The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

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AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Mining and Banking Shares are very inactive. Canada Land Shares continue heavy. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICFS. r From the Official List. ) Rtuk Stoc ilnqineso, don. k ..... ..... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuiti ae . . - 3 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities B7 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 14 ,, nc. Annuities, Expire sth .Tan.. 180 3. Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 31 i Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16 3-16 5.16 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 1 p 3 d Co n Is° 1 s for Account B4 i i Zachequer Bills, 2id I 2d. £looo 2.500 Small zehequetßonds 1858, 31 per Cent.... 981 f Ditto 1859, „ ~. 981 f PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TI-US DAY. kastrian Bonds, 5 per Cent 81 Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. .. .-: Ditto for the Account — Ditto Small i Buenos 'Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 531 Cuba 7 per Ct. (Matanzas & Sabanilla Bonds) 9!lf WI ixican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 41 per Cent B7 Spanish Bond s , per Cent — Ditto for the Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Tarkikh Bonds, 6 per cent 791 Ditto for the account 7Bi 9 a Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 3l d Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent. Ditto Deferred, 11 per Cent Dividend& on the above payable in Lonno, Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 614 4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... Consol s THREE ()'CLOCR. Ditto for tho ,•,.ount Nov. 8 . 87i NEWS.—(This Day). RAY MARKETS. SliflTHlMlLD.—Meadow ha.y, 3/ 10s to 6/ 6a ; clover ditto, a 4/ Os to 6/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 8, Od to 1/ 13 s Od per l ca d. A fair average supply and sluggish demand. CIIMBERLAND. — Meadow hay, 3/ 12s to 6/ 6s; clove! do.. 41 Os to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 11 8s to 1/ 13a per load: Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ lOs to 6165; clov or do. 4/ Os to 6/ lOs ; and straw, 1/ 7s to 11 12s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. COLONIAL. TEA.—The Market is quiet, pendinc , the public sal es , 'Which h ave i n a groa t measur e suspended business by pri vate contract. SuGArt.—ln this article a large business has been done by private contract, and prices are firm. Havannah, No. 12 , is at 30s to 31s. A cargo of Bahia, consisting of 400 chests and 800 bags, sold at 275, for the United Kingdom. 200 tons of Java have also been bought in Rotterdam, to be delivered at an outport ex ship. COFFEE.—There is a dull market for this article, and the quotations generally may be considered nominal. Good ordinary native Ceylon, 503 to 51s. Rum.- The appearance of this market is very firm and holders are asking higher prices in consequence of the Go vernment contracts. The following are the names of the parties and the qaantity taken by each : Messrs. Henry White and Co. 86,000 gallons. ~ Ruck and Co 75,500 „ ~ Hart 27,003 lumaz 5,000 „ TALLOW.—On Saturd a 193,500 gallons. y our market was rather firmer than on Friday, especially for forward deliveries. 63s to 63s 6d was given for January to March, and 62s 3d for November and December. To-day the market opened firm, nealy all the tallow at the scale having been cleared off; and the speculators fora fall r e f us i ng to go on, t h ere Was a reaction in all positions. The demand from the trade is again large, but we do not hear of any business doin g t o -d ay f ur th e C on t ine t. Our closing prices are, 'pot new, 62 s 6d; 1854, 62s 3d to 6d rece i ved; all the 'pot 62s 3d. The stock of ; " Sorts" is small. We quote Beef 62s to Gas ; town tallow, Aust ra li an sheep 11 1 heavy at 62s 9d nett cash. Palm oil, 48s to 46s 6tl ; Tallow Elaine, 586 to 583 6(1 ; Tallow oil, 43s Gd to 44s ; Lillaood oil, 12a U.J. CITY, Two o'CLookr.. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily and with irregularity, but prices were not quotably changed. The sales comprised 5,000 bales, 1,000 for export, including 50 Pernam and Maranham at sid. to 71d. ; 10 Bahia at 52d. ; 100 Egyptian at 51d. to 81d. ; and 500 Surat at 3d. to 4d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was firm, at a slight advance on Saturday's prices, closing dull. .By the America we have latter dates than those which we alluded to yesterday. The return of the . city banks for the week endi n g Oct. 6, 1855, was rather more favourable than the previous one, as the loans and discounts showed a decrease of 1,870,204 dollars, while the specie was larger by 1,190,563 dollars. The calling in of loans on the part of the banks had led to rather large sales of stock upon the market, bat prices had recovered from the temporary depression which these occa sioned, and at the latest date tended upwards. The market for foreign fabrics had become much quieter ; still, however, there was a good inquiry for seasonable goods. The shipments of bread stuffs to Liverpool, in the week ending Oct. 6, were to the extent of more than $400,000. Recent accounts from Sydney, New South Wales, announce that the Mint under control of the Colonial Treasury is now in full operation. Gold will be received daily at the Mint, not less than 12 ounces to be converted into coin, for which a charge of one per cent. would be made on all quantities above that to 10,000 oz., beyond which it.,would be reduced to per cent. Some dissatis faction prevailed at the proposal of the Governor- General, Sir William Denison, to add the articles salt, vinegar, and soap to the new tariff, and it was expected that there would be great opposition to the bill. Our latest accounts from France announce that, notwithstanding the commotion among the mer cantile community created by the measures of the Banks of France and England to raise their dis counts, the manufacturing districts have not suffered in the least. Large orders were in hand from the United States, and everywhere the workmen in the principal manufactories of soft goods were fully employed. Orders from Spain for articles of Parisian manufacture were likewise coming in. The commerce of the interior was ge nerally in a satisfactory state ; while greater ac tivity than usual was exhibited in that of the pro vince of Algeria. Safe commercial enterprises were realising profits of 25 to 30 per cent., and interest on money had risen to 8 and 10 per cent. The accounts from the United States, of an abundant harvest, had maintained the fall experienced in flour at .the close of last week ; and it was anticipated that a still further reduction would take place in a few days. Sales of the best quali ties were made at 103 fr. 50c. without taking pre mium ; and the factors had declared a sale of 1,631 sacks. Spanish flour was in demand at 103 fr. At Chartres and Monterau a fall of 2fr. 50 centimes per sack was announced. The usual supplies from Egypt however, would cease, as it was known that the Pacha intended preventing the exportation of grain until the 6th January, 1856, in consequence of the River Nile not having risen and flooded the adjacent agricultural lands to its ordinary extent. Very little alteration has occurred in the Eng lish Stock Market, owing to the limited 'specula tion, and the absence of any foreign intelligence of importance. Con Sols have been 87i to 87k all the morning for account, but the money prices have been 87 1 1 to 4. Bank Stock is at 2071 to 209. India Bonds are 3s. discount to Is. premium. Exchequer Bills are now 3s. discount to 2s. pre mium, an advance caused by the increase which has just been made in the rate of interest, viz., to 2id. per cent, per diem on both classes. The New Threes are 871 to and the Reduced 86i to 861. The Market for Foreign Stock presents a duller appearance than it has done for some time past. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 782 to 79, which is a slight improvement on the closing values of yester day. Dutch 21 per Cents. are 64i to 64, and the 4 per Cents. are 93. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are quoted at 981, and Austrian 5 per Cents. at 81. No business is reported in Mexican, Spanish, French, or Portuguese Bonds. The following are the nominal prices of foreiga stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 191 to 19; ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto Three per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 37i to 38i ; ditto New Deferred, 191 to ; ditto Certificates, 4f to 41 ; ditto Passive, 42 to 5. Most Railway Shares are about kto per cent. lower, and this is most observable in the Great Western, Great Northern, Midland, and North- Eastern, Berwick. French Shares are neglected. assault. HOUSE OF LORDS. Parliament was this day further prorogced by Royal Commission. At a quarter-past two the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Earl of Harrowhy entered the house robed, and having taken their seats the Lord Chancellor directed Sir A. Clifford, the Usher of th Black Rod, to summon the Commons to their lordships' house. Shortly after, Mr. Ley, one of the clerks of the house, having appeared at the bar, The Royal Commi-sion was read, and the Lord Chan cellor declared the Parliament prorogued until Tuesday, the 11th of December. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C.) INGENIOUS FRAUD.—William Foster, 34, was indicted for forging an order for the delivery of five tons and a half of coals, with intent to defraud. Mr. Gifford conducted the prosecution. The prosecutors of this indictment were Messrs. Lee and Jordan, coal and lime merchants, and it appeared that the prisoner had formerly been in their service as clerk. It appeared that on the-13th September a letter WftS received at the counting-house of Messrs. Lee and Co., requesting that five tons and a half of coals should be sent to Mr. G. H. Percival, at an address in the Walworth-road, and the writer represented that he had been recommended to purchase the coals by another customer, who had recently purchased coals of the firm, and was very much pleased with their quality. The coals were sent accordingly, and the prisoner met the carmen near the place where the coals were to be taken, and re presented himself to be Mr. Percival, and he ordered the carmen to shoot the coals in a shed close by. When this was done he signed the delivery note, but did not pay any money, telling the carman that he would call at the counting-house ; but nothing more was heard of him until inquiries were made about the coals, and it was then ascertained that on the day they were ordered to be delivered the prisoner hired the shed where he sauced them to be deposited, and that almost immedi ately after they were left by the carmen he sold the coals to a coal dealer in the Walworth-road for 19s. a ton. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, denied that he had any intention to defraud the prosecutors, and said that if they had waited a little while he should have paid for the coals. The jury found the prisoner guilty. In answer to questiona put by the court, it was stated that the prisoner had, heretofore, borne a respect able character, and that he had recently been out of a situation. He was aentenced to sir months' imprisonment, and hard labour. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE LOUIS LIOAENSTEIN. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as of Great St. Helen's, importer of fancy articles. The balance-sheet commenced July, 1853, and ended September, 1855, and showed—debtor to cre ditor, 3,9031. ; do. to be paid in full, 121. ; profits for trading, 1,3681. Creditor by good debts, 142/. ; doubt ful do., 225/. ; debts held by creditors, 162/. ; property given up (after deducting claims), 3331. ; accepted arti cles, 201. ; trade expenses, commission, balance, &c., 1,9971. ; domestic and personal expenses, 1,1211. ; losses, 1,079/. ; deficiency at commencement, 1971. Mr. Chidley appeared for the assignees, and as the accounts were satisfactory no opposition was offered, and the bankrupt accordingly passed his last examina tion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. Charles Morgan, a respectably-dressed young man, was charged before the Lord Mayor with an aggravated Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner. Susan Mockett, 16 years of age, a dressmaker, resid ing with her parents at 126, East-street, Kennington road, deposed that she went yesterday to Dalston to visit a friend. On her return, the prisoner, about half past five o'clock, overtook her near the Railway Station, Shoreditch, and asked her if she was going to take a walk, or if she would go and have something to drink. She refused, saying she wished to make the best of her way home. He, however, pressed her to do so, saying it would do her no harm, and she took his arm, and they walked a short way, when they turned up a street went into a public-house, and partook of some brandy and water. After that they left; and the prisoner asked her to aocompany him to a hotise in the neighbourhood. She consented, and they went to a bed-room on the second floor, and remained there about five minutes. The prisoner then attempted to take her bonnet off, and defendant threw her on the bed, on which she screamed out, and the land ady of the house came up. Cross-examined by Mr. Wontner—He did not see the policeman pay the woman at the door of the house 2s. 6d. The landlady came up when she screamed and rendered her assistance. She sent for a policeman. Sarah Jacobs, residing in the neighbourhood of Swan yard, Bishopsgate, on hearing the screams she went up and had to force the door open. On entering the room she found the female standing by the aide of the bed with her hair disarranged, and her bonnet string torn off. The complainant clung to her and asked for pro tection, and seeing she was but a child she protected her. She was afterwards very ill from the brandy and water she had drank. She appeared a decent girl, and having no reason to doubt her statement witness was anxious to save her, and accordingly went for a police man, and the prisoner was taken into custody. His lordship remarked that the witness had acted in a proper manner in protecting the complainant. The servant of the house deposed to the loud scream ing, and the complainant asking her mistress to protect her from the prisoner, who was a stranger to her. The complainant was•recalled, but she bad no recol lection how her hair became disarranged and her bonnet string broken off. The drink had very much affected het. Had she known the character of the house she was taken to she would not have entered it with the prisoner. Tile complainant had since been examined by a sur geon, but nothing of a criminal nature had occurred to her. Mr. Wontner submitted this case did not amount to that of an aggravated assault, with intent. The Lord Mayor said that had the girl been sober when she went with the prisoner to the house in ques tion, he s'Aould have considered her a consenting party, but it appeared to him she was muddled at the time from the effect of the drink she had taken, and was entirely in the power of the prisoner. Mr. Wontner having recapitulated the facts of the case, contended this was a case just without the law, and hoped his lordship would not stretch the law to meet it, His Lordship said—After attentively considering the case, he regretted he must discharge the prisoner. There were some doubts in the case, and out of consideration of the girl he had come to that determination. After severely reprimanding the prisoner he was ordered to be discharged. The prisoner was described on the police sheet as of 19, Prescott-street, North Woolwich, grocer, and is be• lieved to be a married man. THAMES. Ann Bolt, a dissipated and bloated-looking woman, the wife of a carpenter and joiner, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with violently assaulting her two children, one about two and the other six years of age. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was husband's anhab itualdrunkard, and grossly neg l ec t e d h er h us b an d and childr en . She was in the practice of wasting her earnings and selling the children's shoes and clothes to enable her to indulge her sensual gratifications. She had been twice held to bail by the magistrates of the Westminster police-court for violence to her husband and children. Five months ago the family hired apart ments in Gill-street, Limehouse. Since then the pri soner had behaved worse than ever, and her unfortu nate husband generally found her on ceming home after a hard day's toil lying on the floor wallowing in dirt and quite drunk. H e was compelled to perform all those offices for his children which ought to have been done by the mother. She beat the children a fortnight ago, and, when the neigh b ours remonstrated with her, she abused and threatened them. Last n i ght, while she was in a beastly state of intoxication, she b eat her children and threw them about the room. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner was lost to all sense of decency and shame. He would not ask her whether o w was ashamed of herself. This was not a solitary instance of a drunken and infamous woman neglecting her hus• band and children, sacrificing them for the love of drink; but the publil seldom heard of those cases, numerous as they were. From some cause or other the women in the district had become worse and worse. He ordered !ON. THE SUN. LO N 130. N; TUESDAY RATENINtt OCTOBP4B, 28, it366; the prisoner to find bail to keep the peace for 6 moLths. She was committed in default of bail. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLICE SERGEANT.—.Tainq Weatherall, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Jewett, an outfitter, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with committing a violent assault on William Haynes, a po lice sergeant, No. 400 A. The police sergeant stated that, at an early hour this morning he was called to a house in John's-place, Back road, Shadwell. There was a mob in front of the dwell ing, and a woman in a room above was screaming and calling out murder. He went upstairs and found the prisoner on the top of his wife, and pummelling her with his fists. She was bleeding profusely, and ap peared to have been dreadfully beaten. Three prosti tutes had seized the prisoner by the hair of the head, and were attempting to drag him from the woman. He pulled the prisoner away from his wife, and asked him what he meant by such conduct, to which he replied, " What the hell is that to you?" and struck him a violent blow on the head. A struggle took place, and the pri soner got him outside the door and endeavoured to throw him down stairs and nearly succeeded in doing so. He then got the tongs from the fire-place and made a blow at his head, but it fell on his shoulders. The prisoner then made a rush at him and threw him down stairs. He procured assistance and went up stairs into the room a second time. A desperate struggle took place in the room, and he was compelled to strike the prisoner on the head with it before he could subdue him and effect his capture. Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to 14 days' impri sonment in the House of Correction. SEAMEN'S ADVANCE NOTES. A tradesman named Myers came before Mr. Yardley and said that he had been directed by one of the shipping masters of the port of London to ask his worship's advice under these cir cumstances :—About 12 months ago he cashed a❑ ad vance note for the payment of a month's wages for a seaman who had signed articles to proceed on a voyage to the East Indies and back. The note was made ply ab'e three days after the sailing of the ship, provided the seaman sailed with the vessel. The mariner aban doned the vessel, which Baled without him, and the note was cashed. The seaman shipped on board another vessel, and obtained another note, which was cashed, and played the same trick over again. The dishonest fellow shipped a third time in a ship bound to the Euxine with stores for the troops, and sailed in that vessel, which had just arrived, and the crew of it were paid off this morning. He demanded the cash he had given for the advance note, and the sailor refused to pay him. The shipping master had detained the man's wages until the magistrate's opinion was taken . Mr. Yardley—My opinion is, the shipping master has no right whatever to detain the wages; and I am very much surprised he has done so. Your remedy against the sailor is in the County Court for money lent, but the Merchant Shipping Act no longer recognises advance notes. If tradesmen cash them, or accept them in pay ment of goods, they do so at their peril. If advance notes are given to sailors the owner cannot be com pelled to pay them. The law recognising these instru ments, and enabling holders of them to sue owners and agents of ships, has been repealed. So many tricks have been played by mariners who obtain advance notes, abandon their vessels, and sail in another, that trades men, slopsellers, and licensed victuallers ought to be very cautious in dealing with them. THE SOUND DUES. The following appears in yoterday's Indepen. dance Beige : Hamburg, Oct 18. The Danish despatch of Oct. 1, on the conference upon the Sound dues, of which I sent you an analysis in my letter of yesterday, was accompanied, I told you, by a memorandum, addressed, i n th e same km, to all the governments interested. I think myself fortunate in be ing able to forward you a detailed account of it to-day. It is as flllows "The memoir alludes, first of . all, to the agitation for a long time levelled against the toll, and which would have entirely diregarded the claim of the Danish esta blishments, whose object it is to facilitate naviga tion, &c. "Under the late King Christian VIII., in consequence of negotiations catered into by Denmark, England, and Sweden, a revision of the tariff was effected. There was then a stationary period. • " Christian VIII. had in view other modifications and revisions. He was prevented from carrying them out through the war (with Schleswig-Holstein) and its con sequences,. Later, the war in the East broke out. " in *order to seek a solution, Denmark has chosen the present moment, it is because the situation has been created for her, in this w a y : " By a note dated last April, the 14th, the American envoy to the court of Copenhagen denounced the con vention of April 26, 1826, the only one in which, in so far as America is concerned, there is any mention of the toll. "It results from the explanations of the American envoy that the avowed object of this denunciation is to release the American shipping from this toll, although, in the Danish point of view, this release would not be the natural consequence of the cessation of the conven tion. " This has therefore created for Denmark anew situa tion, and the idess previously imparted must from that moment become problematical. "Denmark herself would be disposed to have arevision of the tariff, but neither America nor other powers would be satisfied with that. The Danish government, there fore, put the revision on one side, withoutaltogether aban doning it. It results from this hypothesis that the other governments, considering the revision not calculated to prevent the conflict, might have invited Denmark to make other propositions. " But it is wished to come to some definitive arrange ment for putting an end to the toll, without infringing on the rights of the Danish crown. "It is from these motives that Denmark is induoed to propose the capitalisation of the toll. " One essential condition is, that the question should be treated, not as an affair of trade or money, but as a political affair. On this head, the memorandum alludes to the Sound dues, and the part that the toll has played in the policy of northern Europe. In thus treating the question the negotiation will have impressed. upon it the character and impulse to which it is entitled. " Denmark's desire to ace the negotiations opened at Copenhagen in the course of November next, already expressed in the circular, is repeated and supported by motives to be found in the circumstances and in the im portance of the city of Copenhagen for the affair in question. . _ _ " Without wishing, in the slightest degree to antici pate the decisions of the Governments, Denmark points out the basis, the adoption of which in her opinion would have for its result that each of the powers should c3ntribute on the payment of the capital in a ratio to the duty levied on its navigation and commerce. "The Sound dues are — partly levied on the ships, partly on the cargoes. " These latter •are the true Sound dues, whereas the former consist especially in lighthouse dues and the like. "Formerly the idea was propounded of adopting for the exclusive basis of capitalisation the nationality of the ships passing through the straits ; but this plan was anything but just, seeing that the number of ships be longing to a nation and passing through the Sound does Lot at all represent the quota contributed by the nation to the toll, which is chiefly levied on the goods. " There would be far greater conformity with the true state of things if the quantity of goods that have passed through the Sound and the Belts were taken as a basis. "It might, for instance, be agreed upon that the re spective States, including Denmark, should contribute in proportion to the quantity of goods exported from their harbours and imported into the Baltic through the straits, or exported by the same Baltic route for the purpose of being imported into their harbours. "By combining this basis with that of the nationality of the ships, so that the compensation to be paid to Denmark might be calculated, for the true Sound dues, according to the movement of the goods, according to the direct importations or exportations of each State, in goods having passed the Straits of the Sound and the Belt, and for the lighthouse dues, according to the flag, a more just and equitable solution of the difficulty would be arrived at." Such is substantially the memorandum accompanying the despatch of Oct. 1. Of the two annexed tables, one gives the amount of the dues levied in the Sound and the Belts on the vessels of each of the States in the years 1851, 1852, and 1853 ; the other the amount of the dues levied on the goods imported into the Baltic or exported from that sea. TIIE ARMY IN MB 17RIMEA. GENERAL GIZDETIF. Head-quarter 7, Sebastopol, Oct. i. No. 1. At a General Court-martial held at Camp before Sebastopol on the 3d day of October, 1855, in pursuance of an order of his Excellency General Simp son, Commanding the Forces, dated the let day of Oc tober, 1855, No. 3,455, Private James Salmon, Sad Highlander?, was tried upon the following charge : "For having deserted from the 93d Highlanders when on duty in the trenches before Sebastopol, on or about ' the 13th of August, 1855, with intent to go over to the enemy." Of which charge the Court found the prisoner guilty. Sentence—The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, and having received evidence of there being no previous convictions against him, and of his indifferent character since he joined the regiment, do now adjudge him, the prisoner, No. 3,455, Private James Salmon, 93d Highlanders, to suffer death by being shot, at such time and place as the Commander of the Forces may appoint. W. G. Romani]; Deputy Judge-Advocate. G. STAUNTON, Colonel and Lient.-Colonel of the 31st Regiment, President. Approved and confirmed, JAMES SIMPSON, Giineral Commanding. Head-quarters, Crimea, Oct. 5. REMARKS. The Commander of the Forces has attentively consi dered the proceedings of. the Court-martial on the trial of the prisoner for the gravest of all military crimes. He entirely concurs in the justice of the sentence pronounced by the Court after a most anxious and deliberate inves tigation of the case. The Commander of the Forces, therefore, approves and confirms the same, but he is induced to commute the sen tence of death to penal punishment for life. This commu tation of sentence by the Commander of the Forces is made entirely from consideration of the good and faith ful conduct of the regiment, and of the army to which the. prisoner belonged, and of which he has been so un worthy a member. The prisoner is therefore ordered to be kept in penal servitude for life in such place as one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State may from time to time direct. JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding. Head-quarters, Crimea, Oct. 5. No. 2. The General Court-martial of which Col. Staun. ton, 31st Regiment, was president, is dissolved. No. 8. Leave of absence is granted, at the rocommen dation of a medical board, to Cart. F. Butts, 77th Regi ment, to Nov. 5, to proceed to the Monastery. No. 4. A medical board will assemble to inquire into the state of health of Lieutenant and Adjutant Horne, 48th Regiment. The principal medical officer will be pleased to give the necessary directions. No. 5. The Commander of the Forces has, with the approval of the Secretary for War, been pleased to authorise the following alteration in the style or titles of the non-commissioned ranks in the Land Transport Corps :—Regimental Superintendent, to be styled Regi mental Sergeant-Major ; Assistant to Quartermaster, to be styled Paymaster or Quartermaster-Sergeant ; Super intendent, to be styled Troop Serjeant-Major ; Sub-Su perintendent, to be styled Sergeant ; First-class Driver, t) be styled Corporal ; Second-class ditto, to be styled First-class ditto ; Third-class ditto, to be styled Second class ditto. No. 6. It is to be understood that such corps, or por- tions of corps, employed in roadmaking as are reported not to have worked well, will not be included in the Quartermaster-Geaeral's approved pay list. No. 7. Ensign Sullivan, 82d Regiment, will be at tached to the Land Transport Corps, to do duty as a Quartermaster until further orders. No. 8. Leave of absence is granted, at the recommen dation of medical boards, to Lieuts. Martin, 19th Regi ment ; Hyndbam, 3d Regiment ; Quartermaster Fraser, 6th Dragoon Guards ;.also, at the recommendation of boards held at Scutari, to Lieut. E. P. Vaughan, 28th Regiment ; Rev. G. Lawless, Officiating Chaplain ; Dis penser of Medicines a Clayton—to proceed to England. On arrival they will report themselves to the Adjutant- General. Nw. 9. Leave of absence is granted on medical certifi cates to Captains Sawyer, 6th Dragoon Guards, to the 20th of October ; Smart, Ist Regiment, to the 10th of November; Rev. F. Cannon, Officiating Chaplain, to the 31st of October— to proceed to Scutari. And, in exten sion, to Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, 21st Regiment—to remain at the Monastery. No. 10. Leave of absence is granted, on urgent pri vate affairs, to Lieut.-Colonel Fitzrnayer, Royal Artil lery, to the sth of Janeary, 1856. No. 11. The following subaltern officers, being in charge of troops or companies, may draw field allowance and forage as captains from the Ist of October :—Lieu tenants Nowlan, Peddie, and Baird, 41st Regiment. By order. H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff. Read-quarters, Sebastopol, Oct. 6. Medical boards rill azseruble to inquire into the state of health of Colonel Daniell and Brevet• Major Baring, Coldstream Guards ; Captain Godber, Land Transport Corps ; Lieutenant Brinkley, 97th Regiment. The principal medical officer will be pleased to give the ne cessary directions. By order. H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff. Naval and Military intelligence. The following is from a letter, dated Malta, Oct. 17 : "TLe Powerful, steamer, with railway plant, arrived fro:n London on the 15th and left for Balaklava on the 16th. " The Victory steam-transport left on the 14th for Balaklava. " The Union steam.transport arrived from London on the 15th with railway plant, and left for Balaklava on the day following. " The Borussia, steam.transport arrived on the 16th from Deptford with huts, warm clothing and ammunitiOn bringing Commander Starner, RN., and t wo sappers. ' . " The Mary Miller, with a cargo of shot and buts for the Dardanelles and Constantinople, having made good the damages sustained on her voyace to Malta from London, proceeded eastward on the 16th. " The Robert Lowe steam-transport arrived from Balaklava on the 14th, bringing 27 officers and 194 non commissioned officers and privates, 40 petty officers and seamen, .and 6 muleteers, with whom, excepting the latter, she left for Spithead on the 15th. "The Contraste steam-tug arrived from Marseilles on the 13th, having in tow an Austrian bark, laden with ammunition for the French army. Both vessels left for Constantinople on the 15th. " The El Dorado, French steam-frigate, arrived from Marseilles on the 14th, bringing 21 horses, 87 French seamen for the Black Sea fleet, and 1,052 officers, non commissioned officers, and privates. In consequence of some disarrangemant of the vessel's propelling power all these troops have been landed in the Lazaretto's bar- Packs. " The Sinai, French postal steamer, arrived from Mar seilles on the 14th, bringing, among other passengers, Captain Hallett, RN., and family ; Mr. Frederick Guarracino, her Britannic Majesty's Consul for Samsoon and Sinope, and family ; Major Nally, for Malta ; Lieut. Peogelley and family, and 106 officers, non-com missioned officers, and privates of the French army. She left for the Levant on the same afternoon. "The Vittorio Einmanucle, Sardinian Ecrew steamer in the French service, left for Constantinople on the 14th• with ammunition,• conveying 18 French officers, and towing the &Min, Eeglish sailing • transport in the French service, ammunition laden. The Caffarelli, French steam-f r i ga t e , l e ft for Kamiesh on the 14th, with 540 officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates. "The English steamer Sea Nymph, in the French transport service, left for Constantinople with an:mount, tion on the 14th, conveying 30 officers and privates,, and having in tow the American ship Queen of the Clippers, laden with ammunition, and conveying 1,047 more offi cers, non-commissioned officers, and privates. "The San Pietro, English barque, from Algiers, with hay and flour, sailed for Constantinople on the 15th. "The French steam-transport Byzantin arrived from Kamiesh and Constantinople on the 14th, bringing 145 military invalids, and left on the 15th for Marseilles. "The Normanby screw steam-transport arrived from Constantinople on the 15th, brin g ing 63 French, military invalids, under the c h arge of Dr. Bernarsconi, after landing five of whom (bad cases) she left for Marseilles on the 16th. "The American ship Golden Gate, in the French transport service, left on the 14th for Marseilles. The Or6noque, French steam-frigate, conveying 65 officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, left for Marseilles on the 14th, having in tow the Coligny, dis abled steam-corvette, with 37 others. "The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packet ATa . , arrived from Southampton on the 14th, bringing, among other passengers—for Malta, the Rev. Mr. Landon ; and for Alexandria, Cols. Bellasis, David son, hlachedo, South and wife, Major Lumsden, Cants, Lowe, Henry and wife, Lieuts. Heathcote and Stirling, Lieut.-Col. Michell, Dr. Asher, Assistant-Surgeon Meares and the Rev. M es sr s . D ewar an d H ase l. She left for Alexandria on the 15th. "The Alhambra, belonging to the same company, ar rived from 'Marseilles on the 15th with the overland London mails of the 9th, and brought, among other pas sengers, Lord Methuen, Deputy Ordnance Storekeeper G-alletly, Lieut. and Mrs. Duff ; the newly-appointed Chief Secretary to the Malta Government, Mr. V. Houl t )n ; the Chevalier Ross, Netherlands and Mecklenburg Consul at Malta, and wife ; and for Alexandria, going to India, General, Sir H. Wheeler and family, and the Rev. Mr. Wilson. " The Valetta, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet, Taft for 3darseilles on the 14th, with the overland India mail for England. "The Nubia arrived from Alexandria on the 14th, bringing, among other passengers—for Malta, Col. Tu dor ; for Marseilles, Lieut. Kindersley ; and for South ampton, Lieuts. Allardice, Cox, Cromartie, Fraser, and Mylne ; Captains R oss an d _Roberts Major Owen, and the Rev. G. Copl an d. Sh e l e ft for Gibraltar and. South ampton on the 15th. " Her Majesty's steam-sloop Shearwater left for Corfu on the 15th with the mails. "The Maim, French steam despatch vessel, left on the 26th for Tripoli, in Barbary. " The Norman steam-transport left for Messina,, to land 34 Sicilian muleteers from the Crimea, and after wards proceeded onwards to Genoa. " The steamer Briton's Ferry arrived from London on the 13th, and left for Constantinople on the 15th. "The Egyptian steamer from Liverpool, with a gene ral cargo, left for Constantinople on the 13th, and on the same day the Star steamer for the same destination. "The Thessalia screw-transport, with a general cargo from Constantinople and Smyrna, arrived on the 16th, and left for Liverpool on the same day. "The Sicilian pinto St. Agata arrived on the 15th from Catania, and on the 16th the Neapolitan brig An toinette, from Aci Castello, both with hay." The Orinoco and Simoo:n steam ships are prepaiing at Portsmouth to embark another moiety of the British German Legion for the Crimea. They will leave about the 29th inst. The Transit, steam troop-ship, is to go into dock at Portsmouth to refit prior to proceeding on further ser vice, The Perseverance, steam troop-ship, Captain Harris, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning to prepare for the embarkation of the 4th Middlesex Mi litia, now quartered at Portsmouth, and convey them to Ireland, bringing back the Armagh Regiment of Mi litia to Portsmouth. The Royal Charlie. sailing-transport, will embark at Portsmouth for the Black Sea in a day or two 4 officers and 173 men of the 31st Regiment, 2 officers and 65 men of the 38th, 1 officer and 21 men of the 44th, 1 medical officer, and other troops and stores. The Lady Eglintos, steam-transport No. 165, went into Portsmouth harbour on Sunday evening from Southampton, to ship a cargo of the huts built by Mr. Camwell for the army in the CrimeA. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Vulcan, Captain Von Donop, hourly expected at Portsmouth from the Cri mea, is to be docked and repaired immediately. She is to have new boilers. The crew of the Hawke, 60, Captain Ommanney, was turned over to the Belvidere hulk, in Portsmouth har bour, yesterday, and the ship taken alongside the dock yard for a refit. The screw steam-transport Von Humboldt arrived at Sheerness, from Greenhithe, at 9 a.m., on Sunday, re ceived her snails, despatches, &c., and left at 3 p.m. on the same day for the Baltic. The Otter, 8, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com mender John H. Glover, recently reported to have ar rived at Sheerness, last from Portsmouth, has made 31 passages from the Elbe and the Weser to Heligoland. During the said trips she has conveyed more than 1,200 men, most of whom, after getting a free passage to He ligoland, for the benefit of sea-bathing, hare joined the Foreign Legion there, under the command of Colonel Baron Von Steinbach. Most of these volunteers have been conveyed to England by the steam-frigate Horatio, steam-vessel Alban, and private steam-transports hired for that purpose. A large portion of the volunteers re ferred to were educated at Heidelberg, men of good families, many of them of noble birth, and bearing medals from their respective Governments, and honour able decorations for their services in their country. The Otter is under the survey of the yard authorities, in con sequence of damage, and being in a very leaky state. A detachment of the Royal Artillery from Sheerness garrison, under charge of Sergeant Winton, are engaged mounting the battery at Coalhouse Point, commanding Sea Reach, in the River Thames. The battery consists of 17 long 32-pounder guns, and will bo completed in about 10 days. Within the fort there is barrack accom modation for 3 officers, 90 men, and a master gunner. Capt. Anketell'a company of Royal Artillery, 7th company, let battalion ; Lieut. Carey's company, 3d company, 7th battalion; and Lieut. Coorne's company, let company, 2d battalion, are ordered immediately to prepare to proceed to Gibraltar. Capt. Inglefield's 3d company, 13th battalion, are under immediate orders to proceed to Ceylon. Two 10-inch mortar-platforms are now being erected on No. 1 bastion, Seaward Battery, Sheerness, purpose of mortar practice for the Artillery nocow: the train plete ing, in addition to which there is an order t m o o terial and two field batteries in every respect, with drivers at and Indiana, camp equipage, for fully training gunners this garrison. The General Screw Company lying at Ca,pt. Lambert, transport No. 147 t'ee - t.;rimea the felle 's steam -ship Southamp ton, is under orders to convey 2 t servants,_ of the East :—For Sen. ing officers, troops, and horsestoto the tari—Lieut. Stapylton. 2 horses • rrovs and Lieu iNeave, 5 horses 21 Dragoons ; Capt. Ba Dragoons ; 3 and 4 servants, of the 3d dLieutservants and 5 horses of Capt. Smith and Dettmar,_ 7th Dragoon ts and 4 horses of C Guards ; 2 servants apt. Monckton and • Lieut. Preston, 3d Light Dragoons , Capt. Sir W. Rus sell, 3 servants; a nd 3 horses, of the 7th Hussars Lieut. Coates, 2 servants and 2 horses, 7th Hussars ; Capt. Lieut.servants Brett and Maude, and 5 horses, of the 15th Uussars ; Capt. Grant and a Lieutenant not named, 5 servants and 5 horses, 16th Lancers ; 46 men of the 4th Dragoon Guards ; 3 men of the sth ditto ; 30 men of the 2d Dragoons ; 45 men of the Sth Hussars ; 55 men of the 11th Hussars ; and Major Morris, 1 ser vant, 2 horses, and 35 men of the 17th Lancers. For the Crimea-2 field officers, 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 assistant-sureeou, and 310 men of the Grenadier Guards ; 6 officers, 204 men, and 5 horses of the Land Transport Corps ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. R. Charteris, 1 servant, nod 1 horse, and Lieut. Knox and 1 servant, of the Scots Fusilier Guards ; Major Bell, 1 servant, and 1 horse, of the 23d Foot ; Capt. Hurt, 2 servants, and 2 horses, of the Grenadier Guards ; 2 servants and 2 horses of Brigadier General Crawfurd ; 1 artificer, Sergeant Jones, Private O'Connor, 46th Foot ; 1 servant of S,aff-Surgeon G. Anderson of the First Class ; 1 servant of Capt. Mo rant, of the Grenadier Guards ; and 1 servant and 1 horse of Liout.-Coi. Lord F. Fitzroy, Grenadier Guards. For the Dardanelles or Constantinople.7-Capts. W. R. Spei f ding, C. B. Stevenson, and C. Vivian ; 3 servants, and. 8 horses of Beatson's Irregular Cavalry. For Constan tinople—Capt. Williams, 1 servant, and 2 horses, 1 ser. vent of Capt. A. H. Campbell, ditto of Major Cress . and 1 horse of Capt. Evans, of the Turkish Cientiagent. Total-28 officer:, 43 servants, 204 men of the Lard Transport Corps, 1 artificer, 525 troops, and .50 horses., It was the intention of the Land Transport Corps to embark at Plymouth, bat subsequent orders render it probable that the whole of the troops, &c., .enumerated above Will ship on board the I n di ana at Southampton this day. The Thames will also receive to-day about 12 officers and 400 men of the Land Transport Corps for the Crimea. The freight-ship Euphrates, 340 tons' burden, has ar ' 'rived' at'Weolvvich from Deptford, and is moored off the arsenal, .to be laden. with powder for the Crimea. The Sir Robert Sale transport sailing ship has left Woolwich for the East with a full cargo, composed principally of waggons, carts, wheelbarrows, handspikes, and Leaflets. The Janus has been taken out of the dockyard hatlin and received into one of the docks, to be overhauled propara t,i-y to her being despatched on foreign service. The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander Pullen, has returned to Woolwich from Portsmouth and Ply mouth, and has commenced receiving her usual freight of machinery and boilers for the above-named yards. The transport Helper steamed out of basin yesterday morning and went into dock for the purpose of being examined, the lower extremities of her hull being de fective. Instructions have been issued to the various provin cial recruiting stations of the Royal Engineers t o for ward the recruits who have been enrolled and passed medical examination to bead-quarters at Woolwich. 51 have been accepted and have joined that corps during the past week—namely, 28 from Devonport and 13 from Scotland. A small detachment of disabled men belonging to the Royal Sappers and Miners arrived at the Woolwich Bar racks on Saturday last from the Crimea, some of whom received their wounds in the attack on the Redan on the Bth ult. Lance Corporal Macginn, one of their number, was landed at Gibraltar, and, at his own request, placed under the care of his father, who is Barrack• Sergeant there. Some of the wounds of these gallant shldiers are of the very worst description. One poor fellow was die. abled by the disjointed fragment of a rock striking hint immediately above the left eye, shattering part of the craniutm and penetrating to the brain. A second was very dangerously struck on the left side of the throat by the splinter of a gun-carriage, nearly severing his head from his shoulders. All have sustained more or less severe injuries, such as contusions in the knees, compound .fractnres•of the• arms •and legs, or have shat tered hando. Oue. of them received •his Wodnd in the reft arm, which was shattered at the taking of Sebasto pol. - The whole of these brave fellows are now in tole rable health. A military correspondent, referring to an order re cently issued from the Horse Guards, gives his opinion that it will check the militia from volunteering into the line. Our correspondent adds : "On the Ist of November all regiments of militia that have less than 50 privates per company are to have a pro portionate number of their officers reduced and sent to their respective homes. Hithert,c, every effort has been made by the officers of militia regiments to induce their men to volunteer into the line, and their reward is to be their being struck off the strength of their regiments.. For instance, a regiment a few weeks since consisted of 500 meu-10 companies of 50 rank and file each. By the exertions of its officers, 101 men have volunteered into the regular army, leaving the regiment 400 strong. In return for this, 2 captains and 4 subalterns, by this new order, are to be struck off the pay list and sent to the right-about. Of course, volunteering will be no longer encouraged ; 'self-preservation is the first law of nature,' and no man can be expected to persuade others to volunteer when, by so doing, he will throw himself out of employment. The order is, that on the Ist of November all captains and subalterns beyond the proportion of one captain and two subalterns to every 50 rank and file are to be struck off the embodied list. These are the thanks the Government return to the Militia officers for the thou sands of men they have induced to volunteer from their ranks into the regular army during this very critical period." The following appointments, made at the Admiralty yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night : Captain George J. Hand to the Sampson. Commander V. 0. Inglefield to the Ara.ohne. Commander F. Warren to the Polyphemus. Commander E. D'A. D'O. Aplin to the Hecla. Master Henry P. Ward to the Sampson. Master Henry B. Gawler to the Arachne. Master Nathaniel B. Herbert to the Polyphemus. Master John Thomson to the Hecla. Midshipman Charles H. Murphy to the Sampson. Midshipman Charles W. Tucker to the Arachne. Assistant-Paymaster in Charge Alfred 8.. Martin to the Crocodile. THE LATE SIR WM. MOLESWORTS. Yesterday, about the hour of noon, Sir William Mole,worth, late Secretary of State for the Colonies, expired at his residence in Eaton-place, atter a brief but severe illness. Sir William had only attained his forty fifth year, having been born in 1810. His father was a Cornish baronet of old descent—his mother an Edin burgh lady, of the name of Brown. He lost his father at the age of 13, and it is alike creditable to his natural disposition and to the maternal care that be was un spoiled by the early attainment of wealth and areal p a . salon. Scarcely any details of his non-age and educa tion have reached us ; indeed we only know that he spent one year as a student at Edinburgh. His debut in public life was as M.P. for Cornwall, which he represented in Parliament from 1832 to 1837. From the first ho avowed himself a member of the not nu merous but energetic and accomplished party which went by the designation of the "Philosophical Radi cals." His most intimate associate during this period of his career was Mr. Temple Leader, with whom he for a time kept house in common. The men were essentially most unlike; Molesworth a deep and earnest thinker, with literary tastes ; Leader a dashing, talented, impulsive spirit. Similarity of ago and inde pendent generous sentiments formed their bond of union. Less akin in opinions, but more like to Molesworth in his tastes and intellectual habits, was the late Charles Buller, with whom he lived on terms of confidential in timacy. Common intellectual pursuits kept him in close alliance with Mr. George Grote and Mr. John Stuart Mill. A radical so peononco had small chance of retain ing his seat for Cornwall after the effervescence of the Reform Bill period was over. But Leeds welcomed the rejected of the squires and their " Chandos clause " vo ters. and he sat in Parliament for that borough from 1837 to 1841. How he came to lose his seat for Leeds we could never rightly understand. He re mained out of Parliament till 1845, when he was re turned for the borough of Southwark, which he con tinued to represent till his death. While a member of the House of Commons his voice and vote were unreservedly given in favour of every liberal principle and measure ; but it was chiefly as an enlight ened and able advocate of colonisation and reform in our system of penal transportation that he distinguished himself. To this it was owing that, when he consented to accept administrative office, he was, after a short time spent in the rather uncongenial Board of Works, promoted to the Colonial Department. In the Cabinet, however, Sir William's presence appears to have been more important as a recognition of the principle of men entertaining his opinions to office than for any very ac tive or influential part he took in the deliberations of Government. Sir William took an active part in the attempt to establish the short-lived London Review ; but his principal literary effort was his collective edition of the works of Hobbes. It is not a very encouraging syeap. tem of the state of public opinion in England that this munificent enterprise was, on one occasion, made a sub ject of grave accusation against Sir William at the hust ings. Be the opinions of Hobbes what they may, he is the parent of English inteilectual analysis—the origin s ,. tor of those inquiries to which we owe Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and Stewart. The loss of .his works would leave an irreparable gap in the history of English intellectual moral and political science. Sir William married, in 1844, the daughter of Bruce Carstairs, Esq., whose first husband was Temple West, Esq. He had no family by this lady, who survives; as does also the Dowager Lady Moleswortla. SUPERANNUATED FIELD-MARSHALS. A letter in a contemporary says :—" On comparing the Peerage with Hart's Army List, I find that Lord Cornbermere, one of the recently appointed field-mar shals, was born in the year 1780 ; that he was made a cornet at 10, a lieutenant at n, a captain at 13, a m a j or and lieutenant-colonel (in the same year) at 14, a colonel at 20, and a major-general at 25 years of age. His lord ship's active services—and .they were very brilliant— appear to have been confined between the commence. ment of the Peninsular war in 1803, and his command in India—a period of about 17 years. During this time his lordship received only one p romotion, that of lien tenant-general, in 1812. Again, at 75 years o f age, and after 30 years of inactivity, be is chosen to be one of a new batch of field-marshals. Lord Combermere's pro motions, then, are almost entirely confined to his first and second childhood. Of the 10 grades through which it is thought necessary an office r should pass before he attains the highest rank only one is assigned to him in the active and distinguished part of his career. Which must be the more utterly useless, or rather more in jurious, to the service of his country, the juvenility of a boy-colonel of 14, or the anility of a field-marshal of 75, it is difficult to say. If such things are allowed to be, we shall be disgraced in the eyes of Europe, and must forfeit our character for a practical business-like people. If the British army must have its generals and field marshals, why in the name of common sense are they not made when they have done something, or can do something ? Why i n England alone sho u ld a genera l or field-marshal be only another name for effeteness and incapacity ?" FOUR-OARED CUTTER RACE.—A very spirited race took place yesterday amongst the members of the Lon don Unity Rowing Club, for five silver cups, presented by Mr. C. Morton, proprietor of the Canterbury Lower Marsb,_ Lambeth. The race was in one heat, the distance being from Putney-bridge to Lambeth Pa lace, and was won by Messrs. E. Piney, G. Barnes, J. Anior, F, Knight, and J, Lawn. FORTIFICATIONS IN CORK HARBOUR. Our local readers are aware that fortifications to some extent are being gradually erected on the principal points of the harbour, but owing to the jealous secrecy of the Government very little is known of their extent or importance. The principal of these is that now in progress on Spike Island, which, when completed, will prove a most formidable defence. Previous to the war with Napoleon almost the sole protection for that island was a small redan battery on the eastern face of the island, the strength or importance of which was very trifling, but on the breaking out of hostilities with the French nation, the immense value of Cove, as a har bour of refuge for vessels, and a point of departure for convoys, was perceived by the Government of the day, and it was resolved to fortify Spike Island in such a manner as to enable it to become a de fence suitable to a great maritime port. Accordingly, designs were made and the works begun, but they proceeded slowly, and the war was ended before the fortifications were completed ; not, however, as we can learn, until they had cost nearly a million of money. On the arrival of peace the country began to grow weary of expense and the works were stopped, and they remained in an unfinished condition, until on the refusal of the colonies to receive convicts from England, it became ne cessary to establish depots at home, when it was con ceived that their labour could be made available for the completion of the fortress of Spike. They have now been engaged on these works for a period of seven or eight years, and at last the results of their labour are beginning to be seen. Most persons who have seen our harbour will re member the position and appearance of Spike Island It rises from all sides, with a rather steep slope, to a table-land commanding the entrance of the harbour, the Man-of-war roads, and the passage up to Cork. On this platform has been built a single fortification, of about a thousand feet in length, with a breadth of about seven hundred feet. In shape it is an elon gated hexagon, having at each angle a bastion. The platform surmounting this work will be ten feet broad, en which will be placed 200 guns mounted on barbette, while the bastions will be pierced with embrasures. Iteleind the platform will be a banquette for the accom modation of men working the guns, and below will be casemate barracks, bomb proof, capable of accommodat ing 2,000 men. Around the entire fortress runs a ditch about 20 feet deep and 40 broad, both sides being com pletely faced with cut stone. Only a portion of the glacis is as yet completed on the east and sea faces, but it is intended to level the land all round thu fortification, so as to form the whole island into a smooth slope rising gradually to the fortress. When the works shall have been sufficiently far advanced, all the houses on the island will be removed, and everything that could afford shelter to an enemy, or interrupt the per fect sweep of the guns on every side. The original design of the armament contemplated mounting the bat tery only with twenty-four pounders, but though no po sitive information on this head can be obtained the recent changes in ordnance will no doubt have their effect, and cause much heavier rectal to be subsUtuted. The plan of this fortress, though now we would reckon it old, dating as it does nearly half a century back, is consid ered to be very perfect of its kind, being so formed as to enable a small force to hold it against any merely naval power that could be brought against it. It is com manded indeed by hills on the main land, but at a very considerable range ; beside that the possession of these hills by an enemy would suppose the existence of an occupying army and a regular siege, which, of course, it is not meant to meet. It is merey a fortress, built for the protection of the shipping, and the Government stores at Haulbowline. Convict labour has been also employed on the forts at each side of the harbour's mouth, now batteries having been erected close to the water's edge, and platforms for pivot guns, covered ways and glacis formed. When these works shall ' have been completed, they will no doubt form very efficient defences of a harbour so important as that of cork. We shall look with curiosity to see whether, after all the labour and expense bestowed on them, they will be furnished with either a gun or a soldier.—Cork Examiner. DARING RESCUE OF A BURGLAR. A few weeks ago a burglary was attempted at the house of Mr. Hume, son of the late Mr. Joseph Hume, No. 6, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. There were two men engaged in the affair, who ascended a ladder about eight o'clock, which was placed in front of an adjoining house that was undergoing repair. They had reached the house of Mr. Hume, where they succeeded in forcing open a window of the attic. They were then disturbed and pursued by Mr. Home, upon which they retraced their steps down the ladder. One man got away, bu t the other man fell off the ladder, when his right l e g was broken. He was taken to the Middlesex Hos p ital, where ho remained up to yesterday morning• lle was to have been brought up yesterday at the ilfarylebone Police-court, but, upon the case being called, Mr. Jack son, inspector of the D division, stated that between two and four o'clock in the morning four men succeeded in taking the man from the hospital. The four men got over the garden wall in the rear of the hospital, entere d the institution by means of pi cklo c k keys, and removed him from his room by dropping h i m out of the wi n d ow. The policeman who had charge of the man was in b e d and asleep. They then succeededi in carryin g hi m through the garden, placing him n n cab, and gating clear away. The man is wanted for another burglary. SOUTH SVARK. PAYING DEAR FOR A LARK.— William Croker, a young man about 20 years of age, was brought before Mr. Cornbe, charged with stealing a hat from the shop of Mr. Joseph, general dealer in Bermondsey street. Police-constable 167 M said 'he was on duty in,Ber mondsey-street about seven o'clock last evening, "When he saw the prisoner go up to the prosecutor's shop, where there were several countrymen's hats exposed for sale. He took off his own cap and placed it in his pocket, and directly afterwards he put one of the hats on his head, and went away singing " All round my hat" as jolly as could be. Witness followed him, and asked him where he was going to with the prosecutor's hat, when he replied " What's that to you?" and endeavoured to run away. He, however, seized hold of him and took him into custody. When at the station-house he said he took the bat for a lark, and had no intention of stealing it. The prosecutor said that he had a number of hats lying on a board outside his shop last evening, and about seven o'clock he saw the prisoner walking away with one of his hats on his head. Last witness laid hold of him, and then he gave him into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he took up the hat and put it on his head for a lark, when the con stable seized him and took him into custody. He was a respectable young man, and got his living honestly. The mother of the prisoner, a very respectable female, said that her sop was her chief support, and she could not account for his taking the hat unless it was for a lark. He had plenty of money. Mr. Combo told him he must pay for his lark, as he should fine him 405., or one month's imprisonment. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 23.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W. ; cloudy. POOLE, Oct. 20.—Wind W,—Sailed—Nelson Packet, for Newfoundland. 21 Wind variable.—Sailed—Fairy, for Balaklava. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Escort, from Labrador. Off the port—Panama, from New York, for Hamburg; Snowdrop, Akyab, for Falmouth. LERWICK, Oct. 17. -Davis' Straits Whale Fishery.— The Truo Love, from Davis' Straits, reports the whale fishery to be a failure, thore having been only nine whales taken there this season. CLYDE, Oct. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Noel, for New foundland ; Wild Wave, Shanghai. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 21. —The Albania was met, in lat. 43, long. 54, waterlogged, and the crew taken off by the Loo choo, arrived here. GLO ECESTER, Oct. 21.—Arrived—Ariadne, from Syra. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 21.—Wind N. W.—Arrived—Bank side, from Callao; Dawn and Lord Raglan, from Syra. Sailed—Volant, for St. Michael's. Off the port—Gem, from Syra ; Greenock, Mauritius, and sailed for the Clyde. SHIELDS, Oct. 22.—Wind W.—Sailed—Caspian, for Carthagena. NEW YORK, Oct. s.—The Kaffir, of Damfries, from Rio do la Hache to Liverpool, with wood, was wrecked on the west side of Inagua on the 6th Sept.; cargo and materials saved and sold. Sr. B.—Tho barque Albion, of Hartlepool, waterlogged and abandoned, was passed on the Ist Oct., in lat. 41 N., long. 57 W. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday ➢corning. Arrived.—Courier (s.), from Jersey; George, Ply month ; Atalanta (s.), Havre. Sa•dled.—Wortby and Don, for Newport ; Georges, Cherbourg ; Despatch (s.), Jersey; Wonder, (s.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind W Arri ved.—Conturian, from New York ; Superior, New foundland ; May Queen, Maceio ; John and Edward, Havre ; Arcturus, Mazagan ; Annie Worrell, Buenos Ayres. (B 7 SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10 a.re. Wind W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, Oct. 22.—Palestine, from New York ; Louise, Gefle ; NValter Hood, Sydney; Brutus, Stettin; Mill Bay, Denia, ; Rose, Guernsey ; Gleaner, Memel ; Arid, Emden ; Witybern, Mogador ; Justinian, Memel. Arrived, Oct. 23.—Rose and Hohenzollern, from Dan zig ; John Mowlem, Guernsey. Sailed.—Secret, for Genoa; Arabia, Hobart Town ; Magellan, Geelong. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.30 a.m. Wind, S.W. ; light, thick, and hazy. Anchored.—Ellen, from London, for Newport. Passed.---Brig Necker, from the westward for the north. Several of the outward bound ships sailed last evening, some of which have put back; one is the Invekitigator, Captain Prynn, for Ad elaide. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A MARRIED IroMA N. Last evening, at half-past eight o'e:ock, Mr. Payne, the City coroner, held an inquest at the Dun Cow Tavern, Old Kent-road, •on the body of Mary Chapman, a mat Tied woman, aged 47 years, who died under the following melancholy circumstances : Mrs. Higgins, of Albany-road, Camberwell, deposed that de , .'eased was at her residence on Tuesday afternoon last, at about seven &Nock, when she (deceased) left the first floor room for the purpose of going down stairs, when witness heard a sex 'e%•m, and, on going out to as• certain the cause, she fo u , 'ld that the unfortunate woman had fallen down the stairs %rid received severe injuries to the head. Witness was ah out removing, and deceased was with her to assist, and was carrying a can of water and a small basin when she f, ill. Deceased was removed home to Mina Cottage, Old K, so t-road, having previously received medical assistance. Mrs. Jane George, a neighb ur, proved attending to deceased whilst ill, and she said , she fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom. After some further evident.', Mr. Palmer, surgeon, of Cia rei wont-place, Old Kent road, stated that he attended d, 'aced, who had received a serious injury to the spi ne . s k', ) died on Friday morn ing from effusion into the spi na l mar row. There were two cuts on the head and sever a l b ru i see. : on the face. Verdict—" Accidental death ." erday that the DON-FI RIDGE .—.A. re p or t was cm vent yes k .'s Hall, had THE RUMOURED SINKING OF 1 ------ TIE DM. Aucif OF LON dry arc h o f London•bridlp, near Fishmougt r shown unmistakeable signs of s i n k ing, ank 1 that the -ass-street - , Reps l ea di ng from Ki ng William •street to Th ai had b een hoarded up to prevent accidents. We beg, ho wever, to st a t e th a t no hoarcli'ng has b een e rected, . - s and that th e arch presents the san le appearance m -do-li m) . dity it eve r h as done since the conasletion of the brt ' THE MILITIA. The review and inspection of the Ist Regiment of the Duke of Cornwall's Rangers took place during the past week at Bodmin, and was conducted by the Commander of the Western District, Major-General Eden. The present strength of the regiment is about 270 of all ranks. Their conduct during the review was of the most satisfactory character, and met with the warm ap• proval of Major-General Eden. The Royal Elthorne Light Infantry, stationed at the' Camp, Aldershott, was called upon to give volunteers to the line, Sco., on Thursday last, on which occasion the Lieutenant• Colonel Commandant, L. Murray Prior, ad dressed his regiment, and strongly recommended them to come forward at the present crisis, when go many were required for active service. He particularly recom• mended any who wished to be cavalry soldiers to go to the 3d Light Dragoons, commanded by his brother-in law, Lieut.-Colonel Unett, when 50 came forward. He next recommended them to eater the Rifle Brigade in camp, when upwards of 150 came forward. Afterwards several volunteered for other regiments, so that about 250 men offered their services ; but some of them were rejected, especially those for the Guard., they not being of sufficient height. This is the second time within three months that the Elthorne has volunteered in this manner. This regiment is so popular that, it is said, a few weeks will bring it up to the full establishment of 1,000 men. The 2d West York Regiment of Militia arrived at the North Wall, Dublin, on Friday morning, from Liver pool, and marched to the Royal barracks, where they halted for an hour, whence they marched to Limerick. THE LATE HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN CA VAN. The following letter from John J. Hinds, Esq., affords no hope that his unfortunate relative, who was so brutally assaulted a few days ago, will re cover. He brings a serious charge against the peo ple of the district where her assassination was attempted. The place is in a thickly-inhabited. district. The miscreants must have known that her cries could be heard, and that the attention of a crowd must have been attracted by the reports of their firearms. But they calculated upon a general complicity of their crime. Such is the reasonable inference in this dreadful case. Mr. Hinds writes to the editor of Saunders' thus :-- 4 ' Killeshandra, Oct. 20, Friday Night. " Sir,--I have just returned from the scene of the late murderous attack upon MissCharlotts Hinds, and found her still living, but without the remotest hope of re covery. Her medical attendants aro of opinion that she may linger for a short time. The strength of constitu tion which has borne injuries enough to have killed half a dozen men may sustain her for a brief space. No one who has not seen the sufferer and the ground can form e an idea of the deliberate and cold-blooded murder, or t th fel daring effrontery of the assassins. It is on asobeated. g :v a spot as any in Ireland, on the side of a bill _c in re u a o in an extensive vie of a thickly-inhabiteadndcdi6otuanntcrey; perfectly open on one side. I counted more than 20 comfortable farmers' houses withi n a short and tho spot where she was taken off de The from ber car of her her own tenants in any direction. houses are on rately slaughtered is not a hundred ythe houses ar h w i h n oi slilsa broad eans 0 s. both sides of the road, and both before and behind where stand on such a spot, and look at the it occurred. To day, and see the groundhouses a s n ti d il t m he ar o . pen_c o : eve n e t o r af y marked with the blood of a near and dear —is enough to make a r e n l a l a ti n v the atrocity of the act, that the I may add, if an y thing j ty has been possessed by the family and name for ed: ulutditdhthenadetdvritedoleaii proper The centurie , p o or lady, after having been beaten with heav ily-loaded whips, one of which remained on the ground, and by which her skull was fractured and her wrist and fingers broken, had the muzzles of three pistols placed in succession close to her head, and the contents lodged in her head and face ; one was placed on the very top of the skull and fired down into the head, where the contents still remain. I cannot write more.—" Yours faithfully, " JOHN T. HINDS." DREADFUL MURDEIi NEAR MATEEN, !2 NORTHUMBERLAND. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Monday.—A dreadful murder was committed during the night of Saturday last at Waterloo, a small village near Mattel), in the county of Northumberland, about 1G miles north-west from this town. The deceased was a female about 70 year' of age, residing alone in a cottage by the side of the turn pike road leading from Newcastle to Stamfordbam. The cottage and a patch of land adjoining it belonged to the deceased, who was reported to be rich , and was su pp osed to have a considerable sum of money a lways hoarded in her house. This has no doubt formed the inducement to the) murder. It appears that the carrier from Newcastle passed the cottage about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, when he spoke to the deceased, who was standing at the door. The. murder was discovered early next morning, h, tying been perpetrated in the interval. The deceased was for old lying upon the floor, with her hands btrappe, a to ge ther with a leather belt, and her feet tied with a r, a pe. H tr head was' fearfully bruised, and blood, which 1 'lad flo wed from the wounds, lay in pools near her heb '4 l . Sshowingo that the murder be.. 1. to Len was e np cold place aceonj and still, before. hours E ver y part of the house had been ransacked, an. a. all the things were in confu,ion, rendering it evident that ne.. , r,ey had been the object of the search. The village of Waterloo consist-; only of about fi ye or six detached cottages, situate in a retired part c )f the coo sty, and is the resort of tramps, broom-maker a, A nd vac.? mote of all kinds during the summer and a at ,uolo Inc .nths. No clue has been obtained to the perpetrators -f this trr ible crime, but the county police are mpg ei lin in igating the matter. "`,`.