The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

COURT OF SEWERS. A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the County of Middlesex, was held yesterday, at the Court-house, Soho-square, to receive tenders for general contracts for works on the sewers, and to take such steps thereon as might be deemed expedient. John Leslie, Esq., was called to the chair. The Court proceeded to open the tenders for the eastern division, and it was discovered that, among the candidates (five in all), the former contractors' (Messrs. J. and W. Bennett) tender was the lowest. The same result followed upon the western division, and the Counter's-creek and Ranelagh districts. The tenders having all been received, The CHAIRMAN wished to know if any Hon. Com missioner had any observations to make upon the offers they had just examined ? Mr. WILLOUGHBY saw no reason to depart from the practice formerly observed by the Court, namely, to accept the lowest tender. The Messrs. Bennett were, in this case, the lowest, and the Court knew them to be responsible men, and as far as he (Mr. Willoughby) had observed, their works were admi rable. He was aware of no objection to lead them to overlook them on that occasion, and he should, there fore, move that their tender for the eastern division be accepted. Mr. BAYLIS would, before the motion was put, ask a 'question of their Chairman. He wished to know whether the numbers on the paper would be those really required in the operations of the Court for the succeedini year ? He should like to have the Chair man's opinion upon this subject, as he had, upon several previous occasions, brought before the observa tion of the Court certain matters connected with the Messrs. Bennett's previous contract. The CHAIRMAN said that he considered the numbers as nearly correct as possible. He should feel it his duty to call the attention of the Court to Rul• 30 of their bye-laws, .where it: was ordered that all con tractors should be disqualified from tendering for works ordered by the Court of Sewers, provided such contractors had any relative in the first or second degree a Commissioner in that Court. Now he had mentioned to Mr. Bennett in that room, and he would again state, that Mr. Hunt, the brother-in-law of the Messrs. Bennett's, was actually named in their Com mission, and was regularly summoned to that Court as a Commissioner. He felt bound, as their Chair man, to lay this fact before them, and he would now call upon Mr. Hertzlett, their clerk, to read the rule he had referred to. The rule was read by the clerk. Mr. WILLOUGHBY thought that the rule did not at all apply in that case. The mischief it was intended to provide against was this, that no gentleman should sit there who would be likely to sacrifice his public duty to his private interests. But how stood this case before them ? A man was not a Commissioner because his name was included in that Commission. He must have a freehold of a certain value, and he must qua lify himself by taking the oaths in that Court. These things, together, qualified for the duties of a Commis sioner ; and when all these were observed, then he eame within the meaning of the Act. He (Mr. Wil loughby) therefore respectfully submitted that this gentleman, who had no freehold to qualify him for a seat there, was really no Commissioner. It w ou ld indeed be a very hard case for those gentlemen that they should be excluded from this contract because they happened to have a relation whose name had at some period been placed upon the Commission, that relation not being qualified for the office. Mr. liswiLEs followed on the same side. The CHAIRMAN said that there could be no question of Mr. Hunt's being a Commissioner to every intent and purpose. His name was inserted by the Lord Chancellor, and he could at any time take the oaths in that Court, and his place at the table. After some further discussion, in which several motions and amendments were presented, but after wards, by consent of the Court, withdrawn, Mr. Wir-Lothariar moved, Mr. HAWSES seconded, and it was ultimately carried unanimously, " That the Court adjourn the choice of contractor until it has decided on the objection to Messrs. J. and W. Bennett in the 30th bye-law, and that the considera tion of such objection be entered on upon Friday next at two o'clock, and that notice be given to the Com missioners accordingly. 1 The Court was then declared adjourned. THE ANTI-TAKING-BABIES-INTO PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES-SOCIETY. A meeting of this highly respectable association was held at their rooms. Mr. Job Smith, a worthy and athletic bachelor, was called to the chair, and the usual quantity of vices and secretaries appointed. The committee, appointed at a previous meeting, re ported the following, as the principles of the society :- 1. We consider the practice of taking infants into public assemblies, concerts, kc., as an evil that cries aloud for remedy. 2. While we would not breathe the faintest re proach towards the highly respectable class of the community, who officiate as nurses, we strongly pro test against their taking their babies into public meet ings, &c., knowing, as we do, that it can only be done by a resort to arms. 3. While we acknowledge that a large majority of our fellow-creatures are, or have once been, babies, we consider it to be a fact, that it is a very small mi nority who support these crying evils. 4. We cannot shut our ears to the numerous evidences of this evil ; indeed, we have known' instances of late, where it was found impossible, with the largest church organ, to drown (not the child itself) but the shrill, organic notes of the child. We protest against those notes. 5. We pledge ourselves to use our utmost exertions to carry out the above principles. After the reading of the principles of the society, Mr. Dunn Brown rose from an inverted cradle, on which he was sitting, and moved their adoption, which motion was unanimously carried, amid the shouts of the assembled bachelors. A committee of fourteen was then appointed, whose duty is to carry out the objects of the society. It is to be hoped, that not a single man will be found in the city, who will not join this interesting association.— Philadelphia Paper. HINTS TO WIFE HUNTERS. Under this head the Dublin Freeman's Journal gives an account of an unfortunate denouentent which attended an advertisement inserted in a Dublin paper some time since. The advertisement was from a gentleman in search of a wife, and dressed up in the usual style of such productions. " Fortune,' said the advertiser, "is not absolutely requisite," but he had no objection to from 5001. to 1,5001. if thrown in by way of" tilly" with the sought-for bride. That sum could be settled on the lady for " pin -money." The whole statement concluded thus :—" The utmost honour and secrecy may be relied on—none but prin cipals will be treated with, and the applicant must send her credentials in her own handwriting." It so hap pened that the document met the eyes of a gentleman who resides at S— M—, who was able, by the help of a " crow quill," to imitate the lady's " choice Italian" hand ; he thought it would be a capital joke to answer the advertisement. He accordingly did so, stating that he was a lady, and possessing all the re quisites to make the wooer happy. The fair one announced that she would walk on the Strand at Sandymount on a certain day (weather permitting), and would be dressed after a certain fashion, at the same time requesting the gentleman to carry a bouquet of flowers in his hand, in order that she might more easily recognise her expectant inamorato. In the meantime the writer had apprised his " five hundred friends, who were on the ground," to see the fun. The appointed evening came, and as the time of the assignation drew nigh the utmost anxiety prevailed, but at last suspense was relieved by seeing a gentle. man emerging from a covered car, who was dressed in the pink of fashion, and sure enough he had a bou fuel, and such a bouquet ! Poor Reeves never ex hibited a greater when enlivening us with his comical " Agricultural Wife." On he marched amid the sup hressed laught er o f t h e i nhabitants of the neighbour ood, for by that time the dogs of the town were aware of it. He poked his head and his daisies under the bonnet of every lady he met, and ran reveral risks of b e i ng slapped in the face for his intrusive curiosity. At last a lady did come; sure it must be her. " The dress is like," muttered he, "it must be her." The lady in question, who was a stranger, and ignorant of the affair, had been walking with her brother, who, stopping to speak with some friends, had permitted his sister to proceed on her walk. The " Ccelebs in search of a wife" walked directly up to the lady, presented his miniature flower-plot, and with a low bow said, "My dear, is it you ?" The lady passed on, fol lowed by her new admirer, who became very impor tunate, and, although warned several times to " be off," he persisted, until in the act of saluting her fair hand, he vhs saluted himself a tergo, and this was followed up by several smart applications of the brother's stick over his shoulders. This brought him to his senses—a rencontre succeeded, and the stick was laid on with greater violence amid a scene of the most boisterous mirth from the hundreds who were in the secret, and who had now collected about the parties. A couple of police-officers coming up charges and cross charges were preferred, but after some time an ex planation took place, and so the matter ended. The gentleman proved to be a Mr. residing in street, near one of the squares. Ile Fof into his covered cart, and drove away amid a hurricane of laughter. We are led to believe he has not heeded a hundred other answers to his advertisement. The Rev. B. C. Kennicott, 8.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, and Curate of Woodhorn, has been appointed by Sir Robert Peel, upon the recommendation of th e Bishop of Durham, to the district of All-Saints, Monk wearmouth, recently created under the Church Endow ment Act. The Episcopal Chapel, in Broad-street, Monkwearmouth, will be the chapel for this new district, which comprises the townships of Monkwearmouth and /Viral AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP IN A STEAMER PROPELLED BY A "FAN." Since the great and splendid invention of tie steam engine as applicable to navigation, the lightness of its machinery, the concentration of its propelling power, and the economy in the use of fuel, have ever been considered objects of the very highest importance ; and from the first introduction of steamers, their side-paddles and boxes have been thought cumbersome, and particularly unsightly to the nautical eye, accustomed to the beautiful and graceful propor tions of a sailing vessel. From the various applica tions to which steam-power is susceptible it is still in its infancy, though already the development of its capabilities has very far surpassed what was even contemplated by the immortal inventor himself. The immense power of steam is unquestionably esta blished; but its appliances to different kinds of machinery are still very limited. In regard to side-paddles, many attempts have been made to do away with them, as they are found to be much in the way, to hold a great deal of wind, and to impede the steamer's speed, especially in crowded rivers and narrow streams. In deed, steam-navigation in narrow waters and canals is almost impossible, in consequence of the space the paddles and boxes take up, which cover a width equal to that of the vessel herself. Besides, the steamer's paddles and boxes abutting out on either side are ever liable to injury. The repairs which they incessantly require, form a very expensive item in the annual accounts of the wear and tear of steamers, and show that they are constantly liable to injury. War-steamers in action would ever be in danger of bell)? " winged," and rendered powerless. The paddles of steamers must also be seriously in ' jured, and frequently become useless when navigating seas, lakes, rivers, and streams occasionally covered with floatingice. It has been considered that the ill starred President, steamer, sooner after leaving port, encountered large masses of floating ice, which jammed her in and crushed her paddles, when, alas ! down she went. It is on record, that at the time she was lost other steamers and sailing-vessels on their passage across the Atlantic fell in with immensely largo and mountainous icebergs. The real truth, however, may never be known. The Archimedean screw (no new invention, for it was in use by the ancients), which is fixed to the stern of a steamer, was the first attempt to supersede the use of side-paddles; but its propelling power is weak compared to that possessed by common steamers, and it is, therefore, considered, in that degree, nearly a total failure. But still the immense importance of a concentrated propelling power acting under water, beyond the reach of shot, and all liability to accident, has become at once apparent. For these various reasons, engineers and other scientific men have been studying how to effect an object so grand and invaluable in every point of view, by endeavouring to invent a propeller so concentrated in one focus, which would efficiently act under water out of all danger from accidents, and still equal or exceed the speed at present attained by side-paddles. This great desideratum, it would appear, is on the point of being accomplished. A beautifully-con structed boat, about 50 tons burden, has recently been launched at Greenwich. Her engines—a pair of tens —were made by Messrs. Penn aad Son, of Greenwich. They are fixed lengthways in the vessel, and are remarkably light and handsome. The propeller is on the " fan " principle, similarly con structed to the fan of a windmill, and, like the screw, is fixed to the stern. It possesses a twofold action— the one perpendicular, which regulates her speed, and the other horizontal, which describes half a circle, and regulates her steerage. This latter action of the " fan" is of such admirable power, that while it supersedes the use of a rudder, it can wheel the boat round as if she moved on a pivot, and continu e to spin her round a n d roun d like a top, without making head or stern way, except what little the tide or wind may effect. This peculiar, clever, and in valuable action of the " fan" is most ingeniously contrived, and is the sole invention of Mr. Hunt, the engineer, of Greenwich. The " fan," combined with this fine principle of action, can be attached to any sailing-vessel, from a line-of-battle ship down to a collier, and can be worked by hands totally uncon nected with steam. Its power, though it could not be so great as when worked by steam, is such that it would enable a ship of the line to bring both her broadsides to bear against an enemy in about two minutes. The vessel is named the Mystery, and although she was not quite finished, it was determined to give her an experimental trial down the river on Thursday, the 3d of October, to meet and greet the Queen and Prince Albert on their return from Scot land. Messrs. Hunt and Holl, the owners, invited several friends to accompany and enjoy the excursion with them. The day opened gloomily, rough, and stormy. The tight little steamer, however, daunt lessly started from Greenwich-pier at a quarter-past eleven o'clock, a.m. Her engines worked admirably, and she made her way over the waves, impelled by an invisible power, as buoyant as a cork, scarcely disturbing the water. Just as she reached abreast of Grays, near Gravesend, the Blaek Eagle, closely followed by the Royal Victoria and Albert yacht, hove in sight. The weather at this time was cloudy and tempestuous, but as the royal yacht rounded the point from Northfleet, the sun shot out from an opening in the clouds upon her full broadside with magnificent splendour, and his rays were concentrated in a halo of light around her. At that moment she was a most beautiful and splendid object. The Mystery now veered round, and slackened speed in order to await the approach of the royal squadron, to whose officers and crew she became an object of much curiosity. She then continued leading the way, somewhat after the fashion of a pilot fish, till Woolwich was reached, at about two o'clock, PAL, when she brought•to to witness the landing of her Most Gracious Majesty and her Illus trious Consort, when all on board joined in the hearty shouts of " Welcome home." The distance from Greenwich-pier to Grays and back to Woolwich was performed in exactly two hours and three quarters. After the landing of the Royal pair, the Mystery proceeded up the river as far as Chelsea. This part of the voyage afforded a fine opportunity for testing the advantages springing, not only from the non-use of side-paddles, but from the fecilitous and admirable way she answered to the helm, in which point she has no equal. She wound in and out barges, rafts of wood, colliers, and ships, with such ease, precision, and certainty, that she astonished every beholder. She gave the go-by to several Woolwich and other steamers which were compelled to slacken speed, ease, stop, and hack, in consequence of the crowded state of the pool, and the fear of inju ring or smashing their paddle-boxes and paddles by collision. There could not have been a finer day for the expe rimental trial. The wind blew strongly from the westward, and with or against it she proved herself to be a capital sea-boat. The trial proved most satis factory and successful throughout ; she bounded over the water like magic, without a sail or any percep tible propelling power, and almost without her- Felf creating a ripple—she, however, possesses a propelling power, equal in the ratio, to any other steamer on the river. Her propeller, certainly, reaches perfection nearer than any other now in use ; it is impossible to injure it by shot, collisions, ground ing, or any other casualty whatever. One or the other paddle of steamers navigating the wide ocean is frequently out of the water, but the fan propeller can never cease performing its functions but through some casual derangement in its own machinery. The Mystery is now fast approaching completion in all its various appointments, when a more efficient trial will be given. OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.-officia notice has been issued to the corps of the Honourable Artillery Company, of which his Royal Highness Prince Albert is Captain-General and Colonel, that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that they shall attend as a G uar d o f H onour , upon h er Majesty's visit to the City, upon the occasion of opening the new Royal Exchange. INFLUENCE OF THE PEWS OF FOOD ON WAGES.— " Cheap food," says the mo no p o li s t s , " means l ow wages.' Such is the assertion ; but what are the facts bearing upon it ? Why, just these—that, as food has risen in price, wages in the manufacturing districts have fallen ; as the price of food has become moderate, wages have risen. This has been shown on many recent oeca sions, and we now supply another instance, in advance of wages at Ashtonrunder-Lyue. If there is any connec tion between prices of food and wages, if they stand at all in the relation to each other of cause and effect, their operation must be exactly the reverse of that described in the allegation, of which so much use has been made by the supporters of the corn-law ; and it would be quite correct to say, that " cheap food means good wages." This is an important truth ; and the working classes, notwithstanding the sophistry to which they have been exposed, will ere long thoroughly understand it.—Livel”- pool Paper. Communication between Harwich and Gluckstadt by means of steam navigation, has been taken up as a sub ject for public consideration, and the result is that mea sures are now in progress for the formation of a company to carry it out. On either side of the German Ocean it will afford facilities for trade, since the introduction of the railway system will give such ready access to both ports ; and, among the advantages which it is said the mercantile world must receive, are those of economy of time and money, while the state duties, not even now popular among persons exporting merchandise from England to the continent, will also be avoided. The gentlemen who have taken up the matter appear to be very sanguine of success.—Cambridge Advertiser. ST. IVES' FAIR. —The character of this fair thi business doin g s t o th re e ra as e t beasts was year has been, in regard to general business, bad —very verbba d. liAttlelabruge re gbarrodusg sheepht, bu the the s reason alleged being a d eficiency of k ee p, t h roug h spring drought. A good show of horses, but no buyers. Cheese and onici.s very fiat, the former rangi n from ss. to 7s. a stone, tne latte r f rom 2s. to 2s. 6d. ga bushel. The grocers, drapers , and general tr a d ers com plain greatly.—Cambridge 41civertifer. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Lord Stanley's elevation to the Peerage, and Lord Ellenborough's advancement to an Earldom (the latter announced in last night's Gazette), are acts incapable of any construction that can avert reproach from the Government. They partake more of the bravado of a bully, than of the deliberation which should precede, and the dignity which should accompany, the decisions of a Cabinet. Lord Stanley s administration of the Colonial office had been censured in the report of a Parliamentary Committee nominated by the Govern ment, and the majority of which was selected from the Ministerial side of the House. To indicate the contempt of independent judgment which the Minis try entertains, the member of the Government whose conduct in his official post had been emphatically re buked, was pitchforked into the House of Lords. In Lord Stanley's case, the adverse report of a Parliamentary Committee on the course adopted by his Lordship as Colonial Secretary, and which ought to have caused his removal from the office he had shown himself iecompetent to hold, was the precursor of advancement to the Peerage. The Colonies may complain of neglect. The West Indies and Australia may remonstrate. New Zealand may deplore the neglect of its rising interests, by which its hopes of security and advancement are frustrated ; these results may be declared by a Parliamentery Committee to proceed from mismanagement on the part of the " Executive Government at home :" What then? The Cabinet upholds its Colonial Secretary at the expense of the interests, if not of the existence, of the Colonies ; and the complaints of, and censures passed upon, his administration, are the signals for conferring upon him honours and rewards ! Immediately on Lord Ellenborough's return from the mal-administration of the Indian Government, from which he was recalled by the body best qualified to form a judgment of his administration, and its tendency to promote or injure the interests of British India, the Sovereign is advised to confer the rewards of distin guished merit upon the man who had perilled the safety of the Indian Empire intrusted to his care. So fondly anxious were Ministers to solace the wounded vanity of their protege, that a new patent of nobility, " granting to him the dignities of a Viscount and an Earl," awaited his arrival. Scarcely had the recalled Baron Ellenborough reached the shores of England, from the country where his vanity and love of military display had lavished treasure to an incalculable amount, and created perils it was fearful to contemplate, than he was saluted Viscount Southern and Earl of Ellen borough 1 Such open contempt of all the acknow ledged rules of propriety—a respect for which will sometimes atone for want of honesty—will recoil upon the Government. All respect for the acts, all confidence in the virtue, of a Cabinet which thus braves public opinion, and converts merited dis grace into occ as i ons f or conferring honours and re wards, must cease. Lord Ellenborough's acts are no longer imputable to his own follies or faults. They cease to he his. Her Majesty's Ministers have boldly assumed the responsibility. They have taken the dere. lict Governor-General under their special care. They have delighted to honour him whom all men else have agreed to censure. An Earl's coronet encircles the brow which might otherwise have been suffused with the consciousness of shame. Lord Ellenborough's Earldom supplies an instance of the kind of services which the Government of Sir R. Peel makes haste to honour. It holds out to others—who, like him, may be entrusted with the di sc h arge o f duties in respon sible and highly elevated posts—that stimulus to a prudent and zealous regard to the honour of their Sovereign and the interests of the empire, of which Lord Ellenborough is so bright an example ; and for which he has been selected as the object of his Sove reign's gracious approbation. STANDARD.—The elevation of Lord Ellen borough to an Earldom, recorded in the Gazette of last evening, is a sufficient answer to the insinuations which have been so unsparingly indulged in to his prejudice by his Whig Radical detractors. It may be regarded, in fact, as an intimation of the determi nation of the Government not to be influenced by other opinions than their own in their appreciation of distinguished public services, how loud soever the clamour that may be raised against the individual. Of whatever errors of judgment his Lord ship has been accused, the merits of his short but brilliant administration of the affairs of India have been placed beyond a question, by the irresis tible evidence of facts, too stubborn to be disputed. The condition in which he has handed over his Go vernment to his successor is one which will bear an advantageous comparison with that in which that country has been left by the most distinguished of his predecessors. The legacy of disaster and disgrace bequeathed to him by Lord Auckland was of a na ture with which no Governor- General of India has hitherto been called upon to contend ; and could only have been equalled by the difficulties in herited from the Government of Lord Melbourne, by Sir Robert Peel. He found an enormously failing re venue, and a decreasing commerce. He has restored the one, and invigorated the other. The pres tige which had attached to the British arms in India, had been impaired by a defeat of the most calamitous description ; a disaster which the most ordinary foresight might have prevented, and which was incurred in insolent defiance of the most consummate experience and the soundest judg ment. The Duke of Wellington predicted the con 'equences of our occupation of Affghanistan, in lan guage the most earnest and impressive ; but his expe rience was disregarded, and his admonitions defied. Not only did Lord Melbourne's Government persist in its insane scheme, but they employed the most inadequate means to carr it out, and their attempt to make a " little war" terminated accordingly in a catastrophe which shook our Indian empire to its foundations. This disgrace has been oblite rated and the influence thus wantonly sacrificed re stored. Ten successive victories, rivalling in bril liancy the most splendid successes recorded in the annals of Anglo-Indian warfare, have not only re deemed the credit of British arms, but have placed British dominion in the East on a more secure basis than it has ever before attained. Lord Ellen borough had to encounter either open hostility 'or concealed perfidy, the natural results of the apathetic and culpable indolence of his predecessor, in several of the most important divisions of India; he has left them in a state of tranquillity, which de mands nothing beyond the most ordinary vigilance to perpetuate ; and the highest compliment that could be paid to his policy is to be found in its adop tion in all substantial points by his suc cessor. Among the more useful but not very popular measures of his Government were the cor rection of several of the abuses which had crept into the civil departments of the service, and the sup pression of much of the corruption which had hitherto disgraced them. His Lordship's zealous and unflinch ing performance of this most difficult of his duties could not fail of creating for hini many enemies ; and to the intrigues of those whose peculations he had ar rested, and whose corruption he had resisted, is mainly attributed his recal ; whilst his popularity with the army has tended to increase tha jealousy and ill-will to which he has been sacrificed. Whilst they have recognised a power which had long lain in abey ance, and which it was hardly expected would have been exercised, however, her Majesty's Ministers have not scrupled to proclaim their opinion of the treatment which Lord Ellenborough has experienced at the hands of the East India Company. On the first intimation of the intentions of the Directors, the Duke of Wellington expressed himself in terms of the most unequivocal surprise and disapprobation ; and the distinguished mark of her Majesty's favour which, by the advice of her Ministers, she has just conferred upon his Lordship, affords irresistible proof that the opinions of the Government on the subject have rather been confirmed than disturbed. Of the circumstances which led to Lord Ellenbo rough's recal we have, as yet, no official informa tion. By some, it has been ascribed to non-ob servance of that deference, amounting to something not far removed from servility, in his correspon dence with the Directors, which they appear to have expected; whilst by others it has been attri buted to his too stringent attempts to reform the jobbing of their civil servants in India. Be the origin of his recall what it may, he has some con solation under the heavy weight of their dis pleasure. His conduct has received the warmest testi monials of approval from his Sovereign and her ad-. visers ; whilst for the vigour and promptitude with which he on several occasions redeemed the burning disgrace heaped upon our arms in Affghanistan, he has twice received the thanks of both H ouses o f Parlia ment. The mystery will, no doubt, be cleared up when Parliament next assembles. Meanwhile, candour demands an abstinence from the sort of abuse so lavishly poured upon him by the organs of the Whig Government; seeing that even a recalled Governor- General cannot condescend to reclamations in any other place than that in which he can meet his accusers face to face, and test the validity of the charges they may have to bring against him by an an appeal to the only tribunal to which he ie legi timately responsible for his conduct. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mile, which, mt the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10iu. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 424 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at shor being 2.5 52k, it follows that gold is 0.39 per cent.. dearer in. London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 435 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 94, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer i hd n eacTv l l i elin a : m ee b :fuli ar fnnin g de h s ac tban in Lond o n, havecirculation three-eighths been Jie9eu. et ihg e ah x tt c h e t hs e d e perindgelp departure cent.,fltua t r t ea nodd- of the ay ru , nz. a Bing u t. rgs fITHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER l7 , 1844. of the French is connected with matters of grave import in his own country. This may have had some slight effect upon prices, but the real cause of the fall appears to have arisen from the sale of large parcels of stock on private account, and the supply has thus been increased to an amount greater than the jobbers desire ; hence there are no purchasers except at lower prices. The Government broker paid 100* for the savings-bank in vestment, and the quotations gradually gave way. So great would be the advantages of shortening the transit from Cairo to Suez, and thus facilitating our overland communication with India, that every project to that end brought forward with any degree of plausi bility may be noticed with advantage. The present transit occupies about 24 hours—the whole distance of 84 miles is an open desert, and every article of food, in cluding water, has to be brought from Cairo. Of the whole journey to India this passage across the desert is considered the worst part, aild were it only for the com fort of the numerous British subjects who are forced to perform the journey, any attempt at improvement would be unworthy attention. But the advantage of shorten ing the transit does not stop with travellers to India, but concerns the whole mercantile community, as many op portunities of answering letters have been lost precisely on account of the time occupied in the journey from Suez. The mail from India, via Marseilles, arrived last year on eight occasions too late to admit of the letters being answered, and this loss of time, the advocates of a, railway contend, might have been avoided had this mode of conveyance been adopted. The chief notion of a railway was entertained by the Pacha of Egypt as far back as 1834, and the late Gallo way Bey was instructed to m a k e th e necessary surveys. Since then the project has been in abeyance ; but Mr. J. A. Galloway, brother of the Bey, and resident in Alex andria, has recently published a pamphlet in which he sets forth the advantages of the railway, and ascribes the obstacles thrown in the way of its completion to foreign intrigue. Some of this pamphlet is t a k en u p w ith t h e examination of two rival schemes for effecting the passage by canal communication. One of these places is a ship canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and the other (the Boulac Canal) one from the Nile to Suez. Both of them are considered by Mr. Galloway as under takings too gigantic for the present state of Egypt ; and he comes to the result that the railroad alone will be practicable, and that the British Goverment should at once urge its completion, taking advantage of the known predilection of Mehemet Ali for the scheme, and the fact that he is already at an advanced age. It is suggested that the most effectual mode of carrying the point would be to make the acceleration of the mails and passengers a condition for increased remuneration in the Post-office convention. This rpcommendation of the railway scheme is from source confessedly partial; bat, nevertheless, the subject is so important that it is to be hoped that it will b. weighed on its own merits, and that the influence of foreign Powers may not, as has been hinted, prevent it from receiving due consideration. BOROUGH OF FINSBURY REGIS TRATION. PARISH OF ST. LUKE'S—FINE OF ARREARS. (Before D. 0. MOYLAN, Esq.) SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS KINGSTON, OCT. 15.—The General Quarter Sessions for the county of Surrey were held this day at the Court house, Kingston -on-Thames ; Mr. E. Penrhyn, Chair man. The CILAIRMAY, in addressing the grand jury, drew attention to two or three new Acts of Parliament. The Night Poaching Act made it an equal offence if persons committed the act of shooting game at night from the paths or highways, as though it was done in an inclosed place. An alteration had also been made in the law of arson, doubts having formerly been entertained whether sheds or out-houses came within the provisions of the Act ; but now, by special enactment of the Legislature, they were declared to be so ; and a provision was also made empowering the Court, in cases where such offences were committed by boys under eighteen years of age, to order them to be once or twice privately whipped. To prevent such offences all should endeavour, by every means in their power, to disseminate information, and also exert themselves to give full employment to the labouring classes. He felt satisfied that very great in jury was occasioned by farmers discharging their labour ers in winter, and that it was always in their power pro fitably to employ labour. He thought it was a matter for their grave consideration whether it was 'Sot better for them to employ their capital in this manner than to throw the labourers on the poor-rate, or run the risk of losing their property by driving them to desperation. The surgeons of the different county gaols reported their several establishments to be generally healthy. Mr. Nleymott, the surgeon of the county gaol, Horsenioeger lane, in the curse of his report, expr ess ed an op i n i on that the practice of confining the p r i soners c l ose l y to their room, except during the hours of divine service, and meals, on Sundays, was calculated to be injurious to their health. The surgeon of Brixton House of Correction in his report stated, that there had been agreat many ca ses of itch in the gaol, and the great m a jority of them were persons who had come from the union workhouses. Mr. HA.WES, M.P., expressed an opinion that the names of the unions whence such persons came ou g ht to be reported, for he considered it disgraceful that such establishments were not kept in a cleanly state. The report was received. The Rev. Mr. Rowe, the chaplain of the county gaol, made an annual report, and . after detaili ng th e num b er of prisoners that had passed tnreugh the gaol during that period, he stated, that the extent of ignorance that pre vailed among them was almost surpassing b e li e f— no t one-third of the whole number being able to read, and out of 1,258 prisoners, male and female, only 304 were able to repeat the Lord's Prayer and the Commandments. The prisoners from the rural districts appeared to be the most ignorant. They all, however, appeared anxious to learn, and paid great attention to those who endea voured to give them instruction. The Rev. Gentleman, in his report, went into a variety of statistical details relative to the prisoners and the causes of crime, which were listened to with considerable attention by the Court. Mr. HA.WI4B moved that this report be printed, with a view to its being circulated among the magistrates of the county. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. SMALLPIECE, the county treasurer, made a report of the state of the finances of the county. It appeared that, from the last quarter, he had a balance of 9,0591. ss. Ild., which was increased by other receipts to 10,0991. is. I Id. He had since expended 14,5141., which sum included a payment of 5,000/. on account of the lunatic asylum. There were accounts outst an di ng to the amount of 12,9721. 3s. I ld., which would be chargeable upon the rate now in collection. The rate would produce about 18,0001., so that he should have a balance of about 5,0001. Colonel CHALLENOR observed that, on repairing the gaols of the county, 1,800/. had been expended ; but the accounts did not show that this was the amount sanc tioned by the Court. His impression was that 1,4001. was the sum granted, but he had no means of ascer taining whether it was so or not. If it were the case, 4001. had been expended over the amount agreed to by the Court. Mr. Pucxxx assured the Hon. Magistrate that the estimates of the repairs had never been exceeded, and in many cases they were below the amount granted by the Court. Colonel CIIALLENOR said he had no doubt that what Mr. Puckle said was quite borrect ; but still he thought they ought to have some means of seeing in the accounts that, where a certain sum of money was allowed by the Court for a specific purpose, no more was expended ; and, as the guardians of the county purse, it was their duty to do it. Some routine business having been disposed of, the Court Shen adjourned. (Before E.PENHRYN, .KINGSTOIV, O c t. 16. Esq , Chairman ; J. TROTTER, Esq., M.P., B. HAWES, Esq., M.P., Colonel CHAL LONER, T. PUCKLE, Esq., &c.) The Court this day proceeded to hear applications for licenses for music and dancing. Mr. WALLINGER made an application on behalf of Mr. Joseph Key, of the Southampton Railway Ta vern, at the Kingston station, for a license to have music and dancing at that establishment. The ap plication was signed by the churchwardens and parish officers, and there was no opposition to it by any party. The license was accordingly granted. Mr. LOCKE applied for a renewal of the license for Vauxhall Gardens in the name of William Fowler.— Granted. The licenses for the Bower Saloon, the St. Helena Gardens, Rotherhithe, and the Castle Hotel, Rich mond, were al so renewe d without any observation. An appli ca ti on was th en m ade by Mr. Richard Preece, of the Gr a p es , G rea t Suffolk-street, for a license to have music and dancing. Mr. Knapp a n d M r . C orner suppo rted the applica tion, and it wa s o p pose d b y M r. Scriven. Mr. KNAPP, in supp or t o f t h e appl i c ation, put in a memorial, signed by th e c h urc h war d e ns, overseers, and guardians of the p oor o f S out h war k, testifying to the respectability of the applicant, and the excellent manner in which his house had been conducted. There were also the sign a t ures o f 286 persons of respectability residing in the immediate 'neighbour hood, all of whom expressed their opinion that if the license was granted, it would be the means of afford ing innocent recreation to the poorer inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The Learned Counsel, in the course of his address, said that the application had Considerable discussion ensued yesterday respect ing the omission of the name, of two persons, named Buckle and Clements, from the lists of voters for the borough, through the neglect of one of the collectors of the assessed taxes. It appeared that they personally applied to one of the overseers to have their names re instated in the list ; this the overseer promised to do, but he did not fulfil his promise. Mr. Sinclair being called on by the Revising Barrister to explain the cause of such omissions, expressed his regret at the occurrence, and said he had done all in his power to rectify the mistake when it was pointed out to him. The name of another person, residing in the same street as Mr. Buckle, who had not paid his taxes, had been mistaken for him, conseqesently Mr. Buckle, who had duly paid his taxes, was returned as not having paid his taxes. Mr. MOYLAN said that, by the 12th section of the Re form Act, he (the collector) was bound to give the over seers, on the 21st or 22d of July, a list of all persons in their district who had not paid their taxes. Mr. Sinclair said he had never been required to do so, otherwise he should have supplied such list. Mr. MorLAN then gave judgment in the case, and im posed a fine of 60s. upon the overseers of the parish of St. Luke's. Mr. Movies, in seconding the motion, said it would not be denied that M r . P reece h ad acted wrongly in continuing the performances in his house without a , license after the caution he had received, but still he • did not think this:ought to influence the Court in their decision. They should only look to the public in terest ; and when they saw so many respectable persons sign the application for the license, he thought they were bound to grant it. There was, he believed, a very great improvement in the moral condition of the labouring classes, and also a strong movement in favour of temperance among them; and it was their duty to provide the poorer classes with recreation and amusement, to enable them to occupy their minds innocently-, in lieu of going to public-houses, and in juring their health and character by drinking to excess. Mr. PucanE opposed the grant of the license for music and dancing, on the ground that, if it were legally sanctioned in such a neighbourhood, it would be productive of great mischief. It had been said that there was nothing more improper done at this house than at the Opera. He (Mr. Puckle) did not know much about the Opera, but this he must say, that if a little public-house in St. George's-fields was permitted to imitate the Opera, he did not think it likely to advance the cause of morality. Mr. Puckle then remarked upon the fact of the applicant having continued his performances for the last twelve months in defiance oY the magistrates, and he said he thought this was an additional reason why the license should be refused. If he discontinued those performances at once, and his house was conducted in a proper manner, and next y ear h e a ppli e d for a mus ic license only, it was probable that he (Mr. Puckle) should not oppose the application. After a few words from Mr. Best and the Chair man, the question was put, when the Court, by a majority of two, refused the license. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. John Henderson and Charles Mortimer were placed before Mr. Alderman Kelly, charged with having tried to utter a forged cheque for 401. at the banking house of Stone, Martins, and Stone, 68, Lombard street. Messrs. Bush and Mullens, solicitors to the Bank Protection Society, appeared to prosecute ; and Mr. Woolf, from the office of Flower and Co., Hatton garden, attended for the prisoners. Mr. Mullens having briefly opened the case, pro ceeded to call witnesses. George Murden examined—Was employed at The Sun newspaper-office. Knew the prisoner Mor timer, who was employed by Mr. Ridgway, book seller, Piccadilly. He (Mortimer) was obliged to be at The Sun office every evening, and thus witness knew him. Witness was requested by the prisoner, Yesterday evening, to present a cheque for 401. at the bank of Stone, Martins, and Stone, in Lombard street, and get six 5 1. notes and ten sove reigns in change. If any doubts were raised he was to show the accompanying letter. The cheque he said had been received from his brother-in-law, John Henderson, but as he (Mortimer) could not get into the City in time, he asked witness to get it cashed for him. After presenting the cheque, two con stables were sent back to The Sun office with him, and he found Mortimer there. Witness said, " Charlie, how about this cheque ?" and he replied, addressing the constable, that his brother-in-law gave it to him, and then they all walked over to No. 3, Burleigh-street, where the prisoner lived. Henderson came down, and one of the constables said there was a bother about the cheque. Henderson said there must be some mistake then ; he had received the cheque of a gentleman last Saturday, for payment of some bets on the "Derby." They then got into a cab, and were driven to the station-house. By Mr. Woolf—He had known Mortimer for four or five years, and always believed him an honest young man. Mortimer did everything connected with this transaction openly, and had told witness from the first that he had received the cheque from his brother-in-law. Mr. William Sangier, from the bank of Stone, Martins, and Co., said, that Mr. C. Stokes, whose name was affixed to the cheque, was a customer of theirs, but the signature did not at all resemble his, and the imposture was therefore at once detected. Mr. Charles W. Stokes said that he did, some time ago, reside at the Morley Hotel, Charing-cross, where the prisoner Henderson was a waiter. He had cheques similar to the one produced in his pocket-book, which were often left upon his dressing-table. By Mr. Woolf—The other servants of the esta blishment had equal access with the prisoner to hia room. Mr. Woolf contended that there was no tittle of evidence against the prisoner Mortimer, who had from the first acted in such a way as Qlearly showed that he could have no guilty knowledge of this trans action. His employer, Mr. Ridgway, was in court, and would state to the magistrates in what estimation the prisoner was held. Mr. Ridgway said that he had attended closely to the case, and so satisfied was he of the young man's innocence, that he would still retain him in his em ployment. Lie was frequently entrusted by him been made last year, and was refused, but he trusted that on the present occasion it would be more suc cessful. Mr. Knight was then called to prove the signatures to the petition. He said that he was himself formerly a member of the Board of Guardians, and that during the time he had known Mr. Preece the house had always been very respectably conducted. Cross-examined—Witness had been to the per formances at the applicant's house three times. The words " Grand Harmonic Hall" were written over the door. He was not aware that the condition upon which Mr. Preece received his spirit license on the last occasion was, that he should take down a stage that was erected, and discontinue the perform ances in his house. He 'believed that money was taken at the doors. There was a stage at present in the room, and persons danced and sang upon it. Threepence was the sum charged fbr admission, and the performers were dressed in the same way as they were at the theatres. Re-examined—He never saw any indecent con duct, and the style of dancing was not a hit more in decent than might be seen at the Opera.—(A laugh.) Mr. Yates, an inspector of the metropolitan police, deposed that the house in question had been conducted in a very proper and respectable manner since Mr. Preece kept it. He had witnessed the performances, and never saw anything improper. Cross -examined—There was dancing and music going on when he went to the house. The dancing was upon a stage, which, upon examination, he found to be a sort of large table, about four feet high. There were some young women performing dressed in boys' clothes, and boys dressed as girls. There was no band, and the only music was a pianoforte. Witness went to the house by order of the Commis sioners of Police, in consequence of some complaints that had bee❑ formerly made, but there had been no complaints within the last twelve months. Witness was present when Mr. Preece applied for his spirit license, and he heard Mr. Puckie, one of the magis trates, recommend that the stage and the performances should be done away with. Mr. SCRIVEN—And after this, the stage vests taken away, and the "table," as you call it, was put in its place ? Witness—Yes. Cross-examination continued—Did not think the performers dressed themselves under the table.— (Laughter.) The ladies dressed on one side, and the gentlemen on the other. He had never seen any im proper characters present at the pertOrmances. Wit ness was aware that Mr. Preece only had a spirit license, but it was not the duty of the police to inter fere with the performances in the house unless they had orders to do so. Mr. CORNEA, at the conclusion of the evidence, ad dressed the Court in support of the application, and said that there was no intention to deny that there had been music and dancing carried on in the house, but he submitted that this ought not in any way to affect the application, and that as it was proved the house had been conducted in a creditable and re spectable manner, the license prayed for ought to be granted. Mr. SCRIVEN then addressed the Court in opposi tion to the application, and said that the bench had refused the license last year, and the only new fact now brought forward was, that since that period the applicant had, in defiance of the magistrates, persisted in carrying on the performances. It did not appear that the applicant wanted any license, for he had been doing all that the license would have empowered him to do, and the only object of the present proceeding appeared to be to get a bill of indemnity from the magistrates for having infringed the law. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at some length to comment upon the facts that had been adduced in support of the application, and concluded by express ing his opinion that the magistrates would not, under such circumstances, think of granting a license to the applicant. Colonel CHALLONER, said, he thought the fact of the license having been refused last year ought not to weigh at all with the Court, but they should merely be guided by the merits of the case as it appeared be fore them. He was extremely favourable to the granting of licenses of this description, because he felt convinced that amusements of this description tended to increase morality among the lower orders, and induced habits of sobriety. Ile thought they were bound to pay attention to a ,petition signed by 286 respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who might very reasonably he supposed to be better ac quainted with its wants than they were; and when they recollected that the petition was also signed by a great number of guardians of the poor, and that an officer of police had borne testimony to the fact of the house being conducted in a respectable manner, he considered they were bound to grant the licnese, and he begged to propose, therefore, that it should be granted. with large sums, and he had ever found him trust worthy. Finally, the case was remanded till Saturday, and Mortimer was admitted to bail, Mr. Ridgway and Mr. Young, of 112, Strand, being his sureties, in 1001. each. Alderman Lucas remarked that the very fact, that two gentlemen of such respectability having so wil lingly offered themselves as sureties in such amounts, spoke volumes in the young man's favour. Henderson was then reconducted to the cell, and Mortimer discharged for the time being. BOW-STREET. William Harris, a waiter at the King William the Fourth Hotel, King William-street, Strand, was charged with stealing a silk umbrella, the property of Mr. Core thorne. The prosecutor stated that he went into the King William Hotel last night with two friends to supper. He had a silk umbrella in his hand, and he laid it down in the chair. When they were about to leave, the umbrella was not to be found. The only person in the room while the prosecutor was taking his supper was the prisoner. Some time was taken up in looking for the umbrella, and the landlady ultimately found it by the side of the prisoner's bed. He was of course given into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said that his master had got up a conspiracy against him, as he was to leave his service this morning. Th. gentleman with whom he was to live came last night and got his (the prisoner's) character, which was given by his master, and with which the gentleman was satisfied. Mr. TWYFORD said it would be necessary for the land lady of the King William the Fourth to attend to give evidence. It was a very common thing for waiters when they left hotels to carry off anything they could easily lay their hands on.—The prisoner was then remanded. CLERKEIV WELL. Yesterday an elderly gentleman, of gigantic frame and stature, named Joshua Wilson, who, described himself as a captain in the Royal Navy, was charged with assaulting and threatening to murder Mr. Richard White, a pianoforte-manufacturer, residing in Woburn-building's, Woburn-square. The complainant deposed that the defendant had been lodging in his house for some years, but latterly becoming very turbulent, and getting into arrears of rent, Mrs. White did not send him up the kettle of boiling water for breakfast on Sunday morning. When witness returned home from church, hearing this had not been done, he at once sent the servant up stairs with it; but the captain, after abusing the ser vant in unmeasured language, ordered her to take it down stairs instantly. Witness then went up and said, " Well, Captain, ‘% hat a strange sort of man you are ; out of compassion, I sent up the kettle to you." The captain immediately started up, and rub bing his forehead very hard with his hand, exclaimed, " You will make me do something very terrible." Witness replied that he ought not to be going on so; upon which the prisoner seized him in a violent manner by the shoulders. Witness ran between his legs. The cap tain's spectacles dropped off, whereupon he commanded witness to take them up ; being a good deal alarmed, he did so, and placed them on the drawers. Some other scuffles ensued between the parties, and the captain finally expelled the pianoforte-maker. After some conversation between the magistrate and the captain, he was ordered to pay 10s. The captain—l have not got a farthing in my pocket. Mr. COMBS again asked him if he would leave the premises on that day, but still persisting in refusal, the magistrate said he must commit him for a week. Captain Wilson, on his way to th e ce ll, exc l a i me d , " And is this th e way a veteran officer, who has served his country for sixty years, is to be treated ?" He was, however, liberated in a few hours after, the fine and costs having been paid by one of his friends. A young man named Shiel was charged with creating a violent disturbance in the St. Pancras workhouse. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Lee, the master, that the prisoner, who has been twelve times punished for similar misconduct, is in the habit of instigating the other paupers to rebel against the workhouse discipline. On the previous day he became exceedingly riotous, and when checked by the porter, became so violent that the whole workhouse was thrown into a state of confusion. He was sent to prison for seven days. A person named Began was charged with stealing a gold chain and watch, the property of Mr. Mayell, of Titchfield-street, Sohc,, coal-merchant. The robbery was fully established, the property having been found in the prisoner's boot.—Committed for trial. MAIIYLEB WV E. On Tuesday Michael Lee, alias Molloy, a labourer, be tween forty and fifty years of age, was brought up in the custody of Sergeant Thompson, 4 D, charged with having murdered his wife, Ann Lee, by drowning her in the Paddington canal. Constable Ross, 15 D—At three o'clock yesterday, as I was passing Northumberland -street, I saw a great crowd round the workhouse door, and on inquiring what was the matter, I was informed that there was a man there who had been making away with his Rife. I went inside, and the prisoner was given into my custody ; he told me that he had not spoken to her (his wife) for the last three months, during which time they had lived apart. Ross added that the deceased had not been near her home since last Sunday night week, and he had not, as yet, had time to get witnesses together, who would, he believed, be able to prove that she and the prisoner were, on the evening of the day in question, seen drinking together, and afterwards quarrelling at Maids hill, a short distance from where the body was found. Mr. RAwurlsos remarked that he had heard quite enough to justify him in detaining the prisoner, and de sired the officers to get together all the evidence they could for the Coroner's inquest. The prisoner, on being asked if he wished to say any thing on the charge of having murdered his wife by drowning her, replied, 4 ' 1 know nothing about it ; I have seen nothing of her." Mr. RAWLINSON (to the officers)—l have n• objection at all to his bring taken before the Coroner, if his pre sence at the inquest should be required.—The prisoner was then remanded for further examination, and at five o'clock was conveyed to prison in the Government van. LAMB ETH- STREET. Tuesday William Woolston. aged 19, a mat-maker, was charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, with causing so serious an injury to the person of Elizabeth Dowell that her life is at present in serious jeopardy. From the evidence it appeared, that during the per formances at the Garrick Theatre on the preceding night, a quart stone bottle fell from the gallery on to the head of Elizabeth Dowell, a respectable young woman, who was with her mother and other friends in the pit. Such was the force with which the bottle fell, that it smashed into pieces, and in flicted no less than four serious wounds upon the head of the young woman. The sufferer was carried to the house of a neighbouring surgeon, who recom mended her immediate removal to the London Hospital. The unfortunate circumstance created a strong feeling amongst the crowded audience, it being suspected that the dangerous missile had been flung from the gallery by some mischievous person ; and Mr. Gomersal, one of the proprietors of the theatre, went on the stage, and offered a sovereign to any person who would point out to himself or his officers the person who had flung the bottle. The prisoner instantly acknowledged himself as the person to blame, but declared that the bottle had slipped from him by accident, while he was in the act of handing it to a friend to drink some beer from it. The young woman being pronounced by the surgeon who had examined her to be in a dangerous state, Mr. Gomersal felt it to be his duty to give the prisoner into custody. The prisoner repeated his former statement that the affair was perfectly accidental ; but the surgeon's certifi cate declaring the sufferer to be still in verygreat danger, the prisoner was remanded to a future day. Mr. NORTON, however, consented to take bail for his appearance. UNION-HALL. HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR THE VICTORIA MEATRE.—Two powerful-looking young fellows, named Charles Byford and George Williams, alias Luzion, were brought before Mr. Traill, charged with robbing Mr. Charles Powerie, a grocer and cheese monger, of Camberwell, of a knife and comb. Prosecutor stated that about 11 o'clock last night he wa► passing the Victoria Theatre, in the Water loo-road, and when near the Victoria Tavern he was accosted by Byford, who asked him whether his name was Jones. He replied in the affirmative, thinking that it was merely a lark, when, to his surprise, Byford seized his hands, while Wil liams put his hand in his left-hand pocket, which fortunately contained only his comb and knife. They then wanted him to enter the pulslic house and partake of a pot of beer, which he declined. They then attempted to have a dip in his other pockets, when he broke away from them and went in search of a policeman. He met 140 L in Webber•street, to whom he related the circum stances ; they then returned to the public-house, when he gave the prisoners into custody. He in formed the magistrates that if they had succeeded in emptying his right hand pocket, they would have had a good haul, as be had twenty sovereigns depo sited there. Byford denied ever seeing the prosecutor before. Williams said that he was in the public-house, wait ing for a gentleman, when the policeman entered and took him into custody. Mr. Powerie said that the latter prisoner was the man that put his hand in his pocket, and Byford held his hands. He was quite certain they were the men. Mr. TRAIL asked whether the prisoners were known:? —Coombs, 94 L, said that Byford was convicted at this court on the 21st of August last, for picking pockets at Camberwell fair. Williams, whose real name was Boatwright, he knew to be an associate with thieves of the worst d-oscription. Mr. TRAILL inquired whether there was any per son who saw the prisoners surround the prosecutor ? Mr. Powerie said that two lads witnessed the whole of the transaction. They promised to attend the court this mornin ap er., Mr. TRAILL said that he believed Williams had been convicted before for a similar affair. He re quested the officer to institute inquiries respecting him. For that purpose, and the production of wit nesses, he should remand the prisoners until to morrow (this day).—They were accordingly remanded. Thomas Davis was charged before Mr. Traill with stealing a purse, containing money, the property of Mrs. Thompson, during the fire at the terminus of the South- Eastern Railway. _ _ The complainant stated, that having occasion to pass EAST INDIA SHIPPING. tb ° Arrivals —Symmetry, Maekwood, from Cey 10 , 1 ",,40, Downs, sailed July 6, St. Helena Aug. 30 0 ,1 0 7, Granberg, from China, in the Downs, sailed A l l iDeir Batavia July 20, bound to Amsterdam ; " I ‘s c ,f,o Nicholas. from Ichaboe, at Plymouth ; Curlew, .111 56 from Algoa Bay, off Penzance, sailed July lr tbe Helena August 9 ; K ent , f rom the South Seas, Itelf Downs ; Pera, fro m I c h a b oe, at Li verpoo l , sa iled 17 ; Harriet, f r o m I c h a b oe, at C ork ; /3 Jape from Port Philip, in the River, sailed June 4 ; l e d Geary, Birnie, fro m Mauritius, in the D0wn,a9 5 4 ,314 June 26, St. H e l ena A ug . 9 ; F rances Anne, Yydeos from Singapore, off M arga t e , sa il e d J une 2, St- Aug. 24 ; Monarch, Booth, from Bombay, at Live r ' sailed May 29, St. Helena Aug. 16. t r ots Arrivals at St. Helena—Halifax, Aug. 2 u o ,.„;otbe Ichaboe, a n d sa il e d 27 t h ; h er Majesty ' s ship HY"—csl• 27th, from the coast of Africa ; Letitia, 28th, f roill frora, cutta ; Barossa, from Batavia P • Buenos AyriaP o ileo Calcutta ; J o h n C a l v i n , 28th, from Bombay, an u .„b a y 20th to London ; B er k s hi re, 29th, from BOP' Sphynx, 30th, from Ichaboe. tealO t Departures from St. H e l ena—Her Majesty ' s to Hydra, Aug 26, to Ascension ; Bangalore, 2 71„ ,to London ; Virgini a , t o G otten b urg ; Charles, 2'. Plymouth ; Unity, to --. „10 ° Departure from B a t av i a —R oya l Tar, J ul y Cowes. 24. from Arrival at Madeira—Tasmania, Black, Sept Woolwich, and sailed on the 27th to Hobart Tolr i lisonf Arrival at Melbourne, Port Philip—Ell,e, l4 g a rdie, May 27th, from H o b ar t T own. —Th e Isa b e lla' for London and L e ith, t o sa il J une 10 ; Sea ,1 ~,,n, for Liverpool, June 30. MARKET NEWS,—(YESTERDO) cOMINEXCIZANGE. roe We had only a moderate supply of Wheat of b O .O produce, yet the demand for it was in a very slegg i 4 / state, at about Monday's quotations. Foreign 'A T P' was heavy, and previous rates were with difficulty sup' ported. Malting Barley w a s ill good request, at ~' a prices ; but all other kinds were very dull. Malt,'' all other Grain, were heavy, at barely previous retell' ARRIVAL& Wheat. I Earley, I Eftlish..... ..... 1,00 qrs. /AO qrs. 1ri5h......... ..... I F0reign........,. Malt. 100 ars. 1117111ITECZAPRIa. ' 7° ..,—... •—••• We had a f a i r average t i me-of-year supply of M e a t sale, whil e th e genera l demand was heavy, on the foile , 64 lug terms;—Beef, from 2s 4d t o 3s 4d • Mutton, 23 6 ,1 to 3s Ed ; Veal, 3s 4d to 41 4d ; and Pork, 23 to 4s per Sibs. Oats. 1 SAN kat) qrs. COAL DLAZZET. A Asir' , Prices per ton a t th e c l ose o f the market :--t.--11# Main, 17s 6d ; M i ddl e ' s W est H art l ey, 19s 6 d ; 114:);, well Main, 19s 6d ; Ord Redh eug h, 16 s ; Old 1"1,„ „ t 15s 6d • Townley, 17s 6d ; W est W y l am, 17s ; Bewicke and Co.'s, 22s 6d ; W. E. Clark and u ° '"„" 19s 6d ; W. E. Hader's. 21s 6d ; W. E. E. Hett°l)'-: 22s ; W. E. Hetton's, 24 s 6d ; W . E . Lambton's, 26, W. E. Maclean's Tees, 21s. Ships arrived since Monday' STATE OP TRADE.—Owing to the apprehensil generally entertained, of disputes between the W e , people and their empl o y ers, t h ere has been an active lutjt wand both for goods an d yarn ; and prices of both, , especially of the latter, are very buoyant this week.l , ROCEDALE FLANNEL AIARILET.—The flannel warn has been again dull, and the sales limited. There is l c , little alteration in the wool market ; manufacturers c „ not appear eager t o p urc h ase, pro b a b ly expecting, be fo re long, a fall in price. Manchester Guardian. hat ,;.We are very happy i n b e i ng a bl e to announce t-, the herring fishery off th e S out h F oreland has, up 1";$6 time of the present gale, been very successful, and 1, 1 0 many of our boats hare participated in the success. h t trust it may continu e , an d th at i t may be followe d . 1 good fishing during th e next month, when the boats wl be at home, whe r e th e earn i ngs are so much required- --- Brighton Guardian [ADVERTISDNEINT.]—AN EXTRAORDINARY Ate " DAVIT MADE BES ORE MI LORD IiATOR common/ 1 v SURPRISING CURB IMPUTED BY HOLLOWAY'S 0 1 ' .:n /LENT AND Paz.a I—James Stanley, living at LC:014: Ditton, made an affidavit before th e L or d May at the Mansion-house, on the 14th instant; ho t the purport that he had been upon crutches, and . 7hs for two years, with 26 holes in one le g and 14 in "„, : y other ; that he had been into two hospitals and got i t relief ; and that, after every other means had failed, a had been radically cured by "Holloway's Ointment 1 3 Pills." Sold at the Establishment of Professor Hollovit 244, Strand (wher e a d v i ce may b e had gratis), And 4 almost all respectable vendors of medicine through ( ' the civilised world. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., the l a dy o f W . S aurin Cox, Esq. , °f 1 daughter, still-born. 1 On the 13th inst., at Sidmouth, Devonshire, the lady °I . Whittle, Esq., of a son, still-born. n• On the 13th inst., a t D u l w i c h, M rs. John Bouch, o f s I° 4 On the 13th inst., Mrs. J. L. B arc l ay, New Bridge - s treet , of a son. On the 14th inst., at Watlington House, Reading, 31rs Frederick Purvis, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Herne-hill, Mrs. J. D. Welch, of 19° 1 , 11 ; On the 14th inst., a t P ar k- street, Grosvenor-square, "" lady of Major -General Frederick, C. 8., of a son. MARRIED. the On the 10th i ns t., a t T un b r id ge -wells, at the Church 0- f , 0 Holy Trinity, th e R ev. R o b ert Merry, A.M., Vicar of Gull° ter Morden, Cambridgeshire, to Mary a n ne , y ounges t daub of the late E. Rees, Esq., of Clifton. On the 11th inst., at West Farleigh, F re d er i c k Nimble Esq., of the Rectory, East Mailing, to A nn , d aug hter of til e late John Miller, Esq., of Yalding. DID. On the 11th inst., Elinor E st her, the daughter of Bir• Bodge, of Great Marlborough -street. On the 4th inst., a t Bl ac k hall-place, Dublin, Mrs. Christo" ot . pher Irwin, relict of C a pt a i n I rwin. late of the 88th Regir,,el On the 9th inst., in Castle -town, I s l e o f Man, 31.c:otb Spencer, Esq., fo r m er ly a C aptain in her Majesty's •'" Regment. On the 9th inst., at Fawsley, Elizabeth, wife of Wil lis° Lee, Esq., of Chesha m - s t reet. n the 10th inst., Richard Stileman, Esq , of the Fria rs ' Winchelsea. On the 10th inst., a t C u l tra, i n the county of Down, Willis° Cairns, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Princes-street, Cavendisb - se re c i Charlotte, relict of the late Thomas Howard, Esq., 31 ' Uxbridge, aged 93. ciao On the 12th i ns t., i n S a li s b ury -street, Strand, Mark O s Rainals, Esq., aged 32. ' On the 12th i ns t., at Cl aremont-place, Pentonvtlle Cowley, aged 74. On the 12th in s t., a t Thi rza-place. Old Kent-road, Esther , relict of the late W. Hall, Esq., aged 97. On the 13th i ns t . , at Rochester, the Rev. John Fuller Spent;, 8.A., Curate of Eastry and Worth. On the 12th i nst., at the H i ghway, Enfield, Robert Oroobit the infant son of Dr. John Jameson. On the 13th i ns t . , H annah, the widow of the late Cholo Smith, of Paternoster -row. On the 13th i ns t., i n W ilton-place, Adam Orford , the - eldelS son of Adam Bromilow, Esq., barrister-at-law. On the 13th i ns t., at Kingston-upon-Thames, Sar ah' relict of the late G. Roots, Esq. of London: Printed and Published by MURDO TO,.„"'T No. 112,. Strand, Printer, at The Sun Of6oe, Strand, in the Product of nu +I,A ("Altai the Bricklayers' Arms, on Monday night, she felt $ b • in her pock e t. O n turning round she o b ser ved the:o soner and a little b o y, th e latter of whom ra n sl33° tis the crowd and escaped, but she called out and ge" prisoner into custody. til ° A witness stood forward, who stated that he $ll , boy thrust his hand into the complainant's draw forth a purse, which he handed over to the P o , soner, and then ran away. The prisoner, howele r ':k trived to get rid of theurse on being taken into ee° The prisoner said t hat he went to look at the fire , that he knew nothing about the stealing of the Pll - he had no companion. poekew . of A policeman said the prisoner was the aseee .. .„ ls Tot thieves, and th a t h e an d t h e boy alluded to were Acb -- 0 o f pickpocket s , an d always hovering about the ter m° the railway. Mr. TRAILL remanded the prisoner until the be taken into custody. • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. If LONDON, OCT. 16.—Wind fresh breeze from and cloudy. It rained heavily throughout the nigh t , continued till 8 A.M. 4 ) c „ ho c k GLOUCESTER, OCT. Is.—Arrd. Express, New Brunswick; William Pritchard, Richebucto. PENZANCE, OCT. 14.—A quantity of Lisbon ° have washed ashore on the eastern coast of this n o STRANGFORD, OCT. 13.—The Ann, M'Cartnei , os Maryport t o B e lf ast , w hi ch was strande d ne ar he re the 9th inst., has been got off and brought in here ' tee LIVERPOOL, OCT. 15.—Wi n d W.S. W., in° de ,,'"Seir Arrd. Antonio, Courfoot, Callao; Olinda, Bo" doe Orleans; Ri c h ar d Anderson, Bennett, Virginia; S °s 4o, hanna, Migicken, Phil a d e l p hi a; John Bottom, Sll* Quebec. Sld. Hope, Africa; Quest, Savannah. , t , SR WATERTORD, OCT. 13.—A rr d. J o h n , M.t.irs r : - Ib e s John's, New Brunswick; Rose M acroon , White, 411 14ef BELFAST, OCT. 13.--Arrd. John White, Gurney' Brunswick, with loss of deck load, bulwarks, he- c ,.. LONDONDERRY, OCT. 9.—A rr d. El g i n , Cook, 1-7,3 ;0 hr drew's, New B runsw i c k ; F rances, M'Droittv bucto ; Marquis Abercorn, Quebec. Sid. 8ri0„,," 0 , St. Andrew's ; British Q ueen , S t . J o h n ' s , New ns wick. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 14.—Arrd. R am bl er , 011e beC ' LEITH, OCT. 14.--Sld. Urania, IcbAboe tto CLYDE, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Benares, London. Arrd Dzal., OCT. Is.—Wi n d W.S.W., strong. — doe, Granberg, China, for Amst er d am; symmetry , 0 0, wood, Ceylon ; Clarinda, Peel°, Demerara Col , A.ntigua ; Prince R u p ert , H u d son ' s Bay ; :Vdep (Jambia. for ItaxsoATE, OCT. 15.—Arrd. Liverpool, London Maita, with loss of sails and bulwarks. "s all/1 Arrd. Abby Bak er , L on d on f or B oston, w i th PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Wi n d W.S.W., Eq u 0 i sails. Put b ac k, O r i enta l , f or China, having exPe—e eed heavy weather in the Channel. PLYMOUTH, OC T . 15.—Wi n d W . S .W— A rru A A . ---c p' Nicholas, Ichaboe. Princess Victoria, London, f or 01 7 fax. put ba c k w i t h t h ree feet water in her hold, bo re from lon. 18. 0 FALMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Wind W.S.W., fres h JO' squally.—Arrd. Tenedos, Gr a h am , C a ll ao , on Ar e 100,000 dollars. • I° Cht HULL, OCT. 15.—The brig Greenwood, of Ipso' ashore near Che-ness. A 10 LOWEITONIX.—Th e sc h ooner Lyd i a, of Sun itio* has been towed in h ere i n a very shattere d 00 0 having been dismasted in a heavy squall, off Orfor0:00 SOUTHWOLD, OCT. 15.—A schooner dismasti o d towed past here thi s morn i ng f or Yarmout h , by our boats. S Np Cii th; Akt 43,,,