The Sun. — London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our journals and dispatches in in anticipation. Oct.of the Overland ta, Oct. Mail. T 7 ; he Hong- dates are —Bombay, 16 ; song, Sept. 28. The following is the letter of our Bombay cor respondent : BOMBAY, OCT. 16. The whole of the first division, mentioned in my last as under orders to move up to Prome, had left Rangoon by the 26th September, accompanied by General Godwin, Admiral Austen, Commodore Lambert, Sir John Cheape, and Brigadier Elliott, with nearly all the heads of departments ; Ran goon being left in charge of Brigadier-General Steele. The 80th Foot, mbarked in the small steamers on the 16th, the 18th Royal Irish betwixt the 19th and 21st, the native corps, Artillery, and Sappers, betwixt the 21st and 26th. The admiral had hoisted his flag in the Pluto ; General Godwin and the Commodore are in the Prosperine. The rain poured in torrents during the week ending 26th ult., and it was feared cholera would. break olat amongst the troops exposed to the weather in the small steamers. They were to be transhipped in the Irrawaddy to the larger frigates Sesostris, Fire Queen, Enterprise, besides the smaller vessels Pluto, Phlegethon, PrOserpine, Medusa, and Maha nuddy, the rendezvous being at Yanchm, Chu-Nah. The rumour ran that a vast force had been assem bled at Prome to give them a warm reception, while other accounts stated that it was not impro ble a messenger from the King of Ava would await their arrival to make terms. General Godwin would return. to Rangoon from Prome if all re mained quiet, and take up the second division, under General Steele (the 51st Foot, the 49th, and. 67th Bengal Native Infantry, the 9th Madras Na tive Infantry, two companies of sappers, and the Horse Artillery) about the 15th instant. Whether they would go up by steam, or overland by Shuy gain and Tonghoo, was not known ; but Colonel Bogle was collecting large numbers of elephants, bullocks, and carts, at Moulmein. The first divi sion expected to reach Prome on the 4th instant, so that by next mail something exciting may be trans mitted khome. It is believed that the annexation of the province of Pegu will be proclaimed on our force gaining possession of Prome—a letter being sent to the King announcing the fact, and once more offering him terms, which, should he refuse, he must abide the consequences. The sth M.N.1., the head quarters sth battalion Artillery, the Ist Madras European Fusiliers, and large detachments for the native regiments, had reached Rangoon. The detachment 80th Foot from Moulmein had joined head quarters before they left for Prome. The Rattler steamer is placed as guardship at Bassein. The 51st Foot and 9th M.N.I. were to be relieved from Bassein by the Ist Madras Fusi liers and 19th M.N.I. The Ist Bengal European Fusiliers left Calcutta by the steamers Sphinx, Feroze, and Moozuffer on the 29th September, and it is rumoured that the 2d Europeans now on their way from Agra to Fort William, will follow them to Rangoon ; if so, there will then be six European corps in Burmah, viz., the 18th, 51st, and 80th Queen's, and the Ist and 2d Bengal, and Ist Madras Fusiliers—close on 6,000 men, I should sup pose. Dr. Morgan, of her Majesty's frigate Fox, died at Rangoon, of cholera, on the 23d September. There are now in the Burmese waters the following , vessels : Her Majesty's ship, Hastings ; her Ma jesty's frigate, Fox ; her Majesty's frigate Win chester; her ajesty's steamer, Sphinx ; her Ma jesty's steamer, Rattler • Honourable Company's steamers Feroze, Moozuffer, Sesostris Zenobia, Berenice, Nemesis, Hugh Lindsay, Fire Queen, Pluto, Phlegethon, Proserpine, Medusa, Mahal nuddy, Enterprise, and a couple of other smaller ones ; the schooners Spy, Ann, and Henzie Queen; with upwards of twenty-five transports. Two new ships, the Granville and Hougoumont, of 700 and 981 tons, were launched at Moulmein, and a steam frigate named the Malacca, is being built for the royal navy. It was rumoured that a body of 40,000 Burmans intended attacking Rangoon on the night of the 30th or 31st ult., they having heard of the departure of the first division of our troops for Prome. The story was looked upon as a very un likely one, but all proper precautions had neverthe less been taken to prevent surprise and to give the fools a warm reception should they attempt to mo le* ,us. A strong party of marines and sailors from the Winchester had been put on board the ' surveying brig Krishna, lying off a place called Duzendawn, where the ex-governor of Pegu had taken refuge, as a party of Burmans from Pegu had threatened to attack the "Afton and. him A number of Burmese havin taken up a position in a village not far from Martaban,' several boats were dispatched from the Zenobia steamer and schooner Pegu to put them to the rout. The fol lowing account of the operation is copied from the Maulmain Times of the 13th September :—A Ran goon correspondent of a Calcutta paper, evidently no,wing nothing of the affair, would have people believe " the Bombay officer" in command of the Zenobia butchered poor unoffending people of the country for want of something else to do. AUGUST 31, 1852.—The boats of the Hon. Com pany's steam-frigate Zenobia proceeded about 28 miles above Martaban to reconnoitre, having re ceived information that 300 of the enemy were en camped at a village named Ketturbee. The boats arrived in company with the schooner Pegu abreast of the village, about half-past 4 p.m., on the Ist of September, the second cutter was ordered to pull a-head of the other boats, and endeavoured to ob tain the strength of their position : she had not proceeded far before the Burmese opened a sharp fire with jingalls and muskets, which was quickly returned from the cutter, pinnace, and schooner. The Burmese kept it up with great spirit, and the direction of their fire was very good ; first they fired a continuation of jingall balls, and then knocked out of th e i r h ouses, and fired volleys of musketry. at the boats and schooner. About forty minutes elapsed before they slackened their fire, when the Zenobia's second cu tt er an d p i nnace pulled for the stockade, landed and burnt the vii- i lage to the ground. An immense quantity of am munition was found and destroyed ; the explosions from the ball cartridge making it exceedingly dan gerous for the men getting fire to the houses. Th e stockade abreast of the river was about 300 yards in length, about 10 feet high, and about 3 feet thick, with a trench cut inside. The stockade contained 300 men, and if properly handled would have taken a much greater force to have reduced it. We have every reason to believe a greater number were killed. Owing to the boats landing the men so quickly, the Burmese had not time to drag away the whole of their killed, and wounded. The sphe rical case shell fired by the artillerymen of the Ze nobia, on board the Pegu, must have done great exe cution, as it was seen to burst in among crowds of men, the boats were wily riddled with musket balls, ti/ c. , but fortunately not a single man was hurt ; the schooner's crew had some remarkable escapes, her gunner's hat was shot through with a jingall ball, and immediately afterwards the sleeve of his coat was torn away. The schooner's mainboom was shot through in one or two places, both jib guns, and some of her running rigging. The boats of the Zenobia returned on Wednesday evening to their ship, and the schooner Pegu to her anchorage off the el - 00c. The fatigue and exposure that both officers and sailors underwent, was very great, the men being on their oars nearly the whole of the time, and constantly wet through. Mr. Boudvill was also present with his boats, Nos. 1,5, and 9, and rendered great assistance. Eighteen canoes were captured in all. There has been very little news from the Punjaub since my last. One of the few chiefs on the fron tier who remained true to us, having thereby drawn 0 „ . 11 himself and his tribe the enmity of the hill ti,',beß, who were said to be about pouncing on him, ru. applied for protection, and it was believed a force would r do u tfr om Peshawur to his assistance. _ p ocee at Lahore _ Sir H. Lawrence was expected back eso n had on the 2nd or 3rd inst. Colonel Mack- The 43 i ca : t returned to Peshawur at latest dates. little. 1 , 1 in the country had diminished but reached BombSaeinde not a word of intelligence has repeating. T h Y o since dispatch of last mail worth hourly expected steamer with news to the 12th is from bad to vi -„, so ii : l l . Watters continue to progress eightthe Nizam's dominions. The Contingent are I zonth s in arrear of wages, with at present small of receiving their pay from the Nizam's govent's entvind our own appa rently have no notion of do* Par t y squabbles run higheA g att. e needful for them. !he capital, but distracts rival overt we interfere not. In the nors think nothing of having a ay at for the fun of the thing. The Governeat_Goteher, just mains alWalcutta, in "royal seclusion," as ore of ral - papers h as it. His Lordship does not wi s h, to be p es _ e tered personally by e very one who thi nk , Re has claims to any vaca nt appointment, and h there fore directed that all glashall b e app t lica , tions for suchas throu made officially, in secreta r y. This seems to inhag_ve given offence P t ri e ve his exciu- Ditchers, who accordingly call out about the h e r sojourn in the :S 1 aiveiliiit. The Marchioness of Dalhousie is said to IlaT der- great benefit from de. Sir W. Gomm has, after all, as if quid w anes , gone t o Chence, to spend in quiet away from Simla. The 10 th ve Infantry had reache d Calcutta for i for Burmah. The 2d European Fusi ' ail Y expected. The young chief of Dhul ex-Mahara Lahore—a J boy of age, who h as , s i nce our anne xation of the country of the Five Rivers, been under charge. of Dr. Login—has, it is said, em br ace d Christianity in private, and will soon do so in public. He has ---- 4ve,iteliged Is' • .i., , T t ,,,..1 Z 4.. ',. -- t "4 4 % t 11. 7 4 4 ' id* til 'lr , , -.• -r, ! -,. I 1 .... .Lt • . • e'. ing, IN 0 5 - _ars of a THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 185 2. been to church at Meerut with the worthy doctor, and thereupon the Mofussulite has rated him and the Government soundly, but most ridiculously as people think, the former for having inveigled the affections of the child (fifteen years old I) and got him to renounce the faith of his ancestors, and the latter for allowing the doctor to perpetrate such a henious crime. By the newpaper writer the event is calculated to irritate against us the wrath of every native potentate in India, and God knows what may not be the result of their wrath 1 Any thing more ridiculous than the article in the usually sensible and ably conducted Meerut journal cannot be conceived. The attorneys of Calcutta have formed an association amongst themselves for the purpose of getting up a law library worthy of their body—and many hundreds of pounds have been subscribed by them. The new church at Roorkee has been finished, and was opened for public worship on the 20th Septem ber. The trooper who shot in April, 1651, Lieu tenant and Adjutant Johnstone, of the 3rd Madras Cavalry, at Jaulna, has been tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung : the sentence has been commuted to transportation for life. Lieutenant F. Hardy, 75th Foot, died of cholera at Umballa on the 3rd October. Brigadier-General Breton has been placed in command of the Sirhind division, and Brigadier Boileau in charge of the station of Rawul Pindee. Colonel Franklyn, 84th Foot, to be a 2nd class brigadier in command of Trichino poly. Captain Darrock, 51st Foot, to be Deputy- Assistant Quartermaster -General to the army of Ava. The editor of the Friend of India, Mr. Marsham, goes home in January next : it is to be hoped he may be examined before the Parliamen tary committee, as he could give evidence on any subject relating to India of more value than that of any other half-dozen men in England. Dr. Grant, personal surgeon toithe Governor-General, has been appointed Secretary to the Bengal Medical Board • for the present he remains with the most 1 noble—Surgeon MaKinnon acting for him for the present in the board. Surgeon J. Gill, Madras army has retired on 1911. a-year, and Major Gill, of the same service, has invalided. Some altera tions in the Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund rules have been sanctioned from home—considered very favourable to the members. Lord and Lady Falkland reached Mahabuleshwar on the evening of the 6th, where they will remain till early in November, when it is expected they will repair to the presidency to meet their noble relative, Lord Fitzclarence. Young Captain Fitz clarence , has resigned his berth on the Governor's staff, and will, it is expected, be employed on that of his uncle, to which Captain Fellowes has already been nominated from home. General Staveley and the general staff of the presidency will be in Bom bay by the 27th, it is expected. Probably the Gallant General will return home on delivering over the command of the army to the new Com mander-in-Chief, though nothing on the subject has yet been broached in public. Three officers of the Bombay army are among the casualties by this mail :—Superintendi 0- Surgeon Montefiore, of the Northern division, at Ahmedabad, on the 29th Sept. ; Captain Clarkson, 12th N. 1., at the same place, on the 6th inst. ; and Colonel J. P. Cum ming, Ist Europeans, on the 2d Sept., on his way to Australia for change of air. By the former Dr. Straker comes into the Board, consequent on Dr. Gibbs retirement, and Drs. Rooke and Scott be come superintending surgeons. Dr. Leith will, it is believed, be the new Secretary Medical Board in place of Scott, and the Medical Storekeepership, vacated by Rooke, has been offered to Dr. Leggett, at Surat. The Garrison Surgeoncy at this place will, in case Leggett accepts the offer be given to Dr. Winchester, and Leith will be succeeded in the Bombay Garrison Surgeoncy by Dr. Arbuckle —at least so it is expected. The Right Rev. Dr. Harding and the Archdeacon are at the Hills, and so will all who can manage it by the end of the next month. Though Sir E. Perry's time of departure for England is now at hand, not a word has yet been heard of who is to be his suc cessor. The natives wished to have erected some testimonial in his honour—a law class in the El phinstone College, or a school of industry on a large scale,—but the learned Knight could not with any , consistency allow them to do so, as lie has on seve ral public occasions ridiculed the testimonial-giving mania now for many years prevalent in Bombay. Pity he should have refused, however, for a school of industry for the tuition of the sons of the poor working classes in the arts and manufactures has long been a desideratum; the law class in the col lege would not have been of one-fiftieth the value of the school. There are few men who have deserved better at the hands of the natives than gir m.,-carine rerry—iew who NV iil luta a. 1‘... 11.1...,Z. 1.,,, all grades of society. Professor Patton leaves by to-day's Ceylon steamer for Europe on two years' leave. He has been very unwell, but has rallied considerably, and will; it is hoped, speedily recover. Colonel Moore, auditor-general, and Colonel Mel vill, military secretary, to Government, returned by last mail to Bombay from Egypt, where they had been on leave for change of air and recreation. Our railway progresses like mad, and it is expected car riages and trains will be running betwixt the fort and. Tanna (24 miles out of the 36) by the end of January. The Bombay Times .has latterly been filled with speculations on the new Charter Act, and able suggestions for the improvement of the govern ment of India, which bur legislators in Parliament would do well to study, but not a line of which I will venture to say will even be read by three fourths of the gentlemen who amongst them consti tute the wisdom of the nation. What do they care for India or its people, further than its finding em ployment for younger sons, and nephews and cousins, and friends, for whom they care just as little. It is said that the Rev. Mr. Reynolds, chaplain at Kirkee, has been selected by the Board of Education to succeed Professor Green (who is about being transferred to Bombay) as professor of literature in the Poona College—of course reta:ning his c leri ca l appointment as well. The old tub frigate Auck land, which left on the 14th September with the bulk of the mails for England, reached Aden on the morning of the 28th, after the Hindoostan had left for Suez—so she had to push on with her charge herself. It is not expected that she reached Suez in time for her packets to be sent on with the Ben gal mail—so the would have to lay a fortnight in Egypt. Splendid mail (mal) arrangements these. letterswOf course, hi ch Achilles , t t h e the o 2nuht P h r : e t s hl i drs three eh n c days y sent beforet September, h e i r by got to th A e de n everybody o a n the Calcutta steamer. The officer R.N. on boa rd the Hindoostan (which left Aden a couple of hours after the Auckland, must have been visible had a proper look out been kept at the Shum-Shum signal station) is reported to have rather hurried the departure of the vessel than attended to the request of the Aden political agent for her detention for a few hours : if so, he ought to be put on the retired list instanter. Lieutenant Taylor, 1.N., has completed the survey of the Gulf of Cutch, after eighteen months labour, and re turned to Bombay. Mr. T. J. A. Scott, the secre tary to our railway, has returned from England, whither he had gone some months back on business and for the benefit of a change of air. The mur derer, Duncan M'lnnes, who killed Sergeant Smith, was hung at Belgaum on the 4th inst. He confessed his crime, and on the drop implored all . the European soldiers to keep from drink, as the fire water, had brought him to an ignominious end. Trade continued brisk, and the money market completely glutted. P.S. At IJmritsir and Lahore the native troops appear to have suffered more than the European soldiers from sickness. The entire 9th N.I. were laid up, the band mustering as strong on parade as the battalion. At Cawnpore the 70th Foot and 48th N.I. had 200 each in hospital ; while at Dacca the 36th N. 1., the corps which refused to go on board ship to Burmah, was utterly disorganised and deci mated by fever. They could barely find men enough for a rear and quarter guard every other day ; the hospital and lines were crowded with dead and sick —no one could help his neighbour. The treasure chest was full—the men could not take their pay, and all the pay sergeants were sick. An establish ment for training engineers, similar to that at Roorkee, is about to be brought into being at La hore under Colonel Napier, by the Board of Ad ministration. Colonel Hawkins, Commissary_ General Bengal Army, is about to proceed home on medical furlough ; and Mr. R. E. Cunliffe, C.S., to resign the service. The Kalabagh coal has been tested, and found to be tolerably good. An iron ore, a mixture of carbonate of iron and lime, like ankerite-20 per cent. of the former and 60 of the latter—has also been found in the same locality. The Rev. J. A. Shurman, of the Benares mission, died in that city on the 30th September , deeply regretted by a host of friends. Sir Johri. Littler was to have left Darjeeling for Calcutta on the Ist October. He had materially improved in health. The Kirk Session of St. Andrew's, at Calcutta, has memorialised the Court of Directors for additional Presbyterian ministers for Bengal. l?r. Straker has refused promotion to the board, an u Dr. Edwards will therefore take his seat as third member. Dr. Rooke goes to Poona as super intendindivision.g BDur.geon, and Dr. Scott to the northern Leith has refused the board secre- Dr.si,_ Which. r I / 4 0.5, will be given probably either to or Keith. Dr. Leggett will, it is thought, acceptKu inan e store-k ee pership at Bombay. be in before 5 part, steamer, Just signalled, will not The Overland Friend of china supplies the f ol l ow ing news in its general summary W e have again the usual monthly amount of re port of battles fought between the GtoTernment and insurgent forces—sanguinary by account, but boot less in apparent result. Governor-General Seu still remains at Woo-chow (Wu-chau) in Kwangsi. Yeh has returned to Canton, and Pihk-wei of (Barba rian discussion notoriety), has proceeded north ward, some say to Pekin, others to confer with Sae-shang-ah in Hunan. Tien-ten (or what is left of him after decapitation by our contemporary of the Mail) still maintains a position at Hing-ngan, a place not, far distant from Kwei-lin-fu in the north-east quarter of Kwangsi, and would appear to be in constant communication with evilly-dis posed spirits in the northern parts of the Kwang tung province, whence we have repeated reports of plunder, ransack, and stoppage of river navigation. The main body of insurgents are in Hunan, and, so far as we can ascertain, are having it pretty well all their own way, working steadily up towards Nanking. The report of insurrection in Hoo kwang (the conjoint province of Hoo-nan and Hoo pih), as given in our summaries of July and August, is confirmed. We heard about the middle of the month that another attempt had been made on the life of the Emperor—that his Majesty was in great fear—had packed up his valuables all ready for a flight, and that part of the royal palace at Pekin had been destroyed by fire • all this, however, is wanting in confirmation, and there is not, perhaps, a word of truth in the whole of it. The United States squadron (Susquehanna, Ply mouth, Saratoga, and store-ship Supply), are still stationed about the Canton estuary, awaiting orders, it is supposed, to proceed to Japan, whither it is said her Majesty's ship Serpent will accompany them if they go within the current year ; hardly lik e ly, however, now that the north-east monsoon has come round on us again. HONG KONG.—Last month the total number of sick in garrison was 87—this month there is a re duction to 61 (against 127 at the same period last year). Of deaths, since last report, we hear of four only (against 7 in the same period last year, viz., 3 of the 59th Regt. (two of disease of the lungs and one of bowel complaint), and 1 Gun Lascar of Beni beri. The hospital list this morning stood as follows :—Her Majesty's 59th Regt., 39 ; Ordnance Department, 7 ; Ceylon Rifle Regiment, 15. The convalescents were withdrawn from the hospital ship on the 17th, and excepting those in hospital (suffering principally from dysentry) every man in he garrison is now doing duty. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Casualties by death in the armies of India since the de parture of the mail on the 2d Oct. ; H.M.'s Troops — Lieutenant F. Hardy, 95th Foot, at Umballah, on the 3d Oct., of cholera. Bombay—Lieut.-Qolonel J. P. Cumming, Ist European (fusileers), on the 2d Sept., on his way to Australia. Dr. Monte-fiore, superintending surgeon northern division, at Ahmedabad, on the 29th Sept. Royal Navy—Dr. J. Morgan, H.M. frigate Fox, at Ragoon, on the 23d Sept., of cholera. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, OCT. 15 The Money Market continues glutted. The Govern ment securtiy market shows rather a decline, and some descriptions of shares ar e less firm, as may be gathered from current rates, which we quote as follows : Trander Loan, 114 rs. ; Sicca Fives, 1101 rs. ; Si cca Fours, 96l ; Company's Fives, 1074 ; Company's Fours, 90 3 / 4 ; Oriental tank Corporation Shares, 50 rs. per cent. prem. ; Bank of Bomb a y Shares, 231 per cent. prem. ; Commercial Bank Sha res, 12l rs. per cent. p rem. ; an 2 k rs S . hpaerrecsen2t7. pm r i: d e • per cent. prem. ; Railway A SE a B res, 2 Cotton Piece Goods. —Since our last advices the prices have remained generally steady, with a. slight advance in favour of grey goods. The transactions have not been to a large e*tent, and considerable firmness has been ex hibited by holders. Cochineal.—The market has been dull, and a large supply having arrived from Calcutta, prices have fallen. Saffron of good quality in demand, prices have ad vanced steadily. Pepper.—Tellicherry has declined to 63 rs., although the stock is very small. Bhutcol—no stock . ; the season now opening, supplies may be looked for next month. on market for old has been very steady at 1,100 rs. to 1 , 105 rs., and 1,067 rs. for newt' of the lat ter about 700 chests have been purchased by Europeans, deliverable early in December. The new crop is esti mated at 27,000 chests. Freights.—To London and Liverpool steady, 2/. 7s. 6d. to 21: 10s. ; for China, 10 rs. per candy—nominal. Exchange.—On England, six months' credit bills, 2s. Old. ; document bills, 2s. 0/d. On Calcutta, par. On China, 225 rs. per 100 dollars., 60 days sight. Grey Madapollams are in good demand with slightly increased rates. Grey Shirtings.—A brisk demand exists for 40-in. of all descriptions, and prices have advanced 1 to 2 annas , per price ; 45-in. is also in good request, but prices have Grey Long Cloths.—The demand has been confined to the coarser qualities, prices offered for finer descriptions are very small. Bleached Jacconets.—ln much request, the prices ad vancing steadily. Bleached Shirtings.—Fine descriptions in good de mama. Turkey Red.—Plain cloth in fair inquiry. Twills of stout quality are in good demand, inferior qualities are less inquired after. Mills in request. Fancy Goods.:—Bleached mulls of all descriptions in good request. Book muslins are dull, although the stock is small. Swiss lappets of good style in demand, as also lappet scarfs. Cotton Yarns.—The market has been very steady, both mule and water have been in brisk demand, and prices for 205." and 30s. Water have an upwards ten dency, and 70s. to 90s. Mule have advanced sightly. Dyed Orange in good quality, and business to a consi derable extent has taken place at fair prices Turkey red of the best quality is in demand. Metals.—Swedish bar iron is in demand, as also steel in tubs, the stock of the latter being very small. Fagg o t s quite dull, English bar iron, nail rod, both square and round, sheets, and hoop are all in good inquiry, but no advance has taken place in the prices. Lead in pigs has slightly advanced, as also sheet lead. Spelter in fair de mand. Tin plates dull. Copper sheathing, braziers, and tiles have advanced slightly. South American, none in the market. Red lead and white lead both in good demand, lOrs. to lOirs. per cent. Cotton Wool.—Our market has been very steady, and considerable purchases have been made for England ; no transactions for China, no vessel being laid on, CALCUTTA, OCT. 7. The Pottingeir, with London dates to the 24th August last, arrived on the 20th ultimo, and the mails were de livered on the evening of that day. The commercial in telligence is not of an encouraging character. Little animation existed in the markets for colonial produce, and several important articles were flat, and had de clined in value. In our export market the above news had the effect of discouraging shippers of sugar, and notwithstanding the limited stock of Benares and the decline in freights, the grainy sorts have given way 8 annas on the lower, and 4 on refractions. to 6 annas on the b e tt e r qualities. The demand for salt petre has revived with an a d vance of 4 to 6 annas per md.e rainy the silkfine B r unefrd hasetion proveds. Ric a e is failure, a n g and going very lforwardlittle e a to Great Britain. Th e mar k e t i s b are o f Safflower. Th is expected from the Octo b er one ; there is no demand, however, and prices are somewhat easier. Corahs have been taken more freely at full value. Lac dye has been ae in good request and largely shipped. Shellac h as a l so been in good demand ; the coming twelve months' supply of the D C mark has been contracted for at 12 . 2 per md. More inclination to operate in hides has been evinced during the last few days, but the supply in the bazaar is small. Linseed has been liberally t a k en for Great Britain and America ; the ,supplies are mo derate, and prices haVe improved. Rapeseed has been more inquired for, and has advanced a little in value also. In our import market rather less business has b een done during the past fortnight than for some weeks previously. The market for cotton goods, however, i s generally healthy and firm, and the local trade sound, while our advices from the upper provinces continue favourable. Operations in cotton piece goods h ave been checked by the difficulty experienced in forward ing them per river steamers. The boats of the two river steam companies are inadequate to meet th e re quirements of the trade, and the government boats, owing to the exigencies of the state, are not at pre sent available to the public. e near approach of the Doorga Pooja holidays, which commence en the 17th inst., has also had the effect of causing dealers to curtail their operations. Grey shy. ings have been placed to considerable extent at an an advance of 1 anna per piece. A fair inqui r y has obtained for the lower qualities of white shirtings. Large quantities of the lower qualities of jaconets have Book muslins are • found purchasers at full prices. quiet, but holders firm. Mull-mulls are i n demand at slightly improved rates. Th e business done in mule twist has been comparatively small, with a decline of 1 to 2 pies on Nos. 40 to 100 ; stocks, however, are moderate, a n d the principal holders firm. German Turkey red yarn is in good demand, at better prices ; British dye is inac tive, but holders confidently adhere to recent advance prices. The demand for copper has subsided, and the value of sheetings has receded R's. 3 to 3-4 per md. An active demand exists for sheet iron to supply the wants of the upper provinces at an advance of 6 annas per aid., and this metal generally is in a good and improving po sition, with moderate stocks. Spelter is at present without inquiry, and its price has gone back to 8-4. Lead is in fair request. The money market is still superabundantly supplied, and capitalists find much difficulty in obtaining good in vestments for their funds. All kinds of respectable joint stock shares are growing dearer and less easily obtain able at current rates. Company's paper has maintained the improved value noticed in our last report. We now quote—New Five per Cents., at 106.8 ; Old Sa. R's. ditto, at 104 ; Co.'s Rs. Four per Cents. at 8.4 ; Sa. Rs. ditto, at 10.8 ; Bank of Bengal shares, 6,200. Bonded Warehouse shares, 270. Exchange with London remained at 2.08 and 2.04 for first-class credits until the close of last week, when the rate suddenly rose to 2.0 i. It afterwards receded to 2.01, where it stood when we went to press, but no great desire was d is p la yed by either buyers or sellers, to operate at that rate. Ninety days' sight bank bills from China were offering at 2.04 Owing to an accession of tonnage, and the anxiety of commanders to get away before the commencement of the holidays, the rates of freight have further declined. Our quotations now are 3/. 2s. 6d. to 3/. ss. for sugar to London. CHINA MARKETS. SHANGHAE, SETT: 16. Black Teas.—About 80 chops Of Congous have been settled since-our last (July 30), at 11 to 12 tales for Ho Howe, and 131 to 16 taels for ,Monings. The unsold stock is about 1,000 packages, and of Souchongs about 5,000 packages. Green Teas.—A very extensive business has been done in these since our last; 180,000 packages have been taken, of which 140,000 are for United States, 30,09 0 for England, and 10,000 for Sydney. Prices may be quoted : • Hyson 16 t 6 28 ; Hyson Skin,. 11 to 16 ; Young Hyson, 14 to 35 ; Twanka.y, 13 to 20.; Imperial, 16 to 28 ; and Gunpowder, 19 to 36 taels per picul. Silk.—There has been a good deal of business done since our last report, comprising a period of six weeks ; but after the arrival of the July mail purchases were checked for a time, and stock in, native hands gradually increasing, reduced rates were submitted to. But even at these lower prices no very extensive transactions have taken place. The total settlements of new silk to date we estimate at fall 16,500 bales, against 7,500 last year; and the export since Ist July is 13,500 bales, to which may be added about 1 , 400 bales of new silk hipped at the end of last season. The unsold stock is said to be about 3,000 bales. Opium.--Malwa.—Our last was under date 31st 31st of July, from which time till about the middle of August, the demand was very steady for Malwa at 496 doll. to 495 dole., and then improved almost daily till the 20th, when heavy clearances were made at 505 dole. A very unexpected start then took prices up to 520 dole. Here, however, the demand ceased, and up to the 31st little or nothing was done, quotation then nominal, 510 dole. to 520 dole. At these figures some little business took place during the earlier part of the month, but lately there has been hardly any inquiry, and to-day the quo tation has declined to 505 dols.' to 510 dole. The de liveries since the Ist of August are estimated at 3,000 chests, and the stock now at Woosung is 2,800 chests. Patna.—Quoted in cur last 545 dole. to 548 dole con tinued pretty steady until about the 16th to the 18th, when it improved, and has since constantly fluctuated between 560 dole. to 580 dole. To-day's quotation is 582 dole. for high numbers. Exchange.—On London at six months' sight clean credits, 5s 04d to 5s Id. Bank - Post Bills, .5s lid. Document Bills, 5s lid. East India Company's Bills accepted rupees 239 per 100, dole. Drafts on Canton, 10 days' sight, - 2 per cent. premium, added on sh. dole. Freights.—To England 2/. to 2/. 10s for tea, and 3/. to 3/. lOs for silk. T o America, 9 doll. to 10 dole. for 40 cubic feet. Sycee.-136 dole. 25c. per 100 tads. Gold.—Bars, 196 dole. per 9t. 7m. 3c. Mexican Dollars, 9 per cent. discount, nominal. Chopped Dollars.—None. Copper Cash.-1, 460 per dollar. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Iberia, with these mails, arrived at South ampton yesterday morning. Her dates are,--Gib raltar, Nov. 6 ; Cadiz, Nov. 7 ; Lisbon, Nov. 9 ; Oporto, Nov. 10 • Vigo, Nov. 10. The Senator kmileo Augusto da, Costa Cabral, younger brother of Costa Cabral, has been mur dered at Vizen The war of the Bank against the Government is still an active one. The former presented its 18,000,900 reis in notes on the 30th, under the abrogated law, for amortisation, which the Junta, do Credito Publico refused ; while the Treas ury presented to the Junta the 9,000,000 reis under the decree to the account of the Bank, which, with their own quota and other small sums, amounting in the whole to 30,915,600 reis, were duly amortised on the 3rd, as well as 9,494,091 reis in other papos of credit. The bank has also advertisecl authoritatively for all purchasers of na tional property to pay the amount of their' pur chases into• the coffers of the bank, as if the directors were it the exercise of ministerial functions. Exchange, 54 ; discount of Lisbon bank notes, at per cent. ,On the 9th inst., at Lisbon, a mutiny broke out among the crew of the Melbourne screw emigrant ship to Australia. One seaman was stabbed by another, and is not expected to live. The captain and officers went on board the Inflexible, for secu 'ray, the captain of which sent his boats, armed, and brought away five of the ringleaders and put them in irons on board of his ship. The Melbourne put into Lisbon leaky, with loss of all three masts ' in moderate weather, as also did the s hi p Typhoon, disniasted in a gale. Several of the M elbournes passengers have come home in the Severn. .72 OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES BEAL? From the Weekly Dispatch,. It is not merely by a pun that this may be called the , c goldoia age_ Without doubt, in many re- Teets ' it prefers a title to the appellation, not only in a literal but in a metaphorical sense. And, somewhat strangely, the metaphor will be literal, and the letter metaphorical. Although the influx of the precious metal is greater than ever it was in age or country, yet the gold itself constitutes a very secondary element in that composite social state which bids fair to warrant for this era the title of the age of gold. Substantially the civilized world has been in profound peace for nearly forty years. The slight apparent exceptions appear to have rather confirmed the rule. The wars in China, India, California; and the Cape, have but served to extend the influences of humanity and civilization. The sudden outburst of the masses of the several nations of the continent of Europe, in 1848 and 1849, has been called a hurricane—a storm which burst over Europe, and so forth. But the description although pardonable as a rhetorical climax, .is really not warranted by the facts. Of loss of life there was little—of civil war scarcely any—of inhumanity, far less than ever before ac companied rebellion or revolution. The liberty of the nations is certainly not less now than it was before the date of these efforts to extend it. The material happiness of the States which were the itgtho civilization, governors s wr s o a f sa u t h d aselie governed our country disorders is actually greater than befor e . The prospects of humanity and indicated by the conduct both of throughout these trying scenes, were never so b r i g ht an d satisfactory. In and substantiai we have arrived at a point of greatness Prqsperity, such as is entirely with out parallel in the history of mankind. Beginning gas , on to the application of the discovery of loom and spinning-jenny, ea er rihenware and china, we have a perfection of steam t wi wi he t t h n ma e t sg h n e e uf d p a ra t c h tur c e ti e calr :ot e an , development of canals, the full pan , sio cf railways, and the latest cr owning cr owning ' discovery of the electric telegraph. navigation, the n All th cf the human intellect have been ry niVivors of the last half century. In a word, the material acquisitions of the race within 50 years have been greater than those of the p rec eding thousand. N or h a s the science of Go vernment e e s d e t f ri or um th P e h : behi n d that of mechanics, dyna. in ia, o The executive no longer rel, upon spies, packed i erehfaemillenstr y. d'iries, heavy punishments for g a n d i ta, t ' in E w League had corresponding gent laws. The Chartists whole country—held their great meetings, levied their vast revenues, dissemi nated their exciting tracts. Language was violent —the press groaned. wth the most exciting appeals. slightas en societies et the ies ff Anti-Corn e t n h e e s u and and es of Muir and Hardy, Horne Tooke of thetrarlione, the agencies of Castle But in place andenb h, Oliver,erougand thea ildgments of Braxfleld and Ell the Government looked calmly on —refused to interfere vith anything less than actual was',. laracy, or rebellion--sup i pressedn a lrelmd by th e county con otpheen con and win revolution raged all stabulary alone ; over Europe, our rulers Pt down insurrection in England solely by calling 'llion the ruled to preserve special constables. Ag a ulltthe Government or the a o u rd th er ori fo t r ie t s h o e f ms th el e ve c s o , un b t y r; _th, purely civil power of ve may almost say or write whatever we Please ; tnd even in reference t to the tender subject of theol) B 3,---, such is the confi dent reliance of the governi body on the power of truth, and the good Beast of the people, that Socialists write and speak blahemy, at their lei sure, and nobody thinks of meeting them with any thing but argument. Our delberative is as pro gressive as our Executive Gove rnment. C a th o l ic , and Dissenting, and Negro P-4n4, ncipation, Munici pal and Parliamentary Reforn,. were the fitting preludes of the inaugaraten of free trade and navigation, the developm.ent of ct colonial system, the wi se an d won derful unprovelkents i n the theory n. h and practice of finance and fixation, an d th e recent stupendous reforms in the department of jurisprudence. Still the miseries o; the Irish people, the frightf u l i ne qualities of riches an d p ov erty in England the appalling squalor of large masses of our p opu l a ti on , i n the manuF ac t ur i ng , agri cultural, and mining districts, were " motes to trouble the mind's eye" when the sud den impulse given to the migratory instincts of the poor, and the discoveries of gold in California and Australia, combined with th e beneficent influ ences of fre e trade and improved taxation, have cleared off our surplus masses, raised the wages of those that remain, given a fresh stimulus to manu-. factures and trade, an d have called into existence a great increas e o f ? customers for our productions in our colonies and the United States. Looking back upon the past, and leaning upon our staff to survey the journey that lies before Us, we have reason to be proud of our great achieves rents, and have abundant grounds for satisfaction and con tentment with our position. Our forefathers rushed into a war with Napoleon the First, spent 500 millions of money bout nothing, reduced Consols to 45, and Rentes to zero. We have rushed into a treaty with Napoleon the Third, greatly to the advantage of both countries ; Consols are 1001, and Renter 105. Still there is a skeleton in our house we know not how to banish---:a chip in the porridge we cannot fish out. Crime is making head against education, proAperity, and .civilization. Even al though pauperism has been materially reduced, and the workhouses are fast becoming empty, we can not make the smile report of our jails and peniten tiaries. Infanticide, the garrotte, poison, burglary, embezzlement, theft, violent murder, and every species of imposture and swindling, daily present their frightful catalogue of cases. The skill, dexterity; intelligence, and active courage of the police are certainly almost miraculous ; but the cunning and science of the dangerous classes appear fully to keep pace with the progress of the age. Laudanum gave them a perilous power 7 ---they have added to it by the garrotte and chloroform. Im posture and swindling are practised on a much larger scale by a far higher class of practitioners, and with a delicacy and refinement which seriously threaten the security of trade, and too often baffle the powers of the law. As the improved material condition of the people, and the more searching labours of a wise philanthropy, have deprived crime of many of its palliations, so. do they justify a greater strictness and severity of retribution ; and we think the time has come when the theory and practice of our criminal jurisprudence demand the application of the most comprehensive reform. To begin with a very obvious suggestion the office'rs of justice must, in the execution of their duty, be surrounded with the protection of the law. Our neighbours on the other side of the Tweed, visit not merely an assault upon, but mere resistance to, a constable, with the heaviest punishment. The turbulent or the criminal ought to be made, instinctively and habitually, to be as obedient and submissive to a policeman as a citizen of Madrid was to an alguazil, or a civilian in Valladolid to a familiar of the In quisition. Subjects should be trained by custom to the consciousness that wherever an officers move the whole power of the State moves with him ; and the officer should be encouraged to do his duty by the knowledge that no man will dare, without the severest punishment, to obstruct him by re sistance or aggression. Even the attempt to escape from a policeman, where no other offence is substantiated against an individual, should be visited with judicial penalties. The ends of justice require that every man Should. respect the warrant with which every constable is armed. The com placency with which our police magistrates contem plate the pommelling of Inspector A., or the mauling and battering of Serjeant 8., their own authorized functionaries, is one of the least tolera ble of their many stupidities. Although it " may make the unskilful laugh, it cannot make the ju dicious grieve," to see these sapient Rhadaman thuses daily aiding and encouraging the compound ing of all kinds of crimes. " Liberty to speak to the prosecutor," has become one of the commonest expedients of our magistrates for removing the cul prit beyond the reach of the vigilence of justice. Nay, overtures are daily made by criminal's coun sel in open court, and apparently with the encou ragement of the presiding judge, to the prosecutor, and arrangements are made which it is not easy to distinguish • from the compounding of felony. In passing, it is worth while, parenthetically, to observe that this is apt to produce the worst effect upon the constabulary, who thus see all their ingenuity and activity in bringing of fenders to justice, frustrated by the corruption of the parties wronged, and. the laxity of the court itself. It was but the other day that, on the trial of a pri vate in the Guards for repeated dastardly and wan ton assaults upon a policeman, the officers of the culprit begged him off and the judge suffered him to escape 'with a nominal fine, because, forsooth, imprisonment would stop his promotion. The only wonder is that the police, with such magistrates, do not imitate staunch dogs who hunt with a bad shot, and slink in disgust at the heels of justice, refusing g an faanyills to bringongertop d o o in w t n. at H ga e m re e h w as li b ch een th a e Young sprig of quality, named the Hon. Mr. Cur zon, reviving the obsolete trade of highwayman, and presenting pristols to ladies on the road with the usual alternative adjuration of " Your money or you life !" allowed to escape out of the country wi▪ th impunity, because the parties aggrieved were " talked over" from the performance of their clear duty to the public. The adoption of the Scotch system of a public prosecutor in every county, and of Crown counsel at the'head of the criminal ad mi▪ nistration of the country, is imperatively re quired by the circumstances of the times. By that substitution the grand jury system may at once be dispensed with. Prosecutions will then be con dilated on the responsibility and at the peril of an accountable officer. No tampering-with the plain tiff will be practicable—because then the Crown, or its offl,ters, the prosecutors. and tb.e -pri vate parties witnesses alone, at the command of the executive. In place of criminals being allowed to escape by the connivance of the victims of offences, by neglecting the proper means of prosecution, or by withdrawing witnesses or misinstructing coun sel, it will be at the peril of a responsible lawyer if a miscreant is spared, or a frivolous prosecution permitted. Cases will then be much more scienti fically "got up." It won't be a mere superinten dent or inspector who will then prompt the clue to discovery, or the line of investigation ; but acute barristers, sharp solicitors, and superior officers, long trained to the business, and organised to follow it on a system. It is obvious that a more educated and higber class of persons enter the ranks of crime than formerly, and demand an un proved organism of justice to cope with. We have been long also of opinion, that the situation in which a proscutor, who is also the chief witness, is placed in this country, is one which places the innocent in great peril. His expenses often depend upon his evidence being sufficient to procure a con viction. He too often persists in a statement, or colours it, because he is bound over to prosecute, and is forced by the committing magistrate to go on. A public prosecutor would often detect this, and probe the real value of the evidence, saving the rash from perjury, and the innocent from its consequences. The establishment of the County Courts, the powers of which ought to be further extended, will afford excellent opportunity for the initiation of a better system. We trust it will lead to the full development of the machinery of the Judge Ordinary jurisdiction, which his long prevailed in Scotland, and which gives to local judges, called sheriffs, in the various shires, a large portion of the functions now confusedly divided between the Spiritual, Equity, and Cotnmon Law Courts of England. It is clear that the economy of our criminal jurisprudence, calls loudly for amendment, and we trust that when reforms so extensive and valuable as have lately engaged the attention of our " Law Lords," have conferred their blessings on the country, Lord Brougham will not forget the rapid growth of crime, and the clamant necessity of an effectual machinery for its punishment and suppression. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, Nov. 9 I announced in my last that a vessel of war was in sight. She proved to be the Phaeton, and during the night the Admiral, with the Britania, Albion, Trafalgar, and Bellerophon, came into port with the. Tiger and Scourge steamers. On the following day (3d) the Ven geance and Modeste came in, and on the sth the Fury returned from Tunis. The Modeste has returned to C das o tcue rfu ecaotmuon t eftev o rt send down the Arethusa, and she will not be relieved until the arrival of the Wasp. The Scourge left us on the 6th for Gibraltar and England, to be paid off ; and the Retribution is under orders to proceed to Constantinople, and sena down the Sampson, lately despatched from Corfu, for service in the Bosphorous. The Astrologer screw steamer, from Liverpool, met with an accident in lat. 36.35 N., long. 12.31 E., frac turing the crank of her foremost engine, which zaused the breaking of the cylinder cover. She was towed in here by the Brigand screw steamer, and will take three weeks to repair. On Friday a court-martial was held on board the Trafalgar, composed as follows :—Rear-Admiral Harvey, President. Captains Lushington Greville, Lord Rus sell, Giffard, Carter, Lord Paulett, and Elliot, to try John Brown, second stoker of the Retribution steam frigate, on the prosecution of Captain Drummond, for the ship.manslaughter of William Jeffries, a stoker . of the same The Court having consulted, returned a verdict of Guilty, and sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two years in one of Her Majesty's gaols in England. On Saturday the court re-assembled, Captain Drum mondiames b ic ei i n n g g, th s e ec o o nl n y et eandgdiintieoenralofmHemerbmer,ajfeosrtythsesttr:aarnl steamer Sheerwater, on five separate charges, viz., Ist, 2d, 4th, and sth, for drunkenness, and the 3rd for taking a case of spirits on board, contrary to written orders. On tt t mhha nsa c . that city, fac:ri illu minations hyu e e, ,. con sidering the evidence, the Court found the prisoner —on the first charge not guilty ; on the second charge, guilty ; guilty ; o o ts : I n saoehf t h h etpi ahgerrehi fifthwshigher visitnteclass lrr c a s, h ou a sfpt r oft g oth e :r e,_e thet Kphlplaced itn guilty. :dgpeaado on the third charge, guilty ; on the fourth charge not The Court, in consideration of the previous good con sentenced him to be dismissed from Her Majesty's have received g le iv tt e e n rs t fr o ohmimM.e Balls,ssina giving fet brilliant he2 l e e b s mefito t thns list of third-class engineers, and not to be allowed to ad vancet e c f e ae N t o f f t a ht p l mi anl n d a ht t ha ions were the order of the day, and His Majesty was much gratified at his reception. He lad; pardoned very many of the political refugees, and will it is thought forgive many others. The fleet will leave to-day for Gibraltar, whence a por tion will proceed to Lisbon, and a portion return he.le. I mentioned, in a recent letter, that a Court of In quiry had been held- on Lieutenant M'Donald, of the Britannia, for nearly running into the Firebrand. I was misinformed. The officer brought before the Court and acquitted was Lieutenant M'Dougall, of the Firebrand. The India mail has arrived, and closes this morning early. There is no news of the least importance. The 18th, 80th, and 05th had left Rangoon fQr Prom, with a field battery and a company of artillery. Others would follow in three weeks. The Madras, from Southampton, has not arrived. She is fully due. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. The Pitt, old 74, built at this dockyard in 1816, but never commissioned, is ordered to be converted into a coal depot, to be stationed at the Motherbank, to enable men-of-war to replenish their stock of fuel on an emer gency, wittiout having to waste time and labour in dis charging their powder, and to come into harbour to do so. It is reported, however, that .the Pitt, after 36 years' inactivity, is so rotten as to be scarcely worth the expense of conversion, and this, we apprehend, is the case of too many of the ships in ordinary. The Russian frigate Pallas, 50, Captain Unkovsky, which arrived on Thursday, is to come to be docked for repairs prior to the pacific and Kamschatka, with Rear- Admiral Pontiatine, now in London, who will hoist his flag on board her here. A small iron screw steamer, the Fearless, of 200 tons formerly engaged in the Bristol fruit trade, is now being fitted out by Mr. Camper, the yachtbuilder, of Gosport as a tender for the Pallas. The completion of the screw ships building in our dock yards is ordered to be expedited by the men being em ployed upon them at job and task work. A screw guard-ship is to be stationed at the Channel Islands to assist in their protection. The crews of her Majesty's yachts' Victoria and Albert and Fairy were paid wages upon the new system (down to one month due) at they pay-office yesterday. • The Frolic, 16, sailing-sloop, has undergone a thorough refit, and will be undopked to-morrow. The Egyptian, Pasha,'s (Said'E4 yacht, Kassid Kheir, has been refitted, and is reedy to leave dock. The Gladiator, paddle-frigate, will take her place on Tuesday, to be overhauled and repaired. PORTSMOUTH GA.RRISON.—GeneraI Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief the Army, Baron Rag Master-General of the Ordnance, and staffs, are expected at this port this week on a visit of inspection connected with the defence of the country. , PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY. _ The gale on Friday nigh flooded all the lower parts of the towns of Plymouth, Totnes, and Teignmouth, and caused some damage amoung the shipping. These parts of the South Devon Railway near the sea at Dawlish and Laira were covered several inches deep in water. Her Majesty's frigate Indefatigable, Captain Smart, was towed from Sound yesterday by the Avon and Con fidence steamers into Hamoaze. To-morrow she will be placed alongside the jetty for the purpose of being dis mantled. Her crew will probably be paid off on Thurs day, and she will, it is said, be forthwith recommis sioned by Captain Hillyer. At 6 a.m. yesterday two line-of-battle ships were seen near the Start, with their heads off the land. Wind, S.E. SHEERNESS, SUNDAY. Her Majesty's cutter Active, Mr. Charles Austen Second Master-Commanding, left port yesterday morn ing for Chatham on dockyard service. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr. W. S. Bourehier, Master-Commanding, having com pleted necessary repairs, has been removed from the basin to moorings in the harbour, and resumed the duties of tender to the Monarch, 84, guard-ship of the ordi naryH. er Majesty's steam-vessel African, Second Master Gill, has made good her defects, and will be employed as heretofore as a steam-tug. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Cuckoo, 1, has been removed to moorings off Lapwell. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Lizard, em ployed as tender to the Monarch during the refitting of the Myrtle, was yesterday transported to moorings off the north end of the dockyard, preparatory to being taken into dock to have her copper overhauled. The officers and crews of her Majesty's ships Aga memnon, 92, London 90, Horatio, 22, &c., were mus tered yesterday by the Hon. Montague Stopford, Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and Flag-Captain to the Commander-in-Chief. P battalion consisting of 5 captains, 12 subalterns, 18 sergeants, 20 corporals, 15 drummers, and 300 privates of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, and 2 lieu tenant-colonel, 5 captains, 20 subalterns, 15 sergeants, 20 corporals, 8 drummers, and 300 privates of the Wool wich Division, under the command of Colonel Second Commandant Willes, with the field-adjutant and divi sional colours and band of the Chatham Division are under orders to form part of the funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, on the 18th instant. Captain Farmar, 'of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, has been granted a month's additional leave of absence, for thr benefit of his health. A gale of wind from E.S.E. set in here on Friday forenoon, blowing violently until 4 a.m. yesterday. The tide flowed full 18 inches higher than usual, the sea breaking over and washing away portions of the sea-wall at Miletown, and reaching very nearly the rear entrance to the Royal Hotel Gardens. Several artillerymen were employed until a late hour at night in filling up with with bags of sand the breaches in the embankment. Two Dutch barks, the J. C. Schotel, of Dordrecht, J. P. von Beest Holle, master, bound to Batavia, in ballast, and the Java Packet, IL von der Ingeden, master, from Rotterdam, for Akyab, were assisted into harbour from between the Gunfleet and Sunk Sands, by the smacks Elizabeth, Ranger, and Liam, nook, of Whitstable. The brig Robinson, of Hartlepool, Finch, master, has come into harbour with windlass, body, and betts lost an anchor and 90 fathoms of chain, and sustained sundry (-111,-nagef; by neing run us. .....‘c.11.1 ot, while at anchor, by the brig Charlotte, of Montrose. Several other vessels have also put in with loss of anchors, chains, • &c. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nov. 13. LUMLEY V. (AYE.-THE WAGNER CASE. Mr. Creasy, on Friday, applied under the 80th sec tion of the Common Law Procedure Act, for leave to plead, and demur at the same time, to the declaration in in this case. The declaration stated that Mdlle. Johanna Wagner had entered into a contract with the plaintiff to perform and sing for him, at her Majesty's Theatre, dur ing three months, and that the defendant, knowing this fact, had induced Mdlle. Wagner to enter into a contract with him to sing elsewhere during the same period, and agreed to indemnify Mdlle. Wagner against the conse quences of the breach of her agreement with the plain tiff, by reason of which premises the plaintiff had been deprived of the profits which jie would have gained had Mdlle. Wagner performed her engagement, to the plain tiff's damage of 30,0001. To this the defendant pro posed to plead. 1. Not guilty. 2. Traverse of the contract between the plaintiff and Mdlle. Wagner. 3. Traverse of the defendant's knowledge of Mdlle. Wagner having entered into a contract with the plaintiff. 4. Traverse of Mdlle. Wagner having been prevented ful filling her contract with the plaintiff in consequence s of the acts of the defendant. The grounds of the proposed demurrer were that the declaration did not show a legal damage resulting to the plaintiff from the acts of the defendant. The application was made on affidavits by the defendant and his attorney, stating that the defendant was " ad vised and believed that he had just ground to traverse the several matters proposed to be traversed by him." The Court considered that some of the matters proposed to be traversed were peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendant, and should be sworn to, and therefore recommended the learned counsel to renew his application on amended affidavits„the present being insufficient. The learned counsel, in consequence of this, renewed his application to-day (Saturday) on amended affidavits from the defendant, who swore, with respect to the mat ters proposed to be traversed, that such of the facts as came within his own knowledge were true. On this the Court granted the application. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. IN RE STORY. Mr. Parry renewed an application made on a former day, for a prohibition to issue to the Bishop of London to prevent his client, Mr. William Story, being pro nounced in contempt of the Ecclesiastical Court. It ap peared that his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Story, had insti tuted a suit against him praying for a restitution of conjugal rights, and he had received notice of a motion requiring him to take her home and treat her with con jugal affection, and to certify that he had done so before the next Court day. This notice was served upon him, but when he appeared a different notice to pay past ali mony was moved, and ho had been decreed in contempt for not making this payment ; at the same time his wife had been refused by her proctor to be delivered up to him, and this decree had been pronounced in his absence. Mr. Parry referred to the case of Ex parte Kenning, 17 L.J.Q.8., 257, and Capel v. Child, 2 Cr. and Jer., 574, and contended that this judgment ought not to have been pronounced in his absence, or without notice to him to appear. Mr. Justice Maule said he had been regularly cited to appear, and it might be his duty according to the prac tice of the Court to attend every other stage of the pro ceedings. The Court refused the application. The Ecclesiastical Court was competent to pronounce the judgment it had done. Story appeared to have been duly summoned in the first instance, and it could not be contended that a wrong practice had been followed, and Story had inotshown any i rregu l ar procee di ngs t o ren d er a prohibi tion necessary. Rule refused. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—OCT. 13. IN RE MANUEL EDINE DURUP. The circumstances of this case, which oc cupied the at tention of Mr. Commissioner Law more than three hours, were of a very novel character. The insolvent,- who had been a long time in prison, was charged by his mother with stealing some articles of grocery, of the value of 155., and committed for trial. Before the trial she died, and by her death he became entitled under his father's will to property to about 3,0001. On the trial his mother's depositions were read, and he was convicted, on which he was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment. As he was convicted of felony his property became forfeited to the Crown, and it was ac cordingly claimed. Applications were made on the pa r t of the insolvent and his creditors to induce the Crown to forego the claim, and it was now stated that the Crown had given up the right, and that the insolvent's aunts had claimed it, on the ground that the insolvent was illegitimate, his parents having been married only by the Roman Catholic religion. He now declared that it was the first time he had heard that the Crown had relinquished the claim. He denied that he was mate, as his parents were married at St. George's, Han over-square, after the ceremony in the Romish Church. Mr. Commissioner Law, after a long investigation, required further evidence, especially as to the alleged marriage. It was important to ascertain whether the property could be obtained for the creditors, The cue waa adjourned. - • ;•. FNCE. WORSHIP-STREET. —Mr. John Blackmore, a portly middle-aged man, who formerly carried on business as a timber merchant, but is at present the landlord of the Plough Tavern, in Shoreditch, appeared before Mr. D'Eyncourt, to show cause why an order of affiliation should not be made out against him, in respect to an illegitimate female child, the offspring of his niece, Alice Smith, of which he was alleged to be the father. The complainant, a handsome young woman, who gave her evidence with great decorum arid propriety, stated that while residing in the country, about eighteen months since, she received a communication from the= defendant, apprising her that his wife, who was her mother's sister had fallen a victim to cholerb,, and invit ing her to join him in town, and officiate as his house keeper. She assented to the proposal, and during the early part of her residence with him in that ca pacity he conducted himself towards her with the becoming respect which was due to her in their relative positions ; but on last New Year's-eve, after he ha.d'escorted home some ladies who had spent the evening with a party at their house, the defendant forcibly obtruded himself into her bed-room; adjoining the chamber occupied by his own son, and, notwith standing her indignant remonstrances and strenuous op position, succeeded in accomplishing her ruin. The in timacy was repeated on different occasions between that time and the month of May following, when she found herself in a pregnant state ; and, on communicating her condition to the defendant; he suddenly left the house., and, after disposing of the whole of his furniture and effects, ' abandoned the place, leaving her alone, with nothing but the two boxes which contained her clothing, in the deserted premises. In this extremity she applied for refuge to one of her father's friends, a tradesman, named Wood, who resided in the neighbourhood, and he instantly received her into his house, where she had sub sequently giien birth to the infant which formed the sub. jet of the proceedings. The defendant was examined in answer to the charges and stated upon oath that such intercourse had un• doubtedly taken place between himself and the com plainant on more than one occasion, but he was quit s confident that it had not occurred since the month of December last. In reference also to the charge of hay ing deserted the complainant, he was anxious to explain that his sole reason for leaving his house was in conse quence of an imperative notice to that effect which he had received from the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway. A yo s ung man named Joseph Fax was next called, and stated that be had known the complainant for three years, during which time similar acts of intimacy had repeatedly taken place between them up to Christmas last. The complainant was recalled, and, in answer to the magistrate, declared that the evidence of the witness was wholly without foundation. Mr. D'Eyncourt expressed his opinion that the case had been completely established ' • and, after adverting t o the gross immorality which had been developed in the course of the investigation, directed an immediate order to be made upon the defendant for the prescribed allow ance, and 2s. 6d. per week, together with the expenses attending the accouchement, and the other ordinary charges. CLERKENWELL.—Joseph Lawes, an elderly mall, was charged with having stolen two brass candlesticks , the property of Mr. William Stone, of Goldsmith's-row , Hackney. On Thursday last the prisoner charged a , man named Hill with felony, when he was fully com mitted for trial. The prisoner's daughter, who was co habiting with the man Hill, was in attendance at the examination, and, on leaving, threatened to be revenged of her father, when she gave 'information that he had stolen the candlesticks from the prosecutor, and she led him to a chandler's shop, where she had left the prope4 for the prisoner. Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the daughter)—Pray aro you a married person ? Daughter—l am. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l understand you left your husband to live with the man Hill ? Daughter—That is true. Mr. Stone said she came to him and said she could transport her father, and give important informa tion, she was well paid or it. He asked her how much sh° required. She said half-a-sovereign. Mr. Stone added, a short time ago the prisoner assisted in removing his goods, and he missed the candlesticks and other articles, but never entertained any suspicion of him. The daughter chucklingly said—l would not have given this information if he had not given Hill inte custody. Sergeant Judge, 268 G, here said that the prison er was taken before the magistrate at Worship-street police-court, who had sent the charge before Mr. Tr' whitt, who had investigated Hill's case. He Arnold) designated the daughter as a most depraved an worthless person, and the parties in that Court,' es this, expressed indignation and disgust. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he must commit the prisoner for trial, but would he like to ask his precious daughter all questions now. Prisoner—l own having sent her to sell the prop e el - Vl. c She has adopted the present course in orde r to prven me from prosecuting the man Hill. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would direct that the prisoner Fhoula be brought up n e ,,ir, tyin a rom,md, and further inquiries should De made. COUNTRY MARKETS. DALEErni, Nov. 11.—The relative weight per fou bushel of the three prices of wheat were 18st 81b, 18st 1117 , and 16st 191 b. Oats, 12st 101 b, list 111bs, and 11st 0117. Barley, 16st 101 b, 15st 41b, and 14st 8117. Pease and besn 6 19st 21b, 18st 81b, and 18st 31b. • Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior i 353 Wheat........... £2 8 6 £2 4 0 £1 8 1,667 Oats ....... ....... ..1 2 0 018 0 0 16 6 1,320 8ar1ey...." ... .....1 10 0 15 0 1 3 o 35 Peas and beans..t.l. 16 0 1 15 0 1 13,,, ABERDEEN, Nov. 12.—Grain—Old oats, 17s Od to 170 o"' 401bs per bushel ; new oats, 168 6d to 17s Od, 401130 P e "' bushel ; bear, 26s Od to 26s 6d, 531bs per bushel ; barley 26s Od. to 26s 6d, 531ba per bushel ; wheat, red, 355 0c 1 ; ‘ ,.7 36s Od, 621bs per bushel ; wheat, white, 42s Od to 440 v,r; 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, 13s Od to 14s Od per b° l ,.,' flour, 338 Od to 34s Od per sack. Provisions—Beef, perms , 5d to 6d ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 6d ; veal, ditto, 5d to ,"; pork, per stone, 48 Od to 48 6d ; lamb, per lb, 5d to rabbits, each, Od to 8d ; tallow, per stone, 7s Od to 8s Od potatoes, per peck, Od to 8d ; butter, per lb, Os 9d to Os lo`i i ?, eggs, per doz, is 3d to is 4d ; hens, per pair, 2s 6d 6 a 38 6d ; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks, ditto, 1 0 _, t to 2s Od ; ducklings, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d. ; turkeys, pair, 7s Od to 8s Od ; geese, ditto, 7s Od to 8s Od • butte. for exportation (present cure), per cwt, 00s to '6BO oa' ditto (summer cured), 00s to 79s Od ; eggs, wholesale prit per dozen, Od to 6d ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3 d ; P° r fine small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork, large, 3s 6d to 4s 3d. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The dealers and brokers in te, share market have been busily occupied to-day, with 131:0 parations for settlement. The account is winding :4 bullish, and continuations are very heavy. The mark°%. lower. The day's quotations are thus reported in the .....% thorisedilist :—Caledonian pref. sh., 101; East Lancaspfil 19i ; Lancashire and. Yorkshire, 87 ; London and IsT°•"1- Western, 1241; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, a"! 11 ' ditto (61. new preference), fip. ; Midland, 871 ; North 13 tish, 9 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23f; York and N° l Midland, 291; Cork and Bandon, 17k. MANCHESTER, Nov. 13. end an EXCHANGE.—The market has been firmer, „a an increase of business. Birkenhead, Lancashire , Cheshire Junction, 9 ; 'East Lancashire, 19 i ; 1111 / 4 ; dalk and Enniskillen, 16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 5 ; I % Lancashire and Yorkshire W. R. Union, 2 5-16 cl• • -1 ? • don and North Western, 125 ; Manchester and Birall;11,. ham (C Quarters), lip. ; Midland Railway . Consols, North British, 9i • North Western, si • South E 9 ' s ,g. and Dover, 23i ; douth Yorkshire Guam' n teed Four Per Cent., 19g. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 13. r ke a t STOCK wtos 3, very languid In a. here to-day ; very few transactions in shares of any 011 Worcester Canals were clone at 45k. DEEDS, NOV. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have no perceptible changed the market to-day ; very little business has been done , f ps prices are about the same as yesterday. The transact i oo do entered into are as follows :—East Lancashire, 19i ; 1).0 Northerns, 17s ; Ditto, Preference , No. 3, par ; 11 1 1 .0 1 North Western, 91 ; South Eastern , 23 i ; York and .I'4° Midland, 29g. • THE GOLD DIGGING LOTTERY. — Some time ago,. a JP: - in the employment of Herapatles Railway Journa l , of grated with his father and family to Australia, ono course repaired to t he di gg in g s. Al together there Wale four, who dug seven holes without finding allY I to/ I metal they sought. At the end of that time, a B°.- t hei sixpence formed their united wealth. At length • - r h dug an eighth hole, and were rewarded with 32 • v i° o ,l, of gold. Continuing their labours, they had obta llbo , when the letter bringing the information left them, 14 weight of gold, about 6001. in value. Such is the lot of gold hunting in the land said to,be full of it. BI.RTHS.- OP A SON. th e On the 11th inst., at Shillinglee-park, Sui ool ' Countess Winterton. • 104 of 5 . On the 11th inst., at Carleton-hall, Suffolk, the Lieutenant-Colonel Bonham. OP A HTER . On the 12th in s t., a 55, DAUG Upper Seymour-street , of the Rev. J. E. Hall. On the 12th inst., at Portsmouth, the wife of C. . Keyt, 85th Light Infantry. MARRIAGES. eth • st Xe llll l3 At. St. Marylebone Church, on the 13th in •• •P Macleay, Esq., of Keiss Castle, county of Caithneso , f to Jane, widow of the late G. R. Butcher , Es q ., ° beck-street, Cavendish-squire. 10* On the 13th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squsre't si Charles Gray, of No. 5, Conduit-street, Regent-streener'i of chitect, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late nr• OW ° Knightsbridge DEATHS. 14°r On the 11th, at his residence , Lo ndon Road, Lynn, folk, Francis Clowes, Esq. ' in the 78th year of his 0f4t...0f On the 13th inst., at 2, Portman-square, the Pomo Lady Macnaughten. Susan 146 ' On the 31st ult., at Petersfield, Hants,o 59. relict of the late Robert Cross, Lieutenant, R.N. , ug , sir fin the 10th inst., at Trafford -park, Lancashire s Thomas Joseph de Trafford, Bart , a g ed 74. ~.,. o f kett, x-.‘i On the 12th inst., at Brighton, John Tfal the Albany, aged 84. 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