The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 15.—There is one circumstance connected with the manning the experimental brigs at this port which is far from creditable to the officers commissioning them ; it is this—at the bottom of one or two of the placards advertising for seamen and petty officers are these words, " None but the best need apply." Now, the " best" in this instance means the well-clothed, well-fed, and well-looking fellow. We protest against such unmanly and unfeeling conduct as the above restriction exhibits on ihe part of the officers of the brigs referred to. If they have the common use of their eyesight, they cannot fail to have perceived that in consequence of the shameful delay in commissioning the experimental squadron, hundreds of the " best" seamen have been in a starving condition ; they have parted with their clothes and everything else convertible into money to enable them to subsist until the Admiralty thought proper to be awakened by the voice of public opinion from the stupor into which they had fallen, and the honest tars are now turned back and insulted with " None but the best need apply." We are glad, however, to observe, that the best" officers have not the insulting sentence on their placards, and are entering fine men and good seamen much faster than the officers referred to. About the 20th it is expected the squadron will be ready for sea. The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, will leave the har bour for Spithead to-morrow. The Espoir, 10, Commander A. Morrell, arrived at Ascension on the 13th of July from the Bights of Benin. The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Commodore Jone 3, has left Ascension on a cruise. The Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, was at Ascension on the 15th of July, at which date the Ferret, 6, Com mander Oake, was hourly expected, to join hertin a cruise off the Bights. The Growler, steam-sloop, Commander Buckle, left Ascension on the 16th July for SierraiLeone. The Wasp, 16, Commander Ussher, sailed from As cension on the 11th of July for the Cameroons. The Heroine, 6, Lieutenant Foote, was at St. Helena on the 6th of July. The Dido, 18, Captain the Hon. 11. Keppel, left Sin gapore for Borneo on the 15th of May, accompanied by the Harlequin, 16, Commander the Hon. G. F. Hastings, for the same destination. The Vixen, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Giffard, left Hong-Kong for Trincomalee on the 7th of June, carry ing dispatches for Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker. The Cambrian, 36, Commodore Chaos, left Hong-Kong for Singapore on the 16th of June. The Sapphire, 22, troop-ship, Master-Commander J. R. Fittock, sailed on the 31st of May from Trincomalee for Singapore, en route to Hong-Kong. The Nimrod, 20, Commander Glasse, arrived at Bom bay from Trincomalee on the 18th of June. The Driver, steam-vessel, Commander Hayes, arrived at Bombay from Hong-Kong on the 29th of July. The Castor, 36, Captain Graham; the Spiteful, steam sloop, Commander Maitland ; the Pelican, 16, Com mander P. Justice ; the Agincourt, 72, Captain 11. Bruce, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane ; the Dido, 18, Captain Keppell ; the Wolverine, 16, Com mander Brown ; the Wolf, 18, Commander Vyner; and the Minden, 20, Captain Quin, were at Hong-Kong on the 20th of June. The Swiftsure hulk is moored in Portchesler Lake, at the distance of about a mile from the Excellent, for the trial of the effect of Captain Norton's shells, which will take place on Thursday next. In Harbour—The Queen, Victory, Excellent, Osprey, Daring, Pantaloon, Flying Fish, Waterwitch, Nautilus, and the Firebrand, Echo, and Dwarf steam-vessels. In Dock—The t'rince Regent, Bellerophon, Vindic tive, Athol, Sylvia, and Scourge. At Spithead—:None. DEVONPORT, SEPT. 13.—The Flora, 36, was launched on Wednesday, Miss Cochrane, niece of the Com mander-in-Chief, Sir D. Milne, named her ; she will be ducked for coppering to-morrow. The Lords of the Admiralty, comprising the Earl of Haddington, Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, Rear-Admiral Bowles, and the lion. H. T. L. Corry ; accompanied by Captain Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy ; the Hon. Sydney Herbert, First :secretary to the Admiralty ; and Captain Brandreth, Royal Engineers, director of engi neering and architectural works, are expected to com mence their annual inspection of this port and depii:s this day. The - Royal Adelaide, 104, advanced ship, was taken out of dock yesterday for masting. The Bombay, 84, has been masted, and shipped her bowsprit. The Camel, naval lighter, arrived from Pembroke on Sunday, with stores, and left on Tuesday, for Falmouth, with a detachment of the 44th, to relieve those on duty at Pendennis Castle. She returned on Wednesday. In Harbour—The San Josef, Conflance, steamer, and Adventurer, navy transport. In the Sound—St. Vincent, flag-ship. SHEP.RNESS, SEPT. 13.—The three experimental brigs at Chatham, the Mutine, Espiegle, and Cruiser, will sail fur Portsmouth on Monday. The timbers for the Fury, a first-class steam frigate, are now being laid down in the dock lately oc cupied by the Amazon. The following are her proper dimensions and tonnage : Feet Inches. Length between perpendiculars Keel for tonnage Breadth for extreme 36 0 Moulded breadth Depth in hold Tonnage, 1,123 62-94. The Comet steam-vessel, Commander Pretyman, ar rived yesterday afternoon from Portsmouth, bringing newly -entered men for the experimental brigs Mutine, Espiegle, and Cruiser, up the harbour. Mr. Peden, clerk in the storekeeper's office in this dockyard, is appointed senior clerk in the same depart- unlit at the Deptford establishment, the clerkship in this yard being filled up by Mr. Robertson. We were giving too much credit to the scheme of en tering men in the dockyards for " general service," when we stated some days since, in enumerating the hands who had entered the respective yards, that we believed not nearly ,o many as fifty had entered tills dockyard. Not one has offered. Mr. T. Balcombe, of Rochester, is appointed clerk of the third class in the Master Builder's otlice in Chatham dockyard, vice Woods, promoted to the second class at Woolwich. Mr. F. A. Cumberland, draughtsman in the Director of Works' department, Chatham, is appointed clerk and draughtsman in the same department at Portsmouth. Superannuations at Chatham Dockyard.—Thomas Howard, third leading-hand of storehouses, is superan• nuated on a pension of 45/. 10s. per annum ; and John Crowhurst, shipwright, on a pension of 201 por annum. In Dock—Herald, Vernon, and Beagle. In Harbour—Ocean and Africaine. In the Basin—Monarch, Vulture, Amazon, London, and Crocodile. AT CHATHAM.—Poictiers, Cruiser, Mutine, Espiegle, and Thunder. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenant—J. C. Hoseason, to be commander. Assistant-Surgeon —R. W. Clarke, to the rank of Surgeon. APPOINTMENTS. Commanders—W. J. Clifford, to the Wolverine ; C. Frazer, additional, t) the Royal Sovereign, for packet service at Holyhead, vice Kains, period of service expired. Lieutenants—G. B. Dewey and L.IR. Fitzwaurice, to the E s pi eg l e ; ll on . F . Curzon and t h e Hon. T. A. Pakenham, to the Ilutine ; R. C. Kevern and E. T. Hiude, to the Cruiser ; M. H. Rodney, to the Cruiser ; R. Studdart, W. R. Rolland, and F. C. Herbert, to the Daring ; D. Reid, to the Pantaloon ; W. E. A. Gordon and B. Sharpe, to the Firebrand ; W. A. R. Pearse and W. A. Freese, to the Osprey ; J. A. St. Leger, H. J. Robins, and G. Kerr, to the Flying Fish ; P. W. Co ventry and L. de T. Prevost, to the Waterwitch ; T. E. L. Moore, additional to the Winchester. Masters—J. Hill (acting) to the Osprey; T. C. Pullen, to the Flying Fish ; H. Harper, to the Waterwitch ; F. R. Sturdee, to the Daring ; J. T. Russell, to the Fire brand ; J. T. Crout, acting to the Pantaloon ; F. Cole, acting to the Osprey ; R. G. Wills, to the Spartan. Mates—R. W. Courtenay, to the Osprey ; J. A. L. Wharton, to the Flying Fish ; C. D. B. Kennedy and C. Wake, to the Daring ; J. S. Mann, to the Panta loon ; 11. M. Burroughs and J. G. West, to the Fire brand ; IV. A. R. Lee, to the Hecla ; W. G. Mansfield, to the Queen. Surgeons—J. Stewart, to the Osprey ;H. R. Banks, to the Flying Fish ; J. Douglas, M.D., to the Water witch ; W. Robertson. to the Pantaloon •, D. J. Coulter, to the Firebrand ; O'Neill Ferguson , to the Daring ; Dr. 31' William, t o th e Hyderabad convict-ship, for Van Dieman's Land. Pay masters and Pursers—G. li. Mowbray, to the Daring ; 11. M. Sadler, acting, to the Pantaloon ; J. Cole, t o th e O sprey ; C. Fielon, to the Flying Fsh ; W. Weaver, to the Waterwitch ; J. Prance, to the Fire brand. Second Masters—J. Thomas, to the Firebrand; W. F. Haines, to the Raven. A ssistant -Sur geons —D . R usse ll , to the Vi ctory; G . J . Willes (acting), to the Firebrand. Masters' Assistants —A. Brown, to the Daring; A. C. Raven, to the Pantaloon ; E. B. Jackson, to the Osprey; C. S. F. ChatfiAd,.to the Flying Fish; J. M'Clune, to the Waterwitch; J. Riddle, to the Firebrand; M. Nethen, to the Victory. Engineer—E. Boulton, second to the Dwarf, vice Jeffrey. Twee Clerdal k in C ecea se harge d. H. Ha s ti ngs, to the Sparrow, vice e, d Clerks—J. 11. Poole, to the Firebrand; A. Lew, to the Pantaloon ; W. C. Brown, to the Daring. Midshipmen—W. S. Jerdan and F. Peel, to the Water_ witch ; J. Boileau and A. K. Fox, to the Daring ; c, Hall, and W. Page, to the Pantaloon; W. Rawlings, to the Cruiser; A. Stirling and C. H. Simpson, to the Fire brand; IT. Rogers, to the Mutine. Naval Cadets—C. Grant, to the Firefly; M. Porter and L. Geveste, to the Osprey ; J. Jenkins and C. L. Grant, to the Flying Fish; . G. Bell and R. Carter, to the ,Daring ; T. 0. Handheld and R. IL Roe, to the Firebrand. COAST GUARD. Appointment—Lieutenant R. O'Brien, to the station at Langley Fort, vice Strettell. Removal—Lieutenant W. Strettell, from Langley Fort, to Newhaven Harbour station, vice Brown, super seded. DEATH OF CAPT. BASIL HALL.—We regret that we have to announce the death of this gallant officer, which took place on Wednesday last at Hasler Hospital, after ti protracted illness, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. Capt. Basil Hall was not only distinguished in the ser vice as an able, enterprising, and meritorious officer, who had the entire good of his profession at heart, and who lost no opportk.iity of forwarding its improvement is every way that his inquiring and discerning mind en abled him to do, but he was also known in the world of literature, of which he formed a distinguished ornament. In his early life, in the command of a small vessel, in an unknown sea, he rendered conspicuously interesting a dreary voyage to the north part of China, and the coast of Corea, by the publication of a lively, intelligent, and scientific account of a new people inhabiting the Loo Choo Islands. Since then his industrious and active habits have never allowed him to visit a scene without recording its novelties, peculiarities, and politics ; and we have thus before the world his opinion and descrip tion of both South and North America. His various nautical tales, told under the name of fragments, of which several series have been published, prove the play fulness of his mind, and the extent of hs observation. We have to record the death of another naval officer, retired Commander Joseph Hellard, who died at Ports mouth on Saturday. This gallant officer has been in service nearly seventy years. He was midshipman in the Berwick in the action with the French and Dutch fleets in 1778 and 1781 ; was mate of the Barfleur in Lord Howe's action • was Lieutenant of the Veteran, a t Camperdown, with Lord Duncan ; was Senior Lieute nant of the same ship at Copenhagen • was in the Leda, in the numerous actions with the Boulogne flotilla, in 1804, and at the capture of the Cape. IRELAND. VISIT OF MR. O'CONNELL TO DERRY- NANE. DUBLIN, SETT. 14.—Mr. O'Connell intends to make his annual visit to Derrynane Abbey, and is to leave Dublin on next Tuesday week for his celebrated mountain home. Several invitations to provincial dinners have been received by Mr. O'Connell, but most of them are to be delayed until the return of the Hon. Gentleman from Kerry. POPU GAR REJOICINGS. In the most remote districts the liberation of Mr. O'Connell was celebrated by public rejoicings. A letter from Killaloe gives an account of illuminations in all the towns and villages in the county of Clare. The entire country has been one scene of rejoicing for the triumph of O'Connell over the Tory Govern ment. MEETING OF THE CORPORATION.-AD DRESS TO MR. O'CONNELL. A special meeting of the Corporation was held this day in the City Assembly House, for the purpose of transacting a variety of business, and also for the disposal of several motions, the only one interesting being an address of congratulation to Mr. O'Connell on his liberation from his " unjust captivity." The Lord Mayor presided. After the disposal of the routine business, Mr. J. REILLY, T.C., rose in pursuance of notice to move the adoption of an address of congratulation to Mr. O'Connell. He read the following address : " TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P. " Address of the Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Burgesses of Dublin. " Revered Sir,—We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin, remind you that when, for your great virtue and indomitable perseverance in the cause of liberty all over the world, and your parti cular devotedness to that cause in relation to your native land, you became an object of persecution and injustice, we approached your prison-house to offer you our condolence, and prove that those for whose good your entire life was one of toil, were not un grateful in the days of your trial and suffering. " We pledged ourselves that when the day of your captivity should have passed away you should find us at your prison gates, once more to place you at the head of the people, to lead them on in your peaceable and moral atrugle for the redemption of your country. An all-ruling Providence, in his Divine dispensations, has been pleased to shorten the term of your im r - sonment, and, in your person, has- g' to justice, and restored you, unconquered, to free om, so that you may, by moral means,lteach the people how to deserve liberty and achieve it. " We, therefore, beg to approach you on this auspi cious occasion, and congratulate you on the victory you have obtained—of victory, which, while it has given you once more to us, must inspire the people with a reverence for the law, and prove to them that, by following your often-repeated injunction, violate no law,' they can annihilate the power to persecute, and enable you to lead them into the temple of the ancient but reformed constitution of Ireland. "In the hour of your captivity we condoled with you—in the hour of your victorious liberation we re joice, and we indulge the firm belief, and fond hope, that the day is not far distant when we shall again address you on the Consummation of your labours— the restoration to Ireland of her Parliament." Mr. REILLY then said, he was sure the Corporation would adopt with a sincere and heartfelt satisfaction the address he had the honour of submitting to the assembly. When all Ireland was coming forward to express their delight at the victory which had been obtained over fraud and injustice, it would ill become the reformed Corporation of Dublin to remain quies cent.—(Hear, hear.) Town Councillor APLOUGHLIN seconded the mo tion, and then proceeded to pass a high eulogium on the continuous exertions of Mr. O'Connell in endea vouring to achieve the amelioration of his country. Town Councillor KIRWAN supported the adoption of the address. Town Councillor LOUGHMAN, in tendering his con currence with the subject before the assembly, dwelt on the injustice which had been perpetrated on Mr. O'Connell, and declared his opinion that in his person the purity of trial by jury was vindicated. Town Councillor STAUNTON concurred in all that had been said by the previous speakers, both with re gard to the vindication of trial by jury and the doubtful state of the criminal law, and declared his conviction that it was of the utmost importance that the " monster meetings" should have been legalised. Mr. REILLY begged leave to move, before the ques tion was put, that the address be engrossed, and en early day be appointed for its presentation. It was arranged that Wednesday next should be fixed upon. The LORD MAYOR then put the question, which passed unanimously. The meeting then separated. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1844. SAVINGS' BANKS. Copy of a Letter addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by John Finlaison, Esq., dated June 17, 1844, relative thereto. Before submitting Mr. Finlaison's able letter in connexion with minor details (very important ones, however) as to the appropriation of certain portions of the capital referred to, the reader may be well pleased to have one or two preliminary facts brought under his notice, which may forcibly demonstrate the extent these institutions have attained, and the enormous aggregate of the annual deposits confided to them. In the year 1841 the individual depositors were 824,162 ;in 1842 they were 856,484. Their deposits amounted, in 1841, to the sum of 22,915,940/. ; in 1842, to 23,693,6181. Including charitable insti tutions (of which there were, depositors, in 1841, no less than 8,778 ; in 1842, 9,450) and friendly societies (8,264 in the former year, 8,781 in the latter), there were in all, in 1841, depositors, 841,204; their de posits, 24,447,689/. ; and in 1842, depositors, 874,715 ; their deposits, 25,319,3361. The letter of Mr. Fialaison is as follows : " National Debt-office, June 17, 1844. _ _ " Sir, —Understanding from Mr. Higham that it was your pleasure that I should make any statement that might be necessary for your information, in reference to Mr. Hume's motion on the subject of the life annuities granted by this department through the medium of savings' banks, I have the honour to acquaint you that the machinery of savings' banks was resorted to for annuities for the humbler classes, in consequence of the report of a Committee which sat under Lord Milton, and was printed 4th June, 1829. (No. 284.) " The spirit of that report, and the Act 3 WilL IV., cap. 14, which gave effect thereto, clearly evinced a dis position to encourage those classes to make a provision for old age by means of deferred life annuities, to be purchased by annual savings. The Act, indeed, would have been totally unnecessary, if no such facility nor any encouragement were contemplated, seeing that the Act or 1829 enabled this department already to grant deferred life annuities, when purchased at the current rates of interest of the day, as well as immediate life annuities, and those for terms of years, which are always purchased in one capital sum. It is probable that this persuasion Influenced the Treasury in rejecting the advice, which I felt it my duty to offer as under, in my repot accompanying the tables, which were necessary for the execution of the Act of 1833 (June 10th). "That report was dated on the sth of October, 1833, and most distinctly considered the annuities to be granted to the poor under two special heads : Ist, those which were to be immediately payable, whether on lives or for terms of years ; 2dly, those which were to be payable at periods, more or less remote from the date of pur chase, whether on lives or for terms of years. " With regard to the first class, I took it for granted that my Lords would make no change in the ordinary conditions under which such annuities were granted to the public at large under the Act of 1829, which of course contemplated a variable rate of interest according to the current prices of stock•. It would seem, by Mr. Steuart's letter of the 28th October, 1833 (No. 1,998 1-2-21-10), that my Lords did not concur in this view. " With regard to the second class viz., the deferred * I moreover solicited from their Lordships a declara ion to that effect. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. SEPT. 14.—The following members of this University have been ordained Deacons by the Lord Bishop of Bangor :-- James Hughes, commoner, and Hugh Norris Lloyd, scholar, both of Jesus College. The Principal and Fellows of Jesus College have pre sented the Rev. Richard Pritchard, of their Society, to the Rectory of Newbold-upon-Stour, Worcestershire— value 415/. per annum. The Lord Bishop of the diocese has instituted the Rev. J. S. Broderip, of Balliol College, to the Rectory of Cossington. The Rev. J. B. Dykes, of Queen's College, Las been appointed Surrogate in the diocese of Carlisle. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has collates the Rev. J. M. Echalez, of Trinity College, to an Hono rary Canonry in Peterborough Cathedral. The Rev. A. Clements has been appointed to the incumbency of Trinity Church, Rode, near Lawton, Cheshire. The Rev. J. Gattey has been appointed to aecuracy of Chard, Somersetshire. The Rev. J. C. Harris has been appointed to the curacy of Ninehead, Somersetshire. The Rev. 'George Thornton has been presented by the Lord Chaccellor to the Vicarage of Siaarnbrook, Bed fordshire, value 144/. per annum. The Rev. Griffith Williams has been appointed to the curacy of Butcome, Somersetshire. The Lord Bisho . p of Peterborough has licensed the Rev. Edward Sleep, of Pembroke College, to the curacy of Syresham, Northamptonshire. FIRE IN THE CITY-ROAD.—On Sunday morning, soon after one o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. J. Farrents, surgeon, at the corner of Regent's terrace, near the canal-bridge, City-road. It was nearly half-past two o'clock before the fire was completely ex tinguished, and not before the whole of the stock in trade, fixtures, and utensils in that portion of the build ing where the fire commenced were destroyed, and the remainder of the premises and contents seriously injured by fire and water. Mr. Farrents is insured in the Al liance Office. How the fire originated could not be as certained. A SCENE IN A JURY•ROOM.—WhiIst the jury were discussing their verdict in the late case of alleged riot at the Essex-street pier, tried on Thursday last at the Westminster sessions, a singular scene took place in the room to which they retired. It will be remembered that the case lasted the whole day, and the jury were unable to agree as to the guilt or innocence of the parties in dicted. They consequently were shown into the bur gess court, to be there kept without fire, candle, or food, until they did agree. It is said that one of them had formed a very strong opinion on the subject, and hap pened to have a quantity of peas in his pocket, which, report says, he observed would last him till the morning. It soon became evident there was little chance of an agree ment, for several of them opened one of the windows at which they sat, and repeatedly begged the passers-by toget them some half-and-half, their fellow -jurors being engaged in:anything but a conciliatory manner in different parts of the room. These proceedings coming to the knowledge of Inspector Morgan, of the V division, who was on duty in the Court, he directly placed a constable before the window, which is not above two feet from the iron rail ings, by which escape would be easy, and thus render' the trial nugatory, in order to prevent such a proceeding, which happened once before, and also to see that no con versation took place between strangers and the jury, or that refreshment was supplied to them. This surveillance continued about three hours, but it did not prevent the window-men h av i ng t h e i r j o k es a t th e p assers -by. At the worthy nine o'cl oc k, h owever, some concess i on was ma d e, an d magistrates, who had had three hours for their dinner, were called in to receive the verdict, which amounted to nothing.—Sunday Times. LADY CIGAR SMOKERS OF MEXICO.—Of all the petty vices practised by the New Mexicans, the vicio inocente of smoking among ladies is the most intolerable;' and yet it is a habit of which the loveliest and the most refined equally partake. The puro or cigarro is seen in ' the mouth of all ; it is handed round in the parlour, and' introduced at the dinner table. Even in the ball-room regularly as any other sp ec i es dance the senorita m a y o it f r p e r f e r s e e s n h t m e d en t t o ;, l , ad a i n e d s as n s the often be seen whirling round with a lighted cigarrito in her mouth. The belles of the southern cities are very %equently furnished with tenazitas de oro (little ;olden tongs) to hold the cigar with, so as to prevent their deli cate fingers from being polluted either with the stain or scent of tobacco, forgetting, at the same time, its dis agreeable effects upon the lips and breath ,— Greggs Northern Mexico. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. SITTING OF SEPTEMBER 9. M. Arago made some remarks on the comet disco- vered at Rome on the 22d ult., and observed at the Paris Observatory in the nights of the 2d, 3d, 4th, 7th, and Bth of the present month. The elements of this comet have been calculated at Paris by M. Goujon, who found that its distance at the perihelium was 1.27433. This comet has a strong resemblance to that perceived in 1585 by Tycho- Brahe, and calculated by Halley. It is true that the distance of that comet was found to be 1.09358, but this difference is not fatal to the identity. The comet of 1585 was equal to Jupiter in size, but much less brilliant; it was neither tailed nor bearded. The-comet discovered on the 22d ultimo has a very brilliant nucleus. M. Selligues, who lately reported to the Academy his discovery of a new and important motive power as a substitute for steam, and which consists in the admixture of atmo spheric air with hydrogen gas, by which an explosion is produced, made another communica tion at this sitting, from which it appears that the detonating power ceased under pressure. This strange phenomenon has proved an obstacle to the experi ments of M. Selligues before the Committee ap pointed by the Academy; but he is about to trace the cause, and remove the obstacle. Notwith standing the difficulties which have interposed themselves, M. Arago has convinced himself of the importance of the discovery, and has reported to the Academy that, with so small a quantity as three to five litres of hydrogen gas, mixed with atmospheric air, a weight of 1,000 kilo grammes was raised to the height of three feet. The advantages of M. Selligue's invention, if it can be brought into practical use, will be very great; for the apparatus for the production of hydrogen gas will occupy much less room, and cost less money than steam-boilers, and the stowage re quired for fuel, which is now the great obstacle to long voyages, will be dispensed with. The space now assigned for the store of coals may be used for mer chandise, and, consequently, the transport of both merchandise and passengers could be effected at a cheaper rate. M. Arago requested the Academy to add MM. Binet and Cauchy to the Committee appointed to report upon the system of railroads invented by the Marquis de Jouffroy. The request was immediately complied with. The Committee now consists of MM. Arago, Piobert, Dupenoy, Binet, and Cauchy. M. Longet read an account of a series of experiments, made by himself and M. Mateucci, on the action of electricity on the nervous system. Their experiments confirm 'all those made by Mr. Charles Bell on this subject. A communication was received from M. Pappen helm, Professor of the University of Breslau, on the diseases of the fibrous system. Having remarked on the diseases of the system, although it was supposed that many of the parts which constitute it were without nerves, he commenced an investigation, and with the aid of the microscope discovered a great number of nerves in the cellular tissue. They envelope or are always connected with arteries, but never with veins. A paper was received from M. Guyon, head physician of the army in Africa, on the race of men called Cagots, who were described by him in a former paper as perpetuating in the Pyrenees the ancient Goths, who at different periods were driven to these mountains as places of refuge. The anatomical distinction of the Cagots, says M. Guyon, is the form of the ear, which ris round, and without lobule. A great number of these persons are cretins; but this infirmity is owing to their residence in deep valleys, and to the miserable life that they lead there. As a race, the men are of a high stature, and exceedingly well made. A letter was read from M. Schultz, of Berlin, correcting a popular error as to the action of planets upon the atmosphere. It has hitherto been generally believed that planets decom pose the carbonic acid of the air that surrounds them ; M. Schultz, however, declares, from the ex periments that he has made on the subject, that the oxygen which they produce is not supplied by a decomposition of the air, but by the different acids which they contain, and which are derived from the earth. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ARMY PRIZE MONEY. The Account of Unclaimed Prize Money (formerly made by the Deputy Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea), from 18th January, 1809, to 31st December, 1843, directed to be annually laid before the Houses of Parliament, by 2 Wm. IV., c. 53. There is, perhaps, no department of the public ac counts more accurately kept, or scrupulously ad ministered, than that which is devoted to the receipts and disbursements of military prize money. It might have been more satisfactory if, in the following docu ment (which is a document that will not disparage the title of the noble establishment at Chelsea to the well-merited praise we have accorded to the whole de partment of military accounts), the designations of the various. grants for prize, booty, &c., in respect of forfeited and unclaimed shares upon which the items of debit have accrued, had been recapitulated, and the respective amounts set opposite to such designations. As a precis of a mass of detached accounts, it is a paper, however, which is much to be commended for the business-like simplicity and perspicuity of its statements. Dr. To cash arising from forfeited and unclaimed shares of prize money, grants, &c .£1,075,122 19 11 To ditto arising from the dividends, or interest of moneys invested in the Public Funds, or other Government Securities £1,293,270 10 3 Cr. By cash refunded to claimants By expense in executing Acts from Jan. 11, 1809, to Dec. 31, 1843 ... 57,543 5 01 By sums paid for the' Royal Hospital, in diminution of the annual vote 561,663 801 Balance (vide Memorandum below) 18,715 19 0 £1,293,270 10 3 AinmoneNntrx.—Although the balance upon the ac count appears to be as above stated, yet there is in the Three per Cent. Consols 100,0001. stock, and in the Bank of England, to the account of the Paymaster- General, 15,6381. 17s. 9d., which arises from the invest ments having been made in the earliest periods, when the funds were very low, and from the amount sold thereout from time to time having been when the prices of stock were considerably higher ; thus accounting for the difference between the balance as stated, and the present amount of the Army Prize Fund in the Three per Cent. Consols, and in money at the Bank of England. (Signed) RICHARD NEAVE, Sec. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Aug., 1844. annuities, I held, and I think with reason, the opinion that, irrespective of any favour to the poor, justice re quired that not the variable rate of the day, but a fixed rate of interest. such as, looking over a considerable pe riod of years, might probably be considered an average rate, ought to be taken as the measure of value ; and I suggested that 31. 15s. per cent. per annum might be safely taken. And I submitted, for their Lordships' apdrobation, tables constructed accordingly for each sex, pointing out to their Lordships the considerably higher price which, taking in the difference of the sex, would attach to the female. I certainly did venture, however, to draw their Lordships' attention to the discontent which would probably be occasioned by thus assessing the women whilst struggling to provide for their old age in a higher sum than males of the same age ; and I reasoned as if the loss would be very trifling by allow ing the female to have her annuity on the same terms as the male, age for age. That this is true will be mani fest from the fact, that no more than 8,2501. per annum of deferred annuities have ever been purchased by both sexes since the Act began, a period of ten years and more. _ _ _ " But all this reasoning distinctly applied only to the class of annuities which were to be payable at remote periods ; by no means to the other class of annuities, which become payable as soon as they are purchased. "My Lords, however, as would appear from Mr. Steuart's letter of the 28th October, made no distinction between either of these two classes of annuities, and commanded that the annuities under this Act should be universally granted OR one fixed table, in which the rate of mortality was to be that of the mile sex, and the rate of interest 31. 15s. "It would appear that Mr. Hume's motion contem plated an account 'of the money which would have been received if these annuities to the poor had been granted without any favour, according to the provisions of the Act of 1829. But when the many thousandt annuities which have been granted under the Act of 1833 are taken into consideration, it will appear that such an account will take much labour and a very long time to construct. I certainly think, it impossible during the present session. " Nevertheless, I am able to lay before you a very close approximation to the sum that would have been received under those circumstances, as compared with what has been received in fact. _ " It is said that much'abuse has prevailed by parties rich enough to come to this office in the first instance, having first gone to the savings' banks, each for 20L a year, and having then come to this office for a further annuity. But, in point of fact, only ninety-eight cases out of 2,488 are in this predicament. The whole annuity granted to the poor is 40,594 L 165., for which there has been paid 430,8191. 13s. 3d., therefore each 1/. of the annuity costs 101. 12s. 4d., which indicates that the average age of the parties is fifty-eight for a male of that age would pay lOL 12s. 4d. for each IL of his annuity. " But if the whole annuities granted to the public at large (excluding these) be examined in like manner, it appears that-on an average of the last nine years, each IL of snnuity granted, cost 101. lie. 3d. Hence the average age of each class is manifestly the same, and this is a strOng proof that no abuses have happened, not withstanding the prevalent opinion. " Certainly no such sum has been received in fact, in consequence of the encouragement to the industrious classes, which the A'tL c ontemplated (and without which there was no motive hi' passing it), as would hare been on the tables_ in force for die public at large. But is received if the same puolhasers had come to this office not the less certain that fevt• of them , on those terms,. would have come at all. It therefore erroneous t o consider the defici enc y a public loss"; . and it will be seen that, such as it is, it was almost enttivel l y occasioned by the benefit afforded to aged females, ~.tttle or nothing being lost by fixing the rate of interest as high as 3/. 151. It appears that the male purchasers of the mediate annuities are to the females as 14 is to 597 ; and that sex is consequently the purchasers of annuities to the amount of ... £84,203 While the females are purchasers to the amount of.. 346,686 Total, as above stated Now if these very persons had come to this office on the same terms as the public at large, the male sex would have paid collec tively for the like annuities And the females 422,056 Total £510,191 Then the difference between the two scales of payment is as follows : In respect of the male sex only £3,932 But in respect of the . females 75,370 Total .... £79,302 " Now I,firmly believe, that if the account were made out as Mr. Hume requires it, the variation would be next to nothing.—l have, &c. (Signed) " JOHN FINLAISON. " To the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, " Chancellor of the Exchequer," &c. &c. &c. t We know there are above 3,000. THE WARSPITE CORRE SPONDENCE. The Naval and Military Gazette has the following observations. in reference to Sir Edward Owen 's general order, occasioned by the letters from the officers of the Warspite which appeared in the Times criticising the manoeuvres of the French fleet before Tangiers : Is it credible that our officers are to be publicly reprimanded, either to propitiate a Foreign Govern ment, which rewards its own officers for lavishing abuse -and, calumny upon ours, or to appease the clamours of a public always ready to seize upon every occasion that offers to manifest its hatred and anti pathy to this country ? Surely it cannot be intended to propitiate the French nation at the expense of our own officers ; for we will venture to say, that there is not and officer in the Mediterranean fleet who does not feel humiliated by the publication of the above order. The British public has already sufficiently manifested its disapprobation of the letters written by the young officers of the Warspite ; but what it may sometimes disapprove of it may not always be convenient to con demn. The moment, too, is singularly ill chosen for manifesting . such forwardness in flinging satisfaction for insult to the French nation. Nobody would more sincerely rejoice than ourselves in the establishment but it can ne ver b e accomp li s h e d b y u of a thorough, good, mutual understanding, between the n c o two r g i ng nations,th manifestati on o f a h ost il e f ee li ng on ea one side, and , the forcible suppression of it on the other. Could not the Commander-in• Chief have expressed his disapproval of the letters published in the Times, officers of th e fl eet ? S uc h a mea sure might be necessary during war, on the eve of a r withouts ponde ordering nee ofthe a general su rve ill ance upon th e cor respondence expedition, or on suspicion of a secret corre spondence with the enemy, but surely not for , the pur pose of preventing a few youngsters from writing home to tell their friends that, in their opinion, the French are not much better sailors now than when we last thrashed them off the ocean. The Morning Post quotes a Memorandum of the Duke of W e lli n gton in 1809, we suppose, in justifi cation of this order ; but our Contemporary overlooks the fact that the Dukes complaint was the publication of letters from his army, communicating his intended course of operations, not animadversions on the con duct of the enemy. • The following startling announcement appeared a day or two since in the columns of a Contemporary, whose ardent Zeal in the service of her Ministerial patrons should have saved her from so cruel a hoax : " We are assured that a treaty, the origin of which may be referred to 1840, is on the eve of being concluded, by which England will obtain possession of the port of Suez, free passage from Alexandria to that port, and other advantages of importance in Egypt and Syria. This treaty, to which France is said to be no party, is guaranteed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia. NVe know not by what intrigue the King of the French has been prevented from participating in it, but have reason to believe that England has had nothing to do with her ex clusion." It is scarcely necessary to add, for the infor mation of the very few whom this transparent fiction may have misled, that the treaty thus described has not, nor ever had, any other existence than in the fertile imagination of The wag by whom our over - credulous Contemporary has been deceived.—Tunes. DOVER, SATURDAY.—The Earl of Pembroke ar rived by railway from the metropolis, this evening, and to-morrow embarks for Calais cn his way to Path. Lady Emily Hardinge and her daughters arrived this evening from town, and on Monday her Ladyship pur poses to embark for the Continent, proceeding to Paris, where her Ladyship intends to remain about a week, and then proceed to Marseilles. The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by:the Right lion. Charles Arbuthnot, who is residing with the Noble and Gallant Duke at Walmer Castle, came over on Thursday to inspect the works in progress for the improvement of the harbour, when the Noble LorcliWarden was conducted to the different locali• ties immediately regarding hi s notice, by Mr. Walker. The Earl of Fingall and Lord Killeen went by the Ariel steamer to Ostend, and from thence the Noble Earl and his son proceed to Geneva to join the Countess and family. Among the arrivals and departures during the week have been the Countess Flahault, Lady Bathurst, the Earl and Countess of Balcarras, Viscount Duncan non, Mr. and Mrs. R. Milbanke, Sir George Houston, Hon. W. Wodehouse, Colonel Sandilands, Sir John Horold, Bart., & c . THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.--The Royal Ex change will be opened in the eourse of' the last fortnight of October, by her Majesty in person, accompan ied b y y Prince Alber t. This announcement has been o fficiall y made by Sir Ja mes G ra h am , an d not by Mr. Lambert Jones ; though that worthy functionary repaired to Windsor a few days since in the hope of ascertaining her Majesty's wishes as to the precise day on which the ceremony should ta k e p l ace . The only reply he ob tained, however, w as t h at the Queen could receive no message on the subject except through the Lo rd Ma y o r , and when such c ommun i ca tion took place the Royal command would b e conve y e d through the Minister. Mr. Lambert Jones's journey to Windsor, what befel him there, and the dolorous face with which he returned, have afforded, during this season of dulness, subjects of merri ment amongst the citizens.--Post. The Earl . of NVinterton's annual treat to the labourers en gaged on his estate to celebrate the " har. vest home,' took place on Tuesday last at Sbillinglee Park, Sussex. It was a day of pleasure, not only to the persons employed by the Noble Earl, b uti also to their families, who were liberally entertained - at the Noble Earl's expense LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 16. (Before Mr. Commissioner ETANs.) A number of cases were put down for hearing this morning, but like the business of the Court for the last two or three weeks, they contained not one point of any interest. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. These sessions, the eleventh and last but one of the present Mayoralty, commenced yesterday before the Re corder, Mr. Alderman Hughes, and Mr. Alderman Mus grove, the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, &c. The calendar is extremely light, perhaps lighter than has been known on any previous occasion, there being only about 143 prisoners for trial. The grand jury having been sworn, The lipconDEß proceeded to deliver his charge to them. He should only trouble them with a few obser vations as the calendar was comparatively light, and not encumbered with many cases of great moment, neither were there any particular description of cases which in volved matters of law requiring observations from the Court. The charges were all simple in their evidence and their facts. There were, however, three cases of rather an alarming nature. First, there was a charge of shooting at, and wounding, with attempt to murder. Another charge was administering poison in order to destroy life ; and the third charge was that of rape. He would not go into the particulars of any of these cases, because that would be anticipating the duty that would have afterwards to devolve upon the Court, as there were circumstances in those cases that induced the Court to think that the grand jury would put them in a further train for trial. The facts of the case of shooting with intent to murder were clear, and added to that there were the declarations of the party at the time. As to any question of insanity, that was not to be taken into consideration by the grand jury, but left to the Court. As to the case of administering poison, the grand jury would judge whether the facts were sufficient to put the party on his trial, and showed that he administered the poison. As to the charge of rape, be thought the grand jury would think there was sufficient evidence to enable them to place the matter in a further state of investigation. There was also a charge of man slaughter against a party who had run over another with a cart and caused his death. If that had taken place through the negligence of the party charged, it amounted to the crime of manslaughter. The Learned Judge after slightly adverting to some of the other cases in the calendar, remitted the grand jury to the performance of their duties. The grand jury having retired, the Court proceeded to swear in the petty jury. Susan Parry, 32, described as a widow, was in dicted for unlawfully concealing the birth of her ille gitimate child. There were two counts in the indict ment; the first charged that the infant was born dead, and the second that it was born alive. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty upon the first count, and the Recorder having directed that the verdict should be so especially entered, sentenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for six months. Some other cages were disposed of, but they were of an uninteresting description, and the Court ad journed at five o'clock. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. BULLOCK and Alderman HOOFER.) EMBEZZLEMENT.— William Burt was placed at the bar, charged with embezzling various sums of money which he received as collector of the poor-rate for the parish of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster. The first count of the indictment charged him with having on the 18th of December received 2/. 12s. 6d. by virtue of his employment as servant to the church wardens and vestry of the parish of St John the Evangelist, which he did not account for, and on the 20th March a further sum of 1/. 2s. 6d., and on the 25th March a further sum of 2/. 12s. 6d. There w ere other counts charging him with having received the mioney as a clerk. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the pro secution ; Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone de fended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was employed to collect the poor-rates of the parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster, in 1843. It had been discovered, in consequence of the money received not having been paid in to tho Bank, that there was some thing wrong in the accounts of the prisoner, and upon inquiry it was found that he had received over .500/. which he was unable to pay. The prisoner disap peared, but was discovered at Gravesend, and was brought before the magistrates, when he said "he was afraid it was but too true." It seemed it was the duty of the prisoner to account for the money he received every week after he received it, but in the account which he handed in there was no credit given for the sums of money mentioned in the indictment. With regard to two of the sums of money the prisoner owned that he received them, when his attention was called to them, though he did not insert them in the account. _ _ Counsel, on behalf of the prisoner, admitted the facts, but contended that the offence did not amount to embezzlement. The points raised hiving been ruled against them, Sereral witnesses were called, who gave the pri soner a good character for honesty and integrity up to the present charge. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on account of his previous good character.—Sentence was deferred. RICHMOND PETTY SESSIONS. On Saturday, William New, a shoemaker by trade, was charged before Captain T. Price, Chairman, and a full bench of magistrittes, at Richmond, Surrey, with having on the 22d of last month stabbed his wife. The wife of the prisoner, who made every effort to evade appearing against her husband, and who gave her evidence with considerable reluctance, was exa mined at some length. From her statement it ap peared, that on the 22d of last month, while at din ner, her husband and herself had some words, when the former made a lunge at her with the knife he was using with his meal, and stabbed her in the side near the lower rib. On observing her blood flow from the wound, her husband absconded, and had not after wards returned to his home. During the examination of the wife she endeavoured as much as possible to exonerate the prisoner, declar ing on her oath that she did not believe he intended to injure her, and that the injury was inflicted in the heat of passion, during a. quarrel between herself and her husband. The magistrates, however, took a very different view of the charg'e, and it being the opinion of the medical gentleman who attended the wife that if the wound had been a little more i n f ron t o f her person it must have prove& fatal, they fully committed the prisoner to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, on the capital charge of stabbing with intent to murder his wife. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. In consequence of the session opening this day at the Central Criminal Court, the Alderman at this place did not take his seat on the bench till one o'clock. Two coalheavers, named Johnson and Farringdon, ware charged with creating a disturbance at the Glaciers' Arms public. house, Water-lane, and with committing a violent assault upon the police. Evidence was gone into which proved the use by eithor prisoner of the most in famous language, and of a determined assault upon the constable. It was also proved that one of them was at present bound over to keep the peace for a similar assault. They pleaded drunkenness ; but the Court said that such an excuse but aggravated the offence, and they were each sent for one month to prison, to be kept to hard labour. CLERKENWELL. Edward Reynolds, a greengrocer, was charged with furious driving, whereby a horse, value thirty guineas, the property of Mr. John Bell, a livery-stable keeper, was killed. It appeared that on Saturday night the prisoner was driving along the Holloway-road at a furious pace in a one-horse cart, when the complainant's driver, who was driving a similar vehicle, saw him coming to wards him, and called to him to get upon his own side of the road. The prisoner took no notice, and the left shaft of his " drag ' penetrated the chest of Mr. Bell's horse, and the poor animal fell down dead. The pri soner drove on, but was soon after taken into custody by a policeman. The prisoner was fined 121. and the costs, or three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. We have been requested to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums by the Magistrate at this Court for the relief of Charles Simmons, whose case ap peared in The Sun of Friday last :—" D. K. P.," 1/. ; " H. M. C.," 7s. ; " Postea," 1/. ; " G.," 1/. ; " Lawyer's Clerk," 1/. ; " J. C.," 21. ; " , W. L.," 11. ; and " Q.," 1/. In additions to these sums, Simmons had requested the Reporter to state that he has him self received, at his own lodgings, 6, Pearson-street, Kingsland-road, 4/. ss. 64., in various sums, from be nevolent ladies and gentlemen who refused to leave any name, and for all of which he is deeply grateful. It will be gratifying to the donors to hear that, upon strict inquiry, Si mmons ' s character and conditi on fully justifies and deserves the humane exertions that have been made in his behalf. On Saturday Mr. John Nicholls, a gas-fitter, re siding at 14, Leather-lane, was charged on an infor mation with having defrauded the City of London Gaslight and Coke Company. The information was founded on the 57th of George 111., c. 23, sec. 17. The penalty was laid at 20/ , and 1/. for every day during which it should be proved the fraud existed. The Court was crowded with professional and other gentlemen, and much interest was manifested in the proceedings. Mr. Hawes, father of the Hon. Mem ber for Lambeth, was on the bench. Mr. Clarkson was for the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock appeared as counsel for the defence. Mr. Clarkson said he had, been informed that a sys tem had been resorted to of late, in order to defraud gas companies, which was so ingenious in its nature, and so difficult of detection, that if not at once put a stop to, they would he rained in a very short time. There were two modes of supplying gas, one by con tract and the other by meter. Public-houses were generally supplied by the latter. Now, it was mani fest that if by any means the gas could be turned from passing. through the meter, the Company had no means whatever of, knowing how much had been consumed. The gas-meter was then placed on the table and its construction explained, which was necessary to under stand the alleged offence, Two tubes communicated with it, the one conducting the gas from the main pipe into it, whence by machinery the number of cubical feet of gas was told on the index outside. The other tube conveyed the gas away from the meter and ramified it into minor ones, distributing the gas all over the establishment. In fact, it was in some re spects like the human heart, supposing the first-men tioned tube to be the pulmonary artery, and the latter the aorta. The fraud was a ll ege d t o have been com mitted by cutting away portions of both tubes so as to prevent communication with the meter, and placiE,f between them a short tube which connunn3cate , i with both, lying on the top of the meter. The tube is called a " Jerry." The first witness called was Mr. E. Newbold. He deposed that, in April last, he kept the Coach and Horses beershop in Cross-street, Hattnn-garden, and subsequently the Grapes, in Smithfield. On Saturday. the 23d of March, a few days before he became land • lord of the Coach and Horses, the defendant was intro duced to him, by a man named Sullivan, as a gas-fitter. The defendant came on the 28th, but the meter and pipes had been then erected, and the inspector of the gas-works had been there. Defendant went down to the cellar where the meter was, and returning after some time told witness it would be all right, and that the pipes and meter wanted to have a little job done to them. which he would do, " but it must be taken into ac count." The defendant came a few days after, and having been in the cellar for some time, came back, saying he would complete the little job with the pipes. Witness went out, and on coming home in the even ing saw in the cellar Hammond, the prisoner's ap prentice. The next day Nicholls came again, ob tained a candle, went down to the cellar, and when he came up told witness he had now done the little job, and that it was all right. The day after he came again, and asked witness how the gas burned ? Wit ness answered very well. He then asked if he had looked at the meter. Witness said he knew no more about the meter than the meter did about him. He said "Just go and look at it." Witness did go and look at it, and saw the jerry. On returning, witness said, " What the d-1 is that you have got there, the gas does not go into the meter at all ?" Nicholls mid " Never mind, it is all right." Witness said he wanted an explanation, but he left and gave none. When prisoner went away witness took off the jerry and made the pipes communicate with the meter as before. He hid the jerry first in his drawer and then in the cellar. At the latter end of May or the begin ning of June he gave the jerry up to Mr. Butler, su perintendent of the gas company. The defendant had repeatedly asked him for it, saying he wanted to make one of the same pattern, but witness refused to give it up. At one time Nicholls said to him that gas companies would be very well satisfied if they were paid for half of the gas that was consumed. Cross-examined—Could not tell how many public houses he had kept. Could not say, but he had kept forty-nine. Nicholls sued him in the Sheriff's Court for gas-fittings and obtained a verdict for 191. aga i ns t him. It was after Nicholls brought the action wit ness communicated with the gas company. William Hunt, a potman at the Twelve Bells in Bride-lane, was next examined—Was potman to Newbold. Nicholls came into the bar about that time, and said to Newbold, " Well, governor, how does your meter get on?" Newbold said, " Take a candle and go and look." Newbold looked at it after, and said, " What the d-1 do you call that ? It's not in the meter at all." Nicholls had a pint of porter and went away, and Newbold went into the cellar immediately afterwards with a screwdriver and brought up the jerry in his hand. Heard Nicholls say that he had put 47,000 cubic feet of gas back for one individual. Heard Newbold refuse to give the jerry up to Nicholls when the latter asked for it. Mr. Charnock having cross-examined this wit ness, but without in the least degree shaking his tes timony, addressed the bench on behalf of his client. He relied on the suspicious character of Newbold, — on the extreme unlikelihood of a respectable tradesman committing so grave an offence without any prospect of advantage, —on the length of time that had elapsed between the period of the alleged of fence and the prosecution,—on the probability of New bold being entirely actuated by vindictive motives, in consequence of having lost the suit in the Sheriff's Court, and on the supposition that Newbold, who was alone the gainer by the fraud, did it himself, or had it done by some other person. James Hammond, the defendant's apprentice, de posed to having been sent for by Newbold to do something to his gas-pipes, at the Coach and Horses, and found the pipes had been broken at the meter. Newbold came down, and said, " Have you done that ?" Witness said, " How did you break it ?" Newbold then pulled a " jerry" from his pocket and said, "I broke it screwing this on; what do you think of it ?" Witness asked him where he got it, and he said he found it in the cellar. Witness knew that it had been on before, for it smelt of gas. Wit ness refused to put it on, and said he would send his master. When witness told Mr.. Nicholls he said that witness had acted very properly in not putting it on. Mr. Clarkson again addressed the bench. Mr. Coin said, though he placed no reliance on Newhold's testimony per se, yet, confirmed as it wa. by Hunt, a perfectly disinterested witness, he felt it his duty to convict, and would fine the defendant in the full penalty of 20/. and costs. Mr. Charnock gave notice that he should appeal from the decision. MURDER OF THE DOVER POLICEMAN.—VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.—DOVER, SEPT. 14.—The inquest on the body of Samuel Couchman, police-constable of this place, who was savagely murdered on Sunday even ing last at Bridge-street, Chariton, Dover, while attempt ing to quell . a riot that had arisen among a party of broom dashers and poachers, principally consisting of an old man named James Clark and his five sons, termi nated, after four sittings, this morning, between twelve and one o'clock, A.M., when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against James Clark, the father, William Clark, Thomas Clark, John Clark, and Stephen Clark (his sons), William Smith, and other persons unknown. Frederick Clark and John Wood, who, with old Clark and one of his sons (Stephen) were taken into custody on the morning of the murder, were discharged, and the old man and his son Stephen were committed to Maid stone gaol, to take their trial at the next Maid stone assizes, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. The prisoners in custody were sent oil to Maidstone this day. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of Thomas Clark, William Clark, .John Clark, and William Smith, who are still at large. It is reported that these parties were seen to enter Bo senden-wood, near Canterbury, the scene of the Cour• tenay tragedy, and that they are still concealed there. The funeral of poor Couchman, the policeman, the ex pense of which was defrayed by the borough, took place on Thursday, and was attended by the civic authorities, &c. A subscription has also been commenced for the benefit of the wife and the two children of the murdered man. No similar case of atrocity having occurred in Dover in man's remembrance, it has produced a me lancholy sensation unprecedented. It has been stated in some of the papers that the broom handle with which Thomas Clark (one of the parties still at large) assailed his victim, and which the witnesses described him to have grasped with both hands, and " struck him down like a butcher killing a bullock," was loaded at one end with a piece of iron, but this is not the fact. It a thickish home-made broom handle, without any appendage; and, As the surgeon stated, a tremendous blow must have been given with it. for the bones of the nose were not only broken, but driven into the head. We feel gratified in noticing the case of Mr. William Nicholas, who has received her Majesty's free pardon after having been sentenced to ten years' transportation upon a conviction for forgery at the last Winchester Assizes. We learn that Mr. Nicholas was charged by his brother-in-law, Mr. George Hood, of Godshill, near Fordingbridge, with having about five years: ago forged the name of Elizabeth Nicholas, his mother, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange, which Mr. Hood endorsed and ultimately paid. Mrs. Nicholas is unable to write, and the circumstance which gave rise to William Nicholas's apprehension, was that of his mother's having at the time the ac ceptance became payable denied giving any authority to her son to accept the same ; she has, however, subse quently admitted, not only to M r . Ni c h o l as, b ut to several other persons, that she did consent to his ac cepting the bill in question, and that her reason for deny ing it was, in fact, to avoid her legal responsibility to pay the amount of the draft, which would have involved her in pecuniary difficulties. We find that Mr. Ni cholas for some years was engaged as a timber and spirit merchant at Hythe, near Southampton, in which ho experienced severe losses, and afterwards held an ap pointment as a commercial traveller and commission agent in a distillery and wine establishment in London, after which he became in adverse circumstances from the loss of a large sum of money which he had embarked in the purchase of shares in mining speculations in Corn wall and Devon, and so great was his poverty at the time of his committal to Winchester gaol, that he had not the means of employing an attorney, and his case must have gone undefended if Mr. F. Caiger had not gratuitously prepared a defence, and paid his counsel, from a belief that the charge was unfounded. Mr. Nicholas received the most prompt attention after the circumstances of his case became known to her Majesty's Secretary of State, and kind treatment from the governor and authorities of the prison in London, to which he was removed from Winchester.— Hampshire Independent. MURDER, ELEVEN YEARS AGO.—On Saturday a man, named Riorden, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having been concerned in the murder of Cornelius Sullivan, near Macroom, in the county of Cork, in the year 1833. It appeared that Riorden, though almost in constant employent in Liverpool ever since, had continued to evade the vigilance of the police, and that a quarrel between him and one of his associates, who was in the secret, led to his apprehension. He was sent over to Dublin on Saturday evening, thence to be conveyed to the gaol of the county of Cork.—Liverpool Chronicle. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDO) CORN-EXCHANGE. of Last week, up to S a t ur d a y even i ng , t h e arrirsls id English Wheat for our market were somewhat larg e the time of year, mad o f su p er i or qua li ty . Of all 61 0 4 kinds of grain, both E ng li s h an d F ore i gn , t he rec.` ,o a, f . were but moderate. F rom E ssex , K ent , an d 011 011 :d shire, coastwise, as well as by land ca rriage, oo sample, a full average quantity of Wheat of ' O l produce caina fresh to hand, and. the de ll 'oe for must descriptions was tolerably steady. show of fine Foreign Wheat was by nu means large and a fair amount o f b us in ess was doing at prices Jet equal to those obtained last week. In Wheat ye, lock scarcely a sale to o k pl ace . Of new E ng lish BS tle/ about 300 quarters were on offer in fair condition. ff , reign Thirley being in l a r ge su pply, t h e tra d e was sec , at a reduction in p r i ce o f f rom i s to 2 s per cltil(1 ter y The Malt trade was in a very sluggish state, The reduction. in the currencies of f u lly I s per quarter'. tO , slow of Oats wa s sma ll, a t f u ll y l ast wee k' s quotation The supply of Beans was rather limited, while the 21 ruled inactive, at late rates. Maple Peas were is,t,„di per quarter lower, with a heavy demand. Other K . 7 10 of Peas were about stationary. The Flour trade 11 0 , a sluggish state, but no variation was noticed in c ir ,,di, The market was well supplied with most kinds of nv -- which moved off slowly, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. t pi HEAT—Essex & Kent, MALT-Chevalier.......A &'- red 40s to 50s OATS-Yorkshire and a Ditto, white ..... 49s to 571 Lincolnfh feed is Norfolk and Lin. ; Potatoe ..... coin, red ...... 395 to 48s You hall 14 hali and Cork. .., 9 40 1 di Ditto white 4os to 535 black ....... ...** 13$ to A . Irish, red 47. to 50s. Cork, white Lis Ditto, white RYE-Old 214 to 33 5 BEAM -Tick.......••••••• 094 New Vies to 38s Pigeons ... . to., BARLEY—Grinding ...... 2,is to 27. PEAS- Grey 3100 ; MaiLiug Chevalier.— ......... to 35s White ........... MALT-Sutibik and Nor ; 4 4 $ to folk s6s to 62* FLOUR-Town made 34 , t 033 .. Brawn sos to 54s Sulk) k.. » . » ..«.«• 3 3,10'" Kingston and Ware 564 to 62,1 Stockt on 81 .. 1,7o:folk FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BONE , . . 4 0 $A . WHEAT-Dantric Hamburgh 36s to 40s P " to BARLEY 3os to 33s FLOUR-American „ 2 - ** - to OATS-New Feed ..... ....... SMITHFIELD. sole r For the time of year, the supply of Beasts was 10 ,t0 what extensive as to numbers, but very deficient to o quality. Notwithstanding there was rather a nu lii • attendance of both London and country buyers, nv „ ol provement was noticed in the demand for 13eg full number of Sheep was extensive, a n d o ff average quality, though a scarcity of ''oo prime old Downs was complained of. fof best qualities of Mutton were quite as dear, 11 7 6 .1 other kinds the inquiry was in a very sluggish et evi, barely stationary prices. The supply of Lan'; o seasonably good, but the _sale for that descriptl„ r io stock was very inactive, at last week's currencies. s xl.o small Calves were in demand, and previous rater;ll, readily supported. All other kinds of Veal wereLioo The trade was rather active, and the best swell were 2d per Sibs dearer than on last market day Per @lbs. to sink the offal. s. d. ° : ss.tos. d. . 3 4 Inferior Beasts ..... $ 6 2 a Second qualitydltte... 6 Second quality ditto... 210 3 2 Coarse.woolled 10 Prime large Omen...... 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wethers a Prime Scots, &c. ..... 3 a 310 Ditto out of the wool 0 5 0 Large coarse Calves... 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs . 0 4 0 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers... ... ," at 0 , I Suckling Calves, each 18 033 Quarter old Pigs,eachi: 6 • Inferior Sheep 2 $ 3 2 . SUPPLY AT MARKET. rs* Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. 3Ol 3,656 33,960. 144 1 ,,c1 4 ; NEVFGATZ AND ILEADENI24.-- - btel- The past week's arrivals of all kinds of slan g e fel Meat for these markets have been very mo derat e o r for the time of year.; but, with m ea t killed in IP ' Dee‘ tropolis, we have been well supplied . Pria l l Mutton, Lamb, and Veal, are commanding a ste a at fully previous rates. Otherwise, the deman d • sluggish state, at unvaried currencies. At per stone, a by the Carcase. s. / s. d. to s. d. 6 6 aoef.interior.... « middling ..... 2 3 210 - 3 6 I --prime large 3 0 3 2 --- prime g 6 50 prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, 3 e Veal ~...».«.«.., 3 4 4 4 —small Lamb. Ss 4d to 44 Bd. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEE Scotland 5 Beasts. Sheep. Calves* 2! 20 •"" Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk — Cambridgeshire 15 • 0 Essex ..............«.«....« S $0 63 1 p 5urrey.......... .......... ...... ..... 12 40 W Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts .................«.« 54/' Total... ..... "... SI 255 2 2 A 5 0 Previous week's arrival 40 5 0 Diffbrence since our last. 4 215 120 ..., BOROUGH AND SPZTALTZBA m—. arrif' Since our last several cargoes of Potatoes ha ve - TV A here from Kent and Essex, in excellent couditiacie, supply offering is seasonably l arge , yet th is firm, at from 41 to 51 lOs per ton. BOROUGH HOP BLILSISr % bop cllr the dir Picking has now generally commenced le a tricts, and several pock e ts o f n ew Hops h bus bot tbell posed of here at from 818 s to 101 lOs per cwt; " 0 Asa" general quality is inf e rior. The ac counts from tp b r e ve tations vary but little from those to which we hav, yeti adverted. The business doing in old Hops I„ty ' e trifling, and prices are barely sustained. The 720 1 called at 130,0001. Weald of K en t p oc k e ts. 61 0 6/ 12s ; Mid Kent, ditto, 7/ 2s to 9/ 15s ; Bast OP ditto, ditto, 71 4s to 9/ ; Choice ditto, 101 t o 111105 ; a ditto, 51 los to 61 10s ; Mid Kent bags, 6118 5 to 0 „ic WOOL MARKET. • eti Rather an extensive importation of Wool ha o 1 place in the port of London since our last, aC e tl o ' 1,200 bales having been received from New Sou"' . he 0' and 1,300 ditto from o'her quarters. Although t he e' counts from the manufacturing districts are 1164 . 11 01 4 brisk as previously advised, a good business ° r i c o both in English and Foreiga Wools, at very ful l P .0 TALLOW BULZHZT. 0 This market i s st ea dy, an d prices rem ain the r4 s- 0: in our last week's s t a t emen t. P r i ces a t St. Pe te .%i i 4 are without alteration, and business is progrerto 410 about the same ratio. Town Tallow is 40s 6 a nett cash. ,„ The Earl of Enniskillen and the Earl i of i ll re j,.. s i ? ory , t4 : tend to com e f rom their respective_ seats n attend the meetings o f th e British Association at on the 28th inst. " MORE EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON THE EXC ISS ,;(Ch L i paragraph under this head appeared in the 0 0- ito' the Ist instant. The article stated that a la r g e o s e P r , l B ; of . tobacco had been effected by Mr. Mark ! oa Tatiw t mises of the well-known extensive firm of Mess r i , r th o ° h and Co., situate in the Minories ; and, rO ren in e d t 'ia the matter had been settled by the parties PaY*,i el ' 1 "conscience money." The statement has aPP. e- ,,1 e ib e t other London journals ; and we have aseertain-t the there is no truth whatever in it. We need 1 1 °t s f, s o lo e we are anxious to rescue so respectable a firn i ill% imputation thus intended to be cast upon it ; s 'a'se 4lji as far as we are concerned, we can in futur e ;eh. with the service s o f the reporter.— Weekly Dt a . o stir i : MEDICAL REFORM.—CAUTION.—The u l- ISs tu ; case of fraud which app e a rs i n t h e L anc et of 133 , 0 0 0 , - ; day, at page 767, i s genera ll y pract i se d by il ien n trY , s o ing diplomas. We belie ve th a t th at s ort of g b - ro en' h - it always provided with th e p rec i ous pi ece of are „oor a guarantee to their fr a ud s . I t i s , indeed , a r„0:10",,, against Sir James Graham. N o law' can ever P r i or ir t such rascality, because doctor s h ave no fixed F:00 1° 4 in medicine—have fixed principles, and thenY°„" wit h ,( down quackery, whether p rac ti se d by the iii ,rrifoi t 'for without a dipl oma .—l ssue d b y Morison an; Jon' the British College of Health, New-road, 1 ", n , r1 19 44 ,'0 and on behalf of the body of Hvgeists, SePt . , r Sate", / - LAUNCH OF THE FLORA.—This splendid frigate ars• ; launched on Wednesday last. She is built off end i§,, ings by Sir W. Symonds, surveyor of the navYi n a die< l o , sister ship to the Pique, now in the W r es t ;' ll .'" n t 1,622 20.94 tons burthen, and pierced f or Notwithstanding that there are few or no P r A eP rice for the launch of a ship of this size, the very numerous, and the utmost desire was e h o t the officers of th e es t a bli s h men t t o afford largo( every possible attention and accommodation. e; „joy' h, party of fashionables were pr esen t, and the or christening of the ship wa s p er f o rmed by DI 0 0 tb r s. rane, niece of the worthy Admiral of the poll' f occasion, the bottle was encircled in a gado'', ° „„litlet 7 ,3 At 3.30 the signal was given, and the vessel L' o etav4 t o the slip amidst the loud acclamations of the % e a multitude. The Flora is to be immediatelY ts',iegraPe dock to have her bottom copperecl.—Devonport that on to ADVANCE OP AVAGES.—We understand ilo tice ee of the master spinners of this town have gi ven . edv e o li • - ty their hands of the intention to give them a" b a bi' l lie upon the present prices, and there is every P rn es of h t o that it will lead to a general advance in the lon fr o f spinning and card-room hands. We cannot o ges there is at present any intention of raising the the weavers.— Preston Guardian. 1 ,01 BIRTHS. the Rey. den` e t ,s h .. e J 6 . t G h . in v s e t i , m a b t ie S s t , ra o n f gw a dazusg•htetrerra.ce, Truro, th e foro On the 7th inst., Mrs. J. Yeomans, at Tubben e nearOrpenton, Kent, of a daughter. R O A n . W. e . C 1 0 0 i t ; s h i d i n i n s e t : , o a f t a A d l a v u e g l e h y t 'er S . slop, On the 12th inst.. at St. Augustine's Cottage, Kent, Mrs. D. 11. Macleod, of a daughter. Tt On the 12th inst., in Gordon-place, the lady of —• ‘ Bromley, Esq., of a daughter.the lady 0. -h fo r ti .iIIARRIED. St/ rrii ; On the 11th inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. Joneirvo et lit , D.D., President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oatiol Mary, youngest daughter of the late Rev. James Job ° ' 1 " f' Rector of West Kington, Pitchcomb, Gloucestershire' Wilts. S , On the 12th inst., at hiriatdlP West, Esq., to Emma Sophia, fourth daughter of the c Edward Hogg, of Pitchcoinb. Of DIED. On the 13th of June, at Delhi, Lieutenan t J. 5 • 001‘ Adjutant of the 7th Regiment of Native Infantry. Toe On the 28th of June, Amelia Augusta, wife ofCaptal° good, Adjutant of the 35th Light Infantry. n D' it/' On the 30th of June, at Calcutta, Andrew M'Quee lop, Esq., of the Bank of Western India. 's, r"' On the 16th ult., at Madeira, the Rev. 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