The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE. All the Paris journals which are not bound to support (Joule qui route the cause of the reaction, speak in the most eulogistic terms of the admirable speech of M. Victor Hugo on the Roman question. The National says : " M. Victor Hugo is not one of us, and that is why we shall not be backward in praising him; he has not hesitated to point out the truth to a prevaricating Mi nistry; to express contempt for a clerical Government; to recognize the rights of the Roman people; and to give to the honour and to the principles of France the satisfaction which they expect." The following is from the Republique : " W o render our hearty homage to the noble accents of M. Victor Hugo, who yesterday, for the first time, elevated himself to the most magnificent inspirations of eloquence, which will be repeated in numberless echoes in every corner of Europe; in every breast in which beats a human heart. He branded with the red-hot iron of ignominy those infamous supporters of absolutism 'lio wallow in the blood of martyrs, and fatten under the shade of gibbets and of stakes." We read in the Presse : " The speech of M. Victor Hugo is more than a suc cess ; it is the enfranchisement of the President of the Republic. The deplorable state of slavery in which the coalition of intrigue and of fear has held Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has just been broken by the power of elo quence. M. Victor Hugo yesterday definitely acquired the titles of a great orator and a statesman. He has added a generation to that glorious race of thinkers who have raised themselves by genius, by study, by courage and b 7 independence to the height of power. The re storation was justly proud of M. Chateaubriand; the monarchy of 1830 found its greatest Minister in M. Guiz')t; the Republic of February had a day of eclat in the glory of M. de Lamartine. Why does not the elect of the 10th of December, after delivering himself from the men of the past, from those who have already over thrown two Governments, turn towards the futuro and support his popular magistracy, who are above all gene rous and who best personify its faith and its hopes." AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Kolner Zeitung publishes an account of the reception which General Klapka met with at Ham burgh, where he arrived on the 17th inst. Large crowds of people met the Hungarian General at the railway terminus, and accompanied him to his hotel, where he addressed them in the following manner : " Gentlemen,—l thank you for your sympathy with a wretched nation, which was conquered while struggling for its liberty. We, its champions, are exiled after the combat. It is a comfort for me and for all my comrades that the respect of true patriots, and especially that of the inhabitants of Hamburg'', accompanies us into exile." In the evening General Klapka visited the Ha.mburgh Theatre, when the manager and the audience received him as they might have done a sovereign prince. The orchestra struck up, and the public rose as one man when General Klapka entered the house. The Wiener Zeitung publishes a long list of Russian officers to whom the .Emperor of Austria has been pleased to grant Austrian orders. The King of Denmark, too, has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Hungarian order of St. Stephen. The garrison of Peterwardein have been admitted to the benefits of the capitulation of the garrison of Comorn. General Francis Lichtenstein has been appointed Civil and Military Commander of Hungary during General Haynau's absence from that country. The Allgemeine Zeitung states that it is not the intention of the Austrian Court to send another Am bassador to London in the place of Count Colloredo. The diplomatic intercourse between the Courts of St. James's and Sehonbrunn is for the future to be kept up by means of an Austrian Charge d'Affaires. PRUSSIA. On the 15th Oct. the news was spread through Berlin of a suicide committed under very singular circumstances. An apothecary's apprentice here (17 years of age, the son of a respected physician in the little town of P.) was found dead in his room. The investigation that took place immediately showed that poisoning by means of sulphuric acid had taken place. A letter of the victim contained communications of the following import : that he was afraid of being rendered unhappy for life, and that he therefore preferred a quick death ; that he was a member of a union which had imposed upon itself the task of opposing the reaction by all the means in its power; that there had been a meeting of the union on Sunday evening, and that cheers had been given for the chiefs of the revolution and the radical party; that thereupon all of a sudden an old man, whom they had not previously remarked, stepped into the midst of them and called them traitors ; that they were thrown into much confusion by this incident, but that they drew their daggers with the intention of assaulting the old man, who fled and escaped. While they were deliberating on what had just happened, a scrap of paper was thrown into the room, with these words written on it :—" All is betrayed, in stant flight is your only safety." This scrap would be found in his waistcoat pocket, and further that be himself could not escape, as he had no pecu niary resources or means of subsistence in a foreign country. After reading this they searched his waiscoat pv.ket, and found the scrap of paper as indicated. The strangetieze of the incident was increased upon its perusal ; for some people in the house, who knew the deceased very well, positively declared that the scrap of paper was written by himself, for they recog nised his handwriting. The next thought was that the whole story in the letter was a pure fiction, but then, if this were so there seemed no motive for self destruction, since the deceased had enj Dyed good health, was not in love, and had always conducted himself to the satisfaction of his superiors, neither had he any debts. These facts being ascertained, the affair will be submitted to a most rigid investigation, and if the occurrences, as described in the letter, really did take place it is not doubted but that the old man will give the in formation required. HOLLAND. The _Ministerial crisis still continues, although there seems to be some hope of its termination. The Staats Courant announces that the King has received from M. Thorbeke, by the hands of M. Donker Curtiss, the list of some persons who might be taken into consideration as heads of the chief ministerial departments. thfore arriving at any decision his Majesty desired M. Thorbeke to consult with the persons designated by him; and to draw up a programme of their prin. ciples on the offices of government, to be laid before the King. In commenting on these official statements of the &cuts Courant, the Handelsblad this day says that many assert that it is evident from the above that the King himself has no confidence whatever in the persons proposed by M. Thorbeke, but that it may rather he looked upon as a sure indication that he approves of that list, for that he scarcely would re quire a body of men to give an official statement of their opinion, unless he bad considered them likely to be such as would be approved by the nation, and that the King is sincere in his declaration to form a Ministry whose view shall accord with the majority of the Second Chamber. The Stoats Courant of this day publishes the state ment of the expenditure of the first quarter of 1849, compared with the first nine months of 1848. The total increase of that period of 1849 was fl 39,175,064 23i. The items are as follow : Direct taxes ... Fl. 13,995,350 751 Post dues ... •• ... 3,656,181 57 Excise .. . • .. ... 13,626,522 34 Registration ... ... .. 6,483,561 321 Duty on gold and silver manufactures 110,925 96 Post-off co ... .. ... 1,015,639 16i Lotteries ... • • ... 286,873 50 The expenditure of the pant nine months of 1848 was 11.39,149,775 55k. The items were as follow : Direct taxes .• • •.. ... F 1.13,735,584 024 Port dues ... . • .. 3,17 . 2,766 21 Ex . e i ce ~. ... .., .. 13,244,510 13} Itc.gistration ..• ... • • 7,587,563 32 Duty on gold and silver manu- factures Poit-office Lotteries ... 101,053 01 1,053,957 35 264,341 50 The increaae in 1849 was : Direct taxes .•• Port dues... .. ... Excise ... .. 259,766 55 413,414 35i 382,012 20i Duty on gold and silver mann factares Lotteries... 9,872 75 225 32 Total .. ••• .. The decrease in 1849 was on— Regi3tration . , .. .. F!. 1,104,001 99/ Poet-office ••• .. ... 28,318 181 Fl. 1,157,598 85 Total Dutch Papers, Oct. 20. d I A MSTERDA M, OCT. 17.—Tua B OURSE e - casioned some animated transac tions to. ntegrals ey ere steady. The Four and Five per C a e Y nts had an upward te ndenc y . S p anish .Debt Wa,; g n offered at a depr eciation. Not much fluctuation in the Portuguese Funds, in which business was very animated. Russian and Austrian rather down, French stationary, and Brazilian offered at a depre. ciation. ••. Fl. 1,132,320 18 HAMBURGH. (From the Borsenhalle.) liamnunon, OCT. 19.—8 y an order of the High Court of Justice at Schleswig, a commission has been sent to Duppel, under the protection of Swedish soldiers, to investigate the affair of the destruction of the German entrenchments. A protest of the chief clergymen of the Duchy of Schleswig, against the proceedings of the Admini stration, has been published. At Flushing brawls between the Danish and THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1849. German minded inhabitants are of daily occurrence. A petition to the King of Prussia has been signed by 670 citizens and forwarded to Berlin. A similar number of signatures was affixed to a protest against the annulling of the fundamental law. It appears that negotiations at Berlin are still going on to bring about an early agreement between the Statdholderthip and the Administration. Mr. Henry Von Gagern is expected at Hamburgh from Bremen, and a dinner will be given to him on Wednesday by a large number of his admirers. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 18.—Prince Frederick of Hesse has proceeded from Cassel to Vienna, on an important mission. Colonel Hodges is said to have been ordered by his Government to take his permanent stay at Flensburg. Count Moltke has arrived at St. Petersbnrgh, and had an audience of the Emperor on the 11th inst. General Klapka, the late commander of Comorn, and a great number of other Hungarians, are staying at Hamburgh, and receiving great public attention. The CORONER — Did you hear the evidence of Dr. tire? Witness—l have read it. The CORONER—And you do not agree with it ? Witness—No. Mr. flopgood—Might not some of the gas lime have dropped into the sewer since it has been opened? Witnessl:Possibly. The CORONER—And might not the sewer being opened and exposed to the atmosphere have dissipated the particles you would expect to find ? Witness—l think not. Mr. William Orde, a former witness, was recalled, and stated that on Saturday morning, between two and three o'clock, some shavings and straw were burnt over the aperture of the sewer in Kenilworth street, and the fire attracted sulphuretted hydrogen gas towards it. It had the appearance of a furnace throwing up the gas from the sewer. The gas burnt green, and had a very offensive smell. This experiment proved, beyond all doubt, that sulphu rotted hydrogen gas still existed in the sewer to a large extent. The jury at this point of the proceeding retired for half an hour, to partake of refreshment. On their re-assembling, Dr. Lyon Playfair, of Barnes, chemist to her Ma jesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and Doctor of Philosophy, was called in and examined. He stated that having been requested by the Commissioners of Sewers to examine this sewer, he had been several times down into it. He had obtained specimens of the fluid and matter in the sewer, of the gas lime refuse with which the sewer was covered, and of the brickwork which composed it, taking care that the brickwork was selected from a part of the sewer which had not been exposed to the atmosphere. He had examined the sewer itself, and found it covered, first, with a clay containing iron substances, then with the gas lime already spoken of, then with clay and sand, and then with a second layer of gas lime. In the last layer he found a solution of sul phuret, along with other: substances, but the other did not contain sulphuret, or anything injurious to life, but the layer nearest the surface of the street, besides the sulphuret, contained some cyanic com pounds, from which prussic acid was produced. He had made experiments with the specimens which had been handed to him, and he had found that water had penetrated through the gas lime, but that the four substances on the clay bad absorbed the sulphuret, while by applying some water which had been filtered through the gas lime and the clay to the brick and mortar extracted from the sewer, he found that it turned the water green. Now the water extracted was white, and he was, therefore, led to believe that percolation had not taken place, nor had the gas-lime anything to do with the hydro - sulphuret of ammonia existing in the sewer. It was a misnomer to call this piece of work a sewer ; it was rather an elongated cesspool, and the three houses in Kenilworth-street must have passed 11,380 pounds of excrement into it during the two years that it had been in use. That amount of liquid matter in a closed sewer like this would produce a gas in which no animal life whatever could exist for a single moment, and directly the unfortunate men, whose deaths furnished the subject of this inquiry, entered the sewer they were struck dead. The CORONER—We have heard, doctor, that there are many sewers in London like this. What do you think would be the best mode of destroying the noxious influence of these gases ? Witness—Only by ventilation, and having a rapid current of air continually passing through the sewer. The CORONER—The gases existing in this sewer would have destroyed almost any number of human beings. Witness—Oh, no doubt. If all the Commissioners of Sewers and all their officers had been within its influence, as the poor men were, it would have killed them at once. A Juror—Will you permit me, Doctor, to ask you if the stratum of clay you have mentioned would not cause the sulphuret to run on one side rather than percolate the sewer ? Witness—l think it would. A Juror—And am I to understand you that the iron present in the clay absorbed the sulphuret impregnating the rain water that may have passed through the lime gas ? Witness—My experiments lead me to that conclusion. The CORONER and jury both expressed themselves much indebted to the Doctor for the clearness with which he had given his evidence. The Doctor observed, that being much interested in all matters connected with the public health, he had gone into this matter more with the view of ob taining private information than of assisting the Commissioners of Sewers in the inquiry. He had, therefore, made some experiments to ascertain if the existence of the sewer in its recent state had proved injurious to the health of the neighbourhood, and he was happy to say he had been able to satisfy himself that the noxious gases it contained could not possibly ascend. Some other evidence of a formal nature having been put in, The CORONER addressed the jury, observing that the inquiry they had been so long engaged in had been laborious, important, and painful ; indeed he had never been called upon to perform a more painful duty than that of presiding over this inquiry. Three unfortunate men had been stricken down in the prime of life, while fulfilling their daily avocation, but the fact of of them having been previously cautioned not to enter this sewer, sufficiently established that they were aware of the danger they had to encounter, and that they were not trapped into the place where they died. Two others had nobly gone to their rescue—one of them being a surgeon, must be sup posed to have been aware of the risk he was running in entering the sewer ; but the poor fellow Walsh, who in his lifetime was the support of an aged mother, could not have possessed the same knowledge. All the parties had been identified either by their imme diate relations or some friends, and the manner in which they had entered the sewer had been fully described. The sewer, it would seem, had been pro perly built, at least the regulations of the Commis sioners of Sewers, to whom the public looked for the proper construction of such works, had been fully complied with, but it was admitted that it had not been properly cleaned. Two causes, however, were assigned for the deaths of these poor fellows—one that the gas which killed them was generated by percolation, the other that it resulted from the foul deposit contained in the sewer ; but the chemical witnesses who traced these causes all agreed that had the sewer been properly ventilated the gas, no matter how produced, would have been comparatively innocuous, and he must be allowed to express some regret that more precaution was not taken to ventilate the sewers before they were entered by labourers. The jury, therefore, had to decide— first, whether or not the deaths of those unfortunate men were caused by a noxious gas in the sewer in question ; secondly, if they could do so, to say what that noxious gas was ; and lastly, whether that gas was increased by the gas-lime above the sewer. A Juror said, some of the jury were not quite satis fied that Mr. Wells and Walsh were properly treated when they were taken from the sewer. Tho CORONER suggested, then, that one of the medical witnesses had better be recalled. Mr. Orde was accordingly recalled, and stated that everything was done for the unfortunate men, but when they were brought into the public-house they were quite dead. Police-constable B 4, stated that Mr. Wells ap peared quite dead when he was brought from the sewer. He was covered with black slimey mud. Mr. George Bishop, the landlord of the C!arendon Tavern, stated that nothing was done to Dr. Wells, although some warm water was being got ready, but he was ordered to be taken off to St. George's Hos pital directly. A. Juror—Was his face not washed ? Witness—No. A Juror—Nothing whatever was done to him then? Witness—No, nothing. A Juror—Did he appear dead ? Witnes.;—Yes, he The jury then retired to consider their verdict with closed doors. They returned at 25 minutes to seven, when they delivered the following verdict : " We find the deceased men, Daniel Peart, John Aoftwood, and Th omas G ee, di e d f rom th e inhalation as si g tu e a n t e e ra i t n ed K i t o l o I v n o e r g t l i e l c . s t t e r d e a t n ; cl aunndvelnve that the deceased Henry Wells and John t i find lant likewise s o e u w a e r g , Walsh met their deaths from the same cause in their laudable endeavours to save the lives of the three first sufferers. The jury unanimously consider the Com missioners and officers of the metropolitan sewers are much to blame for having neglected to avail them• selves of the unusual advantages o ff ered fr om th e local situation of the Grosvenor Canal, for the purpose of flushing the sewers of the district." The CORONER—The latter part of the verdict can not be received. A juror said he hoped it would. The CORONER—You first find the deaths of the men, and then you impute blame to certain parties. I cannot record that, unless you find them generally guilty of manslaughter, and then it would come legally before me. No further remark was made, and the Coroner having thanked the jury for their patient attention during the painful inquiry, the proceedings termi nated, and the Court broke up. WASHING LIQUOR.—A correspondent, who calls himself the " Washerwoman's Friend," says :—" There is now washing liquor sold in Sheffield at the most ex tortionate price—beautifully labelled; but for the benefit of washerwomen, who are generally the really deserv igangaprtosor, we will impart the wonderful secret which has been obtained from head-quarters, viz., Mr. Twelvetrees. 11b. of soda, ;lb. of lime, and ilb. of soap. The soda and soap are boiled together, and the lime alone, in two by. a poori?f w w a,t a e s r h ; er a w n o d in th an en, iw af b te y r b tt ei: e g ieu b: ifi il e ed c , h a emis re usedt— . required . Thia receipt can be as well manufactured chemist.-- Liverpool Standard. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 22. (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN TUE BANKRUPTCY OF JAMES KILLICK. This was a meeting for the last examination of :he bankrupt, who was a builder at Dorking. The balance sheet, prepared by Mr. Butler, shows the debts and liabilities to be about 2,2001, and the valuable assets 2001. The assets consist of hook debts, the whole of elle stock and furniture, value 1,5001, having been seiz p ed and sold under an execution a few days befofe thf issue of the fiat. Killick became a bankrupt on his own petition. Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Lawrance for the bankrupt. Mr. LINKLATER stated that he offered no opposition to the accounts filed, but wished to examine the bank rupt respecting the executions under which his pro perty had been swept away, and also with reference to some preferences which the assignees considered bad been fraudulently made. But previously he wished to know what was the opinion of the Com missioner as to the penal clauses of the new Act, and whether he still continued to think that those clauses had a prospective operation only. The COMMISSIONER said the more convenient course would be to establish an offence against the bankrupt before deciding upon the construction of the Act. The bankrupt was then examined, and it appeared from his evidence that he had dishonoured trade bills as early as September, 1848, and had been much pressed by his creditors previous to April, 1849; in that month a writ was issued against him by a credi• tor, which the bankrupt gave to Mr. Marsh, of Dorking, and at the same time informed him that he was unable to meet his engagements ; that an execu tion was issued by this person for upwards of 1,0001., for money lent some years before; and that, imme diately upon the sheriff's taking possession, the bankrupt wrote to his creditors, telling them that he had let a creditor have possession to protect them all. It further appeared that at the time the bankrupt was sued and pressed by his creditors he paid his father 1001. to mret a bill, not due, which the former had accepted for .his accommodation ; and the bank rupt admitted that this payment was made voluntarily. Mr. LINKLATER then called the attention of the Court to the 256th clause of the new Act, by which it is provided, that "if at the sitting for the last ex amination of any bankrupt it shall appear to the Court that the bankrupt had committed the offences enumerated the Court shall refuse to grant the bank rupt any further protection from arrest." The offences referred to embrace " the contracting of debts by fraud," and "the obtaining by false pretences the forbearance of any of his debts from any of his creditors," and also "undue preference." He con tended that, according to the evidence of the bankrupt himself, he had committed both the offences before mentioned—more particularly that of undue prefer ence ; and the Court would therefore be bound to withhold further protection to the bankrupt, unless the Act of Parliament was considered not to relate to offences committed before its passing. It was im portant that the Court should as soon as possible decide upon the construction which this, the most important provision in the Act, was in future to bear. Mr. LAWEANCE said that great inconvenience to the Court and great injustice to the bankrupt would result from making the last examination meeting an occasion for inquiring into conduct. The real question which the Court had now to decide was, no whether the bankrupt had behaved properly or im properly as a trader, but whether the accounts he pre sented contained a full and faithful disclosure of his affairs—whether the balance-sheet was a fair picture of the books, and whether the books themselves were accurate and reliable. The question of conduct was for the certificate meeting. The bankrupt passed and obtained protection. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. _ _ Thomas .AshtonCockayne surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of misdemeanour. Mr. W. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ballantine were for the defence. The nature of the misdemeanour imputed to the defendant, who it appeared was a person very re spectably connected, and who holds the office of deputy-master of the Western Grammar School at Brompton, was that of having committed an indecent assault upon a police-constable of the S division named Charles Angel. The offence was alleged to have been committed on the night of the 7th of Sep tember. The details are of course not fit for publica tion, but the story told by the constable was of a very improbable and unsatisfactory character, and he was contradicted in some material portions of his tes timony by the other witnesses in the case. Upon cross-examination the prosecutor, who it appeared was a native of Melksham in Wiltshire, admitted that he had been charged with manslaughter, and, although he refused to answer many of the questions that were put to him with regard to his former habits and asso ciates, it was pretty clear that his character was very indifferent. Notwithstanding this, however, it would seem that upon his arrival in London he very speedily obtained the appointment of police-constable. Mr. BODKIN made a most eloquent and forcible appeal to the jury on behalf of the defendant, who, he stated, was a person who had all his life maintained the very highest character for morality and honour able conduct, and who was utterly incapable of acting in the manner described. lie commented upon the evidence given by the prosecutor, pointing out the contradictory statements he had made, and said that the charge had evidently been trumped up for the purpose of extorting . money. The Learned Counsel concluded by expressing his surprise that such a man as the prosecutor evidently was by his own showing should ever have been appointed to a situation where the property and persona of the public were entrusted to his charge. Several highly respectable witnesses were then examined, all of whom confirmed the statement of the Learned Counsel.with regard to morality and honour able conduct enjoyed by the defendant; and three persons residing at Melksham, one of whom was the superintendent of police, were also examined, and they stated that, from their knowledge of the prosecutor and his associates, and his general conduct, they would not believe him on his oath. The jury, without hearing any more evidence, interposed at this stage of the proceedings, and said they were satisfied that no case bad been made out against the defendant. The REcoanna asked if he was to understand that the jury considered the case too doubtful to justify them in convicting the defendant, or whether they did not place any reliance upon the evidence of the prosecutor ? The jury said they did not believe the story told by the policeman. The RECORDER said that this e x pression of opinion byti e jury was highly satisf ac t ory i n a case w h e r e a gentleman, whose character appeared to be unim peachable,a person of bad character. was no case to warrant a conviction, e had o andlong af e s l the attacked tillaatdthoen b rl y ey let the matter proceed so far in order that this might not only be made appa rent, but that it should also he shown that the prose cutor was unworthy of credit. Mr. BODKIN said that after what had been stated by his Lordship he trusted the defendant would leave the court without the least imputation upon his character. The RECORDER said, in his opinion he would do so ; but at the same time he considered it very satisfactory that in such a case as this counsel had been engaged on both sides, and he could not help also expressing his satisfaction at the very candid and fair manner in which the case had been opened by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution. lie had stated the facts most fairly, and had made the defendant aware of every point upon which the prosecutor relied, and thus gave him an opportunity of fairly meeting the accusation. A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded. Tho ItEconnun gave directions to the inspector of police on duty at this session to report to the proper authorities the fact of the jury having expressed an opinion that the prosecutor was unworthy of belief. At present he was in the position of a protector of the public, and it was therefore very necessary that the opinion entertained of him by the jury should be reported in the proper quarter. He had no doubt that it would be so, but he felt it right to state pub licly what his opinion was on the subject. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. BuLLocx.) James Somers, a respectable looking young man, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having stolen the sum of 1601. in sovereigns and half-sovereigns in the dwelling-house of Richard James. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Nagle appeared fur the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine and Mr. O'Brien fur the defence. Although the case occupied the Court from tho middle of the day until a late hour at night the facia were not at all of an intricate nature. prosecutorlt and was as a w eheese p in pe l a r r i e c d to t r h ia a - t th roa e d, Pimlico,living acquainted with the prisoner, who is the son of a butcher in the neighbourhood, ho having about three years ago been in prosecutor's employment. They were on terms of friendship with each other, and prosecutor having lent prisoner some money, which the latter could not pay, he agreed, in part liquidation of the debt, to white wash his kitchen, which he began some period long before the day of the robbery, but had not completed. On the 16:h of last August the prisoner called on prosecutor to see him, and at that time prosecutor was in the parlour counting out some gold, in the whole 3631. Prisoner asked him what he was about to do with his money ? and the reply was " Invest it in Consols." Prisoner then asked him to come out and have a glass of ale, to which the prosecutor assented, and, having returned his money to the cashbox, placed it on the top shelf of the parlour cupboard. Whilst at the public-house, prisoner looked over the paper, and observed that as the Consols were then very high pro- ' secutor had better defer the intended investment until there was a fall, which prosecutor agreed to do and returned home, and, having tied his money up in bags, put it where he usually kept it—in a cupboard in his bedroom. Shortly after this prisoner came and I expressed his intention of finishing the whitewashing ' j ; for which purpose he went down stairs, but left again without doing anything. On the next day he was in the house for the same purpose, and left with out being observed; and it was then found that he had not at all forwarded the job, neither was any sub sequent attempt made to do so. The prosecutor, not requiring to go to the cupboard where the money was, did not miss any until the . 27th of the same month, and he then discovered that one of the bags, contain ing the sum named in the isdictment, had been ab stracted, the cupboard having been forced ands closed again. Having made the fact of his loss known to those in the house, he learnt that the servant of a lady living in the upper part of the house had seen the prisoner, on the day of the 17th, come down on tiptoe from the upper part of the house, and that he left by a door that was not used by the prosecutor or any of his family. lie then appeared to have some thing heavy in his pocket, which he tried to conceal. Prosecutor subsequently told him of his loss, and he said it would be better if he kept it a secret, as the knowledge of the loss would cause his neighbours and tradesmen to suspect he was not able to keep up his credit, and that it would not do him any good, as he could not identify the gold. Prosecutor said he did not care for his tradespeople, as he was quite independent of them. Prisoner then said he must take care his lodger did not know of it, or she might leave. This raised prosecutor's suspicions, and he communicated them to the police, who advised him to keep an eye on the prisoner, which he did; and sub sequently going out with the prisoner, and seeing him inadvertently pull some gold from his pocket, and knowing him to have been in bad circumstances, spoke to him of it, and asked him to let him have a portion of what was due. The prisoner said he would try and let him have a half-sovereign the next day, which he did, and prosecutor at once identified it as one of those he had packed up, from the fact of its being marked with his teeth, prosecutor having broken one of his teeth in trying whether it was a good one. Prisoner having also been seen with much money in his possession by other people, the police apprehended him, and having denied that he had any money about him was searched, and 17 half-sove reigns and some sovereigns were found on him, which he said were his mother's. For the defence it was contended that the identity of the half-sovereign was insufficient, and that as the prisoner was managing his mother's business he had ample opportunity of being possessed of the money spoken of. A number of witnesses were called to prove the payment of small sums to the prisoner, but not one accounted for the number of half sovereigns found on him. In answer to the COURT, prosecutor said there was a great number of half•sovereigns in the bag, and that prisoner well knew where he kept his money. A witness, named Cowderoy, was called, who swore that he, the prisoner, and the prosecutor were all out together on the 17th. This was disproved by prosecutor and other witnesses. A number of highly respectable witnesses were then called to character, when Mr. PRENDERGAST having replied, His LORDSHIP summed up. The jury having consulted some time in the box, asked to retire, and having been locked up for a great length of time, returned and Acquitted the prisoner. The announcement was received with a loud " hurrah " by the numerous friends of the prisoner who were waiting outside. SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Oct. 22' These sessions commenced this day at the Sessions House, Kennington-causeway, before Thomas Puckle, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar contained the names of 46 prisoners for trial, among whom were a number of females for street robberies. On the grand jury being sworn, the CHAIRMAN remarked that, on looking at the calendar, the first four cases were of such a trifling nature that they might suppose they ought to have been disposed of in a summary manner by the committing magistrates. The first was for stealing a faggot ; the second was four females, each for stealing a small loaf of bread, altogether of no more value than one shilling. But he must inform them that as the law then stood the magistrates had no alternative but to send the parties to the sessions, as felonies in each case had been com mitted. It was hard upon the county as regards the expenses thus incurred, but there was no help for it. After making a few observations to the grand jury respecting their duties, the Learned Chairman dis inisqed them to their room. Ann Brown, 29, was indicted for stealing four half-crowns from the person of James Harrison, at Lambeth. Mr. CITARNOCK defended the prisoner. The prosecutor deposed that he was a married man, and lived at Kennington, and on the evening of the 14th instant he had been enjoying the com pany of a few friends. While returning home he was accosted by the prisoner, who wanted him to treat her to a glass of rum. He refused to do so, and walked on, when she suddenly put her arms round his waist and coughed. At that signal a man came running up and struck him, when the prisoner put her hands into his waistcoat pocket, and stole his money. He seized hold of her hand, and in the struggle she dropped the money on the pave ment. A police-constable then came up and secured her, when his four half-crowns were found on the pavement. In cross-examination by Mr. Charnock, witness said he had been drinking a little, but ho was quite capable of taking care of himself. The money was safe in his waistcoat pocket before the prisoner accosted him, and he denied letting it fall on the pavement. The constable was then called, and on being sworn stated that he saw the prosecutor struggling with the prisoner. On his approach the former charged her with robbing him of four half-crowns, and that she had dropped them on the pavement. He searched and found them. Mr. CIIARNOCK—Now, was not the prosecutor very drunk at the time ? Constable—lle was visibly drunk, but not incapable.—(Laughter.) Mr. CHARNOCK—What do you mean by visibly drunk ? I never heard such a word made use of in this court before. Constable—l mean that he appeared to have been drinking a good deal, but he could walk well.—(Laughter.) CHAIRMAN—You mean to say he was drunk ? Constable—Yes, sir ; but I thought he was capable of taking care of himself. Mr. CHARNOCK contended that there was no foun dation for the charge. The prosecutor was admitted to be drunk, and most likely dropped the money himself, after making an immoral proposition to the prisoner. He really hoped the jury would not take the evidence of a drunken man. The CHAIRMAN summed up the case, and, after consulting for about twenty minutes, The foreman of the jury said that one of their number could not agree; therefore, he considered they had better retire. After an absence of nearly an hour, the obdurate juryman came into court, and asked the chairman whether it was proved the prosecutor was drunk ? The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative, but he was capable of taking care of himself. The Juryman retired more satisfied to his com panions, and after being locked up twenty minutes more they entered the court, and returned a verdict of Acquittal. In discharging the prisoner from custody, the CHAIRMAN told her that she bad had a very fortunate escape. Had the jury known her character as well as the court, he thought they would not have acquitted her. She had been in custody a number of times and tried in that court as a desperate thief, and had she been found guilty, he should certainly have tranported her. He hoped this escape would be a caution to her, and be the means of her reforming her conduct. The prisoner was then discharged from custody, and as soon as she arrived in the court-yard she was joined by a number of her old associates, who con gratulated her ors her escape from a "‘sellowser," and carried her to a neighbouring gin-shop, where they regaled themselves by drinking the healths of the jury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. William Jamieson, whose real name is said to be Jones, was brought up fur final examination charged with having attempted to pass a forged cheque at the Union Bank of London, Argyll-place, Regent street, and also with having obtained goods from various tradespeople by means of forged orders. Mr. Reynolds, one of the cashiers at the bank, proved that the prisoner, on the 17th inst., presented at the counter what appeared to be a cheque for 45/. 4i., drawn by Mr. W. 11. Acret, surgeon, of Torrington square. Witness examined the document and immediately discovered it was not in the hand writing of Mr. Acret, who kept an account with the bank. Witness took the cheque into Mr. Clack, the manager's room, and told him what he suspected. The prisoner was sent for and questioned. He pre tended that he had come from Mr. Dakin, of St. Paul's Churchyard. Police constable Godfrey, C 147, said he took the prisoner into custody at the bank. The prisoner voluntarily admitted that he had not stated the truth when he said he had come from Mr. Dakin. The prisoner said he had got the cheque from a man in Golden-square, whom he had occasionally met, but whose name and address he was ignorant of, and when he presented it for payment he believed it was a forgery. Mr. Acret, surgeon, Torrington-square, said the cheque now produced was a forgery. He knew the prisoner by sight from his having lived with Mr. Dlaitlancl, a chemist, in Torrington. place. Mr. Maitland, chemist, Torrington-place, said the prisoner had formerly lived in his service as assistant. The cheque now produced witness believed was in the handwriting of the prisoner. The prisoner declined making any defence, and was fully committed on this charge. The police. constable, Godfrey, stated that he had made inquiries since the apprehension of the prisoner, and had succeeded in ascertaining that the prisoner had contrived to obtain goods by means of forged orders in the name of his former employer, Mr. Mait land, from many tradesmen. He had traced out cases of fraud on Mr. Skidmore, of the Haymarket ; Mr. Emslie. St. Martin's• lane ; Mr. Weiss, Strand ; Mr. Brown, of Farringdon-street ; and there were several others who had not yet been seen. The prisoner was ordered to be brought up again on Thursday, in, case any of the parties who had been defrauded might choose to come forward and prosecute. MARYLEBONE. Walter Graham, a youth 16 years of age, residing with his parents in Gloucester place, Camden-town, was placed at the bar on the charge of having as saulted Julia Felicia Oughton, a child under ten years old, with intent to violate her person. The com plainant lives in Hartland-road, Hampstead-road. The parents on either side are highly respectable. Mr. Sidney applied for defendant to be ad interim liberated upon bail. Mr. LONG told him that such a course could not be as yet adopted. Upon Thursday defendant would be entitled to give security for his attendance at the sessions to take his trial, but it must be to a large amount. The complainant's father here stepped forward, and said he should be glad if the Magistrate would exer cise a summary jurisdiction, but he was told dis tinctly that his wish could not in such a case be complied with. WORSHIP-STREET. Charles Savage, a dray man in the employ of Messrs Truman, Hanbury, and Co., the brewers, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with felo niously cutting and wounding his wife, Grace Savage, with intent to murder her. The injured woman, who appeared very much debili tated, and whose face was nearly covered with adhesive plaister, deposed as follows :—I have been married for some years to the prisoner, but we have been lately separated, and I am now living with my friends in New York-street, Bethnal-green. About nine o'clock on Saturday night, while passing through the Bethnal-green-road, in company with my sister, the prisoner came up to us and asked me how I was, and where I had left the baby. I told him that the child was at home which I considered was the best place for it, at which he appeared rather vexed, and said that I ought to have brought it out with me. The prisoner held his hands behind him all the time we were conversing together, and, observing something very wild and ghastly in his looks, I asked him what was the matter with him, but, without returning any answer, he instantly threw his left arm round my neck, and raising his right hand, in which he held some sharp instrument, drew it rapidly across my face. Feeling the blood pouring down from my nose and right cheek, .1 screamed out " Murder.' Having managed by a violent effort to disengage myself from him, I rushed into the shop of a greengrocer close by, where I remained until the arrival of a surgeon, who dressed my weststds. A young woman named Ellen Lockey said—The prisoner's wife is my sister, and on the prisoner coming up to us on Saturday night, he asked his wife where she was going ? She answered that she was going to buy a little pair ,of socks for the baby, and he then inquired if she would be at home_in two hours, to which she replied that she should be so in a few minutes. When he first came up he had his hands in his pockets, but shortly withdrew them and held them behind his back. This seemed to give his wife uneasiness, and she demanded why he placed them there ? Ile replied equivocally, " That's my preference," and noticing that he had a peculiar whiteness in the face, she mentioned it to him, but without making any remark upon it, he suddenly threw his left hand over her right shoulder and drew his right hand ,over her face. She screamed in a terrified manner, and I then saw that he had some instrument in his grasp, though what it was I could not snake out, but should judge .it must have been a clasp knife or razor, as 1 saw him shut it up as he walked away, leaving his wife, who had just rushed from his grasp bleeding profusely from the face. John Stephens, a turner in Orange-street, Bethnal green, said—Whilst standing outside the shop of Mr. Cox, a butcher, at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night, I suddenly saw the prosecutrix and prisoner struggling and wrestling together, as though they were fighting, and then all at once saw her release herself from his hold and rush into a green-grocer's shop. The prisoner was about to run away, with some implement I could not distinguish in his hand, but he was pursued 'and brought back, when a con stable entered and secured him. Alexander Hall, the constable, deposed—While on duty in the Bethnal. green-road at the time in ques tion I heard piercing screams is a woman's voice, and on hastening up to ascertain the cause of them, found the proseoutrix sitting in the green-grocer's shop, bleeding very much from several wounds in her face. I ran out to catch the person who had in flicted them, and at the same moment the prisoner was brought back by a butcher, who handed him over to me, and I asked him if it was he who had injured his wife. He replied in the negative, and on asking him if he had a knife or razor about him, he said he had not. I wanted to feel his clothes, and he would not allow me, ;but I insisted upon so doing, and on thursting my hand into his trou sers pocket drew out a razor and razor-case, the razor being loose in his pocket. On seeing that I had the razor he said it was his, and on my ex amining the blade of the weapon by the nearest light I discovered marks of blood upon it in several places quite wet, and on inspecting his hands I found that one of them was also stained with blood, still fresh and wet. On being asked if he wished to say anything, the prisoner carelessly replied, "I hardly know whether I did it or not, as I was the worse for liquor at the time. Not having been at the brewhouse, I went out at half-past five to take a walk round Shoreditch, and went into the Marlborough Head public-house, where I sat drinking with some Irish labourers, but what time I left there I don't recollect, and don't know any thing else that occurred. The depositions of the above witnesses were then taken by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, but it having been intimated that Mr. Vandenburg; the surgeon who had had the care of the injured woman, was incapable at present of attending and giving his evidence, which was considered indispensable, the prisoner was ordered to be brought up again for the formal com pletion of the depositions, when he will be fully com mitted fir trial. THE NETHERLANDS. Everything remains uncertain respecting the Ministerial crisis. There was much stir in the dif ferent departments on Friday, but nothing was known. The departure of Prince Frederick for Berlin was delayed until the solution of the Ministerial question. ITALY. A letter from Leghorn of the 12th inst. states that a boat belonging to the British ship-of-the-line Bel lerophon, with a midshipman and twenty-two men, was upset on approaching theland. Notwithstanding the assistance afforded by the boats in the harbour, the midshipman and ten of the men were drowned. A letter from Florence of the 14th inst. states that some crowds having been collected in the streets, the Austrian sentinels fired on the people, and several persons were wounded. lONIAN ISLANDS. A letter from Trieste, dated th e 31st instant, states that order had been re-established in Cephalonia; The Lord High Commissioner bad promised to proclaim a general amnesty.as soon as the principal leaders of the insurrection had been delivered up. THE PIMLICO TRAGEDY. The adjourned inquiry into the cause of the death of the unfortunate men who perished in the Kenil worth-street sewer, Pimlico, was resumed yester day before Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster. Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, living in Cornwall, said he was a medical man. Had particularly directed his attention to the condition and ventilation of sewers. He had examined the sewer in question, and analysed a portion of the gaseous matter which it contained. There was nothing remarkable in it, and the ' gases were precisely similar to those found in all sewers. He had examined the bodies of the three labourers, and from the peculiar colour of the bodies it was his opinion that they died from inhaling sulphuretted hydrogen. He had also seen the bodies of Mr. Wells, the surgeon, and Walsh, the policeman, but the colour of their bodies was quite different from that of the others, and it was therefore his opinion that they died from the effects of chalk damp, a mix ture of carbonic acid and nitrogen. In the first in. stance the men died immediately that they came within the influence of the gas ; but in the case of the two latter individuals death was not so sudden. The sulphuretted hydrogen gases were not produced in the manner described by Dr. Ure, but by the putre faction of the deposit in the sewer, and had the sewer been properly ventilated the poisonous vapours would have escaped. He was, however, of opinion that the noxious gases of all sewers could be de stroyed by a simple process, and he had repeatedly disclosed that process to Sir George Grey and Lord Ebrington. The existence of these gases could not be tested by a lamp or a light. His ex perience bad convinced him that a light afforded no admonition at all, and the conclusion he had come to, after careful examination and collecting information from parties for whom he had the highest respect, was that nothing could be used as a means of testing the existence of gases in sewers, and the only thing to be done before men went into a suspected sewer was to pass a current of air, obtained from the at mosphere, through it at the rate of three feet per second. Many deaths had come under his observa tion resulting from similar causes to those existing in this case; and therefore, without going into the special cause suggested by Dr. Ure, he had no hesitation in stating his opinion that the men died from the effect of the gases pro duced by the decomposed deposit in the sewer itself. These gases existed in all sewers to a more or less extent, and in his opinion the only means of destroy ing them was by having recourse to a strong current of air, heated at a temperature of 600 degrees, and conveyed into the sewer through the medium of a I valve. fit RONER—IS it your opinion, Mr. Gurney, that wh e there is no ventilation these gases escape, by means of the drains, into the dwelling-houses adjacent to the sewer ? Witness—ln some instances it may, but 1 would rather not go into that question. A Juror—You state, Mr. Gurney, that Wells and Walsh died from the effects of chalk-damp. Witness —Yes. A Juror—Now if the sewer had been opened at the Warwick-street end, and in the fields, it might have been entered with safety ? Witness—Yes ; I think the undulations of the atmosphere would have so dis sipated the poisonous gases, and purified the sewer, that the men might have pursued their work without danger. A Juror—And you are of opinion that all sewers ought to be ventilated. Witness—Certainly ; before they are entered. Mr. William Allen Miller, professor of chemistry, of Ring's College, stated that he had examined the sewer in question, and the earthy matter with which it was covered. He had found two beds of lime deposit over the sewer, one eight inches and the other ten inches above the crown, from which:he had extracted portions for the purposes of analytical examination, and while engaged in his inspection this morning he had closely examined the brickwork of the roof of the sewer. It was quite dry, and was free from anything indicating percolation. Some of the mud and sewerage fluid formed in the sewer had been collected and analysed under his inspection at King's College. It contained the ordinary gases produced by decomposed sewerage deposits, such as sulphu retted hydrogen, but nothing to induce a belief that it was impregnated by the poisons of the gas lime The gas lime had also been analysed. It contained carbonate of lime, hydro-sulphuret of lime, and some cyanic acid compounds, but the latter in such minute quantities that it could hardly be calculated. It pre vailed to the extent of about one pound to ten tons, and even allowing that it had perforated the sewer, it would be like a drop of water put into the ocean. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Hopgood on behalf of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and he gave it as his decided opinion that the gases existing in the sewer were not produced by the lime refuse ; but, at all events, he could find no evidence of it in the sewerage matter itself. A Juror—Was it possible for the poison of the lime to perforate the sewer ? Witness—lt certainly was. A Juror—And would it have increased the deadly influence of the gases in the sewer ? Witness—lt would mix with them, of course, but I can find no evidence of its existence in the sewer. The CORONER—Do you think the fact of the sewer having been some time opened to the atmosphere, before you examined it, may have so altered the cir cumstances as to render it difficult, if not impossible, to discover the existence of the lime refuse poison ? Witness—That certainly is an important considera tion, but still I can only repeat that none of the lime refuse, or any of its ingredi en t s , was f oun d in the sewer itself. Mr. Hopgood—Do you think, Mr. Miller, that the gases which killed these men were produced by the fluid that percolated the sewer ? Witness My examination does not lead me to that conclusion. Mr. Hopgood—Then will you just give me shortly the result of your inquiries and analysis? Witness— The sewer must have contained sulphuretted hydrogen and hydro-sulphuret of ammonia in large quantities. The deaths were caused by the sulphuretted hydrogen gas, generated by the decomposed animal and vege table matter found in the sewer, and confined there by the absence of atmospheric air. Mr. Hopgood—ls it your opinion that the lime waste had anything to do with the accident? Wit ness—No, it is not. Mr. James Phillips, another chemist, confirmed the testimony of the last witness, having taking part in the analytical examination of the fluid and matter extracted from the sewer, and stated that so far from the rain water having percolated the sewer, he had tested the soil immediately below the first layer of lime refuse, and could discover no traces of its having been impregnated by water: passing from the gas lime. Mr. Hopgood—Do you gather from your exami nation, Mr. Phillips, that the gas lime had any effect whatever upon the contents of the sewer ? Witness — I h i‘ a i v r e . no doubt whatever that it had not. connected with the gas lime? ere these deaths in any way Dr. Dougall Campbell, Demonstrator bDaemb o W d ns i t t r n a e t Mr. zg a i l i s i o i slightest.ofWitness—Tot NChemistrythe in University Cone er, .gave similar sewer,spc specimens en s but of the experiments undertaken by assisted in the evidence. He had also tested some to indicate a beliefcould fluid and matter taken from the detect the presence of nothing that the rain water passing through the gas lime had percolated the sewer. Mr. Hopgood—Do you think the gas lime had any effect upon the sewer ? Witness—The result of my experiment leads me to think not. THAMES. Mr. John Preston, the chief mate of the ship At lantic, now lying in the London Docks, was brought up on remand before Mr. Yardley for final examina tion, charged with a series of violent and cruel assaults on William Martin, apprentice to Mr. Leonard, the owner and master of the vessel, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. YARDLEY said he should commit the prisoner for trial. John Brennan, an Irish boy of delicate appearance, and who was in an exceedingly weak state, was then sworn, and stated that he was also an apprentice be longing to the Atlantic, and joined her in Ireland. Lie was in the ship's boat at Odessa, while the vessel was taking in cargo, and was endeavouring to get the boat clear from the anchor, when the mate jumped into the boat from the ship's deck, caught him by the hair of his head, and threw him on his back with great violence. lie struggled to get away, and the mate said, " Do you want to get me into a row by making a hole in the boat's bottom ?" and then kicked him and jumped upon him several times, and also struck him on the chest. He had been affected ever since in his chest, and still experienced great diffi culty in breathing. Mr. YARDLEY said this case must also go before a jury, and committed the prisoner, in default of bail, fur trial. THE HOLTHBAD LINE.—THE LIVERPOOL LETTERS. —Tee non-arrival of her Majesty's packet St. Columba at Holyhead until nearly two o'clock on Saturday morn ing, leaves some reason to fear the correspondence from Ireland to North America will not arrive at Liverpool in time fur the Hibernia. As the Holyhead packets are more rapid in their movements than others, and the Llewellyn packet did not arrive in time, on a recent similar occasion, the Post - office au thorities should make such arrangements as would enable those vessels to pro ceed from Kingstown an hour earlier, ss formerly, and at once prevent what otherwise, through heavy weather, must always be unavoidable.—Saunders's Newv Letter. OXFORD CITY SESSIONS. —At these sessions yes terday (Monday), a young man, named Russell, a nati ve of the city of Worcester, wa3 sentenced by Mr. Man ning, Recorder, to ten years' transportation for picking a person's pocket of a purse containing two fourpenny pieces, at the recent Oxford St. Giies's fair. • The pri soner was known to belong to a gang of pickpockets that usually attend country fairs, &c. HINTS TO BAD WRITERS.--The historian Niebuhr gives the following opinion respecting bad writing :—"lt is a shameful indolence; indeed, sendingbadly written letter wrtten letter to a fellow -creat ure i s as impudent an act as I know of. Can there be anything more unpleasant than to open a letter which at once shows that it will require long deciphering? Besides, the effect of the letter is gone if we must spell it. Strange, we carefully avoid troubling other people even with trifles, or to appear be fore them in dress which shows negligence or careless ness; and yet nothing is thought of giving the disagree able trouble of reading a badly written letter." THE COUNTR The following is the official corn, &c., received in the por Essex, from the 15 th Oct., 1 both inclusive : Y MARKETS. statement of the quantiti rt of London from the poi 1849, to the 20th Oct., ~' .., i Al ,_% t, 1 ca o .) . p., Colchester , Harwich .. ............ , Leigh Maid on ., 611 30 231 40, 82) 55 16 101 274 139 2 CHELMSFORD, OCTOBER 19.—The wheats, of which the supply at market was limited, owing to the good time, were to-day is per quarter dearer than last week, with a bride demand. Barleys were also in advance is per quarto-. All else firm at the following quotations:— Wheat, white, old 4.1 s to 483 ; new 46s to 495; red, old 40s to 433; new, 41s to 45s ; barley, 28s to 305 ; chevalier 28s to 325; grinding 20s to 24s ; oats 17s to 23 s ; m a lt 54 s to 56s ; chevalier 54s to 58s ; peas, partridge, new 28s to 303; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s to .--1 ; dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beans, tick, new 25s to 27: ; old, 28s to 30s; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s; old 29s to 31s; ma sagan, new 24s to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, OCT. 20.—Wheat, white 44s to 508; red 40s to 443; barley 28s to 32s ; beans, mazagan 24s to 28s; middle and small 28s to 30s ; peas 26s to 31s per qr. Ila.DoiwaTosr, OCT. 19.—The following:are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bean.. First ... 52s Od 26s Cd 23s Od 33.3 Od Second ... 40s 8d 24s 3d 18s 10d 31s 03 Third ... 303 Od 214 Od 14s Od 25s Od Total quantity of Wheat in market €O5 qrs., 559 sold Do. Barley do. 307 qrs., `i9l sold Do. Oats do. 3i 3 qrs., 366 sold Do. Beans do. 31 qrs., 31 sold KIRICALDY, OCT. 20.—The following are the quotations up to this date : NEW. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, First 443 Od 25s 01 20s 01 —s Od I—s Od Second 41s Od 21s Od 13s Gd —s Od —s Od Third 3ss Od 16aJ s 6d 16s Gd —s Od —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs. imp : , - 273 to,oos.od, GLASGOW, OCT. 18. —Provisions—Cheese, 48s to 50s Od per cwt • retail, bd to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 37s per cwt. dountry fresh butter, 9d to lid per lb; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7d to &I. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, bs 6d per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair ; ducks, 2s Od. STIRLIXG, OCT. 18—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25s Od; ditto, home, 21s Od to 050 d ; ditto ditto new, 16s to 2.2 s , barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 1190 d to 17s Od ; ditto new, 139 to 18s Od ; oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od ; ditto new, 9s Od to 12s 6tl; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33s to 35s ; ditto brewers, 36s Od to 38s ; beans, per boll, NOd to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peas, 145 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load,. Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s 0(1 to 28s ; ditto per peck of 7lbs, 80 to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb. 8(1 to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, 433 to 455. KELSO, OCT. 19.—Wheat, old, 30s to 37s ; ditto, new, 27s to 34s t)d ; barley, new, 13s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 165 Od t• 18s ; potato oats, 14s to 15s ; ditto new, lOs to 133 Od ; com mon oats, ON to 00s Od; ditto new, 003 to 00s Od ; peas, 00s to 00s Od; beans, 00s to ON per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, OCT. 18.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s Od ; barley, 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. 18,—The supply of grain in this day's market was 556 bolls; wheat at 17s Od to 23s Od per boll ; barley, 14s 6d to 18s 6d ; oats, lls Od to 14s 6d; beans, 13s 6d to 16s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICY, 18.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 37s Od; ditto old, ON to 00s ; barley, new, 161 to 18s Od ; potato oats, 13s Od to 155 Od ; common oats, Its to 14s Od • peas, 23s Od to 258 Od ; beans, 23, Od to 25s Od per boll Of six imperial bushels. 13Eawmc, Om 18.—Wheat, 39s aid; barley, 21s Id; oats, 16s lOid ; rye, OOs Od ; beans, 00s Od ; peas, OOs Od ave rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARKE :T.-YESTERDAY. Chester Main l7s 9(l'Whitwell (un5e.)....,. 15s Oa Wylam Wall's End, &c. Kelloe l9s 0(1 South Killingworth ... 15s Gd Adelaide Tees Wharneliffe Lambton Primrose ... 19s 3d West Cornforth ...... 18s Gd Belmont l9s 6d DerwentwaterHartley 168 01 Haswell 193 9d Nixon's Merthyr and Russell's Ilstton 19s 9d Cardiff Ships at market. 32. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business done to-day, but at a slight depreciation in prices. Tne transactions were as follow:—.Great Western, 49%—Ditto, Quarters, 13% dis.—Taff Vale, 130—South Devon, 5% dis. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 22. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were 35 follow:—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C find B), 6 per cent. till 1850, 13—Caledonian, Preference, BN,-- Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 61. 13s. 3d. —Ditto, Halves (L. and B. ), 20 c. dis.—London and North- Western, 109—Ditto, New Quarters, j s p.—Midland, 45 Ditto, Halves, 2134 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7 1 4 dis. South-Eastern and Dover, (No. 4), 5% dis. —North Staffordshire, 8% dis.—North-Western, 10 3 / 4 dis.-- Shropshire Union (Railway and Canal), 3y 2 dis. York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cant. till 1850, t./. Bs. 9d. dis.—York and North Midland, 19 1 4 —Leeds and Thirsk Extension (1648), Halves, 1% dis. MANCHESTER, Ocr. 22. STOCK EXCHANGIi. The transactions to-day were as fellow :—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 5 11-16—Ditto (Registered), 6 11-16—Caledonian, 12►4—Ditto, Preference, 814—Man chaster and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 1 p.—North Staf fordshire, 61: i dis. Manchester and Leeds Preference, 12 1 3 Ditto, Fifths, 6% dis —London and North-Western,' 109—Great Northern, Preference, 2 3 / dis.—East Anglianv Preference, 5 per cent., 1 c. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Business transacted to-day waS limited, and prices varied little from last quotations. Its sales are Great Western, 52—South Staffordshire, 4135. '9d• dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7% die.—Ditto (B)► 5% dis. YORK, 0cr.:20. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Great Northern, 7 1 A—York, Newcastle, and Per' wick, 17 5 /F4 —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), no THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—The expenre at tending the prosecution of the Mannings for the murder of Patrick O'Connor will not be far short of 8001. The number of witnesses summoned to attend at the Old Bailey this day amounts b 43, and many of the expenses are very heavy. At the latter part of last week Mr. Moxhay, the superintendent of the Edinburgh -police , forwarded his accounts to the Southwark Police. court, for the purpose of being placed on his certificate. by the, magistrate, and he alleges hi s ex p enses t o b e ne are 10 01 . He makes a charge of three guineas a day for his. 'attend' ante in London, but it is doubtful whether the Treasury will allow him more than an ordinary police-office under similar circumstances. On Saturday night Mr. le lassey, the medical student, arrived in London from Swarkesione, having passed Mr. Lockwood on the railway whilst going to ascertain his state of health. He has recovered from his indisposition, and will be in attendance with the other witnesses. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Biros (Mrs. Manning's solicitor) had some communication from the Commissioners of Police, but its result hs 9 not transpired. It is the intention of her counsel to apply on Wednesday morning to the judges for the restoration of all the property found on Mrs. Manning not claimed as having belonged to O'Connor. ELECTION OF THE NEW BISHOP OF NORWICII.- -- In pursuance of her Majesty's congd d'elire, directed to the dean and chapter, those dignitaries proceeded to the election of a new bishop this morning (Saturday)' in the room of the late Dr. Stanley. The Hon and Very Rev. Dean Pellew opened the proceedings, and after the accustomed formalities had been gone through , the Very Rev. Samuel Hinds, D.D., Dean of Carlisle, was by them elected bishop of the said see of Norwich -John Bull. [AD VERTISEMENT.]—A Weakness of the Choi' and Asthma cured by Holloway's Pills.—Copy of a declare -- tion of Mr. C. Zeitsen, of Nymegen, in Holland, dated 240 1 August, 1819 :—" I, the undersigned, declare that I ha been perfectly cured of a weakness of the chest and dilliloierf of breathing, by the use of Holloway's Pills. I had bees sufferer for years, and was unable to get the least relief *lO, the various remedies I tried, un til I too k t h ese inestinscable pills, and I invite all who may be similarly afflicted to use the same remedy without delay." Signed, "C. Zeitsen." Tbi r i may be taken in all cases of old cough s , recen t co lds, 1 0 .. asthmatical affections.—Sold by all Druggisto.and at Profilic" Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. In Grosvenor-square, on the 20th inst., Vii countess Elbring" ton, of a daughter. At Nice, on the 9th inst., the lady of A. Macdona;ld G3l - of Glenclaig, Esq., of a son. ._,- • • On the 12th inst., in Great Queen-street, Westminste r/ Mrs. 11. 11. Fulton, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Burnham, S omerse t s hi re , Use w ife o f A. Barrow, Esq., Lieutenant R.N.; of a son. On the 19th inst., in Eaton-square, the wife of J. Esq., of a sou. On the 19th inst., the wife of J. E. Moulden, Esq., of Thomas-street, Southwark, of a son. On the 20th inst., the wife of D. A. Freeman, Esq., of Cavendish -terrace, Clapham-common, of a son. MARRIED._ second the ondse 20 tsof th i the ns. n t e , v a . t s L:e m cv u i e s l ha e n r i oo C k h Q u , r o c t b,Samuel G Bromley, K ridenftr:t3O' Eliza, e t g h t e on u , o L iy inc T o r h i t n s i h t secon d daughter of the late Rev. H enry B . Hibbertf y, Lincolnshire. t us Henry, second son of the late Philip W. Wyatt, Es(l-; " C a therine, second daughter of the l a t e Li eutenant:R. Rhoa vicarOn o t f h e 8 2 " 0 t t h h C i inst., at rin of her iasjesty's 39th Regiment. On the 20th inst,, at St. James's, Wastbourne-terroc e i James Foster Wadmore, Esq., son of J. Wadmore, Esq., ° f Upper Clapton, to Anna Elizabeth, youngest daughter ° D. Molt, Esq. On the 16th inst., at Houndwood, Charles FAlwi l , i ra „,' youngest son of Th omas C ookson, Esq Swinburne Cr n .. ; Northumberland, to S ara h Turnbull, eldest daughter of the Captain Coulson, R.N., of Iloundwood, Berwickshire. DIED. On the 15th inst., at Greenlaw, near Edinburgh, aged 19 ' George J. B. B ar t te l ot, 2d Lieutenant 21st Fusileors, th ird son of G. Barttelot, Esit, of Stopharn-house, Suszes. On the 16th i ns t , age d 25, Ray Charles Golding, 351•''' eldest surviving son of Dr. Golding At Horsham, on the 17th inst , Vice-Admiral Mathe lv. Godwin, agel e 32. On the 19th inst., at Belgrave-street South, Pimlico, Thomas Exton, aged 48. to At Brighton, on the 19th inst., William Billings, Esq.' Blackheath, late of her Majesty's Customs, aged 70 • On the 19th inst., Mr. R. Mills, of Aylesbury-s erect, Clerkenwell, aged 70, r On the 19th inst, at North Brixton, Mr. J. re ch e late of the Bank of England, in which establishment be P discharged his duties 45 years, aged 65. lce, On the :oth inst., in Weymouth street, Portland-P. Kennard Smith, Esq., aged 84. London Printed and Published by MURDO Y No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. Strand, in the Precinct of the SPARW. in the COW Mid,dlevz,Tuesday, Qctobor 23, 1e49. ies of its in 1849, be deli Noverr 111111 CC. applies cepted A CI " ling to the Pr tary's numbe the stt A Si held I Seven Lords Laboui Yc P 011icer Ali 1 with C the oc on the each pantry six co second 800(1 five-sti coachr The ated w Minus the Isl mai b the eni 3O• That With fi 12A., The immed family The House luteud The notice NviMop and Sli With, 1 L t The :or LO for wh will be Furl signed. T sirous provin up to and co will go other 114, 11 For count!' 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