The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-06 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. (Front the Timer.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, and a deputation of the Metropolitan Board of Works had a meeting on Thursday to discuss one of the most important points connected with the new sewage scheme— namely, the cost of the works, and the method of providing for the expenditure. To this complexion we must come at last. If we still wish that the town shall be effectually drained of its complicated pollutions—if we are still of opinion that in the improved sanitary condition of the metropolis we shall get a quid pro quo for the money which we shall certainly be called on to disburse in order to carry our design into effect, we must not shrink from handling the estimates. Let us, then, at once look at the ugly side of the question. The Chairman of the Metropolitan Board applied to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the sum of 4,000,0001., as the amount of expense which we, the ratepayers, shall be called upon to meet. We need not, of course, be very diffuse upon the point that it was not Mr. Thwaites' idea that the charge for the drainage of the metropolis was to be thrown upon the backs of the general contributors to the national income. The request of the Metropolitan Board amounts to this—that Government should borrow the money upon the best possible terms, and then lend it to the Board, and to their suc cessors. The rateable property of the metropoli tan area is the security offered for the loan. It is asked that Government should endorse this security, so that the money may be obtained on better terms. The present rateable value of the property o fr--ere. 4 in security is 11,150,000/., and it is calculate that a rate of 3ad. would suffice to repay tile loan in fifty years. The main drainage scherr.le is to absorb about 3,000,0001. of the money so borrowed ; the other million is to be devoted to the payment of arrears which have been cast upon the present Board, and to various metropolitan improvements. When we add that this sum of 4,000,0001. is to be paid in by the lender in quar terly payments, but so that at the least 1,040,000/. shall be paid up every year, we have said enough to put our readers in possession of the necessary figures and facts updn which they are called upon to form their decision. Now, the metropolitan ratepayers will not shrink from the expenditure even of so considerable a sum as 4,000,0001., provided they are satisfied that they are to receive their money's worth in exchange. We are all agreed about the necessity of finding some vent for the sewage of the town at a distance from the metropolitan area, and of defecating the river Thames. We are also agreed upon the point that no half-measure will suffice. The work as done must stand, and be sufficient for the end iu view. The ratepayers will yield a far heartier and readier con sent to a larger expenditure for a proper and final re sult than to a lesser - expenditure with the probability superadded that in a few years the work must be re commenced and the question reopened. This is not only a question of policy, but one of d uty. . We are,very properly, about to call upon our children and grand children to contribute their quota to the purification of the town which they will inhabit when we, who have made the settlement, have long sinced passed away. It is, then, our paramounCduty, as far as human foresight may avail, to guard their interests and to save them from the necessity of constantly recurring expenditure. Let us, then, at once in sist on having a thorough measure in reference to this sewage question. It appears from expressions used by Sir Benjamin Hall at a recent interview with a deputation from the Metropolitan Board, that the Government does not disallow the prin ciple that, beyond a certain point, the ratepayers of the metropolis have a right to look to the general taxpayers of the country for assistance in carrying out a larger and more magnificent scheme for the drainage of the metropolis of the empire. We do not shrink from doing our part, and doing it liberally, but when we have fairly comp ied with the terms and spirit of the recent act it stems but reasonable that the nation should help is in the execution of a national work. Let us, iowever, for the moment confine ourselves to the mmediate subject of the conversation which occurred on Thursday in Downing street. The Chairman of the Metropolitan Board wants the Governnent to assist him in borrowing 4,000,0001. for the purpose of executing certain works ; but what works ? We protest most emphatically against the principle that the Government is to find the mune: first, and then that the Beard of Works is to devise a `method for gettin g rid of it. There will be no kind of difficulty in ritterina and jobbing away 4,000,0001., but we would not put the very best officials in the presence of such a temptation. The facts at present stand thus :—The Metropolitan Board has produced a plan for carrying down the metropolitan sewage to Erith, or thereabouts, ard for discharging it there into the river. The Chef Commissioner of Works has put his negative rn this plan for alleged non-compliance with the spirit of the act of Parliament. The moot points between the dissident functionaries are still under discus sion, and, although it is possible that they may ultimately arrive at some agreement, this agree ment will represent, not the best plan for draining the metropolis, but the result of a compromise be tween adverse disputants. The ratepayers will look with the greatest suspicion upon such a set tlement, because they will be well aware that it is no settlement at all. In a few years time the screw will be put upon us again, and the language then held will be—" You cannot stop short now ; you have already sunk 3,000,0001. or 4,000,0001. in the execution of these works. Time, which proves all things, has proved that they were not adequate for the ead in view. The alternative now is to spend a million or two more, or to acquiesce in the conclusion that the original expenditure has been fruitless and thrown away. The river is still f ,ul, the town still unwholesome, but with a little sup plementary budget we can put this all to rights." Experience has shown us in such cases that there is nothing for it but to make fresh sacrifices with the best possible grace ; for whatever may be the feelings of the patient, his reason tells him that he must escape from it, at whatever cost. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, we trust, will _ _ not give the assistance of the Government towards the borrowing of half-a-crown on account of the Board of Works until a final and satisfactory plan has been devised for carrying off the sewagerof the town. If he does so he will simply evoke a spirit of discontent and anger which will endure against every successive Government until the question is settled n some other way. When the money is once provided the Board will have it all its own way ; the attention of the ratepayers will be called away to other objects of more immediate, though not of greater real intersst. In the end, this great 811 M °I 4 ,000,000 i. will be spent nobody will know how, and we shall but have exchanged one nuisance for another. Th e Chancellor of the Exchequer had Thursday that itteeefsee, and the spirit to declare, on present and to come, the animus of the ratepayers, for theloan which thee' constituted the real iii:curity to guarantee. Fran Government were called upon terms be held to the ere Boards would, no doubt, in utien of contracts entered into by their predecessors , If they made default in the payment either of interest S. pt incipal a rnanda. mus might be procured from or All th the Queen's Bench which would soon bring the metropolitan this repudia• tors to their senses. is is true enough, but what Government would bequeath such a legacy of discord to its successors ? warfare of the most irritating kind w d ould be open between th( G ov ernment of the day on the one ln Londoners on the other. Why shouldde and th e the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, without any correlative stake --- a d van t ag e, invest the public money or the public credit on such s torm y credit ? This reason soiling, however, only applies to the case in which the scheme for draining the metropolis should he found justly tainted with suspicion. Let us have such a plan as will r ecommend itself to the a ssent of the ratepayers by its obvious sufficiency amrco ea pleteness, and all such objections will d drop at o nce . The ratepayers, seeing that a goo bargain has been made for them, would cheerfully carry out their part of the con ract. Our children, too, when their time comes for dealii g with debits and credits, seeing that their fathers did the best for them which could be done, will not be reluctant to pay the share of the price of a clean London. At present Mr. Thwaites is clearly putting the cart before the horse. We must have the plan first, and he shall have the money afterwards, if we ap prove the plan. Now, is it not true that the plan which he and his fellows have brought forward bas been devised under the simple idea of Satl3- !Png the terms of the act in the most m ea g re Manner possible ? He has we think, erred even as to the f ee li ngs o f hi s co n s tituents. What we want from the Metropolitan Board is not the most economical plan which can be devised, but the plan which will best and combine economy with a satisfac tory result;it cannot be said that to throw th e sewage of London washed backwardsand into the river at Erith, to be forwards by the flux and re flux of the tide, is asatisfactory result. If the at all, l work is to be doneet it be done in a man ner worthy of the City and of the nation, or 1,7,4, us s top as we are. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will best consult the wishes payers and the cre d it of his of the London rate -8 own administration by withholding all assistance from the Metropolitan Board until they have p ro duced a really satisfac tory scheme for drai nin g the metropolis. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT, Friday, Dec. s.—Admissions on payment, 287 ; ditto by season tickets, 181; total visitors, 463. THE SITN, LONDON, SA.TURDAY EVENING, DI MEMBER 6, 1856; eing, at Felling, and a littls after 9 o'clock the y started to gether and t proceeded in a direction towards TJBworth, where the prosecutor resides. Having accompanied prosecutor within half a mile of Tisworth Joseph Hilton parted from him, at a little after 10 o'clock, and re turned home. The prosecutor then went into a public house and had some refreshment ; the prisoner was also this house, and left at the same time as the prosecuor , but turned off in a different direction. He, howeveT, ca me back by a cross lane into the high road, alon,,v which the prosecutor was proceeding homewards, fell upon him, put his arm round the prosecutor's neck, threw him on the g round with great force, and held him till he became nearly insensible. He then robbed him of his watch and chain, and from an his trowsers pocket took three halforrawns, one shilling, d a sixpence. It Was a fine night, and prosecutor was quite certain the prisoner was the man who robbed him, and the same man who left the public-house at the time he did. Upon recovering from the first shock prosecutor returnedwho to the public-house, and a policeman was sent for, immediately proceeded to the prisoner's house, and, on making a search, found the exact sum, and in the same coin, in the p r isoner's bed. The watch and chain were n ot found. The jury found the prisoner guilty, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude. .ence. ASSIZE INTELLIGBNOB.--=Dec. 5, TEE GR ,AT STEEPLECHASE MATCH. NORTEE WALES CIRCUIT —CHESTER. C.;Botil COHP.T. (Before Mr. Baron Aldeirgon.) 3IITRDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR FATHER. Nine o'clock this morning was the time fixed for this important and interesting trial, and as soon as the doors of the court were open to the public, such a rush into the building took place as has not been seen in Chester for fnanY a day; At a quarter past nine his lordship arrived, and took his seat upon the bench, imttietliately after which the prisoner was brought to the bar. The Jury having been sworn, the clerk read the in dictment) charging the prison er, William Jackson, with the murder of his soh, John Edward Jackson. Mr. Swetenhain and Mr. H. Lloyd prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended. Mr. Swetenharn rose, and said he would at once call the witnesses, as the prisoner was undefended. His lordship said such a course Was not merciful, as it was always the best plan to give a plain statement of facts, so that the accused party by that means would be informed of what was to be brought against hint. Mr. Swetenham then proceeded to state the case. The prisoner was a married man, and the father of four children. Last May his wife left him and went to fe4 side at Manchester, leaving a girl and a boy, about six years old, with him, the murder of which boy was the subject of the present trial. These children had been taken care of by a Mrs. Hancock, a relative of the pri soner. On the 27th of September, Mrs. Hancock sent them to the Coach and Horses public-house, where the prisoner was lodging, and there they were left. Soon after that time the prisoner went out, and in a short time returned to the house, when he took away the little girl, coming tack in about half an hour. He then took out the boy, anti did not return until the afternoon, when he was alone. He was seen by dif ferent parties going towards an orchard, belonging to a Mr. Rogers, carrying the children, and he was seen by other persons returning without them. The absence of the children gave rise to various rumours, and in answer to the inquiries the prisoner gave evasive re plies. At length, about three weeks after they bad been missed, the mother of the children came to Ches ter and communicated with the police, who at once in stituted inquiries into the case, and on the 22d of October the prisoner was apprehended. On the follow. lug morning, police-officer Whittaker and his retriever dog were in the garden towards which the prisoner was seen carrying the children, and on approaching a pit the dog began to scratch the soil. A spade was obtained, and on removing one sod the naked foot of a child was seen. Mr. Hill, the chief constable, was informed of this fact, and he and his officers went at once to the spot, and on removing more soil came upon the body of a little boy, beneath which was found the body of a little girl. Near the boy was also found a bag of toys, which the girl who took him to the Coach and Horses on the 27th of September would identify as belonging to the boy, who carried it with him to the house, and after wards had in his hand when his father was carrying him towards the orchard. When the bodies were examined, it was found that the throat of each was stuck in the same manner as a butcher would kill a pig or sheep, separating the carotid artery and the jugular vein without cutting the throat across. The prisoner had formerly been in the habit of assisting his brother as a butcher ; his own trade was that of an upholsterer. The learned counsel having called several witnesses to prove his statement, Mr. Macintyre briefly addressed the jury for the prisoner, who without leaving the box, after consult. ing for a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty. His Lordship then put on the black cap and passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. This match, • which was appointed to take place this day at Melton Mowbray, has, we believe, been farther postponed, an a in all probability it will not now come off. Indeed, Et me people shrewdly suspect that, from beginning to er tt I, the whole affair has been a hoax. I UNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. Cheltenham, Ct. "West's Mon. Cleeve-hill Wed. Beckford -inn Sat. Puesdown-ind l2 0 Baronltothsehild,os Mon. Pitchcott . ll 0 Thur. Aston Abbotti OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) Thomas Goodwin, aged 21, labourer, Adam Cloves, aged 23, collier, Samuel _Dawson, aged 24 collier, and Samuel Sheldon, aged 28, collier, were charged with entering certain land at Leek, on the 21st of November, being armed with offensive weapons for the purpose of taking game. Mr. Scotland appeared for the prosecution—Mr. Mot teram defended the prisoners. It appeared that on the night of the 21st ultimo the keepers of Mr. John Davonport and the Earl of Maccles field were out watching at a place called Ringwood, about a mile and a half from Leek. About midnight they saw five men, who were engaged in setting a long net in a field for the purpose of catching rabbits. Presently two men came up, and then three more. The keepers attempted to take the men into custody, upon which a savage con flict ensued, in the course of which the poachers made use of huge bludgeons on the heads of the keepers, and inflicted severe wounds. One of the keepers was struck by the prisoner Dawson and made insensible, and was then thrown over the wall, where he was left in that state. One of the keepers had his arm broken. Intelli gence of the conflict was conveyance to the pace at Leek, and as they were coming up to the scene they met the party, and at once endeavoured to take them into cus tody. They succeeded in capturing four of the party and took them to the station-house. The rest of the poachers made their escape. The prisoners when in custody DA admitted their being of the party, but, with the excep tion of Dawson, they denied taking part in any assautA. A. largo number of warm rabbits were found on this scene of the conflict, and from 300 to 400 yards df nets, which left no doubt that the men were engaged in poaching on a most extensive scale. Three bludgeons found on the ground were produced in court, and were about the most formidable instruments which we ever saw produced in a court of. justice. The witnesses' heads were all bound up with plaister, and they bad evidently suffered very severe handling. Mr. Motteram having addressed the jury for the pri soners, The jury found them all Guilty. Mr. Baron Watson, in passing sentence, said it was owing to God's mercy that the prisoners were not on their trial fur the offence of wilful murder, which might have resulted from the use of such instruments as were produced in court. His lordship then sentenced Goodwin, Clones, and Dawson to four years of penal servitude ; and Shelton, (who had been before convicted of poaching) to six years' penal servitude. GLOUCESTER (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) Gcerge King, aged 25, pewterer, was charged with breaking into the cathedral church of Bristol, and steal ing a surplice and other articles of the value of 7/. The prisoner pleaded guilty. He also pleaded guilty to a similar charge of breaking into a chapel. Mr. Baron Bramwell, in passing sentence, said the prisoner had already been twice before convicted of a similar offence. He no :v pleaded guilty to tNO other charges. His fancy seemed to be to break into churches and chapels, and to plunder them of what he found there. His sentence was that he be kept in penal servitude for four years. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—NORTHAMPTON) Dec. 4. (Before Mr. Justice Wiles.) Joseph Iresois, 20, was charged with arson. Mr. Cockle conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was a labourer living at Sibbertoft, who having had the misfortune to lose a leg about 18 months ago, and has since been several times an inmate of the union. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The learned Judge said that the prisoner had been ;tufty of a most abominable offence, the indirect effects of which were perhaps as disastrous as the direct ones. The prisoner mu,t undergo the severest sentence which the law allowed, and be transported for life. From the London Gazette of Last Niaht. Dot. 30 and Jan. 6, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, ingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Deverill, Nottingham. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28. John Barfoot, cattle and sheep salesma.n, North Stone! The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of ham, Hants, Dec. 19, at two, and Jan. 20, at one, at th Knighthood upon Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine, Esq., Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing- Governor and Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forts hall-street ; Lovell and Co., South-square, Gray's-inn; and Settlements on the Gold Coast. I Rawlins, Dorsetshire. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 28. Miles Lord and George Rostron, woollen manufacturers, The Queen was this day pleased to confer the h onour of Cage Mill, Lancashire, Dec. 24, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at Knighthood upon Henry Davison, Esq., of the Inner the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Temple, Barrister-at-LaW. Manchester; Cobbett and Wheeler, Manchester. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 28. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour Angus Stewart, tailor and clothier, Glawgow. of Knighthood upon William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, George Campbell Smith, land surveyor, Banff. Esq., F.R S., Surgeon in the Bengal Army. R. B. Neill and Alexander Stewart, oil distillers, Glas WHITEHALL, DEC. 4. gow. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon- Mrs. Ann on reamock Bryan or Osborne, agent, Tobago ourable Lord Campbell, the Right Honourable Lord Wens- street, Glasgow. n k , Sons, and Co., thread manufacturers, Gies leydple, Sir Edward Flail Alderson, Knt., Sir Cres well °w Cresswell, Knt., the Right Hon. Sir John Somers et Pak- g• oh in,gton, Bart., the Right Hon. James Archibald Stuart Keith and Co., jewellers, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. Wortley, Sir Fred. Tnesiger, Knt., John Wilson Patten, Esq., and Horatio Waddington, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into the present arrangements for transacting the judicial business, civil and criminal, of the Superior Courts of Common Law in England and Wales. WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, DEC. 5. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Frederick, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, paying the difference, vice Fitz Gerald, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference; Cornet Thomas Duffield, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be' Cornet, vice Ferguson, pro moted Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel William Samuel Newton to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Col. Gordon Drummond, deceased ; Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-Major John Halkett I.lg Couteur to be Cap tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Newton. 7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Francis John Foster to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice the Hon. Howard Moreton, deceased. 17th Foot—Ensign St. Aubin Barnett Lennard has been permitted to resign his commission. 18th Foot—Lieutenant Hobart Evans Fitz Gerald, from the sth Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Frederick, who exchanges. 50th Foot—Wm. Richard White, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Conran, promoted in the 86th Foot. 54th Foot—Frederick Augustus Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hughes, promoted. 77th Foot—Ensign Frederic Duncan Mant to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Sydney Smith, deceased. 81st Foot—Wm. Henry Munton Jackson, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Evans, deceased. let West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major David Gar diner, from the 22d Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Samson, promoted ; Richard Brew, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Bourke, whose appoint ment on the 13th Nov., 18:56 , has been cancelled ; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class William Freeman Daniell, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Cole, placed upon half pay. Cold Coast Corps—William Cumming, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Gatehouse, promoted. MILITARY TRAIN. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Pratt Woodfull to be Assistant-surgeon, vice Dew, whose appointment on 31st October, 1856, has been cancelled. DEPOT BATTALION. Country Markets. Quartermaster Patrick Higgins, from half•pay British German Legion, to be Quartermaster. STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sillery, upon half-pay of a Depot Battalion, to be Deputy Qua: terrcaster-General to the Troops serving in New Zealand, vice Brevet-Colonel W. A. 21`Cleverty, whose period of Staff service has ex pired. HOSPITAL STAFF. Dispenser of Medicines John Andrews to be Apothecary to the Forces, vies Jamci Woolley Simpson, placed upon half-pay. The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their services : Edward Ralph Blackett, Robert Modlin, Patrick James Mullarky, and John Lizars Lizars. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel John .Alves, on the retired full-pay of a Depot Battalion, to be Major-General in the army, the rank being honorary only. The under-mentioned promotions b take place in the East India Company's army consequent on the death of Lieut.-Gen. Richard West, Madras Infantry, on Sept. 15, 1856, and Major-General William John Butterworth, C. 8., Madras Infantry, on the 4th Nov., 1856 ; Major-General Thomas Fiddes, Bengal Infantry, to be Lieutenant-General. ht-...4..mart...ftwediatamau rir A CHAPTER OP CONTEMPORARY HISTORY. THE BOULOGNII EAGLE; There is good reason for sufipecting that Sir Ar chibald Alison ) etiould the Fates spare him long enough, is minded to bring down the history of Eu rope even to our own days and as he hes chronicled the deeds of the first Napoleon with a longwinded ness which will be the terror of all posterity, lie is doubtless collecting materials for the history of the nephew, at least tip to the tiine of the coup c/ etat of 185 9 . Now, it behoves all men to do whatever in them lies to facilitate the work of the historian, and to prevent him from falling into even minor errors respecting , facts which, if incorrectly set forth, damage the character for truth and impar tiality which ought to be considered by every his toriographer as the chief glory of his work, and of which the interminable volumes of the illustrious Sheriff offer so striking au example. These minutiae are to the narrative of great events what correct detail of costume is to an historical picture ; a blunder destroys the charm. Not even a Rem brandt can make one feel interested in the sacrifice of Isaac when he portrays Abraham as making ready to slay his son with a pistol. With this ex planatory preface, the following true account of the eagle which figured so conspicuously (in carica tures at least) connected with Louis Napoleon's descent on Boulogne is offered as a contribution to the future historian of that event. Who does not remember the Colosseum in its palmy days, when the view of Mont Blanc had not yet been converted into a Mont Aoir by the soot ; when the cascade of real water came tumbling down from a mysterious height, and the Swiss chalet was in all its glory, with its gallery overhanging the very lake itself? Who does not remember the mysterious " native " supposed to dwell in that chalet, clad in a highly picturesque costume, partaking of the character of the dustman out for a holiday and the Tyrolese Peasant ? Was there not, moreover, the garden seat used by Napoleon at Longwood—the authenticity of which it was heresy to doubt, for the " native" aforesaid vouched for it, to the perfect conviction of enterprising travellers, who sat down reverently upon it to consume ginger beer and stale pastry, supplied from the interior of the chalet? To attentive listeners the Tyrolean dustman was wont to indulge in wsthetic descriptions of the scenery before their eyes, winding up a discourse, in which an heroic contempt for the ordinary employment of v's, w's, and h's, marked the speaker's foreign extraction and mountaineer independence—winding up, as many readers will doubtless remember, by pointing out a miserable eagle perched upon an artificial rock on the opposite side of the lake, as an emblem of the hero of Austerlitz wasting his life on what the orator used to call " the hoshun rock of Senterleener." The comparison was not flat tering to Napoleon, for a more wretched looking individual than that same eagle was not easily to be met with. There he sat on his brown paper and canvas Alp, goggling, blinking, but otherwise motionless, save when the flies in the summer, or the rain at any season trickling along his back, reminded him of his miserable captivity. At such a time he looked the veriest scarecrow of an eagle that could be devised. His tail, grown ragged by constant friction on the artificial granite .surface around him, was matted together with the wet and dirt ; his head, become prematurely bald, shrunk into his body ; and visitors of a sceptical turn of mind drove the "hardy Switzer" wild by opinions, openly expressed, that the bird of Jove, the living allegory of Napoleon the Great, was only a stuffed specimen. And yet, like men who have "bad greatness thrust upon them," this miserable hermit has achieved an historical status in the popular mind, and nine persons out of ten will tell you that Louis Napoleon carried the Colosseum eagle with him, and used it as a sort of Palladium in his expedition to Boulogne. Being in a position to state the facts from the lips of one of the partici pators in that madcap exploit, it is a duty to the public to depose the Colosseum eagle from his post of honour, and to tell how much eagle there really was in the Boulogne echaufoure, how it got there, and what part it played. On the sth August, 1840, the City of Edinburgh steamer, having on board some fifty or sixty friends of Prince Louis Napoleon, for whom it was char tered, dropped down the river and anchored off Gravesend, where the Prince was to join. He was to reach Gravesend by land, to avoid suspicion, and to go on board in the dusk of the evening. While the vessel was lying • off Gravesend waiting for the Prince, Colonel Parquin, one of the party, remembered that he had brought no cigars with him, and proposed going .on shore to purchase some. Theliu, the Prince's valet, being in want of snuff, proposed to accompany him, and, taking one of the ship's boats, they rowed on shore. On reach ing the lauding they found a boy standing there, with an eagle attached to a chain, and Parquin, like a poetic Frenchman, at once hailed the spec , tacle as of good omen, and forthwith offered to buy the bird. After some haggling, the eagle, chain and all, was purchased for ten shillings ; the chain was wound round the bird to keep it still, and it was laid in the boat. The cigars and snuff were bought ; the boat returned to the steamer, from which the whole scene was witnessed by the nar rator, and the trophy was exhibited. sow, the bird was almost as wretched an animal as his brother at the Colosseum—an eagle which did not look as if be could stare at a candle, much less the sun, without blinking. Some laughed, and some thought with Col.Parquin that, after all, it was an eagle,and therefore of good omen ' • and then, when each had said his say, one of the sailors chained it to the mast. By and by the Prince came on board ; more serious matters occupied their minds ; and the eagle was so utterly forgotten that no one even thought of giving it food. The landing near Wimereux was effected during the night, or rather in the grey of the morning ; the whole affair was over in a few hours, and the poor eagle was still chained to the mast, where it was found I by the authorities of Boulogne, who seized the City of Edinburgh ; and it was duly included in the proces verbal along with the two carriages, ten horses, some twenty thou sand pOunds in money, and about a thousand mus kets. As the eagle had taken no part in the plot his life was spared, and he was retained by the citi zens of Boulogne as their share of the spolia opima, put at free quarters in the public abattoir, where, until within the last few years, ho might have been seen gorgin himself, like the most vulgar eagles, with the refuse of slain cattle. What became of the Colosseum eagle who has usurped in the popular mind the honours of the real Simon Pure is not accurately known. Some say he became reduced to a state of perfect idiocy, an end to which he appeared rapidly approaching lon g ago, and that he w as l ast h ear d o f i n H er ing's Menagerie. Others affirm that he gradually established a chronic indigestion brought on by eating pieces of his pasteboard rock, and so came to a miserable death. But whatever may have been his fate, this much is certain, that the apocryphal honours of the Benlogne expedition are wrongly attributed to him ; and that the presence of an eagle on hoard the City of Edinburgh was probably oven unknown to Louis Napoleon, and was due solely to the cir cumstance of Colonel Parquin having forgotten to bring a supply of ci g ars from London. The other version has had its day quite long enough. Cari catures and writers of political squibs have had sixteen years' license, and it is therefore almost time that the true story should be told, and that Sir A. Alison, or the Stnollett who will " begin to continue" hint, should have the facts from an au- I thentic source.—Daily News. CHOLERA IN INDIA. The legend which ascribes to the eating of human flesh the origin of one of the most loathsome of dis eases, scarce offers a more horrible picture to the imagination than is presented by a letter in the Ceylon Examiner of October. We have already alluded to the ravages made by cholera in India during the early part of this year. The latest accounts inform us that this scourge has also devas tated the beautiful islands of Mauritius and Boor -13,0- These islands are largely supplied with pork from Patna, a province of Hindostan that has itself been overrun by the cholera. Both there ana at Calcutt a th e bodies of the natives are con si,,,r, ned t o t h e Ganges, instead of b e i ng i nterred. " Let a Government House, any person," says the writer in the Ceylon walk be to the banks h. paper, at day-break start from the gates of Govern Coafletuhettraiv,; river, or t w o h t e h t e h b e a r n h k is s city, he will which o f the canals ich on three sides surround the of the natives tleieat pigs away and sink all thatfeeding on the dead bodies the night ; during have been thrown there eluring day the river police clear t h e as is the metropolis of remains of the bodies. Bad to Patna Hundreds Btrewl44akit is nothing compared fattening, Ghoule-like, u n hundreds of human the strand ; and corpses are there pon ° t n li g ese are droves upon droves of swine. These swine are slaughtered, cut pickled pork, hams' b e ac a a n l:c l u ' in t a t e ri a .... ... 4 .The great salted into and then despatched to up and market for this poisonou s Mauritius and Bourbon," where it i ") i r f o • produce is the foisted on the inhabitants as the produce of Europe- Moreover, as these swine are sold in Calcutta at three or four shillings each carcase, it is stated that the ierior class of homeward-bound vessels are provisioned with them, and thus this human-fed pork is intro duced into Europe and America. To the conclusion of the writer, that this is a probable cause of th e spread of cholera, we do not assent. But we would call attention to the revolting scenes described by him ; for it is in a British possession, and under the control of British rule, that these enormities are "allowed to continua.-Lance4 DECEMBER 5. Was. White, aged 27, was indicted for an assault with intent, &c., and also for an indecent assault. Mr. Maunsull prosecuted, and Mr. Cockle defended the prisoner. The transaction in question took place as long ago as Feb., 1854, and iu the meantime two persons had been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the part they took in it. The prosecutrix, M. Appleby, is a married woman of middle age, and, according to her statement, she went into a publichouse in Northampton on the Sth of Feb., 1851, in which there were several men drinking, and had a glass of gin ; that after she left, and had walked some distance, several of the same men came after her, ' and one of them struck or slapped her on the side of the face ; that the blow rendered her insensible, and that she knew nothing of what happened afterwards until she found herself at the police station. She did not identify the prisoner at all, but it appeared from the testimony of the witnesses that a party of four men (of whom the prisoner was one) were seen carrying her along the street in a state of drunkenness and apparent insensibility. They were met by a constable, who made them take her to a house, in which it was said she lodged, and ho left her in charge of the woman of the house, cautioning her that the men were bad characters. Not withstanding this the four men were subsequently seen carrying or dragging her out of the town to a place called Dalliugton moor ; and once during their progress she was heard to call out " Murder !" The attention of seve ral persons was called to the conduct of the four men, one of whom made a pretence to one of the witnesses that the women was his wife ; and it appeared that no fewer than three men (two of whom were examined as witnesses) ac' Rally followed the four to the meadows, and there saw the woman's person outraged by one man, while two were holding her down, without attempting to interfere—conduct which the learned judge denounced in the strongest terms. At length, a parish constable having been procured, the men ran off, leaving the wo man, still in an intoxicated and partially insensible con• dition, on the ground. Two of the men were appre hended almost immediately, and the prisoner White was sought for, but could not be found until the mouth of September last, when he was apprehended and com. mitted upon this charge. The le . artied fudge, in summing up the case to the jury, mentioned that some doubts were entertained whether the offence cf rape could be committed upon the person cf a woman who had rendered herself per tacitly insensible by drink so as to be unable to give any signs of resistance. The jury found the prisoner guilty of an indecent as 'Ault, and he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and bard labour. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DuRn3i, DEO. 4. (Before Mr. Justice Erie.) Francis Donaldson was indicted for, a garotte robbery at Felling on the 17th of November last. Mr. Seymour prosecuted, Mr. Blackwell defended the prisoner. The prosecutor, Mr. Thomas Hilton, at the time of the robbery, was foreman in the Washington Iron Com pany, and on the 17th November last had been drinking tea with his mother and brother, Mr, Joseph Fox HOUNDS. Albrighton (MT . 0. Stubbs) .. Tues. C'netwynd-park lO 30 Thur,Coten Sat. Sheriffhales. Atherstono Wed. Wartou-village Fri. Three Pots Sat. Arbury ll 0 Badsworth Tues. Mrlgstone-hill Thar. Ifindley-common Sat. Marr-village Berkshire, Old (Mr. Morrell's) .... 3/fon. Faringdon-grove lO 30 Tues. Fyfield-tree lO 30 Fri. Coxwell-wood lO 30 Sat. South Fawley lO 30 Berkshire, South Mon. Nuffeld-common . lO 30 Tues. Hare and Hounds, Been ham lO 30 Thur. Padworth-house lO 30 Fri. Burnt-bill Bellew's, Mr. F. Tues. Yarde-down Sat. Cazzicombe-post lO 30 Bramham-moor Mon. Parlington Wed. High Harrogate lO 30 Fri. Bickerton-bar lO 30 Sat. A.rthington Burton Hunt, Lord Hy. Bentinck's ... Mon. Magin-moor 0 0 !rues. Linwood-by-Rasen . V ed. Fiskerton Long-wood Thur. Burton Fri.o lstaot n . . W TI thr i ae l Willingham-by-Stow 1 i n t . g aß h r rd a ,m ow. gi - e by hkt 60 - S nA t o r m w s . : 1 0 00 3000 Cambridgeshire Fri. Megre-wood , .„. 10 30 Cheshire - bridge Wed. Belmont lO 30 Thur. Tabley-house Sat. Abbey Arms .. lO 30 Cottesmore, Trollope's Mon. Casewick Tues. Tilton-wood Thur. Witham-common Sat. Ayston ll 0 Crawley and Horsham Mon. Turner's-hill Wed. Star, Horsham Fri. HandcroSS Deacon's, Mr Mon. Bicton-mill lO 30 Thur. Sydenham-house Eggesford Tues. 3/orchard Bishop Fri. Stable green Essex, the, H. Greaves'sThe First open day at Blackmore.ll 0 Essex, East (Mr. Mar riott's) Tues.Ridgewell-green ll 0 Fri. 13raxted-park ll 0 Essex, South, (Mr. But ton's) Tues. Ingrave Church ll 0 Sat. Stubbers ll 0 Essex and Suffolk Tues. Thorrington-hall ll 0 Fri. Wiston Farquharson's, Mr. ...Mon. Elsington-wood 0 0 Tues. Lanyton, near Beamin- ster Garth's, Mr. Mon. Hartford-bridge flat . Wed. Ascot Kennels Fri. Sherfield-gate Gogerddan (Mr. E. . Pryse's) Hambledon Mon. Barn-green lO 45 Wed. Allington lO 45 Fri. Warnford-park Harborough (Mr. W. , W. Talby's) Mon. Holt ll 0 Thur. Stanton Wyville ll 0 Heythrop Mon. Boulser's-barn Wed. Bradwell-grove . . 10 30 Fri. Addlesthorpe-gate lO 30 Sat. North Aston Ilolderuess Tues. Eske lO 45 Thur. Warter Priory Fri. Rise-mill Sat. Cave-castle Hursley Mon. Crawley-pond lO 45 Fri. Cranberry - cross - roads, Stanley Lowe Hurworth . Tues. The Kennels Sat. Croft-bridge Ingram's (Mr. Meynel 1) Tues. Blythebury lO 45 Thur. Longford lO 45 Sat. Wichnor-park lO 45 Isle of Wight Tues. West Sido Fri Whitefield-wood Kent, East Fri Sweech-gate Ledbury, J.Thackwell'sMon. The Somers Arms,Eastnor 10 30 Fri. Bosbury villege ... 10 30 Ludlow (Mr. Sitwell's) Tues. Hopton Wafers Thur. Kyre-wood lO 30 Sat. Whit batch-wood Middleton's, Lord Mon. Rillington Wed. Oulston Fri. Foxholes-mill lO 30 Sat Dalby Monmouthshire Mon. Broderwen lO 30 Thur. Dingestow-bridge Oakley Mon. Astwood lO 45 Thur. Colworth lO 45 [ sat. Roxton Oxfordshire (South), Mr. Phillips's Tues. Stanton St. John Fri. The Three Pigeons Pembrokeshire (Phillips's Mr. L.) ...Mon. Wallaston-eross Thur. Williamston-quarries lO 30 Portsmouth's (Earl of) First open day, The Kennel Puckeridge,Mr.Parry'sMon. Measdeu•green Wed. Hockrill Sat. Aspeden Pytchloy • Mon. Jib-wood Wed. Yelvertoft Fri. Maidwell lO 45 Sat. Braunston Quorn Mon. Brooksby-gate Tues. Lockington-hall ll 0 Thur. Houghton-on-the-Hill Fri. Burleigh-hall Rufford Tues. Kennels Thur. Norwood-park Sat. Cavendish-lodge lO 45 Seale's, Sir Henry Tues. Bradley Fri. Wallaton.cross Scarborough's (Earl of) Mon. Osberton lO SO Tues. North Carlton lO 30 Thur. S winnow-wood Fri. Grove Shropshire, C. 3. Morris Tues. Shawbury White-gate Wed. Pitchford village lO 30 Fri. Lotnn-park Sinnington Tues. Helmsley Fri. Wrelton Smith's, Mr. Assheton Mon. Longstock-down 'rues. Oare-hill Thur. Shoddesden-gate Fri. West Tythorley Southampton (Lord) ...Mon. Forster's-booth' ll. 0 Wed. Wing Fri. Whitfield Sat. Norton-bin ll 0 Southdown, (A. Dono- van's) Mon. Laughton-pound ............ 10 45 10 45 Fri. Danny ........................ Southwold (Mr.Cook's)Mon. Burwell-park ............... 11 0 11 0 Tues. Tumby- swan ................ _ • Thur. II ainton .................... 11 Sat. Welton-woo d ............... 11. 0 Staffordshire, North ~• M v o c n d .. jlnoteilssttroon;:;ii .............. 10 30 10 30 Fri. Stoko-heath lO 30 Suffolk ............. : ....... Tues. Hon in g ton-fox 10 45 Thur. Trundle-wood 10 45 Sat. Ampton-hall 10 30 Surrey union ............Leatherhead-downs Thur. Clandou-cross lO 30 Sat. Norwood-hill Sussex, East ..........,.Tues. Hooe-common l6 30 Fri. Crowhurst-park lO 30 Thompson's, Mr. A.... Tues. Barton-common ll 0 Thur. Grendon-village Sat. Soldern-gato Tickham Mon. Rainham-street Thur. D odding ton . Sat. Sharstcd 10 30 Tiverton Mon, The Kennel . 10 30 Thur. Crawys Morchard-mill ... 10 30 Trelawney's, Mr. Tues. Marley-lodge Sat, Train Brake lO 30 United Pack (Mr. Lu ther's) Tues. Witley.park Fri. Kerry-pole Ir, W. ll.,Lord Gifford's Tues. Barrow-elm Thur. Minty-poundlo 45 10 45 Sat. Ashton Keynes iiia . Vaughan's, Sir R. W... Wed. Cryniaeth, near Fri. Plasyresgob... Sat. Rhug ...... 10 onontoll-gate Pillerton Tues. Portobello t o ll -gat . e Warwickshire 10 45 Fri. Burton D asse t t toil .g.a.t.e..... Thur Shuckburgh .. .. 1 1 0 0 4 4 5 5 Warwickshire, North_ Tue s. The Kenn e l s Wed, The Clock, Bicknell ...... 10 45 Fri. Princethor Tues. Harley„ Princethorpe . ........ ...... 10 45 Wheatland Fri. Willey.parl .................. 10 30 Wyndham's, Colonel Mon. Salmon -bridge Wed, Guniber-corner 10 30 Fri. Fittl e worth- village 11. 30 W. Mon. G resford F T r h i u . r. Wynn, Sir W. o ll t a e w ie k y s p to a n r e k lO 30 10 30 10 30 Sat. Malpas 10 30 Worcestershire .. ....... Mon. Crown Inn, Ombersley Wed. Crowle 10 30 Fri, Northwick Arms, Benge- Yaborough's (Earl o f) Mon. nlyboro' worth -hall lO 30 . . 11 0 Wed Normanby-clump . 11 0 Fri. Wootton-hall York and Ainsty ......Mon.' Shire's-bar 10 30 Tuee.Dringhouses Thur. Riple- - -station Sat. Nahum BLINK BONNY __The report which has been current in sporting circles during the laqt few days, attributing the present ownership of this animal to Mr. Howard, is, we are authorised t o state, without foundation. FRENCH SQUADRON IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.—The Constitutionncl states that several French vessels of war are intended to cruise in the Indian Ocean, in company with the frigate Nemesis, which will be the flagship of Rear -Admiral Rigault do Genouilly. Two steam cor vettes, the Phlegeton and the Primaguett, with four gunboats, will compose this little squadron, to be joined to the naval force which is already in the same region, under the command of Rear-Admiral Guerin, who has izobted his sag in the ViNinif. LIVERPOOL-Dn. 5. In the early part of this morning's market holders put advanced prices on their wheat samples, but the attend at, 43 of millers and dealers not being so good as of late the business effected was moderately fair, at about Tuesday's prices. Flour in better demand, and some American bar rel brought an advance of 6,1 to Is. Sack flour unaltered in price. Indian corn moved off slowly, but the late rates were supported. Oats and oatmeal held firmly for full prices. Barley, beans, and peas were each moderately dealt in at recent quotations. WAKEFIELD-DEC. 5. Wheat was held for an advance of is to 2s per quarter and sold slowly. In other articles there was not much alteration. EXETER-DEC. 5. CORN.—Wheat, 7s 6 , to 8s 3d ; barley, 5s 6d to 61 3 grinding do., Os Od to Os Od. Oats, 2s 6d to 3s Od. Beans, Os Od to 0 :Od. Peas, OOs Od to OOs Od. FLouu.—Fine, —s Od to 16s Od ; seconds, —s Od to 44s Od per sack. CATTLE. —The supply was moderate. Best beef was sold at from Os Od to 10a Gd per score ; inferior, 8s 6d Per score ; fat calves, 64d to 7d per lb ; barrenners, 03 Od to 05 Od. per score ; cows and calve*, 121. to 18/. tis ; butchers' calves, 6d to 7d per lb., rearing calves —s to - s each. sheep, ewes and lambs, 01. Os to OZ. Os per couple; ewes. 541 to 6d ; wethers, Gd Gad ; lambs, —to Od per lb. Pigs, large size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —s ; slips, --a to —s ; suckers, —s to —s. Rough fat, 4id per lb. Pork carcases from 9,3 Od to 10s Od per score. BRISTOL SUGAR—DEC. 5. The market still assumes a very firm appearance, and prices continue to have a further upward tendency. The transactions on the spot, however, are necessarily of veil limited extent, owing to the short supply; but very large purchases both in London and Liverpool for removal to this port have been made during the week, in addition to about 300 hhds Berbice, just arrived here, and which re' alised 48s 6d, ship's' side. The Refined market is very' firm, but few goods offering. Of rum we are without * supply. COURSE OF EXCH. Am5tercbtm............ H 14%, Ditto, three months .. 11 17% Rotterdam ............ n 17% 1 Antwerp .............. 25 32% Brussels .. • • 25 32% Elamburgh .......• .... 13 7% A110w... • • -•• Pari5.............. 25 25 Ditto, three months .. 25 65 Marseilles 25 67% Bowden= .. • • ........ Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 119% Berlin •••••••••••••••• Vienna•••••••••••• •••• 10 42 Trieste— .. •• .• •• • •• •• 10 43 Petersburg •••.•••••• •• 37% Madrid ••• •••••••• •••• 48 3 ,4 Cadiz ••••••••• •• •• •..41, 49 Barcelona - •••• ••• • •• .... Seville— .............. _ COAL MARE ?rims of Coal per ton at 0 . ELI Holywell Byass's Hartley l6 9 Davison's West Hartley 16 9 Tanfield Moor l6 0 Wallsend, &c. Lambton 19 01 Ships at market... 3 (ANGE.-•YESTZRDAT• Gibraltar Leghorn 29 d . 95 88 Genoa ........••.....• Milan .. •• •••• ......•• VeniCe•• •• •• ..•• 43 Naples • • •• 130 Palermo .... 130 g Messina ... ••• 51g Lisbon .. .." 51% Oporto •• Rio Janeir0............ - Buenos Ayres.... ••• • •• New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, FBI 0%.. Foreign Gold in Bars XO 0 Y, Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 ; Mexican Dollars .... 0 ° 0 New Dollars 0 0 Silver in bars ...... 0 0 :ET.—DEC. 5. the close of the mar net. WaMend, M. 0 , di 6 Gosforth ................... 17 6 Riddell ...... 17 • Hartlepoa ................ . 19 south Hetton .............. S Tees ........ ............... 19 6 6 Whitworth ................ 17 I Sold 24 LOCAL SHARE MARK.B2B LIVERPOOL, DEC. 5. A v v/01 SToax EXOHANGE.—The Stock Exchange to'— a w dy. doing a very quiet business, and prices closed t r a orth Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35,,,0 British, I—London and North Western, 1 01 Lancashire, 21i i--Lancashire and Yorkshiret.,:„ru South Eastern, 22$ 4—Midland, 821 i—Great w a r e _, of Canada. 21i—batch Rhenish, 1 Berwick, 214—Leeds, 19—Chester and B.lyhead, imu—rrorth E,13, Psi BIRMINGHAM, DEO. 5* rather . &MOE EXC H ANGE.—This market was ratner nrmer to• day, with a good average business doing —London and North Westerns, 106 i —Great Wes' doing• Midland, 824 I terns, 70 i• MANCHESTER, DEC. 5. d 11-16-south ow TOOK EXCHANGE.—The market opened firm to-dOP with very little business. Midlands, 82i—Leeds 97r, Manchester She ffi eld, and Lincolns 354—Cheater an° Birkenhead, 17—East Lancashire, tern and Dover, 221 —Great Western, 70. SEABORNE MAILS. g; except in the case of the lutlio hi fe c l h o , w o i n n such occasions, is made up [When the date for makingl up a mall falls on a Sunday, the 03A,a: r m e a m il ai , evening previous.] nvsiaollonaunthtiarultpliteond:.wy P Made ost. O u f ti p c a e t. patched. Whence __------ ron F RO _........„ ....---------- . WO' the 72tihtill7orti} des- South- By what When Vow' Vessel, expected ' IT s i p sin --- : Gibraltar .. month. ampton Tagus Gibraltar ..1 ) Malta .... I Egypt ...• .. I 4th & 20th Ceylon —.. M of the South- Indus 2C ;lt h e °l °ln° India month. Mauritius I (v laC eyl on) J can diS China - . ..... Dec. 4. • Penang ...• M the Singapore Jai Australia(via / AI Dec. 12 .. } South- R. , ro. g o y.— Js the Cape) Cape of Good a Ho ,e Dart- Jam, 25 Mauritius Ceylon India ..... Lisbon 1 Madeira CapedeVerds I South- Brazil BuenosAyres Falkland Is- I lands i West Indies 1 (except Ha vana and Honduras). 2d and 17th oat of t ea Venezuela - Avon Dec.st 12n Tyininsg: Atrato the Grey Town ( ampton month. month. New Granada Chili Peru ••.. • • California •• _ 16th of ._ ?Laga r th Honduras •• south- Atria° e ._ toe , IS assaa • nth- .... . Jan. 1 Mexico • • am pton Havana • • 6 Glallibi° Madeira - Niger DEC' Teneriffe W.C.of Africa eurob e British North Liver- Europa Den* 8 pool u_ A n m ite e d ri s c t a ate . s . -E Every Fri. . rale u -u....,....c rsee 0 andi pee.. VeC.' - LivEr. Milne 3r. British Northl E alterno. pal America United States South- ----D4tehin. 13d ----.......Attirss.a. British North i M Dec. 17 .• 1 America ampton Liver- Canada • • M—Morni E-E' lvening• y the d e O n s n , t the sth inst. , ef BIRTH 07 A SON. . 5t D D . B e B r t r a i On the 4th inst., at tienley-onTharees, the wi fe Rev. Henry Benson. nehstoepee:REtreeqe.t, of wife of J. R. Dickson,.or E A sci D . AUGHTER. e l i t e On the 3d inst at Howland - st reet, Fitzroy-00 111 I°r ' • € f • On the 4th inst., at 24, Wilton. p l ace , the wife i=e ° V. Johnson, Esq. ne l On the sth inst., at Sutton, S u rrey, Mrs. JO . MA it RI ED. e g r. On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-Wier ;idesb John Savory, of Sparham, Norfolk, to Mary An n ' daughter of Mr. Forsyth, of Hanover-square. . I, gr. On the 4th inst.. at St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwicore. to John Corner, of 15, Artille7y-place, Finsbuil.eVojliatin Harriet Sarah, third daughter of the late Mr- Howet, St. Julian's, Norwich. D I E D. 4 . Wilk On the sth inst., at Greenwich Hospital, Lien' Rivers, R.N., aged 68. goal, the On the 4th inst., at Pulborough Rectal, rtctor of tho Rev. John Austin, M.A., Oxon, for 34 Yenr 3 parish, aged 86. On the 2d inst., at 55, Victori treet, i ralic° ' l'l9l ' Edward Innes Roinson, youngest son of - the s or oeree ? Abercromby Robinson, Bart., b Batt s of Souse, shire, aged 45. ington fetes On the 4th inst., at Hornton-street, se lls--- ' h Smith, Esq., aged 60. -U.S. PseP On the Ist inst., at South Berwick, Maine, .•k ble, Bowers Gray, A.M , M.D., Principal of Berwic formerly of Chelmsford, Essex, aged 38. , T , 0 0013 , On the 4th inst., at New-court, St. Swithin s, '.' late Sir o, Mrs. Stewart Flemyng. LONDON : Printed and Pablighed by DIVED° Ir 0111.1.?1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The ,Surb Oilieet 112, Strand, in the PreCinilt of the Savoy, in the conoig c 4 7°411410Ni Satig4ol pettier; 6. Wet To BE MAJOR-GENERALS. - - - - Colonel Robert Stewart, Bengal Infantry. Colonel Edward Pettingall, Bengal Infantry. The undermentioned officers of the East India Company's Service, retired upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows : To BE MAJOR-GENERAL. Colonel Edward Fitzgerald Day, Bengal Artillery. To BE COLONELS. Lieut.-Col. Dacres Fitzherbert Evans, Bengal Infantry Lieut.-Col. James Chicheley Plowden, Bengal Infantry, Lieut.-Col. Edward Griffiths Auitin, Bengal Artillery Lieut.-Col. Henry Foquett, Bengal Infantry. Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Hill Fishe, Madras Artillery. Lieut.-Col. Francis Ryan Duncan, Bengal Artillery. Lieut.-Col. John Ramsay, Bombay Infantry. Lieut.-Col. James Roger Western, Bengal Engineers. Lieut.-Col. Samuel Smith Trevor, Madras Artillery. Lieut.-Col. William Chas. Hicks, Bengal Infantry. To BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Major William Carlisle Stailer,iie;l7:4lnfantry. Major Herbert William Wood, Madras Infantry. Major Wm. Vernon Mitford, Bengal Light Cavalry. Major Charles Elliott Good, Bmigal Infantry. Major Charles Andrew Kitson, Bengal Cavalry. Major Patrick Ogilvie, Madras Infantry. Major George Hickson Fagan, Bengal Engineers. Major David Edward Brewster, Bengal Infantry. Erratum in the Gazette of Nov. 21, 1855—For Major- General Sir James Outram, K.C.8., of the Bombay Army, to have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in the East Indies, while employed upon a particular service—Read, Major-General Sir James Outram, K.C.8., to have the temporary rank of Lieutenant-General while employed on a particular service. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, DEC. 5. BREVET. MEMORANDA.. In pursuance of a memorandum, dated Oct., 1854, the Queen has been pleased to confer upon Robert Cannon, Esq., a Ferik in the service of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary rank of Lieut.• General, such honorary rank, however, to confer no privilege as a British General Officer on Lieut.-General.Cannon. In pursuance of a memorandum, dated Oct., 1854, the Queen has been pleased to confer upon Lieut. and Brevet- Captain Charles Thomas Edward Hinde, of the 65th Ben gal Native Infantry and Lieut.-Colonel ' in the service of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel, such honorary rank, however, to confer no privilege as a British Lieut.-Colonel on that officer. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Charles Wm. Parker, Esq., late Captain 4th or Royal . South Middlesex Regiment of Militia, and late Captain 69th Regiment, to be adjutant from Nov. 5, vice Grimston, deceased. BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. COMMIS S I ONS SIGNED 2d or Edmonton R o y al Rifle Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Charles Godson, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon from Oct. 9, vice Millar, resigned ; Ensign Wm. Dawes Mallon to bo Lieutenant, vice Read, appointed to Ceylon Rifle Corps. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap, 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 29th day of Nov., 1856. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. N o tes issued .. 24,269,930 Government debt .... 11,015,10( Other securities ...... 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 9,794, 30 Silver bullion ...... • • - 424 ; 269,930 £24,269,930 A. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1856. ;PARTXENT. Dated the 4th day of December, BANICINQ DE . Propriethrecapital .. 14,553,000 Rest . . ......... 3,205,524 Public 001)6314E (in- Government securities (Includg.lleadWeight Annuity) .......... 10,454,867 Other securities ...... 17,537,749 Notes .......... 4,785,180 Gold and silver coin .. 616,467 .- - - chiding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ng's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,469,987 Other deposits ...... 9,320,817 Seven Day and other Bills ••.• .• .• .. 844,935 £33,394,263 £33,391,263 [. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1856. Dated the 4th day of December, AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Deo. 2, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America............ 35 6/ Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 37 71 Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.... 35 5 Avorae of the three foregoin3 descriptions ...... 35 101 BANKRUPTS. Ephraim Fairhead, cattle dealer and salesman. Cressing, Essex, to surrender, Dec. It, and Jan. 15, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street • Howard, Quality-court, Chan cer y -lane. Charles 'Brown, milliner, Oxford-Areet, Dec. 19 and Jan. 20, at one, at,the Court of Ban kru p tcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury • Shepherd, Sise-lane, City - James Smith, cattle d t.gham Hy the , Dec. 18, at dealer eleven, and Jan. 22, at twelve, a t the Court of B ankru p tc y . 8011, official assignee, Colema n-stree t-b u ildings ; Hilleary, London-street, Fenchurch-etree.t. Daniel Greenaway Porter, wine merchant, Philpot-laue, City, Dec. 12 , at half - p ast ono, a nd Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers ; Marshall, C o llege-gardens, London-wall. Thomas Banks, ironmonger, Chorley, Dec. 21 and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Marna man official assignee M a nchester ; Swan, Lancaster. John' Vayro, linen 'draper, Ripon, Dec. 22 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as signee, Leeds ; Jones, Size-lane ; Blackburn, Leeds. John Berry, Richard Berry, and Thomas Berry, iron founders, Rochdale, Dec. 19 and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the a er n , d w ß e o d b n in e s s o b n u , ry M , a s n t e a h ff e o st r e d r s . hire, Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Ea g g o n c Henry 18 and Jan. 8, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Dec. Whit mo re, official assignee, Birmingham ; Sheldon, Wed nesbury ; K n ight, Birmingham. Abraham Coronel, cigar manufacturer, Minories, Dec. 19, at twelve, and Jan. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Abrahams, S ou thampton - buildings. Henry George Dearlove, timber merchant, Palace-row, New-road, Dec. 17, at twelve, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Abrahams, Southampton -building s. Thomas Firmston, builder, Shrewsbury, Salop, Dec. 18 and Jan. 8, at ton, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cooper and Broaghall, Shrewsbury ; James, Birmingham. William Overton, b u ild er , L eam ington Priors, War wickshire Dec. 17, and J a n. 14, at half-past ten , at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee. Birmingham ; Messrs. Poole and Son, Kenilworth ; !Seoul' Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham. 141*4/41114310Qti builder, blemield, Nottinhaashixes POLICE lATELLIGENCE--Dec. 5. MANSION -HOD-BR—Tames Hale, alias ) ohn g, was son, a well - dresse d man and of gentlemanly berin brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with obtaining 20/. under false p retences from Mr. B. Barnard, manu facturer, of No. 134, Cheapside. The prisoner, who said he was not guilty of the charge, was committed for trial. GUILDHALL. —William Story, a tailor, of No. 62, Fleet-street, and James Batchelor, his shoptnah, were summoned before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with hav ing committed an assault on Mrs. Story. Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for Mrs. Story, and Mr. Ribton for the defendants. In this case the complainant had been separated from her husband about three years, and she sued him fol . a maintenance in the Ecclesiastical Court. The result was that the judge decreed that Mr. Story was to take his wife home ; but as their tempers were unfortunately not of a congenial character, Mr. Story agreed to allow her a guinea a week, on condition that she should not annoy him in his business, and not incur any debts during the time that he made her that allowance. This ag reement was kept on both side s for about 18 months, at tbe ex piration of which time Mr. Story said his eircuinstat:ces were much reduced, and he could only allow his awe Iris. a week. Mrs. Story took the sum for severa: months, but incurred certain debts, for which Mr. Story was sued and compelled to pay. In consequence of having to pay this m one y , he again reduced her allow ance to 12s. 6d. per week since May last, and finding she could not live upon that, h av ing entered the sit she went on Tuesday tinlasg t to her husband's house, and room, intimated her intention of re maining there. Upon this Mr. Story called in the police, but they knowi Mrs. Story refused to interfere. He then called up his shopman, and told him to take the chair from under her and turn her out of the house. He then said she was not his wife, nor was the young lady present his (laugh , ter. The shopman, by Mr. Story's direction, took the chair from under her, dragged her down stairs, and thrust her out of the house. Mr. Ribton contended that there had been no assault committed, for so long as Mrs. Story received an allow ance from her husband she had no right to enter his house. She was there a trespasser, and he had a right to eject her provided he used no more violence than was necessary to do so. Sir R. W. Carden thought Mrs. Story had a right there under the decree of the Ecclesiastical Court, for wherever her husband's home was that was hers also. With regard to the agreement, Mr. Story had broken it, and therefore she was not bound by it. The defendants were fully committed for trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court, but were admitted to bail. MARLBOROUGII-STREET.—S. E. Stanbridge, charged with obtaining a considerable quantity of pro perty from numerous trades men by false pretences, was brought up for further examination. It will be remem bered that at the prisoner's last examination it was shown that he had been accustomed to drive about with a brougham and pair, and had obtained an expensive velvet dress of Mr. Nathan by means of a fictitious cheque. On this occasion other charges against him were heard, and he was fully committed fOr trial. The police have succeeded in tracing during the week nearly 2001. worth of property, consisting of linen, jewellery, and expensive knick-knacks, obtained by the prisoner in a very short time from tradesmen at the West-end and in the City. LAM.BETII.--.T. T. Leader appeared on a summons to show cause why he should not contribute to the relief of his son's wife and child. It appeared that the defendant, who is parish clerk of St. Michael's, had prosecuted his son, the husband and father of the destitute persons, and that the latter had become chargeable to St. Mary's, Newington. Mr. Binns, who attended for the defendant, addressed the Bench at some length, and said that it never could be contemplated that a person who, like his client, was compelled by the laws of the country to prosecute his son-in-law, should be compelled to support his family while in prison, After some discussion as to the amount which should be allowed to his daughter and grandchild, Mr. Norton fixed it at 4s. a-week, and made an order for the pay ment of that sum weekly. PURIFICATION OF THE THAMES. The Thames flowing through the City of London ! What a gorgeous mind-picture of silvery waters, set in a frame of superb palaces, must the very thought of it present to a meditative Brahmin or an imaginative Hin doe. The description of a city composed of Aladdin's palaces, set in Sin bad's valley of diamonds, would pos. eibly satisfy the Oriental imagination. But it would be assuredly beyond the bounds of even a Hindoo's credu lity to believe that the great river of the great capital of England is purposely goaded into " running a muck through the town—whether we understand the phrase, like the Hindoo, to signify a blind sacrifice of human life, or explain it, by the aid of our dictionaries, to refer to the flowing of a liquid mass of manure. But in four years' time the Thames is to be purified, and the sewage of London to find another channel. One year has been already wasted by constituted autho rities, and possibly the other would be similarly frit tered away, but that certain plain and practical men, endowed with common sense, and not pos sessing that enormous determination of words to the mouth which specia ll y afflicts folks " dressed in a little brief authority," have lent helping hands to get through the difficulty. Though in all these private plans there are innumerable obstacles to iie overcome, yet there is not one of them but excels the pet plan of the Board of Works, providing, as it does, an outfall within three quarters of a mile of Erith Csurch ; against which a de putation of the inhabitants protested most strongly in an interview last week with Lord Palmerston. The plan of Dr. Marshall Hall, to carry off the sewage in large c'oscas on either bank of the river, and when far away from the town, to remove it for the cultivation of the soil, would also remedy an evil that seems to have hitherto been singularly overlooked ; probably from ten der consideration for the vested interests of the mud larks. The formation of such cloacae, covered over with wide i tone quays (and why should not our convicts try their hands at chiselling them!) would considerably narrow the stream of the Thames, and so rid us of those wide beaches of mud and decomposing animal matter which may be seen at every low tide. This narrowing the stream would also tend to deepen the river, and the construction of quays, as at Paris, would, moreover, materially relieve our over-crowded thoroughfares. Attention is specially directed, in the plan of Sir W. Worsley, to the imperative necessity that must arise, in any case, of providing additional means for flushing the sewers at frequent intervals. He proposes to take the water of the river from Battersea to Limehouse Reach by a short cut ; and, between these points, to oust Fa ther Thames altogether from the bed where he has so long wallowed ; planting the ground thus acquired with trees, Ste., and carrying the main sewer beneath to empty itself at Woolwich ; above which stsstion dams are to be constructed for keeping out the sea-tide. The most important item in the scheme is the forma tion of reservoiri at Battersea for fleshing the sewers at regular intervals. This should be made a subjected t of careful con s ideration, whatev er be the plan adop, otherwise frightful, evils will most assuredly arise from the decomposition of more than seven millions of cubic feet of sewage rotting in the drains beneath our i f s e feet removed during the a n h y o t m a i le nd s dryaa away; vv months, e and have w n h o e t n s th pa e ce ve t n o t enter into all the details of Sir Wen. Worsley's plan, to which the enormous annual traffic of that portion of the river he proposes to obliterate, must form a fatal objec tion. Moreover, the current of air produced by a flow ing stream of water, if only moderately pure, is of great importance in a sanitary point of view. The chief attraction in the plan of Mr. WCiean (most appropriate of names) is that Sir M. Peto, the great con tractor, offers to carry it out for a certain sum le a given time. This is an object for consideration, when we re member how great the difference usually is between the estimated cost of our public works (as the Houses of Parliament) and the actual expenditure. Mr. M'Clean proposes to carry the sewage, by covered ways, into the river Crouch, at Waltham, and so into the Ger. man Ocean. Fatal sacrifice ! The plan of Dr. Marsball Hall has the great advantage of disposing of the sewage elsewhere than in the Thames, and of making it a vast source of wealth. 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