The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA. The Registrar- General's return for the week end ing Saturday, September 8, has, as usual, a long list upended to it, containing the particulars of each fatal case of cholera and diarrhcea. It also embodies short reports from several of the registrars upon the pro gress of the disease and the sanitary state of their districts. The information thus conveyed, though compressed into the smallest possible space, is of great value, as throwing light upon the mode in which cholera commits its ravages, and many of the cases recorded will not fail to suggest a mournful interest in the mind of the reflective reader. Subjoined are a few extracts from the return which have struck us most forcibly : " FULIIAM. "F. 40, wife of licensed victualler, cholera 10 hours, September 7, Seven Stars, North-end-house, exactly op posite to Orchard• place, Sun-street and Star-lane. "HAMMERSMITH; St. Paul. " F. 50, charwoman, cholera, 24 hours, September 6, roadway.—Locality open; always in great poverty, in temperate—had been nursing in a house where cholera had been. I attended ker about six weeks since for a moderate attack of diaribcei. " F. 28, wife of journeyman tailor, cholera 18 hours, September 8,1, Salem-place, Bridge-road.—No particu lar observation as to locality. Husband, wife, and three children occupying one room, always filthy and offensive. The family always in the utmost destitution and poverty; not intemperate. Wife of a feeble constitution and sub ject to epilepsy; only returned from Bermondsey the day previous, where she had been to visit a sister and two children, all dead from cholera; no premonitory symp toms, but .collapse ushered in the disease; she never rallied in the slightest, although she had immediate medical assistance. " ST. GEORGE'S; Hanover-square. " M. 37, horsekeeper, cholera, 16 hours, in a cottage, Commercial-road south, Pimlico.—This cottage is situate in an omnibus yard, close to the main open sewer, and near waste ground that is the receptacle of much filth. The wife of this man has since died in the hospital (St. George's) of cholera. " M. 29, policeman, cholera, 22 hours, 25, Union street, Pimlico.--This man fell in the street exhausted in the Borough, and was brought home and died. He had and was suffering great mental distress, and had gone long without food. " WESTMINSTER; St. John. "F. 45, wife of a plumber, diarrhmi eight days, cholera four days, 7th of September, 5, Emery Cottages, Douglas-street.—The second death in this cottage, which consists of two rooms in the ground floor. Her son's death being reported last week, this is the woman who expressed herself in the terms mentioned in nay remarks —the place being very unfavourable to health. " ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS ; Charing-cross. " M. 28, police• constable. A division, cholera, 48 hours, September 6, Police station, Northumberland-street. — As officer of health of the district I inspected this bar rack on the Bth of September. It has the whole sewerage of Tottenham court-road passing in front of it, a grating close to the tront door, and at the time of inspection the tid's had flooded the kitchen floor with very foul water, from the sewer. The sewer debouches into the Thames about sixty yards south-east of the barracks. A very unfavourable position for a police station. " ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER ; Berwick-street. " F. 67, widow of a tailor, cholera, 24 hours, Sept. 7, 2, Pulteney-place, Peter-street. —The medical man states the deceased had been living low for a long time, and was totally unable to bear up against the disease. No. 2, Pulteney-court is a very narrow, close, and con fined place ; densely inhabited, and very unfavourable to health. MARYLEBONE ; All Souls. back. There are three persons lying dangerously ill from cholera in the same house. " LONDON CITY, North-West. " F. 51, wife of calenderer, diarrhcei, September 6, 27, Noble•street.—The informant complains of a very bad smell from the privy, more particularly when the pre mises are closed at night. A policeman and some of the parochial authorities inspected the place about eight weeks back, but nothing has been done to diminish or obviate the nuisance. SHOREDITCH ; St. Leonard's. "F. 21, wife of a cahinet-maker, cholera, three weeks, 19, New Norfolk-street, Curtain-road. —The medical certificate stags that inability to obtain a proper nurse prevented recovery, as the patient had recovered from the attack of cholera. I am informed that the parish officers sent three nurses, all of whom refused to remain, being afraid of contagion. " BETHNAL-GREEN; Ilackney-road. "F. 29, single woman, cohabiting with a hawker, cholera 15 hours, September 7,2, Turville-buildings, Turville.street.—This court is a small parellelogram, ciantaining six inhabited and two uninhabited houses, with no back yards, with an almost total stagnation of air—the chief supply being perpendicular; no water laid on, and the drainage being through a stone grating in the centre of the court, having communication with a sewer. "F. 32, wife of a tailor, cholera, 24 hours, Sept. 1, 22, Union-street.—ln the same house, on Aug. 28, died of cholera the wife of a turner ; another woman was attacked, but has since recovered. On September 1 the daughter of the turner, 15 years of age, was attacked with cholera, and removed to the Marylebone Infirmary, where she died. This is the fourth case of cholera (during five days) which has occurred iu this house, and three have proved fatal. I have already given my opinion of this street. Many of the houses are hotbeds for cholera and all epidemics. " Middlesex hospital. " , 33, painter, cholera, 20 hours, Sept. 7, from 31, Cleveland-street —Street neglected and dirty; vegetable and varied refuie, cast from the greengrocers ' and other shops-, being allowed to remain for many days. I be lieve the drainage is not very defective. (All streets partaking of the character of bye-streets are more or less overlooked and neglected by parish authorities. In this parish the state of Upper Rathbone-place, Union street, part of Wells -street, Ogle-street, Saville-street, Chariton-street, and the whole of Cleveland-street, requires strict investigation.) " St. John. " F. 66, widow of grocer, cholera, 14 hours, September 5, No. 12, Alms-houses.—Attended upon and washed the linen of the patients who died of the cholera at No. 12, Alms.houses, on the Ist of Sept., and registered the death; in good health on the 3d be:ore washing the clothes—seized the morning after. " ST. PANCRAS; Gray's Inn-lane. " M. 21, son of a dustman, cholera 3 hours, September 5, 17, Brighton-street—An inquest in this case was or dered in consequence of there being no medical attendant. The death occurred in an underground kitchen. The cl•,seness and stench were so great that the jurymen hurried fa:km the place, nearly all of them having expe rienced a sensation of sickness. The coroner also de clared that he felt the same. In this close apartment, wherein the dead body was laid, the operation of cooking was going on, and the occupants upon being questioned respecting the stench declared that they felt no ill effects from it. " Regent's-park. " F. 30, wifo of a porter, cholera two days, profession ally attended only a few hours previous to her death, September 4, 17, Edward-street—This house and the adj,ining are opposite a wharf which is the deposit for all kinds of manure, decomposed vegetable matter, and refuse of the worst description, exhales the most ob noxious effluvium, and which is much complained of by the inhabitants. "ISLINGTON; Islington East. " M. 3g, labourer, cholera two days, September 5,3, Brambeourt, Holloway.—The medical officer of the Holloway Dispensary says of Brand-court.—' No less than seven cases of cholera have occurred in this court within a week, two of which have already proved fatal, within a .few yards of this court. Many other cases of cholera have also occurred. The drainage of this place, as well as of the whole of Brand-street, is very defective, and an open sewer runs by the side of this man's house, and at the back of all the houses on one side Brand-street. The houses are all very damp from the want of good drainage; the floors of the lower rooms rest upon the ground.' " The registrar for this district appends the following note to his return:— " ' Taking into consideration the " locality, drainage, ventilation, and maniere d'etre" of those that have died from cholera and diarrhoea, since the 23d of June last, I find that, placing each case in one of the following grades, the result to be: very good, 0; good, 5; toler able, 30; bad, 39; very bad, 47. This does not include those removed to Free Hospital, who may safely be placed in the last two numbers.' "11AckNEY; Stoke Newington. _ _ " M. 19, sou of a bric - limaker, cholera 13 hours. col lapse 5 hours, September 7, 13, Cock and Castle-lane. — Close and over-crowded. The mother of this youth died in the same house 12 days since, and I understand that she had been in attendance on sick members of her family, and this makes the 13th of them who have died of cholera, &c., in this and an adjoining district. " ST. GILES NORTH. " Mr. Simpson, the registrar for the district of St. Giles North, includes in his return the following short report:— " In reference to the deaths registered in the week ending Saturday, September 8, the deaths from all causes exceed that of any previous week, and the mortality from cholera and diarbcel is also larger than on any pre vious occasion. It is satisfactory to find that the deaths from cholera last week in Church-lane are reduced to two, independent of those occurring in the workhouse which have been removed; but in the surrounding dis trict they have increased. The mortality from the pre• vaillng epidemic in Church-lane (the " Rookery") among the poor Irish families, has been excessive ; it first showed itself on the 21st of July. There are fifteen houses on each side of the way, and twenty-eight deaths will be found in my returns, as follow the house No. 3, Church-lane, three deaths have been registered; at No. 4, two; No. 6, two; No. 7, four; No. 8, two, No. 15, one; No. 17, one; No. 18, three; No. 20, one; No. 21, two; No. 22, two; No. 24, one; No. 27, three; and No. 23, one. Many of the inhabitants of the lane have dis persed, and the deaths of several have been registered elsewhere, independent of those removed and dying in the workhouse.' "STrIAND; St. Clement Dancs. "The registrar of St. Clement Danes, Strand, reports as follows on the sanitary state of his district:— " It will bo observed that the diease in this district is fatal in four distinct quarters; they may be distin guished as—the White's-alley district, situate between Chancery and Fetter-lanes—the Shire-lane district, opening into Fleet-street, near Temple-bar—the Cle ment's-lane district—and Milford-lane district. near the river. All the eases of this week, and almost all from the beginning of the outbreak, have occurred in one or other of these neighbcurhoods, which are dirty, close, badly drained, stinking, and filthy—every room tenanted by a distinct ofte family of the poorest description; and in many houses there are thirty people—almost every house contains a cesspool, emptied occasionally by the lodgers, who thr ow the contents is (as at 6, Crown-court, near , Shire-lane), by P a the more the court. Scarcely a case has occurred ill re respectable and open part of " CLERKENWELL; Amwell. "F. 16, servant of a • s w e eper, cholera , Sept. 2, 14, which this poor girl died Ex aiouth-street.---The hu j u e abuts on the Spa-fields burying -ground; ; the window of the kitchen in which she Ilya gp r e eued ear!), .1 night, and earth; graves are allowed to remain open l e iipon the the exhalations therefrom are most oenstivao consider the number of interments in this ground very prejudicial to hi -, alth. "F. 35, wife of glass-grinder, cholera, 20 1, -ours, Sept. 7, 3, Vine-court—This death took place within a few yards of Spa-fields burying ground, and the interment is to take place there. I cannot help observing that the space of ground now open for interment ii only 72 feet by 72, and from Is to 30 persons are buried in this space weekly! may, in the opinion of the said Board or Commissioners of Health, tend to lessen or remove the danger to health; and the churchwardens and other persons having the care and control of the burial grounds to which such orders shall relate shall do all such works and matters in relation thereto as by such orders may be directed, nut all expenses incurred in the execution of such orders shall be defrayed out of the poor•rates of the parish; provided always that no such order as aforesaid shall be made after the end of the next session of Parliament. " 10. And be it enacted, that where it appears to the General Board of Health, or the Commissioners of Health in Ireland, that the churchyard or other burial ground of any parish is dangerous to health as aforesaid, and that temporary provision for interment elsewhere, is urgently required, the churchwardens of such parish, with the consent of the bishop of the diocese and the ap proval of such General Board of Health or Commis • sioners of _Health in Ireland, shall, if possible, either agree with any cemetery company for the burial in the ground of such company of the bodies of persons having right of burial in the churchyard or other burial-ground of such parish, or agree for the burial of such bodies in the churchyard or burial•ground of any other parish of which the mintster and churchwardens may consent thereto, and make all proper arrangements in relation to such burials: provided always that where any such agreement as aforesaid shall be proposed t ) be made by the churchwardens of any parish, such churchwardens shall submit such proposed agreement to a meeting of the vestry, or p&rsons having the powers of vestry, in such parish, and if the majority of persons assem bled at such meeting shall disapprove such agreement the churchwardens shall not proceed therewith; and the expenses incurred by such churchwardens in relation to such agreement, and in carrying the same into effect, shall be paid out of the poor-rates of their parish; pro vided also, that no such agreement as aforesaid shall be made after the end of the next session of Parliament. _ " 11. And be it enacted, that where upon any such inquiry as aforesaid it appears to the General Board of Health that the state of the burial-grounds in any parish, or in any parishes which may be conveniently united for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the circum stances of such parish or parishes render it expedient for the protection of the public coalth that interments should be prohibited in such parish or parishes, except as after mentioned, and that a burial-ground or buri.ll - should be provided for such parish, or for the common use of such parishes, the General Board of Health may direct a superintending inspector to make inquiry, in the manner directed by the Public Health Act, 1848, or as near theretoas circumstances will permit, into all the circumstances connected with the parochial and other burial-grounds of such parish or parishes, and as to the place or places in which any burial-ground or burial grounds might be provided, either within or beyond the limits of such parish or parishes, and as to the means which might be provided for the conveyance of bodies for interment, or any other arrangements which might be practicable for facilitating the convenient interment of bodies in the burial-ground or burial-grounds to be so provided, and as to the rights in any burial-ground in such parish or parishes, not being a parochial bur) ing ground, which might be affected by the prohibition of interments in such parish or parishes, and as to the pro portions in which.several parishes (if more than one) should contribute to the expense of providing and main taining a common burial-ground or common burial grounds for such parishes, and into such other matters as the General Board of Health; may think necessary for the purpose of enabling them to judge of the propriety of framing a scheme to be submitted to Parliament as here inafter mentioned, and of the provisions which should be inserted therein; and such superintending inspector shall report in writing, in such manner as the General Board of Health shall direct, the result of his inquiries in relation to the premises." GLORIOUS CHANCE! (From Punch.) MESSRS. PLAGUE, PESTILENCE, & CO. Beg to announce to their Friends and the Public gene rally that they have opened extensive premises in the Metropolis, with branches in all the principal towns of England, for the regular supply of first-class Epidemics, warranted to do the public business effectually and ra pidly. Their works comprise 1. A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF INTRAMURAL BURYING GROUNDS; in all stages of over•crowdir.g, from which they are enabled to supply the most highly concentrated Poiso nous Gases in any quantity, and on the most reasonable terms. 2. AN EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SEWERS, in connexion with Fleet Ditch and other centres of me. tropolitan filth, all entirely stagnant, and 3. A NOBLE PLANT OF THE MOST APPROVED NUISANCES, situated in densely-peopled neighbourhoods, and in lull operation, consisting of Bone-Boiling Houses, Glue and Gut Man ufactories,Dustheaps, Knackers'-yards, Slaugh ter-houses, Cattle-markets, and all the other best up proved kinds of Apparatus for furnishing the strong, old, favourite, Sulphuretted and Carburetted Hydrogen, and the fine, heady, Carbonic Acid Gas, warranted to kill in a very diluted state. Specimens of superior Epidemics always on the pre mises, and samples sent to a distance. N.B. References kindly allowed to the various Parish Authorities and Sir Peter Laurie. SIR J. FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC EX PEDITION. A lecture was delivered at the Southwark Literary Institution, Borough-road, last night, by Dr. King, M.D. ; (late medical officer to the arctic land expedi tion in search of Sir J. Ross), on the position of Sir John Franklin's expedition, and the efforts of the Government to save the adventurers. The lecturer took a cursory review of the history of the successive sea and land exploring expeditions undertaken for the discovery of the North-west Passage since the efforts of Sir John Barrow in 1818, and proceeded to advert to the difficulties with which Sir John Franklin's last expedition had to contend. They had to push their %.‘ ay between Melville Island and Banks's Land, and they had left this country under the erroneous im pression that North Somerset was an island, but since their departure it had been settled, beyond dis pute, that it was a peninsula. Indeed, had it not been for the error of the Government Hydrographer, Mr. Simpson's excursion might have previously completed the discovery of the North-west Passage, he having attained a point which the Government chart, by setting down North Somerset as an island, led him naturally, but erroneously, to conclude to be Regent's Inlet. The lecturer illustrated his remarks by the aid of diagrams and charts, and stated it as his belief that Sir J. Franklin's party must either be about the estuary of the Great Fish River or amongst the insular group or continent of Victoria Land. Sir John might have sought to reach Regent's Inlet, and been foiled in the attempt by finding North Somerset not to be an island, but a peninsula. On retracing his steps, he might have got into one of the fiords, or indentations of coast, at Victoria Land, and been blocked up by the ice. No provisions could be found in that inhospitable region, and he (the lecturer) had no doubt but that in that case the party must have long since perished. If, on the other hand, the expedition had reached the estuary of the Great Fish River, it was possible it might have attempted to ascend that river to the Hudson's Bay Company's stations at Slave Lake. The banks of the Great Fish River abounded with deer, but none of the party was possessed of sufficient skill to shoot them for food, the deer in that district being so remarkably shy and swift of foot that hardly any one but natives could succeed in securing them. Ile (Dr. King) held that it was the duty of the Govern ment to have made a search for the unfortunate men by a descent of the Great Fish River ; and nothing could justify their refusal to do so. He himself had offered to conduct a party in the descent of that river, at the trifling cost of not more than 2,0001.; but Mr, Hawes, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies had re fused to authorise the undertaking. His (Dr. King's) a st b — le t p h l aen aidcontemplated t i veemploy ing sbeing a t b h s e ol l u n t d e i l a y n i s n d t? isp a e s n s s i to the success of the search ; and he believed that there were only two persons living who were properly qualified to undertake the descent of the Great Fish River. These were Sir George Banks and himself, who were both well acquainted with the region. The natives could never be induced to co-operate with any one not well known to them; and if Sir George Bunks declined, he (Dr. King) was ready at any moment to enter upon the task himself. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 12. (Before Mr. WITHAM and a Bench of Magistrates.) Patrick 11104, aged 35, was indicted for having stolen two sovereigns from the person of Ann Stud holm, the property of her husband, William Stud holm. From the statement of the wise of the prosecutor. it appeared that on the 26th of August last she and her husband had a quarrel. Her husband resided at 14, New Martin-street, Whiteehapel, and the diff3r ence she had had with him on this particular occasion had arisen out of some money matters. The result was, that she quitted her house, taking with her N. 155. Soon after she had left her husband's house she met a woman, of whom she inquired whether she could recommend her to some respectable place whereat she could take up her abode, so that her husband might not be able to find her. The woman replied that she could do so, but, before they set out in search of the place, she suggested that it would be as well if they were to go somewhere fur the purpose of obtaining a little refreshment prior to setting out. They accordingly went into a public-house which was close at hand. There they had something to drink, but whilst they were standing in front of the bar the prisoner accosted her, and, upon learning the object of the proposed search, lie said that he could very easily accommodate her with such apartments as she might require. The wife accordingly consented to accompany him to his pre mises, which proved to be in Lambeth street. The ' wife of the prisoner she then ascertained had just recovered from a confinement, but was still in bed, and on seeing her the wife at once commenced a series of complaints against her husband for having left her alone for so long a time without the least attendance or even any nourishment. The prisoner thereupon offered a glass of water to his wife, but the prosecu tor's wife objected to her drinking it, adding that she would herself pay for something which was more fitting for her weakened condition. Upon this she at once handed some money to the prisoner; desiring that he would go and purchase a small quantity of brandy for his wife. This the man did, and as soon as the brandy had been obtained and administered to his wife, the prisoner proposed that the wife of the prosecutor should now go with him to see apartments in another house. She declined to comply with this request, whereupon he seized her violently by the neck, ripped her dress open, and took the money from her bosom. The prisoner ran off out of the room, and as soon as she was herself able to reach the street she set up a cry of " Murder and robbery !" She presently obtained the assistance of a policeman, but when they re turned to the house it was discovered that the priso ner had effected his escape. Police•constable N 113 deposed to having appre hended the prisoner on the day succeeding the rob bery, and finding as much as 10s. upon him. Several witnesses were called by the prisoner, who stated that on the Friday before the reputed robbery the wife of the prosecutor was in a lamentable state of intoxication ; that she had been spending her money with great freedom in the purchase of liquor; and that they were certain that on the Saturday she could not have had anything like V. 15s. left. Mr. WITHA M having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Charles Heath, of 4, Bell-street, Greenwich, was charged with attempting to defraud the West London Savings'-bank, in Farringdon-street, of 101. 35., by forging the name of Charles Ferris. Sir P. LAURIE said, the withdrawal of the money appears to have been sanctioned by Ferris, and the intent to commit a felony falls to the ground. He is therefore discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Giovanni Genazzi the padrone sent to prison by Mr. Hardwick some weeks ago for threatening to do some grievous harm to Pietro Maz3chi, a boy whom he had brought to this country for begging purposes, yesterday came to this court to claim an organ, value 101., which had been taken from the boy when he was first brought to this court. The boy, however, claimed the sum of 41. ss. as wages due to him. He said he was hired in his own country at so much per week, and the balance due to him was the sum he had stated. On a former occasion when the parties were before Mr. Hardwick it was agreed that the organ should be given up when the sum in question was paid. A person named Rabritti agreed to take charge of the money, and to see the boy back safe in his own country. Yesterday the boy claimed to have charge of the money. The padrone would not pay it over to him, on the ground that the contract had been made with the boy's father, who would make him pay the money again when he returned to Italy. Mr. HaanwicK asked Rabritti whether that was likely to be the case ? Rabritti replied that the contracts for children to come over to this country to beg were made, not with the children, but with their parents and friends. The padrones who brought over the children mostly had portions of land or some tangible property that could be made available if any breach of contract occurred. If the Magistrate ordered the money to be paid to the boy, no doubt means would be found by the bay's father to make the padrone pay it again to him. It was at length arranged that Rabritti should lend the money for the present, and have a lien for the amount on the organ, and that such a receipt should be given to the padrone as would probably prevent his being sued when he returned to Italy. WEST ill IN S 7'E R. A sneaking-looking fellow, about 30 years of age, who gave his name George ifolland, was charged with endeavouring to obtain a charitable contribution from the Earl of Ducie by the following vile imposture : Joseph Worster, a footman in his Lordship's ser vice, having proved that the prisoner left a letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, at his town residence, 24, Belgrave-square, a few days ago, and two or three times called for an answer, ,t-,itin e - that the communication was from the Rev. Mr. Bence, Noble Earl, who was accommodated with a seat upon the bench, handed the magistrate the letter, of which the following is a copy : " The Rev. H. Bence, chaplain to the London Hospital, presents his compliments to the E ar l o f ; D uc i e , a t th e particular request of the bearer, George Holland, whose wife and two children expired in the hospital of cholera. " The poor man informs me his late wife was a native of Tetbury. " The poor man informs me his late wife was sister to slr. John Pelt, watch and clock maker, Market-place, and known to your Lordship's family at Wood Chester park, and has a sister living as domestic with the Rev. Mr. Huntley, of Boxwell-court. " From my personal knowledge of the poor man's cir cumstances, I believe him to be in distress. I believe him to be a praiseworthy and very deserving character, and feel most happy in recommending his very dis tressed case to your Lordship's kind nature. " Any assistance afforded the poor man will be pro perly bestowed. "London Hospital, Sept. G. " The Right Hon. the Earl of Dueie." His Lordship stated that the above letter was accompanied with some printed forms, headed "Loa don Hospital," and purporting to be signed by Samuel J. Burch, the apotheary there, certifying that the wife and children had died as described. As his Lordship entertained a strong impression that there .wls some thing wrong in the matter, he communicated with the chaplain at the London Hospital, and found his sus picions confirmed. The letter from the chaplain of the London Hospital bore date September 11, and stated that it was the belief of the rev. gentleman (whose name is Ward, and not Bence, as described in the letter addressed to his Lordship in the first instance) that George Hol land was an impostor ' • no such person as Mrs. Holland and children h a d died of cholera in the hospital, and the name of the apothecary on the certificates was forged. The letter, after expressing the rev. gentle man's thanks for the communication acquainting him with the imposture, intima`ed that he bad received several others respecting the same person. In consequence of ascertaining beyond all doubt that it was a gross imposture, his Lordship communi cated with the Mendicity Society, and had one of their officers stationed in an ante-room at the time the prisoner was to call for an answer yesterday morning. Upon the prisoner's entering the room he asked him whether he was the person who brought the letter (which he produced to the prisoner), and he replied that he was. The accused further said, in reply to his Lordship's inquiry, that his wife and children had died as described, and added that he should like to return to his native home, in Gloucester shire. In reply to an inquiry as to whether the Rev. Mr. Bence had been kind to his family, the prisoner, in the same pathetic low tone as he had used through out the conversati on , said, Mr. Bence was but a poor clergyman, b u t had been as kind as his limited means would permit. Joseph Colley, a Mendicity officer, stated that, aggreeably with instructions he had received from Captain Wood, assistant•inanager of that institution, he went to the Earl of Ducie's, and placed himself in such a situation as to overhear the greater part of the conversation between his Lordship and the prisoner, which had been narrated. When he took the prisoner into custody he gave his name James Holland, but said he had no regular place of abode. Upon witness inquiring whether his wife was dead he smiled, and said he should not answer any more questions. While at the station-house, however, he told the officer that his story was all false, and hoped the magistrate would give him whatever punishment he was to have at once, and have done with it. Mr. B RODRRIP asked the pr i soner w h e th er h e wished to say anything to the charge ?—The prisoner replied with great coolness—Your Worship has heard the case truly, and I have nothing to say. Mr. BRODERIP—If you have any means of show- "FAST LONDON ; St. Botolph. " F. 33, wife o f master Tr p er - s t a iner, c holera, one day, Aug. 30, 11, Angel-alley, Bishopsgate.—Crowd ed neighbourhood. The house is now being drained and cleansed ; previously it was very offensive from the hot Water and steam passing under it from a distillery at the E strN, LONDON, TH URS Y _EVEN ENG. SEPTEMBER 13, 184 . 9, ing that your wife an children died of cholera, or that any part of you statement is true., I am ready to hear it. Pri.soner—They have not died of cholera ; it h all false. Mr. BRODEnIP obo.ervcd that there could be n , :ither moral nor legal doubt of his guilt, as proved by the evidence, and confirmed by his own confession. This was one of the numerous instances in which the experiment was made too often of imposing, upon benevolent persons, and more particu larly upon that portion of the public in the complainant's position in society. If everybody would do as his Lordship had done in this instance, this sort of impositions would soon be at an end, and he was bound to say that the public were under great obligation to him for the course he had taken. Mr. BRODERIP then committed the prisoner for three months to hard labour. IVO RSIIIP-STREET. Lewis Kemp, a flashily•dressed young fellow, and a woman named Ellen Smith, alias Williams, who were both stated to be connected with a notorious gang of coiners, were placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, the former charged with having uttered a counterfeit half• sovereign, and the latter with having in her pos session a large quantity of other spurious pieces. On the preceding afternoon the attention of In spector Ellis and Sergeant Eaves, of the II division, was attracted to the female prisoner, who was lying in a helpless state of drunkenness at the door of a public-house in lialifax•street, Mile-end-road. She was manifestly incapable of helping herself, and having raised her from the ground, they were en deavouring to remove her, when the landlord of the public-house came out and handed the officers a basket, which he told them had been left by the pri soner in the care of his daughter, and on their exa ming the contents of the basket they were found to consist of no less than ten counterfeit crown pieces, a small file, and a bottle partly filled with some colour ing fluid. The prisoner upon this discovery was con veyed to the station•house, where the charge was entered against her, and whilst bringing her down to the court she was unhesitatingly recognised by the wife of a beershopkeeper named Hitchings, in George street, Cambridge-heath, Hackney, who happened to be accidentally passing at the time, as having called at her house about a week before in the company of a man who had attempted to pass a counterfeit half sovereign upon her. The witness Ilitchings was requested to accompany the officer to the court to give evidence against the woman, and the very first person she encountered after entering the outer door was the male prisoner, Kemp, who appeared to be lurking about there to ascertain the fate of his com panion, and the witness having instantly identified him as the man who had uttered the counterfeit half sovereign at her bar, she apprised the police of the circumstance, and he was also immediately taken into custody. The evidence now gone into went to conclusively establish a case of uttering against the male prisoner, who had evidently from the facts detailed acted in complicity with the woman Smith, and the magis trate, therefore, ordered both prisoners, who reserved their defence, to be brought up again in a week, to afford time for the attendance of the Mint solicitor to carry out the prosecution. LAMBETH. Yesterday William Myers, a cab driver, and Michael Murphy, were placed at the bar before the lion. G. C. Norton, on a charge of robbing Mr. Satcher, a master tailor, residing in Union-street, Lambeth, of fifty sovereigns. The facts of the case are briefly these :—On the evening of Monday week the prosecutor, who had been drinking freely, engaged one of Ransom's cabs, of which the prisoner Myers was the driver, in Wel lington-street, London-bridge, to take him to his residence in Union-street, Lambeth, and the prisoner Murphy, with his permission, took his seat in the vehicle, saying he was going with the driver. Soon after getting into the vehicle the prosecutor fell asleep ; but was awoke by a tugging at his pockets, and found that his left-hand trouser pocket, in which he had his money, was torn down. Ile also saw in the hand of the prisoner Murphy a piece of wash-leather belonging to him, and in which there were fifty sovereigns folded up, and instantly challenged him with robbing him of his money, upon which Murphy handed the gold, tied up as it was, through the door in the roof of the cab to the driver. The prosecutor then asked Myers for his property, and told him that if he did not at once deliver it up he should call out "Police." Myers, however, pretended not to understand him, whipped his horse and increased his speed. At length, however, Murphy jumped out of the vehicle and was followed by the prosecutor, who fortunately succeeded in capturing him, and he was ultimately given into the charge of the police. The other prisoner, Myers, subsequently called at the station-house, and he was also secured. In addition to the evidence already given, Jeremiah Cunin said that on the evening of Monday week, between six and seven o'clock, he was in the Water man's Arms public-house, Little Market street, Bermondsey, and saw the prosecutor and the priso ner Murphy come there. The prosecutor was very much intoxicated, and while in front of the bar dashed down on the counter a small leather bag, which from its sound evidently contained gold, and said there were fifty sovereigns in it. From the force with which it was thrown, the bag fell inside the bar, and the landlord requested he would leave it in his hands for safety, and he would give him a receipt for it, so that he might know where he left it. The prosecutor, however, refused to do so, and replaced the bag in his pocket. Murphy, who had drunk a pint of beer at his expense, and also taken up two shillings which the prosecutor had placed on the counter, and put them into his pocket, followed Mr. Satcher out of the house. Wit ness having no doubt from Murphy's manner that his intention was to rob the prosecutor, determined upon following them and giving the prosecutor into the custody of the first policeman he met. While so following them, Murphy made use of the most violent threats to him for interfering, but he continued with them until they met a policeman, named Scott, belonging to the M division, with whom he was acquainted, and to whom he had mentioned the whole of the circumstances of the pro secutor having a bag of gold in his:possession, and his suspicion that Murphy intended to rob him, and adding that if the gentleman* was robbed after what he had stated, it would be his (Scott's) fault, left the prosecutor in the hands of that person. Since — that time he had read an account of the robbery and the examination of the prisoners on the charge at this court in the newspapers, and having little doubt the parties were the same, he felt it to be his duty to come forward as a witness. Mr. NORTON observed that the witness had acted a very proper part in the matter, and if the police•con stable Scott had only performed his duty with equal propriety, the robbery might have been prevented. The case was one which required the tact and vigi lance of one of the detectives to bring forward the necessary testimony to complete it, and he should therefore remand the prisoners to another day, in order that an experienced officer might be employed in the case. The magistrate directed that the landlord of the Waterman's Arms, and also the constable Scott, should be in attendance at the next examination. The prisoners were accordingly remanded, and bai for their appearance refused. INTERESTING CASE OF CLAIR VOYANCE.—RECOVERY OF 6501. (From the Bolton Chronicle.) On Saturday, July 14, a letter was received by Messrs. P. R. Arrowsmith and Co., of this town, from Bradford, Yorkshire, containing a Bank of Eng land note for 5001., another for 501., and a bill of ex change for 1001. These Mr. Arrowsmith handed over in his regular mode of business to Mr. William Lomax, his cashier, who took or sent, as he supposed, the whole to the bank of Bolton, and made an entry accordingly in his cash-book. The bank-book was then at the bank, so that no memorandum of the payment was re ceived or expected. After the expiration of about five weeks, upon comparing the bank-book with the cash book it was found that no entry for these sums was in the . bank-book. Inquiry was then made at the bank, but nothing was known of th e money , nor was there any entry existing in any book or paper there ; and after searching no trace could be found of the missing money. In fact the parties at the bank denied ever having received the sum, or knowing anything of the transaction. Before the discovery of the loss the bill had ',become due, but upon inquiry after the loss was discovered, it was found that it had not been presented for payment. It was, therefore, concluded that as the notes and bill could not be found at the bank, nor any trace or entry connected with them, the probability was that they were lost or stolen, and that the bill had been destroyed to prevent detection. Mr. Lomax had a distinct recollection of having received the notes, &c., from Mr. Arrowsmith, but from the length of time that had elepsed when the loss was discovered, he could not remember w hat he had done with them—whether he had taken them to the bank, or sent them by the accustomed messenger; nor could the messenger recollect anything about them. As might be expected, this unaccountable loss occa. sioned great anxiety to Mr. Lomax ; and in this emergency he applied to a friend to whom the dis covery of Mr. Wood's cash-box was known, to ascer tain the probability of the notes, Sz.c., being found by the aid of clairvoyance. The friend replied that he saw no greater difficulty in the case than in Wood's, and recommended him to make the inquiry. On Friday, August 24, Mr. Lomax, accompanied by Mr. F. Jones, of Ashhurner-street, Bolton, called on Mr. Haddock for this purpose. The clairvoyance was put into a psychic state, and then into connexion with Mr. Lomax. She directly asked for " the pspers," meaning the letter in which the notes and bill were enclosed ; but this Mr. Lomax did not happen to have in his possession, and she said she could not tell anything without it. Th:s sitting, therefore, was so far useless. The next day Mr. Lomax brought the letter, and Mr. Haddock requested that the contents might not be cotnmuni ceted to him, lest it should be supposed that he had suggested anything to her. After considerable . thought the clairvoyante said that there had been three different papers for money in that letter, not Post-office o: - ders, but papers that came out of a place where people kept money in (a bank), and were to be taken to another place of a similar kind. That these papers came in the letter to another gentleman (Mr. Arrowsmith), who gave them to the one present (Mr. Lomax), who put them in a paper, and put them in a red book that wrapped round (a pocket-book). Mr. Lomax then, to the surprise of Mr. Haddock), pulled from his coat pocket a deep red pocket-book, made just as she had described it, and said that was the book in which he was in the habit of placing similar papers. Mr. Lomax said that the clairvoyante was right ; tl at the letter contained two Bank of England notes and a bill of exchange ; but did not say what was the value of the notes. Mr. Haddock then put a 101 Bank of England note into the clairvoyante's hand. She said that two of the papers were like that, hut more valuable, and that the black and white word at the corner was longer. She further said that these notes, &c., were taken to a place where money was kept (a bank) down there (pointing towards Deans ga`e). Beyond this no further inquiry was made at that sitting. On Monday Mr. Lomax called again. The clair voyante went over the case again, entering more minutely into particulars. She persisted in her former statements, that she co u ld see the " marks " of the notes in the red pocket book, and could see them in the banking-house ; that they were in paper, and put along with many. more papers in a part of the bank ; that they were taken by a man at the bank, who put them aside without making any entry, or taking any further no tice of them. She said that the people at the bank did not mean to do wrong, but that it arose from the want of due attention. Upon its being stated that she might be wrong, and requesting her to look elsewhere, she said that it was no use ; that she could see they were in the bank, and no where else ; that she could not say anything else, without saying what was not true; and that if search was made at the bank, there she said they would be found. In the evening Mr. Arrowsmith, Mr. Makant, and Mr. Jones came again, and she was put into the psychic state to repeat these particulars in their presence, which she did. Mr. Haddock then said to Mr. Arrowsmith that he was tolerably confident that the clairvoyante was right, and that he should recommend him to go next day to the bank and insist on a further search, stating that he felt convinced, from inquiries he had made, that his cashier had brought the money there. Mr. Makant also urged the same course on Mr. Arrowsmith. The following morning (Tuesday, August 28), Mr. Arrowsmith went to the bank, and insisted on fur ther search. He was told that, after such a search as had been made it was useless ; but that, to satisfy him, it should be made again. Mr. Arrowsmith left for Manchester, and after his departure a further search was made, and among a lot of papers in an inner room at the bank, which were not likely to have been meddled with again probably for years, or which might never have been noticed again, were found the notes and bill wrapped in paper, just as the clair voyante had described them. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. A special meeting of the shareholders of this com pany was held yesterday afternoon at Bristol, for the purpose of considering the propriety of supporting the re-election of Mr. George Jones, one of the directors ballotted out by the board. Mr. F. Fry presided, and there was a very numerous attendance of pro prietors. The CHAIRMAN in introducing the business ob , served, that the nomination of Mr. Jones as one of the candidates at the ensuing special meeting to be held at the Paddington station on the 20th instant, had received such a large number of respectable sig natures that it might be fairly assumed as a wish of a number of the proprietors that he should represent their interests at the board. From the speech of the chairman at the last half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Company it appeared that it was understood that four of the directors were to retire, and that then the whole of the proprietors possessing the requisite qualification should be open to the free choice of the shareholders, and not a word was said to lead to the inference that a director, ballotted out by his co directors, should not be open to re- election, and therefore the proprietors had a full right to re-elect Mr. Jones if they had confidence in him. He under ' stood that Mr. Jones had not been ballotted out on a chance ballot in which the duty of retiring was decided by lot, but upon a ballot in which different members of the directorate voted against others of their colleagues by striking out their names from a list.—(flear.) The reasons for Mr. Jones's re. election were that he was most conversant with rail way matters, and he was, in conjuction with the late Mr. John Harford and his (the chairman's) late father, the originator of the undertaking. He had been a regular attendant of the board, had watched over the interests of the company with most untiring energy, and proposed a Committee of Inquiry, the result of whose labours was a reduction in the expenditure to the extent of 30,000/. per annum.—(Cheers.) Mr. H. LEONARD, in moving the re-election of Mr. Jones, expressed a high opinion of him. He had been most assidious in his attendance, mid he had en deavoured to carry out the conduct of the railway fur the benefit of the shareholders. Mr. W. RAMsEy seconded the motion. Mr. HORNBLOWER inquired whether the present proceedings emanated from the directors—(Hear, hear)—or whether it was the spontaneous act of the shareholders ? The CHAIRMAN said the proceedings did not ema nate from the directors, who, as he had stated, had ballotted out Mr. Jones. He considered it a very sus spicious circumstance that a gentleman so assidious as A.ly. Jones had been should have been ballotted out, when others, who, not to speak invidiously, were noto rious for non-attendance, were retained. Mr. H. MILLS observed that it was important the meeting should be assured on this point, because an impression prevailed to a great extent that Mr. Jones was still approved by the board, and he knew of several gentlemen who had intended going to London to vote against him, not from any personal disrespect for Mr. Jones, but simply because he was a member of the board.—(Hear, hear.) At the late meeting it was stated that four of the board would retire in order for four new men to go in ; and certainly, when unexplained, it looked a little suspicious when they found that one of the old board was to be nomi nated.—(Hear.) If it was to be understood that Mr. Jones was to go in to oppose the extravagant pro ceedings of the board, then that ground of opposition was done away. Their had been a series of misman agement, and he never remembered finding Mr. Jones get up at their half-yearly meetings and dissent from this or from that. The board was always represented as being very united, and Mr. Jones must bear a share of the odium of this mismanagement, which had been shamefully extravagant. Mr. SOMERTON asked if there was any evidence that Mr. Jones had acted in opposition to the board ? Mr. RAMSEY—Yes. The CHAIRMAN said he could only state that the present meeting did not in any way emanate from the board. At railway meetings the chairman always represented and spoke for the board, giving utterance to the views of the majority, and it was not usual at those meetings for individual members to express their dissent from the vies of the board. After some further conversation on this point, in which Mr. Somerton, Mr. 11. Mills, the Chairman, and Mr. C. Paul joined, the resolution was adopted, nem. con. Mr. J. MERCER moved the next resolution, pledg ing the meeting to support the re-election of Mr. Jones. Mr. WHITWELL seconded the resolution; and, after some remarks from Mr. LEONARD, the resolution was adopted. Mr. G, F. POWELL said there was a good deal of weight in the observations made by Mr. H. Mills, that if they elected a member of the old board, unless upon special reasons, it would be inferred that they approved of the general policy of the board. He should, therefore, move, as a protection to themselves in any course which they might hereafter deem it proper to pursue, " that this meeting has adopted the foregoing resolutions, in the belief that Mr. Jones is friendly to the utmo s t economy and retrenchme nt, consistent with the proper working of the line, and in the hope that, if elected, he wilt not lend his sup port to a continuance of the extravagant system of management hitherto pursued." The resolution was supported by Mr. Mills, Mr. Sotnerton Mr. Kitson, and Mr. Ramsey, and opposed by Mr. H. Clarke and Mr. R. Clarke, who moved as an amendment that the resolution should terminate at the end of the worth " proper working of the line," but afterwards withdrew it ; and the resolu tion ultimately was unanimously adopted, as were others, appointing a deputation to confer with Mr. Gladstone and the northern shareholders. OWL V. SNAKE.—A friend passing through the woods in the vicinity of Milledgeville, Georgia, a few days since, met an owl of the largest cLecription on the road. On his approaching, it made no effort to escape him; nothing was visible to th e eye to prevent its doing so . Struck by the anomaly he determined on a close inspection. Having touched it with a switch, the owl made an effort to fly, which developed under the feathers a snake twisted round its wings. The owl would occa, sionally seize the tail of the snake in its mouth, but it would he as immediately disengaged. After witnessing the contest for u short time our friend killed both. — American Paper. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. FALKIRK TRYST.—This iapertant market for the sale of stock commenced yesterday (Monday) morning with the sale of sheep. Although the weather was, rater eieagreeable th ere was a numerous atten d a nce 01 dealers, and transactions were carried on with consider' a'ele briskness. The market, however, was olliY eloderetely supported, there being nearly a third less of steel; on the ground than at the previous market. Th ° eLundacce of keep, and the unfavourable state of the weather, may have combined to produce this result. Sales commenced as early as nine o'clock, and about eleven the demand seemed to be at its briskest pellet. Black faced wedders, of which there was rather a short supply, ranged in price from 16s to 225. Of this sort We saw ore lot of 351 bought by Messrs. Finlay and Fyfeo u Edinburgh, from Mr. Hugh M'L ean , I nversa nd, e Apping, Sutherlandshire, at the rute of IBs 6d clad, which affords an idea of the general run of prices. Whi te ; faced wedders (embracing L e i ces t ers , C hev i e t t e and crosses) changed bands at pric e s v a ryi ng f rom 22 s to 3 0 ; only one lot, however, brought the latter figure, so 1.6 e as we observed, namely, that from Gordon Bush. Bleci, faced ewes, of which there wa s a mo d era t e supplY•6°,;, at from 6s 6.1 to lls; and white-f a c e d f rom 14 3 to 2u'; Taking the market as a whole, we imagine we ar e not beyond the mark when we e s ti m at e t h e pr i ces f o r we' • deers to be from 2e 6d to 3; below those obtained at 13 1 year's market. There was a v e ry l arge at t en d a nce buyers, who were doubtless disappointed at the short ness of the supply. At an early hour in the afternoon the ground was entirely cleared, and the second day oonsequently be wholly devoted to the sale of cattle.' Edinburgh Advertiser. WILTON ST. GILES'S GREAT SHEEP FAIR, SEPT. 12 —The number penned wa s ab out 90,000. A gre at many purchasers attended, insom uc h th at it wa s vr,,..7.r, difficult to obtain last night a bed a t S a li s b u ry. 4 %7 last train down brought upwards of 200 extra passenger' Owing to the increase of keep, f rom i s t o 3 s a head mor e than was obtained at the late Britford Fair (just ap e calendar month since) were realised. Lambs, 1 45 t ? 245; Ewes, 24; to 345 ; Wethers, 26; to 38s per hes e. The sale was at the first commencement sluggish, uvr i l to purchasers being unwhling t o g i ve t h e a dvance prices, bat ultimately sellers succeeded. There wa 3 - 11 very large number of useful horses for sale, chiefly o n. sisting of agricultural horses. Cart horses from 201. to 281; cobs, 121 to 18/. Ponies at all p r i ces , which Ile' a good sale. NEWCASTLE, SEPT. 11.—Having had heavy showl of rain every day since Saturday, and a short , supplY all descriptions of wheat at market this morning, tract° ruled somewhat firmer, and full prices were obtained' No new wheat of our own growth was show n, but there were a few samples in from the south, which sold at 46 5 to 4Ss per quarter. In other grain no change. Flour , being in very plentiful supply, is the turn cheaper. wha NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, SE PT . 11. -- market opened with rather larger supplies. The beast, trade ruled dull, although a decline of 3d per stone O a s submitted to. Quality good, and p ar t unso ld. Sheer and lambs alsa met with a slow sale at a trifling retitle; tion from the rates of this day wee k. Th e mat e , penned nearly all sold off. A rr i va l s —B eas ts, s °' - '; sheep and lambs, 7,000. P; 5a Od to 66 3d Pet stone; sheep, 4d to 51d; lamb, 4id to sid per lb. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, SEPT. 11.—There w? r , e , in the market to-day 79 sac k s oatmea l , eac h weighlnt 2801bs imperial, whereof 73 so ld th us: - 1 at 1 / 103 51 at 1/ lOs Od, 3 at 11 9s 6d, 5 at 11 93 0.1, 7 l i l a 1/ 8s 6d, 6 at 118 s Od ; average price of the wh o 11 9s 7d 3-12ths. 5 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 3 ; 5 : and 2 at 305. 7 sacks barleymeal, whereof 1 sold e; 245 6J, and 3at 21s. 1 sac k peasemea l , w hi c h was 13° sold. 34 sacks pot-ba r l e y w h ereo f 20 so ld thus:' - 2 at 119; Od, 5 at 1/ 8s Od, 1 at 11 6e 6d, 10 at 114i 0° ' and 2 at 1/ is Od. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW M ARKET , S EP T. a 1a ; to Supplies of all kinds moderate. O a t s t raw, from 8s 61 ,3 lOs Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 7 5 to lOs Od; barley ditto, 7s 6d to 9 s Od. Old hay, trots to 9d; new ditto. 6d to 8d per stone. were , DALKEITII MEAL MAR KET , S EPT . 10. —Th er e 61 bags of oatmeal, 5 o f b ar l eymea l , an d 3 o f pot -ber , at this day's market. S a l es rea d y. O atmea l up on the top is 6d per bag ; s econ d qua li ty up 3d per bag ° 2801bs ; barleymeal down 6d per hag. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second imperial .. 6d 28s Od Barleymeal, per ditto ... 19s Od —s 01 Peasemeal —s Od —s Od Flour —s Od —s Od. Pot barley ... ... 23s 6d —s Od COAL MARK' Bate's West Hartley 14s 6d, Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 9dl Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main l3s Od Hasting's Hartley lss Od Holywell Main l4s 6d New Tanfield l3s 3d Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s Od, Tanfield Moor Townley l4s Od Walker's Primroso West Hartley Wall's End, &c. Brown's l4s 0,1 Brown's Gas . l3s 00 Morrison lss oc, Percy.... Third, 27s pa ,pa _ 3 Oa .... 1 Oa ...8 od ;T.—YESTERDAY. l i ‘ l v id a d ik e e ll r 'S ..... ... . . .... 149 6 a / I Eden Main lss 6 1 Bell Belmont las 9 ,1 Hetton .... 169 °I Haswell 163 9 1 Lambton -- 161 0 „; Plummer ........ .... ... 16s AA D" Russell's Hetton ..... 1 " n ,South Hartlepool ..... los n•- Whitworth 149 l 0 1 Adelaide Tees Cownden Tees ... Seymour Tees Tees Hartley _ Ships at market, 14s (id 148. RAILWAY 81 - 413114.. E. MARKETS. BRISTOL, SEPT. 12. STOCK EXCHANOK.—The share market was very inactive to-day, and scarcely any business doing. In the sales con' eluded prices were unaltered. LI VEEFOOL, SEPT. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market was dull te 4 day. The transactions were few, at generally lower price e• The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (lel C. and B.), 6 per cent, till 1850, 13 1 4—LancaShire Yorkshire, Fifths, 51. lls. 3d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, I 2„ Ditto, Fifths (W. R. U.), Si, i3 s . 94.—L on d on an d Noll . Western, 117 1 4—Ditto, New Quarters, 11. 3s. 9d. p.— th a land, 56 Ditto, Halves, 17 1 ,x, die. South-Eastern e§- . 'over (No. 4), 6 1 4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G . ' E. Purchase) 4% dis. .KIANCLIESTER, SEPT. 12. - fnl' STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-dry were low :—Manchester and Birmin g h am (C ) Q uarters , 24 as P ee , North Staffordshire, 7 3-16 Caledonian, Prefe'e4s4 10 13-16—Dover (No. 4), S cr i p, 6 9-16—Ditto, Old, `,O, —West Riding Uni on , 5: ; , ./ 1 dis.— Man c h es t e r and Le' Fifths, 5 1 / 2 dis. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE . The transactions to-day w ere* by follow :- London and N ort h-W eztern, 118-North 13„,r1lig. Preference, 6 percent. I s . 3d . p.- S outh Staffordsh i re, 4•74 -Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7 1-3 dis. YORK, SEPT. 11. STOCK EXCHANGI.—The transactions to-day were . follow: - Great Norihern, 71 , 42-North B r iti s h, P r eferenc r " . 31. 10s. Oct.-York, Newcastle, an d B erw i ck (G. N.E. chase), 31. 3s. 9d. -York and North Midland, 22 1 4. • GLASGOW, SEPT. 11. 0 STOCK EXCIIANG E.—The tra nsac ti ons to -d a y we r e „yr, follow :-Clyde.-dale Junction, 66-Edinburgh and Glog - 0 , 76 1 ,4 -Edinburgh, Perth, and N ew p ort , 5/ . Bs .-Gla94° Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 48-North Tiritish, Preference, 71. A MAN STABBED WIT H R ED H OT The a particulars of thi s shocki ng case h ave alrea dy ePPear„eiv in the columns of Me Sun. On Satu r d a y au incl ll- 0 was held on the body. Th e p r i soner , Ricardsont admitted he perpetrated the deed, though he denied to felonious intention, was charged by the j u ry w ith Wil ea murder; on the same day the magistrates comm itted 1 111 " to take his trial on the same charge. Mr. W. Carter, the coroner, held an inquest at th e King's Arms Tavern, St. George's road, c a mber: well, on the body of Mary Caruthers, aged 6 ,,, j years, who committed suicide under the follovii h l3 r l circumstances:—lt appeared that the deceased was the widow of a compositor, residing at Camberwell. P",„; was a very timid person, and had an idea that %- would die from the cholera or be reduced to the w° l•-• house. On Saturday, about noon, the deceased left 13 1 daughter's house to take a walk, while the latter prepar h e , dinner. She passed the Halfpenny Hatch gate, a t t ir, - Peckham Canal House, asking her way to the Wal w " --,- 0 road. She walked on until she reached the Wog 0 Arms-bridge, where it is supposed she leaped in, for eo n of the officers, who was go i ng past, had his stle ll-l ija drawn to a female's bead moving in the water. raised an alarm, when the drags ware brought to to o spot, and in a few minutes the body was dragged ye shore and removed to the receiving -house at the a. is . ex named tavern, where the usu a l reme di es we re scl in tin 'T e t, tered to restore animation, but lif e was q uite 3s. 6d. and a small comb wer e f oun d i n h er pocket, but no paper or writing was t o b e di scovere d t hat w°, l2 , 11 decidedly account for the a c t. Th e coroner re marked the case, and the jury agreed to a verdict of Tempo rary insanity. [ADVERTISEMENT.)-9_ Cure of a severe Stria Disease by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—James Jenkins, I t; vv agricultural labourer residing o n a f arm near N e wtown, fered dreadfully from a most f ear f u l di sease o f th e skin, wn le broke out in blotches in various parts of his body ; the emu; plaint was gradually impairing his constitution, he had beeol il low-spirited and nervous. He had tried to obtain relief b 3" medicines from two or three medical men, but their remedte , proved useless. He then commenced tatting Holloway's Pills, and rubbing the Ointment well into the affected parts, and 1/' these means he is now restored to perfect health and his s kis freed from all impurities.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Pro' lessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. " WEIITECHAPEL; Aldgate. " F. 22, wife of a nightman, cholera 4 days, September 5,3, Crown-court, Blue Anchor-yard.—Over-crowded, unhealthy place. " M. 8 months, son of a labourer, cholera, September 8,8, Shorter's-rents, Dock-street.—The cholera seems to have visited Nos. 7,8, and 9 in this court. The medical gentleman states this case was produced by neglect and improper treatment. " ST. GEORGE'S-IN• THE-EAST; St. Mary. "F. 46, wife of a Waterman, cholera, not certified, September 6, 57, Cable-street.—The informant states, ' that the medical attendants refused to give a certificate on the ground that he thought a coroner's inquest would be held on the body.' " STEPNEY; Shadwell. "M. 23, mariner, cholera 7 hours, September 6,2, Bell-wharf-hill.—Privy in the cellar, slowly diffusing its deleterious and poisonous effluvia through the house. The informant further states, that the stench is so intolerable at times that they are compelled to leave the house. " F. 5, daughter of a labourer, cholera 15 hours, Sep tember 6,7, Three Cup-alley.—A. very dirty house and over-crowded. Here, indeed, is a compound of villanous smells; facing the house is a bone and offal boiler's, pouring forth its horrid stench; a little further on a dust yard, with its decomposing animal and vegetable matter, around which several cases of pestilential cholera have occurred. " LONDON-ROAD. " F. 30, widow of labourer, diarrhoea 6 hours,ho lo ra 12 hours, September 2 , 16, Elizabeth-pla, Water road.—ln this court there is no thoroughfare ; the pri vies are in the centre of it, and every time the water comes on there is a very noxious smell of gas from the drain. " WALWORTH. _ _ " The registrar for the district district of St. Peter, Wal worth, appends the following foot note to his returns It will be seen by this return that the cholera has raged fearfully this week in my district, the number of deaths being double that of last week. I have registered 91 deaths, and have 15 medical certificates which I was not able to get in the book on Saturday; and I may re• mark, that it has spread over the whole district into almo_t every street, and taking persons of all classes from the most respectable to the poorest.' WATERLOO-ROAD. " To the return for the Waterloo-road the following valuable note is appended:— " Perhaps it may not be irrelevant to state that I have taken considerable pains, since the commencement of cholera in my district, to ascertain at what particular stage of the disease medicine had first been administered, and I have no hesitation in saying that at least half the cases I have registered were allowed to proceed un checked until the most alarmieg and dangerous symp toms had manifested themselves, but lately more cir cumspection seems to have been used; nevertheless the cases are still numerous in which persons seem (from the painless nature of the attacks) to be unconscious how highly necessary it is that immediate attention should be paid to it. My inquiries lead me to concur with the observations of a brother registrar:—" That the employ ers of the poor could do much to render them more alert to the terrible consequences of neglect or, uncleanliness." 1 4 GREENWICH. " F., 35, wife of painter, cholera 30 hours, September 4, Salatation-alley, near the Arsenal gates.—The sister of this person, and her sister's husband, died of cholera last week, in London, at Newington-causeway. A son of Mrs. hall, 18 years of age, has since died. The mother, who nursed those persons, came on Saturday last to stay with this individual. In the back yard, near the dwelling, was an everflowing privy, and near it a durghole, the drainage running into it." Iu this week's return, as in previous ones, the absence of information such as registrars must have the most extensive and best means of acquiring, is again obsery able in nearly all the districts where cholera has been most fatal. Thus, in the districts of Bermondsey, St. George's Southwark, Newington, and Camberwell, and nearly all the cases recorded, are given in the shortest form pos sible, and the opportunity is lost fur collecting that full and minute statement of facts the value of which becomes every day more apparent. The Board of Health has published the following notification to churchwardens, overseers, and other persons, with reference to burial-grounds : " Gwydyr House, I , ‘ bitehall, Sept. 10. _ . . . "It having been proved that there is danger to health and life from emanations arising from human remains in a state of decomposition ; that such emanations produce fatal disease and depress the general health of whoever are exposed to them in ordinary times ; that, even when the burials have been so deep as to diminish the escape of surface emanations, injurious effects are traced in the pollution of springs and wells; and much evidence having also been received that during the prevalence of the present epidemic additional injury to the public health has been incurred by the practice of intramural interments, the General Board of Health are prepared to adopt measures for its discontinuance wherever, upon the report of an inspector, founded on the preliminary examination required by the 10,11 section of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, it shall appear that ' any burial-ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood.' Iu conformity with the terms of the Act, and pro ceeding in each case upon the special report of an in spector, the Board have already ordered several grave yards to be temporarily closed. " They would, however, urge upon churchwardens, overseers, and all other persons having charge of grave yards, particularly in the metropolis, the great import. ance of their voluntarily making immediate preparation for the suspension of intramural interments; such au thorities being now by the 10th section of the 'Nuisance Removal and Diseases Prevention Amendment Act,' em powered to discontinue the practice as set forth in the words of the statute hereto annexed. " The General Board of Health would recommend that the arrangements made should in general be strictly of a temporary nature, in order that all danger may be avoided of their clashing with those general and perma nent measures which it will be the duty of the board to prepare, at the earliest practicable period, for the sanc tion of the Legislature. The board hope that the mea sures in contemplation will meet with approval, inasmuch as they will be framed in the spirit of the following resoulutions, adopted at a meeting of the parochial clergy of the metropolis, and sanctioned by the Bishops of Londo❑ and Winchester:— " The Committee of the Parochial Clergy, the Very Rev, the Dean of Manchester in the chair, reported the following as the result of their inquiries:— "‘ First, they beg to express their acquiescence in the opinion now so generally and strongly entertained by the public, that it is exceedingly desirable that interments within the metropolis, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned, sections No. 25 and 26, should be discon tinued, and that larger and more convenient burial grounds than those at present existing should be substi tuted at reasonable distances from the metropolis, pro vided such grounds, when established, be parochial burial-grounds, with a reservation to all parties now having or hereafter by law to have certain interests in the ancient churchyards or parochial burial-grounds, of all the same rights, privileges, and duties now belonging to them. " In submitting the above plan the committee beg to state, that their object throughout has been not merely to provide for the removal of the evils of the pre sent system, and for the preservation of existing rights, but to suggest the extension of benefits to the community. Their wish is that every inhabitant of London, however poor, should have a legal right to the following privileges on the death of a rela tive—namely, an undisturbed grave in the peaceful se clusion of a well ordered burial-ground; the full per formance of the Church of England service ; the respectable conveyance of the body to the place of burial, and whenever the removal of a body from the place of death may be desired, its care and safe custody in a house of reception until the time of burial. They wish these privileges not to be of an eleemosynary character, but the provision of the Church for the population, whether rich or poor, to be obtained by every one on application at the church of his parish, and on the pay ment of the lowest charges for which such services can be rendered. " By order of the Board, " H. AUSTIN, Secretary." CLAUSES IN THE NUISANCES AMENDMENT ACT, HAVING REFERENCE TO INTERMENTS. " 9. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful in Englandand iin I r o e r l a I n V d a f e e s r for the t h c e o n a G m e s e s r i a o l n e ß r s o a o r f d H o e f a il lth e , alt t h o , cause inquiry to be made by a superintending in spector, or by such other ways and means as the General Board of Health, or such Commissioners, may deem fit to direct, into the state of the burial grounds in any part of England or Wales excepted from the powers of the Public Health Act, 1848, or in any populous city, town, or place in England or Wales to which for the time being the said Act has not been applied, or in any populous city, town, or place in Ireland, and if it appear to the General Board of Health or the said Commissioners that such burial-ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood thereof, it shall be lawful for the said General Board of Health in England and Wales, under the seal of the said board, and under the hands of two or more members thereof, and the said Commissioners of Health in Ire land, under the hands of two or more of them, to issue such orders as the said Board or Commissioners respec tively may think fit for the application of such disin fecting substances, and for the adoption of such other measures of precaution in relation to the premises, as NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEATH OF ANOTHER VETERAN NAVAL OFFICER. —We regret to announce the death of one who in his day was amongst the best and bravest officers in the royal navy—Captain Alexander Barclay Branch, K.H. (1822), of Greenwich Hospital. He attended the hospital council on Saturday, in good health, but on arriving at his official residence he was attacked with diarrhoea, and died on Tuesday, at one o'clock, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. By his decease an appointment to Greenwich Hospital is vacant, and a pension for wounds, of 2001. per annum, falls in hand. _ _ _ Death has been busy of late with the old pen sioners at Greenwich Hospital. Numbers of them are dying daily. The Admiralty arrived at Holyhead by special train from Bangor, on Tuesday morning, and in spected the harbour and packet establishment, and were to leave in the evening in the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, Master Commander Cooke, for Pembroke. FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—The commander of her Ma jesty's packet Caradock, Charles Ladd, R.N., on his way from Holyhead to Dublin, on Monday morning, with the mail, when about mid channel descried a small boat, with only one man in it, making his way towards the track of the steamer. The humane commander finding, on near approach, that the boat was adrift, the man without water or provisions, had him taken on board in an exhausted state, huiated the boat up, and brought him safely to Kingstown. Ho proved to bo a fisherman named Rickards, who, on rowing from Ireland's Eve to Howth, on Sunday night, fell asleep, and got blown off the coast. Rickards is a native of Howth, and owes his life to the careful look-out and humane feelings of Cap tain Ladd. Yesterday at the Westminster County Court, on two cases being called upon for hearing, hi which Mr. Duncombe, the solicitor, was engaged, it was stated by his clients, that the previous afternoon ho was suddenly attacked with Asiatic cholera, and was then lying dan- Lerously ill. lIMMWEIII BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at Farnborough Vicarage, Warwick.. shire, the wife of the Rev. C. W. Holbech, of a daughter. 0 On the 10th inst., at Preston Vicarage, near Brighton, th wife of the Rev. Walter Kelly, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Earl's-terrace, Kensington, the ha of 'l'. \Valmsley, Esq., of a son . the On the 10th inst., at Cambridge -square, Fide -park, lady of J. Bt ;gilt, Esq., M. 1)., of a son. On the 7th in s t., a t Cl ap h am-rite, Mrs. Benjamin Fi eld, of a son. MARRIED. alb On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Francis Roge r s, Esq., to Eliza, daughter of the late Bev. James OW— wicar of Trtkely, Essex. On the 10th i ns t., a t C oss i ngton, Somersetsh i re, the Bee J. 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