The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

GENE R FFICE WESTMINSTER AND MARYLEBONE„ Dr. WEBB—Certainly not. The CHAIRMAN--Then you can't be beard. Dr. WEBB —Then I protest agJinst this being consi dered a meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster and Marylebone. The amendment ho intended to have pro posed was as follows:—" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting that the opposition to the passing of letters through the Post-office on Sundays made by some interested London bankers and merchants wishing to keep their present monopoly of earlier information than their 'brethren in the country, and of some religionists who wish tyrannically and unjustly to compel all men to do as they do, is contrary to all s,:und principles of free trait., political economy, and true religion, which im- peratively require that every man, equally the employer and the etnpiuyPd, should bo left free to act as he pleases, provided he does not coerce or injure another; and that the que,tions between town and country shoulLt be left t i the discrea zi and knowledge of the Postrnlster-General, subject to the control of Parlia ment." Usher resolutions having been put and carried unani mously, thanks Qere voted to the Nuble Ch,,irman, and the meeting, which was most numerously attended, broke up. ST. JAMES, WESTAHNSTER. Yesterday a numerously attended meeting of the parishioners of St. James, Westminster, was held in Willis's Room s , K ing - street, St. Jamei')i, tor the pur pose of memorializtrg her .11, , jesty's Ministers against allowing any alteration in the system of Post-office management whereby Sunday labour wou'd be in creased. The Lord Bishop of LONDON, having taken the said he was highly gratifidd to see the strong feeling which the present attempt on the part of the Post-office authorities to increase the Sunday labour in that establishment had elicited. Strongly as he objf cted to the regulation proposed to be enforced, avid great as was the danger to be apprehended from Cne enforcement, still he felt great consolation that the proposal had called forth so general—so unanimous, he had almost said so enthusiastic, an expression of feeling, in opposition to it. He c - msidered such an expression of feeling as a sure token for good ; for when he saw men of all sects of religions, and all shades of political opinions, Efluential merchants, bankers, and all grades of society, coming forward in opposition to a proposed infringement on their day of rest, he could not hut consider it as a good augury. At the same time, he could not help feeling discouraged at seeing such 4 meure brought forward by the Go vernment of the country, as keeping altogether out of view the residts which would inevitably spring from. at, he held its Introduction to be the violation of a great principle. No doubt it was said the change was but on P. small scale, but it was nevertheless the vio lation of a great p r i nc ipl e , and small as the cha nge apper.,red, it was the introduction of a system that wor,ld lead to the total disregard of the Sabbath in Lrindon. He did not believe that Government had way such deliberate intention as that in the introduc tion of it, but no one could doubt that if they were not prevented by the expression of dissent which was emanating from the people, from taking such a step, the Stlnday would in this country soon be no better observed than it was on the continent, and a London Sunday would become similar to that of Paris. He h . P.fi been waited up on by a deputation of c l er k s i n th e inland department of the Post-office, who complained of any such system being adopted, and who had told him that they would not so far go against their con scientious convictions as to act under it. Now, should it he adopted, and those men decline acting, they would be placed in no very enviable position. lle trusted, however, the remonstrances of such meet ings as the present would have the effect of causing it to he abandoned. The Rev. Mr. JACKSON, rector of the parish, then prfposed the following resolution : " That this meeting has observed with deep regret that it is the intention of the Post-office authorities to make such alterations in their present arrangements for the receipt and dispatch of letters as will involve the attendance of a considerable number of clerks and messenger s on Sundays. It is unable to perceive that the relief proposed to he given to the country post masters is in any way necessarily connected with the alterations which the Government has sanctioned in London." Mr. T A-lcmks al3cc2ttrr seconded the resolution ; And after a f e w observations from Mr. JAMES GARRETT, a churchwarden of St Jamee's, detailing the partic u l ars of an i i n r t . erv it ie ) w wia ;vb od ic l h c h e had had that morning with i‘ an cyinion of th a t gentleman, that he did not think the it deserved the con d emnation it had met with, it was agreed to. Sir WALTER Faactuttaa then moved, " That this meeting is convinced that such a measure, in frui t i on to an increased desecration of the Sabbath, will ulti mately lead to a general delivery of letters on that day," which was also agreed to, and the meeting separated. F 1 E AT THE CHARTERED GAS WORKS, ST. la7lt'6's.—Last ni4ht, shortly after eight o'clock, the I nb abitants of Brick-lane, Old-itreet, St. Luke's, were r.eatly alarmed, owing to the sudden outbreak of a fire 'upon the above extensive premis9s. The flames or i gi nated from an e•eape of gas in what is termed' the purifying house, a building not more dun twenty seven ards square. It was happily confined to that portion of the works where it be gan . ROBBERY OF TILE COMMUNION SERVICE OF ALL SAINTS, PADDINGTON. -- On Sunday evening some thieves got possession of the communion ter vice belong ing to the church of All Saints, Paddington, and at present no clue has bees obtained by the police of the valuable property. A public meeting of tha inhabit ants of Westminster and Marylebone was held ye•terdsy, at the Free mason's Tavern, for the purp, se of memorializing the Lords of the Treasury against the intended commence ment of Sunday labour in the General Post-office. Lord Ashley, M.P, occupied the chair, supported by the Bishop of Loudon, Dr. Cruly, Sir John Putt!, Bart., and others. The Bishop of London opened the meeting with prayer. The CHAIRMAN said the public press and the pith lished reports of the authorities must have informed the meeting that it was inteeded to increase Sunday labour at the Post-office. There could be no doubt of that, and it was for the meeting to express their opinion, whether the change ought to be made or not. The question could be viewed in a religious or a labour point of view. Now, leaving the religious part of the question out of considerarion, was it advisable to increase the labour of the overworked Post-office clerk at a time When the public was doing all it could to re duce the hours of factory labour, to secure the early closing; of shop, and promote the healthy recreation of the Working classes? It struck him, however, as it had atrv.ek others, that the real object of this proposed change tyres to produce a saving in the public expenditure, but t'ae saving was to be effected at the expense of public decency. What right had the Peet-office authorities to attempt to get seven days' labour out of some of these clerks for six days' pay? It was said, however, in answer to those who argued against the change on religious grounds, that it would only require the services of twenty-five clerks in London on a Sunday, while it would greatly relieve the labours of provincial offices on the same day ; but he objected to any relief being afforded to provincial offices, at the expense of even 25 clerks in London. These 25 clerks had as much right to the enjoyment of the Sab bath as 13 Cabinet Ministers, or the Postmaster and secretaries of the Post-office; and on that ground alone this proposed change ought to be resisted. It was ridiculous to tell him that the proposed change wotol rest with the forwarding of letters to the pro ♦in:ces, inasmuch as it was absurd, nay, unjust to sup pose that I he London merchant would rest satisfied with a system that gave his brother merchant in Liverpool a great advantage over himself in obtaining early in telligence; and the meeting might depend upon it that the result of this change, if not now strenuously re sisted, would be to render the British metropolis similar to the other capitals of Europe, to do away with all dis tinction of days, and to make religious duties and obser vances subjected to Government regulations. He therefore called upon the meeting to oppose the proposed change to the utmost of their power, and concluded by declaring it as his opinion that this country owed much of its greatness to the due ob servance of the Sabbath.—(Cheers.) The Bishop of LONDON moved the first resolution, to the elf et—" That this meeting has heard with equal surprize and regret, of the intention of the authorities ut the General Post-office to commence the receipt and transmission of mails from and to all parts of England on Sundays as on the other days of the week; and it desires to express ite unfeigned sorrow that the first public act of the Government immediately following the recent heavy visitation should involve an open vio lation of one of the plainest commands of Him in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways." In considering this resolution, it was hardly right to go into the details of the.proposed change. It ought to be surracient for them to ask theneselvee, was it right or Wrong? and if it was wrong, then to oppose it in the 'strongest possible manner. It was gratifying to him to know that the proposed change met with the most de cided oppasition of the Christian public, and he hoped it would have the eff-ct of inducing Government to abandon their new postal regulations.—(El ear, hear.) Sir JOHN MAXWELL second- d the resolution, and in sisted that instead of relieving the provincial offices on Sundays their proposed change would greatly increase their labours: The prop used change was neither an act of necessity nor charity, but an act of cruelty to a de serving burly of public servants, and he therefore called upon all good men to resist it to the utmost of their power.—(lhe rs.) - Dr. VEBB s,iti he wished to move an amendment. The CHAIRMAN —" Order, order." Dr. WEBB—I wish to move an amendment, my Lord. The CHAIRMAN—WeII, sir, you ought to know that you cannot be in order until the resolution has been put. This having been done, The CHAIRMAN continued—Now, sir, before you are beard, allow me to aik who you are? Dr. WEBB—I am a resident and elector of Maryle. bone. There is my card. The CHAIRMAN —Do you intend to speak in support of the object of this meeting, namely, to memorialise the Lords of the Treasury against the proposed change at the Post-otlice. SUN, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 8. (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) N. COBB'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case was an auctioneer and sheriff's officer at Colcheiter, and he came up to-day on his last examination, the balance-sheet being pre pared by Mr. Hutton. His creditors on one side of the account were represented at 3,533/., and his liabi-. lities at 1,2031. Ilis d e bt s , on t h e other side, were 157/., calculated as good, and property 3531. Mr. Lawrance appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Cooper for the assignees. question was raised respecting the adoption by the bankrupt of some supplemental accounts, and on which it was attempted to oppose his passing. The COURT did not, however, receive the views ex pressed on behalf of the assignees, and the bankrupt was therefore allowed to pass. The other cases heard were not of importance. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Robert Take was brought before the Lord Mayor upon several charges of forgery. Mr. Edward Stone Darvell, a town traveller, of No. 14, Walbrook, said—On Wednesday, the 12th of September, the prisoner brought to me the cheque produced for 91. Cs. He said he had received it frum a Mr. Wallis, as a profit on a transaction for grease delivered from Bryant and May, of Tooley-street, and that Wallis would give a cheque to them for the amount of the invoice rendered to the prisoner. He left the cheque. I observed that it was dated the 22.1 of September, and would not be due until Saturday week. I did not present it until that day. Oa the Wednesday when I had the conversation with the prisoner he owed me about 3/., and he wanted me to give him the difference, but I had not sufficient money about me, and it was agreed it should be left till the Saturday, when I was to present it, and de duct what he owed me and to pay him the difference. On Saturday morning after I had presented the cheque, and ascertained that there was no account at the banking house, I received Iran the prisoner the note I produce, to the following effect :-- 23, St. S within's-lane, Saturday morning. "Dear Darrell,—Hr. Mills called on me here last evening, and troy what he said respecting Wallis's cheque it will be better not to present it until after I have seen him, which I will do at twelve o'clock, end then see you, and either then hare the money or draw it at the bankers.—Yours truly, " ROBERT MIZE." On the following Monday or Tuesday afterwards I saw the prisoner, and told him th a t I wou ld g i ve hi m i n charge, but he went away. In his cross examination by the prisoner the wit ness said —I recollect your calling on the Tuesday evening previouly to my receiving the cheque. You asked me if I could get it cashed, and you said there was some difficulty, as it was dated on. You showed no hesitation in leaving the cheque with me. I can't say you went away to avoid being given in charge. M. Blundell, clerk to Messrs. Williams, Deacon and Co., bankers, of Birchin-lane, said no person named James J. Wallis kept an account at t h at house. Mr. W. W. C. Roberts, tea-dealer, of No. 20, Harp-lane, Tower-street, said—The cheque produced belonged to my father. I had been sorting my papers and letters about two months since. Amongst them I inadvertently left this old cheque-book. I know the prisoner. He has been at my counting house. He came to see a Mr. Smith ; but I never had any transaction with him. I saw an examina tion of a man of the name of Mills respecting a forgery upon Williams, Deacon, and Co., which in duced me to look at the cheque-book, and I discovered that several of the cheques had been taken out of it. I gave the bankers information, and went to the station-house and gave the officer the book. The cheque. book was left in my desk, amongst a lot of letters. The prisoner hAs written at that desk. I have left him there. The writing on the counterfoils is that of my father, who keeps an account at Wil liams, Deacon, and Co.'s. Cro , s-examined—Mr. Smith's name was on the geound-iloor, but the office was mine. I think you hove been there alone, but I cannot positively say that I have left you there alone. Mr: Abraham Wallis, a member of the Society of Friends, and clerk to Messrs. Bryant and May, of 133, Tooley street, said—l have seen the prisoner about our place of business. I did not pay the prisoner the cheque produced for:grease ; no business has been actually done between the prisoner and our house ; no grease whatever ever left our premises on the prisoner's account. The prisoner was then charged with having uttered a forged order for the payment of 41. Bs., with intent to defraud Joseph Golding. Mr. Golding, a licensed victualler, of the Blossoms Inn, Lawrence lane, said—On Saturday, the 15th of September, the prisoner gave me the cheque pro duced for 41. Bs. I gave him cash for it, and he paid me ss. out of the money. 1 knew the pri soner from his having been an occasional customer, but the Si. was for money lent. About the Wednes day or Thursday I received the letter produced to the following effect : ( "St. Swithin's-lan e , S e pt. 19 . "Dear Sir,—The party who paid in the cheque which you cashed for me (Mr. Mills) has just been in here to say that he finds there is some irregularity in it, and that the cheque will, in all probability, be dishonoured. It has, I assure you, very much surprised me to hear thi4, hut I will call on you to-morrow, and if this is the case pay you for it. " In haste, yours, very truly, " ROBERT TIME." Cross -examined—I had not presented the cheque for Payment befor I received that note. Mr. Darvell, who prosecuted in the first case, said, I know the prisoner, and have seen him write. The h tter addressed to Mr. Golding is, I should say, in the prisoner': handwriting. Mr. Blundell, clerk to Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., said--No such person as James Ellis, the nune on the cheque as the drawer, keeps an account. The cheque produced has been issued from our house, but I cannot tell when or to whom. I received the ch. que- book produced from the officer. The cheques which had been left in the book were severed from the counterfoils in my presence. The cheque-book produced was issued to a Mr. Elmore ten or fifteen years ago. Barnes (City police) said, that at half-past ten en the morning of the 26th of September he went with the prosecutor in search of the prisoner, and met him at the bottom of Crooked-lane. lie was given into SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. A numerous and respec'able meeting of the Spanish Bondholders took plsce yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of con •idering a memorial, or remon strance, to be sent to the Spanish Government upon the subject of their clainm J. CAPEL, Esq., was unanimously called to the chair, and proceeded at once to read a letter from the Secretary of the Dutch Committee, date 1 Amsterdam, sth Oct. In that letter it was stated that M. Ducker was convinced that Spain could meet ell her engagements more easily than any other State in Europe, if her revenues were properly managed; and that, as to her national debt, Spain was in a much better state than any other country in Eu rope. The letter concluded by expressing a hope that the meeting would support their delegates at Madrid, and that .the bankers and press of London would assist them in obtaining their just demands. The Chairman said that he had received letters from many parties calling upon him to use every exer tion in the cause, but they had not sent him the needful for doing so. Hitherto he had borne all the expense himself. The reason he had called this meeting was be cause the Cortes was about to meet, and he thought he might remind them of their - claims. The Government of Spain could find means to send assistance to the Pope, but not to do justice to the bondholders. Tne re venues of Spain had been doubled within the last two years, and yet it was the only nation that was not endeavouring to pay its debts. Portugal was sending a good deal of money to this country to pay its dividends, and the North and South German States were doing all in their power to pay their debts. In Spain they had Finance Ministers corning in and going out expressly for the purpose of evading payments. He thought it would- be much better that the bondholders should take the matter out of his hands by appointing a com mittee. He had gon e on hi t herto for the sake of his friends who had large stakes in the bonds. Though he admitted the Dutchmen were working hard for the interest of the English bondholders as well as their own, he thought they ought to have a commis. sioner of their own at Madrid. There was a gentleman recommended by Mr. Baring, who would go out to Ma drid provided the funds were forthcoming for that pur pose; and such faith had Mr. Baring in that gentleman, that he stated he was ready to advance 1001., although he had no interest in Spanish bonds. The chairman con cluded by moving the adoption of a strong memorial to the Spanish Government, calling upon it to do justice to its foreign creditors. After some diucussion, in which it was urged that the subject should be brought before Parliament again, and that Lord Palmerston should be reminded of the claim of the bondholders, The CHAIRMAN said that when he saw Lord Pelmers. tun, he could not negotiate for the bondholders, but be would back any negotiation that came from the bondholders. What the bondholders wanted was some one in Spain to badger the Government. It would re quire 2,000/. to send out such a person to Madrid. He would give 1001. himself, Mr. Tasker would give another, Mr. Baring would give another 1001., and he knew two or three other gentlemen that would contribute similar sums. After some further discussion the memorial was una nimously agreed to, and it was resolved that a subsci ip. tion should be opened to defray the expense of sending a commissioner to Madrid, and that an advertisement should be put into the newspapers to that effect, and that Mr. Tasker, Mr. Capel, and Mr. Stokes, should appoint a committee to take charge of the funds and instruct the commissioner as to the course he should pursue. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and before the meeting broke up nearly 1,0001 were subscribed, and several gentlemen present expressed their determination to subscribe their mite. Alderman CARDEN said it was important they should have his evidence. Were there any more wit nesses ? Francis Howard, of 16k, Sharp's-alley, said yesterday afternoon my attention was drawn to a funeral that was about to take place, and I observed the prisoner at the bar with a quantity of sticks, which lie gave to a young man to take care of, and kept one for himself. He being a little in liquor I watched his proceedings, and saw him try the stick by the side of his leg, then strike the wall, after which he went up to the policeman and shook it in his face. A scuffle ensued, and after that, in the middle of West street, I saw a knife fall at the feet of Mr. Sutch's brother. I told him to pick it up and take care of it, which he did. lam satisfied the knife produced is the same one. Alderman CARDEN—Was he drunk ? Witness— He had been drinking, but knew very well what he wes doing. All the people were yelling like a parcel of hounds at the officer, and seemed not to care or to have the slightest feeling as to how brutally he was treated. Smith said, that while he was struggling with the prisoner the mob continually pelted them with stones. James Clift, constable at the West London Union, said, about four o'clock the previous afternoon my attention was called to a row in the street, and on going to see what was the matter I found the officer and the prisoner struggling desperately together, surrounded by a mob of from 120 to 150 persons, who were yelling, hooting, and throwing stones at the officer. Smith called me to his assistance, upon which the prisoner swore it should take half-a-dozen officers to convey hint to the station, and eventually it did take five of us to ge t hi m there. I saw the officer's knee was cut, and I also was kicked by the prisoner. Mr. Charles Borlase Childs, surgeon to the City Police force, said, I have examined Smith, and found three punctured wounds, not very dangerous in them selves, but very serious in regard to their locality. One of them is behin 1 the angle of the jaw, on the left side, over the carotid artery ; another near the chest bone, between the first and second ribs on the left side ; and the third over the left knee. It is clear to me that a very serious attack was made on the man's life, not only from the attempt at his throat, but the other parts in which he was wounded. Had the knife gone hut a trifle further, it must have wounded the carotid artery, and nothing could have prevented it. Alderman CARDEN—Then you think there was serious mischief intended ? Mr. Childs—l do. It is only a matter of surprise to me that it did not penetrate so far, and I can only account fur it that the officer either drew his head back a little, or that his stock must in some way have prevented the blow taking effect. The prisoner denied having any knife whatever in in his hand. Alderman CARDEN said he was charged with a most serious crime, and he should remand him until Wednesday next, for the production of the witness who picked up the knife. The officer deserved great credit for his forbearing conduct throughout; arid if there was any fund for deserving officers he thought him entitled to a reward, and he should certainly make some inquiries on the subject to effect that object. The prisoner was conveyed to the Compter. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Charles _Harris John Cowls e, Edward Lake, John Green, and Cornelius Denny, five rough-looking lads, were brought before Air. Bingham, charged with having been concerned in a disturbance at a penny theatre in the New-road, and having broken and destroyed property to a considerable amount. The penny theatre where the disturbance occurred is in Bath-place, New-road, and has been for some months past the source of continual annoyance to the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who have repeatedly drawn the attention of the police to the nightly assemblages of hundreds of young pick pockets and prostitutes, and begged to be relieved from the nuisance. The proprietor, a person named Lamb, has been summoned to this court, but nothing effectual has hitherto been accomplished. About fifty boys and girls, varying in age from eighteen to sixteen, and of the lowest class, a fair sample of the audience frequenting this penny theatre, were as sembled in the court to hear the fate of their corn panions. From the evidence it appeared that on Thursday night the defendants and others were in the waiting room leading to the penny theatre, when one of the party began " larking, and this soon led to a gene ral disturbance. The gas-lights were put out, a rush was made at the money-taker's cash-box, and win dows were smashed in every direction. It required the presence of several police-constables to quell the riot. Two of the defendants were pointed out by Charles Clark, a mulatto lad, as the ringleaders of the row. He was employed by the proprietors to keep order at the theatre, but it was impossible on the night in question owing to the violence of the defendants. There were about 400 persons in the theatre. Henry Lamb, the proprietor, said it was with the greatest difficulty the cash-box and its contents were saved from the rioters. About 58 squares of glass were broken, and some of the woodwork torn down. The loss to him would be at least 3/. The defendants declared they took no part in the disturbance and in the damage. They only flung hick a piece of canvas which some one for a lark threw at one of their party. A witness named College, on behalf of the defend ants, said, the mulatto Clark, who was employed to keep order, was too drunk that night to perform his duty. He came forward and challenged any one in the house to fight, and witness accepted the challenge, .and made up a pugilistic match with him for 10s. next Sunday morning. Mr. BINGHAM said he was very much inclined to think that the disturbance was planned beforehand, Ter the purpose of robbing the money-taker. But even admitting it was only a lark, still the defendants must be taught that where they broke and destroyed property, and caused such a disturbance as bad been described, they would only be allowed to indulge in szch a lark for once in their lives. He should fine t hem all 40s. each, or twenty-one days imprisonment. WESTMINSTER. Thonzas 31‘Donald, a labourer out of employment, M' lr w•ithl ~ h h s eirosif rubbery and yof Mary Iho Fox, rnaso ow w i ho st and c .an o r lrg M'Guire, laed under circumstances stanbcreosuogfht before amo Mr. Bod extraor r din: r r i. descrip tion, v 'ThE particulars of the former examination were full v d e tailed in The Sun of Tuesday last. 111 r. R.,assell, the superintendent of the B division, has been avast indefatigable in his exertions to throw som ,e light upon this mysterious affair, and has pro cur ed consl4s..rable additional testimony with respect Lomriow: custody, and he said, if the prosecutor would give him time he would pay the money as soon as possible. The prisoner was committed for trial. David Minture, a fighting man, and Matthew Kight, who were charged some days ago with having had in their possession a 201. note, which had been stolen from a gentleman named Watson, appeared for re-examination. Mr. Watson, not being able perfectly to identify the note, the two men were discharged. GUILDHALL. John Desmond, of 48, Long-alley, Sun-street, was charged before Mr. Alderman Carden with stabbing. Wm. Smith, 244, of the City Police, said, about two o'clock yesterday afternoon I was passing out of St. John's -court into West-street, when I saw the prisoner, with a number of other persona, standing at the corner of Sharp's-alley. He had a number of sticks, like the one I produce (a twisted stick, loaded at the end and covered like a life-preserver), which he diiributed amongst his companions, retaining one himself, which he held by the thinner or ferruled end. I passed by him, and he said, " Good morn ing," and then said " Good night, I did not mean morning," and began flourishing his stick about. I took no notice of him, when he came behind, holding the stick in his right hand, and made a blow at my head, which I parried with my arm, and knocked the stick out of his hand into the crowd. lle said, " You police together." I caught hold of him and asked him what he meant, and said if he re peated such conduct I should take him to the station, but if he would go away quietly he might do so; upon which he said he should not, and struck me a blow across the collar with his hand. I then took him into custody, and he became very violent, and a struggle ensued, during which I was stabbed in the breast, on my knee, and slightly on the left side of my neck. On my clothes are the marks where the knife penetrated, and also blood which flowed from the wounds. (The wound in his breast had pene trated the coat and flannel shirt, whilst the stab at the knee had gone through his trowsers and drawers.) Mr. Alfred Sutch, of 11, Berkeley-street, St. John's, Clerkenwell, said—l was standing at my father's door, and saw the prisoner deliberately bran dish the stick in the officer's face. The policeman warded off the blow, and then tried to persuade Desmond to go quietly away, but he refused to do so. The constable then took him into custody, upon which the prisoner threw himself down on the ground, and a violent struggle ensued. When near Sharp's alley he again threw himself down, and then it was that I saw an open knife in his hand, which he was brandishing across the policeman's face. I instantly seized him by the arm, jerked the knife out of his hand into the cro w d, an d it was instantly picked up by my brother as it fell at his feet. The knife, which was produced, was a large clasp one, and had been recently sharpened. Mr. Sutch said that was the knife he saw in the prisoner's hand, the large blade being opened. Alderman CARDEN asked if Mr. Sutch's brother was present?—The officer replied that he was not, on account of business, but he would attend at a future day. TITESD A Y EVPINING, OCTOBER 0, 18-to to the robbery, but no clue to the missing man ; the large sum in gold which he had received on OH pre vious day from the French Embassy having been sub sequently, with a very trifling deficiency, tt•xeti to the prisoners, one of whom, Mrs. 111'D,nald, a low looking woman with a crutch, alleges that Fhe was about to elope with M‘Gowran, and declares that her husband had always been extremely jealous of him. Mr. BRODERIP further remanded the prisoners until Thursday next. IVORSHIP-STREET. A young man of dejected and miserable appear ance applied to Mr. Hammill for some pecuniary as sistance under the following circumstances : The applicant stated that he had the misfortune many years ago, when a mere boy, to be cast upon the world without friends or means of subsistence, and was in consequence led into association with a gang of depraved characters, at whose instigation he entered upon a course of robbery, which speedily resulted in his apprehension, and subsequent trial and conviction at the Old Bailey, where he was sentenced to seven years' transportation. He had ever since deeply regretted his past misconduct, and as soon as the term fir which he had been sentenced expired, in Van Diemen's Land, he was kindly permitted by the captain of a merchant vessel to work his passage home, with a determination oa his arrival to: use hjs best efforts to procure some honest employment, by means of which he might hope to retrieve the charac ter he had lost. He reached the Pool on Saturday. and was allowed to sleep on board the vessel for that night, but the next morning was told by the Custom house officer in charge of the ship that he could not stop there any longer, and he was therefore obliged to go ashore, without a farthing in his possession, or the slightest idea a. to where he could sleep the next night. He was now entirely destitute and starving, and as he had no friends in London but his former associates, with whom he was resolved never to have any fur ther communication, and there was no chance what ever, in his present deplorable condition, of getting employment anywhere, he was induced to lay his case before the magistrate of this court, from which he had been originally committed for trial, in the hope that some trifle would be allowed him to assist him on his road to Manchester, to which town he in tended to go on the tramp, for the purpose of' seeking out some distant relatives, who he thought still lived there, and who would probably exert themselves to introduce him into some kind of occupation by which he could earn his own livelihood. The applicant pro duced his discharge from the colony, drawn up in due form, and which bore out the statement of his being the person he had represented himself to be. Mr. Hammier., after perusing the document, said that the situation of the unfortunate applicant was certainly deserving of commiseration, and presented him with a small sum from the poor-box for his immediate exigences, for which the poor man ex pressed much gratitude. The magistrate announced to the reporters his receipt of a cheque for five guineas, per Mr. Unwin, of the Colonial -office, who stated it to be a contribu tion from Mr. W. Fauquier, of Bennett-street, Bath, for ! the relief of an aged woman named Jennings, the par ticulars of which cruel robbery by her grandson, a watch finisher, 25 years of age, have lately been published. The following further subscriptions have been also received on account of a working gunsmith, named IVilliam Jones, the whole of whose goods were seized and disposed of for a debt of 31. 18e, under an execution from the Palace Court, at the suit of a Loan Society, under the harsh and oppressive circumstances recently detailed in this paper :—" W. W.," ss. ; "J. J.," 10s.; "J. G.," 55.; "C. G.," 53.; and " S. D. 5.," 10s. ; " A Resident in the Country," ss. in postage stamps; and .5/. from "a Solicitor of the Palace Court," who accompanied his donation by a letter in which he expressed much sympathy fur the unfortunate man, and tendered his gratuitous ser vices to procure him redress, if possible, as he consi dered it a case of extreme hardship,and that, if he had properly represented the facts, there would be little difficulty, on application to the Judge, in obtaining a reversal of the judgment, as being contrary to agree ment and good faith, and some satisfaction for the loss he had sustained. It will no doubt be satisfactory to the numerous benevolent persons who have kindly come forward with donations for the unfortunate man's relief; to be informed that the result of the in quiries instituted by Holland, the officer, into his previous position and conduct have been highly satis factory, and that two letters have been forwarded to the-magistrate from two of his former employers, Messrs. Rigby and Keene, the eminent gun man ufac turers, whom he had served faithruily for about thirteen years, altogether bearing high testimony to his general character as an honest, industrious, and well' conducted man. CLERKENWELL. John Potridge and James Reading, ruffianly-looking fellows, were placed at the-_bar before Mr. Combe, charged with the following daring outrage : It appeared from the evidence of numerous police constables of the S division, that on Sunday forenoon about half-past twelve o'clock, a gentleman, in a state of intoxication, was pursued by the prisoners and another low-looking fellow under pretence of protect ing him. They continued their in enceuvres through Great College -street, Camden-town, and caused a great disturbance, much to the annoyance of the in habitants, who called upon the police to interfere, when police-constable 288 S made his appearance and remonstrated with the prisoners and their companion. advising them to leave the gentleman, who was help less, and not to annoy the inhabitants. The prisoner, by their conduct caused every large assemblage, when a reinforcement of the police arrived, took the gentle man under their protection, who had been robbed of his watch, Sac. The prisoners and their companions evinced the most spiteful feeling towards the officers, and, tearing up the iron railings in front of the houses in Great College-street, made a desperate attack upon them, s wearing that they wou ld do for the officers, who, although they used every effort to defend themselves, were seriously maltreated. The prisoners' companion fought desperately until he received a violent blow on the head from one of the constable's, when he was carried away from the spot insensible by some of the mob. The prisoners at the bar fought against the officers with considerable violence and desperation until they were overpowered, and after a violent re sistance they were locked up in the station-house until yesterday morning, when, in consequence of the excitement and alarm created in the neighbourhood, the court was crowded to excess. Holding, 288 S, said, he was on duty in Pratt street, Camden-town, on Sunday afternoon, when some inhabitants gave him information that a gang of ruffians and thieves were persuing a gentleman who was intoxicated, and evidently attempting to plunder him. Witness proceeded to Great College street, where he found the prisoners and another fellow " bonnetting" the gentleman, pushing him about in an unfeeling and blackguard manner, and on interfer ing for his protection the prisoners threw stones at him, took off their coats, and fought. The moment an extra body of policemen arrived on the spot the pri soner Potridge gave a signal, when he seized hold of the iron railings, tore them up with main strength, and running at witness, exclaimed, " You --, 1 . 11 do for you," and rushing at him made a blow to strike him down, but he warded it off, or he must inevitably have been murdered; he took the railing from the prisoner, who was apprehended but the other man who escaped was well known, and is sup posed to have been taken to some hospital in conse quence of the injuries he had received. The gentle man whom they had robbed was so helpless through liquor that the only information they could elicit from him was that it was "all right," and that lie was a barrister residing at Hampstead. Sergeant Wakefield, 37 S, had made inquiries at. various hospitals to trace the injured man who had escaped, but was, unable to find him. Mr. ComBE inquired of the prisoners what they had to say to such ruffianly and cowardly conduct ? They replied that they were going home, when they met a gentleman who had been drinking a little who invited them to drink with him, and treated them at several public houses until he became quite drunk ; he then requested them to see him home to Hampstead, which they were doing when the police interfered with them. They denied the charges against them. - Mr. COMBE convicted both prisoners, and sen enced them to six weeks' imprisonment each in the [ - louse of Correction with hard labour. Search is making for the prisoners' companion and subsequently a charge of felony will be exhi bited against them. SUICIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.---Between five and six o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a man of decent appearance shot himself with a pistol in Kensington gardens. Ho was found shortly afterwards by one of the garden constables, No. 5, lying i❑ the plantation of trees on the north-east side of the round pond, still alive. Mr. Gardiner, surgeon of Paddington, was im mediately sent for, and found that the unfortunate man had shot himself just above the navel, and that the bowels were protruding. A stretcher was then sent for to the Kensington station-house, and in the interim both Mr. Gardiner and the constable asked him the cause of his desperate act, but he refused to give them answers on the subject. He was placed on the stretcher, for the purpose of being conveyed to St. George's Hospital; but on the way he expired, and the body was then removed to the dead-house of St. Margaret's, Westminster, in which parish the suicide had taken place. The deceased appeared to be about fifty years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, dark hair inclining to grey, dressed in an invisible green coat, much worn, striped trousers, shoes, and drab gaiters. On him was found a silk handkerchief, a steel ring, a pair of silver spectacles and case, a tobacco box, and 2s. id. i❑ money, but nothing tending to lead to his identity. The body isa , s not owned yesterday. LOUIS PIIILIPPE IN CIIELTENIIAM.-A rumour has obtained currency during the last few days that the ex-King of the French intends paying a visit to Chel- tenham, with a view of making it a place of per manent residence. The foundation or origin of the rumour has not yet been discovered.— Gloucester JourncL SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ritom: THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. ES.—',llefe is good in evil. If the poPcv of the Court of St. Petersburgh has raised apprehension in the Councils of the Porte, or inspired the refugees of Hungary with dismay, there are men in this country to whom it has been a perfect godsend. It has supplied the enemies of Austria and the ad mirers of Hungary with fre,h recruits and a fresh •übject. The declamation about the horrors of the Huneatim war had becom e s t a l e , an d t h e statement of Austrian oppression doubtful, when, fortunately for the oratory of the speakers and the ears of the audiences, the Emperor of Russia embarked in a course repugnant at once to the law and the sentiment of nations. A new topic was added to the exhausted machinery of former harangues • and men wh o were tired listening to suspicious details of Hungarian liberty warmed with ewhusiasm as the arrogant demand of the Czar, the humiliation of the Porte, or the prospective interference of England were substi tuted for the trite fabrications of the platform. Mr. Cobden has availed himself of the opportunity thus offered, though not in the happiest way. In fact, he is involved in a mesh of contradictions, and has only himself (and the platform s) stein, of which he is a victim) to thank for it. There never was so strange A multitude of conflicting claims as those to which he has lately pledged himself all round. The champion of free trade, he takes upon himself the task ef dictating to the merchants of London in a tone which the Czar would not venture to use at St. Petersburgh. The champion of peace, he is in veigled into flattering the sentiment of those when) he addresses, and that sentiment is one of unmis takable and animated hosti:ity towards the most powerful sovereign of Europe. With one cause good enough for his purpose, he takes up another, which is not only less good, but absolutely bad ; and by his mode of assault he succeeds in depriving himself of that support which a more consistent championship would have secured for him. It is impossible to over-rate the mischiefs which are produced by the habits of the platform when we observe their development at such meetings as that which yeas held yesterday at the City of London Tavern. First of all a man of some cele brity—and that celebrity, too, founded entirely on his advocacy of free trade—undertakes, of all things in the world, to convoke a public meeting for the purpose of deterring mercantile men from lending money as they think fit ! A more monstrous schetne—notwith standing Mr. Cobden's attempt at an excuse—was never before attempted by any one man, nor tole rated by any body of men. It is neither more nor less than an effort to bring the force of numbers— physical force, in fact—to bear upon men's private interests and projects. Disguise it as he may, it amounts to this—Any man is to be bullied by an array of numbers or a battery of speeches from exer cising the ordinary freedom of trade. If it be not this, what is it? Mr. Cobden professes to feel a tender solicitude for the pockets of the poor. Are the poor money-lenders ? Is it from the drudging clerks or mechanics of the city that Austrian loans will be raised ? Mr. Cobden has a story about a poor porter who starved on 2,000/. in the Spanish Bonds. He might just as well have cited the story of "Jaek and the Beanstalk." The object of the meeting was not to warn the poor, but to deter the capitalists. The investigation of the resources of Austria was a mere pretence. Dots Mr. Cobden imagine that people will not be able to ascertain the capabilities of that em pire without his assistance ? Does lie think that the conditions of the loan will not explain themselves ? It Mr. Cobden's justification be (.ccepted, then the whole mercantile body of London is condemned, For, on his showing, they are all either dolts or knaves ; they either are wholly ignorant of the country with which they are invited to negotiate, or they are playing into each other's hands for the purpose of duping the unwary and the poor. We leave it to Mr. Cobden to settle his ex .lanation with the class which he has libelled. and then for his laboured plea of consistency. Where does he find loans denounced in the abstract without re • Terence to their occasion ? He will find in all the authors whom he so ostentatiously quotes many pas sages condemnatory of wars, their expense, and the leans which they necessitate. No one ever questioned that war was a bad thing ; that, if it were possible, it would be better to eschew them altogether. All these :re truisms familiar to men, women, and children. But it is no less true—or rather it is only another orrn of expressing the - same truth—that it is better to close the wounds of war soon than to leave them gaping open ; that it is better to consolidate and con summate a partial triumph than to leave oppor tunities and temptations to fresh and desperate ruptures. The Government of Austria has neaten the men who took up arms against it. Were the conflict to begin again, it would beat them more easily than before. Is it not better, then—more humane, more merciful—to give it the means of discharging the more urgent claims to which the contest has made it liable, than, by denying this, to expose the vanqui s hed f oe t o a ll the varieties of pillage and all the devices of extortion ? The Croatian and Sclave soldiers are not very fastidious as rn the means by which they maintain themselves. Pile spirit which animated the roving volunteer of Wallenstein's camp may still be found in the motley corps which compose an Austrian army ; and there are soldiers in it not a few, to whom—if their Govern- went had no money—half-a year's run over Magyar farms and homes would be a pleasant Indemnity for the loss cf regular pay. S 3 much for the humanity Is well as the political economy of the question. The matter is as clear as daylight. Mr. Cobden neither wishes to enlighten the ignorant, nor wart the poor, nor save Hungary • but simply to spite Austria, by be ginning a system of which the end and scope would he to subject every rich man's fortune and every banker's transaction to the caprice of mobs who have no money to lend and no credit to boast of. And what will be the upshot of his success ? Why, that Austria will he devoted, hand, heart, and soul to Russia. The influence which the latter exercises over the former Power will become dominion. The great Imperial barrier of Eastern Europe will subside into part and parcel of the great Cossack empire. One-half of Europe will become Cossack in sympathies and in terests. Hungary, so far from being near her salva tion, will be irretrievably crushed, despite Mr. Cob den's private and particular knowledge respecting the finances of an Emperor, whose whole people would rush to battle for him if he called them. It is a pity Mr. Cobden and Lord Dudley Stuart should mar a good cause. Russia has acted wrongly and arrogantly— not in assisting an allied Government, for that is sanctioned by the law of nations—but in dictating terms to an inferior which she would not have proposed to an equal power. Her design is detected. She aspires to give laws from the seat of the Byzantine Emperors, and to restore to the Mosque of St. Sophia its ancient worship. Happily both the object which she has at heart, and the pre text by which she masks it, are odious and offensive to the English people. Our countrymen will neither connive at a double breach of hospitality and law, nor will they tamely see the Indian route of Alexander the Great opened to the Russian Caesar. Our sym pathies and our interests go together. We will not suffer even refugees whom we despise to be wrenched from the protecting arms of a feeble ally. We will not peril the glory and the fortunes of England by opening the path from Constantinople to Candahar to a new and barbarous ambition. Nor will we, as a people, content ourselves with words. Notwith standing the unpatriotic parsimony which would have robbed us of our armies and our ships, we still have a fleet which could blockade the whole Russian, east, and we have allies that will not leave us to fight the battle of the Sultan single-handed, Mr. Cobden may denounce loans as long as he likes. Such denunciations go for nothing. The people of England know that the moral sin of lend ing money to an ally is not greater than that of sel ling uniforms and weapons to a foe—a practice not rebuked by greater economists than Mr. Cobden. They know, too, how to measure the wisdom or the folly of taking shares in such a loan without asking Mr. Cobden's advice; and they repudiate the med dling policy which, under the mask of a high morality, interferes with the legal exercise of' per sonal liberty, and contravenes the first principles of common justice. They know, too, how to prize the sympathy which contents itself with words, but shrinks from action ; which pities the brave, but will not assist them; and, therefore, the only part of Mr. Cobden's address which will elicit universal assent is that in which he virtually recants all the favourite doctrines of the . Peace Congress, and calls upon that noble service which he has so often vilified and aspersed to resist the aggressions of a powerful ambition, and maintain by its traditionary valour the glory of England and the independence of her threatened ally. CHRONICLE.—Tuesday, the 11th of September, was a memorable day for London ; for then the tide of death, which had risen till the black funereal streams poured from every court and alley, and flooded every graveyard in the metropolis, first began to ebb. The number of daily victims, which on th 10th of that month had reached 432, sank on the I 1 th to 316, and the glad tidings went forth that the deadly pestilence was stayed. Those who before had sat trembling in their homes, lest their hearths should be the next to be desolated, felt as if they had been suddenly reprieved, and ate their food no longer in fear. And yet the well housed and well-fed knew little of the real terrors of the disease. In their well drained and well-ventilated mansions they saw none of the miseries which the pestilence brought or left behind it; and it was not until they heard that it had carried off one of the Judges of the land— that an eminent surgeon had been stricken down by it—or that some remote acquaintance of their own had fallen a prey to it, that they began to feel how fearful an affliction had come upon the country. Even when the infection did force its way into the snug, dry, and warm home, death was robbed of halt its horrors. There the life taken involved not the living of a whole family—to slay one was not to starve the rest. The recent affl:ction has been ren dered doubly severe by the fact, that it has visited those chiefly who could the least ;afford to meet it. The pestilence has ravaged, not our parks, squares, and terraces, but the narrow courts and pent-up alleys of the metropolis. Had not the official reports assured us'of this fact, the poverty-stricken character of the funerals, which for the last three months have crowded and saddened our streets, would have told us that those whoin it smote were among the poorest of the poor ; for the motley garbof the mourners, with the hired black cloaks thrown over their coloured clothes, showed that the friends of the wretched vic tims were generally too needy even to buy mourning. Who, then, shall be able to sum up the fearful amount of misery involved in the 13,000 deaths that have occurred in London, or the 20,000 in the country, within the last quarter of a year ? As yet, we have na authentic returns telling us how many, in a given number of cases, have fallen' am )ng the working classes ; but assuredly the proportion must have been so large, that we may safely say the epi demic has made almost as many paupers as it has made widows and orphans. If it has added upwards of thirts-three-thousand to our graveyards, it must have consigned ',early double that t umber to our work houses. Theory after theory has been put forward to explain the cause of this the most fearful of all epidemics, whose only symptom, in its most aggra vated form, it has been truly said is—death. Some have told us that cholera is due to the presence of a zymotic poison in the atmosphere—others. have attri buted it to the prevalence of microscopic insects, similar to those which produce blight and smut in the vegetable kingdom. By the telluric theorists we are assured that it arises from some peculiar poisonous emanation from the earth, while chemical philoso pliers affirm that it proceeds from a want of electri city in the atmosphere. A few ascribe it to a defi ciency in the normal amount of ozone, while the latest discoveries would lead us to believe that its proximete cause lies in the germination of the sporules of solve cryptogamous plant within the intestines. Be tl e proximate cause of the disease, however, what it may, it is an indisputable fact that the primary cause of the pestilence is to he found in the filth zinc squalor of the poor. However much some philoso phers may differ as to the peculiar nature of the influence directly producing the infection, at least all are agreed that, in the wretched, damp, and foetid homes of the lower orders, it is both developed and propagated. It is probable that the epidemic pro• ceeds from the prevalence of certain annular bodies or organisms in the atmosphere ; but it is positively certain that the nidus of the disease is a deficiency of proper food and shelter, a want of pure air and of pure water. The cholera may be eccentric in its course : it may ravage only one bank of a river; and, as in the instance mentioned by Colonel Rowles, attack only one side of a ship. It may in its pro gress leave whole countries almost unscathed—as in the case of Hanover, Carinthia, and the Tyrol. Its spread at one time may be promoted by the heat of a tropical summer, and at another by the icy rigours of a Russian winter. Now it may rage, as at Delhi, during the rainy season, and now during the dry hot months, as at Bandelcund It may spare isolated mountains in one country, and in another, as at Landour, attack places 8,000 feet above the sea. Here it may travel rapidly against the wind, and there spread as fast during a calm. In one capital, thunderstorms may accompany its out break, as at St. Petersburgh—in another they may attend its departure, as at Paris. Sometimes it may be ushered in by earthquakes, as at Madras—some times by inundations, as at Dacca. Still, notwith standing all its eccentricities and irregularities— though it has raged in almost every variety of cli mate, and under every variety of atmospheric in fluence, and during every month of the year, from January to December—in one circumstance it has been unerring and invariable. Wheresoever want and filth have prevailed, there it has first manifested itself—.wheresoever the people have been badly housed and badly fed, there it has ravaged with a tenfold virulence. The hard. worked and the poorly paid have been its certain victims. Many, looking to the final rather than to the proximate remote cause of the disease, have told'us that the pestilence from which we are now escaping has been sent among us as a chasthement for our sins. But be our other national offences whatsoever they may, assuredly the one great point in which we, as a people, have. trasisgressed, and for which we have lately suffered so severely, has been our gross and wanton neglect of the comfort:, of the poor. We have shut our eyes to the abomina tion and filth in which they live, and avoided, rather than sought to parity, the tcetid atmosphere of their dwellings. The Designer of the Universe has or dained that not only our own health, but the health of those about us, should dep en d upon th e c l ean li ness of our bodi e s an d our homes—that the first condition of our lives should he the purity of the air which we imbibe and of the water which we, drink. The ema nations from our persons have been made most offen• sive to our senses and imagination, as if to induce us to remove them from the immediate vicinity of our houses,- while, in order to force us to de this, they have been further made to act as positive poisons to our systems. So wonderfully and beneficently, too, has this law been arranged, that those who, despite these injunctions, still continue to live amidst the pollution of their own bodies, are the first to fall victims to the poisonous siduviune, and the disease, thus engendered, spreads from house to house, and so makes it the common interest of all to see that none infringe this the first law of our physical nature. And yes we, the richest nation on the face of' the earth, have allowed our fellow creatures to " fust" in styes, reeking with filth, such as farmers, now-a-days, know that swine would pine and dwindle in. We have allowed them, unheeded, to quench their thirst and cook their food with water poisoned with their own excretions. We have permitted them, uncared for, to be the prey of each petty capitalist who might think fit to wring a paltry independence out of their cruel necessities, and to give them roofless, floorless tenements, without drains, without water, without privies, and that for the self same sum which--it has been proved—would furnish them with well-built, well-aired, well warmed, and well-drained dwellings. May it not have been wisely ordained that want and filth should be made a source of pestilence and death, lest we, lapping ourselves in the greedy and callous selfishness of our natures, should forget or spurn the miseries of our less fortunate brethren, and leave them to pi ne an d rot unnoticed and uncared for ? As there is no evil without its concomitant good, so do we devoutly believe that the late dreadful pestilence, though it has snatched 30,000 of our fellow-creatures from us, has nevertheless be - en attended with one great benefit. It hag made us alive to our duty to our needy neighbours —speaking to us through the selfi-hness of our fears, if not through the nobler channel of our sympathies. . BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Batik of France up to Oct. 4:— A SSETB. ... f. 266,178,870 97 ... 137,807,905 00 218,895 70 Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due Bills falling due in Paris, of which 16.308,472 f. are from the branch banks 43,209,055 8 Bills in the branch banks ... 78,418,057 00 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 6,600,600' 00 Ditto by the branch banks 2b3,126 00 Ditto on French public securities ... 20,432,036 10 Ditto by branch banks... 1,327,605 00 Ditto to the State on lions du Tresor... 50,000,000 00 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00 Rentes of the n- , serve.fund ... 10,000,000 00 Rentes, disposable funds 42,581,488 13 Investments of the new brunch banksin the public funds. Hotel and furniture of.the Mink .. Real property otthe bran c h banks ... Interest in National Discount Bank ... Ditto branch banks ... Bills prote b ted at P a ris Ditto at the branches ... 12,779,541 39 4,000,000 00 2,587,000 00 200,000 00 ... 230,000 00 ... 3,414,301 27 2,390,437 00 318,061 72 276,574 00 284,718 70 Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches Miscellaneous ... Advance to the department of the Seine ••• ... •• ... Loan of 3,000,000 f. to the city of Mar seilles ... 3,000,000 CO 1,075,000 00 f. 7 37,613,273 6 LIABILITIES. Capital ... ... . • ..• . f. 67,900,000 00 Ditto of the Branch Banks Reserve fund . ... 23,350,000 00 ... , ... .. "'... Ditto of the branch banks ... 10,000,000 00 2,980,750 00 Reserve-immobilie re Notes to bea rer, i n circulation ... . ... 377,478,300 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... , 57,472,500 00 Ditto to order (post-b)1s) ... 880,217 95 Account -current w i t h T reasury creditor 52,087,076 2o Various acc oun t s current 85,224,645 62 Ditto in branches ••.. •• 28,92_8,662 00 Bills payable a t s i g ht ... ••• 7 ' 921 'OOO 00 Ditto at branches ... ••• 1 , 827 ' 926 00 Bills of the branch tanks payable by the Bank ••• ... 7,323,006 74 Ditto of the Bank payable by.brar.ches.. 3,916,795 00 Dividends payable ... . • ••• 434,513 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 160,982 99 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 2,857,245 39 Ditto branch banks ... ••• ... 1,178,086 00 Re discounts of th e l as t s i x months ... 143,693 49 Ditto iu branch banks ... 321,562 00 Miscellaneous ... 1,220,310 43 f.737,6t3,273 6 Certified by Oho Governor of the MIA of France, D'ARGOUT A noble Irish. Earl, whose family hAve been seated .in Munster for two centuries, is now living in a small house, in the outskirts of .up Eng)i:ll vcatering-place, while grass grows in the courts of his splendid ancestral mansion.—Somerset Gazette. THE CoUT The following is the of corn, &c., received in ti Essex, from the lst C 'both inclusive Colchester . Harwich .. . Leigh ...... Maldon +— se , I'd ca pq 0 ...._ 1 g gcl ta., - 103 910 89 - j 146 - 70 431 ,1007 COAL MARKET. —YESTERDAY. Muddle's W. Hartley.. 16s 6dlllelmont lBs 3d : :are. Hartley Charlotte .. .. ...... ... 17s WI Hetton ..... ,pester Main l6s tid Haswell .................. 19s 3d Javison'sWekt Hartley 16s 6d Jonassohns ......... ... 173 0,1 lolywell Main ... .... 168 6d Keepier ......... . ........ 18s Od North Percy Hartley l5B Pd I.4mbton ............. . 188 9il New Tanfield l3s 6d Russell's Hetton t_trd's Redheugb ...... 15s Od Stewart's Ravens worth's W.Hart 15s Pd West Keepier ranlield Moor .... ..... 148 Od' Whitwell ... ownlev ............ 15s 6d,Caradoc ..... ........... 188 Od Vest Hartle .. ...... 168 6d Cassop lBs 3d Wylam Wall's End, &c. Haigh Hall Acorn Close Brown's Gas l4s bt i !Kelloe lBs 3(1 Elm Park Gibson Gosforth ..... ......... 17s 9d Thorn/ey Hedley Hilda ... 17s Od, Whi tworth 15s 9d Hebburn • 17s 6d Adel a id e Tees lBB 6d I arton Heaton Killingworth l7s 3d St. Helen's Tees ..... 16s 9d Morrison l7s 9c. Tees ... ..... .... 196 01 Northumberland Original Gibson Percy... Eden ain Lambton Primrose ... 18a odi C6rdiff .......... ..... 21s 6d Bell lBs OdlSidne3 's Hartley Ships at market, 229. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 8. STOCK XXCIIANGE. —The share market was scarcely so firm to-day, although the variation in prices has not been considerable. The Great Western Old Shares were done at 58, and the Quarter Shares of that company at 11% dis. These were the only variations from last quotations. LI VEtteUGL, OcT. 8. STOCK EXCHANGIL—The share market was tame to-day, and towards the close a further dulness took place, in con sequence of the reports respecting Russia and Turkey. The business transacted was small. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 9% c. -East Lancashire, IVA—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6% dis. -London and North-Western, 112 - Ditto, New Quarters, 1 4 p.- Ditto, Fifths, 1% p.—Man chester, Shef f ield, and Lincoln, Preference, 101. 3s. 9d.— Midland, 50% Ditto, Halves, 19% dis.—Ditto, Consol. (P. and D.). 28% - South-Eastern ,and Lover (No. 4), 6 —Dutch Rhenish, 6 3 4 dii. MANCHESTER, Ocr. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.- The transactions to-day were as follow : —Manch ester and Leeds, Fifths, - 6 d is. Man ch ester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 1 11-16 p.—Caledonian, Preference, 9;r t - Preston and Wyre (A), 6 p.-. Nor th Staf for.lshire, Si—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 77 s North Union (8),_156 . OcT. 8. STocK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as fol low .—London and North-Western, 1131 4—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7 1 4 dis.— Ditto (14), 5% dis.—llitto, Preference, 2 p.—North Staffordshire, 7 3 % dis. It will be perceived that the tone of the market was decidedly firmer, and th..t the prices of some descriptions of stock advanced. YORK, OCT. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Caledonian, 13 3 4 Great Northern, Preference, 5 —York and North Midland, 21%. Madame Schroeder, one o f th e fi rst tragedinos of Gertnaliy, and mother of the celebrated singer Mid. Schroeder-llevrient, has juat died ,at Raudnits in Saxony, at the advanced age of 84. The Emperor Francis I. paid Madame Schroeder an honour which no German artist had ever before or has ever since re ceived. Lt. caused her portrait to be drawn in all her principal characters, and placed the collection in the Imperial notheum at Vienna, to serve as models for young artists. On the 4th i nst., at Lati BI RTHS gtord, Somersetshire, the lady of T. Somers, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst.. at Picktree-house, near Chester•street, Durham, Mrs. C. F. Perkins, of a daughter. On the 4th inst.. at Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, the lady of Deputy Commissary-General Price, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Keppel-street, Russell-square, the wife of C. H. Luxmoore, Esq., of a daughter, which survived its birth but a few hours. On the sth in t., at New Park- roa d, Cl ap h am-park, t he wife of E. Bailey, sq.. of a son. On the 6th inst., at the Mall, Kensington, Mrs, W. G. Lewis, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in King's Arms•yard, Moorgate-stret, Mrs. James R. Lloyd, of a son. .MARRIED On the 29th ult., at Brockthor pe, Wyndham Hat - ling, Esq, Secretary of the London and South. Western Railway Com pany, to Eleanor, only surviving daughter of the Rev. F. T. Bavly, rector of St. Aldate's, Glocester. On the 27th alt., at Sneaten, Joseph B. Richardson, Esq., of Dublin, to Mary, third daughter of the late Colonel Wilson, of Sneaton Castle. Yorkshire. On the 3d inst., at St. Peter's Church. Belgrave-square, J. A. Fronde, Esq , of Manchester, to Charlotte Maria, daugh ter of the late Pascoe Grentell. Esq. DIED On the sth inst., at Chadacre-hall, Suffolk, Thomas Hal• lifax, Esq., jun., of Berkeley-square. On the sth inst.. a - , Darlaston-hall, Meriden, Henrietta Arabella, relict of the late John Blakesley, Esq., of Seymour place, London. On the 4th inst., aged 31, Virilliam Langston, third son of the late 'l'. B. Oldileld, Es., of Champion-hill, Surrey. ()II the 4th inst., in Tabernacle -walk, Finsbury, Sarah, the wife of Mr. E. Loader, aged 75. On the 3.1 inst., Wiliam Frederick Coward, E.q.• of Albert-square, Clapham-road, eldest son of the late William Coward, Esq., of Brixton -lodge, Surrey. . _ - f London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUAG, ° Islo. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No, 112 strand, in the, Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex ; Tuesday, October 9, 1849. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. B.—The arrivals since Tuesday from Irelaad and coastwise are moderate of wheat, flour, and malt, and large of oatmeal, and from Europe, the United Stater, and Canada we have received liberal sup plies of wheat, fl:tur, and Indian corn, with fair quan tities of other articles. The exports in the same time are small, with the exception of 4.012 barrels of flour. There has been a fair th-quand for wheat and barrel flour and late rates have been supported, but sack flour must be quoted 6d pt r tE 80 lb lower. Indian corn not much irlaired tor, yet former prices have been well main airied in the business done. Oats barely so well sold, and oatmeal dtelined 6J per 240th. Barley, beans, and peas rennin as last (putted. At this morning's market, in com-qucnee of being held off the usual *fay, there was a very thin attendance of the trade. Wheat of fine quality, in some instances, brought 1 , 1 per 701) advance, her descriptions an i new Irish remaining without et ange in value. Sack flour met >; slow sale at a reduction fully 6:1 per 280!b. Barrel fl air was quite neglected, and prices rather in favour of buyers. A good demand was experienced fir Indian corn at au advance of fully 6d ieer 4801 b, and 283 paid for some quantity of fine round ellow. Barley, beans, and peas slow sale at former prices. Oats rather easier to buy, and -oatmeal receded 61 to 9l per 240:b. CHELMSFORD, OCT( DER s.—The mark-1 was this day well ! , tipplid with vs heat, end the trade dull at the -ame pr : ces as NA week, ell other articles were also tinnl't red in value with a block demand. Wheat, white, old 44s to 475; new 45s to 48s; red, old 9s to 42s ; new. 40s to 44; ; barley, —s to -s ; chevalier —s to —s ; grinding 22s to - 28s ; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 541 to 568; chevalier 54s to 583; peas, partridge, new 28s to 30s ; old, —3 to —s ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s to —I; dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beans, tick, new 2:5s to 27s ; old, 28. to 30s; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s; old 29s to 31s; ma zagan, new 244 to 264 ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER.. OJT 6:—Wheat, white 44s to 505; red 40s to 44 3 ; barley 28s to 32 5 ; beans, mazagan 24s to 26 5; m iddl e and small 28s to 3 )5; peas,26s to 30s per qr. HADDINGTON, OCT. s.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to..clay:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bean s. First ... ... 52s Od 28s Od 22s 6d 33.1 Od Second ... ... 48s 6d 23s lld 18s Od 32s Id Third ... .. 44s Od 194 01 15 s 6d 3ls Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 24 qrs., 24 sold Do. New do. do. 473 qrs., 369 sold Do. Barley do. 288 qrs., 258 sold Do. Oats do. 495 qrs., 495 sold Do. New do. do. 00 qrs., 00 sold Do. Beans do. 34 qrs., 30 sold KIRKALDY, OCT. 6.--The following are the quotations up to this date:— • NEW. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, First 443 Od 263 Od 21s 9d —s Od —s Od - zecond 42s' Od 22s 6d Ws Od —s Od —s Od Third 37s. Od 183 6d .16s 6d —s Od -8 Od Oatmeal, ner bag of 2801bs. imp., 23s to 00s Od. GLASGOW, OCT. 4 . — Provisions—Cheese, 433 to 50s Od per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d p er lb . Ski m m i lk, 18s to 37s per cwt. Country fresh butter, 9d to 10d per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, lid to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, bs 6d per hundred, or 7d per d ozen . H ens , 2 s O d per pair; ducks, 2s Od. KELSO, OCT. 2.—Wheat, old, 33. to 375; ditto, new, 00s to COs d ; barley, new, 18s to 18s 6d ; ditto old, 178 Od to 20s ; potato oats, 13s to 15s ; ditto new, 12s to 13s Od ; com mon oats, 12s to 14s 6d; ditto new, lls to 12s 6d ; peas, 24. to 25s Od; b eans , 2 4s to 25 . per bo ll of six imperial bushels. a STIRLING, OCT. s. —Wheat, foreign, 22s to 26s Od; ditto home, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 16s Od to 24 s ; b ar l ey,per boll of 6 bush e l s , 13 s 6d to 18s Od ; ditto new, 13s to 183 Od ; oats, common, ' 12s Od to 14s Od • ditto new, 12s Od t o 14 s 6d ; ditto, Flemi s h , Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33, to 35s ; ditto brewers, 36s Od to 37s • beans, per boll, Os 6d t o O s Od ; d i tto new, 17s Od to 17s 61; peas, 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 349 to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25, 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bjd to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, 45s to 475. PERTH, OCT. 4.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s Od ; barley, 18s to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, OCT. 4. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 276 bulls; wheat at 19s Od to 23s 9d per boll ; barley, 15s 6d to 17s Od ; oats, 12s 9d to 16s 6d; beans, 15s 9d to 16, Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICK, OCT. 4.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 373 Od; ditto old, COs to 01 s' • barley, new, 16 s t o 18 s Od ; potato oats, 13s Oil to 15s Od; common oats, 115 to 14s Od • peas, 23s Od to 25, Od ; beans, 23. Od t o 23 3 Od per b o ll of six imperial bushels. BERWICK, OCT. 4.—Wheat, 44s 44 ; barley, 20s bd; oats, 18, 8d ; rye, 20s 84 ; beans, COs 04 ; peas, 00s Od, ave rage per imperial quarter. 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