The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-08 00:00:00

THE DOTER TRAGBDY.-..ADJOITR.LY-Et INQUEST. FOLKESTONE, TftYRSDA.T NIGHT. The adjourned investigation into the deaths of Mari as and Caroline Back, the two unfortunate victims i the late tragedy near Dover, was held this morning a t, 10 o'clock, at the Ro y al Oak Inn, in the parish of ' Hougharn, Kent, by Mr. T. T. Delassaux, coroner for the county, and a highly respectable jury, composed of the principal farmers and inhabitants of the district. The excitement caused by the perpetration of this foul tragedy, instead of being abated, would appear to have been rather on the increase, for dnring the whole of the day the inquest room was crowded ; and not only that, but the place where the murders were committed, known ar Steddy Hole, in the - parish of Capel-le-Ferne was v i s ited by a large number of people from n the immediate neighbourhood, as was also the barn of Barrill's Cottage, to which the bodies were removed on their discovery. The parents of the deceased were present, and ap peared much affected. Thomas Gurling, carpenter, of Folkestone, was the first witness called. After some objection to take the oath, stating that he did not believe in a Supreme Being, and was of no religion, he said on Sunda y morning, about eight o'clock, he left Folkestone with a friend, and pro ceeded nearly as far as Dover, and returned as far as the Steddy Hole, when he sat down on a cliff reading for about half an hour. He was trying to find a path down to the beach when he saw the two females. Ile did not take them to be women at first, but on going closer to the nearest he found they were human beings. The first one he came to was Maria, the youngest, whose clothes were disordered. He looked at her face and dress, and found she was saturated in blood about the chest. He called assistance, and then he went to the other female, who was also dead. The blood wag on her clothes and her fingers were cut. By the Coroner—They were lying about 15 yards from. each other when he saw them. The bodies were re moved whilst he went to inform the superintendent of police, and when he next saw them they were at the cot tage. When he discovered them they were both dead. Be saw they were both wounded about the chest. Had not met anybody but a young man, evidently a visitor, going towards Dover, before he discovered the dead bo dies in Steddy Hole. Did not see the wounds on their chest, but saw blood on the front part of the dress of earl. IVlrs. Back; the mother, was recalled, and said she did not see the soldier Redanies and the deceased girls at breakfast, but she heard them talking ; and before they went away Redanies called out " Good morning." They left at five o'clock. The deceased were her daughters. John Back deposed that he was a labourer, of Dover. Had known Dedea Redanies seven or eight months, and were well acquainted. Redanies went to his house at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and left at half-past 9, and did not return again till about a quarter to 3 in the morn ing. The deceased were going to Folkestone, and Re danies proposed that they should accompany him to Shocncliffe camp. Witness asked him if he would come and take breakfast before he started with the girls. It was proposed to have breakfast at 3 o'clock, bat he came shortly before 3 o'clock. Witness breakfasted with Redanies and the two girls. Redanies and the girls left for his master's quarters shortly after 3. There was no quarrelling between them, but they all seemed merry. Redanies raid he had no doubt Mr. Smith would have a breakfast ready for them when they got to the encamp :neut. By the Coroner—He had since seen Redanies at the Canterbury Hospital. That was yesterday (Wednesday). He was then in bed asleep, and his person covered with a sheet excepting his face. He (witness) knew how his daughters were dressed. Mr. Clement (superintendent of the Canterbury po lice) then, by the direction of the coroner, produced two black mantles, or visites, which he said he took off the prisoner. The father said (pointing them out) " That belonged to Caroline and that to Maria." Witness resumed—Did not see any knife about Re danies on the Saturday or Sunday. Never saw him with a knife. Redanies was not keeping company with Caro line. Neither of the girls ever walked with him before. When Redanies brought his officer's clothes to witness's house to be washed he might have joked them. By the Jury—Redanies came unexpected on the Sa turday evening. If he had not called, the girls were going by the train to Folkestone at 6.15. Maria was going with Caroline, as the latter had not been well. Zr. Wm. Bateman, of Folkestone, said he was a sur geon in practice. About 9 o'clock on Sunday morning last he received a message from Mr. Superintendent Steers to see the dead females. He went and found them lying in an outbuilding adjoining a cottage at Capei-le-Ferne. He had them removed into a room. Examined the body of Maria Back (the youngest) first. He found the dress of the deceased but little disordered. She had on her gloves and bonnet, and the front of her dress was buttoned close up to her neck. That part of her dress was saturated with blood. He found holes in her dress, on removing which he saw four incised wounds in the chest, each about half an inch iu length, and pene trating deeply into the chest. There were two wounds on each side of the chest, between the second and fourth ribs, and from the direction of the wounds he was clearly of opinion that the arch of the aorta was wounded, and that death proceeded therefrom almost instantly. George Frier, constable of Thannington, near Kent, produced a knife about four inches long in the blade and three quarters wide, which he said he got from the sol dier Redanie; when he apprehended him on Monday af • ternoon, about two o'clock, between Canterbury and Chatham, under the able directio❑ of Mr. Win. Walker, superintendent of the home division, Kent County Con• stabulary, who bad surrounded Effin Wood with his men. -- The Coroner—Might the wounds you Lund have been inflicted with that knife..! Mr. Bateman—Exactly. _ Mr. Bateman then said he examined the body of Caro line Back. He found three wounds of the same sort on the chest. One of them had passed through the carti lage, another through the sternum, or chest bone, and the third was on the left breast, but had not entered the the-t. They were all stabs. There was also a stab on the left hand. Both of their chests were filled with blood. They had not bled much externally. The bodies were quite warm when he saw them, and on turning them over the blood unshed out of the wounds. George Frier, the constable, deposed that on Monday last, from information received from Mr. Superintendent Walker, he proceeded along the Ashford turnpike road, Bear the viaduct, where he saw a soldier, who immedi• ately drew his hand from his heart, and threw the knife (produced) down to the ground. He then ran up and caught hold of him, as did also another man. Witness could not th-n see that he was bleeding. He unbuttoned a strap which was round his body, and to whicb was attached a handkerchief containing some bread and to bacco. He then took cne of the capes (produced by Superintendent Clements) from the back of the soldier. Another female cloak remained on his back. The wit ness and the other man laid him down on the grass and sent for Dr. Bond, who advised his removal to Canter. bury Hospital, where he (witness) had watched him in the daytime since. During the night he was watched by another constable. There were three wounds in his left breast. By the Coroner—There were a great many persons round the soldier, whose name was Dedea Redanies. By the Jury—Did not see the soldier stab himself. Mr. John Clements, superintendent of the Canterbury (city) police, said that from information he received on Monday afternoon he proceeded along the Ashford road from Canterbury, and saw Redanies lying on the grass surrounded by about a dozen men, and Dr. Bond was dressing some wounds on his chest, and from which blood was flowing. By Dr. Bond's direction he was removed to Canterbury Hospital. When at the hospital he took the two capes produced from him. Oue of the capes had three cuts in it covered with fresh blood, and correspond ing with the wounds on the body of Dedea Redanies. Witness left Redanies at the Kent and Canterbury Hos pital in charge of a constable. George Marsh, ostler at the Royal Oak public-house, deposed that about five o'clock on Sunday morning last , be was sitting on a bank near the turnpike road leading from Dover to Folkestone, when he saw two young women walking arm-in-arm with e, soldier, who was rather a short man, and appeared to be a foreigner. He asked witness what was the time, to which he answered " Five." They then went on towards Folkestone, talk ing and laughing. The place where the dead bodies - were found was about one mile from where he was sit ting. He saw the bodies about ten o'clock on the same day at the outhouse of the cottage. He had not the least doubt that they were the same as the two he Saw with the soldier. Did not know the soldier. By the Coroner—H e noticed one of the girls had on light boots. Could not say whether they had on cloaks. By the Foreman —He saw them walking along the road about 100 yards. They appeared the same as when they passed him. Mrs. Elizabeth Atwood, the wife of a tradesman at Lower Hardres, stated that on Monday last a soldier, a foreigner, went to the shop and asked her if she knew Irish. He asked it witness sold paper and envelopes, and she told him she did, and he purchased two slaets of paper, two envelopes, a bottle of ink, and- a pen. H e then asked if witness would let him write a letter, and she acquiesced. He sat down and wrote two lett e rs, and put them in the envelopes, and went to the posteofaee, Mr. Superintendent Walker, Kent County Constabu lary, produced two letters w hich Redanies p l aced at the oa't- ' office, about 2 00 yard s from the sho p of Hrs. At wood. They were written in German, and were volumi nous; the one addressed to Miss Caroline Back, 3, Al bion-place, Dover, and the other to " Herr W. Schmid, leitnant of 4 compegnie, 2 regiment, 2 batalion, Britiss Swiss Legion, Ramp, Folkestone, next Dover." Mrs. Atwood identified the paper and envelope as those she sold to the soldier. She went to Canterbury Hospital next day, and there she saw Redanies, whom she identified as the soldier she served with the paper. Be then asked for a third envelope, in which he put a duplicate (produced) for a watch pledged on the 22 of July, for 15i., at Folkestone, in the name of Dedea Re danies, When Redanies was at her shop he had on the two capes, one over t h e ot h er. The jury then adjourned for refreshments. On their re assembling, the following additional evidence was taken : Mr. Win. Walker, superintendent of the home divi sion, Kent County Co nstabuldrY, was sworn (after an interval of an hour and a half, while an interpreter trans lated the German letters written by Redanies from Do ver). He said that from information received he went to the post-office at Lower Hardres, and there had two letters (produced) handed to him. Herr Henri Fuhr, interpreter, of the Ship Hotel, Dover, was then sworn to interpret the letters produced by Superintendent Walker. The interpretation, as taken, closely correspond e d w i th 1 $ previous one, which was examined by Dr. Rhotach, of St. Augustine's College, and ran thus : "Dtsrest Mother Back,--On the first fines I pray to forgive me the awful accident to my unlucky Dedea Re. denies which I committed upon my very dear Caroline and Mary Ann Back yesterday morning at five o'clock. Scarcely I am able to write by heartbreak for my ever memorable Caroline and Mary Ann. The cause of my deed is-1. As I heard that Caroline is not in the family-way as I first believed. 2. Because Caroline intern Is to go to Woolwich. 3. Because I cannot stay with •my very dear Caroline it made my heart so scat tered that I put into my mind at last that Caroline ratbe r may die from my bands than to allow Caroline's love being bestowed upon others. However, I did not intend to murder also Mary Ann, her sister, but not having other opportunity, and as she was in my ay . , I could not do otherwise, I must stab her too. Z )ea r Mother Back—Saturday evening, when I came, I . td not, at least, any intention to commit this awful : ie at ; but as I learned that my dear Caroline gave me ha ck my likeness, and as she told me she would leave, I 4 lid not know any other way in my heart-break than th: la leading to the cutler's, where I bought a poniard, wt doh divided the hearty lovers. Arm by arm I brought ba th my dearest souls in the world over to the unlucky p h ce near the road before Folkestone, and requested the In to sit down, but the grass being wet they refused to , do so, and I directed then Caroline to go forward, and I si . ent behind Mary Ann, into whose heart I ran the dag ger. With a dull cry she dropped down. With a mos t broken heart I rushed then after Caroline, lifting the . k Poniard in my hand towards her. ' Dear Dedea,' crie c I she, with a half dead voice, and fell down with wee it.' . ng eyes. Then I rushed over her, and gave her the last kisses as an everlasting remembrance. I could not livo a won e dreadful hour in my life than that was, and my bro ken heart could not tell where my senses were gone, : tad I took both the black shawls of Mary Ann and my clear Caroline as a mourning suit for me, leaving the awful spot with weeping eyes and a broken heart. lgever shall I forget my dear Caroline and Mary Ann, and'. the poniard will be covered with the blood of Mary Ann and'. Caroline with me until it be put in my own breast, al id I shall see again my dear Mary Ann and Caroline it i the eternal life. Farewell, and be care less about the blissfully deceased angels of God, and forgive the unl sappy, ever-weeping, " August 3, 1856." " DEDEA REDANIES." The other w.as addressed to his lieutenant, and ran thus : "Dearest Mr. Lieutenant Schmid,—With weeping eyes I entreat you to pardon me, the unhappy Dedea, and I infirm yon in a few words that 1 did not intend to squander your watch, but to give it only as a pledge to sister Caroline, where you will receive back your watch from Mary Back, if you will be so good as to go to Dover yourself, and reclaim it at the here-mentioned address, `Miss Maria Back, 5, Albion-place, Dover.' I also enclose the pawn ticket for Dr. Baumgarten, and inform you that I have not yet got the watch. Unfortunately I cannot enclose you the money which I spent from ( ). I sent a let ter to the mother of Caroline, but it is in German, and I request you. to take an early opportunity to go to Dover and translate the letter for her. Dear Mr. Lieutenant Schmid, keep the portrait and locket of hair attached to it, as an eternal remembrance of that fearful Sunday when both the girls, who were very never-to-be-forgotten sadness and jco , (here the sentence breaks off abruptly). Dear Mr. Lieutenant Schmid, I thank you for every good thing I experienced with you, and pardon the un• happy Dedea I:edanies, who am ready any minute be fore my being arrested to kid myself with the same dag ger with which I murdered my only joy. With the re -1 quest that you will translate the other letter to Mrs. Back, which I send her w i I your iar i (the word follow ing is illegible), g ratefully, "DEDEA REDANIES. "A thousand compliments to you with tears, dear Schmid." The Coroner the n summed up in an able speech, re marking on the evidence given, and pointing out the le gal bearings of the .case. He said he never heard of a more horrible and diabolical murder in the county, and it was a fortunate circumstance that the heinous crime had been so clearly brought home to the vile wretch, who had only too well carried out his premeditated plans; and although the assassin had made an attempt on his own life when he found that he was surrounded by the officers of justice, yet no doubt, from what he had heard, be would recover and be in a fit state to take his trial. The jury, after a few moments' conversation, returned a unanimous verdict of wilful murder against .Dedea Re denies in both cases. The coroner having made out his warrant for the committal of the accused the proceedings terminated. From inquiries made it would appear that the mur derer, notwithstanding the fearful nature of his wounds, is progressing favourably under the skilful treatment of the medical authorities of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and it is expected that unless a relapse takes place he will be taken before the magistrates in the be ginning of next week. Tae bodies of the unfortunate victims were removed from Burvill's cottage early on Thursday morning, to the parent's residence in Dover, front whence they will be interred to-morrow (Friday). THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 8, 1856 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. We are authorised to state that the dividend to be proposed at the ensuing half-yearly general meeting of proprietors of the Great Western Railway Company will be at the rate of 24 per cent, per annum, with a balance, exceeding 6,0001., to be carried over to the next meeting. from the following table, which we collate at intervals of 10 years from the society's statistical returns : Cattle. Horses. Sheep. Swine. 1822 ... 59 8 1832 ... 88 18 213 16 1642 ... 295 179 467 53 1832 ... 313 135 662 50 18',6 ... 248 131 496 _ 43 _ _ . At the hot show of the society, held at Inverness in 1846, there were 428 cattle shown ; but this number in cluded fat oxen in pairs, which are now exhibited only at the winter show, the summer exhibitions being limited to breeding stock, bat the entries, taking them for all in all, are equal to those of the former show here, which for practical purposes was not so good as the present. Both in stock and implements the entries show a desire to reach the practical rather than the theoretical in agri cultural husbandry, and it is quite expected that they will come out strongly as the leading features of the show to-morrow (Thursday). Sporting Intelligence. BRIGHTON RACES.-TFIURSDAT. The Grand Stand Plate of 50 Bova. (Handicap.) One mile. Mr. E. R. Clark's South-Western, by Sir Tattoo Sykes, 2 yrs, Est 131 b (Fordham) 1 Count Batthyany's Raphael, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb (Wakefield) 2 Mr. Lewis's Johnny Gilpin, 4 yrs, 7st 41b...(Walmer) 3 Mr. T. Hughes's • Firelight, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (D. Hughes) 4 Flatman weighed for Lady Florence, whose number was displayed on the telegraph. 5 and 6 to 4 were laid on her, and 4 to 1 agst South-Western, but soon afterwards her number was taken down, and it was announced that she would not start. This proceeding was alluded to in terms of general indignation. The practice of with drawing horses at the last moment is most pernicious, and the sooner some law is 'adopted to check it the better for the interests of the turf. All bets on minor races should be declared void when a number is removed from the telegraph board. The betting cloJed at 5 to 4 agst South-Western, 9 to I 4 agst Raphael, and 4 to 1 agst Firelight. Won by a length ; a head between the second and third ; two lengths between the third and fourth. The Brighton Cup of 100 goys, added to s sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Certain penalties and allowances. The winner to be sold for 6001.; allowances if entered to he sold for less, &c. The second to receive 201. out of the stakes. Old course. 10 subs. Mr. Dawson's Adam, by Birdcatcher, 3 yrs (3001.) 6st 1olb Mr. Knowles's The Rajab, 4 yrs' (300/.), Bst 51b (Burnby) 2 Mr. T. Hughes's Westminster, 4 yrs (3001.), Bst 2113 (D. Hughes) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Adam, 9to 4 each agst West minster and Rajah. Won by two lengths ; three lengths between the se cond and third. The First Year of the Fifth Brighton Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added ; for 2 yr.olds. Certain winners extra. The second to recei►e 50 sovs out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 22 Hubs. Mr. Evana's Bacon, by Chatham, Bst 71b (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Manningtou's Maid of Athens, Bst 41b (Fordham) 2 Sir C. Rushout's filly, by lago—Lady Barbara, Bst 41b (?latman) 3 Mr. Osbaldeston's Dardanelles, Bst 41b (Wells) 4 Betting —Even on Maid of Athens; 3 to 1 agst Bacon. A fine race iu ; won by a head; bad third. At the turn Maid of Athens ran out. On returning to scale an objection was made against Bacon by Mr. Howard, on the ground that he (Mr. Howard) had sold the horse without its engag ements, and that it was not, in consequence, entitled to run. The objection, however, should have been made before the race, and it was therefore withdrawn. Commotion sas on the course, but, owing to the hardness of the ground, his owner deemed it prudent not to let him start. The Pavilion Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap). Winners extra. Bristol mile. Mr. Howard's Sandboy, 4 yrs, 64 121 b (Fordbam) 1 Mr. F. Fisher's New Brighton, 5 yrs, 84 121 b (includ inz 51b extra) (D. Hughes) 2 Mr. Newman's Kimburn, 4 yrs, 64 61b ...(Gresswell) 3 The follo wing also ran : —Pantheon, Roebuck, and Fly-away. Betting-6 to 5 agst Sandboy, 5 to 2 agst New Brighton, 6 to 1 agst KiEabDril. Won easily by two lengths; three lengths between the second and third. The Champagne Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a sweep stakes of 5 sovs each; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. One mile. 22 subs. Mr. W. H. Brook's Manganese, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Fordham) 1 Mr. E. R. Clarke's Mr. Sykes, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b (Dockeray) 2 Mr. T. Walker's Theodora, 3 yrs. 7st 3lb ...(Quinton) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Theodora ;sto 2 agst Manganese ; 6 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes. Won by three lengths ; a head between the second and third. Theodora's running created considerable sus picion. The Sussex Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for 2.yr-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights, &c. Half•a mile. 8 subs. Mr. Wilson's Questionable, 4 yrs, (401.) 7st llb (Prior) 1 Mr. Evans's Bacon, 2 yrs (601.), Set 71b (Snowden) 2 Mr. French's Fashion, 3 yrs (401.), 6st 71b (Musgrove) 3 The following also ran :—Sister to Bold Buccleuch, Little Tom, and Ceres. B tting-5 to 1 each agst Questionable and Bacon, 5 to 1 agst Ceres, 6 to 1 each apt Fashion and Sister to Bold Buccleuch. Won by two lengths; a length between the second and ; bad fourth. Ceres was last throughout. The winner was sold for 135 guineas. BETTING ON THE COURSE. EBOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 apt Warlock 8 to 1 aght Yellow Jack 10 to 1 agst Lady Tatton 10 to 1 agst Coroner DEB➢T. 25 to 1 agst Bel Oiseau (taken to 1001.) 30 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh (►aken to 1001 1,000 to 15 a2st Oak Ball (taken), 10,0001. to 10th also laid. WARWICK SEPTEMBER MEETING. Weights for the Leamington Stakes. Forfeits to he de. eared on or before Tuesday, the 12th. Two miles. Yrs et 11 Cossey Kaffir 5 6 ',- Diana 5 6 Redemption Barrel Cerva 3 5 1' Aldford Puck 3 5 11 Comedy 3 5 11 King of Scotland 3 5 8 Joshua Pembedw ...... 3 5 E Pyrrha Newington 3 5 Alice Leamington Triton Gathercole 3 5 Prince's Mixture 3 5 Z Libellist 3 5 g by Fau.gh-a-Bal lagh—Emulous 3 5 4 King Cob 3 5 Enchanter 3 5 The Shadow 3 5 Gaudy Van Eyck 3 5 1 Grampian Early Morn ... Omar Pasha ... Lord Der went water 3 4 11 Shelah Peter Wilkins Announcement Tame Deer 3 4 E *Cotswold 3 Mishap Royalty a (p ft; le is omitted from the officia Yrs et lb Neville Typee 6 8 10 Winkfield Rifleman Mr. Sykes 6 8 4 Polestar 4 8 0 The Early Bird 5 7 12 Pretty Boy Wild Huntsman 5 7 8 Rogerthorpe 3 7 6 Lady Tattoo 4 7 5 Rotherham The Assayer 5 7 2 Coroner 3 7 0 Clementina g 4 7 0 Romeo One Act 3 6 12 Quince Brother to Grey Tommy 6 6 12 Herald Braxey Homily 4 6 11 The Heir of Linne 3 6 10 Flatterer Bright Phoebus 5 6 9 Bolton Escape Humboldt 5 6 8 Lundyfoot 3 6 7 Siding Alas Claret...... 4 6 6 Imogene Simony The Earl . 4 6 5 Stork... 3 6 5, The Hind 4 6 4 Sirocco * The weight of this horn TATTERSALL'S SUBSCRIPTION ROOM. In consequence of Lewes and Wolverhampton races taking place on Monday next, the Subscription Room at Tattersall's will be opened on Saturday. 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Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and • Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock Oity Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and 71,083 31,844 12,036 46,310 $2,295 Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. "Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich 'Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead —Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—. Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Hington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal=Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-----J. C. Gotch and 21,191 2,428 16,321 35,333 45,507 7,262 $,608 Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son. Leeds Bank, Leeds—• Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield'--Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and flan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams u 4 Son Miners' Bank, Truro—WP yams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co _ _ _ _ _ 70,255 9,183 11,514 30,220 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock NewmarkA Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—rtarveys and Hudson Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Ce. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ten bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Roydh and Co. Roohester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordkam and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. ButJin and Son Rank, Rye—R, 0, Pomfret, fa 24,198 7,390 9,909 77,028 83,250 9,684 48,484 91,47& 50,999 48,766 27,454 6,358 13,820 6,219 5,669 14,872 26,090 26,905 19,664 19,944 48,53' 5,599 17,662 22,685 19,310 69,991 13,823 23,940 4,575 18,490 38,364 8,672 5,051 51,989 36,600 25,037 26,385 85,619 23,003 7,220 3,547 36,183 12,906 14,623 2,049 6,197 18,027 24,966 16,081 21,765 44, 800 19,160 17,828 48,981 90,787 9,810 3,190 20,885 9,215 29,546 10,644 *1,27 7,808 11,450 47,496 10,675 8,811 12,645 32,402 31,053 6,175 4,728 7,461 14,916 10,020 11,766 THE CONVICT MURDOCK. The Brighton Guardian contains a letter addressed by Murdock's stepfather to Sir George Grey, as folio : No. 8, Three Colt-street, Old Ford, Bow, near London, July 28,1856. Elizabeth Tramlett, mother of John Murdock, alias Joseph Williams, at present under sentence of death in Lewes gaol, having forwarded a petition on behalf of her son, to which up to the present time no answer has been returned, it now becomes my bounden duty, as father-in-law of the prisoner, most humbly to request an answer to the petition, and I am sure you will pardon any remark I may make on bebaif of the prisoner. His age is 11 years, and I may truly say from the age of 12 years he was what is termed a useful lad to the police ; that is, in plain terms, he was employed by them in many ca-es to discover robberies, and no doubt was rewarded. At the age of 14 he gave information against a man termed "Jem the Lagger," and was, by order of Mr. Iwiram, police magistrate of the Thames police-court, sent to sea. I went to a considerable expense at the time he returned, and from that time, from what I have since understood, he was employed by the metropolitan police as a spy or scout ; he was allowed to carry a box for the sale of jewellery, and was sent on different missions by the police to discover robberies. Since I heard of his desertion from the army I have been most credibly in• formed that a police-officer, by the name of --, at Strat ford, in Essex, employed him on a certain occasion. The reward be received was 101. The prisoner, Joseph Williams, alias John Murdock, was to have received 51., instead of which the said --gave him 10s., and threst ened to have him transported if he attempted to claim mom The prisoner at the time was allowed to carry a staff. I frequently accused him of being a spy, and he repeatedly denied it, stating be was in the pay of the Commissioners of Scotland-yard at 12s a week, and in confirmation of the same produced before aThames police• officer in my house a staff. Having been severely cross examined by Mr. Huddlestone, and proved he had not stated the truth, the prisoner against whom he appeared was acquitted. If I mistake not the case was brought forward by the same policeman ; but another policeman of the name of -- can prove the fact. He came to me, and I took him to the recruiting station at Soho-square, where he was enlisted. I should have stated that previous to this more than one policeman has called upon me to know where he was to be found, stating at the same time he was the best scout they ever bad. My answer to them at last was, I would not have anything to do with such shameful transactions ; if the Commissioners of Police wanted the lad, let them take him and employ him. The inference I now draw is this. If it had not been for the emolument held out by the police the lad would have followed a seaman's lifa. It has actually been stated to me that he was induced by certain policemen to lead parties into crime iu order to insure the conviction money. I will pass over this, having furnished you with the out lines of the prisoner's life, leaving it to the public press to decide upon the justice of the case. I must once more trespass on your time to observe that his mother and myself were always led to bdlieve— in fact, a private policeman, of the name of Charles Mills, N division, generally in plain clothes, always assured his mother he would be present at his trial, and speak to his known humanity ; instead of which he obtained leave to absent himself, and did not retern until after his trial was oven Your obedient servant, JOHN PAGET TREMLETT. TRE M EROANTILB LAW AZII EN DMEN T ACT. This act has just been printed. It bears date the 29th of July just past, and is in substance as follows. It commences by stating that its object is " to do away with the inconvenience felt by persons engaged in trade from the laws of England and Ireland differing from the laws of Scotland." It then provides that, for the future, no judgment or execution against the goods of a debtor shall prejudice the title of a bona tide purchaser of such goods before their attachment : that in any action for the delivery of specific goods, the jury, if they find for the plaintiff, shall declare specifically what are the goods to which he is entitled, and what damages be has sustained ; and the court may thereupon order the defendant to deliver the goods without giving him any option of paying their value and any damages to the plaintiff instead ; that after the passing of the act, no special promise in writing to be security for another party shall be invalid from the fact that the conside ration for such promise does not appear on the in strument or in writing ; that any bond of security for : 3g placeeel by iu necessary thefirm ; tha a firm sh a ll cease to be binding unless there be any ex press stipulati on t o the contrary, or the contrary can be i s t a implication suretTwh on o an d y isch cfi a a r li g g e e d t t a h k e debt of which h e is a guarantee for the payment shall be entitled to all the securities held by the creditor in re spect to such debt; that no ..acceptance of any bill of exchange, either inland o • ' r f oreign, made after Decem bet . , 1356, shall be binding on any person unless the ac• ceptance be in writing on such bill, or if there be more than one part of such bill, on one of the said parts, and signed by the acceptor or his agent ; that with reference to claims for repairs done, or supplies furnished to ship, port within the United Kingdom, 'every the islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, shall be deemed a home port ; that all actions for accounts must be commenced within six years after the cause of action has arisen; that judgments recovered against joint debtors in the United Kingdom are to be no bar against , proceeding against the other debtors beyond seas, w h en they come back to this country ; and lastly, that any acknowledgment or promise made by the agent of the party chargeable thereby, duly authorised to make su c h acknowledgment or promise, shall have the same effect. as if suck writing bad been eigned by the party himself, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The report of the directors of this company congratu lates the shareholders on a considerable increase of re ceipts, without any augmentation in the ordinary work ing expenses. The rolling stock and works of every description have been maintained in full efficiency at the cost of revenue, and when it is recoilected that the cost of coke and other necessary stores has been greatly en hanced, and that the company is now subject to the full effect of competition at all points, both on the east and west, the result of the following statement may be re garded as satisfactory :—The receipts during the past half-year for passengers amounted to 742,2751., and for goods to 74$ 2471., as against 709,3081. for passengers, and 711,6891. for goods, showing an increase of 32,967/. in the receipts for former, and 36,6581. in the latter, the total increase being 69,6251., and the total receipts 1,490,6221., against 1,420,9971. in the corresponding period of 1855. The working expenses amounted for the past half year to 597,3991., or 40'07 and for the cor responding period to 600,7191., or 42'27 per cent. The report then explains that a ded of arbitration respecting the division of traffic which has been referred to Mr. Gladstone had been sealed by that company, the Mid land, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and the Great Northern Railway Companies, and signed by the respective chairmen ; and as the award is to be for 14 years, the directors trust that the companies may not again be subjected to the evils of similar contests, and that they may be enabled to carry on the traffic of their respective districts to the advantage alike of the share holders and of the public. The claims raised by the North Staffordshire Company are still undetermined. The arbitration under the West London Act of 1854 has resulted in an award, by Mr. Hawkshaw, that the lessees shall pay to the proprietors of the West London Railway, for the use of their line, a sum of 1,1001. per annum, from the Ist of July, 1856, in lieu of the undefined and fluctuating payments provided for in the original lease, and which have led to so much litigation. Tne arrears and damages awarded amount to 4,127/. of whit 2,0001. are charged in the accounts of the past half-year. The bill for the deviation and completion of the Crewe and Shrewsbury line, and for the necessary powers to provide station accommodation at Shrewsbury and at Bolton, and fur other purposes, has received the sanction 14 Parliament, as also the bill to extend Li. one year the time allowed fur tee construction of the works of the Hampstead Junction line. Five of the six bills affecting the company's interests, introduced in the last session by the North Staffordshire Company, were withdrawn. Au act has been obtained by parties locally interested for the construction of a railway from Shrewsbury to a junction with the Oswestry and New town Railway, near Welchpool (a distance of about 16 miles) with powers to enter into working arrangements with this company. As the constructionof this railway would tend materially to aid in developing traffic over the Crewe and Shrewsbury line, the board have under consideration the terms of a working agreement. The Oldham branch, about 4 miles in length, connecting the town of Oldham with the Huddersfield and Manchester line of this company, was completed and opened for pub lic traffic on the sth of July. Nearly the whole of the land requisite for the construction of the Crewe and Shrewsbury, Northampton and Market Harborough, St. Albans, and Hampstead Junction railways, has been purcdu.sed, and the contracts for the works have been let on satisfactory terms. The board request authority from the proprietors to make arrangements, conjointly with the directors of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Company (as joint owners of the Manchester and South J unction Railway), for the working and inter• change of traffic on the Warrington and Stockport Company's line, by which the ten miles of line between Warrington and Altrincham may be worked in connection with, and as a continuation of, the South Junction Rail wo.y. The committee of the Railway Clearing-househave called upon the company to enlarge the buildi❑g occu pied by them at a cost of about 6,0001. ; for which out lay, however, the company will receive rent equal to interest at 6i per cent. under the lease. The directors _ . request a vote of the proprietors for 19,0001., being the cost of a warehouse at Poplar, now occupied by tb• com pany at a rental equal to 6 per cent. on the cost ; and fur additional land, sidings, and other works at various stat.ons on the line, amounting to 10,1361. The dispo,sable balance amounts to 578,4621., out of which a dividend is recommended at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which will absorb 564,3851., leaving 14,0761. for the next account. The dividend for the cor responding period of 1855 amounted to 535,8651., being at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum, leaving a ha lals a of 6,9501. The profits of the half-year exceed those of the corre sponding period by 58,4051. 15s. 11d., and the directors are therefore enabled to recommend a dividend at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum. MIDLAND. It appears that a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending the 30th of June is to be declared, leaving 3,0001. over for the next hall year. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.— The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent, on the ordinary stares. THE HIGHLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. INVERNESS, AUG. 5. France and England have had their agricultural exhi bitions ; Scotland follows with her great biennial show. It was meet that she should make a vigorous effort to maintain her character as the parent of agricultural in stitutions, and the exhibition now in the first stage of its progress gives good promise that her sanguine expecta tions will be realised. The fine old town is getting fast filled with visitors from all parts of the kingdom ; the show-yards are receiving their complement of imple ments ; Balls and Routs are being planned, and the sun is just dispelling a Scotch mist to pour a flood of golden beams on the people's gala-day. The hotels are all en gaged, private lodgings are either occupied or bespoken, accommodation is being extemporised, and already as much as half a-guinea is being asked for a comfortable bed. While the implements are being arranged for the first day's exhibition, we may glance at the rise and progress of the society, premising a few facts connected with the early history of agriculture in Scotland. Uader the feudal system Scotland bad no agriculture. Patches of land were cultivated in the rudest possible manner ; the people lived from hand to mouth, land being to the chiefs not a source of revenue, but of power. Her union with England intro , luced a new era, and whatever indignities might have been done to her " Red Lion," her material interests were thereby greatly sub• served. In 1695 Parliament passed two statutes, which laid the foundation of Scottish agriculture. The one pro vided for the division of commons, the other for the se paration of property occupied as runrig and rundate. Intermixed property thus became disentangled ; land was let out on lease, to be held in severalty and in con tiguous portions, and occupancy was based o❑ the prin ciple that the soil ought to be cultivated for the benefit of society, rent being the surplus value, under a deduc tion of the farmer's profits. In the low countries agriculture in the course of time became a science, and the proprietor of the land was himself the first and best farmer. In 1723 the proprie tors formed themselves into an association, under the title of "The Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland," and published their transac tions. 300 of the principal landholders of Scotland were members of this society, but it lasted only 20 years. Political troubles intervened, until Culloden•inuir, over which we passed yehterday with the iron steel, saw the close of a conflict which brought Scotland to herself Lain. Political asperities had just begun to disappear, when the Duke of Argyll and a few other sagacious noblemen set themselves again to promote agriculture. They had in view also the encouragement of habits of industry "and various occupations among the population of the Highlands. The Highland Society of Scotland was then formed. In 1787 it received a royal charter, and in 1789 Parliament voted 3,0001. out of the moneys paid on restitution of forfeited estates to be applied in " in quiries into the' state of the highlands and islands of Scotland, and in promoting improvements by advancing agriculture, and in introducing useful trades and manu factures into that part of the kingdom." A new impetus was given to agriculture, and within a period of 20 years 500 volumes of one sort or other on tbe subject were published. the Highland Society, in stead of using up the Government grant, invested the money on heritable security, and thereby realised an annual revenue of 100/; to 1201. Premiums were then offered for the best essays on the general management of black cattle, farms, enclosures, cereal and green crops, &c., and for the improvement of waste land. In 1824 a veterinary college was instituted, and subsequently a department of analytical chemistry was added to the nstitation. In 1834 another charter was obtained for the society by which its constitution was enlarged, under the deno mination of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and soon after tenant-farmers, who had now grown to be a very important class in the agricultural community, were admitted as members for 10s. a-year. They constituted a most valuable acquisition to the society, and their admission had also tbe happy effect of bringing landlord and tenant into frequent and pro fitable intercourse with each other. Monthly discus. sions of agricultural subjects were estab ished, and the Transactions being published, the association soon pos sessed a literature which gave to it more than a Euro pean reputation. The annual income of the society having greatly in creased from the subscriptions of members, if not from other sources. a system of agricultural exhibitions was organised. The first show was held at Edinburgh, where the permanent staff rf the society resided, in the year 1822. Since then 30 summer shows have been held, besides a number of winter exhibitions for fat stock ; and so successful were they that the Royal Agri• cultural Society of England and the Royal Agricultural lociety of Ireland were organised after the same model and with similar results, while local associations sprung up all over Scotland and in some parts in England, hav ing the same object to subserve. The membership of this society has increased to upwards of 3,000, of whom 700 are tenant-farmers. The amount of premiums h•:ls advanced from 78/. in 1822, to 1,000/. in 1859, and the entries of stock have risen in proportion, as will be seen ROSS Old Bank, Heredfordsbire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal . . Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gibsons and Co Salop Bank, Shrewsbury— Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Wood all and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, Ey tons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbune —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 11,618 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. ... Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Staiiord—Stevenso n and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock 24,826 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle 8,376 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. 9,276 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and 3,960 27,211 22,695 30,373 2,486 3,174 340 9,937 10,358 10,763 12,908 7,243 11,692 13,290 Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co 14,922 Wallingford , Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and (4. . Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick — K. Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co 6 235 _ _ _ _ 26,364 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield— Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-- Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Wercester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and 43,573 13,260 19,517 16,160 34,993 47,103 Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton . Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart,, and 42,064 Co York Bank, York— Swann, Clough, and Co 12,131 41,233 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland; Kendal... Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- 8,229 9,572 48,415 hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford _ Commercial Banking Company, 7,845 29,842 19,095 Bradford Burton, - Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Cora pony, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,002 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwieh Banking Company, Dudley 32,514 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of Englan.d Bank, Norwich 23,591 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 149,960 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,593 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,163 Hull Banking Company, Hull 24,100 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,970 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,100 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,983 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 52,633 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 23,243 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 67,037 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 49,680 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 10,146 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,482 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham 25,481 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishop Agate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 4,0106 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 73,947 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddlcworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,875 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,523 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company,. Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- Port 331,752 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 43,265 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Ri c h mon d Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 34,301 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake- 40,167 31,577 .. 40,999 1,500 25,397 34,806 18,180 48,218 56,224 23,061 51,993 49,907 14,480 field Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven 26,075 Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick _ 27,020 West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 72,609 Wilts and Dorset Banking Comp an y, S a li s b u ry 73,610 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud- 32,080 dersfield.. Whi+church mid El'camera Banking Company, Whitchurch ......................................... 4,636 Worcester City- and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 5,933 Y or k Uniott Banking Company, York 68,131 Z•rk City and County Banking Company, 87,675 Yorksitire Banking Company, Leeds 119,229 J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bink Returns. Inland.Revexue, Somerset Homo, Aug. 2. STRANGE STORT.—The Siecle contains the following strange story :—" As long ago as 1 835 a wine dealer, named Hubert, residing in the hanlieue, was fined for having wino on his premises which he had not duly de clared. Determined on not meeting with a similar an noyance in future, he resolved on making a hiding-place for his stock, the secret of which should not be known even to Isis wife. To effect his purpose he was accus tomed every night to get up and work at a clandestine cellar, when at length he disappeared, and all the re searches made by his family to discover him were una yailing. Years passed over, and his wife, finding at length that she could not carry on the business properly by herself, sold the stock and goodwill and retired. Her successor lately decided on enlarging his house by taking in a part of the garden, when the men employed in digging out the foundation suddenly came on an opening, in which they found the ske leton of a man, and near it a pickaxe eaten up by rust. The commissary of police, on being sent for, examined the spot, and found that from the place where the skeleton was discovered there was a narrow passage through which the cellar of the wine dealer could be reached. This fact brought to the recollection of the commissary the sudden disappearance of Hubert, who, it is supposed, while working at his secret cellar, must ratdenly have come upon some old well or vault, into which he had fallen, and from which ho could not re lease himself, and had there died. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A BRITISH OFFICIAL.—A letter frOin Jeddah of June 4, in the Independance Beige, says :—" An attempt was made some days ago to assassinate the representative of her Britannic Majesty. Fortunately for this agent, he had staying with him on that day an English captain, who perceived the assassin at tho moment ha was on the point of stabbing the c:)i— mul, who was sleeping in his saloon. The captain, with the assistance of his host, succeeded in disarming th) anatpin, who YIN then handed over to the pelice.',! FI?ENTII POST OFFICE ROBBTIRT. The Court of Assizes on Wednesday tried a yonns man named Lafont for stealing a great number• of let- Vas, many of them containing money and se, 7;uzities, from the Post-office. In February last complait its were made at the Post-office that several letters which had been posted on the 24th and 29th January ha d never reached their destination, and a day or two se - reral of them, some sealed, where torn open, together with some bills of exchange and law papers, which had been picked up in the Seine by a boatman, were taken to the Pi st-office. The attempts made to discover the pErson who had abstracted the letters failed. In April it was ascertained that another robbery of about E;0 let ters, several of them containing money or securities, had been perpetrated, but the thief could not be discovered. One of the letters was addressed to a M. Boulaxd, and contained a Treasury bill for 2,000 f. This per's( in went on the 12th May to the Treasury to request t hat the bill should not be paid, and whilst there, singulf it to re late, a commissionnaire came in with it. The i :tommis sionnaire stated that be had been sent to present it for payment by a young man who was waiting for him in the Rue des Bourdonnais. This young man was at once arrested, and on being seized he exclaimed, " I am caught ?" He turned out to be Lafort, who vas em ployed at the Post-office to collect the bundles of sorted letters and to fasten theni up in bags. He afte r a while made a full confession, from which it appear( d tl M he bad committed even more numerous and more .important ronheries than had been supposed. Thus, on the 2d January he stole a letter containing two drafts for 1,000 dollars each, addressed to aM. Claurs. On tht 3d Jan. he stole a letter bearing the Birmingham po at mark, addressed to a pries t named Rodez, of the neighb ourhood of Arras, containing 22 bills of exchange a ind two halves of bank-notes. On the sth of the same month, he took a letter, containing nine bills of exe hange, addressed to a iralesman at Troyes. On the B,th, he stole seven letters containing 33 bills of exchange; on the 9th, a letter containing five bills; on the 24th, thirty-three letters containing bills, notes, or secu rities (in one of them from Mexico was 1,000 f., and in another, addressed to the lady superior of the House of Refuge at Blois, was 300 f. in notes), and on the same day 113 letters, in which there were no securities. On the 29th, he obstructed eight letters, in which were bills or notes, and 90 in which there were none. On the 6th, 10th, 12th, and 13th April he stole about 80 letters, but all that he found in them was two Reman bonds ; and on the 30th of the same month, be stole 40 letters, but the only one which contained anything of value was that addressed to Boulard above mentioned. All the letters stolen, the prisoner either burnt or threw into the river ; and the money he obtained from them he spent in debauchery. The jury declared him guilty, with exten uating circumstances, and the court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and five years' surveillance of • he police. Country Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.—Ara. 5. Our market was well supplied with fat beasts to-day, and only a limited number of buyers ' • sales were flat, no doubt owing to the weather being too h ot for slaughtering. The supply of sheep and lambs plontiful, and several lots were left unsold. Fat and store calTes a heavy sale. Pigs about the average, and most of which sold. The following were the quotation& :—Beef, 6d to 7d; mutton, 60. to 7d ; lamb, 7d to 7id ; veal, 6d to per lb. ; pigs, Os 6d to —s Od per score • rough fat, 5s o.'t to (1 per 141 b. ; hides, 4d to 46d per 11i; ertlf-skins, 5d to 61 per lb. EDINBURGH (RAIN.-Au. 6. Grain of all kinds an exceedingly dull sale, and prices clnsiderably down from last week. Wheat, on the top, 81 down, and on the average 6s lld down. Barley, 22 down on the top, and 4s ld down ou the average. Oats on the top 2s down—on the average. is 5d down. Beans on the top 1s 6d down--on the ATV rage, 7d down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat Do. new Barley Oats Beane , £3 9 8 342ths. 0 0 0 0-12 tbs. .. 2 8 5 o.lt.lhs. 1 El 2 1-12ths. 2 12 1 4-12ths. BOSTON—Aua. 6. Scarcely any business was done in the corn trade ; and wheat, although offered freely at a further decline of 10e per qr. on the rates of this day sa'nnight, found no buyers. Oats and beans fully 2s par qr. cheaper. The weather continues fine, and the prospects of a good harvest are still most cheering. Prices :—Whoat, red, 54s Od to 63s Od; white, 63s Od to 6 sOd extra, 67s Od. Barley, —8 Od to —8 Od. Oats. 20s to 28s. Beans, 45s Od to 48s Od. Peas, to —s Od• per qr. NEWARK-AUG. G. In consequence of the great decline in the price of wheat at the London and Liverpool markets, we had a complete panic in the wheat trade, and no business done. Other grain as previously noted. Wheat, white 81s to 84s, red 76s to 78s; barley, malting —s to —s, grinding 38s to 425; oats, 245 t., 34s to 375, 22st , 32s to 31s ; beans, 48s to 52s ; malt 68s to 72s ; peas, 483 to 50s ; tares, —s to —s per qr. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the male are sear from the General Post-on 1( • 9y the night—and M by the morning--despatch.) Day when mat . .1. From wna 0017NTREICS. in General Po st- Port due Office, Londoi I.* Dispatche . Mislead Amerlca(byhrit.pack)l4 Every Friday —. Liverpool . Weekly America (by United Ste. packet) „, „b Every Tuesday - Southamptet Weekly America (by U. State, packet) ...... ,•.• • • - Liverpool .• Australia (via Liver pool) 4th and 19th .... Liverpool .. Twice MO ............ t)itto (via Marseilles) b Dover . , Ditto (vie Cape of Goof Hope) .. •• •• ••• ••1 4 1 Africa (West Coast) 13 4 of th: month . Plymouth . 6th of mo. Alexandria.......... b 10th & 20th ot r o .IDover ...... 2d 19th Alexandria.... m si tit 20th ot'mel,.'Southanip:s , 4or 210102 Bahamas 17th of the moult. Southemptcr .16th Belgium ............Iv Daily Dover ..... Da, y Brion ............ M 91h of the mc nth.. Southamp • Us. BuenosAyres........M 9th ••4 the moot ... Sluthaml-tet. 16th Cape of wood Hope _IS Uncertain . Various ports Uncertain Cape of Good Hope ..N Case de Verde 41 ^ als , 1. Bouthampto. 16th of sM Ceylon (see India) 10th and 161;h.... 15 Sr 59111 Ceylon N 4th and 20th .... 4th & !ADA Channel Isles —b. Bouthamp-ti. Tu.Tn.tat. 2,1 It 1701(4 :month BOuthamp On 1 and 16 China .... . Conetantinople 10th and 20th.... Dover 2 and 9 Censtantinople , 4th St 20th of men . Bouthampte 7 and 24 Cont. of Europe M & 14 Twice daily .. Dover Twice dSi Egypt (see India) France ........ M& N Twice daily.... Dovor Twicedailf Gibraltar ..........M 4, 7,17, 20, 27 elm. Southamptt. 6, 7,24,20. Greece (see India) Greytown 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampt- 1 and 16 Elamburgh 'Daily .......... London Dal Havannah .......... m I2na of the month Southamp. Ist of me olland 11)3(1_ r)yey „, Daily Honduras „...m117t., of the month. Southamp., 16th India (vlaSouthampt.)sll4th 20th of mon. Plymouth 4 and 211 5 India (yin Marsoilies)l,lilolll&26th of moth Dover ...... 1 5 & 29 ° lonian Isles (see India) •• • • •• • • •. Dover...... Ireland ........M & b Twice daily .... . Holyhead . Lieb0n.............. 2d f •-• 0... • lSouthampto 'ladeira .......... „,..ml9th of siontri..... / Soulhampto , 6 :tad 16 tfadeira ,23d of month •. _ Liverpool .. %fella (see India) ............ N 4, 10, 20, arid 26„ ,DoVer 4. 15, 21,9 9 Itzuritius (See India) %fauritias ......... N 2011, of the month i4th and 2 1 Mexico ..M 2n , ` of the moutt .. 1 8onthampt Ist ' , Topless< . (Dover New. Granada !2d & 17th of montb'Southampt,' Ist and 16 Few To ice a month .. Various po. ?apal States Daily ••• • .. Dover .... . 4 weeklY Peninsula .• ee •• • Sou thamp tc. Peru 70 %- 27th of mot . Southampte• Ist & 161 11 Pc:l Natal Hy Private shin.. • Various port. Every Saturday.. Dover Weekly Tuscany ............N Dei1y............ Dever . Venezueli —.14 2d st 17th otmonth Southampton 1 as 16m0 11 Van Diem en's LYrt d (coo Australia) 4th of mon. monthly Wes+ fridif,. . Sonthampt., 11 and 16 Whenany of these dates fall on a Sunday, the mails , be de. spatchod on the following day. 7.71 th the exceptien of the In ''° onthampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatch, till preceding dal FLY POISON.—" It is a curious fact," says the Courier de Lyon, "that although the butchers' shops at Geneva are all open, and an immense number of flies may he seen on the outside wall, not one comes inside. This is caused by the inner walls being rubbed ever with laurel oil, which is an effectual preventive against the inn's' sion of these troublesome insects. The same oil is also used with success in preventing the flies from spoiling the gilt frames of looking-glasses, pictures, etc." BIRTHS. OF ♦ SON. On the 7th inst., at Beekwell House, Brixton-bill, the wife of Thomas Lyde, Egg. O❑ the sth inst., at Lupus-street, Belgravia, the wife of Mr. Henry Webbe—twins. OF ♦ DAUGHTER. On the sth inst., at Brafferton Moor, Yorkshire, Lad/ Payne Gal!way. On the 6th inst., at Trevor-terrace, Knightsbridge, Mrs• W. W. Pocock. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Hanover•square► Captain Augustus Samuel Bolton, late of the 31st Regt.► to Ellen, eldest daughter of the late John Holford, Esq•► of Holford House, Regent's park. On the 7th inst., at St. James's Church, Paddington► the Rev. E. N. Braddon, vicar of St. Mary and St. Cle meat, Sandwich, Kent, to Miss Buck, of Maida•hill. DIED. On the Gth inst., at 4, Camden-street, Camden•towns Robert Johnston, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, aged 74. On the 6th inat., the Rev. Thomas Sweet Escott, vicar of Gedney, aged 55. On the Gth inst., at g, Cleveland-row, Islington, th e Rev. William Groser, for 45 years minister of the B a ptist denomination, and editor of the " Baptist Magazine, aged 65. On the Gth inst., Francis, second son of Wm. Cresswent of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park. On the 7th inst., at Kentish -town, Elizabeth, relict of the late Walter Rocbfort, Esq., of Hampstead, aged 82- On the sth inst., at Redhill, near Wrington, Somerset' shire, John Elton, Esq., aged 72. On tho 4th inst., at Kingston-upon-Hull, Mr. G. J eff ' wine merchant, aged 46. On the 4th inst., at 10, Kensington-park-terrace nor th, Charlotte Augusta, wife of Captain Purcell, 50th Regt" youngest daughter of Charles Ironside, Esq. LONDO'Pr : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count/ of aitittlesetz, Friday, August 8, 13.00, .li '''---- '--_ ---..__ ,- . ' 7,043 10,855 5,544 65,300 5,240 11,62