The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-29 00:00:00

APPALLING SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. The fearful gales from the N.W. and N.E. that hat , e prevailed for the last week, have occasioned the most distressing casualties off all parts of the coast. Already intelligence has been received of the loss of upwards of 30 coasting vessels, and many homeward bound foreign ones, with wealthy cargoes. The gales commenced on the morning of Thursday week, and continued up to Wednesday. In the Channel their effects were truly frightful. At Bide . ford, on Monday night, two vessels were totally lost within sight of the shore, and both crews, with the exception of one man, perished. One was a schooner, or what is called a brigantine, named the Albion, belonging to Brixham, laden with iron. Her loss took place on the sramstone Sands, and when discovered she lay on her beam-ends, with her mats gone, and the sea sweeping over her deck. In a few hourse she broke up, and totally disappeared. Another vessel, a large barque, also was driven ashore, and but for the prompt arrival of the life-beat, which took the crew off the rigging and landed them, they would have met with a watery grave. In the vicinity of the coast of St. Mumble' s Head, and Cardigan Bay, the casualties were of a most fearful character, upwards olforty lives having, it is supposed, perished on board one vessel. All the information that has been received, which was Irons the Coast Guard, who state that large fragments of a large vessel, about 600 tons, were, at daybreak, on Friday morning, discovered by them washed upon the beach a short distance from St. Mumble's Head, and they had every reason to believe it to have been the same vessel which they saw in the offing on the previous evening attempting to run in for shelter. There were between thirty and forty persons seen on her deck at the time, and should she prove to be the same, no doubt every soul has been lost. Another wreck is known to have occurred near the harbour during the same night. The general belief is, that she foundered with all hands, and she is ex pected to be the Dora. Further along the coast, the north of Cardigan, a • shocking sight was witnessed. At one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the wind blowing terrifically, the Victory, fro it Penmaudre, struck on the bar in thirty feet water. The crew ran up the rigging and lashed themselves to the topmast, which was out of water, where the poor fellows remained, with the sea beating over them, for sixteen hours before the life-boat could venture out to rescue them. When brought ashore they were in a miserable state of suffering. About five miles eastward of Cardigan harbour, a fourth wreck occurred, viz., that of the Margaret and Mary, of Aberystwith. It was discovered by one of the Coast Guard on Monday morning, who perceiving a roast-head protruding from a cave under a high cliff, immediately proceeded to the spot and found it to be a wreck. The master, Mr. Jones, was found on the rocks dead and also a seaman dreadfully bruised; the rest of the crew were drowned. She was from Drogheda, laden with limestone. A disastrous and total wreak took place on the rocks in Ccmaes Bay, on the north coast of Anglesey, witnessed by more than two thousand persons, who hid been attracted by the heavy firing of the signal guns of the unfortunate vessel. She was barque rigged, about 400 tons burden, and called the Frankland, Captain E. C. Friend, master, laden with hides, sugar, cotton, and other merchandise, and was lost within a few hours' sail of her destination— Liverpool—after a favourable passage from Bahia. The particulars of the melancholy event will be found in the subjoined statement of the commander. He states—" The barque under my command arrived from Bahia, off the above coast at two o'clock in the morning of the 18th instant, with the wind S.W., or off the shore, and a moderate tweeze, the ship standing along shore under all sail for the pilot station, when the wind suddenly shifted, with a violent blast, into the N.E. quarter, and the ship in con sequence became close on a lee shore, and, a tremendous gale coming on instantly, the only resource we had was to let go the anchors under the lee of the Middle Mouse and cut away all the masts. This was immediately done, and by the time the ship held, her stern was only 50 yards from the rocks, with a most dreadful sea breaking on them, and there seemed not the slightest chance of any of our lives being saved. The ship fortunately held on till day light, by which time our guns and other signals of distress attracted many persons to the cliff, some of whom promptly came down on the rocks, at a great risk, to aid us. After many ineffectual attempts to get a line on shore, I was enabled to throw a hand lead, attached to the log line, on to the shelf of a rock, where Robert Griffith and Richard Owen, having lashed a rope to themselves, succeeded in reaching it with a boot-hook and line. I must here mention the gallant conduct of a youth named Owen Highland, who, seeing the line foul of a projecting rock, watched the receding of the sea, and rushed out, at the risk of his life, to clear it, when a tremend ous sea broke many feet over him, hut, on its passin g o ff, we an d t h e ieople on the cliff were hippy to see he had clung to the rock, and, watching his opportunity, he reached the shore, and climbed up the cliff before another sea overtook him, and, although he rendered us no service, his intrepid conduct cannot be too much p-aised. The line was afterwards blown clear, and by it another one and a hawser were sent on shore, and carried up to the cliffs, by which means the crew were, one by one, hauled up in safety, one of the cables having previously parted, and the vessel being within a few feet of the rocks, in peril of being instantly dashed to pieces whenever the one should part, which event took place about two hours after, and in less than five minutes the ship was shivered to atoms against the cliffs, killing a large Newfoundland dog and other animals I had on board." It will be seen that the vessel is a perfect loss, and the unfortunate crew lost everythin g they possessed, with the exception of the clothes they had on. It is reported that tha amount of the loss of the ship and cargo will exceed 20,0001. Along the same coast, off Pwllheli, Aberystwith, and Portwllaen, a number of other casualties hap pened. At the latter port, a boat, marked " Three Brothers," of Liverpool, was washed up on the beach, as also several timbers and a piece of a vessel's figure head. It is feared that they be longed to vessels lost 'luring the storm. The ship laels the Ranter, from Glasgow, put in for shelter on Sunday, having been struck by a tremenoous sea the day before, which swept the decks of their boats, b ilwarks, &c., and carried overboard two seamen, named Neil and M'Eachern, belonging to Islay, and Christopher Growley, a native of Belfast, both of whom were drowned. The collier lost on Friday last, near Bowcastle, is supposed to have been from I3.deford. Her unhappy crew acted bravely to save le r, but the situation they brought her up in (cer tainly the only chance they had of preserving her), and in such a gale and sea, it was utterly impossible to rescue her from destruction, and at ten o'clock at night her cables snapped, and she was carried among the rocks, where she soon became a wreck. The coast guard, under tne direction of Mr. Annis, the chief officer at the station at Bowcastle, rendered every assistance, which, unfortunately, was much litn!ted, in consequence of the dreadful serf. All be longing to her, excepting one man, met with a watery grave. The poor fellow remains in such a state as to be unable to furnish any.facts concerning the loss. The effect of the gale on the north coast, from the mouth of the Thames to Scotland, appears to have been as disastrous as in the Channel. About sixteen miles to the north-east, of the Ninth Foreland, on a dangerous sand, called the Kentish Knock, and India man, called the Woodman, Capt. Good, from Bombay, was driven on it in the height of the storm on Satur day morning, her crew and passengers escaping in a very teiraculous manner. Had the weather abated, there would have been some probability of getting her off, but the continuance of the gale caused her to be a total wreck. Between forty and fifty bales of cotton belonging to her cargo floated out, which have been picked up and landed at Ramsga'e and Deal. ller logs is said to amount to near 30,0001. Off Har wich, Lowes.:offe, Yarmouth, Bridlington, and other ports along the coast, the traders and colliers sus tained extensive damage. At Bridlington, the bay presented a most animated scene, by the number of vessels running in for shelter. There were upwards or too hundred at one period, the chief, portion of which had lost anchors, cables, boats, bulwarks, and round houses, by their decks being swept by the surf. Near the Hasborough light a brig called the Idea, bound to Limerick from the north, with a cargo of coals, drove on to the s•ind3, when she immediately capsized, the crew barely having time to cut away the boat and leap in 'o it be.ore the succeeding wave took her off into deep water, and then she immediately foundered. The crew were subsequently picked up and landed at Yar mouth in the most destitute condition, having lost all they possessed. At Redcar for three days it blew with terrific violence, and on Sunday evening, a vessel, supposed to be the brig Commerce, of Stockholm, Mr. Li s t er , master, foundered to the southward of the harbour, and every soul of her perished. A vessel seeing her g, down bore down to her it the hope of picking up some of the uefsrtunate creatures; but none were to b-. seen. She had sai!ed from the Tees on the pre vious IVeineslay from Dundee, laden with coals, and the inference is that the captains, finding the gale con firming, endeavoured to return, and in doing so suet wit 1 her unfortunate loss. One of the crew was washed on shore on the following day, and was re cognised as being a native of that place. No other ..,...,„_buitiee have been picked up. PlIA' rf . ' ',lere'arlivhere the ill-fated Margaret, Hull steamer, .r. ". 7,AK awl all belonging to h e r, was l os t— on t h e D utc h coas t , near Norden, where the gale was fearful—another wreck, of nearly as appalling,a character, occurred— viz., the total loss of an English vessel, supposed to be 1i5b.,... the Bellona, from Jersey. The vessel was discovered ‘,,,, early on the morning of Thursday, lying bottom up "- ware pistllF sands o f N or d ena y ; an d , f rom subse , • ~. el. en inquiries, it has been ascertained that all her crew perished, and no portion of her e trgo has been saved. Amongst the fragments ' that were washed on shore were found some papers and two bills of exchange—one drawn in Palermo, on the 4th of October, 1845, for 751., by G. Dickinson, on Lewis Reis, payable on Power and Co., London; the other is dated Messina, dated Oct. 21, 1845, for, 801., by G. Hopkins, on Iris and Co. The number supposed to have perished is 14 or 16. Further up the same coast, four other vessels were lost, the exact particulars attending which have not as yet been received. A steamer belonging to the port of London is re- , ported to be missing, and strong fears are entertained that she was lost during the gale, with all hands, while on her passage from the river to Bremen. She is called the Tom Bowline, and it appears that she left on the 11th inst., and nothing has since been heard of her. The above, it is feared, forms but a small number of the disasters consequent upon the gales. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LAUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON. On Tuesday a meeting of this company was held at the White Hart Inn, Launceston, for the purpose of consi dering the propriety of altering the line from the old route, by way of Milton Abbott, to Lydford, there to join with the North Devon line, and thus unite the Corn- wall and the North Devon lines together. Mr. Thomas John Phillips, of Landue, the chairman of the commit tee, presided, and there were present Mr. Thomas Gill, M.P. (chairman of the South Der.m), Messrs T. Wool cambe (director of the South Devon), H. Pethick, M.D., Thomas Pearse, S. R. Pattison, John Rundle, of Tavis tock, T. S. Fyre, S. F. Smith, W. R. Dewy, W. Pearse, John Huxham, R. F. Frost (mayor of Launceston), C. C. Whiteford, of Plymouth, C. Gurney, John Ching, R. Dingley,Edmoad Pearse, of Tavistock, and other gentle. men. Mr. C. GURNEY, one of the solicitors of the line, stated that in the first place it was their intention to change the line from this place to Tavistock, to go by way of Bren Tor instead of Milton Abbott. In consequence of the North Devon and Cornwall parties having deter mined to unite in the formation of a central line, and to carry that central line towards Bridestowe and Oko hampton, and for another line to be carried towards Tavistock from Exeter and the north of Devon, it was obvious that that would be a competing line with any line by way of Milton Abbott ; and they should not have any of the central traffic, for the Milton line would take none of the central traffic, and a portion of the traffic from Launceston to Plymouth would be as likely to go via Bren Tor as by Milton. This line being between the Cornwall at Launceston, and the North Devon at Bren Tor, they should take over that line all the traffic that passed from Exeter to the north of Devon one way, and all that passed from the Cornwall to Exeter the other way. It must be obvious that such a line as this would be a very valuable paying one. The other question referred to the mode in which the money was to be raised. The estimated cost of the line, by Mr. Brunel, was 300,0001. That was a very different sum to that required fur the old line. It must be obvious that a line, with very considerably increased traffic, would require a very different construction to that ofa line of such small traffic, or for the local traffic between Launceston and Plymouth. It therefore became necessary to have an estimate made of the expense of this line, and see what capital would be required. Mr. Brunel had furnished that, and considered that 300,0001. would be sufficient. Of this sum, 200,0001 would be contributed by the North Devon Company and by the shareholders, and 100,0001. by the South Devon Com pany. the reason for allowing the North Devon so large an interest in it was, because of the large quantity of their traffic that would pass over it. The old line was to have cost 65,000/. If the shareholders in that line thought proper, each of them could take another share of 251. at par. But if they did not choose to take it, the money which they had paid on their deposits should be returned to them, after de ducting the shareholders' quota of the expenses already incurred in the prosecution of the old Bill. The North Devon and the South Devon Companies would each pay 10/. per cent. on all the shares allotted to them on this line, so that there would be 30,000/. paid up in the com mon fund, out of which, if the old shareholders con tinued to hold, the whole of the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the old and new Bills would be defrayed. Those who withdrew would not have the benefit of con tribution from the companies, but would have to pay their proportion of the old expenses. Mr. Gurney said he had no doubt that ultimately the Bill would be passed, though the sections, owing to one of the parties in Lon don being unable to complete his contract, had not been lodged in time. This, however, was a matter which Lord Fortescue said had been looked over in the last session of Parliament in the case of the Monmouth and Hereford line, where there was competition, and he ex pected that it would be looked over also in this, espe cially as it was a matter in which no person would be in the slightest degree injured. Mr. GILL thought it was the more probable that Par liament would pass over this omission from the circum stance that this line would form the c ,nnecting line in one great scheme of railway communication between one county and another. He also thought that the Corn wall line, which had been merely sent back by the House of Lords for emendation, would , be sure to pass both Houses, and that that would facilitate the passing of the Launceston and Tavistock Bill. Mr. WOOLCOMBE said there was another point for consideration. The North Devon Cempany had deter mined to carry on this project, so that if the Launceston Company dropped it, it would be taken up by the North Devon. If the scheme were dropped now, the whole of the money expended in the prosecutio❑ of the old Bill would be entirely lost to the shareholders. They would thus go to Parliament with the new Bill not only for the purpose of strengthening themselves, but also of pro tecting theinsvlves from the loss of money already em barked in the undertaking. Mr. WHITEFORD added, that the Directors would not deem it prudent to abandon the old Bill till they saw the position in which the new Bill would be circumstanced in Parliament ; and, until the old Bill was so abandoned, the shareholders' obligations of expenses would not cease. Observations were made by some shareholders as to the time that should be allowed fur declaring whether they would withdraw or go on. The corn mittee, in reply, said that they would give the longest notice that the forms of the House would admit of. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolutions to the meet ing, set iatim. They were carried unanimously, and were to the following effect : " That the proposed deviation be adopted. That toe capital of 300,000/. required for the line now proposed be raised in 12,000 shares of 251. each, in the following manner. The sum of 200,000/. to be contributed by the North Devon and the general shareholders, the latter not to exceed 100,0001. ; and the remaining 100,0001. to he contributed by the North Devon, if they shall think fit to do so, otherwise that amount to be added to the contribution of the South Devon. That the por tion of the capital to be contributed by the general shareholders be raised by allowing each holder of a 501. share to take one share of 25/. at pa*. That to make up the deposit of 104 per cent. re quired by the standing orders of Parliament, a call of 5 per cent. be made on the old capital, on which 5 per cent. has been already paid, and a deposit of 10 per cent. taken on the additional subscriptions. That the accounts be prepared of the expenditure of the company in respect of the Bill up to the time of abandoning the same. Any shareholder not willing to retain an interest in the pndertaking may receive back the amount of his depo&it subject to a rateable deduction for the expense incurred.'; NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. On Tuesday last, a meeting was held at the George IV. Inn, Nottingham, for the purpose of appointing one or more persons to receive notices, and to act in all matters on behalf of the freemen, inhabitants, and the occupiers of Old Toftsteads, in the town of Nottingham, with reference to an application to Parliament for an Act to empower the formation of a railway from the Midland Railway through the towns. of Nottingham, Ba.sford, Lenton, and other places, to Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield. The business at this meeting was not of much public interest, as the appointments were pro fornici, but some few particulars cause out that it may be necessary the public should be acquainted with. At the time the plans, sections, and other documents connected with this railway should have been lodged with the clerk of the peace, it was found that several sheets of the section had been abstracted from the lithographer's office, and therefore its completion was retarded several hours, and consequently could not be lodged with the clerks of the peace at Chesterfield and Newark until two o'clock on the morning following. Since that period it has been discovered that the sheets so abstracted had been taken by a party connected with another line of railway pass ing over a portion of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Railway, who has actually deposited the same as part of his line, at the office of the clerk of the peace at Newark, with the initials B. N. S. substituted for the initials of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid land Junction Railway. The gentleman who has thus acted has endeavoured to apologise for his conduct. It seems that, notwithstanding this mishap, the directors of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction have prosecuted their course, and have served all the necessary notices, and only awaited the meeting held on this occasion, to serve the representative of the freemen inhabitants and occupiers of Old Tofisteads. The meeting was attended by the principal members of the Freemen's Rights Committee and several inter ested parties, who unanimously appointed Mr. R. Whit church to act on their behalf. AMBER GATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON, ♦ND EASTERN JuNcTiox.—A meeting for a similar object - to the one for which the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid land Railway Junction had been held, took place the same day, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham, when Mr. R. Whitchurch, Chairman of the Nottingham Freemen's Rights Committee, was appointed on behalf of the freemen to eact in all matters connected with the above railway in which the freemen may be concerned. CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY COMMITTEES. _ CAMBRIDGE, WEDNESDAY.—A meeting of the Rail way Committee took place yesterday at one o'clock, at the Guildhall, the Mayor in the chair. About thirty members were present, among whom were several of the beads of houses, and other members of the university. The clerk, U. RarrcE,Esq., having read the minutes of the last meeting, he said that in reply to letters he had sent to the secretaries of different railway companies connected with Cambridge, he had received answers:-1. From the Cambridge and Colcheater Company, who said that they should require no land within three miles of Cambridge, and that the present station would serve that purpose, 2. From the Bedford and London, who r said that their extension line would join the Cambridge line near the Hills' Road, and the Eastern Counties sta tion would be used by them. 3. From the Direct North ern, who said that their line would n e ith e r p ass thro ug h or by Cambridge. 4. From the Lincoln and East ern Counties Junction, who intended to use the present station, and would join the Eastern Counties at Chester ton. 5. From the Midland and Eastern Counties, who replied that they had not yet made their arrangements, and could not answer the queries proposed to them. 6. From the Cambridge and Oxford, which would consider the questions asked at their earliest meeting. 7. From the Eastern Counties, the secretary of which wrote that the company was desirous of consulting the interests of the university and the town, and if any difference of opinion prevailed on the subject of a central station, they would be obliged by the earliest information on the subject, as at present their arrangements for the enlargement of the present station were suspended. The ground they would require would be from the corner of the Hills-road-bridge to about one hundred yards down the road, and a piece on the east side of the station about one acre altogether, the present station then would be large enough for a central station. 8. From the Newmarket and Chesterford Company, whom a rather mystical letter said that their line would be the only one between Bury and Cambridge. They would use the present station. 9. From the Ipswich and Bury, which line would also run into the present station. The question of a central station then came to be dis cussed, and an immense quantity of talking took place, the result of which was the adoption of the following re solution, proposed by Mr. E. Foster, and seconded by Mr. Cooper, " That under existing circumstances there does not appear any practicable mode of obtaining, a ge neral central station, and that the convenience of the public would be greatly consulted by an enlargement of the present Eastern Counties station, and by the com pany affording public access thereto by way of the east road, near the town gaol." • This having been carried, on the motion of Mr. SMITE, seconded by Mr. LOVETT, the following words were added to the resolution—" With a passenger station on the east-road, near the town gaol" The MAYOR exhibited a plan of his proposed station on Butt-Areen, and explained the nature of it, but the committee appeared generally to deem the site very ineligible, and no motion was made respecting it. The committee rose at three o'clock. COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD DIRE JUNCTION RAIL W AY. On Tuesday last a public meeting of the shareholders of the above company, specially called by circular, was held at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamingt9n, to consider the posiiioh in which the company was placed by a refusal on the part of the promoters of the rival undertaking to carry out certain terms of amalgamation previously determined upon. The meeting was attended by several highly respectable individuals, amongst whom were Sir Fortunatus Dwarris, J. Meredith, Esq., J. H. Thorne, Esq., J. M. Cottle, Esq., Dr. Homer, J. W. K. Eyton, Esq., &c. &c. After a protracted discussion, in the course of which the Chairman (Sir Fortunatus Dwarris) detailed at length the position of the undertaking, the following resolutions were unanimously passed : The meeting having had laid before them the agree ment" for an amalgamation with the Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent Railway Company, and heard a full statement of the facts contained in the case sub mitted to counsel, with his opinion thereon, which fully justifies the acts and proceedings of the committee, and having also heard the statement of the chairman and members of the committee, is of opinion that the Coventry committee have been guilty of a breach of faith towards this company, and have assumed to them selves an unwarrantable authority in refusing to adiiiit a portion of this committee into their council, pursuant to the terms of the agreement of amalgamation. " Resolved,—That the best thanks of this meeting are due, and that they are hereby presented to the com mittee, for the firm and manly exertions they have made to uphold the character and protect the property and privileges of the several shareholders. " That the unjustifiable conduct of the Coventry com mittee having been the means of preventing this com pany from going to Parliament for their own separate Bill, this committee be hereby fully authorised and directed to employ counsel, and adopt all such legal measures as they may deem expedient, by petition or otherwise, to oppose the Coventry Bill through ell its stages." FOREIGN LINES. COLOGNE AND MINDEN.—A letter, dated Cologne (Prussia), D..c. 17, states that on the morning before yesterday, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the railway from that city to Minden was inau gurated. On that occasion the Count de Wittgenstein, president of the company by which the railway was con structed, pronounced a discourse, in which he thanked the Government for having overcome the obstacles oppos ing the establishment of this line, which, branching to the railway in full construction in the kingdom of flan over, will put our province in direct communication with the Hanseatic towns, with the ports of the North Sea, and consequently will contribute powerfully to the deve lopment of the commerce of all the Rhenish countrif s. INCREASE OF IRON WORKS IN FRANCE.—The Echo de Valenciennes states that the same tffeet produced in Belgium upon the forges is felt on the French frontier. The furnaces of the arrondissements of Valenciennes and of Avesnes, which were either languishing or extinct, are renewed, and, moreover, new ones, are being con ' structed. To the third furnace in erection at the Demon establishment, a second, built at the forges of Berbsimont, taken by the proprietors of Montalaire, is about to be put in operation, if it is not so already. M. Dumont, of let riere, also erects another furnace, and the same is being done at the establishment of la Providence (Charleroi), while there are thoughts of doubling them in the north. The railway fever appears to be the cause of this increase. PARIS AND LYONS.—When the inquiry opened in conformity with the law upon the projected plan for the direction to be taken by the Paris and Lyons line at its entrance into Paris, and the establishment of the station upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de hi Bastille, numerous complaints, objections, and protests, were placed upon the register relative to the suppression of the Rue Traversike and to several works of art to be made upon the Rues Moreau, Mazes, &c. In consequence of these complaints to the Commission of Inquiry, com posed of the Prefect of the Seine, Messrs. Perrier, Perret, Moreau, Galio, the Mayor of the Eighth Arrondisse ment, and of Messrs. Jullien and Delarue, the engineers, it has been decided that the terminus, instead of b. in k ; built upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, shall be in the Rue Mazas ; that a square shall be opened in that street, in face of the station ; that from this place to that of the Bastille a large and fine street shall be made, if the pro prietors will make a gift of the ground ; and that in con sequence of these arrangements the Rues Moreau and Traversilre shall preserve their present state. In conse quence of these determinations, and by decree of the Prefect of the Seine, anoth er an d a fi na l inquiry, which will last until the 26th, has been opened at the Prefec ture of the Seine, where the plan and the deliberations of the commission d'enquae are open km public inspec tion. STRASBURG AND BALE.—In November last the num ber of passengers conveyed on the above line was 56,297, and tie receipts from that source amounted to 112.088 f. 15c. For the conveyance I , f luggage 4,046 f. 66c. was received, and for merchandise 54,613 f. 50c. ; total, 170,748 f. 31c. Adding to this the sum of 5,904 f. 64c., the receipts of the Mulhouse and Therm line, the total returns of the railway amounted in he above-men tioned month to 176,652 f. 95c. In the corresponding month of 1844 the receipts amounted to 171,885 f. Sc. An ordinance, of the King of the French opens for the Minister of Public Works a credit of 2,000,000 francs, for loans and grants to the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen and Ilavre•Railway Companies. TOURS AND HOWFLEUR.—M. Malachy Daly, banker, of Paris, has written to several of the Paris papers, com plaining of the statement contained in an English pro spectus, and-thence copied into the Jourpal des Chemins de Fer,- that he was banker for the Tours and Ilonfleur Railway Company. In complaining of the liberty taken with his name, M. Daly says that, not only has no call for funds been made, but the company has not yet been even formed. PARIS AND VERSAILLES. --PROSECTED WESTERN LINE (07 FRANCE).—The shareholders in the Paris and Versailles Railway Company (right bank) held a general meeting recently, for the purpose of receiving .from the Board of Directors an account of the steps taken, con formably with the resolutions of the 27th of March last, to obtain the concession of a railway to the west. The assembly was composed of more than the number of shareholders required by the statutes to render the re solutions valid. The number of shares represented being 11,970, the meeting was opened and declared regularly constituted. The various documents relative to the pro ceedings of the directors were then read, and also a re port of the steps they had taken, not only with respect to their agreement with the company of the left bank, but to the negotiations commenced with the Government, and the statement submitted to the commission of the Chamber of Deputiei charged with the examination of the profit de laconcerning the concession of the Western Railway. The measures taken by the mixed commis sion of the two companies, formed of three members from the left bank and.. of two from the right batik, were agreed upon unanimously. This unanimity is a good proof of the harmony existing between the two com panies. As to the. negotiatiens commenced with the Government, they had proceeded as far as to the sig nature of a convention provisoire, which assured to the two companies united the direct. concession of the Western Railway. The ratification by the Chambers was the sole thing wanting to complete this convention, and there is reason to hope that this ratification will be given in the commencement of the next session, now that the meeting has accorded to the directors the ne cessary powers to treat definitively for the concession of this line. It was but a matter of form, and of powers de clared to be sufficient by the company and declared in sufficient by the Commission of the Chamber, which pre vented some months ago the conclusion of arrangements relative to the Western Railway. The Legislative Cam mission expressed an opinion that it was nenessary that the two Versailles companies should be dissolved, and re-constituted one company, in order that the concession of the Western Railway might be made to them legally. The companies, on the contrary, thought that they cou'd offer for the line without changing their present position The Chamber did not pronounce upon this point, but as this question might be raised again in the next session, the council of the company, in order to guard against difficulties, required the powers necessary to conclude definitively, were it even to dissolve the existing com pany and form a new one, in the manner explained in the report of M. Lacrosse. The meeting approved of the reports made, and gave to the directors the fullest powers, especially to dissolve the 'society, if they found occasion to do so.—From the Journal des Chemins de Fer. KOENIGSBERG. DEC. 1 I.—By a Cabinet order of the 25th of last month, the King decrees the formation of a commission for the building of the two bridges over the Vistula and Vogat, for the Dinsburg and Berlin Railway. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9 1845. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BAIVERCPTCY, Dec. 27. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) 151ARSHALL v. CULLEN. The defendant, Edward Biaufort Cullen, who ad mitted himself to be the pro i tector of a company called "'The Great British Advertiser, and United Kingdom Broad Sheet," was summoned, under the Small Debts Act, for 151. _ _ _ It appeared that the defendant was discharged by this Court under the Act about twelve months back, at which time he owed a debt for lodging, and had renewed the debt, paying 101, and giving his acceptance for 15/, which had been paid away to Mr. Marshall, who had sued the defendant thereon. Thedefendant was examined on the present occasion on his oath. He said he had formerly been in the army, and now received assistance from his friends, who resided in Ireland. In answer to a question whether he was or was not at the present time connect. d with a company, he said he was secretary to a newspaper company, on which he had spent a large sum of money. It was " The Great British Advertising Company." It was an undertaking on his own account. He was the originator and proprietor of the concern. The person to whom the defendant had given the bill said he showed him about 1001. when he paid him the 101., and the reason he did not pay him all was because he wanted to open a banking account, showing him a prospectus of a company. Mr. Commissioner GouLBURN decided the case by saying that the defendant must pay 1/. a month or go to prison. The defendant made no objection to the order. IN RE GRAHAM AND CO. To-day was appointed for the proof of debts and choice of assignees, under the bankruptcy of George Graham and Co., warehousemen, in Cheapside. Gra!tam, the senior partner, had committed suicide a few days back, on account of his railway speculations. M‘Farlane, another partner, had absconded ; and Adams, the other partner, had surrendered to the fiat. The debts and liabilities of the con•:ern are calculated at about 40,000 L, the stock in trade about 9,000 L, and the good debts about 10,0001. There is a large quantity of scrip," in which deposits to about 7001. have been paid. Mr. Lawrence, as solicitor for Adams, who was pre sent, made an application to the Court to allow him the expenses of an accountant, in order to make out the re quired account. Adams, who had not mixed himself with the speculations of the other two, had surrendered, but he was totally unable to prepare the accounts of the house. Adams had no knowledge of the speculations until they had attained a fearful height ; but on ascer taining the position of the other members of the firm, he consulted an attorney, and made an assignment for his creditors, on which the fiat had issued. Mr. Adams was the buyer of the house, and unacquainted with the rail way speculations of the other parties Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN thought the application was one that might be made at a future occasion. lie asked whether any similar cases with regard to costs had occurred. Mr. Lawrence remarked that this was not a case with out assets. The debts were about 40,0001. The stock in trade on the premises had cost 9,0001., and the debts owing to the firm were about 12,0001., so that there would be from Bi. to 10s. in the pound for the creditors. His Horroutt asked whether there was any opposition on the part of the creditors? Mr. Brace, as solicitor to the fiat, thought the applica tion was premature, and that if granted it would prevent M•Farlane from coming forward. The attorney fur M'Farlane %vas in Court, and it was necessary that he (MTarlane) who had kept the books should make out the accounts. The COURT said the application by Mr. Lawrence could be considered on a future occasion. Some debts were proved. Messrs. Thompson, of Man chester, were creditors for more than 20,000!. On the present occasion they proved for 11,000/. Mr. Thomson and Mr. Schwale were chosen assignees. By the next examination the accounts must be rendered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-ROUSE, On Saturday a young man, named Dennis Shine, for merly belonging to the police force, was charged with having assaulted most desperately several policeme❑ and others. The first witness was a jobbing porter, who appeared with a frightful cut in the head. He stated that the pri soner, who was drinking and quarrelling at the bar of the Bell public-house, little Friday-street, suddenly, without provocation, seized a large poker, and com menced an attack upon every one in the room, in the most ferocious manner, and amongst others struck the w tness on the head, and stretched him senseless on the floor, where he lay for some time bleeding copiously. The waiter of the public-house stated that the pri soner was making a great row, and had commenced strangling a man, when he interfered, but was prostrated by the prisoner, who leaped upon his face, and injured him greatly. Another witness, who was present when the police came, and Went to assist in taking him, also was knocked down. Four different policemen gave evidence that they were called in, and used their utmost endeavours to capture the prisoner, but were unable to do so for three- quarters of an hour. He had gone up stairs and locked himself into a room, where he defied any one to enter. He had placed the furniture against the door, so that the police could not open it. At length an entry was effected by a policeman named Monaghan, who was knocked down and seriou-ly injured by the prisoner, who had armed himself with a pair cif tongs and a poker, and inflicted the most desperate blows on all sides. The body of police who were present at last managed to capture the prisoner and take him to the station. house. The prisoner only said that he was mad drunk, and was determined not to be taken. The LORD Msvon, having heard that Monaghan would probably be able to attend on Tuesday next, re manded the prisoner till that day, but told him that he should certainly be committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. On Saturday, Mr. Stacey, the secretary of the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, Aldersgate street, was summoned by the churchwardens of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, to show cause why he refused to pay 38/. 10s., the amount of nine quarters' poor-rate due to that parish by the institution. Mr. Clarkson appeared fur the parish. The question at issue was, whether the institution was exclusively devoted to the advancement of literature, science, and the fine arts, by voluntary contribution, whereby it would be exempt from the payment of the rate by the 6th and 7th of Victoria. Mr. Stacey contended that it came fully under the meaning of the act. He, however, tenanted a portion of it by virtue of his office as secretary, and which portion was assessed as a beneficial occupation. On being cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Stacey stated that the institution consisted of a lecture-room, reading, and other rooms, and library ; and that the lecture room was sometimes let for concerts, &c., and he received money for it. Mr. Clarkson then put it to the Bench, whether by the latter admission, the defendant had not made him self liable to the claim. It could not be said that the letting of the 1. cture-room for concerts, or for a dissent ing congregation, could be termed the voluntary ad vancing literature and the fine arts. After some further discussion the magistrates on the Bench, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Sydney, and Mus grove, retired for about five minutt s, and then decided that they were of opinion that so much of the institu• tion as was voluntarily devoted to the advancement of literature, &c., ought to be exempt ; but the lecture and other rooms, which were, let out on hire, were clearly liable to pay the rates. It was at lencrth arranged to let the summons stand over for a week, in order that both parties might :come to a determination how much of the institution was legally intitled to be assessed. LAMBETH. same discharged upon your paying me the bonos of 501 down, and to give me a bill of 501. at 18 months date from this day, the 11th of Deer., 1845, and the said Benjamin Brown is to give me, the said Charles Jacob?, a bill of 951. 10s. to hold as his security. " BENJANIIN BROWN. "Received 501. in gold." Witness, upon this agreementand understanding, paid over to the prisoner 501. in cash, and his acceptance for 501. more at three months. The prisoner, on receiving the money, remarked that he might require an advance of salary, and on his replying he did, he handed him back Si., and placed in his hands with the agreement a bill of exchange, of which the following is a copy:- 951. 10s. London, Oct. 24, 1845. Four months after date pay to my order the sum of ninety-five pounds torn shillings for value received. _ BENJAMIN BROWN. To Mr. William Mead, 17, Northampton -street, Mile-end. Accepted, payable 43, Moorgate-street, City of London. WILLIAM MEAD. He subsequently pressed the prisoner to induct him into his office, but he put him off with one pretext or another. On Thursday week 'witness met the prisoner at 43, Cranbourne-street, where he said he was about to get up some offices. He also said he had paid for some goods to fit them out, and borrowed three poundA, ns he said, to pay for the goods. This, he said, he would re turn to him in the morning, but from that time to the present he had not got it back. This and other circum stances induced him (witness) to make inquiries about Mr. Mead, the acceptor of the bill placed in his hands. and discovered he was not worth one farthing. He next, made application to an attorney, who recommended him to give the prisoner into custody on a charge of fraud. He, in consequence, went to the residence of the pri soner, Hope Cottage, Mill-street, Lambeth, and on see ing him, he asked if he was going to return his money and his bill? He replied that he could not do so then, but should in a fortnight, and he then gave him into custody. In reply to the questions of Mr. Henry, the witness said he had made inquiries at 43, Moorgate street, about the prisoner, and was told there that he had merely occupied an apartment there, and had nothing whatever to do with the railway company there, though he wrote his letters upon the paper belonging to the com pany, and having this description in copperplate at the top. _ _ _ Mr. HENRY remarked, that it was really astonishing that any person should have been so soft as to pit with his money under such circumstances. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his name was Benjamin Brown, and that he was in the service of Mr. Agula, who had formerly been a Spanish merchant, but was now a civil engineer and projector of railways. His offices were at 94, Cheapside, 4, Charlotte -street, Mansion House-street, and 43, Moorgate-street, the latter peing the principal office ; and witness was em ployed to carry messages to and from the directors. He concluded by declaring he had not told the prosecutor nor his witness that the railways projected by him were registered, but merely said he was about to register them. The prisoner was remanded until Monday, when it is believed other charges of a similar description will be brought against him. BO W-STREET. Michael Clayton, a powerful-looking man, who de scribed himself as a bricklayer's labourer, was charged with an assault on an Italian " organ•grinder," named George Men tin. The complainant, who was examined through the medium of an interpreter, deposed that he was playing his organ in Beaumont-place, New-road, on Friday, wh( n the prisoner, to whom 10- had given no provocation whatever, gave him a violent blow from behind, and knocked him down. He fell upon his organ, and was very much hurt at the time, but, to use his own expres sion, " not enough to hurt him much to-day." The organ was not injured. _ Policeman E 143 said, that he saw the prisoner, who was very drunk, go behind the complainant and knock him down, as described. On seeing witness at a little distance, he called out " Custody, custody," by which witness understood that he wished to give him iu went cus tody. Witness took him in charge, and he quietly to the station-house. Mr. TWYFORD said he was very unwilling to fine the prisoner as he thought he deserved, because he thought it would fall more heavily on his wife than on himself. However, it was one of the consequences of being mar ried to such a man, and it could not be helped. He would fine him 205., and in default seven day►' imprison ment. Prisoner—l shan't pay it. I can't pay 55., or 20s, either. Mr. TWYFORD—Then go to prison for seven days. The prisoner was then removed. CLERKEN WELL. Richard James Glynn and Michael Fox were charged with cutting and wounding police-constable Stratton, 47 G. A certificate was produced stating that the constable was in a very dangerous condition in the hospital. Police-constable Payton, 142 G, deposed that on the previous night, at half-past eleven o'clock, he was on duty in Gray's Inn-lane, when he heard cries and screams from Fox-court ; he ran up, and saw Stratton endeavou ring to raise himself from the ground ; his face and the upper part of his person were covered with blood. Fox was standing by him with a sword in his hand, and Glynn had the officer's truncheon, which, after flourishing in the air, he was iri the act of striking the constable with Do the head, when witness seized his arm. A struggle took place, but both prisoners were at length secured. The constable had a terrible wound on the head, from which the blood was streamingo and in that condition he was removed to the hospital. Stratton identified the prisoner as the person who had wounded him. A man named Hale, gave similar testimony, and the prisoner was remanded on the charge of cutting and wounding. HAMMERSMITH. On Wednesday afternoon, just before the rising of the Court, a summons was called on before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magistrate, which had been issued against the Earl of Clarendon, at the instance of Charles Ha milton, the driver of the hackney cab No. 2,040, for un lawfully refusing to pay him the sum of 10.1., being the remainder of his fare fur two hours' hiring. The noble defendant did tot appear, neither did any person on his behalf. Moore, one of the summoning officers of the Court, deposed to having served the summons by leaving it at the Noble Earl's residence, No. 1, Grosvenor -crescent, Belgrave-square. The servants said his Lordship tva, gone to Grove Park, Watford, and would not return to town until some time after Christmas. Mr. CLIVE asked the cabman what was the distance he had summoned his Lordship for ?—The cabman re plied, that on the evening of Friday last (the eventful evening when Lord John Russell determined on resign. ing the trust imposed on him by the Queen), he drove the Earl of Clarendon from his Lordship's residence, Grosvenor crescent, to and from the residence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place, Beigrave-square ; and, after having been kept at the Noble Earl's service for two hours, he was discharged at Kent House, Knightsbridge, the residence of Earl Morley. The Earl of Clarendon then handed him 25., and on his saying his fare, ii.elud ing back carriage, it being after eight o'clock in the evening., was 3s. 4d., his Lordship walked away. lie had subsequently obtained an additional sixpence from th e servant, and had therefore summoned his Lordship for the remaining tenpence of his fare, charging for time. Mr. CLIVE ordered a second summons to be issued against the Earl of Clarendon far Thursday next, and desired one of the officers of the Court to ascertain who his Lordship's solicitor was, in order that he might be made acquainted with the case. DESTRUCTION OF ABBERLEY HALL BY FIRE. This noble mansion, occupied by Mrs. Moilliett, relict of the late James Moilliett, Esq., of Birmingham, was yesterday almost entirely destroyed by fire. Mrs. Moilliett, with her son, Mr. Theodore Moilliett, and son-in-law, was spending the Christmas-day in the usual festive manner, when their peace was interrupted by an alarm that the building above their heads was on fire. It was first discovered by some of the servants, and they endeavoured to extinguish it by their own un assisted efforts, but finding that it had extended to the roof, they desisted from so useless an attempt, and sent to Willey Court for the engine stationed there, which, with all the servants that could be spared, was immedi ately upon the spot, and in about an hour afterwards another very powerful engine arrived from Stourport. The supply of water was unfortunately scanty, and the most strenuous endeavours were ineffectual to check the flames, which, hiving by this time spread through the whole upper tier of rooms, burst out at every window, and presented a grand but awful spectacle. All efforts were now directed to the preservation of the tower, and in this they were happily successful, though the fire once or twice threatened to extend to this point. The greater part of the furniture, which was of the most missive and splendid description, with the books and paintings, were saved, but greatly damaged in their removal. The fire continued to rage till after twelve o'clock at night, by which time the main part of the building was completely gutted, the whole of its splendid decorations destroyed; the painting, cornices, &c., of the drawing-room alone, were esti tmuted at 2001., but the marble chimney-piece in that room of the value of 100 guineas, was snatched from the devouring element. The building was, we are informed, happily insured in the Birmingham District Fire-office for 4,0001., including the furniture, but this will ly no means cover the losses incurred. Or. Saturday, Benjamin Brown, who had described iimself as a railway projector, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, on a charge of defrauding Mr. Charles Jacobs out of 48/. in cash. and a promissory note for 501., under the following novel circumstances. Mr. Jac , bs, who it appeared had been a draper in the Isle of Wight, deposed that about the 25th or 26th of November last he caused an advertisement to be inserted in The Times, of which the following is a copy:— " Douceur of 501. will be given to any lady or gentle man who can procure for the advertiser a permanent situation, mercantile or railway (legally saleable). Ad dress, post-paid, to A. 8., Post-office, East Cowes, Isle of Wieht. ' Three or four days after this advertisement appeared he received the following note, bearing the Cowes post mark of the 29th of Nov.:— " Sir,—lf you will give 1001., lam at libert y of giving " 43, rldorgate-street , Ci t y of London. you a situation of 751. per annum, on a rising salary. I do not ask the money down, but the 100/. must be paid into a London banker's to meet two bills of 501. each, four and eight months' date ; it is in a railway office, and forward your answer by post. I hold a situation in the line abive mentioned. I have enclosed my card —direct to the office. Direct to either of our offices. "Sir. I am your obedient "To A. 8., Nov. 27, 1845." " B.se ry BROWN. Upon this a correspondence took place , a nd the pri soner mentioned the 13th of the present month as the day upon which he should be required to tak e his office. An interview was appointed in town precious to that day, and at that inter v iew the prisoner informed him that he was the projector of the Prince of Wales, Ox ford, and London, and also the London and Windsor Railways, and that he could have a situation as clerk on either. He (witness) at the time asked him if these railways were registered, and he replied, "Yes, it's all right ;" and, upon the faith of that, he (witness) paid him 501 down. Mr. HENRY—You are prepared to swear that it was upon the faith of the prisoner's representations, that both these midways mentioned were registered that, you parted with, your money ? Witness—l am, sir. Mr. HENRY—Have you ascertained whether such rail ways have been registered ? Witness —They have not, sir. I have been to the Stamp-office, and ascertained the fact ; and was told by the people there that they had never heard of such lines as those mentioned. The witness first saw the prisoner at 43, Moorgate-street, at TuE PotaTo DISEASE.- -We have received a which there was a railway office, the Jamaica Southern, copy of the lectv re delivered l ay Dr. Buckland, at Oxford, Eastern, and N ort h ern; an d w h ere he had a room ; and it w hi c h we have all early notleed. Whil s t on this subject, was there be subsequently saw him. Atter some o. we owe it to Mr. Reed, veteriti ary surgeon of Creditor, tiation between them, the prisoner wrote out an agree- to state that we have had by us ler some time past, Seale ment, of which the following is a literal copy :- numbers of the Farmers' J carnal, published iii Septem " December Eleventh, 1845. ber last, in which he dmscri' bes the disease, predicates the "TA Mr. Charles Jacob of East Coues, Isle of V. bite. cause, states the necessal y consequences of contact be- You are engaged at a salary of 751. per ann. from the tween sound and unsound potatoes, and, in short, points 13 decb. 1845, of a rasing salary annuly 101. till out the remedies, which received but little attention till it becomes 180 L per annum. Ordered by me, they afterwards came ic , rth under the ‘• authority "of Benjamin Brown, of London, being the pro- Government Potato C,rainisSioners.—Westere Times. jector of the Prince of Wales, Oxford, and London, Mr. Robert Pr i s e l:,iest son of Sir Robert Peel, also London and Windsor, which Ido hereby Otherise who is attached to y e Britlab Legation at Madrid, is shortly the Secretary of the same to be paid into your hands expected to rev ru to this coultjry from Spain. Mr , Peel has monthly, and also , o hold myself responsible to see the ' been abroad • d ally three years. The fire is supposed to have originated in a store-room underneath the roof, where one of the servant girls, named Jane White, went about two o'clock to fetch some cheeses and apples; and it is thought she dropped a spark amongst some loose papers and shavings, fro m which it extended with frightful rapidity to the roarl . . Mrs. Moilliett was removed, as soon as the fi.. e was discovered, to the Hundred-house Inn, though ' ner M s . iesty the. Queen Dowager had with her won..,d benevo lence, immediately upon hearing of the c,Alatnity, sent word that apartments at the Court sho the disposal of the family, if they %Those to accept of did be placed at them.—Abridged from the IVorcet sr Heald. MARY LEBONE VESTRY. THE CORN Laws. &c.—Yesterday, at the meeting of the Alvylebone Vestry, the Rev. 1)r. Spry, the Rector, in the chair, Mr. FLOOD, the Vestry-clerk, stated that the petition to the Queen, calling upon her Majesty to convene Parliament for the purpose of carrying out a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws, recently adopted by the Vestry, and laid for signature at the Courthouse and Workhouse, and that it had already received the signatures of 7,000 out of the 12,000 ratepayers in the parish.—(Cheers.) The following gentlemen were then nominated as a deputation to present the address to the Queen, vuT., the IVctor, Dr. Spry ; Mr. Hump, M.P. ; Mr. Wilitms, M.P. ; and the 11.;rough Members, Sir B. Hall and Sir C. Napier. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE POOR-LAW COMMIS SIONE4S,—The letter of Sir James Graham, togetht-r with the whole of the corresponde, ce which has taken place between the Home Secretary and Mr. Hume, on the subject of the formation of Marylcbone into union with other parishes, as the North Western Metropolitan Asylum District, were brought before the vestry. C.,mmunieations were also read from the parishes of St. Luke, Chelsea, St. James's, and St. Margaret's, anti St. John's, Westminster, repudiating the power of the Poor-law Commissioners, and expressive of a determina tion to co -operate in resistance to the Commissioners' order. The reading of these documents were received with general cheering by the vestry. Mr. HumE congratulated the vestry on the 'general tenor of the communication, and expressed a most de cided opinion that the Commissioners were acting ille gally. The Act which provides for the entire manage meat of the poor of that parish not having been repealed, they were exempt from the late amended Poor-law Act. Sir JAMES IIA3IILTON and the rector addressed the vestry, and a resolution for the reappointment of a joint committee to wait again upon the Commissioners .was unanimously carried. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LoNnow, DEC. 27.—Wind this day at noon, W., moderate breeze and fine. DOVER, DEC. 26.—The Rose, Volckmann, from Liverpool to Hamburgh, has put in here leaky, and with loss of sails and spars, and must discharge. COWES, DEC. 25.—A boat, marked " Star, of Sunderland, Mathew Atkinson," also a topmast yard, sails, and rigging, were picked up off the Spurn, 14th instant, and brought in here. The Emilio, from Liverpool to Kiel, arrived here 23d instant, is reported to be damaged. DEAL DEC. 26.—Wind W.S.W., strong and squally —Arrd. Emperor Jones, Bombay. Arrd. from the river, for Kt lso, Hudson:Calcutta Calcutta; Columbus, Losh, Bahia ; Donna Carme lita, Williams, St. Lucia, PALMOUTIL DEC. 26.—Arrd. Swift packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed Nov. 12; on freight about 11,0001. in gold and dia monds; Orestes, Porter, Belize; 574, Stubb, Wyburg, Kith loss of bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a brig 22d inst. Put back, Jane, Thomas, La Guayra. BRISTOL, DEC. 26.—James, Salmon, St. John's, N.B. MILFORD. DEC. 25.—At rd. Monarch, Brown, St. Lucia. CLYDE, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Euxine, fivingstone, Quebec. Sid. Favorite, Allan, Demerara; Springfield, Roy, Mobile; Sessotris, Mackenzie, Savannah. WATERFORD, DEC. 24.--Arrd. Nancy, Foran, St. John New Brunswick. SUNDERI,CCD, DEC. 26.—The Union, Lumsden of Seaton Sluice, was abandoned during the night of the 22d inst., in a sinking state, about 75 miles E.S.E. of the Spurn ; crew saved. ST. Iv Es, DEC. 25.—The Mov, Murphy, from Newport to Limerick, has been brought in here much strained, and with loss of bulwarks, &c., and one man washed overboard. WEXFORD, DEC. 25.—The vessel wrecked at the Small Salter Island on the 21st inst., appears to be the Sarah Bease, of Cork, and not the Welcome, as yesterday reported. CORRISBAY, DEC. 22.—The Isabella, of and fur Sunderland, went ashore near Dunnet Head, this morning, and remains full of water; crew saved. DOUGLAS, ISLE-OF- MAX, DEc.24.—The Marchioness Douglas, ofand from Carlisle, took the ground on leaving Derby Haven, and has put in here, with considerable damage. \YEW?, DEC. 26.—The Ellen, of this port,took the ground in putting to sea yesterday, and remains, without apparent damage. YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.—The brig Union, of Featon Sluice, was passed on the 23d instant, in lat. 53 deg. N., lon. 4 deg. E, on her broadside, and aband ned, by the worth Brion.: LONDON, Dsc. 27.—The Belmont, Grant, arrived in the river from St. John's, New Brunswick, passed Dec. 7, in lat. 46 deg. N., lon. 44 deg. W., a barque of about 500 tons, waterlogged and abandoned, mizenmast and bowsprit stand ing; had a high poop, with a wooden rail; appeared to have been boarded and stranded. The name consisted of five letters, the two first partly obliterated, arid the others ap peared to be " ake." MARYPORT, DEC. 25.—The Eliza, Beattie, which was on the 'North Pier 22d inst., has been got off and into the harbour. ILFRAcomBE, DEC. 25.—The buoy reported yesterday as having been towed into this harbour is marked " Helwick Swatchway," and not " Alnwick," as then stated. OFF PORTSMOUTH.—Sophir, Adicks, Rio Janeiro, and sailed 23d for Antwerp. THE LATE STORM-. The city or Cork has not for many years been visited with so violent a 'storm as that which raged here on the cvenirg, and throughout the night of Monday last.— The gale set in early in the evehing, and increased as the night advanced ; and so tremendous were the gusts that swept the streets, that long before the hour of nine o'clock the highways and public thoroughfares were completely deserted, the lamps were extinguished, the shops closed, not a being was to be seen, and even the watchmen were forced to seek shelter as best they might. However, thanks to Providence, we have to announce but one accident, the result of which is not of a melancholy nature. Between the hours of one and two on the morning of Tuesday a huge stack of chimneys, on the house of Mr. Jennings, jeweller, Patrick-street, was hurled down with a tremendous crash on the roof of a Mr. Murphy, spirit dealer, Market lane, breaking and destroying all before it, and smashing in several win dows in the rear of the house of Mr. Atkins, apothecary, Patrick-street. In the houses of both Jennings and nurphy the utmost confusion and dismay were created, as it happened that the children of Mr. Jennings were sleeping in a room immediately under where the chim neys st( od, but who escaped most providentially, th:iugh the pile of bricks and rubbish fell by the bed side in which they lay. In the house of Mr. Murphy m fitters stood differently; fcr the servant (rather an aged woman) who slept in an upper apartment and within the range of the chimneys, was completely buried beneath a stack of bricks, slates, and rubbish, and was with the greatest difficulty extricated by constable Burchill, assisted by others of the constabulary patrol. On being released all appearances of life were suspended; and but for the timely aid rendered the unfortunate sufferer by Mr. Atkins, who was instantly on the spat, the result must hava been fatal. However, under the judicious treat ment of that experienced gentleman, who remained with her for more than an hour, using every means which his medical skill and knowledge suggested, she railed, and had so far recovered as to be able to attend to her ordinary duties on the following day. The chimneys in question had long been the terror of the inhabitants of the locality; and though represented as a dangerous nui sance several times, they were still suffered to stand by the public authorities.—Cork Examine•. NEWQUAY. —During the storm of Saturday last, the schooner Young Eagle, of 4dilfoz d, Jenkins, master, was driven into the breakers in this bay, about eight o'clock in the evening, and had her broadiide t.) the s*a. She hauled down to the western cliffs, where she immediately upset, and sunk, and all on board perished. It is sup posed that she had lost her rudder before she came into the bay, as she appeared unmanageable, and neither the rudder nor tiller has come on shore with her. Her boat was washed in on Monday morning, very near where the vessel came ashore on Sunday morning. Every endea vour was made by the people of Newquay to give assist ance, but without effect, although they spoke to and were answered by the crew on board. _ _ DUDE.—On Saturday last, during a severe gale of wind from the N.N.W., a brie. made her appearance in the bay, apparently heavily laden, and came to anchor just off Widemouth, where she remained until near dark. The wind continuing to increase, as was feared, she broke from her moorings, with all her crew in the rig ging, and came ashore near Mellook. Seven of the men, including the captain, were drowned, and two saved themselves by swimming to the rocks, and getting up over a_ very high cliff, which enabled them to reach Mellook. The name of the vessel is the " William and Ann," of Sunderland, B. Matthews master ; and it ap pears she had just before discharged a cargo of timber from Quebec at Swansea, whence she sailed on Friday last, laden with stone coals, fur London. She went to pieces just after getting on the rocks, near Mellook, and the fragments of her wreck were sold by auction on the beach, on Monday, under the direction of T. B. Avery, Egi. The mate, in getting up over the cliff to save hims: If, broke one of his fingers, and one of Isii toes. Five of fie holies have been washed ashore. and an inquest was held on them by Gilbert Hamby, Esq., on Tuesday last. ST. IVES.—On Monday morning last, as a small boat was returning from fishing, it upset in a squall, and a young man, named Barnaby Thomas, was drowned. The boat sunk immediately she filled, and the body has not yet been found. HAYLE.—During the gale on Tuesday morning last, soon after daylight, the brig Dorothea, Rolling, of Sun derland, from Newport, for Goole, with railway iron, was driven on shore two miles to the eastward of Hayle bar, tlnd is likely to become a wreck. The crew, nine in number, were all re,cued from their perilous situation by the hazardous exertions of a boat's crew from Hayle, and the cargo is expected to be saved.— West Briton. FATAL WRECK AT BIDEFORD.—During the storm on Saturday night last, the yacht " Fanny," the pro perty of Charles Montgomery, Esq., of Swansea, was lost on Bideford bar, and all hands perished. The shore is strewed for some distance with the fragments of the vessel.— Wat Brit,n. LOWESTOFT, DEC. 25.—0 n Monday, Lieutenant Roberts, R.N., commander of the Victoria revenue cutttr, picked up at s, a a Southwold pilot boat, dis masted, with nine men in her. The sea was running so high at the time, that the pilot-boat foundered immedi ately after the men were token out of her. The poor fellows thus saved from being wrecked were landed at Lo 4 estoft.—Norfolk Chrah DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CAISSON ON THE GOODWIN. —The following is a copy of a letter sent to Mr. Bush, C.E., Deptford:—Dtiar Sir,—Since I last wrote to you reporting your lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands being all right, I em sorry to say that (this morning) I have had a good opportunity of viewing the sands, the Downs being clear of shipping, but your lighthouse has disap peared. From the circumstances of there being a large fleet of vessels in the Downs, together with a thick at mosphere, I have not been able to sue it since Friday last, and therefore cAnnot exactly say when it fell.—l um, Sir. &c., W. B.—Deal.—Dover Chronicle. The free-traders of Wigan had, up to Wednesday night, subscribed upwards of 1,400/. to the quarter of a million League fund.—LiverpoA Mrcury. MARKET NE NV S.-(SAT URDAY.) COVENT-GAILI) EP; . We had a full average supply of Fruit and Vegetables on sale, _yet_the demand ruled heavy, at our quotations. Pota toes from 3s to 8s per cwtf Turnips, 101 - to 2s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s; Greens, is 6d to 2s 6d ; and Leeks, 8d to Is 4d per dozen bunches; Onions, is 6d to 2s 8d; Apples, is 6d to 349 d; Pears, 4s to 6s; and Spinach, is 6d to Is 9d per half-sieve; Pine-apples, 6s to 8s; and Filberts, 8d to Is per lb; Red Cabbages, 4s to 6s; and Savoys, 10d to is 3d per dozen ; Celery, is to 2s ; Brocoli, Is 3d to 2s 6d; and Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle ; Oranges, 7s to 12s; Lemons, 8s to 12s; and Walnuts, 8d to is 2d per 100. Lo T 2VIAR.ILIST . SmrrimELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 103 to 41 12s 6d; Clove ditto, 4! 8s to 5/ 16s; Oat Straw, li 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 13s per load. Supply but . milom derate, and trade rather dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41 15s; Clover ditto, 4/ 8s to it/ 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 1/ lOs to I! 12s per load. Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s per load. Trade dull, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 88 to 4/ 148; Clover ditto, 4110 s to 5116 s ; Oat Straw, 1188 to 11 108 ; WhiM Straw, Il 10s to 11 13s per load. ♦ fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. HUNGERFORD. We had only moderate supplies of most articles on caller yet the general demand ruled heavy at barely stationary prices. NEWGA.TE AND ZZADENNALI. • Each CirTeofTrtirneMeai rTio;;TOTTTreeiTat full priced. Otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef; front 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 33 4d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 51 ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Sibs. Turkeys, 4s to 16a Geese, 4s to 6s 6d; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to Is Sd ; Wilt ditto, 6d to 10d; Pigeons, 6d to 10d; Roasting Pigs, 8s to lOs each ; Fowls, 3s 6d to 9s Pe; couple ; Pheasants, 33 6d to 4s 6d; Partridges, 2s to 2s 9d: Hares, 2s to 3s 6d ; Levert ts, 2s 6d to 3s ; Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s ; Grouse, is 6d to Is 8d ; Snipes, 9d to I 5; Teal, Is 3d to is 6d ; Wild Ducks, 2s to 3s; Widgeon , . Is 9d to 2s ; and Plovers, 8d each. NEV 3 / 4 7P 013. T. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 5s , and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81b$. BXZLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7s to 16s; Cod-fish, 2s to 8s; Crabs, 6d to 2s 3d I Lobsters, 8d to 3s; and Whitings, 4d to 8d each; Soles, 6d to :38 Od per pair; S.lmon ' is 2d to is 6d; and Eels, 4d to is per lb. ; Sprats, 5s per bushel. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 35 4d to 4s 8d ; Teals 4s t• 5s ; and Pork, 3s 2d to 55 per Sibs. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are frau% 9d to 90; of Household ditto, 7d to Bid per Chß loaE HIDE MARKET. Market Hides, 561bT0411;, 24-(l)3ct per ; do: 641 b t. 721 b, 2 3 Ad to 3 1 4 d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3 1 /d ; do. 801 b to Mb, 34d; do. 881 b to 961 b, 3 1 /d to 4d; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 4ljd; Market Calf Skins, each, 3s to 6s 6d; Horn Hides, 135; Pulled Sheep, 4s to 5s 6d.; Half-breds, 3s 4d to 4a 2d; Downs, 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Lambs, as to 4s 6d. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 26.---Ths transactions in wool this week have been without aD7 material alteration from our last report. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 26.—There has been very little business done in foreign wools this week, as is usual at this season of the year, and prices are nominally the same as for the last two or three weeks. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARLET, DEC. 26.—Christmas week is usually a dull one for sales of wool ; this week has been more than ordinarily so, and transactions have been on a most limited scale. Indeed, the seller sea buyer seem both disposed to hold off till the new Year sets in, and the market may be said to be in abeyance. LEEDS.—At no time do we recollect seeing less bit& ness dune at the Cloth halls than was the case on Sarni . ' day ; but on Tuesday there was rather more- animation. This, however, is always a dull period, and rendered still more so at this time by the uncertainty as to whet may be done respecting the opening of the ports or re pealing the corn-jaws. Stocks of goods in the bands or the manufacturers are lower than usual at the saem e period in former years, and prices continue steady. 11. , 5 usual so near the close of the year, there is very litiL e business doing in the warehouses. • aria LEICESTER.—The hosiers are busy stock taking, no business will be done until the commencement of the new year. Stocks on hand are light, and the erevb market has resumed a very firm appearance. We are happy to understand that the operatives are more ge'r, rally employed at this season than they have been 1"' several it.ai-s past. BRAD/ORD MARKET, WEDNESDAY. --WOOL. demand for wool still continues very limited, and dur l the week a greater disposition to effect sales has be e " evinced, and in some instances a shade lower prices b i ." l o / been submitted to. The supply in the market is Ia average, but not excessive for the season of the ye ar ' In noils and broker there is no observable differe nce since our last report. YARNS.—We regret we can not aher the painful description of this branch. The 51 ) ! 1 ,11 uers continue working short time; and we learn on g',. re 6 ,J authority that even the small quantity now prode' cannot be sold to cover the cost of production. We s o f glad. to hear, with few exceptions, that the stock s . yarns are not considerable, and that job lots are e 5 hausted. PIECES.—The closing market for the Y o e o l has not been animated. The recent intelligence f r fo America has caused considerable discussion here a the the course hereafter to be adopted; • and till some of definite is known, it will tend to retard the prog" production for that market. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.',O have more confidence among b u y ers o f c l ot h s i n ce day week, though no quotable change in value. 101,-„, were the dyers and printer ; so slack, nor th e f u st y cutters less employed. Spinners are enabled to etriP sales on • fully as good terms as on this day se'unigh" perhaps twist is the turn higher. 11 0 The novel of " The Queen of Denmark i.. „ o , already mad: a permanent stand in public estirasP' bo partly from the artless naivele of style of an author el 0 appears before the public for the first time in the pages, and partly from the important revelations 00 ; ccerning the conduct and character of our unfortuao! Engli.h Princess Caroline Matilda, sister of George Ilk' which are placed in a new light by one who appears have been an eye-witness of her brief but brilliant 0 1 ) ; pearance at the Court of Copenhagen. The seti r abounds in female portraits of the highest order. On the day before Christmas-day Mr. Kirby', °ll e of the principal clerks in the banking-house of ges sr t Jones, Loyd, and Co., received a note signed S. J. L ° Y,,, the principal of the firm, inclosing a draft for 1,00 0 i•tp be placed to the credit of the " Clerks' Christmas Fut" as an acknowledgment of their services, and of the res; diness with which they met the trouble and additiohol labour of the past year. THE LATE ELOPEMENT.—The parties who la tell s eloped from Stow Market, Suffolk—Charles 1 0ber . t Bree, Esq., surgeon, and the daughter of the Rey' state' Augustus Henniker, of Plash woods, Haughley. as in our paper of last week, made the best of their iv% it seems, to Tintagel, the vicar of that place being e relative; and having r mained there the necessary ti °3 to procure a license, they were married on Friday lobe and immediately left in a carriage and four to ineetl s , day mail at Launceston, homeward bound.— Ness [ADVERTISEMENT.] —DEFECTIVE SIGHT ' l2l b , • HILARING RELIEVED. 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Immediately they are placed before ite'r s t :ect vision, either by day or candlelight, w o mist and dullness which appear before the eyes is at 05 t removed, and every object becomes clear and distinct, so 01 1 the most aged defective sight becomes bright and brills 1s and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original s tate. the most Powerful Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Gl M!croscopes, Invisible and all kinds of Acoustic I n strultl 3 . for relief of extreme deafness. Cautiop—Messrs. S. on, s Solomons, Opticians, are no t in any way connected wit h person of the same name in their immediate neighbour bo ; tier in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes e" eautious, and observe—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-stree, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 25, South COO' street, Edinburgh. ADVERTISE %iENT.] FIFTY RUNNING T./LCSt il , CURED IN SIX WEEKS HoLLowAY's PILLS AND Oa% MENT !—Extract of a letter dated Tobago ( West Indies), February 4, 1843 :—To Professor Holloway—Sir, I ha ve pleasure to inform you, that your astonishing medicines ba s t cured a gentleman in this island who had, I believe, sh° fifty running ulcers about his leg!, arms, and body, who tried all other medicines before the arrival of yours, but all which did him no good, but yours cured him in about lo' t week!, and he is now quite restored to health and T i e ° 't Signed, John Martin, Chronicle Office, Tobago. Sold 5. Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand ( Whe t advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respects venders of medicine throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst., at Streatham, the lady of B. Drevr, 9 44 of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Clapham-common, the lady of h bri C. Andreae, Esq., of a daughter. On the 25th inst., in Harrington-square, the lady of On H. Wyatt, Esq., of a dauh.;hter. On the 25th inst., in Upper Harley street, the lady a il. Von Glehn, Esq., of a daughter. On the 25th inst., in Albion-road, Stoke Newington, O le James Scott, of a dahter. On Christmas-day, in ug Suffolk-place, Lower Islington , the wife of Mr. Brown, surgeon, of a ion. On Christmas-day, Mrs. Oriel, of Alfred-place, Betal °lll' square, of a daughter. t ibl OR the 25th inst., at Taliaris- park, Camarthenshiret lady of William Peel, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. o f On the 24th inst., at Wendover, Mr. Thomas Stedrusn',a, Godahning, to Catherine Susannah Bridgens, late of liatflei On the 31st of October, at Calcutta, of cholera, after A n fel( hours illness, William Campbell, Esq., of the firm of C so 26 bell, Anderson, Dallas, and Co., of Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, in his 37th year. r On the 21st inst., at Torqua Phoebe, eldest (laugh"' _ At forquay, the Rev. Thomas Bowdler, 31. A. On the 23d inst ,at Thorp Perrow, the infant son of s° W. V. Milbank, Esq. On the 24th inst., Anne Eliza, daughter of the late Edigl ijj Hilliard, Esq., of Cowley House, Middl. sex. On the 25th inst., in the London Dock, Mrs. S. Vearet i , Ort the 25th inst., in Acre lane, Clapham, J. E. Spicer , r ',. 5 0 ,1 On the 17th ult., at Quebec, Lieutenant Henry Fleming Stirke, of the lath Foot. 0. 'he 15th inst. Bright( M -‘.. e ld es t daughter 01 II the 15th inst., a. Jrighton, Aary, eldest laug..- the late Rev. Robert Outlaws, Rector of Longford, S&P' On the 19th inst., at Stanmore, Mr. C. Pegler. On the 21st hist , in Ilaydon-square, Minories, Mr. Cole Solomon, aged London: Printed and Published by MUKDO YOUN G :iff, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. I 0 ( Strand, in the Precinct of the SaToy, in the Cotatt Monday, Deviator 291 184.5,