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liVttiont SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, JAN. 18. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Ho nourable Spencer Horatio Walpole ; the Right Honourable Joseph Napier ; Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Knt., Her Majesty's Attorney-General ; Sir Richard Bethell, Knt., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General ; Thomas Emerson Headlam, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel ; Vincent Scully, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel ; Robert Lowe, Esq., Barrister-at-Law; William David Lewis, Esq., Barrister-at-Law; Henry Drummond, Esq.; John Evelyn Denison, Esq. ; Robert Wilson, Esq. ; and Wil liam Strickland Cookson, Esq., to be her Majesty's Co mmissioners for considering the subject of the registration of title with reference to the sale and transfer of land. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17• The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Linia, enclosing a translation of a decree of the Peruvian Govern ment, by which vessels, laden with guano at the Chincha Islands, are no longer compelled to touch at Callao, of which the following is a copy : (Copy.) (Translation.) Lima, Nov. 26. It being unnecessary that the vessels occupied in carry ing guano, and which go. with this object to th e Chi nc h a Islands permission of the Government, s h ou ld return ' with the to Callao for the purpose only of fulfilling the formality of finally closing their regist er , w hi c h can be effected at th e said islands, that measure causing to the shipping the loss of some days, which can be emp l oye d to th e benefit of th e l ong voyage which they have to make to arrive at their distination, and at the sam e time they suffer much injury by the desertion of the crews consequent upon the vessels staying in the port of Callao ; it is resolved, that the captains of vessels loaded with guano who wish to depart direct from the Chincha Islands to the place of discharge, may do so ; and in such case they must be cleared by the chief of the station or the government which may be established there, who shall give notice to the Custom-house of Callao of those to whom the permission is conceded. And in consideration that by this measure the owners of ships derive a benefit, and that the excessive cost occasioned by the demurrage on account of the impossibility o f ex p or ti ng th e quantity of tons re quired for the demands of the different markets ten laydays more than those fixed in the charters for guano shall be allowed in compensation for the concession made. At the same time the consignees of those ships shall exact that they have at the islands the quantity of water allotted to them until the Government can make other arrangements. Communicate, register, and publish this. (Signed) JOSE RUFINO ECHENIQUE. PAZ SOLI/AN. ,WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 20. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Walter Digby Sey• mour, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord Stan hope, promoted, Jan. 20. 16th Light Dragoons—Alexander Power St. Clair, Gent., to be Cornet, by purch ase , v i ce Bl a i r , ap p o i n t e d t o th e 00; Light Dragoons, Jan. 20. 4th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Dunlop, 11f.D., from the 32d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Boyd, who exchanges, Jan. 20. 20th Foot—Lieutenant William Thomas Wayte - Wood, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Foley, who retires ; Eu sign Charles Lutyens, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wood ; Frederick Parr, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lutyens, Jan. 20. 26th Foot—Lieutenant William John Nunn, from the 83d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Preston, appointed Pay master of the 18th Foot, Jan. 20. 29th Foot—Warington Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carter, Who retires, Jan. 20. 32d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William. Boyd, from the 4th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dunlop, who cx changes, Jan. 20. 43d Foot—Captain J. G. Cavendish Disbrowe, from the 62d Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur Edward Valette Ponsonby, appointed to 62d Foot, Jan. 20. 46th Foot—Lieutenant James George Clarke to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Hayes, who retires ; Ensign Thomas Douglas Forde to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clarke ; Henry Carr William Hamond, Gent., to lie Ensign, by purchase, vice Forde, Jan. 20. 52d Foot—Ensign Arthur Henley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Quill, deceased, Aug. 26 ; Ensign George Herbert Windsor Clive, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Henley, whose promotion by purchase on the 6th January, 1854, has been cancelled, Jau. 20. 58th Foot—Captain Henry Reynolds, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Hardy, promoted, with out purchase, to an Unattached Majority, Jan. 20. 62d Foot—Captain Arthur Edward Valette Ponsonby, from the 43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Disbrowe, ap pointed to the 43d Foot, Jan. 20. . 64th Foot—Lieut. Charles Thompson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Twining, deceased, Oct. 28 ; En sign William Sheehy to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Thompson, Jan. 20. 68th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund David Lyon to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Ramsay, who retires; Ensign Cavendish Charles Fitzßoy to be Lieutenant, by puichase, vice Lyon ; Second Lieutenant Aubrey Harvey Tucker, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Fitz- Roy, Jan. 20. 75th Foot—Ensign Henry Hurford, from the 80th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Arundell, who exchanges, Jan. 20. 76th Foot—Ensign Walter Montfort' Westropp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fuller, who retires ; George Edward Corrance, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Westropp, Jan. 20. 80th Foot—Ensign Theodore Arundell, from the 75th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hurford, who exchanges, Jan. 20. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign John Robert Blacker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Allan, whose retire ment was announced in the Gazette of the 18th March, 1853 ; the Hon. Charles Murray Forbes to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blacker, Jan. 20. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Robert Beatty Henderson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tucker, appointed to the 68th Foot, Jan. 20. UNATTACHED.—To be Captains, without purchase— Lieutenant Robert Naylor Rogers, from half-pay Unat tached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, Dec. 8; Lieutenant Thomas Hodgetts, from half-pay 49th Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, Dec. 28, 1853 ; Lieutenant John Tongue, from the 30th Foot, Jan. 20. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Notice respecting the Officers and Crews of her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror. _ Admiralty, Jan. 19, 1854. Notice is hereby given, that if intelligence be not received, before the 31st March next, of the officers and crews of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror being alive, the names of the officers will be removed from the Navy Lists, and they and the crews of those ships will be con sidered as having died in her Majesty's service. The pay and wages of the officers and crews of those ships will cease on the 31st day of March next; and all persons legally entitled, and qualifying themselves to claim the pay and wages then due, will be paid the same on application to the Accountant-General of her Majesty's navy. Security will be required in certain cases, for which special provision will be made. By command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. W. A. B. HAMILTON, Secretary. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. 3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Frederick Lewis Austen, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 2. Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia —Thomas Edmund Marsland, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 16. 2d Somerset Militia—William Barrett, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Johnston, superseded, Jan. 10. King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire Militia— Harry Tichbourne Davenport, Gent., to be First Lieute nant, Jan. 14. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturday ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the 14th day of January, 1854. .AlaniENT. ISSITE DEP. Notes Issued .. •• .... 29,383,840 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 15,383,840 Silver bul' lon ........ £29,383,840 I .C 29,383,840 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 19th day of Jan., 1954. BANKING DEPABTMINT, Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest... .......... 3,295,813 , Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Ranks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,213,893 Other deposits ...... 14,140,492 Seven Day and other Bills ••• • • . 1,232,329 Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .... ~.. :. 13,644,025 Other securities ...... 14,663,295 Notes .............. 7,443,0 , 45 Gold and silver coin .. 685,292 ,435,627 £36,435,427 [. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 12th day of Jan., 185, PRICE OF SIIOAR. T h e a verage price of Br own or Mus cova d o sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 17th day of Jan., 1854, is 245. 44d. per hundredweight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. BANKRUPTS. Benjamin Miller, mercer and draper, Landport, Pelis se , to surrender Jan. 31, at eleven, and Marc h 2, at twelve, st the Court o f B an k ru ptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Bissinghall-street ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Alderman bury. George Newman, builder, Stratford-place, Camden-town, Jan. 28, at eleven, and March 3, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Laurence, S m ith , an d Fawdon, Bread-street. John Hales Sweet, seedsm an , T un b r id g e Wells, Jan. 27 and Feb. 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook -court ; Pawle, New Inn. Harry Winton, Harry John Langridge Winton, and Edwin William Winton, agricultural implement makers, Birmingham, January 31 and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Birminghsim District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Wright, Birmingham. William Taylor Warren, Matthew Warren, and Charles Denroche, contractors and builders, Cardiff, Feb. 3, and March 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra man, official assignee, Bristol ; Savery, Clark, and Fussell, Bristol. George Killick Kent, plumber and painter, Taunton, Jan. 26, and Feb. 23, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, offic i a l ass i gnee, E xeter ; Fenchard, Taunton ; Stogden, Exeter. William Hesketh, manufacturer, Blackburn, J an . 3 1, and Feb. 21, at noon, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Wilki nson , Black burn ; Sale, Worthington, anti Shipman, Manchester. John Worsley, cabinetmaker. Macclesfield, Feb. 6 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Finsbury-square, London ; Taylor, Manchester. Charles John Poole, baker, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Jan. 26, and Feb. 23, at one, at . the Exeter District Court. NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTS MOUTH„TAN. 18, The Colossus, 80. Gangs of convicts have been em ployed to-day in getting out her iron pig ballast, and preparing her for docking. The Serpent, 12, Commander Lambert, was paid off this afternoon. The Custom-house officers made a seizure of some 1,000 cigars and a little tobacco on board, in the possessio❑ of the officers' stewanl, who is in custody on the charge. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of public business. A great portion of the day was consumed in the appointment of the various committees of the Court. SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. Mr. R. C. BIIDIINAL "--- Lbrought up the following re port, and moved that it be entered on the journals of the Court. " TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED. _ _ PLYMOUTH, JAN. is. His Sardinian Majesty's frigate Eurydice sailed yes terday morning. • Her Majesty's screw steam-ship James Watt, 90, having been fitted with her engines and boilers, will get, them tested preparatory to her being commissioned. At 10 o'clock last evening, a barque-rigged man-of war, paddle-wheel steamer, all black, was observed about three leagues off the Bolt, going down Channel under steam only. She was followed, at 11 o'clock, by a screw steamer, with a single row of ports, under topsails hrid topgallant sails ; fore, main, and mizen courses hauled up. When near the Bolt she steered away seaward. This morning, at 6, a screw steam-vessel under steam and canvas, came right in from the southward, with a fine breeze, and went up Channel. Letters have been received from her Majesty's pad dle-wheel steam-sloop Vixen, 6, Commander Frederick L. Barnard, dated Valparaiso, December 2, stating that she was expected to leave for England on the 17th of December. Officers and crew all well. THURSDAY EVENING. Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, from the Pacific, which left Valparaiso on the 10th of October, and Rio Janeiro on the 26th of November, arrived here to-day. She brings on freight $700,000 from the coast of Mexico, and among her passengers Senor Don Ramoro Freire, from Valparaiso, attached to the Chilian embassy in Paris. The Thetis will p:•o -bably leave to-morrow morning for Portsmouth to dis charge freight. WOOLWICH, Jew. 19. " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your Committee for letting the Bridge-house Estates, to whom, on the 27th day of October last, it was referred to ascertain by professional inquiry, the strength and durability of Southwark-bridge, and to continue the negotiations with the directors of the Southwark-bridge Company for the purchase thereof, do certify that we appointed a deputation to confer with the directors, with the view of continuing the negotiation for the pur chase of the bridge ; and the deputation have since re ported that they hed a conference with the directors accordingly, when they stated that they would recom mend the proprietors to sell the bridge for the sum of 300,0001., which they considered was the lowest sum the proprietors would be induced to take, and the di rectors could not pledge themselves that the proprietors would now accept that sum, as many of them were strongly impressed with the opinion that the bridge must be purchased for the use of the public, and that a larger price might be ultimately obtained. And the directors stated that they could not allow the income derived from the bridge to be in any way taken as a basis upon which to estimate the amount to be paid for the pur chase thereof. The deputation further reported that they were informed by the directors that a survey and examina- ' tion of the bridge had been recently made by Mr. Rennie, civil engineer, who had reported that the same, toge ther with the foundations and abutments thereof, were in a perfectly sound condition. We, your Committee, having fully and maturely considered the subject, have thought it right to report the above circumstances to your hon. Court before we incur the expense of employ ing professional gentlemen to make a survey and exami nation of the bridge, in order to ascertain the strength and durability thereof. All which we submit to tho judgment of this hon. Court.—Dated this 20th day of December, 1853. " R. C. BUCKNALL, " J. DAVITS, " J. WATERLOW, " T. JOYCE, " R. CHAPLIN, " D. SALOMONS." " T. Deux, Deputy PEWTRESS concluded that they had not car ried out the instructions of the Court in respect to the resolution submitted to them, and that the Court were now as ignorant with regard to the matter as they were before the reference. It was utterly impossible for the Court to forma plain and satisfactory estimate as to the amount asked for the bridge until it had been clearly ascertained that the structure was capable of accom plishing the purpose for which it had been erected. The report had not the sanction of the chairman, and, al though it had that of the committee, it was only by a majority of one, very considerable difference of opinion existing among them. If the statements which had been made with regard to the cost of a new bridge and its approaches were correct, it would be impossible for the corporation and the public to obtain facilities equal to those now presented for two or three times the amount asked for Southwark-bridge. A new bridge and its approaches would cost not less than 1,000,0001. sterling. (Hear, hoar.) He therefore thought the Court ought to come to the conclusion that the price asked for Southwark-bridge was fair and moderate. Alderman SaLomoNs said the purchase of the bridge appeared to him to be the best plan for relieving the crowded condition of the city. Before, however, the corporation agreed to give anything for it, they ought to ascertain, through their own engineer, whether it was worth anything. He therefore moved as an amend ment—" that the report be referred back to the com mittee, to ascertain by professional inquiry the state of Southwark-bridge, with reference to its strength and durability, and to report the same to this court." Deputy HARRISON, in seconding the ameo,lment, said he had a great deal of doubt, from inforrnatio❑ he had received from others, as to the stability of the structure. Deputy CONDER suggested that an interview should be sought with the Government, with a view to ascer tain if they would assist the Court in the contemplated purchase. Deputy DAKIN thought the committee had acted with very great discretion in bringing up the report. He thought the comnaittee had acted very wisely in coming back to the court to state exactly the views of the direc tors of the bridge with regard to the price to be paid in the event of the corporation becoming purchasers. (Hear.) e gentlemen had informed the committee that Mr. George Rennie, their engineer, had within the last six weeks examined, at their request and cost, the state of the piers and abutments, and had reported them to be in as sound and perfect a state as when the bridge was first built. And there was likewise the report of Sir R. Stephenson and others upon the same point. Mr. ANDERTON said, if the Court wished unneces sarily to incur an expenditure of 7001. or 8001., they would pass the amendment. He thought 300,0001. much too large a sum to be paid for the bridge. Mr. GRESHAM - If the Court wish for the bridge, let them get an act of Parliament, and summon a jury to assess the amount at which they shall have it. 12,062 12,111 Mr. ELLIOTT hoped the amendment would be carried, in order that the Court might show their anxiety for affording increased accommodation to the traffic of the city. Alderman WILsoN—I think it the duty of the Court to refer the report back for further inquiry. The ques tion is, whether the structure is equal to carry the traffic of London-bridge. lam satisfied it is not. The direc tors formerly asked 190,0001. for Southwark-bridge. They now talk of 300,0001., thinking you cannot do without it. Rather than give this sum I would build another bridge. (Hear, hear.) It is one of those at tempts to extort money which I think the corporation ought to resist. (Hear, hear.) The LORD MAYOR having put the motion, declared it to be negatived. The amendment now became a substantive motion. Mr. HAWKINS moved as an amendment the addition of the following words to the motion That the Bridge-house Committee having reported that the minimum price required by the directors of the South wark-bridge is 300,0001., it is the opinion of this Court that they cannot further negotiate those terms." Deputy DAKIN seconded the amendment. The Court divided, when there appeared— For the motion 33 For the amendment 26 Majority in favour of the motion Deputy HARRISON presented a petition from the Com mittee of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, praying for a grant in aid of their funds. The petition was referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee to examine and report. ASSOCIATION NOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR OF THE APPOINTMENTS. Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling, Knight, to be Com mander-in-Chief on the East Indies station, in the room of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reyno!ds Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., at present in the com mand of that station, and serving in the China seas in the flagship Winchester, 50. Captain John Charles Dalrymple Hay (1850), who was promoted for his efficient services against the pirates whilst serving in the China seas, is appointed flag-cau tain to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, for service in the Victory, flagship, at that post, vice Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., appointed to the command of the Ex cellent gunnery-ship. There are only two officers in the Royal Navy having the surname of Annesley, and both serving as mates until yesterday, when one of them was promoted to the rank of lieutenant—the Christian name of the one being William G., and the other William H. Annesley (1850). It is the latter, who is at present serving as first mats in the Hydra steam-sloop at the Cape of Good Hope, who has been promoted, and not the former, as was in advertently stated in the promotions announced to-day. Commodore John Shepherd, the Rev. J. C. Connolly, Chaplain of the Fisgard, Mr. Taplin, Assistant-Inspec tor of Steam Machinery, and Mr. M'Avoy, teacher of the dockyard apprentices, assembled in the schoolroom of the south-west gate of the dockyard yesterday, for the purpose of examining 26 boys, several of them from the naval schools at Greenwich, others from Weymouth, and several of those instructed at the dockyard school here, for the purpose of ascertaining their qualifications and eligibility to be entered as engineer apprentices at the factory at Woolwich dockyard. The result of the examination will not be known until the names of th e successful candidates are approved by their lordships. FAILURE IN MANCHESTER.—The failure of Messrs. Thompson Brothers and Son, calico printers, Manches ter, was reported yesterday in that town, and caused considerable excitement on 'Change. Their liabilities are stated to be upwards of 120,0001. The Manchester and Salford, and Craven Banks, and several large manu facturers, are stated to be heavy creditors. ERECTION OF THE STATUE OF RICHARD CCEUR DE LION, IN PALACE-YARD.—Yesterday the equestrian statue of Richard Coeur de Lion, which attracted so much attention and admiration at the Great Exhibition of' 1851, by Baron Macotti, was raised on the temporary pedestal erected in Palace-yard, immediately facing the entrance to Westminster-hall, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. From the colossal proportions of the statue it was necessary to employ a great number of workmen, as also the erection of enormous triangular shears and windlass, by means of which the heavy por tions were raised, the minor proportions being sepa rately raised and placed in their proper positions, with out any accident. The erection of the statue is only temporary, for the purpose of trying its effect and har mony with the New Palace of Westminster, the site at present proposed. It is, however, well known that the statue is only the model of one to be cast in bronze, a subscription to the extent of 4,0001. having been raised for its purchase and the casting, the site for its erection being left at the disposal of the Government. Sir Charles Barry is, however, understood to object to the statue being raised on the spot contemplated, as it will interfere with the harmony and effect of the general architecture of the place, but more particularly w ith th e screen to be erected in front of Westminster-hall. LIABILITY OF THE PILOT SERVICE.—In the Liver pool County Court, on Tuesday, Joseph Pollock, E sq . (judge), delivered judgment up on the cas e of the Dock Trustees against Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co., agents for the Collins line of American steamers, for damage done to the Bell Beacon, caused by the United States mail steam-ship Baltic coming into collision with it on the 16th April last, while in charge of a pilot, which sank it, and the action was brought to recover the cost of raising and repairing it. The application was ground ed upon the statement that the speed at which she was going was 121 knots an hour - too great a rate of speed for a vessel so large as the Baltic entering a river, while the defence was that having placed the vessel in the hands of a licensed pilot, according to the act of Parlia ment, the owners of the ship were relieved of further Pollock, who This latter view was concurred in by Mr. who gave his decision for the defendants with out costs. His Honour also delivered judgment in the cases of " Fairclough v. Bond," and " Marshall v. Pater son," both for damages by collision -in the former of which the verdict was for the defendants with costs, and the latter with costs for the plaintiff. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills, an Effectual Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism.----Extract of a letter from Mr. W. Moon, at Mess rs . G o d w i n ' s , auc tioneers, Winchester, dated April 8, 1852. To Professor Holloway.—Sir,—l beg to inform you that for years I was a sufferer from chronic rheumatism, and often laid uy for weeks together, unable to move. I was attended by the most eminent surgeons here, but obtained no relief ; and was induced to go into our county hospital. The medical treatment there, however, being of no avail, I left, and commenced using your pills, which, I am happy to say, in a short time effected a perfect cure, and enabled me to resume my employment. —Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WISTERN RAILWAY.--Traffi c re oturrtrrefspo o r the week ending 14, 1854 0,649 7 5 3,731 18 0 Decrease is 1854 £B2 10 7 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 18 5 4 THE COAL TRADE. The following official statistics have been published with regard to the importation of seaborne coal into the port of London in 1853 : Tyne house coals Sunderland and Seaham, ditto Hartlepool and Stockton, ditto Total house coals Steam Gas Coking Manufacturing Welsh Yorkshire, &c Small 1852. 1853. Tone, Tons. 355,587 283,086 912,249 881,372 690,335 635,789 1,958,171 1,823,247 297,488 340,714 519,458 580,780 183,700 229,664 233,840 251,944 99,643 82,953 19,297 23,942 21,831 40,012 3,330,428 3,373,256 COALS IMPORTED BY RAILWAY AND CANAL. 1852. 1853. Tons. Tons. 195,865 358,775 Great Northern North-Western 137,978 173,346 Eastern Counties. Great Western.. South-Eastern .. Grand Junction Canal . River Thames 28,816 6,148 4,596 16,589 10,652 12,854 33,800 21,602 411,820 651,356 Though there was a falling off in the import of sea borne house coals in 1853, it was nearly compensated by the quantity (94,000 tons) brought by railway from the county of Durham. LAW INTELLIGENCE. There has been an increase in the steam, gas, coking, and manufacturing coals, which are chiefly shipped from the Tyne. The following quantities have been shipped from the chief colliers in that river : Tons. Ton& I New Pelton 98,437 Peareth Pelaw Main 68,667 RaveneworthPelaw 49,026 Dean's Primrose 57,260 COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—JAN. 19. (Sittings in Banco.) (Before Lord Campbell, and Justices Coleridge, Wight man, and Erle.) IN RE AN ATTORNEY. Mr. Millard moved for a rule to strike an attorney off the rolls on the ground that he had obtained 501. from a person named Cartwright by false representations with regard to the progress of a suit in Chancery, which suit, as it was aftewards ascertained, had in fact never existed. He also moved on the ground of the miscon duct of the attorney in two other transactions in which he had been engaged. The court granted a rule nisi. • Of cannel coal there was shipped from the Tyne in 1853, 27,000 tons, more than treble the quantity in 1852. The number of tons shipped for London by the leading house coal colliers in the north in the past year was as under : Tons. Lord London derry's 236,363 South Hetton and Tons, 114,469 106,824 94,958 THE QUEEN V. WOOD.-CERTIORARI. It this, case a rule nisi had been obtained for a certio rari to remove into this court an order of a magistrate to execute a warrant of a distress upon the goods of George Stanley, dated Ist of June, 1853, to enforce the pay ment of 22/., the arrears of a highway rate with the costs. The Court of Quarter Sessions of Staffordshire had upon appeal allowed the rule against Stanley, and it was to enforce this order that the defendant bad issued his war rant. Hetton Haswell Thornley Kelloe Lord Durham's 146,295 Black Boy 76,019 The following is the quantity of coals shipped from the respective ports to the metropolis, and the number of ships entered by each factor : Ships. Ports. 4,451. 2,016 1,331 2,486 582 • Stockton, &c. 325 78 335 333 1 121 Tone. 1,411,207 614,341 318,861 673,709 133,271 65,737 13,611 82,542 24,247 130 31,778 Culm Cinders Ships. Hill and Co 1,792 Harris and Dixon 1,116 H. Taylor 915 Charleton & Watson 731 Marshall and Page 7lO S. Clarke W. Metcalfe Smith, Seurfield, and Co. W. Milnes 572 Miller and Potter 3,369,437 440 3,379 3,373,256 Ships, Fenwick, Laroche, Mr. Pashley now showed cause against the rule, on the ground that the proper remedy against the magis trate was by an action of trespass for an unlawful dis tress, and that a warrant of this description was not re moveable by certiorari. Mr. Scotland, in support of the rule, contended that no action would lie against a magistrate for any proceed ings which had not first been quashed either on appeal or by certiorari, under the 11th or 12th Viet., c. 44, sec. 2. and Co. F. D. Lambert W. E. Bell 247 Carr, Lamb, and Co 128 9,119 Agents Lord Campbell was of opinion that there was sufficient ground for questioning the validity of the warrant, and therefore the certiorari must go, and they would consi der hereafter whether the warrant was valid or invalid. Mr. Pashley would not then be exclnded from arguing that a certiorari would not lie. The important ques tion would be, whether the order unquanhed would be answer to an action against a magistrate. Rule absolute for a certiorari. EX PARTE LATHOM.—CERTIORARI.--THE RECENT COLLI SION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Mr. Palmer moved for a certiorari directed to Mr. Crisp, commanding him, as the coroner for the county of Norfolk, to return to this court the depositions taken by him upon an inquisition on the bodies of three per sons, named Hampton, Stevenson, and Smith, at a sta tion on the Eastern Counties Railway, on the 7th inst.; and also for a rule nisi to admit to bail one John Lothom, against whom the coroner's inquest had returned a ver dict of manslaughter. The case arose out of the recent collision on the Eastern Counties Railway. Lord Campbell asked what was imputed to the de fendant ? Mr. Palmer said it was carelessness in driving on to a line on which he ought not to have driven. Mr. Justice Coleridge said the application ought to have been made at chambers. Lord Campbell said it must be understood that an ap plication of this kind could and ought to be made to a judge at chambers ; but in this instance, for the sake of the liberty of the subject, the court would grant a rule, cause to be shown at chambers. Rule nisi. THE QUEEN V. MYERS.—CERTIORARI.—ALLEGED MAN SLAUGHTER. Mr. Huddlestone moved for a rule for a certiorar to bring up the depositions in the case, and to admit the prisoner to bail. The learned counsel said he had already applied to Mr. Justice Erle at chambers, when the learned judge had given him leave to apply to the full court. The defendant on whose behalf he applied, had been committed by the magistrates for a burglary, which it was alleged he had committed at Leighton Buzzard, in November last, when property was stolen to the value of 8001. from the shop of a watchmaker and jeweller. The only point against the defendant was that a short time after the burglary had been committed he had offered some of the property which had been stolen for sale, but he explained this circumstance by stating that he had offered the property to a tradesman to whom he was well known, and had re fused to take less than 71. the fair market price for it. The defendant also stated that he would be able to call three respectable persons who could prove that he had obtained possession of the property in an open and proper manner. Mr. Justice Er]e said that when there was a proba bility of conviction, and the offence was transportable, he thought it his duty always to refuse bail. Lord Campbell asked if these three respectable per sons had made an affidavit. Mr. Huddleston replied that they had not. The affi davit on which he made the application set forth that the defendant was subject to illness, which would be much aggravated by confinement. Mr. Justice Erle—You ought to mention to the court that that illness is indigestion. (Laughter.) The court refused to grant the rule. (Before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley.) vezerateamv V. WELLESLEY.—MORNINGTON V. MORNING TON.-PRACTICE. A motion was made in this case for liberty to enrol a decree, notwithstanding the time fixed by the orders of August, 1852, had expired. By these orders power was reserved to the court to extend the time for enrolment under special circumstances. Mr. Freeling, in support of the application, said that a sale had taken place, under the Incumbered Estate Act, of Lord Mornington's Irish estates, and that the object of getting the decree enrolled was, that it might have priority as a charge upon those estates. There appearing to be no opposition, The Vice-Chancellor made the order. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.) IN RE THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY COMPANY—IN RE MERCER. Mr. Mercer having been applied to to admit his signa ture to a deed, had declined to make the admission, upon which a summons, granted by the Master under the 63d section of the Winding-up Act, 1848, requiring Mr. Mercer to appear and give evidence before him, was served on Mr. Mercer p ersona lly. That gentleman made default in obeying the summons ; the default was certified by the Master. Mr. Roxburgh now moved that Mr. Mercer might be committed to the Queen's Bench Prison, according to the provisions of the 63d section, upon notice given to Mr. Mercer. He admitted that no travelling expenses had been tendered to Mr. Mercer. The 63d section authorised the Master " to summon before him any per son, whether a contributory of such company or not," and to examine every such person, and then concludes with enacting, as the penalty of disobedienne, committal to the Queen's Prison. The provision is general ; but section 64 provides that every person who shall be sum moned before the Master "as a witness shall be entitled to such costs and charges as are by law allowed to wit nesses," but it proceeds to enact that " where any per son who at the time of the order absolute was a contri butory of such company shall be summoned as aforesaid, every such person shall have such costs and charges only (if any) as the Master, in his discretion, shall think fit ; and the section c onc l u d es w i t h the following general proviso : "But in all such cases the Master may sus pend the payment of such costs until such time as he shall think reasonable." Mr. Mercer having been sum moned as a contributory, was not entitled to have any costs tendered to him, and he is liable to be committed. Mr. Daniel and Mr. Hetherington, for Mr. Mercer, were not called on. The Vice-Chancellor said the question was one of great importance, because on the one hand his decision might throw on the official manager the burthen of ten dering his expenses to the parties summoned before the Master, whilst, on the other hand, the liberty of the in dividual was endangered. The 64th section related first to the case of a mere witness, and, secondly, to that of a contributory, or alleged contributory. Mr. Roxburgh's contention was that every alleged contributory came within the second branch of the clause, but he was of opinion that until liability as a contributory had been determined the individual summoned was in the more favourable situation of being a witness, and when a wit ness lived at a distance, and was required to undertake a journey, his travelling expenses must be tendered to him with the subpcena, or he could not be compelled to attend. The other costs and charges of a witness were not given to him until afterwards, and the court must hold that the words costs and charges in die latter part of the section included only such costs and charges as the witness would be entitled to after he had attended in that character. In the present case an individual had been summoned as a contributory, and had refused to attend, and the question now raised was not as to what costs or charges he is to be entitled to, but whether a contributory contending that he was only a witness was entitled to have his travelling expenses tendered to him. His Honour thought Mr. Mercer was entitled to have such expenses tendered to him. The motion must be refused, and the costs of Mr. Mercer and of the official manager be paid out of the estate. 10,457 With regard to these facts, the Newcastle Chronicle says It will doubtless cause surprise to many in London to find that they have been, by the simple ac tion and demand, compelled to pay from 25 to 100 per cent. more for their coals in 1853 than in 1852, though the quantity sent to London in 1853 was in excess by 284,736 tons—the total annual supply from all sources having reached 4,026,985 tons." i Hermann, official assignee, Exeter ; Smith, jun., Pridge , water ; Stogdon, Exeter. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. I William King, distiller, Glanpatrick, Renfrewshire. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. From the London Mew Price Current of this day. SUGAR.—To -day the market for West India sugar closed quietly, still the prices obtained were fully equal to those of last Friday for both grocery and refining sorts. Pur chases were 307, making 1,800 hhds, &c. this week. REFINED.—To - day refined sugar was operated in with caution for home consumption—brown lumps were obtain able at 44s 6d to 455, and low to fine grocery 45s 6d to 48s. Prices remain firm for crushed sugar, exporters being all desirous to make purchases, REFINED.—To-day at auction 5,053 bgs Madrass were offered, and sold at the full currency, mid to fine grainy , yellow at 37s 6d to 39s 6d, very fine white ditto 45s to 475, and soft brown 30s to 31s, low yellow 31s to 31s 6d. FOREIGN.—To-day Foreign Sugar was again in good request, and full rates were obtained for all sorts. There Was no public sale. COFFEE.—To-day there was firmness in the coffee mar ket, and none was offered at public sale. Native opera tions were moderate at 49s to 49s 3d for good to real good ord. TEA.—To-day large parcels of Congou of the new crop were sold at is l. 1 ; c1 to is 3d for ord sound to rather black ish leaf. Public sales of tea are declared for Tuesday ; at present the quantity is 7,000 packages. SPICES.—To-day several panels of pepper were sold privately at firm prices. A public sale of 300 bags Singa pore went at 4id to 4d, and one lot at 5d per lb. OILS.—To-day at auction 150 tons sperm oil nearly all taken in at 82/ to 91/, 175 hhds East India fish oil sold 321 to 321 10s, 75 hhds ground nut 46s to 46s 6d, and 200 casks palm 46s to 475. TALLOW.—The political advices from Russia being more alarming caused prices to advance 2s 6d per cwt this week —the high terms have induced speculators and the trede to be cautions in their operations. The prices obtained for first P.Y.C. on the spot, have been 63s to 63s 3d, and 63s 6d to 63s 9cl for delivery. Home melted up to 63s cash, still only a moderate business has been concluded. On other sorts of tallow the rise amounts to is 2d to 2s 3d ; Australian beef selling at 51s to 61s 6d, mutton 61s to 635, and South American 59s to 635. The total quantity offered at public sale this afternoon, was 1,200. Stock of tallow is 1,500 packages less than last season, and prices rule from 15s to 16s per cwt. above. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Tins Day. A.m5terdam............ 11 14 Git altar .............. Ditto, three:months .. 11 16 I.eghorn .............. 30 27 yq Rotterdam ...... • • 11 16 Genoa ................ 25 52X, Antwerp .............. 25 20 Milan ................ Brussels .............. 25 20 Venice .. flamburgh ............ 13 4 3 4 Naples ............ . . 424 Altona ................ Palermo ........ ;14 Paris.. .... 25 2}, 2 Messina Ditto, three months .. 25 30 Lisbon ................ 5.3 Marseilles.j.• ... • • ...... 25 32% Oporto Bourdeaux ............ Rio Jailer() ............ Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118% Buenos Ayre5..........Ayre5.......... Berlin . .............. New York, 60 days' sight Vienna .... . 12 25 !Philadelphia -- Trieste ............ • • .. 12 30 paTcEs of. BULLION, PER o c. Petersburgh•—• • • ...... 37 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid 50 1 / i 'Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 Cadiz 50 ?g Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 11; Barcelona .............. New Dollars ...... n Sevide ................ .liver In bars 5 1 CITY OF LONDON. Alderman WILSON presented a petition from the as sociation, praying for pecuniary assistance. The petition was unanimously referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee to examine and report. Deputy HOLT moved,--" That the sum of 10,0001. of this city's cash be placed at the disposal of the Commis sioners of Sewers of this city, to aid them in the improve ment they are enabled to effect under the several acts of Parliament, which give them the power to deal with the property of our fellow-citizens." Carried and ordered. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a special court was held at the Court-house, Greek-street, Soho, R. Jebb, Esq., in the chair. The commissioners present were S. Baker, Esq., T. Hawes, Esq., Sir C. Fellowes, and Colonel Dawson. The state ment of accounts showed an available balance in hand on Jan. 14, amounting to 44,0281. _ _ _ _ The churchwardens of the parish of West Hackney attended on behalf of the inhabitants of the parish situate to the north of the North London Railway to appeal against the district sewers rate of 6d. in the pound made over Hackney-brook-level in December last. The appeal presented stated that the inhabitants had paid sewers rates rates for 80 years, and that those rates had on some occasions amounted to ls. 6d. in the pound, but that notwithstanding the heavy amount thus contributed, they had no sewers within their district, and had never received any benefit from the operations of the commissioners 2 • but, on the contrary, they had been seriously injured by the conversion of the natural watercourse at Hackney-brook into an open sewer for the benefit of the district of Holloway. The appellants, therefore, submitted that it was unjust to be rated equally with the Hackney-brook-level, which was drained in a far superior manner. Mr. DENNY (surgeon to the West Hackney Dispen sary) stated that it was his duty to attend to a very large number of people in the district, that there were always a great number of oases, and on an average there were 200 severe cases of typhus fever in twelve months, and almost every case was traceable to the state of the ditches. The whole district was intersected by these ditches, and at the back of the dispensary there were several of them, and he was confident that the general bad state of health of the inhabitants was attributable to them. Colonel DA.WSON said the powers given to them last year by Parliament would enable them, he hoped, be fore the present year, to remove the evils complained of. They could not listen to the appeal, because if they did not receive rates how could they make sewers I The CHAIRMAN said he did not see any ground that would enable them to listen to the prayer of the peti tioners, because if they rated one part they must rate the whole of it. It would be acting illegally if they attempted to make a district rate upon the kackney brook level to the exclusion of any part of it. A very light rate was imposed upon that district, and until the Legislature gave them power to impose higher rates, they would not be enabled to construct covered sewers. At present the open brook or ditch was the only outlet, but the commissioners, who had lo ng b een anx i o us to constru c t a nother and a:better sewer ' had only now received from Parliament the power to do so, which would alleviate the evils complained of. That sewer would extend for several miles, and would not cost less than 300,0001. ; but nntil that outlet were made it was impossible to help them. Mr. Law had complained that he had con structed a drain at his own expense, hut by the aet of Parliament he was bound to do it, or the commissioners had power to compel him, therefore he had only done what they could have compelled him to do. 'He moved that the petition be dismissed. Colonel DAWSON made a few remarks, and the petition Was accordingly dismissed. Several other appeals of but little importance were hen heard, and the court then adjourned. THE " SPRITE" MOVEMENT. There is one innovation of the last dozen years that we have seen gradually ramifying and extending through our Christmas entertainments with a suspicious dread, akin to horror, of the consequences. It is the introduc tion of a boneless monster called "a sprite" into Our old jolly. English pantomime, against which we deem it only proper to protest. Is there no patriotic, pen-and-ink loving " Father of a Family" that will undertake to write down the " Sprite Nuisance" in a series of letters ? Have we not among us a play-going " Paterfamilias" that will head an epistolary crusade to deliver the stage from these posturing usurpers ? Every year the evil is growing greater and more difficult of correction. The time has been when a plain somersault would have been sufficient to have provoked a tributary round of ap plause but now nothing less than a man turning him self - a l m ost literally inside t out will awaken the blunted e nthusiasm of an audience growing every year mo re horribly familiar with these annual distortions. Under the stimulus of professional rivalry, and knowing that their engagement for the next year depends upon their excelling all their unnatural achievements in the past, the "Bounding Bricks of Babylon," or "the cele brated contortionists of Circassia," have to devise during the summer more and more daring deeds for the coming winter. They must present more puzzling combinations of figures than a railway share list, they must bend them selves into more eccentric forms than could be found in a sheet of Chinese hieroglyphics. The somersaults, trebled this year, must be quadrupled in the next, and so forth, according to the rigid rules of gymnastic, as well as geometrical, progression. But it is not for the "professors" themselves that we fear ; it is the dread of a great epidemic of posturing that may be even now spreading itself through the land, whilst we are scarcely conscious of the danger. We do not complain of a man bending his body into a semicircle, if that be the only way he knows to obtain for it the requisite sustenance. We do not object to a father in red tights and spangled jacket building up a pyramid of his sons upon his shoulders, if he find that to be the only method he can adopt of supporting his family. But we do object to the practice on purely national and domestic grounds, as all, conscious of the strong imita tive powers of children, are aware, that they may be led to follow those objectionable examples of human elasticity that are placed so impressively before them. We have already seen symptoms of the impending dan ger in those revolving urchins, who, during the last two or three summers have been observed exposing all t heir " looped and windowed raggedness" in a series of wheel like movements, after the omnibuses and their passen gers, pelted with mud from the one, and with halfpence from the other. St. James's may be as likely to catch the infection as St. Giles's. The aristocratic party of juveniles in the private box yonder, will enter with as ranch zest into the art of tying their little legs into knots round their necks, as that group of open-mouthed, un washed urchins, clinging with eager hands to the rail in the front row of the gallery above. The nursery of Belgravia, we have reason to believe, is already surrep titiously turned into a training school for performing precocious feats of flexibility. Fancy the possibility of this predilection for posturing growing wit h their growth and strengthening with their strength. Imagine that rosy-oheeked schoolboy of nine years old new devouring every new combination of joints with insatiable eager ness, growing up into the bank clerk and balancing his ledgers in a manner unrecognised by mercantile usage. Picture the possibility, a quarter of a century hence, of finding the junior partners of our great commercial firms walking on their hands about the office as an agreeable relaxation for leisure moments ; or conceive the rich city stockbroker, whose autograph on a slip of paper endows it with wondrous virtues, retiring at dusk to his Clapham villa, and, extended horizontally on the rug, tossing his children vertically into the air after the fashion taught by Professor Risley, and afterwards making a Chinese puzzle of his head and shoulders as a mere customary provocative for his six o'clock dinner. The past generation was stigmatised as a "nation of shopkeepers," the next generation may be characterised as a "nation of sprites." We are not alarmists, but the public should be prepared for the worst. The remedy is in their own hands, and we have only satisfied our conscience by indicating the source and magnitude of the danger.—The Empire. DEATH OP A CENTENABIA.N.—Died at Great Bentley on the 10th inst., James London, aged 100 years. The deceased, who completed his 100th year in August last, preserved to the last a beautiful head of hair of raven blackness, with scarcely a tinge of " tell-tale gray." CLYDE CUSTOMS.- -The Glasgow customs revenue for the year ending sth of January, 1854, was 688,6021., showing an increase on last year of 35,3191. The customs receipts at Greenock exhibit a decrease, in 1853 of 3,0771. During the last year 43 ships entered the Clyde more than in 1852, yielding an increase over that year of 7,349 tons. TSB JESUITS IN Cams.. —Chateaubriand, in his " Genius of Christianity," while observing on the im pulse given to the proselytising exertions of the Roman Catholic Church in the latter half of the fifteenth cen tury, when a vital impulse had been given to its dormant energies by the first development of Protestantism, finely says, of the missionaries of that period, " Seas, tempests, polar ice, tropical heats-- nothing arrests them : they live with the Esquimaux upon the flesh of seals ; they support themselves with oil in the company of the Greenlanders ; they roam with the Tartar and the Iroquois over immense solitudes, mount the Arab's dromedary, pursue the Kaffir roving in the heart of scorching deserts ; the Chinese, the Japanese, the In dian, become their neophytes : no island, no rock in the ocean escapes their zeal ; and as formerly, when no more kingdoms could be found to administer to the ambition of Alexander, so a field is wanting for the exercise of their charity." About six leagues from Canton, on the coast of China, is an island, small, but remarkable from the touching recollections it recall ; for it was on this island of Sancian, or Shang-chuan-shan, that Francis Xavier, the founder of the Jesuits, breathed his last, almost within sight of that China lie had so vainly sighed to reach ; but his efforts to attain whose shores were defeated by the machinations of the merchants of Macao, who dreaded lest persecution, following the attempts of the apostle of India and Japan to convert the Chinese to Christianity, might interfere with their gain.—Orr's " Christianity in China." SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES. Yesterday, the judges of the several Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer assembled in the Exchequer Chamber, Westminster-hall, for the purpose of determining and finally arranging the several circuits upon which they should respectively proceed to hold the ensuing spring assize of Oyer and Terminer, and general gaol delivery in and for the several counties in England and Wales, when the following arrangements were finally made, viz.:— Home Circuit—Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Baron Al derson. Oxford Circuit—Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Jus tice Talfourd. Western Circuit—Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Baron Martin. Norfolk Circuit—Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Baron. Midland Circuit—The Lord Chief Justice of the Com mon Pleas and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Northern Circuit—Mr. Jusitce Cresswell and Mr. Baron Platt. North Wales and Chester Circuit—Mr. Justice Wil liams. • South Wales and Chester Circuit—Mr. Justice Cromp ton. Vacation Judge—Mr. Justice Maule will remain in town, and sit during the absence of the other judges as vacation judge. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. SHIPPING IN TELLI GENC E. JANUARY 17.--JAMES SIMPSON, ESQ. % , PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.— The discussion was renewed on Mr. Harrison's paper " On the Drainage of the District South of the Thames." After reviewing the objections to the proposed main sewer of eight feet diameter, and its tri butaries, or feeders, it was explained that the general dimensions had not been assumed as fixed, but only as data to argue upon ; the practical area, as well as the ultimate direction, remaining to be settled by more care ful investigation. It might be preferable to construct two parallel sewers, to be used and cleansed by flushing, or otherwise, alternately, or used for fecal matter, or for rain water alternately. As to cleansing, it was ob *led that the velocity of 1k miles per hour would be insufficient, and a scouring power of three miles per hour was demanded by one authority, whilst another stated that a sewer constructed on a dead level, on ac isount of the difficulty of obtaining outfall, was effectually flushed by having gates at intervals of 1,600 feet. At Eton, the main sewer was stated to be horizontal, but having a good supply of water constantly running through it, no deposit occurred. The quantity of water that could be brought to bear on the Lambeth main sewer being unlimited, and used at each tide, it was argued that the velocity of 1k miles per hour would suffice to keep it clear. The plan of the double reservoirs for the discharge of the sewage into the Thames would obviate any objec tions. One reservoir would be filled at low water to that level, from the river, ready to receive the sewage ; the other would be filled with the sewage to a height of two feet to six feet above that level ; into this latter, as the tide rose, the water would be admitted, the gates at the upper end being closed ; at the turn of the tide, the lower gates being opened, the contents of the reser voir would be permitted to flow freely out, carrying away the whole of the sewage matter accumulated during the past 121 hours, and commencing its exit at the turn of the top of the tide, the matter would never return with in half a mile of the spot whence it started. The capacity of the reservoirs being regulated accordingly, there would be no objection to discharging at low water, in cases of heavy rain, as then both reservoirs would be used simul taneously for receiving the well-diluted sewage. Even admitting certain valid objections to a flushing system, it was agreed to be more simple, and quite as effect tual as the pumping system, whilst it was decidedly more economical and less liable to derangement. Allu sion was made to the present comparative levels of the river Thames and the Lambeth district, and it was sug gested whether the bed of the Thames, like that of the Mississippi, the Po, the Arno, and other streams, had not been artificially raised by alluvial deposit ; and if so, whether a eertain extent of embanking of the shores, so as to restrict the channel, without too much reducing the area for flood waters, would not deepen the centre, and afford a better outfall for the sewers at any given point. Instances of the employment of the liquid sewage for agricultural purposes were mentioned, and it was urged that the introduction of water supply for habita tions should always be followed by utilising sewage from them, and that thus a valuable interchange might be established. To this it was replied that the comparative value of the rental of agricultural land, and of that of the same area covered with buildings, would show that no parallel existed between the water supply to houses and that of pumping liquid manure for agricultural purposes, and that the schemes for that purpose were, with few exceptions, fallacious. As to the general question of the drainage of London, it was argued that, with a good system of intercepting sewers, the gravitation plan could be adopted, for the upper districts, on both sides of the river, and on the north side the whole sewage might be so disposed of ; but on the south side, on account of the deficiency of fall, it would probably be necessary to re sort to a system of pumping the low sewerage, at some point, say at Deptford Creek, and there lifting it to such a height as to give the requisite fall from thence, by a sewer, into reservoirs, as proposed by Mr. Harrison, whence the matter should be delivered into the river, without any deodorising, at a point low down, at the first turn of the tide from high water, so as to preclude the possibility of any pollution of the stream above the point of the admission of the sewage. It was contended, that the same skill by which steam power was enabled to be continuously used for long sea voyages, could preclude any but very remote chance of casualty from a derange ment of the pumping apparatus, and that in the cases of excessive rainfall, flooding might be prevented by per mitting the pregent outfalls into the river to be used. As to the general question of deodorising, it was argued that, like the employment of the diluted sewage for agricultural purposes, the schemes might be feasible for small towns, but that the immense quantity proceeding from such an area of houses as in London, appeared to preclude the general adoption of the system. Up to the present time it appeared that all the plans proposed for the drainage of the southern district were defective in providing capacity of main sewers, for conveying away the excessive rainfall, the amount of which were quoted to the meeting from returns supplied from re turns supplied from the Royal Observatory at Green wich. It was shown that at present, when a heavy rainfall occurred simultaneously with a high tide, the districts by the York-road and along the river side down to Bermondsey and lower down, were flooded from the river which flowed over the surface and NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHTS AT SOUTHSOA CASTLE.—The Hydrographic Office has given notice that on Tuesday some experiments were commenced with the Light on Southsea Castle, and that, therefore, the Southsea Light is not to be considered as any guide until further notice be given. CUSTOM HOUSE, JAN. 19. ENTERED INWARDS. —The Alexandrine, from N York ; Elise, do. ; Leander, Caon ; dohannes, Baltimore Hestoria, Belize • Clara Ann, Now Orleans ; Blake, Cal lao ; Mercia, Melbourne ; Monarch, Whampoa, ; Diligence, Caen. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Fammel, for Aarhuus ; Mary, New Orleans ; Era, St. Thomas ; Rufi•na, Malaga, &c. ; Medallion, Boston ; Racer, Sydney ; John Bright, Hobart Town ; Taymonth Castle, Adelaide ; Chandernagore, Geelong; Ontario, Port Philip ; Protec tion, Trinidad; Camerton, Berbice ; Templar, Antwerp; Marcia, Syney, N.S.W. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.--The Adelherd, for .Antwerp; Constantine, Santa Cruz, &c. ; Phoenix, Syd ney ; Tiurua, Valencia ; Sarah Ann, Leghorn ; Eme raid, Antigua. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 19. The Advance, of and from Boston to Rio de la Hac the, was fallen in with, Dec. 31, long. 32, with loss of nat ►in mast, all sails, except the flying jib, leaking very fast, t tnd unmanageable ; crew taken off and landed at this port, .per the Falcon. The Engineer, hence to Barbaclees (loss of water), out eleven days ' • North St ar , h ence t o N ew Y or k ( w ith cargo shifted) ; and Courier de Messina, henco to Trieste-- at Queenstown. , • The Broom, from Quebec, in going into Brunswich Dock to-day, drove her anchor through her bow, and when docked had 6 feet water in her hold. COUNTRY MARKETS, DERBY SMITHFIELD-JAN. 17. down the gullies into the rivers, whence it flooded the houses. Therefore, a greater pumping power would be required than had been mentioned, if the habi- EDINBURGH GRAIN.-JAN. 18. tations were to be guaranteed from casualty, as they should be under a new and expensive system. It was contended that the outfall should be extended even below Greenwich, as any system of sewerage for the southern districts should be permanent, and allow for any amount of extension of buildings to the eastward. It was hoped that the facts elicited by the discussion would be found service - able in determining the ultimate system to be adopted, and that special care would be taken to avoid the fallacies which, it was contended, had been promul gated in some of the documents emanating, " by au thority," from the General Board of Health ; par "icu larly in the " Minutes of information, collected with reference to works fit for the removal of soil water, or drainage of dwelling-houses, public edifices, &c." (1852). Numerous errors, both of theory and practice, contained in these documents, were pointed out ; and it was con tended that they set at nought all the received laws of hydraulics, the formulas of De Buat and other experi menters of acknowledged scientific skill, and even the " Principia" of Newton, and only substituted fallacies for those rules which had hitherto formed the basis of the best practice. The tendency of such publications was contended to be very mischievous, and it was incumbent on practical engineers to furnish an antidote, by a careful examination of the published statements and an exposition of the errors ; this was undertaken to be done, and was promised to be laid before an early meeting of the institution. Specimens were exhibited of Mr. Aus tin's perforated bricks and blocks, with dovetailed joints, for straight work and for circular oval culverts ; their merit was stated to consist in imparting great strength and solidity to the work, with the parallel joints, usinc , less mortar or cement, and enabling great speed to be employed in laying the blocks. The larger perforations were stated to be intended for ventilation, for channels for warmed air, or for passing holding-down belts, where the bricks were used instead of stone, for masses to re sist, impact, or strain. A simple and effective trough, with a cover, for containing the underground wires of the electric telegraph, was also on the table, and in the ante-room there were several ingenious sewer-grate traps, and other accessories for sewerage works, the invention of Mr. Austin and of Mr. Jennings. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL POULTRY SHOW.—The first annual ex hibition of poultry opened at Lucas's Carriage Re pository, Liverpool, on Tuesday. Although as regards numbers, the Birmingham show was greater than the Liverpool ; the opinion is generally expressed that the present excels it in quality. The birds were placed in double tiers, securing an avenue for pro menade. There were 1,300 fowls entered for show, contri buted from all parts of the country, amongst which may be mentioned Captain Hornby's black Spanish fowls, Mr. Gilbert W. Moss's bantams, Mr. Worra's celebrated Rouen ducks (which have obtained seven first-class medals), and the equally celebrated Cochin fowls of Messrs. Stowe and C. Ransom. The judges of the fowls were Mr. Bailey, of Mount-street, London, and Mr. Hewitt, of Birmingham, who are shed to be the firat judges in England of this peculiar' branch. - A PLEASANT LOOK OUT I—After two or three months in the Black Sea, and two or three days of warm weather, our fleets will be functi officio by having blown the Rus sian armaments out of water, and her seaports into the mud ; at which Russia will laugh, as she has no com merce of her own. And with such a small body of troops as we shall be able to spare—we only had fifty thou sand in the Peninsular campagn—in order to keep up our part of war we shall have to recur to the old plan of subsidising other nations Turkey, Austria, and Prussia. And, as before, every year their armies will wait the arrival of the subsidy from England before they take the field to fight in what will substantially be their own quarrel. And having once got into the war, we shall have to go through with it at all costs, lest what has been done already may have been in vain, or that the Turks should say we have deserted them.—Russia in the Right ; Or, The Other Side of the Turkish Question — by .I.llloseley. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—DARK DAYS AND LONG NIGHTS.—The necessity of having the most perfect eye sight and hearing.—Messrs. S. an d B. S o l omons, opt i c i ans and oculists, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe — opposite the York Hotel. Newly-invented preserving Spectacle Lenses. Immediately they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct; the most aged, defective sight becames bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and ori ginal state.—Royal Exhibitions, 1851.- —A valuable, newly invented, very sm a ll p ower f u l wa i s t co at -pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; they answer every pm-pose on the race-course, at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearl y seen I at 12 to: 14 miles. They are invaluable or shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 3), inches, with a n extra eye-piece show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Sat urn's r in g , and will the double stars ; with the same telesc o p e, wei g hin g only 3 ounces, can b e seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket. and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles Deafness —New Discovery—The Organic Vi brator, an extraordinary powerful and newly-invented instrument, for Deafness, entirely diff eren t f rom all others, to surpass anything of the kind th a t h as b een, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation, of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist. ante that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle-'treat, pi oom ully. Observe, opposite the York Rotel. DIED. On the 18th inst., at 21, Cloudesley-street, Mrs. Elizabeth Payne, widow of the late Mr. Edw 7D. Payne, of the Phoenix Fire-office, Lombard-street, aged d, On the 18th inst., at Hampton, Charles Dash sy ,,,." „,„ of youngest son of Henry Jepson, E sq ., i n th e 19th 3re'' his On e. 01 0 ag IQ the 18th inst., M a r gare t, w if e o f Joseph -- I.° Yates, Esq., cf West Dingle, near Liverpool, aged 7 1 . es . Oa the 18th inst., alter a few hours' illness, at S tl 7 s vl place, Hyde-park, Eli za b e th, re li c t o f Ri c hard ffc' t Pio• ' eon, Esq., late t reasurer o f Ch r i s t' s Hospital, ill 61st year of her age. ga, Lompox : Printed and Published by MIIRDO Yt' fr " -- . 1 12, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at re Sun Office, N°• - o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the aunty Middlesex, Friday, January 20, 1854. , VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Mary Muir, of Liverpool, bound south, 27th Dec., lat. 40 N., 10ng...12 W.: The Knight, from Liverpool to Aden, 9th Dec., lat. 3N., long. 22 W. The West Cassel, from London to Antigua, lat. 49 R., long. 7 W. The Lord Hardinge (s.) steering S.W., lat. 47 N., long. 12 W. The Henry Gillespie, from London to Port Philip, 27th Sept. lat. 10 N., long. 23 W. The Aberfoyle, from Liverpool to Calcutta, 29th Sept., lat. 8 N., long. 23 W. The Mary Roe, from London to 'Hobart Town, 7th Dec., lat. 6 N., long. 20 W. The Prince (brig), from London to Algoa Bay, Bth Dec., lat. 28 N long. 21 W. The Osmond (Danish brig), from Copenhagen to Cape Town, 11th Dec., lat. 11 N., long. 25 W. The Shepherdess, from London to Algoa Bay, 30th, lat. 7 N., long. 21 W. The Otto, from London to Hobart Town, Oct. 1, Ratt6 N. long. 19 W. The Eliza Charles, from London to Mauritius Y, 2nd, lat. 6 N., long. 18 W. The John Melhuish, for London, 7th, lat. 3 N., long. 21 W. The Mary Hall, from London to Port Jackson, Staao day. The Robert Finney, from Callao to Liverpool, lat 4 0 N., long. 31 W. _ _ The Lady of the Lake, from Punts Arenas to Lon.clon, Oct. 13, lat 48 S., long. 49 W. The Merlin, bound S., Nov. 11, lat. 15 S. long. 29 W. The Editha, for New York, 15th, lat. 6 S., long. 29 W, The Albany (American ship) for Port Philip, Dee. 11, lat. 28 N., long. 36 W. The Juverna, from Liverpool to Valparaiso, Oct.' 28, lat. 52 S., long. 56 W. The Robertina, from Glasgow to Melbourne, N'oi.. 14 , lat. 27 S., long. 27 W. The Queensberry, from the Clyde, 28th, lat. 3 S., long. 27 W. Th 3 M. T. Washington, from Montreal to Livel !pool , with decks swept, b oa t s and water casks gone, am I lar board anchor and 100 barrels of flour thrown overt ioard, Dec. 30, lat. 49 N., long. 12 W. The Princeza, from Liverpool t o P or t N a t a l, Oct. lat. 35 S long. 24 E. _ _ The Yarrow, of and from Liverpool to Geelong, 38 days out, hit, 7 N., long. 23 W. _ . The Esther, from London to Sydney, N.S.W., 34 ( lays out, lat. 8 N., long. 24 W. The Neptune, of Liverpool, Dec. 19, lat. 47, long. IC► W. Tho Lady M`Donald, from London to Bombay, No - v. 8, let. 34 N., long. 61E., with loss of fore and maintopnaasts and jibboom—was supplied with a spare topmast. The Belle Creole, from Havre and Cardiff to Calto . utta , lat. 4 S., long. 26 W. The Wigrams, for Melbourne, Nov. 30, lat. 6 N., long• 35 W. We had scarcely an average supply of fat beasts to -dal. The quality of the greater part of the animals wags on ly of the inferior kind. The demand brisk, and a cleartmic4) effected. There were but few sheeF, and readily dispose° of. Fat calves, scarce ; but few good pigs. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to 603 mutton, 70 to 8d ' • lamb, Od t o Od ; ve al, 6d to 6;0 pe r lb. ; pigs, lOs to OsOd per score ; ro ugh fat, 6s 3d to. Vs r i per 141 b. ; hides, 20 to 3d per lb ; calf-skins, 3 0- it a per lb. Wheat on the top 5s Od, and the average 4s 7(1 down' Barley on the top is 6d up, and the average is 9d down* Oats on the top 4s 4d up, and the average is 5d dovra. Beans on the top 2s 6d, and the average 4s down.• Top of Wheat ....... ............. ..... , 6.3 i lb 85s. 041 8ar1ey....... ...... .. ............. s6i lb 466 Od Oats Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1196 qrs sold 813 qrs Barley 2295 qrs sold 1558 qrs Oats 1530 qrs sold 1212 eir 3 Beans 285 qrs sold 219 qr i Average of wheat £3 14 4 9-12th s Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beans BOSTON—JAN. 18. A large attendance of farmers and dealers, and a. g°,,t supply of all kinds of grain. In the wheat trade 6' 1 7, dulness prevailed, and to effect sales a reduction of in some instances, 4s per qr. had to be submitted te). , ley a slow sale, and is to 2s per qr. cheaper than of L day se'nnight. Oats, beans, and peas as last noted. Prices :—Wheat, red, 73s Od to 83s Od ; white, 84s Oct 88s Oct . extra, 90s Oct. Barley, 38s Od to 48s Od. 24s to 31s. Beaus, 43s Od to 58s Od. Peas, Hs Od. ("- per qr. NEWARK—JAN. 18. of At our Corn-exchange to-day we had good suppli . 01 grain, and a good attendance of farmers. A decline of 7 . to 5s per qr. on wheat, and barley is to 2s per qr. 14 gr a Other articles as last week. 0 4 Prices :—Wheat, white, 90s Od to 94s Od; red, 9 ) 8 . to 86s Od. Barley, malting , 42s Od to 46s Od ; grin oil 37s Od to 40s Od. Oats, old, 28s Od to 36s Od ; new ,`" t o 041 to 32s Od. Beans, 42s Od to 61s Od. Peas, 50s: ut i. 52s Od. Malt, 60s Od to Gis Od. Tares, 60 2 Od t o 641; LIVERPOOL, JAN. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened flat this 1 13011 1 ; ing, and declined afterwards, closing heavily at l t decline on yesterday's prices. Ch es t er an d Bi r k el 2111.; 164 ; Caledonian, 25i ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, jf i t! West Riding Unio n , ' dis. • London and North —"- ,, d, ern, 101; ditto, One-eighth Shares, 9-16 dis. ; 11ii c llan o 60$ • North Briti s h, 73, ; South Eastern and .07 11-16. MANCHESTER, JAN. 19. r t ot 11 , STOCK EXCHANGE.—The b us i ness t o -d ay h as been. , ably large in amount at the following prices :—Caledo . 1 4; 25a ; Eastern C oun ti es 12 13-16 ; East Lancashire, I t. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62i ; London and North- 1 l d l ern, 101/ ; ditto, Fifths, / dis. ; Manch es t er , Shel 0 i• & m ow , and Lincolnshire, 20i ; Midland Rail wa y Consols u" South-Eastern, 17 11-16. ' BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 19. 3! STOCK EXCHANGE,—There was no improvement 1 o yo general railway shar e market to-day, and business if l o y descriptions of st oc k was very i nan i mate. Th e only 111`„r. actions reported on 'Ch ange were i n Bi rm i ng h am , W 0,/ g, hampton, and Stour Valley Sh ares , w hi c h were dons a t BRISTOL, JAN. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been sonie , "- ar ° dull today, on account of the news from the seat of 1 ' 1 ; not being considered satisfactory, and the quotations' are —Midland, 604 ; Vale of Neath, 15 i ; Kennet and 64 ex div. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 18:1 inst., the wife of Lawrence Levy, Eel.' 28, Finsbury-square. Elgin-road, Kensington Park - g 9:' On the dens, the wifelB t h o in f s w. t., il at E William Thompson, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 17th inst., at 40, Bryanston-street, Po/4 111 1 square, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Tomkinsoo, Wellington, Cheshire. lo th On the 18th inst., at Bu o kh urs t- par k , L ady Elizab eth Russell. MARRIED. ton , On the 17th i ns t., at All Saints ' Church, PaddirlF Henry Aline Ouvry, Esq., Captain in her MajestPoolf Regiment of Light Dragoons, to Matilda Hannah, for daughter of th e late Colonel John Delamain, 0. 13 • P merly commanding at A gra . On the 19,h inst., at St. James's, Paddington, the ne e, Frederic A n th ony Stapley, 8.A., of Wadham Oxford, to Mary Charlotte, only daughter of Fret Robert G ore , E sq., o f D evons hi re -terrace, Hyde-par 33, Pot 2INTOTICE pan y m and aft This CI Tron and Working on under holders 14 The on the best 5 at the po: 13s. per 1 This rate. TZgremon to make their mai duce the The rei offered t January, or Secret reports ni Offices, Deceml I L R, of COM Importan and GE The toll mittee " THE BDRANCEE SOLEMN C after the transacth toiscnanc office sla PAST YEA offices at of the as HAPPY D PREMIUM! IA the ult *IOUB 111178 T AT' On the from Iwo" hi s may pay venient ; draw the drawn th Policy is .41 13, it will Thus A vale varh In case of this sum at differei 4s. 4d., al Part or NV The fir! Company of five oh Savings I Posited, a Posit Poll ga os , Means,pp ai in the sal 1851.... 1 851. 18 53 ::: 1854....1855.. 1856 . • 1 857..,. 1858... • 1859 .. • 1860. 1865.... 1 866.... to 1 870,,, 1871.... 1880.... 1881.... :1-6.... isas.... Th pt stn ordlo old, will Years lo effected as for a 6s. 6d. The Rig Comp' Major-C man- Sir Chu Vice-Ad The Rig R.R.O Aim R. Mali Chie Loai 41 .nnuiti clined For ] the cou Vseful ON TB C Illustra New E T, excessi Thercur l owed 1 'Prove n PERR' street, :ow, don, 14 Qow C PARI organs, PAR' dulzen, Mental ineam Pii th e pri their tl Infra. * - rr- „~, O .4 5 o ~ 4 . 1 ° 1874.. 1 875.. 1891.. PAR' simple