The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

Vt WI VAtion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COUR7'. (The trial of William Willis, continued from our After, noon The Learned. Counsel then called several witnesses, 'whose evidence went to prove that the statements of the prosecutrix, in many particulars, were wholly without :foundation. The son of the prisoner also proved that he was sup :ping with his father on the evening and at the time the .offence was alleged to have been committed. Several witnesses also stated that the prosecutrix was In the habit of telling falsehoods; and a lady of the name of Whitmore, in whose service the prosecutrix bad been for two years, said that she would not believe her on her oath. Several witnesses, who had known the prisoner for a great number of years, gave him a most excellent cha racter for morality and propriety of conduct. Mr. PARRY replied upon the evidence that had been adduced on behalf of the prisoner at some length. The RECORDER summed up, and The jury, after a short consultation,: Acquitted the prisoner. The trial occupied from ten to half past three. During the morning several of the French National Guard came into the court, and appeared to watch the proceedings with much interest. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. XUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*393 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 47 Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 147 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 87 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 29 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... 102 liseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... .•• ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• •• Malformations... ••• ••• Premature Birth ... .•• •• •• Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• •• Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• .• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... ... 52 ... 10 ... 26 ... 32 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... Population Enumerated, 1341- West Districts... 300,711 North D—tricts.. 375,971 ,Central Districts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 south Districts.. 501,190 Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1843-7. in the Five Summers. Week. 142 ... 133 182 ... 161 178 ... 166 219 ... 214 251 ... 307 T0ta15........ 1,948,369 I , lllles ~. ~. Females 983 503 480 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. A Bordeaux journal says :—" A letter from M. de Lamartine to one of his friends here is the subject of general conversation. Having been invited to pass at Bordeaux a part of his conge, M. de Lamartine re. plied that he would have had great pleasure in visiting the Gironde, but that he could not do so under present circumstances, fearing that it might be regarded as a step towards a candidateship for the Presidency of the Republic, an honour which he is absolutely resolved to decline." ... 592 ... 574 Males Females ... ... 1,166 • There etre 45 cases of death by Cholera included in ibis number. Total FRAN CE. The Democratic:and Socialist Banquet, called the Banquet of Passy,"at 2f. a head, was held on Sunday, in the ball-room of M. Dourlans, the, restaurateur, between the Barrieres de l'Etoile and du Route ; M. d'Alton Shee took the chair. As it was reported that more than six thousand guests would as semble, some fears were entertained that it might produce some disorders. Those fears, however, were dissipated, when it was found that not more than 12,000 attended. Each guest on entering was pre sented with a lithographed paper to the following effect :—" In all numerous assemblages there are to be found men interested in promoting disorder. Let the patriots be upon their guard, and let such dis turbers as may be found to have got in amongst us be expelled. Citizens, be calm and united ; union is our strength. Truth is on our side, and the future is our own." Invitations were sent to all the representatives of the party of the Montagne, but eight only came—viz., MM. T. Bac, Buvignier, Greppo, Martin Bernard, Laurent (de l'Ardeche), Proudhon, Pierre Leroux, and Fargin-Fayolle. M. James de Montry wrote that he was ill, but that his heart would be with the banquet. The chair and desk of the President and the tribune for the speakers were between four columns, on which were inscribed the names of Barges, Respell, Louis Blanc, Courtais, Caussidiere, and Albert. At eleven o'clock the party sat down, and at a little before twelve M. d'Alton Shee in troduced the toasts with a speech, in which he made an allusion to the letter of M. Corbon, in which he rectiti.s the toast given by him at the banquet of the printers. The first toast was "A l'union democratique et sociale." This was followed by "Au retour des exiles," "A la fusion des nocratcs," "Aux doloccrates etrangers," "A nos freres des campsgnes,' "Aux ouvriers de Lyon et a leurs Representans," " A la Republique difinocra tique et sociale," " A l'ernancipation du peuple par l'instruction," "A raven, ment prochain du Social isme," by M. Proudhon, "A l'organisation," by MM. Cabet and Pierre Leroux. M. T. Bac was urged to make a speech by several of his fellow guests, but declined. Thereupon there was a conference in the garden between M. Bac and his colleagues, in which it was represented that their silence would only confirm the reports which had gone abroad, that there was a schism between the Mon tagne and the, Socialists. The answer to this was, that it could not be supposed that those who were Socialists before February 24 were no longer so after that day, alsti that, if they now abstained, it was because they could not consult their absent col leagues ; but that they would seize the first opportunity of avowing their accordance with the Socialists. In the meantime some one un authorisedly put down M. liac's name on the presi dent's list. Being consequently called upon, M. _Bac resolved to speak. He declared that he had wished to come forward in the name of the repre sentatives of the Montagne, and express their full sympathy with the democratic and social Re public ; but that circumstances had prevented his coming to an understanding with them, and he therefore confined himself to propose the following toast :—" To our brothers, the workmen of Rouen, Elbeuf, and Limoges; particularly to those who, from the depths of their prisons, are united with us in heart." This toast was received with loud cheers and repeated cries of "Vive la Montagne." At four o'clock the banquet broke up, the guests departed, and the crowd assembled round the door dispersed. Not the slightest symptoms of disorder were ap parent, either inside or outside the house. A Al Aeon journal gives the following account of the arrival there of M. de Lamartine :—M. de Lamar tine was not expected to reach !icon until Wednes day ; but the illustrious orator being informed that an ovation was prepared for him, hastened his arrival by twenty•four hours, and then only passed through the town to his seat at Montceau. As soon as the news was known, the rappel was beaten in all the streets, and, by three o'clock, the National Guard in uniform, headed by their colonel and lieutenant-colonel, went to Montceau, which is about two leagues from Micon. On their arrival they were joined by great numbers of the citizens and persons of the neighbourhood that drew up in order in front of the house. M. de Lamartine came out to receive them, and M. Charteron, the Mayor of Macon, d e li vere d an address express ing the admiration and gratitude of his fellow-coan trymen. M. de Lamartine, placing himself at the top of the steps leading up to the door, delivered one of those eloquent speeches which are always dictated by his heart when warmly excited. Cries of " Vive Lamartine I Vive la Republique 1" followed this ad dress, showing the participation of all present in the sentiments of the statesman, and an equal devoted ness to democracy. In the course of his speech M. de Lamartine, alluding to the approaching election of the President of the Republic, said—" The election of a President by the people is necessary in order that everything may be strong, popular, and true in government, and that the Executive Power, to be the better obeyed by you, should be yourselves represented in your supreme magistrate. Tour fate is henceforward in your own hands. It . will endure, it will b ecome r e gular, it will consolidate itself, if you constantly mantain the generous ideas which led you to proclaim the Republic. There are without doubt painful difficulties to overcome. Such tempests as revo lutions are not to be calmed down completely in a few days. There are waves to lash the banks after the storm has ceased to blow. Ab ove a ll , th ere i s t h e ev il of anxiety which can only be removed by time. This anxiety, this absence of confidence, bear hard upon labour, upon wages, upon p reperty, an d upon all the transactions of trade and commerce, and cause suffer ing to all by creating alarm to property. It is for you to restore confidence by your cal m , b y reason, b y the suppression of all dangerous agitation in affairs, by the security which you will inspire in all parties, all opinions, all classes of the citizens of the Republic. If the Republic be not unanimous, it will even have to incur danger, for it will always have enemies. You can only render it unanimous by rendering it acceptable, honourable, and safe to all opinions, all national parties, all classes of citizens. Such is the true republic of the people. Those who divide the Republic ruin it by desiring the monopoly for one party. Our Republic is France in a state of freedom. It must not be for office and power for ourselves and our friends." On his way through Micon to bis country seat, M. de Lama shine gave 3,000 f. to the Mayor for the use of the pot. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1848. HUNGARY. The Breslau Zeitung of the 12th announces, on the authority of letters of the 12th from Pesth, that M. Berger, commandant of the fortress of Arad, and one of the black and yellow party, had caused Arad to be bombarded on the 7th, after having failed in his word. The national guards of Arad sustained the bombardment for an hour, when it ceased. At the time of the bombardment, Colonel Blomberg attacked the town with his regiment of houlans, but was so completely beaten, that his soldiers became furious, and turning against him, killed him. Com mandant Berger subsequently fled in a national guard uniform from the fortress. AUSTRIA. The Emperor, since his arrival at Ol mu t z , h as , it is said, n om i na t e d a new Cabinet, to be composed as follows :—Count Stadion Minister of th e I n t er i or or President o f th e C ounc il without portfolio; Count Colloredo, or Baron Wessenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Prince Windischgratz, or Lieutenant,Field- Marshal Welden, Minister of War ; M. Helfert, Jus tice ; M. Brauner, Public Works; M. Bruk, Com merce." ITALY. The Sardinian Chamber of Deputies met on the 18th inst., to examine the election of the Minister of the Interior, Pinelli, which was confirmed, after some explanations given by that Minister. The Assembly afterwards elected for its President the Abbe Gioberti, who obtained 91 suffrages out of 116. Accounts from Milan of the 16th state that Marshal Radetzky was to remove his head quarters to Lodi. The Marshal having imposed a war contribution on the Milanese, the Podesta, find ing it impossible to execute the order, had resigned his office. The recent events in Vienna appear to have produced a lively sensation among the popula tion of northern Italy, and to have again raised their hope of recovering their independence. ROYAL MARINES. GOOD CONDUCT WARRANT, &c.—The pension and good cond uc t warrant , b ase d upon t h e one issued to the army in the year 1845, has at length been con sidered by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty, with a view to its adoption in the navy and marine corps. The following is a brief outline of the general principles of the warrant : ANNUITIES.—A proportionate grant to the sum al lowed to the army will be extended in annuities to first class petty officers and to sergeants who are now in or who may hereafter enter the service. Such grants may be made either while the men are serving or after their discharge, and with or without pension, in sums not exceeding 201, which may be held dur ing service and together with pension. Those selected are to receive and wear a silver me dal, having on one side the "royal effigy," and on the other the words " for meritorious service." The recommendations to be made by commanding officers, but the selection shall rest with the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Gratuities with pensions may be granted upon discharge to certain petty officers and men, who are deserving reward for meritorious conduct and who have completed twenty-one years' service The gratuity to the Ist class petty officer £l5 The 2d class ditto Seaman and Private Commanding officers of Royal Marines may an nually recommend such individuals, but the amount from each division must n o t excee d in any one year, if upwards of 700 rank and file on shore, 301.; if under ditto, 201. The men recommended must have completed twenty-one years' service, and must have borne an irreproachable character, and they will be entitled to wear a silver medal. Officers commanding ships paid off are to recom mend those deserving this especial mark of favour in the proportion of one for every hundred of the crew. Able seamen and private marines, who shall have completed five years' service, will be entitled to Id. per day as additional pay, and to wear a badge, pro. vided their names shall not have been entered for at least two years in the defaulters' book. At the completion of ten years 2d. per day, pro vided they shall have been in the uninterrupted receipt of the ld. a day for two years immediately preceding such further claims. Those wbo shall have completed fifteen years ser vice shall be entitled to 3d. a day, provided they shall have been in the uninterrupted receipt of 21. a day for two years immediately preceding their claim to the third penny. Th ose who shall have completed twenty years shall he entitled to 4d. a day, provided they have received the 31. uninterruptedly for, two years preceding, and so on for every additional five years up to thirty years. Seamen and marines who, by their good conduct, shall have obtained one or more distinguishing marks, shall be entitled to the full rate of the good conduct pay on discharge, but the maximum for an A.B. and private R.M. shall not exceed Is. 2d. per day. The rates of pensions for the petty officers and sergeants are to be computed at the same rate as able seamen, and with the following addition : Total pension not to exceed, per diem. Sergeant-Major, 2id. per day ... 2 6 Quarter-Master Sergeant, 2d. ... 2 3 Petty Officers (Ist class) and Sergeants, ld. ... ... ... 2 0 Corporals, id. Provided they have served twenty-one years, and have served without interruption within several ratings three years immediately preceding their dis charge. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, OCT. 18, 1848. The Lord Chancel;or has appointed William James Holt, of Gloucester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chaneery. BANKRUPTS. William Matthews Hill, builder, Is!ington, to sur render, Nov. 3, and Dec. 5, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy Pennell, official assignee; Parker, Taylor, Rooke, and Parker, Raymond•buildings, Gray's Inn. George Westbury Hall, East India merchant, Lime street, London, Nuv. 1, at twelve, and Dec. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Colccaan-street-buildings ; Burrel, White Hart -court, Lombard-street. Richard Castle Laurence, licensed victualler, Broad stairs, Kent, Nov. 1 and 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman•street buildings; Buchanan, Basinghall street. John Jackson, farraer, Upper Court, Hereford, Nov. 11, and Dec. 2, at half -past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ) Pugh, Hay, near Brecon, South Wales; Chaplin, Bir mingham. _ John Cope, fishmonger, Derby, Nov. 3, and Dec. 1, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Smith, Derby. Christopher Greaves Middleton, soap-manufacturer, Manchester, Nov. 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple ; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidswell, Manchester. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Oct. 24.) Suc&L—To-day the demand increased fcr all sorts of raw Sugar, both for h ome tra d e purposes and shipping, still no general decline in the value took place, and there was not a l arge quantity on offer. West India was offered at the rates of Friday, still on the part of grocers or refiners little desire was evinced to do business. The purchases amounted to only 250 hhds and trcs, including a public sale of 156 hhda 9 trcs Barbadoes, which went off flatly at about the former value ; fine yellow at 40s 6d, good 39t to 39s 6d, middling 36s 6d to 37s 6d, low 36s per cwt. The market closes with a quiet aspect for all sorts of Sugar, which is a matter of surprise. REFINED.—Today Refined goods were purchased with caution for home-trade purposes, and a desire was shown to sell—brown grocery Lumps at 47s to 47s 6d, and Standard at 48s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is much wanted at 26s to 26s 6d, but not much is to be bad. MAXRITICTS.—This afternoon little desire was shown to do business in Mauritius Sugar, and 1,090 bags at auction were nearly all taken in at barely former rates; low greyish syrupy yellow at 33s 6d to 34: 6d, good and fine brown ditto 32s to 335, and washed 31s to 345; 90 bags, however, sold, fine yellow at 38s Gd, good 37s 6d, middling 36s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon three parcels of Bengal Sugar, amounting to 7,850 bags, were offered at public sal.: there was little desire shown to operate, and prices declined 6d per cwt, but the chief part sold; Benare4 good white, 42s 6d, middling 40s to 41s, damp 40s to 42i, middling to fine yellow 378 6d to 40s, damp 36s to 395, low 3 1 s to 33s 6d, low to middling yel low, like Mauritius, 35s to 373 6d, good and fine 38s to 40s 6d, fine and very fine strong yel low 42s to 445, good 38s 6d to 41s, low and middling 36* to 38s, damp 35s to 435. Penang met with a dull demand, and two parcels at auction, amounting to 1131 bags 318 baskets and 2 boxes, sold at barely former rates; low to fine brown 28s to 31s, low to good yellow 31s to 335. Of Madras 3350 bags 178 boxes were taken in at about the former value, middling damp brown 28s, fine 295, low yellow 30s to 36s 6d, middling 31s to 32. per cwt. • FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and the small parcels sold privately were at rather lower rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon the public sales of Planta tion Ceylon Coffee, consisting of 550 bags and 50 casks, went off quietly, and nearly the %hole were taken in upon full terms—fine at 73s to 755, good mid 52s to to 535, mid 47s to 50s. Native is wanted, and 800 bags sold at stiffer rates—good ordinary 27s 6d to 28s, fine ordinary 28s 6d, very ordinary 26s 6d to 275, and da maged 22s 6d to 278; 29 bags of Batavia went at 25s 6d for good ordinary mixed, and damaged at 23s 6d per cwt. By private treaty, little inquiry existed for Mocha or West India, but in prices no variation took place. TEA..—The inactivity in the market for black has further increased, and on the part of the holders more desire is shown to sell. Although the rates accepted are rather under those previously current for all sorts ; still on the part of the trade little disposition is manifested to do business. 7d to 8d is the value of ord and good ditto Congou. Green has been dealt in with caution, whilst quotations are receding, and there is a large quantity on offer ; the better sorts are the most difficult of disposal. Scented and Pekoe Teas are offered upon very low terms, yht buyers make pur chases with caution. The quantity put up to public sale last week amounted to 16,400 pkgs, of which 4,200 found buyers. RICE.—To-dsy there was no public sale of East India, but privately several parcels are on offer. Althoagh there are sellers upon low terms, still exporters and home buyers on a rate with extreeme caution, and speculators refrain from doing business. There is els no increase in deliveries, whilst arrivals are near at hand, and the stock is unusually extensive, The value of low to middling white Bengal is 9. to 108 6d, good to fine 11 s to 13s, cargo 7s to 8s; Madras. pinkey white as 6d to 9s, pearl barley 8s to 8s 6d, and cargo 7s to 7s 6d per cwt. Cleaned Rice is dull of sale, town dressed Carolina is freely offered at 25s to 28s, American cleaned 21s to 235, and Patna 12s to 19s per cwt. For public sale on Thursday 1,364 bags Ceylon, 800 bags Penang, and 200 bags of Bengal Rice are de clared. SPIOES.—To-day there was more demand for Black Pepper privately, and 200 bags at auction sold at Zed to 2id for clean black Sumatra and damaged lid to 2 i f which is tne full ♦alue ; 28 bags of White, middling sound 4d to 4 . 0, and damaged aad to 4d ; 16 boxes of shelled wild Nutmegs, bold is lld to 2s, small 9id ; 63 bags unshelled, ordinary lid to 3d ; 1 case Mace, wild is 6d per lb. FRIIIT.—This afternoon at auction 421 pkgs new Patras Currants only part sold at low rates—butts 395, crtls 40s, brls 40s to 41s; 103 pkgs old Zante went at 32a to 355; 25 brls Caps Raisins 325; 107 drums Turkey Figs 54s per cwt. MOLASSES.—For West India lower rates having been accepted, induced buyers to operate with more readiness, and the sales reach 700 puns; Demerara, Trinidad, Do minica, and St Kitts at 16s; Porto Rico 16s, and old Berbice at 14s per cwt. Ot East India Treacle some parcels have been disposed of at 153 to 15s 6d per cwt. West India Honey is worth from 40s to 60s per cwt, and Foreign 30s to 40s, with only a small supply. SALTPETRE.—A brisk demand has been experienced for rough during the last few days and higher rates are paid; low to mid quality at 25s tc 25s 6d, and good to fine 26s to 27s per cwt. There is only a limited supply. British refined has been dealt in with greater freedom at 29s to 29s 6d. per cwt. SPlRlTS.—Although Leeward Island Rum can be obtained at a further reduction still only small parcels have been taken at Is 5d to is 6d proof, and at which a desire is 'shown to sell. East India is held for Is s€l, and there are few orders in the marker. Fin, Jamaica is wanted at former rates; there is much dulness in the market for all other sorts, and prices tend down wards, whilst a large quantity is on offer. The valor of common, 28 to 3° per cent over proof, is 3s to 3s 3d, 30 to 34 over, mid and good mid 3s 4d to 3s. 7d, good and fine, 34 to 36 over, 3s 8d to 4a, and c h o i ce 4 s 2d to 4s 6d. Demerara has falleff in value, some parcels having been disposed of at 2s 3d for 33 per cent over proof For Brandy the market remains in a firm position, and and deliveries have been again upon a large scale, whilst arrivals are small. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1846 is held for 4s 10d to ss, 1847 at 3s 10d to 4s, inferior brands 3s to 3s 6d, and Bordeaux 2s 2d to 2s 4d. For Geneva the market is dull at 2s to 2s ld for ordinary export sort, and at 2s 6d to 3s 6d for fine, fit for duty. A large purchase of British Gin has been made for our colonies at 3s per gallon proof, unsweetened, casks included, but the first-ran rectifiers obtain 3s 3d to 3s 6d. INDIGO.—This afternoon at auction 3 chests of Java Indigo were taken in at 3s 6d to 3s 10d, whilst 11 sarons of Caracca sold at 2s 5d to 2s Ild per lb. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon there was not more de• mand, and at auction 40 bags of Mexican were only in part sold at 4s to 4s 3d for black, and at 3s 8d for silvers. TALLOW.—For Russian on the spot the demand ha improved, and holders are more firm in their demands: the rates paid are 45s to 45s 3d per cwt for fine nee Y Candle. Home made sells with more readiness at 45s to 45s 6d net cash; the supply is pletiful. At auction 130 casks of New South Wales found buyers at 42s to 45s 6d for mid to fine; 3 casks of Gibraltar 48s, and 42 boxes of Composition Candles 55s to 60s. 011.8. Sperm met with greater attention, and realized further advanced rates, the supply also is on the de crease ; good and fine quality realized 721 to 761 per tun, and at which the merket is firm. Headmaiter worth 731 to 754 Of Cod only small parcels have been taken at 231 10s to 231 15a, at which holders are inclined to realise. Prices are on the de - cline for Southern, and buyers operate with caution ; good and fine sort can be obtained at 251 lOs to 271, low to mid 231 103 to 251 ; the stock is a:so on the in crease. Seal is not cheaper, but only a limited &man° exists ; pale at 261 105 to 27/, tinged and straw 251 5s to 261, yellow and bro h n 241 to 251, whilst some parcels hare come to hand. Of Cocoa Nut large parcels have :come to hand, and the trade still operate with caution. A t auction 122 hhdB of fine Co chin were taken in at 41s 9d to 425. The valoe of Syd ney is 34s to 38s per cwt. Palm has been in excellent demand, and on the part of holders there is much firm ness; the value of fair and fine quality is 31s 6d to 345. Foreign is worth 36s 6d for fine quality. - There has been more activity in the market for Linseed Oil, and a slight advance in the value is visible, sales having been made at 22s 3d to 22s 6d. Olive met little at tention, and prices aro looking down, notwithstanding the small supply. Gallipoli can be purchased at 461 to 471, Spanish and Sicily 441 lOs to 45/, other sorts 431 to 441. On Friday 20 tuns Sperm, 70 ditto ,Seal, and 15 tuna Cocoa Nut will be put to sale. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. TRAIVIE S. Robert John Gyton, a constable in the employ of the Regent's Canal Dock Company, Ratcliff, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with commit ting a savage assault on a poor boy named John Shillim, whose face was covered with blood which had streamed down it from a severe wound in the head. The boy said he was selling matches in the dock, and the defendant came up to him and struck him en the head. He ran away, and the defendant pursued him, and, as he was about to emerge from the dock, struck him a seeond time on the head with his clenched fist, and drove him against the wheel of a cart, which caused him to be wounded, and he bled profusely. Mr. Stephen Bridges, a timber merchant, confirmed the statement of the lad, who he considered had been very brutally treated. The defendant said he had received positive orders to eject all persons selling matches in the dock, and upon directing the boy to withdraw, he was assailed with such vulgar abuse and threats that he was pro voked to give him a pat on the head, and as he was doing so the boy stooped down, and was struck on the head with the tyre of a cart wheel.—He then called a brother officer named Jones, who said the dock was infested with young thieves, who were always stealing coals, or anything else they could lay their hands on. Mr. YARDLEY' said the defendant was quite unfit for the office he held, and had neither temper or dis cretion. He fined him 405., which he immediately paid. LAMBETH. Mr. William Hayhow, a man of respectable appear pearance, who described himself as agent to an ale brewer, was charged with being drunk, creating a disturbance, and knocking violently at the door of Mr. Goddard, a gentleman living in Royal-street, Lambeth. From the evidence in this case it appeared that the prisoner had formerly paid his addresses to a young lady, who has since got married, and lived with her husband at the house of Mr. Goddard. The prisoner has latterly resorted to various species of annoyance—such as sending anonymous letters to the lady traducing her moral character, getting before her windows and making motions with his hands to indicate his intention of cutting his throat, and also knocking loudly at the docr. In defence, the prisoner said that he had been engaged to marry the lady on the 24th of June last, but he discontinued his attentions since the month of March preceding. The contrary of this, however, was proved to be the fact, and the prisoner was ordered to find bail for his good conduct.—The prisoner was then locked up for want of bail. BRAWLING IN CHUB CH.— Catharine Marion, a singular-looking old woman, was charged with brawl ing and creating a disturbance at Newington Church on the preceding evening during Divine service. Cock, a parish constable, deposed that during the service at Newington Church on the evening before, the prisoner, while under the influence of the spirit of gin, rose, interrupted the minister, and caused such confusion that he was compe ll e d t o remo ve her. Mr. Eworr—W e ll, what have you to say to this charge ? Prisoner—l only contradicted the parson in one word, and that was, that the Romans wasn't the first, as the Jews was afore them Mr. ELLIOTT-Mill you promise . me you will not repeat this improper conduct ? Prisoner—Yes, sir. Mr. ELLIOTT—Mind 'and keep your word with me. You are now discharged. RECIPE TO PRESREVE CREAM AT SEA.—Take fresh cream, and mix it with half its weight of white powdered sugar. When well mixed together, put it in bottles, and cork them tight with new corks of the very best quality. Everything depends on the manner of corking. It will be well to put sealing-wax over the corks, When the above is used for tea or coffee, it will make them sufficiently sweet without any additional sugar. PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM. I'ANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED 'EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ____---- -,-- X e. d. £ a. d. lastralasla -••-• • •• - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - Britshlsorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - 2eylon •• • ... •••• • • • • 71. par cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - 21ommercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - lolonial.. ••••- . • • •• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire ••• • • • 151 per cent. - - lonian .... • • .... •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and IVestminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 20% - - 13 0 0 - 4ndon Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. s 0 0 0 10 0 0 - Z'rovincial of Ireland • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New.. •••• • • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - - National of Ireland •• bl. per cent. 50 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New.•• •••• •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 8 iouth Australia ••• • • • 51. per cent. - 22 10 0 - Union of Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto - - 2 10 0 - Union of London. •• • • 61. per cent. 50 8 0 10 0 0 10% Union of Madrid ... . . - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - • BRIDGES _ Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. ' Price. Annum. Share. X. a. d. £. a. d. Charing-cress •••• • • •• - - 25 0 0 - Southwrk, Nw Sub.Ay. - 632 12 a - 3 Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 15 Waterloo •.•••• • • •• • • - 100 0 0 - 4 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. ss. 4d. - 60 0 0 28 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 8 26 Vauxhall .... ... Av. 11. 173. 70 10 2 - 26 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company per of raid. Price. Annum. Share. . - -- -- .£ a. d. £ a. d. Birmingham. •••• • • • • 18s. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - East London..• •••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 172 Grand Junction ••• • •• 2/. 10s. 41 13 4 - $1 Kent.......••• •• •• •• 31 . lOC 100 0 0 . 61.0 e. pr cnt. - - 75 New Rivr Lndn Brdge 71. 10s. - - 55 Vauxhall .. .. •••• • • • • 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex • • - 116% 116 M Price 41% 41 Os. 1$ 13 Price. Price. THE GREAT CLOCK FOR THE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER. The construction of the great clock for the Victoria Tower in the New Palace of 'Westminster has been entrusted to Mr. Dent, th e ce l e b ra t e d chronometer maker, who has undertaken to complete, :for 1,6001., " as good a clock as in the present state of the art can be obtained, which is to strike the hours on a bell of from eight to ten tons; to chime the quarters upon eight bells ; and to show the time upon four dials about thirty feet in diameter." The mechanicians selected to compete for the honour of constructing the great clock were Mr. Dent, of 82, Strand, Mr. VuDimly, of Yall.mall, and Mr. Whiteside, of Derby ; but, after the plans had been sent in, Mr. Vulliamy, finding the Astronomer Royal, Professor Airy, was to be the judge, withdrew from the competition ; and of the two remaining Mr. Dent was selected. The withdrawal of Mr. Vulliamy having occa sioned some dissatiafaction, Lord Brougham, in his place in Parliament, moved for the production of all the pipers and correspondence on the subject of the great clock which had passed between the parties and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The following letters, besides putting our readers in pos session of the very singular facts of the case, contain many interesting particulars with regard to public clocks, and we therefore extract them from th e blue book published by command of the House of Lords : MR. YULLIA/iIY TO THE COMMISSIONERS OP WOODS AND FORESTS. Pall-mall,'March 16, 1847. My Lord and Gentlemen,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th February, and its enclosure, dated the 11th of the same month, signed by Mr. Airy. The Astronomer Royal has officially reported to the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee the clock at the Royal Exchange to be, in his opinion, the " best in the world." Now, Mr. Airy himself very recently told me he had not seen the public clocks at Paris, which are the moat deserving of notice of any I am acquainted with. Subsequently to my letter to Mr. Barry, dated 22d July, 1826, wherein I declined to enter into the com petition for making the clock for the New Palace at Westminster, a copy of a letter from the Astronomer Royal to the maker of the clock of the Royal Ex change, together with some other papers connected therewith, have been put into my hands. This letter can lead to no other conclusion than that ex pressed in my answer to Mr. Barry before referred to. The maker of the clock at the Royal Exchange, in a memorial to the Office of Woods, dated the 14th December, 1844, in which he solicits to be em ployed to make the clock for the New Palace at Westminster, proposes the Astronomer Royal as the referee under whom he shall execute the work, and forwards with his memorial a copy of the letter be fore referred to, dated 22d July, 1445, from Mr. Airy, addressed to himself, in which that gentleman, after repeating the assertion that the clock at the Royal Exchange "is the best in the world," concludes by saying, if he should be consulted, " I shall state, without hesitation, that I consider you as the most proper person to be entrusted with the construction of another clock of similar pretensions." As this letter is a most important document, I have added a copy of it in the form of a postscript to this communication. It appears from the above statement—first, that the maker of the Royal Exchange clock proposes the Astronomer Royal as his referee; second, that the Astronomer Royal has prejudged the question, and decided that the maker of that clock is the only fit person to be employed on the present occasion. These circumstances fully justify my declining to enter into a competition with the maker of the Royal Exchange clock in a case in which the Astronomer Royal is to be the sole referee. The experience of thirty years constantly em ployed in the improvement of public clocks, as well in principle as construction (during which time I have examined some of the most celebrated machines of the kind on the Continent as well as in England), has led me to the conclusion that the Flan laid down by the Astronomer Royal will not answer his expectations. The maker of the Royal Exchange clock has had but three or four years' experience in the construction of public clocks, and the performance of his principal work has not, in re ference either to the going or striking, been what was expected after the eulogium that had been passed upon it by the Astronomer Royal. I still adhere to my objections (stated in my letter of the 22d of July, 1846,) to certain conditions spa eified by the Astronomer Royal, with reference both to the material and execution of the clock. But I beg to be understood not to make any objection what ever to that part of his last specification which refers to the application of magnetic mechanism ; what he requires may, I apprehend, be done without difficulty, or without in any way deranging the general plan of the clock as laid down in my plan and. specification. Also, I repeat that I am willing to com pete and furnish an estimate for the clock, provided the referees who are to decide on the merits of the different plans be chosen in the same manner as has been done on similar previous occasions, and that the determination be not left to any single individual. I take this opportunity to forward you a state ment of my labcurs in the improvement of public clocks, from which it will be seen that thirty years of my life have been devoted to that object; I may add that all the more recent improvements (including some of the conditions imposed by the Astronomer Royal in his specifications for the Royal Exchange clock, and the clock required for the New Palace at Westminster) originated with me, and have been in use for many years past; and that I have constructed many clocks of considerable importance, as well for Government as for sundry public buildings, to which reference may be made by all who are interested in the question. It is on these grounds that I put forward my claims to be employed on the present occasion --I have, &c., (Signed) B. L. VULLIAMY. Royal Observatory, Greenwich, July 22,1846. P.S. Sir—ln the event of my being consulted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in regard to the erection of a first-rate clock in the New Houses of Parliament, I shall state without hesitation, that I believe the clock which you have constructed for the Royal Exchange to be the best in the world as regards accuracy of going and striking, and that I consider you the most proper person to be intrusted with the construction of another clock of similar pretensions. I have, &C., (Signed) G. B. AIRY. Mr. E. J. Dent. STATEMENT OT THE GROUNDS ON WHICH B. L. VUL LIAMY CLAIMS TO BE EMPLOYED TO MAKE THE *SEAT CLOCK YON THE NEW PALACE AT WEST II 'MITER. March 13, 1847. I do not lay any very great stress on the circum stance of my having been regularly appointed clock maker to their Majesties King George 111., King George IV., and King William IV., and also to her ec s i t r y c , u a m n s d ta c n o c n e st i a s nt e l e y rt e a m in p ly loy d e e d se a r s vin s g uc o b f , but on the fact of my having for many y ctphor e one a us r sei s gdnh ( et s r i aMt n ht c ii: e sjn a ; bout the year 1810) devoted particular attention to the construction and improvement of public clocks. To this I was led from having the care of all the public clocks belonging to the Crown. From that period to the present time I have con stantly had in view the improvement of this branch of the art; and that portion of time which the most eminent of my profesional brethren have spent in the improvement of marine chronometers, I have devoted to the same end in reference to public clocks. On the death of the late Mr. Thwaites, in 1826, the Duke of Wellington appointed me clockmaker to the Honourable Board of Ordnance. This appoint ment brought a very considerable number of public clocks under my care, most of which afforded evident proof of the little progress that had been made in their construction -and manufacture; indeed, in some re spects the art might be said to have retrograded. I was induced still further to consider the possibility of materially improving them, both in the principle on which they were made, and also in the execution of the work. In 1825 I went to Paris to see the public clocks in that city, particularly that at the Hotel de Ville, of which common report spoke very highly, and with justice; it is a thirty-hour clock, made by Lepante in 1781, and cost, including the two dials, three bells, and fixings, 90,000 f. (1,0000 The first clock I made after t my return was , i n 1827, for the new chur c h at Norwood. In this I adopted an entirely new mode of construction, which I have since followed with great success. By direc tion of the Honourable Board of Ordnance, it was surveyed by the late Sir John Jones, Commanding Royal Engineer at Woolwich, a portion of whose re port thereon I give in the annexed note ;* but I can not find terms sufficiently strong to express the gra tification I feel at being able to record such an opinion coming from an individual enjoying so high a reputation as that distinguished officer. Some of the peculiar advantages of the new mode of construction of which I have just spoken may be briefly described as follows : Ina turret clock, made upon the common or old construction, the wheels, and in fact all parts of the work, as well relating to the going as to the striking part or parts,t are mounted in one frame. Thi s frame is composed of variou s p ieces in the form of flat bars and round pillars, which are connected together by screws and nuts, and generally so arranged that the pivots of each train of wheels act in opposite bars; consequently, when either of these bars is for any purpose removed, the entire train of wheels become loose and disengaged; so that when the clock is large, and the parts heavy, it requires the help of two or th ree assistants to pre vent them falling, which renders the operation of taking the clock to pieces attended with much trouble, 1 to say noting of the risk of be n di ng or b reaking the 1, rNsuitaNcE COMPANIES. Name of Company. Alliance Brit. and For. Ditto M arine.. • • ..- .Was . . .. British Commercial .. Clerici,Med.& Gen. Life Crown .......... • . • . Eagle .. Eng.& Scot. Law .... European Life Family Endowmr t Soc. Freemasons' ......... I. oLe Giardian ............ nperial Fire ........ mperial Life ........ Lidetnnity 31arine • • .. Law Fire Lim I ife............ Legal and General Life Landcn Fire ........ London Ship rfarine.• • •• •• •• ifed. Invild &Gen. Life national Lean Fund ~ra tional Lifc t'illadium Lite Pelican • • • • .. • • P:otector Life.... Provident Life Rock Life Loyal Exchange in Fire • litte Life Universal Life , 'l,...toria Life .... Dividend per Annum. lON. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 130.6 d. prsh. 7s. per share 5 pr ct. & bs. 31. 14s. 6s. 51. per cent. 5 per cent. 41. 8e bs. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 121. per cent. 12s. 11. sh. & bs. U. 16s. 1 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. p. sh. & bs. 5/. per cent. 11. ss. 4s. 51. per cent. 6/. 10s. 11. 6s. 10% pr cnt. 4 s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 e 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 s 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 Amount of Paid. Share. X a. d. 50 0 0 11 • 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 • 0 10 0 0 II 0 0 b 6 0 5 0 • 2 12 5 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 e 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 Name of Company. Animal - dal East and Mist India... E tat Country , London . Ditto Bonds .. ...... st. K atharine ........ Ditto 80nd5........ diuthampton •• GAS-LIGHT Name of Company. Itritish • • • • • • • •• • • .. Ditto Provincial.... Bristol .. ........... Brighton . • • • City of London ...... :ontinentalConsolidat. Ditto, New Equitable imperial independent ......... London.... Ditto.. •• • l'hoenix ........ itatcliff : United General ...... Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... • DOCE.S. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. 41. per cent. 61. pr cent. 258. per sh. bl. pr cont. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 4%1. pr cent. 21. per cent. AND CO: Dividend per Annum. 11. Ss. 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share $5l. pr share 455. pr share 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. bi. 43 1. pr cent. 3/, 12s. X s. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 :E CO Amount of Share. .Z. a. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 • 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 9 50 0 0 40 • 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Z. e. d. 18 • • 19 0 0 100 a o 29 b I 37 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 a 46 • 0 90 e o 60 0 0 10 0 0 9 0 0 4 0 0 X e. d. 60 0 0 PANIES. Paid. l Met NALS. ......- - _ ..; .: 1 , Dividend' Names of ~..: Dividend Names of v er , Price. .1 2ompanies. 4 .4 I 1 p ~,, .jo Annum. ' -C.. r_ Annum. ~) ---- X 1 , -- X - kihtn& Oldh 97, 11. pc I 80 Macclesfield.' 100 - - .3arnsley •• • • 1601 121. 180 Neath -.• • • 100 IV. Srknk&Ahrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 100 201. 190 Rirmingham 351 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 31. - 'Coventry .. •• 1001 251. - Regent's • • .. 33 1!. bs. 18% :)..trbv . •... 100 61. 63 Rochdale... • 85 41. 54 Ells rre&Chs 133; 365. 47 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 Ere, ash •• • 100: 32e. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. - ,IrandJ unctn ,100 31. 77 StlTrd &Wore 140 28/. 290 35 Shrewsbury.. IrandSurrey 'lOO - 125 15/. - ,rand Union 100 11. 10s. 25 Stoarbridge.. 145 201. 285 rantham .. 156 - - Severn and") tennt &An 26 11. Bs. 24 39 7s. 6d. 4% Wy e Rail. j Leeds& Livrp; 100' 341. - Warwick& 1 Leicester .... 1140 101. 73 Birmi ng . i 100 41 . - ,eicstr &Nth 83 41. 36 Warwick& T•ourht,orogh 142 701. - Napt on ..} 100 31. - (onmouthsh , 100 11. - Worcstr 8c. 2 78 21. 39 Mntgemrysh 1100 - - Birrning. MeltnMwbrylloo - - Wilts & /Irks - 11. 11 7..15T OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ___-- ---__ £ s. d. £ .. d !lank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 194% Caledonian Bank •• •• 7% per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 41. O. City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10h Clydesdale Bank.. •• • • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12 Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 ' 148 Eastern Bank ... .... • 61. per cent. 25 o • 18 9 1 91.105. Edinb.:, Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 5 0 0 1% 6 1,7 % ii.. pp p ee e rr r ec c ee e nn n tt t ., 102 8 0 0 0 00 9 00 0 10 1 50 0 00 0 00 11 311.1 1 18 3 5 ! . Exchange Bnk of Scot 6/. per ce nt. 100 0 0 b 0 0 0 25% File of Mae. Company 71. pe r cent. 10 0 0 7 • 0 - National Bank N it o o y r t a h u o l f a S n ckoot Scotlandl f andß an k North British Bank - 50 0 • 10 0 0 21s. Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 9 SO 0 0 79 Western Bank . .... •• . 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66 Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent 12 10 9 20 9 2% B. Accord. Life aud Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 9s Od tlritish Guarintee Ins. - ill 0 0 1 0 0 9s Od ;aledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 • 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2• 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 • • 21. 4s Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 • 17 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 •lb 0 118.0 d Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. SO 0 0 217 6 46s 6d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10% Iniur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 611 Mercantile Life .. •• .. - II 0 0 010 0 4s. Od. National Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 • 1 0 0 20s. Od North British Incur. - 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22% North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 • 0 175.0 d. Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 • 0 11 11 0 33. Scot. MaR. and Gel. Life - 1 • 0 Scottish Union Insrnee. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. Os 9% Standard Lif e ...... • • 11. per cent. 56 0 I 4 6 0 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 0 lisOd . MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount •15 0 103. 0 d Name of Company. per of - Paid. Price. Annum. Share. _--__ - £. s. 4 . x • I. d. Australian Agrieulturl - 100 • 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 - - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 9 0 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 111 Canada ............. Gl. per cent. 10 0 0 0 32 Li • - Uppr Canada Bonds Si. per cent. - City Bonds.. ...... - 3%1. pr cent. - - 82 Comp . Cppr Mars Eng. 81. percent. 100 0 0 7 0 0 • - Gen. Revers. ir Invest. bp. e.& bs, 21 O 100 0 0 91 E'quitable Reversionry 6 1 . pr cent. 110 0 14 • • 11l Gea.Steam ITavigation 11. Bs. 13 0 0 10 London Institution ... - - O 50 0 0 55 Peninslr& Orient•Stm. SI. per sent. 50 0 100 • 0 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 - O 60 0 0 Royal Mail Steam- •• 3341. pr cent. 100 0 100 0 25 I 0 -- South Australian ....• 11. per share. 25 0 0 e 100 0 0 23 0 0 - - Van Dieraan's Land.. - 100 0 0 25 0 0 S • S Universal Salvage.... - COURSE OF EXCH Amsteniam ......... 12 Ditto, at sight 12 0 Rotterdam .• •• 12 2 25 85 Llumburgh .. •. • .11.11. 13 12 A1t0na.......... - Paris, 3 days r sight .• .• 25 50 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 75 riarseilles •• • • 25 75 Bourdeaua...... • • • 25 75 Frankfort on Maine.... 122 Petersburgh, Sil. Able.. Vienna, effee. flo ...... Trieste, ditto Madrid ••..••..• • • • .• 47 ii etdiz •• • • • ••. • .. 48 % Barcelona „ NGE.--(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar• • •• •• • • •• •• •• Leghorn .. • • .... ••• • • • 31 95 Genoa .• • • •• .. 26 10 Milan • . • • • • • • • • • • • • •. Venice.. • . • • .. • • • • .... Naples .•••.••• • • • • •• 38% Palermo, per0x.......• Lisbon.... •• • . .. • •• 5111 Oporto ••• • • • .... ••.. • • b! Rio Janeiro Messina .. • • • . • . • • Buenos Ayres .. • • .... New York, 21 dayiesight Philadelphia .......... PRICES 01 BULLION, PIE OZ Foreign Geld la bars.. X 3 17 Nalv Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 9yi Portugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver is bars ...• • . 0 4 11N The inhabitants of Farringdon - street will be glad to hear that it has been referred to a committee of the Corporation to take into consideration the necessity of appropriating the site of the late Fleet Prison, in Far ringdon-street. The question of appropriating the site of the houses which some years ago stood at the west end of Cheapside, opposite to the new Post-office, will also be considered by the same committee. Hitherto the latter place has been kept open in the hopes that the Corporation would determine upon the project of clear ing away several other houses which intercept the view of St. Paul's so preposterously. A man who, lost his leg by a railway accident has adopted the plan of exhibiting in the market-place of Lincol❑ a rough sketch of himself and the rail at the moment the carriage was passing over his leg, under neath the picture being written, " They won't give me , nothing." pivots or of damaging the wheels. To avoid such ac cidents the pivots are generally made wider than otherwise would be necessary, and this greatly in creases the friction. Now, however well this frame work may be executed (and if made of sufficient Strength and well executed, it becomes very expen sive), still it is far from possessing the requisite solidity for a machine to measure time, on account of its being so much affected by the vibratory motion caused by the striking part or parts. In the new construction, the going and striking part or parts are perfectly detached from each other ; and the wheel work, &c , of each part is supported by a separate, solid, and entire bed of cast iron, instead of a frame composed of pieces as formerly. The arrangement of the several parts is such that any one piece can, if required, be removed and restored to its place without disturbing another, and the whole of the clock is perfectly solid, and without shake or motion. The jar, and consequent tremulous action, resulting from the fall of the hammer-tail or tails, according as the clock strikes hours only, or hours and quarters, which in the common turret clock is communicated to the whole machine, is, from the construction of this clock, entirely confined to the striking parts. The construction of the work for communicating the motion from the clock to the hand is entirely different from that usually employed in turret clocks. It is securely attached to the cast-iron bed of the going part, is particularly simple, little liable to be out of order, and the connexion between the clock and the dial works, that carry the hands, is made by a straight iron rod, leading direct from the clock to each dial work. The bad arrangement of this part of the work is a very common cause of failure in the generality of large clocks. The construction of a turret clock which I have adopted offers peculiar facilities for cleaning and oiling the works, which the common construction does not possess, and it can in consequence be kept clean and in order with less trouble, and at much less ex pense, than a clock made in the ordinary mode. The first clock entirely made upon this construc tion was that put up in the tower of Norwood church, A.D. 1827; but I have made several clocks upon the same principle since, and with equal success, but will content myself with referring more particularly to those I made for Windsor Castle, and for the New Victualling Office at Cremille, near Plymouth, both of which are eight day clocks, and strike the quar ters as well as the hours. The former is very large, the great wheels of the striking parts being 24 inches in diameter, and the hour is struck upon a bell of 32 cwt. The clock room at Windsor Castle is the easiest of access, the best lighted and ventilated, and in all respects the best adapted to the purposes for which it is intended of any that I am acquainted with ; but from local circumstances, which the skill of the architect, Sir Jeffery Wyatville, could not overcome, the construction of this clock was attended with much difficulty. The fall for the weights is exceedingly small, and the dial (for the time is shown only on one face) is placed considerably below the clock ; the pendulum also is unavoidably very short, and the bells are placed at a considerable distance behind the clock ; all of which circumstances are more or less prejudicial to its performance. Never theless, the accuracy with which the clock has mea sured time has been everything that could be desired. That at the Victualling-office, made under the im mediate direction of Sir John Rennie, though some what limited for space, is in every respect a very per fect piece of work. The time is shown upon four very large faces, and there are probably few clocks to be found in so exposed a situation. This clock may be said to face the Atlantic, and to brave the storms of the 'Western Ocean. It stands at the head of Ply mouth Sound; and a straight line drawn from the clock across the centre of the breakwater would cross the ocean, and only terminate on the eoast of Ame rica. sell persons conversant with the south coast of this island are aware of the violence of the gales of wind which occasionally visit Plymouth harbour. Though much confined for room, the general arrange ments of this clock are everything that I could wish : it has a two-seconds pendulum, with a bob weighing 2581b5., yet the weight of the maintaining power, cal culated with a single line, is only 26ilbs. The scape wheel of the clock carries a seconds hand to show time within, and a degree plate is employed to indi cate the arc of vibration of the pendulum ; conse quently there i s no t any difficulty in determining exactly the deviations of the clock from mean time. The mode employed for communicating the motion from the clock to the hands is simple and convenient, and has not on any occasion gone out out of ;order. This clock, notwithsanding its exposed situation, has kept time so correctly as to become the standard for regulating time in all the Government establish ments at Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, and all other public clocks in the neighbourhood. I will briefly notice the clock at the New Post office, because it is considered a very beautiful speci men of the art on a small scale, on account of the weight of the pendulum bob, which is 4481b5., re quiring a maintaining power of only 331bs. to cause it to vibrate two minutes twenty seconds on each side of zero; this weight, considering that it is for an eight day clock, which is much incu in hered with rod-work, and labouring under manifold disadvantages conse quent upon its ill contrived situation, is, in reference to the weight of the bob, an extremely small motive power. The clock I have proposed as most fitting for the New Palace at Westminster would be, in many respects, similar to the clocks made for Norwood, Windsor Castle, and Plymouth, but of necessity larger and stronger in proportion to what it is required to accomplish. There are few advantages to be obtained without some concomitant disadvantage, or at least some inconveniences. The only inconvenience, however, that I am aware of, resulting from the new construc tion for public clocks, is the increased length of the machine, caused by the parts being placed side by side, instead of one over the other, as in those made on the old plan. This circumstance sometimes proves an obstacle, which, from local circumstances connected with the building, cannot be overcome. It was for this reason that I was compelled to employ the old plan in the two very large clocks I made for the cathedrals at Oxford and Calcutta, the latter of which struck the quarters upon four bells. I may, 1 think, very fairly lay claim to be the originator of the various improvements that have taken place within these few years in public clocks ; for instance, I was the first in this country to employ a two seconds pendulum (the clock at the Hotel de Ville at Paris is, indeed, the only clock on the Con tent that I ever saw with one), or who applied a hand to indicate seconds, or a degree plate, by which to ascertain the arc of vibrati on o f t h e pendulum, and with few exceptions, to employ for a pendulum a wooden rod, a short suspension spring, and a very heavy bob. Previously to this, the pendulum rods were almost inv ar i a bl y ma d e of iron, with very long springs and light bobs. The only instance, in fact, that I am acquai n t e d w i t h of a wooden pendulum rod applied to an o ld c l ock was to that of the Horse Guards, which I happen to know was made at the suggestion of my father, many years since, and which I replaced in 1816 by a two seconds pendulum with a teak rod and bob weighing 1901b54 I was likewise the first to employ gun metal in the place of yellow brass for the pivot holes, w heels, and other parts commonly made of brass. The employment of gun metal, as a substitute for brass, was recommended to me by Sir John Jones, to whom I am indebted for many valuable sugges tions; and it certainly is a very great improvement. I have examined some public clocks in Flanders, but did not see any deserving notice. In 1844 I went to Paris, in order to be present at the Exposi tion de l'lndustrie Francaise. There I saw a num ber of public clocks of various sizes and descriptions. In those of a superior quality, the wheels were made of yellow brass; and in the inferior, the wheels of the striking train were of cast iron, and the going train only of brass; but in no instance that fell under my notice was gun metal employed. Most of the clocks of a superior description were furnished with a contrivance called a remontoire. This mode of con- struction, most inviting in appearance, but substan tially bad, has long been the idol of the continental artists, who devised various modes of applying it to their marine chronometers ; but in this country it has found less favour, its fallacy having been long since detected. Mr. Mudge was, I believe, the only English maker who employed it ; and his chronometers, though exe cuted with infinite care, and at very great expense, were found not to perform so well as Arnold's or Earnshaw's, which, though not better executed, were much more simple in construction, and consequently less expensive, as well as less liable to derangement. This ,remark applies equally to clocks, to the per formance of which a remontoire is as objectionable as to chronometers. No expense is spared in the pendulum of French clocks of a superior class, which are all what are termed gridiron pendulums, of various constructions, varying from five to nine bars, and in length from five to seven or eight feet ; consequently the clocks cannot indicate seconds in the ordinary mode ; indeed, I did not notice a single clock of this description to which a second hand or index, or a degree plate, to indicate the arc of vibration of the pendulum, was supplied. The execution of these pendulumscer- tainly is very beautiful ; but the great weight of the rod in reference to the bob is a very serious error in principle, and, in my opinion, more than counter balances any advantages they may be thought to possess. I will here notice that the clocks in Belgium which I saw, some of which show time upon very large skeleton dials, have only one hand, which makes a revolution in twelve hours, and they were wound every day ; they likewise strike upon bells compara tively small. These circumstances very much di minish the difficulties attendant upon making a clock of this description. Moreover, the performance of -• • most of the Flemish clocks is such as would not 1, tolerated in the situation for which the clock for th e New Palace is required. It has been repeatedly intimated, in the form ,o 1 paragraphs in the daily papers and periodical publi cations, that only one individual in the profession possesses the necessary capabilities to construct public clocks of a superior description ; and also, that the greater number of clockmakers do not pos sess any special manufactory for large clocks, and that consequently work cannot be so well done, or on such reasonable terms, as by an individual who has such a manufactory. Further, that the tools employed by the generality of clockmakers are of a very inferior description, and ill qualified to execute work of a very superior character. The first part of this statement I feel called upon to notice, which I shall, however, do very britily. I was indebted to the liberality of my much-regretted friends, Mr. Timothy and Mr. Francis Bramah, for the permissio❑ to employ their foreman and manu factory precisely as though they were my own. This I have done for the last twenty-five years, and through the kindness of Mr. Ro binson, their successor, this convenience has been continued to be afforded me in its fullest extent. All my work, therefore, both iron and gun metal, has been cast at their works at Pimlico, and all my large work manufactured there ; the whole under my immediate superintendence, by going on the premises whenever I chose, without let or hindrance, and giving my instructions personally to the foreman, without the intervention of any third person. All my work ing drawings have been made by myself; and in order to insure perfection in casting, my patterns (of which I possess a large collection) are all made of mahogany, under my immediate direction. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the manufactory at Pimlico affords facilities for executing work large and small, in the shape of lathes, planing machines, and tools of every description, as well as a wheel-cutting engine, that will cut the teeth in a wheel of seven feet diameter in a manner far superior to those afforded -by any clockmaker's establishment in Lon-' don. lam quite sure that I am much within com pass when I say that it would require a capital of not less than 10,0001. to establish a manufactory foi making public clocks, that would contain under one roof all the convenience afforded by Mr. Robinson's manufactory. (Signed) B. L. VULLIAMY. To the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods $ &c. • " In obedience to your letter of the 28th of July, I have been to Norwood, and have minutely inspected in detail the works, &c., made and fixed up in the church in that place by Mr. Vulhamy. I beg leave to report that it appears to me superior to any turret clock I have seen, in the following points:- 1. I❑ simplicity of construction, there being fewer wheels and pinions, both in the going and striking parts, than in an ordinary clock; and those two movements being perfectly distinct, and only acting together through the medium of the discharging piece, any accident to the one may be repaired Without deranging the other. In deed, this latter advantage may be said to extend through every detail of the machinery; for the holes of the pivots, in which the %heels work, being fixed by screws, the simple removal of the, bosses enables a single wheel or piece to be taken out and repaired or cleaned, without taking to pieces the remainder of the works. This con struction also gives great facility for keeping the' ma chinery oiled. " 2. In durability.—The wheels and pinions are made of bard gun metal and steel, which latter, besides being of long duration, have the lidvantage over the usual iron case-hardened pinions, wearing equally, and not into an gular points, which is found to destroy the wheels most rapidly. 'phis substitution of hard gun metal and steel for yellow brass and case-hardened iron, appeared to be general throughout the acting parts of the machine, giv ing more strength to each. "3 . In regularity of keeping time.—The escapement is a dead escapement, which has the least possible loss of power from drop; and is so well contrived that it in stantly caught my attention. In this clock it maintains in motion a pendulum weiging 1501b5.; which, being far heavier than the pendulum of an ordinary clock of the same size, cannot fail to make it go accurately. " The barrel cylinders, round which the lines or the weights are coiled, are of iron. " The workmanship of every part is of excellent qua lity, and very far superior to that of the clocks at Wool wich. " Conclusion.—From the above it seems almost cer tain that a clock of this construction, besides showing the time more accurately, must last longer, and be more rarely out of repair than an ordinary clock; and further, from its simplicity, it may be looked after. and kept in order by a very ordinary mechanic t A clock that strikes the hours has one striking part; if the hours and quarters two striking parts. I have preserved the old pendulum, which, incredi ble as it may appear, is furnished, as well as the pen dulums I have taken from the Ordnance clocks, with fans. I have also collected a number of escapements taken from various clocks, some of which, though ex tremely curious, give, by their wear, incontrovertible evidence of imperfection in their construction. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. RISTOL, Ocr. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. B —The business was better to-day. The sales are —Great Western, Quarters, 7 dis.— Ditto, New 171. Shares, 5 dis.—Bristol and Exeter , 40 dis.—Midland, 6 p er cent. Stock, 113--Taff Vale, New, !;; dis.—South Devon, 11 Caledonian, Preference, 13% dis. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 23 STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to note a . further heavy fall in shares to-day, and there still appears to be a very few buying orders in the market. The sales are: - Caledonian, Preference, 2 1 i dis.—Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 23 4 — Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Bir mingham), Fifths, 6c. dis.—London and Nortk- Western, 99—Ditto, New Quarters, 2 3 4 dis.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester), 19 1 , —ilidland Stock, 65—Ditto, .New Halves, " 157 k c. Scottish Central, 21%—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 4, Halves, 5% c—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 41.65. 3d. dis. biANCHESTEIt, Ocr. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ence, 21/s dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 3-14 c. Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), p,—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1, 10'4 dis.—North Staffordshire, B%—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 5 3 4 c.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 14% dis.—Midl an d , 67 c. —East Lancashire, New, 2 1 A c. dis.—Leeds, Fifths c 6 c. dis —M anc h ester and Birmingham A and B), . BIRIKINGRABI, Oerr, !3. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—London and North- Western, 100— Midland, 68—North Staffordshire, 85( dis.— Shropshire Union, 31A dis.—Great Northern, 14 dis. YORK, Ocr. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The business transacted t•-day was as follows : —North British, Thirds, 3%--Ditto, Quarte 21. 16s.—Y or k , N ewcastle, and Berwick, 2114—Ditto (Ex rs, tension), No. 1, 93 4—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 3/. Great Northern, 3. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Bad Leg Cured by Hollo way's Ointment and Pills after Twenty Years' Suffering. —Extract of a letter from Mr. Andrew Brack, black smith, Eyemouth, dated Aug. 10, 1848. "To Professor Holloway—Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that I have obtained a most extraordinary cure, by the use of your celebrated Ointment and Pills. For upwards of twenty years I suffered with a dreadful bad leg, and dur ing that time I consulted several eminent surgeons, but their efforts failed to do any good. I then had recourse to your Ointment and Pills which, with the blessing of Providence, has completely healed my leg, and made it as sound and perfect as ever."—Sold by all Druggists, and .at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. A GOOD SHOT.—On Thursday, in the parish of Tibberton, after a tolerable day with the gun, Mr. G. Chamberlain, of the Star Hotel, was returning home wards, when he was startled by a rustling noise o►er head, and on looking hastily up he discovered the cause to be two wild turkeys in rapid flight. The gun was at his shoulder in an instant, and the next moment both of the birds had dropped to the ground, shot through the head at one discharge. One bird weighed:lolb., the other 71b. Where the noble game came from is a puzzler.-- Worcester Herald. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., :at Lochnaw Castle, N. 8., the Lady Louisa Agnew, of twin daughters. On the 21st inst., at Gordon-square, Lady Rornilly, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Frampton-house, the lady of the Rev. J. Tunnard, of a daughter. On the 19th inst , at Radnage Rectory, near Stokenchurch, Oxon, the wife of the Rev. R. S. Moody, of a son. On the 19th inst., Mrs. W. A. Salter, at Amersham, of a son. On the 19th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, the wife of the Rev. W. E. Light, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Thistle-grove, Brompton, of a (laugh . - ter, Mrs. Charles Kelly. On the 20th inst., at Great College-street, the wife of Nathaniel Beardmore, civil engineer, of a son. On the 20th inst., at the Avenue-road, Regent's-park, the wife of Mr. H. Wordsworth, of a son. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at Dunbar, N. 8., William Rule Broo man, Esq., Lieutenant RN., to Eleanor Margaret Carfrae, youngest daughter of the late G. Turnbull, Esq., Dunbar. On the 19th inst., Henry, the eldest son of John Fowler, Esq., of Melksham, to Ann Ford, daughter of R. Barclay. Esq , of Layton, Essex. On the 19th inst., at Fulham Church, Edward, only sur viving son of Mr. W. J. De Lancey Arnold, of the Stamford villas, to Sarah, second daughter of Mr. R. Perry, of Broom house, Fulham. On the 19th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, Francis Mount ford Woollaston, Esq., of Beoley, Worcestershire, to Emily, second daughter of the late Captain Robert Young, of the Madras Army, DIED. On the 11th inst., at Logie Elphinstone, Sir Robert Dal rymple Horn Elphinstone, But., aged 83. On the 19th inst., at the Villa, Maidenhead, aged 90, tene lope, relict of the late W. Watson, Esq., of Queen-square , Bloomsbury. On the 20th inst., at Lyne, near Dorking, S. Bosanquet Esq., late of East Woodhay, Hants, aged 51. On the 18th inst., at Aberdeen, M iss Helen Henderson, daughter of the late A. Henderson, M.D., Aberdeen. ' On the 18,h inst., at Oxton-house, Tadcaster, Sophia, relict of the late C. Wilson, Esq., aged 75. On the 18th inst., Emily Henrietta Ledger, eldest (laugh ter of E. Ledger, Esq., of Lewisham, Kent, aged 12. On the 19th inst., at Cambridge-place, Clifton, James Cheshire, Esq., aged 82. At Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Lieutenant E. R. Dodwell, Ist Life Guards. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offiee, 140. 1 12, Strand, in the Precinct of die Savoy, in the county Of illiddlemg, Tuesday, October 24, 1848. Paid. 1