The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

Vitrb Xbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. AUSTRIA. The Breslauer Zeitung gives the following con nected account of the late movements of the Austrian and Hungarian armies. It appears that the Imperial army, having received considerable reinforcements from Austria Proper, took up its position eastward from Pesth, extending from Waitsen and Godollo to Hatvan and Czegled. The left wing was commanded by General Schlick, who took up his quarters at Waitzen, while the bulk of the army stood at Hatvan, commanded by Windischgratz, and the right wing, under Baron Jellachich, occupied Czegled and the environs of that place. The Magyar army, commanded by General Dem binski, had crossed the river Theiss, and advanced to within nine miles from Pesth. Dembinski first en gaged the . Ban of Croatia at C ze g led, and enticed him from his post by the retreat of a lesser number of troops than the Ban had, and induced him to follow the flying Hungarians deeper into the country than he ought to have done. Baron Jellachich was thus cut off from the army of Prince Windischgratz, and the only thing which he now can do is to proceed further to the south to assist the Servians. On the 4th of April the Hungarians made a simultaneous at tack upon the Austrian head-quarters at Hat v an, and upon the left wing under General S c hli c k. ,The two armies tried their strength a ga i ns t eac h o ther in a pitched battle, and the combat lasted the whole day. The Austrian centre was pressed back to the very walls of Pesth. As for the left wing of their army, there are no positive accounts of how they fared, but it is not unlikely that they, too, shared the fate of Baron Jellachich—that they were deluded by a retreat of their enemies and cut off. The hopes---Whieli-Prince-Windischgratz, has of them cannot be very sanguine, for the preparati▪ ons which were making at Pesth on the s th and 6th i▪ nst. show that no less than a general retreat to the right bank -of - the Danube is_ in contemplation. The Prince's, orders to fortify the city of Buda against an attack from Pesth are peremptory. The houses next the river and near the suspension bridge are being evacuated by the. inhabitants and oocupied by sol diers ; they windows of these houses have barricades of sand-sacks; -the seamen are constantly kept with their steam up, so that they may be ready to start ate moment's notice, and a number of waggons laden with military stores and wounded soldiers are con tinually crossing the suspension bridge. ITALY. In the sitting of the Venetian Assembly of the 2d, Mania communicated to that body the painful intelli gence of the defeat of the Piedmontese. He re marked that the circumstances were difficult, and that it was for the Assembly to determine the course to be followed. A representative having re plied that the Government ought to take the lead, Ilanin asked, " Are you, citizens and representa tives, determined to resist at every cost ?" " We are 1" was the unanimous cry. " Are you disposed to give me unlimited powers, that I may do whatever is, use ful and necessary for the purpose, without my being' obliged to give you explanations ?" "Yes, yes I" was again the unanimous answer. "I did not expect less from this generous assembly," said Manin, "and I accept." The loudest applause greeted this declara tion. . The representatives flocked round Manin and embraced him ; he himself was deeply moved. The fallowing decree was then passed :-- The Assembly of Representatives of the State of Venice, in the name of God and the people, unanimously (It ere( s as follows: " Venice shall resist the Austrians at every cost. "Fur ibis purposa President Manin is invested with unflawed poivers. " Presid. nt, GIOVANNI MINOTTO. Vice-Pse3idents, LUDOTICO PASINI, BATT. VARE. " Secretaries, PASINI, RUYFINI, SOMMA, VA LUSSI." SICILY. The following is an extract from a private letter from Marseilles, dated the 11th inst.:— " '1 he Philippe Auguste left Palermo the the 2d, in th• evening, with 900 b =els of powder and three move• able barricades, which it went to tieposit at Syracuse. At four o'clock A.M., and whilst it was landing its cargo, the telegraph announced at twelve miles distant, in the waters of Catania, the Neapolitan division ; consequently hostilities had not yet commenced on the 4th. The Philippe Auguste then proceeded to Malta. Whilst there the steams Independant entered the har bour from Palermo, which it had quitted on the sth, at which date the pert of Palermo was not yet blockaded, and there was no Neapolitan vessel near. " The Philippe Auguste arrived at Marseilles on the loth." TAT FERSALL'S-T HIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK. SONERSETIMIRE MAKES. 2 to I apt Loupgarou 5 to 1 agst Brandyface TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. Even on Nunnykirk 5 to I agst Garrick METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 7 to 2 agat Peep o' Day Boy 6 to 1 agst Lugar 7 to 1 agst Fernhill 8 to 1 agst Flatcatcher 10 to 1 agst Fugl man: 20 to 1 agst Do-the-Boys Any odds agst Csnezou CHESTS& CIIP. 14 to 1 agst Jac o' Sot 14 to 1 agst Chanticleer—taken DERRY. 2 to 1 agst Flying Dutchman 11 to 2 agst Tadmor, 6 to 1 agst Nunnykirk 12 to 1 agst Vanguard lAI PERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'clock. SECOND READING. The following Bill was read a second time : London Gas Light Company (Amendment of Act). TEIIRD RE.~I)INGS. The followir , Bills were read a third time and passed: Flartlepr;ol Gas and Waterworks. London and Blackwall Railway (Amendment aud Ex tension of Time). Wareham Docks (Construction of Docks near Wareham and entrance thereto from Wareham Channel). REPORTS. The following reports were considered and agreed to:— Marshland Smeeth and Fen (Equalization of Drainage Rates and Repair of Roads). Grimsby Corporation and Freemen's Arrangement. Kid.!erminster Unio❑ Small Tenements Rating. Macclesfield Borough Waterworks, Markets, &c. CLERGY RELIEF BILL. Mr. DUNCAN presented petitions from the presby tery of Dundee in favour of this Bill. SUNDAY TRAINS. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition against Sunday trains, from Dundee. MARRIAGE BILL. • Mr. ELLIOT presented a petition from Kelso, in favour of an alteration in the Marriage law. ARBITRATION. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham, in favour-of Arbitration. Mr. 11. BERKLEY presented a petition to the same effect. MR. SHORE. The now. MEISIBEiCaIsO --- presented a petition from Aigned by 4,000 persons, in favour of the libera- tion of Mr. Shore, and in favour of the immediate a partition of the Uhureh and State. SUNDAY TRAVELLING. Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from Inverness against Sunday travelling. SEDUCTION. Colonsl THOMPSON presented a petition from Brad ford, prayirg for he punishment of persons trading in seduction. RATING. Mr. C. LEWIS presented a petition from Ross, pray ing that owners of tenements under 6/. might be rated instead of the ten4nts. LAW OF SETTLEMENT. Mr. GODSON presented a petition from Kiddermin ster prayin. for an alteration of the law of settlement. THE MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION LAWS Mr. M'INIEILI (SCOTLAND. presented petitio ns against these Bills. SUFFRAGE. Mr, G. THOMPsoN • presented a petition in favour of the extension of the tr9.tion. s uff rage, and in f a vour of arbi- STOPPAGE OF HALF -PAY . - - Mr.COBDEN presented a petition from Lieut. Francis nigginson, compliiinirg that his half-pay had been stopped by thp Admiralty, and praying f or inquiry. Mr. F. MAULE presented petitions from Perth against the running of trains on Sundays, and against the Marriegs and Registrathin Bills. ARBITRATION. Mr. CURRIE. presented potitions from Northampton in 'avour of arbitration. MARRIAGE BILL. Mr. J. S. WOO TLEY presnt, , d petitions from different porta of the county of Cork hi favour of the Marriage Bill. :TAXATION. Mr. H. DRUM MOND gave notice of his intention, on Thursdly, the 26th inst., te move for a Committee of the while House to consider the public expenditure and the ex:sting system of taxation, and how far both might be revised with a view to relieve the expenditure of the country and the pressure upon the industrious portion of the community. THE B ALLOT. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice of his intention on the 2d of May to move for leave to bring in a Bill to make die vote by ballot at elections the law of the land.—(Hear, hear.) NATIONAL REVENUE. Lord.DUNCAN gave notice of his intention (to-raor row) to put a question to the Chancellor of the Ex- T chequer, with respect to the payment of the national 1 revenues into the Exchequ'r, without any reduction. IRISH POOR-LAW.—ENCUMBERED ESTATES _ (IRELAND). Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice of his in tention, on Tuesday, the 24th inst., to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Poor Law Ireland Act; and he also gave notice that it was the in tention of his Learned Friend the Solicitor-General, on the same day, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to fa cilitate the sale of encumbered estates in Ireland. SICILY. Mr. DISRAELI wished to know from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government when the papers with respect to the affairs of Sicily would be distributed among Members? Loid JOHN RUSSELL had spoken to his Noble Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs upon the subject, and he had informed him that the only reason the papers had not already been laid on the table of the House was in consequence of their being so voluminous. He could assure the Hon. Member the papers would be laid on the table with the least possible delay. Mr. DISRAELI considered the answer of the Noble Lord most indefinite, and stated his intention, unless he received a more definite answer, of bringing the whole subject of the foreign relations of this country before the House at the earliest possible opportunity. NAVIGATION-LA W S. _ _ _ • The Hox. MEMBER also asked the Noble Lord at the head of the Government a question relative to public business. Would the Noble Lord be good enough to inform the House when Ministers intended to take the third reading of the Navigation Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL said he intended to take the re port on Thursday, and the third reading on Monday. APPREHENSION OF DESERTERS (PORTU GAL) BILL. _. . _..... . _ This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. THE •SUN, COLONIAL EXPENDITURE. Mr. SCOTT then rose to move for a Select Committee to inquire into the political and financial relations be tween Great Britain and her dependencies, with a view to reduce the charges on the British Treasury, and to enlarge the functions of the Colonial Legislatures. He said he owed an apology to the House for venturing to bring so important a subject under consideration, because when he remembered that no allusion was made to it in the Speech from the Throne, he felt that the subject became one of too much importance to be dealt with by an humble Member like himself. When he remembered, too, the divi sion of opinion which existed in the House on the subject, he felt that he ought to shrink from introducing the question, but, on the other hand, wheu he recollected the interests which were involved in the prosperity of our colonial empire, he could not help thinking that it behoved every man, how ever humble his station and ability might be, to endeavour to bring about a better system of government for the colonies than at present existed.—(Bear.) The number of our colonies was somewhere between 40 and 50, while they were about forty or fifty times as large as the British empire; our exports to these colonies were far greater than the exports to all the other parts of the world put .together. Our tonnage and shipping trade was the same, for in 1845, while the tonnage to foreign ports amounted to 2,250,0001., the tonnage to colonial ports was no less than 3,170,0001. The present expense of governing the colonies amounted to no ltss than .5,600,0001. The population of the colonies, .half of whom were negroes and other coloured races, was five millions. Now, it was said that this country was extravagantly taxed; but if that were so, as no doubt it was, the colonies had double cause for complaint, inasmuch as the population of these countries amounted to 30,000,000, and the tax ation to 24,000,0001.,. giving only 16s. a head, while the population. .of the colonies being 5,000,000, with 5,600,0001. of taxes, gave as much as 28s. per head. Now it did appear to him to be a subject worthy of in quiry whether the enormous cost of governing our colonies was owing to the extensive tracts of continent which We possessed in Asia, in Africa, in America, and in Australasia, or whether it was not rather due . to one small responsible and geographical spot in Downing street; and when they talked of making changes in our colonial govern ment, he thought it behoved them to consider whether they might not with great advantage make some changes nearer home. When they talked of giving up the colonies —and he knew that such an opinion was entertained by some Honourable Members opposite—he thought they might, with great advantage to this country, pro pose giving up something in the metropolis.— (Hear.) Mr. Adam Smith stated that the government of the English colonies in North America would not cost the inhabitants more than 64,7001. a year. " Such," added that eminent writer, is a "memorable example of the small expenditure for which three millions of people may not only be governed, but well governed." Then the highest possible authority in this country—he meant Earl Grey—stated, on the 10th of August, 1848, that our system of colonization was never so perfect as at the present time. If, then, our system of coloni zation was so much more perfect than it was in 1770, when Adam Smith wrote, and when three millions of persons were governed fur 64,7001., they might surely calculate that five millions of subjects might at the same rate be governed for 105,1071. Bat in these days of perfection no less than 3,372,198/. was required fur the governmeni of the British colonies. It costs now as much to 'govern 100,000 persons as it did for three millions 1 770,' and it required 140 times as much to govern every subject in the Mauritius as it did when colonization was not so well understood. Although the salaries received by the Governors of the Mauritius and Ceylon exceeded the amount required in 1770 to govern three Millions, Earl Grey stated before the Committee on the miscellaneous estimates that the colonial governors were exceedingly under paid. The Honourable Member then referred to the opinion expressed by a statesman in 1845, who thought that we had better return to the policy of our ancestors, and allow the colonies to govern them selves; and who said that although they might commit some serious mistakes, from all his expe rience he was in favour of self-government. Earl. Grey was now the statesman in power with the means of carrying out his political views _as a states man; but with his change of place a change had come over the Noble Lord. The praise of the Noble Lord formerly related to times past, but his praise was now re'erred to the future. The colonies, at the period to which Lord Grey alluded, had charters of self-government at that time given to them, in many instances, during the period of the Stuarts, which was not the most liberal period of our history. There were afterwards charters drawn up for them by Lord Somers, one of the greatest statesmen of that time. Carolina was at that time aristocratic, and the other co lonies had the power, to the fullest extent, of making their own laws; and now at this time, when those colo nies had that power, he might ask why Ireland should not be self-governed? By war we lost colonies which we once possessed, and by war we had taken the colonies which we now held. We preserved them indeed within the pale of our dominions, but without the pale of the Constitution, and denying them in melt instances civ 1 rights, we governed them by in structions and by dispatches sent out froth Downieg street; and that minister who, in 1835, condemned that system, continued it in 1849. In 1670 it was, that there was first appointed a Committee of the Privy Council on colonial matters, and afterwards Lord Somers, who drew up the beads fur the Board of Council, crew up likewise the charters. Those colonies continued to be well governed while they were governed under their own charters; and when at length we lost those coloniei, the two causes which tended prin cipally to light the flame were precisely the two causes which were now carried into effect by the present Minister ; he (Mr. Scott) meant that of altering the constitution without the will of the colonies, and of refusing them the privilege of self government. To these might be added the taxing them without their consent. Now in the various colonies that was carried into effect at the present day by the present Minister ; in New South Wales, British Guiana, and Jamaica. We taxed the colonists with heavy civil lists against their consent and against their most express desire. Now, he would ask, not whether it was fair and just, but whether it wise, prudent and politic to propagate such iniquities, and then to allow such feelings to 'arise and to be engendered as if there were no common feelings existing between this country and her colonies, or no common interest? Instead of continuing to tamper with their constitutions, and deny ing them rights which we claim to ourselves as British subjects, we ought to regard them as British subjects in different parts of the same empire. During the last year there had been some attempt to obtain a remedy for the grievance. In a letter obtained under the return moved for by Earl Grey, there had been a reference made to the duties to be imposed and the saving to be made, but no remedy, so far as he was in formed, had been carried into effect. But it should be observed that the remedy which had there been suggested was not a remedy for the relief of the colonies or of the House, but for the relief of the Secretary for the Colo nies.—(Hear, hear.) And this remedy did not so much affect the state of the colony, as the convenience of those who had the government of it ; a relief, let it be re marked, that the Minister and not the colonists were to enjoy. But these duties, to whom were they to be delegated ? Certainly not to the Go vernor. The colonists could not undertake them, and the Colonial-office was too full of business to interfere in any way in so delicate an affair. In fact, the whele duty was to devolve upon that prime agent of all colonial affairs, the Secretary of State.—(Hear, , hear.) In the evidence given before the Select Com mitte during the course of the last year, be found that to the question 6,650 the Noble Earl made the reply, that though formally the whole of those matters were under the jurisdiction of the Board of Trade, they were in reality and substantially under the entire direction of the Secretary for the Colonies. If be referred to the an swer of Si r J. S tephen, the same resu l t wo uld be obtained. The words might seem to bear something different from that conta i n e ds in the reply of 'the Secretary , but, up on e.i the r moreexitienatioe, it would be found to be IeSS than the same.—(Hear.) e a e j ust t ice, e, or the important a It w as unreasonabl e to suppose that great colonies could bereag; a distance overnedwith a p ropr iety, economy,distant rafts i m g them. Next, he m question of auditing the public accou n ts . appeared Shat 170 persons were constantly engage d out at a cost of 2 , 0701 . Now, if we allowed th e m to audit their awn aceounts the cost would be greatly re. duced. Then, again, the colonists had a right tocomplain that the Home Ministers were constantly changing their policy. Those to whom the destinies of our great colo nial empire were entrusted were changed on the average once in eighteen ;months. Indeed, of late they had changed the Secretary of State and tlle Under-Secretary of State on the average every year. But this was not all. The chief ruler of the destinies of the colonies ehanerd his mind once every six weeks.—(Laughter.) 1••• r ex ample, there was a dispatch sent out, and it was ree,ked within a month. There was a constitution sent out for New Zealand, and it was revoked within a year. There was a Constitution sent out for New South Wales; it was disapproved of there, and then it was said it was only sent out for a pattern. There was a Constitution sent out to the Cape of Good Hope, which was just as badly received. This battledoor and shut tlecock affair might be fine fun for the Colo nial-office, but it would not do for plain thinking and well educated men. The fact was, that in the go vernment of all our Australian colonies the crotchets of the Secretary of State were made paramount to every other considerations. In giving constitutions to the colonies the course that had been pursued appeared to do well in theory, but it did not do in practice.— (Hear, hear.) At this moment the colonies were loud in their complaints against the present Go - vernment, and he warned her Majesty's Ministers that if they did not change theiir colonial policy, this country would lose one of the greatest colo nial empires that any kingdom ever held. What was it caused the war between this country and Ame rica? It was precisely what was being done now in some of our best colonies. Sir Thomas Barnett, the Governor of Massaehussets, refused to admit into the legislature of the colouy a member who did not support his views. That was precisely what was being done in many colonies, Governors were overriding the law, and Ministers might depend upon it that if they persisted in their present course of colonial policy many of our best colonies would soon follow the example of America.—(Hear. hear.) He would pass now from British Guiana to our North American colonies. But perhaps in the minds of some Honourable Gentlemen, looking at the circumstances which had recently transpired about Canada an impression might prevail that the present is not the season to bring forward a complaint of this sort, but he must be allowed to repeat that the non-in terference in this country with colonial questions, and the absence of discussions upon topics fre quently gave rise to many of the difficulties which affected our colonial empire.—(Hear, hear.) Now to pass at once from British Guiana to the North Ame rican Colonies—these colonies had two forms of Go vernment ; one he might call the democratic form, and the other the absolute form. For instance, in Prince Edward's Island the Government of the country was centralised in three or four persons, some of whom held as many as ten state offices, and if he was rightly intormed three of them held no less than seventeen places between them.—(llear.) In the demo• cratic class, such as Canada, the Government was much better, but still it might be greatly improved ; and he thought it a much safer policy to make wise concessions in time, than pursue a bad policy till the colonists rose up and threw off the yoke of the mother country.—(Hear.) The fact was, if England had always considered her co lonies as rising states, of which she might at some future period have great reason to be jealous, she could not have adopted a course • more calculate d to alleviate their regard and affection. In the Mauritius the commerce was burdened to an amount of about 3,000,0001., or nearly 21. per head of the population. In Jamaica it was found there was an adverse balance of 395.,0001. on an - entire export trade of 1804,0001. The eolonial policy pressed on the commerce of the colonies. The Government at home imposed or rather sanctioned the expenditure and re duced the revenue. The petitions from Demerara and Tobago complained simply that they had not' the control of their own expenditure. Although Ito allusion was made to the colonies in the Queen's Speech in Parliament, he might ask whether they were without the pale of constitution, and whether the principles of freedom and justice had not the same foundation in the extremest parts of the globe as within the realm of Eng land. He knew that the Hon. Gent', man, with nll his tact would tell them of all the advantages which bad been enjoyed by the colonies, but he believes that if the inquiry were fully made, that it would be found that there was not one of the colonies which had received the slightest advan'ege from the erection of civil inAi tutions. Why did they speak of responsible govern ment, when there were so many interferences with the proper discharge of official duty ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He alluded, however, not only to the discharge of duty, but to the mischiefs which arise from the evils emanating from the possession of property. He was aware that the Crown had the right to possess property in the colonies, but it would seem that instead of being a benefit, the right which ought above all others to be a benefit to a colony, had proved to be nothing but a detriment. Responsible Govern ment was in tact a mockery. He had seen from a letier of Lord Grey that naauy men of family had emigrated, and he was aware that such bad been the case. But what was the result ? Those who had gone out with hope had returned in despair—those who had gone out with property had returned in poverty. The Villiers, the Vernons, and all the others had proceeded to the colonies in fhe reasonable anticipation of taking position had given up the attempt in miserable disappointment, and they were now nowhere. In fact, the Colonial-office was responsible for all the evil which hod accrued through the misadventure of the system which they had adopted. [LEFT SPEAKING.] ,-LONDON, MONDAY - -EVENING , APRIL 16, ' 1849, PARRIOIDE. GLOSSOP, SATURDAY MORNING.—A sensation, which it would be difficult to attempt to describe, prevails at the present time throughout this usually quiet distr ict, in consequence of the discovery having been made of a most appalling murder, which there is no doubt, from what has recently transpired, was perpe trated by a young man named Thomas Doxey, a son of the unfortunate victim. The murder was committed as far back as last December, and the body was found on New Year's eve in the water near Victoria-bridge. The circum stances connected with the case were at the time considered to be very mysterious, but no evidence could be procured likely to implicate any person, although rumour was busy, and pointed to members of the deceased's family, who were known frequently to quarrel with and ill use the old man. On Good:Friday, however, a man named John Clough made a most startling disclosure con nected with the affair, which coming to the ears of Mr. Clayton, the chief officer of police, he at once went in search of the alleged murderers. On Sunday last he succeeded in apprehending Thomas Doxey, the deceased's own son, and William Dawson, his son-in-law. The two were on Wednesday last brought before Mr. Yates, one of the magistrates of the district, when John Clough, upon being sworn, stated, that on the 30th of December last, about 10 o'clock at night, he and his wife were crossing Victoria-bridge, when he saw Thomas Doxey aid another man, whom he at first believed to be Wil liam Dawson, accost the deceased, who was also crossing the bridge. The deceased was at that time in front of witness. The prisoner Doxey then went up to him, and said that he would strike Lim, when he at once gave him a blow over the head, which felli-d him to the ground like a bullock, and the other man kicked him on the head. His son then cried out, " We will murder the d— old b--- now." After that he kicked his father twice on the breast, when witness went up and asked what they were doing to the old man. The wife of witness was with him at the time. The two persons who were murdering the deceased cried out that if they did not go away they would serve them the same. They being afraid of losing their lives, made off, but as they were so doing looked round and saw the two men throw the deceased over the Victoria-bridge into the brook. He (witness) heard the splash and saw the man fall. years, ea r h s had k and n owwa was, the therefore, prisoner quiteDoxey cert a ifnor h e more s e t n h e a n of two men who committed the murder. The reason he did not mention the matter till Good Friday was on account of the prisoner Doxey telling him if he did he should surely lose his own life. He was not certain that the prisoner Dawson was the other person he saw with Doxey, and be now considered that that person was somewhat stouter. lie had seen Doxey se veral times, who had cautioned him not to say a word about his throwing his father over the bridge. The witness having been severely cross examined. Mrs. Clough, his wife, was next called, and after she had given her testimony, the prisoner Doxey was fully committed for the wilful murder of his father, but the prisoner Dawson was discharged, his friends proving that he was in the house at the time the murder was committed. The police have received orders to look after the other man who was engaged with the prisoner Doxey in murdering the poor old man. ELECTRIC and HYDRAULIC TELEGRAPHS.— On Thursday evening last, April 12, we bad the pleasure of attending a lecture, delivered by Mr. W. H. French, lately engaged in the service of the Eleetric Telegraph Company, London, &c., on the comparative merits of electric and hydraulic telegraphs. The lecture was de livered to a respectable, but scanty audience, in the Collegiate Institution. The lecturer went into a minute and critical examination of the inefficiency and the liabi lities of the electric telegraph to disarrangements, show ing in a very clear and satisfactory manner that they arose from fluctuation of galvanic electricity and the interfe rence of terrestrial and atmospheric electricity. Mr. French's statements respecting the uncertainty of the t,lectric telegraph's signals, from oscillation and the strik ing and variations of the needles, were very plain and convincing, and drew from the audience warm plaudits, inasmuch as all present felt the full force of his arguments, and by the illustrations and experiments brought forward, proved that he was stating nothing more than reason and the laws of natural philosophy warranted. The complicated character of the electric telegraph's alphabet was next descanted on, and proved by the exhibition of one invented by the lecturer. Mr. French then exhibited and explained at some length the nature and objects of two of his inventions—current deflectors, as he termed them—and complained in very pointed terms that the Telegraph Company had dis missed him from their service in consequence of matters arising out of these inventions. He next explained his mode of transmitting signals by means of water. Alto gether his lecture was a very able and interesting one, and strengthened our previous convictions, founded on a very extensive experience of the operations of the nissi o o f us, which company, that the electric telegraph, a s . at present ' the errors, o r s, repetition and tend to bring the practical part . of an invention , . no less delays, worked , entirely i s constantly inexcusable, liable an t d o useful than important, into a daily i ncreasing disrepute. Why is this? Simply because the public have no guarantee that their messages will be transmitted in stantaneously, or with accuracy. Indeed, from Mr. French's lecture, it would appea r that a certainty of accuracy is what cannot be attained so long as the letters of the alphabet are signalled as they now are. — European Times. LERWICK, APRIL io.—Wind N.E.—Sld. sth, True love, Davis' Straits. 10th, Gulnare, Boston, United States; Prince of Wales, Davis' Straits. MILITARY STATIONS. 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Reserve Bat 24th do. . 25th d 0....., 26th d 0...., 27th do.: 28th do. 29th do.. 30th do. , 31st d 0..,,,, 32d do. __ . . 33d d 0... 34th do. „, 35th do. 30th d o , tt t at. 37th do. ... . .... 38th .do: 39th . do. 40th di). 41st d 0...... 42d do. Reserve Bat... 43d de. ..." 44th do , Reserve Batt— 45th do. Reserve Bat 46th do.. 47th d 0.., 48th do.. 49th do.. 50th do.. 51st do.. 52d do.. 53d do.. 54th do. . 55th do.. l 56th do . Ist bat: {2d bat. 57th do. 58th d 0.... ...... 59th do. 60th do. Ist bat. 2d bat. 61st do. 62d do. 63d do. 64th do. 65th do. 66th do. 67th do. Reserve Bat. 68th do. 69th do. Reserve Bat 70th do. ...... 71st de. rt.......• - ii.; 72d d 0.... ..... • 73d do 74th do.: 75th do. 76th do. Reserve Bat 77th de . 78th d 0.... ...... 79th do 80th do. . 81st do. . 82d de. aid do. 84th d 0... ..... 85th do 86th do 87th do. 88th do. 89th do. 90th d 0...... . ...... 9lst do Reserve Bat 92d do 93d do. 94th do 95th d 0.... ...... 96th do. . 97th do Reserve Bat 98th do 99th do Rifle I Ist bat... Brigade{ 2d bat... Reserve 8at........ COLONIAL CORPS. Ist West India Regiment ............... Jamaica 2d do ••• •• ...... Bahamas 3d do Ceylon Rifle Regiment .. ....... Ceylon Cape Mounted Riflemen ............ ... Cape of Good Hope Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment...... Canada St. Helena. Regiment ...... St. Helena Royal Newfoundland Companies...... Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles ...... Malta. painor t S h i a e i w A e rt a n n k n az with A BART: It is D E L:D A R T : I b nce the death of this well known gentleman. Over-exertion in attending the re cent half-yea7ly meetings of railway companies in diffe rent parts of the country, on behalf of the cause with which Sir Andrew's name has long been so closely con nected, resulted, we understand, in fever, which termi nated fatally on the evening of Thursday last. The deceased Baronet was born in 1793.—Scotsman. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A remarkable ex ample of the skill with which this important engine is now worked by journalist enterprise in this country has during the past week been exhibited in connxtion with tie late banquet at Wakefield to the now Apostle of Peace. Hitherto special engines , driven at a rapid speed, have been employed by the managers of the metropolitan morning journals for the quick transmission of important intelligence to their columns. Locomotive power has now, however, been distanced, as itself had previously distanced the old stage-coach; and in the present day the electric telegraph is fat assuming a most important bear ing on the interests of journalism. The banquet ia ques tion being held at a late hour in the evening, of course some extraordinary effort was necessary to enable the morning journals to report the proceedings fully in their first impressions of the ensuing morning ; and, con sequently, some trifling arrangements having been made on the evening of the banquet, the transmission of the detailed report trom Wakefield to London was at tempted, and with striking success completed. A resume, comprising not less than three columns of close, small type was despatched along the wires with fidelity and skill within the brief space of less than four hours ; and by three o'clock on the suc ceeding morning copies of The limes containing the report were issued from the press. It will be observed, therefore, that the relative talent and effect with which the electric telegraph is employed in this country is not by any means inferior to that displayed in the United States; and certainly the contrast cannot be viewed as disparaging when allowance is made for the difference of atmospherical condition in the two regions under which the operator must perform his part. Nor is the enterprise and energy of the journalist less worthy of remark. To this we might add other examples; hut the above will suffice, we trust, to satisfy our readers of the ability with which the Electric Telegraph Company performs its duties. O ne point only we would further remark upon—namely, the extent of the charges made by the company, which con trast so injuriously with those current in the United States. Tbey are certainly too high—so high, indeed, that none but wealthy journals can employ the invention for the receipt and subsequent diffusion of information Interesting to the public.—Liverpool Albion. Advices from Valparaiso have been received, slit New York, up to the 6th of February. The fever for emigration to San Francisco still continued, although not to such an extent as about a month previously. There were 15 vessels loading for that port, one of which, the Chateaubriand, had upwards of 150 passen gers already engaged, and would probably take 300. The American man of-war scraw.steamer Massachusetts had just come in with troops bound for California. Business in Valparaiso was very dull, and money was scarce at 1 per cent. per month. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 14. —Acrd. Montrose, steamer, Lewis, Gibraltar, left sth inst, Cadiz 6th, Lisbon 9th, Oporto 10th, and Vigo 11th. PADSTOW, APRIL 14.—Wind N.W.—Sld. 12th Belle, Quebec; Voluna, ditto; 14th, Dewdrop, ditto. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. recaip . ,s bearing oate AiAti 4, 1749, 1 was lad to contrast them with the price of similar articles at the present time, April, 1849, as near as I could arrive at the same, and teleiving they might be acceptable to many of your numerous readers, I herewith place them at your disposal. Comparison between 1749. s. d. 1 5 0 O 14 0 0 7 6 O 1 1 O 0 6 O 12 0 O 1 2 0 17 6 O 5 7 0 3 6 O 5 0 0 13 6 O 1 4 O 3 6 0 9 0 0 3 6 2 17 0 1 0 0 Gunpos der tea, per lb.* ... Bohea tea, per lb. ... Coffee, per 1b.... ... Loaf sugar, per lb. ... Rice, per lb. ... Lucca oil, per gallon Raw cotton, per lb. ... Silk stockings (men's), per pair ... Worsted stockings, per pair .. Cotton stockings, per pair ... Silk gloves, per pair ... Silk, per yard... ... 1)owlas, per yard ... Holland, per yard ... Fine holland shirting, per yard .. Cambric (English), per yard ... Muslin, per piece ... Diaper, per piece . . . Brocade satin, per yard ... Flowered damask, per yard ... Plain damask, per yard . . Poplin, per yard .. ... Ribband ( various), per yard French piper fans, each Meckliri lice, per yard o 18 0 O 8 8 0 4 4 0 3 10 O 2 6 0 3 6 0 14 0 China plates, each 0 3 6 China dishes, each .. 0 10 0 Set of window curtains and valiance 17 0 0 Crimson velvet easy chair and two stools ... ... 13 0 0 Wrought bed, dimity and furniture complete —. 29 0 0 Down beds, bolster, and pillows ... 15 0 0 Indian four-leaved screen ... ... 17 0 0 Book-case, glass doors ... ... 18 0 0 Serge, for carpet covering, &c. per yard Silver plate, per ounce ... 0 8 8 Nails, per thousand (various) ... 0 310 Wainscotting, per foot ... 0 1 1 Charge for dyeing stuffs, per yard ... 0 1 2 Tape, per piece 0 5 10 Thread, per lb. .. 0 15 0 Sable muff and tippet ... ... 21 0 0 Ten chairs, two arm ditto, walnut tree frames ... 34 0 0 10 0 0 Pier looking-glass, 72-inches, gilt ... 15 0 0 5 0 0 British wrought counterpane 2 0 0 0 16 0 Printed calico quilt ... ... 016 0 0 4' 6 Pair of blankets 1 7 0 0 16 0 Coals, per chaldron ••• ... 1 9 0 1 6 0 Beef, mutton, and pork, per stone .. 0 110 0 4 0 Moist sugar, per lb. •.. 0 0 2 0 0 4 Butter, per lb. 0 0 3 0 0 10 Bacon, per lb. 0 0 5 0 0 9 Old Cheshire cheese, per lb. ... 0 0 3 0 0 9 Raisins, per lb. ... ••• 0 0 3 0 0 5 Currants, per lb. ... 00 3 00 5 Tobacco, per lb. (various) ... 0 0 6 03 6 Oats, per bushel ... 0 1 6 0 2 6 Wheat, per bushel 0 4 0 0 8 0 British spirits, per gallon ... 0 5 6 0 13 6 Brandy, per gallon ... 0 6 6 1 . 8 0 Port wine, per gallon ••• ••• 0 5 6 013 6 Sherry, per gallon ... 0 6 6 016 0 Sasaparilla 0 0 10 0 5 6 From the preceding list it appears that articles of agricultural produce were nearly 200 per cent. cheaper one hundred years ago, than at the present time, even with a free trade and an unbounded and most liberal tariff; while articles of luxury, convenience, or usefulness were proportionably dearer during the same period. What enormous profits then must have been made, and what fortunes amassed, when we now produce in our manu facturing districts articles of superior workmanship for one-third, or less, than what it cost one hundred years ago. 4 0 0 10 10 0 8 0 0 3 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 6 0 7 2 0 0 10 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 9 0 4 0 7 0 0 Neither, Sir, did the working man receive a portion of these profits, or in ny way gain by high prices of workmanship in those days, as me following extract of a bill, out cf many, will show:- 1749. To the Right Hon. Richard Earl of Castlemain, Dr. to Benjamin Taylor, builder. To wainscotting, 73 yards, at 3s. 2d. per yard (now Is. 6d.) To nails, per 1,000 at 3s. 10d. per 1,000 (now 10d.) To foreman, 2 days, at 3s. Od. per day (now 65.) To carpenter, 2 days, at 2s. 6d. per day (now 55.) To bricklayer, 2 days, at 2s. Od . per (143 , (now 49.) To labourer, 2 days, at Is. Bd. per day (now 35.) This extract is sufficient to show that high prices did not ensure high remuneration to the working man as far back as a hundred years ago. Our navy was at that period more flourishing than at present, and occasion ally large sums divided among the crews, yet the pay was small—disproportionately small—to the dangers and perils encountered. The following is the beginning of an Admiralty order:—" 1794, August, pay to 3,349 seamen at 14s. per month, 46,886 shillings." Apologising for the length of this letter, I remain, Sir, &c., W. A. J. Previous to the year 1666 tea was unknown in this coun try. It was first made into a decoction at coffee-houses, and sold at a duty of threepence per gallon. In 1667 the East India Company sent for 700 lbs. of it, which being immedi ately disposed of, led to a further trade in it; but the price was at that time immensely high. In 1707 it was sold at 11. 6s. per pound. In 1768 its consumption had nearly doubled, and it bore a duty of 2s. per lb. This beverage having now become of almost universal demand, the Go vernment of that day once more raised the duty (in 1773), And the consumption fell 75 per cent. In Mr. Pitt's Admi nistration (1784) the duty was reduced to ls. A change immediately took place, the consumption rose from 5,000,0001b5. to 21,000,000 lbs. in twelve months. From this year until the year 1804, the duty gradually increased, it being then 100 per cent., which continued unto the termi nation of the Company's charter in 1843, at which time the trade was thrown open. A free, or rather open trade, led to an immediate increased demand, and at the end of that year the consumption was 44,000,000 lbs., the previous twelve months being only 31,000,00011)s. The present duty on tea is 2s. 24d. per lb., or 200 to 400 per cent. The original cost of tea varies from 4d. to 2s. per lb. The populatioa of China is estimated at about one-third of the known world (350,000,000), and their territory offers free access to our manufactures—they admit our imports at five per cent., while our duty on their teas ranges from 200 to 400 per cent. The quantity of tea used in the United Kingdom is under 2 lbs. per head per annum; less than one-half usually con sumed in the Channel Islands, and a mere fraction of what the Chinese themselves use, who drink it as we do beer. Were the duty only ls., the consumer would obtain three pounds of tea for the same money that he now pays for two pounds. Now, as the consumption of every pound of tea in volves that of five pounds of sugar, the extra duty on the sugar, added to that on the increased quantity of tea, at ls. duty, would yield a revenue of 4,C00,000/., according to the most moderate calculation. GREENWICH. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) During the past week thousands of the inhabitants of London visited that beautiful spot, Greenwich, and, as a few remarks and particulars respecting it may not be un interesting, I have ventured to make them, and to place them at your service. Aud first then as to its name. Greenwich, cr the Green Town, was named from the verdure of its park. In the reign of Henry V. it was only a small fishing town. Its present populousness arose from the establishment of a royal residence within its boundaries, to the convenience of its harbour, the pleasantness of its situation, the convenient distance from London, and to the peculiar facilities for travelling by water or land from one to the other ; of which the fol lowing calculation of the number of visitors from London on Sundays throughout the - summer may give some idea:—" On an average at least 16,000 individuals resort to Greenwich every fine Sunday throughout the summer. On a fine Easter Sunday above 25,000, and on last Whit- Sunday upwards of 40,000 persons were taken to and fro by railway. The ticket taker at the London-bridge terminus states, 'During the first three dsyri of last Whitsun-week fair 100,000 persons were conveyed to and fro by railway! 47,000,' he added, was the largest number they ever carried to and fro in one day.' At the Town Pier at Greenwich, from Sunday to Wednesday in that week, they embarked 100,000 persons, and on Whit-Monday alone 46,000. At the Waterman's Pier, during that week, they landed and embarked 101,700 persons. In various conveyances, thus, it appears that upwards of 200,000 person. have in one week visited this spot." One of the principal attractions is the Royal Hospital. No fewer than four of our English Sovereigns were born in the palace which stood on the site from which the present edifice by gradual steps has grown—viz., Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. For nearly 400 years it was the seene of courtly splendour. The last King who inhabited Greenwich was Charles I. Charles 11. began to repair it, but left it in an unfinished state. Queen Mary, in the reign of William 111., resolved, at the suggestion of Sir Christopher Wren, to turn it to its present use. The King gave 2,0001., the Commis sioners B,OOOL The foundation of the present hospital Was laid in 1696, and an Act was passed by which 6d. per month of the wages of all seamen belonging to the Royal Navy is appropriated to the benefit of the insti tution. The present annual income is about 90,0001. The pensioners must be seamen or marines, disabled by age or maimed in the Queen's service. Foreigners are admitted who have served two years in the British navy, and merchant seamen wounded in defending or taking any shin, or fighting against a pirate. There are about— Pensioners ... 2,700 Boys ... ... ... ... 800 Nurses ... 104 Officers ... 100 Wives, families, and officers'servants, 296 3,990 And every Saturday night all are expected to sleep within the building. They are all of them old men. None are admitted under 60, except they are maimed, and obtain a special order. A man of 70 is almost a junior, many are between 80 and 90, and one has arrived at 103. Many pensioners are maimed. The following was an accurate list inserted in the Suuday Times, Sept. 4, 1842: Pensioners with loss of right arm ,2 Ditto left arm ... 8 Ditto both legs .. 3 Ditto right leg ... ... 29 Ditto let t leg ... ... 36 Ditto both eyes ... 61 Ditto right eye ... 44 Ditto lett eyo ... 45 Ditto ruptured ... 489 717 About 300 of the pensioners dic annually. All who die are buried within forty. eight hours. The hospital has an infirmary containing sixty-four rooms, each room accommodating four patients. The Hospital schools contain upwards of 800 boys -400 of whom are the children of seamen in the navy, or non-commissioned officers and privates of the marines, and 400 the sons of officers, seamen, and marines in the Queen's service. The fairs produce an immense revenue to the inha bitants of Greenwich, many of whom look forward to those times as to a harvest to recompense for the pre vious difficulties of the year. There are 123 tuvc-rns, OW lc-houses, and beer-shops in the piece; and during the lairs an immense number of private houses sell tea and coffee to the thousands of London visitors. I shall not further enlarge, but would suggest to those of your numerous readers who may hereafter visit Greenwich, not to miss the pleasure they are sure to reap by an inspection of the interior of Greenwich Hos pital, which is easily obtained by a :mall gratuity or otherwise to any one about the place. W. A. J. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. On Saturday forenoon, about half-past eleven o'cl ,ck, a tire broke out in the cotton warehouse of Mr. Maxwell, merchant, of this town, and we regret to say that in less than two hours, so rapid was the progress of the flames, that the entire building, together with its con tents, which consisted of about 800 bales of cotton, was destroyed. The building is situated in Henry-street, and forms one of a number of warehouses for the stowage et cotton and other produce. At the time the fire broke out several persons were in the warehouse, engaged in sorting cotton ; and perceiving a strong sulphurous smell, they concluded that something was on fire. In a few moments afterwards, and before the men had an op portunity of ascertaining from what part the fire pro ceeded, a dense volume of smoke suddenly burst out in different parts of the warehouse, and in a few minutes the entire building was enveloped in flames, which raged with terrific fury, threatening almost instant destruction to the premises and contents. The fire-engines were quickly on the spot, but the conflagration had already attained such a height that to save the warehouse seemed perfectly hopeless, and Mr. Maxwell, inspector of sal vage, and Mr. Hewit, superintendent of the fire-brigade, consequently directed the exertions of the firemen to the work of saving the adjacent premises, which imme diately join the warehouse. These latter premises form the back part of Duke-street, one of the principal streets in the town, and as the north wall of the warehouse joined :the back part of several of these houses fears were entertained for the safety of the latter. The hose was therefore conveyed through the front of these houses in order to prevent the conflagration communicating with them. Fortunately by this means the houses in question were entirely saved, and the fire was confined to the warehouse itself. In about an hour after the flames first broke out the roof of the warehouse fell in, and the entire premises were a heap of ruins, nothing but the bare walls remaining, which are said to be in a very dangerous state, and the probability is that it will be considered necessary to take them down. We seldom remember to have seen a fire in this town where the work of destruction was so rapid or fierce. The flames, indeed, raged with terrific violence. So powerful were they that the houses on the opposite side of the street were much scorched with the heat conveyed, and we regret to say that during the progress of the fire a stone window sill attached to a window opposite cracked, and a heavy portion of it fell upon the head of a pour man who was passing at the moment, which knocked him down and dreadfully frac tured his skull. He was at once picked up and taken to the Southern Hospital in a state of insensibility, where he died in the course of the afternoon. The warehouse was full of cotton, the greater part of which was alto gether consumed by the flames. We learn that the cotton (which was also the property of Mr. Maxwell) was insured in the Royal Insurance, the Liverpool and London, and the Norwich Union offices for 3,000/., chiefly in the two former offices. We did not ascertain whether the warehouse was insured or not, The nature of the origin of the fire has not been ascertained, but it is rumoured that it was the work of an incendiary, and that a boy was seen to throw a rocket amongst the cotton a few minutes betore the flames broke out, and imme diately afterwards ran away. Troops or Service Companies. Hyde Park Windsor Regent's Park Cahir E N d o t i n t i b n u g r h g a h m Manchester, Birmingham Dublin , .•• Brighton ••• York Longford ...... Bengal Athlone Dublin Newbridge Newbridge Bengal Bombay t Hounslow uork Dundalk Bengal Madras 'Norwich Dublin Portman-st• ...... Windsor Wellington Barracks St. George's Bar T0wer......... St. John's Wood Chichester New Brunswick Dublin Dublin ........ Limerick Winchester Mauritius Mauritius Cape of Good Hope Fermoy Halifax, N. 5..., Bombay Newry ............ Bengal ..... New South Wales , Northampton Mauritius Belfast .. Newport, S. W. .. coyton .... . Corfu Chatham Bengal Canada Canada ...... Canada .. Edinburgh Bombay Winchester ICanada Bengal (Madras Cork Glasgow Devonport Bengal Manchester Athlone Bengal... I Berwick .. Gibraltar .... Mullingar Cephalonia ••• Gosport Ceylon .... Nova Scotia Preston Dublin Cork Bermuda Bermuda Kilkenny ...-.---.••• Malta Malta Cape of Good Hope'. Cape of Good Hope Liverpool . Huttevant Dublin ••• Templemore Dover Madras Preston ... Bengal Antigua Dublin Gibraltar ...... Gibraltar Enniskillen New Zealand Birr Bombay Dublin Bengal ... Bury ..• •••• Newcastle-on-Tyne. Bombay* New Zealend Barbadoes Gibraltar. Galway Bengal* Naafi - I ...... St Inhst'. Barbadoes Cape of Good Hopei Limerick . ..... Fermoy ......... Corfu Zante Portsmouth Bombay ..... Canada Bengal Hull 004. Plymouth ............ ' Bombay, ............... Secunderabad...... Waterford.., ..... Bombay ..... Weedon ............... 'St. Vincent ..... ..... .•• Birr ...... Ashton-under-Lyne. Portsmouth ......... Cape of Good Hope Clomnel .............. Stirling Castle ...... Madras ............... China... ............... New South Wales.. Malta ............ Jamaica ...... . ....... Bengal ............ Van Diemen's Land Cape of Good Hope T0r0nt0,,,,, Quebec ................ • On passage to. Depots. SURREY SESSIONS. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A FEMALE ON HUNGERFORD BRIDGE.—Ann Phipps was indicted on Saturday for stealing a gold watch, guard chain, and a purse containing 205., from the person of Robert Brooks, a tradesman residing at Kennington, under the follow ing daring and outrageous circumstances :—The prose cutor deposed that on the night of the 29th ult., a little after twelve o'clock, he left some friends near Hunger ford Market, and proceeded across the bridge towards home. When he arrived a little beyond the centre of Ilungerford Bridge, the prisoner accosted him and wanted to induce him to go home with her. He told her he was going home to his wife, and wanted nothing more to do with her. While they were talking a man ran up against him, and nearly pushed him down, when the prisoner snatched his watch and his purse, and ran away. The man held him down while she escaped ; and when he recovered himself, he found no person near him. He ran to the Surrey side of the bridge, calling " Stop thief," and a few minutes afterwards the prisoner was apprehended. In cross-examination, prosecutor said he was much intoxicated at the time, and he might have fallen down without being pushed. He was certain, however, that his property was all safe when he met the prisoner. Hughes, the toll-collector on the Surrey side of Hungerford-bridge, stated that he knew the prisoner well, she being in the habit of frequently passing over the bridge. On the night of the robbery he heard a man call out " Stop thief," and immediately afterwards the prisoner rushed passed him into the Belvidere-road. Suspecting that she had committed some offence, he re quested a gentleman who was passing to pursue her, and prevent her from making her escape. The gentle man ran after her and. directly afterwards the prosecu tor came up to him, and told him that the prisoner had robbed him of his watch, chain, and purse. He remained with the witness a few minutes, when the prisoner was brought back, and identified by him as the thief. Mr. Parr, a tradesman residing in the Blackfriars road, said that a little after twelve o'clock on Thursday night, the 29th ult., he was passing along the Belvidere road, and he saw the prisoner rush from Hungerford bridge. Last witness galled out to him to stop her, as she had robbed a gentleman. He instantly went in pur suit, and captured her near Canterbury-street, when he saw her throw the purse into the road. He held her until a policeman came up, when the watch and guard were found upon her. In defence - the prisoner denied having the purse, but the watch was picked up by her on the bridge. The jury found her Guilty, and the Court sentenced her to six months' hard labour in Brixton House of Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man named Fawcett was charged with having most dangerously assaulted his daughter, who appeared to be about 18 years of age. The poor girl had not been able to move from the hospital to which she was conveyed on the 25th of March, until Saturday, and two attendants were obliged to wait upon her. The girl, who reluctantly appeared against her father, stated that he suddenly rose between twelve and one o'clock in the morning from the bed in which he had lain down dressed, and ran after her mother for the pur pose of beating her. • The mother escaped, but the wit ness unfortunately happened to be in the way, and he kicked ber in the front of her person and on the hip. She had, in consequence of his desperate violence, lost the use of her legs and been subjected to frequent faint ing fits, and for a considerable time, her life was believed to be in danger. He had struck her mother upon a former occasion, and she attributed the attack to the in fluence of strong liquors. The prisoner, in answer to the Lord Mayor, said it appeared to him to be nothing but a dream when he was told that he had kicked his daughter. He had no idea of such a thing at all, and he deeply regretted it. The LORD MAYOR said the case was too serious a one to be passed over or decided upon by a magistrate, and ordered the defendant to be bound over to attend the next session to answer the complaint. GUILDHALL. Robert Payne, of 33, St. John's•square, Clerkenwell, in the employ of Mr. George Dollond, of St. Paul's Churchyard, optician, was charged with stealing a num ber of object-classes for telescopes, besides a quantity of spectacle glasses. Alde,m — an GIJES committed him for trial, and the depositions being nude out, ho was conveyed to New gate. THAMES. John Spooner, a cab driver, was brought before Mr. J. T. Ingham, chargui with causing the death of Mr. Henry Hunter, a master butcher, and robbing him of four sovereigns. It appeared that at nine o'clock on Thursday night police-constable 113 K had his attention called to the de ceased, who appeared to be drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, in the East India-xoad, Poplar. The deceased was removed to the station-house in Poplar, and locked up in one of the cells, where he was occasionally visited by Sergeant Yeoman, the officer in charge of the station. About two hours afterwards Yeoman heard the deceased breathing very hard, and upon looking at him ho appeared to be in a dying state. No time was lost in sending for medical assistance; the unfortunate man was brought out of the cell and placed before the fire, and the stomach-pump was used to dislodge the contents of the stomach, which smelt strongly of spirits. The surgeon remained with the deceased for five hours, and he was carefully attended to during the whole of the night by Yeoman and others. At seven o'clock on the morning of Friday he appeared to be getting better, and Yeoman was about to send hi m t o his OVirti home, when a sudden change for the worse took pla co. The surgeon was again sent for, but the man was beyond the reach of human aid, and expired two hours afterwards. Inquiries were then made by Inspector Holmes, of the K division, and it was ascertained that the deceased was a butcher, who had lately opened a shop in Poplar New Town, and that he had been to London on Frida,y upon business, and was brought to the East India-road in a cab, and set down at some distance from his house. It also appeared there were marks of violence on deceas id's person, and, as he was known to have a considerable! , sum of money in his possession when he left town, and ikone when he was picked up by the policeman, suspicions. were entertained that the deceased bad been improperly 'dealt with. The cabman was sought after, and taken into custody on Saturday afternoon, and the present chair ge was preferred by Mr. William Hunter, a poulterer •and salesman of Leadenball market, and the brother 'of the deceased. Among other suspicious circumstances against the pri soner, it was stated that he left the dec es sed in a helpless state in the East India-road, and allowE d him to ride on the box alongside of him. On reaching a to White Horse gate, in the Commercial-road, the collector demanded the usual toll, and the deceased fell off the cab into the road, and was seriously hurt by the fts.ll. There were two men inside the cab, and the whole party were in a disorderly state, and appeared to have 'been drinking to excess. The deceased was lifted on to the cab after his fall, and it drove away at a rapid rate, bt it not before the turnpike-man took the number, and looked very parti cularly at the prisoner, that he might he able to identify him again. The prisoner stoutly deni,ed, that ho was in the Commercial-road at all on Thursday night, his ifl, ntity w e e :l.f , arly o,t,AbitsltM th , * .'2111 , 4 at tile gate, and a tipsy man iali ttlert-tfullt. .The wit nesses also stated that the prisoner wore the same dress then as he did on Thursday night. Inspector Holmes said, if the prisoner was remanild he should be able to produce evidence to sustain the charge of ill-usage and robbery. Mr. IriciHam asked if a coroner's inquest had beta held?—Mr. Thompson, the beadle and summoning-offi cer of Poplar, informed the magistrate that the jury would not meet until Monday (this day). Mr. INGHAM then said, he should remand the pri soner, and that the most , u , picious circumstance against him, was that he had denied having driven the cab on Thursday night, when the fact was clearly es tablished. The prisoner, who was very boisterous, asked if bail would t'e taken? Mr. INGILAM—No, certainly not. I can't accept (4 bail in such a set ions ease as this. RICHMOND. Saturday being appointed for the reexamination of Miss Lydia Dixon, a teacher of music, and the daughter of an eminent solicitor now deceased, who stood charged with stealing property of all descriptions from trades men at Richmond, the vestry-hall, where. the magistrates sit, was crowded to excess, and the greatest interest seemed to have been created by the publication of the previous examinations. The bench was an unusually full one, Sir T. N. Reeves being the chairman. Two letters had been received by the bench, one from Mrs. Betts, a surgeon at Hammersmith, who stated that he had been frequently in the company of Miss Dixon ! and had always considered her conduct strange,-and eccentric, and had also attended her for brain fever for seven weeks. The other was from Mr. R. Tapstell, of the lower. Deptford. road, Rotherhithe, ex pressing his conviction that she had been of an unsound state of mind for a lengthened period, her brain being affected through her long illness, and requesting the ma gistrates not to commit her for trial until they had satis fied themselves as to the state of her mind. Inspector Beard informed the bench that he had, since the remand found another lodging the prisoner had oc• cupied at Hammersmith, where a quantity of fresh pro perty had been found. Several fresh cases were then gone into, and after a lengthened examination the prisoner was again remanded. The property found at the two residences of the pri• soner, at Richmond and Hammersmith, is of the follow ing description :—Cards of lace and fringe, rolls of silk, satin and satinets, poplins, mousselines de laine, cash mere and cottons for dresses, black satin shawls, woollen plaid, cashmere, Paisley, boas, victorines, and muffs, 50 rolls of valuable ribbons, bonnets, gloves, stockingi, 30 pairs of women's boots and shoes, pieces of flannel, calico, linen, umbrellas, parasols, hair combs and brushes, great number of wigs and fronts, lace shawls, veils and falls, cap fronts, artificial flowers, and a vast number of other things, sufficient to stock a bazaar, and nearly all of which will be identified, the prisoner not having at. tempted to remove the private mark. 'Maidstone Maidstone Maidstone ;Maidstone !Norwich Aberdeen 'lsle of Wight Youghal Chatham (Chatham Chatham Brecon Guernsey Chatham Mullingar Isle of Wight Chatham Chatham Chatham Chatham Chatham 'Chatham Castlebar Male of Wight Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Chatham Chatham IJersey L Gosport Chatham 'Chatham Chatham 'Cork Chatham Tralea ' l isle of Wight (Isle of Wight Sheerness Fermoy Chatham Nana h g Chatham Cork Chatham Chatham Chatham Kinsale Chatham Londonderry Chatham Isle of Wight Chatham Chatham Bristol Portsmouth Portsmouth Boyle RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Aran. 14. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The Share Market has been very dull ti-ditto and few transactions have taken place. The sales are—Birkenbeadt Lancashire, and Chester (late C. and B.), guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 15—Ditto, 221. Shares, 7% dis. —Lancashire and Yorkshiros Fifths, S c. dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 436 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, lOyi —Midland. Lancaster, and Swannington, 158 c. —Ditto, Halves, 9% c. dis North British, New Preference, % p.—North Staffordshire, 3% e. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 33a. 9d. dis. BIRMINGHAM. APRIL 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day hays been as fol. lows :—Ambergato, Nottingham, and Boston, 4% dis.—North stab fordshire, 3% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (II), ss,4 dis.—• South Staffordshire, 3% dis. YORK, APRIL 13. STocs EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol" lows :--Great Northern, 101. 18g. 9d.—North Staffordshire, 14-i Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6—Ditto, Preference, 9% York r, Newcastle, and Berwick, 23}§—Ditto (Newcastle Extension), 17 3s. 9d.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6%. NE WCASTLE-UPON-TTNE, APRIL 14. STocic EICHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange ta day has been as follows: —Hartlepool Dock and Railway, 134.. North British, 14 —Ditto, Preference, 23s.—Tork, Newcastle, and Berwick Extension, 17%. GLASGOW, Aram 13. STOCK EXCHANCIE.—The following are to-day's transactions Caledonian, Quarters, 6;i —Ditto, Preference, 111. 6s. 6d.—Glasgoif General Terminus, 12—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Cariisle, 4 gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, b7—Ditto Halves (No. 1), 6% —DUO (so. 2), 7—North British, 14%—Ditto, Preference, 235. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT BATSWATER.-00 Saturday morning last a fire of a very distressing chit' Teeter, in which an aged female was burnt to death. happened at No. 10, Burk-place, Bayswater. The pre' wises were in the occupation of Mrs. Mary Forester, • Swiss lady, who, it is to be regretted, was berrit afinost to a cinder. It appears that about eight o'clock in the evening, some persons living opposite discovered the lad! making to the front window with the whole of her wear' ing apparel on fire, and the flames were mounting over, her head. Before she had time to reach the window she fell from exhaustion in the middle of the fluor. The neighbours having apprised the inmates of the house' of what they had witnessed from the outside, they made gi the room occupied by the deceased. Upon entering the' same a most distressing scene presented itself, for in the middle of the room was to be seen the unfortunate lady' lying on the floor, with the wh o l e o f h er wear i ng ap parel not merely in a general b1az , ..., but the flooring of the room was also burning most furiously. Owing to th e , exertions of the residents in the place, the fire was el'` tinguished, but not until Mrs. Forester was burned 10 death, and some considerable damage done to the furoif ture and contents of th e b u ildi ng b y fi re and water. All !inquest will be held on the body this day, which may probably show the origin of the fire. The FIRE IN WIIITEFRIARS.—The fire which "eh' ' curred on Saturday morning last was attended with * I much greater destruction of property than was at fire supposed. Only a fortnight ago Mr. Gadsby had a fount 'of new type, weighi ng e i g h teea cwt., p l aced i n t he building which has been destroyed. He had also', lanother fount, w e ighi ng one ton , o f nonpare i l; w bi o h o ' , with 60,000 sh ee t s o f p arer b ear i ng t h e penny- steo3P i has been wholly destroyed. Two printing presses; one' 'valued at 1501. and the other at 1001., have fibewieer been rendered worthless by the heat of the fire.. .Fori' tuaately the machine r oom an d more valuable portion 91) !Mr- Gadsby's stock were protected by means of strol4 !party walls; if such had not been the case, the loss' OR 'property would have been fearf u l. A s i t was, notbig a ' fin the building where the outbreak began was saved. iAn inquiry has since been made with a view of learnlng l , 'how the fire began, but w ith out success. Not so Ll3llC_ll : as a conjecture can be for me d. T he following is a cog. of Mr. Connorton ' s offi c i a l report as sent to the West 04' !England Fire-office:—No. 2if, Bouverie-street, Mr, 'Gadsby, printer, buildi ng d estroye d , estimated loss *boob ,000/. ; stock in trade destroyed, supposed loss 2,0001. No. 25i, ditto, Mr. Gadsby, roof of premises damaged .by fire, and stock by water and removal, supposed lose' . 'eibout 5001. No. 25, ditto, Mr. Laylard, stock daniagell 'by removal, supposed loss about 100/. No. 20, TemPle" • street, damaged by wat e r, & c ., a b out 50 / . N o. 19, ditto/ ' ~ Similar damage. TEE BRISTOL MURDERESS.—It has now beep definitely fixed that the execution of thei convict SeriT . Harriet Thomas, fur the murder of her mistress, Itli** ' efferies, at Bristol, will take place on Friday next over • he lodge door of the gaol. Her manners remain much; he same as immediately after her conviction altisougli., he is somewhat more restless and anxious. The Rel r ''', Ir. Swete, the chaplain of the gaol, is unceasing in h ig,, ttt ntion to her, and visits her thrice daily, for the pur':: ose of assisting t o p repare her mind for the seefer' •hange which awaits her. A report has been circulated n Bristol that the wretched girl has made a full code!' iou of her guilt to the reverend chaplain, but it is a e :,. ogether destitute of truth. ! Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inlan d Ilevenue, had an int erv i ew w i t h th e Ch ancellor of the' Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence is Downing -street. Earl Grey has retur ne d t o town f rom a visit to Earle Spencer. , [ADVERTISBNIENT.I—An Absc ess i n th e B re se Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— About three year s since Mrs. O'Flaherty of Mill-street, Cork, accidontalli, • bruised her breast, for month s a ft erwards the pain increase d '' asid the part became fearfully swollen ; various application .. were tried without giving th e l east relie. Ultimately ass sees: formed, discharging a great quant i ty of humour, whic_, . debilitated her constituti on t o an a l arming extent ; at thr . , ,,i sage a lady strongly recommended her to try Hollowalf intment and Pills, having witnessed their good diets ' former occasions, which advice she followed, sad these flips medicines answered most satisfactorily, for the wound was soot ) healed, and her health is now completely renovated.— sold 14 l Druggists and at Professor Holloway' s Establi s h ment , 04 Strand, London. BIRTHS, On the 6th inst., at Addison-road North, Notting-hill, 3 1 f 1 ' Joseph Wilkinson, of a son. ' On the 10th inst., at Milford-house, near Ferrybridge, tha wife of Benjamin Crosland, Esq., of a son. 0J the 11th inst , at Hastings, Mrs. Dixon, wife of Capta in Matthew Dixon, H .N., prematurely of a son, who only Or viVed an hour. ion the lath inst., at Fulham•place, Maida-hill West, the wife of A. Batson, Eso., jun., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park-gat' dens, the wife of D. J. Maitland, Esq., of a daughter. , 'At Rodmarton, near Ciren o c r es t, te m r, rs. th m e o w rg if a a n o T f h t o h m e as ße: o .:: dau g hter. in n a the hgel : 2 3 ll : h h o ifinusastt.d:,aauatgthGDtoeesrvp.onshire- place, the lady of J. Gandolfi, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. Mary's Church, near Torquay' Ldchlan Hector G. Maclean, Esq., Captain H. M. 49th F 01 :1 to 'Mary, eldest daughte r o f t h e late George Whitehead, °' Ba bbicom be, Esq. On the 11th inst., at St. Thomas's Church, rendletorli William Leaf, Es q ., o f L ea f -square, late her Majesty's Cons! at Catania, to Jane, eldest daughter of R. E. Cunliffe, Esq. , of Belle Vue, Pendleton. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Kemp-town, Brighton, aged Of William Hazlewood, Esq., late of Slaugham-park, Sussex. On the 6th inst., Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander ChaP lirj ' late of the Ceylon Regiment, aged 79. On the 26t1i ult., at Gibraltar, Sir John Home, Bart., ° f . Blackadder, of her Majesty's ship Sidon, aged 19. Oa the 3d inst., on board the Ellenborough, at sea, Lieut.' Colonel Arthur Charles Gregory, 98th Regiment. On the 7th inst., Anne Jane, the daughter of J. B. GlegS' Esq., of Withington-hall, Cheshire. On the 12th inst., at Hanover-crescent, Brighton, Barbara, the wife of the Rev. S. Clarke, aged 78. On the 12th inst., at Titley, near Kington, Herefordshir e ' Anne, the wife of C a pt a i n F. P. S an d ers, A d j utant R O Y" Radnor Militia, aged 28. On the 12th inst., George Jupp, eldest son of Mr. JoseP li , JuPp, of Regent-street, and Tarnham-green. On the 2th inst., at Wandsworth-common, Surrey, Saunders, Esq., aged 68. of London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG: I2, No. 112, St r and, Printer, at Th e S un Offi ce , No. Strand, in Use Precinct of the Savoy, in the countY ALddiesei, Monday, April 16, 1849. • • 1 , 1 2