The Sun. — London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

sr-tirt4 VAS r4itton TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCK. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 9 to 2 agst LsudgraTe 7 to 1 agst Loadstoae—taken to 1 agst The_ Italian 10 to 1 agst King of Oude 12 to 1 agst Essedarius 17 to 1 agst Miss Ann 20 to 1 agst Turnus 20 to i agst Trouncer 25 to 1 opt Russborough 25 to 1 agst Landseer 25 to 1 agst Uriel DERBY. 30 to 1 ogst Ariosto 3) to 1 agst Hernandez HOLLAND. ----- THE HAGUE, OCT. '3l.—The Stoats Courant of this day publishes the address of the Second Chamber of the States General in reply to the speech from the Throne at the opening of the present session. It was presented by a deputation on Saturday last. His Majesty replied as follows : " The sentiments which this address expresses are highly prized by me. So desirable an under standing between the Government and the repre sentatives of the people promises a happy accom plishment of the important task which devolves upon both. You affurd the well-grounded hope that the interests of the fatherland will be powerfully advanced by your unanimous co-operation." From a report presented to the King by the Mi nister of Marine, on the colonies, it appears that there are now, in the Island of Java, 434,093 indigent familis, who are exclusively occupied in the cultiva tion of coffee ; 165,092 in that of sugar ; and 181,329 in that of indigo ; making a total of 786,514 families. Allowing only four labourers to each family, and in most families there are more, we find that the number of labourers is at 3,146,054—a cipher which may give - us some ilea of the great extent of the cultiva tion of these three products in the Island of Java.— Randelsblad. PEAT CHARCOAL. We ere now firm believers in the wonderful pro perties if peat- charcoal as a deodoriser ; and we should be delighted to have it tested in our own city, which, in despite of its title " beautiful," is one of the dirtiest and nestles', in Europe. Verily we don't believe there is in the wide world, civilized or savage, a city or town in which health is so wantonly endangered or (recency is so shamefully outraged, as in this city of Cork. We dare not describe the condition of our streets, even in the very noon day ; and we cannot even think of what they are in the early night time. All that we say is, that they are a shame and a scandal to a community calling itself civilized. But are they always to remain as they uow are ? Is there no pos sibility of cure ? Can nothing be done to guard health against disease engendered by noxious gases, and to protect decency from daily, nightly, hourly outrage ? We feel convinced that modern science has placed at oar disposal a valuable purifying agent, which is capable of being turned to wonderful account, in a healthful, moral, and economic point of view. We believe thet peat-charcoal is this purifying agent. Curiosiy induced us to pay a visit to the Cork Workhouse on Saturday last ; and we must confess we felt. ernersd how any man, or any set of men, could have been so hoodwinked, blinded, we might add besotted, as to have selected such a site for such an institution. It is utterly destitute of the means of drainage; and, therefore, the accumulated refuse of 4,000 people has no means of escape through the aid of water or sewerage. Therefore, every week the penalty is paid for the original sin of selection in the partial removal from the premises of that which is noxious and destructive to health. This operation was being proceeded with as we entered ; and we can assert that the atmosphere was literally poisoned; and that the whole space from the entrance-gate to the board-room, including that place on which the indus trial department stands, and where many hundreds were at work, was filled with the most noxious ex halations, which must be the prolific source of the most malignant diseases. There is also another tank, or trap, in the very heart of the main build ing ; and this cannot be touched without the most disgusting results. We had been just after reading a letter which has been in type some days, but which may be seen in this day's paper, bearing the signa ture A Citizen," on the subject of Peat Charcoal ; and we were then forcibly struck by the necessity which existed for the application of some purifying agent, some deodorising process, for the purpose of endeavouring to remedy the horrid grievance which we then witnessed, and which was so disgustingly manifest to our own senses. We could not therefore avoid speaking to the intelligent master on the sub ject; and, in the course of conversation, he told us quite sufficient to impress us with a full belief in the value of peat charcoal as a decdoriser. We well know the subject is an unpleasant one, and is liable to shock many. Bat really we think there is ten times more indelicacy in quietly enduring the filth and the abomination of our streets ; and, therefore, we feel we should be guilty of a crime if we did not put this matter before the public. The master told us that he prepared some turf by baking, so as to convert it into peat charcoal, which he had then ground into powder ; and that he himself mixed a portion of this powder in a vessel full of the noxious matter, and that almost instantaneously it deprived it of all odour, so that any person coming into the room would have failed to perceive its presence. Another gentleman told us of a somewhat similar experiment, though on a larger scale, where the result was exactly similar. Surely, then, we thought, here is an agent which it is the duty of the guardians to avail themselves of, and which can alone remedy the original evil of locality. Here is no possibility of drainage, no possi bility of establishing a sufficient sewerage , and here every week—perhaps oftener—these horrid reser voirs are opened, and their contents rendering the air malignant, and destructive to health. Peat charcoal is in this case the only possible remedy. In the first place, it would thoroughly deodorise, or deprive of all smelt, offensive or otherwise; and, in the next, it would convert the contents of those reservoirs into a valuable fertilising agent, the sale of which would go far towards defraying the cost of the institution, and proportionately diminish the burden of the heavily taxed rate-payers of the union. And we therefore re solved to put the matter before the public without false delicacy or disguise. We have frequently urged upon the local authori ties the neeffsity of a proper city sewerage; end the answer has always been its difficulty, its expense, its consequent taxation. We admit the fairness of the excuse ; but we insist that something must be done in the matter. Our correspondent suggests that Mr. Rogers be invited by the authorities "to enliselsten them on the virtues and uses of peat charcoal ;" and really we don't think the edvice a had one—on the contrary, we think it quite the opposite. Tile Wide Street Commissioners expressed themselves ready to give 101. for information on the subject of "convert ing the manure of the city to valuable purposes." Why then not hear Mr. Rogers on the subject? Hear what he has to say ; ask him to give proof that this peat charcoal is a purifying agent, and a con verter of noxious into inoffensive and fertilising mat ter ; test him in every possible way, through the aid of scientific and practical men—and if this agent be proved valuable, then, in the name of humanity that is afflicted, in the name of decency that is outraged, contrive some means of introducing it not only into your great public establishments, but into the dwell ings of the poor, where filth is the natural parent of disease and death.— Cork Examiner. FOREIGN CORN.—The Act of the past session of Parliament, 13th and 14th of Victoria, cap. 95, contains a section which declares that, from and after the passing of the said Act, no allowances on account of damage sustained during the voyage shall be made on corn of any kind on im portation into this country from foreign parts. In addition .to alLwances for damage, it has been customary to make allowances on foreign corn in the measurable quantity on account of the heated state of the grain at the time of its being shipped, which allowance for heat was separate and distinct from actual damage, and was even sometimes 'granted in both cases, where it could be satisfactorily shown, as required by law, that the grain had actually been chipped - in a-heated state, and had also sustained damage to a greater or lesser extent by bad weather experienced at sea. In con sequence of this distinction having always been admitted, applicetion has recently been preferred at one of the out ports to the authorities for an allowance to be granted for beat on a parcel of foreign grain, notwithstanding the enact ment contained in the new Act above quoted; but it has . been ruled that the intention of the Act 13th and 14th Vic toria, c. 93, le as to discontinue allewancesfer any increase on account cf heat of the measurable quantity of corn on im portation from foreign parts, as well as allowances fel- actual dalr age sustained during the voyage, and that therefore • neither of Grose allowances can any longer be made. WORTH TELLING As AlN.—When Nicholas Biddle —familiarly called Nick Biddie-:-was connected with the United Sia es Bank, there was en old negro named Harry who used to be loafing around the premises. One day, in so cial mood, Biddle slid to the darky—" Well, what is your d ?"—Harry, sir ; ole Ilarrv. sir;" sai d name, my old Frien the other, - touching his sleepy hat.—" Old Harry !"said said Biddle,'" why that is the name that they give to the Devil, is it not!" " Yes, sir," said the coloured gentleman, " some ' times ore Harry and sometimes ole I)ounua SUICIDE.—TWo days ago some fishermen at Benne, near Argenteuil, dragged flout the river the bodies of a young man and womsu, bound closely together by locket-handkerchiefs and cords. A paper - found in the pockets of the man set forth that they had committed suicide owing to the refusal of their parents to consent to their mar riage, and begged of those who might find them to cause them to belaterred withcut any attempt to ascertain who they were- Thi , paper was signed " Joseph a n d M a d e l e i ne- " All attempts to - discover the names and add re s ses o f th e u fortunate couple have failed,—FeenerePaeer. THE SUN, SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. COMMANDER PULLEN'S BOAT EXPEDITION. The following are extracts from a letter of much more recent date than the interesting narration we i published a short time since, of the proceedings of Commander Pullen's party, in the Hudson's Bay Cempany's territories of North America. It is from the same gallant cent, Lieutenant W. H. Hooper, and is addressed to his father, in the City : June 27, 1850. My dear Father,—l have not time now to detail at length our proceedings, but can merely say that we endured a sufficiency of discomfort and some danger, and should, without our customary caution, have been " scooppered" by the Esquimaux, with whom we had considerable trouble and a slight brush. At the end of August we entered Mackenzie River, and in a few days reached a post of the Hud son's Bay Company, on the Peel (a branch of the former river). Here Mr. Pullen left me with half the party to winter, himself proceeding with the rest to Fort Simpson, the bead-quarters of the district on the Mackenzie. In less than a fortnight I found that my party could not be sustained at Peel's River, and therefore set off after Mr. Pullen, but was only able to reach Fort Norman (the post below Fort Simpson), where I decided to remain, having had one man frost-bitten on the journey. The party and myself went across to Bear Lake, and there wintered, subsisting on fish and water. At the breaking up of the ice Dr. Rae came down from Fort Simpson, and I set off for Fort Simp son with the party, being soon followed by that gentleman (a most delightful man). On the 20th of this month we started from Fort Simpson with the outward goods (i. e. furs), and were proceeding on our way to the sea, there to embark in the company's ship, and return to England, when we encountered— two days since—a canoe, containing Admiralty dis patches, among which was your letter ; and now I can show you why my time for writing is brief. We are off to the coast again to look after poor Sir John Franklin, of whom, it is needless to say, we have seen no trace ; so that, instead of returning home next October and relating our proceedings in the good cause, I shall, in a few days, be off again to the sea, to assist in another search—and may God grant not again un successfully—and shall not see you until October, 1851, when, please God, we shall return to England in the company's annual ship from York Factory, in Hudson's Bay. We are now in Great Slave Lake, accompanying the outward boats to a fort near, whence, having obtained provisions for cur voyage, we return to Fort Simpson, hasten our preparations, and be off to the sea down the Mackenzie as fast as we can. This slight sketch will also explain to you the e!egant irregularity and crinkum-crankum style of my epistle, which is being indited in the boat while pulling through the Great Slave Lake. Your letter of the 24th of January arrives in Mr. Barrow's letter to Captain Pullen, and sure I am that if that gentlemen could have witnessed my joyful emotions on the occasion of its receipt he would need no more eloquent expression of thanks for his favour. The receipt of the (to me) most ardently desired gifts, viz., your letter and the news of my promotion in May, 1849—the latter, by the bye, conveyed by their Lordships in a message of satisfaction at my con duct before leaving the Plover. * As for this journey, I must tell you plainly that, however grieving it is to be disappointed of returning Lome, yet I am, nevertheless, delighted to go again, and think that we do not hopelessly undertake another search, since our intended direction is con sidered the most probable channel for finding the mis sing ships or crews. We go down the Mackenzie, along the coast eastward to Port Bithurst, and thence strike across to Wollaston or Benks's Land. The season will, of course, much influence cur proceed ings, but we shall probably return up the hitherto un explored river which runs into the Arctic Ocean from Liverpool Bay, between the Coppermine and Mac kenzie. I shall write to Colonel Sabine if I can. I wish you would call upon him and give my respectful re membrance of his kind courtesy to me. Say that we have got the magnetic dip along the coast, and that the Fox goes with us on our second trip, and he may rest assured I will use my best endeavour to obtain complete observations wherever possible. You might also allude to my great grief at the accident which befel the instrument in May, 1848, of which I did not before tell you, but that I have endeavoured to correct its effect as much as possible by obtaining numerous sets with the instrument in every mode I can think of, and noting as fully as I could any defect or otherwise that I observed. At Fort Simpson Captain Pullen, as well as myself, took numerous sets, and I think that that position will serve as a base, particularly as we shall probably winter there in 1850 and 1851. When at Bear Lake I made such observations on the aurora borealis (which was there magnificent) as was possible, and have formed a theory on it which I shall submit to him either now or when we reach England. Unfortunately, I had not a single instru ment, so could not observe the influence of the phe nomenon upon the magnet, as it is asserted to have, but which I do not think. I am much grieved to learn of the death of poor Sheddon, the owner of the Nancy Dawson yacht; his kindness and assistance to us cannot be sufficiently expressed. Captain Pullen is very good and very kind. lam as happy with him as I could be with almost any one ; he is, I believe, a truly religious man ; has seen much and suffered ranch ; his real goodness of heart is evident in his actions and fatherly care of those placed under his charge ; and I long to see him put a crown instead of a star over his anchor. Captain Moore does not appear to have been promoted. I should like to see him get his step very much. As for my health I never was better, I think, in my life than I have been since I left you, and par ticularly since I wintered in this country. The cold I feel but litte, and am now not the least hardy of the lot and have never had any illness. We shall not have many delicacies in our trip, pemmican and dry reindeer flesh being our only food (the latter having from its particularly inviting qualities been nick-named "waistcoat pieces" by our boys), and as much of the pure element to imbibe as we please. But do not you think that this will break my heart. I have been nearly one winter with nothing but herrings, and if I cannot go a summer in a rather improved condition, I ought to be anywhere but here, and so say we all. When we return from the sea the party will probably winter at Bear Lake. I shall, most probably, be at Fort Simpson * I place implicit con fidence in my gallant commander's advice and intentions. This, as you may suppose, is a very com ;'ortable state of affairs, and when I add that our men are good, hard-working chaps, and evidently well satisfied with their captain, whom we'd follow to the death, and apparently also with me, I think that we may be considered a united and devoted (as we have been called "a gallant") little band. So hurrah ! for the coast once more, and then to our loved homes. '* Friday, 28th—We have to-day been stopped by the ice in Slave Lake, and are going to turn back to Fert Simpson at once, so I have no time to say much more. Ido not think that you will get another let ter or even news of us until April, 1851—if so earl —as there is no other mail till December next. Believe me, &c., WILLIAM lIIILME ILOPER. DAVIS'STRAITSWHALEFISHERY ABERDEEN, MoNDAL- T Yesterday afternoon LW" two whalers, the Pacific and the St. Andrew's, arrived here from Davis' Straits. They report a very un favourable season and a very unsuccessful fishery. In the month of July seven vessels got beset in the ice, ard were so closely packed that it was for a time concluded that they would have to winter in the Arctic regions. Having provisions only for a single voyage, the idea of passing the winter there was a terrible thought. A consultation was, therefore, held amongst the commanders, and it was agreed that it should be put to the men whether any of them, and how many, would volunteer to remain in each ship, while the others would make the best of their way to open water, and disperse themselves among the ships that were clear of the ice. From twelve to fourteen men volunteered to remain in each ship, it being considered that that number would be sufficient to manage her ; but if the provisions would have served for more through the winter, there would have been no difficulty in getting ad ditional volunteers. The Jane, of Ba'ness, was the nearest ship in the open water, and towards that vessel 150 men proceeded, the parting from their comrades being, in many instances, of a very affecting charac \ ter. The whole of these men were received on board the Jane, and Captain Walker proceeded without loss of time to apportion them among other vessels. This was done in the course of a few days, but soon after indications Pppeared of the ice giving way, and, to the gratification of all, it speedily broke up. The ice bound whale-rs were then soon at liberty, and lost to time in gatherihg their men and proceeding with the fishery. The breaking up of the ice, however, had the effect of making the fish very shy, and it being t [ I found impossible to get through Melvill e B ay t o th e west land, few whales were killed. The ice continued open up to the time the Pacific and St. Andrew's left for home on the sth instant ; 1 but the weather had been so stormy that most cf the , 1 other ships were driven up the country to take shelter under the high land. Nothing was seen of the ships composing the expedition in search of Sir John Frank lin since the dates mentioned in Commander For syth's dispatch; but it is the opinion of arse in these whalers, who are able fr om lon g experience in the Arctic regions to judge that the breaking up of the ice and clearance of Lancaster Sound would open a passage round Cape Reilly, where the remains of Sir LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1850. John Franklin's encampment were found, and up Wellington Channel, if so, then it may be concluded that this channtl will be well explored whatever may be the result. Tne following is a list of the fishery ABERDEEN. The Pacific, 3 fish, Ist of October. The St. Andrew's, 3 fish, Ist of October. BO'NESS. The Jane, 1 fihh, Ist October. DUNDEE. The Advice, 3 fish, 40 tuns, Ist of October. The Alexander, 4 fish, 57 tuns, Ist of October. The Horp, 7 fish, 86 tuns, Ist of October. The Princess Charlotte, 5 fish, 68 tuns, let October. HULL, The Abram, 2 fish, let of October. The Rose, lean Ist of October. The Lord Gambier, clean, Ist of October. The True Love, 3 fish, Ist of October. The Anne, 2 fish, Ist of October. The Swan, clean, Ist of October. PETERHEAD. The Joseph Green, 1 fish, 15th of September. KIRKCALDY. The Chieftain, 3 fish, 30' tuns, Ist of October. The Regalia, 1 fish, 12 tuns, Ist of October. UNROLLING OF AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY IN THE BELFAST MUSEUM. We announced in our last (says the Banner of Ulster), that the mummy procured by Sir J. Emer son Tennent in the year 1845, and kindly forwarded by him to this town, was to be unrolled in the museum of the Belfast Natural History Society on Thursday. The examination was looked forward to with considerable interest, a royal name occurring in the inscription on the sarcophagus, and the hierogly phics fixing the date of the individual as connected with the twelfth Egyptian dynasty. The sarcophagus, which is in a state of perfect preservation, was obtained at Thebes—once " the city of a hundred gates," the site of edifices without a parallel in the world—now a heap of ruins—a vast necropolis of yawning pits and tombs, in which it is calculated there are from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 mummied bodies. Thursday, at one o'clock, the members of the Natural History and Philosophical Society, with ; a number of friends, assembled in the museum, for 1 the purpose of witnessing the operation of unrolling. Those present having taken their seats, the seals of the case, which was placed on a table elevated in the centre of the large room on the second floor, were re moved by Dr. Grattan, who, assisted by Dr. Carlyle, Dr. Stevelly, and Mr. Getty, at once proceeded to uncover the mummy. The case, which was enclosed in a sarcophagus of wood, about two and a half inches io thickness, and ornamented with an immense variety of hieroglyphics, representing figures of deities, and their gifts, bore a large number of inscriptions, the name of the deceased, her gods, her departing addresses and appeals, &c. It was composed of laths, covered with canvass, and a layer of some adhesive compound. The hieroglyphics, both on the outside and inside, were as legible as if the paint had been laid on a few months ago. No sooner bad the cover ing been taken off than it was discovered that the case must have been opened before, and that some rude hand, probably of a plundering Arab, had cut through to the face the thick bandaging which wrapped the head of the mummy, and that the swathing bands, which extended in two or three piles from head to foot, had been carelessly bundled up and lodgcd beside the shoulders. A small piece of gilt wood, rounded, and symbolical of Eternity, was found on the breast of the individual ; a large collection of green beads, apparently of metal, was discevi rtd at the head, and three little gilt gods, and three gilt plates were taken, the former from the r;ght side of the body, and the latter from the left. Tne unrolling occupied nearly two hours. The bandages were of linen, the greater number being about three yards in length, and four inches in breadth, and having insertion and fringe at one end. They were of various texture—some spe cimens about the chest as fine as muslin—and in a state of remarkable preservation. During the progress of the unrolling several pieces of linen taken from the shoulder of the mummy served, by various stamped inscriptions, to identify the individual with the coffin, and to point out her parentage, age, and circum stances. Before the mummy had been completely uncovered, it was discovered that not a tissue of the body hung together—that the entire flesh, and almost all the bones, were completely pul verised ; and when the last folds were removed little else than a heap of dust remained. The linen was not much injured, the sarcophagus and case were per fect, the hieroglyphics were apparently fresh, even the gods were safe ; but the Scripture truth, " Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," was unmistake ably apparent in the totally decayed members of the individual itself. Without touching on the infor mation to be communicated on Wednesday by Dr. llincks, we believe we are correct in stating that the result of the examination will show that the individual was of royal extraction—a princess, about forty years of age, 4 feet 8 inches in height, and partly deformed ; that the body was preserved with bitumen, and is at least 3,400 years old—the oldest, with one exception, ever unrolled. We under stand that upon the skull, vertebra, and one or two of the principal bones of the arms and legs, the flesh and muscles upon which seem to have undergone some remarkable changes in combination with the bitumen, experiments of an interesting character are to be made, and that the results will be communicated on Wednesday, after Sir James Emerson Tennent shall have stated the circumstances under which he obtained the mummy, and Dr. Hincks shall have communi cated the result of his examination. FOREIGN FUNDS. BELGIAN FUN W.—Baca:m.2, OCT. 22. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .............. Loan of 1840, Five per Cent • • • • 9Sy s Loan of Thirty Millions,FourperCent— Ditto Threeper Cent.. •• • • ••• . • • Ditto Thirty-seven Milllons,ditto • • • • Ditto,ditto,lB4o.• •••••••••• • • .• • • • . • • Ditto,lB42, 5 per Cent........ •• 93% Ditto, 1844, 4% per Cent• ••••• • • .. ... 90% Ditto, 1836, 4 per Cent • • • • • • .• • . • . 85 Ditto, 1833, 3 per Cent. ••• • • • 64% Ditto, 1848, 5 per Cent.. ••••• • •• • .... 97% Ditto of the City, 1832 •• ••••••..•••• •• •. •• . 102% Ditto, 1843 •• ••••••• • • • • • • • ••••• •• • • B s% Bank ofßelgium, 4 per Cents.—.• •••• • • • • 78 Issue of 1841, 5 per Cents. . ..... .• • ... 110'4 Exchange on London, 25 25. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, CCT. 21. Active Debt, 2% per Cent •• • • f 6% 5 6 % Ditto, 3 per Cent •• • • •• .. 67% 67% Ditto, 4 per 88 7-16 98% Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent. East India Loan, 4 per Cent.... 87% Frankfort, 3 per Cents. • . •..• • •• •• . 5 3 - 3 -16 Russian 5 per Cents., Hope & Co. 104% Ditto, ditto, Steiglitz ••..•• • • • • • • 87 !4; Spanish New 5 per Cents. • • Ditto, 3 per Cents. • • •• •• •• Austrian 5 per Cents., Metallics 75% 76 Ditto 2% per Cent. .............. 40 / 1-16 40 5-16 Commercial Company, 434 par Cent .. 16814 Exchangeon London, at sight ••• • .• 11 ,• 7 Two months... ............ 11 82 On llamburgh, at sight 35 12 Two m0nth5............... 34 93 On Paris, at 5ight.......... 56 31 • Twomonths. • 56 6 LIAMBURGH FUNDS, OCT. 19. Bills. Money. Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent.... 105 Ditto, 3% per Cent. .............. Bank 'Shares • .. Prussian 5 per Cent. ......... A nglo-Russian Loan - . .. • . 106 -- liamburgh Certificates, 5 per Cent..• • • 99 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. Ditto Stleglitz, 4 per Cent. ......... 83 Hamburgh, 33 per Cent. 8934 8934 Lubeck 1 oan (1800) ............18 97% Belgian Loan, 2 % per Cent Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74 4 74 Ditto, in 1001. Shares 74% 74 1 4 Ditto, 5 per cent. 97 9614: Anglo-Swedish Loan Ditto, Transport Loan Ditto, Ilyp , 4 per Cents .. •....... 96% Norwegian 4 per Cents... • ... 100 Spanish New 5 per Cent........ •••• .. 10% 104 Ditto, 3 per Cents. ........ •••• • • •• 31 3i% Ditto, Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent•• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. • .... Ditto 3 per Cent. National Bank Shares American, 6per Cent. •• •• 106% 105% RAILWAYS. Hamh• Ditto, B P e r rg ie d rit . y . " Wh; • es • • ••:.• Beg i n to a , n i d ,r g r a i m ty b s u h rg ar . c . 3 .. 105 19 9 0 90% 100% Ditto, second emission •... M a gd e berg -Wit tenbur g 55 54 1 ,4 Ditto, 5 per Cents. 93 , Cologne and Minden • • .• •• 97 i: 97 Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• •• • • 101 X, Ditto, 5 per Cents... •• • • • Frederick-William, Northern 38; Mecklenberg ••••••• • .. •• .• ...... •• 31% Ditto, P r i o rity Shares, 4!. per Cent. 101 101 Altona and Kie1..... ••••••• • .. • • .. 87 Gluckstadt .. ••.•••••• • •• • • • • ••.• ••• Exchange on London, 13 7 ; three months, 13 534. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 23. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a Bench of Magistrateo.) John TVhite, aged 38, a very respectably-dressed mar, was indicted for having stolen printed books, the value of 18s., the property of John Murray. It appeared that on the 11th inst. the prisoner went into Mr. Murray's shop, in Albermarle•street, and asked to look at a book. While the shopman went to fetch the volume in question the prisoner was seen by a: other pea son in the shop to take down two other hocks from the shelf, and place them within the breast of his cost ; and just as the man who had gone in search of the book originally asked for by the prisoner had returned with it, he; ran into the street. lie was pur.ued, ar.d the books found upon him as described. The prisoner now in his defence said, in an affected tone of voice, that no doubt he had, teken down the books to look at, but he denied most strongly that he had ever entertained a thought of stealing them. Steal them! What a thought—what an idea I Could he ever contemplate the theft of a book, or of any thing else? Oh, no; no such thing. Why, he was too much devoted to books to dream of stealing them. lie was in the habit of purchasing a great many vo lumes. It had been his custom for years to have a love and a fancy for buying books, and he, like other frail mortals, had been in the habit of indulging that love, and had at the same time gratified and realized his fancy—for the books he bought. He had said he had not intended to steal these books. It might, however, be asked if that were so, how did i; happen that he had r un cut of the shop. The Learned JUDGE—Yes, how do you explain the fact of taking down the books from the shelves, the putting them within the breast of your coat to hide them, and then the running off with them—how do you explain that? The prisoner—Oh, that is very easy. I did not mean to steal the books, but just as I had taken them down, and was about to look at them, my eye caught sight of a man passing by of the name of Williams, who has owed me 255. for more than three years, and after him I ran to ask for payment of that sum. There, that's the explanation of my leaving the shop, but before I could return 1 was laid hold of. What cause, do you suppose, I could have to steal these books? Why, I am independent, and have lived with my mother for the I,st 25 years, and I live with her now, but in a fortnight's time I shall be with my uncle at Wor cester. My uncle is the proprietor of large nursery grounds at Worcester, and 1 am going down to live with him. In a whining voice the prisoner concluded his long harangue by protesting not only his inno cence as to any intention of committing a theft, but his utter inability to conceive the theft of a book. If he should be convicted of this charge his character would be in a perfect state of ruin. The Learned JUDGE told the, jury that they had heard a very clear statement u:ade by the witnesses for the prosecutor, and they had also heard the sin gular address of the prisoner. Between those two versions of the transaction they must find their way as best they could, and give a verdict accordingly. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner—Oh, I am going to my uncle at Worcester in a fortnight. The Learned JUDGE—You will not go to Worces ter in a fortnight, I can tell you. Why, how can you come here with your sycophantic manners and whining when you know that this is not the first time that you have been at that bar upon a charge of steal ing books ? The officer said, that on the former occasion the prisoner had been acquitted. The Learned JUDGE—Yes, because the jury then thought there was some doubt as to the man's state of mind. The prisoner—But I have to go to Worcester in a fortnight. The Learned JUDGE—Tbat you will not do, you may depend upon, for I shall send you to the House of Correction for three months, where you will have some hard labour as a portion of your punishment for this offence. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Samuel Sale was brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having hidden himself under a bed in a public-house in the neighbourhood of the Mansion house, for the purpose of robbing the premises. A young person, the daughter of the prosecutor, who happened to be in the kitchen, which is on the first floor, and immediately under one of the bed rooms, heard, or fancied she heard, a footstep over head at nine o'clock on Tuesday night, aod, knowing that strangers had no business there, she went up to ascertain the cause of the unexpected noise. Upon entering the bedroom she looked round, but saw no body. Relying, however, upon the accuracy of her hearing, which caught the sound of a slight rustliep as she walked into the room, she looked down and saw a man's arm under the bed. Without uttering e word she quietly walked out of the room, locked th, visitor in, slipped down stairs, and, instead of alarm ing her mother, who was in the bar, went into tin street, beckoned to a policeman, and, telling him what she had seen, gave him the key of the room, in which he very soon introduced himself to the prisoner, who, as soon as he found that it was all up with him. began to knock to be let out. The policeman said he found the prisoner, upon un locking the door, in great confusion. The fellow pre tended that he had mistaken the chamber for a place of accommodation, and that finding it was a bedroom, and not wishing to be suspected of an intention to plunder the house, he just thrust himself under the bed. Upon being asked for his address, he gave a direction to a remote lodging at which he was not known, and in answer to other questions he said he had been in the house before, and had, by the direc tions of the waiter, walked up stairs instead of down stairs. Alderman GIBBS—WeII, prisoner, how do you ac count for this very unwelcome visit of yours to the upper part of the house ? The prisoner said he really had made a mistake, and he endeavoured to show that he was incapable of doing the slightest intentional injury. Alderman GIBBI—Why did you give a false ad dress ? The prisoner—The officer mistook me. Alderman (Mans—Then we are all in a mistake. You mistook the bedchamber for another sort of place. The officer mistook another address for your address, and I mistake you for a thief who had an intention to rob the house.—(A. laugh.) The young lady has acted with a great deal of presence of mind and pru dence in completing the business without terrifying her mother, and you shall go to Bridewell for three calendar months, with hard labour. BOW-STREET. Pat Regan was charged with causing a nuisance in Church-lane, St. Giles's, by emptying the contents of a privy into the public thoroughfare. Mr. J. B. Durham, a cutler, of 456, Oxford-street, stated, that in giving the defendant into custody his only desire was to draw the attention of the magis trate to a very serious nuisance which had long ex isted in Church-lane. The houses in that part of St. Giles's were occupied by people of the lowest class, amongst whom neither order, morality, nor decency prevailed. In one small house as many as ninety per sons of both sexes lived together, and no fewer than thirty occupied one room about thirteen or fourteen feet square. The cesspools ran over, and saturated the rooms and passages on the ground-floor. The nightsoil was usually swept into the street to be car ried off by the gutters in wet weather, and witnes, finding the defendant engaged in this way, and there by causing a most intolerable stench in the neigh bourhood, in the middle of the day, resolved to give him into custody, and test the power of the magis trate to compel the interference of the proper local authorities. The complainant added that he had been in repeated communication with the Board of Health and the parish officers during the past two years, without succeeding in getting the as sistance of either towards the suppression of the nui sance. He had seen in one of the houses a sick woman very far advanced in pregnancy lying upon straw or shavings, Which had been disc o loured by the filth running in from an adjoining room. The defendant said he had no help for it. Ia wet weather his room was so bad that he was obliged to shovel it out of the door. The privies were so full that the soil ran over and got into the rooms. It ran from one room into another, and sometimes from one house into another, and so what could they do, except get rid of it ? He was only shovelling it into the gutters, to be taken off in the drains; for it smelt worse inside than it did out. Mr. JIRDINB told him in future not to touch it. It for the a was scandalous that such a nuisance should be suf fered police singe day;and, if no one e l se i n t er f ere d, surely should have taken up the matter. The public voice was being raised every day against evils of much less magnitude than this. His Worship then gave directions to the inspector cf police to go and make himself acquainted with the facts, and pro mised to give all the assistance in his power to sup• press the nuisance.—Tee defendant was discharged. MAR YLEBONE. After the disposal of the night charges Mr. F. It. Jonse, solicitor, who was accompanied to the court by Mr. John Wilson, of 18, Charles-street, Middle sex Hospital, made application to Mr. Broughton for a warrant against Mr. Samuel Steele, 24, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, for an assault of a violent nature upon the aforesaid Mr. Wilson, both parties being members of the Marylebene vestry. His Worship, to whom the application was made, is also a vestry tnan. Mr. Jones briefly stated that, after the breaking up of the vestry meeting on Saturday afternoon, the 12th instant, Mr. Steele came behind Mr. Wilson and struck him a blow on the back part of the head, a proof of which assault would be forthcoming upon the case being gone into on a future day. It was further stated that Mr. Steele had been writ ten to to the effect that if he would give a guinea to the poor-box, and apologize for the unwarrantable attack which he had been guilty of; nothing more would be required, but as he had not thought fit to make any reply to the communication addressed to him, Mr. Wilson felt it his duty to institute the present proceedings. The fracas arose out of an allegation made at the vestry with respect to Mr. Steele having netted and carried away from Mary lebone workhouse between forty and fifty pigeons therein located, and making pies of them for himself and family. T ne allegation was at the time it was made indignantly denied, and we believe that with respect to the as sault said to have been committed, the casus Belli was that of Mr. Wil son h av i ng a t a committee meeting of the v es t ry d rawn upon t h e table the figure of a bird, and wr i tten b eneat h it " What about the pigeons ?" The warrant was granted, and the matter, which had excit e d a considereble degree of interest amongst the memb ers o f the M ary l e b one " Parliament" and their fri e nd s , on Tuesd a y near. Mr. W is appointed for heari n g at two o'clock Nilson said that in the event of the terms proposed by him with respect to an apology and a donation to the poor•box being made prior to Tues day next, he should, notwithstanding the disregard which bad been shown by Mr. Steel to the letter ad dressed to him, be perfectly satisfied without troubling his Worship any more upon the subject. Mr. Wileon and his solicitor then quitted the court. THE LATE the clock strike two and three, and, I believe, four o'clock. When I awoke shortly after four I noticed that there was not nearly so much light in the bed room as there ought to be, and I got out of bed. I found the brdroorn dour three parts shut. I opened it and looked down stairs. I saw a man at the bottom with' dark lantern i❑ his hand. He was crouching down and entering the dining-room. I immediately went down stairs and pushed the dining-room door open with my right hand, when out eie ang two men. I turned round, having nothing with which to defend myself, and went quietly up stairs. The men followed close behind. When I got to the top of the stairs I was struck a heavy blow on the knee, which made me fall against the banisters. I instantly wrenched one of the rails out of the banisters, and began to defend myself. Both the men were on me at the time. I received several violent blows on the head, which pre vented me making any better resistance. I cannot tell what weapon the man on the left side had, but the man on the right had a poker. I had a slight glimpse of the man on the left, but the one on my right I saw very distinctly. Mr. Tyndal—Look at the prisoners, and say whe ther you can identify one or both of them ? The pro secutor—l believe Marshall to be the. man on my right hand, who had the poker. Mr. Tyndal—Which is the person whom you believe to have been on your left hand ? The prose cutor—l believe Healey to be the man, but he leant so much ever me that I had not a distinct view of him. Mr. Gem (magistrate's clerk)—Had you ever seen either of the prisoners before? The prosecutor—l think I saw Healey the Thursday before at the bottom of my yard, hut I will not speak to him posi tively. The two men on the staircase escaped over me, and I immediately went down stairs and let the police in. Cross-examined by Mr. Herding—Healey, I be lieve, is my nephew. I am pretty sure he is one of the men. I judge by his figure, his trousers, and the way he leant over me. I thought by the gaslight his trousers were more of a drab colour. (The prisoner in the dock wore light green trousers) I had not seen Healey for years, and I had no means of recog nising him on the morning in question except from the slight view I had of his person. I saw him seve ral times over me as I was parrying his blows, ' but I could not catch so clear a view of him as I did of the other man. Mr. Harding—You say you had reason to judge that Healey was one of the men, because his trousers were of a dark drab colour ? The prosecutor—l did not believe him to be one of the men simply because he wore dirk drab-coloured trousers, nor did I say so. Mr. Harding—What, then, was there with respect to his trousers which led you to believe that Healey was one of the men ? The prosecutor—What I meant to say was, that the man had on what I thought to be a dark-coloured pair of trousers. Mr. Harding—What was there in his figure by which you knew Healey to be one of the men ? The prosecutor—l observed him to be a very young man. Mr. Harding—Was his face coloured ? The pro secutor—l believe it was, but not so strongly as that of the other man. I thought from his face, as well as Nis figure, that he was a e oung man. I did not ex amine his face, but I saw him sufficiently. Mr. Harding—You did not positively recognise the face of your own nephew? The prosecutor—l did not. Mr. Herding—You say he leant over you ; de scribe what you mean. The prosecutor—Every time he struck me I parried the blow, and he seemed to crouch to conceal his face, so that I should not get a good sight of it. Mr. Herding—Perhaps he succeeded in that ? The prosecutor —I saw his face several times. Mr. Harding—ln point of fact, the leaning over of the man was no reason why you believe Healey to be that person ? The prosecutor—No, certainly not; hut now and then I got a sight of him. Mr. Harding--I suppose you were somewhat ex cited and alarmed, were you not ? The prosecutor— I was Trite collected, except for half a minute, when I received the blow on my head from the poker. It was after that that the men made their escape. I had previously received several blows on the head. Ann Thompson—l am servant to Mr. Marston. Oa Thursday, the 3d October, I observed three men inside my master's gates, and Healey was one of them. About a month previously, on a Sunday, I believe, I saw the same three men in the same place in my master's yard. The man who rents the stable was with them. Oa the Sunday morning, about six weeks ago, one of the men spoke to me. Healey was the man, and he is one of the persons I saw on the 3d of October. On Saturday previous to the burglary I cleaned my master's plate. I placed it in the drawers in the breakfast-room. The creamjug and sugar basin produced were part of the plate. On the Mon day morning, soon after four o'clock, I was awoke by Mr. Marston's screams. I found the plate on the floor by the drawers in the breakfast-room. Cross-examined by Mr. Harding—l did not see the men in the yard, the first time, for more than half an instant. I got away as fast as I could, for one of them spoke very rudely to me. I believe that man to be Healey. He had a coloured waistcoat, and a little red in his handkerchief. I do not recollect any more about him. The men I saw again on the 3d of Octo ber I believe to be the same men, as they were very like them ; they stood in the same place and position as they did before. On the second occasion I did not observe them particularly. Mr. Harding—Now, I ask you, do you believe that on that second occasion, the 31 of October, Irealey was one of the men? Witness—l do believe that he was one of the men I saw on the second oc casion. Mr. Harding—Now, why do you believe that Healey was one of the men? Witness—By the way he stood on the first occasion. Mr. Harding—Did Healey stand in any particular way on the 31 cf October? Witness—He did not. Mr. Harding—What do you'rnean, then, by saying that you believed Healey to be the man, from the particular manner in which he stood when you thought you saw him a month previously ? Witness—l believe it was the same man. Mr. Harding—Youl have sworn in your examina tion that Healey was one of the men you saw in the yard on the 31 ef October. Is that true, or is it not ? Witness—From the way in which he stood, and from what I saw of him, I believe he was one of the men. James B Ater, police-constable 37—On the morning of the 7th of October I wai called to Mr. Marston's house by cries for help. I entered by the front, and went upst4irs and found a hat between the roof and the ceilii.g. The ceiling and the roof of the ware house were broken open. Mr. Caswell, hatter, deposed that he sold the hat produced eight or nine months ago to the prisoner Healey. A little before last Birmingham fair Healey brought the hat to be cleaned, and he fetched it away about three days afterwards. Cross-examined by Mr. Harding—What Vs there particular about the hat which enables you to know it ? Witness—There is nothing peculiar about it, but I know the hat by its size and general appear ance. I cannot tell how many similar hats I. have sold within the last eight or nine months, but not abok e 30. Mr. Harding—How do you know that you sold this particular hat to this particular man ? Witness— During the last eight months I have had about one gross of these hats from the same manufacturer, and this was one of that gross. De. kfelson—Where is the man who cleaned the hat ? Witness—His name is Adams, and he is in Tonk-street. Dr. Melsom—Let him be sent for. Wittrss—l knew Healey well, and have sold him caps as well as hats. Out of the gross of hats I have purchased within eight months there were five or six of the size produced, and I am quite sure that he had one of them. I can swear to its being the hat from the circumstance of the prisoner bringing it to me to be cleaned. The maker is Cooke; of Denton, and he may certainly have sold hats cf a similar kind to other hatters in Birmingham. I took the hat to George Adams to be cleaned. LAMBE7'H. George Harwood, alias Go'e, alias Froggy, a des perate-looking ruffian, and notorious burglar and thief, was brought up for filial examinitiun upon three separate charges; the first with being concerned with others in drugging and robbint James Dicken son of four sovereigns and about 2/. in silver; the second, with stealing a firkin of butter, the property of William Johnson ; and the third, with escaping from the Walworth station-house. In support of the first charge, Mr. Dickenson, a boot and shoemaker, residing at No. 4, High-street, Peckham, deposed that on the evening of that day twelvemonth he was in a public-house in White chapel, reading a newspaper about the Mannings, when the prisoner and another man got into conver sation with him, and pressed him to ttike some gin with them. Ile foolishly did so, and immediately after became so stupifitd as to lose all recollection of what became of him until the following morning, when he found himself at the police-station in Leman street, Whitechapel. When he entered the public house he was quite sober, and had in his possession four sovereigns and about two pounds in silver in his pocket, and this, as well as a blue silk pocket-hand. kerchief, he was robbed of. Two witnesses, to whom the prisoner was well known, deposed to having seen him and a man named Norris leading the prosecutor, who appeared as if in a state of extreme intoxication, along Brick-lane, Whitechapel, on the evening of the 23d of October, 1849. They took him into one of the bye-streets, and there Norris rifled his pockets while the prisoner held up his arms. Both then made their escape, but Norris was subsequently apprehended, tried, and con victed of the charge, but the prisoner managed to keep out of the way until about a week since, when he was apprehended on suspicion of com mitting a burglary in Short's gardens, Drury lane, and upon being discharged from Bow-street was retaken by Sergeant Quinnear upon the present charges. Police-sergeant James M'lntosh H 9 deposed to having found the prosecutor about nine o'clock in the evening of that day twelvemonth in Thrall-street, Whitechapel, in a state of apparent intoxication, and removed him to the station-house. Norris, the priso ner's companion, had been tried at the Middlesex Sea -dons on the charge, convicted, and sentenced to one [ year's imprisonment. In the second charge, of stealing the firkin of butter, the prisoner was distinctly sworn to as" being [me of the two men who took the property from the loor of the prosecutor on the evening of the 221 of March last, and carried it away. Two days after he was taken into custody by Sergeant Quinnear, who [ removed him to Lock's-fielils station-house, but h. , . managed to get away from there, and has been at large until he was apprehended as above stated. The prisoner cross-examined the different wit nesses with a tact and shrewdness that would have lone credit to the most practiced Old Bailey barrister, ' hut the evidence was so conclusive as to Mlle his ingenuity to shake it; and he was fully committed or trial. A SCENE AT SESSIONS. At the Cambridgeshire sessions, which terninat!cl ,n Saturday last, before the Hon. E iot Thomas l'orke, M.P., chairman, and a full bench of magic • :rates, the following Curious scene occurred after the trial of one Henry Barlow, on a charge of stealing hen, the property of a magistrate, the Rev. E. Law, of Orwell. The Lets of the case were, that one of the proi,ecu tor's servants having heard a noise made by a hen rearing: partridges in a pit, went to ascertain the cause, and saw a man (Barlow) lying in it. He quietly shut down the glass, and went and fetched a ftlla vv-servant. On their return they dragged Barlow (who either was, ,r assumed to bo, asleep), out, and then fund the body of the hen in one place, and the head, which had been pulled, and not wrung off, in another. The prisoner's counsel (Mr. Naylor) submi , ted that the felonious taking was not proved, and on this being overruled, he argued that it could only be eon- Aidered a case of trespass, for the purpose of sleeping in a warm place. If the man had intended to steal, he would have taken the hen out of the coop. This was more the freak of a drunken man, to prevent the hen, by her cackling, betraying his resting-place. The prisoner night be punished, but not as a felon. The Chairman having summed up, the foreman of the jury delivered as the verdict, " Guilty of a tres pass on Mr. La'v'e premises with a felonious intent, and of pulling the head off the fowl." The Chairman—lt is necessary for you to consider whether the pri=oner is guilty of the stealing, taking, end carrying away this fowl. Foreman (after consulting)—Not guilty of stealing. The Clerk of the Peace inquired, in the usual form, if that was the unanimous verdict, and there was no dissent. The Chairman—l am informed that there is one gentleman on the jury who will not find a verdict of guilty under any circumstances. Mr. Carter, you may leave the hoc ; such a person ought not to take D oath. Mr. Carter then left the jury -box, exclaiming, " Why, I was the only one who was of a contrary opinion to the verdict." Mr. Metcalfe (for the prosecution)—There is some mistake. Let that juryman come back. Mr. Naylor—l protest against it. The juryman has left the box. If he ought not to have been there he ought not to return. The jury have returned a verdict, and been asked if they were unanimous. The Chairman then recited the pints of the case again, . _ Foreman—We find the prisoner guilty of a tres pass in pulling off the head of the fowl. Mr. Naylor—That is again a verdict of not guilty. The Chairman—You must say whether the pri soner is guilty. Did he take the fowl from the ground? I cannot allow the ends of justice to be perverted. Foreman—lf you say that is sufficient, we say that he is guilty. Chairman—You must not put your verdict on me. Mr. Naylor—l again protest against these proceed ings ; this is not justice. Foreman (being asked by the Chairman, with vehemence) —Guilty. This verdict was then recorded. Mr. Naylor—l apply for a case on the practice. Will the court grant it ? Chairman—Certainly not. The prisoner was sentenced by the chairman to ten years' transportation (a previous conviction having been proved). Ilis sister immediately set off on Lot for London with the ostensible design of soliciting the judges for a pardon. BURGLARY AND OUTRAGE AT BIRMINGIIAII. BIRMINGUAINI, OCT. 23.—This case, the hearing of which has been from time to time adjourned, in con sequence of the precarious state of Mr. Marston, the gentleman attacked, has occupied the attention of the magistrates at the public office for a considerable por tion of this day. The residence of Mr. Marston—the scene of the outrage—is situated in Great Hampton street, one of the principal thoroughfares of Birming ham, and the main outlet from the centre of the town to the districts of South Staffordshire. It is a large double-fronted house immediately contiguous to Li very-street and Constitution-hill, and adjoining the residence of Mr. Hollins, the sculptor. The magistrates on the bench to-day were Dr. Mehon and Mr. Charles Shaw, and from the notoriety of the case the court was den,ely crowded thr,:ughout the investigation. Mr. Marston, on entering, ac companied by two members of his family, was, in con sequence of weakness, accommodated during the in quiry with a seat at the attorneys' table. Five prisoners were placed at the bar charged with being implicated in the burglary, and the deadly assault by which it was followed. Their names are Christopher Healey, Joseph Marshall, William \Val lace, E!ij th Wareham, and John Smith. No evidence was adluced against the last-named three prisoners, and they were discharged. Healey, by trade a work ing jeweller, is a nephew of Mr. Marston, the prose cutor. The trade of Marshall is unknown, but he has some reputation as one of what is vulgarly termed Re-examined by Mr. Tyndal—When the hat was the " light weights" of the prize ring. They are brought back from Adams, did you observe anything both known to the police 53 thieves. particular about it ? Witness—Yes, there was en Mr. Tyndal, jun., solicitor, appeared for the prose- old lining in it instead of a new one. I lifted up the cution • and Mr. T. Harding for the two prisoners, leather and saw the names of "Dowries" on the in- Mr:Marston, being sworn, deposed as follows : side of the lining. That name was on the lining lam a gold beater, living in Great Hampton-street, when I gave the hat back to the prisoner. in this town. My counting house and warehouse By Mr. Harding—l removed the lining for the communicate with my house by a doorway. The purpose of seeing that it was properly done. counting-house door opens on to the staircase, oppo- Mr. Harding—Now, u pon examining the lining, site my bedroom door. During the night I always tell me if N •o u can fi n d the name of "Downes" upon leave my counting-house and bedroom doors open, it now ? Witness—No; upon further examination I and between the two doors a gaslight burns the whole find it is the name of "Bowen." To the best of my night. There is a closet i n m y counting-house, and belief the hat I gave to Adams to be cleaned and at the top of it a trapdoor, which is always kept afterwards returned to Healey had on the inside of nailed up. That trapdoor leads through the the linirg the name of " Downes." ceiling to the roof of the buildieg. On Seturday, Mr. Tyndal said this was the only evidence that he the sth instant, I remetabar going through was prepared to bring forward at present. There the counting-house into the warehouse rifer the lives other evidence which could be produced on a men had left work. On my return I bolted futura occasion, but possibly the magistrates might and barred the door communicating between the consider that there was sufficient to justify them in counting-house and the warehouse. Everthing Was committing the prisoners for trial. then safe, and the ceiling of the warehouse unbroken. Mr. Harding contended that the evidence was ex- My bedroom window overlooks the roof of the ware- tremely slight egainst both prisoners. There was house, and I can see it as I lie in lied. If there had none against Marshsll except that of Mr. , iarston been any hole in it on the Sunday I should have been himself; and that affecting Healey was so isconclu certain to see it. There was no hole in it on that sive and inconsistent that he (Mr. Harding) did not day. I went to bed about a quarter before ten o'clock think the Bench would feel it to be their duty to corn on the Sunday night, and left my bedroom and count- , n it the prisoners to the assizeie ing-house doors open as than Al. The ga s w a s burning air. Shaw said they had determined to send both between the doors of the two rooms. Immediately the prisoners for trial. before going to bed I went into the counti ng -h o use. Chief Superintendent Steph ens —O t h er ev id ence Everything was then same, and the door between the will be produced at the assizes, counting-house and warehouse fastened, as usual. Mr. Hardieg—And I shall then complain that we About helf-past two on Monday morning I fancied I have not had an opportunity of hearing it. Whet heard a noise on the premises. I sat upright in bed amount of hail will the Bsneh accept for Healey ? It several times and listenel, hut the w i n d b e ing very is a long time to the assizes. boisterous, -I concluded the noise arose from that Mr. Shaw—You must apply to a higher court if cause, and went to sleep again. I afterwards heard you wish tne pri soners t o b e a di n itt e d to btu We shall not accept it. lv Chief Superintendent Stephens—l have to o P P ' that the prison e r s b e rema nded, when we shal l P r(' duce further evidence against them. it I The prisoners were accordingly remanded un Friday next. SHIP NEWS. DUBLIN, OCT 22.—Th e Ad vocate , from the C't For Aden, having sprung a l ea k, h a s put in here _ rrepair.._ HONG-KONG, AUG 7.—The Countess of Egli° Ot hich strived here ou the s;h f rom Sh a nghai, boun d 1 ' ) , Lmtrboek, was diswasted in a ga l e i n the Banshee Cball) net on the 28th of J u ly. A ug . 21—A ve rse, Pa r6all disimaA,d, has been seen off Saddle bland. of MEMEL, OCT. 17.—There has been a continuanneee, westerly gales since the 15th, b u t t o -day it has 16° ,., rated. The A ugus t e , f rom G a l way, came ai hore )es t f d day about a mile north of the harbour, and is (sPt c l. e to become a wreck ; c r ew save d. I t i s f e ared that Wu vessels will be on the coast. lIELSINGFoRS, OCT. 10.—The R u be l t A ll3l3 ' f ,, r li Hartlepool for Cronstadt, was stranded on the Cape of Hogland on the 7th inst., end is a total rac e , From the stormy wea th er o f t h e two su b se quent ( 16 1 . ; st it was apprehended th a t li tt l e , if any, o f t h e s hip's (m could be saved. The schooner Baltic, of Newcastle whilst at a nchor below the Swin Middle Lightship on the 18th ins t " het in contact with a brig, apparently a collier, ha d broadside stove in. and received considerable damig e ',... GRAVESEND, OCT. 23.—Wind W.S.W. , fresh, rata Arrtl. the Halcyon, from Valparaiso; the Julie, ir 0 Guernsey; the Ceq, from Cherbourg; L'Eugene, fr om ° Bordeaux; the Purge, from Patras; the Sus Denis; the Leonne and the Lionno, from Gra /e ,' l-e e• the Ocean, from Rotterdam; the Albion, from Bou'" i , the Batavier, from Rotterdam; the Sir Edward Idt ° , from Ostend; the City of Rotterdam, from Dafl'': ) . Sld. the Red Port, for Oporto; the Ranger, for Gen io 6 ; the S. for Boulogne; the Pestonjeo Bornani c !' • Port Adelaide; the Ad on i s , f or B remen; the Islian' l ' fo ; for Sitka; the Edelina, for Gibraltar; the Cicero , Grenada; the Ann, for A ms t er d am; the Count" 6; Linsdale, for Hamburgh ; th e Di ana and the 1 109c " „ c o ; mon, for Harlingen; the Rainbow and the Apollo, Rotterdam; the Stadt Dordrecht, for Dordt. u e VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The American berg 71. Globe, outward-bound, O ct . 10, i n l at. 49, 11)14:7-it; the Sarah Louisa, from Li verpoo l f or B oston , Oa. "fa let. 48. long. 19; the Swallow, from San Franob c° l 3.l the Sandwich Islands, A ug . 12, i n l at. 30 N., 1"14..Q.e- W. ; the Devonshire, fro m P ortsmout h f or Madras, f i r 12, in let. 8 N , long. 24; the Elbe, of Sunderland, to Rio Janerio, Sept. 22, in lat. 16 N., long. 26 W . ; t he Glasgow, from Liverpool fur California, same &P oe t. Joseph Hutcheson, of Dartrce:uth, outward-bound' `..10 6, in let. 50, long. 41; the bri g P a l erm o, front b h ip Francisco, Aug. 16, in let. 26 S., l ong . 31; t" 25, Northumberland, from New York for London, SeP t ' in let. 40, long. 71; the Sampson, from the Cl3 cl ' 3 o le Quebec, with loss of fore and mizntopu3asts in s bibd on the 25th of August, Sept. 6, in let. 42, long , I , r ; „jr, Ellen Maria, supposed f:ona Liverpool for New ' f "; (0 ) Oct. 1, in let. 40. long. 63 ; th e b arque Kingtte ll 4 - t he Quebec for Shiads, Sept. 17, in lat. 45, I( n;s'• 57 ;, ia Swedish schooner Ancor, steering southward, 0 °,,, t. let. 42, long. 11 W. ; the:lllibernirs, of Belfast, on " l i r e Chat, S--pt. 29; the Amelia, for Liverpool, 200 below Quebec. RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKET S • BRISTOL, OCT. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market was active t (3- 1 c e. although in one or two species of stock a reduction took The following were the closing prices :—Great Western, 71 Bristol and Exeter, 69—Midland Stock, 43:4. LIVE 1-:POt , L, Ocr. 23. cISP • STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull t°', o -9 and prices had a downw a rd t en d ency . Th e t ran sactions ;4. vs follow : East Lancashire, 9 :?-16—Lancashire and shire, Consolidated, 49 Ditto, Fifths, 7i4 Preference, 12% Leeds and Tbirsk, 974 per cent. (No. 1), 3 1 4 dis.—Ditto ( No. 3), 3 1 ' , 0 - " Lu tr* London and North-Western, 118 1 4 Ditto, N ew „;rter 6 ters, 2:!( 1 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 3 1 /., p.—Ditto , ire, (C), 214 p. Marchester, Sheffield, and Lincolos' Preference, 8 1 ,4—Midland, 43%—Ditto, Halves, 21'4 Stub. Shropshire Union (Railway and Canal). 33/ Eastern and Dover, 20N 3 - Sheffield, York, D., and pair—York, Newcastle, and Ber w i c k (G. N. E. Pure4Bbff 37, 1 , 1 dis.—York and North Midland, 21—Li v erpool, Cr y and Southport, 2 11-16 dis.— North British, N. MANCHESTER, OCT. 23. h ine 99 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of - us t ioag done to-day, and prices are unaltered. The transa c ieh were as follow : East Lancashire, 9%—G rea t Northern , go d - Ditto, 5 per cent. Preference, Scrip, 12— Lancash ir , e /A 6 Yorkshire, Fifths, 7 3.16 dis.—Ditt o 201. Sh ar es (F)v' ' rt ly dis.—Ditto, Preference, 6 per c e n t., 12 —L on don and . ' 4 l -1, 2 0 , Western, 118%—Ditto, M anc h ester an d Bi rm i ng ham, ters (C), 2 '4 P.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Linco lo , 6 6/. isj s ex. n.— Ditto, 101. Preference, 8% c.—Ditto, Preference, 4s. p. North StAffordshire, 10 diF. — :4..1 6 Eastern and Dover, 2078—Dit to (N o. 4 ) , R eg i s t e red, 6 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, 414 dis. THE COUNTRY MARKETS-, LIVERPOOL. OCT. 22.—The a tt en d ance a t this MARKETS. market was large, but dealers were very cauti°l ol o their purchases. Wh ea t se ll s very s l ow l y, at Preja-ase rates. There was no alt era ti on i n va l ue of barlehrtii sp and peas. Oats and o a t mea l a l so unchanged. 111- corn is steady, at previous rates. te; LEEDS, Ocr. 22.—The a r r i va l s o f gra i n are mo iler t the trade is firm for wheat, b u t ac ti ve at Friday's rtill'Ate Fine barley is in demand. Other sorts dull of sale. fully as dear. Ocher articles as before. lop, fal l NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYN E , O CT . 2`2.--With t he ply of both English and foreign wheat offering , t he market was exceedingly firm, at prices rather o'ier e t o rates of Saturday, although the purchases made wd itt eti no very great extent. Malting barley fully maint st ed its value, and for grinding parcels w e have an inc re t d o e inquiry. Flour met with more att en ti on , but we t _ l3° ,,yer. alteration in value. In other ar ti c l es no c h an ge wer e is EDINBURGH MEAL M ARKET , O CT . 22.—There wipitri. the meal market to-day 13 sac k s oa t mea l, eac h we ighing o d 6 imperial, whereof 11 so ld t h us : - 5 at 11 Od, : o ho. at 1/ Ss 6d ; average price of the whole 11 8s 8d 13 %; e reil 2 sacks flour, which sold a t 29 5 . 7 sac k s pot -b ar ley, w 5 - sold thus :-1 at 24s Od, and 4at 225. n , r EDINBURGH HAY AND S TRAW M ARKET, v--• On g Oat straw, from 8s 6d to lOs Od per kemple of 16 s tenes;:6d wheat ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s Od to vw Hay, from :' , LI to Ild per stone. 108 DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, OCT. 21.—There We r- t eti bags oatmeal, and 4 of b ar l e y mea l a t thi s day's rn . a e soo l sales dull. Oatmeal down 6d per bag on the tbp, price 9d down ; barleymeal 6d per bag dearer. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second imperial .. 275 9d 26s 63 Barleymeal, per ditto ... 183 Od —s Od Peasemeal —s Od --s Od Oa 25 5 o j ..-s oj ot i ..- 1 . 0 ,5 U" Flour ... ... Pot barley ... - sod I —sod —s Od Od COAL MARK. ET.—YESTXRDAY. oad - A Coxon'sWestHartley. 155 OdAlilda ..................... ~., ir Begbies Hartley . 1 3 CArr's WEst Hartley 15.3 6titletton .................. 1 63 1'.., 1 Cresswell Main . Davison'sWestHartley 153 6d,Lambton ............. : 1 5 5 r j East Adairs Main l3s Od' NT. Hetton Lyons...*• 1 6. , /, a Hasting's Hartley lss 6 : 1 R usse ll' s H utto n ..•••• 165 Heaton Hartley 'j Holy well .- lss 6d Whitwell ..... ......... .6, 6 Ord's Main ... 15s Od Ileugh Hall ........... 1 55 63 Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15 5 Od W est K e ll oe ... •-•• : 133 o a South Pearet h e , Tanfield Moor .... Canfield Moor Butes.- 13s Od Seymour Tees ........ JP -1 Orig. Windsor Pontop 12s 9d Fees Chester Main l4s lg. Birchg. Graigola •••"* 153 ~6 a Wall's End, &c. Cowpen Hartley .....• ' p ..% Acorn Close Rewicke and Co. Gosforth ..... Hedley ..... Ships at arkAt, 161. 0 [ADVERTISEMENT.] Rheumatism, a ri g 0.- 1 Cure of which Disease has been (-fleeted by Holloviaf - hr iag e i ment and Pills. Mr. Donald M'Kellar, of Murruovar9, in New South Wales, states that a man of about fill'ij e a ce age, employed by John Peters, Esq. Justice of the I ,bru: that colony, suffered for twelve months from an attack 7 t eir matism, brought on by exposure to wet and cold; b h p,. J ., 11 , painfully afflicted that his body was bent nearly do„nli o icst, this deplorable condition he began the use of 11 ° 4 d w, Ointment and Pills, and so speedily was the cure euel fe riafk, them that it seemed to those who had witnessed his 1 1 1 „t ff ir little less than a miracle.—Sold by all Druggists, as u - fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Loudo n ' Aert ,a $ O . AMERICAN INQUISITITENESS.—A. New who was seated by a reserved companion in a r a 7; viii .` 4l ,, by way of beginning a conversation saiu,„ you a bachelor ?" To whi c h th e o th er re plied, drY l 3' ,41 4 °' I ant not." "You are a married man ?" continued not." " Then y ou mus t b e a w id ower ?" " f r c i a - Ua te e r not." Here there wa s a s h or t pause; but the D eit' querist returned to th e c h arge , observing, "If you are ,•°, l a married man, nor a w id ower, w h at i n th e world ca be ?" "If you must k now ," sa id t h e ot h er ," stn 4 ul‘ man !" BIRTHS. OF • SON. falll • 5 68(1' On the 20th inst., at R oc h es t er , th e w if e o f CaP— th 0 ham, Royal Artill e ry. re , On the 20th in s t., i n G ower - street, Bedford-aq ua wife of the Rev. James Hamilton, D.D. olle l° OF A DAUGHTER. D i e- On the 18th inst., i n L ans d owne-p l ace, Bright"' ref de Linden. On the 19th inst ,i n M on t ague - p l ace, Montague -5 011 the lady of H. R. Wcodhome, Eiq. Ai &KRIEL On the 22d inst., a t St. Thomas's ge, s'a aural, L. Arthur IleHersh, Esq., Commander R.N•,__ to - c i u c i Frances, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Butler, East On tWm ldbm, Hants. he Bth a inst., at Whitburn, Lieutenant-Colonel t i e Or' F.Williams, K H., to Emily, third daughter of t he 3 Harrison, Esq , of Whitb ur n:county Durham. „. D P r i lAli On the 20th inst., in \Vim . P ole-street, the g'; 0” Thackeray, Provost of King's College, CambriLlg" Chaplain in OrAnary to her Majesty. .. c ov (7°' On the 21st inst., at Addiscombe-house , nea r ,' "li r ' a aged 67, Major-General Sir Ephraim G. Stannus, eldest so On the 20th inst., Henry Champion Partridge, e " .1 of H. S. Partridge, Esq., of Hockham-hall, Norfolk. t oily On the 21st inst., in Upper Gower-street, MarlP re ' ' e, daughter ot the late Lancelot Hare, M D. On the 2ht inst., in Endslei , h-street, Tavist ock-sti Nathaniel Nathan, Esq., aged 8917 A . o g toli , On the 21st inst ,at ll' estbourne-park-road, P 3d-i i Miss Sarah Sayer, aged tiq ; reli c" On the 21st - inst., in Ha . lkin-street t West, 50p11,14 the late Sir James Haritigtcn, kart. Dl on the 20th inst., at OP) Mount, Nursling , il int3 ' Anne, the wife of Ralph Etwall, Esq. • _.---' ~,,.---- o f ------- e s.o, -,, L -ndon .. Printed and Publis , t.ed by MEIRDO V i s l i n v i No. 1.12, , •itan.d., Prl•ntat, ' et The Sun . 01fiCe' 13. t r ~,,, ttil Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in V ''' ° Middlesex, Thursday, October 21, 1850, bOt 2 bit ! I lit ( iII , ON't 8 tt, , W Rui ere Sc s c Ohara IDe„ t o thi klid chitrE