The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.- 7 -13irmingliam has just been spared an ex hibition which certainly would have tended to justify its olden fame for specious and ephemeral wares. The Prince of Canino, ex-President of the Italian Re. public, has just been lecturing the British Associa tion on the difference between the little blue magpie of Spain and the little blue magpie of Siberia. Of course it is interesting enough to see a great man able to find comfort for the wreck of his political hopes in so simple a theme. As he was at Bir mingham, however, Mr. George Dawson and some other gentlemen, who cared more for men than for magpies, and who desired some more piquant con trasts than that which the Prince had chosen, waited upon him to request that he would accept of a soirée. From the Prince's reply it appears that the soiree was to have been "in connexion with their admiration of the truly heroic Roman people ;" and would have consisted of speeches by Mr. George Dawson, the Prince of Canino, Mr. William Potter, and other statesmen, expressing what is called sympathy, with what is called the cause of the Roman people. Either an actual engagement, or a little good sense, prevented the Prince from accepting the soirée. To satisfy the gentlemen, however, he took pen and paper and wrote down in their presence a rhetorical sort of reply, intended to do the duty of a speech. It ap peared in our Saturday's paper, and therefore we need not repeat it. Being written extempore by a foreigner, and in the presence of the Birmingham sympathisers, one is not surprised to observe that it contains in a very small compass quite a florilegium of old British clap traps. After the testimony of his own conscience, the Prince knows nothing so flattering as the appro bation of " generous and truly free Britons." He will never be dumb, he says, " whenever his feeble voice may be raised in favour of liberty and civili zation." Had he been able to attend the soirée, he would have greeted every Englishman present as " a friend to the oppressed and dread foe to the oppressor ;" and would have said how much he ad mires a Constitution which, whatever its theoretical defects, " works so admirably in practice," and makes us greater, and happier, and freer than any other people in the world ; " whilst," he concludes, " better framed constitutions, without the vigi lance of an enlightened people, can make pseudo monarchies, or, what is worse, mock republics." Of course the sting in the tail is a cut at cousin Louis Napoleon and his citizen subjects, as the Prince would express it. President Lucien thinks it very hard that his game has been spoilt by another President, and that President a cousin. It was not so in old Bonaparte's days. He would not have objected to see a Bonaparte in - stalled, under one name or another in every capital in Europe ; and Lucien, who possibly in herits some of the family traditions on this point, may think, that for the sake of a Bonaparte, France might have pardoned the dangerous freaks of young Italy. We in this country are out of the family circle, and are happily without any Bonapartist pre judice. We take a purely political view of the affair, and on that view it does not appear to us perfectly decorous that in a sort of public interview with cer tain citizens of a great English municipality, a Bona parte should denounce his cousin as a knave, the French Republic as a humbug, its President as an impostor, and its citizens as fools. This island is out of the conti nental quarrel, and on that account affords a refuge to the Prince of Canino, who cannot land in a single port of Europe without being accosted by a policeman and requested "to move on." The condition of such an asylum is that refugees should keep their quarrels and grievances to themselves. Were Mr. George Dawson and his friends really very formidable people, a public interchange of sympathy upon Roman and French affairs between them and the ex-President of Rome, lately at war with France. and just now warned off the French soil, might tend to interrupt the good understanding between us and our neighbours. We are entitled to express our own opinions upon French and Italian affairs as freely as we please, but when we enter into personal relations with a principal actor in those affairs for the purpose of expressing our sympathy with him, and against the constitutional authorities of France and of Rome, we are evidently going the way to embroil ourselves, and it is not our fault if we do not. But what is the cause in which the good people of Birmingham were so anxious to tender their syrn. Why ? That of " the truly heroic Roman people ?" No such thing. Never was there a grosser imposi tion. There was nothing Roman about the affair except the locality. Mazzini, Garibaldi, and their associates, whatever their virtues, were not Romans, nor were their objects Roman. They were Italians, and their avowed object was an Italian Itepublic. By secret conspiracy, by overt insurrection, by actual in vasion, and by downright international hostilities, they made war against all the Princes, Powers, and Potentates that occupy the Italian peninsula and the neighbouring islands. The old scheme of an Italian federation they had pronounced treason against their cause, which was no thing less than a Democratic Republic, whereof all Italians should be citizens, and Rome the centre. There are many grave questions involved in such a project—questicns which a Lombard, a Venetian, a Sardinian, a Tuscan, or a Neapolitan, might answer for himself, because he would have them put to him, and would be obliged to answer them; but which an Englishman need not answer, and if he is wise will not answer in a practical and offensive manner. In vasion is invasion, and war is war. These are grave realities, and woe to those who plunge gratuitously into the quarrel. The conflict at Rome was not between an indigenous population and an army of strangers. It was between strangers and strangers. About twelve thousand democratic strangers from Italy and other countries had ob tained posse,sion of Rome, driven out its lawful Sovereign, and, under the protection of its walla and consecrated monuments, declared war against all the Governments long established in Italy. Other strangers whether wisely or not, whether properly or not, we will not now discuss, but at least in more lawful guise came to drive out those first strangers, and restore the original .status quo of Italian affairs. Into the many other questions involved we will not go. We only observe that the Prince of Canino was not merely the head of a Roman Republic. Ile was the nominal head of an Italian democracy, that is of an army of conspirators and invaders, collected from many countries for the conquest of the entire Italian peninsula. How much further their ambition went we will not dare to say. A Prince, an ex-President, and a nephew of Bonaparte, of course would be a very great catch at Birmingham ; but we presume that even there will be found a few persons who expect some merit in those whom they are delighted to honour. What, then, is the Prince of Canino except what he is by the accident of his birth ? He is a naturalist. Two years ago he attended the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, looked like the pictures of his uncle, talked a great deal, and read a paper on a new genus and three new species of bats. his likeness to Bona parte was unctuous, hairy, and large. His talk was of peace and the blessed agency of science in allaying party heats and international jealousies. People were charmed to hear a Bonaparte talking in this manner, and naturally thought what a happy thing it would have been for mankind if Napoleon had takers to stuffing birds instead of slaying men. We do not think that the Prince was quite true to these amiable professions when he helped to intro duce into Rome a band of. adventurers collected from aP. parts of Europe—when he drove out its lawful "Sovereign—when he undermined, or threatened to undermine, the Vatican, and to destroy all the monu ments of Rome, whether Pagan or Christian, sooner than admit that Sovereign's allies. This might be heroic, but it was neither pacific nor scientific; and instead of allowing the Prince to proceed on his ornithological course the Association might well have asked him a few questions about the clean and un clean varieties of the human species, the vampires and the vultures he helped to collect into that Noah's ark the " pseudo-Republic" of Rome. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL: PENSION SOCIETY. Tlie annual general meeting of the subscribers of this society, which was established thirty years ago for the permanent relief of aged and decayed artizans and others, and their widows, &c , was held yester day Robert Obbard, Esq., in the chair. The Secretary, Mr. GEORGE MENCE, read the report, whi c h d eta il e d t h e resu l ts o f t h e managemen t during the past year. Two elections have taken place, at which eight new pesioners have been added to the list. There are now 58 aged persons receiving charity. relief f rom this December l as t year, since no death had taken place. No l ess than' 13 died in During theyrear tl l3receding, and nine the y ear b efore that. 'fearful and wid e - sprea d mortality , note present tearful on o e of th the pensioners, most o f w h om are between 7 and 99 years of age, has been swept away by•death The men are receiving 275. and the women 183. per month, and m o • and the directors have not felt justifi e d in recommend ingn' any increase. In consequence of the festival in April last a large accession had been made to the funds of the charity. A great number of the annual subscribers have doubled their subscriptions. Not withstanding deaths and other casualties amongst the subscribers an increase of 60/. has been made in the annual subscriptions this year. The net proceeds of the festival, after deducting all exr,,enses, amounted to upwards of 5001. in donations &one. A legacy of 200/. has been received, and t h e former secretary h as repa id t o the charity the whole of the balance due from him. During the year nearly 8001. has been paid to pensioners. Stock to the amount of 4351. 18s. 7d. has been added to the society's funded property, which now amounts to 7,306/. 3s. The total working expenses, including printing, stationery, advertisements, rent, salaries, and miscellaneous have been 299/. Gs. Bd., leaving a balance in the Bank of England of 454/. Bs. Id. Nr" THE SUN, LONDON.; The report and accounts having been approved and adopted, the necessary officers for the ensuing year were elected. New trustees of the life fund were then appointed, in consequence of the death of several of the old trustees, and it was directed that the whole stock should be consolidated, and transferred into their names. Votes of thanks having been passed to the direc tors and the Chairman, which were briefly acknow ledged, the meeting separated. FRANCE. The Gazette de Hopitaux announces the still fur ther decrease of the cholera even beyond what had been anticipated. On Thursday and Friday the number of cases in the civil hospitals were only 16 from the former, and 17 the latter ; while the deaths on Thursday were 13, and on Friday only 7. In private houses the deaths were, on Wednesday 21, and on Thursday 18. The Municipal Council of Narbonne having been dissolved by a decree of the President of the Republic, a new election took place on Sunday and Monday, when, after a warm contest, the Socialists succeeded in electing their 27 candidates, 25 of whom were members of the late Council. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The subjoined conditions concerning the opening of a State Loan are published, agreeably to orders issued by the Imperial Royal Finance Department on the 14th of September, 1849 :-- " I. The loan to be opened will consist of the nominal sum of 71,000,000 of florins, in State Bonda, at 41 per cent. _ __ _ __"2. These bonds will be emitted for the sums of 1,000 1 florins, 500 florins, and 100 florins, to which the half yearly coupons will be annexed, on producing which the luterest!will be paid at the. National Debt Pay-office. "3. As long as it is permitted to invest interest, which, when due, is payable.in Frankfort-on-the. Maine, or in Amsterdam, in Five per Cent. State Bonds, the coupons of the present loan, as they become due, may be employed 14 the same way. "4. For each 100 florins of these State Bonds 85 florins Conventional currency in ready money is to be paid. " 5. The subscription begins on the 22d of September, 1849, and will close on the 4th of October of the same year. " 6. In addition to the pay offices mentioned in the paragraphs 2 and 9 of the annexed condition, the bank ing- house of Hope and Co., in Amsterdam, is empowered to receive subscriptions, deposits, and instalments. Sub scriptions, deposits of earnest money, and instalments can therefore be made at the above-mentioned banking house is the same way me ntioned in paragraphs 2 and 9 of the ann exed condi as at the pay office s, which are ditions of the present loan. " The Imperial Royal Chief of the Province of Lower Austria, " GUSTAVUS COUNT CHORINSKI. " Vienna, Sept. 15, 1849. CONDITIONS CONCERNING THE OPENING OP A STATE LOAN. "In accordance with a resolution of the Diet sanc tioned by his Majesty on the Bth of January, 1849, a loan for the Imperial Royal Austrian Finances will be negotiated on the following terms : " 1. The loan will be made by way of voluntary sub scription. Every one is at: liberty to subscribe to the same. The lowest sum for which one can share in the loan is fixed at the nominal worth of I,ooofis. in State bon ;s. Two or more persons can unite, and under one name subscribe for this lowest sum, and they will be con sidered as one subscriber. "2. Every subscriber has to present a memorial, which is free from stamp duty, to the offices of the Na tional Bank, to the provincial pay-offices, or to such offices or persons at home or abroad as will, having been appointed, bo separately made known. From such faces or persons blanks for such memorials are to be had gratis. "3. Every memorial must have the earnest money appointed in par. 4 enclosed. A receipt will, on de mand, be given to the subscriber fur the memorial and enclosed earnest money. "4. The earnest-money is 10 per cent. on the sum subscribed, and must be paid in ready money. " 5. Should the amount of all the subscriptions ex ceed the sum of the loan to be made by one-fifth, then the several sums subscribed will only be accepted by the Finance Department in proportion to the whole loan, and always for such an amount as can be divided by 100 without leaving a remainder. "6. In proportion to the diminution (according to par. 5) of the sum subscribed will be the reduction of the earnest-money, and the sum exceeding the reduced earnest-money will, on demand, be paid back to the subscriber. "7. Within 14 days from the termination of the period appointed for subscription, the sum total of the subscriptions will be made known in the Vienna Zeitung; and, at the same time—should the case mentioned in par. 5 have occurred—the proportions in which the diminu tion of the sums subscribed have to take place. " 8. The payments of the subscriptions, or of the sums diminished, according to par.' 5, are to be made in ten equal monthly instalments, and as the earnest money deposited at the time of subscription counts for one instalment— " On the 14th November, 15th December, 15`11 January, - 15 t h February, 15th March, - 15th April, 15th May, 14th June, 15th July, Each separate instalment must contain such a nominal amount of the loan as is divisible by 100 without a re mainder; the means of doing which is given by the per mission to make anticipatory instalments, as contained in par. 13. " 9. The payments are generally to be made at the principal pay-office of the National Bank in Vienna. The subscribers are, however, at liberty to mention in the subscription memorial one of the branch establish ments of the National Bank, or, if there is none, the Provincial Receiving office, at which they wish to make their payments. " 10. Five or Three per Cent. Exchequer-bills, as well as Partial Mortgage Bills (Partial Hypotheka An weisungen) will be considered as cash, as well for the earnest money as for the instalments. The interests on those Five per Cent. Partial Mortgage Bills which are not due must be paid up by the subscriber from the day on which the bonds are deposited to the day on which the interests become due. 11. The earnest money (par. 4) will be considered as the first instalment. After having paid the second instalment, the subscriber on returning the receipt (par. 3) will receive a bond ad interim on the loan, and the amount of state bond corresponding to the first instal ment, the bonds bearing interest payable half.yearly from the day on which the payment was made. Should the case mentioned in par. 5 have occurred, the amount of earnest money will be rectified according to par. 6. The second instalment then becomes the earnest money, and a corresponding amount of State Bonds will only be handed over to the subscriber when the third instal ment is paid, which will then in its turn become the earnest money. In this way each subsequent instalment willibe considered earnest money, and when made:the State Bonds corresponding to the preceding payment will be handed over to the subscriber. " When the 10th instalment is made, the State Bonds corresponding to the 9th and 10:h instalments will be delivered to the subscriber. " 12. The bond ad interim on the loan must be pro duced at the payment of each instalment, that such pay ment may be entered on it. " 13. Each subscriber can pay all or some of the in stalments at once before they are due, and receive the corresponding amount in State Bonds. A partial an ticipatory payment of the instalments can, however, only be permitted when the amount of State Bonds corre sponding to the same can be divided by 100, without a remainder. " 14. Should ono single instalment not be paid upon the day on which it becomes due, the earnest money is forfeited to the treasury of the State, and the subscriber has neither rights nor obligations as to the future instal ments. " 15. He who subscribes to a higher amount than 25,000 florins, or collects subscriptions to an amount surpassing that sum, and deposits the earnest-money required in par. 2, will receive a provision of a per cent. on the amount of the payments made." It was rumoured in Vienna that the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors had quitted Constantinople. 1549. 1850. The Milan Gazette of the 17th state 3 that a great p a rade was held there on the preceding day, to cele bri tte the end of the revolution in Italy and Hungary. In the absence of Field•Mars•hal Radetzky, General Wratislaw assisted in his name. A letter from Leghorn in the Corriere Mercantile o f GI noa of the 17th states that the military Gover nor Las threatened judgment by martial law against all persons who are found with packing-needles about them, in consequence of wounds having been lately inflicted with such instruments. By a decree dated Pavullo, 10th inst., the Duke of Modena has reduced certain taxes as follows :-1. The increase of one-fifth upon the direct tax, imposed by the edict of the 22d of January last, is remitted for the two last rates to be paid ; 2. Two of the four rates to be paid as a forced loan by rich landholders, merchants, and capitalists are suspended ; 3. The de duction from salaries and pensions ordered by the decree of January 22 is to cease from the end of Sep t mber ; 4. The increase of ten per cent. on indirect tames is taken off from the 15th inst. PIG MANURE.—Mr. Samuel Pocock, of Thoul stone-farm, after referring to a debate on the subject, at the last meeting of the Frome Agricultural Society, remarks—" Well knowing the excellence of pig manure, five years ago I was induced to try it solely for turnips. I tested it against guano and bone dust. The result was quite equal to the guano, and beet the bone dust hollow. My farm is one part clay and another sand; I found the same result on both. I have also the manage ment of a farm at Hampstead, a poor thin soil, and there the manure was equally beneficial. I have continued to use it ever since with the same results. To carry out any plan convenient farm buildings are necessary. I have a large dry shed, in which, first of all, I put a layer of dry coal ashes, about a foot thick and four feet wide, to which the deposit of the pigs is taken both liquid and solid, and as soon as it begins to ooze out I put on more ashes, and so on till it gets to about four feet in thickness. I then begin a fresh layer, and treat it in the same man ner. After lying some time it is turned two or three times, and then it is fit for drilling. I have put in this year 45 acres of turnips with nothing but this manure, and the result is now open for the inspection of any who may choose to see it. I found the droppings of three pigs, carefully preserved, to be ample for two acres, and quite equal to three sacks of bone dust per acre. lam not and s t h eore tically, but from actually experience; consider ukiug that if we can get such valuable manure for nothing but the labour, it is much better than to put our hands in our pockets and paying 233. or 30s. per acre for artificial manures." The plan suggested from practical experience of preparing a drill manure for turnips, by an admixture of ashes and pig manure, I believe might be extended to a very large number of farming districts with decided advantage. In the case of the ashes, they should be always prepared with as large a portion of charcoal in them as possible. Those from coals are, it is true, peculiarly useful for many soils, from containing a portion of sulphate of limo in them as well as l cbarcoal; but these arc not com monly obtainable to any large extent; but then the farmer has very often the means of charing vegetable substances, but let him ever remember not to burn, but to merely char these matters.—Somerset County Gazette. OCEAN CURRENT.—A bottle was picked up on the 3d instant on the shore of South Uist. In it was found an enclosure showing that the bottle was thrown over board from a whaler off Cape Farewell, in April. This enclosure was immediately carried by the person who found the battle to Mr. Young, the factor, who has kindly sent it to us, and as it seems to have been thrown into the sea for the purpose of testing the direction of a great ocean current, we have pleasure in making the enclosure public :—" John Young, surgeon of the ship Alexander, of Dundee, journeying to Davis Straits, 19th April, opposite Cape Farewell, I cork and hermetically seal this bottle, and commit it to the deep. Should any chance to pick this up, have the goodness to report us in the newspapers. Ships in company, viz., the Lady Jane, of Newcastle, and Regalia, of Kirkaldy. Ba faithful.'' —lnverness Courier. A FRENCH CENTENARIAN.—The Constitutionne/ records the demise of an old lady named Moulinet, in the commune of L'Hotellerie, in Normandy, at the ad vanced age of 102 years. At the age of 72—i. e., 30 years ago—the old woman sank her pro, erty in an an nuity, and the seller of the annuity flattered himself that he Lhad made a capital bargain, whereas he has paid about four times the value of the property. Widow Moulinet, like almost all centenarians, preserved her faculties almost up to the hour of her death. A short time since she kept fowls ; one of the hens laid its eggs in the garret, which was reached by means of a ladder. She told her daughter to ascend and fetch some eggs, but the " girl" (herself some 75 years of age) was afraid of falling, and came down again. " Come away 1" ex claimed the mother of 100 years old ; "you are fit for nothing." On which she actually clambered up the ladder herself, and descended with an apronfull of eggs. " Really," she said, " the young people of the present day are not worth a rush." THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO CUBA.—EI He raid° (the official organ of the Spanish Government) says:—" The President of the United States, General Taylor, has just published a proclamation wherein he warns the citizens of the Union not to compromise themselves by taking part in au expedition which is beign organised in that country for the invasion of the island of 1 Cuba. The document to which we allude may serve as a piece of salutary advice to the z , alous Spanish autho rities on the other side of the Atlantic, in order that they may be prepared to receive the invaders and administer to them the severe chastisement which they deserve; as the Honourable President says, there is no doubt that the expedition is directed against Cuba, and not against Mexico, as at first believed. This is in accordance with our own advices, which some time ago informed us of the plots that were being hatched abroad by certain spurious sons of our possessions, expelled thence for their vices, their anarchical tendencies, and from a regard for the tranquillity of the peaceful, loyal, and laborious inhabi tants of the mother country, under whose parental laws they enjoy so much happiness and prosperity. We do not hesitate a moment to affirm that if the anthers of the expe dition, which is said to be composed of some 400 men, the very dregs of the populace of the United States, succeed in effecting a landing in Cuba, they will dearly pay for their temerity. Our valiant solders will give a very good account of the affair, and it is probable that not a single individual of those who tread the soil of the island will be allowed to re.embark. But although we are quite easy and confident of the issue, we cannot but feel astonished at the benevolent calmness with which the first magistrate of the United States confines himself to warning his fellow-citizens not to take part in the enter prise—an immoral enterprise, destinei to carry brute force and anarchy into the territories of a friendly nation and an ally. We believe that he might have operated more efficiently had he availed himself of the police and the armed force of the state for dissolving the expedition at once. Perhaps the laws of his country do not allow of this course. In this case we will only observe that we are no admirers of that cherished unlimited liberty which, in order to propitiate all, consents to the public organisation of robbery, piracy, and assassination. We believe that the President of the United States would not have spoken in such mild terms if, instead of dealing with a conspiracy against the rights of Spain, he had been called upon to deal with some society formed in Jamaica for fomenting the insurrection of the negroes of Louisiana and Carolina, or of the Indians of Florida, and for laying the basis of an interminable civil war in the heart of the United States." SUICIDE IN FARRINGDON STREET. —Yesterday afternoon, shortly before two o'clock, a person named James Powell, formerly secretary to Espartero, but latterly acting as waiter at the Druid's Hall, Farring. don•street, committed suicide. During Monday he seemed extremely dejected, so much so that his wife deemed it prudent to ask Mr. Taylor, hatter, who oc cupies the shop under the Hall, to go up stairs and speak to him. Mr. Taylor did as requested, when, on eutering the front room, lie found him looking out of the window. Having inquired what was the matter with him, the unfortunate man turned round and looked him full in the face. Mr. Taylor laid his hand on:his shoulder, when all of a sudden he heard the report of a pistol, and in an instant Powell reeled round three times and fell to the ground a corpse. Medical aid was in stantly sent for, and Mr. Bullin promptly attended. He found that the deceased had shot himself through the heart. The deceased, when he went out is the morn ing, pledged his coat at a pawnbroker's, and with the money advanced on it bought the pistol. At one time he was in very affluent circumstances, but was then about to leave his situation. About six weeks since he lost the sight of one of his eyes in drawing a cork from a bottle of ginger beer. SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN HYDE-PARK.-..-Abollt half- past five o'clock on Sunday morning, a lad, while pass ing through llyde-park, discovered a man's hat on the south bank of the Serpentine, near to one of the seats directly opposite to the receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, on the north bank, to which place the lad immediately proceeded and gave information of the circumstance. The officers of the society with the greatest promptitude instantly manned one of the boats and rowed across to the spot, where, on throwing in the drag close to the shore, the body of a man was got up, placed in the boat, and conveyed to the receiving house and put in a hot bath, but life was found to be quite extinct. 0,1 an examination being made of the body the deceased was found to be about fifty years of age, and that his face was covered with bruises, there being also a large wound over the left eye, from which fresh blood was still flowing. The deceased was dressed in a dark dress-coat, silk waistcoat, and dark buckskin trousers with a check on the cloth, white cotton stock ings, and low shoes, nearly new. On both legs, from the feet up to nearly the knees, were large scars, cover ing nearly the front of his legs. On his per s o n were found a pair of silver spectacles, a pair of wire spectacles. a panknife, a half-crown and a sxipence in silver, and threepence halfpenny in copper, but nothing whatever to lead to his identity. The body was subsequently , removed to the dead-house of St. Margaret's, Westmin ster, at Knightsbridge, where it awaits a coroner's in quest. Up to a late hour yesterday the body had not been identified. FOREIGN CATTLE.--The steam ship Wilberforce, arrived at Blackwell from 'ronnine n, has brought 183 head of horned cattle; and the Eider, from the same place, 152 oxen and cows, and a quantity of grain, the produce of Denmark. The vessel Neptune, which arrived on the same day from Bremen, brought 170 oxen and cows, in addition to a large general cargo of provi• siens and merchandise, the produce of the Hanseatic States. It B ill be observed that the arrivals mentioned as having taken place on one day comprise three of the largest average supplies of horned cattle from the conti nent, but they offer also other features entitled to special notice, inasmuch as there have never before been two such arrivals from Denmark on the same day, and no such supplies have lately taken place from Bremen, in consequence of the late disturbed state of affairs in that part of the continent of Europe. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Scpt. 24. (Before Mr. Commissioner PuiLrArs ) IN RE 110RITIO_CLAGGETT. This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Lucas, on the part of Mr. Marks and Mr. Lawrence Levy. Mc. Cooke, with Mr. Sargood, supported. Upon examination by the opposing Counsel, the insolvent stated that he had been " out of the way " for the last eighteen months. He had been insolvent before, in 1836, and again in 1845, on which last oc casion his debts were 27,0001. The debts in the present schedule were about 4,000/. In July, 1847, had borrowed 2001. of Mr. Levy, and gave a judge's order at the time. Did not then tell Mr. Levy that he wanted the money to pay some tradesmen's bills, which were the only debts he owed. He had bor rowed 1001. of Mr. Marks, but did not say that the money was to buy up an annuity. Th e fur n iture i n his house at St. John's wood, and the carriage and horses, were the property of his wife, who had an annuity of 3,0001. a year. In reply to Mr. COOKE, the insolvent said he had borrowed the money of the opposing creditors at the rate of 60 and 40 per cent. The Learned COMMISSIONER asked how the insol vent could expect to keep out of difficulties if he raised money at that rate ? Mr. LUCAS said he was instructed that 101. only had been deducted by Mr. Levy from the 2001. bill. The Learned Counsel was about to address the Court upon the case, when Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS invited the opposing counsel to produce his clients, that they might (if they could) disprove the insolvent's assertion of their having taken such interest. Mr. LUCAS replied that his clients had asked him if they could absent themselves for a short time, and he had consented, believing that the case would not come on so soon. _ vv Mr. Commissioner PinLurs thought their attend ance so important that he let the matter stand by fur a short time to enable them to attend. The case was accordingly suspended f o r an h our and a half, at the expiration of which time Mr. LUCAS announced that the opposing creditors had not arrived, and admitted that the insolvent had been correct in stating Mr. Levy's rate of interest, 101. having been deducted from the bill of 2001. at one month. At the same time he could not see why, when the law allowed it, such opprobrium should be cast upon a man upon 60 per cent. upon hard money, while a west-end tradesman was allowed to charge 300 per cent. profit upon goods without complaint. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS did not refuse to grant the creditors what the law allowed them, but at the same time he thought that a person who took 60 par cent. interest could have but slender hope of ever getting his principal. Mr. COOKE said the insolvent had already paid away large sums to persons of the class who now opposed him. He had been left a fortune of 60,000/. or 70,000/. from his father, which, as well as a large portion of his wife's income, bad gone that way, as he had been sued continually upon an annuity transac tion, which was now fortunately terminated by the bankruptcy of the grantee. Mr. Commissioner PuiLLirs said that no case had been made out against the insolvent, and it would be for the insolvent's own benefit that the Court should say no more. He could not understand any excuse for a gentleman borrowing money at the rate of GO per cent. discount, and it was a practice the Court could not look upon with approbation. As no case had been established, the insolvent was entitled to the benefit of the Act and to his discharge forthwith POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAN SION-HO U S E. James Wentworth, who was some days ago brought up on charges of swindling, having obtained goods by representing himself as the son of Mr. Godfrey Went worth, of Woolley -park, Wakefield, and nephew of ' Earl Fitzwilliam, was put to the bar before Alderman ' Gibbs for further examination. The justice-room was crowded with respectable tradesmen. The prisoner appeared full of confidence. Mr. Lewis appeared in support of the prosecution, which was brought by Mr. 0 wen, secretary to the London Trade Protection Society, No. 170, Regent street. The prisoner defended himself. The prisoner was in the first instance, it will bu recollected, accused of having defrauded Mr. Beck, of Coleman-street, of mathematical instruments, and having, by false representations, obtained possession of the house, No. 31 A, Saville-row, and fixtures and other property therein, from the owner. Mr. Rey nolds, of Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, and Moorgate street, surgeon. Mr. Lewis said he could show that the prisoner had in his dealings with Mr. Reynolds added forgery to the offence of misdemeanour, with which he was charged, by handing over to that gentleman two pro missory notes for 13.51. in payment of the amount for which the contract had been made, signed " James Wentworth," a name assumed by the prisoner for the purposes of fraud, and to which he had no claim whatever. The prisoner —Oh, then, the charge of fraud is abandoned, as you intend to prefer the heavier one of forgery. Mr. Lewis said the prisoner was mistaken. Mr. Beck would proceed with the charge of fraud. The forgery would proceed without reference to that charge. It would appear from the evidence to be ad duced that the prisoner, instead of being the relative of a noble family, was a person named Green, who had been lately discharged from a criminal prison, and that he had been engaged in several cases in which gross plunder had been accomplished. Mr. Reynolds was called. The prisoner—Now, is this examination with re ference to the forgery or the fraud ? Mr. Lewis—The forgery. The prisoner—Very well. Mr. Reynolds proceeded. Ile got possession of my house, No. 31 A, Saville-row, and some fixtures and furniture. He was to pay 1351. on the 15th of August, the day he got possession. I did not receive the money ; but on the Bth of September he put these two promissory notes (the one for 601. the other for 751.) into my hands. The prisoner—Now, I beg that you will make a special note of that statement. Mr. Reynolds—l refused to take notes then in lieu of money; but I took them afterwards. When 1 did take them I took them beliving the prisoner to be the man he pretended to be. The prisoner objected to such a course of exami nation, as it was the very course he meant to adopt in his cross-examination. Mr. Reynolds—After a good deal of conversation he referred me to his friend, Mr. Wormold, the banker, director of the Northern Counties Coal % Company, whom he represented as the man of money in the concern, and he said, that if I would show the signature to Glyn or Jones Loyd, the bills would be at once discounted, as the name was well known to every banker in London.—(A laugh.) Upon in quiry of Mr. Wormold, I found that the name of the party with whom I had been negotiating was Green, and not Wentworth, and then I immediately I entered into communication with Mr. Beck. On Tuesday I wrote to Mr. Godfrey Wentworth, of Woolley-park, and received an answer informing me that the person about whom I wrote was not one of his family, and of course must be an impostor and swindler. The prisoner —Now, my Lord, before you proceed further in this examination, I apply to you that as this is a charge of forgery committed, if anywhere, in the country, to send it away from this tribunal, as it cannot he legally matter of inquiry here. Alderman GIBBS said he would satisfy the prisoner upon that subject, and read the Forgery Act, by which a magistrate in the place in which a prisoner may be apprehended may examine and commit wherever the actual offence might have been committed. Mr. W. Frazer, 171, New Bond-street, tailor—l know the prisoner, James Green, since the year 1839. He was a customer of mine, and he was a bankrupt in 1840 in that name. lam a creditor under that bankruptcy. He was, I considered, a merchant, and not an engineer. Cross-examined by the prisoner—l might have known you ten years before 1839. Prisoner—Did you not know me as Wentworth ? Witness—Yes. I s h a ll ex plain about that. You came to me after I h a d k nown you long by the name of Green, and y ou said " Frazer you know how I have been situated, an d , that I have not long been out of prison, and I am a b ou t t o c hange my name by the , advice of my friends."—(A laugh.) I reasoned with you, and said that it might be very awkward for any one to meet you and address you in the name of Green, and you then said that any one to whom a property was left might change his name.—(Laugh ter.) Afterwards you called and left your name as Wentworth, engineer, and your address as 31e, Saville-row. I find by my book of entries that you called on the 29th of August as Mr. Wentworth, and there is an entry of the same kind under date of July 4, in your own handwriting, to the best of my belief. There is something here about a Scottish transaction. The prisoner --I want to hear nothing of that. It is a strictly private transaction, and I have nothing more to ask you.—(A laugh.) The witness--I wish to;say something about a pupil of the prisoner's. The prisoner —You are not to volunteer anything here ; I object to anything of the kind. 1 The witness—The prisoner, by way of making some amends to me for the losses he has subjected me to, introduced me to a friend of his, a pupil, who he said was allowed by his parents 4001., and with whom he had got a premium of 5001. I soon found that his pupil had no property at all, and that the young gen tleman had only just come out of prison, like him self, after two year s ' con finement.—(Laughter.) The prisoner —He :was given in custody on that occasion, and the magistrate before whom the COM.. ITALY. The Osservatore Romano, of the 10th, states that many members of the late Assembly have left Rome. A large assembly of the people was remarked outside the Porta Pia on the 9th, notwithstanding the decree which prohibits such meetings.—As the master of the band of the 25th Regiment of the French army was returning from Frascati to Rome, several shots were fired at him simultaneously, but without effect. The police were in search of the perpetrators. The following Bill has been presented by . the Minister of War to the Chambers of Turin : " Art. 1. The Government is authorised to deliver horses belonging to the army, to private individuals of the state under their responsibility, after an estimate of their mercantile value and of their probable life, for no more than eight years. Art. 2. The private individuals who shall have received such horses shall incur the obligation of keeping and restoring them at the first notice, or in lieu of them others of c2pacity for service, during the time respectively fixed by Art. 1, after which they shall be free from every responsibility. Art. 3. If during the said time the nation were to place itself on a war•footing, Government shall have the right of using the said horses during the war. Mares in a state of gestation shall be exempted from the service. Art. 4. The Minister of War and Marine shall take the proper measures in concert with the administration of the Do main for the execution of the present law." According to the Concordia of Turin. the Austrian army in Italy i s now di s t r ib ute d as f o ll ows : -I s t occupying Uorp the Corps, under the command of andmiolafn, Lodi Gener, and CremonaalAVratislaw., 2d Corps, under General d'Aspre, occupying Central Italy, south of the P o . 3d Corps, under Lieutenant- Marshal Appel, occupying Brescia, Bergamo, and Sondrio. 4th Corps, under Lieutenant-Marshal Thurn, occupying Como and the frontier of Switzer land. The Ist reserve corps, under Lieutenant-Mar shal Woger, occupies the Venetian provinces. The garrison of Vet rice is 8,000 strong, under General Gorzkowski. The garrison of Bologna is commanded by Lietitenant4.l.llAnhal Wimpffen. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMB E R r. 25 1849. pll.aint r., w (s T a, s ?i od i r— n g a -e d l e Ah s o i v d re r i i t s Rya s known m f a Nool o . : t Iporo di sgraceful i,lotolexr c fovrde r. y hg s t a rA r e,ee e ti l since 1842 as James Green. I mentioned to the So ciety for the Protection of Trade that I ha I seen him in tha street. 1 did not mention the name of Went worth, and did not know anything of it, but described him, and the; knew him.—(A laugh.) Mr. George Hoare, Warden and Deputy Governor of Coldbath• fields Prison, deposed that the prisoner was sentenced in May, 1847, to two years' imprison ment for fraud on two indictments, in the name of James Edward Green, and he served out the period of imprisonment, and was discharged on the 9th of May, 1849. Mr. Lewis—l shall now complete the evidence with regard to the mathematical instruments obtained from Mr. Beck. A pawnbroker then produced a box of mathematical instruments which had been pledged at his shop on the Bth of September. Mr. Beck swore that he believed they were the instruments which the prisoner had obtained from him on the 7th of September. Here the card containing Mr. Reynolds's name, which the prisoner handed to Mr. Beck, was produced. Mr. Reynolds said he never had given that card to the prisoner, but he believed the prisoner had taken it out of a drawer in the house in Saville row and ap plied it to the purposes of deception. Mr. Jeremiah Little, of Camden-house, Kensington builder, said—l produce an agreement made between the prisoner and myself when he took the house, 14, Sherborne-street, from me for three years, at 421. a year, in the name of Wentworth. He called at my house and introduced himself without ceremony 'as James Wentworth, Esq , civil engineer to a railroad in the Indies, and said he wished to take a house for Sir John Hamilton's daughter. I said I had no ob jection, and he said the lady was in reduced circum stances, but her money would pass through his hands and I would be perfectly safe in letting the house. He appointed to meet me next day at his office, 31 A, Saville-row, where I saw all appearances of respectability, and I said it was a matter of indiffer ence to me whether I let the house to the lady or to him. I saw some persons with drawing implements, apparently very busy, and I finally let the house to him. Soon after he got possession I found that in stead of Lady or Miss Hamilton, there were eight or nine dirty children in it, and I suppose it is all going to pieces.—(A. laugh.) The prisoner—How can you be sure that Lady Hamilton is not there ?—(Great laughter.) Witness —I am sure she is not. The prisoner—l am sure she is.—(Laughter.) Mr. Lewis—Have the children been taken out of the workhouse and placed there ? Witness—l be lieve they have either come out of the workhonse or out of a wretched four-roomed house in the neigh bourhood. Mr. J. T. Snow, butcher, of Pollen-street, said—l let chambers to the prisoner on the 23d of July. He is now in occupation, but has not been much there of late. The prisoner—They were only chambers—bache lor's chambers. Mr. Lewis—Do you know anything of his wife and children ? Witness—He had a wife and six children in the workhouse a short time ago. Mr. Little—l dare say they are in my house now.—(Laughter.) The prisoner—l am still in occupation there. I have no idea of leaving it.--(Laughter.) Mr. Snow—He introduced one lady as Lady Hare wood to me—(Great laughter)—and he had several other visitors whom he described as persons of rank. I have seen a great many visitors to him whom I did not consider at all respectable. The prisoner—That's saying nothing at all. Mr. Lewis—Have you got any rent yet ? The prisoner—l took the chambers by the quarter, and of course he could not get any rent yet. It's quite time enough to pay when the time arrives. Alderman GIBB3—I remand the prisoner until Thursday next, in order that the depositions may be made out, and then I shall commit him for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Charles Brown, a powerful excavator, was charged before Mr. llammill with violently as saulting Mr. Charles Freer, the actor, and a police constable who had attempted to capture him. Mr. Freer, it appeared, in addition to his theatrical engagements, had lately embarked in the business of a licensed victualler in Norton-folgate, and during his temporary absence at a late hour on Satur day night, the prisoner and a number of blackguards forced their way into the house, and conducted themselves in such an offensive and out rageous manner that it became necessary to get rid of them. The landlady went round the bar to induce them to leave, and the other men voluntary went out, but the prisoner refused to do so, and on Mrs. Freer placing her hand on his shoulder to persuade him, the prisoner struck her right and left, first on the head, and then two violent blows on the bosom, which sent her reeling from him, and was about to follow up his brutality, when she was fortunately rescued from further violence by the entrance of her husband, who, with one of his waiters, seized him and attempted to extrude him. The prisoner, however, immediately commenced a furious attack upon his assailants, one of whom, the waiter, he struck two violent blows upon the eye and face, and then beat Mr. Freer so severely that, as he stated, he was still suffering from the injuries he had sustained, whilst giving his evidence. The prisoner was at length forced into the, street, and given into the custody of Hussey, a constable of the H division, who attempted to secure him, but him msinsta ntly several b s l e o t w u s p upon by ra p i t d h e s p u r c i c s e o s n s e i o r, n , who and s k then,c throwing him heavily upon the , pavement, started off as fast as he could. The constable, however, pur sued him, and, a mob collecting, the prisoner ap pealedstables t c o tu t n h e e m u p t a o nd r e a s f c t u e er struggling him, b t andsome fiogthhteirngcolioir some time, he was ultimately overpowered and lodged in the station. Mr. Freer, who described the prisoner ' a conduct as that of a savage, stated that his wife was too ill from the violence to which she had been subjected to be able to attend ; and the constable, who described the pri soner as mad drunk, having complained that he was seriously hurt from the blows the prisoner had also inflicted upon him, Mr. Hameffil e who characterised it as a very bad case, sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty of 60s , or three weeks' imprisonment, for the assault upon Mr. Freer; and for the attack upon the officer, one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, without the option of paying any penalty, and ordered that one term of punishment should commence at the expiration of the other. SO rITH WARK. Yesterday John Chilcot Parnell, alias Richard, a dissenting minister at Bristol, and late a clerk in the Reading Post-office, was brought before Mr. Seeker for reexamination, charged with bigamy. The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was committed. METROPOLITAN DRAINAGE PLANS.—A correspon dent of the Builder says—Will you kindly inquire how it is that parties who are desirous' to compete for the drainage of London are not futnished with the necessary preliminary informatiOn, as it was stated would be afforded them by the Metropolitan Commissioners? It appears to me now, that although this step (taken two years too late) has the semblance of an open question, there is still an under current at work that will render it almost a mere waste of time entering into such a com petition. I think the question of the entire drainage, &c., of London is one of so much importance that the plans submitted should be referred to a competent board of civil engineers—say the Council of the Institute, not withstanding it does not exactly coincide with a theory widely promulgated. If any proof were wanting of the correctness of this opinion, it is the fact that the quasi scientific mountain (alias the Metropolitan Commission) has been in labour nearly two years, and has produced something less than a mouse. COLLISION BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND POLICE IN BOYLE.—A row, which was likely to end very seri ously, occurred in this town, between the police and some soldiers of the 34th depot, on Saturday last. The facts have been reported to Government; but as yet no public investigation has taken place. As we conceive it to be our duty to allude to this affair, we think it would not be proper to overlook the circumstances which led to it, and we therefore give all the particulars which we could learn. It appears that two policemen were standing on the bridge, waiting for a car which was to convey them to their barrack at Knockvicar, and while there one of them was rudely jostled by a soldier, who evidently ap peared to be under the influence of liquor. The police. man remonstrated with the soldier on the impropriety of his conduct, remarking that if he persisted in it he should consider it his duty to have him put in the guard house, although he did not wish to have anything to do with him. This incensed the soldier, who became vio lent, and used threatening language, and upon the arri val of tho car the constable had to push him aside, in order to get on it. Both constables then got on the car and proceeded homewards, but they had only reached the Pleasure•ground gate when they were overtaken by three soldiers, who dragged ono of them off the car, took his carbine from him, and broke it on the unfortu nate man's head. The other -policeman, on coming to the assistance of his comrade, was violently assaulted, and some severe wounds were inflicted upon his head and body with the stock and barrel of the broken carbine. During the row the picket came up and made-the three soldiers and one of the police prisoners. On conveying them through the street a number of persons were col lected as they passed along, amongst whom were many of the military and police, and at one period a serious affray was apprehended from the collision of the oppos ing parties. The arrival of the picket was fortunate, however, as some of the people, who witnessed the transaction, had commenced throwing stones and other missiles at the soldiers.—Boyle Gazette. 'We are informed that Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart., has purchased !or 600 guineas the two splendid pictures by Count d'Orsay, one being the representation of our Saviour, and the other the portrait of Queen Victoria. The former is intended for the private chapel in Somer ford Park, and the latter as a present to the corporation of Congleton,—Gloucester Chronicle. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH BRITISH. The director' report, to b presented to the half yearly meeting to morrow, states that the passenger traffic for the ha.lf•year as compared with the corre sponding period of the previous year has becn— 1848.---PassPagers - 531,887 £29 800 13 2 1849.—Pssgeng•Krs 485,605 34,745 15 31 The tonnage carried for the same period Li— 1848.—Goods & minerals,l37,ss7tons £22,491 2 3 1849.—Goods & minerals, 195,185 tons 37,957 17 7 In making this comparison, it must he borne in mind, that the mileage has been increased from eighty miles to 110 miles, but that the general trade of the country has been very much depressed—a state -of matters which has materially affected the revenue of all rail way and other carrying companies. Notwithstanding this, however, there has been a gradual increase of the traffic on the line. The receipt from passengers (although the numbers have fallen off) has increased about one sixth, and the receipt from goods about two-thirds, while the increase in mileage is three eighths. After making the various deductions for interest, working expenses, &c , the free revenue from the main line and Dalkeith branch is • 15,280/. Os. 10.1., and from the Hawick branch 1,984/.83. 6(1. The former sum will yield a dividend of 7s. 6d. par share on the original and consolidated Dalkeith shares of 251. each, and of ls. 61 per share on the unconsolidated Dalkeith shares of 5/. each, and will leave a balance of 880!. Os. 1011. ' which may be laid aside as a fund to meet the depreciation of &c. The directors would recommend that the revenue applicable to the Hawick branch he carried over to next half year's account. In consequence of the arrear of the ordinary business of the company, necessarily caused by the sittings of the inveeigation committee, and the books being occupied by the ac countant, the directors having found it impracticable to get the accounts and balance-sheet made out and audited this half-year in time to have the details of the sub-division put in such shape and published as they had intended. They have no reason to doubt, however, that their accuracy will be duly certified before the meeting takes place, and in the future re• ports the details can be more fully given. in the meanwhile they may state, that in charging the in terest of loans against the revenue, they have assumed the outlay for the several lines at the I\lll amount mentioned in the investigation committee's repert, as at 31st of January, 1849, the dete of the last balance. From that amount they have deducted the amount of share capital ; and, on the balance, which forms the loan capital, they have charged interest—first, at the rate of six per cent. on so much of the calls on the preference stock •as were due and paid prior to the 31st of July ; and, s( condly, on the remainder at the rate of four•and-a-half per cent., which is the average rate presently payable on the money bor rowed on debenture. Although this no doubt bears heavily upon the receipts, and consequeniy on the dividend of the past half-year, particularly as regards the half and three shares (which, however, are not likely again to be similarly afftcted), yet the directors conceive it to be the proper principle of charge, and they have therefore adopted it. In regard to the state of the company's affairs and its future prospects, it seems unnecessary for the directors to do more than refer to the report of the committee of investigation laid before the shareholders on the 9:h ult. There were, however, various suggestions made in that report, regarding the future management of the company's affairs, to which the shareholders at their last meeting called upon the directors to give their favourable consideration, and to such of them as seem to require especial notice they will now briefly advert. The first suggestion to which they will call attention relates to an improvement in the form of keeping the hooks, and upon this point they may at once state that althOugh in general they think it some what hazardous to make any change upon a system which has been found to work so accurately as not to have produced, as stated by Mr. Cope, any "error effecting the result of the accounts as between the directors and shareholders, or the pub lic." in a serifs of transactions embracing nearly four millions of money, yet, as they desire to meet the wishes of the shareholders in regard to this, they have ordered the suggestions of the committee to be act( d on as far as possible. For 'the reasons before given, it has been impossible to adopt them so fully in the present report and states of accounts as the directors could have wished. The " next suggestions relate to the adoption of greater economy in managing and working the line, and in the construction of such works as are yet unfinished. The committee ha%e done the directors the justice to state that the sub ject of economy in management was very fully con sidered and reported upon by them long before any investigation was thought of. It may, therefore, be enough at present to say that the views which the directors entertained coincided in a great measure with those of the committee, and that both before and since the date of the committee's report they have been acted upon to a very considerable extent. They will continue to ha so whenever an opportunity occurs. As regards economy in construction of works, the directors may mention that, by curtailing plans, &c., they have very materially reduced the ex pense of such stations as have been re cently contracted for. They will follow the same course in regard to the remaining stations. The third suggestion to be adverted to relates to the running of additional trains to Portobello dur ing the summer months. Upon this point the di rectors venture to differ from the committee. There are already 19 trains daily to Portobello, and 21 from it. These app, , ar to them to be ample as to number for the accommodation of the traffic. Whe ther a new arrangement may not be advisable is matter for fair inquiry, and due attention will be given to it. The fourth suggestion to which the attention of the directors was called refers to the introduction of new members into the direction, and the appointment of two auditors in place of one, as at present. These points will be fully considered at next half-yearly meeting, when according to the company's Act of Parliament, any changes which may be determined upon fall to be made. In the meantime the directors may say that while they doubt the expediency of appointing gentlemen from a distance to attend to the current business of the company, they will not object to any change by which the efficiency of the directi(m may be increased, and the true interests of the company promoted. The question of a depre ciation fund is referred to in the report of the committee, and is one of considerable difficulty. The directors do not think that any such fund is required in regard to the rolling stock, inasmuch as, from the great advantages afforded by the company's works at St. Margaret's, that stock has hitherto been, and may continue to be, kept up in an efficient state by the ordinary annual replacements and repairs made upon it. But they concur in opinion with the committee that a moderate sum ought to be set apart yearly for replacing the rails, chairs, sleepers, and other fixed stock, which cannot be kept up in the same way as the rolling stock. The only other suggestion in the committee's report to which tt.e directors will advert is the recommendation that the resolution to continue the payment of interest on the quarter shares, passed at the meeting on the Bth of March last, should be rescinded. The directors would be well pleased if this recommendation could be carried out with justice to all parties, because the continuing to pay that interest is throwing an additional burden upon the capital account. They doubt, however, if it would be either expedient or fair altogether to rescind tl e resolution which was so recently come to, and they are rather disposed to recommend that the inte rest be paid down to the 31st January, 1850, beirg the date when the next half-yearly balance will be struck, and about which time, or very soon after wards, the Kelso branch will be completed. The quarters will then take dividend along with the other stocks. This arrangement would carry out the spirit of the resolution of the Bth of March, and would, it is thought, do substantial justice to all parties. It is, however, for the shareholders' to decide, and the di rectors have given special notice to enable them to do so at this meeting. In February and September, 1847, the directors were empowered, in order to meet ceatain over- issues of shares, to capitalise part of the money authorised to be harrowed under the Acts for the quarter and third shares, and to issue shares to that amount. A considerable portion of this has not been issued, and the directors would recommend the shareholders to authorise them to borrow the amount of this unissued stock, or of so much of it as shall not be issued, on debenture. A resolution to that effect will be submitted to the meeting. The capital account showed that 4,026,8061. had been received, and 3,753,524/. expended. The revenue account for the half-year showed the total receipts to have been 75,9601. 4s. 7,1., and t on working expenditure 39,386/. 15s. 3d.; inte.res loans 18,8671. 14s. 7d. ; making the total disburse ments 58,254/. 9s. 101., and leaving 17,705/. 14s. 9d. a profit of The engineer's report stated s sthta.tßotslwieellll,:w4iocki. branch had been opened as far , as St. between St. miles from Edinburgh. Boswell's and Ilawick (a r l i. ;o e ut 1 12 ' miles) will be opened the beginni n g of next month. The Kelso branch is expec ted to be really for opening about the sa me time. The Dense branch (8f miles) was opened in August last. The North Berwick branch is expected to be ready for opening in January next . , and the Tranent branch will be completed next month. THE THREATENED STRIKE OF ENGINE DRIVERS ON THE YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAlL wAy.—The threatened strike of the engine-drivers and firemen on this company's li ne , which was pro posed to take place yesterday, has terminated in an amicable u nderstanding, and the men have withdrawn their notices to quit. The directors, with the Lord Mayor of York, had an interview with a large body of them, and stated, that desirous as they were for the continuance of a good understanding, they could not, in the present depressed state of the shareholders' pro perty, submit to any extravagant increase of wages. They proposed to advance the wages of all the coal engine -drivers, so that none of them should receive less than ss. a day, but if, with the other terms pro posed, the offer was not agreed to, they were prepared to work the line by engaging other hands. The representatives of the engine-drivers at first refused this, and the directors left without effecting a settle ment of the difficulty. On Saturday, however, they intimated their acceptance of the terms offered them by the directors, subject to the following modifica'. tions :—that any special circumstances of long hours shall be considered; that the eoginemen on passenger trains between York and Newcastle shall be every fourth day in the shed instead of every fifth ; that those between Newcastle and Berwick shall be one day in the shed in the week instead of working every day, and firemen of two years' standing to be ad vanced to 3s. 4i. per day from the date of the present month. WINDSOR RAILWAYS. Experimental trips are being made of the Great Western Company's, line into Winlsor by Mr. Brunel and wsis!ants. No perceptible dcfle.ction is observed in the bridge cross ing the Thames, and the line will be ready by the first of the month. The works at the bridge on the S:Juth Western Company's line have been re commenced. tY MARKETS. statement of the quantities of la of London from the ports in 1849, to the 22d Sept., 1849, Colchester . Harwich .. Leigh Maldon 177 701 1170 i• . • a , v 7: I • of as co 0 ci) Pc; ' (34 21 203 20' 19 23 84.5 74 174 103 35. 264 1 263) 2.37 CHELMSFORD, SEPT. 21.—At the opening of our mitt ket to-day an advance of full 2s per quarter on wheat was clumanded, at which terms a few transactions were effected, but these prices were not sustained throughout, the samples disposed of later in the day realising only is per quarter above last week's quotations. Spring corn of all sorts was firm at last week's prices, with a fair business. Wheat, white, old 44s to 47s ; new 45s to 48s; red, old 39s to 423; new, 403', to 44s ; barley, —s to - s ; chevalier —s to —s; grinding 22s to 28s; oats 17s to 235; malt 54, to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 28s to 30s ; old, —s to --s ; white, new, 28s to .'3os ; old, —s to —1 ; dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beans, tick, new 25s to '27s ; old, 28s to 30s; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s; old 29s to 31s; ma zagan, new 24s to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, SEPT. 22.—Wheat, white 44s to 50s ; red 40s to 44s ; barley 28s to 32s ; beans, mazagan 24s to 265; middle and mall 28s to 30s; peas 26s to 30s per qr. HADDINGTON, SEPT. 21.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. 1 Barley. I Oats. I Beans. 54s Od 147 s 0,1 23s 6d 343 Od _ ....,. --. - -- - -- - -- - Second ... .. ... 48s 6d 21s 2d ..8s 5d 32s 5d Third ... .. 44s Od 19s Od 159 6d 31 s Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 60 qrs., 2t sol Do. New do. do. 353 qrs., 299 sold Do. Barley do. 290 qrs., 273 sold Do. New do. do. 00 qrs., Do. Oats do. 447 qrs., 408 sold Do. New do. do. 00 qrs., 00 sold Do. Beans do. 22 qrs., 18 sold KIRKALDY, SErT. 22.—The following are the quotations up to this date:— NEW. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, First 443 Od 253 6d 21s Od —s Od I—a Od Second 423 Od z2s 6d 19s Od —s Od —s Od Third 4ls Od 203 Od 17s Od —a Od I—s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 280 tbs. imp., 28s to 00s Od. GLASGOW, SEPT. 20.—Provisions—Cheese, 43s to 50s Od per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18a to 37s per cwt. dountry 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, 5s 6d per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 23 Od per pair; ducks, 2s Od. KELSO, SEPT. 21.—Wheat, old, 33s to 375; ditto, new, 00S to 00s Od ; barley, new, • 17s to 193 Od ; ditto old, 17s Od to 20s ; potato oats, 13s to 15s ; ditto new, 12s to 13s Od ; com mon oats, 12s to 143 6d; ditto new, lls to 12s 6d ; peas, 24, to 25s Od ; beans, 24s to 25s per boll of six imperial bushels. STIRLING, SEPT. 21.—Wheat, foreign, 22s to 26s Od; ditto home, 03 Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 175 Od to 24s ; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 18a Od to 18s 9d ; ditto new, 16s to I9s 3d ; oats, common, 12s Od to 14s Od ; ditto new, 123 Od to 1 Is 6d ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 35s to 3Es ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s ; beans, per boll, Os 6d to Os 03; ditto new, 153 Od to 17s 6d; peas, I4s 6ti to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to 0110 d; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bid to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, 45a to 475. PERTH, SEPT. 20.—Wheat, 40s Od to 48s Od ; barley, 22s to 25s Od ; oats, 17s to 20s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, SEPT. 20. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 112 bolls; wheat at 20s, Od to 23s 6d per boll ; barley, 14s 6d to'lBs Od ; oats, lls 9d to 00s Od; beans, Os Od to 00s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICK, SEPT. 20.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 37s 03; ditto old, Ws to 00s ; barley, new, 17s to 19s Od ; potato oats. 13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 23s Od to 25s Od ; beans, 2:33 Od to 25s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. BERWICK, SEPT. 20.—Wheat, 44s 24d ; barley, ODs Od; oats, 00s Od ; rye, COs Od ; beans, COs Od ; peas, 00s Od ave rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARK E' Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main l3s Llasting's Hartley l4s 9d Holywell Main North Percy Hartley.. 14s Go Old "lantield Original Tanfield Ord's Redh;•ugh ttavensworth's W.Hart 14s Od ontield Moor ranfield Moor Butes l3s 6d est Hartley West Wylam Wylam . Wall's End, &c. Gosforth- . fiedley arton Morrison l6s 9. Northumberland Percy Riddell's ..... ...... lfis 3d I.lrpeth Walker Eden Main l6s 6di Ships at it T.--YEiTEIIDAY. 3ell 3elmont l7s 3.1 letton .. l7s 6d Haswell l7s 9d Hutton I,ambton .rLumlev Itusszli's Hetton ~ l7s 3d Stewart's' Whitwell Caradoc ..... ....• l6s 6d Cassop l7s Od Kelloe ... 173 3d West Hetton 163 6d Whitworth ............ Adelaide Tees Clavering Tees ...... Pease's West ......... Tees ... 17s 3d Anthracite.. ........... 16 3 Od 'Cowpen Hartley ...... 14s 91 Hartley ~....... Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff ............. :Hs Od Sidney's Hartley ...... 14s 9d narket, 105. The family of the Rev. Henry Jennings, of Watfon Abby, near Driffiel4, have been plunged into affliction by the following melancholy event:—About noon on the 13th instant, Mr. William H. Jennings, Mr. Jenning's youngest son, was out in the fields amusing himself with a gun. Findinn some cattle had strayed in the fields, he attempted to put them right, and i n endeavouring to do so he struck one of the beats with the butt•end of the gun whilst holding the barrel in his hands. The ause con cus,ion produced by the blow is supposed to have cd the gun to discharge, and lodged the contents in his body. Oa the following day part of the charge was ex tracted, but the unfortunate young m an suck under the severe injury sustained, and expired on Saturday morn ing. The deceased was 17 years of age, and a fit.• atiiktic young man.— Yorkshire Gazelle. DIOCESE or OXFOED.—The Bishop of Oxford has ordered that a day of prayer and humiliation shell take phie,, throughout all the churches in his diocese on Wednesday, the 26th, and he has given direction that the service appointed for Ash-Wednesday shall be used on the occasion. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Dreadful Enlargement of the Knee Cured by Holloway's Pills.—Abram Banks, an elderly man living near the Dry Creek, South Australia, bad such a painful affection and enlargement of the knee that he despaired of ever recovering the use of his limbs, the numerous remedies that he made trial of failing to banish or even to mitigate the disease. In this suffering condition be was ad vised to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and he com menced a regular application of them, which in a short time effected a complete cure. The Adelqide Obseiver, of the 25th March, 1848, publishes this as one among the many astonish ing cures effected in south Australia by these invaluable Medi cines. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the fOth inst., the lady of Edmond L. Crev e, Esq , of Re,dton-park, Derbyshire, of a son. On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. David Powell, of a daughter. At Chelsea, on the 21st inst., the lady of George P. Neave, Esq,, of a son. On the 21st inst., at Campden-grove, Kensington, the wife of R. G Erlam, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at IV ickham, Hants, the lady of Captain W. W. Powell, of a son. On the 21 t inst., at the Parsonage, Horsforth, Yorkshire, the lady of the Rev. W. 11. B. Stocker, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Ireton•house, St. Jo son. hn's-wood, the lady of Joseph (11,q., of a MARRIED. On the 90th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, Henry Collinson. Esq , of the Middle Temple. to Rosa Jane. youngest daughter of Thomas L. Peacock, Esq., of the East India House and Low er Halliford. On the .iOth inst., at Beaumaris, Thomas Kay, Esq., of poh a m-place, Brornpton, to Alice, eldest daughter of the late J. Prichard, Esq., of Beddgclers. On the 2d inst., at St. Mari in's-in-the-Fie!ds, Benjamin Atkinson, Esq., of King William-street, to Eliza, daughter of Major Griffin. On the 14th inst., at Iping, Dl n E e p ai . Midhurst, Sussex , A dmiral Sir Charles Harnilion, Bart. K.C.B. _ n, On , the 19th inst., at Ba h, Maurice Power , Es q ., col of Lines On -nn, second son of the late Tyrone Po wer, Es q . o 1 the 1 th ir st., at Borridge-lodge, Ripon, Yorkshire, Richard Thwaites, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Bury-mill-end, Hemel Hempst ead, Hugh Siltith, Es, ed 63. On the Ist inst q. . aged 17, Charles , thi rd son of T. Lyon Esq., of Apple'on-hall, Cheshire. On the 21st inst., in Marlborough, W.lts, Anne , widow of the late Theiwall Maurice, M.D. On the 2_'d inst., at Ladbroke-place West, Notting -hill, Henrick Herman Ileltzmfyer, Esc; , aged 67. On the 22d inst. , Alfre d, fourth son of J. Simpson, Esq., tf Thames-bank, Pimlico. On the 2 3 d inst., at Mecklenburgh-house, Gra the Found y's Inn-road , 111. ) i-tis Lievesley, Esq. , for 16 years s ecretary of ling It spital. At South-parade , Bath, Miss Sarah Smith. daughter of b• the late Captain J. Smith, R N., of Flushing, near Falmou ----------- __ .I..ndon t Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. )12, Strand, in the Precinct of the Sovoy. in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, September 25, 1849. . THE COUNT" The following is the official corn, &c., received in the poi Essex, from the 17th Sept., I both inclusive : First miagd