The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

DR. LIVINGSTONE. trouble to neither friends nor foes. But they ex- I petted more from Sir Charles. They thought he The Rev. Dr. Livingstone is expected in London would strike a blow here and there ; that he would this day. He arrived at Marseilles from Tunis on make the best use of his means, and then leave the the 6th inst. , and was then in good health. His responsibility of failure on the Government and his country, that would not be content without left arm is, however, broken and partly useless, it something or other. saving been torn by a lion. When he was taken We had a right to expect , that at all events he would make an effective on board her Majesty's ship the Frolic, on the Mo- diversion in the Baltic, and keep th e Rus zambique coast, he had great difficulty sians in such a state of alarm as to de t ain in speaking a sentence of English, having disused it so long on those coasts the regiments that were ulti while travelling in Africa. He had with him a native from the interior of Africa. This man, when mately sent to the Crimea. S ir Charles did I nothing that a man of no enterprise or ability could ho got to the Mauritius, was so excited with the steamers and various wonders of civilisation that not have done with half his fleet. So he may now I write a letter a day and a pamphlet a week on this he went mad, and jumped into the sea and was subject, and he will only stamp deeper the impres drowned. Dr. Livingstone has been absent from I . sion of disappointment whic h he has left on the England 17 years. He crossed the great African I British mind. He may not do much harm, for, to con ti n ent almost in the centre, from west to east, , use his own words, " he is not the Sampson to pull has been where no civilised being has ever been down the pillars of the State, and crush the Admi before, and has made many notable discoveries of nistration beneath its ruins." But he will do no great value. He travelled in the twofold character good by his p r esent course. If he really wishes to of missionary and physician, having obtained a ' , be of service to the State, let him give it the beno medical diploma. He is rather a short man, with fit of his experience by stating at length the wants a pleasing and serious countenance, which betokens \ of the British navy. Supposing this unfortunate the mosCdetermined resolution. le continued to ; hitch in the execution of the treaty leaves U 3 all wear the cap which he wore while performing his our work still to do, and next summer sees another wonderful travels. On board the Candia, in which fleet , in the lialtic, what suggestions has he to of he voyaged from Alexandria to Tanis, he was re- fer . We do not want a pamphlet of mere abuse in markable for his modesty and unassuminc , man- the plausible form of advice, but distinct and simple ners. He never spoke of his travels except in an- propositions for the improvement of the British ewer to questions. The injury to his arm was sus- navy, and its adaptation to the various kinds of tanned in the desert while travelling with a friendly work expected from it. We will assume his pro tribe of Africans. A herd of lions broke into their I positions to be good ones ; in that case, if they are camp at night and carried off some of their cattle. adopted, then his credit is redeemed. If, on the The natives, in their alarm, believed that a neigh- other hand, they are disregarded, and some disas bouring tribe had bewitched them. Livingstone trolls result shows the wickedness of that neglect, taunted them with suffering their losses through in that case, too, Sir Charles's wisdom will be cowardice, and they then turned out to face and. justified, and posterity will draw the conclusion hunt down the enemy. The doctor shot a lion, that he did wisely himself to attempt nothing with which dropped wounded. It afterwards sprang on such inadequate means. him and caught him by the arm, and, after wound ing two natives who drew it off him, it fell down dead. The wounded arm was not set pro perly, and Dr. Livingstone suffered excruci ating agony in consequence. Great honours await the doctor in this country. Lieut. Tickell, the Admiralty agent of Candia, and the fellow passenger of Dr. Livingstone from Alexandria to Marseilles, arrived at Southampton yesterday, awl immediately called on Mrs. Livingstone there, to deliver messages from her husband, whom she has not seen for four years and a half. Before that period she shared with him some of his African labours and dangers. She is staying at the resi dence of Edward Randall, Esq., one of the magis trates of the borough, and has been sufferinc , much from anxiety on account of the delay in the arrival of the Candia. Some time previously her husband had been mourned as dead for months. She was almost overwhelmed with emotion to hear of the safety of her husband after so many perils, and was deeply grateful to Lieutenant Tickell or his kindness and attention. As she is unwell, it is thought likely that Dr. Livingstone, after pre senting himself to the London Mission House, will proceed to Southampton, where probably he will narrate his interesting experiences. SIR CHARLES NAPIER. SIR C. NAPIER AND HIS TRAIUCERS. (Prom the Morning Advertiser.) The generous and decided terms of approbation in which Lord Palmerston speaks of Sir C. Napier, in the correspondence which we published yester day, cannot fail not only to confound, for the pre sent, the calumniators of the gallant Admiral, but to silence them for ever afterwards. Lord Palmer ston has, in the most handsome and manly manner, calmly and deliberately declared, that the entire conduct of Sir Charles during the protracted period that he discharged the duties of naval officer, was everything that could be wished—that it com manded his complete approval—and that with re gard to the circumstance of his not attacking, Cronstadt, he displayed a sound discretion, inas much as it would have been impossible for him to have taken that formidable fortress ; had he unwisely made the attempt, the British fleet would most probably have suffered very great damage, and the Russian commander, knowing the fact, would then have come out, and, in the disabled state of our ships, might have achieved a success alike disastrous to our naval in terests and discreditable to our naval name. As the friends of Sir Charles Napier, we now bog of that warm hearted, though not always—when on shore—the most discreet of men, to repose hereafter quietly on his laurels. He will never more be called on to defend himFelf. Lord Palmerston has triumphantly vindicated him, not only from the charges which ignorant men, and, in some cases, buffoons to boot, have thought proper to prefer against him, but from all the charges which folly and malevolence may hereafter bring forward. As for Sir Robert Peel, if he had a spark of honour or an atom of self-respect, he would at once resign his situation at the Admiralty ; for it would not be possible to imagine a more severe rebuke than that which Lord Palmerston administered—by impli cation—to his ignorance, impertinence, and untit 'Less for the office which he fills, when declaring in the strongest and most explicit terms, that the Gallant Admiral could not have taken Crox.' - adt, and that he acted most wisely in not maki g the attempt. ( Prom the Times. ) Sir Charles Napier is the fire-eater of the old comedy, who, in the utter absence of achievement, contrives to keep up an immense amount of cha racter. Had he only displayed against Russia a tenth of the fury he has wasted on his own coun trymen the Baltic would not be now so inglorious. Give him the provocation of a random word and put a pen into his hand and he will scribble till he goes to the bottom before he will . haul his flag down. In this bloodless and waterless field he has never shrunk from a battery, and never feared either wind or current, rock or shoal. When the exploits of our great admirals come to be written Sir Charles Napier's career will be a splendid addi tion, not to the naval, but to the literary annals of our country. Unfortunately, he is a piece that will not go off when it is wanted, but is no sooner taken up to be examined than it incontinently bursts, and blows away all the fingers, or the eye, or the jawbone of whoever is unfortunate enough to touch it. He has a passage of words with the Board of Admiralty in general, and Sir James Graham, Admiral Berkeley, and Sir Robert Peel in particular ; with nearly all, if not all, the press, and with more others than we can remember. He was very anxious to obtain his command, but no sooner was he afloat than he began to abuse all his captains and crews, and by the time it was too late to correct the deficiency he began to abuse his ships also, decaring that without another de scription of armament he could do nothing. Such a course has not procured him much credit or con solation at home, and in despair he has attempted to re-establisu his character by two rather unusual appeals—the first to that 4 ‘ frank, open-hearted sailor," as Sir Charles coaxingly calls him, the Russian Imperial Admiral ; the second, to one of his " best friends" our Premier. Sod) of these per sonages, evidently entertaining a profound horror of Sir Charles's pen, are immensely civil. The Grand Duke Constantine admits Sir Charles's account of the conversation between them, and adds, that he did not say a word to Sir R. Peel about Cronstadt. Lord Palmerston says that, in his opinion, Sir Charles "acted with sound judgment in refraining from attacking Cronstadt with the fleet under his command." The iirst accomplishment learnt by men in high power is to express their meaning by silence ; and what, perhaps, they don't mean, by words. Accordingly, the Grand Duke does not say a word on Sir R. Peel's real statement, which was a general allegation, founded on common report, that from the lowest midshipman in the Russian navy to the Grand Dune there was only one opinion of Sir Charles's want of enterprise. Sir Robert Peel did not allege that the Grand Duke had said anything about Cronstadt to him, but only spoke of his opinion as a matter of common report. As to the Grand Duke's con versation with Sir Charles, of course he would naturally enlarge on the difficulties of an attack upon Cronstadt, and could do so with perfect sin cerity, for nobody di sputes th ose di ff i cult i es. Not withstanding the kindness of Lord Palmerston's consolations—sipposing Sir Charles to have given us a fair selection from them—we beg to call the Admiral's attention to the significant fact that the Premier does not justify Sir Charles's doing nothing at all in the Baltic ; and as little does he account for having himself consented to supersede him in the command. _ But there is another point which Sir Charl es himself has never yet explained, necessary as it is to his justification. Why, in the world, did he take acommand which must be inevitably void of result?____ .. Why undertake to attack Cronstadt if it was impregnable ? Why scour the Baltic with a huge fleet if it was to be au idle demonstration ? Rad Sir Charles declined the command on these grotnifi, he h .would have rendered a real service to Is eritintry b y supply the fatal e, inPelling the Administraion to defects of our navy. He and a few of hi s s e b rv ro he t e latir f Admirals would have done a still greater difficulty was only years ago, when the Russien had urged the y looming in the distance, they formationcreek kw of a flotilla adapted for shore and orahrfare. What Sir Charles may have whisper for at on this subject does not much si gnify, rairah r it is notorious that there never was an ad sea-captain who was not i cor always for the build of big ships ; always the bigger the better ; mo u r : and room above. - y rii a nd more tonnage below to build more, in the line rotting the cry eme ` B u ti r t e had 50 ships of the ;t s f ra c a t .. that all the signal face of the notorious aneihe victories had been won Sir Charles ones. Indeed, as far as we ca ll ships over lam) all question when he took knew all the elements of the can "e , was e world knew, the command. He knew, for what sort of a place Cronstadt > and the ap proaches to it. If there was an respective of the any error i t circuitous the Russians had industriously magnified was that line u s itou s the c l an _ gers. The island of Cronstadt, the nature north and south passages, their and depth of water, the narrow and channel that alone admitted ships of the of the island, the fortresses that commanded south t ut a h different points and protected one another, theirt triple tiers of guns—in a word, everything as it stood at the beginning of the war, had been ( l c _ scribed by every traveller, for they could not but be seen on the way to St. Petersburg. Everybody knew that Cronstadt was impregnable in the com mon sense of that word, and everybody had the best reason to know that the forethought which had made it so would not neglect any other great port of the empire. What, then, did Sir Charles mean by undertaking to do anything at all,, and whatdid he suppose he undertook when he accepted ' th__ e command of the fleet ? Our own expectati o n s ne re _by no means highly raised ; and when Si r Charles's friends went into those extravagances at the Reform Club we ventured on me (;antis re so , , monat rana w against a too confident tone. Sir Charles, expect th at he ever, himself did lead the country to would do something—something more than sho nothing, after abusing ingenious reasons for doing using in turn the officers, fleet, I Admiral t y ,G overnment, and everything of his own country. Sir Charles m ay ,ovr just as well swallow quietly all that bas been said about him, for every word his mo re that comes from knows s will be so much sus- i plusage. All the world the dh h ffi o c w it . was. They i knew well enough that un dertaking were immense, but then they of the thew. expected a i Napier to find a way to surmount But for 1 would :Li/ found this hope Government could eas ir n i : e many a plewnter fellow, who get . on I smoothly with his officers and •e a u en, and (eve .. ~~ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1856. ANOTHER PEER AN. THE PRESS, (Prone the Norfolk News.) Lord Hastings, in accordance with his threat, came to Norwich on Saturday last, and presented himself at No. 5, Exchange -street. He was at once introduced to our publisher, who received him with proper respect, and attentively listened to him for nearly half an hour. His lordship expressed his wish to ascertain who wrote the article which appeared in our last number, acknowledg ing the receipt of his threat, and making sundry com ments thereon. Our publisher politely declined to gratify his lordship's curiosity, especially as the noble lord had broadly intimated that his object in requiring that information was to wreak his vengeance in some way on the writer. This communication and the brunt of his lordship's persevering interrogations were borne without the exhibition of alarm or irritation. Finding ail efforts at exploratian in this quarter uuavailing, the node lord then decared that he knew who the writer was ; and after declaiming against the cowardice of those who wrote scurrilous articles and were afraid to avow them, intimated his determination to seek an interview with the presumed culprit. He accordingly left No. 5, Exchange-street, turned sharply to the right, and hastened to the house which fronted him at the bot tom of the street. He rang the bell, was asked in, and then up stairs into the room where the master of the house was. The domestics certainly were a little asto nished at the rapidity with which the stranger ascended the stairs, but without hesitation they ushered him into the apartment. His lordship began by asking sundry gut stio us. Our readers know how very easy it is to ask questions. This part of his mission the noble lord dis charged with great fluency ; but the answers not com ing with corresponding rapidity, his lordship became very much excited, and some strong coarse words, pre fixed with other words coarser still but shorter, came forth explosively as from a little volcano. His lordship flung out his words in showers—as children fling hand fuls of sand and stones on the sea beach. They do it playfully, but not so his lordship ; he seemed to be in earnest, and declared that his object was to blow out the brains of the individual who stood before him. He was informed, with as much gentleness as was poasible under the circumstances, that his wishes on that point were notreciprocated. He was reminded—and obviously there was need for it—that he was a juetiPe of the peace. Tais pertinent observation he disposed of with one of those ready phrases not necessary to be repeated in our columns, and which we hope his lordship will not let fall when sitting on the bench. Then followed in rapid succession the words " scoundrel," " coward," " " blackguard"—all, or almost all, with em phatical prefixes. kVlien he had relieved himself of these he was informed that, if he had come with the intention of behaving as a nobleman or gentleman he should be treated with all possible courtesy ; but if he lowered him self to the level ,:f the blackguard he should be treated as he deserved. The doctrine was obviously reasonable. No one could complain of being treated as ho deserved. A jestice could not object to justice, and if Lori Has tinge bad forgotten that he was a lord he could not be surprised were the memories of other people no less de fective than his own. His lordship revived under this intimation, and discharged a fresh volley. He was then told plainly that he had not complied with the specified condition, and could not be suffered to remain where he was. A.fiuger was pointed to the door, and the noble lord was requested to say whether he would walk out himself or would require assistance. his lordship looked at the door, and for a moment seemed undecided. Apparently disposed to I.nger on the forbidden spot the peremptory order was repeated—" Move off, and be gene !" Certain " lords iu waiting" manifested signs of iinnatieuce at his lordship's waiting so long. His motion towards the door was certainly at firet very slow. Those " lurds" there upon making their thumbs into bayonets, gently pro pelled the lingering nobleman towards the path of duty, which led to the outer door. It was for a moment an anxious question whether his lordship would not be saved the trouble of walking down stairs, but happily ho was permitted to do so. He was as much as possible spared indignity. Though the house resounded with his oaths and his threats, better discipline than his lordship prac tises saved him from violence and excessive insult ; and his lordship at length departed, we trest a wiser, and— we are sure—a sadder man. The echoes of his maledic tions died away, and all was still except the laugh that a lord could be so silly, and the sigh that one pos sessed of no mean talent and large powers of doing good, should have journeyed to Norwich on such an errand and have made the grievous mistake of thinking (if he thought at all) that a lord in lording himself was still a lord, and that the supreme master of Melton Constable bad a ticket-of-leave which exempted bins from the observance of law, order, or decency. The next time Lord Hastings enters a house and deals out his threats and curses in this fashion, we hope he will h ave as peaceful an exit as he was favoured with on this occasion. D endary tsao, anaonum lsc TANKS.—The Town Council of Glasgow have re cently constructed some tanks for purifying Water a ebymist h as s i nce b een a ppointed to advise committee in making the necessary experi ments. The council have now three tanks, 60 feet in in g g in i e o of eiameter an s diamet er , an engine deep, with a mixing well 10 feet in iation tirp Wl g that th e " eight-horse power, and a pump capable of rais 1e 75 00fi., but gallons in a minute, the calcu t_ :e tank s are quite capable of purif ink; h eentents of the Pinketon Burn. The cost is bsthat includes 1951, for which :urn the contracto rs if for six months. At 21r. n t e.ighbourhood of LeiceAer, for three mentlig, or 2504. if to work the engine Whhealperocess is precipitation. iViekstoe.d's works, i n the the deodorant tk.ed is liTratten, s an o d t the sewage matter, dic:varruesteortvhne. works at the out- It is thus described : the proper pro b including' the n) a i t n h er bowers efuse of from b e scourers, id brought the is then passed fall, and in its passage to the portion of cream of lime is pumped into Pipe through which the sewage water passes. : through agitators before entrance into the reservoir, and, when admitted, the solid matter begin, to immediately, while the sewage water, thus gradually precipitate freed from impurities, flows into the river i,I a disin. !ected state at the further end of the reservoir.. From the beginning to the ending of th e wor ks no unpleasant smell whatever was perceivable, although the Subsiding taks, and all the processes mentioned are in the eovere;t - , art of the buildings. The deoderisation is complete. . SMITEFIELD CATTLE SHOW. THE PUBLIC DAY. The first public day at the Smithfield Cattle Show ofers attractions considerably in excess of those of the private view, when only the quadrupedal results of scien tific feeding present themselves to the gaze of the curi ous spectator. On the public day the aristocracy rush in, the " distinguished foreigners" congregate, and the butchers accumulate, in order that they may make selec tion amongst the fat martyrs of mangold.wnrtzel for the Christmas entertainments of their anxious customers. At the private view the audience fit but few, while on the great public opening the whole area is thronged, specimens of every variety of the Anglo-Saxon race abound, while in addition the prevalence of whiskers and moustaches, of dark skins and sparkling eyes, proves how widely extended is the interest taken in British bucolic progress. Groups of sturdy farmers are encountered at every corner, six feet high by four across the shoulders, looking with sympathetic complacency on the results of country air and high feeding on the oxen and the pigs and the sheep, the metropolitan butchers may be seen in groups poking and punching, and measuring, and making mental calculations as to how a beast will turn out " sinking the offal," and foreigners from France, Italy, and Germany glide about, and admire, and wonder at bovine, ovine, and porcine —results such as they had never seen realised in their respective coun tries. Perhaps some Russians—for there are Rue sians everywhere—might be singled out, in yesterday's crowd ; and, if so, they must have been not a little astonished at the difference of rotundity exhibited by the honest, placid short-horns and Herefords of England as compared with the seared, four-footed skeletons that flash across the gaze of the traveller between St. Peters- burg and Moscow. The Parisians may have their Ver sallies with its tawdry dec.Tations, and the Russians their Kremlin with its barbaric splendour, but we have our Smithfield show with its unmatchable cattle, and pigs, and sheep, and in them the materials for that muscle which enables us to push our way from one end of the world to the other. One could almost imagine yesterday that the splendid animals were conscious that they were on their trial before the world, the "observed of all observers." The massive but still graceful oxen stood proudly in their stalls, or reclined with dignity on the soft couch which Mr. Balnois had prepared for them, while some few regaled on delicate slices of •S wedish turnip, which an obsequious herd offered to their fas tidious palates. The sheep showed off their dense fleecy pile to the best advantage, and the pigs kept up a con stant discussion (we suppose) on agricultural statistics, which was quite as vociferous and almost as intelligible as some which the papers have recently had the honour of reporting. Fair ladies generally caressed the adipose monsters ; while the latter in gentle grunts testified their high appreciation of the honour conferred. It was, in truth, a sight at once national and charac teristic to see all classes of society thus doing homage to a first principle by their undisguised admira tion of the success achieved in the production of human food. !Amongst the visitors might be recognised many members of the aristocracy, of course including the Duke of Richmond, who came to pay his respects to the animals from whom be derived a medal as useful, if not so glorious, as that which his grace brought from Waterloo. The heir-apparent of Oude was also among the visitors, attended by his interpreter, Captain Brandon, and made a most careful inspection of the contents of the exhibition. Taken altogether there bas seldom been known a better attendance than thronged the Bazaar throughout the whole of yesterday. As usual on these occasions, the galleries offered a va ried collection of agricultural machinery, including steam ploughs, reaping -machines, and an almost endless collection of clod-crushers, beetle-traps, patent churns, and reaping-machines. The last-named invention would now appear to be naturalised in the country, seeing that so many of the great machine-makers have essayed im provements in its construction. Not only are specimens exhibited, but the walls are ornamented with attractive landscapes, in which the machine forms the centre figure, while swathes of golden corn fall on every side as it urges along•eits fiery course. The comparative merits of the different principles is still under discussion, and far be it from us to pronounce dogmatically where . " doc tors disagree." In the galleries are also exhibited numerous samples of green crops, turnips, beet, and mangold-wurtzel, and the enormous size of the specimens toows how much care is now being devoted to their cultivation. The Royal Dublin Society have a well-furnished stand, which is worthy of note as being the only contribution from Ireland, the land of beeves and porkers, sends to the Cattle Show. With all these combined attractions, it is hardly to be wondered at that yesterday, the first day, should be so fully and fashionably attended. HEiiLTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Frain the Report of the Registrar• General.) An increase of death is the effect which was generally anticipated of the late sudden changes of the atmosphere. The amount of sickness in a population, at any time, is measured only approximately by the mortality; and that part of it which is fatal is of various duration, and is recorded, therefore, not in one week, but a succession of weeks. The deaths in London, which in two preceding weeks were 1,261 and 1,158, rose in the week that ended last Saturday to 1,318. The mean temperature, which fell on the 25th ult., and continued below the average during ten days , was on Tuesday last week o n ly 27.7 deg., which is 14Cleg. below theaverage. On Saturday it rose to 52.2 deg., which is 11 deg. above the average. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the average number of deaths was 1,291. If for com parison with the present return this average is raised in proportion to increase of population, it becomes 1,420. The deaths of last week are therefore less by 112 than the corrected average. The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, which in the previous week were 296, rose last week to 363 ; and the mortality under this head is higher than is usual in the first week of December. The prin cipal diseases in this class are bronchitis and pneumonia —the former rose from 173 and 154 in the two previous weeks to 194 last week, and the latter from 110 and 103 to 125. In the same three weeks the deaths from phthsis or consumption were successively 169, 166, and 164. Hooping-oougb, which was fatal in 41 cases last week, appears to remain unaffected by the weather. Of 42 deaths from measles almost half occurred on the south side of the river ; 9 were recorded in the district of Lam bath. Of 45 from scarlatina, S occurred in the sub-dis trict of St Paul (St. George-in-the-East) and 4 in that of Kent-road. In St. Peter, Walworth, at :4 v, Trafalgar street, three children have died in seven days of scarla tina in one family ; and one child in another family in the same house. In most of these cases the scarlatina terminated in low fever. One man and five women died last week who were 90 years old or more. The two oldest were widows, of the age of 94 years. Last week the births of 755 boys and 765 girls, in all 1,520 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the ave rage number was 1,487. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.675 in. The highest reading occurred on Thursday, and was 29.96 in. The mean temperature was 35.5 deg., which is 6 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tem perature was below the average from 10 deg. to 14 deg. till Friday, when ►t rose !6 deg. above it. The lowest reading of a thermometer in the air was 19.4 deg. on Sunday ; the highest was 56 deg. on Saturday, and the range of the week was 36.6 deg. The mean dew-point temperature was 32.3 deg., and the difference between this and the mean air temperature was 3.2 leg. This difference on Friday was only 0.6 deg. The mean tem perature of the water of the Thames was 39.3 deg. The temperature of the river varied from 37.1 deg., the lowest on Thursday, to 42.5 deg. the highest on Sunday and Saturday. The wind, which at the beginning of the week was in the north or north-west, blew at the end from the south-west, sometime, in gales. The amount of rain was 0.30 in., most of which fell on Wednesday and Thursday. On the evening of Thursday an increase of 10 deg. (of (temperature took place between six and eight o'clock, followed by a nocturnal rising tempera. ture. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NITMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 6. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 5B Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 368 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .... '2 Premature Birth and Debility 3B, Atrophy Old Age %Liddell 4... 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance,. ' 4l Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES c. 1,318 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. spending week in the 1851. of 1855. Week.. West Districts North Districts 490,30 n Central Districts 393,2r,0 East Districts 485,r,22 South Districts ..., 283 Totals Males 649 E;naale3 609 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females 755 765 Total -•••••"•••. .•..1,524 packets conve 'rig tea.' _ ....=____. a ...rrirasby and Gothel l P "IP' a contract with 0- on 3' c l e e mails can be sent by e' 1., Swedish Government, b.- ur ~ under running, no mor A a ILIF e O k R , b S e LED: . r —Tii ,d -Ting ceased the re-opening of the navigation ne- ; route until due notice wi i l b e given. —By - .xt springt of which .rat • master Gen,dral, ROWLAND "--- d of the Post' 4omman Pc',t-cflicet Dec. 9, 1856 HILL, Secretary. —General LA W INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 9. COURT OF APPEAL. TEE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Sir F. Kelly concluded his argument yesterday, shortly after three o'clock, at the termination of which a conversation took placa between the counsel engaged relative to an arrangement to allow the Court of Bank ruptcy to administer the assets, and that application be made to the Court of Chancery to nppsint a receiver to act in concert with the official assignee. Lord Justice Knight Bruce said such a❑ arrangement ought to be made out of court. In the event of no agreement being come to the Conrt would deliver judg- ment on the 19th inst. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HOWE V. KENNEDY AND ANOTHER.-NECLICENCE OF THE SHERIFFS OF MIDDLESEX. Mr. Joyce and Mr. Doyle were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Quain represented the de fendants. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a printer, to recover from the defendants, Messrs. Kennedy and Rose, the late sheriffs of Middlesex, 211. ls. 2d. for their neglect ing to execute a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum for that amount, which had been issued against Mr. Sheridan Smith, at the suit of the plaintiff. From the evidence it appeared :that the writ in question was, on the 19th of February, placed in the hands of Barry, the follower of Lawrence Levi, the sheriff's officer, with instructions that it was to be put in force that evening against Smith, who was to act under the name of Swanborough at the Strand Theatre for his own benefit. It, however, happened that a Mr. Fox Cooper, a - dramatic author, who was in treaty with Mr. Levi to take the Garrick Theatre, of which he was the proprietor, was at Levi's office on the day when the writ was in the hands of Barry. Barry endeavoured to obtain some information about Smith, and finally re vealed to Mr. Cooper that he had an execution against him, who, wishing to save his friend from being arrested, immediately obtained an 'interview with Smith and put him en his guard. Subsequently Mr. Cooper, according to appointment, met Barry at the Spotted Dog, in the Strand, and handed him 103., which had been " mustered" amongst the theatrical brethren, on the understanding that he was not to put the writ into execution. This arrange - ment having been completed, Smith proceeded to regale himself in the saloon of the theatre, and during the time he was there Barry went in, looked at him, and retired. Subsequently these facts came to the knowledge of the plaintiff, who instituted proceedings against the then sheriffs, and hence the present action. _ _ The substantial defence set up was that the plaintiff had sustained no injury, as even if Smith had been arrested he would not have been able to liquidate the claim, he being at the time in insolvent circumstances. The jury, without calling on the learned judge to sum up, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed-211. is. 2d. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE ROYAL BRITIHIi BANK.-PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF A RECEIVER. , Mr. Lawrance—l have to apply to your Honour to name a day for determining the question as to the appointment of a receiver. I have made previous applications to your Honour on this head ; but I must now ask the Court to name a day for formally hearing the application. The Commissioner—Would it not be better to wait until the Lords Justices have given their decision? Mr. Lawrance—l make this application upon the strength of an arrangement suggested by the Lords Justices for the purpose of settling all questions—a suggestion dropped by their lordships yesterday. I have to inform the Court that this petition is presented at the instance of the solici tors to many of the creditors, though our names alone ap pear affixed to it. I would also observe that the presenta tion of this petition is quite a matter of course, whatever course your Honour may think fit to pursue when the peti tion comes on for hearing. It is most important to have this question discussed and determined before your Ho nour at the earliest possible moment. The Commissioner—Why ? Mr. Lawrance Because, as I told your Honour on a former occasion, proceedings are being taken against indi vidual shareholders. The Commissioner—l cannot possibly hear it until the Lords Justices have come to a decision upon the matter before them. If I fixed a day for hearing the petition, and the Lords Justices had not given their decision before that day, I should, of course, postpone the hearing of the peti tion. Mr. Lawrance—l submit to your Honour that I have a right to have a day now named for hearing this petition. Of course it will be in your power, when the day arrives, to postpone it again. But the two matters are quite distinct. The Commissioner—Well, then, suppose wo name a day about a fortnight hence. Mr. Lawrance—That will throw us into Christmas. I submit that I have a right to a day eight days from the presentation of the petition. The Commissioner—You might have it advanced, if nocossay. Mr Lawrence—Perhaps not, sir. That could not be done without the consent of all parties, and all parties might not consent. I must press on the court now to ap point a day. Of course, it will be in the discretion of the court to postpone the hearing when that day shall arrive. His Honour then appointed Thursday, the 18th inst., for hearing the petition. IN RE (}LEN.-BETTING ON HORSE RACING.-APPLICA TION FOR DISCHARGE. The bankrupt, Adam Glen, late of the White Bear, Pic cadilly, had his certificate refused in March last, on the groand of his having lost more than 201. in one day by betting on horse-racing. The protection being withdrawn , he was shortly after taken in execution, and has remained in prison ever since—now nearly nine months. An appli cation for his disoharge was made a few weeks ago and refused. Mr. Johnson now renewed the application, which was fortified by a medical certificate, stating that the bank rupt's health was seriously impaired by his confinement. As the matter was entirely in the descretion of the court, it was submitted that this was a case for the exercise of that power, the bankrupt having a young family and an aged mother dependent on him for support. Mr. Metcalfe opposed the application, alleging that there were grounds to suspect that the bankrupt had still pro perty in his possession or under his control. He made over considerable property to a woman who had lived with him, and the creditors wereconvinced that he had control over that property. The best proof of this was the ex pense that was incurred by the bankrupt in making these continual applications to the court for his discharge. His Honour said that the application was altogether ir regular. After the former application was refused, the bankrupt, if dissatisfied, ought to have appealed. Ho had no locus standi, and the application could not be cuter tained. It ought not to have been allowed to be placed on the paper. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT- - SHREWSUURY, DEC. 9. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) martha Worrctll, aged 24, single woman, was charged with the wilful murder of her infant child, at High Ercall, on the 12th of September. Mr. Scotland and Mr. Corbett appeared for the prosecu tion ; Mr. Boughey defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was em • ployed by Mr. Shakeshaft, a farmer in harvest work. On. the 12th of September last she had been engaged for seve ral hours in washing, and afterwards complained to her mistress of being extremely unwell. Her mistress asked her if she could do anything to assist her, and eventually she lent her a shawl, and gave her leave to go home. She left at four o'clock p.m., in the direction of Rowton, where her mother lived ; and at half-past four she was seen sitting by a footpath at a ditch side, at a distance of about half a mile from her home. She appeared to be very ill, but said she should be bettor soon, and told the - witness not to tell her mistress that she was sitting on the ground. She was next seen at six o'clock the same evening that t a h t ehrerhome. In the course of the evening a woman named Sarah Rogers came to her from Mrs. Shakeshaft te inquire how she wes. She told the witness to tell her mistress that she was a great deal better ; and, observing h w e a r y ' B. i e s h t i I i d i e t :n t i c r a 108 confirmation. that r s m e e a m t such i e o d n . was o aAtsh th ink sh e :cheeses witness v, nameda a 3 n i d n a tphpee Elisabetha la fami l y i t l y o N tsah i ied e h thatol l s, prisonerw who some‘vo al tuna i v n ti e n t t nos xf before me a ti o hl o yi r sw t e o avye t ,n h tn e ns prisonersahe ih ad ai tl noti c edm otht prisonerhe r a mother, had mentioned the fast to her. About six o'clock on the evening of the 12th of September the witness ea* trio pH sonar in her own house, and asked her if she had been un (wperlils.eneTrh)e said, said she had been confined and put the child i n a ditch, and asked her if she would fetch it. The witness said she would as soon as she had had her tea. She asked if the child was dead or alive, and she "Oh ! I have killed it." The wit ness said, "Lord, Martha ! what did yon do that for ?" Tho prisoner replied, " What could Ido with it 1" The , witness did not go for the child, because she ee'',:, s h e takenher m mother's e t r' h s e p h t t o t u a s t e l ~.. till . dursen't. On cross-examination the! 'f''' 1 A • wi . ...ess sa id the • pre. soner had had a child before thin the employ '' - ..,0 father. John Hughes, a labour 21st S• t w zi i ' t t with t was retired, iii 7 es I:iJitayrZiobldro,uwghhetnitittiep7a:t ....p t . he ' fo l n n r. d A t t h le e n e n Y a ' k a e d fa b r • oner was seen sit with a garter tied round its neck : . leyr, T of h p and a short distance from where the pies Sept. The garter Was ting, on her way home on the 12th tied twice round the neck, and The of:31)d c hild that i n a or_ di t t h ch e , murdering her child and putting i t . r.isoß belonging neeers police dfie,er, proved that he e t h -i a e r a g i i n e n d a a t d h k i e t n e lp t I Mr. Adeney, at Rowton. The prisoner said, " Yes, I did it." Mr. Baron Watson here condernned in strong terms the practice which prevails for policemen to make long charges against prisoners, as in this case, and . so getting admissions of their guilt. A prisoner might misunderstand some part of the charge, and thus the practice of which his lordship complained might sometimes lead to the conviction of the innocent. His lordship had occasion frequently to make the same complaint at Stafford, and hoped that the practice would. be discontinued. The matron of the gaol proved that she received the pri soner on the 23d Sept. She Was very ill for about a fort- night. On several occasions the prisoner wished to speak to her, hut the matron refused to have any conversation with her in regard to her case. But on one occasion when she was in the cell the prisoner was in tears, and said " Oh, I have throttled that child ; I tied the garter round its neck." She was in great distress, was always crying, and seemed scarcely to know what she said. Mr. Hayes, a surgeon of Wellington, made a post-mor tem examination of the child. It was a fully developed child. It had a piece of list doubled and tied round the neck with two knots. He formed an opinion, before the ex amination, that the child died of strangalation, from the list tied round the neck. That opinion was afterwards confirmed by the examination. The body was perfectly healthy, and in his opinion it had been born alive, though the appearance of the blood in the lungs might have arisen from the child's having breathed before it was completely born into the world, or from putrefaction. The umbilical cord was torn from the body close to the abdomen, so that there was no room to attach a ligature, and the child must in any case have died of haemorrhage within ten minutes or a quarter of an hour of its birth. Mr. Bonghey, for the prisoner, contended that there was no sufficient evidence that the child was born alive ; still less could it be said that the prisoner had wilfully destroyed it. The learned counsel suggested that it was a case of pre mature labour, brought on by washing, and that, even if the child was born alive it might have died of haemorrhage, or from the effort of the prisoner to deliver herself. The prisoner might be convicted of endeavouring to conceal the birth. Mr. Baron Watson, in summing up the evidence, said that if the child was born alive, and the prisoner applied the garter for the purpose of strangulation, and not, as suggested, in order to deliver herself, the jury must find her guilty of wilful murder. His lordship then went care fully through the facts as proved in evidence, and when he came to the evidence of the policeman, observed that from his heart he entirely deprecated the practice of policemen getting admissions, as had been done in this case, from pri goners. He had no doubt that the policeman Beeston was an honest man ; but it was well known that policemen were sometimes dishonest, and tried to get admissions, in order that they might convict. In such eases the police man had it all his own way, and could not be contra dicted by the prisoner, and thus a jury might be led to dip their hands in innocent blood. It was impossible for a jury to say how much of the charge the prisoner might have heard, or how much she intended b admit. His lordship said he felt bound to say this much for the interests of public justice, and he hopsd that what he said would not be confined to big court. If the jury felt that they could place impicit reliance on what the policeman stated they must do it eir duty, and find the prisoner guilty of murder ; but f, on the other hand, looking at all the evidence in the cast, they had any doubt upon that point, they were at lib3rty to find her guilty of endeavouring to conceal the birth if they should be of opinion that the evidence would sustan that charge. The jury found the prisoner guilty of eideavouring to conceal the birth. Mr. Baron Watson then sentenced her t, be imprisoned with hard labour for three calendar month. John, Hollbs, alias Williams, was chargedwith the wilful murder of Benjamin Bromley, at Shrevrabkty, on tho 29th Mr. Scotland and Mr. Corbett prosecqed of October last. ; and Mr. Rupert Kettle and Mr. Talfourd defended. The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty." re mewbered, having recently been reported be readily The circumstances of this homicide will On the night of the 29th of October the prisoner q ua kelled under the market-hall with a young woman named Uher, with whom he he accustomedh fe a u d h b d er erwithß in the evening rom g his violence, ran away. Bromley said to the prisone; " Stand off ; what did you hit the girl for ?" Upon Ach the prisoner l t e o y, consort.aed she, Late fee ru inflicted upon him a mortal wound with ak n i fe. The evidence was remarkably clear, andle prisoner had admitted that fact. His counsel addresed the court to show that the crime was manslaughter, and the judge having pointed out the legal boundaris between that offence and murder, The jury returned a verdict of guilty f manslaughter, and the learned judge sentenced the prikMer to be trans ported for fourteen years. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-Y 0 D EC. 8. The commission was opened here o n .e.turday evening by Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Gurney. The York City Assize was held this norning. There was only one case, a charge of forgery aganst a young man named Barrow, who had forged the nameof his uncle and guardian to a cheque for 5/. He was found guilty, and sentenced t 12 months' lin. prisonment. At noon the learned judges commencodthe county busi ness, which is exceedingly heavy, there)eing about 120 prisoners for trial, and many of the offeAes charged being of a very heinous character. In charging the grand jury Mr. Justic , Erie alluded to an extraordinary case of bigamy, in whielthe prisoner is a man named Harrison, who became notoric ts as the "Leeds Wizard" on account of his dealings with )ove, the person executed at the last assizes for poisoning hs wife, at Leeds. His lordship remarked that the prisoner AS charged on the depositions with three marriages, and sena objection had been raised before the magistrate as to the roof of the valid or first marriage. A valid marriage muE, be proved, and not by mere repute or cohabitation ; but a the registry of the old church at Leeds there was an entr3of the first mar riage. Nobody could be brought forward Li a witness, but some person believed the writing in the roister to be that of the prisoner, and perhaps that would ; enough. But what seemed abundantly sufficient was th i, that after the marriage, unknown to the parents of the girl, had taken place, the prisoner claimed to be the husland of the girl. The father and mother questioned them l ose ly as to the fact of their being married, the mother req ired the daugh ter to produce the marriage lines, as th y were called ; and, in the presence of the prisoner, the daughter produced the marriage certificate, and repeatedly declared to her s father that they had been married. So ther had been per mitted to cohabit together, and.had had chldren, and that, c idnte o ravej u adsnoi p cidi n l rbiie e ogssen d pe.e freca i adys t nhn h shhodua thengtrji shunting agriculture l e tagui horse t ao e lr r, , seii bo he ov xr, s . h for o i u es t h bo i ye ke and npabundant occupied seolluee r b t i o yo establish the first marriage, and make the jr i sone r respon ce, sible for the second and third marriages. :f by any acci dent the proof of the first marriage shouldfail, an indict ment might then be prepared treating the second as a valid marriage, and alleging the offence to have leen committed with respect to the third marriage ; and the prisoner brought forward the first marriage as a defelee, it would be requisite to adopt proceedings accordingly ; but the prisoner would thus be placed in a dilemma 11-nu which it escape. appeared to his lordship there co r rt t i a , : ol i in lY sasuri v : o it j, u : l o. (l 7t h ie e .: n .o o f RAILWAY COLLISION AND CDAIIOI O o r ni a lh)t a eir c l l eerrmeavas not ir taideeeondruceeent hpolfoin' the last. George Spivey, 24, was indicted the prosecution ; Mr. Blaushard a'id Mr.lllaule coedoo,or. John Coupland, at Church Fenton; on Mr. Digby Seymour defended the p a rl o s a the NorthE„tern The ease arose out of a collisiostation. On the esth of Railway, at the Church Fenton ket Wreighton, whee there July an excursion train left hed Church Futon a Selby, the train reac Having passed it had to be drawn up f, the purpose after 12 o'clock, where r the ted 26 th Icy ' of , and while part of the excursion trait was ostrainsdimnien in an . oblique direction across the main lice a at a sfsed heavy luggage train of 40 or 50 trucks came up, of about 30 miles an hour, and ran into the excursion thi n w ith such force as to break several of the passenger Cr. ,es to splinters, and to throw the engine of the luggt.r. e rtiraaL off the line, and upset it. One of the passenger s , John Coupland, was killed. The prisoner was night po-. turn enanneodnv retrigaen trainalm aua semaphorer raityet(shi signal, e t andicohna, charge n es o d wta i h t set w h a a sthb distanceiys d u n ; p t g y anba t ll: drivers of the respective the e d r driver v w e r a 1 0 ) fi out t n the of fcimportantus luggage t o d y. train, knowing that he had started before his time, and that The jury found the prisoner not guilty, g he was travelling beyond his proper speed, had an interest in showing that the signals were not on. arraigned for the manslaughter of Godfrey ewas Braino, wi2 o was killed at the same time, hut the prosecution offered no discharged ftlrther MIDLAND CIRCUTP.—LiNceLN, flea. V. (Before Mr. Justice Willes,) aecive ti7 r i g ht, aged 17, was indicted for feloniously assaulting phoebe Horton, a c hil d under 10 years of age, at Leaks, on th ,,. 990bQr last. Mr. tio*erg 13kagOtit8(L It appeared from the statement oafs° nrosecutrix and her mother, that the child having been sent au errand, was met in a field by the prisoner, who asking her whe ther she knew Where any mushrooms were growing, and riti.t,3iving a reply in the negative, knocked her down and violated her person. This statement was fully corroborated by the evidence of the medical man who had examined her; and the jury having found a verdict of guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. Daniel X . orth was indicted fer accusing, and threatening to accuse, John Sampson Wells with an infamous crime, with intent to extort money. Mr. Roberts conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was not defended by counsel. It appeared from the statements rade by several wit nesses that the prisoner, a butcher at Grantham, had for several months previous to July last, as well as in that month, frequently made an accusation against the prose stator, who was also a butcher in the same town, of having committed an abominable crime about four years ago ; and that to one witness he had said that he meant to have money from the prosecutor now that he (the prosecutes) had got into business and was a, householder. On two occasions in July he had made the Same charge in the public street of Grantham to the prosecutor himself, who had been recently married, but he did not on those occa sions make any demand for money. It appeared in the course of the investigation that the prisoner had also writ ten to the prosecutor a letter containing the serious charge, but as that letter was made the subject of a separate in dictment it was not given in evidence in the present case. The prosecutor was examined as a witness, and denied :he accusation in a most emphatic manner. The learned Judge, in summing up, observed that the gist of this offence consisted in the attempt to extort money, and there was this peculiarity in the present case that the prisoner, instead of keeping the charge secret until he had applied to the prosecutor for money, pro claimed the accusation to others in the first instance, which would tend rather to defeat any purpose of gain, if that was his object ; but the jury must consider the evidence, and if they were quite satisfied that the prisoner really made the accusation with the object of extorting money from the prosecutor, they were bound to convict him. The Jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty. His Lordship then said, that although the truth or false hood of the accusation was not in question upon this charge, yet, as he was satisfied that the accusation was in fact false, it appeared to him that that circumstance must be taken into consideration as an aggravation of the of fends, and he felt bound to pass upon the prisoner the ut most sentence of the law, except the infliction of corporal punishment, of which, in the case of men, he did not ap prove. The sentence was, that he should be transported for life. From the London Gazette of Last Night NEW WRIT FOR LANARKSHIRE. The Gazette of this evening contains the Speaker's war rant for the election of a Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire, in the room of the late William Lockhart, Esq• WHITEHALL, DEC. 9. The Queen has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Ripon to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the translation of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Charles Thomas Longley, late Bishop thereof, to the See of Durham ; and her Ma jesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Reverend Robert Bickersteth, M.A., to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Ripon. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 6. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Walter Harding, Esq., to be Recorder of Natal, and John Staples Findon, Esq., to be Colonial Engineer for her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 6. The following promotions, dated the let instant, conse quent on the death, on the 29th ultimo, of Rear-Admiral of the White Frederick William Beechey, have this day taken place : Rear-Admiral of the Blue Peter Richards, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain the Most Hon. John Marquis Townshend to be Rear-Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay List. Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe to be Rear-Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay List. Captain Sir James Clarke Ross to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Captain Wm. Hamley has also been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admiral on the terms proposed in the Lon don Gazette of Sept. 1, 1846, without increase of pay. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. William Davenport Bromley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu tenant of Staffordshire. Castlemartin Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—Decimus Byers, Esq., to be Lieutenant of a Troop. WHITEHALL, DEC. 5. The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Edmund Cockburn, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com mon Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed George Capes, of Gray's-inn, in the county of Mid desex, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women'under the act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the city of London, also in and for the city and liberties of Westminster, and also in and for the county of Middlesex. BANKRUPTS. Jacob Isaac de Jonge, merchant, Mark-lane, to surren der Dec. 19, at one, and Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook court; Tucker, Grevillo, and Tucker, St. Swithin's-lane. John Hunter, merchant, Little Tower-street-chambrs, Eastcheap, City, Dec. 27 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman bury ; Linldaters and Hackwood, Sise-lane, City. John Green, patent rope manufacturer, Sunderland, Dec. 27, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Messrs. J. and J. H. Linklater and Hackwood, Sise-lane. Lewis Benjamin, fish merchant, Jewry-street, City, Dec. 19, and Jan. 20, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldormanbury ; Messrs. Thomson and Son, George-street, Miuories. licensed victualler, Ratcliff, Mid- Charlotte Robertson , dlesex, Dec. 19, at half-past two, and Jan. 20, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee official assignee, Alder manbury ; Piercy and Hawks, gouthwark. William Phillips, currier, Norwich, Dec. 23, at half past two, and Jan. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Jay, Bucklersbury; Jay and Pilgrim, Norwich. John Wheen and John Malin, joiners, Sheffield, Dec 20 and Jan. 31, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Unwin, Sheffield. John Houldsworth, builder, Sheffield, Dec. 20 and Jan. 31, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official assignee Sheffield ; Fernell, Sheffield. David Smith, licensed victualler, of the Lord Nelson, Duke's.road, St. Pancras, Dec. 22, at half-past eleven, anl Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nichol son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Shaen and Grant, Kennington-cross. Richard Cowper Steele, merchant, Fenchurch-street, Dec. 17, at two, and Jan. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Lovell and Co., South-square, Gray's-inn. Samuel Howel Grieveson and Cuthbert Richardson Grieveson, carpenters, Deptford, Sunderland, Dec. 16 and Feb. 5, at half-past twelve, at the N e wcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker , offic ial assi g nee, Neweastle-upon Tyne ; Brignal, Durham. George Roberts, draper, Stamford, Dec. 30 and Jan. 1 rris, 2, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Ntingham. Ha ot official assignee, Nottingham ; Law, Stamf o rd ; Hodgson a nd Allen, Birmingham. an Jan. 20, at eleven, David Lansley, publican and brewer, Black 'Torso Inn, singsmead-square, Bath, Dec. 22 r at the Bristol District Court. Bristol; Molter, Bath. e , official assignee, - a District Court. Bittle- Henry Coates, milliner, Birpiipghmarn_ , Dec. 3l and Jan.l4, at half-past ten, at the 13 . irm . ingh Harrison and Wood, stop, official assignee, Bngham , Birmingham. Marmaduke Iris h, 18 a t one, and Jan. 15, at two, licensed , victua ll e r, White Hart Inn, M a id en head, Barks , official assignee, Cole at the Cour t of Bank P. Sharpe, Leadenhall- Drul ß and H. man - s t r eet -building s street. p t ., jun., mer chant, Gracechurc h - street, Edmund G a t half -past eleven, and Jan. 23, at eleven, city, Dec. 20, at Bankruptcy. Cannan, officialassignee,, a t the Court of and Austen, burY • Depree Alderman , Cheapside. manufacturer of hoisery, Loughb h Dec. John Slee, oroug , 30 and Jan. 20, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Not tingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Browne, Nottingham- Thomas Baker and James Boswell, colour manufac turers, High-street, Poplar, Doc. 17, at two, and Jan. 20, at hale-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy Stansfel , official assignee ; Hodgkin son an d F reu d, Little T o w er street, City. William Lamont Bailey and Richard Harvey, jun., merchants, Crutched Friars,Dec. 18, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen nell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Place, Guild hall-chambers. William Sealy, baker, Torquay, Devon, Dec. 24, and Jan. 14, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Presswell and Michelmore, Totnes ; Stogdon, Exeter. James Constantine, cotton spinner and manufacturer, Scout, Lancashire, Deo. 24, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Man chester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Riddick, clothier, Dumfries. Simon. Fraser, grocer, Inverness. Alexandez Ramsay, engineer, Kerr street, Saint James's road, Glasgow. John Chalmers, blacksmith, Spittalfield. John Chalmers, jun., cattle dealer, Spittalfield, Perth shire. Robert Stewart, painter, Perth. Thomas Todd, druggist, Tillicoultry. JOHN SADLEIR AGAIN.—We have received a letter fri nn a man on whose word we can place reliance, that til l swindler-scoundrel, John Sadleir, is alive—lives on i;:: banks of the Murrumbidgee, or semewhere else in and over ft - Austra'g• We shall give our correspondent's letter, . few comments on the matter iu our next 77 rcentau's Jour n al. V 1 37 . ' • e quote some issue,—gydncyiivEarrismitut W i n teresting cures with , , -,(dyspepsia), fl a tulency, constipa °u'r"dktn'e. of i ' /gestio- - , r complaints, cough, asthma, tion, nefttkisi bilious, and 11,1,.. Tiarry's delicious Re - valenta consumption, slid debility, by Du, .--,. • scribable agony from Arabica Food : --Fifty yeas" ... constipation, flati dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma,. 00 11 g., .. ~_,,,_ .. ' • leney, spasms, sickness at the stomch, andl , .. '-'-" , ,, !up , have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalei.,t a ,Arabica Fool —Maria Jolly, Worth= Ling, near Diss, INTerfolk. Cure No. 3,906. —Thirteen years cough, indigestion, and gt;.ile ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Re - valenta Arabic:la Food.—Jarnes Porter, Athol-street, Perth. From the Dowageo Countess of Castlestuart. Cure 52,612.-- Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 18 , r) t. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in tI.T, i n t ere st of suffering humanitv, Ito state that Du Barry's ex cellent IteVAlellta, Arabica Food has cured her, after all Medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervous ness and irritability of many years' standing. This food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be con sidered areal blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Ch em i s try Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shor land ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzel.; Dr. Ingrain ; Lord Stuart de Decios; the Dowager Countess of Castlebl stuart ; Major - Gen. Thomas K in g , and man y other respectae persons, whose health has been restored by it, after a ll othe s r me ans of cure had failed. Suitably p acked for a ll climate , w ith full instructions. In canisters , 11b . , 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d.; 51bs,, 118. ; 121 b5., 22 5.; super - refi ned, 11b., 6s. ; 2lbs., lls-; slbs., 225.; 101 bs., 33 5. The 101 b s . and 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-oolee order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purvetreetyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurc h-s ,330 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside; 6 S , Cornhill ; 49, Bishops gate-street;. 55, 'Cbaring-cross ; 54, Upper Balrer-strPot ;63 and 150, Onferd-street. ' . Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—DEc. 9. To-day there was a thin attendance of the trade, and buyers showing little disposition to operate the business ;is wheat was extremely limited, at a decline of 2d per 701bs. for red, and 3d on white, on the prices of this day week. Flour difficult to move, and the turn in favour of the buyer. Oats and oatmeal were in rather better request, at previous quotations. Barley, beans, and peas saleable in retail at late rates. Indian corn, although still in very limited request, was firmly held at 33s to 35s 3d per qr. for mixed, 33s 9d for yellow, and 34s to 35s for white, ex quay. 211JLL—DEc. 9. A small supply of wheat this morning, and the condition not so good as last week, and such was not easy to sell even at h to 2s decline. Fine malting barley in request, but grinding sorts are without demand. Beans la to lower. Oats is dearer. Linseed quiet, with less doing in oil and cakes. Rape cakes neglected. Bones inquired for. Wheat, English, red 60 to 63 . Ditto white 65 to 70 Dantzic and Konigs- Peas, grey and black to -- Linseed, Black Sea 62 to 65 Ditto Petersburgh 50 to 5S Ditto Rigaand Arch angel berg - 66 to 72' Pomeraniauand Ham- burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 54 to M Russian and Odessa 58 to 63 I Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 29 to 31 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 35 to 38 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel. 40 to 42 DittOKonigeberg and Memel 44 to 50 Per Ti D Lins.c., Hull —/N to 10/ 0 Od Ditto fine for. 81 Os 9115 s Od Ditto inf. for O/ Os Od to Or OS Rapeseed OOl Os to 001 Om Rape cakes —s Od to 127 m 6d Tares, English O/, to —0 Ditto foreign IGuano OOl Os 81 to 121150 Bones Flour, per brl. 351. 381 LEEDS-DEC. 9. The best dry samples of wheat command about Friday's rates, but other sorts are easier to buy, and, on the whole, the trade rules slow. Fine barley supports late prices- - inferior rather lower. Beans, oats, and other articles un altered in value. The damp weather affects the condition of the samples generally. Average price of grain—Wheat,• 59s id ; barley, 46s ld ; oats, 26s 7d. ; beans, 46s 4d; peas, 465. 4d. ; rye, 404. 6d. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEO. 9. .STOVE EXOHANGII.—The Stock Exchange to-day wall doing a quiet business, and prices were a shade lower. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 94 7—Great Western, 69k — Midland, 814 2—North Eastern, Berwick, 21—London and North Western, 1051—North British, 9.lB.9.—Dutch Rhenish, pm., 3s. 9d.--East Lancashire, 214 i—Great Western of Canada, 24h—South Eastern, 22i—Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late Birkenhean and Ches. ter), 271. shares, 17I—Eastern Counties, 91. 10s. Od." -- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 34/ BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 9. STOCK EXOHANGE.—This business to-day was chid/ confined to local stocks, with a fair demand. Worcester Canals were done at 19—Great Western Stour Ire Guaranteed 62. MANCHESTER, DEC. 9. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market opened quiet to-daft . with rather firmer prices. Midlands, 82—East Lap , t e ll shire, 211—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolns, 341' South Eastern and Dovers, 221—Leeds, 971—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 9—Great Western, 69A—Ditto , per cent., 1004 cash—Eastern Counties, 9 9-16. :ANGB.--YESTERDA To Gibraltar •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• . Leghorn •• •• •••• •••• 29 7 527.',L Genoa Milan •• .• •• •• •• •.•• Venice•• •• •• •••• ••••••• Naples 43 Palermo •••• •••••• 1204 • •. Messina Lisbon .. '. slg " 5l Oporto .• •••• •• •• •••• •• Rio Janeiro ••• Buenos Ayres ..... ....• New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia PILICEB or lIILLICIF, r ss °s. o Foreign Gold in Bars £0 0 0 Portugal Gold Coin 0/ 2 0 Mexican Dollars 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 5 I % Silver in bars 0 COURSE OF EXCH. kmaterdam .... 11 14 Ditto, three months .. 11 17. itotterclam •• •• •• •• •• •• 11 17 ,intwerp .............. 25 32% Brussels • • • • • • •• •• •• •• 25 32% 1 Elamburgh •• •• •• •• •• • • 13 73( /Mona .. • • •• •• •• •• •• •• Paris.••••••• .•••• •••• 95 25 Ditto, three months .. 25 65 Marseilles .• • •••••• •• 25 67% BOLLtdOB,IIX. .. • • • • • • •• .. Frankfort-on-!Maine 119% Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Vienna•• •• •• • • •• •• •• •• 10 41 frleste •••.•••••• •• • • •• 10 42 Petersburg •• •••••• •• •• 37% Madrid .• ••••• •• •• 48% Cadiz •• •• 49 Barcelona •• •• ••• • • • •• SEABORNE MAILS. e [When the date for making up a mail falls on a SundaY,_ th e /00 remains open until the day following; except in th e case of La% 00 mail, via Southampton, which, on such occas i o n s , is Made lir evening previous.] • .4.140‘ FOIL ...........,:...,........./.'. Ry expected Ale: Made up at Whence By what When 'Voss" the des- Vessel. ...••••'4lr Post-Office. patched. - - -- .....----l -- ...4 - Lisbon... • 1 7th,l7th, &I South- Euxiue Dec . 14 ". or s. Spain Gibraltar Gibraltar -1 and 4th a Malta • • . • MI* Indus Egypt .. ••• • I 4th & 20th South- 20th of the I ' jot° 0 I Ceylon . • India ....•• month. raOnth• NI allittla. - __ - - _ ( via Ceylon) China 4th of 1 south- Penang Australia(via Singapore .• S o uth- Euro- soy.— JO 1 to n ...... . , J A U • 4 . • a peal' I. the Cape) .t Cae of 10 25 El l % Hoppe .Good . •• • • Dart- w.S. o - r an• Mauritius Ceylon India Lisbon 1 . . 'UV' Madeira south - .... • • Jan. 12 :19 111; I CapedeVerds pton Br azil BuenosAyres ' Falkland Is- ) lands West Indies (except Ha vana and ampton Ist and ...4 a South- 16th of le Venezuela os :Atrato the ' G re y Town.. Honduras). ondtis )... m 2dmonth. 17th 1 Month. New Granada Chill ••• • ' • Peru —•• • • J South- California • • 1M Dec. 17 .. 1 16th of I,oo‘ . Atrato the ' leA a ampton mouth. South- Jan. 1 is i m i a o e s n xs d i a : no r as : : ... Havana . • Madeira .... lde a ig neei I' enerlffe .. 1 E Dec. 23 ..} Pl y' Niger Dec. 6 lir,' W.C.of Africa mouth British North 15 514‘111. America .. 1E Every Fri.} Liver- Euro pa Dec. United States pool o United States 1 Dec. 9 and Baltic De 0 .19 V iesS British North E alternate n Liver- America .. Tuesdays. peel Vies i; United States British North iM De 'l7 / South- Dec. - CO America .. 7 O P Canada ...• 1 E Dec. 23 .. psol rican ampton 1 Liver- sF.ulAttnene. ja.l3 Ile 31—Morning. E —Evening. WORONZOFF ROA.D.—A London correspondsub °f/ the (Russian) Brussels journal Le Nord, in speali ip f .„ ° ,,Jos long residence ‘ " , of the late Prince Woronzoff in .L''',"hott; says, It is not the English aristocracy alone 11 ^ ...et io Prince Marshal Woronzof was regarded with re i fr - , e s of this country ; his name was revered by all cl ass ed society in England because he was a very vidence to the distressed. If you go from P.,.""h"°oll's• hill, behind the Regent's- ark, tawards St- "°.,-„,- 'll wood, that pleasant town of cPottages and villas, r' it t i le c h o o m os e es to a h square, composed of very comfortable i , relief of unfort are inhabited by aged and infirtorhuen The nezt w et i r c e h et is called Woronzoff-road, and I will b._ You why. Some t' una.e and aged tradespeoP leaf, ulou' benevolence -- is prov im er e b a ia g l o , of Marylebone (a community which ie far more pop ~ than the • city of Brussels) had fallen into ruins, and tepee not be rebuilt for want of funds. The prince, wh to waS begged for some help, . the alrashoui e r ected remedy this state of things• Lie took a very lively_l4. terest in the matter, and thanks to his truly royal tone ectlitegiboiororo;b: ficence, and to hie discriminating patronage, the tiu: l3 . which,' have mentioned to you Was built as if Z o o , ebantment, and forms at this time the garyleboue f t he houses. It is to commemorate the gene ,r founder of this asylum that the inhabitants of S t * " °-13 0 1 wood have given the name of Woronzoff•road to 00e their streets. ' ~ BIRTHS:, Car • AVG On the 9th inst., at 5 , Chapel-street, Grovellerfife the Hon. Mrs. Francis Stonor. the On the 9th inst., at the London -bridge Tavern, of John Wallis. OF A DAUGECTRIU ' On the 7th inst., at Ld t to the wife ° t f li. Rev. John Gordo. O Ygaa B,ccrY° On the 9th inst., at Blomfield-road, Maids-bill, eh s-6 A of Walter Butler, Esq. MAR:RIED. Char les a t On the 4th inst., at West Hackney Church, ,1- Turner Rattrap, of Westerham, to Elizabeth ib r l ff.ei r eldest daughter of the late Alexander Hall, BK ., ° welt. I , bel g ti On the 29th ult., at Bassano, in Venetian "----1 St e Jon Ball, E.g., M.P., H.M.'s Under Secretarl:oo. Dvi for tie Colonies, and eldest son of the Right pit ° Justice Bail, to Elize, daughter of the Count re 4. Bassano, Graom-in-waiting to the Emperor, of A" DIED. - th, tbs On the 9th in st., at 2, Salters'-hall-court, Elizabe wile of Mr. Deputy. Conder, aged 66. Ser ref' On the Bth jest., at 21, CastlennuVillas,Bsrl3C3' Thomas CamPlin, aged 7A , AO' 0,, On the 7th inst., at 4, Warwick 'Mao, POO ei the infant daughter of Lieut.-Col. H. Stamford. t, 0 On the 4th inst., at Isleworth, Mr. John War° 44. 1 , rw ell, 14 , 0 t. On the 6th inst., at his son's residence, etneiord i' ' Stephen Westbrook, formerly editor of the " 4 " . ' t ' h a e ge 7 d th 67 inst., at St. James's-pleee, nic o le n , • k C Seymour, Esq., aged 59. Th9tll:4l On the 6th inst. at Castle Cary, Wore , Spencer Phelps, rector ' of hlaperton, Sour 82. _,...-• tEheredetervic, 00 • (WO ' LONDON Printed and Published by MITILDO 00, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun OtVe'opti 112, Strand, in the PreeinCt of the Savoy, in 0° 641 of Middlesex, W ednes lay, Decem ber 10, 180 i