The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--JAN: 9. The January general quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at- Clerkenwell, before Mr. Serjeant Adams, assistant judge Mr. Witham, and other justices. The calendar was a very heavy one, owing to the period that has elapsed since the last session. The number of prisoners for trial was 101, of whom 94 were charged with felony and 7 with misdemeanor. The Assistant Judge briefly charged the gTand jury. John Barton, 41, was indicted fur stealing 7 pounds of pepper, the property of the St. Katherine's Dock Com pany, from their dock. On the 16th of December, and at the time that the Dock labourers were at dinner, James Potts, foreman of warehouse F, observed the prisoner coming out from one of the floors ; and as he was not in the service of the Dock Company, and had no business at all to be there, Pott's suspicion was excited, and was increased by th e fact of his trying to avoid him, and the appeara nce of something bulky about his person. Potts followed and laid hold of him, upon which the prisoner said, " I hope you will not be bard upon me, and on his pockets being examined, about seven pounds of pepper were turned out of them. This pepper corresponded in appearance and quality with pepper stored in the F warehouse, though not on the floor from which the prisoner had been seen coming. The prisoner was taken to the police superintendent of the dock, and on being confronted with him, he said, "I want to speak to you. This is what I told you about twelve months ago." The superintendent , wh o h a d never h a d any pre vious communication with the prisoner, expressed his surprise at this, to him, mysterious speech, but the pri soner continued, "I was going to bring it to you, and if y„ Will tak e me to the warehouse I will tell you where I got it. The superintendent took him there, and on the way be told him a story about his having re ceived the pepper from some men, making out that he merely received it, i n or d er t o b r i ng it to the officers, so as to lead it to the d e t ec ti on o f th e men, and mentioned the name of one of the regular labourers of the dock as one of the delinquents, but afterwards that individual strenuously denied the imputation. The prisoner then tried to fix the guilt on some one else, but could not re cognise any one as the right person. In answer to Mr. Ribton, the superintendent said that the pepper had not been missed by the Dock Company. Thera was such a large quantity stored in the ware house, both in bags and loose on the floor, that it would he impassible to tell whether so small a portion as that found on the prisoner had been taken therefrom. Mr. Ribton then submitted that there was no case to go to the jury, and in support of his argument quoted the case of the " Queen v. Dredge," which was tried before Mr. Justice Erie at the summer assizes for Wiltshire, in 1345, and reported in Cox's " Criminal Cases," vol. 1., p. 235, which he thought fully established his view of the law, and was, further, a stronger case even than the one before the court. In the case referred to, the prisoner, a little boy, was indicted for stealing a doll and other toys. It was proved, on the part of the pro secution, that the prosecutor kept a large toy shop at Tunbridge, and that the prisoner came into his shop dressed Tn - a smock frock, and after remaining for some time, from suspicion that was excited, he was searched and under his smock frock they found concealed a doll and six toy horses. The prosecutor swore that he be lieved the toys to be his property as they exactly resem bled others which he had in the shop. With respect to the doll his evidence went still further, as he swore the doll had been his, because his private shop mark was on it, but he could not say it had not been sold in the regu lar way of business, and he had not missed, and from the peculiar nature of his stock and the business he carried on could not miss any of the articles with stealing which the boy stood charged. Mr. Justice Erie remarked, "It 'appears to me that you have failed to establish in this case the corpus- delicti. It is true that the pro secutor swears that the doll was once his, but he cannot state that it was taken from him, and for aught that appears to the contrary, the prisoner may have come by it iu an honest manner." The.learned counsel for the prosecution contended that it must be presumed that the prisoner had taken the articleA. From the mode in which the prosecutor kept his stock it was impossible for him to miss them, but looking at the circumstances of the prisoner, and the discovery of the property upon him, it became a natural presumption that he had stolen them. Mr. Justice Erle, however, said---" I can make no other presumption in that case than I should be jus tified in doing if the most respectable person were charged with its offence. I think you have failed to make out your ease." His lordship then directed an acquittal of the prisoner. The Assistant -Judge said he should not / direct an 'ac quittal on the authority of a case which contravened all his opinion of the law, and which he thought must have been misreported, but if the jury returned a verdict of guilty, he would give the learned counsel a case for the Court of Criminal Appeal. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Judgment was respited until the point submitted by Mr. Ribton is disposed of in the Court of Appeal. ROBBERY OP GAS. George Strutt, 31, a hairdresser, was indicted for having stolen 700 cubic feet of gas, the property of the London Gas Company. When called on to plead, he said—l am guilty of burning the gas, but not in the way of stealing it. I intended to pay for it at the proper time. The Assistant Judge—Very well, that is a plea of not guilty. This was a prosecution of a novel nature, and thefacts upon which the charge against the prisoner rested were shortly as follows :—The prisoner was a hairdresser, carrying on business at No. 10, York-street, Camden town, and had a contract with the London Gas Company to supply him with gas for one bat's-wing burner for his shop. On the 23d of December two inspectors in the company's service went there in consequence of some suspicion that all was not right, and on lifting up a pot which was used for the hot shaving water, and was fixed to the window-board, they found a burner under it alight which was supplied with gas by a small pipe, surrepti tiously introduced into the pipe which supplied the burner for which the contract was made. Some play bills were pasted about the board to conceal the pipe from observation, and when the pot was in its place nothing calculated to show that a gas burner was under it could be detected. Newman (one, of the inspectors) asked what this was for, and the prisoner in reply said he supposed he could get over it by paying for it, and that it had -been done in his absence in the country by a person whom he left in charge of the business, about three weeks before. Evidence was given to show that anterior to that time the pot had been seen in the same place, with water boiling in it, but no one had ever seen either the pipe or the gas light by means of which the water was heated. Newman even said that lie had seen the pot there as much as twelve months previously, before he went into the company's service, having re peatedly been there to be shaved. In answer to questions put by - the Assistant-Judge, it was admitted than there was some confusion in the neighbourhood of Camden-town between the Imperial, Equitable and London Gas Companies, and that.by mis take one company occasionally tapped a main belonging to another, and actions were now pending in reference to such matters. This introduced some doubt as to the right of the prosecuting company to the gas consumed by the extra burner in question, but it was cleared up by a statement of Imipeetor Larkin, to the effect that means were taken to ascertain the fact, and the service pipe in the street, from which the pipe was laid into the prisoner's shop, followed up to a main which he knew to belong to the London Company, al it was of a different size to the main of the Imperial. The main wasplugged up, and the gas in the shop was extinguished, thus proving that the supply was from the London Com pany's pipes. The Assistant Judge, in summing up, said he thought the jury might take it as proved that the gas was the gas of the London Company, and that it was used by the prisoner; but the question for them to determine was I,Thether, on the evidence, they were satisfied that he used it, with the intention of stealing it. If they were LettLfied th. - ;t lie had the pipe put up, or put it there himself, and that it had been in use some time before he said it hail, then he theiight they should return a verdict of guilty ; bat if they were of opinion that the pipe was 'fixed in his absence, as he had himself said, and that he fumed the gas without the felonious intention charged against him, then they must undoubtedly acquit him. After th e j urymen had conferred together some little time, The Foreman abruptly turned round, and said, "Guilty, my lord, without the felonioua intention." The Assistant .Tudge—Gentlemen, that. is nonsense. That iE; a verdict of not gu ilt s, though you say guilty. It is the felonious intent that makes the guilt; and that verdict is like a jury finding a man guilty of m ur d er without wilful design. A juryman said they had not all agreed, and th e y were locked up in charge of Mr. Sawyer, th e b ea dl e. After being absent some time, they returned int o court, and found the prisoner gouty. The AsAstant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to hard labour for one calendar month. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.— A dolphus Johnson , appeared on bail befOre Alderman Challis to answer a charge of assault upon his wife. The officer said the prosecutrix had been to the hos pital ; but that she was ab:e to attend if she had any intention of so doing. The defendant's master here came forward and stated that he had seen the wife, who had received a very revere injury, which had left a mark across her forehead, ' and appeared as if it had been infliAed with a poker. He understood from her that she was letting in her husband, who came home about one o'clock in the morn ing in a state of intoxication, when he assaulted her. This was not the first time the defendant had miscon ducted himself in- that way, and his master, therefore, considered he was only performing an act of charity in laying these facts before the court, in order, that the defendant might meet with the punishment he deserved, which, through the wife's reluctance to appear against her husband, he might otherwise evade. The defendant said he was very sorry for what he had done, and, as his wife had forgiven him, he hoped the rn,• tgis tr-ttP • w ould look over his offence. - 1 • idKr if the wife was sa ti s fi e d b e was and' , ; rfr i l ) -' , efore attend. H e s h ou ld not pc ? , , i,, -: 17407:° before him of this kind t o b e : , - - '- ,- T ol ol*,lho wife was anxious to screen the t''t , i'11' 1 “, 44 / 9 ,- ' ,-* ttittiogit her, and in every aggravated ' 3 V# I C ' - '' ' - -+iii?t i th"e'' i'' rsons to prison for the full term A.cmlftok., ould remand the prisoner for a .-- ita.7 3 ; ' -tnrectzoti the officer to summon the wife, - arNif sinrefulea t() attend upon a summons, he would i i:rme a‘t ran bring her up. The defendant applied to be allowed liberty in the 1 interim. Alderman Challis said certainly not ; he would no 1 take bail for the defendant on any account, and the de• fendant was accordinnrly rern,veri in cu,=,.ody. BOW-STREET. —AIfred Jones, the driver of one of Thompson's cabs (No. 3501, was summoned before Mr. Hall to answer two complaints preferred by Mr. Antonio Panizzi, keeper of the printed book department of the British Museum. Mr. Panizzi stated that he charged the defendant with insulting behaviour, and with neglecting to give him a ticket. On Wednesday afternoon last, the 4th inst., he sent a porter from the Museum to get him a cab, but he returned with the answer, "No one will come." Wit ness then walked to the stand in Southampton-row, it being then between 7 and 8 o'clock, and saw four or five cabs, but no drivers. Supposing they had gone into the public-houses for something, he continued for some time to bawl out for the cabmen, but the waterman apparently, and two or three other men only laughed at him. Eventually, on seeing defendant with his cab, witness desired him to come to the pavement, to take him up. He did so very slowly, and witness went behind the cab to look at its number, upon which defendant exclaimed, " Don't be in a passion," and puffed the smoke of a cigar in his (Mr. Panizzi's) face. Witness said, "This is not respectful conduct, and you know it," at the same time demanding the number of his badge. The cabman stood in such a position that witness was obliged to put his face close to the man's breast in order to see his badge, and while doing so the defendant blew another puff into his face. Witness or dered him to desist, but he replied, "I have paid for it (the - cigar) and shall smoke it." All this time the other men were laughing and jeering at him, and when wit ness had taken his seat and directed the cabmen to drive him to Belrave-square, they cried out, "You'll never get there ! " The defendant would not ring or knock at the house where witness alighted, and never delivered up a ticket of his number. The defendant said the occurrence happened on the first afternoon after the great snow, and the gentleman came up in a great passion from not being able 'to get a cab. Witness could not pull up close to the kerb stone, owing to the snow, and this excited him very much. He (defendant) was certainly annoyed at the gentle man's manner, hut he took the cigar out of his mouth when the gentleman was taking his number, and also when he opened the door of the cab.—(To complainant) —Did I not ask you to partake of a ticket before start ing ?—Nor at any time? - Mr. Panizzi—Certainly not, and you did not take the cigar out of your mouth. Samtwl Wright, a journeyman watchmaker, of 37, Winsor-terrace, City-road, said that he happened to be passing, at the time and was attracted by the 'crowd. The gentleman was was very much excited, but the cab man did not puff his cigar in complainant's face, nor use any abusive language. When the gentleman got into the cab, the driver offered to give him a ticket, but the gentleman said, " You be d—d," and refused to have it. Witness, on hearing the gentleman say that he would make the cabman pay for . it, called at the stand next day, and left his address, stating that he would attend as a witness if necessary. Mr. Panizzi stated that this evidence was wholly false. Mr. Hall said it was perfectly ridiculous to suppose that any gentleman of common - propriety would make such a false charge against a cabman ; and the witness, in making out a case for the defendant, had even gone further than the cabman himself, who did not say that Mr. Panizzi refused to take a ticket. Besides, the de fendant. was liable to a penalty of 40s. for smoking at all while on duty. The cabman was fined 30s. for the two offences and costs, or 21 days. WORSHIP-STREET.—Michael Regan, an athletic bricklayer's labourer, was brought up on remand before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with having assaulted and wounded his wife, whereby her life had been . placed in danger. D'Eynconrt said that it was a most brutal out rage; but as it appeared perfectly manifest that the prisoner would altogether escape punishment, from the affectionate and forgiving feeling which was now di:4- played towards him by his unfortunate wife, if he sent . him before a jury, as he had originally intended, he should deal summarily with the case, and sentence him to six months' hard labour in the House of Correction. A donation of IW. 10s. from the Skinners' Company, 51. from C. B. and Co., and 1/. from A. 8., were ! re ceived for the poor-box. CLERKENWELL.—Mr. geor g e Wildbore , proprie tor of .the Ne w I nn , W a lth am C ross, an d the George Inn, Bishop's Stortford, was charged in the police sheet with conveying Richard Medhurst, 13 years of age, away from Old-street, Saint Luke, in a chaise cart on the 31st of October last, and whose body has since been found in a ditch at East Acton, on the 19th of Decem ber last, supposed to have been murdered. The repo . ri of the prisoner's apprehension having been freely circulated the most intense interest was manifested, and the office was besieged at an early hour by persons who were anxious to be present to hear the investiga tion ; and at one o'clock, the hour appointed for the prisoner to be brought from the station-house, the court was excessively crowded. George Medhurst, of No. 11, Slade's-place, Clerken well, said that the deceased, Richa r d Medhurst, was his son. He worked for Mr. Thirtell, hair curler, of Old street, St. Luke. On the evening of the 31st of October last, at about ten minutes to seven o'clock he left his work with a boy named Jackson, and he never saw him afterwards until he saw him dead at East Acton, eight weeks ago._ George Jackson, an intellgent boy, 13 years of age, sworn, said he lived at No. 38, Allen-street, Clerken well. On the evening of the 31st of October, at ten minutes before seven o'clock, he was walking with Richard Medhurst, the deceased, in Old-street, when the prisoner came up to him and said, " Will yon mind my horse ?" He said, " Yes, sir." The de ceased said, " Don't take him, take me." They fol lowed the prisoner until they came to a horse and chaise cart, worked with cane at the back. Witness wanted to go, but the gentleman said one would do. A boy was then bolding the horse. The prisoner gave him a penny, saying he would be that way again on the following day. By Mr. Corrie—l have seen a chaise, and I think it is the same. I saw it where the gentleman keeps his horses. By Mr. Hawkins—l saw a dog-cart_ first, and thought that very like it. I saw afterwards the chaise cart, which was most like the one I saw in Old -street. Never saw the gentleman before that night. Did not notice whether he bore bushy whiskers or mustachios. He was a full-faced man, with a broad-brimmed hat and low crown. Could not say whether it was a Quaker's hat or a wide-awake. He had shiny boots and trousers. Witness told his father that he should know the man again. When Medhurst got into the chaise -cart the gentleman drove away towards Shoreditch. It was a dark night. John Sleigh left work with the last witness and Richard Medhurst. Saw the gentleman drive off with him in the cart towards Shoreditch. Mr. Cortie—Do you think you should know the man f Witness—Yes, Sir. Mr. Corrie —Then look about and see if he is here. Witness (pointing at the prisoner)—That is the man. The witngss contradicted himself in several material • points. Sergeant John Gunn, 8 G, said that from information he had received he went with the boy Jackson to Bishop Stortford. When they arrived there they entered a public house, where he left the boy, and he proceeded with another man to the George Inn, kept by the prisoner. He afterwards sent the man for Jack son. The prisoner came into the parlour. Witness said to him, "There has been a boy named Medhurst taken away from Old-street, in London, by a man with a horse and chaise ; the body has since been found dead at East Acton, and this boy says you are the man that took him away." The prisoner looked hard at the boy, and the boy at him, and he said, "Yes, you are the man." Witness said we will search your pre mises to see if you have a horse and chaise cart. The prisoner called to a man in the yard to open the coach house, and they found a dog-cart and a ch a i se car t. Jackson said thl dog-cart was most like the one the pri soner had on the evening alluded to, but he would not say which. The prisoner said he had not been to Lon don with the dog-cart for 6 months. Witness told him he must come to London with him. He sent for his solicitor. The prisoner then put on hisgreat coat, when Jackson said that it was the coat he wore on the day he took Medhurst away. From inquiries since made by witness be had no doubt he would be enabled to pro duce evidence against the prisoner if he was remanded. Mr. Hawkins submitted that .there was not sufficient evidence to justify a remand. Mr. Combe had a private interview with Mr. Super intendent Martin and Sergeant Gun with reference to the inquiries made, and on his return he said it was a case for further inquiry, and he remanded the prisoner. Mr. Hawkins applied for bail to be taken, but it was declined. SITTINGS FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES.—It is Shown by the interesting census tables just published, that in England and Wales there is only accommodation for 10,398,013 persons to be present at one time, and there is wanted an additional accommodation supply of 1,644,734 sittings. 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T E V E 0 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1854. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - MALTA, JAN. 2 The screw steam-frigate Agamemnon and the line-of battle ships Queen and London have reached the ancho'rage of the English fleet at Beycos. The A rethusa frigate is shortly expected here on her way to England. On Saturday last the court-martial, of which Lieut.- Colonel Adams was president, was dissolved. Captain Eyre, 47th Regiment, who was tried before it on charges of fraudulently appropriating several sums, has been under arrest ever since (nearly five mouths), without 'Laming; his sentence, which has but recently been sent out. He is sentenced to seven years' transportation, and has been removed to the Corradino Gaol, prior to being sent to England. Lord Hamilton Chichester, who had been a great suf ferer for many years,. expired at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence at the Pieta. His Lordship leaves a widow, but no children. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9. The Simoom, 18, iron troop-ship, Captain Kingcome, from the Cape of Good Hope, will come into harbour to morrow morning to land the lit battalion of the Rifle Brigade, Lieutenant Calvert Buller, who will proceed hence by the South Coast Railway to quarters at Dover. The detachment of Royal Artillery will also land here and proceed to Woolwich. The Simoom is not in a very sea-worthy state. SHEERNESS, JAS. 7. The Medea, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander Augustus Phillimore, from Portsmouth, made her number at the Nore yesterday at 1 p.m., and was signalled from the Waterloo flag-ship when she made for this harbour. She came to an anchor off the yard on the west shore at 1.45 p.m., where she will await orders for being taken into the fitting basin and afterwards docked in No. 3 dock for survey of damage, defects, &c. A court-martial is ordered to take place on board the Waterloo flag-ship, 121 gone, Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, on Monday next, on certain officers of this sloop, in consequence of her having been on shore off Lowes toft. The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Master Comman der John Be lam, arrived here from Chatham at 7 p.m. this day. She leaves here to-morrow, at 9.30 a.m., di rect from Pembroke-yard, laden - with timber, &c., for the new Royal yacht, Windsor Castle, to be built at that yard. - The meeting of the School Committee is to take place on Wednesday next, at the Captain-Superintendent's levee-room, for the purpose of recommending to the Admiralty a number of boys (after examination) to be entered as apprentices in the yard here. The Captain- Superintendent Charles Hope sits as presidept of the committee ; Mr. Richard Crockford,*schoolmaster of the dockyard school for apprentices, officiates in his capacity under the directions of the committee. The mode of entry at present adopted by the Admiralty is as follows : The committee recommend as many boys as their lord ships direct to be examined. The first half from the top, of the list are ordered by the Admiralty to be en tered ; the remainder are selected by the Admiralty, preference being given to the sons of the most deserving officers, artificers, and labourers belonging to the yard, such recommendations emanating from the respective officers of the yard. The barque Don, of Newcastle, William Tillock master, from London for Newcastle, has put in here with loss of an anchor and part of chain cablel(parted from at the Nore), and with her best bower anchor stock broken, She has been supplied with a new stock from her Ma jesty's dockyard here, on an application made to the Ca,ptairt-Superintendent Charles Hope, R.N. JAN. 8 The Wildfire paddle-wheel steam-tender to Waterloo, Second. Master (additional) George Brockman in com mand, arrived here this day, at noon, from Dover. The Rhadalnanthus left here at 9.30 a.m, this day for Pembroke. WOOLWICH, J.N. 9. APPOINTMENTS. Commander E. D'O. D'A. Aplin (1853), recently pro moted, after having served as flag-lieutenant to Rear-Ad miral Henry Prescott, C. 8., of the Neptune, 120, guard ship of ordinary at Portsmouth, and subsequently as flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, K.C.8., of the Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth, is ap pointed to study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard. Clerks.—George J. D. Andrews (1849), recently serv ing in the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, under Com modore Henry Eden, to the Euryalus, 50, screw steam frigate, at Chatham ; Henry C. Pool, to the, Fisgard ; W. Horniman, to the Ho gue , 60, screw steam-guard ship, at Devonport; J. N. M'Avoy (1853), to the Pique, 40, at Devonport. The Banshee steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Reynolds, left Woolwich this morning fit Greenhithe, where she will have her compasses adjusted and then proceed round to Portsmouth to embark Captain Brock, R.N., and several officers of the Royal Engineers, for a passage to Constantinople. The Black Eagle, Master-Commander Petley, was taken into the west dock to-day to have her bOttom ex amined, having been on the sand near the Nore for a short time, on her return from Grimsby, where she had been in attendance on Sir James Graham during his inspection of that part of the coast, to ascertain its capa bilities as a station for a North Sea fleet. A number of remarkably healthy and apparently suit able young men from various parts of the country have daily offered to enter the naval service at this port, but, unfortunately, only a few could be entered, as the far greater number were under the stipulated height, 5 feet 7 inches. There surely must have been some error in these figures, as the Royal Artillery or Royal Marine corps would not reject young growing lads of less height ; and when it becomes known that plenty of healthy young, well-built men are ready to serve her Majesty afloat if they are accepted when nearly the required height, the Lords of the Admiralty will reduce the height for sailors t 0.5 feet 5 or 6-inches, or give a dis cretion to the officers whose duty it may be to enter men to secure the service of all who appear in other respects eligible, until the required number is obtained. made acquainted with the terms and conditions of the contract. The contractor is bound that he will not at any time or t:imes"during the continuance of his contract transfer or assign the same or any part, share, or interest therein, without the authority and approbation of the Commis sioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being, and be under strict stipulations laid down by their Lordships in the terms of the contract ; and, for the security of the terms being strictly complied with, the contractor and his two sureties shall be bound in the sum of 1,5001. These regulations, as regards the supply of meat, both at sea and in harbour, are spoken of by officers and men in very high terms, as they will have the effect of insur ing to every officer and every mess a full allowance of meat, the quality of which will be secured to them by the stringent terms of the contract and Admiralty in structions, being fairly carried out by the surveying offi cers so appointed to execute that duty. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY. Several members who bad been absent during the last three or four weeks were induced by the d e p ar t ure o f the frost, and the publication of the entries for the Spring Handicaps, to' renew their attendance at " The Corner." There was consequently a more business-like air about the place than it had presented for some time past ; the transactions aotually were, however, com paratively few. CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 30 was taken about Virago, and other investments would have been made afterwards, had the same odds been obtainable ; 3,000 to 60 was taken about Aldford (late Friday) ; 6,000 to 90 about Catspaw ; 3,000 to 45 Duchess of Lorraine colt • 1,000 to 15 and 1,000 to 20 Typee ; and 1,000 tc) 10 Rattle. THE DERBY.-8 to 2 offered agst Scott's lot; sto 1 and 1,200 to 200 taken about Autocrat ; 450 to 50 King Tom ; 3,000 to 100 Acrobat ; 1,000 to 30 Andover : 500 to 10 Old Noll ; 2,000 to 25 and 1,000 to 10 about Dr. O'Toole ; 1,000 to 10, twice, The Early Bird ; and 1 000 to 10 Marble Hill. OAKS.-200 to 50 agst Meteora, and 400 to 50 agst Omoo. Closing prices : LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 7 agst Mr. Bignell's Half-and-Half (taken). 25 to 1 agst Mr. Briscoe's The Colonel (taken). CHESTER CIIP. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Virago (taken 33 to 1 freely). 50 to 1 agst Mr. Parker's Aldford (late Friday) (taken). 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Typee (taken). 66 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Catspaw (taken). 66 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Duchess of Lorraine colt (taken). 100 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Rattle (taken). DERBY. 9to 2 agst Scott's lot. 6to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat (taken). 9to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's King Tom (taken). 30 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Acrobat (taken). 30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Andover (taken). 50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Smith's Old Noll (taken). 1000 to 10 agst Mr. H. Hill's Dr. O'Toole (taken). 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Copperthwaite's The Early Bird (taken). 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Knowles's Marble Hill (taken). 900 to 100 agst Dervish and Ruby (taken). 900 to 100 agst Dervish and Acrobat (taken). OAKS. 4to 1 agrqt Lord Derby's Meteora (taken). 8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Omoo (taken). THE TRAITER.—In addition to the bet of 2,000 to 20 laid against this horse for the Derby on Thursday last, 3,000 to 30 was laid. The bet was altogether 5,000 to 50. It is a moot point whether he is in training. TEIE RACING OALENDAR.—The following announce. ment appears in No. 11. of the Sheet Calendar, pub lished yesterday. " Addenda and Errata in No. 1. : " To the nominations for the Newmarket Handicap add Mr. B. Way's Brocket, 4 yrs, and Mr B. Way's President, 3 yrs. " Ersom.—To the Metropolitan and Suburban Stakes add Mr. W. Ashton's ch g England's Glory, 6 yrs. " Nonr HAMPTON. —ln the nominations for the Great Northamptonshire Handicap Mr. V. Kingston na b m May-day, 6 yrs,' not Dear Polly ;' and Lord Hope town na Chief Justice, aged,' should have been omitted. For Mr. Elwes na Eugenia,' read na Erycina.' In the Altho'rp Park Stakes, for Charlton Boy,' read Cballon Boy.'" LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, MARCH 1. - The following is a complete list of the entries for the Ga.k.ND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. Weights to be pub lished in due time. Forfeits to be declared on or before the ith of February :-- Age Lord Sefton's bl g, by Faugh:a-Ballagh b) 6 Mr: T, Mason's Miss Mow bray Mr. T. Mason's Oscar a Captain Little na Peter Simple Mr. Bignell's Half-and- Half Mr. J. Doyle's Lobster (h b) a Mr. Balfe s :Daphne 6 Mr. J. Williams s Kilcinskle 6 Mr. J. Willi ams's La Gazza a Ao• Mr. Jacobs's Frederick 0 Mr. Percival's Mountain Maid Mr. Choyce's Spring Mr. Atkinson's Clansman. 5 Mr. Osborne's Abd-el- . Kader a Mr. Moseley's Vainhope a Mr. Moseley's Bourton Mr. Moseley's Trout a Mr. H. Lane's Napoleon II 5 Mr. Thompson's Chester a Mr. Slater's Burnt Sienna a Mr. Jones's b g by Algar, dam by Wanderer Mr. C. Boyce's Victress Mr. Briscoe's The Colonel a Mr. C. Higgins's Maria Day a Mr. C. Higgins's Old Rake a Mr. C. Higgins's Simplo Peter Mr. C. Higgins's Forest Lad a Mr. Lawson's Poney Mr. Delamane's Lady Ar thur Lord Waterford's Lord Ladra Mr. Mundy's Everton Mr. Tilbury's Tomboy a Mr. G. Morris's Tom of Tuam Mr. Magill's The Prince a Mr. Hen& er son's Labyrinth 6 Mr. Lansb.a vr naComeaway 6 Mr. Cotg re aye's Crabbs a Mr. Berm %,r d's Beware (h b) 6 Mr. Ellis'a Jumpaway (late Quickstep 6 Capt, Nevrtnan's Columbine 6 Mr. Linen's Peter a Mr. W. Bar nett's Sir Peter Laurie Mr. Wilfitt's Robin Hood a Mr. J. Brown's Calmar Mr. Littled ale's Squire of Malton Mr. Barry'*3 Geraldus a Mr. James's Bullfincher a Mr. Jameeli Maurice Daley a Mr. Olivef's Pride of the North . Mr. Blood's Luck-all Mr. Blood'e Star of Eng land NomirtArloNs for the LIVER to be pubhshei • Age Kilquade (late Third of Cabin 80y...... May . A The Cripple Ulster Lurley The Medal, by Pantaloon 3 Charity Andromache 3 Dove Cleveland Antonia Lancashire Lass The Speaker, by Gabbier 3 Colsterdale Escape The Event 5 St. Clair 3 NEWTON SPRING MEETING, FEB. 1. NOMINATIONS for the NEWTON SPRING STEEPLECHASE. George Lord Waterford`g Sir John a Lord Waterford The Mar- quis 6 Lord Waterford's Cockcrow 6 Mr. Symonds's Nugget Mr. Bevill's Garforth Mr. Southwood's Dodger (h b) Mr. Barling's Bedford (11 b) a Mr. Henry's Little Charley a Mr. A. Sait's Timothy a Mr. Henderson's Maley Captain Rhys's Royalty LPOOL SPRING Cur. Weights d in due time. Age About three miles. Age. 6 Oscar__ 6 Miss Purdon a Labyrinth 6 6 Tomboy 6 Napoleon II a Sarah Chester Burnt Sienna a Peter a The Old Rake a The Farmer (h 1)) a The Linnet (h b)... The Duchess Lady Longsight 6 A. Y The Facetious Cove (h b) 4 6 Daphn e ._ Madeline . Crabbs...... Comeway . Columbirre Royal Bitie Luke the Labourer Mina Calmar Maid of the West The D warlZ. Tulip Friendlegs Abri-el-Ka der a British Ye oman a BI g by Faugh-a-Ballagh (h a a RACING FIXTURES FOR 1854. The Jockey Club having determined to commence their season on Easter Monday (April 17), the princi pal meetings—supposing the usual arrangements are ob served— will stand as under. Should the stewards, in any instance, determine to vary the fixture, it will be advisable, as a guide to others, to give us immediate notice : FEBRUARY. Newton Spring I Derby Spring 8 Nottingham Spring 21 MARCH. Liverpool. Spring 1 Warwick Spring 21 Doncaster Spring 7 Catterick 27 Salisbury Coventry Spring l4 Abergavenny 30 APRIL. Croxton Park 4 Catterick Bridge 19 Epsotn Spring 6 Abergavenny 2O Cheltenham Spring 12 York spring 25 Newmarket Craven 17 Malton 27 MAY. Newmarket F S Chester Sp ring 9 1 Lewes l9 Lothians & Edinburgh...ll Bath 23 Newmarket S S l6 I Liverpool Hunt Sp r i ng ..24 Shrewsbury lB Epsom 30 JUNE. Manchester Ascot Heath 13 Stockbridge 29 Newcastle-on-Tyne 2O Ludlow 30 Hampton 2l Winchester 3O Carlisle 26 -- JULY. • NewmarktA 4 Worcester . 4 Lancaster 6 Mansfield _... Liverpool • Ipswich ... 12 13 AU( Brighton Brighton C lub. Wolverhani pton Yarmouth 8 Reading Odiham North Staff; )rdshire 9 Wolverhami •ton l4 SEPT: Warrick Lichfield Western Me eting 7 Rochester an d Chatham 7 Doncaster l2 Pontefract lB OCT( Chester Aut t t m n 3 YorkshireUni ionllunt 5 Wrexham . Newmarket .5. 3 0 9 Stourbridge l7 Stamford 18 Nottingham 20 Goodwood 25 Ripon 31 NOYE: _..._ . Epsom Auturq a „....... 2 PROVISIONS ISSUED IN THE NAVY. Many complaints having been made by various ships' companies regarding the quantity of meat they receive daily from the coppers, including bones, for the supply of their respective messes being' insufficient for such messes, the present Admiralty regulations now provide that the salt beef and pork provided for her Majesty's ships are always to be, the former in 81b. pieces and the latter in 41b, pieces, and no unusual parts, such as leg bones, shins of oxen, ox heads, cheeks of hogs, &c., are ever allowed to be put up with the meat. Should the pieces, however, prove short of weight, the deficiency is to be made good, as directed in article 88, --namely, if, on opening a cask of salt beef or pork for expenditure, it should be found short of the proper num ber of pieces, but evidently deficient in weight, the paymaster is to apply to the captain for an circler to sur vey all the casks of salt meat of the Caine supply that may be remaining on board, as they become opened for expenditure; and the whole of that supply which may subsequently become issued is to be served out to the crew according to the actual weight of meat found in each cask ; and further, that in the event of a complaint being made by any of the officers or ship's company that the salt meat supplied to them has, from its age or from any inferiority of quality, lost in boiling more than one half of its original weight, the captain will order inquiry to be made by the surveying officers of the ship into the circumstances, and whether the meat has been properly cut up and cooked ; and if it shall be proved to their sa tisfaction that the daily allowance to the officers or the ship's company, or the portion supplied to any particular mess, has fairly lost by boiling more than one half of the original weight of the meat when put into the coppers, the captain will, should he consider an extra allowance necessary, direct the paymaster to issue an additional quantity of raw meat of the same species equal to half the original allowance complained of, placing his initials in the proper column of the statement, form No. 8, as an authority for the total extra issue on that day. In case of the surveying officers having any difficulty in deciding on the claims for such extra issue, a fair se lection of pieces of the meat are to be weighed before being put into the coppers and also after being cooked. And it is further provided that not any provisions or stores in the paymaster's charge are to be issued on shore or taken out of the ship, for any other purpose than for victualling portions of the crew when absent on duty or on other public account, and are never in any way to be deemed to have become private property; and, further, as regards the supply of fresh beef, by the terms of the present contract for this ,port (that is to say, between Gillingham, in the river Medway, and the Great Nore), it is stipulated that all the beef that shall be demanded for the use of her Majesty's ships shall be delivered in kind within 24 hours after each respective demand being made ; that not money or other considerations shall be paid or given in lieu thereof; that all the beef that shall be supplied under the contract shall be good, fat, well fed ox or heifer beef, in all respects fit for her Majesty's service ' • the whole of the beef from time to ti me de manded and supplied to be such as the commandingoffi cer of any of her Majesty's ships, vessels, or hired trans ports shall approve as in all regsects fit for her Majesty's service, otherwise the said officers, or any or either of them, shall be at liberty to reject the same, and that the cattle from which the beef is to be produced shall be slaughtered at Sheerness, and that no part of such beef shall be the flesh of any bull, bull stag, or cow, or any heifer exceeding four years old, or of any beast what ever that shall have dropped on the road ; nor shall any beast or cattle of any such prohibited descriptions be brought to the premises of the said contractor or his agent to be slaughtered for her Majesty's service ; and to provide against the same it is expressly declared and agreed by and between the parties so contracting that the bringing of any such beast to the premises for slaughter , as aforesaid, or the supply or tender of any beef that shall be found on examination to be unfit for her Majesty's service, or contrary to the terms of the con tract, shall be deemed a breach thereof, and the said contractor shall pay to her Majesty the sum of 101. for every beast which may not be of the said descrip tions • and also a further payment of 2s. f or ever y roun d of beef of unfit quality supplied or tendered as aforesaid, which hall be paid in addition to any excess of cost, should the beef be elsewhere purchased, as provided for in the contract. The contract imperatively directs that the contractor , 1 or his agent shall exhibit a copy of the contract to the commander-in•chief or senior officer• for the time being,' and to the captains or commanding-officers, and to the paymasters of such of her Majesty's ships and vessels, and also to the agents for transports and masters of such transports, as from time to time he or arrive within the limits to which the contract extends, in order that they may respectively know such contractor, and be UST. Egham York . , Hereford - 24 Eccles 2B Chelmsford og Derby 29 Plymouth 30 Lincoln 31 MBER. Bedford 19 Leicester 2O Manchester Autumn 2l Lanark ... .25 Newmarket F 0 26 Northallerton 2B ,BER. Warwick Autum n l7 Caledonian Hunt 17 Newmarket H 23 Worcester Autumn 31 vIBER. Cowbridge Hunt 9. PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE LAW COURTS. A serious proposition has at length been made for the removal of the law courts from Westminster Hall to a more permanent and central situation. The site pro posed is the most central in London, and is in the very midst of the offices of lawyers of all denominations. This site lies between the Strand on the south, Carey-street on the north, Chancery-lane on the east, and Clernent's inn and New-inn on the west. The proposed space occupies about 74 acres, and is at present occupied by lanes and bye-streets, which contain some of the choicest abominations in London. The front would be towards the Strand, the back, naturally, in Carey-street, and these would form the shorter sides of a parallelogram. It is proposed by Sir Charles Barry that the building shall be in the Tudor style, and that it should be of so decorative a kind as to be an ornament to this part of the town. As may be seen by a glance at a map of London, this position is in the very centre of the inns of court—Lincoln's-inn, the two Temples, Gray's-inn, the Rolls-house, the Incorporated Law Society, and all the minor inns are in close proximity to it. It is pro posed to defray the expense from the Accumulation Fund of the Suitors in Chancery. As it is represented, this money can be applied without any injury to the actual suitors. In point of fact, from the year 1774 downwards, from time to time, money has been taken from the same fund for similar purposes, as the erection Of the Six Clerks' offices, Masters' offices, the offices of the Examiners, and other Chancery offices in the Rolls yard. Acts of Parliament are quoted under which these appropriations have been made, and the authority of the late Lord Langdale is relied upon for similar applica tions of the fund. The ultimate cost of the site and buildings is estimated at 673,5741. The amount of the stock and securities in the Court of Chancery is about 46,000,0001.; the annual payments in and out of court, 7,000,0001.; the cash balance in the Bank of England, 250,0001.; the amount of suitors' cash in court, includ ing the balance, 2,500,0001. The " Surplus Cash Fund" or "Accumulation Fund" is said to amount to 1,241,1881. stock, and this is the source from which the money is to be derived for the new building. We can have no doubt as to the advantage of the scheme in every way, if it does not halt upon the fiscal foot. THE DEEP SEA FISHING IN SCOTLAND. A few weeks ago we gave an account of the launch, at Granton, of the Enterprise, the first steam-vessel constructed for the Deep Sea Fishing Association of Scotland, by the Messrs. Ruthven, of Edinburgh, with their patented improvements in propelling and navigat ing. We have now to report, that though subject to the drawbacks consequent upon the trial of a new in vention for propelling steamboats without the use of screw or paddle, this vessel, in her experimental trips made last week, attained a speed of upwards of eleven miles an hour, although the association contracted for ten only. The vessel will shortly proceed upon a fishing cruise, when the efficiency of the invention, and her adaptation to fishing purposes, will be fully tested ; but, meanwhile, a brief account of its more important features, so far as they can be understood without diagrams, may not be without interest. From time to time, during the last year or two, the merits of the invention have, by means of models of varying magnitude, been brought before the public. The practicability of applying the principle to steam propulsion and naviga tion being ascertained by these successive experiments, it was, from its apparent advantages, adopted by the promoters of the Deep Sea Fishing Association. The dimensions of the Enterprise, as we formerly stated, are 100 feet in length, and 16 feet beam ; her tonnage being 100, and her engines 30 horde-power. Externally her light and graceful lines are not injured by any cumber some machinery—the only outward agent of propulsion being a s!iort curved pipe of 10 inches diameter on each side of the vessel, termed " nozies," which commu nicate with a horizontal water-tight iron case in side in the bottom of the vessel, to which the water is admitted by apertures under it ; and in this case is placed a wheel, fixed on a double crank shaft, which, heing attached by piston rods to the steam-engine, is made to revolve with some velocity. The water in the case is rapidly expelled by the circular motion, and, being discharged by the nozles, forms the propelling power. Independent of its scientific and practical value, the ab sence of any visible agency of propulsion is not the least interesting feature of the invention. The nozles, however, also form the chief means of navigating the vessel, being suspended so as to turn her, by a simple movement of the hand, in any direction. Thus, when pointed hori zontally towards the stern, the vessel goes forward ; if to the bows she goes astern ; and, when turned in a perpendicular direction, she stops almost at once, al though, during all these movements, the engine may be working with full power. Indeed, the remarkable facility by which these operations—usually so difficult in vessels of the common construction—are effected, without interfering with the engine, seems to render the invention invaluable in cases of apparent danger or collision. In the trial ships this feature was fully tested, and with the most gratifying result. Among the advantages claimed for the invention may be enumerated high rate of speed combined with saving of fuel. The sail ing qualities of the ship being preserved, the canvas may be used, or with the full power of the engine, though the principle can be adapted to any speed that steam is calcula ted to produce. The vessel is also free from the usual vi bration and noise of steam-vessels ; while the apparatus for propulsion is quite safe from external injury. The engine being of limited dimensions, occupies much less space than others of equal power. The Enterprise is to be schooner-rigged, and will proceed to the fishing ground with boats, and their crews, trawl-nets, and lines. The boats are lowered where it may be considered most de sirable, while the steamer admits of fishing and trawling from her decks, besides affording assistance and the means of safety at all times to the fishermen. The deep sea fishing scheme, in the success of which the commu nity generally has so small interest—will, therefore, soon be in active operation. The inventors consider that, valuable as the principle of the invention may be for fi s hing purposes, it is equally valuable to our steam navy and to ocean and passenger vessels, while they expect it to remove the chief difficulty of steam navigation on canals.—Edinburgh, Courant. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Ate. ... ~, SHOREHAM, Jan. B.—The Galatea, from Guernsey for London, is on shore to the eastward of tho harbour ' • should the weather mo d era t e , s h e will not receive much damage. SHIELDS, Jan. 9.—The Aurora (barque), from Sunder land to Hull, th e G eorge M`Ki nn , a nd the Armida (brig), of Stettin, are on shore on tho sands here. The Victoria, of and for Wexford, from Liverp oo l , was lost on Rogeratown bar the morning of Jan s—crew5 —crew saved. The Jane and Mary Anne, of Cork, carried away her mainmast and head of foremast, &c., off Padstone, Jan. 3, and was towed into Clandon harbour. The Champion, of Quebec, was spoken Dec. IR, lat. 49, long. 59 W., with loss of maintopmast, and making water. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. An English ship, No. 2,503, 2d distinguishing pendant, Dec. 18, lat. 40 N., long. 17 W. The George, of Liverpool, from coast of Africa, lost sails, &c., four hands sick, and sh or t o f water and provisions— eneavouring to supply, but was unable, 2lth, lat. 46 N., long. 15 W. The Pacific (s), from Liverpool to New York, Dec. 25. The Isabella, Blyth, from London to Swan River, Nov. 29, lat 3 N., long. 21 W. The Nora Cream, from Liverpool to St. John's, Doc. 12, lat. 46 N., long. 47 W. The Ava, from Quebec to Chatham, out 55 days. The Aunt Mary, from Bombay to London, Sept. 9, lat. 28 S., long. 38 E. The Elm Grove, for Algea Bay, Nov. 17, lat. 5 N., long. 20 W. The Nottingham, outward bound, Nov. 21, lat, 19 N. long. 25 W. , The Palmyra, Jan. 2, lat. 11 N., 26 W. The Try (ship), Dec. 27, lat. 48 N., long. 14 W. The Roehampton, from Mauritius to London, Dec. 15, let. 40 N. The Apollin, from Liverpool to Alexandria, Dec. 17, lat. 36 N., long. 74 N. The Edward, from Laguna to Queenstown Dec. 2, off Double headed Shot Keys Sea. The Sea Queen, from Singapore to the northward, lat. 38 N., long 37. The Elizabeth Bruce, Liverpool to Mobile, Dec. 17, let. 26, long. 27. The Peruvian, from Valparaiso to London, Jan. 4, eight miles west of Scilly. The Sultana, from Falmouth to Adelaide, Nov. 15, lat. 15 N., long. 37 W. • The Alexandria, bound to the Mauritius, Nov. 5, lat. 29 S., lon , . 23 W. The Pilot, from Dundee to Melbourne, Dec. 24, lat. 7 N., long. 23 W. MERCHANT SEAMEN.—The Lords of the Admiralty have exercised the powers given to them by the 13 and 14 Vict., chap. 93, to dispense with so much of the Act 7 and 8 Vict., chap. 112, as relates to the system of rAaisdwrinrr saa.mian -C -1- NOTICE TO MARINERS. Notice has been given that the Lighthouse on ;Cape Ma chechaco has been relighted. The Spanish Government has given notice that the new lighthouse on the Isle Pyana, or Tabarea, on the coast of Valencia, cannot be lighted at the time originally fixed. CUSTOM HOUSE, JAN. 9. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Thea, from Gravelines ; Lion, New Dieppe ; Steghound, Denia ; Twe Gekusters, Noord wyz ; Queen of the Chase, St. Michaels ; Re nova ti o , Ter ceira ; Ipswich Lass, St. Michaels ; Clipper, Messina ; Electric Flash, St. Michaels ; Amelie, Rouen ; Egham, Cadiz ; Jane, Terceira ; Alfred, Terceira ; Princess Royal, Oporto ; Matilda, New York ; Active, Caen ; Adolph, Odense ; Arno, Messina ; Slater Rebow, St. Michaels ; Sorciere, St. Michaels; James Moran, Quebec; Countess of Leicester, Sydney ; Martha, Oporto ; Araminta, Callao ; Cruizer, Monlmein ; Louisa Maria, Philadelphia ; Jane, Caen ; Lisbon, St. John's, N.B. ; Nancy Dawson, St. Michaels ; Devonshire, New York ; Felix, Gothenburg ; Furst, Gravelines; Bellona, Oran; Sharen, St. John's,N.B.; Charles Sprague, New York; Tiber, Berlia ; Prometheus, Cadiz; Eclipse, Shanghai ; Recovery, Marsala ; Argus, Ter ceira.; Rapid, New York; Robert Stephenson, Algoa Bay : Amazon, Madras and Collingapatam ; Edith, Prince Edward's Island; Walter Hood, Syd ney; T r i ton, Oporto; Limeburg, New York. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Queen, New Dieppe; Royal Alice, Sydney; Devonshire, New York. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO --The Velocity. Port Philip ; Paragon, Trinidad ; Caroline, Stettin. MALTA, Jan. 2.—The Lewess Lass, from Newcastle, ar rived here yesterday, reports that she came into collision with a wreck, bottom upwards, Dec. 13, in lat. 48 N., long. 7 W., which took the larboard anchor off the bows, and must have done considerable damage to the bottom, as she has kept the p um p s cons t ant l y going the whole voyage. BERWICK, Jan. G.— The Ellen brig, of Whitby, for Lon don, in taking Holy Island harbour, with seven feet water in her hold, struck on the bar, drove over on the Parting Steel, where she filled with the tide, and is not likely to come off ; crew saved. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the sth inst., at Dunehurch, Warwickshire, the of Frank Somerville Head, Esq. On the 6th inst., at 1, Henman-terrace, Prince of Wale" road, Haverstock-hill, the wife of J. Worthington Maude, OF A DAUGHTER. On the sth inst., the wifo of Captain Sherston, 6tl Dragoon Guards. On the 6th inst., at 5, Montpellier-villas, Brighton, 0 0 of wife Robert Bayly, Esq. T I TA" THE ARMY IN INDIA. GENERAL ORDERS BY THE MOST NOBLE THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. "Fort William, Oct. 28, 1853. " The Most Noble the Governor-General of India in Council, having had under consideration the improve ment of the rations supplied by the Commissariat De partment to European troops, is pleased to direct, the following rules, to take effect as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made by the Commissariat Depart ment : "1. The Government General Orders Nos. 80 and 87 of the 6th of February, 1852, are hereby cancelled, and the daily ration of a European shall in future consist of 11b. of bread, ,11b. of meat, 4oz. of rice, 2ioz. of sugar, 5.7 th oz. of tea, loz. of salt, Boz. of vegetables, and 31b. of firewood. " 2. -The meat will be cut up into joints, and such por tions of the animal (such as the ribs and upper joints of the forelegs) as are more than two-thirds bone will be excluded from the ration. "3. The rations of vegetables will consist of such de scriptions as may be procurable at the several stations of the army during the different seasons of the year. "4. The following rules contained in Government Gene ral Order No. 232, of the 9th of August, 1843, will con tinue in force :—The bread issued in the rations of a soldier is to be of the best quality, and equal to that pto vided.for hospital diet. Mutton will be issued twice a week in lieu of beef and in the same quantity, whenever circumstances may admit. Coffee may be substituted for tea in the proportion of 21b. of the former to 11b. of the latter, whenever tea is not procurable or coffee may be preferred and is at hand. " 5. The ordinary tea ration will consist of one•third of green and two-thirds of black tea, whenever circum stances may admit of the issue of both kinds. "6. The Government General Order No. 85 of the 25th of February, 1848, is cancelled, and the following course is in future to be pursued with respect to all de scriptions of provisions tendered by the Commissariat or its contractors for the use of the soldier in health or in sickness. " 7. Whenever any portion of the rations or diet tendered for a corps or hospital is deemed objectionable, the option of changing them is not to be/allowed to the contractor, but the commanding officer should imme diately assemble a regimental committee for the pur pose of inspecting them. " 8. The committee will be composed of a field-officer or captain as president, with an officer commanding a troop or company, and a medical officer as members. " 9. - The decision of the regimental committee shall be final, and their report shoulil be at once forwarded for the guidance of the executive Commissariat officer at the station. 10 In all cases of condemnation of provisions, the '6omi . nittee reports should show whether the a rti c l es ar e :cloerneaLoCinferior quality only, or decidedly unwhole some ; and' when pronounced positively unw h o l esome the provisions - are - instantly to be destroyed in the pre sence of the committee. " 11. Except in the instances hereafter specified when provisions have been condemned as of inferior quality, the contractor will be allowed to substitute fresh rations, and, in the event of his failing to do so within a reason able time, the Commissariat officer will supply the deficiency at the cost of the contractor. " 12. In cases of the condemnation of meat, the cost to the Government of the rejected rations (which, if not abiolutely .unwholesome, will be returned to the con tractor), together with the amount of the fine that may be levied upon the contractor, will be paid by the Com missariat to the regiment, and expended, under the direc tion of the officers commanding troops and companies, in the purchase of food. "13. In the event of the rejection of bread, and a fresh supply not being immediately procurable, flour or soojee, at the option of the soldier, will be issued as an equivalent, with a supply of firewood, at the cost of the contraotor, to whom the rejected bread, if not unwhole some, will be returned ; 21b. of flour or soojee and 11b. of firewood to be the allowance of each man. "14. Under the operation of these rules it will de pend solely and entirely upon regimental committees to raise the quality or the rations issued to the proper stan dard, and to maintain that standard. " 15. The executive Commissariat officers of divisions have been directed by the Commissary-General to make a report periodically to their departmental superiors of their having at uncertain intervals personally attended the issue of rations ; and his Excellency the Commander in-Chief will be requested to cause similar reports to be made to the military authorities by officers commanding regiments, impressing upon them at the same time that it is only by the commissioned officers of , regiments being themselves particular in examining rations, and forming their own judgment as to the quality o f the articles, without the intervention of subordinate officials, whether regimental or departmental, that the object of Government for the supply of really good provisions can be secured. " 16. This order is to be considered applicable to the ,hree presidencies." RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 7, 1854 £14,268 17 5 Corresponding week last year. Decrease in 1854 ............ £493 18 2 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 7, 1854 .... ....... . . ... . £8,094 1 0 8 Corresponding week last year 8,791 4 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 8,094 10 8 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 8,791 4 0 SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 1, 1854 Corresponding week last year... . 2,694 15 4 CORSI AND' BANDON RAILWA Y. —Traffic) return for the week ending Dec. 3L, 1853 Corresponding week last year WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending Dec. 31 (29 ..... £l47 114 1 Corresponding week last year (13 miles) 44 3 10 BREAD RIOT IN DEVONSHERE.—Crediton, which lies about eight miles from Exeter, was on Friday night the scene of the greatest disorder and confusion. The high price of bread and other necessaries has for some time past produced great discontent among the lower classes. The four pound loaf is now Bening at 9d., while all other articles are proportionately dear. The severity of the weather during the past week has increased the suffer ings of the poor ; and that day arrangements were made 'for relieving some of the most deserving. The ordinary number of that class requiring assistance was much augmented by the large number of " navvies " who are engaged in the construction of the North Devon Railway, which is intended to join the Exeter and Cre diton line at this place. Thrm vn out of employ in conse quence of the weather, it wars feared during the after noon .of Friday that a disturbance was likely to take place. Nothing, however, occurred till after dark ; but between seven and eight o'clock a mob consisting of upwards - of .200 men and women, armed with staves and stones, suddenly appeared in the streets. With great noise and disorder they proceeded to the shops of several of the principal bakers, and demanded a sup ply of bread: This was of course refused, where upon missiles were hurled through the windows and the mob helped themselves. In some instances the shopkeepers heard of the approach of the rioters and closed their shutters without any loss of time. This precaution, however, was of little avail. The shutters were beaten in with immense clubs, and the men seemed determined to have all they could lay their hands* upon. In one case, Mr. Lee, a baker, was made acquainted with the riot which was going on, and locked his doors. The mob, on their arrival at his house, peremptorily de manded that they should be opened, and as Mr. Lee re solutely refused, they at once broke open the door, and carried off every loaf in the shqp. The parish constables interfered, but they had little power with so large a body of men. Daring the evening a messenger was despatched to Mr. J. W. Buller, county magistrate, residing a short distance from the town. On his arrival a large number of special constables were seworn in ; but the rioters appeared by that time to have been satisfied with their plunder. Two of the principal offenders were appre hended and brought up this morning before the local magistrates, by whom they were committed for trial. Much alarm has been created among the inhabitants, and it was feared that a similar scene would be re enacted on Saturday, it being market day. In the morn ing a body ofabout fifty "navvies" perambulated through the market, and, after some time, congregated around the stall of a butter-woman. One of the men laid hold of a pound of butter, throwing down a shilling. The woman told him the price was ls. 4d. ; but he coolly remarked that is. was a fair price, and walked off with it. This daring conduct had such an intimidating effect upon the rest of the market-people that they all packed up • their goods, and the market was cleared in a short time. No further outrage; however, has been com mitted. SINGULAR WAY OF BEFRIENDING THE POOR IN BRUSSELS.-111. de Broukere, the burgothaster of Brus sels, who had lately offered, in a letter to the journals, I to give ten sous to the poor for every visiting-card, under a thouAand, which he should be'spared the trouble of re ceiving on New Year's. day, has just addressed the fol lowing second letter to the public press :—" The request which I made to my fellow-citizens through the press has been attended with the result which I had hoped for. I have received only 74 cards, and consequently I will have great pleasure in distributing 463 f. to the poor. I do not reckon in the above number of cards such as were accompanied with gifts for the poor. In that way I have received 979 f. 50c. in money, 5,1004i10g. of coals, 200 kilog. of rice, and 30 kilog. of _bread.'—ifictlignani. COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD-JAN. 6. We had a rather limited supply of heat on offer to•aslr and there being on the part of the millers and factors 2 disposition to purchase somewhat freely, an advance of P to :is per qr. was obtained by the sellers. The best barley experienced an improvement of is per qr. All other kind' firm at last week's quotations. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, old 720 Og to 84s Od, new 72s to 84s ; red, old 58s to 78s, new 61s w 788 ; barley, 31s to 38s ; chevalier, 33s to 448 ; grinding' 24s to 328 ; malt, 618 to 65s ; chevalier, 648 to 70s ; 21s to 28s ; peas, partridge, 41s to 46s ; white, 48s to 5) 0: boiling 56 s t o 62 s ; d un, new, 42 s to 4 5s ; beans, tick, *t" to 42s ; H arrow ti c k s, 38 s t o 44 s ; 3fazagan, 381 to 410. COLCHESTER —JAN. 7. The supply of wheat was again very small, and taken freely at 3s to 4s per qr. over last week's pril Barley in goo d d emand, and very full prices given for descriptions. Beans and peas is per qr. dearer. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 76s to 8. 91 red, 74s to 82 s ; b ar l ey, 40s to 47s ; oats, 26s to 32s ; bed' Mazagan, 40s to 44s ; middle and small, 44a to 60s ; Pe ° white, 60s to 64,s ; grey, 46s to 50s. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., recei in the port of London, from the following ports, f the 2d to the 7th January, both inclusive. • g Colchester Harwich — 560 Leigh !32 70' Mahlon 4lB 202 A 401 74 46 49 262 60 KIRKCALDY—JAN. 7. Here to-day we had fair supplies of all kinds of gil Sales brisk at an advance of 2s to 3s per qr. on wli is to is 6d per qr. on barley, and is to is 6d on oats. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beall o 'l Oil First B 4s Od 4 2s Od I 3ls Od 1 Os Second 29s Od Os I U G Third 58s Od 29 s Od 20s Od Os L''' , Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 40s Od to 41s Od. ' iET.—JA.w. 9. close of the market :- 1 Wallsend, &c. COAL MAR: Prices of Coal per ton at t s. d. Hasting's Hartley 28 0 Tanfield Moor 27 o,Eden Main 35 West Hartley 28 o,Heugh Hall 35 Wylam 26 6 Gwaen Cae Gurwen :) 8 Wallsend, &c. IMorgan's Stone 38 Riddell 35 0 Ships at market l6 I Sold ll, RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has rather improved tone to-day, and prices have slightly recovered their cent depression. MANCHESTER, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been rather flail with a moderate business. East Lancashire, 15i ; Lee' 62 ; Dovers, 17 11.16 ; Caledonians, 26; Rhenish la! p ; Sheffields, 20 ; Midlands, 60 ; Eastern Counties, 13 BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in this market day were confined almost exclusively to sales in I° stocks. LEEDS, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market exhibits no Olt; tom of a chock in its tendency t o d ec li ne i n prices. 'IPA morning again all kinds of sha res h ave rece d ed, and Wei, still hold hack in anticipation of a further fall. The f°, lowing are the latest sales at the first meeting to-dayl 4 Great Northerns, 20 ; North-Westerns 8, , I ; Lancaoj i and Yorkshi r e s 62i ; Bi rm i ng h am an d Rugby Stock, 01 Caledonians, 251. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Poet- 4 by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] Day when m ade up From what COUNTRIES. in General post- . Port Office, London.* Dispatched. America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday America (by United Sts. packet) 15 America (by U States' packet) .... • 17 .. ........ Australia (vla South ampton) ..........M Jan. 20 Ditto (via Marseilles) N Jan. 8.. Ditto (via Cape of (40edI • • ....N Feb. 4 Africa West( Coast) ...Nl?3d of the month .. Alexandria.......... N,s, 0, 24. & 80 of m. Alexandria..........M'4th & 20th of mon. Bahamas ..... 31 , 17 th of the month Belgium ...... • • •• Brazil .. ..M 9th of the mouth.. Buenos Ayres 9th of the month Cape of Good Hone ..N 14th of the month Cape of Good Hope ..N ;14th of the month. Cape de Verde ......N,9th of th e month.. Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ........ ..N Channel Isles .. N Chili .. M China (see India) Constantinople ......N Constantinople ........ cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Gibraltar ...... ....M Greece (see India) Greytown • . M Hamburgh ..........N Havannah .......... M Holland .,M, Honduras India (viaSouthampt.)3l l India (via Marscilles)M lonian Isles (see India)' Ireland 31 & N i Lisbon AI, Madeira ...... Madeira N Malta (see India) Malta ..... • Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month Mexico ... .31,2nd of the m on th . Naples .... ......../i ,s th ls th 2s thofmon. New Granada .. .... 34 & 17th of month New Zealand ;By private ship Papal States ..... . N 15th15th25 t hottnon .1 Peninsula .......... M '.'thl7tti2Bthof tnon. Peru .. • ..M ?d & .47th of mon.' Port Natal 14th of the month! Sicily ..............Nsthlsth2sth o f tnon, ' Tuscany 5 thl s th2sthofmon.l Venezuela & 17th ofmonth Van Diemen's Lan d (see Australia) .. West Indies 2d & 17th o: month Llyerpool Liverpool ISouthampti southam o tt Dover .• •• Liverpool ... Plymouth Dover .. Southampton Soutlia mpton Dover ...... Southai nnuni I Southampton Plymouth Southainpton Plyinouit, 14th of the month Mon.,Wed.,&Frtd. 2d & 17 th of month] Plymouth couthampton Southampton 17,8,17,21,&27 ofm. j4th St 20th of mon. 'Twice daily Dover .. ~.. Southampton Dover ...... !Twice dai1y...... 4,7, 17, 20, 27 °fin. !Doter .. Southampton 1 2nd & 17th of mon.' ITnesday & Friday 2nd of the month Dai1y............ ;17th of the month. '4th & 20th of mon. SDI& 24th of month '7, 17, & 27 of mon Twice daily ....., 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. 19th of the month 123 d of month .... 'Southampton London. Southampton Dover Southampton Southampton Dover ~.... D0ver...... (Holyhead" Southampton Southampton Plymouth ..1 17,17,19,'47, 30 of m. nea Eacb .g°l * When any of these dispatcher( on the follow Southampton), and the day preceding. dates on a Sun tug day, with the ex fialta, both of which !Arrive! I Feb. 4 Dec. Uncut 28 Jan. 1 7, ilJan. Jan. i 6 Daily IJan. in Jan. 1 , 0 Arrived ran. 16 iTu.II I IS Jan. 16 !Jan. 10 'Jan. 2 0 wicedo Tnic , i Jan. 16 Feb. I Daily Jan. I", I,ran• 4'wice l 2 l Van. 1° Jan. . 12 Dec. 9 Dover 10 Plymouth. .. ,Southarapten,Feb. ~Dover .......IJan. Southanipton!Jan. I° 4 Various ports 17nce r „ 1 " Dover jam IS ,Southampton J an . 1' S outhampton Jan. lu Plymout k 'Dover ...... Jan. 1 ?, Dover .. 'Jan. 1 ,So uthammtoniJan. 1 " Southampton Jan. 1 6 4 Iday, the malls wil l ,?; :ceptlen of the India ,0 b will be dispatched I ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN ReThwAVi An accident of a frightful character, which it is fearcy will terminate fatally, has occurred near the Horn station, to a signal porter, named J ames S m i t h , en d , the following circumstances :—The unfortunate W e ; it appears, w as p rocee di ng f rom the Hornsey station "0 signal the 9.15 down mail train, when in crossing ,t 4 metals his foot s lipp e d, an d h e f e ll across th e rails as the train, which was going at the rate of forty mil ug an hour, came up. I n consequence o f the state of t P road, the engine had attached to it front a snow - scr aper_ d which, catching the poor fell ow i n th e b ack, threw JOY with fearful violence on to the up line. His non-apps°6s ante at the station after the passing of the train, aro us the suspicions of the station-master, who sent out rael in search of him, and he was found lying insensible al l . groaning on th e spo t w h ere he had been thrown by wci engine. He was instantly conveyed to London, a° taken to the Royal Free Hospital, where he "' promptly attended by Mr. Curgeven, the houise-eu r geo ol who found he had sustained fearful, and he feared fats" injuries to the back and chest Had it not been for the scraper, it is certain that he would have been cut t ° pieces on the spot. [ADVERTISEMENT.] --The Earl of Aldborough and 11 01 ' loway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miraculoil l medicine after every other means had failed. See ear tract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. 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