more in harmony with open and independent eke tion than was the old system of nomination by great proprietors. Mr. F. Peel but the other day completed his twenty-fifth year, and, of course, our readers will ex pect to hear something of the enthusiasm of youth which tinctures his first political address. We shall, therefore, give them a specimen of this " flow of his youthful emotion;" but we confess that, judging from this com position, Mr. Frederick Peel requires something more than " the accomplishment of verse," in order to make him a poet. He says— " I am deeply impressed with the necessity of a search ing inquiry into every branch of our expenditure, and of every retrenchment which may be compatible with the public safety—with the adequate protection of our widely-extended commercial interests—and with the firm maintenance of the national credit. " The necessity of a wise economy is the more urgent, in my opinion, because I shall feel it incumbent upon me to resist any attempt (if such be made) to re-impose taxation upon those articles of foreign import which con stitute the materials on which our manufacturing indus try is employed, or which enter into the subsistence, or administer to the comfort of the great mass of the com munity, unless it should be deemed prudent, on more extensive experience of the effects of free-trade measures, to adopt a different line of policy, a result, however, which I do not anticipate." Such is the glowing and patriotic effusion by which a young gentleman of five-and-twenty seeks to move the hearts of the independent electors of Leominster in his favour. The elaborate profession of devotedness to the principles of free trade, with the significant proviso thereto appended, is laughably characteristic of the pa rental instruction under which this address was, no doubt, penned. Mr. - Frederick Peel will support free trade, un less he find it expedient not to support it! Who will deny that this new political aspirant is a chip of the old block? Upon the whole, it seems to us that the Parlia mentary representation of Leominster has become the subject of very discreditable political huckstering. We are not surprised to find the Peel people mixed up in this, but we beg the public to observe that it is the Whig Government which affords the opportunity, by making a placenaan of a Peelite. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. - - We have to notice a slight falling off in the demand for all kinds of Hops. The best samples of new are, however, selling at last week's quotations, but most other qualities are somewhat easier to purchase. New Hops—Sussex pockets, 21 5s to 21 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 8s to 3155; Mid and East Kent ditto, 2/ 12s to 51 18s per cwt. COLONIAL! SI:MAL—The market has been without animation, and the purchases have been limited both for home trade and exportation. Barbadoes fine yellow realised 395; good, 37s to 38s; and mid 35s to 36s 6d. Trinidad mid yellow has been sold at 3bs ; and fine brown at 33s 6d. REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 47s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—About 2,000 bags Mauritius barely realised the previous rates ; good and fine yellow 37s to 38s ; mid, 84s to 3.5 s ; low, 33s to 33s 6d ; fine brown, 32s 6d ; and washed and syrupy, 28s 6d to 37s per cwt. Bengal has been dull, and 3,843 bags only partly sold at barely previous rates, fine 40s 6d to 42s 6d, mid and good 36s 6d to 395. White Benares bas re alised 41s to 41s 6d for good, and 42s to 42s 6d for fine. Damp Khaur has been taken in at 28s 6d for brown. Madras has been dull. FonnoN.—Havannah, 1,308 boxes was taken in at 37s to 42s for sound low to fine yellow. Bahia, for ex portation, has been sold at 17s 6d for yellow, and at 20s 6d for white, and yellow Manilla also at 17s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—The holders generally exhibit more firm ness. Mid Jamaica has been held for 555. Ceylon has been brisker, and at fuller rates. Plantation, 25s to 48s; Native good ord, 27 s to 27 s 6 d. Costa Rica has realised 29s to 34s 6d; and Madras, 31s to 545, wording to quality. Mocha has risen is to 2s; good clear garbled, 48s to 50s. _ _ _ COCOA.—The market has been very quiet. Trinidad has been taken in at 38s to 455, and Grenada at 30s to 38s. RICE.—The market has been dull, and prices have been barely maintained. Bengal mid broken white, 10s, and low 9s. Java has been taken in at 8s to 9s per cwt. Rum.—This article has been firm. Proof Lewards, Is 4d to is 4id, and East India is 3d to is 3id per gallon. SPlCES.—Straits Pepper has been sold at 2d to 2id per lb. White Pepper went rather cheaper; low dingy 3d to 30, mid 3jd to 4d, and good 4d per lb. Pimento has been *d to fel per lb lower; good, 4P, and ord 3id to 3id per lb. SALTPETRE.—BengaI has been sold at 26s for 51 and 61 lbs refraction. COCHINEAL.—There has been a good demand at an advance of id per lb. TEA.—At the public sales about half has found buyers. Assam sold at full prices. Good Imperial ld to 2d dearer, and Young Hyson and Gunpowder rather cheaper. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 44s 9d per cwt on the spot. COTTON.—The market is firm but quiet. FRUIT.—A good demand exists for all kinds, and which is likely to continue until Christmas. A cargo of oranges, ex Kingsbridge, from Terceira, and one ex Favourite, from Seville, and a cargo of lemons, ex Shamrock, from Messina, sold by Keeling and Hunt, realised full prices, the fruit being required. Further arrivals from the Azores are daily expected, al though the quarantine regulations may probably interfere with the loading of the vessels. Ches nuts continue to be pressed on the market and the price gives way. A further reduction of 3s. to 4s. per barrel may be quoted. Two cargoes of new Barcelona nuts are to hand, the opening price of which is 445, per bag. No price has been fixed for the large parcel of Brazil arrived, nor is there any disposi tion on the part of the trade to purchase at present. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Lunatic petitions of no interest whatever occupied the Lord Chancellor the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) HOOPER V. SALMON AND OTHERS. The fur; her arguments in this part-heard case were re sumed this morning, and occupied the Court the whole day. The arguments were begun on the 21st of July last, and occupied the Court up to th e 28 t h o f t h at mont h, when they were adjourned, and proceeded with on Wed nesday and yesterday, and resumed this morning. The bill was filed in March, 1843, by Peter Hooper, against William Wroughton Salmon, William Edmund Tugwell, and Alexander Meek. It prayed for a decree for the defendants to come to a full accou n t w i t h t h e plaintiff respecting all their receipts, payments, dealings, and transactions as his solicitors, agents, or in any ether capacity, for delivery of the bills of all such fees and dis bursements as were charged against him for a reference to the Taxing Master to tax the same; for payment to the plaintiff of what should appear due to him; for the deli very up to the plaintiff of all his documents; and for an injunction to restrain the defendants from bringing any action against the plaintiff touching the accounts. There was a cross bill filed by Mr. Tugwell, a defendant to the original snit. The question was, whether, under the circumstances, which were complicated, the plaintiff was entitled to have the accounts with the defendants opened, or whether he was precluded, by his own signature to the accounts, from having them further investigated. SITTINGS OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS IN THE JUI)I• CIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. The Master of the Rolls will sit in the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council on the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th, and 20th of the present month. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) Cause petitions and short causes, of no interest what ever except to the parties concerned, occupied his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of England the whole morning. Cause petitions and short causes were also heard to day by the Vice Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram, but no case calling for a special report came before them. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. SMITH. This case was resumed at the sitting of the Court, and evidence was adduced at great length in support of the case of the plaintiff. The point at issue is whether or not the reversion of a patent granted to the defendant for a machine for sawing wood shall or shall not take place. The case will extend most likely over to-morrow. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) WILLIAMS V. DEACON AND OTHERS.-LAW OF BANKING. This was an action of assumpsit brought by a gentle man of property residing at North Court, near Abing don, to recover from Messrs. Deacon and Co., bankers, the sum of 127/. ss. 9d., money had and received by them for his use, on the 14th of October, 1847; the money in question, being dividends on stock, was paid into the defendants' bank to the credit of the plaintiff, in account with Messrs. Knapp and Co., bankers, Abing don. On the 15th Messrs. Knapp and Co. stopped pay ment, and subsequently were declared bankrupts; but, as the stoppage occurred before the 127/. ss. 9d. had been transmitted to Messrs. Knapp and Co. by Messrs. Deacon, who were their London agents, the present action was brought to compel the London house to re fund the money. Mr. MARTIN, fur the defence, stated that on the morning of the 14th of October, 1847, Messrs. Knapp and Co. were indebted to the defendants in the suns of 6,1061. 14s. In the course of the day Deacons paid out on Knapp and Co.'s account 1,457/. I Is. Id., and received for their credit 1,2541. Gs. 9d., and it was quite clear from the nature of this transaction that the parties liable to the plaintiff was the Abingdon house, and not Dea con's. For the jury would see that the Abingdon house was deeply indebied to Deacons on the day the money was paid in, and, therefore, in the natural course of business, the money was not transmitted to Abing- Jon, but placed to the meta of Knapp and Co. THE VILLAGE OF HAN WELL. Pre extract the following interesting account of the village of Hanwell from a very useful publication, entitled the London and Provincial Weekly Almanac, published by Mr. Clayton, of the Strand. Many of our commercial readers are, of course, well acquainted with this broad-sheet memorandum, which is intended to remind people in business, of the daily events coming off during the current week, with other matters of ready reference on subjects of general concern. It also contains advertisements, and occa sionally touches on passing improvements in the arts, such as a beautiful specimen of Hanwell Church, on an illustrated wafer, invented by the very worthy and Reverend Dr. Emerton. This weekly broad sheet will, no doubt, find a place lin every counting house in town and country, being very c l ear i n i ts arrangement, an d w ithal very cheap —only a shilling per quarter.—En. Stpi.] About eight miles from the busy city of London, on the line of the Great Western Railway, stands the pic turesque village of Hanwell, one of the loveliest spots in the vicinity of the metropolis. Highly favoured by nature, as respects its situation, the houses gently rising from the banks of the murmuring Brent, com man di ng an extensive view over a rich valley, that stretches in one direction near to the foot of Harrow-ort-the-Hill, and only confined on the other side by the Earl of Jer sey's noble domain of Osterley, Hanwell shares also the favours of art and science in an extraordinary degree. It is at this spot that the Great Western Railway is ear ried over the winding Brent, and the neighbouring val ley, by one of Brunel's noblest works, the Wharncliffe Viaduct ; consisting of eight magnificent arches, some of them eighty feet from the bed of the river to the pa rapet, and the extreme length measuring 900 feet. Within a quarter of a mile on the left of the high road to Uxbridge, stands that immense pile of building " The Middlesex Lunatic Asylum." Within the walls of this building, including patients, keepers, servants, &c., are located 1,100 human beings. This is, perhaps, the finest, certainly the best conducted, establishment of the kind in the world. Everything appears to have been arranged for the physical and mental comforts of its un fortunate inmates, that human ingenuity could suggest. It embraces workshops of several kinds, in which those capable of following their trade are employed; includng a printing office, in which we saw two compositors were employed, the one setting up a time-bill of the Great Western Railway, the other making corrections in a card; the compositor we spoke to, expressed himself as clearly, and as much to the purpose respecting his busi ness, as it was possible to do. Besides numerous places for business we found store-rooms of g rea t ex t ent , bakery, and offices of every description. The internal arrangements of the house consist of numberless sleep ing-rooms, wards, cooking kitchens, dining-rooms, an infirmary, a chapel, &c. &c. In one ward we saw a patient playing a pianoforte, in a room adjoining we found a bagatelle-board, and in the tables were let in, or painted on, several draught- boards. The asylum is under the superintendence of the kind hearted and talented Dr. Conolly; who, without offence to any member of the medical profession, may be said to have more successfully pursued the kind and humane system laid down at Hanwell, than any other of his brethren. And bore wo cannot refrain mentioning, to the lasting honour of Mr. Waite, an independent gentle. man, that he devotes most of his time and abilities to teaching his less fortunate fellow-creatures: we speak from personal knowledge, having seen him busily en gaged in his labour of love. We mutt also bear our humble testimony to the kind treatment bestowed on the poor insane by Mrs. Mille, the intelligent and gifted matron of the asylum. The joy with which the poor heavily-affiicted creatures pressed forward, either to shake her hands, hear a kind word from her lips, or share in a smile from her countenance, beaming with benevolence, spoke volumes in her favour, and was one of the most heart-cheering sights we have long wit nessed. Such conduct is truly christianlike, and strongly calculated to lighten the sad malady of those entrusted to her care. From the high road which skirtsl i the'grounds of the asylum, looking through, or rather under the arches of the viaduct, is seen one of the sweetest views of one of the pretty village churches this highly famed country can produce. Ilanwell Church is well known to most travellers by the Great Western Railway. We recommend those persons who take the trouble to read these few lines, and to whom the church is unknown, if they feel any interest in church architecture, to stop at the Ilanwell Station, from whence the chu rc h i s reached i n fi ve or s i x minutes by a beautiful stroll th roug h the Par k . If t i me prevent their stopping at the stati on , a goo d v i ew i s ob tained on crossing the viaduct, by looking to the right of the line. ORNAMENTAL CHURCH WAFERS. But we have been strangely led away from our text by both the natural and artificial beauties of Hanwell and its vicinity. Our intention was simply to notice a very pretty wafer, illustrative of the parish church of Han well, in hopes of inducing residents in other localities to follow so good an example. It is another proof of the ready and easy mode of adapting the ornamental to the useful arts. The church, even on the small scale now before us, cannot but interest every one with any pre tension to taste in the arts. To such we say, go and see the original. On closely examining this emblematic wafer, we found in the shape of a motto, " Alius seminat, alius metit," a line which we translate, " One soweth, and another reapeth." On pursuing our inquiry as to the object in adopting this motto for an Ornamental Wafer, we were informed that many persons in the neighbourhood of Hanwell had issued wafers with the above motto, to commemorate some facts connected with the bestowal of Church Patronage at Hanwell, which, if true, are calculated to reflect discredit on a dignit ar y o f t h e Established Church. It appears that the Rev. Dr. Emerton, who was nninly instrumental in building the beautifully situated pile we have been speaking of ; who, for twelve years, pursued his calling of parish; priest, zealously and successfully ; who gave up one living of 3001. per year, rather than leave a congregation to whose spiritual wants he had been administering; who has in creased his flock fourfold; who received testimonials as to his zeal and efficiency in his good work from nearly every one in the parish, and who had every right to ex pect the living, has yet been most unfairly and unjustly deprived of it; and a stranger DOW occupies the place the Rev. Dr. Emerton so ably and usefully filled. Surely the Church, or rather those who have the patronage in their gift, should be compelled to pay some deference to the wishes of the people, and taught by public opinion the necessity of acting with justice. WEST RIDING ELECTION.—LEEDS, THURSDAY. Sir Culling Eardley was to have addressed the electors and non-electors of Dewsbury district at three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, but was prevented from illness and fatigue endured at the Bristol open-air meeting on Tuesday, from carrying out his intentions. Alderman Carbutt and Mr. Frederick Baines proceeded to Dews bury, and communicated the fact of Sir E ard l ey ' s severe illness to theelectors. Various questions were put to Mr. Carbutt as to Sir Eardley's opinions, and a show of hands being taken the meeting separated. Sir Culling Eardley still kept his bed. The three great families of Liverpool occupy re spectively as follows:—The Jones's 849 lines of the Di rectory; the Smith's 442 lines ditto; and the Hughes 326 lines ditto. Loss OF THE SECOND MATE OF THE CAMBRIA.— We regret to state that during the violent gale of last night, the second mate of the Chester and Holyhead Company's steamer, Cambria , w as washed overboard, the sea at the time sweeping right over the vessel from stem to stern. The second mate, Mr. Garrett, the nephew of Captain Webb, R.N., the commanding officer, was abaft the coxswain, watching the steering, and as the men at the wheel did not miss him for some time, there could be no exertion made to save him. The Cumbria, arrived about two o'clock this morning in liingstown harbour, and left again at halt-past eight for llolyhead.—Evening Packet of Wednesday. CHATHAM, DEC. 6.—Yesterday the sentence of two general court-martials holden at this garrison on the 18th and 20th of September last, on two privates of the 14th Regiment of Foot, John Cummins, No. 2,313, and John Mitchell, No. 1,605, were promulgated. They were found guilty of insubordination, violently assault ieg their superior officers, &e., and Ns ere each sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. WATERLOO BRIDGE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, yesterday -Mr. William Anderson in the chair. Mr. POWELL (the chief clerk) read the report, which stated that the tolls received for the half-year ending the 23d of August last amounted to 7,0671. 9s. 6d. At the last half-yearly meeting, a dividend of 3s. in the pound on the annuities was declared, leaving a balance in band of 5571. is. At the present meeting the direc tors propose to take the sum of 471/. 3s. from that ba lance, which, with the receipts of the half-year, would enable them to pay another dividend of 3s. in the pound on the annuities, and leave a balance in,hand of 861. ss. At the last assembly of the proprietors, the committee reported that they anticipated great advantages would arise to the company from the completion of the South- Western Railway extension to Waterloo-bridge. The committee had now great satisfaction in informing the proprietors that the Waterloo station was opened on the 11th of July, and that from that period to the pre sent, notwithstanding the unprecedentedly wet:season, there had been an increase in the tolls of 7071.35., as com pared with the corresponding period of last year, and the committee believed they might fairly anticipate, on the completion of the several extensions connected with the Waterloo station, a much larger traffic being brought upon the bridge. The report concluded by stating that the bridge, road, toll-houses, &c., were in a good and satisfactory state of repair. The report having been adopted, The accounts, of which the following is a brief abstract, were read :-Receipts from tolls, 7,067/. 9s. 6d.; rents of arched vaults, &c., 4961. 178. 6d.; interest on Exche quer-bills, 295/. 10s.; watering, per contributions, 10/. 2s. Bd.; interest on Reduced Three per Cents., 2,3881. Is. 2d. stock; the consideration for a lease of ten arched vaults, 35/. 16s. 5d.; making a total income of 7,878/. 16s. Id., which, with unappropriated stock from the last balance, to pay dividends on annuities of 4711. 35., gives a total of 8,349/. 19s. id., thus appropriated. Expenses of the company for the htlf-year, 1,2261. lls. 11d.; in come duty, 202/. I Is. 2d.; interest on bonds, at 5,4, and 3} per cent., 1,295/. 16?.; dividends of 3s. in the pound on 37,5001. annuities due this half-year, 5,6251. On the motion being put for the adoption of the ac counts, _ - Mr. COPE put a series of questions, from the answers to which it appeared that the annuitants have a claim on the receipts of the bridge prior to that of the share holders. Should the bridge ever return a surplus be yond the 75,0004 per annum annuities, it would not be available for division among the shareholders wadi the whole of the arrears of the annuities, which amounted to about 1,500,000/., - were paid. Mr. COPE said that, under these circumstances, he did not see any chance of the holders of the original shares ever receiving anything; a proposition in which the Chairman appeared silently to acquiesce. The accounts were then adopted, and the retiring directors (Sir John Rennie, the Rev. John Rush, and Messrs. Beadwell and Gordon) were re-elected. _ _ • A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the busi ness of the day. THE STANFIELD - HALL MURDERS. WYMONDHAM, THURSDAY EVENING.—The police have been engaged during the whole of to-day at the Potash Farm, the residence of Mr. Rush, in making a minute search for the pistols belonging to the prisoner. Portions of the flues and brickwork in the premises have been removed, and the ground has been turned up in all directions by the police, but no trace has been disco vered, so far as we can learn, calculated to throw any light on the tragical occurrence or its authors. The most absurd mystery on the subject is maintained by the police force under the command of Colonel Oakes, by direction of the magistrates who have assumed the con duct of the investigation, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cann. The adjourned examination of the prisoner, Rush, will take place to-morrow at Norwich Castle. We are happy to state that Mrs. Jenny is still pro gressing favourably towards recovery. Her lady's maid, who sustained a compound fracture of the thigh from the discharge of the slugs, and who has suffered great agony from the wound, still lies in a precarious state. The medical men succeeded in reducing the fracture this morning, and she is doing as well as can be expected after so critical an operation. THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Last night a fresh trial of this new mode of producing an intense light was made by the Chevalier Le Molk, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock. The appa ratus of the operator was placed on the top of the Duke of York's Column, and shortly after nine o'clock the commencement of the experiment was made known to the anxious crowd below, which had commenced to assemble as early as seven o'clock, by the sudden ap pearance of a brilliant stream of light directed from the top of the celumn against the opposite houses in Water loo-place. The effect produced was certainly most striking. Previously to the appearance of the electric light the surrounding neighbourhood, to a spectator stationed at the base of the York Column, was enve loped in obscurity, for the moon was hid by clouds, and the ordinary gaslights, though burning brightly, had not power enough to exhibit the shape and character of the adjacent houses, but marked merely the length and direction of the streets along which they were placed. But the electric light, wherever it chanced to fall, made every part of the buildings in Waterloo-place perfectly visible, and its effect might, perhaps, without exaggeration, be sail to be more powerful in that limited `space than the brightest sun, for it not only displayed a number of persons previously invi sible, who were grouped in balconies and on the roofs of houses, but even enabled one to judge of their different styles of dress. The potency and purity of the electric light may be inferred from the circumstance that when cast upon one of the neighbouring club-houses it distinctly showed to spectators at some considerable dis tance the red colour of a shawl worn by a lady in the balcony. The most distant object on which the electric light was thrown last night was the County Fre- office, and the luminous stream as it passed along the street towards that building manifestly dimmed the numerous gas lights which glitter in the neighbourhood, giving to them all a yellowish tinge, and making the windows of the County Fire-office itself appear, by the reflected light they sent back, as if illuminated, although the ar chitecture of the building was not recognizable, or but very indistinctly, by persons so far removed from it as those who happened to be stationed near the York Column, and whose sight of the object, it must in fair ness be observed, was intercepted by a vast number of intervening gaslights. Upon the whole, the experiment of last night was perfectly successful as exhibiting the powerful brilliancy and purity of the electric light within the circumscribed space to which the experiment was limited, although it must be added, that occasionally a alight unsteadiness in its force was perceptible. Not withstanding the dampness of the night a large con course of people assembled in Waterloo-place and the vicinity to witness the experiment. --- - EXTENSIVE FIRE IN SPITALrIELbs.--Last evening, about six o'clock, a fearful fire broke out in the cane and walking-stick manufactory belonging to Mr. Thos. Sowerbutts, in Duke street, Union -street, Spitalfields. The premises, which were three floors high, were of considerable length and breadth, and at the time of the outbreak contained some hundred pounds worth of stock, independent of the lathes and working tools. Fortunately, there was a good supply of water from the mains of the E ast L ondon works, fr om which the various engines were set to work, under the direction of Messrs. Braidwood, Pogo, Connorton, and Garwood. They were unable to get the fire extinguished until Mr. Sowerbutt's flor factory was completely destroyed, and the upper premises, No. the private dwelling -house burned . out. The l No. 11 in the same strtet, beloiging the 11 r p . re lVrine; ' furrier, are also extensively burnt at 3 upp er Ict out part ,in and the roof partially destr9y . ecl. No iir 13, let tenements, is also materially injured. hishe wlausssi.nsuirledo loss is very serious, and unfortunat ely ha tor only 3001., not more than out, If other sufferers were uninsured. _ - - TROOPS FOR NEW ZEALAND.—CHATHAM, DE C , 6. --The following detachments of regiments, s erv i ng i n New Zealand arrived at the Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt:— Two sergeants, ono corporal, and 19 privates, with five women and eight children of the 58th R eg i ment, an d three privates of the 65th. The whole of the men have seen upwards of 21 . years' service. Six men, wh o are wounded, are taken into hospital. The detachments are in charge of First Lieutenant J. Jermyn Symonds', of the Ceylon Rifles; they embarked from New Zealand on board her Majesty's frigate Calliope, 26 guns, Captain E. Stanley, and on their arrival at Rio de Janeiro, on the 27th of October, they were re-shipped on board her Majesty's steam-frigate Sampson, Captain Thomas Hen , derson, in which ship they came to England. MURDER OF AN IRISHMAN BY A WELSHMAN. On Tuesday evening last, a party of men were drink ing at a beer-house, near Risca, which lies about six miles from Newport, in Monmouthshire, and is in the colliery district. Among them were two Iri , th pedlars, who were well known in that neighbourhood. 'While sitting there in quiet, a Welshman named Collings, left his team of trams at the door, and entered the house , . Without any quarrel, he selected one of the Irishmen, named James Richardson, and cried out to him, " Arn't you one of those h-y Irishmen?'! and thereupon struck him with great violerce, and knocked him down. He then turned to the other Irishman, and said, " Re had sent one Irishman to sleep," pointing to the man on the ground, "and how he would send another," and thereupon attacked him also; but he contrived to escape. Richardson was able to get up in a short time, but complained very much. He proceeded to Newport, whither Collings had gone, and came up with him at the tram-road terminus. Richardson there asked him his name, and complai ne d of his conduct, when Collings jumped out df the tram, and with a Welsh oath vowed he'd let him know no w a ll about it, whereupon he struck the Irishman several violent blows in the face, about the head, and knocked him down, and while lying on the ground, in a state of in sensibility, kicked him violently about the head and body. The poor fellow was taken home, and lingered until Thursday forenoon, when be exp'red; Mr. Wool lett, the medical gentleman, pronouncing his death to have resulted from the injuries he had received about the head, which presented a frightful appearance. The Welshman was captured soon after, and charged with the wilful murder of Richardson, before the magistrates, who, after hearing evidence, remanded the case until thiP coroner's jury had held an inquest, which was to take place immediately. The event has caused much new sensation between the two classes of Irish and Welsh in Newport and the district. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Assistant-Surgeons—George Gordon, of the Sampson steam-frigate, to the Asia, 84, flag-ship, on the Pacific station. S. Bowden, from the Nereus store depot at. Valparaiso, to the Sampson. J. B. Forster, from the Asia to the Nereus. Midshipman—Thomas Smithets, from the Champion corvette in the Pacific, to the Sampson. Dockyard Appointments—Mr. Chace, inspector of Chatham, to be superannuated. Mr. Carter, measurer at Sheerness, to be transferred to Chatham. Mr. E, Allen, inspector at Portsmouth, to be superannuated. COMMODORE'S SHIP FOR THE COAST OF AFRICA.-- The Centaur steam-frigate at Portsmouth will be fitted out for the new command on the coast of Africa, but it is not expected she will be ready to hoist the pendant of the commodore for a couple of months. THE SQUADRON OF EXEECISE.—The St. Vincent, 120 guns, Sir Charles Napier's flag ship, the Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. F. Martin, the Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. Robert Dundas, C. 8., the Orestes, 14, Com. Hawker, the Plumper, 12 (screw), Com. Nolloth, the Reynard, 12 (screw), Corn. Craycroft, and the Strom boli, 6 (paddle), Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, remained anchored at Spithead, and weather bound yesterday. The Prince Regent embarked supernume rary seamen, boys, &c., on Wednesday, for conveyance to Sir William Parker, G .C. 8., for distribution amongst the ships of his fleet. Sho is intended to relieve the Rodney, 90 guns, and will most probably be detached from Sir Charles Napier's command at Lisbon. Captain Dacres, of the St. Vincent, is sufficiently recovered from his late illness to be enabled to return to duty in a day or two; and as the Admiral is most unwilling to sail without him, the fleet will, most probably, not weigh anchor until he has rejoined. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 6.—The Rosamond steamer, Com.. wander John Foote, arrived on Thursday. She wa laden with coals, and took the mail on board. She was paid wages yesterday, and will sail as soon as the weather moderates. The Amazon, 26, Captain Troubridge, went out of harbour on Thursday last. She was mustered, inspected, and paid advance on Saturday. She has embarked her mail, and will sail as soon as the weather permits. The Express packet, Lieutenant Long, arrived on Saturday from Falmouth, and came into harbour yester day, to have her defects made good. The Confianco st.iam-tug, Martin, having undergone repairs, and shipped new boilers at Woolwich, returned to this port on Monday. The Cadet, female convict-ship, having been detained in consequence of sickness on board, that sickness, which was of an ordinary character, is now abated, and she will sail as soon as the weather permits. Woormicn, DEC. 7.—The William and Mary yacht, formerly the flag-ship of the Commodores and Captains• Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, was towed front Woolwich to Deptford yesterday, and will be taken into dock at the latter dockyard, to be broken up, having been found unfit for further service. The Hashemy, hired convict-ship, Dr. Brownie& surgeon-superintendent, left her moorings, opposite Woolwich Dockyard, this forenoon, with about 300 male convicts on board, for Van Diemen's Land. Dr. Dabbs, surgeon ion board the Unite hospital-ship, re ported on Monday last a fatal case of cholera of one of the convicts belonging to the classes on board the Hashemy. The Llewellyn, Holyhead mail-packet, left Woolwich on Monday, and after having her compasses adjusted at Greenhithe, will proceed for service on the Holyhead station. Mr. Alderman Musgrove, we understand, was on Tuesday last unanimonsly dieted chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' and General Fire and Lifo Assu rance Company, in the room of Charles Bleaden, Esq., who has resigned. FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. William Andrews, accompanied by his wife and child, were pro ceeding in a light chaise along the Kennington-road, when the horse, having taken fright, darted off at a fearful pace, Mr. Andrews losing all control over him. The screams of the female were truly frightful, as she held her baby forward, imploring that it might be saved. Several men who attempted to stop the affrighted animal were knocked down. On arriving opposite Newington church, where there is a well-known sharp and dan gerous curve in the road, the animal fell. The un happy woman was found under the horse, quite insen sible, and was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where she lies dangerously ill, having sustained serious internal injuries. Mr. Andrews and the child were much in jured, but not dangerously, the latter having escaped being crushed to death by the presence of mind of the mother, who threw the baby forward from her arms. REDUCTION OF WAGES.—The workmen employed at the Plymouth Iron Works, Merthyr, received a month's notice on Saturday that a reduction of ten per cent. would take place a month hence. Reductions are about to be made in other places. SUNDAY SHAVING.—The curate of Upton-on- Severn has laid information against the local barbers for following their calling after the hour of half-past ten o'clock on Sunday morning. The informations are laid under the 29th Charles 1., and the case came on for hearing a few days ago. Mr. Holland, solicitor for defendants, in addressing the bench, stated that he re gretted that in the 19th century, an act of such a nature, passed 200 years ago, should be attempted to be enforced. Were the magistrates aware that men for wearing brass buttons in place of cloth ones on their coats were liable to a fine of 501.? or that under that very Act of Charles no butcher was allowed to go into bis own house on the Lord's day, under a penalty of 20s.Y—or that no baker could bake a joint of meat without being subject to a penalty ? The defendants were discharged with a cau tion.—Cheltenham Examiner. THE ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLlEL—Yesterday, a quarterly court of the governors of the above asylum was held at the Scottish Hospital, Crane-court, Fleet street, to receive the report and to elect six additional boys on the foundation from a list of twenty-four can didates, the children of soldiers, sailors, and marines, natives of Scotland, who have died or been disabled in the service of their country, and of indigent Scotch parents, resident in London, not entitled to ptsrechial relief. George Lindsay, Esq., in the chair. There are at present (including yesterday's election) 79 boys and 49 girls. The report stated that, with a view to accom modate and maintain toward d Matheson, thist h e s females,pEecsliuio object e o cc O ht / a . ut h h ney a t , l been ex - munificent M.P.'ha James During the past year the directors d c p o c o n n n t d a r e t i i d b o . u n te j o d f am t l o , have had to encroach upon the vested ca . pital of the cor poration to the amount of 2, 9 50/ , leaving, with former encroachments and the current- expenses, a funded pro- - perty of 16,777/. 12s. 11d. The institution is under the especial patronage of her Majesty. SEIZURE FOR CIIVRcu-RATES. —yesterday morning Mr. Thomas Pi erce, one o f the churchwardens of St. Martin's, Ludgate, attended by the agents of the law, entered the p rem i ses of Messrs. Miall and Cockshaw , printers, Ilorse-shoe-court, Ludgate-hill, and carried off two tables, three chairs, a piece of drugget, a box of type, fo ur reams of paper, a portrait of Mr. Edward Miall, and several small articles, to bo sold for the benefit Of the vicar and churchwardens of the parish, for church rates, amounting to 3/. 135.10 d., which the above gentle men had refused to pay. The goods are to be sold by auction in the course of a few days. This is the second distraint which has been made upon the goods of Messrs. Miall and Cockshaw within the last eighteen months to meet the demands of the church. THE CONDUIT IN CORNHILL.—On Wednesday, a pump, bearing the following inscription, was placed at the south-east angle of the Royal Exchange, on Corn. bill:—" On this spot a well was first made and a house of correction built by Henry Wallace, Mayor of London, in 1282. The well was discovered, much enlarged, and this pump erected in 1789, by the contributions of the Bank of England, East India Company, and the neigh• bouring fire-offices, together with the bankers and trade's of the ward of Cornhill." Round the head of the pump are the emblematic devices of the fire-offices. The well, which is of considerable depth, is situate in the centre of Cornhill, fronting the south entrance to the Royal Ex change. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT CARDIFF.--• On Tuesday the town of Cardiff was again the scene of another diabolical attempt at murder. The victim, on this occasion, was an Irish woman. It appears that she had been fetching sand down by the wharfs, and whilst returning with it about three o'clock P.M. some one sud denly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed her under the right arm with some sharp instruthent —pro- '. bably a knit,. It entered about two inches and a half deep, hut, fortunately, by coming in contact with one ef... tier ribs, it was prevented penetrating any further. The poor thing was immediately taken to the infirmary, where her wound was dressed, and we are happy to find that she is considered out of danger. No clue can be had of the villain who inflicted the wound, although se veral parties have been taken up on suspicion. • The last report from the lluvre cotton- market istates, that bin,lnet.s was more animated, although no essential change has occurred in quotations, min i , 7 1 / 4 $34, 22 1 / 4 r ~ - I-A 41 , 54 •••• -- 444 ''.; 28% 4-5.% 5% 19Y, 1171/4 ;r) SS 26 R