The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

MONEY and C 0111. M HCIAL N.E Ai S. CITY, Tiiir,SDAY EVENING. The prices of the Fundy 1 ;.., flat u it just previou s ly t o th e close o! - . when it war; stated that a pigeon express bad arrived, bringing in telligence from India. It is reported that a movement was about to be 'made upon Caubul, and, from certain circumstances, with every prospect of success, not only for recovering the captives, bat also for re-as serting our power . in that quarter ; and, that more phiceslad Allen to our arms in China. • Although this mode of communication is viewed with so much suspicion, and is scarcely ever credited, Consols ad- Vanced to 93 931 for Money, 931 931 and for the Account; India Stock, 248 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53; New, 50 52 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities were firm. Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cents., 52 521 ; the Five per Cents., 100; 1001; Belgian, 1021 1031; Danish, 82 83; and Brazilian, 63 64. The accounts' of the proceedings of Santa Anna have had an unfavourable effect upon the quotations for Mexican Bond; which have declined to 32:1 33. The'alteration in the prices of the shares was but trifling-, the market generally being good. London and Birmingham were 182 184; Great Western, 82 83 ; the Half shares, 591 60; Birmingham and Gloucester; 38 40; South Western, 57i 581.; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New shares, 274- 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 221 23 ; Eastern Counties, 8i 9 ; Northern and Eastern, 35 36 ; Blackwall, 61 7 ; and Brighton; 36 361 per share. The Bonds were thus quoted—Colombian, 201 21 ; Peruvian, 154 161 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 36 61; the Three per Cents., 211 211- ; Spanish Five per Cents., 16 161; the nine, per Cents., 2O 201. The Indigo Market has exhibited a greater'degree of activity than is usual just previously to the com rnencementnr a periodical sale. The large quantity of 18 , 0 00 chests will be offered for sale thiS October, ; L nd; 'conseq uen tly, th e i n t e lli g ence from lndia is acq4ed forw ar d to with rather increased anxiety, in order' to guide both buyerS and sellers in their ope rationi. The last accounts left "the' probabl.e extent . of the forthcoming..crop somewhat in doubt, a considerable difference existing between several of the e ilcYlations. The effect of this uncertainty has also bell felt in France, and consequently must mate rially influence the amount of orders transmitted for nexportation at the approaching auctions. The w u jnber of buyers from "show"g districts have Arrived to the has exceeded a fair ; 'Slid this' fact, coupled . with the extensive ;e r r Ini n - „ t a , ses , of wool at the sales which have lately ter o f have led to the expectation that the accounts . • an mi provement in the woollen trade was not incorrect. (From The Sun of Last Night.) the day has b een excee di ng l y small. Consols are 92+ foe d 1 and 93 for the ACcount; New Three !l,-a-llalf p er C en t s ., 100+ 101 ; E xc h equer Bill s , Old, 50 52 ; New, 51 prem. . e Tr ansactions in Foreign Securities have been con nd to Dutch at th e prices of yesterday ; the Two- Itu d -ed aHalf per Cents., 52+ 521, and the Five per Cent s ., 1 001. , the quotation f or M ex i c an Bonds, which advanced Lo 33 2 1 , has since given way to 33, in consequence of so me sales which have been effected. The Share Market has been more brisk. The anxiety of some parties to secure their profit, consequent upon the late rise in Brighton shares, has caused a re action in the price, and consequently they have re ceded from 36+ to 3.54 36. London and Birmingham have been sold at 183 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 60 ; South Western, 58 ; South Eastern and . Dover, Scrip, 12+ ; E as t ern C oun ti es , N ew , •101. I s . Bd. ; Dlackwall, ; York and North Midland, 90; and tdinhurgh and Glisgow, 46. The Bonds quoted to-day are—POrtuguese Five Per Cents., 361; and Spanish Five per Cents., 20+, each of which is below the rates of last evening. The intelligence from the West Indies, received by the Dee, is extremely favourable. The crop had all been gathered, and though some of it had been de stroyed in consequence of the want of labour, yet the quantity of sugar had far exceeded previous anticipa tions, in fact so much so, that there had not been suf ficient vessels to bring it away before the Ist of Au gust. This abundance had created more activity in commercial affairs, though they are represented gene rally to be far from a healthy condition, the number of persons who. had lately availed themselves of the Insolvent Act bearing out this view. The labourers had, during the season, worked well '.M cheerfully, and are said to be gradually becomin g convinced of the advantage to be derived fraelOa lii-ood understanding with their employers. Aithoogh •several free Africans had arrived at Ja -11166,4tt11' more would be required if cultivation were to be extended next season, as it is intended it altabe. It would appear that the colonists having taken alarm at the intention of admitting foreign sugars for consumption in this country, and from the great increase in the quantity from British India, had : r.vat the d e t erm i nat i on to exert themselves in Kilter:that these islands shall again be able to reach their 'former exports. The accounts from Demerara are also more cheering, but still very unfavourable. It would seem that dissensions among the inhabitants themselves are causing quite as much mischief as the refusal of the negroes to work, and who are strengthened in their proceedings by the pernicious example of their employers. From Mexico the intelligence is of no great im portance, neither does it add any new feature to that last received.- The invasion of Texas had apparently • been laid aside for an expedition against Campeachy, but this, from all accounts, is not likely to prove suc cessful. The opinion that Santa Anna is seeking the supreme power, is, to a certain degree, confirmed by the arbitrary exercise of that with which he is at present invested, and, in consequence, he had lost some portion of the confidence of the civilians, whom it was thought he was sacrificing to increase his position with the army, on which, it is said, he chiefly relied to aid his projects. Trade was gradually, but slowly, reviving, and great expectations were formed that a further and more decided improvement would shortly take place. MANCHESTER STOCK. EXCHANGE; OCT. s.—We have had a very heavy market, with a downward ten (lenev. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 46+; Manchester and hirmingham, 21/ 22 ; London and Brighton, 361 86 1 ; London and South Western, 57; 58-1-. SHARES. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock a Per Cent. Red. !Per Cent. C ons ... Q j per Cent. Red... eve 31, per Cent... .. loli vet sr 5 per Gen: Long Annuities to expire .Jan. 1860 'Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 r Witt Stock — pm 'Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24 5O pit Ditto 500/..... pm Ditto Small Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Acct... -- Consols for Acct 93} FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto — Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Nletallic ..... Spanish, 5 per cent...,.. Ditto, Deferred.... — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Dutch, 21 per cent. • 51} Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 i FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent — /Ariz)] tan Bonds... — Bueno s A yres6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent. Bsi Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1424 2l Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO banish, 3 per :ent — Greek, 1 e 25, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 33 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 . Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. --_ Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... .. .. . ... .. 46 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... Bl Ditto New Shares ( paid) ............ 101 I s 8d Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 pant)... ... . ..... ... 60i London and Brighton (50 paid) 3si Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ..... .... 10i London and Blackwall (.= paid) . London and Birmingham (90) London and South Western ( 4116 s 10d pd) 58 ' North Midland Railway (100) .;.,-- - Paris and Rouen (18 paid) ' `Sonth 'Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... 23i -- : :,, t Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ' :-,York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ~ Ditto New Shares (29 paid) 36 "ri!Jo,r) );!,;, PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY. LONDON, Ocr. 7, 1842. The following average prices, exclusive of duty, of Brown or Muscovado British Sugars, will be pub ished in the Gazette of thig evening : • s. d. West India • 35 2 • per cwt. Bast India 3B 11 Mauritius 33 1i The total average price of the three descriptions is 6- td. per cwt. • 1 he actual weights of Sugar sold on account of the I Mporters, in the week ending the 4th inst., accord _l4•l4l, to. the ret urns ma d e upon oat h b y t h e S ugar bro irsl in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and 9J whi ch weights th e a b ove prices a re compu t e d, emi r %te,i a 16,679 cw t.. West India, of 9,282 cwt. East and 10,713 cwt. Mauritius. i: ‘ ,4 "bout 200 cwt. of Kaur, a dark damp sugar, l 'een sold - at about 265. per ewL, in the same p f 4 1 1eini, bcla ssed partly as East India, and pr.. - -.Y! as Mauritius, unfairly depresses the average (1 41 , — es „al tho se ki n d s o f s u g a rs , an d, o f cour se, re •;por‘i.le total a verage p r i ce o f the three descriptions. equal '1 Sugars may be bought - for 16s. per c%% t., ladi every re s pe c t t o th e a ve rage quality of West ligar_ ; the excess o f price of the latter, there.. W free i,l, 4 er the former is 19 s . per cwt. Excellent — ` e Sugar, refin e d f rom F ore i gn S uga rs, is selling tt boar d for as. 6d. per cwt., being 10s. per the cheap er th an the British ' Brown Sugars which e industrious classes of this country are, by the monopoly law, ,made to consume. It has been universally admitted, that whenever a relaxation of the prohibitory system, which has for so "many y ears f ettered , th e commercial energies of this THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORIONG, OCTOBER 7, 1842. country,. should _become imperative, that the same l SPECIAL COMMISSION. ought to be general in its operation, it would BURNING OF THE REV. DR. VALE'S HOUSE. be manifestly unfair to expose some interests to STAFFORD, TUESDAY.—The following is the con , elusion of the evidence given on T ues d ay i n thi s case. active rivalry. with Continental producers, an d, at the same time, screen others from th e • John Nichols was at the fire; and' saw Whiston • - throwing furniture on the fir e . H e rece i ve d t h e like competition, by' granting them a clos e mono poly. Common justice requires that all parties I things out of the windows. He said "It was the should be . treated alike; this desirable result Sir Ro- Lord's work, and that he was feeding the hungry and bat Peel's tariff fails to realise. Consumers are pro- clothing the naked." He appeared to have taken a raised cheap bread, cheap meat, and cheap beer, at the little drink. Witness thought it very extraordinary landlord's expense ; they are to have cheap clothing, language for any man to use. French hats, boots, gloves, &c., at the manufacturers Richard Hawkins saw Whiston burning and de. expense ; but, in order to foster an interest, • undeserv- stroying property to a great extent. He said "Glory, ing the boon, they are to pay an exorbitant price for glory ! when I have done some things lam going to Sugar, and other colonial produce ; the tariff, which heaven." The house inside was on fire as well as th• ought to treat all alike, leaves the West India mono- fire outside. There were more than a hundred poly untouched. When the question was asked in people at, the burning. the House of Commons why this marvellous favourit- Joseph Woolly, parish clerk of Cadderswall, was ism should be shown to these monopolists, it was an- at Dr. Vale's on Monday, the 15th of August, about swered, that the influence of the West Indians had half-past two o'clock. The mob were then breaking dwindled in that House to a shadow; that, in conse- I the windows. Some were inside. Phillips threw a quence of the effects of the Reform Act, it was now a dressing-table on the fire, and jumped on it. He ieeble interest, needing the sympathy and the support said, God was on their side and no one could harm." of the Legislature. This answer was a tolerably bold Phillips threw many, things on the fire. Williams assertion, considering that at the very moment it was then threw a bed on the fire. About an hour and a announced two Ministers of the Crown, holding most half afterwards there was .a fire in the house. When important offices, were interested in and mixed up with the engine arrived Williams endeavoured to cut the West India affairs, and that a third party, who, though hose with a knife which Cartledge handed to him, not actually holding property in' the plantations, was but he was prevented by Cyples. Richard Edge and the person through whose persuasion a loan of fifteen Josiah Gilbert, two others of the prisoners, were millions was converted to a gift of twenty millions throe` ing furniture out of the windows, and Whiston sterling, being called comp ensa ti on t o th e W es t I n - threw a pianoforte on the fire. Some of mob were dia slave proprietors, for allowing their negroes hi a state of intoxication. perform the same, description of work, coerced by 'The witness was cross-examined at some length by nearly the same means of savage punishment, under Mr. Price, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Lee, as to the identity the name of apprentices. Surely it is absurd to call of the prisoners, but his evidence remained unshaken. that interest feeble in the Hou-e, which has for its ad- Thomas Moorcroft was then recalled, and identified vocates the Chancellor of the Esichequer, the Vice- the several prisoners he had assisted in taking into President of the Board"of Trade, and the Secretary of custody on the premises of Dr. Vale. He pointed out State for the Colonies. , The apathy displayed by the Harris, H. Jackson, Wagstaff, Shaw, Gilbert, and landed interest, with regard to the Nest India mono- others. poly, is really truly astonishing. That the En- Richard Cyples arrested Williams with the hose in glish landlords should have allowed the cloak of pro- his hand, which he was endeavouring to force open hibition; which had kept their shoulders and pockets in a part where it leaked. Williams endeavoured to warm "for so many years, to be removed, without dee escape over a wall. manding and ensuring the demolition of all other mo- Michael Holt knew James Saunders for 20 years nopolies, betrays an unaccountable supineness on past. He saw him at the Market Hall on the morning their parts to their own welfare, especially leaving of the 15th of August. He was then throwing stones such a monopoly as that in question in vigorous ac- and breaking windows. • tivity. The landowners, the farmers, the labourers and Elizabeth Bramrner, 'who resides near Dr. Vale's others dependent on the soil for their livelihood, house, saw John Owen, the day of the fire, break the are one and all interested in obtaining cheap bottom row of the panes of glass in the dining-room Sugar for their consumpti on , sufficiently, it windows with a book. would be supposed, to induce them to com- Charles Hatton--Saw John OWen break the win bine their best efforts for that purpose; the dows, and then he took a chair and broke the sash to former class, the landlords have, to stimulate them pieces, and threw the chair out of the window. He into active hostility against the "West Indian mono- was quite drunk after 'that, and was unable to get poly, two objects far more important in their results away, and his friends threw him over into a field, to their own pockets, than the one mentioned—namely, where witness found him, and pointed him out - to the they especially need a large supply of Sugar at a constables. cheap rate, with which to preserve the produce of their George Bailey identified Joseph Hurst as very ac numerous garden grounds and orchards, in order that tively employed with an axe splitting 'up tables and the fruit may be put into a condition which will keep chairs. it good for twelve months, instead of limiting its use to George Barker saw. Dimmock breaking the wood the month in which it happens to become ripe. It is no- work of the windows. He was very drunk, and his torious that a large proportion of fruit is annually al- brother-in-law and others were endeavouring to per lowed to decay, rather than incur the expense of pre- suade him to go home. serving it with West India Sugar ; the process will Robert Cope deposed that Dimmock was one of the not pay, because foreign fruits cured with cheap fn-_ four persons who put abed upon the fire. reign sugars can ,be 'entered at the C us t oms for lessThornas Wain, a hairdresser of Longton, saw Eaton money than the cost of preserving British fruit. with a piece of iron trying to break open the door. Again, foreign Sugar spread on the land, as manure, Hains wa s ver y active in the work o f d es t r u c ti on ; an d would more effective and cheaper than guana or when.the engine arrived he asked was there any man nitrate of soda, both which articles are now eaten- to help him to shift it off the ground again. sively used by the farmers to enrich their land. Fo- Hannah Phillips also saw Eaton engaged in destroy reign Sugar also would prove an excellent ingredient, ing the kitchen door by striking it with a large piece mixed with other articles, for fattening cattle. When of iron. intended for either of these two purposes it ought to George Leece—Knew James Hurst, the prisoner, be issued duty free. There are abundant modes of for two or three years. He saw him breaking the adulterating it to prevent its being taken for domestic shutters, and throwing' the panels on the fire. Hurst use, without damaging its powers for manure, or for is about 12 or 13 years old. fodder. The annihilation of the Sugar monopoly, George Barlow saw Millington breaking the win consequently, would confer a greater benefit on the dows with a staff. The house was then on fire. The landed interest than on any other class, though all are witness also identified Smith, deeply interested in its prompt destruction.' On his cross••examination he admitted that he had There is paid annually out of British taxes near upon been tried for a highway robbery and acquitted. There a couple of millions sterling for maintaining the army, was another charge about a watch, and a third charge the navy, and various civil departments in our West about taking a tambourine, but he was acquitted. He India colonies ; if the produce of these colonies were was taken up for gambling, but his accuser did not sold in the United Kingdom for a price two millions venture to face a Magistrate. below that, for which an equal quantity of foreign Charles Harvey acted as a special constable, and produce could be bought, the money account would took Millington into custody the evening of the fire. exactly balance ' • but unfortunately for the mother H e was lying very d run k i n a fi e ld at some di stance country, instead of recovering the outlay of two mil- from the road. lions, she has to add to them five more, the amount to E noc h M a h er resides at Hanley, and saw the mob which monopoly rai ses th e p r i ce of Sugar, Coffee, at Earl Granville's engine; from thence they went to &c., beyond its continental value ; the gratification,- Dr. Vale's, where witness remained two hours. Saw therefore, of holding those pestilential colonies (the Williams and Toft in the house ; the latter had a tea- West Indies) costs the British nation seven millions pot, and the people were drinking out of it. He sterling a year. afterwards rolled a barrel int o th e fire. Sampson SPORTING INVELLIGENCE. Whitehouse helped to put a bed on the fire. Witness TATTEIISALL'S—YESTERDAY. was at the police-office at Stoke when the windows The betting yesterday aft er n oon was con fi ne d to t h e were broken, and was t a k en i nto custo d y, b ut d i s Cesarewitch, for which several horses were b a ck e d at charged. W as i n D r . V a l e ' s h ouse, i n t h e study, and up stairs in th e b e d- rooms, a b out a quarter past amounts barely large enough to determine their val ue . in the market. On three only was business at all brisk, three o'clock. It was to see who the parties were via., Bellissima, Portrait, and Heslington • the mare was that were doing the mischief. 'Was never charged backed freely at 7to 1, and closed at' takers of a frao- with being concerned in the attack upon Dr. Vale's tional improvement. Portrait had a few friends, but a house. strong feeling against him was shown in two or three - James Carter saw Joseph Saunders breaking fur quarters, and he finally closed at layers of 10 to 1. niture in one of the rooms. He met him next morn- Heslington was backed in two instances at 10 to 1, an d i in several others at 12 to 1, with repeated offers to go n and told him he was so ry he had seen him so a been in the on at the latter price. We have quoted the closing odds e n gga ' ged the night before. S r aunders h d_y. against him at 11 to 1, but doubt if it could have been witness's employment for some time previously. obtained. Latest prices : Samuel Bailey knew Hollins for several years, and CESAREWITCH STARES. saw him among the mob throwing articles upon the 6to 1 ngst Mr. Sadier's Belissima—take 13 to 2. lire. Thomas Jackson was also engaged with a big 10 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's Portrait—taken, and af. off. stick breaking the windows. Witness had been pre -11 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Heslington vious'y with the mob when they were breaking the 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Blue Bonnet windows of, the police-office, and was twice in prison. 12 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Florence • Was charged with having taken some money, and was 13 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken 13 to s agst Mr. Clark's Arcanus—taken fourteen days in prison, and on the second occasion two months. The man in the factory said to him, that 16 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Tamburini—taken to if he would tell of somebody else there was a pardon a small sum 16 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Tuley Moloch colt for him. Hollins' uncle 'charged him with stealing 18 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's The. Gleaner—taken money from his mantel-piece. 18 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Lucy Banks —taken Thomas Coke—Has known the prisoner Thomas 20 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's The Shadow—t. to 501. Cotton for several years. Saw him in the study 20 to 1 agst Mr. Etvvall's Thistle Whipper —taken putting furniture on the fire. and afterwards offered Ephraim Baxter saw John Powell breaking chairs 6 to 1 ae'st Blue Bonnet and Florence —taken and throwing them through the window. PERTH RACES.—TIIESDAY. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that the case for Match, 50 sovs. One mile. Bst 71b each:l.-Mr. Merry's Cable beat Lord Glenlyon's Christopher. the Crown was then closed. The only witnesses who had not been examined were a surveyor, who had The Caledonian Cup of 105/. for. Scotch-bred horses ; made apanof D . 1 , _ , I r Vale's house and another person, 3 yrs, 7st ; four yrs, Bst 21b, ; five yrs, Bst 91b ; six yrs and aged, Bst 1 0 1 b ; mares allowed 21b. Three miles. who was not in a fit state to be examined. Mr. Ramsey's Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs ... (Robertson) 1 The Court adjourned at a quarter to seven till half- Mr. Meilclam's Florence, 3 yrs Mr. C. Alexander's Niagara, 3 yrs Won cleverly. morning, at half-past eight o'clock, and the trial of The Perth Hunt Plate of 50/. ; three yrs, 7st 41b ; four the prisoners charged with the burning and destruc yrs, Bst 51b ; five yrs, Bst 121 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st ; tion of property at the Rev. Dr. Vale's, was imme mares, &c. allowed 31b ; winners extra. Two miles. diately proceeded with. Mr. Merry's Smike, 3 yrs (M. Noble) 4 1 1 FOR THE DEFENCE. Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 3 yrs Mr. PRICE said he would, in the first_instance, call Mr. Ramsay's Recorder, 6 yrs ' 2 dr the attention of the Court to- the indictment, and Mr. Scott's Chester, 4 yrs Maiden Plate of 50/., the gift of the Caledo n i an Hunt. started two objections upon the face of it, which the Heats. One mile-and-a-half. Chief Justice held to be untenable. Mr. Johnstone's fby Voltaire, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 1 1 The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, before his Learned Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Wm. le Gros, 3 yrs, Bst 21b 2 2 Friend commenced his address, he wished to state that Mr. W. M. Alexander's Jack, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b.... . 3 3 after consulting with his Learned Brethren, there ap- Lord Glenlyon's Glencromie, 3 yrs, Bst. 131 b 4 dr peared to him two of the prisoners, namely, 'William Won by a head. Hollins and Thomas Jackson, who were not proved WREXHAM RACES—WEDNESDAY. to have taken any part in the proceedings, except The Bryn-y-pys Stakes of 25 sovs. each for 3-yr-olds. upon the evidence of the boy Richard Bailley, and he Once round and a distance. (5 Subs.) Mr. Price's Valenti n a, Bst 31b w o a a k d e . d over. • The Gold Cup of 100 sov s . Thrice rle himself, and the circumstances that had induced him to give the information, he would not be exercising a Mr. Mostyn's Prince Carado c , 4 y rs , Bst3lb(Marlow) 1 Mr. Prices Valentina, 3 yrs, 7st 81b Sir R. W. Bulkeley's fby Bay Middleton, 6st 121 b 3 tention to press the charge against them. Won easy. The CHIEF JusvcE—Then the better course will Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 flit- declared, with 30 added, be to acquit these two boys at once, as the others may the second saves hi s sta k e . O ne m i le, heats. (5 Subs.) wish to have their evidence. Mr . Price's M a ri on . 3 yrs , 7 st 121 b. .(Cartwright) 1 1 The Jury then, under the direction of his Lord- Sir It. W. Bulkeley's Cerito, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Mr. W. Jon es ' s Lydi a , 4 yrs, Bst 2 1b 2 3 Wiliiiun Hollins and Thomas Jackson, and they were Won easy. ordered to stand aside for the present. The Selling Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added by Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. The winner to be sold for Mr. PRICE had been instructed to 'ask a question of 1001., &c. Heats, once round. 5 Subs. Mrs. Vale, who was in court—namely, whether she Mr. Skerrat's Hudibra s , 4 yrs, 9st 61b Mr. Thomp son ' s 6, - by Shrigley, 8 yrs, 7st 111 b 1 2 2 commencement of the riots. Mr. Roberts's Drayman (late Hooks), 7st 1 llb 33 dr Mrs. Vale replied in the negative. Mr. Price's Ernestine, 3 yrs, Bst 2dr Mr. PRICE then, on behalf of Whiston and Colt- Mr. Graydon's Short Bob, 3 yrs, 7st 71b A good race . his clients stood charged w as o f th e most e xtrao r di- The Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sovs. each, an d 20 added nary nature, and their obje c t s h ou ld b e t o en d eavo u r by Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., tl 12st each. Genemen riders. Heats, one mile. to procure some information as to, the cause of so Mr. R. Birch's Slashing Harry, 6 yrs 1 1 much wanton and useless destruction of property. He Mr. Jackson's Bonny Grey, 3 yrs Mr. S. Birch's Stella, 4 yrs , 3 3 that these persons had been actuated by any feeling of YORKSHIRE UNION HUNT CLUB MEETING. ill-will or hatred towards the prosecutor. He would • WEDNESDAY. take the case of his two clients in the first instance, as The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sovs. each , p.p. , for all ages, if it had be e n ma de ou t, an d h e wou ld ta k e it that 13st. The winner to be sold for 2001., and the last to 'they were there. But he would put it to the Jury to M pay (Owner) nu e) I weigh th e ev id ence on th a t po i nt w i t h great caution, ' e One mile. (7 S r. H. t S. he Thom second p son horse's s' H stale . onesty, aged because he hoped, by-and-by, to be able to satisfy . 2 them that the witnesses on that point were mistaken. Mr. E. Reynard nd Kirby, 5 yrs . They would inquire whether the riot was not insti- Mr. G. H. Reynard nd arifa,Z aged at CI by persons who were not then present on their to a Sweep- g e t a w dd o e l d engths. 41. " trial; b in 'his • • ;because, opinion, there was nothing to show given by stakes of 10 sovs. each. Two miles. (8 Subs.) The eCnu on n ,the W C o il l u by y , Colonel Thompson's Nelson, 4 yrs , l Is.. t 21b (Owner) 1 that any one or more of th e p r i soners were the insti- Mr. Reynard's Infidel, 5 yrs, list 21b 2 ga ots 3 who were in his o pi n i on th e rea l offenders, were be- Mr. H. S. Thompson's Haidee, aged , 12 st -2to 1 on Nelson. Won easy, by two lengths. fore them, it would be for the. Jury to decide upon The Champagne Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 their culpability, and for the Court to punish sovs. each. Mile and three quarter. (9 subs.) them. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at some Mr. Bell's Thirsk, 4 yrs (Col. Thompson) I 3 length to comment upon th e ev id ence t h at had been ' 2 • Mr. Bell's Man Friday, 4 yrs ' given as to the part taken by hi s c li en t s i n the out- Mr. W. H. 0. Powlett's Bobadil, aged Lord Milton' s bby Medora, out of Gipsy, 4 , 1•3 6t04 on Thirsk, and 3tol on the Man Friday. IN on much' of it h • been obtained from aving parties who easy by three lengths. were mixed up with the proceedings of the m o b, and MARKET RASEN RACES, —M O NDAY. res • The Sub scr i pt i on P urse was won in two heats by 11 1 r. w ho would naturally endeavour to shift the p m ,. liuke's Coronation, beating Mr. Hargrave's Tickle-me- i bility upon other shoulders. He was sure that even Dick and Mr. Davy's Lottery. the Rev. Prosecutor himself would be the first to join The Town Purse was won by Mr. Davy's Lottery, the Jury in the solemn and merciful exclamation, bearing Mr. W. Davy' s Van Tr om p and Mr. Penning- " The Lord forgive them, for they know not what ton's Beeswing. ' they do." .- The Hurdle Stakes were won, after a fine race, by Mr. 1 Mr. LEE then add re ssed the Jury on b e h a lf o f Rawlinson's m Wicked, b eat i ng M r. Ki rwan ' s Di a na and I Phillips, Smith, an d T o ft. He relied principally u pon l Mr. North's Violet. , i + the vague and uncertain nature of the evidence, as it The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. Hutchinson ' s affected his clients. With regard to his clients, he . Toby ; and the Sweepstakes by Mr. Davy's Romp. LEICESTER-SQUARE LITERARY and SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. Dr. Truman delivered a lecture at this Institution yesterday evening, upon the Chemistry of Animal Food. The Learned Lecturer opened his discourse by an explanatory account of the different elements of which animal food is composed, and spoke of their respective qualities in sequent order. Fibrine first attracted his attention. Chiefly obtained from the muscles of animals,, it took upon itself all colours, ac cording to the creature of which it formed part. The botrilli of France was its best representative, as a sub stance in the mass, in which the original meat was deprived of its gelatine; fibrine was also to be found in the p a p aw tree. Albumen, the most nutri tious of substances, existed in oysters to a great extent, and in its raw and uncoagulated state, per mitted dozens of them to be eaten with impunity : its coagulated state in the stewed oyster tended to a very different effect. Gelatine had its wholesome applications in a culinary point of view, with a variety of other uses. O smozome was another substance, deriving its name from the Greek words, oc-mc, smell, and ?wp,o4:, broth : its peculiarity consisted in giving that taste best designated by the expression, savoury." Game and the unctuous flesh of grown animals had a 'remarkable share of it, as also the common mushroom. Mucus was the first formed and most primary of animal substances. Dr. Truman, after thus analysing the chemical substances of food, proceeded synthetically to enumerate the animals in which these were found in their compound form, as used for food and substance of nutrition by the people of various countries. The habits or various nations in this respect furnished a curious diversity of gastronomical tastes and epi cureianisms. Ai an instance of food eatem in its un mature and unsolidified state, the 7 'blind traveller Holman stated that at Fernando Po, ,couple of lambs, grown to no more than six inches long, were served up to him by order of the King. Galen reports of swine, that their flesh possesses no less than fifty flavours, and is greatly assimilant in kind to human flesh. Du Chatelain relates that in his days, dogs and Eats were eaten at Paris as they now are in China : indeed, Sir Joseph _Banks and - Dr. Solander affirm that dog's flesh is the sweetest imaginable. At Rome, camel's heels were the choicest tit-bit for an epicure's tooth. Whales' tongues ranked among the delicacies feasted on in the middle century by Europeans. The Caffre eats his lio.i for food, and the traveller Bruce among them ate his lion-steak with, gusto. A Rio Ja neiro friend, the Lecturer stated, had informed him that in that country an ordinary dish was a monkey pie ; in this, the head of the ape was left to appear above the crust for ornament, in the style of the feet in our pigeon-pies. The turkey, it appears, which is about to adorn our Christmas tables, was first eaten in France in 1579, at a royal marriage, though brought over some fifty years earlier by the Jesuits ; it is a native of America or West India, from which originates its French name of I)indOn, or d'bule don, " the gift of India." Among reptiles, continued the Lecturer, the class consumed was not numerous : the nutritious turtle was the chief. Bred in the preserves ,of Jamaica, they there cost less th an our b ee f or mu tt on , an d th e food af forded by one was sufficient for a hundred trencherman. Steam-boat traffic, as it increases, will greatly multi ply the supply of this commodity. • Of other reptiles, the vane esculenta of France was mentioned. Touch ing upon fish as food, Dr. Truman remarked that it was, from its specific nature, not calculated to fill out the solid parts : of the body. Owing to this fact, jockeys wishing to reduce their weight antecedent to a race, fed upon it. The old Greeks considered it to be food productive of effeminacy ; the . Romans at first disdained it, till they alit upon one fish which, from its rarity and deliciousness, they called " the brain of Jupiter ;" and at a later age the Senate was called together expressly to consider of the dressing of a turbot. Dr. Franklin originally had a great antipathy to eating cod fish. Ho considered it cruel to eat that which was inoffensive and harmless of nature. One day, upon this ground, the frying-pan was disencumbered of one that had been put upon the fire for his ccenacular repast. The cook, however, happened to open it while the Doctor still lingered down stairs. In its stomach appeared half-a-dozen smaller types of itself. " Ho, ho !" said the famed experimentalist, " if you eat each other, I see no harm in eating you." From that day the Doctor's scruples vanished, and he ate of the Newfoundland bouncers as heartily as any one. The talented Lecturer concluded his remarks with some excellent strictures upon milk, and expatiated upon the generality of cannibalism among most abo riginal nations. The audience was crowded and attentive; and the curious disquisitions of the Lecturer received frequent awards of applause. In addition, we observed with pleasure that the reading-rooms of this admirable and long-established institution are fully attended, and the excellent advantages which its extensive library, lec ture-rooms, and classes for languages present, are participated in by numerous members both of the City and West-end. would ask, were the Jury to infer, in the absence of all evidence upon the subject, that these three men were present when the plan was proposed to burn down and destroy the house of Dr. Vale ? There was nothing to show that these men were there at all till after the fire had been lighted, and they might as well involve in the crime all those who were mere specta tors—who had taken no part in the proceedings, and had given no countenance or encouragement to the rioters. There was nothing whatever to show any premeditation on the part of his clients. " Mr. METEYARD, on behalf of Hamlet Jacl<son, William Shaw, and Dimmock, said, with regard to Jackson, when he looked at the statements which had been made by the witnesses against him, they were of the most slight and flimsy texture : and as regards the great bulk of the witnesses' who had been exa mined, he must say that men who could stand coolly by, and see the property of their neighbours de stroyed, without making an effort to arrest that de struction, and who afterwards came before the Court to point out the offenders, stood before thein, to say the least of it, with somewhat ragged reputations. Mr. ALLEN, who appeared for Edge, Harris, Met lington, Saunders, Cartledge, Williams, and the two Hursts, spoke in extenuation of the prisoners to the effect that their original intention appeared to be to destroy the furniture; and the fact of a fire being lighted in the frent of the house, and the furniture being brought out and placed upon it, sufficiently es tablished that fact. Now, if that was the conviction of the Jury, as it was his these men were entitled to an acquittal. Had notthe Learned Solicitor-General thought proper to scout the testimony of the witnesses against the two lads who had been acquitted, they would, perhaps, have had the painful reflection of hav ing recorded a verdict of guilty upon testimony te terly unworthy of &edit. He would commence with the last of his clients, young liurst.—(The prisoner, a diminutive bo g y, marked' in the calendar " 11 year; old," but who did not appear older than a boy of 9, was here ordered to stand up.) He would ask the Jury seriously whether they believed that boy went to Dr. Vale's house with the premeditated intention of demolishing and destroying his house? (The trail was proceeding when the train left.) EXTRACTS PROM THE « INQUIRY INTO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN" MORTALITY OF ENGLAND.—A conception may be formed of the aggregate effects of the several causes of mortality from the fact, that of the deaths caused during one year in England and Wales by epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases, including fever, typhus, and scarlatina, amounting to 56,461, the great proportion of which are proved to be preventible, it may be said that the effect is as if the whole county of West • moreland, now contitining 56,469 souls, or the whole county of Huntingdonshire, or any other equivalent district, were entirely depopulated annually, and were only occupied again by the growth of a new and feeble population living under the fears of a similar visita tion. The annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventible causes of typhus, which attacks per sons in the vigour of life, appears to be double the amount of what was suffered by the Allied Armies in the battle of Waterloo. It will be shown that diseases such as those which now prevail on land, did within the experience of-persons still living, formerly prevail to a greater extent at sea, and have since been prevented by sanitary regulations; and that when they did so prevail in ships of war, the deaths from them were more than double the amount of the deaths in battle. But the number of persons who die is to be taken also as the indication of the much greater number of persons who fall sick, and who, although they escape; are subjected to the suffering and loss oc sioned by attacks of disease. Thus it was found on the original inquiry in the metropolis, that the deaths from fever amounted to one in ten of the number at tacked. If this proportion held equally throughout the country, then a quarter of a million of persons will have been subjected to loss and suffering from an attack of fever during the year. 3, 4. I have repeatedly noticed in t he countr y that the occurrence of fever has been connected with near proximity to even a small amount of decomposing or ganic matter; and it is certain that all measures for effecting improvement in the sewerage of streets, the supply of water, and ventilation, may be rendered nearly inoperative for the obviating the causes of disease, if a little nidus of morbific effluvia be per mitted to remain in almost every corner of the con fined court.—Page 7. DR. ARNOTT'S VISIT TO GLASGOW. We entered a dirty low passage like a house door, which led from the street through the first house to a square court immediately behind, which court, with the exception of a narrow path around it leading to another long passage through a second house, was occupied entirely as a dung receptacle of the most disgusting kind.. Be yond this court the second passage led to a second square court, occupied in the same way by its dung hill ; and from this court there was yet a third pas sage leading to a third court, and third dungheap. There were no privies or drains there, and the dung heaps received all filth which the swarm of wretched inhabitants could give ; and we learned that a consi derable part of the rent of the houses was paid by the produce of the dungheaps. Thus, worse off than wild animals, many of which withdraw to a distance and conceal their ordure, the dwellers in these courts had converted their shame into a kind of money by which with the their lodging was to be p a id. Th e i n teriors of these houses and their inmat es correspon d e d exte riors. We saw half-dress e d wre t c h e s crowding to gether to be warm ; and in one b e d, a lthough in the middle of the day, several women w ere imprisoned under a blanket, because as many others who had on their backs all the arti c l es o f d ress t h a t belonged to the party were then out o f d oors i n t h e s treets. This picture is so shocking th a t, w i t h out ocu l a r proof, one would be disposed to do u bt th e poss ibility of the facts; and yet there is, perhaps, no o ld t own in Europe that does not furnish parallel examp l es . London, before the great fire of 1666, had f ew d ra i ns an d had many such scenes, and the conse quence was, curing at intervals of a b out t we lve years,. each destroying at an averag e a b out a fourt h o f the inha bitants.—Page 24. Another defect in some parts of Edinburgh is the great size and height of the houses (some of them ex ceeding ten stories), with common stairs, sometimes as filthy as the streets or wynds to which they . open. By this construction the chance of cleanliness is les sened, the labour of carrying up necessaries, and par ticularly water for the purpose of purifying, is in creased ; and if any malaria or contagion exist in The house, the probability of its from dwel lingl S passing to dwelling on the same stair is much greater than if there were no communic a ti on but through the open air.—Page 25 . A frightful picture of a considerable proportion of the labouring population of Leeds in respect to ge n is afford e d by the report o s sewerage eirra. Baker,ad drainagew who giv gives s the following instance of amendment :—" In one of the streets of Leeds where stagnant water used frequently to accumulate after rain, and where there was perpet ua lly o ccurring cases of fevei of a malignant character, a deputation of fe riellmmedy capacity of Town-Coun cillor could be applied to this declar e d was no t on ly o ff ensive n m niul a il l os e ar s n S te V ne ai t as e w d kh u ici p hf o upon me they but deadly. I directed them to communicate with the owner of the property, and to say that if the griev ance was not remedied I should take further steps to enforce it. Never hearing again from the deputation, I presumed that the remedy had been applied, and had forgotten the circumstance, until the house sur geon of the fever hospital in 1840, in noticing the lo calities from whence fever cases were most frequently brought to the institution, remarked that formerly report many cases of malignant fever were brought in from street, but Oar two or three y ears t h ere h a d b een none or not more than one or two."—Pages 29, 30. snts, appointed o,ooO I b n y a the i v There erpoo ,araen and th upwardseir o c c o n f pn B a ,o t o s O 'inhabited cellars in are estimated at from 35,000 r made by the surveyors, 4 Council of Liver pool to examine the condition of the court an d ce ll ar residences within the borough, it is stat e d th a t o f 2,398 courts examined, 1,7 05 ' were Closed a t one en d, so as to prevent thorough ventilation. Of 6,571 cel lars, whose condition is reported on , 2 ~., 8 8 are stated Town latery to be either wet or damp, and nearly one-third of the whole number are from five to six feet be low the level of the street.—Page I3etween a town population similarly situated in general condition, one part inhabiti ng streets which are unpaved, and another inhabiting streets that are paved, a general difference of health is observed. The town of Portsmouth is built upon a low portion of the marshy island of Portsea. It was formerly subjected to intermittent fever, but since the town was paved, in 1769, it was noticed by Sir Gilb er t B lanc, that this disord e r no l o nger prevailed ; whilst Kilsea and the other parts of the island retained the aguish dispo sition until 1793, when a drainage was mad e w hi c h subdued its force.— Page 37. Of the 586 streets of Leeds, sixty-eight only are paved by the town, i. e., by the local authorities ; the remainder are either paved by owners, or are partly paved, or are totally unpaved, with the surfaces broken in every direction, and ashes and filth of every description accumulated upon many of them. . . . It might be imagined that the streets over which the town surveyors have a legal right to exercise control would be serVered. But this is not the case ; of the sixty-eight streets which they superintend, nineteen are not sewered at all, and ten are onl y partly so nay, it is only within the three or four years past'that a sewer has been completed through - the main street for two of the most populous wards of the town; em bracing together a population of 30,540 persons, by which to carry off the surface and drainage water of an elevation of 150 feet, where, indeed, there could be no excuse_ for want of sufficient rall:—pages 40, 41. APPALLING MURDER at STANLEY (From the Derby Reporter of this day.) On Friday morning last, intelligence was brought to Derby, that a daring burglary, at tended with murder, had been perpetrated at the house of the Miss Goddurds, of Stanley, about six miles hence. We have obtained the following particulars of the transaction from Mr. Radtbrd, the Magistrate. _ The house in which the Miss Goddards re sided is a large one, standing alone, and not within 100 yards of any other residence. It is a large brick house, surrounded by orchards and fields, and the direct approach to it is by means of a private road. The two Miss Goddards were considerably advanced in years, the deceased (Martha) being in her 70th year, and the sur vivor (Sarah) but lbw years younger. They have resided alone in this (the family) house, without servant or assistant, for more than forty years ; and although their habits were somewhat eccentric, they had the reputation of being very charitable, kind, and humane ladies. Their father was the Vicar of Tideswell, in this county, and they possessed a comfortable independence. In April last, we published an account of a bur glary committed on the same premises, when two men decamped with some articles of silver and several sovereigns, without committing vio lence. A few weeks ago a second robbery was committed, and some linen and other articles stolen. On arriving at the house, the place where the murderers entered was pointed. out to us. A door (which was at the time open) leads from the coal-house into the kitchen, and another door leads out of the kitchen into the house-place, where Miss Sarah Goddard was sitting about half-past twelve o'clock on Friday morning, when she heard a noise in the coal-house. The three rooms are in a direct line, and the doors lead di rectly one to the other. The deceased had re tired to bed. On hearing the noise, Miss Sarah Goddard went in the direction of the coal-house, and was startled by meeting (to use her own words) two stern savage looking men, who shook their fists menacingly at her, and then im mediately knocked her down and beat her unmercifully. The villains then proceeded up stairs, and as soon as she had slightly re covered she escaped into her own bed room, the door of which she bolted. She had not been there long when the door was forced open, and the two ruffians demanded a 51. note which they said they knew she had in her possession. She denied having a Si. note ; and they answered, menacingly, that money they wanted and money they would have, for that they were d e t erm i ne d not to starve. She then gave them two sove ' reigns and a few shillings, but they still de manded the Si. note, and after again beating her severely, partly with crow bars and partly with their fists, they went in the direction of her sister's room. After the lapse of some time, and when she thought the men had gone away, Miss Sarah went to her sister's room, arid was horri fied to discover her lying across the bed, co vered with blood, with her legs hanging over, the side ; she moaned, " Sarah— Sarah !—man—man !" and never spoke after:- wards. Not daring to leave the house, poor Miss Sarah remai n ed with h e r i nsens ibl e sister until daylight began to dawn, and then .ran down the road to the cottage of a labourer named Scattergood, whom she alarmed, and he and his wife immediately got up and went to the house. Miss Sarah told them what had hap pened, and on going into deceased's bed room they . were shocked at the spectacle ,that pre .sented itself. The deceased was lying across the bed, with her legs resting on a chair (the posi tion in which her sister had placed them), and she was literally a mass of blood from the head to below the middle. The bed clothes were sa turated; there was also a pool of blood on the floor by the bed-side; and the wall and door post were stained, as if; after the blows, the blood had spurted that distance. Mr. Boden, surgeon of Smalley, was immediately sent for. The poor creature did not die until between seven and eight o'clock, but she was insensible the whole of the time, the only evidence of life being gentle action of the respiratory organs. The surviving sister (Miss Sarah) also presented a horrible speetable. Her face and head were covered with blood, and a finger had been broken by a blow from a crow-bar; but, strange to say, she is not dangerously wounded. Her face on Saturday morning was terribly discoloured, and her appearance was most deplorable. The N vounds inflicted on the head of the deceased (evidently by some blunt instrument) were dreadful ones; there were three severe cuts on the left side o f the forehead, a f rac ture of the skull, bruises on t the neck and hands, and one finger broken. The corn averages for this week do not differ ma terially from those of last week; the import duty on wheat remains at 18s. per cinder. -1-----7-ir ths contractors : they have at all ti mes , with the utmost promptitude, complied with the orders of the engineer-in-chief. " The few accidents which have really occurred on the line have been greatly exaggerated; they were perhaps inevitable on such a difficult and extensive line of works, requiring so much rapidity in their exe cution ; but hey were most promptly attended to, and always at the charge of the contractors. " If these works have been adjudged on terms not hitherto obtained here, be assured, Gentlemen, that their solidity has not been sacrificed to a false economy ; every means have been taken to secure their stability, and to affbrd, at the same time, perfect security in the working of the line. A railway is of itself a great monument. Its splendour is to be found in its utility. "During the period which has intervened since our last meeting we have completed our contracts for the supply of rails and chairs. The distance of the iron works is very great, and the extraordinary dryness of the season, together with accidents on the canals,have hitherto retarded the deliveries ; but we have taken every means to secure the strict execution of our con tt v e assurances ac ts ' and we have, tt the besides, whole quantityreceivedth will be the most de livered within the present year. "The construction of the engines, carriages, kc., for working the line has kept pace with the works ; two months ago there was but one engine at work in the manufactory where our locomotives are in the course of construction ; at this moment more than five hundred men are actively employed, together with the most complete machinery ever vet in appli cation here. " In fine, every part of our enterprise is in the most satisfactory position, for which we are greatly in debted to the powerful resources you have confided to our care. " The calls have been paid up with remarkable punctuality. " At the period of the last general meeting, th e re ceipts amounted to 12,602,086 f. 23c. (504,083/. 9 5 .) ' on the 30th of June last they reached 28,320,991 f. 25c. (1,13 9 ,8380 ; and at this present time they amount to 31,703,872 f. 35c. (1,286,154/. 18s.) "We have not been obliged to have recourse to legal proceedings to get in any of the calls. Ninety-. four shares only have been sold, and these sales have generally been caused by the death or absence of the party. "Your example will not fail to produce a beneficial influence in the execution of great public works. In France, complete justice was rendered to you in the Chambers during the discussion of the law on Railways. " Our monthly outlay has increased with the pro gress of our works ; and in the last six months of the past year it has progressed from 1,200,000 f. (48,0000 to 2,606,000 f. (94,000/0, and it now reaches 3,500,000 f. (140,0000 each month. supposed that deceased got out of bed on eeing the men, in order to escape from them, and that they then struck her with the crow bar several times with all their power. The mur derers missed two 51. notes in a drawer. On examination in front of the house, two footmarks were, found on the flower borders. In order to prevent an escape by the front door, the villains had placed a hedge stake across the door frame, and tied it to the handle of the = door, .F 0 that a person attempting to open the door from within would be foiled. A well-known character in that neighbourhood named Keehng has been taken into custody on suspicion of being implicated in the murder, and also a man named Green. These parties have been remanded for further examination. Atter the usual preliminaries had been gone through, an inquest • was held on the body on Saturday morning, before Mr. H. Mozley, Co roner, and a respectable Jury. The survivor was not in a state to give an account so clearly as could be wished of what really did take place. The foregoing statement is an exact recapitulation of what Miss Sarah Goddard gave upon exami nation before the Magistrates, as also that of Mr. Robert Roden, the surgeon. The Jury returned a verdict of 4t Wilful Mur der against some person or persons unknown." In the course of Friday a handbill, of which ' the following is a copy, was issued : " WILFUL MURDER.-1001. REWARD. " Whereas the dwelling house of the two Misses Goddard, at Stanley, in the county of Derby, was burglariously broken into, and en tered early in the morning of the .30th day of September, and both of the inmates inhumanly beat about their heads and faces, one of whom has since died from the wounds inflicted ; Notice is hereby given, that a reward of 100/. will be given to any person who shall give such information as will lead to the conviction of the perpetrators of the above crime, on application to Mr. R. W. Birch, solicitor, Derby. " Stanley, Sept. 30, 1842." The following letter has been received by Sir Henry S. Wilmot,Bart., by which it will be seen that Government offered a reward of 1001. (in ad dition to the reward of the same amount offered by the friends of the deceased), for the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers:— " Whitehall, 3d October, 1842. " am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst., relative to the murder of a lady named Goddard, at Stanley, about four miles from Derby, on Thursday night last;—and I am to in tOrm you that in this case a reward of 1001. will be paid by the Government (in addition to the reward of like amount offered by the friends of the deceased), to any person who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers; and Sir James,Graham will ad vise the grant of her Majesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice not being the actual perpe trator of the murder, who shall give such evi dence as shall lead to the same result. " The total amount of the expenditure is 27,428,591 f. :31c. (1,097,1431. 125.) Although our resources are not yet exhausted, we, nevertheless, thought it expe dient at the commencement of the year to make ap-, s plication to the Minister for Public Works for the re turn of our caution money, and at the same time to pave the way by .complying with the various forms required, for claiming the loan of fourteen millions from the State. At this moment, even, we are press ing the Ministers for return of the 3,600,000 f. (44,0001.) caution money, which must precede the loan. of fourteen millions (560,0001.); return of 4-sths of the same has just been granted, and it is perhaps owing to a greater respect for the letter rather than the spirit of the law, that the whole is not returned, for it is impossible Ibr the Government not to perceive that our money would be much better employed in carry ing on the works than it is in the cotiers of the State, that a security is only of real use in guaranteeing the formation of an association ; but when a company has already executed works to the amount of twenty eight millions (1,120,0001.), the guarantee of a few hundred thousand francs must be perfectly useless. " You may rest assured we do not lose sight of the period when the payment of the loan will commence, and we have too much reliance in the interest which the Government takes in our enterprise, to have any fear in respect to useless delays. " As our works proceed, we are better able to ap preciate the future resources of this undertaking, and we have every reason to believe that our estimates of revenue will prove to be as correct as are those of the cost of the construction. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, "T. M. PHILLIPPS. Sir H.S. Wilmot, Bart., Chaddesden, Dtrby." CAPTURE OF THE MURDERERS. Two men have been taken into custody at Belper, and we understand the evidence against them is clear. We shall endeavour to obtain full particulars, and publish them in a Second Edition. PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY. (From the Liverpool Standard.) A numerous meeting of the English Shareholders in the Paris and Rouen Railway, was held in the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, at one o'clock, on the 29th ult., for the purpose of receiving a Report of the . Directors and Engineer, with respect to the state of the concern up to that time. On the motion of Mr. C. Lawrence, Mr. Moss was called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN commenced by stating that the Directors had convened the meeting for the purpose of answering any questions which the Shareholders might desire to ask. The best course, in his opinion, would be in the first instance to read the Report, in order to enable gentlemen to put more pointedly any questions either to the Directors, or to Mr. Locke, or to Mr. Reed, who were also present. As far as the Report went, he (Mr. Moss) thought it would be found satisfactory. In one respect certainly it must be so, for it gave an assurance that before they had again the pleasure of meeting, the opening of the line for the purpose of working would have taken place. The only question for the consideration of the Share holders now not connected directly with their own line, would be, how far they would think it desirable to give support to the projected continuation line to llavre, by taking shares in that concern. Some ex planations would be given to them on that subject, and with those explanations he would leave it in their hands. Mr. SWIFT then read the Report of the Directors, of which the following is a copy : " Paris, August 30, 1842. "Report of the Conseil d'Administration to the Ge neral Meeting. " Gentlemen—At the period of the general meeting last year, we were in a manner but preparing for our labours. "The first year had been employed in arranging the final plans, and accomplishing the formalities pre scribed by the law, in letting a portion of the works, and in entering into contracts for the engines, rails, and chairs. " Our plans and propositions have afforded general satisfaction to the legitimate claims of the localities, and were subjected to very little alteration. " The purchase of the land, which one year ago was scarcely commenced, has been carried on with the greatest activity, and now draws to a close. For this purpose the line was divided into two sections—the one containing 19 communes, and the other 29 com munes. The first section has all been purchased, ex cepting that part required for our goods station at the Batignolles, of which a few parcels remain to be ex propriated,* in order to complete this station. We are nevertheless in possession of a sufficient portion of the land to be enabled to commence the works. In the second section, all the land required for the railway and the intermediate stations, with one exception in the communes of Sotteville and Rouen, is already purchased. The contemplated construction of the Havre line required some alterations in our plans in these communes, or the land would also have been purchased by this time. The new plans have, how ever, passed the ordeal of the Committee of Inquest, and we shall now proceed without loss of time to ob tain the land. " Notwithstanding that the property required for the railway is divided into 7,500 parcels, the value of the land and houses, together with the difficulties at tendant on passing through towns and villages, such as Poissy, Mantes, and Vernon, the result h as been satisfactory. The greatest portion of the purchases have been made by private contract. We have only had recourse to expropriation in a few cases, where the properties were of great value, and these were settled by the jury in the most equitable manner. " Great care has:been taken in drawing up the dif ferent conveyances. As soon as the few remaining purchases are completed, an exact account of this por tion of our outlay will be made out. In the interim everything is so settled as to place the Company in perfect security. " In the last accounts which we had the honour to lay before you, the expenditure for the works amounted but to 200,000 f. (8,0001.) ; on the 30th of June last it reached the sum of 11,419,404 f. 36c. (456,7761. 35.) ; and at the present moment it 14,338,460 f. 41c. (573,5381. Bs.) This will show the activity which has prevailed in conducting the works. We now lay before you the Report of the engineer-in -chief, which will give you a more com plete account of the progress of our enterprise." (Then follows Mr. Lock's Report upon the state of the works.) " To this Report we beg leave to add, that the-Ad vanced state of the works leaves us under no appre hension as to their early completion, nor have we any fear that the expenditure will exceed the capital. Our hopes and calculations on these two points have not been disappointed. The whole line will be finished two years earlier, at least, than the time allowed us by the Bill. We shall thus be enabled to diminish the charge for interest payable during the construc tion of the line, and anticipate the period when the dividends will be paid from the profits of the railway "The result will fully justify the manlier of con tracting for the works which we selected. We have taken advantage of the experience acquired in E ts ,... land in these matters. Every doubt which existed as to the success on the application of this mod e o f proceeding, so new to France, has been completely removed by the energetic means which our contractors have employed—difficulties have been overcome, a n d new methods introduced with perfect suc cess. " Upon this subject we fee called upon to contra dict, in the most formal manner, the incorrect reports which have been (simulated in resp ec t to the want of othing has ever harmony among the workmen of various nations em ployed on our works. We can safely affirm that, it is almost among the 6,000 men now employedwo i o m c c p l o ir s r s e ib d le b e t y o on p d rev s e li o g t ht ain d o is n p g ute so s, vastich nature as to the works. They have never been of such a t In respect to the nature and solidity niligJ a' even retard the execution 0 a body of men. cornpro me every precaution stand ( c i a t u h t e io t n e h t a ot t b h e: been t o s a kt en in order the Ns t .o t r h k ey s : They , have been adjudged according to anon.tion. engineers has been i u n r i e s i n d g e i e b x e a m n a °Mims, drawn up after the mosstemrutttt A di e e r fli en e t ie p n o t rt s i t o a i ff is of f etnhgeinr execu tion of the works in their placed on the me to watch over the We have never hA Most minute details. imvortanev l as Au , occasion, in any matter of 118 regucts the works, to differ with " The llavre line is the necessary consequence of the Rouen line. It promises a vast addition to the number of passengers, and its construction will re move every doubt as to the extent of the transport of merchandise. " We have taken • a prominent part with the Go vernment and the Chambers in obtaining the assist ance of the State for this line, and we may say that to the example of the Rouen Company may be mainly ascribed the favourable terms of this Bill. The coin mon interest which unites the two Companies will continue to be the best guarantee for their mutual co operation. " In conclusion, permit us, Gentlemen, to rcler back to the origin of our undertaking. You will bear in mind that the law of concession dates from the 15th of July, 1840, some days after we met in general assembly to examine the modifications made in the law and in the statutes, but a graver subject then occupied and kept public attention in suspense.. In the presence of great political embarrassment you did not hesitate to maintain the association. You had confidence in a better futurity. " You did not for a moment believe that one of the best creations of a time of peace could possibly be. suspended by the mere rumour of war. By your: energy and resolution, you gave us the first exainp' l e how to overcome all difficulties. This confidence ' Ras nobly responded to by your associates on the cth er side of the water. If we allude to the ciscumA ene , of the Shareholders being of two nations, it is only t-, 0 the purpose of assuring you that only one feelkag ha s always animated them, .although the oliject t o b e at tained was a great and national work, the advantage of which would exclusively belong to France. " On all occasions, under the critieal circumstances which threatened our commencement, and in the pro gress to those better times which have now arrived,, the English co-operation has never nagged ; we have received all that we could hope for, the powerful a 3. sistance of its capital, and the benefit of its great 'er perience. a bee bea ll 'uti r f : u . l o r u a n s d so c c m i a e t i o o n f ; t h u e p i o t n i s i t t u l s N e • h avee fuhl " Thus, nothing has been abl e t o s h a k e The t b m a i s t i t s ed of to ot f l monuments of human activity, and to cvlsecrate the noble alliance of the ind us t ry o f two great. n ations," h The CHAIRMAN agai n rose , and e%pressed opinion that the Rep or t was most satisfactory. 1s It own' w an important fact, an d t h ere f ore he - would state it was' pu licly ; there w as no t a s i ng l e Director who now had the smallest doubt as t o t h e li ne being comp leted w ithin the first estimat e o f cos t , an d within the stip ulated time. He himself felt sure, not only that the • line would be completed, but that every part of the works, engines, • stations, &c., would be furnishedwithin the • • original estimate; and Mr. Locke, who was present, would con firm him, and would state, that when the line should be opened, the Company would have paid all their , engagements, and have some little capital still int_ hand. He trusted the meeting would not separs:tek. without returning their thanks to the Directors. in Paris for their very great exertion in forwarding tbe k . undertaking. They and the English Directors hack worked tog ether for two years, and although tha English Directors had originally bad reserved to them the power of voting by proxy on all points in which. they difilred from their French colleagues, they be , never had occasion to put that power forth, so lAr .r .. moniously had the two bodies worked together. H e had to add, that owing to the rate of exchan be tween. the two countries, a sum of money woulu stand to the credit of those English Shareholders 'who but paid their calls in this country. A lengthened discussion then followed on the tension of the line from Rouen to Havre , , Nvu zil the following resolutions were adopted That this meeting., having heard the 9btements just made as to the projected extension li r to Havre (both as to its intrinsic inerlt from Roue n i n g on the Paris and Rouen Rails ,S and it s bear and strongly recommend all the ,ray), unanimously in the latter line to take sly .ereprieto rs o f shares and, that copies of the proe l d 'A les Ill s° in the former; warded to each P ro • --e-a lgs of this day b priet o ze , e far " That the thanks of the and are now aecordi Propri e t ors ar • e justly d•Je generally, and to the tendered, to the D . 4 Direct chair to-day.''—Thes - ch a i rman for his conduct in the. * B y the word meeting then separated. take the land r expropriation" is meant the power to, re for the • railway. On Thursd ay a somewhat novel p arcel was. re ceived i n t o the Glasgow post-o ffi ce viz , a pair of boots, w h ose destination is Bombay, and for the transmission of which 61. sterling was paid as postage. The reduction of the rates has been the means of sending some very strange packets through the pose, and the transmission of ladies slippers from one place to another has become quite common ; but we have.; never heard of gentlemen's boots undertaking such, a long journey under the care of the post -office, An d cannot help thinking that they will be rather a c• n u ), pair to the destined wearer, by th e ti me the an, tumbled out at Bombay amongst the Englis'a o veE land despatches.—Glasgow Constitutional. K iLwi i,,,,NG.—Thursday last being the -arth_day na of the Earl of Eglinton and Wi n t on, a pa, fki. mers and others, connected w ith and dra A together by their esteem for the Noble Earl, asse mbled in the Masons'-hall. The p ar t y numbered Hugh King, Esq., Chai rman ;W. about sixty—, 111'Jannet, Croupier. The Chairman 'ups felicitous in his speeches, and the night was spent, happily and harm- • piously. The toast of the eirening, " Long life to the, Earl of Eglinton and Winton" called forth bursts 4 - 4 . applause. Th a t o f his amiable Countess and the young L or d M ontgomerie.were similarly received All connected with the bobl e house were warmly proposed an d responded to.--Ayr Observer. e l 9 •ug4-