The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

Livcarooi., JAN. 22. VV.--.'lrrd. Wa: Okvt-ui, Calcutta; Eiizi ,I , Jasto::e, Donaldson, 23d, Jauet Ki..l,ton, M'Kay, Bilni:ay; S. line, Ca'cutta; Christina, Sp , rnco, ditto; Spray, Steele, PL ralbA; Susannah Coliinhs, Buenos Apes; Cavo - :n Hoyle, Deaier;tra; Arethlt., New York; Columt•iLl Farber, uitto. CAI - sport, American, --; --. The Sarah Sanr's New York, wli'ef was the 2157, i7l SnllLbury Dock, thate this mconin,g, and w:ls t:iken nv,r. WEXFORD, JAN. 22.—The Invincble, Constantinople to Cork, cone on shore yesterday at Culiinstown, i! Bdlyteigne Bay, and hits become a wreck; cargo all washed out. RAMSGATE, JAN. 23.—Wim1 W.—Arrd. Gotha, ArAidson, Charleston, Sr. - nes, with loss of sails ano making water. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANCTE—WEDNESIDAY Although the quantity of English Wheat on t , frer in to-day's market was very limited—the arrival sire( Saturday not having exceeded 870 quarters, the demand for that arLicle of Grain was hi a very sluggish state, In prices, however, we have no alt-ra ion to noti t c With free foreign Wheat we were fairly supplied. tie leeted samples of both red and white were in fair re quest, at full rates of currency. The middling and in ferior kinds were a dull inquiry, at barely late rates. Malting Barley moved off steadily ; all otter kinds of Barley slowly, at unaltered quotations. In Malt, the supply of which wai small, so little business was doing that prices were almost nominal. Oat: were a slow in quiry, but nut cheaper than on Nlonday. Mans, Peas. Indian Corn, and Meal might have been purchased on somewhat lower terms. No change in Flour. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. 870 cgs, Barley. 63 qrs. English • • • • • • Oats. I Flour 2,110 qrs. E2O 1,860 1 - 1,580 1 1,350 Malt, 850 Qrs. BOROUGH HOP IVIIIR=ET. The best new Hops in pockets cinarnanded a steady sale, at fully last week's prices. In all other kinds next to nothing was doing, at barely late rates. Ttie show of samples was very moderate. New Hops per cwt.— Sussex pc ckets, 21 4s to 31; Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 12s to 3/ lOs ; Mid and Est Kent ditto, 3/ 5s to 61. Irish..... .. .. Foreign ...... 9,700 WHITECIMPZL. Although the supply of meat on offer this morning wai by no means large, the general demand was in a sluggish state, at our quotations. Boa, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per Blbs by the carcase. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE FIRE BRIGADE. Mr. HunDLEsToNE applied on behalf of the fire brigade, in the name of Loader, an engine-keeper, for a rule calling upon Mr. Combe, the Cierkenwell police magistrate, to show cause why he should not give his approbation in consent to the payment, by the church wardens of St. Andrew's, Holborn, of the sum of 20s. to Loader, who conveyed the second large engine to a fire in Gray's Inn-road, which occurred on the 30th of November. The application was made under the pro visions . of the 14th George 111., cap. 78, commtmli called the Building Act, the 76th and 77th sections of which provided that the party who first conveyed the parish or other large engine to a fire should be entitled to 305., and the party who brought the second to 20 - s., upon the payment being sanctioned by a magistrate; ,but it was doubtful whether the churchwardens of the p arish in which the fire occurred, who were to pay the money, ought to put the magistrate in motion, or the party who was entitled to the reward. The police magis trates of the metropolis had given conflicting decisions upon the point, ant in the pre-ent case 'sir. Combe had decided that he had n ) juri-diction in the matter, in• asinuch as the application to him did not come from the churchwardens or St. Andrew's, but from Loader. But from the wording of the Building Act, which gave power to distrain upon the churchwardens for the amount, it was quite clear, although it had not yet been decided by the courts, that the recipient of the money was the proper party to put the magistrate in thotion.—Ral,! EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WALKER. This ac'ion was brought by the Crown against the defendant, to recover penalties for evading the duty upon the manufacture of bricks. A verdict was found gene rally for the defendant. and a rule for a new trial having been obtained, it came on for argument some time since and the judgment of the Court was deferred. Mr. WATSON, on the part of the Crown, now stated, that as the brick-making season was approaching it became a matter of importance to the parties iuteresteci in the trade to know tile decision of the Court, and Le begged to aak when the decision might be expected? After some consultation with the other Judges, The CHIEF BARON said that the Court would make the rule for a new trial absolute. Rule made illolute accordingly. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. Her - Majesty walked this morning in the Slopes and. Little Park. The Royal Family tiok their accustomed airings. Prince Albert went out hunting this forenoon, at tended by Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, his Royal Highness's Equerry in Waiting. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Leveson Gower left the Castle to day. Her Majesty's private laved attended and performed in the Castle this evening. A Cabinet Colin- wai held ye,terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were — Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Bob house, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labou ehere, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council sat two hours. _ _ - - The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town to at tend the meeting from his seat, liowood Park, Wilts. Lord J o h n Russell had a dinncr party on Satur daY, at his residence in Chesham-place. The company included the Earl and Countess Minto, Lord Foley, Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Mr. Dickins, and Mr. Rogers. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Oxronn, Jam. 23.—The Professor of Poetry will de nver his Terminal Lecture in the Clarendon on Satur day next, at two o'clock. The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History pro- Post-s this term to read Eusebius and Bede, beginning Feb. 13. Mr. A r th ur H enr y Faber, from Winchester College, has been admitted a probationary Fellow of New Col leeeu „, in the room of the late Edward Cumming Quicke, All the eollpges and halls have met for the present teina, with the exc, ptiun of Corpus, St. John's , Jesus , NOW Ori e l, Worc e ster, and University Colleges , Magda n ball, and St. Mary which meet on Saturday n - e xt; All Souls' meets on the following Tuesday, aid . `"-agdalen College en F, b. 2. Tll AAIE-LA WS. TO TILE EDITOR 01 SUN. SIR, —It might not be amiss that Mr. Bright should, the coining session of Parliment, move for a return of the number of authorities which have been granted under Mr. Culvill's Game-law. It will go to !POW how many landholders have been liberal enough to mo s o. I am, Sir, &c,,* INQUIRER. January 23, 181:9. 13 RITISII V. AMERICAN OCEAN STEAMERS.--A Passage across the Atlantic, against the strong winds and heavy seas which prevail in the depth of winter, is sure to try the strength and sailing capabilities of steamers. Whatever the success in summer, With light and favourable breezes, it is only when the waves are " lashed to storm " that vessels are fairly put upon their trial. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, which sailed from New York on the 10in instant, and Halifax on the 13th, reached the Mersey yesterday morning a little atter Dine o'clock, making the passage trout New York to Li- Ver- 00 1 , at this boisterous season of the year, in less than twelve days! This, all things considered, is the most astonishing passage on record. Tbe Europa, on her Passage out, left the Mersey on the 16th of December, four days after the Ann rican steamer, Hermann, sailed f rom Southampton for New York. The Europa, after making the d e t our to Halifax, reached New York on t he afternoon of the 31st of December, but th e Hermann only arrived at Boston (tor which Port she was compelled to run, being short of " al s) on the 4th January, four da) s after the Europa reached New York ! A:sain, the American steamer Washington sailed from Southampton on De %earner 20, and did not reach New York till nineteen days after she started. The British and North American !learner America, which sailed on the 30th Dec., reached .511alifax on the loth inst—a very rapid passage considep n ig the season of the year and the difficulties to contend with. Instances of the superiority of British steam vessels over those yet built in America, now so frequently !scour, that we sheuid think brother Jonathan was pretty well sati s fi e d th at h e is no match for Uncle John in this department. We are glad to see a friendly rivalry in these matters, f or by it th e public ar;sure to benefit, and talent, skill . and ent c.e.r,r gratified meet with their due re ward, The p u bli c will be surpasst' all the o dto learn that two new vessels, which others in size, splen dour, and speed, are a b out being laid down by the British and North American Com i nto replace the Acadia aria Britannia, which have been sold d —Liverpool so Mercury. A dividend of 1/ per share was declared yesterday at the meeting of the Cobre Copper Company. The produce of o re, it is stated, has materially in ere iscd, acid' app l e t a i r E au cr ce o . y opw the affairs of the mines present altogether a sanafactor IN SANDS.—Vast quantities of wreck h has been s e en on the Gosdwin, it is expected th ere es bee n a great loss on those terrible shoals. Sonic fishin g n , is have also hen dii , covi red, packed in a simi. . 4r ner to those us dby the Yarmouth fishermer, 4 ' 41 it is feared that one of these vossels, which gene -11.,".!1Y carry a grea t num b er o f hands, must Katie boon t in Prlet'ecli , g to the fisLeiies off the Lana s (Aron ick. e l i liAcc . Lancaster G uar di an says, that on Saturday 11, Lile vviki cai, Inca tiring iosur lea from tail th e " , and weighing 9w , was taken in a vermin trap by h 14...; garnekeeper to Joseph Bushell, Esq., of Bulk, on gentleman's estate. TRI SUN, LONDON, WEDN ES DA _EVENING, NEW ENGLISH PATENTS. Richard Lam'ng, of Melly la Garonne, near Pa. s, France, chemist, for improvements in 01.4 modes (f or raining or manuftcturiog sulphur gad solpi,uric acid. July 13; six months. N.B. pat:_nt being s, d by caveat lodged at the Great Soal Pater:t of w s not sealed till the 13th .)!tr.trary, 149, bet hears date the 4th September, :84S, the day it would havo - b - -ef! reeled and dated had no oppositicn been entered (t:) , o r der of Lord Chancellor). William Betts, of Smithfield-bars, London, diMiller, for a new manufacture of capsules, and of a material to be employed therein, and for other purposes. January 13; six months. George Williams, of Tipton, Stafford, forge manager, for a certain improvement or improvements in preparing puddling furnaces used in the manufacture of iron. July 13; six months. Conrad Haverkam Greenhow, of London, civil en gineer, for certain improvements in atmosileric rail ways. January 13; 1-ix months. Richard Dug&le, of Brompton, engineer, 'or improvements in harsh articles composed- of iron. January 13; six lo'nths. Anthony Barberis, of Licester-square, engineer, for improvements in spitining silk, Rrid in the construction of swifts, and in the arrangement of apparatus for wir.d• ing silk and other fibrous Eubstances. January 16; months. Jean Baptiste Francuis P.lr zcline Cae, of Havre France, engineer, for improvements in steam engines, and in the machinery or propelling vessel,,. January 16; six months. _ _ William Martain, of St. Pierre lea Calais, France, machinist, for certain improvements in machinery for figuring textile fabrics, parts of which improvements are applicable to playing certain musical instruments, and ako to printing, and other like purposes. January 16; six months. Peter Augustine Godefroy, of London, chemical colour manufacturer, for certain improvements in dress ing and finishing woven fabrics. January 16; six months. Edward Buehler, of London, merchant, for improve ments in the manufacture of boots and shoes; also ap plicable to other fabrics. January 16; six months. Carey M'Ciellan, of Larch Mount, in the liberties of the city of Londonderry, for an improved corn mill. January 16; six months. James Hamilton, of London, civil engineer, for im• provoments in cutting wood. January 18; six months. John Francis Bottom, of Nottingham-pal lc, Notting ham, lace dresser, and John Dearman Dunnicliff, of flyson-green, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for im provements in dressing or getting up fabrics of cotton or silk, and of cotton and silk combined. January 18; six months. Francis Alton Calvert, of Manchester, machinist, for certain improvements in machinery for cleaning and preparing cotton wool, and other fibrous substances. January 18; six months. Thomas Newcomb, of Bermondsey, machinist, for improvements in furnaces. January IS; six months. — Mechanics' Magazine. FATAL FLOOD.—During the night of Saturday last, some very heavy rain fell in various parts of West Yorkshire, by which the rivers were much swollen. Owing to the force of the current between Brotherton and Castleford, a little below the confluence of the rivers Aire and Calder, a vessel, laden with wool and a general cargo of drysalteries and groceries, named the York shirema.n, of Bradford, and belonging to Mr. Wood, of Bradford, broke from her moorings during the absence of the master on shore. She was carried some distance down the river with great impetuosity, and was eventu ally sunk, the captain's wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, and two children who were also on board, being drowned.—Hull Advertiser. ILLEGAL DISPOSAL OF THE PROCEEDS OF A " DENBY SWEEP."—A burglary, attended with the loss of about 1201, was perpetrated at a public-house in Dale-end, Birmingham, occupied by Mr. John Mathews, early yesterday morning. It appears that a money sweep, or crown-piece lottery, is held at the above house, Lnd when one thousand crowns are deposited the whole are balloted for. Up to Saturday about 450 crowns were paid into the hands of the landlord, who was the .reasurer of the fund. The house was closed at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, and Mr. Mathews, baying locked up the premises, proceeded to his lodgings at the Lozells, leaving the money in the bar. At an early hour on Sunday morning, some thieves, evidently well acquainted with the house, and aware of the valuable deposit in the bar, scaled the walls at the rear of the premises, and having effected an entrance into the house, carried off the whole of the booty.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette. The gamekeeper of Bryan Burrell, Esq., of Broome Park, lately shot, on the river Ain, at a distance of 75 yards, a wild swan, which measured six feet seven inches row tip to tip.-IVewcastle Journal. _ WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE MARBLE ARCH ? The danger is imminent; the palace advances to comple tion, soon the hoard will be removed, and the arch, the costly monument of George IV., is doomed to demolition. Perhaps this structure is not very remarkable for beauty of design, or for any elaborate finish; it stands, how ever, a solitary instance of regal magnificence, being the only evidence in marble of an archit( aural portal in London, and with its bronze gates, which are good specimens of their kind, is not an unworthy memento uf a monarch whose refinement of taste conduced not a little to the embelli,hteent of the metropolis and the encouragement of ai t. Is this Arc de Triomphe to he abated, and to be lost to the nation whose liberality furnished 70,0001. to its e lification ? Fur the sake of the capital, which boasts but two arches, we hope not. — Builder. A CONSIDERATE LANDLORD. The Earl of Northesk has intimated to all the tenants on his estates of Ellie and Lunan that, in consequence of the present depressed state of the corn markets, he intends post poning the collection of his Candlemas re nts till the month of April xt, hoping that, ere that time, they may have disposed of their grain to better advantage than they possibly could do at present. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 7 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.321; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 321, it follows that gold is the sane pike in Paris and London. By advices from Hamburg') the price of gold is 436 pf r mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10cl e d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.101-; and the exchange trt Ilarnburgh on London at short being 13.14 it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer iu Ham burgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1084 per cent., and the par of ex change between England and America being 109 23 40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.83 per cent. against England; but the quoted exchange at New York tieing for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. IMPORTATION OF CORN.—The col lectors and comptrollers and other principal officers of the Customs' department, at the several ports and places throughout the kingdom, have received an intimation to the effect, chat as the present scale of duties on corn, meal, and flour, whicn is governed by the average prices, will cease and fixed rates become chargeable, on and after the Ist of February proximo, it is directed by the commissioners that the weekly corn returns, hitherto transmitted to the inspector-gerecal of imports and exports, be from that date made out in weekly periods, comprising the re ceipts, deliveries, &c., from the morning of Thursday to the afternoon of the following Wednesday inclusively, observing that in the weekly return for the period next following the receipt of the certificate dated the 25th of Januar), that portion only of the week is to be included which shall have elapsed before the Ist of February. Letters from Leipsic announce the close of the fair. Busim ss in cloths had been brisk at a rise of I to loir dollars. The Greek merchants were the principal pur chasers. No failure is stated to have occurred, and none of any consequence was expected. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—A young woman, aged 29, the wife of a man named Silvester Sykes, formerly a plumber at Sevenoaks, but for the last two or three years a dealer in gold fhh, has not been heard of for some time, and her relatives, who live at Hadlow, entertain the most serious apprehensions that she has come to an untimely end. She was last seen in August last, when she came to her mother's, the widow Parker, at Hadlow, to take refuge from the ill-usage of her husband, who followed her, and, after beating her, took her away. Tykes then went into Yorkshire, and at length wrote from \Vantage, Berks, saying he knew nothing of his wife, who, he supposed, had returned to her mother. This, however, is not the case; her mother, ho is in the greatest distress respecting her, has seen nothing of her.—Maidstone Journal. The commercial letters received by the Europa from the United States do not possess much interest. In the eastern towits business with the interior was entirely at a stand, but the most sanguine expectations were en tertained that an active business would take place imme diately after the opening of the internal navigation. Brother Jonathan is looking forward with great confi dence to a steadily increasing consumption of American agricultural products in this country, and the mercantile class at the same time calculate that it will lead to an increased demand for our manufactures. No idea seems to be entertained that any attempt will be made in Con gress to alter the present tariff, and they have instructed their correspondents on this side of the water that they may rest perfectly satisfied on this point, at all events for the present year. We understand that one of the necessary consequences of this assurance is that a consi derable number of orders in the iron trade that were held c.mditieually will now be forthwith executed. vV GUN ACCIDENT.—A serious and melancholy acci dent occurred at Stone Easton, Somerset, a few days since. Two brothers of that place, of the name of Hill, hitesiniths and bellhangers, took their gun, in the ab• sence of their father, and went out to shoot some birds, in search of which one of the brothers went through tba hedge. and the other handed the gun through to him, which he took by the muzzle; and in drawing it through the hedge a bramble caught the trigger, and the con tents of the piece went through the young man's . neck, et.tering just below the ear , a nd nearly severing his head from his body. His brother, en going through to him, found him a corpse, and the sight so overpowered him that he fell at his feet senseless , in which state he lay for some time. On recovering his senses, he made the he6t of his v. ay home, and communicated the fatal intelligence to his mother, whose feelings may be better imagined than described, and who is at this time, with the brother, lying in a very dangerous state, no hopes eurrrteitu:d of the recovery of either of them. — Bristol Mirror. .1.-AMBEE AND MEUSE RAH:NAT.—The opening of this hue has given rise to a trade in fuel, which is already spread over the whole ~ f the line. This is not only a valuable resource to the inhi.bitants of the locality, but a new proof of the benefits conferred by opening new means of communication. Tne railway calls for the present month, so far as yet Announced, amount to 3,926,3424 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The President, 50, C:iptan Stanley, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Dacres, :arrived -saluted morning,nine o'clock, at Spithead, end saluted the f-ig of thc Commandcr-in-ChiA Admiral Biaden Capel, which the Victory returned. The Rmny, Admired Cap;d's yacht, was sent (Alt soon after to attend on Admiral ;)acre:, and the gal lant Admiral and his family, consisting of Mrs. J-3:.1- grave and five Misses Dacres landed from her at the sally port a little before one o'clock. The mail was landed at the same time, and the Admiral and Captain Stanley proceeded to pay their respects to the Com mander-in-Chid. _ The President has had a splendid passage from th Cape, having been only 38 days under sail ; she lef the Cape on the 6th December, remained five days a St. Helena, and two clays at Ascension. She ex perienced some bad weather in the channel, and of Sunday night in a severe gale carried away her lore. yard. - At the Cape she left the Southampton, 50, Captain A. Corry, with the flag of Admiral Reynolds, and the Espiegle, all well. The latter vessel was to follow the President to England in a few days; conse quently she may he hourly looked for: The Dee, steam transport, Master-Commander Filmer ; and the Seringapatam, coal depot, were in S:rnon's Bay. The Eurydice, 26, was cruising in the Mozambique; and the Brilliant was proceeding from the Mauritius to the Mozambique. The Nimrod, 16, sailed from the Cape, on a cruise, at the same time the President sailed for England. In November last the President and Eurydice, 26, went down to the island of Mafainale, and sent their boats up the river Angoza to remonstrate with the Arab chief at that place concerning his engaging deeply in the slave trade. The negotiations not being deemed satisfactory, it was found necessary to attack the defences, which after a rather severe engagement of an hour and a quarter ended in the almost total de struction of the place. One marine of the Eurydice was killed. The Hon. M. Keith, of the President, was wounded, and several others severely. The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, had recently returned from Madagascar, where Captain Brown had made some very interesting visits to Boyana Bay and St. Augustine's Bay, and promoted British interests in a very satisfactory manner at those places. The British Consul bad arrived at Loannah on hoard the Dutch man-of-war Ceres, on the 6th of November, and that ship remained in Table Bay when the President sailed. The frontier was all quiet. Sir Harry Smith had proceeded up the country on some business of open. ing a pass. ''here was no man-of-war at St. Helena; but a prize, belonging to the Contest, arrived while the President remained at that island. This vessel made the fourteenth in number captured by the Contest. The President arrived at Ascension on Christmas day ; the only vessel there was the Tortoise, Captain llatton. The Penelope, Commodore Sir C. Hotham, had sailed on the 16th of December for Prince's Island, to join the Cyclops, where it was expected Captain Hastings would be left in temporary charge of the coast, and that the commodore would proceed to England. _ _ _ Enign A. W. Castray, of the Ist West India Regiment, has come home a passenger in the Pre sident. The Myrtle steamer went out to Spithead to bring on shore Admiral Dacre's luggage, and it was expected that the admiral would strike his flag last night, and that the President will be forthwith pre pared for paying off. We are glad to say the gallant admiral and all his family, with Captain Stanley, are in good health. The President will sail this morning for Chatham to be paid off. NEW ZEALAND. ARRIVAL Or THE Dino, 18, CAPT. J. B. MAXWELL, FROM NEW ZEALAND.—This ship anchored in St. Helen's Roads on Monday night, at nine P.M., and came up to Spithead early yesterday morning, salut ing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief. The Dido has had also a most splendid passage home from New Zealand, running the distance from Port Auckland in 81 days, out of which she was four days at anchor at the Falkland Islands. She sailed on the 4th of November, rounded Cape Horn on the 25th, put into the Falkland Islands on the 3d of December, where she got a supply of water and fresh beef, and sailed again on the sth. Altogether she has averaged a distance run each day since leaving Auckland of 174 miles. She was relieved by the Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, which ship she left at Auckland. The Fly, 18, Commander Oliver, was at Port Nicholson, all well. New Zealand was quiet. Master Selwyn, son of the Bishop of New Zealand, has come home a passenger to be educated in England. The Dido has been remarkably healthy ; not one person had died on beard from sickness since she was commis sioned. She is, we understand, in most excellent order, and has been a most comfortable ship ; nearly all the officers th,t sailed in her have returned in her. We only do justice to a meritorious, zealous, and hard-working officer, when we say her gallant first lieutenant, Mr. T. C. 0. D. Whipple, has doubly earned his promotion to the rank of Commander, which we have no doubt he will receive on the ship being paid off. He has been 22 years in the service constantly employed. He joined the Galatea from the Naval College in 1827, when commanded by Sir Charles Napier, where he made and won his cele brated bet of rigging her in twenty-four hours. Ile was all through the business of Syria and Acre with Sir Charles Napier, in the Powerful. He then went to India and China in the Agincourt, with Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, who would have promoted him had not Mr. Whipple's health obliged him to come home. He then joined the Trafalgar, with Captain Martin, who sent him as first of the Dido, and he would (had he been in England when the Prince Regent was commissioned) have been with Captain Martin as his Senior Lieutenant. We sincerely hope this officer may receive his well•earned promotion. By this arrival we are put in possession of the gratifying fact of the utmost tranquillity prevailing in the settlement, without any prospect of disunion. The natives were becoming more tractable every day. As a proof of their desire to court friendly re lations with the white population, the Dido reports a chief, by name E. Puni, having taken passage in that ship from Wellington to Auckland, with 400 sove reigns in his possession (which he had amassed by trading), with the objtct of buying a schooner, and trading along the coast on his own account ! The natives generally are much inclined to trade. Colonel Wakefield, the principal company's agent at Wellington, and founder of the settlement, died at that place on Tuesday, the 19th of September, 1848, and was buried on the 22d with the fullest military honours the colony could provide. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Commandants of the troops, and Captains of the squadron, followed the corpse to the grave. A Mr. Fox, also an officer of high stand ing in the company's employ, bad succeeded Colonel Wakefield. The Dido has brought home a few valuable curio sities for naturalists, the chief of which is a small black bird, about the size of the English blackbird, called the Tui (the parson bird of Captain Cook), believed to be the first of the species ever brought to England alive. Many previous attempts have been made to bring this bird to England, but all hitherto have failed. The conduct and movements of the notorious Held, the Pretorius of New Zealand, are graphically de tailed in the following article from the Southern Cross (Auckland paper) of Oct. 28 ` 1 THE THE BAY OF ISLANDS.—The Nancy, from the Bay of Islands, on Monday evening, brings us letters from several correspondents, all of which allude in pointed terms to the bearing and conduct of the redoubtable Held, as indicative of his restlessness and determination to set law and order again at defiance. It is the almost unanimous opinion of those who have known this chief for many years, that he never will be quiet for any length of time together. Ambition is his ruling passion, and being very little under the influence, if not wholly destitute, of upright principles, he does not scruple to seize on the most frivolous and unwarrantable pretexts for supporting his exactions. Some of his old adherents disapprove of his present behaviour, and declare that he must have a good cause for assuming a hostile position before they will yield their sanction and support, but the majority stand in awe of him, and feel that their own safety in a measure depends upon their union with him, as he has declared that he will regard the neutrals as his foes, and in one instance has already wreaked his ven geance by stripping a neutral chief of all that he pos sessed. The history of his recent exploit, according to the best account we have obtained, is as follows : " M. James Davis, son of the Rev. R. Davis, has been for many years ic quiet possession of the land pm , chased for him of the native chiefs, and has lately had in his employ some native lads acting in the capacity of shepherds. Some of these, it seems, had kindled a fire upon a portion of Mr.D accountay land,is:sof m s w o hic e h bo H d e i k es i chose to sexy was Tapu,' on having been buried belong to One, uek es if tribe; but obruet, this o was not these offending youths not taken into the smallest consideration by him. Instead of reprimanding or punishing them, he brought a tuna' aainst Mr. Davis, aid demanded 15/, and a horse as payment for the offence. 11r. James Davis, not at all inclined to submit to such an unreasonable demand, addressed a letter to Heki, commencing, we believe, with some such question as this—' Heki, my friend, what evil have I cc mmitted, that you act thus towards me? Your present conduct is not that of a great chief; it is more like that of a slave.' To the astonishment of the natives, no leis than of Mr. Davis, Held, with unparalleled effrontery, declared he should consider this sentence as involving a curse (`kanga') and that he should demand an extra 51. for its ex piation! " Expostulations and remonstrances were employed in order to bring Heki to reason, but in vain; and even the Rev. Mr. Burrows, we are informed, was told that he had better hold his tongue, if he did not want to lose the saddle he was then riding upon. Indeed, some think that Held would have taken it if it had not been some what the worse for wear. It is doubtful whether Mr. James Davis would have complied with the exorbitant demand if he had been allowed to act according to his own feelings; but his father, ihe Rev. R. Davis, a an of proverbially mild and yielding disposition, and, more over, well stricken in years, who would, perhaps with more amiability tlia,n pruderic..'e, submit to almost tiny personal sacrifice and loss fur the purpose of healing differences., eventually agreed to furnish the required payment. Ifeki even went so far as to compel Mr. James Davis to start late at night for the purpose of catching the horse which was to be delivered up. When he had obtained the money, he, with a ridiculous affectation of generosity, told out about 30a. each, and presented it to the Rev. Mr. Davis and his son as a slight compensation for the darkness of their hearts, or in other words for the mortification they had undergone. " We are also informed that Heki has sent a peremp tory order to Mr. White, late sub inspector of police here, who is now stationed at Monganni as coat et - tr of customs, to quit that district without delay. In this case, however, he may meet with a rebuff that he had not anticipated. Noble, the re3ident chiet of Kataia and Monganni, has not forgo ten his old ft ud with Ml', and the less he sustained at his hands some five or six years ago, and in answer to the threat held cut by Hoki, that he would go himself and drive Mr. White away, has quietly told him to come on. " Things have come toa sad pass if the new police force should be driven by Ileki from Monganni. 'Such can scare, ly be tolerated by the Government on any. terms. Now that the police force are there it will not do to let Heki drive them away. Yet it would have been well to have considered the propriety cf establish ing such a station:with a little more care. If the truth must be told, there was as much need of such a force at Mon ganni as a cart has for three wheels. W hy, there are only two settlers, if we mistake not, and those at a great distance from each other. There can be very little smuggling, for the best of all reasons—there is no com merce carried on, and no outlet for smuggled goods. We doubt if the whole duties collected during the twelve months will afford of a couple of months' pay to the force. " Such is the state of affairs in the north, so far as Heki is concerned. The settlers, generally, do not ap prehend any danger to themselves personally, but most of them are inclined to think that Heki is only acting in this manner in order to draw forth some demonstra tions on the part of Government, that he may have a pretext for renewing his struggle with the authorities. It is a singular fact, too, as we are informed, that many of the natives—and they are generally the best inter preters of each others feelings and motives of action— ascribe these renewed indications of hostility, on the part of Heki, to the extraordinary pains taken by the Governor to see and conciliate him. They say that since the Governor's visit he has been whakakake rawa' (insufferably overbearing). "We should be very loath to suppose that the Go vernor was not anxious to preserve the tranquillity of the north, or that he would have deliberately acted in any manner calculated to induce an outbreak; but when we couple his oft-repeated predictions of future expenditure of British blood and treasure,' with his own agitating and intriguing policy with reference to the affairs of the north —a policy which we have often reprobated in the strongest terms—we are reminded of the old and established maxim, that predictions frequently insure their own accomplishment. What a splendid delusion would it be, if hostilities are actually commenced, and his Excellency be thus enabled to point the Home Government to his own prophetic warnings, as triumphant proofs of superior sagacity, while he takes care to place his actions before them in such a point of view as will prevent the possibility of any suspicion resting upon himself, as having been pursuing an inductive policy. " We will not say that his Excellency intended to de stroy the moral influence which the missionaries exer cise over the natives, but we state, most unequivocally, that such an unhappy state of things has been the result of his measures. How could it possibly be otherwise? The natives have been most industriously led to believe that the missionaries and other land claimants have il a id lands; t o that they h : andeh a ge v a e lsslluy b i eg e hand si t tl h ul i e onu r bfg e ja bei r attentio n objecti on made t id o reh d f a e bs e yp l oustn t sh h ieet a 'sos t rni moa t ntl h iyv e o etbs:tehneipr Government a p a o s s i i a t t i a v n e c l y e w w l h b t o o a ff h o e r a d r e s d u ch t o t c h o e m m p i l n a i n n a s , k i a o n g d s t u h c a ev ery h t objec tions available against the claimants. The poor natives are deluded into the belief that whatever land they deny the sale of will, as a matter of course, be given back to them; and. as their natural cupidity is so great, it is really wonderful that the natives should not have more frequently resorted to such proceedings. While we are willing to believe that this deceitful and unworthy po licy has been adopted by the Government with no worse or farther motive than merely despoiling the claimants of their lands, the poison has sunk much deeper into the native mind—it has led them to cast off that respect which they formerly entertained for the missionaries, and other old settlers, and now that their moral influ ence has been destroyed by this suicidal policy, the Government are not in a position to protect the settlers by the physical force which has been attempted to be reared in its stead. " We shall watch the progress of events with a vigi lant eye, because we know cull well that an opportunity like the present will be laid hold of with avidity, to hurl injurious and disparaging insinuations on the northern settlement." ihe Governor was at Auckland on the 4th of November. THE ME DITER RANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNHavAT, 2 A.m.—The Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's; slip Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, Indian navy, arrived off this port at midnight with the heavy portion of the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails, in charge of Lieutenant Brady, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are—Alexandria, Jan. 7; Malta, 12th; Gibraltar, 18th. The Ripon brings on freight 340 packages of specie, value 122,000/. sterling; 100 boxes of oranges, 259 drums of figs, 2 cases of opium, 20 bales of silk, aid 60 packages of general werchandizti. She has 35 first-class and 28 second.class passengers; amongst the former are the ion. A. Douglas, from Bum bay, and Captain S. Lewis, who took out the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamer Malta to Ceylon, where she arrived after an excellent passage of three months and eight days, principally under can vass, and including a stoppage at Asceesion. Captain Lewis reports very favourably of the sailing and steam ing qualitits of this addition to the company's steam flotilla in the Indian seas. Her Majesty's steam frigate Sidon bad arrived at Gibraltar from Malta, with the intention of joining Sir Charles Napier's squadron. The Ripon saw nothing, however, of the fLet. The Polyphemus remained in the bay, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Ripon has experienced a succession of strong westerly gales on the voyage home, both in the Medi terranean and crossing the bay. On the 17th inst. she signalled Liao brigantine Ann, 100 miles E. of Gibraltar, steering E., also the schooner Sarah, of Shoreham. On t h e 19th, 50 miles S.E. of Cape St. Vincent, signalled the schooner Index, steering N.W. with a fair wind. Same day, off Cape St. Vincent, the barque Planter, steering N.N.W., and on the 20th in latitude 40 dig. 40 win., longitude 9 deg. 50 w i n ., the schooner Susan Collins, twelve days from Ali can t e , b ou nd to London; on the morning of the 21st s p o k e tile steamer Iberia, 45 miles N.E. of Cape Finisterre, all well ; and at six, r.ss. of the 22d, 60 miles S.W. of Ushant, exchanged blue lights with the Indus, bound outwards from South ampton to Alexandria with the Indian mail. The steam-ship Pacha, Captain John Weeks, with the Peninsular mails, left Gibraltar for Southampton two days before the Ripon, to call at Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo. She may be hourly expected. The following ships were spoken by the steam-ship Malta, on her outward voyage from Southampton to Ceylon:— October 22—Malta, 45 days out, the ship Jurana, of Liverpool, 50 days out, bound to Calcutta, latitude, 34 deg. 12 min. S., longitude, 16 deg. 44 min. W. October 26—Malts, 50 days out, the brig Margaret, of Glasgow, 78 days out, bound to Bombay, lat. 36 deg. 42 min. S., lung. 5 deg. 46 min. W. _ _ . _ November 15.—Malta, 70 days out, barque Culdee, of Glasgow, 85 days out, bound to Ceylon, lat. 38 deg. 20 min. W., long. 56 deg. 42 min. E. The subjoined is a list of British ships at Alexandria when the Ripon left:—The Herschel, Captain Robert son; Henry Lawson, Reid; Archipelago, Tilloch ; Ohawa, Spencer; Jenny Lind, Power; Jesse Stephens, Miller; Priscilla, Prall; Heldman, Manning; Viscount Hardinge, Agar; Ocean, Collins; Jemima, Ross; Sarah and Eleanor, Weigh; Mariner, Christie; Parthian, Cole; Stockesly King; Oberon, Shields; James Gibson, Greene; Elizabeth, Bernard; Harriett, Brown; Edward Kenny, Cook; Me dina, Grath; Isabella, Peacock; Rapid, Hazard; Onyx, Gray; Recovery. Williams; Clarcuda, Titcher; Aspasia, Davidson; Eliza, Kinarra,Wake; Cambyses, Gibson; Syl van, Williams; Rob Roy, Deyburgh ; Sampson, Tr o tter ; Filey, Brady; Charlotte, Middleton; William, P ur dy ; Sprite, Stuart; Maria Hardy, Peters; Gr asmere, V a l e; Jane and Barbara, Roberts; Mary Ann Follett, Hol gate ; Eliza Hester, lirit.4es; Lucy Ann, Askey ; Salis• bury, Mowatt ; Imon, Cameron ; Maid of Auckland, Sheppard; Maria Sophia, Blane; Una, Allen; David, Grant, Ducharez ; Nero, Gibson ; Pasha, Kay; John William Dare, Walteis; Sea Queen, Hawkesley; Daring, Dann; Speculation, Seaford; Murray, Hughes; British Monarch, Shutes; Charles Molloy, Liddell; Lady Ro wena, M'Donald; Sea, Dobbs; Woolsington, Robinson. DEATH OF MR. K. ()ABELL, THR PUBLISHER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WORKS.--We (Edinburgh Evening Courant) sincerely regret to announce the death of Robert Cadell, E: q., the eminent publisher, which took place at Ratho-house, on Saturday, at half-past three o'clock. Mr. Cadell has for a very long peri o d carr i e d on the business of a publisher in this city ; first 'as a partner in the well-known firm of Constable and Co., aid subsequently by himself. He Ras a gentlem an o f the highest integrity and honour in his professi o n, an d a most patriotic and public-spirited citizen. His various connexions with the affairs and publications of Sir Walter Scott, and his upright conduct to the illustrious Baronet and his family, joined to his enterprise and skill, have associated his name with the literary history of our country. We regret to state that Lady Morgan ha s b een Vassall Web s t e r's, o s seriously iBo Brunswick-terrace. n ly s • THE LATE ACCIDENT TO MR. DUGDALR.—TuEs wililckfo-rtersroanicee. time at Lady DAY EVENING, BIRMINGHADI.7-Mr. llugdale continues to improve. Tho account this afternoon is, that the Hon. Gentleman is going on well. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—We regret to announce, by accounts from Mazatlan, un d er d ate November 29, that her Majesty's surveying ship Herald, 22, Captain Kellett, had arrived at that port from Behring's Straits, without having been able to obtain any intelligence of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. JANUARY 24, 0349. "Antp • Do., 4 (-1 ,ItalLr.4 44- .4 .1 4 41t i t y z 4 tOi QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) - SMITH V. TUE QUEEN IN ERROR. The question involved in this case was whether pri soners can be tried before courts of quarter sessions when courts of assize are sitting. It appeared that the plaintiff was tried in April last at a court of quarter sessions at Manchester, the Recorder presiding, on a charge of burglary, on which he was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' transportation. There was a charge of larceny against the prisoner in another cow t. Mr. HODGSON, who appeared for the plaintiff, ad dressed the Court at great length, and contended that wherever courts of oyer and termincr and of gaol de livery were sitting the jurisdiction id' the supreme courts were superseded. Mr. WELSBY appearpd for the Crown, En l submitted that the jurisdiction of the inferior Courts was not su,.- pended during the sitting of the higher Courts. The Learned Gcntientan eititkrauthorities in support of this view. (The arguments were not concluded at the rising of the Court.) STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this da).) lIANCHESTER, TUESDAY. —The pulse of our market has been stimulated by favourable ceinuireid accounts from India, and by the advice wkich the Euro; a has brought of a rise in American cotton to ti.e Extent of per lb. since December 26, which has, of course, pro duced much more than a corresponding t Met upon the Liverpool market. Spinners and manufacturers, who had latterly been flagging in some degree, have made an effort at a rally in the prices that might be considered attainable last week. This has been the case, princi , pally, in India qualities of 40's, 50's, and 60's mule twistAtogether with shirtings, madapollarnt, and jac conets ; and to some extent also in yarns suitable for the European continent, as, for instance, common to good second, 16's to 20's water. The consequence of this move is a restriction of the day's business, which has not been very considerable. In some instances, how ever, producers have effected sales on rather better terms than they were able to do last week. The market is receiving little support from the home-trade dealers, whose operations are very limited. We regret to hear 'of the failure of Messrs. Price and Potter, of this city, whose liabilities amount to about 10,0001. A meeting of their creditors will take place to-morrow. The parties are spinners of coarse yarns. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a better demand for flannels to-day than we had the previous Monday. One or two of the large manufacturers have been pur chasers again in the Blackwater-market. There is very little change to report in the wool-market, and, although there is not much business doing, former prices are firmly maintained. The Silk Trade—The silk trade, at Middleton, grows better every week, and, during the last few days, several large manufacturers have been in search of weavers. The silk small ware business also improves. and operatives, in both the above-named branches, have full employment. The silk manufacture is extending in Middleton and the neighbourhood, and some of the finest descriptions of fancy silk goods are now being ma nufactured. At Leigh, also, the manufacturers are ad vertising for weavers, and most of the warehouses pre sent a busy appearance. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The attendance of buyers has been limited and the business in the Cloth-ball was less than during the last two or three markets. But we can report that the operatives are pretty generally em ployed throughout the whole of our district. There is a steady demand for wool, and last week's prices are main tained. HALIFAX, SATIIRDAY.—We have had more merchants in the Piece-hall to-day, and some sales have been affected, especially in lastings; but there is ♦ery little disposition to give any advance upon old rates. The same may be said of the state of business in the warehouses. The spinners continue fully employed, chiefly upon old orders, taken before the late advance; but they are gene rally able to obtain the improved rates upon the few ❑ew orders that are now giving out. The buoyancy of the wool market has subsided, and there is much less doing, though prices remain firm. The spinners have pretty well stocked themselves, and are now standing out against any further rise. In short wools there is not much activity. The spinners are asking higher rates, which are not acceded to. LEEDS, TUESDAT.—Considering the very unfavour able state of the weather there 11as a fair amount of business done in our cloth market to-day, and at prices about the same as before; the transactions in our ware houses, however, have been on a very limited scale this last week. THE ADDITIONAL COURT AT THE OLD BAILEY. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—The public in general are not, per haps, aware of the extreme anxiety that has lately been manifested by the authorities of the Corporation of the city of London to have the business of the Central Criminal Court disposed of as quickly as pos sible. For the last year or two, whenever the state of the Old Bailey calendar has been such as to indi cate the probability of the prolongation of a Criminal Court session beyond the week in which it com menced, every possible effort has been made to limit its duration to that period, and a " third" court has been held in the Grand Jury room, over which Mr. Commissioner Bullock pre sided, "for the dispatch of business." Far different was it in " the good old times," as they aro called, when that highly-respected civic functionary, the late Recorder, Newman Knowlys, took his seat on the bench at five o'clock in the afternoon, after the de parture of the Learned Judges, and commenced the trial of a fresh " batch " of prisoners, and who would often remain on the bench until twelve o'clock at night, and even much later. Some good easy souls said, and perhaps believed, that these pro tracted sittings were owing to an extreme anxiety on the part of his Lordship to do complete justice to the prisoners brought before him. Of one thing I am quite certain, that he never allowed any unfortunate wretch that was brought before him to escape from his clutch if he could help it. There has, however, been a great change in the manner of conducting the business of the Central Criminal Court since the period to which I have alluded. The evening sittings have been altogether abolished. Learned Counsel practising in that court no longer exhibit ur.question able proof of their having " dined up-stairs." She riffs do not lean over the front of the bench to remon strate with them on the impropriety of their conduct, and find it impossible to resume their seats without as sistance, and provoke the laughter of the bystanders by their abortive attempts to appear "all right." Un fortunately, however, changes or alterations are not always entitled to the name of Reform ; and, although the old system of protracting trials until long after midnight was undoubtedly a very great abuse, as one that completely exh aus t e d th e pat i ence o f t h e jury, and rendered them altogether incapable of discharging the duty that devolved upon them, still I very much doubt whether it may not be said in this, as in many other cases, we have gone from one extreme to the other, and whether the mode of trying prisoners, adopted by another Learned Civic Functionary, which has not inaptly been called trying by steam, has at all tended to increase that respect which the people ought always to feel for those whose duty it is to administer justice to those who have transgressed the laws of their country. But it now appears that even the steam system does not dispose of the Central Criminal Court business with sufficient dispatch; and, accordingly, a third court is to be permanently established, in order that the entire business of each session may be got through within a week at all events, and as much sooner as possible. Now, it appears to me that this arrange ment is one of those "jobs" for the perpetration of which the Corporation of the good city of London have lately gained an unenviable degree of notoriety. Whenever the new court is opened for the dispatch of business it will be found that an additional judge is also necessary to dispose of the cases fixed for trial therein. There will also be required one or two additional clerks to assist the Clerk of the Arraigns, and an additional Deputy-Governor of Newgate Prison to take charge of the prisoners who are to be tried in this third court, and a few addi tional turnkeys. No one but those who are, and have for years been practically acquainted with the manner in which the business of the Central Criminal Court has been conducted, can form any idea of the great inconvenience to which all parties having business in either of the courts will be subjected by the establishment of the additional court. The public are already pretty well acquainted with the manner in which a great number of the Old Bailey barristers neglect the interest of their unfortunate clients, under the pretence that they were engaged in " the other court" when his case was called on ; but should there be two " other courts," in addition to the old one, I fear there will be very little chance of a prisoner obtaining the assistance of counsel in either, and even where barristers are really anxious to do their duty to those who employ them, there will he such a constant running from one court to the other, that by the time a barrister gets into the court where his services are required, lie will often find that the case has been disposed of before he made his appearance ; but if barristers and others well acquainted with the mode of transacting business, should be liable to any mistakes of the kind, what will be the case as regards the friends of the unfortunate pri soners, who are anxious in their hour of need to render them any assistance that may be in their power—what means will they have of knowing in which court a prisoner is to be tried ? They tr7 e Pe c r i ; haps refer to a list placed outside the door t each court, each containing the names of Smith, Brown, Jones, &c.; and while they are anxiously inquiring in which court the Smith or Jones , , whose welfare w ill , they are interested, ill be tried, the steamer" will have settled the whole affair; and here I cannot help protesting against a system which has latterly prevailed at the Central Criminal Court and at the Middlesex Sessions. I allude to the practice of the judges examining witnesses from the depo sitions returned to them by the magistrates at the different police-courts. It is one which, I deeply regret to state, has, on some occasions, been adopted by the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench. The practice I allude to may Le thus explained. A witness, then he enters the box, is sworn to speak the truth, the whole truth, &c. In stead of his giving his evidence in his own way, the ' I judge, who, havi ng th e d epos iti ons b e f ore hi m , there fore knows exactly what the witness has oeen called to prove, examines him after this fashion—" Your name is William Jenkins ?" Witness—" Yes." " You were walking in the Strand on the 15th October last, and you saw the prisoner there?" Witness—" Yes." "And you watched him?" Witness—" Yes," " Arid you saw him enter the shop of the prosecutor?" " Yes." And so the examination is continued of each witness. So that, instead of being allowed to do that which they had been sworn to do, viz., "give true evidence," &c., they merely answer certain leading questions, which are put to them by the judge, who extracts from them just sufficient evidence to ensure the conviction of a prisoner, and then coolly tells the jury the case h completely established, &c. Now I have always under stood that it was one of the maxims of our rnueh boasted law, that a judge, who tried a case, should commence such trial with a mind entirely free from prejudice, either against or in favour of a prisoner. Yet. according to the system of which I now complain, the judge is not only allowed to read the depositions taken against a prisoner, but to examine witnesses from those depositions ; merely culling upon them, by affirmative answers, to repeat that which they had formerly stated before a magistrate. Now, in civil cases a judge is not allowed to know anythieg before hand of what any witness can prove. He does not, in fact, know anything more than the cause of action, and the nature of the pleadings. I wonder what would be thought of Lord Denman if, in an action to recover a debt, he were to say to a witness— " You were present when the debt was incurred ? You heard the defendant promise to pay it, and you know that he has not done so ;" and having had all these questions replied to in the affirmative, he were to tell the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff! Such a mode of examination would not be allowed in a civil case, why, then, should it be in a criminal one ? The judge, in an action to recover a paltry sum of 101., takes, or is supposed to take, a full note of the evi dence on both sides ; but in a case in which the liberty and character of one of her Majesty's subjects is concerned, his notes very often contain nothing more than the name of the prisoner, the offence for which he was indicted, and the verdict of the jury. I have, on more than one occasion, seen the " notes " of a learned judge, and found they contained nothing more than what I have above stated. Yet the very judges who adopt the practice of examining a witness from the deposi tions, will at once interrupt a counsel who tries to adopt the same mode of examination on the part of a prisoner, by saying " Don't put the answer into the mouth of the witness, by putting leading ques tions, such as Did you do so and so ;' but ask him what he did, and let him give his answer in his own way." It would be an effectual stop to the system of trying by steam if the prisoners would insist, and which they have an undoubted right to do, on each witness giving his evi dence de novo, altogether irrespective of anything that may appear in the depositions. The original intention of compelling the magistrates, at the different police offices, to return the depositions taken against a pri soner to the court to which they committed him for trial was, not that the judge might afterwards examine the witnesses therefrom, but that they might be re ferred to in case the witnesses suppressed any por tion of the evidence which he had given, when the prisoner was under examination at the police-court. In proof of the correctness of this opinion ou my part, I may mention that owing to the number of cases in which guilty parties have escaped from punishment, in consequence of witnesses, when under examination before a grand jury, wilfully suppressing portions of the evidence they had given at the police-courts, and thereby inducing the grand jury to throw out the bill, the practice for some years past has been to have an officer of the court in attendance before the grand jury with the depositions, and if he finds a witness sup pressing any material fact which he had sworn to when before the magistrate, to call the attention of the grand jury to the statement contained in his deposition. I believe I may claim the credit of having been the first person to suggest the propriety of such a course being adopted. The subject was brought thereby under the consideration of the proper authorities, and the plan was at once approved of by them. The last " improvement" contemplated by the par ties at whose instigation the third court is established, is that the gallery shall be open to all corners on payment of a fee of one shilling. It is not stated whether there is to be any half-price. I very much fear that this fixed money payment will give rise to end less disputes. Suppose, for instance, the touters for the gallery were to induce a person to pay the stipu lated fee, on the assurance that a " dreadful murder" case was then " on," and the party, on that impression, was to pay the sum demanded ; but when he got admis sion found that the case which then occupied the court was one ofpetty larceny only, would he not have a right to claim a return of his money, it having been obtained from him under false pretences ? That facetious periodical, Punch, very lately exposed the absurdity of taking money for admission to courts of justice during what are called " interesting" trials, and gave a sort of bill of the play of an Old Bailey perform. ante, to which the usual notification ought to have been added, " No money returned." CEN SORIUS. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN TILE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1448. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*393 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 51 Turbercular Diseases... ... ~. 155 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 136 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 55 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration .., 300 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... 68 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 14 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 7 Diseases of the Skin, &c. 0 Malformations... Premature Birth Atrophy Old Age Sudden ~ Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance 20 Causes not specified 11 DEATHS FROM ♦LL CAUSES 1,345 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. in th• 1841 Five Summers. Week. West Districts... 300,711 .. 142 ... 190 North D—tricts.. 375.971 .. 182 ... 255 Central Distr:as 373,653 ... 178 ... 198 East Disiricts ... 392,444 219 ... 272 South Districts.. 501,190 251 ... 430 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 972 ... 1,345 Alalea Females ... 705 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... ... ... ... 0" 783 Females ... ... ... ... ... 745 Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,528 *ln this number are included 62 cases of death by Cholera, 87 by Scarlatina. and 68 by Typhus Fever. THE SILL TRADE.—MEETING OF THE SPITAL FIELDS 'WEAVERS.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the operative broad-silk band-loom weavers of Spitalfields, Bethnal-green, and the vicinity, was held at the School house, Hare-street, Bethnal-green, in pursuance of a printed circular, " for the purpose of taking into con sideration the necessary steps to prevent the continual reductions, persevered in by the manufacturers, by ap plying to the Legislature for the establishment of local boards of trade, feeling confident that should this fearful state of things continue, not only is the ruin of the opera tives certain, but also of all tradesmen in:their immediate locality." The meeting, which was numerously attended, was addressed by several of the operatives, and by the Rev. Mr. Tyler, one of the clergymen of the district, all of whom concurred in the advantages that would be de rived from the establishment of local boards, in main taining a proper understanding between masters and workmen. Resolutions approving of such boards were unanimously agreed to, atter which themeeting separated.t il e It appears, by a report made by the governor of Bank of Vienna, that the adv a nces made to the S ta t e since May, 1848, amount to 72,000,000 florins (about n ber 7,000,0001. sterling). During- the past yes!. th s ca pital ua j of bills discounted was 65,000, representing upon secu rity of 429,500,00011. The loans gra nted 500 owl. and ad vances amounted to the sum of , b o } o ' o t o h o e ofl bank to 72,000,000 H. made upon the deposit of bills, The total amount of business transacted during the year represented it Cum f 2,3 , or he about 230,000,000/. sterling. Wednesday annual lha MAIDSTONE.—Hor took place to_.partake of the la . ce on k dinner at the Star Hotel..l:ttol when between forty good things providesdn.bdyhthyo worthy landlord, Mr. Mu- The winner of last years sweepstakes was Mr. ruse. Hollings. The lowest set for th e present year was 80,00 0 /. and t he highest 230,0001. The average betting was about 145,0001.—Maidstone Journal. ST. MARYS, SCILLY.—Fears are entertained that a vessel was lost on the Western Rrteks• on the night of t he 18th inst., and 'hat a ll hands have_P:rished ; a few lemons and oranges having bean picked up, and also a b e am and a cabin ladder. Two pilot boats went out yesterday, but could not discover any of the wreck, which is supposed to have drifted to the northward.-- Cornwall Gazette. IMPORTANT QUESTION.--If men can earn 18 dol lars per day in California, how will it be possible to keep Congress together to fatigue themselves with public business at eight dollars per da), ?—South Carclina liclEgaby. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The works are proceeding vigorously from Doncaster, via Bawtry and Retford. NA VAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSIVIOTJT I I,MONDAY.—Ti Ie Bite rn, 16, Colo -: matidet H-pe, arr•ved et Spithead this afternoon: front othnetwhees2t6clohasot,,ropt A m f e ric n : b e ,,r, S v ti v e iti s , aid m le ai i s r , orn and Sie L r i t e .a ut L en er , Crowder, of the Rapid ; .Dr. Negev-, surgeon of Watervvitch ; and Lieur.enaiir Page, of the Sealed.. passengers. Thetis were rereareru g at Sierra Leone, the Stalark, Ranger, refitting after being ashore ' • the Snap tender, and the Adelaide, prize tender to th e Sea lark. The Bittern has taken four prizes and shares in another. The squadron's officers and men were healthy, and the slave-trade more thri v i ng than ever. Several captures were made b e t ween the interval of the Rapid sailing from Aacen- Aim) and the Bittern from Sierra Leone. The latter is ordered to Sheerness, to be paid off. The Commodore had made up his mind to come to England forthwith, and may be expected at Spithead in a few days. He is reported ill. The Malabar coal depot Wes removed this morning from the basin, and bas since been placed at her moor ings on the west side of the harbour, opposite Cold Harbour, Gosport. Wind—N.W. by W. Fresh gales, and hazy weather. Pexstourir, JAN. 20.-11er Mtijest)'s steatresloop Driver arrived to-day, with supernumeraries from Portsmouth, and is appointed to return thither this afternoon. Her Majesty's tr,: , op-ship Apollo was warped to her sailing mooring. esteroay, and witl be ready to go out of harbour on the Ist or February. The Col.flance seam -tug will to masted on Monday. Her Majesty's steam guard-A ips Forth and Seahorse, lying off the Dockyard New Basin in thomotize, are ordered to be moor, d head and at'rn for the reserve steam•vessels to lie alongside, without sheering with the tide, and thereby obstructing the passage of the harbour. Three lift hammers are to be erected in the south smithery in the Devonpoi t Dockyard. Wind southerly, light breez- and foggy. Admiral Dacres will strike his flag (blue at the fore) this evening at sunset, and the ship will sail to-mo rrow for Chatham, to be put out of commission. The Ad miral, family, and suite, landed at Portsmouth yester- day, end are at present the guests of the Port-Admiral. PORTSM.,UTH, JAN. 23.—The Dido, 18, Captain J. B. Maxwell, arrived at `pithead this morning, as noticed elsewhere, and is ordered to Sheerness to be paid off. This ship has made an astonishingly quick passage home —the quickest, we believe, yet known. She has Tun over 13,438 miles in 77 days, and has averaged 174 miles per day ever since she left Ne w Z ea l an d, f rom which station she ran to Cape Horn (5,017 miles) in 25 days. The Hannah, 22, Captain Erskine, was at Auckland when the Lido sailed. The Rattlesnake surveying-ship, Captain Owen Stan ley, and her tender the Bramble, were surreyingin Torre. Straits. The Fly, 18, Captain Oliver, was at Wellington. The Acheron surveying tea In- slo op , Captain Stokes, Was at Newcastle, a small place near Sydney, coaling on her way to New Zealand. All who went out in the Dido have come home in her —a rare occurrence. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Vico- Admiral Dacres, also arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope station. Rear• Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., arrived at the Cape to relieve Admiral Dacres on the 16th of November (as we stated on the arri►al of the Indiaman Madagascar on Friday last). The President left at anchor in Simon's Bay, the Southampton, 50, Captain Cory, flag of Rear-Admiral Reynolds ; the Espiegle, 12, Commander Campbell, refitting a new foremast; the Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown; the Dee troop-steamer, Master- Commander Filmer; the Seringapatam store-ship, Master-Commander Russell. The Nimrod, 20, Commander Belgrave, sailed on the same day as the President for the Mauritius, at which place was the Brilliant, 26, senior t.fficer. The Eur) dice, 26, Captain Anson, arrived at Joannah, on her way to Zanzibar, on the 24th of October. The President arrived at St. Helena on the 17th of December, and sailed on the 21st; Ascension on the 26th, and sailed on the 28th ; islands both healthy; called off St. Michael's on the 18th inst., blowing very hard, when all the vessels there (about 43 sail) were gt Lung under way. She is ordered to Chatham, to be paid off. The Cygnet was all well on the coast of Africa on the 26th of December. The Bittern, 16, Commander T. Hope, sailed to-day for Sheerness to be paid off, taking supernumeraries for that port. The Sharpshooter steam-schooner, Lieutenant Com mander J. C. Bailey, sailed this afternoon tor the Medi terranean. The Salamander steam sloop, and Jackall, small steam( r, were removed from the steam-basin to-day, preparatory to their sailing,in company with the Rat tler and Growler steam. sloops, for Plymouth, where they are to torm part of an advanced squadron of steamers at that port. 1 hey are to be manned, pro tem ,by seamen, riggers, and men from the Ordinary, and commanded by Messrs. Read, of the Superintendt.nt's yacht; Welch, of the Fairy; Allen, of the Fire Queen; and Bulliston, of the Mjrtie; and, if the weather will permit, will sail to morrow. Wind, W N.W.; fresh gales and cloudy weather. WooLwicn, JAN. 23.—Lieutenant On:low, one cor poral, and twenty-one privates of the Woolwich divi sion of Ituyal Marines, relieved Lieutenant Grey, and a similar number of men, yesterday, who were serving on bozrd the Fisgard flag-ship of Commodore Eden, at this poi t. 1 lie Janus steam vessel went down the river on trial to-duy, scoomptinh-d by the Monkey steam-vraiel, and appeared to make good speed on starting. I . he Niger steatn-ve.sei is having a quantity of coals put on board this afternoon, prt paratory to being again tried_ to-morrow or the following day. The Basilisk steam-vessel is under the shears, in the inner basin, and it will be Lorne time before she is ready for trial. MALTA. JAN. 12.—MOVEMENTS, &0., SINCE JAN. 5. The Terrible, which urrivt d iroin Naples on the sth, lett, on her return to the Admiral thereat, on the 9th, e ith stores and provisions. which would seem to indi cate that his Excellency does not contempla-e making Malta this year his winter quarters. The Vanguard arrived from Palermo on the 7th, and the Rodney from Naples on the Bth; the former had a narrow escape from getting on shore as she was leaving Palermo, and but for the opportune aid of the Terrible, the consequences might have been very serious. Both the Vanguard and Rodney leave next week to join Sir Charles Napier's squadron at Lisbon, for which same destination, calling at Gibraltar, the Sidon took her departure on the lth. The Sultan, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, arrived from Southampton and Gibraltar on the afternoon of the Bth in some hours short of ten days, including stoppages at the last mentioned port to coal, under quarantine, and notwith standing the prevalence of strong contrary gales of wind for no less than 350 miles of the voyage, which all cir cumstances considered, is the quickest passage on record, this vessel is, however, noted for her astonishing speed, and for the superior seamanships of her Commander (Captain Brooks), who, as the senior of the company's officers, carries a commodore's broad pendant. She left again for Constantinople on the morning of the 9th, and may be looked for back to carry on the Indian mails and passengers to Southampton about the 24th. The Seid (Tunisian brig of war), sailed for Tunis on the sth; and the Russian cutter of war, Orianda, for the Pirrone, of Athens, on the 11th. A serious disturbance took place on board the Rod• ney, at Naples, on Christmas Eve, a very large portion of the crew having expressed an unwillingness on such an occasion to obey the order for extinguishing lights at eight P.M. Many of the mess traps were cast overboard and also shot, and order was not restored before the officers inter►ered with drawn swords, and nine of the ringleaders were placed in irons. THE ARMY. We have reason to believe that, in consequence of the return home of so many regiments from foreign service, a considerable reduction will be proposed in the army estimates that will be hid before Parliament in the en suing session. The intelligence from New Zealand, by her Majesty's ship Dido, announces the death of Colonel Wakefield. of apoplexy, at Wellington, on the 19th of September. The 58th hwere at Auckland, New Zealand, on t he 4th of November. on the The 65th . ere . at Wellington, New Zeala nd, 4th of NovemberMILITARY INVESTIGATION IN 1 of the LAND).— Colonel Cox, Quarte hisr '26:srtigGstion at New. Limerick district, has closed castle,the t om r e a s h p e c c a t i t n h g o toh Chapel,e withdrawal a ndwhinoanf,NurinEehttweiulcrmenAtnheigledreiraLtatEpor y from the Force' i t r u i i o c n k ir . o ol f a l h h ' i h d s . e r r e e p s o u r l : to w itjhleinbeeraklnu2'ommanding ROY ILLER.Y. ,--• 23 .--Captain Tulloh's Company, wrooLlywg , ficaptain Wynne's Company, 9th bat -Ist battalion, an d dically inspected at the Ordnance Hos- Wien, wei : e e ° ,, , c l o ck A.M. to-day, as to their fitness for pital, at 'A ce; and have been placed under orders to foreign se rvice; Corfu, about the middle of next month, to proceed 4ievo Lieutenant-Colonel Williams' 6 th rt bat talion, and Captain Warburton's Company, - 3. battalion, .84 . n Company, sth 1 Tho whole of the field batteries assembled I pro heavy marching order this morning, and t-Colonsl seeded into the country under .Lieuteneli n the Anderson, being the first time since be command of the batteries. The p resent' 17tetejii used re serve the men and horses of which • e t re hit :mess lulled for work in the Royal Arsenal, have field battery duty and forming to render the battery capable of takingcomp a ny. h" -I"'eof It is also in rses of the batteries tended that none of the men or in the Royal Arsenalafter the Ist of shall be employed the work in the Royal Arsenal April next; and that Royal Artillery and st present performed by the a fifth efficient ho by contract. re serve battery horses shall, after that period, be per formed ROYAL SAPPERS /ND MINERS. One corporal and twelve privatfs joined head-quarters at Woolwich yesterday, from Chatham, having com pleted a course of instruction in raising field-works and fortifications. RAILWAY CoLusioN.—Yesterday morning, as the half-past six o'clock train from Bradford to Leeds was approaching the Apperby-bridge station, the engine ran into a train of three ballsst waggons, which had been negligently left upo❑ the down line, or, as another re- Pun says, hz,cl been throvin over upon it by the high winds. Many of the passengers were much jolted and bruised through the force of the collision, but it was stated that no serious injuries were sustained. A communication from Trieste mentions an sc.. Live range of speculation in sugars during the first week pf the present month, which had caututd a rise in prices. t 8% 6% r•) !..d) , ri3. r.S. las- ,de; ad' ord 401'