The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. Yesterday the ordinary weekly meeting of the board w as held in the Council-chamber, Guildhall Mr. Thwaites in the chair. THE PARK FOR FINSBURY. The first business entered upon was the further con sideration of the memorial from the vestries of the parishes of St. Mary, Islington ; St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell ; St. Mary, Stoke Newington ; and the District Board of Works for St. Andrew, Holborn, on the subject of forming s park for the northern suburbs were strongly of opinion that the sewage should be car ried down into the estuary of the Thames, where it could not by any possibility return to pollute the river. The registrar-general informs us that in from 25 to 30 years the population of Londozi will be doubled, and, assuming that data to be correct, Louden may then have actually extended itself to Erith—in fact, the legal limits went already to Plumstead, and then all the sewers which we were now making would have to be broken up again as being too small. Then he would just allude to the ques- tion of the marshes on the banks of the Thames. It was well known that these marshes produce 1 fogs and agues, affecting not only the vicinity of the marshes but even extending to the metropolis itself. This being so it was highly desirable that any plan to be adopted for the main drainage should include also the drainage of those marshes. Sir Morton Peto had published his plan, which was to carry the sewage from S ou thwark across the Thames, combine it with that on the north side, and then take the whole of it on to the sea. It was necessary that some plan of deodorisation and utilisation should be adopted. He would respectfully suggest to his lordship the advisability of a commission sitting upon the question, and there could not be any doubt, from the facts which would be elicited from engineers and other persons thoroughly acquainted with the subject, that some plan would be hit upon which would contain none of the obnoxious provi sions of those already in existence. He would conclude with the . hope that his lordship would favourably con sider their position, and, from what had been already told him, extend to them his protection. Mr. RENSHAW said that there was one point to which he wished to allude, as it had been overlooked by the last speaker. As a merchant and shipowner of 40 years' standing, he thought that a river like the Thames, which bore upon it all the riches of the world, should not be polluted near its estuary by such a vast accumu lation of filth as would flow into it under the intended arrangements. He was of opinion that nothing could be worse than foreign vessels coming into port meeting this abominable filthy stream. The Gravesend deputation was then introduced by Sir Culling Eardley, and consisted of W. Fletcher, Esq., mayor ; Alderman Dobson, Alderman Ditchburn, W. S. Plane, Esq., Mr. Councillor Gould, Mr. Southgate, Clerk to Commissioners of Improvements ; Mr. Shar land, town clerk. The MAYOR said that the inhabitants of this town strongly depreciated nee proposed scheme, in proof of which he would read the following resolutions : "Resolved, —That it appears highly expedient that a scientific consideration, under Government, should be given to the practicability of deodorising the produce of the sewers of London, and rendering the same available for agricultural or other purposes. " Resolved,—That if insuperable difficulties should be found to exist in the adopting of the above-mentioned course, it is most essential for the health of the inhabi tants of this town and district and all others on the banks of the Thames, and for avoiding the rendering their houses and property valueless, that the great nui sance of the discharge of a concentrated sewage into the river Thames at Erith Reach should be averted. " Resolved,—That the discharge of such sewage in Sea Reach appears a course of discharge free from objection in a sanitary point of view to the inhabitants of property in any district, would not only avoid those injurious results to the health and property of the inhabitants on the banks of the Thames, but would, to use the words of the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, effect the entire purification of the river. " Resolved,—That the general purification of the river Thames may well be considered a great national object." The Mayor added, he had no hesitation in saying that the parishes affected by the scheme would use every weapon in their power, by moans of the Court of Queen's Bench and the Court of Chancery, to assist them in de feating the object. He hoped the noble lord would inter fere and prevent so undesirable a collision. Lord PALMERSTON—Of course you do not expect me to give you an answer at present. I will give due at tention to any statements which you say you will send me in writing, as well as to the verbal communications which you have now made to me. You are quite aware that this is a matter to which I will give my best consi deration as soon as I can." This is all I can say at present. The deputation having thanked the noble lord for his courtesy and kindness, then retired. that stream itself will be less pure than it now is, owing to the increase of the population on its banks. What are we to do the'n ? We shall have to do what Rome did, not only at Rome, but all over the world ; what Glasgow is doing, what New York and Boston have done, as well as other cities in the United States. We shall have to go far and wide in quest of such streams throughout the country as can be brought here, without injury to other interests. This should be done while the streams are still pure and the conflicting interests still unimportant ; otherwise, we shall only discover our wants when it is too late to rectify them. of the metropolis. Mr. SAVAGE, in supporting the prayer of the memo rial of the parishes, remarked that a park for the nor thern portion of the metropolis was manifestly needed, and referred to the recently amended act, which fully empowered the board to provide parks, pleasure-grounds, and open spaces. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that'theTrayer of the memorialists be com plied with ; that the clerk be directed to take the necessary steps to adopt the Parliamentary notices already given by the parishes in order that the board might be prepared to apply for an act this session, and that it be referred to the Finance Committee to report upon the best means of raising the necessary funds. Mr. DIVE/INGER seconded the motion, because he was anxious to have Hampstead-heath secured to the public. Mr. TURNER moved, as an amendment, that it be re ferred to the committee of works to consider the appli cation now before the board, together with the various other applications that had been made to the board for providing parks, &c., and to inquire into the probable expense, and to report upon the urgency and importance of the particular plans. Mr. WILKINSON seconded the amendment, deeming that that was the best way of dealing with these ques tions, which were not free from difficu lt y . After some observations from Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. Nicholay, and Mr. Seeley, the motion was put and lost. The amendment was then put, when Mr. Howes moved that a special committee of ten, instead of the Works' Committee, make the report. This amendment was lost, as was likewise another brought forward by Mr. Few, to the effect that the whole question of park accommodation be considered by the board, irrespective of any particular locality. The amendment of Mr. Tur ner being now the original motion, was put from the chair, and carried, upon a show of hands, by 20 to 11. THE OUTFALL INTO THE GERMAN OCEAN. The subjoined letter from Sir S. M. Peto, directed to the clerk of the board, and dated " Somerleyton Suffolk, Nov. 24, 1856," was read by Mr. Woolrych : "My dear Sir,—l am most anxious that before you finally decide upon the outfalls for the metropolitan sew age you should have all the points of Mr. M`Lean's plan before you, and I shall be greatly obliged by your allow ing me to attend you with that gentleman to afford you the necessary explanation. The imperative importance of the subject will, I trust, be considered a sufficient excuse for thus troubling you The whole of the plans and sec tions of the proposed outfall sewer to the German Ocean being now completed, you can have all the necessary in fer:nation with accuracy, so that your decision may be taken without delay. The levels taken show such a differ ence between the height of the top water of the aqueduct at West Ham, as shown in the sections of the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the level of the spring tides of the German Ocean at the point of discharge, as will admit a velocity of nearly three feet per second. The sewer will be capable of discharging the whole of the sewerage and rainfall estimated by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, without any additional pumping, in a continuous stream, and at all times of the tide. With the assumed velocity of three feet per second, there will not be any deposit of sewerage except at places selected specially for that purpose ; and this velocit i y is not only sufficient to prevent the deposit of any soil, but is equal to removing broken stones as large as those generally used for metalling roads. As regards estimates, the sum of 1,600,0 , X11. will be sufficient for executing the works, &c., between West Ham and the sea. The locality of the outfall is ad mirably adapted for chemical works of every description, if requisite, in connection with the sewerage, and is so far removed from habitations, or places where houses are likely to be built, that such works could never becsme a nui sance; and it has the advantage of close proximity to the rivers Crouch and Blackwater, both of which form excel lent harbours. From the best data I can obtain, lam led to believe that the proposed outfall at B in the metropo litan plans will cost (the writer here enumerates the seve ral items) 1,110,356/. The comparison will therefore stand in outlay at 1,600,0001., as against 1,110,356; and in making this comparison I assume that the cost of convey ing the sewage from the south side, including the sewage of Greenwich and Woolwieh, to the outfall sower of the north side, will not be greater than the cost of the pro posed outfall sower on the south side. Indeed, instead of a difficulty in adopting the system of sewage proposed by your engineer for the south side, it will much simplify the work of collecting the sewage at Southwark-bridge instead of at Deptford Creek, as it will not be necessary to make any portion of the so'ver below low water, as at present proposed by the engineer of the board. You will, by the adoption of Mr. al`Lean's plan, entirely get rid of all re servoirs and pumping at the outfall, and the Thames will be left perfectly clear of sewerage matter; and the pro prietors of land in South Essex, by the memorial so exten sively signed, showed their great anxiety for the adoption of the plan, so that no opposition of a local nature need be feared by you, if after deliberation you should approve of the plan. I have no desire in any way to be connected with the execution of these works, my only object being that the plan should have ample consideration given to it. I feel a deep interest in the subject, from having sat two years in the Sewers Commission ; but, that you may feel the difference in expense is not an insuperable barrier to the execution of these great works, I am whiling, with my friends, if you will pay, by way of a rent in per petuity for the use of the outfall sewer to the German Ocean an interest of 5 per cent. per annum on the cost of your own outfall and the works connected therewith, to construct the outfall to the sea, and that you have the free use of it for the rent so paid. I make this offer that the subject may be treated on its own merits, an advantage fully equivalent to any difference being obtained at the outfall , into the sea; for, outside the present sea wall, and lying between the rivers Biackwater and Crouch, is an exten sive foreshore, capable of being reclaimed ; and there is an area of about six miles long and one Mile broad, or nearly 4,000 acres, which might be at once treated in this way ; and there are upwards of 20,000 acres more which might be similarly treated, from time to time, by sewerage, net otherwise utilised, being discharged over it. Thus, that which will, in the case of the Themes outfall being adopted (treat it as you will), become a nuisance on the south Essex shore, will become a public benefit and a source of income. It appears to me that this great subject should be grasped with a determination so to treat it that the works executed should be sufficient for all time, and able to meet the crm tingency of any future increase of the metropolis ; and any little delay at. the present moment in coining to your deter mination would be far more than counterbalanced by the right conclusion being arrived at." Mr. D'IFFANGER, atter a few laudatory remarks upon the character and standing of Sir S. M. Pete, but with out, as he said, committing himself to the plan pro pounded, moved that the letter be acknowledged, and that Sir S. M. Peto be requested to attend on Tuesday next to explain the details of his plan. Mr. NICHOLAY seconded the motion. Mr. CARPMAEL said it was necessary the plan should be laid before the board previous to its being discussed. If it should turn out to be the old plan already proposed by Mr. M'Lean, and rejected by the board, he would advise the board not to listen to the course now suggested. The CHAIRMAN said it was desirable the public mind should be disabused of one or two matters which had been misunderstood. It was supposed that the board had under its consideration a plan proposed by Mr. M‘Lean to accomplish the whole drainage of the metropolis for 1.600,000/. Nothing could be more erroneous than such a notion. It appeared, in answer to questions put to Mr. M‘Lean, that he proposed to bring all the sewage on the south side of the river to one great reservoir at the foot of Southwark-bridge, and then lift it up by means of lnmps seine 70 or 80 feet into tubes crossing the bri.ige, and drop it again into another sewer which sh ou ld carry it to West Ham, where agai n it would h ave to b e l i fted into a secon d sewer an d car ried down t o C rouc h r i ver. On being aske d w h e th er he knewthat the p resent di rect i on of the sewers was f ro m west to question, or i n t o the question how the sewage could be collected from a ll t h e outlying districts to the foot o f Southwark bridge. Nor had he calculation of the cost of such a work —not les m s , a t d h e ari a t n h y eee-quarte! - s the le of apillion--even if consent to have the sewageSouthwark . would p o the o south side of the Thames collected Southwark -bridge. when vast reservoir at the foot . of that t essed a upon the point of expense Mr. M`Lean board to consider. It was scarcelyw s matter for the 80 fair la to contrast an estimate, from which was omitted the estimate of the works proposed byrgthe e an e itene, with that board. He did not believe Sir S. Peto w ilg o l u n l e d e w r wil lingly lend himself to i anything so deceptive • but that he bad taken the question up pur e l y from a desire to pro mote the general object which the board hadtoa corn plish. After a few observation s from Mr LESLIE, Mr. CUL. LIN, and other me mbers, the m otion was put and nevatived. The board then adjourned. (Prom the Lancet.) When posterity hunts through the pages of history, seeking examples of extinct words, the records of the Metropol►tan Board of Works will afford ample illustra tion of the word "muddle." Considering how great were the interests confided to them it seems incredible that so little should have been done. They at first en joyed an amount of public confidence seldom vouchsafed to any untried body of men. They had power to act, and ample means to enable them to act, with abundance of abuses, whereof their new brooms might have made a clean sweep. At first, when the performance fell so far short of our expectations, there was a plausible excuse in reserve. If profusion of talk, and time wasted in irrelevant discussion, suggested the query, " Quid dignum tanto feret hiatu ?" the vast subject of the sewage was held sufficient, like Charity, to cover a multitude of sins,—for there are sins of omission as of commission. On this great question there was a mighty affectation of solemn discussion, the results of which are now before the public. The plans to be considered were marshalled in alphabetical array, and once threatened tc employ all the letters, but were at last considerately limited to plans A, B, C, and D—John Bull expressing his opinion of this first evidence of feeble indecision by echoing the D, with a dash. After great debate Plan B was selected, and taken to Sir B. Hall for his approval as the cleverest thing the Board of Works could accomplish. Then, and not till then, the pet scheme was discovered to be clearly op posed to the meaning of the law specially passedto guide the selection. The officer appointed to investigate the force of the sea-tide in the Thames had reported that an outfall less than 15 miles from London-bridge would not carry away the sewage clear of the town. So it was laid down in the law that this should be the minimum distance; that the discharge should be nowhere near the extremest point of the boundaries of London. In the plan proposed by the Board the outfall into the river was distant scarcely a mile from the limits of the metropolitan area. It was rejected by the Chief Commissioner, and, lest any one should wonder what possible motive led to its recotnmen mendation, the chairman volunteered an explanation at the interview. "Probably," said Mr. Thwaites," the most important element which guided them was the question of finance." On the drainage of London depends the health and lives of millions of human beings, including those who are born and die without any account of them being in cluded in the census. Whatever scheme is now adopted can only ba altered subsequently at an enormous cost. Yet, in the full knowledge of this, it now appears that the Board of Works have all along been higgling about an expenditure that no one ever thought of grudging for such a purpose. Whilst the authorities are incubating a fresh scheme, private enterprise has been directed to the accomplishment of the work, and several proposi tions of practical thinkers are now under consideration. To these we shall hereafter refer. THE MURDER IN PARLIAMENT-STREET. CRIMINAL COURT. The following appeared in our late edition of last night : (Before Baron Alderson and Justice Coleridge.) Yesterday morning Robert Marley, alias Jenkins, was indicted for the wilful murder of Richard Cope, assistant to Mr. Berry, watchmaker, of Parliament-street. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark conducted the prosecu• Lion, and Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. The facts of this atrocious case hare been so ire quently and fully before the public that a detailed report on this occasion is wholly unnecessary. The pri soner, on taking his position at the bar, cast a hasty glance round the court, and nearly throughout the whole of the proceedings he maintained the greatest calmness. The witnesses who gave evidence against the prisoner at Bow-street were severally examined by Mr. Bodkin and cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh, the object of the learned gentleman engaged for Marley, for some time, (Front the Times.) Exeter-hall for once at a nonplus ! Sir Culling Eard ley and Lord Palmerston, the Evangelical Alliance and the "powers that be," on the common platform of a sanitary nuisance, exchanging condolences and diffi culties ! Sir Culling Eardley appears in teat character in which all Englishmen, of all orders, religious, pro fessions, or morals, are sure to appear at one time or another,—the character of John Bull, defending his castle against invasion and an noyance. It's in them all, and is sure to come out. We have read many a religious biography, but never one of ordinary fulness in which the biographer was not proud to exhibit his sub jest in the attitude of just indigilation and delaince. And has not Sir Calling Eardley a cause ? His Lures and Penates are threatened by a foe worse than palpable robber or good wholesome murderer. Plan No. 2 of the Metropolitan Board of Works proposes to carry all the sewage of London to within three-quarters of a mile of Erith Church. The result of this would be that Erith, sweet Erith, with its healthy northern slope, its pretty church and villas, with Belvidere-house and its beautiful grounds, would be the very scapegoat of , London miasma. The foul stream disgorged from the black jaws of a huge sewer would there meet the light and heat of day. Is would there begin its long term of wanderings up and down the tide. Ups, indeed, we are promised there shall be none ; but what is the value of promises when sewage is concerned ? What promise, too, could bind the air, and compel it not to refund the atmospheric products up the valley of the Thames ? If, too—and we must say it is a most terrible " if,"—the vast apparatus that is to be, some time cr other, for collecting. drying, deodorising, and reducing the more solid products should be just opposite Erith, one might as well be on the verge of that bottomless pit, whence, by the common consent of all authorities, sacred and profane, there arises the foulest of stenches. Nor is Sir Culling Eardley unsupported in his complaint. The whole tide cf insult and iejury would come down upon Gravesend without even the flimsy subterfuge of being under orders not to touch the town. It would go up and down no one can say how often. But the voice of remonstrance is heard still lower. A shipowner appears, and protests emphatically against the proposal to greet all strangers, mad our own homeward-bound vessels with a vast pool of filth just discharged, in the best preserva tion, at the very mouth of the Thames. As everybody knows, at the end of a sea voyage, and in the change from one climate to another, the bodily health is always in a peculiar state, and unusually sensitive to malignant infisteucte Indeed the probability is that. every ship passing through this zone of malaria would bring the cholera, or souse fever, or we know not what morbid variety, right up the river jet) the heart of the metro polis. In fact, an outlet at Erith would be only a half 'measure. No measure, indeed, would be a whole one, but this would be literally half, for London, it is com puted, wilt be twice as populous, and more than twice as extensive, in thirty or forty years, and then, it stands to reason, an expedient which only just suffices now will be very far short of the occasion then. Tee particular spot, too, is most unfortunate. This tidal estuary which we call the Thames flows through an immense extent of marshes, considerably under high water, and always pro ducing fogs and agues. Though the water of the Thames (is carefully kept by high banks from diffusing itself over ' those marshes, no doubt a poisonous effluvium from its banks would be a serious addition to the ordinary marsh air. These considerations have already had their weight in the proper quarters, and we have no doubt that the St. George of Belvidere will not have to fight a sewerage dragon at Erith. What, then, is to be done ? The people on the Thames have all agreed that an outlet at Sea Reach will answer the purpose, and Sir Morton Peto will stand godfather to the plan—and father, too, if ne cessary. He will be glad to undertake the work. As for the drainage of the marshes, we should have thought that the conveyance of the metropolitan sewage through more than 40 miles of artificial conduits was work enough by itself, and did not require the additional charge of some thousand acres of marsh land. The marshes must take care of themselves ; and, in fact, they reqaire nothing but a few steam engines here and there to lift the accumulations of rain water to the level of the Thames. Haarlem Lake and our own Whittlesea-mere have been drained of every drop of water, insomuch that the Great Northern Rail way, we believe, passes over the bed of the latter. There is no need to invoke the metropolis to drain Erith marshes, which are rich enough to pay for their own draining. How far the two operations can be combined with a fair division of the charges is another question. We don't see, ourselves, how a combination is either possible or desirable, or what the two things can have to do with one another. So on this point we wait to be enlightened, and should be glad to hear what the engin eers say on this subject. Supposing this to be the plan adopted—and there seems little doubt of it—will our readers just reflect on the immensity of the undertakings to which our want of forethought, unity, and system has committed us ? Parliament, within these three or four years, has com pelled all the water companies to go up the river, above the reach of the tide 20 or 30 miles, in quest of the pure element. Thus, we go up the river 70 or 80 miles from its mouth, take a considerable fraction of its vo lume, likely to be seriously felt in dry summers, and are about to con d uct i t b y p i pes t o th e ocean, taking care to pass it, on the way, through our streets and houses. It certainly is a grand operation, like that of the East ern conqueror who passed a river by dividing it into many small channels. It is evident, however , that at least one of these operations is superfluous. Had we pre served the river free from pollution we might have drunk its water without fear, or at least with only such filtra tion as may be necessary at Reading or Oxford. - As it is, our relations with the great river on which London professes to be built will be rather doubtful. We shall p n „ h e w i i neither ee (- dx l e p i br nk of yes stihoen si Thames," , n hz o d mar watered wbilyl intothe eo itrl longer v ; neri a r e n Tr ' I theapply ye g s ga aornuir case. The river b e tween bridges will b be only a tho roughfare for steamboats and barges, a pretence for magnificent bridges and a tidal lake for the use of the Pool below. We are onl y adverting to the fact— for a fact it is, o r will soo n be—and,as the im mense pipes to bring the water from the super-tidal stream are near 'y all completed, and will soon be in actual use, and as the water is said to be considerably more pure than that f,rraerly in use,---above all, as com pliance with the act of Parliament has cost more than two millions and a half within these three years, we shall give this part of our water system at least a fair trial. But it is already time to look forward to the not very distal t day when the doubling metropolis will want still mornwater, when it will n o lon g er be prudent to draw on the upper stream of the Thame2, and when THE M EE M GREAT AINETA OPNOLIS. DRAIAGE SOIIEME Oh l T --- DEPUTATIONS TO LORD PALMERSTON. Yesterday at 11 o'clock, two deputations from the south-eastern section of the metropolitan suburbs had an interview with the First Lord of the Treasury, at the noble premier's private residence, Cambridge House, Piccadilly. The first was from Eritb, and was introduced by Sir Culling Eardley, Bart.--2,1r.' James Renshaw, church warden; Mr. Charles Beadle, churchwarden ; the Rev. Mr. Bernal!, and others. Lord Darnley, the Venerabie Archdeacon Smith, and Mr. Masters Smith, one of the members for the county, arrived too l a t e, in consequence of a misapprehension of the hour fixed by the noble viscount. Sir CULLING EARDLEY opened the object of the depu tationto his lordship by stating that in con se q uence of the intended project, a short time ago, to collect the main drainage ot the metropolis, a deputation had waited upon Sir B. Hall, and explained to him the evils that were likely t o accrne from such a course, when be nega tived the scheme as far as Erith was concerned. The inhabitants had, No. 2 proposed to however heard with regret that plan three-quarters of a carry the sewage of London to within to be the case he (Sir mite C of Erith Church. If such was inflict a very grievous wurlling) was sure that it would by Sir Benjamin the Chief Commissioner in an explanation granted ormissioner had said that he considers himself as actin and in the interest of all the in o h r the whole metropolis, storeys of houses in Paris the _ w a e b l i l tants. In the npr.er a constitutional right to emptyd Chair ers looked upon it as street. If that !principle was applied slop pails into the (Sir Culling) would ask what was in this case he to become of E • nth, seeing it was so far below ? Slop pa i ls m s , mewhere, but he ho p ed that it would not be emptied not be don' either at Erith or Grave send. The d eputations which ad the honour of attending upon is lordship this day evidently being to show that it was a case of mistaken identity. When the witness Croft was giving his evidence, in which he stated that he saw the prisoner striking at somebody in the shop of Mr. Berry in Parliament-street, Marley fixed a steadfast gaze upon him, and it was some time before he again resumed his apparent calm ness. On Baron Alderson putting the question to Croft whether he had the slightest doubt in his mind as to the prisoner being the person he saw come out of lir. Berry's shop on the evening of the shocking occurrence, and on his reply in the negative, the prisoner convu►sively bit his lips, but shortly afterwards he regained his composure. The effect of the answsr of Croft was completely to fix the prisoner's identity. Mr. Sleigh, the prisoner's counsel, did not attempt a cross-examination of this witness. The only other person whose evidence created the slightest sensation in court was Allen, the hackney carriage attendant, the brother in-law of the unfortunate man Cops, and when the witness left the witness-box the prisoner evidently felt great relief, as the %hole tenour of evidence was greatly against him. The next incident that occurred was the examination of Mr. Barnaby, the chief clerk of the Bow-atre,t police•court. This gentleman read the depositions taken before Mr. .Jardine, the magistrate, at the Westminster Hospital. The witness having finished reading the document, Mr. Sleigh asked Mr. Burnaby whether the precise question " Is that the man who struck you ?" was not put to Cope in the pre sence of Marley. Mr. Burnaby said it was not. The injured man was, of course, prepared for encountering the presence of the prisoner, immediately on seeing whom Cope gave a convulsive shudder, and is answer to the question, whether he could identify any person present as the man who had injured him, he pointed to the prisoner and said, " That's the man." At the relation of this incident in the dreadful tragedy a thrill of horror ran through the court, but the prisoner at this particular moment was not in the slightest degree disturbed. In the course of the examination of Mr. Marshall, the surgeon of Westminster Hospital, the witness was enter ing into a detailed description of the injuries that Cope had received on the head, when Baron Alderson, addressing Mr. Marshall, said—Now, never mind all that ; we want to know what was the cause of the death of Cope. Mr. Marshall—The deposition of matter in the lungs. Baron Alderson—What was the cause of that Mr. Marshall—lnjuries of the litad. The opinion of Mr. Marshall was confirmed by Mr. B. Halt, and Mr. Lawrence, senior surgeon of Bartho lomew's Hospital. The latter gentleman said he had never known a case of a person recovering who had received such extensive injuries as the deceased had after the operation of trepanning bad been performed. This closed the case for the prosecution. The court then adjourned for a few minutes. Mr. Sleigh, in addressing the jury for the prisoner, said that the inquiry in which they were that day engag ed was one of the most awful, and involved upon himself a responsibility cf great magnitude. But in any decision which they would arrive at he felt sure they would be guided by strict impartiality. He felt it his duty to inform the jury that he was not instructed directly by the prisoner himself, but he had been instructed on the part of the Sheriffs not to attempt to frustrate or impede the ends of justice, but to tee that the prisoner had a perfectly fair and impartial trial. To find the man at the bar guilty of the charge imputed to him they must be satisfied that the prisoner was the man who committed the offence in Mr. Berry's shop. They must be satisfied that his hand was the one which caused the death of the unfortunate man Cope. The first point to which he would direct their attention was, aye or no, is the man standing at the bar the man seen in Mr. B erry's shop inflicting injuries upon the unfortunate deceased?? He had taken advantage of the recess that had taken place to shortly review the whole of the facts adduced that day, and ho thought that when they came to view them they would arrive at the conclusion that the present case was one of mistaken identity. The fact that the basket which had been stolen from Mr. Berry's had not been discovered was a strong point in favour of the prisoner ; and he put it to them whether it was not possible for the person who had committed the robbery to have thrown away the life preserver and still preserved the produce of the robbery. The whole of this part of the ciao was involved in doubt, and he felt sure that the jury would carefully consider the evidence in regard to it. The medical evidence was not at all conclusive as to the cause of death, and it had been stated that there wore certain evidences that there had been some internal disease. Before they could convict the prisoner of murder the jury must be fully satisfied that he committed the crime with malice aforethought, and he did not see the slightest circumstance in the evidence that had been placed before them which would enable them to arrive at such a conclusion. There was no such motive in this case. Where was the malice shown ! There was no laying wait. There was no motive, grudge, or menace, as regarded the deceased, existing in the prisoner's mind, and no intention to kill could have existed. Baron Alderson—But, if he went for the purpose of robbing, and, in carrying out that purpose, took away the man's life, lam of opinion—in fact, there is no doubt about it—it is clearly faurder. Mr, Sleigh said that was undoubtedly BO ; but, still, THE SUN, LONIDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1856. he should contend for a favourable construction of the doubt to which the prisoner at the bar was most unques tionably entitled to. The learned counsel concluded his speech by a forcible appeal to the feelings of the jury, beseeching them that, if the slightest doubt existed in the minds of any of them with regard to the guilt of the prisoner, they would acquit him of the heinous clime of which he was accused. Baron ALDIIUSON then charged the jury, and in doing so laid before them the state of the law with respect to such crimes as the one they were now engaged in inves tigating. He said if they were satisfied that the prisoner at the bar was the man who entered Mr. Berry's shop and struck the blows for the purpose of silencing the man, in order that he might more easily convey the plunder away—although he did not intend to commit murder—still, if those injuries resulted in death, there could be no doubt that the crime of which the prisoner was accused came within the act of murder. The learned judge then proceeded to comment on the evidence that had been given, and said it was evident that the most favourable moment had been selected for the commission of the crime. All the valuable property was supposed to have been placed in a parcel to be conveyed away from the premises for security during the night. The evidence further went to show that there were more than the prisoner concerned in this heinous offence, and it seemed to him (the learned judge) that the three men who were outside the door of Mr. Barry's shop, and who, in answer to certain inquiries, said the noise was occa sioned by a man and his wife quarrelling, were acting in concert with the prisoner at the bar. Then, again, as to the identity of the prisoner. The evidence of the young man who stated that he looked through the open ing between the doors of the shop, and saw the prisoner inflicting blows upon some one, and then afterwards light a cigar and leave the premises, and the fact that the prisoner when taken into custody had a lighted cigar in his hand, was strong evidence that he was the person in the shop of Mr. Berry on the night of the robbery. In addition to this circumstance, the whole of the evidence seemed to leave no doubt about the identity of the prisoner; but this part of the case they would most seriously consider. Then, with respect to the place in which the life-preserver was found, it was quite possible for a person to throw it to the place where it was picked up from the spot where the prisoner was taken into custody ; and supposing it was not so thrown, it did not seem at all likely that a person wishing to conceal such a weapon would not have thrown it inside the square and not left it on the pavement. It was fur ther stated that when the prisoner was taken into cus tody four fingers on his right band were covered with blood. This would, in all probability, be the hand by which the blows upon the unfortunate man were adminis tered, and the suggestion of the learned counsel for the defence that the blood had got upon the prisoner's hand in consequence of his contact with the persons who had been rendering assistance to the unfcrtuaate man Cope, of course they would give that suggestion all the value it deserved. The learned judge having went through the medical evidence, said they would well weigh all the cir cumstances, awl if they came to the conclusion that the blows on the head occasioned the death of Cope, and that they were dealt by the prisoner, then they would find him guilty, but if they bad the slightest doubt as to the prisoner at the bar being the man they would acquit Lim of the charge. I now commit you to the care of God Almighty, and may He conduct you to a right conclusion. 'At half-past three the jury retired to consider their verdict, and, after an absence of 25 minutes, returned a verdict of " Guilty." The Clerk of the Arraigns having asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why he should not receive Sporting Intelligence. BETTING AT INIANCHESTER. FRIDAY. For the Derby 500 to 15 wa taken about Ackwortb, ' 300 to 12 about Sidney, 12 to 1 was offered on the field, 100 to 7 would have been taken about Blink Bonny, 40 to 1 to a little money was taken about Blue Jacket, a stable companion of Tourname❑t. The Chester Cup was also touched upon ; Blight was backed to win up wards of 3,0001., at 100 to 1 ; we may also mention that Pole Star, Alice Wentwortb, Melissa, St. Giles, Tas mania, Gamma di Vergy, and Sprig of Shilelagh have received considerable support for that event, and more than 66 to 1 could not be obtained about any of them. WINDSOR STEEPLECHASES. FRIDAY. Grand Military Welter Steeplechase, a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for horses bona fide the property of, and to be ridden by, officers on full pay of the army, 14st each. About three miles. 3 subs. Mr. Craven's (Ist Life Guards) Pickpocket (Wilkins) 1 Mr. Paxton's (4th Light Dragoons) Doubtful (carried 14st 3lb) Mr. Peach's (Royal Horse Gds.) Vulcan (Capt. Leslie) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Pickpocket, 2to 1 agst Doubtful. Vulcan and Doubtful refused soon after starting, and the winner cantered in alone. Grand Handicap Steeplechase of 20 soya each, 10 ft., and only 5 if declared, &c., with 100 added ; the owner of the last horse to pay 5 soya to the owner of the second ; the winner of a 1,000 sovs handicap steeplechase, after the weights were declared, 71bs extra. About four miles. 18 subs., five of whom de. Sinnington Glared. Mr. J. Brown's The Minor, by Coronation, 10st 51b (Green) 1 Mr. T. Golby's Prenez Garde, lOst 71b... ..(Kendall) 2 Captain Morgan's Teluti, lOst 101 b... (Mr. Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Cupbearer, Little Yeoman, Janus, Theodine, and Titterstone. Betting-7 to 2 agst Prenez Garde, 9to 2 agst The Minor-6 to 1 agst Cupbearer —8 to 1 agst Janus. The Minor took the lead after rounding the far turn the last time, made the rest of the running, and won in a canter by four lengths. Veluti finished about ten lengths behind Prenez Garde, Titterstone fell soon after starting, at the small water jump, and was severely in jured. Cupbearer, Janus, and Theodine fell at the fence leading out of the winning field the first time round, and Little Yeoman fell within a short distance of home. Match, 1001., list 7lb each. Three Miles. Capt. Duff's Ganyrnede, 5 yrs... (Sir E. Hutchinson) 1 Mr. Hunt's Sir Charles Napier, aged (Owner) 2 Betting-3 to lon Ganymede. Won very easily. Scurry Stakes, a sweepstakes of 2 sove each, with 25 added ; 12st. each About three miles. 6 subs. Mr. Craven's Spinster (W. Griffiths) 1 Mr. B. Lands Sussex (Mr. Hunt) 0 Betting.-6 to 4 on Sussex. After repeated refusals Sussex was turned back, and the winner trotted in alone. Selling Steeplechase of 2 soya ()alb, with 23 added. About three miles. 7 subs. Mr. Day's Marmaduke, 5 yrs, (1001.), 12st (Mr. Edwards) 1 Mr. B. Land's Pioneer, aged (501), list (B. Land, jun) 2 The following also ran :—Merry-go-Round, Doubtful, and Paintbrush. Betting—Even on Marmaduke, 5 to 2 agst Pioneer. Marmaduke made all the running. Doubtful, Merry-go- Round, and Pioneer, fell at different periods in the race, and Paintbrush was pulled up beaten. The winner was sold by auction for 215 sous. The Household Cavalry Brigade stakes did not pro duce a race. DERBY. 12 to 1 aget Blink Bonny (taken) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. Iler Majesty's.... ~.Tnes. Maidenhead-thicket Fri. Adam and Eve, Hayes Cheltenham, Ct. West's Wed. Cleve-hill l2 0 Fri. Combe-hill Fox HOUNDS. Wheatland Albrighton (Mr. 0 Stabb's) Mon. Hilton-hall Thur. The Stewponey Sat. Bell Inn, Tong Norton Atherstone Mon. Barton-in the-Beans Wed. Warton-village : ll 0 Fri. Shilton-village ll 0 Sat. Ifausby-hall Badsworth Tues. Redhouso lO 30 Thur. Fenwiek ... Sat. Notton-village Beaufort's, Duke of ...Mon. Trouble-house, lO 15 Toes. Yate Rocks lO 15 Wed. Foss-lodge Fri. Quemerford-gate Sat. Plough, Kingston St Michael's lO 15 sentence, Marley, in a quick, sharp tone said, "I have nothing to say." The usual proclamation of silence having been made, The Learned Judge put on the black cap, and said — Robert Marley, after a patient and impartial invosliga tion, the jury have found you guilty of the crime of murder, committed under circumstances of considerable aggravation. In the commission of the crime it was evident from the circumstances that have occurred dur ng the trial that you and three other persons had ma ured plans for its commission, and that you were selected to perpetrate the offence which they were cowardly enough to witness. This is not the first time that you have been tried and convicted in this court. You have bean sentenced to a term of transportation, but through the mercy of the Crown you received a ticket of leave, and this dreadful crime is your gratitude for being allowed to return to the metropolis. Such a circumstance naturally causes us to doubt the wisdom of that mercy which had been extended to you. There will still be time given you for repentance for your awful crime, although you allowed your victim none. I trust that as he was permitted to live so long after the injuries were inflicted that his prayers to Almighty God for for giveness of his murderers were heard, and that your heart will he so softened before the final execution of the sentence that you yourself may be induced to seek that pardon of which you stand so much in need. I implore you to occupy the short time that you will now have in this world, in supplicating for mercy before the throne of an all-wise, all-merciful God. The sentence of the Court is, that you be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to a place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you be dead, and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the gaol. The prisoner, who had listened calmly to the exhorta.- tints of the learned judge, here shortly bowed his head, and turning on his heel was about quitting the dock, but the officers in attendance motioned to him that the sentence was not complete, when be returned, and the learned judge finished his observation with, a prayer that the Lord would have mercy upon his soul. The prisoner again bowed his head, and trippingly left the dock. At the conclusion of the trial Mr. Bodkin informed the court that the witness Lerigo had, in consequence of having to attend the various examinations in connection with this case, lost his situation. Baron Alderson said he greatly regretted such a cir cumstance, but if the recommendation of the judges would be of any service in getting him another heshould have it. The conduct of Lerigo was worthy of the highest approval, and he tendered the thanks of the bench to him. Although he had lost his employment by his attendance at this case, he had no doubt but that another and a better would be procured for him. Ile wished that a book was kept in that court that a record of the names of such indi viduals as Lerigo, who had acted so nobly, might be inserted as a pattern and an example to others. If such a book, after these observations be ever kept, be should give directions that the name of Lerigo should be inserted, and that a copy of the book be sent to him, in order that he might show to his friends the estimation in which his conduct had been held by the Court. He was empowered to reward persons for meri torious services, and he should have great pleasure in giving directions that Lerigo should receive the sum of 20/. (Suppressed mark s of applause.) The learned Judge then called Allen forward, and said he had acted well on the occasion ; but, as he had not lost his situation, he should direct that the sum of 10/. be paid to him. Berkshire, Old (Mr. Morrell's) ... Mon. Stanford - plac e Tues. Newbridge Fri. Red Lion, Buscot Sat. Tinker's-corner Berkshire, South Mon. Prior's court . 10 30 Tues. Hare and Hounds, Been ham .. Thur. Padworth-house .. 10 30 Fri. Burnt-hill Blackmoor Vale Mon. Redlynch-gate Thur.Evercreech ... 11 0 Bramham-moor Mon. Parlington Wed. Hambleton-village lO 30 Fri. 31arston Sat. Wyke Burton Hunt, Lord Hy. Bentinck's Mon, Burton lO 45 Tues. Wickenby-station ... 10 45 I% ed. Wellingore - Thur. Fillingham-park . 11 0 Fri. Stapleford -moor ... 11. 0 Sat. Brauston- wood Cambridgeshire ...,.....Mon. Megee-wood •• 10 70 Fri. Long Stanton ... 10 30 Cheshire Mon. Bucklow-bill Wed. Bolesworth-castle .... lO 30 Thur. Tarporley Sat. Sandy way-head Cottesmore, Trollope's Mon. Witham-common .... 11 0 Tues. Ayston .... 11 0 Thur. Burley .... it 0 Sat. Market Overton .. . 11. 0 Crawley and Horsham Mon. Balcombe Thur. Pease Pottaga . .. 10 45 Sat. Buck-barn „Mon. Sydenham-house Thur. Litton-bridge lO 30 Essex, the, H. Greaves'sMon. Olives ... 11 0 Thur. Bentley-mill Sat. Roxwell Essex, South Tues. I ngrave Church Sat. Kennel ll 0 Essex, East Tues. Baythorn-end . .... 11 0 Sat. Notley-gate .. 11 0 Essex and Suffolk Tues, Donylancl-heath Fri. Seiner-bridge Essex Union Mon. Ashirgton Wants lO 30 Wed. Danbury Griffin Sat. Southmiuster-street Eastbourne Mon. The Links ..... ....... ...... 10 15 Thur.Pevensey-station Farquharson's, Mr. ...Mon. Bucklaud.wood — Thur. Wyniard's-gap Deacon's, Mr ... Fri. - Sliort-wood — I Fit z william's, Earl Mon. Elton-tollbar ............... 10 30 0 I Wed. D uc kworth : .............. ;.. 10 Fri. Castor-baglaud s ......... ..., 10 30 Ascot-kennel -•• Garth Mr.lo 30 Mon. Wed. Sherri e ld-gate ............... l 0 30 Fri. Farley-hill .............. lO 30 Halsdon M on. Huntsbam-wood ............ 10 ?,0 Hambledon ............ Mon. Barn-gree n .............. .... 10 45 Wed. Place-house .... 10 45 Fri. Holywe ll-house IL IL ........ , ............ M on. Medstead-green Tues. Tichbourne-down 10 45 Thur. Illisfield-church lO 45 Sat. South Warnborough H ere fordshire ............ Fri . Eastwood's-oak . Wormbridge Heythrop ...............Mon. Boulser's-bard Wed. Addlesthorpe-gate __ : _ Fri. New-barn ... Sat. Wilco t .. Hurworth ,.,Tues. The Kennels , Sat. Kirklevington Horsley Mon. Crawley Kennels Fri. Cranberry - cross - roads Stanley Lowe .. Ingram's (Mr. Meynell) Tues. IVlark eat= Thur. Redbourne Sat. Elvaston-castle Isle of Wight Toes. West Side Chale - Fri. Horringford- bridge , Kent, East Mon. Sandling-park ...... ...... Thur. Lydden Sat. Cheriton-wood Ledbury, J.Thackwell'sMon. llighleadon-green Fri. Ilalesend, Cradley Mr. Wi110ugh.b . 7 .. ...... 1 ‘::: Ludlow (Mr. Sitwell's) Tues. Craven Arms l io il t l i i i n ie g y to .v n ill . a . g . ......... Fri. Gatley Middleton's, Lord (late Tues. Wilberforce -mill ... i •-• Morpeth ....... .. T hur, Hunmanby .... ... ~ Fri. Gaily-gap Fri. Acklingtou Sat. Bartley -green Now Forest ... ......... T T u h e u s i:. S s t ii . e A rfi u e s i t ( i i n, Ly Hatchet Norfolk (La. Suffield's) Toes. Duker's-bridge Fri. Wensenham Oakley .......... - Mon. Ashw oo d Thur, Easton -wood :'at. Kimbolton-castle Oxfordshire (South), Mr. Phillips's, Tues, Stanton, St. John Fri. The Three Pigeons Pembrokeshire , (Phillips's Mr. 1.) Mon. Wallaston-eross Thur.La.wrenny•park Portsmouth (Etrl of) Mon. Manydown-park Wed. Craven Arms, Emborne Fri. Freefolk-wood Sat. New Inn, Baughurst Pytchley h, Mon. Gib-wood Wed, North Kilworth Fri. Dodford-villaga... Sat. Glipston-windmill Quorn, Earl oft Stam ford and Warri rigton's Mon. Brooksby-gato Tues. Kegworth-station • Thur. Staunton Harold-park Fri. Wymeswold Raby ........... • Mon. Grove Wed. Selaby-park Fri. Toft-hill ..3friuoens. to . oLaxngnwith-lodge 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 45 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 4 10 45 10 45 10 no 10 30 11 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 204 117 195% 94 1 4 _6% 183 X 283 203% 388 25% 90 286% 11 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 10 sO 10 30 10 3u 10 45 10 4 5 10 45 10 45 10 30 • 10 30 10 30 10 30 • lo 30 ,1080 10 30 , e 10 30 161 637 5% 183% 267 173% 9% 28 498% 126% 52 78% 149 233 6734 32 29% 67N 289 17134 Seale's, Sir Henry Tues. Stokefleming Fri. Rolston-bridge Selby's, Mr. Mon. Ilderton Thur. Netherton Shropshire,C.J.MorrisTues. Lea-bridge . Fri. Sands.rue Tues. Helmsley . Fri. Wrelton Smith's, Mr. Assheton Mon. Langstoek-down Tues. Oare-hill Thur. Netheravon Fri. Clarendon-park Somerset, West Tues. Kingwood, Nettlecomb... Fri. Wil let-hill Southampton (Lord) ...Mon. Forster's-booth ... Wed. Wing Fri. Whitfield Sat. Hornton• inn Country fdar,Lei, . 10 30 .10 30 LIVERPOOL—Nov. 28. .10 3' The corn market this morning was largely attended by . 11 0 ! milera and dealers from a distance. Rather a large bust , lO 30 ness was transacted in foreign wheat, at fully Tuesday's 10 30 prices, and in some cases, for American red, ld to 2d per it 0 bushel advance was realised. Prime barrel flour com it 0 manded extreme rates, but Irish sack flour neglected. In -11 0 dian corn barely supported Tuesday's rates, and only in 11. 0 limited demand. Oats and barley 1,1 per bushel lower, 10 30 and oatmeal 6d per load. Egyptian beans Gd per quarter 10 30 lower. , 11 0 11 0 11 0 11 0 10 45 10 45 10 45 ; 13. n 11 11 0 10 20 10 30 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 30 10 30 10 30 10 10 30 11 0 , 11 0 , 11 0 . 11 0 11 0 Southdown, (A. Dono van's) Mon. Street•green ed. Polegate Fri. Dye Soutly,vold (Mr.Cook's)Tues. Ruckland-house Fri. Grisby Sat. Cal eeby Beck Staffordshire, North... Tues.Seighford Fri. Three Crowns, Stoke Suffolk.. , Tues. Walsbam-hall Thur. Bradley-fox Sat. Horringer-green Surrey Union Mon. Wrotton-house Thur. Cranley-village Sat. Farleigh-heath . Sussex, East Tues. Knell e Fri. Ewhurst-green Tailby's, Mr. Mon. Holt Thur. Kilby-bridge Thompson's, Mr. A, Mon. Grendon-village Tues. Bucknell Thur. Shelswell Sat. Chipping Warden Tiverton Mon. Cove Tivyside Mon. Pentgynon Thur. Pentre .Tues. Carew Arms Sat. Seobscomb Tyned ale Mon. Corbridge-station Wed. Stamfordham Fri. The Kennels Trelawney's, Mr. 11 0 . 10 30 10 0 . 10 0 ~ 10 45 .. 10 30 .. 10 45 .. 10 45 .. 10 45 WAKEFIELD—Nov. 28. There was a steady consumptive demand for wheat at last Friday's prices, and with a rather firmer tone than in the earlier part of the week. Barley, unless very fine, was rather lower. Beans, oats, and shelling were rather dull of sale. United Pack (Mr. Lu ther's), Tues. Little Brompton lO 0 Fri. Strefford's•bridge V. W. H. ,Lord Gifford's Tues. Ilatherop-castle lO 45 . Thur. Minety-pound Sat. Down Ampney-house Warwickshire Mon. Ladbrook-village ..... .. 10 45 Tues. Portobello-turnpike ... ~ 10 45 Thur Red-hill ... ........ ........ 10 45 Fri. Church Tysoe lO 45 Warwickshire, North... Mon. Henley-in-Arden Wed. Princethorpe ........ Fri. The Kennels Vemyss's (Earl of) ...Mon. Preston-by-Dunse lO 30 Thur. Belford Fri. Chillingham Sat. Belford „Tues. Buildwas-bridge Fri. Spoonhi11, .Mon. Martley Wed. Plymouth Arms, Tarde bigg Fri. Brockeridge-common Wyndham's, Colonel... Mon. Shillinglee-park ll SO Wed. Selhurst -park • Fri. Tisman's-house W.'s, Mr. E. Taes. Sheviocke-village Sat. Ward-bridge, near Walk hampton Wynn, Sir W. W. Mon. Grindley-brook lO 30 Wed. Halsten Thur. New-bridge Sat. Overton-bridge lO 30 Yarborough's (Earl of) Mon. Blyboro'-hall . ll. 30 Wed Riby cross-roads ll 0 Fri. Nettleton-lodge ll 0 Worcestershire BIIITIOR. Aberdeen ........ Belfast and Ballymena .............. Belfast and County D0wn............ Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, 33 lackburn, and West York Bristol and Exeter . . Chester and Holyhead.•... • ..... Cork, Blackrock, and. Passage •... Cork and 8and0n....,,.•,•••,..••• Dublin and BelfastJ unction • •• Dublin aud Drogheda.. •• • • ..• ••-• Dublin and Kingstown... Dundee and Arbroath .... Dundee, Ferth, and Aberdeen Junetion Dundalk and Enniskillen.• .. •• •- • • East Anglian- .• •• • •••••• • • • • • •• •• • East Lancashire.. ...... • Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •- Eastern Hui on • • .. • • • • • • • • .. • • • - - • Edinburgh and Glas:,, , ow Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee..•..•. Exeter and Credlton ........ Farness Railway •• . •• •• _ Glasgow, and South-Western.. Great Northern ***** • •,.• • Groat Southern and Western (Ire` land' Great Western •• •• •••• •• •••• • • 1,100 2,173 5,509 13,003 243 256 1,115 1,394 518 1,013 401 1,020 5,922 22,641 5,678 6,152 1,769 Irish South Eastern ..•• •• •• .. • 5,612 11,849 157 261 1,109 1,537 Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • • ••• . 0 • • I Lancashire and Y0rk5h1re............. , Leeds Northern •• •• •• •• •• 7 • •• ••• ••• •, Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport:— .. London and North Western . • • •.• •-• • • London and 81ackwa11............... London, Brighton, and South Co ast.. London and South We5tern.......... Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • - • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock , ac. Manchester, Sheffield,wsud Lincoln shire Manchester and SouthJunctiou.. .... Maryport and Carlisle .......... .. Midland Great Western (Trish) .. .• Monklands .............. • - • • •• . • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. .• • . •• -••-• • • • North British - • • • • • • • • • • • • • •" • North Staffordshire •••••• • • • • • • • North-Western -• ••"".••• • • • • • • Scottish Central • • • • • • • • .. •• • • • • • • • Scottish Midland •••• • • • • .......-- .. Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• —• . Shrewsbury and Chester • • .......- •• •• •••• •• .. Shrops hire Union •....... South Devon . • • •............... ~... South E a stern•••• .... •• •• •• •• •• ...... Sou th Wales .. ••,. • • .............. South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. Taff Vale • • • . ............ ~...... .. 921 6,728 23,861 5,977 25,501 546 ),143 931 5,302 Ulster . .. • • .................... Waterford P.nd Limerick . • ...... West Cornwall .• .... ..... ... Whitchaven Junction •..... York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & 21,70 G 5,206 5,205 5,836 21,343 57,032 1,255 12,783 13,053 727 847 6,148 25,774 6,557 23,346 564': 19,916 56,331 1,094 11,300 12,389 809 9,526 725 1,65 s 9,4 )3 4,873 6,720 86S 1,789 2,867 9,819 1,10 9 28,763 3,256 5,023 6,625 • 1,41 2,722 ' 837 2,341 16,146 5,481 966 2,181 17,014 6,654 4,747 1,508 1,095 650 393 FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish Lyons and Mediterranean Montereau and Troyes Namur and Liege .. • • — Northern of France — Orleans and Central .. • . .... Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen... •• •• •• •• •• Paris and Strasburgh .... • • •••• Rouen and • • ...- Western of France ..... •• 1,982 3,725 1,370 .1,289 37,894 2,212 42,839 THE NEW MEDICAL BILL.—Tlie Apothecaries Com pany of Dublin has formally express,?,d its dissent from the new bill proposed by the medical corporations. This looks like the first shot of another skirmish, destined, like those during the last few sessions of Parliament, to continue until it is too late to bring in a bill of any sort; when the disputants will blame one another for throwing obstacles in the way, and Parliament will ask in despair what can be done for a body of men who do not yet know their own minds ? As the bill of last session, after all the patching it underwent, was finally acknowledged to fairly represent the wishes of the profession, there is no very satisfactory reason why all the trouble expended on it should be lost, and this invention of the medical corporations substituted. It is true that the bill of last session rather curtailed the liberal allowance of loaves and fishes hitherto divided amongst these corporations, but the profession will hardly consider this a valid ob jection. 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Having witnessed the beneficial effects in the above-mentioned case, I can with confidence recommend it, and shall have much pleasure in doing so whenever an opportu nity offers, &c., &C.—JAMES SIIORLARD, late surgeon 96th Reg. s u pported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suitably packed for all climates, with full instructions. In canisters, llb 25. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d.; 51bs., lls. ; 121b5., 225. ; super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21bs., lie.; 51bs., 225. ; 101bs., 335. The 101bs. and 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechureh-street ; 330'and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside : 6F. Cornbill ; 49, Bishops gate-street; 55, Chariag-cross ; 54, Upper Baker' - street; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. --- REJLIRKABLB TRIAL FOR MURDER. An extraordinary trial for murder, at the late Toronto Assizes, has excited a very strogg feeling in Canadian so ciety. Mr. Thos. Henderson, an attorney, had seduced the wife of Mr. George Brogdin, of Port Hope, a member of the same profession, Brogdin and Henderson were young mien ; they had been schoolfellows and pupils in the same office. Brogdin, who is now 25 years of age, was married two or three years ago, and has one child. Hen derson was paying his addresses to Mrs. Brogdin's sister ostensibly, but in August last he persuaded Mrs. Brogdin to elope with him, and afterwards, in letters to his friends, boasted that he ha i made her his mistress. He also told several persons that be always carried arms, and that Brogdin was a poor fool and coward, who did not under stand the use of them, and that if they chanced to meet it would be the worse for Brogdin. These remarks came to the hearing of Brogdin ; indeed, the affair had got into the local newspapers, much to Elonderson's glorification. Some weeks passed over before they met. Henderson had pistols about him whenever he went out, and often talked of fighting with Brogdin. Arrangements were made by Brogdin, after his wife went away, to settle an income upon her, as he said ho loved her too well to let her die in a ditch, which she would do if she continued with Henderson. When Henderson heard of this he said he did not care for anything Brogdin conld do after that, because he was perfectly satisfied that such conduct towards her would preclude Brogdin from getting a verdict against him in an action for cries. con. On the very next day, Sept. 23, they met accidental) y on the steamboat wha rf. Henderson nodded insolently to Brogdin, and said, " How d 'y e do, George ?" Brogdin immediately drew a pistol from his pocket, and shot Henderson dead. These were the facts proved iu evidence, without contradiction, and the Chief Justice told the jury that he coul d not imagine "aces plainer not case of murder." "The law (sa id his lordship) d admit that Henderson's conduct was any excuse for mur der." The jary, however, declared that Brogdin was not guilty of the murder. The Toronto Globe comments upon the case in the following terms :—" This was the form of their verdict, but we all know that their meaning was— ' Guilty of tho killing, but it was justifiable.' It would have been better if the jury had returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. It is an alarming precedent to declare a man innocent of all crime who has taken the life of a fellow creature. But this is not the feeling of the community generally. There is a strong, healthful detestation in the public mind of the seducer. I There is no redress against him as a criminal by law ; an d when the injured relative of the victim takes the law into his own hands he has the sympathy of the community. The jury at th e trial were, no doubt, 444°14°4 by thi s reasoning." RuEford Kneesal-green Sat. Cavendish-lodge Rutland, Duke of ~....Mon. Three Queens Tucs. Syston-p ,rk Wed. Piper-holl .......... Fri. Newton-tollbar .......... SearboroUgh ( X.l;rl of) Mon. Osberton Tues. Dinuington Thur. Brumley Fri Gringley HARRIERS. B. V. H Wed. Milborne Port Sat. Lydlineh-131 Brighton Mon. Patcb am lO 45 Wed. Race-course Sat. The Dyke Weekend, Thanet Mon. Acol Wed. Herne-street Fri. Dumpton Brookside Mon. Newmarket-hill ll 5 Thur Telscombe Tye High Peak Tues. Duke of York ............ 11 0 Thur. Winster-turn pipe-gate .11 00 Sat. Mouldridge Grange ...... 11 0 Huntingdonshire Tues. Woolpack, Cambridge. road, near St. Ive's Fri: Warboy's-wood" ............ Newcastle & Gateshead Mon. Birtley-gate .................. Fri. 0 vingham Mon. Burton Monument Somerset 11 0 11 0 10 no 10 30 10 45 R. 4 ILTVAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK• Miles opened. I NAME OF RAILWAY. 1856. , 1866. Receipts. 1855. EXETER—Nov. 28 CORN.—Wheat; 7s 6., to 8s 3d ; barley, 5s bd to 6s grinding do., OE Od. to Os Od. Oats, 2s 6d. to 3s Od. Beans, Os Od to Os Od. Peas, Ods Od to 00s Od. FLOUR. —s Od to 46s Od. ; seconds, —s Od to 44s Od per sack. CATTLE. —The supply was moderate. Bast beef 4se sold at from 9s 6d to lOs 6d per score ; inferior, 8s a per score ; fat calves, 60 to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to. Os Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121 . to 181. t , s • butchers' calves, 614 to 7d per lb., rearins calves —s to -5 each. sheep, ewes and lambs, 0/. Os to 01. Os per couple; ewes. 50 to 6d; wethers, 6d 61d; lambs, —to Od per lb. Pigs. large size, --s to —s ; second size, —5 to —s ; slips, ' - ' 4l to —a ; suckers, —s to —a. Rough fat, 41d per bl -1 Pork carcases from 9s Od to lOs Od per score. BRISTOL SUGAR—Nov. 28. • The market has again assumed a very firm appearance , and has quite recovered the decline noticed in our last- In the absence of supplies we have few transactiond to report. The Refined market dull, "but prices are fir ml y supported. Rum is much wanted, but the stocks are 'O haunted. ET.—Nov. 28. the doge of the market. COAL MARK] Priaes of Coal per ton at e. d. Byass's Hartley l6 0 A. r • Davison's West Hartley 16 0 lett „ l9 ‘ 3 , ley Hastings' Hartley ......16 0 Howard's West Hart Kepler Grainge ... lB v Lambton 6 18 9 Netherton 36 0 Russell's Hetton 18 6 Taufield Moor Butes 15 6 south Hetton .19 0 Walker Primrose l5 0 , tewart's. 19 9 3 Holywell .... ....... ... l7 0•) Hartlepool lB ‘‘ Wylain Kelloe 18 • 6 Lees 17 19 3 Whitworth • 0 south Kelloe 18 9 Hartlepool Hetton Harton tiaswell 19 . lB 6 i'ea.ham Hedley • _l7 3 • 7 9 'Montague .................. 1 I Sold WaUsend, &O. Wallsend, Ica. Eden .lB C Gosforth l7 3 Killingworth East 15 6 Northumberland l6 C Riddell l7 3 Bell's Primrose l4 9 Eden Main lB t Framwellgate lB 0 6hips at market... 71 COI7IISB OF EXCHANGB.--YEsTEnDAY. H 414 Gibraltar ..... ••• go .L Ditto, three months .. 11 17 L i Leghorn . 0 872 ' Rotterdam 11 17X, Genoa ..... ......... • Antwerp .............. 25 32% Milan ................ Brussels .............. 25 32% Venice • Gamburgh ............ 13 7 % Naples 43g .•• 0 . Altona .. • • ...... :..... ;Palermo .... ...... .• •• i 3.0/ Paris.• •• •• •. .• •• —•• •• 25 25 . Messina • • Ditto, three months .. 25 65 1 Lisbon ••• •• Marseilles ............• 25 67% , Oporto .... , ..... 5 BOUTdCAUX .. • • ........ t Rio Janeiro ..... .•••• •• .-- Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 119% ' Buenos Ayres.... • • ..1, .... Berlin ................ New York,6o days' alga' .... ..". i b i t Vienna•• •• •• •• •••••••• 10 42 Philadelphia •• .. ...... ~. 0% . Trieste .• •• •• •• •• •• .. 10 43 ?AWES OF lIIILIICSI 14', 9 Petersburg ............ 37% Foreign Gold In BATS £3 1 1 ; 0 Madrid ............... 48 Portuga l Gold COW •• ~0 4 5 2 Cadiz ... •• •• ..•• ...... 48 % Mexic an Dollars ...• r., 0 0,, Barcelona •• •• • • ••••• go •-•••• New Dollars .• .• •• v „' 6 2!S 50vi11e................ Sliver in bars ...... u, LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28. 4 wall STOOL EXOHANGE. — The Stock Exchange the n ' i improved, owing to the more easy state of th_ r e' li t; market, and closed firmly. London and North Nut" - .4 1051 i f Manchester, She ffi eld, and Lincoln, "' °2 22/ Lancashire and Yorkshire, 974 i—South Eastern, 83i —East Lancashire, 214 i—Caledonian, 291---Mid lslla ; -•-• North Eastern, Berwick, 21 a — Eastern Counties, 9i 0 Chester and Holyhead, 19k. MANCHESTER, NOV. 28. but dTOOK EXOHANGE. — The market was firm to - ,l' a ;terv , not much business doing. London and North eveds, P 1054—Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolns, 35rpoverf 97k East Lancashire, 211—South Eastern 0" 224—Atidlands, 83k. IMA B 0 RNB MAILS. i ll° sigmas that the Mails are sent from the G e neral I ' est- )3 , the right—and Mby the morning—Aespatoh.) (XI ilguiugo b... ....- —_ __. _ ___ _ ay the night—and Mby the morning—despatch. ) Whes _, Day waen made p Frotu••''.4 duo ili d, COUNTRILh. in General Po..t- Office, London.* DU?' , _, .—----- -- --- --- ---- titer ---.° " I"Teekiv kmertea(byftrit.paca)N Emery Frida , .•• i•- 9 America (by United fits. . or. Weekll scallion ' packet) ..........N Every Tuesday •• knorica (by U. States , Liver P ool •.• packet) •• ••••• . • • N • ..... ... . :te , l' • • ETISIAO ~ Tice ' Australia (via • Liver— Liverpool• • . Uocer .. • • pool) ............ 3d 4th and 18th .... Ditto (via Marseilles) N, Ditto (via Cape of Gooe••l2th Hope) ......•• .. ea ••N ••••••• '' • • ..E o tht, . 61.11,4) Africa (West Coact)...fs sail of th , • ...... " • •:-, vo Y •gr ...... id t i' A.texandria —— • ... .. N 10th fir 2Gth of :. o. __ no , . sol. f rm... 500 t... , , Alexandria.... _ • ,34 4th Y., Alt i of Soathaelpt,l 160 aahamaa ••:• • • • ..., m 17th of the . Dover ...... 001 /4 9t h .• • , Belgium ...—•• •• •-• h mouth.. Southarnpio ietlb M 9th of t o Southam t 16th ~,1 0 Brazil .. • • •• • • •• •• • • .., Q . , 1 ,. , no • . • _I. 01 Buenos Ayres.... •• •••'" - 7, of the month ' tfecel*" - - iloccrslo3: Cape of Good 1101 10 • • • N sth ......'Various ports o f 0 Capo of Good hope • • . •Z, ,•,_, • - •t •ioutti....n:•,••• 16th 9 90 1 Chao de Verde •• •• . 10th and 26 th.... • 15 ~, $lO Ceylon (see India) ...N 4th and 20tli _ ith '' est C at e! a l an on e vi s • ia •i:: 7 . 7 . : .... .1c m u .,•,,c ...,...g.sri, Southam, , tO 110' 1 1 16 3J 7d ft 11th or month Sonthsunp or, 1 an u a 0 , en ~ „ .4th 4,th he an 2 d ot loth i ::: sod ' .... . .14 10th and 26th.... Dover.. , .. 2 - c Si. Constatitinoplo .• • . , „„,,,,,,, 1 rice daily .„ „ „ Dover 0nntitnia................... .. m a p . : o: _z: Lc e d i s. , , 4 . y pt (see India). r0 1 :9 6 VrlteCe ••..•••• M h. 4 'Twice daily.. _ Dover ....• • • 6 7, •-- aVV1714.3. M • Pt,... .'i Cont. Canst Gibraltar •• •..... M 4,7,17, 20, 27 .f tn. floutharaP' nr ' it Greece (see India) a Ist 0 ot reytown ..... —.. it 2nd & 17th of mon. Fionth , mP t ' ' fill: fiarninu•gh ....••• ..N Daily . Mill: 0 0 London ..•• 04 ot a avannuh ...... ' 1 2nd of the moi •th ISoqt ft amP' ' l ' via Holland ..... •• •• •• ~ Si Daily • . • • —.. Dover •• • • • t°' '' 1610 . 1 1 0 Honduras ..........M 17ta of the month. iloathanaP 4 sou - 0 0 India (viaSouthampt.)lt4 4th v. 20th of Mon. lb t° - India (via Marseilles)M lOth& 76th of moth Dover •••••• lonian Ices (sect India) •• • • .... Ireland •••• ....M &N Twice daily • Li5ben...............M 2d of qo. ... Sole hempto r `au d 1 fiffi,leira •• .• •• •• •• e• M 9th of mow r•,,,, _ IsoothamP' °s Madeira ............ N 734 of month • • Malta (see India) 4 • 1 6 °beta ............. ~,14 4, 10, 20, and 26 Dover--' d al Mauritius (see India) 4th °- Mauritius ........ e Unica 11 Ind of the trorit l .. Sout hatnpv 06 il • Napier , ~ . _ N Dai1y............ Dover •• •° ISt $ flew Granala .......' 2d& :71h of month Soutliampto,' „w New Zellandee r ....... 4th and 19th ninth Various pen , wee.' Papal Strites ~.. •• —N. Daily .• .. •••• • • .. Dover •• •• °,* „ISO NCI:I33IIi .• .. •..• •. M - ieuth3P'''' Ist Pi ~,,-„ii.ol Peru ~., „„„ ~„ „pi f,l ti, 17th of mon. 30u, _,, ... i f Pert Natal ......., N sth of month .. •• , Various Po' Wes** . I crlY so se ••••• • PO , • 1.4 Every Saturday • ~Tiovar .•••••• . e 0 Tuscany N Dai1y.. ........ • • Rover •• -,:, f fk I ° Venezuela hi 2d & 17th otmontb Southal,° " , lil Van Dlemen'sVmd (so roo sy a " 16 Australia) ...... 4 th and 18 th of m. e „. , lan West Indies .. . ~ 3 ' ~.. ~ .., „,„, __ g o nthem de' _.---- .., be _,4 IA 6e ' 17, the mails will ~,11 rception of trio 101 to It will be dolegteba When any of these dal !patched on the followin Southampton), and the 5 preceding dai. tea fall on a Sands, g day, with the ex faith', both of whlcl , w• The result of the poll for the election of a dlrec.,oo4 the Eastern Counties railway will not be 2 . o ftb- 6 until Monday next, to which day the meeting shareholders has been further adjourned., €,. vt, 'stie [ADVERTISEMENT.] 114,110Vva 'S FilL g i l — lsl e : ico- t . Remedy.—Mr. Turner, chemist, ' of Banns°, .'" r of 7 has much pleasure in informing Professor 110 11 ° °4 0 00 0 ' wondrous cure effected by his medicines in the c o ,0 0 , James Turner, labourer, ICenning Hall -heathy libtiooPi grievously afflicted for many years with cheat,oraPli,c_ns',sc°' disorder', combining disease of the ciratii‘e symptoms, and chronic rbeutnatiPrn, rendering b in ?, - 0, 81. unable to gain his livelihood. Having been giv e ; pill?, by the entire faculty, he had recourse to Hollov lo' , - iio t" and now gratefully testifies his miraculous restor°. ': f ol! perfect health and strength."—Sold by all roecli ci rviai l dors throughout the world, at Professor o°.„4ll°,,ider establishments, 244, Strand, London, and SO, ''''," • P' lane, Gui . New York ; by A. Stamps, ConstantinoPle , they, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. __......... BIRTHS. . pi Or A SON , ri t'S'l 7.- On the 26th inst., at 49 , York-terrace, Reg e " 4 01, the wife of Datiglas Hadow, Esq r. oou' On the 27th inst., at Lynton Villa, Abbe' John's-wood, the wife of Mr. Francis Barnard. of ife the ° On the 28th inst., at 40, Nottingham-placs, theß. Baldwin. 00 00' On the 27th inst., at 1 , Cheap side, Mrs. el- T' MARRIED. a t 10 11 . 4 0 1e 0; On the 27th inst. , at the Rectory, Ch u rch , ''''t r-ron bone, George Mac artne y Lease, Esq. ....,Gl, Sr Portman-square , t o Catherine, widow Of `.1,1"-°„°..e. V 10, Ramsay, Esq., Kent-terrace, Regent's-park- ,iliftoovivg On the 27th inst., at the parish church of ‘-' ol d P',. of Henry Cutler, of Bedford-place, Russell-squeloghte' William-street, London-bridge, to Ann, only - the late Mr. T. Butcher, of Bath. PO D I E D. be/e On the 26th inst., at Putn e y , Mrs. Paul, the . of 1 85. e gi tb mother of John Parry, Esq., Southsea, age" t n 00 , On the 28th inst., at Boltons, West Brolly/ 'F.. rine, relict of the late Lieut.-Colonel Dales, 1. '' 0 0, aged 93. °IL , On the 26th inst., at 2; Mount.street, G 03 9, 70 CO" - Frederick Church 23 years of her •Maie"Y' von aged 59. o f ~ at J y e On the 26th inst r D vonshire-sqnare, city, eal )Ll Graham, Esq., late of Hackney, aged 45. On the 25th inst., at Icklioghain Rectory, c ,oit Suffolk, the Rev. Danicl Gwilt, aged 78. soiter,%/0 On the 25th inst , at Edinburgh, the ReY• . _.,,0, Li lie late of Libberto'n and formerly of Whitel4" herland ' ~..----- ' '' ll . !--21.-.! ______ _ ______.--- ,i 1.4 0 .s°l) I°' LONDON : Printed and Pnblilhed. by Allil l su p o otticaoto;tf of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The . the c 112, Strand, i n the Precinct of the Savoy, 1...°13. of Middlesex, S aturday, November 29, lbo OF A DAUGHTER. sta