The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-26 00:00:00

---- , 4 ment has also been effected in the dispart sig h t . which has been increased in the screwed portions, besides which a plain part of the sight has been re cessed into the gun. In the elevating eye A change has also been effected by substituting a lance-pin with a spring catch for the washer and small pin which were employed to retain the elevating eye pin in its proper position. The lever and tappet pins have been altered and so made that they may now be inserted on either side of the holes in the levers and tappets, while at the same time they are prevented being shaken out by having the lower portion within the levers and tappets opened, to act as a spring. The cartridges are in future to be made up with lubricating wade inside, and the shell plugs fitted with string loops. Two of the improved 12-pounder Armstrongs have just been received at the Ordnance stores, Chatham, and others will be forwarded from Woolwich as fast as they can be supplied from the Armstrong gun factory. Capt. Caffin, C. 8., Director of Stores, yesterday, accompanied by Mr. Stewart, Chief Military Store keeper at Portsmouth, inspected the great depot powder magazines in the Southampton watery. The Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. John Sec- A detachment of eligible young men from C.lpt. Davies's recruiting station at Liverpool yesterday arrived at the Woolwich division of the Roya.. l Marines, and wore enrolled for service, THE NAVY. -..4P- - VALETTA, Sept. 20.—Her Majesty's gunboat Wanderer, 4, Commander Seymour, arrived on the 18th inst. from Devonport and Gibraltar. Her Ma jesty's ship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. G. Bowyer, left yesterday on return to England. She took the fol- lowing passengers :—Capt. Cowell, 3d Buffs; En sign Hall, 22d Regiment ; Mrs. and Mrs. Coxon, Mrs. Stokes, Mrs. Tudor, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Cloyne, Miss Yair, 1 corporal, 5 soldiers, 2 soldiers' wives, and 13 children. The screw steamer Malacca, Capt. T. S. Gilpin, having on board a portion of the Malta and Alexandria electric telegraph cable, which is to be laid from the cable end in the Gulf of Syrtis to Bengazi, left for Bengazi yesterday, to meet the Rangoon at that place. The Rangoon is at present engaged in laying the portion of the cable intended to unite the Alexandria end with Bengazi. On the submersion of these two sections the whole line from Alexandria to Malta will be complete. eombe, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning for Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu with detachments of troops, as already detailed in The Sun, calling at Queenstown. She afterwards put back, and anchored in St. Helen's Roads, owing to the wild state of the weather. The Alert, 17, screw, Commander W. R. Pearse, sailed from Spithead yesterday for Devonport, where she will be dismantled, pay off her crew, and bo put out of commission. The Pelican. 17, screw, Commander Brock, also sailed from Spithead yesterday for foreign service, calling at a western port for final orders. Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Archer, 13, Capt. Craufurd, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Green hithe yesterday, and discharged her powder. She will proceed this morning to Wool wich to be stripped and paid off. The Archer was commissioned at Woolwich in May, 1858, for the African station, soon after her return from North America and the West Indies, in command of Capt. Edmund Heathcote. Having undergone but slight repairs since 1853, she will now require a thorough overhaul. On Wednesday next Gen. Dacres will inspect the Royal Artillery at Purfleet, and on the following Friday he will proceed to the station at Warley for the same purpose, when the half-yearly inspection of the General's district will be completed. Lieut.-Col. Greenwood, C. 8., who died at Chel tenham on the 22d inst., in his 67th year, served in the China expedition, for which he received a medal. He entered the Royal Artillery in 1812. By the death of Gen. Dennis Herbert, one of the senior Generals in the army, a pension for distin guished and meritorious service is placed at the dis posal of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. 2HE NEW MINUTES ON EDUCATION, The paddlewheel steam-sloop Firebrand, Com mander Bruce, from North America and the West Indies, having been received in basin at Woolwich and surveyed, is ordered to be ready again for sea about the 18th of October. The work of caulking and cleaning commenced yesterday in basin, and the crew are to be granted 14 days' leave of absence. The extraordinary concord and harmony that prevail among all classes in the country do not afford a prospect of very lively or exciting discus sions during the recess of Parliament. Austria and Hungary are at a deadlock. The Emperor of the French is weaving Penelope's web; his even ings undo his mornings, and one half of his policy contradicts the other. He gives France Free Trade, but deprives her of confidence. He delivers Italy from Austria, but debars her from union and self government. Of rifled ordnance and armour-plated ships there is little more to be said, and the public seems inclined to leave the struggle between the Northern and Southern States to work itself out without a word of sympathy for either party. The void thus created seems likely to be filled by a new educational controversy. The Minute of the Privy Council, recently noticed in our columns, has created a sensation perhaps not wholly unlooked for by those who propounded it. To us, looking at the subject from the point of view of the general public, andregarding with some degree of dismay the enor mous progress of this item of our expenditure, the minute appeared by no means unreasonable. That Government should interfere less with the manage ment of schools, that it should make its assistance conditional rather on results actually obtained than on the means employed to obtain those results, seemed to us an obvious improvement. We were glad to find that assistance was henceforward to be given to schools of a poorer and humbler class than those which had hitherto received it, and we were not unwilling that something should be lopped off from the excrescences and superfluities in order to provide for this most useful and charitable work. Alas t we little knew the red-hot ashes on which we had placed our unconscious feet. We did not sufficiently consider that, though to us these things were matters of calm and abstract speculation, there were others, and those counted by thousands, whom they touched in the very tenderest point— in respect to their pecuniary interest. The sum of £lOO,OOO a year annually voted by Parliament is distributed among a vast number of persons, and any change in the rules under which that distribu tion is effected must affect, and not always benefi cially affect, the condition of the recipients. LI the instance of the new iviinute the change seems to have been peculiarly unpalatsille. An outcry has arisen from every quarter of the coeessrv, attesting at once the manner in which it is pervaae4 by the expenditure of the Government, and the difiacuiky of effecting the slightest alteration in subsidies dis pensed from a central source. The best service that we can render to the pub lic under such circumstances is to place them in possession of the history of the present system of Education, of its defects and merits, and of the rea sons which have driven-a department, ;which has elm erre) she we itcolipcouliazij canzzioua to nnnoiliato public favour, to brave the storm of unpopularity which is now arising against it The Education Department of the Privy Council dates from 1839, but can hardly be said to have come into full play till 1846, when the system of pupil teachers and of annual grants was first thoroughly digested and brought into working order. In expenditure its progress has been rapid indeed ; for, beginning in 1839 with £30,000, it has reached in 1861 to the sum of £803,000, having increased for several years at the rate of £lOO,OOO per annum. The principle of this system has been that the State should origi nate nothing, but assist the exertions of private benevolence, requiring in exchange such conditions as it thinks proper in order to secure the requisite efficiency. This assistance, however, has never been given to any schools except those in which religion is taught, and in this respect the Privy Council system may with propriety be termed religious. But, though limiting its aid to schools where religion is taught, and refusing absolutely to assist secular schools, the Privy Council has never made its grants to support religions in struction. The duty which it has undertaken has been to take care that those religious bodies to whom it extended the assistance of the State should not neglect the secular instruction of their schools ; and a system of inspection was organized, with a view of ascertaining that this secular teaching was not neglected. Agreements have been entered into with each of the religious bodies whose schools receive aid from the Privy Council, for the purpose of regulating their relations to the central body. These agreements remain in full force, and are in no degree affected by the Minute which is the subject of the present controversy. The principle of the Privy Council, we have said, was to assist voluntary effort, but from this principle it has deviated in three instances. The first of these is the Capitation Grant, which is given for every child attending school a certain number of times, with out any corresponding payment on the part of the managers of the school. The second devia tion from this rule is the support of Training Colleges, thirty-six in number, which are supported almost wholly at the expense of the State, and cost the country the sum of £122,000 a year. The third deviation is in the case of the pupil teachers, or apprentices, the whole of whose salary is de• frayed by the State, without any assistance from private funds. Every certificated schoolmaster receives, in addition to his salary from the managers of the school, a grant in augmentation of that salary from the public purse. It has been repeatedly an nounced that this system is to be regarded as merely tentative, and that it does not commit the Govern ment or the country to its ultimate adoption in case it shall not be found to work satisfactorily. This is the Eden into which the evil principle has found its way, embodied, if we are to believe the complaints that we hear, in the form of the recent Minute of the Privy Council. An impression was created—probably' by, the form in which the Minute is drawn—that it would come into immediate effect, that no opportunity would be given for addressing the Legislature, and that before the next Session of Parliament the system would be finally and irrevocably changed. This, however, appears to us to be a mistake. The Minute does, indeed, contain the rules under which it is intended that Government aid shall ultimately be granted to schools, and has in that respect a brief and peremptory appearance, which vanishes upon sent. closer impection. The g r ant to every sch oo l i s p a id date of The Ordnance Select Committee, of whi c h president,l annually, and the Minute provides that each school J. shall be paid once under the existing /miles after the St. George, CM., Royal Artillery, is the the Minute. Long before the second pay ment can arr i ve, w hi ch must in the earliest case be h tying decided c.n making some impo r t an t alters- more than a year from the date of the Minute— tions in the equipment of the 12 pounder (81 cwt.) ) that is, from the 29th of July in 1861—Parliament Arinslrong guns , orde'F have been recei ve d at would have had the fullest opportunity of consider g übject, and should the M . b Ch a th a m, Woolwich, and the other military stations n th e s of preventing it from taking in e u ff * e e ct. e same time, it is cle Atistahpe proved, for The proposed alterations to be applied to all future tt e a e t in . some minor points the issue::: of these cle,,criptions of guns. The breech Minute would havear to o m s mediately operative, tangen t h a g been altered from steel to gun and we are therenfoerloesgealadon con metal,thiseepatrhtatorfuthrtehseurbjecttrovers has been by an official declaration that the Minute shall have and fro , z 1 a rectangular to a hexagonal form, the upper portio'n bein g at the same time completely no effect till after the month of March, 1869 remcdelled, inclucling the leaf, cross-head, horizon- need therefore be no apprehension the, t therefullest tal and vertical verniei:s, elevating and deflecting opportunity will not be given for the discussion by screws, &c. The ratchet s;oht has" • lindergone consi- Parliament of this Minute. There is no doubt an in any eat inconvenience of transition, apted towhich it is derable improvement by ha ving h ' its Ca. impossible to obviate. There is the uncertainty the best advantage for • -orr ele the fingers when GOA 2 , whether the proposal will or will not meet with the ' , Med. The trunnion• 'lied approbation of Parliament, and there is the difficulty and made sight has also been remodt_ • ' arising from a long notice of an intended change. „more substantial , while at the same twa, 18 Bemired to the interested in schools may reasonably corn the bod y gun, instead of being let through • • roub Those that their exertions are paralysed during this Y of the t runn i on. Considerable im prove- 1 prove- p In order to facilitate the operation of berthing the iron frigate Defence, 22, in No. 3 dock at Chatham, the blocks on which she will be placed have been reduced to a uniform depth of only three and a half inches throughout, thus givin g nearly e foot more water between her keel and the blocks. As the Defence at present lies, her greatest draught of water aft is a few inches less than 23 feet, but, as at the highest spring tides a depth of nearly 25 feet can be obtained in the dock she will occupy, there will be sufficient water to dock her with per fect safety. It is, however, a matter for considera tion whether after she has been fitted with her stores, and her iron masts are on board—for the Admiralty have decided on having her masted before she is docked—her draught of water will not be so in creased as to render the procest of undocking her one of some difficulty. The work of ?Laing the De fence afloat is still rapidly proceeding, upwards of 100 mechanics from the dockyard, and those em ployed by the contractors, being engaged on h er , the wen working from daylight in the mornin g until a late hour at night. Whatever delay, there fore, may take place in docking the Defence, no time will be lost in getting her ready for sea, as the works to be effected in her interior can be carried on quite as well as she lies afloat in the harbour as if she were in dock, though, of course, in the latter case greater facilities exist for completing her equipment. In addition to the dockyard mechanics, a number of workmen of various trades will shortly be taken on at the dockyard, to be specially employed in com pleting the Defence, the Admiralty being desirous of sending her to sea as early as possible to join the Warrior. A naval court-martial was held yesterday at Sheerness, on board the Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone, for the pur pose of trying E. S. Young, acting assist.-engineer belonging to her Majesty's ship Cumberland, but serving on board her Majesty's gun-vessel Lee, for absenting himself without leave from about Sept. 2, 1861, until about Sept. 14, 1801. The uhttrge WtAb fully proved, the offender being sentenced to be severely reprimanded, and also to forfeit out of his pay the sum of 125., the same sum not exceeding the amount of two days' pay, and also the further sum of £lB, such last-mentioned sum not exceeding six days of his said pay for every 25 hours of absence from his duties. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. B. L. Lefroy, to command the Doterel, commissioned ; Lieut. F. H. H. Hutch inson, to the Medea; Lieut. N. B. Smith, to the Pelican ; Lieut. P. Blakiston, additional, to the Marlborough, for disposal ; C. B. Ityall, master, to the Indus, for service in the Styx ; Henry R. Berners, sub-lieutenant, to the Narcissus ; Allan R. Woodruff, naval cadet, to the Orestes ; J. Hood, chief engineer, to the Medea; C. A. Strat ford, acting engineer, to the Medea ; J. H. Binns, engineer to the Fisgard for the Rifleman ; David Millar, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Majestic for the Goshawk; P. Hutchinson, first-class assist.- engineer, to the Himalaya; W. Birks, acting first class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary for hospital treatment; W. M'Laurin, acting first class assist.-engineer to the Medea; J. Austen, sur geon, to the Medea; W. J. Aplin, assist.-surgeon, to the Warrior ; W. Barclay, second-class assist.-engi neer, to the Medea; J. Sumner, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Medea; W. J. Sullock, act ing second, class assist.-engineer, to the Indus, for service i n the Thais ; W. J. Wise, acting second class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for the Fire Queen ; G. Edwards, acting assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for the Eche; A. M. Mould, second master, to the Plover ; H. H. Hannay, second master, to the Dasher ; H. Mortimer, master's-assist., to the Medea; W. H. Buck, master's-assist., to the Victory ; E. H. C. Smith, master's-assist.,to the Malacca; D. F. Guy, assist -paymaster, to the Victory, as super numerary ; E. H. Key, clerk, to the Firebrand ; and B. Drayson, assist.-clerk, to the Formidable. THE ARM Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, commanding at Wool wich, yesterday continued h is h a lf-y ear ly inspec tion. He attended at the riding establishment, under the superintendence of Col. Henry, V.C. He also inspect e d on W oo l w i c h- common the 10th brigade Garrison Artillery, in command of Col. Mundy. The clean and soldierlike appearance of the men recently arrived from Portsmouth, and their gene ral bearing and demeanour elicited repeated marks of the General's a pprobatieddaring the inspection. To-morrow the half -yearly inspection will close, if the weather permits, by the General holding a grand field-day on Woolwich common, where the whole of the troops in garrison will be reviewed in heavy marching order. The sth Lancers, in command of Captain B o yd, together with the riding establishment and a detachment of the Foot Artil lery, will be told off to keep the ground, a s a nume rous assemblage of spectators is expected to be pre- THE SUNS LONDON, THURSDAY EVE NINO, S E PTE VIBE R 26, 1861 interregnum. They would, on the other hand, have much greater reason to complain had the change be ,:k forced upon them without sufficient opportu nity for remonstrance or discussion. These diffi culties are inseparable from the very nature of change, and will be borne with cheerfulness or with inrpatience according to the estimate which is f o nne,:l of the merits or demerits of the change itself. That the change should be a matter of doubt is a misfortune for which nobody can fairly be held resp ,Insible, and which no contrivance can obviate. Wilt: t are the objects of the Minute its& we will consider' on a future occasion.—Times. THE CASE aY ,RICHAIRD 0 UINNESS HILL. RUGBY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The adjourned inquiry into the charge preferred against Richard Guinness Hill of having furnished to the Registrar of Births for the Rugby district false particulars touching a male child, born on the sth January, 1859, was resumed and concluded to day at the Town-hall: The following magistrates were on the bench :—Mr. G. W. B. Leigh, the Rev. R. Lickorish, Mr. G. M. Caldecott, Mr. J. A. Camp bell, Mr. Butler, and Mr. Atty. Mr. Leigh presided. The court room was crowded by the people of the town and neighbourhood. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Cooke , solicitor. Mr. Philbrick, instructed by Me ssrs. White and Collisson, defended the prisoner. The prisoner was brought up in the custody of the police. His demeanour was if anything quieter and more subdued than it was on Saturday. He was ac commodated with a seat near his counsel, with whom he frequently communicated during the day. The first witness was Mr. John Collis, record keeper in the Bishop of foTdon's registry, who stated that the depository of records in that registry is in St. Paul's Cathedral, and who produced thence a certificate of marriage. He was proceeding to describe the contents when he was interrupted by Mr. Philbrick, who maintained that the certifi cate could not be accepted as evidence until the hand writing was proved. Mr. Cooke immediately called Mr. Maltby, English Vice-Consul in Brussels, who stated that the certificate was in the handwrit ing of the Rev. Mr. Drury, the clergyman who married Mr. and Mrs. Hill. He added that he also knew the handwriting of the witnesses, the first of whom was the Hon. Wm. Eden, an attache. Mr. Philbrick submitted that the certificate could not be received. It purported to be signed by an English clergyman in Brussels, and to be witnessed by certain pez sons, one of whom was said to be an attache. Such a document could in no sense be said to be a certificate which was admissible as evidence in England. The House of Lords had decided in a celebrated peerage case that no certificate of marriage could be accepted as evi dence here unless it had been registered according to the law of the country in which the marriage took place. In the present instance there was no proof that the certificate now produced had been registered according to the law of Belgium, or that it had been issued by an official person in the dis charge of an official duty. Mr. Cooke, in reply to the objection of the learned gentleman, recalled Mr. Collis, who stated that certificates of mar riages celebrated abroad between English subjects were registered in the Bishop of London's Registry. The mode of registry was by entering the certifi cate in a book, and depositing the original in the cathedral. Such had been the invariable practice for many years. Mr. Philbrick remarked that the statement of Mr. Collis only proved that the certificate now pro duced came from official custody. The question still remained, whether it was written and issued by the Rev. W. Drury in the discharge of a public duty imposed by law. In reply to further questions from Mr. Cooke, The witness said he did not know by what autho rity the registration of certificates of marriages celebrated abroad between English subjects took place. He knew, however, that such certificates were transmitted to the Bishop of London's Registry through the Foreign .office. Mr. Maltby recalled, and examined by Mr. Cooke —I vv ..= present at the marriage mentioned in the certificate now produced. The parties were Richard Guinness Hill and Amy Georgina Burdett. The prisoner is the husband, and I have seen Mrs. Hill this morning at the George Hotel. IU. On n i r p_T c» limit that the marriaze is now proved. Mr. Philbriek will surely admit that. Mr. Philbrick--We cannot admit anything in a criminal case. Mr. Atty—l cannot see what the marriage has to do with the charge before us. Mr. Philbrick—lt has nothing to do with it whatever. Mr. Cooke, addressing the witness, asked whether since the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hill had, up to a recent period, lived continuously together ? Witness—l believe so. About the month of April last were you called upon to adjust differences between them ? Mr. Philbrick—That quiet question is totally beside the case. The falsification of the register is alleged to have taken place in January, 1859, and now it is proposed to enter into something in the married life of the parties which is supposed to have occurred in April, 1861. That cannot have any effect on the charge before the magistrates. Mr. Atty—l think so too. Mr. Cooke—My question is incidental to the charge, because it is necessary to prove that the child registered was a child of the marriage. Mr. Philbrick—Not at all. Mr. Cooke—lt is also important to show the mo tives of the prisoner for falsifying the register. The question was not put. You have examined entry No. 221 in the Rugby r;gister-book for Sam., 1859 have. Under the head "Name and surname of father," what do you find P—l find the name " Robert Hill." In what respect is that falsified? Mr. Philbrick—l do not object to the question, but it is perfectly useless. The entry in the regis ter speaks for itself. Witness—The only answer I can give is that the person who wrote the name " R. Hill " in the entry is the same person whom I know as Richard Guin • ness Hill. That person is the prisoner. Eliza Jeffreys, a married woman, residing in Rugby, stated that on Jan. 5, 1859, she was sent for to the Globe Inn to nurse a lady about to be con fined. The lady was delivered of a male child. Here Mrs. Hill and the child were brought into court, and were identified by the witness. They remained for a minute only. Mrs. Hill wore a thick veil, which partially concealed her features. Witness continued—The prisoner was living at the Globe Inn at the time, but I had no conversa tion with him. By the Chairman—Have you seen the child since you were at the Globe Inn in the beginning of 1859? —I saw it on Saturday last. How did you know it was the same child P—l know it by its features generally, and by the colour of its hair. And no you think it is the same child P—l do. Did you see Mr. Hill on the sth of January, 1859? —Yes; I saw him at the Globe Inn. Did he come into the room where the lady was P —Yes. How long did you remain in the service ?—Eight days. Was there any other person nursing -the lady besides yourself P—Not while I was there. Why did you leave so early P--The gentleman told me his expenditure was great, that he could not afford to keep me, and that there was a nurse coming from London to take the baby. Who paid you for your services P—Mr. Hill. James Brett, the detective officer, formally pro duced the shawl in which the child was wrapped when it was taken to London, and the box in which its clothes were packed, and stated that he got the latter from Mrs. Andrews on the 13th of June, and the former from Mr. Cooke on the 14th. He then, in answer to questions from Mr. Cooke, proceeded as follows :—I was first employed in this matter in the latter end of May. I had two interviews with the prisoner, one on the 7th and the other on the Bth of June, in Mr. Cooke's office. What was the object of those interviews ? Mr. P hilbrick—l object t o th at question. Nothing that passed after the detective was employed can affect the charge of falsifying the register. But there is another point. When the interviews re ferred to took place Mr. Cooke was in friendly com munication with Mr. Hill. I hold in my hand ir -note addressed by Mr, Cooke to Mr. Hill, in which the writer requests Mr. Hill to oblige him by calling at his office at a particular time, concluding with " Dear Sir, yours very truly, G. F. Cooke." It is monstrous then, that an attempt should be made to give evidence of conversations which passed, I may say, between client and attorney, in order to pre judice a man on a criminal charge. A more wicked thing I never heard of in my life. (A laugh.) Mr. Atty—l think we cannot allow the question to be put. The question was then withdrawn. Did Mr. Hill tell you how he had disposed of the child P—He did. Tell us what he said—He said that he went up to London a few days after the birth of the child— Mi. Philbrick—l object to this altogether. Let me ask the witness—Was Mr. Cooke acting as soli citor in the matter ? Witness—l don't know; he was instructing me. Mr. Philbrick—ft was in his office that you talked with Mr. Hill ?—lt was. Mr. Philbrick—Then, as Isaid before, I object to it altogether. Mr. Bloxam, the clerk, addressing the witness, asked—Did you see the prisoner by yourself, or was Mr. Cooke present P—He was present. Mr. Cooke—l was not acting as solicitor for the prisoner. Mr. Philbrick—But a fortnight after you called him "Dear sir," and signed yourself " Yours very truly, G. F. Cooke." (A laugh.) Examination continued—l took the prisoner into custody on the 14th Sept. ; the warrant was granted on the 24th June. I took him at No. 6, Trinity square, South wark, London. He had engaged apart ments there. At that time Mrs. Hill was living at No. 15 in the same square. When I took the pri soner he had a pair of false whiskers and a false moustache in his hat. I recovered the child from Mrs. Andrews on the 13th June. Cross-examined by Mr. Philbrick—Who em ployed you ?—Mr. Cooke. For whom was employed by Mr. Cooke; that is all I know. Did Mr. Hill give you any information to enable you to trace the child ?—He professed to do so, and he did to a certain extent. Some of his information turned out accurate, and some inaccurate, Did you pursue your investigation partly on the information he gave you P—l did. Did he appear desirous that the child should be traced P—He appeared so. Mr. Cooke, in order to complete the evidence, here proposed to produce and read a letter ad dressed by the prisoner to his wife ; but Mr. Philbrick objected on the ground that written communications between husband and wife were protected. The Chairman—ls the letter material to the case ? Mr. Cooke—lt states that the child is dead, and that the prisoner paid for its funeral. (A laugh.) The Chairman—My opinion is that the letter may be read. This declaration of the chairman was received with some applause, whereupon Mr. Philbrick asked to be protected from exhibi tions of public feeling, which in a court of justice were disgraceful. The Chairman said that interruptions by the audience had a tendency to impede the administra tion of justice, and, as they all wished that only the guilty should be convicted and punished, he was sure they would see the propriety of hearing in perfect silence the evidence which might be given. Mr. Philbrick argued that it was a cardinal prin ciple of law in criminal jurisprudence thathusband and wife could n o t b e ca lled either for or against each other, and quo t e d " Taylor on Evidence" to show that written communications were equally protected by law with verbal evidence. The magistrates having decided that the letter should not be read, Mr. Cooke said he had closed the case ,for the prosecution, and expressed his belief that he had produced sufficient evidence to justify the committal of the prisoner. On being asked whether he had anything to say in answer to the charge, the prisoner in a low tone replied—l will leave it to my counsel. M r . Philbrick then addressed the magistrates. It was now his duty, he said, to make some obser vations on the part of Mr. Hill in answer to the charge preferred against him. The extraordinary public interest which had attached to the circum stances of this case, the romantic details with which the newspapers had teemed, and the excitement which even the presence of a court of justice had been unable to restrain, conspired to render the per formance of that duty a task of no ordinary diffi culty. There could be no doubt that the prosecution had been instituted from motives'of personal revenge and malignity towards Mr. Hill, and the course which had been adopted in conducting the case that day—first seeking to divulge confidential commu nications between attorney and client, and then at tempting to produce in evidence communications between husband and wife —clearly proved that those motives were of the strongest and most violent kind. No one could hesitate to believe that it was the wife and her advisers who had instituted and who were conducting this prosecution. The contest was a contest between the husband and wife, although strenuous efforts had been made to give it a different complexion. The charge against Mr. Hill was that he had falsified the register of births for the Rugby district, and in order to prove that allegation the prosecution, in defiance of the rules of evidence, had imported a great deal of irrelevant matter into the case with the view of showing an alleged motive. It was said that, a child having been b .rn to him by his wife, Mr. Hill wilfully falsified the register of births for the purpose of concealing the existence of the child, and thereby securing to himself some pecuniary benefit nnder a certain trust. What were the facts ? Under the trusts of the mar riage settlement Mr. Hill had a life interest, of which no children, however numerous, could de prive him, in the whole of the fund; so that any in terest which he might have in concealing the birth of a child must be some ulterior interest to arise after his death. If there were no children of the marriage, and the wife survived, the property was to go to her absolutely; whereas if Mr. Hill out lived her he was to take half of the fund and the other half was to go to her next of kin. There re mained the very material fact that the right of Mr. Hill, in case he survived, to tak e h a lf o f t h e set _ _ tied fund was subject to an absolute power of ap pointment on the part of the wife. If she sur vived she had the fund absolutely, while, if Mr. Hill survived, by a single stroke of her pen she could prevent him from touching one penny withdut her consent. It followed that all attempts to suppress the child must be useless. Mr. Hill must have known that unless his wife consented to the suppression of the child—unless she became a partner in his guilt --he would never get a single shilling of the set tled property. Thus the prosecution recoiled with a fearful rebound upon the wife and her advisers, because if Mr. Hill were to profit by the suppres sion of the child he could only do so, under the terms of the marriage settlement, with the full knowledge and consent of his wife. It was worthy of remark that the £14,000 a year of the first pub lished accounts had dwindled down to £14,000 in bulk. The fact was, however, that the capital did not amount to £14,000, for the stamp on the mar. riage settlement would not cover a larger sum than £B,OOO. But he had shown that Mr. Hill could have no pecuniary motive without full complicity on the part of his wife. A noticeable circumstance was that, though both young persons, seven years elapsed after their marriage before there was any hope of issue. At length Mrs. Hill became preg nant, and then it was said that she came over from the Continent to London to be confined. That state ment was not quite accurate, because she went, not to London, but to Ireland, to visit Mr. Hill's friends. It was surprising that a young woman, about to give birth to her first-born, instead of staying among the friends of her husband in Ireland, where she was known and where she might reckon upon every attention in the hour of peril, should have hurried off to London under circumstances of such pressure that she Was obliged to leave the train before it arrived at its destination, and to tike re fuge in a small publichouse in a country town. Not a single friend or acquaintance had been called to prove that she ever said she was in the family way. Not a word was ever heard of this child. Suddenly, and without any assignable reason, she left her home in Ireland, and the only conclusion to which an impartial man could come was that she had some purpose of secrecy to serve. He did not intend to follow Mr. Hill into London ' after the confinement; but one thing was quite clear, that it was the mother who, in the dead of winter, by a late train reaching Euston-station at eleven o'clock at night, and in the charge of a young girl totally unfitted for such a trust, sent her first-born child up to London—a distance of nearly 100 miles. He appealed to the honest instincts of every mother whether it was credible that with out her knowledge and consent the unhappy child could have been so consigned. A mother who consented to part with her first-born immediately after its birth, and who for two whole years abstained from making any inquiry after her own offspring, must have the strongest possible motive for concealment—a motive sufficiently strong to overcome the yearnings of maternal love. What the motive was in this case he did not care to inquire at the present moment. Whether the wife was ac tuated by a desire to conceal her own shame—to hide a dishonour done to the nuptial bed—was a question which he had no wish to discuss. If those who represented the unhappy woman expected to elicit from him a knowledge of the strength of the allegations and facts upon which Mr. Hill would rely in a charge of adultery against his wife, which must be investigated before Sir Cresswell Cress well, he could tell them they were mistaken, for he assuredly would not enter into that subject, until he appeared before the proper tribunal. The learned gentleman, turning to the charge before the magi strates, maintained that the very fact that Mr. Hill went to the registrar long before there was any :egal obligation on him to do so showed that he had no intention to make a false statement. No man in his senses would perpetrate against himself in the pages of an official record the proof of a misde meanour when there was not the smallest necessity for doing so. There could be no doubt, too, that Mr. Hill signed the register in his genuine hand, and with his proper name. It was true he left out " Guinness," and gave only the initial letter of his first Christian name; but it was well known that three judges now on the bench, of whom Baron Bramwell might be mentioned as one, were in the habit of omitting some of their Christian names when putting their signatures to documents. There was no proof that the inaccuracies in the entry No. 221 were attributable to Mr. Hill. The death of Herbert, the registrar, was to be regretted. When he was relieving officer there were defalcations and irregularities in his accounts, and in this very re gister there were inaccuracies of so grave a charac ter that the superintendent registrar was obliged to report him as incompetent, the result of which was that he resigned—to use the words of Mr. Hef ford—" under compulsion." In short, the authen ticity of the register was completely destroyed, and no criminal proceeding could be founded upon. it. He hoped the magistrates would not shrink from the responsibility of saying that the defendant ought not to be committed for trial. No harm would be done, because it woald still IT open to the prosecution to present a bill to a grand jury if they pleased, while a great injustice would be avoided. He had shown that the alleged pecuniary motive on the part of Mr. Hill had no existence; that Mrs. Hill herself must have been from first to last cog nisant of what was going on with the child, espe cially since the girl Parsons must have told her of the two women whom she saw in London, and that there was not the slightest reason for supposing that the mistakes which appeared on the face of the register• book were the work of Mr. Hill, whose own signature was in all respects genuine. For these reasons he trusted the magistrates would spare Mr. Hill the inconvenience, anxiety, and expense which a trial must entail upon him. The magistrates then retired. On their return, after the lapse of about five minutes, The Chairman said,—The magistrates, having considered this case, are unanimously of opinion that the defendant should be sent to take his trial for the offence with which he is charged. I have also to state that bail, if offered, will be accepted, the defendant himself in £509, and two sureties in £5OO each. Mr. Cooke was bound over to prosecute. The prisoner, who began writing a letter as soon as he heard the decision of the magistrates, was removed by the police, in the first instance to the station-house in Rugby, where he has hitherto been confined, but afterwards to the county gaol. POLICE IN2ELLIGENCE, sept. 25. MANSION-HOUSE.—Emanuel Levy, who was brought up on Thursday last charged with having in his possession two country bank notes of the value of £5 each, which were stolen from a post letter i❑ transit from Louth to London, well-know ing them to have been stolen, was again brought up for further examination. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection Association, attended to conduct the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh, barrister, appeared on behalf of the prisoner. From the evidence adduced on the former exa mination it appeared that on the Wednesday the prisoner presented a promissory note on the Wis beach and Lincolnshire Bank for payment at Messrs. Barclay's, and it was found that it was stopped: Tilcock, a detective officer, was called in, and told the prisoner that the note was one of a number that were stolen from a letter, in February last, on its transit through the Post-office from Louth to Messrs. Prescott's bank, and asked him what account he could give of the possession of it. The prisoner said that he kept an oyster shop at Boulogne, and on Wednesday, Sept. 17, three men went into his shop and had three dozen oysters. He told them to make haste, as he wanted to go and get some English money, as he was going to England that day. One of the three men said he would give him some, and gave him two country notes for £5 each, one Bank of England note for £5, and £5 in gold, for which he gave him French money in exchange. The officer then asked him if he had any other notes about him, and he handed him another country note for £5, and also a Bank of England note for £5. On being searched at the station £25 10s. in gold and silver was found upon him. Witnesses were called, who proved the posting of a letter in Louth, addressed to Messrs. Prescott, containing notes and cheques, of which the two country notes produced by the officer formed part, and also of the non receipt of the letter at Messrs. Prescott's bank. Mrs. Lynch, of 3, Camden-place, Camberwell, then deposed that on the 16th of August last she received £lOO in Bank of England notes from Messrs. Linton and Clerke, stockbrokers, and a few days after that she was going from the city homeward, and took an omnibus at the Elephant and Castle. She then had her purse in her pocket containing some of the notes given to her by Messrs. Linton, and on reaching home she found her purse was gone. Mr. Gordon, clerk to Messrs. Linton, deposed that the ,E 5 Bank of England noteproduced by the officer Tilcock bore the same number and date as one of those which he paid to Mrs. Lynch on the 16th August. Mr. Mullens then applied for a further remand in order to make inquiries respecting the Bank of England note, which he did not know until that morning had been stolen. Mr. Sleigh said he was rather surprised that his learned friend should make such an application, and contended that there was not a tittle of evidence to show that the prisoner knew the notes were stolen, and said that the prisoner's statement when he was taken into custody was quite consistent and probable, and the very course thieves would adopt would be to get rid of the notes where they could. He should, therefore, ask his lordship to discharge the prisoner at once. He showed his lordship a certificate from the Commissioner of Police at Bou logne, stating that the prisoner had resided there for the last 18 years, and was a very respectable man, bearing a very good character. Mr. Mullens said the peculiarity of the case was that the prisoner was found in possession of por tions of the produce of two distinct robberies. The Lord Mayor said there was no doubt that there were agents through whom stolen notes got into circulation, and that such agents might have the results of two robberies in their possession at one time, and would pass them where they could, and if those notes passed into the hands of persons of good faith, they would naturally go the Bank to get them changed on arriving at London. He thought if the prisoner had been aware the notes were stolen, he would hardly have run, as it were, " into the lion's mouth." He thought, under the circumstances, however, he would hardly be justi fied in discharging him, but he would`remand him, and take bail for his re-appearance. The prisoner was accordingly remanded, bail being taken—himself in .£lOO, and one surety in X5O. - GUILD HALL. —STRANGE RECOVERY OF A LOST BROOCH AND COMMITTAL OF THE FINDER. _Hugh Hunter, Eliza Wisbeach, alias Hunter, his wile, and Geo. Rugg, a commissionaire, who had been formerly in the Scots Fusilier Guards, were summoned before Arr. Alderman Finnis, for having unlawfully in their possession a curious and valuable brooch, without being able to render a satisfactory account of it. From the evidence of Acting inspector Speck and Police-constable Halford, 336, it appeared that on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 18th inst., the female prisoner offered a valuable gold cameu brooch for sale at Mr. Lawley's, a pawnbroker in Farling don-street, and as her appearance was inconsistent with the possession of such an article of jewellery, the officer Halford was called is, and in answer to his inquiries she said that Hunter, who was her brother, gave her the brooch to sell, and that he re ceived it from a man who was waiting outside, and who had promised him ss. for selling it. At the station-house, in Fleet-street, Hunter's account of the brooch was, that his sister gave it to him to raise money on to send to their sick mother in Sheffield. Speck then asked the female prisoner if she were the sister who gave Hunter the brooch. She said she was, and accounted for possession of and the difference in their names by stating that her brother made her a present of it five years ago in Australia, where she married, but since then she had lost her husband, and returned to England. She said the name of the brother who gave it to her was John Hunter, and that he was a sergeant in the 12th Foot. Speck then asked her if there were any marks on the brooch, he having previously ob served something peculiar on the back of it by which it might be identified, and she replied in the negative. She also said that none of her friends would be able to satisfy the court that she had it in her possession any time within the last four or five years, as she always kept herself to herself, and never allowed any one to see her trinkets ; but on being told that her statement was not satisfac tory, and that she and Hunter, who is in reality her husband, and not her brother, would be locked up and taken before a magistrate, Hunter said it was no use detaining them, and that he would tell the truth. He then stated that Rugg, the commissionaire, they had seen outside, had offered them ss. if they would sell the brooch for him ; his account to them being that he had pur chased it at Cremorne for half-a-crown. Rugg was then brought into the station, and he gave his num ber as a commissionaire, C C 121, and his address 11, Robert-street, Brompton. He admitted that he gave the brooch to Hunter, and added that he bought it in Dublin four or five years ago, and that Hunter's story was all a lie. Under these circum stances Hunter and his wife were detained and taken before the Alderman at this court on the fol lowing day, when Rugg attended and made a similar statement, the result of which was that the prisoners were discharged ; but the facts of the case subsequently appearing in the newspapers, Capt. Williams applied to the police, in whose hands the brooch remained, and identified it as the property of Mrs. Gray, who was at present staying at Brighton on account of ill-health, and therefore un able to attend. This information at once gave rise to fresh inquiries, and it was ascertained that the address given by Rugg was a false one, and as the brooch was supposed to have been lost at Cremorne Gardens on the occasion of the grand fete on the 29th of last month, where he as a commissionaire was on duty, Speck immediately took out sum monses against all the defendants on the present charge, in support of which the following addi tional evidence was given. Halford, 336, said—The defendant Rugg also gave his address as Jiving at the office of the commis sionaire in Wilton-street, which is incorrect. I have ascertained that he was on duty at Cremorne Gardens on the night the brooch was lost, and that since then he has exhibited it among his mess-mates, and stated he bought it of a prostitute at Cremorne for half-a-crown. Alderman Finnis—ls there any one here to prove that statement and to inform the Court what Rugg's previous character has been ? Speck—Yes, Sir. One of the commissionaires, and the sergeant-major of Rugg's corps. Alderman Finnis—Very well, call them, for I will hear any evidence that will throw light on the matter, as it is important the conduct of these par ties should be thoroughly investigated. CommissionaireNo. 64 said—The defendant Rugg has been connected with his corps about five months, and during that time has been appointed to the duty at Cremorne Gardens. On the 18th of the present month I was in the mess-room with several others, when Rugg showed us the brooch in ques tion, and asked if we were judges of gold and could tell him the value of it. He said that a female came to him at Cremorne Gardens a few nights previous and asked him to advance her 2s. 6d. on the brooch, at the same time alleging that she gave 30s. for it, and that on his asking her afterwards for the money, and offering to return the brooch, she told him to go to the devil, for she had no half-crown. He also told us that ne knew the brooch was gold, as a jeweller had valued it at £3 3s. Mr. Martin (the chief clerk)—Were you present when Hunter and his wife were charged at this court last week ? Witness—l was, sir. Mr. Martin—Then why did you not mention what you have now stated ? You heard him say that he bought it in Dublin four or five years ago. Witness—l heard him say so, but I did not then think of the story he had told us in the mess room. Sergeant-Major Platt said the defendant Rugg was formerly in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and was discharged, on account of wounds and the loss of an arm, with a pension and excellent character. He was appointed to Cremorne Gardens, and was paid by Mr. E. T. Smith, the proprietor, £1 per week for his services. Mr. E. T. Smith is most particular in all matters of this kind, and provides for the restoration of property lost in the gardens in the same manner that he did at her Majesty's and Drury-lane Theatres. A book is kept in which every article found is registered, so that any one applying to Mr. Smith may recover their lost pro perty if it has been found. It was therefore the duty of every one employed in the gardens to deliver all such property to the proprietor of the gardens, and bad Rugg done so this brooch would have been restored to the owner, as application was made for it on the following day by Captain Williams. Laura Drake, lady's maid to Mrs. Gray, identified the brooch as belonging to that lady, and said—l remember Mrs. Gray going to Cremorne, merely to walk in the gardens, and she returned home in the carriage. I observed the brooch was defective in its fastening when she went out, and when retiring for the night I missed it. The value, of the brooch is about £lO, as it is gold and a garnet cameo. Speck—l think the value is considerably more, as it is worth £6 to break up for the gold alone and the garnet cameo is very valuable on account of the exquisite workmanship. Captain Williams, after applying at Cremorne, did not advertise th e b rooc h , believing that the finder being ignorant of its value, would endeavour to dispose of it and get into trouble accordingly, and he consequently watched the police reports in the newspapers daily, confident that he should hear more of the brooch from that source. Had it not been for the report of the first proceedings it is probable that nothing further would have been discovered. Hunter and Wisbeach declared they were entirely innocent, being merely the dupes of Rugg. Rugg—l am in the habit, sir,of lending money to persons in the gardens, and it was in the manner stated to the officer that the brooch came into my possession. - Alderman Finnis—This is a case in which you have all by your own falsehoods placed yourselves in a very eerious position. With regard to you, Hunter and Wisbeach, you have given so many ac counts of the matter that I am induced to believe you had a guilty knowledge in reference to the value, as well as to the manner in which Rugg be came possessed of it. It is an open question whether the brooch was lost or stolen. Had I been satisfied that it was the latter I should deal with the case very differently. Ido not believe Rugg's story at all. I believe that he picked up the article, and the fact that he employed the others for a considera tion of ss. to sell is for him shows that he knew he was acting improperly. Halford—l have ascertained, sir, that during Rugg's employment at Cremorne-gardens only two articles, a common bracelet and a gold ring, ol trifling value, have been given up to Mr. E. T Smith, to be returned to the owners, if claimed. Alderman Finnis—The public must be protected. You, Rugg, were employed in a responsible position, on account of your presumed good character as a commissionaire. You have fought for your coun try, and have won the confidence of the public ; but the confidence reposed in you you have abused. You have offended in every way against the law, the regulations of the institution you belong to, and the rules of the establishment you have been em ployed in. It is my duty, therefore, to make an example of you. Had you, in the first instance, given a straightforward account of the brooch I should have looked more leniently upon your offence, but you have, by your own conduct, for feited all claim to indulgence in consideration of previous good character. I now commit you all three to prison for fourteen days, and I trust it will be a caution to you all as long as you live against dealing with property that does not belong to you. It is only due to Mr. Lawley, the pawnbroker, to state publicly that his conduct has been most praise worthy ; and if all persons would act in a similar manner it would be creditable to themselves, and more conducive to the ends of justice. This is the third case which has been brought before me this week in which Mr. Lawley has been instrumenta in bringing criminals to justice. HAMMERSMITH.—ThE MOULVIE'S FAMILY. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS. - Mahomed Moulvie Musseeh Ooddeen, KM., appeared before Mr. Ingham, to answer a summons charging hi m with an assault upon his wife, Clara Jane. There was another summons taken out by Eleanor O'Riley, a middle-aged Irishwoman, against Madame Moulvie, for committing an assault upon her, and, as that summons had priority, it Was heard before the other. Mr. Poland appeared for his Excellency, a n d they both sat at the solicitors' table while the case against Madame Moulvie was heard. The complainant's case was that she was in the service of Madame Moulvie, at her residenceierroande dock Villa, St. James's- square, Notting.hin,o week up to the 9th inst. She was to have left on the Saturday before, but at the request of the de fendant she consented to atop. Oa the following Monday the defendant was very cross, called her by an offensive name, and ordered her to leave the house. She was proceeding up the stairs for a pur pose when the defendant caught her behind like a cat, and pulled her back, and she injured her leg. She called her landlady, Mrs. Downey, to prove that she came to her in a very feeble state after the violence she had received. She first stated that when the complainant came home she had a black mark on her leg, but she afterwards explained that it was a little black the first day, and that the bruise subsequently turned black. This was the assault complained of; but the de fendant denied the statement, and called an Indian, who had been their man-servant, to prove that nothing more took place than a pull of her clothes from behind. Madame Moulvie also stated that she ordered her to leave the house on account of her dirty habits. Mr. Ingham asked the complainant to show him the bruise upon her leg, and she then bared the part, after which his worship told her that there appeared a great many other spots like it upon her leg. He could not distinguish the bruise from any other mark. The defendant handed in a letter which had been sent by the complainant's sister, and one passage s read by Mr. Ingham, stated that the complainant had been so ill from the effects of the treatment that it was only through the mercy of God that she had been able to stand upon her legs. Mr. Ingbam was bound to say that he could not see any mark of the kind upon her leg, and he was not satisfied with the manner in which she had given her evidence. He discharged the summons, as he thought it was an attempt to extort money. His Excellency then took the place of his wife in front of the table, and madame proceeded to the witness-box. On being sworn, the complainant asked for an adjournment, for the attendance of her witnesses. Mr. Poland said he wished to proceed with the case. The complainant said that her husband had pro mised not to use violence in future, and she came to the court on Tuesday to withdraw the summons at his request. In the evening he deserted her. She had attended that day without her witnesses. Mr. Ingham inquired of Mr. Poland wh3ther an arrangement could not be made between them. Mr. Poland said it would be the best way ; but she had stated that she was the wife of the Moulvie, and that was not correct. He wanted a summons against her, for on Friday last she removed four boxes, containing papers and documents referring to property belonging to the King of Oude. She had refused to return them until the Moulvie had paid her £2,000. Mr. Ingham said he could grant a summons for detaining them, provided they did not refer to pro perty of greater value than £l5. Mr. Poland spoke to a gentleman who sat next to him, and then said the papers were of great value to the Moulvie, but they were not worth £l5. They referred to accounts and expenditure of money belonging to the King of Oude. The complainant said that she was married to tho Moulvie. She also stated that she had not the papers in her possession. Mr. Ingham Said in that case he could not grant a summons. They would have to be recovered by action of tiover. Mr. Poland said he could trace the boxes and their contents to her possession. She had threatened to burn them if the money was not paid. The complainant said she knew what she was doing. The papers related to property belonging to the King of Uncle, and she intended to see Sir Charles Wood in a few days, and if he considered that it was requisite for the Moulvie to receive them, she would give them up. The Moulvie wished to obtain possession of them and then to desert her. Ultimately Mr. Ingham granted a summons for detaining- the papers, and it was agreed to hear both cases on Tuesday next. COUN7'RY MARKETS. HULL—SEPT. 24. "'At our market to-day we had a good supply of English wheat, which was taken off slowly at is per qr decline on the currencies of last week. Foreign, with a limited ' business, held for last week's prices. Wheat.... Old white....per qr 50s Od to 56s Od Old red ...... ~ New white .. ~ New red .... Dantzic„_Konb , L. old white 54s Od t o 63 s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 58s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red s4s Od to 55s Od St. Petersburg a n d Ri ga , o 46s Od to 48s Od Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36s Od Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish s2s Od to 54s Od Grinding 27s Od to 29s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st osl2id to 13d Friesland and Dutch osl3d to osl3id Swedish and Danish Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Cd New tick. Egyptian 3Bs Od to 40s Od Peas Foreign breakers . 36s Od to 38s Od Grinding Tares ....Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 0 oto £lO 10 0 Foreign! BlO O. to 9 0 '0 Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 0 Bones NEWARK. •SEPT. 24. An average show of wheat from the growers to-day, and a steady trade, at is per qr lower. White wheat, new, 60s to 668 Barley, grinding.. 28; to 33s Red do. s6s to 626 Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 30; Old white 548 to 568 New do 248 to 26s Red do. 48s to 54s I Beans. 46 8 t o 50 8 Barley, malting.... 38 8 t o 42 8 1 Beans, new 37; to 406 Peas, 3618 to 408. SHEFFIELD—SEPT. 24. There was an increased supply to-day, and trade ruled 6d per load lower for wheat of inferior qualitiy. Best wheat at former quotations. Flour and other artcles were unaltered. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 17s Od to 25s Od White New red 1 ) ~ 2ss Od to 28 s Od 17s Od to 26 s Od Beans ) New whit e „, )1 2os Od t o 24 s 6d Peas, per qr ~ ~ l B B,od t o 19 s Od Grinding b ar l e y, per qr s4s Od to 55 8 Od 33s Od t o 35 s Od Oats Malting ditto, „ .................. s6d to 34; Millers' prices f or flour -2s Od, 2s 2d, and 2s 5d per 141 b. BRISTOL SUGAR.—SETT. 25. We have had a much better demand for raw sugars since our last, with a fair business doing, at 6d per cwt. advance. In rum no inquiry. COAL MARK' (Prices of Coal per Ton at P.T—SEPT. 25. the close of the market Walls End. Russel's Hetton lB 9 Heugh Hall 186 Harton . . lB 3 Fraunwellgate lB 6 Brsddyll's Hetton 19 0 Stewart's... Keiper ..18 9 Hetton ........ 2O 0 Whitworth l5 l5 13. ;t, 25 ; solJ, 25. , s. d. 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