The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

Zbtrb Vitlititin FRANCE. The following is a full -report of the Ministerial explanations on the subject of the treatment of the Spanish refugees, given in yesterday's sitting of the Assembly : At 2 o'clock, M. Corbon,iVice-President, took the chair, when M. Joly ascended the tribune to address questions to the Ministry relative to the affairs of Spain. M. Joly said that he had been charged by Spanish refugees to lay their grievances before the National As sembly. Immediately after the revolution of February, the Spanish Government sent to Berlin a Minister Plenipotentiary, General Zarco del Valle, to offer the co-operation of Spain in the event of the formation of a new coalition . against France. On arriving at Paris the General heard that a revolution was imminent at Berlin, and having consulted his Go vernment he was instructed to proceed on his mission, but to report that his object was to examine certain fortifications. General Zarco del Valle was well received at the Prussian Court, and having delivered his message, he succeeded in prevailing on Frederick William IV. to recognise the sovereignty of the Queen of Spain, which result he could not otherwise have ob tained. The French Government was well aware of the real nature of his mission; but instead of resenting the hostility of Spain, it gays her a mark of friendship, by appointing Chargo d'Affaires in Madrid M. de Lesseps, who, as Consul of France at Barce lona, participated in the two reactionary move meta:s which took place in that city. Since then a new cordial understanding commenced between the Spanis h and French Governments, and it soon became so intimate that the latter stationed on the frontier a s'ucial commissary, named Labriere, who had filled the ?sane funcaons under the Ministry of M. Tbiers. The duty of that functionary was to watch the intrigues te aetest the Queen's Government, and to remove into the iaterier of France the Progreseista or Republican ene mice of her Catholic Majesty. 'That functionary had nate& himself the agent, and he could add the accomplice, c" :he wholesale murders perpetrate I of late at the „setlii.e side of the Pyrenees. He had repaired to Figue rtm end Puycerda, on the Spanish ter, story, to concert eneeieures with the Catalonian authorities. It was owing t) his exertions that M. Escosura and two Spanish ...-ttleers were arrested and conducted to the citadel Perpignan. M. Escosura was formerly a member of the Spanish Cabinet, and being hostile to General a'arvaez had been apprehended and confined in the fort of St. Marguerite, at Cadiz, until the departure of a vessel, which was to transport him to the Philippine Islands. M. Eecosura escaped and sought refuge on board a French vessel, which safely landed him in France. The papers found in his Possession were transmitted to the Spanish Ambassador, in Paris, who forwarded them to Barcelona. On receipt of those documents, three Cap • tains of the Spanish army were arrested at Barcelona, tried by court-martial, sentenced to death, and executed. The Cabinet of the Republic, he regretted to say, fol lowed towards Spain precisely the same line of policy as its predecessor under the monarchy. The other fact denounced by M. July referred to the revolt of 69 re cruits and deserters, embarked on board a vessel at Santander, who brought the vessel into Panillac. After being detained there prisoners for some time, they were delivered up to the Spanish Consul of Bordeaux, who sent them back to Santander, where they have been sen tenced by court-martial to the galleys. AL July trusted that the Minister for Foreign Affairs would be able to reply satisfactorily to those two chat ges. M. Bastide, Minister for Foreign Affairs, sail that Lesseps had been appointed Charge d'Affaires at Madrid by M. Lamartine, on account of his noble con duct at Bercelona during the bomb trduient of 1843. As regarded the charge of following the policy of the pre ceding Government, he replied that, in his opinion, it was the interest of France to have no distinct policy in Spain. Ever since Louis XIV. a system of intrigue had been pursued with respect to that country, which he reproved. lie followed the directions laid down by M. Lamartine, which consisted in countenancing no party or lottery in Spain, and maintaining relations with her founded on mutual sympathy and fraternity. As re spected the documents alluded to by lel. Joy, and which were said to have served to convict three officers at Barcelona, the accusation was totalle unfounded. The refugees, whose names were mentioned, had, it was true, been arrested, because they were conspiring on the French territory against the Queen's Government, and their papers seized. Those papers had been sent up to Paris, and he had refused to commu nicate them to the Spanish Ambassador. They hail been placed under seals by his orders; they still remained unopened, and had been read by nobody, not even by himself. He affirmed it on his honour. M. Dufaure, Minister of the Interior, replied, that peace existing between France and Spain imposed upon both duties which France could not refuse to fulfil. If, after the revolution of February, no precautionary measures had been adopted on the Spanish frontier, it was because the Queen had granted an amnesty, which permitted the refugees to return to their coma . try. But, when it was ascertained that the am -- -nesty was not general, France, in virtue of the principles of the law of nations, took measures to disperse the bodies of refugees who assembled • on the frontiers in order to invade the country, and seized the arms and ammunition they had collected on • deiarent points for that purpose. N. Ledru Rollin 3d been the first to order those measures, and his con . • -et had been subsequently imitated by his successors, e:esers. Recurt and Senate. It was the latter who ap a anted the Special Commissary, al. Laari re, on the • . e September last, for the surveillance of ;he six Iron , departments, end who gave him the necessary in .- aetions. M. Dufaure then read two circulars ad . sit - : aced by him to the frontier authorities, reminding tee-• a of the obligations they owed a friendly nation, and • recommending them impartiality and moderation. M. Escosur a had been removed to Chaumont, on his arrival iri France. M. Escosura subsequently asked to be al lowed to proceed to the south of France. Hie demand was acceded to, but he was forbidden to reside in any of the frontier departments. M. E-cosura paid no at tention to the prohibitien, and repaired to Perpignan, where he opened relations with the disaffected on the • other side of the frontier. M. Escusura was arrested and his papers were seized and forwarded to the Ministry of the Interior. M. Dufaure, considering them a mere depot placed in his hands, never op- i.eit them. A few days ago he had delivered them to the Minister of Fo- reign Affairs, who brought them back to him the even ing before, unopened, as he had received them. Those papers had neither been seen nor touched by the Spanish Ambassador, and they could not consequently have served to convict the three officers shot at Bareelons.With regard to the schooner Montanesa, brought into Panillac by 69 soldiers, who had forcibly seized the vessel, this affair had occurred before his accession to the Ministry. But the documents he had found in that department proved that his predecessor had acted as he should have done himself under similar circumstance,. Those refugees hae not landed on the French territory; they were on board a Spanish vessel, and France had-no control over them. M. Dufaure, in conclusion, maintained that France could not suffer civil war to be organized in her territory against a friendly power, and would con tinue to fulfil the duties imposed upon her by inter . national laws. The utmost moderation, however, was recommended to the French authorities, and many re fugees were even allowed to reside on the frontier. M. Salamanca had applied for leave to remain eight days at Pau. M. Dufaure had consented to it, provided he re turned immediately to Paris. M. Salamanca, however, had not kept his word, and was still at Bayonne. M. Job , replied that the Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs might not have opened or read the papers seized on by M. Escosura and his companions; but that M. Labriere had not been influenced by the same scruples, and must have taken copies of them, for the sentence of the court-martial stated in po sitive terms that the documents, which served to con vict the three officers, had been deciphered, thanks to the key found among the papers of a central junta that met in France. M. July asked M. Dufaure if he could pledge himself for the morality of M. La briere, and if he was aware of his having been concerned in a fraudulent musket contract with the notorious Vidocq, for which he had been tried by the Court of . Correctional Police. M. Senart, former Minister of the Interior, said that • on the 25th of September he had appoiuted a special Commissary on the Pyrenean frontier, whom he had in . etzucted to exercise a close surveillance in the six adjoin ma. departments, and to oppose all facts c on t rar y to t h e taw of nations. then explained th e p ar t h e h a d ta k en trio affai r oft Montanesa, and the incident having • rnainated, the Abseil:l,bl commenced the di s c uss i on on a_c estimates of the nevi ]commenced XTRA ORDINARY One of the most ext raordinar E LOPEMEN T. -nat has probably ever been heaveOfnesof elopement this pr esent me engaging the attention o f the publil !tt surrounding districts, and proves thsaltn• P reston and locksmiths," for in the present instancleove brokelaughs gs - otigh iron bars, removed bolts and lastenint and f iriied the eye and strict surveillance of the keepers o ,vatic asylum. On Saturday se'nnight the village of Chorley, u sua l ly 30 quiet, undisturbed, and unexcited, except by every day occurrences, was thrown into a state of extraor dinary commotion by the following romantic adventure: About two years ago, Dr. J. Seed obtained a license for opening his residence as a private lunatic asylum, and he received as a patient a young lady, about 23 years of age, named Elizabeth Durie, and daughter of the late Captain Durie, of Astley Hal', near Manchester. She was considered to be of unsound mind, and incapable of taking care of herself or property. The latter, it is stated, was about 3,000/. a year. Some time back, a groom, nun( d Ellis Norris, laid siege to the hi art of the cook at Br,:iigh Hall, where his master used frequently to visit, but t finding that ho was not so warmly received as i.o hail anticipated le would be, he t r a na f errA d h i s affections to _Miss Durie, whom he frequently saw looking ia it of the windows whilst he was waiting for his master. When ho found that he could treat with her, that her heart beat responsively, and her eyes a 1 )oked love to eyes that spoke again," he plied his suit, and for twelve months he has continued to visit and solace the imprisoned virgin. ha managed to do by applying, 'Death the pale glimmer of the moon, a ladder to her window, and , on taking leave of her, con cealing it in a disused coal-pit. At length a marriage, but first of all an elopement, vas concerted. A license was procured by Norris, who is said to hie eairried it about with him for nearly six - weeks. The-might of Friday week was the time ap pointed for their flight. and the young Lothario hurried off to Brough.liall. Having arrived there the young ad ) • appeared.at the window, threw out her bonnet, de- t seen, led by the ladder, and was speedily in her lover's arms, enveloped in a cloak and shawl, which he had ready for her. It was " night's witching hour, the wind blew cold, the pale stars twinkled in the hazy sky, but no moon beam shone to light their hurrying steps." They walked cn to Yarrow-bridge, about half a mile from the asylum, and on their way thither the fair fugitive was heard to ask her lover " Whether ho int,nded to make a fool of her, or to marry her?" He re plied "To marry you, most certainly, as he would play the fool to no lady." He then offered her his arm, but she replied, " No, you shall not run away with me, but I will run away with you." Near the bridge a ve hicle was waiting for them by a fellow-servant of Norris, and on entering they urged their flight to the Boar's Head, near Wigan, and, in order to evade detection, they got out of the vehicle and passed on foot through the tollgate. Upon reaching Warrington, they obtained a horse and chaise, and got to Chester, and on Sunday morning they were married at St. Oswald's Church, both parties being described as of Liverpool. The wedding day passed away, and information of the jonrney had now reached the ears of the police. Sergeant Hetherington, of Standish, was dispatched after and surprised them on Monday, soon after breakfast hour, at their private lodgings in Chester. He took the lady into custody, according to the instructions be had received, and told Norris he might follow it he chose. They re turned together to Chorley when Mr. Seed gave orders for Norris to be also taken into custody. On Tuesday he was bailed out, and hundreds of people thronged the streets of Chorley, all on the qui wive, and anxious to hear the cause tried before the magistrates, who met about one o'clock in the afternoon. _ _ The prisoner was charged before the magistrates with breaking into Mr. Seed's dwelling-house for an unlawful purpose, and stealing Miss Elizabeth Durie, from motives of lucre, to marry her, she having then an interest in real and personal estate. No evidence being offered, the prisoner was discharged. Norris then demanded his wife, but the Bench said they had nothing to do with her, and the Chairman said be did not know that he had got one. The fair fugitive —now Mrs. Norris —was taken back to the asylum, and the last reports described her as being like a caged dove without its mate. Upon leaving the police-station Norris was loudly cheered by the populace, and flags were hoisted to greet him with welcome when he arrived at Chorley-moor. He told the people he was determined to get back his wife, let the consequences be ever so dreadful. There will, no doubt, be some further inquiry into this extraordinary occurrence.—Preston Guardian. . _ The Manchester Guardian states, on " unquestionable authority," that instead of 3,000/. a year, Miss Durie has no fortune whatever of her own. With regard to the lady's insanity, the same paper states that she was placed in the institution un the certificate of two leading physicians of the county. TATTERSALL'S-THISEVENING Six o'CLocx. CHESTER CUP. 33 to 1 on the field 66 to 1 agst Heanan Platoff colt 66 to 1 agst Peep o' Day Boy 66 to 1 agst Canezou DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Honeycomb 20 to 1 agst Osterley 20 to 1 agst liriel Very little doing. IRELAND. THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—There are further and dis heartening accounts of the progress of evictions in the s , aith. The occupiers of the hrger class of farms are emigrating, many of them without paying rent or poor rate; and the smaller holders are put out by ejectment. The Cork Examiner containi the following:—" Battem, parish of Kilmoe, Nov. 23.—0 n Friday, 17th November inst., Joe Driscoll, driver to Mrs. Clerk, went on the lands of Battem, and dispossessed several families, com prising in all 36 persons." The same journal says:—" The correspondent, who authenticates this information, states that there are no tices pending for even a wider range of extermination! And it is in the most wretched part of all this wretched country that this movement is so rife." The 1 ipperary Vindicator gives an appalling account of the condition of some districts in the North Riding of that county :—" In a townland in the immediate neigh bourhood of Borrisokane, where twenty-five families lived in comfortable circumstances, nine of those fami lies emigrated within the last few months, and four of them died, leaving twelve on the townland, some of whom are in the most indigent circumstances, desirous of leaving the country if they could. The village of Bal_ lymackey has become a heap of the most squalid paupe rism, whilst it does not contain one-fourth of the once comparatively happy cottiers by whom it was inhabited, death having made sad havoc among them. Of Toom avara the same may be said in a great measure; and in nearly all the rural chapels on Sundays it is observed that the congregations are thin, scanty, and ragged, not numbering half what they were a few years ago." ESTATES OF LORD BLAYNEY.—The Newry Examiner mentions a rumour that Baron Rothschild is the pur chaser of the estates of Lord Blayney. COURT OF ERROR. KELLY V. SUGDEN.ITheC:t;i of Error delivered judgment this day, reversing the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench. By this decision, Mr. Sugden is con firmed in the office of Registrar to the Court of Chan cery. All the judges in error, except Judge Cramptun, gave their decisions in Mr. Sugdyn's favour. The proof thus afforded of the fallibility of the Queen's Bench is a source of gratulation to those amongst the friends of Mr. O'Brien, and the other State prisoners, who antici pate an unfavourable judgment from Chief Justice Blackburne and his learned brethren. They appear to think that this judgment may lessen the effect of an ad verse decision, as regards the prisoners in the treason cases, in the eyes of law lords and judges of England. THE SUN, . A GENUINE YANKEE. " Hallo, my good friend, can you inform me how far it is to the next house?" Jonathan started up. leaned on his hoe handle, rested one foot on the gambril of his sinister leg, and replied, "hallo, your,eli ! how'd dew? We'll, I guess I can. 'Taint near as far as it used to be shire they cut the woods away; then it was generally reckoned four mile; but now the sun shrivels up the road, and don't snake it more'n tew. The fust house you come to, though, is a barn, and the next is a hay stack; but old Hoskins's house is on beyont. You'll be sure to meet his gals long before you get there; tarnal romping critters, they plague our folks more'n a little. His sheep git into our orchards. Dad sets the dog arter the sheep and me arter the gals, and the way he makes the wool, and I the petticoats fly, is a stn to snakes." I see you are inclined to be facetious, young man; pray tell me how it happens that, one of your legs is shorter than another?" "I never 'lows anybody to meddle with my grass tanglers, mister ; but, seein' it's you, I'll tell you. I was born so at my tickerler request, so that when I hold a plough I can go with one foot in the furrer and t'other on the land, and not lop over; besides, it's conve nient when I mow round a side hill." "very good, indeed ; how do your potatoes come on this year ?" "They don't come on at all, I digs 'em out; and there's an everlasting snarl of 'em in each hill." " But they are small, I perceive." " Yes ; I know it. You see we planted some whoppin' blue noses over in that ere patch there, and they flourished so all-tiredly that these stopt growin' out of spite, 'cause they knowed they couldn't begin to keep up." " You appear to be pretty smart, and I should think you could afford a better hat than ou wear." " The looks ain't nothin'; it's all in the behaviour. This here bat was my religious Sunday-go to-meetire hat, and it's chock full of piety now. I've got a better one to hum: but I don't dig taters in it, no how." " You've been in these parts some time, I should guess? " "I guess so, tew. I was burn'd and got my brot'n up in that ere house, but my native place is Por dunck." " Then you shv it is about three and a half miles to the next h ouse ? ' " Yes, sir, 'twas a spell ago, and I don't believe it's grow'd much shorter since." " Much obliged ; good bye." ALLEGED FASHIONABLE SWINDLING.—A person has been apprehended in Edinburgh, on a charge of forgery, who during the last few months mixed freely in the higher circles of society there, and lived in a fashionable and expensive style at one of the principal hotels in the city. It appears that he had assumed high military rank, and had extensively patronised various establishments, chiefly clothiers and mercers, from whom he obtained a large supply of articles, at first by paying cash down for the goods he purchased; but having suc ceeded in establishing his credit, he then transacted business upon a more enlarged scale, and suddenly left the city without settling the numerous claims against him. The immediate cause of his abrupt departure was, however, the discovery of a forgery of which he had been guilty, for a limited sum, the person whose name he em ployed being at present on service in India. He was traced to Hull, and having been apprehended there through a telegraphic message transmitted thither by the superintendent of police here, he has been conveyed to the gaol in Edinburgh. ENDOWMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST nOOO.—A. lar ge ere laymen was T meeting of Dissenting clergymen and Catholic „ f heldopposing in endowments Glasgow, on Tuesday, for the purpose priesthood endowment of the Roman 'and also in opposition to existing wofas Callyeddetscription. Mr. A. ilastie, M.P. eeritey'proposed by out,ha chair. A series of resolu tfiourntsh w e y cormgentlemen, ouelellev. Drs. Eadie, Wardlaw, mented in the strongest Taylor, Anderson, an speeches, in which the paigsas against tagainstt Churchhatt f no endowmentse . ii. ea o o - f in lengthened terms upon the opinions of likely to be Catholicpro priests in the founded on lotions were unanimously every kind, but especially with Government. post(' for the support of the Roman Ireland. It was resolved that a memorivalo these resolutions should he transmitted to "`" WAR win' CHlNA.—Constant war established list inevitable, unless we are permantntly es Chusan, from whence a single war-steamer could in a few hours stop the whole internal navigation of the empire. The imperial grain ships (6,000) must pass near it on their way to Pekin; their cargoes are valued at 24,000,000 taels (5,000,000/. sterling). It requires no great foresight to predict whether this would not be more efficacious than blowing up a few mat-forts, or sending our brave s o ldi ers f rom H ong -Kong, which is at th e extremity of a line of sett...coast of 2,000 miles.— China, Political, Commercial, and Social. POTATO TRADE AT PEELTII.—Two vessels have been laid on this week to take in potatoes for the Lon don market, of which there appears still to be no lack, although the quality, in most cases, is by no means cheering. Reds are bringing from Bs. to 125., and regents from 18s. to 225. a boll. The latter are univer sally in good condition, so far as disease is concerned. ,Perth 4dyertiier, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BEI - VCR, Nov. 29. FALSE IMPRISONMENT-OSTERMAN v. EATEMAN. In this case, which had not concluded when our After noon Edition went to press yesterday, the jury, after an absence of an hour, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. William Hill, 32, plumber, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding his wife, Sarah Hill, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutrix deposed that the prisoner was her husband, but they had separated, and she had gone to reside with her mother at Woolwich, and assisted her to carry on her business of a fruiterer. About eleven o'clock at night on the Ifth of November she had been engaged in the shop, and was outside talking to a person named William Hammond, when the prisoner walked by, and as he passed made use of an opprobrious expres sion to her. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he went by again, and she observed that he had a knife in his hand, and when he got close to her he made a stab at her breast, but the knife struck the steel in her stays, and the point was broken. She fell from the violence of the blow, and the prisoner again attempted to stab her, and she received a wound on one of her fingers. Cross-examined—She' had been obliged to leave the prisoner because ho would not support her, and he had been the means of getting her turned out of two houses which she had provided for herself, by his extravagance and getting into debt. Mr. Hammond was merely a customer of her mother, and there was not the least ground for supposing that there was any improper inti macy between them, and the prisoner had never quar relled with her on his account. The prisoner appeared to have been drinking at the time he assaulted her, but he knew perfectly well what he was about. Her husband was ♦ery angry with her because she would not allow him to come and live at her mother's. She had offered to go and live with him in any home he might provide for her, if it was only one room, but she would not let him be a charge to her mother, who had enough to do to support herself. - Some other evidence was adduced confirmatory of the evidence of the prosecutrix, and the constable who took the prisoner into custody said that as they were going to the station-house he told him that ho " meant to stab the -- --." Mr. ROBINSON, in addressing the jury for the prisoner, said, it was a lamentable thing to see a husband and wife appearing in a court of justice under such circum stances as had been detailed before the jury; but he submitted that upon the evidence the jury would not be justified in convicting the prisoner of a felonious assault. He would not attempt to insinuate that there was any ground for supposing an improper intimacy existed be tween the prosecutrix and Mr. Hammond, • but it was clear that the, prisoner was aggravated by seeing his wife talking to that person, and, in a sudden fit of jea lousy, he committed an assault upon her, but without the felonious intention imputed to him by the present indictment. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said it was very possible that such a motive as that alluded to by the Learned Counsel had actuated the prisoner, but there did not appear to be the slighest foundation for such a suspicion, and, even if it was well founded, it would afford no justification for a husband to take the law into his own hands and carry out his feelings of vengeance by an act of this description. A violent as sault had certainly been committed, and it was fur the jury to say whether the prisoner, at the time he com mitted the act, contemplated the felonious intention im puted to him. The jury, after. a short deliberation, found the pri soner Guilty of an assault, and acquitted him of the felony. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that his conduct had been mast disgraceful, and in order to protect his wife from violence in future, and as an example to others in a similar position, he felt it neces sary to pass a severe sentence upon hins, which was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years, and at the expiration of his imprisonment he should require him to enter into his ow❑ recognizance in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each, to keep the peace for two years. Elizabeth Rogers, 26, Isabella Jennings, 30, and John Jennings, 23, were indicte4 for stealing a silver teapot, coffeepot, two silver waiters, 24 forks, 42 spoons, and other articles of plate, of the value of nearly 200/., the property of Cranston George Ridout. Mr. Payne prosecuted, Mr. Ballantine defended Ro gers, and the others had no counsel. It appeared from the evidence in the case that the pro secutor, who is a retired military officer, resided at No. I Wimpole-street, and on the 29th of August he had made preparations for leaving town, and had packed up his plate and placed it in a closet, resolving, contrary to his usual custom, to allow it to remain in the house during his absence, instead of sending it to his banker's, which had always theretorore been his custom. The pri soner Rogers was engaged as housemaid in the family, and the other prisoners stood in the position of sister and brother-in-law to her, but the prosecutor was not aware that she had any such relations, and when he left town he gave her permission to allow another married sister to visit her, but forbade any one else being admitted to the house. The precise period when the robbery was committed was not very clearly made out, but it v as shown that very soon after the prosecutor and his family left London the Jenniugses frequently went to the house, and upon sevtral occasions bundles were seen to be removed by the female prisoners, and taken away in a cab, and the woman Jennings was proved to have pawned a considerable portion of the stolen plate at different pawnbrokers' shops, giving false names. It further ap peared, as against the prisoner Rogers, that on the 2d of October she called in the police, mid stated that the house had been robbed, telling a very lame story upon the subj( ct, and denying that the other prisoners had ever been to visit her during her master's absence. It likewise appeared that when Jennings's wife was taken into custody her husband went to a person named Os born, and told him that he had committed the robbery himself, and that he had buried the plate, but he should say nothing about it until he was in custody, and then he would say where the plate was hid, in order that it might be obtained, for the purpose, as he said, " to pay counsel." He afterwards, however, said that .it was not he who had buried the plate, but another person; but he said he did not know where to find that person. Several other facts were also deposed to which left no reasonable doubt of the guilt of the whole of the prisoners. The jury, after a short deliberation i❑ the box, ex pressed a wish to retire, and they were absent nearly an hour, when they gave a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, but recommended the women to mercy, upon the ground that they had been led into the com mission of the offence by their male companion.—Sen fence was deferred. Four strong able-bodied fellows, whose ages varied from eighteen to twenty-four, were indicted for stealing three loaves of bread, the property of Thomas Vooght. They pleaded guilty. It appeared that the prisoners, who hal just come out of the union, had gone into the prosecutor's shop and taken the bread, which they at once divided and com menced devouring. One of the prisoners handed in a written state ment, and The COMMON-SERGEANT, after perusing it, said he wished Government were made acquainted with its con tents, and then they would know the meaning of such offences. The reasons assigned by the prisoners for the commission of the offence was, that they only received eight ounces of bread in the union, which was not half what they had had in the priso❑ that morning. It was very evident that they considered they would be better kept in goal. They were all able-bodied paupers, and to imprison such as they were was but to hold out an encouragement to persons to commit such offences to be kept in gaol, where he, for one, thought the prisoners were too well fed; he knew they were much better fed, and had more of the necessaries of life, than many poor hardworking honest labourers. The fact was pretty well known that persons got bread enough in a gaol, and not in an union. Having consulted with the Judges, he added that he did not think there would be any punishment so bene ficial to the ends of public jUstice, and which would so well serve to check such offences, as the punishment he was about awarding them, which was, that they be imprisoned four days in Newgate and then discharged, but that they previously be all well whipped. The prisoners seemed exceedingly chapfallen at the sentence. _ Henry Muitz Goldsclimidt was indicted for forgery. The prisoner, a gentlemanly -looking foreigner, was described as an agent. The case had been remanded from last session. The prosecutor not being in attendance, The COMMON SERGEANT inquired where he lived, and asked the reason of his non-attendance? The officer said he resided in Fleet-street, and it was evident he did not mean to attend, as ho had called on him several times. The COMMON SEBGEANT directed an Acquittal, and, in estreating the prosecutor's recogni zances , di rec t e d them to be returned with a special endorsement of the officer's statement upon them. NEW COURT. (Before the CommoN SERGEANT ) Jeremiah Burke, aged 48, a labourer, was indicted for stealing a ream of paper, valued at las., the property of Charles James Jeffreys, and John liuddard, a grocer, was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. The prosecutor, who is a music publisher, stated that the prisoner Burke was a porter in the employ of a printer engaged by him, an d a part o f h i s duty was to fetch paper from his (witness's) warehouse to be printed upon. Llaving a suspicion that he was being robbed, he watched Burke on the 4th of November, and saw him take two reams of music paper away. Witness followed for some distance, until Burke turned up a court, and he then went on to the printer, and awaited the arrival of Burke, who shortly came, having only one ream with him. Wh en w i tness asked him where the other ream was, he said he had dropped it in the mud, but subsequently admitted he had stolen it, and begged for mercy. He then gave information, which led witness to a small grocer's shop in Crown-street, Soho, whero he found the other ream, hidden between some barrels and canisters. Amongst some other paper found by the police was some music-paper, which resembled some that had belonged to him, made into sugar-bags. Hud dard was then taken into custody, but admitted to bail, and this day surrendered to take his trial. William Hart, a servant employed at the University Club-house, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, by James Gould, 76, F division, charged vath obstructing him in the execution of his duty. The complainant stated that about three o'clock in the afternoon he was on duty in New-street, Covent. garden, when, observing the thoroughfare obstructed by a number of carts, and a cab, which was unattended, he inquired of persons, standing by where the driver was, and was informed that he had just gone into a hosiery shop with the prisoner, who had been riding in the cab. The moment he proceeded to take the number on the plate the cabman came out of the shop, and on his calling him to account for leaving the vehicle unattended in such a narrow thoroughfare, the prisoner rushed out of the same shop and said "D— you, how dare you take the number of that cab; the driver has been em ployed by me." Witness told him that he was obliged to do so, the driver not being present to take care of the cab and horse; upon which he re replied, " You are a thing—you don't know your duty;" which immediately caused a crowd to assemble, and, although some gentlemen pressed the prisoner to go away without more interference, and also witness re peatedly desired him to cease using offensive language, he still persisted to conduct himself in the same manner until he was taken into custody. The prisoner denied having made use of any improper expression, but hearing the complainant call the cabman to an account, he remonstrated, saying that he was the person who was in fault, and then the complainant ad dressed him in very offensive terms. A young man who was driving a cart proved that when the prisoner expostulated in the mildest terms with the complainant for taking the number, he said, " Get away, you pumped-up Johnny," which caused the prisoner to tell him that he ought to be taught his duty. John Stevens, the cab-driver, said that on his return from the shop, where he had not been three minutes, he apologised to the constable, seeing him take the number, and upon the prisoner interfering the constable used the words imputed to him by the last witness, at the same time placing himself before the prisoner in such a man ner as to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace. Thomas Jepps, a tailor, who said he was a stranger to both parties, proved that the constable's conduct was very harsh 'towards the prisoner, having pushtd him along and seized him by the collar, in such a manner that he was obliged to hold his hat to prevent it fall ing off. In answer to the magistrates, the complainant said he had been in "the force" only seven months. Mr.TlENar'said he could entertain no doubt of the truth of the evidence given by witnesses, who could have no interest in the matter, respecting the offensive words used by the constable, Witt) had no right to take the pri soner into custody, altboligh be was justified in taking the number of the cab, which, it had been admitted by the driver, was left unattended. The prisoner was then', discharged, LAMBETH. Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defence, said that he was instructed to deny that the paper had bee❑ feloniously received. The tact was that the prisoner Burke had entered his client's shop, and, laying the paper down, requested he might be allowed to leave it for a short time, and that a person w ho was in the shop being served had moved the paper to where it was found. The Learned Counsel then called a respectable woman named Scott, residing in Crown-street, who corroborated this statement, adding, that she moved the paper that it might be out of the way of a child who was in the shop. Two witnesses were culled, who gave Huddard a good character, and, a written statement put in by Burke cor roborating the defence, the jury Acquitted him, The prosecutor having recommended Burke to mercy, he was sentenced to three months' imprsonment. James Howes pleaded guilty to stealing property be longing to the Great Western Railway Company, his masters. The COMMON-SERGEANT said, they had but one duty to perform where servants of large companies robbed their employers, and that was to make an example of all so convicted. For some weeks past ► great deal or the time of the magistrates of this eoure has been occupied in hearing summonses taken out ett the instance of the trustees of the Surrey and Sussexd Trust against parties passing through the Vauxhall rates without paying the usual toll, under the plea of etemption. It appears that about eighteen months ago a discovery was made by an individual that all vehicles might pass to and from the Nine-elms station of the South-Western Railway without the pa 3 meat of till, and the ingenious discoverer at once made application to the then lessees of these tolls for 500/. as the price for his silence. The lessees finding that his representations were correct, deemed it their interest to allow him 30!. a month, and this sum was regularly paid up to the time at which their lease expired. The lessees declined to retake the tolls on two grounds—the first was the awkward discovery above alluded to; and the second, that the passenger traffic was about to be removed from Nine-elms station to that of Waterloo-road, and the consequence was that the gates were left on the hands of the trustees. These gentlemen, on assuming the power, discharged some of the collectors of the former lessees, and the consequence was that the right to go to and from the station without payment oozed out, and the result will be the loss of some thousands yearly to the trust. It appears that a street, Called Bond -street, which is si tuated between the South Lambeth and the Wandsworth roads, is not included in the trust, nor is Mile-street at the top; and vehicles coming over Vauxhall-bridge, or from High-street or Vauxhall -walk, have a right to pass through the gates into either of those streets without paying a farthing toll. On reaching the end of Mile street, they can also cross the Wandsworth-road, and reach the Nine-elms station, without travelling 100 yards on the turnpike-road, and are therefore exempt from toll. A number of persons claiming the exemption to gO into Bond-street and Mile-street, but who subsequently tra versed a greater distance than 100 yards on the turnpike road, have been summoned and fined. Amongst the number was Mr. Daleman, a solicitor, residing at Stock well; and from the evidence in his case, it appeared that on the morning of the 9th of November the coachman of the defendant, by his master's desire, drove from his re sidence at Stockwell into the South Lambeth-road, then through Mile-street and Bond -street, and returned the same way in the evening, without paying. ' The defen dant was convicted in the full penalty of 51. and costs, which he at onee__paid. WORSHIP- ST.R EET. Owen Moran and William Jones were charged with having been concerned with four others, not in custody, in committing a criminal assault and robbery upon the person of a poor widow named Anne Coxfield, living in Quaker-street, Spitalfields. The prosecutrix, who was in such a state of debility and suffering that she was allowed to be seated during the examination, and was scarcely able to give her evi dence, deposed that she obtained a living by selling fish at a stand in the City, and that shortly after one o'clock on the preceding morning, while returning to her home through Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, she was closely followed by the prisoner Moran and five other men, until they reached the end of a dark passage with• out a thoroughfare, where one of them suddenly snatched her basket from her, and ran up the court with it. She was at the same moment surrounded by the others, who forced her up the entry, where one of them struck her a violent blow in the face and knocked her down and before she could recover her self two or three of the fellows seized her by the shoul ders and held her forcibly down, while another of them proceeded to acts of violence which cannot be described, and in spite of her screams and struggles completed a capital offence. She was afterwards assailed in a similar manner by three of the other ruffians in succession, during the perpetration of which, upon each occasion, they placed their hands upon her mouth to stifle her cries. They next proceeded to rifle her pockets, from which they abstracted all the money she had, consisting of a shilling and some halfpence, and were in the act of stripping off her clothes, when they were disturbed by the sound of approaching footsteps, and having torn off her shawl, the whole of them ran away. Several of l the inhabitants of the court, who were attracted by her cries, then came to her assistance, and carried her home, where a surgeon was sent for, and she had ever since remained in a state of acute suffering from numerous contusions upon every part of her person. John Norton, porter to a tabaeconist, stated, that hav ing been alarmed by the screams of a woman at the time in question, he looked through a small aperture in the woodwork of his house, commanding a view of the en trance of the court, where a man was stationed, who called out " Muzzle her, and stifle her cries;" and the shrieks were then partially suppressed, as though the woman's voice had been forcibly stopped. The prisoner Moran -shortly afterwards emerged from the passage with a large basket, which he placed upon the ground, and said something to the other man, who disappeared up tha court, and the screams of the woman were vio lently renewed for several minutes, but were ultimately stopped in the same sudden manner, and the second man, having returned to the mouth of the court, called the pri soner Jones, who also entered the passage, and the same screams and struggles were again repeated. The whole of the men soon afterwards dispered in different direc tions, and the prosecutrix was subsequently brought out of the court by some of - the inhabitants, who carried her away in a state of insensibility. Sergeant Kelly and police-constable Gifford, of the H division, stated that in consequence of the description the prosecutrix had afforded of the dress and personal appearance of her assailants, on the face of one of whom she had inflicted in the course of her struggles a severe laceration with her hails, they succeeded on the pre ceding evening in apprehending the prisoners, one of He was the❑ sentenced to seven years' transportation. Henry Savage, aged 19, was indicted for stealing a pair of boots, a pair of shues, three books, and two loaves of bread, the property of Frederick Smith, his master; and William Dickens, aged 11, was indicted for felo niously receiving bread and boots, knowing the same to have been stolen. is a schoolmaster, in the service of the prosecutor, who little fellow, and Dickens (who is a very simple-looking what unconscious i. Savage pleaded guilty, and it appeared . that he lived and stood in the docks qiuningly was, that he of the guilty knowledge against .. was placed there for) is his nephew t was seen seated in a field, and had the things in question in his possession, and, when asked on y evidence said, " Waiting for his uncle," and told where he lived. Two police - constables of the V division, who were sent fur to prove the apprehension of the boy, were * he The b(,y what he was doing, asked by the COMMON -SERGEANT what evidence there was to warrant them in apprehending the child for re ceiving the things with a guilty knowledge? They both said they had their suspicions of his knowing they were stolen, and the principal reason they gave was their finding him with the property. SERGEANT, add ress i ng t h e j ury, said a ta o n olr r ' hi gemonstrous - tchaesehohy intoenevceur custody and T h h e e p w ol a i s ce v h e a ry d sorry to see that a magistrate had sent him for trial. The jury immediately Acquitted the child. The COMMON-SERGEANT told the constables that they would get themselves into a mess if they went about ap prehending boys in that way, and advised them to be cautious for the future. Savage was then sentenced to four months' imprison ment. _ . • LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1848, whom exhibited an extensive abrasion under the eye, which had been evidently recently inflicted. Both of them at first denied all participation in the outrage, but on reaching the station Jones admitt e d th at severa l oth, rs had been engaged in it, and that he stood by laughing at them. The prisoners were then searched, and same halfpence wore fotipd upon Jones, one of which was immediately identifietr by the prosecutrix, from some peculiar marks upon it, as having formed a portion of the money of which she had been robbed after the perpetration of the outrage. Neither of the prisoners offered any defence, and they were ordered to be brought up again in a week for ;he completion of the evidence. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WHITELIAVEN AND FURNESS. An extraordinary meeting of this company was held ye.terday, at the offices, Guildhall-chambers, for the purpose of confirming Ihe forfeiture cf certain shares— the &lid of Lonsdale in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, there were three distinct ways to proceed in disposing of the forfeited shares. One was to distribute them rateably among the profrietors who had paid their calls, but he feared, in the present state of things, shareholders would not be willing to take them; the second would be to sell them in the marker, but it was probable there would be no bidders; the third was, they thought the best, to keep them in reserve, and not dispose of them until after the Shamh.ddets were called together again, when he hoped the times would be more favourable. The number of shares forfeited on forme-r ccasions were 1,376, upon which 4,8681. had been paid. The 2,365 shares the forfeiture of which was now to be co-:firmed had 6.450/. paid upon them, making together 11,3181. the amount forfeited. A reiolution confirming the forfeiture of the shares was then passed, with the understanding that the shares would not be disposed of until after the next general meeting. In answer to questions it was stated that they had ex pended up to the present time 152,3001.; that about eight miles would be opened in February next, ant about 17 miles to Ravenglass in the course of next summer; that about 20,000/. would enable them to complete that length of line. The amount already received on calls was 159,0001.; they expected to receive 8,0001. from the calls next month, and about 8,0001. in February, which would mole 175,0001. They would then be enabled to bring their borrowing powers into operation. The line would be about 31 miles in length, :and about 21 miles of it would be executed for a sum between 6,0001. and 7,000/. per mile. Every effort had been made to recover the arrears due on the calls, nothing more could be obtained from those whose shares had been forfeited. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—An extraordinary meeting is to be held at Euston-square, on the 13th of next month, at which it will be proposed to create 26,000 shares, of the nominal value of 251. per share, in the London and North-Western, to be divided among the proprietors in the Leeds and Dewsbury, lately amal gamated with the London and North-Western ;*and 5,522 shares, of the nominal value of 301., and a further number of 23,125, of the like value, together with 18,900, at 101., in the London and North-Western, to be appro priated among the shareholders of the Huddersfield and Manchester, also amalgamated with the London and North-Western. GREAT NORTHERN.—This company have issued what are called "market tickets," similar to the return or day tickets, upon other lines, at reduced rates, to accommo date the agriculturists and farmers attending the Louth, Lincoln, and Boston markets. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—The works on the Great Britannia Tubular Bridge, which are of twice the stu pendous character of those over the river Conway, have been put in full operation this week, and are already in an advanced state. The platform for this purpose, across the Menai Straits alone, is half a mile long, and four large tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly completed. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be floated half a mile along the Straits, and then raised 106 feet home. The total weight to be raised this height will be 1,800 tons, which is 300 tons more than the weight of the Great Britain steamer, with her hulk, rigging, engines, and boilers. The end tubs are also much advanced, and they are constructed on the largest mass of scaffolding ever erected. The scaffoll or platform on which they are being put together is 100 feet high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broad, capable of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100 tons.. It will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them are of iron, 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, and capa ble of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, rising out of the water, from the Britannia rock, after which the bridge is named, is 62 feet broad, by 53 feet square. The blocks of stone are seven and eight feet long, and they rise, atone upon stone, until the p'er is 230 feet high. There are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire length of the tube bride across the Straits, is 1,420 feet, or nearl3 one-third of a mile. The entire experiments and processes are carried on under the superintendence of Mr. Edwin Clarke, C.E., who is en trusted with them by Mr. Robert Stephenson, the emi nent engineer. ttAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market remains in much the same state as yesterday. Some business was done in Great Westetns and Bristol and Exeters at former prices. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have not had such a good de mand for shares to-day as yesterday. Prices are a point lower. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 1 4 c. Dundee and Perth, 25—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Man chester and Birmingham), Fifths, 4 1 A c. 101. Preference, Bs. 9d.—Midland Stock, 781 2 c.—Ditto, New halves, 10 c. dis.—Scottish Central, 25 1 4—Shropshire Union, 635. 9d. c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),l% c. dis.—London and North-Western, 117% c.—Ditto, New Quarters, lls. 3d. p. biANCIIESTER, Nov. 29. STOCK Exciwicac.—The sales are —South-Eastern and Dover. No. 4, 6 9-16 —Leeds, Preference, 7-16 p. London and North-Western, Fifths, 31/ 2 c. p.—York and North Mid land, 48 3 4—Grinisby, 201. Shares, 11 13-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6Eh dis.—London and North- Western, New, c- P. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Midland, New, lov i Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 53% —North Staftbrd shire, 61. lls. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Pre ference, 3s. 3d. p. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are—Newcastle and Car lisle, 96—North British, 15—Ditto, Thirds, 765. HULL, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Birmingham. Wolver hampton, and Stour Valley, 6—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 47—North Staffordshire,6 l 4 die.—Shropshire Union, 15s. r. g. GLASUOW, Nov. 28. STocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junction, 55 1 4—Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), 614—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 5 per cent. guar, 991/. 2 —Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 399.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 39s.—Great Northern, 6%—Midland, 77%. STEAM CARRIAGES ON TURN- PIKE ROADS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. RESPECTED FRIEND,—It iS with much pleasure that I am enabled to communicate the result of a careful examination of the subject above alluded to, in conjunction with a thoroughly practical engineer, well acquainted with the principle of steam, and in particular with the working of the Cornish engines, that in our opinion there is now no doubt finally of the most complete success of Sir James Anderson's steam carriage for turnpike-roads, and that the public will shortly have the opportunity of being conveyed with great ease, and with perfect safety, at the speed of from ten to twelve miles per hour, at the average of not exceeding one penny per mile, and yet afford a large profit to the p ropr i etors, thus doing away with the necessity of trunk rail way companies making costly and profitless branches. —Yours, respectfully, THOS. MOTLEY, C.E. London, 11 month, 16th, 1848. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—Having made a discovery in the sciences which I consider to be of the greatest importance to mankind, and feeling certain of its reality and im portance, I desire to make it public. And I beg, Sir, you will be instrumental in my so doing by in serting my letter in your valuable paper, by which means it will meet the eye of some of the friends of science, who, if they will communicate with me and fix their own opportunity, I shall be prepared to demonstrate, by irrevocable proofs, the universal system—the two extremes—infinity—causes primitive of the difference of the sexes—of mirage—of eleetri city —heat—light magnetism the nature and formation of the celestial bodies—principle of life— cause of cholera; in fact, I shall give solutions to all phenomena whic h until now was considered the mys tery of science. I beg to state that the above explanations will be given in the French language,, and not to any one individual, but to several together. . I have the honour to remain, Sir, &c., THEOPHILUS JARECKI, Polish Refugee, 3, Hayward place, Clerkenwell-green, Nov. 18, 1848. ROYAL HOSPITALS OF BIIIDEWELL AND BETIILE HEM.—On Monday a general quarterly court of governors of these hospitals was held in the great hull of Bride well Hospital, New Bridge street, Blackfriars ; Si r P. Laurie (president of the institution) in the chair. The attendance of governors was pretty numerous. The minutes of the last court, as well as those of the inter mediate meetings of a general committee, were read an d Mr. n (1, d, and tl t Y , inconsideration ililuiteecnotnhlfirsmt aend. din g rule and order beu of the long and faithful services of Ralph Price, Esq., the late treasurer of theso hos pitals, he be and he is hereby chosen an honorary mem lr of the general committee for conducti;,g the afEtirs during his life," which was duly seconded and unani mously adopted. Mr. Atkinson Morley, seco n d e d b y Mr. J. Wilson, then proposed—" That the pri v il ege of appointing one governor annually to these h osp i ta l s be continued to the new treasurer, provided always such governor so appointed do pay to the funds the sum of 501., as is the custom in the other royal host itaL." Mr. Henry Kemblo moved, as an amendment to this resolu • tion-6rhat during the presidency of the present presi- . , dent no alteration be made in the privi'eges of the trea- surer." This amendment, having been seconded, w:is g i t i y n . a I m A T t i e o r n t , h e which rra ( b }f le thl m e aj (j o r r i T ilt to the vote, and being negatived, a show of hands tires c n a e r x r t ie t d ak b c ; a in co f n .a s v i dis patch of some further business of a merely routine cha. meter, the court broke up. THE BRAZIL MAIL. FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—The Express Tv,clict, Lieute nant Lory, arrived last evening with the Brazil mails. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of October. Her passengers are, Sir Manuel Rodrigues do Oliveira, Blanc.), Messrs. Cauto and Meyer, Captain Bunce, and three miners. She brings in freight about 120,0001., a considerable porticn from the River Plate and the Pacific. On the 7th October the late Government retired, when Viscount de Olinda was commisioned to form a new Ministry, which had 6ee3 completed from the high aristocratic party, but the only name ri ported whe❑ the packet sailed was Senor Joaquim Jose Rodrigues Torres, Minister of Finance. The Exchange Market was anima'ed on the 6th and 7th, when 50,000/. were negotiated upon London at 231(i. to 24d., of which 20,000/. were taken by the Treasury, since which dates little was done to the time of the packet's departure. Bills to a moderate amount had paseed upon Paris at 400 reis, and upon llarnburA at 720 to 739 reis. Discounts confirm( d env at 6 to 61 Stock little ding at 86} to 87, and at 85i to 86 for pro vincial. In specie, business was tolerably brisk, several large parcels had been sold. Doubloon at 31,550 dolls. to 31 800 dolls.lars at 2,020 dolls. to 2,050 dulls. Old Portent 18,500 dolls to 18,750 dolls. Sovereigns at 10,000 dolls. In the freights little doing; some few vessels had left in ballast, but the quantity of foreign bottoms still at Rio Janeiro was enormous, and amounted to 160, of which 110 without destination. COFFEE.—The market was brisk, chiefly for the United States. The sales from the sth to the 14th Oct. amounted to 40,000 bags. Tho exports since the sth were:—For Antv.erp, 6,910 bags; Copenhagen, 2,583; Falmouth, 1,900 ; Genoa, 1,631; Gottenburg, 2,004 ; Hamburgh, 1,742; Havre, 4,502; Jersey, 2,952; Lisbon, 1,281; Malta, 3,263; New Orleans, 19,630; New York, 8,210; Philadelphia, 4,000; Trie,te, 2,513. The price of washed coffee on board was 295.; superior, 235. 4d.; Ist good, 225.; Ist ordinary, 20s. 2d.; 2d good, 18s. Bd.. SUQAR.—The receipts of Campos, all packages in cluded, amounted (from the sth) to 230 cases, and the /ales to about 400 cases, of which 150 were for Portugal, and the remainder for home consumption. White, 2,800 dolls.; brown, 2,100 dolls. to 2,200 dolls. for new. THE DEAD SEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l read in your issue of the day before yesterday (the 21st) a short account of Captain Lynch and the American expedition to explore the Dead Sea, from which it would appear that the detuent from the Lake of Tiberias to the Dead Sea by the Jordan had now for the first time been accomplished. But, Sir, this is not the case. Our gallant countryman, the late Lieutenant Molyneux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, two years ago conveyed a small boat overland from Caipha to the Lake of Tiberias, and thence by the Jordan to the Dead Sea, upon which he remained two, if not three days; he then took his boat by Jerusalem to Jaffa. Poor fellow! he died six weeks afterwards at Beyrout of fever contracted during his journey. The difficulties encountered by the American expedition were mere child's play compared to those which poor Molyneux met with and triumphed over. On one occasion the three seamen he had with him were separated from him, and were- seized, beaten, and stripped of their arms aud clothes by the Arabs, and found their way almost naked and with difficulty to Tiberias. Still Molyneux persevered, although he had literally to fight his way down. When at Jerusalem in April I saw a letter from Captain Lynch, in which he speaks of fully appreciating Molyneux's daring and per severanco, and in which he refers to his having the same Arab pilot who was with Molyneux. I never met Lieu tenant Molyneux; but as I thought the impression might go abroad that the Americans were the first to navigate the Jordan between the two lakes, wh. , reas an English man had preceded them, I have taken the liberty of troubling you with these few lines. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Cheltenham, Nov. 23. W. E. E. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. The following appointments have taken place:— The Rev. Algvrnon Charles Btackenbury, M.A., to the vicarage of Stapleford, Lincolnshire, with the vicarage of Charlton-le-Moorland annexed, in the same county. The Rev. Ashton Oxend ,n, AI. A.. to the rect , :ry of Pluckley, Kent, with the rectory of Pevington annexed. The Rev. Theyre T. Smith, M.A., rector of Newha ven, Sussex, to the vicarage of Wymondham, Norfolk. The Rev. A. Thomas, M.A., to the vicarage of Rot tiogdean, Sussex. The Rev. J. C. Carwithen, M.A., rector of Manaton, Devonshire, to the rectory of Challacombe, in the same county. The Rev. David Anderson, 8.A., Vice-Principal o St. Bees Divinity College, Cumberland, to the perpetual curacy of All Saints' Church, Derby. The Rev. G. N. Deahry, M.A., to the rectory of Ott. well, Norfolk. The Rey. T. C. Onion, M.A., chaplain to her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Leeds. The Rev. W. H. Tibbs, to the curacy of Sheriffhales, Shiffnal,.Salop. The Rev. Chitties Warrington Rogers, 8.A., to the curacy of Tunstall. The Rev. James Burn Smeaton, A.M., to the vicarage of Hannington,Wilts. The following benefices and appointments have become vacant Ci . VICARAGES. Nuth er, Somerset : dio. Bath an d W e ll s : 10GL par. J. I - ehiche3ter, Esq. : T. Evans, dec. Stevin ton, Beds : (lit). Ely : 1081.: pat. Duke o Bedford :. J. Wing, prom. PERPETUAL CURACIES. Chapel Hill, co. and dio. Lincoln : 47L : pat. th© V. of Swineshead:. W. Braithwaite, dec. Corhampton, Hants: dio. Winchester: 391.: pat. W. Wyndham, Esq : C. Walker, jun. prom. Elstow, Beds: dio. Ely : 751 : pat. W. 11. Whitbread, Whig, prom. liolland Fen, c 9. and dio. Lincoln : 801.: pat. B. Ber ridge, Esq.: W. Braithwaite, dec. CURACIES. Aston, Warwickshire: dio. Worcester: 11. W. Tibbs, prom. Glastonbury, St. Benedict, Somerset: dio. Bath and Wells: E. Synge, resigned. Raunds Nurthatnptonshire: dio. Peterborough : B. Dudding, des. Sherburne, Dorset: dio. Salisbury: J. Lakes,. prom, CHAPLAINCY. Sherborne Union, Dors. : J. Lake, prom. VICE PRINCIPALSHIP. St. Begh's College, CumberhLnd: Rev. D. Anderson , prom. THE NEW PLANET NEPTUNE AND ITS DIS COVERY.—On Friday last, at the Exeter Athermum, and , before a numerous atts ndance of the members of the Exeter Literary Society, James Jerwood, E-q., of St. John's College, Cambridge, M.A.,. and of the Middle Temple, Barrister at-Law, delivered a highly interesting and very able lecture ou this subject. John Sillifant, Esq., High Sheriff of Devon, and president of the so ciety, took the chair on the occasion. This dry and most difficult subject was rendered exceedingly attractive— the interest of the audience was enlisted and sustained from the commencement to the end. In the course of the lecture the claims of " Adams" for the priority of the discovery of-Neptune was clearly and forcibly de monstrated. The comprehensive intellectual power and unwearied energy necessary for the accomplishment of this discovery was familiarly illustrated; and this glo rious achievement of genius by the son of a Cornish farmer shows that— "Honour and fame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies." The utility of this discovery was elucidated by the Darned lecturer, and held up by him as a brilliant ex ample of what the human mind was capable of accom plishing under the most adverse circumstances. The birth-place of Adams is situated in one of the wildest and most barren spots in Cornwall; to his industry and unaided genius alone does he owe his high, his proud position. The lecture throughout was received with warm and enthusiastic applause. The chairman at the conclusion, in an admirable address, moved that the lec ture be printed, as it was one, not of local, but universal interest. This was responded to by the meeting, and acceded to by the lecturer. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT SOMERSET ITOUSE.—Be tween three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon a large crowd collected in the court-yard of Somerset House, in consequence of a lady, rather fashionably attired, having attempted to commit suicide. It appeared that having been observed by a gentleman connected with one of the public offices to be walking about the yard for some time, and now and then glancing at a large envelope, which had several coloured seals and tape upon it, he addressed her under the impression that she might have had some . business to transact ; but receiving no other answer to his inquiry than a dignified movement of the head, he passed on, and in a few minutes subsequent to this the unhappy woman mounted the balcony of the area adjacent to the portico entrance of the building, and was about to precipitate herself, when she was grasped by a man who happened to be passing at the moment, and whose timely assistance there can be no doubt saved her life, for the depth of the place selected was quite suf ficient to prove fatal, had she not been prevented carry ing out the desperate design. She was immediately placed in the hands of two police-constables, and from the answers to their inquiries there is no doubt what ever of the unfortunate lady's insanity, she having re peatedly called herself " the Duchess of Somerset," and that she intended to "guarantee the rights of the people, and make every one happy." The police in the gentlest manner led her to Bow-street station-house, followed by some hundred persona. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —For Family Use nothing can be more adapted than the celebrated Vegetable Restora tive Pills, prepared by John Kaye, EN of Dalton-hall, near Huddersfield. The most respectable and influential families throughout the kingdom have made it their only medicine for indigestion, bile, irregularities of the bowels and stomach, nervous headaches, affections of the liver, in all of which most miraculous cures have been effected. In all diseases to which females are peculiarly subject, these Pills will be found invaluable. Not a day passes in which either Mr. Kaye or his agents do no receive testimonies from heads of households, as to relief having been given to some member of the family by the use of this medicine. To prevent families from being imposed upon by spurious. mitations, Mr. Kaye has consented to his coat of arms and a fac simile of his signature being appended to the directions wrapped round each box. Sold iii boxes at le. lid.; 2s. 9,3.; and 4s. 6d., by all Medicine V( n iers. A RELIC or OLD TIMES.—A golden bracelet, or the intrinsic worth of about 201., which is thought to have been deposited at the time of the conflict between the Romans and the sons of the British King, Cunobelin, was lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mr. R. Fox, near Wendover, Bucks, and is to be vresented to the &Mob Museum. T COUNTRY MARKETS. 'BASINGSTOKE (HANTS), Nov. 29.—The show of wheal but moderate, yet every description of both old and new was to be had at a decline of from 5s to 10s per load of five quarters; some very superior white (old) sold at 15, per load, red ditto 141 ditto. New wheats at from 12/ to 13/ditto; second rate ditto, 10/ to 11/ ditto. Flour was down 2s per sack; bread Id the 81b loaf. Barley was in fair request for malting, without a decline in price; all coarse and inferior could be had at from is to 2s pet quarter less money; very good at 34s per quarter; other descriptions at from 27s to 32s ditto. Malt was offered at easier terms for the buyer. Oats of very slow sale, best corn not going at mere than 23s to 244 per quarters some very sweet feed ditto at 20s ditto, common samples offered at 16s to 18s ditto. Beans (heavy old) 40a per °quarter, new ticks 38s ditto. Peas (white bailers) 42a ditto, grey 40a ditto, maples 38s ditto. Rye 30s to 33s per quarter. New Tares Ils 6d to 12s her bushel, old ditto lOs ditto. WORCESTER.—On Saturday last there was_ a fair supply of Wheat, and we lower our quotations is to 2s per quarter on all descriptions. Barley is per, quarter lower, at which only rota 1 sales could be effected. Oats Roll slowly at a decline of is per quarter. Beans main tained their value. Peas 2s per quarter cheaper. GLOUCESTER.—On Saturday last the 4 Wheat market was again very dull, and the sales of all .descriptions were quite limited, at a reduction of fully Is 'per quarter since this day week. Barley was also is per quarter lower, except for the finest qualities for malting. Oats met with a similar decline. Beans nearly maintained former rates. WISBEACII, Nov. 25.—The supply of wheat is only moderate; of other grain, rather an increase. The trade for wheat is generally dull, and fully Is per quarter cheaper. Of oats and beans, the price of each article rather in favour of the buyer. Prices to the growers:— Wheat, new red, 591 b t 0 621 b, 42s to 435; extra, 495; white, 591 b to 621 b, 44s to 50s; extra, 52se. old red, 611 b to 63ib, 49s to 525; extra, 535; white, 61Ib to 631 b, 51s to 565; extra, 57s per quarter; oats, old,• 361 b to 401 b, 110 to 12d; new, lOd to lOid :per 'skitter begins, old, 393 to 41s per quarter. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 25.—The weather this week bas been for the most partfavourable for field work in general. Considerable progress. hits been made in seeding operations, and we have noiv every prospect of the seed being sown unclei• more favotirablieeircuna stances than at one time could hAve been , aaticipated. The trade during the present week has partaken of the flatness affecting other markets,. and athough- a slight concession would have been made to have induced busi ness, buyers have refrained from purchteinereely, con fining their operations as much ai ‘ possible; and only taking what their immediate necessities required. Pota toes seem to be advancing weekly with u 4 owing to large shipments being made to the south, and an impres sion is becoming prevalent that, as the spring advances the consumption for bread stuff must materiklly increase. At our market this morning we had, a Modetate show Of wheat from the growers, and although the arrivals coastwise are moderate, a clearance could only be ef fected by submitting to a reduction of Is to 23 per quarter, south country as well as foreign samples beiugat the same time about is per quarter cheaper. For flour we' expe rienced a slow demand, at a decline of is for the beat, and 2s per sack upon inferior marks, with some quantity re maining unsold at the close of the market. Rye may be called is to 2s per quarter lewer with only a retail inquiry. Although our arrivals of barley-have been on a liberal scale, a fair clearance has been effected of choice qualities at a reduction of is per quartersevbilst inferior and ill-conditioned parcels have lung on 'hand; although offered at fully 2s decline. Malt 2s chesper;and only extra sorts saleable; other kinds being comparatively neglected. Boiling peas, is to 2s, and beans as much lower, with only a moderate inquiry. With 'oats we were well supplied by our growers, and the arrivals from the north continuing liberal, the market ruled extremely heavy, with little business doing, notwithstanding that a concession of fully Is per quarter Would-have been ac ceded to, to have promoted transactions. - .. Y - DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, NOV. 27.-1-The' supply of oatmeal and barleymeal was large at'io-day'S mar ket; sales ready. Top price of oatmeal-same as lust week; top price of barleymeal 235, or 6a down ; flour and peaseme.ll, none in market. • • , Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. ... ... 29s 6d 2ss 6d 27s Od i Barleymeal, per ditto ... 23s Od .22s Oil 21s Od Peasemeal ... ... ... —s Od ^s Od —s Od Flour ... ... ... .. —s Od e.es .ocl —s Od Pot barley ... ... ... 27s Od —s Od —s Od IRISH GRAIN MARKETS.—As yet prices at our grain markets are somewhat less affected than mighthave been expected by the decided depression at Mark-lane. At our Dublin Corn Exchange yesterday there. was an ex ceedingly dull market, and so little disposition was generally manifested for business, that we can •oaly re port prices nominally as ou Friday, Whitk wheat, 24s to 29s ; red, 22s to 28s ; barley, 12s 6d to.lBs 6d ; old oats, 13s to 15s 6d ; new ditto, 9$ 6d to i Is 6d per brl. ; oatmeal, lls 6d to 13s ; second flour, 17s to 16s 6d per cwt. ; Indian corn, 34s to 37s per 4801bs. BELFAST, Nov. 24.—Grain—The market was largely supplied tO day with all sorts of grain, oatmeal, and beans, and sales were effected slowly at a reduction of 3d on oats and oatmeal, barley alone supporting its value. Beans from 5s 6d to 6s 6d per cwt. Pork-41p sveroduns and generally Is lower. Monday, Nov.' 17.---Grain The supplies were small this morning.'and the demand being dull, prices were the turn lower. 'Wheat, per cwt., from 9s Od to lls Od; la trl,y, 6s 3d to 7a 3d; oats, 55 6d to 65 8d; and oatmeal, lOs 6d to 10s 10d. Indian corn in slow demand, at a little over Friday's quotations. Pork —We had a large market to-day, and prices gave way about is per 1201 b—the range being from 44s to 49.. Butter has declined id to Id per lb; best 'firkins can be had today at 8(1 per lb. CORK, 1430 V. 27.—Flour—First qualit, 16s to 17s; second ditto, 15s to 16e Od ; household, lls to 14s ; third ditto, 9s to lOs per cwt. Oatmeal; lIS Id to 13s per cwt. Indian corn, 8/ 12. to 910 s; Indian meat 9/ 5s to 91 lOs per ton. Bran, 415 s to 5153 per ton. Hay— FArmers', 44s to 46a; average, 4as ; retailers'', 45s to 50s per ton; old hay, 45. to 60s per tun.. -Straw—Far mers', 12s to 28s; average, 20s; retailers', —s to —s per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, -25 over proof, 6s 6d per imperial gallon. Bread, 60 told per 41bs. Fresh butter, 10d to hid per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; mut ton, 3fd to 5d • veal, 3fd to 4fd; pork, sfd. to 7cl ; bacon, 6fd to 9:1; sausages, 5d per lb. ' Coals—New• port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Culm, 16s per `tote. Potatoes, white, 12d; Minions, 14d. , Hides—Market ditto, ils to 17s; salted ditto, 12s to 17s per cwt.; market skins, 2d to 2ed; calf ditto, 2d to 2id; veal skins, 3d to 3fel per lb. Tar—Archangel, 183 per bl. Tittsber:L-Quebec red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 3/; dell, 171 to 201 per hundred ; Bangor Queens, 31 2s 6d per lon. Septa; herrings,2o3 to 21s per barrel; Norway ilitto, —4. New foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 10s porton. Tallow, 48s. Wool, lOs to 12s per stone. . - - COAL -MARK E' Hasting's llartley ,158 6d Holywell Main ........ 15s 6d North Percy Hartley 15s Od Ord's Redheugh Townley 14s Od Wall's End, &c Gosforth .•.. Hilda ........... 14s 6 Marton Killingworth l4s 9u Belmont l7s 3€ Hetton Haswell lBs 6 Jonassohns , 14a 9d ‘ : -- YESTEIDAT. Lambton Russell's Hetton Stewart's ... . • lBs Od Benson Cassop.. . treugh Hall..' lss 94 South Kelloe ~. 15s 3d 'Adelaide .Seymour Tees A l6s Od 'south 15s 3d Brancepethtbie ..23s Od leowpen Hartley' DerwentwaterHirtlei 15s 041 Ships.at readier, 140.• [ADYERTISEMENT.3—A Respected. 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On the 27th inst., at Blomfield-read, Maids-hill, the wife of T. D. Keighley, Esq., of a son. On the 27th inst., at Brighton, the Lady Boss Greville, of a son. On the 28th inst., in Lowndes-street, the lady of Edward F. Jenner, Esq., of a daughter. • • On the 25th inst., at Lower Cheam, Surrey, Uri. Gilbert F. Lewis, of a daughter. On the 26th ina., at Ebury-street, Cheater.*Oa% the wif e of H. C. Scott, Esq., of a son. On the 26th inst., at Stamford-hill, ,Aira"ljantr, Charnel', of a son. On the 27th-init., at Cheam, the wife of, Adams Beck Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., at the Vale, Chelsea, Mre. T. Maguire, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Newland, Glocesterslaire, Adolphus Meetkerke, Esq., of Julians, Herta, to Cecilia Elliabeth, eldest daughter of Captain the Hon. E. Gore, R.N. On the 28th inst., at St. Peter's, Pimlicit; #ichardidscarl, Esq., of Greenmount, Castle Bellingham, Ireland, to Caroline Helene, only daughter of Professor Macaire, otGeneva. On the 25th inst., at St. John's, Redhill..M.r. S. Mason, only son of S. Mason, Esq., of Reigate Foreigo • to Charlotte, second daughter of W. J. Tilley, Esq, of Woodhatch, Rei gate, Surrey ; also, at the same time and talkie, Mr. James Shand, of Christ Church, Surrey, to Ellett, fourth daughter of W. J. Tilley, Esq., of Woodhatch, Reigate, Stgrey.- DIED. On the 28th inst., at Bridgwater, hirs. Elisabeth Reed, aged 69. _ - On the 29th inst., in Chester-place, Charles Suller, Esq. , M.P. for Liskeard, President of the Poor Law Bashi; aged 41. On the 21st inst., E. J. Watton, Esq., of Sidford.adge, near Southampton. On the 23d inst., at Mount Pleasant, Norwich, dr.-N. Croxford, many years resident at Hammersmith, aged 67. On the 25 inst., at Cloudes!epstreet, aged- 0, Emma Grace, wife of Mr. R. Swansborough. On the 26th inst., at Durant-house. near Bideford, Devon, Louisa Susanna, the wife of J. P. Ley, Esq., of goatoll an d Lowca Ironworks, Whit ehaven. At Brighton, on the 26th inst., aged 19, Elisabet , second daughter of the late George Wigney, Esq. On the 77th inst., at Sussex -terrace, klyde:park-gardens, aged 61, Miss Maria Ruggles. • On the 27th inst., at lA , estop-house, Albury, Surrey, Capt. Robert Russell, R.N. On the 27th inst., at the house of her sister, Mrs. Kemp, Thetford, Miss Rachel Stonard, aged 82. London: Printed and Published by 11111R.LkY Gr, °1 No. 112, St ran d, P r i nter, at The Suiv()Leee, No. 712, Strand,: in the Precinct of the Savoy, ia , the , towaY Of Aliddlesex, Thursday, November 80, 1848. NA Ca Policies Eon for tt V W'able has. on al feltare •f Divisiot Assurai Inereas, E: Prospect Sr any of Warted ro GRA Forea " 41 ° 01 1 an 4 „Week D zandays F. week D. 51 unday, times. Tit tim es assam baitted t o ge o Omnibus "crya guar ,". 0 1T .uree Iron packets . 3 .rum m i ck Passenge at tk '°rter lA. age Miffir r ie oy Daiee rna G. R h . CA - -..res • fo 231: pa Shares. 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