The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

AUSTRIA. It is said that Wlndiscb?„ratz has placed Blum and Probe], the deputies from the Frankfurt Parliament, under arrest, and that M. Fernalberg and Professor Fuster have likowise been arrested. The report of the.captura of Bern and Messenhauser is confirmed. Aiguier, the Comnaandant of the A.cademic Legion, has shot himself. BAVARIA. The Auzsburg Gazette has accounts from Munich to the sth November. It appears that the Ministe rial crisis continues in that capital. The removal of M. Lerchenfeld, and the Minister of Justice, M. Heinz, is spoken of. It is expected that the Diet will be convoked for the 15th of December. HOLLAND. A letter from Rotterdam of the 6th inst. states that the cholera, which appeared there on the 13t inst., has raged with great violence. On the pre ceding day 41 new cases were declared, and 29 deaths, whilst there were but seven recoveries. During the previous five days there had been 298 cases, 157 deaths, 121 recoveries, and 16 remained under cure. ITALY. A letter from Botzen of the 21 instant, in the Allgemeine Zeitung of Augsburg, announces the arrival on' that day of a courier from 011mutz, on his way to the head-quarters of Field-Marshal the Count Radetzky. He was said to be the bearer of the Imperial assent to the prolongation of the armistice for three months. The Opiuione of the 6th instant quotes a letter from the Lake of Como, of the 2d, stating that the insurgents maintained themselves in the Val d'lntelvio, and that the Austrian troops had not advanced beyond the town of Agegno. The writer says that troops were marching in every direction to surround them. The valley of Camonico, and the centre of Valteline, were also in open revolt. The Italian General Apice had been wounded in an encounter with a party of Tyrolese Chasseurs, at Mount Bisbino, and sought refuge at Capo Lago. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Sen :ice Gazette.) COMMODORE SIR CHARLES HOTHAM.—By a private I , tter from the coast of Africa, we are informed that Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,7K.C.B., has positively expressed a desire to be relieved in the Command-in- Chief of the station in March next. There is no doubt the Admiralty will meet the gallant officer's wishes in this respoct. Captain the Hon. James Robert Drummond (1846). who was promoted from the command of the Scout sloop, whose came was mentioned last week as a candi date, is to succeed Captain Charles Eden in the corn mand of the Victory. Commodore Superintendent Sir Gordon Bremer. K.C.8., sc., will resign the command at Woolwich on the 15th or 16th instant; but Captain Henry Eden will not take charge, it is said, until after the revision of the establishment by the Admiralty Committee. The Confiance steamer, is ordered to carry Sir G. Bremer's baggage to Plymouth. Captain Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., has not been appointed to command the Vengeance, 64, as reported, for at present there is no vacancy. In the event of Cap tain Lushington's resignation, we have heard that Sir Henry Blackwood will have a competitor for the Ven geance more likely to succeed than himself. THE WEST INDIAN MAIL.—A correspondent in ferms us that, at the request of the Admiralty, the Di rectors of the Royal West Indian Mail Company have most promptly assented to their steam•vessels calling, and exchanging letters and dispatches, &c., at Mobile Point (where a British Consul, Mr. Nicolas, has been appointed), instead of at Ship Island, as heretofore; and the directors have also determined that the steamer that leaves Southampton on the 2d January next shall carry Out the new arrangements. We believe that the appointment of a Captain of the Royal Navy to the Superintendentahip of the Indian Navy has not yet taken place. Another candidate has been named for the post, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham, now commanding the Odin steam-frigate, in the Medi terranean, and it is said that the vacancy will not be filled for a fortnight. QUARTERMASTERS OF ROYAL MARINES. - With respect to any alteration as regards the retired pay of these officers, nothing officially has transpired; all, there fore, at present is mere rumour, which may, neverthe less, be well founded, and at any rate carried into effect, the scale of payments being similar to that of regiments of the line. _ _ UNATTACHED PAY.—Major-General W. Lindsay Dar ling and Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.8., have succeeded to the unattached pay of twenty five shillings per diem. Both of these officers have seen much service, and Sir Joseph Thackwell is one of those men whose reward has borne no just proportion to his deserts. Major-General Darling served at Guadaloupe in 1810, and received a wound in storming the heights of Matauba. In 1812 be was in the Peninsula with the 51st Light Infantry, and was engaged at San Christoval, Salamanca, Madrid, and Burgos. Returning to Eng land, a victim to typhus, in 1813, he lost no time in seeking a restoration to health, and was thus enabled to rejoin his regiment in five months, and to share in the affairs of Nivelle and St. P 6. In 1813 he was appointed to the Staff of Major-General Hay's Brigade, and served in the operations before Bayonne. He joined the sth Division as Assistant Adjutant-General in 1814, and was afterwards with the 4th Division in 1815, serv ing at Canibray, and subsequently at the capitulation of Paris. Sir Joseph Thackwell began his career in Spain, serving under the immortal Sir John Moore at Corunna. In several of the great actions in the Peninsula he dis tinguished himself 23 a first-rate Dragoon officer, and was foremost in the fray at Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He received a contusion at Vittoria, and lost his left arm at Waterloo. In the year 1837 he pr9ceeded to India with the 3d Light Dragoons, and in the winter of 1833 was dis patched toCaubul at the head of the Cavalry Division of the Army of the Indus. After the capture of Ghuznee, at which ho was present, Sir Joseph returned to India, in command of the second column of the Army, and re ceived the distinctions awarded to those officers who had taken a leading part in the expedition. On Lord Ellenborough's taking up arms against the Gwalior Durbar, Sir Joseph Thack well's services were again put into requisition. He commanded the Cavalry Division in the action at Maharajpore. In the same year we find him on the banks of the Sutlej, heading the Ca valry at Sobraon, and sharing in the dangers, but get ting none of the substantial honours of that memorable campaign. THE COMMAND OF THE SUPERB, 80. —We may state, on good authority, that Captain Edward Purcell (1828), will re-commission the Superb. 80, on being paid off at Portsmouth by Captain A. L. Corry. The Superb will be refitted, without being dismantled, by which, it is said, a saving of no less than 3,0001. will be effected; but we query whether, on Nomination, she will not, like the Albion, be found so defective in her masts, spars, and standing rigging, that all of it will have to come out and be re placed by new. The Superb will only have an advanced complement (496 officers and men) at port, like the Caledonia and Ganges, to be filled up, as in the ease of the Powerful, 84, when required to proceed on foreign service. Captain Purcell is about fifty-six years of age, and, we believe, has been selected for the command of this ship upon no other recommendation than of his own professional merits. WATERMAN'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY. This Company having yielded to the orders of the Admiralty with respect to the possession of a place called the Grove, at Woolwich, has made applicati)n to be allowed the use of a fire there occasionally fur the repairs of their vessels. RUSSIAN FRIGATE.—Another iron steamer, named the Taman, built fur the Russian Government, is to be launched from Messrs. Robinson and Russell's Iron works, Millwall, on Monday next. We have heard that the cost for demurrage of this vessel, if exacted, would be e normous , s h e h as b een so l ong on the stocks. ":'EAXEN AND MARINES' C 1 -enooLs.—The Admiralty have given orders to the authorities at Portsmouth, that a space of ground and building which formed part of the laboratory, are to appropriated t o th e use o f t h e institu tion for educating the orphans of seamen and marines. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NOV. 10.—.1n the ab• sence of supplies the market is badly attended, and the sales of the week are unimportant ; refining descriptions are in demand, every fresh parcel brought forward finds a ready sale at full prices. In rum there is nothing doing. Refined goods are steady at former rates._ Bristol Mercury, . THE LORD MAYoR's Scow. —The no nd velties of a civic pageant, with its men in armour, a and pageantry which distinguish the Lord Mayor'stePmnr, of the far-famed city of Londo n, a r e objects upon w Day v the eyes of countrymen sel dom lin g er ; it w as , therefor., ch not a matter of surprise to behold the town of Chelms ford thrown into excitement, by the announcement that arrangements had been made to convey passengers from this place to London and back for two shillings each. Accordingly yesterday morning a great number of tradesmen, artisans, and mechanics, casting aside for a time the anxieties of business, and emerging from the workshops and the counting-house, were seen hurrying to the railway station, clothed in holiday attire, to gratify their curiosity, and by a brief relaxation to be the better fitted to resume their varied occupations on their return. A goodly company were brought from Maldon and Braintree, and about nine o'clock, the train consisting of several carriages, and propelled by powerful engines, started for town.—Essex Standard. EXAMINATION OF THREE MORE MEMBERS OF TITS FIALSTEAD GANG.—The revelations of the convict Bryant, followed ap as they are with zeal and tact by Superin • tendent Hunt, promise fair to thoroughly break up this desperate gang, and bring all the parties in it to justice, three more members of it having through these means fallen into the hands of the officers—William Ritchie, William Smith, and Henry Finch, all young labourers, on various charges of sacrilege and robbery. On Wed nesday last the prisoners underwent an examination at the county gaol, at Springfield, before J. J. Mayhew, Esq., they having been sent there for further exami nation, in order that they might be confronted with Br, • ant. Mr. 0. Hustler, jun., attended to take the deposi tions.—Chelmsford Chronicle. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—We have much satis faction in stating that the Council of this college have come to the resolution of immediately electing professors of military science, with the view of commencing with the ensuing year a class for military education. The report, however, is without foundation, that communica tions have takenplace between the Horse Guards and the college authorities on the subject. THE SUN, VANCOUVER'S ISLAND-THE GI- GANT 10 JOB. We'rejoice to perceive that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce have uplifted their voice against one of the most stupendous jobs ever perpetrated by a + orrupt Ad ministration. We allude, of course, to the proposed cession of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson s Bay Company. The iniquity has not yet been consummated, though the audacity that could plan the wholesale public pillage is, doubt less, sufficiently brazen to go through with it. The " family party" who have got hold of the reins of government are really making a nice thing of it. My Lord Grey, in his capacity of Colo nial Minister, makes a present to his uncle, Mr. Edward Ellice, and his fur-trading company, of an island—one of the most valuable of British posses sions, and for which we were within an ace of going to war with America—with as perfect sang froid as the Premier installed his brother into the Sergeantship at Arms. Truly Earl Grey is turning his patronage to most able account. The word to his private circle is no longer simply, " Who wants a colonial governorship ?" " Who wants a colony ?" his Lordship now asks. " I," says uncle Edward, " I want a colony ;" and it's all settled. Van couver's Island ceases to belong to Great Britain, and becomes the private property of a monopolists corn• pa.ny of furriers, lucky enough to have a colonial Minister's uncle for a co-partner. _ The apology put forward by the Colonial-office for this infa•nous transaction, when the withering exposure of Mr. Gladstone, towards the close of last session, brought officials to bay, is almost as bad as the projected robbery itsel. It was, for sooth, Lord Grey's ardent zeal to promote the interests of colonization that alone prompted him to make a gift of Vancouver's Island to an anti colonizing company. Think of that, Master Ford ! The Secretary for the Colonies could devise no other method of peopling a British possession, except deli vering it up to a corporation whose direct interest it is to keep it a wilderness. The plough does not often follow the trail of the trapper ; and whenever it does we may be quite sure it is not with the trapper's good will. " A secret and grasping company,"—as the Manchester Chamber of Com merce justly designate the Hudson's Bay Com pany—who have, for centuries, preserved in waste a tract of territory larger than Europe, are not likely to turn over a new leaf in their adminis tration of Vancouver's island. Their character, too, is not greatly calculated to induce settlers to trust themselves to their sway. At this moment the protest against oppression of the entire inhabitants of the only settlement they ever founded—that of the Red River—is under the consideration of Government. Yet before the Company are cleared of the serious charges of malversation that lie against them, Lord Grey threatens, with indecent haste, to make them absolute lords of a territory whose importance to British interests it is impossible to over-estimate. A clause in the deed of gift, how ever, entitles Great Britain to purchase back the island at the end of eleven years. The upshot of the busi ness will be, that we shall have to do so, at a price that will sorely burden the British tax-payer, but afford a famous dividend to Mr. Edward Ellice and the other members of the Hudson's Bay Company. — _Liverpool Mercury. In London there are 12,000 children regularly under training to crime, 30,000 thieves, 6,000 receivers of stolen goods, 23,000 picked up in a state of drunken ness, 50,000 habitual gin drinkers, and 150,000 persons of both sexes leading an abandoned life. SHARP PRACTICE.—SCENE AT CHAMBERS.—A client of mine had his declaration on a bill of exchange demurred to, because, instead of the words " in the year of our Lord 1834," he had written " A.D. 1834." I at tended the late Mr. Justice Littledale at chambers, to endeavour to get the demurrer set aside as frivolous, or leave to amend on payment of a shilling; but that punc tilious, though very able and learned judge, refused to do either. " Your client, sir," said he, " has committed a blunder, air, which can be set right only on the usual terms, sir. A.D.,' sir, is neither English nar Latin, sir. It may mean anything or nothing, sir. It is plain, sir, that here is a material and traversable fact, and no date to it, sir." Whereupon he dismissed our poor summons with costs! The demurrer had been spun out by a pleader to an inconceivable length in ringing the changes on that one objection; and my client had positively to pay, out of his own pocket, between seven and eight pounds.— Warren's Practice of the Law. ROMAN URNs.--In digging for gravel and pre paring the ground for planting at West-lodge, opposite St. Mary's-terrace, Lex ton-road, upwards of 20 cinerary urns have been exhumed, nearly all of which were filled with incinerated bones and earth. With one exception they are of dark baken :earth, and of various sizes, from the capacity of a quart to that of two gallons. Some of them were broken so much as to render all attempts to restore them ineffectual, others are only partially in jured, and six or seven are perfect. The solitary ex ception in' colour among the urns is one of peculiar shape also, with handles of a light red ware. Over one of the black urns was a flat cover of light red ware, and the bones thus protected were perfectly dry and clean. Another urn was covered with a shallow vessel of the same material. Close by one small urn were found two bottles of different size, shape, and colour. The con tents of several of the urns have been examined, but eight or ten remain as found. In addition to these a small tomb, consisting of four large thick tiles or bricks, set on edge, was found ; its contents were bone ashes and some fragments of thick glass ; near this was a flue of one brick, the exterior ornamented with scroll. work ; also a small drinking cup ; and at another part of the ground the remains of a lamp• stand, of lead. They are intended for the Colchester Museum, and will form an interesting addition to its local antiquities.—Essex Standard. STETTIN.—Sour KITCHEN FOR CHOLERA. El.. TIENTS.—The Jewish Community of this town have es tablished a soup-kitchen for the relief of the poor and the refreshing of the sick, which is now particularly op portune during the prevalence of the cholera. The es tablishment is in the centre of the quarter where cholera is mostly raging. Not only strengthening soup, but ' likewise good meat, is distributed to the applicants. To facilitate the distribution, a number of tickets are given to the surgeons and physicians, who may give them away where they are needed without any previous ap plication. The medical men have to report in the even ing the number of tickets distributed by them during the day, so that the soup and meat, which is fresh every day, may be ready for the number of applicants on the following day. This is the proper mode of doing charity. To give it—to give it before it is asked for—and to give it liberally.--Jewish Chronicle. THE COGGESTIALL GANG.—Yesterday there was a further examination of the parties connected Is ith the Coggeshall gang, the charges principally arising out of the statements of Wade, the convicted accomplice in the case. Another of the gang, William Everitt, a dealer in fish, was apprehended on Saturday, and was charged with the others with further burglaries in the neighbour hood of Coggeshall. The examination took place at the county gaol, Springfield, the Rev. Sir J. P. Wood, Bart, attending for the purpose; Mr. Corder was present, as usual, to take the depositions and discharge the duties of magistrates' clerk, which, from the number of cases in which the gang are implicated, required much tact and judgment.—Chelmsford Chronicle. LUBECK.—PROGRESS OF TOLERATION —Even this " free" city, which has kept up the partition wall be tween Jews and Christians longer than any other town in Germany, and where no Jew is permitted to reside, is giving signs of toleration. The partition is decaying, and will soon give way. The Jews of Moislingen few miles from Lubeck) are already permitted to resume their family names. Sworn registrars are introduced, and hopes are held out to some of them to settle in the adjacent city of Lubeck. A draft for the formal estab lishment of a synagogue and congregation is also under consideration.—Jewish Chronicle. THE WEATHER.—The winter has fairly commenced in this neighbourhood. On Thursday morning people were surprised on arising from their slumbers, to find the dying beauties of autumn enveloped in a winding sheet of snow. The scene became beautiful during the pro gress of the day; the snow glowed in the sunshine which thawed it, and the drops sparkled like diamonds as they fell. Sharp frost followed, and the icy atmosphere which drives the world shuddering to the fireside. The snow on the hills and in the forest, we understand, has been two or three inches deep, and, of course, much deeper in the drifts, much to the satisfaction of the Lamers, to whom snow, when it comes in due season, is a very useful friend. The weather is now exceedingly fine; by day we have a bracing air, a bright sun, and but for the thaw which the sunshine produces, it would be perfection ; at night the frost-hardened road echo the footsteps and rattling wheels, while " moonlight sleeps sweetly on the untrod den snow."—Gloucester Journal. THE LADIES AND THEIR VEILS.---The origin of a fashion which sprung up among the ladies some months age al is n r a e n v eal article d in nn a recent Frolics number of Fashion." of e 1 r er s ' Whens Jo ur- the Queen," says the writer, " was on the Clyde last year, finding her face visited too roughly by the air of our Scottish hills, she tied her veil under her chin. The action was na t ura l , and the effect, no doubwt,fainrrli:ied w the . cir cumstances, - The R o n y n a d l c ci hn e e e ll n s i c h u e m al s th ta , n fl e u e s s he b womanlyingdeewemith. fanned by the welcomin g b reezes of the nyoretehnl:oked and almost as beautiful, we dare say, as a moss rose, 'How. ever that may be, before the d a y was out, there were hundreds of other cheeks in the same p re di cament. The rage of imitation spread. In the shadiest walk—in the closest streets of the town—in the calmest and hottest days of the season—the veil was fashionably tied under the chin. The fashion, however, was in reality made a fashion only through misapprehension ; for the Q ueen had merely adopted a temporary expedient to servo a temporary end; and when the emergency was over, she, no doubt, unloosed the knot and gave her veil to the winds as usual." POLITICAL GENL—Reader, did it ever:occur to you that when the glorious dawn of the millennium shall burst forth upon your astonished vision; when the pillars of the earth shall be upheaved and creation shall rock upon its broad basis; when the stars shall " shoot madly from their spheres," and when yon orb of day, as he rolls on in his meridian splendour, shall involve the nations of the earth in one general conflagration—we say, did it ever occur to you that, amid this " wreck of matter and this crash of worlds"—when Heaven's last thunder shall ;hake this sublunary sphere—that-you can smile un dismayed o'er the ruins, consoled by the pleasing re flection that you once ♦oted for Cass and Butler?--Mis sissipi Paper. The saddlers of Bristol have come to the determi nation to close their shops at seveno'clock in the evening. LONDON, NEW COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL. The new Court, appointed under the important Act introduced by Lord Campbell last session, for trying criminal appals from circuit sessions, sat for the first time on Saturday in the Exchequer Ci:amber. The Judges appointed to constitute the Court during the present term were :—The Chief Baron, Mr. jilitief , Matteson, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erie, and Mr. Justice Maule. Nearly 80 gentlemen of the bar were present. _ Their Lordships, immediately on taking their seats upon the bench, proceeded to hear the case of THE QUEEN V. EMANUAL MASTERS. Mr. MILLER said he had to submit to the considera- tion of the Court two questions of law ; first, whether, under the new Act, the 11th and 12th Vic., c. 78, sec. 1, questions of criminal law might be reserved by recorders tor the decision of the Court, and, secondly, whether the conviction was a good one. The Learned Counsel sup ported the conviction, and stated that the Recorder, before whom the defendant was tried, apprehended that he had no jurisdiction, ani wished to have the opinion of the Court upon the subject. It appeared that the Act applied to prisoners " convicted before any court of oyer and terminer, or gaol delivery, or court of quarter sessions," but that no allthion was made to prisoners tried before recorders. Mr.: Miller, however, held that as the recorders for boroughs were also ex-officio justices of the peace, no exception was intended by the Act with respect to their courts, although there was some ambiguity in the terms employed in the Ist section. With respect to the second point, it appeared that the prisoner was convicted under the 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 29, sec. 47, of embezzlement, and the question was, when property was received by ono servant, handed to another in the ordinary course of duty, and then forwarded to another, whether the appropriation of it by the second servant amounted to embezzlement. The COURT was of opinion that recorders had juris diction under the Act to refer appeals for the decision of this Court, and also that if one of the servants alluded to received the property and appropriated it to his own use, he was guilty of embezzlement. The conviction was therefore affirmed. INDUCING PERSONS TO CONFESS.—TEIE QUEEN V. CAR- LAND. In this case a conviction had taken place. The de fendant is a girl, aged 13. She was accused of admi nistering fag water (a compound of arsenic, used for the cure of the diseases with which sheep are afflicted,) to her mistress, a Mrs.• Smith, in milk, with the intention of murdering her. :It appeared that a Mr. Gilby, a doctor, who had been called in, remonstrated with the prisoner, saying, without any caution as to the con sequences that might ensue from her statement, " You had better tell the truth." She at once admitted she had committed the act, saying she did it to "get rid of her service." The counsel for the prisoner at the trial urged that this confession ought to be struck out as it regular. The counsel for the prosecution declined, after consulting Lord Denman upon the point, to do so, con tending that the evidence having been given, it would be useless to strike it out, since the jury could not dismiss the evidence from their minds. The evidence, conse quently, went to the jury. The COURT were of opinion that the evidence was in admissible, and that the conviction was bad. Conviction quashed. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 11. The Court took the Crown paper to day. No causes of the slightest public interest occurred during the whole of the day . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. O❑ Saturday a young man, named Thomas Foulke, was charged before the Lord Mayor with the following attempt at robbery. It appeared that the prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Ratcliffe, of Billingsgate-market, fishmonger, for twelve years previous to the Ist instant. On that day, during the absence of Mr. Ratcliffe, his wife ob served the prisoner open a desk in the counting-house, in which gold, silver, and banknotes to a considerable amount were frequently deposited, and put his hand in side of it. On her husband's return she informed him of what she had seen, and on his examining the desk he found it locked. On the prisoner being searched by Mr. Ratcliffe, he found a skeleton key which opened the desk. The prisoner was immediately turned out of the house, Mr. Ratcliffe having lost sums of money from time to time, but not very recently.—Committed for trial. Thomas Wright, an errand boy to Messrs. Lee and Co., 2, Leadenhall-market, was charged with having embezzled the sum of 121. 17s. the property of his em ployers. It appeared the prisoner was sent to receive the above sum from the proprietor of the Adelaide Hotel, London bridge, and told to return immediately. Nothing, how ever, was heard of him till one o'clock the next morning, when he was brought back by a policeman in a state of drunkenness. The story he told was, that after he had received the money he went into a public-house to have a pint of beer, and all he recollected afterwards was be ing dragged along over Tower-hill. He therefore sup posed he had been hocussed and robbed of the money. It was, however, subsequently ascertained he had left 3/.los. of the money in the care of a landlord of a public house in the New-cut.—He was committed for trial. GUILDHALL. On Saturday, William Mowatt and Frederick Bubb were charged before Alderman Lawrence with obtaining, under false pretences, 651., under the following circum stance- Mr. William James Beadel, of Bromfield lodge, near Chelmsford, said, on Monday, the 6th of November, I saw an advertisement in the newspaper re specting a pair of geldings which were for sale, and accordingly went to the address, " Turk's Head Mews, Harley-str( et," for the purpose of inspecting them. I saw Mowatt, and requested to see the coachman who had the care of the horses, when he re plied that he was the individual I wanted, and at once conducted me to the stables and pointed out the horses; and called the other prisoner by the name of George, and said that he was groom of the stables. That indi vidual then, at my request, led one of the horses out for inpection, and I was leading the other, when the prisoner Mowatt took it from me at the door. I then spoke to Mowatt and asked for a reference, when he said the horses belonged to a lady named King, residing at East bourne, in Sussex. The groom when he brought one of 1 the horses out did it so clumsily as to make Mewatt say "D— these London fellows, I thought they were more up to their business." I then asked the age of the horse, and was told he was six years old; but having examined him I remarked that either I or Mowatt must be a fool to say that a horse with such a mouth was only of that age. I then desired to see the other, when Bubb brought it out to me; and having asked how long they ran together, and what period they had been the pro perty of Mrs. King, Mowatt replied that one of the horses had been bred by Mrs. King, and the other she purchased; that he had driven them for two years, and they were per fectly quiet in harness—in fact, he had driven them himself from Eastbourne to Bromley. I then inquired if they were quiet by railway, and he replied that they were, for he had brought them up from Leamington, as his mistress wished to dispose of them in conbequence of her going to reside at Jersey. He likewise said his mistress expected 100 guineas for the pair, but as they were costing her for their keep and his nearly 51. per week, he thought it probable that less would be taken fer them, and he referred me to the jobmaster. The jobmaster (Ward) was then called, and in the presence of Mowatt first of all asked 80 guineas and his commis sion. I said that I wanted them for my father, and that unless they were quiet it was useless to bargain for them; and I also added that I should like my father to see them, although I had no doubt as to their sound ness. Ward then remarked that he had been offered 701., but if I made up my mind to purchase I should have the pair for 651, provided I paid his commission, and he would then persuade the coachman to take that sum. In the afternoon I accompanied my father, who saw the horses, but refused to give more than 651. The job master ( ard) pressed herd for a commission, saying that he could not ask anything from Mrs. King, as she was in the habit of putting up at his livery stables; but find ing my father would not consent, he asked for a sovo reign to bind the bargain, which was at once given to him, it being agreed that the horses were to be forwarded to the Eastern Counties ltailWay, for the purpose of go ing by train to Ch •linsferd, and the money to be called for at 29, Gresham-street, the offices of my father. _ _ Mr. Beadel, sen., corroborated the evidence of his son, and proved the payment of 651. to Ward, the jobmaster, wlp se receipt he produced. On trying the horses it was found they would not run together, and one of them had to be backed out of the stables. A City policeman also proved that he hail been to Eastbourne, and no old lady of the name or King was known there. Ausav Alderman LAWRENCE sail he should remand the pri soners, but would accept bail. Mowatt found bail, himself in 80/. and two sureties in 401. each; but the other prisoner was locked up. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13 1 1848. AA - IL - WAY SHARE - MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 11. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was active in the smaller shares of the Great Western Company, which, in consequence of the publication of the accounts, materially progressed in value, and cloned with an upward tendency. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 2 dis., and Great Western, New 171. Shares, 1 1 4 die. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a good demand for Midlands to day, and prices are on the advance. The sales are—Caledonian, 19 1 —Ditto, Preference, 1 4 dis.—Lanca• shire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Leeds), 21 dis. —Ditto, Quarters, 6 dis.—Ditto (late West Riding Union), Fifths, 514 dis.—Ditto (Preston and Wyre, No. 1), 34% — London and North , Western, 118.4 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, c. p.—Ditto (C), 1% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 39 Midland Stock, 85—Ditto, New Halves, 8% dis.—North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester, 10/. Pre ference (late N. W. M.), 13—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 6%. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices remain firm, and business as sumes a better aspect. The sales are—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7%—Ditto (B), 41. Bs. 91—Shropshire Union, 66e.3d.—South Staffordshire, 86s. 3d.—North Stafford shire, 6%. _ _ LAMBETH. On Saturday Robert Jones, a well-dressed man, re siding at No. 20, Canterbury-street, Lambeth, was charged with the following outrage:—lt appeared that on the previous evening Mrs. Sarah Batey, a respectable married woman, who was on her return home, having taken leave of some friends residing on the Middlesex side of the river, she having to leave town the next day for Newcastle, to join her husband, on reaching the pay place on the Middlesex side of the Hungerford-bridge, and while paying the toll, dropped some halfpence, which a female friend who accompanied her stopped to pick up. While so engaged the defendant came up and caught hold of the latter woman by her shawl, and pushed her to the ground with great violence. Mrs. Batey followed the defendant on the bridge, and asked him how he could be guilty of such an unmanly and violent assault upon her friend, when he exclaimed, " Woman, don't insult me," and at the name instant struck her a despr rate blow with a stick on the left cheek-, and inflicted a deep wound. Ho then threw the stick over the bridge, and tried to get away, but she seized hold of him, and managed to keep her hold till a policeman heard her cries and took him into custody. Mrs. Batey's evidence was confirmed by her friend, and Mr. NORTON said a more cruel and unmanly outrage than the defendant had been guilty of had never been brought before him. He should fine the defendant in the full penalty of W. for each assault, and in default, two months' imprisonment on eich charge. Tne money was immediately paid. GLASGOW. —THE WEATHER.—Yesterday the wea ther gave strong indications of the rapid approach of winter. In the early part of the forenoon there was a sharp, clear frost, which gave place, about four o'clock in the afternoon, to a heavy fall of snow, that continued, without intermission, for upwards of two hours. Later in the evening the weather cleared, and towards mid night frost again set in.—North British Mail.. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. • BILLS FOR 1848-9. The following is a list of the railway companies who have given notice of their intention to apply to Parlia ment daring the ensuing session for various powers, stated under their several heads : BIRMINGHAM, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNC TION.—To abandon portions of the present line—For powers to extend the line to the London and North- Wester❑ Railway at Birmingham—Alterations of the levels of Chester branch—Extension of time for purchase of land and for completing works—For powers to alter tolls and decrease the capital, and to amend Acts. CALEDONIAN.—For powers to lease or purchase the Scottish Central Railway, in conjunction with the London and North-Western and the Lancaster and Car lisle Railways. EAST ANGLlAN.—Extension of time for purchase of land and for constructing lines, for which the company have powers. ELY AND HUNTINGDON.---ExtensiOlL of time for com pleting works. EDINBURGH AND CARLISLE.—For powers to enable the company to lease, purchase, or amalgamate with the Williamstown, Mornina,side, and Coltness Railway. EAST INDIAN —For powers to make one or more railways in the East Indies. GREAT NORTHERN.—For powers to amend previous Acts ; enlargements at and near Boston, Bentley, and Lincoln. GREAT WESTERN.-TO construct a branch from the Windsor line of the Great Western Railway to the Windsor, Staines. and South-Western Railway at Datchet—For powers to amalgamate with the London and North- Western and London and South-Western Railways. LEEDS AND THIRSK.—For powers to guarantee in terest on certain shares, and for increasing the capital of the Company. LANCASTER AND PRESTON.—To amend previous Acts To alter tolls—For powers to form a junction with the East Lancashire Railway at Preston. LLINVI VALLEY.—For alterations and enlargement of powers—Extension of time for constructing line. LONDON AND SOUTH- WESTERN.—For powers to enable this company to amalgamate with the London and North-Western and Great Western Railways. LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN.—To lease or pur chase the Scottish Central Railway, in conjunction with the Lancaster and Carlisle and Edinburgh and. Glasgow and Caledonian Railways ; to repeal former Acts; to amalgamate with the Great Western and London and South-Western Railways. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—For powers to purchase Scottish Central. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.—For powers to lease, or sell to, or amalgamate this undertaking with the York; Newcastle, and Berwick Railway. NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—For powers to aban don the undertaking. SHREWSBURY AND BlRMlNGHAM.—Amendments of previous Acts—Branches and deviations. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.—To amalgamate the line with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railways— For powers to alter the present line at Egglescliffe and Stockton-on-Tees—To consolidate Acts—To increase capital—To lease or purchase the Middlesborough Docks. WINDSOR EXTENSION OF THE WINDSOR, STAINES, ♦ND SOUTH-WESTERN.—For powers to allow the Lon don and South-Western to subscribe capital towards the undertaking. WILSONTOWN, MORNINGSIDE, AND COLTNESS.—Lease to Edinburgh and Glasgow line. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND DEVlATlONS.—Aban donment of several lines for which the company have powers; namely, between Market Weighton and Bever ley, and Copmanthorpe and Tadcaster. YORK, NEWCASTLE, ♦ND BERWICK.—For powers to enable this company to subscribe capital towards the construction of Sunderland Docks—Powers to purchase or lease the NeWbastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway —Powers to amalgamate the Maryport and Carlisle Railway—Branch to Quays at Newcastle—Branch to Barmour and Alnmouth—Extension of time for making Blyth, Thirsk, and Melton branches. DUBLIN, DUNDRUM, .AND RATHFARNHAM. DUBLIN, SATURDAY. —Yesterday an adjourned meet ing of the shareholders of this company took place at Radley's Hotel at one o'clock. The attendance was numerous. Parsons Crofton, Esq., in the chair. JOSEPH BOYCE, Esq., stated that the committee not having received any satisfactory communication from the directors, had considered it their duty 16 submit a case to counsel. He would read one which showed the exact facts and pcsition of the company: Mr. Boyce accordingly read the case,'which had been submitted to the Attorney-General, together with his opinion thereon, which was, that the directors of the company could not enforce the payment of the last call of 31. 153. per share uatil they proceeded against all the shareholders for the recovery of the preceding call of 11. ss. per share, so as to place all the parties on an equal footing; and also that a bill should be filed to restrain the directors from proceeding until such call had been enforced, the bill to be filed by a shareholder, who had paid the call of 11.55. The following resolutions were then unanimously adopted ; " That, from the opinion of the Right Hon, the At torney-General, there is no doubt that the shareholders have a valid defence to the payment of the calls now made by the directors of the company; but viewing the whole affair as an unfortunate speculation, we feel we should pay our just proportion of all proper liabilities that now remain due, and, in order to carry same out, still agree to our former offer of 2/. per share, and to pay such 2/. on or before the 10th of December next. " That a subscription be now entered into of ss. per share as a protection fund, to be applied as counsel may direct, to oppose any proceeding that may be taken by the directors of the company; and that all parties pay ing such subscription be protected to the fullest extent practicable. " That the following be a committee to conduct the proceedings on behalf of the subscribers.—Sir James Dombraine, Persons Crofton, William Vance, Joseph Boyce, Frank Thorpe Porter, Esqs., and Dr. Gaghran; and that Messrs. Boyle, Low, and Co., be appointed treasurers to the fund —the committee to have power to take an office and employ a person competent to aid them in the performance of their duty. " That in the event of the directors reconsidering their position, and agreeing to accept our proposal of 21. per share, and transfer our shares on such payment of 21. each, the money subscribed by the shareholders to this fund be returned, after deducting, pro rata, any expense that may be incurred. " That a copy of those resolutions, with the case and opinion of counsel, be sent to the chairman of the com pany for the consideration of the board of directors." In the course of the proceedings Mr. Boyce mentioned that he had received twenty-nine letters from different shareholders, seven of which were from Cork, and all expressing a wish to be governed by the opinions of the committee in every particular. Those letters represented a large number of shares, independent of what was represented by the attendance at the present meeting. The foregoing resolutions having been passed, the meeting broke up. DEPOSIT MONEY. The following is a list of the railway companies the shareholders in which can receive a return of deposit money: — LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEUTIL JUNCTION.—The first moiety of the 303. return by the London and South- Western Company. I t i s proposed to pay the remaining 153. in January next. SOUTHAMPTON, MANCHESTER, AND OXFORD JUNC TION.—A further and final return of 6s. per share. GRAND UNION. —A final dividend of Is. per share. OVER-YBSEL.—The second instalment, viz. 12g. 3d. per share. Certificates must be left ten days, as they are to be sent to Holland. ANGLO-BELGIAN.—A return of 21. per share. SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD.—A further and final return of Is. 4d. per,,share. This company must not be confounded with the Shrewsbury and Hereford incorpo rated Quguit, DERBY, UTTOXETER, AND STAPFORD.:--A final return of 7s. 4d. per share. LEEDS AND Turass..--Preference scrip, 1846. A re turn of about 495. 10d. - - LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE JUNCTION.—The first instalment of the 14s. amomatinz to 10s. per share. WORCESTER, •TENBURY, AND LUDLOW.—The ss. per share may be received by any shareholder who has not alieady received the same. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.—It has been decided to open the line to Buttevant in January, and to Mallow in March. The works at the Cork ter minus have been suspended until Spring. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY COMPANY (25 MILES OPEN).—Traffic for the week ending Saturday, 4th November, 1848: —Passenger, 221/. Bs. 6d. ; goods and cattle, 801. I s . 2d. ; total (exclusive o f mails ), 3011. 103. 10d., DUBLIN AND DRoGHEDA.--Traffic on this line for the week ending Thursday, Nov. 9: —Passengers (6,642) and mail, 561/. 3s. sd. ; parcels, 40/. 18s. 9d. ; merchandise, 127/. 16s. 2d.; total amount, 7291 18g. 4d. Correspond ing w ee k last year —Passengers ( 7,422) and mail, 594/. 17s. 3d. ; parcels, 30/. 135. 5d.; merchandise, 144/.; total amount, 778/. 10s. Bd. BELFAST AND BALLYMENA.—An individual named William Hunter has been arrested and committed for trial, charged with being one of the parties who commit ted the late atrocious outrage on the Belfast and Bally mena Railway. From circumstances which have come to light, there is every reason to believe that other par ties will soon be made amenable. —Banner of Ulster. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. — The directors are proceeding with their arrangements to work the line on termination of the lease in May next. The three chief officers have been appointed, namely, the superintendent of the line, the superintendent of the locomotive depart tha.chief accountant. We are glad to see that M. C. E6€1.1 of Exeter, is appointed lccomotive super intendent. lieba4 held, office under the Great Western e° ,,, m PanY.—Western Times. BIR KENHEAD, .LANCAEHIRE„ AND CHESHIRE RAIL WAY.—The p ropr i etors h ave b e en called together to tak e into consideration a proposed application to Par liament, in the coming session, for an abandonment of a portion of their line, and for a decrease in their capital. —Liverpool Journal. LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK AND PRESTON RAILWAY.— The works on this line of railway have been very much retarded during the last few weeks, owing to the fre quent slippin g of the embankment at Rufford. One part of the embankment has slipped three or four times at the same place, as often as it has been filled up again. Only one side has given way, which appears to be owing to the soil having been removed from one side to form the em bankment.—Presion Chronicle. It is said th at a l ump o f pure go ld, weighing 3,032 pennyweights, was lately found in a mine belonging to Major Heins, in Virginia. - YORK, Nov. 10. STOCK EXCHAIME.—The business transacted to-day was as follows: —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), I. Pus. 9d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANOE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 18 3 / 4 Marypert and Carlisle, 29%. GLASGOW, Nov. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ference, 93s.—Clydesdale Junction, 56 Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), 61. 4s. —Glasgow General Terminus, 7 1 4—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41. 13s. 6d.—Glas gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 50—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 645. Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 66s.—Glasgow and Garnkirk, 37 Great Northern, 83s.—Monkland Railways, 63—North Bri tish, 154—Ditto, Thirds, 77s.—Scottish Central, 24. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, NOV. 11. The Lord Bishop of Oxford desires to hold a Confir mation at St. Mary's Church, on Monday, November 20, at eleven o'clock, for members of the University. All undergraduates prepared for confirmation on this occasion must obtain letters testimonial of their fitness. signed by the Tutor of their College; and such testimo nial must be presented to the Bishop previous to the commencement of the service. Christ Church, Nov. 10, 1848. Henry Halford Vaughan, Eiq„ M.A., who has been nominated by Lord John Russell to the vacant Regius Professorship of Modern History, in the room of the late Very Rev. Dr. Cramer, is nephew to the late Sir Henry Halford; he was first a Commoner of Christ Church, and in Easter Term, 1833, his name appeared in the first class in lileris humanioribus. He was elected a Fellow of Oriel College in 1835, and obtained the prize in 1836 for the English essay on " The effects of a national taste of general and diffusive reading." Mr. Henry Hughes Cracknell, from Merchant Tailors' School, has been elected a Scholar of Oriel College. The Rev. James Henry Ashhurst to the Vicarage of Great Milton, Oxfordshire; patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The Rev. Septimus Belles has been presented to the Vicarage of West Sherborne, alias Monk Sherborne, with the priory church of Sherborne, commonly called Pamber Chapel, by the Provost and Scholars of Queen's College, Oxford, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Porter, the last incumbent. Colonel Wyndham has presented the livings of Bignor and Sutton, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Smith, to the Rev. H. Sockett, son of the Rev. T. Sockett, rector of Petworth and Duncton, Surrey. The Rev. F. S. Bevan, M.A., Rector of Carleton Rode, to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Norwich. The Rev. J. Garron, M.A., Vicar of Towcester, to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Peter borough. The Rev. Edward Huxtable, 8.A., of St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, to beVice-Principal of the Wells Theo logical College, vice the Rev. C. E. Pritchard, resigned. The Rev. Hugh Nanny, to the Rectory of Caenby, Lincolnshire; patron, Sir C. M. L. Monk, Bart. The Rev. Frederick Smith, M.A., Incumbent of the new church at Taunton, to the Honorary Prebend of Whitchurch, in the Cathedral of Wells. The Rev. J. G. Webster, to the Rectory of Bawdes well, Norfolk; patron, E. Lombe, Esq. The Rev. T. B. Banner, to the Perpetual Curacy of Southshore, Bispbam, Lancashire ; patron, Thomas Clifton, Esq. The Rev. Charles Bldham, M.A., late of Wadbam College, in this University, and incorporated Member of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, has been arpointed to the Curacy of West Bradenham, Norfolk. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 11. NEW PRIZE. St. Peter's College Lodge, Nov. 10, 1848. The Vice-Chancellor has the honour to lay before the Senate the following statement respecting a new prize offered to the University:— A large number of members of the civil service of India who were students at the East India College, at Haileybury, at various intervals during the thirty years that the Rev. C. W. Le Bas, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, was connected with that institution, desirous of testifying their regard for Mr. Le Bas, and of perpetuating the memory of his services, have raised a fund amounting to about 1,9201., Three per Cent. Con sols, which thy offer to the University of Cambridge for founding an annual prize, to be called in honour of Mr. Le Ms the Le Bas Prize, for the best English Essay on a subject of General Literature, such subject to be occasionally chosen with reference to the history, insti tutions and probable destinies and prospects of the Anglo-Indian Empire. It is proposed:— - 1. That the Le Bas prize shall consist of the annual interest of the above mentioned fund, the essay being published at the expense of the successful candidate. 2. That the candidates for the prixs shall be, at the time when the subject is given out, Bachelors of Arts, under the standing of M.A., or Students in Civil Law or Medicine, of not less than four or more than seven years' standing, not being graduates in either faculty, but having kept the exercises necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Law or Medicine. 3. That the subject for the essay shall be selected, and the prize adjudicated by the Vice-Chancellor and two other members of the Senate, to be nominated by the Vice• Chancellor and approved by the Senate at the first Congregation after the 10th day of October, in each year. 4. That the subject shall be given out in the week preceding the division of the Michaelmas Term in each year, and the essays sent in before the end of the next ensuing Easter Term. 5. That for the present year the two Examiners to be selected by the Senate shall be appointed, and the sub ject for the essay given out before the end of the present Term. A grace to accept the above proposal will be offered to the Senate at the congregation on Wednesday, the 22d instant. CRANE'S CHARITY. The trustees of Crane's Charity for the relief of sick Scholars have given notice that they intend meeting at St. Peter's Lodge, on Tuesday, the 21st instant, at twelve o'clock, to consider and determine the claims of applicants for the benefit of this charity. N.B.—The applications of Scholars must be wide by the Tutors of the respective Colleges, and contain full particulars both of the medical charges and of the cir cumstances of the applicants. The grants will he con fined to such charges ai have been incurred during the half-year immediately preceding the meeting. ITLSEAN LECTURER. The trustees of Mr. Hulse's Benediction give notice that the office of Lecturer will be vacant at Christmas next, when the trustees will proceed to an e l ec ti on. Such persons as may be desirous of becoming candidates for the said office, being qualified as the will of Mr. Hulse directs, are to leave their names with the Vice- Chancellor on or before Saturday, the kith of De cember next. H. W. COOKSON, Vice-Chancellor, R. TATEIAM. W. WIIEWELL. . N. B. By a degree of .the Court of Chancery, the number of lectures is reduced to eight, and the time of printing is extended to one year from the delivery of the last lecture. CROSSE SCFIOLARSIIIP. Notice has been given that there will be an examina tion for this Scholarship on Tuesday, the 28th of No vember inst., and following days. The candidates for this Scholarship must bo " Bachelors of Arts in the first year from their degree." Candidates are required per sonally, or, if non-resident, by letter, to give notice of their intention to each of the electors, who are the Vice- Chancellor, the Margaret Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Hebrew, the Regius Professor of Greek, the Norrisian Professor of Divinity, and the Professor of Arabic, on or Lefore Monday, the 20th instant, stating their names at length and colleges. NOTICE. The Regius Professor of Hebrew purposes lecturing on the Psalms iu th© lecture rooms of the Pitt Press, on Monday, 27th of November, the 4th and 11th of De cember, and Saturday, the 16th of Decembsr, at twelve o'clock. SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE. The undermentioned gentlemen have been elected to Scholarships in this Society :—Brodribb, E. Calvert, G. C. Clarke, Dobson, W. C. Evans, Goodriche, R. Hall, Jenkins, Lawrence, C. Lee, Lethbridge, W. Leycester, Lilly, Liveing, Mason, Poll, Price, Rigby, Tuckey, Wawn, and Whale. CAIIIS COLLEGE. F. W. Budd, 8.A., has been preferred from a Perse to a Wortley Fellowship, and S. Hanson, B.A , has b een elected to the Perse Fellowship so vacated, by the Mas ters and Seniors of this society. SNOW STORM.—We have had a second visitation of winter since our last, Friday and Saturday being days of vet y sharp frost, with occasional snow showers from the north. The ice on the pools was fully one inch in thickness, and on the Inch pond boys were enjoying their winter amusements all day. In the Highlands the storm was very severe, particularly in Aberdeenshire and Inverness-shire ; and on Saturday the north mail was nearly three hours behind time, the snow having drifted several feflt along Drummaichdar and Slockmuich, the usual places of interruption. On Sunday a mild change set in, and next day the Grampians had resumed their ordinary appearance, excepting the highest range, where the thaw has made little impre,sion as yet. On the whole, the weather is considered healthy, although un seasonably cold ; and this locality is freer of epidemics than it has been for two years. The fever wards in the infirmary are nearly empty.—Perthshire Courier. An American paper, the Gloucester Telegraph, presents the following for its readers as a puzzle:— ' " If anyof ourfriendsaretroubled inconscienceon accountof indebtednesstothisoffieeweshallberaost happytosignpapers fatheirrelie4" • - POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. On Thursday last Dr. Ryan commenced a series of lectures at this establishment, on cholera and other epidemic diseases. After a few introductory remarks of an elementary character upon the constitution of the atmosphere, the Doctor enlarged upon the causes which in great towns, and indeed wherever animal life exists, tend to vitiate the air we breathe, and to pre dispose us to the attacks of every species of epidemic disease. The Doctor described the great sources of impure and mephitic vapours, as arising, first, from combustion and respiration, and secondly, from the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter. He showed in fact, that respiration produced much the same effects in destroying the vital qualities of the air as combustion, and demonstrated by experiments the effects of the latter process. Passing to the second branch of the subject, the Doctor enlarged upon the noxious gases produced by the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter, some of them being dangerous but inodorous, others slightly offensive ; and a third class, including the deadly atmospheric poisons of sulphuretted hydrogen and phosphuretted hydrogen, being highly offensive, if present in the atmosphere in'even the most infinitesimal proportions. While upon this part of the subject, the learned Doc. tor remarked upon the recent outbreak of cholera on board the Woolwich convict-ship, which was anchored off the opening into the river of a sewer, and narrated a case of a similar occurrence during the former visit of cholera in the London Docks. In conclusion, the Doctor strongly recommended his auditory to parti cularly attend to free ventilation, cleanliness, and temperance; these, Le said, were the gi eAt preventatives of disease arising from mephitic vapours. The whole of the lecture was illustrated by numerous and .appro priate experiments. THE SEA, SERPENT IN THE THAMES. (From Punch.) We lose not a single moment in laying the sub joined letter before the eyes—(how they will be opened !)--of astonished London. The Sea Serpent is in the Thames ! It will be seen that the monster was beheld by our correspondent—a most intelligent and conscientious waterman, as we have made it bur business to discover—off Chelsea Reach. Whether, in its course from the sea up the river, the serpent has entirely swallowed the multitudinous family of whitebait off Blackwall, is a speculation that must, until next May, feverishly engage the minds of all men interested in the Crown and Sceptre of Greenwich. However, we hasten to introduce the reader to the letter of John Skull, waterman, of Chelsea; a letter written in that homely simplicity of style that endears to our memories the voyages of Anson and Dampier : " Cheyne-walk, Nov. 1, 1848. " Mr. Punch,—The sea sarpint is in the Thames I There can be no doubt on it, seeing the horrid mon ster myself. But, sir, I give you the account regular, as if I was writin' with swabs upon my shoulders to the bigwigs of her Majesty's Admiralty. " Last night, coming off in my wherry, the Better Luck Btill, from the Red House, and a leg of mutton and trimming supper—the wind St. Paul's east by Fulham Church nor'-west—light airs and hazy— striking ten bells—and thinkin' o' nothin', I sud denly saw a long black sarpint-like thing upon my weather bow. Bein' in no manner afeard—for I'd had too much ale and gin-and-water for that, tho' not a drop more than's good for an affectionate husband and indulging father—bein' not a bit afeard, I laid all along upon my sculls, and had a good look. For 20 minutes—more or less—l seed the thing a cutting like smoke towards Battersea. It was about a hun dred yards long, and seemed to move with two fins that went round and round, and made a hisin' noise like bilin' water; and it carried its head out o' water some twenty feet and more womiting sometimes smoke and sometimes fire. And so it went on at the matter of ten knots an hour, till it came to Battersea bridge, where it seemed to bend its head back'ards to go thro' the arches, and so, taliin' the bend o' the river, it vanished out o' sight, but not out o' mind, " Of yours humble servant, " JOHN SKULL." " P.S.—l'm not much of a drawer, but think I can warrant the pictur I send as the fac simile of the sarpint as it appeared. Some of your shyandtifick readers may have seen something like it afire." [Here Punch favours his readers with a cut of a river steamer.] KNIGHTHOOD of the EX-MAYOR OF MANCHESTER. At a meeting of the Town Council of Manchester on Wednesday, the Town Clerk said that, before the Council proceeded to any other business, he was re quested by the Mayor who had just passed the chair to read the following correspondence which had taken place between the Secretary a State for the Home Depart ment and himself:— (Private.) " Whitehall, Oct. 30, 1848. " Sir,—As the second year during which you have served the office of Mayor of Manchester will shortly expire, I am desirous of expressing to you the high sense which I entertain of the manner in which the ar duous and responsible duties which have devolved upon you have been performed, under circumstances requiring more than ordinary judgment and vigilance. I have reason' to believe that her Majesty would be graciously pleased, upon my recommendation, to confer upon you a mark of her approbation; and if it would be agreeable to you to receive the distinction of knigthood, I shall be happy in submitting your name to her Majesty for that purpose.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, "The Mayor of Manchester, &c. " G. GREY." " Town-hall, Manchester, Nov. 2, 1848. " Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ult. I may state that it has, during the term of my office, and more especially during the last few months, been to me, and the magistrates with whom I have been associated, a source of high satisfaction to receive from time to time the assurances that the steps taken for the maintenance of order, and the preservation of the peace of this city, had met with your approbation; and on my own part, I may be per. mitted, whilst expressing my sincere acknowledgments for the communication just received, to add, that to ob tain so flattering a testimony of the opinion entertained by you of any services which I have been able to render, is more than an ample, as it is an unlooked-for, com pensation for any personal sacrifices which may have been required in the discharge of the duties devolving upon me as the mayor. " Were I to consult my own feelings only, I should hesitate to accept the honour which you are pleased to say you are prepared to recommend to her Majesty should be conferred upon me ; but feeling assured that it is not on personal considerations, but to me as the representative of the community, that any mark of her Most Gracious Majesty's favour would be shown, I feel no hesitation in expressing my grateful appreciation of the offer made, and in stating that in case you shall think fit so to recommend her Majesty, and her Majesty shall be graciously pleased to confer upon me the honour of knighthood, I shall willingly and gratefully accept the same, with the full conviction that it is not an honour conferred upon the individual, but upon the Mayor of Manchester, and intended to mark her Majesty's appro bation of the conduct, not of the civil authorities alone, but of the vast population of this city, who are, I believe, not less distinguished for their love of order than for their loyalty and attachment to our Most Gracious Queen. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, (Signed) " ELKANA II ARMITAGE, Mayor. "To the Bight Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., MT., &c., Horne Office, Londou." —Blanchester Courier. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LELDS, NOY. 10.—We have no improvement to notice in this branch of trade during the past week, the few sales effected being mere!) , to supply the present very limited requirements of the manufacturers. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, Nov. 10.—There has not been any change of moment in this market dur ing the present week. Prices are quoted the same us last week. LEEDS.—We have had very dull markets at our cloth halls, both on Saturday and Tues&lay. The season being far advanced, there has been llttle done beyond assort ing to order f ,r the home market; for although goods of all descriptions are low beyond all precedent, there continues to be a complete absence of speculation. The same dull state of business continues in the warehouses; very few buyers so late in the season visit the market, and the foreign houses are doing little. BRADFORD, NOV. 9. Wool.—There is nothing altered in this trade ; consumption is slow, and no dis position on the part of the spinners to buy anything except fur immediate use. There is not any demand for bright haired hogs, while wethers of that class meet a ready sale. Down wools are rather more inquired for, and the supply in the market barely an average. Colo nial wools are not so much inquired after, and the sales about to take place in London, are not expected to be at all improved in price. Noils and broke, from the small quantity producing, continue to be active, and late prices are firmly maintained.—Yarns —There is no alteration as regards demand for this article. The spinners continue to be tolerably well employed, but at prices anything but remunerating or satisfactory. The extreme low prices at which yarns are now sold has not been at all met by corresponding reduction in the price of wool, and the expectation generally formed prior ' to clip has not been realised, and notwithstanding all the colonial brought into the market it has not had the same effect upon the growers of British wools, and the spinners are now grappling with great disproportion in price between the raw material and yarns. Pieces— For some kinds of goods, especially moreens, there is a very active demand, and the makers are engaged for some time to come. Orleans and Paramattas are stea•lily moved off, and no stocks yet to be found. The dulness which presented itself on the stoppage of Messrs. S. A. l 3 utterworth and Co. appears to Le fast disappearing. Fancy goods are now slack, and but few making. It is too late for the winter, and too early for the spring; and there appears to be a decided want of a new style for the coming seasons. Silk having been introduced into such low goods with coloured yarns prevents their being so favourably looked upon for the spring, and we hear that in light shades they are not so effective as ordinarily dyed goods. MANCHESTER.—We have rather retrograded this week, both in demand and prices, and the market since Tues day has given unmistakeable signs that 9104 the present low prices cannot be maintained. There is again an almost general talk of resorting to short time, but at present it is all talk. There is scarcely any branch of the trade that can be called healthy, the velvet branch excepted. Most of the Greek and American houses are doing a moderate amount of business, but are by no means active. Yarns are in the same dull and depressed state as on this day week; the production is clearly too large for prices to be supported. LEICESTER.—The demand for regular hosiery of all sorts continues good, and all the operatives are fully employed. The fancy hosiery houses are also very busy, and there is every prospect of their continuing so till Christmas. It is gratifying to learn that the goods sent out for the American fall trade have done well. There is no alteration in yarns. Wools are dull, except nods and brokes, which are in good request. NOTTINGIIAM.—The two staples of this town do not present any new feature upon which to comment this week. There has been less demand for lace goods generally, and an improved demand for hosiery, especi ally for that describtiJn of goods in which the great bulk of yarn is consumed. The demand for winter goods continues longer this season than usual. BANK OF FRANCE. The following was the situation of the Bank of France on Thursday morning, Nov. 9, 1848: ASSETS. ... f. 131,845,966 87 . . 103,320,827 00 171,533 06 Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills over due ••• ••• ••• Bills falling due in Paris, of which 15.539,2501. 15c. are from the branch banks ••• .. ~. Bills in the branch banks Advances on coins and ingots... Ditto on French public securities Ditto by branch banks... Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor.. Advance to the State on the lean of 150,000,000 f. . Rentes of the reserve fund Rentes, disposable funds Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... 12,806,741 39 Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 00 Real property of the branch banks ... 2,524,717 00 Loan of 10,000,000 f. to . the city of Paris 4,500,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Ditto branch banks 230,000 00 Bills protested at Paris 13,584,155 24 Ditto at the branches ... ... 8,006,808 00 Expenses of administration of the Bank 480,842 71 Ditto of the branches ... 378,001 00 Miscellaneous ... 589,344 71 Consolidation of Treasury Bonds ... 7,066,657 36 ... 62,073,304 99 ... 105,963,877 58 ... 13,599,516 00 13,518,196 65 1,589,404 00 50,000,000 00 ... 50,000,000 00 ... 10,000,000 00 34,786,288 62 f. 651,236,182 18 LIABILITIES. Capital . • .. f. 67,900,000 00 Ditto of the new Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 00 Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 00 Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 369,089,600 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 28,844,875 00 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 572,009 30 Account-current with Treasury creditor 22,579,289 67 Various accounts current ... 77,067,783 77 Ditto in branches ... 25,849,935 00 Bills payable at sight ... 2,213,500 00 Ditto at branches •.. ... 1,541,037 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... ... 5,372,283 49 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,450,888 00 Dividends payable ..• • • ... 206,207 75 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 476,649 04 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 2,904,742 80 Ditto branch banks ... ••• ... 2,300,525 00 Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27 Ditto in branch banks .. ... 641,233 00 Miscellaneous ... 172,541 03 L 651,236,182 18 POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—We deem it high time, as the Post-office authorities appear to be utterly careless in the matter, that the public should take some steps to remedy the delay occasioned by the defective arrange nents for the transmission of our Merionethshire mail. in consequence of the non-arrival in this town until after nice o'clock, of the London bags, instead of at the appointed hour, twenty minutes to eight o'clock, the contractors of the Tanybwlch mail have not sufficient time to reach that place, so as to be able to return to Carnarvon early enough for the dispatch of the London post; and the result is, that correspondence from Merio nethshire is delayed at this office for twenty-four hours. It will hardly be credited by parties who are not in formed on the subject, that letters lie at the Tanybwlch post-office from seven o'clock at night until one o'clock the next day. Indeed, the whole of the arrangements on this line appear as though made to retard, as much as possible, the communication between the adjoining countries. Letters from Carnarvon to Dolgelley by the morning mail reach, or rather ought to reach, Tany bwlch about halt past twelve, where they are delayed for seven hours. At the expiration of that time they are then forwarded to Barmouth, a distance of about twenty miles, where they are allowed to rest for the night, and in the morning are forwarded to Dolgelley. But, if letters are placed in the Carnarvon Office, eight or nine hours after the dispatch of the Merionethshire mail —say five o'clock in the evening —and are marked via Chester, they travel eighty miles by railway, and as long a distance as the so-called direct mail, by mail cart, and yet, strange as, it may seem, they reach their des tination within four hours of the former dispatch. Can it be possible that Mr. Rowland Hill is cognizant of these facts ? It is notorious that, for the same expense, the Merioneth mail might be conveyed to its destination on the same evening; yet, although the inhabitants of the localities through which the post travels have more than once brought the matter betore the Post-office autho rities, no steps have been taken to remedy the evil. We understand that, on and after Wednesday next, the 15th instant, the London mail will be dispatched from this town at twenty minutes before six, instead of at six o'clock, as at present.—Carnarvon Herald. WORCESTER FAIR. —At this fair which took place on Monday, the attendance of buyers was very small. The show of stock was very good, both in quality and numbers, but the greater part went back unsold, the graziers not being willing to be guided by the few buyers present. The price of beef ranged fr 5 d., w omsdito6d mutton there was a goo d supply; ei O hers f ewes, , 61d. Pigs were at a much lower figure; bacons, 9s. per score. There were but few horses, and prices lower.— Gloucester Journal. [ADVERTISEMEN T.] — Indigestion —that Parent of so many diseases, may be effectually cured by the use of the celebrated Vegetable Restorative Pills, prepared by J,ln Kaye, o f D a l ton-hall, near Huddersfield. This assertion is not based upon mere opinion or probability, but upon facts. Jonathan Good, tailor, of Winchester, suffered for years from indigestion, he was . recommended to try Kaye's Worsdell's Pills, and as the result, he has enjoyed better health than for years before.—Mr. James Noble, of Brampton, Cumberland, writes,—" My wife was for a long time troubled with pains in the stomach, loss of appetite, sickness,, and general debility; she was fully restored to healih by taking one small box of these Pills." Mrs. W., of Ewelme, Wallingford, writing to Mr. C. J. Vennimore, says,—" I believe Kaye's Pills saved my life last summer, when I was attacked by the Cholera." Ellen Eggleston°, Feling-bridge, near Bi shop Auckland, was affected- with disease of the bowels for two years, but was restored to perfect health by tak ing one box of Kaye's Worsdell's Pills." Every one suffering from Bile, Flatulency, or Indigestion, is earnestly recommended to give these Pills a trial. See that Mr. Kaye's coat of arms and a fac-simile of his signature, are printed on the directions for We wrapped round each box, as without this none are genuine. Sold by all Medicine Venders, price ls. 4(14 2s. Id.; or 4s. 6d. per h.ot. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—DEAFNES S AND DEF*CTITE Vl sioN.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Newly invented Spec tacles, Powerful Telescopes, Opera and Race . Glasses, Micros copes, &c.—Patronised by their Majesties the Queen Dowager and the King of Manover, their Graces the Duchess Of Hamilton, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, the Archbishops of Canter bury, York, and Dublin, the Dukes of Devonshire, Norfolk, Ar gyle, Marlborough and Manchester, Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Cork, liihnore, and Kildare. Messrs. S. and B. Solosiens, OctilistS and Opticians, have invented Spectacle Lenses upon a new construc tion. Immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, either by day or candlelight, that mist and dullness which appear before the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also the most powerful Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, and Microscopes. Invisible, and all kinds of Acoustic Instruments, for relief of the most extreme deathess. Cgartion—Messrs. 5. and B. Solornons. Opticians and Aurists, are ?At connected with a person putting up the same name in their Prinediate neighbourhood, nor in any part of the country. To peevent mistakes, be cautious and observe— Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite tho York Hotel. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Hornsey-lane, Highgate, the wife of J. W. Watson, Esq., of a son. On the sth inst„ the lady of the Rev. T. Protheroe, of Whippingham Rectory, Isle of Wight, of a son. On the bth inst., at the Field, Derby, the wife of Henry Boden, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Sylvan•park, cowl!), Meath, the lady of Walter Keating, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 7th inst., at the Vicarage, Deddington, the wife of the Rev. J. B:ogden, 'of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at the Parsonage, Beacham, Norfolk, the wife of the Rev. J. B. Winckworth, of a son. MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at Colcsdon, Surrey, Edward M. Perkins, Esq., second son of C. Perkins, Esq., Mark-lane, to Octavia, third daughter of Thomas A. Shuter, Esq., of t 3 tioney-nouse, Surrey. On the Sth inst., William Dalrympl e, j un., Esq, to Mary Agnes, daughter f James Aitken, Esq. On the 7th inst., at Erchfont Church, Jokn Edwards, eldest son of John Hayward, Esq., of Browfort, near Devizes, to Sophia Georgians Matilda, only daughter of T. N. Lewis, Esq , of Wedhampton Cottage. On the Bth inst., at Brighton, William Ernest, the second son of Robert Lawes, Esq., of Kingston-hill, Surrey, aged 24. On the Ist inst., at Eydon-hall, Northamptonshire, Cathe rine, relict of the late A. Annesley, Esq., of Bletchington, and mother of the present Viscount Valentia. On the 6th inst., at Leam-hall, Derbyshire, M. M. Mid dleton, Esq. On the 3d tilt., at St. Petersburgh, Alexander Grant, Esq. On the sth inst., at ;Newry, Major J. Barry Thomas, late of her Majesty's 9th Regiment of Foot. On the 6th inst., aged 12, Edmund Lawson, only child of the Rev. Edmund W. Hughes, rector of Welton-le-Wold, near Louth, Lincolnshire. On the 6th inst., at Brighton, Anna Maria, fourth daugh ter of the late Rev. AtheLstan Stephens, of Graveney and Goodnestone, Kent. At Hastings, on the 6th inst., Louisa Ellen, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Blogg, aged 25. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the county 01 Aliddleux, filouday t Nvvember 13, 1848,