The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. THE CESLREWITCH.—The following are a few addi tional particulars of this race :—Miss Ann took a d.-tided lead immediately after starting, followed, in a ruck, by Smuggler Bill, Baby, Amazement, Glenalvon, Legerde main, Mahon, Vatican, and several light weights, in their rear being Lady Evelyn and Dulcet. This order cont.nned to the bushes, where Vatican and Smuggler Bill were beaten off. Miss Ann maintained a slight lead a few yards down the hill, and was then passed by Melton, Glenalvon, Baby, Legerdemain, Essedarius, Lady Evelyn, and Amazement, the latter having a slight lead. In the bottom, however, Legerdemain took up the running, followed by Baby and Lady Evelyn, and in this order the race finished, Legerdemain winning cleverly by a length, the same between Raby and Lord Chesterfield's mare; Essedarius fourth, Melton fifth, and Glenalvon sixth. Miss Ann ran under protest, on the grouad that she has been running under a wrong description. BETTING ON TUESDAY NIGHT. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES. Bto 1 agat Legerdemain 20 to 1 agst Glance 10 to 1 agst Reby 20 to 1 sgst Melton 16 to 1 agst Woolwich 25 to 1 agst Colllingwood 16 to 1 agat Ribaldry Match (Houghton Meeting)—Even betting between Beehnnter and Clincher , th e former for choice. DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Pitsford (t) 30 to 1 agst Clincher (t) Clincher was recently purchased by the Earl of Airlie. WEDNESDAY'S RACES. Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst Mb; not engaged in the July, Chester field, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast. A winner of 200 sops. or upwards to carry Mb extra. Criterion Course. (7 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Officious Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for two yrs old, 7st 31b ; three, 9st; fillies allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. (5 Subs.) Col. Peel's Gladiator f, 2 yrs (G. Brown) 1 Mr. Merry's Countess, 2 yrs (W. Dates) 2 Mr. Lister's Rochester, 3 yrs (J. Sharp) 3 Mr. J. Osborne's Snowdrift, 2 yrs (Dockeray) 4 Duke of Richmond's Buffalo Gal, 3 yrs ...(Flatman) b Betting-2 to 1 agst Malibran f, sto 2 agst Rochester, 3to 1 agst Snowdrift. The Gladiator filly made nearly all the running, and won easily by a length. Run in 1 min. 17 sec. Match-200, Bst 71b each D.M. Mr. Payne's Glauca . Lord Stanley's Strongbow (F. Butler) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Glauca. Won by a length. Run in 1 min. 47 secs. The Town Plate of 50l.; for three yrs old, Tat 41b; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 111 b; six and aged, 9st 11b. The winner to be sold for 200 soya., if demanded, &o. T.ll. M. Mr. Death's Antagonist, 5 yrs (W. Abdale) 1 Mr. Drinksld's Sauter la Coupe, 3ps ...(Rodney) 2 Mr. B. Green's Swiss Boy, 4 yrs (Wintringham) 3 Major Pitt's Lazybones, 4 yrs (Sly) 0 Dake of Richmond's Buffalo Gal, 3 yrs (G. Brown) 0 Mr. Ramsbottom's f, by Velocipede, out of Miss Wilfred, 3 yrs (Pettit) 0 Mr. Crawfurd's Glutton, 4 yrs . (S. Rogers) 0 Mr. Daley's Dover, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) Betting-2 to 1 agst Dover, 3to 1 agst Swiss Boy, 5 to 1 agst Glutton, and 6 to 1 agst any other; the winner not mentioned. A very fine race, entirely between the first three, ended in favour of Antagonist by a head, half a length between the second and third; Miss Wilfred filly a very bad fourth. Run in 3 min. 38 sec. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sots. each, 10 ft, for two yrs old. Last half of Ab. M. Mr. Undummy's Young Bamboo, Bst 41b (Pettit) 1 Sir J. lis.wley .3 Slang, Bst 81b (Templeman) 2 Lord Strsthmore's Second Hand. 7st 101 b (J. Smith) 3 Duke of Bedford's Scamps Via, B.t 4!b...(F. Butler) 0 Mr. Bouverie's Ilardingstone, Bst 21b ...(G. Ilarson) 0 Mr. Payne's Sergius, 7st 121 b (Flatman) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Hardingstone, .3 to 1 agst Ser gius, and 4to 1 each agst Scamps Vis and Slang. The winner made all the running, and non by a length. Run in 55 seconds. The Bedford Stakes of 50 sous. each, h ft; for colts. Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b.; 31b allowed, lcc. Winners of sweepstakes amounting to 500 SOTS, with 10 subs or upwards, to carry 71b, all other winners of sweepstakes or plates to carry 31b extra; weights accumulative up to lolb. To start at the Ancaster Post and finish at the Duke's Stand. (11 Subs.) Lord Exeter's Nutshell. Bst 71b (Marlow) 1 Mr. Nevill's fby Nutwith, out of Agnes, Bst llo...(Sly) 2 Col. Peel's Sisyphus, Bst 101 b (Flatman) 3 Lord Chesterfield's f by Don 'John, Bst 41b (F. Butler) 4 Betting-6 to 5 agst Sisyphus, and sto 4 agst Agnes filly. No other mentioned. The Agnes filly mad* the running into the cords, where Nutshell, who had been waiting on her, wont up and won cleverly by a length; the same between second and third. Run in 1 min 22 sec. Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies. Sat 71b each. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evely n Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie. .....Withdrew her stake. Match, 100, h ft, A F.—Lord Bateman's Goodwood, 3 yrs, Bst 71b agst the Duke of Bedford's Minto, 4 yrs, Bst 41b. Off by consent. SALE of HoßsEs.—Justice was sold this morning for 51 guineas, Win for 56 guineas, and Slashing Alice for 150 guineas. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGUT. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY._ Handicap for three yrs old. D.M.—Sidney; `St. Denis, P..quita, The Probe, Cotton Lord, Chicot, Snow storm, Rearguard. Sweepstakes of two yrs old and upwards. First half of Ab. M.—Farthingale, 3 yri—La Htau, 2 yrs—Bishop of Romford's Cob, aged—Thu Old Fox, 3 yrs—Philoso pher, 5 yrs—Mounseer, 3 yrs—Shropshire Witch, 4 yrs —Remnant, 2 yrs—Oquetos, $ yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs —The Fiddler, 4 yrs—Highland Fling, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes for two yrs old. Winner to be sold for 1501. T.Y.C.—Rubina, General Sedlitz, Blondette. Handicap Ph\te. A.F.—Wanota, 5 yrs—St. Antonia, 4 yrs—Cotton Lord, 3 yrs—Rsthmines, 5 yrs—Sister to Hammer and Tongs. 3 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs—Relul phus, 6 yrs-131 f, by Velocipede, rut of Nisi Wilfred, 3 yrs—Tarn Wadlin,3 yrs—Abel Bader, 3 yrs—Moun seer, 3 yrs—The Comet, 3 yrs—The Probe, 3 yrs— Maid of my Seul, 4 yrs—Westow. 3 yrs—Black Cock, 5 yrs—Rlsslyn, 4 yrs—lisquits, 3 yrs—Quinine, 3 yrs —lone, 3 yrs—Keleshes, 5 yrs—Cy mba, 4 yrs—Knight Errant, 3 yrs—Flapper, 3 3rs -- Smuggler 80, 6 yrs— The Juggler, 3 yrs—Dulcet, aged—Borneo, 3 yrs— Ben Lomond, 6 yis—Thringerth, 3 yrs—Colocynthis, 4 yrs—Nautila, 5 yrs—Snowstorm. 3 yrs. LATEST BETTING. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 to 1 agst Ribaldry 115 to 1 agst Legerdemain 12 to 1 agst Gliuca 20 to 1 apt Crucible 12 to 1 agst Woolwich 25 to 1 agst Joe o'Sot—t. 15 to 1 agst Mahon 25 to 1 agst Nunnykirk. DERBY. 1 20 to 1 agst Clincher THE 15 to 1 ggst Knight of Avenel—t. MANCHESTER - WATERWORKS BURSTING OF THE WEIR AND DESTRUCTION Or PROPERTY BY THE F'LooD.—A violent snow and thunderstorm occurred on Friday last at Glossop, at the foot of some of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire hills. Since that occurrence the exceedingly heavy and continuous fall of rain and snow on the summit of the hills in question has been productive of serious consequences. The Manchester corporation has commenced a series of works for the collection of the five streams which flow from these hills through the Longdendale Valley, principally fed by some powerful springs near Woodhead, with a view to supplying Manchester with this water. The cost of the reservoirs and other works will probably be not much less than a million of money, and their con struction proceeded very satisfactorily up to Sunday last, when an accident occurred which will probably throw the works back by several months. For about ten days there had been an almost uninterrupted fall of rain on the hills. The weather cleared up for some hours on Saturday, but about ten o'clock on Saturday night the rain commenced again, and never ceased till ten o'clock on Sunday night. The water came down literally in torrents. About two o'clock on Sunday the flood down the Eden brook so completely overtopped the new weir which the company have erected across that stream, as to completely carry off the coping of the immense i barrier of stone-work. In consequence of the break- 1 ing down of this weir the new river course, for the purpose of carrying off the floods, was rendered useless, and the water, consequently impounded into the valley behind the embankments of the river 1 1 (which had been raised to about twenty-four feet above the pipes), and collected there, until half-past five o'clock on Sunday evening it flowed over the top and cut down and swept away the embankment itself. The immense volume of water thus liberated from all control burst down the vale of the Etheron with fearful violence, sweeping everything before it. The lower story of the mills of Messrs. Hobbs and Sid . ebottom was flooded in an instant. From two to three thousand pieces of printing cloths and shirtings were entirely destroyed in this mill, besides a quantity of yarns, and the flood washed down the day and Sunday-school attached to the premises, and part of a warehouse. It also washed down a great number of yard walls, and the fences of the sur rounding fields. A bridge for carriages across the river Etheron at this point was partly swept away, and will have to bere-erected, several of the piers be ing destroyed. Other buildings and property of various kinds fell a prey to the overwhelming flood, and it is supposed that the loss altogethe r will be about 3,0001. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Friday, Nov. 2, at his residence in Park-lane, for the reception of the Lord Mayor elect, in order to sigulfy Her Majesty's approbation of his Lordship. On the same day (the first of Michaelmas Term) the Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., in Park-lane, and will afterwards proceed to his Court at Westminster. where the Noble and Learned Lord will sit on that day. During the remainder of the term the Lord Chancellor vt ill sit at Lincoln's Inn. TUE CONDEMNED CONVICT CHARLOTTE HARRIS. — A memorial adopted at a public meeting held at Taun ton, praying for a commutation of the sentence of death pronounced upon this unfortunate woman, at the last Summer Assizes at Bridgewater, for the murder of her husband by poison, but the execution of which sentence was stayed on account of her being enciente, has been answered by Sir George Grey to the effect that he sees no grounds to warrant his interference with the due course of lam THE sCr N. LONDON, or raised.- like a sluice. The principle of smoke consumptilon consists in the slow and regular admis sion of the coal. Instead of being heaved with a shovel, so as to produce continual gusts of smoke, it is admitted, as it were, by hair breadths. The ignition ,'s therefore little at a time, and what smoke is - s'eised having to go over the bright fire beyond, it is necessarily consumed. Nothing gets up the Chimney but a slight fume, scarcely per ceptible to. the eye. The apparatus, we are told, has the further advantage of economising fuel and attendance, while it sustains the steam equally with the common practice of firing. The great beauty of the whole thing, however, is, that the smoke is con sumed. We have seldom seen any process of art more simple, and yet more ingenious and beautiful. It is the first instance, we believe, of Juckes's patent being applied in Scotland, and the working of the apparatus is well worth seeing. With a judicious application of such apparatuses, we do not see why towns should any longer be tortured with murky clouds of smoke, obscuring the atmosphere, and damaging publiC health. There, before our eyes, is a convincing proof that there need be no smoke from furnaces. It is, perhaps, not going too far to say, that henceforth, without detriment to amenity, a steam-engine may be wrought in the most elegant of our squares—anywhere under the eyesight of our most fastidious aristocracy.— The Scotsman, Oct. 3. - THE NAVY. THE CAPTAINS' GOOD•SERVICE PENSION. It has now been officially announced, that the va cant captains' good-service pension has been bestowed upon Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., now returning home from the command-in-chief of the south-eatt coast of America station. Sir Thomas is one of the few eligible officers who has seen any ser vsce as a " captain." He has served 22 years afloat since lin first entered the navy, and his claims for the distinction conferred upon him will be seen in the following' extract fromi," O'Byrne's Naval Bio graphy :" " This officer entered the nary, July 23d, 1803, as first-class volunteer, on board the Excellent, 74, Cap tain Frank Sotheron, and, on proceeding to the Medi terranean, was there invested with the rating of midship man, January let, 1804. After assisting at the defence of Gaeta and the capture. of Capri, he removed to the Blonde, 38, Captain Volant Vasbon Ballard, whom he accompanied to the West Indies, on which station we find him witnessing the reduction, in December, 1807, of the D4nish West India Islands, and contributing to the capture of fire privateers, carrying in the whole 58 guns and 515 men. On August 1, 1809, as a reward for the conduct he had in particular exhibited as prize. master of L'Alert, of 20 guns and 149 men, Mr. Her bert, on the recommendation of his captain, was nomi nated by Sir Alexander Cochrane to a lieutenancy in his flag-ship, the; Neptune, 98. Being officially pro moted on the 10th of the following October, he was next, betweenthlarch, 1810, and June, 1814, employed as a lieutenant in the Pompee, 74, Captain J. Athol Wood, on the West India, home, and :v;editerranean stations. He then became first of the Euryalus, 36, Captain Chas. Napier, in which frigate he served until the close of the Americari,war, and obtained the official mention of Sir James Alexander Gordon, fur the ability and the . _ conspicuous exertions he displayed throughout the opera tions on the river Potomac, including the capture of Fort Washington, and of the city of Alexandria. On Oct. 19th, 1814, Mr. Herbert, who by that period had been upwards of twenty times engaged with the enemy, in cutting out affairs, and otherwise, and had been thrice wounded, was advaccA to the rank of coin. mender. He did not, however, take up his commis sion until February, 1815 ; from which period he appears to have remained on half pay until Sept. 6, 182!. He then obtained an appointment to the Icarus, 10, fitting for the Jamaica station ; where he removed, May 6, 1822, to the Carnation, 18, and was posted, 25th November following, to a death vacancy in the Tamar, 26 ; continuing to serve in the hitter ves sel until pai off in August, 1823. Captain Herbert succeeded, during that period, in destroying three piratical vessels .on the coasts of Cubs and Yu catan. On the 10th of November,lB37, not having been afloat for a period of 15 , ears, he was next appointed to the Calliope, 26, and ordered to the Brazils. Until the arrival there from the Pacific of Commodore Thomas Ball Sulivan, Captain Herbert. we find, con ducted in person the duties of senior officer. He was subsequently directed to assume the command of the naval force in the Rio do la Plate, for the protection of the British interests at Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, during ,the blockade of the former place by a French squadron ; and while in discharge of the duties which were then imposed upon him, he had the satisfaction of being twice officially assured of the entire approbation of the Admiralty at his proceeding?. In January, 1840, Captain Herbert went round Cape Horn, and joined Rear-Admiral Charles Bayne Hodgson Ross at Valpa raiso, whet.ce, in the ensuing June, he sailed for Chins via St. Bernardin's Passage, encountering, en route while among the Philippine Islands, a typhoon, which the Calliope was only enabled to survive through the extreme exertions of her officers and crew. Ar riving in the Canton River en October 10, Captain Herbert immediately assumed, and, until the advent of Rear-Admiral Honourable George Eliot en Nov. 20, retained the command of the blockading force. The important nature of his services, as one of the chief actors in the scenes of hostility that followed, demands our particular attention:—On Jan. 7, 1841, having been placed by the rear admiral in charge of the advanced squadron off the Bocce Tigris, ho conduced the attack made on the enemy's forts at Chuenpee, where were annihilated eleven powerful junks, the flower of the Chinese navy ; and on February 23, being at the time on board the Nemesis, he of the destruction of a 20 gun battery, at the back of the island of Anunghoy. Three days after the latter event we find him in the Calliope, heading the operations against the celebrated Bogue Forts, and on the 27th (with the Calliope, Herald, 26; Alligator, 26; Modeete, 18; Sul phur, 8; and Nemesis and Madagascar steamers under his orders), attacking the enemy's camp, fort, and ship Cambridge, bearing the Chinese Admiral's flag at their position below Whampoa Reach, where 98 guns were, on the whole, destroyed. After capturing, on March 1 13, the last fort protective of the approaches to Canton, Captain Herbert's squadron advanced. towards the city, and on the 18sh attacked all the batteries and flotilla in its immediate vicinity, the former of which, in the course of two hours and a half, were in succession destroyed, and the latter either burnt or dispersed; thus enabling the British to plant the union-jack on the walls ( e!' the factory, and placing totally in their power the hug'9 capital of Quang- tong. On the renewal, in the following May, of the hostilities against Canton, the Chinese, on the night of the 21st of that month, made a vigorous attack with fire-rafts and armed boats, and from several masked and newly-raised batteries, on the British shipping there located, and still commanded by Captain Herbert. They were, however, totally defeated, and on the next day their batteries were dismantled and their floating armament ruined. On the 26th the water defenees between the factories and Howqua's Fort, mounting 64 guns, were levelled, and forcible posses sion taken of their naval arsenal and war-junks. In the month of June Captain Herbert, who, until then, had directed, as we have stated, the movements of the advanced squadron on the Canton river, succeeded, owing to the death of Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, to the command of the whole force employed on that areas]. On the arrival, a few weeks afterwards, of Rtar-Admiral Sir William Parker, as commander-in:chief, he was re moved to the Blenheim, 72, in which ship, in the course of the following August and October, he assisted with great distinction at the capture of Amoy, the retaking of Chusan, and the reduction of Chinghae. On the latter occasion, after the necessary breachings had been ac complished, he landed in command of the light colUmn of attack, consisting of a body of upwards of 700 seamen, mariees, and troops, and stormed and carried the citadel, situated on the left bank of the Tioghae river; while the General Sir Hugh Gough, with the land forces, made himself equally master of the extensive and formidable works on the right bank. Captain Her bert, who was next present at the surrender of Ningpo, and subsequently accompanied several reconnoitering parties up the Tinghae, returned to Hong-Kong from off Ningpo and Chusan in February, 1842, and resumed command of the squadron in the Canton river. In the month of July he left Hong- Kong in a steamer for the Yang-tse-Kiang, for the purpose of visiting Nanking, where he remained until her Majesiy's Plenipotentiary, in October, took leave of the Imperial Commissioner. Sir Thomas Herbert, whose brilliancy of service had been rewarded, Oct. 14, 1841, with the dignity of a K.C.8., returned to England by the Cape of Good Hope—thus accom plishing a circumnavigation of the globe—and paid the Blenheim off in March, 1843. Since Jan. 11, 1847, he has been employed on the south-east coast of America, with a broad pendant, in the Raleigh, 50. Sir Thomas Herbert was born in February, 1793, is son of the late Richard T. Herbert, Esq., of Cahernan, County Kerry, where the Herbert family has been seated since the reign of Charles 11, Among the early ances tors of Sir Thomas we discover the name of Sir Richard Herbert, of Coldbrook, who, with his brother William, Earl of Pembroke, was beheaded at Berabury, the day after the battle of Danes Moor,' July 26, 1469." THE HYBRID MAIZE IN VAL PARIL—The maize introduced into this auuntry from the Pyrenees, and sown as an experiment in St. James's-park by Mr. Keene, was harvested yesterday.:it has fully succeeded. The grain is perfectly farmed, full, sad ripe; the cobbs, we can fairly say, having seen specimens of both, are much finer than those grown on the continent, a result peculialy gratifying, in a public point of view of the very highest importance, because it sets at rest the doubts which, in the first instance, were eatertained in some quarters, that the soil and climate of this,cnuctry were nut capa ble of the proc:uet. The particular situation was in no way especially favourable to the groan;; on the con trary, almcst, as it were, in the heart of the metropolis, and immediately - surrounded by trees and shrubs, the ground was not at all enriched by manure at the time of tilling. The amount of crop appears to be at the rate of about fifty bushels per acre, and in the opinicn of several experienced agricul turists present at the harvest this quantity is pro ducible on the average, from ordinary soil, in ordinary situations, and with the ordinary quantity and quality of manure. Some Indian corn and Barbadoes corn had been sown alongside Mr. Keent's mail', at the same time, and under exactly the same circum stances and conditions, but neither has ripened, or, in deed, seems likely to come to maturity. They still re main standing. The result of this harvest is, in our opinion, of very general and very great interest, when it is a matter of fact that the bread from this corn 43trb %baton\ NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; winner to be sold for 300. Philosopher ... Remnant ••• ••• •• ••• ••• ••• 2 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; winner to be sold for 150. Blondette . ••• ••• ••• .•• ••• ••• General Seidlits ... 2 Sweepstakes of 200 sot's. each. T.Y.C. The Wren Core ... _ Handicap Inate. Wanota ... ••• •.• ••• ••• ... —I Tarn Wadlin ... ••• ••• ... ... •••> • 2 ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The general half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company took place to-day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors and the declaration of a dividend for the last half-year. In the absence of Andrew Colville, Esq., the chairman of the company , Tho mas Barin g , Esq., M.P ., took the chair, and the usual formal proceedings having taken place, The SECRETARY read the following report :-- "The results of the working account for the Meet half of the present year, which have already been fur nished to each proprietor, approximate in the aggregate so nearly to those for the same period of last year, that there is very little to comment upon in a report ; and whore the service has proceeded with so much regu l ar ity since the last general meeting, it seems un necessary to detain the proprietors with explanations upon matters of trivial detail, which necessarily vary from year to year according to change of circum stances. Upon the present occasion, therefore, it may be sufficient to state, that while the total disbursements show an increase of 3261. 19s. 4d., and the receipts a decrease of 1,0811. 3s. 10d., leaving the surplus 1,4061. 3s. 2d. less than the first half of last year, yet this trifling difference is smaller than could have been expected, looking at the depressed state of the Bri tish West India colonies, the active competition which the company has now to encounter upon some of its lines, and the great obstruction occasioned by vexatious quarantine regulations at Havannah. It is also gratify ing to add, that while the receipts from passengers have been in some branches considerably diminished, the defi ciency has nearly been compensated by the increased receipts on account of freight. " During the present year the Eagle has been so thoroughly repaired as to be nearly rebuilt, her engines put into first-rate order, and new boilers fitted on board, so that this ship may now be relied upon to perform in tercolonial service for some years. " The Conway has also been home, had is thorough overhaul, caulking, doubling , and coppering; and her speed so greatly improved as to equal, if not to surpass, that of any other ship belonging to the com pany. The Conway, like the Eagle, has aga in taken u p the inter eolonial service, and may be relied upon for as long a period. " The whole of the company's other ships are also maintained is the highest state of efficiency. " To replace the schooner Lee, the directors have pur chased a new schooner, called the EA, fitted with steam engines and a screw propeller; which vessel it is hoped (by the aid of such auxiliary power) may be so employed hereafter as to remunerate her cost and maintenance. " The negotiation respecting the conveyance of the Brazil mails has been unexpectedly prolonged by the ap pointment of a Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the Contract Packet Service in general, as no arrangement could be made until such Committee had presented its report. This difficulty however being now removed, it is believed that matters wi ll soon be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. As the directors are therefore unable to make any fresh communication on this subject, they must rely on the continued confi dence of the proprietors that the interests of the company will have constant and careful attention. " In conclusion, the directors recommend that a divi dend of 21. per share, exclusive of income-tax, be de clared; to be payable on and atter the 16th inst." The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the report, and that it should be printed and circulated among the proprietors. Mr. RIDGWAY, in seconding the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietors on the coming of a good time, and stated that it only bore out his prophecies. The CHAIRMAN then put the adoption of the re port, and in declaring it to be unanimously adopted, congratulated the company on the state of their affairs. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. The fallowing is the working account of the com pany from the Ist of January to the 30th of June of the present year : DISBUIRSEMZNTS. ... £3 1 1,528 15 7 ... 22,329 15 8 ... 32 130 9 6 ... ... 5,564 3 0 Coals—Freight and all Charges Wages ... ... ... Provisions ... ... Stores ... ... ... ... ... ... .._ Port Charges and Pilotage ... ... 3,260 1 3 General Service and Stations ... ... 7,933 17 11 Coal sacks, &c.... ..• ..• ••• 261 3 1 Office and Law Expenses ... ... 1,053 8 0 Sileriei ... ... „. ..„ ..• 5,6,5 6 0 Insurance 12 500 0 0 Repairs of Ships and Machinery .. 18,776 3 0 £149,083 3 0 66,046 14 0 Surplus £215,129 17 0 RECIEPTS. Government Contract ...£120,000 0 0 Freight:— Outward £5,574 2 0 IntProolonial ... 2,521 12 2 33,188 0 0 Homeward 25,092 5 10 Pas Cage Money:— Outward ... 27,766 14 7 Intoreolonial ... 17,155 0 9 61,91 17 G Homeward ... 17,020 1 8 £215,129 17 0 SARDINIA AND AUSTRIA. The Vienna papers of the sth announce the arrival in that city of the Chevalier Jocteau, the Sardinian Secretary of State, bearing Sardinian State bonds to the amount of 60,000,000 f., which he remitted to the Austrian Government as security for the exactness of the payments at the periods fixed by the treaty of peace. We have received the Cologne papers of yesterday, hut they have nothing new from Hungary. They confirm the execution of the Hungarian Generals at Arad, in accordance with the already published sen tence of the court-martial. PRUSSIA. The second edition of the Cologne Gazette of yesterday publishes a telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, dated the evening of the 9th October, and announcing the adoption of the second part of the 105th (and most important) section of the Constitution, by the majority of 237 to 63 votes. THE PEACE CONGRESS. The following letter has been addressed to Lord Palmerston by the Peace Congress Committee of London, relative to the dispute now pending between the British and Portuguese Governments, on the subject of the forcible release of Mr. Summers at Macao : " Peace Congress Committee, 15, New Broad street, Sept. 29, 1849. " My Lord,—We have learnt with deep regret that a misunderstanding has arisen between the British and Portuguese Governments, in consevence of the death of a Portuguese soldier, killed at Macao by a party of English marines who were engaged in forcibly releasing a British subject from confinement. Whilst this trans action justly demands the most searching investigation, we beg to express our earnest hope that it will not be permitted for one moment to disturb the friendly rela tions of the two countries, and that, should any obstacle arise to prevent its amicable adjustment, to the entire satisfaction of both parties, by ordinary diplomatic negotiation, your Lordship will at once exert your high influence to secure the settlement of the dispute by friendly negotiation. "Signed on behalf of the Peace Congress Committee of London. " To the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston." CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE. This often wished for, but never realised improve• ment, may now be said to be effectually aehieved. We speak not from theory, but from actual obser vation. A short time ago, Messrs. Chambers of our city erected a new furnace . and chimney for a ten-horse power steam-engine, which moves their printing machinery ; and, with a view to remove all challenge respecting smoke, they ap plied Juckes's patent smoke -consuming appara tus. This apparatus resembles nothing els e of the k in d. It consists of what may be called an e ndless chain of bars, disposed not crosswise but lengthwi,e, and this chain of bars forms the bottom of the furnace, on which the live coal blazes. The chain moves very slowly forward—not more than at the rate of an inch in the minute—from the front to the back of the furnace, carrying the fire along with it. At the back or bridge of the furnace, the chain of bars moves round, and comes back beneath. Thus it goes on endlessly from morning till night. The apparatus is fixed on a carriage, which is run into its pl ace on a speci es o f ra il roa d : an d th e whole — that is, the whole bott om o f th e f urnace —can be . dragged or out at pleasure, by which means every facility is presented for cleaning, renovation, &c. The chain of bars is moved by connecting gear from the steam- engine. The coal is laid on a hopper at the mouth of the furnace, and is carried forward by the bars, the depth of coals that enters being regulated by an iron door, which is depressed THITitgDAY Efir.ENING, OCTOBER 11, 1849 abroad which forms not merely the chief but almost the only food of the fine peasantry on either side cor. the Pyrenees is producible even in England, at a halfpenny the pound. THE LATE MR. GEORGE EDWARD ANsoN.—By the demise of this lamented gentleman, in the prime of life, the following lucrative appointments become vacant about the Court :—Keeper of her Majesty privy purse (salary 2,0001. per annum) ; treasurer of the house hold, and secretary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; treasurer and cofferer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and cumber of the Prince's Council for thu Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Anson was private secrete ry to the late Viscount Melbourne, during part of the ttJaure of office as Premier of that noble man. He wr_;.s of a delicate constitution, and some time since he was attacked by dangerous illness at Osborne, which caused medical aid to be immediately summoned from town. THE CIEIS L ESE Jurac.—This extraordinary speci men of Oriental ingenuity is, we hear, to be presented to the citizens of London in a more accessible locality than it at present occupies. Nothing, perhaps, can speck more for the interest with which it has been regarded than the fact that it has been visited by nearly a quarter of a million of individuals at 131ackwall. Application has been made to the navigation committee for permis sion to moor the junk at Temple-bar Pier, which situate, we may say, almost in the centre of the metro polis ; and it this be granted it will be a great conveni ence to the many thousands of our sight-seeing popula tion who have a shilling to spend. and will create a little life in a neighbourhood sufficiently dull iu these times. It remains, however, to be seen whether the committee and the water-bailiff a ill encourage the enterprise, which has, at a vast expense brought over the first ves sel of the kind that has ever reached this country from China. _ _ _ DUTCII CATTLE.—The steam ship Lion, arrived from Harlingen, has brought 1,500 sheep, being, we believe, one of the largest, if not actually the very largest importation of live stock on any single occasion, besides 143 head of horned cattle, 5 calves, 15 pigs, 2,175 casks of butter, and a quantity of cheese and grain. The ship Attwood, arrived on the same day from Rot terdam, brought 116 head of horned cattle, and 474 sheep, and the ship Magnet, from the same port, 90 head of horned cattle, and 353 sheep, the whole the produce of Holland. BELFAST LOUOII, OCT. B.—Arrd. Lady Culebrooke, Hamilton, Bombay for the Clyde. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BAIV'KRUPICY, Oct. 10. (B,fOre Mr. Commissioner EVANS ) HENRY PATERSON'S EANKRUPTCT. The bankrupt was a horse dealer and the proprietor of the Hippodrome, Notting-hill, Bayswater. His debts are said to be about 5,000/., including 1,0781. due to Messrs. Tat'ersall, 5001. to the Mercers' Company (for which the company has the security of two other names), and about 1,0001., as put into the bankrupt's business by Mr. James, nephew of Mr. James, of the firm of Howell and James. This was a meeting for the proof of debts and the choice of R - trade assignee. Mr. Pain (of the firm of Pain and Heatherley) ap peared on behalf of the creditors, and Mr. Wettou for Messrs. Tattersall. Mr. Fry also appeared on behalf of Mr. Delarue, wholesale stationer, and father-in-law of Mr. James, to watch the proceedings. Messrs. Tattersall tendered a proof for 1,078/. on a bill of exchange for 1,0001., with expenses thereon. An objection having been taken to the proof, Mr. Richard Tattersall, jun., said the bill was the accept- ance of the bankrupt, as drawn upon him by his father, Mr. Paterson, sen., and had been received by their firm from the latter, in liquidation of a debt. The CommisstoNsu—i.Was the bill received by yourself from Mr. Paterson, senior ? Mr. Tattersall —No, your Honour. The COMMISSIONER—Ts the member of your firm present who did receive it? Mr. Tattersall—No. The COMMISqONER—Then call the bankrupt. _ _ The bankrupt was called, and his evidence went to show that his father called upon him, and told him that if he would give him his acceptance, Messrs. Tattersall would cash it for him. He thought it very kind of Messrs. Tattersall, and gave the acceptance. About an hour afterwards he received a messsage from Messrs. Tattersall. Upon waiting on them, he was informed that his father being largely in their debt, they could not discount the bill, but would re tain it as security for the father's debt. To this pro posal he consented. Mr. WETTON informed the Court that his client had subsequently obtained judgment against the back. rupt for Ihe amount now sought to be proved. The COMMISMONEIt—In what manner was the judgment obtained ? Mr. Wetton—By default. The COMMISSIONER—Thin that goes for nothing. Mr. Jones, a creditor upon a bill of exchange for 7'21., submitted that his honour would not admit the proof upon such evidence. Mr. Wetton submitted that the bill having been re• ceived for a bond fide debt, due to his clients by the bankrupt's father, and judgment having been obtained thereupon, the proof must be admitted. The COMMISSIONER—I. will allow it to be entered as a claim, and to be the subject of further consider ation on a future day. But I will not receive it as a proof. Mr. WETTON trusted his Honour would so far al low it to be received as to admit his clients to vote in the choice of assignees. The COMMISSIONER—I will not. A somewhat warm discussion then ensued between the contending parties, in which Mr. Fry, Mr. \Vetton, and others took part. As far as could be ascertained, Mr. Fry alleged that the bankrupt had never mentioned a word to Mr. James that there was such a claim upon him as this 1,0781., or he Mr. James, would never have put 1,0001. into the business. lie further complained that Messrs. Tattersall had not acted fairly in allowing the bill to remain unpaid several years, and not proceeding to obtain judgment until after Mr. James had parted with his money. The elder Paterson had been many years in Messrs. Tattersall's employ, and they ought not to have adopted the course they had. Mr. WErros, in reply, said, that the debt owing to Messrs. Tattersall by Paterson, sen., was a bond fide one, and that they had not taken any earlier pro ceedings against the bankrupt from a feeling of re luctance to raise obstacles against a young man suc ceeding in his business. His clients had not now made bim a bankrupt, and only sought to prove for the debt. Mr. FRY said the fiat was obtained on the bank rupt's own petition, and left the court by no means sati3fied with the explanations that had been given. Mr. Joseph Smith, farrier, of Notting-hill, was .hosen as the trade assignee. to him, with a written request that he would either say that he was or. was not guilty, and after reading it over attentively, he said boldly " guilty." The evidence upon which the indictment was founded was as follows :—On Saturday, the 30th of September, the prisoner presented himself at the Cale de Paris, in the Haymarket, and told the head waiter, who appeared on this occasion as prosecutor, that he wanted a dinner and a bed. The waiter, observing that though somewhat respectably dressed, he had no luggage, told him that they were nut in the habit of providing lodgings for gentlemen who brought no luggage; upon which the prisoner said it was all right, his portmanteau would arrive next morning, and he wrote a letter to Mrs. Ridley, Barnes -terrace, Surrey, requesting her to forward it; but it was afterwards ascertained that there was no such person as the address indicated. That day the amount in curred by the prisoner was 165.; and his dinner, with wine, the next day came to 63., the sum mentioned in the indictment. When the witness presented his bill, the prisoner said all his friends were out of town, and as he was short of money he would give him a cheque for Si.. upon his bankers, and he wr,to as follows, upon half a sheet of note-paper : " Pay to Mr. John Esden, or bearer, the sum of five pounds. 51, " F. IV. lIIoLLor. " Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, Gracechurch street.' This was promptly forwarded to the bank, and it wt►s brought back by the mesi.enger, !narked " No account." The prisoner was then given into custody. He was searched by Sergeant Grey, 10 U, but no money whatever was found upon him. In answer to the COURT, The waiter said that he should certainly have given the prisoner into custody had he not given the cheque, or paid the bill when it was presented to him. He should personally be the looser of the amount. The Learned JUDGLi sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour. Though this was the only charge upon which the prisoner was indicted, and the above all that transpired in court, there were several persons in attendance pre pared to prove other cases of precisely the same kind, and from letters and information in the hands of Sergeant Grey, the officer who had charge of the case, it appears that the prisoner has for some time been systematically victimizing hotel and tavern keepers both in London and in the country with a degree of cunning and audacity worthy of the great Dando himself, whom he equalled, if not excelled, as a swindling tactician. July last he patronized the Warwick Hotel, near -the 'Great Western Railway terminus at Paddington, with his presence, but when the bill had reached a guinea, Mr. Pearson, the landlord, discovered what his cus tomer was, and very prudently ejected him from the house. At Walken s Hotel, in Dean-street, Soho, he lived in sumptuous style for two n:onths ; and when the bill was presented to him, he talked in grandilo quent terms of his high connexions, and gave a cheque, like the above, upon Messrs. Spooner and Co., for the amount. Sergeant Grey produced a letter which had been received by the proprietor of the Café de Paris, from the landlord of the Pied Bull at Streatham ' stating that at the latter place the pri son, as " Mr. Mitford, 6, Park street, Park-lane," had run up a bill which he went away without paying. Mr. Pawsey, landlord of the Hare and Hounds, Hampstead, was in attendance at the court, to show that the prisoner had run up a bill at his house to the amount of 61., in respect of which he gave another valueless cheque upon Messrs. Spooner and Attwood. He practised the same game upon a tavern-keeper at Shepherd's Bush; and other in stances, showing how extensively the prisoner had pursued this system, could be given. His name also figured conspicuously in the circular of the Trade Protection Society. Mary Merrick, 26 ; Bridget 111‘1Cenzie, 22 ; Cathe rine Pratt, 34 ; and Mary Ann Sullivan, 17 ; were in dicted for robbing David Durward, a master mariner, of a gold watch, gold chain, four gold seals, a 51. note, two sovereigns, and other articles. Mr. Parry appeared for the prisoner Merrick, and Mr: Payne defended M'Kenzle. Sullivan pleaded guilty. The prosecutor stated that he accompanied the prisoner Sullivan to a disreputable house in the vicinity of Rateliff-bighway, kept by the prisoner Pratt. He was induced to partake of some gin and beer, and directly afterwards he tell asleep, and when he regained his consciousness, he found that he had been robbed of all his money, his watch, with gold chain and seals attacked, and a portion of his clothing. The only evidence against the three prisoners, who pleaded not guilty, was the positive statement of the prosecutor that they were present in the roam when he drank the potation, and that when Sullivan said she took the money at the instigation of Merrick, the latter said, " Well, you were a fool to be persuaded to rob the man by me." _ _ The Learned JUDGE withdrew the case from the jury as regarded Pratt and Nl'Kenaie, but left it for their decision as regarded Merrick. The jury returned a verdict of Acquittal. Sullivan was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The Learned JUDGE told Pratt that she had ex perienced a very narrow escape, for had she been convicted the sentence upon her would certainly have been ten years' transportation, for though there was a want of legal evidence against her, the court was satisfied that the prosecutor had teen " hocussed" in her house, and robbed with her knowledge, and she might tell her associates, and the keepers of houses like her own, that every person who suffered this practice of drugging in their house would, if con victed in that court, be sent out of the country. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. John Desmond, of 48, Long- alley, was brought for final examination before Mr. Alderman Carden, charged with stabbing a City constable. From the evidence taken on the former occasion it appeared that while William Smith, 244, was passing Sharp's-alley, in West•street, the prisoner came and flourished a most formidable stick with a knob in the shape of a life-preserver over him, and at last made a blow at his head, which the officer avoided. Smith offered to take no notice of the affair if he would go away quietly, which he refused to do, and struck the constable, who took him into custody, when a desperate struggle ensued, during which the officer was pelted with stones by a crowd of 150 to 200 persons, who had assembled. The prisoner was so violent that eventually it required five officers to convey him to the station, when it was discovered that Smith had been stabbed under the left ear nearly touching the carotid artery, also in the breast, between the first and second ribs on the left side, and also on the left knee. Although the officer did not see a knife with the prisoner, one witness swore that he saw him flourishing it during the struggle, and that he caught his arm and jerked it out of his hand. Another witness also deposed to seeing the prisoner with a clasp knife, and a third proved picking the knife up, which fell at his feet when jerked out of his hand. They all identified the knife, and further stated that the large blade was open. Mr. Charles Borlaise Childs, surgeon to the police force, deposed to the nature of the wound•, which had they been a little deeper would have proved fatal. The knife produced was such a one as would have inflicted the wounds. Smith called the attention of Alderman Carden to the knife, which had some plaster on it, and the pri soner was a mason. The prisoner denied it was his knife, or that he ever had one. Alderman CARDEM commended the forbearing con duct of the officer, and fully committed the prisoner for trial, and the depositions being made out, he was conveyed to Newgate. CLERKEN WELL. Thomas Ili'Donald, a respectable-looking young man, was finally examined before Mr. Combe, charged by Mr. William Ledger Broxholme, chemist and druggist, of Holloway-road, with stealing five shil lings' worth of' lozenges, and a quantity of drugs, &c It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that he advertised in the Times newspaper for an assistant, which was replied to by the prisoner, whom he took into his employ as an "improver," condi tionally that he was to be with him six months, and at the expiration of that term he was to receive 201. per year for his services. The prisoner bad been in his situation seven weeks. Witness had occasion to go to the north of England on business, where he was detained for three days. His confidence in the pri soner having been shaken in consequence of his having told him a wilful lie, prior to his leaving London, he marked some lozenge bottles with ink, in order to ascertain on his return the quantity which were missing, and from ten of the bottles be missed 41bs. of lozenges. He had given the prisoner notice to quit. ()a Tues day night last the prisoner, in company of another man, both being intoxicated, came to his (witness's) house for the purpose of annoying him, when he (prisoner) said that he imputed to him a charge of robbery, and he would make him prove it. Witness put him out of his shop. He gave information to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended in bed, at the house of Dr. Browne, of Hampstead. John rmstrong, 164 S, proved having taken the prisoner into custody at Dr. Browne's house. lle was in bed at the time. He told the prisoner that he wanted him on a charge of stealing lozenges, drugs, and chemicals, from Mr. Broxhohne. Ile denied the charge. The prisoner told witness where he kept his box, and handed him the key of it. The servant handed a bundle to witness, which co ntained an empty stopper bottle with Mr. Broxholme name upon it, a tooth-brush, a preparation of ether,aplec e e f of German soap wrappe d u p • in pap er, a piece Windsor soap, some matches in paper, four ounces of castor oil, and other trifling articles. He took the prisoner to the station-house, where he was locked up. Witness produced the whole of the articles. Mr. Broxholme identified them, and added that he could positively identify the paper in which the sow was wrapped. It was of a peculiar manufacture, and was made exclusively for him. Mr. Read—lndeed ! Is there any peculiar mask upon" it by which you can so positively identify it ? Witness—The manufacturer makes it only for me, according to my order. Mr. Comss—They may have made it for others for aught you know. Witness (pedantically)—True. Mr. Mallet, the clerk —None of the lozenges were found ? The witness answered in the negative. Mr. Read closely questioned the witness, who hesi- tated, contradicted himself, and answered in a most peculiar manner. Mr. Read here said that the prisoner was highly respectable, and incapable of robbery. He had Dr. Browne, &c., to identify some of the articie which the prosecutor had sworn to, and urged that he should be dismissed, and not degraded by bang sent for trial. lie questioned Mr. Broxhol►ne as to whether it was usual for the prisoner to mike entries of the sale of lozenges in fis books, or whether his wife was allowed to sell them during his übse►ice in the country. Witness replied that his wife never served, and that there were no entries of their sale by the prisoner during his absecce. The prisoner was remanded from Monday until yesterday, for the production of the book, when he was admitttd to bail for his appearance. Mr. Real assured the bench that he could satisfac torily prove how the prisoner became possessed of the articles. At this examination the prosecutor came to the court accompanied by Mr. Humphries, the solicitor, to conduct the prosecution ; end, after further evi dence was gone into and the book examined, Mr. Read called upon Mr. Combe to discharge the prisoner or hear his evidence, to prove how the pri soner came honestly by the property. Mr. COMM said he must send the case before a jury. By calling on him to discharge the prisoner he was asking him to discredit everything the prosecutor had awed. Mr. Humphries inquired the value of the whole of the property ? Yi w‘eutor—A sovereign. lie then said—Haita-sovereign; then—A pound more or less. Mr. Read said that the prosecutor bad the hardi hood to swear to everything produced—even to a piece of paper, a small bottle, and an old tooth-brush. Dr. Brown and his son %sere present to give evi dence on the prisoner's behalf, and he bonjured the bench not to brand his character by sending him to trial. Mr. COMBS—You want to make me judge and jury in the case. It is contrary to all practice to do what you ask me. Mr. Humphries—lf you heard the evidence it would only entitle you, if it created a favourable impression, to admit him to bail. Mr. CoMaE—I have ao hesitation in saying at once that I will take bail for hii appearance at the sessions. The prisoner's defence was then reserved, and he was fully committed for trial ; he was, however, or dered to find bail, himself in 1001. and two house keepers in 50/. each, for his appearance at the sessions. The required bail was produced, and the prisoner left the court with Dr. Browne and his friends. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Catherine Keirnes, otherwise Catherine Lake, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged at the instance of the authorities of St. James's parish with wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Dore, the relieving overseer, stated that about a year ago the prisoner made oath before two justices of the peace, then sitting at the board room of St. Martin's workhouse, that she was the aunt of three children at that time chargeable to St. Martin's parish. The effect of this oath was to cause them to be removed to their alleged birth settlement in St. James's. The children had been maintained in the workhouse ever since; but as it had recently come to the knowledge of the board of guardians that the prisoner was the mother and not the aunt of the chil dren, it had been determined upon to take proceed ings against her. In defence, the priSoner admitted she was the mother of the children, but she was too poor to sup port them, and that was her excuse for having taken a false oath. Mr. Dore said he should be prepared with legal proof of perjury in a few days, and the prisoner Wad accordingly remanded unt i l Friday next. 711 AMES. Charles Jones, a labourer, was finally examined, charged with stealing 2 cwt. of white lead and 13 brass screws, the property of his employer, Mr. Bar ber, whartinger, of Tower-stairs ; and Jacob Vanden burg, with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Hobler was for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine, barrister, with Mr. Pelham, fur the defence. The charge against Vandenburg excited consider able surprise, he being known, as was observed by the magistrate, to have frequently given information which led to the detection of several robberies. The facts are briefly these :—The white lead and screws were sate on Friday the 21st ult.; and were missed on the following day. They were sub•equently traced to Vandenburg's shop, who said they were left there by the prisoner, with within he affected to treat for the purchase, his real object being to keep possession of the property, until he could give intormation to Sergeant Kelly, 2 H, with whom he acted in con junction respecting such matters on previous occa sions. When Vandenburg's house was searched, some gas fittings and other articles were found, which a Mr. Loyd, of Gray's Inn road recognised as similar to some he had lost upwards of a year ago. Mr. Hobler said he could not proceed with that charge, as the person supposed to have stolen the property had absconded. Jones admitted the charge, and accused Vanden burg of being a habitual purchaser of stolen goods, who, when it suited his purpose turned round on and victimised his instrument. The additional evidence against Vandenburg was that of Benjamin Aslin, 90, Rosemary-lane, who deposed that on the morning of the 22d ult. Vanden burg asked him what he paid for white lead per cwt., saying he was going to send a few pounds to his brother. Witness said, "If you send at all, you had better send a quarter cwt. in a cask." Mr. Ballantine, before calling witnesses for the defence, wished it to be understood that Vandenburg carried on business in a large way as a marine-store dealer, a lawful calling, which it was almost impos sible to carry on without occasionally getting stolen property. It was well known that in courts of law nine-tenths of the cases of theft were proved by pawnbrokers who had received the property. Why should not marine store-dealers, who were similarly exposed, be treated in a similar manner? Vandenburg had often before taken in stolen property, and then gave information which led to the furtherance of justice, as it would be shown he had endeavoured to do in this case also. Mr. Nobler—Since the case was last here it has been ascertained that no entry of the white lead was to be found in Vandenburg's books. Mr. YARDLEY-Of course not ; as Vandenburg had not made the purchase, the time for such an entry was not ripe. Fur the 'defence Alexander Verver said he was with Vandenburg on the 22d ult., when Jones was in the shop with the whitelead and screws. After he left, Vandenburg sent witness to Leman-street station house for Sergeant Kelly, but, as he was proceeding there he met another sergeant, who told him Kelly was not to r be found at the station-house just then. Sergeant Wakefield, 5 11, met a person whom he believed to be the last witness, but could not swear to him, proceeding towards Leman-street on Saturday fortnight, about three o'clock. That person asked whether Sergeant Kelly was at the station-house, to which he replied, he did not know, but it could be ascertained there. He then asked what would be the most likely time to see him, and witness replied, in the evening. Mr. YARDLEY, in committing the prisoners for trial, observed that the strongest point against Vandenburg was, the conversation he bad had with the witness Aslin, respecting the price and disposal of white heed on the day of the robbery. The depositions were then read at length, but Vandenburg was admitted to bail, himself in 801., and two sureties in 401. each. WESTMINSTER. Two stable•helpers, named Mason and .Rosatrider, were charged with cruelty to a horse. Barkley, 131 B, proved that on the preceding even ing he saw the defendants leading a horse through Tothill-street into the Broad Sanctuary, Westmin ster.He had one of his fore legs tied up, so that he rem ained hopped upon the other three, upon which he standing for twenty minutes, until he wa was placed The laed by the side of another in a pimlieo omnibus. novelty of the horse having one ground, foot so strapped up that he could not place it o his way along upon the o ther th er g d, and working o three, attracted a vast number of persons , who followed it into the Broad way. When the h orse was p ut to, his foot was let down, and he appeared to draw with the other horse in the omnibus extremely well. He appeared in excellent condition, and when in the omnibus quite up to his work. The explanation of this odd affair was, that the horse, although valuable and serviceable, is extremely vicious, and in consequence of its kicking propensities, it was tOund necessary, in taking it some distance from the stable to the omnibus, owing to the carriage -way being under repair at the place where they ordinarily change horses, to deprive it of the use of one of its legs to prevent its doing any mis chief to the others until put to, when no fault could possibly be found with it, as it then became extremely quiet. Mr. BRODERIP considered that as the evidence clearly proved that there was nothing cruel in the manner in which the horse's foot wm tied up, the charge could not be sustained ; but said that this sort of thing could not be permitted in the streets, and if it were repeated he should find some method of deal. ink; with the offenders. Defendants were discharged. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 10. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge.) James Holyjield, 22, was indicted for stealing a Dutch clock, value 205., the property of the guar dians of the poor of the parish of St. Mary, White chapel. In a second count of the indictment it was described as the property of the Right Rev. the Bishop of London, and in a third it was laid as the property of some person unknown. Mr. O'Bnizts appeared for the prosecution. From the statement of the Learned Counsel in opening the ease, and the evidence subsequently given, it seemed that the circumstances out of which the case arose were of a singular nature. A poor man named Chas. Lawrence and his wife were removed from their dwelling, 11, King's Arms•court, to Whitechapel workhouse, suffering from cholera. After they had been there some .ti►ne the case became urgent, and they wt re removed to the London Hospital, where they both died shortly after admission, and their children, three in number, were taker) into the workhouse. By a recent Act of Paha meat the guardians of the poor of any parish are empowered to take possession of the property of any pauper to whom they had been giving relief, after that pauper's death, to reimburse themselves, as far as the value of the property goes, for the relief given ; and availing themselves of this power, the guardians of St. Mary, Whitechapel, took possession of the furniture in Lawrence's lodgings, and by their direction it was removed to a shed adjoining the workhouse. The prisoner was at that time an in-door pauper, and he was seen by some of the officers of the establishment leaving the place where the furniture was deposited with a Dutch clock, which had belonged to Lawrence, under his arm. To get to the shed from the male side of the establishment, which he had no right to leave, he must have got over a gate ten feet high. In order to prevent any question as to the ownership of the property, it was laid in the indictment, first s as belonging to the guardians, then as th,e property of the Bishop of London, to whom, as ordinary, all the property of intestate persons belongs until adminis tered to ; and thirdly, as the property of some person unknown. The prisoner, in his defence, said that be should not have taken the clock, or even thought of going to the shed at all, had he not seen the task-master go and ransack some boxes and take some trinkets, which he afterwards gave to one of the female paupers, to take improper liberties with her. There were plenty of persons in the house who could prove that what he said was true. The Learned JUDGB then called the task-Master, who was one of the witnesses for the prosecution, and asked him pointedly whether there was any truth in the prisoner's statement ?--Ile positively swore that it was false. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' hard labour. Frederick William Molloy, aged 61, a bald-headed man, with an impudent expression of countenance, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining by false pre • tc•nces from Henry Manning certain meat, drink, and lodging, to the value of 63., with intent to cheat and defraud him of the same. The prisoner appeared to be excessively deaf, and when called upon to plead he pretended not to hear the question, though it was repeated loudly, close to his ears„ at least half-a-dozen times by one of the officers. At length the indictment itself was handed UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, OCT. 9. Congregations wilt be holden for the purpose of granting graces and conferring degraes on the follow ing days in the ensuing term, Outobet—Thursday, 25th. November—Friday, 2d; Thursday, 15th; Thursday, 22d; Thursday, 29th. Dec , mber—Thursday, 6th; Monday, 17th. No person will, on any account, be admitted as a can didate tor any degree whose name is not entered in the book kept for that purpose at the Vice•Chizncellor's btotz,e o❑ or bef , rf, the day precAito , tie thy of con grt.ga F. PLUMPTRE, fa.:42.-Chancellor. Oer. Yesterday being the t:t43 , n %vhieh the Vico•Chancellor is aufivall) no:pit:ate(' by Chancellor, his Gruee the Duke of Wdling,ton, the letter= of nomination were ri-ud in c , , -, licottliion utter the usual toutiner, by the , Sei , ior Proctor, tLe Rev. GAltruy Bolles Lee, M.A., Fellow of New College, when I'lumptre NV w , oral evicreti oil the second )'ear of his office. A convocation mil be hi,hiett on 'Thursday next, the llth inst., at two o'cict:k, for the election of a vii ger of the University, in the room of Mr. Norris, deceased. THE COUNT'AY MARKE'II'S. NEwcAsTLE, Oc.r. 9.--Sinee Saturday we have Led heavy rains, and although we had a fiiir show of country wheat at mat ket this morning, the condition was not improved, and cobs( veld). sold only slowly; while south country new wheat, of which a few samples were c.ifored, sold at Saturday's rates. Old wEeett wanted for mixing tt as in di mend, and brought foil prices. Barley rather more inquired for. In other articles no change. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, COT. 9.—The sup ply of be SAS this morr.iug again very large, exceeding tt;e number of last week by 100, part unsold, quality middling, trade sluggish at previous rates. The number of sheep and lambs also large, which met with dull sale at a reduction of 2s per head. A quantity remain on hand. Arrivals:—Beasts, 800; sheep and lambs, 7,000. Beef, 55 to 6s; mutton, 4d to sd. LEEDS, Ocr. 9.—There is v. large show of wheat, and the heat is firm, and tine dry parcels generally held for au advance, but this checks business arid prices cannot be quoted over the full rates of Friday. Barley steady. Oats uud sheliings as before. Beans as dear. No al teration in other articles. Arriea!s:—Wheat, 10,721; barley. 804; oats, 789; beans, 600; flour, 066; lin seed, 257. Minus, OCT. 9.—Our market to•day was well sup plied. Wheat and oats islet a bri.k demand, and the test qualities of both were 3d to 6d dearer. Malting barley ,upported . the currency of Friday, but grinding qualities were scarcely so easy of sale. Rather higher rates were demanded for Indian corn, but there was scarcely any business transacted. White wheat, new, 19; Gil to 234; red ditto, 16. to 21s; barley, 9s Gd to 14. 9d; bele. 8. to 9s; new eats, 7s 9d to 9s 6d; rape• seed, 2.53 to 26. 6d per barrel; oattneal,9. 6d to 10. 6di b.kers' flour, 131 to 163 per cwt.; Indian corn, 25s to 29. per 481)lbs. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, OCT. 9.--There wer• in the market tu•day 84 sacks oatmeal, each x sighing 2801bs imperial, whereot bl sold thus:-27 at 11 Bs, 6at 11 7s 6d, 26 at 11 7s, 6at 116 s 6d, and 16 at 6s Od; avkraze price of the whole 11 7s Id 7-12th,. 7 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 31s, 2 at 30s. and 2at 295. 18 sucks put-barley, whercot 13 sold thus:-2 at 116 s, 1 at 115 s Od, 1 at 11 4s, 3 at 11 3s 6d, 1 at I/ 3s Od, 2 at 11 2. Od, and 3 at 11 Is 6d. 1 sack brosemeal, which was ❑ot sold. FDINUURGEI HAY AND STRAW MARKET, OCT. 9.--- Supphis of all kinds small. Oat straw, from 8s Od to lls Od per kemple of 16 stones Iron; wheat ditto, 8s Od to lOs Od; barley ditto, 7s Cd to 8s Od. Hay, from 7d to 9tl per stone. DALKLITH MEAL MARKET, OCT. 8.----Thete were 138 bags of oatmeal, 7 of burley meal, and 3of pot-barley at this day's market. Oatmeal down on the top 6d per bag, and o❑ the tit COlld and third qualities Is per bag ; barley rotal down is per bsg;. pot-barley also fall 1# per bag Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. imperial Barleynieal, per ditto ... Peasemeal First Second 26s Gd 25s 3d 18s 6d --s Ud Third 245 Od —s Od —s Od —s Od —5 Od Pot barley COAL MAltli.' Huddle's W. Hartley 16s 6d] Cares Hartley Charlotte .. ..... 175 Od' Hartlep( of W. Hartley 165 6d l Ilasting's Ilartloy 165 6d Holywell Main North Percy Hartley lss 9d New Tanfield • l3s 6d Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth's W.llart 16s Od 11' est Hartley Wall's End, &c. Brown's . Brown's Gas . Hedley Hilda l7s Gd Hotspur Ridae11'5........17s '.-.'d Urpeth Eden Main Bell Braddyll Retton -5 Od —s Od sOd —a Od ... 215 6d —5 Od Flour Y ESTERDAT. Haswell l9s 3d Jouassohns ...... 17a 3d Lumley Lambton Plummer ........ Russell's Hutton Sr ewart's Whitwell Caradoe ..... lt.s 6d Kelloe South Hartlepool ..... 18. 3d Whitworth lss 9d Adelaide Tees Seymour Tees ...... 18a 3d South Durham ........• 17s 9d St. Helen's Tees 17s Od reek ......... 19 t . OJ West Tees ........... 17s 3d Graigola Birebgrove 2O. 6d Nixon's Merthyr and C rdiff Sidne3 's Hartley Ships at market, 113. RAILWAY 6tiplit.t. MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was not so ani mated to-day, still a good business was donee at the followiag quotations : —Great Western, Quarters, 12 1-16 dia.—Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 116 dis. ex div. LIVER/VOL, OCT. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was very dull today, and little business was transacted. Prices bad a de' dining tendency. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashirso and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 221. Shares, 13% Caledonian, In a c. Ditto, Preference, 9% —Great Western , 56 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, Oh dis.— London and North-Western, 112 Ditto, New Quarters, 1A p.—Man' chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Eighths, 23 / 4 —Midland. 50 —Ditto, Halves, 19% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), dis. MANCHESTER, Our. 10. STOCK EXCIIANGIL The transactions to-day were 0 , follow :—East Lancashire, N ew , 14% M anc h es t er an d Leeds, Fifths, 6% dis.—Preston and Wyre (A), 6 F L —North Staffordshire, 8 1-16 dis.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 1914. BIRMINGHAM, Ocr. 10. STOCK EXCHANGII.—The only transactions to-day we. Midland Stock, 50—Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 125%. YORK, Ocr.-9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were 0 follow :—Great Northern, 7%—Midland, tO—North British, 11 ex div.— South-Eastern, 177i,—York, Newcastle, and tier" wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 34—York and Ntrtli land, 21%. GLASGOW. Ocr. 9. STOCK EXCHANGH.—The transactions to-day were as 10 1 ' low : Caledonian, 277—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 70--G10, 4 gow, Dumfries, and Car li sle, 4t/—Glasgow, Kil marnoc k, sou Ayr, Halves ( No. 1), 6/. 16s.—North British, Preference , 51. Is. : METROPOLITAN FOLIOS MAGISTRATE/1.-It is n t intended to fill- u p the vacancy in the metropolita n police magistracy caused s few weeks ago by the detai l of Mr. Cottingham. We unders'and it is in conceal' plation to carry Etill further the reductitm in this depart' went of the public service, and that no new appointurce' will be made until the number of metropolitan polic e magistrates shall have been diminished, *either by death or resignation, bel ow 20. It i s b e li eve d t h at t hi s arrange' nsent, wh : ch will throw additional work on the angle" tretes, will be very generally acceded to by the existing body, and the members will certainly deserve credit 0 1 their readiness iu aiding th e G overnment i n carrying oil; such reasonable reductions as public convenience Wel seem to require. BIRTH 3. On the sth inst , at Wykel'am-lodge, Hersham, Surrey i the wits of Joseph Haritcastle, Esq., barrister-at.law, ° a son. - - On the sth inst.. at Shel . ey-houso, near Ongar, Essex, O. lady of the Rev. Alfred B(,wyer Smyth, of a son. On the 7th in t., at Langley-lodge, Wilts, Mrs. T. Abdl Fellowes, of a daughter. On the tith inst., at 4, Southwick-crescent, the lady of O. late William E ward Few, Esq.. of a son. On the Bth inst., Mrs. J. It. Donald, of Viranda-cottag e r Holloway, of a daughter. On the tth inst., at Chepstow•villas, Westbourne-grol e i Hyde-park, the lady of J. F raser , Baddeley, EN, JOY . Horse Artillery, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Chester-street, Belgrave-square, th e lady of P. Benson Maxwell, EN , cf a son. JIARRIED. On the 10th inst , at St. James's Church, by the Rev. C' A. Steuart, Belford Hinton 'Wilson,- Esq., her m a jesty ! Chargé d'Affaires to Venezuela, to Catherine, youngeo daughter of the late Rev. Herbert Randolph. On the 9th inst.. at St. James's Church, the Hon. Cbsrlie Cornwallis Neville, second son of Lord Braybrooke, to the Hon. Florence Maude, third daughter of Viscount li a wirdell:. On the 27th ult. , at Border., Andrew, secon d sus 0 ' Andrew Chittenden, Esq.. of Bolney, Sussex, to Mary linn e t ' younger daughter of Edmund Barrow, isq.,of Borden, Ke ° ' On the 6th inst., at the Hotel of the British Ambassad or, Paris, Th mai Bullock Webster, Esq., 15th Bombay, N fourth son of the late Edward Webster Bullock Webster, 0 1 H en don, in the county o f Mi ddlesex, Eeq., to Julia Rac hel Stevens Price, youngest daughter of Benjamin Price, Esq'' of Westbury, in the county of Buckingham, On the inst., at Adnlestone, Surrey, John, second 0 , 11 daughter of eldestfdensite h t E he sq l . a , t oefpAh.iip ddle K st e o l n ly e,. t E o aq L . ouisa Elizabet h, DIED. On the 15th of May, at Bathurst, New South Wales, Ag ed 38, Mr. Willoughby James Dowling, solicitor, eldest son of Mr. V. G. Dowling, of IN orfolk.street, Strand, and nephew o Sir James Dowling, late Chief Justice of the colony, whop he accompanied in 18!7. On the •Ath inst., at Mary Port, Cumberland, Mary, the widow of th e l a t e Captain \% illistn Thompson. On the sth inst., at Marshfield, in the county of Yor i ‘i ' Jane Constantine, the e ife of Pudsey DANSOII, Esq., ' 2 Hornby Castle, Lancashire. ta On the 6th in:is., at t• arnshill, Semersetshire, R c hs Thomas Cumbe, Esq., aged 79. On the ;th inst., at Wotton Bassett, of apoplexy, Richard Hooper, Esq. On the Bth inst.. at 20, New Steine, Brighton, Anne, relict of Captain Robert Anderson, of the Lion. East India C°lll - Maritime Service, up d r 4. ilbl On the Bth t., Alexander Brown, Esq., of Be for Grange, • orksbire, son of William Brown, Esq., ALP' South Lancashre, aged 33. - a of London; Printed and Publissbed by bIURDO YOUN —7,2 Na 112, Strand, Printer, at The Nna Office, Z T( '' ;,'-trantl, in t F PrticiDeT. 4i Lilo Zisvoy, in L b. counv Middle3f4,Thurodai, October 11,1849. day of viously for LE 1849, e TW;) f buildin side of Also 3etrs tillery the tel skin of a War( Fart obtainc _ T the pry of late coun's ket, an at ope Drai from d month, balanc, balmo custom Depc for six yearly, C ported , cent. i arnonn Advi ties rel the nai DIS 34 Rem' Englan Divli wlthou No c gratuit, one in • Appl tablisb! Fora tomme Bank, V The l for LO) for whit will be Furtt Signed. Sold • Lonien Oxford-! Coniult and by It. Rai ir User- off This 1 pirpor or the paps . . 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