The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND. ' (From the Chronicle.) KINGSTOWN, SUNDAY NIGHT. In my letter of this morning I informed you that the arrrival of the royal squadron was hourly expected at Kingstown. Since the receipt of that dispatch you have, I hope, been apprised by electric telegraph that, between six and seven o'clock this evening, the Victoria and Albert, with the quickest boats of the squadron, actually anchored in Kingstown Harbour. During the day, and particularly during the latter part of it, Kingstown became crowded to an extent which I am sure even the " oldest inhabitant" would pronounce to be without a parallel. All Dublin came down to the sea side to wait and gaze. The jetty, with its long-stretching pavilion, was crammed with eager crowds ; and the northern and southern sea-walls were dotted over with dusky groups of spectators. All the yachts in the harbour—and, as I have said, their name was legion—wore their respective club flags over a display of miscellaneous colours, and some half-dozen steamers—the Holyhead craft, with their double funnels and raking masts, each formed out of one symmetrical stick—and the Dublin mail-boats, handsome sea-going craft—were all gay with gaudily fluttering bunting. Twice, I think, during the day there were false alarms of her Majesty's arrival. On the south of Dublin bay rise successive and many ridges of rocky and heath-clad hills. One of these, in particular, commands a fine view along the coast. On the brown crest of Dalkey-hill—so it is called—is perched a ruined tower, a grey crumbling pile of mouldering walls, called Monk's-house. Tradition says, that of old it was a place of look-out, to give the adjacent district notice of the approach of the swift galleys of the Norsemen. Upon the present occasion the ruin was converted into an extempore telegraph station. A flag-staff was erected, and the display of the royal standard therefrom was to be the signal of the approach of the royal squadron. The watchman at Monk's-house was, however, an easily persuaded person, who raised and lowered his flag upon the slightest provocation; and the conse quence was, that two several times, upon the broad banner appearing above the battlements of Monk's house, her Majesty's steamer Dragon directly an swered the signal, got under way, and ran out of the harbour, while the general excitement on the wharfs and jetties of Kingstown was as infectious as it was tumultuous. By three o'clock in the afternoon the crowd upon the pier and along the shore towards Dalkey was im m.nse. The component parts of the throng in ques tion appeared to be principally substantial Dublin citizens, eager, after mass and dinner, to attend to the claims of a new duty and a new pleasure. Of course every train from Dublin poured in fresh visitors to the scene of action, while whole processions of cars brought down loads of people, most liberally coated with the dust, which was flying about in a style which would do honour to a desert swept by the simoom. About half-past three o'clock this afternoon, the look •out at Monk's-house raised his significant stan dard. In a very few minutes afterwards the Dolphin, a small coasting steamer, sallied forth—her decks and paddle-boxes one mass of human beings. She was speedily followed by the Dragon frigate, which steamed steadily along. the coast in the direction of , Wicklow, and very shortly thereafter a detachment of lug-steamers and yachts were making their way in the same direction. The wind was meantime striking the coast from the south-east, just allow ing vessels bound to the west to lay their course along bhe rocky shores. The breeze was not con siderable, but the sea was agitated by a short tumbling swell. About half an hour after the signal flag had been hoisted at Monk's-house it suddenly disappeared, and presently after the steamers which had gone out were seen wheeling round again into the bay—the Dragon kept on the longest. At length, however, she also returned, but, instead of entering the har bour, lay head to wind in the offing. It was evident that the alarm had been a false one, and the crowds who thronged the jetty began to wonder whether her Majesty ever would come at all. At length, however, the true signal was given. The Dragon immediately set on steam again ; the small craft again turned their heads to the southward ; and presently the smoke of the leading ship of the squadron was seen over the bluff outline of Dalkey Island. And here let me pause a moment to describe the famed Bay of 'Dublin as her Majesty would have seen. it on her entrance on a bright and summer's afternoon. Careering along the coast, she could not have failed to notice the picturesque irregularity of the blue Wicklow hills, and the dizzy height of the precipices which here rise from out the sea. Pre sently, stretching across the track of the yacht, the Royal party could perceive in the distance the lumpish, yet bold outline of the bill of Howth, with its white light-house, rising from the fragment of cliff which projects furthest into the blue water. Between the position which we imagine the yacht to hold and the bold coast of Howth lies the Bay of Dublin. I am almost afraid to say that I think the reputa tion of this harbour somewhat overstated. In the distance, the hills of 'Wicklow and Howth rise finely and characteristically from the sea ; the former, in particular, • heave high—a multitudinous crowd of conical hills and wavy ridges of purple heather. Howth is as mountainous, but not so picturesque. Catching then, there, as it were the horns of the bay, the eye ranges along the intermediate coast line. Here comes the dissappointment—it is receding, low, and unsatisfactory. It shrinks, as it were, out of sight. On either hand there are bold rocks and stern sea beaten precipices. The bay stretches timidly back, and the eye which scans its outline is only arrested by the faintly-seen smoke of Dublin, and the white terraces and stretching piers rising from the sea at Kingstown. Entering the bay from the southward, you see before you one or two rocky islets. The largest— that crowned by a martello tower—is Dalkey bland, and two or three smaller patches of sea-beaten rock extend beyond it. The passage between Dalkey Isle and the mainland is called " The Sound," and through it—the strait is scarcely a musket shot in width—the royal squadron deployed. The Victoria and Albert led the way. Gliding along the rocky coast, she skirted the sea face of the succession of cliffs on which Dalkey stands. Nume rous marine villas here look upon the sea. From the roofs and turrets flags flew, and from more than one lawn and pleasure-ground cannon pealed, and groups of spectators, scrambling down to where the surf washed the slippery rocks, cheered most heartily. But her Majesty had at this point of her route an opportunity of witnessing what must have been to her quite a novel species of reception. On a bluff headling, which flings its grey rocks well into the sea, rises a neat castellated building of stone. This is the Nunnery of Lorette. Before it down to the reef stretches a trim green lawn. Upon the lawn the Postulants, the Novices, 9nd the Sisters were ranged in their robes of ceremony, the white and dark dresses forming a picturesque contrast as their wearers stood in order upon the summit of the cliff, while in a sweet chorus of female voices they chanted forth " God save the Queen." In five minutes thereafter the Bay of Dublin opened fully upon the royal squadron. The hill of Ilowth heaved up its blue masses upon the northern horizon ; the land receded back from it in a long, tame line; the white lighthouse marked the ex tremity of the Dublin harbour ; while immediately to leeward, across a sea dotted with the white sails of scores of yachts, there lay extended the massive sea-walls which engirdle the harbour of Kinstown. The Victoria and Albert was, as I have stated, the leading vessel of the royal squadron. The Banshee and the Fairy followed each other closely. As the first-named boat closed in with the pier, the rush of people upon the jetty and the sea-walls was something tremendous. The whole extent of pier was a moving mass of human beings, and as the royal yacht wheeled round into the harbour there arose, even above the din of cannon, even above the heavy roar of 32-pounders and the cracking ring of yacht artillery, a succession of cheers, a re iteration of loud, long, roaring shouts of welcome— acclamations of a more marked and emphatic character than I can easily describe by words. So far the reception was admirable. Imagine a sheet of placid water covered with steamers, shipping, and yachts—imagine its breakwaters and wharfs crammed for miles in circumference with throngs of cheering and rushing people—imagine indeed the whole expanse one mass of waving hats and handkerchiefs — and you have some faint idea of the scene which was presented at the Queen's entrance into the harbour of Kingstown. Of course her Majesty remained ev. on board the royal yacht all night. As thewas erg fell, house after house in Kingstown u ni m e i n n_a o t f ed—twinkling lights gleamed brightly from the floated steamers down u tie d t their in the harbour—scores of boats resting forms—and above all shone effulgence of a full moon, the soft quiet rays only now and then broken by the lurid and baleful glare of - D. blue light burned on board one of the squadron, and illuminating harbour and shipping with its ghastly and flickering radiance. For hours the crowd continued to patrol the anchored b e f ore quays and gaze at thesquadron them; but at length they gradually retired, and by midnight the wharfs were lonely and deserted, and the royal vessels lay undisturbed and tranquil in the moonlight. THE LADING AT KINGSTOWN. KINGSTOWN, MONDAY MORNING. Shortly after ten o'clock this morning her Majesty left the royal yacht, and, amid the acclamations of the swarming crowds which lined the pier, and the thunder of heavy guns, set foot for the first time in the seaport of the capital of her Irish dominions. The royal squadron passed the night before last in the Waterford River. No popular demon=tration whatever took place. Prince Albert only landed with the children for a stroll. THE QUEEN'S ENTRANCE INTO DUBLIN. DUBLIN, MONDAY, QUARTEU TO TWELVE. The royal procession reached Baggot- street Bridge at 25 minutes past ten. Here the city keys were presented by the Lord Mayor. The crowds were immense all along the line, and the cheering was most enthusiastic, kept up from house to house and street to street. I never witnessed anything like the overflowing enthusiasm of all classes. The Queen and Prince Albert, who were followed in another carriage by the royal children, were evi dently deeply moved by this extraordinary mani festation of popular acclamation, in which all classes —from the highest to the humblest—participated. At a quarter past eleven o'clock the procession passed through Nassau street into College-green, between the University and the Bank of Ireland. Here the burst of cheering was almost deafening from the many thousands in the streets, at the windows, on the house-tops and the platforms. At half past eleven the procession had reached Nelson's Pillar, and that magnificent thoroughfare Ssckville-street, and passed on towards Rutland square, Great Denmark street, Temple-street, Eccles street, and on to the . Vice-regal Lodge. The Queen, her illustrious Consort, and their children, were evi dently greatly delighted with th e cordiality and rap ture of their reception. The procession, which extended to fully a- mile, was closed by some thousands of gentlemen on horse back. At twelve o'clock the procession reached the Vice regal Lodge, having gone at a rather quick pace along the North Circular•road. The Lord Lieute nant, who attended the procession, conducted her Majesty into the Lodge. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUGUST 1. This afternoon, at about a quarter past three o'clock, her Majesty the Queen and his Royal High ness the Prince Albert embarked on board the Vic toria and Albert, royal steam-yacht. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Caroline Dawson, the Earl Fortescue (Lord Steward), Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon and the Hon. C. B. Phipps (equerries in waiting), and Sir James Clark. Miss Hildyard and Mr. Birch were in attendance upon the junior branches of the Royal Family. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, having arrived from Southampton in the Elfin, at the moment of her Majesty's embarkation, joined the Royal party on board the Victoria and Albert. At half-past three the squadron got under weigh, consisting of the following vessels :—The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence ; her Majesty's steam yacht Black Eagle, Master- Commander Cook ; her Majesty's war steamer Sphinx, Commander Hewlett; her Majesty's war steamer Stromboli, Captain Lord A. Beauclerk ; her Ma jesty's steam-packet Vivid, Mester-Cornrnander Smithett. The squadron was saluted by the battery at Cowes and the yachts lying in the roads. THE SUN, LONDON, COVE, AUCIIST 2. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert entered the harbour of Cove at a little before ten o'clock this evening. In a short time Rear-Admiral Sir M. Dixon proceeded on board to pay his respects to her Majesty. He was received by the Earl Fortescue and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. AUGUST 3. This morning the ships in this harbour fired a royal salute at eight o'clock. Shortly after the Earl of Bandon, lieutenant of . the county of Cork, pro ceeded on board the Victoria and Albert, and paid his respects to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The Marquis of Thomond, Rear- Admiral Sir M. Dixon, and Major-General Turner, commanding the district, had also the honour of being received by her Majesty on deck. The following officers were subsequently presented to the Queen :—The naval officers commanding the vessels in the harbour, and the staff of the major general commanding the district. His Royal Highness the Prince landed in the morning, and walked for some time, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. At two o'clock her Majesty and his Royal High ness and suite embarked on board the Fairy, and, after making a circuit of the harbour, proceeded to the town of Cove, where a temporary building, of very handsome proportions, had been erected, in the hope that her Majesty might be pleased here to land first upon Irish ground. - Her Majesty, upon the arrival of the Fairy off the temporary wharf, received addresses from the inhabi tants of Cove and the members of the Itoyal Yacht Club. The Queen and the Prince then stepped on shore, amidst the roar of artillery and the most deafening acclamations of the thousands who covered every inch of ground within sight of the landing-place. Her Majesty having entered the temporary apart ment, which was splendidly decorated, stood in front of a throne, when a humble request having been made to her Majesty that the town might hereafter be called Queenstown, in commemoration of the royal visit, her Majesty was pleased to give her consent, and a flag bearing the name by which the town was in future to be called was immediately hoisted upon the building, amid the shouts of the inhabitants. Th 3 Queen immediately re-embarked on board the Fairy, and proceeded up the river towards Cork, escorted by the royal steamer Vivid, commanded by Lieatenant Smithett, and the Banshee, by Master- Commander Smithett. At Passage the royal yacht wss stopped, some fishermen having prayed to be allowed to present a salmon, with an address, as a testimony of their loyalty. The offering of these poor men was graciously received by her Majesty. Upon her Majesty's arrival at Cork addresses were presented on the deck of the yacht by the Mayor and corporation of Cork, the Bishop and clergy of the diocese, the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese, and the merchants, bankers, and traders.. . Her Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon the Mayor of Cork. The Queen and Prince then entered one of Lord Bandon's carriages, and proceeded, attended by their suite, through the principal streets of the town, amidst the enthusiastic shouts of her Irish subjects. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness returned on board of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at about a quarter before seven o'clock. In the evening the Marquis of Thomond, the Earl of Bandon, Rear-Admiral Si r M. Di xon, and Major- General Turner (commanding the district) had the honour of joining the royal dinner party on board the yacht. The junior branches of the Royal Family re mained on board the Victoria and Albert during the day. WATERFORD, AUGUST 4. - - - The Royal Squadron got under weigh at ten o'clock this morning, and anchored off Passage at about a quarter past four o'clock. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—SIX LIVES Lost--On the afternoon of Thursday, the 19th July, a boat be longing to the Rev. Mr. Finlayson, clergyman of the Free Church at Lochs, Island of Lewis, went out on a fishing excursion. There were on board of the boat Donald and Robert Finlayson, sons of the reverend gentleman, Donald Macauley, son of Captain Macaulay, Stornoway, and three other young men belonging to Luerbost, Lochs. On Thursday evening, the boat not arriving, some alarm was naturally excited, and on Friday morning a strict search was made, when, melancholy to relate, the boat was found bottom up, on an island called Tays, near the Bisken Isle., with the sheet of the lug sail made fast. This had been cut by some one on board, seemingly at the last moment, near to the caring of the sail, but too late to save the young men. On Saturday, four of the bodies were found—three of them near to the place where it is supposed the boat was upset—viz., Mr. Finlayson's son (the youngest of the two on board), and two of the other young men. The body of Mr. Finlayson's eldest son was found at the rock where the boat had struck, and it appeared when the boat had upset he had got on hor bottom, as his boots were off, and he had evidently made a struggle for his life, his hands being scratched and bruised seemingly in his attempt '„ 0 get up the steep rocks of the island. This is one o; th e most lamentable accid e nt s th at h as occurred in this island for many years.—lnvernes s Courier. DEATH OF DR. REID, OF ST. AN regret to record the death of Dr. Joh7, Reid, Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the tilted College of St. "A n d w h D a r d . o ß n e g i d ' beens death 2 p, to e l e place on Tuesda night. atfcted with a se vere and painful Leh he bore himself u p w i t h tude. Dr. Reid was a n a ti ve o f the moat s t Christian disease, ag a f i o n r s t t ;: wl , : Bathgate. In 1841 'tie was appointed by the University to the Chair of ;anatomy and Medicine in the United College, in is favoarab!, y - ...eh he also filled the office of clerk. He known to the profession by his "Physio logical.. Anatomical, and Pathological Researches," a w(De s a. of great ability, and displaying extensive medical learning. Dr. Reid's skill in his profession, his emi nence as a lecturer and teacher, and the care which he bestowed in the examination of students for medical de aneiene.—coFnsiereecisuheirneeJeoufrntahle. gd;eaersace(teerr universally acknowledged, while his amiable in private life endeared him to all his acquaint the cholera in the of 1 severity of the visitation of occupiedco unt y, hneG makinge 0-1. a o n f d in several parts of the Provision of medical ser- Health was yesterday Irly severe at Neath. vice. The cholera has been parPt The mayor, a medical practitioneru fapolel;ann_atovibcetimvc,itlo, body ssi of 40 it. Throughout Wales the visitationasa severe. It was reported yesterday thacit'ommi men employed by the Metropolitan Sewers in cleansing in Bermondsey, twenty had been attacked with cholera and two bad died. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Vienna papers and letters of the Ist inst. confirm the statements of the advance of llungarian troops into Moldavia. The Hungarian corps which thus endeavours to transplant the war into the Danubian provinces is of the strength of 5,000 foot and 1,000 horse. It appears that after the total defeat of the Ban Jellachich it was thought some of the forces in Transylvania might be spared for the purpose of ex pelling the Russians from the Danubian principalities. The 6,000 Hungarians that entered Moldavia at tacked the Russian General Ustragoff, and forced him to retire to a fortified position, whence he dispatched messengers calling in the help of the Russian troops at Jassy. Couriers were likewise sent to the Russian General Grotenhelm, and to the troops stationed in Bessarabia. The troops from Jassy have consequently marched to oppose the progress of the Hungarians, and that city is now entirely free from Russian soldiers and occupied by Moldavian militia. Official reports from General] Grotenhelm have reached Vienna. That officer is stated to have ad vanced from Bistritz with the whole of his corps. On the 22d he was attacked by the Hungarians, who had taken up positions on the heights of Szasz Regen. The battle lasted one hour, and ended by the retreat of the Hungarians to Marosh Vasarhelz. As usual, nothing is said of the losses of the Russians, but the General states that he has been informed of a Honved battalion, which was concealed in a wood near Deda, having been very troublesome to his troops. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. The intelligence is confirmed that Schleswig- Holstein has agreed to the condition of the armistice which involves the subjection and submission of the Duchies. The Provisional Government of the Du chies has signified its resolution to act in concert with Prussia, in all respects, in carrying out and main taielog tho:e conditions in the Duchies. M. Bele mann, the deputy from the Government to the Prus sian Minister, Count Brandenberg, stated that the great majority of the National Assembly coincided in the opinion of the Provisional Government, that co-operation with Prussia alone would lead to the saving of the Duchies. The Cologne Gazette, in giving the above particu lars, comments on the silent resignation which has surrendered the first violent conviction of righteous indignation at the terms of the armistice, and says that every other resolve in the present state of affairs would infallibly have been a ini,fortune to Germany, and highly detrimental to the Duchies. At present, however, says the Cologne Gazette, it is only an armistice, and not peace, which has been concluded, which scandalously involves the honour of Germany and the freedom of the Duchies. In every land the national representatives are now assembling, it is their duty to save the Duchies. If they succeed in arousing the Government, and especially Prussie, from their weak ministerial footing ; if, above all, a federal state be completed, Schleswig-holstein will not be lost to Germany. " With regard to the articles of the armistice which have given rise to so much popular discontent and in dignation, their very existence," says a Berlin corre spondent of the Borsenhalle, "is void of all foundation, as far, at all events, as regards the Government of the Duchies, the future position of the Schleswig-Hol stein army, and, finally, the indemnity for the Chris tian VIII. ship of the line. The acceptance of the armistice by the Duchies will, doubtless, call forth severe censure in many quarters, but after the first storm has subsided, and men's minds have calmed down, it wll be generally acknowledged that the ter mination, and probable final adjustment, of the lengthened warfare between Denmark and her de pendencies, involving as it did a national German war, is the wisest and most - politic course they could have adopted. STUTTGARD, JULY 27.—1 n the sitting of the Chambers this day a report was made relative to the new loan of three millions. It has been undertaken by the National Bank, the house of Rothschild, in Frankfort, and Benedict in Stuttgard, at the rate of 90 per cent. The payments are to be made by in stalments till October 31st. The interest will be 4} per cent. The Chambers listened patiently to these not very brilliant conditions, and then proceeded to the order of the day.—llamburgh Papers. ITALY. The following letter, dated Rome, 26th ult., appears in the Legge:— " Colonel Chapuis.has not only resigned his situation as Prefect of Police, but it would appear that, after a warm discus ion with General Oudinot, he demanded leave of ab;ence' to return to France. Yesterday, Count Mamiani was summoned to the police-office, where he was brutally informed that he should quit Rome within twenty-four hours. He remonstrated against such an, arbitrary abuse of power, but the only satis faction ke L .cibt i ained was, that he was told he was too inflnentialqt man' to remain in Rome, and that if he did not quit within the period specified he should be expelled by force. All the respectable inhabitants are horrer struck ekthis proceeding, for all parties are agreed that Count Mamiani• is - as remarkable for his political courage as for his literary merit. We expected much from France, but we find that our hopes were ill-founded." PARIS TO ROUEN RAILWAY. - - - The half-yearly general meeting of the share holders of this company took place on Tuesday, at the company's offices, Rue d'Amsterdam, M. l'Espee, the President, in the chair. Near him were seated the following directors :--Count de Kerzaint, Viscount de Villeneuve M. C. Lafitte, M. E. Blount, M. Simons, and M. P. Be noist-d'Azy. After the meeting had been duly constituted, M. Cheppe in the name of the committee of accounts (comprised of M. La cave Laplange, M. Bans, and himself ), read a report declaring that the accounts had been most carefully examined, and that they were perfectly satisfactory. M. Thibaudeau, the secretary, then read the report : It commences by declaring that during the last half year no new expense has been added to the establish ment account, as the sums expended, and which only amounted to 91,201 f. 55c., were comprised in the pro visions for which the last general meeting placed at the disposal of the board 3,000,000 f. of resources. It de clares that the establishment account must now be con sidered as closed. Atter showing that the nature of the arrangements made with the contractors of the haulage amply provides for the tear and wear of moveable stock, the report proceeds in the following terms to render an account of the employment of the 3,000,000 e. of new resources placed at its disposal by the last general meet ing :—" Out of that sum, 1,800,000 f., in conformity with the vote of the meeting, were to be paid off against a like amount of dividend-coupons, at the rate of 8001. each obligation, and for that purpose 2,250 obligations were to be created, out of that number 1,977 were ex changed against 126,550 dividend- coupons. A sum of 1,200,000 f. was besides to be realised by the emission and sale of obligations. We created for that purpose 1,500 obligations, the sale of which produced a sum of 1,200,000 f. We were of opinion that when the quota tion of 800 f., at which the exchange was effected with the dividend, could be obtained, we ought to realise this resource, not being able, in the precarious state of public and private credit, to expose ourselves to a fall in the quotations, which the slightest political event could pro duce, and which would in that case have imposed on you the creation of a greater number of obligations, in order to make up the indispensable sum of 1,200,000 f." The board had not yet received any &Unitive answer from the Government relative to the demand made by the company for an indemnity for the damage done to the line in the revolution of February. The report goes on to show what the position of the company is at pre sent with respect to the State:— " On the 30th of June last we owed the Treasury -720,000f. Oc. for interest due at 3 per cent. 466,666 66 the first annuity of the repayment of the loan of 14,000,000 f. 1,186,666 66 to which must be added 466,666 66 the second annuity due on the 15th -- of July last. 1,653,333 f. 32c. in all. The sum due to the 30th of June last is inferior to the indemnity which we demand for the devastations of Feb ruary. As to the annuities of reimbursement, which for last year and the present one amount to 466,666 f. 66e. a year for tho loan of 14,000,000 f., there must be added to them next year 133,333 f. 33c. for the first an nuity of reimbursement of the loan of 4,000,0001., which commences at that period, and then the annuity will be 600,000 f., until the whole of the two loans from the State, of 18,000,000 f., shall have been paid of. We have to remind you, gentlemen, that these loans were made to you by the State, in order to complete your capital, and to provide for the half of the expense of the passage througe Rouen to the Havre line. But these re -s:Airces were not sufficient for the exigencies of the pub lic service, with which you are charged, and for your share in the expense of the passage through Rouen. Also, since your line has been opened, the expense of your account of construction and establishment has in creased by a sum of 13,156,808 f. 2c. for which you have borrowed 14,000,000 f. Th ere results from these diffe rent loans an annual charge of ... 726 5 000 f. which, Joined to the interest on the loans from the State, or ~. ... 540,000 gives a total of ••• ... 1,266,000 f. which must be deducted from the produce of the work ing, before any dividend can be distributed. In the pre vision of the time when the annuities to repay the loans to the State were to become due, the general meeting had authorised us to provide for the payment of these annuities by the successive emission of engage ments to order, which should be at a later period conso lidated in loan bonds. The state of private credit does not permit us, at the present period, to contract engage.. ments to order; and it is equally impossible for us to issue new obligations. In this situation, produced by political events, it would be necessary, in order to pay the annuities of the State loans, to deduct at present from your revenue a sum of 466,6661. 66c., which, next year, would amount to 600,000 F., to be added to the charge of 1,266,000 f. already weighing on your revenue fur inte rests of the State loans, and for those wldch you have contract , d with the public. You have he: ide3 to pay to the St. Germain Company, for the use of r ke lies and of the Paris ter:ninth:, a sum of about 600,00.)f. per annum. This would, therefore, in definitive give a total amount of charges imposed upon your working of 2,466,0001., and which should be paid before a fart'aing, of interest was distributed to you. In admitting that the proceeds of your working, deduction made of the expenditure, should suffice for the payment of these charges, and still leave an interest of 5 per cent. disposable for the shares, which in the present state of your traffic would not be possible, if it was necessary to deduct the stuns required to pay the annuities of the State loans, the hope of a dividend above 5 per cent. would be altogether out of the question for a length of time, since, according to your statutes, 1 per cent, must be taken away and placed in reserve, to supply the sinking fund of the capital." The report then goes on to say that, as none of those charges can be taken off, the board ought to endeavour to effect a change in the present arrange ments, and inquires whether the circumstances just narrated do not authorise the company to apply to the State to allow the reimbursement of its loans to be effected either by means of a small annuity during the first year, increasing successively by accumulated interest, or by means of equal annuities; but, in either case, dis tributed over the whole duration of the concession? The report argues that, from the facilities afforded to the Northern Company for the payment of its debts to the State, there is every reason to suppose that less indul gence would not be shown to the Renen Company. The report then gives a detailed account of the items of re ceipts from the let of January to the 30;h of June, 1849, which amount to the total sum of 3,595,354 f. 93e. The total amount of the charges of the working for the same pe riod is 2,544,944 f: 85 , e, leaving a net profit of 1,050,360 c. Be., which will give a dividend of 12f. 50c. per share. A comparative table of the receipts and expenditure during the two first half-years of 1848 and 1849 is then given, showing a net increase in favour of 1849 of 748,470 f. 13c. After recapitulating the various items in which this increase has taken place, it proceeds to say that " in the months of March and April there was a revival of business, which in May and June was again suspended, in consequence of the elections and the cholera. This latter cause acted in a most disastrous manner on the receipts from passengers, and it was precisely at a period when the fine weather would have caused a very material increase; it is from these causes t h a t th e re ceipts for May and June .have been less than those for March and April, whilst on the other hand the expenses were increased by the establishment of the summer service. The helf year of which we now present you the account shows a material improvement in your re venue, since at the same period last year your divi dend was only Bf. 80c., paid in acknowledge ments, without sinking fund, whereas it is now 12f. 80c., paid in cash, and besides which we carry 150 3601 r. Be. to the sinking fund." The report then alluded to the meeting held in the beginning of June last, of the Shareholders residing in Eagland, and of the confidence expressed by the company in the success of the undertaking. M. Benoist, having become represen tative of the people, hal been obli g ed, by the provisions of the electoral law, to resign his post as director of the company, and his son, M. Paul Benoist, had been provi sionally appeinnal in his place. After the report had been read, the accounts were ap proved of and adopted. The dividend of 12 f. 50J. per share, payable at the office of the company on and after Aug 2, was then declared to be agreed to. MM. Kersamt and Win. Chaplin, the outgoing directors, were unanimously re-elected, and the pro visional appointment of M. P. Benoist, as director, was confirmed. The modification of the articles re lating to the sinking-fund could not take place, as 35,000 shares were not present. The two reports mentioned above having been adopted, the meeting separated. LAUNCIL—A beautiful little steam-vessel called the Maid of Lorn; and intended for the Glasgow, Fort William, and Inverness trade, was launched into the Clyde yesterday (Thursday), about mid day, in the presence of numerous spectators. The Maid of Lorn is the workmanship of Messrs. Wingate and Co., ship builders and engineers, on whom she reflects great credit. She was laid on the stocks about three months ego, and it is expected that she will be ready for sea on the 18th inst. After the launch a numerous party withdrew to the counting-house of the firm, where they were treated to champagne, brandy, and refreshments, Mr. John Williamson acting as chairmon. The company amused themselves with dances and Gaelic and English songs, and appropriately closed the proceedings by joining to gether in the national melody of " Rule Britannia."— Glasgow Daily Mail. CHLOROFORM A HELP TO TBEFT.—On Sunday, July 29, while Mr. Swinnock and family, of Ashford, Kent, were at church, some villains entered his house, and violently pressed a handkerchief upon the mouth of an invalid lady, Miss Gotts, which being strongly im pregnated with chloroform, soon rendered her insensible. Being alone in the house, they then took from her per son a watch, some valuable rings, and her purse. The fright and ruffianly treatment on a constitution already impaired by illness, have placed her life in imminent danger. . - FIRE AT HOLLOWAY.—Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire, attended with a serious destruction of property, - broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. Biggs, a carpenter and furniture warehouseman, carrying on an extensive business at 29, Cornwall place, Holloway, near the gate. The flames began in one of the workshops, and in spite of the most strenuous exer tions, the fire continued to travel with more than usual rapidity, until the building, from the base to the roof, presented an immense sheet of flame. The occupiers of the contiguous premises, on-seeing the danger to which their own property was exposed, commenced tearing out the whitlows of their dwellings, and Lbrowing their furniture into the street. At length a powerful muster of engines belonging to the London Brigade, West of England, and parish arrived, under the di rection of Mr. Colf and Mr. Connorton. An abundant supply of water having been obtained, the engines were immediately called into requisition, and vast bodies of water were thrown into the burning mass, in spite of which the work of destruction continued, and the flames were not conquered-until Mr. Biggi's premises were to tally destroyed, and with the exception of the little pro perty removed by ,the neighbours, the whole of his costly stock in trade was burnt. No. 29, Cornwall-place, belong ing to Mr. Stamford, is likewise severely damaged by fire, water, and removal, and so is No. 27 in the same thoroughfare, in the tenure of Mr. Willis. No. 26, in the occupancy of Mr. Carpenter, is damaged by the re moval of furniture, Sic.i and the back premises of Mr. Lake, grocer, No. 41, Holloway-road, are extensively injured. The whole of the premises were insured in the General Fire-office, but none of the inmates except Mr. Biggs were insured. ST. PETER'S PARISH (DUBLIN) SAVINGS' BANE. —Mr. David Martin, of the London Provident Institu tion, has been appointed, on the recommendation of Mr. Higham, the Secretary of the National Debt Office. to investigate the accounts of the St. Peter's Parish Savings' Bank, Dublin; and it is believed that the Government intend to issue a Commission in Dublin during the re cess for examining the claims of the fifteen hur.dred un paid depositors iu that unfortunate institution. Mr. Martin (who received his appointment by virtue of his being an old Government clerk) is assisted by two clerks from the Moorfields and one from the St. Martin's Savings' Banks, and the extent of their labours may be gathered from the fact that upwards of two tons' weight of closely written ledgers and other finance records have been already laid before them.—The Reporter and Sav ings' Bank Advocate for August. WESTERN VALLEY RAlLWAY.—Wednesday, the Ist instant, being the day appointed for the opening of this line, a .commencetpent, of traffic operations took place, but unaccompanied by any public demonstration. Although , a wonderful progress had been made in a short time—indeed, we might say, almost beyond credi bility to those who observed a few weeks ago the vast extent of arrangements that were then to be completed —things had not been sufficiently matured for a formal opening, which we understand will take place about the 10th of this month.—Monmouthshire MATCH AGAINST TIAIE.—OH Friday Captain Smith, of Holderness house, Stratford, rode his horse on the Essex road 11 miles in 49 minutes 46 seconds—time allowed 50 minutes—for a wager of 200 guineas. The animal stands 16 hands high, and appeared the least fa tigued of the two. FREAKS OF AN INFURIATED BULLOCK.—Yester day afternoon, about five o'clock, much consternation was caused in the eastern parts of the City, in conse quence of the escape of a bullock in a most infuriated state, which, from some cause at present unexplained, broke loose from the slaughter-house of Mr. Copeland, butcher, in Aldgate High•sreet. Rushing out of the building, the half-mad animal dashed amongst the pe destrians on the pavement and the vehicles in the road, causing, in the minds of all who witnessed his strange freaks, the most lively apprehensions for their personal safety. Efforts were made to appease the infuriated beast, but on he dashed, along Fenchurch-street, through Lombard-street and Birchin-lane, knocking down one or two persons who had not time to get out of the way. At the junction of Princes-street and the corner of Threadneedle -street a gentleman had a most hair-breadth escape of being gored. The angry animal butted with great force at him as he was standing at the corner of the street, but the horns of the animal coming in contact with the lamp -post, lie escaped the impending danger. This blow appeared to have stunned the bullock, as he remained almost s t a ti onar y for several minutes, bel lowing and snorti ng w i t h grea t fury. Suddenly he aga i n rushed forward, a f ter h av i ng apparently meditated h ow to escape from the crowded thoroughfare. In darting off again, in :the direction of Bartholomew-lane, he knocked down an old man who was carrying a bag of cement, and who had a most fortunate escape. The bullock fell with great fury upon the cement bag, which he began to toss most unmercifully, until it was nearly emptied of its contents, but this had the effect of almost blinding the animal, and this (if possible) increased its ferocity. Happily, in the midst of the cloud of dust which arose in consequence, the poor man was enabled to crawl to the pavement, and from thence to a place of safety. The animal then ran along Bartholomew-lane to Old Broad .street, knocking down several other persons who were in the way, most of whom received contusions more or less severe. He then turned into Bishopsgate-church yard, where, after considerable difficulty and danger to three men in the employ of Mr Miller, slaughterman (who had been sent for to destroy the infuriated beast), they eventually succeeded in driving the animal into the dung pits connected with the stabling adjoining the Bone-house public-house, near Bishopsgate-church, where he was finally slaughtered, APOTHECARIES' HALL—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received cer tificates to practise, on Thursday last:—Thomas William Shea England, John Syer Bristowe, Charles Morgaa, Edmund Manley, Manchester; Walter Battershell Gil!, London ; Samuel Curtis Candler, Beccles, Suffolk; •Frederick Wm. Napoleon Wilson, Newcastle -up( n- Tyne; George Gallia:km, Martharn, Norftdk; cud James Fuller. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties,—,Eliza Cooks Journal, LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Aug. 6. (Before Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE.) BRIGGS V. PENNY. Tho bill in this case was filed by the executors of the late Earl of Oxford. The testatrix, the Hon. Frances Harley, the only sister of the late Earl, bequeathed, by her will, a variety of charitable legacies, and gave to the detendant, Miss Sarah Penny, of Great James• street, Bedford row, 3,0001., and a like sum of 3,0001. in addition, " for the trouble she will have in acting as my executrix." After some fur• ther charitable, general, and specific legacies, she gave the residue of her personal estate to Miss Penny, her executors, administrators and assigns, " well knowing that she will make a good use and dispose of it in a manner in accordance with my views and wishes." Four papers have been found in her desk in which she named various persons and designated many charities as the objects of her bounty. These papers were ❑ot dated or admitted to proof, and some of them must have been written after the Wills Act, because certain of the persons named wen not born when that Act passed. The late Earl was Miss Harley's sole next of kin, and it was contended by his executors that the words only created a precatory trust, wholly ineffectual for want of compliance with the Wills Act, that some of the legacies were void under the Mortmain Act, and that Miss Penny took no benefit under the residue. lii3 HONOUR held that the gift to Miss Penny of the residue was intended to ba for her benefit. Ile should, therefore, declare that the testatrix bequeathed the resi due of her person d estate to the defendant, as a trustee, for some purpose or purposes which the will and codicil did not disclose. Ile referred it to the Master, to inquire and state whether the views and wishes concerning the disposition of the residue which were mentioned in the will wera ever, and when declared by her, in any instru ment, paper, or writing; and if the Master should so find, he is to state what the same is, was, or were, and the particulars and circumstances thereof; but if the Master should not so find them, then there must be the common administration decree, with liberty to state circumstances specially. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 6. (3efore Mr. Commissioner HARRIS.).. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK v. THE " SATIRIST"-IN RE MATTHEW F. PEARSON. The insolvent, who was opposed on the part of the Duke of Brunswick, and whose case was reported in our papPr of Saturday, appeared to receive the judgment of the Court. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he had deferred giving judgment in consequence of the excitement in the court when the case was heard. lie certainly consi dered the amount awarded enormous, but he bad nothing to do with that. The sum of 1,5001. was certainly a large amount. The point raised before him was the de gree of malice in the case, but in his opinion there was no issue in the case as to malice. The only question was, had the insolvent published the libel? and the jury held that he had. Whether the amount could have been reduced on the ground that they were excessive, he did not know. He should not g o beyond one half of the period allowed by the Act. His honour remanded the insolvent from the 12th June, the day of the vesting order, for twelve calendar months, at the suit of the Duke of Brunswick for the damages awarded in the action for libel (Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.) IN RE JOHN JULIAN JACKSON. The insolvent (opposed by Mr. Sargood) was heard ou a former day, and now remanded for nine months for making away with property. IN RE RICHARD KILLICK, SEN. This insolvent, heard before, was adjudged to eight months' imprisonment from the vesting order. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIOIV-HOUSE. Mr. Da Jersey, the solicitor to Mr. Inman, who a few da3s ago complained that a watch which he had pur c►hased at Messrs. Debenham and Storr's sale, in King street, Covent-garden, for 101. had been detained by In spector Mitchell upon the ground that it had been stolen, appeared before Alderman Gibbs for the purpose of stating that the pawnbroker, in whose house the watch was purchased, bad offered to pay back the amount. Mr. Cubitt, of Bedford-square, from whose daughter there was good reason to believe the watch had been stolen, attended with his solicitor upon the occasion. Mr. De Jersey said th it Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker, of Pimlico, whose shopman had purchased, for 71., the watch which five years ago cost 351., or guineas, of a lady whom he had never seen before, had sent a cheque r the amount which Mr. Inman had paid for it to Messrs. Debenham and Storr, and the costs, but that it was considered necessary to represent the circumstance to the Alderman before the proposition was acceded to. InspeCtor Mitchell then handed over the watch to Al derman Gibbs, who offered no objection to the arrange ment, and gave the watch to Mr. Cubitt, and said, that with respect to the chain and seal which had been ap pended to it, and for which that gentleman had paid 81. 175., that gentleman might deal as to the loss of these articles in the manner he considered to be most advisa ble. He was very glad that Mr. Cubitt had recovered part of his daughter's property. Mr. (labia said it was his intention not to let the matter drop, and he should in all probability apply to the Alderman again upon the subject. Alderman G HMS stated that he should render Mr. Cubitt every facility in the attempt to recover the chain and seal. The Alderman handed the cheque to Mr. De Jersey for Mr. Inman, and the parties left the justice-room. John Burhett, a cabman, was summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. Day, of Three Crown-terrace, Southwark. Mr. Day, who appeared to be in a very delicate state of health, arrived at London-bridge from Graves end on the 23d of July, and called the first cab on the rank in Thames-street, got into it, and desired the cab man to drive him home. The. cabman refused to obey the direction, and perceiving the weakly condition of the gentleman, who insisted upon being conveyed to the address, detained him on the stand for halt an hour, and took every opportunity of annoying him. At length the cabman drove him to his residence, after having said "I'd take you there, though lam not the driver." The complainant being determined to follow up the case, in sisted upon seeing the defendant's' badge, which was at length, though most . reluctantly, shown to him. Amongst the annoyances to which Mr. Day was subjected, was that of being told to go into another cab, and called a foolish old man for refusing to comply with so insolent a request. The owner of the cab had attended when the summons was applied for, and stated that the defendant was in his service, and had been sentenced to seven days' imprisonment a short time since at another police court for having caused an obstruction. Alderman GIBBS considered the case a very gross one, and said that Alderman Wilson had a few days ago adjudicated in a case which bore some resemblance to it, in a manner calculated to lead to the public accommoda tion, by sentencing the person charged to imprisonment, instead of inflicting a fine, the payment of which would, in fact, be no punishment at all. It would be a sort of caution to cabmen to show them all that a magistrate had an alternative in his power likely to lead to the cor rection of the evil complained of, and he should there fore adjudge the defendant to one month's gentle correc tion on the treadmill.—Committed. Emma Hamiltun was charged with having picked the pocket of Mr. Fick, a German professor. The complainant said be had lost some silk pocket handkerchiefs in' the neighbourhood of Lombard -street, in consequence of the ingenuity of the London thieves, •and he hid determined to lose no more. In order to secure himself from further plunder of the kind, he bad fastened a strong piece of black silk thread to the corner of a handkerchief which he put into his pocket, and he held the thread in his hand, in order to check the next thief who should make a tug at his property. Down Lombard-street he went, prepared to do justice to him self and society, but unfortunately he did not catch a proper hold of the thread, and out popped his handker chief once more without his knowledge, and off went the thief with complete impunity. Determined to catch somebody, he armed himself with another handkerchief, and into the same locality he walked once more. In his last attempt he succeeded. As he passed along Lom bard-street, with the hand to which the silk handker chief was attached in his trowsers pocket, he suddenly felt a violent bite, and starting round he pounced upon the prisoner, who was endeavouring to put the fatal handkerchief into her bosom, and was soon placed in the custody of a policeman. The prisoner—Lord bless you, I know nothing at all about it—l was drunk, that's the fact. When a woman's in liquor she don't know what the she's about. Alderman GIBBS—You shall go to hard labour for three months. The prisoner—There now, you see. There's what a body gets for being drunk. If I must go, I can tell you that the a turn of work I'll do :all the time I'm there.—Committed. CLERKENWELL. lflaJanzes Sizer, a powerful looking young fellow, who represented himself as an ostler, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged by Mrs. Emma Latham, a respectable married woman, residing at No. 14, North thampton-place, Northampton square, Clerkenwell, with having committed the following daring outrage and as sault upon her. The prosecutrix, a handsome-looking young woman, appeared in the witness-box in a very weakly condition; her eyes were blackened and swollen, and her head was shockingly bruised, mutilated, and bound up. She said that on Sunday night she accompanied her husband and her brother to a friend's house, and was returning hornet at about two o'clock in the morning through Skinner street, Sumers-town, when the prisoner, who was drunk, pushed rudely and intentionally against them, and drove them off the pavement. They remonstrated with him, when he swore and made use of the most filthy and ob scene language; he then knocked down her brother, and afterwards he made an attack upon her, struck her, and knocked her down, and acted with the most unmanly and cowardly violence towards her, until she became insensible, and lay bleeding on the ground. She was conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn , road, where her wounds were dressed, and she was taken home. She here produced her blue silk drawn bonnet, &c., which were saturated with blood. Mr. George Bethel, her brother, confirmed her testi mony, and proved an assault of a violent nature upon him. Police-constable No. 205 G heard the screams of a female, and the cry of " murder," 't police," and on pro ceeding to the spot he found the prosecutrix bleeding, on the ground, and the prisoner was given into custody. They conveyed the prosecutrix to the hospital. He pro duced a tirOon's certignlte, Which stat d that Emma Latham had r,c( , ivpd several serieub injuries on ILer head, and a scalp wound. Mr. COMBE asked the prhoner what ho had to say to such cowardly conduct?—lie said he was returning home, quite sober, and could not say whether he struck Mrs. Latham or not. Mr. COMBE—So you were quite sober, and you don't know what took place. It is an admission of the assaults. Pray what are you? how do you get your living?— Prisoner—l am an ostler, employed at the Bull Inn, Leadenhall street, City. Mr. CONDE said he had never heard of a more un manly and cowardly outrage, and he convicted him in the extreme penalty of 51., or in default of payment to two months' imprisonment.—He was then locked up. Michael Lyon Patrick Burhe and Patrick Skelly, stout young Irishmen, were placed at the bar, charged by Mr. James , Pickard, watch-dial maker, of No. 4, Lower Cha-les-street, Northampton-square, Clerkenwell, with having assaulted him with intent to rob him. The prosecutor deposed that yesterday morning at two o'clock he was returning to his residence, through King's-square, Goswell-street-road, in company of two gentlemen, friends,, named Rowe and Clarke, when the prisoners followed and came behind them. Witness and Mr. Clarke were knocked down by the prisoners. Witness got up, when the prisoner Lyons struck at him. Witness warded off his blows with his stick, and he slipped down. The prisoner then seized his guard-chain and attempted to steal his gold watch. The watch was pulled from his fob, but he kept tight hold of it, and the prisoner finding that he could not get it, kicked witness twice on his head, by which he was severely injured, and became insensible and covered with blood. He hero exhibited the wounds on his head, which were covered with adhesive plaster. The police were attracted to the spotaand the prisoners were given into custody. In answer to a question, wit ness said that himself and friends were perfectly sober. Mr. William Clarke, watchmaker, of No. 18, Spencer street, Clerkenwell, corroborated this evidence. He added that he was seized and knocked down by the pri soner Barke. They had seen the prisoners before at a quarter to twelve o'clock at a beer-house in Brick-lane, where the police came and knocked at the door, but they were refused admission; the prisoners, with some other Irishmen, the prosecutor, witness, and Mr. Rowe, were locked in a cellar, where they attacked them for the purpose of robbery, but they escaped on the arrival of the police. Mr. CoaißE said it was a proper case to be sent before a jury for trial. _ _ _ - Tile prisoners denied having any intention to rob; they were bricklayers' labourers, and could get a character. They had been at the beer-shop alluded to, where they were called Irish and taunted. Mr. COMBE said he should eventually commit them for trial, but he would now remand them for one week SOUTHIVARK. Margaret Haggerty was brought before Mr. Seeker for re-examination, upon the charge of stabbing Amelia Hughes with a table knife, and wounding her in six dif ferent places. The complainant appeared to be extremely ill. She was brought from Guy's Hospital, where she has been a patient since the 231 ult., on the morning of which day the alleged outrage was perpetrated, and from the effects of which she was not at first expected to survive. On being sworn she stated that she and the prisoner lodged in the same house, No. 13, Barron's-place, Wa terloo-road, and they were unfortunate women. O❑ the evening of the 22d ult. they had been at the theatre to gether, and on leaving it they proceeded to a tavern near at hand and had refreshment. Where they left the house the prisoner wanted to prevail on her to have more drink, and urged her to join in purchasing it, which she refused, expressing her intention to go home. This re fusal o❑ her part seemed to annoy the prisoner, who, out of revenge, tore the complainant's bonnet and shawl off in the street, and when they arrived at their lodgings she renewed her violence, and complainant, in order to escape from the fury of her assailant, proceeded to her bed-room, but had not been long there before the latter rushed in armed with a table knife, and seizing her by the hair of the head, with the uplifted weapon stabbed her several times, inflicting six wounds on the upper part of her body, about the shoulders and arms. Complainant called out for help, exclaiming that she was murdered, when the prisoner ejaculated " that she knew it," and she immediately ran down stairs. Complainant followed her for some steps, but her strength failing her from loss of blood, she fell down in the passage and be came insensible, and she added that she recollected no thing that subsequently transpired. Other evidence was then adduced relative to the ap prehension of the prisoner, who, on being taken to the station-house, confessed that she had stabbed her victim, adding that they were both under the influence of liquor at the time. Mr. Tapell, one of the dressers of Guy's Hospital, de. scribed the nature of the wounds inflicted on the com plainant, one of which underneath the arm perforated the lungs, and was the most dangerous of the six inflicted by her assailant. This witness was shown the knife found in the complainant's bedroom, which had been thrown there by the prisoner subsequently to the outrage, and he said it was such an instrument as would have caused the wounds. The prisoner, who sobbed aloud during the examina tion, on being asked whether she wished to say any thing in answer to the charge, merely replied that she was intoxicated at the time, and said that she had no remembrance of anything that occurred on the occasion. Mr. SECKER said that complainant had had a narrow escape of her life, and he should commit the prisoner for maliciously stabbing her with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. _Robert John Beaver, a young man of respectable ap pearance, in the employ of the High Bailiff of South wark, was charged with embezzling the sum of 101. 15s. sd. It appeared that the prisoner was employed to serve warrants of execution from the Southwark County Court, and to receive money, which it was his duty to account for to some of the clerks of the establishment as soon as it was paid over to him. On a recent occasion it was ascertained that the prisoner had received the sum of 10Z 15s. 5d., for and on account of some of the suitors of the above court, and on being questioned on the sub ject, he admitted that the money was paid to him under protest, and when called upon to account for it, his an. swer was that ho was not in a condition to pay it over, and he was therefore given into custody. One of the clerks attended, and said that if the pri soner was remanded, he had no doubt other cases would arise where he had received various sums of money under similar circumstances, and converted the whole to his own purposes. The prisoner was accordingly remanded. THE SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN THE HAMPSTEAD-ROAD. Last evening Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest upon the body of Mary Ann Chapman, who, on Saturday morning, endeavoured to murder her three children by strangulation, and afterwards destroyed her °an life by the same means. An ietense degree of excitement pre vailed in the neighbourhood ; and the Cock-tavern, Henry-street, where the inquiry took place, was sur rounded by a multitude of persons, who were anxious to learn the result of the painful investigation. The Deputy-Coroner empanelled the jury at nine o'clock, and they proceeded to view the body. The first witness called was Emma King, who deposed that she was the wife of a coachmaker, and resided in the house No. 19, Henry-street, where this occurrence took place. On Saturday morning last, about half-past nine o'clock, a Mrs. Randall having communicated to witness that she thought something was amiss, she (wit ness) went to the door of the deceased, and as the key was in the lock, and the door fast, she got the key of her own door, and tried to push the key out of the lock, but she could not, and then she burst open the door. She then saw the deceased woman, lying with her body on the bed, her feet hang ing over the bed-aide. She was quite dead. There was a "comforter" and a handkerchief tied tightly round her neck. There were three children lying on the floor, one of them dressed, the two others undressed. Two of them were nearly gone. They did not stir, and one seemed faintly struggling for breath. There were handkerchiefs round the necks of two of them, and a brown pinafore round the neck of the third. The eldest was about four years of age, the next rather more than two, and the youngest seven months. The deceased was about twenty-five. As soon as she saw what had taken place, she ran down stairs and called in a policeman, and sent for Dr. Collins. The latter, on his arrival, said that deceased had been dead three hours. He arrived within a quarter of an hour after he had been sent for. The deceased was a very quiet, sober, steady woman, and her manner w.,s far from leading any one to suppose that she contemplated such an act. She seemed to live on very happy terms with her husband, who was a very sober, hard-working man. Witness did not ever remember to have heard them quarrel. Carter, the summoning-officer, said that the husband bore a very excellent character in the neighbourhood. The witness, in answer to the jury, said that the de ceased's husband wont out at a quarter past five on Saturday morning, and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards she heard the eldest child say, " Oh, mother, don't, don't;" but that was not, to her mind, anything singular, as the child was frequently scolded by its mo ther for running about the room early of a morning. The children had been sent home again from the hospi tal. There was no possibility of the door having been locked on the outside and the key passed under the door. A juror said that he asked the witness about the key to explain certain rumours which were afloat in the neighbourhood. Mrs. Randall deposed to finding a blunt knife and razor in the room, but did not observe any marks of blood. On Friday evening she saw the husband nursing the children. Deceased had lately complained very much of her head, and witness tried to get her a le'ter for the hospital. It arrived just before she was found dead. There were a variety of reports in circulation, but she solemnly believed that the husband was innocent of any guilty share in the transaction. They were always very affectionate to their children, but had expe rienced great privations. In fact, the husband had pawned almost his last shirt for is. 6d. The jury thought that the landlord of the house should be examined as to the circumstances of theEde ceased. The CORONER said that it was not desirable to cuter into the private affairs of families, and he would recom mend the jury not to do so on the present occasion, un less they considered such a course was absolutely requi site, so as to enable them to return their verdict. Mr. Davis was then shortly examined. He stated that the deceased was a woman of exemplary conduct, but had suffered much distress, especially, - of late. He had never seen her drunk. The deceased had received pa rochial relief. The CORONER then briefly summed up. He said it was clear that deceased committed the act herself, and the question for the jury was, what stai,e of mind was sho in at the time? The jury_ returned a verdict of temporary insanity, brougt,T oe q poverty ,earl The constable stated that they had not seen ,he hus °and since the occurrence. The children had quite re covered. • 0> si e/3 '74 1 - 4 0 0 • p 3 ,21 i o pa 44 Colchester Harwich ............ 199 920 14 1180 Leigh Maldon CHELMSFORD, 'AUG. 3.—We had to. day a very dull trade, at an abatvment of Is upon inferior samples of wheat, and the CHELMSFORD, 'AUG. —We had to. day a very dull trade, at an abat , ment of Is upon inferior samples of wheat, and the better qualities barely maintained last week's quotations. All else without variation. A cotchel or two of new grey peas, and a few new white ones, were sold, the former at 31s and the latter at 30s per quarter ; they were in rather soft condition. A sample of new black oats was also shown, for which 18s per quarter were refused. Wheat, white, old 47s to 53s ; new 46s to 525; red, old 41s to 45s ; new, 40s to 44s ; barley, —s to —s ; chevalier —s to —s ; grinding 22s to 283; oats 18s to 2ls ; malt 54s to 56s ; chevalier 54s to 58s ; peas, partridge 32s to 365; white 30$ to 34s ; dun 32s to 34s ; beans, tick, new 27s to 30s ; old 28s to 31s ; harrow ticks, new 28s to 31s ; old 30s to 325; mazagan, new 21s to 265; old 26s to 28s per qr. COLCHESTER, AUG. 4.--Wheat, white 48s to 545; red 42s to 50s ; barley 23s to 30a ; beans, mazagan 23s to 255; middle and small 32s to 31s; peas 30s to 34s per qr. HADDINGTON, Ann. 3.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. First ... 53s 6d 30s Od I 238 3d 34,3 Od Second ... 48s 113 25s 103 I 21s 5d 32s Od Third 40s Od 22s 6d I 18s 63 30s 63 Total quantity of Wheat in market 317 qrs., 302 sold Do. Barley do. 50 qrs., 27 sold Do. Oats do. 311 qrs., 310 sold Do. Beans do. 40 qrs., 36 sold KIRKALDY, Attn. 4.—The following are the quotations up to this date— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, First 50s Od 28a Oct 228 Od —s Od —s Od Second 483 Od 25s 6i 21s 6d —s Od Od Third 42s Od 223 Od 193 Od —s Od —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs. imp.. 293 to 003 Od. GLASGOW, Am. 2.—Provisions—Cheese, 40s to 43s Od per cwt ; retail, bid to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 20s per cwt. Country fresh butter, 9d to 10d per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7id to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen; carried hen ditto, 5s Od per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; ducks, 2s Od. KELSO, Aua. 3.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, new, 37s to 41s d ; barley, new, 18s to 21s Od ; ditto old, Os Od to Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 14s to 15s Od ; com mon oats, 13s to 14s Od ; ditto new, Os Od to Oa Od ; peas, 24s to 25s Od; beans, 24s to 26; per boll of six imperial bushels. STIRLING, AUG. 3.—Wheat, foreign, 225 to 26; Od; ditto home, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, 20s Od to 235; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 18s 6d to 21s 6d ; oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s Od to 15; 6d ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 35; to 38s ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s ; beans, per boll, Os 6(1 to Os Od; ditto new, 15s Od to 17s 6d; peas, 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26; Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bid to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, 45; to 50s. PERTH, Ana. 2.—Wheat, 46s Od to 52s Od ; barley, 22; to 25s Od ; oats, 18s to 223 ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, AUG. 2. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 301 bolls; wheat at 19; 6d to 24s Od per boll ; barley, 00; Od to Os Od ; oats, 15s6d to 15s 4d; beans, 17s Od to 0030 d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAw►cK, AUG. 2.—Wheat, new, 38s Od to 42s Od; ditto old, 00s Od to 00s Od ; barley, new, 18s to 22s ; potato oats, 14s Od to 15s 6d ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 23; Od to 25; Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. COAL MARKE' Buddle's W. Hartley 153 Od' Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main l2s 9cl Hasting's Hartley lss Od Holywell Main New Taufield l2s 6cl' North Percy Hartley lss Od' Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s Od Canfield Moor Penfield Moor Butes l2s 6dl Walker's Primrose West Wylam Wall's End, &c. Brown's l4s 6d Bensham ..... 14s 9d Bewicke and Co. Gosforth Gibson Hilda lss 3d Heaton Killingworth lss 6d. Washington Walker Wharncliffe .. 15s 6d :T.-YESTERDAY. l Eden Main l6s 6d Bell IBelmont l6s 6d Braddyll Hetton Hutton Lambton Morrison lss 6d Russell's Hetton 17s od iStewart's IWhitwell 'Caradoc 16s 9d South Hartlepool rhornley %Vest Hetton l6s Od Adelaide Tees Clavering Tees ...... 143 6d Cown den Tees Denison South Durham ' lss 9d Tees " l7s 3d CoWpan . Hartley ilartley ........ 14s 6d Ships at market, 141. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, AUGUST 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market wore a somewhat irmef and better aspect to-day, and there was a fair amount of busluesa done in the smaller shares of the Great Western Company.—Great Western, Quarters, closed at 5% dis., and Wilts, Somerset, and WO" month at 15 dis. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1849. THE COUNT The following is the official corn, &c,, received in the pol Essex, from the 30th July, : both inclusive : LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 6. STOCK Excnartor.—But little business has been done in shares to.day. Prices, however, continue firm, and the market closed steadily. The saes are—Caird•nian (Clydesdale Junction), 66% '— Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves, 8% dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 3 Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Union), 4!i dis.—Lancaster and Preston. Quarters, 1314 —London and 2i orth-Western, 132 Ditto, N ew 3 % Halves; 13 die. AuGiasT 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow Great Northern, 10% dis.—Dover (No. 4), 6 13-16 c.—Ditto (Regis tered), 6.34 ---Matiocks, 3 dis.- Sheffield Preference, 11 9-16—Man chester and Leeds, 321 Shares, 6 qdis.—Ditto, Fifths, 2 15-16 dis.— Ditto, Preference (It), 12 1 4—North Staffordshire, 5% dis. BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follow London and .North-Western, 133—North Staffordshire, 5 Ws. YORK, AUGUST 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as low: Great Northern, 94i— Ditto, Preference, V. 16s. 3d.—York. Newcastle, and Berwick, 20 —North British, Preference, 21. 11s. 6d. THE NEW ACT RELATING TO NUISANCES RE• MOVAL AND DISEASES PREVENTION. The new Act to amend the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act of last year came into force on Wednesday„ Power is given to summon witnesses, and to enable the Secre tary of the Board of Health to institute and carry on prosecutions for violation or neglect of regulations or dered. In certain cases guardians of the poor may di rect proceedings and prosecutions, and defray expenses attending the same. There are four clauses in the Act relating to burial grounds. The General Board of Health may cause inquiry to be made into the state of burial grounds, and are empowered to direct measures of precaution. In case of a churchyard being dangerous to health, the churchwardens may agree for the burial of parishioners in the ground of any cemetery company, or in the burial ground of any other parish. The Ge neral Board of Health may order inquiries, where it may be expedient, to prohibit interments, and, upon report, the Board of Health may frame a scheme for providing a new burial ground. This Act is to be deemed one with the other Act. RENEWAL 01' SUNDAY TRAINS ON THE EDINDUROII AND GLA,GOW RAILWAY.—The directors of the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway have called a special general meeting of the proprietors for the 21st, " To consider the question of running Sunday trains, and to come to such resolution thereon as the meeting may determine." We believe all that the requisitionists wish—who have been the means of getting this meeting called—is that no ad ditional trains than what are now running, and have run on Sundays, since the period of the famous dispute that took place some two years ago, shall be put upon the line, but that carriages for the conveyance of .passengers shall be attached to these trains. This, we think, is by no means an unreasonable request, and one which, if ac ceded to, will give very great satisfaction.—Railway and Shipping Gazette. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was taken by Mr. H. M. Witkley, at the Middlesex Hsspital, on the body of Mr. Thomas Palmer, aged 21. The do ceased was the son of Mr. Palmer, proprietor of the Union Tavern, Shoreditch, and a clerk of Messrs. Vyse and Co., Wood-street, Cheapside. On Saturday evening he went with some friends to the West-end, and in Tot tenham-court-road, near twelve o'clock, he took his seat on the top of a cab, when, while entering Portland -street the cab gave a sudden jerk, by which he was thrown off. His head came in contact with the kerb. He was taken up in a state of insensibility and conveyed to the Mid dlesex Hospital, where he died. Verdict—" Accidental death." It is the intention of Lord Shaftesbury to resign the Chairmanship of Committees of the House of Peers before the re-assembling of Parliament. We understand that the appointment, which is ono of considerable emulun2ent and no small influence, will be conferred on Lord Beaumont.— Weekly Chronicle. REPRESENTATION OF WEST SURRIEY.A requisi tion is in course of signature to Mr. Williams, the late Member for Coventry, requesting him to stand for this division of the county. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —An established Fact that Holloway's Pills are a Certain Cure for Dropsy. —Mrs. Jane Thomas, housekeeper to a nobleman, residing in the West-end, had been predisposed for years to this insidious disease, and al though she had received the best advice from the matt skilful of the faculty, yet all their efforts proved fruitless in checking its baneful effects on her constitution, which appeared to be rapidly declining. In this hopeless state she commenced tak ing Holloway's Pills, and, to the utter astonishment of herself and all the family, this wonderful medicine has effected a per fect cure. Females at the meridian of life should always have reevrse to these invaluable Pills. Sold by Druggists and et Pro. aser Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., tha wife of E. Watson, Esq., of Frogns- 1, Hampstead, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Lee-park, Blackheath, the wife of 8• Y. Hulbert, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Leytonstone, the wife of the Rev. 8• Mackenzie, of a daughter. MARRIED. At Easterhill, Lanarkshire, on the Ist inst., Francis Sandford, Esq., eldest son of the late Sir Daniel K. Sandford+ to Margaret, daughter of Robert Findlay, Esq., of Easterhill• DIED On Sunday morning, the sth inst., at quarter-past on e o'clock, at Lloyd's-place, Brompton, of apoplexy, Ile nr 4 Wadlow, aged 6 4 , for thirty years boxkeeper at her MajeotY - Theatre and the French Plays. On the 4th inst., in Wimpole-street, Sir Charles SOO" , more, aged 70. of Oh ' the 4th inst. Fanny Anne Burfield, eldest daugh ter Mr. Bartle'", ~orfolk-street, Strand. On the 3d insi., James Starkey, Esq., of Margate, for merly of Nettgate-street, London, aged 72. d 7 7 . On the 3d inst ; at Pentonville , Pierce Egan , Esq ., On the Ist inst., at Margate, J. Fawcett, Esq, of " street, London. Printnd and Published ' . 134 MURIA) YOU , ' kg ? No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , N' a strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coontl Middlesex, Tuesday, August 7,1849! Y MARKETS. statement of the quantiti t of London from the po: 1849, to the . 4th Aug., ,ies of Irts in 1849,