The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

Ztirb Vbition GLASGOW, GARNKIRK, and CO ATBRIDGE and CALEDONIAN RAILWAYS (AMENDMENT of ACTS) BILL. Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a BILL to render the Lien provided to the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Company, by the Act after mentioned, more effectual and more readily availalle, and to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the said Act, and, so far as necessary, to repeal the same, viz., the Act passed in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, and intituled, "An Act to effectuate the sale, by the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge, Railway Company, of the said . Railway to the Caledonian Railway Company, and other purposes connected therewith," or sone of the powers and provisions of the sald Act ; and also, so far as necessary for these purposes, to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the following Acts, relating to the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Company, formerly the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Company, or some of them, viz., 7 Geo. IV., c. 103 ; 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 88 ; 11 Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV., c. 125 ; 1 and 2 Vict., c. 60 ; 7 and 8 Vict., c. 87 ; and 8 and 9 Vict., c. 31 ; and of the following Acts relating to the Caledonian Railway Company, or some of them, viz., 8 and 9 Vict , c. 162 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 130, 229, 249, 314, 379, 395 ; 10 Viet., c. 22, 23, 24 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 75, 82, 168, 169, 172, 237 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 73, 78, 121 ; and 12 and 13 Vict., c. 67, 90. 2011. LAMOND, Solicitor, Glasgow. RICHARDSON, CONNELL, and LOCH, Parliamentary Agents, Westminster. 16th November, 1849. TAT TE RSA L L'S—T HIS EVENING Six o'CLocii. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 6 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynn 6 to 1 agst Vain Elope 7 to 1 agst Proceed CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Peep-o'-Day Boy 50 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn 66 to 1 agst Kennington 66 to 1 agst Lismahagow 66 to 1 agst Idle Boy DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Bolingbroke 11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 18 to I agst The Italian 25 to 1 apt Deicocn 30 to 1 ngst Voltigeur 30 to 1 agst the Nigger FRAN CE. M. Benamin Delessert has given notice to the President of the. Legislative Assembly, that he will p7opcee the following additional clauses to the Bill i:ttrieluced by the Minister of Finance for extending the contract existing between the Government and the B Ink of France. Ist. From the date of the prninulgatim of the present law, the notes of the Bank France shall cease to be a legal tender. Nevertheless, the Treasury shall never refuse to accept Bank notes in payment. 21. The legal limit of the issue of the notes of the Bank of France, fixed at 42.5,030,000 f. by the decrees of the 15th and 25th March, and the 27th April, 1848, is annulled. The folloving is a return of - the situation of the Bank of France on Nov. 15:— ASSETS. ... f. 286,564,639 48 . . 125,283.898 0 ~. 81,244 24 Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due .. th!!s failing dne in Paris, of which 18,243,3071'. 0". are from the branch 1. , 0,nk3 ... _, „,, ... 46,090,349 25 13i11s in the branch banks ... ... 77,830,244 0 Acivanfts on coins and ingots... ... 5,267,200 0 Ditto by the brarch banks ... „, 463.689 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 21,152,021 10 Ditto by branch banks... ... „., 1,659,521 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 0 Loan of 3,000,000 f. to the city of Mar- 1,075,000 0 ..• Advance to the department of the Seine 3,000,000 0 Itentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 it entes, disposable funds 42,581,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... ..• ••• Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... Real property of the branch banks Interest in National Discount Bank ... Ditto branch banks ... ,„ Bills protested at Paris •.• • ••• Ditto at the branches ... „.. ••• Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches ... Miscellaneous ... 12,779,541 39 4,000,000 0 2,733,765 0 200,000 0 230,000 0 2,879,409 39 1,975,910 0 417,902 85 423,372 0 214,945 30 f. 746,904,130 13 LIABILITIES. CApital ••• • . f. 67,900,000 0 Ditto of tho Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 0 Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,980,750 0 Reserve• imroobiliero 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 381,733,100 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 65,355,375 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 903,800 83 Account current with Treasury creditor 52,597,930 28 Various accounts cuzrcnt ... 90,380,840 84 ... 25,078,997 0 ... 4,925,500 0 1,654,098 0 Ditto in branches Bills payable at sight Ditto at branches ••• ••• ••• Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... ..• ... 6,572,967 10 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 3,217,680 0 Dividends payable . . ... 315,798 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 158,072 99 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,233,106 96 Ditto branch banks ... 1,680,165 0 Le discounts of the last six months ... 143,693 49 Ditto in branch banks ... 323,587 0 Miscellaneous ... ... 398,667 39 f. 746.904,130 13 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France. D'ARGOUT. We find by the above account that the cash in hand has increased by 2,500,000 f. The amount of commercial bills discounted in Paris has increased by 3,250,0001. The protestt_d bills have diminished by 120,000 f. The bsnk-notes in circulation have increased by 6,500,000 f. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has increased by 3,500,0001.; and the sundry credits have diminished by 3,000,000 f. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We have received Hamburgh papers of the 14th instant. They corroborate the last news of Prussia intending to withdraw altogether from her interfer ence in the Duchies. General Bonin, and about 46 officers, are said to be preparing to leave the Hole stein service, and to return to their respestive regi ments in Prussia. There are other reports, which, however, want c onfirmation, of a deputation from Kiel having proceeded to Berlin to request the imme diate evacuation of Schleswig by the Prussian troops. The Danish papers protest that the removal of the Gefion frigate from Eekernforde would be an insult and a violation of the armistice. The Superintendent of the Schleswig Clergy, M. Niedsen, having addressed a remonstrance to the Prussian Commissioner, Count Eulenburg and his col leagues. the Count has forwarded a lengthy rejoinder to M. Niedsen, in which the Schleswig clergy are ac cused of having more regard for revolt than fur god liness. ITALY. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin on the 13th inst. the order of the day was read for discussing the treaty of peace concluded with Austria. The President having read the articles of the treaty, Deputy Balbo proposed that a division should take place on the resolution proposed by him on the 24th of September that the report of the Commission should be adopted. M. Buffs insisted that a resolution which he proposed to move should have the priority. It was to the effect that the treaty of peace concluded with Austria should be considered as an accomplished fact, and that, consequently, no division should take place on the subject of the treaty. M. Balbo demanded that his resolution should have the priority, but M. Buffa was called on by the President to pro ceed. fie delivered a long speech, which he con cluded by observing that the treaty was now irre vocable, and that, even should the Chamber refuse to ratify, Austria would not have the less right to insist on its full execution. He, in consequence, moved the following resolution : First, That the Chamber considers the treaty con cluded between his Majesty the King and the Emperor of Austria, at Milan, on the 6th August, 1849, as an accomplished fact. Secondly, The Chamber will provide, by special laws, for the regular execution of the treaty." An animated discussion ensued, in which MM. Pi- Sinco, D'Azzeglio, Brofferio, and Cabella took part; after which the debate was adjourned. ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR.—GLASGOW, Nov. 16. —The Right Hon.T.Babiugton Macaulay was re-elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow to-day, with out opposition. The Conservative students very pru dently resolved not to bring forward a candidate, and as they issued a placard two or three days ago intimating Visit resolution, and that they wished the former system of triennial election (broken through last year and the year pri-vious in the cases of Lard John Russell and Colonel Muir, M.P.) to be reverted to, the affair passed over without the slightest excitement. DEPARTURE OF TUE CANADA.—The royal mail s t e am ship Canais,.Captain Ha rr i son, which sailed from Li v erpool, for Uslifax and New York, on Saturday forencon, bad a fair complement of passengers, and the u ual mails fur Canada and the United States, OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT. — We have learned with very great pleasure that Mr. Michael Murphy has re. ceired an important appoi n tment under the new B ank . rapt Act—that of Official Assignee. end a thorough hnow ee. If high and honour able' character, great intelligence, ledge of general husinear, such as must come within the coguizaneo of a Court of Ban P kru to', fit any man for a position of great responsibility, surely our esteemed and honoured fellow citizen is that man. Indeed, there is not ono who knows Mr. Murphy but must respect him .o for his genuine v% orth arid charity; there is not one who will not sympathise in his mnited good fortune; and , surely, there is net one who will not repose the pro founiest confidence in his impartial discharge of the dutiei of his important office.—Cork Examiner. IlLooli in thy heart and write. He that writes to h ta,elf, writes to an eternal public.—Eliza Cook's Journal INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Nov. 13, 1849. JOSHUA FIELD, Esq., President, in the Chair. In accordance with the resolution of a special meeting of members, the session of the ins itution commenced on Tuesday evening, instead of, as here tofore, in the middle of January. This is a great improvement, as it assimilates the routine of this useful society to that of other scientific.: bodies ; it will also prove very convenient to the country mem bers, give a greater number of meetings, and enable the session to terminate brilliantly with the President's conversazione. The annual general meeting for the election of the president, council, and officers will take place on Tuesday, December the 18th. The paper read was a "Description of the Coffer dam at the Grimsby Docks," by Mr. Charles N eate, Assoc. Inst. CE. It commenced by briefly noticing the importance of preliminary structures in all works of hydraulic engineering, and the difficulties generally attending their execution. The position of Grimsby, on the south shore of the Humber, ;was the❑ de scribed ; its proximity to the sea ; the natural shelter afforded by the opposite shore of Spurn Head; end the various advantages it presented for the construc tion of extensive docks. _ A general description followed of the enclosure made for the purpose of the dock-works, which com prised an area of 138 acres, and projected five eighths of a mile beyond the margin of the high. water line of the shore. It was explained that the flitnees of the coast necessitated this great projection, as it was requisite to found the new entrance locks in the low-water channel of the river, in order to secure, at all times, a sufficient depth of water for large vessels. These conditions regulated the position of the clffer-dam, which stood in a very exposed situation, and was entirely self-supported; its principal features were stated to b.! its extent, and the form of its construction. The length of the coffer dam was 1,500 feet, supporting at high water a head of water of 25 feet, whilst the excavation behind it was carried to 11 feet below low-water. The form of th,- dam was that of a circular curve, with a versed sine of 200 feet, or nearly one fifth of the span. Several of the constructive arrangements were peculiar • the work consisted of a triple row of wholf timber sheet piling, which derived interior support from counterforts or buttresses of solid sheet piling, driven at intervals of 25 feet throughout its length. The long or through bolts were made to break feint and terminate at the middle row of piling, so that no water could pass along them through the dam. In the middle row of piling, wrought-iron plating was substituted for timber walings, which formed excellent. longitudinal ties, and left an uninterrupted surface on the piling, against which the puddle would lie compactly. It was stated that these arrangements had imparts d an extraordinary degree of stability and tightness to the structure, which had resisted the effects of storms, and the pressure of the tides, in the most perfect manner, during a period of fourteen months. A portion of the ground betwcen the works and the shore was descriied as being of a soft, silty clay, probably the site of an old channel ; and as it wai found, after all precautions, impossible to raise coy solid structure upon it, the alternative was adopted 0 , displacing it completely by raising a bank of chalk stone rubble, which sunk down to the hard bed of clay beneath. This method was successful in forming a very fine embankment. The abundantsupplyof water from Artesian wells in Grimsby was adverted to, and referred to the vicinity of the chalk hills. The conclusion of the paper drew attention to the magnitude of the masonry works now advancing at Grimsby, and for the formation of which the coffer dam was erected, and which, when completed, from the designs of Mr. Rendel, the chief engineer, ansl under the superintendence of Mr. Adam Smith, the resident engineer, will form perhaps one of the moat useful, as well as the most important, maritime works of modern times. The paper announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, November the 20th, was " A Description 01 the Old Southend Pier Head, and the extension of the Pier, with an inquiry into the nature and ravages of the Teredo Navalis,' and the means hitherto adopted for preventing its attacks," by Mr. John Paton. ST. GEORGE'S HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The secon concert given by this society took place on Friday even• ing, before a numerous and select audience. The mt bers exhiLit a decided improvement every time we hear them, and deserve an especial word of praise in that respect. The principal vocalists were Miss Ellen Lyon, who elicited a rapturous encore in " Let the bright Seraphim" (tylr. Harper trumpet obligato); her sister, Miss Eliza Lyon, also obtained an unanimous redemand for " Charlie is my darling" (from Allmaun's selection), which the sang with great feeling and spirit. Miss Collins in " Oh, Araby," deserves special mention; she has a fine contralto voice. Mr. Frank Dudley, in " Philip the Falconer ;" Mr. Pelham, in " Ellen Lo • Caine;" Mr. Mattacks, in " Nan of Battersea;" Mr. H. Buckland, in " The Cavalier;" and last, but decidedly not least, Mr. W. H. Seguin, in " Tne Sea Kings," rendered their respective songs with artistica! excellen e. Mr. T. Harper performed " The Soldier tired" on the trumpet superbly, and was tumultuously encored. 3.1. Zerbini also played De Beriot's " II Tremolo" on she violin, in which he was much applauded. Mr. J. C. Beuthin and Mr. A. Jackson officiated et the pianoforte very creditably. Mr. S. T. Lyon conducted. DENIAL BY A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN OF CHRIS TIAN BURIAL TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC.—It i.S our very painful duty, this week, to record one of those outrages upon the Christian character, which are alike revolting to an intelligent community and a disgrace to that system of religion by which they are sanctioned. The circum stances of the case, as nearly as we can gather them, are briefly these:—The family of John Gully, Esq., of Ack worth-park, having recently been visited by a painful bereavement, application was made to Mr. Kenworthy, the clergyman, to have the deceased interred in the churchyard of Ackworth, where a former branch of Mr. Gully's family had been already buried. Permission was given for the interment (which the Rev. Gentleman knew he durst not refuse), but the deceased young lady having been a Roman Catholic, he would not allow the corpse to be taken within the precincts of the church. It was not likely that a high-minded and honourable man like Mr. Gully would submit to such an insult. What pa rent, with a heart bleeding under the loss of an amiable child, could endure to have the mark of degradation stamped upon the remains of that child , by being denied the right of Christian burial ? And yet this most undoubtedly would have been the case, had the par ties been without the means of providing another place of sepulture. Happily this was not Mr. Gully's position, and a remedy in his case was at hand, though the cir cumstances must have cost the mourning family much additional sorrow. Ackworth-park being contiguou4 to the churchyard, a spot was selected as near as possible to the place where the other members of the family had been buried; and this being by a Catholic clergyman set apart as a place of sepulture, the remains of Miss Gully were deposited there on Thursday morning last. according to the rites of that church in whose faith she died. The conduct of Mr. Kenworthy needs no c m went. Surely such a system will soon lack Cefenclers. and will give place to one whose principles are more equitable and just. We have no quarrel with episcopa lianism as such, but we do object to a church being called national, and beingirupported by national funds, denying its citizens a right to its privileges.—Leeds Mercury. THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—Her Ma jesty has expressed her entire approval of the arrange ments effected by Mr. Charles Kean relative to the en suing theatrical entertainments at the Castle during the Christmas holidays. Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, and their assistants are now engaged in preparing the scenic and decorative accesories for the pieces to be played. The first pieca selected by her Majesty and her Royal consort is the tragedy of Julius Ccesar, which will be very powerfully cast, it being understood that Mr. Macready will personate the noble Roman Brutus, and Mr. Charles Kean, Mark Anthony. It is not at present ar ranged as to who will enact Cassius, probably Mr. Van denhoff, or Mr. James Wallack. The first representa tion is appointed to take place in the Christmas holiday week—viz , Friday, the 28th of December. The first part of Kitty Henry 1 W., in which it is said Mr. Murray, the manager of the Edinburgh Theatre, will play Falstaff, is also named amongst the repertoire of the Court performances for the present season.—Sunday Times. AGONISING DEATH.—The Penang (Prince of Wales's Island) Gazette of Juno 30th describes a most distressing accident. A party of gentlemen from Polo- Ticoose college were on a visit to Batu-Kawan, sonic of whom went out to shoot, in the plantation of the jet , Mr. A. M'lntyre, on the morning alluded to. The Rev. Mr. Thivett, superior of the college, and another, had separated themselves from the rest of the party, and ono or other of these gentlemen having shot a bird, it fell; but its wing only being broken, it attempted to escape by running, and took the direction of a small inclosure, at the only opening into which it entered, the two gen tlemen following in pursuit. Mr. Thivett was in ad vance, and immediately on crossing the entrance of this inclosure he disappeared: his friend, who was close upon his heels, had hardly time to check himself, and so escape the cruel death Mr. Thivett suffered. His friend heard him call out, " he was a lost man," but on approaching the edge of the pit he could not see his person on ac count of a quantity of grass and other rubbish which covered him. The pit proved to be a trap carefully disguised, covered with grass and attap leaves laid upon slender sticks, set for tigers, about twenty feet deep, and planted at the bottom with strong nebong spears, set perpendicular, or slightly incl;ning towards the sides of the pit, and rivetted in the soil so that they could not be moved; on one of these the unfortunate gentleman had of pocket fallen, which tr a nsfi x ed his body, maintaining him in the position i n w hi c h h e f e ll upon i t . A rope was procured, e party knife, the o f wa was pnletnly a down by means of it, and with instrument at hand, he suc ceeded in di v idi ng the spear near where it was fixed to • r the ground. M T • hivett died at three o'clock the fol lowing morning. .ALDRORGUGH, Nov. 17.—The Olive Branch, of end fur London, from Seabam, stru c k on S . wt 11 Bank this morning and sank; crew got on board :schooner. Find N. to'N N.E. strong. VcrvENHoE, Nov. IB.—The Quebec Packet, of Ater deen, Archangel to London, grounded on th e G untleet Sand yesterday-, but was assisted eff after discharging part of cargo. PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES. Sir,—When I wrote to you on Tuesday last I had no intention of troubling you again ; but as one of your correspondents has to-day expressed a reason able desire that I would explain myself more clearly, and as I hope I may do no injury to the cause I would serve by stating my views upon it a little more in detail, I shall be glad to do so, if you will allow. me the opportunity. _ My positions in reference to the demoralizing na ture of public executions are— First, that they chiefly attract as spectators the lowest, the most depraved, the most abandoned of man kind, in whom they inspire no wholesome emotions whatever. Secondly, that the public infliction of a violent death is not a salutary spectacle for any class of people ; but that it is in the nature of things that on the class by whom it is generally witnessed it should have a de basing and hardening influence. On the first head I must appeal again to my own experience of the execution of last Tuesday morning ; to all the evidence that has ever been taken on the subject, showing that executions have been the favourite sight of convicts of all descriptions ; to the knowledge possessed by the magistracy and police of the general character of such crowds ; to the police reports that are sure to follow their assemblage ; to the unvarying description of them given in the news , papers ; to the indisputable fact th , .t no decent father is willing that his son, and no decent master is willing that his apprentices or servants, should mingle in them ; to the indisputable fact that all society, its dregs excepted, recoil frum them as masses of abomination and brutality. (That there were not more robberies committed at this last exe cution was not the fault of the assembled thieves, ~-hone numbers on the occasion the Home Secretary may easily learn from the Commissioners in Scotland ' yard, but the merit of the police, whose vigilance was beyond all praise.) On the second head, after a passing allusion to the hardening influence which familarity even with na tural death produces on coarse minds, I must again refer to my own experience. Nothing would have been a greater comfort to roe—nothing would have so such relieved. in my mind the unspeakable terrors of the scene, as to have been enabled to believe that any portion of the immense crowd—that any grains of sand in the vast moral desert stretching away on every side—were moved to any sentiments of rear, repent ance, pity, or natural horror by what they saw upon the drop. It was impcsihle to look around and rest in any such belief. With every consderation and respect for your suggestion that the concourse may gave been belying their mental struggles by frantic exaggerations, lam confident that if you had been there beside me, seeing that I saw, and hearing what I heard, you could never have admitted the thought. Such a state of mind has its signs and tokens equally with any other, and no such signs and tokens were there. The mirth was not hysterical, the shouting,s and fightings were not the efforts of a strained excitement Seeking to vent itself in any relief. The whole was unmistakeably callous and bad. As the ferocious woman who was charged on the same day with threatening to murder another in the midst of the multitude, proclaiming that she had a knife about her, and would have her heart's blood, and he hanged on the same gibbet with her namesake, Mrs. Manning, whose death she had come to see—as she had her evil passions Excited to the utmost by the scene, so had all the crowd. I believe this was the whole and sole effect of what they had come to see, and I hold that no human being, not being the better for such a sight, could go away without being the worse for it. To prevent such frightful spectacles in a Christian country, and all the incalculable evils they engender, I would have the last sentence of the law executed with comparative privacy within the prison walls. Before I state how, let me strengthen this proposal with some words of Fielding on this subject, to whose profound knowledge of human nature you, I know, will render full justice : " The execution should be in some degree private. And here the poets will again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the Engish drama, in re presenting fr.( quent murders upon the stage. In fact this is not only cruel, but highly injudicious; a murder behind the scenes, if the poet knows how to manage it, will affect the audience with greater terror then it it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an in stance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, Terror ha►h, I believe, been carried higher by this single in stance than by all the blood which hath been spilt upon the stage. To the poets I may add the priests, whose politics have never been doubted. Those of Egypt in pa:ticular, where the sacred mysteries were first devised, well knew the use of hiding from the eyes of the vulgar what they intended should inspire them with the greatest awe and dread. The mind of man is so much more capable of magnifying than his eye, that I question whether every object is not lessened by being looked upon, and this more especially when the passions are con cerned ;for those are ever apt to fancy much more satisfac tion in those objects which they affect, and much more ,:f mischief in those which they abhor, than are really to he found in either. If executions, therefore, were so contrived that few could be present at them, they would be much more shocking and terrible to the crowd with ' out doors than at present, as well as much more dreadful to the criminals themselves." From the moment of a murderer's being sentenced to death, I would dismiss him to the dread obscurity to which the wisest judge upon the bench consigned the murderer Rush. I would allow no curious visi tors to hold any communication with him; I would place every obstacle in the way of his sayings and doings being served up in print on Sunday mornings for the perusal of families. His execution within the walls of the prison should be conducted with every terrible solemnity that careful consideration could de vise. Mr. Calcraft, the hangman (of whom I have some information in reference to this last occasion), should be restrained in his unseemly briskness, in his jokes, his oaths, and his brandy. To attend the execution I would summon a jury of 24, to be called the witness jury, eight to be summoned on a low qualification, eight on a higher, eight on a higher still ; so that it might fairly represent all classes of society. There should be present, likewise, the governor of the gaol, the chaplain, the surgeon, and other officers, the sheriffs of the county or city, and two inspectors of prisons. All these should sign a grave and solemn form of certificate (the same in every case) that on such a day, at such an hour, in such a gaol, for such a crime, such a murderer was hanged in their sight. There should be another cer tificate from the officers of the prison that the person hanged was that person, and no other; a third, that that person was buried. These should be posted on the prison gate for 21 days, printed in the Gazette,and exhibited in other public places; and during the hour of the body's hanging I would have the bells of all the churches in that town or city tolled, and all the shop 3 shut up, that all might be reminded of what was being done. I submit to you that, with the law so changed, the public would (as is right) know much more of the infliction of this tremendous punishment than they know of the infliction of any other. There are not many common subjects, I think, of which they know less than transportation ; and yet they never doubt that when a man is ordered to be sent abroad he goes abroad. The details of the commonest prison in London are unknown to the pub lic at large, but they are quite satisfied that prisoners said to be in this or that gaol are really there and really undergo its discipline. The " mys tery of private executions is objected to; but bas not mystery been the character of every improvement in convict treatment and prison discipline effected within the last 20 years ? From the police van Norfolk Island, are not all the changes changes that make the treatment of the prisoner mysterious ? His seclusion in his conveyance hither and thither from the public sight, instead of his being walked through the streets, strung with 20 more to a chain, like the galley-slaves in Don Quixote (as I remem ber to have seen in my school-days), makes a mys tery of him. His being known by a number in stead of by a name, and his being under the rigor ous discipline of the associated silent system—to say nothing of the solitary, which I regard as a mistake—is all mysterious. I cannot understand that the mystery of such an execution as I propose would be other than a fitting climax to all these wise regulations, or why, if there be anything in this objection, we should not return to the days when ladies paid visits to high waymen, drinking their punch i n th e con d emne d ce ll s o f cewgate, or Ned Ward, the London spy, went upon a certain regular day of the week to Bride well to see the women whipped. Another class of objectors I know there are, who, desiring the total abolition of capital punishment, will have nothing less ; and who, not doubting the fearful influence of public executions, would have it protracted for an indefinite term, rather than spare the demorali zation they do not dispute, at the risk of losing sight for a while of their final end. But of these I say nothing, considering them, however good and pure in intention, unreasonable, and not to be argued with. With many thanks to you for your courtesy, and begging most earnestly to assure you that I write in a deep conviction that I incurred a duty when I be came a witness of the execution on Tuesday last, from which nothing ought to move me, and which every hour's reflection strengthens, I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES DioaExs. Devonshire-terrace, Saturday, Ncv. 17. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. —Yesterday morning a hog pig, the property of Mr. John Boardman, gardener, Lower-read, Deptford, rubbed open the stye door and made its way into the parlour, where the animal at tacked a male infant, about five months old, lying asleep in the cradle. The cries of the child alarmed Mrs. Boardman, who was in the kitchen a(joining, and with much difficulty she beat off the beast, which also bitLher severely in the leg. The child was shockingly lace rated, the left foot being entirely gnawed off. It is not expected to survive. The animal was at once destroyed. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1849. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday Thomas Cheslett, of 11, George ;treet, Mansion-house, was re examined before Mr. Alderman Gibbs on numerous charges of obtaining goods by forged orders and cheques. On the present occasion another charge was made by Mr. R. Swift, of 98, Hatton-garden, shoe-manu facturer, on whom the prisoner called on the Bth ult., and handed him a card with the names of Barge, Cheslett, and Co., saying the firm had agents at Sydney, and that he wanted some samples to be sent to his office in Sise-lane. The next and two following days he also Called, and said he had succeeded in getting an order, and he then went through the number of samples and the qualities that would be wanted, adding that those not approved would be returned. The order amounted to 600 pairs, and the value would have been about 1001. They were ordered to be pecked in cases lined with tin, and the samples were to be deducted, as the firm were in the habit of seedirg samples to Sydney. On being a-ked for a reference, he gave one to " Mr. Ames, sioa mercer, Dover read." Ttiat not being satisfactory, the prisoner gave the names of Messrs. Billings and Howell, King William-street, City, which also not being satisfactory, Mr. Swift tried to get back the samples, but did not succeed. The samples are now in the hands of Mr. Amos, the referee, who keeps a tallyshop. It was further proved that the prisoner was, in November, 1847, employed in the East and West India Docks, as a labourer, at 15s. per week wages, but was soon afterwards lie cherged : also that in July last, he received ss. relief from the City of London Union, and was again re lieved in August and September. The prisoner was again remanded for a week for the attendance of Mr. Burge aed Mr, Amos. Charles James Smith, a gun-manufacturer, of IVhittal-etreet, Birmingham, and who has offices at 2, King IVilliam-street, was charged with appro priating to his own use (as described in the charge sheet) 4,000 muskets and 300 rifles, valued at 2,8001., the property of Captain Charles Scott, of 8, Park-lane. The defendant was remanded for a week, but was allo wed to put in bail for his appearance. BOW—STRE Louis Sonowshi, a Polish refugee and mendicant, well known to the officers of the Mendicity Society, was charged with stealing a miniature portrait of Miss Reyeulds, of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, from the shop of Mr. Child, an artiet, in Bedford street, Covent garden. The prisoner called on Mr. Child, and, with great assurance, told him that they were acquaintances some years ago, and that he (Mr. Child) promised to assist him " whenever he should become rich." The prosecutor repudiated the alleged companionship, and declined assisting the prisoner, but immediately after hi; departure from the shop he missed the portrait in question, which, it was afterwards discovercd,had bean pledged by the prisoner's directions for 10s. at a pa ,a nlereker'e in Lor g acre. Mr. Heasley committed him for trial. SOU Tl] WAR K. Jane Smith, rather a respectable looking young woman, was charged, in the first instance, with rob bing her ready furnished lodgings in Broad-wall, and afterwards on suspicion of having administered poison to a man with whom she cohabited, and who is now lying dead in St. Thomas's hospital. Anne Jones stated that the prisoner and a middle anel man hired apartments in her house about a month ago, stating they were man and wife. The husband told her that he received a pension from the Government, which she had ascertained to be true. The man then appeared to be in good health, but after receiving his pension he suddenly became ill, and was subsequently removed to St. Thomas's Hospital. After his removel the prisoner absconded, taking with her two sheets, some pillow-cases, and other articles, of which witness gave notice to the police. Having told the surgeon who attended the man at witness's house that she had absconded suddenly, he told her to give instant information to the police, in order that she might be apprehended, as he really believed that she had administered poison to her alleged husband. She immediately did so, and after considerable difficulty the pripner was taken. The constable of the L division who took her said he went to the hospital, and was told by the surgeon that the man was in an insensible state, and had been so from the time he was brought in. On inquiry next morning he was told he was dead, and there was likely to be an irquest on him. The first witness was recalled, and stated further that while the inan was lying ill in bed the prisoner was getting drunk, and neglected to give him food. She lent them two extra blankets, and even those she pledged for drink. He would have died sooner had she not sent him to the hospital. The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next. WESTMINSTEi?. IMPORTANT TO BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—A few days ago Mr. Rackstraw, the proprietor of the Gun Tavern, Pimlico, was summoned, he being the treasurer and one of the trustees of a masonic benefit society held at hi - . house, for stopping the sick allowance of Mr. Samuel Gray, a member, and expelling him the society, when Mr. Burrell took time to consider the matter, and gave his decision on Saturday. The main features of the case are these :—The complainent, a carver and guilder, living in the neighbourhood of the Waterloo.hridge-road, met with an accident by which he became lame, and declared upon the funds of the society, he being entitled to 18s. per week sick money. After he had received two or three payments some of the other members complained to Mr. Rackstraw that he ought not to he upon the sick list, and Mr. Rack straw cn going to his private residence, was told that complainant had gone to his workshops in Drury-lane, where he found him. Complainant then claimed his right, although a sick member, to go to his shop, look after his business, give orders to kis men, and see how things were going on. This position was denied by Mr. Rackstraw, who main tained that as his very declaration for the sick money by form set forth that he was disabled from following his occupation, he was not entitled to his sick allow ance. 11e contended that it was never intended that a man should follow his business and have the allow ance, and urged upon the consideration of the tea gistrate that the complainant's own certificates from his medical man proved that it was improper for him to stand or walk, while the circumstance of his going from his private house to his place of work in Drury lane, although he might ride perhaps from the end of his street to the Strand, from which he would again have to walk some further distance, was not denied ; so that, in point of fact, he was fcllowing his occupa tion when he went to his workships. Oa the part of the complainant, who had been expelled at a meet ing of the body to which he had belonged, it was declared most positively that he did not absolutely work during the time Ibr which he claimed the allow ance, end that his medical attendant had stated that he might take a little airing. Mr. BUImnELL expressed seine opinion upon the matter upon its first being discussed, in which he became confirmed upon further consideration. In hie view the question was whether a man receiving the sick allowance must be altogether incapable of at tending to his business. He thought he must, as otherwise a great difficulty would constantly arise as to the absolute amount of business he might be able to perform. The complainant did give some atten tion to his occupation by going from his residence to his place of business, giving directions, &c., and as in his opinion this disqualified ,him under the articles I from receiving the relief, he was sorry to say he must decide against the complainant. The summons was accordingly dismissed. :0 EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH. Nov. 16 —Major- General Lacy ; Colonel Dundas, C.B. ; Lieutenant. Colonel Chalmer, Lieutenant- Colonel Bell, and Lieutenant Colonel Brereton, C.B , K. 11., Royal Horse Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Hardinge, , Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, and Lieutenant-Colonel Pester, Royal Artillery; Lieu tenant- Colonel Maxwell, 82d Regiment of Foot ; Brigade-Major Bingham and Major Dupins, Royal Horse Artillery; with a great number of officers of the garrison and Lord James Hay, assembled at the Mortar Battery, at half-past five o'clock, P,31 when quite dark, to witness experiments with the common 8 inch carcases of the service, used for firing so as to give light to show the position of an enemy in dark nights, and to com pare them with an invention to answer the same purpose more effectually, invented by Captain Boxer, Royal Artillery. The first fired was one of the car cases from an 8-inch mortar, and it fell to the ground at a distance of between 200 and 300 yards, and con tinued burning about ten minutes. One of the cases containing Captain Boxer's plan was then fired. It consists of two tin cases, each being half a sphere ; the one containing the composition, which burns like a brilliant blue light, and the other, the parachute, formed of a light description of closely woven bunt ing. The diameter of the cases appeared to be about five inches, and when fired they attained a consider able altitude, but the parachute did not in the first instance open out sufficiently, and the lighted corn position soon fell to the ground. The second fired on Captain Boxer's plan was a beautiful spectacle, the shells ascending to a great altitude, and when at the highest point an explosion took place, simi lar to the bursting of a rocket in the air, and out came a parachute fully six feet in diameter and about three feet in depth, suspending the brilliant blue light and gradually descending, illuminating the part of the common on which it descended with a very brilliant light. The third and fourth—all that were fired on Captain Boxer's principle—were equally suc cessful, and all appeared much gratified with the re sult. Three other carcases were fired from the 8-inch mortar with a similar effect to the first; but although they gave out flame for a considerable time, they ap peared to burn dim compared with Captain Boxer's. It may be mentioned that the parachute which sup ports the burning composition, on Captain Boxer's plan, is about from seven to eight feet above the burning matter; six cords descending from it are at tached to a small chain about a foot long fixed to the composition shell. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain William Fanshawe Martin (1824) has been appointed commodore of the second class, to command the Lisbon, or Channel squadron, to hoist a broad pendant in the Prince Regent, 92. The G-31- lant Commodore will have the following ships at present in commision under his orders : BAILING-VESSELS. Ships. Guns. Men. Commanders. Prince Regent 92 820 Commodore Martin. Leander Indefatigable Thetis STEAM VESSELS. Guns. Men. 1.1.-?. Commanders. 60 500 450 Capt. Macdougall. A.rr)gant Encounter 8 173 300 Capt G. T. Gordon. Coi.flict Sc;6 160 420 Cow. Lord F. This gives a force at present in commission of nine ships, mounting 354 guns, with 3,595 officers and men. Of the five steamers the Scourge is the only paddle wheel vessel. The Hogue is a converted two ducker, the Arrogant is an auxiliary screw-frigate. All are fully manned and ready for service, with the exception of the Indefatigable, fitting at Devonport. The Prince Regent and Thetis are on their way to Lisbon from the M-diterranean, and the Leander is on her way to Lisbon from Portsmouth. The Rogue , Arrogant, and Encounter are already at Lisbon, and the Conflict and Scourge are about to sail thither from Portsmouth and Devonport. The above will form a very useful and, no doubt, under Commodore Martin's command, a very effi:.Aent and powerful squadron. Commander James A. St. Lager (1848) has been appointed to study steam at Woolwich. The senior commander, William Bambara Rider , . (1806), died on the 11th inst. This gallant old officer entered the navy in 1781, as A.B. in the Crocodile. As a lieutenant he is said to have served in the Diadem, in Hotham's first partial action, March 14, 1795, and in the Aigle he was wrecked near Tunis, July 18, 1791. During the taco or three years which succeeded his promotion to the rank of com mander, Jan. 22, 1806, he served at home in the Sea Pencibles and in the Galykheid, 64, Captain Isaac ‘Voolley; Otter, sloop, Captain John Davies (a) ; and Antelope, 50, flag ship of Sir W. Sydney Smith. He subsequently commanded the Gorgon, 44, and for a long time the Challenger, sloop, on the home and West India stations. On Nov. 20, 1810, he lost his commission by the sentence of a court-martial, for returning home with dispatches from the Lieutenant ' Governor of Curacoa without having obtained the previous authority of the naval commander-in chief at Jamaica ; but the Court, feeling strongly that in the commission of this offence against professional etiquette he had been misled by error of judgment, arising from the best motives for the welfare of his King and country, earnestly recommended him to the favourable consideration of the Admiralty. He was in consequence restored to his former rank in March, 1811 ; he has since been on half-pay. He was in receipt of the Greenwich out-pension. Commander William Hall (1814) died on the 9s.h instant, at St. Servan, in France, and his son, Mr. Henry Hall, died the same day, aged 21 years. Com mander Hall, since his first entry in the navy, in December, 1797, served on full pay seventeen years. In the Boadicea, 38, he witnessed, July, 1799, the attack made by Rear-Admiral Pole on a Spanish squadron lying in Aix Roads, and was in the Superb in Sir James Saumarez's action off Algesiraz and Cadiz, He was made a Lieutenant in 1807. While in the Superb he was earnestly recommended fur his exertions in a battery before Flushing, and when belonging to the Ti rneraire, 98, and the Atlas, 74, had charge of the Bouncer brig at the defence of Cadiz, where he was severely wounded. As a Commander he commanded the Sabine and Jalouse sloops on the Halifax and Jamica stations. COAST GUARD.—Commander Charles Spry Norman to be inspecting Commander of the Scilly District, vice Commander Hall, previously removed ; Lieute nant 'William Hay, to command the Tetney Station ; Lieutenant Archer Prose, to command the Greystones Station, vice Lieutenant Turner, appointed to revenue cutter Lively. SOUTH-EAST COAST OF AMERICA. By the arrival at Falmouth of the Express packet brig, Lieutenant-Commander Lory, we have later dates from Rio. The - Southampton, 50, Captain N. Cory, with the flag of Rear Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., having been relieved at the Cape, by the Castor, 36, Commodore \Vyvill, had arrived at Rio, and was there, Oct. 9, to relieve the Raleigh, 50, Captain the lion. G. hope, with the pendant of Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., ordered home to be paid off, Rear-Admiral Reynolds having been appointed to the command of that station. '1 he Raleigh was daily expected from Monte Video. The Constance, 50, Captain W. C. Courteney, had arrived at Rio, from Valparaiso, August 27, en route, to Spithead, with her freight of specie. She remained Oct. 9. The Tweed, 18, Commander Lord F. Russell, was at Bahia; and the Griffin, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant- Commander Thurburn, was at Pernambuco. The Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Skipwith, ordered home, was at Rio October 9, with the Cres cent, depot ship, Master Commander Bradley. The Athol, 2, troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn, from Woolwich, on her to the Cape and Mauritius, arrived at Rio, Sept. 19, all well. messageisbon on was Satur day sent r- The Scourge, 6, steam sloop , Commander Lord M. dKaeyrr,awftaesrnaolosiol, bu to have t sailed electric for L an down, ordering her to await the arrival of the Stromboli from Sheerness, she having some seamen on board for the Indefatigable, which the Scourge is to leave at Plymouth. The Stromboli, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, will be paid wages on her return from Sheerness, and will remain at Spithead. The Conflict, screw-sloop, Commander Drake, or dered to accompany the Leander to Lisbon, proved on her second trial at Devonport to be anything but a swift steam-vessel. She did not go out so tar as the Eddystone. The wind was strong, and from the N.N.E., and under the most favourable circumstances only eight knots could be got out of her. She was paid advance, and was mustered and inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., on Saturday, and waited the arrival of the Leander. DOCKYARDS.--The storekeeper at Chatham has been ordered to make himself acquainted with the system of individual payments, with the view of its introduction to that dockyard. Captain Mould, R.E , director of works, has been ordered to furnish a plan of a seawall at Gillingham, and an estimate of the necessary repairs. Messrs. Baker and Sons' tenders for constructing the dams of the north and south basins at Keybam steam establishment have been accepted. Six millwrights are ordered to be hired to assist in the erection of new machinery at the rope house at Devonport. ROYAL MARINES.-Lieut.-Colonel William Taylor died on Thursday morning, at the residence of his nephew, Mr. P. O'Connor, Ryde View Villa, Seuth• sea, aged 64. The gallant deceased entered the ser vice in 1805, and last served in the Howe, 120, in the Mediterranean, from which he was removed on pro motion. The commissions of Lieut.-Colonel William Taylor are dated as follows, viz :-Second lieutenant, Sept. 30, 1805; first lieutenant, Sept. 4,1809; captain, April 16,1832 ; brevet major, Nov. 9, 1846 ; lieutenant colonel, April 25, 1849. He served on board her Majesty's ship Glory, Dec. 11, 1805, to Feb. 12, 1808, at the blockade of Brest ; cruising in search of Jerome Bonaparte ; capture of a French frigate, and blockade of Cadiz. In her Majesty's ship Sybille, from Oct. 9, 1809, to Jan. 31, 1810, on the Irish station, Coast of Greenland, and conveying transports and troops to Corunna. In her Majesty's ship Bar badoes, from May 8, 1810, to Nov. 16, 1811, East Indies, blockade of Cherbourg, at the capture of two French timber ships, action with five French armed ships, which were sunk and destroyed. In her Majesty's ship Melpomene and Crescent, from Oct. 31, 1812, to Oct. 17, 1814, conducting French pri soners of war to Scotland, in charge of convoy to Halifax and Quebec, capture of an A mer i can priva teer. Her Majesty's ship Superb, from Dec. 20, 1825, to Jan. 24, 1826, guardship at Portsmouth. Her Majesty's ship Melville and Spartiate, August 3, 1826, to Nov. 27, 1827, Lisbon, landed at Fort St. Julian, north coast of Spain during the operations, from Oct. 16, 1830, to Jan. 9. 1840. Battalion in Ireland, Nov. 12, 1843, to March 25, 1846. Her Majesty's ship Howe, May 8, 1847, to June 19, 1849. PORTSAIOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING.-The American frigate St. Lawrence, 50, Captain Paulding, again passed through the anchorage at Spithead under all sail, from Southampton waters, supposed to be bound for Lisbon and the Mediterranean. Since her ar rival Messrs. Garrett and Gibbon's cutter has been in communication with her: The Northumberland, American packet, arrived, embarked passengers, and sailed for iN` e w York on Saturday. The Dutch 50-gun frigate Prince of Orange passed up Channel on Thursday last; she took a pilot on board off Weymouth, and landed him at St. Leanord's. She is from Batavia, bound to the Texel. The Pandora, 6, Commander Wood, arrived at Spithead on Friday evening from the Pacific, as briefly reported in The Sun of Saturday. She sailed from Wahoo, Sandwich Islands, on the 28th of May, to proceed to England, via Otaheite, Pitcairn's Island, and Valparaiso, which latter port she left on the 9th of August with freight in Californian gold to the amount of 80,000 dolls.-3,4501. worth of which was consigntd to Messrs. Stilwell, and Sone, navy agents, of Arundel-street, Strand, and the residue to Messrs. Shaw, Maxwell, and Cu., of Salisbury-street, Strand, l wine merchants, &c., on account of the merchants of London, which Mr. Robertson, of the latter house, will convey to the Bank to-morrow. The Pandora has no news of political importance from Valparaiso, the packet having since she left brought later advises. She touched on the 4th of September at the Falkland Islands, which she found in a highly promising state, vegetation and husbandry springing up on every side. She sailed from Rio on the 21 -.t Sept. There was then, the reports, about a❑ average business doing in bills of exchange on Eng land, at 25-14. to 26d. The Six per Cent. Stock was quoted at 881 to ; freights were 40s. to London, and 455. to Liverpool. The Hydra, Crescent, and Spider, were at Rio at that date. The Harpy put in for dispatches for Commodore Sir T. Herbert, who was at Monte Video in the Raleigh, 50, in company with the Griffin brigantine, shortly after the Pandora anchored. She heard nothing of the Neptune convict ship, for the Cape. The Athol troop-ship arrived out two days prior, with troops for the Cape; all well. The Southampton, 50, was daily expected at Rio, with ReaT-Adiniral Reynolds, to succeed Sir Thomas Herbert in the command of the squadron. The Constance, 50, with freight from the coast of Mexico for England, was daily expected at Rio, and may consequently be daily expected here. The Pandora has been out nearly five years, employed in the survey of the north-west coast of America (in conjunction with the Herald, 26, Captain Kellet, which has been dispatched in . :search of Sir John Franklin), and of all the officers who went out to serve in her the following only have come home :—Lieut. Wood (commander), Mr. Elliott, clerk in charge, and Messrs. king and `Stanton, master's-assistants. Surveying voyages, like the one in which the Herald and Pandora have been engaged, ar. not usually wtended by those brilliant incidents which attract the notice of the world, but their results are chiefly reduced to practical value in the shape and form of maps and charts, and while labo rious to the officers and men engaged in them are equally creditable to those nations which sustain them for the benefit of all commercial countries. The Pandora sailed this morning for Devonport to be paid off. The following officers came home in her : Lieutenant Jeffreys, first of the Driver steam-sloop, from Valparaiso, to he Flag Lieutenant to Rear- Admiral Dixon at Cork. (Mr. R. G. Tufnell, of the Gorgon steam-sloop, succeeded Mr. Jeffreys as senior lieutenant of the Driver prior to his departure.) Lieutenant Ashe, first of the Daphne, from Val paraiso. Mr. Henry Johnson, Assistant Surgeon, from the Driver. Mr. F. A. Maxse, Milshipman, from the Raleigh, at Monte Video. Mr. Hill, carpenter, and nine invalid seamen from the Herald, from Honolulu. The Supnb, 80, Captain Purcell, had a grand " field day" at Queenstown on the 13th. Rear- Admiral Dixon, the Commander-in-Chief, went on board at 10 30, A.m., and remained until 3, P.M. He visited every part of the ship, then mustered the crew, afterwards beat to quarters, when they fired three rounds, blank cartridge, as quickly as they could ; then general exercise, main and lower deck exercise, shift breeching, trucks, &c. ; then called the boarders by divisions, covered by the small arm men firing; next, the fire quarters ; afterwards divisions of musket and cutlass exercise ; concluding with ball practice at a target moored 800 yards eeaward3, when some " excellent" gunnery was exhibited. Admiral Dixon on leaving the ship expressed the warmest satisfaction at the state of discipline in which he found her and her ship's company. She is ordered to fill up her complement with as much dispatch as the lateness of the day in which the order was made would admit of, being oreLred to join the squadron of evolution at Lisbon. Lieutenant Conolly has been dispatched to Dublin to enter men for her; Lieutenant Vechell has been dispatched to this port to open a rendezvous for the same object; and Mr. Alexander (mate) has been also dispatched to the same part to look up mer. Those that have been sent to her from Plymouth, Bristol, and ether places, are wretched—regular Lord Mayor's men. The Superb was 180 short of her required number (750) on the 14th. All this expen sive " hurry-scurry" at the last moment might have been avoided had the ship been ordered or allowed to enter her crew at Spithead, where she lay eight or nine months while thousands of prime seamen were being disbanded. The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, sailed yesterday for Lisbon, calling at Plymouth, to join the experi mental or evolutionary squadron. Mr. Samuel Wyatt Garratt, of the firm of Garratt and Gibbon, agents to Lloyd's at this port, is appointed Vice Consul for the United States of America for Portsmouth, vice Puppalardo. Wind W., fresh breezes and cloudy. WooLwicif, Nov. 17,—The copper on the bottom of the Terrible steam-frigate having been examined in dock and found in good condition, she was taken out of the dock this afternoon, and has been moored in the river opposite the dockyard, and is ready for commission. A large screw-propeller, made of the best gun metal, by Messrs. Seaward and Co , at their canal iron -works, was landed at this dockyard yesterday. It is 16 feet in diameter, with a pitch of 19 feet, and is intended for the Hogue, 56 gun steam guard-ship, with engines of 450-horse power, and employed on particular service, under the command of Capt. John IFDougall. A fine bust of Vice• Admiral Sir William Parker, G.C.8., is being carved by Messrs. Hellaer and Son, to be placed as a figurehead over the bows of the Nankin, 50 gun frigate, building at this dockyard. APPOINTMENTS. Commander James A. Legard (1838) to study steam at Woolwich. Lieutenant Henry A. Hollin worth (1843) to the Indefatigable, at Devonport. ROYAL MARINES. Lieutenant and Adjutant William Francis Foote, of the Woolwich division, having been promoted to Captain, First• Lieutenant John William Alexander Kennedy, at present Acting-Adjutant at Pembroke, is to be Adjutant of the Woolwich division. THE LAST OF THE MANNING S. The bodies of the two convicts were placed in shells, after casts of the head and synopsis of the brain of each had been taken, and in the evening both were deposited in a grave prepared for them in the corridor leading from the yard to the chapel. The coffins were partially filled ith lime in order to insure an early decay of the remains, this plan being invariably adopted within the walls of a prison. The phreno logical development of the heads is said to agree in a very remarkable manner with the character of the convicts as at present known; and Mr. Donovan, who has prepared the synopsis, will shortly publish the result of his examination for the information of the more curious in these matters. It will have been remarked that Manning stated that his wife was an Atheist, and that her belief was that, after death, the living individual became a lump of clay. How far this may be true it is, perhaps, difficult to say, but one • thing is certain, viz., that the wretched woman exhi bited no Atheistical feelings during her confinement in Horsemonger lane Gaol. She was always punctual in her attendance at chapel, and, as far as outward form could indicate the fact, she was imbued with religious feeling. In her letter addressed to her guardian, and written only a few hours before her execution, she expresses very confidently her hope of obtaining in another world that mercy which had been refused to her in this. It is worthy of remark that she thus commenced it :—" The Queen, like all judges, has a heart of rock, and it is determined that I shall die." She then goes on to state that she has been murdered by her husband, and that he would have to answer to God for her blood. This statement is not very consistent with her apparently affectionate conduct to Manning in the chapel and on the scaffold ; but this again may be only another phase in the scheme of hypocrisy, induced by a desire to create an impression of her innocence. The whole of the pro perty found in th e p osse Ssion of Maria Manning, and that discovered at the South-Eastern Railway station, still remain in the hands of Inspector Yates, and Bur. ton, the police-constable. The latter only holds a few trifling articles; but the former has property in the police-station said to be worth nearly 2001. Mr. gums, Manning's solicitor, has laid an embargo on th e ' whole of it, by a suit against Manning, for money lent in defending him ; and the Secretary of State has' directed it to be detained until the bill of costs be sent in. The property will be sold in the course of a fcw days, and, after paying the legal ge n tl emen w h o de fended the convicts, the surplus will be handed over to Mr. Edmund Manning, the brother. Among the property are several valuable satin dresses, a number of lace veils, ruffles, two gold watches, some French Rentes worth 701., and a large assortment of female wearing apparel. Th e pr o p er ty w hi c h belonged to O'Connor is being administered to by his brother, and will shortly be given up —Weekly Chronicle. INNER, TEMPLE, Nov. I6.—The ordinary course of exercises, &c., required of the students of the Society of the Inner Temple to qualify for their call to the bar in the present term having terminated, the undermen tioned members were called to the degree of Barrister a•-law on Friday evening last:—Benjamin Bright, of University College, M.A.; Henry Thurston Hollan.i, of Trinity College, 8.A.; George Arthur Knightly Howman, of Belliol College, Cambridge, M.A . .; George Halley Prentice, of Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A. ; John Maurice Foster, of Lincoln College, Oxford, ]3.A.. Alfred Wolk , r Simpson , of Jesus College. Cambrid g e NI.A.; George Cooper Butler, of Oriel College, Oxford,, B. A. MR. MACREADY.—BIRMINGUAM, SATURDAY. _. Mr. Macready having tendered his gratuitous services for the benefit of the Queen's Hospital in this to‘sn, appeared this evening at our theatre in the character o` Lord Townley, in te Provoked Husband, lie was ably euppoited by Mrs. J. F. Saville, as Lady Townley. The house was a bumper. Mr. Macready experienced a most enthusiastic reception, and the charity on behalf of which he appeared will be largely btmfited by his services. TRE COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17.—The transactions at our Corn- Exchattr,e yesterday wer e qu it e o f a re t a il c h aracter. Thu demand for wheat is confined to our own locality, and all sorts were ld per bushel lower than on Tuesday. Flour was not considered any cheaper, but Irish manu facture is hard to move. Fine tueaiing oats were scarce, and quite as dear. There was no quotable change in the value of any other article of the trade. Indian corn is still depressed, the business being limited to a few trifling orders from. Ireland. The trade is inanimate to-day, ai9.4 no change in prices. s. d. Es. d. S. d. 9. CI Barley, Feeding.. 3 0 to 3 4 Wheat, per 701 b : Enll6ll, white .. 6 4 to 6 Do. rid.. .. 6 0 G 3' Irish, new .. .. 4 10 5 6 Do., old 5 8 5 :0 Dantsie• • • • .. G 6 7 0 Do., good mixed .. 7 0 7 4 Lowerll:lltie,white 6 6 6 8 Bye, par 4801 b • • 22 0 24 0 Be an s, English, pr imperial quartr 34 0 —36 0 'lrish and Scotch, per 4801 b.. .. 30 0— 31 0 Foreign, duty pd. 25 0 25 0 (European, per im- Do. red.. 6 4 6 8 American • • • 5 9 6 10 Canadian .. 5 9 6 10' Spanish, red and Tuscan and Bar lctta, red .. 5 8 -- 6 0 Aarianopoll 5 3 5 6 Odessa, Polish 5 8 6 6 perialquarter .. 32 0 33 0 Peas, English, per I imperial quartr 32 0 'Foreign • • .. 28 6 29 0 Malt, English, per imperial quartr 50 0 60 Do., Irish .. 55 0 0 Do., brown • • 54 0 —57 it Flour, English, pr - 6 0- 6 5 . _ ho., hard.. • • 4 6 4 !I 28016 31 0— 35 IP Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 4 Irish, extra fine.. 34 0 35 0 Oats, per 451b:— United States, per En.ilish and Scotch 3 0— 3 2 barrel .. 23 0— 26 0 Welsh .. • .. 3 0— 3 2 Canadian .. 23 0— 23 6 Irish, new .. 2 5—2 51 Oatmeal, English, Do., old .. 2 7 2 t & Scotch,pr2lolb 23 0 24 0 Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. 21 6 22 6 imperial quarter 30 0 —33 ( Do., old .. .20 0— 21 0 Irish, Scotch, and MLA' corn, per 2ianx,per6olb.. 3 0— 3 4 480th .. 26 0— 2S 6 ABERDEEN, Nov. 16.—Grain—Oats 14s to 14s 6d, 401 b per bushel ; oats, new, 00s Od to 00s; foreign oats, 14s 6d to 15s Od per qr.; barley, 20s to 21s Cd, 521ba p er bushel; bear, 22s to 235, 521bs per bushel ; wheat, 405 to 45s ; oatmeal, 12s 6cl to 1356 d per boll ; flour, 35s to 38s per sack. Provisions—Beef, 5d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 7d ; veal, ditto, sd' to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s 6d to 5s ; lamb, per lb, Cd to 7d; tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 6d to Is ; hay, her cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each is to 132 d; hares, each, la to 133 d ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 9d ; eggs, per doz, 9d to II d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per pair, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; chickens, ditto, Is 8d to 7s Od ; ducks, ditto, Is 8d to 25 Od; ducklings, ditto, Is bd to Is 8d; turkeys, each, is to 8s Od; geese, ditto, 7s to 8s Od; butter fur exportation (present cure), per cwt, 58s to 6'!s; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 7d to Od ; 4b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14Ibs, 3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of '2Ol lbs, Os to Os. Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Is 4d; barley dust, 7d to 8d; peasemeal, Is 8d to is 9d ; aids, 7d to 8d - bearmeal, is 3d. to is 4d , flour, is 10d to 2s ; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley flour, is 4d to Os Od. MUNTROSE, Nov. 16,—There was a good demand Vs. , day for grain, but prices not higher. Wheat, 621bs, 40s: to 42-i; barley, 53 ditto, 20s; oats, 40 ditto, 15* per quarter. Oatmeal, per boll, of 1401bs, Ils 6d to 12s. rotitoes, per boll, of 5 cwt., cups, 103; regents, 12 CORK, Nov. 16.—We continue to hzve rather exten- sive arrivals of foreign grain, which consist almost alto gsther of maize, producing a further depression in that article. The ree ip , s of home grain are good, the amount for the week being—n heat, 2,296 brls, at I6s to 22* per brl; barley, 4,015 brls, at 8s to lls 9d per brl; oats, 6,973 brls, at 7s to 9s 4d per brl. The samples of wheat arriving at taken at the prices of last week. In prepared and foreign wheat we have had little business, holders being by no means willing to lower their preten sions, while purchasers are desirous of buying on cheaper terms. Prime malting and grinding barley is looked for,, and sells readily at full prices, but inferior samples are ta slow sale at late rates. In prepared barley we have no business passing. The value of oats is firmly mails, Wined, and the stands are readily cleared at fully the rates of last week. In prepared oats the transactions. that hare taken place aro very few and restricted.. Holders are firm, and demand the extreme quotations of . last week, namely 9s per barrel, while buyers seek to purchase on better terms. We question, however, if' the article can be had at a lower figure. We have little alteration in the trade in flour. Old and apprcred brands, as rvell as those of foreign mixed flour, are in. fair demand at last week's prices; but new Irish is neg lected and almost unsaleable. Indian corn continues to meat a very dull sale, while its value has again given. way, the extreme quotation for the article this week. being 61 7s 6J per tun, a decline of about 2s 6d from the prices of last week. Indian meal, and indeed all other descriptions of meal, are completely neglected. Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s tid ; extra 14s 6d ; seconds, lis Od to 12s 6d 9 • households 9s to I Is; thirds, 7s to• 8, per cwt. Oatmeal 93 6d to 10s; Indian meal 63 9d to 7s; wheat meal, 9s t3d to lOs per cwt. Indian corn 125 s Od to 130 s Od perton. Bran 31 I Os to 3/ 15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s Od to 3 Is; average 30s; dealers 32, to 365 Od; average 31s per ton. Straw—Farmers 15s Od to 25s Od; average 208; dealers 25s Od to 27s Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6id ; household loaf 5d to 511c1 per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to Oct per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 5s 8d per hundred. Coals— Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 393 Od to 008 per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to sid ; veal 4d to Od ; pork 4id to sd; bacon 7d to 8d; sausages 5d per lb. Hops 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3/ 5s per ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to Si ss; Valonia 141 to 01; French. 715 s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone. Hemp 34/ to 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 00s ; red. ditto 253 to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 00/ 00s to 001 pet ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s; second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 18s; salted 13s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2icl per lb. Potatoes, white sid to 8d ; Minions lld to 12d ; Guano— Peruvian, ill 10s; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archangel 19s per barrel. RAILWAY SU/Ink; MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 17. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The share market to-day was com pletely inactive, but without any material alteration in prices. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was not so active to-day, but prices were firm. The transactions were as follow :—Great Northern, 13% —Ditto (B.), 635. 3d. dis.— Ditto (Leeds and York xtension) dis.—Great Western, 58 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, dis.—Ditto, Pre ference, 121. 6s. 3d.—London and North-Western, 114 Ditto New Quarters, IA p.—Midland, Halves, 21 5 ,1 c. North British, Quarters, s%—South-Eastern and Dover, New, (No. 2), 15:Y, dis.—Ditto, ( No. 4), 6/. 3s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent., 5 , 4 dis. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 17. _ . STOCK EXCHANGE. The transactions to-day were as fol low :—Caledonian, 115 —North Staffordshire, 9 1 4 ,dia.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (13.), dis.—South Staf fordshire, 3% dis. YORK, Nov. 16. STOCK EXCHANGIL—The transactions to-day were as follow:—York, Newcastle. and lierwick, 17 1 ,4—Ditto (New castle Extension), 11 1 / 2 Great Northern, 6% North British, 11 -York and North Midland, Preference, 5/. 18s. 9d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 17. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Great Northern, Halves (B)., 6 per cent., 4% — Newcastle and Carlisle, 88—North British, Quarters, 2% Staffordshire, B,‘)—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17%. GLASGOW, Nov. 16. _ . _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transaction to-day was— Scottish Central, 15. rAdvertisement.] LECTURES ON CONSUMPTION, Sze. &c.—Dr. Cronin will commence on the 29th instant a popular course of six lectures on diseases of the Lungs, Chest, Stomach, and Liver. During the course, Dr. Cronin will illustrate by diagrams, microscopical observations, &c., his new and original theory of the nature, causes, and forma tion of tubercle, and explain his peculiar and successful mode of treating consumptive, asthmatic, and dispeptie diseases. Terms for one course, 21.; the whole course, lOs. 6d. For prospectuses of lectures, &c., apply ber tween ten and one daily at Dr. Cronin's residence, 14 Leicester-ph-, Leicester-square. 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In this critical state I commenced taking your Pills, which I continued for a few weeks, and they have so effectually cured me that I now enjoy the best of health."—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Withycombe, Exmouth, Devon, the lady of A. Jearrad, Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Loudoun place, North Brixton, the wife of Captain A. Halsted, R.N. of a daughter. On the 14th in : t., a t R y J e , th e wife of Richard Preston Pritchard, Esq, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Dun , an Rectory, Essex, the wife of the Rev. W. 11. Tucker, of a son. In Cadogan-place, on the 15th inst, Mrs. Charles Morgan of a son. On the 15th inst., at Vinkfield Vicarage, Berka, the wife of the Rev. C. J. Elliot', of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Yolesden, Great Bookham, the wife of J. Bon: or, Esq., of a daughter. At Polain. Darlington, on the 15th inst., the wife of E. Backhouse, Esq , of a son. .HARRIED. At Greenock, on the 13th inst., Peter Brown, Esq., to Helen, only daughter of the late Archibald Black, Esq., of Greenock. On the 14th inst., at St. James's, Holloway, Edward Ford, Esq., of Regent-street and Aldermanbury, to Martha Lydia Garner, of Coborn-grove, Bow. On the 14th inst., at the parish church of St. Marylebone , Edward Waddington, Esq., of Epworth, Lincolnshire, to Julia Wilheltnina, youngest daughter of the late S. Bristowe , Esq., of Newark, Notts. On the 16th inst., at the district church of St. John's , Notting-hill, Martin Jesse. third son of Martin Howe, 1:1 3 j.v of Paigrave, S u ff o lk, t o M ar y A nne , s e cond daughter of It • Cocks, of Ladbroke-terrace, Notting-hill. DIED. On the 11th inst., Captain W. 13, Rider, Royal Navy. On the 13th inst., at Farnborough, Warwickshire, Richard Bash, jun., Esq., aged 52. On the !3th inst., in York, W. Etty, Esq., R A., egad 63. On the 13th inst., at Old Buclrenham-lodge, Norfolk, aged 74 the Rev. Thomas Slapp, M.A. On the 14th inst., at Herne-hill, fulwich, Eliza, wife of Richard Fall, Esq., aged 51. On the 15th inst., James Harris, Esq., of Stratford-gree n ' Essex, aged 56. On the 15th inst., Charles, son of Mr. Hermann, of Grove end-road, St. John's-wood, aged 33. On the 16th inst., in Itli:ckman-street, Southwark, Mar garet, the wife of Mr. T. Williams, aged 3. _ _ f r=.(lon Printed and Published by MURDO c kit). 112, Strautl, Printer, At The Sun Office, No. I."' t Strand, in the Precinct of the , c-.. , v0v. in the owe/ Q Ididdlesex, Monday, NoTember 19, 1848. \~`