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

FRANCE. GENERAL CAVAIGNAC AND THE CONSTITUTIONNEL." Several journals of Paris and the departments having published a statement of a conversation between General Cavaignac and M. Veron, the chief editor of the Con stitutionnel, with respect to the election of the President, and this having been the subject of various comments at the Bourse, the theatres, and in public circles, the Constitutionnel published a recital of the conversation. After stating that a former interview had taken place between these parties, when it was alleged to have been the intention of General Cavaignac to suppress that journal, on which occasion the editor, M. Veron, offered to confer with General Cavaignac whenever the General thought he could afford any information which would lead to the adhesion of the Constitutionnel, it gave the substance of the conversation as follows: Cavaignac—You led me to expect, M. Veron, some support from the Constitutionnel. It has not, however, shown itself very friendly. M. Veron—Since I had the honour to see you, M. le President, the Constitutionnel has been nearly Minis terial. General Cavaigns.c—Ministerial) That's very good. Let us see. (The President then took from his portfolio some extracts from the Constitutionnel, in which the General himself was spoken highly of.) M. Veron—You see here is the proof. General Cavaignac—Let that pass. And now for the question of the day—the election of President of the Re public. There are only two candidates, Napoleon and I. Now I speak to you with a soldier's franknes. Will you be for me or against me? M. Veron—Tho question is plain; I can only regret that my reply will be less so. Without being absolutely for you, the Constitutionnel cannot be against you. //y a 448 nuances qu'il Taut conserver. General Cavaignac—Would you trim between the two? Between two candidates, one or other must be selected. Pourquoi des nuances? M. Veron—For your dignity and mine, General. If the Constitutionnel should devote itself to your candi dateship, it would be said that you were the corrupter and I the corrupted; calumny would find ample means of exercising itself. General Cavaignac—Calumny ! We must be re signed to that. Does it spare me? Am not I calum niated ? M. Veron—l admit it, General; but you govern France, and for such honour one must be content to suffer a little; and the calumny which has attacked your per son has never attacked your good intentions; it has not inflicted very deep wounds. General Cavaignac--Well, I repeat my question. Will the Constitutionnel support me? To so frank a question let me have a frank reply. M. Veron—Then frankly, General, in asking the Con stit utionnel to support you, you do not impose on it a very easy task. General Cavaignae (warmly)—And why not? M. Veron—Because this poor country, already so suf• firing, your party appear disposed to injure in its in terests, and almost in its morals. General Caysignac—How its morals ? Have I not, then, washed my hands ? (The conversation then turned on the remplacement militaire, in which M. Veron made use of an argument as to the majority being opposed to that measure). —M Veron (continued)—General, you have made a step, a considerable step towards that majority, by appointing MM. Dufaure and Vivien. But scarcely have you made a movement towards this majority than you are seen to retepgrade. You again surround yourself with the men from whom you had separated yourself, as if you were compelled always to move in the same circle, that of the . . • General Cavaignac (rising with warmth)—This is the language of your party; always majorities—not a word of minorities. You are an intractable party. You have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. AccOrding to you, we must always govern for and by the majorities. But have not the minorities their right,? Did not the minorities tercb you, oti the 24th of February, what they could tt.i? They may repeat the lesson. The misfortune of this country is, that the opinions that you represent have so great an influence—for Ido not deny your inlita• ice. M. Veron—But. after all, what do they represent? Ideas of-order, which can alone save society, and which alone can give stability to power. General Cavaignac—ldeas of order! What, have we done nothing for them? Paris, so profoundly dis tubed, is it net tranquil? Under the Republic, can you not ;ivy ;n security and ease? Can you not dine as comfortably, Lull p.:S3 your evenings in amusement? M. Veron—SO we could when the Cossacks were in Paris; the invasion did not deprive us of this. If no other benefits were to result, this would be but a sorry argument for your candidateship. General Cavaignac—Well, I s2e you are not for me, and in a day or two I shall expect to see an attack on me in the Constituronnel. Mr. Veron—A. Le President, your services shall not be repudiated by the Constitutionnel. and your character shall be respected; but as to that adhesion you desire, .1 cannot promise it, It is a matter that demands con siderati.)n. General Cay.tignan—Then I shall see you again. ;M. Veron—Y, atei what I have said, you think a Second intervievy uoufnt, I shall be at your orders.— . (Thus ended the co .venation.) The followin:.; note has been sent to the Paris journals " A zeneral meeting convoked on November 23, 1848, at which all the Poles in Paris were invited to attend, bus decided that the ccreisony of the anniveriary of the Polish revolution of November 29, 1830, shall not be celebrated except. by a mass at St. Roch on the 29th instant, it clever' in the morning. It was considered that in presence of the deplorable events which are pas sing in Poland, and of the present political state of Europe, the celebration of the anniversary in the form i hitherto observed might give occasion to irritatingdiseu.s sions. The rights and the niartyrdoin of Poland, the duties of France towards her, speak a language clear and sig nificant enough. Full of the calm sentiment of their moral force, the Poles await the realisation of the solemn engagements freely contracted towards their country. The Poles, whilst recognising the immense bearing and importance of that engagement, think that there would be too grave inconvenience to indefinitely retard the ex ecution of it. " Paris, Nov. 29." [Here follow the names of the members of the Com- raiitee.] A letter from Lyons states that the strike amongst the men employed in the coal-pits of the Loire has terminated. The moderation of the authorities and the conciliatory language of the Prefect has led to this result. Some of the ringleaders were arrested, ani the other men have agreed to work for the present four days in the week only. The armed force, though placed at the disposal of the Prefect, was not called out. ITALY. The Costituzionale — ulTlpino of the 24th mentions a rumour current at Turin, that the Pope had es caped to Civita Vecchia, where he had embarked in a Neapolitan vessel. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin of the 22d, the Minister answered some questions concerning the presence of the Sardinian fleet in the Adriatic. The objects were-1. To prevent the blockade of Venice ; 2. To maintain the stabm quo of the armistice after the mediation offered by France ; 3. To exercise the right of reprisals against Marshal Radetzky, who unjustly retains part of the Pied montese artillery of Peschiera. As to the withdrawal of the Sardinian fleet, he explained that it was owing to no strategic operations; that the King had no allies in the last war, and was at liberty to act as he pleased • lastly, that since the blockade a nd the hos tilities of Austria have permanently ceased against Venice, the presence of the fleet is not necessary there at present. • STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, rtfitSDAY.—The extent to which spin ners and manufacturers are now under contract, has led 4 to an almost general demand for an advance upon the current prices of last week; and this has had the effect of checking the day's transactions in a very sensible degree, both as regards bare been yarns and goods. The former, however, season for e Meted than the latter. Although the vaneed as to shipmentadmit of to the north of Europe is so far ad fraction per lb. has little delay, yet a small additional eed to p reven t orders being giv e n out. But th e diminish ed to :the recent plentiful activit y is also p artl y owin g which naturally inclines their of our customers' wants, findin g postpone a portion of their remaining orders on g still higher rates in sisted upon. After all, howev e n r , amount of busi ness has been done in part at tie a l p h fa ic r e s of Friday, and lower. descriptions 0 some extent at a little more. of 40-inch ahirtings, being much inreeat and printing exceed ingly scarce, show a marked improvem en t; The r 9. like cloths and domestics of medium qualities manifest tendency, though not in an equal degree. cotton from the lowest point is a halfpenny p er p oun d yarns in the on the lower qualitie s, leavin g the cloth and rear. RoCIMALE, MONDAY. —We have had another good market for flannels to-day, but no improvement in prices. The wool market is rather lookin g up, and the dealers are asking better prices. HunnEnsriELD, TllESDAY.—Business is almost at a stand still to-day, in consequence of Sir Culling Eardley making his address to the electors, opposite the Cloth Ball. But this is considered a very dull season, and during the week there has been but little doing in the warehouses. Nothing new is offering, but we ID ly ex pact, in a short time, that 'goods adapted for the spring trade will make their appearance, as the fancy manufac turers are busily engaged in the production of patterns adapted for that period. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In worsted . goods and yarns, we have no alteration to report since our last. Wool re mains firm, at the late advance, and the growers, antici pating a further improvement, are holding their stocks for still higher rates; but the prospeets . of trade do not seem to warrant any such exp,ctations. LEEDS, TUESDAY. —Partly froin causes alluded to last w eek, we have had to-day an exceedingly dull market at our Cloth fialli, and the transactions have been of a are, liowev:;r, re - -very insignificant amount. There deeming features in the present State of our cloth trade, inasmuch as a good deal is doing to fixed orders, which afford pretty fair employtnent.—Mancltester Guardical. „.„ POTATO TIWOB AT PERTII.-1:WO vessels have been laid on this week to take in potatoes for the Lon don market, of which There appears still yo be no lack, although the quality, in most cases, by no amens obeoring. Reds are bringing from ss. to 125., and regeiNts from 18s. to 225. a boll. The latter are univer sally in good condition, so far as disease is concerned. Perth 4-.l4ivertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30 1 _ lB4B. CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. Tuesday a Court was held. Mr. Deputy STEVENS gave notice that he should, at the next Court, move for the appointment of a special committee to inquire into the question of procuring a cheaper supply of gas to the city of London. An application was made for permission to lay down a sample of Welsh stone as pavement in the Poultry. The petitioners stated that the article was twice as durable as the York stone, so that for the 20 years which the latter might stand the Welsh stone would last 40 years.—Referred to the surveyor for examination. Some conversation took place upon the subject of pre venting the continuance of what appeared to be a regu lar system of obstruction in Love-lane, which was stated to be frequently blocked up with baskets and trucks, &c., by tradespeople, in such a manner as to make the difficulty of ingress or egress, as regarded the market, insuperable. It was finally resolved that the inspectors should warn the parties who caused the obstructions to remove them upon pain of being made liable to the in fliction of the Green-yard expenses, and other penalties. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 29. FALSE IMPRISONMENT-OSTERMAN V. EATEMAN. In this case, which had not concluded when our After noon Edition went to press yesterday, the jury, after an absence of an hour, returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. _ _ _ William Hill, 32, plumber, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding his wife, Sarah Hill, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutrix deposed that the prisoner was her husband, but they had separated, and she had gone to reside with her mother at Woolwich, and assisted her to carry on her business of a fruiterer. About eleven o'clock at night on the 18th of November she had been engaged in the shop, and was outside talking to a person named William Hammond, when the prisoner walked by, and as he passed made use of an opprobrious expres sion to her. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he went by again, and she observed that he had a knife in his hand, and when he got close to her he made a stab at her breast, but the knife struck the steel in her stays, and the point was broken. She fell from the violence of the blow, and the prisoner again attempted to stab her, and she received a wound on one of her fingers. Cross-examined—She' had been obliged to leave the prisoner because he would not support her, and he had been the means of getting her turned out of two houses which she had provided for herself, by his extravagance and getting into debt. Mr. Hammond was merely a customer of her mother, and there was not the least ground for supposing that there was any improper inti macy between them, and the prisoner had never quar relled with her on his account. The prisoner appeared to have been drinking at the time he assaulted her, but he knew perfectly well what he was about. Her husband was very angry with her because she would not allow him to come and live at her mother's. She had offered to go and live with him in any home he might provide for her, if it was only one room, but she would not let him be a charge to her mother, who had enough to do to support herself. Some other evidence was adduced confirmatory of the evidence of the prosecutrix, and the constable who took the prisoner into custody said that as they were going to the station•house he told him that he " meant to stab the —." Mr. ROBINSON, in addressing the jury for the prisoner, said, it was a lamentable thing to see a husband and wife appearing in a court of justice under such circum stances as had been detailed before the jury; but he submitted that upon the evidence the jury would not be justified in convicting the prisoner of a felonious assault. He would not attempt to insinuate that there was any ground for supposing an improper intimacy existed be tween the prosecutrix and Mr. Hammond, but it was clear that thei prisoner was aggravated by seeing his wife talking to that person, and, in a sudden fit of jea lousy, he committed an assault upon her, but without the felonious intention imputed to him by the present indictment. _ _ _ The LORD CHIEI JUSTICE, in summing up, said it was very possible that such a motive as that alluded to by the Learned Counsel had actuated the prisoner, but there did not appear to be the slighest foundation for such a suspicion, and, even if it was well founded, it would afford no justification for a husband to take the law into his own hands and carry out his feelings of vengeance by an act of this description. A violent as sault had certainly been committed, and it was for the jury to say whether the prisoner, at the time he com mitted the act, contemplated the felonious intention im puted to him. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the pri soner Guilty of an assault, and acquitted him of the fel. ny. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that his conduct had been most disgraceful, and in order to protect his wife from violence in future, and as an example to others in a similar position, he felt it neces sary to pass a severe sentence upon him, which was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years, and at the expiration of his imprisonment he should require him to enter into his own recognizance in 1001.. and two sureties in 501. each, to keep the peace for two years. Elizabeth Rogers, 26, Isabella Jennings, 30, and John Jennings, 23, were indicted for steeling a silver teapot, coffeepot, two silver waiters, 24 forks, 42 spoons. and other articles of plate, of the value of nearly 200/., the property of Cranston George Ridout. Mr. Payne prosecuted, Mr. Ballantine defended Ro gers, and the others had no counsel. It appeared from the evidence in the case that the pro secutor, who is a retired military officer, resided at No. 11, Wimpole-street, and on the 29th of August he had made pre pe.rations for leaving town, and had packed up his plate and placed it in a clout, resolving, contrary to his. usual custom, to allow it to remain in the house daring his absence, instead of sending it to his banker's, which had always thereto.bre been his custom. The pri soner Rogers was engaged as housemaid in the family, and the other prisoners stood in the position of sister and brother-in-law to her, but the prosecutor was not aware that she had any such relations, and when he left town he gave her permission to allow another married sister to visit her, but forbade any one else being admitted to the house. The precise period when the robbery was committed was not very clearly made out, but it vas shown that very soon after the prosecutor and his family left London the Jenningses frequently,went to the house, and upon several occasions bundles were seen to he removed by the female prisoners, and taken away in a cab, and the woman Jennings was proved to have pawned a considerable portion of the stolen plate at different pawnbrokers' shops, giving false names. It further ap peared, as against the prisoner Rogers, that on the 2d of October she called in the police, and stated that the house had been robbed, telling a very lame story upon the subject, and denying that the other prisoners had ever been to visit her during her master's absence. It likewise appeared that when Jennings's wife was taken into custody her husband went to a person named Os born, and told him that he had committed the robbery himself, and that he had buried the plate, but he should say nothing about it until he was in custody, and then he would say where the plate was hid, in order that it might be obtained, for the purpose, as he said, " to pay counsel." He afterwards, however, said that,it was not he who had buried the plate, but another person; but he said he did not know where to find that person. Several other facts were also deposed to which left no reasonable doubt of the guilt of the whole of the prisoners. The jury, after a short deliberation in the box, ex-, pressed a wish to retire, and they were absent nearly an hour, when they gave a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, but recommended the women to mercy, upon the ground that they had been led into the com mission of the offence by their male companion. —Sen tence was deferred. NE W COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Jeremiah Burke, aged 48, a labourer, was indicted for stealing a ream of paper, valued at 165., the property of Charles James Jeffreys, and John liuddard, a grocer, was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. The prosecutor, who is a music publisher, stated that the prisoner Burke was a porter in the employ of a printer engaged by him, and a part of his duty was to fetch paper from his (witness's) warehouse to be printed upon. Baying a suspicion that he was being robbed, he watched Burke on the 4th of November, and saw him take two reams of music paper away. Witness followed for some distance, until Burke turned up a court, and ho then went on to the printer, and awaited the arrival of Burke, who shortly came, having only one ream with him. When witness asked him where the other ream was, he said he had dropped it in the mud, but subsequently admitted he had stolen it, and begged for mercy. He then gave information, which led witness to a small grocer's shop in Crown-street, Soho, where he found the other ream, hidden between some barrels and canisters. Amongst some other paper found by the police was some music-paper, which resembled some that had belonged to him, made into sugar bags. Hud dard was then taken into custody, but admitted to bail, and this day surrendered to take his trial. Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defence, said that he was instructed to deny that the paper had been feloniously received. The fact was that the prisoner turke had entered his client's shop, and, laying the paper down, requested he might be allowed to leave it for a short time, and that a person who was in the shop being served had moved the paper to where it was found. The Learned Counsel then called a respectable woman named Scott, residing in Crown-street, who corroborated this statement, adding, that she moved the paper that it might be out of the way of a child who was in the shop. Two witnesses were called, who gave lluddard a good character, and, a written statement put in by Burke cor roborating the defence, the jury Acquitted him. The prosecutor having recommended Burke to mercy, he was sentenced to three months' imprsonment. James Howes pleaded guilty to stealing property be longing to the Great Western Railway Company, his masters. The COMMON-SERGEANT said, they had but one duty to perform where servants of large companies robbed their employers, and that was to make an example of all so convicted. He was then sentenced to seven years' transportation. Henry Savage, aged 19, was indicted for stealing a r r t of y o s f h e t d h e r r e i e e k b oo Smith,k , an d h two s m loaves ; n p f a i b r r of d b a, o t o h t e s p a r o p p a e i and William Dickens, aged 11, was indicted for felo niously receiving bread and boots, knowing the same to have been stolen. Savage pleaded guilty, and it appeared that he lived in the service of the prosecutor, who is a schoolmaster, and Dickens (who is a very simple-looking little fellow, and stood in the dock seemingly unconscious of what ho was placed there for) is his nephew. The only evidence of the guilty knowledge against the boy was, that he was seen seated in a field, and had the things in question in his possession, and, when asked what he was doing, asked w by the said, " Waiting for his uncle," and told where he lived. seee,n't,irtw.tfoio,r warrantp to l p e ; cuo%t, theta s e : II 3,0 1 s an ppoppfrreetf2eenn oditig % v bf is e i t o .,: n eh , lb ‘ d v o h yf o ,o were r re were_ COMMON-SERGEANT what, evidence there both htetwtylaihnE their w'ith i a usp g i tt ei lly s knowledge?i ng T o h e e y y The Commois-SF.R ovErioiAeN ,a addressing reason dressi n t they Were stolen, and the principal y th g e a j v u e ry w , a s s a t i l: i ei a r finding him with the property. more monstrous case no right to t a k e the boy into custody, and he was very never knew. The p o li ce b a d sorry to see th at a magistrate The jury immediately had sent him for tri a l. Acquitted the child. The COMMoN-SERGEANT AN T told the constables that they would get themselves into a mess if they ap prehending boys i n th at went about way and advised them to be cautious for the future. Savage w•as then sentenced to four months' imprison ment. Four strong able-bodied fellows, whose ages varied from eighteen to twenty-four, were indicted for stealing three loaves of bread, the property of Thomas Vooght. They pleaded guilty. It appeared that the prisoners, who had just come out of the union, had gone into the prosecutor's shop and taken the bread, which they at once divided and com menced devouring. One of the prisoners handed in a written state ment, and The COMMON-SERGEANT, after perusing it, said he wished Government were made acquainted with its con tents, and then they would know the meaning of such offences. The reasons assigned by the prisoners for the commission of the offence was, that they only received eight ounces of bread in the union, which was not half what they had had in the prison hat morning. It was very evident that they considered they would be better kept in goal. They were all able-bodied paupers, and to imprison such as they were was but to hold out an encouragement to persons to commit such offences to be kept in gaol, where he, for one, thought the prisoners were too well fed; he knew they were much better fed, and had more of the necessaries of life, than many poor hardworking honest labourers. The fact was pretty well known that persons got bread enough in a gaol, and not in an union. Having consulted with the Judges, ho added that he did not think there would be any punishment so bene ficial to the ends of public justice, and which would so well serve to check such offences, as the punishment he was about awarding them, which was, that they be imprisoned four days in Newgate and then discharged, but that they previously be all well whipped. The prisoners seemed exceedingly chapfallen at the sentence. Henry Muitz Goldschntidt was indicted for forgery. The prisoner, a gentlemanly-looking foreigner, was described as an agent. The ca se h a d been remanded from last session. The prosecutor not being in attendance, The COMMON SERGEANT inquired where he lived, and asked the reason of his non-attendance? The officer said he resided in Fleet-street, and it was evident he did not mean to attend, as he had called on him several times. -- The CommoN SEBGEANT directed an Acquittal, and, in estreating the prosecutor's recognizances, directed them to be returned with a special endorsement of the officer's statement upon them. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. William Hart, a servant employed at the University Club-house, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, by James Gould, 76, F division, charged with obstructing him in the execution of his duty. The complainant stated that about three o'clock in the afternoon he was on duty in New-street, Covent garden, when, observing the thoroughfare obstructed by a number of carts, and a cab, which was unattended, he inquired of persons standing by where the driver was, and was informed that he had just gone into a hosiery shop with the prisoner, who had been riding in the cab. The moment he proceeded to take the number on the plate the cabman came out of the shop, and on his calling him to account for leaving the vehicle unattended in such a narrow thoroughfare, the prisoner rushed out of the same shop and said " D— you, how dare you take the number of that cab; the driver has been em ployed by me." Witness told him that he was obliged to do so, the driver not being present to take care of the cab and horse; upon which he re replied, " You are a thing—you don't know your duty;" which immediately caused a crowd to assemble, and, although some gentlemen pressed the prisoner to go away without more interference, and also witness re peatedly desired him to cease using offensive language, he still persisted to conduct himself in the same manner until he was taken into custody. The prisoner denied having made use of any improper expression, but hearing the complainant call the cabman to an account, he remonstrated, saying that he was the person who was in fault, and then the complainant ad dressed him in very offensive terms. A young man who was driving a cart proved that when the prisoner expostulated in the mildest terms with the complainant for taking the number, he said, " Get away, you pumped-up Johnny," which caused the prisoner to tell him that he ought to be taught his duty. John Stevens, the nab-driver, said that on his return from the shop, where he had not been three minutes, he apologised to the constable, seeing him take the number, and upon the prisoner interfering the constable used the words imputed to him by the last witness, at the same time placing himself before the prisoner in such a man car as to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace. Thomas Jepps, a tailor, who said he watt a stranger to both parties, proved that the constable's conduct was very harsh towards the prisoner, having pushed him along and seized him by the collar, in such a manner that he was obliged to hold his hat to prevent it fall ing off. In answer to the magistrates, the complainant said he had been in " the force" only seven months. Me. HENRY said he could entertain no doubt of the truth of the evidence given by witnesses, who could Lave no interest in the matter, respecting the offensive words used by the constable, who had no right to take the pri son, r into custody, although ho was justified in taking the number of the cab, which, it had been admitted by the driver, was left unattended. The prisoner was then discharged. LAMBETH. [ For some weeks past a great deal of the time of the magistrates of this court has been occupied in hearing summonses taken out at the instance of the trustees of the Surrey and Sussex Trust against parties passing through the Vauxhall gates without paying the usual toll, under the plea of exemption. It appears that about eighteen months ago a discovery was made by an individual that all vehicle, might pass to and from the Nine-elms station of the South-Western Railway without the payment of toll, and the ingenious discoverer at once made application to the then lessees of these tolls for 5001. as the price for his silence. The lessees finding that his representations were correct, deemed it their interest to allow him 301. a month, and this sum was regularly paid up to the time at which their lease expired. The lessees declined to retake the tolls on two grounds—the first was the awkward discovery above alluded to; and the second, that the passenger traffic was about to be removed from Nine-elms station to that of Waterloo-road, and the consequence was that the gates were left on the hands of the trustees. These ge ntlemen, on assuming the power, discharged some of the collectors of the former lessees, and the consequence was that the right to go to and from the station without payment oozed out, and the result will be the loss of some thousands yearly to the trust. It appears that a street, called Bond-street, which is si tuated between the South Lambeth and the Wandsworth roads, is not included in the trust, nor is Mile-street at the top; and vehicles coming over Vauxhall -bridge, or from High-street or Vauxhall-walk, have a right to pass through the gates into either of those streets without paying a farthing toll. On reaching the end of Mile street, they can also cross the Wandsworth-road, and reach the Nine-elms station, without travelling 100 yards on the turnpike-road, and are therefore exempt from toll. A number of persons claiming the exemption to go into Bond-street and Mile -street, but who subsequently tra versed a greater distance than 100 yards on the turnpike road, have been summoned and fined. Amongst the number was Mr. Daleman, a solicitor, residing at Stock well; and from the evidence in his case, it appeared that on the morning of the 9th of November the coachman of the defendant, by his master's desire, drove from his re sidence at Stockwell into the South Lambeth-road, then through Mile-street and Bond-street, and returned the same way in the evening, without paying. 'The defen dant was convicted in the full penalty of 51. and costs, which he at once paid. WORSHIP-STREET. Owen Moran and William Jones' were charged with having been concerned with four others, not in custody, in committing a criminal assault and robbery upon the person of a poor widow named Anne Coxfield, living in Quaker-street, Spitalfields. The prosecutrix, who was in such a state of debility and suffering that she was allowed to be seated during the examination, and was scarcely able to give her evi dence, deposed that she obtained a living by selling fish at a stand is the City, and that shortly after one o'clock on the preceding morning, while returning to her "home through Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, she was closely followed by the prisoner Moran and five other men, until they reached the end of a dark passage with out a thoroughfare, where one of them • suddenly snatched her basket from her, and ran up the court with it. She was at the same moment surrounded by the others, who forced her up the entry, where one of them struck her a violent blow in the face and knocked her down, an d before she could recover her self two or three of the fellows seized her by the shoul ders and held her forcibly down, while another of them proceeded to acts of violence which cannot be described, and in spite of her screams and struggles completed a capital offence. She was afterwards assailed in a similar manner by three of the other ruffians in succession, during the perpetration of which, upon each occasion, they placed their hands upon her mouth to stifle her cries. They next proceeded to rifle her pockets, from which they abstracted all the money she had, consisting of a shilling and some halfpence, and were in the act of stripping off her clothes, when they wore disturbed by the sound of approaching footsteps, and having torn off her shawl, the whole of them ran away. Several of the inhabitants of the court, who were attracted by her cries, then came to her assistance, and carried her home, where a surgeon was sent for, and she had ever since remained in a state of acute suffering from numerous contusions upon every part of her person. John Norton, porter to a tabaeconist, stated, that hav ing been alarmed by the screams of a woman at the time in question, he looked through a small aperture in the woodwork of his house, commanding a view of the en trance of the court, where a man was stationed, who called out " Muzzle her, and stifle her cries;" and the shrieks were then partially suppressed, as though the woman's voice had been forcibly stopped. The prisoner Moran shortly afterwards emerged from the passage with a large basket, which he placed upon the ground, and said something to the other man, who disappeared up the court, and the screams of the woman were vio lently renewed fur several minutes, but were ultimately stopped in the same sudden manner, and the second man, having returned to the mouth of the court, called the pri soner Jones, who also entered the passage, and the same screams and struggles were again repeated. The whole of the men soon :afterwards disposed in diircrent direc tions, and the prosecutrix was subsequently brought out of the court by some of the inhabitants, who carried her away in a state of insensibility. Sergeant Kelly and police-constable Gifford, of the H division, stated that in consequence of the description i the prosecutrix had afforded of the dresi and personal appearance - of her assailants, on the face of one of whom she had inflicted in the course of her struggles a severe laceration with her nails, they succeeded on the pre ceding evening in apprehending the prisoners, one of whom exhibited an extensive abrasion under the eye, which had been evidently recently inflicted. Both of them at first denied all participation in the outrage, but on reaching the station Jones admitted that several others had been engaged in it, and that he stood by laughing at them. The prisoners were then searched, and some halfpence were found upon Jones, one of which was immediately identified by the prosecutrix, from some peculiar marks upon it, as having formed a portion of the money of which she had been robbed after the perpetration of the outrage. Neither of the prisoners offered any defence, and they were ordered to be brought up again in a week for the completion of the evidence. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS. An extraordinary meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, Guildhall-chambers, for the purpose of confirming the forfeiture of certain shares — the Earl of Lonsdale in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, there ware three distinct ways to proceed in disposing of the forfeited shares. One was to distribute them rateably among the proprietors who had paid their calls, but he feared, in the present state of things, shareholders would not be willing to take them; the second would be to sell them in the market, but it was probable there would be no biddors; the third was, they thought the best, to keep them in reserve, and not dispose of them until after the shareholders were called together again, when he hoped the times would be more favourable. The number of shares forfeited on former occasions ►ere 1,376, upon which 4,868/. had been paid. The 2,365 shares the forfeiture of which was now to be confirmed had 6,4501. paid upon them, making together 11,318/. the amount forfeited. A resolution confirming the forfeiture of the shares was then passed, with the understanding that the shares would not be disposed of until after the next general meeting. In answer to questions it was stated that they had ex pended up to the present time 152,3001.; that about eight miles would be opened in February next, and about 17 miles to Ravenglass in the course of next summer; that about 40,0001. would enable them to complete that length of line. The amount already received on calls was 159,0001.; they expected to receive 8,0001. from the calls next month, and about 8,0001. in February, which would moke 175,0001. They would then be enabled to bring their borrowing powers into operation. The line would be about 31 miles in length, :and about 21 miles of it would be executed for a sum between 6,0001. and 7,0001. per mile. Every effort had been made to recover the arrears due on the calls, nothing more could be obtained from those whose shares had been forfeited. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—An extraordinary meeting is to be held at Euston-square, on the 13th of next month, at which it will be proposed to create 26,000 shares, of the nominal value of 251. per share, in the London and North-Western, to be divided among the proprietors in the Leeds and Dewsbury, lately amal gamated with the London and North-We.Lern; and 5,522 shares, of the nominal value of 301., and a further number of 23,125, of the like value, together with 18,900, at 10/., in the London and North-Western, to be appro priated among the shareholders of the Huddersfield and Manchester, also amalgamated with the London and North-Western. GREAT NORTHERN.—This company have issued what are called " market tickets," similar to the return or day tickets, upon other lines, at reduced rates, to accommo date the agriculturists and farmers attending the Louth, Lincoln, and Boston markets. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—The works on the Great Britannia Tubular Bridge, which are of twice the stu pendous character of those over the river Conway, have been put in full operation this week, and are already in an advanced state. The platform for this purpose, across the Menai Straits alone, is half a mile long, and four large tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly completed. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be floated half a mile along the Straits, and then raised 106 feet home. The total weight to be raised this height will be 1,800 tons, which is 300 tons more than the weight of the Great Britain steamer, with her hulk, rigging, engines, and boilers. The end tubes are also much advanced, and they are constructed on the largest mass of scaffolding ever erected. The scaffold or platform on which they are being put together is 100 feet high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broai, capable of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, and the elnins used fur raising it will alone weigh 100 tons. It will be fl oa t e d o n e i g ht p on t oons . T w o of them are of iron, 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, and capa ble of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, rising out of the water, from the Britannia rock, atter which the bridge is named, is 62 feet broad, by 53 feet square. The blocks of stone are seven and eight feet long, and they rise, stone upoa stone, until the pier is 230 feet high. There are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire length of the tube bridge across the Straits, is 1,420 feet, or nesrl3 one-third of a mile. The entire experiments and processes are carried on under the superintendence of Mr. Edwin Clarke, C.E., who is en trusted with them by Mr. Robert Stephenson, the emi nent engineer. ttAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 29. _ SrocK EXCHANGE. —The market remains in much the same state as yesterday. Some business was done in Great Westerns and Bristol and Exeters at former prices. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-We have not had such a good de mand for shares to-day as yesterday. Prices are a point lower. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 1 4 c. dis.— Dundee and Perth, 25—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Man. cluster and Birmingham), Fifths, 4 1 / 2 c. dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, Bs. 9d.—Midland Stock, 78 1 / 2 c.—Ditto, New Halves, 10 1 / 2 c. dis.—Scottish Central, 25 1 / 1 —Shropshire Union, 635. 9d. c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),l% c. dis.—London and North. Western, 117 1 / 2 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, lls. 3d. p. THE BRAZIL MAIL FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—The Express packet, Lieute- I nant Lory, arrived last evening with the Brazil mails. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of October. Her passengers are, Sir Manuel Rodrigues de Oliveira, Blanco, Messrs. Canto and Meyer, Captain Bunce, R. 51., and three miners. She brings in freight about 120,0001., a considerable portion from the River Plate and the Pacific. On the 7th October the late Government retired, when Viscount de Olinda was commissioned to form a new Ministry, which had been completed from the high aristocratic party, but the only name reported when the packet sailed was Senor Joaquim Jose Rodrigues Torres, Minister of Finance. The Exchange Market was animated on the 6th and 7th, when 50,0001. were negotiated upon London at 231 d. to 24d., of which 20,0001. were taken by the Treasury, since which dates little was done to the time of the packet's departure. Bills to a moderate amount had passed upon Paris at 400 reis, and upon Hamburgh at 720 to 739 reis. Discounts continued easy at 6to -a,. Stock little doing at 86i to 87, and at 85i to 86 for pro vincial. In specie, business was tolerably brisk, several large parcels had been sold. Doubloon at 31,550 dolls. to 31,800 dolls. Dollars at 2,020 dolls. to 2,050 dolls. Old Ports at 18,500 dolls to 18,750 dolls. Sovereigns at 10,000 dolls. In the freights little doing; some few vessels had left in ballast, but the quantity of foreign bottoms still at Rio Janeiro was enormous, and amounted to 160, of which 110 without destination. COFFEE.—The market was brisk, chiefly for the United States. The sales from the sth to the 14th Oct. amounted to 40,000 bags. The exports since the sth were:—For Antwerp, 6,910 bags; Copenhagen, 2,583; Falmouth, 1,900 ; Genoa, 1,681; Gottenburg, 2,004 ; Hamburgh, 1,742; Havre, 4,502; Jersey, 2,952; Lisbon, 1,281; Malta, 3,263; New Orleans, 19,630; New York, 8,210; Philadelphia, 4,000; Trieste, 2,513. The price of washed coffee on board was 295.; superior, 235. 4d.; Ist good, 225.; Ist ordinary, 20s. 2d.; 2d good, Iss. Bd.; SUGAR.—The receipts of Campos, all packages in cluded, amounted (from the sth) to 230 cases, and the sales to about 400 cases, of which 150 - were for Portugal, and the remainder for home consumption. White, 2,800 dolls.; brown, 2,100 dolls. to 2,200 dolls. for new. THE DEAD SEA. TO THE EDITOR, OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l read in your issue of the day before yesterday (the 21st) a short account of Captain Lynch and the American expedition to explore the Dead Sea, from which it would appear that the. descent from the Lake of Tiberias to the Dead Sea by the Jordan had now for the first time been accomplished. But, Sir, this is not the case. Our gallant countryman, the late Lieutenant Molyneux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, two years ago conveyed a small boat overland from Caipha to the Lake of Tiberias, and thence by the Jordan to the Dead Sea, upon which he remained two, if not three days; he then took his boat by Jerusalem to Jaffa. Poor fellow! he died six weeks afterwards at Beyrout of fever contracted during his journey. The difficulties encountered by the American expedition were mere child's play compared to those which poor Molyneux met with and triumphed over. On one occasion the three seamen he had with him were separated from him, and were seized, beaten, and stripped of their arms and clothes by the Arabs, and found their way almost Baked and with difficulty to Tiberias. Still Molyneux persevered, although he had literally to fight his way down. When at Jerusalem in April I saw a letter from Captain Lynch, in which he speaks of fully appreciating Molyneux's daring and per severance, and in which he refers to his having the same Arab pilot who was with Molyneux. I never met Lieu tenant Molyneux ; but as I thought the impression might go abroad that the Americans were the first to navigate the Jordan between the two lakes, whereas an English man had preceded them, I have taken the liberty of troubling you with these few lines. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Cheltenham, Nov. A W. E. E. NO CHOLERA IN THE CITY. - - - Mr. Sistowtthe Medical Officer of Health, reported to the Court that no case of cholera had occurred since he had made his last report. He, however, repeated that he considered it necessary that he should be sup plied with the particular returns from the medical offi cers of the City unions for which he had in the first in stance applied, as an indispensable means of enabling him to adapt the sanitary regulations to the various contingencies which might arise. SANITARY REGULATIONS. The report of the Common Council upon the resolu tion of the Commissioners of Sewers, referring it to the former Court to consider the propriety of appointing a Board of Health, was brought up. It referred back the matter to the Court of Sewers, to be carried into effect by that body. The question was, after some conside ration, referred to a committee, in order that inquiry might be made as to the funds from which the expenses incurred by the circumstances attending such appoint ment could be defreyed, and the power of the Court to carry out the views of the Court of Common Council. THE NEW CITY SEWERS BILL. The Commissioners then proceeded to consider the re port of the committee relative to the new board of sewers for the city of London, the particulars of which were published a few days ago. The substance of the resolutions adopted, after discus sion amongst the members, was—that the constitution of the Court of Commissioners should stand as it was at the present moment; that the meetings of the Commis sioners should be regulated according to the existing plan, and the meetings of the ;General Purposes Com mittee should be held as usual; and that the collectors of the rates should hereafter be nominated by the Al dermen and Common Council of the wards and by the Commissioners of Sewers. The regulations with respect to other matters connected with the board, recommended by the committee, were, . with some slight alterations, adopted.—Adjourned. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 28.—The arrival of Lord Clarendon is rumoured for Thursday next, when it is stated the ap pointment to the vacant bishopric will be announced. The selection of an Englishman as master of the Royal School of Armagh, and the unpopularity of the appoint ment, would incline one to hope that discontent be not stimulated among the clergy of the Establishment by a second nomination of that nature. The income of the see is 4,4631. 9s. Oid., of which over 3,0001. arises from fines—of course this payment will be irregular. The loss to Ireland arising from the failure of the po tato, and its consequential results, is estimated at 43,000 0001. THE STATE PRISONERS. For the last two or three days Mr. Smith O'Brien has suffered considerably from an attack of lumbago which has confined him to his bed. Although this disease is most troublesome and painful, it is not one of a dan gerous dharacter, and the medics attendant of Mr. O'Brien confidently expects that his patient will have suffiaiently recovered in a day or two so as to be enabled ro take his usual exercise. Mr. M‘Manus has improved in health, and is going on most favourably, so that in a short time he will be completely restored. ANOTHER TIPPERARY •MURDER. For the sake of human nature it is to be hoped that the-re is over-colouring in the following horrifying ac count of man-butchery in the county of Tipperary:— " DErNDRUM, Nov. '25.—A murder has just been com mitted in this neighbourhood under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. A farmer of the name of Janies Hen nessey, of Gatlin, near Dundrum, having risen on Thurs day morning rather early for the purpose of detecting some parsons who were in the habit of stealing his tar• nips, was ivsailed by a number of men, who literally riddled his body with slugs, and not content with that, heat, cut, and stabbed him in the most dreadful manner. lie lay for two hours within a field of his own Is ;uso, and his wife must have met a horrible sight, as she stumbled over his body on her way to milking. It is supposed that the savage manner in which they treated the boly arose from taeir desire to finish their job in a more busines-like manner than they did on a former occasion to his still more unfortunate brother. The latter was fired at in open daylight, both his legs broken, and left fur dead. He reco vered, however, after a long illness, and the miserable cripple, scarcely able to crawl, might have been spared; but the murderers were again sent on his track, and exactly on the same spot he saw four armed men running over the field. Being harlly able to move he screamed dreadfully, and some men ran to his assistance; but the villains, with cocked guns. ordered them to lie down and witness that they this time did their work more effectually. Three of them held the unfortunate wretch, while the fourth actually hacked his head off with a billhook. Tnis occurred some time previous to the murder I have mentioned above, and explains the unusual pains they took to extinguish life. Hennessey was an industriouPfariner, and generally esteemed, espe clay by his landlord, Lord Hatvarden, one of the heist and most indulg-nt landlords in the south of Ireland, who (ably seconded by his agent, Mr. John Stewart) is untiring in his efforts to benefit his tenantry and in troduce such a system of agriculture as may conduce to their comfort and respectability." RAILWAY AMALGAMATION. Profiting by the example of the great English com panies, a requisition is in course of signature for a meet ing of the shareholders in the Dublin and Drogheda, Dublin and Belfast Junction, Dundalk and Enniskillen Companies, to take into consideration the best means of effecting an amalgamation of the four companies. " Power to amalgamate," says the Irish Railwa. Gazette— " The companies already possess, so that there would be no necessity for an application to Parliament ; but the amalgamation company would not be legally styled, as suggested in the circular addressed to the shareholders of The Great Northern and Western Railway Company,' without a new Act to authorise the change. Upon the policy of an amalgamation we believe no person conver sant with the position of the four companies can enter tain a doubt. The great saving effected by the working of the combined company would be one of the least of the advantages derivable from the measure. Not only would the general manage ment be more consistent and vigorous, but economy could be carried out to an extent that the companies singly are incapable of, and the result would prove equally advantageous to the shareholders and the public. The amalgamated company would embrace an extent of 209 miles of railway, of which, however, only 351 is open, while 59 miles are in an advanced state of con struction, and will be opened, we presume, by January next. When these portions are opened there will then be 941 miles of railway working together, with the ex ception of the break at Drogheda over the Boyne, leaving 1 miles to be completed; and it cannot be questioned that under the management of one board and one set of officials,the working could be more satisfactorily and economically conducted than by four boards, with their conflicting opinions, their divided responsibility, and their seemingly antagonistic interests." THE FUNDS. Three per Cent. Consols, 851; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 86i 86; Bank Stock, 192; National Bank Shares, 18; City of Dublin Steam Packet, 70; Great Southern and Western Railway, 23; Midland 164; Waterford and Limerick, 8. THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.--There are further and dis heartening accounts of the progress of evictions in the south. The occupiers of the larger class of farms are emigrating, many of them without paying rent or poor rate; and the smaller holders are put out by ejectment. The Cork Examiner contains the following:—" Battem, parish of Kilmoe, Nov. 23.—0 n Friday, 17th November inst., Joe Driscoll, driver to Mrs. Clerk, went on the lands of Battem, and dispossessed several families, com prising in all 36 persons." The same journal says:—" The correspondent, who authenticates this information, states that there are no tices pending for even a wider range of extermination! And it is in the most wretched part of all this wretched country that this movement is so rife." The Tipperary Vindicator gives an appalling account of the condition of some districts in the North Riding of them that county :—" In a townland in the immediate neigh died, leaving neigh bourhood of Borrisokane, where twenty-five families l i t ie stl s e i ta n . comfortable circumstances, nine of those fami liesd within the last few months, and four of whom are inthe most twelve on the townland, some of ristn, whilst it does of leavin... „_.t e ue most indigent circumstances, desirous lym ac k4il s e c:untry if they could. The village of Bal. comparatively death having becom e a heap of the most squalid paupe not contain one-fourth of the once made sad by whom it was inhabited, ino Sundays it i s o b serve d a great m easure; an d i n nearly all the rural c h apels Toom avara the same m ay b e a sa a l v d of among them. Of that the congregations are th'iti numbering half what they were' ESTATES OF LORD BLAYNEY. mentions a rumour that Baron chaser of the estates of Lord Blayney. a se t :: :. nty, and ragged, not Rothschild h : e w s Ne wry Examiner is the pur- COURT OF ERROR. 7 f delivered K EL LY V. SUGDEN .—The of — E rr judgment this d a y , reversin g the decision of Queen's Bench. By this deciAon, is con firmed in the office o f Re g istrar to the Court a Chan cery. Ail the judges in error, except Judge C rampton' gave their deciedons in Mr . Sugden's favour.. Th e p , oor thus affordod of the fallibility of the Queen's B?neh is a source of gratulation to those amongst the friends of Mr. O'Brien, and the other State prisoners, who antici pate an unfavourable judgment from Chief Justice lllackburne and his learned brethren. They appear to think that this judgment may lessen the effect of an ad verse decision, as regards the prisoners in the treason cases, in the eyes of law lords, and judges of England. A gentleman, who was robbed by footpads near Glasgow, in November last, had a pawn.-ticket for his watch sent to him by the post, the othdi diy, the sum 4,1* 3/. having been advanced upon it. Ile has since released his watch. —Edinburgh Advertiser. MANCHESTER', Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGA.—The sales are—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 4, 6 9-16—Leeds, Preference, 7-16 p.—London and North-Western, Fifths, 3 1 / 2 c. p.—York and North Mid land, 43 3 4—Grimsby, 20/. Shares, 11 13-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6th dis.—London and North- Western, New, 5 / a c. p. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Midland, New, 10V — Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 53 1 / 2 —North Stafford shire, 61. 11s. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Pre ference, 3s. 3d. p. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 28. STOCK ExcniNC4i.LThesales are—tieweastle and Car lisle, 96—North British, 15 —Ditto, Thirds, 765. HULL, Nov. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Birmingham. Wolver hampton, and Stour Valley, 6—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 47—North Staffordshire,6 dis —Shropshire Union, 15s.r. g. GLASGOW, Nov. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junction, 55 1 4—Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), 6 , 4, —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 5 per cent. guar., 99 1 4—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 39s.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 39s.—Great Northern, 6%—Midland, 77%. STEAM CARRIAGES ON TURN PIKE ROADS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. RESPECTED FRIEND,—It iS with much pleasure that I am enabled to communicate the result of a careful examination of the subject above alluded to, in conjunction with a thoroughly practical engineer, well acquainted with the principle of steam, and in particular with the working of the Cornish engines, that in our opinion there is now no doubt finally of the most complete success of Sir James Anderson's steam carriage for turnpike-roads, and that the public will shortly have the opportunity of being conveyed with great ease, and with perfect safety, at the speed of from ten to twelve miles per hour, at the average of not exceeding one penny per mile, and yet afford a large profit t o th e propr i etors, thus doing away with the necessity of trunk rail way companies making costly and profitless branches. —Yours, respectfully, THOS. MOTLEY, C.E. London, 11 month, 16th, 1848. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having made a discovery in the sciences which I consider to be of the greatest importance to mankind, and feeling certain of its reality and im portance, I desire to make it public. And I beg, Sir, you will be instrumental in my so doing by in serting my letter in your valuable paper, by which means it will meet the eye of some of the friends of science, who, if they will communicate with me and fix their own opportunity, I shall be prepared to demonstrate, by irrevocable proofs, the universal system—the two extremes—infinity--causes primitive of the difference of the sexes—of mirage—of electri city—heat—light magnetism the nature and formation of the celestial bodies—principle of life— cause of cholera ;—in fact, I shall give solutions to all phenomena which until now was considered the mys tery of science. I beg to state that the above explanations will be given in the French language, and not to any one individual, but to several together. I have the honour to remain, Sir, &c., JARECKI, Polish Refugee, 3, Hayward-place, Clerkenwell-green, Nov. 18, 1848. ROYAL HOSPITALS OF BRIDEWELL AND BETHLE HEM.- On Monday a general quarterly court of governors of these hospitals was held in the great hall of Bride well Hospital, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars; Sir P. Laurie (president of the institution) in the chair. The attendance of governors was pretty numerous. The minutes of the last court, as well as those of th e inter mediate meetings of a general committee, were read and duly confirmed. Mr. Josiah Wilson moved—" That the sixteenth standing rule and order be suspended, and that, in consideration of the long and faithful services of Ralph Price, Esq., the late treasurer of t h ese hos pitals, he b e a nd he is hereby chosen an honorary mem ber of the general committee for conducting the of sirs adopted. during which was duly seconded an d unani (lush, his life," Mr. Atkinson Morley, seconded by m Mr. J. Wilson, then proposed—" That the privilege of appointing one governor annually to the se h ospitals be con tinued to the new treasurer, provided al ways such governor so a ppointed do pay to th e f un d s the sum of 501., as is the custom in the other royal hospitals." Mr. Henry Kemble moved, as an amendment t o t hi s resolu tion—,, That during the presidency of th e preseat presi dent no alteration be made in the privileges of the trea surer." This amendment, havi ng b een seconded, was put to the vote, and . being negati ve d, a s h ow of hands was next taken in favour of the original motion, which was carried. by a considerable majority. After the dis patch of some further business of a merely routine cha racter, the court broke up. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. The following appointments have taken place:— The Rev. Algernon Charles Brackenbury, M.A., to the vicarage of Stapleford, Lincolnshire, with the vicarage of Charlton-le-Moorland annexed, in the same county. The Rev. Ashton Oxendon, M.A., to the rectory of Pluckley, Kent, with the rectory of Pevington annexed. The Rev. Theyre T. Smith, M.A., rector of Newha ven, Sussex, to the vicarage of Wymondham, Norfolk. The R'v. A. Thomas, M.A., to the vicarage of Rot tingdean, Sussex. The Rev. J. C. Carwithen, M.A., rector of Manaton, Devonshire, to the rectory of Challacombe, in the same county. The Rev. David Anderson, 8.A., Vice-Principal of St. Bees Divinity College, Cumberland, to the perpetual curacy of All Saints' Church, Derby. The Rev. G. N. Dealtry, M.A., to the rectory of Ott well, Norfolk. The Rev. T. C. Onion, M.A., chaplain to her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Leeds. The Rev. W. H. Tibbs, to the curacy of Sheriffhales, Shiffnal, Salop. The Aev. dharles Warrington Rogers, BA., to the curacy of Tunstall. The Rev. James Burn Smeaton, A.M., to the vicarage of Hannington,Wilts. _ _ The follO . ‘ving benefices and appointments have become vacant:— VICARAGES. Nothover, Somerset : dio. Bath and Wells : 1061. 3 pat. J. H. Chichester, Esq. : T. Evans, deo. Stevington, Beds : dio. Ely : 1081.: pat. Duke of Bedtord : J. Wing, prom. PERPETUAL CURACIES. Chapel Hill, co. and dio. Lincoln : 471.: pat. the V. of Swineshead: W. Braithwaite, dec. Corhampton, Hants: dio. Winchester: 391.: pat. .W. Wyndham, Esq.: C. Walker, jun. prom. Elstow, Beds: dio. Ely: 751.: pat. W. H. Whitbread, Esq.: J. Wing, prom. Holland Fen, co. and dio. Lincoln : 801.: pat. R. Ber ridge, Esq.: W. Braithwaite, dec. CURACIES. Aston, Warwickshire: dio. Worcester: H. W. Tibbs, prom. Glastonbury, St. Benedict, Somerset: dio. Bath and Wells: E.. Synge, resigned. Raunds ' Northamptonshire: dio. Peterborough : B. Dudding, dec. Sherburne, Dorset: dio. Salisbury: J. Lakes, prom. CHAPLAINCY. Sherborne Union, Dorset: J. Lakes, prom. VICE PRINCIPALSHIP. St. Begh's College, Cumberland: Rev. D. Anderson, prom. THE NEW PLANET NEPTUNE AND ITS Dis- COVERY.—On Friday last, at the Exeter Atheneum, and before a numerous attendance of the members of the Exeter Literary Society, James Jerwood, Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, M.A., and of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, delivered a highly interesting and very able lecture on this subject. John Sillifant, Esq., High Sheriff of Devon, and president of the so ciety, took the chair on this occasion. This dry and most difficult subject was rendered exceedingly attractive— the interest of the audience was enlisted and sustained from the commencement to the end. In the course of the lecture the claims of " Adams" for the priority of the discovery of Neptune was elearly and forcibly de monstrated. The comprehensive intellectual power and unwearied energy necessary for the accomplishment of this discovery was familiarly illustrated; and this glo rious achievement of genius by the son of a Cornish farmer shows that— "Honour and fame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies." The utility of this discovery was elucidated by the learned lecturer, and held up by him as a brilliant ex ample of what the human mind was capable of accom plishing under the most adverse circumstances. The birthplace of Adams is situated in one of the wildest and most barren spots in Cornwall; to his industry and unaided genius alone does he owe his high, his proud position. The lecture throughout was received with warm and enthusiastic applause. The chairman at the conclusion, in an admirable address, moved that the lec ture be printed, as it was one, not of local, but universal interest. This was responded to by the meeting, and acceded to by the lecturer. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT SOMERSET HOUSE.—Be tween three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon a large crowd collected in the court-yard of Somerset House, in consequence of a lady, rather fashionably attired, having attempted to commit suicide. It appeared that having been observed by a gentleman connected with one of the public offices to be walking about the yard for some time, and now and then glancing at a large envelope, which had several coloured seals and tape upon it, he addressed her under the impression that she might have had some business to transact ; but receiving no other answer to his inquiry than a dignified movement of the head, he passed on, and in a few minutes subsequent to this the unhappy woman mounted the balcony of the area adjacent to the portico entrance of the building, and was about to precipitate herself, when she was grasped by a man who happened to be passing at the moment, and whose timely assistance there can be no doubt saved her life, for the depth of the place selected was quite suf ficient to prove fatal, had she not been prevented carry ing out the desperate design. She was immediately placed in the hands of two police-constables, and from the answers to their inquiries there is no doubt what ever of the unfortunate lady's insanity, she having re peatedly called herself " the Duchess of Somerset," and that she intended to " guarantee the rights of the people, and make every one happy." The police in the gentlest manner led her to Bow-street station-house, followed by some hundred persons. [ADTBRTISEMENT.]—For Family Use nothing can be more adapted than the celebrated Vegetable Restora tive Pills, prepared by John Kaye, Esq of Dalton-hall, near Huddersfield. The most respectable and influential families throughout the kingdom have made it their only medicine for indigestion, bile, irregularities of the bowels and stomach, nervous headaches, affections of the liver, in all of which most miraculous cures have been effected. In all diseases to which females are peculiarly subject, these Pills will be found invaluable. Not a day passes in which either Mr. Kaye or his agents do no receive testimonies from heads of households, as to relief having been given to some member of the family by the use of this medicine. To prevent families from being imposed upon by spurious imitations, Mr. Kaye has consented to his coat of arms and a fac simile of his signature being appended to the directions wrapped round each box. Sold in boxes at Is. lid.; 2s. 9d.; and 4s. 6d., by all Mddieine Venders. A RELIC OF OLD TIMES.---A golden bracelet, of the intrinsic worth of about 201., which is thought to have been deposited at the time of the conflict between the Romans and the sous of the British King, Cunobeiin, was lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mr. R. Fox near Wendover, Bucks, and is to IN resent to the iritish Museum. COUNTRY MARKETS. BASINGSTOKE (HANTS), Nov. 29.—The show of wheal but moderate, yet every description of both old and new was to be had at a decline of from 5s to lOs per load of five quarters; some very superior white (old) sold at 151 per load, red ditto 141 ditto. New wheats at from 121 to 13/ ditto; second rate ditto, 101 to 111 ditto. Flour was down 2s per sack; bread Id the 81b loaf. Barley was ill fair request for malting, without a decline in price; all coarse and inferior could be had at from is to 2s pes quarter less money; very good at 34s per quarter; other descriptions at from 27s to 32s ditto. Malt was offered at easier terms for the buyer. Oats of very slow sale, best corn not going at more than 23s to 24s per quarters some very sweet feed ditto at 20s ditto, common samples offered at 16s to 18s ditto. Beans (heavy old) 40s per quarter, new ticks 38s ditto. Peas (white boilers) 425 ditto, grey 40s ditto, maples 38s ditto. Rye 30s to 33s per quarter. New Tares Ils 6d to 12a per bushel, old ditto lOs ditto. WORCESTER.—On Saturday last there was a fair supply of Wheat, and we lower our quotations is to 2s per quarter on all descriptions. Barley is per quarter lower, at which only retail sales could be effected. Oats sold slowly at a decline of Is per quarter. Beans main tained their value. Peas 2s per quarter cheaper. GLOUCESTER.—On Saturday last the wheat market was again very dull, and the sales of all descriptions were quite limited, at a reduction of fully is per quarter since this day week. Barley was also is per quarter lower, except for the finest qualities for making. Osta met with a similar decline. Beans nearly maintained former rates. WISBEACH Nov. 25.—The supply of w h ea t i s on ly moderate; dother grain, rather an increase. The trade for wheat is generally dull, and fully is per quarter cheaper. Of oats and beans, the prico of each article rather in favour of the buyer. Prices to the growers:-- Wheat, new red, 591 b to 621 b, 42s to 48s; extra, 495; white, 591 b to 621 b, 44s to 50s; extra, 525; old red, 611 b to 631 b, 49s to 525; extra, 535; white, 611 b to 631 b, 514 to 565; extra, 57s per quarter; oats, old, 361 b to 401 b, Hid to 12d; new, 10d to 10id ;per stone; beans, old, 39s to 418 per quarter. NEWCASTLE•IIPON-TYNE, Nov. 25.—The weather this week has been for the most part favourable for field work in general. Considerable progress has been made in seeding operations, and we have now every prospect of the seed being sown under more favourable circum stances than at one time could hive been anticipated. The trade during the present week has partaken of the flatness affecting other markets, and athough a slight concession would have, been made to have induced busi ness, buyers have refrained from purchasing freely, con fining their operations as much as possible, and only taking what their immediate necessities required. Pota toes seem to be advancing weekly with us, owing to large shipments being made to the south, and an impres sion is becoming prevalent that, as the spring advances the consumption for bread stuff must materially increase. At our market this morning we had a moderate show of wheat from the growers, and although the arrivals coastwise are moderate, a clearance could only be ef fected by submitting to a reduction of is to 2s per quarter, south country as well as foreign samples being at the same time about is per quarter cheaper. For flour we expe rienced a slow demand, at a decline of is for the best, and 2s per sack upon inferior marks, with some quantity re" maining unsold at the close of the market. Rye me 7 be called is to 2s per quarter lower, with only a retail inquiry. Although our arrivals o f barley have been on a liberal scale, a fair clearance has been effected of choice qualities at a reduction of is per quarter, whilst inferior and ill-conditioned parcels have hung on hand, although offered at fully 2s decline. Malt 2s cheaper, and only extra sorts saleable; other kinds being comparative': neglected. Boiling peas, is to 2s, and beans as much lower, with only a moderate inquiry. With oats we were well supplied by our growers, and the arrivals from the north continuing liberal, the market ruled extreme': heavy, with little business doing, notwithstanding that concession of fully is per quarter would have been se" ceded to, to have promoted transactions. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, NOV. 27.—The supply of oatmeal and barleymeal was large at to-day's mar' ket; sales ready. Top price of oatmeal same as last week; top price of barleymeal 235, or 6d down ; flour and peasemeal, none in market. Oatnieal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. ... 29s 6d 28s 6d 27s Oct Barleymeal, per ,ditto ... 23s Od 22 s Od 21 s Od Peasemeal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —8 Od —8 Od —s Od Pot barley 27s Od —s Od —s Od IRISH GRAIN MARKETS.—As yet prices at our grail; markets are somewhat less affected than might have bee" expected by the decided depression at Mark-lane. JO our Dublin Corn Exchange yesterday there was an es" ceedingly dull market, and so little disposition ries generally manifested for business, that we can only re' port prices nominally as on Friday. White wheat, 24 9 i to 29s ; red, 22s to 28s ; barl e y, 12 8 6d to 18s 6d. ; old oats, 13s to 15s 6d ; new ditto, 93 6d to lls 6d per br/. oatmeal, Ila 6d to 13s; second flour, 17s to 16s 6d per cwt. ; Indian corn, 34s to 37s per 4801b5. BELFAST, Nov. 24.—Grain—The market was larva, supplied to day with all sorts o f gra i n, oatmeal, so; beans, and sales were effected slowly at a reduction of-9 0 on oats and oatmeal, barley alone supporting, its value. Beans from 5s 6d to 6s 6d per cwt. Pork—Pigs were dull, and generally Es lower. Monday, Nov. 27.—Grailli The supplies were small this morning, and the demand being dull, prices were the turn lower. Wheat, per 001 from 9s Od to his Od ; barley, 6s 3d t o 7 s 3d; oats, 55 6'l to 6s 8d; and oatmeal, 108 6d to lOs 10d. Indian corn ill slow demand, at a little over Friday's quotations. Pork —We had a large market to-day, and prices gave will about is per 1201 b—the range being from 44s to 49§. Butter has declined id to Id per lb; best firkins can be had to-say at 8d per lb. CORK, Nov. 2 7.—Flour—First quality, 16s to 179; second ditto, 15s to 16s Od ; household, lls to 140 ; third ditto, 9s to lOs per cwt. Oatmeal, 12s 6d to 13s pet cwt. Indian corn, 81 12s to 91 Os; Indian meal, 91 55 t° 91 lOs per ton. Bran, 415 s to Si 5s per ton. Her" Farmers', 44s to 465; average, 48s ; retailers', 45s t 0 50s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Fsr mers , 12s to 28s; average, 20s; retailers', —s to per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof' 63 6d per imperial gallon. Bread, bid to 8d p e r 411* Fresh butter, 10d to lld per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; met' i ton, 3id to 5d ; vea l , a i d to 4d; pork, sid to 7 " bacon, bid to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals—Nef # port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Culm 16s per ton. Potatoes: white, 12d; Mini ons , 14d. Hides—Mark e t di tto , ii' to 178; salt e d di tto , 12s to 17s per cwt; market skit* 2d to lid ; ca lf di tto, 2 d to 2 i d; veal skins, 3d to 3d per lb. T ar —A rc h angel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 31; deal, 17/ to 201 pe r hundred ; Bangor Q ueens , 3 1 2s 6d per ton. Scot& herrings,2os to 21s per barrel; Norway ditto, —s. New foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 12/ lOs per ton. Milo* 48s. Wool, 10s to 12s per stone. COAL MARIE' Hasting's Hartley lss 6d Holywell Main . ..... 15s 6d North Percy Hartley lss Od Ord's Redheugh Townley l4s Od Wall's End, &c Gosforth Hilda l4s 6d Harton • lss Od Killingworth l4s 9c Belmont l7s 3d Hetton Haswell lBs 60 Jonassohns r. -- YESTEIDAY. Lambton ad Russell's Hetton nA- Stewart's Benson Cassop l 6 3 '' . Heugh Hall .). South Kelloe 153 °''' Adelaide ... 16s 9(1 Seymour Tees ~„A South Durham 153 ,i' Brancepeth C o k e 238 tr,,i Cowpen Hartley DerwentwaterHartley 153 u` 4 Ships at market, 140. 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On the 26th inst., at Thornbury-house, Ryde, the if 0 - Captain Henry Sholto Douglas, of a daughter. sell' On the 26th inst., the wife of Col o n e l Ki ngsco t e , o f On the 27th inst., at Blomfield-road, Malda-hill, the of T. D. Keighley, Esq., of a son. On the 27th inst., a t B r i g h ton, t h e L ady Rosa G r evil l6 of a son. ald On the 28th inst., i n L own d es - s t reet, t h e lady of Ed ,. F. Jenner, Esq., of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at Lower Chum, Surrey, Mrs. a l ° F. Lewis, of a daughter. Wif e On the 26th inst., at - Ebttry-streetXliester-square, the of H. C. Scott, Esq., of a son. eft On the 26th inst., at Stamford-hill, Mrs. Henry Cherl i of a son. On the 27th inst., at Cheam, the wife of Adams Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., at the Vale, Chelsea, Mrs. T. Magu it " of a daughter. MARRIED. htla On the 23d inst., at N ew l an d, Gl oces t ers hi re, AdolP— tb , Meetkerke, Esq., of Julians, Herts, to Cecilia Elizab e eldest daughter of Captain the Hon. E. 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On the 27th inst., at the house of her sister, Mrs getup' Thetford, Miss Rachel Stonard, aged 82 London: Printed and P u bli s h e d by MURDO - We? 12, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. ot Strand,l in the Precin c t o f th e S avoy , i n the Col'" Aliddlosox, Thursdaty, November 30, 1848. ~~ t SOU • „E,, IDt 44,1 LEyEI I rirn ame „ s t tel ' e al or - al Z i g° of he to joi !aid ll.Astirn tAwful for tl by that A.et t o Ashford the said Bil LO alter the Doint on su(