The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

M. MANZ ON I. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 81R,—As Count Manzoni's name has unfortunately been brought before the English public, not in a favourable light, and heavy charges have been pre ferred against this most respectable gentleman even in the House of Lords, I think it to be the duty of any one who has the fortune of knowing the Count, to give to the English public some information respect ing him. Count Giacomo Manzoni's family is a noble, Wealthy, and most respected family of Lugo, in the Legation of Ferrara; and the Count is a nephew of two of the most celebrated men in Italy, Vincenzo Monti, with whom Lord Brougham used to cor respond, anti Bartoloneo Borghesi, an antiquarian second to no one in Europe. He is an antiquarian himself, and a great orientalist. To increase the store of his knowledge in the difficult and extensive branch of science to which he devoted himself, the Count undertook long and expensive travels in the East, and especially in Greece, and has got together one of the richest libraries in Italy. As he had faith in the triumph of the sacred cause of Italy, and was horrified at the disgraceful misrule, especially in the financial department, of the reign of Gregory XVI., he gave himself to the study of political economy, hoping that one day would come in which he might be useful to his country. The Count became such an economist, and acquired such practical knowledge of public administration, that I do not hesita'te in stating (without depreciating the merits of othors) that he was the most competent man to fulfil the duties of a Minister of Finance in the Roman States, and that it is only due to his extra ordinary exertions and ability if the Government, both before and after the Pope's flight, did not be come a bank.mpt. I had the honour to find myself in the Ministry with Count Manzoni at the time of Mamiani's Ad ministration, and consequently I speak with a thorough knowledge of the facts. It must be further stated that Count Manzoni has always served his country without receiving any remuneration from the state, and that he is daily buying in the metropolis rare and expensive books to increase his Library, instead of pursuing the object which has been falsely attributed to his visit to England. He is not an exile, as Lord Brougham has asserted in the House of Lords, a circumstance which Count Manzoni has denied in a letter to the Times, but he is here in his cfficial capacity of Minister of Finance of Rome, on a mission from his Government. I hope that, from a sense of justice, you will insert this letter in your widely circulating paper, and I have the honur to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, CARLO GONZALES, LL.D., Late Chief Secretary of the Foreign Office, at Rome under Mamiani's Ministry ; Envoy to the Ponti fical Camp, and Extraordinary Commissioner in the Venetian Provinces. 24, Broad-street, Golden-square, London, May 24, 1849. ABSENCE OF COUNSEL—JUSTICE TO CLIENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu, —As an untiring and powerful friend to the op pressed, as the great annihilator of abuses in courts of law, and the staunch advocate of justice to the people, am I induced to trouble you with a short detail of my case, in the hope that your kindly intercession may have the effect of remedying the evil through which I am la bouring and kept in confinement, and by so doing, if nut producing liberty to me, at all events rendering here after justice to others. In the month of July last I was, from the reverses of fortune, incarcerated in Whitecross-street Prison, and, from my then poverty-stricken circumstances, had no alternative open to me to relieve me from such difficulties but that which the very liberal insolvent laws shed around the " fallen trader." To those laws, then, did I appeal, and in the course of time (some nine months) did I obtain the adjudication of the Court on my case, by which I was discharged as to my detaining creditor's judgment debt. On its receipt did I hope and prepare to quit the prison which had held me for so lengthened a period, when, alas! I found that from an ambiguity in the wording of my adjudication order my detaining creditor was permitted to, and had lodged at such prison, what is legally termed a "eapias to hold to bail," which pre cluded my release until monetary satisfaction had been rendered thereto. In this fearful state of things, dis. tracted in mind, and borne down by domestic losses of a near and dear character, did I lay bare my case to, and seek advice from a " fellow-prisoner," a gentleman of the law. An opinion thereon was obtained favourable to me, thu writ by which I was held was perused and compared with the statute, and was at once pronounced " informal." Steps were taken to set aside such instrument, and money was from me obtained to effectuate that object, on the success of which ray liberty depended. A judge at chambers was to decide this, to me all-important question; but lo! when the time arrived to discuss and settle such point, my legal friend (my former fellow pri soner, who had since then obtained his discharge from cus tody) was non e 64 inventus. The summons was dismissed, I mulct of my money, and left again to bewail on my now doubly wretched incarceration. Shortly subsequent to this my case is laid before another " legal gentleman," who, after minutely considering the same, determined on laying it before a full court of tko Common Pleas' judges on affidavit of the facts! This appeal was by my newly-instructed attorney entrusted to a young member of the bar, who last term made a mo tion to set aside this " writ of capias to hold to bail," and discharge me from custody, and obtained a rule nisi thereon returnable on the day before the last day of the then term. On the return of such rule an application sias made for and an extension granted thereof to the rst day of the present Trinity Term, I still remaining a prisoner, a thing of minor import to these legal func tionaries. The first day of such term, however, now arrives; in structions are handed by me to my attorney, and by him (so lam told) to my counsel. Anxiety reigns in my bosom, and a brother is dispatched to the court to witness the discussion. The rule is called on, a counsel rises to oppose the rule, and when "it is inquired, who appears to support," my advocate is nowhere to be found; that coming to the ears of the Court, " justice" is administered to the struggling and oppressed client, by what is called " striking the rule out of the paper." Information hereof speedily reaches me, and for expla nation, do I apply to my attorney, and he to the counsel, who gives none further than that he was absent by arrangement with the opposing counsel, and did not, of course, think the rule would be called on. However, this morning my counsel tries to get such rule re-opened; this, however (which would have been but "just" to the confiding and injured client) was preremptorily re fused, and the dismissal of the rule wholly confirmed. Lily counsel bows to the Court, says, " he's sorry," and quits it. I receive the intelligence, and debarred of all remedy or appeal, am left in pr ison without redress. What I am now to do; how much longer in durance vile I am to remain, or where I am to find redress, are problems neither my attorney or myself can solve. Public grounds have induced me so fully to detail my case, in the hope that its appearance in your all-powerful journal may have the effect of altering this fearful state of things. I have trespassed much on your valu able time. I have claimed considerable space in your paper, but the severity of my case and its loud call for justice, I trust will plead an excuse for the same, and act as a sufficient incentive for the insertion of my lengthy narrative, apologising for which, I am, Sir, yours obe diently and respectfully, ROBERT COOK, Formerly Hide and Skin Salesman, Leadenhall-market, now a prisoner in Whitecross-street Prison. May, 1849. EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. Captain Sir Samuel Brown, R.N., the inventor of 'Chain cables, and whose name is well known in con nexion with some of the finest suspension bridges in this country, was, some time ago, furnished by the Admiralty with a boat 32 feet long, 5 feet three Inches in breadth, with a draft of water of 1 foot 10 inches, for the purpose of ascertaining the com parative advantages of the expanding and con tracting of the blades or fans of the screw-propeller now in general use in her Majesty's steam-ships and vessels. The boat was fitted with an engine of six horse power, with a length of stroke of 6 inches, each stroke causing three revolutions of a screw pro peller 22 inches in diameter, when placed in the usual position of the common screw propeller, with power to expand the bl a d es t o 28 i nc h e s diameter. The first oxperiment was made on the Surrey Canal, with the propeller regulated to the ordinary dimensions, the strokes of the piston 120, making 320 revolutions per minute. The speed attained un d er th ese c i rcum• stances was one measured mile in 10 minutes 30 seconds, and the same distance back in 10 minutes 20 seconds, giving an average of five and three-quarter miles an hour. A second experiment was made with the propeller, expanded full out, the strokes of the piston 84, making 252 revolutions per minute. The boat then run the measured mile in 9 minutes 10 seconds, or at the rate of 7 miles an hour, and back the same distance in 9 minutes, or at the rate of 7 one-eighth of a mile an hour. The expansive prin ciple having been proved advantageous by these expe riments, Sir Samuel Brown was requested to have the boat taken to Woolwich to have her tried in the river, and she was steamed down from Greenwich to Wool wich on Thursday and Friday last for that purpose. The boat started from the Dock-yard at twelve at noon, and on arriving at the east end of the Royal Arsenal, where the Justitia convict-ship is stationed, the experiments commenced, the full power of the steam being put on 70Ibs. to the square inch, and the screw propeller adjusted to an angle of 15 degrees with her keel. The time occupied in running a dis tance of about a mile and a half from the Justitia to the eastern extremity of the practice range in the marshes, was 11 minutes against the tide, the pistons making 88 strokes per minute, and the screw propel ler 264 revolutions in the same time. In returning the same distance with the tide, the distance was accomplished in 10 minutes, the piston making 70 strokes. The third run was made from the Justitia to opposite one of the boards put up as a guide to the collier stations, and the distance being less it was accomplished in 8.50 minutes, the strokes of the pis ton being 86, against the tide. The fourth run was accomplished in 6.3 minutes, with the tide, the piston making 80 strokes, cr 240 revolutions of the screw propeller per minute. The screw was then altered to an angle of 25 degrees, and the boat made the same distance as in the third run in 7.10 minutes, the piston making 66 strokes, or 198 revolutions of the screw propeller. The sixth, or run back, was effected in 7 minutes, the piston making 72 strokes. The screw was then reduced to the same dimensions as the common screw propeller, and although making 140 strokes of the piston per minute, it occupied 7.29 minutes in the seventh run, and 7.16 minutes in the run back. The actual speed attained by the boat, as near as could be ascertained in the ab sence of marks to denote a measured mile, was with the expanded screw propeller, and the piston making 88 strokes per minute, or 246 revolutions of the screw, fully eight miles per hour; but when the screw propeller was contracted to the common form, and the piston making 140 strokes per minute, and 420 revolutions, the propelling power only gave a result of seven miles an hour, showing that, with a decrease of 150 revolutions of the screw per minute, or 2,360 revolutions per hour, Sir Samuel Brown's plan gave an increase of speed to the boat of fully one mile an hour. The experiments were carried on under the superintendence of Lieutenant Robertson, who will have to report the result through Commo dore Henry Eden to the Lords of the Admiralty. The speed was considered good, considering that, during the whole of the trials on Friday, there were nine persons in the boat. CENTRAL GERMAN Y. In the sitting of the Frankfort Parliament of the 25th inst. the following resolutions were moved by M. Simon, and accepted with a majority of 37 votes : " 1. The troops of such States of which the Go vernment refuse to recognise the legality of the Par liament and of its resolutions shall be freed from their equivocal and painful condition, either by being sworn to the Constitution, or by being removed from the territories of the States which remain faithful to the Constitution." " 2. The Parliament expects the Regent's Cabinet will favour them to-morrow with a definitive declara• tion on the above subject." The House then adjourned to the following day, the 26th inst. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France up to May 24: ASSETS. Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ... ... ~, Bills falling due in Paris, of which 15,035,325 f. 65c. are from the branch banks 47,359 , 335 8 Bills in the branch banks ~. ... 76,596,003 00 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 12,169,900 00 Ditto on French public securities ... 25,585,892 45 Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,470,837 00 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,581,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... 12,779,541 39 Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00 Real property of the branch banks ... 2,288,928 00 Loan of 10,000,0001. to the city of Paris 1,000,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 00 Bills protested at Paris ... 6,187,574 59 Ditto at the branches ... ... 3,735,200 00 Expenses of administration of the Bank 486,091 64 Ditto of the branches ... 391,843 00 Miscellaneous 964,167 34 Advance to the department of the Seine ~. ~, •• • ••• Loanlf ,000,000 f. to the city of Mar seilles f. 205,650,881 41 . . 126,133,296 00 72,983 34 3,000,000 00 1,000,000 00 £685,408,152 87 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 28. (Sittings in BAtiCO.) I3AILEY V. WILKINS. _ _ _ In this case (which had not concluded when cur re port left), Mr. Sergeant CIIANNELL, in support of the rule, con tended that the authority of the broker was terminated at the date of the transfer, and his subsequent payment of the call could not bind the defendant. his tender of the transfer of the shares to the defendant presumed that the plaintiff was able to transfer the shares legally, ac cording to the statute of Victoria, with all the calls paid up on them, and was conclusive against him. The COURT, in delivering judgment, said that a person who goes to the Stock-Exchange to purchase stock must be taken to know that, according to the law, and to the rules of the Stock-Exchange, he cannot have shares transferred to him without all the calls due upon them having been paid. When the defendant contracted to purchase these 20 shares at a discount of 30s. per share, what did that mean but that he contracted to pay all that had been paid upon the shares, subject only to a deduction of 30a. per share from the amount which had been paid? ' The payment was one which it was com pulsory on the broker's principal to pay. By the rules of the Stock-Exchange the buying broker dealt with the selling broker as a principal, and the selling broker was compelled to pay up all calls due on the shares before the transfer, which the buying broker, under his con tract of purchase, was obliged to repay; an action by the plaintiff, therefore, as such buying broker, for money paid to the use of the defendant, would well lie. The rule must therefore be discharged.—Rule dis charged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. • Yesterday an interesting young woman, 19 years of age, named Silvia Thorn, was charged with at tempting to commit suicide under the following circumstances : William Vokins, a waterman, said that, about half-past twelve o'clock on Saturday night, he was passing over Blackfriars-bridge, when he observed the prisoner on a seat in one of the recesses with her bonnet and shawl off, upon which he asked her what she was doing there. She put them on and walked away, but in a short time again returned, followed by witness, and entered the second recess on the Surrey side of the bridge, when she again divested herself of the same articles of dress, and, having mounted the parapet, was about to throw herself into the river, when he ran forward and succeeded in catching hold of her dress and pulling her back. Alderman CARDEN (who sat a short time for Al derman Moon) asked the witness if he had ever seen the prisoner before ? Vokins replied that he had not. Alderman CARDEN inquired whether she gave any reason fur such a rash attempt on her life? Vokins said that on the way to the station she informed him that she had been keeping company with a young man, but her friends did not approve of the match, and she had discovered that he was married and had a family, which was the cause of her attempting to make away with herself, not liking, after such a discovery, to return home again. Alderman CARDEN asked if any of her friends were present ? Mrs. Thorn, the mother, here stepped forward and told the Alderman that a young man had been paying his addresses to her daughter for the last twelve months, but for the last week she appeared to be in very low spirits. On Saturday she went to see her intended, when high words arose on the subject, and she ran out, followed by her sister, but the latter could not catch her, and nothing more was heard of her until information was received of her being in custody and having made an attempt on her life. Alderman CARDEN—And were you in ignorance as to whether the man was single or married ? Mrs. Thorn—l was ; but we have found out that he has a wife and family, and keeps his servant. I am thankful it is no worse. Alderman CARDEN asked the prisoner what she had to say to the charge ? The prisoner re plied that she had nothing to say beyond that she was very sorry for what she had con templated, but would, if forgiven, return home with her mother. Although at the moment she at tempted her life she wished to quit this world, she had no wish to do so now, and was thankful she had been saved. Alderman CARDER said the man who could gain the affections and abuse the confidence of a young girl, as in the present instance, was a wretch, and he only wished he was brought before him. However, the prisoner had no right to take her own life any more than another person would be justified in doing so. It belonged to the Almighty, and she would enter into the presence of her God quite soon enough without hastening her end. If she promised to forget the fellow who had so grossly deceived her, go home with her mother, and not make a similar attempt, he would discharge hEr, being unwilling under the cir cumstances to send her to prison. She made the required promises, and was delivered up to her friends, a great number of whom were in court. A respectably-dressed individual named Joseph Carter, of 52, North-street, Paddington, was charged with causing an obstruction on the footway in Fleet street, by carrying an effigy of the Lord Bishop of Exeter. From the statements of Sergeant Price and Thomas Quarterman, two City officers, it appeared that about half-past 12 o' c l oc k yes t er d ay t h ey met the prisoner with an effigy, l arge as lif e , fi xe d to a po l e a b out eight feet high, and bearing in front two wooden keys, on one of which was painted, in large characters, the words " free trade." There was a crowd of about 50 persons following, he being in the middle of the pathway, and in consequence of several gentle men having made complaints, and seeing the facility that such an exhibition would afford to pickpockets to carry on their avocations, he was requested to go away out of the City. The prisoner refused, and was taken into custody, when some letters were found on him of a Chartist tendency. Alderman MOON asked what the figure was intended to represent, and was informed that it evidently was intended either for the Bishop of Exeter or the Rev. Mr. Shore, at present in Exeter Gaol, but the pri soner would give no information on the subject. Carter, in defence, said that he was a carpenter by trade, but declined telling his motives for such conduct, or what object he had in view. Alderman MOON said that he must be perfectly aware that such a proceeding would create a crowd, and thereby render the operation of thieves more effective, independent of the annoyance to passengers in such a crowded thoroughfare as Fleet-street. He frolic m us must pay or foraf or worsethe purpose, N a V n h d e , t h t e l l; e r d e o fo n r eout eh e o a was fined 205., or seven days' imprisonment. The fine was ultimately paid, and the prisoner was discharged. LIABILITIES. Capital f. 67,900,000 00 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 00 Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 00 Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in circulation 375,032,700 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... 27,557,525 00 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 930,309 75 Account-current with Treasury creditor 30,167,207 4 Various accounts current 93,854,902 30 Ditto in branches 27,439,114 00 Bills payable at sight ... 4,092,300 00 Ditto at branches ... 1,145,326 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... 5,633,114 63 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 4,562,127 00 Dividends payable . . , 213,353 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 184,832 44 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,492,691 8 Ditto branch banks ... 1,834,648 00 Rediscounts of the last six months ... 246,109 85 Ditto in branch banks ... ... 460,661 00 Miscellaneous ... ... ... 330,481 53 f. 685,408,152 87 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France. D'ARGOUT. FOREIGN FUNDS. BELGIAN FUN DS.—BaIISSELS, MAY 26. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ Loan of Thirty Milifons,FourparCent.... Ditto Threeper Cent • • • • • • .• • • •....... Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto,ditto,lB4o.• .• ••••• • • • •• 85% Ditt0,ditt0,1842............ ••• • • • .... 85% Ditto, 1844............... •••• • • • • ••• 794 1 4 Ditto, 1838 ................ •• •• • .... Ditto of the City, 1832 •••• •• • Ditto, 1843 .• • • .......• •• •• •• .• •• .• •• 85;i Bank of Beigiurn...... 67% Issue of 1841 101 Exchange on Loudon, 25.52%. 11A3IBURGII FUNDS, MAY .25. Mlle. Money. 104 Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent.'• •• • Ditto, 334 per Cent. .......... •• • • Bank Shares.. •• •• • •• Prussian 5 per Cent. • • •...... 10131 101 Russian Certificate • ................. Anglo-Russian Loan •• • ............. Hamburgh Certificate, 5 per Cent .... 95 Russian 4 per Cent... •• .... 3d and 4th Series, Hope and Co. . • .... 88 88 1 4 Ditto Stieglitz .. •...••••••• • •• .• • • • • 82 Belgian Loan, 234 per Cent .• • • • • 4534 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .• •• • • 6434 6434 1o1)( Ditto, in 1001. shares.. •• .. • ..... 6434 64 Anglo-Swodish Loan . Ditto, Transport Loan •• •• ••..•• •• •• Norwegian Loan, 99}i Spanish New 5 per Cent •••• • • •• .....• 10% Ditto, 3 per Cents... • • ............ 223 22% East India Loan, 4 per Cent •.•••• . • • • _ . Ditto, 1846 .. . : ..'......... •...• .. Anglo-Portugnese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• • • Ditto 3 per Cent. •••.••..• • • • • • • • National Bank Shares ........ ••• • • • American, 6 per Cent. .• •. —.•.. • • • • 107% 107 RAILWAYS. 'iamb. Bergd. ••-------- • • 73 )4 Ditto, Priority Shares ... .. • • .... 9114 Berlin and Hamburg .........• ••• • .• Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••• ••• • •• Cologne and Minden •. • ..... • ... •• .. 76 75? Ditto, Priority Shares ........ • ... 9234 Mecklenburg . . ...........• • ......... 31►4 31 Altona and Kiel ..... •. • • .......... 90X, 90 Gluckstadt ..... ..... ..., • • ........ 25 Rendsburg.. • • ...... • • •• •• •• • . 110 Ilsuaseatic Steam Company .......... 92 EXCIUNGES ON LONDON. Ilamburgh, May 25 • ... •••.• • .• • l3 11% Ditto, Two months •• Christiana, May 16 .• ••• • • • 4 78 Petersburgh, May 18, 3 months.. • . 35 15-16 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAT 24. 5 per Cents. .. ••••..••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 89 % N. 4 per Cent... •••••••• • • • • • • • • •••• • • • • 3 per Cent.............................- 2% per Cent. .... • • ••..••.. • • • • 1 per Bank Shares .. .......... .... 1,126 30 Eitarhazv's Loan .. . .......... PURIFICATION AND SOFTENING OF WATER.—By means of a union of chemical and mechanical processes, patented by Mr. Horsley of Ryde, Isle of Wight, chemist, it is proposed not only to purify water as in filtration, bat to soften it by the withdrawal of its sulphates or other " hardening" salts, if not also to deprive it of all animal or vegetable impregnation, and thus to render it wholesome for human and animal use, and economical and useful for domestic purposes and for many processes of art and manufacture, as well as for the prevention of incrucaration in steam and stove boilers, which arises chiefly from the deposit of the sulphate of lim e tht s l d u a r t i t n e g r th e evaporation of the water into steam. For sulphuric acid into the boiler and became decomposed purpose, we rem ember, a patent was some time since t a ken out, under whic h sal the incrustation uniting ammsedn, thiaeewasinserted i with the ammonia of the sal ammoniac, and its lime i with the muriatic acid forming may be by some a very deliquescent salt n place of the incrustation. It combination of an analagous process desirable, a very im , the idea is with the other means a lluded to that M. r. llorsley's pa tent operates. And at all e v ents portant one, and its realization most especially b in localities where there is good re ason to eve that calculous and other diseases are generated by bard or impure water.—Builder. EAGLE SHOT.—As Mr. Allan Maclean, Lord Mac donald's gamekeeper, at North Uist, was taking his round at South Lee, on the 12th instant, ho shot a large eagle, of the white tailed tribe, as she was flying off the nest; and afterwards, though with great difficulty, he secured her two eggs. The bird measured three feet nine inches in length, and about eight feet between the extremities o r f op th it e iou w s in to gs t ; he and neig w b e o ig ur h i ed ng lj oc il k. b m . as T te h r i o s , is, as this avis Jovis was supposed to be making great havoc among the lambs.—lnverness Courier. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 25th instant:—Messrs. George Edwin Williams ' Dover; Sea ton Wade, Royal Navy; William Barney Tate, Valpa raiso, South America; Robert Donaldson, Ballybay, county of Monaghan; James Bernard Ruck, Prestbury, near Cheltenham ; James Denton Hulme, Leicester; Henry Tapley, Dover; Claudius Galen Wheelhouse, Leeds; Charles Joseph Bullock, Congleton, Cheshire; and Thomas Johnson, Weymouth, Dorset. NOVEL AVIARY.—On the site of the western tower of our venerable church may be seen the nest of a jack daw, containing three young ones, which are Carefully tended by the "old birds."--Poole tirrald. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1849 sou THIV ARK Yesterday William Sandford, a young man, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with creat ing a disturbance in the house of Mr. Joseph Jar main, landlord of the Queen's Head, in Fashion street, Bermondsey, and instigating his daughter, a girl fifteen years of age, to abandon her home. The complainant stated, that for some time past the defendant bad been in the habit of frequenting his house, and as be observed of late that familiarities which he was averse to encourage were passing be tween the latter and his daughter, a very young girl, he forbade him the house. The defendant, however, still persisted in his visits, although remonstrated with, and warned not to come there ; and on Satur day evening he presented himself, and forced his way into the room where complainant's daughter was sitting, and repeated his solicitations for her to leave home and accompany him. On that occasion the defendant became so exceedingly turbulent in his conduct, that when threatened to be turned out, he made use of language of a highly irritating nature, vowing that complainant's daughter should not re main longer under her paternal roof, and his conduct became so violent that, in order to prevent serious consequences, he was at length compelled to call a policeman and give the aggressor into custody. The complainant here handed a letter addressed by the defendant to his daughter to the magistrate, in order that his worship might be made acquainted with the improper character of his epistles to so young a girl. Mr. COTTINGIrAM, having perused the letter, ob served, that indeed it was of a most improper descrip tion, and that the father was perfectly justified in banishing such a customer from his house, who was evidently, by his letter, endeavouring to prejudice the mind of a young girl against her parents, in order that she might abscond with him, and quit all pa rental control. But there was one paragraph in the letter which he should read aloud, to exhibit the style in which the defendant addressed the object of his so licitations, and it ran thus :—" I hope and trust that am well aware that you are as h you will not be long in your presmenistercaobnideitaiosna, cat tr in h-11, but be assured that we shal t ! , give them theen double yet." Now such language hii as (thei justi quoted,a,,i-trate) addressed to a young g aachiAlyleoilcctionable pa ionif was o nly acting the part of might almost say, was of and the complainant such a person from his a prudent parent by expelling e t i l t:n a ( t ia i n f t t w il n e s g at i t i e l m W p l t i : and get married to ing to induce her to leave home, him, o o s u s s e e s . s e d T o l of e property, lagi h r away for such a that he succeeded in getting e If in a difficult , st r andte _added,themde pu rp purpose, that t r to he obtain would placep es e s shi himself s o e f it himself', a n d a th d a o t pt h e e d lit a t g le ai e o x s p t ec h te im d, and for that offline°, trans conviction anproceedings uwerje conviction he would render himself liable to portation. Defendant—l don't want her money, and ccnsider myself as respectable as the young lady is, although her parents are opposed to our union. a u t ch if Mr. COTTINGIUM—Pray, what age are you ? Defendant—l am nearly 20 ! The father said that the defendant was not yet out of his apprenticeship, but that independently of that, he (complainant) did not wish his daughter, quite a young girl, to marry the man. The (::fondant said that he considered Mr. Jarmain the aggressor in the matter, and that he had no right to expel him from his house more than any other cus tomer—that it was a public-house, and he was bound to furnish his customers with entertainment on being paid for it, but that he refused to serve him. Mr. COTTINGIIAM told the defendant that the land lord of any house of that description was perfectly justified in refusing to serve a man who conducted himself in such a manner as the defendant was proved to have done, and that the letter already referred to clearly showed that such a customer as the defendant richly deserved to be treated in the manner he was by the complainant, whom he (the Magistrate) should take care should not have his feelings outraged by a young fellow like the defendant resorting to his house, and endeavouring by all means in his power to prejudice a young female against her parents, and induce her to quit their house with him. For that purpose he (the Magistrate) should call upon the defendant to find two sureties of 251. each and himself in 501. to keep the peace and be of good behaviour. The Magistrate at the same time advised the complainant, if he could manage it conveniently, to send his daughter to some of her relations in the country, a step which the father intimated he should avail himself of as speedily as possible.—The defendant was locked up in default of finding the required sureties. WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP -- - - DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE, The heartrending tidings of the total wreck of the Hannah, freighted with nearly two hundred emigrants, bound to Quebec from Newry, was reported yesterday afternoon at Lloyd's, the particulars having been re ceived by the American mail steamer America, at Liverpool. The unfortunate vessel (the Hannah) was a brig ba tween 150 and 200 tons burthen, belonging to Maryport, and manned by a crew, it is said, of twelve seamen, under the command of Mr. Shaw, the master. On the 3d of April last she sailed from Newry, with the above number of emigrants on board, having previously been examined by her Majesty's emi g rati on agent at t h at port. The emigrants chiefly consisted of agricultural labourers and their wives and children. The passage up to the 27th, considering the season of the year, was as favour able as could be expected. The vessel then encoun• tered heavy winds and a quantity of floating ice. The master, as well as possible, bore off in order to clear it, but it floated round in hugo masses, and on the morning of the 29th the unfortunate ship struck on a reef of ice of such magnitude as to carry away part of her bottom. It was about tour o'clock when she took the ice. The sounding of the pumps at once convinced the crew that the vessel was foundering, cry was be unt ship hip assistance afloat, a could as there wer e several feet of water in her hold, and it was rapidly in creas i ng. As the only chance of keeping the r aise obtained dt o keep from to s tmhee passing vessel, as also, it is presumed, to allow the boats being prepared for the rescue of the emigrants. What step were taken to secure their preservation, no mention is made in the report received; a charge, however, is laid against the master, and the first and second officers, of their having been guilty of one of the most revolting acts of inhumanity that can be conceived. They had got the lite-boat out, and the moment they found the vessel would inevitably go down, they jumped into it. and aban doned the wreck with the living mass on board. Screams for help now rent the air, and it was with difficulty that the remainder of the crew could induce the frantic creatures to comprehend the only chance left of saving their lives. Fortunately the ice was firm under the ship's bows, and the seamen, con vincing them as to its security, many got on it. Its solidity being then apparent, a desperate struggle took place amongst the emigrants to leave the wreck. Men, women, and children, with nothing on but their night attire, were to be seen scrambling over the mass of ice. Many of the poor creatures slipped between the huge masses. and were either crushed to death or met with a watery grave. The last to leave the wreck were some of the crew, who contrived to save a small portion of spirits and a few blankets. Soon after they had got clear, the ship's stern rose as it were above water, end she went down headforemost, just forty minutes after the collision with the ice. Tho sufferings of the wretched creatures, exposed as they were amid towering masses of ice, with a raging freezing gale of wind from the S.S.E., were most harrowing. The seamen who were amongst them humanely gave up what covering they had to the females, who had been shockingly wounded and bruised in their course over the ice. Thus were they exposed the whole of that day, till five o'clock in the afternoon, when a vessel hove in sight and bore down to the edge of the field of ice. It proved to be the barque Nicarque (also bound for Quebec), Captain Marshal. steTpshetasktaentemb by n b t ira ma n d n e d b h y i s that cre w gentlemanan e r c e o l v a e t irtvyh, bo e o t af o t t e e t survivors, is to the following eff e ct : —On the 29 half-past six, the wind blowing a strong gale from S.S.E., and a thick fall of sleet, the ship laying to the windward of a large field of ice, Cape Ray being S.E. by E. about twenty-seven miles distant, discovered something on the ice, which subsequently turned ont to be a !lig of distress. Made all sail, and gaining the edge of the ice, found, to his astonishment, a mass of living people upon it. He got the ship's ice fenders down, and prepared to take to the ice. By seven o'clock got so close in, that in the course of two hours he and his crew succeeded in getting hold of about fifty of the poor creatures and placing them on board his vessel. The remainder stood crouched together in another part of the ice some distance off, inacc ess ibl e f rom t h e posi tion of the ship. Captain Marshal had all sails cleared up, and got a rope fastened to a piece of ice, and with the long boat pushed off with his me n t o th e spot. After considerable difficulty, he succeeded in getting to the edge, where they remained huddled to gether. The whole of them were saved. No pen, Captain Marshal observes, can describe the pitiable situation of the poor creatures. They were all but naked, cut and bruised, and frostbitten. There were parents who had lost their children, children with loss of parents ; many perfectly insensible. The number that got on board the Nicarque was 129, passengers and se !men . The greater part of these wer e frostbitten. As far as Captain Marshal could ascertain from the survivors, those w perishedho suewcee iegdhe,d and i b iylgbee getting ntigng proceeded crushedall l oi in between the ice and frozen to death were from fifty to stbhi:eatryd.ditrAhecestisoshoniopnof a s wass C he Cape o t had under Ray. Every comfort th a t hi s means and the ship's capacity afforded w ere pl ace d at the sufferers' disposal.. '!'he next day, meeting w i t h t h e barque Broom, of Glasgow, twenty-seven of the poor creatures were transferred on board of that vessel; and in the course of the f o l l owing day, forty-nine of the sur vivors, for the sake of comfort, were placed on board three other vessels. The Nu:argue reached Quebec on the 10th of last mouth, where the remainder of the sufferers were landed. Their names were Alexander Thompson, his wife and four child ren; Willi am T edford, wife and one child; William Andersou, wife and four children; John Murphy,. wife and four children; David Gurwin and wife; Patrick James Murphy and wife; Dr. William Graham, Peter M'Fearling (his father, mother, and rest of the family drowned); and also the fellowim, seamen of the Ilannah:—John Offin, John Juhn Packer, Richard Harwin, Al exan d er ll arr i s, and David Jordan. The names of the emigrants shipped on board the vessel from the Nicarque are not mentioned. The fate of the master and the others who took to the life-boat, and abandoned the emigrants, is not known. Tnn SINDE MORSE AT kGeeopoJßEzr.a.—y merit lta all in the the published accounts of the battle of Goojerat there ap pbaecakrsgraoZt.emOntnice attem pt instance of tkis is the treat ment which the detachment of the Sinde ii..rregular Horse that mentionl( with. e ht . no 01 l p y ttiahrt a:lt Bombayao a splendid char ge , & c.; thefbtal cavalry te9htohfL Lancersnee Lancers risspresenttaoue:i charged geh ebte February a3aitrnytai battle)ela e lillhar ocrhas Irregular (however v ia nl eatrrs t , Horse made yet the truth i s , l nm S r oa a n ra d ' el made a i w r i r el gallantlygi regularn u g la r a c n ihn d H agrf a o gi e r b e, s i e that day. A n d Bever a)e:anastnawdt successful. h ta ti c ch h k e e orl was t they more n iil7c have Y mapvleoltheceglyei:ml The facts were as follows;—The detachment of the Sinde Irregula r H orse, about 250 strong ' (one squadron being away), l e d b y Li eutenants Malcolui, Merewether, and Green, was on the extreme left of th a British line, her Majesty's Lancers being the next it cgiment to its right. A large body.(about 4,000) of the e: nemy's cavalry, about half of whom were Affghans, spiel Idid men, and superbly mounted, led by a son or nephes 7 of the Amcor Dost Mohamed, attempted to turn the British left. This was seen by General Thackwell, who personally ordered Lieutenant Malcolm to charge the ads ancing enemy. The attack was made with such good v rill and vigour that the enemy's horsemen we,re complott ly overthrown, and driven from the field with great lass, their leader killed, with many of his followers, who lot ,ght desperately round him, and the right of the enemy's array was com pletely exposed and turned. The Affgt tans stood their ground, and fired a tremendous volley at about 50 yards' distance. They and their allies outnutnt 'ered the Sinde Irregular Horse 16 to 1; but nothing Could shake the discipline of the latter; no doubt or hesit %don was there, and no sudden "irregular bursts of undisciplined valour shook their formation." the horseman came on at fiery speed, indeed, and with an individual ent)rgy which no thing could daunt; yet they moved lilt e a living wall, and were as much under command as on an ordinary field day. No mortal foe could have stoo 3 before such a charge, which seldom has been equalled in modern war. A squadron of the 9th Lancers advanced in rear of the Sinde Irregular 'Horse as a support, but its support was never needed, and this squadron of the 9th did not charge, neither did the remainder of that regimer .t—the business was done by the Sinde Horse alone.—Bei nbay Times. 5A1.13 OF THE IMPORTANT ESTATES C , F SIR MASSEY STANLEY, BART., IN THE COUNTY Or CHESHIRE.— These magnificent estates were submitteil by auction by Nlessrs. Farebrother, Cl ar k , an d Ly e , on Tuesday, Wed nesday, and Thur s d a y last, at the Stanl y Arms Hotel, Eastharo, near Live r p oo l , i n man y lots The mansion (Ifooton-hall) an d 85 0 acres o f l an d f or e l ed the first l e r, and was bought in at 85,000/. There wet c many bidders. and we understand the lot has been si nee sold to an opulent banker. Various other lots were submitted, and found spirited buyers (at nearly thirty- t hree years' pur chase) in Messrs. Town, Healing, Arrnu ighatu,Lingard, Lloyd, Crackenthorpe, Briscoe, and other', to th e amount of about 65,0001. The followinig days the core. petition was equally great, when Messrt ;. Brown, Quick, Webster, Hanson, Green, William I 'atten, Jackson, Streadell, Congreve, Tibbett, and °the,• gentlemen wore purchasers to the amount of nearly 20/0,000/. Upwards of 300 gentlemen attended the sale, which was held in the large pavilion in the pleasure group.ds of the hotel. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It was but the other day that the British public were startled with tlle news that a se useless mei), xetted and had by a bankrupt faction, had burnt the Parliament House of our principal colony, with its arallives and invaluable libraries, and had grossly in sulted her Majesty's representative, on about as empty and bsggarly a pretext as ever inflated the lungs of an egitator, or filled the hands of a ruffian. It cer tainly did not occur to us that so extraordinary an incident was likely soon to be followed by a more marvellous and more painful affair. Such, however, is the unhappy purport of the intelligence brought over with unexampled rapidity by the last ocean mail. To our English readers we shell seem to speak fables when we relate that on the pretence of an utterly groundless quarrel got up at New York be tween the respective admirers of Messrs. Macready end Forrest, the theatre in which the English tra gedian was performing has been besieged, stormed, and all but destroyed, audience and all, by an infuriated mob, which did not desist till after a collision with an over powering military force, in which more than twenty lives were lust, and many were seriously wounded. Certain it is that the most populous city of the New World has for a day or two exhibited the aspect of those European capitals which were last year successively the scenes of revolution and civil war. Cordons of troops, skilful operations, guns loaded with grape, deadly dis charges of musketry, barricades carried, are results that we associate with ancient grievances, and new Constitu tions. In the city of New York they confer au adventi tious importance on the wounded vanity of an Amoric in atior, who, having tried to do what no living being can do to the perfect satisfaction of an English audience, and what it only tolerates in two or three men of an age, did not do what nobody else could do, and did not attain to the rank of the two or three tolerated per formers of Shakspeare's principal characters. To the English reader it is perfectly unnecessary to defend Mr. Macready from the guilt of Mr. Forrest's comparative want of success on the boards of this metropolis. Oa this side the Atlantic it will hardly be credited that the proprietors and editors of London journals have been required to send over their solemn " affidavies " that they did not conspire against Mr. Forrest, did not take bribes against him, or admit inte rested critiques, or bow to Mr. Macready's dictation. It will hardly be credited that whole columns of the American papers are full of letters pro and con. on the question, whether Mr. Macready's malignity did not pursue Mr. Forrest from the principal to the minor theatres, from the metropolis to the provinces, from Great Britain to France, and from Europe to America. We will not attempt to repeat ever so briefly what will be set down at once as the reveries of a monomania. The whale event is not only groundless in fact; it is utterly irreconcilable with the usage and taste of this country. If Mr. Forrest could establish his charges of inhospitality, persecution, subornation, and Heaven knows what, against Mr. Macready, he would drive that gentleman from every stage in this country, as well as from the Opera House at New York. We in England know no such practice. There is rivalry and jealousy enough, as there ever must be when diversity of tastes conspires with an opposition of interests, and when personal consideration., aro allied with the mysteries of the beautiful and sublime. But these inevitable tumults of feeling are confined to green rooms, to coteries, and as much as possible to the bosoms, be they manly or fair, of the rivals in this keen though graceful competition. Mr. Forrest has mistaken not so much Mr. Macready as the dramatic and literary society of this country when he imagines an organised attempt to depreciate his merits emanating from any man high in British estimation. Mr. Forrest has no reason what ever to suppose either that Americans in general lie under a prejudice in this country, or that his own re ception was not such as his credit at home entitled him to expect, or that our native actors enjoy special favour and protection. In the principal cities of the United Sta'es Mr. Forrest often plays Macbeth and Lear to half filled benches; and the house only overflows when he ap pears as a champion of the masses; in the characters of Cade, Spartacus, or Metamora. He has become " the pet " of the Bowe r y b o y s ," i n consequence of the agrarian spirit which breathes through his prize representations; but " his Shaksperian characters," says a Boston writer, " are not those with which he is identified in the public opinion." It has been precisely the same in this coun try. Mr. Forrest was admired in Metamora, and if the admiration was not quite so rapturous or so productive as on the soil of the savage hero, that is not to be won dered at. He was not admired in his Shaksperian cha racters. But Mr. Forrest ought to know that many others than he have tried this high walk, and tried it in vain. To a Macready, or a Kean, there aro twenty who have made a desperate push for that rank, and imme diately sunk into the crowd, under bitter ridicule or chilling indifference. Our theatrical annals suffi ciently answer the imputation that we are jealous of American merit, as we showed last Thursday, by a reference to the success of Messrs. Hackett and Hill, Mrs. Mowatt, and Miss Cushman, who triumphed the same evening that Mr. Forrest suffered his alleged " defeat." But where is the prejudice in favour of native talent? Two great London theatres are lost to the drama for want of encouragement. At the present moment we have two Italian operas, a German opera, and a French theatre; and it is only by the greatest exertions that a few small theatres can he kept open for native taleat and the vernacular eongue. If Mr. Mac ready possessed the spell of popularity, ho would rescue Drury-lane or Covent-garden from horsemanship, Ger man operas, concerts, bazaars, and miscellaneous per formances. And as for Shakspere, it is only now and then that he has a run of public favour. Last year the Queen gave him a fresh start by attending in state Mac ready's farewell representation of Cardinal Wolsey; and Shakspere's plays have since been all the fashion from the Haymarket to Sadler's Wells; but the taste of the metropolis does not often range so high as the " legiti mate drama," and, as we have already observed, it is not everybody —not more than two or three in un age—that we care to see in the almost impossible characters of Hamlet or Othello, Lear or Macbeth. But other causes have contributed to the catas trophe than Mr. Forrest's ridiculous quarrel —causes which the journals of New York appear rather back ward to recognise. Unfortunately there is a class ques tion in the affair; and nowhere are class questions so terrible as in Republics. "In New York," says the writer we have quoted above,— " More than in most other large cities, there are two distinct classes of people, whose opinions, tastes, and manner of life are almost diametrically opposite. The class known as the Bowery boys, although not without their good traits of character, are naturally the opponents of the higher or more wealthy classes who reside in the vicinity of Waverly-place, and who pay high prices for pews iu fashionable churches, and sustain with their pre sence the Italian Opera. The Bowery boys have a na tural dislike and enmity to the frequenters of the Opera House. The very fact that no person was admitted within it unless in full dress and with white kids was enough to arouse the passions of those men who nightly fill the pits of the Bowery and the Chatham, to witness the performance of highly wrought melodramas, in their red shirts, and with their pockets filled with pea -nuts and pig tail." The Opera House, with its evening dress, and no ad mission under a dollar, always unpopular, was an addi tional crime in Mr. Macready. He had just returned from a successful engagement at Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, and even Philadelphia, since the begins ning of this quarrel, but ho had not yet encountered the snob element in such fearful force and antagonism. Irideed, the outrages he suffered were such as we cannot ascribe to Mr. Forrest and his friende. When we read of a heavy piece of wood and four chairs being hurled on the stage on the previous Monday, we are forced to suspect something more than a theatrical squ a bbl e . O n the fatal night th e mob was proceeding to the actual de• struction of the theatre. This was the work of a " social" democracy pulling down everything to its own level. The result is lamentable indeed, for the wound cannot but rankle. It is, however, consolatory to reflect that no blame appears to rest either on the authorities or on Mr. Macready, or on his friends. After the violence of the previous Monday, when he was, in that, driven from the theatre, he wished to conclude his engagements, but his Mends, among whom is the illustrious name of Washington Irving, drew up an ad dress, urging him, for the credit of the city and nation, not to give way. He yielded to their advice. As for the measures taken by the authorities, though they pre sent a striking contrast to the details of the Montreal riot, and though they manifest a decision and au effect beyond what we have lately been accustomed to witness on the part of standing armies, emperors, and kings, they do not appear to have exceeded the necessity of the crisis. Order was to be restored; liberty, life, and pro. party secured; and the good name of the union estab lished. When these were menaced by a desperate mob, force was to be encountered by force. Tho troops could not throw paving stones, so they returned the volley with bullets. Tho consequences of a deadly collision are inevitable, and attach to those who provoke it. Wo cannot, however, regard tho catastrophe without some apprehension. Already wicked attempts have been made by incendiary placards to link the " aristocracies" of New York and England, and represent Mr. Macready as establishing a British tyranny in the United States. The idea is too gross even for the " Bowery boys," but the excitement, supplied as it is with so much anti- British material, is too likely to be renewed, unless all the good sense of the union is exercised to extin guish it. TUE IRISH STATE PuxsoNEßs.—The doubts ex pressed—or professed—by some persons in Ireland as to the disposal of the state prisoners, Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and M'Manus, whose appeal against their conviction has been finally decided by the Rouse of Lords, are entirely misplaced, or at all events premature. It is impossible to know or to answer for what may be dons hereafter, under other circumstances or in a dif ferent state of the public mind; but there can be no room whatever for doubt that the remission of the extreme sentence will, for the present at least, be accompanied by the condition of banishment for life. To suppose any. thing else would be to conclude that all other political offenders less guilty than they, who are at this moment suff4ring the several degrees of punishment annexed to their crimes, should also be released from all further ex- piation of their °frames. At the same time we repeat that the Royal clemency being at all, times paramount eau be exercised at any future time, when it may be considered safe or expedient. Amongst the arguments against the punishment of death, it has always been urged in favour of secondary punishments that in time they can he mitigated or atoned. It would be, there fore, most inexpedient and improper in every point of view to limit the future exercise of the Royal preroga tive, whatever imperious reasons may exist at the pre sent moment against its further extension.—Sunday paper. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The number of visitors to this national institution yesterday was 17,370, being a Considerable decrease as compared with the number on Whit-Monday last year. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSM,3UTH. MONDAY. —The crew of fin. steam-tug Royal Charter, and ut the beat Jot.Ao, 13 numb r, seiz.hl in this harbour lately by the Coast Guard, under Lieutenant Brown, of the Portsmouth -harbour Station, together with the guard under Lieutenant Scott, of the Southsea. Castle Station, having been charged before the borough magistrates with the attempt to smuggle 150 half-ankers of spirits on the night of the 16 h inst., have all been convicted, each respectively in the penalty of 1001., which not being provided, they are severally under going six months imprisonment in the borough gaol. This was the most important " venture " made in latter years on this part of the coast, and the officers concerned in the seizure deserve great credit for their zeal and vigi lance in intercepting the parties and their illegal cargo, The Court leaves Osborne to-morrow morning for London. The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander H. Dumaresq, sailed this afternoon for Jersey, to resume her station for the protection of the fishery. The Sylvia cutter has been completely fitted and-got ready for sea in the Camber, from which she hauled out to day, yet she has not hoisted the pendant. Wind-7.7.E. by N. ; moderate and dark hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel Gladiator, 6, sailed on Wednesday, and the Diligence transport, with stores, on Thursday, both for Pembroke. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Jasper arrived on Friday from a survey, and having coaled, returned to her ground in the Bristol Channel. The masts of her Majesty's brig Harlequin were taken out and sent to the yard on Wednesday. Her crew were paid off on Thursday. On Wednesday her Majesty's ship Albion 90, was towed from her moorings by the Confiance steamer, in compliance with Admiralty orders for her to be docked and have her copper examined, preparatory to being put in commission. On Thursday, however, these orders were countermanded. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain Henry W. Bruce, having had her copper exam i ned and repaired, was taken out of dock on Wednesday; she was paid off do Friday. Her crew have beer. placed on board the Bellona receiving ship. Yesterday the steamer Sala mander went alongside to take seamen and marines to Chatham. When parting company the usual cheering took place. One tar, on the steamer poop, was so en thusiastic that when waving his bat he overbalanced him self, and fell into the sea. He sank twice before he was picked up, and was then so much exhausted that it be came necessary to convey him immediately to the Royal Naval Hospital. The Hibernia, 104, Captain Wise, is expected here to be paid off in about a week, from Malta. The whole of her officers, it is said, will be transferred to the Queen, 110, on her being recommissioned. Her Majesty's ship llzdalus, 19, has been inspected by Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis, Bart., pre. paratory to her being reported ready for commission. The Calliope, 26, is erdered to be fitted for foreign service. When the Alarm was paid off here last week, the ship's company sent for one of their late shipmates, called Johnson, who accidentally had his arm blown off while firing a gun on board the Alarm last summer, and was in consequence obliged to be discharged, and each of the ship's company, upon receiving their pay, gave him a present of money. Mr. Samuel Angiar has been appointed to fill the va cancy of first-class inspector of shipwrights, at the De vonport dockyard, vice Kemp, superannuated some months since; salary 1501. per annum. A master and two foremen arc to be appointed to superintend the smiths, the former at a salary of 250/. per annum; the first foreman 1501., and the second 1251. per annum. This arrangement will not affect the present holders, nor is the master to be immediately appointed. The present system of placing the superintendent of the smiths under the chief engineers will be discontinued. The Grecian was unmasted and the crew paid off to-day. The Ranger brig was undocked to-day, masted, and taken to the jetty to be rigged. She is to convey the June mail to the coast of Africa. The steamers Basilisk and Niger are to start on Tuesday fur a trial cruise of ten days, when their rela tive rates of sailing and steaming are to be tested. The artisans of the dockyard were not paid wages on Friday, as usual, in consequence of the crew of her Ma jesty's ship Queen having been paid on that day. The artisans received their pay on Saturday. Off the Start, on Saturday morning, the 24th inst., the emigrant ship Aden, for Australia, ran into a fish ing boat, and carried away her mast and gear. The Aden left Plymouth for her destination this afternoon, but has put back in consequence of contrary winds. The Derelict Galliot liermanna.—The crew of this ship, which was brought in here abandoned on the 31st of March last, arrived in New York on the 16th of April, on board La Duchesae d'Orleans, Captain Richardson, from lia.vre, for New York, which vessel came in contact with the galliot off the Eddystone. Wind.—S. W., fresh breeze, and thick weather. GREAT FIRE NEAR OXFORD -STREET.--Last night, shortly after 9 o'clock, a fearful fire, which was not ex tinguished until nearly midnight, and not until a quan tity of property had been destroyed, broke out in Bien heim.street, Oxford -street. The premises were formerly in the tenure of the celebrated Dr. Brookes, but at the present time were in the occupancy of Messrs. Alderson and Sons, lead merchants and pewterers. The flames originated, from some cause at present unknown, in the warehouse adjoining the Blenheim Dispensary. That building, containing a vast quantity of oil, turpentine, and other equally inflammable articles, caused the fire to progress with unusual swiftness, so that before an engine had time to reach the place the warehouse and all it con tained became wrapped in one immense sheet of flame. This caused a general turn-out of the firemen, and forth with the engines of the parish, London Brigade, and West of England Insurance Company, from the station in the Waterloo-road, arrived. The flames at that time were progressing so fearfully that the total destruction of the dispensary appeared inevitable; the firemen, however, set their engines to work, and did all that was possible to save the latter building from the ravages of the flames. Another warehouse, belonging to Messrs. Alderson, running under the dis pensary, whilst the firemen were at work, also became ignited, when the whole force was brought to bear upon it, but in spite of which the fire continued to spread, and as the water was scattered upon the blazing oil and spirits it caused them to rise still higher, until the whole neighbourhood was in danger. The firemen, finding that no good could be accomplished by working the en gines upon the vats of oil which were on fire, had the hose from the engines conveyed round the burning pre mises, and by that means they were enabled to encom pass the flames on every side, but it was not until the extensive warehouse in which they originated was burned out, its valuable contents consumed, the building under the dispensary severely damaged by fire and water, and the lecture-room of the dispensary injured by fire, &c., the flooring in several places being obliged to be cut away so that the men could discharge the water on the fire. The whole damage, it is stated by some of the firemen, will not be far short of 2,0001. CAUTION TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BRINGING PASSENGERS FROM IRELAND. —The Cardi Guardian says—Jasper Travers, master of the James, of Kinsale, appeared on Th urs d ay l ast, at the Town hall, Newport, before the Mayor and T. Hughes, Esq., to answer an information for having carried forty passengers more than allowed by his license, from Cartwashery, in Ireland, to that port.—Richard Trew, assistant tide-surveyor of the customs, proved that defendant's vessel arrived on the 22d inst., with 119 adults and 78 children—passengers on board; and also 16 horses and 30 sheep --all confined together in the hold, the vessel being only 78 tons re gister! She was much over-crowded, and in a very of fensive statelm her arrival. Witness said he never saw such starved and miserable looking beings in all his life. Tho defendant's license allowed him to carry only 98 passengers; and calculating the children as three for one adult passengers, he had on board 47 more than the num ber allowed.—Mr. Frost, tide-surveyor, produced the vessels register and the license he received from the do fondant; also his cargo-book, in which he had entered only 61 passengers. —The defendant said he did no know the number he had on board, and produced Ni cholas Welsh, one of the passengers, to prove that he (Welsh) had smuggled two friends on board. —The case being clearly proved, Travers was fined 2001., being Si. each for 40 passengers; in default of paymtn; he was committed to Usk house of correction for two!months. TUE WHITSON HOLIDAYS.—The unpropitious wea ther of yesterday considerably damped the ardour of the holiday-makers. Vast numbers, however, made their wardown to the different spots of suburban amusement. The chief point of attraction, as usual, was Greenwich. Here the railway and numerous steam-vessels continued throughout the day to land crowds of pleasure-seekers, the numbers increasing as occasional cessations of the rain gave promise of fairer weather. R chardson's and the Crown and Anchor both occupied their usual ground, and the caterers for public amusement found to their cost that their speculations had been on the losing bide. At Stepney, Chalk Farm, Battersea, and Wandsworth, similar preparations wero attended with a like result. The British Museum and National Gallery did not re ceive one half the usual amount of patronage, the num ber of visitants averaging only 200 per hour. The Tower, the United Service Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral, the College of Surgeons, and the other scientific and popular places of research and amusement, though not absolutely deserted, were considerably thinned of their customary holiday frequenters. CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING. —Before Mr. Baker, at the Adelaide public house, Hackney -road, on the body of Elizabeth Taylor. aged 33. It appeared that the deceased was the wife of a cab proprietor and was unfortun a t e ly addicted to very intemperate habits. Her favourite liquor was t gin, and t she was i n th e pract i ce o f dr i nk i ng ha lf a pint of much as spirit every mo rn i ng b e f ore b rea kf as t, an d as muc e ten half pints sharing the day. On Friday last sh re turned home in a state of intoxication, and about two hours afterwards she was discovered lying in a bed, ap parently in a dying condition. On the table was found a phial, labelled " laudanum, poison," which was quite empty. Mr. Langley, a surgeon, was called in, and re cognised the deceased as having purchased laudanum at his shop that morning. Verdict—" Temporary insanity from excessive drinking." REIGATE HORSE AND CATTLE FAlR.—Yesterday at this fair the supply of horses was unusually large. The very prime young cart was in great demand, obtaining high prices, 60 to 75 guineas, even up to 80 guineas being. given for some very splendid animals for London wade; smaller sorts, suitable for farmers, 30 to 45 guineas each. Nags for riding or driving sold freely, sound and young making from 40 to 50 guineas each, second rata 25 to 35 guineas each. In the cattle fair the trade was brisk, and better prices obtained, Ike Nor.h Devens three year olds making from 9/. to 111., Sects 71. to 9/., Herefords Si. to lot., Irish 41. to 61. per head, Sussex cows with calves 10/. to 121. in calvers 81. to lel. per head. The store beasts were nearly all sold, she josbers baying bought largely to send into the marshes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• TATTERSVi.r -f There was a very iui c t h e checking balances, and a larper amount of money l changed bands than is usual on the Mond,y; gf,. /le L impression is, that the settling will be good. la "-- curse of the afternorm, several bet; were lai d on the L Ascot Stakes, the Emperor's Vase, and Derby, the horgils most in favour being Ess edarius, Chanticleer, and IV ham the Conqueror. MANCHESTER CCP. to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings'A Mallon EMPERTh'S VASE (ASCOT). 11 to 4 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer—take n 3 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou 4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp The Cur was scratched yesterday afternoon. ASCOT STAKES. 9 to 2 agst Sir It. Pigot's Essedarius—take n 7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Swordplayer 100 to 12 agst Lord Clifden's St. Antonio—taken 9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Gardenia—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Lowther's Glutton 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Jelly Fish 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre 12 to 1 agst Sir J. B. Mill's Cymba 12 to 1 agst Captain Williams's Chicaneur 12 to 1 agst Mr. Cookson's Camphine—taken NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. Belus is declared not to start. DERBY, 1850. tierOVA 20 to 1 agst M r . Gordon's Wiliam the Gong 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian--ta ken 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford—taken 40 to 1 agst L or d Eglinton's Knight ofAoenekT t 40 to 1 agst D u k e o f Ri c h mon d' s Ghillie Gallup :l-- 40 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Pontifex—tak en taken uen 40 to 1 agst Lo r d Ch ester fi e ld' s Penang -40 to 1 agst L or d J o h n S cott ' s Wi n dhound- - t a 50 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Tordesillas—tsko n THE COUNTR -Y MARKETS. statement of the quantities 0. of London from the ports id 49, to the 2,:th May, 1849, The following is the official corn, &c., received in the pori Essex, from the 2lst May, both inclusive : --- ------ 569 Colchester - 1 1 , -- 41 5 Harwich 4OO 330 780 ---", ___, --• Leigh Mahlon l3Ol 113 --__2?l2-- -- :"7. 0 _ . rid 4W. 1 *- COLCHESTER, MAY L6.—Wheat, w hite 48s to 525; '..:ickus to 463 ; b a rl e y 26 3 t o 30 5; b eans, mazy an 24s to 265 ' w and small 28s to 2s ; peas 30s to 34s per qr. ota HA DDINGTON, 3 MAY 25.—The following are the P„i grain at our market to-day : Been °. Od Barley. Oats. 803 "A First N ou/rtish.l:°Bli ... ... 483 01 2•3 6d 203 Od 083 6d Second ... ... 45s 01 23s 4d 3 1 7 8s q l rs O . d , 2: sold Third ... .. 38s Od 245 61 163 Od lb sold Total quantity of Wheat in market 3 Do. Barley do. Do. Oats Do. Beans do. 2 1 8 4 1 9 qqr"s:: 1 / 4 1 4 130°111 do. 54 qrs., notatioo KIRKALDY, MAY 26.—The following are the q up to this date : Pes il 'd Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I ......0 0 First ...50s Od 27s 01 20s 61 —s Od .....0 Od Second 48s Od 25s Cd 18s Gd —s 01 1...4 Od Third 43s Od 21s 01 163 6d ._... s 01 ~ Oatmeal, Der bag of 2801bs. imp.. 26; to 0 03 rep Od GLASGOW, MAY 24 .—Provisions—Cheese, 3 45 1% 0 , pet per cwt • retail, 41d to 5d per lb. Skim milk, cwt. Country i fresh butter, 91 to 10d per Ib ; dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; 'country powdered, wholesel% od to 9d. Country eggs, 10d per dozen; carried hen ditto, ' ..ckb per hundred, or 6Ad per dozen. Hens, 2s 6d per pair; e" 2s 6d. „,, 9J; BERWICK, MAY 24.—Wheat, 42s 01 ; barley, , I d o s.. oats, 17s 7il ; rye, Oos Od ; beans, 00s Od ; peas, 0 0 e rage per imperial quarter. ~s , 3 1 KELSO, M AY 25.—.. Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto , ce- 6d to to 37s Od ; ba r l e y, new, 16s 6d to 19s ; ditto old, °' eo ns, Os ; potat o oa t s , O s to Os O d ; ditto ' new, 13s to 14s 01 ; c 2 . 2 , mon oats, Its Cd to 13s ; ditto new Os Od to Os Od ; Pe": . to 25s Od; beans, 21s to 22s per boll of six imperial bushellto Hasvicx, MAY 24.—Wheat, new, 34s Od to 393 Od; ' l ' m old, COs 01 to 00s Od; barley, new, 17s to 215; potato 14s Od to 15s 6d ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, '''' ‘ ," r i l d to 25s Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25, Od per boll of six hpl i `" bushels. ditto STIRLING, MAY 25.—Wh eat, f ore i gn, 21s to 26 s Od; r boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, home, Os 01 to Os 01; ditto ditto new, 21s 9d to O0s; barlepodP% oats common, Os 01 to Os Od ; ditto new, lOs Od to 12s 6idt ditto Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os 01; 15 „, distillers, 35s Od to 38s ; ditto brewers, 37s 01 to 3N ; b e t;: per boll, Os Od to Os 01; ditto new, 133 Od to 14s 6d; P" 0 155 01 to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 36s to :Is7s ; ditto coral ; 16s 9d to 203 d ; ditto, 25s Od to 26s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to 134 ( ; ) ,i . ditto new 26s 6d to 28s ; ditto per peck of 7 1 bs, Bjd to Os i : fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d W 7" hay per ton, 42a to 455. ' PERTH, MAY 24.—Wheat, 42s Od to 48s 01 ; barley, S i to 24s Od ; oats, 16s to 18s ; peas and beans, 235 Od to 2 63 per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. l i FALKIRK, MAY 24. —The supply of grain in this El market was 696 b o ll s; w h eat at 19s Od to 23s Od per bo ll y ,lB l LO r d b t o o ll Ts oa o t d m ; e o a a l, ts o , s l t : 2 0 6 . d pe to r 1 1 . 4 a 5 d. 9d; beans, 135 barle. Od to 16s COAL 111ARB.E' Bate's West Hartley 13s 6d , Buddle's W. Hartley 14s Gd Carr's Hartley llasting's Hartley l4s 3d North Percy Hartley., I3s 6d l Old Tanileld Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth's W.Hart 13s 6d, Townley l3s 3d;' Wylam ... • l3s 9,1 1 1 ' Wall's End, &c Acorn Close Gosforth .. Gibson llilda :T.—YESTER r Aln, . , Killingworth l4s 3tl Northumberland Eden Main... , .. Lambton Primrose Belmont lss 3d Bell Hetton ,Lambton Stewart's I Caradoc ..... .. •• Denison Heugh Hall 145 „6,,, Seymour Tees WhistwhioprathaCt arkomke..e4 86. 215 Od ,AILWAY SHARE MARKETS• ANHESTER, Mar 28. STOCK ExcRANGE. M —Th C e transactions to-day were as follows o North Staff or d s hi re, 514 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 5 dls.--London St 124 % — Sheftleld, Preference, 10.74 —South Wales, 21 dis.-97r (No. 4), 6 9-16—Old Dover, 19%—West Ridings, 5% die—gano% - ter and Birmingham, (C), Quarters, % die. been"' BIRMLNHAM, AT . STOCK ExcmornE.—The only transac M tions 2B to-day have b Shropshire 'Union, dis.— South Staffordshire, 4% dls. YORK, MAY 26. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day have been 1 7„ lows :—York, New c a s tl e , an d B erwick, 20X Ditto (G. r'' Purchase), 414,—North British, Halves, s%—Ditto, Thirds, 31 ' York and North Midland, 30. TEE LATE ATTACK ON THE BOMAN REPUBL IC ;0 Yesterday evening a meeting cf Italians, reside nt .radon, took pl ace at the Italian School, Greville•s t !l e t `` o liatton-gardtn, t o rece i ve the report of the cowill 4 o 4 appointed to d e t erm i ne w h at measures should be adoPdcd for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the wee e ha d Patriots, and the widows end families of those W ho nor fal en in the late conflict with the French troops , S i f O'Villsni having been called to the chair, th 3 meeting upon the sympathy which had bectlea, pr , ssed in behalf of his fellow -countrymen by th e "a lie' nation, independent of the national feeling that. in be !n displayed by the Italians who were resident London. Signor A. Vischi, the honorary secretarkl'ev, a lo ig list of subscription, the total amount of which seeded 2001. Among the contributors were Mr. (the Gibson, M.P.; Dr. Epps and family, Miss Cushman of American actre: s), Miss Eliza Cook (the poetess), o f congratwa The secretary also read several leiters from Italineto distinction expressing condolence with those wh e the ir antlered from th e i nvas i on, and a warm sympathy 113." struggles against foreign interference. LEEDS AN D T IIIRSK RAILWAY.--A correspon d ent b informs us that the immense tunnel on this line, vv,„heied mpletion, that it is purposed to run runs under Brambope Ridge, is now so far anYs ---e towards ) mp letion, a steam y engine th roug h it b efore the end of the present nieetll;• As yet one li ne o f rails only has been full l a id dow n ' but the masonry an d brickwork connected with t,, arches and permanent shafts are rapi,ly approachit7, completion, and ar tifi cers are engaged in sheathing t'!" interior of the tunnel with sheets of galvanised iron, i li a place; where the wat oozes through to a n y extent; and there is no doubt that th e w h o l e w ill b e f ul l y eelnPiete is before the I, eis end of the line i s r ea dy for opening 1 the autumr. - - [A , DvERTIsvmENT.]—An incontestable proof of the efficacy 6f Holloway's Pills for the Cure of Liver Complaints. —Mr. Robert Elkinv, of Campbeltovvn, New South Wales , had been affli c t e d for several ' months with a s evere liver complaint se hich reduced hi m to so low a s t a te, that he was compelled to ' take to hi s b e d ; finding no relief from an y of the medical aid h e received, h e was a d v id to g i v e Holloway s Pills a t r i a l, w hich he did, and this invaluable medicine (the instruction given with it being strictly followed) in the course of a few weeks re-estab lished him in the enjoyment of as good health as ever he pos sessed in his life.—Sold by all Medicine Vendors throughout the world, and at Professor Hollowa :Establi s h men t, 244, Strand, London. , BIRTIIS. at Sidmouth, the lady of W. 11. Ber nard,tainsBcl":at llarley-street, the wife of Vr- Garr°d ' G. of a son. .. h i n st., at Perry-rise, Sydenharn, the wife of On On the 2.9 t dau rhter. Fcq„ of a 1, . slit Dawes, he 25th inst., at Brixton-hill, Mrs. Edward No Oa the of a son. On E t t h hs e qe. 2' 2 2 ol d si inst., On the wit° of J. war 26th ner, inst. Esq.,, at Bel of an,tsoe-street, Russ e ll- squ are, the MO- On the 26th inst., at St. Mary'a-ro a d, Canonburn -- W a rren De La Rue, of a son. On the 46th inst., at Hans -place, the lady of T. C. Brigg 6 ER On of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. Oa the Dith inst., at O xford-terrace, Hyde.p ar k, the wile of C. 11. A. Marteln Esq. of a daughter.- ,____ On the 23d inst., at th P ARRIED. ------• church of St. Paul, Bedford, the Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, formerly vicar of Grinton' Yorkshire, to H arr i et, second daughter of the late M cflt-- r. .. 4 head, of Harpur-place, Bedford. At Bath, on the 24th inst., Captain Charles Henry White, to Elizabeth, young,e t daughter of Colonel J. P. Harnilt2 r. On ti e 26th inst.. at St. George's, Hanover-square, . . s, James Christopher White, of Dorking, Surrey, to Letit r n i e the ys.ungest daughter of the late Mr. Combes, of the Ist place. LU On the 26th i nst., at his r es i dence in Piccadilly, IVi llllll3l Aubrey de Vera, ninth Duke of St. Alban's. On the 23d inst., at I 3 ersted-lodge, Surrey,' aged 83, fourth Earl of Mayo. On the 24th inst., at Mersham Hatch, near Ashf)rd, the Right Hen. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., aged 68. oho On the 20th inst., a t Abb otsmea d ow , M e l ros e ' Bruce, Esq. At Crouch-end, Hornsey, on the 21st inst., Sarah, relict of John Ili!der, E sq., of Laughton, Sussex, aged 56. On the 24 t h i n , t., at Watford, Ilerts, Robert Henry, eldest son of R. Clutterbuck, Esq., aged 20. O!i cf t the_a 2sthlate G. (i ns t , c at ui d S i n o g E u bgsci.at , of G s e o o r h g o i s n q a u , are. second d a I l ' ter London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' ( .° 1 No. 112, St r and, P r i n t er , a t Th e S un O ffi ce , No. 114! Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county " Mithileaez, Tuesday, May 29, 1849.