The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE QUARTER'S RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The 12 leading railway systems all show an ad vance of traffic during the quarter ending the 31st ult. ; but the increase in some cases has been com paratively trifling, and has probably scarcely kept pace with the growth of capital. The London and North Western advanced from £961,288 to £974,452, showing an increase of £13,164, or 1.38 per cent.; the Midland, from £473,494 to £490,173, showing an increase of £16,379, or 3.45 per cent. ; the North-Eastern, from £441,710 . to £462,037, showing an increase of £20,327, or 4.60 per cent.; the Great Western, from £440,774 to £456,599, showing an increase of £15,825, or 3.59 per cent. ; the Lancashire and York shire, from £430,135 to £448,092, or 4.10 per cent.; the Great Northern, from £315,567 to £324,227, showing an increase of £8,660, or 2.74 per cent. ; the Eastern Counties from £299,363 to:£300,001, showing an increase of £638 or 0.21 per cent.; the London and South-Western, from £183,177 to £199,039, showing an increase of £15,862, or 7.92 per cent. ; the London, Brighton, and South Coast, from £155,258 to £170,459, showing an increase of £15,201, or 9.79 per cent. ; the South Eastern, from £144,567 to £154,268, showing an increase of £9,701, or 6.71 per cent. ; the Manchester, .Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, from £1 41 , 048 to £143,795, showing an increase of £2,751, or P 95 per cent. ; and the Caledonian, from £117,118 to £125,739, showing an increase of £8,617, or 7.36 p er cent. These fi gures su ffi ciently indicate the movement of traffic without account being taken of lines the earnings of which have not reached £lOO,OOO in the quarter. GREAT NORTHERN. An extraordinary general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the King's-cross Station to consider nine Railway Bills, in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords—Mr. E. Denison, the chairman, presided. Mr. OAKLEY, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit was for authorising the Metropolitan Railway Com pany to make improvements in their communica tion with the Great Northern ; and to empower the Metropolitan, Great Northern, and Great Western Railway Companies to enter into agreements for the use and working of the Metropolitan Railway and the apportionment of the receipts arising there from. A formal resolution approving the bill was carried unanimously, The CHAIRMAN said . the next bill he had to submit was for extending the Metropolitan Rail way from Smithfield to Finsbury-circus, and to authorise the Great Northern, Great Western, and London, Chatham, and Dover Companies to make arrangements for the use of the line and station. The Solicitor read the 36th clause of the bill, and it was unanimously approved. A bill was then submitted for authorising the construction of a railway from Edgware, through Hendon, Finchley, and Highgate, and terminat ing by a junction with the Great Northern Railway to the north of the Copenhagen Tunnel. It also empowered the Great Northern Company to agree for the working and manage ment of the line, and the appointment of the receipts arising therefrom. The CHAIRMAN said he believed it would be a use ful line to the public, and might be of advantage to the Great Northern Company. He then moved a formal resolution approving the bill, which was carried unanimously. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to authorise the construction of a railway between Garston and Liverpool. The CHAIRMAN said this was the most important bill he had to submit to the proprietors. It em powered the Great Northern and Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies jointly to construct a railway from Garston to Liverpool, and to appoint a committee of management. The capital was £450,000, and it was to be pro vided equally by both companies. The length of the line was between six and seven miles, and would enable the company to run trains into Liverpool and to have a joint station there and half the line. The Great Northern would also have running powers from Retford to Garston, and thence by the new line into Liverpool. He thought it a most important agreement for the proprietors of the Great Northern. The motion approving the bill was carried, and the meeting was adjourned to the 30th inst. for the consideration of the other bills. CHARING-CROSS. A special general meeting of *this company was held yesterday at the offices of the South-Eastern Railway, London-bridge, in accordance with the standing orders of the House of Commons, to con sider a bill now befo re Parliament—the Hon. J. Byng in the chair. _ Mr. S. SMILES, the secretary, having read the notice cunvening this meeting, The CHAIRMAN said the bill he had to submit was for authorising the company to make a line of railway from the authorised line into the city of London, with an additional line in Southwark. He remarked that so clear was the case before the Lords that the committee only occupied one day before its approval of the measure. Mr. TOOGOOD, the solicitor, read the heads of the bill for authorising the Charing-cross Railway Company to make a line of railway from their authorised line into the city of London, with an additional line in Southwark, and to raise further capital to the extent of £525,000, and to borrow £175,000. It also authorised the South-Eastern Railway Company to subscribe a further sum of money towards the undertaking. A formal resolution, approving the bill (as amended in committee), was carried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. ANTWERP AND ROTTERDAM. A meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the offices, Cannon-street, preli minary to the general meeting of the company at Brussels, on the 18th inst. General Studd was voted to the chair. Mr. G. F. SMITH, the company's London agent, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said there had been some dissatis faction at calling the meeting so early, but they were told that the sooner they held the meeting the sooner the shareholders would get their dividend. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report and statement of accounts. Mr. L. S C HUSTER seconded the motion, and it was carried. Captain SHAW, the managing director, in reply to questions, stated that several lines had been projected in Holland and Belgium, which, if carried out, would have an influence on their traffic. Some of them would be of infinite service to them, while one or two would be of a competing character. The continuation of the company's line from Moerdyke to Rotterdam by the Government would be an ex pensive work, and require five or six years for its construction. It was probable the Government would ask them to work the new line when com pleted. One matter not mentioned in the report was a negotiation that had terminated the day before respecting an arrangement for obtaining access to the basins and canals at Antwerp. They were told in the report that the Minister of Public Works would consent to the company making lines to the basins and canals on condition that the com pany should remove the line when required to do so by that department, and thus destroy the communi cation which would cost the company .£9,000 to make it. The Board did not consider it prudent to risk so much money on a contingency, and they entered into negotiations in another quarter for the pur chase of land and a canal, which would give the company the desired access to the basins and docks at Antwerp. In short he had to ask the meeting to give its assent to the payment of £2,000 for com pletion of this purchase, by which they would, in fact, save £7,000 of the £9,000 proposed to be ex pended for that purpose. Mr. SCHUSTER said there could not to be a ques tion as to the advantage of the proposed arrange -332.ent for bringinc , the company's line into commu 'Pion with the docks and canals of the country. the x 2 7 )oo for r er alresolution sanctioning the outlay of then carne purchase of the land and canal was unanimously. themservos aiss and other shareholders expressed traffic had ine,la e t f isfied with the small progress the that a comtnitt see ?r some years past, and suggested mode of havin t ' t lappointed to consider the b es t slanted at the ; 0 a English shareholders repre to whether som e uprovementrdin Brussels, and as might not be made in the management of theco,3 Mr. C. W. PRICE bad b eenanyg over the line three or four times, and consii teed th at • it was well managed and properly worked . Mr. GUSTF,NBERO thought it desirable to appoint complained ne to a committee to inquil into the matters compl • d of, with a v iew to as( vrtain what could b 0 done benefit the company. After a long convex's ation a resolution was p aced . appointi ng a comittitte( cons Irr• '"sting of Mr. S c h uster un., Mr. G us t en b erg, Th jE. Wright, Mr. T. 0 , . ompson, and Mr. Hi irrison, to consider the b eat mode of representin g the Englis h shareholders at the Board in Brusse I.s, also to conside r whet her any alteration in th 9 ma. 7iigement rould be made with advantage to the company ; and [the proceedings terminated, BISHOP'S CASTLE. An Friday, Saturday, and Monday public meet ings were held at Montgomery, Chnrchstoke, Chir bury, Bishop's Castle, and Craven Arms, to con sider the propriety of supporting the proposed line of railway. Mr. Piercy, the engineer, explained that the rail. way would commence at the Montgomery Station, near Caerhowell, passing through Chirbury, Churchstoke, Lydham, and forming a junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Hue near Craven Arms. There would be a short spur from the main line to Montgomery, and a branch from Lydham to Bishop's Castle of a mile and a half in length. The entire length would be about 16 miles, and the cost £lBO,OOO. The line would connect two important districts and open up lime and coal districts. A large number of shares were taken, and a peti tion to the House of Lords in favour of the bill was numerously signed. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the Committee appointed to inquire into the question of the proposed new railway docks for Hull decided that new and extended dock accommodation for the port of Hull was necessary, and approved of the Bill the Kingston-upon-Hull Dock Company, which proposes to effect that object. In the committ ee on t h e L eeds, Bradford, and Halifax Railway, the preamble of that bill was declared proved, and that of the Dewsbury, Batley, Gomershal, and Bradford Railway withdrawn. The hearing of the Great Northern Railway Company's Bill for proposed purchase of the Hert ford Branch Railway, together with the bill of the Barnsley Coal Railway, was postponed, the parties not being ready. The case for the promoters of the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway was closed, and Mr. Burke, Q.C., opened the case on behalf of Ole Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ellesmere Railway, and called general e v id ence i n f avour o f th a t line, and the committed adjourned. CITY RAILWAYS AND THE Pooß.—ln his evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords ap pointed to inquire into this question, Dr. Letheby, medical officer of health of the City of London, deposed that with regard to the removal of the courts and alleys occupied by the poorer classes in Long-alley, by Broad -street, city, to make way for the proposed station of the North London Railway there, their removal would be highly advantageous in a sanitary point of view, seeing that the city authorities had no means of breaking in upon these densely populated districts and improving their sanitary condition without some such means as rail ways afforded of relieving the over-crowded loca lities. One of the best things that could happen for the city of London would be the adoption of means whereby the poorer classes might be taken out into the suburbs at evening and return to their daily labour by cheap trains. It would be a great boon and advantage to them. At the present mo ment the localities were closely crammed with dwel ling-houses, the removal of which would give open spaces for the circulation of air, and do away with the outbreak of fever and disease. One shilling a week would pay the fare, and it would pay the rail way companies to carry poor people at the same rate as they carried the same weight of goods. As there were upwards of 1,000,000 persons in the city daily, it was desirable to have it fully venti• lated, and the railway would give the poor of the city the same opportunity of going out of town as the rich. He had not considered how the country parishes would like this extradition of the poor, but the question was a large and difficult one, and one of which no practical solution had yet been found. The route of the North London line towards Kings land was not at 'present thickly populated, and small houses to accommodate the poorer classes might be conveniently constructed, and, at present, the poor in the city paid on an average 2s. 6d. per week for a single room, and as low as ls. 6d. He did not know that the Stockton and Darlington ran trains for the poorer classes at 6d. per head per week, bat thought that at is. per head per week trains would pay commercially. TEE BUILDERS' STRIXE. The trades unions connected with the masons, bricklayers, and plasterers now out on strike have decided, in the face of every argument and expostu lation to the contrary, to continue firm in their determination not to return to duty till the masters concede the nine hours' work with ten hours' pay. Yet,in spite of this decision, we are very glad to think that virtually the strike is at an end, as the men, in fact, are beginning to assert their indepen dence of the unions, and are already day by day returning to work. During last week several trades meetings were held, at which it was evident, from the manner in which numbers of the men spoke in favour of accepting the present liberal terms offered to them, and taking the half-holiday which was given to them for nothing, that they were averse to continuing the conte s t l onger . O n F r id ay n i ght a I very large meeting was held, and from the proceed. ings there it was evident that the leading agitators in the trades unions had taken steps to prevent the expression of opinions adverse to their own particu lar views. Any workman who rose to propose that the trade should close with the high terms now offered them by Messrs. Lucas and Kelk was, we are informed, at once coughed and hooted down. A mason who wished to explain the reasons why he and 45 more of his fellow-workmen would not continue the strike was not allowed to say a word, so continued were the noises and interruptions. The upshot of the whole affair was that the resolution in favour of continuing the strike for nine hours' work and ten hours' pay was eventually carried, and a large number of the men previously stanch unionists left thoroughly disgustedwith the whole procedings. During Monday and yesterday a great many of these men returned to work at Messrs. Lucas and Kelk's and the other contractors, where they had been on strike. Messrs. Lucas have now four-fifths of the hands they require, and applications daily come in from mechanics of all. trades and from all parts of the country for engagements under the hour system of payment. In fact, the men now at work under payment by the hour system—which, of course, if they do not choose to take the half holyday, enables them to earn more —now assert that they would strike against any return to the old system of weekly wages. So numerous, indeed, are the applicants from the country that Messrs. Lucas and Kelk could at once take up their full compement of men, enough even to go on with the works at the Exhibition. They are averse, how ever, when tne building trade is so depressed, to depress it still further by the introduction of addi tional workmdn into the metropolis, as they feel convinced that before a week is out all their old hands who are worth employing will have returned to their labour. Since this change has taken place in the opinions of the men the number of pickets stationed round Messrs. Lucas's works and Messrs. Kelk's, but more especially the former, have in creased tenfold. During part of yesterday and to-day there were at one time between 200 and 300, who, as the men issued from the yard to their dinner, saluted them with yells and hoot ings, following them a considerable distance down the streets. Upon this the men remonstrated with Messrs. Lucas's foremen, and said they ought to be protected from such outrageous insult and annoy ance. This request Messrs. Lucas at once ap proved, and procured the assistance of the police I to protect the men while going to and from the works, and in every case where an attempt at in timidation or annoyance can be proved they have determined upon prosecuting the offenders to the utmost. The chief argument which the pickets use with the working men is, that they had better go when the Union can get them permanent employ ment elsewhere, for that if they—the old hands— choose to return, all those who have lately come in will be dismissed at once. Now, in this matter, those on strike are sadly deceiving themselves, for Messrs. Lucas and others have, with the concur rence of the whole trade, decided that if the strike lasts for a twelvemonth they will not dismiss a single man, unionist or not, who has come to their assistance in their struggle. Another important point in which the Unions are deceiving the la bourers is in the continual assurances they are giving that the four great firms from which the men have struck are themselves undecided as to enforcing the system of payment by the hour. On this matter we can most solemnly assure the men that not the least uncertainty prev - ails. 'Whatever happens, their employers are determined to pay the increased scale of wages, but to pay by the hour only. If it could have been possible that there was ever any doubt about carrying out an arrangement which at once sets at rest the question of the nine hours' movement, and allows every man to work as much or as little as he pleases, it would have been removed long since by the hundreds of letters received from bodies of working men, all imploring Messrs. Lucas to stand fast to the scheme of hourly payment, and expressing their willingness, under such an arrange ment, to work any time they chose. Fortunately, these offers are so numerous that there is no longer any necessity for resorting to the plan of getting workmen from abroad. Twenty thousand might be got in England in a week without difficulty. Thus, in spite of the mischievous influence of the trades unions, the men themselves have averted an evil which would have proved the ruin of their calling for the next generation to come. Yet, 1 tough they have no t ac t ua lly ruined themsel ves, hare neverthel ess by th e i r present strike doin g 1, whol e trade a most material injury, as we will , B+4OW. A . " 1 7 large portion of the proposed Inter- 1 . rtiE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENTING, APRIL 11. 1861. _ as in 1859, there should be a general strike against all firms to make another effort for the nine hours' limit. But for the extremely reduced state of the trades unions' coffers there is not the least doubt but that the leaders would make this attempt. CENTRAL C.RIMINAL, COURT.-April 10, OLD COURT. Edward Holland, 22, a Post-office letter-carrier, was charged with stealing an order for the payment of £690 7s. 3d., the property of the Postmaster- General. Mr. Clerk and Mr. Poland prosecuted on behalf of the Post-office authorities. The prisoner had no counsel. The facts of this case have appeared very recently in the Mansion-house police report. The prisoner was a letter-carrier, and part of his duty was also to sort the letters at the General Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and it appeared that on the 25th of January a letter was sent by the Religious Tract Society of Edinburgh to Mr. Jones, the manager of the Religious Tract Society of London, 56, Pater noster-row, which contained a remittance to that society in the form of a cheque upon Messrs. Glyn and Co., Lombard-street, for the sum of £690 7s. 3d. The letter, in due course, would have arrived at the General Post-office in London on the morning of Saturday, the 26th of January, on which day the prisoner was employed in sorting, as usual, and he had, consequently an opportunity of taking it; but although there was no positive evidence that he had done so, the letter never reached its destination and the facts that subsequently transpired left no rea sonable doubt that the prisoner had secreted it while in the course of sorting the letters, or impro perly obtained possession of it in some other man ner. On Monday, the 28th, the cheque was pre sented at Messrs. Glyn's, with, apparently, the en dorsement of Mr. Jones, to whose order it was made payable, upon it, and it was paid with twelve £5O notes, and £9O in gold, and the remainder in small cash, and one of the clerks in the bank at the time identified the prisoner as the person by whom the cheque was presented. He had at this time leave of absence, and he was away from duty, and al though of course, the loss of the letter and th e cheque was speed ily discovered no clue was obtained to the party by whom the robbery was committed until the 25th of March, but this additional inci dent occurred on the day the money was obtained from Messrs. Glyn's. It appeared that on that day some person presented himself at the Bank of England and asked for change for three £5O notes. They were handed to a gentleman named Dean, who observed that upon each note there was written the name of Richard Jones, and the address, 40, Prebend-street, Islington, and he turned from the counter and looked at the London Directory, and discovered that there was no No. 40 in that street, and when he returned to the counter the person who had brought the notes had disappeared, leav ing them behind, and they turned out to be three of the £5O notes that were given for the cheque. The only explanation given by the prisoner for his possession of the notes was that he had found them. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, repeated the statement that he had picked up the notes in a bundle, and he admitted that he had endeavoured to appropriate them to his own use, and said that he was very sorry he had done so. The learned judge having summed up the evi dence, _ Mr. Leigh ordered the prisoner to be remanded THAMES.—Peter Debock, aged 35, of No. 4, Sclater-street, Bethnal-green, silk dealer ; Joseph Barker, 29, of No. 2, Hope-street, Spitalfields, shoemaker ' William Cra ne , 41, l ate porter i n t h e servive of Messrs. Drakeford and Co., silk mer chants in Great Winchester -street, City, and who at the time of his apprehension was dwelling at No. 8, Brunswick-place, Hoxton ; and John Newton, 59, silk throwster and proprietor of silk mills in Derby, were brought up on remand, charged, the first three with stealing ten bales of China raw silk, value £l,OOO, and Newton with feloniously receiving the same, he well knowing it to be stolen. Frederick Charles Agg, the landlord of the Clown public house, near Sadler's-wells Theatre, and James Hunter, landlord of the Red Deer pub licbouse, Cambridge-heath-road, Bethnal-green, who sold' the stolen silk to Newton, who are seriousli implicated in the robbery, and for whoae apprehension warrants have been granted, have not been taken. They fled to Boulogne when they discovered that Debock and Barker were arrested in Derby with £lOO in their possession, part of the money received for the silk, and they are supposed to be still in France. Inspector Holloway, of the H division of police, said that on the afternoon of Saturday, the 23d ult., he went to the premises of Messrs. Drakeford and Co., silk merchants, in Great Winchester-street City, where Crane had been for many years em ployed as a porter. He saw Crane, called him into the street, and informed him that he had waited upon him to make inquiries relating to ten bales of silk stolen on the river in the course of their transit from the West India Dock to the St. Katharine Dock. He asked the prisoner if the ten bales of silk had anything to do with the firm of Drakeford and Co. The prisoner replied, "No ; they have nothing whatever to do with it,, and know nothing about it." He then cautioned the prisoner, and asked him what he had to say about the ten bales of silk. The prisoner in reply stated, " Very welh a man I don't know came to me last Monday at the end of the street, and asked me which was the best way of sending goods into the country. I asked him what description of goods they were, and the man replied ten bales of silk. I said Pickford and Co.'s vans would be the best "and safest conveyance to send them by, and the man said, Very well; if you will go along with me they are in Hope-street, Spitalfields.' The prisoner also said, " I went along with the man, thinking it was no harm, and that it wes only a friend assisting a friend." He asked Crane if he knew the man he had accompanied to Hope-street, Spitalfields. Crane said, in answer to that question, " No, I never saw him before or since ; he was a perfect stranger t o me." He then took the prisoner into custody and conveyed him to the station house in Leman-street. In answer to Mr. Hudson, the inspector said that the names of Messrs. New ton and Sons, of Derby, or John Nelvton, of Derby, were not mentioned by the prisoner in the conver sation which took place. He did not ask Crane if he knew to whom the goods were consig ned, or if he knew they were going t o Derby. He was not aware that the prisoner had been for many years in Drakcford's employ. He had heard so. Mr. Charles Rowbotham, the landlord of the George Inn at Derby, said,—Con Tuesday,the 19th of March, the day mail from London arrived at 10 minutes to one o'clock. A few minutes afterwards Debock and Barker came to my house, and each asked if they could have a bed. They were I told there was only one spare bed in the house, and that one of them could be accommo dated with a sofa in my parlour. Debock agreed to sleep on a bed and Barker on a sofa. While Debock and Barker were partaking of some refreshments Mr. Newton came into my house. He took no notice of Debock and Barker, and they took no notice of him. They did not seem to know each other. My wife gave Debock a light and pointed out the way to his bedroom. Debock, on receiving the lighted candle, pointed to Newton, and said, " I know that gentleman at the bar-door ;it is Mr. Newton ; but he does not know me. Don't say I have been asking for him ; don't tell him I have gone upstairs, or he will perhaps want to come to me." That was all that took place that night. I called them both up in the morning —I mean Barker and Debock; and after breakfasting they asked me where Mr. Newton's mill was. I directed them to Agard-street, Derby, and they paid their reckoning and left. About 8 the same evening both men came into my house. Each called for a glass of ale, which they drank. Debock got up from his chair, advanced towards me, and took from his pocketbook a £lOO Bank of England note, and asked me to read it for them. He had other banknotes in his pocketbook. He attempted to talk French as well as he could. It was not French with an English accent. but rather English with a French accent. I read the note, and I told him it was a £lOO Bank of England note and a genuine one. When I told him that, he continued his foreign accent, and said " Thank you. I am very much obliged to you ; I cannot read your English notes, I have received it in town." I asked him if he received it in a business trans action. He said, " Yes ; I have." After a few more words he said, "No ; I misunderstood you. I have not received it in a business transac tion ; I have taken it in change for other cash." I said I should not like to have done so myself to a stranger, not knowing it was a note. I went oat of the room, Barker and Debock went into another, and when I came back they were gone. I thought there was something very suspicious about the affair, and I sent for the police. I was present when The jury at once returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six years. POLICE lATELLIGENCE.-Aprillo. MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Cox, the con ductor (badge 517) of an omnibus plying between the Paddington and London-bridge railway sta tions, and belonging to the General Omnibus Com pany, attended before Alderman Rose, to answer a summons charging him with demanding and taking from a passenger more than the legal fare. The complaint was preferred under the Hackney Carriages Act (the 6th and 7th of Victoria, cap. 86), the 33d section of which makes it an offence punishable with a fine of 20s. for the driver of any such carriage to refuse to admit and carry at the lawful fare any passenger for whom there shall be room, and to whose admission no reasonable objec tion shall be made, or to demand more than the legal fare. Another section of the same statute renders it incumbent on the proprietor of every metropolitan hackney carriage to " keep distinctly painted in a conspicuous manner, on the inside of it, a table of fares to be demanded of passengers, and the fares thereon specified shall be deemed to be the only lawful fares." On Thursday last the complainant, Mr. Edwin Johns, residing in Poland-street, Oxford-street, hailed the defendant's omnibus at the corner of Wardour-street, Oxford-street. Some few minutes previously he stood waiting for a 3d. omnibus, of which there are many on that line, and allowed one or two to pas s , th e f are b y which was 4d. He was induced to stop the defendant's omnibus by seeing pasted on the outside of the door a large placard, on which were printed the words " From Edgware-road to London-bridge, 3d.," the figure "3" being some five or six inches long. He pre ferred riding outside, and before getting upon the roof he stood for a moment on the foot board, upon which the defendant told him he would have to pay ls. for riding there, holding out his hand at the same time. Thinking he was joking, the complainant ridiculed the idea of pay ing is., and said h e s h ou ld pay hi m the fare mark ed outside the door—namely, 3d. He would not have hailed the omnibus if he had not seen the 3d. fare marked outside, because he had been charged 4d. before for riding the same distance by another omnibus. On his declining to pay Is. the defen dant demanded that he should get down, but that he also refused to do until he got to his destination. At Farringdon-street the omnibus stopped to allow a passenger to alight, and on passing along Cheap side the defendant mounted the roof and collected the fares of the passengers there. The complainant, who did not see what any of them paid, refused to pay his own until he arrived at the Bank, upon which the defendant, taking out . a pocket-book, re quested to know his address, but he declined to give it until he got to the end of his journey. On arriving at the Bank, where the complainant was set down, the defendant demanded Is. from him, which he refused to pay in the first instance, and appealed to Police-constable Thurlow on duty there, to assist in settling the dispute. The defendant thep opened the door of the omnibus and pointed to a moveable plate inside the door, on -which was painted " Express fare, ls.". That moveable plate covered the whole of the ordinary fares, which were painted on the panel below it, and which corre sponded with those placarded outside namely, " From Praed-street to Tottenham-court-road, 2d.; from Edgeware-road to London-bridge railway sta tion, 3d.; beyond those places, 6d. On the sta tionary table of fares inside was painted, but in very small letters, " Express fares, ls., without luggage." On the advice of the constable, the com plainant paid the defendant is., and then summoned him to this court. In answer to Mr. Alderman Rose, the complain ant said ally one looking at the defendant's omnibus from the street could come to no other conclusion than that the fare was threepence. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said his omnibus was an " express," which ran once a day to and from the Paddington and London-bridge railway stations at a shilling fare, and he did not profess to take up passengers on the road. When the complainant got up he (defendant) told him he would have to pay is., but, notwithstanding that, he persisted in riding. Mr. Alderman Rose told the defendant that by exhibiting a large placard outside his omnibus in dicating that the fare for a given distance was 3d. people were induced to ride by it, and it was not until entering that they became aware, by looking at the moveable plate inside, that they would be charged is. for travelling within the prescribed limits. Besides, outside passengers had no means of seeing the sliding plate inside. However, by the words, "Express fare, is.," being painted inside, there had been a compliance, though it might be a colourable one, with the requirement of the statute in that respect; and as he (Alderman Rose) could - nattenal. Exhibition building was to have been of I only administer the law as he fonnd it, he had no stone. in the belief that the-masons' strike is likely alternative - bUt to dismiss the summons. to last, arrangements are already 'tieing mad e to The defendant said he distinctly told the com alter in most cases the stonework to iron. If these plainant that the fare would be is. alterations are so made, they will befinal, and if the Alderman Rose said that might be, but he dis strike finishes this very week there will at least be played a placard conspicuously outside that the this great mass of work irrevocably lost to the fare from Edgeware-road to London-bridge railway trade. So, with regard to many large buildings station was 3d. Hundreds of persons travelled now in progress, which were to have been faced daily by omnibuses where the fare was 3d. who with stone or stone cornices and ornaments, con- could not afford, or were not disposed, to pay is.; tracts have already been made for completing these and the effect of exhibiting such a placard outside with terracotta. Thus the strike is daily driving was to lure people into travelling by the defendant's employers into expedients to supply the masons' omnibuses. If a scale of fares had been painted work, and though this may not be continued inside the omnibus, in addition to the sliding plate, after the strike has ceased, yet the masons will he should have fined him severely; but as that was find to their cost that these efforts to supply otherwise, there had been a literal compliance their labour have already most seriously reduced with the Act, though he was bound to tell the the amount of work previously in the market, Of defendant and the company that the practice of course this evil, before a month is over, will be felt exhibiting a fare outside four times less than they equally by the hardworking man and the idler, and meant really to charge operated as a fraud upon passive, unreasoning tools of :the trades union the public. demagogues who have ordered them out on strike. The summons was then dismissed. All the employers are now entirely agreed with The defendant asked to be repaid for his loss of the course taken by Messrs. Lucas and Kelk. They time in attending the court, but Alderman Rose would willingly have given them any assistance peremptorily refused, under the circumstances, to which they required, but this was unnecessary, as entertain the application. the strike was so partial and is already apparently dying out. The only fear that now exists is that, GUILDHALL.—Edward Chater, 52, who was described as a traveller and collector in the employ of Messrs. North, Simpson, and Graham, of New Bridge-street, appeared on bail to answer the charge of embezzling the nominal sum of £3l, but the total amount of his defalcations was stated during the inquiry to extend to several thousands of pounds. Mr. Giffard, instructed by Mr. Humphreys, jun., appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis, jun., for the defence. Ald. Humphery decided that, as this was a pre liminary examination, he should consider defendant as the servant of the prosecutors, and remand the case for further inquiry. WORSHIP-STREET. —George Wm. Sloper, a gentleman-like man of 32, was charged with the following robbery: Mrs. • Maria Ellis said—My husband is a whole sale druggist in Bridport-place, New North-road, and the prisoner is my brother. On the 28th ult., at 12 in the day, he called to see me, and as he had been some time out of an engagement,which, as he told me, he had not at that time obtained, we con versed together upon his prospects for a few mi nutes, when I left the room to go to the kitchen, leaving him in the back parlour, where wehad been talking. I had scarcely got down stairs when I heard the sound of footsteps in the front parlour, which I knew I had left shut, and these were fol io wed by others along the passage to the street door, which was opened in a quiet, stealthy sort of man ner, and I suspected something wrong, and hastened up stairs just in time to see the prisoner's back as he descended the steps into the street. He had not been more than seven or eight minutes in the house altogether, and, as I thought it strange that he should go away without taking leave of me in some manner, it struck me to open the parlour door, and on looking round the room I missed my husband's watch from over the mantlepiece, where it had been safe only a short time before the prisoner came in. Nothing more was seen of him till to-day, when my husband, I believe, met him in the City and gave him into custody. City Constable 251—1 received custody of the prisoner to•day, and on telling him the nature of the charge he said he was entirely innocent. No trace of the watch has as yet been obtained. Mr. Leigh (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the witnesses any questions ? • Prisoner—None whatever, Sir, but I wish to re peat to you now that lam entirely innocent, and that on the Thursday my sister refers to I did not reach her house till one o'clock in the day, and that I sat in the back room all the time till she left me. I did not go near the front parlour. I never saw the watch, and my hastily leaving the house will be seen to be well accounted for when I state that I had to meet some gentlemen in Brook -street, Holborn, from whom I had every confidence of re ceiving an appointment, and suddenly found myself almost too late to see them. Barker and Debock were apprehended; it was done through my instrumentality. I saw the prisoners searched by Fearn and Vessey, two of the Derby police ; they took three £lOO Bank of England notes and two sovereigns from Debock, and from Barket' one halfpenny. In cross-examination by Mr. Leech, the witness said that Newton was a silk manufacturer and bro ker in a large way of business at Derby. Wm. Tooth, a carman in the employ of Pickford and Co., said that on Monday, March 18, he took 10 bales of silk from No. 2, Hope-street, Spital fields, into ono of his employers' vans. He had 30 or 40 bales of silk in the van. The rest of his load came from respectable houses in the city. He went to Hope -street by the direction of the prisoner Crane. He had suspicion about the transaction when he saw bales of silk coming out of a small dwelling house in Hope street, but when he saw they were directed •to a well-known name—John Newton, Derby—his suspicions vanished, and he thought it was all right. Crane helped him to load the van in Hope-street, and gave him a shilling as a gratuity for his trouble. He took the silk to Cam den-town, and delivered it at the railway goods station there. He had known Crane many years as porter to Drakeford and Co. Crane gave him a de livery note with the t en bales of silk, and he acci dentally lost it on his way to Camden-town. In cross-examination by Mr. Leech, the witness said he knew a publican named Agg, who was for merly in the employ of Drakeford and Co. He believed Agg was formerly a buyer of silks for Drakeford and Co., and left them to keep the Clown publichouse, near Sadler's Wells Theatre. He was not aware that Agg was a dealer in silk since he kept the Clown, but he could have dealt in it with out witness knowing it. Mr. George Hilton, superintendent of the borough police at Derby, gave evidence of the apprehension of Newton, Barker, and Debock at Derby • to find ing three £lOO- no t es on D e b ock, and to the seizure of the stolen silk in Newton's mill. The prisoner Newton admitted that he had bought the silk of Agg, and that he had had dealings with him and Hunter, whom he knew only as silk dealers. Mr. Selfe said that enough evidence had been given to justify him in remanding all the prisoners until Thursday next. SOUTHWARK.—Sophia Jenkins, a showily dressed woman, was brought up for final examina tion, charged with stealing a watch from John Cordes, a tradesman, residing at Mile -end. It appeared that the prosecutor and his wife, with a friend, had been on a visit at Walworth on Sun day evening, and about half-past 11 they went to the Elephant and Castle to seek an omnibus to con vey them home, but they had all left. He then called a cab, and while bargaining with the driver to carry them the prisoner came rushing between them, and said she had hired that cab, and if they took it she must ride with them. She, however, sud denly ran away, when the prosecutor missed his watch, it having been twisted off at the bow in the usual thieves' way. The prosecutor's friend fol lowed her, and on overtaking her, charged her with stealing the watch, when she handed it to him, begging him to let her go; he, however, took her back and gave her into custody. She was reman ded, as it was stated that she had suffered four years' penal servitude for a similar robbery. Mr. Burcham now asked whether there was any evidence of that, or any former conviction ? Denis Scannell, 177 M, a detective officer, said that he had been informed that she had served four years, but he had not had sufficient time to obtain the facts ; he, however, knew her to be one of the most expert thieves in the metropolis. She pleaded guilty. Mr. Burcham told her had any former conviction been proved against her he should not have given her that option, but have committed her for trial. Under all the circumstances, he should punish her with the utmost severity of the law by sentencing her to six months' hard labour. HAMMERSMITH.—CRim. CoN. EXTRAOItDI NARY—AN EASY-GOING HUSBAND.—Charles Pike, a genteel-looking young man, wearing a moustache, who was stated to be a floor joiner, was placed in the dock before Mr. Inghath, charged on a warrant with committing an assault on William Burgess, a plumber. Mr. Martin—l appear for the defendant, and I would suggest the propriety of females in the court withdrawing, as it is a case of trim. con, extraor dinary. Mr. Ingham (laughing)—Mr. Martin suggests that the ladies should retire if they think proper. Upon this announcement all the females in the court made a rush for the door, with the exception of one little girl, who seemed inclined to remain behind. However, at his worship's directio n , she was called up on t o l eave the court, which, she obeyed with apparent reluctance. The complainant was then sworn, and said—l ' live at No. 2, Beaumont -street, Shepherd's-bush. The assault was committed on the night of the 1 ith of March. The defendant had been lodging with me for eighteen months, and I left a notice on the chimney-piece in his room for him to leave. He came to my door while I was in bed with my wife, and asked if I wanted to sea him. I said No, and he then used strong expressions, and said he would treat himself with about two feet of steel. (The witness here very carefully unwrapped a large workman's tool, apparently like a chisel, and told his worship he (the defendant) had it in his hand outside the door.) Finding I would not come out he said he would draw a glass of Burgess's ale. He went down stairs and provided himself with a glass of my ale, a cigar, and a newspaper. He then returned and sat outside my door, smoking and drinking. (Laughter.) He then called " Lucy," meaning my wife, and she did not answer to him, I said she had better go to him, and she replied, " She could not leave her husband." (Increased laughter.) Prisoner said she was deceitful, and called her a— . I said, "Lucy I must have an explanation," and she said, "William, it is true." I did not know what to do when I heard it, and any other man would not have known what to do in such a case. (Laughter.) I beiyged of him to get into his room, and I went to Notting-hill Police Station for two constables, as I did not wish to have murder while I was in the house. The defendant accompanied me, but the police refused to take the charge, because I did not make a disturbance in the street. (Loud laughter.) We went home together. I did not know what to do. Mr. Ingham—But come to the point where he assaulted you. Witness—l am going to tell you, (Laughter.) Of course we had a few words together. I was sitting having some bread and cheese, and he threw a carv ing knife for me to stab him for the injury he had done me, as the knife I was using was not large enough to stab him. I did not know what to do ; many men would have committed murder, but I did not. (Laughter) He then pulled my nose. Ofcourse I took no notice of that —(roars of laughter) —it takes a great deal to offend me. He threw a sove reign on the table to prove my wife a —, but I did not want to make the case worse than it was. He next spat in my face ; there are not many men who would like that, but I allowed that to pass over. (Laughter.) Mr. Ingham—Then that is the assault you com plain of, pulling your nose and spitting in your face? Witness—Yes, sir. Since then I sent him a bill for £3 108. 6d., and stating that if he answered it and returned the likeness 'would not appear against him. Mr. Ingham —Then you have taken out this sum mons to compel him to pay the bill ? Witness—Yes. I wish him to return the portrait of my wife he took away. Mr. Ingham—You will give up the portrait ? Mr. Martin—Oh yes, sir. It appears that this unfortunate woman took poison after the affair, and a medical man was called in, and in the bill sent to my client by the husband aro charges for the medi cine and five days' attendance. Mr. Ingham—Well, as the object of this proceed ing was to get the payment of the bill, I shall be justified in dismissing the defendant on his reoog nisance in the sum of £lO to keep the peace. Mr. Martin—l hope, sir, without costs. My client was never served with the summons, and knew nothing of it until he was apprehended on the warrant. ------- Mr. Ingham—As the complainant forgave him I will forgive him. Complainant—Can I county court him for the bill ? Mr. Ingham—Yes, you can do that. The complainant then retired amidst the laughter of the court. The death has been announced of Mr. Joseph Tasker, a well known and esteemed member of the Com mittee of Spanish American Bondholders, and also of the Committee of Spanish Certificate holders. Mr. Tasker was likewise a director of the United Mexican Mining Association. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag avate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the " INVALIDS' Owl! 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The yacht America sailed internationally ; Morphy's games were in ternational; Prioress ran an international race; Heenan gave Sayers international punches about the head—in short, the word international has clearly gone to the dogs, and may with propriety be applied to the fight we have to describe. This match, be tween Rosie of Brooklyn and Bess of Liverpool, England, was made some time ago, and has created very great interest in sporting circles. The repu tation of Rosie is as wide as the country. She has won ten matches and many collars for her owner, who, finding here no more dogs to conquer, con sented to match his pet with the English Bess. Bess had been equally fortunate in England, having won every match of the five she had fought—and her trainer, who rejoices in the cognomen of "Shef field George," had not the slightest objections to crossing the Atlantic if his expenses were guaran teed. The match, therefore, was readily made for 250 dols. a side. Sheffield George and the other dog came over about a month ago, and all parties went into training for the contest. The former perfor mances of the dogs are of no sort of interest to any but sporting men, and they know all about the animals already. The betting up to yesterday was slow, and the odds rather in favour of Rosie. Not less than 10,000 dols. depended upon the result of this fight, and in the West and South, in Cali fornia and in England, the betting was heavy. Outsiders, to whom a dog is but a dog, " and nothing more," can form no idea whatever of the excitement which such matches produce among sporting men, the delight with which they are anticipated, the zest with which they are enjoyed, the amount of money which is staked upon them. The preliminaries being duly arranged, and the dogs in good condition and eager for the fray, which they seemed to know was near at hand, the fight came off last night at a well-known sporting house near this city. Seats capable of holding about 500 persons sloped up from the pit, which was about sixteen feet long by twelve broad and two deep. For fear that the showings of the spectators should attract the police and interrupt the fight, the doors, windows, and ventilators of the room were closed, and in this almost airtight apartment over 1,000 persons, having paid the admission fee of 50c., were packed so tightly that movement was impossible and respiration Gifficult. The assemblage consisted mostly of Brooklyn men, of all shades of character, and, as in the Houses of Parliament and of Congress, the members of opposite opinions are seated upon opposite sides of the House, so here those persons who backed the English kept themselves separate and distinct from those who backed the American champion. At half-past eight o'clock, when the proceedings began, the room was lined with hatless, coatless men, shouting, swearing, betting, offering, and taking odds of seven to five and three to two upon Rosie, the Brooklyn pet. The proprietor of the hall having announced that the fight would proceed if there was no in terruption, but that if the disorder among the spectators attracted the police the fight would be concluded privately, the dogs were weighed, and found to be under the specified 211 b., and Bess was brought into the pit. Bess is a small bull terrier ; her body white, her ears and side-face black, her every muscle splendidly developed, with no ounce of superfluous flesh about her. Her beauty as a fighting dog elicited shouts of admiration and delight from the spectators. Having been washed by Jem APLoughlin, a fine-looking Irishman and trainer of Rosie, she was tasted—that is to say, M'Loughlin applied his tongue to the dog to taste if any pernicious drug had been placed upon her to poison her opponent during the fight. Bess was then concealed behind a curtain of coats held by closely-crowded men, and Rosie (who appeared a trifle heavier than Bess, and who was entirely white) underwent a similar process at the hands and mouth of Sheffield George. So particular are the trainers about this drugging business that in champion matches it is usual for the two trainers to exchange clothes; but in this instance the point was waived. THE FIGHT. At about nine o'clock, the dogs having bea n dried and the referees calling time, the curtar7,s were re moved, and the dogs sprang togethe - i . .. With low snarls of rage, with every muscle rigid, with jaws closing and holding like keen ;lees, the champions fought more like ex q ui s i Aely-arranged macnines than animals. For the first few moments Rosie had the best of the bargain , and her admirers shouted accordingly. The trainers stood each behind his own dog, snapping their fingers for the animals to keep their hold ; stamping to order them to make brisker fighting, oneouraging, advising, and assist ing them by word and gesture, but refraining from touching them with even the tip of a finger. In 10 minutes Bess's victory was begun. The instinct of the dogs, their education and their skill, were won derful. Now they rose upon their hind feet and wrestled and tripped, like champions. Now Bess allowed her opponent to retain a painful, but not dangerous hold, until she had breathed herself a little. Now Rosie, by a quick summersault, a sudden rally, or by seizing one of her contestant's legs, succeeded in shaking herself loose from a fatal grip. Now Bess threw the American dog heavily several times in order to weaken it, and then, secur ing a good hold, crouched her back and bored her self into her opponent's very heart. Then came a quick rally, in which each tried to secure the best grip —fencing, dodging, moving like lightning, watching each other's eyes, and the moment an opportunity occurred fastening. its teeth like a spring -trap, and pulling the other dog back wards and f orwards around the pit by main force. It is impossible to express the agility of the dogs movements, their celerity, the scientific precision and certainty of their attack and defence, the instinctive passion which made every limb like iron and every muscle like steel, the knowledge which they seemed to possess of every thing which would favour or defeat them, the in domitable pluck with which they endured the pains of the combat, the coolness with which, while suf fering terribly or inflicting equal punishment, they heard and obeyed the commands of their trainers. And all this in perfect silence, the low snarls with which the combat began having ceased as the dogs warmed to their work. In 15 minutes a low mur mur from the English benches, and a defiant shout from those of the Brooklynites, announced that Rosie's tail had dropped —a sure sign of distress— and in 17 minutes from the commencement of the fight the pet of Brooklyn, who had never been made to complain before, began to cry for quarter, and now lay helpless at the mercy of her adversary ; perceiving which Bess paused a moment to take breath for the coup de nzort, but even then lay upon her opponent so as to deprive it of the power of respiration. A moment, and, with hind legs firmly braced, Bess pushed her way to Rosie's throat, and the contest instantly ceased Bess's trainer now called his dog away for a scratch or torn, which is almost equivalent to a round in pugilism. The dogs were taken to their corners, sponged, and again let go. Bess flew across the ring at her adversary and worked hard to finish her task as soon as possible. All the while Rosie uttered weak, plaintive cries, and tried feebly to beat off those sharp teeth which were gnawing out her life. One or two Brooklyn men, who are interested in the fight some hundreds of dollars, rose to leave the room, but as it was anticipated —such is the boasted hon our among sporting men—that they were going for the police, tremendous shouts were raised, the keepers refused to open the doors, and the informers were not allowed to go out of the building. 111‘Loughlin now used every means to carry Bess away. Sheffield George, excited, apprehensive, anxious, encouraged his dog to make a death of it. Finally, at just thirty-one minutes from the beginning of the fight, the dogs were again scratched. M‘Loughlin accidentally touched Bess a moment before, but the referees took no notice of this, on account of the obvious defeat of his dog. Under the circumstances this carelessness would have lost M'Loughlin his fight. The dogs were again sponged and brought out, it being Rosie's turn to cross the ring and attack Bess. The Pride of Brooklyn was humbled, however. She was pushed a foot or two towards her adversary, who was anxiously endeavouring to get at her, and then sank clown so nearly dead that she is not expected to recover, and Bess was declared the winner of the fight and the champion dog of the world. In such a combat, if the dogs al one b e considered, there is none of that repulsiveness which is g enera ll y supposed to accompany dog fighting. Th e d eg , fight quietly, scientifically, and evidently love their work. Of the men who make dog fighting a liveli hood, however, or of those svho habitually encou rage, attend, and support such exhibitions, there can be but one opinion, and that not the most favourable. 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The coroner's inquest on the body of the mur dered child was opened to-day before the coroner for the Northern Division of Somerset, Bruges Fry, Esq. Hannah Maria Stallard deposed to having oil Saturday last found the body of the deceased at be tween six and seven o'clock in the evening. Found it in a pond belonging to Miss Hazell, on the same farm in which, about 13 years ago, old Mr. Hazell, the farmer, was murdered. Witness was driving her ducks out of the water and saw something in the water. Called her brother William, and he came with a stick, and got out what proved to be the body of a female child. The body was afterwards conveyed to the Carpenters' Arms. In reply to a question by the Rev. Mr, Bout flower, foreman of the jury, The witness said she was at the pond on Satur day morning and drove the ducks there, but did not then notice anything. The coroner inquired whether anything was found round the body, or whether the pond had been searched for anything with stone attached, by which it might have been sunk. Constable Drewett said he had drawn out seve ral stones, but none with a string attached. William Stallard deposed to having been called by his sister to the pond, and having pulled out the dead body of a child as deposed to by her. In reply to the chief constable (Mr. Gould), the witness said the body was not easily discernible. He might have passed it several times without seeing it. Mr. J. Shorland, surgeon of Dundry, deposed to having made a post-mortem examination of the body. It was that of a female child, about three or four months old. The general appearance of the body led to the belief that it had been in good health shortly previous to death. Could /la dis cover any injury on the skull. The wound on the neck appeared to have been inflicted by some sharp instrument. The wound extended from the cervical vertebrae to the windpipe. If the child had been strangled there would not have been the smooth and even appearance which the wound presented. Mr. Thomas Dowling, surgeon, who had assisted at the post-mortem examination, gave confirmatory evidence. The body was well-formed and unusually fat. There was no injury to the skull. The wound_ on the neck was a deep incised one. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Jones, the chief of [police, applied to the coroner for an ad journment of the inquest, in order to afford time for an inquiry. The police, ho stated, were using efforts to endeavour to trace out the perpetrator of the crime, and it might assist them if the inquest were left in such a state as that fresh witnesses might be brought before the coroner. The Coroner said he would place himself entirely in the hands of the police, and should be most ready to do anything that would be likely to further the ends of justice. The inquest was then adjourned for a 'week. COUNTRY MARIZET&. LYNN—APRIL 9. There was a moderate attendance. I.he supply of wheat was small, with a fair business. Good sorts realised is pe: qr more money than last weed. Oats were not much altered. Beans moved off at previous quotations. Peas a quiet trade. Old white 58a to 62s I Old red.. 54s to 56s Barley 3, s to 44s f Oats.. .......... .22s to 26s B eans .38s to 42 s I Peas ............ 48 8 to 54e SHEFFIELD --APRIL 9. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...24B Od to 28s Od White New red » 1) ...258 Od to 288 Od • - " New white ' ••• • • l, •• - .. .208 Od to 22 s Od Beans '» ...2'lB Od to 268:0d ... 16s Od to 225 . 6 d ) f If 54s Od to 55s Od Peas, per qr, . ......... Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ 3ss Od to 43s Oa Oats 25s 6d to 34s Od . ,9 Millers' prides for flour-2s 3d, 2 s sd, and 2s 8d per 141 b, _ • ._ _ .... Wheat.... Old white.HULL—APRIL 9.... I per qr. Old red New white ~ 64a Od to 658 Od New red 52s Od to 58 8 Od .... ~ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 63 s Od to 68s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 628 Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 62s Od St. Pete rs b urg an d Ri ga, old 528 Od to 55s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 448 Od Grinding 32s Od to 36s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish .. 38s Od to 40s Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to I4ld Friesland and Dutch oBl4}d to 0815 d Swedish and Danish 0514d to 03140 Beans ....English, old. p er qr New pigeon 44s Od to 45s 0(1 New tick Egyptian .. 38s Od to 40s Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 54s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 0 Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 0 Rape cakes 6 5 oto 610 0 Bones THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) •• •• • • • . .. April 18. (via Marseilles) April 12. .. May 4. Do. Brazil and Cape Verds Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Cuba and Mexico .. April 29. Canada, &c. (via L'derry) .. April 17. - Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. • • • May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) April 18. Do (via Marseilles) April 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. April 10. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, & c . ( v i a S outhampton) April 18. Do. (via Marseille s ) Ap r il 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. April 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. April 19. Lisbon ° ' • • • • • • • April 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. April 10. • Do. (via Marseilles) .. April 12, Vigo, and Oporto .. April 11. United States, California, &c. April 11. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. April 10. West Indies an d Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &o. 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Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment ' and expense may b e avo id e d b y using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence p er day, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, tv .thout purging, ' constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalid s avo id th e fearful dangers of spu rious and injuriou, imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article roust expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins llb. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. 11s.; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbic, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ;49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and CO. tea -dealers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street City ; at 127 High Holborn : and all grocers. BIRTHS. BOOTH.—On the 9th inst., at 74, Mornington-road, Re gent's-park, the wife of Samuel Barker Booth, Esq., of a son. nen°Ls.—On the 6th inst., at Yockleton Hall, Salop, the wife of Thomas J. Nichols, Esq.. of twins, a son and hair and daughter. TOYNDEE.—On the Sth inst., at Beech Holme, Wimble don-common, the wife of Joseph Toynbee, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. ALDERSON—GUEST.—On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Frederick Cecil, youngest son of the late Sir E. H. Alderson, Baron of the Exchequer, to Katharine Gwladys, second daughter of the late Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., ALP., of Dowlais. BREAKEY—MILLER.—On the 9th inst., at St, George's , Hanover-square, John Breakey, E sq., M.D., R.N., to Jano Kennedy, only child of the late Arthur Kennedy Miller, Rsq., White House, Belfast. DEATHS. BLACKWOOD.--On the Bth inst at Edinburgh, Mak ° William Blackwood, late of the 59th Bengal Native Infantry. CROSS.—On the 7th inst., at Hull, very suddenly, W. 8 ; Cross, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple and Caine) , hatch. Dittuty.--On the 9th inst., Henry Dru Drury, Esq., of Blackheath, and 20, Billiter-street, aged 62. JnexsoN.—On the 3d inst., at Kensington, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, aged 94. TASKER.—On the Bth inst., in Londosi, Joseph Tasker, Esq., of Middleton Hall, Brentwood, 'Essex, aged 65. LONDON i righted and Published by MI /RDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Oil ice, No. 112,8trand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cc 'may of AlicidleeeN , Thursday, April 11, 186 L pR, Course lere nee ltini n Throe grnrne h ev Friday ,__ TH] ()Meer; Lond bouri „This ' , le In revenue 41,260,c The class 0 , tling tnous lc kha n the c h a nary, The aYstern c't Parti 4 mount the Ins' tertaint a tt, r e rote n Annual -8 £707,1 The p . "ery enabl e 1 Venient. •.......___ CC rrin OI RING' HERE] May ne treat w for mak at Dept Bank) tud Co. Secre I' ' I 8 now SKI] Licenl z,Xembe] Au iIY the 1 bi LIF and IV Tin laws. ‘ue int trritabi liour Pointm The street, FOr $t Fshit at the M GRA] TO.N Eight . area, Been ,01lice, Al Icith 1 el even Moliat Mns ' at ;su n ......_____ M Glass Wll - 0 a cleft Slide toW 1 Tuci Plan( 255. 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