The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

TilE GALES IN THE BLACK SEA.I Of the many and great losses suffered by the Anglo- French Expedition from one cause or another the storm on the 13th of November, of which wo have at length the melancholy details, may almost be regarded as the worst. It is"true that the immediate loss of men is not to be compared with the numbers placed hors de combat at the battles of the Alma and Inkerman, still less with the victims of cholera. It may also be admitted that for a country so rich as ours, and with such a power of rapid production, the loss of material is little more than a temporary inconvenience. In this instance, however, the losses come in a form, and in a time, the most unfor tunate that could be desired by the worst enemy of the expedition. The total loss of men at the various stations on the coast of the Crimea on the disastrous 13th cannot be less then a thousand, besides those that have fallen into the bands of the Cossacks. The loss of vessels was thirty British and French wrecked and half as many dismasted at Balaklava, and eighteen wrecked or dis masted at the mouth of the Kateha. Our men-of-war, thanks to the precaution of frequently trying their cables, have come off with no further damage than the loss of `guns, or of masts, or of rigging, the twisting of their rud ders, or the springing some leaks. The French have lost the Henri IV., a noble three-decker, and a favourite war steamer. Thus far we have sustained no loss be yond the ordinary drain of war ; but the greatest calamity is that of which we scarcely now know . the full. The Prince, a magnificent new screw steamer of 2,700 tons, carried out the other day to Balaklava the 46th Regiment, all the winter clothing for the troops engaged in the siege, including 40,000 greatcoats, flannel suits, under clothing, socks, and gloves ' • beef, pork, and other pro visions ; hospital stores for Scutari ; and a vast quantity of shot and shell to carry on the siege. These are wholly lost, and nothing remains of the Prince but half a-dozen of her numerous crew, who managed to get on the cliffs when she was "broken to powder" against them. The Resolute, with 900 tons of gunpowder, also went to the bottom. Thus, it seems, all the materials for carrying on the siege and providing against the Severity of the winter have been carried off at one fell swoop ; and, even if we think to content ourselves with merely maintaining our position on the heights before Sebastopol, it is evident that we are not in a condition to stand our worst foe, the coming winter. Everything seems to have conspired, under a mysterious • rr-----, 44. 444.434.4 42.4 1004 of thegreatest possible disaster. She could not stop at Scutari to land the hospital stores so greatly wanted there. When she arrived at Balaklava it was blowing fresh, and she did not venture within the narrow tortuous channel of the harbour. All she did was to land the 46th, though it is said that, besides a very large crew, some Sappers and some medical and other officers were still on board. On attempting to anchor, the whole of the cable ran cut, not being properly clinched. A second cable shared the same fate. The Prince then steamed out, while a third cable was got up from the hold, and with this she was brought to, though with a smaller anchor than those she had lost. This answered for a while. On the dreadful morning of the 13th, however, it proved utterly inadequate. The Prince cut away her masts, and put on her steam ; but the wreck of the mizenmast fouled the screw, and the noble vessel be coming helpless, immediately drifted against the rocks. Figures are but feeble language for the description of such a catastrophe, but the value of the Prince, as she floated, is put at 150,0001., and her cargo at half a million. There must have been nearly 200 souls on board. The thirty transports utterly lest, with most of their erews, at Balaklava, are put down at 15,0001. each. So here at once a million of money went to the bottom, in a form of which money conveys but a faint idea. The other losses enumerated above, the French ship of the line and war steamer, the trans ports lost on the western coast, the many vessels of all kinds disabled, make up another million to be added to the naked pecuniary estimate of the loss. But the true way of stating it is, that the army is utterly disabled for the present, and left to no other protection than Heaven, and that valour which the British soldier is ever sure to display in the face of the greatest difficultes, the direst privations, and the most overwhelming numbers. Yet never was the ancient valour of our race put to so tre mendous a trial. The tempest, which is said to have been the most terrible ever known in that part of the world, and which overthrew three of the minarets of Sultan Achmet'a Mosque at Constantinople, besides driving large vessels from their moorings before that city, did not spare the Allies even on land. It blew down and greatly injured their tents, feeble protection as they are against the cold of a Crimean winter at the height of 700 feet above the neighbouring surge. Such is the situation in which the army finds itself suddenly de prived of the much-wanted supply of clothing sent out • fir the winter, and the equally needful ammunition for the siege. For our part we do not despond, and carnet even fall into the somewhat gloomy tone of our correspondent at Constantinople. Whatever hopes might be raised in the imagination of a people who for forty years had only read of war, or heard of it through the distant medium of Indian campaigns, sober reason might have assured us that the much-disputed empire of the Euxine, the protection of Christians in the Ea s t, th e security both the East and the West from Russian ambition, and all the other great issues involved in this war, were not to be accomplished in a day. Ancient epio is bat true to the invariable fact when it opens with tedious delays and destroying pest, with shipwreck, and every form of calamity. It was not to be supposed that the balance of the civilised world was to be corrected at once by a naval promenade and a military demonstration. The grandeur of these disasters is only in keeping with the magnificence of the prize, or rather with the majesty of the task. Sebastopol once in our hands, and the Crimea secured from invasion by land, England and France may hold it, and with it the dominion of the Black Bea and the control of the Mediterranean for ages to come. It is impossible to exaggerate the conse quences of such a position in the hands of two such Powers, but we will venture to say that, largely as the Crusades bore on the interests of humanity and the course of the world, the Anglo-French ascendancy in the Black Sea, the Agcan, the Mediterranean. and the East, is pregnant with far greater consequences. Turkey, Asia Minor, Egypt, Africa, Persia, Arabia, Central Asia, and many other countr ies now crushed by Turkish apathy, menaced by Russian ambition, or lying in their own ancient barbarism, will be opened to the civilising and softening influence of the West. Very possibly we shall live to see the realisation of the dream that even sober men have indulgent in—the re plenish went of the depopulated countries of Asia with copious migrations from Western Europe. It cannot be ima gined but that the religion of the West will go along with the power of our arms. But can these 'great objects be attained in a day or even in a few brief months I Such a rapidity, not to say versatility, is not to be expected in fortune herself. No, we shall have to fight hard, to contend with storm, plague, famine, and every form of disaster —with impregnable forts and innu merable armies--before we can put forth our hands and grasp the high object of our ambition. No other result was to be expected, and therefore we do not see in these disasters any reason to despair of a just and noble cause.—Times. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 5. In the Convocation to be holden on Thursday next, the 7th inst., at ten o'clock, the report of the Museum Delegacy will he read to the house. In a Congregation to be holden on Friday next, the Bth inst., at 3 o'clock, the appointment of a Committee of members of Congregation to propose regulations for 'conducting the business of Congregation will be sub mitted to the approbation of the house. In the event of the appointment of a committee being approved by the House, members of Congregation are requested to present to the Vice•Chaucellor a list of candidates for such committee in such number as each may deem expedient for the committee. The number thence shown to be that approved by the majority of Congregation will be adopted, and the names which appear in the greater number of lists will constitute the committee. The Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy (Dr. Daubeney) will deliver his Terminal Lecture on Thurs day, the ith inst., at 2 o'clock, and will explain tho Tullian System of Husbandry, as well as the improve ments recently introduced into this practice at Lois Weedon, in Northamptonshire. HIBERNIA.N BANIC.---At the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this bank, held in Dublin on Monday, a dividend at the rate of six per cent, per annum oa the capital was proposed and agreed to. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Du * Barry's Delicious Revalenta Arabica Food invariably restores health, without medi cine, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in ocher remedies. We extract a few out of fifty thousand testimonials of cures, which had resisted all medicines. Cure No. 180. 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The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage free, on post office order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly • also at 68, Coruhill; 60, Gracechurch-street ; no and 451 Strand ; 6.3 and 150, Oxford-street ; 55, Charin g - cross ;4 , Cheapside • 51, Upper Baker-street ; and may be or d ere d th roug h respectable booksellers , gro cers, and chemi s t s . I m p or t an t cau ti on ag ainst the fearful dangers of spurious imitation, /Ililg NUN, LON'DON, WEDI , TESDAY EVEN_INIG, DEC.EMBEIt 6 j 1484. LAW IIV±ELLIGEiVCE.—Dec. 5, VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. SMITH V. SMITE. This suit was instituted for the purpose of establishing the trusts of a marriage settlement by means of a copy of it, the original having been lost. The bill also prayed for the appointment of new trustees, in the place of a deceased trustee and one out of the jurisdiction, to act jointly with a continuing trustee. The property included in the settlement consisted of freeholds, leaseholds, money in the funds, and furniture. At the hearing, inquiries had been directed as to the lost settlement, and the cause now came on for further consideration upon the chief clerk's certificate, finding the execution and loss of the settlement, and authenti cating the copy., The Vice-Chancellor, having directed the case to stand over until he could inquire into the practice, now said, the question in this case was, whether the Trustee Act, 1850, or that portion of it which authorised the court to make a vesting order, applied where there were two or more trustees, one of whom was but of the jurisdiction. His Honour had taken pains to ascertain the practice, and found that sach orders as that asked in the present case were made. He might also say that the Lords Justices concurred in that view, and had themselves made such orders. His Honour, therefore, wished it to be understood that there was no doubt now remainir'g upon the construction of the Trustee Act in this respect. Under those circumstances, the order might be taken, vesting in the new trustees jointly with the continuing trustee such estate in the freehold and leasehold property as was vested in the continuing trustee and the trustee out of the jurisdiction. THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EN LARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING OP CHURCHES AND CHAPLES V. COLBB. This was a bill filed by the above society, which was incorporated by an act passed in the 9th of George IV., the object of which was to obtain a declaration of the right of the parties, and the execution of a trust in con formity thereto. The facts were shortly that a testator, Mr. James Harrison, formerly of Oak-lodge, at Har blington, in Hampshire, by his will, dated in February, 1838, devised two freehold houses in Selwood-place, Brighton, upon trust, to sell the same, and to pay the interest or dividends arising from the purchase-money to his widow for life, and at her death to pay over the principal sum to the treasurer of the above society, to ha nrrliod ;n the purport.; and {ASCII of tkobili aocioty. The houses had not been sold, the widow receiving a larger sum from the rents than she could from the dividends from the purchase•money after a sale. The trustees and heir-at-law were desirous of having the opinion of the Court, in the first instance, as to the invalidity of the charitable devise. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Kenyon, for the society, con tended, upon the authority of the decided cases—Dixon v. Butler, 3, Von. and Coll., 682, and the Church Society v. Barlow, 3 De Gax, M`N., and Gordon, 120—as well as on the construction of the statutes, that whether the property bequeathed was to be treated as money or land, the society was entitled to the legacy. The trust for converting the property into money could not alter the rights of the parties. The mischief intended to be pre vented by the Legislature was the devise of an unlimited quantity of land to charities. The plaintiffs were en titlei to the whole of the property sold or unsold. The gift was of the whole land or produce of land. The Vice-Chanceller said he felt he could not sustain the legality of the gift, and as he could not sustain it in its entirety, he did net think he could sustain it as a gift of 5001., for it seemed not to be given in the form con templated by the Act of Parliament as land, but as the produce of land, which did not seem to be within the scope and intention of the statute. He must, therefore, dismiss the bill. WALTERS V. THE OFFICIAL MANAGER OF THE NORTHERN COAL MINING COMPAN7: This case was argued during the last month, the bill being filed by a reversioner of Old Roddymoor Colliery and the Whitelee Colliery, in the county of Durham, seeking to charge the company with arrears of rent under a lease by which be contended they had agreed to be bound, although it had not been f( raially accepted and executed by them. The company's affairs had been wound up in the usual way. The facts of this case were complicated, and quite uninteresting to any but the parties. The Vioe•Chancellor, after going elaborately through the evidence, which chiefly consisted of correspondence, dismissed the bill without coats as against the company, and with costs as against th• other defendants. ROLLS COURT. LORD KENSINGTON V. BOITVIEIE. This case stood on the paper for judgment, which the Master of the Rolls this morning pronounced. The case arose out of incumbrances 'treated by a former and the late Lord Kensington •n that part of the family estate which the latter was, by virtue of a deed of settlement of the estate, empowered to raise money upon, by way of mortgage, to a limited extent. The question raised in the case was merely to have it settled by the Court what was the extent of the claims of certain assignees of some mortgagees against the present plaintiff, who is the re mainderman, and is desirous to pay off the encum brances created by his deceased father and another party. The encumbrances amounted to 60,0001., the old mortgage, and 20,0501. raised under the marriage settle ment, and it was found that the rents and profits of the estate were not equal to the charges created nader these two mortgages. The deficiency had been made up by the late lord from the income derived from another of his estates. His Honour held that, under the settlement, the late Lord Kensington could only charge the estate to the extent of the value of the receipt of rent and profits. Judgment was entered for the plaintiff. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. The Court was occupied during a part of Monday afternoon, and the whole of Tuesday, with an action on a policy of insurance against fire, in which the defence was fraud and arson. We abstain from printing a re port until the case shall have been concluded. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. TOMLIN V. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY Mr. Atherton, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Knowles, Q.C., Mr. H. Hill, Q.O , and Mr. Wilkin, for the defendant. This was a running down case, the plaintiff being the owner of a barge called the Duke, and the defendants of the screw steamer Clarence. The evidence was of the most contradictory description, and The jury, after retiring to consult, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 481. Bs. 10d. INSOLVENT DTBTORS COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Murphy.) IN BS THOMAS BULLINARIA. This was the day appointed fur the hearing of the insolvent, who had been admitted to bail on the 22d ult. The insolvent's attorney, on the case being called, appeared with his sureties, and produced a medical cer tificate, showing that the unfortunate man had on the previous day committed suicide. Mr. Commissioner Murphy—Poor creature ; what was it for ? His debts are only 3311. 63., and there is no thing in the schedule that could occasion a remand. The attorney said the insolvent's wife was confined on Thursday, and he had thought he had ruined his family, and said that everything bad gone wrong. His Honour said all he could do was to exonerate the bail. Order accordingly. IN RE THOS. GEO. CONINGIIIII. This WM a rule to restrain the provisional assignee in some Chancery proceedings. Mr. Tyrrell (of the Chancery bar) and Mr. Sargood supported the rule ; Mr. Nichols and Mr. Dowse were for the provisional assignee. After a long argument, Mr. Commissioner Murphy said if the matter was net settled he should discharge the rule, and, if ho had power, give the provisional assignee his costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Mr, Deputy Hicks, a salesman in Newgate-market, waited upon Sir John Musgrove, to offer a few wurds, confirming a statement he bad made a few days since respecting the wholesomeness of some beef which was consigned t• him for sale frost Norfolk. It was seized by Inspector Pocklington, who stated that the animal was diseased, had died a natural death, and had been slaughtered afterwards. This statement ho (Mr. Hicks) immediately denied, relying upon his judg ment from the appearance of the meat, but as the in spector insisted upon his representation, he (Mr. Hicks) had written to the country to ascertain the facts. The consigner replied as follows :—" The beast which you have written to me about was blown from food, and im mediately he dropped his throat was cut, and he was afterwards taken to the butcher's to be dressed. There was no disease of any kind upon him." This letter came from Mr. Spink, an inspector of the Live Stock Insur ance Company. Sir John 'Musgrove said it was very satisfactory to find Mr. Hicks's opinion thus comfirmed by a competent authority. CLERKENIVELL.—Mr. Stephen Dewall, b rewer, of York-street. Clerkenwell, was charged with using a furnace not constructed to consume its own smoke, and fined 51. Mr. John Robert Sinclair, brewer, of the Bagnigge wells road, was also fined 5/. for the same offonce. MARYLEBONE.—Thomas Curzon, living in Yeo man's-row, Knightsbridge, was charged with bigamy. The prisoner said that his first wife went off to India with a married man, so he got married again himself. Remanded. Thomas Wien, a journeyman plasterer, who had been remanded from the preceding day, was examined on a charge of being concerned with two others in the follow ing outrage : Mrs. C. , roline Lane deposed, that on Saturday night last she was in front of the Mitre Tavern, Stangate, waitin g for her husband, when two men approached and grossly insulted her. She complained to her husband, who cause up at the moment of their conduct, and he asked them what they mwant by such behaviour. Their reply was, "We'll soon square you," and one of them instantly knocked himdown twice , and while struggling to get o n Id s l egs again, the prisoner , ru towards him, and ki c k e d h im violently on the face. By the ex traordinary negli gence of the constable who. came up on her crying " murder," the two men who first ill used her husband got away, an d the prisoner would have . got away also but for their insisting on the policeman doing his duty and taking him. Robert Lane, the husband of the last witness, eorro borated his wife's testimony, and seriously complained ' of the partial and negligent conduct of the constable Farrant, L 167. Farrant said the complainants appeared the worse for liquor, and wanted him to take five persons into custody. He also said that in coming to the court on that morning to give his evidence, he was met by a respectable man he knew, who asked him how the young man he took on Saturday night had got on, and said he had nothing whatever to do with it. Mr. Elliott—What is the name of that person ? Farrant (after some hesitition)—l don't know, your worship. Mr. Elliott—Why, you swore just now that he was a person you knew. Farrant—l know him by sight, sir ; but I don't know his name or address. Mr. Elliott—Then it was your duty to have ascer tained both. Did you ask his name or address Farrant (with some hesitation)—l did sir, but he would not tell me. Mr. Elliott—Then you do not know whether his state ment, it such a one had been made, is true or false ; and therefore you should not have mentioned it. Your busi ness was to have the person who used the observations, it such observations were really used, here. The prisoner was convicted in a penalty of 40s. or 20 days' imprisonment. A short time ago the constable Farrant, whose con duct was so very unsatisfactory in the above case, had been under the censure of his superior officers, in conse quence of his representing that he had lost a hand some diamond ring of the value of 20 guineas, which had been stolen, and which he held for the purpose of prosecuting. THAMES.—William Chart, of No. 19, Robin Hood lane, Poplar, was charged with assaulting and wounding his wife. It appeared that the prisoner, who is a pensioner in the 53d Regiment, has latterly got drunk each time of receiving his monthly pbnsion. At other times he was steady and well conducted. When intoxicated he was very violent, and would destroy everything he could lay his hands upon so that his wife removed the more valu able articles of furniture to another room. The prisoner, however, found out where they were deposited, and cut up the b ed, bolster and pillows with a knife, tore up the blankets and sheets, broke the tables and chairs, smashed the loohing-glass and crockery, and crowned the work of destruction by inflicting a severe blow on , his wife's head with a bedstead rail. Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment, and said that but for the good character he had received he should have pronounced a much more severe punishment. HAMMERSMITH.— Wateir Creig, a private in the 43d Regiment, and Benjamin lll`Ginn, a recruit in the 44th Regiment, were charged with being concerned with another recruit not in custody in obtaining money, &c., from different publicans by means of false representations. It appeared that the prisoners presented billets at several public-houses, and obtained money and provisions in order to induce them to forego their claim to be re ceived on the premises; One of the parties on whom the defendants had thus called had his suspicions excited, and from information he received he ga►• them into custody. _ _ Creig, in his defence, declared he had four recruits to billet, and that he billetted two upon the Cornwall Arms, and sent the other two to the King William the Fourth. He had no recollection of what happened, as he was in liquor, and did not know what he said. Sergeant Smart said that the prisoner had no autho. rity to billet any recruit, and that he was at a loss to know how he became possessed of the billet papers. He also stated (much to the surprise of his worship) that the prisoner M'Ginn was the last recruit he billetted on Monday evening. He did not then know the name of the house, but he should be able to ascertain which it was. He billetted all his men on Monday, and concluded his labours about six o'clock in the public-house where M'Ginn was billetted. He left both prisoners there, and Creig promised to follow him almost immediately. Mr. Beadon said the latter part of the sergeant's state ment had made the case a great deal worse, and it was one that required the fullest investigation. The pro ceedings throughout had been exceedingly irregular, and he should communicate with the War-office upon the subject. In the meantime he remanded both prisoners until Monday next. GREAT FIRE IN BISHOPSGATE-STREET. On Tuesday morning a fire, resulting in the destruc tion of a very great amount of property, Lroke out on the premises, 122, Bishopsgate-street Without, tenanted by Mr. John Heath, builder, and extending down Acorn-street, and behind several houses in Skinner street. The stock in the yard where the fire first began was of an inflammable character, and the flames as they rose were drifted into two private residences belonging to Mr Heath, containing hie family and servants. The smoke was pouring also into nearly a dozen houses with suck fury as to tkreaten suffocation to the inmates, who lost no time in rushing from the premises, many with no thing on save their night clothes. The Royal Society's fire escapes promptly attended, as well as powerful bodies of the City and Metropolitan police. A. strong force of engines of the various fire brigades was also quickly on the spot, having been attracted by the intense light in the atmosphere. Although few minutes had elapsed, the fire had seized upon the premises of Mr. Mitchell, a butcher, Ne. 123, Bishopsgate-street ; Mr. Sharwood, a watch-maker and jeweller, 121, ; of Messrs. Price, wholesale cheese mongers, 124 ; and upon the upper floors of the Italian warehouse, belonging to Mr. T. W. March, 120. Finding that not the least chance remained of saving any portion of Mr. Heath's property, for already were the timber yard, the three story warehouses, the whole range of workshops, and his dwelling in one complete mass of flame ; the firemen sought to cut off tke fire raging in the front street, and also in Skinner-street, the full extent of the carriage road being between the timber yard and the houses in Acorn-street, no danger to them was at first apprehended, but the firemen had barely got their engines fully to bear upon the first-named premises than the flames crossed over the wall of the premises of Mr. Heath, iu the form of a huge sheet, and fired simultaneously the premises occupied by Mr. Jo'in Martin, 25, A_cern street ; those of Mr. Saunders, No. 26 ; the dwelling of Mr. Board, No. 251 ; the house of Mr. Clarke, No. 27 ; and that of Mr. Maloney, No. 24, in Acorn-street. Although some tons weight of water were thrown upon the conflagration, several hours elapsed before the flames could be extinguished, and not until a serious amount of property was laid in ruins. Mr. Heath's loss alone will extend to several thousand pounds. As to the origin of the fire not the least information could be obtained. Mr. Heath informed our reporter that the premises were closed the preceding evening at half-past five o'clock, and that all the fires used in the workshops bad been previously damped out, and when the men left the place seemed perfectly safe and free from fire. HEALTH OF LONDON DURINO THE WEEK. (Fr om the Report of the Registrar General. ) The week ly table shows a high rate of mortality in London. In the week that ended on Saturday, 1,350 deaths were registered. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1844-53 the average number was 1,113, which, if raised in proportion to increase of population, becemes 1,230. The present return therefore discovers an excess of 120 above the estimated amount. The zymotic class of diseases was fatal last week to 298 persons, whilst the corrected averages of correspond ing weeks is 277. Diseases of the respiratory organs carried off 307 persons, the average being 262. Amongst particular diseases, scarlatina destroyed 90 lives, bron chitis 140, pneumonia 119, and phthisis 129. Last week the births of 80 ; boys and 804 girls, in all 1,610 children, were registered in London. In the nine corresponding weeks of the years 1845.63 the average number was 1,393. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29 deg. 519 min. The mean temperature of the week was 38 deg. 4 sec., which is 3 deg. 4 sec. below the average of the same week in 38 years. Tke mean daily temperature fell to 28 deg. 5 sec. •n Monday, which is 13 deg. 4 sec. below the average, and rose to 44 deg. 4 sec. on Wed• nesday and Friday, and was about 51 deg. ; the lowest on Monday, and was 25 deg. 9 sec. The mean dew point temperature was 34 deg. ; and the difference be tween that and the mean air temperature was 4 deg. 4 sec. The wind blew nearly all the week from the south west. The amount of rain-fall was 0.48 in., which fell on Tuesday and two following days. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATIIS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 2. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration _ Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations Premature Birth and Debility Atrophy Old Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, arid Intemperance Causes not specified 293 65 188 144 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- De.tths Enumerated. spontling week In the 18:'I. of 1853. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 ‘:outli Districts Totals 1,330 Males Females.. BIRTHS IN TIIE WHEIC. Males BO6 Females BO4 Total 1,610 1,350 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER,- TUESDAY. All the principal subscribers having taken flight to Wolverhampton there was very little betting here, ex- cept upon the different events decided there to-day, to mention which would now be superfluous. CHESTER Cur. 500 to 5 agst Lady Palmerston (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Mortimer (taken) DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (taken) 20 to 1 agst Rifleman (taken) 20 to 1 apt Wild Dayrell (taken) No other events were touched upon. WOLVERHAMPTON AUTUMN MEETING. TUESDAY. The SHORTS HANDICAP, 8 sovs each, with 20 added. For all ages. Half-a-mile. (19 subs.) _ Mr. J. Wood's Kennyside Hero, by St. Leon, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b. (Kendall) 1 Mr. Warrington's Kiteflyer, 5 yrs, Bst Sib (W. White) 2 Mr. Doughty's Blossom, 3 yrs, Gst 61b .(Prime) 3 Mr. Mather's Whitelock, 3 yrs, Gst 31b (Walters) 4 The following also ran :—Knight Errant, Alma (late Lady-in. Waiting), Alleborelio, Eva, g by Earl of Richmond, dam► by Combat (h b), Cimicina, Speed. The SELLING STAKES of 3 Bove each, with 20 added, for horses that have not wo■ 511. this year ; 3-yr-olds and upwards ; certain allowances ; the winner to be sold by auction for 60 soya, &c. Three-quarters of a mile, (10 subs.) Mr. W. Moseley's Romeo, by California, 4 yrs, 7st 41b Cliffe) 1 Mr. Warrington's Voucher, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b (Charlton) 2 The following also ran :—Grinsalkin, Liberty, Royal George. Th e GRAND ANNUAL STILEPLEOHASE, HANDIOAP SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added. The second to save his stake. Winners extra. About four miles. (15 subs, 5 of whom pay 5 sovs each.) Mr. S. Mansell's Peter, by Steamer, aged lOst 81b - , (A.blett) 1 Mr. Gibbs' Jemmy the Black, syrs, 9st (W. White) 2 Mr. Price's Tom Gurney, 6 yrs, 9st 51b (Weaver) 3 Mr. W. Barnett's Diana (h b), aged, 9st 101 b (R. Archer) 4 MAICE of 100 sove each, 25 ft, 1 1.1 stone each, over the Steeplechase ground. Mr. C. Boyce's St. Hilary (late Wait-a-while) received forfeit from Capt. Rhys's Royalty. FREE HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 5 soya each, with 40 added ; winners extra. Twice round and a distance, over eight flights of hurdles. (18 subs.) Mr. Devenport's Sailor, 5 yre, 9st 61b (R. Sly) 1 Mr. Minton's Garland, aged, 9st 21b ...(G. Stevens) 2 Mr. W. Barnett's Freetrader, 5 yrs, 9st 131 b (R. Archer) 3 Mr. Barling's Old Misery, aged, Oat 61b (G. Eatwell) 4 Mr. Walter's Apostate, 5 yrs, lOst 21b (Knott) 5 During the early part of the day rain fell in sharp showers. The afternoon was, however, favourable to the enjoyment of the sport. The meeting was success ful, and the proceedings were satisfactorily conducted. BETTING ON THE COURSE. to 1 on the field (offered) 14 to 1 agst De Clare (t) 30 to 1 agst Polydore (t) Offers to take 25 to 1 about Dirk Hatteraick. PRIVATE BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. The following is an authorised list of miscellaneous plans deposited at the Private Bill-office, according to standing orders, for the session 1854-55. Aboyne, Ballater, Braemer, and Cairn well Roads ; Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Gas-works and Water works ; Ashton-under-Lyne Water-works Extension. Barrow Harbour; Birkenhead New Dock ; Birming ham Canal Navigations ; Birmingham Corporation Water-works and New-street ; Birmingham Corpora tion Water-works, New-street, and Improvement ; Bir mingham Gas ; Birmingham Water-works ; ErPcon Corporation and Local Board of Health. Cardiff Improvement ; Cheltenham Water-works ; Chesterfield Water-works and Gas ; Cumberland Mar ket Terminus. Dagenham Docks ; Derby Extension and Improve ment ; Downing-street Public Offices Extension ; Dun dalk Harbour and Port. Fergus Estuary Reclamation ; Folkestone Improve• ment. Gateshead Quays and Improvements • Glasgow Cor poration Water-works ; Glasgow, Kirkintilloch, and Baldernoch Roads ; Gloucester Water-works and Local Beard of Health ; Grand Surrey Canal; Great Northern • London Cemetery. Hamilton Sanitary Improvement ; Hartlepool Pier and Port ; Heywood Water-works ' • Honwithy Bridge. Leek Improvement ; Leigh, Bedford, Tydesley, and Atherton Water-works ; Liverpool Corperation Water works ; Liverpool Docks ; Liverpool Improvement ; London wad Brassingtoa Road ' • Ludlow Cattle Market and Slaughter-houses ; Lucile,/ Improvement. Manchester Iseproveiaent. Newcastle-upon-Tyne New Streets and Improve ments ; Newport Gas. Oldham Corporation Gas and Water ; Ossett Gas ; Oxford Improvements. _ _ Royal London Militia (Amendment of Act, purchase of property for building more convenient headequarters, hospital, and storehouse). St. Helen's Improvement ; Salford Waterworks and Improvement ; Sheffield United Gas ; Staleybridge Im provements, Waterworks, Gasworks, ; Stockport District Waterworks ; Stourbrillge Gas ; Sunderland Dock ; Surrey and South Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Company (River Wandle Source). Towneham and St. Mary Church Gas; Tyne Bridge and Approaches. Uphill and Bleadon Road. Warrington Corporation; Warrington Water-works; Wem and Bronygarth Roads ; Westminster Improve ments ; Weymouth Water-works ; Wolverhampton Cor poration Water-works ; Wolverhampton New Water Supply ; Wolverhampton Water-works. THE METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NRIHT. MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, JULY 16, 1851. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieu tenant-Colonel Thomas Myddelton Bicidulph, Master of the Household, to be Extra Equerry to her Majesty: BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 4. 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 Consular Agent at Rome, transmitting an Edict of the Roman Government prohibit ing the exportation of corn from the Roman States. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 4. 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 Consul at Elsinore, in closing the translation of a Notice (a cony of which is sub joined) issued by the Royal Naval Department at Copen hagen, relative to a new Light at Dusternbrook, near Kiel. NOTICE TO MARINERS. For the guidance of ships navigating the Bay of Kiel a lantern light, with a sideral apparatus and red lamp glasses imparting a red tint to the light, will, in the course of December, be provided at Dusternbrook. The light will be exhibited from a small iron tower erected at the bathing establishment of the place, and its range of light will be six miles. Whereof a preliminary notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern. The Royal Navy Department, Copenhagen, the 6th November, 1554. (Signed) (Signed) STEEN BILLS. SIIENSON. SEWERS. Yesterday, a special court of the Commission was held at the Curt-house, in Greek-street, Mr. R. Jobb presiding. Thbre were eight other commissioners pre sent. _ . The first hour of the sitting was occupied in a dis cussion whether it was necessary for the chairman to sign the minutes of the previous meeting, which he said the act of Parliament did not require him to do, and though he had been in the habit of signing the minutes of for mer meetings he declined to do so in future. One of the CornmiBsioners complained of the insuffi cient accommodation the court-house iu which they were assembled afforded. One of the officers of the court observed that that commission had frequently had it in contemplation t o build a new court. Dr. LEwis suggested that it would be unwise to take any step towards increasing the accommodation until they knew what Parliament might do in the ensu ing session. Another COMMISSIONER had heard it rumoured that Sir B. Hall had an extinguisher ready to put upon the present commission. (A laugh.) After the transaction of the usual formal business, the commissioners engaged for a considerable time in desul tory conversations upon a variety of unimportant details respecting the measurement of works, checking accounts, contracts, and other matters of a like character ; subse quently, Mr. JOHNSON asked when the commission would be in a condition to enter upon the great question of arterial drainage in a manner worthy of the metropolis. The SECRETARY stated that ho had recently had a communication from Mr. Stephenson, stating his report would be ready in four or five days, though be could not pledge himself to have it prepared before the next meet ing of the commission. Mr. JOHNSON hoped whatever might be the opinion of the consulting engineer, that Mr. Rowe's plan would be brought under the consideration of the court. (Hear.) Mr. WADE moved that Mr. Rowe's plan and sugges tions be printed and circulated for the information of the members of the court before they proceeded to discuss the question of the main drainage of the metropolis. The motion haring been seconded by Dr. LEWIS, was ultimately put and carried. Sir J. V. SWELLEY gave notice for the next court day of a 'notion to the effect that the whole question of the main drainage bo not taken into consideration until the various plans recently proposed, or which may be in the meanwhile laid before the commission, be brought be fore the court, and due time given to deliberate upon them. The court, after transacting some further business o a routine character, adjourned. COURT OF ALDERMEN. MOTION OP TIM LATE LORD MAYOR RESPECTING THE PREMIER. In answer to a question by Alderman FAREBROTIIER, who demanded wily Alderman Sidney's notice, to pro pose an address to the Throne, calling for Lord Aber deen's removal from the government, was not on the business paper, the LORD MAYOR said that Alderman Sidney, exercisin g his right, had withdrawn that notice. PgrAll IN CUItIST'S LIOSPITAL. Alderman Fa; Nis wished to know whether any com munication bail been made to the Lord Mayor as to the dismissal of half the boys front Christ's Hospital. By some it ha d been reported that there was fever amongst the 'ooys ; by others that there was fever amongst the ni asters. (Laughter.) The LORD I' lAYOR—I have had no communication upon the sr bj It was iltimately resolved, on the motion of Alder man FINN] 3, xecondel by _1l,?0• man WILSON, " That it be referred, ) the General Purpose's Committee, t.) in quire into Ott' health and state of Cnrist's Hospital." DUBLIN AND WICKLOW RAILWAY.—An extraordi nary meetin. g of this company was held on Monday, in Dublin, for , the purpose of authorising the directors to borrow fro, n the Public Works Loan Commissioners a sum nof; e - xceeding 100,0001., upon mortgage of the rail way ProPirty, and also of confirming the forfeiture of certain rtbv.res. The chair was taken by the Hon. Frede rick Pona , mby. After a good deal of very warm discus sion, a rs solution authorising the loan was adopted by a large nu. jority. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 28. CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES. BREVET. With reference to her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th September, 1854, the following promotions are to tako place : TO BE GENERALS. Lieutenant-General Walter Tremenheere, K.H. Lieutenant-General Edward Nicolls. The undermentioned officers, who were placed upon retired full pay previously to her Majesty's said Order in Council, to be each promoted to a step of Brevet rank. TO BE COLONELS. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James Gillespie. Samuel Garmston. John Harvey Stevens. Charles Fegen. Richard Lyde Hornbrook. William Lewis Dawes. William Calamy. James Clarke. John Tothill. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 30. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Henry Way Mawbey to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice Wil- liams, Promoted. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD•LIEUTENANTS, County of Wigtown—J ohn Carrick Moore, Esq., younger, to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 20. County of Sutherland.—To be Deputy-Lieutenants — William Sutherland Fraser, Esq., Sidney Had win, Esq., Charles Hood, Esq., Evander Maclver, Esq., Boyce Mac kenzie, Esq., Nov. 27. County of Somerset—To be Deputy-Lieutenants.—Geo. Templer Graham, Esq. ; George Barons Northcote, Esq. ; Richard Leckonby Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia, Dec. 1. Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Ensign Geo. Deedes \Varry to be Lieutenant, vice Louch, resigned, Nov. 21; Ensign Henry , Cornish Henley to be Lieutenant, vice the Hon. A. Poulett, appointed to the Grenadier Guards, Nov. 25. _ _ 2cl Somerset Regiment of Militia Alfred Hudson Ricketts, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Harwood, resigned, Nov. 28. County of Perth—To be Deputy Lieutenants.—Jam es Hunter, Esq. ; Robert Bruce, Esq. ; Alexander Haig, Esq., Nov. 24. Regiment of Royal Perthshire Rifle Militi I—George Webster Absolon, M.D., to be Surgeon, Nov. 24. Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Thomas Joseph Hercy, Gent., to be Ensign, Nov. 22 ; John Hebden, Gent., to be Ensign, Nov. 24. 2d Regiment of West York Militia—George Thomas Mowbray, Esq., to be Captain ; Alfred Banwell Letts, Gent., to be Ensign; Robert Johnston Stansfield, Gent., to be Ensign, Nov. 24. 3d Regiment of West York Militia—Edward Gould Hasted, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Nixon, resigned, Nov. 17; Alfred Andrew Pinson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice James, resigned, Nov. 21. 4th Regiment of West York Militia —James D. Mac- Damara, Goat., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Dennistown, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Nov. 21. sth Regiment of West York Militia—George Prickett, Esq., to be Captain, Nov. 21. Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry—Francis Digby Legard, Gent., to be Cornet, Nov. 28. _ . MEMORANDUM.—That the name of Ensign George Deigg, of the 4th Regiment of West Riding Militia, was by mis take inserted in the Gazette of the 21st November as En sign George Doff. Royal Wiltshire Militia—William Fred. Foxcroft Jones, Esq., to be Captain, Nov. 20; Arthur George Pears°, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Norton Knatchbull, Gent., to be Ensign, Nov. 14; Frederick Duncan Mant, Gent., to be Ensign, Nov. 15.- Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi ment of Militia—George Tomline Gordon, Esq., to be Cap tain, vice Mortimer, resigned. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Ensign George Sharpe to be Lieutenant, vice Mitchell, resigned, Nov.lo. South Hertfordshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—Cor net Arthur de Vere Viscount Malden to be Major, vice Thomas Plumer Halsey, deceased ; James Bishop, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Kemble , resigned, Nov. 30. Hertfordshire Militia—Major Robert Algernon Smith Dorrien to bo Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lionel Ames, fete signed, Dec. 2. Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia—Evan Morgan, Esq., late a Captain in her Majesty's Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Dec. 2. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Charles James Roe, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brooks, promoted, Dec. 1. 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia — Francis Wright, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 1. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the "Gazette" of the 24th of Nov. last.] 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Ensign James Dillon Macnamara to be Lieutenant, vice Gardner, resigned, Nov. 21. The Essex Rifles—Lieutenant Samuel Geo. Savill, to be Captain, vice Hansler, resigned, Dec. 1 ; Lieutenant Capel Coape, late Captain in the 67th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Budworth, resigned, Dec. 2. BANKRUPTS. William Hunt, wino merchant, Bedford-row, to surr , der, Dec. 12 and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Low, Chancery.lane. John Bieloy, carpenter, Southampton, Dec. 12, at two, and Jan. 19, at half-past ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Mackay, Southampton; Pater son, Bouverie-street. Daniel Chapman, builder, Cornwall-toad, Hammer smith, Dec. 15, at two, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Jones, Chancery-lane. Charles Samuel Sasso, baker, High-street, Portland town, Dec. 15, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Black more, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square. Thomas Palmer, licensed victualler, Loveday-streot, Birmingham Dec. 15 and Jan. 12 , at twelve, at th e Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hawkes, Birmingham. David Ainsworsh, warehouseman, Manchester, Dec. 19 and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Thomas Plumley Derham and William Bennett, cabinet makers, Bristol, Dec. 18 and Jan. 22, at el even, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bris tol ; Trenerry, Bristol ; Bevan and Girl in g , Bristol. John Bush Mercer, carpenter, Bath, Dec. 19 and Jan. 22, at !twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee , Bristol ; Moyer, Bath. Edward Leader Box, seed merchant, Bristol, Dec. 18 and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, gristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bris tol. William Crowther, innkeeper, Halifax, Dec. 19, at half past twelve, and Jan. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Wavell, Philbrick, and Foster, Halifax. George Jones and Edmund Clegg, ironfounders, Salford, Lancashire, Dec. 15 and Jan. 5, at twelve, at the Manches ter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manches ter; Slater, Manchester. John Mitchel, worsted spinner, Morton, Yorkshire, Deo. 23 and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee , Leeds; Wethorhead and Burr, Bingley and Keighy ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. James Charles Johns, commission agent, late of King William-street, City, and of Micklehain, Surrey, Dec. 13, at two, and Jan. 16, at half.past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Bradden, Gray's-inn. Charles Kelly, auctioneer, Baker-street Bazaar, Port man-square, Dec. 16, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chidley, Gresham-street. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. William Scoon, baker, Edinburgh. John Finnio, brsish manufacturer, Edinburgh. J. and S. Fergusson, builders, Glasgow. James Maclean and Co., merchants, Glasgow. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. William Pickering, Piccadilly, bookseller, second divi dend of 53. ld. in the pound, and a first and second of 10s., on new proofs, payable at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall street, on We dnesday next, and three subsequent Wednes days. George Botts, Forncott St. Peter's, Norfolk, draper and grocer, first dividend of 2d. in the pou nd, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, the 7th inst., and three following Thursdays. Cecil Sober Taylor Walker, Oxford-street, artificial florist, second and final dividend of 11d. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, the 7th inst., and three following Thursdays. Valentine Henry Guy, Blackfriars-road, and Strand, tailor and draper, first dividend of Bd. in the pound, pay. able at 7GA, Basingball-strout, on Thursday, the 7th inst., and three following Thursdays. William Wright, Thetford, Norfolk, butcher, first divi dend of 2s. Gd. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghr.ll - on V. ursday, the 7th inst., and three following Thursdays. John Angus Holmes, High street, Southwark, and Port land-cottages, Hatcham, woollen draper, second dividend of Gd. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basing,hall-street, on Thursday, the 7th inst , and three following Thursdays. Eth% ard Coal tate (separate estate), of Manchester, broker, first dividend of 3s. in the pound, payable at 45, George-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, the 19th Decem ber, and any subsequent Tuesday. Edward Coultato and Thomas Swindells, of Manchester, brokers, first dividend of Bd. in the pound, payable at 45, George-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, the 19th Decem ber, and any subsequent Tuesday. Montgomorie Gladstone (separate estate), of Manchester, general broker, first dividend of 4s. 9d. in the pound, pay able at 45, Georgc-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, De cember 19, and any subsequent Tuesday. James Stark Skipper, of Liverpool, corn merchant, first dividend of 3s. in the pound, payable at 11, Elden-cham , bars, South John-street, Liverpool, on any Thursday. Charles Moss, a dividend of 3s, 3d. in the pound, pay able at the office of R. W. Atkinson, Wallingford, on and after December 14. John Pettit, of Wingham, Kent, butcher, first and final dividend of 2s. in the pound, payableat the County Court office, Sandwich, on any Tuesday. Joseph Pitchers Hastings, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, ship and boat builder, dividend of 4s. 4d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.l 'Charles Albemarle Layard, late of 5, Crown-court, Liquorpond-street, Gra3's-inn-lane, gentleman, dividend of Is. 6d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. Francis Bull, late of Oxford-street, publican, dividend of ls. 54d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Samuel Knight, late of 5, Fore-street, City, cheese monger, dividend of 4s. 7id. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's inn. Charles Jarvis, sen., late of Birmingham, out of business, dividend of 4d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. William Allatson, late of Rocking, Essex, watch and clock maker, dividend of Bs. 4d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. Edmund Pain, late of Sonar's Hope, Herefordshire, far "ilex, dividend of 11s. in the pound, payable at 5, Portu gal•street, Lincoln's-inn. Richard Roberts, late of Liverpool, superannuated offi cer in the quarantine service, dividend of 6s. 3d., mak ing u s. 8,1. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. _ . William Lowcay, late of Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, retired commander in the royal navy, dividend of is. 2id., making 4s. id. in the pound, payable at s,Wortugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. Joseph Smith, late of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, in no business, dividend of 58. sd. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. William Wright Lucking, late of 19, Orchard-street, Portman-square, auctioneer, dividend of 2s. Bd. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn. John English, late of Bootle, Lancashire, shipwright, dividend of 7id. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn. DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED. Samuel Bell, Liverpool, confectioner, December 27 — Jonathan Higginson and Richard Deane, Liverpool and Barbadoes, December 28—Robert Greenham, Liverpool, merchant, December 251—Richard Jackson and Richard Yale, Leeds, engineers, December 29. CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED. Stephen Harris, of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, iron monger, Dec. 27—Ebenezer Williams, of St. David's, Pembrokeshire, druggist, Dec. 29—George Hammond, of 18 and 19, King's-row, Walworth, Surrey, carpenter and builder, Dec. 27--Joseph Chave, of Torquay, Devonshire, builder, Dec. 28—Richard Farshaw, of Liverpool, machine maker, Dec. 27—Isaac Fletcher, of Liverpool, stockbroker, Dec. 28—William Clark, of Bradford, Yorkshire, tailor, Jan. 9. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Smart, of Hawes-hill, Staffordshire, kitty collier—Adrian Blakesley, ;len., of Tod's End, Stafford shire, publican—Walter M`Taggart, of Shrewsbury, tea dealer—Richard Moulder, Tomlin, of Dover, plumber— William Meting, of Dover, tailor—Samuel Westgate, of Shelton, Norfolk, farmer—Daniel Butcher, of Holton, Suffolk, out of business—John Bird, of Bury St. Ed inunds, boot and shoemaker—Henry Swann, of Har grave, Suffolk, out of business—Thomas Cooper Bridg man, of Bury St. Edmunds, photographic artist— George Munro, of Bury St. Edmunds, tinman—Henry Carpenter, of North Church, Hertfordshire, grocer —William Martin Lawrence, of Cambridge, white smith—Richard S warm, Cambridge, common carter —John M.ouel, of Cambridge, carpenter—lsaac Ellwood, of Cam bridge,licensed victualler—Herbert Riseley, of Cambridge, baker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. James Alexander Hughes and Frederick Aaron Gush, of Fulham, brickmakers—John Barry and John Silley, of Downton, Wiltshire, woolstaplers —William Houghton and Thomas Best, of Westhampton, Lancashire, smiths— Bilward Holum, jun., and George John Fiudlater, of Liverpool, bullion dealers—Thomas Rogerson and John Radcliffe, of Liverpool, solicitors—Michael Waller and John Lockwood, Brighouse, Huddersfield, cotton spinners —Charles Smith and Edward Horne, of Keighly, York shire, and Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, cordwainers —John Knight, James Hall, and Giles Collinge, of Wiri ness, Lancashire, animal charcoal manufacturers—Martha Teasdale and Joseph James, of Pembroke Dock, Pem brokeshire, drapers —William Score, Charles Bourne, John Henry Townsend, and Thomas Gallye Lamotte, of Bristol, chemists (so far as regards William `.'!Core)—Samuel Sharp and William Chapperton, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, printers—Samuel Ashworth and William Ashworth, fus tian manufacturers. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CIISTO3i HOUSE, DEC. 5. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Marys, from Marseilles ; Plover, St. Valery-sur-Somme ; Nonpareil, Alicata ; Ro bert, Demerara; Challenger, Shanghai; Isabella, Richi bucto ; Sutton, Manilla ; Royal Thistle, Madras ; Pet, Mogadore ; Norma, Alexandria ; John and Mary, Ant werp ; Nancy, Aveiro ; Kotha, Calcutta ; Royal Blue Jacket, St. Michael's ; Thalia, Mauritius ; Tamor, Sydney ; Cassandra, Dania ; Pomona, St. John's. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Josephus, for Calcutta P • Mathilde, Aalborg ; Mallard, Adelaide ; Hooghley, Port Adelaide. CLEARED OUT WITH CARGO.—The William, for Dieppe ; Charlotte, Rouen ; Petit Jean Baptiste, Bayonne; Wa borne, Antwerp ; Friends, do. ; Pauline Houghton, Mau ritius ; Albion, Boulogne. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. TiflAb Ilamortyrn., from Yoi Lo London, Nov. 1, lat. 21 N., long. 65 W. The Circassian, from Callao to Falmouth, 12th, let. 28 N., long. 32 W. The Stratheden, Nov. 21, let. 47 N., long. 31 W. The Star of Empire, 26th, let. 49 N., long. 19 W. . The Fanny Freer, Oct. 31, let. 33 N., long. 74 W. Tho Loontine, from New Orleans to Bremen, Nov. 12, let. 43 N., long. 46 W. The Underwriter, 16th, let. 45 N., long. 38 W. The Venerable, from Quebec to Hull, 13th, let. 47 N., long. 20 W. The Augusta Schnieder, from Newcastle, lat. 4 N., long. 24 W. The Constantia, for Charlestown, lat. 41 N., long. 3t W. The Diana, from Melbourne to Mauritius, Aug. 28, lat. 37 S., long. 127 E. The Blythe, 30th, lat. 30 S., long, 132 E. Cid (ship), of Havre, Oct. t, lat. 14 S. long. 32 W. The Caroline, for Pernambuco, 22d, lat. 3 N., long. 20 W. The Witch of the Wave (barque), 25th, lat. 7 N., long, 26 W. The John Dalton, from Liverpool to Maranham, 27th, lat. 9 N., long. 25 W. The Witch of the Sea (clipper ship), Nov. 8, lat. 28 N., long. 27 W. The Undine, bound to Australia, Sept. 27, lat. 45 N., long. 12 W. The Forfarshire, from Cardiff to Callao, Oct. 7, lat. 22 N., long. 24 W. The Argatun, from Queenstown to Calcutta, Oct. 8, lat. 20 N., long. 25 W. • The Maria Lehman, Nov. 10, lat. 7 S., long. 33 W. The Bangalore, Nov. 10. The Hortense, Nov. 18, lat. 18 S., long. 25 W. The Catherine, Nov. 18. The Leicester, 20th, lat. 23 N., long. 23 W. The Jane Howard, from Demerara to Liverpool, Oct. 18, lat. 19 N., long. 55 W. The Mary Catherine, from London to Mauritius, Oct. 27, lat. 47 N., long. 13 W. The Constance, from Liverpool, Oct. 18, lat. 2 S., long. 27 W. The Bangalore, from Callao to Queenstown, Nov, 24, lat. 43 N., long. N W. The M;gellan. from London to Hobart Town, Oct. 16, lat. 8 N., long. 20 W. , A steamer, of Southampton, bound to St. Thomas, Nov. 19, lat. 46 N., long. 15 W. The Coquette, from Quebec to Scotland, Oct. 21, 20 miles north of the Bird Islands. The Xanthus, from Quebec to London, Nov. 4, lat. 47, long. 36. The Trade Wind, of St. John's, N. 8., from Quebec to tho Clyde, Nov. 5, lat. 47, long. 42. The Indus, from Ardrossan to Providence, Oct. 17, lat. 45 N., long. 33 W. The Emma Jane, from London to New Orleans, Nov. 2, lat. 38 N., long. 70 W. The Universe, from Now York to Liverpool, Nov. 14, lat. _4l N., long. 68 W. The Meta, of Bremen, with emigrants, Nov. 28, lat. 47 N., long. _l5 W. The Juliana, from London to Dominica, Nov. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 10 W. The Biesbach, frora Cardiff to San Francisco, Oct. 20, lat. 15 N., long. 26 W. The Cruiser, from Mauritius, Oct. 2, off Algoa Bay. The Kedgeree, frem Calcutta to Liverpool, Oct. 14, lat. 31 S., long. 11. E. - is The Prcilla, from Alps Bay to Baltimore, Oct. 16, lat. 28 S., long. 9 E. The Britannia, of Aberdeen, from Clyde to Valparaiso, Oct. 22, lat. 1, long. 25. The Emma, outward bound, Nov. 22, lat. 43, long. 50. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 5. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market; has been steady, with out much business doing, but closed with a tendency to improvement. Caledonian, 30q ; Lancashire and York shire, 701. ; Midland, 67 ; South-Eastern, 17 9-16 i; Midland 41 per cent., 1 dis. MANCHESTER, DEo. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been quiet and firm. Birmingham, Lancashire, and Cheshire J., 114 dia.; Caledonian, 30A ; Eastern Counties, 118; East Lancashire, 17i; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 71i ; Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire, 218 ; ditto, 10/. Pref., 11 1-16 ; Midland Consols, 67i ; North Staffordshire, 4 9.16 dis.; South-Eastern, 17 9-16. BRISTOL. DEC. 5. STOCZ EXCITANGE.—The market this morning con tinued to maintain the steadiness which it attained on Saturday. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY. Am5t0rdAm............ 11 16 Gibraltar Ditto, three months .. 11 171( L..glorn .......... 30 526 R o t ter dam ..............17 4 Genoa •..... 25 52 ,intwerp .............. 25 35 Itilan _ . Brus ela 25 35 Venice... Ilatnburgh .......... 13 6 ; N ap l es 441 Altotta ..•• ............ !Palerm o •... . 131 Paris— • • •• • • - •• • • .... 25 1214 Messina .. • ... 131 Ditto, three months 25 Lisbon .......... •• 5 3 % Marseillei ....... •• •• .. 25 40 Oporto .............. •• 53% Bourdeaux .• • ........ Rio .Janeiro..... .•••• • • Fiankfort•on- Value 11816 Buenos Ayre5........ • • Berlin ................ New Yolk, GO days' sight Vienna .......... •• .... 12 37 Philadelphia ...... •• • • Tri" , sle.• •• •• •.•• •• •• 12 10 j PRICEd OF BOLI I C N , PE t oz . Petersburg ............ 3.5% ; Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid • •••••••• 50 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0 Cadiz • .. 504 llex:ean Dollars .... 0 0 0 itarcelona ............ New Dollars 0 0 0 5evi11e...... Silver in bard . 0 5 l is QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORK.—The chair of Natural His tory in Queen's College, Cork, vacant by the remov n 1 of Professor Wyville Thompson to Queen's College, Bel fast, has been filled by the appointment of the Rev. William Smith, of Lewes, in tho county of Sussex. /ay when made ul prom wILL When COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port due In Office, London.° Dispatched. Eng:and. -- America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday • Liverpool Esc;'ll2ll America (by United Sts packet) ..........N Nov. 14.........• Liverpool ... Arch ed America (by U. State* packet) Nov. 22.. • • .• •• •• Southampton Australia (via South. ampton) Jan. 4 . • Southampton Deo. 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) N Jan. 9 Ditto (via Cape of Goot , Hope) ............N Dec. 4 ..... • . • • Uaccrtsizi Africa (West Coast) ..N t3u of the month.. Plymouth.. Alexandria ....N 9, 24, &30of m • Dover ...... Alexandria.-- Ith & 20th of mon. Southampton Bahamas of the month seathamptot, Belgium I I ) a.iY • • • • • • • • • • • • Dover ...... Daily Brazil ..............31 9th of the mouth.. Southampton Buenos Ayres .. 34 9th of the month.. Southampton Cape of Good Hope .. N Various ports Um ertain Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verde 9th of the month Southampton Ceylon (see India) Ceylon Channel Isles ..N Mon ~Wed., &Fri,!l. Southampton Tu.Th.Sat 2d & 17th of moutt Seuthtunptoi China (see India) Constantinople ......N 8,13,18,23,&28 of n Dover Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton Cont. of Europe M & N Ir/ice daily Dover ...... Twicedant Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Twice dai1y...... Dover ...... Twieedalli Gibraltar M 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m Southampton Arrived Greece (see India) Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton Arrived Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London Havannah 2nd of the month Southampton Deo. 1 Holland .. • Dover Honduras ,17th of the month. Southampton India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th it 20th of mon. Plymouth .. Nov. 20 India (via Marseilles)Bl 9th&2s,th of month Dover lonian Isles (see India)l7, 17, & 27 of mon Dover...." Ireland ........M & NlTwice daily ...... Hol3 head ... Twleedall Lisbon 9, 17, & 17 of in., Southampton Madeira ............3119th of the month Southampton Madeira 123 d of month Liverpool ... Deo. 3 Malta (see India) Malta ,8.18, &28 of men. Dover .. Nov. 28 Mauritius (see India) sfaurltlns ..........N 14th of the month! Mexico 2nd of the month., Southampton !Dec. 1 Naples sthlsth2stholmor.. Dover ...... New Granada .. 2d & 17th of month Southampton New Zea1and........ .. •• •• .• By private skip .. Various ports Uncertain Papal States ........N sth I sth2sthofmon. Dover ...... Peninsula ..........Ml 7 thi7th27thollnon. Southampton P eru • •• •• • • •• •• 2,111d & 27th of mon. Southampton Port /Tata . I ..........N By private ship... 'Various porta Uncertalil Sicily ..............N l sthlsth2sthohnon, Dover ov. 21 Tuscany sthlsth2sthohnon. Dover ...... so vc....•••••t0 24 & 17th of month Southampton Arthed Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) West Indies ,1.1& 17thol month, Southamptenl Southampton' When any of these dates fall o•i a iunday, the mails will be de snatched on the following day, witk the exception of the lulls via Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched the preceding day. 688 362 COUNTRY MAR,KETS. LIVERPOOL—DEc. 5. There was a pretty good attendance this morning. The trade was without activity, and may be called much the same as on Friday, when new wheat declined 2d to 3d per bushel, and new flour is to 2s per sack. Foreign wheat and flour were very firmly held for late prices. Oats and. oatmeal each a trifle cheaper. Barley and beans unchanged in value. Indian corn was offered on rather easier terms. IPSWICH—DEc. 5. The supply of wheat is evidently again considerably fallen off—the condition too is worse ; hence a decline Of 2e per qr. must be written. Barley is in large supply; the quality of the greater bulk of it, however, was very secon dary and ordinary. There appeared a ready sale at a re duction of 2s and 3s per qr. on last week's prices. Wo emv ao beaus or peas. PER QUARTER. nit Quell,TE. Wheat, red (old) 70s to 76a alley, grinding ... 30s to 331 Ditto (new) Ditto, white (uew) 78s to 82, eas Ditto (uld) Barley, malting ... 34s to 3CsiFlour, per sack AVERAGES FOR TUE WEEK ENDING DEO. 2, 1854, Wheat Oats Peas Bcar.s Barley HULL-Dui. 5. We had a small supply of English wheat at market to day, and the condition was not generally good ; such sam ples met slow sale at is to 2s below last week's rates, while dry qualities were good to sell without any decline; pur chases of old wheat are again made at full prices. Spring corn procurable on easier terms. Linseed fully maintains prices of last week, with a good consumptive sale for cakes. I. R. II 111 Wheat, English, red 72 to 7 Ditto white 7B to 84 Dantzic and Konigs berg Pomeranianandllain- Peas, grey and black to —' Linseed, Black Sea 68 to 7 0 itto Petersburgh 5B to 65 itto Riga and Arch angel Ditto Konigsberg and Memel 5O to 56 Per Ton. Mica., Hulll2/ 71; 6d to 00101 Ditto fine for. 111 Os 12100 e Od Ditto inf. for olos Od to 010 s Rapeseed OO/ Os to 00/ Os Rape cakes 130 s Od to 00s Od Tares, English OOs toooo Ditto foreign ano 4/ 108 8i tol2l Os nes > Rye Meal burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 65 to 72 Russian and Odessa 60 to 70 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 3O to 32 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 32 to 31 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 46 to 48 SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the malls aro sent from the General Peat-aloe by the night—and M by the morning—despatch.) WIND AND WEATHER REPORT. TUISDAT, Dec. 5. Stations. Course of Wind. State of Weather. Greenwich ... S.W Ovorcast. Lothbury Leeds Bristol S.W Cloudy. Plymouth Torquay Taunton E' Unsettled. Bath Gloucester Cardiff N.W Cloudy. Swansea W. Rain and windy. Haverfordwest Leamington N.N.W. ... Very windy—Unsettled. Hague W Cloudy. Southampton S.W Cloully. Cowes S.W. Cloudy. Poole Dorchester S.W Portsmouth Masborough Derby S.W Rain. Normanton S.W Rain.—Windy. Nottingham Leicester S.W. Bain—Very Cold. Chesterfield S. Burton-on-Trent.. S. Stamford W. Fine Lowestoft W Fine. Yarmouth W. Ipswich Boston 5.W.... Great Grimsby ... W.N.W. Holyhead Bangor S.W Cloudy. Dublin S,W Fine—Cold. Liverpool Manchester S.W Showery. Lancaster Carlisle Bradford.. S.W. Cloudy. Maryport Whitehaven Wakefield Stoke-on-Trent York Glasgow Edinburgh W. Rain. Perth Dundee Stirling Aberdeen W. Very fine. Forfar W. Stormy. Berwick W Stormy. Sunderland Scarborough Whitby Hull W.5.W..... Rain. Bridlington Brighton S.W Fine. --• .B IRTH 8. OF A BON. On the 341 inst., at the Vicarage, Little Marlow, the sal of the Rev. Wm. Milton. On the 3d inst., at 6, Marlborough-hill, St. John's-wooch tho wife of Professor Creasy. OP A DAUGHTEL On tho 2d inst., at Queen-square, Bath, the Hon. gr . ' R. Lambert Baynes. On the 2d inst., at Badger Rectory, in the county of Salop, the wife of the Rev. T. F. Boddington. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at St. John's, Croydon, Wm. Scov. al i l , Savory, F.R.C.S., of Charterhonso-square, to Lour Frances, daughter of the late Win. Borradaille, Esq., Ludbrook-house, Devon. On the 18th Oct., at Calcutta, Henry Woodrow, j r ' g q_'? Follow of Cams College, Cambridge, and late Princ i pal ), • the College of La Martiniere, to Elizabeth, daughter of Butler, Esq., F.R.C.S., Brentwood. DIED. On the Ist inst., at Angar-hill-house, Addlestone, rieLair Chortsey, Robert Kirkpatrick Escott , Esq., deputy liouir. nant for the county of Surrey, aged 69. On the 4th inst , in Kildare-street, Dublin, Major -00 , 11 : Charles O'Neill Prendergast, late of the Scots Fail°. guards. On the 25th October, in the heroic but disastrous cluirg: of the Light Cavalry Brigade, at Balaklava, John Fretl.., Winter, Captain 17th Lancers, oldest son of Saul. Winter, Esq., of Agher, in the county On the 28th ult., at 9, Titchfield-terrace, Regent's-Par Aim, wife of Capt. B. Fenn, aged 56. of Meath, aged 2 1 , On the 19th ult. at Westbury, Wilts, Stephen Brun k late Troop Sergean ' t.Major 15th Kiug'e Hussars, aged At Cannstatt, near Stutgart, whither he had gone for th e benefit of his health, John Kitto, D.D., F.S.A., editor 01: the Pictorial Bible, and author of many standard works. theological literature. He was barn Dec. 4, 1804, and (W u ' from neuralgic affection, Nov. 25, 1854, aged 50. LONDON : Printed and Published by MITEDO yo-011420 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sea Office, N o. 11, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count,/ Middlesex, Wednesday, December 6, 1854.