The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, GREAT FIRE at the MODEL ESTABLISH MENT of BATHS and WASHHOUSES. Last evening, at a few minutes past six o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive premises erected by the Committee for Promoting the Establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes, situate in Goulston-square, Whitechapel. The flames com menced in one of the dryinghouses, a temporary building of timber, erected by the committee for the purpose of testing its efficacy previous to building a more substantial compartment. Contiguous to this erection was the washing department, containing 84 washtubs, and on one side stood the mangling houses, and on the other the ironing compartment. The whole extended in one direction about 100 feet, and in the other 75 feet. The poor women who had been at work at the baths during the day having left, the dryinghouse was filled, as was the usual custom, with towels today. This dryinghouse was heated by means of two radiating stoves, and there is little doubt entertained that the heat of these machines was the cause of the terrible fire we are about to narrate. At the time stated above some of the managing men of the establishment were greatly alarmed by per ceiving a dense mass of smoke pouring through the different passages leading to the various compartments in the extensive range of premises. Upon gaining the dryinghouse the whole of the horses used for drying the clothes were, together with the linen hanging thereon, found to be enveloped in flames. Over this building were several large tanks, contain ing in the whole upwards of 3,000 gallons of water, and in order to guard against the ravages of fire the ccmmittee had proper engine hose attached to these tanks, so that in the event of an outbreak a ready supply might be brought to bear upon the flames. The first thing attempted by the persons belonging to the premises was to fly to the hose connected with the tanks, and scatter the water over the flames. Unfortunately, although the roof was formed of iron, the ceiling was constructed of timber, and the flames having reached this, they travelled along the top of the building almost with the rapidity of lightning, and so intense was the heat from the flames that the glass windows in the ceiling quickly became broken, when the fire rushed through the openings in immense bodies, rising so high into the air as to threaten destruction to the whole of the sur rounding houses. Not a moment was lost in sending information of the misfortune to the engine stations, and forthwith the machines from Whitechapel and Aldgate parish reached the spot, followed in rapid succession by nu• merous engines of the London Brigade, with Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent, and Mr. Fogo, the foreman of the district. The West of England engine and firemen, under the direction of Mr. Connorton, were also remarkably early in arriving. Tne firemen then found that the flames bad ob tained too strong a hold to be easily extinguished ; but fortunately there was an abundant supply of water obtained from the plugs of the East London Company's works, with which the firemen set their machines in full play. By order of the superior officers, the hoses of some of the engines were conveyed through the front baths, and were brought to bear upon the great seat of fire, whilst a number of firemen were at the same time sent up the scaling ladders to mount that portion of the roof not in flames. By so doing they were enabled to scatter many thousand gallons of water at once upon the fire, but, in spite of every ex ertion, the work of devastation continued, and it was not till after nine o'clock that the flames could be conquered. The damage done is very considerable. The dry ing -house is entirely consumed and all it contained. The mangling and ironing compartments are also destroyed, but fortunately nearly the whole of the tubs in the washhouses have escaped with trifling injury. Although some of the other parts are burnt out, the iron roof is still hanging ; but, owing to the ceiling under it being formed of timber, it is very seriously injured, and, what is worse, the back wall has bulged out, so that it is feared it will have to be pulled do wn. Fortunately the premises were insured for 12,000/. LATEST PARTICULARS.-ELEVEN O'CLOCK P.M. From the inquiries made by the brigade as to the extent of the damage done, it seems that, notwith standing so much property has been consumed, the whole of the engineer's department has escaped.un injured. The boiler-rooms have likewise escaped any injury, except from water. The steam-engine and the machinery have also received no damage, ex ewpt by water. At one time it was feared that the sudden application of cold water to the machinery , would cause an explosion, but, owing to the admira ble arrangements of the firemen, nothing of the sort occurred. Had it not been for the present unfortu nate occurrence, it is quite probable that in the course of a few days, the dryinghouse, which has proved to have been the cause of the disaster, would have been pulle'l down, and a more substantial building erected in its place. The greater portion of the private baths have likewise received no injury of any importance; hut, notwithstanding, the damage is considerable, and the poor people for whose accommodation the baths mere Specially erected will be put to great incon venience. DAVIS'S STRAITS FISHERY.—The Advice, Captain Penny, arrived in this bay on Friday week, from Divis's Straits, and proceeded for Dundee. Captain Penny does not bring any later intelligence, having left the ice immediately after the vessels which have already ar rivt d.„/"It will,;be remembered that the Advice was the vessel which accompanied the Truelove of Hull, in the endeavour to examine Lancaster Sound, in search of the discovery chips of Sir John Franklin and Sir James Ross. The Alexander, Sturrock. also passed through the bey on the same day. She left the ice on the 15th, and had a very rough passage. The Advice brings 17 fish-170 tuns; the Alexander, 22 fish, a bumper ship. This is pretty nearly in accordance with the accounts previously received. These vessels bring no further news of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The St. Andrew arrived here on Wednesday evening, with 20 fiih-140 tuns. She brings intelligence of the acciden tal death of her respected master, Captain Dring. In the month of June, while Capt. Dring was at Lancaster Sound, in search of the discovery ships, he, unfortu nately, got his hand injured, while in the act of ffring a harpoon gun. From this accident he had perfectly re covered; when, about the 10th September, while in the act of stepping on the taffrail, with a gun in his hand, to shoat some wild fowl, the trigger came in contact with the wheel rope, and caused the gun to go off, lodging its contents under his arm and side. The surgeon of the R.galia, of Kircaldy, immediately came on board, and pronounced the wound mortal. He died of it three days afterwards. His death is much regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, for he was a man of strict integrity and obliging disposition; he was also thoroughly acquainted with his profession, this being his sixth voyage as master to the northern regions, and in none of which he ever carried a surgeon, it being his expressed opinion that, with strict discipline and whole some provisions, it WAS unnecessary.— Aberdeen Herald. THE AGE OP CHEAP CONVEYANCE.—Few things in modern times have been such influential agencies as the omnibus. Their history is one of more dignity than shows on the surface. Those social conveniences have revolutionized all the chief capitals of Europe. Invented in 1827, they ruined the elder branch of the Bourbons in 1830. The accidental upset of an omnibus suggested the first idea of a barricade, and for a long time consti tuted an essential part of the structure which changed the whole science of revolutions. The overturn of the cerriege was converted to the overturn of a monarchy. Since that time the omnibus, as we have said, has made the tour of Europe. Among ourselves it is a peaeeful and health-giving instrument. By its help all the world is able to live out of town. Barristers, merchants, artists, and men of letters, who formerly crowded the narrow courts and passages of Fleet street and Cheapside, live now, by its permis sion, in snug suburban cottages in Norwood, Hamp stead, Putney, or Blackheath. The Johnsons and Goldsmiths of the last age met in close courts and stifling taverns for want of the omnibus. It is not very miry years since a single coach ran from Hamp stead to London once a day—the charge eighteen pence! A man may now ride from Charing-cross to any part of the suburbs of London, at any minute, for a sixth of the money. This change in the distribution of the inhabi tants has tended greatly to. raise the value of property in the suburbs, and to diminish the rate of mortality in London. Wherever a good and cheap service of omnibus is established, rents along the road go up. As a conse quence which might be expected, owners of cottages are beginning to see the wisdom of themselves setting up such services where they do not already exist. Our attention is called to the subject by reading the report of a meeting of owners of property, who ended their conference by forming themselves into an omnibus com pany. Civilization has had its triumphs of many kinds —has built pyramids and armadas, temples and tunnels; but it has seldom achieved anything for the comfort and physical benefit of mankind to surpass the class-results which have been derived from the halfpenny steam boat and the penny omnibus.—Atheneum. ADVERTISEMENT.—The Observer of Sunday, Oct 28. with its gratuitous supplement, together 60 of the Observer folio columns, the price only sixpence. A very full report and original introductory remarks, over 20 co l u mns of the Dilannings' trial an d conviction' with a rep tition of their profile wood c u t likenesses. The Observer, of Oct. 28, be kept o n sa l e a ll next° week. The extensive publication o f t h e Observer commences . at four o'clock on Sunday mornings. Newspaper agents can have any number of ecopies before five o'clock in Sarelay morning, in time to s . , supply plssengcrs go a r , g , b y all the railwaye. Published ey Mr. jun., 170, Sam]. Monday's edition of the Observer is regularly puLlisheil at four o'clock on Monday afternoons. RIOTS AT WHEATLEY, 0Y,.0N.---11113 parish for some time past has literally been in the hands of a set of drunken and disorderly individuals, whose con duct has been such as to compel the clergyman and his wife to leave the place and to live in an hotel in Oxford. Dr. Barrington, one of the bench of magistrates, said, that this desperate and disreputable state of things at Wheat ley is owing to the constables not doing their duty, one of whom is a maltster, and supplies the houses which the &Unguents frequent with beer. Mr. Marsham and Major Weyland suggested that Mr. Garrett, the curate of Wheatley, should make a deposition, showing the ne cessity for a special constable, and that document the magistrates would transmit to the Secretary of State, and if he sanctioned it, all the difficulties of the case would bp surmounted. TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATIONS. The second of a series of " Great Temperance Demonstrations" was held last night in Exeter Hall. The subject of address was " The Influence of the Temperance Movement on the Extension of Religion at Home and Abroad, and the Moral Obligation of professing Christians to promote it." Mr. JOHN CASSELL was called to the chair ; and in the course of a lengthened address be endeavoured to show that all the most eminent characters in Bible history were total abstainers from strong drinks. In our own country there was consumed every year a quantity of intoxicating liquors sufficient to make a river 3 feet deep, 30 feet wide, and 168 miles. Need we wonder, under such circumstances, at the existing amount of crime, pauperism, and prostitution ? He reckoned that England alone contained 600,000 con firmed drunkards, and that there were 60,000 deaths annually from this sole cause. Here then was an ob vious curse, that ought to be forthwith arrested ; and should not society at once combine to arrest the de• stroyer ? It was useless to preach the Gospel to the drunkard; it might as well be preached to the insane. The mind of the drunkard might be compared to a great bog or morass. To such a mind the Gospel I might be preached in vain, for there was no adapta tion of the soil to the seed. But let the machinery of temperance be applied to the making of tee-total drains, let it dig the dyke of total abstinence, to drain men's brains of alcohol, and immediately the soil would become adapted to the seed, and the drunkard cry out for higher sources of gratification. Teetotalism was indeed a pioneer of the Gospel; and it would be found to contribute to the salvation of the world, by removing one of the greatest obstacles that ever obstructed the progress of Divine truth. The Rev. W. MORTON, late missionary at Calcutta, in narrating the results of his own observation and experience in the East Indies, remarked that a majority of the population of those regions were water-drinkers, but strong drinks had been introduced by Europeans among the lower classes, and he was sorry to say that this vice had been so encouraged by the Government, that they had been compelled to resort to the licensing system. To such an extent had the evil amounted, that at length a native millionaire in Calcutta had, within the last 1 few years, headed a temperance movement among the native population, avowedly to stem the tide of drunkenness which Europeans had introduced. This man was a heathen, a very heathen of heathens ; and he need not enlarge upon the lesson which this simple fact read to professing Christians. In our own country population was increasing faster than con version—in other words, conversions were not pro ceeding so as to overtake the rapidly increasing po pulation. What, then, was required to aid and in crease the spread of the Gospel ? He had no hesita tion in saying it was the general adoption of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. Mr. D. G. PAINE, of Deptford, was the next speaker, and he strongly urged the truth and im portance of the principle of abstinence. The Rev. SAMUEL DUNN, late member of the Wesleyan Conference, who was received with very , warm congratulations, in impressing upon the meet ing the virtue of total abstinence, gave the results of his personal experience in that respect. He stated that he bad never drank a glass of brandy, rum, or gin, smoked a cigar or pipe, or taken a pinch of snuff in his life. He had now passed his fiftieth year. During his time he had travelled as many miles, preached as many sermons, delivered as many lec tures, seen as much public service in various climes un der various circumstances, by night and day, by sea and land, as most ordinary men, but never had tasted strong drink. Yet the present was the first total abstinence meeting at which he had ever spoken—a fact which he attributed to certain restrictions in the existing practice of Methodist society. The Rev. JOHN KIRK, of Edinburgh, addressed the meeting at some length upon the influence of the drinking customs of society upon the spiritual in terests of the classes engaged in the trade of dealing in strong drinks. These classes were represented as requiring all the energies of the advocates of the ab stinence cause ; and he said it was remarkable that when individals belonging to them became sensible of their spiritual condition, they all feel obliged to forsake the trade. The CHAIRMAN announced the subject of address at the next " Demonstration," on the first Monday in December, to be " the importance of the tempe rance reformation in connexicn with the Sunday schools and Sabbath school teaching ;" and after a doxology had been sung, the meeting separated. THE MANNINGS' TRIAL. MR. SERGEANT WILKINS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,—Pray allow me, through the medium of your widely-circulated journal, to make public the expres sion of surprise which I have heard this day in every quarter at the misreport in a leading morning paper of that which the Attorney-General said, when replying on the part of the Crown, in reference to Mr. Sergeant Wilkins's defence of the convict Man ning. In the paper to which I refer the Attorney- General is reported to have said (alluding to Mr. Ballantine's observations upon the Learned Ser geant's speech) "he considered Mr. Ballantine was justified' in his animadversions on the Sergeant's speech, whereas the actual words used by the At torney-General, and correctly reported in every other paper I have seen, were, "he considered Mr. Ballan tine was NOT justified," &c., and proceeded to observe that the Learned Sergeant had only done his duty to his client, &c. Comment on this unfair attempt to prejudice Ser geant Wilkins would be worse than superfluous. Permit me, however, to take this opportunity of saying that I believe there exists amongit all unpre judiced and impartial persons, professional as well as non professional, who wete present at the trial, but one opinion as to the propriety of the course adopted by Sergeant Wilkins, viz., that no other line of de fence would have been at all feasible ; and that, con sistently with his duty to his client, he not only could Int have acted otherwise, but, in fact, had no alternative. I am, &c., A BARRISTER ?RESENT AT THE TRIAL. Temple, Oct. 27, 1849. SILK TRADE.—Probably the oldest silk manufac turer cannot call to memory a time when raw silk was so low in price as during the late political struggles on the Continent. With that forethought peculiar to our countrymen, they took advantage of cheapness, and pur chased the entire crop, thus securing to themselves at least a year or two's supply. The consequence of which is, that our Spitalfields weavers ar© now actually em ployed in throwing silks for the Lyons manufacturers. The most beneficial effects are derived by our own con sumers from the markets being enormously stocked, so much so that the Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, have literally " stacks" of black silks, purchased at nominal rates, during the French commotions, and passing into the public hands for not more than the prices of that period, although raw silks are now at least 25 per cent. dearer than at that time, with every inclination to ad vance and maintain high quotations.—Morning Post. WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION.—The fourth Monday evening glee concert took place here last even ing, and much exceeded its predecessors in the selection, arrangements, and execution of the several musical compositions. The first part consisted of the whole of the splendid music in Macbeth, excellently executed by the following performers :—First Witch, Miss M. Hud dart ; Second Witch, Mr. Howe; Third Witch, Mr. Genge; Hecate, Mr. Lee. Herr George Pigall gave a Styrian song, " The Spring," very beautifully, which was rapturously applauded. In the second part we had a Grand Fantasia, introducing the airs of " "Tie the harp in the air," " Non piu meats," "In this old chair," and " Rule Britannia," brilliantly executed by Mr. H. S. May on the piano -forte; and also a fantasia from Mose in Egitto, the Recitative, Prayer, and Air Vari6—all performed on one string (the 4th), by Mr. G'riesbach on the violin, very admirably. Altogether it was a most excellent concert. A NEW VEGETABLE.--THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT PUZZLED.—As a specimen of the stories afloat regarding the peregrinations of the royal party in the vicinity of their Highland residence, we give the follow ing from a vernacular correspondent of the Montrose Standard. We copy it word for word :—" Her Maijestie sometimes gangs into ither folk's houses. Wheel, her an, the Prince gaed into an auld 'omen's hause last week wha bides about a mile frae the castle. The wifie kent them brawly, and' bade them sit down. They accepted the invatashon, an' kindly speired for her welfare. After lookin' roun' the house, an' particularly on the fireplace on the floor (nae grate, ye ken, but just a wee bit holie, an' a sod or twa roun' the bodom o' a little kail pottie), the Prince said, Gif if it be nae ill manners to speir, fat are ye to dine upon the day? Fat are ye boilin in yer pot?' The auld wifie said, In me pat? Ou, there's neaps intilt, an' carrots intil't, an' leaks intil't, Stop, stop I said her Maijestie," What kind of a vegetable is intil't?' Intilt?' replied the ould'oman, astonished at the question; Intil't! On, plaise your Mai jestie, name ava, but jist that there's neeps in tire, an' carrots intil't.' Beg you pardon, my good woman,' said her Maijestie; tell we what vegetables you mean by intirt." Intirt ? intil't ?' replied the woman, holding up her hands in surprise, and beginning to lecture in her loof with her finger; intil't, Lord keep your Maijestie, just intil't; there's carrots intik% an neeps intil't, an' leeks intil't, au' a gie curn barley intil't; a' that things are intil't, an' ye see brawly that the pattie's 00 the fire, hinging on the crook.' I see the pot,' said the Prince, but we are fairly at a loss to know what you e re,s heart ne l e ' ns iil t replied n, t, the wile, mean by one vegetable in it, which you intil't. Bless your th n s ia t i t l naane, leeks,i' the pat; wcair'ero' an' .' Here the woman was interrupted by her Maijestie, who could contain herself no longer, but rose I to her feet, and ran out to the door, being ready to burst with laughter, and she was followed by the Prince, who left the woman standing on the floor with her finger in her loof and the words, Carrots intil't ,' sticking between her teeth." STRASBURG.—We read in the Archives Israelites de France, that a teacher in the Jewish national school was recently elected a Member of the National Assemby of France. The pedagogic M.P. had to vacate his situation according to Art. 28 of the Constitution.—Jewish Chronicle. CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health October 29, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh. O 1 • 0 1 0 2 0 O 5 O 1 O 1 8 0 O 1 Ashton-under-Lyno Aylsham (Cottibhall)... Belford... ... Berwick ..• ••• Birmingham ... Blackburn Bradford (Allerton) Bridgewater ... Bridport ••• ..• Clifton Union (St. Philip and ••• '.". • • • '" ••• ."" • • • .... • • • • • • "-. ••• '-''" • • • ....". Jacob) . .• Clutton (Midsummer Norton) Cockermouth (Maryport die.) Darlington Dartford Doncaster Dudley, Tipton, Sedgley, and • • • "'"' • • • ""' Rowley Regis ... Eccleshall (Bierlow) ... Goole (S winefleet) ..• llaslingden (Accrington district) Hastings (Ore) Hexham ..• Huddersfield (Meltham dis.) Huntingdon (Sawtry) Knaresborough ••• Lancaster (Skelton) ... Leeds ... • ..• ..• Lexden (Copford) Liverpool ..• Manchester .•• Newark ••• ••• Newbury ... North Witchford (Chatteris)... Newton A i( sKt b ri b inc o gt t ss t )t 0 ( n T o a r n q d u a Land . ..• [ Rotherham (Marabrough) ... Salford (Regent-road) Sculcoates (Drypool) Sheffield (Handsworth) South Shields (Westoe) ' Stourbridge I Tadcaster (Aberford) I Thorne Thrapston (Titchmarsh) Totnes (Brixham) Tynemouth (Earsdon district) Wakefield (Stanley) ... Walsall (Borough) ... West Bromwich and Oldbury Westbury West Derby (Walton -on-the Hill district) ••• ••• Whitehaven (St. Bees district) Wigan ... ... Witham (Coggeshall) • ... Witney, Burford, and Fulbrook Wolstanton (Tunstall district) Wolverhampton (Willenhall) ... .."" ••• .".. ... _- ••• ''''' • • • ''''' ••• "". ••• '''. ••• '"'. ••• ...• • • ""''' 1 0 - ••• ••• ...... 3 2 ••• 3 0 0 1 - ••• - 0 1 •.• ••• - 0 1 2 0 3 ••• 0 •• • 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 ._" 3 0 ••• - 2 0 - 0 3 ••• ''''' Total ... ••• ... 1 0 12 1 O 2 2 0 O 1 O 2 SCOTLAND, OCT. 27. Panbride, Oct. 24 and 25 ... 3 0 Hawick ••• 3 0 ••• ••• ..... OCT. 29. Panbrid© ... •• • 4 0 Ejinbargh (week eading Oct. 27) 5 0 .--..--. Total ... ... ... ... 15 0 GENERAL TOTAL. England and Walos 84 41 Scotland ••• ••• 15 0 Total 99 41 NOTE. —The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im• practicable to distinguish every place separately. MURDER OF A PITMAN. On Saturday night last a brutal and murderous assault was committed upon the person of George Hunter, a pitman belonging to Cowpen Colliery, near Blyth, and which, we are sorry to say, resulted in his death the following morning. Deceased had been at his brother's house, at Cowpen-lane, on the above night, and was returning home to Cowpen-square, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, when two men, each armed with a stick, rushed upon him near to the Cowpen North Pit, and beat him in a most savage and brutal manners his cries brought one of the waggon men, named Turnbull, from the North Farm to his assistance, when the assassins ran off, the darkness of the night favouring their escape. Hunter was immediately conveyed home, medical aid was pro cured, and every :attention paid to him, but without avail ; he sunk rapidly under the injuries he had re ceived, and died on Sunday morning, between nine and ten o'clock. The unanimous opinion in the neighbourhood is, that the horrid deed has been perpetrated by some of the pitmen, to whom de ceased had become obnoxious by his refusing to con form to their proposal of restricting themselves to a certain amount of work per day. We hope that every effort will be made, and no expense spared, by the owners of the colliery to find out the guilty parties, and bring theta to justice. Hunter, who was a quiet, steady man, and much respected, has left a widow and three :young children to deplore his un timely end. It is said that, previous to his death, he said he knew the guilty parties, but declined ' giving their nanote3. An inquest was held on the body at the Ridley Arms Inn, Blyth, on Tuesday, before S. Reed, .E sq., coroner, and a respectable jury, but in order to give time for having a post mortem examination, the inquest was adjourned until the 31st inst. Hunter's remains were interred in Blyth churchyard on Wednesday afternoon, in the presence of a vast assemblage of persons. Two brothers, named Gleghorn, belonging to Cowpen-square, have been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the murder, and a fter being examined, were remanded to Morpeth gaol.— -Newcastle Guardian. LONDON, TUESDAY_ EVENING, OCTOBER 30 1849. NEW ZEALAND. 3 0 2 1 1 0 O 1 O 1 1 0 O 1 O 1 5 0 1 0 3 0 O 1 O 1 O 2 1 0 O 2 1 0 O 1 Extract from a private letter, dated Singapore, 17th August, 1849, received from Mr. Charles 11. Hodgson ' of Carlisle, who is chief mate in the Ber hampore (Captain Smith), which sailed from Graves end in March last, with emigrants for New Zea land : " We left Auckland on the Bth of July, and arrived here this day, after a very exciting and beautiful passage. After getting through Torres and Endeavour Straits, there is an island called Booby, quite a barren place : upon its lee side an immense cape is fitted up as a store room. Ships getting through safe, call and deposit in the cave any provisions they can spare for the benefit of shipwrecked crews. We left some. There are pro visions in it enough to last a large ship's company for at least six months. In another part of the island there is a post-office, but of course no postmaster or person to carry on the business. Ships leave their reports and communicate any new reef or danger they may have found on their passage, for the benefit of the next ship arriving; or if bound to any out-of the- way port, the captains write to their owners, &c. We found letters addressed to London, Liverpool, Sydney, Scotland, Calcutta, &c. We also found re ports of the following two vessels :—Bark Symmetry (Captain Young), and the bark Cadet (Capt. Pratt), left Sydney 24th June ; arrived at and left Booby Island on the 17th July, 1849, bound for Manilla. These two vessels left a report as follows : " We found on this island the crew of the whaling ship Ceres, which vessel was wrecked on Osprey reef, off Cape Melville ; they are 29 in number, were six days in the boats, and eleven days on this rock : the crew were all saved, and embarked on board the above two ships for Manila. The cap tain of the Ceres reported the Osprey reef as being 20 miles long, whereas it is laid down in the charts as only 10 miles. The Ceres left Sydney on the 12th of June.' " There was also the report of the ship Mary Ann (Captain Darby)—left Sydney on the 20th June, bound for Anatam; left Anatam on the 13th July; arrived and left Booby Island on the 24th July, at six, P.M., bound for China ; they had left a lot of provisions. "We left Booby on the 25th July. I went all over the island,. and found two holes on the top of it, which I went down, and discovered two most beautiful little wells, with a quantity of not by any means bad water." COURTS-MARTIAL IN NEW ZEALAND. (From the Southern Cross, May 19.) Captain C. H. M. Smith was appointed by the lout' Goverment a resident magistrate for the pensioner set tlements, and Lieut. 0. W. Gray was appointed a justice of the peace ; that in the discharge of his duties in that capacity Lieutenant Gray was in the habit of attending the bench of magistrates at Howick on the court days ; that some time in November of last year, Captain Smith and Lieutenant Gray being both sitting for the adjudication of cases in the Court House, at Howick, a case of debt was called on, in which a civilian, named Tatam, was the complainant, and a pensioner, named Lynch, who held a pub lican's licence, was defendant ; that the com plainant, previous to the case being gone into, objected to Captain Smith sitting upon his case, al leging that Captain Smith was a partner of the defendant Lynch in his public house, and that he (Captain Smith) was, in consequence, prejudiced in favour of the defendant. Upon this statement being made, and Captain Smith declining to take any steps to punish the contempt of court, or to vindicate the purity of the bench thus grossly insulted, Lieutenrnt Gray, as a justice of the peace, communicated to the Colonial Secretary, the fact of such an -accusation having been made against a magistrate while sitting o n the ben ch , a nd that the magistrate had taken no notice of it. This communication was then brought before the Execu tive Council, when Lieutenant Gray was called upon by that body to prove the charge against Captain Smith of being in partnership with Lynch. Lieu tenant Gray stated that he had made no such charge against Captain Smith; that he simply brought under the notice of the Government the fact of a charge so disgraceful having been made in open court, and that no steps had been taken to vindicate the character of the magistrate, or the purity of the bench of which he was a member; that he knew nothing as to the truth or falsehood of the charge itself. Upon this the Executive Council decided that Lieutenant Gray had failed to prove his charge against Captain Smith, and that Captain Smith was exonerated from all blame. In the interim, the written desire of the Government that Lieut. Gray should prove the charge made by Tatam against Captain Smith, appears to have put him (Lieutenant Gray) on the qui vice to ascertain the truth or falsehood of that charge, and while seeking for the necessary proof, the man Barry, who has been so conspicuous throughout these pro ceedings, sent word to him that he could give impor tant information. The information given by Barry, if true, went to prove so serious an amount of em bezzlement against Captain Smith, that the original charge appears to have been totally lost sight of by all parties. Upon the information given by Barry, supported and confirmed, as Lieutenant Gray supposed it to be, by other testimony the charges, as laid before the first court-martial, were transmitted by Lieutenant Gray to the corn maading officer of pensioners, Major Gray; by him they were forwarded to the governor-in. chief, and thence they found their way to the major-general command ing, and from him they were returned to Major Gray, with orders to bring Captain Smith to a court-mar tial upon them, and to make Lieutenant Gray the prosecutor. The court-martial took place, and Captain Smith was honourably acquitted; and subsequently Lieut. Gray was arraigned before a similar tribunal, the re sult of which will be se n from the following extracts from brigade orders :-- " At a general court-martial, held at Auckland, New Zealand, on the 2d day of April, 1849, and of which general court-martial Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Bolton, Royal Engineers, was President, Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray, staff officer of New Zealand Enrolled Pensioners, appeared a prisoner on the following charge, viz : " For scandalous and infamous conduct unbecom ing the character of an officer and a gentleman, in getting up and attempting to support, in an un justifiable and improper manner, disgraceful charges against his senior officer, Captain Charles Henry Montressor Smith, staff officer of New Zealand Pensioners, which charges so got up, and so attempted to be supported by Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray, were found by the general court-martial by which they were investigated at Auckland, New Zealand, from the Bth day of February to the 3d day of March, 1849, to be totally without foundation; such conduct on the part of Lieutenant Gray being subversive of all discipline and subordination in the pensioner corps, and calculated to bring discredit on her Majesty's service.' "To which charge the prisoner pleaded not guilty. "Finding—The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the charge against the prisoner, Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray, staff officer of the New Zealand Pensioners, his de fence and the evidence adduced in support of it, are of opinion that he is guilty of the whole of the charge preferred against him, with the exception of the words scandalous and infamous,' of which the Court do acquit him. "Sentence—The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge preferred against him, with the exception of the words scandalous and infamous,' and taking into consideration his former good service and character (certified copies attached and marked .R 1,2, and 3), do now sentence him, the prisoner,. Lieut. Owen Wynne Gray, staff officer of New Zea land Pensioners, to be suspendeded from all rank and pay for one year, to be severely reprimanded in such manner as the Major-General commanding the troops in New Zealand may be pleased to direct, and further to be removed from, and rendered incapable of again serving in the Pensioner force in New Zealand. (Signed) " DANIEL BOLTON, " Lieut.-Colonel Royal Engineers, President. " J. Greenwood, Captain, Major of Brigade and Officiating Judge Advocate. " Approved and confirmed, (Signed) " G. D. PITT, Major-General, Commander in New Zealand." " Auckland, April 26, 1849." In promulgating the finding and sentence passed by a general court-martial on Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray, staff officer of New Zealand Pen• sioners, as a severe reprimand forms part of that sentence, his Excellency the Major-General command ing takes this opportunity of reprimanding him accordingly ; and his Excellency trusts that the extreme leniency of theha condemnatioi nfl n passed upon Lieutenant Gray mayhave a salutaryinfluence upon his conduct. The sentence will be carried into effect from this date inclusive. His Excellency the Major-General commanding is pleased to direct that the above order be read on three successive parades, at the head of every regi ment and detachment serving in this command. By command, &c., (Signed) J. GREFN WOOD, Major of Brigade. BRIGADE ORDERS. Auckland, 26th April, 1849. His Excellency the Major. General Commanding is pleased to order, with reference to that part of the sentence of a general court martial on Lieutenant Owen Wynn Gray, published in Brigade Orders of the 2filth instant, which is in opposition to the 121st article of war, viz.—" To be suspended from all rank and pay for one year"—shall be hereby rescinded, and his Excellency confirms only the latter portions of the decision of the court upon that officer, viz.:— " To be severely reprimanded in such manner as the Major• General commanding the troops in New Zolend may be pleased to direct, and further, to be removed from and rendered incapable of again serv -ng in the Pensioner force in New Z'_.aland. " Which sentence will take effect from the date of e original order. This order will be read to the troops serving in s colony, in the usual manner. " By command, &c., " J. GREENWOOD, Major of Brigade." (Signed) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP STREET. John Bailey, a young man of respectable appear ance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with having, under fraudulent representa tions, obtained a quantity of manufactured goods, of the value of 20/ , from Mr. James Cousins, a currier in Luke-street, Finsbury. The prosecutor stated that in the month of May last the prisoner, with whom he had previously had some dealings to a trifling extent, and who at that time carried on business in Shoreditch, called at his warehouse and purchased goods to the amonnt above stated, in payment for which he proposed to give him a bill at three months' date, accepted by his mother in-law, whom he represented to be a widow lady residing at Dalston, and possessed of considerable freehold property in Yorkshire. He required time to consider the proposition ; and having in the in terim ascertained that the mother-in-law really lived where he had stated, and was reputed to be a person of respectability, he executed the order upon the terms he had offered, and paid away the bill in the course of business ; but, upon the expiration of the term for which it was drawn, it was returned to him dishonoured, and he immediately proceeded to the house of the acceptor, to whom he exhibited the bill, and on asking if the acceptance was in her hand. writing, she returned an evasive answer, and told him she would see the prisoner and make it all right in a few days. Upon calling on her again, however, at the end of that period, she intimated that it was not her intention to take it up, as she was a married woman and not legally liable for the amount, and at the same time called forward a respectable looking person, who stated that she was his wife, and that they had been married for several years. The prisoner had in the meantime relinquished his busi ness, and removed into another neighbourhood, where he was followed by the witness, who demanded payment of the bill, which he promised to make in a 'ow days, but he failed to fulfil his engagement, and witness therefore obtained the assistance of Evans, an active detective officer of the G division, who ulti mately took him into custody. Mr. John Alford, a master-carpenter and builder in Holly-street, Dalston, proved his marriage to the mother-in-law of the prisoner, the ostensible acceptor of the bill, at Stepney Church, about eight years since, and said, that if she had ever signed her name to any bill or other instrument, it was entirely without his knowledge or authority. The acceptance in question was handed to the witness, who stated that he did not believe it to be in the handwriting of his wife, but, on inspecting a second bill, which it was alleged that the prisoner had passed to another trades man, he recognised the endorsement as her signature. Mr. Ashley, who attended for the defence, closely cross-examined the witnesses, but without eliciting anything favourable to his client ; and The prisoner was remanded for a week, but the Magistrate consented to accept substantial bail for his future appearance, which was shortly after found. The MAGISTRATE requested the reporter to acknow ledge his receipt of the undermentioned additional contributions for the benefit of William Jones, the gunsmith, whose case has been several times men tioned in this paper :—Mr. T. H. Piper, of Exeter, a Post- office order for H. ; W. P., 55.; and M. E. M. in postage-stamps, 11. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. Since the conviction of the Mannings a circum stance of very considerable importance has come to light, which, if any doubt could possibly exist as to their guilt, would appear to be almost conclusive upon 0* subject. It will be remembered that, after the verdict had been pronounced agai•:st the prisoners the woman made a violent speech, in which she as serted her innocence, and appeared to make it a strong pint in her favour that she loved the deceased, and could have been married to him if she had pleased. It has, however, since been ascertained that for some time before the murder O'Connor had been paying his addresses to a young woman, and they were on the point of being married ; it is known that Manning and his wife were aware of the fact, and it is probable that, feeling the marriage would in all probability have the effect of breaking off al: connexion between them, they determined upon the desperate measure of getting possession of his property of murder. Another curious fact has also come to light. The trial, as our readers are aware, lasted two days, and the prisoners each day retired from the court for a short time to take refreshment. Of course when the prisoners were first received at Newgate they were narrowly searched, and every instrument with which they might inflict injury, either upon themselves or others, taken away from them. Upon the second day of the trial, in consequence of something that came to the knowledge of the prison officials, it was considered prudent to search the female prisoner, and in her pocket there was found a large piece of broken glass, a most dangerous missile, well calculated to have in flicted very deadly injury upon any person who might have been struck with it. It was immediately taken from her, and thus, no doubt, from the violence sub sequently exhibited by the prisoner, some desperate mischief was prevented. How she obtained posses sion of this glass remains a mystery, and the only way in which it can be accounted for is by the sup position that it must have been given to her by some of the persons who were in the dock, a great many strangers having been, owing to the crowded state of the court, admitted into the dock during the latter part of the proceedings. It was understood yesterday that the counsel for Mrs. Manning have resolved, upon consideration, to abandon their application for a writ of error. The point, however, whether she stands in the position of an alien will still be submitted to the Criminal Court of Appeal, and as that Court must be composed of five Commissioners at the least, and the whole of the judges may attend if they please, it is quite clear that a more competent Court for the disposal of the ques tion which, after all, is one of a very simple character, could not be imagined. The next sitting of the Cri minal Court of Appeal will be on the 10th of Novem ber, and if the question should be sent before that tribunal it will, of course, be disposed of on that day. Manning has made some extraordinary disclosures relative to the murder and his former connexion with O'Connor, which will be made public after the exe cution. He persists in his statement which was handed to his Learned Counsel, Mr. Sergeant Wil kins—" That his wife shot O'Connor, and afterwards threatened to shoot him unless he helped her to bury the body." He seemed more composed yesterday after his interview with the chaplain, and several times wished to see his brother and his solicitor, Mr. Binns, to whom he wishes to make some communication. Mr. Binns has not been able to have an interview with him yet, as he must obtain a special order from the magistrates for that purpose. His brother called at the gaol last evening, and delivered a letter from his sister in the country. The letter was shortly afterwat ds delivered to him by the Governor, and the contents seemed to affect him in a great degree, as he wept several times while reading it. His brother did not see him. Prior to the trial, and while his unhappy wife was confined in the gaol where she now remains, she wrote several indecent letters to her husband, couched in the most obscene language and written in broken Engl:sb. In none of them, however, does she allude to the murder, but she defies him to get her gold watches. Copies of these letters were shown to Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry during the trial, likewise to the Attorney-General, but no attention was paid to them. She still con tinues in a very sullen mood, and speaks very little. Her only remarks are that she has been unjustly treated by England, and that she is innocent. g 3 ca c q o 2 ; --- 4 Colchester Harwich — 192 874 Leigh .. 440 137 1 10 28 Maldon .. 566 149 116, 385 4® MILITARY AT NOTTINGHAM. Yesterday (Monday) morning the district courts martial were resumed, and have continued sitting through the day, with the exception of about an hour in the forenoon, which interval was caused by the sudden appearance of Earl Cathcart. The Noble Earl said he had come expressly at the command of the Duke of Wellington, for the purpose of reading to the whole regiment a communication by the Commander in-Chief on the subject of the recent disturbances. Every man within the barracks, officers and privates, inclaing prisoners and officers' servants, were instantly summoned for foot parade, and in less than ten minutes all were upon the ground. They were passed through their ordinary evolutions, under the inspection of Earl Cathcart, who is Colonel of the regiment; after which the Noble Earl delivered a very energetic and feeling address. Having complimented the regiment on its appearance Lord Cathcart said he had been wont to look upon the 3d Dragoon Guards as patterns for every other regiment in the service, but unfortunately recent events had in some measure tarnished their fair fame, and cast a stigma upon both officers and men. On this subject he had had the honour to receive an autograph letter from his Grace the Duke of Wellington, which he would read. The letter was a somewhat lengthy communication, ad dressed to all in the regiment. In it the Noble Duke referred to the cause of the recent insubordination— confinement of the whole regiment to barracks for nearly a week on account of a few individuals having neglected their duty—which he described as an arbitrary act, and contrary to all military law. His Grace said it was wrong in every respect, and well calculated to provoke breaches of military discipline, for the lieutenant-colonel of a regiment to act as Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur had done. That there might be no mistake in future on this subject, the noble Commander-in-Chief quoted the regulations of the service relative thereto. But still a deviation from the proper course on the part of the com manding officer did not justify the men in adopt ing the line of conduct they . had done. They should have taken a different course to remedy their grievances ; but having suffered themselves to be be trayed into acts of insubordination, they had become, unfortunately, amenable to military law, and must be tried and punished for their offences. After having read this letter and delivered his address, Colonel Lord Cathcart dismissed the regiment, hoping when he saw them again it would be under happier circum stances. The above outline of the Duke of Welling ton's letter is collected from several hearers; but it is hoped the document itself will he placed in the hands of our reporter for publication in the course of a few days. Yesterday (Monday) Brevet-Major Splaine forbade the reporters publishing any portion of the proceedings in court until each case had been decided upon by Major General Thorn, commander of the north-eastern district, in which Nottingham is situated. It is expected that these courts will not be concluded until to-morrow, and then the general courts will be commenced, but hitherto no precise time for holding them has been named. Moffat, the man who escaped from the guard-house on Saturday morning, a few hours previous to his expected trial, has not yet been heard of, nor is he likely to be soon caught, for he is said to be one of the cleverest men in the regiment, and the day before his escape had received 51. from some friends at a distance, which he took with him. The officers in command of the guard at the time of the prisoner's escape have been placed under arrest, and are expected to be tried in court. This trouble some affair is now taking another turn. About nine o'clock on Saturday night Private Broker, who was not implicated in any way in the charge of insubor dination, went up to policeman Gascoigne, whilst on duty at the top of Clumber-street. After looking at the policeman's number he exclaimed, " Oh, you are one of the -- that assisted in taking our men up a few days ago ;" and having u n b u tt one d hi s j ac k et be gan to strike right and left at the policeman. The latter defended himself with a stick as long as he could, and, having charged some bystanders to assist, ultimately succeeded in conveying the soldier to the police office ; hut not until he had received a black-eye and had his legs sadly cut by the pri son er, w ho ki c k e d b ac kwards at him with his spurs as they were walking together along the street. The affair had very nearly caused a regular row, many people being collected during the conflict, some of whom arrayed themselves on the side of the soldier and others on that of the police, and showed a ready desire to make a disturbance. It will be recollected that policeman Gascoigne was the man who turned his light on the three fugitive soldiers concealed in the passage when they were pur sued by a picket on the night the first outbreak occurred. At the police-office yesterday (Monday) morning, it was stated in evidence that the prisoner had repeatedly threatened the police force with the vengeance of the whole regiment, and even on that morning he had said to two of the inspectors, that the 3d Dragoon Guards had unanimously determined before they left Nottingham, to give every policeman they could meet a hearty good thrashing. The case was remanded, on account of the proceedings at the barracks preventing the officers from being present to attest the case. Madame Sontag is continuing her triumphant career in the provinces. During the past week the concerts at Norwich, Portsmouth, Salistairy, and Win chester, in which she has participated, have been ex uedlogly successrul, " Home, sweet Home," Rode's Variations, and the recitative, " 0 leee di quest' anima,' prolucing the accustomed enthusiastic encores. Her musical progress is to embrace Brighton, Cheltenham, and Leamington, during the present week. First CHELMsFoRD, OCTOBER 26.—There was to-day an ample supply of wheat, to effect a sale for which lower terms were necessarily submitted to, and even st: a reduction of from Is to 2a per quarter the trade was extremely dull. Ali else unaltered in value. Wheat, white, old 4:s to 475; new 44s to: 48s; red, old 38s to 425; new, 395 to :44s ; barley, 28s to 30s ; chevalier 28s to 325; grinding 20s to 243; oats 17s to 235; malt 54e to 58s; chevalier 54s to 58s ; peas, partridge, new 28s to 30s; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s to —s ; 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. GREAT YARMOUTH, OCT. 27.—The weather is particularly favourable for seeding, and farmers aro actively engaged, but from the facilities of machinery, thrashing proceeds also, and we feel supply less interfered with than is usual at this season. The quality and the yield also of wheat prove good, evidently beyond an average. Wheat is 62 to 631bs per bushel, and price to day is 41s to 41s 6d per qr. t o b. Tne stock of old wheat was good at the time of harvest, and there is still a fair cff,r of 6llbs at 40s to 403 63 per qr. f o b. Barley is not an average, and much of the crop took rain and is tinged, yet it proves of excellent malting quality, the weight 54 to 551bs per bushel, and value to day of such is 30s per qr f oh. Beans are a good crop, and quality fine, weight 65 to 661b7, the value 29s per qr o b. Peas are an extra produce, and good maple sell at 303 to 31s per qr fo b. Flour is of nice quality with one-third of old wheat, and best household is 30s per sack fo b. Dulness reigns in the trade, and freights are easy. HADDINGTON, OCT. 26.—The following are the prices of grain at our market today : Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I Bean; 46s Od I 288 Cd 1228 3d 1 323 Od Second Third ... 393 8d 223 10:1 I 183 lid .. 283 Od 18i Od 15s 01 Sts Oil 304 0,1 Total quantity of Wheat in market 543 qrs.,. 515 sold Do. Barley do. 427 qrs., 3t 3 sold Do. Oats do. 599 qrs., 551 sold Do. Beans do. 38 qrs., 15 &hi KIAICALDY, OCT. 27.—The following are the quotations up to this date : Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Peas. First 46i Od 25a Od 21s Od —s Od I—s Od Second 41s Od 21s Od 193 Od —s Od I—s Od Third 36s Od Hs Od 17s 05 —s Od I—s Od Oatmeal, Der bag of 280Ibs. imp.. 27s to 00s Od. GLASGOW, OCT. 25.—Provisions—Cheese, 46s to 50s Od per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 00s per cwt. douutry fresh butter, 9d to lld per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7id to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s 6d per hundred, or 7d per dozen. H ens , 2 s Od p er p a i r ; ducks, 2s Od. STIRLING, OCT. 25—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25s Od; ditto, home, 24s Od to 010 d ; ditto ditto new, 15s to 225, barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 15, to 17s 6d ; oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od • ditto new, 930 d to lOs 6d ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Cd ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; m alt distillers, 33s to 35; ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 38s ; beans, per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peas) 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34; to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os 0d; 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, 43; to 455. KELSO, OCT. 26.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, new, 270 to 35s t'd ; barley, new, 12s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 003 Od to _ _ 00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, Ils to 133 Od ; com mon oats, 00s to 00s Od; ditto new, 105 to 13s Od ; peas, 0 0 s to 00s Od; beans, 00s to 00s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, OCT. 25.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s Od; barley, 1 86 to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 163 ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Oa per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, OCT. 25. —The supply of grain in this day market was 522 bolls; wheat at 18s Od to 23s Cd per boll ; barley, 14s 6d to 18s 6d ; oats, 103 Od to 14s Od; beans, 12s Od to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. flawicx, OCT. 25.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 37s Od; ditto old, 00s to Oes ; barley, new, 163 to 18s Od ; potato oats, 13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 23s Oa to 2.53 Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25, Od per boll of six imperial bushels. BERWICK . , OCT. 25.—Wheat, 38s 314 ; barley, 20, 10J; oats, 16s 54d ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 00s Od ; peas, 003 Od ave rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARKE' Buddle's W. Hartley IGs Od Cacr's Hartley Chester Main l6s Od East Adairs Main l4s 9u, Hasting's Hartley l6s Od , Holywell Main l6s 6d North Percy Hartley.. 15s Gd Old Tantield Canfield Moor rantield Moor Butes 143 Od West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c. Brown's .. l6s &II Bewicke and Co. Gibson Hedley Dildtl Hotspur Morrison l7s 3( Percy... 17s 3d Eden Main l7s 6d Lambton Primrose 17s 9d Bell Belmont lBs Od Ships at n T. -YE S TERDAY. Braddyll Hetton .. Haswell l9s 0,1 Larübtou Russell's Hetton S 1 tewart's Washington Whitwell ......... . . • l 7s 6 1 : Elaigh Hall Hartlepool 195 vu Kelloe ... ... ISS 6,1 South Kelloe l7s sa Whitworth 155 9d Adelaide Tees Brown's Deanery 179 9 °, Cownden Tees ... St. Helen's Tees tees ......... ....... Graigola Birchgrove 2os 6c l Cowpeu Hartley Darwentwaterllartley 16s 01 Hartley ....„.„ ..... Eioward's W. H. Neth. 16s Od Nixon's Merthyr and 6d Cardiff 9 . 1 1 6 as Sidney's Hartley iarket, 405. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS• BRISTOL, OCT. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —An imit wement took place in our share market today, though but little business was trans" acted. The sales are—Great Western, 56 _Ditto, Quar ters, 124 dis.—North British, Quarters, 214. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 29. STocc EXCHANGE.—AIthough the amount of businel transacted to. day was moderate, prices in some instances ha a tendency upwards. The transactions were as follow' 1, Caledonian, Preference. B%—Great Western, Quarters, I d dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Censol. (Manchester 91 Leeds), 40 dis.—Ditto, Halves, 20 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 6 dis.—Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Union), 61 dis.—Lond on and North-Western, New Quarters, p.—Ditto, IY B p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 16 ; Bs. 9d.—Midland, Halves, 21 dis.—South-Eastern and Da" 18 1 / 2 —Ditto, C0n501„(N0,3),.17% 7 1, itt0 (No. 4), BIRNIINGIIAM,Thcr. 29. STOCK EXCIIA NOE.—The prices of shares were again inasmuch higher to-day. This is considered a good omen, as to-morrow is settling day—an event usually preceded Wt depression. London and North-Western were quoted $ 115, and North Staffordshire done at 3% dig. YORK, Oc-r. 27. STOCK ExCITANGE.—The transactions to-day were follow :—York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 1744 - -Ditto (N e ; r : castle Extension), 11I—Y or k an d N ort h Midl an d, Pre' ence, GA. A silver cup has just been manufactured for Lotli9a Philippe, which is intended to bo presented to the Li' r o , Mayor (Sir J. Duke, M.P.), as a souvenir in cornme l %, ration of his ex Majesty's late visit to the Mal: 151° 1 1g house. The cup is in highly-embossed silver ser ° „ o and flowers, having two handles, in the style of Cldth Anne, with a shield in the centte of the body, on w i h' - no is engraved the crown and "L. P." It is mounte u ;a a pedestal, on the four panels of which are engr 4 4, - 0 the inscription, the arms and crown of the ex-King; ;he arms of the city of London, and the private arms 0 ' • Lord Mayor. DUBLIN GARRISON.—A squadron of cavalry a n four companies of infantry ere held in readiness to Pr °; teed to the Belfast di s t r i c t i n a id o f t h e c i v il power ' the Orange procession on the sth of November. Yearg [ADTERTisEmENT.]---Legs that for Eleven - were Swollen to nearly the Sine o f th e P erson ' s Body, Cured :it, Holloway's Ointment and Pals.— Mrs. Higgins, of High-litre t, Wellington, Salop, caught a severe cold after her confinetne!'_,, when her legs commenced swelling, and so weak until toed became nearly as large as her body, breaking out into sores, discharging a thin watery humour, which continued eleve' years. The pain was generally most excruciating. DI treatment was tried in vain, until at last she used Holloway Pills and Ointment, which effected a perfect cure. Her gen e .', / rat health is likewise wonderfully imp rove d. Thi s extraor dto" case was communicated by M r . R. Sh arp, o f 29, Par k- s tree t, Wellington.—Sold by a ll D rugg i sts, and at Professor 11°11°' way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 21s; inst., a t Whittingliam 74"0.,e, Preston Kirk, —• the Lady Blanche Balfour, of a son. • to) On the 2. - )th inst., at the Vicarage, Netherbury, the wife the Rev. Richard Pulteney, of a son. e 40' On the 25th inst., at Mariteau-louse, Winchelsea, wri - Mrs. Legg, of a daughter. ~, , J. At Greenwich, on the 25th irst., the wife of the JAe' • Y. On of a daughter. ate.° On the 26th inst., at Longford Castle, the Visco rl pi}' Folkestone, prematurely, of a daughter, which sumved ° a short time. or Escl'' On the 26th inst., the wife of John A. T. Smyth, - r Cumberland-terrace, Regent's -park, of a daughter. ,f • On the 26th inst., in Eccl e stone-squ are , th e wife `' Franklin, Esq., of a daughter. MAKRIED. On the 25th hist , at Drayton, rear Banbury, the -lb- 00' ------.; • E. llughes, rector of She n i ng t on , Gl ouces:ers hare, to L a ` Reginald, eldest daughter of the Ttsv. W. Lloyd. 1 4 ' On the 26th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Ricu a geri Wyatt, Esq , of Great George-street, Westminster, t o t pecl' Laura, eldest daught er o f R o b ert W . Williams, Esc' ° ford-place, Russell-square. DIE On the 27th inst., at hi s residen D . . dente, Clarendon house, f,heet- ham-hill, Manch es t er , J o h n B roo k s , E sq. , age d 61. „ c .l On the 21st inst., at W a l co t-pla ce ; Sarsvy 9 Townsend, late of the Ist Regiment of Grenadier On the 23d inst., Mr. James Lay, of the Lan e Wakes, Colne, Essex, aged 24. Wood' On the 23d inst., inAlbany.road, Camberwell , o• - Es At q., a B ged 64. OW" eslington, near York, 'on the 25th inst, IL Esq., of Biboy-hall, Lancashire, aged 51. a inoe l On the 26th inst., at Greenwich, aged 3? Thomas P 3 Dick, Esq., only son of Captain T. Dick, iI.N. On ihe •.?6th inst., in King's-4ow, Pentonville, Soo'l4 of J. W. Pyrke, aged 32, • scl'e On the 27th inst., at Denmark-hill, Francis Br ewin, On the 27th inst., at Crouch-end, Sarah Ann, the Mr. D Ly ykes Bar. At on-terrac ry e, Maida-hill, on the 27th inst., LeWil Cuthbat, Esq., agA 56. A. 0J icviv London: Printed and Published by biljltDO ,nur No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun O ffice, Os Strand, in the Precinct of the &trey, the am - Diddle:Az, Tuesday, October 30, 1e49, FOREIGN FUNDS. AiSTERDAM, OCT. 26.—Inland funds of all kinds were offered at a depreciation to-day, Spanish especially, in consequence of a e dismissal of the Spanish Minister Nurvaez. Portuguese, Austrian, and Russian shared the same tendency; French remained without fluctua tion.—D etch papers, Oct. 27 DUTCII FUNDS.—A3ISTEIIDaM, OCT. 26. Bills. Money. Actual Debt, 23¢ per Cent-- •• •• •• • 52 11 -16 53 Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••• • • • • • ........ 62 11-16 G 2 X Ditto, 4 per Cent..... Amort Syndic. 35{, per Cent.......... East India IA an, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • Spanish New S per - Csnts.. Austrian .5 per Cent 5....... ••.. • • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1n1and.......... — Commercial C, impany, 43% per Cent • • 163 Exchangeors London, at sight ...... 12 5 Two months. • • • • • • • • 12 On Hamburgb, at sight 34 15-16 Two months. ••••• • • • .• .... 34 13-16 On Paris, at sight-- •• .• Tw °mouths. ••••••• • • • • • •• 11KVIBURGH FUNDS, Ocr. 26. Bills. Money. 10d Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent..... Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. •• •• .. Rank Shares.. • • .................... Prussian 5 per Cent. ••••.. • • . ...... 106% 105% Haraburgn Certificate .• ••••• • .. • • .... 99 99 Anglo-Russian Loan • • •• • • ....... .. 105 104% Ramburgh, 3 per Cent .... • • ........ 87 86% Russian 4 per Cent... ——.••••• •• •• • • New 4 per Cent., Rope and Co. ...... 94 Ditto Stieglitz —•• .• • .... ...... 84% 84% Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent.. • • ........ -- Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 72 Ditto, in 1001. Shares .. .. .. .. Ditto, 5 per cent• • • ...• .• • • Anglo-Swo.lisli Loan ................ Ditto, Transport Loan .............. Norwegian :r.,0 an, 1848 •• • • .... •• . 99% 99% Spanish New .5 per Cent.• •• .......... 9 .... Ditto, 3 per Cents. .. • • ............ 25% 95% Ditto, 1846 ••..• • • • ............ -.— Angio.Portugriese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent — Ditto 3 per Cent. •••.••••• • • • • • • • National Bank Shares ••• • • — American, 6 per Cent. ••• • • ....... • RAILWAYS. Hamb. Bergd.• •••••••••.•• • • •• • • • • • • 97 Ditto, Priority Shares •• ••••• • • 104 103% Berlin and Hamburg • • •••••• • • • • • • 79% 79% Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••••• • • • • 981 i 9314 Cologne and Minden ........ •.•• • • • • 9434 94% Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• • • 9934 Magdeburg I— •••• • • • •• • ...... 6334 63 Altona and Mel ..... • • ....... ..... 96% 96 3 4 Gluckstadt .......... ••.. • • • 25 Hanseatic Steam Company .. • •• • • =CHANGES ON LONDON. Hamburgh, Oct. 26. •..•••• • • • • • • 13 Ws Ditto, Three months ••• • • • .... 13 10% Petersburgh, Oct 19, three months . • 37 % Bremen, Oct. 23, two months • • .. 614 An extraordinary progress has been made in the utterance of free thoughts. We no longer burn a man because he differs from us in opinion. lie may now conscientiously entertain views which the majority regard as heterodox, and still retain the use of his ears! It was not so in the time of Henry VIII., Elizabeth, Charles 1., and even more recent reigns. Then, any man who gave utterance to opinions not strictly in accord ance with the views of the ruling powers, was liable to be whipped at the cart's tail, to have his ears cut off, to be set in the pillory and pelted with rotten eggs and dead cats, to be branded in the forehead and both cheeks with a hot iron, perhaps finally to be thrown into a dungeon for life. A man's hand is not now chopped off because he ventures to write a book or tract in which he questions the extent of royal prerogative; nor are grim human heads any longer stuck on London•bridge or T, triple. bar. Thank God ! all such brutalities have been banished for ever from this country: and though sectarian and political feeling still runs strong, it dares not now proceed to the frightful extremities that it was allowed to do of old. Such a riot as that which occurred at Birmingham about the end of last century, in which the learned Dr. Priestley's library was burnt, is now, happily, no longer possible.—Eliza Cook's Journal. THE LATE ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK. —Although Mr. Monkhouse, sen., still continues pro gressing towards convalescence, it is not considered that he will have attained sufficient strength to be able to r attend at the court to give his evidence in the case for a least three weeks. The accused will therefore con tinue to be weekly remanded until that time. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF STRATIIMORE.—We have to announce the demise of the above venerable I Countess, who expired at Ilolyrood Palace on Tuesday I last, in her 77th year LAMBETH. John Hamilton, a sawyer, and who had been taken on a warrant while at work at the new lunatic asylum at Colney-hatch, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of breaking the jaw of John Heath, a bricklayer. Solicitors were employed on both sides, and a good deal of the time of the magistrate was occupied in hearing the case, but the brief facts of the case were these :—On the evening of the 16th of the present month, a brother of the complainant and a brother of the defendant quarrelled and fought in the front of the Crown and Sceptre public-house, Peckham. The complainant stooped down to pick up his brother, who was on the ground, when the prisoner gave him a violent blow, which knocked him down, and when he was getting up, gave him a desperate kick on the jaw, which fractured it. Mr. ELLIOTT said the case was of too serious nature to be dealt with by him, and committed the prisoner fur trial. THAMES. James Cowderoy, a cab-driver, of No. 4, Bluegate street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Yardley with beating his wife, Mary Ann, in a very savage manner, and breaking her arm. The wife, a dissipated-looking woman, about 30 years of age, with a child in her arms, stated that on Sunday night she was in the Bull's Head public house, in High-street, Shadwell, with a female ac quaintance, and her husband came in there after her. He was in a most fourious passion, and, after abusing her and applying the most disgusting epithats towards her, he beat her severely with his fists about her head and face, and then knocked her down and kicked her on the side and chest until she was nearly disabled. He lastly seized her arm, wrenched it forcibly, and broke her wrist. The wretched woman, whose arm had been set in a splint in the London Hospital, added, that her husband had been convicted of assaulting her before ; that her life was in danger from his violence ; and that he had repeatedly threatened to murder her and held a knife over her. Robert Durrant, barman at the Bull's Head, con firmed the statement of the complainant as to the brutal outrage committed on her on Sunday night, and said he had great difficulty in pulling the pri• soner away from his wife, and preventing him from sacrificing her on the spot, which appeared to be his intention. The prisoner, in defence, said he had only been once convicted for beating his wire, and not three or four times, as she stated ; and that she wasted all the money he gave her for housekeeping in satisfying her propensities for gin and other strong drinks. She was in the frequent practice of getting drunk, and was so on Sunday night, when he found her in the Bull's Head.. She began to abuse him, and provoked him to strike her. He came home several nights in succession, expecting to find a meal prepared for him, but his wife was from home at the public•house. Potter, a police-constable, No. 212 IC, said that he took the woman to the hospital, where her fractured limb was dressed, and that upon taking the prisoner into custody, he made use of the most repulsive ex pressions respecting his wife. Potter added that the wife kept a house of ill-fame, and the prisoner occu pied a room in it. Mr. YARDLEY expressed the greatest astonishment on hearing this statement, and asked how it was that such a fellow was licensed to drive a cab? The prisoner said he had driven a cab for many years, and had never been " pulled up" in his life. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was the greatest blackguard in the district; and when he (Roche) was in the police force, and stationed in Shadwell, he had to keep a constant watch on the prisoner, who was always a suspected person. Potter also said he knew the prisoner to be a sus pected person, and that his mother-in law, an old woman named Hillman, who had been connected with many robberies, kept the worst brothel in the district. Mr. YARDLEY directed that the prisoner's badge, 2,813, should be taken from him, and delivered up to Inspector Bell, and that a statement relating to the prisoner and his conviction should be returned to the Registrar of Hackney Coaches and Cabs. He could not understand the system of licensing cab-drivers when such a ruffian as the one before him, who had been a suspected person for many years, and kept a brothel, was permitted to have a licence to drive a public conveyance. The licensing system was of no use at all if such persons were to have licences and badges. There was no doubt whatever that the wife was a most worthless woman ; but, if the prisoner was not restrained, he would commit a murder, and be hanged. If he were to allow the woman's misconduct, bad as it was, to be pleaded as an excuse for, so much brutality, there would be no safety for her. He:,sen tenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 51. for the assault on his wife, and, in default of payment, committed him to the House of Correction for two months. If the prisoner was again licensed to drive a cab, or allowed to have a badge any more, it would not be his (the magistrate's) fault. LORD Baoucarkm ON LIGHT.—At the meeting of the British Association for the Promotion of Science, recently held at Birmingham, a very interesting account was given, by Sir David Brewster, of Lord Brougham's experimental and mathematical inquiries respecting the properties of light. Sir David spoke in the highest terms of eulogy of his Lordship's fine apparatus, the work of M. Soleil, the celebrated instrument-maker at Paris. The delicacy and exactness of the philosophical instruments made by M. Soleil were warmly praised by Sir David Brewster, certainly one of the most qualfied judges of such matters in Europe. It is fortunate for science to have such servitors as M. Soleil. Lord Brougham is now at his soat near Climes, in the South of France, and it is believed that he has gone thither so early this autumn, for the express purpose of prosecuting his experiments beneath the clear sky and fine sun of that beautiful clime. Before he had reached the age of twenty he had communicated to the Royal Society, of London, some valuable papers on the flexion and reflexioa of light. There were not only favourably noticed in foreign publicatons, but led to their author's being elected. F.E.S., and were published in its Transactions. Thus early did his active and in quiring mind apply itself to mathematical and exact science. A physician stopped at the shop of a country apothecary, and inquired for a pharmacopmia. " Sir," said the apprentice, "I know of no such farmer living about these parts." THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the offs corn, &c., received in thi Essex, from the 2:2d Oc both inclusive : acial ie 1.)o; statement of the quantiti -t of London from the poi 1849, to the 27th Oct., ies of its in 1849, Is Xta t ( kis , ha Illk ti: th, 4,1