The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-02 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. Although the principal details of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury were forwarded to Europe by the last steamer, yet a few more items, embracing a wider field, will naturally excite interest. The estimated expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1849, are 65,932,276 dolls.—estimated receipts, 35,100,000 dolls.—the excess of 30,000,000 dolls. being a remanet of the Mexican war. Then we have an estimate of the expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1850, of which the following are the chief items:— Dollars. Legislative ... 1,169,342 50 Executive ... 918,054 64 Surveyors-general ... 54,920 00 Secretary to sign patents for public lands 1,500 00 Commissioner of the Public Buildings ... 6,290 00 Mints of the United States ... 124,746 00 Judiciary . . . . 583,300 00 Territory of Oregon ... 32,600 00 Annuities and grants ... ... ... Auxiliary watch ... ... Survey of the coast ••• ••• ••• Miscellaneous claims ... ... Special examiners of drugs ... ••• Recorder of land titles in Missouri ••• Assistant treasurers, &c. ••• ••• Contingent expenses of their offices ... Compensation, &c., to special agents ... Insane paupers of the district of Columbia Penitentiary of the district of Columbia Expenses of loans and Treasury notes ... Marine Hospital fund ... Repairs of Custom-house, Plymouth, N.C. Light-houses, &c. ••• ••• ••• Surveys of public lands ... ... ... Completing marine hospitals . . • Payment to be made to Mexico ••• Salaries of ministers to foreign nations... Secretaries of legation ... ... ... Minister resident to Turkey ..• Dragoman to the legation to Turkey ... Charges des affaires ... ••• ••• Contingent expenses of all the missions... Ditto of foreign intercourse ... ••• Intercourse with the Barbary Powers ... Consul at London ••• ... • • Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands... Consulates at Constantinople, &c. ... Commissioner to reside in China ... Secretary and Chinese interpreter ... Consuls at the five ports in China ... Consul-general at Alexandria ... ... Consul at Beyrout ... ••• ••• Relief and protection of American seamen Clerk hire, office rent, &c., of American Consul at London ... ••• ... Army, proper 6.. ... ... Military Academy ... ... Fortifications ••• ... Armouries, arsenals, and munitions of war Surveys, lighthouses, 8;c. ... ... Indian Department ... ... ... Pensions ... ... ... •• • Arrearages under Act May 1, 1820 ... General services ... Marine corps .... Total estimates ... 750 00 6,775 00 186,000 00 500 00 6,600 00 500 00 23,000 00 15,000 00 5,000 00 6,400 00 9,830 00 20,000 00 15,000 01 100 00 478,603 00 125,050 00 90,001 00 3,540,000 00 63,000 00 14,000 00 6,000 00 2,500 00 76,500 00 35,000 00 30,000 00 9,000 00 2,000 00 3,000 00 1,500 00 6,000 00 2,500 00 5,000 00 3,000 00 500 00 100,000 00 2,800 00 4,432,286 00 170,142 61 671,000 00 893,581 00 15,700 00 857,473 45 466,400 00 1,000 00 8,524,880 58 333,976 80 ..._24,153,100 92 The following incidents in the life of General Taylor will interest many readers:—Zschary Taylor, born in Orange county, V., November 24, 1784; commissioned by Jefferson, May 3, 1808 ; victorious at Fort jlamlin, September 5, 1812; member of the Militia Board, 1826; victorious at the Bad Axe, August 2, 1832 ; victorious at Okeechobee, December 25, 1837 ; victorious at Palo Alto, May 8, 1846; victorious at Resaca de la Palma, May 9, 1846 ; capitulation of Monterey, September 24, 1846 ; victorious at Buena Vista, February 22, 1847 ; elected President of the United States, November 7, 1848. DISCOVERY OF THE RUINS OF AN UNKNOWN CITY NEAR BOSOUB, ASIA MINOR.—The Constantinople Journal gives some curious details regarding a city said to be discovered by Dr. Bruuner, one of the agents em ployed by the Government of the Sublime Porte in pene trating into the most remote and inaccessible regions of the empire for the purpose of a census. While occupied in exploring the sandjak (excavations) of Bosouk, on the confines of Pontus, Cappadocia, and Galatia, Dr. Bran ner, whose attention was attracted by the bold and curious passages opened into the living rock, was ace costed by a villager who offered to show him things far more interesting on the other side of the mountain if he would trust to his guidance. After some hesitation, the doctor armed himself and followed his guide, taking his servant with him. Half an hour brought them round the mountain; and then the doctor found himself, says the narrative, in presence of the ruin of a considerable town. These ruins are situated to the south-east of the village of Yunkeui and to the north of the village of Tschdpi, distant half a league from one another; and the doctor's profound study of all the accounts, ancient and modern, of Asia Minor furnish no trace by which he can identify them. The side of the town is half a league in length. It contains seven temples with cupolas and two hundred and eighteen houses; some in good preserva tion, others half choked, others half choked up with their own ruins and with vast fragments of rock detached from the overhanging mountain. The houses have com partments of three, four, and six chambers—and the temples are also flanked with chambers. The largest of these edifices is twenty feet long by twenty-eight wide. far as the ruins would permit the doctor to estimate it, he conjectures the height of some of the temples to be from twenty to thirty feet. There are traces of plas ter on the interior walls; but not an emblem or indica tion, says Dr. Brunner to suggest the origin or date of the ruined city. All his inquiries on the subject pro duced from the natives no better answer than that these Temains are " monuments of the infidels." Some old men remember to have seen birds and trees painted in fresco on the walls. Dr. Brunner proposes his deserted esity as a puzzle for the archaeologist.—Athenctum. MARTLEBONE VESTRY.—At a meeting of the Marylebone vestry, held on Saturday, the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, a communication was read from Mr. C. Pearson (in answer to a letter directed to be for warded by the vestry), enclosing a copy of his report to the Corporation of London on the subject of district houses for the temporary reception of vagrants and other destitute persons, and also a copy of a report relating to a gaol for the confinement and laborious employment of petty offenders, sturdy vagrants, and workhouse misde meanments. Mr. Joseph, in moving the thanks of the vestry to Mr. C. Pearson, expressed his conviction that there was a decrease in the number of vagrants. Mr. Mitchie contended that there was a very large increase. Mr. Broughton adverted to the opposite charges brought against the police magistrates, of committing too many vagrants and of not committing enough. When the par ties were old offenders he invariably committed them to prison ; when he found they were poor fellows from the country who had been dismissed from the railways and had struggled up to seek employment, he dis missed them with a caution that, if found begging again, they would be sent to prison. After some remarks from the Rev. W. Williams the resolution was carried unani mously, and the vestry separated. THE INCOME-TAX SCREW AT WORK.—The -Leicester Mercury says—" Disorder, hurry, perplexity, and distress have prevailed at Hinckley, during the last day or two, amongst the poorer ratepayers, and all such as are striving to keep their heads above water. This has been owing to the vexatious manner in which the in come-tax papers have been served upon them. The said papers did not arrive until late on Monday evening, when some 500 had to be filled up by Messrs. Gillespie and Law, which rendered it impossible for many of the ratepayers to receive their notices until Wednesday evening, the day of appeal at Market Boswoitliheing on Friday. Many parties whose income is not half the amount required by law have been served with these irritating missives; others have been served with papers charging them with taxes from income derived from the occupation of land which they have ceased to occupy for the last six years; and others have been charged more for income than the amount of their rental. These par ties must either submit to be robbed of their hard earned substance, or be compelled to go to Market Bos worth to appeal, to the utter neglect of their pressing business at home. The benefit, too, of the Act of Par liament, which gives ten days' notice before the day of appeal, has been withheld from the inhabitants of Hinck ley, through the gross neglect of the assessor. It is pro bable that some 200 persons are placed in this awkward predicament." IMPORTATIONS OF POULTRY.—Large importations of poultry are taking place from the Continent. The quality of the turkeys imported from France is reported to be excellent, although, generally speaking, not so large and fine as those produced in England. SHAKING THE COMMONWEALTH.—A constable in Pennsylvania had served a legal precept of some sort on a particular friend of his, who, greatly drank at the time, rebelled against the law and its myrmidon, seizing the officer, and shaking him almost to pieces. The par ties meeting him a few days after, Jim, the offender, was profuse in his apologies. "You know, Jake," said he, " I would not have served you so if I had been sober; it was the whisky did it all." The officer at last mollified and relented under Jim's expostulat ions . "As to the shaking," said he, " I don't bear any m ali ce , or vally it a cent. on my own account; but as an officer , Jim, recol lect, whoever shakes me, shapes the commonwealth."-_ Pennsylvanian Fuzzyguzzy. A burglary was committed on Sunday morning at the house of Mr. Josephs, a jeweller and watchmaker, near Zion Chapel, Waterloo-road. The family were aroused by some neighbours, who saw the shop door open, and it was found that the whole of the stock had been stolen. A COW HUNT.—On Thurs3ay, a cow undertook a somewhat dangerous adventure, which terminated in the life of the animal being taken. The cow left Johnstone's byre in New street, and having got into the street, was startled, and rushed down in the direction of the skew bridge near that part. In the attempts of some parties to check the animal, it got furious, and made a spring amongst the workpeople of the North British Railway Company. The whole of th e o p era ti ves t oo k to th e i r heels, but a pol icem an got the gate s h u t s o as t o p reven t the animal effecting an egress. Several consultations took place amongst various individuals as t o th e mos t expeditious w ay of capturing the brut e , b u t a ll attempts were dexterously eluded. After about two hours spent In att em pti n g to get hold of the animal, w hi c h was now in % vi o l ent s t a t e of excitement, Crearer, of the shooting saloon, Was sent for, and after a favourable opportunity presented, that individual rent several bullets through the cow's head.—Edinburgh News. The report from the Amsterdam Bourse gives a favourable acconnt of th e s t a te of business in public se curities, which, although not very active, had sufficiently increased to create a rise in some descriptions, while others remained well supported. THE SUN, LONDON, CLAIRVOYANCE OF HEINRICH ZSCHOKKE. It has happened to me sometimes, on my first meeting with strangers, as I listened silently to their discourse, that their former life, with many trifling circumstances therewith connected, or frequently some particular scene in that life, has passed quite involuntarily, and as it were dream-like, yet perfectly distinct before me. During this time I usually feel so entirely absorbed in the contemplation of the stran ger-life, that at last Ino longer see clearly the face of the unknown wherein I undesignedly read, nor dis tinctly hear the voices of the speakers, which before served in some measure as a commentary to the text of their features. For a long time I held such visions as delusions of the fancy, and the more so as they showed me even the dress and notions of the actors, rooms, furniture, and other accessories. By way of jest I once in a fa miliar family circle at Kirchberg related the secret history of a seamstress who had just left the room and the house. I had never seen her before in my life; people were astonished and laughed, but were not to he persuaded that I did not previously know the re lations of which I spoke, for what ,I had uttered was the literal truth ; I, on my part, was no less astonished that my dream-pictures were confirmed by the re ality. I became more attentive to the subject, and when propriety admitted, I would relate to those whose life thus passed before me the subject of my vision, that I might thereby obtain confirmation or refutation of it. I was inva riably ratified, not without consternation on my part. I myself had less confidence than any one in this men tal jugglery. So often as I revealed my visionary gift to any new person, I regularly expected to hear the answer "It was not so." I felt a secret shudder when my auditors replied that it was true, or when their astonishment betrayed my accuracy before they spoke. I can well explain to myself how a person of lively imagination may form, as in a romance, a correct picture of the actions and passions of another person, of a certain character, under certain circum stances. But whence came those trifling accessories which no wise concerned me, and in relation to people for the most pant indifferent to me, with whom I neither had, nor desired to have, any connexion ? Or, was the old matter a constantly recurring accident ? Or, had my auditor, perhaps when I related the particulars of his former life, very different views to give of the whole, although, in his first surprise, and misled by some resemblances, he had mistaken them for the same ? And yet, im pelled by this very doubt, I had several times given myself the trouble to speak of the most insignificant things which my waking dream had revealed to me. I shall not say another word on this singular gift of vision, of which I cannot say it was ever of the slightest service; it manifested itself rarely, quite independently of my will, and several times in re ference to persons whom I cared little to look through. Neither am I the only person in posses sion of this power. On an excursion I once made with two of my sons, I met with an old Tyrolese who carried oranges and lemons about the country, in a house of public entertainment, in Lower Ha nenstein, one of the passes of the Jura. He fixed his eyes On me for some time, then mingled in the conversation, and said he knew me, although he knew me not, and went on to relate what I had done and striven to do in former times, to the consterna tion of the country people present, and the great admiration of my children, who were diverted to find another person gifted like their father. How the old lemon merchant came by his knowledge he could explain neither to me nor to himself; he seemed, nevertheless, to value himself somewhat upon his mysterious wisdom.—Zschekke's Autobiography. This eminent gift of clairvoyance is possessed in the highest degree by the Marchioness of San Milan, not only when under mesmeric influence, but also in her waking state ; her power of clairvoyance re lates especially to finding out the seat of diseases, without any inquiries of the patient. I have very often observed, myself, this most interesting kind of clairvoyance by the Marchioness, and will give one observation that I have made in Brighton. The second day of our arrival in this town, I was going with the Marchioness to a chemist's shop ; the chemist was himself a slender, choleric looking man, but certainly the most clever physician could not observe (only by showing the face) any other disease except, perhaps, liver complaint, by reason of a little yellowness. I have, myself, made this obser vation as physician. The Marchioness likewise ob served the man, and in going out she said :—" Doctor, this chemist suffers from a fistula of the rectum (fistula qui), and he has been operated upon." " Ob," I said, "it may be possible, but on what account can you give such a judgment, without knowing or having spoken to the man ?" The Marchioness, in her usual natural and child like manner, gave me the answer— " I cannot tell, but the moment I saw the man, it come hastily in my mind that the man suffered from a fistula ani, and has been operated on for this fistula ; why it came into my mind I know not, still, when I see patients, I can always tell their disease." We were going to take a walk, and no more was spoken of this case ; still ! what happens ? In five weeks after, I had the opportunity to make acquaint ance with the partner of the chemist spoken of. Some time afterwards, I learned from the partner of the chemist that he was very sick, in consequence of an operation of the fistula ani, which operation has been performed eight weeks ago. I was much surprised to hear this, because it was for me a new proof of the clairvoyance by the Mar chioness. Now, all the well educated philosophical physicians in Germany and France believe in the wonderful phenomena of clairvoyance and mesmerism ; they admire this eminent gift of God, without being enabled to give any sufficient explanation of it ; they are also very modest, and confess very frankly that our knowing and not knowing is similar to the water of our house-spring—to the water in the ocean, or the light of our night-lamp—to the ocean light of the sun ; still we remain in the cheerful hope of existence of Seneia—" Venit tempus, quod ista, quea nuut latent, in lucem dies extrahat."—Communieated by Dr. Mullar, late Professor to the German Hospital, London. THE RECENT FIRE AT THE BLUE LAST TAVERN. On Saturday Mr. W. Payne, the coroner of Lon don, held a court of inquiry at the White Horse, Friday-street, Cheapside, respecting the recent fire which occurred upon the premises belonging to Mr. Taylor, the Blue Last Tavern, Distaff-lane. Police-constable 440 (City force) said that on the morning of Thursday last, whilst on duty in Little Distaff-lane, he experienced a strong smell of some thing burning. He ran up to Mr. Taylor's premises, when he found smoke issuing forth from the shutters. He immediately knocked at the door and cried "Fire !" but five minutes elapsed before he could arouse Mr. Taylor and his family. At length he opened his bed-room window, when some per sons in the street called, to him to threw his children out of the window. Witness told him not to do so, but to make haste down stairs. The side door having been opened witness succeeded in helping Mrs. Taylor and the children out. He was then told that the potman was in the upper part of the house, and he immediately went to the stairs for the purpose of making to his bed-room, but the smoke was so dense :that he was unable to get up. He, therefore, went to the bell and rang violently, which awoke the man, and he made his escape over the roof and was taken into an adjoining house. William Maidman, sub-inspector at Watling-street brigade station, proved attending on the morning in question with his engines. The bar, taproom, and bar parlour, were then in flames. The engines were set to work, and the fire was extinguished. Mr. Taylor had told Mtn that the place was overrun with rats, and that he kept lucifer matches in the bar parlour, where no doubt the fire originated. It was quite probable that the rats might have caused the matches to ignite, either by nibbling the boxes or knocking them down. The conductor of the fire-escape, when he arrived at the fire, was so intoxicated as to be unable f• render assistance. The Coroner was informed that he had since been dismissed. Verdict ---" That the fire was accidentally caused." RISE IN THE VALUE or LAND.—In the parish of Wensley, and hamlet of Snitterton ' at a place called Oaker Hill, are about 100 acres of land (chiefly grazing), the proceeds of the rent of which are appropriated to wards the poors-rate of Wensley. Nearly the whole of this land has been in the hands of the same tenants during the last 28 years, it having during that time been let for two periods of 14 years each, by auction, or ticket. The last of the periods named would have ex pired on Ladyday next, and on Wednesday last the whole was offered by auction in the lots occupied by the respective tenants, nine in number, and who hoped to re-occupy their respective holdings at their former rents. Some of them were, however, doomed to disappoint ment, as three of the lots were advanced in value by Mr. Thomas Haynes, a tenant to C. Turner, Esq., from the sums respectively hitherto paid per acre as below:— Stephen Wall's holding los. per acre, Wm. Greatorex, lsi. per acre, and Godfrey Taylor, 124. per acre, without, however, Mr. Haynes obtaining any land ; and notwithstanding Mr. Greatorex's land was advanced by the bidding named from 2L 9s. per acre to 31. 75., he again took to his previous holding. One lot only went from the previous tenants, Messrs. Benj. and T. Marsden, to Mr. John Holmes, at an advance.— Derbyshire Courier. A CANINE THIEF.—A gentleman, accompanied by a Newfoundland dog, lately entered the office of Messrs. Woodall and Co., bankers, Scarborough, for the purpose of transacting some business. A few minutes after wards the dog quietly left the office, carrying in his mouth a bag containing 100 sovereigns, which he had. purloined from behind the counter; but, luckily, one of the clerks had watched the four-footed thief, and speedily recovered the stolen treasure.—Gateshead Ob server, LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Jan. 1. PRIVILEGES OF A PEER-M'CARE V. LORD HARLEY On Saturday an application was made to Mr. Baron Platt by Mr. Corfield, solicitor to the present Earl of Oxford, who was detained in the Queen's Prison as the Hon. A. Harley, commonly called Lord Harley, for his discharge, he having succeeded, by the death of his father, to the title of the Earl of Oxford. The necessary documents were produced, and his Lordship, after considering the matter, directed the attorneys of the several detaining creditors to show cause why the Earl of Oxford should not be discharged from custody, he being a Peet of the realm. The summonses were made re turnable to-day (Monday), and several attorneys attended on the part of creditors. In some cases the parties consented, and orders were made for the dis charge of the noble defendant, but in the above named cause the application was resisted by the de taining creditor's attorney. It was submitted that a Peer was not entitled to his privilege until he had taken the oaths prescribed. Mr. Baron PLATT said he had no doubt that a Peer was privileged before he had taken the oaths, and requested to be furnished with cases which would show that he was not. His Lordship adjourned the summons for an hour, in order that counsel might appear for the creditor. At a subsequent period of the day the matter was resumed. A barrister attended, and admitted that he could not cite cases to the effect that a Peer was not privileged until he had taken his seat. His LORDSHIP made the order in this as well as in the several other cases for the discharge of the Earl of Oxford from the Queen's Prison. In this case a point was incidentally mentioned of a novel and important character namely, whether the discharge would extinguish the several debts of the detaining creditors, or whether the judgments would survive the discharge by his Lordship. It seems that there is no case on the subject, and the question will decide whether an execution by opera tion of law will extinguish a debt in the same manner as a discharge by the act of a creditor. Orders in the several cases were drawn up, and the Earl of Oxford discharged from the Queen's Prison. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. William Ward, 39, and Gavan Rickards, 30, were indicted for a misdemeanour in obtaining money by false pretences. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and the prisoners were defended by Mr. Payne and Mr. Parry. It appeared that the prosecutor of this indictment was a person named Arnold, who, in August last, was confined in Whitecross•street Prison for debt. It was alleged that the defendants had introduced them selves to him, and under the pretence that they could get bail for him obtained 50s. from him, that sum being raised by the wife of the prosecutor pawning her clothes and almost everything she possessed for the purpose. Mr. PARRY, at the close of the evidence for the prosecution, took an an objection that it did not make out the allegation in the indictment, that the money was given upon the consideration that the defendants had provided bail, but merely went to show that they professed their intention to do so. The Learned Counsel also took a technical objection to a secocd count in the indictment. _ _ _ The RECORDER expressed an opinion that the ob jections taken by the Learned Counsel were fatal to the present indictment, and under his Lordship's di rection the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. William Parker, a person of respectable appearance, was then arraigned upon a charge of wilful and cor rupt perjury. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted ; Mr. Sergeant C. Jones and Mr. Prentis were for the defendant. The Learned COUNSEL, in opening the case, said the had only been instructed a few minutes before he sitting of the Court, and really was not able to detail the nature of the evidence. He would, however, call the witnesses, and the jury would say whether the case had been made out or not. Evidence was th9n adduced, but from the result of the proceeding it will not be necessary to give more than a brief outline of the circumstances under which the indictment was preferred. It appeared that an action had been brought by a gentleman named Palmer against a person named Castellini, upon a bill of exchange for 301., and upon the trial the present defendant was called as a witness to show that the acceptance was the handwriting of the defendant in the action, and upon this evidence the present indict ment was founded ; the only question being whether the defendant in his evidence as to the handwriting had spoken truly or not. The first witness, Mr. Palmer, put an end to the case for the prosecution, for he expressed a belief that the acceptance to the bill was the signature of Castel lini, and the account he gave of the circumstances under which he had received the bill left no doubt that the defendant Parker had acted with perfect truth in the transaction. The RECORDER having remarked that the evidence had entirely negatived the allegations of perjury, Mr. BALLANTINE said he was instructed to call the brother of the defendant, but he was, of course, an ad verse witness to the prosecution. The brother of the defendant was then sworn, and he stated that at his request he went with the bill in question to the house of Castellini, and gave it to his wife-for her husband to accept, and that she brought it back to him with her husband's name upon it ; and he also said that he believed the signature was the handwriting of Castellini, the defendant in the action. . _ Mr. BALIANTINS said that after this evidence, he could not think of going on with the case. He as sured the Court that he was perfectly ignorant of the circumstances under which the prosecution had been preferred. The RECORDER said no complaint could be made of the conduct of the Learned Counsel, but he must say that he was very glad that, under the circumstances, he had not postponed the trial. Mr. BALLANTINE said, that if he had known the real facts of the case, unquestionably he would not have laid it before the jury. Mr. Sergeant JONES remarked, that he had no com plaint to make of his Learned Friend, but he did hope that the defendant would leave the court without the slightest stain upon his character, which had always hitherto stood without reproach. The RECORDER said, that as far as the case was concerned there did not appear to be the slightest im putation upon the integrity of the defendant; who, upon the application of the Learned Sergeant who defended him, was immediately discharged from custody. Francis Maser, 25, and Eliza Stevens, SO, were placed at the bar to receive judgment. These prisoners were convicted at the last sessions of stealing a considerable sum of money, the property of an old lady in whose house they had occupied apartments as man and wife. Judgment was respited, in order to enable the prisoners to make some atone ment to justice by restoring a portion of the stolen property, and also to give the constable who had the case in hand an opportunity of making inquiries re specting the prisoners and tracing the property. The constable now stated that the prisoners had refused to give him any information, and he had been unable to obtain possession of the stolen money. He had, however, discovered that the female prisoner was a married woman, and that she had left her husband to go and cohabit with her male companion. The husband of the prisoner Stevens, a respectable looking young man, got into the witness-box, and said that Macer had behaved like a great villain to him. He had always lived happily and respectably until he allowed him to enter his house, but he had seduced his wife, and been the means of breaking up his home entirely. The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that the reason why a difference was made in the punishment of the prisoner was, that the Court could not help feeling that a man who could passess so much in fluence over the mind of a woman as to induce her to forget her duty to society and to her husband, and to leave her home and cohabit with him, might exer cise the same influence to compel her to assist him in committing an offence of this description. Still, how ever, the offence was a very aggravated one, and although the Court would not go to the extent of passing a sentence of transportation, it was necessary that a punishment of considerable severity should be inflicted as an example to others. The male prisoner was then sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years, and the woman for one year. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. BULLOCK.) Charles Geld, a respectable-looking man, upwards of sixty years of age, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having stolen eight printed books, and some articles of body linen of trifling value, the property of Mark Crashaw. Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who resides at Glossop, in Derbyshire, that on the 29th of December he got into one of the Paddington omnibuses, having with him a bundle containing the goods in question, which he left on the seat when he got out. As soon as he missed it he ran after the omnibus, and then found that the prisoner, who had also been a passenger, had walked off with his bundle. He was overtaken by the conductor, and when brought back offered to bet the prosecutor a sovereign that the bundle was his own, adding, that he had brought a bundle into the omnibus with him. In cross-examination the prosecutor said the prisoner was near his own house when he was taken. He had been beside him all the way in the omnibus, and was by his side asleep. The prisoner told the conductor that he had a bundle with him, but he did not know whether it was the case. The eonductor was not one of the witnesses here today. Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defence, said the whole TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1.849. affair was a rnistfike, end the facts were tly , .:—`7! -, e prisoner had got into ti :? , ,?2)cil, and thcit when g)t,u% which was at a late hour in the evening, and clo3e to his own house, he was very sleepy, and took up the bundle by mistake. The prisoner was a man of the highest respectability, and had been for years money collector to Messrs. Mawoocl and Rogers, patentees of steelyards, carrying on business in Upper Thames street, and so high did he stand in their estimation that when they heard of the scrape he had got into they came down to him, and one of the firm and their solicitor became his bail, and be had continued in their service up to the hour of his having surrendered in this court to take his trial. 11::>r Mr. Mawood, who appeared to speak to the pri soner's character, said he had been intrusted with :housands. Several other witnesses of the highest respectability said they deemed the prisoner incapable of the act at tributed to him. Mr. BULLOCK said the case was one of doubt. Thejury immediately Acquitted him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. William Morcomb, a weaver, and Robart Land, an apprentice, were brought before Alderman Lawrence on the charge of being on the premises of Messrs. Kent and Co., hardware and brush-manufacturers, Falcon-square, with intent to commit a felony. It appeared from the evidence of the principal wit ness, Felstead, that be was occasionally employed at the above warehouse, and upon going up one day to see if there were any jobs for him he entered into conversation with Morcomb, who said he should like to get into the overseer's room, and asked him if he could not make something out of wires to open the door. Felstead said that he could, his idea being to ascertain what plan was laid for robbing the premises, and who was in it. There was some conversation about Christmas time, when Land said that for 10s. he could show the way to get as many pounds, which was by being locked in the warehouse. Felstead remarked that that would not do, as the windows were screwed down. On his calling a few days after, Morcomb asked if he had had the wires made; and being told that they were not, he rejoined, " Then you need not mind, for we have an impression of the key in soap," and Land said, " I know a ' cross' smith who will make it." The imprression in soap was then shown to him by Morcomb. When next Felstead visited the place he was requested to see if it would fit. He went down stairs for the ostensible purpose of doing so, but in reality to see the overseer, and inform him of what was going on ; but, unfortunately, he was not within, upon which he returned to them (the prisoners), and said he had not been able to try it. On the Friday following, when he again called, he was told by Morcomb that the key could not be got to fit, and Land said that it would require two keys of wire, one to unlock and the other to lock. Felstead then had some words with Morcomb on the subject of working under price, and left, when he communicated the whole circumstances to a workman in the upper room, who at once informed Mr. Garrod, one of the partners, of the whole affair. That gentleman called the prisoners down, and accused them of having had a key made for the purpose of plundering him, which they at first denied, but after wards admitted their guilt, Morcomb saying that he gave the key to a young man, but declined to give his address. Alderman LAWRENCE said, he should send Mor comb to prison for two months, and Land for six weeks; and, if Felstead had been beside them at the bar, he would have awarded him three months, as being the worst of the three. The prisoners were removed. The sitting Alderman requested our reporter to acknowledge, through the press, the receipt of 101. 10s. from the Merchant Tailors' Company, for the Guildhall poor-box. BOW-STREET. Robert Boyle, a turnkey lately discharged from Newgate, was charged with being concerned with Augustus Schmidt (now under examination) in stealing schedules, sc., from the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The evidence went to show that the prisoner was seen in the company of Schmidt when the latter was leaving the landing or staircase where the official papers were deposited, with a bag containing the official papers in his possession. An officer of the E division further proved, that on apprehending him at his lodgings, in Red Lion passage, Holborn, the prisoner observed, "I'm the man you want," adding that a villain named Robert son had been the cause of the whole affair. A woman with whom the other prisoner (Schmidt) had been lodging proved that Boyle was frequently in the habit of calling at her house ; and shortly after Schmidt was taken by the police he (Boyle) lit up a fire in the room he had occupied, and burnt a great quantity of paper. Mr. HALL remanded him for further examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Taylor was brought before Mr. Hardwick charged with pot stealing. Stringer, 193 C, said, on Saturday night, about half past eight, he saw the prisoner and another man, not in custody, pass by him in Hertford-street, May-fair. Suspecting from their manner that they were pot stealers, he followed them for some distance, when the other man left the prisoner and proceeded in the direc tion of Shepherd's Market. Witness kept the prisoner in view till he got to Queen-street, when he (witness) went up to him and asked 'him if he had not got some pots about him. The prisoner said he had not. Witness then searched him, and found two quart and two pint pots cut into pieces. Witness then asked the prisoner where he got them from. Ile replied that he must do something, he could not starve. Witness subsequently took the pots to:four different publicans, who identified them as their property. The prisoner, who declined offering any defence, was committed for trial. Alexander Grimskne, foreman at Tollit's livery stables in Oxford-street, was charged with assaulting John Macarty, an errand-boy in the same establishment. It appeared that the boy had a shilling given to him for a Christmas-box. The defendant, according to the regulations of the yard, claimed the money as his own; and on complainant refusing to give it up, defendant threatened to stop it out of his wages. Complainant then became insolent, and defendant administered what he termed gentle chastisement, by kicking him in the ribs and pushing him down. The assault having been proved, defendant was fined 403.; the money was immediately paid. MARYLEBONE. A labouring man, named Hugh Slack, an old offender, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, for re .examination, on the charge of having stabbed Police-sergeant Bewley, 20 D. It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday, the 26th ult., Bewley was on duty in Orchard-place, Portman-square, when the prisoner rushed out upon him, and without saying a word, spat in his face. He was told to go quietly home, but he swore he would not do so, and making a thrust at the officer with a knife, stabbed him i n th e thi g h, th ere by in flicting a deep and serious wound; and had the weapon entered the flesh a little higher, the femoral artery would have been cut, and death might from bwmorrhage have ensued. It was quite clear, from other statements made by the sergeant, that the pri soner and a number of his companions were, at the period of the outrage, fully resolved upon taking the sergeant's life in the event of assistance not speedily arriving. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. " H. 'C." has forwarded to Mr. Broughton 51., and " B. H." a half-sovereign, for the poor-box of the Court. It was requested that an acknowledgment might appear in the papers. WESTMINSTER. Mr. Broderip yesterday received half a .5/. note from "B. G.,' for the poor-box, and stated, that on its being intimated in the papers that it had come to hand, he would transmit the other half. WORSHIP-S 7 'RE ET. Sarah Perry, Henry Lecointe, James Swayne, and James Lough were charged with assaulting and wounding the husband of the first named prisoner, a middle-aged man named Henry Perry, residing in Boston-street, Hackney. road. The prosecutor, who, upon applying for the war rant, exhibited several wounds in his head, and whose dress was completely saturated with the blood which had poured from them, stated, that while in his bed room on the evening of the 26th ult., dressing for a party to which he had been invited, he was alarmed by a loud knocking at his street door, and before he had time to reach it, it was forcibly burst open, and his wife, from whom he had some time been separated in consequence of the violence of her temper, rushed into the passage, followed by the three male defendants and a second woman. It was evident they had made up their minds for some serious mischief; and observ ing that his wife was brandishing a short heavy poker, he endeavoured to avoid her, and tried to induce his assailants to quit the house peaceably; but the female defendant instantly flew at him, and exclaim ing that she had got an instrument with her with which she had determined to kill him if she could, struck him a blow with it upon the forehead with all her force. The prisoner Lecomte at the same time commenced a furious attack upon him, beating him about the head and face with his fists, and forced him back into the kitchen, where his wife renewed the attack, and struck him upon the head, arms, and body with the poker till he was almost senseless, assisted by Swayne and Lough, who likewise struck him, and actively incited the others to ill-use him. They at length left the house, and he contrived to get to the door and secure it against them; but he had no sooner done so than they all returned and made another attempt to break in, exclaiming, " Give it the -," and "Let's have another try at him ;" but, being foiled in their efforts to burst in the door, they conatnenced pelting showers of stones and other missiles at the windows, until nearly the whole of the glass in the front of the house ,was demolished, when they pro ceeded to the back through some adjoining premises, nwl srn9ih.ll.lPven. ;~ :c: ql , '; h force of ihe ;Mows inflicted upnii his pen.on, and had been hurled through one of the first floor windows after all the glass in it had been smashed, and added that such was the outrageous nature of the violence the defendants had exhibited, that the street in front of his house was completely blocked up by the crowd of people their conduct had collected, and the whole neighbourhood was kept in a state of extreme excite ment for nearly two hours, during which the attack lasted. To show the vindictiveness which actuated the de fendants, Mr. Heritage, who appeared for the prose cution, stated that Lecomte had come from Poplar, Lough from Hoxton, and his client's wife from Walworth to take part in the affray, and called Holland, the warrant officer, who deposed to the spectacle the prosecutor presented when he first saw him ; and that upon going to his house he found that his account of the destruction the assailants had there committed had not been at all overrated. Mr. Morgan, from the office of Mr. Humphreys, severely cross-examined the prosecutor, with a view to show that the misconduct attributed to the de fendants was nothing more than what, in their estimation, was a just retaliation for his own miscon duct, in having, as they supposed, enticed a young woman, the daughter of the defendant Lough, from her father's house without his knowledge, for the purpose of forming an immoral intimacy with her ; but, notwithstanding that several of the defendants energetically exclaimed that it was so, the prose cutor, after some prevarication, positively denied that there was any foundation for the charge, further than that the young woman referred to had volun tarily taken up her residence in his premises, and that he had accepted her services in the capacity of housekeeper. Mr. ARNOLD said that nothing could justify such an outrageous attack as had been undoubtedly esta blished, and, as he considered it of far too serious a nature to be disposed of summarily, he should send the case to the sessions as one of assault and riot, and order each of the defendants to put in substantial bail for their appearance there to answer it. CLERKENWELL. Henry Phillip Pierce, alias Phillips, was charged with having committed two forgeries, also with bigamy, and with desertion from the Grenadier Guards. The prisoner on Tuesday morning last accosted a police-constable in St. John-street, Clerkenwell, and informed him that he had forged a bank post bill for 271. on Mr. Samuel Gardiner, a gentleman residing at Brentford ; that he had got cash for it, which he had spent in profligacy, and that he was so mise rable in his mind he had determined on delivering himself up to justice. Ile was taken to the station house in the Bagnigge-wells-road, where he adhered to his statement, and he was locked up, and subse quently brought before Mr. Combe at this court and remanded. He then said he picked up in the street a letter containing the bank post bill for 271., which he took to the Bank, and, after receipting it, got it cashed, From what he further stated, Inspector Julian, G, instituted inquiries, and ascertained his statement to be true, and a clerk fro n the Issue-office in the Bank of England attended and confirmed the statement. He also discovered that the prisoner had formerly been a corporal in the Grenadier Guards, from which he had deserted. He further traced him to have firmed a connexion with the servant maid of Mr. Singer, a gentleman residing at Wandsworth, to whom he paid his addre3ses, and ultimately married her ; and that he had also married two other women, who were now living, and one of whom was preg nant. He was in the habit of visiting at Mr. Singer's house, and regaling himself with the servant, without that gentleman's sanction or know ledge, when he sought an opportunity to steal some cheques from his cheque-book, which were missed. Mr. Singer banked at Coutts and Co.'s, where the prisoner obtained the bank post order, which he took to the bank, and escaped, after committing the for gery, &c. He was afterwards traced to have gone to Portsmouth, where he was lodging at the Fountain Hotel, and whilst there he wrote to Coutts's, and ob tained a bank post order for 151., through the medium of another forgery, which, it was said, could be brought home to him. Inspector Julian said that he had two certificates of the prisoner's marriages, and he was using efforts to produce a third one, and he had no doubt of success. A sergeant and a corporal of the Grenadier Guards identified the prisoner as being a deserter, and clerks from Coutts and Co. were also in attendance, and identified the prisoner. _ He was remanded fora week. Our reporter isl o equested to state that " R. E." has sent the other half' of a 101. note in aid of the poor box fund, with a request that its receipt might be ac knowledged in the newspapers. SOUTHWARK. Joseph Henry Kellerhy, a young man 21 years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Cottingham, charged with threatening the life of Miss Ward, who keeps a ladies' seminary at Camberwell. Previously to entering into the evidence adduced against the prisoner, it may be necessary to advert to some circumstances connected with the case, and which occurred about two years ago. Upon that occasion the prisoner was taken into custody for send ing threatening letters, some of them containing poison, to Mrs. Humble, the wife of a hop merchant in the Borough, to a Miss Clouter, and also to a:Miss Spriggs, the latter of whom at the period in question was a pupil of Miss Ward, the lady at whose instance the prisoner was now taken into custody. The letters, all of which were anonymous, were couched in lan guage of the most threatening description, and, as the writer had expressed his intention to lay wait for and assassinate some of the parttes, considerable terror was inspired in their minds, until he was at length apprehended and brought to justice. On the first occasion that the prisoner ss as committed for trial from this court he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. After the expira tion of his sentence, he had not been long at large when he again commenced writing anonymous letters to Miss Spriggs, at Miss Ward's school, threatening to murder her, and upon this charge he was appre hended, and, having been tried a second time at the Old Bailey, he was again sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and to be publicly whipped. In the month of August last, having undergone his punish ment, the prisoner was liberated, and in the month of November last he again commenced similar practices, and continued them up to his apprehension on the preceding night, when he was taken into custody with a long and sharp pointed knife concealed on his person, lurking about and watching at the residence of the complainant in Trinity-square. Sergeant Kendall, of the detective force, stated that he was the officer who apprehended the prisoner on the two former occasions, and that, having been present on each of his trials at the Central Criminal Court, he knew his handwriting well. Soon after the prisoner's last sentence of imprisonment expired, witness received information that anonymous letters of a threatening nature had been transmitted to Miss Ward, and those letters he (witness) having ex amined, he had no doubt they were in the prisoner's handwriting. The letters were put in and read by the magistrate, one of which was to the following effect :L-- " London, Dec. 27,1848. " In consequence of your refusal to give me the ad dress of Miss Spriggs or any information concerning her, I shall recite to you what will very shortly bo acted in reality. It is about the hour of nine on a dark and dismal night, when you may see a female form moving rapidly along the streets, but she does not heed any thing, for she seems anxious to get home. Alas ! had she but have known what would have befallen her during her short journey, she would not have ventured out. She still keeps gliding on her course towards home, when suddenly you see her struck down by some (until then) unseen enemy. Her foe is secreted, and as she passes steals s3ftly behind her, palls out something bright, lets it fall with full force against her ; and then she, who was so full of life and animation but a few short moments before, is now still as the grave. An alarm is given, but it is useless. " To Miss Ward." Other letters of a similar tendency were also handed to the magistrate, one of which described that on Sunday night, the 31st ult., the writer would be on the watch for Miss Ward. The sergeant said that on the previous night he went, accompanied by Wild and Burton, two con stables of the M division, to Trinity-square, and saw the prisoner waiting about in the vicinity of No. 22, apparently watching for the arrival of Miss Ward, who, with another lady, was expected home from chapel. Shortly afterwards the two ladies came up, and on their approach the prisoner took his stand at the entrance of the house, when he (the sergeant) and the two constables took him into custody. The prisoner, on being seized, attempted to draw some thing from underneath his coat, but he was prevented, and it was then discovered that he had the knife pro duced hidden there. He was very violent, and made strong and repeated efforts to get away, and in the course of it kicked and fought in such a manner that it was found necessary to place handcuffs upon him, and he was then 'conveyed to the station-house. Miss Ward, being sworn, stated that she was present on the prisoner's trial at the Old Bailey. The let ters alluded to were exhibited to her, and she had no doubt they were in his handwriting; that Miss Spriggs was formerly her pupil, and that while that young lady 'was at her school the prisoner was con stantly in the habit of writing anonymous letters to her, seine of them containing poison; that Miss Spriggs had since left her establishment, principally owing to the dreqd inspired by the prisoner's conduct; and that since then he had written the anonymous letters produced that day to her (the witness); and that she apprehended that her life was in danger from his threats, She added, that some of the letters Seiit pf)st, ri Am ( 1 irJto listen to any explatta,iott you. way think proper to give in answer to so serious a charge. Prisoner—At present I shall decline saying any thing. Mr. COTTINGUAM —Then you stand remanded un til Monday next. FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. GRAVESEND, DEC. 30 —Notwithstanding the caution given to the public in the London journals some days since, respecting the circulation of spurious Bank of England 51. and 101. notes, and the accurate description given of those forgeries, it appears so far as is yet ascertained, that at least three 101 notes of that description were passed and detected in this town last week, under the following circumstances :—On Saturday, the 23d instant, Mr. Martin, proprietor of the Queen's Arms Tavern, paid into the County Branch Bank in this town a sum of money, of which a 101. note, purporting to be of the Bank of England, formed a part. Soon after Mr. Pittock, clerk of the bank, examined the note more particularly, and, comparing it with a Bank of England note of the same amount, suspected that it was one of the forged notes alluded to. Whilst deliberating on the subject, his brother, a grocer in IVindmill• street, came into the bank and paid in some money, amongst which was a 10/. note, exactly similar to the other with the excep tion of the number. Both notes were then shown to Mr. Ware, the manager, who, as we learn, immediately pro nounced them to be forgeries. Mr. Martin was sent for, and he at once identified the note he paid in, having endorsed on it both the name of the person to whom he had given ten sovereigns in change for it and his own private mark. This person was at once com municated with, and he stated that he got it on that day from his brother-in-law, a publican in the town, to procure change for it in gold. Mr. Pittock then stated that he had changed the note he paid into the bank on that morning for the same publican. Both notes were, on the Tuesday following, transmitted to London and presented at the Bank of England, where they were branded as forgeries, and then brought back to the Gravesend Bank where, on that very day, another 101. note of a similar kind was paid in by Mr. Winnett, grocer, in High-street, who had taken it in the course of business on the previous Saturday from a poulterer in the town. On in quiry, the poulterer said that he had taken the note from the identical person to whom the other two notes had been traced. The superinten dent of police (Mr. North) was then applied to, and he and the parties. above alluded to pro ceeded to the publican's house. The latter, as it seems, immediately admitted having sent out two of the notes on Saturday to be changed, and having paid over the other to the_poulterer, who had given him the difference in change between his demand and the amount of the note. He accounted for having the notes by stating that he had changed two of them on Saturday morning for a gentleman who occa sionally came to his house, and whose name he sub sequently mentioned to the police officer. The County Bank, as is stated, on receiving the amount of the notes from each of the parties who paid them into it, returned to each respectively his note. It %s as fur ther stated that the publican bad arranged with the parties by paying to each 51., and giving an U for the other 51. ; but we have been assured that two of the forged notes are at present impounded at the bank referred to, awaiting, as we were further assured, the result of a communication rriLtde to the solicitor of the Bank of England for the purpose of ascertaining whether he would think it proper to investigate this very singular case. Doubtless, if an investigation does take place, the person or persons for whom the publican changed the notes will be traced, and he will be freed from any suspicion. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH DEVON. An adjourned meeting of the shareholders in this line was held yesterday (Monday) at Bristol, for the purpose of considering what measures should be adopted with regard to the special general meeting, to be held at Exeter on Saturday next, and es pecially with reference to the atmospheric system of traction. Mr. CUILCOTT having been called to the chair, ob served that the manner in which the Bristol shareholders had been treated was very inconsiderate, to say the least of it, on the part of the directors. How was it possible to enter into the merits of the case if the report was not received till within two days of the meeting ? They could form nn opinion as to the nature of its contents. He trusted, therefore, that as that report had not • been received, some, gentleman would move an adjournment of the meeting. In pursuance of this request, Mr. FRY moved, and Mr. CROSS seconded a resolution, that the meeting be adjourned till Thursday, which was carried unanimously. _ A correspondence was read which had taken place between the Chairman and Mr. Gill, the latter gen tleman having stated that he was the only one who was a dissentient to the atmospheric system, whereas it appeared there were five or six dsssentients. Mr. HUTTON said the directors ought to lay before the meeting the particulars of their liabilities. He had heard there was due to Mr. Bennett, the con tractor, the sum of 77,000/.—(Hear, hear.) LONDON, BRIGHTON, &c.—Air. Peter Clarke, the Supreme Manager of this line and its tributaries, re signed that post yesterday, the Ist instant, seceding to the York and North Midland lines' management. On Saturday Mr. Clarke received at his residence, Brighton, in a most unostentatious manner, a magni- ficent testimonial as a memento of the estimation in which he was held by those over whom he has so long presided in the Brighton company. It con sisted of a superb silver salver of elegant workman ship by Savory, and a silver claret cup, bearing this inscription :—" Presented to Peter Clarke, Esq., by the officers of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, December, 1848." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAW. 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business was rather brisk. The sales are—Great Western, Quarters, 2% dis.—Midland Stock, 86—Caledonian, Preference, p. YORK, DEC. 30. STO€K EXCHANGE.—The business ;ansacted to-day war as follows : —Great Northern, 9 —North British, Thirds, 41. Bs. 6d.— Ditto, Quarters, 31i —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension), No. 1, 144—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 7 3 ,11 ex int. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD, DEC. 29.—We have to note a reduction of lull is per quarter in wheat, with an extremely dull trade. A similar abatement was necessarily submitted to in beans, oats. and second-rate barleys. Peas main tained last week's prices, with the exception of white, which, owing to the mildness of the weather, were much neglected. 'Per Quarter. e. s. Per Quarter. s. s. Wheat, White, 01d... 47 56 Peas, Partridge New 46 55 White Red, 01d... 41 49 Dun New 40 48 Beans, Tick (new) 25 28 Barley ... 2B 32 Old 2B 32 Chevalier... 30 34 Harrow Tiekii (new) 26 29 Grinding... 26 29 ' Old 29 33 Oats • ... 18 25 Mazagan (new).. 23 26 Malt CheValier MANCHESTER, JAN. I.—The extraordinary commer cial depression, conjoined with the marked deCline in the value of railway property, which have characterized the present year, induce me to present to your attention a short view of the position of the Railway Share mar ket. The evils consequent on the undue expansion of the railway system are too well known to need recapitu lation; but while we must admit there is just cause for reprehension, we must not forget that public opinion frequently exaggerates. The principal companies have been induced to issue a general statement of their affairs, and though these statements may not be considered so voluminous and clear as desirable, still much may be gathered from the information afforded, and much more may be elicited as 'the companies find it their interest to bring their position fully and fairly before public atten tion. The capital already. expended in railway works, including loans contracted, amounts to about 200,000,0001., and before the contemplated system could be completed, it is calculated that at least 150,000,0001. more would be required. It is, however, in the present state of things, morally impossible to carry this out, and, in all proba bility, not more than 50,000,0001. will be further sunk before the completion ofehe railway system; this amount being applied only to certain branches or new schemes p irtially constructed, and which offer a fair prospect of remuneration, and the expenditure of this sum to be extended over the next three or four years, or longer, as required. The formation of railways has been im peded and retarded by commercial disasters, and more recently by political derangements; which have con vulsed a great part of the continent of Europe with anarchy and confusion; our own country has, showelver, escaped the general disorder, and the impression seems gaining ground that affairs abroad are assuming a more settleu aspect. Trade is returning to its ordinary chan nels, and expectations are reasonably indulged that the present year will see a gradual restoration to a calm and equal degree' of prosperity. Under these circumstances we may vi nture to hope that railways will present more favourable prospects, and as their true position becumer, more known, they will be the vehicle of more geisJal investment to capitalists. Assuredly as comm3rce im provs, traffic must be more developed; and we cannot look to a permanent improvement in trade without the conviction that railways must, mere or less, be . benefited by such a change. No other sources of investment can offer more inducements to capital, as from 6 to 7 per cent., or more, can be realized on several of the old lines, and shares in the new schemes may still be purchased at fearfully low rates. I can also strongly recommend to your attention preference stock, guaranteed tiy she old established lines, and which yield ;it present from 5,t.. 6 per cent. I shall he glad to be favoured with your corn wands. .iy business is strictly, confined to kgitimate biukertige transactions, and whenevent is practicable, I prefer to operate for cash. In all cases prompt settle- 't i'l l ~f,~rcel.---Fr Grortn 1:, .18, i n 3 ,-„ ; rt . d, dit:A), 448 to 538; barley, 288 to 348; beans, Mezagan, 263 to 328; middle and small ditto, 303 to 355; peas, 333 to 36s per quarter. HADDINGTON, DEC. 29.—The supply to-day of grain was considerably less than in last market. Sales were dull. Wheat, top, is up, and average., id down; weight of top, per four bushels, 18st lib. Barl..y, top, 2s, and average 8d down; weight of top, per four bushels, 16st 101 b. Oats, top, 6d and average is Id down; weight of top por four bushels, 13st 41b. 13( ans, top, 2s, and ave rage is lid down; weight of top, per four bushels, 19nt 61b. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. ••• 54s Od I 3ls Od 12 1 s 6d 1 004 Od _ _ _ First Second Third ... 44s 3d 32s Od 26s 10d 1 195 5d I 265 - 4d 19s . Od I 15s 6d 125 s Od Total quantity of Wheat in ., market 335 qrs., 304 sold Do. Barley do. 492 qrs., 430 soh Do. Oats do. 502 qrs., 486 sold __ _ _ _ Do. Beans do. 62 qrs., 57 sold- GLASGOW PROVISION MARKO, DEC. .L.---Cheese, 46s Od to 52s Od per cwt; retail ditto, sid to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 00s to 00s per cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to Ild per lb; Irish powdered, in lumps, 9id to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 9id to 10d. Country eggs, Is per dozen; carried hen ditto, 8s 6d per hundred, or 8d per dez -n. Hens, 2s Od per pair; ducks, 2s Od. KIRRALDY, DEC. 30. We had a large supply of wheat here to-day, mostly in tender condition, which met a slow sale, at Is to 25 per quarter under last week's cur. rency. Of barley and oats the supplies were only mode rate. Saks of both rather quick, at 6d per quarter under last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, I First 51s Od 29s Gd 20s Od —s Od —s Od Second 48i Od 27s Od (Os Od —s Od I—s Od Third 4Os Od 2ls Od 15s Od —s Od i—s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 28O1bs. imp., 27s to 00s. BERwICK, DEc. 28.—Wheat, 47s sid; barley, 25s llti; oats, 18s 61d; peas, 00s Od, average per imperial quarter. KELSO, DEC. 29.—Wheat, old, 38s to 40s; ditto, new, 32s to 375; barley, new, 17s to 21s Od; ditto, old, —s to —s; potato oats, —s to —s; ditto, new, 13s to 153 Od; common oats, lis to 14s; ditto, new, —s to —s; peas, 24s to 255; beans, 24s to 253 per boll of six imperial bushels. HAWICR, DEC. 28.—Wheat, new, 36s to 425; ditto, old, 46s to 48s; barley, new, 17s to 21s; ditto, old, ; potato oats. 15s to 17s; common ditto, 11s to 14s; peas, 27s to 283; beans, 27s to 28s, per boll of six im perial bushels. PERTH, DEC. 28.—Wheat, 44s to 525; barley, 22s to 275; oats, 15s to 19s; peas and beans, 26s to 30s per quarter;. oatmeal 28s to 31s per sack. FALKIRK, DEC. 29.—The supply of grain in this day's market was 717 bolls. Wheat at 21s to 24s 9d per boll; barley, 18s 93 to 22s Od; oats, 12s to 15s Od; beans, Ils to 15s 6d per boll; oatmeal, —s to —s per load. STIRLING, DEC. 29.—Wheat, foreign, 26s to 295; ditto home, OOs to OOs; ditto ditto, new, 20s to 245; barley, per boll of six bushels, 00s to OOs; ditto, new, 19s to 22s 6d; oats, common, 00s Od to OOs; ditto ditto, new, 103 6d to 12s; ditto, Flemish, OOs to OOs; ditto ditto, new, OOs to OOs; malt, distillers, 38s to 40s; ditto, brew ers, 39s to 41s; beans, per boll, 15s 6d to Os; ditto, new, lls 6d to 14s; peas, OOs to 003. Flour, new, per sack, 40s to 425; ditto, corum.n ditto, 293 to 30s 6d. Oatmeal, per load, OOs to OOs; ditto, new, 27s to 295; ditto, per peck of 71bs, 9d to lod. Fresh butter per lb, lld to 12d. Eggs per dozen, 9d to 10d. Hay, per ton, 46s to 50s. COAL MARKET.-YESTERDAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s 9d Bell Carr's Hartley Chester Main l6s 6d Hetton .. Davison'sWest Hartley 14s 9d Haswell l9s Od Hasting's Hartley l4s 6d Lambton New Tanfield l4s Od Russell's Hetton ...... 18s 6d Original Tanfield l3s 6d Shotten Smith's Pontop .. l3s 6d Stewart's South Pontop .. ...... 13s 6d Whitwell ... sA alker's Primrose ... 13s 6d Benson ‘,‘ est Hartley .. ...... 14s 9d Caradoc ..... .. .. Wall's End, &c. Cassop lBs 3d Acorn Close B _wick° and Co. Brown's l6s Odi Hudson's Hartlepool... I7s 9d Clarke .. lss Od!Kelloe . lBs 6d Goforth Hebburn l7s Od South Kelloe l7s L d Heaton klarton Hotspur l7s 0(.1 Seymour Tees Killingworth l7s 3d Tees Riddell's l7s 6d Cowpen Hartley South Killingworth ... 13s Od D3rwentwattrHartley 14s 6d Walker ... Wharncliffe Lambton Primrose ... 18s Od Ships at market, 828. Belmont „. lBs 2d, THE ROMANCE OP OLD ENGLAND.—Just published float the pen of Mr. W. Harrison Ainsworth, entitled " The Lancashire Witches," has more than ordinary claims on public curiosity and attention. It was a daring attempt even by so celebrated an author as Mr. Ainsworth, to combine with an historical romance, the wild practices of sorcery; but so perfect is the interfusion of the na tural and the supernatural, and so strictly is it in keep ing with the ghastly belief which, in the early part of the seventeenth century pervaded our nation, and which the denunciations of James I. tended to foster, that every grim incident stands out with the distinctness of a fear ful fact, and as he turns over the pages, the reader feels as if under a potent spell. But this lurid mystery is not the only feature of the work. Scenes of joy and revel, of " pomp and feast, with masque and antique page.. entry, ' direnify the interest, and glance, like sunbeams, a•hwert the gloom .—Evening paper. 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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Joho Kaye, Esq., of Dalton' hsll, near Huddersfield, in order to prevent impositions, has consented to have his coat of arms and a tac-simile of his signature appended to the directions wrapped round each box of the celebrated family medicine pre ps) ed by him, and known throughout the kingdom as "Kaye's . Worsdell's Vegetable Restore tive Pills." For bitlious affections, indigestion, and all diseases of the liver, these Pills are unparalleled for their speedy efficacy. No fewer than three hundred testimonials have recently been published, demonstrating their surprising efficacy. No family ought to be without them, as an occasional dose will prevent many disorders, and will preserve the blood flee from those obstructions which are the cause of most c.,mplaints. Observe that the arms of J o ists Kaye, together with a lac-simile of his signature, are printed on the directions for use wrapped round each box. Price ls. lid., 2 9d., or 4s. 6d. per box; to be had of all respec,able Chemists and Medicine Venders. ST. JOHN'S WOOD AND PORTLAND-TOWN PRoVI' DENT DISPENSARY —Last night the fourth general air nual meeting of the governors of this institution was held at the Committee-rooms, 98, St. John's Wood-terrace. The chair was taken by the Rev. E. Thompson, D.D. minister of All Saints. The report of the committee stated that the dispensary was still in an increasing and prosperous condition. Since its establishment, in 1845, the number of ordinary members, who are not looked upon ai burdens on a formal charity, had increased four.. told, an i the number of cases of sickness is now nearly seventeen times what it was during the first year of the dispensary's operations. The receipts dun g the past year were 2421. 10s. the disbursements 2321. I is. Bde leaving, with the balance of the previous year, a surplus Of about 321. in the hands of the treasurer. The r e port was unanimously adopted, the treasurer's accounts were examined and passed, and, after a vote of thanks to the Rev. Chsirman, the proceedings terminated. Letters from Havre mention that the markets bstd generally closed with tranquillity, but as prices were maintained a good business was expected at the opening of the new year. Trade at Ghent is for the present sus' pended owing to the intervention of the Christmas holi days. At Rouen the festivities of the season had not materially interfered with the activity of the market for manufactures, which was still buoyant with good prices. The Amsterdam accounts speak of moderate operations in produce, consumers refraining from extended par' chases until the commencement of 1849. WESTMINSTER REFORM AssoclATlON.—The firs monthly meeting of this society for the current year Wse held last night at the York Hotel, Upper Wellington' street, Mr. Geesen in the chair. -It is usual at this meet' ing to elect the officers for the ensuing year; but in con' sequence of the state of business, the election ,was de' ferred, and a special meeting was resolved upon, to 10 held on Monday, the 15th inst., when it is intended also to consider what steps should be taken by th e society with reference to the resolutions that may be adopted at the meeting to be held in Manchester on the 4th instant. BIRTHS. On the 10th October, at Bareilly, the wife of James Lean► Esq., of the Bengal C.vil Service, of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at Grange-road, Bermondsey, the wife of Mr. J. A. Rucker, of a son. On the 29th ult., at Ware Vicarage, Herts, Mrs. Blakesleff of a d .ughter. On the 29th ult., in Harewood.square, Regent's-park, NW' Alfred Howard, of a son. On the 29th ult., at the Leases, Yorkshire, the wife of F' A. Milbank, Esq., of a son and heir. MARRIED, At Cheltenham, on the 27th ult., George Sutherland, Es4l of Fame, Caithness, N. 8., to Mary Elizabeth, only child 01 W. G. Sheppard, Esq., of Lansdowne-terrace, Cheltenba nb and of Kiltrasy, county Kilkenny, Ireland. On the 28th ult.. at Baltast, Edward Higgin, Esq., of Liver" f pool, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Joh n Hi n d, Esq., the Lodges, near that town. DIED. On the Ist inst., at 119, Alderagate-street, Volney Gun lh f Esq., of the firm of Ille-srs. W. Benjamin, km., and Co., 0 No 4, Coleman-street. in the 4 th year of his age. On the 30th ult., at his residence, Milibank, W e stminster , Mr. Alderman John Johnson, aged 58. v late On the 24th ult., at Torquay, Warren Maude, Esq., C tptain of the 33d Regiment. On the 24th ult., at Alderley.hall, Cheshire, Hugh Robert, _N eldest son ol S. Alderley, Esq., aged 21. On the 26th ult., at VVolsdon-in-Antony, Cornwall , J ohn Boger, Esq., aged 79. -..---r. London! Printed and Published by MURDO IMUNO9 . No. 112,. Strand. Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112. Stran 1, in the Precinct of thM Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, Jautlary 2, 1849.