The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEST RIDING ELECTION. DECLARATION OF THE POLL. . _ Yesterday was the day appointed for declaring the re sult of the poll, for the representation of the West:Riding at the place of election fined by the Reform Act, the Court-house, Wakefield. In consequence of an an nouncement that Sir Culling Eardley Eardley would at tend at the hustings on the occasion, there was a larger attendance than would otherwise have been the case. The business of casting up the poll-books commenced shortly after eight o'clock, but was not concluded till some time after noon. Moray after that portion of the business had been concluded, Mr. Denison and his friends arrived in pr ocess i on , a tt en d e d by b an d s of musi cians, and sundry white flags, inscribed, " The Queen, the Church, and the People;" " The Rights of Labour, and the Rights of Property;" " Denison and Constitu tional Liberty;" " Unite to put down Intolerance, Bigotry, and Hypocrisy." Mr. Denison, who was girt with a sword as a knight of the shire, and rode a white charger, was loudly cheered as he approached the hust ings. Sir Curling Eardley was also loudly cheered by his friends on his arrival at the hustings. At half-past three o'clock silence was proclaimed, and the Under-Sheriff announced that the result of the poll Was— For Edmund Denison, Esq. ... ... 14,743 Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bart. 11,795 Majority for Mr. Denison ... 2,948 He therefore declared Mr. Denison duly elected a knight of the shire for the West Riding of the county of York. —(Cheers.) The indenture of the return was then read at length, and signed by the sheriff and sundry free holders. Mr. DENIsoN then said that the West Riding of York had proved itself sound at heart, the working classes had behaved with admirable good temper and good: H e con duct throughout the excitement of the contest honoured them for their conduct, which had raised ther n greatly in his estimation.—(Cheers and g la hta u 1113 i his friend Lord Wharicliffe wasl 8 he had been pelted4B with stones; in 1841 he got a portion of it ; b u t in fairly heard. He therefore ag ain thank vires edt t he ß m idig f n or their good conduct. The electors of the had emphatically have any man to r epresent t h a t they would not e presest them who would separate Church an d State. He knew very well that it was his dec laration that he would m a i n - Sain it,, and their love and affection for it, that had in duces' them to vote for him in such numbers; and though he would not wish to say anything offensive in the hour of victory, if his Hon. Opponent thought that the eleven or twelve thousand who supported him differed from him (Mr. Denison) in their opinions on the Church and State question, he would tell him he was grossly deceived—(Cheers, and "No, no")—deceived as he had been from the first issuing of his address to the close of the poll as to his chance of success; for he could tell him that if he (Mr. Denison) had been in danger of being in a minority, many who were now unpolled would have rushed to the rescue and gives him their votes. He did not know whether the Hon. Baronet intended to come again as a candidate; but, if he did, he would say that if any man would come out on the question of edu cation of the people and the union of Church and State, the man who opposed them would be in a woful minority. Many friends of both those questions had voted for the Honourable Baronet under their original colour; but if those were the trial points they would do other wise. With respect to the great question of the edu cation of the children of the working classes, it was now generally admitted that the State ought to do it. The friends of voluntaryism were very few, and he was happy to find that on that point he should have an able colleague in Mr. Cobden.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Cobden had emphatically declared that it was the duty of the State to do it. The principle of doing so was settled; the details might be altered; but the working men before him might have their children so educated. lie there fore looked forward with much hope to the rising gene ration, and had no doubt that many of the offices of State would be attained by the children of the working classes. —(Cheers.) Ho had already told them, and he now re peated, that if he could reduce the national burdens he should be happy to do so. He had nothing to gain by keeping up a large army or useless offices, or high sala ries, and therefore should be glad to reduce them to the lowest effective force that might be necessary. With re spect to trade, now that ho was their representative he would be glad to do anything that would promote the better employment of the working classes. If they were not well employed the increase of the poor-rates was a small consideration as compared with the mischief that was done them in other respects. He would, therefore, be happy to get reasonable wages and good employ for the working men. He was happy to say that there were appearances which indicated an improved demand for our manu'actured articles. lie feared he might not be able to do all that he could wish to do; but, now that he was in Parliament, he would do his best. He begged again to thank them for making him a second time one of their representatives. He could entertain no doubt. knowing the determination of the people of this empire, that we should maintain our superiority over other na tions ; and after what had passed during the year he thought every one had much reason to be proud of being an Englishman. He hoped to prove himself a zealous and faithful representative.—(Applause). Sir CuLLnio FAILDLEY was also loudly cheered by his friends. He said he had the greatest pleasure in being now present, as he was prevented last week by severe illness; and it was with some difficulty that he could now make himself heard. He would not, therefore , have to ask them in vain for a patient hearing, especially in his position of a defeated candidate. He had been tee subject of misrepresentation—he believed not wilful. It was not the habit of Englishmen to object to a man ex plaining, when he had been misrepresented. Before alluding to the topics he meant to flee he must allude to the observations of his respected and lion. Opponent. He had told them that his friends had rallied round the Church, and that those who had supported him (Sir Cul ling) had not done so because they were Dissenters.— ( Ex pressions of dissent.) Now could there be a stronger proof that,whilst the religious feelings had been appealed to, his (Sir Culling's) battle had been fought by those who dis agreed on religions points, but who were united in sup port of the great principles of civil and religious liberty? --(Cheers and " No.") Another disturbing point al luded to by Mr. Denison was the Education of the rising generation, and he had stated, if he had not much mis taken his words, that to an education ba s ed upon religion he desired that the State should contribute. The pre vious Member for the West Riding had stated that he did not wish religion to be interfered with. Mr. DENISON said he had repeatedly stated that he had no anxiety that the inspectVs of schools appointed by Government should interfere with the religion taught in the schools. He approved of the minutes of the Com mittee of Council which forbade any such inquiry. Sir C. EARDLEY maintained that Mr. Denison was for a religious education, whilst Mr. Cobden was for educa tion purely secular. But he would not detain them on those points, which were exciting. He would, there fore, proceed to express his thanks to those 12,000 electors who had, on the present occasion, rallied, not round him, but round their own principles.—(Cheers.) Fifteen hundred votes abstracted from the other side, and given to him, would have given him the victory. And he begged to state to them a fact as to whence those 1,500 voters came.—(Cries of " Lancashire.") He had carefully compared the votes given in the agricul tural districts for Lord Milton in 1841, and for himself in 1848, and he had found that nearly 1,100 persons who voted for Lord Milton in 1841 had not voted for him in 1848.—(Cheers.) They might make what use they pleased of the fact—but it was that, in the agricultural districts, 1,100 persons, Whigs, or tenants of Whigs, persons who either voted from their own conviction or because they had received letters from their landlords— (Cheers and counter cheers)—he would give them an other alternative—or who were shown copies of letters written by their landlords—voted against him. Mr. DENISON appealed to the gentlemen around and before him„ as a personal favour to himself, to hear Sir Culling Eardley, who, from illness, had not been able to go round the Riding. Sir CULLING EARDLEY said he had already accounted for 1,100 votes, and those who knew the state of the agricultural districts would be able to account for the other 400. He did not consider that he was defeated. True, the electors had supported Toryism, but it was be cause Whiggery had deserted Yorkshire.—(Hear, and cheers.) He now came to speak of those matters in which he hteahitaadritesn misrepresented. is h r a er n ese g s ntd. He had been reported taken the lead in opposition to the Dissenters' Chapels tofßut Englandthat Bill f was rom passed lB4 2 in August, 1844, and he was o till the autumn of 1844, with the of four weeks in 1843; and during his absence ex ception i question. Upon this he had b tr ee lio ( t a k w il as ° part sure in the a Li:weft:other point he tentionally) misrepresented. bad been misrepresented b 5 platform—the Right Hon. aole tVio -44 hi m ° 1rtialoy; on the owed it to Mr. Wortley as well They all that he had to say upon it. He had endeliv o t° ed hear , wain till now to get a 'specific statement of intolurer He had called on the reporters to take do wn hi s call upon the editor of the Times to put his charge of bigotry into a tangible shape, or to withdraw it; bat he had failed to get that done. The Times had published all that he had said but one sentence, and that sen tence was the one in which he appealed for justice. Before ho came to Yorkshire he believed that the Times's statetaent of facts was to be relied on; but now he was 2%0116,041 that the reports were altered in the Times otiose. Another person had written from Edinburgh a revolution charging him with intolerance; and he had refused an explanation, saying that a chairman was not responsible for resolutions of a meeting to which he had put his name. But now, thanks to Yorkshire honesty, be had met a gentleman who would try to prove what be stated. Mr. Wortley had said that he was intolerant. What was the instance selected by him? Why, that he (Sir Culling) was intolerant because opposed to the in struction of the Roman Catholics by the State. Mr. WORTLEY—Not to Catholics alone, but to all who differ. Sir C. LUMLEY—It was confined to the Roman Ca tholics, in the report in the Leeds Intelligencer. Ile wanted to know where the intolerance lay? Did it he with him (Sir Culling Eardley), who refused religious education to Roman Catholics and all others also; or did it lie with those who will give it only to one religion— who will give the Regium Donum in Ireland, but who in consequence of the odium eccleriastieum would not give vs penny to support the Roman Catholic priests? An other misrepresentation relative to his conduct as an early politician. Mr. Wortley had also stated that he (Sir Culling-Eardley) was one of twenty who had not the manliness" to vote pro or con on the second reading of the Miami Bill. lie was summoned to the death bed of a brother-in-law in Italy, but he remained in England to speak in favour of the Reform Bill, and Was the first person who spcke after the mover and seconder of the Bill. By that delay he was too late to see his brother alive, cad was kept too long to be back in time to .vote on the ' question of the second reading. But if his 6pinton, had undergone some change in seven teen yew, he should not be ashamed of it. Whether was it better that he should turn from Whig to Tory, or from Tory to Whig?—(Cheers.) The names of Jo seph Planta and William Holmes, the Tory whippers - in , were well known; and they well knew that he was not pledged to support the Duke of Wellington's Govern ment. He had paid for his seat, and he had a right to do as he liked.—(Oh, oh.) He had paid for his seat, and he was ashamed of it. If he had gone into Parliament as a Tory, and had turned round and voted Against all his pledges as Sir Robert Peel did, what would they have said?—(Cheers.) There is no party so thoroughly con temptible as that. He respected Mr. Denison's party and Mr. Bright's party—the one, because they were Protec tionists; the other as Free-traders, because they had been consistent ; but for those who were otherwise he had no respect. He congratulated them upon two or three points resulting from the contest. Twenty-five thousand electors had declared by their votes that there should be no Roman Catholic endowment in Ireland. Through out the Riding there was unanimity in favour of eco nomy and retrenchment ; he therefore hoped th . at they would establish in the Riding a branch of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association; and he felt persuad . ed that Mr. Denison, if applied to, would give a subscrip tion. And lest this should be e t he last occasion on which he should visit Yorkshire, begged to congratulate them that Exeter-hall _had some persons of use to the people. It proved that bibles and tracts did not make men bigots ; and that the more ardently a man had laid hold of the essence of Christianity, the genuine of the bark (laying aside, or in the back-ground, motives for division) the more he would be deserving of their support. It was not to Christianity they were o pposed, but to the selfish form of Christianity.— (What does selfish form mean ?) He meant that which led men to get all they could for themselves, and to give nothing to other people.—(Hear, and laughter.) In taking his leave of thi s grea t assem bl y, h e desired nothing more than that the Gospel might be spread among those before and around him, and why? Because as it spread it would make them not only bet ter landlords and b e tt er t enants, b etter a bl e to b ear high and low stations, but it would unite all classes in support of the rights and liberties and the franchise of the people.--(Loud applause.) The Right Hon. J. S. W ORTLEY was c h eere d on pre senting himself. He said he was unwilling to detain them any longer, but they would allow that after the observations from the other side of the hustings he was bound to say a word. They had met at Oxford, and he should be sorry to say a word affecting his personal ho nour, still more should he be grieved if he had misrepre sented him. Now that he had heard him, he was bold to say that in no respect he had misrepresented him; and that if he wanted the proof Sir Calling had supplied it. He did not call Sir Culling a bigot—he hated the word. But Sir Culling was intolerant. What else had led him to denounce the form of religion which two-thirds of this assembly professed, as a selfish form of Christianity? What else but intolerance was it that induced him to tell Mr. Turnbull, when he canvassed him, that he was a Ro man Catholic, not because of his convictions, but because he liked paintings rather than plain brass?—(Disapproba tion.) When they had held up to observation those who had not supported Sir Eardley, he thought it was right, when he read a canvassing letter from Mr. Carbutt, re commending Sir Culling as a friend to reform and re trenshment, to state what course he had taken respect ing the reform. But, although Sir Culling could not vote on that occasion, he might have paired—yet he did not even do that. Another point he would allude to— Sir Culling was for economy and retrenchment, yet Sir Culling had voted against Sir H. Parnell's motion for referring the Civil List to a committee. With respect to the speech which Sir Culling had made on the Reform BM, it must not be forgotten that he said that that Bill was based too much upon population and too little upon property; and on General Gascoigne's motion he voted not only against his speech, but against the Bill. He would now appeal to the meeting whether he had mis represented him?—(Cries of " No, no.") Sir Culling had appealed to a jury of honest Yorkahiremen; he hoped he was satisfied with the verdict.—(Cheers.) Sir CULLING EARDLEY said he was driven, contrary to his own wishes, to refer again to the subject. He had two explanations to give, and only two—one with regard to a vote on the subject of the Reform Bill, and one with regard to a supposed imputation upon a religious body of men.—(lnterruption) Mr. Wortley had said that he bad voted against the Reform Bill. Did the people know what General Gascoigne's motion was? It was against the reduction of Members of the House of Com mons, and it is now the law of the land. It was em bodied by Lord John Russell in the second Bill, for which he voted, considering it had a good object, though it was wrested to party purposes. H . ? had been accused of disrespectfully speaking of a religious body; that he was disrespectful to the gentleman who had written to him from Edinburgh.—(lnterruption.) He prayed them to hear him on this subject. If he had not received a letter from that individual, in which, while he refused to be present, he had called him (Sir Culling) a knave and a fool, and such offensive language, that he could nut reply to it, he should have written to him to express his regret, that in the heat of electioneering excitement he should have said anything offensive to him. He denied that he had r. ferrei to the Church of England when speaking of a selfish form of religion. Many members of the Church of England had supported him. What he referred to was that which, whatever its doctrinal opinions. while it claimed every advantage for itself, refused to give similar advantages to others. Mr. DENISON regretted that they bad been detained so long, but would only further detain them to propose a vote of thanks to the sheriff fur the manner in which he had conducted the election. Sir CULLING EARDLEY, in seconding the proposition, expressed a hope that they would be able to meet here after with pertect cordiality. W. GRAY, E-A., expressed his thanks for the compli• ment, and declared the county court dissolved. Mr. Denison then remounted his charger, and, accompanied by a large procession, rode through various streets in the town. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The annual Bal Masque which took place last night, exceeded, if possiLle, in numoers and brilliancy, any preceding entertainment of this description given by the illustrious M. Jullien. In point of effect, it was tar be) and the usual opera bails given at Paris. The orchestra, in c xcellence and real power, casts into the shade that of the famous Strauss of Vienna, or the great " toe impelling " Musard, and the selection of the music was admirable. The dresses were in some few instances, fancitul, and well devised; but the large majority of the audience being in " mufti," rather damaged the coup d'cril, though the rush of the galops was effective and inspiring. The dress circle was crowded, and the private boxes were tenanted by many cf the leading members of the at istocracy. The deco rations were graceful and elegant—the wreaths of flowers pendant from the ceiling, supporting cupids and birds, had a charming effect. Mr. Gye has established himself in the foremost rank of decorative artists. SHOCKING CASE.—Last night an inquest was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, touching the death of Mary Ann Morrison, aged 18. The deceased, a straw bonnet maker, resided with her parents at 10, New Hall-street, Lower-road, Islington. On the evening of the 13th instant she ran, with her clothes on fire, into the room in which her father was sitting. He extinguished the flames, and surgical aid being called in, the unfor tunate girl was put to bed iu her father's house, in spite of her entreaties to be taken to the hospital. In the course of the night her sister-in-law asked her how the fire had occurred, and the deceased replied, " Let no one be blamed for it, I did it myself, but not with an inten tion to destroy myself." It further transpired, from questioning her, that ehe had been inveigled into a housie in Windsor- street, Ci , y road, by a fellow who said he was a commercial traveller, where he had seduced her, and she was in the family way. She said she could not bear the jeers of her friends, and she thought if she set fire to her clothes she should b.) taken to the hospital and get well without their knowing anything about it. The next morning, from the great severity of her burns, ' it was thought desirable to take her to the above hos pital, where she expired the same night. The jury re turned a verdict, " That the deceased died from burns caused by setting her clothes on fire, but not with an in tent to destroy herself." HER MAJESTY'S CHRISTMAS BOUNTY TO THE POOR.—Yesterday the royal alms were distributed by command of her Nfajesty by the Rev. Mr. Goodenough, the sub-almoner, at the Almonry-office, Middle Scotland yard, to poor aged men and women, who had received the royal Christmas bounty of five shillings each. As early as two o'clock yesterday morning the recipients began to assemble, and at five o'clock about four hundred had collected in the vicinity of the office, which opened at six o'clock, and continued paying till nine at night, between 500 and 600 receiving the bounty, all being above 60, a great many 90, and three upwards of a century old. The payments of the royal gift will be resumed to-day. Queen Ann's Bounty was also distributed yesterday according to ancient custom at the Royal Almonry-office in Middle Scotland-yard, Whitehall. Nearly seven h undred poor persons (the majority being widows of good character and well recommended), resi dent in the ne, OOL WINT metropolis, were the recipients. E ac h indi vidual vidtial receiv e d ss. Constar , and T L . Eit ASSlZES.—Yesterd a y, J osep h James Stott IVEI VE Thomas Kenworthy, Jonath an W a lk er, e h f omas Tassiker were p l ace d i n the dock on a charge Act of last session. ef Tttiee Attorney-General stated the The felony under the new the evidence which was in effect case on behalf merely a repetition ot Ratcliffe. Mr. Baron Alderesovnidleinee given in the case of carefully summed up, the jury returned a verdict or having against all the prisoners. The Court then sentenceduilty Stott, and Thomas Jonathan fourteen years' Chartists were tine, Thomas Kenworthy, j„ es tToseph Constan i . Tassiker to- transportation for life- Walker and J. Napoleon Sefton to' transportation. Ten of the Manchester then put on their trial for sedition. The trill ceeding when our report left. HIGH HONOUR CONFERRED BY HEIR MAJESTY O N A Juw.—The Queen has been pleased, on the nomina tion of Lord Foley, to appoint the under-mentioned wentlemen to her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms: Herbert Rice, Esq., Francis Vanderlure Mills, Esq., and Philip Salomons, Esq. ; th e last-named gentleman being a Jew. When we consider that the office of Gentleman-at-Arms requires attendance on her Majesty's person, we think the distinction a very high one, and another omen of the ultimate removal of the last barrier which yet prevents our admission into the Legislature.—Jeecish Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.--On Thursday last an extraordinary feat was performed in a field, comprising part of Moor Farm, near this town. A bet having been made between two parties that Edward Phalen, footman to Capt. Maher, would leap an extraordinary distance, a number of persons met at the above place to witness the feat, which was that he would leap 12 feet from a ditch and over a ditch 8 feet—in all 20 feet. Phalen, having taken off his coat and shoes, st ar t e d at a p l ace 25 yards ' from the ditch, and carried a brickbat in each hand. The feat was accomplished, Phalen jumping six inches over the required distance,—Somerset County Gaze*, LATEST FROM CATALONIA. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night] : We have just received the following from our own correspondent at Barcelona : _ "BARCELONA, DEC. 7 " The Cabecillas Posas and Monsarrat, being sum moned by Cabrera to give account of numerous vexations committed against the population which they overran, excused themselves with sundry pre texts, whilst they entered into communication with Bejo del Oli (a Carlist chief already bought over by Narvaez), with the view of making their submission to the Government of Isabella, as it in fact was effected. No sooner was General Cabrera informed of this attempt, than he assembled together all the forces he had then at hand, and presented himself with his little army yesterday at noon before Barce lona, composed of 6,000 infantry and 400 cavalry. He immediately sent a threatening dis patch to Captain-General Concha, summoning him to surrender the traitor Carlists, so basely bought over and protected by the Government. This sum• mom was accompanied with a threat, that should his request be negatived, he would unhesitatingly shoot 43 officers of Isabella, whom he still retained prisoners: Concha, astounded at the imperious request, directed against Cabrera all the troops he could dispose of at Barcelona-10,000 men. Cabrera, on seeing him eelf before a superior force, withdrew slowly, in viting the enemy to pursue him to the mountains and two hours ago it begun to be whispered in Bar celona that a bloody rencontre had taken place, but it is not yet known on which side is the victory. But the most important point is, that the population of Barcelona have evinced such a bitter feeling against the Carlist traitors in the very teeth of the Government, that they have insulted them in the public streets by throwing stones at and hooting them. Such an untoward manifesta tion gives rise to serious reflections. Concha, de. , siring to protect the safety of the submitted Carlists from the fury of the people, has shut them up in one of the castles of the town. The Carlists who made their submission are but 220, one hundred of whom entered the ranks of Isabella, being incorporated in the battalion of the Cazadores de Cataluna; the other 120 were sent to their homes, and, most probably, have reached once more the Carlist bands. In con• sequence of the popular movement turning so con spicuously in favour of Cabrera, General Concha is going on very cautiously in his dealings with the population of the principality. He takes great care to limit his exactions, and seems to reckon on the support of the people for the pacification of the pro vince. According to the opinion of many impartial persons, General Concha has come too late, as it is evident that Narvaez cannot put down the Montemo linists, when all the population declares in their favour." FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following letters which have passed between General Cavaignac and the Pope : "FROM GENERAL CAVAIGNAC TO HIS HOLINESS. " Paris, Dec. 3. " Very Holy Father,—l address this dispatch and another from the Archbishop of Nicea, your Nuncio to the Government of the Republic, to your Holiness, by one of my aides-de-camp. " The French nation deeply afflicted at the troubles with which your Holiness has been assailed within a short period has been moreover profoundly affected at the sentiment of paternal confidence which induced your Holiness to demand, temporarily, hospitality in France, which it will be happy and proud to secure to you, and which it will render worthy of itself and of your Holiness. I write to you therefore in order that no feeling of uneasiness or unfounded appre hension may divert your Holiness from your first reso lution. The Republic, the existence of which is already consecrated by the mature, persevering, and sovereign will of the French nation, will see with pride your Holi ness give to the world the spectacle of that exclusively religious consecration which your presence in the midst of it announces, and it will receive you with the dignity and the religious respect which becomes this great and generous nation. I have felt the necessity of giving your Holiness this assurance, and I heartily desire that your arrival may take place without much delay. " It is with those sentiments, Very Holy Father, that I am your respectful son, " General CAVAIGNAc." The following is the reply of his Holiness : " Monsieur le G6Kieral,--I addressed you a letter through the medium of M. de Corcelles to express my feelings and my extreme gratitude to France. That gra titude increases more and more in seeing the new steps you are taking towards me in your own name and in that of France by sending me one of your aides de-camp with a letter, offering me hospitality in a land which has been, and ever will be, fertile in characters emi ninently Catholic and devoted to the Holy See. And here my heart feels the necessity of again assuring you that a favourable opportunity will not fail to present itself when I may extend with my own hand my apos tolic benediction over the great and generous French family. " Although Providence has conducted me by surpris ing. roads to the place in which I an 3 at present, without the least premeditation or the least concert on my part, that does not prevent me, even here, from prostrating myself before God, whose Vicar, though unworthy, I am. supplicating Him to shed llis grace and his bene dictions on you and on all France. " Given at Gaeta, 10th December, 1848. " Pius PAPA NoNus." BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on the 14th of December, 1848: ASSETS. Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• ••• ••• Bills falling due in Paris, of which . . ... f. 138,067,641 82 ... . . 111,246,545 00 153,677 67 14,761,242 f. 47c. are from the branch banks Bills in the branch banks . 107,766,955 45 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 15,062,825 00 Ditto on French public securities ... 33,603,746 65 Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,529,338 00 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Rentes, disposable funds ..• ... 34,766,288 62 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... 12,806,741 39 Hotel anti furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00 Real property of the branch banks ... 2,478,824 00 Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 5,500,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 00 Bills protested at Paris ... ••• 11,948,890 95 Ditto at the branches ... ... 6,607,663 00 Expenses of administration of the Bank 1,081,673 00 Ditto of the branches ... ... 510,193 00 Miscellaneous ... ... 570,118 46 Consolidation of Treasury Bonds ... 7,848,847 36 f. 665,972,744 84 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 ... ... 389,755,600 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 16,813,350 00 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 508,252 00 Account-current with Treasury creditor 26,272,402 77 Various accounts current ... 78,650,109 02 Ditto in branches ... 26,789,607 00 Bills payable at sight ... 2,666,800 00 Ditto at branches 1,280,537 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... ... 5,316,160 53 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 1,986,625 00 Dividends payable . . ... 180,517 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 369,684 04 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,779,073 25 Ditto branch banks ... ... 2,758,480 00 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27 Ditto in branch banks .. ... 615,789 00 Miscellaneous ... 176,073 71 f. 665,972,744 84 HURRICANE ON FRrDAY NIGHT AT ABERDEEN. (From the Aberdeen Herald of Saturday.) During the past week the weather was mild and set tled, but yesterday afternoon it suddenly changed for the .worse. A southerly breeze, which has prevailed throughout the week, increased to a hurricane, andla con siderable quantity of rain fell. Towards evening the gale increased in violence, carrying off a great num)er of chimney-pots, projecting signs, and gentlemen's hats. Towards ten o'clock, the hurricane to which we have referred above, became particularly violent, and we are sorry to state that loss of life, and considerable damage to Property, has been the result. A deplorable accident happened at the New Gas Work, shortly after ten o'clock. The roof of the retort house, which was constructed with an iron frame, and covered with slates, was Suddenly jerked up at the south side, fell with a cmreansh., and smashed into fragments. There were eight man named a ~aged in . the retort house at the time, all stokers, and en zeamsiannedharging the retort furnaces. One of the roof a haa,::itayndof k t i h ll e ed roo h fi im ng o i n 'ell th u e po s n o a t poor olcl poor felloewo,Cgehar Charles Murray, Clark, who h was s l e a gt broken;tph e . mom a e n n d t Alexander Low, had his a a r a m h d i dislocated and his ahurlingthird, Ano ther head cut. The other fiv e miraculously escaped uninjured. The cause of theirine por tion of the broken roof remained leaning was ' five eaning against d. the that a south wall, near to which the A'ere Low, ar g il In less than fifteen minutes, Clark the dead body of Murray, were and extricated from the ruins. This was a work of extreme difficulty, as the wreck of the roof continued to be driven about by tho wind With s uc h Tiolonco. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 16.—At the commencement of Mr. Duffy's trial, yesterday, the Clerk of the Crown, ad dressing the reporters, said, " Gentleman, take notice that none of the proceedings connected with this trial are to be reported." Baron RICHARDS- 44 Published." Clerk of the Crown—" That none of the proceedings are to be published, or any comments thereon, until the final close of the trial. This order has created great surprise and dissatisfac tion in Dublin. An instruction to refrain from com menting no one would object t o , b ecause comments might influence or intimidate the jury, but an utter pro • hibition of publishing mere proceedings of a public court is unaccountable. The. effect will be, if the Court be obeyed, that the proceedings will not be reported at all, for their interest will cease when the verdict and ludgment become known. THE QUEEN 5 : C. G. DUFFY. SATURDAY, DEC. 16.—The whole of the proceedings in this case, this day, consisted of an argument, entirely of a technical character, as to whether the indictment in the city ought not to be quashed; Mr. Butt, Mr. Napier, the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-Gen e r a l, w ere heard upon this point, which turned on the construction of 6 Geo. IV., c. 51. The COURT took time to consider. Inquiries have taken place in consequence of the re cent complaints so loudly made, charging the arrange ment of the challenges in the recent trials by the Crown as guided by motives of religious antipathy. The whole number of Roman Catholics directed to " stand by" by the Crown was 37; the number of Protestants set aside was 71. These figures certainly do not sustain the charge on which the recent memorial was grounded, and they do sustain the statement in the conclusion of his Ezcellency's answer. A warrant has been received from the Treasury, by the Board of Works, directing that instead of repayments into the Exchequer the instalments of the famine loan now in the hands of the board, and which exceed the sum of 360,000 L, this money may be re-issued, upon proper security, to the landowners of the several coun ties which have paid it, for the purpose of drainage and other means of improving the land. No applications from persons resident in counties in arrear to be com plied with. IA SMALL RETURN .—The High-Sheriff of the Queen's County, who had a writ to execute for 83,0001. against the property of the Duke of Buckingham in that county, has made a return of 41., the property having been pre viously conveyed away to trustees. ESSAYS DT WORKING answer to a me morial forwarded through Lord Ashley to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, requesting him to preside at the meeting for the announcement of the adjudication and the distribution of prizes offered to working men, for essays IN .itten by them on the temporal advantage of the Sabbath to the labouring classes, of which there were 1,045 competitors, the following answer has been received through Lord Ashley by the adjudicators:— " His Royal Highness Prince Albert has desired me to express his re gre t t h at he is unable to comp l y . with the request of the memorialists, and take the chair at the distribution of th e pr i ze essays on t h e S a bb at h. His Royal Highness, however, feels a very deep sympat hy with the striking and m er i tor i ou s efforts of the work ing classes, and he concludes his letter by saying, ' I think that, now that more prizes are being collected for the hitherto unsuccessful candidates, I can best contribute towards the object by giving ten of the additional 51. prizes, and asking you to be kind enough to present them to the succes s f u l authors i n m y name . The Pear of Days' has interested and pleased both the Queen and myself extreniely.l—l am your obedient servant — (Signed) ASHLEY." ST. LUKE'S PROVIDENT FUND.-011 Sunday the Lord Mayor, Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon; the Sheriffs, Thomas Quested Finnis, Esq., Alderman of the Ward of Tower; and Jacob Emanuel Goodhart, Esq , attended in state at the church of St. Luke's, Middlesex, Old-street- road. At the conclusion of Divine service, the Rev. J. Saunders, rector of St. Luke's, and domestic chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, preached a sermon in aid of the Provident Fund, esta blished in St. Luke's parish. CHOLERA.—Yesterday, the Board of Health re ceived reports of the following fresh cases :—Lambeth, 1 fatal ; Poplar, 1 fatal ; Stoke Newington, 1 fatal:; Wandsworth, 2, 1 fatal ; Hackney-road, 1 ; Cambridge, 1 fatal ; Monkwearmouth, 8, 1 fatal ; Edinburgb, 8, 4 fatal ; Glasgow, 34, 19 fatal ; Dumfries and Max welltown, 12, 6 fatal ; Falkirk, 3 fatal ; Prestonpans, 8 fatal ; Prestonki r k, 1 ; C ast l e D oug l a s, 2 fatal ; Greenock, 1; Thornhill (Morton), 1; New Kilpatrick, 1 fatal ; Old Monkland, by Coatbridge, Lanark, 12 fatal ; total, 99, 60 deaths. TUESDA Y EVENING, DECEMBER l9, 1848. Will was sent for, and arrived at the works within about twenty minutes after the accident occurred. We are happy to be able to state that he pro nounced the injuries of Clark and L ow t o be of a com paratively simple character, and that no serious result was to be anticipated. Grant was by his orders, taken to the Royal Infirmary shortly after twelve o'clock, and the body of the deceased George Murray was carried to his own house, at Sim's-square. Murray was about fifty or sixty years of age, and leaves a wife and family of six or eigbt children, most of whom, however, are grown up. —A large quantity of strong new paling lately erected at the Chemistry Works, Links, has been torn down, and carried away a distance of 20 or 30 yards into a field, by the force of the wind.—A currier's shop in Loch-street, belonging to Mr. John Watt, leather merchant and currier, has been blown down.—An enclosure in West North-street, for building purposes, has been blown to pieces.—Mortimer's wood yard, at Poynernook, has been blown down and seriously damaged.—Two wood yards, in Frederick street, have been blown open.----One of the windows of the Old Record-office in Castle -street, now used as a Dispensary, has been blown in.—ln Bon accord-street, a quantity of paling, &c., has been blown down.—ln the vicinity of the shore, a great num ber of win,o ws and skylights have been reduced to ever lasting smash. —The streets, at the hour at which we write (two o'clock), are completely strewed with broken cans, tiles, lime, &c., but we have heard of no other loss of life than that at the Gas Works, and we are happy to say that the gale has abated. THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY. A numerous and highly influential meeting of noble men and gentlemen of the county o f S ta ff or d was h e l d on Friday at the Shire Hall in that town, for the pur pose of forming a branch society for Staffordshire to atil in emigration to New South Wales. As you have already given in your report of the important meeting lately held in this town, all the facts connected with this movement, it will be unnecessary to recapitulate them through a lengthened report of th e p rocee di ngs at Stafford. Suffice it to say the subject excites very considerable interest, and has called forth the co operation of many nobleman and others of distinction, who seemed impressed with a conviction o f th e im port - Lord LIABROWDY occupied the chair, and opened the business by observing that although the trade of Staf ford (the shoe trade) was in a fair average condition, and the people did not, to any great extent, desire emi gration, still there were many in other parts of the county who were anxious to kayo, and, for their infor mation and advantage, he would call upon the Hon. F. Scott to give the meeting some information upon the subject._ The Hon. Mr. Sc.TT then addressed the meeting at considerable length, and was followed by Mr. Logan, Mr. Hodgson, and others, after which a resolution, expressive of the opinion of the meeting in favour of a branch society, was passsed, and The Noble CHAIRMAN said ;he had had. a list placed in his hands of the noblemen and gentlemen who were to form the com m itt ee . Th e li s t i nc luded that o f th e Right Rev. Prelate who had given the sanction of his presence to the meeting, his own name, Viscount In gestre, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Talbot, Mr. Adderley, Rev. Mr. Coldwell, Mr. Essington, Mr. Ridgway, &c. He hoped some person from the southern part of the county would he added to it, as many persons from the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton were anxious to emigrate. The ladies' committee include the names of the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Harrowby, and several other ladies of distinction in the neighbour hood; and if there were any ladies anxious to assist in the laudable work of helping the enterprising of their own sex to emigrate, he hoped they would have their names added to the committee. _ Thanks having been given to the chairman, the meet. ng separated. We have been requested to give insertion to the fol lowing letter:— "Birmingham, Thursday night, Dec. 14, 1848. "My dear Sir,—l much regret being obliged to re turn to London to night, instead of proceeding, as I intended, with the deputation to Stafford, where, I doubt not, your meeting will be very successful. I cbserve by the Liverpool papers that the late consti tuents of your Noble Chairman, the Earl of Har rowby, are looking with much interest to the meeting he presides over to-morrow in connexion with the Colonization Society. I should have wished to have stated a few words in reference to the innumerable resources of Australia, as also upon one of the principal commodities exported from those colonies, viz.—sperm oil, which, at this time, is commanding in the London market 851. per tun. The impetus that will consequently be given to the whale fishery will be greatly accele rated when the far seeing and well-matured plans of the Messrs. Enderby for colonising the Auckland Islands, and thence prosecuting more advantageously and efficiently than heretofore, our old and lucra tive, but now ne g l ecte d , wha ling trade in the Pa cific and Indian Oceans become known ; for their high position, and also their unequalled experience in this branch of British enterprise, is a sufficient guarantee for the success of the company they have formed, warmly supported as it is by the London merchants, as well as by many other parties of great weight and standing in the mercantile circles elsewhere. I would have endea voured to have shown that our friends, the iron and metal workers, the manufacturer of chains and whaling gear, of Staffordshire hoops, the miners and colliers, will feel the benefit of this company, and those smiths, engine masters, coopers, and others in Staffordshire who contemplate going to Australia, will participate in the advantages resulting from that fishery and in colonial shipbuilding; for every ton of shipping launched in the southern Pacific adds to the capital and enterprise of the British Empire at large, affording profitable em ployment, contributing to the development of illimitable w( altb, and creating an excellent nursery for seamen. If opportunity present itself, probably you will kindly take occasion to enlarge upon these points in any mode your judgment may suggest. "I am, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully, MARIC. BOYD. "The Hon. Francis Scott, M.p., Chairman of the Colonization Society." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEYS BENCH, Dec.lB. (Sittings at Guildhall.) BRETT V. THOMPSON. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for a breach of contract. It appearzd that the son of the plaintiff having received an appointment as cadet in the service of the East India Company, his father was anxious to obtain suitable accommodation for his conveyance to India. A cabin was engaged in the starboard side of the ship Brahmin, of which the defendant is the pro prietor, for which the sum of 801. was agreed to be paid. The cabin was fitted up at an expense of from 151. to 201. At Gravesend the cabin was taken from the youth, and one worth 401. was afsigned to him, on the ground that it had been previously engaged by an officer of the 40th Hussars. The defence was that no distinct agreement was made with respect to the cabin in question ; that it was alto gether unusual to make such agreements; that the plain tiff's son found the key in the door, and took possession of it without sufficient authority. It was shown that the furniture had been resold to the person who supplied it, and that the cabin had been let, in accordance with a Government contract, to an officer of the regiment in question. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damagess 501. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 18. M'SWINEY V. BIRKITT. Mr. Martin (with whom was Mr. Willis) for the plain tiff:, and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd (with whom were Mr. Chambers and Mr. Bovill) for the defendant. The action was brought by the firm of M'Swiney Brothers, of Cork, corn-merchants, to recover compen sation in damages for the alleged breach of a warranty as to the quality of a cargo of Indian corn, shippel at Salonica for Cork, in the month of February, in the year 1847, and the maize was warranted to be of a " fair average quality;" but when it arrived in Cork, in the month of June, it was in a very inferior condition, and sold at considercble loss. It appeared that the voyage from Salonica to Cork was prolonged beyond the average duration of the voyage, which is only seven weeks, in consequence of the prevalence of contrary winds and foul weather, which, it was said, accounted for the inferior condition of the cargo when it reached Cork. On the other hand, it was alleged that the corn must have - been of an inferior quality when shipped at Salonioa, to ac count for the state of fermentation in which it appeared to be on its arrival at the port of destination. A considerable amount of contradictory evidence, written as well as oral, was submitted to the jury, a commission having issued to take the evidence of wit nesses at Salonica, for the purpose of proving that the corn was dry, and in a proper condition when shipped at that port. The jury, after a consultation of about twenty minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs —Damages 1,1311. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 18. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE CHARLES KING. The insolvent, late a captain in the 89th Regiment, applied for his discharge. Mr. Cooke opposed, and Mr. Nicholls supported. The chief grounds of opposition were, that the insol vent had availed himself of the benefit of that court about two years since, and that he was not justified in contracting debts included in his present schedule. His debts under the first insolvency were 2971., and towards the liquidation of that sum there had been 1001. paid into court. The debts are now 3701., and there are no assets available sufficieut for a dividend. His HONOUR said he should declare the insolvent en titled to his discharge after the lapse of three months from the time of the vesting order. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. William Mowatt, a person having the appearance of a , horse-dealer, was indicted for having unlawfully con spired with two other persons, named Ward and Bapp, to defraud James Beadel of 65/. by false pretences. , Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine was for the defence. The particulars of this case have been recently gives in the police reports, and the charge arose out of a pro ; ceeding which is generally described as " horse-chaunt ing." It appeared that the prosecutor, who is an auc tioneer and land-agent, residing at Broomfield Lodge, near Chelmsford, and who also has a place of business in Gresham street, being in want of a pair of particularly quiet horses for his own use, saw an advertisement in the Times of the 6th November, representing that two horses were for sale at a stable in Turk's Head-mews, Harley-street, which appeared to be just the sort of ani mals that he was desirous to obtain. He accordingly went to the stable, where he saw the prisoner, who showed him the animals, and stated that they were the property of a lady named King, who resided at East bourne, and that she had bred ono of them and purchased the other about two years before, and that he (Mowatt) was her coachman, and had driven the horses constantly together for the last two years in a clarence carriage, and that they were particularly quiet good animals. The prosecutor pressed him with regard to the point of quietness, and Mowatt then with great earnestne. s repeated the story, and said that the larger horse of the two had been driven by his late master in single harness, and was an excellent h orse . Th e prose cutor inquired the price, and was then referred to another man named Ward, who represented himself to be the job-master, and said that Mrs. King expected to get a hundred guineas for the horses, but he thought she might take eighty guineas, as she was at great expense for their keep, and also the expenses of the coachman, and would be glad to get rid of them. The prosecutor refused to give that sum, and Ward then said that a rela tire of his, who was an omnibus master, had offered him 70/. for the horses, but that Mrs. King was so fond of the animals that she would not allow them to go into any other than private hands. At length the prosecutor, upon the faith of the representations made to him, and believing that he was buying a pair of horses the genuine property of a lady of respectability, consented to give 65/. for the animals, and they were sent the same evening to the Eastern Counties Railway station at Shoreditch, and the prosecutor paid Ward the sum agreed upon, and received from him a receipt in which the animals were described as sound and quiet in single and double harness, and it was also stated upon the document that if the horses were mot approved of within one week they were to be returned, and the money should be re funded. The prosecutor then proceeded with his pur chase to his residence at Chelmsford, and the next morn ing a trial was made of the capabilities of' the horses, when it was soon discovered that they were a couple of vicious useless brutes. It was with considerable diffi • culty that they were got out of the stable-yard, and after they had proceeded a short distance they began to rear and kick, and also attempted to bite each other, and it was very evident that, so far from their having been con stantly driven together, they were not at all used to har ness, and, instead of having been constantly driven together for two years, in all probability had never seen each each other until they were introduced to the stables in Turk's Head-mews, through the instrumentality of the defendant. The story about the lady, of course, turned out to be an entire fabrication—in fact, what in the lan guage of this fraternity is calved " a good client;" and the prosecutor upon going to the stable where he first saw the defendant a few days afterwards, found it shut up, and none of the parties could be met with there. In formation, however, was given .to the police, and the prisoner a as taken into custody upon the present charge. Mr. BALLANTINE, having taken some technical objec tions to the hid:cupola, which were overruled, made a very ingenious address to the jury on behalf of the de fendant, who, he urged, had only done that which was the every-day custom, when a horse was to be disposed of—namely, told a great many lies with regard to the good qualities of the animal. He said that people who went to buy a horse always were prepared for such pro ceedings, and after listening to all that was said by the seller, they only believed as much of it as they pleased. lie would not attempt to justify the conduct of the de fendant, but in horse transactions every one knew that people were not very particular, and he contended that the matter ought to have been made the subject of an inquiry before a civil tribunal, instead of being brought forward as a criminal charge. The RECORDER having summed up, and explained to the jury the law in reference to the alleged offence, they deliberated fur a short time, and then returnee a verdict •f Guilty. _ The defendant was then called up for judgment, and his LORDSHIP observed that frauds of this description were very prevalent, and they must be repressed by the law. The conduct of the defendant, and the other per sons who evidently acted in concert with him, was nothing less than conspiring to rob. They inserted an advertisement in a newspaper of a character calculated to attract attention, and when any one came to their stable in consequence, to see the animals referred to, they were ready with a plausible tale calculated to throw a person off his guard and induce him to part with his money for an almost worthless article. At present he should not go to the full extent of the law, by p ass i ng a sentence of transportation, but if the punishment he was about to inflict was not found to have the effect of check ing the offence, parties concerned in these proceedings might rely that the law would be carried out to its full severity until that result was obtained. The defendant was then sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. John Smith, a counter:ea blind man, was brought be fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having •btained the sum of 21. from the Hon, William Denman, the son of Lord Chief Justice Denman, upon false repre sentations. It will be recollected, that towards the conclusion of the late mayoralty, a man natned Nelson called upon Mr. Thompson, of Salters Hall, accompanied by a man who appeared to be blind, for the purpose of applying for a subscription, and that Mr. Thompson caused Nel son to be taken into custody, an event which restored the blind man to his perfect sight, and caused his preci pitate flight through lanes and alleys, to the utter con fusion of his unsuccessful pursuers. Upon that occasion Nelson was committed to prison for three months as a notorious impostor, and llorsford, an officer of the Men dicity Society, upon whose evidence that impostor was committed, stated that h 3 knew the fugitive, and should no doubt be able to produce him before the chief ma gistrate. Horsford, who attended to redeem his pledge, stated that, in consequence of information which he had re ceived, he went in search of the prisoner, with whose talent for affecting loss of sight he was so well ac quainted, and, having found that the man was in Maid stone gaol, waited until the opportunity arrived, and apprehended him upon the charge of having obtained money from the lion. Mr. .1),E1 nan, 11r. Thompsop, and , Mr. Egerton. The Hon. George Denman, of Mitre-court-buildings, barrister, said, about June or July last, the prisoner came to my chambers with r. letter, which I burnt after I read it. It stated that the bearer was a deserving young man, who had almost wholly lost his sight from an ac cident by fire, that his mother was lying dead in Derby, and that he was anxious to go thither by rail way to see her interred, but had not the money to pay for his conveyance. The letter was signed Wilmot, but the Christian name Ido not remember. The writer said he took an interest in the case, because the bearer was a Der byshire man, and he (the writer) was from Baxton. I had a conversation with the prisoner, who said he had been to t,my brother, Captain Denman, who lodged in Chapel- street, Grosvenor-place, and that the captain had just gone out. I said I had no money to give him. He then asked me to refer him to any others of the family who might be in town, and spoke of them as being known to him by name. He was then leaving my chum hers, but I called him back and gave him 2/. Horsford produced a number of forged subscription lists and recommendatory letters (with the names of several of the nobility appended as subscribers of money from 11. to 101.), which had been found upon the priso ner, who, he said, had been convicted in June, 1845, for having endeavoured to impose upon the Countess of Pembroke and Colonel Howard. The prisoner admitted to the witness that he had been convicted on those occa sions, and been committed for three months, and he hoped the Lord Mayor would be satisfied with giving him that amount of punishment. The prisoner assured the Lord Mayor that he kad been prevailed upon, in consequence of his infirmities and wants, to become the instrument of designing per sons, who had planned the whole deception and enjoyed the profits, while he retnained the victim. He solemnly declared that it was his firm intention to abandon the course of lire into which he had been led, and the com panions by whom he had been misled, and he trusted that the Lord Mayor would consider what he had already suffered, and: likewise that he repented, and would completely alter his mode of life. The LORR MAYOR said the life the prisoner had been leading was beset with dangers and punishments; and what he had already undergone would, it was to bo hoped, operate as a warning to him. Under all the cir cumstances, and in the hope that there was some sin cerity in the prisoner's protestations of reform, the sen tence upon him was, that he be committed to Bridewell for two months. His Lordship, in the course of admo nition to the prisoner, availed himself of the opportu nity of stating that the public were deeply indebted to the Mendicity Society's officers for their extraordinary exertions in detecting impostors. Mary Harris, alias Manners, was brought up on the following charge:— George Kensey, City policeman 656, was on duty on Friday morning in Threadneedle -street, at a quarter before five o'clock, when the prisoner passed him, and after having crossed to the other side of the street, re turned, and said to him, "You are a policeman; I have murdered my child; I throwed it over London-bridge this morning at two o'clock." In answer to questions which the policeman put to her, the prisoner said she had flung her child over the centre part of the bridge, and that she did the act on account of great distress. Upon being taken to the station-house she repeated her self-accusation, and said that she was a single woman; that the father of the child was a valet, and that the child was a girl about six years old; that her ow❑ age was 28 years, and that she had no fixed residence, but that the last workhouse in which she had been was St. Pancras, at which she called on Tuesday morn ing. She also said that the child's name was Maria, and that her sister had treated her ill on account of the child; and she endeavoured to conceal a piece of paper. which the policeman found to be an order from the master of the Paddington workhouse for the delivery of a child, who was at the house in Norwood, to which children are sent by some parishes to be reared and in structed. The master of the Paddington workhouse stated that he knew the prisoner as Maria Manners, and he also knew there had been a child at the workhouse, whose name was Mary Ann Manners. Ile was on Wednesday called to the board of guardians, and he received direc tions in consequence of which he wrote the note pro duced. The prisoner was remanded. _ _ The LORD MAYOR requested that the newspapers would acknowledge his receipt of 1/. from Alpha, of 21. from Lady Bourchier, and of 11 fr om T. J. M., for the service of Maria Tinley, the unfortunate young woman who was married and plundered by Bramall, alias Beau mont, the polygamist. A gentleman, named Lea, who resides in Abcburch_ lane, waited upon the Lord Mayor to inform his Lord ship that, on Sunday morning, in coming from Colches ter, in the train on the Eastern Counties Railway, just after he had passed the station at Witham, he and se veral other passengers had a very narrow escape, in consequence of the negligence of the servants, who left two barrels of gunpowder in such a position of the line that the engine dashed against them, and they ex ploded. Several of the windows in the carriages were smashed by the explosion, which, if it had taken place under the carriages, instead of under the engine, would have destroyed many lives, in all human probability. Mr. Lea said he had experienced great incivility from one of the clerks, upon complaining of such culpable negligence. Ili; LORD MAYOR thanked the gentleman for the com munication, and said he had been given to understand that the magistrates at Witham were that day engaged in investigating the accident. CLERKEIV WELL. James Clarke was placed at the bar before Ur. Tyr whitt, charged by George Clarke, No. 132 N division, with begging and having committed a violent outrage and assault upon him, by which he was severely injured. The constable exhibited several dreadful marks on his face and head, his eyes being blackened and swollen, and he was in a very weak state. He deposed that numerous complaints had very recently been made to the police of a set of ruffianly vagrants prowling about the roads of Holloway, Islington, and other parts, begging of ladies, and boys and girls; and their manners and appearance were of so repulsive and daring a character that some ladies had been so intimidated that they went into fits. The description of the prisoner's person was given; and on Saturday afternoon, about two o'clock, Isitness was on duty in the Holloway-road, when he saw the prisoner accost and follow several ladies in a most rude and insulting manner, evidently menacing them; and some seemed to be so frightened that they gave him money through terror. Witness hastened towards him, and said such conduct could not be suffered, and he must take him into custody, when the prisoner placed himself in a fighting attitude, and with the most horrid imprecations, swore that he would knock out his -- brains if he dared to interfere with him, and he immediately after that struck him a violent blow on the face, which blackened his eye, and was about to repeat the blow when witness rushed at him to prevent further violence and to apprehend him. The prisoner then bit and kicked him in a brutal manner, and in the struggle they fell to the ground; and so violent were the attacks of the prisoner, that witness had no doubt he would have been murdered by him had it not been for the timely arrival and interference of some officers and gen tlemen, who rendered him every assistance. The pri spn,r resisted like a madman, and after kicking, biting, and struggling, he was secured with the greatest difficulty, and conveyed to the station-house. This evidence having been eeefi c f i l ed, Mr. TYRWHITT said, he had never met with a more daring ruffian; ho had been guilty of a violent and cowardly outrage, which deserved severe punishment. He was accordingly committed to the House of Correc tion with hard I tbour for three months. The prisoner, on hearing the sentence, exhibited an evident disposition to make an attempt at escape, and eyed the officers near him; he would not move from the bar, and was putting himself into a fighting attitude, when the officers seized him, and after a violent effort, he was eventually conveyed to prison in the police van. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE CORN MARKET, DEC. 16.—The weather still continues unusually open for the season, but to day there are indications of frost, which is much to be desired, for so long as the mild weather continues we can look for no improvement in the condition of corn. The trade during the present week has ruled quiet for all articles, with a slight tendency to lower prices, the business doing at the same time being strictly of a retail character. At our market this morning we had a less supply of wheat, from the country, but the arrivals coastwise being rather more liberal, and the condition moreover being indifferent, sales could only be promoted by submitting to a decline of Is per quarter. The great bulk of the recent arrival from abroad having been placed in bond, free foreign was not offered lower; in the few transactions that occurred late rates were fully sustained. The arrivals of flour still continuing large, to make progress it is necessary to submit to a reduc tion of fully is per sack; but we scarcely look for the trade going any lower for the present, as the fall in wheat has not been equal to that on the manufactured article. Rye comparatively neglected, though offered at a decline of is to 2s per quarter. Barley of all descrip tions is most difficult to quit, and we again reduce our quotations 6d to is per quarter, with only a limited busi ness passing. Malt must also be written is to 2s per quarter cheaper, and ;only choice qualities meet atten tion, other sorts being neglected. Beans and peas un• altered. With oats we were fairly supplied by our growers, and the supplies coastwise being still upon a liberal scale, sales proceed slowly, although a reduction of fully 8s per quarter would have been acceded to. The duty on all grain remains the same as last week. GLOUCESTER LARGE MONTHLY AND CHRISTMAS FAT CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 18.—The weather changing for the better, caused the show to be well attended, and a vast quantity of fine fat oxen, sheep, pigs, &c., were ex hibited: sale moderate, at prices much lower than this time last year ; the quantity of fat beasts seldom ex ceeded (if ever) for the last ten years ; prices ran for the best Devons, Herefords, and short-horns, at about 61d to bid per lb; moderate ditto, at from sid to 6d ditto ; some as low as ati-d to 5d ditto; a considerable proportion of the primest were sold; inferior not,in great demand; best fed calves went at from 6d to 6id per lb. A fine show of splendid Cotswold and Down sheep, for which sales were good, at prices running between 6d and 7d per lb.; a few very fine old D own wet h ers ma ki ng 7d. ditto. A splendid show of fat pigs, best selling at 6d per lb. ; second rate, 5d to sid ditto. The poultry market was abundantly supplied, the best going at mo derate prices; some geese, ducks, fowls, and game going remarkably low. Corn—wheat fit for grinding, and of good quality, in fair demand, at rather improved rates since this day week, or even since Saturday last; prices ran from 44s to 56s per quarter. Barley, for malting purposes commanded the prices given previously; other qualities very unsaleable; some sold at 34s to 36s per quarter, while others were to be had at from 27s to 30s ditto. Oats did not retain their last quoted prices by is per quarter. Beans and peas were to he had on easier term. Looking at the market generally it must he set down :.1.4 a very dull one. CHELMSFORD ' DEC. 15.—The wheat trad e was to-day extremely dull, but in the sales made last week's prices were supported. Oats were from 6d to la, and ow beads Is per quarter cheaper. All else at last *reek's quota tions, with a very little business doing in any descrip tion of grain. White wheat; 51s to 575; red, 41s to 495, Barley, 30s to 335; chevalier ditto, 30s to 345; grinding ditto, 27s to 30s. Oats, 18s to 245. Malt, 56s to 60s; chevalier ditto, 58s to 625. Peas, partridge, 345 to 375; white ditto, 36s to 403; dun ditto, 32s to 355. Beans, tick, new, 28s to 325: ditto, old, 27s to 325; Elsrrow ticks, new, 29s to 3 1 -• old ditto, 29s to 335; MazAgon ditto, new, 26s to 28s; ditto old, 26s to 303 per quarter. CoLcnEsrEtt, DEC. 16.—Wheat, white, 48s to 565; red, ditto, 44s to 50s; barley, 28s to 345; beans, Mazagan, 26s to 32; middle and small ditto, 30s to 355; peas, 338 to 36s per quarter. . HADDINGTON, DEC. 15.—We had a larger supply to day of wheat, and of other kinds of grain smaller than in last market. Sales were quick. Wheat, top, ls, and average is down; weight of top, per four bushels, 18st 91b. Barley, top, 6d. and average 9d down; weight of top, per four bushels, 16st 101 b. Oats, top, 6d up, and ave rage 6d down; weight of top per four bushels, 13st 1 lb. Beans, top, 5s down, and average is 4d up; weight of top, per four bushels, 19st 131 b. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. First .... ... 55s Od 32s 6d 22s 6d 6-.3 Od Second ... ... 47s Od 28s 6d 20s Od 33s 01 Third ... .. 38s Od 22s Od 16s 6d 26s Total quantity of Wheat in market 492 qrs., 428 Do. Barley do. 535 qrs., .504 sold Do. Oats do. 391 qrs., 379 sold Du. Beans d o . 78 qrs., 58 sold KIRKALDY, DEc. 16.—We had here to-day rather a small supply of wheat, and having a gond many buyers it sold at about is per quarter over last, week's rates. Barley and oats both itt moderate supply—sales quick at about 8d per quarter over last day's rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. i Peas, First 54s Od 31s Od 22 s Od — s Od I—s eci Second 52s Od 28s 6d 21s Od —s Od I—s Od Third 4ss Od 23s Od 17 s Od —s Octl —s Od • Oatmeal, per bag of 28Olbs. imp., 28s to 00s. PERTII, DEC. 14.—Wheat, 42s to 525; barley, 24s to 28s; oats, 16s to 19s; peas and beans, 26s to 30s per quarter ; oatmeal 28s to 31s per sack. BERWICK, DEC. 14.—Wheat, 49s 7d ; barley, 27s 10Id; oats, 19s Id; peas, 34s 9d, average per imperial quarter. FALKIRK, DEC. 15.—The supply of grain in this day's market was 878 bolls. Wheat at 19s to 25s 9d per boll; barley, 18s 9il to 223 6d; oats, 14s to 15s 9d; beans, 12s to 14s 6d per boll; oatmeal, —s to —s per load. KELSO, DEC. 15.—Wheat, old, 39s to 425; ditto, new, 30s to 40s; barley, new, 17s to 20s Od; ditto, old, —s to —s; potato oats, —s to --s; ditto, new, 14s to 15s 6d; common oats, 12s to 15s; ditto, new, —s to —s; peas, 24s to 28s; beans, 24s to 28s per boll of six imperial bushels. Hewicx, DEC. 14.—Wheat, new, 36s to 425; ditto, old, 46s to 48s; barley, new, 17s to 21s; ditto, old, ; potato oats, 15s to 17s; common ditto, 115 to 14s; peas, 27s to 28s; beans, 27s to 28s, per boll of six im perial bushels. STIRLING, DEC. 15.—Wheat, foreign, 27s to 30s; ditto home, 00s to 00s; ditto ditto, new, 20s to 25e; barley, per boll of six bushels, 00s to 00s; ditto, new, 20s to 23s 3d; oats, common, 005 Od to 00s; ditto ditto, new, Its 6d to 00s; ditto, Flemish, 00s to 00s; ditto ditto, new, 00s to 005; malt, distillers, 36% to 375; ditto, brew ers, 38s to 40s; beans, per boll, 17s to 00s; ditto, new, lOs 6d to 15s; peas, 00s to 00s. Flour, new, per sack, 40s to 425; ditto, common ditto, 29s to sos 6d. Oatmeal, per load, 00a to 00s; ditto, new, 27s to 30s; ditto, per peck of 7lbs, 9id to 10d. Fresh butter per lb, lid to 12d. Eggs per dozen, 9d to 10d. Hay, per ton, 46e to 503. GLASGOW PROVISION MARKET, DEC. 14.—Cheese, 46s Od to 52s 9d per cwt; retail ditto, sid to 6d per lb. Skim mirk, 00s to 00s per cwt. Country fre,h butter, 10d to Ild per lb; Irish powdered, in lumps, 90 to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 92d to 10d. Country eggs, is per dozen; carried hen ditto, 8s 6d per hundred, or 8d per dozen, Hens, 2s Od per pair; ducks, 2s Od. DALKEITH, DEC. 14.—There was a large supply of grain at this day's market. Sales dull for wheat and peas and beans. Barley and oats met a brisk demand. Quarters. Best. Current. ' Inferior. 265 Wheat ... 21 15s Od'2/ 9s 0,1 11 17s Od 1,113 Oats ... 1/ 3s 64/ 19s 0101 13s 4d 924 Barley 11 13s 6d 1/ 8s Odill is Od 22 Peas, &e. 1/ 14s 0.1,1/ 12s Od 11/ lOs Od Averages of wheat, 2/ 5s 6d per qr. The relative weight of the three pricos of wheat were 18st 81bs; 18st 2lbs; and 17st Olbs. Of oats, 13st 31b1; list 131bs; and 9st 121bs. Of Barley, 16st :8113s; 16st lib; 14st Illbs; peas and beans, 18st 131bs; 18st Olbs, and 13st 101bs. COAL MARKET.—YasTE RDAY. Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d South Killingworth ... 13s Od Carr's llartley Davison's West Hartley 14s 9di Eden Main Dean's Primrose ...... 14s 6dlLambton Primrose East Adairs Main..... 13s 6d Belmont l7s Od Hasting's Hartley l4s 6dEast Hetton New Tanfield l4s 3d, Hetton Urd's Redheugh Ravensworth's W.Hart 14s Od Russell's Hetton Smith's Pontop .. l3s 3d Stewart's South Pontop .. ...... 13s 3d Caradoe a... .. l'anfield Moor . . lss 6d t Kelloe ... ... 17s Od ranfield Moor Butes... 148 6dDenison l6s 6d Townley l4s Od St. Helen's Tees ..... 15s 6d Walker's Prithrose Wylam ........ ....... I4s Od Tees .... .... 178 6d Wall's End, &c. West Cornforth .. l6s Od Brown's Gas . l3s 9d Cowpen Hartley Clarke and Co. Clennell Gosforth .. Hedley ' 168 Od Sickle) 's Hartley Hedworth Killingworth 153 9d RXILWAY SHARE MARKETS BRISTOL, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was more brisk to-day, and prices are ascending. The sa3es are—Great Western, Quarters, 4 dis.—Ditto, 171. Shares, 2% dis.—North Staf fordshire, 5% dis.—Caledonian, 21. - LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.-WC have an improving demand for shares. A good business was done, and better prices paid. The sales are-Caledonian, Preference, 6s. 3d. p.-East Anglian, 31. 10s. Shares, 3 1 / 4 -Great Northern, 10 1 4 dis.- Ditto (A Shares), Deferred, 21. 6s. 3d. dis.-Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters, 6 3 / dis.- Ditto, Fifths, 3 3 4 dis. - Ditto, IW. Preference, 71 p.- London and North• Western, 121-Ditto, Quarters, 1% p.- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 7% per cent. till 1853, 7 3 ra dis.-Ditto, 101. Preference, 10% -Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 28 3 % die.-- Midland Stock, 84-Ditto, New Halves, 8/. 13s. 9d. North British, New Thirds, 41. 6s. 3d.-North Staffordshire, 5 3 % dis.- Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 27 dis. -South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 71. Is. 3d. c.- York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 26%-Ditto (Extension), No. 1, 1 dis.-Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), % dis. MANCHESTER, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.-A brisk market. The sales are- Caledonian, Preference, 1 / 4 p.-Great Northern, 10% dis.- West Riding Union, 5 dis.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 2 1 ,4 c. p.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2, 11% n. dis.-Ditto, No. 4, 7 1 4 p.-North Staffordshire, 5% dis.-Shellield, Eighth Shares, 7 dis. Leeds, Fifths, 4 dis. -Ditto, 321. Shares, 7:4 dis.-Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1, 81% dis.-Midland, 50/. Shares, 91A dis.-London and North- Western, New Quarters, 1!;, p.-Old Dover, 24%. BIRMINGHAM, Dice. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.- The sales are -North Staffordshire, 53 dis.-North British, 16 c.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 61. l's. 3d. dis.-Ditto ( B), 3 7 / i dis.-Shropshire Union, 3 dis.-South Staffordshire, 41. 1 le. 3d. dis. YORK., DEC. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The business transacted to-day was as follows : -Great Northern, 73/ -North British, Thirds, 4/. 75.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 26-Ditto (Exten sion), No. 1, 13/. Is, 3d.-Ditto (G. N. E. Zurchase), 7 1 / 8 . HULL, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE -The sales are-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, Preference, No. 1, 17%-Hull and Selby, Halves, 48 i / 4- London, Brighton, and South Coast, New 51. shares, % p.-North Staffordshire, 5 3 A dis. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Life Guardsman, one of the Heroes of Waterloo, Cured of Rheumatism by Hol loway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Thomas Brunton. landlord of the Waterloo Tavern, Coathani, Yorkshire, was afflicted for many months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout ; his legs were dreadfully painfal and disfigured with colours of every hue, frightful to behold; for ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk. The treat ment he received from several medical men, not only failing to do him any good, but leaving him, in fact, in a considerably worse condition. At this juncture Hollo way's Pills and Ointment were resorted to, and by their sole means he has been restored to health and strength. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professr Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand, London. MATRA% On the 14th inst., the wife of Mr. Charles E. Secretan, of the Stock Exchange, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Scruton-hall, the lady of H. Coore, Esq„ of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Larkfield, near Liverpool, Mrs. T. A. Bushby, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Sunningdale Parsonage, Berks, th• lady of the Rev. T. V. Fosbery, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Wilton•crescent, the wife of the Rev. H. Douglas, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Bangor, the wife of the Rey. W. C. Totton, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Penge-lane, Sydenham, Mrs. Edward Frith, of a daughter. On the 17th inst, , at Cheshunt, flees, the wife of Graham Johnstene, E-q., of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at Christ Church, Watney-street, by the Rev. W. Quekett, M.A., Henry George, son of W. Temple, E3q., of Lorain-place, Holloway, to Jane Sarah Johnson, the daughter of D. A. Brans, Esq., of Taymouth-terrace, Stepney. On the 14th inst., at Kilpeacon Church, in the county of Limerick, Frederick J. Partridge, Lieutenant R.N., son of J. Partridge, Esq., of Bishop's-wood, in the county of Hereford, to Henryetta, daughter of John Croker, Esq., of Ballyna garde, in the county of Limerick. _ - On - the 16th inat., Samuel J. B. Haydon, Esq., to Mary Agnes, only daughter of the late Henry Deane, Esq., of Caversham, and Mrs. George Read, of Great Coram-street. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Newport, Salop, Charles Morris, Esq., one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, anti Deputy- Lieutenant of the counties of Salop and Stafford. On the 13th inst., at Bath, James Beck, Esq., aged 71. On the 14th inst., at Aylesbury, aged 33, Emma Marie Angele, the wife of Mr. J. I. Lockhart, of Fulham. On the 14th inst., at Hackney, Rebecca, wife of Mr. A. Scrutton, and last surviTing daughter of the late Dr. Con quest, of Chatham, aged 50. On the 15th inst ,at Albemarle -street, John Harris, Esq. M.D. (Cantab. ), an d F ellow of the Royal College of Phy sicians. On the 15th inst., at Farebam, Hants., Mrs. Harriet Law rence, re:ict of J. Lawrence, Esq., of Norwood, Surrey. On the Eth inst., at Great Cumberland-place, Richard Dawkinf, ag,tl 31. Printed and Published by MURDO 1:( SLING, of No. 11t, Strand, Printer, at The San Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Aliddlezez, Tuesday, December 19, 1848. 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