The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-06 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London a.trette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth p . 32, of the Average Amount of Bank N ,t , s oF the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 23d day of Sept-mber, 184 S- Average PRIVATE I.3NNK.S. amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 11,556 Ashford Bank, Ashford-J., mitt and Pomfret 10,770 Aylshain tsa,nk, Avlsharn-i-M. and G. Copeman 5,321 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and lltmt Italdock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade : laldock-Wells, Hogg, end Lindsell... 25,669 Barn itapie Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 11,776 Basingstoke and Odilnr‘z Bank, Basingstoke -- Seymour, Lamb, and (.. Bcdtord Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard 'lcilfora and Bedfordshire Band, Bedford- Trapp, llalfhead, and Co. Bowilley Bank, Bewelley-Nichols, Baker, and i1rane................................... . - Bicester and Ottbr,khire Bark and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. itirrninghtim Bank, Birmingham-A.ttwo ods, Spooner, and Co 24.328 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham --J. L Moiliiett, and Sons 12,035 itandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 6,179 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 63,085 BOSOMS Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. 13,949 r iter Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Seale) , 7,086 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 24.910 Brosoley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Brosley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 17,973 Bnoki . i.motam Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Parrott, and Co Bnry and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 74,382 Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 25,535 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 26.215 Bati - , City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son . Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 31,730 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-IL A. and W. M. Harris and Co 11,223 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 53,624 13ridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - BriAhton Union Bink, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding., Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromagrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, arid Co. 12,020 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons , 15,944 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam br;idge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co • 23,952 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Costa Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock 5,950 12,678 33,315 32,780 City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Carditf—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. . Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and C 0.... Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes. 7,090 15,285 71,934 2,112 5,955 7.745 13,773 32,061 23,470 Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington--Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devoinport—Hodge and Nor- 11,600 10,097 59,151 68,155 10,447 MSTI ”orchmter Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, -4 ,- Williams and Co. ..- Dorchester—Williams ai. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and en. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Vakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk bock, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far rindon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Favers'nam Bank, Faversham—M4ton and C Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 39,6r2 86,565 43,717 43,143 22,970 19,851 4,665 10,470 4,696 3,356 Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham —Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 10.138 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 25,277 floating% Old Bask, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 19,360 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Ware—S. Adams and Co 13,354 [lull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc 4,660 llemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and Whittingstall Honitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen —Sharpies and Co. lieroford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, aid Co 19,242 liiswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, [ladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Batik, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich — A lexaTlders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co 6,150 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Klia!esboroagh—Terry and Co KendKl Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotz:h and Sons.. Lor.7,ton Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. 11►arv: - y and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 40,463 Leeds Tirtion Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton B a nk,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. :ester Bank, Leicester —Paged Kirby... 21,911 Lewec Old Bank, Lewes—MolindtlF and C 0.... 29.495 LiAPeld Hank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... 17,943 Liiteuin Bank. Lincoln—Smith and Co 79,187 lirtmpeter Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very —David Jones and Co. i.ouzlsborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t.,ns and Cradock Lyniington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St fiarbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 39,416 Lynn Regas and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co 10,753 Manningtree Bank. Islan ningtree-14onn and Co 5,617 Marlborongh Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, 'Marlborough Old sank, Marl borough OlVank and Hungerford Bank, and Hunger fibrd Bank, Marlborough—Tanner 34,408 7,046 36,567 6,256 3,035 13,600 and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and 'Ellie! 7,014 erionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams. ...... 8.378 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willy:mg and Co 12,739 Mtnmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 22,031 Monmouth Old Beak, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead . 14,341 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons 7,962 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 18,627 Newark rend Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S leaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury —Bunny and Slooock 21,466 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, apd Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Disa—Taylor and aysoin wick Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons . 42,152 111ollich and Norfolk Bankt-Norwich—Gur n s and Birkbeck Nott figham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not ingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcoek and 2,491 64,035 8,104 Co 2,572 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and C 0.... ...... New Sezum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co 10,432 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Soith and Co 24,690 weatry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os wcstry—Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. ... Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeehinz and Sods._ Otfordsliirp Witaay Bask Witaey—Williamn, Clint:lol4d C 0....— 7,348 21,0'35 11,042 8,932 6,907 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, OCTOI3ER 6, 1848 Average Amount Pease a Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 44,217 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,862 ?ezerborough Bank and 'Oundle Bank ??eter borough—MovTs. Yorke . Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,295 Peawrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—itmonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, 26,775 25,307 4,463 and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches- ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co • Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and 25,959 CO Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall 12,490 20,835 and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 2,310 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddisnn and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story Bl3 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 27,882 _ King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp- ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Ban'4, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornb ury—Rol ph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But- cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— 12,905 Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and lialeswortk and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swann. Clouzh. and Co 10,036 44,295 11,552 6,107 38,915 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- 7,471 7,707 43,393 hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- 9,159 24,495 15,551 ford ... .... Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . .. . 25,798 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11.125 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company 43,739 . _ Carlisle _ 21,278 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,858 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 15,966 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 18,161 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 131,340 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 12,396 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,112 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha- lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 32,389 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,465 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 16,770 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 21,385 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,976 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 53,541 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,863 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 20,678 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- 8,243 23,230 Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 46,507 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 71,58 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester .. 5heffie1d.......... 34,409 •••. 37,781 SheSaddffil e e l w d o ß rt a h rkk ß i a i n t;r l! i c n o g m C p o a m n rry, Saddleworth... 1,644 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamiord. ...................................... 59,267 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- 2,968 25,158 port .. Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Co m pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, St,pilioid Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. . . 39,119 Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury .. Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton Lula Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 33,718 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,626 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven . 21,700 Warwick and Leamir_gton Banking Company, Warwick West of Englani! and South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 64,127 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester , 6,470 York Union Banking Company, York 64,544 York City and County Banking Company, York 81,108 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Otatnps and Taxes, September 30, 1848. FRANCE. The following, which may be considered as a proof that M. (le Lamartine. has novi completely sepirated himself from the party and policy of M. Ledru Rollin, appears in the Bien Public : " What are the dangers which have appeared all at once on our frontiers, that France should secure some advantages against the ancient monarchies by some great battles? To all appearance there are none. All the artificial structure of the treaties of 1815 so laboriously built up is completely destroyed. Austria is in a complete break-up. Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Lombardy are falling off from the empire. Prussia, which had reserved to itself the suzerainty of Germany, sees Germany escape from her, and hold its sittings at Frankfort. The work of the whole diplomacy is carried away by the breath of revolutions. Europe is decomposed ; the map of the Holy Alliance is half-torn up; no earthly power can connect together the pieces. Could England do so? But England has never weighed against France, except when taking its point d'oppui in Germany. That point dappui is now broken. The King of Prussia only thinks of saving the crown, and the Emperor of Austria of saving his states from the rush of the democracy. Could Russia do so ? But Russia cannot enter on a campaign against France, but on condition of having Prussia for its right wing and Austria for its left. And now what would that power find, if it attempted to cross the Vistula? A. Germany compact and heaving with the spirit of liberty, which would oppose to it the recruits of her revolutions. Who besides is ig norant that in the question of Schleswig, Germany and Russia have clashed together in a struggle of influence. United before by a common sympathy against revolutions, they are about to become hostile by their realities of territory. France gains the in fluence which Russia has lost. The quarrel of Schles wig, by compromising Russia against all Germany, has therefore been eminently advantageous to our policy, and we have a right to be thank ful to the providence of the Republic for it. If M. Bastide has lent a hand to the armistice, we can only congratulate him on his sentiments of good Christian. But, whatever may be the state of the relations of Russia and Denmark, Russia is for ever in an impossibility to raise up by cannon shots the pretensions of the Holy Alliance. Thus, therefore, in no quarter does a shadow of danger float in the air. The Republic may proceed in all security to the internal labour of voting its constitution, for it will not be disturbed by the sound of musket-shots on its frontier. And yet it is at this moment of utter dislocation for Europe, of the falling back of all the monarchies in themselves, for they feel their au thority melting away under the sun of liberty—it is at this moment of concentration for all nations, since all nations have need to reorganize their insti tutions, that M. Ledru-Rollin thinks fit to advise to beat the drum, and throw fourteen armies on our frontiers. And why ? To guard oneself by war against wars to come. Up to the present time there has been no example, except that of Louis XIV., of a person taking remedies in full health to keep off by an ticipation maladies that might possibly come. We cannot comprehend the error of M. Ledru-Rollin. What! he beheld six months ago a single word of peace, contained in a line of the manifesto, shake Europe more profoundly than the long cannonade of the Empire ; and he wants after that great victory not of our armies, but of our doctrines, to commence an experiment of a different character—to substitute cannon balls for principles, and to send our regiments against Europe ! But Europe would re-organise herself against our aggression; what is destroyed would be re-formed; the spirit of democracy would give place to the spirit of nationality, and the monar chies would re-enter by victories into all their former power. Is that what you want ? No certainly. Well then, why flourish a sound of trumpets in the tribune ? Is it to please by sounding periods the military spirit of our country ? But beware of rousing it by a new policy of complaint, for it would not be you, but others, that would profit of the anachronism." The Corsaire says—" There is still a good deal of talk of the retirement of M. Senard, Minister of the Interior. It is no longer said that M. Armand Mar rast will succeed him. M. Ducoux is spoken of, and it is said that he would be replaced as Prefect of Police by M. Berger or M. Taschereau." " Several journals," says the Moniteur, " have spoken of a strike among the journeymen bakers. These statements are incorrect. There does ex ist, it is true, in this corporation, some difficulties arising out of the different modes of hiring now in practice ; but these difficul ties have not given rise to any act bearing the character of coalition, or the appearance of a strike. The citizen prefect of police is engaged in endeavour ing to reconcile the interests of the masters and jour neymen bakers. A meeting of the delegates and syndics was held yesterday in the cabinet of the pre fect. M. Jules Favre attended as counsel for the journeymen. It appears that other meetings will be necessary, but there is• every reason to hope that an equitable conclusion of this affair will, ere long, be come to." The Gazette des Tribunaux says :—" It appears, from information which we have reason to believe correct, that the project of creating a Ministry of Police is about to be carried into excution, and that already the bureaux of the Ministers Fouct 6, Rovigo, and Duke Decazes, No. 13, Rue des St. Prees, have been arranged for assuming their old destination. The new Minstry of Police is, it is said, to centralise all information, all investigating action, at present divided into three services :—The division of General Police, directed by M. Panisse, in the Ministry of the Interior; the bureau of Political Police, managed by the Prefect, M. Ducoux ; and the General Surveil lance, ascribed by the National Assembly to its special Commissary." In accordance with a decision of the Minister of War, the first departure of colonists for Algeria will take place on Sunday next, when eight hundred will be embarked from Marseilles, under the direction of M. Chapelier, who has already made a long sojourn in Algeria, and who will be accompanied by an agent of the administration and a medical man be longing to the army. Of these eight hundred, one eighth will be composed of ten lime-burners, ten quarrymen, thirty-six stonecutters and masons, ten carpenters, five joiners, ten tile and brick-makers, ten tilers, five locksmiths, two edge-tool makers, and two wheelwrights. The follow ing are the points of the province of Oran, at which these 800 persons will be located, viz., Goudiel (St. Cloud), 5,400 hectares (the hectare being equal to about two acres and a half English measure), on which will be settled 300 families ; St. Louis, 1,777 hectares, 60 families ; Joinville, 2,950 hectares, 150 families ; Djebb Bow Alem, 900 hectares, 50 fami lies; Bow Ajmi, 900 hectares, 50 families; Garaba (right bank), 3,300 hectares, 150 families ; Oued el Hamman, 1,200 to 1,500 hectares, 60 families; Assi Mamacha, 1,000 hectares, 60 families; Mefra, 1,325 hectares, 40 families . The lands of Chartres have not yet been surveyed. As to Sidi el Abbes 3,900 hectares have been surveyed and will be allotted. BADEN. The insurgents of Baden, who seemed completely crushed, made another attempt on the 28th ult., when some hundreds of partisans assembled in the environs of Hunninguen, passed the Rhine, and attacked Leopoldshoche. They were, however, driven away by the custom-house officers and armed peasantry. If the correspondents of the German journals can be believed, the troops display great irritation, and even shoot any one they suppose to be a leader in the movement the moment they arrest him. On the 27th ult. they, according to the Friburg Gazette, shot five in this manner. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 30th ult. says:—" The Government of the United States has offered to take on board of the American frigate, the St. Laurence, in quality of midshipmen, four pupils of the Royal Marine School of Stettin, and to make them good officers. This offer has been accepted with gratitude by the Prussian Government. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, OCT. 3.—Our market has exhibited a drooping tendency to day, in a large proportion of yarns, and in many kinds of goods. The acceptance of rather lower prices, as the preferable alternative to that of any accumulation of stock, has, however, led to some increase of operations in twist, and still more in cloth. This may be taken as a pretty accurate statement of the general course of bu siness ; taking into account the discrepancies that are found between the reports of different parties, according to the channels in which they happen to more, and the greater or less facility with which they yield to circumstances. The Ger man houses are giving out limited orders for yarns ; and the Greek merchants are doing rather more than they were. There is some purchasing in prints and printing cloths, RS well as certain other articles, for the United States ; and operations are still going on for Gibraltar, particularly for printed calicoes. For Bombay there has been a little inquiry ; the letters by the present mail, howev e r, did n o t come to hand until this evening, after th e c l ose o f business. The di rection which prices are man if es tly taking produces a more widely spread disposition to diminish the sup ply by a resort to short time. The continued de cline in the value of cotton tends, however, to pre vent the adoption of that measure. ROCHDALE, OCT. 2.—There has been another good market today, and a fair quantity of business trans acted, at last week's prices, The wool market has been heavy, and the sales effected very limited. There is no change in price to-report. HALIFAX, SEPT. 30.—A. few job lots of fancy goods have been purchased today for the American market, at several shillings per piece below the cost at which they-could be manufactured, even at the pre sent low pripe of wool ; but, with this exception, there was scarceAajay business transacted in the hall to day. In, Al4,a.nlwools we can notice no alteration since our last lAport. LEEDS, OCT. 3.—Our cloth halls to-day have been well attended, but owing to the trifling show of suitable winter goods, the actual transactions proved insignificant. This scanty supply of goods speaks in favour of the general well-doing of our clothiers, who have to work to orders, which at all times is more remunerative than speculative productions. — Manchester Guardian. LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company took place yesterday, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, for the purpose of authorising the directors to affix the seal of the company to an agreement with the London and South-Western Railway Company for the sale of a joint property in a portion of the Portsmouth extension of the Brighton and Chichester Railway; and fur the purpose of con sidering the expediency of exercising the powers of the Company's Act, 10 and 11 Vict., c. 276, for re ducing the number of directors, and determining the order of rotation in which such reduced number shall go out of office, and what number shall be a quorum at their meetings. Samuel Laing, Esq., the Chairman of the Com pany, took the chair at one o'clock. The routine business having been disposed of, The SOLICITOR of the company read the heads of the agreement with the London and South-Western Company. General CORRIE wished to know what benefit would be derived from the arrangement to the Brighton shareholders. The CHAIRMAN said that he was able to state what the benefits would be. He was happy, on the first occasion of appearing before the proprietors as their chairman, to be the announcer of a message of peace with the South-Western Company.—(Hear.) When he became a director of the Brighton Com pany, his first attempt was to remove, if possible, the unsatisfactory state of things that existed between the company and the South-Western, and he was happy to say that, with the assistance of his friends in the direction, they had made an arrangement which had been met in an amicable spirit by the South-Western Company, the result of which would be that instead of the South-Western making an in dependent line to Portsmouth, the line would be made by both companies jointly, the South-Western paying to the Brighton Company 60,0001. for the line as it at present stood.—(Hear, hear.) The Brighton Company would be benefited by the arrangement to the extent of between 60,0001. and 70,0001., and the South-Western Company would be equally benefited. He believed sincerely that the practical result of the agreement would be to benefit both companies to the extent of 70,0001.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Another benefit would be that there would be only one station at Portsmouth instead of two, and they, he considered, would effect a saving to the company of no less a sum than 2,0001. Added to this, the agreement would bring about a proper spirit between the two companies, and give far better accommodation to the public than it had before.—(Hear, hear.) For his own part, he felt bound to confess that he had never seen an arrangement more honest or beneficial for all the contracting parties. He thought it would be a subject of congratulation to both companies that such an arrangement had been effected. It was the intention of the directors also to bring the capital account to a close as speedily as possible, and that at the smallest figure—(Hear, hear)—and in do ing so he could assure the proprietors that the sum of 7,280,0001. would not be exceeded.— (Hear.) He was happy to say, that whilst other companies were showing a decreased return in their accounts, the Brighton Company was showing an increase, though a small one. By the arrangement with the South-Western Company, the Brighton Company would effect a great saving, not only in the working of trains, but in the capital accounts. The worthy Chairman concluded by moving a resolu tion adopting the agreement. Mr. ScuuLsYßE seconded the motion. The resolution, after a short discussion, was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution, the object of which was to reduce the number of directors from sixteen to nine. In doing so he stated that the directors had balloted among themselves for the purpose of ascertaining the nine directors who should remain in office, and the result of that ballot was the retaining in the direction the following gentlemen :—Mr. Laing, the present chairman, Mr. Cash, Mr. Charles Crowley, Mr. Edward Crowley, the Hon. Captain Hotham, Mr. Laurie, Mr. Schuls ter, Mr. James Wishaw, and Mr. John Nix. A PROIPRIBTOR regretted that the directors had adopted that course, considering that it would have been far better that the proprietors should have balloted for the nine directors that were to remain. Mr. WILsoN addressed the meeting at some length, complaining of the management and the course that had been adopted by the directors, and moved, as an amendment, that Captain Kelly and Mr. Whisker should be restored to the direction as two of the nine directors. The amendment having no seconder, fell to the ground. Captain KELLY said that nothing under heaven should induce him to go back to the board again, as there bad been an influence pervading the board that he had an utter want of confidence in. The lion. Gentleman went at considerable length into the occurrences that took place while he was in the direction of which he complained, and detailed circumstances to show how greatly the af fairs of the company had been mismanaged, and how the repairs of the line and the engines had been neglected, in order that the expense might be spared to bolster up a dividend. Mr. Love was of opinion that the proposition for reducing the number of directors to nine was a most excellent one, and would give it his support, but he thought the proprietors ought to elect those nine directors, and not the di rectors themselves. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Proprietor moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. WiLsoe seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, when Mr. LOVE said he would withdraw it. Mr. WiLsoe would not consent to the withdrawal of the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, and only two hands being held up in its favour, declared it to be lost. Mr. WILSON then moved another amendment to the effect, that the names of the nine directors should be put seriatim. The CHAIRMAN also declared this amendment to be lost. The original motion was then put, and declared to be carried. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and direc tors, and the meeting separated. THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.--LRSt night a public meeting of the principal tradesmen, shopkeepers, and friends of the Early Closing Movement was held at the White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate, for the purpose of supporting the movement and adopting the principle of early closing in all branches of trade of every descrip tion within the district of Bishopsgate and the surrouad ing neighbourhood. Mr. John Hopkins, one of the principal tradesmen of the district, occupied the chair, and addressed the meeting at considerable length, ex planatory of the advantages that would be derived by the public, but more particularly the tradesmen them selves, by fixing the closing of shops for business at an earlier hour, and stated that he had himself practised it for the last seven years with the most satisfactory and beneficial results, and pointed out the positive necessity that existed for carrying out the pri nci p les of the Earl y Closing Association, with respect both to the mental and physical position of the young men employed in various trades in this vast metropolis. The hours wore now proposed in all trades to be eight in winter and nine in summer, but he (the chairman) felt satisfied that the hours might be safely reduced to seven in winter and nine in summer. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting in support of the objects of the association. A memorial was unanimously adopted to the shopkeepers and tradesmen from Shoreditch to Cornhill and adjacent neighbourhoods, calling ttpon them to adopt the early closing of their shops throughout the district, from Nov. 1 at eight o'clock, and on Saturdays at 10 o'clock, and in the summer at nine. POISONING BY ARSENIC.--The inquest on the two young girls Fanny and Sarah Ann Kent, were resumed on Wednesday evening at Gloucester. Tho witnesses were Mary Moody, Frederick Kent, aged twelve years, and David Kent, aged ten years, brothers of the de. ceased; Mrs. Kent, their mother; and Messrs. Hicks and Boughton, surgeons. in addition to what has already appeared, it was stated that a post mortem exa mination took place, and that traces of arsenic were dis covered. The medical gentlemen came to the conclu sion that the deaths of both the children had been occa sioned by that poison. On the second examination the father of the children requested the coroner to send a constable with him to Cheltenham to visit the druggists' shops, a rumour having been circulated that he, the father, had recently purchased arsenic in that town. The coroner accordingly communicated with the in spector of police in Cheltenham, and the result of the inquiry was, that no arsenic had been sold to Kent or any other stranger. A trace of arsenic was very dis tinct in the remainder of the farinaceous food left after making the pudding. The jury, after a long investiga tion, returned a verdict, " That the children died from the effets of arsenic taken in farinaceous food, but how or in what manner it became mixed with the food, there was no evidence to show." A Cer • KILLED BY A MOUSE. —A curious cir cumstance occurred on Kingsdown, Bristol, on Monday. A cat having caught a mouse, was playing with it on the lawn, when the mouse leaped into the cat's mouth, and actually forced itself so far into the throat as to suffocate poor puss. LAW INTELLIGIi:NCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5 Two Commissioners (Evrms and Shepherd) sat, 'but the cases on the list were of no public interest. Mr.W.J.Townshend, a cork manufacturer in i~'ell - came up on his last examination on a balance-sh(et prepared by Mr. Glover. The debts were about 1,6001, and the assets comparatively trifling. Mr. Cooke opposed, and Mr. Lawrence supported. The bankrupt passed. In the matter of Brailsford Bright, who was a mer chant, carrying on business in Bishopgate-street in co-partnership with others, the bankrupt carne up on the question of passing his last examination. Mr. Bishop appeared for the assignees, Mr. Law rence for the bankrupt. The debts unsecured are 3,756/., and the assets about 3501. The bankrupt passed, and the certificate meeting was fixed for the 2,1 of November. Thebalance-sheet was prepared by Mr. Hudson, of Bucklersbury. In the bankruptcy of Gervas Parnell, of the Plough Brewery, IValworth, there was a certificate meeting. Mr. Duncan opposed, and Mr. Lawrence sup ported. The bankrupt obtained his certificate. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. SENTENCES. The following is a correct list of the sentences passed during the sittings of this Court:— TRANSPORTATION. Life—William Coffey, William Dowling, William Lacey, Thomas Fay, Joseph Ritchie, five of the Chartist conspirators. Twenty Years—Theodore Piedfort. Fifteen Years—Rickman Moore, John Rickman. Ten Years—William Joseph Bailey, William Sten nett, George Davis, John Vickers, William Edwards, John CoHilly, John Collings, William alias John Jones. Seven Years—Adolph Von Zwehl, William Brown, Mary Smith, James Maggs, William Wilson, Thomas Bennett Goddard, William Fraser, Isaac Norcott, Alfred Hay, Elizabeth Wesley, Sarah Errington, James M'Cabe, Saunders Rosenberg, Thomas Norman, James Piddick, Maria Murray, Julia • Leonard, George Brink worth, Daniel Brown, Thomas Shawe, Richard Bailey, James Crabb, Thomas Neal, Andrew Sharp, Anna Smith, Robert Whalley, Frederick William Southcombe, Alfred Taylor, John Dixon. IXPRISONMENT. John Shaw, for seditious language, a fine of 101., and recognizinces in 2001. for five years. Alfred Able, William Gurney, James Snowball, Edward Scaddiug, Phillip Martion, Wm. Winspere, Jas. Prowton, Hugh Conway, Samuel Morgan, Thomas Jones, Charles Young, Henry Argue. A portion of the Chartist con spirators; each to pay a fine of 101., and the same sure ties as the first-named prisoner. James Doyle, William Darvill, Joshua Williams. Eighteen Months—William Poole, Thomas Herbert, Thomas Irons, another portion of the Chartist gang, with the same fines and sureties as the other pri soners. Joseph Iredale, Daniel Morris, and recogni zances in 501. Twelve Months—Josiah Etheridge, Charles Kent, Francis Freeland, James Smith,. John Spence, Joseph Adams, Daniel Fitzgerald, Dennis Fitzgerald, John Papps, John Haswell, Walter King, Charles Smith Western, Joh❑ Lawrence, John Hooper, Charles Gibson Norcutt, William Armitage, Andrew Powell, William Fawkes, Isabella Sutton, Henry Curson, Isaac Harding Harris, alias John Phillip Phillips, Joseph Cox, Mary Carter, alias Pearce, Maria Tyler, William Jones, Charles Reiman, John Sharp, and to pay a fine of 201. for selling indecent prints. Nine Months—George Holden, Michael Nalgle, John Hipwell, Montague Douglass Scott, Josephine Raoul, Alphonse Louise Eugene Piton, Redmond Geary, Samuel Bone, Richard Randall, Henry Randall, Welbin Cobbett; Nicholas Locke. Eight Months—Sarah Hickley, William Hickley, John Hinkley, Selina Sinclair. Six Months—George Mason, George Jones, Elizabeth Johnson, Thomas Hancock, Caroline Brown, Joseph Chsverall, John Malony, John Smith, Henry Thomas, William Powning, William Pope, John Casey, James Haslem, William NPGivin4, Thomas tiarlock, Mary Ann Green, Henry Hassan, George Simmons, JAMOlii Clarke, Thomas Watts, John Nicholls, James Paul, Margaret Kerr, Mary Ann Martin, Edgar John Serjeant, Cathe rine Crawley, William Johnson. Five Months—Elizsbeth Sans. Four Months—John Sooner, John Ward, Ellen Ken nedy, Charlotte Binder, James Smith, Joseph Ward, William Serjeant, Charles Smith. Three Months—Phillip Rochfort, Thomas Henley, Morgan James, William Gag, James Avis, Juhn Moore, Thomas Neale, John Wells, Emma Giles, John Robin son, Mary Ann Chapman James Clements, William Bowcutt, John Williams, James Frazer, William Sim mons, William Placey. Two Months—James Hudson, John Dohohoe, James Furlong, William Bone. One Month—William Russell, John Francis Golding, George Green. To be Imprisoned in Newgate for periods varying from Seven Days to Three weeks—John Stephenson, Jane Brown, Mary Smith, James Russell, Catherine Wood bine, Edward Stecdman, James Morris. Remanded until Next Session—Henry Freedman, Alice Trimham, for the murder of her child, Alice Emma Beaumont, Mary Ann Fitz4erald, Thomas Jones, Wm. Milton Pugsley, George Bridge Mullins, one of the Chartist conspirators. To Enter into Recogniztnces to appear when called upon—Charles Taylor, George Cox, Charles Gibbs, Alexander Herby, James John Norton, Samuel Ilarby, John Shepherd, James Richardson, George Greenslade, Henry Small, and William Burn, the remainder of the Chartist gang; Ebenezer Searle, Daniel Morris, Arthur Black. Acquittals—Charles Thomas Best, Elizabeth Hug est, Mary Burrows, alias Mary Ann Graham, William Ro berts, Henry King, William Atkins, John Smye, James Salmon, Solomon Cowan, George Clark, William Berry, Thomas Pyle, William Choles, William Parsons, Eliz t both Baker, Josiah Mumford, Charles Hooper, John Brookes. Johanna Mullins, Mary Brown, Elizabeth Braily, Francis Harry . Williams, John Connell, William King, Edward Shamoix, William Jones, alias Edward Gillett, Mary Ann West, William Wisson, John Bacon, Maria Dant, Ellen Bowles, Eiiza Owen. Bills not Found—John Ford, Robert Letchford, Ed ward Gardener, John Mahoney, John Dare. Judgment Respited—Gaffre Jones, Charles Able. Discharged by the Court—Stephen Turtell. The Court stands adjourned until Monday, the 23d of October. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MiIItYLEBONE. Mr. Long was engaged for a considerable time in the investigation of a charge of robbery to the amount of more than 1501., at the residence of Mr. C. G. Ridout, 11, Wimpole street, Cavendish-square. Prosecutor said, the prisoner Rogers had been in my service as housemaid, and on the 28th of August last I and my family went into the country, leaving her in care of the premises. In consequence of in formation communicated to me by the police, I re turned home last Tuesday night, and found Rogers in the house alone. I repaired up stairs, and saw the doors of a closet on the landing, close to my sleeping apartment, wide open, and on going into the said bedroom I also discovered that the locks of the ward robe and numerous drawers therein had been forced. When I quitted town everything I have alluded to was securely fastened. I immediately repaired to the station, where I saw Superintendent Hughes, and I returned to my residence, accompanied by Sergeant HarrisCn, 14 I), and another officer. We examined the closet, and I missed therefrom a large quantity of silver plate, &c., viz., a teapot, a coffeepot, 24 forks, 36 spoons, a fish slice, four salt-cellars, four sauce ladles, a butter knife, a candlestick, two gravy spoons, a pair of sugar tongs, two waiters, twelve German silver knives, a cocoa nut sugar basin, gni a quantity of linen. Mr. LoNG —What do you imagine to be the value of what you have lost ? Prosecutor—l should say 150/.—probably more. It was further stated by the prosecutor, that in addition to the property above-named as having been stolen from the closet, or, more properly speaking, wardrobe, a complete set of Sir W. Scott's works had bee❑ abstracted. Prior to his going into the country, he gave Rogers to understand, both verbally and in writing, that (luring his absence she was not to admit into the dwelling any one but her sister, of whose respectability he had a good opinion. Louis Feser, butler to Mr. Chalon, the well known artist, 10, Witnpole-street, deposed that between nine and ten at night, on the 27th ult., he saw a cab at the door of No. 11, and several bundles were put into it. The prisoner Rogers and a young man assisted. Rogers, as also her sister and the young man alluded to, went away with the vehicle, the man riding out side. In reply to the magistrate, witness said I can't swear that Jennings is the man that went off in the cab, as it was very dark at the time. More than once since Mr. Ridout has been away, I have seen Rogers's sister and also Jennings go into the house ; they entered therein the day after the things were carried away in the cab. In half an hour after the vehicle was driven off, I heard Mr. Ridout's door open and shut which is all I know about it. SergQant llarrison and several other officers of the D division gave evidence at some length with regard to the examination they had made as to the appear ance of the house, which bore no indication whatever of having been forcibly entered. They also made statements having a strong tendency to implicate both of the prisoners as being concerned in the rob bery. Not a particle of the stolen property has yet been traced, but the active officers employed in the matter fully expect to he able to obtain other impor tant evidence in a few days. The prisoners, who asserted their innocence, were remanded till next Thursday. WORSHIP-STREET. Joseph Andrews, alias Cooper, alias Hopper, a powerful excavator, was charged before Mr. Hammill with having been concerned with several others in a desperate assault and robbery, committed on the 21st of June last near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, upon the person of Mr. Henry Whiteman, one of the sub contractors engaged on the Ox'brd and Rugby branch of the Great Western Railway. James Whiteman, brother to the prosecutor, stated that on the evening cf the above-named day he ac companied the latter to a beer-shop in the neighbour- hood of Banbury-bridge, for the purpose off paying off the prisoner and a number of other excavators who had been employed upon the line, but whose services were no longer required. On reaching the house, his brother proceeded to a room on the first floor, where several of the men were assembled, but he had only been there a few minutes when witness, who remained below, hoard a violent altercation and uproar in the apartment, and on making his way there he found the prisoner and a man named Brown ing with their clasp knives open in their hands, and pressing upon his brother, while several of their com panions hemmed him in and threatened to murder him. The moment witness made his appearance at the door a simultaneous rush was made upon him by the party, who forced him back into the pas sage and hurled him down headlong to the bottom of the stairs. On recovering from the effects of the fall he hastened to the town of Banbury for assistance, but not being able to find a policeman, he was returning back, when he met the party dragging his brother along the road by the hair of the head until they reached an adjoining field, where the prisoner and Browning stood over him with their open knives, while a man named Fisher commenced rifling his pockets, and robbed him of all the money in his pos session, consisting of nineteen sovereigns and a quantity of silver and copper money. The whole of them then made off in different directions, but Brown ing was soon afterwards captured, and subsequently tried and convicted at the assizes for the county, where he was sentenced to ten years' transportation. The prisoner had ever since eluded pursuit, until the preceding day, when witness, who came to reside in London soon after the transaction, happened to meet him near a new line of railway in course of forma tion at Camden-towm, where he had obtained em ployment, and gave him into custody. llolland, the warrant officer, produced a number of the Hue and Cry containing a minute description of the prisoner, and offering a reward for his apprehension. In answer to the charge, the prisoner admitted having been present at the time of the outrage, but denied that he had taken any part in the assault and robbery. Mr. llAmsmn ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week, to afford time for the local authorities of police to be made acquainted with his apprehension. SOUTHWARK. John Hebbert was brought up on remand, charged with three others not in custody, with having robbed James Prockter and Robert Smith of two silver watches, fifty-eight sovereigns, and two 51. Bank of England notes. On Friday last, when the complainants stated the case, it appeared that the prisoner, after ascertaining that they had recently arrived in London from Knot tingley, in Yorkshire, had induced them to accom pany him to the Surrey side of the water for the purpose of showing them the Zoological-gardens and other objects of interest there, and that in the course of their wanderings they were joined by three other men, with whom they partook of refreshment at two public-houses, and afterwards at the King's Head, in the Mint. They left that place at dusk, but had not proceeded far on their way to the Silver-cross, Charing-cross, before they were attacked by several men, the prisoner amongst them, from behind, hur ried down a dark alley, and in considerably less than a minute robbed of the property mentioned above. In answer to questions by the magistrate this day, it turned out that the complainants had gone into York shire, and had not returned, but were expected. Mr. SECIZER then ordered the prisoner to be re manded. Mr. William Saunders, a gentleman connected with the press, came forward and said that, with the magistrate's permission, he would explain to him the particulars of an attack and robbery which he sus tained a fortnight ago, because from the similarity of the mode and attack resorted to on that occasion and in the case just disposed of, and from other cir cumstances, he had reason to believe that the thieves in both instances belonged to the same gang. He was walking through Holland-street, Blackfriars, on Tuesday evening, the lath ult., at eight o'clock, on his way into the City, and had just reached the Falcon glass-works, when some one stepped up behind and .- laid his hands gently over his eyes. For a moment he supposed it was some friend with whom he occasionally walked home that way, and waited to hear him speak ; almost imme diately, however, he heard footsteps approaching the spot rapidly, and believing then that an attack was intended, he sprang round to disengage himself from his assailant, when he found himself jammed up at once between eight or ten men, whose footsteps he had heard. The fellow behind him dropped his hands from the eyes to the throat, which he grasped tightly, while some held him by the arms and legs, the rest forming a screen around their companions. The pressure at the throat being con tinued almost to strangulation, his watch and chain were easily taken from. Presently he found himself alone, his watch and appendages gone, and he was only able to catch a glimpse of some of the thieves running away. Mr. Saunders added, that his only object in relating the case to the magistrate was to show that this mode of attack seemed to be the com mon practice of the thieves in the numerous street robberies of the kind which had lately occurred, and to assist in making the public acquainted with it. He wished also to express his thanks for the assist ance and advice afforded him since the occurrence by the police. Mr. SECKER said that in so desperate a case (the police having a complete description of the property), unless Mr. Saunders could identify the offenders, everything had been done that could be done, and he was extremely sorry to be unable to afford him any additional assistance. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—ln your paper of the 26th ult. you allude to the greater regard shown by the English law to property than to the liberty of the subject, and the difference is even more flagrant than you state. _ The party against w h om an ac ti o n is brought has not to make an y p aymen t f or a co py of the h state ment of the d eman d aga i ns t him, but must, if he has appeared in due course to the action, have the declaration itself delivered to him, and also the par ticulars of the plaintiff's demand if the action is for debt or on promises. The declaration states in strict legal phraseology the claim of the plaintiff, and he cannot depart from this, or from his particulars of demand. It the declaration be informally worded the defendant can take advantage of it by demurrer, or, in some cases, even after a verdict against him, by moving in arrest of judgment. If the defendant does not demur, he can put almost any plea he chooses on the record, and of the most contradictory description ; so that, in fact, if one of them be true the others must be false. The plaintiff; however, is only allowed to have one count in his declaration for the same cause of action, and is, consequently, precluded from stating his case in different ways, which is often a denial of justice to him. Thus is a person guarded against a pecuniary claim, and if one is impropelly made ag a i ns t hi m , th e plain tiff has to pay hi m tffe costs he incurs, but if a cri tninal proceeding be instituted against a man he can obtain no copy of the indictment in the more impor tant cases, and his advisers are obliged to look at it as they can, amidst the hustle of the court, just as he is going to be tried ! However innocent he may be he is not entitled to be reimbursed the costs he must incur in preparing for his defence, and from his often not knowing the particulars of the charge against him, he is, as far us possible, prevented from being able to meet it. Under such circumstances it must continually happen that the innocent suffer with the guilty. Instances in abundance may be produced to show that our system of criminal jurisprudence is most unjust and oppressive. It can be, and is, used as an instrument of malice, and by it a man can be put to great expense, and his character as sailed without his having any effective redress. This unjust and oppressive difference between civil and criminal proceedings did not always exist, and its growth shows that while we have continually added safeguards to property, we have cared little for the real security of the people. The cause of this is an interesting subject, and I trust you will continue your endeavours to procure an effective remedy for the evils which are so apparent in the existing practice.—l am, Sir, your very obedient servant, Lothbury, Oct. 4, 1848. 11. B. F. FIRE AND 1 - 4055 OF' Two LIVES.—On Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a cottage at Lushbrook, Shiplake, near Henley, by which two lives were de•• stroyed. The cottage, which was thatched, was occupied by a man named Mills, a widow named Cresswell, with whom he cohabited, and a family of five children, the youngest being the child of Mills. Mills returned home from his work and was eating his supper, when the eldest of the children, a boy of nine years old, went up stairs to put his yonngcr brother to bed, and on de sec:riding unfortunately set fire to a heap of corn stowed in a recess. The staircase was almost immediately in a blaz3. Mills rushed up to the room in which the child slept to rescue it, but was unable to do so :from the in tensity of the heat, and both he and the child were burnt. The cottage was totally destroyed. The husband of the woman was killed some time back by falling from a waggon, and about three years ago another of her children was burnt to death. A coroner's inquest is about to sit on the bodies. THEVINTAGE NEAR PARIS.—The produce of grapes is so abundant near Paris that the peasants fear to bring any inferior quality inside the walls, lest tney should not sell fur 6 centimes the two pound weight, the amount of entrance duty to which they are subject. Tho conse quence is, that a regular fair of grapes is established out side the walls of Paris, to which the troops in particular resort, and aro to be seen loaded each with three pounds weight, which they purchase for lid., and which are duty free. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A serious accident, %cry similar in its causes, but happily dissimilar in its consequences, to the one that took place a short time since at the Shriveuhara station, occurred to the 8.30 P.M. up-train from Maiden. head, on Tuesday, at a place called Bull's Bridge, about three qiiarters of a mile beyond the Southall station. It will be recollected that the accident at Shrivenham station, through which seven or eight persons lost their lives, was occasioned by a horse- box being placed upon the up main line while the up signal for the express train, then over due, was "all right" for the driver to come on. Precisely similar was the case on Tuesday night, and the very singular coincidence is that the driver of the engine, Robert Roscoe, is the same person who drove the engine that ran into the horse-box at Shriven ham, and who displayed so much courage and presence of mind on that occasion. The 8.30 p.m. train left Maidenhead at its proper time. It is due at Bull's Bridge at nine o'clock. As the train approached the place at about two minutes past nine o'clock, the driver saw that the white, or " all-right " light was turned on at the bridge. Immediately ho saw the line was sig nalled as clear, he crossed from the reversing side of his engine to his other side, in order to set on one of his " pet " or pump cocks; his " mate," or fireman, at the same moment crossing over from the opposite side of the foot plate, and taking his (the driver's) place at the reversing lever. By this time the engine had got to the signal at the bridge, and the driver saw the policeman give the " all-right" (white) signal with his hand lamp. The driver at the same instant felt that his fireman had reversed his engine; but before he could step across the foot-plate to ascertain the cause, the engine, which was running at about forty-five miles an hour, struck ob liquely a loaded coal waggon, weighing at least ten tons, which, it is said, was being drawn across the main line by horses. The engine (the Gorgon), a six -wheeler, weighing about twenty•-four tons, cut the coal truck (a wooden one) in half, struck off one of the axles from the " boss "as cleanly as an apple is divided with a sharp knife, and at the same moment snapped the coupling pin of the tender. The engine was thrown off the railway, and fell bodily down upon its side, the tender remaining partly upon the embankment. The two first carriages were thrown across the line, but the other two did not leave the rails. The driver, Roscoe, and his fireman, John Greening, " stuck," as the men express it, to their engine to the last. As she turned over, they seized hold of the hand railing on the upper side of the engine, and escaped un hurt. The only persons who sustained any injury were a passenger, who received a slight cut on the head, and one of the guards, who was severely bruised about the shoulders and ribs. Yesterday, Edward Herbert, the police signal-man, and Henry Berwick, the foreman porter, whose duty it is to see that the goods trucks are moved across the main line, under the direction of Herbert, were taken before Mr. T. Dagnell, one of the county magistrates, at Uxbridge, charged with having caused, through negligence, the accident in question. The first witness examined was a lad named George Wheeler, in the employ of Mr. Tollett, who contracts with the company to move the goods and various ma terials to and fro between Bull's-bridge station and the main line. He deposed that his duty is to hook and un• hook the horses to and from the trucks that are worked by the contractor ; that on the night of the accident he assisted his carter, Thomas Heather, to bring the coal truck from the shed and place it on the siding upon the station side of the main line, ready to be taken across to the siding nn the down site of the main line. Before he hooked on the horses he caught a glimpse of a green light (the signal) that the coal-truck might be taken across the main line, and heard Berwick, the porter, call out " All right, Tom." At that time Berwick was by the down signal lamp, which is about thirty yards from the crossing over which the coal-truck was about to be taken. Immediately after the horses got the track into motion he saw the up train close upon them, and he had scarcely time to unhook the horses before the engine pitched into the coal-waggon. Mr. Dagnell—Do you know whether the green light you speak of was shown by Herbert or Berwick? Wit ness—l cannot tell. I merely saw it glisten between the horses I was driving. The green light seemed straight down the line. Berwick—lf you had seen my light you would have seen a full light, as I was close to you. You would not have seen it " glisten" as you describe the green light seen by you. Thomas Heather, carter to Mr. Tollett, examined— He stated that he drew the coal truck to the switches at the crossing, and remained there with it five or ten minutes for the signal to cross the main lines. After waiting that time he saw Berwick hold up the green (the " all right ") signal, and heard him say, " All right, Tom." He (witness) said, " Very well," and started his horse. He did not see any light except the green one exhibited by Berwick. Berwick said the witness was wrong in stating that he had to wait five minutes at the switch. He (Berwick) rang the bell when the truck was brought to the switch, and Heather could not have waited a couple of minutes at the siding. John Webber, the station-clerk at Bull's-bridge ex amined—lt was Herbert's duty to signal Berwick when it was proper time for the latter to allow anything to cross the main lines. Mr. Clarke put in the instructions given by him to Berwick. Mr. Webber said, of course Berwick should have re ceived a green signal from Herbert's lamp before he • allowed the truck to cross the line. Berwick said he did receive the green light signal from Herbert. Herbert stated this was not correct. When he heard the bell rang he showed the red light. Mr. Clarke having stated that it was possible that further evidence could be procured, The case was adjourned till Monday next. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 5. STOCK Exciwzon.--Our share mar k e t cont i nues qu i et, E Eta few buyers are in the market. The sales are— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares. 01— 11s. 3d dis.— Caledonian, Preference, % dis.—Ea s t Lan cashire, 251. Shares, 1014 dis.—Lancashire a n d Y orkshire, Halves (late H. and S.), 16 1 4 C. dis .— Ditt o (l ate West Riding Union), Fifths, 6 dis .— Liverpool, Crosby, and South pert, 21. 18s. 9d. dis .— London and North-Western, 109... Ditto, New Quarters, 1 c. dis.—Ditto (paid up), 2334 —Mid land Stock, 8 2 .4 c.—Ditto, New Halves, 10/. 13 s. 9d. dig.-- York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% die. MANCHESTER, OCT. 5. Srocic ExcHAN9E.—The sales are — Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 91,4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 13-16 c.--West Riding Union, 6 c. dis.— Eastern Counties, Preference, 11-16 p.—Sheffield and Lin coln, 14 dis.—Leeds, Sixteenths, 4% dis.—Huddersfield, Thirds, 7.,.dis.—North Union ( B), 138. BIRMINGHAM, Our. 5. Srocx EXCHANGE.— Th e sales are—London and North- Western, 110— Midland, 83 1 / 4 —North Staffordshire, C% dis. Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7 1 / 4 dis.—Ditto (1), 4% dis. Shropshire Union, 3 1 , 1 i dis. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Ocr. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 123 /—Newcastle and Carlisle (scrip), 103—North British, Thirds, 4/. 17s. GLASGOW, OCT. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ence, 335. 6d.— Clydesdale Junction, 55 —Edinburgh and Northern, 12% —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1,4/. 11s.—Great Northern, 925.—North British, ThirdF, 91s.—Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 20s.—York, New castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6%. REPORTED APPEARANCE CT THE CHOLERA Al' SUNDERLAND.- - Yesterday the following intelligence was made known at Lloyd's, per letter, dated Sunderland, Oct. 4 :—" We are exceedingly concerned to have occa sion to report that one of the crew of the brig Volante, Mr. C. Smith, master, of that port from Harnburgh, died on the Ist inst. during the passage home. The vessel ar rived here yesterday evening, since which the mate bas been taken suddenly ill, and died this morning. 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On the 3d inst., at Russell-square, the wife of E. W. Cox, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at the Rectory, Barnes, Surrey, the wife of the Rev. R. E. Copleston, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at llarleyford-place, Kenningto n , the lady of J. R. Oliver Esq., M.D., of a daughter. On the 3d i ns t. , at the M parish D. church, Torquay, Captain Aldridge, Royal Navy, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late Major-General Pilkington, Royal Engineers, Inspector- General of Fortification 4. On the 3d inst., at Elmswell, Suffolk, James Kemplay, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, to Sarah, fourth daugh ter of the Rev. J. T. Lawton, rector of Elmswell. On the 3d inst., at Kirkby Stephen, the Rev. C. Charlton, M.A., perpetual curate of St. Paul's, Ainwick, M Harriet, third surviving daughter of J. B. Orde, Esq. DIED. 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