The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

TWO %baton WEST LONDON RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company took place to-day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of determining upon the course to be pursued, with a view to obtain a per formance of the covenants contained in the lease granted to the London and North-Western Railway Company. Mr. STEPHEN BIRD, in consequence of the lamented death of the late chairman, H. H. Grounds, Esq., from cholera, shortly after the last meeting, took the * chair at one o'clock, and in doing so, after passing a high eulogium on their late chairman, stated that they had met for the purpose of considering what was best to be done in consequence of the London and North-Western Railway Company not fulfilling their contract. The directors were unanimously of opinion that something should be done to make the London and North- Western Campany fulfil their engagements. Since the last meeting in that place a meeting had taken place at Manchester, and the dir ectors and principal proprietors there had come to the following reso lutions : " That this meeting having received the report of what took place at the recent interview between their direc tors and a deputation from the London and North- Western Board, is of opinion that it is the duty of the directors of this company to forthwith institute and prosecute such proceedings at law, or in equity, as their counsel may advise. for the purpose of compelling the performance by the London and North-Western Railway Company of the engagements they have entered into with this company; and that the shareholders present will support a resolution to this effact, at the ensuing special general meeting. " That this meeting regrets the loss the company has sustained in the death of its late chairman, and recom mends that the consequent vacancy be filled up by the appointment of a Lancashire shareholder. " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. Richardson for his impartial conduct in the chair, and for the interest he has taken in the affairs of this com pany." Mr. AINSWORTH then moved the following resolu tion :—" That the directors be authorised to take such proceedings at law or in equity to enforce per formance of the covenants in the lease granted to the London and North-Western Company, and to obtain compensation for the non-performances that has already taken place, as counsel may advise." He had no doubt that the resolution would be unanimously adopted, and it was evidently the interest of the proprietors to accede to it. He could assure the proprietors that the directors had had such opinions and advice as warranted them in the course:they were about to pursue. Mr. RICHARDSON seconded the adoption of the resolution. Mr. CAMPLIN, in supporting the resolution, said that he was happy to be present on that occa sion. The course that had been pursued by the proprietors at Manchester afforded him the highest satisfaction. When they considered the low terms on which the London and North-Western had pur chased the lease, he thought 'no one could doubt that they ought to be made to perform their bargain. Having law and common sense on their side nothing was left them but to follow up parties who had so basely treated them.—(Cheers.) If they had even offered them common interest, that Eight have been sufficient ; but as the London and North- Western had adopted the course they had, no step was left them but to enforce their claims.—(Hear.) Mr. RIGBY also cordially supported the resolution. He concurred with Mr. Camplin, that the course pursued by the London and North-Western Railway was base and disgraceful.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He believed there had been a foul conspi racy between the Great Western Railway and the London and North-Western Railway Company. The Hon. and Learned Proprietor, after going at consider able length into the details of the trasactions that had taken place between the company and the London and North-Western, and the course the latter had pursued with respect to obtaining Acts of Parliament to extend the line, observed that there could be no doubt that the Great Western and London and North- Western Companies had joined together for the purpose of defeating their line.—(Cheers.) The truth was that it was the interest of the carriers, who made most enormous profits, that had caused the London and North-Western Company to pur sue the course they had. There could be no doubt that the West London Railway would have been of the greatest importance to the London and North-Western Railway by a judicious management ; but that company, instead of giving the West London Company every facility, had placed every obstacle in their way, and had ultimately declared their repu diation of all that had taken place. He considered that the West London proprietors bad been treated basely, perfidiously, and unjustly by the London and North- Western Company ; and be therefore cordially as sented to the resolution, and expressed a hope that no objection would be made to it, but that it would be carried unanimously. Mr. GUNTER also concurred with the course that had been adopted at Manchester, and thought that the proprietors could adopt no better course then to leave it to the directors and their legal adviser to de termine what steps should be taken.—(flear, hear.) There could be no doubt that the course that had been adopted by the London and North-Western Company had been pursued in order to delude the proprietors of the West London Company.—(Cheers.) He believed if the railway was honestly and fairly worked the shareholders would get a fair remunera tion for their money.—(Cheers.) His opinion was that the London and North-Western Company were inclined to put the screw on, in order to see how far the proprietors of the West London Company would boar it.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially supported the resolution. The SECRETARY, in answer to the question of a proprietor, stated that the course pursued by the London and North-Western Company with respect to the carriage of goods occasioned a loss of no less than 2s. Gd. a ton to their shareholders, for they had to pay now Gs. when they would only pay 3s. 61. if the goods were conveyed by means of the West London Railway, instead of carriers. : Mr. BURGE, though he supported the resolution, thought they had better try persuasion before they resorted to force. Mr. CAMPLIN said that he had usually found his friend Mr. Burge in the wrong box—(Laughter)— and he now appeared anxious to put them into it also. —(lncreased laughter.) He thought no better course could be parsued than to adopt the resolution. Mr. BURGE, by way of retort, observed that Mr. Camplin would recommend the directors to spend their money, but he would answer for it that he would take good care not to furnish a single farthing. The CHAIRMAN believed that it was of no use to make any further applications to the London and North-Western Company. That company had tram pled quite enough on the directors of the West London Company, and it now became their duty to act and not to propose.—(Cheers.) He could assure the pro prietors that the directors were prepared and deter mined to act most energetically—(Cheers)—and not to give up one iota until they had brought the directors of the London and North-Western Company to their senses, and obtained from them the fulfilment of the agreement they had entered into with the West London Company.—(Cheers.) After some further discussion, The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, and declared it to be carried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. THE PIMLICO TRAGEDY. (THIS DAY.) The adjourned inquisition, touching the cause of the deaths of the five unfortunate individuals who perished in the foul sewer in Kenilworth -street, Pim lico, was resumed this afternoon, before Mr. Bedford, the Coroner for Westminster, at the Clarendon Tavern, Piinlico. Mr. J. Phillips, of No. 9, Priory-road, Wands worth-road, and chief surveyor to the Metro politan Commissioners of Sewers, was the first witness called today. He stated that the sewer was built by Mr. Thomas Cubitt in January, 1848. Directions had been previously given by the Commis sioners as to the mode in which it should be built, hut be did not see it at the time. There were printed regulations supplied to Mr. hi Cubitt as to the form and size of the sewers always re - tpired. to he built by the Commissioners. These printed regulations, together with the petition of Mr. Thomas Cubitt for leave to build the sewer, were read by Mr. Phillips. The sewer was built under the inspection of the dicer in charge of the district, and so far as the works had gone, the printed regulations had been complied with ; but as yet the sewer was incomplete as it was originally de signed or intended. He had, within the last f e w days, inspected the sewer in which this calamity took place. It was a brick sewer, 418" feet in length, nine inches thick , four feet high, and - two feet six inches in width. The sewer had scarcely any fill, but if it had any it was into the Warwick. street sewer. It was bricked up at the end of it, to prevent mischievous boys from getting into Kenil worth-street. There were six houses in the street, three only of which were inhabited, and one of those was the house in which they were then in. he sewer was flat, and perhaps that was the cause of the accumulation of matter in it. There were two gully holes [into the sewer close to IVarwick-street, but they were about 300 yards from the wall which locked up the Kenilworth sewer. There were no means of ventilating the sewer; but it should be borne in mind that the sewer was not yet completed. These causes would THE grim, _ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1040. not produce an accumulation of gases, because the foul refuse carried away from the three houses he had already mentioned consisted of sand or earthy matter which could not by any possibility generate gas likely to prove destructive to animal life. He, therefore, attributed the existence of the gases which had killed these men to the fact that about five feet above the sewer a layer of gas lime, which had been used for purifying gas, had been placed over the sewer, through which the surface rain-water had penetrated, and produced the hydrogen gases which prevailed in the sewer. He concluded his evidence by stating that he had repeatedly been in metropolitan sewers similarly con structed and sealed up from the air like this one, and containing a much larger amount of refuse, but he had never experienced gases like that which existed in this sewer, or that were at all dangerous to life. The COBONEIL—What lamp did you take with you on these occasions ? Witness—A Davey lamp. The CORONER — Why did you take that description of lamp? Witness—To present explosion. The common gas some times eseapes into the sewers, and if we had not the lamp it would explode. The CORONER—WiII not the other gases produced by the sewerage deposit ignite too? Witness—No, it will not. The CORONER—Ought not some precaution to be taken to destroy these gases before sewers are entered? Witness—Precautions are taken for that purpose, but my experience leads me to believe that there is not a sewer in London which, without some extraordinary circumstances, as in this case, to produce it, that contains gas detrimental to health, or dangerous to life. The witness then read the report, which was submitted yesterday to the Court of Sewers. It stated that the sewer con tained a quantity of sand in earth, matter covered with a dark green fluid emitting the same odour that was found to prevail in the lime refuse with which the sewer was covered. By the jury—The Warwick-street sewer was reported to be in a very bad state in 1848, and it was possible that some of the gases and deposit in it might have escaped in the Kenilworth sewer. In his opinion, the sewerage fluids of large towns ought to be conveyed away in pipes. It, however, could only be done under a general system, but that system could easily be carried out. It wobld altogether de stroy the bad gases which were so injurious to health in large towns. The sewerage, immediately that it was produced in a house, ought to be at once carried off through the medium of pipes, as he had already described. He had entertained that notion about five years, and he had frequently recommended in public the adoption of invulnerable drains and pipes in large towns for the purpose of carrying off the sewage matter produced in every dwelling-house. The witness was examined by Mr. Hopgood, a solicitor, en behalf of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and admitted that this sewer was well and efficiently constructed. He believed the fall of the sewer was into Warwick-street sewer, but he had some recollection that it was originally intended to make the fall towards the Thames. The fall was about 1 in 3,600, almost a dead level. He found none of the gas refuse in the sewer, but he felt quite cer tain that rain water had perforated the sewer. That belief was not absolutely induced by the similarity between the smell of the water and that of the gas lime. He was quite certain that none of the refuse could be found in the sewer, but the accumulated matter in the sewer had been a good deal trampled upon. The lime refuse was found lying over the spot where the men fell and died. The sewer had been formed about two years, but during that time the Commissioners had done nothing to cleanse it. By the jury—The flushing system had not been applied to this locality. By Mr. T. Cubitt—Thete sewers, if properly constructed, ought to carry off the refuse, and he believed they were so in every respect. Mr. T. Cubitt—And yet it appears 'that there is a foot of refuse in the sewer, which is a very considerable accumulation indeed. Now these sewers are under the superintendence of the Metropolitan Commissioners, and they ought to clean them out. Formerly if an accumulation took place notice was given to the Commission and they had it carted away, but now the Commission resort to flushing, and the consequence is the refuse of one district is carried to another. Now, if this sewer was properly constructed, ought it not to have been perfectly dry at the bottom ? W itness— I think so, but then the sewer is almost on a dead level. —.— Mr. T. Cuisitt—The fact is the commissioners have neglected to have the sewer cleansed, Andrew lire, of 24, Bloomsbury-square, k doctor of medicine, but now chiefly employed as an analy tical chemist, was next called in and examined. He stated that a bottle of the water found in the sewer had been handed to him by the last witness, which he now produced, as also a piece of the gas lime which had been found over the sewer, and another piece which he had picked up out of the shelving of the sewer found in the trench which had been opened in Kenilworth.street. The earthy matter which he produced was a refuse of litne of gasworks impregnated with sulphuretteci hydrogen, certain prussic acid compounds, and little ammonia of hydro-sulphate, which were all exceedingly noxious to life, and were liable to be liberated by the action of the carbonic acid of the atmosphere to be washed out by the rains, and to percolate down through the crevices and joints of the arched roof of the sewer. The water in the rewer contained the same poisons, and it was these which had produced the death of the victims. The inquiry was ultimately adjourned again. ITALY. M. Mercier left 'Rome for Naples on the Bth. The Italia del Popo lo contains a leading article by Mazzini on the subject of the trial now going on at Versailles, from which we glean the following passages : " This trial will be regarded as an Italian fact, ser viceable to our cause through the instrumentality of those who, by injustice, hatred, and criminal resistance, threw obstacles in the way of the infallible arrival of a period when the sister nations will go hand in hand. These men are our brethren, their hearts throbbed with enthusiasm when Italy returned to life at Rome, as ours throbbed with joy when France awoke in 1848. And now they are accused for the same cause for which we are proscribed. We do not know whether in France judges will be found to condemn men who had attempted to save the victim when the sacrifice was over. But we know that to justify themselves before impartial France and Europe, they need only lay one hand on the Consti tution and the other on the Papal mote proprio of the 12th of September. The question is decided—' France shall never employ her forces against the liberty of any nation.' Rome lived under a republican govern ment, issued from an assembly elected by universal suffrage. The republic has been overthrown by French arms, in order to substitute—what? A government issued from the will of the people, once more consulted? No; a mote proprio of the fallen Pope. And does his mute proprio at least establish some guaran tees, a legal system of any description ? No ; the part it allows to some persons chosen or approved by the Pope is merely consultative. The Pope may effect his will; the Roman people can do nothing. Has the French Government violated Art. 5 of the Constitu• tion ? Let the sentence of the judges be what it may, a Euro pe will answer — Yes ! the Article has been ui vtolated. We repeat it; the 12th of September has decided the question. And whatever be the sentence of the judges, let the accused console themselves; sooner or later they will leave their prison greeted with the grate. ful applause of France." The Piedmontese Gazette of the 13th, the only Turin paper it seems that appeared on that day, in consequence of the funeral ceremony of the 12th, has the following on the subject :—" Yesterday was for t p h e a t n i t g y f o ir f r no mpr 'Turin, etshs impression a d day, ain the y a wh new ich heart of destiny, leaveeayse every a per manentwoenree: will commence in our fatherland. The august remains of him, who was more a father than a king, whom we saw eight months ago abandon his palace to fight for the sacred eause of the nation, were brought into the capital in the midst of an innumerable multitude. The ashes of that great Prince will be the palladium of those liber ties which he so generously conferred upon his people." The same journal then, after noticing that the enthusiasm of the people was by no means diminished by the rain that began at noon and did not end till halt- past two, and that every window in the streets through which the procession passed had been carefully adorned with black hangings, promises to give a detailed account of the mournful pageantry in a future number. It mentions, how ever, the inscriptions which adorn a magnificent pavilion and triumphal arch erected before the gates of the city. These inscriptions were to the following purport : " Alas 1 how didst thou leave us, Albert, to increase the sorrow of our days of grief, and how dost thou re turn! Thou art the sigh, the symbol, and the banner of Italy, and on thy sacred ashes is written our hope!" " The star of Italy cannot set. The mind sees, the heart feels, and the world honours it. Let there be praise and not tears for Charles Albert!" "Italy has awarded thee, the vanquished in a most noble cause, the palm of victory. What can force effect against noble feelings! King Narles Albert, thine is the moral triumph!" TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. Six o'CLocx. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 to 1 agst Rathmines 10 to 1 agst Ribaldry 10 to 1 agst Raby 12 to 1 agst Woolwich 16 to 1 agat Collingwood 17 to 1 agat Rienzi, 15 to 1 agst Vanguard—taken 50 to 1 agst Jock-o'-Sot 30,t0 1 agst Minimum 15 to 1 agat Glauca 25 to 1 agat Over-fork-over 50 to 1 agst Legerdemain CRITERION STARES. 2 to 1 agst the Nigger DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel—taken 18 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 25 to 1 agst Sweetheark 40 to 1 apt Penang—taken MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. (From Punch.) Tnuasi)A.T, OCT. 11, 1849.—T0 the Docks to meet Mr. Soker, and go over the Wine Vaults with a Tasting Order, and taste the Wine there before it had undergone any Roguery for the Market. Found there Soker, and Mr. Wagstaffe, and Swilby, and Swype, and 5 or 6 more, and with them Mr. Good fellowe, who had gotten Soker the Order. First to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine, close as Pebbles on a Beach, and one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, and I wondering how it could have been hoisted ashore, Mr. Wagstaffe did say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then, through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandise, to St. Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a Ist Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to see our Way, and we looked like Goblins with Torches in a Pantomime. The Vault almost quite dark, only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking Half-a-Mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of Wine ! The Roof supported by Rows of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of a Cathedral, but 30 times as big, and more than 20 sweeter; the Air smelling Of Wine very strong, which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to see the Mildew hanging in all sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many do mistake for Cobwebs,l but some call Fungus, and Dr. Lim beck, the Chymist, do tell me is mostly Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the Wine we were to taste, and pretty to see him tap the barrel by boring a Hole in it with a Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good Ale glass each of excellent Sherry, all except Mr. Goodfellowe ; and I did wonder to see him taste the Wine and call it, rare good Stuff, and yet spit it out, but found by and by that he was wise. Next, to the London Dock; and Mr. Goodfellowe did give us Biscuit, and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and glad I did. Here, more curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the roof : and one a festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork shop at the corner of Bow-street. A good story from the Cooper, of a Visiter that would needs take a Specimen of the Mildew away, and put it in his Hat, and with the Moisture of his Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and served him right, that—like more than enough Sight-seers—could not keep his Hands from Picking. To several Vaults, and tasted Wine in each; all very vast, but the East Vault the biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more Acres than I doubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. After tasting so much, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin to dance and sing, and flourish their Lamps like Playhouse Devils ; and methought I did see the Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies could not be admitted after one o'clock. Coming into the open Air, our Company could scarcely stand; and Mr. Goodfellowe did see them into two Cabs, and I home on foot—l fear not very straight—and my Wife wondering at the Redness of my Nose. Good Lack, to see the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and to think what a great and mighty Na tion we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we do swill and guzzle! DEATH or MR. THEOBILD.—This gentleman died on Monday last at his residence in Bedford-lane, Stock well, after an illness of about ten days. There are few connected with the English turf to whom the person and character of Mr. Theobald are unknown. His love of English sports, and particularly horseracing, his desire to improve the breed of the English racehorse, and his remarkable appearance, have always distinguished him among modern English sportsmen. Though not so active in the betting-ring of late, Mr. Theobali has always evinced the greatest anxiety to improve the breed of racehorses, and, with that object, he has been the owner of several of the best sires in Europe. Camel was his property for many years, and the progeny of that horse are considered the purest blood in England. He was also the owner of Baron, Muley Moloch, and several other horses distinguished for their performances. In his establishment, as well as by his personal appearance, Mr. Theobald kept up good old English habits, and he was, without exception, as kind a master as ever existed. On each Christmas day it was his invariable custom to let his servants invite as many friends as they thought proper, whom he would entertain with the best fare that his tradesmen and his wine and ale cellars could supply. llis loss will be keenly felt by the p ;or of the neigh bourhood, to whom he was always kind and bountiful. The deceased had attained his 85th year, and has left a large family of children and grandchildren to inherit his immense wealth, amounting, it is said, to upwards of 500,0001. sterling. PaITeSIAN IRVINGITES —The sect of the Irvingitea his acquired such a rapid increase of numbers of late in Berlin that the attention of the church authorities is beginning now to be directed to the subject. The number of the memliers is given at one hundred, and the aug mentation to the previous insignificant amount has been migned to a visit from the two so-caled apostles, Bar clay and Carlyle, both Scotchmen. A Ur. Smith, from England, has had the dignity of prophet conferred upon him, and an "angel" has been elected from the three Presbyters. To encourage talent is to create it.—Eliza Cook's Journal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 17. (More Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) IN TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF BOWERS AND BOWERS.- DECISIONS UNDER TIIE NEW BILL. The bankrupts, John Bowers, Joseph Bowers, and Sarah Anne Bowers, were provision merchants at Worcester. This was the last examination meeting. A separate fiat was issued against John Bowers, which was opened in the district court at Birmingham. The reason why the joint fiat was sent to London is, that the Lord Chancellor so directed it upon its being re presented that the majority of the trade creditors reside in London. Mr. Lawrance appeared for the country creditors, Mr. Linklater appeared for the bankrupts. The debts and liabilities are said to amount to up wards of 3,000/., whilst the assets are comparatively trifling. The bankrupt John Bowers was examined at con siderable length, and from his statement it appeared that the firm was for many months previously to the issue of the fiat in embarrassed circumstances, and that several of their bills were dishonoured, that the whole of the stock-in-trade was swept away under an execution by a relative, that the inventory was in course of preparation before the execution was levied, and that the fiat was issued by the solicitor of the bankrupts. It further appeared that a separate fiat had been issued against John Bowers, who is there described as having carried on the business of wine-merchant. Upon this fact a point was raised, viz., whether the new Act conferred power upon the Senior Com missioner to direct the removal of that fiat from Birmingham to London, so that it may be here worked out. It was stated by a Birmingham solicitor that a petition had been presented to the Vice-Chancellor, praying his Honour to order removal of the joint fiat from London to-Birmingham, so that it might be there proceeded upon in conjunction with the separate fiat. Mr. LINILLXTER and Mr. LAWRILNCE were both of opinion that the Senior Commissioner (Evans) pos sessed power under the new Bill to direct the removal of the fiats as he thought proper. The COMXISSIONER was of the same opinion, and so decided. It was also decide I thst the Senior Commissioner had power to impound the proceedings under a sepa rate fiat. Mr. LAWRANCII remarked that the words in the former statute, " that this Act be construed beneficially to creditors," were omitted in the present one. Nothing could be more slovenly or bungling than the construction of many of the provisions. The Comaussiossa said that it was scarcely to be wondered at that the Act was in many places found obscure and impracticable, for after it went into the Commons, where it was so materially altered, not one of those whose duty it was to administer the law of bankruptcy was consulted respecting it. Another point was raised concerning the ability of the Court to receive affidavits of the debt without the personal attendance of the creditor. The words in the old statute, providing that creditors might prove in remote places by making affidavits before competent persons and transmitting such affidavits to London, were omitted in the new one. The COMMIS3IONER decided that the power still remained, although not so distinctly expressed. The words of the 164th section were that every creditor of the bankrupt may prove his debt by his own oath. Another most important question raised was whe ther the penal enactments referring to divers offences specified under section 256 had a prospective or re trospective operation. The COMMISSIONER was of opinion that the most equitable construction would be to give them only a prospective operation. In this view Mr. LOWRANCE and Mr. LINICLATER concurred. The meeting was adjourned, the balance-sheet not yet being filed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. John Wads, of 66, Old Bailey, was charged before Sir Chapman Marshall with obtaining goods, to the amount of between 151. and 161., under false pre tences. It being intimated that there were other cases against him Sir C. 14ausuau. remanded him for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A wel.dressed man, who gave the name of William Jameson, druggist, but who refused his address, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having uttered a forged cheque at the Union Bank of Lon don, Argyll-place, Regent-street. Ar. Reynolds, one of the cashiers, said the prisoner came to the counter about two o'clock in the after noon, and presented a cheque for 451. 45., which pur ported to have been drawn by Mr. W. H. Accret, a customer. As soon as witness looked at the cheque he was satisfied it was a forgery, and, without saying anything to the prisoner, he went into the private office, and acquainted Mr. Clack, the manager, with his suspicions. The prisoner was sent for into the private room, and questioned, and ultimately given into the charge of a police-constable. The prisoner told witness that he had obtained the cheque from Dakin's, of St. Paul's-churchyard. Police-constable Godfrey, C 147, said he went to the banking-house and received charge of the pri soner. The prisoner in his presence said he had not stated the truth when he said he had brought the cheque from Dukin's. He had received the cheque from a person in Golden-square, whose name he did not know, and whom he could not find, as he had only met the person once or twice before. -The prisoner added that he believed the cheque was a forgery when he presented it. Mr. BINGHAM asked the prisoner if he wished to make any further statement ?—The prisoner merely replied that he acknowledged he was guilty of utter ing the cheque. Mr. Reynolds, in reply to a question, said he had no doubt whatever of the cheque being a forgery. Mr. Accret was at present in Hampshire, and there had not been sufficient time to communicate with him. _ _ The prisoner was remanded till Monday next. Catherine Keim was charged by the authorities of St. James's with having committed wilful perjury. The defendant had sworn that she was the aunt of three children, who we re , thereupon removed from the parish of St. Martin s-in-the-fi e ld s t o St. J a mes' s . The removal took place in August, 1848, and the children had been chargeable to St. James's work house from that time. It had recently been ascer tained that the prisoner was the mother, and not the aunt of the children. The deposition of the prisoner, in the name of the e t p tm re a ef Guttman, of as the the perjury completed. aunt of the c hild ren, was put i n, an d The defence poor object in taking a false oath was to procure support for them. The prisoner was a th t e he woman children, wa and s that her only that she was too fully c omm itt e d t o ta k e h er tr i a l, to in of the a coat with her to take care of. He called for it two (Flys af , erwards. Hanbury brought a basket with him, with a carpenter's saw in it. The prisoner Barton was dressed in a light blouse. They some times brought a bag. Richard Leland, of 8, Bridgwater-street, Somers town, optician, said he knew blth prisoners, but Barton more intimately than Hanbury. Had seen them at a public-house kept by Mr. Jackson, of Somers-town. Witness recollected that the day after the report of the robberies on the Great Western Railway Company he saw the prisoner Barton at Mr. Jackson's, and heard him say repeatedly they had got the parcels safe enough, and that Mr. Collard, the superintendent, had offered him money for the restora tion of the parcels, which he refused, as it was not enough for him. He also said that Mr. Dawson had offered him money for them, but he refused him, say ing there was 30s. due on the last account between him and Dawson. He said he had told Messrs. Chaplin and Home if they hurt his boy he would hurt them. These expressions, witness said, were uttered at various times. At this period of the examination one of Barton's sons, about fourteen or fifteen years of age, entered the court with a basket containing some refreshments for his father, when the boy took his position behind the dock. Barton, who is a tall, powerful-looking man, stooped over the bar, and spoke to the boy, when Sergeant Smith listened to their discourse. Barton, evidently amazed, and with violence, said, " Ycur Worship, I was speaking to my boy and in quiring after my wife, when that dog p )ked his nose in and interfered with us." lie looked revengefully at Smith, and commenced munching a large piece of bread and butter. The witness continued —Two young men were with the prisoners in the parlour at the time. Hanbury was reading the news • paper, and Barton was sitting between the two young men, and some of their conversation was in whispers. Barton said he had been at a certain place at six o'clock in the morning, before the public houses were open, but it was too early for the job to be done that morning, and it must be put off. He said while he was talking up came the van with the parcels. Their conversation was generally about parcels. Mr. Humphries said that these conversations re • ferred to their watching the van's arrival at Brown low-street, Holborn, where Messrs. Chaplin and Horne's porter left with the parcels to deliver at various places. Mr. Joseph Collard, superintendent to the Great Western Railway Company, having been sworn, Mr. Humphries inquired of him whether he had seen or had any intercourse with the prisoner Barton its reference to the present charge until he was taken into custody ? Mr. Collard—l never had any com munication with the prisoner until I took him into custody on the present charge. Mr. Humphries—Did you ever offer the prisoner any money for the recovery of the stolen parcels ? Mr. Collard—l had no oppportunity of offering him any money, and of course I did not. Mr. Humphries—l believe you were present when the prisoner Hanbury's room was searched ? Witness replied in the affirmative. On the 10th of October he went, in company of Sergeant Smith, to Hanbury's lodgings, in Hart-street, Covent-garden, where he saw Smith take the letter stamp (now pro duced) from a writing-desk in the room. At the station •house a receipt (produced) was taken from the prisoner's person ; a seal was also found. On Tuesday witness and Smith examined a large quan tity of papers which they found in the desk before mentioned, when witness discovered the piece of sealing wax was joined, and which he now produced ; also a bill of exchange, purporting to have been drawn by Edward Barton on W. B. Popham, of Lincoln's Inn-fields. Witness heard the prisoner called Edward Barton, and believed that to be his real Christian name. Witness also feu* new spectacle case in the desk. containing the half of a Si. Bank of England note, No. 83,582, and dated April 18, 1842. Hanbury's lodging and the nine parcels were in a most filthy condition. Samuel Walker, lodge keeper at Lincoln's Inn.gate, knew the prisoner Barton. On the morning of the 27th of September, between eight and nine o'clock, he saw the prisoner walking backwards and forwards near the old gate in Chancery-lane. He seemed hur ried, and had on a white blouse. It was about 400 yards from the Hand-in- Hand public• house. He saw him on two other mornings in the same week in Chancery-lane, with the brown coat he now wore and a white blouse underneath it ; he was going towards Carey-street. Prisoner—Then you could see through my great coat. You must have good eyesight.—(A. laugh.) The prisoner saw witness watching him, when he put his thumb to his nose, as much as to say " Take a sight." Richard Leland recalled—The prisoner Barton, when at the house of Mr. Jackson, pulled out several 61. notes and two sovereigns and a half, and said he had put the " drawers" on one of the parcels. On being asked what he meant by the drawors," h. replied, " drawing on account." Mr. Humphries said that this completed the case, and there was sufficient to commit the prisoners for trial as accessories before the fact, as having received the property knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Pelham said he would reserve the prisoners' defence for their trial. . Vv Mr. TYRWHITY then fully committed both prisoners to Newgate for trial, and the whole of the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. Mr. Humphries said, with respect to the parcels which hal been restored to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, he would suggest that their contents should be allowed to be delivered over to the consignees, and the wrappers to be produced for the purpose of iden tity at the trial, as the property might be of import ance to the parties concerned with them. Mr. TYRWHITT acceded to this. Barton, who treated the matter with indifference and bravado, requested an interview with his wife and son, which was granted, but in the presence of the officers. _ . The prisoners were conveyed to Newgate in the police van in the course of the day. Immediately after the committal of the prisoners, Mr. Brenchley, the managing clerk to Messrs. Chap • lin and Horne at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, and. Mr. Collard, police•officer of that establishment, went off in a cab for the purpose of delivering the parcels to the respective consignees, and to ascertain that the contents were correct. statement at Worship-street, when be charged the young woman with robbing him. He then ittld that he put the two good soveregns into his shoes, and left the two counterfeit coins in his pocket. Finding that the girl had taken them from his pocket he gave her in charge. This story caused some laughter at Worship-street owing to the manner in which he de scribed the concealment of the money, and when the girl was remanded the prisoner said he was going to sea on the following day, and the counterfeit coins were ordered to be delivered up to him. This state ment of the sergeant entirely set aside the prisoner's defence, and the cunning negro was fully committed for trial. FRANCE. M. Buchez, ex-President of the National Assembly, has addressed a letter to the journals in defence of his conduct on the 15th May. After entering into some details of what had occurred during the early 'Art of that day at the Chamber, and protesting that he had taken every caution in his power to protect the Assembly, he proceeds as follows : " Persons who have seen and studied popular emo tions have remarked that assemblages never disperse until the solution they call for has been obtained. In the circumstances in question the solution could only be an act of violence towards the representatives. That is what I saw on the point of happening every moment. It was evident that the ringleaders of the affair were no longer masters of those under them. Huber admitted that fact at Versailles. Raspail used all his influence, but in vain, to induce the people whom he had led there to withdraw. Every one feared a terrible dinotenaext.' , It was at this moment that I saw Huber near me, and addressed to him those words which have been so wrongly interpreted—' Make the people retire, or have me turned out.' Cer tainly I never thought, I never wished that it should have been done by any public declaration, or by such words as Huber made use of half an hour after wards—the idea of such an enormity was the farthest from my mind—but I called down on myself, as I said at Versailles, some act of violence which shonld drive me from the bureau, and which would have been the solution which the people appeared to wait for. Every one who saw me can attest that I was at the time perfectly cool and collected. I had calculated the danger which I incurred, and it was perhaps less serious than it appeared. I had also another idea: I said to myself, that if I went through the storm as I had done up to that time, I should derive great honour from it; but that if through any fault of mine any misfortune should happen to any one of my col leagues, I should be most culpable in my own eyes. store interested for the glory of the Republic than fur my own, I wished above all things to avoid a sanguinary collision. That was my first duty, which I considered it bettor to fulfil 'at the risk of incurring blame. I saw but one means of gaining time, and that was to write those orders not to beat the repel, for which I have been so much reproached. I only wrote five, three of which were placed in hands which de• stroyed them. They were, besides, written in such a manner, on little scraps of paper, without address or date, that no one would have considered them as li.4ving the character of a real order, and as I have before explained from the tribune, would rather have d to the arrest of any one who should have the auda city io make use of them. Besides, of what use could they have been t Twelve picquets, of 1,000 men each, had been assembled at ten o'clock in the morn ing, and the order to heat the general rappel in Paris had been given by the Minister of the Interior at one o'clock. It was then four:o'clock, and I was aware that all the legions were under arms. It has been said that I trembled when I wrote the orders alluded to. Let any one, ,however, look at the writing if the two which are preserved, and they will see from the firmness of it whether I was alarmed. I signed them with more cool ness than I write the present letter. It is well known how I was expelled after a declaration which was a constitutional absurdity. what did I then do I told M. Degoussile, the questor, to assembl e the Deputies at the Presidency ; to retake the Chamber, if possible, and, if not, to send the deputies to the Luxembourg, where I shonld convoke the As sembly. I myself went to the Luxembourg to centralize the forces on that paint, in order to act against an &acute which I considered to be more forreitlal and more compact. When I arrived at the Luxembou r g , I signed the convocation of the Assembly at that place. That measure was, however, useless; the rioters had ev scuated the National Assembly, and the members were able a g ain to assemble Caere." PRUSSIA. Tile news of the execution of Count Louis Blithy any, by order of liaynau, ha I provoked an universal feeling of grief and indignation in Berlin ; for the Hungarian documents recently published at Frank fort indicate an agreement with the Archduke Pala tine, whereby Batthyany's offence—" the transgres sion of the administrative arrangements of Hungary, as laid down by the laws of March, and the tampering with the union secured by the Pragmatic Sanction" —was at least excused ; the Palatine, at all events, being exhibited in the light of a particeps criminia, or, if not, a party equally guilty. CLERkENWELL. Yesterday William, alias Edward Barton, and Henry Hanbury were placed at the bar before Mr. final examination, charged w ith having with others, i n numerous ro bb er i e s Tbeyernwhitt concerned, for greatest interest was manifested, and the court was on the Great Western Railway crowded to excess. Company, when the Mr. Humphries attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Pelham for the prisoners. Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, and numerous gentle men connected with the company, were also in atten dance to listen to the proceedings. Mr Humphries, addressing the Bench, said he felt it to be his duty prior to the transcript of the evi dence which had already been taken being read over, to state that the originaliparcels which had been stolen were left, in a mysterious way, at the George and Bull Inn, Holborn, and they were now in the posses sion of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne. He felt it also to be a duty towards the public, but more especially to that Court, to'state this at the outset of the pro ceedings. Mr. Mallett, the chief clerk, then read over the whcle of the evidence taken at the former exami nation. Mr. Humphries now called Sergeant Smith, No. 50, E division, who on being questioned, said that the witness Thomas Saunders gave him a description of the nine parcels before produced, not only by word of mouth but in writing; they were in a very dirty state when he searched the lodging of Hanbury in Hart street, Covent-garden. He found it in a dreadful state of filth and covered with vermin. Thomas Saunders now added to his former testi mony, in reference to the date when he assisted the prisoners to make up the parcels, that it was on the same day that Mrs. Manning's apprehension for the murder of Mr. O'Connor was; co mmunicated by th e electric telegraph. Witness had seen the piece of joined sealing-wax (now produced) at the prisoner llanbury's lodgings; it was then in two pieces, and Hanbury joined them together. This was on the afternoon of the day on which they made up the parcels. Witness believed that the parcels were sealed with bottle wax, but the sealing-wax jointed might have been used for the purpose. He identified a piece of bottle-wax now produced by Smith the officer. William Davey, porter in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, proved having delivered parcels on the 27th of September, when he saw George Barton lurking about and evidently watching him. Priscilla Nash, of 11, New - street , Brompton, widow, knew Mr. and Mrs. Howell, of the Hand-in- Hand public-house, Holborn, who employed her to take care of their house while they were in the country. She was there seven weeks, until their return home to London. She had seen both the prisoners in the house, and also Saunders, the witness, with them. She had seen Barton's son there, and be left a cape of THAMES. THE EXTENSIVE PLUNDER BY A CONFIDENTIAL MANAGER AT MILL -WALL, POPLAR.—Joseph Hadley Riddell and W. 31. Eclipse Riddell, the former con fidential manager and the latter a subordinate clerk at the extensive chemical works of Messrs. Pontifex, at Mill-wall, Poplar, were finally examined, charged with pludering their employers to an immense extent. Many of the facts have already been frequently before the public. The prisoner Joseph had the sole and uncontrolled management of the concern at Mill-wall, with a salary of 500/. a year ; but the business not answer ing the expectations, his salary was reduced to one half. From that time, if not previously, an extensive system of plunder was commenced. Valuable por tions of Messrs. Pontifex's property were removed to premises in the holding of the prisoners, but osten sibly in the possession of a person named Godwin, at Lee Bridge. Messrs. Pontifex's men, whilst sup• posed to be employed for that firm, were at work for fifteen weeks embellishing and improving the hand some residence of the prisoners at Berner-street, Greenwich, fitting up greenhouses, 'garden frames, &c., made out of their employers' materials. The most glaring fraud in the whole transaction was an occurrence which took place in July last. It being understood that Mr. Jones, a clerk at Messrs. Ponti fex's City offices, Shoe-lane, was about to take stock at Mill-wall, previously to his arrival 36 casks were filled with an almost useless refuse called sulphate of lime, and were represented to Mr. Jones as tartrate of lime, thus fraudulently increasing the apparent stock to the amount of 9001. The increase was at first stated at I,SOO/. 'When Mr. Pontifex questioned Joseph Rid dell on this subject, he admitted that it was a gross deception, but at the same time said it was the first he had ever practised on the firm, though the other frauds were as patent as day. Both prisoners were fully committed. Leiois Philips, a negro, who told a very cunning story so simply that it was at first almost believed, was charged with defrauding Jane Ryan, a coff,e house.lteeper, Ratcliffe-highway, in the following artful manner : _ _ He called at the house of the prosecutrix on Mon day night, and representing himself as a ship's cook, asked for a bed. He said he had no money, but he would leave one of his jackets. This being agreed to, he told the landlady that the night before he picked up with a girl, who stole 21. from him—that he gave her in charge, and was to call next day at the station house for his money. He had his supper and a bed, and after breakfast next (lay went, as he said, to the station-house stating on his return that he had got the 21. In the evening he asked the prosecutrix to lend him 103. to take the servant girl to the theatre; but she told him he must first hand her his purse, which he did, and she then gave him 103 , and 23. 6d. for a cab. She opened the purse when he left, and found, that instead of two sovereigns, it contained two medals, one bearing the effigies of our Sovereign Lady the Queen. On his return from the theatre, she gave him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence said, that the girl who took his purse, when charged with the robbery, threw it in his face, and it remained safe with the constable when she was taken into custody ; that he got it back again with the in-)ney safe at the station house, and that the prosecutrix must have substituted the medals. Ilere Sergeant Sugg, 17 H, came forward, and said that the prisoner bad made quite a different NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—It was stated that when her Majesty's steamer Inflexible (then on her voyage home from China) arrived, no doubt was entertained but that her log would show as large an amount of valuable service done as could be performed by any steamer in the British or any other navy. The Inflexible having since arrived home and been paid off, we have made it our business to inquire how far we are correct in our anticipations of what a British man of-war steamer can do, and this one, by the way, one of the most constantly impugned craft on the list ; we now present the result of our inquiries as proof of the good foundation of the antici pations encouraged respecting her performances : The Inflexible is one of the vessels of the latter day design of Captain Sir William Symonds, was launched at Pembroke in 1846, is of 1,122 tons, 375- horse power, direct action engines by Fawcett, with an 81b. load upon the valve. The distance run by her, not including going in or out of harbour, from the 9th of August, 1846, to the 28th September, 1849, when she was paid off, was as follows : Steamed ... 64,477 nautical miles. Sailed ... ... 4,392 „ Total distance ••• 68,869 „ If Number of days under steam ... 3454 Ditto under sail ••• 27f 3721 Knots. Average daily steaming ... ... 18662 Average daily sailing ... 161.18 For the whole period ... ... 57.44 Hours. Time under one boiler 761 Ditto two boilers . . 4.047 Ditto three boilers Ditto four boilers Total ... ... ... ... 8.292 Knots. Rate of steaming per hour ... 7.775 Rate of sailing per hour _ ... 6.715 Her fires have been alight 483 days 9/ hours. Total consumption of coals while under steam, 8,121 tons, 121 cwt. Coals for raising steam and banking fires, 576 tons 161 cwt. Average distance steamed per ton of coals, 7.938 knots. Consumption of coals per hour, 19.588 cwt.; ditto per day, 23 tons 10 cwt. 12i lb. The abovementioned distances are obtained by the patent log towed about 50 fathoms astern, out of the influence of the back-water caused by the revolu tions of the paddle-wheels, and not from the common or hand log, or from the distance accomplished in a run from Ato B, or port to port, when making a voyage, for the error caused by throwing the common or hand log into the " back• water" created by the revolutions of the wheels, has been proved by the Inflexible to vary from one to even four knots an hour, the common log and revolutions giving 11 knots, while the patent log and bearings of the land gave only seven knots. The expenditure of coal has been obtained by the positive measurement of every tenth bag into the ship, and every tenth as used by the fires, and a mean taken every four hours as the hourly expenditure. The distance stated to have been accomplished by the Inflexible has been deduced on the main from the time the patent log has been put overboard, when the final departure from the land has been taken; therefore she must have run many hundreds of miles more than is recorded in these returns. This abstract, being from the voyages during the entire commission, includes the performances on the stormy coast of New Zealand, where she was con stantly employed running for fifteen months, burning the Newcastle Australian coal, the best quality of which is about 10 per cent. inferior (even when delivered at the mines) to good English coal; but from having been exposed on the open beach of New Zealand it was rendered fully 25 per cent. inferior to the average Welch coal. About 4,000 tons in the estimate stated above are of that inferior quality, and must, therefore, be kept in view, when the economy of the expenditure is considered. Another important feature in the mode of ascertaining the true expendi ture of this ship must be here explained—the hourly and daily expenditure always contains a certain amount allowed for wastage, so that the true quantity remaining in the ship is known after the daily expen diture is ascertained. The quantity to be allowed for wastage was obtained in the following manner :—On the outward voyage of the Inflexible to the Cape - of Good Hope, in August and September, 1846, when a run of 5,502 miles was accomplished on a single coaling, at a mean average velocity of 7.31 knots per hour, and at an expenditure of 12 tons 19 cwt. 3 quarters 141 b., 81b. in every 2521 b. were allowed for wastage, equal to 3.174 per cent.; but a deficiency of seven tons of coals in the whole quantity received in England was found to be the result of this allowance, proving the actual wastage to be equal to 4.955 per cent., with coals of an average quality. On the voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Port Jackson, Sydney, when again 5,356 nautical miles were accomplished on one coaling, at an expen diture of 458 tons 10 cwt., or at the rate of 15 tons cwt. 2 quarters per day, and at a mean average velocity of 7.87 knots per hour, 201 b. in every 2521 b. were allowed—equal to 8 per cent. ; but on a survey of the remainder at the end of the voyage 12 tons were found remaining as surplus,; this would be equal to 2.69 per cent. allowed more than was required by wastage and decrease of density, thus proving the actual wastage during the voyage as equal to 6.31 per cent. 5 per cent. was afterwards estimated and fixed upon as correct, and must therefore be subtracted from the gross quantity if the true duty, in miles per ton of coals, is sought by any parties who may investigate the above data. A remarkable instance of the exercise of the full power of the engines occurred when the Inflexible towed the barque Claudine, and succeeded in transporting 1,500 soldiers, tent equipage, and bag gage 1,400 nautical miles in twelve days, four of which were employed in the landing of one regiment and the embarkation of another. It was highly im portant that the run from Madras to the Arracan coast should be performed in the least possible time, as the N.E. monsoon, which would have been dead a-head, was hourly expected, therefore the four boilers were put into requisition; the Inflexible care fully kept at a favourable line of immersion to develope speed, for when a vessel is to be towed for a moderate distance care must be ever taken not to have the towing vessel too deep. This forms a mere abstract from more voluminous data of a minute nature, extending over a period of more than three years, compiled with the single object of eliciting the truth.—Times. MANNING THE NAVY.—We stated on Tuesday, that the Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Risk, was ordered to Liverpool to recruit men for the navy. She was to leave Devonport yesterday morn ing, Mr. flay having completed the application of his useful composition to her iron bottom. The Dasher, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Parks, instead of being paid off at Sheerness, has been sent to Hull, to raise men for the ship's fitting. The Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C. 8., has not re ceived orders to proceed to the Mediterranean. She is merely ordered to fill up her complement from 500 to 750—a wise precaution, and better late than never. The Superb, $O, Captain Purcell, called off Devon• port yesterday (Wednesday) morning. The fifty men belonging to the Hogue, and officers waiting to join, went out to her, and she proceeded down the Channel to relieve the wind-bound, on her way to Queenstown. The Hogue, 60, screw two-decker, Captain Mac dougal, has not been ordered from Queenstown to the Mediterranean. As we stated yesterday, she is or dered to the chops of the Channel, to relieve the homeward bound, detained by the prevalence of the easterly winds; she then returns to Cork. The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, fitting at Devonport, it is reported, will proceed to Naples as soon as she is ready, and pick up her commander at that place ; after which she will join Sir W. Parker's squadron, relieving the Rosamond. _ The Octavia, 50, in charge of Mr. Henderson, master attendant, and party, from Devonport dock yard, sailed from Pembroke on Friday. When off the Lisord she met with the strong east wind which has been prevailing for some days, and carried away her foreyard. She put back to Mou nts Bay, ready to start when the weather will permit. The Seagull, 6, packet brig, Lieut. Commander Swale, was to be taken on the graving slip at Devon port yesterday -morning. Earnestness and simplicity carry all before them.— Eliza Ccole Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Coughs, Colds, and Asthir.as easily cared by Holloway's Pills.—Let no person suffering from Asthma consider himself as past all cure, even if so bad as to be unable to lie down in bed, without trying the effect of these celebrated Pills, as a few doses will soon carry off the phlegm and oppression from the chest, and produce a healthy action of the lungs. A proper course of this famed medicine will ensur e a cure. Inveterate coughs and colds will soon yield to the like treatment. The testimony of the Rev. David Williams, Wesleyan Minister of Beaumaris, is to this effect most astoniab ing.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Estab lishment, 244, Strand, London. ... 3.324 i -~:: Ttt:e UN TRH' M_Artpre.44Tß, Yav:EnrooL, Oerk. 16.—Theme was a good atienelanvAt at to-day's market. There has been a fair sale for wheat, and !slices of all descriptions must be quoted Id to 2d per 701bs dearer than on this day week. Flour has also commanded a fair sale at rather better rates. Beans and peas have sold in retail at full prices. Oats and oatmeal have sold rather slowly, but without change its value. Bark!) , and malt sold at former rates. Indian corn held firmly, but few sales effected. LEEDS, OCT. 16.—The supply of wheat is moderate, but most of the vessels on the way detained by contrsry winds. An improvement of Is. per quarter is generally insisted on; sales at this advance checked business, but holders are firm. Barley in better demand at full prices. Oats and shelling steady. Beans quite as dear. No alteration in other articles. NEWCASTLE, OCT. 16.—At this day's market we have little or no variation to notice. A few samples of wheat from the south realised previous terms, and in one or two eases an advance of Is was obtained. Flour in small supply, maintained former rates. Barley nominal. Oats, beans, and other grains without change in value, with little business doing. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, OCT. lg.—Supply of beasts goad, but not so large as that of last week by 100 Dead. Trade exmolingly sluggish at a decline o 3d per stone, and a great quantity unsold; quality middling. The number of sheep large, although a trifle less than on this day week. Trade heavy for both kinds of stock, tied a large portion still on hand. Beef, 4s 6d to 55 6d per stone; mutton, 4d to 51d; lamb, 4id to sid per lb. Beasts, 700; sheep and lambs, 6,800. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, OCT. 16.—There were in the market to-day 68 sacks oatmeal, each w eighing 2801bs imperial, whereof 55 sold thus:-27 at 11 Bs, 9 at 11 75 6d, 2 at I/ 7s 33, 20 at 11 7s Od, and 0 at 116 s (id; average price of the whole 11 7s 6d 7-12ths. 3 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 315, and I at 295. 1 sack barleymeal, which sold at 235. 23 sacks pot-barley, whereof 19 sold thus:-2 at 11 10s Od, lat 115 s 6d, 1 at l/ 4s 6d, 2 at 11 4s Od, 2 at 11 3s 03, 4 at I/ 2s Od, and 7 at 1/ Is Od. 1 sack brosemeal, which sold at 265. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, OCT. 16. Supplies of all kinds large. Oat straw, from 8s Od to 103 Od per kemple of 16 stones Iron; wheat ditto, 7s Od to 8s Od; barley ditto, 6s Od to 8s Od. Hay, from 7d to 9d per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, OCT. 15.—There were 117 bags of oatmeal, 7 of barleymeal, and 3of pot-barley at this day's market. Sales ready. Oatmeal up on the top 6d per sack, and 9d on the second price; barleymeal same as last week; pot-barley 6d per bug up. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. ... 27s 03 25s 6d 24s 6d Barleymeal, per ditto ... 18s 6d 18s 3d —a Od Peasemeal •• • •• ••• —s 03 —s 03 —s 03 Flour —s 03 —8 Od —s Od Pot barley ... 22s Od —s Od —s 03 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were as follow : Great Western. 50—Ditto, Quarters, 13% dis.— Ditto, New 171. Shares, 9% dis.— Midland Stock, 44. Ll VE/aOOL, OCT. 17. STocK EXCHANGE.—The shire market was very dull to-day, and prices were lower than on yesterday. The sales are—Bolton, Clttheroe, and West Yorkshire (No. 1), 5 1 4 — Caledonian, Preference, 7 3 / 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, ls. 3d. dis.—London and North-Western, 105 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, % dis.— Ditto, Fifths, 3 / 4 p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln (Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 10 Midland, 43—Ditto, H a l ves , 23% dis.— South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 5 5 / R —Ditto (Registered), s%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 5% dis. MANCHESTER, OcT. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fellow:—Great Northern, 13 1 % dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 7%—Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 15-16 p.— Sheffield and Lincoln, 19 3 / 4 c. dis.— Old Sheffield, 22 —North Staffbrdshire, 9 5-16 dis —Manchester and Leeds Fifths, 7 1 / 4 dis.— West Riding Union, 71 A4 n. dis.—Dover (No. 4), 5 9-16 East Lancashire, 12 3 / 4 —Great Northern, Preference, 3 dis.—York and North Midland, 194—London and North- Western, 106—London and Birmingham, New Quarters, % c. dis. YORK, OCT. 16. STOCK EXCITANGE.—Tho transactions to-day were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 7—North Staffordshire 8 3 / 4 — Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. D., guaranteed 5 ,per cent., 14% GLASGOW, OCT. 15. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Edinburgh and Perth, Ils. 9d. Glasgow, Kil marnock, and Ayr, 48—Glasgow and Greenock, Preference, 7 1 4 —North British, Thirds, 63s.—Scottish Central, 1614 — Stirling and Dunfermline, 71s. 6d. THE LATE VIOLENT EQUINOCTIAL GALES.— On Monday last the brig Stanton, of North Shields, belong ing to Mr. G. Simpson, of that port, entered into the Humber Dock, at Hull, almost a perfect wreck. It appears that on the preceding Sunday night, about nine o'clock, she came into the Humber within the Bull Sand Floating-light at Spurn, blowing a perfect gale at the time, and consequently the master ran in for refuge. The Stanton came in contact with the brig Ruby, also belonging to North Shields, when the former brig carried away her bowsprit, and after she was brought up both her masts fell aft, splintered almost to atoms; her head, bulwarks, &c., were also stove in; the jolly-boat was rendered perfectly useless; the sails, running rigging, &c., are also in a sad condition. No lives were lost. The brig is now undergoing repairs. The schooner Albion, of Whitby, laden with stone, struck on the Trinity Sand, in the Humber, about the same time, and went down. The crew, after much difficulty, were saved, and forwarded to their respp. , ti-re homes. The Humber pilots speak of the gale as most terrific; and their fine ve eels were very useful in rendering assistance to disabled vessels. The pilot-boat No. 3 (Humber) took in tow a bitly•boy in a sinking state, and safely towed her into this port, to the great satisfaction of the master and his crew. Several other vessels ran ashore in and near the Humber, as also the following, some of which are attended by a melancholy loss of life. Near Coatham, where the John Saltcoats was lost with all hands, another vessel met with a similar fate on Sunday morning —every soul perished with her. From the di mensions of the wreck she is supposed to have been collier, and to have had a crow of ten hands. At day break on Saturday a sloop was discovered by some of the Colne fishermen wrecked on the Gunfleet, Sands, and it is greatly to be feared that all hands and some passen gers met with a watery grave. In the course of Sun day intelligence was communicated at Newcastle of the total loss of the Hero Steamer, which left Shields in the early part of the week for Stettin. On the 27th ult., when off the coast of Norway, she was struck by a tre mendous sea, which completely disabled her engines, as well as sweeping everything off her deck. Shortly afterwards she foundered. The crew were saved by the brig Symmetry.—Hull Packet. SERIOUS ACCIDIINT.—Ths guard of the Central train, which left the North Bridge station at one o'clock yesterday, was struck down by one of the wooden bridges which span the line at the West Princes-street Gardens, and severely, if not fatally, injured. The ac cident was reported at the office by a gentleman who had witnessed it, and on the officials proceeding thither they found his cap on the line, bearing evident proofs of the severity of the blow. As the Central guard is seldom required to do duty on that train after leaving Edin burgh until it reaches the junction at Greenhill—up to which a guard of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company officiates—the poor fellow was not missed till the junc tion was reached (a distance of thirty miles), when he was found lying in blood, and in an insensible state, on the top of a carriage, where it is supposed he had been adjusting the luggage when the accident occurred. His name is John Buckland, and we learn he is married and has a family. He was a very steady man, and much re• spected in the . establishment.—Edinburgh Advertiser. ST. MARY-LE-STRAND.--The election of the vestry clerk for this parish will take place early in the ensuing week. The candidates have been reduced to four by the resignation of Mr. Moseley; the contest, it is anticipated will now rest between Mr. Yong. and Mr. Isaacson. Mr. Yonge has already received the promises of most of the influential parishioners. Mr. Isaacson is also well supported. The latter gentleman, however, holds a similar appointment in an adjoining parish, which is held by many to be objectionable to his present claim, on the ground that legal questions for dispute might arise be tween the two parishes. PEDESTRIANISM.--J. DAWKINS AND JAS. ADEN,', Two MILES, FOR 101. comm.—These men, the former of Moorfields, the latter of Westminster, ran on Tues day, at Harlington Corner, beyond Hounslow. At start ing, Adkin got the advantage by two or three yards, but at 50 yards Dawkins, who is a novice, came close to him, ran with him awhile, and than going clean away, turned the first mile 15 to 20 yards in front. The race ended by Dawkins winning cleverly by 40 or 50 yards. Time, 11 in. 5 sec. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Aldenham-lodge, Hertz, the wife of the Rev. John Mason, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Campden-grove, Kensington, the wife of Benjamin Lambert, Esq., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Park-village East, Mrs. Thomas Paine, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Bayswater, Mrs. Robert Burmann, of a son. On the loth ins`., at Circus-road, St. John's-wood, Mrs. William Freeman, jun., of a son. On the 15th inst., at East-hall, Kent, the wife of G. A. Fuller, Esq., of twins. On the 15th inst., at Mylne-street, Myddelton-square, the wife ofJ.hn Fosse Harding, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. MOWED. Rivett Carnac, Esq , Bengal Civil S erv i ce, third sem of the On the 7th of August , at NoohollY, East Indies, Charles late Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart., to Flora Elizabeth , daughter of J. Baker, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Christ Church, Marylebone, Lieute• nant Charles Julius Seccombe, R.N., to Frances Jaue, only daughter of the late Joseph Senior Lattey, Esq., of KAI" kenny. On the 16th inst., at the holy Trinity Church, Paddington. George Edlin, Esq , 3d Light Dragoons, to Esther, widow of the late Albert Helyar. Esq. lED On the I?th inst., Mr. Wi ll iam . Benson, of the Lard Bil l ' Bezley-heath, Kent. On the 12th inst., at Milton, Mr. Francis Claridge, aged 3 8 .,. On the 14th inst., th e w if e o f G eorge B ea d ne ll , Esq., ("' Sydenham, Kent. On the 14th inst., Margaret, relict of John Richardsoll, Esq., of Whitby. On the lath - inst., 'William Nicholson, of Regent.squa re and Lincoln's Inn-fields, solicitor, aged 62. 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