The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-05 00:00:00

"~'.'t~" , ~ti. .. 'k ~ ~ ` DERBY RACES—(Ms Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Noisette Dolly Two ran. CIIATSWORK STAKES. Stork , Vulcan ., Five ran. CHESTERFIELD STAKES Gemma di Vergy 04c1 Trick Tbreo ran. SUDBUBY STAKES. Yorkshireman Uneipected Eight ran. THE FATAL CATASTROPHE IN LITTLE SWAN-ALLEY. INQUEST ON THE BODIES (THIS DAY). This morning Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy-coroner for the City of London, opened an inquiry at St. Barth-Ao mew's Hospital, relative to the melancholy and la,uent able deaths of Thomas Palmer, and Elizabeth Pullen, Thomas Pullen, and James Pullen, his step-children, occasioned by the fall of the house No. 9, Little Swan alley, Moorgate-street, on the morning of Wednesday last. Previous to the jury assembling at th• hospital, they met the coroner in Little Swan-alley, and examined the ruins. Mr. W. Jones, ward clerk of Coleman-street Ward, in which district the house was situated, attended and watched the proceedings, accompanied by several of the members of the Common Council, Commissioners of Sewers, and vestrymen of St. Stephen's parish. Mr. Woodthorpe, the district surveyor, was present with plans of the premises. The jury was a highly respectable one, comprising the principal tradesmen of the parish in which the dreadful calamity occurred. Mr. Perkins, of Cole man-street, a member of the Common Council, was appointed foreman. The jury having viewed the bodies (that of Elizabeth Pollen having been removed from St. Stephen's dead house to the dead-house of the hospital), considerable delay occurred in commencing the inquiry from the want of accommodation for toe jury, and the proceedings had to be conducted without tables for the jury to wrlte on and take notes of the evidence. The jury having been sworn, The Coroner said that, as the inquiry WAS one of cen eiderable importance, he Froposed first to take evichnce identifying the bodies, then medical evidence as to the nature of the injuries from which the deceased persons died of, and then such evidence as would show ho N and why the building in question fell, and ascertain thereby if any blame attached to any person. Elizabeth Pullen &posed that she lived with Palmer, the deceased, who was a labourer, about 31 yearA of age, at No. 9, Little Swan-alley. The three children now dead were hers, and resided with her and Palmer in Little Swan-alley, at the time of the accident. She Lad resided in the house on two occasions. She had been back the last time about throe or four months, nod occupied the first floor back. The front mom of the first floor was occupied by other persons. The Kings occupied a room above. Abint four months age she lived in the room of a Mrs. Marsh, at 2s. a-week, and continued her tenant till about six weeks since, when Mr. Crane became the landlord of the premises, and she had since that paid the rent to him. She had coniWeined to Mrs. Marsh of the state of the house. There was only one room on the ground fl nor ; the fl 'or of the room underneath that she occupied hal been taken away. Last Seturtiay night week she com plained to Mr. Crane, when she paid him her rent, of the state of the fluor, and pointed out the broken state of the flooring near the fire place. The wool was much decayed. As he stood at the door he looked at the place, and said he would look to it. Ho did not call again until Sunday last, when he came for his rent. On Sunday last she paid him again her rent, but nothing bad occurred then to excite her alarm. In the course of the evening she fancied she hear] a craa!eirg and noticed it to Mrs. King and deceased, Palmer, and said she should soon wet out of the house. By the Foreman—Mrs. King said at the time that she had hear I strange sounds, and that they had bet ter get out as soon as possible. Witness continued—About nine o'clock on Tuesday night she heard a cranking noise near the fire place. ft appeared to be in the same place she had heard it before. She and deceaeed, Palmer, had not then retired. All the family elep: in tl_e same room, hut in different beds. The children tin -a bed under the place where she heard the noise. TI er self, Palmer, and the baby slept in one bed, end the three children new dead in the other. About 10 o'clock they retired to rest, and about 5 minutes past 12 she was awoke by bar child. She got out of bed to give him something, and walked the room with him for a short time. Sbe then heard a fearful cracking again. Her hushing the child did not shake the room. The room began to Anita very much, and she awoke Palmer and desired him to get up, as the house was falling. Beget up and went to the children, and she opened her room door and alarmed the other inmates (the Kings, who were over her head). Whilst standing on the top stairs outside her room door, one half of the II eer of the room gave way, the window fell, and was smashed all to pieces, as was also the fire place ; hearing the crash she tried to run do sn stairs, and the shaping of the house threw down the stairs, and she and her baby were thrown into the street ; but how it happened she had no recollection. She had made no complaints to the ward beadle or any other person. She had not seen any of them round that neighbourhood. She believed her mother, who lived in the house before her, had complained of the state of the house to a lady who visited the neighbourhood to distri bute charity amongst the poor occupants of the neigh bourhood. Crane accepted her as a tenant from Mrs Marsh, about 6 or 7 weeks ago. By the Jury—Last week she experienced difficulty in closing the door, but it did not create alarm in her mind as to the state of the house. By the Foreman—Her other son, who was about 15 years of age, had not returned from his work when the accident occurred. She saw him in the court shortly after the house fell. She did nut know where Ciane lived. She believed in Charles-place, Bell-alley. The boards in front of the fire-place were all broken away and decayed. There were no nails in them, and after sweeping the fluor she had frequently to put the boards in order the best way she could. James Frederick King deposed that he was a book binder. He occupied the top floor back, over that of the last witness. The other room on that floor was unoccupied. He had lived in No. 9 about seven months, always occupying the same room. During that time he had complained of the state of the house. A week before the house fell he complained to Crane of the dila pidated state of the house, particularly the state of the window of the room ; it had a frame, but most of the glass was broken. On complaining of it to Crane, he said they might put in the glass themselves if they wanted it. He paid Crane ls. 6d. lee week rent. When he took the room of Mrs. Marsh the glass was then broken, but being unable to buy glass h e patched it up the best way ho could. The floor of his room was " thoroughly rotten and eaten away." H e showed it to Crane, who said, "Oh, you must make the best of it." On Sunday morning last Crane called for the rant. He was unable to pay him, and again com• plained of the state of the house, to which Crane replied " If you don't pay you know the consequences," and he then left. On Tuesday night he was engaged preparing his work for the following day. About ten minutes to 12 he and his wife retired to rest ; a few minutes after he was aroused by a sound, and he said " Hark, how its hailing." His wife said it was no such thing for the stars were shining. He and his wife, and his wife's sister and four children slept on the floor, having no beds ; shortly after hearing the sound he found himself below ; the floors appeared to kayo " fallen in all of a lump together ;" there was only a shop on the ground floor ; the cellars went down a few steps ; he did not think any of the ground floor had been cut away ; he had never complained of the state of the house to any one but Crane ; he believed the house had not been examined by any one ; be bad never seen a surveyor there ; C rane. the landord, lives at 19 , Little B ell - alley ;heis a Ines. ' monger in some office in the City. Mrs. King, who walked borne, and appeared to be suffering from the injuries received on Tuesday night, deposed that about three months ago a person inspected the house, and ordered the rooms to be whitewa.hed. He inquired who was the landlord, and said the house appeared in a very bad state, From the manner in Vitt SgN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock, THE SUN, Le fl 1: - <4, FRIDAY EVENING„ SEPTEMBER _5, which the person alluded to came, she thought he must have come from the Board of Health. She had long noticed the dilapidateh state of the house. Pieces of mortar used to fall from the ceiling. On Friday night she and her sister awoke by a sound like the "unloading of a cart-load of bricks." The noise appeared to pro ceed from between the two houses. She got up and procured a light, but could not see that anything had fallen. She did not mention it to any one the following day, because Mr. Crane was very hard upon them, and she thought if she did he would think it was done to get out of the place. On Sun day Seibert, who occupied the room adjoining Palmer's, was hammering all day, putting a lock on to his door. Mrs. Palmer said, " I don't think any of us will want locks or bolts long for I don't think the house will stand long." Witness then corroborated her husband's evi dence with regard to the noise on Tuesday night. She got up with her baby, and saw in the fire-place a light which came from below, and she said to her husband she thought the house was on fire, and whilst saying that she fell through the floor. She saw the crack the side of the room nearest No. 8, from whence the noise appeared to come. Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Cox looked at the house in the spring of the year, but she did not know their object. By the Foreman—On Friday night she and her sister considered the house was un-afe. She made no attempt to leave or make any complaint of the state of the house. Sarah Parry, who formerly occupied rooms in the house, deposed—That about three years ago the noticed the dilapidated state of the premises. The plaster from the ceiling near the window, and the bricks from the fire place began first to fall. She was a tenant to Mrs. Marsh, and on complaining to her she had it repaired. About the same time one of the steps of the stairs gave way froth decay. The summer before last while white washing the room some of the plaster fell down, and she could see through. She was sister to Mrs. Pullen, and her mother occupied the house for a long time. From her observations she was satisfied the house was in a very bad state. Mr. Horton, Mr. Reddington, and others called some months since and looked at the exteriors of the houses. They said they wished the houses were all down, and asked the occupants why they did not leave. They said the parish wished to have the houses down. Mr. Reddington did not go into the house because he was afraid to go over the stairs. Mr. E. \Voodthorpe, district surveyor, deposed that he knew the premises in question and produced plans he had made of them. About 13 months ago, when he was condemning houses in Sun•court, adjoining Little Swan alley, he found from observation, before his notice had been called to it, the property in a dilapidated state. He condemned the property in Sun-court under the old building azt, which vested these powers in the Court of Aldermen ; those houses were pulled down. At that time he examined the exterior walls of the building in question. He bad no power to enter the premises an'l survey them. He had to take care that no danger was likely to occur from old buildings to pas sengers and the aaljoining property. By the new act the eccupicTs of houses were pro ected as much as pa3sen gers, eta. Under the old act, and on a certain process being gone through, he had power to survey—without it he could not enter premises for tl!at purpose ; the In spector of Pavements gave him notice of any houses being dangeroul, and on receiving it he applied to the Court of Sewers for authority to act. He was not aware if Little S,van-atley was in tho dis trict of the Inspector of Pavements. If he saw danger he should move in the matter without notice ; and rep)rt t) the Cammissioners of Sewers. There was nothin2 definite in the act to compel sur veycrs to wa7k round their diAriets like polictonen, and examine tie swellings, but it was the spirit of the act. 110 had condemned a whole, street on his.own observa tion, and without his attention Laving been c.tiled to it. The removal of the houses in Sun-court had not affected the stability of the house in Little Swan-alley. Thee() houses were from 150 to 200 years old. The wood woik was all worm eaten. .He had examined the premises since the accident. Iu his judg:nent the interior of the house fell bodily from decay of the ends of the rafters and wood work generally being worm-eaten, and, falling in this manner, the outer walls were forced over a shed into an adjoining court. The weight of the people in the house was more tbau the floors cmld bear, and that was the cause of their giving way. The exterior settlements of the house ss ere not so serious as many in the neigh bourhood. The house in question showed less exterior in,liratious of falling than the houses Nos. 10, 11, and 12 now etatding. Similar defective aution was going on in them, and that of No. 9. About ten or twslve years ago he beliived the house was prescribed by the Wood inquest. He had since taken measures for securing the whole of the adjoining property. Unless titre were some exterior indication of danger he should nc , t, ask to -go in,-idc. The only way to have known the stae of the ,ors would have been Ly taking ni) the boanFng and ex.mining the bcarirg% A Jl.ror handed to the witnees a presentment relative to the building,: in question dated 1845, and asked whose duty it was to take proceedings under it? Witness raid be believed it was referred to a eelev committee of the C Ant of Aldermen. The Foreman said that he was the fnrornan of the in. quest referred to, which was presented to the Court of Aldermen, who refers.. d it to a select committee of the Aldermen of the ward thrmg,h the City solicitor, with power to take the necesary steps for putting thera in a proper state of repair. From his own knowledge he could state that the repairs required were attended to. By a Juror—He had no doubt the surveyor at that time h , d the repairs done. In answer to a question from Mr. Waddington, one of the jury, Mr. - Vroo dthorpe said-that he took the opportunity of going into the houses No. 8, 10, 11, and 12, a day or two sinco, and he found the interiors of them in an un sound state. Ho had since obtained the nec.s , ary au thority, and had condemned them this day. Die nso.4 dangerous part of these houses arose from the chimney shafts, which, owing to the excavations of the cellars, were now supported by the joi,ts of the buildirr,; only. These old chimney shafts were three times the weight of modern shafts. Surreptitious repairs to houses were frequently done, the surveyors knowing nothing of them, and great injury was frequently done to houses by sink ing toe cellars 12 or 18 inches deeper than they ought to be, and it was generally done without the knowledge of the surveyor. He considered his duties to be, that, on seeing a building in a ruinous and dangerous state, to give notice to the Commissioners of Sewers, and when on his rounds to look out and examine buildings externally, and see if there were any dangerous or ruinous indications. He made periodical visit, but at no speci fied time, such as once or twice a-year. By Mr. Bennett (juryman)—Have not the state of these houses come under your especial notice since you condemned the houses in the neighbourhood about 2i years since? Mr. Woodthorpe—There Lave been no external indi• cations of danger. _ By Mr. Bennett—Did you take no mean 3 to survey these houses when in the neighbourhood about three weeks since ? Mr. Woodthorpe—l did not examine them specifically, but only in a casual way with other buildings. In answer to a question from another juryman, Mr. Woodthorpo said he did not know helot e the accident that these houses were condemned in 1845. The duties of the surveyor were defined in the old act, but had not been inserted in the new act. By Mr. Jones (Ward Clerk)--He believed the indica tions of decay in these houses have been going on ever since they had been built. The walls and chiwnies were from 1 foot to 18 inches out of the perpendicular. The houses 10, 11, and 12, were kept back in their position by being tied with iron rods. Mr. Perkins, the foreman, was then examined relative to the presentment of the house to the Court of Alder men in 1845, and added that as the landlord paid atten tion to the summons, the repairs were done without the further interference of the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Bennett proposed to examine Mr.lPerkins relative to the actual execution of the repairs, but he wa3 inter rupted by The Coroner, who said it was not necessary to go into that. They need not be so particular, because that was merely a Court of inquiry. Mr. Bennett said he thought the jury should examine into it, because if the Corporation faded to do their duty in 1845, they were to blame. The Coroner said they had nothing to do with that now. It was a question for their consideration when they deliberated. After some further discussion, The Coroner said it had been shown that repairs were ordered and executed. A Juryman sail he thought the question aro se whether the City surveyor of 1845 did his duty on the presentment made. The Coroner said that was not a question then before them. Mr. Pei kins said that repairs were done to the house at the time, which satisfied the gentleman who presented the property. -- • - John Thomas Hopkins)n, sanitary inspe c t or , and ew ap er p s oin fo appointed theto in spector of pavements, deposed that he was those offices by the Commissioners of s No:th Middle district, in which Little Swan-alley is situate. When he saw a dilapidated building, it was his duty to give notes to the district surveyor in writing. As a sanitary officer he examined premises int erna ll y ' and externally. He was appointed to his office in April, 1856, and he inspected the house in question on the 23d of May last for sanitary purposes. The state of the houses he reports to the medical officers, who nport to the Corumiskioners, who .then order the issue of the proper notices. The house then only appeared to want the plaster made good and cleaning. If he had noticed anything cut of the usual course he should have reported it to the surveyor. He considered he was empowered, as inspector of pavements, to enter any house he thought ruinous or dangerous. Ho was through Little Swan alley four times last week, but did not notice any judicatioos of clangor LIVIA the house, The district sure. veyor always attended promptly to his reports. He bad examined many houses, especially in Golden-lane, iu worse conditio n than thosel were. He served Mr. Crane with the pr)per notice to lime white and plaster, and the repaira were done. He tdid not notice if the staircase was broken, or that the boards of the floor were loose. The cellar was uninhabited ; he did not inspect it. Mr. Randall, of No. 4, Sandell•terrace, Poplar, owned the property in question up to about four years since. During the time he had it the City authorities complained of its state, and gave him notice to repair, which ho at tended to. He thought the notice was served on him about ten years since. He disposed of the property, about eight or nine houses, to Mr. Crane. It was held under a lease on the life of an old lady of Greenwich, who died about five weeks since. By a Juryman—He could not recollect the amount of repairs done to the house, in consequence of the notice served on them. All was done to the satisfaction of the authorities. Crane acted as his agent for the collection of the rents previous to his purchasing witness's interest in them. Mr. Crane, the person above referred to as the holder of the property, deposed that he resided in Little Bell alley, and was a messenger at Messrs. Morrish and Co., Gresham-street. When he took!the property Nos. 8 and 9 were rented by Mr. Marsh, who let out N 0.9 to weekly tenants. Marsh left the premises about 4or 5 weeks since. He used to go to No. 9 to collect his rents, and went into the rooms. He saw on those occasions the tenants. On Saturday fortnight Mrs. Pullen called his attention to a board that was loose in the floor near the fire place. It appeared to have been occasioned by the clopping of wood. On moving it he could look into the cellar. Last Saturday night be called, but saw neither of the tenants, and wont again in consequence on Sunday morning. He then saw Mrs. Pullen who paid him her rent without making any complaint. She did not call his attention then to the state of the floor near the fire-place. He also saw King, who made no complaint. A step on the stairs was lose but nothing to indicate danger. No complaint was even made to him of the state of the house except the loose board. He was in the house three hours before it fell. He did not no tice anything that indicated its falling. He repaired all the windows except King's a week before the accident, and he refused repairing theirs because they were bad tenants. He had only been served with a notice to lime white and repair, which he attended to at the time. By a Juryman—The property was not surveyed when ho purchased it of Mr. Randall at 75guineas per annum. Shortly after he had them they were condemned. He bad received the rents up to the time of the accident, not knowing the old la ty was dead on whose life the property was held. He knew the property was in a bad stw.e of repair, but he did not consider it dangeroug. Mr. Bennett—lt you had attended to the repairs of Pullen's floor you would have discovered the joists were rotten. By a Juryman—He never examined the main tim bers of the house. He did the repairs when Marsh rented the house. Mrs. Sarah Marsh, of 10, Little Sman.alley, deposed that when her husband rented No. 9, they let it out in tenements. She - lived in it about three years ago. It was not particularly out cf reno.'r. It was rented as an old house. She had complained of certain repairs being necessary to Mr. Crane, which he had attended to. She never heard any cracking sounds, nor considered it in a dangerous state. Bj a Juryman—She never felt any alarm about the house. Police constable Richard Hewett, No. 154, deposed that he had known the houses for 18 months, an:: the inhabitants also. They never complained to him of the state of the premises. On Tuesday night, ab,ut ten minutes past twelve, he heard a noise like unloading stones from a cart, accompanied with screaming. He proceeded to the spot, and fonnd the house in ruins. Screams were coaling tro:n persons in the ruins, as well es those in the surr..unling houses. The house appeared to have fallen down bodily. He then procured assist ance Mrs. Siebert and Mr. Siebert were got out, and conveyed to the hospital. Palmer and the other de ceased, with the whole of the inmates, were taken from the ruins. Palmer was taken out dead about two hours after the accident. He was taken from the cellar. Pollen and the other deceased were taken out before Pa,liner. They were conveyed to the hospital. He passed the house about a quarter of an hour before the accident. He neither heard nor saw anything indi cating danger. Eiery assistance was rendered to the persons as they were taken from the. ruins, and they were forwarded without delay in cabs to the hos-. pita% By Mr. Thrmett—lie did not consider it a part of his duty to report the dangerous state of buildings to the district surveyor, if be saw anything dangerous, or the inhabitants informed him of anything dangerous, he should report it to his inspector. The Cs;roner said he bad the names of several other witnesses, who spoke to the ra•ne facts, but The Jury said they considered it was not necessary for them to be examined. Mr. Elliott, churchwarden of St. Stephen's Coleman street, stated that there were a number of these dilapi dated houses in the neighbourhood in question, which required examination, and ho hoped the coroner and jury from what they had that day heard, would express strongly their opinion that it should be done forthwith, He shonld call on the sanitary inspector to do his duty more efficientiy than lier:l9fore. Mr. In,pecter TAhunter handed iu a list of the de lapidated houses in the district, and said that although it was no part of the duty of the police to examine these buildings and report than, he should take care it was done in future, Dalle,y, house surgeon, deposed that when Palmer and 111: two lads were brought to the hospital, about 3 o'clock on Wedne:day morning, they were all dead and the extremities were cold. There were no fractuns and they have appeared to have died from suffocation. They presentf . ,d the appearanco of persons hAviogsuffer,d from an accident such as that above described. Hewett was re-called and stated that the girl Pullen was not sent to the hospital because a medical man whe was pi e , t2nt, and Mr. C ild, the police surgeon, pro rounced her dead. This beinz the whole of the evideoce, Mr. Benuttt submitted that evidence should be pro duced to show that the necessary repairs wale done to the house on the pr, , sentiment in 1845, and what was the state of the building then. The Coroner said he did not consider it was necessary for them to go back so far on that occasion. It would bear but very remotely on the fall of the house. 'Mr. Bennett said that if the timbers of the house were rotten in 1845, no repairs could have made them sound and safe.. The Coroner said they had heard the evidence cf the foreman on the circurestanees. He would call any one else the jury wished, but he thought it unnecessary. The Jury having expressed an opinion that they thought it unnecessary to call further evidence, The Coroner summed up, remarking that it would be their duty, amongst other questions, to coneidt r if there had been gross and culpable neglect on the part of any person that would make him liable to a criminal charge. The external part of the house did nut appear to have given indications of danger, and it was for them to say if there had been that serious and formal notice given to the landlord to repair the house by the inmates, the neglect would involve him in a charge of manslaughter. He (the coroner) wished and he had no doubt they did also, that a little more vigilance had been used on the part of those who Lad to survey the neighbourhood, and asur tain the state of the buildings, because if there had been the rotten state of the house must have been found out, without blame atltaching to any person for it, and the house have been pulled down and this unfortunate acci, dent have been prevented. The jury, after deliberating twenty minutes returned a verdict of accidental death, accompanied with the fol lowing recommendation :—" The jury earnestly recom mend to the Coinms loners of Sewers that they would authorise a special survey forthwith to be made of all buildings in the City of London, that from age, or other c :uses, may be supposed to be outof substantial repair." The Coroner said he concurred in the recommendation. The inquiry occupied from 11 o'clock till half-past four o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE--(This Evening.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 30. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Nicolas Mahs as Consul at Liverpool, for his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 2. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Appel as Vice-Consul at South Brisbane, in New South Wales, for the Free City of Hamburgb. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 5. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Franz Tagliaferro as Consul at Malta, and of Mr. Lewis Power as Consul at Gibraltar, for his Majesty the Emperor of All the Rushy. _ _ _ The Queen has been also pleased to approve of Mr. N. Solomon as Consul at St. Helena for his Majesty the King of Prussia. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, report ing that the Board of Health at that place have issued a decree declaring the port of Sines to b 3 free from infection and the port of Funchal to be considered infected. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen, stating that in consequence of the disease prevailing amongst cattle in the Duchy of Holstein, an order has been issued prohibiting their importation into Denmark from that Duchy, unless accompanied by a certi ficate of a veterinary surgeon of their being in good health when exported, and a declaration of a magistrate that the district from which such cattle were exported was free from disease at the time of exportation. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de• spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Algiers, trans mitting a copy of a decree which has appeared in the Moniteur Algerien, by which English packet ships, bring ing to Algiers pilgrims from Mecca, will be subjected to a navigation duty at the rate of one ton per passenger only ; bat under the condition of no other commercial operation being effected by such vessel. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of " - e r i vy C. , uncil for Trade and Plantations have receive( l , through the Secr e t ary o f S tate for Foreign Affairs, a, .o of en of a Do spatch from h er M a j es t y ' s Charge d'Aff res en closing copy of a Spanish Royal It •••fo o l .o e, onapting from all dues vessels exclusively importing into Spain wheat, flour, barley, and maize, until the let Juno, 1857. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-HALL, SEPT. 5. sth Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. John Stephenson Ferguson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet- Major A. W. D. Burton, C. 8., whose Brevet rank has boon converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal War rant of 6th Oct., 1851. 12th Light Dragoons—Cornet John uncle Cotton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vico Harford, promoted. 26th Foot—Captain William Hopson Hopson to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Fer dinand Wbittingham, C. 8., promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Lieutenant-Coloneley ; Lieutenant Henry Charles Hardinge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hop son ; Ensign George Hogarth to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Hardinge; Philip Conway Story, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hogarth. 43,1 Foot—Ensign Chris.topher Elora Hatchell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Calvert, who retires ; Henry Charles Talbot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hatchell. 51st Foot—Captain George Henry Hibbert-Ware, from the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Marston, who exchanges; Lieutenant Charles Goddard to be Captain, by purchaAe, vice Young, who rotires ; Ensign Eustace Beaumont Burnaby to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goddard ; Henry Stewart Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Burnaby. 54th Foot.—Major Rowland Moffat to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel W. Y. Moore, who retires upon full pay ; Captain J. C. Hill Jones to bo Major, without purchase, vice Moffat; Captain Robert Bourne, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Lake, who exchanges; Lieutenant John S. Swann to be Captain, without purchase, vice Jones • En sign Arthur Herrick to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Swann. 58th Foot.—Captain Robert Children Whitehead, from the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Herbert, who exchanges. 74th Foot.—Lieutenant F. R. Thackeray to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Robert Bruce, promoted by purchase, to an unattached majority. Ensign A. W. Chalmers Magrath to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cathcart, who retires. Ensign Colin Hugh Thomson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thackeray. Edwin Tarver Sainsbury, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Magrath. Samuel Richards, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomson. 83th Foot.—The Christian name of Quartermaster Evans is Matthew, and not William, as previously stated. 97th Foot.—Captain Henry Fletcher Marston, from the 51st Foot, to be Captain, vice Hibbert-Ware, who ex changes; Captain C. St. John S. Herbert, from the 58th Foot, to be Captain, vice Whitehead, who exchanges. 2cl. West India Regiment—Captain Percy Godfrey Bot field Lake, from the 54th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bourne, who exchanges. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign John Theodore Cart wright, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, rice Thursby, pro moted ; Ensign Christopher John Barnard, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Gill, who has retired. UNA.TTACIIED.—Brevet-Major Robert Bruce, from the 74th Foot, to be Major, by purchase ; Brevet-Major Adol phus W. D. Burton, C. 8., sth Dragoon Guards, to have his Brevet converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854; Brevet-Major Robert B. Hawley, 89th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th aitober, 1854. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, yes terday, from the Governors of Tasmania, Victoria, Coy ion, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Malta, and Western Aus tralia. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Aus tralia. COUNTY OP MIDDLESEX REGISTRA.TION.—The bar risters appointed to revise the list of voters for the county of Middlesex intend bolding their courts at the following times and places : —Thursday, Sept. 25, the White Horse, Uxbridge ; Saturday, Sept. 27, the Black Dog, Bedfont ; Monday, Sept. 29, Sussex Hotel, Bon verie-street, Fleet -street ; Sept. 30, the Lords Justices Court, Lincoln's-inn ; Oct. 1, Belvidere Tavern, New road ; Oct. 3, New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road ; Oct. 4, Green Man, Bethnal-green ; Oct. 6, Windsor Castle, Broadway, Hammersmith ' • Oct. 8, Ca3tle Inn, Brent ford ; Oct. 9, E n fi e ld Arms, Enfield ; Oct. 10, Cbandos Arms, Edgware ; Oct. 11, Jack Straw's Castle, Hamp, stead-heath. APOTHECARIES' HALL—The next preliminary ex aminati, n of candidates in classics and mathematics will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 18th and 19th Nov. The examination is at present voluntary, and the subjects of the current year, viz., Nov., 185 G, and March and July, 1857, w ill be as follow :—ln Greek, the Gospel of St, John, and the Ist Book of Homer's Hail. In Latin, the Ist Book of the Odes of Horace and Cicero, "De Amicitia." In. mathematics, the Lt Book of Euclid's Elements, arithmetic and alge bra, including ail:Lyle equations. PROSPECTS OF THE BARVESE There seldom was a year when the prospects of the harvest were either more varying or more im portant than we now find them. About ten weeks ago the indifferent yield of last year, the extra ordinary consumption of the war, the fact of large corn-growing districts in the East having been left untilled and the backwardness of the spring, raised the prices of- grain to a pitch at least very dis couraging to commercial enterprise. Then came several weeks of unusual heat, during which the crops ripened so fast that there arose a new panic ; hands could not be found, railway works were sus pended to release labour for the fields, but the farmers would not bid high enough they trusted to a continuance of the fine weather ; and much grain that might have been got in was allowed to remain on the field. There was then a sudden change of weather, which told severely on the crops, whether standing or cut. The market rose, anal we were threatened with scarcity. We have now had a week of fine drying weather ; and each day we read that the corn market is " dull," or "drooping," or " heavy," as the gratifying prospect of plenty is usually announced. The clear sky now above our heads certainly seems to pro mise ample opportunity for saving all that is still uugarnered, and it will be the fault of the farmer if his rickyard is not at least as well filled as in most former years. Thus far there is no prospect of prices receding to a point injurious to agricultural interests, but there is little doubt of that plenty which is necessary for the interests of trade and the comfort of the people at large. Such are the fluctu ations to which we have been exposed in the brief space of ten weeks. The importance of the question consists in the obvious advantage of what may be called a commercial revival just now. It would on all accounts be a great thing for Europe if the minds of men could be diverted from painful topics, from sores ever ready to break out anew, and feeling ever threatened with collision, to the vulgar but more useful rivalry of material enter prise. Railways, steampackets, mines, manufac tures, the conflux of traders, the currents of traffic, and even the streams of summer tourists, un doubtedly tend to unity and peace, and slowly but surely conduce to the improvement of mankind. One of their first conditions is plenty, and that we may now reasonably expect for one more year. From the Continent the accounts of the harvest are still more favourable. As it was earlier than iu this country, it has not suffered to the same extent by the general change of weather three weeks ago. A well-known correspondent, writing from Magdeburg on the 30th ultimo, and recording his obServations on a journey from England, describes the harvest as every where much above the average, and, for some hundreds of miles, more abundant than in this country. As this occurs where the proportion of tillage is much larger than with us, the result is all the more important. There is'probably an im mense increase upon former years, and of that in crease England will have the full advantage. The great fretwork of railways is rapidly pervaing and penetrating the whole continent of Europe, and not only the vast plains of Germany and France, but even the valleys of Switzerland, aro now traversed by the locomotive. The effect upon prices is the same as we have already experienced in this coun try. But a few years ago the most saleable and movable things—wheat, fat beasts, horses, butter, cheese, and eggs—varied considerably in price in districts not very wide apart ; and it was usual for families to fix their residence in this neighbour hood or that, because, it being thirty or forty miles from a market, the necessaries of life were ridiculously cheap. Meat was cheaper by two pence a pound ; butter was only half the price ; eggs were to be had in incredible abun dance, and poultry at fabulous prices, because the only means of conveying these articles to the dis tant market were slow, costly, and precarious. All that is now past. In England, at least, leav ino, Wales slid the Highlands out of the question, the market is becoming almost uniform, and no one district is at much disadvantage compared with the rest. Railways aro doing the same for the Contin ent, and prices are consequently often twice what they were a few years ago. It is so, at least, in all articles of the better quality, for the English will have the best of everything, and appear every where as the rivals of the native consumer. Thus year by year Europe becomes one vast market, and we recover from those great fluctuations that but the other day were of frequent occurrence. There are many things to be considered in com paring the cost of production in countries and populations so different as those enumerated in the letter of our correspondent ; and perhaps some of these may escape the notice of the most vigilant railway traveller. Where labour is cheap it is commonly thought to be so much the less valuable ; if agricultural itnplensieuts are simple, they may he su much the less capable of heavy work, and light carts are often a necessity of bad roads. If there are no trees or hedgerows to ob struct the rays of the sun and harbour birds and insects, on the other hand the subdivision of pro perty, and the minuteness of the patches devoted to the different crops, present a more effectual check to profitable cultivation. Throughout great part of Germany, indeed, there are large domains, and farms of corresponding proportions. But we are slow to believe that oven in the vast plains of central Europe, or the fertile banks of the Elbe, agriculture is under any considerable advantage compared with this country. At all events, we should like to see the comparison instituted by those who have had the advantage of a residence, with ample means of information. Undoubtedly, a large proportion of the Continent is cultivated in a way that would not answer in this country, and that would ruin both peasant and proprietor in the end. Nevertheless, in such a year as this the result is an abundant harvest, not only of grain, but of pota toes, beetroot, and many crops little known here ; and by all aceounts wo are promised an abundance which will tell even on future years. This, too, is plenty after p as co . It comes a t a time when labour, money, and enterprise are happily released from the unproductive employments of war. It is not unreasonable to hope that such a prospect, and the undertakings which will invite the co-operation of different States, will serve to heal sores, to efface painful memories, and even soften and humanise the despotisins now so formidable to the tranquil lity of Europe. The arts of peace may not always be successful for this purpose, but there is at least less risk in them than in the cast of war.—Times. The Scinde Railway Company yesterday despatched Mr. William Brunton, and a staff of six engineers, by the steamer Indus, for Bombay and Kurrachee, en route for the Punjaub, to prosecute the survey of the country between Monitan, Lahore, and Umritsir. Mr. Brunton was appointed by the railway company under the sanc tion of the India House, and it is expected from the facilities which the Punjaub Government are said to be prepared to afford that the preliminary survey of the line will be completed by the end of the ensuing cold meason. TRH LATE SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT, R.N.—There was a time when the death of Sir R. Westmacott would have created more sensation in the world of art, both in England and on the continent, than is likely now to be the case when a younger race of sculptors have arisen, with a new school more or less of their own creation. Sir Richard died at his town residence in South Audley. street on the Ist inst., in his 82d year, after an illness of about three weeks' duration. Richard Westreacott was born in London in 1775, and, showing early signs of his future vecat'on, adopted the profession of a sculptor when he was quite a child. Having received the firstrudi ments of instruction in the studio of his father, who was a sculptor of some eminence in Mount-street,Grosvenor. square, he visited Rorie in 133, where he is said to have studied for a time under Canova. Be this as it may, in the following year he received from the Academy of Florence their first premium for sculpture, and the medal of his Holiness in 1795, in which year he was also elected a member of the Academy of Florence. Having passed some years in the classic regions of Italy, and made him- Bel familiar with the best remains of ancient art, he re turned to England, and established himself in the west end of London, where he soon gained an extensive repu tation. In 1805 the Royal Academy of London elected him an associate of their body, and he became in 1816 a Royal Academician. The works of art by which he was best known are his 'statues of Addison, Pitt, and Erskine, his statues of th e l a t e D u k e o f B e df or d a n d o f Charles James Fox, in Bedford and Russell-squares, and his monuments to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord Coiling. wood, and others in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral, togetlaer with the elegant and classical figure of Psyche, so much admired by every lover-of art for its ele gance of form and chastity of expression. Besides these he designed the .colossal statue of Achilles in Hyde-park and the statue of Nelson at the Liverpool Exchange, and together with :Elaxman and Baily, a portion of the figures on the frieze of the marble arch originally erected at Buckingham - Palace but now standing at Cumberland gate. His l a t es t work, we believe, was the sculptured pediment at the British Museum. In 1827 he succeeded Flaxman as Pro lessor of Sculpture in the Royal Acade my, and held that appointment until his decease; he had not, however, exhibited since 1839. His artistic works are all strictly classical in their style, but partake far more of the R ocean than of the Greek character. They are not abstract and ideal, or of the highest order of conception, but living and breathing realities, executed to the life in a bold and severe style. Among the best known of his productions are "The Distressed Mother," which he executed in 1 522 for the Marquis of Lansdowne; "The Houseless Tray eller," a copy of which is in Westminster Abbey; his "E, aphrosyne," for the late Duke of New castle in 1837;1 tie two statues " Cupid" and "Psyche," in pos-session of ' the Duke of Bedford ; together with a large alto rebel ro, "The death of Horace," which he executed for the, late Earl of Egrernont, and which we believe is still in the gallery at Petwerth. He received the honour of knight hood as an acknowledgment of his artistic merits in 1837. Sir R. 'Westmecott married, in 1798, Dorothy Margaret, the daughter of Dr. Wilkinson. His son, Mr. R. Wesitmacott, is a Royal Academician, and he inherited lane share of his father's goal% THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MEXICO. Advices from Mexico to the sth ult. give a rather full detail of the present condition and prospects of the republic. The opinions expressed, however, differ widely. According to some writers, the Liberal party is gaining strength, and the power of President Comonfort is gradually becoming conso lidated. Apprehensions of a Ministerial crisis from the resignation of Senor Montes, the Minister of Justice, had been dispelled by his resumption of office ; the article in the new constitution guaran tee ing religious toleration, on which a severe struggle was expected, had been adopted by Con gress ; the sales of church property were progressing satisfactorily, and were likely to bring in a con siderable stun ; and although an outbreak, headed by Vidaurri and promoted by Texan sympathisers, had broken out, the people were confident in the ability of the Government to put him down. On the other hand, a communication from an intelli gent observer, dated three days previously to the last account from New Orleans, where intelligence of the adoption of the measure for religious liberty had been received by telegraph, gives the following unfavourable view " The state of anarchy which had long been threatening this country is now firmly established,-and will, no doubt, reach its full development very shortly. Vidaurri has at last thrown off his mask, and has openly proclaimed the independence of the northern States under his control, which, as a matter of course, will share the same fate as Texas, and soon form part of the American Union. A change of Government in Jalisco served as a pretext for those that were dissatisfied to create disturbances in that depart ment, which is now also in a state of open rebellion; and, though we are told that the Government forces have taken possession of the chief town (Guadalaxara), no reliance is to be placed on the fidelity of that province, which has ever been foremost in the complicated history of Mexican revolutions, and is notorious for its disposition to separate from the rest of the republic, in order to form a separate and independent nation by itself. "Similar symptoms have been observed for some tine past towards the south, in the province of Guerrero, which has been under the absolute sway of the Mulatto General Alvarez for many years past. In fact, it would be long and tedious to describe all the elements of dissolution which are now at work, and seem to threaten the country with im pending ruin. In the meantime, great dissatisfaction pre vails in all classes of society, and rumours of a fresh revo lution to upset Comonfort's Administration are daily cir culated, while the latter appears blind to the precarious eharacter of the power be wields, and instead of adopting wise and conciliatory measures, is ruling in tho most des potic manner in spite of the ultra-liberal principles he had sustained till he was elected president. To make matters worse, Comonfort's Government and the Congress are waging war against each other in the most relentless way. Each party threatens to upset the other, and it is whis pered that many days will not pass before Congress is dis solve 3. " The sale of the church property has hitherto proved a complete failure, and it is not impossible that some politi cal change may put a stop to it altogether. The Govern ment have consequently been disappointed in their ex• pectations of receiving a large amount of money out of the tax paid for the transfer of real estate, and it is, as usual, just as poor as it is extravagant and negligent about its finances." "Congress is now discussing a question of great import ance --viz., that of religious liberty, and, though the debate has already lasted four days, no decision has yet been adopted ; but, of course, great agitation prevails both in the Chamber and among he public, and the result is looked for with great anxiety by all parties." • '~- Till ART OF PUFFING. In this country when anew actor or actress aro coming out, we content ourselves with putting their names pro minently in the playbills. Not so in the United States. In that "great country," as Mr. Barnum assures us it is, every engine is set to work to get up a "gas," nor are the attractions paraded until a poper market has been mario for their appreciation. We have a rare instance before us iu the following, which we extract from the New York. Herald. It may puzzle our opera habitues to recognise any special favourite in the fair Ernestine or Annie alluded to. GENEROUS CONDUCT OF THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL PROPRIEToRS.—Our readers tray remember the arrival of a " Professor" by the Hermann, a few week.with a corps of ballet dancers and musicians, which were pre dicted to surpass anything ever seen in this hemisphere. The " Professor," on arrival, took up his quarters, with his troupe, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, and a few days after his arrival his associates discovered that he was an irresponsible adventurer, that he had no theatre here, nor the prospect of getting one, and that they had been sadly duped. e - Among the troupe were two young English girls, sisters. Their names are Ernestine and Annie. The mo ment they heard of their situation they sent for the pro prietors of the hotel, and stated the whole case to them. Taey had then been a fortnight in the house, occupying elegant rooms, au premier, and depending on their em ployer, were now unable to pay their bill, being in fact pennilecs. Moreover, the "Professor" had by this time succeeded in getting his baggage out of the house, and proposed to get theirs out, which they indignantly re fused, preferring to throw themselves upon the mercy of the proprietors of the hotel. Messrs. Trsadwell, Aher, and Co., than whom no gentlemen in this community are me re high-minded or generous, instantly assured the young ladies that they were quite welcome to continue in their house as long as they might find it necessary, and that they need feel no awkwardness in going unattended to the public table, their meals should be served in their rooms. The gratitude of the young artists may be imagintd when it is remembered that they are alone in a stran g e land, and without means. These beautiful girls are from her Majesty's Theatre, London, where they were dan&ng when the "Professor" Ea ur them. Ernestine, the elder, is a bruneVe of 18, a c'assic face, dark hazel eyes, full figure, with a tapering waist, and as neat an ancle and foot as can be found anywhere. In the Spanish and other dances she is said to be unex celled. Annie, the yoanger sister, is just emerged from her sweet sixteenth. She is tall, slender, and very grace ful ; of a delicate mould, with a deep blue eye, gentle mien, and rather languishing manner—she personates etherial and spiritual most enchantingly. Two more graceful girls cannot be found, and we should think them a splendid "card" for any manager. They will remain at the St. Nicholas a few days longer, when they are determind to seek employment, to relieve themselves of the sense of dependence which now weighs upon them. Our word for it the theatre which has the good for tune to engage these young artistes will be well repaid, not only from their artistic talent, hut also from the romantic turn which their fortunes have taken in Ame- r•cl. P S.—Since writing the foregoing, we understand that on Saturday last Brougham engaged the two sistore, at the Bowery Theatre, for a week. They appear this even ing for the first time. WAS DANIEL WRAY JUNIUS ?—lt is now generally ' understbod that the claims of Sir P. Francis as the writer of the "Letters of Junius" have been disproved. I there fore desire to thaw your attention to an ingenious work by a Mr. Falconer, called "The Secret Revealed," pub lished in 1830, at a time when no one would listen to him, because we were then all Franciscans. Who Mr. Falconer was I know not, nor shall I trouble you with his speculations. His argument is to prove that Daniel ' Wray was Junius, and he adduces one or two facts which are startling. What I want is, that some of your inge nious correspondents would show how the "marvellous coincidences," as he calls them, can be explained without admitting the "unity of authorship I" It is stated in the "Preliminary Essay" to the edition of 1812 that the 59:1 letter is one with which Junius had origi nally intended to conclude ; but that as Junius himself says, Garrick's communication to the King "has lite rally forced me to break my resolution of writing no more." (Tol. i., p. 238.) On this Mr. Falconer ob serves : "On the 18th of November, 1771, Wray thus writes to Lord Hard wicke :--‘ Had I persevered in that apparently wise resolution to write no more,' &c. This in itself amounts to little, but I request atten tion to what follows. The communication made by Garrick to the King, announcing that Junius would write no more, carries with it still stronger evidence of Wray's being the architypo of Junius. So strong, indeed, as to exclude all doubt, it is presumed, of the fact ; for Wray not only gives the same intimation to his correspondent, Lordallardwicke, but actually assigns the very cause, and prefixes the precise day on which Junius designed to conclude his correspondence in tbat character, had he not been forced by Garrick, as he ex presses himself, to break Lis resolution of writing no more. The fifty-ninth letter of Junius, on what the author calls the unhappy differences which had arisen among the Friends of the People, is the one with which be had originally intended to conclude. * • That let ter is dated October 5, 1771. Six days previously [September 29, 17713 (mark that I) Wray writes to Lord Ifardwicke as follows * * Nash will carry his election, &c., &c. These proper attentions may satisfy the good people of England for a month, accompanied by the finishing dose of Junius on Saturday.' In per fect accor.lance with this decided intimation, the intended finishing dose did not appear. The sth October, 1771, was on a Saturday." I agree with Mr. Falconer that the coincidence is startling, and I ask, how can it be ex plained I—Notes and Queries. [ADVERTISHMENT.j—The following extraordinary cures with out medicine of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Consti pation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, are not the least remarkable :—From the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart.— Cure 52,612. Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arablca Food has cured her, after all medicines bad failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability, of many years' standing. 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The 101bs. and 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Nlason and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Picca dilly ; also at 60, ' Gracechurch -street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 66, Cornhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street; 55, Char. i ng - cross; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 and 157, Oxford' itreq. • A HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon William Dumbreck, from the Ist Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. The appointment of Assistant-Surgeon Angus John Mackay, Supernumerary in the Ist Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, as stated in the Gazette of let August, 1856, has been cancelled. The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have ceased to do their duty, there Wing no longer occasion for their services :—George Redford, George Wright, Charles William Lines Moffatt, MD., George Palatiano, M.D., Thomas Henderson Somerville, Neville Gray du Vernet Parker, M.D., Henry M`Niece, and Alexander William Arthur Delisle. BREVET, Brevet-Colonel ISrilliamYorke Moore, retired full•pay 54th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only. MEMORANDUM.—Major George Bulkeley Tat tersall, upon half-p,,y, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment has been perzritted to retire frcm the• Service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to become a settler in Ceylon. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Livian Benson Pearce, brick, tile, lime, and cement merchant, York-road, King's-cress, Middlesex. Theodore Diedrich Wilhelm Christian Seyd, private hotel keeper, 39, Finsbury-square, and 13, Wiison-street. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Miller, publan,Bevois - street, Southampton, to surrender Sapt. 13, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 17, at halt-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basiughall-street ; Paterson, Bouverie street, Fleet-street; Mackey, Southampton. Samuel Davis, grocer, Bristol, Sept. 16 and Oct. 14, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Brittan and Son, Bristol. Edward Wm. Perry, merchant, Fenchurch-buildings, Sept. 16 and Oct. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Stubbs, Moorgate-street. Godfrey Gregory Pipe, grocer, Birmingham, Sept. 15, and Oct. 6, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; James, Birrn'T g ham. Henry James Brown, cheesemonger, figs, Knightsbridge, Sept. 16, at two, and Oct. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Pain, Gresham-street. Donald M`Larty, John M'Kean, and Robert Lamont, merchants, Liverpool, Sept. 23, and Oct. j 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool. William Brittain Jones, grocer, Birmingham, Sept. 1 , and Oct. 6, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; James, Bir mingham. - - - - Samuel Smith, machine maker, Northampton, Sept 20, at half-past twelve, and OA. 18, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman• bury; Messrs. Wilan and Stevenson, Bedford-row, or to Messrs. Pywell Willrn and Stevenson, Northampton. William Smith, banker, Watford, Hertfordshire, Sept. 25, at eleven, and October 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Linklaters and Hackwood, Bucklersbury ; Sedgwiek, Watford. James Adams, millwright, Crown Wharf, Shad Thames, Sept. 17, and Oct. 21, at half-past two, at the Court of BAnkruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Young and Plows, Mark-lane. Tames Thomas, grocer, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Sept. 22 and Oct. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District C urt. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Bevan and Gir. ling, Bristol. . _ _ Peter Scattergood, machino maker, Stapleford, Sept. 16 and Oct. 21, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Brewster, Notting ham . Nathaniel Elliott, cigar dealor, Manchester, Sept. 17 and Oct. 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Heruaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Hulton and Brett, Salford; Dimmoek and Burbly, Suffolk-lane, Cannon s treet. SCOTCH SEQUE iTRA.TIONS. James Steel and Sons, engineers and iron founders, Dundee. Hall and Robson, sewed muslin warehousemen, Glasgow. Messrs. James and Thomas M`Keand, oil merchants, Glasgow. BANK OF &n Account pursuant to the et 7 the Week ending on Saturday WGL A.ND. fth and Bth Victoria, cap 32 fa the 30th day of August, 1855. Government debt.... 11,015,1% Other securities.- 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,713,315 Silver bu11i0n........ - £26,183,315 MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. r, tes6. Governmentsecnxities (includg.Dead Weight Annnity).......... 12,114,078 Other securities.- 15,60,152 Notes ~ 6,063,72 Gold and silver coin .. 673,792 £34,496,742 MIRSIIALL, Chief Oaskier. , 1856. ISSUE DEP. Notes istmel 26,183,315 £26,168,315 Dated the 4tl day of September BANKING DE Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest . ....... ........ 3,638,106 Public deposit s (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- !n ;'s Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,590,339 Other deposits ...... 9,734,633 Seven Day and other Bills•• .• •••••• • • • • 930,144 £31,495,742 Dated the 4th day of September, AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Musco vado Sugar, corn puted from the returns made in the week ending Sept. 2, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain. From the British Possessions in America 3os. Bid. Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies Average of the three foregoing descriptions 3os. bid. COURSE OF EXCI Amsterdam . • ...... 11 17 Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Rotterdam 11 19% Antwerp .. •........... 25 50 Brussels .... • • ........ 25 53 Hamburgh •• •• •• •• .• • • 13 8% Altona .. • • •• Paris 25 35 Ditto, three months .. 25 67% arseilles 25 70 Bourdeaux ........... Frankfort-on-liaine .... 120 Vlenna•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 10 23 Trieste.. •.•••••••• •• •• 10 23 Petersburg 37% Cadiz ••• • • ... s 50M Bareeona •• .• •• • • .• •• [ANGE.-THIS DAY. Gibraltar Leghorn ..•••••••• .... 29 60 Genoa * •••••••••• 25 80 Milan ...... ........ Venice.... •• •• •• Naples •• • • .... • •• 44 Palermo .... 1334 Messina ... 133Y4 Lisbon .. Oporto ........ Rio Janeiro ..... . •• Buenos Ayres...... New York,6o days'sight Philadelphia • ...... PRICES OF RIILLICN, PER oz. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 I% New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 ',Myer in bars ...... 0 5 1% Cou dry Maxk DERBY SMITHFIELD.-SEPT. 2. There was an average supply of fat pigs to-day, which were well sold. The pens contained a quantity of sheep and lambs of good quality, without any alteration of price. Fat calves but few, and well sold. Fat pigs plentiful. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to 60 mutton, GO. to 7d ; lamb, —d to O t i ; veal, 7d to 744 per lb. ; pigs, Os 6d to —s Ocl per score ; rough fat, 53 01 to per 141 b. ; hides, 4d to 4:id per lb ; calf-skins, 5d Lo 64 1 per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—SEPT. There WS a fair supply of grain to-day. Wheat was slow of sale, and prices considerably back. Barley and oats brisk, and prices better. Beans back. Wheat, on the top, 5s Od down,, and on the average 3s Gd down. Barley, Gd down on the top, and is ld up on • th 3 average. Oats on the top 03 21 up—on the average. is 9d up. Beans on the top 3s up —on tho average, 2e id down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £317 4 0-12th. Do. new -12th. Barley Oats 1 14 7 10-12ths. Beano -12ths. BOSTON-SEPT. 3. During the past few days the weather here has been as fine as possible for harvest operations. This circumstance had a material influence on the price of wheat to-day- - new, of which there were several samples on offer, sold slowly at a decline of lOs to 123 per qr. on last Wednes day's rates, and old must be noted about 3s per qr cheaper. No alteration in the value of oats. Beaus were rather dearer. Prices :—Wheat, red, 62s Od to 72s Od; white, GGi Od to 76s Od : extra, 77s Od ; new, 70A. Barley, —s Od to --s 01. Oats 26s to 305.. New, 21 to 30s Ud Beaus, 46s Od to 49s Od per qr. NEWARK-SEPT. 3. We had a very good supply of new wheat, in excellent condition. The little business done was at a decline of 4s to 53 for the best old wheat, and 6s to 7s per quarter for new. Wheat, white 76s to 78s, red 6Ss to 70s; barley, malting 48s to 525, grinding 42s to 41s; oats, 24st. 35s to 375, 2 2, t , sto -s ; beans, 49s to 51s ; malt, 72s to 74s ; peas, 48$ to 50s ; tares, 60s to 64s per qr. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, SETT. 4. STOCK EXCHIANGIL—The market opened quiet to-day, but afterwards improved, and the prices generally closed at their best point. Midlands, 80 6—Caledonian, 254 6 Eastern Counties, 94 $ -London and North-Westerns , 1036 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 97 6—Blackburn, 8 Great Western of Canada, 246—Ditto, new, 2/. is. 3d., p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33 4 34—North British, 10 6—Great Western, 616 4 x d.—Lancaster and Carlisle, 724—Ditto, Eighths, 6 prem.—North Eastern, Berwick, 206—South Eastern, 228 4. LEEDS, SEPT. 4. STOCIS EXCHANGE. —The market to-day shows an im• provement. Midlands, 80 79i—North Eastern, Leeds, 11—Sheffields, 33—Londons, 1033—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 37i. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 4. STOOR EXCHANGE.—This market was steady today, but prices are rather lower than yesterday. London and North-Westerns at 103 —Birmingham Canals, 921- - Ditto, now, prem.—Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas, new, 7 1-16 p. —Birmingham District Fire. 4g. MANCEIESTEIt, SEPT. 4. 6TOOK EXCHANCIE.—Tho market was very low at the opming, but improved during the day, and closed steady Londons, 103,i s—Midlands, eoA, fl—Eastern Counties, 9/ —Leeds, 97 --Dovers, 22 546 -North British, 10i Sheffield; 33I—Blackburn, 7k—Great Western of Canada, 210. DUBLIN-SErr. 3. STOOK EXOHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, 94 —Ditto for Account, 12th of Sept., 941 s—New Three per Cent. Stock, 901 - Ditto, for Account, 12th Sept., 94i —Dublin and Wicklow, Gi—Mining Company of land, 141—Irish South Eastern, 74—Waterford and Limerick, 241 - Killarney Junction, 10i—Cork and Ban don, 11—Great Southern and Western, 571 a d.—Midland Great Western and Royal Canal, 53I—Royal Bank of Ire land, 22. THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.—Partridge shooting cord' menced on Monday. The accounts from this and neigh' bouring counties give promise of much sport. The coveys are said to be numerous, and the birds large and strong on the wing.—Hcreford Journal. ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA.—SOUND' ING THE ATLANTIC.—Lying at anchor off Queenstown for the last few days may have been observed a small, unsightly, ill-painted, rusty-bottomed screw steamer, without one point of attraction ab,rut her, except the stars and stripes fluttering in the breeze. Yet that boat and some of the officers she contains have been the world's wonder for a season, and have just now concluded a task which is the forerunner of an event more wonderful still. The Arctic was the vessel that was sent to rescue Dr. Kane, who had previously been sent to rescue Franklyn. She was successful, and brought home Dr. Kane and his crew, who had been obliged to abandon his ship and search. She was then a light ship on the American coast. She is now the bearer of Lieut. Strain, of Darien noto riety, and Capt. Berriman, who was before, and nog again, crossed from Newfoundland to take soundings of the whole Atlantic from St. John's to Valencia, with a view to ascertain the probable success with which a telegraphic cable may be laid between these points. The result is satisfactory. For some 50 or 60 miles from St. John's, and again on this side, is a bank varying from twenty five to one hundred and twenty fathoms. Be' tween these there is a plateau nearly level, the bottom soft, composed of shells so fine that only the microscope can disc rver them, each shell perfect in its minute beauty, proving the absence of currents at the bottom, and with due deference to Stephenson and others, the w a nt of that vast pressure, which was to be so dreaded, and ex hibiting at every point not only a capacity, but the most perfect capacity, fur the very use for which it is re• quired. The whole apparatus for arriving at these facts, is most perfect. Steam-power, separate from that of the ship, works the axle from which the sounding-line is " paid out." Soundings have been taken to the depth of 27,000 fathoms. By a neat contrivance each sound ing shows not only the depth, but the nature of the bets tom, which is brought up in five quills, and the tempo . rature of the water, the latter being given by the expan sion or the contractio❑ of metallic spiral ribands placed round a centre pin, fixed at the top, and attached at bottom to a needle arid indicator, the latter remaining fixed after the first has ceased to act, showing the exact ♦ariation between the surface at the bottom. Most careful drawings have been made hy Mr. Van Den Berg (to whom has been assigned the special post of draughts man) of the soundings, showing a profile of the bottom of the sea with the greatest accuracy. There ca❑ be no doubt that telegraphic communications between Ireland and St. John's, a distance of 1,640 geographical miles, may be regarded as a certainty. It is in the hands of. a small American company, but, though small, if its members possess but a tithe of the energy of their representative, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who is also here making every inquiry, it will be enough to over come every difficulty. Captain Berriman laughs at laying the cable. Lie ass but a ship large enough, and he will undertake to do it at ten miles an hour right across. The company have already obtained the sole grant for erecting telegraphs through the whole of Newfoundland, and have already some 1,700 miles at work, or will have in a few days, which is in connection with the American lines. The difficulties and trials of temper in taking these soundings have been tremendous. Repeatedly after paying out' tens of thou sands of fathoms of line, and getting all up within some 60 or 8111, it was snapped, and all had to be done agaie. Six and eight hours have been occupied in getting one sounding only, and these have beer► made nearly every half degree the whole way across. From the captain to the cabin boy, each has given his willing aid. No trouble was thought too much—no time too long ; each appeared to feel the honour of his nation at stake, and proud in every way to advance the object in view. They have done their work well. Nature has granted all we could ask ; art will soon do its part, while nature, science, and art, worked out by man's hand, will produce one grand whole to benefit mankind.”—Cork Constitution. :B IR T H S. 01 A WA'. On the 3d inst., at Coval Hall, in the county of meg, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Mills. On the 2d inst., at St. Mary's-place, West Brompton, the wife of Charles Coghlan, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 3d inst., at 21, Eldon-road, Kensington, the wife of T. A. Douce, Esq. On the 3d inst., at the Abbey Ruins, Bury St. Ed mund's, the wife of John Greene, Esq. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at Swallowfield, Berke, Major D. C; Greene, 43d Light Infantry, eldest son of Thomas Greene, Esq., M.P., to Mary, the daughter of the late Sir Henry Russell, Bart. On the 4th inst., at St. Peter's, Belgravia, John Scar lett Campbell, Esq., 8.C.5., youngest son of the late Sir George Campbell, of Edenwood, N. 8., to Henrietta Frances, daughter of W. Butterworth Bayley, Esq., of 11, Eaton-square. D J;E D. On the 2d inst., at 16, Wilton-street, Dudley Montagu Perceval, Esq., aged 55. On the 2d inst., at Rotherham, Yorkshire, Alexander Grant, Esq., only surviving brother of Mr. James Grant, editor of the " Morning Advertiser," aged 56. On the 3d inst., at Holloway, Mr. John Turner, late of 84, Leadenhall-street, aged 78. On the 3d inst., at Bath, Jones Rudland, Esq., late 10th Regt. On the 4th inst., the infant of Moses Levy, Esq., of 20, Hyde-park-square. On the 2d inst., at Dalston, Thomas Woodbridge, aged 29. On the 2d inst., Joseph Smith, Esq., of Bishop Stort ford, late of 31, St. Martin's-le-Grand, London, aged 59. 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