The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE A quarterly general Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock was held yesterday at the East India House; Sir Archibald Galloway in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Court of Di rectors had received a dispatch from the Marquis of Dalhousie acknowledging the vote of thanks awarded to his Lordship at a former Court of Proprietors. Mr. MALCOLM LEWIN, pursuant to notice, then brought the following facts under the consideration of the proprietors, which would show that a great offence had been committed by the military authori ties of Madras, under the form of a judicial proceed ing—an offence which calls for the condign punish ment of its guilty authors. The facts were thus briefly stated :—Seventeen soldiers of the 6th Regi ment Madras Light Cavalry were placed on their trial, charged with mutiny, of whom two were shot, one acquitted, thirteen banished for life, and one pardoned on the following grounds (as recorded in the order of the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Commander in -Chief)—" I pardon private Mahomed Waz:er. I believe what he states in his defence, that the cause of his appearing forward in those mutinous proceedings was his having been desired by Jema dar Sheik Ibrahim to obtain information of what was going on amongst the Sepoys of the Regiment." The mutiny orginated in an order of the Government to withhold from the Sepoys their accustomed stipends, which, it was alleged, originated in a mistake. No one, however, has been called to account for a mistake so utterly indefensible. The effects of the mistake, which are appealed to in the defence of the prisoners, had been to paralyze the regiment (which was just ordered on field service), and to bring distress and destitution on the men and their families. It had reduced to desperation the Sepoys, who refused to saddle their horses—a state of things which continued for four days, when on the arrival of the division officer, General Watson, the com plaints of the men having been listened to (to all of which the commander of the regiment had turned a deaf ear), and the pay restored, the men "returned to their duty." This end being accom plished, the Commander-in-Chief, through his Deputy Adjutant-General, addressed the commander of the regiment as follows :—" The Commander-in-Chief has received the Brigadier's (Watson) letter of the 10th of December, with Major Lichfield's (the commander of the regiment) of the Bth of December, enclosed. The Commander in-Chief is happy to understand from these communications that the men of the 6th Light Cavalry have returned to their duty, and that they appear to be sensible of their late misconduct. But as his Lordship cannot allow the regiment, under the reproach of such unworthy and unsoldierlike beha . viour, to continue at a station where it might be re quired for employment on actual service, he has ordered it to be sent into cantonment at Arcot." It will be thought by some that the return of the men to duty, on the cau se of discontent being removed, would have furnished a sufficient plea for overlooking their offence, and that the Government, whose mis conduct had created it, would have been gratified to find an excuse for rescuing from disgrace and punish ment a regiment whose previous services and good conduct had acquired for it a high character and standing in the army, and whose error, at the worst, was the result of circumstan ces w hi c h were capable of trying the fi lelity of the best affected. But it was as necessary in this case as in the case of the Judges of the Sud,lr Court, to find a cause against the injured, as the only means whereby the real delinquent could be screened. It was supposed, both within and without the regiment, that the latter of the Deputy Adjutant• General had closed the affair and consigned it to oblivion. Put any other construction upon it, and it becomes illegal; the Commander-in- Chief was not justified in passing a reprimand on the regiment, if he meditated ulterior measures against it, nor is it reasonable in belief that the men would have continued, many months after wards, in a state of quiet and discipline, if they had known that measure of punish ment awaited them on reaching cantonments. Be this as it miy, the regiment, fin- four months niter the letter of the Deputy Adjutant-General had been read on parade, guarded the frontier ; and during a period of nine months (before proceedings were held against them), the men performed their duty as good soldiers (guarding over the tent of the Commander, who afterwards appeared against them as prosecutor), perfectly unconscious of the plot which was hatching against them. Placing the men oe their trial after what had happened, was soot only in contravention of numerous prece dents (too well known to need recital), but in direct opposition to a recent dscision of Lord Gough, the Commaleler-in•Chief of the army of India. The question in a legal sense was of less importance then in a moral point of view : the mind recoils with horror from the fact that the alit of the men, who were afterwards executed by the Government, was rec-ieed for four months to guard the frontier; that the Gev:rnineeit availed themselves of their services for nine months, while nieditating their destructien. 'Uwe men were shot, and thirteen banished for life, for %,1 offence committed nine mon th s b e f ore a charge ay.is preferred against them; that, tio, after the ofTence had been fbrmilly overlooked, and at a time when the regiment was ins a state of perfect discipline, end when discipline prevailed throughout the army. Taking the lives of the men was not justified by any necessity ; even the plea of the tyrant expediency does not avail; the facts disclose a wanton exercise of power, for which there is neither palliation nor excuse. As a legal question, the shooting of tha Sepoys was without the sanction of law; they were tried, corarn non judice, by a court (wlich required thirteen members), com posed of no more than seven, a junior major being president of a court appointed to try an issue affecting the lives of seventeen of his fellow-creatures. The prisoners had not the advantage of counsel learned in the law to plead in their defence. With this advantage it is incredible that any of them should have been found guilty. The special court, held at .Arcot, preliminary to the court martial, had vitiated the whole case for the prosecution), and filled it with rottenness. It is not going too far to say, that the evidence obtained by the means resorted to would not have been received in any court of justice. The principal witness used by the Special Court and sub sequently on the court-martial, was, within a year of the trial, dismissed from his rank as a commissioned °Meer (to which he had been promoted for his Services at the trial) for falsehood! and within the last six months he has undergone the sen tence of a court-martial for a similar offence ! The real question is, whether the Sepoys were liable to be tried at all, after the letter of the Deputy Adjutant General ; after they had done duty for nine month; ; and after they had been reprimanded, and their offence formally overlooked. This is the real question, which does not so much depend upon a doubtful construction of law as upon facts ; the result of which it does not require the penetration of a counsel learned in the law to disclose. When the Government broke its contract with the Sepoys it , virtually absolved them from the obligation of service. Ths Mutiny Act, which engages the services of the soldier, guarantees the payment of those services. Is it the weaker party only that is bound by a contract ? The Sepoy committed no violence; he complained that his pay was taken away; he clamoured for fond for himself, his wife ' and his children ; f o r a h a bit a ti on f rom w hi c h they had been driven, when at a distance of a thou sand miles from their proper homes ; he called upon his commanding officer to hear his complaints, and was rudely repulsed. When his complaints were listened to, and his pay restored, instantly he gave his services and "returned to duty." It is not to be _ . understood that the men were at any time unwilling to perform the services of the Government; the conduct of the Government had deprived them of the power. Ire concluded by moving the following resolution : " That the Court of Directors be requested to take such measures as may be necessary to instruct the local governments of India to insert in the Articles of NVar for the native army a clause conveying the same privilege to the native army of demanding copies of tha record as is now enjoyed by the European soldiery under the Articles of War framed by the British Legislature on the 4th Oct., 1848." Mr. SULLIVAN seconded the motion, and insisted that the whole proceedings of the court-martial were illegal and unjust. It was quite clear, he said, that there was one law for the British and another for the nativ e soldier in the service of the company, and it Was, therefore, imperatively necessary that this Court should withhold its sanction to the course pursued by Lord Tweeddale. The CHAIRMAN deprecated the introduction of questions like this, as it could be productive of no good results, but, on the contrary, might have the effect of producing disaffection in the army in India. It was not necessary for him to go into the facts of this case, but he believed that the course which Lord Tweeddile had pursued was wise, just, and equitable in cvc ry respect, and he hoped that after this discus sion there would be an end to this matter. Mr. FIELD2R would not impute sinister motives to the mover and seconder of this resolntion, but he did hope and trust that where it was shown that a court martial had acted with perfect legality, as appeared to In the else in this instance, there would be no interference with the conclusions it had arrived at, He called, therefore, upon the Court to negative this resolution, and set the matter at rest for ever. Major BRIGGS gave it as his opinion that, by law, the native soldiery had a right to a copy of the pro ceediags of court martials before whom they had been tried, and should therefore support the motion. The CIIIIRLIAN said the Honourable Proprietor's view of the law was erroneous. Major BRIGGi contended that the execution of the men referred to by the mover of this resolution was a direct violation of the existing law, inasmuch a the - THE SUN, court-martial was composed of nine instead of twelve members. After a few words from Sergeant STORK, Major OLIPHANT admitted that, no doubt, in the ordinary course these soldiers ought to have been tried by their peers, namely, 13 native officers, but by the law of 1829 the native soldiers had the option of the electing to be tried either by their peers, or by a British court-martial consisting of nine members, being British officers. Now, in this case the offend ing parties had made the latter election, and it was therefore absurd to say that the proceedings were illegal. The CHAIRMAN put the legality of the question at rest, by stating that the opinion of the highest law officers of the Crown in India had been taken on the subject, and they were clearly and undoubtedly of opinion that the proceedings were strictly legal. After some further discussion, Mr. LEWIN replied, stating that he should take another opportunity of bringing the subject under the consideration of the proprietors. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and lost by a large majority, only four hands being held up in its favour. Mr SULLIVAN then moved that certain papers con nected with the Sattara territory be printed. The resolution was as follows :—" That Sir Charles Metcalf's minute, dated the 28th of October, 1837, relative to the right of the nativa Princes of India to adopt heirs, in failure of heirs of their own body, and the papers to which it refers, toi t ,ether with all papers relative to adoption made in the families of Scindiah Honker, and amongst the Princes of Rag pootaum be printed for the use of this Court." The CHAIRMAN objected to their being printed, on the ground of expense, but he had no objection to the papers being laid on the Proprietors' table. Mr. SULLIVAN observed that these papers would throw light upon the right of adoption claimed by native princes, and tend in some measure to elucidate some of the details of the Sattara question, and he hopekthe Proprietors would support his motion. Mr. FIELDER thought it was clear the object of this motion was to reopen the Sattara question. The CHAIRMAN thought so too, and as enough had already been said on that subject, he would put the motion without comment. The resolution was then put and lost. Some other routine business was then disposed of, and the Court adjourned. THE HUNGARIANS NOT REVOLUTION ISTS. (From the Examiner.) The Times has boldly advanced another step in its arraignment of Lord Ptaolminefrosrtmon us, on Wed-s Hungarian policy. It had the courage nesday last, that the increase which has accrued to the power and influence of Russia" is not to be attributed, as might naturally be supposed, to the Aus trian Camarilla which invoked Russian intervention, but to the Hungarians, who would neither tamely surrender their rights nor allow themselves to be beaten by the Austrians alone, and to the policy of the British Foreign Office, which, by its " persecu tion of the interests of Austria, contributed to send her as a suppliant to Warsaw, until Russian armies appeared on the lower Danube." Now, the doctrine here implied amounts simply to this. A Sovereign may violate his sacred engage ments and annul the liberties of his subjects; and not only must his subjects not offer any resistance, lest the intervention of a third power, dangerous to the balance of affairs in Europe, should thereby become necessary, hut the Foreign Minister of England is bound to give aid, directly or indirectly, to the Sovereign so tramp ling upon the rights of his people. Our "persecution of the interests of Austria," can only be inter preted to mean that no British fleet aided Radetzky's operations, and that no British treasure was lavished to support the tottering credit of a Government pro verbial not more for its despotism than for its want of faith in pecuniary transactions. Such a doctrine of passive non-resistance, and of means justified by ends, is quite in consonance with Jesuit principles; but will hardly find favour in England, Of course, in order to find some shadow of justifi cation for the conduct of the Austrian Government, every effort must be made to throw obloquy upon the Hungarian cause. Calumniare audacter semper aliquid herret; and most religiously has that maxim of the Jesuits been pursued in this instance. klis• statements are deliberately repeated, that the public mind may become familiarized to them, and learn to look upon them as truths. To reply to these misstatements, repeated as boldly as if they had never been refuted, becomes a wearisome, a Sisy phean task. The " Hungarian Republic" is still spoken of. The Government of which Kossuth was the head was not a republic, bat an iderim Government, for which there existed a precedent in Hungarian history. Not one document of any kind, no ordinance, no procla mation, is to be found in the name of the Hungarian Republic. The few (not many) thousand Poles who fought in the ranl;i of the Magyars were almost without excep tion Poles of the Austrian provinces of Gallicia, con sequently not Russian subjects, and affording no pretext for the Russian invasion of Hungary. We have no evidence whatever that Bern and D_enhinski contributed to make the breach between the Hungarians and the house of Austria irreparable, by contributing to the deposition of the Emperor. After Francis Joseph had declared his resolution not to accept the crown of Hungary upon the ancient consfitutionul terms, his deposition was decreed by the Lords and Commons of Hungary, as that of James the Second was upon far less weighty grounds. Never has there been the slightest whisper that any thing like military terrorism contributed to the De claration of Independence at Debreczin. Had there been anything of the kind the Austrian journals would only have been too glad to make a handle of it. `What the excesses to which Bern and Dembinski contributed actually were, we should like to be informed. We know what were the excesses deliberately sanctioned by Austrian generals; but we have yet to learn that the Polish generals in the Hun ( garian service did anything to aggravate unnecessarily the inevitable horrors of war. We observe that an attempt is being made to oppose Georgey as a patriot to Kossuth. We do not pretend to divine what were the secret motives of Georgey, if he had any ; but his actions show that he did not "entertain the wonted aversion of the "Magyars for their Sarmatian neigh bours," in so high a degree as Kossuth and the civi lians. He preferred negotiating with a Russian rather than with an Austrian General. We now come to a sentence which claims pre eminence in the boldness of its misstatements. " Al ready, in October last year, Hungary had kindled the conflagration in Vienna which rivalled the horrors of the Parisian days in June, when the Polish Bern and the Saxon Robert Blum conspired to over throw the monarchical institutions of Germany in the heart of her greatest capital." Fortunately, we have an account of the events of October at - Vienna in the narrative of Auerbach, the accuracy of which has not been impugned. We there find that neither Bern nor Robert Blum arrived at Vienna till after the outbreak of the Gth October ; and that though Bern was subsequently entrusted with a military command, he was far from enjoying the col fidenee of the Vienna Democrats, or taking any pro minent part in affairs. The " conflagration in Vienna which rivalled the horrors of the Parisian days of June" was nothing more than nn unpremeditated emeute, in which one victim unfortunately fell a sacri fice to the passions of a populace infuriated by the knowledge of his perfidy. This was seized by the Camarilla as a pretext for withdrawing the Emperor Ferdinand to 011- mtitz, for attempting to force the people of Vienna into a state of anarchy, and (although their efforts were unsuccessful in this respect) for bom barding that city. That the Hungarians had any thing to do with the events of October at Vienna, there is neither evidence nor probability. If any facts tending to bear out such a conclusion bad been elicited in numerous trials which took place (among others of Henzlmann, Pulszky's private secretary), we may be very sure that they would have been greedily published by the Imperialists. The tendency of all these misstatements is to represent the Hungarians as revolutionary in their principles, and as aggressors in thoir quarrel with the House of Hapsburg. Nothing can be more opposed to facts than such a view of the case. If the cause of the Hungarians "was identified, elsewhere, with the explosion of those frantic doctrines and acts of violence which had so recently spread terror and destruction through so many of the fairest cities of Europe," it was only through the misrepresentations of the Absolutist press. The Hungarians have, in fact, been reproached by the ultra-Democrats for not making common cause with the revolutionary propaganda in other countries; for being unwilling to overstep the strict limits of legality ; and for grounding the jug tice of their cause rather upon the letter of their chartered rights, than upon any imaginary rights of man. We find no traces of " frantic doctrines" of Communism, or Red Republicanism, in the speeches of Kossuth or his colleagues. On one occasion only can the policy of Kossuth be said to have been aggressive when at his instance the Hungarian troops crossed the Austrian frontier on the 30th of November and engaged w ith th e A ustr i an army at Schwe:hat. But if we examine into the matter more narrowly, w e s h a ll fi n d that this act of aggres sion was necessitated by the previous hostility of the Austrian Ministry. Not merely had Austrian officers excited the Serbs of Southern Hungary against the Hungarian Constitutional Ministry as early as May—not merely had Jellachich been supplied with money by the Austrian Ministry as early as July—but on the 4th of October (consequently before the emeute of the 6th, which the Hungarians are falsely said to have excited), an imperial manifesto was published, by which Hungary was placed under m art i a l law, the Diet dissolved, and Jellachich appointed civil and military governor of Hungary, with discretionary power of life and death. In short, the Hungarian Constitution had been annulled. At this very time Jellachich, after having been defeated by the IIun• garians, had . sought refuge in Austria. It is notorious that the Hungarians long hesitated whether they should pass the frontier without a special invitation from the Austrian Diet. Whether the resolution ultimately come to was justifiable in such an emergency we shall leave others to decide. We shall only observe that, in the council of war held on the subject, the opinion of Kossuth in favour of the measure was 'principally supported, against that of the higher officers, by Georgey, who at that time held the rank of colonel. That the policy of Kossuth, had he become undisputed master of Hungary, would have been aggressive is a most gratuitous assumption . Till the period when the invasion of llungary by Windischgratz drove away every other thought but that of self-defence, we find the Hungarian Diet busily engaged in internal ameliorations, in discussing plans for national education, in proportioning the compen• sation to the lords of manors for the dues they had surrendered, and in similar pacific measures. " The increase which has accrued to the power and influence of Russia," says the Times, "is gene rally acknowledged and no less generally deplored." But if we look at the question from a broad European point of view, and not merely as it affects English interests, we may ask what can it matter to the continental populations, whether the famous mot of Napoleon is to be taken in its literal or metaphysical sense—whether by the word Cossack we understand actual Russian sway or merely the general predomi nance of military despotism. Certainly the armies and agents of Austria are no more to be regarded as champions of improvement than those of Russia. In what respect have Haynau and Windischgratz the superiority over Paskewitch and Rudiger ? This is a question which will naturally be asked by the parties most deeply interested. If the " augmentation of the European ascendancy of Russia" is to be attributed to popular convulsions, to what cause are those convulsions to be attributed ? Clearly to a long-continued course of misgovernment, of which they were but the natural and inevitable results. The assertion may be ventured on, in faith of English ignorance on the subject, that Austrian rule in Hungary was not adverse to the liberty or the progress of the people : but few will have the hardi hood to deny that the system of Louis Philippe in France, or the Ecclesiastical Government at Rome, could tend to anything but convulsions and revolutions. The question was simply one of time. The death of Louis Philippe or of Metternich was variously assigned as the period beyond which a general outbreak could not be deferred. Matters have been somewhat precipitated ; but the outbreak was inevitable, as another ' will be, if things are merely patched up fol. the' moment, and no provi sions made t, b o give security to the political fabric of Europe. " Whatever Russia has gained has been by the weakness of others, not by her own strength." To this assertion of the Times we most heartily assent, and from it we would- draw the inference that the only effectual barrier to the aggrandisement of Russia is to be found in strengthening " others." As it would be impossible, in existing circumstances, to establish a large military monarchy as a counterpoise (an attempt in which Napoleon signally failed), no thing remains but to develope to the utmost the in ternal resources of other powers; and this can only be done permanently and effectually by promoting the growth of those free institutions, which, as expe rience teaches, while they secure material prosperity, are the best, perhaps the only, preventives of license ' and disorder. hence it follows that British diplo macy, which looks beyond the immediate moment, should use all legitimate means of fostering the great principle of rational constitutional liberty, and should consistently refrain from any participation or con nivance in the plans of despotic governments. The name of England in many parts of the continent has hardly recovered-from the miscredit cast upon it by the complicity of Tory politicians with the Holy Alliance; and what have we ever received in return for this loss of character, but- the blackest ingratitude on the part of those for whose sake it had been sub mitted to ? Already, in the last decennium of last century, (lid our great Whig leaders, Mr. Fox and the then Mr. Grey, Loials Lansdowne and Lauder dale, warn the Tory Ministry that no faith could be put in Courts, and that it' was the interest of a free country that its neighbours should be free, and now we are suffering in the crippled state of our finances, as well as our continental neighbours in their civic and social relations, from the neglect of that advice. In turning over the-Parliamentary debates of that period, there seems a sort of prophetic irony in some of the speeches then delivered. The late Lord Lans downe, for instance, better 'known in history by the name of Shelburne, on the sth of February, 1795, professes that, " with respect to the fulfilment of pecuniary ergagernents by the Court of Vienna, he had not any pleasing recollection of the past, and consequently no very flattering prospect of the future ;" and so he proceeds to describe some of the finanicial tricks of that Government—slight preludes of those which have been since performed upon a so much mare extended scale. That by the old system of the Continental Govern ments the policy of Russia was controlled, we deny altogether. By preventing any real confidence be tween the governors and the governed, by preventing neighbouring states from arranging their differences according to the real interest of the people rather than the fancied dignity of •the ruler, that disunion which is most serviceable to the designs of an aggressive power was distinctly promoted. This may be traced more or less clearly in the relations of most conti nental states, but nowhere more so than in what regards the relations of Hungary and Austria. The intervention of Russia in one form or other, for or against the Austrian , Government, had long been rendered not merely . , possible but probable by the suicidal proceedings of the Austrian Government itself. The Machiaveliian policy of "Divide et impera" MS carried out to its fullest extent. Class was ( xcited against class ; race against race ; and, as many races were connected with Russia by blood or religion, or both, they'were led naturally to look to Russia as a protector. Nothing contributed more to this effect than the persecution of the orthodox Greek religion by Austria. Whole com:nunities were de preyed of the ordinary ceremonies and consolations of religion for a period extending through generations, On the other hand, Russia liberally offered the aid of troops to Austria, to put down the free debates o the Hungarian Diet. These overtures were, indeed. rejected by Metternich, less infatuated than his reek. less and incapable successors; but the attacks upon the municipal institutions of Hungary were con tinned, and every obstacle was opposed to the repeal of those antiquated laws respecting real property, v. hich were, next to the restrictive commercial system imposed by Austria,• the chief hindrance to the material prosperity of the . country. The great objects of the reforms of the Hungarian patriots were to further the material and moral development of their country—to do away with all occasion for the jealousies between the different races—to remove all the disaffection caused' by civil and•religious disabili• ties—and, as a necessary consequence, to form a strong and united community in the great European family. By these means, not by the Austrian system, would the policy. of Russia, have been controlled. Such a consummation it was the most earnest wish of the Czar to prevent. And, accordingly, in May of last year, we find- Danileveki, the Russian Consul at Belgrade, offering in- the name of his master the Czar, as head of the Greek church, 30,000 auxiliary troops to the Serbs of Southern Hungary against the Hungarian Government. And this was at a time when the Austrian Camarilla had not yet thrown off the mask, and when such an assistance would have been an assistance against the House of Hapsburg. This, too, was long before either .13ern or Dembinski had entered the Hungarian service. So utterly needless .is it to seek for any other ground for the subsequent intervention of the Czar, beyond the policy of territorial aggrandisement con sistently pursued by Russia since the time of Peter the Great, and which . made English statesmen pre vious to the first Preach Revolution, and Whig statesmen of the old school, .even, during the palmy period of French power, look. upon Russia as the only state from which danger could arise to the liberties of Europe. Their- warnings were neglected by the Castlereaghs and the-Aberdeens; and we' have pro moted Russian aggrandisement and favoured Russian prestige to an extent that renders it difficult for a Foreign Minister who' pursues the old British policy to repair the errors committed by his immediate pre decessors. Had the Sovereigns of the Continent not been aided, during the war, by the support, moral and material, of England, the natural progress of free institutions would now have formed the surest safe guard of the liberty of Europe. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The market exhibits a continued lifelessness and inactivity, both in yarns and goods; and although a sli g htly i ncrease d busi ness may have been effected iii one or two descrip tions of the latter for the home trade, it has been so very partial and limited as hardly to be noticeable, even in a state of things like the present. The busi ness of the day has been altogether on a most restricted scale. The Eastern merchants are lying by, wait ing the arrival of the mail, which may be telegraphed any hour, and yby which sellers are hoping for advices that may in some degree benefit them. _The Germans are proceeding not less cau tiously than they did last week, in making their comparatively trifling purchases ; the decline which has taken place on this side leading their correspon dents to apprehend a still further giving way in our prices. A good deal of foreign business is no doubt kept in abeyance by this apprehension, but the very extensive supplies which have been sent to various distant quarters, within the last few months, are also an unquestionable cause of our present dulness. Al though, however, under these circumstances, there is as might be expected, a generally unfavourable bias in prices, yet spinners and manufacturers do not readily agree to further concessions. Rather than do this, many appear determined to reduce their pro duction. While cotton has not declined more than id. in the last three weals--and that only in middling Americans—yarns generally may b e e li per lb , and g oo d s s till moreconsideredavir in ones. the o es, though le s s i n th e h part of the spi nners , an d e t hate lighter greater l os t f a i b the makers of heavy goods, whose trade was pre viously a profitless or a losin g one , are now, there fore, in a position which may well occasion deep anxiety, and which cannot, indeed, con ti nue muc h longer without forcing on the alternative just re ferred to. Such a measure is, in p ar t, a b s t a i ne d from in the expectation that a renewed demand for yarns for Germany must shortly s p r i ng up, as t h e recent sudden supplies are known to be in the course of rapid absorption ; and another cause o f d e l ay i n t h e matter is to be found in the fact that, with all the difficulties attending the sale of their produce, there certainly is not a very large aggregate accumulation of stock in first hands. ROCHDALE, MosnAT.—W e have had to day less business doing in the piece market than we had last Monday, but prices have been firmly maintained. The wool market has been extremely dull, with little or no change in price. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY. --- The silk-throwing trade of Macclesfield continues tolerably brisk, the mills working full time, and there is a scarcity of hands in this department. The demand that has arisen for thrown silks, of some descriptions adapted for continental purposes, may have contributed to this; on the other hind, ma nufacturers, although fully at work, complain of the unsatisfactory sale of goods this autumn, owing, no doubt, in some measure, to the pr eva l ence o f cholera, which has diminished operations generally. The dyers are getting slacker of work. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The market has been dull. Not much is doing in the home trade, and foreign orders are not very heavy. Wool maintains its price. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The inquiry for worsted goods is not equal to what it was a few weeks ago; but the difference is not greater than might be expected at this time, just between the seasons. The yarn trade is very animated. The spinners are fully employed, both for home and the continent, but chiefly the latter ; and prices, especially of combed yarns, are looking up. The wool market is steady, though not brisk, and long wools are rather stiffer. Short wools go . off heavily, with the turn in favour of the buyer. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market is exceedingly dull, but manufacturers are still delivering to contract, and stocks are light. There is no alteration in prices. PO LICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Sir P. LAURIE stated that he had received the fol lowing letter, accompanied by a circular, which ex emplified a plan for annihilating the class of mercan tile swindlers who, in spite of warnings and exposure, seemed year after year to succeed in finding dupes, and he very much admired the plan adopted by the Edinburgh Trade Protection Society, and hoped it would be followed by all such societies elsewhere : " Trade Protection Circular-office, 25, St. James's square, Edinburgh, Sept. 22. presume to offer to your acceptance a copy of the ' Trade Protection Circular,' with a fac simile of the handwriting of T. P. Gilmour. I see no way to stop the practices of these fellows so effectual as to expose their handwriting. Any merchant who bad this fac simile in his possession would be struck at once with a recollection of it on receiving as order'in the same hand, whatever name might be assumed. The expedient was suggested to us the other day by your valuable observa tions from the bench at Guildhall, in reference to the necessity of exposing; these parties through the medium of the public press. Your many patriotic services of this nature have made the public much your debtor, and I am instructed by the proprietors of this circular to offer you their warmest thanks on behalf of the merchants and traders of this city. I have the honour to be,', Sir, for the proprietors, your most obedient humble servant, .4 WILLIAM HILL, Secretary. " Sir P. Laurie, Guildhall, London." Since the receipt of the above he bad been favoured with a communication from Mr. Gilmour. The letter was as follows : " Liverpool, Sept. 25. " Sir Peter Laurie,—We perceive in the pothouse Mercury some correspondence with 'you about an order to J. and G. Tidmarsh, whose answer, from collusion of a Post office clerk never reached us, or we should have satisfied them. " The lying statements of James May, the clerk of the Adulterating Guardian Society in this town for the Corruption of Trade, we have frequently recited before in the public journa's, and the show of his countenance is as much against him as one look of your intelligent daughters would condemn him for ever ! " We belong to a church and association for the relief of poor debtors, the ugly ! i nner a b ove-ment i oned to al iniquitous one or their imprisonment, poisoeing, and death without mercy; to a class of c on s pi ra t ors t h at stab reputati o n i n the dark, like assassins, and print the most v. nomous libels on all who oppose them. " The accompanying documents will prove our long outriding as merchants, whose acceptances have always been paid, and, as an act of common justice, we request your publication of these lines and vouchers, to contra dict your unjust reports. " Any letters addressed t) us at Liverpool have found us for many years, and to this day wo continue to receive them, and shall do so, in defiance of calumny, political differences, or persecution. " We pray for our slanderers, knowing their danger of everlasting fire ; being reviled, we bless; being de famed, we entreat men to examine the truth; and, trust ing in God, we go on our way, rejoicing in a hope fall of immortality. " Yours faithfully, Ile that ruleth over man T uiti P s . t 6-benjruling iCnot.he 3 u l s ° t u , R AN D fear of God.' "Sir Peter Laurie, Knight, Police, Guildhall, London." The letter contained a couple of old cheques so far back as 1822 and 1823, one of them being - worthless, and bore the Douglas, Isle of M an, postmark, dated Sept. 22, 1849. At this moment a gentleman from the office of the Trade Protection Record weekly newspaper, en tered the court, and addressing Sir Peter Laurie, siid—l have attended here this morning to hear what rakes place about Gilmour, in consequence of Mr. Tidmarsh having called at the office of the Trade Protection Record, and left there for the use of the editor a copy of a letter received by him this morn ing., and, as Mr. Tidmarsh is not in court, I take the opportunity, as you are now engaged on the matter, of bringing the letter under your notice. The letter was dated from Liverpool, September 25, 1849, and the contents were as follows : " Before directing their solicitors, Adams and Tilliard, to prosecute for lib e l, Messrs. T. P. Gilmour and Co. request the letter could not be found' to be sent them, to punish the, Post office clerk for his collusion with dirty Remy, and by this post they sent ample proof to Sir Peter Laurie in 1,050 of their long standing. " Messrs. T. and G. Tidmarsh, Mi-ebietmakers, Eyre-street-bill, Leather-lane, London." This letter also bore the postmark of Douglas, Isle of Man, September 24, although dated from Liverpool. Sir P. LAURIE said that Mr. Lister, of Basinghall street, received an order to the amount of 1201., but that gentleman was too deep for Mr. Gilmour. MARYLEBONE. _ Henry Cowley, attended before Mr. Broughton by virtue of a summons obtained against him by Inspec tor Champneys, of the S division, for removing offen sive matter along a p u bli c th o roughfare. Bagshaw, 237 S, state d t h a t, a t t wo o'clock in the afternoon of th e 11 t h i nst. , as h e was on d u ty i n Hampstead, near the Spaniards, he saw the defendant with a cart drawn by two horses, and as the cart passed him a most offensive effluvium issued there from. He directed defendant to stop, which he did, and upon examining the vehicle he found it nearly full of the refuse of lime from gas works. Mr. BROUGHTON—Was the smell which proceeded from the cart very offensive ? Witness—lt was, your Worship ; it was as strong, and unpleasant as could possibly be. Mr. BaouonTos—Was there any name upon the cart ? ‘Vit ness— Y es, your Worship. I saw the name of Lord Tenterden upon it. Defendant told me he was going to take the load to his Lordship's seat at Hendon. Mr. Smith, his Lordship's bailiff and gardener, said, that what the cart contained was intended to be used in Lord Tenterden's hothouses, for the purpose •of disinfecting the vines and other things growing there, which were in a very diseased and unhealthy condition. Witness since the summons had been served upon him bad written to his Lordship ac quainting him thereof, and he (Lord Tenterden) had expressed to him in his answer to the communication that o competentfthelike O persons pinion. believed that the proceeding for which th e summons had been issued was not at all calculated t o i n j ure hea l t h . H e (witness) was also Mr. BROUGHTON remarked, that in a case which was brought before him a month or two ago for a similar offence, it was clearly shown by the evidence of Sir Francis Knowles, who is a good practical chemist, that the removal of such matter along a public road was likely to have an injurious tendency, and in that case he felt it to be his duty to convict : in other cases of a like nature fines had also been imposed ; in the present instance he considered that the offence had been proved, and he should order defendant to costs. Pay the mitigated penalty of 10s. and SOUTHWARK. William Tupper was brought before Mr. Secker for re-examin i ti on , charged with stabbing his wife, Sarah, the breast with a knife. LONDON, TI-IUttSDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMEtEtt V, 18409 The complainant, who at one time was considered in great danger, owing to the infliction of the wound, attended upon this occasion, although still extremely ill, and was accommodated with a chair whilst giving her evidence. She stated that she had been married to the prisoner for twenty-five years, and that for nearly the whole of that period he was in the habit of ill treating her. On Wednesday last, the 19th inst., she and the prisoner had been out together, and on their return home they found a young man there, who was paying his addresses and about to be married to their daughter, a young woman of nineteen years of age. The prisoner en entering the house on the evening in question seemed annoyed at the presence of the young people, and ordered his daughter and their intended son-in law to quit the place, threaten ing them if they did not obey the order. In conse quence of the threats used on the occasion their daughter and her suitor quitted the house,' when the complainant remonstrated with the prisoner for his harsh conduct, and told him plainly that he was a bad father for turning his child out of the house under such circumstances. The moment, however, she uttered the words the prisoner, who was very much excited, rushed upon her with an open knife, and plunged the point of it into her right breast, and she fell upon the floor near the fireplece. Finding that she was stabbed, and that the blood was streaming from her, she endeavoured to raise herself up, but she was unable, and she then screamed out " Murder !" and managed upon her hands and knees to crawl to the door, when she became insensible, and recollected nothing afterwards until the next morning, when she found herself in bed, and felt :pain and exhaustion from the effects of the wound and the internal injuries she had received. She added that for nearly the whole period of her married life the prisoner was in the habit of exercising great cruelty towards her, and that she had been frequently laid up for weeks toge• ther in consequence of his brutal usage. Mr. SECKER inquired whether the prisoner was a sober man, and the reply was in the negative ; the poor woman observing that although he was in the receipt of a competency to support his family in great comfort and respectability, yet that most of his earn ings were squandered in dissipation. Mason, 259 M, stated, that upon being informed that a woman was stabbed by her husband, he pro ceeded to the adjoining house, where he found the complainant in an exhausted condition from loss of blood, owing to a wound in the breast. Ile was then informed that her husband had inflicted the injury, and that he had locked himself up in his own house. He (the policeman) went there, and was about to force the street door open when the prisoner opened it, at the same time exclaiming that he had stabbed his wife ; and he inquired of witness whether she was dead. Upon being told that she was still alive, the prisoner said, " Then I am very sorry for it." The prisoner here said, " What I meant was, that I was §orry for what had been done." The policeman, however, said that he had related correctly what was said by the prisoner on the occa sion. He subsequently asked the prisoner for the weapon with which the wound was inflicted, and he placed the knife produced in his hands, saying, that he was using it for another purpose when his wife exasperated him. Mr. Turner, a surgeon, of Bermondsey-square, stated that on the night in question, when he was called to see the complainant, he found her supported by two persons, and bleeding from an incised wound in the breast; which he found on examination to have been inflicted with a sharp pointed instrument, such as the knife produced. The point of the weapon had penetrated the flesh to some extent, and was stopped by the ribs, otherwise in all probability it would have perforated a vital organ ; on further examination he had since ascertained that the complainant was also labouring under other internal injuries, which she told him were previously inflicted by her husband. He added, that she was going on favourably at present, and that she was in no immediate danger, although he was at first apprehensive of serious consequences. Mr. SECKER (addressing the prisoner) said— Having heard the evidence adduced against you, do you now wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? The prisoner, in reply, said that at present he should decline saying anything until his trial. Ile was then committed. CLERKENTVELL. A portly, well-dressed young man, who styled himself Captain Richard Matty Smith, Thomas Lawes, and Charles Fraser, were placed at the bar before Combe, charged with having been concerned in numerous forgeries. Mr. George Mills, coachmaker, of No. 171, Alders gate-street, said that, on the 4!h of September, William Huxley, the ostler employed in the stables of the Clarence Hotel, Aldersgate•street, called on him and presented a cheque for 71. 10 x., saying he had received it from Captain Smith, who was sojourning at the Clarence Hotel, and he wished him (witness) to let him a dogcart on hire, as he was going to a party at Richmond. Witness agreed to this request, received the cheque, taking 154., and handing 61: 15s. over to him, and he left the place. Witness paid the cheque into the London and Westminster Bank, thence it passed into the Commercial Bank, Lothbury, and the Gravesend Bank, where it was found to be a forgery, and traced to Mr. Mills and Captain Smith, who said he received it from the prisoner Lawes. The name of Fraser was in the body of the cheque, as purport ing to be a customer .of Messrs Dlills and Co., of the Gravesend Bank. William Huxley, ostler at the Clarence Hotel, Al dersgate street, proved having received the cheque (now produced) from the prisoner Captain Smith, with an order to take it to the last witness and hire a dogcart. He received 61. 153, which he had handed to Captain Smith. Mr. COMBE—Was there anybody else with Smith when he gave you the cheque ? Witness —No one was with him at the time. Arthur George Paul, clerk to the Commercial Bank, Lothbury, deposed that the cheque now pro. duced for 71. 10s. was paid into that bank from the London and Westminster Bank. The number of the cheque was 5,676 originally, but on careful ex amination it was found that the 6 had been erased at the end, making it 567. Mr. COMBE inquired whether anybody of the name of Fraser banked at the Gravesend Bank, or whe the prisoner of that name was known there? 'Wit ness—They have no customer of that name, and he is not known there. Frederick Collins deposed that he was at present lodging at the Clarence Hotel, Aldersgate•street. lle saw the prisoner Lawes give the cheque to Captain Smith. By Mr. Hobler—The cheque is not in the same state as when it was given by Lawes to Smith ; the writing on the back of the cheque looked very like the prisoner Lawes's. James Beck, a clerk in the Gravesend Bank, had been in that employ five years. They never had a customer of the name of Fraser in the bank. Inspector Brennan, G division, said that he appre hended the prisoner Smith at the Royal Hotel, Rich mond, and also the other prisoner, in conjunction with Harvey, G. The prisoner Smith, on being informed of the nature of the charge against him, said, " I should not care a d—n about it if I hadn't put my name upon the back of the cheque ; I did it to oblige Collins.' Ile (the inspector) held the cheque in his hand, when the prisoner turned the cheque round, and saw his name upon it. Mr. Mills was present. The cheque was made payable to the witness Collins. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Association for the Protection of Bankers, said there were two other cases of a similar description ready to be entered into, and he called Mr. John Cuthbertson, of No. 123, Aldersgate street, bootmaker, who stated that on the Ist of September a messenger called upon him, and re quested him to cash a cheque. He proceeded to the Clarence llltel, where he saw the prisoner Smith and Collins. Smith said he had received the cheque from Mr. J. H. Lawes, of No. 49, Moorgate street. Wit ness knowing Collins, and that he was soon to come in for a fortune, he did not hesitate, and immediately cashed the cheque, and Captain Smith took up the money. Fraser's name was in the body of the cheque, which was payable to Collins. They informed witness that Mr. Fraser was afflicted with cholera, and after wards that he was dead. The cheque was subsequently discovered to be a forgery. Another case was then heard, and it was said that on being searched a great number of cheques belong ing to the various banks in England were found in the prisoners' possession. Mr. Comps remanded the whole of them fora week. GRAND CENTRAL DAHLIA Snow OF ENGLAND.— BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.—To -day the above highly interesting exhibition took place at the Town•hall, in ' this town. The exhibition was excellent in quality, but the quantity of dahlias not so large as was expected. The following are the first-class prizes: —Mr. C. Turner, of Slough, won the 100 guineas prize --it was certainly a magnificent stand of twenty-four. dahlias; Mr. Bragg, of Slough, won the second prize; the thrd prize was won by Mr. Drummond, of Bath ; the fourth prize, by Mr. Seeley, of Bristol; the fifth prize by Mr. Barnes, of Stowemarket ; the sixth, by Mr. Lodge, of Manchester. Tits GORMAM CASE.—The appeal in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, is expected to be heard by the Judicial Council about the end of the year. In addition to the usual law lords, including Lords Brougham and Campbell, but excluding the Lord Chan cellor, as being the presenter to the living, and thereby an interested party, there will be summoned, it is said, both the archbishops and a few of the bishops. The general opinion continues to be that the judgment of the Court of Arches will be fully confirmed. There is another proceeding going on—that in the Court of Queen's Bench, under the title of the Queen v. the Bishop of Exeter, the object of which is to compel the Right Rev. Prelate to institute Mr. Gorham to the living in question. This will bo tried, it is understood, at Nisi Prius, at the next Exeter assizes. Should it be decided against the Bishop, an appeal will then be instituted to the twelve judges; and should that result in a similar issue, it will then be carried to the House of Lords. Thus it may bo a long time before the case is family , Bestifg,,Oxford Herald. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Paymaster and Purser John Shea (1799) died on the 20th ult., at Norwood, in the 77th year of his age. He was on the retired list ; served in the Loire, and assisted at the storming of Muros Castle, on the coast of Spain, in 1808 ; end served in the Glasgow at the battle of Algiers. APPOINTMENTS. Acting Master—George Allen, late of Fire Quee n , additional to the Victo r y, fl ag ship, at Portsmouth, for service, in command of the Sprightly, steam tender; George Williams, to the Wolverine, 12, fitting at Chatham. Paymaster and Purser John Hay, to the liecla, steam-sloop, fitting at Devonport for service on the coast of Africa, vice half-a-dozen, whose appointments have been cancelled. Second Master—Gilbert E. Green, to the Sprightly. Midshipman—C. Ricketts, to the Wolverine. Master s Assistant—James H. Strong, to the Blenheim screw guard-ship, at Portsmouth. Boatswain—John Johnson, acting to the Poictiers. Commander Wilmot Horton and the officers of the Superb, 80, at Spithead, give a splendid dejeuner, on board that ship, to-day, at Spithead. We undentand Lady Capel will honour it with 112 T presence. The Lieutenant- Governor, Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, Lady and Miss Fitzclarence, the Commander in- Chief, the llon. Sir Bladen Capel, Rear-Admiral Prescott, with nearly all the elite of the neighbour hood, have been invited. A steamer has been pro vided to convey the company to and from the Superb. Captain Purcell, of the Superb, is still on leave, in Ireland, and is not expected back till October. We are sorry to hear that Captain ‘Vorth, late of the Calypso, 18, in consequence of severe illness, has been removed into Melville Hospital. The Wolverine, 12, was commissioned on Tuesday, at Chatham, by Commander Falcon ; the two lieutenants, master, paymaster and purser, and surgeon, have joined. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. - The Switzerland, American packet, arrived from the river this morn• ing; as there was a fine fair breeze from the S.E. blowing, she did not anchor, but ran into smooth water in Stokes' Bay, embarked her passengers for New York, and at noon proceeded on her voyage, going out through the Needles. THE EAST INDIES AND CHINA. There is very little news from the station. The Admiral is at Trincomalee. The Hon. Captain Keppol and the Meander, 44, was at Labuan, preparing to proceed to Sydney and the Pacific, en route to England. The China division of the squadron has been re duced to six sea going vessels, namely—Amazon, 26, Captain E. N. Troubridge (senior officer) , Colum bine, 16, Commander J. C. D. Hay, at Whampna ; Arab, 12, Commander Morris, at Shanghae ; Mari ner, 12, Commander Mathison, at Shanghae ; Pilot, 12, Commander Lyons, at Amoy; and the Med ea , 4, steam-sloop, Commander Lockyer, at Hong-Kong. The sore feeling with respect to the recent Macao affair had subsided. Captain Keppel did his duty in using his power to enforce a right, rather than com promise a wrong by accepting the release of a British subject as a favour. The Arab has been most . successful in scouring the China seas, and capturing and destroying the pirates that infest them. His energy will, doubtless, meet with its due reward. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. —This day having been specially appointed a day of prayer and thanksgiving throughout the see of Winchester, it was observed in a highly decorous manner by the inhabitants of the place and its dependencies. The shops were closed and trade suspended, no " holiday" or " cheap Excur sion" party seemed about, and all appeared duly im pressed with the solemnity of the occasion. The troops were marched to church without arms, and the band without their instruments. Special services were given in all the places of worship (with the ex ception of the Catholic Chapel in Portsea), and on board her Majesty's ships. The dockyard and all the Government establishments were closed, and the entire population preFented generally all the " out ward end visible signs" of devotion towards the Giver of all goo]. It is very singular that the Catholic Chapel above mentioned was not. opened at the time all others were, and was a source of considerable in convenience and di9appointment to that portion of the troops in garrison professing Catholicism, who marched to the chapel door, but finding no service, returned to their quarters. Some admirable sermons upon this occasion were preached to crowded con gregations within the district, and lar g e collections made to- relieve th ose i n want through bereavement by the prevailing epidemic. The collection after the sermon, in the morning, at the parish church of St. Thomas, by the Rev. J. P. M'Ghie, vicar, amounted to upwards of 5t31. POISONING AT CHM/TEM-lAN. CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY.-The adjourned in quest was resumed to-day before Mr. Mayer, coroner, at the King's Head Inn, and some evidence of a sin gularly contradictory nature was brought forward. The first witnass examined was Caroline Gregory, sister to the deceased Samuel and Elizabeth Gregory. This witness had been examined on the inque.t On Friday. She now added to her former statement that when her deceased brother Samuel came into dinner on the day when the whole family were simul taneously attacked, he inquired what was for dinner, and being told " Bread and cheese and cucumber," he said he did not like it. His mother then said he could have a rasher of bacon, if he preferred it ; upon which Barnett (now in custody) said, " Give him a dump ling, give him a dumpling, and take one yourself." The mother accordingly gave him one of the dump lings which had been made out of the fl )ur and fruit pmvided by Barnett,'and he partook of a portion of it, when he became very ill. This witness also stated, that when the dumplings were made by her deceased sister, Elizabeth, some of the flour brought by Barnett for the purpose was reserved by her for future pur poses. About half a teacupful was placed by the de ceased (Elizabeth) in a cupboard. When Mr. Hatch, the first surgeon called in, had inquired into the case, he asked to see some of the dumpling. None could be found, and he then asked if any of the flour was at hand, on which witness mentioned that which had been reserved, but on looking for it in the cupboard it was gone. Witness did not know who had put it away. The deceased (Elizabeth) had had some slight quarrels with Barnett. Barnett kept his room door locked when he was away. Mr. Brookes, the surgeon, who made a post mortem examination of the body of Elizabeth Gregory, stated its result. He made the examination sixteen hours after her death, ,and found the external appearances presented healthy. The brain, however, was slightly congested, and there was rather more serous fluid at its base than usual. In the stomach there were about ten ounces of brown fluid, and the intestines generally appeared healthy, but the mucous coat of the stomach was much inflamed in two patches. The witness went into a minute description of the condi tion of other parts of the deceased's body, but, with the exception of the inflamed patches on the coat of the stomach, there were no other indications of poison. This, however, he added, was not at all unusual in cases of poisoning by arsenic. A widow, named Elizabeth Stephenton, a char woman and washerwoman, living in Sherborne street, was next examined with reference to a conversation which she stated she had had with a young girl at the funeral of the deceased on Thursday last. When the two bodies had been deposited in the graves, and the funeral service was ended, while yet the people Fingered in the churchyard, a young woman named Harriet Stuart (now present) addressed her. Wit• ness said to her, " I should like to know where they got the arsenic from ;" and Stuart replied, "I know where, but I must not tell, for my mother would kill me if I did." Witness then asked her what arsenic was like, and Stuart replied that "it was very much like loaf sugar ;" and added, that it was white arsenic that killed deceased. Harriet Stuart, a girl of 14, on being examined on oath, gave a flat contradiction to all that the last wit ness had stated. She declared that she had never seen Mrs. Stephenton before, and therefore could not have held such a conversation with her. She swore that she had never seen arsenic in her life, and did not know what it was. The witness, nevertheless, admitted that about the time when the convers ition between her and Mrs. Stephenton was alleged to have taken place, she went to a shop near the burial ground, but had not entered the ground. She did not, according to her statement, stop on the road to speak to any person. However, Mrs. Stephenton persisted in her state ment as given above in her evidence. It was expected that the inquiry would have been brought to a close last night, but it was being con tinued at the time of the dispatch of our parcel. The CORONER, addressing the jury before they ad journed for refreshment, said he thought it was un necessary to protract the inquiry much further, and that there was evidence enough to send Barnett for trial, leaving him upon his trial to account for the possession of the poisoned flour. THE BERMONDSEY AllißDEß.—Yesterday after noon Mr. Binns, the solicitor, forwarded an application to the Commissioners of Police for the remainder of the cash found in Mrs. Manning s possesion, the application being made oa the ground that the amount is requirrd fur the proper defence of the prisoners. M ann i ng, i t i s said, occupies his time in gaol principally iu writing poetry, and his compositions are generally presented by him to his solicitor ROYAL ARTILLERY. - -WOOLWICH, SEPT. 26. Major Desbrisay's company (3d batallion) has been placed under orders to proceed to Ireland in the early part of next month, to relieve Captain Percy Bain's company (3d batallum), relieved from duty at Charle mont, and brought to Dublin, preparatory to being ready to return to headquarters, as the company is turf first on the roster fur foreign service. His Grace the Archbishop of Cafiterbury has pre sented the Treasurer of the Colonial Bishopric Fund with a dvaativu of 5004 THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS, SEPT. 25.—The winds have ruled contrary. Very few vesiels have reached Goole since Friday; the arrivals are cons( quently moderate of all descriptions. The parcels of new wheat which have appeared per ,rail from our own country are sold at barely Friday's rates. Old is without variation. Barley is inquired for. Oats and shellings steady. Beans and peas Is lower. No variation in any other article. Arrivals:—Wheat, 7,351; beans, 218; oats, 482; barley, 1,755. NEWCASTLE, SEPT. 25.—Since Saturday the weather has been only indifferent, and the supply of wheat at market this morning, also small, met with little demand, the condition and quality being various. The samples of red of our own growth reached 44s per quarter. Con trary winds prevailing, wo have no arrivals from the south. Old wheat of all descriptions was in very limited demand, and to effect sales lower prices had to be sub mitted to. Oats are the turn cheaper, and some fine 43 lbs Scotch sold at 20s 6d per quarter. Barley and other grain unaltered. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 25. The number of beasts et market this morning was larger than on this day week. Quality good, and trade active at former prices. All sold. Supply of sheep and lambs good, but still not so large as we have had to notice of late. The whole number exhibited were all cleared off at former rates, with a brisk trade. Arrivals—Beasts, 570; sheep and lamb', 5,400. Prises—Beef, 5s Od to 6s 3d per stone; mutton, 4d to sd; lamb, 5d to 51 , 1 per lb. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, SEPT. 25. —There were in the market to-day 87 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2Solbs imperial, whereof 70 sold thus:-0 at Il lot 6d, 6 at 11 lOs Od, Bat 11 93 64, 22 at 11 9s Od, 10 at 11 8s 6d, 12 at 118 s, and 12 at 1/ 75 6d; average price of the whole 11 8s 7d 8-12ths. 5 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 315, and 3at 295. 4 sacks barleymeal, whereof 1 sold at 235. 28 sacks pot-barley, whereof 12 sold thus: —1 at 1/ 8s Od, 2 at 11 7* Od, 2 at 115 s Od, 5 at tl 4s, and 2 at 11 Os Od. 2 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1 sold at 26,, 6d, and 1 at 269. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SEPT. 25. — Supplies of all kinds large. Oat straw, from 7* 04 1 0 lis Od per kemple of 16 stones tron; wheat ditto, 63 6d to 10s Od; barley ditto, 6s 6d to 8s Od. Old hay, from 7d to 9d; new ditto, 6d to 81 per cone. DALKEITII MEAL MARKET, SEPT. 24.—There were 88 bags of oatmeal, 0 of barleymeal, and 0 of pot-barley at this day's market. Sales dull. Oatmeal down on the top is 6d per bag, on the second price 3d, and on the third is per bag. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. imperial .. 13arleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal Flour ... Pot barley ... COAL bIARKE First Second Third 288 6d 28s Od 263 61 —s Od —s 0.1 —s Od —s Od —s Od --5 Od —s Od —s Od —1 Od —s Od —s Od --s Od T.- I EiiTERDAL Middle's W. Hartley.. 15s 9dßelinont lB6 01 Caret, Hartley East Adairs Alain— .. 13s 6dlHutton Hasting's Hartley 153 9d Lambton liolywell Main R,avensworth'sW.Hart 14s 6d Stewart's Vanfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes... 13s 6d Adelaide Tees West Hartley Wall's End, &c. St. Helen's Tees Clennell 153 9d Tees Gosforth .. Hedley Hatton Riddell's l7s 0.1 Cardiff ...._.... ..... ins 6d Eden Main ...... 1 5 8 01 Bell - RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, SEPT. 2f. STOCK EKCIIANO E.—The share market was much de pressed to-day. 'The transactions were as follow:—Great Western, Quarters, 11th dis.—Bristol and Exeter, 31 die.— Ditto Thirds, 10 1 ,4 dis.—Midland Stock, ooq. LIVERrOOL, SEPT. 26. . STOCK EXCILANGE.—The share market was rather better to day. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), G per cent. till 1850,18—Lancaster and,York Consol., Fifths, 6% London and North-Western, 112 Ditto, New Quarters, s,A p.—Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10/. 6s. 3d.—Midland, 53—South - Eastern and hover, (No. 4), WA—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 41. 183. Cd. MANCHESTER, SErr. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as fol low :—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6—Ditto (Registered), 5 1346 —Ditto, Old, 18 1 . 4—North Staffordshire, 7% dis.—Grimsby Docks, 6—London and North-Western, Quarters, 4,1 Ditto, Stock, 110—West Riding Union ' 6 9.16 dis.—Manchest er and Leeds, Fifths, Preference (Registered), 21% —Ditto, Fifths, 6 1 dis. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 26. STOCK EXCTIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol low:—Caledonian, 11:%—North Staffordshire, 7% (Es... — Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7 1-16 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 2 1 A 3 p. YORK, SEPT. 25. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fdlow :—Lancashlre and Yorkshire, Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent., 51. &J.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17% Ditio (NewcAstle Extension), 1l ex in.—York and North Midland, 211 A. PUGILISM.—R. MALEY AND J. CROSS FOR 501. ASlDE.—These veteran pugilistic professors met on Tuesday, at Woking.common, in Surrey, to de cide their difference of opinion as to the better man, in the fistic sense of the phrase. Maley is well known as the Con queror of Chute (1836). Cooper, Hannan (a foul blow), the Chelsea Hannan Sch. am Merry man, and Cross, his present antagonist, whom he this day met fur thc' third time; their first encount er in 1842 ending in a draw, Lied their recond, also in 1842, ter minating in fay ur of Maley. Cross has also had a chequered career, having arpeared seven times within the ropes, and won three occasie,ns. The battle was rather one-sided, Cross taking the lead early, and show -n; off on Haley's head, which he did not seem very es- pable of gua-ding. Nevertheless he countered often with his li,Ot hand, on receiving from Cross's left, but so slowly as in many instances to produce but little effect. Finally, at the close of two hours, during which 52 rounds were fought, Maley's star declined, and Cross etas proclaimed the vic!o - . SHERIFFS' FUND SOCIETY. —Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the governors of this society was held at the London Cuffeehouse ; Mr. Sheriff Firms in the chair. The usual formal proceedings having been gone through, the report was read by the Rev. Mr. Davis, the secretary. Those cases of distress which induced the sheriffs of 1809 to found this charity bad prevailed to an unusual degree during the past year, at every session of the Central Criminal Court, and of course the operations of the society had been more ex. tended. The different cases of distress were relieved according to circumstances, Some discharged convicts were furnished with tools to enable them to return to their work. Others were furnished with the means of reaching their friends in distant parts of the kingdom, if their conduct justified a reasonable hope that they would reform. Young women, led into trifling acts of dishone.ty by a lore of finery, were either sent to their friends or placed in situations as servants. Some were sent at the expense of the charity to ;he Philanthropic Society ; and, finally, discharged pri soners, who hoped to redeem their characters in another country, were helped to emigrate to Australia. In the selection of deserving cases amongst the young women, the committeee were much indebted to the exertions of the ladies' committee. The funds of the society during the past year had not received any gr e at increase. 'ICE, committee had received 2004 under the will of the late Mr. Andrew M•Lean, in addition to the 100/deesfor received ervirl c the formerly. The sum of 500 /. had breeengse,ta,srid . erection of an " Eliziheth lpoo F roi r ls. y inne rue , io tesoei d et i y sc w ha e r r g e e B d , the rs Th e Three permanent., fonds i i i , la o n : ds oL amongstf h so in the Three-and-a-Quaater p er C ents., 1,0001. in the Reduced Consolidated Annuities, and 1004 per annum under the will of the late Mrs. Stafford. The committee noticel, with expressions o f regret , t h e d ea th of Mr. Cooper, th e l ate honorary motion of Alderma n Sidney,mp secoaded by Deputy secretary. On the Bedford, n g the report wa s received Mr. Alderman Hooperan and treasurer, and and, Mr.after ppointi Alderman Sidney trustee, the meeting thanked the Thomas chairman luic t a Ke t l ey d ee, } s operated. ba collier, r O e U s t idi a ng week ago the wife of was rummaging up so me o ld pi t clothesat that fi b e e l e d n , laid aside for a number of years, in order to find a patch, and in the course of her search she met with a pair of old trowsers that had belonged to her husband's father, when she found the watch pocket carefully stitched up and upon being cut o p en i t conta i ne d a rece i pt f or 554 which bad been placed in Messrs. Wright and Co's bank, at Nottingh.m, by David Recce, in the year 1839, and who died in March, 1842. On Saturday last her husband received the above sum for him, with 111. 15s. 2d. inte rest. —Derby Reporter. A man remains of consequence—not so far as he leaves something behind him, but so far as ho acts and enjoys, and rouses others to action and enjoyment—. Eliza Cook's Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills, a never-failing Remedy for the Cure of Scurvy and Scorbutic Humours.—Thomas Andrews of Sutton -street, Newcastle, had been severely afflicted for years with scurvy and scorbutic humours all over his body. He had been under the treatment of several medical men, but to no purpose, and at last he was pronounced incurable. The poor fellow then, as a forlorn hope, commenced using Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which so effectually eardicated the disease from his system that in the course of six weeks he was enabled to resume his former e mployment, and his skin is now as clear as that of an infant. — Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish ment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., at Port Madoc, the wife of Mr. N. Solly, of a daughter. On the 22d inEt., at Wendon, near Saffron Walden Dsex, Mrs. T. G. C arter, of a son. , On the 22d init., at Bonvilstone-house, Glamorganehire, the wife of the Rev. R. T. Tyler, of a son. On the 23d inst., the wife of the Bev. T. G. Febay, Esq., of Great Queen-street, St. James's-park, of a daughter.' MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at Bassingham, Lincolnshire, Fowler Boyd Price, Esq., of Huntingdon-court, Herefordshire, to Sophia, second daughter of the Rev. D. S. Wayland, curate of Bassingham, and vicar of Kirton-in-Lindsey, in the same county.. DIED On the 21st inst., at Apperley-court, Gloce'Aershire, Juliana Sabina, third daughter of the late Sir George Strick land, Bart., of Boynton, Yorkshire, aged 85. On the 23d inst., at Canterbury, the Hon. and Rev. Henry Wa+son, brother to Lord Sondes, aged 53. On the 23d in 4., aged 67, John Woodruffe, Esq., of Dal ston, and formerly of Dlichaelstow-hall, Es;ex. On the 23d inst., at Leamington, aged 68, Miss Jane Tory, formerly of Whnbourne, Dorset. London: Printed and 'Published by MUILDO YOU/T(, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 712, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the county of PiLddleeez, Thursday, September 27, 1849. I