The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-28 00:00:00

r/lONEY MARKET 3.1T11 f . T NT ' r : , ~y>: OIT . Two Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Alarket yesterday closed quietly, and prices of all kinds were unaltered. The sales were estimated at 6,00() bales, 500 of which were taken by the exporters. The Railway Share Market closed heavily, and a moderate amount of business was transacted. The transactions in Foreign and Colonial produce during the last week have not been very extensive, and, in consequence of the expectation that prices will advance, holders have brought for ward only limited supplies, and thus the quotations have been well kept up. On Wednesday and yester day there were no public sales of sugar, hut, owing to the speculative demand, prices have ri.en Gd. per cwt. There has been a fair in quiry for Plantation Ceylon . Coffee at full rates and Native Ceylon has also been wanted. Tea has realised full rates. Rum has been more inquired for, and rice has been in fair request, at a decline of Gd. to ls. per cwt. Spices have been dull and rather heavy, particu- larly mace and nutmegs, which are ld. to 2d. per lb. lower. A large business has been done in saltpetre, at a rise of is. to 2s. per cwt., and yes terday 50s. per cwt. was refused for fine descrip tions. The refiners have raised the prices from 545. 6d. to 555. per cent. Cochineal has been steady, and tallow is rather dearer. The public sales of foreign and colonial wools are procceeding with animation, and prices have ' ruled very firm. The last sale is fixed for next Saturday. The advices from Paris relative to the position of financial affairs are more favourable, and the next monthly return of the Bank of France is ex pected to exhibit a material improvement in all the chief departments. Speculation on the Bourse is very brisk, and the Rentes as well as railway shares are exceedingly buoyant. The demand for money is more active to-day, and the rates charged are firmer, owing probably to the maintenance of the Bank minimum. Approved bills however are still negotiated below that quotation. Many persons express dissatisfaction at the course adopted by the directors of the Bank yesterday in not lolvering their terms of discount. But those Who properly weigh all the circumstances connected svith the money market consider that any measure of the kind, so soon after the rates were equalised, Would have been very premature. Of course, on a subject of such vital importance to the commercial interest, there is much difference of opinion, but it is generally felt that no relaxation should take Place until the mercantile bills falling due on the 4th prox. are liquidated. The Bank of England Return this evening is expected to show a large falling off in the other Securities, besides other encouraging alterations. The Funds are a shade flatter, although no important circumstance has arisen to check the buoyancy recently noticed. The account, however, is now drawing to a close, and although confidence in a further improvementmay be strong some of the operators for a rise will no doubt take their profits, instead of " carrying over" at per Cent., the present charge. Consols have been 94/ and 94k for money ; 941 h for the 4th proximo, and 95 to 951 for January. The New Three per Cents, are marked 931 1, the Reduced 93 to 93k. Exchequer Bills 2s. to ss. premium; and ditto Bonds 98i Bank Stock is 215 to 217. A fair business has been transacted in the foreign market, but the prices are in some instances rather fat. Turkish G per Cents, are 941 for mouey, and 94'i for the a ccoun t. T he 4 per Cen's, are 101 to 1011. Spanish Deferred are 231. Sardinian 5 per Cents. 91-i to 92, and Dutch 2i per Cents. 651 Mexican stock has been dealt in at 221, and Grenada New Active Bonds are 22 to 221, Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that the market for American Securities during the past week has been quiet. The transactions in State stocks have been unimportant: The actual busi ess in the variors railroad bonds has been limited, but transactions generally have been at improved Prices. The demand for Illinois Central shares continues, and there are still buyers at 13, and Sellers at 13i pm. Redeemable. Per Cent. United States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...105 105 United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...105 1051 STATE SECURITIES. Alabama 5 p er C en t ... 80 Xentucky G per Cont. Bonds lB6B-1872... 90 Maryland 5 p er C en t. (St er ling Bonds)... ... 89 91 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). 95 97 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. Bonds lB4l-1371...43 45 Mississippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ••• 16 18 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 79 81 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 83 85 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 81 86 LOANS OF CITIES. Boston 5 per Cent. Bonds Montreal 6 per Cent. .... 1883... 85 . 8 7 ... New Orleans 6 per Cent. .... 856 1 8 822 NSO RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible ................. -a-e '18 75 Illinois Central 6 per Cent ........... : . 78 83 8 8 0 4 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... 94 95 Illinois Central (Shares). V 25 paid . ... 13 13p Michigan Central 8 p. Cent., Convert 1860... Do. do. dn. ........ New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 92 94 New York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1883... 78 80 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 188.3... 83 85 N.York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 80 82 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 82 84 Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage (Ster ling Bonds), not convertible 1859... 90 92 Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage 186 4 ... 88 90 Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent.. Ist Mort 1880... 88 89i A very active business has been done in Railway Shares this morning, and an important improve ment may be quoted in the values of almost all the principal lines. An advance of about 1/. has taken place in the following lines :—Bristol and Exeter, East Lancashire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midland, and about 10s. in Brighton, South- W es tern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South-Eastern. The French lines also improved 10 s. to 11. ; and the Canadian, East Indian, and Belgian lines were firm. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; Mexi can, 22 1 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto " per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 6 ; Russia 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 41 per gents., 94 6; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41 21 ; ditto New Deferred, 231 ditto Certificates, 5t ; ditto Passive, 6 Joint Stock Bank Shares have been rather active ; in some instances rather improved rates are e .urrent.. Union of Australia an d U n i on o f L on d on 'Ave improved about 10s., and London Chartered of Australia 10s. Miscellan eous s h ares h ave ru l e d dull. Peninsular and Oriental Steam declined 1/., and Royal Mail Steam advanced 1/. to 1/. 10s. I RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES , (From the Official List.) nn.. , .,,,. done. 215 Rank Stock I 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities " 4 1 1' 3 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 3 2 per Cent. Annuities 79 New 4 per Cent. • " p er Cent. Annuities Annuities 11G _ India Stock ' la iia Sonde, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 2 p 3 d Consols tor Account 94 . • Etahequer Bills, 24d. 5 £ 100 0.......... -. ..... 2 5 p 250 0 . 2 P...................................... 5 2 p Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent Ditto, 1359 ....... '......_ P RICES OF FOREIG N FU NDS TH IS Ruenos A yres B onds, 6 per Cent. s DAY. Milieu Bonds, 6 per Cent lO5 Grenada N ow A ctive, 21 p Cent er . 22 Mexican 3 p er Cent, Ditto Account ........................ .... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 por Cant„ Sardinian Bonls, 5 p or Cent...... .......... ... Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account ............ BPanish Committee Cert. of Coup. n3t. fun. 51 Talc it.h Bonds, 6 per cent ..................... 94i $ $ 5 i„ 11 5i Ditto Account ........... Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account ... ...... ... 101$ niv ,,, ends 1. the above pavan'' , in T r don Dutch Exchange, 2,1 pet Con:;., 12 Guilders 65i Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ....... ...... 964. CLOCK.O' C onsols (M oney ) TIIREE ...... 9 $ Ditto (December 4) ........................44 ......... . ........... 94$ 4 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBEE, 28 IgELA!.7ID. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. THE TIPPERARY BANK. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, it is announced, has been already retained for the petitioners in the appeal to the House of Lords against the judgment of Chancellor Brady in the case of "O'Flaherty v. 1\1'1)0:veil." Great faith is placed in the sound ness of the decision of the late Sir Michael O'Logh liii in the no less celebrated case of " Faweet v. Hodges . ' (the Agricultural Bank), and counsel for tho creditors of the Tipperary Bank appear to be tolerably certain that the highest legal tribunal will agree in the construction of the law as laid down by Sir Michael O'Loghlin. LITERATURE. The Young Yiigers. By Captain Mayne Reid. Illustrated by William Harvey. David Bogue. One of the last productions issued from his well known establishment in Fleet-street, by the late Mr. David Bogue—" that worthy man and excel lent publisher," as ho was once upon a time desig nated in one of the revised Fairy Tales of Child hood, edited by the pen and illustrated by the pencil of our dear old friend George Cruikshank— was this sixth Christmas• book written for the de light of the boy readers of England, by their idolised favourite Captain Mayne Reid, the most popular author now living of such capital, delightful, ex hilarating books of adventure. "The Young Yagers"— being a narrative of certain hunting ex ploits in Southern Africa, exploits comparable many of them to those of the famous lion-killers Jules Gerard and Gordon Cumming. By reason of their blended animation, sparkle, freshness, daring, variety, and divers other agreeable and inspiriting characteristics, " The Young Tfigers " may at once take rank, among works of this kind, side by side with the very best of its five notable predecessors. Com panion volumes to those already ranged upon the pet shelf in the boy-reader's library—the shelf sacred to Robinson Crusoe, to Philip Quarl, to Peter Wilkins, to Paul and Virginia, to that golden treasury of romance with children young and old, the glorious and incomparable Arabian Nights' Entertainments. There, too, upon that dear old shelf have gradually (during the last half-dozen years) come to be placed, one after another, the series of books for boy-readers penned eurrente calamo, winter after winter, by the author of the " Rifle Rangers," and the "Scalp Hunters," and the " White Chief," and the "Quadroon." First and foremost " The Desert Home," being the ad ventures of a Family (the " EnglisleFamily Robin son") lost in the wilderness. Afterwards " The Forest Exiles," and the " Boy Hunters," and the " Young Voyageurs," and the " Bush Boys." And now—so far completing the " set of six"—The Young Yiigers, a kind of sequel to the book last mentioned. A sequel is it not to those well-remem bered pages descriptive of the Cape Farmer and his Family in the wild Karoos of the southern part of thegreat African continent ? Don't all the bright eyed young rogues who hung delighted over those enthralling pages last Christmas tide—pages which they read, forgetful for awhile of Blind-man's-Buff and Hunt-the-Slipper, indifferent to mince pies, and careless of all the allurements of snap-dragon and even of the anticipations awakened usually by the promise of the grand new pantomime—don't they recognise on the instant, with a chuckle and a rub of the hands, the old familiar names of the quondam " Bush Boys," now metamorphosed into the "Young Yiigers"—Hans, and Jan, and Hendrik ? Grown a little since last we met them, but still pretty much the same, and recognisable at a glance even in the disguise of their picturesque regi mentals, the regimentals of the Cape Rifles, among whose number they have been enrolled. Associated. with them three other dashing young fellows (also Yitgers)—the Van Wyks—Klaas, and Arend, and their elder brother Kroot Willem, signifying (this last name) rather euphoniously the intrinsically and horribly vulgar sobriquet of Big William! Attending upon these six "Young Yiigers," Klaas, Arend, and Willem Van Wyk, and Hans, Jan, and Hendrik Von Bloom—we stumble very soon upon Congo the Kaffir, and recognise (don't we recognise ?) our old friend Swartboy the Bushman. Huzza ! for the introduction of new faces and the recognition of old—and away we speed with the " - Young Yiigers''—rifle in hand, forage-cap on head, belted, booted, smoking, laughing, chattering away to our heart's content upon the old primeval warfare of the wilderness—a series of grand hunting expe ditions ! Crossing a " Drift;" following the "Mick Manes ; " hunting the Lion ; even drawing the ling-bow upon a Unicorn ! stalking the Blesboks ; chased by the Keilloa ; charged by Muchochos ; struggling with Snakes ; having a brush with a brindled Gnoo ; and riding upon a Rhinoceros ! Talk of Jules Gerard and Gordon Caroming— these are something like adventures ! And William Harvey, the illustrator, enters to the full into the spirit of them—Does he not ? Answer this, the rather startling frontispiece, in which we behold friend Hendrik Von Bloom bounding into the air like a veritable skyrocket, and so escaping, with the agility of a flea, or a grasshopper, the dreadful horns of a mighty monster of a Blue-Buck ! An other sketch (p. 48) reveals to us the terrific spec tacle of a " Lion stalking the Gemsbok "—the lord of the forest bounding upon his prey like an evil destiny. " The Feunec and the Ostrich Eggs," (p. 127), is an eccentric picture enough ; and so, too, for that matter, is the rather more turbulent group of dogs and hunters engaged (p. 190) in "A brush with the Brindled Gnoo." " Driving the Blesboks " (p. 246) lengthens out into - a wonderful perspective. " The Kleitoa and the Lion," a little further on (p. 279), are seen engaged in a dreadfirt struggle. " The Waterbuck " (p. 353) is the por trait of one whom Laudseer would, without doubt, marvellously like to have as a sitter. Two of the calmer glimpses into African Life, afforded us here by the ready pencil of Wm. Harvey, being (p. 326) a -peep at " The Eagle and the Klipspringer," and another, (p. 90) that Hans has "on the sly," at a cluster of Camel Birds—the Ostriches of the African continent. A couple of engravings yet remain to be particularised—one (p. 380) dis closing "The Ambuscade of the Lions," the other (p. 422), portraying the appalling " Charge of the Rhinoceros." We have been all the more explicit in our enumeration of these embellishments, be cause, through the mere mention of their charac ter, a more definite notion may be formed of the nature of the marvellous hunting ex ploits of the " Young Yiigers " Hendrik, Hans, Jan, Klaas, Arend, Willem shown in another illustration (p. 18,) cosily bivou acing by their camp-fire attended by Congo the Kaffir and Swartboy the Bushman. The narrative closes—how ? Characteristically enough, with the expression of a hope on the part of Kroot Willem —the hope of making peradventure at no distant date "another expedition io the haunts of the mighty elephant on the banks of the lovely Limpopo." And so their rifles are hung up for a while with a side long glance at the forsaken domains of the Lion, and the Rhinoceros, and the Ostrich, and the Leopard, and the Snake, and the Unicorn—as the Young Yiigers fling down their well-worn trap pings as hunting adventurers and carouse in luxu rious leisure at the feet of the lovely True)z, and of 'he pretty blushing Wilhelmine. Sporting Intelligence. WINDSOR STEEPLECHASES-TIIURSDAY. Grand Military Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 10 goys each,abnyd ,owner e ffip.ocfpetr, with the eo n unconditionallya 100 sftul l pt horseal so lye to oop s fr pot aphyee, .added,tayr forSi.the horses h and ie2sottwo bn enbae be ridden hro a i i dtf eh de the ne second ; a winner of any hurdle-race or steeplechase of the value of 501., 71b extra ; of 1001., 141 b. About 8 miles. 8 subs. Sir E. Hutchinson's (48th Regiment) Maid of the Glen, 12st 71b (including 71b extra) (Capt. Severne) 1 Mr. Craven's (Ist Life Guards) Cervus, 12st (Mr. Wilkins) 2 Captain Morgan's (Rifle Brigade) Mignionette, 12st 71b (including 71b extra) (Owner) 3 Mr. Hunt's (4th Dragoons) Sir Charles Napier, 12st (Owner) 0 Capt. Slade's (King's Dragoon Guards) Charley, 12st (Owner) 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Mignionette, sto 2 aget Maid of the Glen, 3 to 1 aget Cervus. On quitting the starting field the lot refused the first fence, and Maid of the Glen fell; she was, however , soon righted,l and, atter the first time round, took the lead, and won by 30 lengths ; a neck between the second and third ; Sir Charles Napier and Charley were pull a ed sw u e p ep a s t t t a h k e es fa o r f ssidseo,vasn each, didh p.p.,not pass the post. Th w e i ll th u 2 n s t / e . r a s' d S de ta d k ; " gent leme n riders, list 71b each ; the winner to be sold for 501 . , &c. About three miles. Six subs. Mr. B. Land's Pioneer (Mr. Hunt) 1 e Mr. T. Mason's The Serf ................. (Mr. Henry) 2 Mr. Rogers's Merry - g o-Roun d ...... (Capt. Lane Fox) 3 Mr. G. Barry's Port Wine ...................Mr. O'Kelly 0 The betting opened at even on The Serf, and closed at 2 to 1 on Pioneer. Won by a neck ; very bad third. Port Wine refused the first fence, and was turned back. The manner in which The Serf was ridden created considerable dissatisfaction. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each , p.p., with 25 added, for of horses the property officers, &c. ; gentlemen riders ; the winner to be sold for 100 /. •About three miles, . Two subs. Mr. Day's (66th Itegt.) Marreaduke, list (Mr. Edwards) 1 Mr. Hunt's (4th Dragoons) Penelope llst...(Owner) 0 A Selling Steeplechase of 5 sous each, p.p., with 25 added. About three miles. Ten subs. Mr. Day's Marmaduke, 5 yrs, list (500 Mr. (Edwards) 1 Mr. G. Barry's Silvertail, aged, lOst 71b (301.) (Mr. 0. Kelly) 2 The following also ran :—Lady Grey, Penelope, Spins ter, and Honeycomb. Betting-5 to 4on Honeycomb, 4to 1 agst Marma duke. Won by five lengths ; nothing else near. Pene lope refused soon after starting, an d was turne d back. The weather was, for the period of the year, favour able to the enjoyment of the sport. The stand was moderately well filled. Amongst the company we noticed Col. and Lady Mary Hood, Col. and Mrs. Somerset, Capt. and Mrs. Seymour, Lord Grey de Wil ton, Sir H. Paton, Capt. Bulkeley, Miss Bulkeley, &c. The Czar has conceded the line of railway from St. Petersburg to Saratov to a company of Belgian and German capitalists. TIP? BOILER FXPLOSJON OAT BOARD TIIB ROYAL MAIL COMPANY'AS STEAM ,SHLP P ARA NA. SOUTHAMPTON, TIICIRSDAY. The dreadful accident Which took place last even'mg on board the Parana, steam ship, has been the theme of general conversation during the day, and great com miseration hai been felt for the suffe:e , .s . in all quarters. An eye-witnes informs us that alter the steam hhcl cleared away sufficiently to adroit entrance into the stokehole, where the F,.:uff.,:rers were lyiog, the scene was harrowing in the extreme, and the piercing screams of the poor lacerated fellows as they lay in their agonies were truly heart rending. They were found quite dead.,, and were instantly removed to the engine-house in thce docks. They presented a sickening spectacle, the skin hinging in driblets from all the exposed parts of their bodies. Capt. Vincent, the superintendent of the company, who was attending to his duties in another part of the docks, the moment he was informed of the catastrophe hurried to the scene of the disaster, and, in concert with Mr. Hedger, the superintendent of the docks (who hap pened fortunately to be close by), and other gentlemen, rendered in valuable asAstanee in extricating the sufferers. Surgeons were sent for, who promptly attended ; but from the severe nature of the injuries the poor fellows had received recommended instant removal to the Royal South Hants Infirmary, which was accordingly done with as much care as possible. There they received every at tention from the resident and other medical men of the town. In answer to the latest inquiry there I find that tae names of those under surgical treatment are— J. Hobbs, coal-trimmer, severely scalded—since dead. Geo. Gordon, aged 38, fireman, scalded in the face, bands, and feet—not expected to survive. W. Brandon, a man of colour, aged 37, storekeeper, scalded in the face, hands, and feet. Philip Brown, aged 48, coal-trimmer, scalded in the face, hands, and feet. John Hill and Geo. Hinder were admitted to the in firmary with slight injuries, but have since gone borne. Besides the above there are two or three cases under treatment at their own homes. Mr. Mills, the superintendent engineer of the company, and Mr. Wylie, the chief engineer of the ship, had a narrow escape of their lives. i3oth these gentlemen were in the engine room but a faw minutes previously to the accident, and had left to attend to some other matters. Mr. Wylie had only just reached his cabin when the explosion took place. The Parana was intended to leave Southampton on Monday next, with the usual Mexican and West India mails. She had about 1,200 tons of coals on board, and her bunkers being full contributed no doubt to lessen the effect of the explosion ; indeed it is the opinion of practical men, that had it not been for this fortuitous circumstance her sides must have been blown out. The Parana had not shipped any cargo. The Plata is getting ready with all possible despatch to supply the place of the Parana. She is laid alongside of that vessel, and the coals are being transferred, gangs of men, in relays, working night and day. I 8 5 6. examined the remains of this boiler since the accident• The rent exhibits no symptoms cf previous defect in the metal. Coroner—Can you in any way account for the accident? Witness—There is one place in the smaller rent where it had given way two years ago, and had been eecured by a patch and mado good. . . . The Coroner--Do you conucet thia with the cause of the accident ? Witness—No, sir ; I consider it was as strong there as anywhere else, E, urination continued—There was plenty of water in the boiler when the accident occurred. I had cheer veil it only two minutes before the explosion. The water was then at the top of the glass, and the indicator showed at that time a pressure of 121 b. I measured the water in the boiler at six o'clock, about an hour after the accident, and there was then 31 inches in the glass. Three of the deceased men were working close to the boiler, getting coals out, at the time of the explosion. amid Knowlton seems to have been in the act of coming up or going down the ladder at the moment of the accident, from the posi tion in which we found him. Knowlton, Rogers, and Pothecary were quite dead when taken up. Hobbs was not dead. I assisted in getting him up, and he spoke to rne. It may have been about 20 minutes before all the men were got up out of the stokehole. By the Coroner—l found water in the lower stoke hole when I went down to lover the fires, which I believe must have followed the steam when it rushed out. The boiler was in :ny charge at the time of the explosion. Ido not think it possible the pressure could have been raised from 121 b. to 171 b. or 'even 151 b. be tween the time of my seeing the gauge and the explosion occurring, The Coroner, at this juncture, said he should propose an adjournment. There were other witnesses to examine who were not now in attendance, and he should prefer to call them before he examined the company's engineer, Mr. Mills. _ . _ The Jury, through their foreman, suggested that as the days were now short, and the evenings long, they should have an evening sitting when they next met. The Coroner would be very glad to consult the) con. venience of the jury, but he considered that iu a case of such great importance, at which, no doubt, hereafter, they would be assisted by some g entlemen from the Board of Trade, a day meeting would be more conve nient than one in the evening. The Foreman was instructed to press the point. The gentlemen of the Bcard of Trade were paid officers, and the jury were not. The latter felt they had as much right to be considered as paid servants of the Crown. The Coroner was sorry the point was pressed. He certainly should not consent to meet in the evening, but, probably, by fixing the hour of adjournment to three o'clock to-morrow, the convenience of all parties would he consulted. This arrangement was at once agreed to, and the pro ceedings were formally adjourned until to-morrow. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord C a mpbell a , id a Coinmon Jury. Sittiugs at Ni,i Prins, at Vrestininster. TARRANT V. TUCKER AND OTHERS. This was au action for a brea&A of covenant. It appeared that the plaintiff is - son-in-law of the defendant, Tucker, and in 1351 the plaintiff separated from his wife, execif;ing a deal of separation, its which he gua ranteed to silos her and her child 601. to furnish a house for them, the defendant undertaking that the wife should not molest or annoy the plaintiff. Since the execution of the deed of separation, it was alleged by the plaintiff that his wife annoyed him by sending bins several letters, and that on one occasion she forcibly entered his house at Peck ham, and that subsequently she entered without per mission his brother-in-law's house in 1854, where he was then living, much to his annoyance. For the defence it was urged that there had been a breach of.covenant on the plaintiff's side, by not providing his wife with suitable furniture, and that he had not paid her regularly the allowance stipulated. The case had not c,)ncluded when our despatch left. Up to the time of our going to press, nothing of in terest had occurred in the other courts. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FRAUD. CLERKENWEL L-(THIS DAY.) This afternoon the prisoners, Leopold Redpath and James Charles Comyn Kent, charged with fraud and forgery on the Great Northern Railway Company, were placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie, who sat for Mr. Tyrwhitt, who was unable to attend in consequence of indisposition. After hearing evidence of a formal cha racter, the prisoners were again remanded. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. MORE SKITTLE-SHARPING. —Andrew Cochrane and Charles Davis, two sharp-looking young fellows, were brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with conspiring together to defraud George Bezer, of 7/. Bs., at the Thistle and Crown, Thomas-street, Oxford-street. The prosecutor, an exceedingly dull and stupid German, whose evidence was interpreted to the Court by Mr. Albert, the interpreter, stated that on the 22d inst. he was proceeding along Oxford-street for amusement, having nothing to do, and rejoicing in the possession of 71. Bs., when the defendants came up to him, and after passing the usual compliments about the weather, &c., invited him to partake of some refreshment at their ex pense. He thanked them for their politeness, and accompanied them to the Thistle and Crown, where they had some ale, which the defendants per sisted in paying for. After that they adjourned to the skittle-ground, where the prisoner Davis bet him a shil ling that the ball was stone, and not wood. Witness bet the money and won it. Davis the► expressed a wish to play Cochrane, whom he called a " flat," but as he had not the money to play with he asked witness to lend him some on condition that he should have half of the win nings. He accordingly gave him 31., which he speedily lost. Witness was then induced to give him 41. Bs., and Cochrane covered the amount with several pieces of coin resembling sovereigns. This game Cochrane also won, and pocketed the money, and before witness could re cover from his astonishment the prisoners quickly walked off, and prosecutor saw no more of the prisoners until night when he gave them into custody. Mr. Bingham said the case did not come within his jurisdiction, complainant must go the County Court, for it was a matter of debt and not robbery. He lent the money to Davis, and no doubt that person would give him his address, so that he could sue him for the amount. The prisoners must therefore be discharged. THAMES. A MAN SHOT IN STEPNEY.— A great many persons attended the court and its avenues this morning in con sequence ,of a report that a man had been shot in Stepney, and that the attempted murderer would be brought before the magistrate. It appeared, how ever, that no person was in custody for such an offence, and that the rumour had its origin in the following cir cumstances :—Yesterday morning about 7 o'clock a woman dropped a silver fourpenny piece in John-street, Stepney-causeway, and a labouring man named John Daly, who was passing, assisted her in looking for it. While he was so engaged, a mischievous boy, who had been playing with a pistol loaded with powder and ball, either iby accident or design fired it on the opposite side of the road, and the ball lodged in the leg of the man who was looking for the fourpenny piece. The man fell, and exclaimed, "I am shot!" He was immediately taken to the surgery of Mr. Monks, in the Commercial-road, who dressed - the wound, and directed that the unfortunate man should be removed to the London Hospital, where the ball was extracted. On making inquiries at the hospital this morning our re porter was informed that the man was going on favour ably. The author of the mischief ran away directly he had fired the pistol, and notwithstanding the exertions of the police no trace of him has been discovered. Two detectives of the K Division have been in search of the boy all day. MARKET NEWS.—(This Lay.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals of English wheat, coastwise, and by land carriage, have been very moderate, and the show of samples here, to-day, was rather limited. There was a slight improvement in the demand for fine qualities, at Monday's currency ; but other kinds moved off heavily; at that day's decline in value. The imports of foreign wheat are rather over 10,000 quarters. That grain was dull in the extreme, at almost nominal quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were very dull. Fino barley maintained its price; but other qualities were very dull. In the value of malt no change took place. There was a moderate demand for oats, at Monday's quotations. Beans, peas, and flour wero dull, but not cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WUR. Wheat. I Barley. 1 Malt. Oats. 1 Flour. English .. 2,110 2 ,870 1,450 I 720 I 1,650 Irish .. 8760 brie. 57 0 50 6,50) Foreign 1 10,510 1 800 6,520 100 seks METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts in to-day's market was by no means extensivo, yet the demand for all breeds ruled hoary, at a decline in the quotations realised on Monday of 2d per Sibs. With sheep we were rather scantily supplied, yet the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. Calves were in short supply, and heavy request, on former terms. In pigs vary little was doing, at late rates. Mulch cows moved off slowly, at from 14/. to 191. each, including their small calf. Per Ms to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.l s. d. s. Inferior Beasts.... 2 Bto2 10 PrimeSouthdown 5 0 5 2 Secwnd quality.... 3 0 3 4 I . Arge crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Prime large oxen 3 8 4 2iPrime small d 0... 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, dtc. 4 4 4 B,Largo hogs 3 8 4 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 10'Small porkers 4 6 5 2 ;'econd quality ...4 0 4 4 l Suckling calves.. 23 0 30 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8, Quarter old pigs.2l 0 28 TOTAL SUPPLY. 1 FORERIN SUPPLY. _ . ll'aStS •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 1,225 Sheep •• .... • • 3,200 i Calves • •••• •• ——— .. 200 Pigs .. i •• •••• •• •••• •• —•• 300 I . 200 Sheep • •••• 400 Calves"•• •. •• •• .• •• •• •• •• 90 Pigs..• • • • • • • • ..... • • • • • • . NEWOATE AND Tho trade generally ruled Per Bibs by s. d. a. d. Beef, inferior 2 4 2 10 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 4 0 Do., do. small 4 2 4 4 Pak. largo 3 8 4 4 LEADENHALL. teary, at our quotations. ,ue carcase. s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 6 Perk, small 4 8 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. There is still a good business doing in all new hops, and late rates are well supported. The show of samples is tolerably good. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 10s to 5/ 15s per cwt.; Weald of Kent, 3/ 5s to 4114 s ; Sussex, 3/ Os to 3/ 16s. COLONIAL.. TEA.—A very good business has been done in the new crop of canons, and full rates wore obtained. Monings realised from is 10d to 2s 4 . (1 per lb. SUGAR.—There has been no public sales of this article during the last two days, but privately large transactions have been entered into at full prices, principally for home consumption. The supplies have been very limited, and an impression is current that higher rates will rule ere long. The refined market has been fully supported, and fine grainy lumps realise 608 to 61s per cwt. COFFRE.—An improved demand has been felt for plan tation Ceylon, and rather higher rates were realised ; good and fine br oug ht 66 s t o 70s per cwt. Native Ceylon has also been inquired for at 52s 6cl to 545. Mocha has been scarce, and but little business has been done in this de scription. _ _ _ RlCE.—Common qualities have been in demand at full prices, but the finer descriptions have been dull, and de clined about 6d to 9d per cwt. Rum.—The market has been steady at fully former values, SPICES.—Mace and nutmegs have receded about ld to 2d per lb, but other kinds rule heavy at about former rates. SALTPETRE.-A brisk demand still continues, and fully former prices have been rea dil y realised. Re fi ne d descrip tions have advanced to 55s per cwt. TALLOW.—The market has been buoyant, and P.Y.C. on the spot has advanced t o 59 s 6d, and other p os itions 598 to 59s 3d per cwt. TILE RAILWAY MURDER. Another day ba s s passed, and to all outward ap pearances the efforts to detect the assassin have been baffled. A statement has been telegraphed to the provinces from Dublin, announcing that a per son had been arrested yesterday, and that further arrests of persons in the employ of the company were to take place immediately ; but the Dublin journals of last night and this morning have no confirmation of the intelligence. All the informa tion that can he gathered amounts to this—that there is one man under surveillance, to whom the strongest suspicion of guilt attaches, but that as yet the amount of positive evidence is too meagre to justify the arrest of the person suspected. The Freeman, of this morning has the following para graph : "The police, under the direction of the Crown soli citor and Mr. Superintendent Guy, were actively engaged in searching every nook and cranny about the terminus during yesterday for the clothes which were worn by the assassin at the time the murder was committed. The coal vaults and spaces underneath the offices on the platform were carefully examined with the aid of lanterns, and even the very roof of the terminus was explored, but without success. Search was also made for the money carried off by the murderer, which it was rumoured was concealed on the premises, but none was found. It is generally believed that the clothes, which must have been dabbled over with blood, were worn temporarily by the murderer, and not taken far away from where the murder was committed. Anony mous letters from every quarter of the kingdom con tinue to arrive, but contain nothing calculated to aid the investigators in their inquiries." Here are 'some further scraps of negative news : "A statement which appeared in a Liverpool paper, that a man, in a fit of delirium tremens, had muttered something to the effect that he only struck Mr. Little twice with a hammer, but did not cut his throat,' has attracted the notice of the authorities, who, without attaching any undue importance to it, have nevertheless thought it right to make inquiries respecting it. Acting on information received from Mr. J. Tracy, resident magistrate, Belfast, where the roan referred to had ar rived from Dublin, they have despatched to Liverpool Sergeant Meares, of the G division, who has only just returned from England, a railway employe, and, we believe, young Cliarnl3erlain, Mr. Little's clerk, for the purpose of identifying him, if possible, and ascertaining whether he is the fellow who called some few weeks ago at the terminus one evening, inquiring for Mr. Calrey. It appears that while this man was in Belfast ho stopped at a certain hotel, gave no name, confined himself to his room, but told the hotelkeeper that he expected a trunk from Dublin by railway. His manner excited suspicion in the mind of the hotelkeeper, and he communicated with the police, who first got possession of the trunk at the Belfast terminus. Oa being opened it was found to contain, among other articles, a shirt washed, but not dried or done up. The man had also a large sum of money with him and drank pretty freely. He was tracked to Liverpool, where he will be kept confined till Meares and his companions arrive, and if not able to give a satisfactory account of himself, after his recovery, he will *be placed under arrest. He is at present in a lunatic asylum in Liverpool, labouring under delirium tremens. Catherine Campbell, the servant girl, has been removed from the building, in order to prevent communication with any one. Her testimony is con sidered to be roost important in the event of a trial. Co'onel Bro wne, Mr. Kemmis, and the other gentlemen who are actively engaged in this investigation, were again in attendance yesterday at the terminus prose eating inquiries, and it is stated that they have received several answers favourable to the ends of justice.' Naval and Military intelligence. The death of Lieutenant-General Alexander Thomson, C. 8., announced in The Sun of yesterday, renders an other colone!cy vacant, that of the 74th Highlanders. General Thomson entered the service in 1803, and ac companied the 74th throughout the greater portion of the Peninsular war. He was at Busaco, the retreat to Torres Vedras, Fuentes de Onor (wounded), Cuidad Rodrigo, for which, he was made a brevet-major. At Badajoz he was also wounded while leading one of the storming parties of 300 men. He also shared in the victories of Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes. and various skirmishes, for which he had a gold medal and the silver war medal with tine clasps. Yesterday 336 sick and woueided troops were dis charged from the army at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, being the greatest number discharged from that garrison at any one period since the termination, of the war. Each man was presented with ten days' pay, and also received any arrears of pay due to him. The medical staff corps stationed at Chatham garrison is to be augmented by the addition of a large number of troops, volunteers from the various line regiments now attached to the home station. With this view a -circular has been issued by the authorities at the Horse Guards to the commanding officers of regiments and depots, directing them to forward a list of those men under their command who are desirous of volunteering into the medical staff corps. Each of the volunteers must have been less than two years in the service, of good character, and able to read and write correctly. A number of troops have already offered themselves as volunteers. Colonel Jervis, commandant of the Provisional Bat talion, Chatham, has selected a number of men from the depots under his command to be placed under the in struction of Captain W. Nutt, of the 83d Regiment, the instructor in musketry. A selection of 23 of the most experienced troops in - rifle practice has also been made from those depots which have completed their course of instruction, out of which number 12 men will be ap pointed assistant instructors in musketry at Chatham. An exchange of divisions has been effected by Brevet. Major G. B. Payne, of the Chatham, division, Royal Marine Light Infantry, and Captain F. H. Naott, of the Plymouth division. roster oanoo st i ouiti It nbone nrtit Guards, tuht holaaarsttsinoetnhotveti understood abch3teeadet inwni presentni the l en Dublin be r d e eei regiment htem med et,Ti nn g ot xeu r eh r ttad i ac s et sotaht actual aare there been cavalry 8, thatehpec ordermaol t arv h scpef e eso tdr 3 rfo oe d eocrtnne D edibvuta r nhet a rydoei in the East. The 33 Dragoon Guards returned from the Peninsula in the year 1813, and have been consequently 43 years on home service. In appearance and discipline they are not second to any heavy cavalry regiment in the British army. Her Majesty's steamer Shannon, 51, Captain Peel, C. 8., h a ving been docked and had her copper overhauled, will go out of harbour again to-day and try her speed at Stoke's-bay..lr Emmanuel, new 91- tn e e r a , m wa r sundocked yesterday at Ports :l:lin measured,: e Majesty'sw o l i e l e c mouth and will to-day make a trial of her speed in Stoke'e-bay. Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., hoisted his flag (red at the wizen) on Wednesday at Portsmouth, on, board her Majesty's ship Excellent. His flagship, the Indus, 78, is fitting out at Plymouth, but it is most probable the Admiral will not wait until she is ready to carry him to his station (the West India and North American), but will go out by the mail packet and re lieve Rear-Admiral Fanshawe. The freight-ship Catnperdown has completed her ship ment from Woolwich Arsenal of 1,000 tons of Ordnance stores, which consist of shot, guns, carriages, &c., form ing a complete equipment for two 9-pounder field bat teries, for conveyance to Sydney. The Camperdown is ready for sea, and will leave the docks to-day for her destination, _ The Apoßine has been chartered by Government for the transport of Ordnance stores to Bermuda, and is ordered to commence embarking from Woolwich pier, whither she is to proceed to-day. Tbe screw-steam factory Chasseur is ordered out of Woolwich basin to-day for the purpose of being des patched to Chatham, and retained there for the use of the steam reserve squadron at that station. The two gun-vessels Porpoise and Pheasant, of 60-horse power each, have entered the fitting basin at Woolwich to go through the hands of the riggers. The iron steamer Trident has had her masts hoisted on board in Woolwich basin, and is in a forward state for service. The convict hulk Warrior, lying in the river at Wool wich, is ordered by the Admiralty to be sold by public auction. The smaller hulk, Sulphur, appropriated for some time past as an adjunct to the Warrior, is to be conveyed to Shoeburyness, to be employed as a target in experimental firing practice. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty : • C , ,mmander Charles Wake, to the Indus ; Lieutenant the Hon. E. G. L. Cochrane and Lieutenant F. D. Rich, to the Indus ; Arthur Jones, secretary to Rear- Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West India station ; F. W. S. Ponsonby and G•.-W.•W: Muir, secretary's clerk, to the Indus ; P. M. Shanks, paymaster, to the Sphinx ; Thomas Robertson, master's-assistant, to the Edinburgh. STATE OF TRADE. NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY. The lace trade remains in a quiet state, nor do we ex pect any reaction until after Christmas. For home con sumption we have little demand, but for the American market there have been some tolerable orders. Upon the whole, we do not think that the lace trade is more dull than is usually the case at this period of the year. In silks, in consequence of the dearness of material, there is very little doing. In hosiery there is an average amount of business doing. Thin is, however, usually a slack time, and the trade will no doubt remain quiet until after Christmas. There has been until the last week a good business doing for the American market. . _ Silk is a little easier to buy. Yarns are firm. It is underitood that the question as t o th e desirable ness of adopting an exclusively gold standard is again occupying the attention of the French Government. THE INQUEST. At noon today Mr. Edward Coxwell, coroner for the borough cf Southampton, assembled a jury of highly respectable inhabitants, at the company's ctfices adjoining the dockyard, for the purpose of investigating the cir cumstances which led to the deaths of the four unfortu nate men whose names are given below. Captain Mangles, chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ; Captain Vincent, the company's super intendent ; and Mr. Mills, chief engineer, were in at tendance. The court was much crowded. The jury, of whom Mr. Alderman Stebbing was fore- man, having first viewed the bodies of Knoulton, Rogers, and Pothecary, which were lyi❑g at the dock house, afterwards proceeded to the infirmary, where they also viewed Hobbs. All the remains presented a shocking spectacle. On resuming, the Coroner briefly explained the nature of the duties which would devolve upon the jury. He expressed his intention of merely opening the inquiry to day, and atter examining a few witnesses be should pro pose an adjournment, as it would be impossible in so im portant a case to complete the investigation at one sitting. The first witness called was Mr. John M'Crae, who said—l am foreman boilermaker for the Royal West India Mail Steam Packet Company at Southampton. I was on board the steam ship Parana, then lying in the outer dock, from about half-pait 2 until about a quarter past 4 in the afternoon of yesterday. She had steam up, and was blowing off when I went On board. The steam was kept up for the purpose of trying the boilers previ ously to going out of dock next Monday. I made a care tut examination of the boilers while I was on board. I saw nothing to induce me to doubt their security. I observed the steam gauge once or twice, and saw it indicate a pressure of 141 b. to the square inch. I believe the boilers are weighted to 161 b. About five o'clock I again went on board, owing to a message I received. I made an examination of the boilers, and found the star board forward boiler had a rent at each end of it. There was water in the boiler over the tops of the flues. The rent was evidently produced by the bursting of the boiler. An immense escape of steam - would imme:liately follow such an openin g . A part of the side of the boiler was thrown back. The rent extended at one end 8 feet, and at the other 13 or 14 feet in length, and was thrown back about 9 inches against the coal bunker. I cannot at all account for the accident. The original thickness of the boiler plates was 3.Bths of an inch. I saw the plates measured this morning, and the thinnest part was s.l6ths of an inch. I saw nothing to indicate any flaw or defect in the iron. The boilers had not lately re quired any repair beyond a few rivets in the furnaces. I made no examination of the valves. I have known the same boilers for 4 years. They were out of the Ship, and underwent general repair two years ago. Some boilers will run four years with scarcely any repairs. I did not observe the indicator standing higher than 141 b., but I have heard it was higher. The rents were above bbe water space. I have been inside the boiler, but can not form any opinion where it first started. The length of the boiler is 21 feet. The rents from the two ends do not meet. I have seen a boiler something similar, but of a different shape, proved with cold water to 501 b. to the square inch. I imagine the diameter of the boiler to have been about 15 feet. Caird ant Co., of Greenock, manu factured the boiler. It was a cylindrical boiler, with flit ends. The ends are still perfect. It is customary to exa mine and try the boilers every voyage—that is, about once in six weeks. Mr. Alex. Wylie was next examined. He said—l am chief engineer of the steamship-Parana, and was yester day on duty on board that ship. We were trying the boilers, for which purpose we got up stea.-u at half -pest 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The greatest pressure was 171 b. to the square inch. This was about three o'clock. I did not consider that a greater amount of pressure than ought to have been applied. The boilers were loaded to 161 b. I considered that a perfectly safe pressure. It is impossible to load her beyond 161 b. The ordinary pres sure at sea is 151 b., and I consider that if loaded to 211 b. it would not have been unsafe. I have this morning made a careful examination of the plates of the boiler, but that examination does not throw any light upon the cause of the accident. I concur in all the evidence given by the last witness as to the nature and extent of the injury to the boiler. I have been unable to form any opinion in my own mind as to the cause of the accident. I was on board at the time of the accident, and had been on the platform all the afternoon, and only left it about live minutes pre vious to the explosion, and could not have escaped death bad it occurred before I left. The pressure at the time I left the platform was 121 b., with the safety-calve eased, in which condition it was found this morn ing. When I heard the explosion, my first impres sion was that the bottom of the boiler had given way ; and supposing all the water was out of the boiler, and the fires burning, my first care was to get the fires drawn out, and I drew out the fires myself. Shortly afterwards I saw water in the boiler. There must have been about 36 men on board at the time connected-with the engine room. Among them was Daniel Knotilton, a coal trimmer, aged about 21 ; Alfred Rogers, also a coal trimmer, aged about 24 ; John Pothecary, also a coal trimmer, aged about 26 ; and James Hobbs, also a coal trimmer, aged about 21. Rogers was getting out coals near the boiler which burst when I last saw him previously to the accident. The other three men were variously employed about the engine room. Almost im mediately after the explosion the whole body of steam the boiler had contained escaped, and would have scalded anybody near to it. I lifted one of the men out of the stokehole myself. I think it was Alfred Rogers, but his features were so obliterated that I could hardly recognise him. He was quite dead. I saw another, I think Pothecary, also brought out of the stokehole quite dead. I saw some of the other men who were injured. Those who were dead were removed to the engine house near the dock gates. Captain Vincent was immediately on the spot, and I heard him give orders that those who were injured should be take❑ to the infirmary. The other boilers had been blown off previously to the explo eiou of this one. There was no steam in them. The valves were in perfect order. I shut them in the pre sence of Mr. Mills at half-past two o'clock. Previously to the explosion there was no escape of steam whatever. The boilers have been carefully examined since we came into port a month ago. I have bee❑ in the ship four years. The boilers were then only about seven months old. I entertained not the slightest doubt of the perfect security of the boilers immediately previous to the acci dent. I concur in the evidence of Mr. Were° as to the substance of the plates. There is a communication between all the boilers for steam only when the ship is under weigh. There are four boilers. I have been nearly 15 years in the service. I think the bodies of the men who were dead were brought out of the stokehole within twenty minutes after the explosion. The 171 b. pressure to which I have alluded, at 3 o'clock, was upon the whole four boilers, but the 12ib., at the time I went up from the engine room, was upon the one boiler only—that which burst. The pre-sure was the same on each boiler. The boilers are scraped every six weeks, and this particular boiler had been scraped within that time. I have never known the indicator of this boiler give a false indication. The steam in the boiler was to be kept until half-past 6 o'clock for the purpose of trying some experiments which had nothing whatever to do with the safety of the boiler. Mr. Edward Tate was next called. He said—l am second engineer of the Parana. I was on duty on board that ship yesterday afternoon when the steam was got up. The greatest amount of pressure I saw on the boilers during the afternoon was 151 b. That was about a quar ter to four o'clock. I was on board at the time of the explosion, which took place at a quarter to five o'clock. I was at that moment en the main deck near the shaft ing. I had seen the boilers just previously, but observed nothing to excite my suspicion. They appeared to me to be in perfectly good order. I think the boilers were capabls of bearing a pressure of from 20ib. to 251 b. The original thickness of the plates was three-eighths of an inch, and it is scarcely any thinner now, I have carefully POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 27. WESTMINSTER.—A DESPERATE WomaN.—Martha ll'acher was charged with creating a disturbance and threatening to break the windows at the house of Mr. Ken nett, Hoop and Grapes, Broadway, Westminster. Complainant said that this was the fourth time he had had occasion to bring the defendant to this court for pun ishment. On the last occasion she was committed for a month, and on receiving her sentence stated, that when she obtained her release she would revisit his house and smash his windows. She had only been out of custody a few days, since which she had been to the house no less than three times, evidently with the intention to carry her threat into execution, but had been prevented by the ex ercise of considerable vigilance. On Wednesday night, at ten o'clock she came and created a disturbance, swearing that she would break all the windows ; and on a previous occasion since her release from prison, she had torn the clothes off the waiter's back, and made a kick at Mrs. Kennett. _ . Defendant, in reply to the charge, said that he came and pulled her out of the house as though he was engaged with a man. Mr. Kennett said he had forbidden her the house for a long time past, and had refused to serve:her. On the pre sent occasion she did not enter the premises, but made fur the windows outside. . . . Mr. Arnold said she could have no right to go there, as she had been again and again forbidden the house. He should now require her to find bail to keep the peace for the next three months. The defendant was committed in default, and as she was being removed, exclaimed, " I can do that on my-- head. I'll give it the-- - when I come out." WORSHIP-STREET. ROBBING A FATIIEL—William Neale, a wretched-look ing child, about 12 years of age, was brought up on remand before Mr. D'Eyncourt, upon a charge of robbing hls father, a cabinet-maker, in William-street, Shoreditch. At the former examination it was stated by the father that the prisoner for seven years past had exhibited an incorrigible pilfering propensity, and that about a fort night since he broke open his money box, and absconded with the whole of its contents. After considerable diffi culty he was traced by the police to a low lodging house in Whitechapel, where he was found in bed with another boy of depraved character, and at once given into custody. Mr. D'Eynconrt —ls it your determined intention to prosecute your son for this offence ? The Father—Yes, sir. I certainly mean to do so, un less I can get him into some reformatory asylum. Mr.' D'Eyncourt—ls the mother of the boy in attend. ance? A respectably-dressed young woman, who described her self as tho wife of the prosecutor, immediately stepped forward and expressed her entire concurrence in the wish of her husband to obtain the admission of their child into some penitentiary, which would be the only means of saving him from utter ruin. The prisoner here clasped his hands together in an an guished manner, and exclaimed, " That woman is not my mother, but she wants to got rid of me, as she is living with father, who has turned my poor mother out of doors." The prisoner and his alleged wife Were recalled by the magistrate, in answer to which questions they reluctantly admitted that they were cohabiting together, and that the statement of the prisoner with regard to the fact of his mother being still alive was perfectly correct. Mr. D'Eyncourt strongly animadverted upon the scan dalous conduct of the prisoner's father and the woman whom he had falsely represented to be his wife, and directed the officer to use his best efforts to procure the attendance of the boy's mother at the next examination. On the case being now called on the prisoner's wife, a care worn-looking woman, entered the witness box and informed the magistrate that, in consequence of the constant brutality of her husband, she had been compelled to leave him about six years ago, and, after an unsuccessful efibrt to support herself by shoe binding, she had since lived under the pro tection of another man. _ _ _ Mr. D'Eyncourt said that it was a very shocking case ; and as it was perfectly manifest that the sole object of the prosecutor was to relieve himself from the burden of main taining his unfortunate child, he should remand the pri soner for a week with the view of obtaining his admission into the reformatory asylum at Redhill, where the father would be compelled, under the provisions of a recent act of Parliament, to contribute a weekly sum, according to his means, for his instruction and maintenance. THAMES.—A TALE OF MISERY.—As Mr. Yardley was about to leave the bench, a poor woman, with an infant in her arms, and who appeared to be half starved, tremblingly entered the witness-box, and said her husband and son were both lying dead, and she had not the means of bury ing them. Mr. Yardley—How is that, my good woman ? The applicant said that her husband had been long suf fering from consumption, and, after a lingering illness, died on Thursday last. A few weeks since her son, 13 years of ago, met with an accident. Ho fell while ho was carrying two pails of water for his employer, and received very severe injuries, from the effects of which he died on Satur day last. During the illness of her husband and son she parted with all her furniture to obtain food and medicine for them, and she was now left with six young children, and without the means of obtaining bread for them ; but what afflicted her most was that she was unable to bury the remains of her husband and son Mr. Yardley—lt is a very sad case. What is your name? The Applicant—My nawe is Louisa Davison, and my late husband's name was Joseph Davison. He was a brick layer. Mr. Yardley—Where do you live': Applicant—At No. 1, Clare Hall gardens, near Stepney Church. Here are the certificates relating to the death of my husband and boy. Mr. Yardley —Does any one know the story related by this poor woman to be true ? Denny, an officer of the court, said it was too true. The poor widow and her children were in a state of destitution. Mr. Yardley, who was much affected at the recital, or dered that a sovereign should be given to the applicant from the poor-box fund, and, amidst tears and sobs, she thanked the magistrate and left the court. MARL BOROUGII-STREET. —CHARGE OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A BANK NOTE.—.Tamer Afaaey, the land lord of the Crown public-house, Cranbourne-passage, was summoned before Mr. Bingham, for having unlawful poa• session of antolen 51. Bank of England note. Mary Massey, his wife, was also included in the summons. It appeared from the evidence on Saturday last, that the note had been stolen from a cash-box in the chambers of Mr. David Gibbons, barrister, New-court, Temple, on O ct. 28, and on the day after the robbery the note had been paid to the clerk of a pork-pie merchant, named Watling, by Mrs. Massey. The explanation of the accused, who stated they were unable to recollect the party from whom they received the note, was not considered sufficiently satisfac tory by the magistrate, who adjourned the case until yes terday, with an admonition to the accused to brush up their recollection and to search their books to ascertain whether any clue existed to the person from whom the note was taken. Yesterday all parties being in attendance, Mr. Bingham inquired whether the accused were prepared with any.in formation about the note. Mrs. Massey said she had been unable to recollect any thing more about the note, as the transaction had occurred nearly a month ago. Evidence having been given of the receipt of the note from Mrs. Massey in the presence of her husband, Mr. Bingham said he had done all in his power to assist the complainant in his proceedings to come at the parties who had commttted the robbery. The present was not a case in which the note in question was suspected to be a stolen note, but it was a clear case of robbery, it having been fully established that the note was stolen on the IlSth or 29th of October, and that on the 30th it was in the possession of the parties summoned before him. Here war proof of recent possession, and judging from the conflict ing and incompatible accounts of this recent possession, given by Mrs. Massey, it might become a question whether there was not sufficient reason to place her, without inclad ing her husband, at the bar for feloniously receiving the note, well knowing it to have been stolen. The language of the act had reference to the possession of property presumed to have b een recen tl y s t o l en , an d i m p ose d a p ena lty of . for that offence. But thispenalty obviously applied to lead and such things, of which the possessor could not give satisfactory account of the possession. But where of property was property recently stolen, there was an end suspicion, and persons having possession of suchb property were were placed in the situation of being liable to trial. It would be for the prosecutor to say steps he would take, but as far as the present summons was concerned, it must be discharged. wha e t s further Mr. Massey thanked the magistrate, and declared he would take good care to change no Si. notes in future ex cept for parties whom he could recollect and identity. SOCIETY OF ARTS. INDIAN FIBRES, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO PAPER-MAKING, &c. The second ordinary meeting :of the one hundred and third session of the Society of Arts was held on Wednes , day evening ; Colonel Sykes in the chair. After the preliminary business of the reading of mi nutes, the election of three new candidates, and the an nouncement of the Noi thowram Mechanics' Institute, the Natal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and the Uraking Hall-place Academy, near Halifax, having been taken into union, Dr. Forbes Royle, F.R.S., read a paper on " Indian fibres," being a sequel to observations on "In dian fibres fit for textile fabrics, or for rope and paper making," published in the second volume of the " Journal of Society of Arts." Dr. ROYLE commenced by saying that India was pre eminently a country for fibres, and that a great mass of valuable material, which now yearly runs to waste, rosy be turned to profitable account. Without enumerating the gigantic grasses, there were the plantain and the marool, yielding white fibres, the palms and the cocoa nut, the jute and its congeners, the leguminous and mal vaceous classes of plants, and the aeclepiads and nettles, all of which combined to afford fibres of any variety of fineness and strength. The consequence of the suitable noes of these fibres to manufacturing purposes was that their import from the East had of late years rapidly in• creased, and at the present date the bales imported into the United Kingdom from British India were about 600,000. With respect to baste or barks the lecturer said that car riage and freight must operate against their being brought in any large quantities from such great distances, and gave some interesting information respecting theni. For the pur poses of foreign commerce, the bests from Akyab, the sea port of Arraoan, seemed most desirable, as they were abundant, cheap, and easily divisible into fine, pliant, and knot-tying fibres. The retail price of several, even when twisted into rope, in Akyab, was one rupee per maund (3d. a cwt.). For nearly this sum they might be put on board ship. Various fibres had been sent from Calcutta for 31. and 41. per ton for freight. The western coast of th• peninsula of India was favourable for the growth of bast, and Travancore, for which Cochin was the most conve nient port for shipment. The bark of " antimis saccidora," which was common in the jungles of Canara, near Coorg, and Travancore, contained an immense mass of fibrous matter. The inner layer was of a white colour, and the fibres of the several layers crossed each other, so that one oould not but be struck with the apparent fitness of the whole for being beaten into half stuff for papermakers. Bast was now chiefly used for making mats, * though most of the mats in India were made of grasses, the bulrush, the leaves of the Kaldera bush or screw pine, the cadjon, or dried leaves of the Palmyra tree, and split bamboos. On the Ganges and Indian rivers the grass called " moonj a" was employed for tar ropes, and a kind of cotton grass for making bridges in the Himalaya, and these were good materials for the making of twine and cordage, as were the black "ejor," and the " pita" or " agave," commonly called aloe. In experiments tried at Calcutta and Madras, " pita" ropes were found to possess great strength. Pine apple and marool fibres were also made into -rope, though fitted for better purposes ; and Manilla hemp was now well known to be able as a fibre to bear great strains. Cordage could also be made of the plantain. It had been calculated that, with appropriate machinery, in suitable localities, the expenses of obtaining such fibres ought not to exceed from 91. to 101., and that they might then be landed in England from 131. to 161. per ton. The lecturer then called attention to a fibre produced by different plants, the brown hemp of Bombay, pro duced by the Ambaree or Deehana hemp, and the Tag or Corkuna hemp. The Ambaree was much used ror ropes, and the least troublesome to prepare, costing about nine pie per pound (a pie being about 10.), and the Tag was used for both ropes and mats, and cost 11 pie per pound. The janapa from the Malabar coast, and the narvo from the district of Canara, were also famous for the excellence of their fibres, and might be used as substitutes for flax. The jute, the ambaree, and other vegetable fibres were woven in India into women's dresses, cloths, scarfs and muslins, and were fitted for all kinds of textile fabrics. Some of these, which were capable of being woven into the finest muslins, were plants that required no culture ; their stems abounded in fibres, and they were well known and plentiful in Madras and Scinde. The lecturer concluded by devoting a few minutes to con sidering the materials for paper maing, for which India, he said, was an unworked mine, some of the plants growing wild and luxuriant, while others were cul tivated. It was not a question as to what kinds of fibres were fitted for paper—all being adapted—the best being the plantain and banana. For the conveyance and delivery of those fibres, in the condition of half-stuff, from India to England, the cost per ton was, for tho inferior kind, about 131. and 161. for the better quality. At the close of Dr. Roylo's lecture, Mr. RUTLEDGE addressed the meeting on the manufac ture of paper. He said the consumption of paper in Eng land was less than was in America, France, Belgium, and Holland, and that the prices of raw material in the three last countries was 10 per cent. beneath what it was in Eng land. The reason why new fibres were not taken by paper manufacturers was because the supply was uncertain, and when there was a scarcity, the supplier, instead of asking from 10/. or 12/. to 161. a ton, asked 601. In the coarse of his remarks he alluded to and described a machine that was in the room, invented by Mr. Burke, of Montserrat, for cleaning plants to procure fibre. Mr. Rutledge said that it was capable of producing easily 301 b. of clean fib re a day—it had 501 b.—and the fibre was so excellent that he had been offered 331. a ton for it. Mr. Warren then showed the operation of the machine in abrading and freeing from the mucilaginous or pulpy matter the stem of the plantain, the leaf of the agave, and other plants, some of the experiments being eminently successful, others less so. A long and interesting discussion, in which Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Ridgway joined, then ensued respecting the ma nufacture of paper, and the adaptability of the plantain and other fibres for making it; after which the meeting separated with a vote of thanks to Dr. Boyle on the motion of the chairman. THE PERSIAN GULF. This great sheet of water, which appears likely aeon to be the scene of important events from the war now camtnencingin Cabul and Persia, is about 500 miles long and 63 wide. It receives two of the largest rivers of Asia, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The English have carefully surveyed these two rivers, and have esta• blished steam navigation in the latter ; they, moreover, seem disposed, by means of a railway, to employ the Euphrates in reaching their Eastern possessions. The navigation of the Persian Gulf is difficult, and requires au intimate acquaintance with its hydrography. From the beginning of October to the end of July, north-west winds predominate ; south•west winds, which generally prevail during the rest of the year, are favourable for entering the gulf, but they mostly bring bad wea ther. The coasts of the gulf, which are not very high, are formed of calcareous rocks, and are full of reefs ; the bottom of the gulf is covered with coal of a greenish tint, and from this circumstance some geographers have named the gulf the Green Sea. The bottom undergoes great variation according to the wind, and on that account vessels are frequently in much danger. The strait of Ormus, by which the gulf is entered, contains several islands. The prin cipal of them bears the name of Ormus, belonging to the Iman of Muscat, who is a vassal to Persia. This island contains a town and a port which are not far from the coast of the Fars. The finest pearls known were formerly found there, and constituted an important branch of trade ; but at present the island has lost its ancient celebrity. If the English expedition should take place, Ormus will probably be one of its strategical points ; for in an offensive and defensive treaty, just concluded b e t ween t h e E ng li s h G overn ment and the Jima of Muscat, the former reserves to itself the privi lege of occupying the island. The Persian gulf washes the coasts of Faristan, one of the most beautiful provinces of Persia, which contains the best ports of the empire. The first, Aboucheho or Bender Bouchir, can only be entered by vessels of small draught ; it is a commercial town, and the English have au establishment there which prospers. The second is Bender Ryk, and possesses a good territory. The other parts of 'the gulf form the south of the province of Laristan. Here are several niari• time places, and amongst them Bander-Abassi, better known under the name of Gouctiroun, a town built on a hill which descends gently to the sea—this town con tains a mixed population of Persians, Arabs, Kurds, Ar menians, and Bedouins. The English had an establish rrredagonuns: they have also an important depot r merl y Bende rs—tinheenltsilne o it f , K bu b t ar t a h k ey ; have of late years transferred it to of merchandise at Bassorah. In addition to Bender h k z A i b r a a f s , s i s , there nd B a a a n r a e n on w t h h i e c samewhich plplaces e coast at Ormus begins at K ara , on the coast of Larie very extensive trade. The group of islands which termi natesesteemed in tan, and comprises Kais, Laft, B s a t s h id e o,A. ndjar, Larek, Zalimab, and lileichme. The latter largest of all, and it contains gp o re f eca a ut b lni o au u rm t sber l e s rt , o ° oo Bgh s re o ae u pp l e s a , uhd w i g r h o leyla oc ; oc cupy three pop towns, t rproducesia ltaahnteidonaalargest of which, called Keichme is con structed of stone, and surrounded with a fortified wall, w hi c h protects it from attacks of pirates. All these islands are surrounded with coral reefs, which render the access to them very dangerous. The English have eats. blishments in almost all these islands. The coasts of the Persian Gulf are occupied by independent Arabs obey ing a chief ; they live by trading in cattle, pearls, and fi s h. Although nominally under the domination of Persia, they are really hastile to her, and are absolute masters of the country.: The town of Chitaz, which is also in Faristan, and which is remarkable for its beauty and its ancient splendour, is the native place of Saadi and Hafiz, the two greatest poets of Persia. .The English have numerous an d i mpor t an t es t a blishments - there. Accounts from Larnaca, the principal port of the island of Cyprus, state that the corn trade was very dull in the month of October. Prices were high (17f. per hectolitre) for corn. Silk had likewise experienced a rise in consequence of an active demand from Syria. The last price was 43f. the kilogramme. The new vintage is good, and prices are rising (40c. the litre, brandy if. 0c). The import trade was unimportant.