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

RAILTIF INTELLIGENCE. THE QUARTER'S RAILWAY TRAFFIC. s 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, er 6.71 per cent. ; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, from £141,048 to £143,795, showing an increase of £2,751, or 1.95 per cent. ; and the Caledonian, from £117,118 to £125,739, showing an increase of £8,617, or 7.36 per cen t. These figures su ffi ciently indicate the movement of traffic without account being taken o f li nes t h e earn ings 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 betwee n s i x an d 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 before Parliament—the Hon. J. Byng in the chair. Mr. S. SMILES, the secretary, having read the notice convening 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 committ ee on ly occu pi e d one day before its approval of the measure. Mr. TOOGOOD, the solicitor, read the beads 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. U. 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. SCHUSTER 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 X 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 tact, save £7,000 of the £9,000 proposed to be ex ?ended for that prirpose. t.l4r, SC:HUSTER said there could not to be a ques ta :the advantage of the proposed arrange ment . brugiun• the company's line into commu- A " 'with the docks and canals of the country. forsiati: .£2,000 f or ek.lolution sanctioning the outlay of then carri e d Ilitliwrchase of the land and canal was Mr. }ions aaniraously. other shareholders expressed themselves di, at l 4 made tor .t l d with the small progress the traffic had vt ome years past, and suggested that a committee b e Ted to consider the beet mode of having th(Prin t i Ruh shareholders repre sented at the Boarda to whether some _mp_ovement Brussels, and as in the management of the comptnanight not be made Mr. C. W. PRICE had been over the line three or forir times, and considered that it was well managed an d properly worker I. ]Yfr. GUSTENBERG thought it desi ra bl e to appoint a committee to iuquii , e into the matters complained of, with a view to asc e rtain what could be d one to bencfit the company. A. fter a long convei 73ation a resolution was pissed !ippc , inting a committo e, consisting of f Mr. Schuster, j_un-, Mr. Gustenbe r e, Mr. E. Wrig h t, Mr. T.d Mr. hiNmpson, and M g • at . irrison, to consider the best mo de of re pr esent i ng - t h e E ng lish shareholders the, Board in Brussels, , also to consider whether any alt erotica in the ma nai cement could be made with advantage to the company; and [the proceedings terminated. BISHOP'S CASTLE. On Friday, Saturday, and Monday public meet ings were held at Montgomery, Churchstoke, 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 Caerhow ell, passing through Chirbury, Churchstoke, Lydham, and forming a junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford line 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 OEIBO,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 committee on the Leeds, 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 Osweitry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway was closed, and Mr. Burke, Q.C., opened the case on behalf of the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ellesmere Railway, and called general evidence in favour of that line, and the committed adjourned. CITY RAILWAYS AND THE POOR.—In 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, but thought that at is. per head per week trains would pay commercially. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE. 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 contest longer. On Friday night a 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 wail 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 disguEtedwith 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 cuurse, 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 workmen 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 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 frpm 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 prevails. 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 mi g ht be got in E ng l an d in a week without difficulty. Thos, in spite of the mischievous influence of th e trades u nions, the men t h emse l ves have av er t e d an evil which wou ld have prove d th e ru i n of theircalling for y are ne v e rtheless though they v the h next generation to come. Yet, the their whole te h ave not actually ruined themselves, rratdhe a eless most by materialtpresentheir inj ur strike y a sw e doi ng will Show. ' Ter : large portion of the proposed Inter- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVE:NING, APRIL 11, 1861. ,A2l. national Exhibition building was to have been of stone. IrL the, belief that the masons strike is likely t 4 last, arrangements are already being made to alter in most cases the stonework to iron. If these alteration s are so made, they will be final, and if the strike finishes this very week there will at least be this great mass of work irrevocably lost to the trade. So, with regard to many large buildings now in progress, which were to have been faced with stone or stone cornices and ornaments, con tracts have already been made for completing these with terracotta. Thus the strike is daily driving employers into expedients to supply the masons' work, and though this may not be continued after the strike has ceased, yet the masons will find to their cost that these efforts to supply their labour have already most seriously reduced the amount of work previously in the market, Of course this evil, before a month is over, will be felt equally by the hardworking man and the idler, and passive, unreasoning tools of :the trades union demagogues who have ordered them out on strike. All tlie employers are now entirely agreed with the course taken by Messrs. Lucas and Kelk. They would willingly have given them any assistance which they required, but this was unnecessary, as the strike was so partial and is already apparently dying out. The only fear that now exists is that, 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 CRIMINAL COURT.—Apra 10, only administer the law as he found it, he had no alternative but to dismiss the summons. The defendant said he distinctly told the com plainant that the fare would be ls. Alderman Rose said that might be, but he dis played a placard conspicuously outside that the fare from Edgeware-road to:4ndon-bridge railway station was 3d.. Hundreds of persons travelled daily by omnibuses where the fare was 3d. who could not afford, or were not disposed, to pay ls. ; and the effect of exhibiting such a placard outside was to lure people into travelling by the defendant's omnibuses. If a scale of fares had been painted inside the omnibus, in addition to the sliding plate, he should have fined him severely; but as that was otherwise, there had been a literal compliance with the Act, though he was bound to tell the defendant and the company that the practice of exhibiting a fare outside four times less than they meant really to charge operated as a fraud upon the public. The summons was then dismissed. The defendant asked to be repaid for his loss of time in attending the court, but Alderman Rose peremptorily refused, under the circumstances, to entertain the application. 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 be 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. 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 Cr ane , 41, l a t e por t er i n th 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, Holton ; 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 lichouse, Cambridge-heath-road, Bethnal-green, who sold the stolen silk to Newton, who are seriously implicated in the robbery, and for whose 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, ofthe 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 Lim 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 well ; 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 y ou w ill go a l ong . 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 to me." He then took the prisoner into custody and conveyed him to the station house in Leman-street. In answer to Mr. Hudson,' the insilector said that the names of Messrs. New ton and Sons, of Derby, or John Newton, 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 consigned, or if he knew they were going to 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,—On 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 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 t end a genuine one. When I told him that, he continued his foreign accent, and said " Thank you. I a m very much oblixed to you ; I cannot read your English ndtes. I h ave rece i ve d it i n town." I asked him if he received it in a b u siness trans action. more words he said, "No ; I misunderstood He said, y es ; 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 s stranger, not knowing it was a note. I went out 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 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 Barker 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 one 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 liope•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 ten 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-notes on D e b oc k , an d 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.—Cium. CON. EXTRAORDI 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. Ingham, 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 direction, she was called upon to leave 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 17th of March. The defendant had been lodging with I 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 begged of him to get into his room, and 1 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 be 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. Of course 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 P Witness--Yes, sir. Since then I sent him a bill for £3 10s. 6d., and stating that if he answered it and returned the likeness I would not appear against him. Mr. Ingham—Then you have taken out this sum. mono 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 are 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 ou 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. [AnvEnTIsEmENT.]— 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( GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex prise, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the remova, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, Consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diari7htea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, cltszrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout' lAA - purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgi a , irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi. tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, tits, brouollitis.-L" Unquestionably the seat (bide tc healt4.". 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 pro 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 the cheque was speedi ly 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, The jury at once returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six years. POLICE 111 , TELLIGENCE.-April 10. 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 Wardonr-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 pass, 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 ls., and said he should pay him 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 ls. 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 lie 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 then 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 ls., and then summoned him to this court. In answer to Mr. Alderman Rose, the complain ant said any 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 ls. fer 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 THE INTERNATION.IL _DOG (From the New York Herald'.) There have been international matches of nearly every sort, and last evening the climax was capped by an international dog fight. 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 dole. depended upon the result of this fight, and in the West and S3uth, 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 .zbout sixteen feet long by twelve broad and two deep. For fear that the shoutings 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 cifficult. 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 been dried and the referees calling time, the curtains were re moved, and the dogs sprang together. With low snarls of rage, with every muscle rigid, with jaws closing and holding like keen vices, the champions fought more like exquisitely-arranged machines 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, encouraging, 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 lightni ng , 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 forwards 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 o b eye d 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 surd 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 most, 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 turn, 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. APLoughlin 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. IVPLoughlin 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 APLoughlin 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 ad versary, who was anxiously endeavouring to get at her, and then san k down 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 alone be considered, there is none of that repulsiveness which is generally e dgs supposed to accompany dog fighting T fight quietly, scientifically, and evidently lov h e their work. Of the men who make dog fighting a liveli hood, however, or of those who habitually encou rage, attend, and support such exhibitions, there can be but one opinion, and that not the most favourable. 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Holloway's Pills frequently cure diseases of the digestive organs after a ll o th er me di e ines have failed to afford relief, and they are especially service al* ih disorders of the liver and kidneys. THE lECEN2 MURDER AT DUNDBY BRISTOL, APRIL 10. The coroner's inquest on the b o dy o f 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 on 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 stiek, 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), th e 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 not 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 vertebrm 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, he 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 MARKETS. LYNN—APRIL 9. There was a moderate attendance. Ihe Supply of wheat was small, with a fair business. Good sorts realised 1 5 per qr more money than last week. Oats were not much altered. Beans moved off at previous quotations. Peas a quiet trade. Old white 58s to 62s I Old red 54 s t o 56s Barley .... 38 s t o 44s I Oats.. .22s to 266 Beans .38s to 42s I Peas 48s to 546 SHEFFIELD—APRIL 9. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels 24s Od to 28s Od White 1) 1) 2ss Od to 288 Od New red 20s Od to 22s Od Beans New white ~ ~ 22s Od to 268:0d Peas, per qr 71 ~ l6s Od to 228 6a Grinding barley, p er qr 54s Od to 55s Od 338 Od to 35s Od Oats Malting ditto, ~ 35s Od to 43s 011 258 to 34s Ocl 77 Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 2 s sd, and 6d 2s 8d per 141 b. Wheat.... Old whit e MILL—APRIL 9. .... per qr. 6ss Od to Cgs „0, (1 Old red ...... , New white .. „ New red .... , Dantzic Konb , ex. old white 63s Od to 68s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Oa Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 62s 051 St. Petersbu rg an d Ri ga, old s2s Od to 55s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 44s 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 1451 to 141 d Friesland and Dutch oBl4ld to 0815 d. Swedish and Danish o sl4d to Osl4fc3 Beans ....English, old, per qr sos Od to 55s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od to 44s Od Egyptian Peas Foreign b rea k ers —s Od to Tares .... Spring. — 8 Od Indian Corn . 37s Od to 38s Od Linseed, feeding. crushing Linseed cake s (Hull) £9 15 oto £lO 0 , 1 :! Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 u Rape cakes Bones 515 oto 6 0 0 TILE MAILS. MAILS DUE. A.ustralia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) Do. 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J ames Shorland, late surgeon, 96 t h Regiment.—Cure No. 52,422.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, Brid ge h ouse, F r i mley, Surrey, 33 years' dis eased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness' singing in the ears, constipation, debility, shortness of breath and cough, have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica- Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment and expense m a y b e avo id e d b y using Du Barry's Foo d which, at a few pence per day, saves 5C times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, without purging ! constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Urew MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalid s avo id the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious i m it at i ons offered under a variety o f false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by . the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 s.gainst Alfred Hr , oper Nevill and his agents ; and the 4. pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and _t _Du e Barry's are connected with s uch patent are utterly e fake . No e d C a n o t 7 r is R genuine without o in ut fu th ll e , o n n a t m he e s ß ea a l ry ad D wr u a ß p a p r t a Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51. b. lls. ; 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,, 7'7, Re' gent-street, London ; Fortnum Mason, and CO. ; Abbirl 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and MO, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ;49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips 'and ( 10 . tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street City ; at 127 Hie.l3 Holborn : and all erocera BIRTHS. BOOTH.—On the 9th inst., at 74, Mornington-road, gent's-park, the wife of Samuel Barker Booth, Esq.? of a son. NrcnoLs.—On the 6th inst., at Yockleton Hall, saloP; the wife of Thomas J. Nichols, Esq., of twins, a son and heir and daughter. TOYNDEE.—On the Bth inst., at Beech Holme, Wimble don-common, the wife of Joseph Toyabee, Esq., F.U.S' of a son. MARRIAGES. ALDERSON—GUEST.—On the 9th inst., at St. George 4 Hanover-square, Frederick Cecil, y oungest son of the Sir E. H. Ald erson , B aron o f the Exchequer, 1. Katharine Gwladys, second daughter of the late Sir J. Guest, Bart., M.P., of Dowlais. BREAKEY—MILLER.—On the 9th inst., at St. Georgeto s' Hanover-square, John Break e y, Esq., M.D., R- 14 " dy Jane Kennedy, only child of the late Arthur Kenn ° Miller, Esq., White House, Belfast. DEATHS. BLACKWOOD.—On the Bth inst , at Edinburgh, iviajor William Blackwood, late of the 69th Bengal Nati ve Infantry. Cuoss.—On the 7th inst., at Hull, very suddenly, W. S . ; Cross, Esq., barrist er - a t-l aw , o f the Inner Temple an Colney-hatch. DitußY.-r-On the 9th inst., Henry Dru Drury, Esq.) of Blackheath, and 20, Billiter-street, aged 62. JACKSON.—On the 3d inst., at Kensington, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, aged 94. TASKER.—On the Bth insti, in London, Joseph Teske'', Esq., of Middleton Hall, Brentwood, Essex, aged 65. 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