The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. CALCUTTA AND SOUTH EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Gresham-house, Old Broad•sircet ; Mr J. Borrmlaile in the chair. The report stated that the passenger traffic had risen from 110,190 to 183,321 passengers, being an increase of nearly 60 per cent. on the half year end ing the 30th of June, 1863 ; but this augmentation belonged almost exclusively to the first ten miles out of Calcutta. A n experiment had been commenced with the approval of the Government, to establish four classes of passengers, the fares of the third being 50 per cent. in advance of the fourth class; and there was every appearance of its being appreciated by t' - ,e middling class of the native population and con. ducing to the interest of the company. The number of passengers carried per mile during the past six mon th s was 6,517, being more than on any other ra il w ay in India. The vast local produce of the eastern districts, now conveyed by water, would gradually b 3 attracted to Canning Town, and thus render it, as anticipated by Mr Beadon, the present Lieutenant• Governor of Bengal, " the emporium of the trade of Eastern Bengal." The increase in the number of passengers was 73,131, as compared with the corresponding half of 1863, of which 40,378 were third class, 15,256 fourth class, and 5,808 se cond class. For the half year ending the 30th of Tune the mileage open averaged 28 miles, the receipts for passengers amounted to £2,712, for goods and minerals to £1,353, total, £4,065, against an average of 1 8 1 miles open in the corresponding half of 1863, the receipts for passengers being £1,704, and for goods and minerals £93, total, £1,797, showing an increase of £2,268, The working expenses for the half year amounted to £5,352, or 131.668 per cent. of the receipts, against £1,859, or 103.48 per cent., for corresponding period last year: The sum expended on capital account during the half year was limited to £10,770, and the debit against revenue had been necessarily augmented. Toe leading object of the line was to provide for the relief of the crowded port of Calcutta by establishing a new port at Mutlah and connecting it with the metropolis by a railway. It was with this view that the Government of India originally projected the undertaking, and that the successive Governors of Bengal had watched over and stimulated its pro gress. Audit was in dependence on the completion of its plan that the directors had from time to time rested their chief expectations regarding the pros. perity of the line. The plan of establishing a port at the Mutlah was originally urged on the Government of India by the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, and Lord Dalhousie, on receipt of their memorial, lost no time in ordering a survey of the river, and direc ting Colonel Baker to examine the country between Calcutta and the head of the Mutlah. The report on the river proved very satisfactory, and Col. Baker recommended a railway, which he estimated would cost £556,494. Lord Dalhousie then recorded a minute in favour of the scheme, stating that he had taken the precaution of purchasing for Government a large estate, with the view of establishing a new port and town on the banks of that river. The pecu niary interests of the State to the extent of £25,000 a year for interest on the capital expended by the company under a guarantee of 5 per cent. per annum on the outlay were bound up with the success of the undertaking. It was the necessity of establishing an auxiliary port on the Mutlah which led to the con struction of the railway. But to establish the port and thus secure an influx of population, and theerec. tion of warehouses and other commercial facilities, it was necessary that the site should be drained, roads constructed, and the river frontage secured by em. bankments. With a view to obtain funds for those public works the Government of Bengal, about 18 months ago, appointed a body of municipal com missioners at Canning Town, and made over to them the fee simple of the land in and around it, with instructions to invite public subscriptions to a loan by debentures on this security. The deben tures were offered to the public at the close of last year to the extent of £lOO,OOO, but without success. The municipal commissioners then applied to Go. vernment far an advance of £45,000 on the deben tures, to enable them to proceed with those works during the cold season, and thus avoid the loss of anether twelve months. They stated at the same time the ultimate requirements of the port might be found to extend to /200,000. In reply the Govern ment announced their willingness to advance £45,000, but on the condition that the sum of £155,000 should have been previously subscribed and paid by the public. This stipulation necessarily i , lvolvc.d the failure of the proposal; but as the shippivg of Calcutta, which was only 385,000 tons a year when the foresight of Lord Dalhousie pro jected this auxiliary port for its relief, had now increased to 700,000 tons, the directors indulged in the hope that the Supreme Government would be induced to reconsider their decision end make adequate provisi en for completing the work they had begun. Tho property of the company had suffered no materiel injury from the cc clone which spread desolation through Lower Bengal on the sth of October last. Tne capital account showed that £437,835 had been expended, leaving a balance of £9,072. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, entered into an explanation of matters con nected with the necessity of effectually establishing Canning-town at the Mutlah terminus of the rail- way. He stated that at least two-thirds of the present receipts were derived from the first ten miles, or oue-third of the railway, and this eccounted for the dt ficiency in the receipts and the excess in the cost of working the traffic. It was on the through trAfic between Calcutta and the Mutlah that they depended for a remuce• native return. The supineness of the Government in this matter was perfectly unintelligible to him, as they had to pay the company 125,600 a year for tl.e interest of the money expended. Tne great advantages of the Matlala as a port were well known and if it had been brought into operation btfore the late cyclone occurred the destruction of shipping would have been very much less than it was from the crowding of ships in the Hooghly. Mr MARsHMAN seconded the motion for the adop• tion of the report. Sir M. WELLS fully concurred in the importance of establishing Canning-town with proper facilities for trade. 'lnc exertions of some of the most able men in India were being continually frustrated by the home authorities, and h© thought the time had arrived when the great body of shareholders must take an interest in their affairs, aid express their opinion in respect of those matters. Ho recom mended the opening of the line on Sunday, wh:ch was the only day a native population of 700,000 had for recreation. He was sure it would add largely to the receipts of the company. The CIIAIRNIAN said the reason the railway was closed on Sunday was because their agent thought it would not pay to run trains on that day. Mr MARSHII;N said that on the East Indian line a train ran both ways on Sunday. Sir M. WELLS thought it worth whsle to try the Experiment of Sunday traffic on their line. He strongly advocated the necessity of providing pro per third cla ss accommo d at i on at all the stations for their great customers, the native population. Cheap sheds to protect the poor natives from the weather, and some cookin g p l aces would be quite sufficient for the purpose, H e concluded by moving the fol lowing resolution ,4 That, in reference to the statements contained in the report, the shareholders request the dime• tirs to lose no time i n address ing the S ecre t ary of State for India in Counc il, re p rese nting the urgent necessity of the aid of the Governm ent for the es. tablishment of the port of Matlab, in the h o p e t h at the supreme Government may be induced to recall eider their decision and make adequate provision for completing the work they have begun." Mr L. BROWNE seconded the motion. Mr MARSIIIAN quite agreed in the necessity for providing suitable accommodation at the railway stations for the third•class passengers, and he was glad to say that a general order to that effect had . been issued by the Government to the managers of all the Indian railways in August last, and no doubt it would be carried out as soon as possible. Mr ADAMS considered that the working expenses were a great deal too high, as they amounted to Os per train mile, while the receipt s only amounted to 33 9d per train mile. If those Government cbstrnc• tions to the development of the railway e cone tinued, he feared the time would coma when the shareholders would feel compelled to give notice for the return of their capital. Capt.HENNES'G fully concurred i❑ to advantages of the new port on the Mutlah, and the saving of time it would effect iu discharging and taking in cargoes. The report viO3 then unanimously adopted, as was also the resolution proposed by Sir M. Wells, seconded by Mr Browne. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the' chairman and directors. INDIAN CARRYING. The half•yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Broad-street-buildings —Sir Macdonald Stephenson in the chair. Mr W. Thompson, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the business of the company for the past half-year was more favourable than it ap peared from the accounts, as it had been subjected to some deductions in consequence of former losses. On comparing the receipts for business done in the corresponding half of 1863, £22,974, with that for the past half-year, amounting to £82,706, they would perceive that great progress had bsen made, showing that, without any guarantee or subsidy from the Government, it was possible to establish the company on a sound basis. It was gratifying to them that the public in India had made due allowance for unavoidable shortcomings at the oats set. They expected that they would have a great accession of business when the traffic arrangements of the railway companies were completed. One cause of occasional delay arose from the inability of some of the railways to carry the accumulating traffic on their lines, which he considered was a promising augury of future prosperity, when they had ample means of transport, although at present the delay occasioned temporary inconvenience. The directors were well satisfied with the manner in which the managers had performed their duties, and the large Government contracts recently under taken would give increased confidence to the public. The dividend, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, he trusted, was satisfactory. In reply to questions, it was stated that a very large proportion of their payments were to railway companies for the conveyance of traffic, and not in any respect occasioned by the company's own esta• blishments, which were not in excess of what was needed. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, reelecting Mr, Walker and Mr. Stewart (the retiring directors), and also Mr. Coleman and Mr. Engstrom (the retiring auditors). The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. INNS OF COURT HOTEL. The ordinary meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr, Cox in the chair. The secretary read the report, which stated that notwithstanding considerable difficulties arising from the state of the money-market during the past year, the undertaking was steadily progressing, and the building advancing towards completion. The directors had been enabled to make advantageou3 arrangements with all those persons interested in the tenements surrounding the Holborn portion of the building, and the uncovered land thus placed in possession of the company was valued ati:40,500, a price only £5OO less than that at which it was bought when covered with buildings. It was esti mated that the whole cost of the building, includ ing the furnishing of the hotel, would be about £140,000. The directors proposed to ask the con sent of the shareholders for additional borrowing powers to the extent of £20,000. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the prospects of the hotel were molt encouraging, and he thought the good security tle company had to offer would enable them to raise the money required to complete the hotel witho l ut any difficulty. Theresolution having been seconded was agreed to The meeting was then made special, and a reso. lution was agreed to empowering the directors to borrow a further sum of £20,000. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The second meeting of the present session of this society was held at Burlington -house on Monday evening—Sir R. I. Murchison, president, in the chcir, There was a full attendance. The first paper read was "An Expedition across the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia by the Yellow Head or Leather Pass," by Viscount Milton and Dr. Cheadle. Lord Milton and his companions set forth in the spring of 1862 to cross the conti nent of North America through British territory, with a view to discover a practicable route which should be free from the risks attendant on a road too near the United States' boundary. The Leather Pass, rihich lies in the same latitude as the gold dis trict of CAriboo, had been formerly used by the voyageurs of the Hudson's Bay Company, but the route from this to the settled parts of British Columbia, by the head waters of the Thompson River, had never yet been trodden by a European. The travellers arrived at Fort Garry on the 7th of August, and, after a severe winter passed at a solitary hunting station near the north branch of the Saskatchewan, commenced their journey of exploration in the following April. The country between the Red River and the Rocky Mountains they described as extremely fertile, rich prairies ready for the plough being interspersed with woods rich in timber for building and fencing. Coalbeds and ironstone exist in several places, and, in short, when the obstructions placed in the way of settle ment by the governing power are removed and com munication established between Canada and British Columbia, this would become one of the most valu. able portions of the British possessions. The road beyond Edmonton (the last station at which sup► plies can be obtained) was merely a pack-trail. At this place the party was finally formed ; it consisted of seven persons, including a half-breed as guide, and an Indian called the " Assiniboine," with his wife and son, who attended to the pack horses. During the following three weeks they progressed slowly over the spongy and boggy soil of the primeval forest which stretches for 300 miles from Lake St. Ann's to the foot of the mountains. They obtained their first view of the range on arriving at the banks of the Athabasca River, which emerges from the heart of the mountains through a narrow gorge, and on reaching the plains expands into a lake several miles in length. On its western bank is Jasper-house, a summer station of the Hudson's Bay Company, surrounded by snowcapped moun tains. The scenery is the vicinity was described as most enchanting, all the lower slopes being co vered with a carpet of wild flowers of the most varied colours. Three dap' march from Jasper brought them (on the Bth of July) to the watershed between the Pacific and Atlantic, and on the 10th they struck the Fraser River, which they found, even at this altitude, to be a stream of considerable size, rushing down a narrow rocky gorge. Here the great difficulties of the journey commenced, the only road being along the almost precipitous cliffs of the narrow river valleys. On the 17th two of the pack horses slipped into the torrent, and were swept away in an instant. One of them was rescued by the heroism of the " Assiniboine," but the other, carrying all the instruments, tea, salt, and nearly all the fammunition, was l os t. A no th er acc id en t w hi c h them three days afterwards, in crossing the Canoe River, a branch of the Columbia, nearly cost two of them their lives, for the raft became unman ageable, and plunging under the projecting the bank s , i ts living freight was swept off trees like flies. on ght Lord Milton and the " Assiniboi " ' ne wife clung to a tree overhanging the torrent, and Were rescued some time after by their companions. From this stream the party crossed to the valley of the Thomp son River, passing one of its sources, and following this for several days, they finally came to a point THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1864. where all traces of path entirely cesied, and an un trodden region of forest and torrent lay before them which it was necessary to traverse in order to reach Fort Kamloops, where alone they could obtain suc cour. They struggled through this difficult region for 23 days, living on their slaughtered horses and the small quantity of flour remaining of their stock, and seven days afterwards they arrived in an ema• ciated condition at the fort, where they were hospi tably received by Mr Mackay. With regard to the practicability of a road being taken across by the route they had come, Lord Milton believed that few engineering difficulties existed of any importance ; but it would have to be made throughout the entire route between Edmonton and the valley of the Thompson. From Edmonton to Jasper-house the surface is slightly undulating; the lower ground swampy and every where covered with thick forest. From Jasper -house through the main ridge of the Rocky. Mountains the valley is for the most part wide and unobstructed except by timber, the ascent to the height is very gradual, and the descent, though much more rapid, neither steep nor difficult. From Tetei, Jaune's Cache (on the west of the main ridge) the only route lies along the narrow gorges of the Thompson, where the bottoms of the ravines are generally level. The great advantages of this line are that it lies far removed from the United States' boundary, passes through a country inhabited only by friendly ln• diens, and forms the most direct communication between Canada and the gold regions of British Columbia. Mr Dallas (late Governor of Prince Rupert's Land), Mr Crawfurd, and Lord Milton took part in the discussion which followed the reading of the paper, and the President, in returning thanks to the authors, called attention to the map of the country exhibited, in which Mr Arrowsmith !had been enabled, through the new data supplied by Lord Milton and Dr Cheadle, to fill up many voids that recently existed. The next paper was " On the New Country of North Australia, discovered by Mr John Macdouall Stuart.' by Mr STUART. This was a brief ac count of the fertile region between the centre of Australia and the mouth of the Adelaide River, which had been explored by the author in his jour• ney across the continent. The climate was healthy and the laud well adapted for European settlers if Malays and Chinese could be introduced as a labour ing class, in which there was no difficulty. The Adelaide River had 40ft, of water at a distance of 80 miles from its mouth, and its entrance formed a szcure harbour. In concluding, Mr Stuart said he should avail himself of his privilege as a discoverer by giving a name to this region hitherto known only as North Australia. He proposed calling it Alexandra Land, after her Royal Highness the Princess of ',Vales. but try to put out the tire, l‘ly character has never been impugned before," The Coroner said that ho:uuderstood it to be so until this occurrence. Tho Coroner said that if the jury believed that in a struggle resulting from an attempt on the part of Samuel Withers to take liberties with the deceased she was set on fire, and so lost her life, Withers should be held responsible for her death ; but if they believed Withers's statement that the occurrence was accidental, they should say so by their verdict. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Samuel Withers for feloniously killing and slaying Mary Deacon. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the committal of Mr Withers to Newgate, but said that he would take substantial bail for his appearance. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--Nov, 29, CLERK EN WELL—Hove PORK PIES ARE MADE. — Mr William Johnstone, pork-pie manufacturer, of 140, Essex-road, Islington, was summoned before Mr Barker, on the following information laid by Mr Robert Dunham, inspector of nuisances, acting under the authority of the Vestry of St. Mary, Islington, for having had a quantity of veal and pork deposited on his premises for the purposes of sale and of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man, the same being unsound, unwholesome, and unfit for the food of man. Mr Layton appeared for the Vestry of Islington; and Air Lewis, of Ely-place, for the defendant, Mr Layton said this was a summons under the Nuisance Removal Act, 1863, under which, if the offence was proved, the defendant was liable to a penalty not exceeding £2O, or, at the discretion of the magistrate, without the infliction of a fine, imprisonment for three months. As this was not the first offence of the defendant, the Vestry would certainly press for the infliction of the full penalty. 'T he defendant was fined £l5 on the 25th of October last for a similar offence. Mr Robert Dunham deposed—l . am inspector of nuisances to the vestry of Islington. On the 10th November, about half-past 10, I visited the premises of Mr Johnstone, whole sale pork pie maker, 154, Essex-road, and examined them. He has a bakehouse at the back. In the bakehouse I found two men making pies from meat which was in a tub cut in small pieces. I examined it, and found it of a dark colour and putrid. In the passage swung on hooks I found a piece of back fat, six pieces of veal, and a hand or shoulder of pork. It was putrid, the veal very much so and damp. The pieces in the tub were cut from larger pieces. I seized it, and left Mr Godbold in charge of it whilst I went for Dr. Mallard,who also inspected the meat upon his arrival. On a bench in the passage I found a number of pieces of flare or hog fat. I examined these singly, and then handed them to Dr Mallard, who also examined them. They were in a state of decomposition, some pieces much worse than others, I seized the whole of it, as in my opinion it was unwhole some and unfit for food of man. By Mr Layton—When I seized the meat the defendant asked to be allowed to destroy it. Mr Barker—How were they filling the pies from the tub? Witness—The men were putting their hands into the tub. Mr Godbold—l am in the employ of the vestry, and I examined the premises in question. I saw some pieces of veal, a shoulder of pork, and some hog fat. It was stinking, and unfit for human food. I saw the defendant there. He wished to destroy it. Dr Mallard—l am medical cilicer of health to the vestry of Islington. I have examined the meat, and it was totally unfit for human food. I saw the joints and the stuff in tub. The whole of it was unfit. Cross-examined by Mr Lewis—l have found haunches of venison "high" and game also, but fit for human food. Mr Lewis addressed the Court for defendant, and cosi tended that as there was an amendment to the summons the defendant was out of court. Ho was charged with having the meat far sale, and for preparation for sale. There was no evidence to show that the meat was for sale. It might have been in preparation for the making of pies; the mere fact of having the meat whioh might be made into pies was not'sufficient to convict the defendant. Mr Barker—l do not think your objection valid, You can appeal, Mr Lewis, if you like. Mr Lewis—The meat was bought of Mr Currier, and it was then fresh. Dr Mallard re-examined—l took some of the veal and pork home to examine. I manipulated the meat in th© pan, and I was perfectly satisfied that it was putrid. Mr Currier deposed—On the 18th inst. I sold some pork to defendant—it was then fit for human food, lam a meat salesman. I also sold some flares of pork, fresh and sweet. In muggy weather in a few hours veal and pork would become bad. By Mr Layton—l do not know where I bought the meat. I do not know if tho meat I sold was the same as that seized at Mr Johnstone's. Two witnesses in the employ of the defendant were called, who stated that they considered the meat in ques tion perfectly sound. Mr Barker then said, after hearing the evidence of Dr Mallard, Mr Dunham, and Mr Godbold that the meat was putrid, he could have no doubt at all on the matter. The last witness could not have ex twined the meat, and as the scientific witnesses had examined it, he could not entertain any doubt but that the meat was in a state unfit for human food. The defendant was before him the other day, and that bad made him (Mr Barker) more careful in this case. He should inflict the full penalty, as he looked upon the case as being essentially a poor man's question, and one which greatly affected him. He should not be doing his duty if he did not inflict the full penalty under the act, of £2O, the alternative being three months' imprisonment. Mr Barker made an order for the payment of the amount within 28 days. Several summonses against tradesmen for offences of a similar character were allowed to stand over for a week. LAMBETH.—GROSS EXTORTION BY A POLICEMAN. — Salem Charles Lowe, a constable belonging to the P divi sion of police, was charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, by direction of the Commissioners of Police, with extort ing 2s 3d from Henry Joseph Knight to discharge him out of custody. oapmfarrpi teaennddyw with him they® to go to The complainant, a porter in the employment of the said that on Saturday ' as far as the canal bridge ni S ni o g u t hh t South loa E sl t a d s hi t e ie r e a n : tc m ßailway o a pda,nai and his residence. While proceeding along a lane or footway leading to Surrey-square ha met a female, who accosted him, but ho made no reply to her, and passed on, and soon met another who addressed him also. To her ho was likewise silent, and passed along as soon as he could avoid her. He had not gone many paces when the defendant came from behind, overtook him, and placing his bull's eye light in his face, said, " You must come along with Me to the station house. I know what you have been about, for and I a can ge she can go about her busi ness, him what he was abou t to take him to the station s for thet her-s voianna any tune," titue." The witness asked for, and the defendant r eplied, " You know for what as well as I do." They then went together in the direction of the station house, and as they reached the turning leading to his lodgings he was about to turn off, but the defendant would not permit him. Witness then told the defendant that he had four children at home, and no one to attend them' as ho had recently lost their mother, and begged the defen dant would accompany him to his lodgings, that he might see them and let them kilriw whore he was, and then he should go with him to the station. The defendant said "If you have four children, so have I, and the worst of it is that I have no bread to give them." They walked along as far as Thurlow-place, when the defendant said, " Now, what are you going to give me if I let you go ?" and he replied, " What should I give You ? I have done nothing." The defendant said "You must give me something." Com plainant said—l then put my hand in my pocket and said, " I have only 2s Bd, and that is all I can give you." The defendant said," Well, you must give me that," and on my handing him a florin and threepence in copper ho said, " Now go about your business, and get home as fast as you like." On getting home I told my landlord how I had been imposed upon, and he asked me if I should know the con stable, or could recollect his number, and I said I certainly should know the man, and recollected the two first figures of his number were 45, but the last figure he kept from my view by shifting about. We then went in search of the defendant, and found him in the act of taking another man to the station house for a similar offence, and the man was begging and praying to be allowed to go home to his wife and family. I then saw a police sergeant, 32 P, and told him that the constable (the de'endant) had extorted 2s 3d from me a short time before, but the defendant denied it, and said I mast be mad or drunk. The sergeant asked me if I intended persisting in the charge, and I said I did ; and he then told me to follow the de fondant and himself to the station, and to watch and see that the prisoner dropped nothing on the way. While going along the defendant kept his hands in his pockets, and rattled money, and was told by the sergeant that ho must take his hands out of his pockets and walk along properly. On reaching the station I charged defendant with extorting 2s 3d from me, and defendant said, " I did take the 2s 3d ; I did not ask for it ; he gave it to mo out of his free will and voluntarily," He was told to pull out all the money he had, and he took from his pocket a shilling, two sixpenny pieces and three penny pieces. He was then reminded by the sergeant who took the charge that the silver ho produced was not the money he was chat god with extorting, and defendant replied that the two-shilling piece ho had left folded up in his cape in Surrey-square. The witness was cross-examined by a solicitor on behalf of the defendant, but nothing favourable to defendant was elicited. Sergeant George Hull, 32 P. confirmed the testimony of the last witness, in so far as his own interference in the case related. Mr Norton—When you first saw the defendant I under stand ho had a man in custody. Witness—Yes, your worship. Mr Norton—Did the defendant say what the nature of the charge was ? Witness—Yes, Sir; he said it was for indecent conduct with a woman in a mews close by. Mr Norton—Did he say what became of the woman ? Witness—He said he had allowed her to go. Mr Norton—ls the man he had in custody hero ? Witness--No, sir. I was quite aware the place where the alleged offence took place was on private property, and therefore that he could not be detained or locked up for it; but I told him to follow us to the station-house to hear his statement. On reaching the station-hcuse I found he had disappeared, and I do not wonder at it, for he was begging hard to be let off when I first came up to the defendant and him. The witness Hall further said he accompanied the defen dant, after the charge was taken, to Surrey-square, and there found the florin in a piece of the bark from one of the trees, and close to where the defendant's cape was placed. The defendant, he said, had been about four months in the force. The defendant's solicitor addressed the magistrate, and wholly denied the charge of extortion ; he attributed his act of folly in taking this money from the complainant as one of extreme good nature, and claimed much credit to his client for his conduct in admitting his offence, and stating where the money was, but for which the charge could not have been established against him. Ho concluded by saying he should leave the case in the hands of his worship. Mr Norton remarked that he very much regretted having such a case to decide. For 32 years he had had the oppor tunity of witnessing the conduct of the members of the police force, and could conscientiously say that in a force so numerous there were few black sheep. He was sorry to say the conduct of the prisoner was exceedingly black, and it was ridiculous to say the act was not one of extortion. It was not only an act of extortion, but one of the worst that had ever been brought under hisnotice, and for it he should commit the prisoner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour. Verdict of Manslaughter. Yesterday afternoon an inquiry was held by Mr William Payne, coroner for the city of London, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, touching the death of Mary Deacon, aged 19, a work girl, residing with her mother, a widow, at No. 3, Middle-street, Cloth-fair, and at the time of her death learning waistcoat making with Mr Samuel Withers, at No. 2, Beech-lane, Barbican. Win. Rowe, a lad, was the first witness called, He said —I live now at 23, Golden-lane. I lived in Whitecross street, immediately at the back of No. 2, Beech-lane. On the last day of October I was in my room, between 5 and 6 o'clock, when I heard a scream, It was a woman's voice, clear and shrill. I opened the window and got on the roof of No. 4, Whitecross-street, and then I crossed the loads until I got into such a position that I could look into the yard and passage of No. 2, Beech-lane, I saw a woman in the act of putting a tub down on the stones. Her clothes were on fire then. I saw a man just inside the passage, and he said to the person on fire, "Hold your row, you fool." The woman answered, " I shall not, you, brute," and she called out, "Fire, Murder I" She tried to fly past the man into the passage, He caught her round the waist and said, " You shall not go." She tried desperately to get away from him, and at last she succeeded in breaking from him. I saw no more till I went round to the street. The door of No, 2 was then closed. The deceased was being rolled in the street by men and women who were covering her with sacks. A boy was throwing water over her. A cab was fetched, and she was carried to St Bartholomew's Hospital. I had never seen either the man or woman be fore. I have seen the man since, at the police court, and identify him as a person now present giving the name of Samuel Withers. Cross-examined by Mr Withers, the witness said—l did not see you trying to put out the fire, and flinging a pail of water over the girl. I take my oath that you said, " Hold your noise, you fool." Julia Strait, wife of a cook, said—At the time this oc currence took place I was crossing Beech-land. I heard a f.tint cry, " Oh, help me, help me." I heard a door bang, and turning round I saw a woman rush out in a body of flames from the house No. 2. A man ran up the street with a mat in his hand, and he threw the woman down to put out the flames. After 1 had torn the clothes from her waist I lift ed her head up, She gave a faint sigh and said, " I am better now. He has done it, he has done it, That man kissed me, and tried to take liberties with me; I will lock him up." I did not then know what man she meant, but I looked up and saw a man in his shirt sleeves standing at the door of No. 2, He looked on at the poor girl burning and never offered her any help. That (pointing to Samairl Withers) is the same man; I am sure he is the same. The girl pointed towards the door where he was leaning, and said, " That man did it." No one else was at the doorway at the time. She turned over on her left side to point to him. Ho answered not a word. He cauld and must have heard her. Ho went indoors as we were getting the girl into the cab. I saw the door being closed. W Tanzy, 403, city police, said-1 was in the backyard of No. 5, Beech-lane, where I live, on the evening in question I heard a girl scream " Fire l'' and " Murder I" When I got into Beach-lane I saw the girl standing near No. 2 in flames. I heard her say, "That man did it. I will have him locked up." She raised her arms, and I thought she pointed to No. 3. I ascertained that the house was No. 2, and I knocked at the door. some minutes elapsed before the door was opened. Mrs Withers came, and I asked where her husband was, She said that ho was inside, and I went in and found him lying down, drunk. ille had no coat on. I asked him to come into the front room, and there I told him it was stated that he was the cause of the girl being burnt. Ho said that he was lying on the sofa, and he saw her stand with her back to the fire, and she set herself in a blaze. He caught hold of her to put the fire out, but she rushed from him out into the yard. He followed her, and threw water over her, but she ran out into the street. Mrs Withers, who was also very drunk, said that she was in the little room• at the time. I went to the hospital, and in consequence of what the girl said Withers was taken into custody. Ho was remanded subsequently for the attendence of the prosecutrix. Afterwards ho was dis charged by Alderman Carden, as the woman could not attend. There was a rug under the deceased when she lay on the ground. I believe that came from the house—how I do not know. Sergeant White, 59, city police. said—On the 3d of No vember I was informed about this case. I was sent here to hear the girl's statement, and I reported to Alderman Finnis what she stated. Ido not know why Alderman Finnis did not take her depositions. The house surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital said— • The deceased was taken there on the 31st of October, dread fully burnt. She appeared to go on favourably for some two or three weeks. Three days before she died I sent a report to the magistrate, as she was then sinking, and an inspector of police came, but no magistrate. She made a statement to me just after she was brought in. The inspector saw her on Friday last, I did not hear her say then that she thought she should die. The Rev. Mr Reuben, a city missionary, said—l reside at 49, Barbican, and am a Baptist minister, I visited the deceased frequently in the hospital, and saw her on Friday evening. For nine days past sho was apparently satisfied she could not recover. She said that she was prepared to die, and that she was not happy. On Friday night I asked her whether the magistrate had been to see her,and she said that he had not, but that the police had been. She was quite sensible. I asked her what she had told them, and she said she had told the officer what she ha I told me before. Sergeant White, recalled, said, I was the officer who saw the deceased on Friday evening, the 25th inst. I asked her how she was, and she said that she believed she was dying. I asked her to tell me how the accident took place. She said, " I was in the employ of Mr Withers, at 2,Beech lane. On the 31st of October I was in the parlour when he was lying on the sofa. lle jumped up and caught .. - hold of me and sat on the chair and pulled me on his knee and kissed me. I screamed out, Ho said,: Don't cry, and don't be a fool.' I said, I will scream.' Ho let go of me then. I then said, See, lam on fire.' He did not try to put out the fire. I ran into the yard to throw water over me. I ran into the street, and I became unconscious." I reduced that statement to writing and deceased signed it in presence of witnesses. Samuel 'Withers said that he was on the sofa and saw the deceased atanding with her back close to the bars—her crinoline wae, in fact, on fire: She was not aware she was on fire, and he wished to put it out. She became quite ex cited and tried to get away. He endeavoured to keep her in the room, but she broke from him and rushed into the yard where he followed her and threw a pail of water over her. He afterwards put a rug over her, and it was burnt. He did his best to put out the fire. The Coroner—You have heard the statement the girl made to the officer when in danger of death. Do you wish to say anything further on that point? Withers said in reply—" I am not guilty ; I did nothing The Brothers Davenport, The following is Capt. Burton's (the African traveller) observations of phenomena connected with the Brothers Davenport : " London, Nov. 10. " Dr J. B. Ferguson,—Dear Sir,—You spoke yesterday about my writing in a few words my opinion of what I have seen done on various occasions by your friends the Messrs Davenport; you kindly overlooked my confusion of side views, and you permitted me to call the thing ' odic force,' or 'od force.' The usual terms, 'spirit,' manifes tation,' and so forth, will now, with your permission, be used —begging you, however, to understand that wh let I believe everything and anything equally, and nothing more than another thing, my faith and unfaith in od force' and 'spirit' remain exactly as before. In case of my becoming a spirit,' I hope not to be summoned for the small sum of £1 15s into anybody's drawing-room, there to play the guitar and rap people's heads. The latter state is worse than the first. "As you are aware, I have now witnessed, under advan• tageous circumstances, four of the so-called dark seances. These were all in private houses—one of them in my own lodgings. We sedulously rejected all believers, and chose the most sceptical and hard-headed of our friends and ac quaintances, some of whom had prepared the severest tests. We provided carefully against all possibility of confede rates,' bolting the doors, &c., and brought our own cords, sealing wax, tape, diacbylon, musical instruments (guitar, harmonicon, bird whistle, tambourine, bells) and so forth. " The results of the seances were almost invariably the same. After Mr Ira Davenport and Mr William Fay, the two strongest ' mediums,' had been tied up hands and feet by us, you suddenly extinguished the light ; we then, the darkness being complete, sat in a semicircle fronting the mediums, each holding his neighbour's arm or hand, and each warned not to break the chain. On one occasion I placed my feet on Mr Fay's, while Mr B—, the waster of the house, did the same to Mr Davenport, and we measured their distance from the semicircle-10 feet. " Within two seconds--I speak edvisedly—after the candle was put out, the musical instruments placed on the table be. tween the two mediums began to ehudder and tremble. Pre sently the guitar strings commenced twanging as if badly played with a single finger and the instruments went round the semicircle with the velocity of a bird, fanning our cheeks as it passed. The prettiest effect was to hear it buzzing in the distance as a humming bee would sound when flying awiey. If the guitar happened to be in good humour the in struenent patted our heads softly, or lay on our laps, or thrust itself into our hands. If the ' spirits were dis pleased, the manifestations were decidedly rough. I re ceived once a rather severe contusion with the tip of the guitar, when the heavy bells and the tambourine struck the ground and the table with a noise and force that sug gested the kick of a horse on a splashboard. Presently the sounds cease, the candle is relit, we run up to the mediums, we find thew ix our own cords, taped with our own tape, sealed with over own seals, and perhaps plastered with diachylon stripe Every one inquires how it was done, and no one answers, and not a few are clearly and palpably frightened. The _honest declare themselves puzzled. "The most remarkable manifestations that occurred in my presence were the following :—A tumbler of water placed on the table, with a bird whistle in it, was thrown on the carpet at my feet without noise or breakage ; a dry, hot, and rough hand on one (meal= felt my hands, fell on my face, and then pulled my moueta Chios. and, finally, thrust between my lips a cigar, taken .from the mantlepiece ; my legs have also been twitched, and .my head patted. My neighbour in the same séance felt a cad, clammy, and feminine hand, screwed up at times like a bird's claw, running over her face, and evidently with a large portion of the arm resting on her head. Sparks of red and pale fire have fallen from the ceiling, sometimes perpendicularly . , at other times cross ing the room, and coming from a part apparently higher than the ceiling. Mr Willisru Fay's coat was removed whilst ho was securely fastened hand and foot, and a lucifer match was struck at the same instant, 'showing us the tw o gentle men, fast bound, and the coat irt the air on its way to the other side of the room. Under• precisely similar circum stances the coat of another gentleman present was placed upon him. A gruff voice has repeatedly addressed me and others. There are many others, for which you have not space, o/ my own experience.' A. lady, whose veracity I have no reason to doubt, and who is supposed to have strong mesmeric powers, assured me that she perceived the musical instruments floating high iu the the air or wriggl ing along the floor. Being able to see them in a dark room she imagined that we had applied to them phosphorised oil, which we had not. On the same occasio u she distinguished the outline of a figure which stopped slik,ehtly, and not, as she thought, that of any one in the room.• " I have spent a great part of my life in Oriental lands, and have seen there many magicians. Lately I have been permitted to see and be present at the performances of Messrs Anderson and Tolmaque. The latter showed, as they profess, clever conjuring, but they do net even attempt what the Messrs. Davenport and Fay succeed in doing ; for instance, the beautiful management of the musical instru ments. Finally, I have read and listened to every explana tion of the Davenport tricks' hitherto placed before the English public, and, believe me, if anything . wou‘.cl make me take that tremendous jump ' from matter ,+o spirit,' it is utter and complete unreason of the reasons by which the ' manifestations' are explained.—Believe me ever yours truly, &c., "RICHARD F. BILITON." "Dear Sir,—The 'above is an accurate copy of Captain Burton's letter to me, and I have his permission to place it before the public.—Very truly yours, "To H. D. Palmer, Esq. " J. B. FERGUSON." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The claims of Mr Sergeant Glover upon the Duke of Persigny have been brought so re peatedly, though imperfectly, to the knowledge of the public that the trial in which the case was dis posed of on Saturday may attract less notice than it deserves. In the year 1856 M. de Persigny,whose conceptions of the functions of the Press we yester• day recorded, resided in this country as Ambassador from the Emperor of the French, aad in that capa city, as is alleged, he or his agents entered into ne gotiations for securing the services of eeetain Eug. fish newspapers on behalf of his Government. Toe French Government, we are told, wished to be represented in our metropolitan Press ; or, in other words, to become possessed of a paper in which articles conceived in the interest of the Govern ment might be written and published. At that period the Morning Chronicle belonged to T;fr Ser geant Glover, and it was in such sad case as ,`o be open to the offer of M. de Persigny. According" to the statement of the plaintiff the design was actele ally carried out for the space of a couple of year or so, a great number of leading articles having. , been composed and inserted in the spirit of the scheme. Of course, however, there were conditions on the other side. Mr Sergeant Glover did not. give the services of the Morning Chronicle for nothing. He was to receive a consideration in return, and it was for this consideration—alleged to have been wrongfully withheld from him—that he commenced bis suit against the Duke of Persigny and M. Billault, Minister of the Interior at the time of the presumed contract. These are almost all the facts of the case on which it would be safe to build. Other circumstances of the transaction are disputed on one side or the other, but it will be necessary to give an idea of their purport before the. story can be understood. Mr Sergeant Glover affirmed that the contract between himself and the representatives or agents of the French Governs, ment promised him a stipend of £7OO or £BOO a month for his services, as well as a compensa tion for any depreciation which the paper, con sidered as a piece of property, might sus tain from its performance of the part under. taken, M. de Persigny denied that he had ever entered into this contract, and pleaded non-indebt• ednees in general ; but it was not denied that the Morning Chronicle had beea employed in the sera vice described, or that remuneration of some kind was expected by its proprietor. It is, indeed, a fact, and was related by the plaintiff's own counsel as a " remarkable fact," that Sergeant Glover did., in the month of April, 1857, repair to Paris. He there had not only an audience of the Emperor himself, but several interviews with M. Billault, and with another functionary, described as " Director-Gene ral of Public Safety and of the Press." It is also a fact that he obtained from the French Government, a few weeks afterwards, a concession of the Inter. national Telegraph between Bordeaux and, Boston, which concession, though regarded by Sergeant Gloves in the light of part payment only, appears to have been considered by the French Government as a discharge in full. It was on an unfortunate discrepancy between the original letter, in which the Sergeant asked for this concession, and a copy of it put in by his counsel, that the case heard on Saturday actually broke down ; but with that part of the business we shall not concern ourselves. The public aspect of the case consists in the fact that within the last ten years the services of a metropo litan journal, once of eminent reputation and in. flumes, were, in plain words, bought and sold. There is a certain homage paid to professional virtue in the colour given to the transaction. The agents of the French Government professed to desire only that the English public might be truly informed of the policy of France and its rulers, while the subsidy promised to the proprietor of the paper engaged was represented as a reasonable com pensation for any damage it might incur by the pro posed proceedings. But why should any such damage have been anticipated ? The object of the French Government, as defined in the argument, was perfectly legitimate. It was of unquestionable importance to the "English public" that it should be rightly informed and instructed on the subject proposed. Nothing is more desirable than that we should know the real sentiments by which our neighbours are actuated, and any journal which could communicate this information• more fully, truly, and authentically than its contemporaries would gain rather than lose in circulation and cha racter. There was not the least necessity, on the face of the case, for expecting a decline in the value of the property, or for providing a compensation in the event of such a result. We must resort to other suppositions in explanation of the affair. The French Government, we cannot doubt, wished to import a piece of French practice into England, and to possess itself of an organ which might be in spired by communications directed to the purposes of the moment. It was alleged, indeed, by Ser. geant Glover's counsel, that articles were actually supplied by the French Government for insertion in the Morning Chronicle, and that directions were received from the French embassy on the subject. Here, again, however, we recognise a species of misgiving on the part of the English journalist. In accepting the praises of the French Ministers for his eulogistic articles, Sergeant Glover adds, " Be as sured I feel much pleasure at such circumstance— especially since these articles were written and pub lished from a thorough personal conviction of their authenticity." With this reflection the proprietor salves his conscience, so as to make it appear that if he did sell his paper it was to the cause of truth. But we may now indicate the actual results of this transaction, and by these point the moral of the story. If the leading articles of the Morning Chro nicle contained not independent expressions of opi nion or statements of fact, but ex parte versions of affairs supplied by those immediately interested in producing certain effects, such a system was a fraud upon the public, for the public would receive as the legitimate comments of an unprejudiced journalist what were in reality the communications of parties concerned, Nor would the deceit, according to the story, have ended here, for it was proposed, we are told, that these inspired articles, having first been published as genuine matter in an English paper, should afterwards be copied into the French journals as true expositions of English opinion. But what came of all this scheme ? Let those who talk of the irresponsibility of the press observe the conse quences. We have repeatedly argued that the press of this country is conducted under the strongest and most infallible sureties for honesty. A newspaper can only be dishonest at. its peril. In the operation of public opinion it finds a control more powerful and effective than that of any minister or censor. If it betrays its readers, it dies. When it was pros posed to surrender the independence of the Morn ing Chronicle, and to place it at the disposal of French agents in return for money, the infallible consequence was clearly foreseen. It was known that the paper would lose its readers, that its circu. lotion would fall off, and that its value would be destroyed. On this obvious and undeniable ground was a compensation exacted, and the pleadings re cited that the contingency had occurred, and the compensation become due. In consequence, it was alleged, of the insertion of these articles under the direction of French agerSts the circulation of the paper did fall off, and the property was lost. Our readers will remember that the .Morning Chronicle declined from bad to worse, till at last that once famous and influential journal actually expired. Ie is now extinct. M. de Persigny himself could not visit a French newspaper with a heavier penalty than was inflicted by public opinion on this English journal, and so must it always be in this country while the people and the press remain what they are. No journal could so misconduct itself and live. Every shade of opinion can find expression and re presentation in the press; but unless this expression be what it professes to be—sincere and independent —the joortral will have no kind of influence, nor the advocacy any kind of value. POST.—The autumnal storm that has passed over the money market may be considered as having well nigh ex hausted its strength and its effects. Wrecks strewn here and there give evidence of its force, but the general com merce and trade of the kingdom has emerged practically uninjured, and, although not yet in absolutely calm water, the seas have so far subsided that there is now nothing but what a sound house and a well-constructed enterprise may with decent management well live through, Events have justified the anticipations which we expressed when first the Bank of England raised the rate of interest. We have, notwithstanding several somewhat failures, carried on with out a panic ; and what is more remarkable, and even more satisfactory than remarkable, without that exhibitEn of the propensity to hoard which has distinguished the monetary orises and stringencies of former years. At those periods great fluctuations—fluctuations so great. indeed, as to amount to revolution—occurred in the value of property on the occasion of every alteration in the Bank rate of discount. Fortunes were made or lost as speculators divined, or failed in divining, the policy and edicts of the Bank parlour, and trade was continually exposed to temporary paralysis by the fears and doubts which were made to pervade the country by the waiting upon the action of the directors of the Bank of England. Those gentlemen believed that by the Act of 1844 the function devolved upon them of regu lating commercial speculation and trading enterprise; this belief was equally impressed upon the community, and the Bank and the community, influenced by their erroneous conceptions, so acted and reacted each upon the other that every now and then natural anxiety became exaggerated till it attained the proportion and the activity of an absurd, unreasoning, and disastrous panic, On two remarkable occasions within the last seventeen years we have wit• nessed the singular spectacle of riches in distress, produced, not perhaps absolutely, but certainly in a large measure artificially, and wealth only saved from death consequent on prolonged torpor by the suspen sion of the law which was framed expressly to prevent it from ever being rudely shocked by events. Capital was absolutely endangered by the care that was taken of it, and it was forbidden to walk for fear it should tumble into a pit. All that is much changed. The progress of commerce and the devices which it forced upon those who lived by its conduct have emancipated us in large measure from the trammels which Sir Robert Peel's legislation had created, and neutralised the more important of its evil influences. Even its most obstinate supporters now recognise the im possibility of its being maintained in its rigidity whenever it becomes strongly operative, and it is a matter of general un derstanding that it will never again be permitted to repro duce the difficulties of 1847. In addition to which, the Bank, partly from conviction, and partly from the force of circumstances, has at last subsided into, and apparently accepted, its true position, and is content to fallow the mar ket like other money dealers, instead of, as heretofore, assuming the function of ruling and overruling its tenden cies. It may be considered, perhaps, that the tardiness and hesitation exhibited in the last reduction of the rate of in terest from 8 to 7 per cent. is indicative of a clinging to the ideas of a former period, but we doubt whether that would be the true interpretation of the Bank's last procedure. The delay was probably the result simply of an error in judgment which—as the Bank, in its character of money dealer, must have suffered a very large loss of gain by being anticipated by other dealers in the market—is not very likely to be made again. Another noticeable feature in the late pres sure, and which distinguishes it markedly from all that have preceded it, consists in the fact that throughout its continu ance money, although dear, has been active and accessi ble. A high price has been charged for it, but it has not been hoarded. The bullion has at no time been so low as £12,000,000, nor have the numerous and immense undertakings now under conduct throughout the country been perceptibly checked in their progress. In the country towns costly improvements continue to be carried on; by the seaside new watering-places are being built; immense and most costly hotels, decorated like palaces, are everywhere in unceasing course of erection; companies for extending agriculture and trade in the colo nies are daily launched; and the columns of the newspapers aro crowded with notices of projects for further railway development, the estimated cost of some of which graduates from half a million to four millions a mile. All these en terprises put on foot create a great and abnormal demand, not only for money, but for labour skilled and unskilled, and for materials of all kinds, giving new stimulus and extension to the ircn trade, the timber trade, the coal trade, and creating fresh demand for shipping and for every mode of transit and carriage. In fact, there never has been probably within our own boundaries such a simultaneous and varied employment for every kind of industry. In addition to which commercial progress on the Continent brings us a large increase of custom for many articles, and we are daily becoming more than ever the great depot for the transit and distribution of the different productions of the rest of the world. Even the American war, notwith standing the great check to the trade of Lancashire, almost, nay possibly, quite balances our apparent loss by the great impulse given, directly as well as indirectly, to various branches of manufacture, as well as by the amount of car rying trade transferred to ear lamb by the inability of the 0 American mercantile marine to conduct it as they ha' done heretofore. The fall of the houses that have found themselves unable to stand under the pressure of the 9 per cent, rate of discount imposed in Sept. last is scare. Y a matter for regret. The grea t e r number of t hem were notoriously not in a condition to stand bad weather; much so int:let-A that so long ago as August last, previousi° u i c ate . S . the pressure, a list of anticipated failures was com rau to us by a very experienced professional gen tleman, : which all those houses figured—placed, singularly en°l° in the very order in which they failed, this rotten d fruit been able to hang longer on the tree, if-§ leap existence would no doubt have extended its corrupf.°l, to others, and which, as it is, have remained intact; a n we may rejoice that the timely removal of all this be all's soundness prevented partial disaster from c reatieg i general panic that might have made very indiscrira/s 1 ll" s havoc among our commercial establishments and s ver great hole ouri prosperity. We trust that the sha Oa has been given may serve as a lesson which will not be for: gotten with the return of sunshine, and tha t Liverpo° especially may be induced to pause, and at any rate co dil: on nish the amounts which she has been staking on the game. Whether in orthodox manner, and ac cording t o precedent, we shall have a panic at the conclusio n of b decade in 1867, or whether, with the aid of the limited lia; Linty prin'tiple, and more enlightened policy on the 1 331.1° 4 , the Bank, we may get through the numerous and vast a< dertakings we are proposing to ourselves, either by rat, development or safe abandonment, it would be rash to i tempt to predict. The magnitude of our enterprise 184 astounding, but they art, perhaps capable of being master ; under a system which has called into activity almost eve i . o hundred pounds in the kingdom, and which isa ti2tl6 ,4 money in such unceasing and rapid circulation that St sovereign may be safely calculated to do now the work Dg, it took three to perform in the days whon the Ban k of" land was almost the only money fountain , wh en kto strained their eyes from day to day and week to wee-ha discover the index of the barometer in its parlour, and ha the delay for eight-and-forty hours of the suspension o '), Act of 1844 would have produced national fus °l"l3 ; There has been, probably still is, no little danger of our;e, petting too much of our new facilities, and, just as vie:-00 posed too rigid a repression by the machinery of 1 844 ' i be we may easily expand the system which rests uP° l:t oo t principle of limited liability till it gets too large O f grasp and too strong for our control. It is undergoing siderable strain, but it will encounter severer trial Yetvi o:: the war on the other side of the Atlantic shall cease, 0, the Confederate and Federal States of America shall °ll more enter unfettered into the commerce of the world. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. The arrivals of English grain at our market this were moderate. The demand for wheat to-day We J L> retail character, and last week's prices tending clovlre Fine barley a little cheaper. Other articles at ab out? vious rates. Averages—Nov. 28—Wheat 39a 61d pe r cit. ..., —Oats . 22s lid ..... —Beans 39s Id ...., —Peas —s 04 —Barley 30a 34d -- --Rye 32s 3d BRISTOL—TUESDAY. be i4 A very fair attendance of the trade. In Engli' ll s y cl ll o business was still of a retail character. Foreig% o lo firmly held, but only a small business was done• beans, peas, oate, and maize at late prices. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. There was a fair attendance of both town and ooti od millers and dealers at market to-day, and a 115 ,, u tt ) 1 business done. Wheat was in fair request, and at alcor„, same as last week. Flour neglected, but value unto V A Oats and oatmeal barely made late prices, with a3a Barley, beans. and peas were no dearer. btu more difficult to buy. --- MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY.' The following were the currencies :—New whi„,t e 42s Od to 45s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 41s er ou O f ; beans, 37s to 43s for old; new sorts, 35s to 37s P er cif , barley, 32s to 34s for malting, and 28s to 306 Per n Ar grinding; new oats, 21s. to 24s Od per 24 stone; to 28s. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. 815"/ The market was thinly attended on account of tb,,ii ing of the winter fair ; there was a moderate 01113 r wheat, with a good demand, at previous rates. 165 i Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss 0 1 " 03 1 '00 White ff , ...17 6 ° l 64 i . • to r New red 15s Od '"110.1 New white ~ i, ~..16s vv,,,16 0 g 7) 1 , Beans a .. los 6d to on Peas, per qr 4os Od 34 Grinding barley, per qr 28s (3cl t° 3 0 r i Malting ditto, „ ..... 32s Od to 0 O a t s 2ls Od 77 Flour, Is 4d to is 9d per 14 lb. Foreign Mail Packet List. DIAILS DUE. 1 0 ' De t 2 19, _a and Mauritius, via Southampton. ..... D ec, .' --, - v i a Marseilles ........ • Dec , 0 Brazil and Cape Verds, by B r i t i s h paoKet. ....... . ne e., (...!ape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. t,', G t China, Penang, and Singapore, via Marseilles .. •A''' 0 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ................. •. nee. f India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..iiec,; via Southamptonl, , ,,* via Marseilles.• ••p e 0. 1 ,. India (Bombay), via Southampton ........... ..peo , i , via Marseilles ....... .peo. Portuga1.... Malta, _Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... Dec. via Marseilles ........ Deo.'' Newfoundland .. i' Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • ' 4 by U.S. i .acket...'nea•ll, by Canadian pack e ''W.ii , \V. C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... DO 0 , West Indies and Pacific Bahamas (via New York) .Dlo' Bermuda (ditto) .V` - ' Cuba and Mexico .dd An affray occurred in Trafford Park o n 0 01, 7 0 night, between a gamekeeper and two poacherth oo. , P 3 former was severely beaten with a heavy weaP o d V assailants left him on the ground, and made go 0 escape. 11 P ir . ill 9.ustrali, ESCAPE AND CAPTURE OF A CONVlCT.'''' ro ll l :o Saturday morning during the time a party of e °/ e ; dred convicts employed on the dockyard extenei„ t100:4 were engaged on St. Mary's Island, adjoining 10 09 yard, one of the number, a convict named Cb sr oti) who is under a lengthened term of penal servitudeeer) to elude the vigilance of the warders and convi e ". o o and effect his escape. The prisoner a t the ° edi working on the new factory buildings, and sh e" fr) he had disappeared his absence was discovered. the oft',4,J measures were at once taken to secure h ie di ,c9 and intelligence having been forwarded to and convict prison, Superintendent Strength 812 0 00 1 , available police under his charge, together with el, party of warders, commenced scouring the na b aie t while extra guards were posted to prevent the n° :011 4 0 ing the island. After a search occupying n ci orro hours he was at length discovered in a rout:o p or e the island concealed in a disused brick hiln'ded 01 was at once conveyed back to the prison to twoptild punishment inflicted in the case of convicts ette told escape. It may be remarked that, although theree,o po( upwards of 1,000 convicts employed at St. Di 6rl l,lo o / and on the public works at Chatham, only °f o to 0 0 ceeded in effecting his escape, and althoug h irst been numerous attempted escapes, the convi cts ono single exception, been invariably recapture'. a r vi [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Ointneerit h e . ll 44 High and low, old and young, rich and poor, g OP7 themselves of Holloway's remedies, and have i , s - p1: 1 ,19 testified to the success which has followed their e r , - t Few maladies can befall mankind which de 13 „," t hteiff alleviation, relief, or cure by these healing s e " t ,nee fi e purfying preparations. The action of the oint- - , 01 is wholesome in tho highest degree, and neVe.„"'„oo.l9 , ful in either external or internal ailments. i," t bel l ,V medies cure sores, ulcers, sprains, bruises, din; ielke complaints, indigestion, and biliousness. ~:bre,,e r t ir bronchitis, hoarseness, coughs, shortness of tu,wee palpitation of the heart, this ointment s hould upon the wall of the chest night and morning.' Gtf Births. ~,or g BARNARD.—On the 23d inst., the wife of •L'`'.." ,t Barnard, late 41st Regt., of a son. ,flbridfco FELLOWES,—On the 21th inst., at 78, , -/e Hyde-park, the wife of Horace Fell oel' daughter. ° 4 l , MonaxT.—On the 28th inst., at Manstolf cl° walk, Hampstead, Mrs. Robert Moran t, 0 tidY Marriages. t, s ° si ALLNUTT—BOXER.—On the 24th inst., at the Fields, William Winkworth Marine Light Infantry, to Eleanor Bli oB 0 A 0 eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. Boger, l3 " . . 0 t C:for;fit CooKMAN—NzwbunY,—On the 28th ins". St o o N. N. 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